BOMBER CREWS INTERNED   Two Heavy American Aircraft Land In Neutral Switzerland

R. A. Boyd, Of Beckley, Dies   Jeweler Is Victim Of Cerebral Hemorrhages

BOYD SERVICES SET FOR TODAY   Rites Pee: Leck Jeweler To Be Conducted At Methodist Church

A000 GAS BOOKS  ‘ISSUED IN MARC   Most Permits Go to Farm. ers for Tractors and Equipment.

4000 Gko COOKS JOOUED IN MARUT   Most Permits Go to Farmers for Tractors and Equipment.

Air Transport Command Eventually Will Fly Overseas Soldiers’ Mail

FASTER MAlL FOR SOLDIERS   Service To All Theatres Of War Speeded Soon,  Says General

L 70 SOLDIERS OVERSEAS VIA ALR   Service to Be Inaugurated Within Next Few Months, Says ATC.

ner eres eel  Air Mail Service To Take All Letter: To, From Soldiers

U. S. Casualties In Papua Smal   Less Than Half Of Japs, MacArthur Declares

Retreating Nazis. On Russian Front Making Last Stand   Villages Burned, Inhabitants Forced To Dia Trenches

NAZIS ORGANIZE “FOR DESPERATE ~ STAND AT OREI   Germans Still Falling Back as Russian Forces Press in From Three Sides of City.

Use Torch in Retreat Near Orel   Nazis Also Forcing Citizens to Dig Trenches for Last Desperate Stand   SAVAGE BATTLES NEAR RAIL CENTER   Russians . Continue Slow Gains on Three Sides of Enemy Base

Retreat Of Nazi Forces On Orel Front Reported   Reds Driving Forward On Three Sides Of Enemy Base

Nazis Retreat, Burn Villages On Orel Front   Russian Armies Advance On 3 Sides Of Bastion; Threaten Key Railway

HITLER'S ARMY 1) FALLING BACK ON SOVIET FRONT   Soviet Forces Press In On Three Sides of Big Nazi Base of Orel; Savage Battles Are Raging.

Desperate Nazi Moves  Smashed   Russians Near Orel Retreating Germans Destroy Villages

RETREATING NAZIS. FORCING PEOPLE T0 PREPARE TRENCHES  RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO PRESS UPON BIG ENEMY BASE OF OREL.

NAZIS PPEPAPE FOR FINAL OREL BATTLE   Force Labor Gangs to Work on Military Defenses

NAZIS SET FOR STAND AT OREL   Desperate Counterattacks Repulsed As Russians Move Ahead

Nazis Making Desperate Stand At Orel      Burn Villages Along Retreat Route, Impress Russiang Into Digging Trenches and Dug-outs.

Nazis Use Reds To Dig Trenches In Orel Defense   Villages Burned As Germans Flee Before Soviets

_Nazis Begin Major Retreat From Orel - As Pincers Tighten   Savage Fighting Under Way Along Route Leading From Periled Base; Germans Burn Towns, Abuse People

Shell Orel Railway   Russians Continue To Tighten Noose Around Nazi Bastion

NAZIS BURNING VILLAGES NEAR KEY RED BASE   Forcing Soviet Civilians Into Labor Gangs

Hard-Pressed Foe Dig in for Battle   Germans Force Populace into Labor Gangs to Build Trenches for Last Desperate Defense of Orel as Soviets Close in on Three Sides of Nazis Base

Retreating Nazis Level Red Cities   Villages Burned And Workers Taken

NAZIS BURNING RED TOWNSIN ORBL SECTION   Retreating Germans Put Civilians to Work In Trench Digging and  Making Dugouts ,   FIGHTING SAVAGE   Moscow Reports Villages Retaken As Drive On Base Continues to Hurl Back Foes

DESPERATE NAZI FORCES BURNING SOVIET VILLAGES  RETREATING GERMANS —-s MAKE SAVAGE STAND

Villages Burned  In Nazi Retreat Germans Preparing For  Last-Ditch Stand

Nazis Retreating — On Russian Front   Dig Trenches for,a Last Desperate ' Defense of Key Base at Orel. 

Nazis Burning Red Villages   Forcing Inhabitants To Dig Trenches for Defense of Orel

FLEEING NAZIS BURN VILLAGES   Germans Using Desperate Measures In Last Defense Of Orel.

GERMANS REPORTED BURNING VILLAGES IN THEIR RETREAT   Also Pressing the Inhabitants Near Orel Into Labor Gangs.   MADE TO DIG TRENCHES   In Last Desperate Defense of Orel on the Central Russian Front.

Retreating Germans Burn Russian \Villiages; Force Civilians To Labor

NAZIS BOLSTER DEFENSES OF OREL BASTION   Burn Villages, Force Soviets To Dig Defense Trenches

NAZIS PREPARE OREL OEFENSES   German Army Continues te Fal] Back As Reds Close fn on Base.

Nazis Regimentine Russian Civilians  Villages Burned on   Villages Burned on Outskirts of Orel

Fleeing Nazis Burn Villages   Impress Russian Civilians Into Digging Trenches

SCORCHED EARTH LEFT BY NAZIS   Retreating Germans Impress _ Russians Into Labor Bat talions, Reds Say

SOVIET LINE ADVANCES IN OREL SECTOR   Retreating Germans Burn Villages and Press Inhabitants Into Labor Ganac   KLUEGE FALLING BACK

Reds on Offense In Kiev Bulge   Russians Drive Nazis Back From Strong Points West of Capital.

Reds Repulse Giant Germar Tank Attack   Ist Ukranian Army Takes Offensive for Second Time in Week

Successes In Dnieper Area By Red Forces   Germans Are Driven From Several Strong Points Along Teterev River   MANY TANKS ARE LOST

Vatutin’s Army Take Offensive In Kiev Sector   Reds Farce Nazis From Many Strong Points On Teterev_ River Salient.

Germans At Kiev Yield To Artillery And Tank-Busting Stormovik Planes

score New Successes Against German Forces In Dnieper Bend; Fighting Bitter

Russians Check Nazis  in Kiev Battle, Again  Swing to Offensive   Artillery Barrage, Aided by Bombers, Drives German Forces From Several Strongpoints in Sector

Russians Extend Positions West Of Dnieper Bend   Germans Driven From Several Strong Points

—RUSSIA— 7  VATUTIN'S  ST ARMY ADVANCES   Russians Seize Offensive In Battle Of Kiev Bulge

Russians Take Offensive In Kiev Battle   Nazis Ousted From Strongpoints By Red Blows

IST UKRANIAN ARMY GONE OVER TO OFFENSIVE   This Is the Second Time This Week in Battle of the Kiev Bulge.   GERMANS DRIVEN BACK   Powerful Nazi Armored Divisions Unable to Withstand Artillery Fire.

RUSSIANS DRIVE GERMANS BACK IN BATTLE FOR KIEV   Swift Counterdttacks Force Nazis to Retire From Several Strong  Datiwmte

RED OFFENSIVE HITS IN UKRAINE   Second Drive Launched by Soviets This Week

Russians Take Offensive in Kiev Bulge Again and Batter Nazi Strongholds

Swift Counter  Attacks Made   Great Tank Battle Ap: pears To Be Still Undecided   BUT NAZIS HAVE SHOT THEIR BOLT

RUSSIANS IN OFFENSIVE AT KIEV BATTLE   Red Armies Are Driving Nazis To Cover

Conference On Post-War Issues Hinted   Conversations With Russia Believed Coming In Near Future

HULL IN TALK 70 LITVINOFF   U. S., RUSS OFFICIALS DISCUSS EDEN CONFABS

Policies Will Be Discussed With Russia   Roosevelt Tells Of Plans To Hold Conference In Regard To Current And Post-War Issues

U.S., Russian Talks In Plan Of FDR, Eden   Conferences Held So Far Show United Nations 95 Percent Together.   PLAN OTHER MEETINGS

PRESIDENT PROJECTS RUSSIAN AMERICAN POST-WAR CONFERENCE   He and Eden Lay Plans fo Talks Among United Nations   DETAILS ARE NOT GIVEN

HULL, SOVIET ENVOY CONFER ON POSTWAR   Early Russian - American Conference Predicted

SOVIET PARLEY PLANS STARTED   Hull, Meets Litvinoff to * Discuss Conversations with Anthony Eden.

FDR PROPOSES RED-U, S, MEE}   Hull and Litvinoff Talk Z Over Eden's Visit

U.S.-Russian Conference Tc Be Held Soon   Some Senators Are Amazed at Apathy on Post-War Problems

U. S.-Russo War Talks Will Get Attention Soon   President Withholds Specific Information On Principals, Place   Eden-Roosevelt Ta‘ks Set Pattern For Others   “Gentlemen’s Agreements More Likely Than Any Unilateral Documents

RED - AMERICAN MEETS PLANNED   Roosevelt Reveals Parleys te Be Held Soon on Postwar Proposals

«PLANS CALL FOR DISCUSSION OF «POSTWAR ISSUES   SEEK AGREEMENT ON GENERAL OBJECTIVES. SAYS PRESIDENT

Russian-U. S. Conference  May Be Near   President Leaves Way Open for Further Parleys with Other United Nations

Russian Talks Planned Soon  FDR Says Way Is Made Clear   Way Is Prepared

Soviet and U. S. Talks Planned  Post-War Issues Are To Be Discussed

Soviet-U. S. Parley Soon   To Discuss Current And Post War Issues; Place and Date Secret

Russo-American Conference Appears Likely   President Drops Hint Saying Anthony Eden Cut Pattern

LITVINOFF AND — SECRETARY HULL MEET TODAY.   To Discuss Their Separate Conversations With British Secretary Eden

 Stalin Visit OnPost-War Plans Hinted   FDR Reveals Talk With Soviets Will Take Place Shortly

FDR. PROJECTS EARLY RUSSOU.S. PARLEY   Where'And When Not Disclosed; Public Apathy On PostWar Planning Puzzles

LITVINOFF AND HULL CONFER   Study Matters Already Discussed With Eden

Early U. 5.-Sovief Conference Slated  Post-War Issues _ To Be Discussed, Precidant Save

LITVINOFF "IN. MEETING WITH HULL   Eden. Conferences Are Discussed; U, -S.Russian Talks Ex-ected Soon   NO DETAILS GIVEN REGARDING MEET   « Senators Report Public In... terest at Low. Ebb in Post- War Discussions

POPULAR REMSEN ~ GIRL IS MARRIED   Glaydella Bornhorst ° and . Alphonse Verzani Wed  -? At Hellywood, Cal.

Former Remsen Girl Is Married  In California   oe “Set VA EAA SE BARU    Alphonse Verzani Weds Miss Bornhorst At Hollewoanad Chiuerch

Congress Farm Bloc Aroused   Ceilings on Corn Prices Stir Midwest Members —In Effect Today

CORN CEILING IS IN EFFECT      Farm Bloc Immediately Charges that Order is Violation of Pri Stabilization Law.

ATTACK CORN CEILING ORDER   Farm Bloc Declares Move  Is Violation of Law

14 Negro Soldiers Face Mutiny Tria!   Accused of Trving To Kill Two M. P.’s

MOUNTBATTEN MEETS WITH U, §, MILITARY CHIEFS ON FRIDAY  ‘ BRITISH, AMERICAN AND CHINESE SQUEEZE PLAY

MOUNTBATTEN PLANS SQUEEZE PLAY IN ASI:   Washington Conferences Continue Clark, Stilwell Likely to bi Named as Aides

Mountbatten Graphs For American War Chiefs His Plan To Oust Japs From Southeast Asia

OUTLINING PLAN AGAINST JAPAN      Mountbatten Meets With American Military Leaders To Map Squeeze Play Strategy.

Mountbatten Graphs Move Against Japs   Southeastern Asia Campaign

Mountbatten Drafts Plan To Oust Japs   British-U.S.-Chinese Drive in Southeastern Asia Has Been Framed

New Asian Supreme Commander Meeting with Americar  Military Chiefs

FAR EAST PLANS BEING STUDIEL   Lord Mountbatten in Wash ington for Conferences

ASIA LEADER T0 G0 TO LONDON, THEN TO POST   Reopening of Burma Road, Asiatic Ports Probably Main Objectives

SQUEEZE PLAY MAY BE USED AGAINST JAPS   Mountbatten Confer. ring With Officials In Washington

MOUNTBATTEN MAPS STRATEGY   Southeast Asia Chief Confers With American Military Chiefs

“SOU AGAINST JAPAN BEING. PLOTTED   Actions Against Nipponese Planned at Meetings Between Mountbatten and U. S. Military Chiefs

Mountbatten Maps Plans   Confers With U.S Military Chiefs At Washington

Allied Leaders Outline Assault On Japanese   Lord Montbatten, U.S Chiefs In Conference In Washington, D. C.

Aiming At Tokyo Mountbatten Charts Squeeze Play Against Japanese   CLARK MENTIONED

Japs F; acing Asia Battle.   Mountbatten Graplis 3-Way Squeeze Play

Lord Mountbatten Mapping Attack In The Pacific   War Strategy Parley In Washington

"Squeeze Play’ Against Japan Now Being Planned By Mountbatten, Commando Heat And American Army Chiets in Conference

Map Next Jap Blow      Lord Mountbatten in Washington to Confer With U.S. War Chiefs.

Squeeze Play On Japan Now Being Framed   Lord Louis Making Round Of Conference With U. S. War Experts

Mountbatten, U.S. Military Chiefs Outline Squeeze Play   4 Objectives in Drive From Base of India Dominate Discussions

Mountbatten Maps Pacific Squeeze Play   Britain's Famed Commando Chief Starts Round of Parleys in Capital   FOUR - FOLD OBJECTIVE

New Allied Commander ir Southeast Asia Here While Jungle War Stepped Up

Plans Outlined To Oust Enemy In Asiatic Are:   Lord. Mountbatten Graphs  A. “Squeeze Play” For . American War Chiefs

‘SQUEEZE PLAY’ IS PLANNED TO OUST JAPANESE   Lord Mountbatten Meets With Allied Leaders In Washington, Maps Concerted Move

SQUEEZE PLAY AGAINST JAPS NOW MAKING   Lord Mountbatten and Other Allied Leaders Preparing for Great Drive

Outline Drive Against Japan   Lord Louis” Mountbatten Conferring With U. §&. Military Chiefs.

Military Chiefs Map Blows Against Japs By British, Americans, Chinese

Bombs Rock Pantelleria   Italy’s Fortress Isle Object of Allied Raid

Eighth Army Is Mopping Up   Port Toward Which Axis Marshal Retreats Is Under Navol Fire; Thousands Captured In British Push; Yanks Advance in North

4 Killed, Mony Hurt In Alabama Tornado   1253 Axis Planes Dewned in Africa

American Troop. Movement in Tunisia Reported  May Mean Move  . To Cut Off s,  Afrika Korps Y ~

Heavy Bombers Blast Island Airdromes, Smashing Planes And Setting Buildings Afire

AMERICAN ARMY DRIVES TOWARD CITY OF NAPLES   APPROACH FROM TWO DIRECTIONS AS NAZIS FLEE TO THE NORTH

Over River at “ en   Now. Guinea Force Nea Jap Constal Base; Air Repulsed -

British, French Only 23 Miles Krom Cities of Tunis, Bizerte   Yanks Gain So Fast Foe Is Unable to Bury His Dead

Senate Debates World Alliance   Connally Resolution !s Placed Before Solons

FEUD OF SENATE DEMOCRATS FLARES INTO BITTER DEBATE   SOUTHERN ‘AND NEW DEAL MEMBERS OF PARTY REVEAL BITTERNESS UNDER THE PARTY FRONT

Fourth Term Threatened ‘As Democrat and New Deal Fighting Flares

DEMOCRATS FEAR CONVENTION SPLIT OVER NEW DEAL   Senatorial Clash Reveals Deep-seated Cleavage Within Party

Eee  D Uo. PLANES LOST TN ATTAGK UPON JAP BASE   Zeros. Intercept’ American Raiders And Down Three In Aleutians Battle

Congress Sees  Showdown on  Taxes, Savings New Session Expects  Suff Fight Over  Peake eee Te Flatine

SIX REPORTED DEAD  IN CRASH OF PLANE   Several Others Hurt as Large Nuval Transport Plunges in Oakland, Calif., Hills.

Divorce Is Sought . By Beauty Winner  ‘Miss America’ Of 1935 Charges Indignities

WLB MAY HEDGE ON TRAVEL PAY   Board Chairman Said to Refuse Ruling on Coal Issue.

Portal-Portal ‘Miner Pay Is Still in Doubt   , War Labor Board May Not Rule on Travel Time Problem   PAY DECISION. : DUE   Green Protests AntiStrike Bill, Asks President to Veto It

WLB May Forget Underground Pay   Board Thinks Union Trying To Sidestep

Portal-to-Portal Pay Issue May Remain Unsettled      WLB Resumes Consideration of  Coal Wage Case

‘Trade Power Limit Urged   Farm, Labor Representatives Ask Restriction On Negotiations.

Public Enemy Decides Texas Law Too Big     Pete Norris, His Brothe and Girl, Surrender Meekly

Outlaw Captured At. Farm Hideout   Faces Number of -  Robbery Charges

Little Enemy Opposition Encountered   Warships Bombard Area Before Troops Go Ashore

Yanks Land On Two More Islands  In Solomons Area   Opposition To Landing Said To Be Slight

Mono And Sterling Sectors Invaded   Final Phase In Campaign To Smosh Enemy's Northern Solomon Island Bases Is Opened

Open Fina Phase On  Solomons   Land On Mono and Stirling Islands Without Much  Enemy Opposition.

CHICAGO FIRE TAXES 6 LIVES, MANY INJURED   Bowling Alley Patrons Caught by Flames After Explosion

HELP REFUSED TO ARGENTINA   Bid for Lend-Lease Aid i Brusquely Rejected In Hull Letter

Reds Crush Nazis’ Donets Rail System   15-Mile Plunge ‘Imperils German Base at Stalino

Onrushing Soviets Take Rail Center   15-Mile Thrust Cleers Bulk of Nezi Forces From Donets Besin

REDS SHATTER NAZI RAILROAD HUB IN DONETS   Soviet Forces Sweep 15 Miles, Take Rail Center Only 18 Miles From Base At Stalino

W.HLS. STUDENTS © "TO TAKE OVER      Daytime Aircraft Spotting On The Roof Of The Penn-Wells Hotel.

SENATE COMM. TTAKESUP SURSTOTES ©      Harings Are Opened Today On Question

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN GOES TO ‘SENATE GROUP      Opponents Prepared To Fight Attempt At Salvage Subsidies

Subsidy Battle  Goes to Senate   Foes Fight Moves To Salvage Program

SENATE BEGINS SUBSIDY BATTLE   Proponents Of Measure See Little Hope Of Compromise

Fighting on Bougainville Is Tough   Troops in Jungles Have Big Ants for Companions  in Damp Foxholes

MAXWELL INJURED IN PENAL FARM SCUFFLE   Superintendent Of Roxbury Instiintion Says Trouble Started By Troublesome Prisoners

PRISON OFFICIAL INJURED IN MELEE      Disturbance Occurs ai Penal Farm Wednesday Morning

COAL SUPPLIES FOR VITAL INDUSTRIES ONLY ENOUGH FOR TWO OR THREE WEEKS:

Roosevelt Not Expected To Velo Tax Bill   Desire for Payroll Feature Expected To Save Senafe Plan

President May Favor Treasury and Sign ‘Skip-a-Year’ Tax Measure I‘ It Passes

Treasury May Avert Veto Of Rum! Tax   Roosevelt Expected To See Need of Early Payroll Levy

FDR MAY SIGN TAX MEASURE IF APPPROVED      Roosevelt May Not Veto Bill, . Legislators Declare

Skip-a-Year Veto Thought Unlikely Want Payroll Tax  Roosevelt May Accept Rum! Plan to Get thiols. . £t 4

Payroll Levy. Veto by FDR Said Unlikely   Declared Needed to Hold Line Against Trend OF TInfletian

MAY NOT VETO SKIP-YEAR BILL   President Likely to Accept Rum! Plan to Get PayGo System

FDR MAY NOT KILL TAX BILL   Treasury Wants Payroll Levy of 20 Per Cent — Made Effective

N eed for Speed May Avert Veto Of Tax Measure   Treasury Is Anxious To Have Payroll Levy Start by First of July

Guerrillas Make Contact With U.S.  Yugoslav Group Takes Seaport From Nazis

Evacuation Of Reich Capital Is Considered   Nazi Leaders May Order Berlin Evacuated In Effort To Avert Total Destruction Of City

Schweinfurt Loss. Not Due To Nazi Tip-Off Of Raid   Evidence Contradicts Early Rumors

“TIP-OFF* T0 NAZIS ON RAID DENIED TODAY   Officers Say Loss Would Be Heavier If Enemy Knew

IF RAD LEAK   Air Force Officers Tell Why Enemy Could Not Have had Tip-Off.

Quebec Conference Results First Will Be Made Known To Enemy — In Attacks Soon

U.S. CONSIDERS NEW FRENCH COMMITTEE   Washington May Extend De Facto Recognition

UNITED ofAlto 70 RECOGNIZE PRENGH GROUP   De Gaulle-Giraud Government Will Be Given Help by U. 8.   GETS LEND-LEASE AID   Generally “Believed That De Gaulle Has Gained a Victory.

Unity Committee Expected To Name Gen. Giraud Commander-In-Chief 0 f All Armed Forces

UNITED STATES. TO RECOGNIZE: _ FRENGH. GROUF   De Gaulle - Giraud Govern “ment Will Be. Given Help by U. 8.   GETS LEND-LEASE AID   Henevally ‘Believed That - De Gaulle. Has Gained “a Victory...

CO-OP NAMES 4 NEW DIRECTORS   Farm Bureau Here Enjoys Best Year from Financial  Standpoint Last Year

US. Morines Lounch New Invasion Of New Britain, Reported Advancing

Mighty Allied Force Invades New Britain   US Marines Advance Toward Cape Gloucester Airdrome; Japs Lose 36 Bombers, 25 Fighters

U.S. MARINES OPEN NEW DRIWE IN NEW BRITAIN   Do Not Lose Man in Landinc in Cape Gloucester Area

Yanks Take over Shore,  Nobody Lost   Rabaul Gets. Anc Another Crippling Blow from .Yank

BATTLE-TOUGHENED AMERICAN MARINES LAND NEW BRITAIN  LARGE FORCES LaNDED AT TWO POINTS AND THREATEN AIRDROME

YANK MARINES ADVANCE INTO JAP. TERRITORY   March Toward Cape Gloucester Successful; Yank Losses Are Nil

Marines Land In Gloucester Area Sunday   Only One Man Lost During Latest Invasion; Jap Air Losses High

U. S. Marines Make Two Landings At Cape Gloucester   Set Up Second Invasion Front Upon New Britain

Western Tip of New Britain Seized By Marine Invaders   Landing Is Made by Large Force Without Loss of Single Man °

Rabaul Supply Route Object Of New Attack   Biggest Force Swarms Ashore Withanut Lose of Mar

Yank Marines Stab Island   MIGHTY FORCE LANDS IN TWIN ASSAULT WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE MAN; ONE SMALL VESSEL LOST: ALLIED CONTROL OF VITIAZ STRAITS ASSURED

REPRESENTATIVES OF TOBACCO FIRMS TALK 10 KOHLBERG   ~Piscussing Request of Delegation From Virginia and the Carolinas for Increase In Price of Tied and Graded Leaf.

Exchange "*Feeler”’ Punches   Declares Submarine Men ace Being Controlled—  Says We’re Winning

Reds And Nazis Trade Punches And Mass Troops   Preliminaries To Big-Scale Battles Are Indicated

Major “Fight Prospective About North   RITTER KIGHTING AGAIN THIS MAY IS LOOKED FOR.

Red Army Massing In Three Vital.   BRegions—Leningrad, Orel, And   In Northwest Caucasus, For Fall Seale Offensives   AIR ATTACKS ON  EUROPE CONTINUE

Summer Campaign  Commences         Air Offensive  Against Germany Italy Continues

Russian, German Armies Mass For Major Offensive   Russians Smash 49 German Defense Positions On Leningrad Front; Tank Concentrations Destroyed by Red Armies

AMERICANS PUSH ON TOWARD GABES   General Patton’s Armored Patrols Advance 12 Miles Beyond Gafsa   FOLLOW ? ROADS   (Rain, Mud Restrict Operations In Central, Southern Tunisia

BAD WEATHER AGAIN SLOWS ALL FIGHTING   El Guetar, 12 Miles From Gafsa, Captured   Join In Tightening Trap; Rommel Is Undecided Where To Turn

Finds Klode Unsuitable For Welfare Post   Chairman T. Coleman Of State Republicans Refuses Responsibility For THisactarcsAchane

TOWNS BURNED, MANY CITIZENS PUT TO DEATH   Torture Camp Site of 6000 Murders, Say  Russians

Roosevelt. Turns Aside Fourth Term Question   Calls ‘New Deal’ Phrase Inappropriate Because of Change in Conditions;. Sees Need of New Prooram After War

ROOSEVELT TURKS ASIDE QUESTION ON FOURTH TERM   Reviews Accomplishments of Administration, Explains Why He Desires Abandonment of New Deal.   TELLS HOW EXPRESSION CAME INTO EX!STENCE   United States, Sick Patient In 1933 Sent For Doctor and in 10 Years \Nness Was Remedied.

OPA HEAD MAY STEP ASIDE SOON   Brown May Recommend Bowles as Successor

BROWN READY TO QUIT   OPA Administrator Believes Mission Fulfilled As Per Request

BROWN T0 GIVE UP OPA DUTIES   Administrator Is Expected to Recommend Bowles As His Successor

Prentiss Brown May Quit 0.P.A.   Believes O.PA. Is Now Functioning Smoothly

Brown Due To Leave OPA   Feels He’s No Longer Needed As Administrator

PRENTISS BROWN IS ABOUT READY STEP DOWN AS OPA HEAD  HE IS ABOUT SATISFIED  PROGRAM FUNCTIONING FAIRLY SMOOTH

Brown May Quit OPA    Price Administrator Reportedly Feels Job Just About Finished 

Brown May Quit OPA   Thinks His Work Is About Finished, And OPA Running Smoother

Boss OF OPA May Quit Job   Brown Giving Serious Thought To  Resigning:  Bowles May Take Over.

Brown Ready To Resign As  O. P. A. Chief   Administrator Believe: Once-Turbulent Bureau is Functioning Good Now   BOWLES IS MENTIONED

RED VICTORY AT KHARKOV MAY BE SPARK   Boris Has Airplane Kept Ready for Swift Flight

Possible Purge By Nazis Seen  Would Eliminate Possible Weaklings

Hitler Plans New Nazi Purge   Weakling And Doubters Marked For Quster

START REPAIRS ON NORMANDIE   Former French Liner Now Afloat at 45 Degree Angle

YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE BETTER SUCCESS CHANCES THAN EVER   Babson Urges Study of Tax Situation to Act Before End of Year, Low Interest to Help Start In Business.

Roger Babson Advises Read-' ers To Consult the Experts When Making 1943 Income Tax Reports. 

SLAYER 10 PRAY FOR DOUGHBOYS   Leslie Gireth, Execution for Slaving Sweetheart Near, Keeps Reason Secret

Patrol Planes Active Along South Front   Mighty Allied Force Blasts Axis Convoy In Sicilian Straits

AXIS CONVOY TON. AFRICA IS BLASTED   Mighty Allied Air Striking Force Is Pounding Enemy

HEAVY RAIN IN TUNISIA HOLDS IP OPERATIONS   Planes Continue Softening Up Process  On Rommel's Mar eth Line Positions.

Enemy Is Blasted On Sea and Land   aulied Air Forces Hold Edge as Battle Nears in Tunisia   AXIS CONVOY IS HIT   Airfield Near Gabes and Rommel Mareth Line Positions Bombed

Mighty Allied Air Force Hits At Axis Convoy   Also Pounds Rommel’s Position in Mareth Line in  Africa.   Nazi Artillery Opens Up on British Army

ANOTHER AXIS ~ CONVOY BLASTED BY THE ALLIES   An Airfield Near Gabes Also Was Attacked by the Air Force.   ROMMEL’S POSITION HIT   German Artillery Opened Up on the British 8th Army, It Is Said.

Mighty Allied Force Hits Nazis   AXIS CONVOY ATTACKED OFF NORTH AFRICAN COAST

ALLIED AIR FORCE IN BLASTING ATTACK ON AXIS CONVOY  GERMAN ARTILLERY OPENS UP ON BRITISH

5. BOMBERS HIT PALERMO HARBOR   Quays Made Targets While Blasts Occur Near Seaplane Base.

SUPPLY BASES RAIDED AGAIN   Palermo, Sicily, Raid Follows Up Attacks on Naples

House Ways ana Means Committee to Start Work Sept. 8 on Measurr~ fo Obtain New and Higher Wartime Taxes; 12 Billions More Is Goal

NEW, HIGHER TAXES AIM OF COMMITTEE   House Group. Will Start Work on Legislation Sent. 8

House Group Maps Study Of Tax Hikes   Will Scrutinize Way to Raise 12 Billions More

House Group Will Start Search For More Revenue  - Study of Individual Excess-Profits Tax Plans Ordered

PLANS STARTED FOR NEW TAXES   War -Swollen Incomes To Be Hit First By Higher Levies

HIGHER WARTIME TAXES PLANNED   COMMITTEE TO START DRAFT. ING BILL IN FALL RAISweveots = ENG 1944 LEVIES.

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN  HOLLAND BY JITTERY NAZIS   German Troops Are Being Rushed Through Balkans As Threat Of Allied Invasion Mounts: Italians Evacuating Island Of Rhodes In Mediterranean 

HUGE CROWD AT ORDNANCE PLANT FOR OPEN HOUSE   Many Local People At Green Ri ver Plant Sunday To See How Munitions Of War Are Manu. factured.

Open House at Lee County's War Plant Tremendous Suecess   Chill October Winds Fail to Dampen Enthusiasm of Crowd

Hope Fades For Rescue of  96 Miners   Crews Battle With Deadly Gas in Effort to Reach Entombed Men

Hopes for Safety of 69 Men, Caught in Montana Mine Explosion, Waning

HOPE OF SAVING 69 ENTOMBED MINERS FADES   Power Blower Demolished in Ex. . plosion and New One Installed —Cause of Blast Undetermined

RELATIVES OF 69 ~ MINERS REFUSE. TOCWE UP HOP   Imprisoned Deep in Hillside Coal Mine in Montana   ST umatananametoeetoned  12 MEN AMONG THE KNOWN DEAD

69 MINERS ARE TRAPPED: 5 DIE   ‘Montana Blast May.Claim Lives and Many More from Gas.

Hope Vanishes For 69 Menin Montana Mine   - Bodies of 5 Others -Found; Some Moy Ba in Remote Pockets

Hopes to Find Them Alive Wane As Gas Delays Rescue Work   Olher Mine Disasters

69 Trapped in Montana Mine  At Least Five Known to be Dead  S.C l ns

Continue Rescue  Efforts At Mine  Relatives Of 69 Men  Imprisoned By Blast Await Definite Word

Rescuers Fight Gas to Reach Trapped Miners   5 Bodies Are Recovered from Mine; 69 Imprisoned by Blast

Scant Hope for Entombed Men Remains   Searchers Near Point, Mile and a Half Underground, Where Miners Worked

HOPE FOR MINERS WANES   Little Hope Held For 69 Men Entombed By Blast

Little Hope For Miners   Deadly: Gases Hamper Work of Rescue in Mine Where 69 Are Trapped

69 STILL TRAPPED IN MONTANA MINE   Relatives Wait in Silence as Rescue Work Goes On.

RECOVER BODIES OF FIVE MINERS   Hope Dwindles tor Rescue of Trapped Workers in Mine

HOPE FADES FOR TRAPPED MINERS   Weary Rescue Workers Combat Deadly Gas In Mine Shafts As Numbed, Silent Relatives Watch At Entrance.

69 MEN TRAPPED BY MINE BLAST   Five Known Dead as Wives And Sweethearts Stoically Await Tragic Ending

69 MINERS STILL IMPRISONED AT BEAR CREEK   Relatives Still Wait About While Rescuers Try to Reach Trapped Men

Five Miners Die In Blast  . Seven More Thought Dead In Wreckage OF Mine Dicacter

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rommel Getting Ready For Final Retreat t into Tripolitania

PRICE CONTROL EXTENSION SET ON VEGETABLES   Most Fresh Varieties Of Garden Products To Be Affected

Good. Roads. Group Chaases: Officers —      Postmaster’ General. Says. It's ‘Ridiculous T> Charae He Once Use Loaded: Dice -.

WALKER DENIES MAGAZINE YARN   Reands As ‘Ridiculous’ Police Gazette’s Dice Story

COMMITTEE OXAYS POSTWAR LINE-UP   U. S. Participation In World Peace Machine Approved

Attempts At Revision  Rejected   U. S. Participation In International Program To Maintain Peace Ie Strongly Favored

U. S. Participation in International Machinery te Maintain Peact Favored

Report Germans Stealing Many Fine Paintings   Art Masterpieces Removed by Nazis

F. D. Now Holds Fate of Stephan   Stay of Execution Denied by Justice

ONLY ONE HOPE LEFT STEPHAN   Appeal To Roosevelt I: Last Chance To Dodge Gallows July 2

CITES INCREASE   U. S. Food Costs Have Risen 9 Per Cent Due To War

LAOR PEACE ~ MOVES MADE   AFL AND €10 WILL ATTEMPT ..YOEND “RAIDING” AS FINST BTEP TOWARD MERGER :  NEGOTIATIONS -

LABOR MERGER TALKS PLANNED   CiO And AFL. Groups To Hold Parleys In Capitol

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazis Anticipate Allied Landing North Of Rome Destroy Harbors

OOLDIERS KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT   Three Lose Lives Wien Car Overturns; Two Others Are Injured.

Reds Launch New Assault, Germans Say   ‘Reported Drive . Apparently Aimed at Gulf of Finland

New Soviet Assault Aimed at Gull Of Finland: British Enter Tunisia

Nine German Divisions Held At Voronezh   Drives Toward Kursk, Kharkov And Belgorod Developing On Other Fronts   AIMED AT FINLAND

Russians Smash Through German Divisions on 44Mile Front.in Voronezh Area   TRAP NAZI TROOPS   Drive Within 65 Miles of Kursk While Capturing Rail Junction of Kropoikin in Caucasus

Report New Red Push   German Radio Reveals Violent Drive Launched South of Lake Ladoga

NEW RED DRIVE ONLAKELADOGA FRONT VIOLENT   Berlin Makes Known New Offensive; Says Russians Repulsed But “Battle Continues”   GERMAN LINES NEAR VORONEZH SMASHED   Reds Also Developing Drives Toward Key Railroad Center of Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov

Axis Offensive Halts as Eighth Army Moves Up   Soviets Capture 10 Towns in Drive  To Retake Orel

Eighth Army Moving Up For Clash   American Forces Stabilize Lines Aiter Axis Gain

Bee Line Granted Bus Permit   North and South Line Through Mt. Pleasant

Trap Is Laid For Remnants   Victory Said Serious Blow; Allies Move "On Way Back”

ESCAPING FOE HEADING INTO MOUNTAIN. TRAP   “We Are ‘Making Our Way Back,” MacArthur Says

M Arthur Power House Drive Ends In Great Victory   Seizure Gives Allies Control of Huon Gulf

Allies Seize Lae, Hunt Enemy Down   Few Who Escape Face Death In Jungle Area

LAE AIRBASE CAPTURED BY JUNGLE MEN   Just 12 Days After rowerhouse Drive Is Unleashed: Japs Heading for Certair Death Trap.   Block Trails

JapaneseLose Main Base In New Guinea   Lae Falls to Allies; Japs Take to Hills; Many Nipponese Are Slain; Chief Reminds Men That Philippines Is Gaal”

BlG AIR BASE CAPTURED IN [2-DAY SIEGE   Remnants of Garrison That Escaped Fleeing Into Death Trap in Mountains.   DEFENSES LEVELED; TOWN A SHAMBLES   Pincers Move Forced Nips to Fight to Last— Seizure Gives M’Arthur Control of Huon Gulf.

Lae Topples 12 Days After Drive Starts   Japs Who Escape Death Head into Trap Laid For Them in Juneles   BIG BLOW TO ENEMY, MACARTHUR SAYS

Fow Prisoners Will Escape Entrapping; Is important Step On U. S. ‘Way Beck’

Victory Poses Serious Threat to Nips  MacArthur Declares Fleeing Enemy _-

JAP AIR BASE FALLS AFTER 12 DAYS SIEG   Remnants of Foe Garrison Are Pursued Into Jungle

STUTTGART  7 py tts  BYU. . BOMBER:   Germans Threw Every Available Fighter Plane Into Battle to Try To Halt Bomber Raid

Interoreting  The War   Another Offensive By Germans in Russia Unlikely

PT Boats Hit Destroyers In Solomon Fight   Torpedo Vessels Attac! Japanese Fleet Of Eight Dive Bombers Blast Two   SHIPS RUN BLOCKADE   Enemy Aircraft Damage Tiny U. 8. Craft Slightly In Retaliation

Navy Reports Three Japanese Destroyers Hit   Fast U. S. Motor Torpedo Boats Make Attack On Eight Jap Destroyers   JAPS ATTEMPTING TO GET TO GUADALCANAL   Nearly 20,000 Nipponese Troops Are Trapped By American Forces

U.3.PT BOATS ATTACK EIGHT JAP WARDHIPC   Damage Three Attempting te Land Reinforcements on Guadalcanal.   MOTOR BOATS BOMBED WITH SLIGHT DAMAGE

NEW CRISIS IS AT HAND: 20,000 OUT   Await Decision Of Lewis This Afternoon; Truce Expires Sunday Night; Claims Refused

Conferces to See ‘What Can Be Done About the WLB Order”’     *LeWIs Is FACING . CRUCIAL DECISION  Working Truce Is Due to ® Expire Tomorrow at Midnight

Truce End Is  Near   Union, Operators Meet In Effort Avert Tieup

Work Stoppage In Coal Mines Started: UMW Tc Consider WLB Decision

Coal Mine Strike Meet Slowed  As Truce Near End  20.000 Are Idle In Protest at War Board Stand

20,000 Miners Quit Work in Protest Against WLB’s Refusal to Approve Pay for Underground Travel Time

Seek Basis For Averting iNew TieupIn  Production —   ‘Working Truce’ Ends Sunday Midnight; UMW Policy Committee Faces Crucial Decision

90). 000 Miners Out As” Lewis Confers  With UMW. Chiefs   Policy Committee Meeting Delayed Until Later Today: ‘As Unionists. “Weigh . WLB’s Wage: Decision.

BOTH SIDES 70 CONFER DURING DAY ON “TRUCE   Not Necessarily Agreed to  Resume Callective Bargaining on Merits of Miners’ Demands   WILL AIR REFUSAL PAY RAISE BY WLB   War Labor Board’s Rejection Leaves Court  Door Open for Test of - Portal-to-Portal Demands

Conference In Progress To Prevent New Strike   Latest Truce Ends At Midnight  Tomorrow

MINERS-OPERATORS MEETING TODAY IN EFFORT AVOID TIEUP  EXPIRATION OF “WORK. ING TRUCE” SCHEDULED SUNDAY NIGHT

DONT WAIT FOR END OF TRUCE   UMW Leaders and Coal Operators Will Confer to Avert New Tieun

Lewis Still Silent on. WLB Ruling   Meeting of UMW Board Is Delaved

Miners Head Out of Pits in Protest   WLB Rejects Travel Pay Demands Made by Union, Lewis Postpones Meeting

UMW InternationalPolicy Committee to Decide on  Calling of General Strike

Both Sides To Discuss  WLBStand   More Than 30,000 Miners Alrealy Quit Ahead of Deadline

Coal Dispute Boils Toward New Crisis   United Mine Workers Policy Committee Meeting Today

LEWIS FACING CRUCIAL HOUR IN COAL ROW      20,000 Mincrs Walk Out In Protest To WLB  Decision   TRUCE NEARS END   UMW Postpones Meeting On Travel Pay Issue Pending Study

Two Factions Seek Basis To Avert Tie-up   More Than 20,000 Miners Quit Work Ir Protest Of WLB Rulina

LEWIS DELAYS POLICY TALK, POLLS RANKS   Nation Waits FDR Action on Anti-Strike Bill Passed By House, Senate.   THIRD STRIKE FEARED   Union’s Qnly Alternative to Quit Work or Accept Denial af Pay Raise.

MORE THAN 45.000 OF NATIONS COAL MINERS ALREADY OUT OF PITS AFTER WLB DECISION   ‘United Mine Worker Policy Committee Session Postponed by Lewis; Operators and Miners Seel Basis for Averting Another Tie-Up

Seek Basis For Averting Fresh Tie-Un   Sporadic Walkouts Ag Deadline In No-Strike  Trice Nears.

Walkouts Already Spread Rapidly   Miners, Turned Down by WLB, Study Ruling Before Announcing Taal Dsantetnw

MINERS TO SEEK AGREEMENT AS STRIKE BEGINS   Will Return To Conference Table; 20,000 Miners Already Idle As Truce Dead:  line Nears.

‘Union, Operators Agree {To Parley As Deadline Nears On ‘‘Working Truce’

Meef Resumed Between Miners And Operators   Portal-to-Portal Pay Refusal Brings Crisis

SEEK TO STOP ANOTHER COAL MINE TIE-UP   UMW and Operator: Agree to a Further Conference as End of Strike “Truce” Nears—45,000 Miners Idle.

New Efforts To Avert General Coal Strike   Nearly 20,000 Miners Out Already in Protest to WLB Order

Mine Strikes Are Spreading Again   Another Peace Conference Today

SEEK BASIS TO AVERT TIE-UIF   Miners, Coal Operators Agree to Return to Confer. enre Tahie.

Operators and Miners Confer In Attempt, to Avoid Tie-Up   Truce D es d  ine Near: 20,000 Already Off lob

WLB Denial Of Pay Boost  Gets Study Midafternoon Meeting  Called to Seek Basis: of Agreement   More Than 20,000 Leave Jobs in Protest. of Board Ruling

Seeking Basis To Avert Mine Tie-Up   Workers and Operators Agree to Return to Conference Table   50,000 ALREADY OUT   Men Protest Against WLB’: Refusal to / w Travel  Time

SOLON WOULD PERMIT VOTE BY CIVILIANS   Those Abroad During 1944 Elections Would Get Ballot —   BILL IS PREPARED BY CONGRESSMAN   Representative Sabath, of Hlinois, Backing - Proposal

19,000 MINERS IN ALABAMA STRIKING      Walkout Threatens T ; Cripple War Industry

14,000 IDLE IN ALABAMA PITS   State’s Industrial Coal Supply Near Halt

Tokyo Claims Allied Attempt to Land On Kolombangara Frustrated Sunday

Byrd Group Insists Payroll Be Slashec  Second Recommenda. tion; Hints Legislation

Economy Committee Demands Cut in ~  Federal Employes   Asks 300,000 Workers Be Cut From Civilian Payrolls; 131,058 Have Been Dismissed in Three Months

Byrd Committee Insists on More Federal Econom)  300,000 Reduction i   300,000 Reduction i Civilian Cinployes Nei Sought

Insists on Federal Employe Slash  -Byrd  Group Seeks 20 HW Body Ba

OL CITY HAS NEAR TORNADO   Rips Thousand-Foot Path Through Community Section

Index   ‘Spin In, Dumbwhacks’ autho: tells how he came to write it

Investigation of.  FCC Beginning   Fireworks Highlight First Day’s Testimony

Farmers Get Pat From Roosevelt   Production in 1942 Was Major Victory

Farmers Lauded For War Effort: By World Chiefs   Further Steps Toward Victory Needed In 1943

Victory     OnFood   Farmers 1942 Record . Praised By National Leaders; Urged to Increase Production

ALLIED CHIEFS CITE VICTORY IN FOOD FOR 1942   Leaders Join for ‘Observance of Farm Mobilization Dav

FARMERS PRAISED BY PRESIDENT FOR” WORK ALREADY DONE  OTLICD TINITCH NATIOANG

Pat on Back for Farmers. of America   Roosevelt and Leaders. of United Nations. Express: Gratitude for Food   FOOD A VITAL ; WAR WEAPON   American . Food Playing’ Big Part in Helping Rus.. sia to Carry On 

FARMERS TOLD NEED FOR FOOD   President Roosevelt and Other Allied Leaders Are ‘‘M’’ Day Speakers

Alhed Leaders Thank Farmers  lor Good Vor!   Roosevelt, Litvinoff. Lord Woolion, Wickard Take Part In Farm ‘M’ Day.   FOOD A BiG FACTOR

President Lauds U.S. Farmers for Work   Chief Executive Expresses Confidence Agriculture Will Continue Production

Roosevelt And Others Honor Farmers For Their High Record During Past Year

LAUD FARM FOLK   . « « For Production Victory   Free People Grateful To U. S. Farmers Says FDR's Message

Farm Mobilization Campaign Opens With Talks By United Nations Leaders

United Nations Leaders Laud U. § Farmers’ Efforts   M Day Radio Addresses Urge Expanded Food Production For Victory

Chiefs United Nations Laud U. §. Farmers   President Roosevelt, Maxim Litvinoff and Lord Woolton Praise Accomplishments

President And Other Leaders In Broadcast   Food As Essential As Weapons In World Struggle   Byrnes Reads The President's Talk   United Nations And American Speakers On National Hookup

Farmers Draw Praise For 1942 Food Contribution  Told They're Being  Counted on For More Stans to Victory

Farmers Counted On Heavily For Victory  World Leaders Praise U. S. Production, Call For More

HOLD SOME HOPE THAT MISSING BRIG, GEN. MAY BE ALIVE: PLANE DOWNED IN ATTACH

General Lost In U.5. Raid On Kiel   Brig. Gen. N. B. Forrest Reported Missing

Gen. Forrest Missing in Raid on Kiel But Some Hope Is Still Held

GENERAL MISSING IN YANKS’ KIEL RAID   Flying Fortress Last Seen Spiraling Down

AAN PAYMENTS 60 FOR CORN, WHEAT   Cotton States Get Lowest Amount Since Act Started; Record Corn Allotment

Wheat, Corn To Get Bulk ‘Of Benefits   Cotton Farmers Will Get Only $78,833,000 Compared with $184,957,000 Last Year; High Price Is Cause

Corn and Wheat  Farmers to Get  Most Payments   Corn Benefit Subsidies Totals $188,219,000; Record High

COTTON FARMERS 10 GET SMALL AMOUNT BENEFIT PAYMENTS   Improved Price OF Cotton, Supreme Court Action Hold Down Cotton Men

Red Armies Smash Axis Defense Line      Hitler May Face ‘Third Dunkirk’ on Black Sea if Russian Pressure Keeps Up

De Marigny Defense Trying New Blows  Spectators Aroused By Sudden Tactics

DeMarigny’ S Defense Hits At Exhibit J   CHIEF COUNSEL HIGGS CONTINLES EFFORT TO DISCREDIT FINGERPRINT OFFERED BY MIAMI POLICE CAPTAIN.   Defendant A Yachtsman

MINERS GO TO COURT IN MOVE ~ GET PORTAL PAY   Bitterly Assail War Labor Board’s Refusal Grant Underground Time   MINERS INSTRUCTED TO CONTINUE DIGGING COAL   Despite Wage Decision and Return of Some of the Pits To Operators; Court Action Designed to Provide Nation-wide Guide

Miners Advised To Stay on Job Despite Sethack   Union Taking Demand For Portal Wage to. Southem Court

Demands To Court   Portal-To-Portal Mine Pay Sought for Past 5 Years

UMW Files Suit For Two Hours Travel Pay   Test Action Brought In Alabama On_ Behalf Of U. S. Steel Subsidiary Workers; Miners Told To Carry On

MINERS OPEN COURT FIGHT   Bitterly Assail Decision of Labor Board on Portalto-Portal Pay

Bitterly Assail. War Labor Board Decision And President Roosevelt's Approval Of Penalties For Union's Defiance

MINERS ADVISED TO STAY ON JOB BY UMW LEADERS   Union Goes To Court To Win Portal-To-Portal Pay Despite WLB Denial   OPERATORS REPORT PRODUCTION DROP

MINERS TAKE PORTAL-10-PORTAL DEMANDS 10 DISTRICT COURT   Union Advises Men To Stay on Job despite WLB Wage Decision

Portal-Portal Pay for Miner: Before Court   UMW in Alabama Case Attacks WLB Ruling,  Orders Miners to Stay On Jobs During Fight

Miners File Travel Wage Test’ Action:   U.S. Court Suits Ask 2 Hours Daily Pay

Rationing Board Head Explains Point Systen   NEW RATION. BOOKS HEREREGISTRATION THEOUGH HIGH SCHOOLS

“We Cannot Afford to Waste Food Now,’ Says Smyth   Suggestions Are Made for Wise Spending in Point Rationing,

Advise Careful Spending of Points   You Pay Your Points; You Pay Your Money

Quick Surrender of Munda Seen  Jap Bastion Gets Heaviest Bombing

Quick Surrender of Munda Seen  Jap Bastion Gets HWanvias} Bawhine

Sicilian Situation _ For Axis Critical   British Army Nears Approaches to Catania After Smashing Back the Hermann Goering German Armored Elements in Fierce Battle.   Complete Occupation of Island Considered Only a Matter of Time

British Eighth Near Outskirts; Smashes Nazi Tank Divisions   Americans Take Moun. tain Area: Allies Control Eighth of Sicily

Montgomery Leading Push Into Catania   Other Armies Are Keeping Abreast in Co-ordinated Power Drive   ‘WAR FLEET SAILS  ALONG, GUNS FOE   Fighting Continues, But Alhes Are Now Firmly Established, Supplied

Decisive Battle Indicated With  Axis Armor Force   Canadians Take Strategic Rail Line T Threaten Right Flank Of Germans; Fiv U. S. Divisions Now Fighting In Sicily

Fighting Along Coast Supported By Allied Fleet   Establishment Of Joint ‘American-British Military Government In Sicily Believed Indication That Complete Control Of Island Is Only Matter Of Time

ALLIED FLEET HIDING TROOPS   Montgomery Captures Lentini and = Scordia, on Catania Plain.   ‘YANKS MOVING INLAND

Close in on' Defense pe Around Catania in East   U. S. GAINS IN WEST   Northward Advance Continues on All Parts of the Front

SMASH BACK 2 TANK DIVISIONS WITH ADVANCE   Americans Reported Joining British for East Sicilian Drive

ALLIED ADVANCE GOING FORWARD ON ALL FRONTS   British Triumph In Biggest Battle Yet Fought In _ Sicily; Lentini, Caltagirone, And Other Important Towns Taken.

Smash Back Best Troops Of Germans   Powerful Allied Fleet On Seaward Flank Guns Enemy’s Positions

Allies Close in on ‘Defense Forcés Around Catania ‘in East   ~U. S. GAINS IN WEST   Northward Advance Continues on All Parts of the Front

ne dt OCCUPATION NEAR: T LINE DISPATCHES ARE BRIGHT FOR ALLIED FORCES

Nazi Defenders On Sicily Driver Back by Allies   Advance Continues At All Points On Invaded Island

U.S. Troops Reported In Steady Gains   British Storm Lenini, Scordia In Gateway To Plain; Agrigento Next Yank Obiective

Americans Also Score  Sharp Gains   Canadians Cut Into Heart Of Central Sicilian De fenses

IFAMED DESERT ARMY OF GEN. MONTGOMER) SLASHING ORWARD  WHIPS TWO GERMAN ARMORED DIVISIONS AND MOVES AHEAD

Axis Situation ot Big Eastern Coast Base Said Rapidly Growing Critical

Crisis Grows For Battered Enemy On East Coast   Nazi Tanks Retreat; Canae dians Take Caltagirone, Grammichele

U.S. Airmen Strike Viciously at Enemy’s Air Fields  French Sites Take Severe Blows From Big Planes

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST FRENCH TARGET AREAS   CANAL IN HOLLAND BLOCKED BY LOW LEVEL ATTACK

Bombers Rip Up Bases In France   Fighter Cover Is _ ‘Heqviect OF Verne

NEW AIR ASSAULTS MADE ON FRANGE   AIRFIELDS BLASTED BY AMERICANS—FOUR ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN.

Flying Forts  Assail France  [RAF Bombers Destroy Thiatelh FT acrk.Catre

FORTRESOED Al] FRENGH TARGETS   Yanks Blast Mardyck and Penain Airfields   CANAL DAMAGED   Pummel Every Target Sighted on Virtually Paralyzed Toe of Italy

Bombers Hit F rench Airfields   Largest F ighter Cover of Year  Employed

MAIN ESCAPE RAIL SYSTEM OF NAZIS CUT   Fighting Is Described as Bloody by Both Soviets and Germans   RAIL JUNCTION IS TAKEN IN ASSAULT   Berlin Admits New Breakthrough in Dnieper Section

Razis Suffer Big Setback On Dnieper   Breakthrough Made By Reds Near Kremenchusg

Four Nazi Divisions Hard Hit At Railway Junctions   Enemy's Main Escape Route To West Is Cut By Advancing Russians: Many Germans Killed

Cut Germans Dnieper Bend Escape   Russians in One Operation Capture 1,800 Officers and Men; 2,000 Killed In Awnther Gactar af Blazvings Front

GERMANS ADMIT RETREAT FROM MIDDLE DNIEPER   Four Crack Nazi Divisions Badly Mauled By Rus sian Tranne   RAIL JUNCTION IS TAKEN BY SOVIETS

Ldvance Cuts Nazi’s Main Escape Route to the West; Reds Complete Annfhilation Of Infantry Division Rem “hante Near Kiev

Reds Pour Through Big Break In Nazi  Southern Defenses   rour German Divisions Badly Mauled And Strategic Rail Junction Falls To Soviet  Ree TITMCAN mMemrrramnc

REDS MAUL FOUR GERMAN BIVISIONS ON DNIEPER FRONT   Seize Railway Junction Behind River Bend to Cut Enemy’s Main Escape’ Route to West.   FIGHTING IS VIOLENT; 1,800 NAZIS CAPTURED   More Than 100 Towns and Villages Fall to Russians as Hitler’s Forces Fall Back,

LEGISLATURE MAKES FURTHER PROGRESS  IN ORGANIZATION   LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SMITH NAMES SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES

MOSQUITO BOMBERS ATTACK THIENVILLE   RAF Grounded ) ‘By Adverse Weather—U, S. Planes . Raid St. Nazaire

18 YOUTHS OF THIS DISTRICT ENTER SERVICE   Concord Athletes ‘on: List; Six Chosen for Duty © ‘im Navy

Foods Under OPA Control Increase in Price; Uncontrolled Decrease

U. S. Naval Forces Said Converging On Martinique   British Radio States That Detachment Of West Indians Debarks For Dominica.

Germany Says U.S. To Take  French Isles   Washington, London Silent-Regarding _ Renorted Move -‘

Washington, London Chiefs Decline Comment On Move   Federal Communications Commission Hears British Report Troops Going To Dominica

Nazis Say U. S. Moves on Island  London, Washingtor Silent on Report

BERLIN RADIO CLAIMS YANKS ARE ON MOVE   Guadeloupe Seizure Also Hinted But U. S. Silent

WPB TO AID SMALL LUMBER PRODUCERS   Proposes to Draft 500 Forest Service Empioyes to Help Mills.

Army Takes Only 11 of 49 Sent By Cily Board 2   Names of Men Selected  For Other Services Not Available

STEWART FIRST TO ENTER GOP GOVERNOR RAGE   Expect Three More To File Their Announcements Soon

CINCINNATI MAYOR IN GOVERNOR RACE   Three Others Expected Tc Seek GOP Nomination

LIGHT PROGRAM LAUDED BY FDR   Electrification Of Farms Major Achievement Of His Administration Says President

REA Is Seen as Lasting Achievement   F. D. R. Message Is Read at Conclave; Service Is Praised

REA PRAISED BY PRESIDENT   Says Rural Electrification One of Administration’s Biggest Achievements

SUGAR TOP FOR HOME-CANNINE   OPA Will Allow Maximum of 25 Pounds Per Person

[25 Lhe. Limit Of Sugar For  ‘Home Cannine   Allocated On Substantially Same Basis As Last Year

A 25-POUND LIMIT   OPA Issues Regulations Af_ fecting Home Canning  _ This Year ~

Canning Sugar Limit 25 Pounds   Applications May Be Made Saturday

25 Pounds Sugar Top For Canning   OPA Sets Limit On  Home Allotments 

SET SUGAR LIMIT FOR HOME CANNING   Twenty-Five Pounds Per Person Is Maximum — Five Pounds Per Person For Jellies And Preserves

SUGAR LIMITS  STIBLSHE FOR CANNER   Maximum of Twenty-Five Pounds Per Person For Putting Up Fruit Crops Set by OPA   UBSTANTIALLY THE SAME BASIS AS 1942   pPA Director Also Announces Limit On Profit  4 Margins For Cabbage,  * Onions. Poultry   fan With Hoe Will Get Two ats on Back as Seed-Saver      griculture Department Experts Urge Victory Gardeners Not to Over-Sow and Making Necessary Extensive Thinning Out of Plants; Seed Sale Breaking All Records

SUGAR LIMIT IS SET AT 25 LBS.   OPA Announces Maximum Permitted Each Person for Home Canning

Sugar for Canning Set  25-Pound Maximum   25-Pound Maximum Per Person for Home Canning This Year

PLACE LIMIT ON CANNING SUGAR   OPA Sets the Maximum Amount Per Person  At 25 Pounds

nh PUTS TOP LIMIT ‘ON CANNING SUGAR   25 tounds Per Person Is Ceiling; to Start May 15 to Receive Annlicationse

ALLOW SUGAR FOR CANNING   Allotment Fixed at 2: Pounds Per Person

25 Pounds Sugar For Canning Per Person Allowed   O.P.A. Also Announces It Is Freezing Year’s Fruit Crop.

UGAR ALLOWANCE FOR CANNING SE]   Top Limit of 25 Pounds Person for Canning Granted By OPA.

Mix Limit On  Canning Sugar   Twenty-Five Pounds Per Person Allowed: Five Pound Limit On Preserves

25 Pounds Of Sugar A Person Okayed For Canning   One Round Allotted For Each Four © Quarts Preserved

25 POUNDS OF SUGAR LIMIT FOR HOME CANNING   Rate Same as Last Year Up Until Mamixum Set by OPA

Fix Limit On Sugar For Canning   Allow 25 Lbs. Per -Person, Including 5-Pound Allotment For Preserying: Into Effect May 15

25 Lbs. Of Sugar  Per Person Set   Five Pounds May Be Used For Jams And Jellies; All Families Eligible

A 25-POUND LIMIT   OPA Issues Regulations Af fecting Home Canning is Year

28 Ld, aUGAR PERPEROON [a CANNER LIMIT   Otherwise Sugar This Year to Be Allocated Same as Last Year.   APPLICATION MAY BE MADE STARTING MAY 15

More Sugar For Jams And Jellies   Limit For Canning To Be 25 Pounds Per Capita In °43°

Axis Fails In Drives To Regain Territory Near Medjez-El-Bab   First Army 30 Miles From Tunis; Danzig, Koenigsberg Bombed; Anti-Hiiler Disorders In Reich

BRITISH FIRST ARMY RETAKES A KEY HEIGHT   Anglo Troops Now Holding Line Only 25 to 30 Miles From Tunis. — French Take 1,000 Prisoners

‘All Attacks By Germans ‘Turned Back   British First Army Within 15 Miles of

Rommel’s Counterattacks  Repulsed In Fierce Fighting   GIRAUD'S FINAL ANSWER TO De GAULLE  Whe, Karmerind Whe FF erm

British Retain. Ground Gained               First Army Drives Toward Tebour! in Advance on Tunis, Hold Mountain Line; Montgomery's Forces’ Br Up Big Guns in South. zee

Nazi Lines Stiffen . In Tunisia   Fierce Fighting Rages Along Whiole Front; 8th Army Brings Up Guns For Next Blow

Montgomery Trains Guns on Axis Line   German Attacks’ Repulsed but Enemy Still Retains Power for Counter Blows —

Eighth Is Massing” Big Guns   -Counterattacks Of Rommel Have Been In Vain.

Fiercest Fighting Of Campaign Fails To Dislodge Allies   Montgomery Bringing Up Big Guns To Blast Nazi Defenses at Enfidaville

fGHTH ARMY CONFINED 10 PATROL DUTY   French Meet Stronger Enemy Resistance In Southwest

Allied Air Attacks Sap Axis Strength in Tunisian Fight   Ground Forces Gather for Showdown Battle for North Africa

Fiercest Fighting Of Africa Warls Reported By Allies   Violent All-Day Battles Raging On Heights North Of Medjez-El-Bab; Nazis Repulsed

NAZIS LASH OUT IN VAIN AGAINST ALLIED SQUEEZE   Axis Counterattacks Beaten Back on Two Sectors in Last Ditch Fight   SIEGE GUNS BROUGHT UP   Reds Report Gains on Three Main Fronts in Spite of German Resistance

Nazi Attacks Repulsed by First Army   Violent All-Day Battles Rage 30 Miles from Tunis; 8th Army Bringing Up Guns to Blast Through Rommel! s Defenses at Enfidaville

AXIS CGUNTER ATTACKS ON BRITISH FAIL   British First Army Infantry Has Driven To Within 15 Miles of Tebourba

British First Army Retains _ Strong Cirele   Held Mountain Line 30 Miles From Tunis; Enemy Shows Strength.    BRING UP HEAVY GUNS

BEATEN OFF ‘IN BATTLES “NEAR TUNIS   Violent Counterattacks Are ~Repulsed; First. Army Is. Near Tebourba   FRENCH ALSO HOLD:. . AGAINST ATTACKS.   ‘Bombers Continue. Sapping: Enemy Strength; Final Phase of Battle Near. :

Counter-Attacks At Medjez el Bab Are Unsuccessful   Enemy Still Has Much Power; Air Superiority Plain

FRENCH TROOPS MEET ASSAULTS WITH FIRMNESS   Patrol Activity Reported From 8th Army Along Enfi daville Line   MONTGOMERY BRINGS UP HEAVIEST GUNS

4.0 Axis Planes  e-ost In Tunisia; Naples Hit Hard by Fobtressas

British 15 Miles From Tebourba   German Counter Attacks Beaten Off -—- French Meet Opposition

British Near ‘Tebourba, Or Tunis Road   Violent Battles Rage On Tunisian Heights; All Counterattacks By Ger mane Fa;l

Ground Forces Gather for Showdown— MacArthur’s Bombers Press Attack on Shattered Convoy Off Newak; Japs Continue to Reinforce Bases

COAL STRIKES — NOW PROBLEM OF ROOSEVELT   GENERAL STRIKE OF 450,000 MUNERS THREATENED UNLESS DRASTIC ACTION 13 TAKEN BY PRESI ‘ DENT

ONG UNITS EOF   Reserves Put Ashore Without Loss of Single Man .

STRO AT MARINES  G UNITS E OF   Reserves Put Ashore Without Loss of Single Man

Army Units Aid Marines Battling ~ OnBougainville   Strong Army Formations Landed And Begin Operations Against Japs   BATTLES IN AIR ALSO FREQUENT

Says White Meuse May Take Definite Stzad Seon oa Enforved Labor Law

Stand Near On Draft All’ Bill:  Republican Predicts Administration Will  re ag

FDR MAY TAKE DEFINITE STAND ON LABOR LAW   Politics Only Obstacle According To Some Lawmakers

Says White House May Take Definite Stand Soon on Enforced Labor Law

Answer To A Maiden’s Praye~  Synthetic Rubber Girdle Is Better Than Pre-War Model  Unmentionable Holds tts Shape—And That AE lee Wearer—Better Than The Old Mneae

Here It Is, Girls, Synthetic Girdle   Victory Model Shakes Capital

Price Ceilings On Some Meats   O. P. A. Announces Maximum Retail Price Ceiling’s Effective April 15  BEEF, VEAL AND LAMB INCLUDED

Waacs to Become Wacs \Under Army Control If President ‘Signs: Bill —

Satisfactory’ Treatment Being ‘Given Prisoners of War, Statement Savs

BOSTON BLAZE TRIAL ENDED   Owner Of Cocoanut Grove Is Convicted Of Manslaughter.

Convict Night Club Owner  Cncaannt Grava Fire   Cocoanut Grove Fire Basis Of Charges

WELANSKY CONVICTED   Owner Of Cocoanut Grove Found Guilty Of Manslaughter

*COCOANUT GROVE OWNER ‘TO PAY’   @Night Club Proprietor Found Guilty on 19 Counts Of Manslaughter

Club Owner Guilty in  Boston Fire   Convicted on 19 Separate Counts Ot Manslaughter.

FIRE DISASTER HEARING ENDED   Cocoanut Grove Owner Convicted On Charge Of Manslaughter

Boston Night Club  Owner Convicted  Welansky Guilty On 19 Counts After Fire In Whiek AQN Niad

GUILTY IN BOSTON NIGHT CLUB FIRE   COCOANUT GROVE OWNER CONVICTED ON 19 COUNTS OF MANSLAUGHTER,

BOSTON FIRE CLUB OWNER IS CONVICTED   Manslaughter Charge Has Maximum of  20 Years

COCOANUT GROVE OWNER CONVICTED   Jury Returns Verdict Of Guilty Separately On Each Count   2 OTHERS ARE ACQUITTED IN FIRE THAT KILLED 490

Cocoanut Grove Owner Convicted   ( ‘harged Ww ith Manslaughter In 19 Cases

JURY CONVICTS PROPRIETOR Of BOSTON CLUE   Barnett Wrlansky Found Guilty of Manslaughter Charge Growing Out of Holocaust   490 PERSONS DIED   Acting Manager and Wine Steward Acquitted; Had No Management Authority Jury Holds

Night Club Owner  Guilty in Holocaust   Others Are Acquitted In Five That Killed 490

_ Take Offensive Again  In Kharkov  Area  Continue Advance In Smolensk Sector In Noyth

Nazis Hurled Back By Reds   Gains Held Against Heavy Nazi Assaults

Force Nazis Back on South Sector   Russians Advance Steadily on Smolensk Front

SOVIET FORCES IN NORTH ARE MOVING AHEAD   Southern Front Russians Capture New Positions  And Hold To Them

REICH CAPITAL GETS HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR   Pounding Twice as Powerful as Any Previous Raid

'2,000 Tons of Bombs Rock Berlin in War's Heaviest ‘Raid on Capital of Reich. ~   British Admit Loss of 58 Planes In Fierce Night Attack, Believed — To Re Firct of Series on City

Terrific Assault Drops 2.000 Tons (f Bombs On City   Raid Described As ‘‘Twice As Heavy’’ As Any Preceding Allied Attack   59 ALLIED PLANES LOST IN THE RAID   Germany Strikes Back In Feeble Raid On English Coast, No Casualties

NEARLY - 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED DOWN— 58 PLANES LOST.   Transport Riddled   German Air Protection Missing As Allied Planes Range Wide Over Italy.

NEW UNREST IN UNIONS IN VIEW   Railway Workers And Stee Groups May Strike _

NEW STRIKES ~~ ARE LOOMING   ‘RAIL AND: STEEL EMFLOYES \ THREATENING MAJOR WALKOUTS OVER WAGE.  DISPUTES .

“MORE: AWARDS.   Announced Tn * Washington’ ‘for ine_of Our Heroes, ©

TO LIST HERE   Named Bargaining Agent In Vote At Two Twin City Plants

French Empire Works Together   Roosevelt Sees Nations Striving For Victory

France Now Working For  Restoration   President Sees His Policy Bearing Fruit

French: Unity Now Complete  Mun: 22.   Wait For Bloodless Alignment Of Martinique Justified.

French Poliey  Of United States Upheld By FDR   Cites Lack Of Bloodshed In Terming Criticism Incorrect Propaganda

FDR Defends French Policy   Says All French Appear Working for Common Cause

FDR Critical Of Some Of Critics   French Policy Has Worked Out Very Well

LIBERATION (5 ~ AI OF FRENGH   F.D.R. Declares All French. Empire Working For Common Cause

PRESIDENT SEES FRENCH UNITED   ‘Chief Executive Says Gov  ermment’s Policy Has Brought Results.

MOBILE UNIT OF RED Choe   Will Be in Tipton Two ‘Days Next Week at the Elks Home.

RIVERS RISE AGAIN   Heavy Rains in Missouri and Kaw Watersheds Send Them Up

New Flocd Threats in Heavy Rain   Abisko Rising and May Go Higher Than Last Week  at Kansas City   LOWLAND RESIDENTS GIVEN WARNING   All Streams Up and Big River Will Go High as Far as the Grand

Heavy Rainfall In West Threatens Nev Missouri Floods  Central Section May Not Be Affected By  Kanene Ovartlaw

Red Army Drives Further Into Naz Lines Near Gomel   Indications Germans Preparing For Mass Attacks Against Kiev   COUNTER-ATTACKS BEATEN BY REDS

SOVIETS SMASH ON NORTHWEST OF GOMEL   Kill 2,500 Germans; Nazis Mass for Drive on Kiey

DETERMINCH fitUo GWACHHING CEEFER NTO GONEL LINE   Russians Beat Off Fierce Counter Attacks Along Kiev Sector

Lewis Wins First Round In Dispute   Agreement Reached With Pennsylvania Group: UMW Position Much Stronger

Mines Group Agrees With UMW   Soft Coal Wage Row Long Step Nearer Solution

Lewis Reaches Agreement wit  One Mine Unit   Operators’ Front in Dispute Cracked:  Others Expected to Accept Same Terms

SENATORS ASK AMENDMENT 10 CONSTITUTION   Proposed Resolution Would Put Fourth Term Issue Up To Congress   TWO-THIRDS VOTE NEEDED   Decision ffMay Be Reached Before Next Convention Of Democrats

Propose Move To Limit Terms For President:   Senators To Seek Constitu tional Amendment Setting Eight Year Limit   TO TAKE STEPS IN SENATE SHORTLY

TEST OF FOURTH-TERM ISSUE BEING PLANNED IN CONGRESS   BRIDGES AND WHEREY TO INTRODUCE AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION FOR TWO-TERM LIMIT

"44 Ends War Is FDR ‘Hope   President Makes Ii Clear Message Intended No More Than Hone

F.D.R. ONLY HOPES FOR 1944 VICTORY    President Sticks to Word   “Possibility,” But "Won't Define It.  SHIPBULLDERS’ PRAISE ADDED

FDR Repeats” Hope for Allies Victory in'44   President Refuses ‘ to Elaborate on ‘Possibility’

Roosevelt Sees Hope for War End Next Year   Exeentive Explains Reference to Victory in Message

PRESIDENT REPEATS M4 VICTORY HOPE   Adds Maritime Construction Figures, Which Exceed Goals, to Summary of Talk

F.R. Repeats His Hopes for 1944 Victory   Tells Press He Cannot Predict War Will End In That Year

President Repeats Hope for Allied Victory During °44; Merchant Ships Pass Goal

IR HOPING. OR ALLIED 44 VICTORY   igress Ponders Meaning of resident’s Address, Notes Conciliatory Tone.   )TH PARTIES APPROVE

F, D, R, REPEATS HOPE OF PEACE   Possibility of War's End Tn 1944 Seen by” President

Roosevelt Hopes  For 1943 Victory   Explains Portion O: Thursday Talk

FDR HOPES FOR 1 N.VICTORY  DURING 1944   Says U. S. Produced 8,090,000 Tons of Shipping During Last Year

President Hopes 1944 Will Bring Allied Victory   (National, Allied and axis reaction to the President’s message is described on Page 3.

FDR HOPEFUL FOR VICTORY ERE YEAR END   REPEATS TODAY HOPE HE INTENDED TO GET BEFORE THE SOLONS

Roosevelt Hopes for Allied Victory in ’44   President Tells Press Conference He Intended to Convey That In His Message to Congress; Declines to Define Word “Possibility” Used In Reference to Legislature As Victory Session

HOPE IS HELD FOR VICTORY DURING 1944   Roosevelt Says He Is Expressing no More Than Hope

President Says He Was Expressing Hope End of War Would Come in 1944

Hope For Peace Tn 1944 Held By Roosevelt   President Reiterates Expression In State Of Union Message

Victory In 44. Seen By Chief   President. Enlarges Upon Message To Congress’ Of Yesterday

Germans Lose 103 Tanks in Single Days Great Effort   Protracted Battle Looms; Reds Hold Initiative In Dnieper Bend

Russians Half German Drive   Counter-Attack of Red Army Stops Nazis In Battle for Kiey

Reds Take Big Toll Of Tanke   rierce Kiey Drive Checked; Dnieper Advance Continues

REDS DESTROY 103 TANKS IN FURIOUS BATTLE FOR KIEV   Nazi Attempt to Effect BreakThrough Fails—Protracted Struggle Appears in Prospect.   SOVIETS MAKE GAINS IN DNIEPER BEND   Twelve More Towns Are Captured by Russians, Including Railway Station of Sakharnove.

Reds Destroy 103 Nazi Tanks In 24 Hours, Detain Mighty  German Offensive on Ukraine

Doolittle to Direct U.S. Air Invasion Force  Lt. Gen. Devers to Command U.S. Men

Doolittle Gets Post In Britain   General Will Head American Airforce

WEN, DOOUTTLE DENT 10 ENGLAND   WILL HEAD 8TH AIR FORCE— DEVERS SHIFTED TO MEDITERRANEAN AREA,

Announcement Made By President Yesterday In Consolidation of Allied Command,

GEN. DOOLITTLE TRANSFERRED TO EUROPEAN AREA   Famous Air Commander Given Charge Of American  Air Forces In Britain   OTHER OFFICERS ARE GIVEN NEW COMMANDS

Doolittle Heads Eighth Air Force   Believe He Will Map Cross-Channel Drive

Doolittle To Lead Attacks   Eighth Air Force Is Given New Officer

DOOLITTLE GETS NEW COMMAND   Flying General Shifted To Eighth Air Force Based In Britain

DOOLITTLE IS NAMED CHIEF OF AIR FORCE   General to Direct American Fliers in Great Britain   DEVERS APPOINTED DEPUTY TO WILSON   Precise Complexion of Air Command in Britain Not Clarified

\oolittle to   hein Charge Of Sth Force   dent “Atinounces Selection of tunisian Hero for Direction in Britain And Transfer of Gen. Devers   Marines “Within~ Mile anda Ilalf_ Of Jap Airdrome

Gen. Doolittle Gets New Post   Major Shifts Announced In U. S. Hicgh Command

DOOLITTLE GET NEW ASSIGNMENT   Takes Command of American Airforces in Britain; Other Shifts Are Made in High Ranking Officials

Doolittle Is Transferred To England   Will Direct American Ai Forcesin Britain; Other Changes Made

DOOLITTLE IS NAMED CHIEF OF AIR FORCE  General toa Direct Amar.      General to o Direct American Fliers in Great Britain   DEVERS APPOINTED _ DEPUTY TO WILSON   Precise Complexion of Air Command in Britain Not Clarified

PRISONERS ON FARMS   Italian Captives In Britain Te Get Chance For Work

‘Needs of Navy Put Father Call ‘At Half Million   Federal Employes Also  Will Be Steered Into a ace

Expanding Navy Brings Need for Pre-War Fathers   Administration Gives Reason for Draft Demands

Expanding Needs Of Navy Stressed  Seek Crushing Defeat Ot Whealer’c Rilt

EXPANDING NAVY NEEDS PICTURED   Crushing Defeat Sought For Bill To Delay Fathers’ Draft

Administration Seeks Defeat of Wheeler Measure  Senator Hill Launches Fight Against Draft Curb Legislation

Navy's Growing Need Makes Call Of F athers via  B Juscniteteat MA.   Administration Cites Figures in Fight On Wheeler Bill

Los Rusos A 15 Millas De La ('d De Vitehsk   Estan Forjando El Cerco De Acero A Ese Importante Bastion Nazi

Sangrientos Son Los Combates Er EI Sector Italo   Los Alhados Han Avanzado En El  Sector Del Sangro Y San Rocca

Shot Only: To Frighten, Actress Says  ‘Madge Bellamy Could Have Hit.  PB EN CE

OPEN AVENUE FOR INVASION OF GERMANY   Russian Forces Drive West of Isolated Gomel to  Doom Nazi Center.   Russians Are Within 320 Miles of Prussia

Reds Try to Blast Path  To Germany   Plunge West of Gemel, Zhitomir Aimed at Collapse . Of German Center

Isolation of Armies Sought   Gomel Virtually Surrounded as Soviets Drive on.

GREAT BATTLES NOW RAGING AS NEW TRAPS SET   Fighting Slow and Bitter » In Italy But Fireworks Increase in Balkans

SOVIET TROOPS ISOLATE GOMEL IN FAST THRUST   Seek to Open Avenue to Eventual Invasion of Germany Itself

Red Army Farces Virtually Surround  Gomel, Only One Escape Railroad Remaining in Passession of Germans

Gomel Virtually Surrounded; Berlin Admits Reverses   Advancing Russians Seek To Isolate Invader Armies; Weather Minimizes Fighting in Italy

Russians Seek To Collapse Center Of Line ISOLATE GOMEL Berlin Reports Own  Lines Dented In R Sectors

“Isolate ; And Then Annihilate’   * Pattern Becomes Evident As Red Army Pushes Enemy Relentlessly Toward Polish Border

Enemy Has Only One Escape Road After New Drivé   Red Army Within 320 Miles Of East  ._Priucciqn Rorder

German Border But 275 Miles From Soviet Field Guns .   By RICHARD McMURRAY AD War Biitar

Germans Admit  Dents’.   Many-Pronged Thenst Aims to Open Way For Final Invasion

Entire Central Front Collapse Seems Imminent   NORWAY RAIDED   Greeks Are Ajding British In Leros; Armed Truce Seen In Lebanon

Escape Path from Goel Is Attacked   Sth Army Loses. ‘Hill North of Venafro to Two — German ‘Counterattacks: ‘8th ‘Gains

COLLAPSE OF NAZI CENTER MAY OPEN REICH 10 INVASION   Russians in Nevel Area Only 275 Miles from Ger man Rardear

vermans Admit Reds Dent Lines In Eight Sectors  ©Plan Of Isolation And Annihilatinn   Pian OF Isolation And Annihilation Working Well For  6 eat Russian Army

Hun Losses Mount As Russian Drive Gains Momentum   Great Masses of Hitler's Troops Isolated as Communlsation Lines Are Severed Splitting Formations —~Material Losses Soar as Lines Waver   ALLIED AERIAL WARFARE CRESCENDO SWELLS

MUCOVITES SEEKING TO OPEN THE AVENUE FOR EVENTUAL       Reds Within 320 Miles of East Prussia i in Demekhi Area. Further North the German Border Is Onis 275 Miles Away Russian Field:Guns

RED ARMY FORCES ‘FIGHTING WESTWARD FROM ISOLATED AREA  WHOLE PATTERN OF SO. VIET CAMPAIGN ONE OF ISOLATION, ANNIHILATION

German Border Only.275 Miles: sian Field Guns-U. S,, Yugosle ers Soar Into Balkans—  Jap Ships’ ‘Near Raba

One Escape Railway Left Open to Nazis   Russian Drive Severs German Armies; Greek Airdromes Bombed by US and  Yuaoslav Planes: Jan Cruiser Sunk 

Reds Drive West To Open Way Fo:  Invasion Of Reich   Aim To Collapse Nazi Center In Big Battle

Newest Drive Is Breaking Center Of Nazi Defenses   Americans Forced From Hill by Enemy Counter-Attack

Filth Loses Ground Near Venatro Ares   One Escape Railway Remains Open After Russians Captured Demekhi.  “MARSHES FREEZE SOON

Cobb Reprimands His Assistant   Spanks Lattimore For Criticizing Grand Jury

POPE LONGS FOR PEACE   Pontiff Hopes No Country Will Be Destroyed by War

Pope Presents His Views for Final Peace   Long for Peace But Not Any Price Peace

RADIO SAYS POPE LONGS FOR PEACE   Vatican Broadcast’ Recorded By OWl

$40 PENSION TOP IN STATE VOTED   MISSOURL HOUSE APPROVES $10 INCREAE BUT REFUSES TO FIX MINIMUM.

Votes fo Hike OAP Top To $40 a Month   House Refuses fo Fix Minimum; Opposes Truck Fees

‘Artillery Barrage rOpens New Attack   Advances Immediately Scored In Both East And West Sectors As First Obtective Taken

Terrific Barrage Paves Way For Double Barrelled Advance In Tough  Mountains.

NEW EW PRICE-FIXING SYSTEM SUGGESTED BY ‘COTTON ED   SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR PROPOEES SUPER-BOARD .OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL SECTIONS

Veteran at 16, Holding Decorations For Bravery, Discharged 2s Minor

War Supplies Moving On Schedule Over Nation's Railroads Today As Strikes Are Completely Cancelled   Prolonged Wage Dispute Still Unsettled For 18 Of The 20 Railroad Unions

RAIL SERVICE IS CONTINUED WITHOUT DELAY   All Workers Stay at Their Jobs as Last Threat of Strike Is Removed.

STRIKE SET FOR THUS BORNING IS CANCELLEL   War Supplies Move on Nation’s Railways ‘oday

RAILROADS ARE ALL IN OPERATION   ‘Strikes Slated For Today Were Fully Cancelled ©  «i

TRAINS MOVE SUT RAM, PAY BATTLE RAGES   Three Operating Unions Uncertain Whether Roosevelt - Approved Increases Apply to Them.

TRAIN SERVICE CONTINUES IN NATION TODAY      All Unions Call Off Strike That Had Been Set For This Morning

Rail Strike Off, But Wage (Question Is Unanswered For 18 of 20 Unions

Third Battle for Stee! City Now In Critical Stage   Rommel Strikes at British Attempt to Flank Mareth Line

Vyazma Fall Affords  Russ New Protection      Bitter Fighting Under Way Deep Behind the Southern End of Mareth Line as Rommel Attacks Pye .

Nazis Evacuate Smolensk Barrier, but Powerful Attacks Make Gains in Ukraine ‘

Nazi. Forces Meet Russians In Battle     In. Kharkov  Streets   Rommel Ar my. Suffers Heavy Blow In F ight South Of Mareth Line; U.N. Hold Own In North Tunisia

HITLER'S HORDE IS BEING BLED WHITE BY REDS   Russians Maintain Orive In Central Moscow Area as Nazis Abandon Vyazma   GERMANY PLANTS BOMBED   In Tunisia, Rommel’s Army J&ted Back in Attempt To Break Out of Trap

GEN. VON ARNIN FAILS TO MAKE 3 STABS GOOD   German-Russian Struggle Mounts In Intensity; Nazis Use New Troops

Germans Ruin Russian City Before Leaving   Soviets Recapture Bely and Move on Toward Smolensk

Third Battle For Kharkov  Nears Crisis   Paris Radio Reports Nazis Reach Suburbs

LONDON (UP)—DNB, official German news agency, said Friday Kharkov had been reeaptured by the Germans.

ITNUMBERED EDS BATTLE VITHIN CITY   n They Bleed Foe White Streets of Soviet Union’s ‘Pittsburgh.’   iRMANS BLAST TOWN   m They Blow Defense Key f Map’ Before Leaving on Retreat To Smolensk.

Rommel Suffers Another: Blow At Southern End Of Mareth Line In Tunisia

Vyazma Abandone”’      Germons Admit hey Have Given Up City; Bloody Third Battle for Kharkov Raging; Rommel Strikes

Scheelite Deposits Are: Found In Wyoming; Free Analysis at University

[DE GAULLIST SHOW DOWN FIGHT LOOMS IN ALCIERS   Supporters of French Leader to Try to Clean National Committee of  Luke-Warm Members

DeGaullists Ready for Showdown on Control of Provisional Government

“WELL ESTABLISHED REPORT"  SAYS OPA TO REDUCE “A” VALUE-TO TWO GAL, LONS OCT. 1ST

Dutc Government in London Appeals to Countrymento . Resist Internment by Nazis

DUTCH URGED 10 FIGHT INTERMENT   \Broadcast Tells Men Not To Register, Disregard All Orders

Dutch Urged To Resist Nazi Internment Plan   400,000 Veterans Are Involved in New German Order

ASK DUTCH RESIST. GERMAN COMMANDS   Radio Orange Appeals to 400,000 Former Netherland Soldiers .to Flee

Dutch Soldiers Told to  Resist Internment Order   "Don’t Reaister: Keen Ouiet” Army Is Advised

Internment Is Resisted By Dutch Forces   Netherlands G overnment In London Appeals To Former Members  400000 ARE INVOLVED

Hitler Orders 400,000 Dutch Vets Interned   Anti- German Activities And Fear Of Invasien Lead To Drastic Move

Dutch Veterans "Go Bicycling" After Being Ordered Into Internment Camps

Urges Dutch To Resist   Netherlands Gov’t Appeals To Army Men To Disregard German Internment Decree

NAZIS CRACK DOWN ON DUTCH SOLDIERS   Order Internment of 400,000 Veterans in Netherlands

Urge Dutch To Resist Nazis   Government Broadcasts To Former Soldiers

NAZIS ROUND UP DUTCH VETERANS      Ordered Interned “To Curb Anti-Hitler Activity 

NAZIS INTERN HOLLAND VETS   400,000 Members of Army Are Sent Back To  Prison Camps

Government-in-exile Urge: Armed Forces in Holland To Defy Nazi Slavery

Dutch Government In London Asks Former Netherlands Army To Resist Internment By Nazis

Netherlands Veterans Ordered Re-Interned. ... Former Dutch Soldiers  Urged From London To Resist New Nazi Decree

Dutch Told To Resist  Internment’   Germans Find Officers Have “Cone Cyeling”’

Dutch To Resist New Nazi Order   Former Soldiers To Face Internment

Dutch Vets In Holland Urged  To Resist Nazis   Hide Out To Avoid Internment, Government In-Exile Advises.

DUTCH TOLD TO RESIST INTERNMEN}   Netherlands Government Broadcasts Advice to Defy Nazi Order That 400,000 Ex-Soldiers Return to Prison.

400,000 Former Dutch Soldiers Will Be interned To Block Anti-Nazi Activity

THE NETHERLANDS IN AN APPEAL 10 FORMER SOLDERS   Government Urged Them to Resist Internment Orders Issued.   MOVE BY THE GERMANS   “Don’t Register,” the Men Were Told in a Broadcast Over Radio Orange.

Berlin Orders Interment Of 400,000 Forme: Dutch Soldiers To Block Anti-Nazi Activities

Hitler Orders 400,000 Dutch Back To Prisot   Wholesale Internment Reflects German Inyasion Fears

AUGUST HEAT IS BACK   Temperatures Rise in Kansas After Cool Night -

U.S. FORCES MAKING GAINS IN PACIFIC   Land on Rendova Island Within Five Miles of Japanese Munda Airiicld.

NEW DRIVE IN PACIHC JUST NOW STARTING   Army and Navy units land on Rendova island in centra! Solomons

Americans Invade Rendova, Only Five Miles From Vital. Japanese Air Base at Munda   New Position is 170 Miles Northwest. Of Guadalcanal: All-Out Offensive. Against. Northern Solomons Seen ~~

US. UNITS LA ON ISLAND NEAR VITAL JAP BASE   New Offensive in Pacific Is Aimed at Munda and Kahili

Occupies Isle Five Miles Off Munda Air Base   Thrust Enters Heart of Jap-Dominated Area, Details of Action Lacking As Yanks Follow Attu Maneuver In Attack Upon Rendova.

U.S. Forces In New Offensive In Solomons   Make Landing On Rendova Island In Central Solomons   ONLY FIVE MILES FROM MUNDAY BASE

Nazis Arrive In Spain To Arrange Exchange of Prisoners With British

STATE WITHIN SIGHT OF GOAL   Bond Drive Not Reaching Small _Investers, Manager Says

STATE 15 WITHIN BOND GOAL SIGH]   Campaign Is Failing to Reach Many Small Investors, State Manager Says: Mercer Sales Slow Down

Kastern ‘A’ Motorists Get Half-Gallon Gasoline Boost At Expense Of Area Kast Of Rockies

ACARD MOTORISTS GET SMALL BOOST IN GAS ALLOWANCE   But B and C Coupons are Cut to Two Gallons In’ Eastern Area.

MIDW roccily THIRD MT IN GAS RATIONS   B And C Coupons Now Good For Two Gallons; A’s Are Unchanged

> of. EOUPONS” WORTH 2 GALLONS: Car Owners Get Jolt In New Gasoline Cut

OPA Cuts ‘B’ and °C’  Gas Rations   Holders of ‘A’ Cards in Eastern States Benefit

“A” MOTORISTS GET LONG LOOKED FOR BOOST. IN RATIONS   Readjustment Will Give 2 Gallons Per Week As Compared With 114 In Past

IN THE EAST TROSE WITH ‘A’ CARDS 10 GET MORE GAS AT EXPENSE OF ‘B’ ‘C’ CD. HOLDERS   Rations West of The Rockies Still Remain U/ncehangwed

B and G Gasoline Rations Reduced East of Rockies  Eastern A Card - Drivers. Get Half Callan Mara

MIDWEST ‘B’ AND ‘C GAS RATIONS CUT      ‘A’ Coupons Still Good For 3 Gallons

Ship Collision Takes Lives 0:  $4 Seamen   Tremendous Explosion, Fires Follow  Crash At Sea

ENGHTY-FOUR LOST LIVES IN ACCIDENT INVOLVING SHIPS  MUNITIONS SHIP AND TANKER IN TRAGIC COLTISION OEE FACT COACT

84 Killed When Tanker, Freighter Collide In Dark   Ammunition Vessel Explodes, Burns

84 Killed in Blast, Fire as Ships Collide   Ammunition-Laden Freighter and Tanker Crash in Dark Off East Coast; Investigation Being Made

Navy Probes Munitions Ship-Tanker Collision In Which 84 Seamen Died

84 DIE IN. SHIP EXPLOSION      U. S. Tanker Collides With Ammunition Freighter

84 Lives Lost In Collision Off East Coast   Navy Probes Crash of Tanker and Freighter Few Days Ago

84 LOSE LIVES AS SHIPS CRASH OFF EAST COAST   35 Members of Navy Gun Crews Perish in Tragedy

2 SHIPS COLLIDE: ~ 84 MEN ARE KILLED   Freighter, loaded with Am munition, Rams Into Tanker

AMMUNITION SHIPS COLUIDE IN DARK   Eighty-Four Men Killed By Terrific Blast and Blazing Dil.

Explosion of Ammunition Ship Kills 84   CollidedWithMerchant Vessel Off East Coast Of U. S. Recently

84 SEAMEN DIE IN GOLLISION _ AND EXPLOSION   American Tanker and U.S.  Ffeighter Loaded With  Ammunition Collide   Off East Coast   BLAST TREMENDOUS   ‘Debris Is Showered On Decks of Coast Guard Ship Quarter ofa   ile Away

84 Men Killed In Collision Of Two Shins   Vessel Loaded With Ammunition Hit Big Tanker

LI FEBOATS BU RNED  Deck Cadet. 21, One of 67  Survivors, Tells How Ha Saeam tan Raft

84 Killed In Explosion of  2 U. S. Ships   Tanker and Ammunition Laden Freighter Crash Together, Explode

U. S. FREIGHTER RAMS TANKER, 84 DIE IN BLAST   Ammunifion-Laden Carga Ship Veered Suddenly in Dark, One of Few Survivors Says

Ammunition-Laden Freighter Crashes Tanker in Atlantic   Terrific Explosion and Blazing Fuel Exact Hea “A

84 Perish in  Ship Crash Freighter and Ship Loaded With Ammunition Collide

IE ighty-four Killed When Ship ‘Carrying Ammunition Collides  ‘With Tanker Off Vireinia

antPS COLLIBE, B4 LOSE LWES   Terrific Blast Follows Collision Of Tanker, Ammunition Ship

B4 MEN DIE AS TWO AMERICAN SHIPS COLLIDE   Tanker, Freighter Hit in Dark Off East Coast Last Week

EIGHTY-FOUR LOST LIVES IN ACCIDENT INVOLVING SHIPS  MUNITIONS SHIP AND TANKER IN TRACIC Cor.

Interior Funds Bill Is Voted   Irrigation Projects Will Get Money

4H GIRLS TO HAVE RALLY DAY   To Be Held June 9 In Bedford High School

Democrats Want Brief. Campaign   Would Start Drive In Fall of 1944

Gen. Henri Girauc Takes Third Step To Unite French   Resignations of Bergere and Ribaud Accepted by Commissioner

FRENCH FACTIONS WEAR AGREEMENT   Giraud and De Gaulle Are Drawn Closer Together; Resignations of Two Vichy ite Leaders Are Accepted

VICHYITES QUIT AFRICAN POSTS   Giraud And DeGaull Approaching Unity In War Aims

Two Vichy Men  Resign in Africa   Giraud. De Gaulle Agreement Near

REDS NOW HEADING FOR A MAJOR DRIVE   Russian Aair Force Shot Down Ten Nazi Planes Over Rostov.

HINT-TOP-BETWEEN$14.50 AND $15.00   Chicago Basis Per Hundred Pound _ Figured; Announcement Due _ In a Day Or So

Ceiling on Live Hogs Forecast   Wickard Reported Opposed to Move

General Tieup Telephone   Service Is Threatened   May Materialize if President Roosevelt's Executive  Order on Wages Bars Adjustments on Demands  for Pay Increases by Telephone Workers, Tinian Declares

Telephone Tie-Up ls Threatened  Move Depends on Allowing Workers

WARNING GIVEN OF POSSIBLE WIRE TIE-UP IN NATION   Head of Telephone Workers Says Men May Strike if Roosevelt Order Bars Wage Adjustments.   CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT SOUGHI   Unionist Declares Walkout Would Paralyze Service in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Union Head Points To Pending Negotiations For Increased Pay; To Mail Strike Ballot

U.S. Shock Troops In Landing Behind Axis Line In Sicily   Both American And British Troops Make New Advances In Sicily Corner   ENEMY ABANDONS MT. ETNA DEFENSES

MAKE OORTIE BY oth UPON NORTH COAST   Qutflank Road Destroyed “by Germans, Drive Bagk © Reinforcements,   OTHERS MAKE JUNCTION . WITH BRITISH 8TH ARMY,

DARING FORAY HITS NORTHERN SICILY COAST   U. S. Forces Move Eastward From Traina To Junction With British Army   SANTA AGATA IS SEIZED   Allied Advances Force Axis To  Revamp Defense Lines  Around Mt. Etna

Americans Land Behind Foe, Cut Reinforcements   ‘Daring Operation Called Extremely Successful As Other Yanks Make ~ Junction With. British: 300 More Avis Prisonere.

YANK UNITS LAND BEHIND AXIS LINE IN NORTH SICILY   Americans Also Join With @ British 8th Army as Net Draws Tighter

BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING WILL BE LIFTED TONIGH]   Federal Officials Announce There Will Be No Inerease in Ration Coupon

Driving Ban To Be Lifted At Midnight    Lifting Of Ban Is In Effect Res.   toration Of Old ‘Honor System’ ; Black Market Gas Check Is Planned   BAN HAD CAUSED MUCH COMPLAIN’

ENFORCEMENT OF BAN ON DRIVING FOR PLEASURE TO BE LIFTED BUT NOT BECAUSE GAS IS PLENTIFUL

DANIELS BABY DROWNS   21-Month Old Child Suffocated in Spring at Farm Home

ITALIAN ARMY IS WITHDRAWN   Mussolini Orders Ten Divisions Off Red Front To Rest

Surprise Move Follows Nazi Demand for More Aid Against Soviets   Heightened Fears of Allied Invasion May Be Behind Action of Il Duce Following Visit of Von Ribbentrop

Mussolini Calls Part of Italian Army Back Home   Withdrawal of Ten Di visions Ordered: To Rest and Refill Ranks

BRITISH BELIEVE ITALIAN PREMIER FEARS INVASION   11 Duce’s Surprise Action Comes on Heels of His Recent Talks With Von Ribbentrop.   LATTER SAID TO HAVE ASKED MORE TROOPS   Rome Radio Says Withdrawal Is to Give Soldiers Rest and to Refill Their Ranks.

Italian Army Units Are Called Home   Ten Divisions Now In Russia “to Rest, Refill Ranks”

CaM VW EU RR Esky 2 ORO OY  10 Italian Divisions Recalled From Soviet Front

Mussolini Recalls 10 Italian Divisions From Russian Front  British Speculate on Reason for Action: Serious Lose Admitted

Mussolini Pays Tribute To Men   : Fear Of Invasion Cited: By British

Called Home, Italians Leave Russian Soil   By order of Mussolini; Eighth Army. of ‘ten divisions has suffered Leavy inasen.”

Yankee Ace Comes Back to Tell of Singin; ‘Beer Barrel Polka’’ With Nazi Captors

"arachuted From 500 Feet, Well Treated By Captors, Met German Flier He'd Just Shot Down and Flak Gunner Who'd Got His Plane; Was In Corleone When Bamhed

G ROCKET GUNG bD INTO ACTION, GERMANS GLAIN   Secret Weapons Make De but In Channel Duel Radio Berlin Says

GERMAN CAPITAL AGAIN HIT HARD; FIERCE FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT   Formation Of Allied Flyers Swarm Over Channel For Attack On  French Coast Today,

Came In Early Morning Hours   Germans Making Death Struggles In Italy Sector   Eisenhower Admits Campaign Slower Than  Anticipated

CITES CRISIS IN STATE. EDUCATION   Lowndes Declares State ts Approaching Imevediate And Post War Crisis

NEWSPAPER ADS MAY BE RATIONED   SURVEY INDICATES RATIONING LIKELY BY FIRST OF YEAR

AD RATIONING BY JANUARY 1 SEEN   Restriction on Space Would Be Result of Paper Reduction.

Rationing Of Advertising Is Likely In 1944   Reduction In Newsprint Will Force Newspapers To Ration Space Used By Advertisers

LIMITS ON NEWSPRINT   Rationing of Advertising May Be  Necessary Soon

HEAVY ATTACK IS MADE UPON AXIS CENTER   Powerful Aerial Blows Round Out Week of Shattering Allied Thrusts.

AF BOMBERS END WEEK OF BIGGEST RAIDS IN HISTOR   During Seven Days More Explosives Are Dropned In Ruhr Than Three Months of German Blitz.   ALLIES MAKE TOTAL OF 14 HEAVY RAIDS   Fortresses Encounter Resistance From German and Italian Fighters During Mlessina Raid. °

United Nations Round Out Week OF One of Most Successful Air Onslaughts in History

2,000 ATTEND DEDICATION AT HOSPITAL   Are Shown Through Finney at Conclusion of Exercises Begun at 2 P.M.

Strategic Mountain Captured   British Forces Locked In Heavy Battle In Orsogna Area

AMERICANS TAKE IMPORTANT AREA NEAR WEST COAS   Allied Troops Smashing Down Slopes of Mountain   STH ARMY LOCKED IN HEAVY BATTLE

Fifth Army Drives Into Garigliano Valley; Nazis Cleared from Positions

FROM HELPLESSNESS TO CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY  General Marshall Reviews U.S. at War

OVER-AGE MEN TOBE RE-CLASSED   hid Vide     Some Will Be Called for  I imited Saruica

CHANGE DRAFT EXEMPTION OF MEN OVER 3   New Status Designed To Force Job Shift To Farms

MEN OVEh dd FACE RECLASS IFICATION   New Action Taker, To Ease Manpower Problem

New Draft Class Given  Men Past 37   38-45 Bracket May Be Forced to Take Essential Work

Draf t Reshuffle Said Due Mondat   _ Childless Married - Men.Are. Involved

3,000,000 Childless Married Men Expected to Be Placed in Class 1-A

Nearly Three Million Childless Married Men 18-37 Face Reclassification For Service

3,000,000 Face Reclassification   Childless Married Men Said Affected

Change Is Expected In Draft Law; 3-B May Be Ousted  Nearly 3,000,000 Are  In Group Believed Abn. en Ba Indicted

3 MILLION MEN FACING NEW DRAFT STATUS   Will Be Moved Enmasse To 1-A Classification

Draft Reshuffle Said Due Monday   Childless Married Men Are nvolved

. Three Million 3-A, 3-B Mer To Be Reclassified as 1-A, Inducted as Numbers Show

Three Persons Hurt In Bad Crash Here  Two Cars Demolished On Route 119

' VAAC Zest tg Military “>> Inspiring      UCH -KNTHUSIASM FOR USERVICK CAREER / EVIDENT.

Big Bomber Blacks Out Holdenville.   In Forced Landing Slices Through Power Lines

Campaign Fund  Point Of Fued   Langer Charges Demos Discharging Non-Contributing Postmasters.

Fi g ht Against Inflation Not Yet Completed   Vinson Submits’ Report On First ‘Anniversary Of c----Gtabilization” Act TT

Inflation F ight Not Yet Won   Vinson Says Prices  Kept Well In Check

Western Europe Gets New Blows  Northern Italy Also Target Of RAF

ALLIES SHOWER BOMBS ON TURIN   Third Attack on Northern Italy In As Many Nights Effective

Turin Is  Blasted by RAF   German Airfields In France Are Also Attacked

TURIN HARD HIT IN RAID BY BRITISH   Allies Continue Air Offensive In Daylight

lurin Rocked By Heavy RAF Bomb Assault   Axis Transport. In Northern Italy Suffers 'Well Concentrated Attack’   THREE PLANES LOST   Paris Airport Blasted In Daylight Raid By U. §, Army Air Ferce

OF F BOMBING LAST NIGHT   Offensive On Italian Cities Is Continued

TURIN, ARSENAL CITY IS BLASTED: BY RAF BOMBERS   German Airfields In France Being Battered By Fort rasses WMaraudare.

TURIN BOMBED AGAIN BY RAF   American Planes In Another Daylight Attack Over Europe

Allies Over Europe Agait After Turin Is Blasted   Round-The-Clock  Air Offensive Goes On; Germany Thought Likely Day Target

DAYLIGHT RAIDS ON EUROPE   Hit Continent After RAF Raids Turin Third Time

Daylight Raiders Head Over Dover Straits) Today Toward Boulogne — 31ST TWIN RAID  Third Raid On Italy In  Third Consecutive Night

Bombers Blast Hitler's Europe   British Hammer Turin In Third Successive Night Assault

BOMBERS STRIKE HARD BLOWS AT GERMAN CITIES   Turin Again Hit By R. A. F. Planes In Night Attack

AIR OFFENSIVE ON CONTINENT IS CONTINUED   Large Formations of Allied Aircraft Hammer Western Europe by Daylight Today

Turin Pounded by RAF Last Night   Northern Italy Hit 3 Successive Days

Allied Airmen Give Axis No Letup Today After Turin Hit Last Night   Great Aerial Offensive Has Been Under Way For Last 48 Hours; German Troops Moving North Must Use Railroad Route Through Turin.

TURIN IS BATTERED IN ATTACK   New Daylight Assaults Today Indicated As Planes Go Out

Airmen Turn on Europe   Turin Is Blasted; Great: Offensive Continues on Possible Landing: Sites. ;

TURIN HEAVILY BOMBED; BLAST EUROPE BY DAY   Large Formations Roar Out to Continue Great Aerial Offensive

Allies Keep Up Heavy Bombing InEurope  U.S. Air Force Hit Le Bouraet

WEST EUROPE [S BLASTED; TURIN: HIT   Great Allied Air Offensive Raging Without Let-Up

Turin Blasted as R. A. F. Continues Attacks on Italy   Milen Believed Devastated by Repeated Bombings; U.S. Planes From Africa Raid Other Italian Cities

Northern Italy Again Pounded  Tons of Explosives Dropped on Turin; 4 Rombers Lost

RAF BOMBARDS ITALY; YANKS HIT CONTINENT   Turin Target In Mighty British Raid; Four Planes Lost

RAF Bombs Raze Turin  Ellesse, Wiitelketc £¥nn   Huge Flights Head For Daylight Raid

ALLIED AIRCRAFT TODAY BLASTED AT WESTERN EUROPE   Raid Followed The Hammering of Turin by RAF . Bombers.   NORTHERN ITALY HIT   Turin Show Cost the British Four Bombers, It Was Announced.

Many Bomber: Blasting At Europe Today   Turin Hammered During Night; Raids Under Way 48 Hours

Western Europe Blasted In Raids -By.-Allied. Fliers   Turin: Again. Hammered Tn Third Successive Night Attack-On Northern Italy

Allies Blast At West Europe   RAF Makes 3rd Successive Raid On Turin: Offensive Underway 48 Hours.

RAF Bombers Hit Turin in Night Smash   Heavy Damage Done; Western Europe Target For Daylight Assaults

ALLIED PLANES IN ACTION TODAY OVEREUROPE   RAF Blasts Milan, Third Night Attack on Northern Italy

Rocket Propelled Glider Bomb Being ‘Used by Nazis Against Flying Forts

Jap Submarine Campaign Opens   Activity Reported East of Australia

RED TROOPS ARE MAKING ATTACKS   Gen. MacArthur Reports Japs Have Opened Sub Attacks In Pacific Ocean.

JAPAN OPENS SUB CAMPAIGN      Drive Starts as. Spokesmen Continue Threatening Al-Out Drive Against Allies in Pacific.

Japs Launch Sub War in Pacific Area   MacArthur Communique Tells of Campaign East 4 of Australia —_   DETAILS WITHHELD   Impending ‘Grand Scale’ Operations Hinted by, Tokvo

EXTENSION or SOCIAL BRCUXITY. SETUP "DO MILLIONE © MORE AMONG PECTED RECO! MENDATIONS  ed

FLD. R. MAY ASK VAST EXPANSION OF SECURITY   President Reported Ready To Ask For Further Social Reforms   CONGRESS TO GET CALL   Incoming Members Clamor For Early Decision On Controversies

PRESIDENT IS GOING AHEAD WITH SOCIAL REFORMS IN HIS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

KENNY OFFERED PSC POSITION   Neely Follows Up Court Ruling By Renaming Long-Time Friend

SHIPYARD RECORD   on Yards Exceed All Previous Performances —  in March

SHIPYARD RECORD   American Yards Exceed All Previous Performances _ in March

SENATOR OPPOSES RAISING OF TAXES   George Declares Further  “Boosts Would Shatter Business Morale

Treasury's Hopes For Tax Hike Fade   Senate Finance Body Head Opposes Boost

Senate’s Finance Chief Blasts Tax Boost Hopes   George Says Figure  Of House Group About High Enough

Tax Bill Not To Be Raised   Treasury Hopes For Increase Torpedoed

GEORGE APPROVES HOUSE TAX BILL   ACTION BLASTS ANY HOPE TREASURY MAY HAVE HELD OF BOOSTING TOTAL.

New Tax Plans Given Knockout   Sen. George Kills Hopes of Treasury

PRESIDENT SAYS LEND-LEASE UNMEASURASLE   Says Mutual Help of U.S. and Allies Has Saved Lives

ANSWERS FIVE SENATORS WHO WERE CRITICAL   Help Through Lend-Lease Has Saved Many American, Other Lives, Speeded War

Submits a Report to Congress   Tells of Returns Made by Other Nations—U. 8. Expends 14 Billions

TWELFTH REPORT ON LEND LEASE GIVEN CONGRESS   Fourteen Billions Expended: Two Billions Received on Reverse, F.R. Says.

AERIAL BLOW AT MARSHALLS MAY HERALD INVASION   Collapse of Jap Defenses in Southwest Pacific Predicted

Collapse Of Jap Pacific irc Is Seen   Japs May Blow Up in Southwest; Marshall Island Bases Blasted

ALLIED PINCERS CLOSE ON JAPS   TWIN DRIVES ADVANCE ON GUINEA OBJECTIVES

LEWIS SNUBS LABOR BOARD Possibly Walkout at  End of 15 Day Truce

War Department Announces Rome  Bombed By Allies   Military Objectives In His toric City Feel Blast Of Bombers   RAILROAD CENTER PRINCIPAL TARGET

PILOTS INSTRUCTED TO AVOID DAMAGING RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL MONUMENTS OF CITY

Trained Pilots!All Avoided Church Or Cultural Objects   In new way, the Roosevelt-Churchill ultirmatum to the Italian people is brought home; many rail centers in city are hit

Rail Center Is Target of Allied Attack   Leaflets Dropped Over City Prior To Raid

TEXANS PROTEST DOUBLE-PAY PLAN: IN WELL DRILLING  LABOR DEPARTMENT ASKED TO MODIFY REG. ULATION IN INDUSTRY

UNITED NATIONS LEGION 15 UAGEL   mMStassen Urges Immediate Creation of Fighting Unit To Be Forerunner of ‘Police Force of the Future’

RUSSIA CZECHS SIGN AGREEMENT   Mutual Assistance Pace will Provide Closer Postwar Co-operation.

Plan For Coal Seizure Sef Up   Ickes Moves For Even Distribution

IGKES PREPARED TO DIVERT COAL IN EMERGENCIES   Sets Up Machinery Under Which He Can Seize Fuel _ From Any Person and Supply Those Short.   TO SEE THAT WAR PLANTS GET SUPPLIES   Regulation Gives Him Power to Require or Forbid Deliveries to Individuals or Factories.

TO SEIZE COAL IF NECESSARY   Ickes Takes Steps To Distribute Surplus Stocks To Those  Caught Short

Ickes Ready ee Take Over Coal Stocks   Method Devised to Provide’ for War and Essential Civil Use

Ickes Establishes Seizure Plan for Coal Emergency  Couli Take Over Coa From Persons or Plant: by New Proqram

ICKES MOVES 10 REGULATE FLOW QF COAL TO PLANTS   Would Seize Coal From Persons or Plants With Safe @ Margin of Supply   DIVERT NEEDED FUEL TO THOSE CAUGHT SHORT   Declares Normal Distribution Will Not Be Disturbed Unless Action Is Absolutely  Necessary; UMW Policy Committee Adjourns

Coal Supplies Can  Be Diverted to  Ease Any Shortage Machinery Now Set Up  To Furnish Areas Caught Short

Ickes Acts To Protect WarPlants   Seizure Of Coal, Diversion Plan  Is Set Up

PLAN FOR SEIZURE OF COAL MAPPED   Fuel Administrator Acts Against Further Emersf gency

Plants With Shortage To  Be Relieved   Fuel Administrator Is Preparing For Any New Emergency

Allies Lash Targets on French Coas   Britons Shoot Up More Than 20 Locomotives ; Two Planes Lost

QUITS OPA JOB AFTER SIX DAYS   Turnover Achieves Speed Record With Hoffman’s  Resignation

OFFICIAL QUITS ON OPA STAFF   Man In Charge Of Food Price ‘Hot Potato’ Latest To Leave

Acting Deputy Administrator in Charge Of Foods Quits OPA After Only Six Days

Turnover in OPA Executives Aitains Speed Record With the Resignation of A. C. Hoffman From Job

Six Days Enough For OPA Official   Hoffman Quits Food Prices Assignment

LOAN SHARK LEGISLATION I$ PASSED   Senator martin’s Filibuster One of Longest on Record

SOLON SPEAKS FOR 13 HOURS   But Senate Votes Anti-Loan Shark Bill Anyhow

Senate Approves Loan Shark Bill After Filibuster   Fort Worth Solon Delays Vote In AILNight Session

12 State Senators Stand Firm, Loan Shark Bill ls Finally Approved After 13 1-2-Hour Filibuster Fails fo Force Adjournment .

Wer Corresnendert Sees Short Cut for Reatina Japanese in the Pacific

War Correspondent Sees Short Cut: :for. Reatina Japanese in, the Pacific

TASK F VISIT MATTOON FRIDAY MAY 7   Honor Announced by Gen. Surand, Head of 6th Service C ‘ommand

AIILITARY POLICE BATTALION WILL BE HERE MAY 26      £  800 Men In Task Force Will Spend Night Here, Part of Training In Extended State Trip.   LOCAL COMMITTEES SELECTED TO ASSIST   Parade, Sham Battle, Program, Inspection By Public Announced Feature of Overnight Stop.

FORCE 10 VISIT MATTOON FRIDAY. MAY 7   Honor Announced by Gen. Aurand, Head of 6th Serviced Command

75 Are Hurt When Train  Leaves  Rails   Cause Of Crash Not Determined

DARLAN AT WARM SPRINGS   Son of Admiral Is Treated for In. fantile Paralysis

Battle South Of Balakleya   Moscow Reports 300 Nazis Killed In Fierce Clash Near Kharkov   MORE ACTIVITY IN LENINGRAD ARFA

OHIO GOVERNOR SCORES FEDERAL FARM PROGRAM   Conference of Governors Told Farmers Refuse To Use Employment Service   MORE MACHINERY WANTED   Conference Also on Record In Favor of Deferment Of Farm Workers

BENT BY REDS ZAPOROZHE OFFENSIVE   Another Soviet Army Now Only 48 Miles From Polish Border

GERMANS’ LINE CRACKS BEFORE NEW RED DRIVE   Russians Start Campaign in Zaporozhe Region

Report German Lines Cracking On Dnieper Front   One Victorious Russian Army Is Driving Toward Old Polish Border   MOVE AHEAD FROM CAPTURED KOROSTED

GOV. GREEN FLAYS DEMANDS T0 CUT STATE SALES TAX  WARNS LEGISLATURE OF VETO AND HINTS

GREEN SAYS HE WILL VETO CUT IN SALES LEVY   Hints At State Bonus For Men,  Women After War

YANKEE FLIERS HIT TWO HEAVY ITALIAN SHIPS   Bombers Disrupt Axis Supply Line and Down 27 Planes

Bag 27 Axis Planes From Sky Convoy   Fortresses Blast Enemy Warships Trieste, Gorizia

U.S. Planes Score Hits on Big Cruisers  Flyers Seck to Keep Axis Forces From se 1. oO Mm .. 7.

AIR BLOWS DIM ROMMEL'S HOPES OF ESCAPE BY SE!   Warships Trieste and Gorizia Bombed by Fortresses and Both Are Believed Knocked Out.   YANKS BATTLE PLANES CARRYING GASOLINE   Score Smashing Victory in 15Minute Fight—Eighth Army Advancing Under Air Canopy.

100 Flying Forts Pounce On Big Italian Warships   Lightning Pilots Score Brilliant Victory, Dower 27 Air Convoy Planes

TWO Ot ITALY a GAUlotho Hl BY Wo. BOMBS   Flying Fortresses Smash Two Of Duce’s Warships; Nazi Pilots Shy Off

TWO BIG LIBERATOR BOMBERS COLLIDED IN AIR BIRDVILLE  SEVEN MEN REPORTED DEAD IN CRASH EARLY

Seven Men Killed In Crash Of Two Liberators From Fort Worth Air Base

Germans Strive To Widen Wedge In Soviet Line   Main Russian Front Is Holding Firm Against Tremendous Blows

Churchill Says Allies Have Plan   Pledges Unconditional Surrender Blow When Nations Are Readv.   Gaining on Subs   Premier Avers Ships Now Exceed Losses In U-Boct Wr

Axis Knockout This Year Is Allied Goal, U-Boats Being Beaten   House Of Commons Cheers As Prime Minister Announces Detailed Program For Great United Nations War Offensive

British Premier Tells of Casablanca Conference, Says Allied Nations Plans Complete.

COMMONS TOLD ALLIES HOLDING OWN OVER SUBS   Churchill- Reports United Nations Program Includes Invasion Move   QUTLOOK IS IMPROVED   Sea Losses Still Biggest Barrier To Operations, Peoole Informed

ALLIES TO PUT UN EAT NEXT NINE MONTHS   Plans Made Will Be Put Into. Effect Soon, Churchill Tells Commons,   U-BOAT SINKINGS STILL BAD BUT GETTING BETTER

Requiem. Mass Celebrated at St. Bridget’s Church’ . Thursday: Morning 

1.Y. DESMOND ” OF 49 YEARS      Requiem Mass ‘Celebrated at St, Bridget’s Church’ Thursday: Morning _

NAZIS LOSE 2,000 IN OREL FIGHTING   RUSSIANS REPORT DESTRUCTION OF 24 GERMAN PLANES AT VOLKHOV.

2,000 NAZIS KILLED IN OREL FIGHTING   (7 Enemy Tanks Burned Or Disabled And Number Of Guns Are Destroved

2,000 GERMANS SLAIN BY REDS   Losses Inflicted With Repulse Of Attacks On Orel Sector

NAZIS BRING UF GREEN RESERVES   Reds Say Soviets Have Killed ® More Than 2,000 Germans in Hurling Back Number of Counter-blows in Orel Area

RUSSIANS KILL 2,000 GERMANS   Counter - Attacks Hurled Back By Reds In Vital Orel Sector

Russians Hurl Foe Back, Kill 2.000 Nazi Troops   Enemy Loses Materiel Men in Bitter, Futile Countermove

Russians Hurl Foe Back, Kill 2 000 Nazi Troops  an, Mar eae eat OSM FO   : Enemy Loses Materiel, Men in Bitter, Futile Countermove

German Division Sent to Denmark   Occupation Based On Military Reasons

RUSH ARMOREI DIVISION TO KILL DANISH SOLDIERS   Denmark Plans to Fire Till Cartridges Are Gone; Civilians  oO

NAZIS RUSH REINFORCEMENT   Attempting to Subdue Isolated Garrisons in Denmark — Hundreds of Danish, Soldiers Killed. by German Troops,

Admiral Ki ing, Praising Coordination of U.S. Naval Fighting Arms, Warns Japan To Expect New Blows.

JAPAN WARNED TO EXPECT HARD AIR ATTACKS   Admiral King, Commander Of U. S. Fleets, Speaking Before American Legion, Tells Of C6TLings Ta Came”

Admiral King Warns Japan to Expect New Naval Air Attacks in Future

Attacks Coming, Navy Tells Japs   U.S. Fleet Commande: Addresses Legion

Air Blows Coming. King Tells Japs   Admiral Talks at  Legion Convention

FATHER DRAFT EXTENSION SEEN   Don’t Be Surprised, Dads, If You're Never Called

FATHER-DRAFT MAY BE LONG TIME COMING   Inside Dope Figures October Deadline for Papas May Be Extended

Draft of Dads May be Delayed   May be Extended. Perhaps Indefinitely, Reports Say

Fathers Might Not Get Draft Calls At All   Indications Are That Planned Quotas Nearly Full, Crop of 18-year-olds to Supply Most of Replacements—Delay May Be Extended Past October.

RAF WORKS ON SVUATITER CLE   DADS’ POSITION IN DRAFT SEEN BECOMING SAFER

AWIS LOSES 419% PLANES   Uniess Casuaities Increase  Dads May Never Be. Callec

FATHER = ORAFTING SELIEVED UNLIKELY   Washington Sources Indicate Additional Delays

Drafting Of Fathers May Be Extended   Calling Up of Dads May Not Start in October As Predicted   MINGES ON CASUALTIES

Further Delay In Drafting Fathers Now Is Forecast   Well Informed Capital Source Says There Are Three Reasons.

FATHERS MIGHT ESCAPE DRAFT INDEFINITELY   That, According to. Unofficial Capital News Source, Is Present Prospect For Parents   THREE REASONS   One !s Army Doesn’t Want.  Them If Sons.and. Young-   er Brothers Can  Fight Instead

Expect More Delay Draft Of U.S. Dads   See Extension Of Autumn Date

Drafting of Fathers May Be Put Off, Possibly Indefinitely, Says Speaker

Drafting Of Fathers May Not Occur  It's Son. Not Dad, Who Is Wanted By

New Delay In Drafting Dads Now Foreseen   Well-Informed Source Says Step May Be Postponed Beyond October Deadline

DANIEL URGES HOUSECLEANING   Expresses Belief Federal Officials Are Planning ‘Dictatorshin.”

O’Daniel Calls Attention To Latest Chicken Plague-‘The Washington Buzzards’   Poultry Price Problem Arouses Texan's Ire; Calls for “Big House Cleaning of Elected Officials’ In Washington

Senator O’Daniel Expresses Belief That Big House Cleaning Is Necessary At  Washington To Save Nation

O’Daniel Charges Officials Seeking U.S. Dictatorship   ‘Deceit and Deception’ Charged Those Whe are ‘Plotting’; Raps The OPA

1.900 ARE BACK FROM FAR EAST   Exchange Vessel Gripsholm in Jersey City With 200 Bed-Ridden

SUBSIDY PROGRAM GET LABOR BACKING   Inflation Will Ruin War Bond Values, Warns Green

Subsidy Loss To Hit Bonds, - Green Holds   Peri! to Price Control, AFL. President Tells Senate Bank Group

Japs Admit Heavy Losses on Attu;  Make Death Stand   Stimson Claims U. S. Casualties Relatively Light

Tokyo Reports Indicate Japanese Forces Making Death Stand On Attu Isle

De Gaulle Terms Petain "Evangel of Decadence,’ Asks for Fourth Republic

PREMIERE [3 OPEN TO COUNTY CITIZENS   Bond Purchase To Insure Admission To Film

BOND BUYERS T0 SEE PREMIERE TONIGHT   “Watch On The Rhine” Will Open Here At 8:30

Teh sy ate ei a oe ee een en  Turner Ranch Movie On. OFC. Program

CUTTER RAMS SINKS U-BOAT INN. ATLANTIC   Two Thousand Ton Campbell Depth Bombs Five Others Of German Wolf Pack 3 Weeks Ago.   Only One Yank Wounded

American Warship Wins Battle with Six U-Boats In Fierce Running Fight   Al Least Three Enemy Submarines May Have Been Destroyed in Atfack on Wolf Pack, Navy Reports in One of Most Dramatic Stories of the War; Large Convoy Saved by Heroic Action   Germans Reported Concentrating Major Part of Navy Off Norway

CUTTER RAMS, SINKS U-BOAT   Coast Guard Ship Scores Hit After Running Fight With Pack

lings British, F rench In Chase   Planes Join Battle On Wolf-Pack - + ‘ln North Atlantic

3 ENEMY SUBS ARE DESTROYED   Others Likely Damaged In 72-Hour Running Fight In North Atlantic

U-Boat Rammed. Shelled, Sunk By U.S. Cutter   Five Others Attacked;. British Destroy Three In Baitle on Atlantic

Three Enemy Subs Sunk, Others Hit In Running Fight  British Describe Battle One of Greatest Against U-Boats

COAST GUARD BOAT BATTLES NAZI RAIDERS   Furious Altack by Cutter Campbell Prevents Damage to Vessels in Atlantic Convoy,   ENCOUNTERS SIX IN 12-HOUR FIGHT   Depth-Bombs Vive With Undetermined Results —Damaged When It Collides With Victim.

Cutter Rushes Wolf Pack Of U-Boats   Depth Bombs, Shelling, Ramming Scatter Subs After Convoy

Allies Destroy 3  Enemy Submarines   Coast Guard Cutter Rams and Sinks Nazi .U-Boat in Fierce 12-Hour Running Fight.

Three Enemy Subs Sunk, Others Hit In Running Fight  British Describe Battle   British Describe Battle One of Greatest Aacainst U-Boats

Allies Report Sinking Three U-Boats in Fight; Part of Convoy Lost

Pattern of Victory Traced On Global Battle Fronts  United Nations Attack on Axis Mounting

Another Week Filled With Big Successes  For Allies’ Armies  retation By  ‘ Interge Kile  cimmean

tines  Don’ t Get Overconfident But—  Victory Tide Rolls Faster Against Axis

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   (slowing New Successes Veeek By Week Adding Kew Woes For Axis

Russian Forces Battle Furiously To Halt Germans   Battle West Of Kiev Is Still Not Decided Reports From Moscow Indicate   CHERKASSY FALL AID TO RUSSIANS

Drive on Kiev and Smolensk Makes Progress as Poltava is Abandoned by Retreatina Germans.

Tanks lead drive against heavy artillery fire in section of El Guetar

Son of Envoy Is Lost on Raid  Tews Gas Riaaetc   Airmen Say Nazis Gunned Parachutist:

U.S. Ambassador Winant's Son Is Missing in Action   Young Lieufenant Lost with Plane

LT. JOHN WINANT REPORTED MISSING   Plane of Son of U. S. Am. bassador Shot Down by Nazis

Son of Envoy Is Lost on Raid  Airmen Say Nazis Gunned Parachutist

Son of U. S. Ambassador to Britain ls Missing After Raid on Germany -

WINANT’S SON MISSING   nae  Kin Of U. 8. Ambassador Te Britain Lost In Raid On Germany

Reds Blast Nazis At Bryansk   ?lanes Caugh ‘On Ground At  ’ Atrdromes

Russian Planes Make Heavy Bryansk Raids   Attack Airdrames in Area; Claim Heavy Toll of Aircraft

BOMBING FORGE HAS GOOD YEAR   American Combat Units In England Prove Bane Of Hitler

TOKYO PREDICTS YANK OFFENSIVE   Declares Americans Ready For Big Attack as Allies Hit 14 Jap Pacific Bases.

SOLONS STUDY MILK ‘FREEZE   ‘Merry-Go-Round’ Hampers Food Production

ROOSEVELT LT SAYS USE HIGH SCHOOL LABOR ON FARMS   Army's Size Decided Last August,  Ha Incicts.

Argue Flynn Case Motion   Double Jeopardy Angle Raised By Cotinsel

BATTER FORT IN RAID INTO -TRIPOLITANIA   Ghadames, at Juncture With Tunisia and Algeria, Left Smoking— French Rout Nazis in . Pass. Capture 180.

Flying Forts Batter Port Of Ghadames   First Full Raid Into Tripolitania Hits Heavy Blow Against Rommel

FLYING FORTRESSES  STRIKE HEAVY BLOW  AT ROMMEL’S FORCE FRENCH TROOPS DROVE  GERMANS OUT OF TUNICIAN MWOMTINTAIN DAG

BIG STICK DEMANDED IN FULBRIGHT ACTION   Hatch Urges Definite Pledge To Use Military Force

MARTIN TALKS 70 CHILDREN   Asks School Attenders to Help in Food Production

Son-in-Law Loses Post At Vatican   Premier Badoglio Ma: Offer Plan To Tak Italy Out Of War Anc Regain Neutrality

, 0. P. A. EXPLAINS MEAT RATIONING FOR RETAILERS   Similar To Setup On Vegetables, Other Items

Americans in China Hurl Air Force Against Shipping  Jap Fuel Vessels Get  Heavy Blows In Honacay Section

PLANES BLAST JAPS IN CHINA   Seven Day Asseult Made On Port, River Installations by Yanks

Yanks Stage Ait Drive on Japs   Seven-Day Assault Reported in China

NIPPONESE FEEL , §. AIR MIGHT   Non-Stop Raids Sink 15 Ships In Canton Area; Docks Lambasted

SEEK ACTION ~ AT TULE LAKE   WEST COAST CONGRESSMEN PRESS. FOR JUSTICE DEPART> MENTOR ARMY, CONTROL *  ” OF JAPANESE CAMP

DEATH TAKES IM. LYKES   AIR TULE LAKE   Solons Hold Hearing On Jap Segregation Problem

12,000 Tons of Bombs  Dropped on Nazi Capital Since Offensive Started   Russian Armies Continue Westward Sweep; Canadian Troops in Italy Move Northward From Ortona

2240-TON RAID LEAVES BERLIN FLAMING CITY   800 British Bombers Stage Second Heaviest Attack On Nazi Capital

REICH WREATHED WITH MANY FIRES BY RAF BOMBERS   Over 12,000 Tons of Bombs Unloaded on City In Five Weeks, 800 Planes Take Part In Blasting.   CENTRAL ITALY BOMB- ~EOD 8Y YANKEE CREWS   Germans Are Anticipating Opening on Western Front In France Will Occur Within Two Weeks.

Canning Sugar Now Available   F, M = Kepler Located Under Bank Wednesday Saturday Nights

CANNING SUGAR AVAILABLE SOON   Will Be Allotted On About Same Basis As Last Year

HOW 10 GET SUGAR FOR CANNING PURPOSES  Allotted on Same Basis as

New Regulations Sets Allotment at 15 Lbs. Per Persor   Here’s How to Get Your Sugar Allotment for this Year's Canning Season

FRENCH SUPPLY CITIES RAIDED   Americans Bring Down 25 Fighters Over Rennes, Rouen Targets

LOCAL ADVANCE MADE BY REDS   Berlin Radio Says Nazi Withdrawal’ Ended At Dnieper Line

Navi Defenses ‘Stiffening on. . "Eastern Front   Moscow - Again Repoils Relatively Little Activity)

Red Army Gain In Thrust at White Russia   Offensive Elsewhere Along 750-Mile Front Comes to Halt

Soviet Drive Comes to Halt At Dneiper   Only Advance Made Is Toward Vitebsk In White Russia

Russian Army Advances on Stronghold   However Action on Long Front Is Virtually at Halt

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Soviets Slowed on Other Sectors by the Germans  COUNTER-ATTACKS ARE BEING STAGED  - ~~ " gg   Smashing Resumption of Assault Expect.d Shortly

Soviets Slowed on Giher Sectors by the Germans  COUNTER-ATTACKS ARE BEING STAGED Smashing Resumption of  Assault Expected Shortly

DRIVE OF RED ARMIES STOPS   Soviets Push Toward Vit ebsk, But Report Little Other Action

BYRNES CALLS WALLACE AND JONES PARLEY   Both are summoned to White House to quiet “battle of Washington”

President Believed Holding Key To. Coal Dispute.   Partisans Berate Ruml Plan  And Administration Bill

EIGHING T0 BOOST CECFILING   Petition, Backed ‘by Calls for Raising Limit and Relaxo “Inequalities”   [coal PARLEY LD NEAR CRISIS   velt Alone Believed 1d Solution to Dead: Between Miners and Operators

FDR May Hold Key in Issue   WLB Lists for Consideration AFL  Petition

Stimson Forecasts African Progress   Warns, However, Of Heavy Cost

Heavy Casualties In Tunisia Seen Bombing Of Germany Aid At Front—Stimson

Stimson Predicts ‘Favorable Progress’ z In Tunisia But Sees Heavy Casualties

Progress In Tunisia Will Cost Heavily   Expected Successes Will Be Paid For With High Casualties   WARNING FROM DAVIS

AFRICA TRUMP SEEN BY STIMGQN   War Secretary Predicts Favorable Progress In Tunisian Drive   AIR RAIDS HELP   Victory, However, Will Not Come Without Heavy Casualties

MARETH LINE'S BATTLE SLUMPS   Further Major Allied Gains Prevented For Time Being

Stimson Makes Favorable Prediction On Tunisian Battle; Warns of Casualties

AMERICAN FLIERS OUTSHOOT ENEM)   Dominate: African Skies B Wide Margin, War Secretary Reports

STIMSON SEES TUNIS VICTORY   HEAVY U. S. CASUALTIES IN CAMPAIGN PREDICTED

PREDICTS MANY LOSSES   ‘Secretary Stimson Reports Favorable Progress in_Tunisia

Texas History Writing  Contest For Young People Announced By The Texas State Historical Ass'n.

MINERS RETURNING T0 U. S$. COAL PITS   Back-to-work “Movement in Full Swing

Governors to Seek Return of State Rights   Campaign For Return of  Rights After the War

Governors To Fight For States’ Rights   Conterence Condemns Strikes, Asks Action On Livestock Feed Crisis And Easing Of OPA Restrictions

PLANS MADE TO RECLAIM STATES' RIGHTS AFTER WAR IN CLOSING SESSIONS OF COLUMBUS MEETING

Rommel's Tanks . Retreat Deeper in Kasserine Pass   Eighth Army Has Advanced Farther On Mareth Line

AMERICAN, BRITISH TROOPS WIPED OUT NAZEHELD SALIENT  ROMMEL’S FORCES REPOARTEN CONTINITING

AMERICANS PRESS AXIS INTO PASS   Rommel's Battered Forces Retreat Deeper into Central Tunisia.   Axis Chief in Danger On 2 African Fronts

Reich African Army Retreating Deeper Into Kasserine Gap   German Forces Further Harassed As British Gain On Mareth Line; Reds Advance On 700-Mi. Front

Hard-Driving Yanks And British Storm Deep Into Kasserine Pass; Wipe Out Eight-Mile-Long Axis Salient   Severely Punished.

Allies Wipe Out Eight Mile Long  Salient a NAZIS RETREAT British Advance  Against Mareth Line Todav cen

Rommel Is in Trouble on 2 Fronts   British Eighth Army Circles Mareth Line--Reds Move  Ahead on 700-Mile Front ©.

Rommel Still Retreating Into Kasserine Pass   Enemy Armored Forces Being Hit by a Tempest of Bombs

Allies Destroy 8-Mile-Long Axis Salient    Rommel’s Tank Columns Retreat Deeper into Kasserine Pass; British 8th Army Advances Against the Mareth Line

Storm Of Bombs Batters Retreating Axis Forces   Wavell’s Raiders Strike In Burma

NaziForces  In Trouble  On 2 Fronts   British Army Makes Gains in Advance On  Mareth Line :

AXIS SALIENT WIPED OUT ON AFRICA FRONT   Allied Planes Smash at Retreating German Forces Trying to Escape From Bottleneck

Nazi Counterattacks Fail To Stop Russian Surge Near Kharkov   © Eighth Army Circles Mareth Line © Stalin Assures Poland Of Help © U-Boat Nest Bombed By RAF Again

Eight-Mile Area Taken In Tunisia   Rommel Retreat Continues Into K asserine Paas   Russians Advance On 700-Mile Front   Increasing German Counterattacks Fail  To Stop Red Tide

Pursue Rommel’s Battered Columns On Two Fronts   Red Army Sweeps: On Toward Germans’ Dneiper River Defense Line Against Counterattacks of Fresh Nazi Reserves.

Americans and British Clear ‘. Germans From West End of Canyon  UNDER BOMB TEMPEST On North and South Sectors  Pressure on Enemy Increases

British Eighth Army, Meanwhile, Advances Against Mareth Line In Sauth Tunisia.

8-Mile-Long Salient Wiped Out Overnight By Allies   No Axis Troops Left West Of Vital Pass; Alles Have Superiority Of Air   8TH ARMY THREATENS OTHER FLANK   Roomel Believed At End Of Attmept To Crack Allied Center Front Jn Tunisia

Rommel’s Army In Tight Spot On Two Fronts   Battered Axis Tank Columns Retreat Deeper Into Cen. tral Tunisia.   MAY EXTEND RETREAT

U.S. Troops, British _ Wipe Out Axis Salient  West of Kasserine Gap

8-MILE SALIENT WIPED OUT IN AFRICAN DRIVE   Yanks and British Forces Storm Rommel Defense Of Key-Kasserine Pass   BOMBS RAINED ON NAZIS   Russians Sweep on Along 700-mile Battleline in Spite of Resistance

Eight-Mile Area Taken In Attack   German Forces Falling Deeper in Kasserine Pass In Tunisia

Americans and British Clear Germans From Wes  End of Canyon      UNDER BOMB TEMPEST   “ye ’ =? ool a OO OO SE TS SSE  On North and South Sectors  Pressure on Enemy Increases

Emphasis..Shifts .Back. ‘To National Sales Tax   Committee Opposes Further Hikes in Individual Income Levies .

CONGRESS MAY ACCEPT FIVE PER CENT TAX   Committee Turns Down Income Tax Increase

RETAIL SALES TAX AGAIN VIEWED AS A REVENUE MEANS   ‘Congressional Attention Turns   to This Form of Money-Rais  ing After House Group Frowns on More Income Toaving

TAX DISCUSSION SHIFTS BACK TO LEVY ON SALES   Congressional Move Started To Place Restrictions on Manpower Commission

HIKE OF INCOME TAX REJECTED BY COMMITTEE   Congress Again Veers to Considerafion of Sales Levy, Favor Repeal Vistory Tax

Attention Is Turned Again ' To Sales Tax   Any Further Increases In Individual Income Tax Levies Rejected By House Committee

House Group Rejects Increase In Individual Income Taxes: Spotlight Turns on Sales Levies

EMPHASIS ON NATIONAL TAX   House Ways and Means Group Turns Down Further Individual Levies.   ‘OTHER NEWS OF CAPITAL

CONGRESS TURNS 10 SALES TAX PROPOSAL   ; Rejects Pian to Increase : Individual Income Rates

Attention Again is Being Shifted Back to Nat. Retail Tax   If Treasury Withdraws Opposition, Congress Will Accept: George

Congress Balks At Increase In Income Taxes   Ways, Means Committee Turns Thumbs Down On Higher Rates

Congress May Accept 5 Per Cent Levy.  Emphasis Shifts Back To Federal Sales Tax

BOOST OF INCOME LEVIES REJECTED BY HOUSE GROUP   TURN ATTENTION TO STUDY OF NATIONAL RETAIL SALES TAX

Congressional Emphasis Shifts To Retail Sales Tax Following Veto If Income Levies

Congress in Revolt Over Labor Draft   National Service Bill is Denounced As “Dictatorship”

Congress Set For Fight On Labor Draft   Committee To Vote Today On Bill Which Would Aid Farmers .

EXPECT JAPS WILL STRIKE SUPPLY LINE   AIRMEN ON ALERT IN PACIFIC WAR ZONES FOR SIGNS — _ OF MOVE BY THE  H JAPANESE

YANK AIRMEN ON ALERT FOR JAP SURPRISE   Assaults Increased As Enemy Shows Signs Of Boosting Strength   SUPPLY LINE WATCHED   Navy Men Believe That Nips May Seek Capture Of Island Base

Nazis Draft Italians for Labor Service   ABLE-BODIED MEN, 18-35 TAKEN FROM ROME FOR ROAD, FACTORY WORK

FARMER . NAMED TO ADVISE OPA   Bowles Concerned By “Lack Of Understanding” On Part Of Agriculture

A Welcome To Wounded   Last of Exchange Ships’ Reaches Britain from Germany

TENSION RISES IN FRENCH AREA   British View Situation A Threat To Interests

Moslem Nations Of Middle East Protest Arrest Of Officials; British May Take Armed Action

RUSSIANS BOMB GERMAN CITIES   Prussian Airfield, Troop Concentrations Are Lashed; Two-Way  Squeeze Seen

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE ~ ATTACKS INCREASE   East Prussia and German Air Fields Heavily Bombed

FATALITIES RISE   1800 Dead And 2000 Injur_-ed In Turkish Earthquake

COMMITTEE SEEKS LEND-LEASE DATA   Calls Heads of War, Navy and Maritime Departments to Explain Chinese Relief 

CORONER DESCRIBES DEATH OF OAKES   Women Guests Scheduled To Testify Next

Oakes’ Hurts. Deseribed by 2 Witnesses   Coroner Details Wounds De Marigny’s Women Guests to Be Questioned

REVEAL OAKES’ FATAL WOUNDS   Dinner Guests to Testify On Whereabouts of Defendant

Wounds, Burns” Oakes Suffered Are Described   Coroner Second Witness In Fourth Day Of Trial; Physician Is Questioned

Slayer Put to Death In Chair   Pays Supreme Penalty For Killing Four

Cudahy Chosen Defense Chief   Appointed Director B) New State Council

Lowers Cockpit Seat 'One Inch; Jap Bullet 'Creases Top of Helmet

-Milady’s No. 1 Problem Solved  Michigan War Plant Includes Beauty Shop

CALL HEARING ON LOBBYING    Full Scale: le’ ‘Investigation - Planned by Special Eouse * Committee

House Group to Open Full Scale Lobby Inquiry   Keeton Arnett, Anthony Buford Among Those to Appear

Expect To Step Up Air Attacks In Pacific And  Drive Japs From Bases

ROME IN GERMAN  HANDS SAY NAZIS   Report Flashed Thru Air Literally Full of “Flashes” and “Bulletins”

DENY ITALY’S KING HAS FALLEN; NAZIS "BOMB ITALY FLEET   Rome Explains Badoglio Has Not Quit _ As Premier But Is Away On ° .  _ Military Mission—Declare © Il Duce Not In Africa

$300,000 BLAZE AT HAGERSTOWN   One Of Central Chemical Company Buildings Is Completely Lost

Central Chemical Blaze : Loss Put At $300,000   Spectacular Bloze Sweeps Buildings Near Mitchell Avenue—Quantities of Chemicals, Fertilizers - and Sprays Destroyed

t Of Habeus Corpus Served — - Against Sheriff. Frank Scholer   ed Check Artist Claims le’s Imprisoned  For. A .Deht. mn

it OF Habeus Corpus Served Aaainst Sheriff Frank Schole:   ed Check Artist Claim: e’s Imprisoned For . Debt ;

Reds Drive 13 Miles Past Rail Town   Advance in Two Columns Toward Rostov

‘German General. Admits Situation In South Rus-. sia Is Serious For His:  Troops,

SITUATION IS SERIOUS, SAYS NAZI LEADER   Russians Advance 13 Miles Up Rail . Toward Rostov

KELLY 10 INCREASE STATE TROOP FORCE   Would Keep Federal Troops In Detroit Area to Maintain Order.

To Build Up State Troops for Riot Duty   State Administrative Board Allocates Funds to Outfit Force for Emergency Work

State To Expand Militia’s Powel   Troops To Be Preparec For Emergencies

German Radio Coins Phrase—‘Churchevelts’   Father Drafted, Shows Up With Daughters, 4 and 6

Drafted Dad Seeks Home for Two Girls   FATHER GETS FURLOUGH AFTER APPEARING FOR TESTS WITH CHILDREN

NEW. JAP ATTACK AT WAU THWARTED BY ALLIED TROOPS      Enemy Attack Repelled With Henny a orualics        .- Are Active

Allies Thwart New Jap Attack On New Guinea   Jap Casualties 300; Officers Taken

Civilian Goods Boost Promised   WPB Will Allow Greater Steel Use

Public To Get More Bed Springs. Stoves, Needles, Pins, Ete., Ete.

WPB TO STEP UP OUTPUT OF CIVILIAN GOODS   Aore Articles Requiring Steel Planned In Last Quarter

Household Utensils To Be Made in Larger Quantity  WPB Orders Increase In Manufacture Of Many Appliances

Household Utensils To Be Made in Larger Quantity  WPB Orders Increase In Manufacture  BS ws A uml it omene

Needs of Civilians To Be Produced in Bigger Quantities   More Steel Allotted For Bed Springs, Pins.  Kitchen Ware. Stoves

LABOR LEADERS GIVE FDR ULTIMATUM   Green and Murray Charge Brown with Stabilization Failure

President And Labor Leaders - Confer Today   Organized Labor Desires Prices Back To Levels Of Sept. 15, 1942, As Soon As Possible

Italian Radio Declares 30 Persons Dying Daily In Rome Of Starvation

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANT STARTS WORK   Nation's First Butadiene Factory Begins Production at Baton Roure, La.

Senator Seeks “Master Strategists” Who Shipped Tires To South America And U.S. In Throes Of Rubber Shortage

COOLER AIR ON WAY   Unsettled Conditions a Possibility, Says. Forecaster

Not To Be Balmy Long   Cooler Weather Conditions Are Expected Tonight

Russians Express Satisfaction With Teheran Meeting   Press Is Friendly Praising Allied Leaders’ Decisions

TEHERAN PACT HAS APPROVAL MOSCOW REGIME   0 fficial Satisfaction Ex  pressed After Premier  . Stalin Returns From ‘Tran. Conference.

Soviet Govt. Satisfied With Declaration   Approval Made Afte: Stalin’s Return From Conference

SOVIET GOVERNMENT IS SATISFIED WITH CONFERENCE RESULT  FULL OFFICIAL APPROVAI OF TEHERAN MEETING ' 1S EXPRESSED

THE SOVIET IS WELL SATISFIED WITH MEETING   rhis Was Indicated Most Emphatically Through Newspaper Izvestia.   PRAISED THE RED ARMY   Gave Russia’s Allies Due Honors for Contribution Toward Winning the War.

Soviets Show Satisfaction  Izvestia Praises — Conference Results As Heraldina Victory

Russ Government Pleased at Meet Results  Stalin Returns Home After Braving Hard Plane Trip

Soviet Press Hails Results  Completely Satisfied With Teheran Meeting

FIRE DESTROYS 11 BUSINESS BUILDINGS   Firemen From As Far Away As Wilmingtpn, Del,, Battle Flames In Elkton 2!. Hours

ELKTON SWEPT BY DISASTROUS FIRE   Eleven Business Establishments on Main Street Destroyed

Nine Business Establishments At Elkton Burn   15 Fire Companies Summoned to City

BEDS GAIN EDGE OF OREL, SMASH eGOUNTER DRIVES   Russian Advance Liberates 90, More Towns East and North of City

FIGHT INSINE CITY'S MAIN DEFENSES   Liberate 90 More ‘Towns North and  %  Kast of Nazi Base

Red Army Forces Make Advance To Outskirts Of Orel   Liberate 90 More Towns North And East Of City, Says Moscow   NAZIS ORDERED TO ‘HOLD AT ALL COSTS’

HELD NEAR OREL; GAIN GROUND IN PERGE FibtilING   Beat Back Repea'ed German Ccunter Attacks; Free 90 Towns.   NAZIS SEND UP HELP   Tank and Infantry reinforcements, Trying to Hold Key City.

British Rock San Giovanni   Pound Italian Mainland Terminus of R. R. Ferry.

COLLEGE CHIEF TO SERVE TERM   Cedarville President Accused Of Felonious Assault On Young Girl

8006 MEN ON LITTLE LERO ISLE LAY DOWN ARMS   DNB Agency First to Announce Catastrophe by Radio

UNLY ONE MOR ACGEAN TOLAN LEFT TQ ALLE   Nazi Air. Ground Assa Overwhelms Garrison Of 8,000 Troops

Tiny Dodecanese Island Defenders Forced To Yield   Overwhelming German Ground, Air Assault ‘Causes Capitulation

OUTNUMBERED ALLIED FORCE BEATEN DOWN   British and Italians Forced to Capitulate After Furioys  Battle—---

GERMANS SEE LERO IN AEGEAN, 8000 CAPTUREL   British and italian Troops Yield to Assault   GERMANS EXPECTED TO HIT SAMOS NEXG

BRITISH, ITALIAN DFFENDERS BOW TOSUPERIOR FORCE   Germans Poured In Great Re: inforcements When Allies Were Holdina.

GIVEN UP TO NAZIS   Upset on Island Offset — By Victories Elsewhere

British And Italian Troops Give Up Unequal Fight On Tiny Aegean Island

BRITISH, ITALIAN TROOPS ON AEGEAN ISLAND SURRENDER   Garrison Overwhelmed by Superior Numbers in Four-day Battle

Garrison Of 8000 Men Holds Out To Last Before Surrendering To Invaders

Allies Batter Axis Shipping   ‘700,000. Tons Sunk, -300.000. Damaaed 

Nazi Ships At Minimum   Million Tons Blasted Sinee African Fight

AXIS SHIPPING:LOSS — ~-SET AT HIGH FIGURE   Upwards of Million Tons of Enemy Vessels Sunk or Damaged Since Allied Occupation of North Africa, English Official Reveals to House of  Commons Today—Nazis Suffer Heavily.

Allies Sink or Seriously Damage One Million Tons of Axis Shipping Since North African Occupation

AXIS SHIPPING LOSSES MOUNT   Commons Told Million Tons Sunk Or Damaged Since Tunisian Campaign

ONLY A BARE MINIMUM NOW FOR GERMAN)   Allied Blockade Beginning to Pinch, According to Report of British Commons Today

AXIS SHIPPING 1S GREATLY DAMAGED   Enemy Probably Lost 700, 000 Tons With 300.000 As Badly Damaged.

SAYS AXIS TONNAGE AT BARE MINIMUM   Over 1,000,000 Tons Sunk Or Damaged After North Africa Taken

Convict Negro In Train Death   Verdict Makes Death Sentence Mandatory

NEGRO COOK FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER   R. E. L. Folkes Given the Death Penalty for Slay ina Bride

Folkes Guilty In ‘Lower 13 Murder Case   Dining Car Cook Must Die if Jury Ruling Is Upheld   FACES GAS CHAMBER  Deliberations Take 17 and Half Hours; Sentencing Monday

Folkes Convicted Of Brutal Murder Of Martha James   Negro Cook To Pay Death Penalty for Lower 13 Killing

DEATH PENALTY IS DECREED IN TRAIN MURDER   Dining Car Cook Is Found Guilty Of Slaying Vir gina Rrida   ATTORNEY INTENDS TO APPEAL VERDICT

GUILTY OF MURDER   R. E. L. Folkes Given the Death Penalty for Slaying Bride

Convict Negro Dining Car Cook of Bride's Murde:   Jury Deliberates 17 Hours; Makes Death Penalty Mandatory

- Navy Working Wonders: - New Secret Weapons So Powerful They Astonish Foreign Scientist

SEVEN KILLED ~~ AT GROSSING   ONLY ONE MEMBER OF GROUP  -OF WAR WORKERS ES-.  ‘ CAPED DEATH AT  -  WEST LAFAYETTE

HITLER'S RISE IS COSTLY ONE   World Expenditures Now Reach 400 Billions, Dept. Estimates

Hitler To Date’ Has Cost . World Over 400 Billions   Cost May Exceed 500 Billions if Fuehrer Keeps.on for _ Another Year—Estimates Made by the “. Department of Commerce °

Commerce Department Estimates Staggering Financial  - Toll of Hitlerism; U. S. Cost $112,300,000,000

Hitler’s Power Lust Costs Fantastic Sum   pleruanne, Italians Share in Huge War Expenditures; Cost to U. S. Heaviest -

HITLER'S WAR HAS ALREADY PASSED 400 BILLION MARK   Commerce Department Figures Another 100. Billion if War Is Carried on Unti End of Year.   AVERAGE OF $230 FOR EVERYBODY ON EARTH   Fund Sufficient For Building Hundred Million Homes or Buy Every Family on Earth New Car.

Hitler Lust Eats Up Much Money   Another Hundred Billion Probably Will Be Spent

Strikes Wane In Nation’s  War Plants   Chrysler and General Tire Workers Vote io Return

Workers Cal! Ott Chrysler Strike Affecting 24,000   31,000 Rubber Plant Employes Refuse to Work   riant Employes Refuse to Work  MINE TROUBLE EASES  3000 General Tire  Strikers Going Back ey Salen a  Rea

ORI WAGE PAYMENT   Auditor General Thinks Legislator is Entitied to Waaes.

PLAN 70 PAY SOLON REGULAR SALARY   Brown Says Legislative Wage to Continue While Dombrowski Is Representative

Nazi Sub Blasted in Caribbean Se: After Shooting Down U. S. Plane

County Judges to Be Elected This Year; Mayors of 27 State Cities

Giraud Denies Ties With Vichy  Hlac Nan Onammaniée   Has No Comments On Presidency

SUGAR BEET FUTURE IS VIEWED AS DARK   War, ’Tis Feared, Will Raise Production Too High

33 Local Men Go To Induction Center  To: Be ‘Examined for Army Service, Draft 4

33 Local Men Go To Induction Center  To Be Examined for Army Service Draft Board Announces

{ General Montgomery Isn't Venturing Guesses On Date When War In Eurone Will Be Ended

RUSSIANS PRAISED BY MONTANA SOLON      Senator Murray Demands We Understand Allies Better

FIUME UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE OF YUGOSLAVS   Berlin Broadcast Admits Gorizi: Virtually Destroyed by Big Gun: of Patriots

CITIES SERVICE PLEA IS DENIED   FPC Refuses to Reconsider Order Calling for Gas Rate Reductions

FPC Sustains Order To Lower Gas Rates   Will Not Change Ruling Directing Cities Service to Cut Charges in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

TO CUT GAS RATES   EPC Refuses to Reconsider Order for Cities Serv ice Reduction

vABOR SEEKS LOOSENING OF PAY CONTROLS   *“4iners’ Raise Held Beginning of Drive on Stabilization

Pressure Under  Wage Lid Grows   Nation s Economic Problems Pile Up

Mine Pay Rise Seen Breaking Inflation Curh   Other Unions Reported Preparing to Demand  AW aca’ Pee. ees

Groups See Tests for Wage Brake  Miners’ Raise Cited as Control Peril

U. S. Chamber Sees Others  Demanding Wage Boosts  e C'aal In   Fears Coal Increase Is Entering Wedge, Of Break in Program  Kar Stabilization

Mounting Pressure Against Wage Controls Add to U. S.  ‘Growing Economic Problems

NEW DEMANDS FOR PAY HIKES ARE FORESEEN   U. S. Chamber Sees Mine Raise As Wedge In Stabilization Program   Savs Workers Are Hit

LIVING COSTS INQUIRY WILL START TODAY   Probe to Get Under Way Amid Inflation Arouments   LABOR HEADS SEEK CONTROL LOOSENING   Investigators_Will Report on Costs Within 60 Davs

Deny Wild Claim: Of Japanese of Ship Sinkings  Opening Wedge to Drive Enemy Out Le ee Ao

U.S. Appears Certain of  Island Victory   Japs Make Frantic Propaganda Speeches Of Americans Losses; MacArthur Denies All Charges; Claims New Gains

BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE FIRMLY SECURED BY ALLIES   American Marines, Reinforced By Army Troops, De finitely Have Won First Round Of Battle For Island; + Jap Cruiser Is Torpedoed In Keravia Bay

MARINES WIN ~ VITAL BATTLE   Six Mile Beachhead it Bougainville Secured

JAPS LOSE FIRST ROUND TO MARINES ON BOUGAINVILLE   Spokesman for MacArthur Says Leathernecks’, Beachhead on Empress Augusta Is “Firmly Secured.”   TOKYO CLAIMS OF SEA VICTORY ARE DENIED   Cognizance Taken of Repeated Broadcasts of Crushing Defeat of American Warships.

MacArthur Blasts Japanese Claims Of Naval Victory      Beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay Firmly Secured; Rabaul Next  Step? 

Jap Propaganda Efforts Fail To Conceal Victory   Opening Wedge Firmly Secured

-Yanks Clinch Island Hold   Japs’ Wild Claims Are Said "Without Basis Whatsoever"

Jap Claims of Naval Success Contradicted ©   % Ka Reports of American Ship Losses Said Totally Unirue 

Japan Claims Of Sea Victory Hit   Beachhead At Empress Augusto Bay Is Firmly Secured: Japs Fail To Pinch Off Bia Force

Wild Jap Claims Without Basis, Savs MacArthur   No U. S. Ships Lost Since Oct. 6; Army, Marines Tighten Grip   SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

Yankees Take First Round Against Japs   Japanese Claims of Sinkings Are Without Basis

ALLIES WIN FIRST ROUND IN PACIFIC   Wild Claims of Japanese Held to be Without Foundostion

Fathers’ Draft Delay Refused By Government   October 1 Call Stands, Wheeler Informed By Paul V. McNutt

DELAY IS REFUSED.   Wheeler Wants Congress Called to Consider Father Draft

WHEELER ASKS CONGRESS ACT ON DAD-DRAFT   Requests Solons Returm To Washington Before September 14   BITTER FIGHT LOOMS   Will Attempt To Override  Draft Board’s Order On Fathers

HOUSE SOLONS ON JOB TODAY   Action Completed To Rais Property Valuations

COUNTY WHEAT COAL NOW SET AT 1830 AGRES   Not Boosted, Nation Asked to Hike.

County Wheat Goal Is 1175 A,   Oldfield, AAA Chairman, Says Goal About Same As 1943  Acreage

Tax Bill May Just Vanish   Remaining Portions Face Heavy Attacks in Senate

More Cuts Seen Likely In Tax Bill   Senator Walsh Declares New Revenue Sources Must Be Found

FURTHER TAX BILL CUTS ARE PREDICTED   Walsh Looks for Reduction or Elimination of Levies Providing Half of Measure's ‘Total,

Senator Predicts Tax Bill Slashes  Walsh Gives Views On Pending Measurt

Senate fo Cut Into Tax Bill   es ‘Hike. in: Postal: Rates Likely to _ Bea MaaelLad Mire

TAX BILL GETS MORE PRUNING   Measure Full Of Bad Features, Acting Chairman Savs

Vore Cuts In Tax Bill Seen   Aciing Chairman Walsh Says Meastire Subjeet To More \mputations,

IN PRAISE OF KANSAS\   Allen Crafton” ‘Entertains Rotary “With Evaluation of State 

Canning Sugar Regulations Announced; OPA Urges All _ The Home Canning Possible

Kuhn Paroled—But For Internment   State Releases Bund Leade1 To Federal Government

TO FEDERAL PRISON   State Paroles Fritz Kuhn to the UL. S. Government

Rail Center Blasted By  Americans   Strategic Junction Of Rouen Is Target Of Heavy Daylight Raid By Fortresses

GREAT FIRES LEFT IN ROUEN BY U. S$. FLIER S   Strategic Rail Junction Said to Have Been Torn Up

STARTS APRIL 12   Treasury Announces Ostailed Plans; Morgenthau Appeals

PPEPEPPAP PPLE EEO AAAS  13 Billion U. S. Goal In April Lean Drive

Commitments Held Too Great  U.S. May Not Be Able To Meet Requirements

APPREHENSION FELT OVER LEND-LEASES COMMITMENTS  Military and Foreign Relief Ballooning Beyond Possible  Wweli. a

Fear U.S. CommitmentsOn Lend-Lease Can‘t Be Fulfilled Because Of Strained Shipping Picture

REPORTS PANIC , GRIPS RUMANIA AT SOVIET GAII   ®Bern Also Learns 102,000 Nazi Settlers Ordered to Leave Russia

REPORT PANIC IN ROMANIA AS RED ARMY DRAWS NEAR   BERNE SAYS THAT CONTINUED SUCCESSES OF RUSSIANS 18 CAUSING TERROR

OHIO'S COAL MINES GO BACK 10 NORMAL   Protests To Be Handled ir ‘Regular Channels’

OHIO MINES RESUME NORMAL PRODUCTION   Vote to Submit Troubles Through Regular Channels

OHIO MINERS TO RETURN TO WORK   Will Submit Grievances Through ‘Regular Channels’

Begin Final Salvaging This Week   Angle of Big Ship Reaches 47.7 Degrees at Noon — Today ' ;

Seems Like This One ls On ‘House’   Recent Rampage Viewed As Danger Signal From ‘Home’

‘Fireworks’ Due on Levy   Sales Tax Proposals. Bring Hot Exchange:

SUPPORT FOR SALES TAX ISGROWING   Congressional Opposition to Administration Is Unvielding

SALES TAX IS GAINING FAVOR   Congress Opens Second Week Of Hearings On New Levies

ASSAILED UL SIDES   Congress Starts Second . Week.of Search for New Levies

TAXPROPOSALS  ARE ASSAILED   Congress Begins Second Week of Discussions On New Revenue Plans

4  AX PLAN'S FOES REFUSE TO YIELD   Robertson And Dingel Fighi Over Sales Levy Move

CONGRESS SEARCHING FOR ACPEPTABIE TAY      and, Also Gets Opposition

Clears Boy Of  Blame In Grove  Club Holocaust Marshal Lists  Cause Unknown

Tighter Curbs in Marketing Of Milk Ordered by Wickard   Series of Economies to Keep Prices To Consumer Down, Secretary Explains

Milk Marketing Economies Are Ordered   Use of Pint and Half-Pint Containers Limited

More Trouble For Harried Dairyman  Delivery Of Pints And Halt Pints Stopped. Deposits Set

Sweeping Economies For Fluid Milk Are Ordered   No Pint Of Half-Pint Bottles May Be Delivered To Homes Or Sold In Stores.

New Decree Bars Small Milk Bottles   FOOD CZAR WICKARD ALSO ORDEKRS COLLECTION OF DEPOSITS ON MILK BOTTLES AS ECONOMY.

Sweeping Series Of Economies In Milk Marketing  Wickard Orders Deposits On All Bottles; Is Conservation Measure

NEW MILK RULE EFFECTIVE FEB.    No More Pints Or Half Pints Shall Be Delivered To Homes Or Sold In Retail Stores.

Changes Made In Marketing Of Milk   No More Pints Or Half Pints To Be Sold In Stores

FIRST YANK TO ENTER TRIPOL'   Joined British March After ; Plane Shot Down

Churchill Views Niagara Falls   BRITISH PRIME MINISTER LEAVES FOR THE U. S. AFTER A SIGHT-SEEING TOUR OF HONEYMOON SPOT WITH HIS DAUGHTER

CHURCHILL MAKES SIGHTSEEING TOU AT NIAGARA FALLS   Party Leaves for Unannounced Destination After Inspection of Honevymoon Snot.

NIAGARA FALLS IS VISITED THURSDAY BY ENGLISH PARTY   Churchill and Daughter on Sightseeing Trip at Noted Spot Today.

PRIME MINISTER, ‘DAUGHTER VISIT ~ POWER. - CENTER   Britain’s:'Leader. Awaits De ’ parture of FDR: for Que - -beo—City Is. Agog Over Ulaitana .

CHURCHILL PAYS VISIT TO NIAGARA   Takes Daughter To View Falls From U. S. Side

Prime Minister Crosses Line To Visit Falls   United Nations Staffs Prepare Groundwork For Quebec Meeting   DATE NOT REVEALED   Russia, China Will Not Be Represented At Military Conference

Churchill Crosses Into United States   Winnie Visits Niagara Falls Before Departing For Unannounced Destination

Churchill Enters U. S.; Destination Not Announced   Before Crossing, Prime Minister and Daughter Visit Niagara Falls;-Lorge Party Makes Journey Across Border

Churchill Visits Niagara Falls, Ont.; Big Reception   Prime Minister’s Daughter On First Visit To New World —British Leader Awaits Arrival Of President ‘Reosevelt For Parley On Global War Strategy   _By CHARLES ‘B, LYN ‘CH  a ees peer eh mee: a

Churchill And His Party In United States   Visited Niagara Falls Before Continuing  To This Country   PLANS KEPT SECRET   Party Accompanied By U. S. Officers And  Canadian Police

Churchill Takes Sight-Seeing Tou: of Niagara Falls   ' Prime Minister in Jovial Humor at Tourist Mecca

30,000 Facing Death, Capture As Planes Blast Axis Mediterranean Bases

100,000 PRISONERS  TAKEN BY ALLIES IN ENTIRE BATTLE      Furious Fighting Still Going On At Base Of Peninsula—Small Groups _ Trying To Escape Are Attacked

U.S. Sub Sinks Japanese U-Boat  Near Enemy Base   Sub Credited With Sinking Nine  Nip Vessels

U.S. UNDERSEA CRAFT-SINKS JAP SUBMARINE   Yank Craft Makes Naval History In Pacific

Army Figure 7 Million   ™ Navy Total Revised From Knox Statement

ARMED FORCES TOTAL OVER NINE MILLION   Report shows army fig. ures set at 7,067,844 as of June 30

HOUSE ORDERS PAPER INQUIRY   Conspiracy To Destroy Freedom Of Press To Be Checked

SAM RAYBURN OF TEXAS RE-ELECTED SPEAKER OF HOUSE   Both Parties are Now Pledged to Fight ‘Arrogant  Bureaucracy’ That Exjete Tada.

TWO BRANCHES OF CONGRESS READY FOR ROOSEVELT   President Will Appear In Person Thursday, Expected te Recommend Great Sum For War.   PROBABLY OPENER TO SET OFF FIREWORKS   Preliminaries For 1944 Presidential Contest, Problems For Executive Loom From  » Session.

Organization Started With FDR Scheduled To Send Message Thursday

Rayburn Again Is Elected To Speaker’s Job   Texan Wins Over GOP’s Martin By Slim Margin Of 217 To 206; Solons Pledge To Battle Bureaucracy; FDR’s Talk Thursday

BRITISH ATTACK AT MAUNCDAW:   Launch First Thrust of  Offensive in Burma

Japanese Attacked at Maungdaw   MacArthur’s Flyers in Southwest Pacific Destroy Over 104 Jap Planes

State Taxes To Undergo Little Change   Knox Countian’s Proposal Opposed By Administration

LITTLE CHANGE IS ANTICIPATED IN OHIO TAXES   Leaders Doubt Approval 0: Proposal For Lowering Of Land Assessments   FAVOR SALES LEVY CUT   Re-Enactment Of Cigaret, } Utilities Excise And Liquid Fuel Imposts Seen

DAMAGE SUIT,   Damage Suit Filed Against John Swift Following Fatal Accident.

AGE SUIT.           Damage Suit Filed Against Johu Swift Following Fatal Accident.

YOUTH SEIZED IN FILM PLOT   Miss’ Grable [s Asked to Pay $25,000 Under Threat-of Death — -

‘UNRRA Set To   ‘Reduce Germany   Would Partition Trade Facilities

SYNDICATE TRIAL SET   Hearing On SEC Complaint Against Investers Syndicate Aug. 36

DEMANDS TO TAKE CITIZENSHIP FROM JAPS BEING MADE   Nationwide Anger Follows Execution Of Aviators By Japan Teld Yesterday

Ask To Rescind Jap Citizenship   Test Case Now Before U. S. Supreme Court

SHOULD LOSE CITIZENSHIP   Think Most of “Them Are Always Japs at Heart

ANGER MOUNTS OVER MURDERS OF U. S. FLIERS   Senate Told That Treachery, Deception Inborn Traits of Nipponese.

WOULD REVOKE CITIZENSHIP OF JAP-AMERICANS   Senator Insists Japs Born Treacherous, Deceptive   ANGER MOUNTING OVER PRISONER EXECUTIONS

SENATE COMMITTEE FILES TAX BILL BUT ITS GOMPLIGATED   WILL TAKE “PHILADEL. PHIA LAWYER” TO FIGURE WHAT ONE OWES

See Your Lawyer  New Tax Bill Just A Mess Of Confusion   It's Loose-Leafed, Like Dollar Bill Section Of Taxpayer's Wallet

SENATE'S NEW TAX BILL READY FOR INSPECTION  Armchair Expert Faces Trouble lf He Hopes to Figure 't Out

New Tax Bill Is About as Clear as Mud   Is Replete With Sections, Sub-Sections and SubSub-Sections. .

Cof Expected L ndorse Federal  Retail Sales Tax   Also Expected To Oppose. Increage in’ Corporate Income Tax: N.C. Educator Says Sales Tax “Would Flurt No Onc.”

Latest Sales Tax Support Also Comes From Tar Heel Negro Educator; U. S. Chamber of Commerce To Oppose Increase In Individual and Corporate Income Taxes.

CHAMBER WILL PROPOSE TAXES   Recommendation May Be For Sales Levy

RATIONING OF LIQUOR BEGINS IN STATE TODAY   Perinsylvania ‘Sixteenth State In Nation To Ration Whisky Formally .

BOMBING ATTACKS ON JAPAN “ARE EXPECTED VERY SHORTLY   REINFORCEMENTS OF MEN AND SUPPLIES , POURING INTO CHINA FOR AERIAL BLOWS.

Plan Greater Aid To China   ‘New Promise By U. S. Of _ Enlarged Aid To China To Be Made   WILL INTENSIFY ATTACKS ON JAPS

CHINA-T0 GET MORE AID. FROM AMERICA   U. 8. Troops May Be Sent if China Soon

Empire Day to Be Observed: Sunday, But Without Empire   I! Duce Orders Mifitia Increased as Soon as He Hears of Allied Tunisia Victory

MINE OWNERS TO SIGN SCALE   alwo-Thirds of of Producers Agrée After Hearing Report

50 German Fighters Shot Down   Fortresses Bang Away at   Clouds of Enemy Planes  on Return Flicht   BOMB AMSTERDAM AND N.W. GERMANY   American Raid Follows British Night Assault on Italy and Muich

NAZI INDUSTRY   Unescorted U. S. Bombers Destroy 50 German Fiahter Planes.

Yanks Get 50 Fighters In Holland Raid   Luftwaffe Suffers Seconc Heavy Blow In 4 Days Amsterdam Bombed   BI7S HIT PLANTS   Hundreds Of Planes Fly Across Channel After Italy, Munich Strikes

MERICAN HEAVY :BOMBERS IN AYLIGHT ATTACK’ ON EUROPE; ‘AR. SMASHES ITALIAN AREAS

RAF RANGES FAR TO CRIPPLE AXIS   AIRMEN SPAN ALPS TO WRECK ITALIAN POWER FACILITIES   ARLLLETIN

Demands for Permanent Army Control of Tule Lake Japs Reach Fever Heat Today

‘WAR COUNCIL’ — AT TULE-LAKE   OUTBREAKS AT JAP INTERN. “MENT” CAMP MA¥ LEAD TGCONGRESS DISCARD ¢, ING WRA

Tule Lake Folk Call War Council   Jap Segregation Camp Control Must Remain With Army, Is Demand

NAME ALLIED COMMANDER IN ASTATIC AREA      Mountbatten to Head Dtive on  Japs in Burma

MILK PRICE ~~ -HEREBOOST   Allows Increase .of About A Cent A Quart In Most Cases

OPAGIVES — MILK PRICE HERE BOOS}   Allows Increase of. About A Cent A Quart In Most Cases

STREET FIGHTS ~INFOME, WORT   Nazi Propagandists Pro: claim Rebirth of Fascism Under Duce.

TALIANS BATTLE GERMANS IN ROME REPORTS. DECLARE   Bitter Opposition to Presmce of German Troops Reported Spreading

BITTER STREET FIGHTING TODAY AS ARMY BALKS   Italians Resent Nazi Presence  On Home Soil

Algiers Radio Reports Bitter Street Fighting in Rome and Belgrade

Bitter Battles Rage In Streets Of Rome   German Propagandists Proclaim Rebirth OF Fascism Under Command Of Benito Mussolini

OPPOSITION TO GERMANS SPREADING   Germans Claim Fascism Reborn, To Resume War

REBIRTH OF FASCISN UNDER MUSSOLINI 1S PROGRAM OF GERMANS  BITTER FIGHTING REPORTED IN ROME STREETS ANN, EICRWHERE

FIGHTING IN ROME STREETS REPORTED   German Troops Challenged By Italian Soldiers In the Balkans

Bitter Street — Fight In Rome   German Propagandists Proclaim Rebirth Of Fascism Under ‘Duce.’

GERMANS CLAIM MUSSOLINI WILL LEAD FASCISTS   Say Duce Will Cancel Surrender Of Badoglio Group

Fascism Reborn,  Germans Bragging  End Of House Of Savoy To Be Proclaimed

BLACKSHIRTS AGAIN CONTROL ~ NORTH ITALY   Bifter Fighting Breaks Out ir Rome, ftalian Soldiers Battle Nazis in Balkans

STREET FIGHTS OCCUR IN ROME   Opposition To German Forces In Italy Spreads Over Country

Italians Fighting Germans In Balkans, Algiers Claims   Mussolini May End Rule Of House Of Savoy Duce’s Whereabouts Still Vague

Fighting in Streets of Rome Bitter   Opposition to Germans Spreading All Over Italy

OPPOSITION TO NAZIS IN ITALY IS SPREADING      Algiers Radio Also Reports  German Troops Are Being Challenged In  / Balkans   FIERCE FIGHTING ‘OCCURS IN BELGRADE   Uprising Starts As German Propagandist Proclaims: Rebirth of Fascism Under Musselini

Navy Reveals Loss of °  Two Warships  Also Renorts Tan   Also Reports Jap Attempt to Bomb Attu Fails

DESTROYERS LOST. IN MEDITERRANEAN   Bristol and Buck Casualties of Wor, Navy Announces

TWO DESTROYER LOSSES LISTED   Japanese Bombing Raid On Attu Island Is Ineffectual

Two American Destroyers Lost In Mediterranean   Bristol and Buck Sink as Result of Under Water Explosion, Navy Says

JAPS RAID ATTY WITHOUT DAMAGE   Two U. S. Destroyers Lost in Mediterranean, Navy Renorts

Japanese Attempt To Raid Attu But Are Thwarted  Report of Act Tells Also That Two U. S. Ships Go Down

The Farmer, Backbone Of The Nation   By C. G. Bohley, President Medina Gounty Farm Bureau

‘Head of County Farm Bureau Calls For Farmers To Meet Their Goals

BIG FLEETS OF BOMBERS ATTACK NAZIS   New Offensive Against Europe Opened by Alllies

NA SUB ue  4-Ton Block Buster Dropped By Big   RAID FOLLOWS U. S. ATTACK ON ROUEN

NEW _ AIR -» OFFENSIVE  R A.F. Bombers Pound Si. Nazaire   Hundreds of Biggest Bombers Shatter German U-Boat Base

FIRES RAGING FROM HEAVIEST RAID ON BERLIN   New Allicd Aerial Offensive Against Conlinent Passes Third Night   1,000 TONS HIT CAPITAL   American And British Bombers Smash Rail Yards And Dutch Port

Aerial Offensive Still in Progress   St. Nazaire Sub Base is Target Sunday; Nazi Capital in Flames

HIT AFTER - BERLIN RAID   Big Bombers Shatter Installations At U-Boat Base

Allied Planes Swarm Over Channel in New Non-Stop Offensive   French Coast Again Is Target After R.A. F Smashes St. Nazaire U-Boat Base in Terrific Night Bombing

BOMB U-BOAT BASES. WHILE BERLIN BURNS   British Bombers Keeping Up Air Offensive Started — Friday Night. °   WRITER FIRST AMERICAN TG BOMB NAZI CAPITAL

BERLIN BOMBING FOLLOWED BY RAID ON ST. NAZAIRE   Aerial Offensive Renewed on Gigantic Scale Over Busy . ” Week-end.

BRITISH RAIDERS SHATTER NAZI U-BOAT CENTER   Pount St. Nazaire in Concentrated Raid Following Heaviest Attack of War on Berlin

HAF BLASTS U-BOAT BASE AFTER BIGGEST ASSAULT ON BERLIN   Raid On French Port Equals 1,000-Tonner On German Capital; Only Two Bombers Lost Bv Nicht Force

Berlin Still Smarting From Raids Saturday   Tempo of Allied Air Attacks Is Stepped Up

RAF CONTINUES AIR OFFENSIVE   Blasts St. Nazaire In Follow-Up To Raids On Rouen, Berlin

RAF Keeps Up Block Buster Attack on Nazis With Heavy Air Assault on St. Nazaire

French Leaders Transferred To Nazi Jails   Germans Fear Allied Plot to Free Blum, Daladier, Gamelin

Nazis Transfer French Leaders   Blum. Daladier and Gamelin Moved to Thwart Coup de Main

NAZIS TRANSFER FRENCH LEADERS   Daladier, Blum Moved to Jails in Germany; Nazis Nervous

Boy Confesses Coloma Fires, Judge Report   -Year-Old Child Held As ‘Firebug’; Sanity Test Given Today

Denies Any Commection With $40,000 Fire At Theater   ICONFESSES 4 OTHERS   Boy Is Being Examined  By Two Psychiatrists  Today

House Member To Resist Tax Increase  Virginian Opposes Hike on Present  Carnanretian  ac

Fight on Efforts To Up Corporate Tax Rate Seen   Rep. Robertson, House Ways, Means Head,  Discusses Outlook

SAYS PROFIT SPURS OUTPUT   Rep. Robertson To Fight Move To Raise Taxes On Corporations

COURT HOLDS RENT CONTRO! LAW INVALID   Georgia ‘Federal Judge Holds Government Action Void

Federal Judge Holds Rent Act To Be Illegal   Georgia Jurist Rules Against U. S. Rent Control Law

Georgia Court  Annuls Rent  Costas) Ba€law LULLLIUL ACLIUIL   OPA Activity Held Invalid Unless Authorized By Congress

Gossett Assails Plans On Draft   Said Contrary To Will OF Conarece

Gossett Assails Plans.On Draft   Said Contrary To WATE OF Cannrace

MISSING IN ATTACK   Krupp Factories Held Virtually Wiped Out By Action

British Lose 23 Bombers Dver Big Industrial City   Destruction of Huge Krupp Arms Works Said “All but Completed” by Attack— Bomb Load May Have Exceeded Cologne

Victim of . * British Raid On Essen      LAST NIGHT’S RAID BELIEVEL HEAVIEST AIR ATTACK IN HISTORY OF THE WORLD 

Giant Krupp Plant Razed   Heavy Bombers. Rain Explosives en Essen.

WAR'S HEAVIEST AIR BLOW DEALT BY 300 BIGGEST RAF PLANES   Bombers Unload Up To 3,000 Tons Of Explosives On Shattered City; British Lose 23 Raiders In Blitz Attack

Praise for — Doughboys Who Took High Peak   One of Greatest Achievements of the Infantry in This-War, a General Says   LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN -° . - (NO COMPARISON   In Some Places Troops Had to Pull Themselves Up by. Ropes: Many Snipers

General Lauds _ Doughboys In Italy   Wipe Out Nazis Rv June 1 Is Plea

INFANTRY WINS GREATEST FIGHT   Capture Of La Difensa And Maggiore Mountain On Road To Rome Termed Greatest Infantry Achievement In This War.   —BY DON WHITEHEAD

Capture Of Italian Mountains Regarded Greatest Infantry Achievement Of War

Brigadier General Says Bat: tle of Lookout Mountain is No Comparison.

Decisive Tests - Ahead—Stimson  War In ‘Drag’ Stage ss Raw He Declares   Infantry’s Battles In — Italy Called ‘Greatest’

HIGHEST PRAISE FOR DOUGHBOYS’ CAPTURE MOUNTAIN RIDGES  OLD INFANTRY GENERAL SAYS ACHIEVEMENT ONE  a oe me ee ll elie

Schrader Wants Charges Ignored   Hospital Superintendent Says His Statement Is “Much Exaggerated.”

An Apology Is Sent fo Governor   Resigned Hospital Head Says His Charges ‘Were Much. Exaggerated’ .   HOPES DONNELL ; WILL IGNORE THEM   Acted Hastily While Under Strain; Governor Asks That Inquiry Proceed

2 KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHES   Craft Falls in Field North of Fort Madison

CRASH IN IOWA KILLS 2 FLIERS   Accident Occurred South Of Burlington

2 Killed, 2 Seized After  Prison Break   Alcatraz Escape Most Sensational In Prison’s History

Alert Guards Foil Alcatraz Prison Break  Two Men Dead, Two Others Back In Their Cells

Two Convids Dead, Two Back In Prison After Sensational Attempt to Escape Alcatraz

ALCATRAZ ESCAPE FAILS--TWO DEAD AND TWO CAPTURED   Army Uniforms Stolen and Hidden in Cans To Be Used As Floats in Long Swim

LATEST ALCATRAZ ESCAPE EFFORT 18 ANOTHER FAILURE  TWO CONVICTS LISTEL

Four Vainly Try fo Flee Alcatraz      Two Lose Lives, Two Recaptured

TWO KILLED IN BREAK TRY AT ALCATRAZ   Two Others in “Sensational” Attempt Caught

Fleeing Cons From Alcatraz Accounted for   Two are Dead, Two Recaptured In Prison Break

Four Convicts Fail in Attempt to Escape Alcatraz; 2 Killed, 2 Captured

Alcatraz Escape Attempt Fails; Texas Bandit One Of Two Convicts Killed

TWO KILLED IN PRISON BREAK, 2 TAKEN ALIVE   Ohioan Among Four Prisoner: Who Tried to Escape Alcatraz

2 CONVICTS DIE “IN ESCAPE TRI   “Four: Desperadoes Fail T Gain Freedom From ‘The Rock’

TWO CONVICTS SHOT TO DEATH IN ‘PEN BREAK   Two Others Recaptured At Alcatraz After Daring Attempt to Flee Federal Prison   ONE IS WOUNDED   Warden Reports All Of Men Accounted For In Roundup; Had Army Clothes Cached

Rock Convicts Are Captured in Escape Try   Two Men “Shot by Guards, One Captured in Sea, Another in Cave

Fail In Try To Escape At Alcatraz Pen   TWO  DESPERADOES DEAD. TWO BACK IN PRISON AT “THE ROCK.”

DESPERATE EFFORT TO ESCAPE FOILED   Two Alcatraz Prisoners  Are Killed, Two Others — Captured After the  Breakout. 

2 CONVICTS DEAD, 2 OTHERS CAUGHT NEAR ALGATRAZ   Sensational Break Results Ir Quartet Getting Off “tha Rook,’?

‘All Accounted For’  - Two Convicts Dead After Escape Attempt at Alcatra;

Alert Guards Foil Alcatraz Prison Break  Two Men Dead, Two Others Back

2 CONVICTS DIE_IN MOST SENSATIONAL BID FOR FREEDOM   2 Pals Back In Alcatraz As Escape Attempt Fails—~Attack 4 Guards.

Two Killed In Attempted Prison Break   Two Others Captured As Alcatraz Keeps Record Clear

ALCATRAZ ESCAPE IS THWARTED   ‘Two Desperadoes Dead; Other Two - Are Captured

Attempt to Escape From Alcatraz Rock Prison Fatal to 2   Two Others of Quartet of Convicts Retaken in Bay Yesterday

Two Convicts Recaptured   Warden of Alcatraz Expresses Confidence Two Others Are Dead

Return Two To Cells At   Aleatraz   Prison Officers Seize Two Desperadoes And Kill Two Others Whe Sought To Escape

Two Convicts Are Killed In Prison Break   Sharon Man is Caught With Another Trying to Escape From Alcatraz   "ALL ACCOUNTED FOR"

HENRY W. FOX PASSES AWAY   Services Will Be Held Or Tuesday For Merrill ~  Resident

U. S. to Recruit Mexican Labor   Will Work on Farms And Railroads

PACIFIC LULL MAY BE BROKEN SOON   Gathering Indications That Japs May Soon Open New Offensive

FAR-RtnsHING OPA CHANGES IMMINENT   Announcement Expected to Be Made in 48 Hrs. Unless Vetoed

BIG SHAKEUP FOR THE OPA 1S LOOMINE   REOWN REPORTED READY. TO MAKE “HOUSE CLEANING" OF MANY EMPLOYES IN  ' WB AGENCY -

Lebanon Leaders ~ Seized By French  Arab Tension Growing, Berlin Reports

ROW REACHES GRAVE TURN   Cairo Says Lebanon President and Premier Under Arrest as Result of Dispute Over Republic’s Status.

French Arrest Lebanon Chiefs  Crisis Between Arab State and French

French-Arab Crisis Flares   Arabs Wants Independence As Proclaimed By Catroux

OHO RIVER CREST SHY OF 61 FRET   Below Flood Stage Foreoaat in Cincinnati By Thursday

Correspondent Tells of American Patrol's Perilous Trip to Troina

GROUND FORCES BATTLING FOR TRIONA HAD CLOSE AIR SUPPORT, IN FACT A LITTLE TOO CLOSE

FORMER RESIDENT OF BELTON DIES IN WESLACO MON.   Rites Held in Home City for Mrs. Y. P. Yarbrough, Age 69

‘OF BELTON DIES IN WESLACO MON      Rites Held in Home City for Mrs. Y. P. Yarbrough, Age 69

Sicilian Campaign Near End; Allies Set for Next Blow   Invasion of Continent Presumed Likely As Speculation Heightens in Location of Next Move On Allies Part

Anglo- American Leaders Will Gueey Kast-Moving War Scene   War Summary

/ANATEGE  FP: id Churchill Prepare Comvrence On New Blows As Fall Of Sicily Nears

SNITE SUFFERS HEART-ATTAGK.   _ Passes Crisis But Is in Exhausted Condition

PRESIDENT 10 sat THAT COAL WILL BE MINED   Many, He Says, Get Away Erom Fact Life of the Nation Is At Stake In War   BYRNES CALLED ON TO BECOME TOUGH   Told by WLB Operators Have Been Penalized Although Ready ta Accept Its Decision

WLB Wants Order Complied With   Only Operators Have Been Penalized Byrnes Told— Wants Penalties Against Union, Such as Suspension of Check-off Or Freezing of UMW Treasury

DR Refuses Acceptance Of Strike Threa'   WLB Asks Byrnes To Force Miners To Comply Fully With Board Ruling.   OPERATORS PENALIZED

Stoppage Cuts Deeply Into Production  Of Steel   SOME MINERS ALSO RESENTFUL OF LEWIS

ROOSEVELT WILL DISREGARD DATE OF COAL MINERS   Will Not Accept October 31 as Deadline Set By Policy Committee In Ending of Recent Strike.   FULLY HALF OF MEN REMAIN FROM MINE!   Refuse to Return to Pits Until Status Is Clarified With Operators Meeting With Ickes,

President Tells Miners He Won't Accent Deadline   Warns That Coal Is Vital To War Anc Must Be Minec Steadily “%

FDR Tells Miners He Will Not Accept the Oct. 31 Deadline  Set by UMW for Production

WLB Seeks Signing of Coal Contract   Preduction in Nation's Pits Remains Spotty

PRESIDENT SAYS WILL NOT ACCEPT MINERS’ DEADLINE  CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS MANY GET AWAY FROM

Hints Government Will Continue Its. Operation of Mines   ‘Members of War Labor Board Renew Demand. That Chief Executive Require UMW To Sign New Contract

WILL ACT ON ANTI-STRIKE BILL TODAY   President Gives No Hint as To Whether He’ll Sign or Veto Measure.   STEEL INDUSTRY HIT   Blast Furnaces Close as Less’ Than Halt of UMW Miners Return To Work. 

Declares Coal Must be Mined, Nation Is at War and Life of Nation at Stake   BACKING FOR WLB   Board Takes to Byrnes Demand Government Compel Lewis to Siqn with Operators

WLB Insists UMW, Operators Sign Formal Contract To Settle Issues

ne. 84 COAL DEADLINE — WILL LACK RECOGNITION   ed Mines Will Not Be Accepted, Roosevelt Reveals _-War Labor Board Appeals To Byrnes For Compulsory Action To Bring About Compliance With Order Or Punishment In Event Of Refusal

Meanwhile, WLB Asks Byrnes to Compel UMW Compliance With Board’s Order— Two-Year Contract Would Be Signed Pledging No Strikes—-Oct. 31 Terms of Lewis Would Be Lifted.

WLB Appeal to Byrnes on Enforcement   Suspension of the Dues Checkoff or Freezing of Funds a Possibility   DIRECTED AT UNION, NOT THE WORKERS   Board Demanding Full Recognition; Must Mine Coal, War Is On,F.D.B. Reminds

WOH YWUETTIGce  President Rebuffs Lewis; “Life of Nation at Stake’

W. L. B. Requests War Mobilization Director James J. Byrnes That the U. S. Government Compel Miners Obey Orders

President Declines To Accept UMW Step   Board Secks Union’s Compliance With Contract Order or Punishment

WLB DEMANDS SETTLEMENT Of MINE DISPUTE   Insists Mine  Union Obey Board’s Orders Or Be Punished   WANTS A SIGNED PACT      Points Out Biggest U. S. Corporations Have  Heeded Orders

President Demands Mining   Not To Recognize Oct. 31 Deadline Set by Union

MORE THAN HALF OF MEN STILL OUT AWAIT A CONTRACT   Accuse Lewis of “Playing Big Shot At Our Expense.” Pickating Beains.

REVOLT-SPREADS IN COAL MINES   President Rejects Lewis’ Oct. 31 Deadline, Ickes Meets Operators

Half of Miners  Continue Strike   War Labor Board Continues Demand Unions Be Made To Obev Its Decisions

WLB Demands Miners, Owners Sign Contrac’   Bombshell Is Tossed Into Negotiations To Settle Strike

Revolt Of Coal Miners Spreading: None Resume Work In Ohio Fields   Ge. liniteH Derace

Deadline Set By John Lewis Not Accepted   Many Forget Nation Is At War, President Asserts In Referring To Lewis’ Demands

War Labor Board  DemandsAgreement By Union, Operators   Chief Executive Reveals No Clue Qn Action With Anti-Strike Bill; Miners Triekle Back To Work

Union’s Deadline Is Not Recognized   President Refuses to Accept Limitation on Coal  Production   WLB ASKS A CONTRACT   Views of Board and Ickes on Procedure Are at Variance

Will Not Recognize ~ October Date Set By Union   iW.L.B. IS’ ACTIVE   Appeals to Byrnes For Government’ “Action

WLB Demands Miners Sign Qld Contract   : Board Takes Case to yines; Says Case Is  ‘Settled and UMW Must  ‘Be Made to Conform’

WLB DEMANDS CONTRACT END COAL STRIKE   Asks Union and Mine Op‘erators Put Agreement Into Writing   DEMAND IS THREAT TO PRESENT TRUCE   Government-Working Miners Slow In Returning To Their Jobs

PresidentBans October 31st Coal Deadline   War Labor Board De mands Mines Sign Agree. ment Terms   THREATEN PENALT   Half OF Lewis’ Men Are Still Out; Normal Opera. tions Expected Monday

W.L.B. Asks That Miners Be Forced To Sign Contract   Group Wants 2-Year Contract Signed; Says Only The Operators Penalized In Coal Dispute

Issue Taken To Byrnes; Coal Must Be Mined, F. R. Declares; Life Of Nation At Stake

WLB Appeals To Byrnes To Enforce Rule   Asserts Operations Are Being Penalized By Miners’ Stand

COAL MUST BE MINED   President Doesn’t_ Recognize Or Accept Miners October 31st Deadline

FR OPPOSED 10 OAL DEADLINE   WLB Demands Government Compel Miners to Comply With Orcler.   ASK 2 YEAR CONTRACT

Angered at Lewis Over  Work Order   Steel Furnaces Forced to Close By Coal Shortage

WLB Asks Byrnes to Force Miners Union To Sign Contracts   President Says He Will Not Recognize Deadline Set by Lewis

WON'T RECOGNIZE OCT. 31 DEADLINE   President Roosevelt Said He Was Merely Trying to See That Coal Was Mined.

Coal Miner Revolt — Spreads, Reducing Steel Production   Continued Operation of Mines By Government Mapped At Washington Parley; 11 Blast Furnaces Shut Down

Byrnes Geis WLBDemand  For Contract  Board Calls for Federal Enforcement of Order to Lewis to Sign  MANY MINES IDLE Congress Chiefs Predict  No Action on Extenpine awl Tien te

LESS THAN HALF MINERS RETURN   Several Plast. Furnaces in Nation’s Largest Stecl Plants Made Idle; Remainder of local Miners Returning

FDR Refusing To Recognize Oc 31 Deadline For UMW   Puts Emphasis On Getting Coal Mined Some Way In War Times

TWO-PLY CRISIS DEVELOPING IN COAL MINE ROW   War Labor Board Demands ~ Lewis’ Union and Operators Comply With Orders   MINERS STILL IN REVOLT   Meanwhile, President Faces Delicate Decision on Law To Put Curb on Strikes

Revolt of Miners Against Work Order Spreading; Furnaces Banked   By UNITED PRESS

HALF OF COAL MINERS ARE STILL IDLE   Stoppage Has ' Already Hampered Steel Production

FDR Will Not Accept Oct. 31 Deadline   WLB Demands Miners Sign Two-Year Contract Containing Pledge Not to Strike for Duration of War

Demand of WLB Threw Wrench Into Ickes Preparations for Meeting to End Coal Controversy.

FDR Rejects Oct. 31 Mine Deadline   Says Coal Production Must Continue  Without Halt

DECLARES COAL MUST BE MINED   WLB Requests Govern ment To Force UMA To Comply With Order   ASKS PUNISHMENT   Compliance Would Mean Contract With NonStrike Clause

President Gives No Hint Of Action On AntiStrike Bill—About Holf Nation’s Miners Still Our

DEMANDED BY W.L. B.   Roosevelt Tells Press Conference Life Of Nation At Stake: Board Demands Punishment Be Imposed

Coal Must Be Mined, Survival of Nation At Stake -- Roosevelt   WLB Says Union Either Sign Contract Pledge To Work Continuously for Duration Or Be Penalized

Revolt of Coal Miners — Spreading Over Nation   ACTION NEAR ON BILL

President Does Not Recognize Deadline   Emphatic In Reply About Oct. 31 Truce Deadline

Half of Miners Are Still Out of Coal Pits   WLB Requests Byrnes Compel United Mine Workers to Comply with Board’s Order

Allies Are Advancing In Italy   Gains Hacked Out On German Flanks

ITALIAN FRONT BATTLE FLARES ON BOTH ENDS   Non-Stop Air Fleets Pound Nazi Positions On Main Road To Rome

ALLIES DRIVING AMEAD IN ITALY: KEY CY FALLS   Costelfrentano Token in Pitched Fight With Nazis   RAIL ROUTE TO ITALY FROM GERMANY HIT

ALLIED TROOPS Ugh FORWARD AGAINST NAZIS   Slow, But Steady, Progress Being Made On Both Ends Of Line In Italy

FDR Knows He Can Deal with People on Man-to-Man Basis Americans Don’t Need Propaganda

The War Today  eee  FDR Review of War Inspires Completed Confidence In Progress,

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S WAR REVIEW GAVE MAN IN STREET ECCENTIAT EACTS SITUATION

The War Today—__. Sees Roosevelt's War Message As (Man-To-Man Chat On Allied Progress

Brazil Joins Allied Bloc,  Enters War   Adherence to Atlantic Charter ls Announced

Brazil Joins Allied Pact ’   Adherence To Atlantic Charter Announced

BRAZIL JOINS ALLIED NATION WAR COUNCI   Touch of Roosevelt's Seen in Action of Cabinet

BRAZIL EMBRACES ATLANTIC CHARTER   Adherence Does Not Include Soviet Russia.

DOW CHEMICAL WORKERS FOR ANTISTRIKE LAY   Say War Materials As Vital As Coal Produced Here

GOEBBELS SEES ALLIED LANDING   German Victory to Follow Initial Invasion Success He Predicts

Goebbels Admits Allies Will Succeed in Initial Invasion  Thriete

INVASION IS — NOW EXPECTED AXIS ADMITS   Propaganda minister Goebbels says initial suc:  cesses will soon end

(Goebbels Warns of Invasion Threat   Virtually Admits Allied Troops Will Succeed at First

AEDS Taal DEEPER INTO DEFENSE BEL   Soviets Claiming Gains on Smolensk Front; Oust Foe from Cities. —   RUSS ON OFFENSIVE IN KHARKOV SECTOR

RUSSIANS TAKE INITIATIVE ON KHARKOV FRONT   Register Gains in Belgorod Area, SmoJensk Drive

RED ARMIES HAVE MADE THRUSTINT ERMAN DEFENSE   Russians Seize Initiative on Kharkov Front For First Time in Several Days Report States.   RUSSIA SIGNS FISH "PACT WITH JAPANES!   Soviet Forces Break Through Primary Fortifications of  _ German Stronghold Near Smolensk.

REDS PUSH ON FOR SMOLENSK   RUSSIANS TAKE DRIVE FROM NAZIS IN SOUTH

AXIS DEFENSES AGAIN TORN BY SOVIET ARMY   Lines Before Smolensk Penetrated Deeper As Russians Forge Ahead—Germans Are Ousted from a Village and Hamlets Near Belforod— Initiative Seized on the Kharkoy Front bv Dafondarc

REDS TIGHTEN PINGERS ON LNAMENKA   Plicht of Nazi Forces in Rail Hub Grows Steadily Worse

REDS GUT RA LINK AND PERIL NAZI GARRISO}   Russians Take 22 Villages in Drive for Junction at Znamenka

Nazi Garrison In Dnieper Bend ~ Faces New Peril   Red Army Severs Last Rail Link Between Those Forces And Rest Of Ukraine   COUNTER-ATTACKS BY NAZIS REPELLED

British, Greek  Warshios Blast  Italian Convoy   @Allies Strike At Heart Of Italy’s Sea Communications Under Nose Of Italian Fleet; Pantelleria Bombarded

AXIS CONVOY WIPED OUT BY ALLIED SHIPS   DARING RAID MADE UNDER NOSE OF ITALIAN GUNS

Italian Convoy Badly Smashed By Allied Fleet   British and Greek War ships Rip Foes’ Ships To Shreds

Axis Convoy Is Blasted Near Italy   British And Greek Warships Escape Without Damage.

ALLIES RIP AXIS CONVOY OFF ITALY   Daring British and Greek  - Destroyers Attack Enemy Off Toe of Boot Tuesday Nicht   Suffer No Damage

Allies Attack Convoy Off Italian Boot   Daring Destroyers Defy Big Guns of Il Duce’s Fleet

Warships Hit Axis Convoy Off Italw’s Tne   o/ Defy Hf Duce’s Fleet To Sink Four Vessels And Beach Destroyer  GREEK DESTROYER JOINS IN ATTACK  Victory Is Achieved’ Without Loss of Ship  Gy. Vi. 8 2n kk   IL DUCE’S FLEET SHUNS British Challenge to Battle

BRITISH, GREEK DESTROYERS KNOCK OUT FOUR SURFACE CRAFT OFF ITALIAN ‘TOE

Allies Strike Heart Of Italy’s Sea Lines Without Loss  Warships Wipe Ou Enemy Vessels; Planes Make Ruin

ITALIAN CONVOY . RIPPED T0 PIECES BY ALLIED FLEE   ‘British and Greek Warships Sink Three Axis Vessels _and Set Fire to a Destroyer.   ’ VICTORY ACHIEVED. WITHOUT CASUALTIES   Rome Reports New Bombardment of Pantelleria—American Airmen Bomb Out post at Will.” ;

British and Greek Ships Knock Out 4 Vessels Off Italy   “Allies Gaining Naval Supremacy: Raids on Pantelleria Continue

Allied Units Strike Again   No Damage Suffered By Allied Raid Group

Enemy Convoy Attacked By British, Greek Ships   ‘Two Axis Merchant Ships and Torpedo Boat Wiped Out and Destroyer Run Aground at Toe ot btalian Bans

inl Dating Raid  British and Greek Destroyers Attack Of Ta Bes: Wi atoll

Allies Smash Small Convoy   Three Ships Sunk And One Destroyer Fired Aqround

LXIS CONVOY BATTERED BY DESTROYERS   ‘our Vessels Knocked Out by British and Greek Warships

NEW BOMBERS SHOW VALUE   ‘Took Extensive Toll in Nov. 11 Rabaul Raid

Marigny Awaits Jury’s Decision In Oakes Case   Ouly Two Verdicts Are Possible Under British Law, Freedom Or Death

DE MMARIGNY AWAITS VERDICT OF JURY   Defense and Crown Attorneys Sum Up Case; Each Picture !s Different

Cardinals Pin Series Hopes On M. Coope   New Yorkers Need One Game To Clinch Title -

ACE HURLERS SLATED TO PITCH IN WORLD SERIES GAME TODA’   CARDINALS ON SHORT END OF ODDS IN FIFTK TILT WITH YANKS HOPING TO END SERIES

Chinese Troops Drive Japs Back   Cause 1,500 Casualties ir Yunnan Province, Communique Says

Chinese Throw Back Japanese   Artillery Silences Enemy Batteries in Salween River Battle

JAPS WARN OF U. S. AIR RAIDS   Tokyo Cites American Preparations In China; Enemy  Has Setback

Reds Wir Sevsk   PRESSURE INCREASES ON MAJOR NAZI BASE 77 MILES FROM KHARKOV

NEW RUSS DRIVE REPORTED UNDER WAY IN UKRAINE  CAPTURE OF SEVSK BELIEVED GOAL AS  ACOCOCACWIC CODOrAnNG

Germans Are Unable to Halt Soviet Army Drive Into Heart of Ukraine

Train Youth For Defense Says Martin   PENNSYLVANIA’S GOVERNOR PROPOSES SELECTIVE MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICAN YOUTH AFTER CLOSE OF WAR.   Soldier 45 Years

Operators Join Miners in Protesting Halting of Negotiations by War Labor Roard

Union Tells Members To Go Back   Lewis Claims Settlement Near  When WLB Acted

U.S. Airmen Rip Germany .in New Raid   AMERICAN BOMBERS ROAR OVER NORTHWEST REICH IN FOURTH BIG NOV. RAID

U.S. Planes Hit  German Targets   Day Bombers Risk Bad Weather In Fourth Major Raid Of Month; Air War Back On 24Hour Basis Again

Four Missing in Burlington Fire   C. B. & Q. Railroad Station Is Burned

Three Other Persons Unaccounted For As  Flames Destroy Depot Being Remodeled.

:  Rail Traffic Interrupted As Station Is Destroyed: Other lowa Fires Kill 7

ALLIED BOMBERS LASHED AT AXIS AIRDROMES NEAR ATHENS SUNDAY   Naples Italy Battered Again Last Saturday ir Powerful Allied Air Offensive Along  Mediterranean

ua STRUCK DEEP INTO FRANCE FOR                     TWO ENEMY SHIPS SUNK, DROVE ANOTHER BLAZING ONTO BEACH

Axis Convoy Off Dutch Coast Gels Blasting By RAF   Then Big U. S. Planes Follew With Attacks On Targets in France

Southern Italy Hit By British; Smash Docks, War Plants   RAF Attacks Europe for Ninth Straight Night, Rip Airports, Railways in France

Naples Battered Again As Italian Newspapers See Invasion Imminent

TARGETS NOT DISCLOSED IN BRIEF REPORT   Action Heightens ‘Roundthe-Clock Aerial Offensives of Allies   RAF DAMAGES SHIPS IN NAZI CONVOY   Two German Vessels Reported Sunk, Another Set On Fire

RAF STRUCK DEEP  INTO FRANCE FOR  CRIPPLING BLOW TWO ENEMY SHIPS SUNK DROVE ANOTHER BLAZII  ONTO DOrACU

Yank Airmen In New Sweep  Over France   RAF Planes Sink Two Nazi Ships, Reach Another

Heavy Aerial Offensive In South Europe   Italian Press Warns Invasion Is Imminent

Lash Again ai Axis Targels in Greece, Raiding Mishel Near + Athens   NAPLES BLASTED   Jap Bases in Pacific Raided—Allies Take Firm Siand With French in North Africa

Naples Pounded By RAF Planes   Italian Papers Warn That Invasion Is Imminent—Slashes at European Targets Continue—Two Axis Ships Sunk by Planes Off Dutch Coast

Axis Targels in Greece Hit Second. Time   \American Heavy Bombers Dramatically Revive. Threat of Allied: Invasion   FRANK WARNINGS  IN ITALIAN PRESS   Naples Is Blasted: by British in. Extensive: Mediterranean Action

THE BRITISH SANK TWO ENEMY SHIPS EARLY MONDAY   Drove Another Blazing Onto a Beach and Brought 3 More to a Standstill   R.A.F, DEEP INTO FRANCE   The Latest Engagement Was Reported to Have Taken Place Off Dutch Coast.

AttackSwings Invasion Hint into Balkans:   RAF Mosquito Bombers . Ex: tend Current Assault into Ninth Day: Sink 2 Jap -Sube

RAF Mosquito Bombers Fall On France   British Planes Riddle An Axis Convoy Off Dutch Coast

YANKS BOMB ~ AIRFIELDS IN ATHENS AREA   Battering by Heavy American Planes Revives Threats of Invasion.

Air Fiélds Near Athens Hammered  By U. S. Bombers   American Heavies Dramatically Revive Threat of Alliec Invasion in the Eastern Mediterranean Creating Great Damage   R. A. F. SLASHES EUROPE THROUGH NINTH NIGHT

Axis Airdromes Near Athens Get Heavy Pounding   Naples and Nazi Transportation Lines Are Bombed

British Sink Two Ships In Enemy Convoy   Attack Off Dutch Coast is Followed By Another Attack on Continent   MAY BE DEEP INLAND

mericans Hit v0 Airdromes 1 Athens Area   Allied Offensive Smashes at Naples Again, Hitting Docks And Industrial Areas

YANKS SHATTER 2 AIRDROMES NEAR ATHENS   Docks and Industrial Areas Of Naples Bombed Heavily   MESSINA IS PLASTERED   Smash More Arteries of Germany’s Invasion Defenses

Three R & P, One of NYC Still Out    ‘We Are Going to Show Our Good Faith’

NAPLES LASHE BY POWERFUL AIR OFFENSIVE   Threat of Invasion on East Mediterranean Revived With Raids

Targets In Greece Hit And Naples Attacked By  RAF: Invasion Is Near 

Industry At Naples Suffers Big Loss In Attack By RAF   Italian Newspapers Warn Populace Invasion By Allies Is Imminent: British Planes Strike In France

YANK BOMBERS HIT ITALY AND FRANCE AGAIN   Axis Bases in Greece Are Smashed Second Time in Week by Americans   INVASION JITTERS ACUTE   Russia Comparatively Quiet But Reds in Hand-to-hand Fight in Finland

HEAVY ATTACK ON NAPLES IS REPORTED   No Confirmation To Story Italian Fleet Departs For Offensive Action; Other Highlights

U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit _ France Today   Large Force Is Seen on Way Across Channel; Believed Going Deep

ATTACK TWO AIR BASES. NEAR ATHENS   Explosives Shatter Hang: ars, Pit Runways: and Start Fires in Powerful: Follow-up to Blow. at Qalanilca

Allied Air Attacks Are Stepped Up   French Railways Bombed; Naples Is Attacked

U3. BOMBERS ATTACK FRANCE   Part of Round-the-Clock Air Offensive Carried on With RAF.   ISTOP CHANNEL SHIPPING

Bombers Make New Sweep On French Targets   British Fighter Planes Sink Two Vessels In Axis Convoy

BRITISH SINK 2 ENEMY SHIPS   AERIAL ATTACK ON CONVOY TAKES PLACE OFF DUTCH COAST

New R. A. F. Devastation At Naples   Railways And Airports In France Battered As Air Lashing Continues Through 9th Night.

Two Enemy Ships Sunk Off Holland   British Planes Keep Up Steady Attacks On Hitler’s Strongholds

Italian People Are Warned Invasion of Mainland Imminent   Airdromes Near Athens, Naples Battered from Air on Saturday

Bombardier Dies With Guns Ablaze   Mortally Wounded Officer Shoots Down Two Japanese Planes

WILL PREPARE: FOR LACH -OVER-COUNT   City Air "Raid Wardens, Auxiliary Police and Fire‘ . men Will Meet...   AT.THE HIGH SCHOOL   ilete Duties of Every Person in Blackout Will  Be Explained. gis a 

WILL PREPARE: FOR BLACKOUT VER GOUNTY   City Air Raid Wardens, Auxiliary Police and Firemen Wi'l Meet.   AT THE HIGH SCHOOL   Complete Duties of Every Person in Blackout Will Be Explained.

Dad-Draft Bill May Be Law Without F. R. OK  Act Is En Route To President For Signature

REINFORC MENT! r DELAY ROME PUSH   Half-Dozen Towns Above Naples Fall;  Aweait Supplies. Too

U. S. Forces Cross Volturno River, British Take Points Beyond Biferno; Russians’ Offensive Comes to Near Halt, Planning Winter Campaign

Soldiers in Frolics Here   Movie Starlets to Appear Here In Person at Friday’s ‘Frolics’

Soldiers in Frolics Here   Movie Starlets to Appear Here In Person at Friday’s ‘Frolics’   Comnuttee of Sponsors For War Chest Drive Given

BRIEF UPHOLDS TRAVEL WAGES   Government Supports Pay To Work Place In  Alabama Case

CARS DERAILED   One Kifler, 18 Hurt In Wreck of Flamingo Limited.

KING EMANUELE AND BADOGLIO FLEE TO SICILY   Crown Prince Umberto Also Re- ported in Allied Protection — Nazis Claim Pola, Rhodes

KING VITTORIO EMANUELE, PREMIER BADOGLIO AND. CROWN PRINCE ESCAPE FROM ROME  ©—~   . Germans Claim to Have Captured Italian Naval Base of Pola On Yugoslav Side of Adriatic Sea. -Nazis Claim Control Maior Part Italian Peninsula

Leaders Escape From Rome as Germans Ente:   Swiss Dispatch Places the Fleeing Monarch. in ith lied Hands

Italian Leaders Flee Into Sicily   King Vittorio Emanuele, Crown Prince Umberto and Premier Badoglio Escape

‘Leaders Escape From Rome as Germans Enter  Swiss Dispatch Places the   Fleeing Monarch in Al-

SAY BADOGLIO, KING IN SICILY   Germs Report Flight Of Italian Rulers; Claim Naval Base Of Pola Cap tured; Other Claims Broadcast.

Italian Rulers Flee to Sicily   Germans Report Emanuele, Premier Badoglio and Umberto Escape Rome.

BERLIN DECLARES TTALIAN iin AND PREMIER IN SICILY  GERMAN BROADCAST GIVES SERIES OF ALLEGE  NAZIS VICTORIES

STRIKE SETTLED ~ AT PLANE PLANT   Worker Ss Deny Governor’s Threat Cut The Strike Short

Strikers Trek Back To Jobs    Brewster Strikers Meet Today To Decide On Orders.

Japs adopt soft policy  on Chinese   But motive is thought selfish

Climax In Kiev " Battle Appears To Be Nearing   German Desna River Defense Line Is Completely Destroyed   REPORT REDS IN ‘ SIGHT OF KIEV

REVS DEO TRUY HITLER DESNA DEFENSE LINE  Fate of Kiev Almost Sealed  COLLAPSE NEARS

Bridges Loses Plea For Stay of Eviction; ‘Plans to Appeal Ruling

Continuance Planned IncTrial- AE Neiutanc  MTF GFGUT Wi ikGreivig —-

Informal Poll - Of Mine Workers Is Being Made   Lewis Postpones Meeting Of Policy Committee Until This Afternoon At 4 O’Clock   WAR LABOR BOARD DENIES WAGE BOOST

WALKOUTS:INMANY FIELDS ~ ARE STARTEI   LEWIS DELAYS MEETING 01 POLICY. BOARD TO AWAIT RERULT OF LAST-. MINUTE CHECKUP

‘Poll Miners on  Third Strike   Some Have Quit Work Because of WLB Action

Policy Session Delayed   General Walkout Looms On Deadline Expiration Sunday Night

MEETING OF POLICY GROUP IS DELAYED   Informal poll being taken among leaders on strike question

ITALIAN FLEET SHUNS COMBAT   British Say Battle Would Mean Virtual Suicide For Foe

Duce’s Sea Legs Too Wobbly  Where’s Rome Fleet? Allies Aren’t Worried

ltalians May Not Risk Using Fleet   Have 3 Battleships, Seven Cruisers

LEADERS PLEDGED TO GIVE SUPPORT. ~ TO WINNING WAR   President Roosevelt To Deliver Annual Message On State Of Union Tomorrow—Almost All Legislators Present

RAYBURN WINS SPEAKERSHIP IN CLOSE BATTLE   Joint Session to Hear ‘State of Union’ Talk Thursday

Election Is By Margin Of Il Votes   Rayburn Receives 21/7 anc Martin 206—To War on  bureaucracy

PLEDGE FIGHT ON ‘ARROGANT BUREAUCRACY’   Rayburn “Is Re-Elected ' Speaker By Vote O14 2717-206

HOUSE NAMES SAM RAYBURN AS SPEAKER   Texan Wins In Closest Vote Since Democrats Took Control In 1931.

78th Congress Assembles, Pledged To Fight Against  ‘Arrogant Bureaucracy”

hayburn heElected Speaker Of the House   Ceremonies  Surrounded with Anra af Cohlamnitv

ATH TO FACE. HOT FIGHT ON BUREAUCRATS   Rayburn Elected Speaker of the House by Vote of 217 to 206.   PRESIDENT WILL READ MESSAGE THURSDAY

TEXAN WINS OVER MARTIN 217 T0 206   Solemnity Noted As 78th Congress Opens Session

Russian Bi y Guns Active   Nazi Bridgehead On Kuban River Shelled.

Heavy Guns Opened Up Against Nazis   Germans Report Red Infantry Is Attacking

MANY GIVE BLOOD TO THE RED CROSS   Mobile Unit Is Operating in Lawrence Today and ~  Tomorrow   USE LOCAL . WORKERS

MANY GIVE BLOOD TO THE RED CROSS   Mobile Unit Is Operating in Lawrence Today and  Tomorrow

$300 Mustering OutPay Called For By Bill   Money Payable To Those Having Six Months Or More Of Service

(CHM. MAY MAKES PUBLIC MUSTERING OUT PROGRAM   Average Service Man or Woman Would Receive $300 Mustering Out Pay

$300 Payments Are Provided   Would Give Service Men And Women Checks At Close OF War

ENEMY AIRFIELD IN FRANCE IS RAIDED   Bail Weather Restries Bamhi     Operations Of AWied Airmen Over Week-End

BOMBERS RAID FRENCH AREAS   American Planes Pound at Nazi-Held Airfield  In France

FREEZE HITS COMMODITY PRICE LIS]   Rush Order for Rate Makers and Rule Menders in Capital.   WAGE INCREASES "GET STOP ORDER   Farm Prices to Stand, Some Livestock May Be Set Back.

President Responds To Farm Bloc Challenge; Virtually Freezes All Prices, Tightens Clamps On Wages, Job Shifting   ‘Hold The Line’ Summary

HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW WAGE AND PRICE ORDERS   All Anti-Inflationary Powers Conferred On Byrnes

PRESIDENT IN DRASTIC ORDER TO THE NATION   Decrees No General Wage Increases, Pegged  Food Prices   OPA FACING SHAKEUP   Ither Controversial Subjects Hold Congress Attention   -HOLD-LINE ORDER

15-Day Truce Worked — Out With Ickes; Men Told to Begin Tuesday      Agreement Made Pending Further Negotiatt Between Union And Operators; Decision  Announced Just Before FDR Spoke

‘Roosevelt Informs Nation by Radio No Coal  Production Stoppage Will Be Allowed;  : Men Told to Re-Enter Pits, Toiling  ‘Rar Their *‘New Ras’

Strike Ended Before FDR Makes Talk   UMW Gets No Promises From U. S. Government

LEW IS ANNOUNCES _ PACT BEFORE TALK   Tuesday Set For Official Reopening  of Mines; FDR, dcast  Ienores Move

End Of Work Stoppage Announced 20 Minutes Before Roosevelt Makes Plea To Miners

Lewis Announces Decision Just Before President Goes on Radio; U. S. Will Take Over Shafts  As Planned: Government Makes No Promises

FR. WELLS AND MARY BRAY WEDS   Ceremony Takes Place At Base Chapel at Augusta, Georgia

Private Wells and Miss Mary Bray Wedded   Ceremony Takes Place At Daniel Field Augusta Georgia

Japanese Make Further Gains ‘In New Guinea Jungle Battle   Move by Enemy Intended to Save Forces by Reaching the Coast—-Limited Successes Due to Infileratian Patrale

Enemy Drive An Effort to Save Their Men   Seek to Reach Coast to Join With Other Forces

JAPS WIN MRE GROUND IN JUNGLE   ENEMY ABOVE FINSCHHAFEN TRYING TO REACH COAST TO SAVE FORCES.

Japs Advance in Drive at Finschhafen  All Enemy Frontal Assaults Are Bloodily Repulsed

Japs Advance in Drive © al Finschhafen  All Enemy Fronial Assaults Are  es ee

JAP ADVANCE CONTINUES ON JUNGLE FRONT   AUSSIES REPULSE FRONTAL ATTACK IN NEW GUINEA   Sneaks Made At Night   Freighter Sunk

Japs Continue Jungle Gains   Drive Disclosed As Attempt To Reach Coast For Escape

Japanese Advance In Struggle to Hold Coast Bases   New Guinea Infiltration Continues as Allies Fight to Retain Advantage; Enemy Frontal Assaults Are Repulsed

Japanese Gain In Thrust Toward Coast   Seek to Save Forces In Jungles Near Finschhafen, Base

Japs Attack Finschhafen   Aussies Give Ground In Face Of Attacks

JAP TROOPS ADVANCE ON NEW GUINEA   in Infiltration Move Northwest of Finschhafen; Bat-. tle Involves Thousands of Japanese and Australians.   Airacobra Down

Senate Approves Bricker Choices   Power Appointment Finally Confirmed

Second Cavalry Division, All-Negro Unit, Re Activated   Commanded By Texan Who Rose From Ranks To Maior General

Negro Cavalry Unit Organized   Gen. Harry H. Johnson, Houston, to Command 2nd Cavalry Division

ALL-NEGRO CAVALRY DIVISION ACTIVATED FORT CLARK TODAY   BE COMMANDED BY TEXAI WHO ROSE FROM” RANKS OF GENERAL

Deserters Accused By State Troopers  Officers Shoot Tires Off Suspects’ Auto

Gillespie Scene Of Robbery By AWOL Soldiers Reported To Have Stclen West Brownsville Automobile Later   PAIR EPOTTED EARLIER NEAR ‘DEATH CORNER’

ENEMY REPORTS “ALLIED MOVE TO SPLIT 2 ARMIES   Axis Claims Yanks Attempting to Divide Rommel, Von Arnim in Tunisia

WEDGE AIMEE ATROMMEL   Major American Offensive Hinted By Berlin Radio

Axis Reports Drive By American Troops   Statements Suggest a Move to Drive a Wedge Between the Converging: Armies of Rom’ mel and Von Arnim in Central Tunisia.

AIR DRIVE IN AFRICA CONTINUES   American Attempt Tc Split Nazi Armies _ Seen In Report

VICHY STATES FIRST MENTION OF NEW DRIVE   British 8th Army Continues Advance, 41 Miles West of Tripoli

U.S. Troops Said To Have Started Tunisia Offensive   Try to Drive Wedge Between Converging German Armies

Are Pushing Forward to Keep The German  Armies Apart   WEATHER TURNS — SOUR FOR TANKS

Americans Believed Driving Wedge Between North African Armies ‘Of. Von Arnim: AndRommel; Berlin Radio Reveals Worry:

Axis Reports Point To Move By Americans   Drive To Guif Of Gabes Would Keep Rommel And Von Arnim From Joinina

Axis Reports Plan To Split Its Armies   Allies Stil! Depending On Air Arms For Attack

Allied Air Arm Reaches Italy Wert Bomb Blast; Miktary Men Conter

START AN OFFENSIVE   Americans May Be Trying to Drive Wedge Between Axis Forces

Yanks Seek To Prevent Axis Union   Wedge Being Driven In Tunisia, Say German Sources

AMERICAN ATTEMPT PREVENT JUNCTION AXIS ARMIES SEEN  VARIOUS SOURCES INDICATE ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN TUNISIA NEAR

AMERICAN ATTEMPT PREVENT JUNCTION AXIS ARMIES SEEN  ~ VARIOUS SOURCES INDI  VARIOUS SOURCES INDICATE ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN TUNISIA NEAR

REPORTED IN ITALY   Say Germans and Italians Clash — Nozis Claim Occupation of Some Cities.

LANDING PARTY TAKES HARBOR ON MAINLAND   Fifth Army Smashes Five Nazi CounterAttache Near Naples

Allied Air Offensive Grinds Dow Defenses Of Europe; Russ Joins Western Allies In Boml ino Axis   RAF STRIKES BLOWS AT GERMAN TARGET

South Europe Invasion Looks  Likely Now   RUSSIA IS ALSO STRIVING TO BOMB AXIS TO SUBMISSION.

Italian Island Subjected to 2-Day Air Raid   Three Mediterranean Island Outposts Have Surrendered in Three Days; Raids Against Germany Tapering Off

Asks Italians To Abide With Armistice Terms   Government is Movec To Another Point of National Territory

King, Badoglio Urge Resistance   Gesture Forecasts War on Germany

King, Badoglio Urge Nation To Resist Germans   Plead With People To Abide By The _ Terms Of Alliec  Armistice

GERMANS RAID ENGLISH COAST   16 Persons Are Reported Killed in Coast Town Today.

EXTRA!   Capt. Earnest Osher Bagged A Plane Over Sicily   Was Protecting Bombers Tuesday

HINTS OF DRASTIC CUT IN NEWSPRINT TO BE STUDIED   'WPB Officials Say Pulp 'Workmen Needed In War Industries

Newsy Bits About Food   Hogs Streamlined, Georgi: Melons Short, Meet Mr. Menhaden

Jeffers Flays Rubber Report   Says OW! Destroyed Public Confidence

Losses Of Japs May Be Larger In Naval Battle   Believe More Jap Ships Lost In Second Battle Of Kula Gulf   ALLIES SUFFER SLIGHT DAMAGE

NEW BATTLE OF KULA GULF HARD ON JAPS   Enemy losses far heavier than Allies first reported

INJURED BY EXPLOSION   Friends University Head and Wife of Custodian Hurt

3,000,000 MAY STILL FILE FOR TAXES SEPT, 15   All On Income Tax Rolls To Get Forms By Sept. 1

13,000,000 10 FILE RETURNS IN SEPTEMBER   Many Will Make Payments In Addition To Weekly Withholding Tax.   INCOME ESTIMATES DUE   Officials Hope To Have New Forms In Mail By Sep tfombher Firet

Aunt Lizzie, 113, Says She'll Live fo See a Victory   Survived 4 Wars, 9 Husbands, 6 Snake Bites, She Points Out

Aunt Lizzie, Only 113, Determined To Live To Help Celebrate Allied Victory

UMC Strikers Back to Work * After FDR Threat   Return ‘At President's Request’; to Be Given Hearings by Agencies

C Celanese Plant Workimen Bow: To FDR's Order      Threat Of Federal Intérvention Ends Two Vreake Strite

Workers Cal Off Celanese Plant Strike   Roosevelt Wins First Tilt With Lewis Union In New Jersey Controversy   COAL CRISIS HOLDS   Detroit Tank Arsenal Still Tied Up Following Ne Smokiig Row

Celanese Plant Workmen Bow To FDR's Order   Threat Of Federal Intervention Ends Two Vlaeke Strike

STAIKERD VOTE BACK 10 WORK ON FOR'S ORDER   President Hints Military Will Take Over Unless. Walkout Is Ended   THREAT OF COAL MINE STRIKE STILL HANGING   Five Mines At Birmingham Shut Down As Unrest Spreads In Fields

?resident Had Implied Taking Over  VT.R Ovcere Mine Con.   ¥LB Orders Mine Contract Extended After Preliminary Hearing   WIS IGNORES IT   situminous Workings shut Down in Some Sections as Deadline Nears

Strikers Vote fo Return fo Work After FR Threat   Promise of Federal Intervention: Ends Two-Week’ Strike 

President Had Given Monday Deadline   Celanese Corporation Workers Say Thev'll Aecede

REVOLT SEE IN BALKANS, F,D, R. SAYS   Would Open Way  For Invasion Of Germany

FDR Seen as Tipping Off Revolt in Balkans in Address to Congress

Early Balkans Revolt Seen  President’s Appedl,  If Followed, May Haln Ninth Army

Balkans Revolt Is Brewing   Violent Outburst Against German Domination Expected in Near Future   MAY PAVE THE WAY FOR ALLIED BLOWS   Finland Also Is Anxious to Get Away From Germans, Qnening New Front

FDR. Seen As Tipping Off Violent Balkan Revolution By Appeal To Satellites

FUSE OF REVOLI SAID SPUTTERING “INTHE BALKANS   Immediate Future Expected To Bring Violent and Destructive Outbursts Against German Domination; FDR Issues Appeal.

BALKAN REVOLT AGAINST NAZIS HELD GERTAT      View Based On Roosevelt’s Unqualified Appeal to Rumania, Hungary and  Bulgaria to Rise Up

Fuse of Revolt ls Sputtering In The Balkans   Outburst Against Nazis Expected In Near Future

BALKAN REBELS ARE SEETHING   F. D. R.’s SPEECH SEEN AS SPUR TO REVOLTS

Report Violent Revolt In Balkans Against Domination By Nazis; German Troops Attack Patriots

VIOLENT OUTBURST ON GERMAN DOMINATION IS I REWING IN BALKAN AREA

EXPECT A REVOLT   Unrest Growing Against Nazi Domination in Small Countries

FDR Tips Off Revolution In  Balkan States   Appeals To Axis Allies

BALKAN REVOLT ABOUT TO FLARE   Unrest Is Growing Among Satellite Nations Say Reliable Reports

Miners Balk At Retaining Old Contract   Reject Proposal Of Operators To Delay Strike

MINERS DECLINE EXTENDED CONTRAG   Operators’ Proposal Flatly Rejected By Union

UMW Rejects Proposal To  Continue Pact   Operators Move To Provide More Time, Remove Strike Peri}

CALLED SUICIDE   Noted Ohio Astronomer Founc Hanged From Telescope.

Astronomer Hangs Self lat Base of Telescope in Cincinnati Observatory

VOTE RETENTION OF PRESENT TAX   House Committee Favors Withholding 20 Pct. Starting July 1

REFUSES 0. K. “QNABATEMENT “OF ANY TAXES   1) Per Cent Levy or Payroll Provided  In Measure

Nazi Position Precarious In  Salerno Area   Allies Have Initiative As Clark’s Troops  » Move Inland 10 Miles Battling Germans

3 Allied Beachheads Now Welded Into Single Fron   Enemy’s ‘Ring Of Steel’ Around Allies At Salerno Broken As Forces Join Today

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES JOINED IN ATTACK ON GERMANS   GEN. MONTGOMERY’S FORCES MADE AMAZING SPEED NORTHWARD

Montgomery’s Veterans Meet Clark After March Of Nearly 200 Miles

BREAK ENEMY’S STEEL RING ON SALERNO FRONT   Montgomery’s Veterans Complete Amazing Northward March

All Three Allied Beachheads Joined Into Single Front   Contact Between General Montgomery's Speeding Warriors and Clark's Troops Is Made Somewhere On West Coast Foothold   MOUNTAIN VILLAGE OF ALBANELLA CAPTURED

Yanks Throw Nazis Back 10 Miles   Two British Armies From South, Yank 5th Jein Near Salerno

CRITICAL PHASE OF BATTLE AT SALERNO ENDED   British Eighth Army Marches 200 Miles For Union With Clark’s Forces   PUSH 10 MILES INLAND   Vital Airport Seized; German Counterattacks Are Being Frustrated

EIGHTH ARMY IN CONTACT WITH BRITISH FORCES BEATING UP EAST COAST FROM TARANTO; CRITICAL PERIOD ENDS AS GERMANS REPORT 60 ALLIED SHIPS STEAMING FOR SALERNO

Amazing March Of 200 Miles Made by British   Linking of Forces Breaks Nazi Ring On Italian Front

Germans Withdraw on South Salerno Sector as Eighth Army Nears   FIFTH ARMY IN GAINS   Holding of Beachhead Aids ntgomery's March  of 200 Miles

Clark Recaptures Mountain Villages   Smashes Three Counter-Attacks and flattens Out German Salients-- Report Indicates Germans Are Withdrawing From Southern End of Front

THE 5TH ARMY AND BRITISH 8TH ARMY ARE NOW UNITEL   Joined Their Fronts With Establishment of Contact Retween Patrols.   MADE AMAZING MARCH   Linking of Two Armies Broke Enemy’s Ring Around Gen. Clark’s Men.

Fifth Army Smashes Into Salerno Foothills   Yanks Crush German Counterattacks; Recapture Mountain Village; Battle Crisis Appears Ended

Gen. Clark’s Forces And Gen. Montgomery’s Veterans Establish Junction At Southern End Of Bridgehead —British Troops On East Coast Also In Contact With Main Body—Valuable Air Field Site Acquired With Capture Of Montecorvino

Patrols of Montgomery Army Join with Clark’s   Junction Also Made with British Force on East Coast to Break Nazi Ring of Steel  at Salerno   » NAZI SALIENTS FLATTENED OUT   Americans and British Recapture Village , of Albanella, Montgomery Takes Vallo Della Lucania   Contact Taranto Captors

Allies Regain Initiative In Salerno Area   General Clark’s Troops Recapture Inland Town Of Albanella.   NAZIS ADMIT CHANGE

[Beachhead Is — Firmly Held. By 5th Army   Germans Beginning — to Fall Back From Shore And in Southern Sector

Montgomery's Veterans End 200-MileDash      Contact Breaks: Germans Ring: ‘of Steel Around: Beachhead; ‘Nazi Salients Wiped Out.:Eisenhower Announces ~

Travels 200 Miles In Amazing March From Toe Of Italy   Claim Nazis Beginning To Leave Southern Part Of Bridgeheads East Coast Britons Also Joined

Germana Are Beginning To Withdraw From Front Facing Southern Part Of Bridgehead

British Froces Cli: ‘max Dramatic 200Mile Dash Northward from Toe of Italian Boot

3 Allied Forces” Construct Trap   Patrols of Both Armies Meet as British Climax Spectacular 200-Mile Dash North- ward from Italian Toe; Americans 7  Straighten Lines and Take Initiative ° :

UlarkKS Forces Advance; 3 Allied Fronts United   Advance Patrols Establish Initial Contact; Eighth Army Meets Troops From Taranto

YANK OFFENSIVE IS RESUMED ON SALERNO FRONT   German Ring Around Clark’s Embattled Fifth Army Broken by Allied Move   WARSHIPS LEND SUPPORT   Allied Air Fleets Blast Enemy Positions and Communications

LINKING OF TWO ARMIES HAS BROKEN NAZI RING OF STEEL AND ALLIES TAKE OFFENSIVE   Gen. Montgomery’s Forces Make Amazing March of Nearly 200 Miles to Join With Gen. Clark’s. Bridgehead Defenders and Drive Enemy Onward

UNION OF TWO ALLIED ARMIES WEINS FRONTS   English Eighth Army In Spectacular Dash Up Coastline   NAZI FLANK MENACED   German Ring Broken; Al lies In Contact South  Of Salerno

Germans Forced Back   Allies Now Form Single Front Across Italy As Contact Is Made With Forces on East Coast

British Eighth — ArmyContacts US Fifth Army      Allied Forces Resume Initiative in Salerno Area; Three Soviet Columns Close on Krasnograd; Huge US Air  Armada Pounds Jap Airdromes in Northern Solomons

Clark’s Troops Plunge 10 Miles Inland; Allied Beachheads Now Welded  Into Single Front.

SINGLE FRONT ~NOWIN ITALY   Clark’s Fifth Army Joined by: British Eighth; Other Forces. 2   ENEMY’S RING BROKEN

Fifth Army Drives Ten Miles: Inland; Taranto, Eighth Armies Arrive

German Position Grows Precarious As Allies Advance   Nazi Forces Face Threat of Encircle ment; Berlin Admits Fall of Novorossisk

BRITIS ITISH ARMIES MEET TODAY; 10 ESTABLISH BASE   Allied Beachheads Welded Into New Single Front

Junction. Of American Fifth And British Eighth Armies Climaxes Swift 200-Mile Dash — Americans Take Initiative After Repulsing Nazi Attacks At Salerno

POSITION OF NAZIS TAKES GRAVE SHIFT   Rising Concern in Germany 4s Tide Turns for Allies After Close Call at Salerno

Beachheads Fuse Info One Front: Allies Advance   Junction Eases Critical Period For Invaders

British, Also Contact Empire Soldiers . Beating Up East Coast From Taranto

Crisis Ends As British Troops Jom Advancing Americans At Salerno

Montgomery's Men Have Dashed 700 Miles Up Coast   Nazis Attacks on Bridgehead Weaker; Thrust Was Deep

Clark’s Troops Smash Attacks, Drive Inland   British Eighth Army. Climaxes Great North: ward) March, Breaks Ring 'of ‘Steel Around Clark’s Men. 5th Army  “Reported. To Have Captured © Montecorvino, Site of One of Best Airfields on Coast.

Fifth Army Had Begun Driving Nazi Forces Backward   Allies Have Airfield To Operate From, Are Landing More Reinforcements

‘Linking Of Lines Breaks Nazi Rinc ‘Around Salerno   Eighth Also Contacts British Forces On East Coast; 3 Fronts Now Welded

35,000 Idle, 10,000 Working in District 2; Bituminous Storm Center — Biddle’ Says “Defiintely Prepared” to En-. “s force New Anti-Stirke Act

NEW FRENCH UNITY ALREADY CRACKING      De Gaulle Reported Stirring Up Trouble Again

DISAGREEMENT IN DE GAULLE-GIRAUD CONFERENGE HEARI   It Now Seems Certain That Difficult Negotiations Were Ahead.   No Definite Information a: to Committee Proceedings Is Available.

REPORT FRICTION IN FRENCH GROUF   Differences of Opinion Over Housecleaning of Of-ticials.

UNITED FRENCH COUNCIL FACES DISAGREEMENT]      Newly Created Executive Com. mittee With Two Places Un: filled, Holds Meeting

De Gaulle And Giraud Continue Conference; French Vessels From  Cairo Join Allies

Rumors of Disagreement in One-Day-Old De Gaulle-Giraud Committee Circulated

~~ BEING PROBED   BOARD ¢ OF INQUIRY GALLED IN “! CONNECTION WITH. SPEC>" PAOULAR ACCIDENT AT COLUMBUS...

PLANE BLAST OVER COLUMBUS PROBED   Pilot Killed, One House Set Afire

ON PRIORITIES COMES TO END   Jeffers, Patterson to Make Joint Tour to Break Bottlenecks

BITTER FEUD ON PRIORITIES COMES TO END   Jeffers, Patterson’ to Make Joint Tour to Break Bottlenecks

PRIORITIES FEUD AT AN END;  «OFFICIALS PLAN PLANT TOUR   Jeffers and Patterson Disclose Forthcoming Tour at Session of Committee—Recent Differences Discussed

Priorities Feud  Appears at End   Patterson, Jeffers to Seek Rubber Vs. Gas  Peace in Plant Tour

TOUR OF PLANTS BEING PLANNED   Patterson And Jeffers Have Settled Priorities  Disagreement

RUBBER FEUD ENDS; BOSSES TO TAKE TOUR   JEFFERS, PATTERSON GO OUT TO HUNT BOTTLENECKS

Appropriation Bill Coming Next Week   $17,990,000 Asked For 2-Year Period

[IEGLER 16 PICKED FOR HIGHWAY POST   Republican “Convention Closes at Detroit; Balance of Ticket Nominated

Franklin Seeks Price Increase  Ardmore Oil Man to Push for Early Hike

OVER 400 BILLS CROWD CALENDAR   LEGISLATORS MUST WIND UP SESSION WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Legislature Begins Final Four Days of Biennial Session   Calendars Crowded With Over 400 Bills, Many of Them Doomed

RED OFFENSIVE NEARS KHARKO\   Conflict. in Africa Moves  ‘Toward Showdown

Russians’ Dispatches Indicate German Defense System ~ Criimbles; Tank-Led Counter-Blows By Reich Units Fail To Stop Red Drive Along 50-Mile Arc

NEW DANGERS FOR GERMANS IN THE SOVIE]   Reported to be Evacuating Key  City of Kharkov as Menace From Russians Grows.

Claim Nazis Evacuating Kharkov    Red Army is: Reported To Be Within Ten, Miles of Key German Base At One Point

President to Speak on Radic December 24   Hints Future Meetings ith Stalin and  Churchill

aarareasion Boceiree  “Caused: Them to _ Be Housed Together At Tehran ©

Churchill Will Visit  Roosevelt   Washington Talks Likely to Center On Russia, Stalin

Roosevelt, Charchill  To Continue Parley In Washington This Week   Belief Held Political Matters Involving World Scene To Be Discussed in U. S.

McKeldin Sees Defeat of FDR For Fourth Term   Mayor of Baltimore Also Says People Are Opposed fo OPA

METHODS OF OPA ARE ATTACKED BY MAYOR   MeceKefdin Says OPA Agents Shouldn't Follow People Around Checking Use Of Gas

OIL FIELD RAID “BYULS, COSTS ANI 51 PLANES   Americans Blast Rumanian Supply in Biggest Attack at Low Leve.s

51 AXIS FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS IN RAID THAT DESTROYED SEVEN REFINERIES

Smashing Bomb Attack On Rumanian Oil Fields Is Heavy Blow To Nazis

-J.8. AIRMEN BLAST ENEMY OIL FIELDS   Liberator Bombers May Have Altered Course of War

Germany Rocks Under New Wave Of Heavy Bombing   U.S. Planes Stab At Southwest Berlin ls Burned by RAF

VERY HEAVY BOMBER ATTACK UPON GERMAR CAPITAL LAST NIGHT  OTHER GERMAN POINTS AND FRENCH INVASION COAST ALSO BLASTED

Allied Planes Hit Invasion Coast; Reds Speed Drive      Nazi Naval Strength Dwindling; Ad miral Doenitz Resigns  =— in Disgrace

Nazi Capital Now ‘Immense Ruins; Reds Smash Toward Polish Border; British, Americans Advance in Italy

U.S. Fliers Carry On By Day   Press Assault Into Southwest Germany, And Pound Invasion Coast of France

‘West Germany  ‘Agd Central Part ‘As Well As North France Are Struck

Berlin, Other German Cities Raid Targets   American Airmen in Daylight Assault After RAF Night Visit to German Capital; Russians Open Another Offensive

RUSSIAN COUP BRINGS RELIEF 103 MILLION   GRIP OF GERMANS LOOSENED ALONG ENTIRE FRONT

Bring Relief To 3,000,000 People, Release Nazi Grip On Flow Of Russian Arman ent.

Springboard For Reconquest Of Baltic States Offered By Freedom Of City   KAMENSK RECAPTURED BY RUSSIAN ARMIES

8 Miles of Solid  Defenses Smashed   Lifting Blockade Brings Relief To 3,000,000 Russians, Releases German Grip On Flow  Of Armaments: New Turn Of War Seen

Nazi Defense Said Crushed   “Complete Collapse: North Of Orel Claimed By Reds

Triumphant Army Breaks Blockade Bringing Relief To Millions Of Citizens

GermansRouted Long Blockade Of City Broken  Important: Gains Claimed’ All’ Along  Show. Sweat Beane

Soviets Take  Strongpoint Of Bolkhoy   General Advance Made by Russians In Drive Against Orel  BRYANSK MENACEND

13,000 NAZIS KILLED AS FOE BLOCKADE IS ENDED BY RED ARMY   Soviet Forces Smash Through Eight Miles of Solid Nazi Defenses; Russians Gain in Other Areas

Russians Blast Thru 8 Solid Miles of Nazi Defenses to Break Grip 13,000 Germans Killed; Four Di-

Triumphant Army Breaks Blockade - Bringing Relief To Millions “—— ss FOf Citizens

Germans’ fortified defenses collapse at Orel; 50,000 killed   Russians announce capture of 6,000 more in 10-day ‘battle of attrition’

TRIUMPHANT SOVIETS BLAST NAZI DEFENSES   13.000 OF Hitler's Soldiers Killed In Bitter Fight: Four Divisions Routed,

13,000 Germans Slain as 17-Month Siege Is Broken  City of Three Million Gets Chance to Ship In Needed Supplies  GAIN IN OTHER AREAS  Russian Vanguards Now Less Than 118 Miles — Kharkov  rn... zk. is _ > >.   City of Three Million Gets Chance to Ship In Needed Supplies   GAIN IN OTHER AREAS

17. Month § Siege Ended By Great  New Offensive.      Four German Divisions And Parts of Four Oth ers Routed In New Red Triumply

Germans Routed Long Blockade Of City Broken   Important Gains Claimed All Along Snow-Swept Front

Russians Blast Through Eight Miles Of Solid Nazi Defenses Killing 13.000 and Routing Four Divisions

Proud Of Your Victory Garden? "You May ExhibitiYour Products   Garden Show To Be: Given Some Time in August 7 oa Gantambear

Proud Of Your Victory Garden? You May Exhibits Your Products   Garden Show To Be; Given Some Time in August © ee ee

Gardeners Are  Asked To Join Victory Club  Making Plans Fo Behikes 2. Lh.

TURKS CERTAIN ALLIES TO WIN, ACTS INDIGATE   New Attitude Of Turkey Shows She No Longer Fears German Bombs Despite Nazi Hold In Dodecanese; Belief In Early Victory Clear.

Turkey I{ndicates Readiness To Join  * Allies In Conflict   Turkey With Aid of Allies Can Quickly Overcome German Gains In Dodecanese Islands; Turkey No Longer Fears Nazi Bombs; Moving Toward War.

Turkey No Longer Fears Nazi Bombers   Reports from Ankara Indicate Turks Are Moving Toward War Against Axis; Already Aiding Allies

Turkey ] Indicates Readiness: For? . War Against ‘Axis   Has ‘Now’: Cast  Aside Long- Held: Fear. of German Air Might i in Do * deodiiose.”

Associated Press Writer. Says _Turks No Longer Fear Germany And Foresee An Allied Victor.

UNIONS WITHIM RIGHTS CHARGING FEES AND DUES    Kansas Legislative a  mittee In Ninety Page Report Says Complaints Were Result of Misunderstandina -

Finds Kansas Unions Fair   State Legislative Committee Reports On Investigation

No Labor Scandal —   Committee Appointed To Investigate Fees Says Everything O. K.

British Navy Sinks Three German Destroyers and Cargo Ship in Battle Believed Still Going On

NAZI SHIPS SUNK BY BRITISH UNITS   Three Destroyers Are Sent .-Down in Two-Day Run- . nina Battle

British Navy Sinks Three German Destroyers and Cargo Ship . lin Battle Believed Siill Going On   Canadians Push Past Ortona

Reich Warships Sink by-British   Three Destroyers, Cargo Veasela Destraved

British Attack German Fleet, Sink 3 Ships   Nazi Destroyers Heavily Shelled

CONVOY HIT IN BAY OF BISCAY   Other Ships Damaged In Running 2-Day Fight Near Coast Line

SENATE TO HEAR LIQUOR CHIEF   Fisher To Explain Reasons Back Of Domestic Whisky Shortage

Order Indicates Cargo Ship Cutback   Yards to Suspend Work Every Sunday

Cut In Cargo Ships Feared   Maritime Commission Orders All Shipyards To Close Down Sundays.

SHIPYARDS TO CUT PRODUCTION   Sunday Work To Be Eliminated After Jan. 1

Asks Business To Advertise War Bond Sales   Urges Newspape! Snace As Medium

Mrs. Dempsey’s Visitors Left By Rear Door   Maid Identifies Men Wh Came While Ex-Fighter’ Was Awav.

24 CONVICTS MAKE DARING BREAK AT TATINALL PRISON   Desperate Criminals Wrecks Power Plant In: Georgia Prison—Two Caught

FDR Asks Aid For War Needy   Military Necessity, President Declares   Would Report Quarterly

BRICKER TO SIGN SLOW TIME BILL BEFORE EVENING   Governor Makes Final Study But Does Not Expect to Find Defect   State’s Clocks to Turn Back One Hour at 2 A. M. Sunday

GOVERNOR . ANNOUNCES HE WILL SIGN BILL BEFORE. ° NIGHT—-MANY . CITIES . ‘WON'T. CHANGE

GOVERNOR WILL SIGN TIME BILL   Action Promised Before Nightfall Despite Opposition To Change

TOLAY PLANS FOR YULE SEAL SALE   Fifteen Counties Will Attend Meeting to Be Held In Des Moines Sept. 15.   AT ST. JOHN’S CHURCH   One of Nine Conferences to Be Held During  September,

COMMITTEE TO MEETING WED.        tail Institute i in Des Moines.

GunsRule Disloyal Nip Hub   STATE LEGISLATURE GROUPS SLATE HEARINGS OUTSIDE NIP CENTER

Talk With King Precedes Parley With Roosevelt   Chiefs of Allied Military Staffs Expected to Make  Invasion Plans.   Meet in Battlements Of Ancient Fortress

RECENT SUCCESS OF ALLIES TALK AT QUEBEC MEE   Session Is Prelude to Meet ing With Roosevelt a.  Later Day to Discuss Wa’ Pranracs_   OBSOLETE FORTRESS SCENE OF GATHERING   First Session With Mack- enzie King Is Opened Shortly After Prime Minister Reaches Ancient City.

PRIME MINISTER TO CONSULT FOR ONWARPLANS   Allied Success on European Front Calls for Additional BAttle Strategy

PM. KING. IN QUEBEC   Conferences With Roosevelt Scheduled Later: Military Officers Are In Company

British. Canadian Premiers Study Moves Needed To Expand U, N. Suecesses:

Charchill Conferring  In Canada   zonference Also Slatec  With FDR. Meeting: Held Against — Background of Spectacular Allied Victories Fore. shadow .New Strategy and Action.

MORE BAD NEWS Ne STORE FOR ENEMIES   Once Again, Russia To. Send No Representative’ To”: ” Scheduled -Parlevs -

Conferring With MacKenzie King And Others In Quebec; Will See President Roosevelt Later; No Indication Of Trend Of Talks.

Allied Successes Studied And New Attacks Planner   Will Meet FD Soon Sudden Visit . Mode; Army Head: With Him

CHURCHILL HOLDING CONFERENCES WITH CANADIAN PREMIER  LATER BRITAIN’S PREMIE WILL CONFER WITH

Churchill Confers With  Mideenats King, Plans Conference With FDR  ee pees Se ae ee ee,

CHURCHILL, FOR 10 HAVE MEET   British Prime Minister Confers Today With Canadian Leaders.   CHIEFS OF STAFF MEET

Winston Churchill Meets With Canada s Minister: Preludes FDR Conference

CHURCHILL CONFERS IN CANADA   Plans To Meet Roosevelt For Later Discussions

Churchill anc Canadian War Group Confer  Successes of Allied   Successes of Albed Stabs at Axis and Strategy to Expand Them Surveyed

Roosevelt To Join Conterence Later   Prime Minister Crosses Ocear For Talks as Allied Successes  Demand New Procram

Churchill Talks First With MacKenzie King   Discussions With Roosevelt, Military Experts To Follow

Churchill and Canadian War Group Conter   Successes of Allied Stabs at Axis and Strategy to Expand Them Surveyed

Churchill Studies New Strategy With Canadian Leaders   Conferences With W. L. MacKenzie King to be Prelude To Later Discussions With President Roosevelt and Allied Experts   DETAILS OF LATEST SEA CROSSING ARE WITHHELD

British, Canadian Prime Ministers  Discuss Expansion Of Allied Attacks

BRITISHER IN CONFERENCE WITH MACKENZIE KING BEFORE GOING TO WASHINGTON TO SEE FDR   Prime Minister’s Sixth Visit to America for Wa Conferences Stirs ‘Victory-This-Year” Talk In London

CHURCHILL-FOR PLAN 6TH MEET   Prime Minister Confers  With Canadian Leaders On War

Prelude  To Parley With FDR   Prime Ministers and Military Chiefs of Britain and Canada Go Over War Problems

Victory Knots   British Chief Will Talk Later With Roosevelt; Successes Reviewed

Two Prime Ministers Confer in Fortress   Discuss Moves for Total Victory in Old Citadel Which Is Relic of Days When French Ruled Much of North America.

Canadian and British Chiefs Confer Today   No Indication as to Time Of Meeting With U. 8. President

‘CHURCHILL-KING ~ TALKS WERE BEGUN IN QUEBEC TODA)   Men Surveyed the Heightening Success of the Allied Stabs at Axis.   FOR A TOTAL VICTORY   ‘The Conference Today Pre- eluded to Later Discus/ sions With Roosevelt.

Churchill In Quebec; ill See Roosevelt;  Note Stalin Absence   London Agog With Talk Of Germany’s Defeat This Year; Plans Being Made For Mighty Assault Aaainst European Continent

Leaders to Map Out Next Step in War   Invasion of Europe May Result; Visit To Canada Surprise

Meets with Canada’sPremie!   Due Later to Be In Washington for Talk With President

British Chief In Surprise Hop To Canada   Consults With Prime Minister MacKenzie King In Quebec

Fourth Visit Here Prelude to New Blows at Germans   Representatives of Russia Will Not Sit In On Important RooseveltChurchill Talk

Churehill In Meetings With Allied Heads  President Roosevelt To Join Britain’s   President Roosevelt To Join Britain's Prime Minister Soon In Deliberations

Confers With King On Next Allied Moves   Premier And Staff Pay  Dominion Surprise Visit

British And Canadian Premiers Onen Conferences; Meet F. R. Later

NEW SUCCESSES SURVEYED BY CHURCHILL. KING   Will Meet With F.D.R Later; Invasion Question Pops Up

CHURCHILL IN QUEBEC FOR WAR PARLEY:   British Prime Minister Confer: with MacKenzie King before See ing Roosevelt   SPECULATION RIFE   Leading British Military Figures, Lady Churchill and Daughter in Party

‘Prime Ministers ond Their Chiefs of Staff Discuss ‘Inter. : national Situation,’ Official Statement Says; Londor Begins ‘Victory-This-Year’ Talk.

French Invasion   Rumors Are Rife   Prime Ministers of Britain and Canada Confer Tuesday after Churchill Arrives from England; Conferences with American ., Military Heads and President to — Come Later

Prime Ministers Meet At Quebec   INDUSTRIAL CITY OF NAZIS BLASTED BY RAF

TO MEET SOON WITH FDR FOR WAR PLANNING   Continued Absence of Russians Capitalized. On by Enemy

Talks with Mackenize King Prelude to Later Discussions with Roosevelt on War Strategy

Prime Ministers Open Conference   iChurchill and Mackenzie King and Staffs Meet in Quebec   WILL MEET ROOSEVELT   Changing War Situation Calls for New Allied  Preparations

Churchill and Canadian Premier Talk Ove: Plans While Their Military Staffs Confer; Strategy Talks Mean Bad News For Axis

QUEBEL TU BL STAGE OF NEW WAR PARLEY   British Prime Minister Now in Canada Will Meet with Roosevelt.   CAUTIOUS STATEMENT REVEALS “DISCUSSION”

MADAME CHIANG ADDRESSES HOUSE   SEES JAPAN AS THREAT TO CIVILIZATION AND CALLS FOR HER DEFEAT.

Mme.Chiang BringsHouse To Its Feet   PETITE WIFE OF CHINA’S WAF LORD CLENCHES FIST WHEN SPEAKING OF FOUR FREEDOMS

CRUSH TOKYO MENACE, SAYS MME. CHIANG   CHINESE GENERAL’S WIFE IS CHEERED BY CONGRESS

First Lady of China Addresses House, Senate Assails Jap Ageression

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Cheered by Senate, House As She Asks for Jap Defeat by United Nations

Madame Chiang Calls For Early Defeat Of Japanese   Wife of Chinese 1 Generalissimo Tells  Cheering Con. - -gress It Is Against United Nations’ Interests  ta Allow Jdpan te Continue os Threat

BROWDER RELEASE A GRAVE MISTAKE SAYS; JERSEY. REP   REP. THOMAS ASSERTS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ERRED IN GIVING COMMUNIST AGITATOR HIS FREEDOM.   POINTS TO SPEECH MADE BY BROWDER   Red Leader Shows Partiality in Demanding Second Front in France and Denying the U. S. Rights to Siberian Bases.

0.5, WILL EAT LESS IN FUTURE ” SAYS WICKARD   Geeretary - Admits Alarm * Over Food in Testimony to Congress

AMERICAN MENU TO BE SLIMMER   Wickard Admits Food Situation Grows Worse With Crisis Approaching

FOOD PROBLEM IS HELD WORSE   Wickard Warns U. S. Must Plan To Eat Less

NAZI -RADIO. BASE OFF GREENLAND IS SMASHED BY YANKS   Marks Second Time German Station Has Been Smashed In That  ~ Area ~

Hun Bombs Slay Young In Church   Carving Of Crucifixion Hangs Over Rubble

German Raiders Wreck Church  Crucifix Only Part Left; 18 Children,

No Birthday Ball This Year   But Campaign For Funds Will Be Held

OFFICERS FACING  HARD JOB CHECKING  FAGTS IN MURDER FIRST ARREST IN HUNT  CASE PROVES BE TOUGH FORMER CONVICT

Waits Meeting of UMW Policy Committee Confident WLB Wage OLfer Will Be Accepted   SAYS HE WILL NOT TOLERATE STRIKES   President Says WLB Wage Adequate, Some May Quesiion If Board Has Not Gone Too Far

UMW IS GIVEN NEW DEADLINE      President Will Act Mon day If Miners Fail to Accept Terms

UMW Policy Committee May Hold Key To Next  Move In Coai Situation

80,000 Now Idle In Soft Coal Fields   President Is Waiting For Policy Meeting To Be Held Monday

President Promises ‘Decisive Action’ If Miners Don’t Return   UMW Policy Committee Meets Monday to Decide On Illinois Agreement Rejection; Shortage Of Supplies Brings Sharp Anthracite Restrictions

8,000 QUT IN SOFT COAL FIELDS   Monday Also May Bring a Settlement of Dispute   UMW GROUP TO MEET   Situation Expected to Force Settlement Holding Good For the War's Duration

UNION POLICY COMMITTEE T0 HAVE MEETING   Strike Has Already Cost. Nation 33 Liberty Ships

President Issues Ultimatum as Number of Idle Miners Mounts to 80,000

MINE LEADERS GET ULTIMATUM   President Threatens Action Unless Mine Strikes Are Ended By Monday,

Expect coal mine industry entirely shutdown. Monday   Roosevelt promises ‘decisive action’ following UMW meeting

ROOSEVELT ISSUES STRIKE ORDERS   Coal Strikes Must End Monday Or Face Presidential Action; Strikers Growing In Number.

To Take Action Monday   Coal Operators Protest  Wage Increase Suggested By WLB

Miners Given Until Monday by President   Must Accept WLB Offer or Action Will Be Taken

ULTIMATUM IS GIVEN MINERS BY PRESIDENT   Have Until Monday ' To Check. trikes

RGIVES UMW UNTIL MONDAY TO END STRIKE   Roosevelt To See That Coal! is Mined, Waits on Union Meeting

SHOWDOWN ON INING ISSUE ‘OMES MONDAY   Roosevelt Tells Union Leaders He Will Not Tolerate Further Slacken-  ing of Production __   EXPECTS WAGE RULE WILL BE ACCEPTED   “{f Mistaken,” Chief Executive Says, “I Will Take Decisive Action;” Government Seizure Probable

Action Near Ih Move to End Mine Walkouts   President Waits Until Monday to Take His Stand

GOVERNMENT GIVES UMWA LAST CHANCE   Mine Union Must Make Up Mind As To Strike

Climax in Walkouts Expected to Come Monday With Meeting of Union Policy Committee,   F.D.R. TO ACT IF PAY PROPOSAL IS SPURNED   Seizure of Properties Regarded as Likely—Anthracite Deliveries Cut to Half a Ton.

115,000 MINE WORKERS IDLE QVER COUNTR‘   Prospects of Complete Shutdown Tomorrow Grows: Settlement May Be Forthcoming

FR Gives Miners Monday Deadline   80,000 Now Idle In Soft Coal Fields   President Is Waiting For Policy Meeting To Be Held Monday

Coal Tie-Up May  Become Complete   Presidential ‘ Intervention Withheld Until Unions Meet Monday   Fuel Administration Freezes Domestic Coal at the Mine

115,000 Miners Idle: Complete Shut-Down Seen   National Black Out Hinted If Strike ls Prolonged

FDR Orders Miners Return  Expects WLB Award Will Be Accepted; Hints At Mine Seizure

President Will Act Monday if Miners Do Not Return to Jobs   Executive Awaits Meet. ing of UMW Policy  Committee Then

115,000 Miners Strike, Virtua Shut-Down Due   Monday: Deadline T« See Settlemen Or Near - Complet: Paralysis

Face 2nd Seizure Of Mines   ' President Threatens Actions Unless UMW End Coal Strikes By Monday :Deadline

‘Mine Union Ponders FDR’s ‘Ultimatum To End Strike Or Have Mines Seized Once More   President To Wait Until After Union Meeting Monday To Take Any Action

MINERS MUST ACT MONDAY OR F. R. WIL!   Promises Decisive Action to Insure That Coa' Will Be Mined in U.S, Shafts

UNION POLICY GROUP CALLED INTO SESSION   President Promises to Take Action Unless UMW Ends Tieup

Will Wait "for Action + by Miners   Roosevelt Delays Next Step in Coal, Crisis Until Monday “When Union Board Meets   EXPECTS WLB PLAN TO BE. ACCEPTED   If Not He Says He ‘Will Not Hesitate to Take Any ‘Necessary Steps

MR, ROOSEVELT IS PREPARED 10 ACT IN COAL STRIKE   Will Await Meeting of Miners’ Policy Committee on Monday.   Confident the War Labor Board's Proposal Would Be Accepted.

Shut-Down In Coal Industry Seen Monday   Government Action Te Be Taken If Miners Refuse To Get Back To  2. £8

Coal Strike Spreads With 115,000 Out   Complete Paralysis O ‘Duration Agreement  May Come By Monday   MEETINGS ARE SET   Anthracite Deliveries Are Curtailed; Lights In East May Be Dimmed

Prompt Govt. Seizure Of Pits Indicated If Union Chiefs Fail To Act.

Full Shut-Dow Of Mines Near. 115,000 Men Ot   Situation Expected. To Force Decision: To Last Duration .-

MOnE MINERS QUIT JOBS Aa CALS GOMES   May Force Some Arrangement Holding Good for the Duration.

TOTAL OF DL MINERS JUMPS TO 110,000   Virtual Complete Shutdown Of Industry By Monday Now In Prospect

Must End Strike To Halt Seizure. Of Coal Mines   Claim Walkouts Continue; 80,000 Men Now Out; -F. D. Awaits UMW Move

Shutdown Of Mines By Monday Feared   Idle Miners Total 115,000 With Others ° Ouittina: FDR Pledaes Decisive Action

U.M.W. Ordered te Halt Mine Strike   President Sets Monday Deadline

Complete Coal Shutdown Near   F. D. R. Ready to Take ‘Decisive Action’ Unless U.M.W. Heads Order Men Bock; 115,000 Leave Pits; U.S. Control Looms

Monday set  As Deadline in Coal Tieup Roosevelt Is C Is Confident  Miners Will Accept WLB Proposals  a MEN ARE IDLE  President Indicates He  Will Order Seizure if  ne die iia.      President Indicates He Will Order Seizure if Lewis Is Defiant

Coal Tie-Up May  Become Complete   Presidential Intervention Withheld Until Unions Meet Monday   MORE MEN LEAVE PITS   Fuel Administration Freezes Domestic Coal at the Mine

TIE-UP NEARS IN SOFT COAL; 113,000 IDLE   MONDAY MAY BRING SETTLEMENT OF SOME KIND

Miners Given Until Monday To End Strike   President's Ultimatun Comes As Number 0: Men Out Increases: Awaits Meeting

DEADLINE SET FOR LEADERS 10 END COAL STRIKE   President Warns There Will Be No Hesitation To Take Steps To Start Work

President Tells Miners Government Takes Ov If Strike Is Continued”   Writes WLB Chairman

Government Ready To Seize Mines   F. R. Promises Decisive Action To See That Coal Is Mined

Miners Will Face Showdown Monday  Steel Production Said Already Cnt

Action ByFDR  Certain   ...» President Promises ‘Coal Will Be Mined’

Soft Coal Strike Keeps 115,000 Idle: Climax s Believed Near   Settlement to Stand for Duration of WarMay Bring End to Controversy in Industry

TION AWAITEA      "UMW Polley Meet. Ie Set: for =: Monday. = FDR Would © OS Make Move,

Coal Industry Faces Collapse; 115,000 Men Oui   Walkouts Mount as Nation Awaits Settlement of Issue on Monday; WPB Cites Loss in Steel Plants

Miner Walkouts Spread Despite FDR Ultimatum   All Soft Coal Fields Report More Walkouts, Now Totaling 100,000.   UMW Meets Monday, Discuss WLB Ruling

Prospects Of Coal Mine Shut Down Increases   115,000 Miners Quit; Decisions Expected Monday

See Complete Shut-Down Of  Mines Monday   Roosevelt Promises He Will Take Action If Miners Not Back To Work.   115.000 IDLE MINERS

AMERICA FACES ANOTHER COAL STRIKE CRISIS   Miners Again Stop Work In Protest Against War Labor Board’s Refusal  ’ To Grant Travel Pay.

115,000 MINERS * IDLE IN NATION: ACTION AWAITEL   Sumw Policy Meet Is Set for Mondey — FDR Would Make Move

PROMISES ACTION IF WLB PROPOSAL IS NOT ACCEPTED   TO AWAIT DECISION OF POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING ON MONDAY

U.M.W. Chiefs Faced With Decision To End Strike, Have Mines Seized   Given Until Monday By President, Who Will Then Take Decisive Action To See That Coal Is Mined.

LEADERS OF MINERS MUST ACT BY MONDA IN COAL STRIKES  _ PRESIDENTIAL ACTION WILL BE INVOKED THEN

Field Hospital Hit By AStorm  Every Tent Lev elled, But No One Is Hurt

NAVY GETS RECORD NUMBER OF hans AND SHIPS IN APRIL   Secretary Knox Reports . April Was Good Month— ' . Ship Sinking Also  , Lower 

Navy Hits Peak in Ship Building   Records Both in Planes, Ships Set In April — Knox

PEAK PRODUCTION — NOT YET REACHED, KNOX SAYS TODAY   Believes That Output of Aircraft and Ships Will  «=: Still Be Increased.

NAVY ARRIVES AT PEAK PRODUCTION IN PLANES, SHIPS   In Four Months Numericat Strength of Fleet inereases 25 PC.

Navy Increase 25P.C. Since January First   Knox Reveals . Peak Production Reached in Planes

U.S. HITS PEAK PRODUCTION IN PLANES, SHIPS: KNOY   NAVY CHIEF REVEALS DELIVERY RECORDS: FOR VESSELS, AIRCRAFT DURING APRIL

Navy Reaches Plane, Ship Peak Output   Knox Warns Press Not to Assume Raie Will Continue

REPORTS PEAK PRODUCTION OF SHIPS, PLANES   25 Per Cent Increase In Strength Seen by Secretary Knox

Berlin Reports Mussolini Seeks To Cancel Surrender of Italy    Duce Has Taken Control of Puppet Regime, Nazis Say

“artis Daim  ‘Fuss0 i ini so ~ecree inc 0: Ouse 07 Savoy Aue ANC Senuciace -a jan Surrencer,

MUSSOLINI TAKES OVER, BERLIN SAYS   New Puppet. Fascist Regime Reported Established

V.ccalin; From Safe Distance, Fires King of Italy, ‘Calls Off Surrender

MUSSOLINI TO HEAD NEW FASCIST REGIME   Germans Sdy Hl Duce Will Cancel Italy's Surrender And Reject The House Of Savoy

Musso Cancels ltaly’s Truce   House Of Savoy Is  ECormolly Reiected

DUCE SET UP AS ‘DICTATQR   Berlin Announces Puppet Regime; Will Try To  Cancel Armistice

ROUNDS DECADE   FDR Completes 10 Years a: U. S. President Today.

FR. 1S FINISHING HIS TENTH YEAR IN OFFICE TODAY   His Physical Condition Excellent As He Begins 11th Voar As Pracidont.

FDR'S PHYSICAL CONDITION GOOD AFTER TEN YEARS   Starts 11th Year In White  House Tomorrow

PRESIDENT ENDS HS TENTH YEAR IN OFFICE TODAY   Chief Executive in Excellent Physical Condition; Last 12 Months Most Dra-

Faces Greatest Task; — Physical Condition Good  F. R. Completes lOth Year As President

FDR Finishes 10th Year In Office Today   HARDEST JOBS STILL AHEAD FOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE

138 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U, S. SUBMARINES   23 Others Probably Sunk ) And 38 Damaged

U. S. Submarine Score Against Japanese Ships In Pacific Stands at 199.

One Man Killed And 13 Injured   Victims Crashed to Death by Roof Trusses At Fort Worth

Speeding train's wreck in Jersey kills 14, hurts 91   Many servicemen aboard crack Pennsy express

EXCEEDING OF SPEED LIMIT ON CURVE BLAMED   91 Injured As Pennsylvania Passenger Is Wrecked Near Camden. N. J.   SEVEN CARS ARE SMASHED   1.218 Aboard Were Returning From Week-end Spent At Seashore

EXCESSIVE SPEED ON CURVE GIVEN © ~ AS MISHAP CAUSE   Locomotive And First 7 Cars Of 15-Car Express, Filled With 1,281. Passengers, Derailed— 24 Of Injured In Hospital

Express Was Exceeding Speed Limit   Derailment Occurs on 14 Devree Curve

14 KILLED IN PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN WRECK   Engineer Blamed With Exceeding Speed Limit On Curve

14 Killed, 91 Hurt in — Train Wreck   Engineer Blamed For Traveling Toc Fast Into Curve

FOURTEEN DIE IN TRAIN WRECK   Fast Eastern Express Is Derailed On Curve

ENGINE AND SEVEN CARS PILED UP “PANIC BROKE QUT   Company Officials Say Train Entered Curve While Going Too Fast.

14 Killed In Railway Accident   Wreck Blamed on Exces sive Speed on Pennsyl vania in New Jersey

14 Persons Die In  prailment —  of Crack Train   92 Others Injured In Crash; Speed Limit Said Exceeded

14 Killed as Crack Train Jumps Curve in New Jersey   New York-Bound Express Wrecked; 1200 Paceanaere Aboard

Sfax On Coast Next Objective   Recent Promise: Of Allied Chief Cited

AMERICANS SEIZE GAFSA IN d0-MILE PUSH IN TUNISI   Yanks March Into Town Under New Command of Gen. George S. Patton, Tank Specialist.   ENEMY FORCES OFFER LITTLE OPPOSITION   Occupation Requires Only a Few Hours—Fleeing Axis Troops Bombed~ by  ‘ Airmen.

Yankee Drive Perils Supply Route of Axis   Americans Under Patton Take Town After 30-Mile Push: Continue to Smash at Rommel’s Flank

British Record Gains in  North, South   Lieut.-Gen. Patton Takes Command of the U.S. Force

Wipe Out Big Fighter Plane Base   St. Nazairre and Beaumont-leRoger Targets For Bombers.

PANTELLERIA FIRST FORTIFIED POINT T0 FALL TO AIR POWER  PROVIDES NEW ALLIED   AIRFIELD ONLY 65  MILES FROM SICILY

EW PRIEST AT ~— AYENS CHURCH   Father  Henry Karholff Takes Over Duties at St. Catherine’s

OVENS CHURCH   Father - Henry Karholff Takes Over Duties at St, Catherine’s

LEWIS GAINS ~~ -TWO-POINTS   WLR. RULES FOR CONTINUED UNION-OPERATOR CONFER.  {QES—HIGHER PAY:  8 IM SIGHT. ,.

RESUME WAGE NEGOTIATIONS IN MINE CASE   Lewis Pronounced Winner of First Round With WLB

Resume Coal Wage Parley   Lewis And Operators To Seek Settlement Of Coal Wage Dispute   WAR LABOR BOARD ORDERS NEGOTIATIONS

Missouri Over Bottom Lands   Estimate Cost Of Road Repair In State At Approxi mately $100,000,

ae ee )Shsl(a(<( Vv  Missouri Over Banks Again at Nebraska City   --- Loup Threatening Columbus Points

OAN PIETRO MAY Bt TAKEN SOON BY CLARK'S MEN   Americans Virtually — En. circle Nazi Strongholc  In 3-Day Battle

Battle Far From PushOver. Heavy Hand-ToHand Fighting Taking Place.

AMERICANS HAVE NEARLY SURROUNDED SAN PIETRO AREA   French Troops, in Fight For First Time, Score Two Victories

Today’s War Commentary  Those Idle Armies  Soon Mav Strike In Mediterranear

RED ARMY PUSHES BEYOND STALINO AT GREAT SPEED   Cuts Vital Rail Line Needed By Nazis Defending City of Kiev. .

Reds Capture Key To Kiey Defenses As Bakhimach Falls   Junction Cuts Rail Line to Capital Of Ukraine

EXTRA!   Rail Junction Is Captured By i Soviet Troop:   Decisive Base Point Of German Army On Kiev Front Taken In Fight Lasting Fwo Days

SOVIETS SEIZE KEY RAIL HUB   STALIN BARES CAPTURE OF BAKHMACH JUNCTION

Soviet Troops Take Bakmach  Russians Pursue Nazis Retreating From Stalino

Bond Sales Pass 11-Billion Mark   Morgenthau Says West Coast fs Laqging in Drive

VICTORY BOND SALES REPORTED BY TREASURY   Up to Last Night Sale: Had Mounted to $11, 322,000,000. West Coast Lagging.

WILLKIE DISCUSSES FUTURE OF AMERICA   Reveals His Impressions in Book Gained on Flight Around World in . 19437.

Crops, Taxes Occupy Men At Capital   Sales Tax Again Proposed byGeorge; Farmers in Action

—AIR WAR—  NAV TO SPEED AERIAL WARFARE   New Air Operations Div: sion Begins Function  ing Today

BANKHEAD GROUP WOULD OVERRIDE AUOSEVELT VETO   Senate Farm Bloc Confi dent, But Support Doubtful In House

FOUR BREAK FROM ALCATRAZ PRISON   THREE PRISONERS SHOT TO DEATH; CAPTURE FOURTH

4 ATTEMPT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ   Long Termers Jump Into Bay; One Re-captured

4 TRY TO FLEE FROM “ROCK”   At Least One Prisoner Recaptured at Alcatraz

4 CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM ALGATRAZ   Notorious . Desperadoes Gamble Their Lives For Freedom

BRADY GETS REPRIEVE   Governor Will Give Supreme Court a Chance to Rule on Appeal

STILL TIME T0 PLANT CORN   Obto Farmers Told that Corn May be Planted as Late as June 26 for Feed or July 2 for .. Silage and Stil! Give Full Yield.

U.S. Planes Raid Norway by Daylight  Canadians Repulse Germans in Sicily

U.S. BOMBERS RAID NORWAY BY DAYLIGHT   Large Formations, Making First Attack, Fly 1,200 Miles Round Trip —Farther Than if Attacking’ Berlin.

3. FORGES BOMB NORWAY   Factory Located on Eastern Coast Reported to Be Main Tarcet.

Americans Bomb Plant In Norway   Raiders Make 1,200 Mile Round Trip

U.S. Planes in Aitack on Norway   Yankees Hit War Plant ix First Raid on That Area; Fly 1,200 Miles   RESULTS GOOD, PHOTOS SHOW   Raid by Large ‘Formations of 8th Air Force Encounters Little Opposition

YankBombers Stage First Norway Raid   Fortresses Make 1,200 Mile Round Trip To Blast: Nazi Factory »    OPPOSITION 1S LIGHT   Huge American Ships Prove Ability To Attack Effectively At Long Range

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST NORWAY FOR FIRST TIME   Large Formations Make Round Trip of 1,200 Miles: Results Good

Another Allied Invasion Thrust Expected Soon   Mass Raid On Norway

DEMS TO STAY Oh IN HIGHWAY POSTS   Shortages of Skilled Technicians Influence Move; No Mass Resignations

EYE SHIFTS IN HIGHWAY DEP'T   Rumors Of Mass Resignation Won’t Occur,  Officials Say

‘MIRRORED GLASS LEADS ‘TO RESCUE OF 3 FLIERS ‘MAROONED 10 MONTHS

THREE FLIERS ESCAPE DEATH   Jap Jungles Cannot Hold Yanks Over Ten Month Period On New Guinea

STANDARDIZED MENU PROPOSED BY HOTELS   Shortage Of Help And Food Causing Many Hostelriex Te Curtall Luxerc Serrices

REDS CLOSING IN FOR KILL NEAR OREL   River Crossing Puts Russians Within Eight Mies Cr City; Nazis Lose Nea  -  Eleorod   Broken Lines

RUSSIANS CROSS” RIVER NEAR OREL; KILL 2,000 NAZIS   Gains of Two to Four Miles Made by Columns Approaching City From North and South.   *  GERMAN ATTACKS NEAR BOLKHOV FAIL   Nazis Report Reds Have Thrown 18 Divisions Into Offensive South of Leningrad.

RUSS FORCES: CLOSE IN FOR KILL AT OPEL   Germans Admit Severe Setbacks in the Donets Basin   GAINS ARE SCORED IN OTHER SECTIONS   Victorious Soviets Advance Several Miles Toward.Ore! ._______

REDS CONTINUE GAINS AT OREL AND IN DONETS   Germans Say 18 Soviet Divisions On Offensive  Near Leningrad   2,000 NAZIS SLAIN IN RIVER FIGHTING

Reds Also Start Powerful Drive Near Leningrad   Fighteen Divisions Re ported Engaged in New Offensive   Two Thousand German: Reported Killed East of Orel

Soviets Continue Gains Near Orel; Push: Forward  In Donets Basin   Claim - 5,400 German Troops. Killed In Steady Drive,- Nazis Admit Setbacks In Jéace of Pow ful Russian Of.

Red Army Makes New Gains At Orel   Forces Cross River East Of Nazi Base, Killing 2,000 Germans; Berlin Reports Reds Open Olivsiss At Leningrad

Red Forces Cross River  Fact of Orel   Columns to North And South Also Gain,  Winceaw Annannces   RAILWAY TO BRYANSK DIRECTLY MENACED   FRREUR Ns Bos BR LPR A Re  Reds Still Silent On Leningrad Drive Reported by Nazis

SOVIETS PUSH ACROSS RIVER EAST OF OREL   MORE TOWNS FALL 2,000 GERMANS ARE KILLED

REDS SMASH OVER STREAM EAST OF OREI   Germans Report Great Russian Drive In Leningrad Area

Reds Nearly Encircle — City of Orel   Russians Move Up Twe To Four Miles; Threaten Karachev

Reds Smash Nearer Orel As Nazis Say Leningrad Flares   Advancing Russians Crush Fierce Nazis “As Web Draws Tigher-On Pivotal Race

Wipe out 2,000 Germans massed at river crossing east of axis stronghold   Soviets display terrific striking power at every point alons front

‘Huge Soviets Crash  Across River To 4core New Gains   18 Red Divisions In Offensive ’   Below Leningrad

25 Nominating Petitions Filed For 14 Offices   ‘Tuesday Was Last Day For Filing Petitions for Primary

5 Candidates eek 14 Maj or ity Offices      five Are Unopposed:;  : Dr. Ryan Only One Out  Tor Mayor Here; Five ‘Council Posts

Senate Gets Bill Adding Tabor Coasts in Parity   Bismarck WPB Office  Tn Eltince Building

Include Labor In Parity Plan  House Approves Setup, Senate Mav: S2e Veto

Catch City Boys Asleep   House Passes Bill To Add Labor Cost  Te Farm Parities

House Farm  Bloc Wins   Pass Measure to Include Labor Costs In Fixing Parity

SLICKER PULLED BY FARM BLOC   House Approves Inclusion of Cost of Labor in Figuring Farm Price Parity

HOUSE PASSES PAGE MEASURE   Farm Bloc Uses Surprise Maneuver for Amendment of Parity Bill.   /FDR OPPOSES PROPOSAL

HOUSE PASSES LABOR COSTS FARM MEASURE   Farm Bloc Pushes Legislation Through io Senate in Surprise Move, ‘City Fellers’ Absent

May Veto Parity Bill   FDR Opposes Measure Increasing Farm Price Base: ‘to Senate Today

FARM CHIEFS ELATED WITH "LATEST BILL   Labor Costs Included in Parity Computations On Prices

FARM BLOG PASSES PARITY AMENDMENT   Senate May Approve but President Veto Feared After Surprise House Action

Morgenthau Tells Of Naples Havoc   Says Nazt Destruction Exceeded Expectation

EDEN STRESSES ACCORD AS KEY ~TOWARVIGTOR   British Foreign Secretary Arrives in Washingtor for Conferences Witt President Roosevelt.

Diplomat Here To Discuss All Aspects of War   Full Collaboration By United Nations Stressed by Visitor

Must figure on long war. Eden asserts   British secretary emphasizes need of collaboration

D.S.c. TO A KANSAN   Hartford Man Is Awarded for “Heroism” in Action

Ashburnham Girl Takes daitle Study 4 English Schools   Dentist Contends New Sugar Has important Value   Vitamin, Mineral Elements Make Dehydrated Type A Decay  Preventitive

Strikers May Lose Draft Deferment   President Roosevelt Puts Weight Of Government Behind Labor Board  me. ZCAwWDWT Ce” eet a pvmrupnr eo

Japanese Navy Loses 14 Warships In Attempting To Thwart Allied Drive

14 Jap Ships Sunk This Week; No Close Enemy Gain   Americans and New Zealand Troops Gain Complete Control of Treasury Island; 700 Planes Damaged At Rabaul.

JAP NAVY HAS LOST 14 SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED THIS WEEK IN THE SOLOMONS AREA —   Enemy Task Force Secking To Shell U. S. Merines On Empress Augusta Bay Never Was Closer Than 40 Miles and Lost 9 of 12 Ships

Didn’t Get Anywhere Near Our Beachhead Japs, Lured Into Open  Lose 14 Warships Sunk Or Damaged In 5 Days

JAP EFFORTS 10 HOLD SOLOMONS PROVING COSTLY   Fourteen Nip Warships Sunk Or Damaged: Mafines Stab Deeper Into Bougainville

14. NiP SHIPS PUT OUT OF ACTION SINCE TUESDAY   Fail to Get Within 40 Miles of Destination at Bougainville

Report 14 Ships Lost By Japan  In Single Weel   Nippon’s Navy Lured More And More Within Range Of American’ Barrages

JAPS PAY HEAVILY IN VAIN TRY TO THWART OFFENSIVE   Pay The Price cf.14 Warships Sunk Or Damaged. Without  . Even Getting Close To U. 5S. Landing On Bougainville

Four Japanese Warships Sunk   Enemy Fleet Routed Without Getting Near  BRouaainville leland

CHECK THE ENEMY   Americans Hold Off Japs and Sink 14 Warships —  in Pacific ~

14. Japanese W arships Blasted As Nips, Facing Islands’ Less, ‘Seek To Stop U. S. Advance

Japan’s Navy Unable To Aid  Bougainville   Marines Drive Ahead, Threatening  Loss of Solomons

Nippons Lose 40 Ships This Week   Japs Pay Heavy Price in Trying to Get in Range of Bouganville.

JAPANESE LOST ~ TA WARSHIPS IN — PACIFIC CLASHES   Enemy Cruiser and Four Destroyers Among Vescole Sunk

ACCOUNT OF NAVAL BATTLE IS RELEASED   Enemy Cruiser, Four Destroyers Sent To Bottom; Four Others In Task Force Shelled   U. S. VESSELS SCARRED

JAPAN’S LOSS IN SEA BATTLE REACHES FIVE      Allies Reper!  Cruiser, 4 Desiroyers Sunk, 2 Cruisers. 2 Destroyers Damaged

Japanese Thrust Into Solomons Costs 14 Sips  U. oft Nip Bttoct To Shell Marines

Victorious In Naval Skirmish   Jap Task Force Completely Routed More Than 40 Miles from Empress Augusta Bay

Cruiser And Four Destroyers Sent To Bottom, Two Other Cruisers And Two Destroyers Hit When U. S. Fighting Force Intercepts Attempt To Shell Marines On Bougainville—Enemy Losses Total Fourteen Vessels In Week’s Engagements

Japanese Navy Pays Big Price For Sea Action   Warships Unable To Give Aid to Troops on Island

Jap Ship Loss For  Week 14   Enemy Is Held Off U.S. Beachheads  On Bougainville

Drive Across Burma Near   Rueful Japs Count 14 Warships Lost in Week

War Casualties  80,000 to Date   Africa Total Will Add 5000 to U.S. Losses

More Than 80,000 Men of U, S. Armed Forces Lost in Battle  ‘Casualties in 17 Months of War

OR CASUALTIES.   We Have Lost More Than S0.000 Men So Par In War.

U5, CASUALTIES IN WAR 80,000   KEPORTS FROM TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN EXPECTED TO ADD 5,000 TO LIST.

Yugoslavs Beat Off Nazi Forces   Believe Partisans Answer Leader’s Plea

Corn Crop Prospects Not Good; Rail Serve ice Is Impaired by. Flood Waters.

Prospects for White Christmas Are Remote For Most of U. S. But Milder Weather Is Forecast

Defenses at  Alll Points Penetrated   Wedges Driven by Americans and Their Australian Allies Reduce Enemy Holdings in General Assault

Japanese Driven From Area In Crushing Assault   Triumphant Announce: ment Says Few Snipers Are Being Eliminated

New Guinea Area Cleared Of Japanese   Special Communique Tells Of Triumph In Long Drive

All Points Pen etrated   Wedges Driven by Americans and Their Australian Allies Reduce Fnemy Holdings in General Assault

LON, HARD  FIGHT WON BY ALLIES   General MacArthur in Field Directing Men as Bitter Siege Comes ta an End.   ONLY SNIPERS REMAIN IN ZONE   Nipponese Fought From Cleverly-Built Bunkers With Orders to Resist io Last Man.

RAF HITS GERMAN CITY OF HAMBURG IN. FULL FORCE   Air Ministry Call the Raid On Germany’s Largest Port “Heavy.” 10 Bombers Fail To Re ott.

§6TH AIR RAID ~ MADE ON HAMBURG   Germans Attempt Retaliation With 50-Plane Raid On England

NAZIS STAGE FIERCE RALLY NEAR DONETS   Russ Orel Offensive Still Maintaining Good Pace

REDS ADVANCE 1N OREL AND KHARKOV AREA   Critical Point Of Winter Offensive In South Might   Re Near Now.

Nazi Attacks Slow Tempe  Of Russ Drive   Reichswehr Battles Savagely in Donets Basin Sector

Stalin Proposes Toasts to Tripartite Conference Success at Kremlin Dinner

STALIN FEASTS ALLIES AT DINNER   Proposes Toast To Success Of Tripartite Conference; Hull’s First Night Social Engagement.

MOBILE AREA QUIET   Area Quiet After Racial Disorders Of Tuesday Subside

MOBILE QUIET BUT TROOPS STILL ON GUARD AT YARDS   Racial Disorders Yesterday Appear About Over But Negro Workers Still Out °

Compromise On Draft Measure   Expect Passage of Bill Halting Induction of Fathers Till All Others Are Taken

DADS WILL BE DRAFTED LAST   House And Senate Prepared To Adopt  Action

Congress to Hall Drafting Fathers  Conferees Moving to Final Action

SPEED VOTE ON FATHER - DRAFT   Conferees Press For Final Action On Bill To Halt Or Slow Up Indyction Of Fathers. 7

DRIVE NOW ON TO SLOW DOWN FATHER DRAFT   Food Subsidy Defeat ls Conceded While Congress Studies Soldier Voting

LEGISLATORS T0 PUSH ACTION ON DRAFT MEASURE   Bill Would Slow or Stop En. tirely Induction of Pre-War Fathers

CONFEREES MOVE FAVORS FATHERS   House Expected to Act Firs! on- Compromise Measure Approved BY Group.

Conferees In AgreementOn Father Draft   *redict Sharp Decline in Drafting of Pre-War Fathers

ACTION ON FATHER DRAFT 1S IMMINENT   Bill Deferring Dads To Last Certain Of Approval

Final Action on Dad Draft Looms ~ Predict Approval * Of Legislation to ~ Slow Down or  Halt Induction

Action Near On Dad Deferment   Conferees Agree On Legislation, Votes Due Early

Conferees See Possible  Delay In Fathers’ Draf   Final Action On Legislation Sought After Compromise Group Works Out Plan -—WMC Would Lose  ae SS Se ee

Act to Halt Father Draft Set for Vote      Conferees Press Action ic Strip WMC of All Draft Powers

Americans Consolidate Positions   Heavy Rain Continues To Hamper Operations In Tunisia After Troops Reach El Guetar

Rains Slow Yankee Advance in Africa; British Repel Axis   Giraud Sees Gafsa Fall as Beginning of Big Allied Offensive

U. S. Forces Threaten \Coastal Road Linking IVon Arnim, Rommel Units

RAINS SLOW UP ALLIED FORCES   ‘British Retreat From Tam=  era; Repulse 2 Attacks  At New Line.   iGEN. GIRAUD IN GAFSA

HEAVY RAINS HALT ADVANCE TOWARD GABES   Giraud Says Final Drive On Germans Started   LOCAL SUCCESSES   scored By Nazis In North; Planes From Libya Hit At Mareth Line

FRANK M’SHANE, BADLY INJURED   General Manager Of Capital-Gaxette Press In Gritical Condition

PUBLISHER IS BADLY INJURED   Frank L. McShane, Of Annapolis Newspaper, Struck By Truck Near Edgewood, Md.

Bomb Nazi  Industries   RAF Attacks Factery Targets In Ruhr Valley

TAXES AND POSTWAR COLLABORATION ARE FACING CONGRESS  MORE THAN TEN BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES EXPECTED TO BE ASKED

TAXES AND POSTWAR COLLABORATION ARE FACING CONGRESS  MORE THAN TEN BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES EXPECTED

New Fires Started in Nazi Capital   Over 600 Planes Drop 1,200 to 1,500 Tons of Bombs— Allies Gain in Italy

600 Planes Used In Raid; 41 Lost   8th Army Advances on Adriatic Coast; Reds Open New Offensive

Reds Urge 2nd Front In *43   No Military Successes Made By German Army This Past Year.

SOVIETS DECLARE GERMANY FACES INTERNAL CRISIS   CONTEND TIME IS NOW RIPE FOR A QUICK VICTORY

Russia Urges Second Front   Says Quick Victory Can Be Assured If Allies Strike Now

SECOND FRONTS - NEEDED IN CRISIS   Russian Radio Has.Statemen! On Second Anniversary of Hitlers Invasion.

* Nazis Seen _Collapsing   Moscow Puts Enemy Toll at 6.400.000 .

CALL REVIVED   Speak On Second Anniver: ' sary of Hitler’s Invasion of Russia

Nazis Face Crisis, Lose  6 Million Men   Reds Ask For  Secand Front

Second Front Again Asked  By Russians   Allies Must Strike Now In Europe to Obtain Quick Victory

Germany Facing Crises, But Second Front Is Needed, Russians Declare

Second Front Vital For a Quick Victory   Moscow Claims Germany Is Facing Military and Political Crisis   LOSSES ARE COMPARED

Russia Asserts Allies Must Open Second Front To Find Quick Victory In Fighting

GERMANY SHOCKED BY RECENT REVERSES NOW FACING CRISIS  ALLIES MUST OPEN NEW FRONT IN EUROPE, HOW-

Germany Facing Military And Political-Crisis Says Reds; Ask Second Front

Soviet Calls. For 2d Front As Nazis Sliy   On Second Anniversary of Invasion, Russians Ask ‘Quick Victory’   CITE HITLER LOSSES  ilk hse ey EO.   Moscow Places German Casualties at 6,400,000 on Eastern Front

Germany Faces Military, Polifical Crisis, Bit Russia Eager for Allied Second Front

Nazi Reverses Bringing Crisis Russians Clain   But No Victory Seen Without Invasion   “Not Enough”

RUSSIANS URGE QUICK INVASION BY THE ALLIES   Must Open Front In Europe This Summer If Speedy Victory Is To Be Attained, Reds Declare.

Russians Renew Plea For Allied “Second Front”  Attack On Europe Only Way To Speed

6 Million Nazis Lost — Moscow   Second Front Needed Quick Victory’

HOOVER URGES FOOD CONTROL   STRESSES NEED OF SINGLE HEAD OVER FOOD PRODUCTION

FOOD HEAD NEEDED, HOOVER. DECLARES   Says Food Chaos Could Be Eliminated By Congress

‘Lighthing’ Fighter Pilots Bring  Down 27 Craft in 15-Minute Fight   Submarine Sneaks Into Coastal Ship Lanes to Destroy Merchant Vessel

P-38°S CATCH BIG FORMATION ABOVE SICILY   Every Flier Downs or Damages I Enemy Plane

97 Crafts of «Axis Downed  Near Sicily     BATTLE OVE m NARROWS GOERS ONE-SIDEDLAY EN AMERTCAN FAVOR.

No U.S. Fighters Lost In Stunning Triumph  German Crews Jump Without Fight   German Crews Jump Without Fight. As Aid Flisht to Rommel Is Cut Off !

Capua, 17 Miles North of Naples, Under Big Guns   ‘Forts’ Bomb Venice Area as 8th Army Repels Nazi Counter - Atlack

DUCE TAKING REVENGE   Mussolini Ordering Arrest Of Maljams Whe Exulted Over Ouster

SENATE WILL DRAFT POSTWAR PROGRAM   Fulbright Resolution, Adopted by House, Goes Into Discard

Senate To Draft Own Post-War Policy Measure   Plan Expressing ‘Own Attitude Due Before Chrictmrne

GROUP 10 DRAFT POST-WAR POLICY   Fulbright Resolution Bottled Up; Marvin Jones Asks for Commodity Credit Corporation Extension

SENATE GROUP TO DRAFT OWN POLICY STAND   F ulbright Resolution Passed by House is Bottled Up

SENATE ACTS ON POST-WAR POLICY ALONE   HOUSE RESOLUTION SHELVED; DRAFT BAN DOOMED

Fulbright Resolution Bottled Up   SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS SUB-COMMITTEE Ww  ILL DRAFT POST-WAR FOREIGN  POLICY STATEMENT OF ITS OWN.   Jones Asks Bribe Fund

Nips Shur Code on Prisoners   JAP GOVERNMENT VOWS WAR CRUELTY IN NOTE TO U. S. HEADS

Tokio Expands Outlaw Policy, Admits Deaths   Spokesman Couples New: With Warning Uniform Is No Protection   RECEIVE U.S. NOTE   Ali Fighting Men Taken Must Face ‘Justice’ Of Niopen Judaes

NIPS ADMIT EXECUTION OF FLIERS   Spokesman Quoted On Radio Tokyo; Policy Outlined

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Churchill Says” U-Boats Beaten In May, June:        Heavy..Fighting in: Mediterranean by’. Fall: Forecast =’

Churchill Hails Massacre Of U Boats, Sees Heavy Fighting Before Autumn   Prime Minister Pledges Great Britain Will Fight Japan ‘Through Flaming Years’ With Air Land Sea Forces

AGAIN PLEDGES FINISH FIGHT AGAINST JAPA   ‘Predicts “Heavy Fighting” By Fall In Encouraging Speech

British Premier Again ‘Declares Japan Will Be Fought To Final Victory

TOTAL DEFEAT ACHIEVED IN MAY AND JUNE   Pledges Great Britain Will Fight On Until Japan Gives Up Or Is Licked   REVIEWS WAR’S PROGRESS   Sees Heavy Fighting Soon in Mediterranean; Air Assaults To Continue

MASSACRE’ OF NAZI SUBS IN MAY, JUNE TURNS BATTLE TIDE   Allied Shipping Almost Unmolested In 2-Month Period; Gives New Pledge To Fight Jans To End   Rm. HARRICON SALISRIRY

MASSACRE OF ENEMY. REPORTED   Minister Reports More Than 40 Subs’ Were Sunk in May—Japs © Given Warning. <:

Says Nation Will Fight Until Japan “Bites The Dust”   “Total Defeat’ of German Subs During May, June Asserted

BRITAIN WILL FIGHT UNTIL JAPS SUBMIT   Prime Minister Reaffirms Determination to Assist In Crushing Tokyo.

Declares ‘Shipping Unmolested, Enemy Stbs Massaered; Reiterates Promise to Con tinue Fight Against Japs

Prime Minister States Britain  Will Fight on  Until Japs Are Beaten

Nazi Subs Take Beating in May, June   Prime Minister Repeats Pledge Regarding Japan

Sank More Than 30 In May Alone   CHURCHILL SAYS BATTLE OF   ATLANTIC BECAME ‘MASSACRE  OF U-BOATS’; PROMISES . TOTAL: WAR ON JAPS

30 Submarines Sunk During May, Reports Premier   Allied Victory in the Battle of Atlantic Claimed By Churchill; Pledges Continuance of Fight Against Axis

TOTAL DEFEAT OF U-BOATS IN MAY AND JUNE      Churchill In Address At Guild Hall-30 Subs Are Sunk ,

Promises British to Fight Japs   Sees Heavy Fighting This Summer in Europe —  “No Compromise’’

Churchill Reports Thirty Axis Submerines Sunk During May—F orecasts Heavier Air Attacks

)- BOAT MASSACRE IS TOTAL DEFEAT CHURCHILL SAYS   Prime Minister In Address at Guild Hall Declares Allied Shipping Is Nearly Unmolested. _   WIDE RANGE OF WAR SUBJECTS DISCUSSEL   Expects Heavy Mediterranean Fighting, Allies Wil Accept Only Unconditiona Surrender.

Continue Blasting At Sicily   Becomes Center of Offens. _ive Against Italy—Three Islands Surrender

AF PLANTS MINES IN ENEMY WATERS   German Supply. Ships And Trains Are Attacked

LIGHT BRITISH ~~ PATROL BOMBERS -——HITENEMY SHIPS   Three Supply Ships in Convoy Hit Off the Dutch Coast.   MINE ENEMY WATERS   Aircraft of the Fighter Command Attack Freight Trains.

Enemy Supply. Ships. Raided   RAF Hits Shipping Upon Dutch: Coast; Planes ~ Place Mines. :

Three Nazi Vessels Hit   British Patrol Bombers Attack Convoy Off Dutch Coast; No European Raid

Reduction In Absenteeism By Own Methods Put Up To Workers By Man Known Here

ALCOA WORKERS COMMISSIONED TO AID LABOR   Move Unprecedented Country Manpower Chief Says

FOUR PERISH IN ALLIANCE FIRE      Mother of Large Family, Three Children Die; Others Escape

MOTHER OF EIGHT IS FIRE VICTIM   Three of Brood Also Also Perish in House Fire

IN ALLIANCE HOME   a  Mother and Three of Eight : Children Perish

Red forces crash thru nazi barrier   Launch drive to hurl enemy back

Desna Barrier Is. Crashed By Reds   Troops Surge On Toward Smolencie

FINAL GERMAN BARRIER BEFORE DNIEPER FALLS   Russians Now 18 Miles From Smolensk And 25 Miles From Kiev   NAZI TROOP TRAINS HIT BY RED AIRMEN

SOVIETS SURGE THROUGH STRONG NAZI DEFENSES: ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS   Last Nazi Barrier Before Dnieper Grumbles Under Russian Attack; Reds Surge On Toward Smolensk And Kiev

German Line ‘Crumbles For: Soviets   Red Army Spearheads Cut Deeper Into Enemy’s Strongholds

DESNA DEFENSE LINE OF NAZIS IS PENETRATED   Reds Sweep Across River In Titantic Drive To Push Germans Back  To Boundaries

Russians Drive Toward Smolenst Push Nazis Back   Stalin Says German Plan Tc Stem Red Army Advances Has Failed

Realistic 10-Day ‘Mock Invasion’ Carried Out In England By British And Canadian:

Huge ‘Mock Invasion’ Maneuver in England Complete; Nazis Deceived

HORDES OF AXIS ARE THREATENED BY ENCIRCLEMENT   Berlin Admits Russians Have  - Scored Break Through of  Major Importance fn Terrible Battle.   60 JAP AIRPLANES, 3 SHIPS DESTROYED   Raiders Ride at Top Speeo In Tropical Thunderstorm Monday to Catch Enemy Off Guard.

Russians Sweep Through Nazis in Dnieper Bend   Threaten to Circle Thousands of Enemy at Dnepropetrovsk

UVES. WEEP THU ONIEPEH DEFENSE LINES   Major Break-Through Scored, German Radio Admits In Broadcast Today

Soviets Pour TroopsThrough Dnieper Hole   Germans Hurl in Reserves In Futile Attempt to Hold Line

Berlin Says All Available Reserves Thrown Into Bitter Fight: Soviet Gains Trap Germans.

RUSSIANS DRIVING THROUGH DNIEPER BEND ENEMY LINES   Nazis Continue To Rush “Fresh Troops Into Melitopol To Halt Reds’ Advance

SOVIETS CUT NAZI ROUTE OF ESCAPE   Germans Admit Major Russian Break-Through

Berlin Admits Major Russian  Break-Througk   Germans Pour In Reinforcementa On Southern Front

Russian “Mobile. Forces’) Driving Swiftty. ‘Through Crumbled. Gor} Dnieper

AUSOIAND SCURE BREAK THRUEAT ONIEPER BEND      Drive Swiftly Through Crumbled German Defenses, Threaten Encirclement Of Thousands Of Nazis In Scythe-Like Sweep   FORTIFICATIONS OF GERMANS FALL APART

GERMANS ADMIT MAJOR BREAK IN. DEFENSE LINE   Reds Swing Scythe Which May Encircle Tens of Thousands.

Russian Mobile Forces Driving  Through Nazis   Encirclement of Thousands Threatened At Dnepropetrovsk

TAKE TOWN OF YELNA, BUT 43 MILES DISTAN   Onrushing Reds Only 25 Miles From Stalino, Headquarters Of Southern Nazi Army

Soviet Forces’ Triumphs Annot Announced In Two Orders Of  The Day By Premier Stalin Soon After Capture Of  Taganrog—Russian Offensive Also Leads To Taking Of Rylsk—Strength Of Summer Assault Indicated By Wide Range Of Victories

Soviets Clear Taganrog Area  Of Last Nazis   All Russia Celebrates Clearing Of Rostov Province tn Sauth.   ADVANCE ON BRYANSK

Yelnya, Glukhov Fall To Soviets   Stalin Announces Capture in Order of Day and Orders Salute Fired — Reds Sweeping Forward Beyond Taganrog And Are Threatening Mariupol

Russians Advance In New Offensive   Yelnya Falls to Triumphant Reds . As Germans Give Way on Wide Front

RUSSIANS CLAIM NEW TRIUMPH   Soviet Army Seizes Yelnya, Importent Town East Of Smolensk

SEE THREAT TO STALINO AND SEAPORT   Cavalry And Tank Units Get Credit For Major Victory At Taganrog: Remnants Of Garrison In Trap

Double Blow At Center Of Hitler Front   Southern Forces Smash Beyond Taganrog, Menace Mariupol, Stalino.

Reds Take Yelnya, Roll Along 45-Mile Route to Smolensk   Russians Make Important Advance Toward Northern German Bastion: Hail Second Big Victory in 2 Days

Reds Celebrate Fall of Gateway To Caucasus Oil   Meanwhile Victorious Russian Armies Push For ward, Threaten Mariupol   Remnants of Taganrog Garrison Wiped Out

Smashing Gains on Sea of Azov and Against Nazi Center Cive Proof of Strength of Army   GAIN ON BRYANSK   Russians Methodically Wipe Out Surrounded Taganrog Garrison, Advance West, Northwes

RUSSIANS PUSH UNCHECKED OVER NAZIS’ DEFENSES      Soviet Army Has AI. ready Covered Half of Distance Between Fallen Taganrog And Mariupol; Russia Celebrates New Victories.

SOVIETS SMASH “WHZVDEFENES   Red Army Drives Through From Fallen Taganrog To Mariunol.

Two New Red Victories Told   Stalin Announces Fall of  Glukhov. Yelnva

Yelnya Is Captured By Red Armies   Glukhov also Taken in Twin Drives Against Center of Nazi Front; Huge ‘RAF Armada Smashes at German Rhineland

SOVIETS DRIVE ENEMY BACK ON WIDENED FRONT   GERMANS IN RETREAT ALONG BOTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AREAS

TAKE YELNYA, GLUKHOV IN TWIN DRIVES   Both Are on Central Front —Former City Was Most Important Resistance Center in Smolensk Area.

NEW TOWNIN REDS’ HANDS   Capture Yelnya, 45 Miles East of Smolensk, As Advance Continues

DRIVE THROUGH NAZI DEFENSES PAST TAGANROG   Troops Half Way To Mariupol In Sudden Move

Iwo Important Towns Captured In Twin Drives   Russians Sweep Unchecked Along Azov Seacoast

Yelnya, 40 Miles East Of Smolensk, And Glukhov In Sevsk Sector Are Captured

Russians Push dn, Mariupol Is Next Goal   Pincers Movement Again Applied With Great Success

TWO MORE TOWNS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS IN A TWIN DRIVE   Yelnva and Gluck Gulkhoy Were Captured, Premier Stalin Announced.   YELNYA TAKEN FIRST   A Short Time Later He Followed It Up With Capture of Gulkhov.

BRIDGEHEAD IN CAUCASUS IS OBJECTIVE   Fall of Taganrog, Sixth  Major Enemy Bastion  Seized by Reds Celebrated by Soviets  REPYANCK DRIVE GAINS

REDS ADVANCE ALONG SHORES OF AZOV SEA   In Race to Cut Off German Forces on the Crimea Peninsula and Collapse Nazi Bridcehead

CAPTURE OF YELNA ON WAY TO SMOLENSK REPORTED BY REDS   SECOND SMASHING VIC' TORY OF RUSSIAN ARMIES IN PAST TWO DAYS

Enemy Garrison At Taranrog Is Trapped By Reds   Russia Celebrates Fall Of Key Point

Seize Yelnya, But 45 Miles From Bastion   Announce Third Major Triumph In Two Days;

'Reds Sweep Beyond Taganrog Half Way to Mariupol, As All Nazi Right Wing Is Menaced   Another Advance Toward Konotop as Moscow Celebrates

Important Advance Toward Strong Point In Northern Line Reported By Moscow   Second Smashing Vielory In As Many Days Is Cause Of Additional Rejoicing; Capital’s Guns Fired Again in Honor Uf Vieturious Armies

Yelnya Falls In Drive East  Of Smolensk   Moscow Celebrates the Twe Victories on Fronts Hundreds of Miles Apart   AN ENEMY FORCE TPAPPED IN SOUTH   Soviets Are Racing On to Collapse Nazi Bridgehead in the Caucasus

Soviet Troops Pushing Drive On Mariupol   All Russia Celebrates Fall of Taganrog; Pincer Movement Succeeds

Injuries Cause Death of Youth   Richard Cornelius Dies in Hospital: Funeral Incomplete

Injuries Cause  Death of Youth   Richard Cornelius, Eldred. Dies In Hospital

Allied Leaders Confer Today With Spaniard   Rommel Reported  Southern Italy Moscow Radi  Reports

AXIS TAKES BEATING FROM ALLIES IN AIR   Two Million Tons of Bombs Dropped in Africa

Allies Cut Down 24 More Aircraft   ALLIES LOSE 23 PLANES AS ENEMY SHIPS FALL FROM SKIES LIKE LEAVES; GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS STIFLED IN TUNISIA

BRITISH ATTACK 3 MILES FROM CITY OF TUNIS   Allies Making Steady Progress in Campaign to Drive Axis Forces to Coffin Corner

112 KNOCKED DOWN IN TWO DAY ASSAULT   German Commander in Tunisia Reportedly Has Appealed for More Aircraft in N. Africa

YANKS MAKE GAINS ON GUADALCANAL   ADVANCE UNDER JAP AERIAL BOMBARDMENT—SEA BATTLE NOT YET JOINED.

i Driven ack OnIsle   Novy Stil! Silent On Battle Between Fleets

Warships Of Rival Fleets In Skirmishes   Grand Forces Advance ~ fo West: Recurrent Sea Fighting Reported

American Troops Advance in Guadalcanal   Warships of Rival Fleets Still Are Skirmishing

Japs Pushed Slowly Back On Guadalcanal As Rival Fleets Keep Jockeuina For Position

U.S. Forces Gain On  Guadalcanal   Rival Warships SHll Skirmishing In Solomons Arec

GROUND TROOPS IN ADVANGE ON GUADALCANAL   Navy Is Still Silent Regarding Progress Of Sea And Air Battle

Rival Ships At The Solomons  Sull Skirmish   Fires Started In Raid On Airport Of Japs At Buin

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE FURTHER   Warships Still Skirmish. ing in Solomons Area

PACIFIC FIGHT STILL GOES ON   Results Of Continuing Engagements Not Announced

South Pacific Heets Still Skirmish   Americans Make More Gains Against Guoadaleanal Jans

RIVAL FLEETS OF WARSHIPS oSKIRMISHING   Meager Reports Of Naval Fighting In Pacific Area Are Available.

AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL MAKE FURTHER ADVANCES DRIVING FOE TO END OF THE 151 AND.

Armed For orces’ Members May Obtain Five Gallons Of Gas For Own Use

MAY OBTAIN EXTRA GAS   Men and Women on Furlough Eligible for 5 Extra Gallons

JAIL BREAK FAILS: KILL ONE PRISONER   Two Conviets Wounded, Guard Hurt

RAILWAY AND AIR CENTER IN ITALY   Americans Take Lioni and Castelnuova on Salerno Front

Airfield Center ~ Of Italy Taken By Allied Army   British Capture Foggia And Yanks Take Two More Towns   ADVANCE ON NAPLES STEADY

Production  IN U.S. Lags   Lieut. Gen. Somervell Says Output of Vital Military Needs Behind

Japs Apparently Have Fled Base  Indicates Rekata   Indicates Rekata Bay Ahandoanad

SOCIAL PLAN COST FIGURED   SENATE GROUP SAYS EXTEN. - SION OF PROGRAM WOULD ADD THREE BILLIONS  TO TAX BILL —

NEW ‘CRADLE TO GRAVE BIL 1S CRITICIZED   American taxpayers would be saddled with additional burden

CRADLE-G RAVE PLAN EXPENSIVE   Additional Yearly Burden Of Three Billion Seen In Wagner-Murray Bill

Russians Claim Further Gains   Take Three Villages In Bely Sector

REDS ON WAY TO SMOLENSK TAKE 3 PLACES   Other Russian Troops Thwart All Attempts Of Germans To Cross The Donets Ri VvVPper_   Close Range Fighting

SOVIETS TAKE 3 MORE TOWNS   Gains Made In Smolensk Drive; Donets Line  Holds Firm

Sicilians Are Greeting Americans  With Mixed Emotions, Reports Say   People Seemingly Stunned By The Swiftness Of The Allied Invasion, Correspondent Writes; Sniping Goes On While Natives Cheer.

Barefoot Crier Parades Streets Urging Italians To Stop Fighting As Americans Invade Sicily Cit

Nazis Pour Into  Southern France   2 Complete Armies  pr in Region

7 Pastor Travels Fast : Trying To Save Souls  But OPA Catches Up

Wisconsin Has Been Sunk, Is Tokyo Report   Super-Battleship Is Sent Down By Propagandists Befote It Is Ready Tc Put To Sea

NiPS SET RECORD   Claim Wisconsin Sunk in Solomons: Launched at Philadelphia Dec. 7

Lewis Again  Defies W. LB   Refuses To Appear At Board Meeting On Coal Wage Situation   OPERATORS APPEAR FOR DAY’S SESSION

Interpreting  The War   Historic Victory Is Important to Many Far-Off Points

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Past Week's Allied Gains Among Most Important YY Entire Conflict

ACTION ON TAX BILL MAY WAIT RECONVENING   Indications Now Point to Delay on Enactment of Bill Until After Christmas

Recess Will Delay Action On Tax Bill   Senate Acis Too Late tc Permit Passage by Christmas

Senate Group Completes Work On Tax Measure   Action on Bill To Be Delayed Until January

MAY SHELVE TAX BILL UNTIL °44   Senate Leaders See Little Hope for Passage in '43

YANKS FOLLOW R.A.F, IN RAIDS ON KIEL, PARIS   Flying Fortresses Smash Renault Works of  Germans

NAPLES LASHED BY PLANES OUT OF AFRICA BASE   Damage Is Heavy; American Infantry Beats Off Nazi Assault On Lines

RAF POUNDS KIEL BASE IN NIGHT RAID   Follow Up U.S. Attack on Paris Suburb When Ren. ault Arms and Automotive Plant Was Damaged.

RAF Delivers Heavy Biows To Kiel; Yanks Blast Paris Plants; New Raid Underway

‘U.S. Bombers Buck After Punch At Paris Sunday: R.A.F. Hits Kiel

RENAULT PLANT NEAR PARIS HIT IN SUNDAY RAID   RAF Smashed at Keil In Powerful Raid During Night

UNITED STATES FORTRESSES ON DAYLIGHT RAID   Head Across Strait of Dover to Extend Attacks Made Yesterday On Paris Areas   GIANT AUTO WORKS BADLY BATTERED   Returning Crews “Don’ See How Anything Can Be Left;” British Rain Bombs On Kiel

Naples Is Smashed By Big U.S. Planes   Tyrrhenian Sea Supply Port For Axis Is Raided by Nearly 100 of General Doolittle’s North African Fly ing Force.   Americans Drive Toward Junction _  In Tunisia With British 8th Army

DOOLITTLE’S FORTRESSES RAID NAPLES   Americans Continue to Drive Toward Junction With British In Tunisia

rortresses Cross Strait In New Foray   Big Bombers Fighting i Formations Indicate Another Daylight Attack on Continent

Devastation Rains On U-Boat And _ Industrial Centers; Renault Works Feels Yank Fury.

Large African Force Pounds Italian Port   Fascists Admit “Great Damage’ Done By 100 Plane Outfit From Tunisia.   PATTON TROOPS GAIN

RENEW AERIAL OFFENSIVE ON NAZI TARGETS   FLYING FORTRESSES POUND RENAULT ARMS WORKS NEAR PARIS

Patton’s TroopsSeize Hills, Repulse Attack   Nearly 100 Big U. S. Bombers Steal Show in Raid on Naples, Described as Four Times as Heavy as Anv Previous

Naples Smashed In Mighty Raid, No Planes Lost   Numerous Ships In Harbor Are Hit; U.S. Land Forces Advance In Tunisia

Hundreds Of Fortresses Hit Axis Centers As RAF Pours 1,000 Tons On Kiel

Thousand Tons Bombs Dropped On Kiel Works   Renault Factories Near Paris Smashed; Continuous Bombing Is Heaviest Of War

NAZI ATTACK 15 REPULSED   Paiton’s Troops Take Group Of Hills in Hard Fighting.   BOMB EUROPEAN BASES

AMERICAN ARMY DRIVES AHEAD IN NORTH AFRICA   REPULSE GERMAN COUNTERATTACK IN EL GUETAR SECTOR

AMERICANS IN TUNISIA: REPULSE NAZI ATTACK   U. S. Troops Throw Back Germans In El Guetar Area And Advance

Yankees Blast Antwerp, Paris  in Day Raids   Heavy Damage Caused As Americans, RAF Keep Up 24-Hour Schedule.   BRITISH ATTACK KIEL

AT LEAST 24 SHIPS AND 21 AIRCRAFT HIT   Blow Is Heaviest of War Against Supply Port—~. All Planes Return Safe«. ly—Yanks Gain in Cen:  ee Kees Oe ®

Nearly 100 Big Planes Take Part In Attack; Hundreds Reported Killed And Wounded; U.S. Infantry Wins Hills In African Fighting

100 PLANES IN DAYLIGHT BLOW AT VITAL PORT   First Attack From African Bases On Italian Center

Tunisian Air Force Blast Supply Base   Naples Hit in Greatest Raid Yet; Ground Fighting Quiet in Most Sections of North African Campaign.

Big Forces Of U.S. Bombers Resume Attack   Factories At Antwerp Blasted Today After Raid On Paris   KIEL IS BLASTED   Crescendo Of Bombs Is Hitting Axis In Day And Night Raids

‘Kiel, Paris Areas Struck Heavy Blows   Americans Lash Enemy By Day While British Attack During Night

U.S. AIR FORCE HEADS OUT FOR DAYLIGHT RAID   Bombers Cross Channel, Blast Paris Plants Sunday; RAF Hits Kiel

UNITED STATES AND BRITISH BOMBERS IN CONTINUOUS ATTACKS  OBJECTIVES IN GERMANY  AND FRANCE ARE HEAVILY BLASTED

‘FORTRESSES FLY ACROSS CHANNEL TO BLAST NAZIS   Another Daylight Raid Indiwicated After Yesterday's Effective Aerial Attacks   BULLETIN

Vast Force Of Flying Fortresses Crosses Channel For New Attack   Make Up One Of Most Powerful Attacking Forces Yet Seen To Pass Over Folkestone

HEAVY DAMAGE INDICATED ON “PARIS PLANTS   Big American Bombers Return to Alfack Other Targets on Confinent Today   RAF BLASTS KIEL   American, British, Canadian, Norwegian, Polish Airmen Participate in Raids

100 Forts Pour 200 Tons of Bombs on Italian Supply ‘Port in U.S. Biggest Raid

NAPLES BLASTED - BY U.S, PLANES IN -— ARAID YESTERDAY   American 2nd Army Corps Repulsed German Counterattack.   100 PLANES IN ATTACK   Jimmy  Doolittle’s African Air Force Staged Biggest  : Raid of the War.

DAYLIGHT RAID FOLLOWS HITS IN PARIS AREA   Huge Force Of U. S. Planes Seen Heading For Continent In Afternoon   RAF BLASTS KIEL BASE   Renault Motor Plant And Krupp Works At Essen Suffer Heavy Damage

First Attack from ~ French Morth Africa Heaviest Raid on Big Mediterranean Port

HUGE PLANT NEAR PARIS IS HIT HARE   British Raid Kiel;. Americans Smash at Renault Arms Works   12 BRITISH PLANES LOST

NEARLY HUNDRED FORTRESSES RAIN DEATH ON NAPLES   Great Destruction Is Wrought Among The Ships In Port      ALL THE PLANES RETURN SAFELY

Renault Works Near Paris Gets Plastering; Big RAF Force Pounds Kiel At Night   Americans Sweep Out Over Channel By Daylight To Keep Up Hammering Of Hitler War Machine; 12 Bombers Fail To Come Home From Kiel, 21 Lost Over Essen

Daylight Attack on Continental Europe Follows Paris Raic   Great Renaults Works in French Capital Badly Damaged Sunday

Smash Nazi Factories in Wital Areas   Five Formations of U.5 Bombers Carry Offensive Into Belgium, France   FOLLOW BRITISH BLAST AT KIEL   Channel Guns’ Also Roar in Coastal Duel; Light Nayal. Forces Clash

Greatest Raid Of War Against Big Supply Base   American Second Army Drive on In Tunisian War

21 VESSELS IN HARBOR HIT BY U.S. FLIERS   Three Submarines, Floating Dock Blasted; 21 Enemy Planes Destroyed On Ground   RAID DEVASTATING, ROME DECLARES   Meanwhile, Yankees Repulse Nazis In Tunisia and Move Toward juncture With British

U. S. FORTRESSES: ~ ON ANEW ATTACK   Another Daylight Visit Over the : . Continent Indicated

Biggest Raid of War On Italian City, Hit 21Shipsin Axis Port   Planes Based in North Africa, American Infantry Under Patton Gains in Central Tunisia

Are Following Up Other Big Raids   Paris, Kiel and Essen Have Been Hit Hard   CONTINUE DAY AND NIGHT POUNDING

BIGGEST RAID OF WAR ON SUPPLY PORT   21 Ships, 3 Subs Among Targets Blasted   PATTON'S MEN   Advance In Hill Fighting: Eighth Army _ Inactive; Gain In North

GOOD RESULTS IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS NEAR ANTWERP   Large Force of Flying Fortresses and Liberators Made the Attack.   IN INDUSTRIAL AREA   It Followed Up Yesterday’s American Attack on the Renault Works.

ANTWERP ATTACKED   Feician City Target OF U.S. Bomhber Expedition Teday

MAKE GAINS IN TUNISIA   Down 11 Axis Planes During Widespread Air Operations

Doolittle’s ~ Planes Hit Sunply Line   21 Ships Bombed: and: ‘Airfields.and . Ports Are: Heavily Biasted   STEAL THE SHOW -.. FROM LAND FORCES   American. Second Army Repulses Nazi Counter Biow in El Guetar’ Sector °"

Naples Blasted By Big Force Of Fortresses  African Fighting Slows Down As Airmen Tale Qvar

U.S. AIR BLOW RAKES ANTWERP   GIANT FORCE ATTACKS CONTINENT IN DAYLIGHT

YANKS POUND REPAIR PLANT NEARANTWERP   Blow Follows Sunday Attack on Renault Works Wear Paris and RAF Night Bombmg of Nazi Base at Kiel.

Patton Forces Repulse Nazi Counterattack In El Guetar Sector Of Tunisia; Eighth Army Inactive: 21 Ships Are Hit

Heaviest Raid of War Made on Italian City   All Planes Return Safely; Rome_Admits Heavy Damage Done; First Army Active

Waves of Ships Cross Channel On Bomb Raids   Heavy Attacks Are Continued On Continent

Airmen Loose Tons of Bombs In 15 Minutes   21 Axis Ships, Three . Submarines, Floating  Dock and Small Vessels Hit by American Bombs

TYRRHENIAN SEA SUPPLY PORT IS LEFT IN RUINS   Axis Ships Are Pounded; Patton’s Forees Make New Gains in Tunisia

Five Large Formations Of Bombers Are Seen Winging Across Channel

ANOTHER BIG DAYLIGHT RAID IS INDICATED   Follow Up Heavy Attack. On Paris. Kiel   THOUSAND TONS   Of Bombs Are Dropped By i. On Nazi Citys French Warned

GREATEST RAID OF WAR MADE ON NAPLES GIANT U. 5. BOMBERS  AMERICAN SECOND ARMY DRIVES AHEAD FOR JUNC.  TIAA VYITEU PHOIPrTIcL

TARGETS NEA ANTWERP HIT IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Day and Night Pounding of German War Machine Continued by Bombers

U. S. Planes Smash Naples   General Doolittle Sends Force Of 100 Planes Over Italian City; Hit 21 Ships In Harbor

CHURCHILL 10 VISIT CAPITAL NEXT WEEK   He and President to Take Up International Polities

ED. R-Churchill  To Resume Parley   Expected To Resume Scrutiny Of Global War In Washington

CHURGHILL AND FDR TO RESUME VICTORY TALKS   Allied Leaders Scheduled To Meet Next Week In Washington   FACE TANGLED PICTURE   Prime Minister Plans To Give Radio Address From Capital

CHURCHILL AND FDR TO CONFER   Talks In U. S. Next Week Tc Center On Politics

CHURCHILL IS ~ EXPECTED AT WHITE HOUSE   PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT. WILL’ REBUME DIsOUB. SIONS ON WAR AND WORLD PROBLEMS

 Roosevelt and Churchill to Hold More  Talks Next Week in Washington, D. C.

New Defense — Holds Germans fo Standstill   U. S., British Stop Axis Four Miles from Objectives

Yanks Turn on Foe, Deliver 4 ‘Heavy Losses.”   Germans Exhausted After  Long Advance; Both Bidne Dofacm

GRANGERS ASK CUT IN POINTS   Seek Action To Maintain Federal Guarantees  On Hog Prices

Rostov Drive Meets German Resistance at  Only One Spot   Stiff Opposition Encountered in Lower Don Valley   Salsk Siege Next   Russian Planes Bomb Foe’s Airdrome at Krasnodar   neers reTinw

Americans Hit Japanese Base At Rabaul Hard   50 Tons of Explosives Unloaded In Mass Raid

Americans Bomb French Coast, RAP. Hits Berlin  Nantes Target As Germans Shift Sea Base

FLYING FORTS IN ACTION IN EVENING DUSK   Aerial Warfare Against HitlerHeld Fortress Renewed After a Lull of Five Days

RAF BOMBERS RAID BERLIN; 3 MAJOR TARGETS BLASTED   Defenses Of Targets In Frence Relaxed As .Nazis Center On  Reich Itself

Bombers Raid Berlin; Naval Base Attacked   French Rubber Tire Plant Hard Hit In-— Bombing Aitack

FORTS’ STRIKE AT NAVAL BASE ON COAST OF FRANCE   Berlin Bombed Last Night as Attacks Resume   RAF, U. S. FORCES END 5-DAY RELAXATION

Yanks Attack France; RAF Stings Berlin   Fortresses Smash At Naval Base And Factories

Flying Fortresses Stage First Dusk Raid On Three Factories In Paris Area.

British Bombers Raid Berlinin Night Again   Heavy Blow Is Struck at French Tire Factory

RAF Bombers Hit “Targets in Berlin; - Yanks Attack Paris   Heavy Waves of British Pianes Also Blast Plants at Montlucon; Raids Break Five-Day Air Lull

Allies Resume Air Offensive   Planes Pound Berlin, Navy Base. Factories

BERLIN AND PARIS ARE BOMBED   U. S. Airmen Raid Three Big Plants In France

BIG CITY IS AGAIN HARD HIT   Assaults Designed to Knock Out Center of Nazi War Production  Maintained,

Berlin, Nantes, Vichy Struck  ln Two- Day Non. Ston Offensive By Air Against Europe Targets

BUMBEnS HIT ITALY WITH HEAVY LOADS   Allied Warships Join SHattering Attacks On Fascists

Allied Bombers  Rip Naples’  Railway Networl Warships Catch  Evacuation Flotilla off Coas'   By Reynolds Packard Tnhited Press Staff

th LINES FROM: NAPLES      Allied Warships Sink Seven. Escape Boats From Sicily

NAPLES RAIL LINE SLASHED  “BY BOMBINGS   Sicily Escape Boats Sunk by Allied Warships

italy’ s Rail Lines Bombed   U. S. Warships Shell ’ Italy Mainland Again

UNEMPLOYMENT MERIT SYSTEN BILL ADVANCES   Measure Creating New In. land Fish and Game Code Also Step Closer Possible Enactment   FORMER FOUGHT      Committee. Report Ap  proved 15 to 12; Senate  Refuses to Recommit Measure: ~

‘SENATE SENDS IFISH AND GAME BILL TO HOUSE   Also Approves Merit ° Rating System Of  Unemployment Compensation Collections

CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY   Three Missouri Couples Wed in - Triple Ceremony 50 Years Aco 

Cards Lead yanks, 2-1, in Sixth   St. Louis Stages Big Inning in Fourth— Yanks Score in Sixth

Cards Lead Yanks, 2-1, In Sixth   + St. Louis Stages : Big Inning in  Fourth—Yanks * Sepre in Sixth

Nation’s Railroads Prepare To Handle Record Travel Crowd   War Business, Gasoline Restriction Throws Big Burden On Carriers

Trial-of Equity —  Suits In Court:  Occupies Time —  - Work Progressing Rapidly Third Week ‘Of Session .

Trial-of Equity Suits In Court:Occupies Time  © Wy De eet  ;   Work Progressing Rapidly Third Week Of Session -

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Russia Believes Opening 4 Second Front Now Gan Crush Germany   By LOUIS F. KEEMLE Inited Press War Analyst

TIGHTEN DRAFT REINS   New and Stiffer ‘Ways of Dealing With Delinquents Announced

U. S. Bombers Score Heavily in Battle With Nazis  Americans Destroy 50 Fighters, Lose Only 10 Craft

U. S. Bombers Knock Down  50 Nazi Planes   Two Fortresses Are Lost in Running Half-Hour Battle

US. Bombers Beat Off 200 Nazi Planes   Over 50'Enemy Fighters Shot. Down During Hot Battle™

Yanks Seore 50-2 Victory In Air Battle   Blast Into 200 Nazi Planes After Big Raid

FORTS BLAST WAY THROUGH NAZI PLANES:   Score Lop-Sided Victory; Amsterdam Gets Pounding

YANKEES TRIM  FORMATION OF 200 NAZI SHIPS   Fifty Nazi Planes Bagged in Greatest Bomber vs, Fighter Battles of Present War   TWO U.S. BOMBERS LOST IN DOGFIGHT   Battle Lasts Half Hour;  Amsterdam Given Its First American Bombing During Saturday

U.S, A. BOMBERS DOWN 50 NAZIS   Big Planes Beat Off 20( Enemy Fighters In Clearcut Victory

U. 5. Bombers Beat Off 200 Fighters Over West Europe  Another Group Gives _Amsterdam Its First American Bombing

Big American Aircraft Down Upwards Of 50 Enemy Fighters   ENEMY APPARENTLY KEEPS UP HIS STRONG DEFENSES

Heavy American Planes Score Win Over 200 Enemy Craft  During Raid Over Continent

Bombers Down 40 Fighters In Scrap With 200   Clear-Cut Victory Scored As Others  Paiind Amctardam

YANK BOMBERS STRAFE NAZIS   Northwest Germany and Am. sterdam Are Hit By Flying Forts

McNutt Seeks to Standardize Physical Qualifications of Armed Forces

MNUTT SEEKS 10 REVISE STANDARDS OF ALL SERVICES   (Manpower Chief Believes   Adjustments Needed to Draft Men of Lesser Physical Attributes.

KERR UNDECIDED ON NEXT MOVE   Governor to Act Next Week On Whether to Revive Textbook Suit

CN, Acvisory 3 grou? “or: Sirec: >. ess.é.ceess 70. ews Sources!

ROBERTS HEADS OWE ADVISORY   Group Appointed After. Hoyt Moves; Sees Real War Function

RAIL UNION WILL CALL OFF STRIKE   Roosevelt to Act As Arbitrator for Brotherhood Group

Three Groups Decline FDR Arbitration   Trainmen And Engineers Agree To Settlement

Trainmen And Engineers Decide A Call. Off Strike. As Result Of President's Offer

2 HAIL UNION CHIEFS CANCEL CTRIKE PLANS   Trainmen, Engineers Refuse to Go Out Dec. 30; Others Balking.

Trainmen, Engineers Heads Act   Takes Steps In View of  FDR's Offer To Arbitrate

FDR'S OFFER TO ARBITRATE IS REFUSEL   Legal Steps Are Being Taken to Seize the Roads Before Strike Deadline.

TWO RR UNIUNG CANCEL oT RIK ORDERS TODAY   Three Other Organization: Quiet On Plans For December 30 Ultimatum

230,009 WORKERS DECIDE: AANST QUITTING DEC. 30:   Roosevelt Orders Preparations Made. for Federal Seiztre..

2 Brotherhoods Agree to Call Off Rail Strike   Others Adamant; F, RB. Ready to Arbitrate; Mav Seize Roade

TWO RAIL UNIONS AGREE 10 CANCEL SCHEDULED STRIKE   Brotherhoods Agree to Le President Arbitrate Thenute

Trainmen and Engineers Call Off Strike   Group Upholds F. R. Plan To Arbitrate

FDR ASKS PAPERS BE DRAWN UP   Three Groups Reject President’s Offer To Settle Row

TWO BROTHERHOODS TO CALL OFF STRIKE   Roosevelt Proposes te Arbitrate Entire Railroad Waae Dispute

Two Unions Stop Strike Call; Others Refuse  Government Prepares  To Take Railways, Dak. (AJ/L_la Pare erschb

H.R, TRAINMEN AND ENGINEERS CANCEL STRIKE   Snes Summons Carriers, Non-Operating Unions in New Parley

TWO RAILROAD UNIONS REVOKE STRIKE PLANS   Trainmen, Engineers Ready to Accept Arbitration

Railmen Halt Plan for Strike   BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN, LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS OKAY PRESIDENT’S OFFER TO ARBITRATE DISPUTE ON WAGES

STEPS TAKEN FOR SEIZURE OF RAILROADS   Government Operation Instead of Wage Settlement Gift in Prospect for the Nation   NEW OFFER SUBMITTED

2 Rail Union Heads Call Off Strike   Accept F. R.’s Offer To Arbitrate; Government  May Take Over

0 GROUPS 10 CANCEL STRIKE   Trainmen, Engineer Brotherhood Chiefs Announce For Their Unions.

—RAILROADS—  ARBITRATION BY FOR ACCEPTEL   President’s Proposal, _ However, Rejected By  Three Other Unions   ACTION ANNOUNCED   Heads Of Trainmen And Engineers Reveal Decision At White House

Trainmen and Locomotive _ Engineers . Had. Accepted. the White House Offer of arbitration 

° UNIONS WOULD FOREGO STRIKE   ? Trainmen and Engineers Act As Result of FDR's New Proposal

BULLETIN   Railroad Unions Call Off Strike Set For Dec. 30   Trainmen And Engineers Announce Decision As Govt. Action Impends

Leaders Of Two Railroad Brotherhoods Today Call Off December 30 Strike

CALLED OFF BY 2 UNIONS   . «+ Efforts Pressed To Mediate Wage Dispute   Reanrecen! 259.000 Men.

fovernment, However, Prepares to Take Over Management of Rail-  roads   EXPECT NO TIE-UP   Biddle Directed to Prepare Orders on Refusal Three Brotherhoods of FDR’s Offer

2 Railroad Unions Call Off Strike   Trainmen, Engineers Accept F. R. Arbitration  Ae Saionve  anme.

Action Based on Roosevelt Offer To Arbitrate   Three Other Unions Have Not Accepted President’s Plan

F.D.R. Orders Documents Be Made Ready   Negotiations Collapse,. but Still Hope for: Last- Minute Compromise Plan 

TWO RAILROAD UNIONS CALL OFF STRIKE!   B. of R. T. and B. of L. FE. Act After F. R. Proposes Arbitration of Whole Situation

Three Others Still Refuse Roosevelt's Mediation Offer;  Settlement Distant

Two Groups Drop Strike   Trainmen, Engineers Call Off Strike Slated Dec. 30.

Trainmen And Engineers Call Off Dec. 30 Strike; ~ Other Unions Reiect F. R.’s Arbitration Proposal

TWO MORE OF THE BROTHERHOODS CALL OFF THEIR STRIKES   Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Locomotives Acted Today.   STRIKE SET FOR DEC. 30   Acting in View of President Roosevelt’s Proposal to Arbitrate.

TWO RAIL BROTHERHOODS CALL OFF STRIKE THREAT   Government Prepares to Seize Lines . If ‘Zero Hour’ Settlement Fails

TWO BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS CALLED OFF THEIR DEC. 30 STRIKE   THREE OTHER OPERATING UNIONS HAVE DECLINED ARBITRATION PLAN

2 Rail Unions ~ Not To Strike   T rainmen, Engineers To Accept Arbitration Of . “Waee Differences

2 brotherhoods call off strike; president to act   Trainmen, engineers say decision blow to enemy

Two Rail Unions Call Off Strike For December 30   But Three Other Groups Refuse to  Arbitrate Their Wage Problems,   Government Prepares To Operate Railroads

NEW RAIL WAGE PROPOSAL MADE   Government To Take Over Operation If Agreement Not Reached   WILL BAR STOPPAGE

Bat. Federal Suara Is -in Prospec!   President, Orders Necessary y .. Dovuments-Drawn for Taking Over Rails   NEW.OFFER MADE BY THE ‘NON-OPS'   “Three Brotherhoods Have "Rejected Roosevelt: Offer _- of Arbitration

TRAINMEN AND ENGINEERS AGREE 10 SUBMIT CASE TO F.D.R. TOR ARBITRATION

Two Groups Calloff Rail Strike   Three Other Unions Still Holding Out: Government Ready To Take Over

2 BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS DECLARE FOR ARBITRATION   ANNOUNCE THEY WILL CALL OFF STRIKE SET FOR DECEMBER 30

Pay-As-Go Tax Plan Is Given Boost   Republicans Vote For Measure During Talk Before Committee

Advocates of Ruml Income Tax Plan Encouraged By Strona Suoport From Renublican Congressmen

STRONG BACKING GIVEN RUML TAX PROPOSAL BY GOF   Hope of Advocates Buoyed as Congressmen Line Up to Abate All of One Year’s Levy.   MISSOURI REPUBLICANS SOLIDLY FOR PLAN   Adoption by House Is Predicted by One Prominent Member of the Minority Party.

G.O.P. Support Gathers Behind Ruml Tax Plan   Solid Republican Vote Among Committeemen  Last Week Diselasced

REPUBLICANS IN FULL SUPPORT OF RUML PLAN   Members Of House Comittee Favor By-Passing  One Year’s Taxes

Rum! Plan Gets Republican Aid  Advocates of Tax Proposal Cheered

GOP Support — Of Pay-Go Plan  Grows Stronger   Adoption of Measure By House Is  Predeieal

Ruml Plan Gets Support of GOP House Members   Pay-as-You-Go Income Tax Bill Seems More Likely To Pass

SUPPORT GIVEN TO RUML PLAN   Republicans Backing Up Proposal To Abate Income Levies

Staff Sergeant From Montana Awarded D.S.C. for Extraordinary Heroism Under Enemy Fire

Jordan Man Wins Army Decoration   Tries to Pull Jap Machine Gun Loose

JAPS HARD HIT ~ INNEW GUINER   American Planes Smash Ships; Ground Troops Score Near Wau

Big U. S. Bomber Range Far to Hit Pacific Enemy  Rabaul Is Target For Seventh Straight Night Assault  DOWN FIVE JAPS  Naval-Air Battle For Vital Solomons Islands Continues

French General Sent to Prison   Sought to Aid U. S.  Invasion, is Charge

FARM PROBLEMS UP TO FARMERS, LINCOLN SAYS   Ohio Farm Bureau Official Tells Victory Rally Not To Lean on Government   CO-OPERATIVES STRESSED   Direct Contact With Urban Workers Advocated To ‘Go Around Monopolies’

GAEATES! AIR BLOW OF WAR ON GERMANY   Frankfurt And Maunbeim - Ludwigshafen Are Bombed; Allied Armies Advance In Italy, Russians On Eastern Battle Front   FORTRESSES RAID ON SOUTH FRONT

House Passes ‘Anti-Strike Bill; Goes to Senate   Conference Agreement Adopted— Senate Will Act Soon—Could Jail Lewis Under the Act

New Bill Could Jail John Lewis   Fine Or Prison Term For  Strike Leaders Adopted

HOUSE PASSES STRIKE BILL IN 119-129 VOTE   Legislation Goes tc Upper Chamber for Final O.K.

House Adopts Anii-Strike  Measure   Bill, If Enacted, Would Make Jailing  fie FT aoanks Baal do

Lewis Could Be Jailed Under Bill   Senate Action Expected Today Or Next Week

Talk of Strikes  Heard Again   Coal Producing Situation Not Yet Cleared Up

DRASTIC ANTI. STRIKE BILL {8 VOTED IN HOUSE   Approve Legislation Aimed Primarily at Current Coal Dispute

A Report From Behind Enemy Lines In Italy   ne GIUNNAR D. KUMLEIN

rn —__————— , STD > CL a cS a anne  Ghost Army of Allied Prisoners Filters Through German Lines

A REPORT FROM BEHIND ENEMY LINES:  Escaped Allied Prisoners Join Fight In Italy; Harass Germans Behind Battle Front   Escaped Correspondent, In. Uncensored Article, Describes What’s Going On   By GUNNAR D, KUMLEN (Copvrivht.” 1943. The ‘Associatec

Former Prisoners Of Italians Now Form pen “Ghost” Army In Nazi-Occupied Italy   ay GUNNAR OD. KUMLIEN

‘Ghost army’ of escaped. prisoners plagues Germans in Italy   BY GUNNAR D. KUMLIEN.

Index   Ghost army’ of escaped prisoners plagues Germans in Italy

Guerrilla “Ghost Army’ Adding To German Problems In Occupied Italy

Bus Driver Dies in Wreck   2B Other Persons Hurt, Five Seriously, Near Waurika

Believe Japs Can Be Driven From Southwest Pacific By End Of Year

Chinese Win Important Victory Over Japs   American-Trained Troops Drive Japs From Supply Road   MacArthur Denied Sufficient Men, Equipment, Is Charge

American Airmen Have Raided the Docks at Hong Kong.   CHINESE CUT WATER SUPPLY IN BURMA   Australian Bombers Sink Enemy Transport, Damage Another.

MUSSOLINI AMONG MISSING; CROWDS IN DEMONSTRATION   Whereabouts Of Ousted ’ Premier A Mystery — May Have Fled To Germany

WHERE IS IL BUCE? QUESTION. WHICH “AGITATES WORLE   Rumors Say He Has Fled to Germany; Others Report His Arrest.

Pennsylvania Mine Men Say They'll Obey   President of the Second Largest Company Is For Cooperation

CONVOY SAVEDIN 3-DAY SUB FIGHT   Warships Manage To Keep Raiders Away

PETIT JURORS OCTOBER TERM OF LOUISA COURT   Jurors to Appear Tuesday Novemher 2.

PETIT JURORS DRAWN LOUISA DISTRICT COURT   September Term Convenes On Monday, Sept. 13.

U. S. PLANES SET FIRES IN CHINA   Score Hits In Support Of Chinese Trying To Take Town In Hupeh Province.

YANKS HAMMER AT NIP FORCES   Fliers Support Chinese Troops In Drive to Take Jap-Held Town

. 5, PLANES AIDING CHINA   Their Bombs Cause Damage, Start Fires in Chinese Campaign to Take Town From Japs

U. 5, PLANES ARE AIDING CHINESE   Keep Japs Operating In China On The Jump

Navy Announces Great Sky Fight At Guadalcanal   Americans Lose Six Craft During Enemy's Attack   American Fliers Supporting Chinese Inflict Heavy Blows   Cause Many Fires And Extensive Damage In Jap-Occupied Town

Britain Defies Hitler Te Do Worst But Retaliatory Attacks Are Mild by Comparison

‘Stiffened Defenses Of German City Claim Toll Of 22 Planes In Sunday Night Assault—Enemy Fliers Thrown Into Confusion Over British Metropolis—First “Blockbusters” Dropped On Seat Of Reich In Saturday’s Operations

Nazi Counter Thrusts At London Weak   LONDON, Jan. 18 — (AP) — Air raid sirens sounded in London tonight.

 English Lose 22 Bombers In Secona  Raid Nazi's Retaliation Reid Mild -

But Air Defense Takes a Toll of 22 Big Warplanes   Germans Retaliate With An Air Raid Sunday Over Greater London.   Air Assault on Berlin Is Heaviest of War

British Bomb Berlin Twice In Two Nights   German Planes Retaliate With Raids On London   Anti-Aircraft Fire Stronger Last Night   Saturday Night Raid Encounters Slight Resistance

22 Planes Lost In 2nd Blast At Capital   Germans Stiffen Defense And Strike Back at Londen; Berlin Loss Heavy

British Lose 22 Planes Qn Second Attack On Berlin In Two Nights —Start Great Fires

Large Fires Left Burning In German Capital; German Air Force Retaliates But Few Succeed In Penetrating London Defenses: Damage Light   NAZIS LOSE 10 PLANES IN RAIDS

Heavy New Raids On War Capitals   “Block Buster” Bombs Do Heavy Damage, Start . Fires in Berlin   REPRISAL ON LONDON   British Lose 22 Planes Over Berlin, Nazis 10 Over  London

Stiffened Defense At Nazi Capital Bags 22 of British Planes   Hitler’s Officers Omit Comment on Damage in Sunday Night Attack, Germans Attempt To Raid London

Berlin Ablaze France Raided   R.A.F. Carries Air Battle to Axis Again After Two Devastating Blows on Reich; London Winning New ‘Battle of Capitals’

GREAT FIRES LAID ACROSS NAZI CAPITAL   British Lose 22 Planes Compared To One Night Before   STIFFEN DEFENSES   Germans Reialiate But Few Ships Pierce London Defense

Huge Fires In Nazi Capitat Left Burning   London Anti-Aircraft Gunners Throw Nazi Retaliation Effort Into Confusion

Double Dose Of Block Busters  Over Week-End   British Lose 23 Planes In Two Nights But Leave Large Section In Ruins; Germans  Hit Back Weakly At Londen

22 RAF Planes Fail to Return   Germans Stage Two Assaults on London Last Night and Today — 10 of About 60 Nazi Planes Downed —— Attack on Berlin In Strong Force, Air Ministry Says

Germans Retaliate Weakly; Large Fire Left Burning in Nazi Capital

Germans Attack London From Air During Night   Great Fires In German Capital Reported by British

20,000 People at Circus. When Deutschland Hall Bombed     22 PLANES ARE LOST     Ships Fly in Moenlight Upon 1,200-Mile © Round Trip

Nazis Counter With Feeble London Raid   22 British Planes ~ Fail To Return   Coemdawe Aliakésé

London Anti-Aircraft Gunners, Meanwhile, Threw Nazi Raiders Into Confusion.

HEART OF NAZI CAPITAL DEALT DEADLY BLOWS   Germany's Attempr to Retaliate Against London Puny In Comparison to Attack On Reich   SECRET WEAPONS CONFUSE GERMANS   Berlin Caught Napping Saturday; Stiffened Defense Last Night Destroys 22 British Planes

Counter Attack On London Puny By Comparison   Great Fires Left In German Capital; British Report 22 Bombers Missing

OTRONG FORCE RAF BOMBERS LAID BIG FIRES IN BERLIN   STIFFENED DEFENSES OF NAZI CAPITAL TOOK TOLL OF 22 BOMBERS

Stiffened Berlin Defenses Get 22 Planes In 2nd Raid  Retaliation On London Is Light

RAF Starts Huge Fires in Berlin: 12 Planes Lost  Germans Also Lose 10 Planes in Night   Germans Also Lose 10 Planes in Night Raid on London

GREAT FIRES LEFT BURNING BY THE RAF   Nazis Trying Retaliation Meet More Thunderous Fire From Ground Guns Than Ever Heard by Londoners.

22 PLANES ARE REPORTED LOST IN NEW ATTACK   Germans Lost Big Part Of Attacking Force In London Raid

22 WARPLANES FAIL TO COME BACK TO ISLES   London Press Calls for Same Treatment of Rome. Nazis Raids on London Feeble

Huge Blazes Laid By RAF Through City   British Lose 22 Planes In Second Raid After Catching Germans Off Guard Evening Before

‘Block-Busters’ Cause Great Destruction   Nazis Admit Heavy Casualties, Property Damage; Germans Make Another Weak Attempt To Retaliate On London

Lawmakers Of Both Parties Hold Strategy Sessions Over Week- End      GOP Leaders Face Ticklish Task Cf Piloting Raft Of ~ Controversial Measures To Final Enactment

Soviets Set Donets Trap   German Defenses Crumble As Red Army Circles Rail Network; Thousands Of Foe Periled

Russian Armies Score Gains All Along Battlefront As Foe Falls Back

REDS SMASHING THROUGH NAZ DEFENSE LINES  Pinc Enveloping Vit at Ro ways

REDS STRIKE AN RR. NETWORK Ih DONETS BASIN   If Successful Will Crush Tens of Thou-” sands of German  Troops

RED ARMY DRIVE MAY TRAP NAZIS IN UKRAINE ZONE   Soviet Pincers Aimed at Railroads in Donets Basin; German Retreat Con-

RED FORCES BREAK DOWN NAZI DEFENSE   Tens of Thousands of Germans Facing Entrapment In Ukraine.

RED ARMIES °CRASH AHEAD IN UKRAINE   German Defenses Crumbling South Of Kharkov

DRIVE ENVELOPING RAIL NETWORK IN HEART OF DONETS   Soviet Armies Moving Is - Two Directions Now Only 100 Miles . Anart

REDS SMASHING STEADILY PAST NAZI DEFENSES   Drive Aims to Encircle Network of Railroads in Donets Basin

THRUSTS Thhl ENEMY LINCS ~— IN WIDE AREA   Drive to Envelop Railroad Network in Heart of Donets Basin.   NAZIS KILL DESERTERS WITH. MACHINEGUNS

REDS SMASHING TOWARD DONETS BASIN TARGETS   Defense Lines Penetrated In Big Drive Aimed To Encircle Railroads

Nazi Defenses Crumbling As Reds Drive On   Line After Line Of Foe Defenses Withers As Soviets Strike   MANY POINTS SEIZED       German Efforts To Halt Russians Fail; Face Heavy Losses

Russians Blast. ‘German Defenses In Eastern Push   Pincers Now Closing Would Trap Nearly All Nazis In Ukraine

Red Pincers Threaten Nazi  Supply Lines   Gréat Enveloping Movement Follows Fall Of Kharkov

  NAZI DEFENSES BEING SMASHED IN DONETS BASIA   Pincers . Slowly Closing Troops Face Entrapment lf Advance Continues.

Soviets Make Fresh Gains In  Donets Basin   Russian Army Attempts To Gain Control’ Of Network Of Railroads   In Southern Ukraine

Drive Aimed At Enveloping Rail Network in Donets Basin   Nazis Move Up Reinforcements in Attempt to Halt  Radi Mawa an Tinianae:

SOVIETS PUSH PINCERS MOVE AGAINST FOE   May Trap Thousands o: Germans If General Ad vance in Donets Area Con tinues.

REDS DEVELOPING PINGERS TO TAKE ~ RAILROAD LINES   Closing of Pincers, Now 100 Miles Apart. Will” Trap Thousands of Enemy Oftering: Resistance.   BERLIN IS ATTACKED “IN SMOKE EROM FIRES   Clandestine German Radio Reports Berlin Casualties as 12,000 Dead, 50,000 Injured.

NAZI DEFENSE LINES FADE AS REDS ADVANCE   Progress Is Reported South, Southeast Of Kharkov

Allies Down 28 Jap Craft Over Wewak   All But 10 of 225 Planes on Ground Finished Off: Three Cargo Ships Fired

ALLIED PLANES CATCH JAPS COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE, IN REVERSE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK; SHIPS A’FIRE.

ALLIES RETURN TO DESTROY 28 WEWAK PLANES   All But 10 Of 225 Ships Concentrated On New Guinea Demolished In Two Attacks   3 Destroyers Damaged

208 Out of 30 Interceptors  Shot Down   Two New Guinea Raids Smash Total of 215 Japanese Warplanes  ALLIES LOSE sStx

Allied Fliers Returning From Raid Destroy 28 Interceptors  CARGO SHIPS SET AFIRE BY AIRMEN Bombers Make! Another  Trip to Borneo Oil - Dans

Japs Again Struck Hard Ai Wewak   Allies Finish Otf Nip Planes On New Georgic

28 Out Of 30 Jap Interceptors Shot Down; Three Enemy Ships Fired   3 NIP DESTROYERS Hit IN VELLA GULF

‘Allies Destroy Many More Jap Planes In Another Wewak Raic   Finish Off All But 10 of Graft Seei ~~ And Down 28 of 30 Interceptors; Three Foe Shins Set Afire

Today's War Commentary  Warning To Italy  Kimphasized By Bombing Of Rom

Miners and Operators Deadlocked   WLB Is Expected to Stick to Little Steel Formula

WAGE CONFERENCE WITH U. M. W. DEADLOCKED   ‘ Spokesman For Mine Operators Says Neither Party Can Reach Decision on Retroactivity

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Has Made_ a Profound Impression Upon Congress

CONGRESS REPORTED MUCH IMPRESSED BY SPEECH ~ GIVEN. BY WIFE OF  OMINESE LEADER

Greater Aid To China May Result From Visit To U. S. Of Mme. Chiang

US. Bombing Force To Share with RAF in Mass European Raids   Round-The-Clock Devastation of Axis War Machine to Continue and Increase

7 CORSICANS BEGAN REVOLT   Undercover Army Formed Over Year Ago To  Harass Nazis

RED AGREEMENT TO BE SOUGHT NT CONFERENCE   Treatment Of Germany Seen As Foremost Item On Moscow Agenda   BERLIN PEACE THREAT   Washington Concerned By i §$talin’s Post-War Plans ~ Regarding Berlin

Amounts Withheld From ‘Weekl; Wages For Income And : Victor Tax Under Pay-As-You-Go   TABLE 1—SINGLE PERSON—NO DEPENDENTS   TABLE 2—MARRIED PERSON—NO DEPENEENTS   TABLE 2—MARRIED PERSON-—ONE DEPENDENT   TABLE 4——-MARRIED PERSON—TWO DEPENDENTS

Forrest Observer on Big Bomber Young American General Lost During Great Attack on Kiel

GENERAL MISSING OW AERIAL ATTACH   Nathon Bedford. Forrest  Lost in June 13th a

Brig. Gen. Forres! Missing in U.S. Bomber Raid   Aboard Fortress in Greatest Air Battle of Europe

ope Held Out lying Officer ay Be Prisoner   ader of Great Bombe: Attack Last Seen in Crippled Plane   ayed Leading Part ir Expansion of American Program

GENERAL MISSING ON AERIAL ATTACK   Nathan Bedford Forrest Lost in June 13th Roid

U. S. GENERAL MISSING FROM ATTACK ON KIEL   Nathan B. Forrest, 38, Was Observer Aboard Fly ing Fortress   BOMBER WAS SEEN DAMAGED AND FALLING

Gen. Forrest Lost in Kiel Aerial Battle   . Fighters'Gang Up on Bomb Expert Just Arrived in Eneland

American General  Lost on Bomber  N. B. Forrest, 38, Missing After Raid

GENERAL FORREST MISSING IN RAID ON KIEL, GERMANY   Bomber Carrying Brilliant U. S. Officer Seen Spiraling Down After Furious Enemy Attack.   HOLE IN TAIL SECTION WITH ENGINE SMOKING   Plane Under Control When Last Seen — Craft Led Raiders in Great Air Battle.

U.S. Air General Lost Over Europe   Missing After Big Raid on Kiel

FIGHT IN WHICH NAZI SHIP LOST ° MAY STILL RAGE   geharnhorst Sunk by British Craft Guarding Convoy to Russia

SCHARNHORST DESTROYED BY /PLEET UNITS, PROTECTING ALLIED CONVOY ENROUTE TO RUSSIAN PORT

Nazi Battleship Scharnhorst Is Sunk In Battle   British Warships Sunk Huge German Battleship In Sea Engagement   FURTHER BATTLE MAY BE REPORTED

AT BOTTOM "* RARENTS SEA   Put There by British Home Fleet; Battle May Still Be Raging

SCHAR AT BOTTOM ™ BARENTS SEA   Put There by British Home Fleet; Battle May Still Be Raging

AMERICANS GAIN ON. NEW GEORGI   ADVANCE CONTINUES ON SURROUNDED JAP GARRISON AT BAIROKO HARBOR.

YANKS CLOSE TRAP ON JAPS AT BAIRGKO   ast Remaining Point of En emy Resistance on New Georgia Island; Advances Made in Bad Weather.   Sink Barges

American Jungle Troops Continue Gain on Baircko   Yanks Closing Trap On Encircled Japs: Air Action Hindered

JUNGLE TROOPS CONTINUE GAINS   Trap Tightened By U. S Force On Encircled Japs At Bairoki Stronghold

TRAP CONTINUED CLOSE WN JAPS   U. S$. Jungle Troops Edge Closer to Encircled Jap Garrison at Bairoki Harbor, On New Georgia Island

PINCERS CLOSED AROUND BAIROKO   Final Stand Being Made By Last Jap Garrison On New Guinea

U.S. Army Gains In Jungle Fight Against Japanese  Troops Close Vise On Enemy at  New Georaia Paint

RAINY WEATHER ISHANDICAP 10 JUNGLE TROOPS   Despite Conditions Ground Forces Are Closing In On Bairoko Harbor   200 ENEMY BARGES ARE REPORTED SUNK

CLOSING OF TRAP   Japanese Garrison at New Georgia- Bate -Being Encircled

Wipe Out Fleet of Planes   British Advance to Capture Strategic Hills—Shell  Enemy Provisions

Allies Wipe Out Fleet Of Transports   Crushing Blows Struck Against Axis Defenders

ENTIRE FLEET OF 70 PLANE TO WIPED OUT   Huge Transports Shot Down Over Mediterranean Sea With Troops Aboard

MEAT PRICES TO BE LOWER   Temporary Ceiling Prices On Seven Vegetables Extended.

VEGETABLE CEILINGS CONTINUE   Veal, Mutton Prices To Be Same First Set For April 15

Cut In Beef, Lamb Prices Set By OPA   Reduction Of 3 Cents A Pound Will Be Made Effective May (7th   DROP OLD SCHEDULE   60 Day Ceiling On Vagetables Set February 23¢d Is Extended

MOVE ‘AGAINST “STRIKES TAKEN   ClO.-AND- AFL. AGREE-TO ‘HAVE " ARBITRATION. COMMITTEE *." CONSIDER UNION  DISPUTES

Jurisdictional Dispute Agreement  Brings AFL and CIO Merger Nearer

ONE-MAN HAY BALER HAS BEEN DEVELOPED   Production To Be Started in Near Future

Special Session Possibilities Wane In Rural Aid Case  Governor Encounters Opposition of Solons And Teachers’ Group

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM CLOUDED DUE OPPOSITION GOV. STEVENSON REPORT ED HIS PROGRAM OP.  DACEHN CAMr ecHhilprre

MOTOR PROBE ~-{$ UNDERWAY   ‘COMMITTEE ‘REPORT ON OHIO AVIATION MOTOR PLANT  TURNED OVER TO JUSFICE DEPARTMENT

Washington Had Warning Of: Pearl: Harbor pe Raid In 1941, U.S. State Department Reveals

Grew Warned Pearl Harbor Blow Planned   New American White Book Diseloses Argbassador Predicted Assault Tn Jan. °4]   Secretary Hull Also “Warned of Surprise   President Advised Nomura Of Hitler’s Intention e For Daminatiaon

WARNINGS GIVEN OF JAPS’ PLANS YEAR BEFORE WAR   Ambassador Grew Cabled That Tokyo Intended to Attack Pearl Harbor in Case of Trouble.   AMERICAN WHITE BOOK TELLS STORY   Yt Reveals Hull Saw Possibility of Tokyo Moving With Surprise and Seizing Vast Areas.

Grew Visioned Pear] Harbo Peril Months in Advance   ‘White’ Book’ by State Department Discloses Jap War Intentions; Traces Hull’s Efforts to Avert Crisis

Tells Of Plan For Stab At Pearl Harbor   Story Of “Fateful Decade” Told In American White Book

Reveal Grew Warned U.S. Of Jap Plan   ‘White Book’ Outlines Fateful Diplomatic Decade; Tip-Off Came In January, 1941

AMBASSADOR GREW'S CABLE IS PUBLISHED.   Aggression of Three Axis Nations Listed For Ten. Year Period In “White Book”

WHITE PAPER LISTS DETALS. OF TREACHERY   Grew Cabled from Tokyo on Jan. 27, 1941, Threat at Pearl Harber.   REVEALS DIPLOMACY OF “FATEFUL DECADE”

PACTS CABLED 10 WASHINGTON ON JANUARY 27      tate Department Dis. loses in White Book - Ambassador Knew Tokyo’s Intentions                  tLATIONS AT END LATE IN NOVEMBER            iI Advised Britain of  _ ousness of Situation : in 1932

{Uncle sam Couldn't Believe Such Treachery Possible cs American White Book Discloses Warning iFrom Grew Of Impending Jap Sneak Blow

Japanese Hit Again at Kiska And in Solomons   Fire Started on Solomons Island

Americans Boley  Jans AL Kiska  pad in Solemens Fires Started In  Raid On Kolobangar Kahili,-Faisi Hit

IN SOUTH PACIFIC   17 More Japanese Planes Destroyed in Four Days.   HARD FIGHTING IN NEW GUINEA AREA   Allies Report Our Losses Are Small; Heavy for Enemy.

Learn Details Of ‘. Lieutenant's Death   Flier Had Made Target But Neck -- Broken After Panachute Landine

JACK ROMANS MISSING FOR SECOND TIME   First Listed, and Then Accounted for, at Start of War

CIVILIAN DRAFT OPPOSED BY Cid; SCANDAL TIPPED   Steel Plate Tests Faked by Carnegie-lilinois Co., War Probers Told   UNCLE SAM WARNS LEWIS    Congressional Assault on Farm Price Structure  Gathers Momentum

CABOR ORIT STEEL FAKING WAR PRODUCTIO   Congressional Committees Busy With Investiga p tions; Roosevelt Con“cern With S. American Envovs

Drafting of War Worker: Is Opposed   War Production Problems Keep Committees Busy; Ad_Vacates of Immediate Post“war Planning Challenged

OPPOSES DRAFT FOR WAR JOBS   Auto Workers President Voices. Protest; Senators Hear Other Matters

Gen! Coxey at 9 Is Seeking Office  Begins Campaign for Mayor of Ohio City

NAVY REQUEST FOR FUND WITHDRAWN   Oil Lease Transaction Awaits: Decision on Legality By Justice Department.

With Our Soldiers. and  Sailors                   Joseph Sturm Ts ; Back From Hawai

With Our Soldi  ers Sailors 6 @e   Joseph Sturm Js Back From Hawai

VERY LITTLE LEAF MOVES 10 MARKET   Farmers Await Word From Washington On Attempt To Get Ceiling Price Raised Above 41 Cent Ceiling.

LITTLE LEAF ISMOVING TO MARKET   N.C. Bright Belt Farmers Awaiting Ceiling Decision

Steps Taken to Boost Corn Sale   If Price Goes Up  Farmer Protected

OVER 1,000 TAVERNS QUIT FOR DURATION   Gas, Tire Rationing, Liquor Shortage Reasons

WARTIME CONDITIONS REDUCING SALOONS   1,000 Give Up License in Ohio In Last Four Months

TAVERN KEEPERS QUIT BUSINESS   Labor, Army. Forces Many To Drop Licenses During Year

23 Planes Hit In Heavy U.S. Raid on Babo   Catalina Flying Boats  Set Large Fires in  ‘Attack

23 Enemy Planes Razed By Allies   Heavy Raid Made On Babo, North of Darwin

RAID JAP BASE IN NEW GUINEA   Japs Retaliate With Small Raid on Australian Coast

FLYING BOATS RAID BABO, GET ENEMY PLANES      Large Fires Set On Babo. Now Guinea, 23 Planes Destroved

BUSINESS. TAXES TRIPLED IN 1941   Morgenthau Forecasts 1943 Levies to Be Twice as Laroe

Corporations Pay Higher Taxes  Assessments Triple in Year's Time

Morgenthau Sees Big Tax Increase  Corporation Levies May Be Doubled

72 Allied Vessels In Gibraltar Port  Germans Fish For Information

Askina Pay Increase   REPORT FLEET AT GIBRALTAR   Nazi Radio Says 72 Ships Gathered in Harbor

Nazis Report British Fleet At Gibraltar   Some American  Shins In Port

Many Sided Scramble For Authonity Postwar Veterans Affairs Reported Brewing Among General Agencies

SEVERAL FEDERAL AGENCIES — ~~ IN VETERAN AFFAIRS MIXUP   FIGHT MAY BE STAGED AGAINST PROPOSAL TO CENTRALIZE ALL ACTIVIIES UNDER HINES

Badoglio Calls On Italians To War  On ‘Nazi Enemies’   By United Press

German Setback But One Of Several Suffered By Hitlerites Over Week-End

© 5 OHIOANS DIE IN 2 MOTOR CRASHES   © 3 Members of Martel Family Killed By Train

MEAT SUPPLY 10 INCREASE BUREAU CAVS IN REPORT   Large Supplies Appear Available For Rest of Year, Probably For Coming 17 Months.   1943 HOG CROP TO BE ALL-TIME RECORL   Livestock May Not Be Held For Herd Building Owing to General Conditions Resort Says.

Proposed New Taxes Would Take 41 Percent of U.S. Income, Exceeding Britain

TAX WOULD TOTAL $6.0,500,000,000   Amount For Mr. And Mrs. America 41 Per Cent Of Income

ASK 12 BILLION MORE IN TAXES   Estimate Soars to 41 Pc. of Income

PROPOSED TAX BILL WOULD ABSORB 41 PCT, OF U, S, INCOME   Percentage Higher Than In United Kingdom Or Canada

Search for Lost Flyer Continues   Workers Cover Webster, Pocahontas And Nicholas Counties

WLB Asks Lewis to Halt  Spreading Coal Strikes   Government Fears Walkout of 25,000

GENERAL COAL STRIKE 15 FEARED   LABOR BOARD ASKS LEWIS TO USE INFLUENCE TO END WALKOUTS BY 25,000.

Labor Board Calls on . Union Leader to Urge Full Production aA  WEEP ee A REPO OL PAVE —   THOUSANDS LEAVE . JOBS IN ALABAMA   Government Officials Are Fearful of Another General Strike

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS MOUNTS THROUGH STRIKE   War Labor Board Appeals To Lewis To End Walkout Of Alabama Miners   MINE CHIEFTAIN SET OCTOBER 31 DEADLINE

Labor Board Calls on Union Leader to Urge Full Production  THOUSANDS LEAVE JOBS IN ALABAMA  Government Officials Are Fearfui of Another General Strike

Government Quarters Fear New General  Coal Strike   Nearly 25,000 Miners Out in Alabama, Indian: Without Authorization From Miner Union   APPEAL DISPATCHED TO JOHN L. LEWIS   RY JUTIN L. LE Wid  Move Called Contrary To No-Strike Pledge And National Policy

Another General Miners’ Strike Feared as 25,000 Workers Quit Their Jobs   Return of Coal Pits to Owners Raises No Contract Cry   Indicates Pr'ace to Shut Synthetic Rubber Plants

Coal Strikes Are Regarded With Alarm   Washington Fearful of General Stoppage

Lewis Is Asked To Cail Miners Back to Work   War Labor Board Puts Spreading Walkouts Un to Leader

COAL STRIKES RENEW FEARS OF SHORTAGE   RELIEF PROMISED MICHIGAN AREAS LACKING FUEL

WLB AbK LEW TO UGE MINERS RETURN TO WORK   25.000 Miners in Alabama And Indiana Stage Unauthorized Walkout   CLAIM NO CONTRACT WITH MINE OPERATORS   Government Quarters Fear Another General’ Strike; WLB Points to Interruption of Production Necessary to War Effort

General Mine Strike Feared As 25,000 Quit   War Labor Board Calls Upon Lewis To Urge Alabama Men To Return To Jobs; Walkouts Unauthorized

Coal Crisis Is Feared As Miners Quit   WLB CALLS ON JOHN L. LEWIS TO URGE “FULL AND CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION” AS 25,000 MINERS WALKOUT.   $7 Per Dav

Lewis Asked To Call Off Coal Strike   Another General Walkout Feared By WLB Member:

Death Blow to Axis Foe Is Expected   Washington Observers Expect Parley to Produce Half Dozen Important Results

‘This Is Result Expected From Big 3 Conference   Decision At Cairo 1s To Utterly Crush Japan; Pressure ‘Unrelenting’  ROOSEVELT, CHIANG, CHURCHILL MEET

SOVIETS GAIN ON FROZEN FAST FRONT   Smash Desperate Resistance Put Up by Germans

Russian Tanks And Troops Are Driving Ahead   Offensives On Vitebsk, Korosten And Zhitomir Are Progressing   NAZI OFFERING STIFF RESISTANCE

Hirohito And Tojo Worried   Emperor in Message Says Situation ‘Truly Grave’ .

Jap Leaders Admit Their  Peril Grave   Hirehito and Tojo Say Enemies Growine Stroncer

Japs Take Sober View Of Conflict   Tojo and = Hirohito to Speak to Public on Allied Ascendency

Hirohito And Tojo View War As Having Taken Grave Turn   Diet Told U. S., Defeated At First, Now Overcoming Many Difficulties

HIROHITO AND TOJ0 GIVE JAPANESE SOBER APPRAISAL OF WAR  EMPEROR SAYS SITUATION GRAVE; TOJO SAYS IT 1S COMPLICATED

DANGERS GROW JAPS ARE TOLD   Hirohito and Tojo Move To Pressure People

HInUMIU SATS JAP SITUATION IS NOW ‘GRAVE  Nipponese Diet Gets Sober Bumantanl af tAlan   Nipponese Diet Gets Sober Appraisal of War Outlook   LAUNCH NEW PROGRAM   Allies Overcoming Many Difficulties, Tojo Declares

HIROHITO AND TOJO SPEAK UP   Emperor And Premier Give 83rd Special Session Of Japanese Diet Sober Appraisal Of War Outlook.

GRAVE OUTLOOK ON WAR PRESENTED BY HIROHIT AND TOJO   Tell Diet That the Allies “Defeated at the Beginning” Are Now “Overcoming Difficuliies and Dangers”

War Picture Called Grave ~ By Hirohito   Tojo, in Speech to Diet, Admits Allied Power Is Increasing.

FIGHTING GROWS IN INTENSITY, “DIET INFORMED   Tojo Says Enemy Defeated ; In Beginning, Now Strikes Back   NIP VICTORY FORECAST   ° Sober Appraisal Of Outlook Given Before Leaders By “Son Of Heaven”,

NIP WAR LEAMERS PAINT DARK PICTURE   Tell Jap Diet Allies Over coming Many Difficulties

U. 0, WARSHIPS olNK 40 BARGE UF JAP TROOPS   Evacuation Attempt Costly With Hundreds Of Enemy Drowned In Battle

U.S, WARSHIPS HAVE WRECKED BARGE FLEET   Japanese Pail To Evacuate An: Troops From Central Solomons

U. S. Warships Wreck Jap Barge Fleet  Evacuating Troops From Solomons

Americans Wreck Big Barge Fleet In Central Solomons At Least 40 Enemy Vessels Sent to Bottom   Only One Yankee Ship Lost; Japs Attempting to Fvacnate Troone

Wreck Barges. Evacuating Jap Units in Pacific   Action Fought Under Cover Of Darknese

Li S Warships Wreck Jap Barge Fleet   At Least 40 Croft Sunk or Damaged By Americans

Some Say Pattern Already Laid for Invasion of Europe in Precise Manner

HEAVY ARTILLERY   3-A Registrants Now Unable To Become Officer Candidates

Gripsholm Arrives In Port With Exchange Prisoners  Repatriation Starts; Many Americans Will Again Be Free

ALLIES KNOGK GERMAN TANKS MIT OE FICHT   Air Fleet Bombing Balkans In Push  Toward Rome

Americans Grab Key Italy Hills   FIFTH ARMY RUINS “NUMBER OF TANKS” AS KESSELRING’S COUNTERDRIVE FAILS; SEA UNITS BLAST FIVE NAZI VESSELS

Nazi Blows "Stopped By ~ Artillery   American Guns Crush Counter Attacks Intended to € Throw Allies off Balance   5TH ARMY SEIZES MORE HIGH GROUND   ‘wut Germans are Firmly Entrenched at Several Poiuts On Road to Rome

Artillery Halts German Drives In Hard Fight   Attacks Beaten Off by Both American Ffth And British Eiahth

Fifth Army’s Artillery Repels Nazi Tank Attach As Eighth Takes Heights

U.S. Artillery Defeats Tanks In Italy Duel   Kesselring's Panzers Fai in Alife Counter Attack Clark Wins Hights   8TH ARMY GAINS   Lupara Is Captured By British In Two Mile Cen. tral Front Advance

ALLIED ARMIES MAKING GAINS SLOWLY IN ITALY   With Exception Of Advance In Central Fifth Army Sector, Progress Is Limited; British Occupy Lupara.

Germans: Now Firmly’. Established Before Fifth. Army on Road to Rome

German Tanks Smashed by U. §. Cannon   Fitth Army Throws Back Stiff Counter Attack at Alife

Tank Assault Of Germans Hurled Back   Nazi Radio Still Says Allies May Land at Rome

Nazis, Now Firmly Entrenched Try Counter-Aitacks but U.S Artillery Stoops Tanks   NAVY UNITS SCORE      Allied Bombers Blasi Nazi Airfield Near Athens, Torpedc Boais in Daring Raids

Nazi Tanks Lost AsU.S. Artillery Crushes Attack    Commanding Heights On  ~-Central-Ttalian- Front Captured By Sth Army

SEIZE IMPORTANT HEIGHTS   Germans Try To Throw Fifth And Eighth Off Balance

YANKS KNOCK OUT SCORES OF NAZI TANKS IN ITALY   SEIZE HEIGHTS AS GERMANS ENTRENCH IN NEW POSITIONS

Artillery Stops Nazi Tank Drives   Allies Face Counterattacks In Tough Italian Campaign

ALLIES DRIVE ONIN ITALY   Sth Army Repulses Bitter Nazi Ceunter Attacks; 8th Army Gains

American Artillery Crushes Nazi Attack   Tanks Knocked Out, While Fifth Army Seizes Commanding Heights; Nazi Controlled Vessels Attacked by Naval Unit.

Artillery Of U.S. Crushes Nazi Attack On Sth Army   Number Of Enemy Tanks Knocked Out By Americans’ ‘Oueen Of Battle’

oth Army Takes Valued Heights  Commanding Positions Seized; Blast Tanks

Counter Attack At Alife   Fifth Army Troops Seize Commanding Heights: Destroy Number Enemy; Tanks.

ARE IN BATTL   Nazis Counterattack Yester. day Is Crushed By American Artillery.

Enemy Tanks Destroyed on Italian Front   American Troops Seize Commanding Heights in Drive

U. S. Field Guns Smash Nazi Tanks   Fifth ‘Army Troops - Seize Commanding Heights in Central Sector   MINOR ACTION AT SEA   German Counterattacks Are ‘Halted With Heavy  Losses

U.S. Guns Crush German Attack   Fifth Army Captures Strateaic Ground . -

U.S. Artillery Rotts German ‘Tank Attacks   Anglo-American ’ Light Navy Ships Prove Effective

HEAVY GUNS OF ALLIED TROOPS STOP GERMANS   Number of Tanks” Thrown Into Battle by Hitler's Field Marshal Are Smashed   BRITISH MOVE UP 2 MILES; TAKE LUPARA   Small Units of American and British Navies Capture or Damage NaziControlled Ships

SEIZE NEW IMPORTANT POSITIONS.   Nazi Counter-Attack Is Broken Up By U.S. Artillery Forces

ALSO CRUSH TWO GERMAN TANK ATTACKS   Enemy Armor Repulsed by Fifth Army’s Right roy Wing and on British Front — Heights Held Are in Center of Line.

BIG COUNTERATTACK OF GERMANS CRUSHED BY U. 5. ARTILLERY  SERIES OF NAZI COUNTERBLOWS AGAINST ALLIED ’ ARMIES FAILED

U. S. Guns Break Nazi Tank Thrust   Germans Now Firmly Set On Heights Defending Rome Approaches

Yank Artillery Crushes Attack By Nazi Tanks   Fifth Army Takes Strategic Heights In Central Italy.

Nazis Offer Stitf Resistance to 5th In Central Italy   American Artillery Smashes Enemy Tanks as Stratevic Heights Are Taken.   Torpedo Boats Hit Nazi Troop Convoy

Commanding Heights Are Captured By Fifth Army; Small Allied Naval Force Gets Five Ships; : Airdrome Near Athens, Greece, Bombed

CRUSHED A NAZI COUNTERATTACK AT ALIFE, ITALY   A Number of German Tanks Were Knocked Out, It Was Announced.   HEIGHTS WERE SEIZED   First Appearance of German Tanks in Any Number for Some Time.

Fifth’s Guns Smash Nazi Counter:Push   Germans Firmly Entrenched in New Mountain Positions

U.S. ARTILLERY REPULSES NAZI COUNTER BLOW   Germans Employ Tanks In Effort To Dislodge American Troops

U.S. Big Guns‘Crush — German Tank Attack From Italian Hills   Counterattack at Alife Repulsed by Fiftl Army as Yanks Win Heights; PT . Craft Blast Nazi Convoys

Fifth, Eighth Armies Battering Germans Now In Mountain Positions

Artillery Crushes Counter-Assault At Alife, On Fifth Army’s Right Wing—Allied Troops Seize Commanding Heights In Central Sector—Nazis Reported Firmly Entrenched In New Positions Forming Almost Solid Line On Approaches To Rome

Fifth Army Troops Seize Commanding Heights in Central Italian Sector —

30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ADMITTED SPIES   Former Air Raid Wardens Convinced by Evidence

Aln RAID WARDEN SPIES SENTENCED   New York Pair Given 30 Years in Prison for Aiding Germany.

Two Spies Get 30 Years Each   Former Air Raid Wardens Plead Guilty To Conspiracy.

UNIFICATION OF FRENCH POLITICAL FORCES LIKELY   American Source Says Et.forts Now Being Made Promise Success.

ANNUAL DINNER ON THANKSGIVING DAY   Lost Isiand Church Dinner and Bazaar Held on Thursday of This Week.

Chicken Dinner, Bazaar At Lost Island Thursday  This 3 Is An Annual

Chicken Dinner, Bazaar’ At Lost Island Thursday  This Is An Annual  Thankcoivinge Fvent

Roosevelt, Churchill Have Met Every 6 Months Since August, ’41   Meeting In Casablanca, Their Fourth, Mice Be Most Important GF. All

FDR, CHURCHILL. CONFER  TINES   Meet Once Before War Entry, Thrice Since U.S. Participation

FDR, CHURCHILL CONFERENCES HAVE OCCURRED ABOUT EVERY SIX MONTHS SINCE AUGUST, 1941

Admits Pushing 1 Boys Off Rock   Youth Faces Murder Charae In Colorado

YOUTH, 16, PUSHES 2 BOYS FROM CLIFF   Murder Charge Will Be Filed Officials Say

TH ADMITS BOYS SHOVED FROM CLIFF   ed ‘Lwo Younger Lad, nd Pushed Them Off, He Tells Officers

CONFESSES HE SHOVED 2 OFF CLIFF TO DEATH   Boy Had Robbed Both Young Victims, Sheriff Says

BEST ALL-AROUND GIRL, BO’  Jean Engle, Otis Montgomery Win Senior Awards

BEST ALL-AROUND GIRL, BOY      BEST ALL-AROUND GIRL, BO’  Jean Engle, Otis Montgomery Win Senior Awards

U. S. Braces For Attack On Alaska   Washington Shows Concern Over Appearance Of New Jap Planes

Braced For Air Attack In Alaska   Zero Fighters In Vicinity of Kiska

Jap Defense Line  In China Crumples   Chinese Slay 200 More Enemy Troops

CHINESE CRAUK ENEMY DEFENSE   Line Southeast of Hwajung, Key to Rice Producing Region, Crumbles Under Sudden Attack

Attack by Chiang Breaks Jap  Line in Rice Area American Bombers Hi   American Bombers Hit French Indo China Position

FLYING BOAT MARS ACCEPTED BY NAVY   Huge Craft, Which Successfully Passed The Most Rigid Of Tests, Will Go Into Service Soon

SERBS EAGER ~ FOR UPRISING   Mikhailovitdh Ready ' With 250,000 Men

Yugoslavs Await Invasion Signal  Are Ready to Make Any Sacrifice

FLYNN NAMED ENVOY BY FDR   Quits as Party Chairman to Become Minister to

Flynn Abandons Demo Leadership   Acceptance of Ambassador.  ship to Australia Stir: Speculation.

FDR Sends Flynn To  Australia   Party Chairman To Quit Post For New Job

FLYNN'S ACTION CAUSE OF RUMOE   National Democratic Leader To Be Ambassador To Australia.

ELAN ACTIREMENT SIRS CAPITOL   Democratic Chairman May Go to Australia; See Chinese Ambassador Switch

DEMOGRAT CHAIRMAN CHANGES POSITION   Accepts Ambassadorship to Australia Today

Flynn to Resign to Become Ambassador To Australia  Democratic Head   Democratic Head Calls Nat'l. Committee To Meet Jan. 18

Flynn Going To Australia   Democrat Committee Hear Is Appointed Minister, President's Envoy

Flynn To Be Australian Ambassador   Chairman of the National Democratie Committee Announces He Will Resign Monday

Flynn Quits As Dem Head   Will Become Ambassador And Personal Envoy Of F. R. to Australia

FLYNN CHOSEN AS AUSTRALIA ENVOY   Democratic Chairman to be Personal Representative of President

Flynn Reports He's New Envoy To Australia   Who Will Succeed Party Chairman Puzzles Washington

Flynn Resigns Party Job for Diplomat Post   Going to. Australia. To Assume Ministerial Office

Flynn Abandons Dem Party Helm   Washington Stirred By Speculation Today

National Chairman to Become   Minister Plenipotentiary to  Australia

Abandons Dem ocratic Chairmanship to Become Ambassador.   LEAVES VACANCY IN PARTY LEADERSHIP

FLYNN RESIGNS AS DEM CHIEF   Becomes ‘FDR’s _Representative To Australia; Calls Committee Session

FLYNN TO RESIGN AS PARTY CHIEF   DEMO NATIONAL CHAIRMAN TO BECOME AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRALIA,

ENDS 2-WEEK LULL IN DAY AERIAL DRIVE   Force May Be 1,000 Planes

[Three Directional Attacks Put iGermans Back Further as Air-Land Smashes Strike   Late Bulletin

St. Andre Air Bases Are Also Hammered By Marauders As Clear Weather Returns

Paris and Brest  Areas Bombed   Fifth and Eighth Armies Score  New Gains in Drive Toward Rome

ALLIED BLOWS ROCK GERMAN WAR MACHINE   Nazis Hit From Three Directions, In Russia. Italy And From Air Over Western Europe; Americans Storm Italian Towns   UNREST PLAGUING GERMAN LEADERS

ROMMEL LINE BELOW ROME FALLS APART   Major Disaster About To Engulf Germans In Russia

War Production Board Urged by House Committee to Reconsider It's Stop Work Order on Reclamation Projects

AIR FIELD AT STALINGRAD   Sound Death Knell Of Nazis Trapped In That Area

SOVIETS CAPTURE {AST ARFELD OF STALINGRAD ARM\   70,000 Nazis are Now Isolat-ed Without Hope of Relief or Supplies.

Red Strategy Sounds Death Knell For 70,000 Sacrificed Nazis In Don, Volga Area

Loss of Time In War Plants  Is Increasing   Absenteeism Is Cause of More Loss of Time Than Strikes; Rationing of Meats, Cheese, Butter, etc., April 1

BIGGEST MANY NEW RATING, NEW UNL PLA   Meats, Cheese and Butter, Cooking Fat and Oils Curtailed; May Lift Driving Ban

PLANS DISCLOSED FOR NAVY THAT CAN DOMINATE WORLD   OTHER IMPORTANT MAT TERS HIGH-LIGHTED IN NATIONAL CAPITAL

Air Accidents. Take Heavy Toll   Body of Colonel Love Believed Recovered

AUXILIARY'S SALES $500   Total from Bonds, Stamps at Theater Booth in Week.

SALESLADIES ARE WORKING  BOND- ‘BOOTHS FUNCTIONING  ere ‘Dime’ Store to Sell Mother’s Day Warsages on Streets Saturday.

D.A. R10 HAVE ‘BOND BOOTH AT SPURGEON’   Navy Mothers Club to Have Ritz Booth for An. other Week.

BOND, STAMP . SALE REPORT      Nearly $4,000 Sold by Legion Auxiliary at Ritz in Two Weeks.

REPORT BOND BOOTH SALES   ‘A Stamp a Day for the Boy Who Is. eos AWRY 2%

Record Coal Stockpile: Bituminous Institute Says Fuel Outlook Is Best in U. 5. History

COAL INDUSTRY TO MEET QUOTA   Stockpiles Are Greatest In History; 1914 Goal May Be Raised

GEN. MC NAIR WOUNDED IN NORTH AFRICA   Gen. Ben Lear Assigned To Temporary Duty In His Place

General Is Severely  Wounded   But McNair’s Injuries Not Of Critivai Nature, Says War Department

GEN. MINAIR NOT CRITICALLY HURT   Wounded Officer Will Be Returned to U. S. for Treatment.

MNAIR SUFFERS SCALP WOUND   Shell Fragments Also Hit His Shoulder During Tunisia Fight

INJURIES OF GEN. M NAIR NOT CRITICAL   Shell Fragments inflict Scalp, Shoulder Wounds

GEN. McNAIR WOUNDED one      Tag S  Lear Suc ugcee  Him as: H. ad of Ground Forces

DANGER OF STRIKE OF 450,000 MINERS GROWS MORE ACUTE   Lewis, UMW Chief, Snubs WLB Request To Aid In Study Of Wage  Pennacala

GERMAN SHELL WOUNDS CHIEF   Gen. McNair Injured While Observing Enemy Tactics in Tunisia

GEN. MNAIR WOUND TOLD   GROUND FORCE CHIEF “NOT CRITICALLY” HURT

SaysGermanHope Is For Stalemate   is Command Does Not pect Victory, Says Staff Officer   [PLANS FOR DEFENSE   Report on War Trends Made ae McNarney,. Deputy — Chief of Staff

Now Trying to Stave Off Defeat, Says Deputy Chief; Switch in Planes First Tip

Nazis’ Best Hope Now Is  A Stalemate   Patterson Tells Industry, However. Greatest Strain Ahead for U. S.

M’NARNEY DECLARES GERMANS ABANDONED HOPE FOR VICTORY  MERELY TRYING TO STAVE OFF DEFEAT AND BRING STALEMATE

NAZI VICTORY HOPES DIMMED   Gen. McNarney Says Ger ~ mans Gave Up Several  Months Ago

GERMAN HOPE OF VICTORY ABANDONED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, M’NAREY SAYS 

60 DAY'S BOMBING WOULD KNOCK OUT AXIS, EXPERTS SAY   Technical Experts Agree That Continuous Raids Would Disrupt Chain Of Production

experts Believe 60 Days, 60 Nights of Bombing Would Knock Germany Out of War: Soften Her Up for Invasion

Experts Think Bombing Can Knock Nazis Out   60 Days, Nights Of Continuous Attack Would Make Invasion Easy

German Kayo Held Possible In 120 Raids   Continuous Bombing Would Leave Her Soft  Touch for Invasion

Axis Airfields Blasted by Russ Planes      Toll of Nazi Aircraft in Three Nights Boosted to 300

RED AVIATORS PUT ON GREATEST RAID   Americans Pound Jap Bases In Pacific, Step Up Aerial Assault On Kiska.

Axis Airfields — Blasted By 700. Russian Planes.   150 Enemy” Aircraft Destroyed: Or Damaged “. While Still On Ground”

What's Your Guess? Where Will the Allies Strike to Invade Europe?

Where Will Invasion Open, Big Question _  Guessing Experts Have Field Day

ENGLISH NOT “ORRIED OVER ROCKET BOMB   Whiskey, Toy Shortage Is Big Item

Odds Against Rocket Landing   So Believe Londoners, Who Doubt Any Great Accuracy.

In Parole Scandal »   L. C. Phillips, Former Governor of Oklahoma, Charged With Bribery

Phillips Charged On Parole Bribery   Ex-Governor, Officer Plead Innocent After Attorney Files Suit

Robert R. Fitzgerald, Pardon And Parole Officer in Phillips Administration Also Charged in Cose

‘Red’ Phillips, R.R. Fitzgerald — Charged With Conspiracy And Bribery In Eisiminger Case   Both Enter Pleas of Innocence and Arrange Bonds; Each Accused of Getting $500 of Parole Pay-Off

DJEBEL CHENIT! FALLS 10 DRIVE OF INFANTRY   Area Ten Miles From Big Naval Base Between Bake Achkel and Mediterranean   TAKEN EARLY TODAY AFTER FIERCE FIGHT   Americans Attacking Along Entire Sector With   Foot Troops and Armor

‘Axis Tunisian and Caucasian ‘Armies Are Facing Disaster 'In Any Evacuation Attempt   Smashing New Gains By United Nations Peril Forces of Germans on Two Fronts---Yanks Set Pace In Race to Bizerte   PLANES DAMAGE SHIPPING IN SICILIAN STRAITS

British First Army Batters Way Through Mountains To Glimpse Plains Of Tunis   Altied Air Forces Sink Two Enemy Ships And Seven Others In Sicilian Straits; Still Another Sent Down In La Goulette Harbor

 Force Axis Troops Leff Behind on  1,667-Foot Djebel Achkel ie Stand and Fight   AXIS SHIPS SUNK   British First Takes Bloody Djebel Bou Aoukaz Dominating Read io Tebourba

AXIS LIFE LINE SUFFERS NEW BLOWS   Flying Fortresses Sink Ammunition Ship in Sicitian Straits

Yanks Take Hill Barrier   Biggest Remaining Barrier to Sea Is Captured

Evacuation In Russia Hinted, But Reds Ready   Dijebel Bou Taken By British In Drive In Africa; Yanks Advance   SHOWDOWN NEAR   Invasion Of Europe Near: Burma Is Heavily. Bombed  Again

British First Army Opens Door to Plain   Drives Fiercely: Resisting Enemy From Bou ‘Aoukaz

Attempt Seen Made in Soviet Caucasus  ‘As Well As Tunisia   European Invasion Is buminent; Reds Push Nearer Novorossisk: Yariks Increase African Gains

AMERICAN TROOPS PRESS ENEMY BACK TOWARD BIZERTE   British First Army Has Opened Door To The Plains Of Tunis   PLANES HIT HARD BLOWS AT SHIPS

Capture Last Big Military Barrier On Highway To Sea   Latest Allied Gains Made by Americans in Tunisia; Sherwood, Ohio, Soldier Downs Axis Plane

New Axis Attacks Repelled by Yanks   11 German Planes Downed; First Army Takes Blood-Drenched Mountain Top

Face Clear Path To Sea In Gains Toward Bizerte   Americans Attack Along Entire Sector; New Blows Inflicted By Aerial Forces

Enemy Forces in Atfrica Suffer Heavy New Blows On Land, Sea and in Air

Bizerte ‘Is Nearly Bared’  By New Gain   Heavy Air and Artillery Attacks Accompany Foot Troop Advance

AXIS IN DIRE STRAITS WN 2 WAR THEATERS   ‘Double Dunkerque’ Faced By Axis In Crimea,  Tunisia   IDJEBEL CHENITI FALLS   Biggest Barrier To BreakThrough To Sea Is Removed

British First Army Reaches Plain of Tunis   Allied Air Forces Sink Two Ships and Damage Seven More In Sicilian Straits

CAPTURE PA OF MOUNTAIN NEAR ACHKEL   First Army Opens Door To Plain Of Tunis   Made By Allied Fighters; — 300 Prisoners Taken By  American Troops

OIL PRODUCTION LESS   Clarence Beck Reports on Quotas for State of Kansas

British Chase Fleeing Foe into Tunisia   Germans Expected ‘Not - to: Make a Stand Until Both. African Armies Are Merged

Rommel Pushed Further Back From Tripol   Escape Route Sliced r By U. S. Attacks Which Captures 80  Prisoners

YANKEES ENTER MAKNASSY FOR BRUSHWITHFOE      Attack Follows Dropping of Note On U. S. Lines Taunting: “Why Don’t Americans Fight?”   ALLIES HALT ENEMY MOVE ON OUSSELTIA   Believed Americans Mabilizing for Slash At Coastal Roads and GabesSfax Railway

Elmer Davis Hits Back af Critics Of the Office of War Information

SOLONS’ CHARGES DENIED BY DAMS   Criticism Irks OW! Head as He Calls Their Words “Bonk’?

RAILWAY CLERKS APPEAL T0 FDR   ASK PRESIDENT T0 SET ASIDE RULING AGAINST PAY RAISE

SET ASIDE VINSON DECREE, FOR ASKEL   Non-Qperating Employes Ask President to Grant Pay Increase.

RAILWAY PAY INCREASE APPEAL MADE TO FDR   Decision of Economic Adviser Opposed By Clerks Who Go Direct to Chief Executive

FOR ASKED FOR 0. K. ON BOOST FOR RAIL WAGE   Want President To Reverse His  Advisor’s Rule

FDR Asked To Grant Pay Raise   Group Wants Vinson’s Decision Set Aside

YANKS OCCUPY ALEUTIAN BASE   Take Amchitka Island 7¢ Miles From Nippons At Kiska

LABOR CONCERNED OVER VET REACTION   Discharge As Admission Ticket To Union Proposed

hile Veterans Be Given Cards   Labor Leaders Express  Concern Over Attitude   of Men Returning From Overseas   PROGRAM MAPPED - FOR VETERAN HELP   Propose Labor Press to Give “True Picture” of Production In U. S. to Service Men

Deadlock on Tax Bill Seen   @ O42 OW O244 Pew WI WS  Senate Passes Modified Ruml Plan; Pay-Go  Diesen fae Cantarance

DEADLOCK FACES SKIP-YEAR PLAN   Conference Committee May Delay Modified Rumi Act

ECCLES’ PROPOSAL FOR TAXES — BEING IGNORED BY CONGRESS   ROUSE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FAR FROM IMPRESSED BY PLAN OF FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD HEAD

Butter Subsidized, Other Prices Sliced 10 Percent Subsidy Rollback On Meat And Coffee Is Due Shortly

Consumer To Pay Less For utter Soon  OPA Going Ahead With Subsidy On  Fat Immediately

Subsidy on Commodity To Go into Effect Tuesday At Rate vi 5 Cents Per Pound   APPLIES ONLY TONEW MANUFACTURE   Retail Prices Beginning June 10 Will Reflect Cut; Meat and Coffee Roll Backs Near

OPA MOVES 10 START SUBSIDY PLAN TUESDAY   Butter to Be Cut Five Cents as Beginning, Despite Criticism

FIVE CENTS PER POUND IS ORDERED   10 Per Cent Cut In Retail Prices To Be Felt June 10

Butter Subsidy To Be Starfed   Five Cents Per Pound To Be Paid and Price Is to Be Reduced

Butter Price Cut Leads OPA Slashes   5 Cent Subsidy ‘For Creameries ‘Announced Others To Follow °   BYRNES GIVES OKEH   Approval Of Rollback Pregram Reported; Meat Coffee Reduction Due .

“OPA Subsidy On eButter Effective Next Tuesday  Retail Prices Will Ref lec t 5 Ce nt Cu t

OPA sets five cent subsidy  on new butter   Expect meat and coffee rollbacks to follow soon

OPA’s Butter Subsidy Slated For Tuesday  Retail Prices To Scale Down June 10

SUBSIDY 10 CUT PRICE OF BUTTER B.CENTS A POUND   Reduction Is. Effective June ‘10-and Shortly Thereafter. Meat and. Coffee « Will: Drop.   PROGRAM CRITICIZED SHARPLY IN CONGRESS   Cost of Lowering 3 Items Put at $400,000,000 a Year— Farm Groups Among Objectors.

Butter Subsidy Ordered by OP!   Action !s Taken As Criticism Mounts

0 P A Slashes Butter Price Under Subsid:   Meets Growing Criticisms; Lops Off 5 Cents

OPA Puts Butter on Subsidy Basis; Coffee, Meat Will Follow: Bureau Meets Widespread Criticism

Rollback In Butter Prices To Reach Refailers June 16 Meat and (Coffee to Follow   OPA Under Harsh Criticism Over Handling Of Food Problems Staying With Program Of Subsidies; Trouble Heading Up to Byrnes

Ith Hhal RULLBAGK TEM ON OPA S Lol   Ten Per Cent Reduction. Re: sulting From Subsidy Believed Probable   9-CENT SUBSIDY GOING INTO EFFECT TUESDAY   Criticism Of OPA Policies Is Still Reverberating Through Congress

OPA ANNOUNCES IT WILL LOWER BUTTER PRICES   Subsidy Effective Next Tuesday to Cut Consumer Cost Sharply

SUBSIDY PLAN TO CUT BUTTER PRICE JUNE 10   OPA Announces Program Despite Widespread Tide OF Criticism     SIT Ast 45 CENTS   Rollback Planned In Meat, Coffee Prices In Near Future

FREIGHTER AND TANKER CRASH; 84 LOSE LIVES   Arms-Laden Ship Blows Un In Accident Off Virginia Coast

84 Perish ‘As Two Ships Collide in Dark   Vessel Carrying Munitions Explodes in Mass of Flames

Probe Being Conducted in  Ship Collision   Eighty-four Lose Lives When Freighter Crashes Into Tanker

Ship Collision. Takes 84 Lives  Ammunition Boat   Ammunition Boat Strikes Tanker’

Only 67 Survive Explosion at Sea   Tragedy Occurs Off Coast of Virginia: Navy is Investigating

84 DIE IN COLLISION, ~ EXPLOSION   Ship Loaded with Ammunition Crashes Into Oil Tanker

Probe Cause Of Collision Between Tanker, Ammunition Ship; 84 Killed

84 KILLED WHEN AMMUNITION SHIP —— $ DESTROYED   Collldes With Tanker: Ott Vir‘dinia. Coast In Strange Aioeident..

Missouri Rampages Above Omaha But Little Danger Here  ‘Only Heavy Rains Will   Only Heavy Rains Will Cause Trouble, Local Rivermen Say

Levees Along Big Muddy Give Out   Missouri River Shows Its Teeth on a 100-Mile Flood Front.

'GONGRESS TO  OPEN PROBES .. OF CHARGES   LEND-LEASE, OWI AND OTHER  ! AGENCIES UNDER FIRE  : AFTER REPORT OF SENATE GROUP

SOVIET PLANES LEAD WAY FOR GROUND FORCES   Most Of Donets Mining Area Liberated By Stalin's Men

Red Troops Hold Rich Mining Area   Advance Continues on Ukraine Capital After Rail Junction Konotep Is Taken

REDS ADVANCE IN DIRECTION GITY OF KIEV   Jump Toward Ukraine Capital After Capturing Konotop; Threatening Bakhmach

REDS CAPTURE MINING REGION   Russian Army Driving Toward Kiev Seize Rail Junction. Konotop.

RED ARMY MARCHES ON IN DELIVERY OF GERMAN-HELD AREAS  RAINS, MINEFIELDS, DEMOLITIONS AND TANKS FAIL STOP SOVIETS

Konotop Falls To Soviet Army  Rail Junction 115 Mile From hiev Taken

REDS MOPPING UP DONETS AREA   Recapture Of Rich Mining Area Virtually Completed.

Red Army Almost Completes Capture Of Donets Basin -*  Russian Forces March   Russion Forces March Uoon Kiev, Capita! City of Ukraine .

Rail Junction.   Red Army Threatens : Bokhmach in Drive — On Kiev, Recaptures.. Most of Donets Basix

Russians Practically Complete Recapture of Rich Donefs Mining Area, Railroads   KONOTOP RETAKEN   jermans Bailered on Five Key Sectors ef 600 Mile Front, Fall Back Toward Dnieper

RUSS AVALANCHE ENGULFING NAZIS IN DONETS AREA   RICH MINING REGION RECAPTURED; SOVIET ARMY NEARS STALINO

Reds Retake Nearly All Of Donets Basin   Advance Continues In The Direction Of City Of Kiev

Donets Basin Drive Nears Culminatior   Red Army Pushing Ahead From Konotop, Threatens Bakhmach

‘Reds Practically Complete Recapture Of Donets Basin, ‘Lunge Forward Toward Kiev   Russians Ready For Kill At Stalino; Unchecked By Nazi Demolitions, Rain

Reds Advance Toward Kiey   Seize Konotop, Mining Area, Head For Ukraine Capital

Rich Ore Basin Recaptured As  Reds Near Kiev   Capital Of Ukraine Is Next Objective; Nazis Concentrate Forces

Russian Capture Of Donets Basin About Complete   Rains, Mines, Demolished Bridges And Roads Fail To Stem Drive

REDS THREATEN GERMAN BASES   Soviets Virtually Complete Re capture of Mine Area In Donets Basin

¥all Of Stalino imminent, Reds Two Miles Away   Closing In For The Kill

Russians Clear Donets Area-Of German; Forces;   -.Rich Mining Section “Virtually Recaptured

REDS PRACTICALLY FINISH RECAPTURE OF DONETS BASIN      ‘Russians Advancing In Gen eral Direction of Kiev Jump Forward After Taking Rail Junction of Konotop and Now Threaten Bakhmach.

War Will Enrich English Language, Says Journalism Professor At Northwestern

War Will Enrich Evglish Language Says Professor of Medill School

IOWA IS CALLED UPON TO DOUBLE PURCHASE   War Bond Committee Make Plea to Abandon Complacency, for the War Is Not Won Yet

BIG CAMPAIGN FOR BUYING WAR BONDS STARTS OFF TODAY   Iowa People Are Called Upon To Double Their Purchases In Sentember

WAR LOAN Il SCHEDULED T0 START TODAY   Ask Purchases Extra $100.

SUPPLIES FOR NORTH AFRICA ARE RECEIVED   TO RELIEVE SERIOUS FOOD. CLOTHING SITUATION AMONG PEOPLE

Valley, County Policemen Hear FBI On Wartime Work   Uniontown Conference By Federal Burean Brings New Aids To Law Minions

FBI Activities Lxploited Here At Police Meet   District Peace Officers Given Insight Into The Federal Agency

Welles Charges U. S. Error Helped Aggressors Rise   Diplomat Warns New Generation: Summarizes Aims of World War IT.

Welles Puts War’s Blame  On Generation   Avoid Past Mistakes on Responsibilities, He Tells Graduates

CEERATION AQ SCORED BY OFFICIAL   Country’s Prestige -Must Be Upheld In Future

Welles Places Blame For War   Speaks To Maryland University Graduating Class

Blames U. S. For Aiding Rise  Of Aggressors   Welles Tells Md. U. Graduates We Shirked .Our Responsibility

WELLES CLAIMS U.S, AIDED RISE OF AGGRESSOR   Failure of America to Accept Responsibilities Generation Ago Blamed By Hull’s Aide   TALKS TO MD. GRADS   Says It Is Up to New Generation Fighting For Victory to See Mistakes Are Not Repeated

10 JAPANESE PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Allied Airmen Attack Airdromes On Bougainville

70 JAP PLANES IN 6 DAYS OF ACTION   MacArthur Congratulates American, Australian Troops Which Took  Lae, Salamaua

10 JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN, 6 DAYS   Aerial Offensive Succeeds in Driving Yellow Enemy From Northern Solomons Area

70 Jap Planes re Destroyed In Six Days   Allies Seek to Drive Enemy From North Solomons

70 Japanese Planes Are  Destroyed In 6 Days Of IKahili, Ballale Air Blitz

ALLIES DOWN 70 JAP PLANES IN 6 DAYS’ FIGHT   Aerial Offensive Object. Is to Drive Enemy From. North  _ Solomon: Islands

70 Jap Planes Bagged In Week   Buin-F aisi Vicinity Target of Americans

Allies Strafe ) Italy Ports   Messina Again Gets Pounding; Sicilion City Also Blasted

MESSINA GETS NEW BLASTING BY BIG PLANES   Activities During Tuesday Limited To Patrols

Shipping Losses Hit Low Mark  U.S. and Britain  List June Results

MARIN MAY NAME FULL TIME CHIEF OF DRAFT SYSTEM   Lt.Col. George Hafer, Acting Head, To Be Replaced Before End Of  Summer

Democrats, Republicans Join Forces; Fourth Term Scheme Hit   Michigan's: Vote On Strike Issue

Thousands Go fo  Moscow Churches  Stand Shoulder to Shoulder For -

Nelson Institutes War Contract Ban   Cannot Be Placed in Labor Shortage Areas

WPB ORDERS NEW. CONTRACT CHANGE   elson Forbids Placement War Contracts In Coun try’s 59 Areas Having Acute Labor Shortages.

WPB TO WITCH WAR GONTRAGT!   Forbids Placement In Country’s Labor Shortage Areas If Possible To Meet TimeTables Elsewhere

NEELY LOOSES ELECTION SALVO   Asks Industrial Council To Reject ‘Potential’ GOP Candidate  For Governor

Traveler Says Residents Of Devastated Areas Show Terrible Shock. Express Utter Futility

REICH TERROR 1S DESCRIBED   German Woman Gives Pic ture of Terrible Ruins  Left by Bombs

Women Break Into Tears at Sight Of the Ruins of Germany’s Cities

Fightin’ Texas Exes Top U.S. Medal for Dying Ex ‘Who Bombed Axis Vegesack

U5. CHINA BASED PLANES HIT JAPD   Strike Heaviest Blow of War By Pounding Jap Installations on Hainan islands Airport Eliminated

Liberator Planes Aid In Attack   Chennault Men Give Biggest Blow Of War

TOM HERBERT IN GOVERNOR RACE   Attorney General Is Second Republican Candidate

HOOVER ASKED 10° HELP PLAN FEED STARVING PEOPLE   Former President Headed Belgian Relief In World War 1; Hope Avert Impending Tragedy of Mass Starvation of Europeans.

Hoover Will Be Asked To Aid Relief   His Ideas Are Sought Bs Senate Considering Aic To Starving Europe

Seek Hoover’s Help On Plans To Feed Europe   Action Without Waiting For War To End Is Aim Of Senate Group.

MASSIVE. TRAP JAWS CLOSING ON AXIS: FORCE   British 8th Army Striking With Full Fury In Drive Against Mareth Line

Montgomery's Eighth Army Steps Off Once More as Americans ‘Race Toward Gabes in the North   Terrific Aerial Bombing Curtain Precedes Advancing Allies Who Seek to Finish Axis in Africa   Once and for All.

5. GTHARM BIG. OFFENSIVE: TOWARD RABAUL   First Landings Meet Stiff Resistance From Japs   'BUT M’ARTHUR SAYS BEACHHEADS SECURE   War in Brief:

;Red Army Regains Ground Lost  West Of Kiev; U. 8. Infantrymen Drive Within Mile of Main Rome Road In Fierce Fighting   JUGOSLAVIANS START BIG COUNTER-DRIVE

Crack Troops  Break, Flee From British   Patrols Round Up Many Prisoners After Battle

AXIS FORCE BATTERED. IN TUNISIA   Allies Continue Pressure After Smashing German Tank TTnits   MANY SURRENDER TO BRITISH FORCES   Americans Also Increase Push; New Convoy. Has Just Arrived

MOSCOW TALKS MAKE PROGRESS   Agreements Reached Are Recorded By Staffs Of Experts

FDR STUDIES STRIKE BILL      May Insist On Food Subsid\ Funds if Bill is Enacted

Ickes olds Key      United Mine Workers Leave Way Open for Resumption of Work; President May Sign Connally- Smith- Harness AntiStrike Bill but May. Demand. Subsidy- Plan in Return

Race Riots Throw City  In Turmoil   75 White Men Arrested After Attacking Negroes

Son Of Former President Of Mexico Is Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison

Sweden Fears Attack      Nation Is Warned Against “Trick? by Pramier

STRIKERS: HALT AKRON TROLLEY AND BUS LINES   Snrprise Walkout: Cripples Transportation’ of ‘War ~ Workers In, World’s Rubber Capital   LEADERS IGNORED   ClO Officials Appeal to  Men, But.Plea.Ils Turned —  Down; Increased’ Pay _ Request Denied

WAR WORKERS WALK AS CARMEN STRIKE   WLB Refuses Pay Hike For Operators

Akron Drivers Stage Walkout   Transportation Halted in Nations Rubber Capital for Second Time in Two Months

AKRON STRIKE STOPS TRAFFIC   Bus and Street Car Opera. tors Refuse To Make Schedule Trips

TRANSIT STRIKE AT AKRON TODAY   200 CIO Workers Refuse To Go To Work, Second Walkout in Two Months

Transit Strike Ties Up Traffic In Akron, Ohio  mpm ee ct  War Workers A ra Li., — Lives

New York Must. Hold Election —   Court Rules Election Mus Be Held To Fill Vacant Post.

Americans Driven From High Position During Nazi Attack   Word From Italy Indicates That Allies Face Bitter Fighting on the Road to Rome—Wintry ’ Weather Slows Activities

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Hard-Won Heights Yielded to Enemy   Weather Holds 51h Army  lee, er

Germans Make Gains Against Yanks in ltaly   Americans Knocked Back From Their Hard-Won Heights

Back In Italy   Cold, Rainy Front Indicates Bitter Fighting Yet Ahead

BITTER FIGHTS LIE AHEAD ON ROAD TO ROME   “Both Allies And Enemy Digging In; British Make Small Gains  Near Atessa

Americans Lose Heights  Near Venafro   Italian Drive To Cost Heavily in Casualties, Correspondent Says  WRATHER HAMPERS

Yanks Beaten Back In Italv   Cold, Rainy Front Indicates Bitter Fighting Yet Ahead

Americans Forced From Heights In Counterattack   Germans Throw Fresh Forces Into Italian Fight as Wet, Cold Weather Retards Progress of Allied Armies Toward Rome

U. 8. INFANTRY DRIVEN FROM KEY HEIGHTS IN ITALY   Germans Take Peak North of Venafro Dominating Entrance to Plain Northwest of Mignano.   TEMPERATURES DROP ON RAIN-SWEPT FRONT   Writer Predicts Allied Drive North Will Cost More in Blood Than Tunisian Campairn.

British Lose 58 Bombers In ‘Rubble Raid’   Blow, Twice As Heavy As Any Hurled AtAny Capital, Leaves Smoke Boiling Three Miles Into Sky; German Fighter Opposition Stiff.

NAZI CAPITAL HIT BY ONE OF WAR'S HEAVIEST BLOWS   British Admit 58 BOMBERS and One Fighter Plane Lost Over Reich

Governor Lauds Labor In Texas   ' Disputes, Stoppages Heald To Minimum

Governor Lauds Labor{n Texas.   - Disputes, Stoppagé: tala Tah Minimum

Six Persons Burn to Death   Two Other Persons Expected to Die From Burns in Maine Fire

“SAYS ALL GERMANS OWE “ALLEGIANCE TO REICH ’ Claim Made by Nazis, Says White Book

 The War Today:  Capture of Mateur By U. S. Troops Weakens Entire Axis Line   RY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Po  Bizerte Is One of Strongest Naval Bases in the World May Be Tough Nut to Crack

CAPTURE OF MATEUR BY U. S. TROOPS MAY LEAD TO DIVISION OF AXIS FORCES IN TUNISIA

The War Today—.:  Americans Fought Hard To Capture Mateur, Strategic Railway Center

U.S. SUBMARINES SINK TEN SHIPS   Total Bag , Of " Nipponese Vessels 474; Enemy Attacks Beaten

len More Jap Vessels Sunk   Submarine Sinkings Bring Total To 474

Success of U. S. Subs and Nazi Subs’ Reversals Are ‘Announced by Naval Chief

TAX PLAN OKAY IS DUE TUESDAY   Leaders Predict Final Passage This Week

Enactment By Tuesday Of Tax Plan Forecast   Bill Is Expected To Pass House And Go To Senate On Tuesday Afternoon.

Milo Perkins Is Out ur Joh  Cw 4} .,   Fired Yesterday, Spokesman States

CROWLEY NAMED “AS FEUD RESULI   ] Wallace Reprimandes By Reeennett ion Of-

Abolishes BEW, Names Crowley to Head New Set-up of Organizations   President Issues Ultimatum to Agency, Department Heads; Will Call for Resignations If Officials Disobey Instructions on Quarrel:

F. D. R. Stops Official Squabbling  Crowley Given Jones’ And Wallace’s Powers

FOREIGN WORK OF BOTH GIVEN TO NEW OFFICE   Leo T. Crowley Appointed Head Of Department; Officials Are Reprimanded   Follows Recent Dispute

WALLACE, JONES GIVEN REBUKE BY ROOSEVELT      Feuding Cabinet. Officers Stripped of ‘Powers In. Purchasing Material For War Effort   DECREE ACCEPTED   President Warns Other Federal Officials to Be Fired In Event of Sauabbles

Power Taken From Wallace And Jones   President Serves Notice Anyone Else in Public Family That Feuds in Public Will Be Fired

Vice President AndSecretary Relieved Of Foreign  Economic Warfare Jobs   LEO T. CROWLEY HEADS NEW FEDERAL BUREAU

Set Up Agency For Duties Of  Jones, Wallace   President Strips BEW, RFC Of Broad Powers To Break Up Feud.   ASKS QUARRELING END

WALLACE, JONES LOSE JOBS, DRAW F. R. REBUKE   New Agency te Take Over Powers Stripped From Fighting Pair by Executive Decree

Roosevelt Takes  Hand in the Feud   President Strips Broad Pow ers From Both Jones and Wallace   A WARNING TO OTHERS      Chief Executive Abolishe: the Board of Economic ,  Warfare

President Creates New Office Under Leo Crowley to Take Over Work; Public Airing of Rows Scored

Abolishes Board Of Economic Warfare, Transfers Functions, Along With RFC Subsidiaries, To Newly Created Office

Roosevelt Takes Hand i in the Feud   Poste Strips Broad Pow ers From Both: Jones  and Wallace   A WARNING TO OTHERS   Chief Executive Abolishes : the Board of Economic _  Warfare :

WALLACE AND JONES LOSE WARTIME POSTS   President Rebukes Executives For Bitter Quarrel

Will Fire Officials Who Feud   Roosevelt Gives Warning on  Future Course as He Rebukes Wallace. Jones   MILO PERKINS OUT AS BEW DIRECTOR   Eutire Setup Placed Under Crowley; RFC Also Given a Trimmings

Both Accept Rebuke Without Argument and Chief Executive Makes Plain Ouster Was No Decision on Who Was Right

Lambasting In Print Must Stop Says F.D.R. In Denouncing Jones, Wallace   Two Officials Stripped Of Broad Powers And New Office Of Economic Warfare Created With Crowley At Head; President Firm In Denunciation,

FOR SETS UP NEW AGENCY, DENOUNCE ROW   President Warns Other Officials Not To Air Differences In Press

Takes War Buying Away From Both For Airing Feud  ~ BEW Is Abolished, Office of Economic  Warfare Established CROWLEY IS HEAD   Other Officials Told  To Keep Disputes Quiet or Resign

Roosevelt Denounces Row Between Jones And Wallace; Both Stripped Of Broad Powers   Warns That Anyone Else In His Official Family Who Feuds In Public Will Be Fired

President Puts An End — To Wallace-Jones Battle And Other Controversies

Wallace and Jones Stripped of Powers Because of Feud   FDR Puts Economic Warfare in Hands Of Leo T. Crowley

Wallace and ~ Jones Shorn  Of Powers   Crowley Heads New Of. fice of Economic War. fare and Gets Portfolios

President Hits Wallace, Jones  Strips. Both oF Power And Creates New Agency .

FDR Denounces Wallace-Jones Row and Strips Both Of Broad Powers; Others Served Notice

PRESIDENT STRIPS WALLACE, JONES OF BROAD POWERS   Roosevelt Serves Notice Principals in Future Official Family Quarrels Will Be Fired.

2 CENSURED FOR AIRING THEIR ROW   President Abolishes BEW and All RFC Subsidiaries Engaged in Foreign Dealings.   CREATES OFFICE TO HANDLE WORK   Puts Leo Crowley in Charge— Warns Officials Against Publicizing Disputes.

Future Feudists Must Resign, Antagonists  Are Warned  PERKINS ALSO our            Leo T. Crowley Heads New Agency Taking Place of BEW

Weather Forecast   Cabinet Officers Are Shorn Of Broad Powers Today By President's Action

Sharp Rebuke Administered To Top Officials   Prompt Dismissal Promised All Who Wranale in Public

FR Puts Wallace,  Jones Out of Foreign Duties   Chief Reorganizes Home Front; Gives Added Duties to Leo Crowley; Warns Other Bureaus of Disagreement

Cut Power Of Wallace And Jones   Official Family Warned By Roosevelt To Stop Feuding Or Turn In Their Resignations

LEQT. CROWLEY APPOINTED HEAD FOR NEW AGENC'   Wallace, Jones Are Stripped of Powers After Recent Wrangling Over StockPiling Materials.   OFFICIAL FAMILY IS WARNED BY ROOSEVELT   Roosevelt Emphasized No Decision Who Was Right In Differences Which Beeame Hotter.

Roosevelt Orders All Feuding Stopped; Wallace And Jones Relieved Of Powers

SS  PERKINS OUT OF JOB AS PRESIDENT RE-ORGANIZES BEW   President Sharply Denounces Row Between Wallace and Jones and Strips Both of Their Broad Powers; Serves Notice On Other Feuders.

WALLACE-JONES ROW IRES FDR; POWERS REMOVED   Warns Others in His “Official  Family” that Feuding Will  ‘Bring Firing — Abolishes  Wallace’s B. E. W.

Wallace and Jones Both  eres of Broad Powers mmander-in-Chief Cracks Down   CHANGES ANNOUNCED

WALLACE AND JONES SCORED BY ROOSEVELT   CABINET OFFICIALS ARE RELIEVED OF BEW JOBS

FDR Cracks DownonBEW, RFC Leaders   Wallace and Jones Are Stripped of 'Power as President Steps into Fight

Roosevelt Strips Wallace and Jones Of War Powers After Public Feud

‘President Scores Feuders —   Jones And Wallace Stripped Of Broad Powers As Aftermath Of Dispute Over Agency's Actions

PRESIDENT FINALLY OTEPS IN AND ACTS ON OFFICIALS FEUD  WALLACE AND JONES STRIPPED OF POWERS AND GIVEN LECTURE

WALLACE AND JONES FIRED BY PRESIDEN   With Severe Reprimand For Publicly Airing Dispute; Creates New Office Under Leo . Crowley   Fourth Term

Powers Taken From Wallace,  Jones ByF. R  a — —e* «+ . -.   Others Who Row Will Be Fired: Leo T. Crowley Heads New Office Of  Feanamic Warfare

FDR Rebukes Wallace, Jones, Strips  Them of Broad Economic War Powers

Wallace, Jones Stripped of Broad Powers For Feuding; Roosevelt Gags All Officials

CHIEF EXECUTIVE DENOUNCES FEUDING IN OFFICIAL FANIL'   BEW Abolished; 4 Purchasing Agencies Of RFC Taken Away *

STRIP WALLACE, JONES’ POWER AFTER FUED-FOR   Form New Economic Warfare Office, Crowley to Head Board

FDR Hits At Jones, Wallace   2 Executives’ Powers Sharply Whittled as ‘Aftermath of Feud

Roosevelt Settles Dispute Between WallaceAndJones ByStrippingDown Agencies

F. D.R. Rebukes Wallace and Jones, Takes Away Power  Establishes New Office of Economic

CracksDowr On Wallace And Jones.   Feuding War Chiefs Stripped of Broad Powers in Sharp Rebuke By President

Relieves Secretary And Vice-President Of All Responsibility ~ For Economic Warfare  CREATES NEW OFFICE TO TAKE OVER WORK  All High Officials Warr-d Not To Air Disp tes Before Public

President Cites Pair for Row;  Reassigns Work   Executive Order Forms New Board, Hleaded. by Crowley, to Function; Warns Other Aids on Atring Feuds

FDR ‘Busts’ s’ Jones, Wallace And Creates New Office To Sunervise Economic Wartare

Chief Executive Reprimands Viee President Aud RFC Head For Publicly Airing Their Dispute. Warns Other Bureau Chiefs Against Suuilar Aetion

Leo Crowley Takes Office  Jones Retains Post, But Loses Agencies

President Spanks His F euding Aides   Takes Power From Wallace and Jones; Appoints Crowley

Chief Executive Abolishes BEW And Reprimand: Wallace, Jones   Both Relieved of Respons: ibility for Foreign Eco. nomic Warfare; Crow ley Heads New Office

F. R. Reprimands Wallace And Jones   Abolishes BEW and Cre: ates New Office Under Leo T. Crowley.

FDR Denounces  Wallace, Jones,  Stripping Powers Other Officials  Who Feud in Public Asked to Resign

FDR Rebukes Wallace, Jones; Strips Both of Broad Powers   Stockpiling Delegated to New Agency Under Leo Crowley

FDA. ORDER ANEW OTART BY SHAKE-UP   WALLACE AND JONES ARE TARGETS OF PRESIDENTIAL BLAST.   Failure Admitted   Crisis Came After Public Airing of Difficulties on Foreizn Purchasing.

WARNS PUBLIC FIGHTING WILL BRING OUSTER   Duties of BEW Given To Leo Crowley, OEM Chief

FDR Rebukes Wallace, Jones In BEW Shakeup   Both Stripped Of Broad Power For Feuding

Wallace And Jones Ousted From Posts   Roosevelt Punishes Them For Feud, Warns ’ Others To Quarrel In Private

FDR Clips Wings of _ Wallace and Jones   Abolishes BEW, Removes RFC’s Foreign Financing Powers, Says Future Sauabblers Will Be Fired.

New Office Is Created Under __ Leo Crowley—Move Has No Precedent

Wallace and Jones Stripped of Broad Powers By FDR.    Decries Feuding in Public; President Says Others Who Row Will Be Fired

INCOME TAX PLAN WILL RAISE YIELD BY THREE BILLIONS   Compromise Bill Will Probably Be Offered To House Next Tuesday

NEW TAX PLAN WOULD FORGIVE 66 PCT, DEBITS   Yield Put At 3 Billion More In 1944 Than Present Law

FORGIVENESS TAX BILL WILL YIELD UNEXPECTED CASE   Will Total More Than Three Billions More Than Existing Law.

PAY-Ao-GO 10 WELD INCREASED REVENUE   Treasury To Benefit More, Conferees Report

16 Billions Expected From New Medsute  Tax Bill To Yield Moré Revenue

NEW TAX BILL TO OUTYIELD PRESENT LAW   Estimated Revenue To Be Three - Billion Greater Total

Tax Measure Will Yield __ 3 Billion Dollars More In 1944 Than Present Law

New Tax Law to Yield More Cash   Exceeds Present Act by 3 Billions 

Revenue Three Billion Over Present Bill And Forgives 66.3 Percent

Accused of Spending $5, 000. 000 to Influence Votes and Appointments

Utility Company Accused Of $5,000,000 Slush Fund   Convicted Perjurer Says He Was Scapegoat in Six-State Conspiracy

STEAK POINT VALUE HIKED   Changes in Meat Rationing Schedule to be Effective on Sunday

Round Steak Point Value Hiked To Nine   Loin Pork Roasts Center Chops T 1

POINT VALUES OF CERTAIN MEATS ARE RAISED IN REVISION BY OPA   Point Values on Round Steak, Some Chops, Spareribs, Brains and Tongue Raised—Changes Effective Sunday .

Round Steak — Points Higher Than Sirloin   Meat Values Juggled To Discourage Buying Of Less Plentiful Items

MEAT RATIONING POINTS REVISED   Round Steak Gets Highe Value; Spareribs Are Reduced

EXTEND DEADLINE OF RATION CARDS   Liquor Ratien Cards Cannot Be Issued Until First Week in July.

IRISH REPUBLICANS TAKE OVER THEATER   Demonstrators in Belfast Protest Presence of American Sol-. diers in Treland.

KNOX REVEALS YANK GUNNERS BAG TWO SUBS   U. §S. Planes Bomb Kiska and Other Jap Bases in Pacific

Two Subs Sunk . By American Forces   Tempers Loss of 850 U. S Citizens

2 AXIS SUBS SUNK; MENACI STILL GREAT   Secretary of Navy Knox reveals destruction of  Nazi, Jap U-boats

WELL KNOWN AKRON BUSINESS MAN IS CALLED BY DEATH   Frank J. Montagne Had Been In Failing Health Over Period Of T'wo Years

British Bomb Jap Positions   RAF Carries Out Attack On Important Airdrome

DUVIET VIEW GIVEN ON SMALL RATIONS   Calt for Transition Perioc And Oppose Federation After War.

rouse Lommittee Cuts Agriculture  Department Fund:  Would Abolish FSA, Parity Payments, Insurance for Crops  FARM UNION ANGRY

Abolition Of FSA Proposed   Drastic Change: Recommended  In House

Curtailment Of Farm Program Asked In House   Committee To Seek Abolition Of FSA,  Parity Payments By WILLIAM T, PEACOCK

Curtailment Of Farm Program Asked In House   Committee To Seek Abolition Of FSA,

FARM ACTIVITY   House Appropriations Unit Makes Four Major Suggestions

Proposes FSA, Farm Programs Be Abolished   240 Million Cut by House Appropriations Committee Action’

Old Style Pennies To Be Made Again   Dime-Like Steel Ones Won’t Be Recalled

“RAF Keeps Up Steady Attacks Upon Germany   New Night Raids As Berlin Still Digs Out From Previous Night’s Attack   LATE REPORTS SHOW HUGE BERLIN DAMAGE

Hit Industrial Centers After Berlin Attack   Air Attacks Made On Other  Fronts

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  jg a oe ae eee ee oe ee ae eee      Axis Thrusts On Tunisian Front Stopped “Dead”

WOMEN FAIL TO VOTE   National. Club President Charges Indifference :

War-Vital Plants Idle   Lack of Manpower Ha: Prevented Operation Of 7 New West-coast Aluminum Co. Units

Seven New Aluminum Plants  Idle Since They Were Built   Units Capable Of Turning Out 21 Million Pounds  Of Vital Metal Monthly Lack Manpower To Open

Texas Doctor And His Wife Brutally Slain   «Man Central Figure in A Shooting Last Year

TEXAS DOCTOR, WIFE, 26, SLAIN   Dr. Roy Hunt, 37, and Mate Found Strangled to Decoth in Bed

NAZI HORDES TRAPPED NEAR SEA OF AZOV   Three Rail Towns Are Seized In March Toward Kharkov   BATAISK FALLS     Capture Of Yeisk Closes All Land Exits For  Germans

RED ARMY CAPTURES AZOV PORT   Russians “Take Town Five Miles South Of Major City

PATTON LEADS MEN IN BATTLE   “OLD BLOOD AND GUTS” DIRECTS ARMY ON LINE

Lt. Gen. Patton Commands American Troops That Chased Nazis From Gafsa

‘Old Blood, Guts’ Pattcn Is Again Up to His Neck in His Favorite Occupation- Fighting

Six-shooter strapped to waist, Patton ‘in fight up to his neck   Nazis pitched out of Gafsa under attack of dynamic, cursing general

“Old Blood and Guts”  Uroes Amerieans On   Patton, Riding a Tank, Swinging ; Cowboy Pistol From Either Hip, Leads Yankee Attack

Flooded Rivers Drive Thousands Out of Homes —   “New Crests Cause «Mass Evacuations -In Numerous Cities.

Messina, On Sicily, Hit Again   Major Operations Along Soviet Front Believed Imminent

RUHR POUNDED BY RAF: ARMS CITY 1S TARGET   Renewed British Raids Cost 18 Planes; Messina Hit

Increased Fighting In Russia   Reds and Nazis Getting Ready for Major Moves, Apparently

Allies Hit Key Points In Land of Axis   NEW BOMBING. YPTACKS BY ALLIES AN NOUNCED OFFICIALLY.  ge

RAF BOMBS GIANT KRUPP MUNITIONS WORKS AT ESSEN   100 Tons of Bombs Dropped  in 10 Minutes.

British Planes Continue Raid On Nazi Industry; Essen Is Latest farget

MAPLETON GUNNER ON BIG FORTRESS MISSING IN ACTION   Robert E. Baker, Unheard Of Since July 26 Over  Germany, Relatives . Notified

‘Gen. Alexander Places Allied Losses In Sicily at 21,623; Axis, 164,000

U, 5, LOSSES IN SICILY LISTED   Over 7,900 Killed, Wounded or Captured

7400 American Soldiers Killed, Wounded, Captured  During Sicilian Campaign

7400 CASUALTIES IN SICILIAN FIGHT   ‘Gen. Alexander Gives Report on U. $. Deaths, Injured and Missing.

7,400 Yanks Die In Sicily Fight,   Alexander Says German Defeat Now Certain

War Activities Fund Canvass To Open In LeMars Monday, Nov. 29   Committees Named To Conduct Campaign In This City °

Nazi Bomb Hits,  Damages U. S.  Cruiser Savannah Members Of Crew

Cruiser Savannah Damaged   ‘Hit by German. Bomb Off Salerno, Navy Reveals

U. S. Cruiser Hit By German Bomb      Warship Damaged Off Salerno; Some Casualties.

Bomb Damages Light Cruiser   Fire Caused by Blast Extinguished and Ship Carries On

Bomb Strikes U. S. Cruiset      Savannah Is Damaged By _ Blow, And Some Men Killed. Injured

S.S.SAVANNAH ~ BOMB DAMAGEL   Some Members of Crew Killed, Wounded, Navy Says

USS SAVANNAH DAMAGED   American Light Cruiser Hit By Bemb Off Salerno Beachhead

Some Members Of U. S. Cruiser Dead, Wounidec   Report Yanks Holding Large Parts Of Massiso Ridge, Matese Mountain

Cruiser Savannah  Damaged By Bomb   Hit By Germans At Salerno; Séveral Of Crew Killed, Wounded; Navy Says

Navy Announces Damage to Savannah by Nazi Bomb at Salerno—K. C. Man Was Captain, and Escaped Unhurt.

U. S. CRUISER HIT BY BOMB   Savannah Damaged but’ Carries Out Mission — Some of Crew Killed, Some Wounded

Nazi Bomb Hit U.S. Cruiser   Ship Fights on After Damage ot Salerno;  Some Sailors Killed

Bomb Damages Cruiser Savannah   Some of Crew Killed, Wounded; Kept Up Firing

U.S, CRUISER HIT BY NAZI BOMB   Savannah Struck Off Salerno, Navy Says, Killing Some Crewmen

Removal of Slaughter Quota Restriction Is ‘Step in Right Direction

COAL OUTPUT GAINS SLOWLY   Labor Board Is Reported Ready To Assent To Wage Aqreement

MINERS oLOM IN RETURNING TOGOAL PITS   Many Men Await Approval Of Wage Hike By WLB Before Going Back

ag: a     AT LOM PAGE   WLB Reported Ready To As: sert To Wage Increase

COAL OUTPUT CONTINUING ITS RECOVERY   ‘WLB, Meanwhile, Expected to Approve New Wage Scale Agreed on by UMW Leaders and Fuels Boss Ickes.

Few Details To Be Ironed Out WLB Ready To Approve  Coal Wage Agreement;  Mines Resuming Slowly  = oe Sa he

PRODUCTION OF COAL IS PICKING LIP   Illinois Miners Slowly Going Back To Pits

Coal Production  Recovery Is Slow   Labor Board Delays Giving Assent

Coal Production Continues To Recover Slowly.   War Labor Board Said Ready To Assent To Waae Aareement

WLB Reported Ready To Agree To Wage Truce   Coal Production Continues Slow Recovery From Three Days’ Idleness

COAL PRODUCTION  MAKING SLOW RECOVERY   War Labor Board Report ed Ready to: Assent to  New Wate! &ordement

EXPECT WLB TO OK COAL WAGE PACT   Board Would Have Voted on Plan Thursday Night except for Technical Question

WLB DELAYS DECISION ON MINE WAGES   Postpones Approval of Ickes’ Coniracl When Application to Piecework Questioned   MAY ACT TODAY   Only One Member of Board Report. ed Unwilling to Approve bul Jime May Shift Sentiment

WLB Artion On Mine Paci Still Delayed   Board Reported Approv. ing Fundamentals of Ickes-Lewis Plan   MOST PITS* CLOSED   Full Resumption of Work Unlikely Before First of Next Week

Coal Leaders Will Vote On  Pay Increase   War Labor Board Is Likely To Aid Ickes And Lewis In Reaching Agreement

RUSSIA ACCEPTS INVITATION TO CONFERENCE   Of United Nations on Post-War Food Questions. Plans For Conference Made  Several Weeks Ago

RUSSIA WILL SEND ENVOY TO MEETING   38 Governments Invited To Participate

RUSSIA JOINS FOOD PARLE\   Accepts U.S. Bid To Send En. voys To Discuss Post-war Food Questions

SOVIET UNION HAS ACCEPTED U:.8.’ INVITATION :‘TO FOOD CONFERENCE

RED CROSS DRIVE IS NEARING GOAL   Total of $33,286 Hai Been Reported to 1 - Date -

RED CROSS DRIVE IS NEARING GOAL   Total of $33, 286 Has Been Reported to Date

U.S. Navy Fliers Act as Eyes for British Ships in Biscay Bay Battle

Yank Aircraft Team With British Power To Sink Nazi Ships; Doenitz’ Ouster Reported

AMERICAN NAVY FLIERS SPOTTED NAZI FLOTILLA   J, S. Planes First To Sight 11 German Destrovers, Leading British Warships To Kill In Bay Of Bis cay.

Nazi Flotilla. First Spoited  By Americans   Destroyers Shadowed By  ” Patrol Plane  Until British Cruisers Have Time To Come Up

Two American Airmen Sighted 11 Nazi Destroyers Involved In Bay of Biscay Naval Fight

2 NAVY FLIERS SPOTTED HUGE NAZI FLOTILLA   Shadowed 11 Destroyers While Signaling British Warships to Scene; Three Sunk

TEMPERATURES:   German Flotilla Of 11 Destroyers Located  Bay Of Biscay By American Coastal Command Pilots; Three Sunk

Two U.S. Fliers. Trail Nazi Ships  -For Six Hours   Signal Flashes That Speed British To Biscay Bay And Doom Of Germans

U. S. Fliers Sent Word of Nazi Flotilla   German Destrover Group Shadowed By 2 Navy Fliers in Bomber

Sweet Petato Curing Must Be Carefully Done   A & M Tells Ways Of Care Fov Best Yam Curing

PRAISE 1S GIVEN ~ IN SHIP BUILDING   Roosevelt Reports Construc: tion Is-Now Well Ahead of Schedule, = .-

Today’s War Commentary  Allied Council  Must Revise Plans Kor War Move

PROCLAMATION BY MAYOR CARLTON   Urges All Citizens to Participate in Campaign.

MAYOR WOODS CALLS  FOR DISPLAY OF FLAGS MONDAY, APRIL 12TH     Second War Loan Drive Opens Monday—Coincides With Newton Co.’s Bomber Campaign

With Our Soldiers and  Sailors      Vincent Schweers Now Staff Sergeant

Vv With Our Soldiers and  Sailors                Yincent Scnweers Now Staff Sergeant

HITLER SE MEN TO DEFEND PO VALLEY LINE   Badoglio Wants Nazis Out and Italians Home Before Seeking Peace

Italians, Nazis. [Are Fighting in Northern Italy,   Germany Said to Have Rushed Ten Divisions to Guard Po River Defense Line; US 7th Army Within 9 Miles of San Stefano; Reds Smash Orel’s Outer Defenses £

Nazi Pledges of Help Keep Italy In War, Report   Badoglio Rumored To Have Abandoned All Hope of Peace

According To Spanish Correspondents  Nazis Confident Italy To Remain In The War

TALIANS TO STICK GERMANS BELIEVE   Nazi Probably Prepared For Seizing Two Centers If Necessary. .

Madrid States Italy To Stay  In Axis Front   Von Ribbentrop Reported To Have Threatened Occupation Of North Part.   PLEDGE FULL DEFENSE

BERLIN FEEL SURE ALY 10 STAY IN AXIS   Military Strength and Potent Propaganda Promises Win Badoglic.   GERMANS BELIEVE HOPE OF ALLIED PEACE GONE

ltaly Decides fo Fight On, Say Berlin Reports to Spain   German Reinforcements and Divisions In North Influence Badoglio, Say Nazis

ITALY REPORTED COWED BY NAZI MILITARY MIGHT   DICTATOR BADOGLIO SAID ‘LUKE-WARM’ TO PEACE DEMANDS

NAZI PRESOURE DECIDES ITALY   Weight of German Arms Gut Weighs Spirit of Italian People.   WILL CONTINUE IN WAR

Germans Expect ltaly To Fight  Believe Badoglio Has Given Up Peace Hope

WORD FROM BERLIN [3 THAT ITALY WILL REMAIN IN CONFLICT  WEIGHT OF GERMAN ARM: DDAYVRE TRU rICecmMr Ar   WEIGHT OF GERMAN ARM BROKE DOWN IWESIRE OF PEOPLE FOR PEACE

11 Surrendered Italian Warships \'Zig' Instead of ‘Zaq‘ and Get:Lost

OHIO CONVICT SEEKS TO REGAIN FREEDOM   Claims He Was Sent To Jail Before Being Sentenced

BAN ON STRIKES BRANDED RISKY   Top - Ranking Govern. ment Officials Protest Pending Bill

ANTI-STRIKE BILL OPPOSED   High Officials Express Belief Measure Will  Promote Unrest

ENGLISH GIRL DESCRIBES WORK   With The Tioga County Mobile Canteen, Pre sented Two Years Ago.

Lt. Moberly In on Record Achievement   His Fortress. Shot Down Ten Planes in Recent Raid on Renault   MOBERLY GIVEN CREDIT FOR THREE   Another Is Disallowed Because Enemy Pilot May .. Have Landed

Wheeler Requests Month Delay in Drafting Fathers  Solon Asks McNutt to Give Congress Time

Wheeler Requests Month Delay in Drafting Fathers  Solon Asks McNutt to Give Congress Time To Pass on Question

Bricker Announces Candidacy, Says Nation Needs Change of Administration and Philosophy

BRICKER WILL SEEK GOP BID   Issues Formal Announcement Denying He Will Run for Governor

OHIO GOVERNOR IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY   Bricker Leaves Race fo Governorship Wide Open By His Withdrawal

SAYS HE'LL PUT ALL EFFORTS 10 PRESIDENT RACE   1 Potential Candidates for Gubernatorial Post Refuse To Withdraw

Bricker Not To — Seek Fourth Term   Announces Candidacy For Presidential Nomination

WITHDRAWS AS CANDIDATE FOR -GOVERNORSHIF      Will Enter Ohio Primary: State Contest Has Four Probable Candidates

Bricker Announces Candidacy for 1944  Renounces Any Bid For Governorship

Gov. John Bricker Is a Candidate   Announces Formally Today That He Would Seek Presidential Nomination.

Gov. Bricker of Ohio Is Definitely  In Race for Republican Nomination

Bricker to Run For President   To Be Candidate In Ohio and Before Natianal Convention

Bricker Tosses  Hat Into Ring Ohioan Announces His Candidacy  For Presidency

PLANS ALL-OUT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN   Four Candidates To Seek Republican Gubernatorial Nomination: Open Headquarters Soon

Gov. Bricker Is Candidate For President   Name Will Be in Qhie Primaries and Before G.0.P. Convention

BRICKER OUT FOR PRESIDENT   Renounces Bid For Fourth Term Govarnor

Bricker Tries for G. O. P. Nomination   OHIO GOVERNOR WILL SEEK PRESIDENCY IN NATIONAL CONVENTION

Bricker In Presidential Primaries   Ohio Governor Announces He Will Campaign for (OP Nomination

EN RE RE GEER BUREN EONONS  (oun eR a te et eee  Governor Bricker In Race For President On Republican Ticket

Withdrawal Is Announced In Formal Declaration of His Presidential Candidaey

Moscow Says 28,000 OF Axis Slain At Orel   Russian Statement Said 6,820 Russians Killed Since Feb. 1

18,000 Germans Killed in Orel Region of Russia  No Essential Changes in Fight. ina on Red Front

Reds Report Gains on Central Front  Declare 28,000 _ Nazis Killed

Soviet Communique Declares No Major Changes On Long  Russian Battleline

ERMAN LOSSES REACHED 20,000 MEN IN. MONTH   Soviets Cite Casualties of Enemy in One Area Since Feb. 1

-REPORT GIVEN ON FIGHTING IN OREL AREA   News Is First From This Sector In Several Weeks; Deny Nazi Claims...

Russians Claim 18,000 Germans Slain Recently  Nazis Said Killed Near Orel Sector  Cr. rm _g.trti‘“‘iOOOSOSCisS

Slaughter Of Nazis At Orel  lr Renorted   Moscow Lists 28,000 Foe Dead, Compared With 8,620 Russiang   CONTRADICTS ENEMY   German Wedge Driven Into Donets Front Is Smashed By Reds

Nazi Losses  At Orel Heavy   No Major Changes In Long Russian Front

Nazi Casualties In Orel Region Declared Heavy  Fighting.on: Russian ‘Front General Is. Halted by Weather

SOVIETS KILL 28,000 NAZIS AROUND ORE!   OFFENSIVES ARE MAINTAINED ON THREE FRONTS

REDS REPORT THOUSANDS OF GERMAN FOE KILLED ON APPROACHES TO OREL   Marks First Information In Weeks On Fighting In That Sector; Reds Hurl Back Nazi Wedge On Donets Front

28,000 GERMANS REPORTED KILLED IN OREL BATTLE   Russians Say That Number Have Died Since February 1 on Approaches to Strategic City.   NO ESSENTIAL CHANGES IN LONG BATTLE FRONT   Nazis Hurled Back After Driving Wedge Into Red Lines in South—Thaws  Hamper Operations.

18,000 Nazis Die In 2-Months Fight Near Orel Sector  German Claim That 41 Red Divisions Wipned Out Denied

Russians Claim 28,000 Germans Slain Recently   Nazis Said Killed Near Orel Sector Since February 1

Reds Take Huge Toll of Nazi iMen, Machines   Soviets Hold Firm on All Fronts, Keep Gaining in Center Although Still On Defensive at Belaorad: Orel Quiet

ManyN azis Wiped Out Near Orel   Soviet Claim 28, ,000 Germans Killed Sitice Feb. 1

RUSSIANS KILL 28,000GERMAN IN RIGHT WEEKS   Lives Taken on Orel Ap.proaches, Nazi-Held Hinge on Central and . Southern: Feonts   DENY. BERLIN CLAIMS   Meanwhile, No. Esséntia’ Changes Have Occurred on Long Battle Front, Moscow Says

CHANGES IN POINT VALUES   28,000 NAZIS DIE ON FRONT EAST OF OREL   Soviet Troops Reported Within 32 Miles Of Smolensk

28.000 Nazis Slain In Orel Area. Report   Sovicts Scoff At Foe’s Reports On Russian Losses; Little Change On Battlefronts

18,000 Germans Die Near Orel   20,000 Killed in February, 8000 in March, Moscow Says

Bdew Beck Frome Moecow After Stopover in Cairo   106 @uercray Pasished

STEELOUTPUT CLIMBS WITH WORKERSBACK   Contract: Negotiations - “Are  Continued py. CIO, Strike  Threat :Fadés After   “Murray's: Order

Steel Production Aims at Normal   Union Continues Contract Negotiations After Work Stoppage

Production Of Steel Climbing To Normalcy   Murray Maintains Silence on Controversy; No Indica. tion When Contract Will Go To W.L.B.

STEEL PRODUCTION RETURNS TO NORM   Expect United Steelworkers’ Contract with U. S. Steel to Be Pattern for Industry

STEEL PRODUCTION [S NEARING NORMAL   CiO’s Steel Workers’ Union Negotiating for New Contracts.

Steel Output Nearing Normal  Steel Workers Continue New Contract

STEEL OUTPUT CLIMBS BACK TO CAPACITY   Workers Returning to Jobs With Star of Regular Shifts in Acccrdance With Conditions   MURRAY STILL SILENT

STEELINDUSTRY ABOUT NORMAI   Nearly Alt of the. 170,00¢ Employes Have Re turned to Their Regu. lar Shifts .   LOSS 170,000 TONS

STEEL OUTPUT IS NEARING NORMAL   WORKERS RETURN TO MILLS WITH REGULAR SHIFTS

PRODUCTION OF STEEL NEARING NORMAL RATE   Contract Negotiations Continue

Cyclone Man Dies Of Hurts Receivec In Fall on Steps   Head Injuries Cause Death of Retired Oil Field Worker

Fred A. Williams Of Cyclone Die:   Injuries Fatal to Retired Oil Field Worker

Bodies of 5,000 Reds Uncovered   German Atrocities In Orel Prison Is Probec by Soviets

5,000 Bodies of Soviet Soldiers Found In Grave   U. S. Reporter ls Witness of Gruesome Sight

Russ Exhume 5000 Bodies to Prove German Atrocities   CORRESPONDENTS WITNESS MASS AUTOPSY ON VICTIMS OF NAZI EXECUTIONS, CRUELTIES

Atrocities of Germans Are Investigated   Soviet Authorities Open Mass Grave at Orel Where Grue_ some Sight Is Witnessed by Correspondents

1,000 REDS IN MASS GRAVE   Cerman Atrocities At Orel Disclosed To Allied  Correspondents

Russians Halt Tank, Air Drive  Red Army Line Rende   Red Army Line Bends, But Resists German Break-Through Efforts

   Strong Nazi Forces Push Toward Kiev   But Soviets Say Violent Attacks Have Failed to  Break Positions

Soviet Lines Hold Under Nazi Blows   Violent ‘Tank and Air Attacks Opened in Drive for Kiev   NEW RUSS DRIVE      Lower Dnieper North of Nikopol

ITHDRAWING OWARD KIEV   n-Day Old Offensive of  itler's Army in Ukraine  Forces Further Retreat Of Red Forces   FAINS COST HEAVILY

Germans Fail To Break Soviet Line   Strong Nazi Force Driving Hard Upon Kiev Again

Germans Retake ~ 1 Soviet Cities   Brusiloy, Chernyakhov Fall To Nazis

RUSSIANS FORCED BACK BY SUPERIOR’ GERMAN NUMBERS   But Main Red Line Is Intact For Decisive Battle   SOVIETSGAININ  OTHER SECTORS

Nazi Drive Carries Red Army Back   Heavy Price Being Paid For Successes Achieved Before Kiev

SOVIET FORCES DRIVEN BACK IN UKRAINE FIGHT   Germans Again Force Reds to Withdraw In Fierce Drive Toward Kiev,  _ Moscow Reports

Nazi Assaults Fail To Break Red Position:   Powerful Russian Forces Reported Encircled By Germans North Of Kiev

GERMANS FAIL TO ADVANCE FAR IN RUSSIAN LINES BEFORE KIEV: REDS MAKE SOME GAINS

Violent Battles Fail To Open Up Soviet Defenses   Decisive Stage Of Battle Nears With Lines Still Intact

SOVIET LINES HOLD AGAINST NAZI ATTACKS   Reds Have Retreated Three Times Before Germans Driving Toward Kiev, but Their Main Defenses Are Intact.

REICH’S FORCES THREATEN KIEV   Soviets Forced to Yield Ground, But Main Line Is Still Intact

Russians Driven Back In Kiev Sector, But Main Defense Line Remains Intact

Reds Ready For Big Fight   Main Line Prepared For Decisive Struggle

KIEV GOAL OF STRONG NAZI DRIVE   Germans Fail To Break Red Army’s Front In Zhitomir Fighting

Germans Smash  Toward Kiev   Violent Battle Raging for Contro Of Ukraine, With Nazis  Thrawine in Huce Reserves

SOVIETS FALL BACK ACAIN Th KIEV SECTOR   ‘Moscow Admits Third Retreat But Denies Lines Broken; Russians Gain in Other Areas.

BRITISH ARMY PUNCHES AHEAD IN ITALY’S MUD   Guerrillas Fighting on ir Balkans and New Crisis Developing in France

Russians  Hurl Back Nazi Push   STRONG GERMAN KIEV FORCES FAIL TO BREAK RED ARMY POSITIONS

Russians Forced to Withdraw for Third Day in Kiev Battle   Score Advances in Bend of Dneiper River and in Rechitsa Area

German Forces Fail To Break  Red Positions   British Eighth Army Surges Forward To Capture San  Angelo. Alfedena.   ‘NAZIS BURN TOWNS

Russ Troops F alling Back 'Towird Kiev   German Counter-Attack Forces Soviets to Make Third Withdrawal

SOVIETS HOLD NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Fail To Break  Lines In Drive On Kiev

FAILED TO BREAK SOVIET POSITIONS TO ANY GREAT DEPTE   Strong German Forces Push ing Toward Kiev With Tank and Air Attacks,   RUSSIANS IN RETREAT   The Main Line, However, Was Intact for Decisive Stage of the Battle.

Fail to Break Reds’ Kiev Line   Strong German Forces Explode Violent Tank and Air Attacks.

Nazis Push Back Into ~ Two Towns   Recantitre’ of Brusilov and Chernyakhov Claimed in German Reports   LATTER CITY ON TRUNK RAILROAD   Earlier Russian Reports Declare Red Positions Nat Broken in Depth

NAZIS FAIL TO PIERCE POSITIONS   Soviets Prepared For Decisive Stage Of Battle For Kiev

Russian Main Line Holds Out   Army Newspaper, Red Star, Reports Nazi Push Toward Kiev

VIOLENT TANK AND AIR ATTACKS FAIL BREAK RUSSIAN LINES   THREE SOVIET RETREATS STAGED BY MAIN LINE STILL INTACT

ADVANCED RED UNITS RETREAT BEFORE KIEV   ‘Red Siar, However, Says Germans - Have Failed to Break Russian  Positions in Depth   MAIN LINE INTACT   ‘Russians Continne Own Offensive Jn Pripet-Dnieper-White Russie ' TrHangle

NAZIS FAIL TO GUT REDS’ LINES IN UKRAINE GAIN   Germans Have Moved Up To Within 45 Miles of Kiev

MAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE, HOvES CLOSER TO KIEV, REDS MAKE THIRD WITHDRAWAL   Russians Face Pressure of Heavy Tank and Infan ‘ try Assaults. _Muscovites Say Germans Are Pay ing Dearly for Offensive in Kiev Bulge

Red “Army Positions Are Firm   Main Line Intact For De cisive Stage Of Kiev ‘Battle   By HENRY GC.’ CASSIDY.

Russian Line Said Intact After Third Retreat From Germans Pushing Toward Kiev

ENEMY FAILS TO PENETRATE LINES DEEPL   Main Defense Reported tntact After Three Days of Withdrawals.

Nazis Keep Up Pressure Before Kiev   Fail To Crack Russian Lines, But Germans Do  Make Some Gains

AUOOIAN LUNE STILL INTAGT AFTER RETREAT   Germans Within 45 Miles 0 Kiev On Offensive From Zhitomir

_NAZIS DRIVE FOR KIEV  Russians Fall Back > Rut Keeh Line Intact

Russian Lines West Of Kiev Are Holding   Germans Unable To Break Positions In Depth. Moscow Savs

German Forces Driving Hard Toward Kiev Fail To Break Russ Positions

Baltimore  Is Heaven; Or Is It?   Natives Rally Agains' War Worker Poem

WAR NEWS {ANALYSIS   Allied Aerial Offensive Pre-invasion Measure Against Europe

Churchill to Speak Before Congress   Nazi-Free Mediterranean Offers Fast Supply Route to India Area

CAMPAIGN TO STRIKE JAPS UNDER STUDY:   ‘Speculation on Big Push Through Burma. Pacific War Council Called Into Session

SEABOARD GAS RULE EXPECTED   Senator Guffey Thinks He’ll Have Ickes’ An ewvar Toamorrow.

Troops Enter City as Blacks and Whites Bats tle Savagely, With Police Unable to Cope ‘With Situation—Roosevelt Calls On An TY, Mobs to Disperse—Pitched Battle Fought at Negro Hotel. eee)

'U.S. Troops Finally Curb Wild Fights ‘On Streets   Proclamation Calling On Rioters To Cease Issued by President  Awl , eo ie open ee MWe ew eee   NEGROES AND WHITES 'BATTLE IN STREETS

Pitched Battle At Negro Hote Worst Ineident   Streets Grow Quiet As Soldiers Arrive: Cops Impound Cars:  Over 700 Injured

Federal Troops Called fo Quell Mobs: 700 Injured in Fighting   Police. Wage Pitched Battle at Negro Apartment Hotel. but Are Unable:to Control Marauders; Military: Law Over Three Counties

Eighth Army Scores New 9-Mile Gain   Nazi Winter Defense Wall Plans Upset By Advances

Allies Reach Nazi Italian ‘Winter Line   British Already at Sangro Where Germans Had Expected to Dig in

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES DEEP INTO GERMAN LINE   ON WESTERN END OF ITALIAN LINE GERMANS MASS FORCES STOP ALLIES

Allied Guns  Disperse Nazi Counter-Blow   Planned to Attempt to Halt Fifth Army; New Britain Gains

Righth Army Seizes Positions Overlooking Point Where Nazis Reported Establishing Winter Line

British Capture New Positions In Mighty Drive   Allied Forces Ram Against Germans’ New Defense Line

CLARK'S TROOPS CHECK GERMAN COUNTER-DRIVE   Report Nazis Plan Winter Line South of Rome

Allies Near Nazi Winter Defense Line   Cuts Swath Five Miles Deep Through  Enemy Positions

8th Army Cuts New Swath   BRITISH GRAB VITAL HEIGHTS; NAZIS MASS IN TRY TO HALT YANKS

ALLIES PUSH AHEAD TODAY AGAINST NAZIS   Gain Five Miles Along Sangro River Front

oth Army Punches Out Slight Gain:  Nears Spot Where Nazis Plan Winter Line

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SEIZES POSITIONS OVERLOOKING © THE SANCRO RIVER   Germans Mass Heavy Formations of Troops in West in Effort to Halt American Drive Toward Caaeing on Road to Rome

Nazis Mass Heavy Formations, Seek To Halt Continued American Advance

NAZIS LOSE ULL AREAS: OW SANGRI   F oe Is Establishing - Winter Defense: “Territory

8th Army Makes Five-Mile Gain   Germans Mass Troops And Guns in Effort To Halt Americans

British Cut New Swath In German Lines   American Army Creeps Toward Gaeta In Small Gains

Germans Establish New Winter Defense Line Across Italy   American Fifth and British Eighth Report  Advances

ALLIES ARE NEAR IT IN MOST AREAS   British, in Five-Mile Advance, Reach Heights Beyond Which Prison. ers Say the Enemy Hones to “Dig In.”

Allied Armies Punch Out  New Gains   Germans Hoped To Hold River  Line for Winter

STH ARMY CUTS 0 MILE SWATH IN GERMAN LINE   Allied Artillery Breaks Up German Attempt te Open Counter-Attack

British Seize New Points In Italy   Nazis Planning to Dic In For Winter On River Line

BRITISH SEIZE. NEW POSITIONS INITALY DRIVE   Overlook “Winter Defense Line’ of Enemy: Huns Striving to Halt American Fifth Advance

NAZI PLANS FOR ASSAULT FRUSTRATED   Powerful Striking Force For Counter-Attack is Dispersed by Allied Mortars   CAPTURE MANY TOWNS

Eighth Army Advances Five Miles To Nazi ‘Winter Line’   in. West Germans Mass° Troops’ ‘and-Guns In Attempt To Halt: ‘American Drive Toward: Cassino’on Road ‘to Rome

GERMANS FAIL T0 HALT YANK DRIVE ALONG ROME ROAD   EIGHTH ARMY CUTS 5 MILES DEEP INTO ENEMY POSITIONS

Germans Mass More Troops fo Halt Americans   Winter Defense Line of Enemy Now Jeopardized

Curb Proposed On Lavish Dinners   Food Squandering Arouses Texan

LEGISLATOR OPPOSED TO LAVISH DINNERS   Affairs Staged By Washingion So cialites Are Unealled For At  Thic Tiwen Yen

County Welfare Department Measure Passed by House Despite Vigorous Opposition

Rome Military ‘Sector Bombing Forecast As ‘Naples Raids Continue

Allies Have No Scruples  Asainst Bombing Rome   Military Spokesman Indicates Missiles Likely To Fall Soon On Eternal City

Bombing Of Rome Probable   British Military Commen tator Visions Attacks on Industrial Targets

FOR ARMISTICE DAY   All University Convocation Will Be  Held Thursday Morning

TRAIN WRECK DEATH TOLL NEARS 80   70 Bodies Are _ Already Recovered; ‘More in Debris

40 Minutes Elapsed Between Two Wrecks   ’ Brakeman Tried To Flag Northbound Flyer, but Without Success— Seventy Are Dead

A FLOOD DEATH.   First in Indiana Resulted When oat Overturn od.

ef litt A FLOOD DEATH.   t First in Indiana "Resulted When Trot Overtirniay

Worst Flood In 30 Years Hits Indiana   Four Lives Lost, Over 500 Families Flee Their Homes

Disastrous Flood Strikes Indiana; Crops Hard Hit   Hundreds Forced From Homes; Bridge And Dam Give Way.

OVER 500 FAMILIES HOMELESS IN INDIANA   One of Largest Floods Since 1913

Disaster Trails Indiana Floods  Four Lives Lost, 500  Eamiliec Evacuated

raging Torrents  Jilndigna Flood ake Four Lives   fore Than 500 Families Homeless In Central, Northern Parts Of State

FLOOD WATERS SWEEP INDIANA   Thousands Homeless. Four Lives Lost; Rivers And Creeks Rising

FLOODS RAVAGE INDIANA, FOUR DEATHS RESULT   ‘Big Inch’ Pipeline, Carrying Oil to East Coast, Broken by Flooded Arkansas River

FOUR DIE IN INDIANA FLOOD TIDES   Worst Disaster Since 1913 Sweeping Large Section of the State   MANY ARE HOMELESS

"Indiana Hit By Floods of  Great Force   Most Disastrous Torrents Since 1913 Sweeping the Lowlands

Indiana Flood Fatal To Four  Torrents Worst In 30 Years For State

Hoosier: Floods: Fatal To Fou   Hundreds “fre “Driven “Fron Their-Homes. ©

Worst Flood in 30 Years Hits Sections of Indiana   At Least Four Lives Have Already Been Lost In Rag ing Torrents, and More Than Five Hundred Families Have Been Moved From Inundated Homes In Several Localities

Four Lives}Lost In'Indiana Floods; Many Localities In Worst Shape Since 1913

SEVERE FLOODS MENACE INDIANA   Central And Northern Sections Of State Reported Hard Hit

FLOODS THREATEN INDIANA POPULACE   Central, Northern Areas _ Hit; Four Persons Are Known To Be Dead

Strikes Menace Rails: Coal Mines Still Idle  Lack of Fuel ) Would Hit Vital War Work

War Production May Be Crippled As Result of Large Scale Coal Strike

Wage Disputes At Bottom Of Grave Difficulty... . .  Strikes Threaten Rail Travel And Coal Output

Hangs in The Balance   Report WLB Cool to = Proposed Model Settlement Plan

Railway Service, Coal Production Hang In Balance   WPB Foresees Crippling Results In Stee! Plants,  ry

Coal Output Hangs in The Balance   Report WLB Cool to Proposed Model Settlement Plan

NEW THREATS TO WAR PRODUCTION   Rail Transportation And Coal Production Facing Walkouts’

Rail Transportation and Coal Production Hang in Balance As Strikes Are Threatened

THREATENED STRIKES IN TWO UNIONS   Railway And Mine Workers Demands  Debated Today

WOULD AMOUNT 10 INCREASE OF $1.12 A DAY   Crippled Production Expected If Labor Situation Continues

Strikes Over Wages Threaten Rail Transportation, Coal Production

Strikes Threaten Continued Railway Transportation And Coal Production:

RAIL SHIPMENTS, COAL PRODUCTION HANG IN BALANCE   IMPEDING STRIKES THREATEN TO TIE UP WAR PRODUCTION

Rail Transport and Coal Production Hinge in Balance; Strikes Threatened

WPB ENVISIONS BODY BLOW TO WAR PRODUCTION   Steel Plants, Shipyards, Munitions Factories To Be Hit

STRIKE THREAT HANGING OVER RAILS, MINING   Crippling Results Seen In War Production Unless Settlement Is Made

War Production - Depends On Coal   MINER WALKOUT PLAYS HAVOC WITH RAIL SYSTEMS

Coal, Rail Str ‘tkes Hang  in Balanee —   “Model” Plan Not Approyed hy War Labor BRoard

CRIPPLING RESULT OF STRIKES SEEN   Continued Rail Transportation and Coal Production Hangs In Balance; War Industries Will Be Crippled By Either.

SEEK FINAL VOTE. ON BALLOT BILL   Attempts to Inject Republican Amendments Stand Before Senate Test Today

SERVICE VOTE BATTLE NEARS SENATE ACTION   Bill to Give Ballot Privi leges to Soldiers Strikes Amendment Difficulties

FI ying Forts Put Final Touches On Allied Air Attacks   German Airfields, Rail Lines, Canals Are Wrecked

Yanks, R. A. F. Again Blast German Bases   Fortresses Attack Airfields; British Make Record Foray

CONFLICT VIEWED BETWEEN FRENCH      Dual Appointnient to Frenct Guiana Government Due tc Misunderstanding

AIRMEN POUND JAP RAILHEAD   Attack Made At Lashio While Oother Burma Points Are Hit

American Heavy Bombers Attack Burma Railhead   Others Bomb Japanese Held Positions over a Wide Area

AMERICANS ATTACK TARGETS IN BURMA   Railhead At Lashio Kaided B; Heavy Bombers: Gasoline  Dumps Exploded

MINERS REFUSE TO END STRIKE   15,000 Workmen Involved In Protest Of Dues Hike

WLB Calls Heads of Unions, Mines In Effort to Halt Anthracite Strike

PURGE ASKED OF DE GAULLE   Giraud Suggests Move Would Help Iinity Of French.

KISKA MAY BE NEXT OBJECTIVE OF U.S. TROOPS   There Is Also Possibility Of Launching Attack On Japs’ Kurile Islands

Germans Say They Drove Wedge Into Soviet Lines Above . City and Then Repelled Counter-Attacks — Moscow An. nouncement States Nazis Lost 2,069 Planes in Fighting Along Entire Front Between May 2 and May 29.   ONLY JAP SNIPERS. REMAIN ON ATTU   PRINCIPAL ENEMY FORCES ANNIHILATED—NIPPONESE ON KISKA CUT OFF,

TANKS MOP UP GN SNIPERS ON ATTU   Scattered Nests-of Japs Are Being Annihilated   NEXT OFFENSIVE   May Be Against Jap-Occupied Kiska or Aimed at Kurile Island Chain

JAPS ON ATTU   Eradicating Snipers Main Job Now; Speculation on Next Move is Heard

WIPING OUT ON ATTU ISLE NESTS OF JAPS   Battle Of Aleutians Settles Down To Campaign Ot Eradication Of Enemy Sniper Groups.   Next Move Secret

ATTU FORCES SEEK SNIPERS   Scattered Nests Being Eradicated As Next Move Is Matter Of Doubt

Yanks Chase Down Jap Attu Snipers   Experts Sean Use Of Island in Future War Moves

KNOX SAYS SUB WARFARE STILL "VERY SERIOUS’   To Remain So Throughout War, Secretary of Navy Tells Press Conference On Return to U. S.

U-Boat Menace Very Serious  Says Knox   Submarine Warfare Will Last Until End of War Says Secretary

Knox Says Nazi U-Beats Active   SECRETARY OF NAVY IS BACK AT DESK AFTER TOUR

SERIOUS KNOX   Navy Secretary Expects It To Continue Until End Of War.

Knox Views Renewed German Sub Activity With Concern   “It's Very Serious,” He Says On Return To Desk; 2-Man Subs Torpedoed Tirpitz

U-BOAT PROBLEM VERY SERIOUS SAYS SEC. KNOX   Secretary of Navy, Just Back From 25,000 Mile Tour of European Battlefronts Warns of Increased Dangers of Submarines In Atlantic and Elsewheré.

Sub Outbreak Very Serious  Secretary Knox Makes  ~~ er 64S   Secretary Knox Makes Known Facts Following Return From Europe

U-BOAT MENACE AGAIN SERIOUS   Navy Secretary Knox Makes Report on Trip

Knox Says U-Boal Activity Serious   Asserts Will Continue Serious Until End of War

Knox Reports On Battlefront Tour. ...  New U-Boat Menace Serious, Says Knox

U-BOAT STILL REAL MENACE KNOX STATES   Secretary of Navy Says Submarine Warfare Will Be Serious Until the End of the War   COMPLIMENTS BRAZIL

U-BOAT WARFARE IN NO. ATLANTIC SERIOUS: KNOX   NAVY SECRETARY PRAISES BRAZIL’S AID IN SUB FIGHT   Aussies Strike Swiftly In New Guinea Campaign

Says U-Boat Threat Grave   Knox Warns Renewed Activity Of German Submarines Very Serious,

U-Boat War Serious : Knox   Secretary Praises Inter-Allied Defense Throughout World

Knox Says Subs ‘Very Serious  Praises Brazil’s Part In U-Boat War; Crews OF Small Britich Sahe

KNOX THINKS RENEWED (ACTIVITY ENEMY SUBS SERIOUS  Part British Fleet Will Be  Released for Operations Tn Parifin

Sub Menace Serious One, Knox Reports   Navy Secretary Home From Extended Trip to Eastern Fields

KNOX PREDICTS SUBMARINES IN SEAS TO STAY   Says Enemy Craft Will Be Menace Until War Ends

Renewed Activities Are Serious Asserts Knox on His Return   Navy Secretary Tells of His 25,000 Tour of Theaters of War

KNOX: RENEWED SUB ASSAULTS ‘VERY SERIOUS   Secretary Praises Brazil’s Contribution in Fight on U-Boats

GERMAN SUBS IN NORTH ATLANTIC ARE 'VERY SERIOUS   This Is Statement Issued By Secretary of Navy Knox on His Return.   TRAVELED 25,000 MILES   He Said Submarine Warfare Will Be Serious to the End of the War.

SUB MENACE SERIOUS   Renewed Activity In Atlantic Pre sents Serious Problem, Says Knox

REPORT ITALIANO ASK ABDICATION UF MEW LEADERS   Claim Milan and Turon Res idents Demand ‘Lhat King Step Down.

Report Demands For Abdication   London Hears Italians In Milan And Turin Demand King And Badoglio Ouit

Hopes Dimmer For Italian Surrender   Curfew Is Clamped On North Amid Clamor For Peace; Early Allied Invasion Predicted

LEGION PLAN AIDS CANNERS   With Help of U.S. E. S., State Defense Council Workers Assured

CANNERIES SET ON LABOR, STATE HEAD REPORTS   Three Organizations Join it Drive To Assure Complete Operafions

REJECTS LABOR DEMANDS FOR CEILING BOOST   Board Votes 8 To 4 T« Defeat Motion Made By AFL Members, Backed By CIO   Mine Showdown Set

WLB Turns Down Labor's Petition   Showdown Seen on Lewis’ Demands

WLB Rejects Plea to Boost Living Formula   Action Sets Stage For Showdown on Demands of Miners

ABSENTEEISM LESS NOW THAN IN WORLD WAR    Aircraft War Production Council Announces Plan to Alleviate and Control Problem   7-POINT PROGRAM   Covers Virtually All Reasons and Offers Cures for Workers Absenting Selves from Plants

Plan To Reduce  Absenteeism   Aircraft Council Says Figures For Aircraft Industry Are Lower

Alumni Joke  Lucy Sends Scented Sentiments To Scads Of Married Men But No Harm

FEAR DOWNFALL OF STATE TAXING MACHINE IN '44   Meeting Held In Springfield For Tax Officials

SEVERAL CASES ENDED   Judge Hugh Means Heard Motions in District Court Saturday

SEVERAL CASES ENDED   REELS CTD  Judge Hugh Means Heard Motions in District Court Saturday

READY SIDE TRACK NEW TAX BILL   Would Put Off Consideration of New Wartime Tax Bill Until Committee Has Examined Proposed Changes.

Home Laundry Makers Vision Post War Work   Committee Appointed te Study Problems ‘Aftei Woar’s End

AMERICANS ARE PUSHED BACK BY ROMMELTHRUST   Sbeitla, Kasserine and Feriana Occupied by Enemy After Four Days’ Advance   NG LESSENED ‘DESPITE RAPID GAIN              Meanwhile, Germany's  paateos  By British 8th Army's  Dash to Mareth Line

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES ON MARETH LINE      Rommel’s Army Drives To Within 12 Miles Of Algerian Border

TARAWA TAKE ONLY AFTER BLOODY FIGHT   Lieut.-Col. Carlson and Jim Roosevelt Tell of Battle

Installations at Feriana  Burned, Blasted   Heavy Losses Are Inflicted on German Forces

NAZIS BLAST, BURN FERIANA INSTALLATIONS   Enemy General's Long-Shot Bet To Swing Through Pass Fails: He Pulls Out.

ENEMY BURNS FERIANA, MAY ABANDON II   Rommel Withdra w: To Tunisian Coast

Important Target is Smashed   Long Range Fighter Planes Accompany Bombers All Way

U5 BOMBERS OMAGH AVESTERN. GERMANY   Big Fleets Of Forts, Liberators Stage Daylight Raid

EIGHTH AIR FORCE GIVES GERMANY A PEAL PASTING   Long Range Fighter  Planes Accompany Rombers All the Wav

Fleets of Forts, Liberators Loose Smashing Blow   Long Range Fighters © Accompany Bombers Into Western Germany

Reds Open Fierce New Onslaughts   Nazis in Russia Take Des. perate Measures to Avert  Disaster

Huge Force Of U. S.. Planes Attack   Fleets of Bombers Well Protected Bv Fichters

NINE INDICTED   Charged With Conspiracy With Ex-Union Officials.

NINE MEN FACE U.S. CHARGE   “PROTECTION PAYMENT” FILM PLAN IS COUNT

INDICT NINE IN NEW YORK   Attorney General charge: conspiracy against motion picture heads

MONTBATTEN TO MAP PLANS FOR DRIVE AGAINST NIPPONESE   Burma Expected To Be First Objective Of Early Offensive.

Mountbatten Confers in  Washington   Mapping Strategy For Campaign On Asia Mainland

MEAT STOCKS AUN SHORT I CTY STORES   Rush to Buy Before Rationing Exhausts Supplies Early Today.   WOMEN FAINT IN PITTSBURGH   Million-Pound Emergency Supply Being Rushed to New York.

Rush to Buy Meat Continues   Hundreds of State Housewives Up Before Dawn Today

Airacobra Is Sturdy Plane   This Pilot’ Can Tell Just How Strongly Built Ship Is

Montana Flyer Gives Graphic Evidence of Durability of the Army's P-39 Airacobra

Arnold Explains Bomber Priority   Says European Theater Gets First Preference

British Within Sight of Italy, Take Guardia   ‘Seventh Army and British Join Forces  in Drive on Randazzo; Russians Roll ing Along Unchecked in Twin Drives  on Kharkov and Bryansk

Report Nazis Shipping Big Guns to Italy   Land Advance 1s Slow bul All Units Continue to Pounc Axis Troops

'GUARDIA CAPTURED PUTTING ALLIES IN SIGHT OF MAINLAND  BRITAIN’S WAR LEADER CROSSES OCEAN TO LAY WAR PLANS

British Troops Storm Within Sight of Italian Mainland —Choke Last Jar  Posts in Georgia

Guardia Falls To Storming Invasion Units   Germans Reported Trying To Remove Materiel From Sicily

BRITISH 8TH ARMY WITHIN SIGHT ITALY   Warships Bombard Italian Shipyards in Bay of Naples

British Take Guardia, Storming Within Sight Of Mainland Of Italy   Germans Try To Remove Troops And Materials

FIERCE FIGHTING NOW RACING IN ‘COFFIN CORNER’   Red Army, Meanwhile, Rolls Ahead To Smash Nazi Lines in Russia   KHARKOV BEING ENCIRCLED   German Troops Are Rushed Into Italy as Allies Near Gate for Invasion

Warships Hit Shipyards In Bold Attack   American Engineers Break Gateway To Key Point By Rishine New Road.   FOE REMOVING TROOPS

GUARDIA FALLS IN DRIVE FOR MESSINA BASE   Germans Offer Bitter Resistance As Allies  Move Ahead   EVACUATE PERSONNEL   British Warships Batter Southwest Coast of Italy

Units Within Sight Of Italian Mainland, Capture Guardia   U. S.. English Troops Join Near Mt. Etna; RAF Blasts Nuernberg; Reds Retake 100 Towns

Grind Forward In Sicily   Slowed by Desperate German Defense of Dwindling Foothold; Red Drive Gains Speec

ALLIES SMASHING AXIS FORCES BACK TOWARD MESSINA   Germans Reported Moving Men and Equipment from Sicily; Heavy Fighting Dawee an leland.

‘PROCLAMATION MADE AT SAME ‘TIME BY MARSHAL BABOGLIO   Italians Made Approach With View To Armistice Several Weeks Ago

Headquarters In North Africa Makes Announcement As Rome And Washington Disclose News: Negotiations Proceeded Sev: eral Weeks Before Final Action Taken In Sicily.

Military Armistice Granted Sept. 3, Resistance Ends ° As Badoglio Proclaims News

Note 10 fojo-hifler: They're Bigger And Heavier -. os  . New “Super-Bomber”. About Ready For Action; Production-Mounts Rahidl,

New "Super Bombers’ Soon To Join Flying Fortresses and Liberators

War Produdion Official Says ‘Super-Bomber’ Manufacture Scheduled

‘New American Super Bomber Will Add Soon to Axians’ Discomfiture; Details on Great Craft Are Secret

Note To Tojo-Hitler: They're Bigger And Heavier .  New “Super-Bomber” About Ready Fo Action: Production Mounts Rabidl,

Post-War Plans Of Business Are Needed af Present   Transition to Peace ls Bigger Danger  a gen PO et aii sao —-— rm eee

LOOKING 10 EMPLOYMENT AFTER WAR   Committee For Economic Development Envisions Needs For Taking up Full Employment,

Ignore Order To End Strike   Brewster Strikers Repeat - Demand For Release Of Guards.

STRIKERS SPURN ORDER FROM WLB   Refuse To End Strike At Pennsylvania Aircraft‘ Plant.

WAR WORKERS IGNORE LABOR BOARD'S ORDER   Refuse to Return, Despite Warning of “Penalty” For Striking Over Guard Arrests

JUVENILE ARRESTS (LIMB ALARMINGLY   -BI Chief Hoover Blames Lack of Parental Guidance in Homes

General Break in Moral Standards Among Juveniles  Great wnerenee  in Arrests  ~, i at & = 

Vessel Aground Off New Jersey   Several Survivors Brought Auhose

American Army In Slomons Takes Airield   Central Solomons Now Controlled By American Forces

Not A Single Jap Is Found Alive   Occupation Completed Without Firing A Shot   THE JAPS LEFT WAR SUPPLIES BEHIND

Yanks Occupy Vila As Foe Quits Rekata   Kolombangara Falls; Japanese Casualties Are 5,000 In Solomons Area: Finschhafen Rearauard Is Liquidated

Allies Took Big Jap Air Base   MANY ENEMY PLANES ARE DESTROYED At VILA AIRFIELD

Kolombangara, Vila Fall To U.S. As Japs Retreat   Yanks Gain Control Of Central Solomons In Nipponese Evacuation

Americans Sweep Japs From Hold On Mid-Solomons   Invest Kolombangara  To Take Over Control

U. S. Takes Island  In Solomon Chain   Japanese Flee Vila Airfield and Leave Large Stores of Supplies.

Yanks Oceupy Kolombangara  Vila Airfield      Not A. Shot Fired: And Not a Jap. Seen as MacArthur's Forces .Oceii: py Abandoned Islafid:

JAP RESISTANCE NIL IN SEIZURE OF KOLOMBANGARE   Not A Shot Fired In American Occupation; Yanks Now In Complete Control of Central Solomons.

Not-a Shot Fired In’ Occupation: Japs Leave Dead and War Material  In-Flight °

Allies Find No Jap Alive In Vila Area   Military. Wreckage On Kolombangara Denotes Wild Exit

Yanks Take Over Kolombangara  In Possession of Vila Air Field After feane Flee

JAPS LOSE LAST FOOTHOLD IN SOLOMONS   Americans In Possession Of Vela Airfield

AMERICANS OCCUPY KOLOMBANGARA AND - VILA LANDING. STRI   Japs Had Pulled Out, Leaving Ammunition and Supplies; Central Solomons Ours   CAMPAIGN BEGAN JUNE 30

Yanks Ovcupy Kolomban vara,  y ila Airfield   1 SS ‘Not A Shot Fired And { WNota Jap Scen as Mac; Arthur’s Forces Occu py Abandoned Island.

Kolombangara Falls Without A Shot  U.S. Now In Complete Control Of Southern And Central Solomons  s &¢ & 2 8

ALLIES MOVE IN ON EVACUATED ISLANDS   Vila Airfield and Kolombangara Island Now Under Complete Control

Kolombangara Island Now ls Occupied ©  No Japs Left at Vilé   No Japs Left at Vila Airfield, On Island; Last Nips Slain

AMERICANS TAKE VILA AIRBASE IN SOLOMON ISLES   Kolombangara Also Seized to Push Nips Out of Vitel Islands

Allies. Win Complete Control Over Central, Southern Solomon Islands

Japs Lose Last. Base In Central Solomon Isles   American Forces Take Possession Of Vila ‘Airteld.

Lewis Again Silent With Strike Near   Fails to Reply To WLB’s Request  For Negotiations

FOOD CENSUS DUE   OPA to Learn What's Popular on Dinner Tables By Survey

Silver Bow Housewives Will Be Selected to Help OPA Decide Which Kinds of Food Maiority of People in U. S. Are Eating

GEAMANS BATTLE DEAPERATELY Tl AETAIN CORRIDOR   But Soviets Are Determined To Close Trap Or Kharkov Defenders

GERMANS FIGHT SAVAGELY TO HOLD KHARKOV  ESCAPE ROUTE   Battles Reach New Fury; Soviets Advance At Bryansk.

INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS I$ NOW THE MAIN ISSUE   Sen. Ball Says United Nations Should Organize to Handle Them.   MAKES A PROPOSAL   Wants to Know About Britain and Russia’s’ Territorial Ambition.

Suggests Parley ‘To Clarify Aims ‘Of Soviet, Britain   Claims U. 8. Should Lead In Peace Organization, Boundary Settlements

REFUGEES ASK FREE GERMANY   Reich Citizens And Naz! Army Urged To Revolt And Halt War

Soviet Forces ~ Renew Drive  In Caucasus   Pressing Germans In Vicinity Of Taman Peninstla Says Moscow   REPORT ADVANCE OF SEVERAL MILES

Striking At Last Foothold In Caucasus   Press Germans Back Under Aerial Cover

Roosevelt, Churchill, General Shek Hold 5-Day Conference: Believed Meeting .With Stalin   Reuters Reports New War Parley at Teheran; 4 Point Program Outlined for Defeat of Japs; Draft Blueprint of Empire’s Break up

LEADERS GO 10 NEW MEET POINT   Stalin to Join Conferences in iran, Predicted   CONFEREES AGREE   Upon Future Military Operations Against Japan; Pressure Is Mounting

DECISION REACHED AT SECRET PARLEY IN NORTH AFRICA   Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek and Their Military Advisers Attend 5Day Conference.   PLAN TO DRIVE ENEMY BACK TO HOME ISLANDS   Tokyo to Lose Manchuria and Formosa Under Program, as Well as Areas Seized in Last Two Years.

Military Staffs Plan Concerted Blows Against Japan; Report Three Talking With Stalin

Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang. Kai-Shek Meet In Extra ordinary Session

Unconditional Surrender  Of Japanese Asreed Goal   Leaders of 3 Nations _ Leave for Unannounced Destinations After Five-Day Cairo Meeting OTHER DECISIONS BELIEVED REACHED  General Staffs Meet  Te Cleontearn Stunde nth

To Punish Japan For Crimes   Cairo Conference  Maps Methods To Nation Of All  Usurped Territory.

STALIN JOINS WAR COUNCIL HELD IN IRAN   UNITED NATIONS ARE BOUND BY PACT TO STRIP ENEMY

JAP SURRENDER THEME OF TALK   Roosevelt, Churchill, Kai-Shek Felt  En Route to Join Stalin for Final Planning

WILL STRIP-IAPAN OF HER WAR GAIN   U.S., Britain and China Ww ill Put_ Japs Back On Their Island

IN WHICH THREE NATIONS BECAM BOUND IN AGREEMENT TO BEAT Jé PAN INTO UNCONDITIONAL SURRES DER.

Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Would Strip Empire Of Ill-Gotten Gains   PARLEY WITH STALIN SCHEDULED FOR IRAN

‘Big Three’ Draft Blueprint Of Campaign for Driving Nips From Islands of Pacific

Death Is Pledged For Imperialistic Japan   London Hearfened By Allied Solidarity, But Biaaer News Expected From Europe

Doom of Japan Seen in Meeting Of Allied Chiefs   Plan of Operations Reported Completed

AGREE TO STRIP JAP NATION OF ALL TERRITORY   U. S., Britain, China Plan to Smash Nippon as Military Power

‘In Historic Conference ‘Bind Their Nations To Crush Hirohito’s Empire

Four Chiefs Meet At Secret Place   Details Of Caire Meeting Of Roosevelt, Churchill And Chiagna. Koi-Shek Are Released

Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Map Drive to Strip Foe of All Lands Conquered in Half Century

MOVES TO SMASH JAPAN PERFECTED AT CAIRO - LEADERS LEAVE AFRICA TO OPEN NEW PARLEY WITH PREMIER STALIN

Clapper Insists:  H orse Sense Should Chart Racial Rules   War Chances Pirture

RESTAURANT SALES CUT MEAT SUPPLY   That’s Charge of Retailers Who Demand Control

N. Y. PUBLIC” SCHOOLS ORDERED CLOSED FOR WEEK   Rhode Island May Put All Non-War Business On 5-Day Week to  Conserve Fuel Ooil

DRIVING FOR FUN “GEASES IN THE EAST AS OPA CRACKS DOW!      New York Schools To Close. For Week In Effort To Save Fuel Oil   FEW CARS ON STREETS

NY Schools To Close to Save Fuel Oil   Will Be Given Week’s Holiday Beginning February 1 Instead of Regular Holidays at Factor

NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS CLOSED TO SAVE FUEL OIL   NON-WAR BUSINESS IN RHODE ISLAND MAY CLOSE MONDAYS

SCHOOLS TO GLOSE TO SAVE FUEL Ol   New. York City Institutions Will Have Vacation On Feb...

Save Fuel  In East   Schools and Business Places On Part Time Closing /

FICIALS SET [ACATION OF WEEK. FEB.   Je Island Plans Five-Day eek For Non-War Work To Conserve Fuel.   XI LIMITATION SEEN   ! Eastern -Motorists Join n Observance of Ban Qn Pleasure Briving.

WEA’s Food Plans Stti Undigested   About Time Farmers Are Told Where They’re At, For 1944

Aliies Keep Up Hard Bombing Attack On Europe   PORT OF SICILY ALSO BOMBED BY YANKS

ITALIAN ISLAND, PANTELLERIA, IS  HEAVILY BOMBEL   200,000 Lbs. of High Explosives Land on Docks, Airfields.

ALLIED AIR DRIVE ON EUROPE WOULD ACHIEVE SURPRISE   Axis Nations Preparing For Blow -— 3,000 Miles Of Coastline To Defend

Allied Fleets Pound At Italy   Base of Pentelleria  Under Heavy Attack

ITALIAN ISLE SMASHED IN HEAVY RAID   200,000 Pounds Of Explosives  Hit Pantelleria

Center Point — a Exceeds: Gusta hh Red Cross Call”            : Hunt! Doubles Quist 4 Kerr ‘County Conelud Stuccessful, Compalens, Alt Reports In‘. 2

House Renews Vote Against Subsidy Plan   See Presidential Veto Of Commodity Credit If Rider Attached.   VOTE OF 160 TO 32

Northwest Nazi Area Believed Hit Hard Again   Luftwaffe Still Reeling As Fifteen More Planes Are Shot Down With Loss Of But Two; Emden Doomed To Be Blasted Off The Map.

Another Big Force ls Over Continent   More Nazi Fighters Are Added To Heovy Toll Taken In Newest Raid After 48-Hour Rest -

Boy Bitten By Coral Snake  Youth’s Condition Serious; Brought Rentilee Ta School

Bitten by Coral Snake Boy, 13, in Critical Condition;  Action of Serum Is Awaited

Pupil Bitten By Snake in Class Room May Die   Physicians Say It Is Race Between Anti-Yenin and  Death DEADLY TEXAS REPTILE

NEW JERSEY BOY BITTEN BY CORAL SNAKE AT SCHOOL   13-Year-Old Boy Now Fights Death As Serum Finally Arrives... Snake _ Was: Used in Biology Class 

BILL 10 TIGHTEN LIQUOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PASSED   Hazlewood’s Bill Supplemental to Recently Pessed Durwood Manford Bill

Olson Faces Dictograph Quiz  Whot Happened to Eight Microphones? —  oy See ae

Olson May Face Legislature Quiz On Dictagraph   Assembly Speaker Lyon Says Microphones Of System Have Vanished

Scheduled Nationwide Stoppage for Dec. 30 ‘To. Effect. Major:  '  -§ystems First

Railroad "Strike Blueprint" Shows Order in Which Systems Will Be Hit

GOVERNMENT OPERATION RAILS LOOMS   Failure to Effect Wage Settlement Brings About Prospect Federal Control

STAGE:1S SET FOR / ALERT-HERE TODA)   Fire Apparatus Will High light Eleven Local “leetances”’

STAGE I$ SET FOR ALERT HERE TODAY   Fire Apparatus Will High light Eleven Local “Instances”

AUTO LICENSES. ON SALE JAN. 3   YeHow Letters. on Black Background; One. Tag for Rear: of Car

JAPANESE MENACE LOOMING DARKLY OVER THE WHOLE SOUTH PACIFIC   All Signs Point To An Impending Enemy Move Of Big Importance.

Jap Menace Looms Dark  In Pacific   Nipponese Massing Forces Along Chain Of Enemy Bases

British Legions Smash Into Catania; Axis Defeat Near  German Rearguards Shoved Back From Mount Etna Southern And Faster Slonesc In Fight

Conquering Allies Head for Messina Kill\   Red Victory Threatens Nazis in Ukraine

EIGHTH ARMY HEADS NORTH FOR MESSINA   AXIS TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWN; FINAL VICTORY SPEEDED

DRIVE BACK GERMANS ON ETNA SLOPES   Capture of Vital East Coast Port Followed by Occupation of Paterno to Northwest.

Germans Reported Withdrawing From Island Of Sicily   Conquering British Legions Smash Into Catania Paterno Officially Occupied; Axis Forces Fleeing Toward Taormina

Head Toward Messina we Prizes Are Won   American Troops Drive Ahead on Northern Coast

EIGHTH DASHES NORTHWARD ON COAST HIGHWAY   Nazis. Begin Evacuation of Non-Essentials As Allied Victory Is Brought Nearer   Key Road Threatened

CATANIA SEIZED AS AXIS TROOPS FLEE NORTHWARD   Paterno Also Falls To Allies; Fleet Units Aid  Ground Forces   GERMAN AND ITALIAN RELATIONS WORSEN

Final Victory Is Speeded Up in Sicily   Nazis Give Ground as Eighth Army Hits Mount Etna‘s Slopes

‘Misterbianco And Paterno Also Taken   . BRL BB GBA RE  All of Circular Road Around Etna May Be In Allied Hands Soon  A WERICANS BATTLE ‘OR SAN FRATELLO  Nazis Withdrawing All Non-Essentials  Benes. RDattares,-] J.).-.-]

BRITISH TAKE CATANIA; ETNA LINE SMASHED   Island Campaign Nears Final Stage; Nazis Now Withdrawing

British forces push back nazi rearguard from Mt. Etna slopes   Veterans mop up machine gun nests; force Germans back toward Messina

British Crumple Nozi Left Flank, Capturing Catania  FORCES DRIVING ON TO CRUSH THE AXIS  German-Italian Relations Reported Growing Worse -

Eighth Army Takes City In Sicily  End Of Drive Seen Nearer aK. mM. -¥. H.C,

Final Victory Near In Sicily   British ‘Take Catania And Slash On; Others Advance

Yanks Battling Only 55 Miles  From Messina   Foe’s Force Still Fighting For Island Estimated Wot A OOD

Final Victory In Sicily Drive Brought Nearer   Americans Battle For San Fratello on North Coast: Paterno Also Falls to Allies

MEAT. ALLOWANCE TO BE LIBERAL If SUPPLY AVAILABLE   low of Meat to ‘to Markets Fluc. Huates—and.. Rau 2 Follow Suit

Predicts Change In Meat Ration  Promise Adjustment Whenever Possible

Brown Warns Housewives Of Possible Stim Supplies During First Weeks   CHANGE NECESSARY   Individual Preference Will Determine Amounts Of Foods Used By Citizens

FOR LIBERAL HELPINGS   Meat Ration to Be Increased When Possible, Says OPA Head

‘No Indication Yet Given of Size of the Proposed  Ration.   SELLING DOOMED IN BLACK MARKET

NEW AND STIFFER REGULATIONS IN STORE FOR DRIVERS OF AUTOS   Nation-wide Extension of Pleasure Driving Ban Due This Year, It ls Reported—-Roadhouses Hard Hit by OPA Ruling

'STIFFER RESTRICTIONS SEEM IN STORE FOR ALL MOTORISTS      Ban On Pleasure Driving Expected To Be Extended Tc Whole Nation; Government May Also Call In All Spare Tires To Stock Rubber Pile -

Tighter Restrictions Seen for Motorists Over Nation By Early Summer By Rubber Czar Jeffers

[Dealers To Ask Price Increase  For Gasoline   New and Stiffer Restrictions  Appear in Store for Motorists

Million Dutch ” Radios Seized      Invasion Jitters Rock Nazi Conquerors

NAZIS DEPRIVE HOLLANDERS OF OUTSIDE NEWS   Demonstrations Banned In Norway On Independence Day     TURKS WATCHED     Uprisings Are Reported In French And Yugo slav Areas

Nazis Seize All Radios In Dutch Homes   Fear Of Invasion Is Strong; Hollanders Disobeying Decrees

German Invasion Jitters Mount   Dutch Radios Are To Be Conficcatet

Nazis Outlaw All Radios in Holland; French Told To Prepare For Invasion

Nazis Seize One Million Radios So Dutch Can’t  Hear Invasion Signals   Unrest Growing Throughout Europe And Widespread Sabotage Reported; Attention is Focused on Turkey

German Invasion Jitters Mount   Dutch Radios Are Th Re Canficeratad

37 Japanese Planes Destroyed in Battle   Navy Reveals 5-to-1 Victory Scored by Amer» icans When Enemy Air Force Strikes at U. S. Shipping off Guadalcanal

‘Yanks Win Sky Battle   Fighter Planes Down 37 Japanese Planes in Action Over Solomons

37 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN AIR BATTLE   When Enemy Struck at American Shipping at Guadalcanal With 98  Planes

Thirty-Seven of 98 Nipponese Aircraft Shot Down In Attack On U.S.  Shipping  SEVEN YANK PLANES LOST; PILOT SAVED   Battle, Described As One of Greatest Ever Fought In Area, Climaxes U.S. Offensives

American Pilots. Get 37 Out of 98 Japanese Planes   Tokio Has Siege Of Bomb Jitters;

U. S. SHIPS IS SMASHED   50 Enemy Bombers And 48 Zeros Beaten Off By Airmen

U7 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYE   Foe Strikes at American Shipping Off Guadalcanal Island.   YANKS HIT ENEMY BASES

Smash Jap Planes  Over Guadalcanal   37 of 98 Enemy Craft - Downed in Sky Battle . on Wednesday   7 U. S. PLANES LOST   Great Air. Battle Is Climax of Two Days’ Intense ~ Activity —

Great Sky Battle F Fought Over Solomons      Seven American Planes Lost, But One Pilot Rescued

American Fighter Planes Shoot Down 98 Japs’ Aircraft   Seven American Fighters Are Lost, Bb One Pilot Was Saved in One of Greates, Battles Fought in Air in Sauth Pacific

Down 37 Jay Planes Qver Solomons   Enemy Strikes + At U.S. Ships Off Guadalcanal With 98 Planes

31 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN THE SOLOMON:   Shot from Formation of 98 Which Struck at U. S, Shipping Off Guadalcanal’   7 U. S. PLANES DOWNED

US Fighters Destroy 37 Jap Planes    Seven American Planes Lest in Battle Over Southeast Solomons; when Enemy At tacks YS Shipping

Japs Lose 37 Aircraft Over Solomons   Enemy Strikes at Shipping off Guadalcanal With 98 Planes

37 JAPS DOWNED IN SKY BATTLE   Fight Results When Enemy Armada Attacks Ships at Guadalcanal.

Enemy Strikes At Guadalcanal With Huge Force   Seven American Fighters Lost; One Pilot Saved

AMERICAN PLANES DESTROYED 37 JAP AIRCRAFT IN FIGHT   ENEMY ‘MADE HEAVY AT TACK ON U. S. SHIPPING OFF GUADALCANAL

U.S. Loses 7 Planes At Guadalcanal   Enemy Attacks Ameri: can Shipping With Armada Of 98 Aircraft.

37 AIRPLANE KNOCKED OUT AT SOLOMONS   Tokyo Jittery Over Prospects of Bombing Raids, Warning of Anticipated U.S. Attacks

7 American, 37 Jap Aircraft Reported Lost Over Solomon:   Great Air Battle Fought Wednesday; Japs Have Case ‘Bomb Jitters’

Armada Of 98 Battled In Attempt On Guadalcanal   One Of Biggest Air Battles Of War Sees U. S. Lose 7 Planes

Yank Fliers Destroy ‘37 Japanese Pianes   Challenge 98 Craft Striking at U. S. Shipping Off Guadaleanal—American Pilots Make Six Forays Against Enemy Vessels.

U, S. FIGHTERS TAKE BIG TOLL OVER SOLOMONS   seven American Fighters Lost In One Of Biggest Air Battles Of Area; Japs Tried To Strike at American Shipping Off Guadalcanal.

U.S. Losses Put At Only.  Seven Craft   Big Air Fight Rages When Attack Made On Our Shipping

Yanks Destroy 37 Jap Aircraft Over Solomon:   Great Air Battle Follows   ASEAN Na  Guadaleanal Shipping

The Nips Strike With 98 Planes   rr  Ynaks Lose 7 Planes In Scoring Great Victory

U.S. Scores Crushing Victory Over 98 Aircraft Trying to Halt Guadalcanal Shipping

U.S. Pilots Score New Pacific Win   37 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN SKY BATTLE OVER SOUTHEASTERN SOLOMONS; NIPPON AIR ARMADA SHATTERED IN GREAT YANK TRIUMPH

Enemy Struck At U. S. Shipping Off Guadalcanal With Armada Of 98 Planes; We Lose 7 Aircratt   Fighting Climaxes Two-Day Period Of Great Aerial Activity In Solomons Area; Fires Started By Attacks Of Our Forces

Great Sky Fight Over  Guadalcanal   Enemy Force of 98 Planes Attacked Shipping; Seven U. S. Planes Lost

Japanese Send Armada Of 98 Against Ships   Americans Lose Seven Fighter Planes But Rescue One Of Pilots During Terrific Sky Battle Fought Wednesday Over Southeastern Solomon Island

Dogfight Waged When Nips Raid U. S. Shipping   Americans Lose Seven Planes During One Of Greatest Sky Fights Of War

[Armada of 98 Planes Struck U. S. Ships In Guadalcanal   Americans Lost Seven Planes In Greatest Air Battle Ever Fought In That Area; Tokyo Again Suffers From Bomb Jitters

CHIPPINE RAID   U. S. Defenders of Guadalcanal Intercept Nippon Aircraft and Down Many Before They Retire.

37 JAP PLANES ‘DESTROYED IN PACIFIC BATTLE      Seven American Aircraft Lost Pro. fecting Shipping Off Guadal.  errs    RATIO FIVE TO ONE   Jap Press Chief Threatens Invasion of Intin—dagee Fearful of Raids :

REPORTS INDICATE JAPANESE ARE AGAIN DEFEATED IN AIR   JAPAN ALSO SUFFERS _ FRESH ATTACK OF

U.S. Fighter Planes Down 37 Japanese   Americans Claim 5 To 1 Seore In Aerial Battle Over Guadalcanal Area.   “ENEMY FEARS BOMBING

98 JAP PLANES SENT AGAINST YANK BASE   Shipping Off Guadalcanal Target Of Armada

More Than Third Of Jap Armada Lost   Greatest Battle Fought In'Air Near Solomons

37 JAP PLANES DESTROYED   Enemy Strikes With Huge Armada At Shipping OF _ Guadalcanal {sland

Armada of 98 Aircraft Hits at U.S. Ships   Big Aerial Clash. Results * Climaxing Two Days of Fast Action   SIX FORAYS AGAINST ENEMY SHIPPING   No Word on.Whether An) American Ships Were Damaged

Attack On Shipping By 98 Enemy Craft Smashed; American Losses Total Seven

AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES DESTROYED 37 JAP AIRCRAFT   Struck at U. S. Shipping Off Guadalcanal With an Armada of 98 Planes.   SEVEN FIGHTER* LOST   The Battle Was On--<°*~the Greatest Fought in . the Air in That Arer: —

FUTURE INVASIONS SUGGESTED BY BIL   $5 Billion Asked for Landing Boats and Auixiliary Craft.

Long Range Fighters Escort Our Bombers, Suggesting That We Took: Off From Recently Wan Races In Italy.

2400 MINERS STILL OUT ON COAL STRIKE   Arrange Meetings to Comply with President’s Order; Demand to See FDR signature

ONLY 2,400 IDLE MINERS TODAY IN ANTHRACITE FIELD   Each of Two Local Unions Still Out Have Scheduled Meetings To Consider Returning To Their Collier725.

FDR, Churchill, Chiany Complete Talks In Africa   Japanese To Keep Only Possessions Held In 1914

Court Rules on Oil Leases   Cancellation Possible on Failure to Drill

Soviets Take Six Defense Centers: Advance in Italy  Eighth Army Captures Two More Towns as Reinforcements Arrive

Soviet Forces, British Eighth In Steady Advance   Allies Pouring In Troops In Italy; Reds Repulse Germans

WAACS 10 BECOME WAS. WEDNESDAY   Enl'sted Personne! First to Take Army Oath; Off. — cers Later

BIG BOMBERS SLUG NAZI-HELD EUROPE 43 HOURS IN ROW   Air Offensive Reaches New Climax as Outgoing Planes Cross Those Returning From Raids.   MUELHEIM TARGET OF FEARFUL ASSAULT   Fires Two Miles Square Rage After RAF Smashes— Thirty-Five Ships Lost in Onslaught.

Ruhr Raids ‘Unbelievable Cry Nazis as Airmen Fly. AS Hours Without Break

Northern California's Meat Supply Dwindles As Packing Plants Close; Packers Say They Operated at Loss

Murders Wile, Slashes Throat   Husband Confesses To Saturday Strangling

SOVEREIGNTY 0; INDIVIDUAL STATES IS KEYNOTE OF 35TH GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE   Visiting Chief Executives Make Assertions in  Prepared Addresses. Governor Arnall Addresses ‘Rds   ‘GOV. ARNALL TELLS  GOVERNORS SOUTH MUST HAVE EQUALITY

GOVERNORS GATHER FOR: POST-WAR PLAN   Reconstruction. ion_and: Post: War Unemployment Confronts State Executives

Governors Meet Today   States’ Rights the . Keynote of Speakers At Annual Conference

Sovereignty of States Topic As Chiefs Meet  Teamwork Vital For Nation Says Californiar

States’ Rights Keynote Of Governor Conference As It Opens In Columbus

Escapes 2 Hours Before Execution   Convicted Murderer Flees Bermuda Jail 

French Committee Gets Recognition   Limited Approval to De Gaulle-Giraud By America, Britain, Canada

French Get Recognition From Allies   Committee Approved Until French Nation Has Gained Freedom

Russia, Brazil and Peru Quick To Follow Suit Bolivia and Ecuador Plan To Fall !nto Line. Scope of Recognition Varies By Countries.

Recognition Is ‘Granted French   e ‘Committee  U. S., Britain,   U. S., Britain, Canada Now  Recognize Group

Deadlock §n Wages Continues   Ickes Made No Promises to Lewis. He Savs

6-Day Week For Miners Ordered By Ickes Today   Miners At Work Bu Lewis Warns He May Still Cal) Strike

Deadlock On Pay Dispute Not Broker   Must Be Handled Through Negotiations and Approval of WLB. Ickes Says   NO COMMENT : '. FROM JOHN LEWIS   Previously He Refused to Refer Case to WLB, Which Stil] Claims Jurisdiction

ICKES ISSUES REGULATION AS WORK RESUMES   New Boss Says Union-Operators Deadlock Is Unchanged    NOTHING PROMISED LEWIS   Full Production Resumed In Nearly All Hard And Soft Pits

Mines Failing To Follow Order Will Suffer Penalties   Miners Busy Digging Coal; Lewis Does Not Intend To Retreat From Demands

DEADLOGK IN COAL SQUABBLE REMAINS SAME SAYS ICKES    Miners Return to Work for  Another Fifteen Days.   ORDERS SIX-DAY WEEK   Negotiations for, Settlement of Wage Dispute Remains the Same.

Fight Between Mine Operators, Miners Unchanged TROUBLE LOOMS  No By-Passing Of War Labor Board

Ickes. Orders Six-Day Week For Miners   Mines Failing To Operate Six Days Week: Will Suffer Cancellation Of Price Ceiling Increases Granted By O. P. A.

Miners Return To Jobs; Seek New Contract   Lewis Says UMW Did Not Retreat; Still Refuses Case To WLB

Insists He Lacks Power And Any Settlement Must Have Okeh of War Labor Board

No Change In Strike Under 15-Day Truce   Settlement Must Still Be Approved By WLB Fuels Rose Tekes Save.   ORDER SIX-DAY WEEK

Many Mines Already On That Basis   Longer Schedule Gives Miners Time and‘ a, Half-for. Saturday Work   GIVES INSIDE MEN $45.50 PER WEEK   Ickes Seeks to Increase Production; 6-Day. Propo: sal Extensively Discussed:

Six-Day Week Ordered For Coal Industry   New Policy Fixed As Miners Return To Their Iobs

Ickes Orders Mines Pay Time-And-Half For Extra 7 Hours   Says Maximum Coal Price Covers Added Labor Cost; Violations Would Forfeit Special Margin

ICKES ACTS WHILE MINERS RESUME WORK   Tells Operators To Pay Time and a Half For Extra Day In Pits.   USES PRICE THREAT   Both Sides Standing Pat on Original Demands For Final Settlement.

Deadlock Unbroken  By Order      Six-Day Work Week Will Give Men More Moncy To Take Home

SAYS NEXT STEP IS UP TO ICKES      Ickes Estimates 665,000,000 Tons Of Coal Must Be Produced In "43

OPERATORS ARE NOTIFIED FROM WASHINGTON   Threaten To Drop Ceilings Of Those Who Don’t Comply

A SIX-DAY WEEK IS ORDERED FOR COAL INDUSTRY   Ickes Warns Operators ti Comply or Forfeit Price Ceiling Hikes

Ickes Orders6-Day Mine Week; Says WLB ~ Must Settle Pay Issue   Fuels Administrator Says Operators’-Union Deadlock Still Exists and He- Has Had. No Word From Lewis

‘Ickes Orders 6-Day Week For Industry   Miners Working Under 15-Day Truce; No Negotiations Started

Coal Mine Deadlock Unbroken   Ickes Denies Directive To Settle Dispute and Lewis Declares Miners Stand Pat On Demands

ICKES SIX-DAY WEEK IN COAL MINES   Operators Failing to Obey Will Lose Price Ceiling Increases   OVERTIME PAY FOR 6TH DAY DECREED   Work Is Resumed Generally Following Week-end Strike Crisis

Settlement of Dispute Still Open   Miners Back to Work but Both Sides Standing Pat in Reaard to Conferences

Men-Owners Must Settle Issue, Ickes   . Can't By-Pass War, Labor Board, Says S.pretary

Penalty For Failure to Comply Will Be Cancellation of Price Ceiling Increases

SIX-DAY WEEK ORDERED FOR COAL INDUSTRY AS OPERATION RESUMED; LEWIS STILL ADAMANT

MAJORITY OF COAL WORKERS BACK ON JOBS   Question of Who Will Settle Contract Issue Unanswered

Work Generally Resumed After Strike Crisis   Lewis Said He Had ‘No Comment’ on His Reaction

COAL ROLLS FROM MINES OF NATION   Problem Still Remains as to What Body Will Handle Negotiations on Wage Dispute   LEWIS IGNORES WLB

Failure to Comply Brings Cancellation Of Price Lid Hoist   Lewis Has ‘No Comment’ on Action; Overtime Provided for Extra Day; Miners Back at Work Under Truce

SIX-DAY WORK WEEK ORDERED IN COAL MINES   Administrator Ickes Issues Order as Mining Industry  Is Resumed.   Miners Still Refuse To Take Case to WLB

OPERATOPS 10 FACE PENALTY IF NOT OBEYED   Will Suffer Cancellation of Price Ceiling Increases Granted to Cover Overtime Expense’   ICKES SAYS MINE DEADLOCK REMAINS   Has No Authority to Negotiate With Union and Owners; WLB Still Has Jurisdiction

No Chance to By-Pass. War Labor Board   Ickes Asks Two-Week Delay to Get Feet on The Ground

Ickes Orders 6-day Week in Coal Mines   Suys Settlement of Controversy Up to War Labor Board

Work Gen rally Resumed In The Coal Min  ICKES ORDERS ALL MINES TO BE PLACED ON SIX-DAY WEEK

MINE DEADLOCK REMAINS SAME. ICKES ASSERTS   Settlement Must Be Conducted Directly By Owners, Union   ICAN’T BY-PASS WLB   6-Day Work Week Thruout Mining Industry Is Ordered

EXTRA DAY'S WORK TOBE AT OVERTIME   OPA Price Schedule Cov: ers Cost of Time-anda-Half Pay — Jurisdic:tion in Wage Row Re: mains Unsettled.

NO CHANGES IN COAL DEADLOCK   Ickes Orders Six Day Week; Miners Have Returned To Jobs.   SAYS WLB 1S AUTHORITY

OPERATIONS ABOUT NORMAI AFTER STRIKE   Must Comply Or Ceilings Will Be Cancelled   STILL IN DOUBT   Is Permanent Settlement Of Dispute: W. L. B. Again Hit By Lewis

MINERS, OPERATORS  MUST SETTLE THEIR  WORKING DISPUTE NEGOTIATIONS MUST BE  APPROVED BY WAR LADND DHADNH ICWVEC CAVE

Mines Ordered To Operate Six Days Per Weel   Ickes Issues Directive A: Coal Strike Crisis Fades Out

Orders Miners To  Work 6 Day Week   Ickes Sends Out Instructions to Government  Operated Mines.   TO 3,850 OPERATORS   Both Sides in the Wage Controversy Refuse to Give Ground

OAYS FAILURE HILL CANCEL PAIGE BOOST:   Telegraphs. Operators, Some of Whom Say They’ve No Objections.   COAL BEING PRODUCED UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE

ADDED DAY GIVES MINERS AN EXTRA $10.50 EACH WEEK   3850 Operators Now Running Their Properties at Government Agents Are Telegraphed Orders:   ISSUE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST DAY OF TRUCE   Operators Failing to Comply Will Have Price Ceilings  Granted to Them Cancellad

Fuels Administrator Says Operators Foiling to Carry Out Order Would Suffer Cancellation of Price Ceiling Increases

ICKES ORDERS 6-DAY WEEK IN COAL FIELDS   ~Mines Faling to Operate on New Schedule Will Suffer Cancellation of Price Ceiling Increases.

ORDERS 6-DAY WEEK AS PITS RESUME WORK   Fuels Director Declares He Made No Conditions With Lewis To Gain Truce

Is NEW BOSS OF MINERS   Key To Labor + Crisis, However, Is Still Missing

Operators Are Advised As Men Return [To Work   Cancel Price Ceiling  Raises If Not Obeved

Ickes Orders: 6-Day Week as  ‘Miners Return   Means Substantial Increase In Pay For Majority; Lewis Has No Comment and Still Stands Pat

Ickes Orders 6-Day Week For All Coal  Industry   Will Cancel Price Ceiling Increases Of Those Whe Fail To Comply

Fuels Chief Acts To Hike Coal Output   Cancellation Of Price Ceiling Increases F or Nonco-operators.

Operators Failing To Cooperate Will Lose Increase In  OPA Coal Ceiling

PITS MUST MEET PLAN ORLOSE OPA PROTECTION   Deadiock Between Owners, Operators Remain Same; Production in Full Swing

Ickes Seeking Formula fo End Wage Dispute   Administrator Explains Next Move in Difficulty

Coal Deadlock Still Unchanged   Ickes Orders SixDay Week at Mines

Miners Return To Work For Half A Month   WLB Must Approve Of Any Steps Which May Be Taken By Union Men And Operators

Fuel Administrator Declares Wage Deadlock up to Miners, Owners and Subject to WLB Approval   NEED RECORD OUTPUT IN 1943   Ickes Notifies Owners Those Failing t ' Adopt Six Day Week Suffer Loss of Premium Pay Approved Earlier

July Shows Big  Losses For Japs   Destruction Exceeds’ All Records For Any Month In War

TWO ST. C HARLES BOYS AMONG SAN ; ANTONIO CADETS   Where They Are Undergoing Train ing in the Flying Fields to. Win Commissions.

U.B. oLEMP Dita TN ANOXVILLE   Virginia Republican Leader Stricken While on Way to Big Stone Gap Home From Florida Resort

BASCOM SLEMP EXPIRES AT 75   GOP Leader In Virginia Secretary To Coolidge, Victim Of Heart Ail ment in Hospital

Chillicothe Boy Missing 10 Months Rescued from Jap-Infested Island

Ohioan, 2 Buddies Rescued After 10 Months in Jungle, Sports Inquiry Ist Question

Allied Troops Close In on Japs On New Guinea   16 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Fight  Over Bougainville

New Ration In Effect Monday   Blue Coupons Get Canr .d Food At Stores Today

Housewives Given Advice Grocery Buyers Begin Today To Cash Blue Ration Coupons

BREAK JAPS’: _ DEFENSE LINE. IN SOLOMONS   eS 3 = Move Seen As Prelude Te Grant  al

Yanks Land on Rendova Island, Five Miles From Enemy Base at Munda

U.S, FORCES ONLY FEW MILES FROM BASE ON MUNDA   Make Landing On Rendova Ie: land, A 110-Mile Advance From Russells

Landing Achieved Tuesday Morning   Navy Says ‘Combined U.S. Forces’ Score Advance in Solomons Area

Capture of Rendova Would Effect Advance  of 110 Miles Northward in Solo-   mone Crnm

Combined U. S. forces occupy land only five miles from Munda base  Capture of base is 110 mile advance   Capture of base is 110 mile advance from Russell isles: details lackina

U. 5. FORCES ARE LANDED NEAR MUNDA   Offensive Is Opened In Central Part of Solomons Island Group.

PACIFIC ISLAND 1S ONLY FIVE MILES FROM ENEMY'S MUNDA BASE IN SOLOMONS   22-Word Navy Communique Reveal Landing; No Details Are Given

COMBINED ARMY AND NAVY FORCE OCCUPIES ISLAND OF RENDOVA   “Action Cuts Through Nip Defense Perimeter; Represents American Advance Of IIO Miles

DRIVE AGAINST ADVANCE. BASES SEEN IN ACTION   o Details Given in Brief Revelation By Navy             [LANDING MAY ISOLATE, > MULLIFY MUNDA BASE

Rendova Latest Site Seized In  Solomons Action   Capture Represents I 10-Mile Advance From Russell Islands

ESTABLISHED ON RENDOV!   Yanks Land Only. Five Miles From Japs’ Munda Base

RENDOVALANDING IS ONLY S MILES FROM MUNDA BASE   Island Is 170 Miles From Main Base on Guadalcanal and Capture Would Be Great Advance In Forces.   MUNDA WOULD BECOME * USELESS TO JAPANESE   Objective Is Desirable Point For Further Operations, Chinese Inflict Very Heavy Losses on Japs.

The official Helena temper- 25 6 ature at midnight was .... ‘   Montana   National

The official Helena tem- 33 9 perature at 2 p. m. was 8   National   Montana

[Gen. Clark In Command of Big Force  : Occupying Key Area ‘According to  Plan’ Despite Opposition, Swiss. Say Planes Swarm Upon Fields.

Nazis Occupy North Italy And Capture Brenner Pass    Italians, Germans Clash In Bitter Fighting;  Lt. Gen. Clark Heads U. S Invaders  ALLIES SWEEPING TO THE NOR1H  Nazis Form New Fascist Government In Italy; Axis Headquarters Leveled By Bombers 

Italians Go With Allied  Forces   Badoglio’s Army In Control Of Milan And Turin

Better Type Living Now On The Way   Many New Industries To Bloom After War In War Plants

HOG CEILING TO BE NEXT MOVE   GOV'T PLANS TO ROLL BACK MARKET PRICE TO ABOUT $14.50

MARKET PRICE OF LIVE HOGS MAY BE ROLLED BAG   Action Seen As First Major Result of President’s ‘Hol d-the-Line’ Order; Prices May Be Set Back To About $14.50 From Nearly $16.

Lower Ceiling On Live Hogs   Government to Cut Market Rate, but Support Producers

Order to Set Lower Level On Live Hogs   Plan ‘Support Prices’ To Eliminate Loss By Farmers

$14.50 Top and ‘Supported Prices in Line for Hogs   YANKS CLOSING IN ON AXIS ESCAPE ROAD   Commodity Prices and Wages Frozen By President in Move To Block Inflation

Prices on Live Hogs to Be Put Back to $14.50   Government Intends to Provide “Support Prices” For the Producers.   To Aid Packers Keep  Hog Price Consistent

Plan to Cut Price of Hogs ‘To $14.50   Steps Taken as Result Of F. R. Order; “Support Prices” to Be Provided

GOVERNMENT TO ROLL BACK MARKET PRICE LIVE HOGS   From Current Level of Nearly $16 per Hundred Pounds, to About $14.50.   PROGRAM AGREED UPON      Understood OPA Chief and Food Administrator Are in Accord.

Live Hog Prices  Face Reduction  Under OPA Rule Fuk Mey Cone Under Control

Hog Prices to Be Rolled Back   Government Intends To Place Them at $14.50. It Is Said

U.S. 10 LIMIT PRICE OF HOGS   Ceiling To Be Rolled Back fram About $16 to $14.50 a- Hundred Pounds.

‘To Reduce Hog Prices      ‘Governm’t Plan Would. Probably Bring Market Price Down To $14.50

GOVERNMENT IS PREPARING FOR HOG PRICE CUT   Market Quotations May Ke Rolled Back About $1.50 On 100 Pounds

U.S. 10 ROLL BACK HOG PRICE   LEVY SLIDE TO $14.50 SLATED; PLAN “SUPPORT’

New Wage, Price Peg in Brief   Hog Prices May Be Called Back to About $14.50

Hog Price Cut  Due; Subsidy To Aid Farmes      U. S. Aims To Roll Hog Prices Back Then Put Up ‘Support Prices’

HOG PRICES TO BE SET AT ABOUT $14.50   Brown and Davis Reportedly Agreed on Order Cutting Back Level of Live Animals From Current $16 Figure.

Small Army Quickly Drafted To Put New Order In Effect   War Labor Board Halts All Wage Increases Not Within 15 Percent Limitations   ORDER IS CHALLENGE TO SOLONS   P. G. Wodehouse, Noted English Author, Seeking Living Permit In Sweden   Live Hog Prices May Re l awerec

Plan To Turn Hog Price To  Lower Leve   Current Prices Of Nearly $16 Expected To Be Cut To About $14.50.   OTHER CEILINGS SOON

HOG PRICES TO BETURNED BACK   Top Figure to Be Settled at $14.80, Down From Present $16.

Churchill Visits Army At Tripoli  British, American Units In Libya

Churchill Flies To Tripoli And Reviews Troops   Thanks Army. For Smashing Rommel ‘Force In Africa

4K KK HH - kok ke ke kk =   Portugese on March Toward Spanish Front

Churchill Visits Captured Tripoli   Thanks Eighth Army  For Rommel Defeat

CHURCHILL ON FLIGHT   Reported Planning Parley Witt Portugual Premier, Franco

GERMANY {c TELLING OF BIG DOINGS   Claimed That Churchiil Is Planning on a Visit to Lisbon.   PORTUGAL NERVOUS   Portuguese Trocps Being Rushed to Spanish Bor-  der, Says London.

Churchill Off to Rendezvous  Prima Minicter in   Prime Minister in Tripoli Thursday

TROOPS, POLICE ARE RUSHED 10 SPANISH BORDER   “Something Unusual” In Air, Say News Dispatches From London   CHURCHILL VISIT HINTED      Whereabouts Of British Leader Kept Secret-—May Go To Portugal

Churchill Visits British 8th Army  Axis Reports He's Now At Gibraltar; Hint He Will See Franca

CHURCHILL IS FLYING AGAIN; GOAL SECRET   it cae lle  AXIS HINTS AT MEETING WITH PORTUGUESE, SPANISH HEADS

AXIS PUZZLED AT CHURCHILL'S TOUR   Prime Minister Leaves Tripoli for Undisclosed Des tinatinn,

Portuguese Rush Troops To Border   Radio reports “unusua happening;”’ Churchill  visit rumored

CHURCHILL = _ ON THE WING   Off Again and to An Undisclosed Destin ation.

"Something Unusual" Is Reported Pending   German Radio Says Churchill Is Expected To Visit Lisbon; Franco And Staff Also Rumored On Way There

HINT CHURCHILL CN WAY 10 SPAIN   Prime Minister Reviews Troops and Then Leaves for Unknown Destination

CHURCHILL VISITS THE EIGHTH ARMY   Reviews Allied Troops Af: ter Making~ Surprise Call’ on Gén.. Montgomery

Churchill Visits North African Army   After Reviewing Part of Eighth Army in Tripoli Prime Minister Leaves for Undisclosed Destination

Churchill Parley With Portugal Chief Is Seen   Prime Minister Is Reported In Gibraltar Following Visit To Tripoli

CHURCHILL MAKES TRIUMPHANT VISIT TO TRIPOLI FRIDAY   Reviews Parade Of United States And Empire Troops

IRIPOLI IS VISITED BY CHURCHILI   ...Axis Says He Has Gone To Gibraltar

\Churchill Flies Over Rommel's Route Of Retreat To Visit City Of Tripoli

AXIS FORCES DRIVE U. 5 FROM STRATEGIC HEIGH   German Counter-Attacks Disregard  Bad Weather; Other Sections Quiet   CHURCHILL STOPS OFF IN TRIPOLI FOR VISIT WITH BRITISH AND U, $. TROOPS

Is Say Churchill 100 On New Jaun   Rumors Say Prime Minister En Route From Tripoli To Portugal.

CHURCHILL SEES FALLEN TRIPOLI   CONTINUES TRIP WITH SURPRISE CALL ON GEN, MONTGOMER’

CHURCHILL VISITS TRIPOLI   After Casablanca and Turkish Parleys Prime Minister Visits 8th Army

Hitler’s Struggle ‘For Oil Near End   Grasp Rapidly Loosening On Rich Caucasus

Soviets Gain In Caucasus  - , ae   Germans’ Long Struggle For Vitel Oil Riches Appears Nearing End

UJ. §. Bombers Blast Lae Base   Enemy Headquarters Buildings Destroyed

Kuriles Due For Attack?   Whereabouts- of Two U. S. Fleets Mystery

Report Of Committee  Is Adopted   Board Splits Question To Adopt Report, But Tables Proposal To File Charges

The War Today 3 Japan Greater Menace Than Many Realize, Pacific Situation Critical      By MAX HILL

YUGOSLAV ARMY SCORES VICTORY   Campaign Synchronized With Eisenhower's Offensive

Dr. Henry Bennett Denies Any ‘Juggling of Funds’ At State A. & M. Collese

ALF LANDON SPEAKS IN WASHINGTON   \ Carries His ‘Stop Willkie Movement To the Capital

LANDON TO ADDRESS GOP CONGRESSMEN   Farm Belt Leader Out to Prevent Willkie Renominatiol

ALLIES SINK U-BOATS FASTER THAN BUILT   Nazi Undersea Raiders Sunk At Five-a-week Rate

Drop In Nazi  Sub Turn Out   60 German U-Boats Sunk During Last Three  Months. 5 Weekly,

Germans Losing In U-Boat Fight  Subs Sunk At Rate   Subs Sunk At Rate Of 5 Per Week

160 U-BOATS: ARE ISUNKBY ALLIES © IN NINETY DAYS      Undersea Marauders Apparently Being Disposed Or Faster Than Hitler Can Build Them

Allies Now Sink U-Boats Faster Than Can Be Made  Five A Week Sent To Bottom And German       Five A Week Sent To Bottom And German Hopes Drop; Sub War ‘Broken’

ALLIES BELIEVED SINKING NAZI SUBS FASTER THAN BUILT   REPORTED U-BOAT PLANTS HEAVILY DAMAGED BY BOMBINGS ALSO

GERMANS CAN'T TURN OUT SUBS ‘FAST ENOUGH’   Allied Bombers Are Pounding U-Boot Bases, Holding Production Down

60 NAZI U-BOATS SUNK IN 90 DAYS   Claim German Losses at Sea Top Production Rate

Soviets Push Farther  Past Kharkov   Last German Soldier Cleared From Kursk-Kharkov Railroad, Highway in Sweep to Dnieper

GARRISON AT OBOYAN SLAIN OR CAPTURED   Lubotin, 25 Miles West Of Kharkov, Also Falls To Spneedine Red«

Lost German Soldier 1s Clecred From KurskKhorkoy Line  SWEEP CONTINUES. IN DNIEPER AREA  Oboyan Seized as Triumphant Forces ave Orn

Reds Take 10 More Towns On Drive fo Orel   Armies Spread Ouf Over Vast Network of Ukrainian Highways

»Russians Sweep Ahead in Drive Toward Dnieper   Capture Of Oboyan Clears Last Of Nazi Troop: From Kursk-Kharkov Railroad; Captured Positions Serve As Springboards

Russians Push On Toward Dnieper; Oboyan:Captured.   Last Nazi Soldier Cleared From Kursk To _ Kharkov-Railroad: Red Coltimns Sareadinn

SOVIETS TAKE MORE STRATEGIC TOWNS IN THEIR UKRAINE PUSH   Kursk-Kharkov Railway and Highway Cleared of Foe; Russian Troops Are Closing in on Orel

RUSSIAN ARMY RIPS TOWARD DNEIPER RIVER   THRUST CONTINUES 25 MILES WEST OF KHARKOV

Railroad From Kharkov Now Freed of Enemy   Surging Soviets Now 30 Miles From Orel and Clasine Fact

RUSSIANS TAKE OBOYAN PUSHING FURTHER WEST   Reds Sweep Toward Dneiper River Continued In Steady Drive   LUBOTIN IS ALSO AMONG CONQUESTS

All Germans Cleared From Kursk-Kharkov Railway and Highway  NUMEROUS TOWNS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS  Oboyan and Lubotin Fall to Soviet Sweep Toward Dnieper River

REDS PUSH 25 MILES WEST OF KHARKOV   Capture of Lubotin Puts Russiam Army Only 55 Miles from Poltava, Another Germam Base   Press Enemy Back

WMC CHIEF ASKS CANNERS TO HELP   Program of Training Suggested by Hammond

FARM WORKER SUPPLY PLEDGED   Three Agencies To Cooperate In Meeting Needs In Harvesting Seasons

McNutt Reveals Plan For Mobilization of Women in War Work   Manpower Needs To Make National Service Legislation Inevitable, According To Responsible Officials.

MUNDA IS BEING DIVE - BOMBED TO DESTRUCTION   Fighty- [wo More Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Jap Pacific Base  Friday.

Munda Is Being Destroyed by Big Bombing Attacks   Central Solomon Sky Darkened by American Planes

HEAVY BOMBS BATTER MUNDA   82 Tons Of Explosives Are Dumped On Jap Target In Solomons

DINE BOMBERS BLAST MUNDI      Americans Are Within Sev: en Miles of Objective of Salamaua.   KISKA IS RAIDED AGAIN

Munda Being Dive-Bombed Into Destruction By Tons Of Bombs Falling On Base

Munda Base Hammered By Planes   Jap Field  Being Bombed To Destruction, Dispatches Say

Drop 82 Tons Of Bombs  On Munda As Rain Halts Ground Troops’ Action

‘Dive Bombers In  Newest Attacks   UNDA BEING BOMBEL TO DESTRUCTION BY ALLIES

Yankee Airmen Bombing Mund To Destruction   Jap Base Hammered By 82 More Tons; Rain Im pedes Land Fichting.

Munda Hit by Dive-Bombers   82 Tons of Explosives Dropped in Day

Allied Planes Darken Skies Over Munda   &2 More Tons of Bomb: Dropped on Jap Base Friday in Pick-Your- Target Attacks

Dive Bomber:  Destroying —  Munda Base   Eighty-two Tons Dropped in Single Dav on Japs

More Than 100 Planes Used In Latest Attack   Australians, Americans Move Against Komiatum

DIVE BOMBERS ARE DESTROYING MUNDA AIR BASE OF JAPS  INCESSANT RAIN OF BOBS VISITED UPON ENEMY POSITIONS

Munda Is Fast . Being Destroyed By Dive-Bombers   Sites Darkened Daily By Allied Planes; Heavy Bombs Being Drepped.

MUNDA 1S BEING DIVE-BOMBED TO DESTRUCTION   Eighty-Two More Tons of ‘Bombs Burst Upon Japanese Air Base; Planes Darken Skies   LOW LEVEL ATTACKS   Bombs Dropped From AItitudes as Low as 2,500 Feet by Skilled Amer ican Pilots

Munda Given No Rest From Dive-Bombing:   Skies Ever - Dark Above Jap Holdout   Pick-Your-Target Raids By skilled Americans Take Heavy Tolls

Americans Pound Munda With 82 Tons Of Bombs, Rain Hampers Ground Forces

DESTRUCTION OF MUNDA BY DIVE BOMBERS START   Eighty-Two Tons Of Bombs Hit Jap Fox Holes

BOMBS RAINED ON MUNDA AND FALL JS NEAR   Dive Bombers, Torpedo Planes Rain Destruction on Jap Solomons Base   ; PICK-YOUR-TARGET AIR  _- RAIDS RATED SUCCESS

MUNDA OBJECTIVE OF BOMBING RAIL   Eighty-Two More ‘Tons o' Bombs Burst Friday on the City.

Munda Is Target Of Allied Bombs   Dive-Bombers Are Being Used to Bring Destruction to Jap Base   82 TONS ARE DROPPED   Fliers Drop Explosives from Altitude of Only 2,500  Feet

Base At Munda Being Bombed To Destructior   Eighty-fwo Tons Strewn On Enemy's Key Base In Central Solomons

U.S. Warplanes Blasting Munda Base Into Bits   Jap Stronghold Being Pulverized By Tons Of Explosives

Eighty-Two. More Tons Of Bombs Burst. Friday On Japanese Defenders

Munda Beinc Bombed fo Destruction   100 Planes Dump 82 Tons Mare Geanbs on

House Cool To Corn Peg   $1.40 Ceiling Proposal Rejected; House Ponders  “Some Action”

Refuse To Lift Corn Ceiling  Discuss Other Mean AC ¢.1.:.. B..ki...

Corn Ceiling Hike Killed in Committee   House Group Votes 9 to 6 Against Senate Proposal After Hearing Jones   IOTHER ACTION MAY BE TAKEN LATER   Reimbursement Plan Will Be Effected in Case the Price Is Boosted

SENATE'S CORN BILL REJECTED   House Committee Ballots Disapproval, 9-6

House Vetoes ~ Corn Ceiling   Express Intention Of Taking _ Some Action Soon To Re lease Corn.

Committee kills corn  price bill   To reconsider ryt move Thursday

House Group For Raising Corn Ceiling   Might Authorize Repaying Farmers Difference For Sales Under Lower Ceiling

Corn Ceiling Bill Is Killed By Committee   Senate-Approved Measure To Lift Ceiling Price To $1.40 A Bushel Is Rejected 9 To 6

Corn Ceiling Boost Dies in, Committee   House Group Will Meet Later Today to Talk of Other Plans

KILLS. CORN BOOST   House Committee Turns Down Senate Measure _ _” Lifting Ceiling

House Committee Kills Move to Lift Corn Ceiling — Hunts For New Way to Meet Feed Emergency

$1.40 Corn Price Runs Into A Snag  House Committee Turns Down Senate Plan

Corn Price Rise Bill hilled By House Group   Cominittee to Meet Later To Solve Value

SENATE APPROVED  MEASURE KILLED BY  HOUSE COMMITTEE ALTERNATIVE LEGISLA TION FOR LIFTING CORN CEILING RE DISCUSSED

BARS REMOVAL ~ OF CORN CEILING   House Agriculture Group Votes 9 to 6 Against Senate Bill

BILL TO BOOST CORN CBILING PRIGE KILLEL   House Agriculture Com. inittce Votes 9 to 6 te Reject Senate Approved Measure   PROVIDED 33¢ HIKE   Other Means of Dealing With Emergency Corn Situation Will Be Weighed by Group

OPA Beyond  Court Power   Declares Only Two Tris hunals With Jurisdiction Over Bureau.

Hull Warns No Early Endto War   Stands With Eden On Predictions Of Long Struggle

Eden Encouraged  By Talks in U.S.   Briton, Hull Confer on War. Reconstruction

Long Conilict Forecast by Cordell Hull   Secretary of State Endorses Warning of British Minister

HULL JOING EDEN IN WAR END VIEW   Endorses Warning United Nations Should Not Count On Quick End to War; Eden, Officials Confer

Hull Joins In Warning War Will Not End Soor   Secretary Endorses Statement by Anthony Eden — British Official Reported Much Encouraged by Washington Talks

full Joins Eden n Belief War  il Prove Long   Cabinet Member Voices Full Accord With ‘British Leader; Meetinos Prove Encourasins

Eden War Stanc Backed by Hull   Says Conflict Will Be Long-Drawn Out

HULL, LIKE EDEN, ASSERTS WAR MAY LAST A LONG TIME   Secretary Says There Should Be a Complete Understanding Among Countries Fighting Axis.   BRITISH DIPLOMAT CONTINUES TALKS   Eden Confers With Wallace, , Knox and Others and Reports Satisfactory Progress.

British Foreign Secretary Says He Is Encouraged By Progress of Talks

Eden Warning Is Indorsed By Sec. Hull   U. S. Official Agrees With Forecast of Prolonged War

Hull Warns Contlict Will Not End Soon   Secretary Joins Eden in Plea: Wallace Applauds Post-War Collaboration Bill

HULL ENDORSES EDEN WARNING   United Nations Can Not Count On Quick Ending Of War, Envoy Says

Eden and Hull See Long War, Both Point Out   Will Not End Quickly, They Agree After Con ference

Two More Italian  Islands Are Taken   Communications Center Of Foggia Blasted In Saturation Block-Buster Aerial Raide

American Sea Forces Seize Aeolian Islands; Raid on Italian City is Heaviest of Mediterranean War

ltalian Railroad Center Heavily Bombed by Allies   Blockbusters Raid Foggia in Big Way

Aeolian Islands Siezed by the U. S. Naval Forces  ATTACK ON FOGGIA ONE OF HEAVIES’  Shattering. Blow Delivere to Large Rail Junction

U.S. Naval Forces Seize Stepping Stone Islands  U. S./Naval Forces Seize Stepping Stone Islands

Aeolian Islands Siezed b the U.S. Naval . Forces Lo ATTACK ON FOGGIA: -:: ONE OF _HEAVIE } Shattering BI Blow Delive: ra -to Large Rail Junc- = tion -

Heaviest Raid of War Made Against Foggia   Center of City Is Left Seething Mass of Flames

ITALIAN RAIL CENTER MADE BURNING RUINS   ASSAULT ON FOGGIA WORSE THAN RAID ON ROME

ALLIED AIR FORCES SLASH AT ITALY’ SINEWS OF DEFENSE WITH BLOC BUSTER RAIDS; AMERI AEOLIAN ISLANDS.  S , KCANS SEIZE

VITAL RAILWAY JUNCTION DEALT OHATTERING BLOW   Raid on Defense Bastion Described as Heaviest of War in Mediterranean Area.   AXIS FIGHTERS GIVE BATTLE; 338 DOWNED   American Naval Forces Seize Islands That Can Be Used as Stepping Stones to Mainland.

Allies Plaster Bases In Italy   Two More Islands Off Italy Seized

Bastion is blasted by huge fleet   Bombing attack unparalleled: in size and ferocity

Stepping-Stone Isles North Of Sicily Taken      Capture Of Outposts Gives Allies Absolute Control Of Sea Off Sicily; Rail Center Left In Flames

OEVENTH U. 3 ARMY REACHED MATURITY IN SICILIAN CAMPAIGN  MAJ. GEN. TRUSCOTT,  CLATEICIN WATIVE

Seventh Army Matured Fast   Eyewitness Tells of Brilliant Job of 45th, Third

SEVENTH U, 5 ARMY  REACHED MATURITY IN  SICILIAN CAMPAIGN MAJ. GEN. TRUSCOTT,  CHATFIELD NATIVE, PDAICEE TUIDN NIVICION

EIGHT MEN KILLED IN COPPER MINE BLAST   Twelve Miners Injured, Rest Rescued

POPE PLEADS FOR PEACE ON CHRISTMAS EVE   Only Christ Can Deliver Humanity Pontiff Says, Asking Peace o Justice, Honesty   REASON DARKENED   Concedes Need for Sanctions After War, Means of Holding Aggressors in Check

Justice, Not Reprisals,  Advised by Holy Father   Zontiif Gives Annual Christmas Address From the Vatican City Under Shadow of Nazi Arms

EARLY PEACE PRAYER  Justice Is Urgec By Pius   Pontiff Hopeful This Last Christmas Of War

Pontiff Advises Begin Planning - Postwar World   Voices Hope This Will Be ’ Last War Christmas In Annual Vatican Message

PopePrays For End Of Conflict   Peace of Honesty And Justice Is Pontiff’s Aim

Plan Peace Of J ustice, Is. Plea  ~ Of Pope] Pin:   Christ Only Can_ Deliver Humanity, Is Message Of Pontiff On Eve O! Savior’s Birth .

Prays This Is Last War  Christmas   Pope Appeals For Peace Not Imposed At Point Of Sword

Pope Pius in Christmas Message Prays This May Be the Last Christmas of War

SE a are TE Me RR:  PRAYS THIS 19 LAST CHRISTMAS. OF WA   Pope Pius, in Annual Yule Message, Calls for Peace of Justice and Honesty

Pope Prays in Shadow Of Axis Bayonets for _Christ’s Gift of Peace   Christmas Message by Radio Is Prayer War May End Quickly in Peace of ‘Justice and Honesty’

Pope Pius in Appeal for a Just Peace   Christmas Message Asks Mankind to Begin Planning World Rebuildine

POPEPIUS ASKS, FOR PEACE THIS ~ROMING. YEAR   His” Christmas Message - to: World This Morning "Pleads -for “ Harmony ‘Based’ on Justice: and Good’ Will for-All   PEOPLE WEARY.

Last War Christmas, Pope Prays      And He Appeals -for’. Man. kind to Plan Now for Peace, of Justice and Honesty   WOULD PREVENT. NEW AGGRESSION   Christmas . Eve. Message Comes From Church Heat. Ringed by Nazi Guns

Peace of Justice, Honesty Is Theme of Pope's Message   Prays This Will Be Last Christmas of World Conflict

Pope Pleads For World's Rebuilding   Surrounded by Nazis, Pontiff Radios Messace

POPE PIUS PRAYS FOR EARLY END OF WORLD WAR   Holy Father Broadcasts Christmas Message from Vatican

POPE APPEALS FOR JUST AND HONEST PEAGE   Pontiff Prays That: “This Will Be Last Christmas   _of War,” in His Pre  Holiday Message ~

Pope Prays For Peace Next Year   Wanta ‘This To Bé Last War-Time Yuletide

POPE DELIVERS PEACE APPEAL   In Message From Vatican, Hopes This Will Be Last War Christmas

Pope Prays This Be Last Wartime Yul   Pontift’s Message Urges Just, Honest Peace, “Not by Sword’

Pope Calls on World to Plan  For New Peace Prays That This Will Be Last War Christmas

JUST PEAGE I$ PLEA OF POPE   Pontiff Hopes This Will Be Last War Christmas

Pope Prays For Just Peace   Asks for Peace Not  Imposed at Point Of a Sword

CHARLES TOPPING FIRST IN CONTEST   Douglas County Farmer Wins Pasture Improvement Award ;   Deal Six in Charce

CHARLES TOPPING FIRST IN CONTEST   Douglas County Farmer Wins Pasture Improvement Award   IN EASTERN KANSAS

Adkins Seeks Senate Change   ECONOMY RLOC HOLDS AXE OVER STATE AGENCIES

President Flies Ocean For Vital Policy Meeting   Allied War Leaders Reveal Ten Days of Meetings De. voted to Bringing About Unconditional Surrender of Germany, Japan and Italv.

Unite Giraud With DeGaulle   FDR Crosses Ocean By Plane   Jnconditional Surrender of Axis Demanded by Leaders of Allied Nations

_F. D. R. First 2 President to Fly 3 While In Office   In - North: Africa for parley with leaders of Allied countries; perfect agreement.

FRENCH OFFICIALS: SEEK SETTLEMEN   Giraud and De Gaulle . Meet-and Talk in : Africa

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AGREE FRENCHMEN MUST FIGHT NAZIS   BUT GIRAUD AND DE GAULLE FAIL TO SETTLE ALL THEIR DIFFERENCES.

De Gaulle, Girauc ‘Agree on End To Be Achieved   Observers Say Definite Set tlement between Them Will Be Long Process

Delay in French Unity Forecast   Leadership, Program Still Undecided

DEGAULLE, GIRAUD MEET AND TALK   Any Definite Settlement Between the Two Going to be Long Process; FDR, Churchill Bring Two Together

DeGaulle And Giraud Meet On Participation  Aaree French Must Fight Germany But

French Offer One Brief  Communique   —_  Sources in North Afric: Believe Settlement To Be Long Process  MEET AT INSISTENCE OF ALLIED CHIEFS  Agree Only on Goal, Liberation of France And Defeat of Axis

Film Actor Mysteriously Slain at L. A.: Found in Car, Stabbed in Back

ie ir, die te se. aie ghee os  No Windshield Wipers To Be Needed On Cars To Be Ruilt After War

Lake County Jury Convicts Woman of Kidnaping Infant   Mrs. Anne Lussier Is Sentenced to Year;  She Will Appeal

WOMAN FOUND   Jury Deliberates Ten Hours Before Reaching Verdict

WOMAN GUILTY OF KIDNAPING   TELLS JURY SHE TOOK BABY BECAUSE SHE LOVED CHILDREN

NAZIS CLAIM KING AND PREMIER SEEK SAFETY IN ‘SICILY   Germans Also Report They Have Seized Greater Part Of Italian  Peninsula

AMERICAN AIRMEN BOMB ABBEVILLE   CITWS IMPORTANT FREIGHT YARDS HIT — NONE OF BOMBERS LOST.

OUT IN FORD PLANT STRIKE   Maintenance Men Quit In Protest Of New Program   BULLETIN

Tiemann tat ctit. = — Satna nadlane tind 42  AUSSIES PROGRESS IN NEW GUINEA  Allied Submarine Hits Jap Liner and Drowns 544 Jananese.

AMERICANS BLAST JAPS HOLDING WAKE ISLAND   Lord Mountbatten, Alliec Supreme Commande In Southeast Asia, Ar rives At His New Head  quarters.

Heavy Allied Artillery Pounds Kasserine Gap As Germans Attempt To Pull Back Westward  FIRST CLASS DEFEAT FOR AXIS IMPENDS  British Eighth-in South Reported Advancing Toward Port of Gabes

Germans Suffer Heavy Losses as Allied Guns Pound Retreating Force   Russians Topple More Axis Strongholds In Sweep Toward Ukraine Rail Junctions ; Nazis Put Up Desperate Fight in Donets Basir

MNUTT URGES FARM PAY RISE   Manpower Chief Feels Adjustment Needed To Solve Labor Problem

U.P. Writer, Just out of Finland, Says Finns on Verge of Starving’

Starvation May Force Finland Out Of War; People Oppressed   Germany Has Failed To Deliver Promised Food  Americans Waste More Than Finns Get

SENATE CLOSES FLYNN HEARING   LaGuardia Won't Testify in Senate Investigation Of Flynn,

Committee — To Vote Soon On Ed Flyor   Hearing Ended’ After Long Recital of Details On -Pavinge ‘Matter. ~   LA, GUARDIA GIVES BRIEF: TESTIMONY   Can't Offer. Unprejudiced Opinion Because-of Long Standing. Differences

LA GUARDIA KEEPS MUM ON FLYNN FITNESS   Mayor Says He is Unqualified to Give Opinion Because of Political Animosity -

LAGUARDIA ADDS NO TESTIMONY   Voices Bitterness Toward Ed Flynn  RET ETI

LaGuardia Is Silent On Flynn   . .Metuses Fitness Opinion as Hearings Completed

LAGUARDIA BALKS AT TESTIFYING ON FLYNN'S FITNESS   Former Bronx Official Blames Lost Bill for Workmen’s Pay for Alleged “Scandal.”

La Guardia On Witness Stand  Bitter Toward Flynn, He Says He Is Not QOualified To Comment

FLYNN HEARING IS COMPLETED   Senate Foreign Relations Committee Plans Vote

Farm Problems In Forefront of Congress Again   Senate Hearing For Flynn Still Under Way

FTALIANS, HELPED BY GERMANS, GIVE LITTLE OPPOSITION   Civilian Population Reacting Weil, Cooperating as Allies Move In, Many Prisoners Taken.   10 MAJOR TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN FEW HOURS   United Nations Down 50 Axis Aircraft to Maintain Aerial Superiority For Invasion Army.

ALLIES PRESS JAPANESE BY LAND AND AIR   Mop Up On Sanananda Point in Ncw Guinea; Airmen  Raid New Britain Japanese  -.-  BombLaeDumps

Reveal Nazis Have Sneaked Captured Flying Fortresses Into Formations Of American Bombers Over Europe

Nazis Use Captured Flying Fortresses For Defense Against Aerial Onslaughts

oll, S. TO DELAY OK ON BOLIVIA   F Hull Says Government Waits For Details Of Coup

KLAND CAPITAL FALLS; OTH ARMY CAPTURES EOL   Allies Fighting Way Towards Plain Of Naples   NAZIS FALLING BACK UNDER HARD ATTACK   The War in Brief:

Three Years of War Yet,  Says “Rick”; Asks Aid For Red Cross War Fund

Galbraith Resigns From OPA Post  Action Ends Feud QUA Ail diowndté

Aide to Brown  Quits OPA Pos:   Galbraith Was in Charge of Prices

Galbraith Quits In OPA Dispute   Brown Says National Policies Unattected

Galbraith Is: Loser in Feud With Maxon   Hendergon’s Colleague - Was Target of Many Congressiors! Shots

Definite Allied Policy Planned.  :.To Be Discussed < *At-Moscow Meet

MEETING AT MOSCOW HAS DEFINITE AIM   To Qpncentrate On Allied:Pelicy Toward Germany

Grade'1 Passenger Car Tires Available for  Only “C’? Book Holders

U.S. Establishes Second Foothold On Jap Island After-Surprize Raid

AID IN POLIO FIGHT   National Foundation  Takes Hand in Kansas Situation

Allies Respect Neutral Status Of the Vatican   Fuel Oi Allotments Mailed by Local Board   Brooklyn Dodgers Rebel  Over Pitcher’s Suspensior

7 DIE IN HOTEL. FIRE IN NEW YORK   SOME KILLED IN LEAPS FROM WINDOWS, BUT MOST PERISH IN FLAMES.

17 Perish in New York Fire Many Injured  In Christmas Eve Tragedy

Switzerland Is Reinforcing Her Frontiers   Special Troops Reported to Be Moving Into Positions On Border   EXIT VISAS ARE REFUSED

SWISS TO GUARD BORDER CLOSELY   More Troops Rushed to Frontiers to Await Any Eventuality

SWISS RUSH TROOPS TO GUARD BORDERS   Nazi Police Refuse Permits To Cross Frontier

SWITZERLAND RUSHES TROOPS TO FRONTIERS   Await Eventualities As _ Tension. Between Ger : many, Italy Near Climax

SCHOOL FINANCING SCORED BY BRICKER   Ohio Governor Has Fear of ‘Federal Bureaucracy’

COASTAL ROAD IN RIVERA BLOCKED BY PAID DEBRI   ‘Spaate’ Liberators Follow Up  Attacks on Other Passes Through Alos.

TWO-WAY ATTACK FROM AIR WRECKS SEVERAL CITIES   Third Rail Bottleneck Into italy Blasted During 24 Hours, Cannes, Berlin on Visiting List.   AMERICAN ADVANCES IN ITALY ARE SLOWED UP   Push Toward Rome Is Practically at Standstill as Plans Are Made For Drive Into Nazi Line.

ALLIED PLANES OMAGH AT NAZI LINES TO UTALY   Two-Way Aerial Offensive Batters Railroad Lines Leading To South

TRUCK STRIKE SPREADS   Tight Grip Clamped On Motor Freight Traffic In Southeast

NAZIS TAKE Wc GOVERNMENT, KI TILL A FRISONER   Arrests, D'scrd’rs Continu: in Dermark: 1,000 Leaders in Custody.

Japs Report Allied Landing An Mono Island   Central Pacific To be Scene of Clash Is Belief

ALLIES INVADE MONOISLAND IN PACIFIC, CLAIM   Japan Announces Landing With Reported Sinking  of Warship; Rabaul.   Staggering

Claim One Ship In Allied Convoy Sunk..... Japanese Radio Reports Allied Landing On Mono Island, Near Shortlands

Tokyo Reports Allied Landing Near Shortland Island; Declare Nip Ajr Craft Sank One Warship, Damaged Another.

BRIGKER CAPITAL DRIVE LAUNCHES   Report Willkie May Com pete For Ohio Presiden tial Delegates

SOLONS VOTE ~  BRICKER AID   Republican Congressmen Endorse Ohio Governor For President

Court Rules Employer Has Right to Express. Views on Unionization Vote

RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH UPHELE   Supreme Court  Rules —mployer Has Right to Express His Views.   PRACTICE NOT UNFAIR

Employer's Right To Speak Upheld  Can Express Opinion If There’s No Coercion

Seek to Stop Glut of Hogs   State and Midwest Farmers Asked to Use Orderly Marketing

LAUDS VALUE OF SCOUT TRAINING   FDR Sends Message As Anniver. aaev Celehration Reins.

FPIGHTH IWNING   Bonham Equals 10-Year Record With Strikeout Of First Three at Bat

Bonham Equals 10-Year Record With Strikeout Of First Three at Bat

RUSSIANS FORGE AHEAD ON BLOOD SOAKED STEPPES   SOVIETS HALF WAY BETWEEN STALINGRAD AND POLISH FRONTIER

Nazis Pushed Back To Psel  Delian Ninick WewAcad   Poltaya Now Exposed To Flanking Attack

—RUSSIA— [Reds Score New Gains iin Ukraine Campaieon   Westward Advance Of 15 Miles To Psel River I:  Announced By Moscow;’ New Offensive I:  Launched In Sevysk Sector

RUSSIANS HALF WAY TO POLAND   Soviets Capture City On Poltava Front; Gain In Donets

Nazis Pushed Farther Back   REDS CONTINUE GAINS AS GERMANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY

Reds Reach Psel River In New Push   German Base at Zenkov Is Now Exposed to Flanking Movement

REDS ADVANCE TO PSEL RIVER, CAPTURE SEVSK   Advances Place Russians Half Way io Polish Border on Drive From Stalingrad   POLTAVA EXPOSED   5,000 Germans Wiped Oui as Arfillery, Tanks, Planes Mass in Sevsk Assault

5 000 GERMANS SLAIN AS REDS CAPTURE SEVSK   Soviet Forces Advance in Western Drive, Now 500 Miles From Stalingrad  ‘Heme Base’

Russians Push Nazis Back To The Psel River  Dad Derive Raarhac   Red Drive Reaches Point 100 Miles West Of Kharkov

REDS ADVANCE 15 MILES MORE   Germans Pushed Back As Russians Reach Psel River, Tributary Of The Dnieper.

Russians Reach Psel River In 15-Mi Advance   Nazis Withdraw Across Dnieper Tributary 100 Mi. West Of Kharkov.

Soviets Push Germans Back ToPsel River   15-Mile Advance Made  After Zenkov Falls; Nazis Attempting To Build Strong Line

<eeecensillineanctaiaainan it CTL LL LL CAN CC ct  REDS PUSH NAZISBACK ANOTHER 15 MILES TO REACH PSEL RIVER

Nazis Pushed Back 15 Miles More By Reds   Russians Strike In New Sector To Overrun  Sevsk Area

Nazis Pushed Back 15 Mile: In Ukraine   Defenses Between Orel And Belgorod Overwhelmed By Russians

REDS CONTINUE NEW ADVANCES   Push Germans Back Fif. ten More Miles Beyond Kharkov

Russian Troops Now 100 Miles Beyond Kharko   Approach To Bank Of Peel Said Most - Important dierent Oi—Recent—Dave-

RUSSIAN ARM DRIVING WEST   Advance 100 Miles Past Kharkov; Reach Psel River

Soviets 100 Miles West of Kharkov   Troops Reach Psel River, a Dnieper Tributary, and Nazis Appear to Be Planning a Stand on the West Bank.

Force Germans  Back 15 Miles   Russian Army Reaches Psel River, 100 Miles From Kharkov.

PUSH TO WEST   German. Defenses _ Between ' Orel, Belgorod Over' . . whelmed

RED ARMY'S DRIVE ACROSS THE UKRAINE PUSHED NAZIS BACK   RUSSIANS HAVE REACHED PSEL RIVER IN CONTINUED OFFENSIVE

[RUSSIANS REACH PSEL RIVER IN INEW ADVANCES   Tributary of Dneiper River Now in Hands of Reils: Who Still Drive Forward 

Soviets Advance  15 Miles   Halfway to Border of Poland from Stalingrad

GERMANS PUSHED BACK 15 MILES BY RUSSIAN DRIVE   The Soviet Army’s Westward Move Carried Them to the Psel River.   ARE NOW NEAR ZENKOV   This Is the Fartherest Point Previously Announced as Gained by Russians.

KIEV-BYRANSK RAIL SYSTEM THREATENED   Offensive Now Over Half Way To Polish Border; 5.000 Germans Killed In Two-Day Fight

Reds Strike Westward In New Sector  Overwhelm Nazi Defenses at Recek. Enh

Russians Overwhelm German Defenses In New Sector To Advance Nearly 500 Miles From Stalingrad—More Than 5,000 Enemy Troops Killed And 700 Captured In Battle—Red Forces Menace Railway From Kiev To Bryansk—Other Gains Made

SEVSK CAPTURED BY REDS, TROOPS OVERRUN ENEMY   5,000 Germans Wiped Out, Red Officials Say

Psel River Is Reached By Soviets   Germans Driven Back Across Tributary Of Dnieper As Russians Continue Offensive

New Soviet Push After Svesk’s Fall   Reds 100 Miles West Of Kharkoy as They Rush Toward Dnieper

RUSSIANS PUSH FOE BACK AGAIN   Red Army’s Westward Drive Through Ukraine Continues Advance.

Fourth Big Red Plunge In Ukraine   ‘German Defenses at Sevsk Overwhelmed ina New Drive Toward West   15-MILE GAIN IN ZENKOV SECTOR   Reds Have Moved More Than Halfway From Stalinerad to Polish Border

RETAKE SEVSK, MENACE VITAL NAZI RAILWAY   Reds Now Almost 500 Miles From Stalingrad, Kill Many Germans

Russians Reach River 100 Miles West of Kharkov   New Offensive Is Opened in Capture Of Sevsk, Key Town

OPA TO PROCEED TO SET STANDARDS ON CIVILIAN GOODS   PRESIDENT DECLARES GENSRAL USE OF STANDARDS IS NOT BANNED BY THE AMENDED MEASURE.   PLAN TO PREVENT LOWERING QUALITY   Another Controversy Has Sprung Up in Washington Over Use of Rayon or Cotton Cords in Manufacture of Tires.

OPA Can Standardize Commodities   Roosevelt Says C.C.C. Bill Does Not Impose Ban

Admiral Gives Terms for — Joining Allies   Robert Asks Unity of French Fighting Forces and Guar. anty French Antilles Inter. ests Safeguarded

FRENCH COMMANDER IN CARIBBEAN AREA ANSWERS QUESTIONS   GIVES CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH HE WOULD JOIN UNITED NATIONS

Admiral Robert States Conditions Under Which He Will Join Allies

Admiral Robert Says Allies’ Treatment Of French Only Confirms His Position

Conditions For Joining United Nations Told   Unity Of French Under Single Authority = 1: Asked By Commissioner Of Martinique __

Roberts Tells Conditions For French Antilles, Allied Union   By JOSEPH EF. DYNAN Copyright, 1943, by the Associated Prease.

French Isles Not Ready To Assist Allies   Admiral Robert Asks Unity Among Nations Before Martinique Will Join.   OPPOSED TO REBELLION

Nazi Air Bases In Greece Pounded   Brillges Smashed by Allied Airmen in Bolzano, Brenner Pass City   SUPPORT ISLE DEFENSE   Fighth Army Pushes To:  ward Pescara on Adriatic Coast

Brenner Pass Railroad Center Hit By Bombers   Land Forces Still Advancing North Toward Rome

Allies Force Way Forward   Block Brenner Pass Line, Seize Two Vital Airfields

BRIDGES ALSO ARE BLASTED   American and British Sol. diers Continue Their Advance on Land

Bombers Rip Key Nazi Airfields; Foe’s Brenner Pass Feed Line Into Italy Again Blocked.

5th Army Just * 85 Miles From. Rome Defenses   Corsica Evacuation; By Nazis Admitted; British Hold Coo; Reds Bogged

Bridges Smashed At Brenner Pass; Yanks Advance   Say British Army Reaches Road Leading To Rome In Drive Of 10 Miles

Five German Divisions Thrown Across Peninsula; British Gain 10 Miles; Brenner Pass Bombed

Airfields in Greece, Brenner Pass Rail City Are Bombed.   CORSICA IS NEW BASE

Enemy Feed Line Into Italy Target For Air Assaults   Four to Five German Divisions Along a Front From Coast To Coast Putting Up Increased Resistance  To Fifth Army

Powerful Northwest African Aerid Armadas Pound Nazi Airfields I Greece, Block Enemy Escape Rout   American Troops Seize Montesarchio After Crossing Calore River Southwest Of Benever

Eighth Army Drives North  From Termoli   Allies Also Send Aerial Fleets to Assist Coo Garrison

BRENNER PASS BOMBED T0 HALT HELP FOR NAZIS   Russian Advance Against German Invaders Is Slowed by Mud

Germans Stiffen Lines   American 5th and Brit.ish 8th Armies Push  _ Ahead in Italy Against Grim Nazi Resistance

Bombers Block Brenner Pass Road To Italy   Planes From African And Italian Bases Blast Airdromes

MORE TROOPS. “THROWN INTO BATTLE FRONT   British Drive 10 Miles ‘North of Termole; Air Fleet Pounds Air Bases,   AMERICANS IN 5TH ARMY . CAPTURE MONTESARCHIO

Air Armadas Add Might in Italy Battle   Blast Airfields in Greece and Smash Brenner Pass Bridaes

 German Installations And  Rehafortenent Line Given Severe Pounding By Powerful Flying Armadas From Northwest African Bases—Bridges At Bolzano, Brenner Pass Terminal, Smashed—Americans And British Continue Steady Progress

GERMAN TROOPS IN ATTEMPT T0 CHECK ALLIES IN ITALY   Throwing Increasing Resistance Against Advance Now in Progress.   CORSICA IS LIBERATED   British Forces Struck 10 Miles North of Termoli on the. Adriatic.

Twolmportant Airports Taken By Fifth Army   RAF Bombs Frankfurt; 40 Jap Barges _ Destroyed as Nips Speed Evacuation of Kolombangara; Russian Summer Offensive Boas Down in Mud

Eighth 10 Miles North Of Termoli   German Resistance Stiffening —Powerful Allied Air Fleets Wreck Bridges — Fighting Continues on-Coo Island — Berlin Admits Evacuation of Corsica

NAZT REINFORCEMENT  ROAD INTO ITALY SMASHED BY AIR   Fresh Troops Poured Into British-Held Terinoli On Adriatic Coast

oth Army But $5 Miles From  Rome. Report   Allies Making Advance: In Italy With British Beating Off German Counterattacks

IN GREECE HAMMERED   British Strike 10 Miles North Of Termoli On Adriatic Sea Coast; All Corsica Free

AMERICANS DRIVE ON IN ITALY   Thrusts At Greece Made In Support Of British At Coo

NAZIS STIFFEN RESISTANCE 10 ALLIED FORCES   American Fifth Army Reported 85 Miles From Rome. Bridges Wrecked by Allied Pilots

VISIONS IN THE FIGHTING   Despite Increased Resistance From Enemy Forces Stretching Coast fo Coast, Yanks and British Advance.

Brenner Pass Supply Route Hammered By Powerful Air Armada   Corsica Evacuated By German Forces; Greece Also Blasted By Huge Allied Bombers _

Allied Planes Block Brenner Pass Raii Line   Germans Hurling Men into Fray to Halt Allied Drive

On the Ground, Meanwhile, American Forces Cross River to Seize Montesarchio—Reinforcements to British at Termoli—Brenner Pass City Attacked.

‘SEVERAL DIVISIONS GERMAN TROOPS ARE FIGHTING IN ITALY  ALLIED GROUND AND AIR POWER. HOWEVER.

Drive Toward Kome Against  Suff Front   Germans Offer Increasing Resistance To Fifth Army Advane i.   SAY FOE WITHDRAWING

NAZIS INCREASE RESISTANCE TO ALLIED ADVANCE   Four to Five Nazi Division Opposing Advance Toward Rome

Allied Airmen Using Bases In Newly Occupied Italian  Areas Hammer Brenner Pace

Air Armadas Smash Brenner Pass Rail City, Nazi Airports   Allied Armies Advance in Ground Fighting in Italy Today

TWO IMPORTAN] AIRFIELDS CAPTURED   American Troops Now Within 85 Miles . Of Rome .

ALLIES FIND RESISTANCE IN ITALY STRONG   Germans Send Four to Five Divisions i in Italy Against  British, Yankees,   British Strike Ten Miles From Termolli

ENGLISH MAKE 10 MILE GAIN FROM TERMOLI   4 to 5 Nazi Divisions Form Line Coast to Coast Across Italy

IN BRENNER PASS HIT   Italian Bases Used In Attacks; 5th Army Makes New Gains

ALLIES GAIN INFAGEOF STIFF FOBRESISTANCE   American Army Takes Montesarchio: Reinforcements Put Ashore Behind Enemy Lines   MANY NAZI PLANES DESTROYED IN RAIDS   Buildings Fired In Attack _ Near Athens to’ Take Pressure off British At Coo

German Resistance Stiffer as Allies Push Toward Rome   Situation at Coo Looks Bad; Corsica Cleared of Nazis  Dw Aenriatand Drace

U.S. Stat Slashes 9 Miles   MONTESARCHIO FALLS AS BRITISH THRUST 10 MILES TO NORTH

Rail Center Pounded By Air Fleet   Reinforcement Road Into   Italy Is Attacked By Bombers As Drive On Ground Slows Down

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY 15 REPORTED IN 85 MILES OF ROME  EIGHTH ARMY BEATS OFF GERMAN ATTACK ON ADRIATIC COAST

U. S. Fifth Army Advance Continues   Allied Bombers Blast German Invaders on Island of Coo, off Coast of Turkey

Fifth Army  Is 85 Miles From Capital   British, Germans Battle For Coo, Corsica Free

Wanted   ;  — 1000 bu. good corn; also 40 tons hay, loose or baled.—Roy Haley.

An ODE To Gentlemen Of Congress   MacLeish Has Written A Funny Poem, He Thinks

TUESDAY 10 SEE RUML TAX TEST   House GOP Confider 91 ‘Skip-A-Year’ Victay

HOUSE GIRDS FOR TAX VOTE   G. 0. P. Leaders Forecast Victory For Ruml  Plan

THIRD TAX TEST COMES TUESDAY   House GOP Confident of Pushing Through Rum! Plan

NEW TEST FOR HOUSE ON RUML TAX PLAN DUE   Expected To Vote Tomorrow on Measure: Twice-Beaten Backers Hopeful.

“TT CAN PASS: RUML PLAN BILI   Test Tomorrow. In Vote ‘To: Accept ' - Senate Measure: ..

G.0,P, EXPECTS RUML PASSAGE   Modified Skip-Year Tax Bil Faces:New House Test

Ruml Plan Faces Third House Test   Modified Measure Comes Up Tomorrow for ” Vote

6.0.P. SEES TAX BILL REACHING F.D.R. THIS WEEK   Skip-A-Year Backers Think Third Try Will Be Charm

CONTEST FOR RUML PLAN NEAR CLIMAX   House Republicans Confident They Can Muster Votes to Send Bill To President   TEST COMING TUESDAY

House To Vote Tuesday On Modified Ruml Plan; Republican Leaders Confident Bill Will Pass

Third Test Tuesday On Tax Skipping Republicans Expect To Win Pay-Go Tug

REPUBLICANS TO PUSH TAX PLAN   Modified Rum! Bill Faces Test Vote In House On Tuesday

ALLIES RAID WAZ POSITION WN ITALY   German Communication Lines Bombed

Allies strike across river   Italian transport facilities belted

Allies Advance In Italy, Bomb Coast of France   Invasion Sector Softened By Increased Raids

ALLIED THRUST AGAINST A KEY JUNCTION, ITAL!   American Bombers in Most Sustained Aerial Assault of Allied Campaign in Italy.

Allies Strike Behind Nazis On Italy Coast   Raid ‘In Force’ Aimed a Key Junction of Minturno

RAID IS MADE ON NAZIS AT MINTURNO   Allied Aerial Activity Mounts On Italian Front

1,000 YARDS FROM CITY   Bari Radio Says San Vittore Has Fallen to Allies

YANK AIRMEN INACTION OVER ITALY    Allied Troops Also in Thrust Across Vital River

William Rarick — Of Kingsley Dies  Former Councilman and Civic Leader -

FATHER DRAFT REMAINS PUZZLE   Occupational Deferments For 18-22 Group May Be Ended

F ather Dratt Still Is Puzzle   Weekend of Confusing  Statements Leaves Mess

Father Draft Issue Still A Puzzle   Two Prospective Developments Reine Studied

FATHERS’ QUTLOGK FOR ARMY DRAFT STILL CONFUSED   Complicated Puzzle Is Nat Solved By Many Conflicting Statements.

Father Draft Situation Is  Still Puzzle   All Deferments Held By Men 18 To 22 Years Old May Be Cancelled

DRAFTING OF DADS STILL REMAINS AS PUZZLE QUESTION   Million Pre-Peart Harbor Fathers Have Chances of of Induction Despite Confusing Statements.   (EFERMENTS FOR MEN 18-22 MAY BE ENDED   Over Three Million Single and Childless Married Men In 4-F Also Face Possible Service.

FATHERS’ DRAFT IS STILL VERY MUCH OF PUZZLE   About 1,000,000 Fathers May Be Inducted By Next July

ALL IS STILL CONFUSION IN FATHER DRAFI   Puzzle Grows After More Conflicting Statements

RECKORD CHOSEN PROVOST MARSHAL      Marylander Assumes Post in European Theatre of Operation<

WOMAN EXECUTED (N SOUTH CAROLINA   Former School Teacher and Two Men Die in Electric Chair.

SOUTH CAROLINA EXECUTES TRIO   Woman Accused Of Slaying Is First To Die In State’s - Electric Chair ~

Execute Woman  And Two Men   Three Pay Penalty For Murder In South Carolina Early Today

STALIN IS PRAISED BY EX-AMBASSADOR   Davies Says Russian Leader Could Not Leave Front To Atiend Casahlanca Conference

WOULD PROTECT SEED POTATOES   OPA Considers Move To Discour. age Sale Of Seed For Food; May Place Ceilings

LLL! LLL LO EE  POTATOES FOR SEED USED FOR FOOD, TIF   Result May Be New Rules for Buying Them

AUoolANG TURN TIDE OF BATTLE   Soviet Reinforcements Re: gain Initiative In The /hitomir Area

RUSSIANS SEIZE INITIATIVE FROM GERMANS AGAIN   Soviet Forces Said To Be Driving Forward. Three Villages Taken.

Russians Are Reported to Be Driving Forward Again.  NEW GAINS HAVE IMPROVED POSITION  Recaptured Three More Villages and Two More Heights.

Reinforced Russians Hurl Back Nazi Attacks: Recapture 3 Villages

TUGWELL HIT BY LEADER OF FARMERS’ UNIT   Puerto Rican Charges Governor With Experimenting On Island

TUGWELL’S THEORIES WORRY PUERTO RICO   Accused of Planning To Take Them to U. S.

Turkey Seen As Moving Toward  War With Axis   Sub Rosa Help Given To Allies Rapidly Nearing Full Co-operation.

[TURKISH ASSISTANCE 10 ALLIED ARMED FORCES RAPIDLY CARRYING NATION TOWARD WAR FOOTING   While Only A Friendly Neutral A Few Months Ago Turkey Is Rapidly Approaching Genuine Cooperation, and May Grow into Active  ge 8 get

Turkey Believed Near Open War   Nation Due To Joir Allied Cause Soon  wm. WIT TTA RR. wWINT

Turks Expected to Enter War on Side of United Nations   Active Participation by  Spring Thought to be in Cards

SEES TURKEY FIGHTING ON ALLIED SIDE   Correspondent Believes This Nation Will Be in War by Spring.   Is Already Giving Aid To the Allied Powers

Turkey Gives Sub Rosa Aid to Allies  Natian Te Ranartaad   Nation Is Reported Moving Toward War With the Axis

Nation May Take Active Part In Battling Axis   Turks Said Ready To ‘Join United Nations As Result Of Talks

Tarkey’s Secret Aid To Allies Pushes Nation  Close To Joining Fight Against Axis Powers

TURKEY FAST ISGETTINGON WAR FOOTING      Nation Already Giving Sub Rosa Assistance to Allies   TOKEN ASSAULT BY. GERMANY EXPECTED   New Turkish Positions, Spring From Moscow  Conference j

Turkey Will Join in War  Against Axis   Step Will Come Soon; Moscow Parley Brings Change in Attitude

Turkey Abandons Neutral Policy   Cooperating With Allies And Letting Germans Lump It   REGARDS WAR WITH AXIS INEVITABLE

Turks Move Toward War With the Axi:      Censor Passes Significant Dispatch From Observer in Ankara

Nation To Join Allies; Bombers Lash Nazis, Japs   Russians Yield Small Area; U.S. Fifth Army {s Standing Firm

Turks Rapidly Approach Entry Into War as They Give Allies Secret Aid

TURKEY NEAR WAR WITH AXIS, IS TIP   Cooperation With Allies \s Said To Be Growing

TURKEY TO ENTER FIGHT WITH ALLIES   War On All-Out Scale Will Be Deciared When Preparations Have Been Completed  cf - 2 Pe ee - -~, ms AF eS

Will Give More Help To Allies   Friendly Neutral Nations Rapidly Move Toward Genuine Co-operetion  With United Nations

Turkey Wants Coasts Pr -otected Before Actively Joinine Allies Against Axis

“Turkey  In War By Spring’   War Correspondent Is Convinced That  Country Will Soon Join Fight on Axis

Turkey Moves Rapidly Nearer Open War With  Axis Countries   AP Man Looks for Dee. laration Before Spring

SAYS TURKEY NEARING WAR AGAINST AXIS   A. P. Writer Declares Nation Is Helping Allies in Manner Similar to That of U. S. Prior to Pearl Harbor.

Turks Now Giving Aid To Allies   Expected by Spring To Become Member Of United Nations  BUILDS AIR BASES

Says Turkey Fast Nearing War on Axis   Sub Rosa Assistance Expected to Flare Inte Open Warfare

TURKS MOVING TOWARDS WAR   Sub Rosa Aid To Allies Carrying Nation To War Footing

Allies Get Sub Rosa Assistance   (Nazis attack another istand near Turkey. Page 2-A.)

Turkey Gives Sub Rosa Aid to Allies   Nation Is Reported Moving Toward War With the Axis

Turkey Believed Near Open War   Nation Due To Join  Allied Cause Soon Te WIiTrrTrTaMm RR Wwmimt

Turks Believed Setting Stage To Enter War   Assistance Given Allies Interpreted As Hint Of Action

War With Axis  Looms For Turks   Turkish Assistance To Allies Takes Nation Toward Conflict

Allies Getting Aid; See Attack From The Axis  Granting Of Vital Bases Would Be An Open Act Of War

Turkey May Drop Neutrality Role, Openly Join Allies   Moscow Conference Held Turning Point O War Making Declaration Necesary ; Token Raids Held Possible

Sub Rosa Help To Allies fo Be Turned fo War   AP Correspondent Believes Turkey  Will Be Fighting Germany in Sorina

Turkey Believed Preparing Armec Forces for War   Entrance on Side Of Allies Likely

ANKARA PERMITS BROAD ASSFPTION T0 PASS CENSORS   Country's Sub-rose Aid to Allies Bringing !t Neorer Conflict

Turks Give Allies Sub Rosa Help   Nation Edges Toward Conflict With Axis

Turkey May Soor Jom With Allies   Writer Says Nation Is Planning For All-Out Participation.

TURKEY MOVING TOWARD FIGHT WITH GERMANY   May Be Months Before Actua! War Starts

lurkey Sef to Join Allies?   Events Viewed as Presaging Ankara Will War on Axis

Friendly Neutral Status Changing To Cooperation   Real War May Be Delayed For Severai’ Months; Would Protect’ Russia

Newspapers Expected To Carry Usual Volume Of Dept. Store Advertising

Po Defense Line Nazis’ Only Hope   Must Surely Retreat to Earlier Planned Strenghold in Italy

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Growing Threat In Russia, Italy Keep Unrelenting Pressure On Nazis

War Fund Drive To  Open Soon   Co. Chairman Fred Brown Instructs Key Men On Plans; Begins October 18.

PATRIOTS FIGHT IN FRENCH ARE!   Men Battling Nazis Getting Supplies By Plane

FRENCH FORCE HOLDING OUT   GUERRILLA ‘TROOPS ‘ALONG  SWISS BORDER RECEIVING  ‘. SUPPLIES DROPPED .BY ALLIED PLANES

Germans Repori Soviet Gains   Red Communique Says Progress Minor

Aussies Now But 50 Miles From Madang   Ground Troops Driving Along Toward Big Japanese Base Make Progress

A us a4 Are. in of Madan      ‘Allied Trodps Supported by. _ Air Bombardment’

Aussies Drive To Within 50 Miles of Madang   Allied Planes Work Ahead of Troops  Rlastine Tan Positionge

AUSSIE INFANTRY WITHIN 50 MILES OF JAPANESE BASE   Supported “By CF uriona . Ar Bombardment ‘Troops Push On Through  Jungle Terrain

Are Within 60 Miles of Key City   Numerous Towns and Villages Reported Taken

MORE TOWNS FALL TO REDS IN ASSAULTS   Advancing Soviet: Drawing Closer To Rostov

REDS CONTINUE ROLL TOWARD CITY OF ROSTOV   Advances Reported On Other Sectors Of Long Front

OHIO GOVERNOR TO SEEK ACTION ON FARM RELIEF   Criticizes Federal Policies; To Ask State Legislature To Appeal to Congress

BRICKER LASHES FED FARM POLICY    Says Some Will Go Hungry With Restrictions

Consumers Again Pick Up Cudgels   Renew Effort To Form Lobby To Win Fight On Subsidies

HEIRESS TAKES DEATH PLUNGE   Mrs. Janet §S. Gill Dives 13 Stories As Lave Of Husband Ends

HEIRESS DIES IN 16-FLOOR FALL   Accident Comes While Visiting Her Army Husband In N.Y.

MORE FLOOD WATER COMING DOWN KAW   Heavy Rains in Tributaries Will Send Streams Up Here   NEW DELAWARE FLOOD

KAW RIVER FLOOD RECEDES RAPIDLY   Crest of 21.5 Feet Was Reached at 7 o'Clock © Last Night   RAIL SERVICE RESUMED.   Overflow Does Consider able Damage to Crops :   on Lowiands

COMING DOWN KAW   Heavy Rains in Tributaries ‘Send Streams Up Here   NEW DELAWARE FLOOD

CHINESE HAVE SOME SUCCESS   Fighting In China Reported To Be Fluctuating.

Jeff Gatling Is Commissioned   CAMDEN MAN WIENS HIS BARS AT FORT BENNINGS

Broad Restrictions  On Women's Wear   Children’s Apparel Also Affected When  Order Applies; Frills Eliminated

Asks Agreement By Coal Groups   Ickes Wants Negotiations Speeded Up

MINERS ORDERED TO RESUME JOBS   Anthracite Committee Moves To End Strike As Eastern Shortage Grows

GERMAN BLAGKIVATL ATTEMPT EXPOSED   Berlin Holding Up Exchange Of Diplomats

Welles Accuses Nazis of Blackmail in Their Refusal To Repatriate Officials   Hitler Wants German Military Officers Captured in Africa Released in Exchange

Interpreting  The War   Germans Still Able To Inflict Punishing Blows

DEFER FATHERS 10 AFTER JANUARY   Wheeler Bill Is Shelved by Senate; Will Reclassify Those in 4F.

SENATORS VOTE TO. OTUDY ANEW DEFERMENT PLAN   Other Deferments Would Be Restricted To Delay Induction Of Dads

12,000 More Prisoners In Russian Bag   Seizure of Armavir Biggest Red Victory In Caucasus Battle Sector

12,000 Prisoners  Are Swept Into Russian Hands   17 Axis Divisions Are Put To Rout In Fighting On Voronezh Front.

Victory Termed Biggest Yet In Caucasus Zone   Control Point For Maikop Oil Fields Now Held By Reds

200,000 AXIS TROOPS ARE IMPERILLED   Onrushing Reds Score Biggest Victory Yet in Caucasus With Recapture of Armavit.  {   MAKE GAINS ON VORONEZH FRONT   Occupy Railway Junction of Volokonovka, Northwest of Kharkov, and Bag 12,000 Prisoners.

ARMAVIR TAKEN IN DRIVE THRU CAUCASUS AREA   17 Axis Divisions Re: ported Routed In 9Day Offensive   PUSH ON ROSTOV   Soviet Advances Threat en Many GermanHeld Centers

Teutons Yield Armavir, Gate  To Big Oilfield   Russians Are Well On Way Towar: Erasing All Nazis' 1942 Gains; Azo Push May Circle Rostov

Oil Fields In Caucasus Lost To Invaders   Thousands More Prisoners Taken In Great Victories

Russians Take Volokonovka, Rail Junction   Twelve Thousand. More Prisoners Are Taken by Soviet Forces On Voronezh Front

Reds Capture Two Vital Nazi Bases  Biggest Viclory in Caucasus; Take 17.000 Driconers

r,  To Maikop Oil Fields, Retaken  Volokonvka, Vital Rail Center, Also Fall As Soviets Push On  PINCER ON ROSTOV  - gfe

RAF ATTACKS DEVASTATE WUPPERTAL, 33 PLANES LOST, ALLIES HIT RUHR TARGETS

Hitler Scrapes Bottom Of Manpower Barrel, Cale Classes Of 1894-1896, -

Three Million Civilians Evacuated From Rich Valley.  33 ALLIED BOMBERS REPORTED MISSING  Germany Has Called Up Men to Age of 49 for Service.

Senate Body Considers House Move   Post-war Foreign Pol. icy Resolution Under Discussion

POST-WAR FOREIGN POLICY ARGUMENTS MAY BE CONTINUED   Republicans  May Start Drive to Smoke Out Democrats for Congressional Expres . pe cs

GOP SEEKS 10 GET POST-WAR VIEW OF SENATE DEMOCRATS   Trying To Show No Great ‘Difference In Foreign Policy Between  Two Parties _

Senate Holds Up Action On Post-War Bill   Republicans Seek To Smoke Out Demo~ ¢rats In Senate

Vacation Travelers  Facilities Reduced No Extra Sleeping Cars Allowad Railways

Conferees Ready ~ To Enter Vital ~ Phase of Parley  Glimpse of. Way Work   Glimpse of. Way Work Is Proceeding .at ~ Moscow Given

Parley Drafts 3-Power Pact   Moscow Agenda Setiled Terms Next Mave

Moscow Parley  Begins Draft Of Agreement   Tripower Meeting Gets Down To Specific Terms

Conference’ at Moscow. Entering  Its Vital Phase  Russian Publication - Reflects More  ge e

Tri-Power Mee! Begins Draft Of Documents   Reach Agreement In Principle On Several Points

PARLEY MOVES INTO FINAL DRAFT PHASE   some Agreements Already Reached But Not Disclosed; Experts Hold First Separate Meeting.   Growing Trust

ARMISTICE SOUGHT BY ITALY, REPORT   Count Grandi in 1 Lisbon Te Make Offer, ’Tis Said

ARMISTICE EFFORT REPORTED   Italian Diplomat’s Arrival In Lisbon Is Unconfirmd

An Italian Group Is Now at Lisbon   Zurich Newspaper Hints at An Armistice Negotia tion Movement.

ONY TTALIAN ENVOY ait NAMISTIGE   Former Ambassador to Brit: ain in Lisbon. Aiming te Arrange Peace

ABRTAL WAR IS STEPPED UP IN ALL QUARTERS   Feggia Airdrome and Ten Satellite Fields Knocked Out In Surprise Assault   RAID CALLED ONE OF “MOST SUCCESSFUL"   Middle East Bomber Force of Americans Returns to Base Without Any Plane Losses

Pro-German Dutch Cabinet Officer Slain   Another Attempts Suicide, Patriots Frecuted

Nazis Execute Hundreds After General Strike   Forced Labor to Germany Results in Murders

Dutch Nazi Leader Shot Fatally, Strikers Killed  Another German Member Attempts To Commit Suicide

DUTCH NAZI CHIEF FATALLY WOUNDED   German Masters of Netherlands Execute Many Citizens

WAGE FREEZING IRKS MR. LEWIS   Roosevelt Order Called Unsound, Condemned By President Of UMW

Lewis Says FDR’s Order Is Unsound   UMW Chief Declares ‘Hold Line Order’ ‘Is False Way To Achieve Any Reasonable Control Of Inflation

Contends Order Is Inflationary   Wants Miners To . Share In Profits

LEWIS BERATES FOR WAGE FREEZE PLAN   Order Came Far Too Late. Says Union Chief

‘HOLD THE LINE’ ORDER UNSOUND LEWIS CLAIMS   Asserts Mine Workers Farmers and Railroad Workers “Aimed at” by  Roosevelt Decree   HITS WAR PROFITS   Declares $6,250,000,000 Already Poured Into Laps of Finance and Industry in 1943

5500 AIRPLANES MADE IN MONTI   70,000 Aircraft Bombs. Many Rifles, Other Materials Made In January.

PLANE PRODUCTION REACHES NEW HIGH   Patterson Announces 5,500 Rolled From Nation’s Assembly Lines in February.

Germans Show Fear That U. S., Britain Will Allow Russia to Take Over Their Nation, Former Prisoner Says

Nazis Asked Yank Prisoners if Allies Would Let Russians Take Over’Germany

Germans Fear Invasion by Russia Above All Else, Returned Prisoners Say

PROTEST MADE BY U.S. EDITORS GN CAIRO NEWS   OWI Files Complaint i With Government Of Britain

Editors Protest British Methods Of Handling News   Roberts Protests

Report Fascist Envoy To Germany _ Beaten Up By Nazi Army Captain

ITALIAN ENVOY ON SPOT WITH GERMAN ARM)   Behind Eight Ball After Extra-Curricular Activities

Italian Envoy to Germany Thrashed by Irate Officer Returning From.the East

GERWAN WHIPS ITALIAN ENVOY   ‘Charmer’ Challenged to Duel, but Court Bans Fight

ITALIAN IS BEATEN BY NAZI OFFICER   Fascist Ambassador Ts Germany Is Whipped For Lovemaking

‘Italian Ambassador Alfieri Horsewhipped ' By German Officer, Secret Radio Reports

GERMANY SEEKS RECALL ‘OF ITALIAN AMBASSADOR ‘FOR LOVE-MAKING ACTS

U.S. Pounds at Sfax as Allied Drive Nears   Wounded Nazi Horsewhips Italian Diplomat Who Stole His Wife, German Radio Declares

Nazi Army Demands Dismissal Ofltalian Envoy to Berlin, = Secref Outlaw Radio Reports ©

Writer Says Japan’s Leaders Realize They Have Lost War   AY KAYMOND P. CRONIN

AP Reporter on Gripsholm Says Jap Military Leaders Know They’re Losing War

Japan’s Leaders Know War Is Lost, But People Are Kept In Ignorance

HALSEY IN DEFENSE OF MERCHANT SEAMEN   U. S$. Naval Commander Says Men Have Cooperated At All Times With Troops

‘Admiral Halsey Denies Story That Seamen Refused to Unload Ships

MERCHANT SEAMEN CLEARED OF CHARGES BY NAVY OFFICER   Cooperative and Courageous In Unloading in War Zone, Probers Told

ADMIRAL PRAISES MERCHANT SEAMEN   Report From South Pacific States That Sailors Never Refused to Unload Ships 

MERCHANT SEAMEN CITED FOR COURAGE   Halsey Spikes Rumors Men Refused to Unload Ships in Solomons.

Niles Protests Assessed Tay   Supervisors Convene Adiourn For Week

REVIEW NILES TAX ALLOTMENT   State Commission Meet With Supervisors On Appeal

102 NAZI PLANES DOWNED BY FLYING FORTS AND ESCORTS   Brings German Plane Losses To Over 309 in Three Days ‘Raids: Termed “Prepara: tions for Invasion

Americans Down 102 Nazi Planes In Sweep Sunday   General Eaker Says Raids Are Opening Road For Invasion».

Allied Raiders Vanquish 300 Enemy Plane:   Armada Blasts Transportation Centers Of Muenster. Coesfeld,   DUTCH AIRFIELD HIT

) Flying Forts And Thunderbolts Increase Three-Day Bag Of Enemy Aircraft To More Than 300—Important  German Transportation Centers Of Muenster And Coesfeld Blasted—Thirty U. S. Bombers Lost— Eaker Says Raids Pave Way For Invasion

RUN UP SCORE IN RAIDS ON REICH CITIES   l. S. Bombers Tear Through Stubborn Defenses to Blast Transportation Centers of Muenster and Coesfeld.

Down 300 Nazi Planes in 3 Days   Big Yank Bombers Blast German Rail Centers   Grew Pleads for Crushing Attack On Japs— “Can't Afford to Wait”

Yanks Rit  German Centers   U. S. DOWNS 300 ENEMY PLANES IN THREE DAYS OF RAIDS ON EUROPE

leavy Weekend Raids Inflict Much Damage On Vital German Centers; Must Blast Away To Reduce Casualties When Invasion Comes.

Yanks In Three Days Down Over 300 Nazi Planes   Muenster, Coesfeld Battered In Latest Fiery Aerial Assaults.

FLYING FORTRESSES: BAG 102 FIGHTERS IN SUNDAY RAIDS      Muenster and Coesfeid Hit as 400 Planes Rain Bombs on Germany   Prepare .FOR INVASION

Yanks Down 300 Planes. In 3 Sweeps   Chalk Up-102. Nazis In Sunday’s Raids; 32 Lost by U. §.°

:  YANKS CARRY RAIDS ON REICH TO NEWER PEAK   Bag Average of 100 Enemy Planes Daily In Offensive Termed Forerunner Channel Invasion

BOMBERS TEAR INTO GERMANY   Nazi Plane Losses Boosted To More Than 300 in Three Days.   TROGPS PLOD IN MUN

NEW DAYLIGHT ATTACK COSTS U.S.30 PLANES   Fortresses Drop Bombs On Muenster, Coesfeld Travel Centers

BOOST GERMAN PLANE LOSSES TO 300 TODAY   Fortresses Downed 102 Planes In Raid Sunday

NAZIS LOSE OVER 300 PLANES IN LASTIDAYS   Americans Bag 102 Ships Sunday, Costs Raiders 32 Airplanes

NAZI PLANE LOSSES BOOSTED TO OVER 300 WITHIN THREE DAYS  U.S. FLYING FORTRESSES - DOWNED 102 ENEMY

German Plane Losses Mount During Forays  102 Nazi Craft Downed at Cost Of 32 U.S. Shins

YANKS HIT 102 ENEMY PLANES   Run Up Score Against Foe In Raids Over Germany

Destroy 102 Enemy Planes  In One Day   Flying Fortrésses Tea: Through Nazi Defense: To Blast Muenste: And Coesfeld

Nazi Plane Losses Are Boosted to 300 Within Three Days   American Flying Fortresses and Escorting Thunderbolts Shoot Down 102 as Big Bombers Blast Transportation Centers   PLAN INVASION OF GERMANY ACROSS CHANNEL

Yank Planes Bag 102 Nazis In Big Raid   Bombs Rip Vital German Cities; RAF Follows Up At Night

Blazing Climax is Given to Weekend of Wild Air Activities   ‘German Plane Losses in  Three Days Boosted to More Than 300

NAZIS LOSE MORE THAN B00 PLANES   German Fighter Strength Riddled In Week Of Blazing Activity   HEAVY DAMAGE   Communique Says 32 U~. S. Bombers, Two Fighters Are Lost

30 Bombers Lost by Yanks In Glowing Climax to Huge Air Raids over Weekend ©

AMERICANAIRMEN DOWN 300 GERMAN PLANES IN 3 DAYS   MUENSTER, COSEFELD HEAVILY BOMBED BY FLYING FORTRESSES

RIDDLE NAZI AIR FIGHTERS OVER REICH   American-Based Planes in England End a Violent Weekend of Blasting.   Yanks Get in Heavy Licks Over Balkans

U. 5. Fliers Down 102 Enemy Planes  Fortress Stream Over Muenster Sunday

NEWEST RAIDS HIT MUENSTER   102 Enemy Craft Are Shot Down Sunday; American Toll Placed At 32

d2 American Craft Lost in Sunday Raid Into Germany   Foe Has Sacrificed More Than 300 Fighters in 3 Davs

Nazis Lose 300 Planes in Three Days As Yanks Bring Attack to “White Heat’

YANKS BAG 102 GERMAN WARPLANES   Pierce Stubborn Defenses To Hit Vital Centers

OVER 300 IN 3 DAYS   Lose 30 Bombers In Raids On Muenster, Coesfeld; Eaker Says Attacks Are Prelude To Invasion

Yanks Carry Air Attack To New Peak   Down 102 Nazi Planes Of War

Enemy's Loss For 3 Days In Excess OF 300   Sunday Activity Costs  Yanks 30 Bombers, 2  Fighters; Muenster Damage Heavy

Fortresses Hit Muenster And Coesfeld   Bombers and Fighters Down 102 German Fighter Planes

Enemy Loses More Than 300 Ships in Three Days Defending Reich Against Portresses.

DETROIT BOYS FACE MURDER CHARGES   Negro Slain During Recent Street Rioting

MURDER CHARGES FILED   Action Follows Race Rioting in ‘Detroit on June 21

Re eeeEEyEEEEEeeEeEeEeaEaeeEeEEEeEeeeeeeeeeee  20,000 Condemn Miners Strike

NO FURTHER PAPER SLASH BEFORE FALL   Promise Subject To WLB Limitation Orders

LIMITS STAND   Nelson Says Restrictions € Newsprint Won't Chance.

NO NEWSPRINT CUT   No Further Restrictions Planned Before October, Says Nelson

NEWSPRINT QUOTA STABLE TILL FALL   No Further Cut for Third Quarter

Eye TurkoBritish Parley —   Observers -Believe  Turkey May Align Itself More Closely With Allied Powers

Turkey May Turn To Allied Cause   Conference Between British and Turkish Ministers of  Significance.

WATCHING TURKEY   Cairo (Conference May Cause a Change in Coun* try’s War Status

Allies Seek Turk Bases   Cairo Conference May Consider Action Similar To Azores Precedent

CONCESSIONS: BY TURKEY FOR ALLIES SOUGHT   Believed Cairo Conference Between Eden and An~ kara Minister Back drop for Agreement

Lend-Lease Act Goes to House  Floor Today   Measure Calls for Extension of Act Until Next July:  3-Day Debate Set

td-Lease Act ves Fight Over 3t-War Policy   “emand for Assurance “f Use of Air Bases  ‘rouses Controversy .« CONFERENCE  vtay-as-Go Plan Goes .o Full Committee  ™{ the House Today

Lend-Lease Scheduled for Debate on House Floor Today; Changes Possible

LEND-LEASE ACT CONTINUANCE IS ABOUT ASSURED   Both Houses Of Congress Expected To Approve Measure This Week

House Begins Lend-Lease Debate Toda   Factions Determine To Augment Postwar Policies

SPEEDY ACTION ON LEND-LEASE IS ANTICIPATED   All Factions Agree On Necessity; Postwar Aims Likely to Be Included   China Aid Considered

HOUSE TO ACT ON LEND-LEASE   Bill to Reach Floor Today With Dispute Over PostWar Policies Seen

House debate on lend-lease opens today   Controversy expected on amendments

LEND- LEASE BILL . CERTAIN TO PASS   Act to Extend Life tc Reach Floor of House Today

- Lend-Lease Act Reaches House Floor Today as Clash : Over Postwar Foreign Policy Write-ins Forecast

Lend-Lease Act To Reach House Floor Today   Continuance Held Neces sary, but Controversy Is Believed Likely   Tnited States Benefit«

CAPITOL SEES LEND - LEASE’S VOTE VICTORY      iWrite-Ins of Postwar Policies Likely This Week

Successes of  Allies Listed By Churchill   Prime Minister Says Invasion Near ~VTells of Nazi  + ‘ Submarine Losses

Miners May Not Return to AFL      Delayed Action Might Halt Move

ARMY OHIEF OF STAFF’ BATE _ VICTORY BY UNITED NA- . “. TIONS ONLY QUESTION  OF TIMS

JOE HORKEY IS WOUNDED   Remsen Soldier Was Mem: ber of K Company nit

JOE HORKEY ~ IS WOUNDEL   Remsen Soldier Was Mem: - ber of K. Company nt 

Burma Is Scene Hard Fight Now   BRITISH TROOPS BEAT BACK JAP ASSAULT IN INDIA AREA.

LAST HENUTE FLASHES   roint-Blank Artillery. . Fire Forces Japs Back

i  RED CROSS WORKERS WANTED   Nurses Aide Classes Tc Be Started Soon.

Germans Say Swedish Boats Nazis Sunk Were Fishing in Forbidden Skaggerak

- Red-Faced Washington Wears Bumpkin Medal : As Brazen Slicker Sells Biggest Gold Brick

ICROOK MAKES CLEANUP IN U. S. CAPITAL   Hits Pocketbooks Of Credulous Washingtonians For $20,000

YORK WAR PLANT CLOSED BY STRIKE   Union Disgruntled Over War Labor Board Ruling—Company Official Raps Governmental Red Tape

Maryland Draft Boards Reconsider Status of Childless Married Men

BOARDS ARE BUSY. . RE-CLASSIFYING   Childless Married Men to Soon be in Service, Stanwood Acsert<

CHILDLESS MEN SOON INDUCTED   Many In Maryland Will Be In Armed Service By  Next Summer

Churchill Will  Speak Soon On  Invasion Setup To Give Views  On Allied Plans

GET WONDERFUL RELIEF  for Burn and Itch of Simple.  _ P.LL.E-Sit

GET WONDERFUL RELIEF  Por Burn and Itch. of Simple: @   P-LL:B-SUr

GET WONDERFULRELIEF  For Burn and Itch of Simple  pP.j.f .F.G Vt

Soviet Forces Storm Vitebsk Outer Defense:   Moscow Reports German  Tank Offensive In South Sas   NAZIS ADMIT BREACH

NAZIS ADMIT LOSSES TODKY BY RUSSIANS   Tank Offensive Is Stopped By Reds » Near Vitebsk

Berlin Admits New Breaches In Lines After “Heavy Fluctuating Battles”; Moscow Says Most Powerful Nazi Push Was Southwest of Zhiobin.

Russians Storming  Vitebsk   Tank Offensive 1s Stopped Cold In Two Days

BIG GERMAN TANK = OFFENSIVE STOPPLD BY RUSSIAN TROOPS   Outer Defenses’ of Vitebsk Are Being Stormed By Red Baltic Army   BERLIN ADMITS GAINS

Tank Offensive Is Halted by Russian Forces   Breaks in German Line Admitted By Nazi Chiefs

Moscow. Reports Nazi Tank Attack Stopped; Storming’ Vitebsk, Defense

REDS STORMING DEFENSES OF VITEBSK BASE   Great German Tank Attack Halted

SOVIETS SWEEP TOWITHIN42 MILES VITEBSK   Reds Claim Two-Day German ‘Bank Offensive Has Been Stopped In Its Tracks

Nazi Tank Drive An South Russia Reported Halter   Declare Soviets Holding . On All Fronts Despite . Powerful Opposition

CITY OF VITEBSK UNDER ASSAULT   Russians Storming Outer Defenses; German Tank Offensive Stopped Dead.

Russ Smash Major Nazi Tank Drive Red Army Troops Storm  Outer Defenses of Vitebsk  RAIL LINE PERILED  Berlin Admiis Breaches in Lines After Heavy Pichtine

Soviets Halt Tank Attacks  Powerful eS Old  fre....*... wi jy...

Russians Halt Powerful Nazi Tank Offensive   New Breaches in German Lines Near Vitebsk Are Admitted by Enemy   VILLAGES CAPTURED

RUSSIANS LESS THAN 12 MILES FROM VITEBSK   Soviet Lines Still Holding Firm Against Heavy Nazi Tank Attacks

State Quota $100,000,000   Banks Not Permitted To Buy War Bonds This Time

Wheeler Says — It Is No Good   Lacks Force To Deter The Washington Bureaucrats   ALREADY TAKING FATHERS OF NINE

Amphibious Forces Expected To Hit Japs On Kiska Island  Defenses Heavily Blasted In Joint Sea And  Ale Acenult: Dea.Invacian Tactice Ara lead

URGES PROSECUTION OF OUTLAW STRIKERS   Anderson Tells House Outlav Strike Borders Treason

JAPS BOLSTER BURMA FRONT   Strong Resistance Met By British Troops In Akyab Area

JAPS FIGHT IN AKYAB REGION   Suddenly Display Strong Resistance to Advancing British Troops

Thousands of Nipponese Troops. Said to Have Been Sent to Indo-China—Two Armies Battle in Vicinity of Donbaik as Allied Fliers Carry Out New Raids—American Air Strength in Fighting Zone Grows Weekly.

Japs in Burma Stiffen Lines   Several Thousand Troop: Landed in Indo-China To Bolster Enemy

EXPLAINS PLAN OF NEW TAXES   Haw Proposed Income Tax Would Work; Also Proposed Excise Taxes.   WOULD INCREASE RATES

TIME CHANGE 1S DELAYED   GOVERNOR DOESNOT SIGN DILL - BEFORE. LEAVING ‘FOR SPEECH AT. . CHARLESTGN -

OHIO TIME BILL NOT YET SIGNEL   Bricker Goes to Charleston, Not Expected Back Until Tuesday

Irish Will Cast Ballots Tuesday  De Valera. Cosarave   De Valera, Cosgrave Are Candidates

Betting Favors Prime Minister  Irish Decide Tuesday Whether DeValera to Continue in Post

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTEF   (By County-Extension Director)   County Livestock Meeting Eahenuary SRth

COUNTY LIVESTOCK MEETING FEB. 25   Farm Bureau Will Hold Meeting in M. W. A. Hall Thurs.. Feb. 25

FDR Vetoes Farm Parity Bill   ‘MUST CUT STANDARDS OF LIVING FOR DURATION

Move Blocks Big Increase  In Food. Bills   Fight to Prevent Runaway Wages, Prices Promised

CANNOT IMPROVE LIVING STANDARDS “—W WAR-TIME   President In Vetoing Bankhead Farm Parity Bill Stands for Anti-Infla 2 eon

BANKHEAD BILL    TO RIKE PARITY VETOED BY FOR   Plan Termed Inflationary By Chief Executive in Veto Message   MAKES PLAIN INTENTION TO FIGHT INCREASES   We Cannot Improve Standards During Wartime, FDR Declares Today

Roosevelt Vetoes Farm Parity Bill; Blunt Message Given   President Makes Clear His Interition To Wage Fight to Keep Prices Down

Hull Is Praised By Soviet Press   High Appreciation Eynreccsed For Aid

Hull Is Praised By Soviet Press   High Appreciation  Tee a oO! igs

DEMPSEY BEAT HER, MAULER’S WIFE SAYS   Threw Her Against Clothes Closet And Threatened Her With Gun. She Testifiec

WIFE OF DEMPSEY TELLS OF THREATS      Hearing Cut Short When Witness Breaks Into Teors

Jack Tossed Her Around, Mrs. Dempsey Testifies   Former Champ Once Threatened To Shoot Her, Divorce Court Told

Wife Says Dempsey Threatened Life  Accuses Ex-Champ Of Using Gun

POLITICS GET FEMININE EAR; BOUTS START   Major Party Leaders Exchange Verbal Blows

Question Dillon on  Dies Blast   War Relocation Directo Appears Before Sub committee Today

NUMBER KILLED ~ INBONBER GRAS   ONE OF OCCUPANTS PARACHUTES TO SAFETY AS SHIP FALLS IN KANSAS.

ONE FULL-SIZE TAG FOR STATE’S AUTOS   Committee Meets Today To “Suspend State’ Law Requiring 2 Tags

Eisenhower Gives Message to Troops   ALLIED CHIEF COMMANDER SAYS “WAR NOW ENTERING ITS CRUCIAL PHASE”

Eisenhower Speaks To Troops   Tells Them War Now In Crucial Stage

WAR NOW ENTERING CRUCIAL PHASE, GEN. EISENHOWER TELLS HIS TROOPS

BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS HELD   Highway Patrol Nabs Pair Suspected of $12,000 Broken Arrow Holdup

Broken Arrow Bank Robbed   Two Suspects Captured After Exciting Chase; $4000 Is Recovered

Daring Bank Robbery Made In Oklahoma   Burglars Lock Six Men In Vault, Net $17 000

Railway Strike Looms: Alabame Miners Stay Out  WLB Mav Refer   WLB May Refer Coal Dispute To White House

United Mine Workers Try To Stop. Alabama Strike Without Punitive Action

MINE LEADERS TRY TO AVERT COAL DEBACLE   PRODUCTION MUST RESUME MONDAY, WLB WARNS

Warning Issued To Idle Miners  ~ Unions May Face  Punitive Action

Attempt To Get Miners On Jobs  WLB Asks Production Be Resumed Monday

UMW Officers Working Hard fo End Strike   Face Threat That Government Will Again Assume Mine Control

U. 3, SEIZURE OF COAL MINta AGAIN NEARING   Sanctions Against Union Locals May Be Invoked If Walkout Continues

UMW Leaders ’ Seek to Avert Seizure of Mines   WLB Warns Production Must Be Resumed; Vote for Strik

U.M.W. Seeks to End Coal Strike  Rail Dispute Moves Toward Crisis

WLB Demands Alabama Mine Work Resume   Operating Rail Unions Call For Nationwide  Dalian: ... Oo. +1

Union Leaders Strive To End Strike ‘To Prevent Federal Seizure of Mines

fernment Take Over 4 Again   onday Deadline; ail Strike Vote all Decided On

Miners Leaders Urge Strikers To Resume Jobs   WLB Warns Output Must Be Restored In Alabama Monday

STRIKING GOAL MINERS WARNED   POSSIBLE U. 8S. SEIZURE OF SHAFTS SEEN UNLESS MEN GO BACK TO THE PITS.

Tech To Hold Open House Sunday For WAACs Al Camp}.   Music Department\To Present One-Hour Variety Show At 3:30

Maritime — Commission   Senator Makes Seven ‘Charges of Collusion ‘And Mismanagement In Fight on Adm’! Lanc

City Primary Election Will Be Today   Polls io Be Open From 12 Noon Until 7 o’Clock

Lily Primary Election Will Be Today  Polls to Be Open From 12 Noon

Marcus Island Attack Showing Nips Japan No Longer Safe From Allies

:Marcus Island Raid Colorful Warning ‘To Japs Of Big Scale Attacks To Come

Marcus Island Is Highly Important to the Japanese. It Is a Vital Listening Post

The War Today  Marcus Attack Indicates U.S. Planning BigSeale Operations.   By NOLWITT MACKENZIE

WAR ANALYST BELIEVES ATTACK ON MARCUS ISLAND BIT OF WELL AIMED ADVERTISING U. S. NAVY

MARCUS ISLAND ATTACK IS AD OF GROWING U. S, STRENGTH  Assault Doesn’t Mean We Will Open Grand  Offenaivea Immediately

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Temes Raid On Marcus .umphasizes Strength: Built In Pacific

U.S, FLIERS TAKE REVENGE ON JAPS   Army Tells Story of 27th Bombardment Group

MEMORIAL SERVICES AT CAMP CROWDER SUNDAY, MAY 30TH   Public Invited; Post Open From 1:00 P. M. To Dark; Services At 6:15

MEMORIAL SERVICES AT CAMP CROWDER   Public Invited; Post Open From 1:00 P. M. to Dark; Services at 6:10

1 nee be  On Turk Frontier   Predict Explosion in Balkan  Area by Middle of  January.

ALLIES FORGE HUNS BACK 10 NEW ROME LINE   Seven Additional Towns In Italy Fall To Serging Yanks And British   SOVIET CLOSING TRAP   Nazi Leaders Pull Troops Westward As Prongs Of ' Pincers Close

ALLIES TAKE EIGHT TOWNS ON ROME ROAD   Several Extremely Strong Positions in New Nazi Line

GERMANS TAKE STRONGER LINE SOUTH OF ROME   Nazi Reinforcements Pour tr and Hard, Costly Battle Appears Ahead

ALLIED MILITARY LEADERS SPECULATE ON POSS! BILITY GERMANS MAY ATTEMPT MAJOR COUNTER_ OFFENSIVE FROM NEW POSITIONS BEFORE ROME—MANY ENEMY UNITS ON RUSSIAN FRONT REPORTED TRAPPED: —

Impeachment Of  Murchison Seen   Texas Welfare Chief Faces Charges

COMMITTEE URGES IMPEACHMENT CHARGE AGAINST MURCHISON  LEGISLATIVE PROBERS RECOMMEND IMMEDIATE ACTION BY HOUSE

‘Committee's Action Result Of Incuiry   Payroll Items Cited In Recommendation  Of Charges

Duce Places Defense in  Hands of Six   Premier Revamps Staff as Allies Threaten Invasion

Six Marshals Are Named To Defend Italy Mussolini. And King Are Included In  Ulerarchy

Post-War Resolution  Is Adopted   Peace Principle Laid  / Down At Moscow Is .Endorsed In Senate By Vote Of 85 To 5

penate, Adopting Post-War Peace Pledge, Wants To Hear Hull’s Moscow Story

SENATORS ENDORSE “PEACE PRINCIPLE OF MOSCOW CONFERENCE   Move Started To Have Hull Report To Congress On Document   VOTE WAS 85 TO 5

Senate Endorses Moscow Peace Plan;  ‘Hull May Be Asked To Give Address

Senate Vote Backs Moscow Peace Plans   Connally Bill Passes, 85-5; Solons Awaiting First-Hand Report From Sec. Hull

U. S. Senate, Adopting Postwar Peace Pledge, Wants To Hear Moscow Story From Hull Himsel

Endorse Postwar Policy   Senate Vote Is 85 to 5 In Favor of Amended Connally Resolution; Ask Report By Sec. Hull

Senate Votes PostWar Peace Promise;  Wants to Hear Hull   Secretary of State to be Invited to Tell Congress of Meet

SENATE PASSES POST WAR BILL; HULL TO TALK   Bill States War To Be Fought To Finish

Senate Adopts Post-War Pledge For World Peace   Seeks Moscow Storv From Hull

Senators Want Moscow Report  By Hull Himsel:   Chamber Votes 85-To-5 Indorsement Of Postwar Peace Pledoe.

Peace Policy Is Affirmed  hy Senators   Secretary of State May Soon Give Report on Moscow Agreement

OENATE WANTS HEAR SECRETARY HULL IN CONFERENCE STORY  RINGING ENDORSEMENT OF POST-WAR PEACE PRO

Senate Votes 85 to 5 For Postwar Bill   Roll Call Vote Taken at 5:30 P.M. Friday—Hul Report Sought

SENATE WANTS TO HEAR REPORT FROM SECRETARY HULL   Will Ask Him to Address 4 Joint Session of Senate and House.   UPON HIS RETURN HOME   Gathering Would Show the United States Was Interested in Peace Move.

Peace Plans Get Approval Of Senators   Unprecedented Action Voted 85 to 5; Await Report From Hull

Senators Suggest That Hull Make  Complete Report Of Moscow Paet  Before Joint Session Of Congress

Solons Who Endorsed the Moscow Peace Principle’ Want to Hear From Hull

Cennally, Near Close of Debate Asserts Resolution Has in [ ‘Teeth,’ if Needed

WANT HULL TO DISCUSS MEET   Approval of Post-War Resolution Followed By Talk of Meeting.

SENATE SEEKS MOSCOW STORY FROMSEC. HULL   Allied Pact Receives Backing of U. S. Senators By 85 to 5 Vote

SENATE OKAYS MOSCOW PACT: 10 HEAR HULL   Wants State Secretary tc Explain Document Which It Approves By Over. whelming 85-5 Vote.

Senate Okays Moscow Result  Only Five Oppose U. S. Statement On War And Peace Aim<-

STRIKE BILL REDRAFTED BY HOUSE GROUP   Committee considers recommendations to “‘put teeth” in measure

GROUP STUDIES CONNALLY BILL   House Committee Considers ‘Putting Teeth’ In Act

Berlin Is Gloomy Over Reversals   Soviet Army Plunges Through Break On River Line To Capture Railroad Town; Last Line West Endangered

NAZIS FACING GREAT DISASTER ALONG DNIEPER   Debacle Approaching That Of Stalingrad Confronts  German Troons   BERLIN CONCERNED REGARDING OUTCOME

JAPAN OPENING ALL-OUT BLOW ON NEW GUINEP   Foe Planes in Heavy Rai on Milne Bay; Yanks Hit Solomons

CHINESE SWEEP TQ BANKS OF YANGTZE      Allied Air Superiority of 14-to-1 Backs Great Offensive

JAPS THROWN BACK, ICHANG BASE WOBBLY   CHINESE - AMERICAN AIRMEN CONTROL THE SKIES

Chinese Sweep Upon Main Jap Base in Hupeh   14 to 1 Allied Air Superiority Helps Defenders; 4.000 Jap Forces Trapped

CHINESE SIGHT BASE OF IGHANE   American-Chinese Airforce Dominates Skies; Shoot Japanese Planes Down at Rate of 14 to 1

CHINESE TROOPS MENACE BIG JAP BASE OF ICHANG   Push to South Bank of Yangtze—Only That River Separates, Them From  City.   ENEMY FALLING BACK . ALL ALONG FRONT   Allied Airmen Shooting Down Mikado’s Planes. at the Rate of Fourteen  to One. .

MASTERY AIDS CHINESE DRIVE   Japs Driven Back Near Ichang; 4,000 Invaders Trapped

Chinese Armies Sweep Near Main Japan Base Of Ichang  sme cope Bees Mc iy Re   American-Chinese Air Force Dominates Sky To Give Strong Support To Ground Forces

Chiang’s Armies Sweep To South Bank, of Yangtze In Continuing Offensive

SING- YANKS AIRMEN BOWN JAPS, 14 161   Chinese Armies Sweep To Ssuth Bank of Yangtze; Separated From _ Ichang, Only by River   Planes Kill 1500 Japs

American Fliers Aid Chinese in Smashing Blow   Chiang Armies Sweep Foe Back In Terrific Yangtze Drive; Yanks Down Planes, 14 to 1 Score

Sino-American Air Forces  Are Dominant   Ground Forces Get to Bank of Yangize; 4000 Jans Trapped

Chinese Smash On Near Ichang   Jap: Plane Losses Fixed At 14 To 1

Allied Air Force Holds Sky Control   Chinese Armies Sweep Nearer To Jan Main Base.

‘Luckier Than Drawing A Royal Flush’  Gets Nazi Bomber Without Firing Shot

Bomber Downed Without A Shot   > Tulsa Man Relates Strange Encounter.

Gets Bomber. No Shot Fired   Strange Tale Of Yankee And 3 Germans

Japs Losing Fight For Salamaua;  Wewak Hit Again   Enemy Air Force Drubbed Again in New Guinea Battle

TROOPS SMASH JAP ATTEMPTS TO GUARD BASE   Check Counter Blows While Planes Score In New Guinea

INTEND TO USE FRENCH SHIPS   U. S. Will Not Permit Crew Desertions To Frustrate Usefulness.

BIG JOB NOW LicS AHEAD FOR YANKS IN THE PACIFIC   Victory At Guadalcanal Only Scrapes Side of Big Enemvy Holdings.

U.S. FORCES MOP UP SCATTERED JAPS IN SOLOMON _ ISLANDS   Some Of Enemy. Trapped In V-Shaped : Pocket On Northwest Corner Of Island

SURGING SOVIET WITHIN 25 MILES OF CRIMEA GATE   Drive Deep Across Nogais Steppe; Much German g Booty Captured

RESOLUTION MAY BRING POST-WAR ISSUE TO HEAD   House Group Hopes to Force  =Showdown on Collaboraiion

Submarine Is Nazi Bia Hope   U-Boat Chief Is Now Head of Entire German Navy, London Reports

NAZI SUB CHIEF TO DIRECT NAVY   Appointment Leads To Belie! Germans Rely On U-Boats . To Win Victory

FDR PROMISES ATTENTION TO LOCAL PROBLEM   11th District Congressman Goes Straight to White House

New Congressman Puts Plan for Ohio Area Development Up to: President

TRADE PACT MOVE RESULTS IN SPLI   Republican Schism Develops as Solon Reads Letter from Spangler

Spangler Told to Mind Business Republicans Split on Move For Curbs on Trade Pact Plan

VETO PROPOSAL SPLITS UP GOP   Republican Chairman Told To Mind His Own Business

Republicans Split on Move To Give Congress Veto Power on Trade Pacts   Republicans Confer

GOP Splits In Views.on  Trade Pacts   Prospects to Put Over Write-In Amendment Fade

Republicans Disagree on Move to Give Congress Veto Powers Over President’s Reciprocal Trade Pacts

Party Lines Are Broken In Senate   Someone Trying To Get. Political Control Of Defense Organization, Hilker Charges

SSUE 6S VERS WES a ED  The Skyline Interviews Colored Folk of Alpine

More Men Are Killed In This War   Proportion of Killed t Wounded Higher — More Wounded Are Saved

TRUMAN COMMITTEE OTIRS NEW ARGUMENT ON RAYON, COTTON   MERITS OF TWO MATERIALS FOR SYNTHETIC TIRES BASES DEBATED

BRISTLING ARGUMENT DEVELOPS OVER TYPE ‘OF TIRE CORD USED   Truman. Committee. Wants War Department To Stop Using Rayon Cord and Use Cotton

COTTON, RAYON FEUD IS RAGING   Experts Say ‘Latter Better For Making Tires

Cotton Vs. Rayon  Argument Flares  At Any Rate, Army Has Jts Mind Made Up

MANY WITNESS JOHNSON RITES   Hundreds Of Mississippians Attend Funeral Of Governor

Mazis Blame Reverses in Russia on Reds’ Use of Artillery, Allied Supplies

Nazi Apologist Credits Red Success To Supplies from Allies and Artillery

GERMANS ALIBI RED SUCCESSES   Blame Reverses On Soviet Use of Artillery And  Allied Material

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Air War Becomes First Front As Land Armies Riill Remain Idle

JAPS REPORT U. S. WARPLANES HIT GILBERTS   Japanese Still Attempt To Recapture Finschhafen From Australian Troaons.

MARAUDER GET PRAISE WN TESTS   North Africa Combat Gives Bomber Good Tryout.

Keds Only 46 Miles From Nazi-Held City   Soviet Forces Slashing Forward Despite Lengthening Supply Lines; Smash On Rostov Also Unchecked

Axis Defense of Rostov Weakens   Bad Weather Limits Tunisian Air Activity; Bizerte Raided Again

Soviet Armies Advancing : On Kharkov, Anchor Point  ‘(Of German Defense Line

UNITo DUMBANL PANTELLERIA   Continuous Attack On Italy’: Stepping Stone Islands Is Being Maintained

ALLIED NAVY FORCE BLASTS PANTELLERIA   Cairo Might Become Scene Of Future — War Operations

REGIONAL RED CROSS MEETING HELD IN BROOKFIELD MONDAY 0   Mrs. Fristoe, General Field Repre-— sentative Gives interesting Talk On Army Work   OTHER PROMINENT TALKS

nent ees  Shooting Side of War to Be Presented for Butte Miners i in Show to Be Staged in Butte by Picked Army Unit on *Sept. 2 in Recognition of the Mining City’s War Contribution

Shooting Side of War to Be Presented for Butie Miners in Show fo Be Staged in Butte hy Picked Army Unit on ; ‘Sept. 2 in Recognition of the Mining City’s War Contribution

KEY TOWNS ARE TAKEN   Most Decisive Victory Of Campaign Won By Eighth: Americans Push _ Forward Through Moun"tains

mite MADE. AE ALONG FRONT      Americans - Slice Out . New Area of Difficult Mountain Terrain®

GERMAN LINES PIERCED TODAY BY 8TH ARMY   Catania Plains Are Battlefields In  Sicilian War

Capture Four More Towns, U.S. Units Hurl Enemy Back   Sth Army Takes Villages Along East Coast, American Forces Control Vital Highway

Nazis Spreading Fiery ‘Destruction In City As ‘Russians Drive Nearer

VIOLENT BA FOR CITY OF KIEV APPEARS TO BE NEARING CLIMAX   Front Line Dispatches Re. port Struggle Now In Its Decisive Stages.

KIEV STRUGGLE NEARS CLIMAX   Germans Destroying Russia’: Most Beautiful City as They Leave

GRAZING SERVICE SEES MORE MEAT   Huge Increase Forecast Through Efficient Use of Rangelands, Siaughtering

WEST'S MEAT STOCK ABLE TO FEED U.S.   More Efficient Use of Grazing Land Would Increase Meat Production

Use of Wild Game and Horses Suqgested by Grazing Service   -Much Food Would be Available - And Ranges Benefitted Is Claim

Production Of Meat To  Be Increased   152,000,000 Pounds To Be Added Throuch Efficiency

Soldiers Stationed On MSC Campus to Receive Pick-up Hat From City

TANKER VICTIMS. REMOVED TODAY FROM VESSELS   ~ Bodiés “Of. Several. Men, Who: Lost: Lives. Recovered.—Others Being  Hoenttalived

LEGISLATOR BEGIN otoullh NOON TUESUAY   Traditional Fanfare Absent On Eve Of 1943 Opening Of State Legislature

Rumor Spreads In London Generalissimo. Will Meet With Churchill, Roose-  -~ +---yelt-and Stalin   MEET IS IMMINENT, - -REPORTS INDICATE   Promises to Set New High Water Mark In Field of Diplomacy ; Conference  May Be Kept Secret

Big 3 Conference Scares Berlin   Mon. Night’s Air Raid Only a Sample Of Coming Winter

NAZIS GET PRE-VIEW   Berlin Bombing a Tas a Taste of Woe to Come Thru Winter

Terrif ying Sample Of  Future Given   Crushing Bombing Is Alternative To Offer To Nazis To End War

Stevenson to Urge Tires for Farmers  Texans Must Haye Equipment to Move Crops to Market

GOP READY TRADE BILL   eo. Would End Each Pact G Months After War

BASES IN ITALY MAY BE “PRICE”   ‘KNOX HINTS ALLIES MAY DEMAND AREAS, FROM WHICH TO BOMB GERMANY.

MAY ASK BASES IN PEACE DEAL   Mainland Points Would Be Used For Nazi Attacks, Knox Indicates

(ROB DEATH OF DIGNITY   Ration Board Indignant at OPA Request of Morticians

HOLD YOUTH AS DRAFT EVADER   Benton Harbor Boy Claim: He’s Jehovah Witness Minister

Organization Of Supplies Key Factor In Reds’ Sustained Striking Power

Soviet Supply Key Factor In Victory   How They Kept Great Armies in Continuous Action Mystery

COLLECT BOOKS IN VICTORY CAMPAIGN   Junior age Service Corps to Canvass Residential District.

Want Good Books  for the Soldiers   Your Best Book Isn't Too Good for Men in Armed Forces.

LABOR TRUCKING RING OPERATING IN PEMISCOT COUNTY   One Arrest Has Been Made and Officers Are Seeking Others.   WORKERS LEAVE FARMS   Alleged They Are Taken to Northern Industrial Centers.

General Eisenhower's Communique Tells Of Local Advances — By ' American Troops.

BITTEREST BATTLE RAGING IN TUNISIA ON MOUNTAIN PASS   Hardest Battle of the War Is Being Fought Today.   21 MILES WEST OF THE GULF OF TUNIS   Four Axis Ships Sunk in Gulf of Tunis by Allies,

TEXAS HOUSE AND SENATE HELD SHORT SESSION WEDNESDAY   ADJOURNMENT TAKEN TC PERMIT COMMITTEES TO STUDY BILLS

Rationing Books Stolen in Chicago   Permits Taken From Office Safe

BENNETT WILL ~ TESTIFY TODAY   Bench Warrant Issued, But Not Served on A. & M. Colleae Prexy

Bennett, Gilmer Settle Wrangle   Grand Jury Warrant Result of Misunderstanding

Allied Planes Pound Coastline Of New Guinea   Ground. Fighting Near Salamaua le Renewed

ALLIES POUND NEW GUINEA NORTHEAST COAST; SHIPS HIT   MacArthur’s « Fliers — Blast - Airdromes And. Docks  —Ground Forces © Extend Gaing —

Prospect Of Invasion Greater As Duce Bows   War For Italy Might Continue Only Until Peace Can Be Negotiated, Expert Asserts

AEDS ThnUal IN LAST PDH FOR KHARKOV   Germans Jam Only Remaining Railroad in Flight from City.   RUSS CLOSE IN ON NAZI TROOPS IN DONETS VALLEY

SOVIET ARMY SMASHING AXIS   Fall of Urkranian Bastion Appear: Imminent — German Radio Al ready Preparing Listeners for Fal of Kharkov.

LIBERTY SHIP WILL BE LAUNCHED BY WYOMING BOND SALES, IF QUOTA ME”

Mother of 7 Hopes to Fly Until “I’m so Old I Can't Crawl Out of Wheel Chair”

YANKS, BRITISH, CANADIANS HIT GERMAN LINES   Many Axis positions now becoming untenabl. near Catania

HOUSE SETS UP STABILIZATION FUND STRINGS   Approved Bill Forbids Use Of $2 Billion “In Morgenthau’s  Post-War Plan   Authority Extended

RESTRICTION ADDED TO CURRENCY BILL      House Joins Senate in Ex. tending Stabilization « fund

STABILIZATION BILL IS VOTED   House Forbids Use of Fund In International Bank ing Proposai

Fairchild President Says Money Spent Was for . - - - Experiments   COMPLIMENTED ON “MARVELOUS” JOB   Investigation of Plant May be Suspended for Six Month: .

Fairchild Plant To Try Again   Didn’t Know What Kind of Plane They Were Build. ing At First.

Fairchild President Says Money Spent Was for Experiments  COMPLIMENTED ON “MARVELOUS” JOB  Investigation e ‘of Plant May be Suspended for Six Months

JAPS BATTERED IN NEW GUINEA   Allied Planes Drop 206 Tons Of Bombs On Enemy Garrisons

Bombing Raids On New Guinea   206 Tons of Bombs Dropped—Japs Pull Out of Santa Isabel

New Guinea Enemy Bases  Heavily Hit   MacArthur Reports Record Bomb Weight Hurled at Japanese  MORE RARCES STINK

PLANES BLAST AT JAP BASES IN NEW GUINEA   Allies Dr op Record Tonnage of Bombs  On Island

London Pleased With Bombing of ltaly by Yanks   Attack Called Prelude Eliminating Mussolini from the War

Blows Aimed To Shorten World War   Bombing of. Rome First of Series To Hit: Mussolini:

Rome Raiding To Continue Until Italians Surrender   Necessary To Shorten Battle Of Italy And Save Axis As Well As Allied Lives

Rome Bombing Held Necessary   Axis Charges Allies Damaged Church

Capital Diplomatic Observers Expect Important Russian Development to Follow Recall

HALF GALLON BOOST IN GAS RATION SEEN   OPA Chief Predicts Slight Boost in Basic Values   DRIVING ECONOMY URGED BY BOWLES   Says Drivers Must be Very Careful for Two Weeks

Churchill, Stalin may meet   Eastern motorists may get half gallon more per week

OPA May hive East Half-Gallon  More Gas Soon  Mid-West Reminded Other Areas Share Rationed Foods  EASE TAXI MILEAGE   Rureay Manager

HALF GALLON BOOST IN GAS RATION SEEN   OPA Chief Predicts Slight Boost in Basic Values   Says Drivers Must be Very ~_ Careful for Two , Weeks

Pleasure Driving Easement Up To Auto Operators   May Be Lifted September  If Motorists Live Up To OPA Ruling

MORE GASOLINE IS PREDICTED FOR EASTERNERS   OPA Official Helds Out “Hope” For Half A Gal ea erence      MOTORISTS URGED TO CONSERVE OIL

MORE ‘GAS’ IF THEY EARN II   OPA Holds Out ‘Hope’ For Half-Gallon  Ration Boost

OPA Hopes’ You Will Get More Gas September    Two Quarts Extra a Week if You Go Easy until Then   Inventories Are Low

SKI TROOPS  IMPORTANT IN. 3-PRONG DRIVE   Other Forces. Anni: hilate 3,000 Nazis West of Kharkov

SKI TROOPS RACE ONFROZEN FIELDS   Allied Bombers Score Hits On  Four Japanese Vessels   In Solomons,

RUSSIAN SKI TROOPS RACE TOWARD OREL   Other Units Kill 3000 Nazis, Drive Closer to Dnieper

Russ Ski Troops Race Through Blizzard to Lead Drive on Orel   Soviet Infantry Liquidates Large Nazi Garrison in Advance North of Kursk; Guerrillas Swell Red Army Ranks

Milady’s Fashions for F all Are Paraded Before Editors      Much. -Discussed ‘Body Basic” Silhouette Mrs. Amer‘ca Has Been Curious About Previa; Strean aed. VT. ar: lined Style Has No Hint of Skimpiness: Girl  in Full Skirt to Be Back Number

New York’s Fall Fashion Openings Are Something New  Those By Clare McCardell Included Tn  Diternitnece Tee FTunrnét 4] OL TL: K WT...

Wickard Predicts Rationing of Food For Indefinite Period After The War

Wickard Predicts Continuation Of Food Rations  Shortage After War May Be Worse Than at Present

Reds Decide To Abolish Comintern   World Organization Of Workers Is Dropped From Communist Setup   IS CALLED OBSOLETE   Dissolution May Pave Way For Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill Meeting

Yanks Capture ‘Bloody Ridge’   Storming of Ridge Called Epic Battle of Sicily Drive

WUDGE' BATTLE EPIC OF SICILY   Americans Take Hill Bar. ring Advance East Along Coast.   PUSH BACK YANKS TWICE

“BLOODY RIDGE” STORMED AND TAKEN BY U. 5. TROOPS  AMERICANS TAKE ROCK FORTRESS DESPITE TER-

Pvt. Elmer Horton In U. 8. Triumph At Bloody Ridge   Takes Part In Sicilian Action Described By Nazis As One Of War’s Hottest

4.000 MINERS END STOPPAGE   Back-to-Work Movement i: Gaining Momentum As Probe is Pushed

No Longer to Bow to Bureaucrats, He Says at Caucus; National Houses Are to Convene Today

Rayburn Serves Warning on Bureaucrats ©  Declares Congress Now Must  Reaosceart Tiself

NayDuUrn SOUnGS Congress Note Of Independence  Says Legislature Must Reassert Self, Squelch Bureaucrats

Congress Will “Not Bow To Bureaucrats  , Legislative Branch Must Reassert Self  Sm aalar Davwhurn Cav

RAYBURN ASSERTS RULE BY BUREAUS MUST BE. CURBED   Declares People Are Tired of Decrees and Calls Upon Congress to Exercise Its Powers.   STATEMENT MADE ON EVE OF SESSION   Gavels Fall Today With Texan and Martin Nominees of Two Major Parties for Speaker.

Democrats ToShake Ott  Bureaucrats   SPEAKER RAYBURN DECLARES CONGRESS WILL NO LONGER BOW TO DEMANDS OF ITS ROSSES.   Independence Declaration

BUSY SESSION LOOMS AHEAD FOR CONGRESS   HOUSE REPUBLICANS PUT POLITICS IN BACKGROUND

House Speaker Lays Down Law On Bureaucrats   Says They First Must Get Cooperation of Leaders - Before Patiing Bills  On His Desk   Stand Taken on Eve © OF Congress Opening   Rayburn Believed Trying * To Eliminate One Cause: ‘OF Party Friction

Congress Not To Bow To Demands Of ‘Bureaucrats’   Rayburn Leads Demos In “Declaration Of Independence”: New Session Opens Today

STAGE IS SET FOR OPENING ~ NEW SESSION   Blunt Warning Reported Given “Bureaucrats” by Rayburn ‘

Disunily On Domestic  Bills Seen   78th Congress Convenes; FDR To Make Address

Rayburn Serves Warning on Bureaucrats  Declares Congress Now Must  . SS aeemen Cee / eee FC

RUSSIANS CUT OFF RAILWAYS INTO BRYANSK   COLLAPSE OF KEY NAZI POSITION THREATENED

Russians Start Bryansk Assault   Hard-Pressed Nazis Are Nearly Encircled

MILITARY MYSTERY SURROUNDING HIGH U.S. ARMY -HEADS   ‘Careers Of MacArthur And ~ Marshall Subject Of   Much Questioning  —_ Tadav

HINT MARSHALL TO HEAD ALLIED GLOBAL STAFF   MacArthur Dissatisfied

Democrats Charge GOP With Dunlicity   Walker Attacks Hoover's PostWar Cool-Off Plan

Democratic National Chairman Ties Party Policies Up with Peace Aims

WALKER DEFENDS ROOSEVELT AN 0 HIS WAR AIM   Attacks Hoover’s Plea for Cooling Off Period; Democrats Also Go fo Defense of Eddie Flynn

DEMOCRATS ACCUSE GOP OF DUPLICITY   Say Republicans Opposed Flynn To Underming =: Roseveit .

Reds Destroy Last of Foe At Stalingrad   91,000 German Captives Taken, Russians Report

Great Battle Ends in Red Victory   Nazi Resistance at Stalirigrad ) Hopelessly Crushec

RESISTANCE IS STAMPEN) ONT   Special Communique Announces Complete Victory For Reds  Over 330.000 Nazis.

 ihe War f oday—  Hitler’s Guttural Moans Reveal ‘Stunning Shock Of African Debacle

TUNISIAN DEBACLE HAS GIVEN HITLER CASE OF WILLIWAWS   _ Nazi Fuehrer is Moaning  eds of Was,

RECENT EVENTS HAVE PRODUCED REALLY BAD CASE OF WILLIWAWS FOR HITLER AND HIS FOLLOWERS

HITLER APPROVES PLEAS BY FRANCC   Would Like § Stalemate: Franco, Himself, Worried About Spain

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Stalemate Peace Is Sole  ae Left To Hitler Wninks Mackenzie

The War Today   Berlin Jolted by Allies’ Great Coun in North Africa

Army Plane Crash Kills 12 Persons  Explodes While Flying At Low Level

1,200 Nazis Slain Near Kharkov   Reds Believed Preparing for Another Big Blow

Russians Charge From Defense,  Start New Fight   Germans Suffer Heavily as Soviets Strike With New Force, Killing Many, Pracsing Forward on All Major Fronts

REDS CHARGE ON GERMANS, SLAYING 1200   Russian Thrust South Of Bala - kleya Follows Ineffectual German Thrust Against Donets River Line.   Leningrad Shelled

MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN SOVIET CHARGE   Total of 1,200 Casualties Reported in Hand-to- Hand Battle

Capital Press  - Strike Halted   Unions Aeree To Return ‘To W ork: While: Asking  * Boost In Seale

13 Other Nazi Planes Downed In Big Battle   Allied Air Fighters Also Blow Up Axis Destroyer In Attack Off Tunisia; Soviet Artillery Pounds Foe In Caucasus.

SOLONS STRIVE FOR AGREEMENT ON FUND BILLS   Conferees Confer Tuesday To Pave Way For Short Summer Recess   TOTAL QUTLAYS SLICED   Death Knell Of NYA Sounded By Failure To Vote Appropriation

ICKES’ FUNDS TO BE CUT IN AGREED BILL   Conferees to Clear Way for Action on Three Other Measure:

PERU ARRESTS JAPANESE   800 Nips Rounded Up In Campaign  To Deport Whole Colony

GERMAN WAR AREA HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS   Huge Fires Are Kindled In South. western District of Reich.

FREDRICKSHAFEN, NAZI ZEPP BASE, HEAVILY BOMBEL   Long Range Expedition Follows Effective Raid .on - Schneider Arms Plant.

Two Major Victories Scored as Reds Also Retake Voroshilovgrad   Axis Forces Reported Fleeing Kharkov as Russian Troops Advance Within Seven Miles of City; Early Fall of Novorossisk Also Is Expected

Kharkov Tottering, Reds Seize Rostov   Voroshilovgrad Also Taken; Gorman Acknowledge Setback TR Encirclement Grows

Nazis Admit Withdrawal  From Cities   But Claim Soldiers Evacuated Before Fall. Installations Smashed  MALINOVSKY HERO

Airfields Raked By Allied Bombs In Latest Raids  French Newspapers Give Prominence To Alarm Of

SICILIAN PORT SOFTENED UP BY AIR RAIDS   FORTRESSES SMASH PALERMO; DEFENSE FORCES WEAK

U. S. Fortresses Smash Main ‘Sicilian Port at Palermo ‘As Invasion Thrust Nears

New Debris Spread In Palermo’s Ruins   'Unrelenting Prelude To Invasion Goes On: Axis Alarmed At Her Vigtnerabiliz,

Flying Forts Hit Palerme Another Hard Blow, Find Little Opposition

Palermo Pounded By Bombs   Little Oppositior Encountered  » By Yanks

PALERMO BOMBED: FEW PLANES RISE TO DEFEND PORT   Americans Smash Storage Depots and Barracks in City—Rake 4 Airfields in Sicily.   MESSINA BLASTED BY BRITISH AIRMEN   Axis Believed Holding Back Aircraft for Big Splurge When and If Allies Invade Mainland.

Sicilian Port Pounded In Steady Softening For Allied Invasion  ALLIES CONTINUE . TO HOLD INITIATIVE  Newspapers in France And Radio Disclose Growing Axis Jitters

Americans Hit at Sicilian Port of Palerm«   Flying Fortresses Spread New Debris Among the Island Capital's Storage Depots: Rake Four Airfields

PALERMO SMASHED BY ALLIED AIRMEN      New Debris Is Spread Amid Depots and Barracks 

FLYING FORTS SMASH PORT OF PALERMO   Sicilian City Smashed Again It Unrelenting Aerial Prelude To Trans - Mediterranean  Amphibious Operations   French Jittery

Sicily Is Given New, Harsh  Aerial Attack   Port of Palerma Is Struck; Soldiers Prepare for One of Greatest Fights in History: Axis Fear Grows

U.S. Bombers Hit Palermo,  Sicilian Port   Yanks Spread New Debris Amid Island Capital's Storage Depots And : Barracks: Rake Airfields

FLYING FORTRESSES SMASH SICILIAN PORT OF PALERMC   Americans Meet with Liftle 0  facks on Italian Positi

FSA Farmers Of Victoria to Aid Program   Gigantic War Crop Production Effort Goal of FSA Group

GRAGKDOWN ON: _DRAFT-REPORTS   ALL “DELINQUENTS” TO. BE » PLACED 1-A' ON FIRST OF — NEXT MONTEL, HEAD:. QUARTERS ORDERS

§ Threatened But Didn't Quit the OPA   Lawyers and Economists Took the Play Away From Them

Members Of — OPA Staff To Give Up Jobs   Prentiss Brown Admits Some Disagreement But Denies Any Plans For Mass Resignations

Park Land Titles Being Reviewed   PAPERS WILL SOON BE READY FOR PRESENTATION TO SECRETARY ICKES

MINERS WILL GET $1.50 MORE A DAY, RETURN 10 108   Lunch Period Is Cut.15 Min utes—Coai Piles At Low Eh

$1.50 Wage Boost Ends Mine Tieup   Appalachian Coal Operators. Denounce Agreement Principles

Yanks Sink 14 Jap Ships in 15-Minute Sea Fight   Nipponese Lose Entire Fleet in Hot Naval Action Off Solomon Islands

Conference Will Also Include W.L. MacKenzie King, Canadian Minister

Winston Churchill In Canada for War Conferences   Premier and President Will Confer Later For Separate Confabs

PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND WITH WIFE AND DAUGHTER ARE NOW IN  QUEBEC WITH CANADA’S PRIME MINISTER,

Canada Is Visited By Winnie   Prime Minister, Roosevelt Parley Date Not Yet Set

10 BE HELD WH FDR.   Top Military and Naval   Men of Two Nations   Also Will Meet to Help Map Strategy.   BRITISHER TO SEE" MACKENZIE KING   Prime Minister Accompanied by Wife and Daughter—Russia Not to Take Partin Parleys.

ALLIED CHIEFS TO PLAN NEW BLOW AT AXIS   PRIME MINISTER TO MEET ROOSEVELT IN FEW DAYS

Strategic Conferences  On Schedule   Churchill, Roosevelt And King To Further Plans for Offensives  RAD SIGN FOR AXIS

Invasion of Continent Leading Question Mark   lime And Place Of Meetings Cannot Be Giver Out; High Military Advisers Will Be With Allied Chiefs

Allied Chiefs Map Strategy  Churchill In Canada, Plans  --Conference With Roosevelt

Strategic Talks to be Held With Army and Navy Chiefs  BRIEF STATEMENT  ISSUED IN CANADA  Pattern for New Global. Offensives to be ° Perfected

Will Confer Leter With The President   Meeting Expected In Washington Will 8e Fourth Of Allied Lead ers Durine War Time

Briton to See I. D. After He  Consults King   Where, When Invasion Of Europe to Start  Big Question; Russia Not Represented

Churchill Arrives for War Conference With Roosevelt And Prime Minister of Canad.

WITH CANADIAN » PRIME MINISTER   He Will Also Confer With President Roosevelt   AT UNDISCLOSED   Time and Place; Russia Will Not Be Represented at The Parleys

British Prime Minister With Chief Military Advisers in Quebec, Talks With Canada Leaders

Prime Minister And War Chiefs Now in Canada   Strategy Parleys Planned as War Pace Quickens

Winston Churchill In Canada for War Conferences   Premier and Presiden     Will Confer Later

British Prime Minister In Quebec Prior To Anglo American Talks   RUSSIANS WILL NOT BE AT CONFERENCES

Expects To Perfect Pattern for Global Offensives in Conferences with Prime Minister, King and Roosevelt; Wife and Daughter with Him.

No Chance For Pact In South   Southern Operators De clare It Is Impossible Te Reach Agreement  Within Month.

Hope Rationing Stops Hoarders   Supplies Said Still Scant in Many Areas

jonsumers View eat Rationing ith Optimism  See Chance to Get Their Share, Thwart The Greedy Hoarders  MAY BE SCANTY  Some Areas Short;  Grumbling Likely If No Meat for Tickets

CONGRESS IN FOR ANOTHER ARMY FIGHT   DADS DRAFT WILL FORCE DEBATE OVER SIZE OF — ARMED FORCES.   Wheeler Indignant   Says He's Requesting Congress Be Called Back Early to Stop Draft.

Congi es ‘s Is Expected to Demand New Revision of Size of the Armed Forces.

FAGE NEW FIGHT OVER ARMY SIZE   Congress Asked to Bioc! Orders for Drafting Fathers

DISPUTE OVER SIZE OF ARMY LOOMS AGAIN   PROPOSED DRAFTING OF FATHERS EXPECTED TO LEAD TO ANOTHER  ” CONTROVERBY IN. _. CONGRESS

DRAFT OF DADS MAJOR ISSUE IN CONGRESS   May Create Uproar Over Size of U.S. Armed Forces

Rail Unions Draft New Prcposals —   a. = — eee  ~ Counter-Proposal 16 Contain Four meic Peavicinne

Rail Unions Draft New Proposals   Counter-Proposal To Contain Four Basic Provisions

House Tables School Bill By Senate   No Further Effort to Pass Measure This  Session Seen

Naval Battle in Aleutians March 2b Disclosed   Three Japanese ' Cruisers Are.  Damaged »;

Inree Japanese Cruisers Hit By U, §. Patrol Unit   Admiral McMorriss, Com mander Of The San Fran cisco, Leads Attack = *

NAVY REPORTS MARCH BATTLE OFF ALEUTIANS   u. S. Patrol Routed Superior Naval Force Attempting to Supply Bases

eh WIS Se Sea ee ee ee ye eee  Passenger, Freight Trains Collide

SUSTAINED AIR WAR ON JAPAN SEEN AS PLAN   Aleutians Within New, Big Bomber Range of Tokyo—Russian Aid Believed Sought 

Aerial Drive Against Japan Seen Objective Of Aleutians Campaign   Mighty New Bomber Of Army Air Force May Strike Across North Pacific This Summer At Tokvo Itself.

Aleutians Campaign May Develop Mighty Air Offensive Against Japs

SUSTAINED AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN OBJECTIVE  THIS IS SEEN AS ULTIMAT: ORIECTIVE OF ALEUTIAN

MR. OFFENSIVE ~ ALLIED GOAL   Aleutians’ Capture Provides Base For Air Force Operations

Foreseen as Ultimate Ob jective of Current Amer- ’  ~ ican Campaign*in--.~ Aleutians   PROVIDES BASES   Provide Means for Mighty New Bombers to Strike. at Heart-of Enemy's: - Empire:

GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE. PREDICTED   Aleutians Campaign Seen Forerunner To Bombing Of Japan

Aleutian Offensive Seen As Start Of Sustained Bombings Against Japanese

AIRPLANE CRASH FATAL 10 TEN   Big Ship Noses Straight Into Ground Near Nashville, Tenn

Airliner Crashes  In Tennessee   10 Killed; Cause Of Tragedy Unknown

Ten Persons Die in Plane Crash  Tennessee Official Is Among Dead

ems Back Saddle  1 House   Reseuc Dempsey Appiilinent Measure fier Earlier Defeat

Burma Area May Become Major  Theatre OF War   (sen. Covell Arrives To Command Supply Services. Burma Gets Jicaviest Aerial <Assoult Vet. ° 

Burma Area May Become Major  Theatre Of War   Gen. Covell Arrives Tc Command Supply Ser. vices. Burma Gets Heaviest Acrial As. sault Yet.

SEES “POLITICAL ROLLBACK’   Says China, Burma, India Important Theaters of War

CAFE PRICES TO BE CONTROLLEL   OPA Strugging With Prob: lem: Freeze Possible

Chinese Report “Total Of 40,000 - Jap. Casualties   Berlin Claims Nipponese Prepare For Expected American Air Attack

Reports 40,000 Jap Casualties  Battle Of Changteh Costly For Enemy

40,000 Troops Lost In Battle   Jap Casualties Heavy In Bitter Fight. For City Of -Chaneteh

Legislature: Prepares to End Session   Deadlocks Delay Finish; Wind-up Expected Today

Adjournment Is Delayed By School Aid Bill   Legislature Tries To Wind Up Work in Today's Session

State Will Have Enough, Without Calling Fathers Until After October 

New Subsidy Measure Is Introduced   Taft Bill Would Prohibit Payments On Meat, Butter

Martin Offers $4.72,457,692 State Budget  Calls for Bond Issue Of 50 to 100 Million For Post-War Work  URGES TAX SLASH OF $41,600,000  Would Drop Four-Mill And Mercantile Taxes, Shift Aid to Counties

NAZI WHINING GROWS LOUDER   Goebbels Calls U. S., Britain Vandals For Turning Tables In Aerial Warfare.

Nazis, Cringing Under Aerial Blows, Try New Propaganda To Stir German Hate

AMERICANS CALLED VANDALS BY NAZI PROPAGANDA BOSS TO AROUSE HATE OF GERMANS

German Rant: over Terror  Left by Allies   Goebbels Says Americans Are Cultural Vandals for Destroving Art Works

STIRRING GERMAN HATE AND AROUSING WORLD SYMPATHY NEW NAZI PROPAGANDE

PICK THE HURLERS   Lanier Will Oppose Chand. ler in World Series Opening Game

8 BICYCLES IS HUMBOLDT COUNTYQUOTA   Only 1 Car and 1 Bicycle Issued During December

FARM DEFERMENT FIGHT   Senate Fight Over Bankhead Bill Likely Next Week

CHAIRMAN TRUMAN IS OPPOSED 10 THE BANKHEAD BILI   Announces He Will Take the Floor Against the Measure.   MAY VOTE NEXT WEEK   Some Form of Draft Deferment for Farm Workers Is Seen.

SENATE HEADS FOR © DRAFT DEFERMENTS FOR FARMERS   Action Expected Next Week on, Some Plan to Defer Farmers From Draft

See Senate Approval of Draft Plan   Farm Help Deferment Expected to Pass Next Week

Better Outlook on Food Supply   War Food Administration Gives Picture

MOST MAJOR FOOD. ITEMS WILL BE IN GROCERIES— COFFEE RATIONING 18 ENDED

WEA PROMISES AUGUST BETTER FOR SHOPPERS   Forecast is fair supply of milk and butter and “too many spuds”

PLENTIFUL FOOD SUPPLY IS SEEN   Coffee Rationing Is Terminated; Early Boost. In Sugar Allowance Forecast

ALLIES COUNT ON AIR SUPERIORITY   BY LOUIS F, KEEMLE United Press War Analyst  {Rae FF &@ Wut SbeStanmt

D.AR TO HAVE A CARD PARTY   At The Penn-Wells Hotel ‘For Benefit Of Patriotic Fund.

ALLIED PLANES HIT AXIS ESCAPE LINES   Heaviest Air A ‘Attack Was In Randazzo Area. — Traffic Jammed 

Planes Hit Axis  Communications   Supply Columns, Small Boats Allied Targets

b Die Violently Over Week End   Family Burns To Death When House Catches On Fire; Another Killed In Auto Accident.

DIVORCE AWARDED TO JACK DEMPSEY   Infidelity Proved Beyond Doubt, Court Referee Savs

Invite Sparks To ‘Tell On Willkie   GOP Congressmen Want To Hear Former Xenian’s Story

Interoreting  The War   February Can Speil Beginning of Hitler’s Doom

WENDELL = WILLKIE CRITICIZES PARLAY   Says He Regrets That Other Allies Were. Not In Africa

Pilgrims Throng Holy Land to See Christ's Birth Re-Enacted   Most Visitors in Allied Battle Dress, Watch Pageant Reaffirming Christian Principles

President Warns CIO Members That Job Freezing ls Imminent In Nation

Feet Frozen, Foodless For 3 Days, 210 Yanks Help Dislodgse Enemy

Germany’s Routes Into Italy Being Damaged by British Fleets — ‘Large Forces of Bombers Hitting - Enemy Shipping and Airfields.

Roosevelt Under Fire  In Congress   Legislators Seek Voice in Allied Post-War Plans

Navy Loses Sub Due To Accident   R-12, One of Oldest Boats, Sinks Off Coast

Loss Of Sub Off East Coast  Is Announced   Navy’s R-14, One Of Oldest In Service, Is Victim Of Accident During Maneuvers

U. S. Sub Lost Due to Accident   Mishap Occurs in Training Maneuvers

Wipe Out Nazi Gain  In Tunisia   MEANWHILE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY MOVES INTO POSITION FOR A NEW ASSAULT

HONMTEL SEVES NPORTANT PASS FROM, S. UNITS   Germans Lose Many Tanks In Tough Battle   AXIS GAMBLING ON BEATING ALLIED PUNCH

LOST GROUND IS REGAINED BY AMERICANS   Counter-attack by U. S. Troops Sends Rommel Back to Starting Line.

ROMMEL’S DRIVE TO TAKE POSITIONS OF -AMERICANS HALTED   British Eighth. Army Moves  Position For Assault. On -Passageway. Flanking -Mareth Line ~~  Into

PLUNGE THRU TUNISIAN PASS THROWN BACK   British Move Into Position For Assault On Mareth Line Corridor   TANK FORMATION ROUTED   Ailied Planes Ignore Bad Weather To Strike Axis Communications

Touhy Gang Member Taken to Alcatraz   Basil Bankhart Arrives in S. F.

U.S. 8TH AIR FORCE AGAIN-IN DAYLIGHT RAID ON GERMANY   RYT LETIN

RAF BOMBERS ATTACK MUNICH BIRTHPLACE OF NAZI-DOM, IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL CITY

BRIDGES ASKS FOR WITNESSES   Senator Demands That 34 Testily In Flyvon Hearing.

1 NAZI ATTACKS AL REPELLED BY AMERICANS   Defense Line Holds Firmly Repulsing Two Sharp German Efforts

NAZIS THRUST PARRIED OFF BY AMERICANS   British Eighth Army _ Big Guns Soften Mareth Line

‘HOLD LINES. “IN TUNISIA   Yanks Dig Into New Line In Spite Of Nazi Thrusts

DEFENSE IS SET DESPITE AXIS THRUSTS   British Swing Into Position to Flank Long Mareth Line

Allies Squeeze Enemy in South   British Prepare to Flank Mareth Line

Yank Forces Dig Into New Position   British Eighth Army Squeezing Enemy From South And Preparina To Flank Mareth Line

EIGHTH ARM IN PLAGE FOR: FLANK ATTACK   Alexander Now in Tunisia to Take Charge of Allied Land Forces. °   AMERICANS DIG IN  ON NEW CENTRAL LINE

OMER BROKUS MM SUCCEED. FRANK BAUER   Commissioners Found ‘Man ‘in Quick Time and Prei> vented Squabble,   WILL TAKE POST SOON   Additional Bids Were Con sidered iby Board Mon... day. Afternoon. :

OMER BRUKUD WILL SUCCEED RANK BAUER   Commissioners Found Man in Quick Time and Prevented Squabble,   WILL TAKE POST SOON   Additional Bids Were Ccn sidered by Board Monday Afternoon.

REPORTS NEW NAZI ARRESTS   Swedish Paper Says Luther. Fhyesen “Ield In Germanv.

Luuier’s Arrest By Nazis Reported   In ‘Protective’ Custody, Stockholm Hears

AUTO FIRM FIGHTS FOREMAN'S UNION   General Motors Fears It Will Cause Industrial Anarchy.

WAR FOREMEN UNIONS BARRED IN HOUSE BILL      Introduced Shortly After Receiving Protest From ‘General Motors President   BEING STUDIED   Fear Expressed Such Unions Would Interfere * With Fiow of War . Products

Congress Gets Bill To Bar Union Foremen   General Motors’ President’s Pratest Gets Action

HIGHER PROFITS OR WAR PLANTS RECOMMENDED   Truman Committee Wants lo Pay Bonuses For Increased Efficiency

‘SPREAD FOOD PURCHASE OVER END OF MONTH   OPA asks housewives tc avoid last minute market rush

Million People Made Homeles: By RAF Raids   British Air Chief Reveals Tremendous Losses. Of Reich

4.000 Plants Gone; Million Out of Homes   RED ARMIES HAMMERING NAZIS BACK AFTER THEIR LOSSES.

MILLIONS ARE HOMELESS IN NAZI CITIES   Towns in Eastern Germany Over flowing as Result of Evacuation From Bombed Cities

1943 FOOTBALL “SCHEDULEIS ANNOUNCED         Athletics Manager Albert E. Robinson Lists Grid Games; Play Hudson at Night -

RED CROSS WORK IS ACCELERATEL   Various Activities Chair men Report Quickening Interest

Red Cross War Time Services Here Are Now Being Widely Extended   Assistance To Service Men And Their Families Exvandins

LIQUOR SALES ABUSES PROBED   Inquiry Ordered After Back Door Business Is Uncovered In Cleveland

DUKA HITLER SNUCK TROOPS FLEE FOR LIVES   British Advance Shuts Trao On Enemy, Cuts His Force Into Two Seqments

 DEATH RATTLE ‘OF AXIS IN — TUNISIA HEARD   Nazis On Way To Defeat  In Caucasus

Germans Ask Armistice In Zaghouan Area   Nearly 100,000 Are Prisoners As Organized Fighting Approaches End

GERMANS ARE SURRENDERING ON CAP BON   Enemy Forces Caught In Zaghouan Mountain Sector Still Fighting.   BULLETIN

Enemy Troops Cut Off On Cap Bon Peninsula   Prisoners Approach 100,000; Rest of Axis Forces. Trapped, Demoralized

Nazi Balkan Satellites Seek Way Out   Bulgaria Reported in Throes 0: Political Crisis

Panicky Balkans Squirm: Satellite Nations Seeking Way Out As Peace Demonstrations Increase

SATELLITES IN BALKANS SHOW DESIRE TO QUIT   Bulgaria, Rumania Shaken By Disturbances, Fear Of Continued Air Raids

HITLER STOOGES SEEK WAY OUT   Bulgaria Faces Crisis; Panicky Rumanians Leaving Cities

Mid-Pacific Island Is Left Blazing From Low-Level  Attack; Jap Airmen Hit At Tarawa And Makin

MARRIAGE RATE DROPS IN OHIO   Due To War, Expect Lower Number of Births in 1943

Chairman Nelson in Interview   Production Chief Says Lit tle More Can Be Trim med from Public

NO FURTHER TRIMMING   Nelsen Believes Civilian Economy Can Stand No More

Soviets Have Now Slowed Down the Pace of Advance.  NAZIS ABANDONED TOWN OF TAMAN  Which Is Their Last Garrison on the Taman Peninsula.

REDS CONTINUE ADVANCE DESPITE DESPERATE NAZI RESISTANCE   Soviet Armies Draw Closer To Important Base Of Gomel.

LIGHTNING HITS PLANE: 5 KILLED   Exact Number Aboard Unknown After Tragedy at fowa Farm stg

A Lightning Bolt  Hits Plane, 5 Die   Army Craft in Flames Crash. ed Near Mason City, lowa.

PREVIOUSLY UNDISTURBED AREA BLASTED   Fly Record Distance From Middle East; Final Battle For Italy Appears To Be Taking Shape

CHILD WAS ELECTROCUTED   Three-Year-Old- Lad‘ Touched ; Broken Wicht Socket .

CHILD WAS ELECTROCUTED   Three-Year-Old Lad Touched a  Broken Light Socket

Huge Group Of British Bombers Crosses Dover   Fleet Takes 75 Minutes In Passage; German Raiders Attack Two Towns.

OPA Puts Curb On Retail, . : Wholesale. Truck. Deliveries   Bans Delivery Of Any Package Weighing Less Than 5 Pounds; Cuts Some Delivries To Once A Week

EXTEND CURBS ON DELIVERIES      Limited Wholesale and Retail Deliveries by Truckers

Delivery Truck Service Will Be Limited, Now   ODT restricts the frequency of trips, effective October Il: sets weight minimum. 

Sharp Curtailment In Delivery  Services Ordered .   Wholesale and Retail Schedules Are Cut Effective on Oct. IT

ODT Extends Cur! On Deliveries  To All Nation  New Restrictions   New Restrictions Will Become Effective Oct. 11

ODT Curtailment On Deliveries To Be Nationwide   Restrictions Now in Effect in East Will Be Extended on October 11

CUT ORDERED IN DELIVERIES   ODT Exteads East’s Truck Ban to Cover Nation on Oct. 11

Orders Drastic Cut In All Retail, — Wholesale Truck Delivery Services

CUT IS CRDERED IN TRUCK DELIVERIES   Entire Nation to be Put Under Restriction by ' the ODT

TRUCK DELIVERIES TO BE CURTAILED   RESTRICTIONS AFFECTING RETAIL, WHOLESALE FIRMS ‘EFFECTIVE OCT. 11.

Delivery Service Order Curtailed  Retail, Wholesale Trucks Affected

Business Firms Cut Deliveries   Orders Given to Conserve Gasoline and Rubber for All Business Firms

New Delivery Restrictions In Force Now   Shoppers: Must Carry Own Packages Weighing. Less . ‘Than Five Pounds    NUMBER OF TRIPS CUT DRASTICALLY   Three a.Week Is Maximum ~~ on Bread, Meat and sVecetabl

Ten More Dutch Patriots Are Executed By Gestapo To Bring Month's Toll To 64

Alaska Road Builders Eat : Well, But Oh How They Pay!   With Money In Their Pants Pockets, They Never .. dele the Price. ss

Alaska Road: Builders Eat Well, But Oh How They Pay!   With Money In Their Pants Pockets, They Never — ow Ale the Price... oo.

New Storm Clouds Gathering Over Hitler’s Faltering Empire.   23 ITALIAN TOWNS TAKEN BY 5TH ARMY   Our Armies Continue to Hack Way Up Italian Peninsula.

American tons soolevie  ttle For Jugoe  For First Time Sined Start Of War.

HANNOVER GETS ANOTHER VISIT FROM THE RAE   GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CTTY 1S BLASTED WITH BIG BLOCKBUSTERS AND MANY FIRES WERE STARTED.   MOSQUITO BOMBERS ALSO BLASTED BERLIN   Predicted Allies Will Invade Balkans Within a Few Months and Big Push Will Be Launched on Channel Front Next Year,

STANDARD TIME IS FAVORED BY HOUSE   Lawmakers Are Told Such - a Change Is Uncon- © stitutional   ISIGNED BY 67 MEMBERS

House Votes To Go Back To Old Time   Action Is Taken Despite Ruling It Is Unconstitutional   State Cannot Change The Act Of Congress   Farmer Legislators Insist On Passage And Resent Ridicule

House Passes Time Bill   Would Return State To Sun Time; Said to Be Unconstitutional

STANDARD TIME IS FAVORED BY HOUSE   Lawmakers Are Told Such  a Change Is Unconstitutional

Committee "roes Crude Price Raise   Want Ceilings Ata Level To Encourage  Production

5 Per Cent Victory Tax in Effect, Revenue Bureau Chief Rules   Levy to Apply on Pay Rolls Not Ready Before 12 o’Clock

‘Surface Ships, Planes Sink Many Escape Boats; 25,000 More Prisoners Taken:

GERMANS WAGING HOPELESS FIGHT FROM TRENCHES   Many Killed Attempting to Escape in Boats — Allies  Trying to Seal Off Lintrance to Peninsula.   RiITLTETIA.

FLOOD PLUNGES ON DOWN OHIO VALLEY   River Cities Prepare for Crests Which Threaten  * Damage

Portsmouth Prepares for Flood Crest   Heavy Property Loss Anticipated In Steel District

PORTSMOUTH TO FACE FLOODS   Braces for Expected Crest on Saturday

Soldiers Ratrol Portsmouth As City Prepares To Weather ~. Crest Of Olfio River’s Flood

THOUSANDS IN OnIO VALLEY ARE HOMELESS   City Of Portsmouth ; Braced Against Flood Crest   FLOOD TAKES 2 LIVES   About 20,000 Flee From Homes In West Virginia

FLOOD PLUNGES ON DOWN OHIO VALLEY   River Cities Prepare for Crests Which Threaten  * Damage   A DROP AT WHEELING

Flood Crest Nears City   Portsmouth, O. Braces Itself to Meet Crisis; Soldiers Helping

Senalor Taft Attacks OWI  oT mmat   Says Lapel Buttons 4th Term Propaganda

Miss Ruth ‘Pontefract, ‘Na. tive of England, Lived Here Many Years.

dle RESIDEN! : DIED AT-AGE “OF 90 YEAR’            Miss Ruth Pontefract, Native of England, Lived Here Many Years

__—_ SPECIAL NOTICE—— Address Your Answer Form to — COMMUNITY SURVEY aw nare nf this newspaver   eaavve VALI VICITED THE SMITHS?

Miss Marie Linster Reported For Duty Today At Mc- © Cov. Wiec, ;

‘KBI HAS KEPT BUSY   1 Officers Have Conduct Conducted 716 Major Investigations

‘KBI HAS KEPT BUSY    Officers Have Conducted 716 Major  Investigations

NATIONAL SECURITY IS NO.  BUSINESS WALLACE DECLARES   Vice-President Fears Another Wor Unless Western Democracies and Russia Come to Satisfactory Understanding Before War 2 Ends -

Air Operations Over the Tunisian Theater on <xtensive Scale.  GROUND TROOPS ON PATROL SKIRMISHES  Two German Supply Ships Are Sunk Off Tunisian Coast.

ALLIES GATHER STRENGTH FOR NEW TUNISIAN DRIVES   Attack On Convoy Nets 31 Axis Planes Destroyed

Seek To Prevent Continued Draft Of Married Men   Believe Entire Subject Of Selective Service May Be Reopened Shortly

House Group May Conduct Draft Study   Ban Against Taking Married Men While Others Are Available Considered

MAY REARRANGE DRAFT PROGRAM IN NEAR FUTURE   Prevent Calling of Married Men While Single Men are Available

May Open Whole Selective Service SubjectIn Congress   New Move Would Give War Department Draft Supervision   Wider Collection of Taxes At Source Advocated By Leaders

CHANGES IN DRAFT LAW PROPOSED 10 DEFER MARRIED MEN   System Also May Be Taken From WMC and Placed in War Department

Whole Subject of Selective Service Before Committee   House Body May Draft Some Changes in Law of Own Volition

Congress“May Act On  Draft Law Revision   “ovement Launched To Give Supervision To War Department, Prevent Drafting Of Married Men While Eligible Single Men Are Available

Draftee Service Again   Would Give All Supervision to War Department

DRAFT PLAR MAY BE NEXT FOR REVIEW   House Military Affairs Committee Is Considertng Revision.   MARRIED MEN MAY - GET DRAFT DELAY   Chairman Thinks Single - Men Should All Be Taken First.

House To Propose Changes In Draft   _ Texan's Bill Would Forbd Call Of Married Men While Single Registrants Are Left In State 

Consider Move To Prevent Drafting Of Married Men ‘When Others Are Available

Stimson May Get Control Of Drafting   Proposal To Put Sel ective Service Under War Office “Control Considered

Consider Move For A Revision  Of Draft Laws   May Ban Induction Ot Husbands While Single Men Available.

HOUSE COMMITTEE MAY SEEK REVISION OF DRAFT LAW   Would Call No Married Men ‘While Single Men Are Available

REVISIONS IN SERVICE PLAN ARE FAVORED   Chairman May Expects Committee to Offer Changed Program

Change In Draft Law Considered   House Group Studying Plans For Revision

Mark Entire Draft Setup lor Restudy   House Military Affairs Com: mittee Has Suggestions For Several Changes.   VIEW MANY PROPOSALS

SELECTIVE SERVICE MAY BE REOPENED TO GIVE ARMY CONTROL   SEEK PREVENT DRAFTING MARRIED MEN WHEN SINGLE MEN AVAILABLE

FOR DRAFT CHANGE   Kentucky Democrat May Reopen Selective Service Subject

DRAFT QUESTION MAY BE OPENED AGAIN IN HOUSE   MILITARY CHAIRMAN WOULD GIVE POWER TO WAR DEPARTMENT

CLAIM FAULTY. MATERIAL PUT IN WARPLANES   Serious Charge Made Against Curtiss-Wright Co. in: Truman Report.   CORPORATION PRESIDENT ISSUES TIMED DENIAL

BIG PLANE CORPORATION IS ACCUSED   Say’ Curtis-Wright Equipment Was Defective

Truman Report Charges Curtiss-Wright Aireraft Corporation. With Fraud   Claim Defective Equipment Is Sold . Te Government; Military Authorities Scored for Buvine Obsolete Planec -

AIRCRAFT FIRM FACING CHARGE   Truman Unit Says Defective Equipment Sold U. S.

Plane Plant Under Fire By Truman   Curtiss-Wright is Accused of Selling Poor Equipment

Regains Savings Taken By Girl Who Jilted Him   Newspaper Aids Staff Sercoeant

PROMItS BLOWS ON BATTLEFIELD: UF QUA CHOOSINE   Representatives Of Alhed Powers Hear Statement vom Roosevelt

Roosevelt Faces Deadline on Veto      President on Spot In Strike Situation

MORGENTHAU WANTS LITTLE FELLOWS TO MAKE BETTER SHOWING   On Treasury’s Second War Loan Drive. 75 Pct. of Goal Reached In First Week.

Glamor Actress Asks Annulment   Lana Turner, Expectant Mo ther, Says Mate’s Divorce Not Final.

Capito’ Police Have Busy Day—      Congress Greets Roeoseveli, Party

OFFERS NEW FARM PARITY FORMULA      Thomos Calls Present Sys: tem Based on Horseand-Buaay Doys

HOLD OPEN MEETING   League of Women Voters Discuss the Foreign Policy

Support Grows For Extension Of Lend, Lease   House Committee Will Approve Bill To Renew Powers

CONTI NUANCE QF LEASE-LEND SEEMS CERTAIN   Associated Press Poll of House Committee Membership Shows Approval Looms   EXPIRES JUNE 30   Only Two Members of Group Decline to Comment; Newcomers Favor Continuance

Lend-Lease Bill Will Be Extended   Poll of the Committee Show: Practically All in Favor of Movement.

POLL FAVORS RENEWAL OF LEASE-LEND   House Committee Likely To Approve Extending Program

House Foreign Affairs Group Expected To Approve Renewal of Administration’ 5  Authority fo Extend Lend-Lease Aid

Lend-Lease Aid Extension Asked By House Group   No Opposition To Move Qn Which Final Action Is. Exnected By Anril

LEASE LEND TO. GET APPROVAL   Republicans and Democrats to Join In Extending Authority

SURVEY LEASE-LEND 10 BE CONTINUED   Foreign Affairs Committee Will Give Approval

EXPECT LENDLEASE APPROVAL   Poll Shows Committee Will Support Extension

et  Poll Indicates House Group Will Okay Renewal Of Lend-Lease Plan   Doesn’t See How U. S. Can Continue Vigorous Pro. secution Of War Without Continuing To Furnish Supplies To Allies, Says Solon.

CONGRESS MAY ACT 10 NAME "FOOD §=CZAR"   Roosevelt Opposes Proposal, Throwing Support Behind Subsidies Plan   BROWN BEFORE SENATE   OPA Chief To Defend Administration Program On Price Controls

36 Tons Of Bombs On Lae Jap Base   Heavy Damage Ai Nip Stronghold

CONGRESSMAN PLANS REVERSE FILIBUSTER ORDER GET ACTION  REP. LANDIS OF INDIANA  SEEKS END TO “‘DO  NOTHING” pOLicv

DRAFT OFFICIALS DISCOUNT FATHER DRAFT BENEFITS   New Measure Approved By Senate and House Committees Would Place Fathers At Bottam OF Pao!

FRUIT GROWERS 10 MEET WEDNESDAY   Horticultural, ural Society. te Hold Sessions at the Alexonder

FRUIT GROWERS T0 MEET WEDNESDAY   Horticultural Society t Hold Sessions at the Alexander

NAVY REVEALS 3 DESTROYERS LOST IN ACTION   Drama Packed Battle in Which 2 Subs Were Sunk Is Described

BORIE, HENLEY AND CHEVALIER SUNK IN BATTLE   NAVY LISTS TWO LOST IN PACIFIC; ONE IN ATLANTIC

3 More Axis Ships Sunk   British Submarines Send Torpedoes Into Targets In Central Mediterranean

TWO SUNK IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Torpedo Gets The Henley; Chevalier Hit Off Vella La Vella: Sub Sinks Borie In Atlantic

U.S. Loses. 3 Destroyers   Chevalier and Henley Sunk in the Pacific; Borie, in the Atlantic

Destroyers Are Sunk   U. S. Loses Two in Pacific, One in Atlantic

AMERICANS LOSE 3 DESTROYERS   Navy Reports Two Lost it South Pacific, One in The Atlantic

THREE DESTROYERS LOST IN ACTION, NAVY ANNOUNCES   Two Were Lost in Sea Actions In the South Pacific and One in Battle With Sub in the Atlantic.

THREE AMERICAN: DESTROYERS’ ARE” LOSTIN ACTION ©   Two Lost In South Pacific And A Third in Sub Battle in Atlantic

Late bulletin Loss of .. Yank   ~ Destroyers Told In Navy Communique

Three Ship Losses Are * Announced   Destroyers Chevalier and Henley Sunk in Pacific;  ) Borie in Atlantic   THE LATTER SANK TWO-SUBMARINES   a a _ Part’ of Task. Force Given Presidential Citation for  Anti-Sub Operations

Chevalier and Henley Lost in Pacific; Borie In the Atlantic   Latter Ripped Hole in Hull While Ram ming Sub

DESTROYERS -LOST   Two. Sunk in Pacific and  One by Submarine in the Atlantic

BORIE SINKS 2SUBS   Henley And Chevalier Downed In South Pacific

U. S. Loses 3 Warships in Battles   DESTROYERS HENLEY, CHEVALIER, BORIE MEET OCEAN DEATH

TEMPERATURES:   Henley, Chevalier And! Borie Go Down In  Recent Actions

Announce Loss of Warships   Three Destroyers Sunk Recently, One During Battle.

d DESTROYERS L000 ANNOUNCED BY NAV}   Two Of Craft Lost In Pacific, Third In Atlantic

Two Sunk in South Pacific; One Goes Down Ramming Sub   Japs Manage to Land Force on Bougainville  Island

{wo Down in Pacific; One In Atlantic   "Next of Kin  Notified— Borie . Goes Down After ~ Getting 2 Subs

THREE U. S. DESTROYERS ARE LOST   Two In South Pacific, One In Atlantic

Local Skipper Wounded in Action With Jans: Destroyer Sent to Bottom

3 Destrovers Lost By U.S. In Foe Fight:   Henley Down By Explosion; Chevalier In Pacific; Borie In Atlantic,   BORIE IN TASK FORCE

ENEMY ATTACKS IN WEATHER T00 BAD FOR FLYING   British-Captured Hill On Wednesday Had Been Held Against Repeat  Assaults By Enemy   AREA VALUABLE TO GERMAN STRATEGY   Affords Vital Passes Thru Mountain Range Running Parallel With Axis Supply Line

NAVY     REPORTS THE LOSS OF 3 DESTROYERS      Two Are Sunk in South Pacific and Third Goes Down in Atlantic After Sinking Two Subs, One hy Rammine.

Three Destroyers Sunk in Battles With Submarines   Two Ships Go Down in the South Pacific and Other in Atlantic.   Borie Rams a U-Boat Before She Is Sunk

Three American Destroyers Are Lost; Henley, Chevalier and Borie   Navy Does Not Reveal Any Casualty Details With Announcement.

Reveal Loss Of Three Destroyers   Submarine Also Sunk In Atlantic, Says Navy Report

l “SOUTH PACIFIC   Third U. S. Warship Sunk After Destroying Two U-Boats. +   GNE VESSEL TORPEDOED

Huge Jap Claims Discounted by Announcement   Report Brings Up To Date Sinkings In Southwest Pacific

Navy reports 3 destroyers lost in action   Axis submarine takes one victim

REVEAL LOSS OF 3 VESSELS   Destroyers Henley, Borie Chevalie Lost In Naval Actions

U.S. Loses 3 Destroyers   Two Sunk in South Pacific and One in Atlantic Sub Battle

LIST LOSS OF U.S, WARSHIPS   ‘Borie Lost in Atlantic; Henley, Chevalier Sink in Pacific

MISDA IS CAPTURED BY FIGHTING FRENCH   Axis Stronghold 100 Miles Sout Of Tripoli Has Been Taken Alone With Baoty

Drafting of Fathers Now Seen Certain   Senate May Not Even Vote on Bill To Defer Them

FDR Promises U.S. Re-Cheek Of Living Costs   Top Men of Or rganized Labor Attack Little

GERMANY RAKED FOR 10 DAYS   Results Show Up in Propaganda of Nazis

PRE-INVASION AIR OFFENSIVE IN TENTH NIGH]   300 Planes Pound Steel City; 14 Bombers Are Missing

Great German Steel Center New Target for RAF   British Expect Retaliation of Luftwaffe, New Action By Nazi Fleet

COLORED COOK IS QUESTIONED   Police Still Baffled By Young Wife’s Slaying In Train Berth

FEW CLUES FOUND IN TRAIN SLAYING   ‘Negro Cook Questioned in the Deoth of Mrs. © Martha James

Mystery of Slain. Bride Sill Uns Unsolved   Funds for State Institutions and Officials Cut

BLAG CHARGED 10 23   Federal Indictments Include Ohioans in Uniawful: Poultry Deals

INDICT 23 IN BLACK MARKET   Charge Firms In Seven States Share In Poultry Black Market

Believes Allies To Occupy Italy      Welles Makes Prediction 0! Invasion

ALLIES TO TAKE ALL ITALY SOON, WELLES’ BELIEF   King in Broadcast Avers Sicily Soon Will Be Re-united

Allies Capture — More lslands to South of Sicily   Naval Guns, Aerial Bombs Continue to Smash at Vital Rail System; Red . Army Slows Down; Mosquito Bombers Smash Berlin.

“WOULDN'T AID WOUNDED MAN’   Mt. Gilead Draft Evader Refuses to Peefend Oneniteer

JEHOVAH'S WITNESS WOULD NOT DEFEND   So Testifies - Minister 01 Draft Evasion Charge

French Nurse Says Nazis Fear Attack  Picaodinke: b lmcete ieee   Predicts Uprising As Invasion Comes

Nazi Morale Very Bad, Says Nurse   Live In Fear Of Ally  Invasion Threat

DECLARES NAZIS FEAR INVASION   NURSE PREDICTS FRENCH WILL. FIGHT ENEMY WITH PITCHFORKS AND CLUBS.

Germans In France Have  The Jitters   Young Soldiers In Constant Fear Of Allied Invasion

Nazis on Coast Live in Constant Fear  Of Invasion, Nurse Who Fled France Say:

URGES NEED T0 KEEP ALIVE NO STRIKE PLEDGE      Favors Arbitration To Settle’ Major Disvutes

General Walker Missing in Aerial  Raid on Rabaul   New Mexico Native Recently Awarded DSC For His Courage

Californian Believed Killed in Attack upon Jap Base in New Britain   Reporied Missing by General MacArthur, Who Praises Him for Conspicuous Bravery in Action; Led Four Combat Planes over Enemy Territory "with Complete Disregard for Personal Safety”

Three-Way Air Assault On Europe   Allies Subject Area To Unparallelled Pounding In June Offensive

ALLIED LANDINGS    Ained Airmen  Give Europe Record Pouding In June

PLAN TO BOOST PLANE ATTACKS AGAINST REICH   June Assaults Just Sample Of Blows To Come

Axis Pounding ls Unparalleled   Enemy Is to Face  Greater Air Ordeal

ALLIED 3-PRONGED BOMBINGS OF AXIS IN JUNE UNPARALLELED IN ALL HISTORY FOR DESTRUCTION   Allied Airmen Struck At Enemy During Month From Bases in Africa, England and the Middle  Te. og

Allied Air Arm Subjected Axis To Unparalleled Destruction In June

AXIS IS WARNED WORST TO COME IN AIR ATTACK   Mighty Allied Air Force Strikes from Three Sides For New High in June   RUHR VALLEY DEVASTATED   ltaly’s Invasion Gates Are Blasted and Stepping-stone Islands Surrendered

Allied: Aerial Attacks On Europe In June Is Recorc Unparalleled In History

‘Axis Struck From  Three Directions   ALLIES ATTACK EUROPE ON ALL SIDES DURING MONTH OF JUNE

ALLIES’ JUNE AIR ATTACKS UNPARALLELED   Month Marked by First Capitulation of Enemy Strongholds Under Bombs and City-by-City Razing of Ruhr.

Striking From Three Directions, Unparalleled Destruction Heaped or ‘Axis by Mighty Air Arm in June

Allied Air Attack Is Paralyzing   Hits Axis From Three Directions

Destruction Struck Enemy During June   Mightiest Air Forces Dropped 13,500  Tons of Bombs

Design Greater Destruction For  The Axis Nations   Europe Subjected to Havoc During June Unparalleled in History.   Rise Up From Three Bases to Strike Axis

UNEQUALLED RAIDS MADE ON CONTINENT   Aerial Power Reaches Out In Rising Fury From Bases In Britain During Past Month   ACHIEVEMENTS CITED

Mightiest  “Air Blows   . in History, More Soor      Syparalleled Destruction Inflicted on Axis In Europe From Three Directions   gONTH OF MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS   British and American Ai Drive Kept Going With ry Risinoe-Fury

AXIS EUROPE IS. ~ HITTHREE WAYS   Accomplishments During June Are Result of Fury of Cooperating Flyers

Europe Got WorstRaids Of All Times  During June   Destruction Left Was Without Parallel

AXIS EUROPE COWERS UNDER AERIAL BLOWS   Allied Bombings In June  Reach New High In   Destruction   REICH HARDEST HIT   Surrender of Italian Islands Lays New Pattern For War

MIGHTY AIR ARMS OE. BRITISH-AMERIGANS STRIKE: 3 DIRECTIONS  SUBJECTED AXIS EUROPE TO DESIGN OF DESTRUC_ TION UNPARALLED

13,900 TONS DROPPED BY R. A. F. ALONE   p Surrender Of Pantelleria,  Ruhr Attacks Highlight Month’s Work: Americans Lose 82 Planes

“paralleled Air  Blow Hits Europe   a » Offensive Just A pf Se Wat ad

JUNE’S AERIAL OFFENSIVE SET WAR RECORDS      Allies Strike from Britain, Africs and Malta af Axis to Wreak Un  paralleled Destruction   ISLANDS SUBDUED   Americans Increase Bomb Tonnag: With Added Planes, Double Heavy Bombers

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST EUROPE   Bomb German. Strongholds On Continent From Three Directions.   WORST IS YET TO COME

British, American Air Strength — Wits Axis From Three Directions Destruction In June Unparallelec

Argentina Nails Spies   Six Nazis, Cited By U. S. Welles’, Given Short Prison Terms

LABOR SLATES PICNIC, RALLY   To Be Staged Labor Day At Grand View Park; List Program

OPA Hopes Army's Requisitioning Poultry ; By Stopping Trucks and Buying Loads af - Ceiling-Prices Will Break Black Market

OPA HAS SCHEME WHICH MAY BREAK UP BLACK MARKET:   Army Stopping All Poultry Trucks In Delaware, Buying. Fowl At Ceiling Price

Army Seizes Poultry to End Black Market   Stops Trucks in East and Pays  * Ceiling Price

Hope That Army Requisitioning Of Poultry Will Break Black Market

GOV'T SEIZES POULTRY IN ‘THE EAST   Pays Ceiling Prices to Keep It Off Black Market

WOULD END FEDERAL CONTROL PROGRAMS   Economist Says Food Shortage Can Be Eased By Diet Change And Less Contreal

Food Shortages Seen As Crifical   End Urged -To Crop Control Measures

Meat Consumption Cut Urged Shortages and Diet Changes In U.S. Seen by Food Experts

Momentum Of Red’s Big Offensive “Threatens To Breach Nazis’  Defense Line — MORE TOWNS FREE Fall Of Great City Of  Smolensk Imminent, ‘Reports Reveal

CITY IS OUTFLANKED. oO NORTH AND SOU’ FURTHER SOUTHWX EAST BANK OF DNIE!

RED ASSAULT TROOPS CLOSE IN ON CITY   Smolensk Is Greatest Nazi Base in Russia

REDS DRIVE TO EAST BANK OF DNIEPER RIVER   Nazi Defense Line Across Eastern Europe Threatened

Russ Armies — Sweep Across Dneiper River   Breaching of Main German Defense Lines Is Threatened

Capture of Great Nazi-Held Base Is Imminent  Red Army Plunges   Red Army Plunges To Dnieper River,  Forces Crossing

DnieperEast Bank   Great Offensive Threatens to Braseh dain German Defense Line

Soviet Armies Mass on Banks Of Dnieper   Fall of Greatest ‘German Base cn Central: Front: Near

Soviets Advance So Swiftly Germans Throw Away Guns to Reach Safety Behind Dnieper River Line.

EARLY CAPTURE OF GREAT GIy IS EXPECTED   German Retreat To Dnieper Turning Into Debacle Before Red Power

LONGER HOURS ~ FOR STEEL MEN   Advisory Board Suggests That Industry Observe 48Week At Once

oe. SEE es Tyee teaee  48 - HOUR WEEK SUGGESTED FOR STEEL INDUSTRY

Ask 48-Hour Week In Steel Industry  Committee Recommends Change To WPB

Steel Committee Asks 48-Hour Week  WPB Told Move Is Necessary to Meet Mannower Neadc

48-Hour Week Asked in Steel   Murray Would Replace  Service [L asses

Italians May Become Factor In Smashing German Dreams   +node Declaration Of War Against Nazis May Turn  Into First-Class Allied Victory

WILL TRADE POINTS FOR SALVAGED FATS   OPA Authorizes Retailers to Give Two Meat Stamps for Each Pound nf Grease.

F ‘elit’ With etain       K jichen F¢ als To Br ing Housewife 2 Pais a Pound.

MEAT POINTS OFFERED    Housewives May Exchange Salvage : Fats For Ration Points

Jones’ trade policy ‘bunk,  Reed asserts   Says friendship  availed nothing

Axis Counter Attack Fails   Seventh Air Base Is Captured In Bottles

British Throw Back Heavy Nazi. “Counter Attack   Allies Throw Fresh Waves Of Parachutists Into East Coast Fighting As Defenders Show Signs Of Launching General Counter-Attack.

American Soldiers Gain Eight Miles   Counter-Attack by Germans Carries to Augusta, Repulsed by British Army

SIX TOWNSHOFFICES AT STAKE HE’   Klection to Be Held Tuesday After Dull Campaign

American Food, Munitions Important To Red Offensive   Agriculture Secretary Says U.S. Supplies Have Kept  Russian Army Going

Secretary Stimson Says Lease-Lend Plan Must Be Continued To Allies

Algiers Radio Says British 8th Army Advances 27 Miles   Montgomery’s Forces Practically Capture Complete Italian Division North of Sfax, U.S. Air Force Hits Convoy

Allied Advance Said lo Be Nearing Enfidaville In Pursuit Of Rommel

Allies Push Northward From Sousse   Enfidaville Falls As Axis Troops Driven Inte Corner

F. D. R. Rejects Food Czar Plan   Asserts OPA Setup Will Remain Intact

F.D.R. Rejects Proposal  for Food Czar  OPA Rollback and Subsidy Plan to Remain Intact

OPA, Price Roll-Back Plan Backed by FDR; Challenges Critics for Better Scheme

MARSHALL SLATED FOR Chile QF ALLIED GLOBAL STRATEGY   WRITER SAYS U.S. CHIEF OF STAFF KEY COMMANDER IN ANGLO-AMERICAN OFFENSIVE

 Axis Airfields  Bombed By U.S., RAF Bombers  Medium Bombers   Medium Bombers Carry On While Bie Ones Rest

Axis Shipyards Pasted hy Yank Bombers   No Enemy Fighters Encountered on Mission to France

MUSSOLINI DUMPS CIANO IN CABINET SHAKE-UP IN ITALY   Pressure From Nazis Believed Re canncihi®

Five Soldiers Are Killled As Truck  Plunges Into River   Fourteen‘ Others Hurt In Accident Near Ayer, Mass., Last Night

New Gilbert Stronghold Falls in Crushing Sweep by U. S. Marine Forces   WAVES OF ALLIED BOMBERS SMASH GASMATA AREA ON ROAD TO RABAUL; AIRMEN SHATTER CAPE GLOUCESTER AIRDROME AT SOUTHWESTERN END OF NEW BRITAIN; TOKYO ADMITS GILBERTS VITAL IN NEW DEFENSE LINE

War Production = Classes Resume   Subject Will. Be Prevention of Losses Due To Improper Stock Handling

Preventing Losses Of Livestock Due To Improper Handlina   Will Resume Meetings This Week In County

HUGE. SECTION OF BERLIN AFIRE;-RAF CONTINUES RAIDING   Thunderbolt Assault 01 Nazi Capital Marks End Of 4th Year. Of War

AS-MINUTERAD (NBERLIN CAUSES MUCH MORE LOSS   47 Bombers Lost During Encounters with Intercept ing Fighters. Trying . to Drive off Visitorss”   TALIAN INVASION : . COAST. BOMBARDED   Many Danish Civilians, Sol: diers Killed By Germans In Defying Orders of New Overlords...

Large Section  Of Nazi Capita:  T fe ALT LEE ADLIAZE   ‘Great Damage’ Reported: 47 Bombers Lost in Operation

Berlin Hit By Heavy British Bombing Raid   Large Part 0 Of Of City In Flames As Big Aircraft Attack

Hundreds of . Bombers Smash Berlin Section   “Gréat, Billowing Fire Left Burning {In German Capital

GREAT FIRES ARE LEFT; 47 PLANES LOST IN ACTION   Believed Tonnage Approached First Raid Figure—Air Rattles Fauaht.

BRITISH MAKE 77TH RAID ON BERLIN   Huge Section Of Nazi Capital Is Smashed

45 MINUTE BLAST ENDS 4TH YEAR'OF 2ND WORLD WAR   German Night Fighters Fail to Halt Attack, Bult Many Are Destroyed; 48 Bombers Lost: Tonnare Not Announced

BERL AS BOMBERS RENEW RAID   Nazi Capital Hit In. 45-Min. Thunderbolt  Bombing Attack

‘Death’ Blow   47 Bombers: Lost’ ; In Raid ‘Heralding. 5th: Vear:of War:

GIANT BOMBS GIVE BERLIN. - AROSY GLAM   RAF Flies Thru Swarms of Fighters to Dump Huge . Blockbusters.   VIOLENT DQGFIGHTS RAGE DURING ENTIRE FLIGHT

BOMBERS HIT BERLIN AGAIN   Smash Another Huge Section of German Capita) into © Blazing Ruins — 45-Minute Attack Marks End-of Fourth Year ot War. 

EXPLOSIONS REMIND GERMANS THAT WAR ENDED FOURTH YEAR   ‘British Lose 47 Bombers But Smash Through To Destroy Section Of Capital; Americans Join Bombardment By Day

Berlin hit by new huge  air assault   , Billowing fires follow bombing

Midnight Deadline Before Food Rationing Begins  Government Freeze of Connee Fruits,

TO ANNOUNCE FOOD POINT VALUES SUNDAY   Government Officials Are Keeping Price Lists Secret to Thwart Hoarders.

Today Is Last Chance To Stock Up On Canned Fruits And Vegetables

‘Freezing’ Of Canned Foods Begins   Users Can Get Reasonable Supply Up to Midnight

SALES TO HALT AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT   Point Values of Rationed Articles Will be An. nounced Monday

Midnight Deadline  Before Food  Rationing Begins Government Freeze of  Canned Fruits, Vegetables Tonight

Today Is Last Chance To Buy Unrationed Canned Goods; Caution Urged In Buying

Freeze Order on Fruits And Vegetables Effective Sunday   ‘Stocking Up’ Within Reasonable Limit Is Approved, Officials Say, Florida ‘Freeze’ Dan ages Fresh Foods; Point Values to Public

Today Is Last Day Canned Fruits and Vegetables Gan Be Purchased Before Rationing Starts March 1

Today Is Last Chance To Buy Unrationed Canned Goods; ' Caution Urged In Buying ~.   meres An idea Of National Value—  Wives Of SPAFS Men. Plan Large Scale Food Productjzy 

ee ——————eEGaCET  OPA Will Announce Ration Point Value List on Sunday   ‘Freeze’ Will Take Canned Goods Off Store Shelves Saturday Night for Eight Days

Canned Goods to Be Off Store Shelves for Week After Midnight Tonight

PARENTS NOTIFIED SON IS MISSING IN ACTION IN ITALY   ‘Huntingdon Soldier, Pvt Warren Plymire Shope, Went Overseas In March, 1943

Celebration Gets Off to Bad Start Due to RAF Pilots   Hitler Missing, So Goebbels and Goering Da the Orating; Message From Leader Covers Usual Patterns; Alibis Offered

Goering Delays Speech As Raiders Skits Doottons ta Dran Ramhc in City’s Haart

ad ‘Right in Der Fuehrer’s Face’  RAF Bombers Visit ‘Hitler’s Big Party

GUERING FORGED TO DELAY TALK   Fast RAF Bombers Strike at Broadcast Time   RADIO CARRIES   Reports of Explosions and Sounds of Confusion; Hitler Fails to Talk

Raid Breaks Up Goering Speech On‘Anniversary   Hitler, Said With Troops ‘Insists On Fight To The End

Doms Interfere With Goering, Goebbels Talks  Hitler With Troops As Stooges s Explain

BRITISH STAGE  QUAAMNN DEN Fa  ODUUNY NAL Ap  DECREE IS READ   Britons Jubilant Over Double Slap at Germany for Most Embarrassing Effect on Leaders   GOERING TRIES TO EXPLAIN REVERSES   Contradicts Seif in Dealing With Russian Campaign; Stresses Danger  of Russian Victory

First Daylight Raid On Berlin Delays Broadcast For An Hour British Crash Nazi Anniversary Party

Daylight Raid Hits Berlin At Peak Of Show   Goering Makes Address And Goebbels Reads Hitler's Proclamation

NAZI BIRTHDAY PARTY IS UPSET BY RAF BOMBS   Mosquito Planes Twice Visit Capital In Timely Blows

BERLIN PARTY ATTENDED BY RAF BOMBERS   GOERING’S SPEECH INTERRUPTED BY AERIAL RAID

Goering Hints Stalin Power Full Surprise   (,e rman Leaders Promise Spring Offensive; Calls For Complete Unity.   HITLER WITH SOLDIERS

REASONS GIVEN FOR NAZIS WAR WITH RUSSIANS   No. Date Set For Victory In. Talks; Hitler Said: To Be At. Front: ~~ °

Turmoil Reigns as Goering Scrambles for Shelter; Blame Hitler's ‘Intuition’ for Russian Debacle; Nazis Promise Death for Shirkers in New Prooram

RAF Twice Crashes Nazi Party   British Bombs Upset Hitler’s Tenth Anniversary Affair

TWO RAIDS ADD PUNCH TO NAZ UCTORY ALI   Goebbels Réads Proclamation by Fuehrer Promising Death to Shirkers.   GOERING FLAYS RUSSIA FOR “CAMOUFLAGE WAR”

NAZI'S GLOOMY ANNIVERSARY INTERRUPTED   British Bombers Strike Twice In First Daylight Raid On German Capital

«Right in Der Fuehrer’s Face’ re ,RAF Bombers Visit Hitler’s Bio Party —

Soviets Capture Znamenka, Fall Back Near Kiev   Reds Push On And Menace Whole Naz! Position In Bend

Germans hurl soviets back in Kiev area   Redshead toward other key points

RUSSIANS TAKE KEY RAIL TOWN   Reds Take Znamenka, But Admit Being Forced Back In Kiev Region

ssians In Possession Of Important German Supply Line In the Dnieper River Bend. Germans Cut Deep Into the Kiey Bulve

RED ARMY TAKES VITAL RAIL HUB IN GRIM BATTL   Entire German Position in Dnieper Bend Threatened by Loss of Znamenka, Used to Supply Area.   SOVIETS LOSE GRCUND IN STRUGGLE FOR KIEV   Tank and Infantry Attack Rolls Russians Back to Point 30 Miles East of Korosten.

NAZI PROP IN ‘DNIEPER BEND FALLS TO REDS   Capture Of Central Rail Hub Hailed By Stalin; Army Surges On Toward West

Red Troops Speed West and South Toward Other Keypoints      1500 NAZIS KILLED IN DAY’S FIGHTING   Moscow Admits Deep German Penetration Into Kiev Bulae

Russia Reports Gains, but Also Loss near Kiev   Red Army Driven Back by Germans

Premier Stalin Announces Fall Of Znamenka, But Admits New Setbacks In The Kieve Bujae

U.5. Considers Martinique Offe   Hull Says Navy to Wait Developments

TO NEGOTIATE 1S CONSIDERED   Hull Says Dispatch on The Antilles Has Been Received

BID FROM VICHY LEADER STUDIEI   Martinique May Swing Over To Side Of United Nations

ROMMEL-S-SENT. TO END JUGOSLAVIA’S PATRIOT UPRISING      Nazi Situation Becomes Further Complicated "As Reds Send Arms  To Patriots

PLAN GREAT NEW BLOWS ON JAPANESE   Air Forces To Spearhead Drive To Smash Enemy

POWERFUL BLOWS AGAINST JAPANESE PLANNED FROM AIR   CARRIER-BASED AIR  CRAFT TO PLAY DOMIN.  ANT PART NEW PROGRAM

POWERFUL BLOWS  AGAINST JAPANESE  PLANNED FROM AIR CARRIER-BASED AIR CRAFT TO PLAY DOMIN. ANT DADT WEW POaNsPaAl

29 COUNTIES WILL GET AIR RAID TES]   Industrial Plants Wil No Black Out

TO TEST NEW AIR RAID WARNING   Will Hold Blackout in 29 Counties Next Thursday Night

RED PLANES ATTACKING KHARKOV   Following Capture Of Orel, Belgorod With Air Attacks

Red Army Pounds Nazis Fleeing From Orel With Air Attacks.  STALIN ANNOUNCES ~ FALL OF BELGOROD  Russians Are Driving for Dnieper River by Passing Kharkov.

Nazis Try To Flee Disaster   Belgorod and Orel Victories Spur Russians on Te Other Vital Points; German Retreat Cha abe !

AUOUTANG ROLL ROM BELGOROD TOWARD KHARKOL   Reds In Massive Flanking Drive; Planes Harry Retreating Germans

Reds Close Trap On Three Cities      Smolensk, Kiev, Melitopol Totter

Reds Threaten Siiolensk, Kiev  And Melitopol   Three Key. Cities Almost Within Russian Grasp

‘Smolensk, Kiev, Melitopol Almost Within Grasp - Of Stalin’s Fast Moving A Armies ESCAPE “ROUTE CUT  Berlin Press x Says? Army ‘Administrative Branch  Landnane Ksacr

SOVIETS FREE HALF OF AREF   Melitopol, Kiev, Smolensk — All Keys in Nazi-Held Section—In Russian Grasp.

REDS NEAR SMOLENSK AND KIEY   Soviets Recapture Over Half Area Seized By Nazis

FOUR KEY CITIES ALMOST WITHIN BED ARMY GRASE   Climax Nears In Battle For Kiev, Great Capital of The Ukraine

EARLY CAPTURE OF MELITOPOL IS IMMINENT   Red Armies Liberate Half Of Russian Territory Overrun By Germans

More Than Half of Territory Held by Nazis Now Retaken   If Melitopol Falls, Tens of Thousands of Germans in Crimea Are  Tine ad

CONTINUE ADVANCES   Red Legions Liberate More Than Half Territory Overrun by Nazis  in Great Area.

SMOLENSK AND KIEV NOW WITHIN REACH   Melitopol, Key To Crimea, Expected To Fall Shortly: 1,150 More Places Freed By Soviet  RNiauwre

Kiev And Melitopol Almost Witbin Grasp Of Red Army; Chernigov Reported Captured. Kiev Only 27 Miles Away   1.150 LOCALITIES FREED BY SOVIET

Yanks Pound ‘Rome in  ‘Aerial Attack   U. 5S. Fliers Surmount Bitter Resistance Without Loss, Inflict Disaster Upon Vita] Taraets. Spare Church Sites

Montana G. 0. P Outlines Policy   Group Indorses Governor's Record

State Republicans Condemn Waste Of Administration   Montana GOP Leaders Pledge Support Of Declarations of Party Postwar Advisory Council Meeting

_ Montana Republicans Condemn Waste, Extravagance and Inefficiency of the Washington Administration: to Support Party Declarations

ICKES ACCUSES ~ COAL OPERATORS   Charaes Southern Groun of “Sit-Down Strike” Over Pact

KES ACCUSES SOUTHERN GROUP   Says Operators Are Conducting Sit-down Strike Against Negotiation of New Wage Contract; Owners Reply

JAPS RUN FROM U.S. NAVAL UNIT   Nip Effort To Prevent Bougainville Landing Meets Failure

U.S. Naval Forces Repulse Japs In Solomons Area   Jap Cruisers And Destroy. ers Fail To Halt U. S. Landings On Bougainville   ENEMY IS FORCED TO FLEE FROM SCENE

JAP WARSHIPS REPULSED IN SOLOMONS SEA   Sea and Air Battle De velops Along Coast — of Bougainville

uce Urges uehrer To elp Italy   Jiplomatic Observers Say ‘Meeting of Axis Chiefs   In Northern Italy Re  vaals “Jitters”   pis PRESS ADMITS  4IR FORCE INFERIOR   efense of Sicily Said to  Be Considered a Lost Cause by Italian,   German Leaders

Belief Expressed That Mussolini Mef Hitler Monday To Plead For Aid In Halting Allies

BELIEVED MUSSOLINI SOUGHT ADDITIONAL HELP FROM HITLER  AIR POWER OF ALLIES MAY HAVE BEEN PART OF SUBJECTS DISCUSSED

Hitler - Mussolini Meeting Reflects Extremely Serious Position Of Italy

Bern Believes Axis Knows Sicily Lost   Enemy May Be Forced To Send Reserve Of Planes Into Battle

DUCE BELIEVED TO HAVE ASKED HITLER FOR AID   URGENT APPEAL SAID TO REFLECT SERIOUS CONDITION IN ITALY

Mussolini Asked Hitler,  How About Aiding Italy? Is Diplomatic Belief

Meeting of Hitler and Mussolini Reflects Serious Position of Hialy”

AXIS LEADERS FACING CRISIS   Hitler and Mussolini Have Had To Decide Where To Make Next Stand

Threat To Italy Believed Topic Of Axis Head:   Hint Abandonment O: Sicily Already Is Decided Upon

Duce Asks Hitler Aid —   Axis Meeting Reflects Serious Position of Italy

PLEA FOR Alb BELIEVED MADE   Hitler And Mussolini Meet As Sicilian Outlook Appears Hopeless

Il Duce Seeks Aid Of Hitler Experts Think   Problem Of Disposition Of Air Foree Confronting Clermanv.   PAIR MEET IN ITALY

Il Duce Asked Hitler for Aid   Next Line of Defense for Axis Defense Is on Italian Mainland.

ITALIANS SEEK MORE GERMAN HELP IN ITALY   Hitler Must Weaken Other Points to Aid Partner; Consider Sicily Lost

IL DUCE ASKS HELP   Neutral Circles Agree Crisis -in Sicily Prompted Conference

Allied Leader Mentions German Reinforcements   Hitler Sweating With Duce on Neck

Italy Appeals To Hitler for Defense Help   Axis Chieftains Hold Session As Rome Is Bombed

Duce Is Believed To Have Made Frantic Plea For Aid During Meeting With Adolf

Uuce Conrers With Hitler In War Crisis  Appealed for More Help to Hold Back Allies, Observers Believe      MEET IN N. ITALY   Fuehrer May Help At; Fight for Peninsula, Washington Thinks

DUCE ASKS FOR HELP IS BELIEF   Events in Sicily Promp' Hurried Meeting Between Axis Pair.

NEXT MOVE FOR AXIS I$ SEVERE REICH PROBLEM   Believe Leaders Have Given Up Holding Sicily

ll Duce Believed To Have Made Plee For Hitler's Help   Diplomats Say. Battle Of Sicily Brought Conference

Duce Believed To Have Asked Hitler For Aid At Hurried Conclave In North Italy

MUSSOLINI IN URGENT APPEAL FOR NAZI HELP   Defense of Italian Main~ Jand Believed Major  Topic   ISICILY IS LOST CAUSE   Aid To Italy Would Mean Diversion of German Airpower

Relatives Receive Identical Wires Listing All as Missing Since February 21 No Details Given in Messages  Feam War Denartment

14 Reported Missing in Action in North Africa During the Last 5 Days   Relatives Receive Identical Wires Listing All as Missing Singe February 21 ~-No Details Given in Messages From War Department

RAF Bombers Hit Remscheid   First Raid on German Tool Center   Hamburg W iped Out, Fleeing Danes Savy

Hamburg Out Of Existence, Workers Say   RAF Switches To New Target. Steel Center At Remscheid; French Coast Pounded

GREAT BRITAIN, U5 TRAGE LEND-LEASE   British Reveai ai Scope of Program; President Roosevelt ~ Reports to Congress

AUSSIES NEARING JAPANESE BASE   Gen. MacArthur Re ports Troops Less Than Mile From Finschhaten

Australian Troons Within Mile Of Enemy Supply Base At Finschhafen After Bitter Crossing Of Bumi River

Allies Pounding  Finschhafen Base   Jap Resistance I Area Bitter

Aussies Smash "At Finschhafen   Japs Driven Back In River Crossina

AUSSIES DRIVE WITHIN SIGHT OF ENEMY BASE   Battle Way Across Bumi River To Outskirts Of Japanese Depot At  Finschhaefen

Ne ee a ARREST lk we NY wee Ue  Aussies Near Finschhafen  Four Fighter Planes Break Up Bi Jap Raid Attemnt

AUSSIES NEAR SUPPLY DEPOT OF NIPPONESE   FINSCHHAFEN BASE IN NEW GUINEA IS DOOMED

Finschhafen Fall Believed Near   Australians Fight Way Toward Town

AUSSIES ADVANCE ON FINSCHHAFEN   BATTLE WAY ACKOSS BUMI RIVER AGAINST BITTER JAP OPPOSITION,

ALLIES WITHIN ONE MILE OF JADANESE BASE   Enemy Resistance Bitter; Nip Shipping Pounded

Allies Cross  River Near. Finsehhafer  : eachhend Made Al         Beachhead Made After ' Bitter Fighting i in ¢ -Battle for Jap Base

Troops March On Despite Bitter Fighting   Forces Cross River, Threaten Depot On New Guinea Isle

Randazzo Fort Is Now Under Attack   British Warships Shell Naval Base Only 20 Miles From Naples In Spectacular Assault

SICILY’S FATE IN BALANCE AS ALLIES ADVANCE   British Warships Shell Italian Mainland

Naples Is Shelled By Fleet   Capture Of Guardia Gives Exghth  Army First Sight Of Mainland.

Nazi Hub Rocks in  New Raid   HOUR-LONG PLANE PARADE SPLINTERS AXIS CAPITAL IN THIRD BIG OFFENSIVE

Nazi Capital Virtually Is Paralyzed   Big R. A.F. Planes Believed Again Attacking Germany

Bomb Load Approaches Record Blow   Walls of Flame Sweep Capital Following Second Great RAF Raid

Great Force Again Blasts Nazi Capital   RAF Continues Grim Offensive to Knock City Out of War ay Americans Score Gains in Pacific Drive

SOLDIER KILLED BY FRISCO TRAIN   Bteps In Front Of Incoming Passenger

RAIN OF BOMBS BLASTS BURMA   U. S. And British Air Forces Keep Fires Blazing Continually There.

JILTED, SHE SAYS: STARTS SHOOTING   Madge Bellamy Faces Charges Of Shooting At Millionaire  Lumberman

EX-BEAUTY IN LOVE TANGLE   MADGE BELLAMY - CHARGE! WITH FIRING THREE SHOTS AT WEALTHY ‘WEST CGAST LUMBERMAN

Writer Tells of Change Noted In American Soldiers After Tunisian Battles; They're Serious Killers

Spilled Blood Makes Yanks Killing Men  PE get GPa N alr oO Fe ee ete te aN” TUR Bo iti Sere ree nn! SSR eiete ible ua ot eee nee Mlb!   Foolish Bravado, Egotism Gone; War Personal Thing Now

biood Spiiled On Tunisian Battlefields Turns U.S. Soldiers Into Crafty, Hating And Fiahtinag Killove

395 Attu Casualties, Many From Frostbite, In California Hospital

Senate Leaders Plan Only Vague Statement  Of U.S. Collaboration for Peace After War

COMPROMISE TUE ON POST-WAR BILL   Qualification in Senate Action on Fulbrinht Plan Forecast

Senate Chiefs Eye Peace Policy Plan   Search for Proposal That Will Get Two-Thirds Approval

CIRCUIT COURT ~HEWS AND NOTES   Several Items of Interest j Judge Russel’s Court Friday. .

BOMBS SMASH KEY JAP BASES   MacArthur Reports Terrific Devastation at Kupang on Timor

Soviets Drive To Suburbs Of Driener City   Russians Are Reported: Fighting For Bridgeheads' On West River Bank   TEMRYUK FALLS   Terekhovka, Southeast Of Gomel, Also Is Captured By Red Forces

Yugoslav Partisans Report Advances Claim Na Nazis Driven  SS RE eae Severn weep pee

March 15 Tax Returns by 39 Million People May Be Eliminated Soon   Capitol Hill ne rts Work on Program To Simy slify Nation S Re venue  aws

30,000,000 May Be Spared Filing Income Returns   Experts Offer New Tax Plan

PLANS 10 CUT TAX RED TAPE MAPPED      Move Launched to Simplify Nation’s Revenue  Lawe

Effort to Simplify U.S. Income Tax Requirements Under Way at Washinaton

Act May Erase Filing Returns  By 30 Millior   xperts Would Absolve Pay-Goers Making Kaw Reporls

Lawmakers Study Cutting Of Red Tape For Taxpayer   Staff of Tax Experts Work on New Plan To Eliminate Returns Bar 29. 000.000   BUT COMPLICATIONS DARKEN PICTURE   Two Major Problems Must Be Worked Out Before Action Likely

SIMPLER TAX PLANS STUDIED   Experts Hope To Make It Unnecessary For  Millions To File

SIMPLER TAX LAWS SOUGHT   Drive on to Eliminate Necessity for Millions To File Returns

Appalachian Operators Re-Enter Mine Pay Dispute; Alabama Pits Remain Closed Due To Walkout

Union Miners Ignore Vote  To Open Pits   Alabama Mines Remain Closed Despite Pleas

WEATHER TO BE MILD   No More Cold in Sight for Kansas, Sayes Forecaster

Nice Weekend ls Predicted   No More Cold Is In Sight, Says Weather Bureau

‘Horseshoe Hill’ Story On ‘War Correspondent’  ‘Tonight at 6:30 P.M. WOAI

Miners to Be Fined For Layoff, Ickes  Will Be Charged $1 Per Day In Accordance

WLB REENTERS COAL DISPUTE   One Group Of Operotors Make Agreement With Lewis

One Group Coa! Operators And  Miners Agree   Breaks From Deadlocked Parley Over Wage Boost

Ickes fo Fine Coal Strikers: Lewis Fumes   Another Step Toword Political Tyranny, Decleres Union Leader

ICKES SAYS MINERS. WHO JOINED JUNE 1-7 STRIKE 0 BE FINED   Contracts Usually Provide for $1 a Day Penalty for Idleness   MORE FINES THREATENED

COAL OPERATORS MAKE SEPARATE PAY AGREEMENT   Wage Boost Of $1.30 Per Day Is Agreed On

Miners to Be Fined For Layoff, Ickes   Will Be Charged $1 Per Day  In Accordance With Contract

‘Other Operators Report to WLB Agree ment Not Possible, Lewis Unbudging,  Argue Portal-to-Portal Pay   MINERS RESENTFUL OF FINES   One Spokesman Asseris Penalty Illegal Since No Contract, Ickes Says He Extended Contract. Will Fine Again

COAL MINERS FACE FINE FOR WALKOUT   Contract Provides for Dollar Penalty Each Day

Tekes To Fine ‘Miners $1.00 Day For Each Strike Day   Union Spokesman Says Men ‘Won't Stand For It And Threatens Another Walkout

MINE oTRIKEHD WILL Bt FINCD IOKES CLAIMS   $1 Per Day Fine In Accord With Contract Levied Against Strikers   ONE GROUP OF OPERATORS MAKES PEACE WITHLEWIS   Central Pennsylvania Bloc Grants $1.30 Per Day For Travel Time

CONFUSION IN NEGOTIATIONS COMPLICATED   Peacemeal Pact Affirmed By Both John L. Lewis and Spokesman for Northern Mine Owners   HIKE OF $1.30 PER DAY

STRIKING MINERS WILL FAGE FINES   Ickes Says $1 A Day Penalty Will Be Assessed Between June 1-7   HEARING OPENS   we: entral Pennsylvania Producers Make Separate Peace With UMW

EDUCTION-OF ; FROM PAYS )BEPENALTY   ting As “Mine Boss’  jays Fines Assessed In Accordance With   Contract   ACE NEGULIATIONS (RTHER CONFUSED   mnnsylvania Operator:  Ecree to Settlement; Others In Appalachian Field Fight Order

vitmers Will : Be Fined for ~ June Strike  Contracts Usually Call for Penalties of S$la Day  ABSENT FIVE DAYS   ABSENT FIVE DAYS   Single Group Agrees to Give Miners Increase in Pav

Ickes Imposes FinesOnUMW Coal Strikers   Federal Boss Orders $1 pA Day Penalty For Five Day Absence   LEWIS HITS MOVE   Group Of Operators Spli From Conference, Make Separate Peace

Ickes Declares Striking Miners Must Pay Fines   Meanwhile One Group ’ Of Operators Makes Peace With Lewis

FIXES PENALTY : OF St ADAY IN A-OAY WALKOUT   Money, to Be Taken: Out of Next Pay,, Will Goto, Charities,   ONE OPERATORS’ GROUP AGREES TO WAGE. BOOST,

iners Will e Fined For  une Walkout   Striking Mine Workers Are Liable For Fines of $5 Each

MINERS IN JUNE ” 1-7 WALKOUT TO RECEIVE FINES   ~ Penalties Up to $1 Per Day Face Strikers, Ickes Indicates

Ickes Holds $1 Per Day In Keeping With Rules   Union Heads Aver No Contract In * Effect Then

Ickes Orders Miners Fined For Walkout  Warns Of Similar Fines In Future; Lewis And Central De QOnarntare Aare

Fifth Patrols Smash Across Volturno   Nazis Choose River As Location For First Defensive

Patrols Engage In Hit-And-Run Tilts With Nazis   British Eighth Army Continues Advance On Adriatic Coast

Volturno River  Crossed, Report  Cairo Radio Says Allies Pushing Germans Back

Germans Show Determination  To Stop Yanks   Cairo Radio Says Cross On Broad Front With Foe Re tenaclarne   RAINS SLOWING FORCE

EXPECT NAZIS TO MAKE STAND NEAR VOLTURNO   Fifth Army Patrols Have Smashed Across  Barrier

PATROLS OF FIFTH ARMY BATTLE WAY ACROSS VOLTURNO   General Clark’s Troops Said to Control South Bank of River for Distance of 30 Miles.   GERMANS REINFORCED BY NEW DIVISION   Fighting Along Adriatic Coast Subsides After Mongomery Knocks Out 30 Nazi Tanks.

Nazis, Yanks Clash For First Battle Of Rome   Yanks Push Across River; Caserta  Is Taken

ritth Army Crosses the Volturno   In Hit and Run Clashes With Nazis Reinforced by Division

ALLIES PIERCE ENEMY’S LINES IN ROME DRIVE   Ford Volturno River: Caserta Taken by Fifth Army

Sth Army, Nazis Locked In Firsf Battle For Rome  Germans Reinforce:   Germans Reinforced As Decisive Clash  For City Opens

Nazis Retreat Along the Road to Rome   Caserta Is Taken by American Fifth Army Units

Allies Seize Strategic Rail Center   Units Take Positior On Enemy’s Side Of Volturno River

Fitth Army Tangles With Reich Forces After Daring Push   Clark's Men Cross Volturno, Capture Caserta, Rail and Highway Center, North of Naples——Allies InControl On South Bank of River.

New Division ’ Reinforces. German Troops   Caserta of South Bank of River Taken  by Americans

Fighting 5th — Comes To Grips With Nazi Army   Germans Retreating To Positions Along Garigliano River,  Accordina to Cairo

Important Rail, Highway Center Taken By Clark   Hitler Rushes New Troops Into Breach In Effort To Hold Allies In Mareh On Rome

ALLIED UNITS IN HIT-AND-RUN BLOWS AT NAZIS   Patrols Smash Across Volturno, Scene of First Round in Battle For Rome   CAIRO SAYS RIVER THRUST EXTENSIVE   Contends Clark's Army Has Spanned Stream “On Broad Front With Germans Retreating”

Yanks Smash Across River.   Reinforced Nazis Flee To River Line Farther North

ENEMY FORCE STILL FALLING BACK IN ITAL   RAIL AND HIGHWAY CENTER FALLS TO ALLIES

STRATEGIC RAIL CENTER IS TAKEN   Caserta, Sixteen Miles North Of Naples, Falls   BRITISH EIGHTH   Advances Slightly in the East In Spite of Heavy Rains And Flooded Areas

Yanks Cross Italian River  Clear South Side   Clear South Side Volturno, Probe Nazi Defenses

Struggle Raging On 30-Mile Front  Across Volturno   Enemy Cleared From Caserta River; New Division Bolsters Nazi Forces

Germans Refrea Along Volturno   Nazis Reinforced by Entire Division

Patrols Engage Big Force in Battle for Rome   First Unit to Reach North Bank Tests Out German Mettle; Seize Stratecic City of Caserta

ACCUSED SABOTEUR PLEADS NOT GUILTY   Welder, One of Eight Held, In Jail at Columbus

Blazing Nazi Tanks Light Up Hillsides   Non-Stop Barrage Routs Enemy Forces

ALL RESOURCES NEEDED TUBtAT GERMANY - EDEN   Secretary Tells Commons Big Events Near In War Against Nazis

ILIGHT FEBRUARY TERM   Jurymen Will Report Tomorrow to Hear Criminal Cases

Nazis Present  Gloomy Picture Of Russian Wa   High Command Admits Its Troops Entrapped at Stalingrad  PLIGHT IS ADMITTED   Germans Say Soviets Are Storming With Super jor Forces

SLOOMY BERLIN BROADCAST TELLS OF DEATH BATTLE   Russians Report Only 50,000 Enemy Troops Survive of Original 220,000 on Volga.

\Nazis Present Gloomy Picture Of Russian War   Micaela * i ~~ BAYS Sts We  ~ Of Russian War  High Command Admits Its Troops Entrapped at Stalingrad  PLIGHT IS ADMITTED  Germans Say Soviets Are Storming With Superior Forces   [PLIGHT IS ADMITTED

Germans admit army ‘loss at Stalingrad   Attempt counter blows in some sectors’ but Russ drive onward

NAZIS CONFESS ARMY TRAPPED AT STALINGRAD   Gloomiest ReportFrom Berlin Given During New World War

BERLIN ISSUES TS GLOOMIEST REPORT OF WAR   Reds Carve Out Large _Chunks of Nazi Defense Lines Built in 1941

Squeeze of Trap At Stalingrad Is Admitted by Nazis   Berlin Broadcast Tells of Pressure Atl Along Front

RUSSIA   German Report Gloomy   «+ Nazis Admit Stalingrad Situetion Ic Desperote

Dark Picture Told in Nazi Communique   Stalingrad Trap, Number Inferiorit; Are Revealed

REVEAL TROOPS CAUGHT IN TRAP AT STALINGRAD   Berlin, in Gloomy Communique, Goes on to Report Few Details in Favor of Reich

JEW TROUBLES FACING BOSTON   Attacks by ‘Gangs of Toughs’ Charged by Newspaper

ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS AIREL   Gov. Saltonstall Ejects Re porter From Massachusetts State House

LARGE CONVOY REACHES ENGLAND   Contained British Empire Troops From All Over The World

OIL REFINERY HIT BY AMERICAN FLIERS   Fire And Smoke Are Visible 40 Miles After Attack Near  Raneaon

23 JAP PLANES BAGGED AT ORO   Furious Battle Develops Over New Guinea; Babo Is Raided By Allies

Yanks Down 23 Jap Warplanes   Furious Air Battle Staged at Oro Bay

SHOT DOWN 23 JAP. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS   Allied Airmen Battled Enemy Furiously Over Oro Bay, New Guineb; Japs 25 Tons of Bombs   Small Allied Ship Sunk

Allies Blast 23 Jap Planes Out of Air in Furious Fight  One Small Allied Shin Ic Reached After   One Small Allied Ship Is Beached After Receiving Two Direct Bomb Hits; Big Increases in Enemy Air Power Reported

Allied Airmen Shoot Down 23 Japanese Plane:   Furious Air Battle Staged Over Oro Bay: Merchant Ship Hit by Enemy Raiders

COUNTYWIDE SURVEY TD CHECK REGARDING TUBERCULOSIS GASES   Announcement Made Concerning 5th Annual Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign to be Held In Hamilton County.

Annual Survey OF Tuberculosis Situation In County Is Planned   Suspected Cases Will Be Given X-Ray Examinations

PLAN SECOND © TB, FINDING PROGRAM HERE   Aimed to Finding Unknown Cases.

More Butter for Civilian Users  Military Buyers Out of Market Soon

U.S. Butter Will Go To Civilians   Military and Other Agencies Are Withdrawing from Market Until March

More Butter For Civilian Use Is Seen   Military Agencies Won’t Buy Any More Until March

BUTTER SUPPLY TO BE BOOSTED   Government Agencies Te Get Out Of Market, Help Civilians

Military !s Out Of Butter Market   Civilians To Get Greater Amounts

MANPOWER Fina} ON CONGRESS LIS!   Legislators Want To Know Facts From Military

Congress Convenes Tuesday; Drafting Fathers to Come Up   ‘Manpower Question, Most Important of  Those Facing New Session; Taxation,  Foréion Relations Other Subiects Due

Manpower Issue Up  To Congress   Stormy Debate is Seen; Session to Resume Tuesday

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE!   One of Bomber’s Crew Blown Out When Shot Down

KARACHEV FALLS TO VICTORIOUS RUSSIAN TROOPS   Stalin Congratulates Army Upon Capturing Important City   SOVIETS 26 MILES  EAST OF BRYANSK

Statin Lauds Hamlet Fall   German Salient’s Resistance Is Broken by Reds

Russians Capture KarachevIn Push Towards Bryansk   Town Falls After Fierce Fighting In Streets  Enemy Counterattacks Repulsed With Gains At Kharkov

Karachev Is Captured By  Advancing Russian  LS orees   Lest Nozi Outpost East of Karachevy Is Held—Per sonal Congratulations of Marshal Stalin . Evoked

Fierce Street I ighting Stull On in Kharkov   Many Prisoners Taken As Soviets Trying to Topple Bryansk; LOO Villages Overrun

Russians Smash Way into Major German Outpost   Sixty Thousand Soviet Troops Enter City East of Bryansk   Heavy Fighting Reported in Town Southeast of Kharkov

Red Army Mer Congratulated By Stalin —   Gains Made Elsewhere on Front by Forces of Soviet Union

Stalin Lauds Men; 100 Hamlets Fall   German Salient’s Resistance Is Broken by Reds

Reds Capture Flaming City Of Karachev   Another Strongpoint Southeast of Kharkov Taken by Russians  - 2 we wn wwe UCR we TOUS slr Or

Karachev Is Captured’ By  _ Advancing Russian Forces   Lost Nazi Outpost East of Karachey Is Held—Per: sonal Congratulations of Marshal shai Evoked

GIRAUD REPORTS ENEMY “ON RUN” IN NORTH AFRICA   General Returns From Gabes, Tunisian Battlefront, Reports Victory Certain

Jumpy Axis Awaits New Blows \ls Forced By Allied Secrecy ‘To Watch Half-Dozen:Fronts

Axis Invasion Fears Rept At High Pitch By Fresh Allied Moves in Near East

Border Between Turkey And Syria Is Reported Open   Ankara Dispatch Says Border Closed To Guard Troop Movements,  Is Reopened   AXIS IS WORRIED OVER LIKELY MOVES

BARRIERS WHICH GUARDED ALLIED TROOP MOVEMENTS HAVE BEEN LET DOWN

TURKTSH-SYRIAN BORDER REOPENED   STRONG TROOP CONCENTRAMENTS REPORTED SENT TO BALKANS BY HITLER.

Enemy Reports Alliéd Forces Mass in Syria   Axis Indicates Blow Expected In Balkan Aréa

ALLIED TROUP MOVES CAUSE AXIS JITTERS   INVASION MENACE KEEPS ENEMY GUESSING

German Reinforcements Rushed to Balkan States, Stockholm Reports

RUMORS OF INVASION GIVE AXIS JITTERS   » One Italian Garrison Breaks Ou Into Streets To “Welcome End Of The War

Italy Grows Nervous: Climax Near   Germans Reinforce Syrian Border, Claim to Be Ready

Reopening Of Border Boosts Enemy Jitfers   British Seal Syrian Stretch to Civilians

Axis Invasion Fears Kept At High Pitch By Fresh Allied Moves in Near East   Report Troops Massed

ANXIETY OVE NEAR EAST INCREASES   Brenner Pass Between (rermany and Italy Reported Closed

Break Jap Resistance Repel All Air Attacks; Land, Sea, Air Units

Allies Gain Foothold On New Britain.   MacArthur's Men Land On Island With Licht Losses

DIGS IN AFTER DAWN ASSAULT   Troops Consolidate Positions On Island, MacArthur Reports

Other Jap Bases Pounded From Air as Sixth Army Invades Strategie Island

U. §. Sixth Army Establishes Hold or Arawe Peninsula   Allied Bombs Rain on Japs in Marshalls And on Bouaeainville

Americans Establish, Hold Beachhead—Ready For “Big Push” In Pacific

New Britain Invasion Is Successful   American Sixth Army Units Launch Drive at Japan’s Southwestern Line

JUNGLE TROOPS OPEN CONQUEST OF BIG JAP BASE   Assault Made Under Cover Of Planes and Warships; ‘Objective Attained’

STARTS ALLIED MOVE AGAINS] MAIN DEFENSES   Invasion Threatens Mair Approaches to Philippines, East Indies

—~ARAWE—   Jungle-Trained Troaps Of Sixth Army Spearhead Invasion

New Britain Invaded by US Troops   Beachhead’ Established on Arawe Peninsula; Jap Targets Bombarded in Vast Pacific Battlefront

Footing on New Britain Seized  By Sixth Army   Jungle-Trained American Troops Land on Island in Pre-Dawn Battle.   Krueger’s Men Break Resistance of Nippons

ENEMY BROKEN BY SIXTH ARMY   Yanks Consolidate Positions on L-Shaped Peninsula

Gain New iF cothold in Pacific   American Sixth Army ‘Wins Bridgehead on Arawe™ Area of New Britain’. :   ENEMY RESISTANCE © ‘REPORTED BROKEN   Patrols Searching Out. the - Nips: in Rain-Soaked- Tun gle Regions.”.

SIXTH ARMY BREAKS UP RESISTANCE   Few Jap Planes Challenge Invaders; Another Big Attack On Marshalls; Chinese Rally

COMBINED U, S. ASSAULT FORCE MAKES LANDIN(   This Invasion Opens Allied Assault Against 8.W. Bulwark of Nippon's Defense Line.

AMERICAN TROOPS SECURE FIRST OBJECTIVES IN ATTACKS AIMED-AT CAPTURE OF RABAUL   Mighty Campaign Against Southwestern Bulwark . Of Japan’s Defense Line in Pacific Begun. Only Light Losses in Dead and Wounded Sustained   INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN MARKS . START OF DRIVE TOWARD BIG JAP BASE AT TRUK AND TOKYO TISELF

TROOPS BREAK RESISTANCE OF THE JAPS   Patro's Now Organized  to Search Out Enemy _in Rain-Soaked Jungles / as Airmen Hit Hard at  CGaveral Places.

Bull Auctioned For $2,000 Here   Annual Registered Hereford Sale Opens

War Department Saves 13 Billions  Treasury To Get iad Pod oe ee   Treasury To Get lt at End of Year

SOLON SHOWS  WAR SAVINGS - TURN-BACK   Treasury To Get Sum Deovartment Has Remaining

War Dept. to Save 13.Billion; Fund Back to Treasury   “Sum Given up ‘Without: Impairing War Effort House:Told

War Department  Saves 13 Billion   To Return Big Sum To U. S. Treasury

Bedaux Arrested In North Africa   ‘Held On Charges Of Trading  With Enemy; Was Friend Of Windsors

DUKE'S FRIEND — UNDER ARREST   'Bedaux Reported Held in North ' Africa on Trading With Enemy Charge.

Allies Arrest Bedaux, Friend  of “Windsors”   Originator of speedup system’ for industrial workers seized i in Afriea,

Speedup Inventor Held In Africa As Enemy Trader   Former Friend Of Wind: sors, Labor's Arch Fee, : Placed Under Arrest

BEDAUX SEIZED INN. AFRICA   Former Efficiency Expert Held On Charges Of Trading With Enemy

AIRFIELDS IN ITALY TARGET FOR BOMBERS   Air Armadas Strike Telling Blows tor S2cond Day, Leaving Flaming Wrecks Of Enomy Fianes   Dig Way Out

Italy Suffers Crushing Aerial Attack   Giant American Armadas Inflict Damage On Vital Airfields; Enemy Offers Feeble Resistance, Takes Heavy Loss

'  American Flyers Continue Raids On Italian Fields   Other Sky Fleets Meet Little Nazi Rail Line Defense

Leaye Flaming Wreck: Of German and Malian _ Aircraft In .New Acrial Offensive. Strike. way Targets . British Warships : Fake Part.

CONTROL SKIES IN SOUTH ITALY   CONTINUE CAMPAIGN TO SHATTER AXIS AIRPOWER

Italian Airfields Hit By Americans   Telling Blows Leave Flaming Wrecks on Bases Near Naples; Railway Targets Bombed Without Enemy Opposition

U.S. Bomhers Hit Italy Heavy Blows   Flaming: Wrecks of Axis Planes Litter the Airfields

Yanks Agaii Hit Italian Airdromes   Flaming Wrecks Of Axis Planes Left On Fields

Furious Aerial Offensive Waged By Allies Against Airfields in South Italy

Airmen Blast — Toe’ of Italy,  Sardinia Isle   Conflict for  Mainland Ain     mines Rising

Bomber Armada: Hit Heavy Blows At Airdromes   Shoot Targets at Will as Enemy Quits Fight

Bombers Smash Italian Ports Ina Big Way   Little Resistance From Axis Forces

American Bomber Armadas Strike Telling Blows  FIELDS LITTERED BY AXIS AIRCRAFT British Warships Again ; Bomb Coastal Areas ‘

U.S. Aviators Strike New Blows at Italy   Wrecks Litter Capau, Grazzanise Airfields  —Warships Bombard Railroad, Bridges

Telling Blows Struck At Air Fields In South Italy  German Defense ts Desperate But Attacks Arve Carried Out Without Serious Loscec

‘American Fliers Attack At Will   Airports Littered. With Axis Planes

ALLIES JOINED IN CHASING FOE   Rommel’s Rearguards Ripped From Their Defense Positions,   REPULSE NAZI ATTACK

ROMMEL'S POSITIONS “POUNDED FROM AIR   American Flank Threat Forces German Chieftain to Withdraw

TEMPERATURES:   Smashing Gains Made As Yanks, British Eighth Army Join

Allies Gain - ate In Surpris se. : : ' Moveon Fo @   Yanks, British United: in Relentless Pursuit of Rommel Army

SURPRISE ATTACK IN NORTH NETS SEVERAL MILES TOWARD TUNIS  ARMIES OF PATTON AND  MONTGOMERY FINALLY WAVE CONTACT

RELENTLESS PURSUIT — GOES ON   Heavy Casualties Suffered By U.S. Troops In Junction

Axis Forces Harassed In South And North By Determined Allied Armies

British First Army Pushes Within 27 Airline Miles  of Tunis  ALLIES JOIN IN SOUTH      Enemy Columns Retreating Toward Sfax Pounded by Planes

Germans Facing New Threat; Allies Pound Rommel’s Axis Troops   Alexander’s Forces Within 27 Miles of Tunis; Patton, Montgomery Push Ahead

FORCES UNITED IN PURSUIT OF AXIS IN SOUTH   First Army Gains With Surprise Attack In MedjezEl-Bab Bulge  t   ROMMEL UNITS WITHDRAW   French Troops Join In Assaults Planes Harass Enemy Lines

Allies Press Relentless Pursuit Of Gen. Rommel   Americans and Britis Eighth Army Are Joined In South

Allied Bombers Blast at Enemy  As Axis Forces Relentlessly Pushed Back in Drive for Tunisia

New Gains  Are Seored  In Tuntsia   First ‘Army Advances Four Or Five Miles, Other Forces Pursue  Marshal Rommel

United British, American Troops Pursue Foe, Many Axis Prisoners Captured

First Army Moves Forward To Within 27 Airmiles  Of Tunis; Prisoners Taken

British Plunge 27 Miles From Tunis In North As Desert Fox Is Boxed In

British Seize Several Localities; Yanks Repel Enemy Counter-Drives

NAZI-HELD TUNIS GOAL OF DRIVING ALLIED LEGIONS   Yanks Join First Army  Pursuit of Rommel’s Fleeing Troops

Allies Gain In Surprise ' Move on Foe   Yanks, British United in Relentless Pursuit of Rommel Army

British First Army Gains In Drive On Tunis   American Troops Join Montgomery’s Men In South As Relentless Chase Of German Leader Continues; Airmen Active [”

Tunisian Campaign Becoming Intense As British Move Up For Kill; Counter... Attacks Are Thrust Back.

BRITISH 8TH ARMY AND THE AMERICANS PURSUE THE ENEMY   The Second U.S. Corp and Gen. Montgomery’s Army Have United.   BRITISH MAKE GAINS   Advanced Four or Five Miles by a Surprise Attack in Medjez El Bab Area.

United Yanks, © British Chase Rommel North   Patton’s and Montgomery’s Men Rip Axis Rearguards After Junction Of Two Armies In South; Air  Arm Pounds Enemy Columns.

British 1st Army Scores Gains In New Offensive   Anderson’s Army Storms Within 27 Airline Miles Of Tunis In Drive

More Prisoners Taken As Allies Join Forces, Press Pursuit Of Fleeing Enemy

Army, Navy and Air Force Are Now in Position to Exact Full Price From Enemy In Africa, Eisenhower Tells Alexander

8th Army United With U.S. Pursues Enemy in South   More Prisoners Rounded Up iin Both Sectors

Tunis Road Drive Wins Five Miles   British Now Within 27 Airline Miles of Nazi-Held Canital

Montgomery Has Advanced 15 Miles Be yond Wadi. El Akarit After Big Victory

BRITISH FIRST ARMY DRIVES AHEAD IN SURPRISE ATTACK   United American And British Forces In Hot Pursuit   ROMMEL FACING , HARD DECISIONS

ADVANCING ON ADRIATIC   * Several Additional Locali ties Captured Headquar ters Announce

Unite in Pursuit » Of Enemy Forces On Both Fronts   Anderson's First Army Storms Within 27 Miles  of Tunisian Capital.   Rommel’s Positions  Are Blasted From Air

Allied Units Unite In Central Tunisia, Continue Air Raids   Blast Axis Trans-Mediterranean Bases, Hit Naples, Messina, Palermo Harbor: All Planes Return

co First Army Pushes ut  Within 27 Airline Miles  Ps) 6f Tunis   ALLIES JOIN IN SOUTH   Eoeiy Columns Retreating _ Toward Sha Sfax Pounded —  Planes

VANGUARDS WITHIN 27 AIR MILES OF CITY   ‘Meanwhile, U. S. Force, Joined With British Eighth Army, Pursuing Enemy   MORE PRISONERS ARE FALLING TO ALLIES   Most Yankee Prisoners Are Germans; All Enemy Counter Thrusts Being Repulsed

First Army Has Stormed Within 27 Miles of Tunis; New Gains in South      AMERICANS BEAT OFF NAZIS’ BEST      Pursuit of Enemy Continues, More Prisoners Taken in WNorthieet Push

Allies Press Pursuit in South   Anderson’s Surprise Thrust Carries Vanguards to Less Than 27 Miles of Tunis -— Air Forces Blast Rommel’s Positions and Axis Trans-Sea Bases

‘Almost Entire Mili tary Machine Mor ‘es A gainst Foe; Alexander + Eisenhower                            More Prisoners Captured; American And British Forces Meet: Rommel, Flecing To North, Hotly Pursued By Fishth Army

NEW GAINS ANNOUNCED FOR ALLIES   Two Armies Move Close To Rome ‘On Weekend

ENGLISH, YANKS UNITE IN DRIVE IN SOUTH AREA   More Prisoners Taken; Allied Air Squadrons Shoot Up Rommel Forces

First Army sOpens Drive Toward Tunis   Rommel in Full Retreat as U.S. Forces Join British

‘Escort Flotilla — Gets 13 U-Boats   Allies Take Offensive In Battle of Atlantic -

IS"AXIS U-BOATS ARE DESTROYED IN ROUND TRIE   Allies Definitely on the Offen_ sive—Secret Weapon Potant.

13 U-Boats Sunk Or Damaged in Single Trip   Little Doubt Now That Allies Have Taken Offensive in Atlantic Battle

Naval Escort Group Accounts for. 13 Submarines in Ocean Round-Up

ESCORT SHIPS WIN VICTORY OVER. U-BOATS      Eighteen Sunk Or Damaged 01 Single Round Trip To. America

Reports of escort group scoring biggest victory on U-boats shows allied offense

OPERATORG wll UMW DEMANDS   Coal Industry Does Not Feel Request of Lewis Are Merited.   CONTRACT WILL EXPIRE

ROOSEVELT SIGNS 20 SUPPLY BILLS   18 War Agencies Have Func of Nearly Three Billion to Carry on Work.

House Action On Withholding Tay  Republicans’ Insist On Action, Threaten Rte Eanctar Haliday

EAK IN TAX DEADLOCK   No Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill No Easter Holiday, Savs Martin.

SOLONS SEEK HOLIDAY, MAP TAX PROGRAN   'No Bill, No Vacation,’ Verdict of G.O.P.  Leader

Pay-Go Impasse  Attacked   . Republicans Threaten Block Easter Recess

R epublica ns Seek To End Tax Deadlock   Making Strong Efforts To Get Some Compromise Bill Put Through

‘No Tax Bill, No Holiday Edict  Worries House   Easter Recess Hinges On Passage Of Pay-As-Go  * On icin ites

Allies bag Many Italian Planes  On the Ground  Foggia, on Continent, A. 3.5... i2. £8   Foggia, on Continent, And Island Ports Hit Hard Bomber Blows  HITLER PLAN UPSET  Fuehrer’s Campaign In Russia Reported Foiled by Air Blows

WFA ORDERS ELEVATOR CORN  REQUISITIONED   Will Pay Ceiling Price to Provide Refiners with Stocks Needed fo1 War Purposes

SEIZE CORN IN 96 ELEVATORS IN MIDDLEWEST   Stocks Requisitioned - to Provide Supplies for Processing Plants

ORDERS CORN REQUISITIONED AT TERMINALS   WFA Moves to Free Grain for Use by  Processors

Burlington, DesMoines Stocks Included in WFA Order Effective Today

WFA Requestioning Stocks Of Corn   Getting Supplies For Corn Food, Feed Needs

WFA Orders Requisition  Of Corn Stock   Elevator Stocks in 15 Principal Terminal Markets for Processors

Agency Acts Today To Get Supply for Processing Plants   96 Midwestern  Terminal Elevators Affected by Today’s Order

Impromptu Program Followed Dinner   Last Night Ladies’ Night at Regular Lions Club Meeting.

ARMY PLANE BURNS   All Occupants s Killed ii in Crash Near Hill City

Three Kansas Plane Crashes   Six Of Seven In One Parachute To Safety Near Topeka

Tennesseean Hero In Pacific Battle   Saves Officer, Gunner’s Mate, Shoots Down Bombe!

PLANS ARE STUDIED TO GET MORE BEEF   “Armed Forces Have Been Hil By Shortages, Too  i 

Fall Of Catania Gives Allies A Key Harhor. And: Breadbasket Of. Sicily

Raml Plan Is Defeated   House Backs Up FDR Against 100 Per Cent Forgiveness

NEW POWDER THAT FLOWS LIKE. WATER IS MAKING LARGE PART AMERICAN AVIATION GASOLINE

New Secret Powder That Acts Like Water  Now Making American Aviation Gasoline

New Secret Powder That Acts Like Water Makes American Aviation Gasoline Better

EARLY VOTE ON TAX PLAN GOAL OF REPUBLICANS   House Wrestles With 2¢ Amendments To Tax Forgiveness

Runl Tax Plan Defeat Is Seen   Rayburn Predicts Bill Will Be Beaten

Heavy Blows Lash Islands   39 Enemy Planes Downed Ing Destructive Bomber Raids *

BOMBERS POUND AXIS TARGETS IN SICILY, SARDINIA   Heaviest Raids Since Pantel. leria Fell Aimed at Foe Airfields, Troops

U. S. Airmen Bag 39 Enemy Planes In Raid   Messina Hammered; Shipping, Airfields in Sardinia Blasted

Yank Air Force Blasts Sicily, Sardinian Points  American Warplanes Rack Up Highest Sinele-Day Victory

Italian Bases On Sardinia, Sicily Blasted   Enemy Shipping, Troops And Planes Targets For Allies

U.S. Bombers Again Blast South Htaly.   Axis Shipping Bombed As Planes Lash Out In New Heavy Assault

39 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN RAIDS; AMERICANS LOSE £   Airfields and Shipping Blasted by Yanks in Heaviest Attacks Since Pantelleria Fell.   MESSINA AND MILO ARE TWO OF TARGETS   Great Air Battle Fought Over Golfo Aranci—-Engagement Costs Axis,  28 Ships.

Italian Isles Pounded With Allied Bombs   U.S. Warplanes Mak Their Biggest Raids Since Pantelleria

Planes Blaze Invasion Path   Gen. Doolittle’s Men Take Toll of 39 Enamy Croft in Aerial Assault; Hits Scored on Docks, Rail, Power Stations

Sicily, Sardinia Bombed; 89 Axis Planes Downed   Greatest Single - Day Victory Is Claimed 33 Tons Bombs Or Rabaul

Lash Out With Heaviest Blows Sinee Raids On Pantelleria   Doolittie’s Command Racks Uy Greatest Sin#le-Day , Victory of 3% Enemy Planes Downed

Americans Lose Eight Planes in Attacks On Mussolini's Island Fortresses; Yanks Bomb Shipping, Troops and Airfields.

Axis Shipping, Troops, Air Fields Blasted   39 Enemy Planes Are Downed in  Fierce Doa-Fighis

HEAVIEST BLOWa IN REGENT AY   Bombs Blast Axis Shipping, Troops, Airfields   " DUCE CALLS CABINET   Axis Denies Reports High « Italian Peace Envoys Are Now in Algiets

U. 5. A. FLIERS WIPE OUT 39 AXIS PLANES   DOOLITTLE’S FORCE RACKS UP GREAT AIR VICTORY

Axis Shipping, Air Bases And Troops Targets   Doolittle’s Force Chalks Up Greatest One Day Victory

American Plane: Plaster Islands   Blows Are Heaviest Since Pantelleria

39 AXIS CRAFT ARE BAGGED BY U.S. AIR FORCE   Doolittle’s Fighters Down Greatest Number In One  Day's: Forays lnte-’. Enemy “Territory, « :   FIGHT PLANES: LOST.   Axis Shipping, Troops. and Airfields Attacked By _ Strategic’ Force ‘In,  ‘Heaviest Blows. .

Fliers Blast Sardinia Axnd Sicily   Shipping, Airfields Are Hit; Total Of 39 Axis Planes Is Downed As Yanks Strike Hardest Air Blow

WOLVERINE FOR SCRAP PLANNED   First Iron-Clad, Now at Erie, May Return to War.

ONLY THREE Wek TAKEN BY ALINIY   Forrest Allen, John Burns and Charles Stitt Ac cepted Yesterday.

ONLY THREE MEN TAKEN BY ARMY   Forrest: Allen, J ohn Burn: and Charles Stitt Ac. : cepted “Yesterday.

Argue Terms of Hunger Strikers  Objectors Enter 36th Day of Protest

TREATMENT OF 60'S UNDER DISCUSSION   Objectors Refuse to Eat. Protest Menial Jobs to Be Done Around Camp

Legislature  To Adjourn On June $   Plans 10-Day Recess After Next Week

END OF ASSEMBLY SESSION LOOMING   95th Session of Ohio Legislature May Adjourn Next Week, !s the Belief.

PLAN FOR RECREATION   Executive Board of P.-T.A, Council Met Last Evening  .

PLAN FOR RECREATION   Executive Board of P. of P.-T.A. Council Met Last Evening 

Apple Juice To Be. Processed   Creameries Will. Use Their Equipment

STUDY APPLE SYRUP. PLANS   Creameries Urged To Con. vert Evaporating Equipment

Soldier Vote Action Looms   Kerr Said He Would Call Special Session To Clear Way for Plan

Kerr Ready To Call Session   Willing to Set Up Machinery for Soldiers’ Vote

Finds Mrs. Roosevelt a Dynamic  Figure--- Very Often Misunderstood

TURKEY? AID 10  ALLIES FORSEEN: MAY DECLARE WA   First Major Political Result of Conference May Be Turks

Conferences May Result In Nation Coming Into War   British Press Association Tacitly Admite Axis Reports; Talks May Be Prelude To Allied Offensive In Balkans

REPORT THIRD CONFERENCE HELD   British Radio Says Roosevelt, Churchill And President Of Turkey Meet

LONDON AWAITS DRAMATIC MOVE FROM BALKANS   BBC Reports FOR, Churchill Meeting in Cairo With President Inonu

Yank Pilot Trades Bomber for Eggs; He Was Kidding but Arab Is Serious

TRADES BOMBER FOR EGG SUPPLY   Pilot Begins to Fear Date Of Payoff in Deal

NAZIS ARE HELD GIRDING FLEET IN NORTH SEAS   London Report of Powerful Warship Concentration Given Credence by U. S. Quarters   SPRING ATTACK SEEN!   Allied Sea Power. Might

Axis Warships  Are Gathering   Nazi Fleet “May Try To Prey On Shipping Of “Allied. Nations

SPRING DRIVE BY NAZI FLEET 1S EXPECTED   Powerful Force Reported Being Concentrated Off Norway   MALL UNDIWay  MENACE CONVOYS  Alteration Of Allied Strategy On Seas May Be Needed

Coal Is Mined Again   Indiana County Pits Again Working After Layoff   HIT GUFFEY ACT   Latest Casualty of a Sledge-Hammer Congress

Thousands Of Miners Are Flocking Back   Two More Furnaces Are Fired by U. S. Steel  Corporation

ClO CONVENTION GETS UNDERWA\   Sixth Constitutional Conven * tion of Labor Group Opens In Philadelphia; Murray Reports 1,104,936 Gain In Membership.

ClO PRESIDENT IN CHARGE INSIDERS FOMENTING STRIKES  PHILIP MURRAY MAKES REPORT TO CIO CONVENTION MONDAY

Murray Says Labor Risking Entire Future   Condemns Labor Leaders Who Follow Personal Ambitions

AXIS REPORTS NEW RED DRIVE   — er Russians Announce Destruction of 131 German Planes in Two Days

RUSSIANS OPEN BIG OFFENSIVE GERMANS SAY   Press Major Drive With 150,000 Troops In Caucasus

GERMANS REPORT 190,000 SOVIETS IN NEWEST DRIVI   Russians Announce Titanic Air Battles: Northeast of j Wavorossisk.

Titanic Air Battles" Rage in Caucasus   Reds Down 131 Planes in Two Days; Axis Reports 150.000 Foes on Move

Titanic Plane Battle Fought Over Caucasus   Russia Reports 131 Enemy Craft Are Shot Down

AIR BATTLE IN RUSSIA   Russians Claim 31 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Two Days; Soviet . Troops Pressing Forward In Ground Offensive   MOSCOW SILENT ON AIR BATTLE REPORT

TITANIC AIR BATTLES REVEALED BY SOVIETS   Caucasus Sector is Scene of Violent Aerial Fighting  Russians Claim 131 Enemy Planes Have : Been Downed in Two Days—Axis Broad-  casts Say at Least 150,000 Red Army Troops Pressing Ground Offenctua

Russians Open Big Drive To Wipe _Qut Kuban  Center  150,000 TROOPS

131 Nazi Planes Said Shot Down Within Two Days   ‘Axis Reports 150,000 Soviet Troops Presa Against Bridgehead

WILL PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE SOLDIER   Memorial Service Will Be Held At St. Paul's’ Lutheran Church Sunday In Honor Of Pvt. R. Malcolm Moul

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LATE SOLDIER   Tribute Will Be Paid Memory Of Pvt. R. Malcolm Moul At St. Paul’s Church Sept. 5

el  WPB ASKS CHURCHES TO AID WAR OUTPUT   Seek Ways To Stop Defense Production Decrease

Raiders Meet Heavy Resistance In Attack on Tokyo Gateway; .Ten Enemy Planes Shot Down

Ten U. S. Planes Lost In Attack  On Paramushio Japs Admit Much   Japs Admit Much Damage Done To Base By Raid

Early Action On Post-War Plan Likely   Sub-Committee Named t Study Resolutions Before Conpress   ADMINISTRATION TO ‘- SEEK VOTE s00N   Substitute Plan Probably Will Be Worked Out by Senate Groun

Headaches For Airlines Are Outlined   State, Local Regulations Are Many And Confkcting

TE a eee WE inane acces CAMP HOOD TO HOUSE 400 PRIRGONERS OTF WAR

Mrs. John Pollock Named County Seal Sale Chairman   Will Appoint Committees t Aasist in Seal Sale Which Starts November 22

Mrs. Pollock Chosen Co. Seal Chairman   Christmas Seal Sale Will Open on Monday, Novamber ?2

Tunisian Situation Favorable, Says Stimson; Bulk of Rommel Army Now Heading For Union with Arnim’s

WMC Reshuffles Areas to Recruit 425,000 for Armed Forces, Plants

'W.M.C. Shifts All Areas In Pennsylvania   Reshuffling Intended toa Speed Up Labor and War Recruiting   WARREN IN NORTHWEST

BOMBING IS ONLY LAST PHASE, LONG ROUTINE   Takes 125 Women and Men To Send Bomber From  Britain to Berlin   ‘BIG MASS OF DETAILS

LONG AND COMPLICATED JOB ~~ TO PREPARE FOR MASS RAID   GREAT AMOUNT OF DATA AND PREPARATIONS REQUIRED TO STAGE SUCCESSFUL AERIAL ATTACKS

Nazis Declare Martial Law in South Italy As Badoglio Urges Nation fo Resist

Reds Threaten To Engulf  Donets Basin   Konotop Menaced Directly by Soviet Column

Pressed In Concert With Drives Below Kharkov And Above Sea Of Azov, Heavy Artillery Batteries Are Used   REDS DRIVE SIX MILES PAST SUM}

SOVIET ARMIES THREATEN ALL DONETS BASIM   Russians Advancing On Territory Held Two Years By Nazis

REDS DRIVE SIX MILES PAST SUMY: DONETS FALL NEAR   Russians Advancing Across Territory Held By Germans Since 1941.

SOVIETS THREATEN UTO-ENGULF ENTIRE DONETS BASIN-NOV   ‘Armies Drive Six Miles ; Past Sumo and Knock --Qut Germans: Right -and Left.-

REDS MAKE DRIVE TO THREATEN ALL OF DONETS BASIK   Victorious Army ts Six Miles Beyond Sumy In An Area Captured By Enemy Army During 1941.   ALLIED PLANES HIT JAPS GREATEST BLOW   Madank Base Blasted with 206 Tons of Explosives With Heavy Gunfire Lasting Several Hours.

RED ARMIES DRIVE SIX MILES BEYOND SUMY STRONGHOLD   Soviets ‘Threatening To Engulf Whole Donets Basin—Konotop Menaced —

REDS DRIVE SIX MILES PAST SUMY   Threaten to Engulf Entire Donets Basin

ERMAN FLE   Key Points Along 700Mile Front Are Assailed   ‘KONOTOP, NEAR KIEV, DIRECTLY MENACED

Reds Threaten To Engulf All  of Donets Basin   Russian Armies Drive Six Miles Past . Stronghold of Sumy

HEAVY VOTE MAY (CCUR TOMORROW   Voters Will Express Their  . Choice At Polls For Ward, Borough And County Offices

PARTIES TO NAME NOMINEES TUESDAY   Republicans And Democrats Will Select Their Candidates For Borough And County Posts At Pbils

Await Some Clue On Spitsbergen  Reveal Grim Strugg!   Reveal Grim Struggle By Norwegian Band

Mystery Still Shrouds Fate of Group ‘At Spitsbergen, Near North Pole; .Government Tells About Long Ordeal

AWAIT GLUE TO FATE OF SPITZBERGEN   Norwegian Government In London Reveals Garrison Had Signaled Approach Of  German Flee%   Capital Ships

LABOR PRIORITIES PLANNED IN AREAS OVER THE COUNTRY   Manpower Commission Chairman McNutt Is Ready to Take “Freezina” Steo.

M'NUTT READY 10 FREEZE WORKERS IN WAR PLANTS   Would Prevent Workers From Moving To Non-Essential Work

MNUTT SEIZES FULL AUTHORITY TO FREEZE LABOR   Priorities “ Will Control All Work In Thirty-two Shortane Areas.

LIEUT. TOMHARMON IS REPORTED - SAFE IN SOUTH: AMERICA   Wreckage “OF Plane Was Found In Jungle — No Details Are Available

Lt. Harmon Is Found Safe In South America   ‘Michigan’s Famous Grid Star Now Flying Officer Safe After Being Missing

CRASHED IN JUNGLE   Famous Football Sta Was Reported Missing On April 8 Flight

Ex-Grid Star Now at Base in South America   No Details Revealed; Flier Was Missing Since April 8

Tommy Harmon Renorted Alive In South Amerie   Football Star's Plane Found Wrecked In Junal-

Former Grid StarSafein § America   Parents Over-Joyed As Missing Airman Found

Tom Harmon Safe After Plane Crash   Former Grid Here Missing Severe! Days On Flight, Is 0.K.

Tom Harmon Found Safe in Jungle   DETAILS OF AIR CRASH WITHHELD; PARENTS OF GRID STAR REJOICE

Tom Harmon Safe In South America   Michigan Grid Ace Located, is Report

TOM HARMON IS REPORTED SAFEINS. A.   Wreckage of Plane Is Found in Jungle; Details Unknown

Nazis Slay 54 Italians After Villager Kills German In Protecting His Niere

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEARSON (Tredemark.)

Trucks Must Show That They are Essential, to Get Certificate of War Necessity

MONEY CONTINUES TO BE RECEIVED CHEST, WAR FUND it SLIGHTLY OVER SIX  : THOUSAND DOLLARS YE’

MONEY CONTINUES 10 BE RECEIVED GHEST, WAR FUND SLIGHTLY OVER SIX  THOUSAND DOLLARS YE’  NEERNED MELT COAL

JAPS GILBERT POLAND bhoto bET POUNDING   Strongholds Upon Invasion Route To Big Navi Base Of Truk Blasted

AMERICANS RAID JAP STRONGHOLDS IN GILBERT ISLES   Heavy Attack Made On Invasion Path To Truk   BOTH ATTACKS WERE STAGED FRIDAY NIGHT

G-Men Often Get Laughs In Running Down Axis Spies   BY FRANK If. WELLER

Hoover Agents Play Tricks On Nazi Spies Who Think Americans Stupid   By FRANK I. WELLER

‘Cruel G-Men Lead Axis Agents Into \[Ridiculous Traps, Then Laugh at ‘Em

BRITISH ARMY 5 READY FOR SPURT      Forces Expected to Launch _New Drive Toward Trivoli

BRITISH DRIVE TOWARD TRIPOLI IS LOOKED FOR   Reinforcements, Including Tank Units, Said to Have Reached Allied Troops Facing Rommel.   AMERICAN AIRMEN BLAST AT NAPLES   Fighting French Announce Conquest of Fezzan—Italian Garrisons in Two Towns Surrender.

Varied Blows Dealit to Axis in-Libva   Reinforcements Arrive in East Africa

EIGHTH ARMY SET TO STRIKE   Strong Reinforcements Ar rive to Aid Montgomery in Tripoli Drive

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY POISED FOR ASSAULT   Montgomery's Forward Elements Have Been Strengthened For Renewed Offensive

ALLIES BEGIN FRESH SPURT INTO TUNISIA   ATTACK ON ROMMEL DUE SOON; FRENCH CUT ESCAPE

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY  SEEMS SET FOR FRESH SPURT TOWARD TRIPOLI   Anglo-American and French Allies in Tu nisia, Fighting French in Lower Libya Deal Varied Blows at the Axis

BRITISH 8th ARMY READY FOR NEW DRIVE   Strong Re-inforcements, Including Tank Forces, Arrive To Strengthen Forward Elements At Wadi Zemzem.   Germans Fuss

ITALIAN FORT IS POUNDED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Allies Strike Blows Or African Strongholds In 24-Hour Cycle; Naples Raided   British Reinforced

Eighth Army Preparing Fresh Drive   While Allies Deal Varied Blows In Mediterranean

CONQUEST OF CORSICA 1S COMPLETED   Allied Bombers Attack Greece From New Bases

Although Tough and Brainy. Captured  Nazi Officers Dudes, Crybabies

‘Tough German Soldiers Prove Dudes, ‘Plunderers and Crybabies When Caught

German Soldiers Tough Physically, Brainy At War, But Dupes, Plunderers, Cry-Babies

GERMAN SOLDIERS TOUGH FIGHTERS, BUT THAT'S ALL   BRANDED AS PLUNDERERS, DUDES AND CRYBABIES BY A. P. WRITER

PRESIDENT IN “MESSAGE” 10 ITALIAN PEOPLE   Says War on Country Result of Partnership With Germany

FDR SAYS U.S, FIGHTS IL DUCE   President Declares No Battle With People, Logical Foe Fascist Leaders

Tax Arithmetic Will Be Much Easier  New Revenue Bill Puts Income Tax Somewhat Higher For Two Groups

Some Persons May Pay Higher Taxes Under Revenue Bill Before Senate

Next Goal Is Already Being Chosen   Invasion Threatens Europe; Axis Is In Direst Straits

CONGRESS AIMS STEAMROLLER AT PROGRAM      Knox, Nelson, Bowles En 4 dorse President Plan

House Passage Sought For Bill   SUBSIDY MEASURE BACK. ED BY NEW DEAL FORCES

TRIES 10 KILL 3 CHILDREN   Charleston Woman, 21, Attempts to Drown Offspring in River

YOUNG MOTHE TRIES TO KILL 3 CHILDREN   Charleston Woman, 21, Attempts to Drown Offspring in River

COUNCIL WARNS ON BLACKOUT IN APRIL   Citizens Asked To Restudy Signals To Avoid Confusion

SURPRISE AIR RAID TEST IS SET FOR APRIL   Pennsylvanians Asked To Make Restudy Of Blackout Signals

NAZI ’DROMES IN GREECE AGAIN RAIDED   Inclement Weather In Italy Continues To Slow Action

ALLIES SMASH NAZI AIRFIELDS   ‘Mud And Bad Weather Bos  Down Italian Front

ITALIAN FRONT QUIET AS MUD BOGS THE ATTACK   But Allied Air Force Slams Away At Greek Airfields.

U. a. BOMBER HIT AT GAtebt Bota UF NAZIS   Air Assault Goes Forward As Bad Weather Bogs Down Italian Front

NAZI AIRFIELDS IN GREECE BLASTED BYU). §. BOMBERS   Bad Weather Continues tc Bog Down Armies on  Hilinens Beant

DAY VISIT MADE, LUDWIGSHAFEN If BOMBED AT NIGHT   2500 Tons of Bombs Crash on Two Cities Disintegrate Buildings. Start Great Conflagrations.   OTHER ENEMY BASES IN GREECE DAMAGED   British Gains So Slight That Italian Battle Lines Remain Unchanged, Floods Hamper Troops.

Nazi Bases In Greece Smashed   Mud, Bad Weather Continue to Slow Allied Armies

U. S. Bombers Shatter Vital Greek Air Base  Explosives Rain on. Eleusis Base; Potrale Active on Italian Front

Forts Smash At Greek Airfields   Seek To Destroy Bases For Drive In Aegean

OHIO FOURTH IN DEFENSES   Stone Cites Danger, Urges Ohioans To Invest In Bomb Precautions.

Ohio Farming Areas May Be Hit By Bombs In Enemy Air Raids   Rural Sections Not Immune To Attack Civilian Defense Council Warns and Emphasizes That Industrial-important State Is Potential Target for Warplanes Axis Might Send Over

French Forces Join In Battle To Take Corsica   Italians Assisted By Giraud Forces In Ousting Nazis

FRENCHMEN NOW FIGHT ON SOIL. OF HOMELAND   “Commandos Land On Corsica Which Is Part o  Metropolitan France

French Commandos Fight On Own Soil For First Time Since Collapse

FRENCH TROOPS COMMANDOS IN CORSIGAN FIGHT   Battle Takes Favorable Turn Gen. Henri Giraud Reports

FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY AJACCIO      Take Capital Of Corsica And Air And Naval Base From Germans

FRENCH TROOPS BATTLE NAZIS FOR CORSICA   Italian Soldiers Aid Commandos  Landed fyom Africa—Isiand’s ' Capital Reported Captured   NAZIS REINFORCED   Control Would Give Allies Bases for Fighter Attacks on Po, Rombing of Rhone Valley

FRENCH INVADE CORSICA; FIGHT NAZIS FOR AREA   German - Controlled Marseille Says French Have Occupied Capital City On Island

French Battle On Soil Of Metropolitan France For First Time Since Fall Of Republic In 1940

SWEDEN SAYS CAPITAL 15 CAPTURED   Enemy Force Is Augmented By Men From Sardinia; Two Divisions Of Germans On Island

FRENCH FIGHT FOR CORSICA   Commandos Stage Raid To Wrest Control of Island From Nazis

French Forces Battle Nazis Upon Corsica  ee we ee oe  Giraud Reports Fioht Favorable

BATTLE TO DRIVE HUNS INTO SEA IS ON   Aided by French Patriots Giraud's Men Grapple With Nazi Forces on Small Isle

View ‘Open City’ Action As Hoax  British Paper Demand: Bombings Continue

BELIEVE PEN CITY PLEA ONLY A TRICK   High Cost of “of Taking City Out of War Hints of Italinn Rise

DECLARATION IS SEEN AS TRICK   London Daily Express Demands That Bombing Of Rome Be Continued Despite “Open City” Order.

SUSPECT TRICK FROM BADOGLIC      ‘Open City’ Declaration Is Hit _ By Lord Beaverbrook’s Newspaper

Merely A Trick by  Premier Badoglio   “The War Goes On” Until Italy Quits As A Whole   COULDN'T FIGHT WITH ROME OUT

ROME OPEN CITY TALK BELIEVED BADOGLIO RUSE   Seen By London Press As: Fart of German Trick;  Continued Bombing of Capital Demanded:

Open City Move Believed Trick   London Press Sees Hitler's Hand in Italy’s Declaration

ALLIES WARY OF OPEN CITY MOVE   BADOGLIO PLEA FOR ROME SUSPECTED AS ANOTHER AXIS TRICK

‘Open City’ Declaration  Seen As Trick   London Papers Call For Continuation Of italian Bombings

Britain Sniffs At Rome Decree   ‘Open City’ Declaration Reaarded As Trick

"Open City” Declaration Believed Ruse   Badoglio Announcement Causes Much Suspicion In London Press   NO OFFICIAL COMMENT

British Regard Rome ‘Open City’ Declaration As Badoglio Ruse   London Press Demands Continued Bombings; Influx Of Civilians Seeking Residence In Rome Halted By Authorities.

ROME ACTION BELIEVED TRICK   Believe Badoglio Hopes To Spare City Further Bombardment

Declaration By Badoglio — Seen as Ruse   London Press Reflects British Belief That Move Is Only a Trick   BLUNTLY DEMANDS MORE BOMBINGS   Italy Virtually Impossible  to Defend, Is View, If  Rome Meets Terms

MAKING ROME OPEN CITY RUSE, BELIEF   London Newspaper  Demands. Allied Air Attacks Be Continued. ,

Rome Open City Believed Trick   Britain Bluntly Urges More Air Raids

Italy Trying To Pull Trick, Sav B ritish   Gpen City Declaration Believed Trick On Part Of Badoglio To Spare City From Attack

Open City Declaration Seen as Trick   London Press Urges New Air Attack On Rome

CONTINUE ROME RAIDS-BRITAIN   Badoglio’s Open City Dec: laration Viewed As Ruse

Demand Continuation Of Air Assaults On Capital Defense Of Southern And Central Italy Impossible If Requirements Are Fulfilled

Open City Seen As Halian Trick   Badoglio’s Word Doubted By Some

British Demand Bombings  Rome ‘Open City’ Regarded As Ruse   NO COMMENT

Rome Open Cit Declaration Believed Trick   British Suspect Badoglio.of Ruse To Escape. Bombs

CHINESE DRIVE IS MARKED BY NEW SUCCESSES   Germans Reported To Have 2,000,000 Troops Massed For Attack on Russia

Chiang's Forces Credited With New Successes Today   Another Town to Northeast of Ichang Has Been Captured

TOWN TAKEN  ADJACENT TO BASE OF JAPS   Meanwhile Bombers Under Command of General MacArthur Make Major Raid on Rabaul ..

KAI-SHEK’S ARMIES ARE CREDITED WITH NEW SUCCESSES   Occurred in Fighting Along the Upper Yangtze River Front.   AN ALL-NIGHT BATTLE   Chinese Occupy Wangchiachang, Killing 300 Japanese.

Chinese Take heen Near Base Of Japs   Report Other New Successes

CHINESE MARK UP SUCCESSES   Capture Town Northwest of Jap Base of Ichang

New Success For Chinese  Remainder Of Pacifi   Remainder Of Pacific Front Fairly Quiet

CHINESE CAPTURE ANOTHER VILLAGE   Take Town Northeast of Jap Base at Ichang

New Victories In ina Claimed In Northern Yangtze   Another — Stronghol« Near Hankow Falls U. S. Fliers Fetec By China

Chinese Force Captures Town   Takes ‘Wangchiachang After All-Night Fight; 300 Japanese Killed

Chinese Troops Capture  Town Northeast Of Main Japanese Base Of Ichang

CHINESE ARMIES IN GREATER SUCCESSES AGAINST JAPANESE  STORMED AND CAPTUREL TOWN NORTHEAST IN-

GHINot OORE NeW VICTORY WYER JAPANESE   shiang’s Troops Capture Town Northeast of Jap Base Of Ichang

Chinese Score New Successes Along Yangtze   Chiang’s Armies Capture Town Northeast Of Main Enemy Base Of Ichang

CHINESE MAKE MORE GAINS ON YANGTZE   Troops Storm and Capture Town Northeast of Main Jap Base at Ichang, Take Stronghald Ahove Hankow.

Chinese Gain New Successes  Storm Town Near Jop Base At Ichang; Take Other Cities

Chinese Advance On Yangtze, Hit Ichang Japs  Planes Downed By Yanks In  Solomons War

CHINESE PUSH JAPS   ‘Reports Show New Successes Along Several Fronts

CHINESE SLASH ENEMY’S LINES   Over 300 Nip Troops Are Killed in Chiang’s New Advance

CHINESE SOLDIERS IN NEW SUCCESSES   Storm and . Capture Town Northeast of Main Jap Base of Ichanag. .

Chinese Occupy Wangchiachang  Kai-Shek Troops Also Break Into Yingshan

Chinese Still Smashing On   Royally Entertain U. S. Fliers Who Battered Japs

U. S. Preparec If Axis Uses Poison Gas   Edgewood Arsenal Producing Many New Chemical Warfare Weapons For Allies

U.S. Ready to Retaliate If Enemy Resorts to Use of Gas   Equally Ready to Take It, Chemical Warfare Service of Army Says; Germany Known to Have Large Stores of War Gas, and Wiil be Expected to Use It Whenever Advantageous

U.S. IS READY FOR ANY TYPE OF CHEMICAL WAR   Germans Have Gus anc Will Use Te When Ad. vantageous, Not Ex. pected in Tunisia   CEN. WM. POLIR

IN USE OF al   Chemical Chief. Says Germans May Use Deadly Weapon If Pressed.    SEE NO POINT NOW WITHOUT DIRE NEED   U.S, ‘Army Well Prepared, Developing Smoke and Vapor Screens.

AMERICA IS READY IF NAZIS USE GAS   Big Stores Known To Be Held In Germany

PATTONIN COMMANG UF AMERICAN FORCE  1   Gen. Montgomery Leads British Troops In Sicily

a ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee a ee ee  Here Are Your Generals Gen. Patton Commands US Forces in Sicils  . cote. Se A, ee

Allies Headed By All-Stars   Montgomery Commands British, Patton Americans

Yankees In Sicily Led By Patton   . ». Eisenhower Still Is Commander-In-Chiet

NICHY Assault Led By Patton And Montgomery  Adee Tien kien   Action Combined Under Guidance Of Gen. Eisenhower

MONTGOMERY & PATTON IN LEAD   General Patton Commands U. S. Forces, General Montgomery British Fore-. es In Sicily; Other Offi-. cers Listed. 

Patton . Heads ~ Yanks In Sicily   Gen. Montgomery Chief Of British Forces

Seaport in Adriatic Sea Taken Over   Fierce Fighting Indicated as Invading Forces Land  on Italian Coast

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE ON HEEL TAKER; U.S. HOLDS BRIDGEHEAD AT NAPLES

Italians Battle Hitler’s Forees   U. S.-British Troops Extend Beachheads

BRITISH LAND AT STRATEGIC ITALIAN PORT   Move to Cut Off German Troops in South Italy

Allies Occupy ltalian Naval. Base, Taranto.   Smash Closer To Great Port OA Nanlec

YANK FORCES ARE GIVEN AID DURING 5 NAZI ATTACKS   Little Resistance Is Offeret Along Boot, Another Farce Is Reported In lonian Seq.   BRIDGEHEADS SOUTH OF NAPLES WIDENED   First Groups of U. S. 5th Army Established Beachheads at Naples In Spite of Opposition.

Allies Crush 5 Nazi Attacks  In Naples Arec   Germans Begin Withdrawa! from Italian Foot to Avoid Capture

Occupation OF Taranto Major  Allied Victory   Fleet Reported . - En Route To: Points On The Adriatic -

U), §. FORCES PUSH CLOSER TO NAPLES   8th Army Gains Ground on Toe

RUSSIANS REPEL GERMAN ATTACKS   Americans Maintain Steady Offensive on Jap Positions In Pacific Ocean.

REDS KILL 1000 MORE NAZI TROOPS   Smash Series Of German Counter-Attacks

Reds Repulse Attacks by Nazi Troops   Soviet Artillery Kills ,.000 Nazi Troops in Battle

REDS SMASH SERIES OF NAZI ATTACKS   1000 Germans Killed And Six Tanks Crippled ‘In Caucasus

RIDER KILLED      tirt Dies, Three: Injured As Auto Rhkids Inta Train

OPPOSES PAY HIKE   Senator Claims Rates Will Boost Cost Of Living

Reds Claim New Gains In Orel Area   Repulsed All German Drives at Belgorod, Russians Declare

Reds Strike New Blows At German:   Ten Nazi Divisions Driven Back In Russian OFffensive

SOVIETS STRIKE FRESH BLOWS AT INVADING NAZIS   Minor German Gains In Belgorod Sector Whittled Down; Nazi Tank Losses Listed At 3,000, Planes 1,600, Men 54,000.

Reds Strike Fresh Blows At Germans   Send 10 Nazi Divisions Reeling Back, North and East of Orel

Russians Strike Anew at Germans On Orel Front   Nazi Losses Mount To 3,052 Tanks; 54000 Men Killed

TEN DIVISIONS AREROUTED BY SOVIET FORCES      Russians Strike Savage Blows East of Orel, As Nazis Ree! Back In Rain-Soaked Area   NAZI TANK LOSSES NOW SURPASS 2,000   Other Red Units Slice German Gains In Bulge On Belgorod Front, Moscow Reports

Russians Press New Offensive In Orel Sector   Ten German Divisions Routed In 28-Mile Ad vance Rv Reds.

Soviets Strike New Blows at Nazi Invader:   German Divisions Sent Reeling Back of Orel With New Attacks Repulsed; Enemy Losses Reported Heavy.

Russian Army Drives On Orel In Dual Assaul   Report 70 Nazi Divisions Reeling Under Blows: Take Piles O£ Supplies

HAMMER BLOWS SEND GERMANS INTO RETREAT —   110 Towns Retaken; 12,000 Nazis Dead; Advance 28 Miles

Fresh Blows Hit Germans   Russians Scatter 10 Nazi Divisions Near Orel Sector

 Nazi Divisions Reeling —  ~ Soviets Driving On: Orel In Great Two-Pronged Attack

10 Nazi Divisions Reel Under Red Offensive Today   Minor Belgorod Gain Whittled Down ; Nazi Tank Loss Staggering

AEDS HUHL FRESH BLOWS AT AZIG   Other Russian Troops Whittle Down German Gains in Belgorod Bulge

RUSSIANS PRESS NEW OFFENSIVE IN OREL SECTOR   Retake 110 Towns in 28-Mile Advance; Nazi Tank Losses Over 3,000

Reds Press New Attack Near Orel   Enemy Forces Again Repulsed On Beleorod Front

BELIEVE HITLER IS MAKING LAST STAND IN RUSSIA   ' Soviets Hammering Germans All Along Orel Front Line

RUSSIANS STRUCK FRESH BLOWS AT GERMANS TODAY   Sent Elements of 10 Nazi Divisions Reeling Back, Scattered on Soaked Fields.   FRESH ATTACKS MADE   Were Repulsed As They Continued at a Furious Pace, Dispatches Said.

Nazis Reel Under New Red Blows   Parts of 10 Divisions Stagger Back Through Rain Soaked Fields

Reds Threaten Orel In 3-Way Drive On City   Russlan Divisions Whittle Down German Gains In Other Sectors.   NAZIS CLAIM GAINS

Reds Send Nazi Units Reeling   10 Divisions Reported Thrown Into Rout in Smashes Around Orel

REDS STRIKE . FRESH BLOWS ATNAZIS   Elements of Ten Axis Divisions Sent Reeling Back on Rain-Soak Fielde

Reds Hit Hard Blows At Nazis  10 German Divisions Reel Back Near Ore

RUSSIANS OPEN COUNTER DRIVE   Nazi Army Thrown Back - 28 Miles; Advance On Orel

RED ARMY STRIKES  NEW BLOWS AT NAZI  INVADERS FRIDAY ELEMENTS OF TEN GER;  MAN DIVISIONS SENT REELING RACK

Russians Repulse Elements Of Ten Divisions North And East Of Orel—Enemy Gains Reduced In Belgorod Bulge—Hitlerites’ Losses In Twelve Days Set At 3,051 Tanks And 1,686 Planes Destroyed, 54,000 Men Killed Or Captured

Fresh Russian Blows Send 10 Nazi Divisions in Flight  Germans Lose 3052 Tanks, 1686 Planac SANNN Adorn Killad ar Cantiurvad

LABOR DRAFTING GAINING FAVOR   Administration Pushes Proposal Which Baruch Labels As “Dangerous”

SENTIMENT STRONG FOR LABOR DRAFT   Gov’t Leaders Want It; Labor and Industry Opposed

LABOR DRAFT - SUPPORTED BY ADMINISTRATION   “abinet Members Reported Ready To Book Compulsory Work Bill

PROPOSED DRAFT FOR LABOR STIRS BITTER DISPUT!    Strong Sentiment In Favor of  Idea Believed to Exist In  Administration.

Reveals There is Strong Sentiment in Administration for Drafting Labor; Management, Labor, Farmers Opposed

LABOR DRAFT FAVORED BY GOVERNMENT   Strong Sentiment In Administration For  Drafting Labor

LABOR DRAFT ENDORSED BY CABINET BLOC   Strong Sentiment Withir Administration Reported

STRONG SENTIMENT FOR THE DRAFTING OF MANPOWER SEEN   Administration Favors Program But Opposition Rises from Ofher Sources.

Sentiment Noted In Washington For Labor Dratt   Work Week Order Viewed as Step In That Direction

Army Takes One Of Five Males In School Work   ‘Women Teachers Enlist In Waves and Other Branches

NAZIS ADMIT ABANDONMENT OF POLTAVA   Soviet forces pound ahead on every sector of Russian front

Hoy TROOPS BATTERING AY GATES OF KIEV   Hammer at Roads to Smoiensk in Advances on All . Battlefronts.   8,000 NAZIS SLAIN, 300 CAPTURED AT DEMIDOV

REDS HAMMER AT GATES OF VITAL CUTIES   Nearing Kiev and Smolensk, Important Nazi Bastions

ALLIED SEA-BORNE FORCES CAPTURED ‘ISLAND OF PROCIDA  TEN-DAY OLD BATTLE OF SALERNO REPORTED  UipDTrraArTEey WON

Two Islands Captured Near Great Seaport   Salerno Battle Nearly Ended as Germans Retreat

Allies Expect. Enemy Stand To Save Naples.   By ROGER GREENE AP War Editar

Seize Islands  To Flank Port Held By Nazis   Germans Retreat From  Bloody Salerno Battle

GERMANS PULL OUT FROM SOUTHERN END BRIDGHEAD AREA  ALLIES SEIZED TWO Tr ahme ATR crim

NEW PHASE OF BATTLE OPENS   Eighth and Fifth Armies Now Virtually Acting as One Army. .   GERMANS OCCUPY ELBA

Allies Capture Priscida Island InDaring Coup   Germans Retreating from Both Ends of 27-Mile Salerno Bridgehead; Allied Troops Capture Lae; Nazi Lines Are Creumblina in Rucecia

New Phase Of Struggle For Italy Opens; Germans Retreai From Salerno To Avoid Pincers.

New Phase Of Battle For Italy Develops When Allicd forces Carry Out Flanking Movement

Troops Spear 11 Miles Inland As Foe in South  Flees Pineers   Nazis Claim Seizure of Elba, Exile Home of Napoleon

Allies Gird For Assault On Naples   Germans Flee At Salerno To Avoid Trap

MERGED FORCES TAKE SALERNO AND BAY ISLAND   Germans in Retreat from Bloody Battlefield Put Up Rear Guard Fight   REINFORCEMENTS POUR IN   No Details of Latest of Fast-breaking War Are Coming from Front

Allies Expand Bridgehead As Nais Back Up   Bitter Fighting Is Still Underway At Salerno

Allied Coup Threatens To Outflank Germans   Proocida and Penza Taken Over; 5th Army Plunges Inward From Salerno. to  Take Rooccadaspide, On Southern Flank.

GERMANS RETREATING FROM 27MILE SALERNO\ BRIDGEHEAD T0 ‘AVOID BEING CA JGHTIN TRAP   Daring Coug by. Allies Threatens to Outflank Italy’s -Second.Greatest Port From North. — Naz Still Fighting Desperat . Rear Guard Action

THRUST INLA Tl MILES FROM SALERNO AREA   Large Italian Seaport Flanked in New Phase of Baitle for Htaly

Nazis in Retreat At Both Ends of Salerno Beachhead.   Foe Fights Strong Rearguard Actions; Russian Advance Rolls Forward

ISLAND OF PONZA, 65 MILES WEST OF NAPLES, IN ALLIED HANDS AS CLARK, MONTGOMERY MARSHAL ARMIES INTO SINGLE FIGHTING GROUP; DETERMINED FLIERS POUND AXIS AIRFIELDS FROM BASES IN ITALY

Salerno Battle Virtually Ended: 2 Islands Taken   Allies Clamp Island Lock On West Of Port As United Armies Prepare Drive

Sea-Borne Forces Capture Isle of Procida, Only 12 Miles from Heart of Naples; Ger-.. mans Take Elba; Unrest Seethes in Balkans,

Bridgehead Expanded as Fighting at Gateway to Naples Continues Heavy

Seize Island Only. 12 Miles From.  ‘Naples  THREATEN FLANK  Ciarmane Remnertal   Germans Reported Retreating From Salerno

Allies Seize 3 Italian Isles   Settle for Selerne Ends, With Nezi Army Retreating From Area, but Heavy Fighting is Still in Progress, Communique Says

NAZI FORCES PULLING OUT FROM SALERNO   American Fifth, British Eighth Armies Joined As One Unit; Now 11 Miles  Inland

New Phase of Battle for italy Is Opened Today   Fifth Army, Now United With Eighth, Pushes Nazis Back

AMERICANS IN ITALY GAINING GROUND TODAY   Germans Retreat As Allied Help  Arrives There

ALLIED SEA BORNE FORCES HAVE TAKEN PROCIDA ISLAND   The Capture, Only 12 Miles From Naples, Was Made in a Daring Coup.   NEAR BAY OF NAPLES   Another Allied Expedition Seized the Large Island of Ponza.

Germans Swing Northward Toward Central Italy to Avoid Being Caught In Pincers Between American and 5ritish Forces.   Allies Capture Two Islands Off Northern Spur of Bay of Naples

Procida, 12 Miles Southwest, Ponza, 6: Miles West of Naples Being OccupiedGermans Seize Elba

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. Sept. 8 (7\—The Island of Ischia off the Gulf of Naples surrendered o Allied naval forces two days ago, it was announced today. -

ALLIES SEIZING ISLANDS   Nazi Planes Hit In Surprise U. S. Attacks On Fields

Germans Falling Back at Salerno   Larger Island of Ponza, 65 Miles West Of Naples, Also Captured — Battle of Salerno Virtually Ended— Allies Have Initiative on Fifth Army Front

Allies Hurl Joint Strength Against Retreating Nazis   Fifth Army Drives 11 Miles Inland; Nazis, Fighting Fierce Rearguard Action, Swinging Flank Into Central Italy To Avoid Trap

ALLIES DRIVE INLAND; TAKE TWO ISLANDS   Junction of U. $8. Fifth and British Eighth Armies Now Complete.

New Phase Of Struggle Now In Progress   Germans Retreating As New Salerno Battle Nears Completion; 5th, 8th Armies Push On

Nazi Retreat Under Way in: Salerno Area   But Successful’ Withdrawa? Will Be Difficult; Two Allied Armies Joined   AND -YANES USE ITALIAN AIRFIELDS   Striking as Far North as Rome; Allied Spearhead Pushed Inland

Allies Move To Blockade Naples   Islands Flanking Great Italjan Seaport Occupied By Troops   WIDEN SALERNO FRONT   TPtiative Fully in Allied Hands as Reinfo: céments Arrive

NEW PHASE OF CAMPAICN FOR ITALY OPENED   Capture Of Two Islands Forms Lock To Great Seaport   INSTALLING GARRISON   Battle For Salerno Beach_ head Virtually Ended;  Nazis Retreat

Yanks Ready For Japanese  Air Attacks   U. S. Liberators Drop 232 Tons of Bombs At Cape Gloucester  JAPS LOSE 14. PLANES

Beachhead Held Against Raid by Enemy Air Force   Peninsula Taken At Minimum Cost

Allied Airmen Repel Enemy  Aerial Forees”  All Positions Seized at Start of Invasion   All Positions Seized at Start of Invasion Are Being Held

Vigilant Air Patrols Keep up Day Long Series of Battles Over Newly Won Hold

PLANES HELP HOLD GAINS Ih NEW BRITAIN   ENEMY AIR ATTACK BROKEN UP; JAPS LOSE 14 SHIPS

Fourteen Jap Planes Shot Down in Repeoted Sky Battles  CAPE GLOUCESTER ATTACKED TWICE  Americans Consolidate Positions Following Invasion

US Planes Down 14 Jap Aircraft Over New Britain   Ground Forces Consolidate Gains of New Territory

Fourteen Jap Planes Shot Down in Repected Sky Battles  CARE CIAIM EC TeD   CAPE GLOUCESTER ATTACKED TWICE   Americans Consolidate Positions Following Invacion

U.S. POSITIONS ON ISLAND ARE CONSOLIDATED   Liberators Blast Foe Bases Northwest. at Lape Gloucester

Repeated Enemy Attacks ou American Invasion Beachhead at Arawe Are Broken Up.      SISTH ARMY RETAINS ALL GROUND SEIZED   Troops Consolidate Positions and Strengthen Peninswa Against Any Counter-Move.

PLANS INCIDENTS FOR NEXT SUNDAY   Defense Council Will Conduct Three Demonstrations — Type, Time And Place Of Each Announced

DEFENSE COUNCIL PLANS INCIDENTS   All Defense Units Here Will Be Called Into Action Sunday, June 13—Planes To Appear Above Town

DR. SLUTZ URGES ~ PUPILS 10 STAY INTHE SCHOOLS   Premature Inlistment May _ Ruin Good Officer Material

Fourth Annual Student Forum Brought To Successful Conclusion Last Thursday   Staff Of Seven Speakers Take Part In Program

~T oN 4 ra ott 7 B New Nazi Rocket Gun Shoots Showers of  CL 1. : Cc 17 Dias QD - Explosive Shells Bidter Than Baseball

JOHN L. LEWIS REPLIES 70 FDR MESSAGE ORDERING STRIKERS TO WORK SATURDAY MORN   Demand That Bargaining Be Resumed Made by Labor Chief

Nation Waits For Word  From Lewis   He Would Resume Negotiations Without WLB

MORE MINERS LEAVE PITS IN MANY STATES   Lewis Demands Conference  Be Renewed

FORECASTER PREDICTS  War With Germany will Last 2 Years U. 5. Must Lose "1.000.000 "Men

FD Awards Brownsville Boy Medal For Amazing Bravery   Lt. Robert C. Hagen Of ‘Navy Is Awarded Silver Star For Guadalcanal Fight

Results Are Good; Air Dromes Hit   Broadcast Warns Folk To Beware of Premature Fighting

Airfields Wrecked in Com. mando Hit and Run Attacks      OIL DUMPS FIRED IN SUDDEN THRUST   Operations Successful and British Patrols Return

Crete Is Raided By British Troops   Force Withdraws After Doing Damage

BRITISH RAID CRETE; WRECK ENEMY PLANES   Leave Oil Dumps Blazin: Not Start Of Invasion Brit ish Ministry Of Information Makes Clear   Urge Cretans To Wait

BRITISH FORCE IN COMMANDO RAID ON CRETE   Planes Destroyed and Oil Dumps Set Afire In Quick Thrust

pri Raiders S tage Swift Attack on Crete   Troops Land, Wreck Grounded Enemy Planes, Withdraw

British troops land on Crete, raid air bases, destroy planes   Forces make safe withdrawal after completing successful operations

COMMANDOS RAID CRETE AIRFIELDS   BRITISH DESTROY GROUNDED PLANES AND FIRE OIL  TANKS ON ISLAND. 

British Make Brief Thrust Against Crete   Se  Commando Fighters Raid Axis Airfields And Destroy Planes  OIL DUMPS FIRED, ALL PATROLS RETURN  British Radio Cautions Cretans To Be Quiet Until Invasion Starts

Commandos Hit Nazis On Crete   Heavy Damage Left - By Surprise’ Foray

Crete Raided By British   All Raiders Return After Boses Damaged

Six Japanese Vessels Sunk by Yanks   Four Others Are Damaged: 72 Planes Destroyed

Six Jap ships sunk in raid at Marshalls   Carrier forces down 72 planes

Bag IO Nip Ships in Marshalls   72 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN CARRIER TASK FORCE RAID ON ENEMY-HELD BASES; NEW ARMY-NAVY SMASH HITS PACIFIC ISLES

Jap Vessels Include Two Light Cruiser:   Four Others Are Hit, While One U. S. Ship  Gets Minor Damage  PLANE LOSSES LIGHT

Nimitz Reports Victory in Raid By Task Forces   Ground Positions Severely Damaged

Two Light Cruisers Among Vessels Sent To Bottom By American Carrier Task Force Last Saturday ;- Nip Bombers Destroyed On Ground; U. 5S. Losses Light

SIX ENEMY MIIPS SUNK IN MARSHALLS   Two Light Cruisers Among Craft Destroyed in Thrust by Carrier Task Forces.   PROLONGED ATTACK ON U. S. VESSELS   Nip Airmen Strike in Moonlight Apparently After Americans Complete Mission.

Six Jap Ships Sunk, Four Damaged And 72 Planes Downed In Marshall Raid

Navy Reveals Two of Enemy’s Light Cruisers, Oiler and Three Cargo  Vessels Sent to Botlom

NAVY REVEALS 4 OTHER SHIPS WERE DAMAGED   Enemy Losses Include 2 Cruisers In Follow Up Of Victory In Gilberts

6 Jap Ships Are Sunk Including Two Cruisers, 72 Nip Planes Downed In Attack on Marshalls

Powerful B-24 Foree Attacks Marshall Isles      Biggest Group Of Them Ever To Strike In  Central Pacific

‘Carrier Raid On Marshalls ‘Huae Success   IBAY OF BENGAL ISLANDS HIT BY U.S. BIG BOMBERS

Six Japanese Ships Sunk In Attack On Marshall Island By Naval Task Force

2 JAPANESE CRUISERS ARE SUNK BY UJ. §.   Two Other Vessels Sunk and Four Damaged, Nimitz Reports   “LIGHT” AMERICAN LOSSES REPORTED   Seventy-two Nipponese Planes Are Destroyed in Combat

High Allowables Set On Wildcat Wells In Texas   More Exploration Encouraged Under Commission Order

DAVIS HOPEFUL ICKES RELENTS   April 15 May Determine More Gasoline for Wect Pa.

AVIATOR TOM HARMON AMONG THOSE MISSING   Odds Not So Good This Time for Former Football Luminary With Michigan U.

HISSWIS AGA   Formet University of Michigan Football Star Reported Lost Second Time in Seven Months. -

LT.TOMMY HARMON MISSING IN ACTION AGAINST: JAPANESE   Second Time In 7 Months Family Has Been Advised’. ‘Son Lost—Mother . Still Houes ~

Kolombangara Island Being Abandoned by Enemy Forces"  AMERICAN FORCES _. PLAN OCCUPATION Silence Mainteined on Naval Attack on Wake Island

ASK FOR TO TAKE QVER CONSOLIDATES      Aircraft Workers, Disgruntled over WLB Wage Edict, Want No Strike Talk

AERO STRIKE JALK SCORED   MEETS PROTEST WAGE RAISE AS INSUFFICIENT

URGE ARMY ORNAVYTO RUN PLANT   Aircraft Workers Strike Threat Now Appears Lessened

PACIFIC COAST PLANE STRIKE THREAT EASEL   Workers Express Dislike For Walkout Talk. In Face of Nation’s War Needs   PROTEST PAY RULING   Unionists Propose Roosevelt Order Army and Navy Take Over Plant,  and Ask Probe

WLB Decision Resented By Coast Unions   Mass Meetings Are Held Sunday From Seattle to San Diego   PROTESTS ARE GENERAL

Plane Workers  Demand Action   Do Not. Want To Strike > In’ Wartime But Ask;  “Tnvestications

FOOD FOR FREEDOM EXHIBITION DATES SEPTEMBER 14-18  COMPLETING PLANS FOR ANNUAL FAIR AND RODEC  Prana ALIA Write WATT

FOOD FOR FREEDOM EXHIBITION DATES SEPTEMBER 14-18   COMPLETING PLANS FOR ANNUAL FAIR AND RODEO CORSICANA THIS FALL

HAMBURG HAS SEVENTH RAID WITHIN WEEK   NAZI SECOND CITY ALMOST BLOTTED OFF THE MAP

Allies Continue Heavy Assaults  Over Continent   Flying Forts Follow Up Devastating RAF Raid

HAMBURG GETS 2,000 TONS OF ALLIED BOMBS   Shattering Load Loosed In Seventh Raid Of Week On Germany’s  Second City   61-22 Air Victory

Fortresses Shoot Down 27 of 52 Nazi Fighters In Daylight Offensives

AMERICAN FLIER BATTER A GERMAN WARPLANE PLANT   Northern France and Low Countries Also Struck by Allies as Epilogue to  New Hamburg Raid.   52 NAZI FIGHTERS DOWNED IN BATTLES   Eleven Fortresses and Equal Number of Lighter Craft Lost in Sixth American Assault in Week.

61 AXIS PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN DURING ATTACKS   22 Allied Craft Bagged; Hamburg Is Given Another Pounding   AIRCRAFT FACTORY AT KASSEL IS DAMAGED

‘TTH ATTACK ‘ON HAMBURE 1S GRUSHING   Fortresses Shoot Down 27 German Fighters in Daylight Sweep; To Blot Ou Second City   Greatest Week

Flying Forts’ Blast Nazi Plane Plant   Kassel Is Pounded Following Destructive Raid on Hamburg

Hamburg Hit By Huge Raid   City Now Becomes The Moect Ramhed In World

NAZI TARGETS BATTERED IN HEAVY RAIDS   Airfields and Plants Hard Hit; Hamburg Blncted Again

Nazi Airplane Factories Are Damaged   Fortresses Batter Hamburg and Kassel Targets

Eleven Fortresses Lost against 61 German Planes Shot Down in Furious Air Battles

Americar Fliers Hit  Germany   Record Tonnage Of Explosives Dropped

SWISS WILL PUT CURB ON IMMIGRATION   Decision, to Avoid Precedent, Follows Admission of 20,000 Civil and Military Refugees From Italy.

Keport Gains In Other Areas   Weather Stili Bad On Italian  Front

KOROSTEN AND RECHITSA   Germans Reported to Have Abandoned Gomel

REDS’ GRIP FIRM ATKEY RAILWAY JUNCTION CITIES   Korosten and Rechitsa Held; Zounter Blow Repulsed; Nazis Quit Gomel

Russian Forces Surge Closer To ~ Polish Frontier   Stockholm Report Indicates Nazi Forces Have Abandoned Gomel   NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPELLED BY REDS

a ee oe ee ee a ee ee ee ae a oe ee Om  First Horse Meat  Wholesaler Opens; It's Whirlaway Co.

Fascist Headquarters Burn As Anti-Blackshirt Throngs Surge Through Major Cities

Many Fascists Said Arrested   Office of Mussolini Sacked by Crowd

Montgomery Promises Eighth Army. It Wilt Be Its Turn To Attack Soon

Parley to Speed War's End, View   Moscow Meeting Called Life-Saver

PRESIDENT iT TOREEMENTS IN CONFERENCE      Says Mascow Meet Deals With War and Postwar Subjects

TRI-PARTY PARLEY MAY SHORTEN TERM OF WAR IN EUROPE   Far-Reaching Agreements On Policy Likely To Save Thousands =. OF Lives

Order Cancels Rail Pay Boost   Increase Set Aside Bi Vinson’s Order

Men To Be Set Aside   Vinson Reported To Have Order Keady Disapproving Of Eight Cents Increase

RAIL EMPLOYES eo MAY LOSE NEW WAGE INCREASE   Order To Set Aside 8-Cent Hourly Increase’ For Million Workers

—RAILWAY WORKERS—  Pay Hike: Vetoed   ..- Stabilization Chief Issues ‘No’ Order

RAILWAY PAY HIKE DENIED BY STABILIZER   Vinson Reported to Have Returned Non-Operating Employes Case to Baara

VINSON CANCELS PAY BOOST PLAN ON RAIL LINES   More Than Million Employes Affected By Ruling

NONOPERATING WORKERS HIT   Cancels 8-Cent Hourly Raise Suggested By EMergeney Board.   MAY GET 40-HOUR WEEK

Vinson Halts  Wage Change   Pay Increase For Railway Employes Set Aside By Stabilization Boss.

Vinson Holds Up Pay Boost For Railroad:   Recommendation For 8Cent Boost Among Non-Operating Group Halted By Director

Vinson Rejects Rail Pay Hike   8 Cent Award Ruled Out, Report Has It

Board's Order For 8-Cent Hourly Raise For More Than Million Men Called By It Absolute Minimum Needed Adjustment

Rail Wage Rate Hike Set Aside   Vinson Directs Emergency Board to Reconsider Its Recommendation   TO FILE OPINION IN NEXT 10 DAYS   Possibility of Overtime for Non-Operating Workers After 40 Hours

RAIL PAY BOOST AWARD FOR MILLION NON-OPERATING EMPLOYEES 15 SET ASIDE

Wage Boost Set Aside   Stabilization Director Vinson’s Order Blocks Railroad Emploves’ Grant

Fred Vinson Sets Aside Wage Increase Granted to Railroad Employes

Rail Wage Hike Order Set Aside by Vinson  Benefits Loom Under Wage And Hour Law

Vinson sets railway pay award aside   Will reconsider recommendation

Pay Hike for Rail Workers Set Aside   Award of 8-Cent-an-Hour Increase for 1,100,. 000 Non-Operating Employes Vetoed by Vinson—Was to Have Taken Effect Today.

Sets Aside Wage Hike to Railmen   Eight Cent An Hour Increase For Non-Operating Employes Recinded.

TYDINGS ADDRESSES INSURANCE MEETING   Senator Says Non-Essential Funetions Of Federal Gavernment Should Be Elimina’ed

U.S, NAVY TAKE RUSSELL GROUP NEAR SOLOMONS   Knox Reveals Sea Power 25 Pct. Greater Than First of Year

NEW ISLANDS © OCCUPIED BY. U.S, FORCES   RUSSELL ISLANDS TAKEN ‘OVER WiTHOUT OProsiTION—FLEET STRENGTA  GROWING —

U. S. OCCUPIES PACIFIC ISLES   Russell group northwest of Guadalcanal taken with opposition

Navy Reveals More Solomons  Islands Taken   Discloses Russell Islands Occupied By U.S. Forces In Februarv   PROVIDE ‘‘BUFFER’’ FOR ISLAND BASES

SEE CRACKUP OF GERMANY’S AIR DEFENSES SOON   Reich Is Now Believed Scraping Bottom For Planes To Meet Attacks

Larger Markets Report Decreased Offerings With Farmers Apparently Waiting For Renewed Efforts To Raise Weighted Average Ceiling; Large Quantities Of Inferior Grades On Floors.

Tax Commission Reforms Urged   Committee Commends  Work of Sellers

Loadings of Stock Slump   Processors Getting Much Fewer Hogs And Cattle Now.

Destruction Of Jap Troops Sull Clinging To Isle  Ts Continuing   12 Out of 16 Big Jap Twin-Engined Rombers Accounted For By Six Army Lightning Fight-

Attempted Jap Counferattack Ends in Failure  Enemy Destruction On Piece Meal   Enemy Destruction On Piece Meal Basis at Attu

12 Of 16 Japs Attacking Attu Are Shot-Down   Six Army Fighters  Smash Attempt At AC mm Ua pt,

SMASH ENEMY RAID ON ATTU   Yank Lightnings Down 12 Of 16 Japanese Planes Making Attack

Enemy Attack By Airat © Attu Fails   Sleet, Snow and Rain Hamper Advancing American Soldiers

Piecemeal Destruction Of Japs On Attu Continuing   Latest Reports Show That Jap Attack Upon American Vessels Was Costly To The Enemy

Jap Air Aitack on Island © Meets Disaster   Yanks Continue tc Annihilate Enemy on Attu

JAPS LOSE 12 WARPLANES IN ATTU ATTACK   Piecemeal Destruction Of Entrapped Enemy Continues; 6 Lightnings Work Havoc Far From Battle Zone   2 U.S. Planes Lost

Yanks Whittle Japs on Attu   Continue Piecemeal Destruction Drive

AMERICANS SMASH JAPANESE BOMBER FORCE NEAR ATTU   Navy Reveals 12 of 16 Planes Attempting. Raid on Island Probably ‘Were Wiped Out. _   NIPPONESE GROUND TROOPS STILL RESIST   Mikado’s Soldiers Cling to Positions and Are Being Destroyed Piecemeal  by Yanks. ..

RED ARTILLERY ROUTS GERMANS   One Battalion Part ly Annihilated Near Kharkov Base   Attu Raid Fails; Japs Lose 12 Of 16 Planes

(12 of 16 Jap Bombers Probably Destroyed, Revised Figures Reveal

12 Of 16 Japs Attacking Attu Are Shot Down   Six Army Fighters Smash Attempt At Air Counter-Blow

Report Munda Near Capture   Allied Headquarters In Pacific Expect Jap Base To Fall Shortly

O'Neal Says US Playing Santa Claus   New Bread Subsidies Effeetive Tomorrow; Talk of Peace in Capital; House Tax Bill Standing Firm

Ohio Horse Meat Bill Only A Joke: Tasty, Says Butcher---But Eats Beef

HIT POLICY = OF SECRECY   CONGRESSMEN JOIN NEWSMEN IN BITTERLY ASSAILING FOOD CONFERENCE — ORDER

WHITE HOUSE GETS PROTEST   Correspondents Charge Bar on Reporters Abridges Freedam of Press.

Plans for Loan Drive Mapped   Figures on Montana Quota Not Received

20 Jap Planes Wrecked at Babo   Alhed Ground Forces Stop New Guinea Drive  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IS

ALLIED STRIKE AIMED AT BABO   Ground Forces Repulse Japanese Attack In New Guinea

Allies Trade Blows  With Japs, Hit  Vital Enemy Bases Foe Loses Two Planes  In Attempt to Gain East of Darwin

Ardmore Has Coolest Night   City's 73 Lowest in State; Oklahoma Faces Another Hot Day

NEW TAX PLAN PROPOSED BY U.S. C. OF C.   New Version of PayAs-You-Go Plan Would Defer Present Taxes  Until After War

Deferment Of 1942 Income T ax Payment Is Urged In Plan Proposed By U. S. Chamber Of Commerc«

U.S. CHAMBER HAS NEW TAX PROPOSAL   Pay-As-You-Go. Vetsion Would Defer’ 1942 Levies Until After War.

U.S, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAS TAX PLAN   President Of Group Outlines The Proposal

CHAMBER OFFERS “PAY-AS-YOU-C0" INCOME TAX PLAN   National Chamber Program Includes Proposal for Deferment of 1942 Payments Until After War.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Proposes New Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan, Would Delay 1942 Payments Till Affer War

CHAMBER BACKS PAY-EARN LEVY   New Version Based Upor - Paying 1942 Taxes”. fter:

PROPOSE EASIER PAY AS YOU GO TAX PLAN   WOULD DEFER 1942 PAYMENTS UNTIL AFTER THE WAR

Still Another Tax-Pay Plan   Proposal Would Defer Payment of.’42 Taxes. Til After the War

U. §. Chamber Has Tax Plan   1942 Taxes Would Be Deferred Until After War Is Over

You Cannot Escape The Ides Of March   Income Payment Must Be Met, U.S, Taxpayers Told

NEW TAX VERSION IS PRESENTED TC HOUSE COMMITTEE   U.S. C. of C. Would Postpone Last Half of 1942 Income  Tax Installments

U.S.C. Of C. Proposes New Version Of Tax Plan; Payment Deferments Urged During War

UD. S. Organization Proposes Pay As-¥You-Go Inceme Tax. "49 Deferment

Pay-As-You-Go Plan Proposed By U.S.C. C.   Based On Deferment Of 1942 Taxes Until After The War

New Tax Plan Is Suggestec   (Si Chamber Official Is - Offering Program: To Assist. Treasury. _

U.S. Chamber Offers New Tax Plan Would Delay "42 Tax Till After War

NEW VERSION OF ‘PAY-AS-YOU-60'   U. S. Chamber of Commerce Would Defer °42 Liabilities Until After War

UNITED STATES C. C. ‘ASKS. PAY-AS - CO   Wants: Deferment Of All (1942 Tax: Liabilities For Duration

Propose Delay In Payment Of Taxes  Chamber Of Commerce - Would Postpone 1942 Liabilities

DEFERMENT OF °42 TAK LABILITY It (.. OF C. PROPOSAL   Another New Plan for Payas-you-go System = Is Offered Committee.

CHAMBER COMMERCE OF UNITED STATES SUBMITS TAX PLAN   WOULD DEFER PART OF 1942 LIABILITIES UNTIL AFTER WAR‘S END

National C. Of C. Offers New Plan To Obtain Taxes   Pay-As-You-Go Proposals Would Defer Payments For °42 Until After War

FOR DEFERRING ‘4D INCOME TAX FOR DURATION   United States. Chamber of Commerce Offer New Pay-As-You-Go Plan For Payments   GIVES PLAN TO HOUR   Provides For Payment of Two Quarters In 1942 With Withholding  Levy Starting’Puly 1”

Lt.-Gen. Stilwell Is in London for Military Conference   U. 5. Commander in China Will Talk With Gen. Devers

U.S. Commander For China, India And Burma Stops Over In London’ For Talks; On Way Back To  QOieians

GENERAL STILWELL STOPS IN LONDON   Visit of U. S. Commanding General In China, India and Burma Described As Stop-Over On Trip To the Orient.

Stilwell Trip. FTinits Gr eater Blowsat Japs   U. S: -China War Chief on Way. to Orient, Confers With Allied Leaders

Taxpayer Group Urges Sweeping lowa Economies   Juvenile Homes Merger, Smaller Supreme Court Proposed.

DRAFTING OF FATHERS SEEN 3 MONTHS AWAY   Hershey Says Actior May Begin About  Julv- ist   WOLD HEARINGS   Sidetrack Bill Tc Draft Men, Women _ Ror War Jobs

Labor Draft Put On Shelf   Austin Bill Awaits Green Light From FDR; Draft  Fathers Soon.

LEGISLATION T0 DRAFT MEN AND WOMEN TO WAR IS SIDETRACKED   Apparently Awaiting Green Light on Legislation From President

SIDETRACK BILL TO DRAFT LABOR   LEGISLATION AWAITS GREENLIGHT FROM CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Move To Draft Civilian Labor  Is Sidetracked   Awaits A Green Light From F. R.; Fathers In Army About July 1.   Watch 48-Hour Week.

Manpower Draft Measure Shelved For FDR Views   Calling of Men With Children Expected Soon

DECISION ON DRAFT PLAN IS SIDETRACKED   Legislation to Induct Men And Women Civilians Into War Production Is Shunted   TAKE FATHERS IN JULY

Shunt War Job  Law in Congress   Lawmakers Await Green Light on Induction of Fathers in Service.

WORKER DRAFT PLAN SHUNTED TO SIDETRACK   Fathers Face Military Service In About 3 Months

Civilian Draft Sidetracked By Committee   :  Drafting Of Fathers Is Seen - Within Next Three Months, : Hershey States

Labor Draft Is Side-Tracked  For Time Being   Awaits Green Light From Roosevelt

FATHERS TO GO    uershey Feels First Calls Ti For Dads Will Come In July: New Classifications Hinted

Call To Fathers Nearing In U.S.  Men With Clbiese To Start Going July 1

JOB DRAFT PUT ON SHELF; AWAN FOR’S APPROVAL   Fathers Will Be Called About First Of July

FATHER DRAFTING LOOMS; MANPOWER PILL SET ASIDE   Cfficials Indicate Induction of Fathers to Start in July— Await Green Light on WarJob Draft

STRIKE SHUTS WINDBER PITS   Nearly 1,600 Miners Vote Walkout in Protest Against WLB, Fine

Allies Ready for Last Blow in Tunisia   Yanks Divert 35,000 Axis Troops from Coastal Front

Commander Summarizes Campaign  ~ bet   U. S. Troops Aid Much; Casualties Number 5,372

SUPPLY LOSS TO AXIS 50 P.C,, KE’ REPORTS   Allied Planes Raid Rommel’s Bases In Tunisia, Italy

Eisenhower Says Allies Ready For Climactic Clash   903 Americans Killed, 3,610 Wounded In  Struggle For Tunisia —

Axis Loss Is Huge in Africa   CAMPAIGN ON SCHEDULE AS ENEMY LOSES 50 PER CENT OF SUPPLIES

ALLIES READY FOR CLIMAX IN TUNISIA   Gen. Eisenhower Lists U. S. Forces’ Casualties at 5,372

ALLIES READY FOR CLIMACTIC BLOWS, EISENHOWER SAYS      Praises Commanders For Fine: Work In. Battle Of Tunisia—Enemy . - . ‘Losses Heavy

BREAK WITH NAZIS   Open Letter Forecasts Com plete Defeat of Germann hey

FRENCH LEADERS PREDICT GERMAN DEFEAT SOOK   General’s Letter to Laval Urges Overthrow off Nazi Yoke

FRENCH LEADERS ASK LAVAL GAST OFF GERMAN YOKE   Reports From France Indicate Generals Predict Nazi Defeat

Staff Urges Laval to Cut Nazis’ Yoke   Vichy Generals Say. Germany Is Beaten And Seeking Peace

ARCHDEACONRY TO MEET HERE MONDAY, JUNE 7   Bishop Wyatt-Brown, Harrisburg, to Address Episcopal . Group.

WORKERS URGED T0 SHIFT JOBS   PAUL V. McNUTT ASKS THAT 2,600,000 ENTER “WAR USEFUL” WORK,

M’NUTT CALLS FOR SHIFT OF WORKERS   Movement of Worke's to War Jobs Urged by : «WMC Head

MINUTT CALLS FOR SHIFT OF WORKERS   WMC Chairman Urges Switct Of 2,600,000 Workers te War Useful Jobs by July 1 Of Next Year

2,600,000 Workers Asked to Switch Jobs by July !   2.100.000 Are Needed Before New Year's, Says War Manpower Commissioner McNutt

CALLS FOR SHIFT “TO USEFUL 408   McNutt Says 2, 100,000 Are Needed Before First of Next Year

Workers Must Get Essential Jobs   McNutt Declares  Transfers Necessary

WMC Chairman Asks Change By Workers  Seeks Shift From NonEssential Jobs

Germany's "Secret Weapon,’ Glider Bomb, Described by Eyewitnesses

Britons Jam Square to  Aid War Fund   Savings Stamps _Plastered on... Bontbs for Hitler

Pantelleria Is Left Burning   Italian Island In Mediter. ranean Heavily Attack. ed By Allied Planes  By CLINTON GREEN

More Selectees Called To Duty   15 Leave Here For Fort Sheridan, Gt. Lakes

OPENING OF ANOTHER RUSSIAN 'WINTER OFFENSIVE IMPERILS ‘ATT NAZI EAST FRONT ARMIES

THREE GROUPS OF CONGRESS MOVE TO REBUILD OP   Reform Sought By House Commttees — Contral Considered Essential.

“REFORM” PLAN FOR THE OPA {S NOTED   Coordinated Congressional Move Is Started As Result of Conference.

Soviets Smash Nazi Defenses   Concentrations Of Trooos Scattered

Nazi Defenses Smashed Near Kharkov   Red Naval Units Outfight Enemy Patrol

NAZI DEFENSES ARE SMASHED   Red Artillery Breaks Up Concentrations  In Kharkov Area

Soviets Smash Nazi Defenses   Concentrations Of “Tramne Sientbanwel

Red Artillery Scatters Nazi Troops   Big Guns Also Smash Enemy Defenses Near Kharkov Base

SOVIET ARTILLERY HAMMERS GERMANS   Russian Nava! Units Attack Enemy Craft In Gulf Of Finland

Change of Ships’ Name Fails to Bother Quints; They‘! Christen Them

loreed Training Plan Proposed   Rep. May Saves He Will Present Legislation on Matter

Compulsory Training Will  Be Urged Again   Kentucky Congressman Will Call for Law Requiring Youth Training — the War.

Allies Closing In On Big Jap Base   ' Finschhafen Enveloped;.40 Nips Downed In Heavy Sky Battle On Dav OF landing

Push Resisting Japs Southward: Fire on Town  Capture of City “Would Put Allies in Strong Position

AUSTRALIANS TAKE BASE ON NEW GUINEA   Placing Finschhafen Under Artillery Fire; Heavy Air Engagement Is Also Reported; 40 Planes Down.   Attack Craft

Allies Reach Jap Airdrome At Finschhafen   Town on New Guinea Under Artillery Fire; Japs Lose +0 Planes

JAPS IN RETREAT ON FINSCHHAFEN: TOWN BOMBARDED   Australians Reach Airdrome Two Miles From Base After Forcing Enemy to  Fall Back. —   AIR BATTLE FOUGHT DAY OF INVASION   Allies Downed 40 Planes and Lost Three—None of Participating Warships Damaged.

Aussies Advance on Japs At Finschhafen; Foe Loses 40 Planes in Air Combat

40 Jap Planes Shot Down Day of Landing Near Base, Now Under Artillery Fire;  BBO lane Sloie in Lae-Salamaua Area

Australians Near Base of Finschhafen  Coastal Town Now Is Under Artillery Fire

JAPS TRAPPED AT FINSCHHAFEN   ante A  Allied Artillery Pound: Enemy Base; 40 Planes Are Shot Down

Aussies Near Finschhafen; Take Airfield   Japs Forced Back Under Heavy Artillery Firing

Resisting Japanese Pushed & Southward By Australians    Coastal Town of Finschhafen, New Guinea under Artillery Fire—Japanese Planes Downed in Heavy Air Engagement

40 Jap Planes Destroyed in Allied Atfack   Australians Gain In New Guinea

ustralians Reach Airdrome ear Finschhafen Base, Put own Under Artillery Fire

Battle Nears Outskirts  Of Smolensk; Germ  Continue Burning Naple:         More Than 12,000 Japanese Reported clam In Battles for Lae, Salamaua Regions; Forty Enemy Planes Downed in Day in Pacific

Finschhafen. Fall Is Near   City Is Under Fire As Troaps Advancing

LORIENT SUB BASE TARGET OF RAF BOMBS   Raid Said the Biggest In Many Months Over Europe

German Suh Base Hit by Bombers   At Least 10 Huge Fires Are Set During R. A. F. Raid

Four Marine Pilots Bluff Way Out ‘Of Attack By Formation Of Zeros

U. S. Aviators — Bluff Nippons      Marine Fighters Get Out , Of Tough Spot Despite Warm Pursuit .

ROMMEL'S RETREAT IS NEARLY A ROUT      British Occupy Mahares; Gain 40 Miles In 24  Mare

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY KEEPS ON HEELS OF FLEE . ING FORCES OF ROMMEL WHILE FIRST ARMY TO NORTH DRIVES TOWARD TUNIS—ANGLO-. . AMERICAN TROOPS. ATTEMPTING  * BREAK -THROUCH

OTH ARMY HAS ALMOST 10,000 PRISONERS   Anglo- Americans Drive \head East of Maknassy

Americansand Allies  LaunchFlank Attack   Patton’s American Forces and French _ Aim New Threat at Rommel’s Rear, Occupying Pichon 80 Miles Above Sfax

8th Army Captures © Sfax; Allied Troops — Take 2 Other Towns   Rommel’s Base And Supply Port Occupied After British Rout Enemy In 46-Mile Advance; i  BHiret Army PRanarte (sin

TUNISIAN PORT WAS MAIN AXIS SUPPLY BASE   Gen. Montgomery’s Forces Gain 40 Miles in Last 24 Hours

Beaten Afrika Corps Pursued So Swiftly That Nazis Lack Time Even To Sow Mine Fields: Americans, French Hit Flank.

LARGE GAINS ARE MADE BY U.S, BRITISH   Anglo-American forces advance east of Maknassy against Rommel

sritish 8th Army Pounds Northward in Tunisia; Has 10,000  Pricaners Already in Ite Handc

Occupied the City at 8245 o'Clock This Morning AL lied Headquarters. Announced.   ‘WAS ROMMEL’S KEY BASE, SUPPLY PORT   Knemy Was Routed as the British Hurled Themselves Forward With Crushing Speed.

EIGHTH ARMY DRAWS NEARER PORT OF SFAX   Anglo - American Forces Drive Steadily Ahead East Of Maknassy   FIRST ARMY ADVANCES   Allies Take Important Positions On Road To Tunis And Bizerte

HUN AIRFIELDS IN MARSEILLE ARERIPPED UP   U. S. Heavy and Medium Bombers Stage DoublePly Blow Against German-Held Airfields       NEMY OBJECTIVES  IN GREECE CRACKED    /Meanw hile, Italian Front  Remains Virtually Un  changed; Americans  ' Regain Some Ground

TWO GERMAN AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE HIT   Raid Staged Near Mar ' geille by American Bombers From Italian Bases—Little Activity on Land Front.

U.§.Planes Raid Other Nazi Targets   Yanks Regain Some Lost Ground In Haly

Nazi Airfields — Ripped In Raid   Two Airfields Near Marseilles Plastered By Allied Airmen

RAIDS MADE UPON NAZIS INS LANDS   Italy Land Action * Bogs Down Due To Rains

TWO GERMAN AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE HIT   Americans Regain Some Of Ground Lost In Italy

U. S. Bombers Hit Airfields — Near Marseille   Shoot 12 German  Planes Out of Air; Yanks Raid*Greece And Yuqoslavia

‘FORTS’ DESTROY NAZI AIRFIELDS   Targets Neor Marseille, GerObjectives in Greece Are Attacked

2 Nazi Airfields Ripped by Allies   Other Bombers Crack ‘at Objectives in Greece and Yugoslavia;   Many Grounded German Ships Left in Flames  Near Marseille

2 Nazi Airfields Ripped by Allies   Other Bombers Crack ° at  Objectives in Greece and Yugoslavia   DOWN 12 AXIS PLANES   Many Grounded German - Ships Left in Flames   Near Marseille

ALLIED FLIER ANT NFIELOS HELD BY NAZIS   Bomb Two Near Marseille and Make Second Aitack Near Athens.

U, 5, BOMBERS IT AIRPORTS HELD BY NAZIS   Oniy Three Allied Planes Lost In Raids Tuesday

Airfields in France Ripped by Bombers   German Positions in Greece and Yugoslavia Also Pounded From Air

BOMBERS FLAY NAZI TARGETS   Yanks Regain Some Lost Ground On Stagnant Italian Front

NAZI AIRFIELDS NEAR MARSEILLE HIT BY U. S. BOMBERS   Other Bomber Fleets Smashed at German Objectives in Greece, Yugoslavia.   GAINED HIGH GROUND   American Troops’ Retake Point on Santa Groce Mountain Lost Monday.

Marseille, Yugoslav And Greek Fields Pounded As Snow Bogs Ground Troops

U. 5. BOMBERS HIT ENEMY IN DOUBLE BLOW   Weather Bogs Action On Ground Front In Italian War

Yanks. Regain Seme Ground in Htaly   Bombers Batter German Targets In France, Greece And Yugoslavia

Stage Double-Ply Blow on Airfields   U. S. Heavy Bombers Set Flames to Grounded Planes Near Marseille.

Yank Bombers Hit Marseille   stele Change Noted On Italian Front

U.S. Fliers Rip Up Two Airports Near Marseille   Targets In Greece And Yugoslavia Hit By Bomber Fleets

UWCEMall Larycw  Smash at France, _Greece, Yugoslavia; .. Yanks Regain Some  OQround in Italv

TWO NAZI AIR FIELDS IN FRANCE HEAVILY BOMBED   Other Allied Bombers Crack Down on Germans ‘In Greece and Yugoslavia

U. 0. DUMBER ATTAGK THANG FHOM AFRICA   Other Craft Hit At Balkans As Italian Front Remains In Comparative Lull

Yank Planes Raid German Air Fields   Bases Near Marseille And Athens Hit; Land War Curbed by Weather

Mud, Rain And Snow Hamper Land Activity In Battle of Italy; Bombs Rip Nazi Airfields In France; Blast Greece, Yugoslavia.

Allies Batter Two Airfields Near Marseille   American Fortresses Knock Down b2 Out Of 25 To 30 German Planes.   RETURN TO ALBANIA

Weather Bogs Ally Campaign: Raids Continue   Two Nazi Airfields Near Marseille Are Bombed By  Americans

U.S. Forces In ~ Attack On Bases   GERMAN HELD FIELDS IN ITALY ARE BOMBED

Double Blow Is Struck By U. S. Bombers   German Airfields Near Marseille And Vital Targets In Greece And Yugoslavia Pounded

Allies In Double-Ply _ Aerial Blows   Air fields at Marseilles Are Blasted — Athens Also Bombed

French Airfields And Yugoslavia, Greece Bases Hit   [talian Land Front Still Slowed by Mud, Rain and Snow, But Americans Regain Some High Ground Lost North of Vemifro.

U.S. BOMBERS IN HEAVY BLOWS UPON NAZI OBJECTIVES  MUD, RAIN AND SNOW BOG ACTIVITIES ON —

Airmen Bomb Key Bases   Americans Regain Some High Ground Near Venafro

Soviets Storm to Within Sight of Kiev  Russians Advance 12 to 15 Miles in Some Sectors

RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVE TO WITHIN 18 MILES OF KIE\   Capture Demidov, Northwest of Smolensk, in One of Bitterest Battles of . Summer.   FIGHT LASTS 2 DAYS; 8,000 NAZIS KILLED   Gains of 12 to 15 Miles Recorded in Some Sectors— Advance Puts Columns ~ Close to Dnieper.

* SSE ~s Son ag reg (F tw   Smas.1ing Czensive -fav 30. Yevanc *mMejer ane 1s “ear

Press Hard On Ger‘mans Who Are Retreat. ing io the Dnieper. Sovicts Move Up Toward Smolensk

REDS CAPTURE TOWN IN DRIVE ‘ON SMOLENSK   German Losses Heavy In Bitter Fighting Qn Long Front

Soviets Near ‘Borders of White Russia   Germans Lose More Towns as They Are Forced Back

Russians Drive info Kiev Area, (apture Demidov   Approach Border Of White Russia

Soviet Forces Increase Peril  To Smolensk   Demidov Captured ir One of Bitterest Batles of Summer:  $64 Villages Freed

FIGHTING REDS STORM WITHIN SIGHT OF KIEV   GERMANS AT KERCH STRAIT LOSE ONE ESCAPE PORT

Reds Storm On ” To Edge Of Kiev   Columns In North: Nearing Smolensk

‘REDS NEARING CITY OF KIEV: NAZISRETREAT   Far to North Bitter Battle Rages for Capture of Demidoy Near Border of White Russia.   Many Killed

Kiev Towers In Gunsights ‘Of Russians   8,000 Germans Killed In Battle for Demidov, Close to White Russia  ANAPA FALLS. TOO

NLRB Reverses Stand on Union   Supervisory Workers Are Not Recognized

NRLB REVERSES UNION DECISION   Rejects CIO Petition Ta Unionize Supervisory Employes

35 MILLIONS SURPLUS SEEN   General Fund Revenues Are Exceeding Estimates

QUOTA REACHED IN U.S, DRIVE   FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLAR NATIONAL GOAL PASSED— . OHIO IN. THIRD PLACE

NATION EXCEEDS WAR LOH QUOTE   Treastiry Renevs Pleas: for Increased Individual Purcheses of Bonds.

NATION EAGLEDG WAR LEAR QUOTE   Treasury Renevs Pleas fo: Increased Individual Purchicses of Bonds.

NEGRO SHOOTS SELF AFTER RAPE-KILLING   a  Wife of Army Officer Found On Tennessee Road

Negro Held In Rape: Killing — OF Iowa Girl   Army Officer’s Wife Is ‘Victim—Suspect Shoots Self When Caught

Law Cheated By Murderer   Tennessee ‘Negro, Wanted for Rape-Slaying of Army Of. ficer’s Wife, ]s Suicide

HUNTED NEGRO SHOOTS HIMSELF   Negro Sought For RapeKilling Of Army Officer's Wife Wounds Himself In Nashville Bus Station.

AXIS DAMAGE IN ~~ AIR WAR TRIPLE THAT OF ALLIES   '2,000 Industrial Plans Blasted And Million Germans  Driven From Homes

Allied Pilots Carry War To  Japan Itself   Enemy Reports Three Of Raiding Force Shot Down

Allied Bombers Hit Jap Staging Area On Formose   Raid Believed Launched From a Bases

Tokyo Declares Allied Bombers Raid Formosa   20 Planes In Assault May Have Flown From U. S. Air Bases In China

ALLIED PLANES STRUCK NEAR THE JAP HOMELAND   “"niv Plane: Petded Shinchmiku on the Noriawest Coast of Formosa.   THE RAID UNCONFIRMED   Island of Formosa Lies 90 Miles Off the East Coast of China.

Formosa, Only 650 Miles From Jap Mainland, Bombed By Allied Planes

Formosa Bombed  By U. S. Planes   Raiders Believed To Have Flown From Chinese Bases—Enemy Loses Heavily in Changsha Battle

Strike Near Jap Homeland   American Ground ‘Troops Seek Out Few Defenders Qin Cilherts

Allied Planes  Raid Formosa   Tokyo Reports Port City of Shinchiku Object of Attack

ALLIES RAID FORMOSA   Planes Strike Close To Jap Homeland Frem Chinese Bases

FORMOSA HIT BY AR RAID   Allied Planes Strike Jap !s:<tland 600, Miles. From Nippon.

Allies Strike Near Japan In Air Raid  On Formosa Island   Army, Navy Bombers Pound Invasion Route Into Japan’s Marshall Isles

JAPS REPORT ALLIED RAID ON FORMOSA   Island, Off East China Coast, Lies About 65( Miles From the Nips Homeland—wU. S. Silent on Claim.

sland Ripped 100,000 Japs Face Doom   Daylight Smash on Jap Territory Hits but 1500 Mi. From Capital

Allied Planes Carry War To Japan By Bombing Formosa   Tokyo Reports Attack On Island Port 650 Miles Away: Raiders. Based In Ching

CHECKUP MADE ON MANPOWER   Truman Committee Finds Some Warplants Have Surplus Quota

Latest Plan Has Moderate Boost In Income Taxes   Congress Has Not Finally Disposed of the Bill, But Now Calls for Elimination of the Earned Income Credit.

WALKOUT HALTS ALL PRODUCTION   Soldiers and Sailors Sent to Kaiser’s Johnsville Plant

Defense Tries Fingerprint Nassau Proof   DE MARIGNY COUNSEL SAYS EVIDENCE BLURRED BY POLICE OFFICIALS

Fingerprint in Trial Spotlight   Police Bungle Case, Says Defense

CONTROVERSY OVER INCOME TAX PLAN MOUNTS IN HOUSE   Republicans Threaten To ‘Discharge Committee From Consideration  Of Question

CARRIER HORNE LAUNCHED TODAY   New U S. Aicoradt Carriet Slides Down The Way: 45 Minutes Late

ARMY AIR POWER HAS SUPERIORITY   Stimson Points Out Brilliant. ly Successful Aerial Operations Around Globe; 4 to 1 Ratio Over Axis

Air Power Superiority Four To One   Stimson Gives Brief Review  Of War Progress

Army Airmen Establish Four to One Superiority Over Foe, Stimson Says

AIR POWER LAUDED BY SEC'Y STIMSON   Four - to - One Superiority Established, Official ” Pezerte

ARMY BAUS 1,349 PLANES, LOSES 309   STIMSON REVEALS 4-TO-1 COMBAT SUPERIORITY OVER ENEMY AIRMEN,

URGE OPA’ EASE UP ON RATION POINT VALUES   Republican Food Study Committee Asks More Meat, Cheese, Butter

Allied Troops Confident Axis Army In North Africa is Beaten, But Will Require Some Convincing

SURE ALLIED VICTORY BUT COSTLY BATTLE PROSPECT IN TUNISIA   Axis, With 170,000 Fighting Men, Expected To Make Last-Ditch Stand; Writer Sizes Up Opposing Forces

REPUBLICANS SEEK FOURTH: TERM ANSWER   Tryino to Smoke President Out As To His Plans —

This Picture Of Politics Bit Blurred   Attempt Made To Add To Confusion Over U_ S. Seene

‘Congress Votes Self Vacation As Yule Gift   Both Houses Begin 3-Week Kespite Tuesday; Tax Legislation, Subsidy Controversies Sidetracked Until "44.

SULONG EVADE HOT BILLS VOTE   Congress To Recess Tuesday; No Tax Subsidy Action

GONGREG TQ TAKE AEGESG UNTIL JAN. 10   Will Quit Work Tuesday to Spend Holidays with ~the Home Folks.

\Congress, Voting Three Weeks  Vacation Starting On Tuesday. Sidetracks Action On New Tax

CONTROVERSIAL MEASURES PUT OFF UNTIL ‘44   Congress Votes Itself A Vacation

Congress To Take Three Weeks Rest   Hotly Controversial Measures Will Be Waiting When Work Renewed

CONGRESS VOTES 3-WEEKS RECESS   Sidetrack Action on Taxes,  Subsidies Until 1944

CONGRESS WILL, QUIT TUESDAY UNTIL JAN. 10)   Holiday Recess Sidetracks Controversial Measures

Congress Voles Week Vacation   Sidetracks Much Vital Legislation Until lt Resumes After Holiday Layoff Period

Congress fo Adjourn for the Holidays   Last Minute Bills Rushed Through Both Houses Saturday

Congress Votes 3 Week Xmas Rest; Sidetracks Legislation   Final Action on Subsidies, Taxes and Othe Controversial Measures Delayed Until After January 10; to Recess Tuesday

Congress Votes Itself Three-Weeks’ Christmas Vacation Starting Tuesday

Recess Until Jan. 10.Voted By Congress   Subsidy Situation Cared For by Passage of Stop an Manenen

CONGRESS VOTE TO TAKE RECEao: STARTS TUESDAY   Sidetracks. Final Action or Tax Legislation, Subsidies, Other Measures   SECOND SESSION TO ® CONVENE JANUARY 10   Recess Suspends House Action on Bill to Raise Pay @ of Non-operating Railway Employes; Several Measures Are Rushed Through

Congress — In 3-Week  [Vacation   Sidetracks Tax Legislation Until After Holidays

CONGRESS GETS 3-WEEK RECESS   Final Action On Revenue Legislation Delayed Until January

SOLONS DECIDE TO TAKE REST; BILLS DELAYED   Both Houses to Adjourn Formally Tuesday, Convene On Jan. 10

Congress Votes journment Until Jan. 10   Action On Several Red Hot Measures Now Sidetracked

Congress Takes 3-Weeks Vacation  Tax, Subsidies Programs Left Unsettled

Solons Take Holiday Rest Until Jan. 10   During Recess Congress Members Will Learn Pub lie Opinion On Issues.   MISS BUDGET CONTROL

Rassians Attempt Dnieper Crossing   Have Reached River in  Force; on'White Russian Border i in North .   CLOSING ON SMOLENSK   Germans. Are Expected ta Make Strong Defense Along Dnieper ‘

Japanese Bases Battered; Kiska Gets Hard Pounding   The World at War Today:

Authority Divided   KISKA BLASTED BY U.S. FLIERS   Aleutian Base Of Enemy Bears Brunt Of 13 Pacific Raids

Japanese Bases Raided 13 Times By U. 5. Bombers   Americans Sharply Step Up Attacks on Enemy Positions   Start Fires in Camp Areas and Damage Big Airfields

HOUSE SHOW-DOWN IS DEFERRED AGAIN   Compromise Amendment To Ba: Fisherics Bill Pleases Weither Faction

CARR APPOINTING NEW PROSECUTOR   Declines to Explain If New Man Will Supersede Rushton.

AN AGGRESSIVE ~ WAR ON JAPS MAY SHAPE Uf   Two Influential Senators Join Appeal for Aid to MacArthur.   PRESSURE IS COMING   War Department Likely to Feel Insistent Demands  From Congress.

All Argentine Beet Shut Off   British Government Has ‘Completely Sewed Up’ South American Source.

EDIBLE TREE NUTS UNDER PRICE CONTROL   Ceiling Effective Wednesday, Reports OPA

Heavy bills © stil] pending   Much non-vital work was done   “The legislature meets Monday at 10 a.m.

Heavy bills still pending   Much non-vital work was done  The lenielature meets Monda\

PRESIDENT HITS CONGRESS FOR PASSING RIDER   Executive Is Letting Bill Eliminating Salary Ceiling Become Law   VETO WOULD ‘AFFECT FINANCING PROGRAM

Salary Action By Congress Condemned By President   Rider on Debt Bill Repealing Salary Limit Called 11 Considered, Special Supertax Asked PRESIDENT DEMANDS SACRIFICE BY ALL  Withholds Veto To Avoid Embarrassing Financing of War

FDR REFUSES TO SIGN DEBT LIMIT MEASURE   Bill With Salary Rider Becomes Law Without Signature; Congress Is Reproached   Kills $25,000 Level

F.D.R. Scores Congress for Its Action   Condemns Rider t Bill Raising Debt Limitations

Roosevelt Fights For $25,000  Top on Salaries   President AHows Debt Limit Bill To Become Law Without Signing; Tells Congress Incomes Need Curb

DEBT LIMIT BILL. LAW: NOT SIGHED      Congress Condemned by President for Attaching Salarv Rider

FDR Objects But Debt Law Passes   Wage Act Made Valid Without Signature; President Disapproves

FR. Lets Debt Bill, Rider Become Law   Flays Solons’ Action In Erasing Salary Ceiline of $25 000

Scores Congress And Again Asks Limit On Salary   ‘Roosevelt lets. debt bill and salaries rider become. ‘law. ‘witout signature.

Debt Limitation Bill Made Law Without Signing   President Scores Congress in Announcing Refusal to Veto It

President Accepts Bill, With Protest   Condemns Congress for Ditching Wage Limit

Simultaneous Assaults By Air Bombers   Island Ignores Demand For Surrender; Blasting Of Other Italian Citadels Intensified.

Italian Garrison Fails To Answer Ultimatum That Resistance Be Ceased Last Night

Blasted by Navy and From Air   Italy Claims Island Refus. ed to Surrender—Sardinia Also Attacked

Warships and Planes Renew Attacks When No Reply Is Received. :   SARDINIA 1S POURDEO

AIR, NAVY GUNS ROCK ISLAND ON INVASION ROUTE   Tension Mounts in Mediterranean Area

U.S. Airmen from Cloud Side’ View Pay Tribute to Pounding af Fortress Isle by Britisa War ships   ‘Really Something’   Reconnaissance Photos Show Train Hurled from Bridge in Raid on Reggio Calabria May 2st

‘Failure to Reply Brings ‘Heavy Attack   British Warships and Fortresses Blast Italian Island; Great Damage Done

Shore Defenses Pounded From Sea As Fortresses Rain Bombs From Above

Fleet Adds. Heavy Shelling To Plane Attacks On Island   Warships Finally Only Quarter Mile From Harbor, Airmen Watch Big Show; Axis Says Pantelleria Surrender Asked, Refused

No Reply and Attack  Resumed   Sought to Save Island Population From Suffering.

Capitulation Order, Dropped From Allied  Planes, Unanswered   Island Bombed from Air, Shelled from Sea; War  News Is Summarized

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ASKED OF PANTELLERIA   No Reply Had Been Received by Allies From Pamphlets Dropped.   “THE ISLAND IS BOMBED   Will Be Subjected to Bombing, Bombardment and Blockade.

Allies Demand Surrender of Italian Island   Pantelleria Target of He&vy Sea and Air Attack; Axis Reports Surrender Ultimatum Rejected; Allied Planes Raid Enemy Positions in Greece

AXIS CLAIMS SURRENDER REPLY “NO”   Naval, Plane Bombs Rock Pantelleria. “Riid” on Lampedusa by Light Naval Force

OLAND FORTRE Sa GETS ULTIMATUM, ENEMY DECLARES   Axis Artillery Replies As Bombers and Warships Hammer Targets

Allied Demand To Surrender Ignored By Fortress Isle   Large Force of British Cruisers alld Destroyers Pour Shells From Short Ranges Into Punished Pantelleria   ‘AXIS CLAIMS COMMANDO RAID IS DRIVEN OFF

LARGE BRITISH NAVY FORCE POURED HEAVY ATTACK ON ITALIANS  PANTELLERIA GARRISON STILL BLINDED BY DUST OF AIR RAIN

No Reply To Demand From  Italy’s Base   Bombardment, Blockade To Continue, Declares Communique; Landing Maw Re Made. Relief

ppm ON DRAFT OF FATHERS   Delay Proposed While Manpower Survey Is Made

MORATORIUM ON DRAFT OF FATHERS NOW SEEN   ‘augressional Proposal. May Be Made Until New. ManPOWer Survey 1s Malte Rumor President Roosevelt Will Shortly Recommend National Labor Draft —"Gentlemen’s Agreement” to Defer Fathers May Be Arrived At Shortly. le Baliex

New Tax Plans  Face Congress   90 Billions Are Soughit By FDR To Prosecute War-This Year

Congress ma) write own tax ticket   F. D. R. to ask 90) billions  to finance war

NEW TAX PROGRAM IN LAP OF CONGRESS   Trend of Changed Policies Apparent in Capital

Congress May ‘Write Its Own Revenue Bill    ‘Expected to Make: Decisions Without Prodding from the  _Treasury. Department or -Other Fvecntive Avencies

CONGRESS MAY WRITE OWN TAX TICKET THIS YEAR   FDR To Request About $0 Billions To Finance The War

Congress May Be Asked To Write Own Tax Tickets As The Probable Totais Of War Costs Climb Toward Hundred Billion Mark

Congress May Write Own Tax Bill For 90 Billion To Pay For War During the Current Year

TaxFicket Of 90 Billion To ‘Be Requested   Congress May Be Given Free Hand In Financina.

Nazis Drowned 100 Italians in Sewer   Cadets Were Trying to Escape, , Join Allies

ON COAL DELIVERIES   ‘Regional ODT Recommends a Com. mittee of Seven Dealers .

FATHERS’ DRAFT CHANCES STAND AT 17 TO 100   ONLY 1,000,000 FATHERS LIKELY TO BE INDUCTED

ARMY'S NEED FOR FATHERS MAY DECREASE   Chances Now Reported As 17 Out Of 100

Drafting of Those With Children Born Before Last Sept. 15 Coming Later   MILLION MEN NEEDED

17 Of 100 Dads May Go In 1943  Next Year’s Chance:  Mav Be Even Lower

Drafting of > Dads Unlikely ' Before Aug.   re hances of Geiting Into  Uniform This Year Only  17in 100

Draft-Age Father’s  Chances   About 17 Out Of 100 He Will Be Drafted Before Next Year

FATHERS CHANCES OF BEING DRAFTED SOON VERY SLIM   Chances of Being Inducted Into Armed Forces Before Next Year Appear About 17 Out of 100; Chances Next Year May Be Even Lower.

FATHERS’ DRAFT CHANCES LOWER   induction Calls Expected To Take About 17 Out Of 100 Dads

Fathers Stand One-To-Six Chance 0: Being Inducted Before Next Year   Chances Next Year Will Be Even Lower Unless  Heavy Casualties Require Unexpectedly —_ Large Renlacements.

17 DRAFT-AGE FATHERS IN 100 MAY GET CALL   Draft Not Expected to Begin Before Aug. 1, Not to Get Heavy Before Month Later

Father’s Chances Of Being Taken. Into Army In 1943 Are 17 In 100

EXPECT ARMY TO TAKE 17 OUT OF EVERY 100 FATHERS FOR DUTY BEFORE JANUARY  _ Plan To Call 1,500,000 Men For Service Between August 1 And Last Of December

DRAFT AGE FATHER'S CHANCE OF SERVICE ABOUT 17 IN 100   Farmar Fathers  ; poral gig Be  : wred For Occu Deferred reasons

CHANCE FOR THE FATHERS NOT BEING CALLED THIS YEAR   Induction Into Armed Forces  Before Next Year Is a 17 to 100 Shot.   DEFER FARMER FATHERS   Chances of Being Called Next Year Will Even Be Lower, It Is Said.

About 17 Out of Every 100 Dratt-Age Fathers Will Be Inducted Before Next Jan. 1

Few Fathers Into Service   Chances To Be Drafted This Year Only About 17 to 100: Less In 1944

Dads’ Chance Of Draft Are 17 Out Of 100   Occupational Deferments Keep Them at Home

.: DRAFT IS NOT NEAR   Chances of Induction Before Next Year Small, Figures Show

Need of Men Not  So Imperative   Only Heavy Casualties Could Accelerate Drafting   YOUNG MEN ARE SWELLING RANKS

Drafting of Dads Unlikely Before Aug.'1   Chances of Geiting Into Uniform This Year Only 17 in 100

Only 17 Of 100 Fathers To Be Called   Percentage Next Year Likely To Be Even Lower

DRAFT CHANCES OF FATHERS ARI SEEN LESSENING   Odds-17 To 100 Against Induction Before 1944

Dads Chances for Army Are. 17 Out of 100   1,500,000 Men Expected to Be Inducted Between Aug. ‘and Jan.. 1944

[FATHERS STAND ONE-TO-SIX CHANCE ‘OF BEING INDUCTED BEFGRE NEXT YEAR

Fathers’ Chances of Induction in 1943 Are Six-to-One   Ratio Next Year Will Be Even Lower Unless Casualties Heavy

FATHERS STAND: 1-T0-6 CHANCE   That Is, Inducted Into Service Before Next Year

DRAFT-AGE FATHERS HAVE GOOD CHANCE NOT BEING CALLED   INDUCTION RATIO ABOVE 17 CHANCES OUT OF 100 THIS YEAR

HEAVY DRAFT NOT LIKELY THIS YEAR   Stand 1 To 6 Chance Of Being Inducted Before Next Year ©

Fathers Stand One-To-Six ~ Chance Of 1943 Induction   Only 1,000,000 Parents Will Be Needed At Most For Armed Services, Estimates Show

Draft-Age Fathers’. Chances Of Entering Service Before ~~. Next. Year About 17-of 1090

Farmer Fathers  Will Be Deferred   And Chances For Other Fathers to Be Called Are 17 in 100.

Chances of Induction of Dratt-A ge Fathers Is Placed at 17 Out of 100

FATHERS STANL {TO6CHANGE OF INDUCTION  Ratio Applies to This Yea: With Chances Next   Ratio Applies to This Year With Chances Next Year May Be Lower Percentage   CASUALTIES IS KEY   Drafting Those With Chil dren Born Before Last Sept. 15 Not Expected Before August 1

May Boost Pay for Dependent:   Draft-Age Father's Chances of Induction in’43 Are About 17 out of 100) Latest Fiqures Show

Father Role In Services ls About 17 Out Of 100   Percentage To Be Lower As 18 Yr. Youths Called

Induction Odds Favor Fathers As Army Expand:  Chances Six-To-One Men With Children

Beet Checks To Be Mailed On Saturday   Compony’s Total Payment To Reach $22,000,000.00

First Beet Crop Checks to Go Out Saturday   Billings-Lovell Area Share Announced As $2,229,100

Forts Batte” Axis Points   German Airfields In France Hit In Raids

ALLIES RAID FOUR NAZI AIRDROMES   Bombs Heaped On Bases Along French Invasion Coast

Bombers Strike Bases in France   Attacks Follow Night Ruhr Raids

INVASION COAST OF FRANCE HIT   u... $. And RAF Bombers Pound 4 German Airfields

EX-MARINE TO  BE EXECUTED   Came Through Nicaraguan Revolt Without Scratch, He Must Die For Murder

Asks Firing Squad Death   Marine Veteran To Die Tomorrow For Slaying In Utah

DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD FACES MAN WHO SURVIVED NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION

AVERY READY TO BE KILLED FRIDAY DAWN   Ex-Marine Blames Drugs ) For Fate; Hates To Die

ACCIDENT ON LAKE CAUSES. DEATH OF 23   SROUP OF SOLDIERS ON WATER MANEUVERS NEAIt NEW ORLEANS DROWN WHEN BOAT OVER- *  TURNS

UNIONS BACK ~~ VET BENEFITS   CONGRESS ASKED TO TAKI IMMEDIATE ACTION ON PROGRAM: FOR-DIS-——*  CHARGED MEN

U.S. P-38 Fighters: Score 14 Kills, 9 Probables in 45-Minute Battle with 36 Japanese Zeros

PUPPET STALIAN REGIME SET UP BY NAZI CHIEFS   Government Regarded as “Comic Opera” Affair-—Expected to Gain Few Followers.   HUNGARY’S DESERTION OF AXIS PREDICTED   German High Command Reported Shifting Troops From Scandinavia Garrison to War Fronts.

NAZIS SET UP PUPPET REGIME   Strive Mightily to Repair _ Damage Causéd by Italy’s _ Divorce From War; Issue  Orders, Decrees

Nazis Form Comic Opera Fascist Unit Fake Governmen  Set Up To Lure  ’ Tealsane

PUPPET REGIME IS: SET UP BY NAZIS   Steps “Takai” te Repair Damage Caused by Halian Bombshell. -

Strong Enemy Opposition In Emden Assault   U. $. Foree Numbers Six Heavy Bombers Missing In Daylight Sweep.     CifrOvT’\ DGVSIilT Tre? NATL   “GOOD RESULTS’ NOTED

Fortresses Blast Emden And Other Targets In Germany   Battle For Attu Still Rages, But News Is Lacking; War Carried Into Italy ~   CHURCHILL, FDR STILL CONFERING   Nazis Spring ‘Chain Attack’ On Leningradj Something Believed Brewing In Turkey

Nazis’ “European Fortress” Wracked By Aerial Raids As Tempo Increased

More Than L50 U.S. Planes Participate 1 in Kites k on Naval Base: Six Are Lost

Record U. S. Bomber Force Makes Daylight Fire Raid Over Emden   Russia Reveals Heavy Aerial Blows Against Nazi Supply Bases; Heavy Assaults on Italian Ports Continue From Tunisia at High Tempo

Fred M. Squires Called By Death  Life Long Resident Of Akron Vicinity

Sgt. Medling One Of 1000 Decorated By Army Air Force   Posthumous Award to Jefferson City Man Announced Today

1,000 American Airmen Decorated: Several District Fliers Included

World Watches For Possible Italian Crackup  F.R. and Churchill Offer Alternatives  ro Pe eS AP pee (ee

ALTERNATIVE IS OFFERED ON POINT ¢ SWORD BY THE UNITED STATES AN GREAT BRITAIN.   (Rv JAMES PD) WHITE)

Roosevelt And Churchill Urgi Italy to Capit= ite   Utter Defe a their Portion Or" ?wise ‘People Are’ Told

Roosevelt and Churchill Offer Italy ~ Honorable Surrender or Utter Defeat

CALL ON ITALY TO SURRENDER   FDR, Churchill Offer Alternatives of Capitulation, Utter Defeat

Italians Told To Surrender Now Or Face Utter Defeat   President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill De. liver Ultimatum by Short Wave and hv Leaflore

Allied Ultimatum Tells Italy To Surrender Or Be Crushed   FDR, CURCHILL WARNING IS INVASION PROGRESS EVIDENCE   ROME HINTS AT UNEXPECTED POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS

World Eyes Italy For Peace Sign  FDR, Churchill   FDR, Churchill Otfer Surrender Or Utter Defeat

Italians Get Ultimatum  From Allies   Honorable Capitulation Or Defeat Is Choice,  F.D.R., Churchill Say  RADIO AND PLANES DELIVER MESSAGE  Bombs Emphasize It - In San Giovanni, Naples and Foggia

World Waits Crack-Up of  Duce Regime   Allies Sound Warning of Doomed Italy

Italians Get Ultimatum From Allies   People Are Told to Surrender or Suffer Utter Defea?

Big Bombs Drive Home Sincerity Of FR-Churchil   Immediate General Uprising In Over-Ridden Area Not Expected

Axis Atlantic Wall Slashed   RAF Heavies Off Again To Follow Up Day's Battering

WAVES OF HUGE: BOMBERS ROAR ACROSS CHANNEL   Night Foray Follows Assault by 400 Planes on Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall” Defenses.   AMERICANS JOIN IN DAY ONSLAUGHTS   Italian Naval Base of La Spezia Pounded in Spectacular New Shuttle Technique.

Axis Suffers  New Type Of Air Raid   Round-the-Clock Hammering Includes Italy, Europe; Americans Return Without Loss; Gain Is Great

BOMBERS FLY FROM BRITAIN ON 10 AFRICA   AROUND-THE-CLOCK RAIDS STEPPED UP BY ALLIES

Six types of allied planes participate in big daylight  raids on nazi installations   North African forces follow up with raid on Italian naval base

Great Forces of Fighter Planes Step Up Attacks   Daylight Assaults Stretch From Holland to Cherbourg Base

Shuttle Attacks . Costly For Enemy   Planes Take Off From England, Bomb Nozis And Then Fly On To ‘North Africa For Fue!

Air Attacks Increase Against Axis   ‘Atlantic Wall’ And Italian Bases Dealt Stiff Blows

Daylight Raids Staged By Allied Air Fighters   Hitler's’ “Atlangic’ Wolt” Defenses Bombed From Netherlands to Cherbourg Peninsulo— Shuttle Raid Reported

HITLER'S "ATLANTIC WALL" BLASTED IN DAYLIGHT RAIL   From 400 to 500 Bombers Attack Important Positions and Follow Up with Furious Night Atfack

OUTPUT OF STEEL DROPS T0 LOWEST LEVEL IN 3 YEARS   FUEL SHORTAGE CUTS PRODUCTION; 139,000 MINERS STILL IDLE

139,000 COAL MINERS STILL ARE OFF JOB      War-Vital Steel Mills in Pennsylvania’s “Victory Valley” Are at Lowest Level in More than 3 Years.

GOAL STRIKE CUTS STEEL PRODUCTION   Hits Lowest Level in Last Three Years

STEEL OUTPUT HITS LOW. MARK   Coal Strike Effects Felt; Back - To - Work Movement Is Expanding

Nation’s Steel Production Hits New Low Mark  Sharp Curtailment Laid To Strike In Cral Mines

MINERS ARE SLOW TO RETURN TO JOBS   War-vital Steel Mills Are Handicapped

STEEL MILLS AT LOWEST EBB DUE TO STRIKE   Most Mines Are In Operation But Effects Are Felt

STEEL PRODUCTION LOWEST IN 3 YEARS IN PA,   Dowe Jones Places Production At 78 Per Cent of Capacity

Steel Mill Output Lags   Production Only 78% Of Capacity As Re- . sult of Coal Strike

Steel Output At Low Level   COAL STRIKE CAUSED SHUTDOWN OF U. S. MILLS

Production Of Steel Hit By Wildcat Strikers   At Lowest Level In Three Years As 139,000 Remain On Strike.

STEEL OUTPUT HIT BY COAL STRIKES   Production Is Brought Tc Lowest Level In Three Years, Report

STEEL PRODUCTION 1S HIT BY STRIKE   Output Only Three-Fourths of Potential Capacity; 139,OON Miners Still Out

WAR VITAL STEEL MILLS OPERATING AT LOWEST LEVEL   WILDCAT COAL STRIKES IN PENNSYLVANIA SLOWE

Japs Flee Advancing  China Unit   Rice Producing Regions Freed In New Triumph For Kai-Shek’s Army

Japs Hunan © Defense Line  Is Smashed   Sudden Attack By Chinese Forces Results in 200 Jap Casualties

Chinese Smash Jap Defense Near Hwajung   Enemy Losses More Than 200 Casualties And Much Equipment

CHINESE SMASH JAP DEFENSES   Inflict 200 Casualties With Surprise Attack

CHINESE STOP JAPS AT DOOR OF RICE AREA   Smash Defense Line Southeast of Hwajung, Key to Region Around Lake Tungting in North Human Province.

J aps’ Defense Line Smashed Attack Key To   Attack Key To Rice-Growing Area

Chinese Smash Japanese Line, Rice Bowl Key   Chiang Kai-Shek’s Forces Surprise  And Rout Enemy Units Southeast of Hwajung

Chinese Smash Jap Defense Line   Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Japanese in Northern Hunan Province; Quantities of Equipment Captured

JAP LINE IS SMASHED   In Sudden Attack Chinese Forces Inflicted 200 Casualties

GOP Amends Fulbright Plan   Constitutional Tag Added to Proposal

Rommel Has Been Foreed  Back 14 Miles   Virtually All Available American Planes Being Thrown Into Battle

Americans and British Are Giving “the Works” to Nazis as They Withdraw.   RUSSIANS LIKEWISE CONTINUE TO GAIN

RUSSELL SEEKS PASSAGE OF FARN BILL BY JULY 1   Senate Bill Passed Yesterday Revives Farn Security Agency

SENATE UPS FUND FORUSEON FARMS   Five Days of Bitter Debate Are Ended, Night Meetings Possible.

SENATE RAISES FARM BILL ANTE   MEASURE APPROVED. BY SENATE RETURNS TO LOWER HOUSE

Controversial  Farm Bill In  Conference   Night Sessions May. Be Held to Speed Up Its Consideration

WE ARE HERE 10 STAY AND NOT ONE FOOT OF GROUND WILL BE GIVEN UP’ SAYS LT. GEN. CLARK   Additional Troops ‘Being Landed Every Day In Desperate Battle and British Eighth Army Soon Will Join In Battle Against Germans

Americans, in Sternest Test, More-T ha Hold Their Own; Nazis Surprised: At o Resistance — Reds Threaten Last:  - Hun Escape Line from Crimea—  Aussies Within Two-Miles of Lae

25 Years Ago American Troops Gained Victory in Meuse-Argonne Engagement

15 Jap Ships Smashed in Rabaul Battle   838 Planes Shot Down in Air-See Action fa Solomons Area

NEWEST VICTORY ENDS FOES NAVAL THREAT IN SOUTH   Yank Bombers Sink or Damage 15 Jap Ships; 88 Planes Shot Down.

ALLIED. PLANES OINK, DAMAGE AP IAP SHIPS   200 American Carrier-Borne Air craft, Land-Based Bombers Hi Japanese Fleet   88 ENEMY PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN

15 Jap Warships Hit By Aircraft   88 Enemy Planes Also Bagged In Big Fight

15 Warships Of Japs Sunk Or Damaged   88 Enemy Planes Sho! Down As Japs Strike At Naval Force   Bougainville Battle Is Reported Growing In Extent

Japs Suffer Huge Losses ‘In U. S. Raids   Ship-Borne Planes Hit 15 Jap Warships, Down 88 Planes at Rabaul.

Three Destroyers, Cruiser Definitely Sunk by U.S. Force   88 Tokyo Planes Are Shot Down; Nipponese Naval Threat to Allies Tn Solomons Declared Eliminated

BRIEF SESSIONS HELD BY HOUSE:   Senate with Only Five Mem: bers Present Adjourns After Five Minutes; House With 22 Present, Meets For Only Two Minutes.

TRUK FACING BOMB THREAT OF CARRIERS   U. 8. NAVAL POWER is. NOW MENACE TO BIGGEST JAP. . BASE IN SOUTIE % PACIFIC’

Sea-Air Raid Asamst Truk Believed Near   Several ‘Feeling Out’ Moves In Direction Of Great Jap Base Revealed   JAP FLEET FAILS TO LEAVE HARBOR

AIR ACTION SOFTENING UP DEFENSE   Foes Locked In Terrific Struggle For Kiev Sector

THREE TOWNS POUNDED IN WHITE RUSSIA   Strong Rail Centers Barring Way to Invasion of Poland Bombed by Red Airmen for Second  . Straight Night.

, soviets Bomb Key Towns In » White Russia   Vital Rail Centers Battered; Kiev Battle Dead lock Continues.

RUSSIAN FLIERS POUND BASES IN WHITE RUSSIA   ‘Point Threa! to to Peland and Baltic  States by Blasting Mogilev, al  cha Vitehsk   TROOPS ADVANCE   Overrun 460 Towns, Villages, Mee Determined Resistance Betore Rome)

RUSSIAN PLANES BOMBING PATH TOWARD POLAND   Plaster Rail Centers Barring Way To In. vasion Of Poland And Baltic States: Battle of Kiev Rages On Unabated.

REDS AND NAZIS WAGE FURIOUS FIGHT FOR KIEV   Meanwhile, Soviet Airmen Bomb White Russian Rail Centers Barring Way to Poland

“Nazis Mass Tanks > As Invasion Looms   .. Soviet Air: Fleet Pounds:3 Centers - “Rarrine Wav'to: Warsaw aud Baltic

Red Bombers Blast Vital Rail Centers   Great Forces Lined Up Before Kiev; More Towns Captured

White Russian Bases Are Pounded Again   Soviet Forces Roll Westward Through 460 Towns Killing More Than 5,500 Germans.

White Russian Rail Centers Bombed by Reds   Ukraine Armies Locked in Battle For City of Kiev

FIERCE FIGHTING FOR KIEV RAGES   Red Army Surges Ahead All Along Long Front

Reds Aim At Poland   Fierce Battle Still Rages At Kiev; Make Gains Into White Russia

KIEV AND LOWER» DNEIPER OBJECTS OF GREAT BATTLE   Ruasian and German :: ‘Ukranian Armies c lw Teevific Stracole

SOVIET AND NAZI ARMIES DEADLOCKED   Battle For Kiev Is Terrific, Report Says

Reds And Nazis  Locked At Kiev  White Russian Railway Towns Bombed

RAID POINTS BARRING WAY TO POLAND   Deadlock Battle For Strategic Kiev Continues

RAIL CENTERS   ‘Unleash Attack As Armies Are Locked in Battle For Kiev,   ARMY ROLLS WESTWARD

Red Fliers Bomb ‘3 Rail Centers ‘In White Russia   Soviet And Nazi Ukrainian Armies Said Locked In Terrific Fight For Kiev.

TWO ARMIES FIGHT  ‘FOR CITY OF KIEV   Soviet Force Unleashes Bombardment Against Rail  Centers   REDS MOVE WESTWARD

SOVIET AIR FORCE HITS RAIL CITIES   Other Drives At Gomel and Vitebsk Also Renvorted

Soviet and German Armies Deadlocked in Battle for Kiev   Red Bombers Hit Three Important Rail Centers in White Russia

Soviet Unleashes Heavy Air Attack On Rail Centers   Russian and German Forces Locked in Terrific Struggle For Kiev.   White Russian Bases Are Heavily Pounded

White Russian Rail Centers Bombarded   Russian Bombers Active In Opening Path To Poland; Soviet And Nazi Forces —Lecked-In-Battle For Kiev.

RUSS, NAZIS  Terrific Fight Before Kiev   Red Air Force Batters White Russia Serriers Teo tavesion of Polend

RUSSIAN-GERMAN ARMIES LOCKED IN TERRIFIC BATTLE   Struggle for Kiev and the Lower Dnieper River Valley Growing.

Red Bombers - din New Raids - Near: Poland   Rail: Centers on Routes to Invasion™ Bombarded i in Heavy Raids”.   SEEK TO SOFTEN. -- QERIWAN DEFENSES   Russian and. Nazi Forces“in “) “Ukraine Are. Locked)... In Fierce Struggle...

Red Airmen Add to Fury Of Conflict   Blast 3 Rail Centers in White Russia—Battle of Kiev Mounts

ARMIES LOCKED IN BATTLE FOR BASE OF KIEV   Red Planes Try to Soften Up German Lines of Defense

Russians Blast At  Rail Lines   Bombers Unleashed As Armies Locked In Battle at Kiev. 

REDS SEEK 10 OPEN WAY INTO NAZI TERRITORY   White Russian  Fortresses Take Heavy Pounding

Soviets Blast White Russiar Rail Centers   Reds Launch Air Campaign to Aid Ground Movements

Nazis Throw More Men Into Russian Battle ©  In Attempt To Hold Kier

ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM AT ELEVED   Servlee Will Be Held in College Gymnaslam—Prof, €. J. Kulpers to Give Address

Stockholm Hears German Military Junta May Revolt  iSs P¥ESieare tn Carignan Pawer and Offar Panra tn Alliac

Halsey Says War Will Be Carried To Japan  U.S. Planes Stage Fiery Assaults In The Pacific

Growing Power Of U.S. Airmen      NEW BLOWS PLANNED ON JAP BASES IN PACIFIC

THE JAPANEST ARE AWAITING BLOWS OF ~~ UJ, §, AIR FORCE   Vulnerable Spots Felt the Fiery Impact of the U.S. Growing Air Might.   WON A BIG AIR BATTLE   American Fighters Whipped a Numerically Superior Enemy. . 

U.S, PLANES BLAST REKATA BAY, JAP FLOAT PLANE BASE   Elimination of the Base On Santa Isabel Island, Flanking Line of Advance and Supply From Guadalcanal To Munda, Declared Vital.

Munda Victory Spurs Drive -In South Pacific   Bougainville, Salamauc And Rabaul Next On — Yanks’ Schedule

AIRCRAFT POINT PATH FOR S. W, PACIFIC BLOWS   Air Forces Raid Scattered Bases  Held By Enemy

Allied Bombers Hit Jap Bases  Yanks Score Victory In Aerial Battle

YANKS DRIVING ON TO RABAUI   Americans Whip Larger Jap Air Force Off South Bougainville.    REBUILD JAP AIRFIELD

Americans Whip Numerically Superior Enemy in Battle Off Bougainville

 AMERICHE GROWING SEEKING NSWCMRECTIVE          IR   CAPTURE OF MUNDA LEAVES ALLIES READY FOR NEW JAP CONQUESTS

U.S. Planes ‘Whip Japs in Air Battles   Vulnerable Spots on Islands Feel Fiery Impact of Attack

Blast Japanese In Pacific Area   Make Many Raids On Enemy Positions

Attacks Indicate New Battle Scene: In South Pacific   Airforce Raids In New  Guinea And Solomons

PACIFIC AIRMEN OUTFIGHT ENEMY   YANKS LAUNCH NEW BOMBING ASSAULTS OVER WIDE AREAS

ALLIED FLIERS BLAST JAPS AT _ BOUGAINVILLE   Strale *Barges Supplying Sala maua, Remaining Objective ir Current Offensive   HALSE¥ CONFIDENT   Promises Batile of South Pacific Will Become Battle of Japan, Foe will be Destroyed

U.S.Bombers Soften Up Jap Bases   Air Fury On Enemy Outposts As United Nations Poise For . Next Offensive Blow

Doomed Traitor Sobs as Judge Names the Day  Max Stephan to Die — April 27: 300 Jam   Max Stephan to Die April 27; 300 Jam Detroit Courtroom

STEPHAN LOSES AGAIN   Chief Justice Stone Turns Dewn Appeal Fer Laecutien “las

MAIDS AND POINTS   Maids Should Turn Pertion Of Points Te Employer, Says OPA

19, 20-YEAR-OLDS DUE FOR NEXT TWO DRAFTS   City Has Sent 1,000 Mer  Under Selected Service   olunteers False Total in Forces to Abovk 3,600; 87 Men to     Leave February 1

19, 20-YEAR-OLDS DUE FOR NEXT TWO DRAFTS   City Has Sent 1,000 Men Under Selected Service   Velontecrs Raise Total in Forres to About 3,068; 97 Men te 1 Leave February 1

AFL WOULD EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY   Council Says Program Would Also Hele Finance War

Five Point Labor Plan  To Congress   Objective Is Safeguarding the  Working Masses and Their inn Poverty and We 6B hc BO ccs

AFL ADVOCATES 5-POINT PLAN 10 HELP LABOR   Legislation Would Extend Social Security and Same Time Help Finance War Effort   WOULD HIKE TAXES   Higher Rates Can Be Substituted for Unwieldly Victory Tax; Executive Council Says

PLAN EXPANSION OF TIRE PLANTS   Jeffers Seeks WPB Authorization For Program To Cost $95,000,000

HUGE TIRE PLANT PROJECT »  J$ DISCLOSED BY JEFFERS   RUBBER COMPANIES PREPARED TO SPEND 95 MILocMLION DOLLARS IN EXPANSION PROGRAM

Huge Expansion Of Tire Industry   Jeffers Reveals Plans For Expansion Of Nation’s Tire Building Facilities

HUMANS GROW TOO ON SOYBEAN DIET   Proof Comes : from China Where Comparison Made

MAIL  TIME CHANGES   Shorter Days Ahead and Pick-up Will Be Earl ier November 1

Plane Output 7,000 a Month   Nelson Predicts Rise In War Production

U. S. Plane Production May Reach . 7 Thousand This Month, Nelson Says

PLANE PRODUCTION NEARS 7.000 MARK   Nelson Credits Newspapers with Aid in Scrap Drive; Hitler’s Big Mistake

PLANE GUTPUT MAY HIT 7000 DURING MONTH   Production In February 5500, Nelson Reports

MAKING. AT HIGH POINT   Nelson Reveals -Figure to ANPA; Praises Newspapers of Nation.

+i 000 Planes To Be Turned ‘Out In April   Increase Of 1,500 Since February Shown In Nelson's Report

Nelson Sees 7,000 Planes Produced In U. S. In April   W. P. B. Chief Praises Papers For Part They Took In Scrap Drive.

PLANE PRODUCTION “1S 7Q00 MONTHLY   Previous Figure of 5500 In February Js Increased - Nelson Reporis.

Produce 7,000 Planes In U. S. During Month   Production Rate Will Go  '. Higher Each Month, Is Prediction Of Donald Nelson, WPB Head

Of 174,000 Citizens Only 30,000 Are Found in Nazt-Ridden Orel When Conquering Reds Return   Germans Never Attempt to Convert Hungry People lo Their Political Views or Develop Natural Resources in 22 Months of Terror and Starvation

Henry Cassidy Reveals Suffering Of Russian People in City of Orel

Lost In Two Air Crashes   Lockbourne Wreckage Thought Sighted; Othe: Bomber Is Missing,

BOMBER'S WRECKAGE LOCATED IN ARIZONA   Believed To “Be B-17 from Lockbourne Base

Japan, With Face-Losing Withdrawal From Aleutians, Watches Projected Conquest of U. §. Turn From Dream to Black Nightmare

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Important Behind-Lines Action Taking Place In Global Battle

Interoreting  The War   Most Developments o! War Are Made Far Behind Line of Fire

Landon Predicts Victory for 6.0.P.   Will Win in 1944, '36 Candidate Says

Vast Areas In Ruins After New Bombing   ‘Not Honorable Warfare’ Says Nazi Report

CASUALTIES IN TWO NIGHTS MAY TOP 25.000   Third Major Raid on German Capital in Five Davs

—————————EEEEEEE———E___  Goodland Asks Delay On Increased Salaries

GASTON'S BOND PURCHASES 60 UP TO $384,000   Citizens Urged To Step Up Voluntary Pur. chases As High As Possible; County Going Strong.

TELLS OF ARMY DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA   Asks Project Be Ex. amined to Protect Interest of U.S.

Americans Capture Two More Points   Germans Falling Back Toward Rome

Americans Dog Fleeing Nazis  On Road to Rome   Two More Strategic Heights Fall To Fifth as Hard Fighting  Yanks Press Near Cassino Plain

CAPTURE TWO MORE HEIGHTS ON ROME ROALD   Reds In Great New Drive, Collapse German — Kiev Lines

YANKEES CHASE NAZIS BACK ON ROAD 10 ROME   Soviets Sweep Westward Ir ‘New Offensive In Kiev Salient

YANKEE TROOPS RACE DOWN SLOPE QF APENNINES   Pursue Fleeing Nazis—Battle of Ortona Stil! Goes on In Fast.

NHIGHELL GETS Bceh RENEWAL   Carl Harper Is Man Questioned at Session

MITCHELL GETS BEER RENEWAL   Carl Harper Ts Man Questioned at Session

DRAFT OF FATHERS INU, S. ARRANGED “BY BOARD MEMBERS   Employers Notified to Pro. vide Draft Boards with Nomes of Essentials.

First Steps to Draft Fathers Now Being Taken   Employers Should Provide Boards With Essentialitv Evidence

EMPLOYER NOTICE FIRST STEP TAKEN TO DRAFT FATHERS   Inductions To Start B: August, Hershey Declares

FIRST STEPS 10 DRAFT FATHERS BEING TAKEN TODA\   Employers to Make List of Fathers Who are Essential In Jobs.

SELECTIVE SERVICE TAKES 1ST STEPS IN DRAFTING FATHERS   Employers Asked To Provide Evidence Of Essentiality Of Fathers In Employ

MAKE READY TO DRAFT FATHERS   Draft Board Ask Evidence Of Esseutiality Of Dads In War Jobs

‘JEEP AND 50 ACRES' FOR SERVICE MEN?   FSA Hoping Congress Will Provide Such A ‘Stake’ For Each Veterat Wanting To Farm After War Ends

Nazis Give Own Picture Of Damage           Refer To Rui fh As Architectural: Changes To ‘Berlin

TWO INVESTIGATIONS OPEN AT JAP INTERNMENT CAME   DIES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS AND CALIFORNIA OF: _ FICIALS PROBING SITUATION AT TULE LAKE

Federal: State Authorities Begin Study of Japanese Center Riots in California

PREDICTS HEAVY WAR CASUALTIES IN SHORT TIME   Administration Worrying Ove Growing Feeling Of Complacency

EISENHOWER TO LEAD INVASION: POWERS AGREE         Worst of the War is Not Over; Tough Part Coming is Warnine

Public Apathy Worries Capital: Officials Say Worst Still to Come

Worst of War Seen Still Ahead   Officials Fear U. S.  Is Too Complacent

BOMBS RAINED ON ROMMEL’S REAR POSITIONS   Weather Hampers Ground Activity, But First Army Gains

Bizerte, Sfax Blasted Heavily In Air Attacks   British First ‘Army Hammers: Out. New -Gains In Tunisia, .

REPEL SECON DRIVE BY JAPS ON FINCHHAFE!   Bag 43 More Nip Planes; Aussies Ten Miles From Madang

NEW DEEEATa HANDED JAPAN BY MACARTHUR   Enemy Sea-Borne Offensive At Finshhafen Smashed; Aerial Losses Mount

JAPS HURLED BACK IN SECOND TRY TO TAKE FINSCHHAFEN   At Least 43 More Jap Planes Destroyed In Battle For Supremacy In South Pacific

Japs Routed In Second Assault On Finschhafen   Destruction Of 43 Or More Additional: Jap’ me Planes Disclosed

Japs RepulsedAt Finschhafen In New: Attack:   Fail Again in . Move:to. Retake . a New Guined. Base.

JAPS, HURLED AT LOST BASE, THROWN BACK   Lose Second Attempt at Finschhaven. 43 More Rising Sun Warplanes Knocked Out

HURL BACK JAP TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA SECTOR      Attempt Made By Japanese To Recapture Fallen Base f At Pinschhafen

AP ATTACK REPULSED AT FINSCHHAFEN   43 More Enemy Aircraft Are Destroyed

JAPS FAIL IN SECOND TRY AT RETAKING FINSCHHAFEN   At Least 34 More Enemy Aircratt Destroyed in Southwest Pacific

Silver Star Is Awarded To Captain Meyer   Presentation Made By General Eichelberger For Wiping Out Jap Nest In New Cuinea

Holiday Bus, Train Travel Tops Record   IGNORE GOVERNMENTAL PLEAS TO STAY OFF TRANSPORTATION WAYS

HORDES JAM TRAIN, BUS TERMINALS   Holiday Celebrators Left Behind By The Thousands

YANKS STALK JAPANESE ON GUADALCANAI      Second offensive phase of campaign believed to be under way

Specially Trainéd ‘American Troops Are Stalking the Japs in‘Guadalcanal. Wilds

Electric Railway Employes Strike  Los Angeles Passenge: Traffic Paralyzed;  Beetet et Be: babe fe

Story Of Hess Capture Aired   ‘Roof ‘Over Britain,’ New ‘Book, Reveals German: Estaped Country -

SAY HESS DID NOT RUE HIS ENGLISH TRIP   Guards Who Captured Him After His Landing Reported He Shouted “No” When Asked if He Desired to Go Back.

Details Of Hess’ Flight To Great Britain Are Disclosed   “No, No,” He Shouted When Asked If He Would Like To Return Home

Strange Aleutian Story On “War. Correspondent”  ‘TONIGHT, 6:30, WOA!

36th Division Star Is New In Texas Flag   Fighting Texans Were First to Land On [talian Soil

6th Division, First Ashore at Salerno, Beat Way Through ithering German Fire To Set Un Fifth Army's Beachhead ©

TEXAS THIRTY-SIXTH DIVISION LEADER OF ITALIAN INVASION   NO FINER STORY IN MILI TARY HISTORY OF NATION HAS BEEN TOLD

Untried 36th Division Brought New Glory to Texas in Salerno Landing

Indianapolis In Darkness After Blast   Sewer Gas Blamed For Wreeking Of Underground Lines

Indianapolis Blast Darkens Major  Downtown Area Windows Shattered,   Hotels and Business  Houses Are Shaken

EXPLOSION DAMAGES INDIANAPOLIS AREA   Power Lines Burn After Sewer Gas Ignites—Part of City Plunged Into Dartiness.

BLAST ROCKS INDIANAPOLIS   Explosion Wrecks Under ground Power Lines And Shatters Windows

Explosion Wrecks Power Lines in Indianapolis, Part of Cily Is Dark

Lufkin Solves Juvenile Delinquency Problem by Installing Youth Center

CHILD DELINQUENCY [5 TAKING TERRIFIC BEATING IN LUFKIN  TEEN-AGE YOUNGSTERS HAVE JUST ABOUT SOLVED PETTY CRIMES

New Tax Plan Is Opened   New 10 Percent Levy Will Refund 13 Percent After War, Delay Draft Debate 

New Tax Plar Is Presented To Roosevelt   Move Started te Shelve Wheeler Bill; Increase in Munitions Output Announeed by WPB

Treasury Gives Plans For Highe Tax With Refunc  Additional. 10 Cents: Of: Dollar Would: Be Taken; Father Draft Daley Unlikely

State Political Leaders  Prepare For Battle Over © Postwar Program Com.

KASTER FACES DEATH PENALTY   Ex-Convict Convicted of Slaying Waverly Man

COUNTY QUOTO MUCH LARGER   Third War Loan Drive Will B Launched Thursday, Sept. 9, Over Entire Nation

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE START ING NEXT MONTH TO AYERAGE $35.63 PER 3 CAPITA

ALLIES GAIN: IN COUNTER OFFENSE TODAY          Use Powerful Air As .sault Against Axis  Troops

Two Italians Fight for U.S.   Italian People Did Not Want to Fight U. S.. They Say

These Two On Our Side Now   Two Italians Fought In Ethiopia, Now In U.S. Army

Johnson’s Triple Clears Bases And Leads To 6 To 2 Victory Over St. Louis Cardinals

Record Crowd Sees Cards’  Defense Crack   Rookie Pitcher Keeps Yanks in Hol Until Errors Creep In; Contest Resumes Sunday in St. Loui

Yanks Rally in Eighth to Win, 6-2, As Cardinals Make Costly Errors   Russo to Pitch for New York Sunday ; Southworth Expected to Use Lanier Again

YANKS WIN BY 610.2 SCORE INTHIRD GAME   Johnson Again Stars With “Three-Bagger With Bases Loaded

YANKS WIN BY 6 10 2 SCORE INTHIRDGAME   Defense of Cardinals Collapses in the Eighth Inning   RECORD CROWD ON HAND FOR BATTLE   Johnson Again Stars With Three-Bagger With Bases Loaded

M°CARRENS IS IN “FAIR” CONDITION   General Manager of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Wounded by Assailant.

PLAIN DEALER'S MANAGER SHOT; GUNMAN DEAD   Ex-Foreign Language Raper Publisher Ends Life

ALLIES CARRY AIR BATTLE TO SALONIKA   Extensive Bombings In Mediterranean To Be Continued \

BRITISH ERASE WUPPERTAL IN SECOND BLOW   3800 American Planes Pound Italian Sardinia

Ruhr Valley Towr Is Left in Ruins   Wuppertal Virtually Wiped Out By RAF; Yanks Pound Sardinia

Air Base In Greece  Hit Hard   British and Americans Blast Ruhr Industrial City, and Sardinia

A ROOAULT OVER EUROPE 5 UNABATED   Explosives Dropped On Ruhr City City Of Wuppertal; Axis Airdrome In Greece Bombed; Catania In East Sicily Hit   GERMAN LINES ARE PENETRATED BY REDS

AXIS AIRDROME IN GREECE HIT BY HEAVY RAID   . Wuppertal Wiped Out; Sicily, Sardinia Hit

10 Army Men Die As Alamogordo Bomber Crashes  Big Plane Plunges To Ground About  Two Miles From Base

Il Duce Names 17 New Secretaries  To Bolster Morale   Industrial Areas and Ports Shaken by Allied Bombs Affected

DUCE ATTEMPTS MORALE BOOST   Fascist Secretaries Are Shaken Up To Offset Allied Assaults

Liberators Raid Mili and Mauru In Central Zone  No Aerial Oppositior   No Aerial Opposition In Either Action, Nimitz Reports

YANKS DECIMATE A GERMAN UNIT   ARTILLERYMEN RAIN DEATH ON 300 TO 400 APPROACHING HILL IN TUNISIA.

Battle Action On Red Fronts  Is Increasing   Fighting For Black Sea Naval Base Of Novorossisk Stiffens   SEVERAL SECTORS SEE HARD FIGHTING

‘St. Louisans Return ‘From Sealing Expedition ‘In Pribilof Islands

Cologne Hit By RAF for 116th Time   BYg Force of Heavy Bombers Pass Over Channel Another Time

Nazi industry again target of air force   Pound Cologne for 116th time

R.A. F. Attacks Nazi Targets  _ Rome Reports Alert _ Sounded in Berlin

RAF Again Flies  Over Germany After Big Raid   Cologne Suffers Heavy Bombardment As Preinvasion Softening Is Continued; Radio Falls Silent

Heavy. Bombers Of RAF Sweeping  Across Channel   Headed Again For Germany Fallawing 116Uh Raid - On Industrial Center of Colugne

Canada Set To Welcome  Roosevelt   Governor General Goes to Quebec  For Ceremonies

Quebec Await Arrival of Roosevelt  ’ Athlone on Hand;   Athlene on Hand; invasion Seen As Tonic Parley

Quebec Ready To Welcome Mr. Roosevelt   Earl Of Athlone Arrives At Scene Of Coming Parley

Slot Machine and 25 Cent Gambling Measures Defeated   Senate Kills Both by Decisive Votes; Bill for Highway Debentures Is Sent to Conference Committee

WLB DISAPPROVES Ut PROPOSED PLAN   Board Said to Have Voted 8 to 4 to Reject Provision.

German Armies Begin General 1 Retreat From Mountain Defense  In Italy And Fall Back From , Reds In Russia    CLAIM TURK-BULGARIAN FORCES EXCHANGE SHOTS

TIRE AND TUBE PERMITS WERT ~ TO 88 FEOPLE   Another Busy Session of the Rationing Board and Tire Panel,   THE WEEKLY MEETING   Atito Owners Asking Help. Far Outnumber the.  Truck Operators. 

AATION PERMITS G0 10 DRVER   Tire, Tube-Panel Held Its Regular Weekly Meeting --.- Last Night...

RATION PERMITS GU TO GBNERG   Tire, Tube’Panel Held Its Regular Week'y Meeting Last Night.

Blackout Set. - For Thursday   Thrée States To. Test’New Signals Starting” At:  8:50" O'Clock:

Blackout Test Here March 4th   Third Service Command Calls First Under Signals

BLACKOUT TEST NEXT THURSDAY   Announcement Is Made By Major General Reckord— Will Start At 8:50 P. M. With Blue Signal

THURSDAY SET FOR BLACKOU]   First Signal to Come at 8:50 and All Clear at 9:30.

NIGHT TEST OF RAID SIGNALS NEXT THURSDAY   Will Be The First Night Test Under New Warning Svstem

FIRST NIGHT TEST UNDER NEW SYSTEM   New Air Raid Warning Sig~ nal Plan To Be Given Try-  out in Three States  : Next Thursday : ‘LENGTHENS . INTERVALS

~ ttatians Being Steeled For Invasion: Will Defend Cities Street By Street

Bombings Increase Jitters —   Italian Press Stepping Up Attempts To Steel Civilians Against Allied — Invasion; Says Everyone Must Fight

TALY STECLING POPULATION FOR INVASION BLOW   Apparently Certain Increased Tempo of Allied Raids Is Signal That Invasion Is Near; Italian Press Sounds Warning.

ITALIAN PRESS STEPS UP ATTEMPT TO STEEL CIVILIAN POPULATION TO MEET INVASION

Halian Press Predicts Early Al Allied Attack   Newspapers Seek To Bolster Waning Morale In Italy

Italians Are Being Steeled For Invasion   Citizens Warned All Will Be Expected to Play Part in Defense   “EVERYONE WILL FIGHT"

Italy Steeling Its People For Blow  Invasion Imminent, Says Fascist Press  — OO — se se ee

Population Warned Successful Invasion Possible: Cities te Recame ‘Fortresses’

[TALTAN PRESS WARNS NATION INVASION NEAR   Increased Tempo of Raids Held Signal Allied Thrust Imminent Against Mainland   STEELS CIVILIANS   Warn Every Italian Would Be Expected to Play Part In Defense of Their Homeland

ltalians Expect Invasion Soon   Population  Is Steeled For Attack

iF EEL ZERO HOUR NEAR  Italian Press Tries to Steel ‘(Population for Invasion

ITALIANS STEELED FOR INVASION BY FASCIST PAPERS   Editors Fee! Heavy Allied Bombings Are Signal That Invasion of the Homeland Is  lesemmimentk

Italian Press, Sure Zero Hour Near, Tries To Prepare People For Invasion

Ruml Backers Attack Opponent For “Demagoguery” As Debate Boils Hotly Through Third Day

Launch Drive for Compromise on » Income Tax Plan  Rep. Dies Predicts  Veto by Roosevelt  > on Any Ruml Plan

Predicts F.R. Would Reject Any Ruml Plan   Rep. Dies Makes Claim As House Bloc Makes Attempt To Advance Compromise Procram

DIES DECLARES “ANY RUML PLAN FACING A VETO   First Hint Given That Roosevelt Would Turn Down Relief Plan

‘Any Rumi Plan Certain of Veto, Dies Declares   Vid MVVUIC ve  House Bloc Launches Drive for Compromise  Pay-as-You-Go Law PLAN IS OUTLINED  Factional Battle Over Tax Becomes Bitterest of Session

RUML PLAN OPPONENTS HINT VETO AS DRIVE FOR COMPROMISE IS STARTED

DIES PREDICTS VETO FOR RUML TAXATION PLAN   Texan Representative Makes Claim as House Bloc Presses for Com-. promise Bijl    DEBATE IS BITTER   Backers of Rum! Plan. Attack ‘Opponents for “Demogoguery”; Dies Hurls Charges

VETO SEEN IF LAW IS PASSEL   Move For Compromise Held To Be Gaining Ground

FOR EXPECTED 10 VETO RUML PLAN   Bloc of Members Launch Drive Push Through Compromise Pay-Go Measure; Would Cancel Part of Taxes

LOWER MARKINGS BECTORED BY   Maximum Schedules Revoked That Would Start Next Monday

WILBERDING  ISWOUNDED IN AFRICA   Another K Company Man Listed In Report of. Casualities

WILBERDING  Is WOUNDED TN AFRICA   Another K Company Man Listed In. Report of ~ - Casualties ’

Suspect Many Cases  Of T. B. In lows   The Job Is To Uproot The Hidde: Cases, State Department Gi Health Oificials Say

Many Unknown Cases Tuberculosis in Iowa   Job Is to Uproot Hidden Cases, Official Says

Sees Postwar Prosperity   Farm Leader S Says U.S. Only Now Approaching Great Days of History

FIGHTERS TAKE OVER OFFENSIVE ~ AGAINST EUROPI   Poor Visibility. Keeps Bombers At Home—Nazis Adont New Tactics.

POWERFUL FLEETS OF ALLIED PLANES RAID AXIS-EUROPE   German Railroads Blasted By Fighter Planes — Poix Airfield  ‘Bombed

BOMBERS MAKE A SWEEP OVER EUROPE AGAIN   No Let-up in United Nations Aerial Offensive. Heavy Damage in Raid on Norway

HUGE BOMBER FLEETS CROSS ENG. CHANNEL      Resume Full-Scale ‘Air Attacks On Nazi-Held Europe

Improved Methods of Warfare Taking Heavy Toll of Sea Wolves in Atlantic Area

Sink 14 Axis Subs Within Two Weeks  MacDonald Predicts — Invasion Very Soon

European Attack Is  Predicted   Canadian Commissioner Reports 14 Subs Sunk In Two Weeks

American League  Mo games sebetcted”  National Leaque      Tell Of I4 U Boats Cited As  Briton Sees Early Invasion

A Dead Sub Daily For Two Week:   Tables Turned Completely on U-Boats,Says High Commissioner to Canada   PREDICTS ALLIED ASSAULT SOON   Comparatively Small Drives May Be Prelude to a Real Second Front

Leghorn Afire: Cologne Dealt Smashing Blow   Hamburg Also Target In Continued Allied Air Offensive

Predicts Invasion To “Start Soon”   British High Commissioner Reports 14 Enemy Submarines Sunk.

14 Submarines Sunk In Past 2-Week Period  British Commissioner   British Commissioner To Canada Declares Allied Assault Soon To  Hit Furone

EXTRA!   Germans Lose 14 Submarines In Two Week:   Destruction Of Average  - Of One A Day Told By  British Commissioner At Ottawa, Canada

14 NAZI SUBS REPORTED SUNK   Canadian Official Bares Success, Predicts Second Front

FOURTEEN ENEMY SUBMARINES SUNK IN LAST TWO WEEKS   This Announcement Made Today by Malcolm MacDonald.   SUNK AT RAPID RATE   He Also Predicted the Allied Assault on Europe Would Start Soon.

14 Axis Subs Sunk in 2 Weeks  A4.-Minneld Pradict<«   MacDonald Predicts Allied Assault On Europe Soon

ENEMY U-BOATS BRINGSUNK AT RATE ONE DAILY   British High Commissioner  to Canada Reports 14 Destroyed In Last Two Weeks   INVASION HELD NEAR   Allies — ‘Obviously Are Ap. proaching Another Great   Crisis In War,” He  f Declares

VYusesiav Couaterbliow   Allies Sank Sub a Day For Past 2 Weeks, Briton Says

TT rete ntiemmtan at etn Ante tener en melt ae! ee eee  Allies Sink 14 Subs In Last Two Weeks

Heavy Toll OF Nazi Subs   British Commissioner to Canada Makes Report; Sees Attack on Europe

‘Train Buster’ Fleet Active American Bombers. RAF Hit Hitler Rail Transport

Entire Fleet of 20 Axis Transport Planes Loaded With Troops and Gasoline Shot Down in Battle   Allied Bombs Smashing © Nazi Locomotive Supply

Combined Blows by American and R. A. F. Heavyweight Bombers Are Smashing Effectiveness of Hitler's Rail Transport

NAZI LOCOMOTIVE L055 BEING FELT   DESTRUCTION BY ALLIED BOMBERS IS GREATER THAN CAN BE REPLACED,

U.S., RAF Inflict Tremendous Losses on Nazis   Enemy Rail Facilities Dwindle Faster Than They Can Expand

URGES HEAVIER ATTACKS 0      AUSTRALIAN PREMIER SAYS ALLIES’ “HILLER - FIRST” POLICY FS OVERDONE,

Curtin Demands —— Help in Pacific   Australian Prime Minister Says Hitler-First Policy Being Overdone

Jap - Occupied Celebes Isle Is  Bomb Target  Harbor, Airdrome Hit; 100 Dead Counted

COUNT BEGINS OWN DEFENSE   Tells of Threat Against Father-in-Law

Mimic War Announced For Sunday   Southeastern Bay State, Connecticut And R. 1. Face Great “Invasion”

De Marigny Case To Jury Today   Rival Counsel Argue In Bahamas Court

Attorneys Sum Up Evidence in Marigny Trial   Defense Says Print Faked as Prosecution Calls Count Killer

NEW DEFENSE SET-UP ASKED   Rep. Armstrong Proposes Military Direction of Civilia.. Efforts

Sgt. H. R. Ausnes And Lois Eilers  Announce Event   Announce Engarement

ENEMY SEEKS TO STOP GAP IN DEFENSES   Axis Afrika Korps Pounds Away At Allies

Axis Gambles All To Keep Escape Corridor Open Toward Northern Ports.

American Ace Gets Medal of Honor   PRESIDENT HONORS CAPTAIN JOSEPH FOSS WITH HIGH DECORATION

FOSS DECORATED.   Ace Marine Filer Gets Medal of Honor From Treidant

Congressional Medal Pinned On Capt. Foss   Roosevelt Presents U. S Highest Award to Marine Ace

Needy Folks to Be Given Checks Soon   Cash To Take Place of Orders Exchangeable for Merchandise, Fuel

STATE RELIEF TO BE DOLED OUT IN CASH   Social Security Commission Announces Plan to Issue Checks Instead of Fuel, Rent and Merchandise Orders.

AEDS 100 TOUGH IN OREL SEGTOF   Germans Begin Large-Scale Withdrawals In Face Of  Soviet Drive

OREL BATTLE TURNING INTO GERMAN ROUT   NAZIS IN FULL RETREAT; RING OF STEEL IS BEING TIGHTENED AROUND 250,000 NAZIS

Nazis Try Desperately To Fight Off Encirclement Of Withdrawing Troops

Germans In Full Retreat   Front Lines Report Withdrawal South of Orel

NAZIS RETREATING SOUTH OF OREL   Russians Tighten T rap on 250,000 Nazis in Orel,

Resume Parley  On Mine Wages   Operators, Union  Chiefs Talk Terms

Frantic Axis Kyes Threat From Turkey   Report. Nazis Take Over Rumanian Railways, Say . Italians Riot .-

Turk envoy to London goe: to Ankara for consultation   Axis making frantic efforts to rally Balkan resources

NAZIS FEARFUL TURKEY WILL DECLARE WAR   Axis Commanders Reported Taking Steps fo Defend Balkans— State of Siege on Crete   Oificial Admits Navy Unable io Repel Invasion—Italians in Yugoslavia Join Guerillas

RES ie  ~ENVOY’S TRIP   Watched For Possible Tieup With Invasion Of Ralkeans

Turkish Envoy Going Home For Talks  Axis Countries Across Border   Axis Countries Across Border Seethe With Unrest

WATCH TURKEY FOR NEW TURN   Foreign Minister Says Nation Willing to Fight for Obligations.

GERMANY DISTURBED Ove TURN EVENTS 'BALKAN TERRITARY   AXIS POWERS MAKE FRANTIC EFFORTS TO RALLY THEIR RESOURCE:   ALLIED INITIATIVE, IS KEEPING ENEMY COMBINATION BUSY MANY IPOINTS AS TABLES ARE TURNED

Turkey’s Envoy Leaves London On Ankara Trip   Partisan. Of Allied Nations ’- Returns To: Homeland To Take Part In: Talks

POSITION OF TURKS WATCHED BY AXIS   Ambassador Leaves for Ankara for Consultations; Unrest Stirs Europe

AXIS RALLYING RESOURCES AGAINST BALKAN INVASION: RAUF ORBAY LEAVES LONDON FOR ANKARA CONSULTATION   Increase Noted in Turkish - British Military Collaboration. Turkey Willing to Fight In Behalf of Her Obligations—Alliance With Britain   ITALIANS TOLD NAVY  CANNOT PREVENT AY ARTON.

GERMANY TURNS WATCHFUL EYE TOWARD TURKEY   Notable Increase In British-Turkish Military Collaboration Reported; Newly Equipped Turk Army May Enter War.

Turkey May Enter War On Allies’ Side   British-Turkish Military Collaboration Notably Increased, Ambassador  Called To Ankara

TURK AMBASSADOR 0 LONDON NOW HOME FOR CONEAB   Germany Warily Watching Turkey for Turn of Events That May Bring Her Armies Into the War

Nazis Fear Invasion In Balkans   Turk Envoy in London Leaves For Ankara

Axis Watehes Newly Armed  Turkish Army   Turkey Willing To Fight On Behalf Of Her Obliga tions. Officials Say.   AXIS GARRISONS REBEL

TURKEY WATCHED FOR. DEVELOPMENT IN WARFARE MOVE   Ambassador to London Goes to Ankara For Consultations  Wid-Gttents

GERMANY KEEPS EVES ON TURKEY   Ankara’s Envoy To London Called Home For Talks

U. 5. Reveals Axis Attack Was Forecast   Three Weeks Warning By Grew OF Pearl Harbo: Surprise Is Cited   DIPLOMACY REVIEWED   State Department Issues White Paper On Decade Preceding War

Grew Warned U.S. of Nippon Plans  White Book Reve   White Book Reveal: Pearl Harbor Attack Foreseen

Grew Warned U. S. of Nippon Plans  White Book Reved! Pearl Harbor

Juveniles Must Fill The Gaps   Two Million Boys And Girls Needed After School Hours

SCHEDULE 10 BE NECESSARY FOR DURATION   After School, Vacatior Work To Meet Demand For Labor   YEAR’S SURVEY MADE   ‘Teen-Age Draft Bill Is Source of New Labor  ~ Difficulties

Two Million Boys-Girls Must Work   Necessary in War Effort Either on Part Time, AfterSchool or Vacation Jobs, Investigation Reveals

JOB FOR ALL STUDENTS   High School Youngsters Will Be Required to Help War Effort

Nation’s School Youths To Work   ALL OF YOUNGSTERS MUST HELP WIN WAR

PUPILS NEEDED FOR WAR JOBS   Two Million Must Take Up War Work, survey Reveals

Hold Hope for Control of Colds   J ournal Reports * Medical Advance

NEW DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN GENERALS   French Factions Are Unable To Get Together Over Leaders Of  Underground

CURRENT BLUE STAMPS NOT GOOD NEXT MONTH   Housewives Warned Not To Save Them With Expectation Of Using Them In April

Official Says Navy Unable To Cut Costs   Budge? Director Believes More Money to Be Needed

NAVY TO. SEEK BOOST IN FUND FOR ‘44 PLANS   8 Billion Cut Seen In Wa Spending For Cur rent Year

NAVY TO NEED BIGGER BUDGET   Sea Services Expanding. Budget Chief Tells Congressmen

Heavy Rains Slow MacArthur's Men on Papuan Peninsula   Allied Planes Continue to Pound Japanese Bases in Area

Allied Planes Inflict New Blows In Raids In Both Solomons And In New Guiana

CLOSER TO, MUNDA   Americans Within Three Miles of Air Base; Drive ©  on Salamaua

‘Americans Get Within Three Miles of Munda   Allied Planes Drop Nearly 100 Tons of Bombs Over Solomons And New Guinea Areas

Americans Only Few Miles From Strong Jap Base   Enemy Is Expected To Offer Bloody Defense Of Position

Knemy Bases Dealt Heavy Air Smashes   Defenses Of Major Jap Stronghold Being Tested

Allies Rain Bombs On Jap Bases.   Pincers Clesing. On Enemy Forces; Big Attack Near. -

Enemy Supply Depot at Vila Fired; Pineers Nearing Olelo   Advanced Patrols Defeat Japs—Other Bases  Bombed

dard-Hitting Enemy Warplanes Having Lost Nearly _ 200 Bombers Over Solomons Within Week, Is Diminishing Punches   NEARLY 100 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED BY ALLIES

New’ Bombing Of Jap Held India      U. S. OFFENSIVE STRONG AGAINST NEW GA. DEFENDERS

AMERICAN TROOPS  ONLY THREE MILES  FROM BIG JAP BASE ALLIED AIR ACTIVITY  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC CONTINUES STRONG

Planes Hammering Defenses of Base.   ; ‘Ground Troops: Only Three - Miles From Airfield—Enemy “Behered Steoicly Botrenched

Allies Deal New Blows To Japs As Pressure Is Applied To Pincer Action

Yank Invaders Within 3 Miles Of Japs’ Base   Allied Airmen Hammer Vila And Salamaua With 100 Tons Of Bombs; U. S. Subs Credited With 10 More Nip Ships

LOSSES HEAVY   Entrenched Enemy Expected to Put Up Bloody Defense.   ADVANCE ON SALAMAUA

Munda's Big Supply Depot ai Vila Set on Fire in 2}-Ton Bomb Aitack   SUBS GET TEN SHIPS   Airmen Blast Path Through Jungle for Troops Moving Toward Salemaua, New Guinea

Americans Press Defenses at Munda   Patrols Test Strength of Foe as Prelude To General Offensive to Take Vital Base

DRIVE CLOSE TO IMPORTANT JAP AIR BASE   Allied Planes Pound Nearby Supperting Areas With,100 Tens of Bombs.   FOE PLANE POWER WEAK   U. S., Australian Aircraft Continue Blasting Path Taward Salamaua_

Bombers Pound Foe Positions   Nearly 100 Tons of Bombs Dropped on New Guinea and Solomon Lines—Japs On Munda Believed Strong, Indicating Stubborn Resistance

Americans Are Within 3 Miles Of Munda Base   100 Ton Bomb Load Is Dropped In New Guinea, Solomons Blows; Japanese Air Punches Are Weaker

RAIDS MADE ON JAP BASES   MacArthur’s Forces Only  — Three Miles From Main Stronghold; Nips Give Little Opposition

‘ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST JAPANESE HELD POSITIONS   Advance Against Enemy Announced Near Salamaua

Big Drive on Vital Air Base Waits as Yanks Mass Power;  Islands Deluged by Bombs

Yanks Advance On Munda in New Jap Drive  Pincers Applied  Om Air Base.-

American Lroops Push Pincers About Munda   U.S. Forces Only Three Miles From Big Japanes Base On New Georgia Island

U. S. Troops Three Miles  from Base   Munda Assault Nears Real Climax as Planes Blast Path Through Jungle

U. S. Troops Only Three Miles From Objective; Enemy.  Faces Annihilation

UNITED STATES INVADER PROBING THE JAP DEFENSES   Allied Planes Have Dealt New Blows With Nearly 100 Tons of Bombs.   JAP PUNCHES PULLED   The Loss of Nearly 200 Planes Within a Week, Cuts Down Force.

Jap Garrison Blockaded By U. S. Fighters   Yanks Cut Through  Jungle To Within 3  Miles Of Enemy Base By C. YATES McDANIEL

Guns of 600 State Troops Install Louisiana Sheriff      sovernor jones tnvekes Martial Law ta Remove Politteal Fano Plaro Dine, M.     greier

Martial Law Called In Louisiana Area   Gov. Jones Ousts Bitter Political Foe Barricades Delay Armed Forces

GOV. JONES USES ~ TROOPS TO OUST FOE   Louisiana Executive Sets Up Temporary Military Rule to Remove a Sheriff.

Louisiana Guard Smashes Revoit   Put Governor's Choice in Office

Depends On Biblical Law Governor Uses Militia To Dethrone Political Enemy

Governor Sends Troops To Quiet Political Scrap   Sheriff Placed In Office In Face Of  Rittar Onnacitian

TO RUSH FOOD SALES TAX BILL   Would Remove Revenue from Food Consumed in Public Places

BILL TO ABOLISH TAX 19 FAVORE!   Would Drop Levy On Food Consumed En Public Places

GREASE TRACK FOR TAX BILL   GOP Solons May Hold Caucus on Sales Tax Exemption Legislation

CONGRESS CAUTIOUS AND ALERT TUESDAY   No Speed Seen in Tackling Revenue Bill or for War Revenue Plans -for 1944.

CONGRESS NOT IMPRESSED BY NEW TAX BILL   May Not Provide Full Sum Treasury Asks For 1944

MIX ORIGINAL SUGAR PLANS   Limit Now is 15 Pounds for , *-JBeely “Person,

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U. S. Forces Take Last Mountain Barrier Above Tunisian Coastal Plain   German Radio Reveals Fears for Southern Tunisia Forces; Russians Show Real Power in Smolensk Drive, Stand Firm at Donets, Menace Novorossisk

Yankees Claim Control Of Last High Barrier In Drive for Coast  ARTILLERY DUELS  IN MARETH LINE Allied Planes Retain Firm Control! of Air Over African Theatre

YANKS REPORTED — _ NEAR MEZZOUNA   German Uneasiness Reflected In Com- munique; Mareth Battle Violent;  Reds Drive Onward

Battle Smoke Veils Issue ‘in Mareth Line   German Uneasiness Is Reflected in  Nazi Communicue

MISS FROST AGAIN   a  Kansas Crops Are in Need of '- Warmer Weather

JAP SHIP FILLED WITH TROOPS SUNK   TRANSPORT SENT DOWN DURING ALLIED AIR RAID ON MADANG, NEW GUINEA.

Jap Transport. Fired And Sunk   Small Cargo Ship ls Badly Damaged

Allies Sink Enemy Troop Ship Near New Guinea  Many Foemen Perish; Opposition From Air Is Said Stronger

Japanese Troop Transport Sunk By Allied Bombers   Fiyers Continue Heavy Attacks On Madang Base

Allied Bombs Send to Bottom Jap Transport   Vessel Crowded With Troops Sunk in Heavy Allied Air Attack on  Modang, New Guinea

Jap Transport Sunk In Pacific   All Troops” Aboard Believed Lost

Japanese Ship Loaded With Troops Is Sunk  Small Cargo Vessel   Small Cargo Vessel Also Is Left in Sinking Condition

Jap Transport Fired And Sunk   Small Cargo Ship Is Badly Damaged  By VERN HAUGLAND

ARMORED FORCES SWING INTO LINE AGAINST GERMANS   American Tank Men Reported Inflicting Punishing Blows on Nazi Tanks In Escane Plans.   YANKS SUBJECT JAPS TO SEVEN AIR RAIDS   American Raiding Party Gets Challenge to “Come Oui and Fight,” Accept, Get 8C Prisoners.

CAB Orders Airlines To Show Cause Why Fares Can Not Be Cut Ten Per Cent

RAWSON WILL STAY NEUTRAL   U. S., Other Nations Keep Close Watch on Trend Of Argentine Events

Rawson’s Regime Decrees End of  Argentine Congres:   Police Get Orders to Suppress Communism:  Policy Is Pro-Allied

Communists — Under Ban of New Regime   Civilian Members of Cabinet Reported to Have Resigned

New President Of Argentina  Fires Congress   Also Orders Suppression Of Communist Activities, Closes Red Newspaper

RAWSON TAKES DRASTIC STEPS   Ends Argentine Congress By Decree; Newsvaper Is Suppressed

Rawson Strong Anti-Communist Actions Reveal   Only Two Civilian Members of Cabinet Reported Resigning  VEIL OVER MOTIVES  Many of Policies, Intentions of New Regime Mystery

Argentina Hits At Communists   Government Decrees Congress Dissolutior

RAWSON PROMISES CLOSE COOPERATION   New Argentine Gov't De. crees Dissolution of . Conaress

Junta’s Decree Ousts Congress   Argentina's New Rulers Show Anti-Red Trond

BIG AIR ARMADA SMASHED AFTER LEAVING TUNISIA   Greatest Aerial Victory of Mediterranean Covers Yank Fliers With Glory  :   DESCRIBED AS ‘MASSACRE®   Big Push Looms in Africa as Reds Advance in Kuban; Japs Hit Guadalcanal

In Record Raid   85 In All Shot Down: Ground Army Set For Final Drive On Axis   KISKA IS BOMBED   Jap Front Quiet But Russians Begin Attacks; Chinese Active

ALLIED PATROLS ACHIEVE GREAT AERIAL VICTORY   Ground Forces Prepare For Conclusive Assault  on Axis-Held Tunisia   RAF MAINTAINS 24HOUR RAID PROGRAM

Toll of.85, Including Fighters, Gives. Foretaste of Any Effort to Evacuate: Troops from Tunisia; Other Allied Planes Strike Heavily at Spezia ‘an Other Italian Centers; Russians Hold Own Against Counterattack.

RAF Britain - Based Bombers Hit Northern Italy Second Time Within Week of Around-Clock Offensive—Local Patrols Watch for Mine-laying

AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOTS ENGAGED 100 GERMAN TRANSPORTS  ATTIEN CDOOIINNA CARrre   ALLIED GROUND FORCES PREPARING FOR ALLOUT ATTACK SOON

58 Flying Boxcars Among Nazi Losses Over Mediterranean   Report Heavy Action In N. Tunisia; Reich Army In Russia Stiffened; Claim Freighter Sunk Off Brazil

98 OF ENEMY’S "NR BOXCARS' KNOCKED DOWN   16 Escort Planes Also Destroyed by Allied  Airmen in Africa

Rommel May Be Moving Soldiers Out of Africa   25 German Planes Downed in Kuban Caucasus Area

AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOTS ENGAGED 100 GERMAN TRANSPORTS   ALLIED GROUND FORCES PREPARING FOR ALLOUT ATTACK SOON

‘58 of Giant Planes Used For Troops   Greatest Aeriai Victory Of Mediterranean Staged: Ground Forces Attack

58 Flying Boxcars Are Destroyed    Allied Ground Forces Prepare for Offensive Against Rom' mel -

58 Transports Shot Down by US Fighters:   American Pilots Win Greatest Aerial Victory of Mediterranean War; Heavy Fighting Rages Along Road from Font du Fahs to Tunis

WORK TO START MONDAY UNDER FORS ORDERS   Indications Now Are That Full Production Will Be Under Way Soon   BARGAINING TO CONTINUE   Union Boss Takes Another Crack at Labor Board But It Still Stands

SENDS MINERS BACK TO WORK   Fuel Disaster Is Averted Lewis Complies ith FDR Order

Home Front Disaster Averted, UMW Head Orders Strike End   Second Truce To End On June 20; Cliff Clevenger Votes for AntiStrike Bill

War Production Threat Averted By Capitulation ‘UMW Chief Takes Final Rap at  War Labor Board, President

Lewis Tells Coal Miners To Obey  Roosevelt’s Order   Strikers Resume Work Monday And Negotiate

KNOX PROUD OF SERVICE WOMEN   Expresses Hope That Congress Will Grant WAVES Higher Ranks and A Wider Field; Friday First Anniversary of Women In Navy.

Grant Needs Of the Army, Says Baruch   Back Up Marshall or Throw Him Out, Adviser Says

SUPPORT PLEA OF MARSHALL, BARUCH SAYS   Marshall May Be Named New Allied Chieftain

- HIT NAZI HOMELAND   R. A. F. Bombers Assault the Rail Center of Stuttgart

Yanks Inferned In Russian Region   Came On Over After Bombing Kurile Islands

Russia Interns American Airmen   Crew Forced Down On Soviet Land

Churchill to Address World   Prime Minister of Britain to Broadcast  At 3 P. M., C. W. T.

CHURCHILL WILL TALK TO WORLD IN BROADCAST   Speech at Two o'Clock Will Outline Vital War Decisions

CHURCHILL TALK TODAY    British Premier To Address World By Radio At 3 P. M.

Churchill to Talk Over Radio Sunday  Address to World Will Be Heard Here At 3 PM CWT.

CHURCHILL ON AIR AT3 P.M, TODAY   ADDRESS MAY TOUCH ON PLANS TO INVADE EUROPE AND COMBAT U-BOAT.

PHILADELPHIA -RUSHFOR MEAT   Thousands of Shoppers Storm Markets for ~ Short Supply. 

ANOTHER GROUP IO ENTER SERVICE   Group From Western Half of County Pass Physical Exams.

RELEASE NAMES IQ ENTER SERVICE   Group Includes Inductees From Linton, Jasonville, Sandborn.

GOMEL AND OREL ARE ATTACKED   111 Enemy Planes Ar Destroyed And 300 Freight Cars Hit

SOVIETS ATTACK OREL AND GOMEL   Report Nazi Renew Drive On Leningrad

ED AIR FORCE! (TS DEPOT IN /HITERUSSIA   erman War Supply Cen.  ers Blasted By Bombers  in Forays Extending To Polish Frontier   } ENEMY PLANES  HAVE BEEN BAGGEL   'atis Renew Assault Ir  eningrad Sector, Hurl Infantry Forces At Russian Defenses

Big Nazi Rail Center Lashed   Red Airmen Hit Gomel And Orel In Spreading Attacks :

[Nazis Hit by Red Air Force   Germans Continue Plagued by Unrest’ [Among.. Victims

RED BOMBERS POUND GERMAN SUPPLY BASES   111 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Three Days

Transport Is Hit Hard By  Red Airmen   111 Enemy Planes Destroyed In Three Dave

RED BOMBERS FIRE GERMAN RAIL CENTER   Soviet Air Force Hit: Jammed Terminal at Gomel Point

Red Bombers Hit Nazi Rail Depots   Dozens of Trains Loaded With Ammunition Blasted

Russians Strike At Nazi Bases   Reds Report 111 Planes Are Downed

Trains Loaded With Ammunition and Other, Equipment  _ Bombed at Gomel, Nazi Feeder Point for Central and . Southern Fronts—Germans Launch Attack at’ Leningrad —Reds Repulse Enemy Thrusts Near Novorossisk.

SOVIET BOMBERS *WREAK HACOC IN AERIAL ATTACKS   * Long-Range Forays Bring Total of Nazi Planes Downed To 111

Russian Bombers Attack German Roil Depot at Gomel and Also Blast at Orel

Red Airmen Blast Nazi Supply Bases   New Activity Report ed In Axis Thrusts At Leningrad

Long Range Bombers Hit Gomel Depot   Orel Also Attacked In Swelling Air Offensive.

Soviet Air Drive Costs Foe 111  Planes in 3 Days  Reds Attacks Range From Baltic - To Sea of Azov

Boni Tells of Jap Attack On Barge   Boat Was Under Fire of Planes Several Times and Nearly Every Man Aboard Was Wounded

Tokyo Claims Aleutian Based American Planes  Raided Kurile Islands

TOKYO SAYS U. S. PLANES AGAIN RAID THE KURILES   ENEMY BROADCAST SAYS PLANES BASED IN THE ALEUTIANS MADE THE ATTACK

KURILE ISLANDS AGAIN BOMBED BY AMERICANS   Long Chain Of Islands  Stretching From Japan To Russian Siberia Said. To Be Attacked.

FOR RURAL PUPILS   Tuberculin Tests: Were in Today in Baldwin and Vinland

Visions FDR as Candidate for President   Political Washington Takes Statement as Outlining Platform

Politicians See FDR Candidate For 4th Term  Platform Promising To Win The War  And Dark Future With Qekheae Nindlinane

‘CAPITAL POLITICOS SEE FDR SEEKING  FOURTH TERM ON POST-WAR FOOTINGS

Political Washington Thinks That Roosevelt Will Seek Fourth Term

POLITICOS SH ROOSEVELT FOF A FOURTH-TERY      Postwar Program: to’ Be Main Plank In Platform Capital: Observers:  ~ Contend - -

Capital Sees {th Term Drive   President’ Believed To Be Candidate.

F.R. to Seek Fourth Term   Capitol Politicians See Candidacy on Postwar Program

FDR APPEARS TO BE A CANDIDATE   BOTH REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS AGREE HI WILL BE NOMINATED

33 Jap Planes Shot From Sky   Thirty-Four: Other Planes Destroyed on Ground, It Is Believed

Wewak Is Bad Spot For Japs   Latest Jolt There Is Shoot ing Down of 33 Planes

ALLIES DOWN 33 MURE JAP PLANES   ENEMY'S AIRCRAFY L OSSES AT WEWAK INCREASED TO MORE THAN 300.

33 More Shot Down By Allies; Bombers Fly Far To Hit Nickel Center In Celebes

Allies Boost Jap Plane Toll Over 30¢   Raiders Fly 2000 Miles to Bomb Celebes Nickel Mill

ALLIES BAG 33 ENEMY PLANES   Say Jap Losses ‘Over 300 Within a Week

Shot Down Over Wewak   New Guinea, To Increase Enemy Losses Within   Week to Over 306

M'KELLAR SEES SLASH IN GUSTS   Will Be ‘Delighted’ Cooperate With President in Eliminating Unnecessary Expenditures, Declares

Economy Seen In Government   Sen. McKellar Says Civitian Program Casts Must Be Cut

PLANS SAVING IN GOVERNMENT   McKellar Says NYA Will Have To Be Justified To Get Funds

Welch Formed Crew From   ‘ Local Officer Was Onl Naval Academy Mon On One Trensport

Japs Step Up Air Blows in New Guinea   Small Damage Caused to Outpost in Attack by 47 Planes

ATTACK ALLIED POST AT WAY   Only Light Casualties And Small Damage Done By Raiders

Japs, In Resurgence Of Air Activity, Raid Allied Post   47 Planes Target Of Enemy But Loss Is Light And Casualties Are Light

CINCINNATI STATION TO LAUNCH RADIO ATTACK ACROSS SEA   WLWO To Be Powerful To Drown Out Axis

MORE SERVICE IS NOW AUTHORIZED   Fewer Animals:Are Requirec to Obtain Electric Power on Dairy Farms.

MORE FARMERS TO GET ELECTRICITY UNDER NEW RULE   REA Manager John H. Wolfe States That Requirements Fo Extensions Of Service Have Been Reduced.

More Farms of This Area will Get Electricity   MINIMUM NUMBER ANIMALS REQUIRED LOWERED FROM . TEN TO FIVE

Gen. Bradley Sore At German Condud   Says Nazis Cunning, Unscrupulous in Warfare

Gen. Bradley A Speaker At ‘Legion Meet   Moberly’s Own War Leader _ Makes an Unscheduled Visit to Convention

DUISBURG RAIDED BY RAF PLANES   Europe's Largest Inland Port Target of Terrific Pounding in Night Attack

Senate Begins Inquiry Into A & M Changes Today   Williamson Testifies   Williamson Testifies Law Once Requested Aaent’s Dismissal

SENATE COMMITTEE  PROBERS OF A. & M.  HEARD WILLIAMSON BOARD CHAIRMAN LAW  SAYS EXTENSION DIREC. TOR POLITICALLY.MINDET

SENATE COMMITTEE PROBERS OF A, & M. HEARD WILLIAMSON  BOARD CHAIRMAN LAW SAYS EXTENSION DIRECTAT RAL TTA Ee BETA ss

OHIO AIRMAN AIDS TUNISIAN. OFFENSIVE   U. $. Bombers Drop Tons of Bombs on Axis

Committee Ignores Board in Approving Appropriations Bill   Drastic Action Left Unexplained; 2% Billion Given, Sniall Sum Cut From Federal Avencies’ Allowance

HOUSE COMMITTEE IGNORES PLANNING GROUP IN BUDGET   Independent» Of Office ' Bi]. Goes To House After $6,448,206 Slach

U.S. Planning Boat ‘d Ignored By Committee   Appropriations Bill Cuts Off Group Now On Post-War Study

Refuses to VotePlanning ‘Board Funds   Committee’s Action on Independent Offices _ Bill Is Surprise

COAL RELEASED ~ TOHEAT HOMES   Mines In Eight State: To Ship One Day's Output By Rail

MOVE T0 RELIEVE HEATING PROBLEM   ICKES ORDERS 1,800 MINES TO! DELIVER ONE DAY'S OUTPUT TO RETAILERS.

More Comfortable Homes:  Ickes Orders 1,800 Mines To Ship One Day's Production fo Retailers

HARD ON SUPPL   OW! Informs East Terrific Drain Imposed By Airmen -

Three German Airfields In Vicinity Heavily Bombed By American and British Flvera.

Beaten Nazi Army Officers Want Peace   Prisoners of Russians Say War Ts Hitler’s Now

NAZI OFFICERS ‘10 OVERTHROW HITLER   Survivors Of Stalingrad _. Form Union To ' Seek Peace

Madang Is Next In The Pacific   Aussies Closing In  Raids Heavier

Aussies Continue Gains Against Japs in Pacific   Allies Drive Off Fliers Attempting Raids; Enemy Loses Aircraft

AUSSIES GAIN IN DRIVE ON MADANG BASE   Mitchell Bombers Strafe Jan Positions

American Airmen Support   Advancing Troops by   Strafing, Dropping 35 Tons of Bombs

Aussies Continue Gains Against Japs in Pacific  Allies Drive Off Flier:  Attempting Raids   ORR =: a i

AUSSIES SCORE GAIN IN DRIVE ON MADANG   Troops Move On Bogadjim, Outpost 20 Miles South of Enemy Coastal Base.

AUSSIES SCORE GAINS   Australians Pushing On For Madang On New Guinea

AUSSIES CLOSE IN ON MADANG   Medium Bombers Back Troops; Japanese Bomb U.S. Positions

Aussies Take More Ground In New Guinea   Bombers Support Infan. try In Advance Up River Valleys

Allied Planes Pound Japson New Guinea   Deal Death Blow to Enemy Retreating Northward

U. S. Builds More Ships In Month Than Atlantic  I acces Tatal in Seven

U. S. Builds Ships Much Faster Than Rate of Loss  Production Hits 158 Vessels in June; Axian Gains Dwindle

JUNE SHIP OUTPUT BESTS 7 MO. LOSS   158 Produced While Total Allied, Neutral Sinkings Reach 98 in Period

ENGAGING US. > FORCES AT cin ~~ OF SBEITLA NOW   Inexperienced Americans Fase  War-toughened 21st Armored Division.

Food Parley Moves Info Second Week  Delegates Agree On Post-War Need Of

Agree on Policy Of Abundance   But Delegates to Food Parley Disagree on Way to Accomplish It

Food Delegates in General Accord   Question Whether State or Private Business Should Head Program.

U.S. Bombers In New Raid East Of New Georgia   Smashing Attack On Japs At Santa Isabel Island Is Reported   YANKS MOPPING UP IN MUNDA SECTOR

HIT JAP BASES INMUNDA AREA   Yank Bombers Smash Islands While Ground Forces Continue Mop-Up

Heroic Chinese Shielded Doolittle and His Pilots at Great Cost to Themselves

CONVICT JUDGE OF SOLICITING BRIBE   Sentence Deferred on Former Bookkeeper -

JUDGE IS CONVICTED OF SOLICITING BRIBE   Greenville ‘Attorney and Banker Await Trial

Russians Make Important Gain By Capturing Salsk  TAKE OTHER TOWNS  Germans Admit Peril of Remaining  Forces at Stalingrad

Thousands Of Original T rapped German Forces Being Cut To Pieces In Stalingrad Area

Anti-Freeze Sale Banned   22 Brands Called In By Government Termed “Destructive”

WPB Bans Sale Of 27 Anti-Freezes   Unsafe for Use,  Order Asserts

Take Pass, Approach Flat Area   Bloody Battles With Wild Germar Suicide Squads  Are Successful.

Enemy Retreating Along Entire Line   Clark’s American Spearhead Wins Control Of Mt. Maaaiore And Begins New Offensive

ED BOMBERS—  Reich Is Hit Hard   ... Fires Still Blaze In German Capital

BRITIoH PAY ANOTHER Vial TO ol. NAZAIRE   Raid on Nazi U-Boat Base Followed a Great Raid Upon Berlin.   CITY STILL ABLAZE   American Flying Fortresses  and Liberators Struck — at Rouen 

Allies Crack Nip Defenses at Salamaua   Navy Bulletin Says. American-Canadian Troops Land on Deserted Island, Aug. 15

Ex-German Banker Sees End In 1943   Morale Of Axis Armies Soon To Crack, Forecasts

TAKES STATE PLEAS FOR OAL, CHS POLL   Leonard, Armed with Coal Surveys and Help From Senators Goes to Capital

9000 More Walk Out at Auto Plants   22,500 C. I. O. MEN ON STRIKE IN BIGGEST DETROIT LULL OF WAR

. S Conte: Of Bonuses Is Explained   Even Santa Claus Got Regulated Under Wage Plan   (Third of a series of columns explaining the government's wage stabilization program.)  ss #« *

LOOMS, HARD COAL STRIKE   Labor Board Orders Leaders to Appear At 2 P.M. Friday

MINERS REFUSE FEDERAL APPEAL T0 END STRIK   Protest Of Dues Boost Will Continue After Vote   STRIKE DENOUNCED AS WAR SABOTAGE

TRUMAN GROUP © MAY PROBE PA. COAL WALKOUT   Miners Vote to Con tinue Idle in Dues Protest

Miners In Hare Coal Region  Stull Defy U.S.   Only 3,000 Go Back To Work; 18,000 Remain Out Of Pits

WLB Orders Hearing on Coal Strike   Ickes Charges Strike is ~ Reckless Disrgard ~ Of Public’s Good

Striking Miners Ordered To Answer for Walkout   WLB Charges Shutdown Injures Welfare Of Public and Cripples War Program

Ask union to explain coal strike   2,000 to return to work; others defy WLB order

Miners, Owner: Summoned by: Labor Board   Must Explain Coal Strik Against Interest of U.S. at War

Americans Negotiate With Oil-rich Arabia: Banquet ( Given By King

~.S. -Sssion “isis 7a 9u ous bre: Xinge om, ~as Success-u_ ‘ (B48; anc ues anc xc 1anges “GIc7s

FIRST AMERICAN MILITARY MISSION TO SAUDI, ARABIA   Has Completed Satisfactory Talks With King Ibn Saud.   REMAINED THREE DAYS   This Rich Oil Country Can Be Entered by Invitation Only.

ALLIED MISSION MEETS: WITH ARABIAN LEADER.   Success(ul Introductory Talks Held With King Ibn Saud On Middle East Situation

ARABIA VISITED BY U.S. MISSION   Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce Is Honored By King Of Oil-Rich Realm

American Group Visits Veteran Arabian Warr  Militory Mission te King Seud Seen as

EDEN CONFERENCES FOCUS ATTENTION SOVIET RELATIONS   BIG QUESTION IS WHETHER PACT WITH RUSSIA AND DEMOCRACIES NEAR

United Nation Pacts May Be In Offing   Eden’s ‘Visit Directs Attention to U. $.— Russian Relations

REVIVE INTEREST IN ANGLO-SOVIET PACT   Eden’s Washington Confer: ences Rejiew Attention

 Have Particular Reference to the Anglo-Russian Pact He Negotiated Last Year

ATTENTION IS FOCUSED ON ANGLO-RUSSIAN  RELATIONS  Questioned Posed Is _ Whether Pacts Avoiding Post-War Boundaires -..

View Anglo-Soviet Pact Studied a _ By Other Western Democr acies. As Result Of Eden Coiiferences

Interest Now Centered On Soviet-U. S.   Pacts Between Russia And Democracies Are Reported In Offing

Eden’s Washington Conferences Revive Interest In American-Soviet Relations

Eye Pacts _ With Russia   Eden’s Visit Focuses  Attention on Need to  Reach Understanding With Soviet Gov't.

EDEN T0 CONFER WITH LA GUARDIA   Lord Halifax Accompanie: Foreign Secretary to New York City

Eden to Push US-Russ Pact   British Foreign Minister : Preparing to Write More Pacts with USSR

Russia Takes Spotlight in Eden’s Visit   Pact Between Western Democracies and Soviets Is Hinted

US-Russian Relations ‘Discussed   Eden’s Conferences in Washington Seemed to Have Fecused on Anglo-Soviet Paet He Negotiated .

U.S, PACT WITH RUSSIA IS HELD AS POSSIBILITY   One With Western Democracies Similar to AngloSoviet Agreement Speculated Upon   BELIEVED EDEN AIM   British Foreign Minister's Talks Focus Diplomatic Attention On U. S.Red Relations

'We Retain Initiative in Pacific and Are on the Move ‘The Prospects Are Fascinating

Lhe War Today Scope Of New Pacific Offensive Not Definite, But We Have Next Move

eae Tero  United Nations Are Re_ taining Initiative AndAre On The Move.

ANALYSIS   wantic Striking Power ( Allies Can Produce saeeral Offensives

SECURITY FUND BILL PASSEL      Washington Warning or Administrative Money Is Tonored

SOCIAL SECURITY BILL PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE   The $68,911,460 Bill Was Sent to the Governor for His Signature.   WILL FREE JULY GRANTS

Gods of War Are Smiling on Roosevelt, Churchill and Co. Things Military Are Going Very Well

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   llied Military Outlook Bright Indeed As FDR, Churchill Confer

GODS OF WAR SMILING UPON ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL & CO. AS NEW CONFERENCES BEGIN

Sergeant Wants To Join Japan's Air Force Crews   Mechanic Says Enemy Al. wavs Has New Planes, No Repair Work

INE SEIZURE SILL URGED BY SENATORS   nmittee Approves Measure For U. S. Operation In Event of Strike.   LEWIS, OWNERS MEET   jporary Agreements Assure ) Walkouts For 30 Days, Pending Necotiations.

Senators Ask Food Subsidy  Compromise   Appeals To Roosevelt In Ef. fort To Avoid Fight On Floor Of Congress.   CUT RETAIL ROLLBACK

SEEK COMPROMISE ON FOOD PRICE SUBSIDY QUESTION   Administration Senators Appeal to Roosevelt to Compromise to Avoid Violent Floor Fight

OPPOSED TO FIGHT   Influential Senators Appeal for Compromise on Food  Subsidy

Food Subsidy ° *& ight Dodged   Influential Party Leader: apen To. Rovsev elt ‘For: Compromise.

Ask Compromise on Subsidy Issue  Senators Make Appeal to President Roosevelt

Senators Seek Compromise On Subsidy Issue   Congress Likely To Reject Food Price  Rollbacks, F. R. Is Warned.

SENATORS SEEK TOAVERTNEW SUBSIDY FIGHT   Call On Roosevelt to Compromise. His Demands and Limit Rollback to Few Items

DEMOCRATIC SENATORS BALK AT SUBSIDIES   'niluential Group Reported Askinc President to Recede trom ‘Holt the Line’ Order

Senators Ask Compromiseon  Food Subsidy   Inform Roosevelt House Iloor Fight May Be Averted

Compromise On Food Subsidy © Ts. Suggested   Influential Democrats -Make Are to President? Tru-, “pagan at Conference

Publishers Hear How Brifain Restricts Paper  -Qnly: Registered. Subscribers Can  Get Paper; Pledge Full War Cooperation

WAYS OF GAINING WWCTORY TOPICS AT PUBLISHER PARLEY   High Officials From Battle and Home Fronts  At Annual Meeting of  i State Publicher Group  lee aARTIN 16 CUFST

 CHEESE RATIONING SEEN /AS GOVERNMENT ORDERS iCUT IN CIVILIAN SUPPLY

‘The Team’s Ready  BRITONS NAMED TO AID INVASION   Ramsay, Leigh-Mallory Put On Eisenhower’s Staff

Ramsay To Be Naval Head Fo  Second Front   Leigh-Mallory_Named Commander-In-Chief For Air

Ramsay Heads Second Front Naval Forces   Leigh-Mallory Air Marshal As*Time Draws Near For Invasion

Allies Name New Leaders For Invasion   Leigh-Mallory,  Ramsav Chiefs

Britons Named Cmdrs.-In-Chief Of Air And Navy   Ramsay And Leigh-Mallory Added -To Esenhowee 8 General Invasion Staff

Name Allied  ‘Naval Chief for Invasion   Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay Naval Commander in Chief Under Gen. Eisenhower

Ramsey Made. Naval Leader   Britain Also- Picks Head Of. Air Arm, Selecting Leich-Mallory

ADMIRAL RAMSEY DESIGNATED NAVAL INVASION LEADEF   Will Work Under Gen. D. W BKisenhower of the Second Front Forces.   NEW AIR CHIEF NAMED   Appointment of Marshal T W. Leigh-Mallory Also Was Announced.

Invasion’s Air, Naval Chiefs Are Appointed   Second Front Setup Completed As Ramsay, LeighMallory Named.

Jap-Americans Win Laurels   Lead Attack of Noted American Division in Tunisian Campaiqn

American Soldiers of Japanese Ancestry Led Famous Divisicn in Assault on Italy

American Soldiers Of Jap Ancestry. Led Attack On Italy, Stimson Says

U.S. Unit of Jap Ancestry Proves Self Under Fire In Italian Mainland Attack

SEES ‘FEELING OUT’ PERIOD AFTER CONFLICT   Aircraft Head Says Production Will Shaw Dron

PROJECT IS JUNKED   Permanent Houses Will Be Avail. able Soon at Sunflower

Aleutian Island Roided Six Times by Daylight  MANY BOMBS DROP ON ENEMY BASES  No Casualties Suffered by the American Forces

KISKA ISLAND BASE BLASTED BY U.S. PILOTS   JAP FOOTHOLD IS RAIDED 6 TIMES IN ONE DAY

U.S. Bombers Blast Japs in All-Day Raids   Yank Fliers Vent Pent-Up Fury On Kiska Base

Fury E Bursts In Aleutians In Daylight Raid   Heavies! Raids on Base Navy Reports; No-U. §. Casualties

American Bombers Blast Japs On Kiska Island  Intensified Offensive Actions in South Pacific Also Reported

U.S. Hits Kiska 6 Times in Day   Heaviest Raid Staged on Aleutians Base: Munda Area Shelled

KISKA BLASTED DAWN TO DUSK   Six Heavy Attacks Are Made On Enemy’s Aleutian Base  In One Day

6 ATTACKS IN DAYLIGHT ON JAPS AT KISKA   Months Of Preparation By U.S: Ar Command Culminate In Heaviest Dawn To  Dusk Bombing.   Munda Japs Bombed

Americans Blast Kiska Six Times  Attacks Described as Being ‘Heavy’

American Planes Bombard Kiska   Raids Said Heaviest Since Jap Seizure

Americans Raid Kiska Six Times, Drop Heavy Bombs   Furious Attacks Deliverec ~ from Dawn to Dusk, ) Navy Reports

Heavy Attacks  Made on Kiske  Isle Hit hy Six Bombing:   Isle Hit by Six Bombings In Sinele Dav

Ration Costs of Meat to. Be Cut - During December  Most Beef. Cuts: to. be _ Lower red, ‘Effective -

MEAT RATION GOES UP AS POINTS REDUCED   Chester Bowles Says Change Effective This Manth ac Supplies Increase

BOWLES ANNOUNCES MEAT POINT CUTS   Thirty Per Cent Larger ‘Ration in December te be Allowed

MEAT RATION COSTS ARE BEING REDUCED   OPA Official Says Point Value: Will Be Cut Thi, Month; Butfer Ix Stil) Searce

‘\ Announces ‘ply Permits ‘in Points   A . ange Is Effective  oxt Week; Butter uation Unchanged

POINTS ON BEEF TO BE REDUCED   December Ration Will Be Increased By 30 Per Cent

Price Administrator Bowles Announces Sharp Cut Will Be Made in Coupon Value—On Beef Cuts It Will Be Two or Three Points Lower—Warns Improved Supply Situation May Not Last Long—Butter Shortage Still Exists.

U. 8. Will Get.  Meat Increase   Ration Points Lower. Exeept ov Buller

POINT VALUES ~ OF MEAT CUT   30 Per Cent. Larger Ration Will be Allowed Beginning Monday

Three Men Keel Over In Raid On England, But Girls Keep Their Nerve

NAZI BOMBING DONT PHAZE LONDON GIRL!   But Several Men Did Kee Over When the Luftwaffe Attempted to Even th Score for Berlin

Men Anti-Aircraft Helpers Faint During London Raid But Women Continued fo Pass the Ammunition

Jury Duty Not So Bad In 1853   Panel Of 12 Consumed 56 Bottles Of Whiskey In Less Than A Month.

Mussolini Is Gloomy on Anniversary   Allies Shatter Isle In Mediterranean; Axians Are Quaking

Conquest of Pantelleria Held Only Matter of Time   SOVIETS WIPE QUT NAZI GAIN   Russians Report Lunge by Germans Toward Rostov; Counterattack Made

JITTERY DUCE PUTS STOOGES IN PROVINCES   PANTELLERIA ISLAND DOOMED; ALLIES WIN IN AIR

Allied Siege of Island Bastion ls Unceasing   Mussolini Makes 11th Hour Effort to Buttress Nation

Bombers Battering Tiny Outpost Isle   Mussolini Seeks To Buttress Country With Shakeup Of Provincial Governments Thursday

ITALY REPORTED MAKING POLITICAL SHAKFLIP INFACE OF ALLIED INVASION

ALLIED AIRMEN RAIN MORE BOMBS ON SEA OUTPOSTS   Explosives Again Rock Pantelleria and Stronghold’s ” Defenses Are Believed  j in Ruins.   COMMUNICATIONS ON : SICILY ALSO BLASTED   Admiral of Duce’s Fleet Says  Warships Are at Stations - Ready to Oppose Any Attacks.

‘Jockeys Leaders in Provinces As Allied Air Siege Widens; Fall of Pantelleria Imminent

Island Bastions Blistered While Italy Fears Blow   Pantelleria, Defenses Rendered Almost Useless : May Be By-Passed, Observers Say;  Mussolini Has ‘Anniversary’

Pantelleria Shakes Under Assauli   Fascist Admiral Says ‘Fleet’ Is Ready for Attack

Allies Continue Seige Of Italy s ~ Island Bastions   Mussolini, on Third Anniversary of Entry Into War, Makes Political Shake-up to Buttress Nation Against Invasion—Pantelleria Hammered

Musso Frantically Shuffles His: Aides   Naval Chief Contends Fleet Ready, And -Allied Blow Expected ‘Any Moment Nay

90 NAZI SUBS SUNK BY ALLIES   Roosevelt-Churchill Statement Shows Progress In Fight On U-Boats

British Forced To Adjust Lines   Jap Pressure In Burma Increases

man of Town Meeting of e Air Balks At Attempts To.  » Promote Roosevelt's 4th Tein            t House Approves cy ody Else.

Meeting Secret das Well Kept   Some Expected Announcement  About Rationing

SOLON SEEKS INDUCTION OF NON - FATHER:   Federal Péyroll Set As Target By  tley

Non-Fathers in Government Service Face Draft under New Senate Bill

Would strip able-bodied  from rolls   Bailey prepares new draft bill

Substitute Draft Bill Is Prepared   Wheeler Discusses Issues Involved

Senator Would SU S, Payroll Of Non-Fathers   Barley Plans Substitute For Wheeler Bill Due for Vote Tuesday

Bailey Bill To Aimat Dads On Federal Payroll  New Proposal Offered as

DRAFT MAY HIT —- FEDERAL JOBS   Bill Framed To Induct Non-Fathers Working For Government

Maj. Vandergrift Received a Medal   Nephew of Chillicothe Woman Honored for Brilliant Career in Service.

State Salary Book Shows Higher Pay   180 Get at Least $5,000 Annually

YANKS LAND IN RENDOVA. ISLE IN SOLOMGNS   Big Offensive Opens in South Pacific Against Japanese; Pincer Movement to Trap EFnemv.   Allies Strong

Long-Expected Offensive Ts Under Way   : Nipponese Air Base at Munda Is First Objective

' Admiral Halsey and General MacArthur Apparently Opening Up with Sufe. “ficient Forces to Compel Japanese to Fight or Pull Back Toward North: - Whether Japanese Fleet Can Be Brought Into Open:ls Question

"Old lronsides” in Only One Raid, But Accomplished Best of Results

Rubber Czar Smarts Under New WPB Directive  Collision Predicted Over Curtailing Jeffers’ Authority

WPB Direetiv: On Allocation Riles Jeffers   Associates Predict ‘Collision’? With Nelson Over Order

“Old Blood and Guts,” Toughest Guy In Army, Weeps When His Young Aide Is Killed During Fight

Nazi Reserves Thrown Back   Russians Make Gains Despite Resistance

GERMANS HURL FRESH TROOPS AT RED ARMY   Nazis in desperate attempt to halt advancing Russians

GERMANS RUSH RESERVES 10 RED FRONT   Strive to Halt Rus. sians 37 Miles From Smolensk

Marrakesh Or Biskra May Be Meeting Place  ~-- OF Giraud. DeGaulle

LIMITATION IS ON: BASIS OF _ THREE PAIRS OF SHOES A “. FEARFOR ZACH: PERSON

Shoe Rationing Plan  Now In Effect In U.S. Allows 3 Pairs Yearly

IDEAL RATIONING PLAN IS ~ PLACED UPON THE NATION AND HOARDERS LOSE OUT

SHORTAGE OF GAS. HALTS TRACTORS   STIRS TALK OF FUKTHER RESTRICTIONS ON DRIVING IN EAST AND MIDWEST.

GAS SHORTAGE _ AFFECTS FARMS   Filling Stations Close; Tractors Halted In Food Production

FURTHER CURB ON DRIVING OF AUTOS LOOMS   Gasoline Shortage is Causing Crisis in  Food Production

Utticials Fear Gas Shortage May Reduce State’s Crops   Further Restrictions On Driving Possible In East, Middle West. Secretary Ickes Savs   TRACTORS HALTED, GAS STATIONS CLOSE

Fuel Shortages Menace Crops   Crisis Declared; — Midweet Invalye-t

Gas Shortage Halts Tractor: In Fields of Eastern States   New Restrictions for Middle West Being Considered to Divert Fuel to Stricken Areas

New Curbs on Gas Are Likely in East And Middle West   Crisis Develops in Food Production Due To Lack of Gas to Operate Tractors; Many Filling Stations Closed; Trucks Face Cut

NEW STEPS TO SAVE GAS ARE UNDER STUDY   Further Restrictions on Driving May be Necessary, !t Ils Stated

Gasoline Shortage Hits East   Tractors . Halted Crisis in. Food - Threatens:

Exchange of U. S.-Jap Nationals to Include  1,500 Yanks, Chileans

OUGPEGT REAL NEWS IN PARLEY 5 STILL UNTCL!   Allied Statesmen Did No! Spend Ten Days Jus Talking Generalities, Commentator Says

SEVED MATERIEL ARRNINC INS,   Captured Axis Equipment to Undergo Tests at Aberdeen

» 27 Nazi Bombers Downed Seviets Report New Outburst OFF ighting in Caucasus Area

Moscow Reports Heavy Fighting In the Caucasus   Nazis Fling Infantry and Tanks into Attacks Near Novorossisk

GERMANS ATTACK NEAR NOVOROSSISK   THROW INFANTRY AND TANKS INTO BATTLE—LOSSES RE‘ PORTED HEAVY.

NEW OUTBURST OF FIGHTING IN CAUCASUS AREA   Both Reds And Nazis Mass.  ing Forces For Huge  Spring Offensive   300 GERMANS SLAIN IN “A FIERCE CLASH”

Enemy Renews Kuban Assault   Foe’s Loss Said Heavy; - Outeome in Doubt

BIG THRUST DUE SOON IN RUSSIA   Both Sides Massing Men And Equipment; Soviets Hold In Caucasus

Heavy Fighting Flares Anew In Caucasus Area   Reds Claim Heavy Losses To. Enemy; Both Mace Eorree

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS   Outbust Of Fighting In Caucasus Results In Heavy Losses

Italy Should Accept Peace, Spellman Says   Surrender Would: Bring Peace Nearer;     ““Aychbishop Bélieves

ATTACK NAZI SUB BASE   British Made Sixth Raid in Six ‘teen Days on U-Boat Nest

U-Boat Base AtLorient  Is Heavily Raided Again   Sixth Raid On Nazi Nest In Last 16 Days; Four Rombers Missing

RAF Attacks . Nazi Sub Base AtLorient   Four Planes Lost in Sixth Raid on City in 16 Days

To Renew Fight On Food Subsidy   Farm Bloc Expected to Take Issue When FDR Delivers Message.

President Delays Subsidy Message   Administration-Congress Fight Over Food Payments to Be Renewed

Solons Await. FDR Message   Full-Dress’' Dispute Over Farm Subsidies in Sight

MESSAGE ON SUBSIDIES IS BEING STUDIED   Indications That Delivery to Congress May Be Delayed Pending Further Review   DISPUTE 1S RENEWED

Compromise On Subsidies Sought   Subcommittee Chosen  To Work Out Plan

NAMES 3-MAN SUBCOMMITTEE TO FORM PLAN   KeNender Asks Postponement

New Offensive in Pacific Due   Allies Control Sea os Far as Rabaul

Allies Holding Control of Sea Lanes in Pacific   Superiority of Air Power Is Main Factor

ALLIES GAIN IN DRIVE ON JAPS AT LAE   Air Power Has Won Control Over Sea Routes

Allied Airmen Rule Rabaul Sea Routes   -'New, Smashing Blows Are Prepared For Foe Ir South Pacific   GAIN IN LAE REGION      Patrol Range Of Planes Prevents Japanese Bolstering Of New Guinea

Aled Air Power Wins Control. . ~ Of Southwest-Pacific Sea Routes

Allied Air Power Wins Control Of Sea Lanes From Solomons To Rabaul

‘ALLIED AIR POWER WINS CONTROL OF 'PACIFIC:-SEA LANES   New, Smashing Blows Being Made Ready For Japs © In South Pacific  Gaantay

Jap Ships And Planes Wrecked   Allies Prepare To Eliminate Foe From Buna Area

Nippon Line Severed   Allies Drive Second Wedge Through Foe at Buna

MACARTHUR SPLITS JAPS IN BUNA AREA   Allied Planes Raid Rabaul New Guinea, Setting Three Large Japanese Ships On  Fire.   2 Japs Drowned

JAPANESE. PLANES SHOT FROM SKIES   No Match for Fighting Yanks In Clashes Over Guinea;  @ Allies Plan Blast Last of Foe From Buna Area

3.U. S. PLANES LOST AT KISKA   Japs Succeed In Putting Reinforcements On Aleutian Island, Navy Discloses

ALL-STATE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN FOR-IOWA   Goat for Women Includes 70,000 Reciuiis---Take Basic Tiaining Together--lowa Quota 1361

More WACs Are Needed In the  Armed Forces   Drive for 1351 New WACs Is Underway In Towa. “Want 9 from Pocahontas County

“CAN PROBABLY, WILL BE BOMBED’   Reninger “Tells” Meeting of Plant Protection Managers

SENATE (6 EXPECTEU TO RETAIN OPA FUNG   Leaders Confident Operating Funds To Be Restored

LAST-DITCH SENATE FIGHT LOOMING T0 RESCUE OPA, OW   Price Agency's Outlook More Hopeful Than Davis’

AGENCIES AWAIT SENATE ACTION   OPA And OW! Chiefs Hope For Restoration OF Funds Slashed By House

OPA and OWI Fear Senate Vote   Both Agencies are Threatened by Cut  In Finances, Claim

Japanese Expect to Win War, After Abou Five Years, But Think Their Axis  Partner, Germany, May Collapse Soon

NAZI COLLAPSE iS EXPECTED BY JAPS   Wear to Continue for Five Years Longer, Correspondent Told

JAP OFFICIALS EXPECT NAZIS TO COLLAPSE   Correspondent Says, However, That Nipponese Are Confident Of Victory

Optimistic Japs Predict Victory   But They Expect Germany To Fail

Lines Around  Salamaua Are Tightened   Wewak, Key Supply Base, Shattered in Aerial Attack

Headhunters of Burma Save Lives of 20 Who Leaped From Crippled U. S. Plane

Correspondent Tells Thrilling Story of Life and Death Struggle of 20 Men Who Dropped hy Parachute Into the Wilds of. Burma When Their U. S. Transport Command Plane Develoned Travhle

Thrill-Seeking Youths in Mid-West Take Large Part of the FBI’s Time

Red Army Frustrates Nazi Moves   Russian Forces Drive Closer to Orel and Dnieper

WORK OF RED CROSS S GIVEN   Chairmen List Activities At Annual Meeting

New Thousands Of Coal Miners Ready to Strike   Action Suspended While Leaders Confer With WLB

Miners’ Leaders  Explain Strike  At WLB Hearing 17,000 Still Out  In Dues Dispute; _ Shortage OF Coal

Defer Strike Pending WLB Coal Hearing   20,000 Miners Marking Time

20,000 Miners Delay Strike Call Two Days   Await Word From Leaders In Washington On Success Of Negotiations.   WLB HOLDS HEARING

20,000 MINERS AWAIT HEARING BEFORE W.L.B.   About 17,000 Others Already on Wildcat Strike; Hearing Is Today

Coal Strike Deadline IsSunday   Union Leaders In Capital To Explain Wildcat Walkout In Pa, Fields

STRIKE CALL HELD AS MINERS PARLEY   WLB Demands Explanation “ Walkout 

Strike Call Affecting 20,000 More Miners Held In Abeyance Pending Hearing In Capital

COAL STRIKERS ENTER 17TH DAY, PRODUCTION CUT   Tri-District Anthracite Com mittee Postpones Action Until Sunday

20,000 Miners Delay Walkout   Insurgent Union Leaders Reach, Capital ‘To Talk Over ‘Troubles

AWAIT OTRIKE CALL FOR WL HEARING   Committee to Wait for Washington Move Before Calling Out 20,000 More Miners

UNION LEADERS NOW IN CAPITAL TO ‘EXPLAIN’ STRIKI   Strike Call To 20.000 'More Miners Held Him. ‘ABeostcis:

Strike Increase Is Threatened   Call for Additional 20.000 to Join Walkout Is Delaved

Labor Board Meeting With Mine Leaders   Strike Call for 20,000 Workers Is Being Held In Abeyance   STOCKPILES DWINDLING

20.000 More Coal Workers Defer Strike   Additional Number In Anthracite Dis pute Awaiting Outcome Of WLB Hearing

OFFER WALKOUT   Postpone Coal Strike While Leaders Confer With WLB in Washington.

Anthracite Men Defer New Strike   20,000 More Await Results of WLB Hearing   Insurgent Leaders Are Arriving in Washington

20,000 MINERS POSTPONE PLAN TO CEASE WORK   Leaders Of Union In Washington To Explain Problem

Defer Strike Pending Hearing   Insurgents to Explain Strike to War Labor Board

STRIKE SPREAD IN ANTHRACITE FIELD DELAYED   iCall for 20,000 Additional Miners to Walkout Held In Abeyance During Conferences   WLB SEEKING PEACE   Unless Satisfactory Agreement Is ‘Reached Strike Can Wall Be Tssued Sunday Night

Allies Drive Rommel's Forces Back   War Situation Is Favorable Around the Globe

Allies Close On Rommel's Heels   - Fleeing Germans ‘Blasted From Air

ALLIES CHASE ROMMEL OUT OF KEY PASS   RETREATING NAZIS UNDER UNENDING AIR ATTACK

Allies Push  Rommel Into Pass   Pursue Retreating Enemy Forces British Eighth Attacking From South Penetrate Mareth

Defenses of Mareth Line Penetrated   Germans Preparing for Abandonment of-’ Two Other Key Towns

Chase Rommel Toward Gafsa: Advance to NE  Refreating Nazis Puf Under Heavy Attack  Cram Air Arm

STORES BURNED, AIRDROME BLOWN UP IN RETREAT   Meantime, British Ei ghth Army, Attacking From South, Pierces Mareth Line Defenses.   ROMMEL’S COLUMNS HEADED TOWARD GAFS A   Other Units Falling Back Near Sidi Bouzid, Which Is Menaced by English and French.

New Keyboard Sets New Speed’ Marks   Navy Man Rearranges .. Typewriter, Speed Results

TEMPERATURES:   Those Violating Ration Rules Must Explain   Many Car Owners Are Summoned; Stickers Must Be Displayed   Not Guilty!

Second - Period Values Set for Fuel Oil Units   0. Gallon Allotment to Householder Is Unchanged

BRICKER SEEKS FOOD TAX VOTE   Says Repealer Bill Should No .” Be Bottled In Committee —

BRICKER SET TO FIGHT FOR TAX REPEALER   Willi Carry Battle on Meal Sales Levy To Committee Monday, Report.   GOVERNOR CONFIDENT

YANK FLIERS SHOOT DOWN 3] OF 98 ENEMY PLANES ATTACKING SHIP CONVOY   50 Bombers Escorted by 48 Zeros Appear Off Guadalcanal

37 NIPPON AIR RAIDERS     SHOT DOWNIN ATTACK ON SHIP CONCENTRATION.

Americans Crush Jap Aerial Attack   37 of 98 Enemy Planes Shot Down

American Fliers Victors  One Of The Biggest Air Battles Of Campaign

American Feature Films To Follow U.S. Troops Into Liberated Lands

Choosing Site For Garden {Location Most Important Factor To Succes:

SELECT GOOD GARDEN LOCATION   Sunshine, Slope, Drainage, Soil and Accessibility Are Factors to be Considered

HERSHEY SAYS 4FS MAY SOLVE MAN PROBLEM   Selective Service Direc tor Testifies Before House Body

Foes of Wheeler  Marshal Forces   Want To Get Rid of ©  Government Employes

MAJOR CROSSING OF RIVER IS NOW IMMINENT; ALLIES STILL GAINING   British Eighth Army Drives Beyond Termolli Despite Fierce Enemy Counter-Attachke.

BRITISH HOLD AS NAZIS ATTEMPT TO REGAIN CITY OF TERMOLI ON ADRIATIC   SOME AMERICAN PATROLS CROSS VOLTURNO RIVER LINE, BUT FIFTH ARMY TEMPORARILY HALTED BY FLOODED STREAM CONDITIONS

Ambassador Plans Parley  U.S. Envoy to Meet Russ Leaders; Moy Talk an US Aid

Admiral Standley, U. S. Envoy, To See Stalin On Secrecy On Lend-Lease

Russ Jolted By Standley  On U.S. Hel   Envoy Accuses Stalin o! Concealing Facts From Soviet People

SOVIET AUTHORITIES _ FAIL TO TELL THEIR PEOPLE OF U. S: AID   Charge !s Made by Admiral William H. Standley, ‘American Ambassader to Moscow, and He Plans . “to Probe Répart in Conference Today Pos sibly With Premier Joseph Stalin.      DIRECT REBUKE SEEN TO STALIN FOR PLAN TO CONCEAL U.S: AID

CLAIMS RUSSIAN PEOPLE ARE NOT ‘ADVISED OF AID      Russian Government Giving Own People Impression It Is Fighting Alone

STALIN REBUKED ON LEND-LEASE   Ambassador Says Russians Are Unaware Of Aid Given By U. S.

U.S. Now in Pcsition to Hit Tokyo   Isolated Pockets Are Being Mopped Up by Americans

MOP-UP 0  Is LAND I$ CONTINUING   Next American Blow May Be At Kiska  Or Paramushiru

King George V! QOnens Parliament In Confident Mood   Tells Commons Next Year Will Bring Allies More Strenath

KING GEORGE OPENS  PARLIAMENT WITH AN  OPTIMISTIC SPEECH LONGEST-LIVED PARLIA MENT IN BRITAIN’S HISTORY CONVENES

King Promises Greater Attacks On Axis Nations   New Parliament Session Opened By George 6th; Mentions Japan Again

King Promises Heavy Attacks  United Nations on   United Nations on Offensive in All Theaters, He Says

Stronger Allied Attacks A gain st =. Enemy Predicted By King George

Ninth Session Since Present Commons Was Elected Makes Present Parliament Longest In Britain’s History; Talks of War Effort.

King George Promises Great Weight Of Attack On Enemy ‘In 1944; Speech Optimistic   Monarch, Opening New Session Of Parliament, Reviews Allied Stride

King Cites All-Front  Offensives   Foe Facing Heavier Attack in 1944, He Tells Parliament

KING GEORGE VI WARNS FOES OF HEAVIER BLOWS   Opens New Session of Parliamen With Confident Predictions’ o   Allied Victories

King George Says Attacks Will Multiply   Tells New Parliament Allies Hold Offensive on All Fronts

British Monarch Opens Session Of Parliament   Predicts Greater  Allied Offensive

KING PREDICTS NEW ALLY DRIVE   BRITISH CHIEF SEES GREATER ATTACK FORCE

King George Says Greater Blows Planned   British Ruler Opens Parlismeut with Confident Address

PARLIAMENT ADDRESSED BY KING GEORGE   Historic Mesage is Similar In Optimism to One Delivered On Tuesday   CHURCHILL IS ABSENT

‘Still Greater Attack’ For Foe   King George Reviews Progress Of The War

NAZI GENERALS HELPING ITALY   Goering And. Himmler Take Over Rome Defense Duty

TOUGHEST FIGHT 5 YET TO COME   Byrnes Says Axis Far From Whipped; Warns Nation Not To Let Down

War Fraud Authors To Escape Cells   Anaconda Officials Let Off With Fines By U.S. Judge

Navy Seeking 4 Billion for More Ships   Carriers and Heavy Cruisers Included in Reauest lo Congress

‘New Construction : Program Planned   Vessels Will Range in Size From Small Boats to Aircraft Carriers.

Eighth Army Shatters German Tank Attacks At Gates of Catania   U. S. Troops Continue Gains in Center, West Sicily; Reds Threaten Vital Axis Hinge City of Orel And Breach Nazi Defenses in Front of Taganrog

British Eighth Army Prepares Fina Assault Upon Catania; Russians Squeeze The Axis

Today's War Commentary  Dutch East Indies  Japs Believe Allies May Strike There

Tri-Partite Accord Seen   Secretaries Agree On All Points Of Aqenda

Study Military Problems ‘at Tri-Power Meet   American and British Generals Attend . Moscow Conference

ARMY MEN AT CONFERENCES IN RUSSIA   United States and British Join Diplomats in Council Indicating Military Affairs Will Be Discussed.   Share Opinions

Sharp Pencil Taxpayer’s Need if Bill Becomes Law   Pay-as-You-Go Measure Now on President’s Desk For His Signature

Tax Timetable For Payers Of  Income Levies  ~ i; oe ie   Dates And Data  To Remember

Except For The Money—  John I. (For Income) Payer Of Taxes Has It All Worked Out For Him In This Survey

These Dates Are For Your New Tax Bill   Calendar Given Of — What Tu De Tu heep Even With Treasury

RUSSIA AND TURKEY ARE IN ARGUMENT   Reds Sav Turks Are For Enemy As Neutzais

FARM UNION SAYSIT ISN'T BACK OF MEET   Also says not attacking Farm Bureau and  AAA programs

Farmers Union Head Attend Conference   Patton To Meet With Leaders In Des Moines

Farm Machinery Supply Foreseen   Washington Source Discusses Prospect

Committee Would Boost Allowances  Acting In Face Of Father Draft

Seek Boost  InMoney To Soldier Kin   House’ Committee. Begins Hearings On Plans to Increase Allowance For Families   PRAFT OF FATHERS TO START FRIDAY   Expect Amounts Will Be Hiked For Children Of Service Men, But NoMore For Wives

Open Hearings on Allowances for Families   Discuss Bill to Increase Soldier Dependents’ Funds

Hearings Begin On Upping Aid To Dependents   Greater Provision For Wives And Children Of Enlisted Men Seems Likely

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WHAT OUR BOYS WEES ARE DOING TO 4 WIN THE WAR  , a ao a aVeeeY “Boney Barre ‘olemes aes! coneter MaGir Milas

MILLION GET JOBS THROUGH OHIO USES   Wartime Employment Needs Cut by Applications

Aeolian Isles Are Capturec   Lipari, Stromboli Surrender to U. S. Warships; British Shell Scalea on ‘the Instep’ —

Reveal Turkish Conference By Churchill   ' Allied ‘Strafegy Program Nears Action Staae

STRATEGY 1S NOW PLANNED; INONU IS COOPERATIVE   Prime Minister Kept Roosevelt, Stalin Infermed on Pronress_

Churchill's. ~ Visits Bring  Prediction   WORLD STRUGGLE MOVING TO CLIMAX, DECLARUS BRITISH PREMIER.

CHURCHILL VISITED THE MIDDLE EAST   Conferred with Turk President;  Is Now in Cairo

GRAND STRATEGY PROGRAM IS NEAR   Turkish Leaders Agree Up: on Plans for Developing Their Country.

Allied Grand Strategy Now  Nears Action   Churchill In Egypt On Way Back From 2-Day Turkish Parley   HIGHLY OPTIMISTIC   Confident Axis To Be Removed Soon From African Area

GERMAN PATH BARRED BY NEW CONFERENCES   Prime Minister’s Secret Visit to Middle East Bolsters Allied Hand.

GRAND STRATEGY PROGRAM NEARS ACTIVITY STAGE   Churchill Discusses War With Turkish Leaders On Two-Day Visit

British Minister's Secre! Visit After Conference With President is Now Made Known.

30-DAY LIMIT SET ON MINE NEGOTIATIONS   Final Wage Agreement Is Retroactive From  April  Deadline

Negotiations Are Extended Thirty Days   Miners, Operators Agree To Roosevelt's Recent Appeal

NEGOTIATIONS ON WAGES POSTPONED   Final Pact to Apply Retro actively as of April 1 — Under Plan.

Lewis Signs To Continue Negotiations   Operators Agree Any Decision Will  Be Retroactive

CHIANG, WIFE BARELY ESCAPE FALLING ROOF   Heavy Tiles Plunge Into Officers Mess af Base in India After Dinner With Mountbatten

Chiangs Had Close Call   Few Hours After They’d Lunched, Roof Fell In

Chiangs Escape Roof Collapse   Had Lunched With Mountbatten Seven Hours Before Crash.

Officers’ Club Roof Collapsed’ as:Chiangs -. And Admiral Departed

Chiang Kai-Shek, Lord Mountbatten, Aides Escape Death by Seven Hours

CHIANGS MISS DEATH IN ROOF CAVE-t   Mountbatten an and Chinese Hoe Were in Room Seven‘: ‘Hours Before Roof Fell In

Mosquito Planes Sirike At HourOf  Goering’s Speech   i Planes Return Safely To Their Bases Despite Fact Berlin Is Considered One Of Best Defended Cities — Nazi Leaders Continue Tirades Against Russians

British Bombs Pound Berlin  On Anniversary   Fuehrer’s Proclamation Is Tirade Against Versailles and Jews

Enemy Reels Before Allied  Aerial Blows   Mountbatten, MacArthur Set Up Communication System for Exchange of Information

Chinese Suffer A Major Defea   Japanese Now Control ‘Rice Bowl’ Area

Chinese Lose Rice Center   Elsewhere in Pacific War Allies Hold Offensive

China's “Rice Bowl” Falls lo Japanese   Offensive Remains in Allied Hands on Other Fronts of the Pacific

Changteh Falls to Jan Sieae   War Department Spokesman Says Bases in Siberia Unwantec

CHINESE SAY RICH SECTOR FALLS TO JAPS   Hunan Province Capturec  After Bitter Fighting, -Opening Way for New  ’ Attack on Changsha

Chinese Setback  In “Rice Bowl” Fall of Changteh Announced; Allies  Retain Offensive  On Other Fronts

Chinese Reverse   Japs Score Advance In “Rice Bowl”; Allied Air Drive In Pacific

Casualties Heavy On Both Sides; Rabaul Believed Kayoed By Allied Air Pawer

Severe Reversal is Suffered by Chinese in “Rice Bowl’ Area   Allies Keep Offensive on All Other Fronts of Pacific War

Chinese Suffer Serious Reversal In ‘Rice Bowl’   Elsewhere Japanese Forces Are Kept On Defensive Side

JAPS CAPTURE ANCIENT CITY IN RICE BOWL’   Chinese Suffer Serious Re. versal But On Other Fronts In Pacific Offensive Remains With Allies   VITAL SUPPLY LINE CUT

Chinese Lose Vital Sector Of ‘Rice Bowl’      Serious Reversal Is Dealt Chinese Forces By Japs in Hunan Province Battles

CHINESE HANDED SERIOUS LOSSES IN ‘RICE BOWL   But Allies Hold Upper Hand On All Other Pacific War Fronts

(Chinese Thrown Back In Rice Bowi.’ Lose Chanateh, Bul Allies Take Inifiafive On Other Pacific War Fronts

Chinese Admit Changteh Lost To Jap Hordes   Elsewhere in Pacific the Initiative Rests With Allies

Chinese Lose Changteh to ‘Jap Forces   “oss of Hunan Province City Is Serious Reversal for China: Allies on Offensive on All Other Pacific Fronts

JAPS TAKE KEY CHINESE CITY   ‘Allies Continue Heavy Ai Assaults On Pa cific Isles

Japs Now Control  ‘Rice Bowl’   Capture of Changteh Heavy Biow to China; Allies Pound Nip Island Bases in South

CHANGTEH FALLS TO JAP TROOPS   CHINESE SUFFER SERIOUS REVERSE IN THE RICE BOWL

CHINESE HAVE SERIOUS LOSS   Japs Take City of Changteh  After 15 Days of Bitter Finqht_

CHINESE SUFFERED SERIOUS REVERSAL IN LOSS CHANGTER  ON ALL OTHER PACIFIC WAR FRONTS ALLIES RETAIN OFFENSIVE

CHANGTE TO JAP TROOPS IN “RICE BOWL"   Allies Continue Heavy Plane Attacks on Jap {sland Position

New Zealand’s  War Chief Dies   Former Premier Coates  Succumbs Sitting At Poecl

 New Zealand Minister For Armed Forces and War Co-ordination Dies

New Zealand War Minister Dies At Post   J. G. Coates Was In U. S. In 1941

New Zealand War Minister Drops Dead   Passes Suddenly While At Desk

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Food Czar Plan Faces  Opposition   Members Of House Say They Receive Little Encouragement From President Roosevelt

AG GROUP CARRIES NEW DEMAND FOR FOOD BOSS TO FDR   Seven.- Member Committee, However, Leave White House With But Very Little ‘Encouragement

CONGRESSMEN URGE SINGLE CZAR FOR FOOD   Bi-Partisan Group of House Agticulture Committee Carries Bill to Rocsevelt

@ouse Committee Said to Have Received Very Little Encouragement  WILL WAIT AND SEE BEFORE THEY ACT     Griticism Is Voiced of -“Derned Experiment’ in e Food Problem

House Group Asks Single Food Head  Centralized Power   Centralized. Power Sought From FDR; Davis Suaqaested

A Single Food Czar Is Sought By House Group   Demand Is Laid Before President Roosevelt in a  Proposed Bill.   Control Is Asked Over All Phases of Food

Single Food Boss Sought   Congressional Group Visits White House To Present Demand

Food "Czar" Issue Meets Opposition   Battle Over Proposal Of One-Man Boss Rolls Back To White House   DAVIS IS MENTIONED

TO NAME CHIEF   House Agriculture Group Gets Scant Encouragement at White House.   IS OPPOSED BY BYRNES

ONE-MAN FOOD BOSS DEMANDED   Farm Group Asks President To Consolidate Powers

OVER-ALL FOOD HEAD   Congresamen Get Little Encourage ment From FDR On Demands

Demand Single  Czar Of Food   House Committee Members Present Plea To Roosevelt, Byrnes,

Subsidy Plan Wins Support Of President   One-Man Boss To Handle Food Costs Turned Down

Russian Army Only 60 Miles From Old Polish Border  PLAINS LITTERED WITH GERMAN DEAD  Nazi Military Commentators Marvel at Russian Power

Soviets Make Deepest Slash in West   Armies Strive to Open Path Into Poland; Many Germans Perish

Red forces in deepest penetration   Railway seizure ‘ would split nazis

Soviets Reach Point 85 Miles From Poland   Over 100 Villages Seized as Reds Drive Toward Vital Railway;  Bug Line Threatened

Reds Get Near Bordersof Old’Poland :   Elsewhere ‘on Front Gomel Menaced by  hhccueccen del’ Mewarneibe:

Russian Forces Smash Through 100 _ Towns; Hundreds of Germans Slain In Zhitomir and Gomel Areas

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SKIES DOMINATED BY ALLIED PLANES   Heavy Attacks Kept Up On Retreating Axis Transnart Calnrne

Allied Planes Dominate Sky Over WarArea   Enemy Collapsing Before U. S. Second Corps and British First Army; 25 Enemy Vessels Sunk In Tunisian Straits

Heavy Fighting In Both Sectors   Americans Capture More Than 1,000 Prisoners In Two Hours; British First Army Advances 10 Miles In Several Hours

FRENCH DRIVING AHEAD ON COAST TOWARD CAPITAL   Four Important Points Captured By U. S. Units  BULLETIN

STEEL HELMET © SAVES LIFE OF GENERAL WNAIR   Commander of American Ground Forces in Tunisia Hit by Shell Fragment at Front.   SPLINTER QUARTER INCH FROM BRAIN   Rides Three Hours in Jeep to _ Hospital for Operation— To Be Out of Fighting Several Weeks.

Steel Helmet Saves General McNair’s Life as Shell Fragment Strikes Head

GEN'L WOUNDED BY . SHELL FRAGMENTS   McNair’ Enters Hospital After Three-Hour Jeep Ride

GENERAL McNAIR PROUD OF U. 3. STEEL RELMET  "Wounded Army Chief Took T hree-Hour Ride in Jeeg

Immediate Retraction of Bulletin Boosting Oleo’ _ Is Ordered By President Friley of I. S. C      Joint Committee Finds Statements Incorrect

Retraction of Ames Pamphlet ls Recommended   Joint Committee Reports on lowa Butter Controversy

RETRACTION DEMANDED ON OLEO BOOKLET   Committee finds errors and peculiar indirect statements

GROUP ADVISES RETRACTION OF ISC PAMPHLET   Committee Assails Statements Comparing Oleomargarine, Butter

Recommend Retraction Of I. S. C. ‘Oleo’ Pamphlet   Joint Committee Recommends Action Following Investigation

President Criticizes Action of Congress   Issues Special Message Regard ing Abolishing Jobs

GET LADY ASTOR   Officials Charge Her With Ration aation. She Admit. It.

Spangler Declares 4th Term Would Gravely Menace Liberty In U, S.

Mounting Manpower Problems Beset Coneress: Showdown Coming On Draft

Manpower And Draft Measure Occupy Stage   Problems Relating to Labor, Drafting Fathers for Army and Other Needs, Before Congress.

JEFFERS CRITICIZES PATTERSON CHARGE   Rubber Director Asks for Probe to Iron Out "True Facte” 

OFFICIAL REPORTS LACK OF GASOLINE   Patterson Says Synthetic Rubber Program Threatens All-out Assault on Europe; Jeffers Replies

REDS, CZECHS SIGN FRIENDSHIP PACT   20-Year Treaty May Pave Way for Settlement with Poland in Security Move 

JUNCTION NEAR BLTWEEN U. 0, BRITISH ARMIES   italian Cities Still Burning From Great Aerial Bombardment

Experts Say U.S. to Have Enough Food   Some Alterations Needed in Normal] Eating Habits

FOOD FAMINE TALES CHECKED   Government Officials Find Meat Exception To WellStocked Larder

Largest Appropriation Bill in History, Is Termed by Lieut. Gen. McNorney, Deputy Chief of Staff as ‘Decisive Budget

ASK 71 BILLION FOR THE ARMED FORCES OF U.S.   Bill Is Largest .In The History Of The Nation

72 Million Army Is  Foreseen   ‘Deeisive Builgev’ Aims To Blacken Enemy Skies With Planes

HOUSE COMMITTEE FIRES BROADSIDE  AT AXIS POWERS So  fain wait fF rki

Largest Bill in History Is Reported by House To Fire Final Broadside at Axis

‘Decisive budget’ totaling 71 billion goes to congress   To equip 7,500,000 men, blacken skies with planes

‘More Than 71 Billions For Army In Year   Record Supply Bill, Reported To House: Carries 3 Times First World War Cost

History’s Biggest Money Bill Urged   Total Sum for Total War To Be Spent in Single Year On Huse Army. Air Fleet

Largest Bill In History   Asks $71,5¢0,006,000 For Gigantic Effort

Financial Broadside-House Ready to Act On $71,510,483,873 War Department Bill      Fathers May Hope for Still Longer Respite From Draft

House Commuiee Sends To Floor War Department Supply Bill for 71 Billion

Record Measure For War Costs Before Congress  $71,510,438,873  Fund Provision

Biggest War Bill Goes to  House Floor   Appropriations Committee Sends Out 71-Billion Dollar Supply

71 Billion for 7,500.000-Man Army Sent to Floor of House   Bill is Three Times Total Spent During First World War

Appropriations Committee Sends Measure to Floor After Cutting Only $387 Million From Budget Estimates; Air Corps Wo uld Get Over $23 Billion

ARMY SUPPLY MEASURE HITS. 71% BILLIONS   Funds to Blacken Enemy Skies with Planes to ~ Be Provided.   TERMED A “DECISIVE” BUDGET FOR. VICTORY

HOUSE GETS Tt BILLION ARMY BILL   Provides For 7,500,000 “Enlisted Men’ And For Mony Planes

PROVIDES FOR 1,500,000 IN l). §. SERVICE   Boosts War Outlay in Three Years to  400 Billion

Huge Army Funds Bill   Largest Appropriation Measure in History to Carry War to the Axis

Fund Would Equip, Maintain Planes, Army of 7,500, 00   Biggest Appropria

PROVIDES FOR > STRONG FORCE:   No Guesses Made As to How Long Time Will Be Needed to Win War.   ARMY OF 7 1-2 MILLION

Facts About Army Revealed In Money Bill  Congress Determined That All Necessary Supplies Will Arm  . meow FAR AAA

Seventy-one’ Billion Dollar War Department Supply Measure Will Equip Our Big Army.   MORE THAN TRIPLE COST OF FIRST WAR

Largest Appropriation In History Recommended To Wage War Upon Axis

7 Billions for Troops,  Warplanes   Largest Appropriation Bill in History Goes to House; ‘The Decisive Budget’   TRIPLES OUTLAY FOR WORLD WAR I   ‘Cost Is Frightful,’ But Held Necessary in View of Global War

SFEK 71 BILLION FUND 10 PROVIDE 7 MILLIGN ARM   ~ Money Will Also Help Darken Enemy Skies With Airplanes, Largest Amount Yet Sought.   AIR ESTIMATE OF OVER @3 BILLION UNTOUCHED   Great Many Provisions In Bill to Defeat Axis; 95,000 Aircrafts’ Different Desians Listed.

Appropriations Commitiee, Shaving Budget Requesis $387,986, 9297 Teavec Air Funds Stang   ‘DECISIVE BUDGET’   Committee Says Bill Provides Funds for Global War, Gas War tf Enemy Resorts io I?

ARMY GILL MF 71 BILLION 5 GIVEN HOUSE   Largest Appropriation Bi In History Of Country Now Before Congress   BILL TRIPLES ARMY’S OUTLAY IN WORLD WAR   95.000 Planes Are Provided As Well As Maintenance Of Huge Land Force

PANEL 0.K.’S BIGGEST FUND OF 71 BILLION   Measure Will Bring Total Defense, War Costs To $490,000,000,000.   DRAFT CUT LOOMS   Unofficial Observer Says Delay In Call of Dads Will Be Extended.

74 BILLIONS ARMY FUND BILL BEFORE HOUSE   Committee Fires Financia! Broadside At Axis In  Sending to Floor Enormous Appropriation   LARGEST IN HISTORY   Three Times Total Outlay For War Department In World War I, It Is Pointed Out

Armed Forces To Have Every Dolla r Needed   Appropriation Bill For War Department Is Three Times Total Of World War 1 Outlay

ARMY OF 7,500,000 PROVIDED IN BILL   War Department Supply Measure Goes to Floor  of House    LARGEST IN HISTORY

7,900,000 - MAN ARMY IS HINTED IN SUPPLY BILL   Biggest Appropriation in History Prepared for Broadside at Axis   ‘IT’S FOR OFFENSIVE WAR   Air Corp To Get Nearly Half Of 71,510,438,873 of _ Slightly Cut Budget

Would Maintain Force Of 7,500,000 Men and Black Skies With Planes

Washington Gives War Supply Funds   APPROPRIATIONS SET NEW RECORD FOR WAR DEPT.

Record Army Bill in House   Legislation Seeks TI Billion to Supply Army of 742 Million

House Giver NewRecord Supply Bill For Debate   Broadside Is Sho! At Axis Powers By Solons

BUDGET WOULD EQUIP ARMY OF 71-2 MILLION   Largest Appropriation Bill in History‘Qnly — to Last One Year

All Time High War Fund [Bill Of $71,510,438,873  'lc Sent To House Floor

$71 Billions Army Supply Bill in House   Provides for 100,000 _ Planes and Maintenance of Army of 7,500,000   TO SPEED VICTORY   “Cost Is Frightful,” Says Committee, but Meets All Demands

‘Committee Approves Big Supply Bill   Measure Carries $23,655,481,000 for Air Corps; To Provide for 95,000 Planes and 273 Air Groups

71 BILLIONS TO SMASH AXIS IN NEW HOUSE ACT   History's Greatest Appropriation Bill Labeled As ‘Decisive Budget’

Broadside Of Money Fired At Axis   Committee Sends $71,510,438,873 War Bill to House Floor

74 BILLION © TO FIGHT AXIS 1S PROVIDED   Funds To Finance Army Of 7,500,000 Boost Air Fleet —

“Decisive Budget” ‘Called Largest In History Of Nation   Boosts to Almost $200,000,000,000 War Department's Funds Since July 1, 1940, For Total of $400,000,000,000   © BLACKEN ENEMY SKIES WITH WARPLANES

Measure Provides Enough Equipment To ‘Destroy Enemy’   Air Corps’ Portion Uncut; Warplanes Will Blacken Sky

History’s Largest Fund Triples Cost During World War 1   Third of Amount Goes to Air Corps; Outlay ‘Frightful, Says Committee; Reauest Cited as ‘Decisive Budsel?

Huge War Expense Bill in Congress   Appropriation Measure Greatest in History

House Committees Fires Financial Broadside at Enemy with Huge War Supply Bill; 7,535,000 Men for Army

Money To Be Used Towards Raising Army   Appropriation Measure Provides For Largest Expenditure In History During Next Year

History’s Largest Appropriation To Blacken Axis Skies With Clouds Of U. S. Planes.

Broadside For Axis Seventy-One Billion Army Appropriation Is Draftec   Largest Financial Measure In History Is Approved By House Committee, Sent to Floor For Pascanca

BILL UP FOR HOUSE ACTION   War Dep’t Request Wal  Equip, Supply Army Of 7,500,000   ‘DECISIVE BUDGET’      Funds Necessary To Carry Out Aggressive War, Says Marshall

RECORD FUND IS ASKED 10 PAVE VICTORY'S WAY   Vast Sum Will “Enable Us To Come To Grips With And Destroy The Enemy,” Says General Mc arney.

PRESENT BILL T0 DEFRAY WAR COS]   APPROPRIATION FOR THIS YEAR LARGEST IN U, S, HISTORY

Huge War Dept. Measure Serves Notice To Axis   Over 71 Billion Provides For Army And Huge:  Ao BAe.

House Gets Huge War Sunnly Bill   71 Billion Measure Largest Funds Bill In History

71-BILLION-DOLLAR ARMY FUND BILL SENT TO HOUSE   ‘Decisive Budget,” Released by Appropriations Committee, Is Larg: est in History — Boosts War Fund to $400,000,000,000 Since July 1, 1940—Money Will Maintain 7,500,000 Enlisted Men.

CONGRESS READY TE TACKLE (SSUE   Proposed Cradle to Grave Security Plan Studied.

PROBE OF DOMESTIC ISSUE, THE SOCIAL SECURITY, DESIREL   Congressional Leaders Seek Super Investigating Committee for the Job.

HOUSE-SENATE ‘SUPER’ GROUP PLAN FAVOREI   Idea Proposed To Probe President's Biggest Domestic Issue

PLAN COMMITTEE TO PROBE FDR'S SECURITY PLAN    ‘Proposal For Committee Made By Mass. Democratic Leader

SECURITY FOR ALL IS VITAL PROBLEM FACING CONGRESS   Planning For. “Post. War Era To Be Carefully Studied —FDR.  Given. Viswe!

CONGRESS TO MOVE SLOWLY ON SECURITY   Propose a Super Investigating  Committee

NORTH SENECA STREET AREA IS WORST HIT   Many Buildings Damaged in District by Tornado

NORTH SENECA STREET AREA JS WORST HIT   Many Buildings Damaged in District by ‘Tornado   Highlights Of Storm

Ground Activity In Tunisia Area  On Small Scale   Allied Aircraft Strikes Heavily At Axis Airfield And Convoy   U. 8S. BOMBERS HIT AT MARETH LINE

YANK BOMBERS SINK AXIS SHIF   Other Vessels Damaged and Airfields, Supply Lines in Tunisia Hit

TIME ELECTS MARSHALL   Magazine Names Chief Of Staff A: PMan £1f The Vear™

Selected “Man of the Year’ for 1943 After Study of Other Leaders

Republicans Being Weeded  Out OPA Iu Iowa   Former Senator Herring On The Job

Walters Doesn’t Intend To Mix Politics With OPA   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent

ABDICATION OF VICTOR LOOMS   New Government Impossible Otherwise, Claim

Italians’ Ruler Urged To Quit   King Emanuele Is Unable To Gain Full Backing For Government ~

Abdication of Vittorio Emanuele of Italy Demanded by Political Leaders

Italy’s King Is  Asked To Resign   Can’t Form Representative Regime Until He Does.

BADOGLIO PUTS ABDICATION UP TO EMANUELE   Regency For Grandson May Re sult but Political Parties Wan Republic

Italian King Faces Decision   issue Put Squarely Up to Him by Premier Pietro Badoglio

ADVISES ITALIAN KING TO RESIGN   Badoglio Asks Chance for New Government!

WANT KING 10 QUIT ITALIAN THRONE   Badoglio Says Monarch “Stands in Way’ of Government Reorganization

Ask Abdication Oi Italian king   Renunciation Of Throne Asked For Formation Of New Government.

Republicans Th Filibuster For Action   Bloc Campaigns to “Force! Legislation” on. Food and: Vases.

Arrival Of King Is Kept Secre   Head Of British Empire In North Africa Since Last Staurday   MAKES TOUR OF VICTORY SCENES

Patton's Men Drive To Center Of Island As British Hit At Catania

ENEMY’S FRONT SPLIT BY YANKS IN 8-MILE PUSH   Eighth Army Only Three Miles From Strong Axis Base

Americans In 8-Mile Push, Capture T owr   ‘Seize Caltanissetta As Brit - ish Smash to Outskirts  Of Catania

U.S. 7th Army Captures Caltanissetfa   Invaders Now Almost Halfway Across MidSection Of Sicily

Caltanissetta Is Captured: Allies Gain In All Area:   Catanias Defense: Recked As British Take Many Strong  Points

Allies In Eight Miie Drive To Split The Enemy's Line In Sicily   Important Points Are Taken By Invaders

Yanks Capture Caltanissetta  In Mid-Sicily   Canadian, British, American Troops Drive Forward In All os ne A ae   HOLD THIRD OF ISLE

AMERICANS SEIZE. SPLIT AXIS FRONI   Allied Forces Reported To Be Gaining All Along Sicilian Front; Invaders Edging Toward Italian Toe; Piazza Armerina Also Taken.

Yanks Rip Foe’s Front In Sicily   Troops Smash Half Way Across Island

8th Army Burrows  Into Catania’s  Defenses; Yanks «Take Caltanissetta

ee ae ee eee: ee ee ae > a  American Forces Are Now Half Way Across Sicily   Montgomery’s Eighth Army Is Only Three Miles From Catania

EIGHTH ARMY POUNDS AWAY AT CATANIA   One-Third Of Island Held By Allies With Drive 10 Days Old: Many Men Captured

MONTGOMERY FORCES EDGE TOWARD TOE   Eight-Mile Smash Splits Enemy's Battle Front in Sicily as Advance, Continues   APPROACH CATANIA

Yanks Capture Town; British Closer Catania   U. S. Forces Open Smash To Split Axis Driving For Enna

Caltanissetta  Is Captured By Yankees   Key City In Centra!) Part Of Isle Falls; Aim To Split Axis  Forces In Area

Mid-Section Stronghold Falls Today  To Invaders   Allies Gain Holds On Every Front In Fighting

YANKS CAPTURE RAILWAY TOWN   Caltanissetta Is Half Way Across Mid-Section of Sicily.

Yanks Take Caltanissetta  In Mid Sicily   Roughly One-Third of the Island Is Now in Allied - Hands

Yanks Capture Caltanissetta; Third of Sicily. Held by Allies   Gen. Montgomery's Force Only Three Miles from Catania

ONTGOMERY POUN CATANIA’S DEFENSES   Important Strong Points Are Taken From Picked German Shock Troops

Montgomery's Eighth British Army Drives Into Lacol Defenses Protecting Cotania And Presses Closer. to Key Enemy Position

SEVENTH ARMY IS HALF WAY ACROSS ISLAND   Caltanissetta Falls-To Americans Jn 8-Mile Smash Splitting Axis Front   CATANIA STILL RESISTS   City’s Defenses Smashed By British Eighth Army Moving Across Plains

CALTANISSETTAG _ WAS CAPTURED BY THE AMERICANS   The 7th Army Took the City Which Is Almost Halfway Across Sicily.   IN AN EIGHT-MILE DASH   Montgomery’s 8th Army Burrowed Relentlessly Into Local Defenses.

British Forces Advance Within Three Miles of Catania Against! Heavy Axis Opposition   HOLD THIRD SICILY   Canadians and Americans Uniie, Drive Toward Enna, Importan! Transport Center

—SICILY—”  British Drive Is  Nearing Catania   Montgomery’s Eighth Army Only Three Miles From Strategie Island City; Canadians Menace Enemy’s Western Flank

Allies Are Driving Forward   Invasion Host Is Now Edging Up Towards Italy’s Toe

Eight-Mile Push Ends In Taking ~ Of Caltanissett:   Montgomery's Forces Now Within Three Miles Of Strategic Catania Base

Yanks Take Calfanissefta  Split Enemy’s Front   Split Enemy's Front; Allies Move Forward Along Sicilian Front

AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY CAPTURED FAR INLAND POSITION  CANADIAN, BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS —  CONTINUE ADVANCES

One-Third Of Sicily In Allied Hands; British Forees Near Ttalian “Toe’ In Drive North

Smashing  In Sicily   American and Canadian Troops Advance on Key Rail City of Enna: and British Near Catania <

Capture Strategic Mid-Section Town And Drive Ahead   lies Have One-Third of Island; Eighth Army rawing Noose Slowly Around Catania In Tough Fighting

Americans Sweer Half Way Across Middle Of Sicily   Armies Push On Ruthlessly To Split Axis Front; At Suburbs Of Catania

BRITISH STH ARMY ONLY THREE MILES SOUTH OF CATANIA   Canadians Take Piazza Ar.   merina as Allied Forces  Forge Ahead Everywhere on leland.

AMERICAN SEVENTH: ARMY SEIZES cHTy n PAI TANICCCTTA   Making Rapid Drive to Split Sicily Into  Two Parts . :   BRITISH WITHIN  3 MILES CATANIA’

Americans and British Drive Ahead Along Sicilian Line   Eighth Army is at Outskirts of Catania: Other Points Fall

British Army Hits Catania Defenses   Caltanissetta Falls To Yanks As Canadians Capture  Piazza Armerina: Two Forces Drive On Enna

TOWN CAPTURED BY AMERICANS; GAINS WIDENEL   gre Third of Island Now I  Allied Hands as Troops Roll On

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY IN KHARKOV RANGE   Fall of the Nazi Base Is Expected Soon, as Reds March On.

FALL OF KHARKOV WILL COME SOON, SOVIETS PREDIGI   Bis Steel Center Faces Encirclement: Russian Ar tillery Within Range

EARLY FALL OF KHARKOV 1S EXPECTED   Soviet Planes Seeking to Block Nazis’ Flight   REDUCE ESCAPE AVENUE   Expect City’s Fall to Send. Enemy Back to Dnieper

TRIPLE THREAT TO NAZIS SEEN INNEW ATTACK   British Report Action On Both Ends of  Tunisian Line

British-American Unity Is Stressed   President Says Allied Troops To March In Parades Toaether In Canitols Of The Axis

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Three correspondents fail to return from raid on Germany   American I. N. 8. Newsman Bennett, Australian and another missing —

~——ROLLBACKS—  Senate Passes  Stopgap   o- Bill Limiting Subsidies Approved by One Vote

Votes a Subsidy On Price Rollback   Senate Approves by One Vote $525,000,000 For Next Six Months.

Votes Curb on Subsidy Payments   Senate Limits Fund to $525, 000,000 During the Next Six Months   LIMITATION ‘WINS BY. ONE BALLOT   House Bill Is’ Revised; In cludes-Provision for Protecting Producer 

Subsidy Plan Gets Senate O.K. Today   Single Vote Margin Is Given President’s Pro gram

Senate Rejects Extension of Commodity Credit  House Group Tables Plan On Guffey Act

Subsidy Limit Approved By A 1-Vote Margin   Senate Clears Way For Action On C. C. C. Stop Gap Measure.

Then Agrees . To Reconsider  36 To 29 Vote   Hurry Action On Appropriations

Senate Vote Puts Limit On Subsidy   Limits Program to Keep Retail Food Price Down

SENATE VOTES T0 LIMIT SUBSIDIES   APPROVES MEASURE PROVIDING FUNDS UP TO $525,000,000

Senate Limits Subsidy Work By 32-31 Vote   Budget Would Provide 520 Million Dollars For Next Six Months.   ‘PRODUCER PROTECTED

ASK FARMERS 10. “PRODUCE MORE   Hogs, Eggs, Chickens, Turkeys, Corn and Flax “Seed Desired

Radio Program Trips Gas Thief   Coupon Hoarder Calls Self a Traitor

UNIFORM PRICE SET FOR SMELT   Ickes Says Production of Fish Will Fall Short of Demand

RED FORCES NUMBER 4 600 GERMAN DEAD   Officers And Men Die In Fierce Encounter; 100 Communities  Around Orel Taken By  Dp saa0ca ee . . oo   Near Rail Hub

Reds Seize Over 100 Communities In Orel Distrietgy      Troops Advance Five To 7% Miles: 4.600 Nazi Soldiers Killed

Germans lose 4,600 men and officers in  fierce Orel fighting   Russians advance nearly seven miles; take more than 100 cities

Russians Take 30 More Towns  Tiahtoan Vien Cin   Tighten Vice On Nazis Near Orel

Russ Pincers Close On Ore   Red Column Within Six Miles Of Rail Line

Russians Drive  Within 6. Miles  Of Key Railroad   30 More Villages Taken ‘By Advancing... Soviets -’ Eneircling:Orel Bastion

RUSSIAN SPEARHEAD.  BEARING DOWN UPON  OREL NEAR RAILWAY RED ARMY NOW VIR TUALLY SURROUNDED IMPORTANT NAZI BASE

General Farm Price Levels On Increase   More Rigid Price Control Measures May Have To Be Taken

Farm Income Boost Brings Demands For Price Control   WFA Survey Reveals Advance of Farm Products in One Month Period, Accompanied by Sharp Rise in March Farm Income; Believe More  Ricid Control Is Necessary

FIND INCREASES FOR FARM PRICE’   WEA Is Studying Report Showing 2 Per Cent Rise In Cost In 30 Days.

FARM PRICES ARE UP TWO PERCENT   More Rigid Methods of Price Control May Be Needed te Stop Spiral

Plan For Allied Attack Strategy   U. S. Military And Naval High Commands Start Conference At Quebec   PRELIMINARY TO PRESIDENT’S COMING

ert AND NAVAL CHIEFS ALREADY MEETING AT QUEBEC    HIGHEST RANKING OFFICERS  LOSE NO TIME IN.OPENING CONFERENCES ON . Ay ALLIED STRATEGY

Opposes Anti-J ap Strategy   MacArthur Urges Massive Strokes Against Japan Instead of Island Hopping Technique

MacArthur Urges Policy Of ‘‘Massive Strokes” In War Against Japanese

MACARTHUR URGES NEW POLICY BE USED IN PACIFIC   “Extravagant Losses and Slow Progress” Being Experienced With. Present Plan

‘Stepping Stone Strategy Hit By Gen. MacArthu   Disclaiming Personal Ambitions, He Cites Big Allied’ Losses

Japs Report Tokyo Will Be Evacuated   Government Departments, Industries and Civilian Population Will Be Moved to Meet Expected Blows, Radio Declares.

Blows at Japan Are Urged by Gen. MacArthur  Tokyo Prepares Defenses to Protect Regime

General Bows to Authority of Lord Louis   American Commander Advises Bold Strokes Against Japs with Aid of Surprise, Fleet

MacArthur Urges Massive Blows   Japs Preparing to Move Government

AGTION COMES: AD WLB DENIES MOST GLAINS   Part Of The Working Force Comes Out For Night Shift At Two Upriver Mines—Indicates The Spread Of Strikes Next Week   66 OUT OF 500 GO TO RICHEYVILLE PIT

Martin Supports Conference Plan For Tax Accord   Republican Leader Accepts Proposals as Best Obtainable

Tax Measure Passage Seen   Republicans To Vote For Compromise Bill

Leaders Predict Passage of Tax Compromise Bill   Think F.D.R. Will Sign; House To Vote Tuesday And Senate Wednesday

TAX PROPOSAL BACKED BY GOP   Party Throws. Support To Pay-As-You-Go Compromise

Leader Puts GOP Behind  Tax Measure   Pay-Go Compromise Bill To Reach House F loor

Martin Puts GOP Baek Of Tax Bill   Partv’s Leader Savs Measure Is ‘Best Now’

Martin Says Bill Sure Of Passage   Pay-As-You-Go Legislation Is Up For Vote Soon.

SUPPORT TAX COMPROMISE   Republicans in House Will Beck Plan Agreed Upon By Canferees

News in brief   War Renorts   Martin throws GOP’s strength in house  behind compromise tax, predicts passage

GOP Joins Demos Is Support of Taxation Bill  ‘Labor Chief Attacks ‘Measure as Giving. ” Bensfits kn.

MARTIN SUPPORTS. TAX COMPROMISE   GOP HOUSE LEADER AND SENATOR GEORGE PREDICT PASSAGE OF MEASURE.

TAX MEASURE EXPECTED 10 BE APPROVED   Republican Leader Throw: " Party Strength Behind Program

STRENGTH TO TAX PASSAGE   George Is Expecting  Congress to Okeh Compromise

QUICK PASSAGE OF COMPROMISE TAX BILL SEEN   GOP Leader Martin Puts Party’s Strength In Line For Partial Abatement Plan   Vote Next Week

15,000 Troops Killed, Allies Lose 4 Planes   10 Cruisers, Destroyers Go. Down; 55 Protecting. Warplanes Blasted -

U.S BOMBERS HT JAPS IN SOLOMONS   Fire Started at Munda on New Georgia Island, Says Communique.

15,000 Troops Lost In Battle   Allied Airmen Inflict Major Disaster on Enemy Attempting to Reach New Guinea; Ten Warships Among Vessels Sunk; Allied Losses Are Small

YANKEES BLAST SOLOMON JAPS   Admiral Halsey Makes Air Attacks on Munda Base

BOMBER GOES _DOWNINLAKE   (Five Crew Men Killed ' and Sixth: Seriously Iniured.

EGG PRODUCTION HITS NEW MARCH RECORD   Expect More Marks To Be Established

Prime Minister and Daughter Guests of President      PRESIDENT TO JOIN PARLEY AT QUEBEC   Joint Statement Issued on Sinking of U Boate

Miners Back To Work Could End June 20   Deadline Date Set For Settling Their Contract Demands

FIAT, OBRTRVATIONA   Deadline Is Set By Miners to Get A New Contract   Unions Hedge on Back-toWork by Fixing June 20  as Last Day.   Thus Their Agreement Merely Another Truce

"JUNE 20TH SET BY LEWIS AS NEW DEADLINE   Possibility of Another Cris. is Is Raised By UMW Chief   -NO DIRECT THREATS   Miners Scheduled To Go Back To Jobs Next Monday

Contract Negotiations Resumed Today Although Strike Technica     lu SHH in Pibert   LEWIS RAPS WLB   Declares ‘Responsibility for This Work Stoppage’ Rests on Board's ‘Smuq Shouiders’

vs:  ies 5     June 20 Deadline ©  oY  Set For Settlit Contract Dema

Coal Mine Union Sets June 20 as Next Deadline   New Crisis Possible as Miners Hedge In Back to Work Agreement; Deny Intention Of Hampering With War Effort

POSSIBILITY OF NEW GRISIS IN MINES RAISED   Policy Committee Says Deadline Was Attacked To Protect Members Of The Union   RETREAT HELD NOT UNCONDITIONAL   Lewis Group Disavows Any Intention of Hampering War Effort; No Threat Of New Strike

Mine Truce ue to Last Only 2-Weeks   Full Production Of Coal Scheduled To Start Monday

Lewis Puts Two Week Limit On Work Return   Operators Join Union In Criticising WLB For Negotiation Delay

Miners Hedge Way Back To Mine Shafts   June 20 Set As Deadline For Settling Contract Demands

Set June 20 As Deadline —  — For Contract   Qualification Made t 0 _ Protect Union and Membership

Deadline Set For June 20 on Wage Contract   War Production Not Hampered Statement Says

CALL MINERS BACK MONDAY   10 Million Tons Of Coal Lost By Walkout   NEGOTIATIONS   Will Be Resumed As Soon As Workers Go Back; Lewis Hits W. L. B.

HEDGE ON BACK TO WORK MOVE BY NEW LIMITS   Telegrams Sent Out for Men to Go Back to Coal Digging Monday

Mine Truce Lasts  Only to June 20   Surrender of Union Leaders to Government Not Unconditional   Lewis Raps the War Labor Board, Which Handles  Procedure

Possibility Of A New Crisis Seen As Strikers Hedge Their Back-ToWork Move.

"Inion Chief Jisclaims Surrender   Tells Miners To Return Pending Conferences; Hits At WLB Officials

Lewis Instructs Men to Obey FDR ‘and Work Monday: New Crisis June 20

Coal Diggers Reveal Their Agreement To Return To Work Monday Is Not “Unconditional Surren aaw *?

ANOTHER CRISIS IN COAL SITUATION MAY COME AFTER TRUCE  MINERC NONSEREN RETIIDA   MINERS ORDERED RETURN TO WORK BUT JUNE 20 SET AS DEADLINE

Lewis Orders Men To Resume Monday   Union Chief Cites Patriotic Step And Lashes Anew at Labor Board

Lewis Miners Raise New Strike Crisis Possibility   Locals Are Ordered Back to Work on June 20 Deadline

WORKERS HEDGE WITH DEADLINE FOR JUNE 20Tk   Meaning Miners Want Their Con. tract Demands Settled With Operators by That Date

Labor Board Criticized by ~ Both Groups   Operators and Workers’: Committee. Oppose: Further Delay in Nevotiations: =)   WLB MAY RELENT ON CURBING PARLEY,  So    Men Ordered” to.. Return: to:  ‘Work June 7;Up.to and: Tucludine June 20

Coal Strike Truce  Limited to June 20   Although UMW Policy Committee’s Action Raises Possibility of Another Crisis, There Is No Direct Threat of a Strike.

To Run Pits under Recent  WLB Ruling    Easing of Crisis Deflates Congress Which Passed AntiStrike Bi

REDS YIELD MORE GROUND IN DONETS   Abandon Two Towns Southeast of Kharkov —Germans Claim Capture of Belgorod.   /RUSSIANS GAIN ON CENTRAL FRONT   Additional Villages Fall to Stalin’s Troops as They Push Closer to Smolensk.

Germans Take Two Towns In Bitter Fights   Russians Continue to Gain in Drive On Smolensk in Central Region, But Foe Resistance Stiffens

Two Populated Places Retaken by German Troops  BELGOROD CAPTURE CLAIMED BY NAZIS  ined  Gains by Soviets Continue on the Central Front

Reds Battered Back In South   ‘Germans Report Belgorod ‘Captured In Bitter Fiaht

Reds Surrender Two Towns in  Kharkov Area   Nazi High Command Also Claims Capture of Strategic Belgorod

SOVIETS FAIL "TO CONFIRM GERMAN CLAIM   Nazi High Command Announdes Capture Of Important Rail  Center Of Belgorod.

Nazi Lines Stiffen in Central Area   German Capture of Belgored, However, 1 Nat Acknowledged

GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF STRATEGIC RAIL CENTER OF BELGOROD, NOT CONFIRMED BY MOSCOW. RU:SIANS CONTINUE GAINS IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK.

Reds Lose Two Towns To Germans   Nazi Tank Forces Force Russians Back in South

BELGOROD RAIL CENTER TAKEN, NAZIS ASSERT   Red Losses Regained On Middle Donets Line; Heavy Fighting At Ilmen Reported   1,500 Troops Killed

Germans Say Oil Center Re-Taken   Slignt Withdrawal In The Chuguey Section Has Been Admitted In Soviet Russian Report

SOVIETS FALL BACK IN PUSH NEAR KHARKO\   BELGOROD CLAIMED IN COMMUNIQUE FROM BERLIN

Nazi Army Continues Determined Advance In Southern Russia.  REDS ADMIT LOSS OF TWO LOCALITIES  But Themselves Take Additional Territory In Drive for Smolens]

Panzers Dent Red Line in Donets Battle   Moscow Admits Withdrawal In ‘One Sector’

Soviets, Under Heavy Fire, Yield to Foe   Outnumbered Reds Withdraw Slightly in South But Continue Gaining On Central Front: Bitter Battle Rages

Two Populated Places Retaken by German Troops  BELGOROD CAPTURE CLAIMED BY NAZIS  Gains by Soviets Centinue      Gains by Soviets Continue on the Central Front ©

Dealers in East Protest Gas Cut   Uniform Rationing Urged by Counsel

ALLIES ONLY 2 MILES FROM LAE, JAP BASE   Tighten Noosé on Enemy Garrison. Allies Make Sortie Into Jap-Held Burma

HAVOC CREATED IN REFINERIES   Europe’s Largest Center Of Oil Tanks Heavily Damaged in Raid On Rumania

20 LIBERATORS LOST ON PLOESTI FLIGHT   Great Damage Was Done To Oi! Fields Supplying Axis War Machine: 51 Foe Craft Lost

U.S.'Bombers Give Proof of Great Success in Raid    Rumania Fields Took Terrific Beating, Photographs Reveal

Battered German Troops Facing a Great Catastrophe  SEVENTY VILLAGES TAKEN DURING DAY  Stirring Victory Scenes   Stirring Victory Scenes Again Enacted in Soviet Capital

AHEAD AFTER FALL OF KIEV   Threaten Battered Foe With Biggest Catastrope of War

RAIL JUNCTION OF FASTOV IS TAKEN BY REDS   Liberators Of ‘Kiev Are Confronting Nazi Troops With Catastrophe   FALL OF CITY HAILED THROUGHOUT RUSSIA

Russians Capture Key Rail Junction    "Tennwnwe Carn Catncteanka   German Troops Face Catastrophe As Result of Sweeping Drive by Reds

Capture of Fastov Separates German Forces in Ukraine; Soviet Pours Troops Into Crimea

Battered German Troops Facing a Great Catastrophe  SEVENTY VILLAGES TAKEN BURING DAY Stirring Victory Scenes  Again Enacted in Soyiet Capital

Soviets Push 30 Miles Past  Rail Junction   Take Town of Fastoy .And Hitlerites Face Biggest Catastrophe  REDS CELEBRATE

COMRADES OF EXECUTED FLIERS WANT CHANCE TO GET REVENGE   DOOLITYLE AND OTHERS ON TOKYO RAID WANT MOBE . BOMBING MISSIONS  OVER JAPAN -

Jap Threats Are Ne Jntimidation  To Yank Fliers   American Airmen Eager To Join Next Squadron To Blast Tokvo   AIM TO AVENGE MURDER OF FLIERS

Americans Win Tank Victory   German and Yankee Tell of Encounter

WAR ANALYST ANSWERS COUPLE OF QUESTIONS CONCERNING THAT LONG-TALKED-OF SECOND FRONT

French Coast Must Be Blasted To Smithereens Before Invasion Blow

Destruction of Hitler’s War \Industries Delayed Invasion  Fleets Also Had To Be Strengthened

TIRES WILL BE  CTI SCARCER   Hopes of Relief Due To Synthetic Rubber Have Faded

Skip-a-Year’ Group Offers _ Death Tax Plar   Proposal Designed to Meet Objections to ‘Pay-as-You-Go’

Would Chase Taxpayers To the Grave   Death Tax Amendment to Pay-as-You-Go Plan

SPECIAL DEATH “TAX MAY OFFSET + IOKID VEAP [186   Proposal Designed te Meet Treasury Objections to  “Pay-as-you-go.”’

ADVOCATE PLAN FOR DEATH TAX   New Measure Would Prevent Loss Of Revenue

RHODES GETS NOD IN MAYOR'S RACE   Floyd Green Eliminated Return Show

YANK WARPLANES STRENGTHEN RAE   British Air Arm Now Has Formidable Partner In American Force

SOLONS HURRY AS LAST DAY OF SESSION NEARS   Create Conference Committee To Settle House-Senate } Differences

GAMBLING BILL GETS STALLED IN LEGISLATURE   Amendment Which Woulc Permit Club Bingo Games Is Stumbling Block   POLITICAL FIGHT FLARES   Appropriation Bill Getting Most Attention as Solons Rush Toward Finale

BUDGET BILL IS IN CONFERENCE   Ohio Legislature Speeds Up Action, Hoping For WeckEnd Adjournment

ROMMEL'S SUCCESSES AGAINST AMERICAN’S IN TUNISIA DELAYS ALLIED SCHEDULE FOR MONTHS

ROMMEL HAS GAINED VALUABLE TERITORY BY DRIVE IN TUNISIA  With Kasserine Pass In Hands May PwtandA Caine

Rommel Gains Territory, Precious Time in Advances Made in Tunisia

The War Today   Allied Setbacks in Tunisia Win Hitler Valuable Time '

GEORGIA TOBACCO BRINGS 14 T0 60c  ON INITIAL SALES   Common Grades Yield Un . usually High Prices; Good Tobacco Not As High In Proportion; Farmers Are Very Optimistic.

Tobacco Is Bringing Up To 60 Cents On Georgia Opening   Valdosta Averages Slightly Over $40 For First Row Solid; Low Of 14 Reported

46 Cent Average On  ’ Opening Sales At. Hazelhurst and More Than -40 Cents at Valdosta. Good Quality Leaf Present But Much Of ‘Opening Offerings Of Lugs Variety.

Nearly 10 Axis Planes blasted For Each U. §. Plane Downed In May

{0-1 ODDS FOR YANKS LISTED   U. S. Air Force In Englanc Doubled Since March

NEW FOOD PRICE CEILINGS ON MONDAY   Effective in 150 Cities, to Be Revealed Sunday

CEILING PRICES RESET ON FOOD   Will Become Effective hh 150 Cities Of The Na lion Monday

Washington And Foreign Oil Business   Head-On Clash Of Idea: Looms On Role Of Government

‘GOVERNMENT WILL SELL WHEAT STOCKS IN MOVE ‘TO CHECK PRICE RISES

Wheat Prices  Show Decline   Government Acts To Check Advancing Markets

GOV'T TO CURB FLOUR PRICES   Places Stock of Wheat On Market to Check Advances

U.S. PUTS WHEAT — ON MARKET TO PREVENT RISE   Action Expected to Pevent Further Increases In Fiour, Bread ani Cereal Prices

Government Moves to Halt Increases   Wheat Stocks Put on Market at Parity Prices

Germans Hurl Tanks, Artillery At Advancing Fifth Army; British Push Up From South.

Allied Air Force Blasts Nazi Lines   Big Battle In Its Fifth Day As Germans Make Desperate Stand

1300 SHIPS UStD TOINVADE ITAL   Navy Reveals Part In Landing Forces, 40,000 Handled Fleet of Vessels.

State OF Alert Is Proclaimed  In All Norway   Quisling Is Reported Ousted By Germans

Norway Is Under Strict Control  Quisling May Step Down as Leader

HINT PURGE IN NORWAY 1S IMPENDING   Jonas Lie Becomes ‘Strong Man’ of Nation

ADOLF GIVEN A NEW NAME   Public IndignationToo Much For Irritated Father

o Check Your Guns While udge Jones Hunts Up Law n Dallas. Fort Worth Case

Feud Ragin’ Down Deep In The Heart Of  ++ ¢+ +  Fort Worth. pie Dallas At It Again In Regards Letstion of "ta Building

AMERICANS BOMB KISKA ONCE MORE   Jap Submarine Base Hit  During Three Additional  Blistering Attacks.

Contributions   Three More Blistering Kiska Raids   Jap Submarine Base Is Hit and Planes Shot Down

THREE RAIDS MADE ON JAP KISKA BASE   Kiska Attacks Average One a Day This Month

Scores Of Injured Taken To North Carolina Hospitals; Double Crash Occurs At Buie

30 to 100 Believed Killed In Wreck of  Streamlined Trains in North Carolina

"One Hits - Wreckage of Other   ‘ Between 50 and 100° Killed and More Than 100 Injured'‘in North Carolina Crash   @ MANY SOLDIERS —-~ ABOARD TRAINS   To Ice and Srowbound Area: Red. Cross. Rushes Aid; Blood Plasma Sent In

ALREADY IN ONE MORGUE   Tragedy Occurs When Two Streamliners Pile Up in Icebound Section of Southeastern North Carolina. °

Streamliners Pile Up In Double Crash   Many Scores Taken To Hospitals With Injuries

50 to 100 Die In Double Train Wreck   More Than 106 Injured When New York-Bound Streamliner Runs into Wreckage of Derailed Passenger Train

TWO CROWDED STRFAMLINERS ARE PILED UP   Broken Rail Blamed; Estimate of Death Ranges to 76

90 10 100 ARE KILLED IN N. 6. TRAIN WRECKS   One Fast Passenger Train Derailed, Another Crashes Into the Wreckage

STREAMLINED — PASSENGER TRAINS MEET   Pre-Holiday  Travelers, Including Service Men, - in Death Toll

16 Die in Train Wreck; 100 Hurt   “Flyer” Crashes Into Cors of Previously Derailed Streamlines

CRACK TRAINS ARE INVOLVED IN COLLISION   Streamliners on Atlantic Coast Line Pile Up In Double Accident Near Lumberton  BAAI FE ¢C PIALIACAITICICN

ONE TRAIN IS DERAILED; HIT BY 2ND FLYER   Rescuers Dig Into Wreckage for Dead and Injured

Many Men OnFurloughs On Trains   Smashup Near Lumberton, N. C., One Train Derails, Other Hits It

Crack Trains Run Together InN. Carolina   75 Passengers Believed Dead And 100 Injured

MORE - ARE REMOVED TOHOSPITALS   Streamline Plows Through Wreckage Of Other Train Derailed \n Carona

Second Speeding Train On Atlantic Line Plunges Into Wreckage Of Derailed Train

Scores Die ‘In Double Train Wreck   Two Streamliners Pile up in North Carolina; Many Are Iniured

Fear 100 Die in Rail Crash   Between 50 and 100 Persons Dead and 100 Injured ts Red Cross Report

TWO STREAMLINED “TRAINS PILE. UP NEAR LUMBERTON   Estimates of Dead Vary From 50 To 76 Persons   ONE DERAILED AND OTHER PLOWS THRU

New York-Florida  Trains Demolished   Scores Injured When One Train Leaves Track and Another Plows Thranech Wreckace

Scores Injured As ACL Flyers Pile Up In N. ¢   75 Pre-Holiday Travelers In One Tamiami Train Are Believed Fatalities

—TRAIN WRECK—  TWO ACL T TRAN CRASH IN SOUTH   First Estimates Of Dead In Disaster Range From 50 To 76   DOUBLE MISHAP   Streamliners Involved In Accident In North Car olina-.- - - .,

Aflantic Coast Trains Pile Up   50—100 Said Killed In Double Wreck ~ OF Possenaer Trains

_ Streamliner  Derails; Another Hits Wreckage   Hundred Others Injured   xk cK KK KW. Bodies Severed

TWO STREAMLINED PASSENGER TRAINS WRECKED THURSDAY   ESTIMATES OF DEAD RANGED FROM 50 TO 100 OVER 100 INJURED

BETWEEN 50 AND 100 PERSONS WERE KILLED IN WRECK   Two Crowded Streamlined Passenger Trains Wrecked in North Carolina.   ACCIDENT EARLY TODAY   One of Trains Was Florida Bound, the Other New York.

Scores Killed in a Double Wreck  Dead My Reach 76, With 50 or More Hurt

DERAILED CARS HIT BY ENGINE   Only Meager Reports Come From Disaster Scene

100 Injured In Crash Of Fast Trains   Many Soldiers Among Victims of Tragedy In No. Carolina

100 Die as Trains  Crash   100 INJURED AS FAST: LIMITED PAIR WRECKED IN NORTH CAROLINA

2 CRACK TRAINS PILE UP AT BUIE, NORTH CAROLINA   ESTIMATE 75 DEAD IN DOUBLE WRECK ON ACL RAILROAD

Fifty Injured, Some: Seri. ously, As One Passenger Train Ploughs. Into Derailment   MILJTARY MEN. AID _ IN RESCUING WORK   Both Trains Loaded With Pre-Holiday Travelers, InIncluding Many Service - men On -Furlough

2 Trains Wrecked; Toll Is Between 50 and 100   100 INJURED ON STREAMLINERS   One Train Rams Into Derailed Coaches

Toll May Reach 100 in Crash of  Crowded Trains   Three Coaches of FloridaBound Train Telescoped by Streamliner,   Many Travelers Are Soldiers on Leave

2 Streamliners Crack-Up; Many Scores Injured    One Mortuary Has 50 Bodies; Trains Crowded When Wrecked Near Lumberton

Streamliner Derailed and Train Hits If   Both Trains Are  Crowded With Folk Traveling Home for Christmas Holidavs

More Than 100 Others Reporied Injured in Atlantic Coast Line Wreck in North Carolina   MANY SOLDIERS   Northbound Tamiami Champion Crashed Into Derailed Cars ol Southbound Champion

Double Railroad Wreck Kills Many In North Carolina   Pair Of Crack Trains Pile Up Along Tracks

Passenger Trains In  Wreck, Many Killed   One Fast Train Plows Into Wrevkage of Another In North Carolina, Dozens of People Die, Others Injured

Solon Charges Newsprint Slash Blow At Press   Minnesotan Terms WPB Order Aims At “Censorship”

SEES FAVORITISM . IN PAPER CONTRO   Rep. Maas Flays WPB Handling of Newsprint as Form of Official Censorship

Maas to Back Up Assertions on WPB   Newsprint Quotas Handled Unfairly, Rep. Believes

Solon Asserts WPB Curtails Press — Freedom By Controlling Newsprint

Allocations Of Newsprint Under Fire   Minnesota Congressman Wants All Decisions Made Public   FAVORITISM CHARGED

WOULD BACK UP CHARGES AGAINST WPB   Representative Says Board Threatening The Press

U. 5. Navy Takes Over Marriage License Bureau As Midshipmen Graduate

Cardinals Held Under Arrest  Italion Churchmen Refused Access to Vatican, Says Reports

GERMANS PLAGE CARDINALS UNDER PARTIAL ARREST   Italian Church Officiats Denied Permission to Visit Vatican City.

‘Gernisins--Place* Religivits Leaders Under House Arrest In Italy

Nip Forward Positions Are Destroyed   152 of Enemy Are Buried in Sananande Sector

JAP FORWARD WALL BROKEN ATSANANANDA   MacArthur’s Aerial Offensive Hits New Peak

152 JAPANESE BODIES BURIED IN NEW GUINEA   Australian And American Troops Driving Against Last Stronghold.

Japanese To. Be Available  To Farmers   Government.To Aid Replacements; Seek : Braft Deferment « «

JAPS NOW INTERNED TO WORK ON FARMS   Food Officials Make Plans - For Labor Shortage

(Go Over Top In War Chest   Half of Townships and Three Towns Over

TownshipsMay Exceed Quotas   All Making Good Showing; Four Over Top

Relief on Way ‘rom First Cold Wave of Winter   Subzero Readings in Many States

MILK SUDSIDY PROGRAM   Gevernment Takes Action Te Avert Preduction Reduction

DAIRYMEN TO RECEIVE SUBSIDIES FROM U. S.   Payments Over 3-Month Period Designed to Avert. Sharp Drop in Milk Producticr....

Vice Admiral Will Go to Martinique  lb newor ancl RPahart   Hoover and Robert To Hold Conference

ADMIRAL HOOVER TO CONFER WITH ROBERT   Status Of Martinique In Relation To War To Be Discussed

MONEY POWERS OF FOR CURBED   Battle for Farm Funds Is Still on in Capital Where More Probes Proposed

PAY-AS - YOU-G0 DEBATE NEARS END IN HOUSE   Senate Turns Down Extension of FDR’s Money Powers

Bitter Dispute Over Tax Plan Nearing Close   Compromise Seen In House; Farm Measure Debated

Income Tax Controversy Near an End      Opposing Factions Prepared to Compromise; Hope fer Speedy Passage of Agriculture Anoropriations Bill

Allies Confident At War Confab Staged in Africa   High Military Leaders Map ‘Speedy Victory

LIQUOR RATION PLAN FAVORED   House Orders Legislation Prepared For Introduction Next Week

DRAFT PLAN TO. BATION LIQUOR   Legislation To Be Pre. sented To Assembly Within A Week

LIQUOR IN LINE FOR RATIONING   House Committee Unanimous For Action To Relieve Ohio Situation

SOLONS IN FAVOR OF LIQUOR RATION   Fisher Appears Before Com: mittee Hearing :

Ischia Largest Of New Islands Taken By Allies   Ally Planes Are Now Within 10 Minutes Of Naples; Attack Is Pushed

Islands and Airports Seized for Use Against  Nazis in Italian Drive   Planes Operating From Airdromes Captured In Salerno Take Heavy Toll of Nazis, Whose Air Force Has Been Sharply Reduced

Germans Refreating From Salerno Battle Area And Allies Capture Islands Within Shelling Range Of Greal ffalian Seaport:

Reich troops brace to hold land gateway   Allies dig inland; nazis claim Elba

Four Islands Seized After Germans Are Driven Back: Enemy Prepares To Make Stand: Enemy Claims Elba   Italian Garrison of 7000 Said to Have Surrendered to Nazis; Reds Take 230 Towns in Rapid Drive on Kiev; France Is Target

Hold Position Within Range Of Large Port   Air Fields At Salerno Now Ready For Use, Only Ten Minutes From Town.   PUSH THROUGH SPLIT

Furious Battle Is Under Way On Rocky Attu   Silence Still Covers Progress of Attack: Planes Raid Japs’ Bases in Solomons

FOUL WEATHER CLOAKS ATTACK ON ATTU ISLAND   Fog Apparently Denying Air And Sea Support To  American Troops

Furious Battle Rages on Attu   ® Weather Denies U. S. Forces Of Sea, Air Support

FOG MAKES EVEN GROUND MOVEMENTS DIFFICULT; FIGHTING CONTINUES AGAINST ENEMY IN ROCKY CAVES.

Washington Hears Nothing Of Battle on Attu but Officials Are Optimistic

Battle on Attu Continuing in Spite of Weather   Support by Air and Sea Difficult, Dispatches Declare 

American: Troops Fighting on-tsland Apparently Denied Sea, Air Help _ By Weather: Jap Ship Blasted

REPORTED ON LAND ATTACK   Day-To-Day Reports On Progress May Have — Been Abandoned  By Commanders   Enemy Shipping Hit

‘Americans are battling furiously’   Weather hampers invaders of Attu

Yanks Battle Without Sea, Air Aid at Attu   Dispatch of Help Prevented by Stormy Weather

Miss Sherman Wills State Her Valuable Notes and Paintings   ‘State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

SHANGRI-LA DANE   Additional War Stamp Sale Project Past Goal’s Midway Point

RUSSIANS RAVE NO TERRITORIAL AIMS   Liberation From, Germans {s Principal Aim Accord-ing to Writer.

SAYS REDS SEEK ONLY FREE LAND   Russia Has No_ Intentions of Meddling in Europe After War

POLICE HEAR EDGAR HOOVER   Nation’ s Chiefs In Convention  In Detroit: eG

RAF Hails More Bombs On Germany   BY LOWELL BENNETE Distributed by The Associated Press)

Registration of ‘A’ Gasoline Coupor Books Will Start June 22; Motorists Urged to Mail Their Applications

Closing Hours. In Graettinger Armistice Day :  Customary Hours To Be Observed

Allies Say Let Em Guess About Invasion  (Tha hKinsa Muecene Tha Rattar’ le Attande CE kA bee Unde Tim Dosw

Let ‘Em Guess; Allies Love It   This Is Attitude’ On Next Big Mov

Berlin Says Tokyo Aware That Allies Menace Main Defenses on New Britair

Germans Facing Crushing Defeat At Novorossisk   Russians Capture Caucasus Stronghold in Latest Drive   Nazi Troops May Be En circled and Annihilated by Soviets

Russians Take Vital Point In Caucasus  Victory Threatens Tast Stranchold   Victory Threatens Last Stronghold In Southern Sector

Reds Take Town Near Novorossisk   Drive Started To Run Germans Out of Crimea

REDS TAKE NAZI DEFENSE POINT   Seek to Drive Foe From Foot. Hold at Novorossisk   RAIN AND HAIL   Hinder Russian Progress 01 Smolensk Front; Lines Hold in Ukraine

Reds Seize Major Defense  Point in Western Caucasus   Drive to Eject Nazis From Last Foodhold at Novorossisk Renewed: Smolensk Unchanged

Nazi Defense Point Captured by Russians Near Novorossisk  REPORT NO CHANGE  ON SMOLENSK FRONT  German Communique Suggests New Retreat In Lake men Area

Western Caucasus Drive Is Advancing As Nazis Retreat   Another 10-Mile Advence By Russians Will Cut Off German Troops Anchored In Port

Red forces capture important defense point in Caucasus   Stage renewed drive in effort to force Cermane ant af Nacneneccick

REDS CAPTURE W. CAUCASUS GERMAN POST   Anastasewskaya Is Important in Renewed Drive To Eject Enemy From Novoossist, Last Foothold.   Smolensk Front Still

Reds Capture German Base   Important Defense Point. In Crimean Sector Taken

RED FIGHTERS PINCH MAJOR NAZI TOEHOLE   DRIVE IS LAUNCHED TO EJECT ENEMY FROM CAUCASUS

Reds Take Important Nazi Point   Assault Renewed To Free Black Sea Port

VATICAN CITY 15 STILL INVIOLATE AGAINST GERMANS  IT STILL IS REGARDED AS  HAVEN OF PEACE IN EVES OF MANY

VATICAN CITY IS HAVEN FOR eWAR PRISONERS   German Soldiers Are On Alert At All Times

“Ghost Army” Troubles Nazis In Italy  True Story Of Conditions In Italy Revealed

Stockholm Newspaper Correspondents Writes Un: censored Story From Italy

\Vatican City still haven of peace in eyes lof tremendous numbers of weary Europeans   BY GUNNAR D. KUMLIEN

German Soldiers In Italy Attend Mass Despite Nazi Hate Of Church

From Behind The Enemy Lines  Italians Are Starving After Germans Loot South Italy      Natives In North Stuff Themselves To Keer Food From Being Seized By Germans

RHODES VICTOR OVER SANDUSK)   Von Stein Unseats Belkhorn at Lancaster, Lausche Re-elected

AUSCHE WINS IN CLEVELAND   Williams Is Winner In Younqstown Mayor Battle by Six Votes

Jobs for Ail Is Goal of  Roosevelt   President Gets Concrete Plan for Post-War Society

Post-War Jobs For All And Not Relief Is ‘Plan Now Being Suggested By Congress

NAZIS SEEK TO CHEAT TRAP IN RUSS ADVANCE   Bitter Fighting Continues At Melitopol, Kiev  And Gomel

NAZIS BEGIN MASS RETREAT FROM CRIMEA   Germans Withdrawing te Escape Entrapment by Large Russian Force.   Reds Increase Drive In Ukrainian Steppe

Red Army Forces Nazis To Retreat   Russia . Reports German Troops in Mass With:   drawal from Crimea      SMASH FURTHER WEST   Soviet Drive Against Axis Is Gaining Hourly in:  Momentum

Powerful Russian Drive Smashes Through Steppes To Overrun Crimean Area

Mass Withdrawal On As Nazis Seek To Avoid ©  Rircetar Eneitclemant

GERMANS ARE MASSING FOR GREAT BATTLE   Fifth Army Probing Area to Determine German Defense

GERMAN ARMIES IN CRIMEA HAVE BEGUN MASS WITHDRAWAL   NAZI COMMAND POURING   ALL AVAILABLE RESERVE!  INTO RRINCEHEAD

SOVIET ORIVE ~GLEARS NAZIS ~ FROM CRIME   German Armies Withdrawing in Peninsula to Avoid . Encirclement.

Nazis Retreat To Escape Trap Of Red Armies   Reserves Called In Effort to Put Halt to Advance

NAZIS MOVE TROOPS CUT OF CRIME!   Mass Withdrawals Begun As Reds  Encirecle

Capture Would Seal Off Nazis Now In Flight   Russtans Reported Now Within 35 Miles of City. Germans ip Great Mags Withdrawal in Effort to Escapé. Entrapment, Fleeing Peninsula Over Perekon Land Rridse:

Two Red Units Race to Close Trap Around Retreating Foe   Soviet Drive Gaining Speed Hourly; Peninsula Lapped —

Reds Spur Drive In Effort To Halt Nazi Evacuation   Report Mass Withdrawal Attempted In. Crimea "fo Escape Entrapment

SOVIETS SAY MOMENTUM OF DRIVE GROWS   Nazis Send Every Available Reserve Into Dnieper Breach, but Reds Smash Ahead — Crimea Reine Evacuated.

Germans Withdraw to Escape Entrapment   Powerful Russian Advance Threatens German Line of Retreat From Crimea; Nazis Counter-attack in Kiev Area.

Thousands of Nazis Facing Entrapment   Second Red Army Column Bearing on City Which Guards Escape Route

Escape Lane Is in Peril   Battle Furiously to Stem Soviet Advances, Flowing Through Break in Defenses

Red Advance Threatens to Bar Retreat      Russiazs Pour Through Kremenchug Bridgehead, Aim Another Column at Krivoi Rog   WOULD SEAL FATE   Moscow Sees Elimination. of Hugs German Forces’in Dnieper Bend as Practically Assured

Nazis Attempt To Flee Russ Entrapment   Battle Furiously to Stem Advance But Force Of Russians Increases

Reds Indicate Enemy Flight Via Perekop   Russians Race Forward to Threaten Vital Krivoi Rog

CRIMEAN ARES   Mass Withdrawal From Peninsula Begun, Moscow Reports Indicate.   THREATENED BY SOVIET

—AUSSsLA—  GERMAN FORCES QUITTING CRIME:   Mass Withdrawal Via Perekop Land Bridge Is Reported By Soviets

TERMANS BEGIN'J A NITHDRAWALIN IN RIMEA AREAS G   Endeavoring to Escape Entrapment by Powerful Russian Advance Threat ening Line of Retreat

Germans ReportedEvacuating Crimea As Russians Drive Ahead To Cut Escape Route

Soviets Seek fo Close Net About Nazis   Germans Stationed in the Crimea Apparently Trvina to Escape

Soviefs Closing Trap To Sever Route Of Escape   Germans Face Debacle Similar To Stalingrad

Germans Move Out Of Crimea   Seek to Escape Being Trapped By Powerful Red Force

Armies on Peninsula Exit Via Land Bridge   Panic of Desperation Grips Reich * And Troops Are Rushed to Front

NAZIS RETREAT INCRIMEA TO ESCAPE TRAP   Full Scale Evacuation Now Underway, Moscow Reports

RETREATING TOESCAPE ENTRAPMENT   Battling Furiously To Stem: Red Forces West. OF Dnieper

Report Germans Quitting Crimea To Escape Trap   Russians Within 35 Mile: Of Cutting Last  Berane Rate,

RUSSIAN ADVANCE THREATENS NAZI LINE OF RETREAT   REDS CLAIM GERMANS BEGIN EVACUATION OF CRIMEAN PENINSULA

(Crimea Being Evacuated By Nazi Forces   Bitter Battles In Progress Around Kiey And Gomel: Germans In Crimea Mav Me Tranved

Crimea Nazis Start Mass — Withdrawal   Strong Russian Advance Threatens Line of Retreat

GERMANS TRY TOESCAPE RED FORCES’ TRAP   Russians Continue Advance Despite Enemy Counter Attacks

RUSSIAN ARMY GOES THROUGH BREACH IN LINE   2nd Soviet Column Is Rushing ot Krivoi Rog; 1,500 Germans Slain

Russian Push Menaces Line Nazi Retreat   Germans Throw in. Available Reserves In Effort to Stem  Soviet Proaress

Report Nazi Force Fleeing From Crimea   Russians Drive Ahead  In Effort To Cut Off  - Eseape Route; Push Gains Momentum

Germans Are Threatened By Entrapment as Reds Make Steady Progress

GERMAN ARMIES FLEEING FROM TRAP IN CRIMEA   Mass Withdrawal Of Nazis Begun In Effort To Escape Entrapment By Powerful Russian Advance

Tax Collectors Are Still Busy ‘As Last Minute Returns Pile In   Million And Half

RECORD COLLECTION FOR INCOME TAXES   Rush Marks End—Defiance Is Short-lived

WEATHER BUREAU  HAS ALIBI ABOUT  UNDECIDED STORM GIGANTIC BATTLE BETWEEN HURRICANE ANE  Lf Fre

WEATHER BUREAU HAS ALIBI ABOUT UNDECIDED STORM  GIGANTIC BATTLE BE-

79 House Bills ‘Approved by ‘Montana Senate   Legislature Given Report on State Hospital Inquiry

Senate Gives Approval To29Bills   Finance Measures Are Passed During Day; House Sanctions Bills

Soviets Already Shelling City From 30 Miles Away, Is Claim  Fe ae EINE  CAPTURE WITHIN WEEK   I§ BELIEVED POSSIBLE   German Army’s Resistance At Stalingrad Ended; Axis Losses 500,000

Three Soviet Forces Close  In on Rostov Russian ‘Big Guns Re: ported Shelling City 30 Miles Away STALINGRAD FREED Remnants of Huge Axis _ Army Surrenders to  Russ

3 SOVIET COLUNINS DRIVING STEADILY AHEAD ON ROSTOY   “Gateway To Caucasus” Ig; Likely To Fall. Soon ~—Other Drives ~ Proceed

THREE COLUMNS OF ATTACKERS MOVE FORWART   London Advices Say Bic Guns Already Shelling the Ares.

Russians Shell Rostov; Capture Expected Shortly   Another Threat to Nazis Develops on Southwest Front

Red Troops Drive On Rostov as Big Guns Pound City   Three Columns Close ‘in on Key ‘Caucasus Center; Newly Freed Stalinsrad Residents Die Out

WESTERN GERMANY FEELS RAF FURY   Day-Night Bombings Passes 60-Hour Mark

PRODUCTION HIKE GETS JENKINS NOD   Dhio Solon Says Government ‘Biggest Inflationist’

Haber ‘man Is Named Head Of State Labor   John Kunstman Re-elected Member Of Executive Board At Convention Held In Eau Claire

U. 5. Expects Quick Finnish Axis Decision   Diplomatic Relations Wear Thin As Helsinki Gets Last Brief Chance   DENY BREAK MADE   Finns Reported Disturbad By Reports, But Resigned To Political Fate

AFL MAY QUIT ~ LABOR BOOARD   toe mF “REVOLT’ AGAINST ANTI STRIKE AGENCY FLARES AT _ CONVENTION OF  FEDERATION .

Tax Proposals Said Defeated By Own Weight   House Revenue Head Calls Rates Too  Whgiiwnwe: Sew Whew

Mammoth Tax  Plan Appears To Be Deomed   Doughton, Chairman Of Vital House Group, Feels Load Too Heavy

HUGE TAX PLAN LIKELY T0 BE NIPPED IN BUD   Doughton Says Proposed 10 1-2 Billion Levy Is Too Great A Burden

Doughton’s Veto May Doom New Tax Plan   Morgenthau Program to Raise $10,500,000,000 New Revenue - Branded as Too Heavy Burden

TAX PROGRAM FACES DEFEAT IN COMMITTEE   TREASURY REVENUE PLAN CONDEMNED AS TOO BIG

Treasury s Huge New Tax Plan Meets Opposition   Big Increases on Income, Luxuries, Corporation Levies

Apparently Rules Out Any Chance Proposal To Raise Ten Billion More Will Succeed  SAYS SOME PORTIONS ARE ‘INDEFENSIBLE’  Plan Would Increase By 40 Percent Take . From Personal Incomes

Doughton Opposes Treasury’s Mammoth Scheme and His Stand Apparently Spells Defeat.   SOME OF INCREASES HELD INDEFENSIBLE   Chairman Fears Burden Plan Would Impose Would Break Down Morale of Those Who Pav.

TREAGURY'S TAA PROGRAM DOOMED   Doughton Sees Too Big 2 Burden for Taxpayers   CITES PRESENT LEVY   Plan Would Increase by 40 Per Cent Overall Take From Personal Incomes

Chairman Of House Ways And Means Group Says It Will Be Too Much Burden On People

Doughton Spurns Morgenthau Idea As Exorbifant   Too Big a Burden, Chairman Asserts

New ‘Tax Bill Of Treasury Doomed, Daughton Declares   Mammoth Tax Program Held Too Severe by Chairman of Committee—Fear Breakdown of Civilian Morale If Passed

The War Today  Time Grows Short For Allied Move To Invade Hitler’s Fortress Europa

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allies Still Have Time For Western Europe Invasion In 1943

TRICKY MILITARY PROBLEM IS — FACED BY HIGH-ELYING ALLIES AND THAT IS OLD MAN WEATHER

-Quebec Parley Will Have to Decide:  ‘Where to Strike While Weather Good

REDS HALT NAZI DRIVE ON KHARKOV   Russians Gain In Central Area, 17 Mi. From Vyazma

SOVIETS LOSE EIGHT BASES 10 GERMANS   Withdrawal of Reds Ordered In Face of Strong Counter-attacks.

Russians Hurl Back German Counter-Attack   Reds Give Up & Newly Won Bases In Donete Rasin

REDS GIVE UP EIGHT NEWLY WON TOWNS   Make an. Advance On Central Front, However

NAZI COUNTERDRIVE SLOWED MOSCOW SAY:   Germans Gain 8&0 Miles But Russians Smash Nearer Vyazma

Russians Make a Stand _ After 80-Mile Retrea   front smashed to within 17 miles miles of Yyazma.

FIGHT BASES ARE LOST IN DONETS BASIN FIGHTING   Other Russian Forces on Cen _ tral Front Are Successful, Smash to Within Point Near Vvazma.   MUNICH IS SHOWERED ~ BY GREAT AIR. FLEET   Rioting French Patriots Kill 50 More Germans During Paris Fighting, Total of 400 In Dav.

GREAT THREAT IS REPORTED TO BE STOPPED   Germans Said to Have Thrown 330,000 Reserves Into Qmach

Russians Hurl Invaders Back After Retreat   Nazi Offensive Near Kharkov Slowed; Reds Smash On Vivaziie

NAZI THRUSTS HURLED BACK IN DONETS BASIN   Red Armies Are Firmly €ntrenched After Abandoning ; Eight Cities   RETREAT FOR 80 MILES   Soviets’ Increase Threat To Vyazma After Capture Of Tumanovo

Sabine River Flood Sets New High Mark As East Texas Oil Field Is Threatened

SOVIETS ADVANCE ON NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BATTLE FRONTS   Number of Villages Taken By Russian Troops. Tough Guerrill* Fight ers Swing Into Action.

Recommends $10 Gallon Liquor Tax   Charge Wages Have Not Risen Equally With Living Costs Being Investigated; Miners Return to Work '

WASHINGTON ROUNDUP  Wages Versus Living Costs Back Into Capitol Arena

GEN. M'NARNEY OPTIMISTIC ON WAR OUTLOOK   Gives Senators Assurance Allies Rapidly Approach Victory

Promise Thai War Will Be Carried to Japs in Violent Form Made by Gen. M’Narney   Army General Assures Committee That United Nations Are Rapidly Apvroaching Final Victory Aacainst Axis

General Pledges Japs Will Feel War To Fullest .   Allies Approaching Final Victory, Gen. NMeNearney Accertc

VIOLENT ATTACK ON JAPS FORECASI   GENERAL McNARNEY AVERS ALLIES ARE RAPIDLY APPROACHING VICTORY.

Palermo Captured in Swift Drive to North   Enemy Reported Fleeing Toward Messina; Montgomery Tries Flank Maneuver To Break German Hold on Catania.

Chinese Smash Jap Offensive Along Yanatze   20,000 Nips Said Fleeing And.One Group Encircled

CHINA SMASHES JAP OFFENSIVE   Counterattack Breaks Up 8-Column Drive On 100 Miles Of  Yangtze

Chinese Smash Jap Offensive Along Yanatze   20 000 Nips Said Fleeing. And. ‘One ‘Group Enétrclad :

CHINESE SMASH JAP OFFENSIVE   Victory Erases Threat Tc Changsha; 20,000 Troops In Flight

The U. S. Will Auction 285 Alien  Concerns in Busness in This Country :

The U. §. Will Auction 285 Alien ~s . Concer ns in Busness i in This Country 

Roosevelt Submits Report of Planning Board on Security, Health, Education

BVEDR al      : ‘ National. ‘Resources. Board: Report of “500.000. Words.

Vast Social Security Program Submitted to Congress By Roosevelt   Comprehensive Program Includes “Cradle Ti The Grave” Protection With Assurance Of Jobs, Education, Health Protection

Blue Print Calls For Expanded Opportunities   Congressmen Are Overwhelmed by Huce Report

REPORT WIL! SE STUDIED BY CONERESS      Social Security and Educa tional Opportunities Are Presented for Consideration by President.

Roosevelt ‘Utopia’ Outdoes Beveridge   Federalized Youth Camps, Medical Aid. Jobs for All Slated: for U. S.

BLUEPRINT ON POST-WAR LIFE BEING §STIINIEN   500,000 Word Report Of Planning Board Is Revealed By President   HELP FOR ALL PROVIDED   Observers Believe Program Will Face Rough Sledding In Congress

Mate Of American Woman Is Named   Nazis Says Dr. Russo In Italian Foreign Office

Swedish Public . Approves Move By Government   Transit Facilities Banned To German Troops And Nazis’ War Materiel

18,000 Miners lenore Pleas  To End Strike   WLB and union chiefs. urge resumption of coal production — in dues rise dispute. :

18,000 Miners Remain Idle in Union Dispute   Ignore Pleas of Government and Union Leaders

TALKS POSTWAR   Fly Wants Low World Rate On Radio, Wire Messages

Enormous Force Of Aerial  Bombers Hits Axis Centers Sledge Hammer Pounding Of Nazi industrial   Sledge Hammer Pounding Of Nazi industrial Ruhr and Rhineland Resumed In Mass Roid

ALLIES END ¢12-DAY LLL IN AIR WAR      Greatest Force of Big Bombers Ever Sent — Out By the RAF

2,000 Tons. Of Bombs Fall On Ruhr Area   Duesseldorf and Munster Targets of Greatest. Heavy Bomber Raid

Score Some  a   Success [n Hard Figchtine   German Forces In Counterattacks

HURL GERMAN FORCES BACK HALF-MILE   Nazis Counter-Attack for (cains on Sevyeral Sectors

NAZI THRUST IS HALTED BY YANK FORCES   Germans score slight gains against British at two points

IN-TUNEGIAS: “ALLIES: AE ~MAKINE’ BANS            American Troops .Ar _ ing a Good: ‘Accoun t Themselves.   FIGHTING ‘IS. BLOODY   ‘Allied Columns Are Closing + + in Despite Fierce. Resistance”. Pe, 5 a & oe

Yanks Advance In Tunisia With Heavy Fighting   Savage Fighting On Tunisia British Front Also— Losses Heavy   “ AMERICANS ADVANCE UNDER INTENSE FIRE

AMERICAN FORCES REGISTER GAINS IN-NEW DRIVE “ALTHOUGH STUBBORN RESISTANCE SLOWS DOWN ADV ante AuOODY FIGHTING ALSO RE “ PORYED'AS AXIS HURLS COUNTER. — ATTACKS AT FIRSTARMY.  S  nerenANnr ft tert

Labor Necessary To Produce Food   House Committee Recom. mends $26.000,000 Provided

Approve Farm  Labor Funds   Recommend 26 Million Dollars Foor Reeruitment, Placing Of Help.

Tos Supply  Farm Labor   i ‘ Large:‘Appropriation Asked By Committee [For Recruiting and —  ransporting Workers

House Group For Recruiting Farm Workers   Committee Recommends $26,000,000 Appropriation for Task

Even Congress Not Clear Over New Bank Plan   International Money Matters as Involved in Morgenthau’s Plan, Proves Debateable Issue.

Butter Rate Rolled Back  OPA Issues Order  Th ones Derma ap ee ee

Nazi Military Dictatorship Rules Denmark   Disobedient Danes Threatened With Death Penally

Germans Arrest Danish Cabinet: King Under Guaré   Scores of Prominent Persons Arrested,  Jewish Roundup On

Says ‘Cousin John’ May Be Irritating But He Is Effective As Mine Chieftain

Will Discontinue Ferry Branch   Romancoke-Claiborne Service To End Sept. 15

Good Reports From All the War Frantc   Japanese Plans Disrupted; ‘Tunisia -Developments Are Favorable   AIR RAIDS ARE . HURTING AXIS   Only Spring Thaws. Are Likely: to Stop Russians, War Office Says

Patterson Says Japanese Plans For Coming Campaign Of Pacific Blasted In Brilliant American Air Victory Over Surface Vessels; 15,000 Japs Killed; War News Bright From All Fronts For Past Week.

JAP PLANS FOR “COMING CAMPAIGNS” HALTED. BY SMASHING OF BIG CONVOY

JAPANESE PLANS FOR PACIFIC DRIVE BADLY DISRUPTED   Their 22-Ship Convoy in the Bismark Sea Smashed by Americans.   THEY LOST 55 AIRCRAFT   Past Week of the War Was Reviewed by Undersecretary Patterson.

Allied Air Fleet Sinks 22 Ships In 2-Day Baffle      Tokyo's Plans For Campaign Said Broken

Only 4 Planes Lost by U. S. in A Great Victory   Fifteen Thousand Troops Bound For Battlefield Wiped Out.   10 Battleships Lost By Japs in This Fight

ARMY TO INDUCT 446,000 FATHERS BEFORE JANUARY    Hershey Gives Figures Indicating Seven Out of Every 100 Will Be Put in Uniform.   SAYS IT IS ONLY WAY TO FILL QUOTAS   Declares 907,000 Men Will Be Needed by Army and Navy Before First of Year.

1943 Dad Draft To Hit 446,000   ‘Boards Are Given Total By Hershey

(46,000 FATHERS HILL BE CALLED BY END OF YEAR   a1 in Every 100 Likely to Take In.  duction Examination. ©

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LARGE FATS DRAFT BEFORE TAN 1 1S SEE   7 Out of Every 100 to Be in Uniform, Herghey Indicates

Hershey Says 446,000 Father: Will Probably Be Inducted By January to Meet Quotas

Fathers’ Draft Quota 446,000. Says Hershey   Military Necessily Call: Family Men to Arms, Chief Explains

7 of Every 100 Fathers Face Armed Service   21 in Every 100 Slated For Call by Jan. 1 to Induction Centers —  446,000 Are Needed

446,000 Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Facing Induction Into Military Services Between Now and First of Next Year, Hershey Announces

Hershey Says Will Require 446,000 Dads   Estimates Number To Be Drafted Before Jan. 1

HEROHEY REVEALS INDUCTION NEEDS   Probably Will Be Necessary To Induct 446,000 PrePear! Harbor Fathers by January to Fill Quotas

May draft 446,000 fathers by Jan. 1, Hershey asserts   Seven out of every 100 needed by end of year to fill out quota

Seven of Every 100 Men Likely To See Service   Many 4-Fs Being Called to Colors

Seven Out of Every 100 Men in Hitherto Draft-Proof Poo! May Be in Uniform by End of Year   Letters Sent to 6500 Local Draft Boards Explain New Order Affecting All but Men in Deferrable and War Work

General Hershey Predicts Induction of 446,000 This Year  SAYS STEP TAKEN TO MEET QUOTAS  Many,in4-F Being Induct-ed Monthly, He Asserts

Twenty-One In Every 100 May Expect To Make Trip To Induction Centers But Many Are Likely To Be Turned Down

ARMY AND NAVY TO DRAFT DADS   Seven Out of Every 100 Fathers Face induction; To Reclassify 4-F Men

INDUCTION OF FATHERS LIKELY   Hershey Says 446,000 In Line For Draft By January To Meet  Year’s Quotas

DRAFT BEFORE JAN. 1 IS SEEN   7 Out of Every 100 te Be in Uniform, Hershey Indicates

May Induct 446,000 Fathers By January   Hershey Explains ; Why Ban On Drafting Pre-Pearl Harbor Fath. ; eve Was  shed...  one

Hershey Sees 446,000 Dads In Service  Before Jan. 1  Seven Out of 100   Seven Out of 100 Is Figure He Gives, While 21 Out of 100 Mav Take Phwecicale   907,000 MEN WILL GO BEFORE NEW YEAR

7 OUT OF EVERY 100 FATHERS T0 BE IN UNIFORM   Hershey Says Draft Boards Will Be Asked For 446,000 In October   AGRICULTURALISTS ARE BEING DEFERRED

April 15 s Date For Selectees to Report for Service   Two High School Students Volunteer With Present Quota

NEW STATE REGULATIONS TO GOVERN TONIGHT’S BLACKOUT   Violators Subject to Fine and Imprisonment Unde Rules——Important Points of the New Regulations Given

NEW STATE REGULATIONS TO   Violators Subject to Fine and Imprisonment Under _ Rules—Iimportant Points of the New Regulations Given

ALLIES SINK  OR DAMAGE 12 MORE JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC AREA   United Nations Air Forces Weaken Japan’s Sea Power By Raining Out Heavy Blows.

Japan’s Sea Power Is  Weakened   Allies Sink More Than a Dozen Ships Of Enemy Convoy

BRITISH PLANES ATTACK FRANCE   German Aircraft Bom Two Towns ou Northeast Coast of Scotland

Berlin Given Working Over   Heaviest Armadas of War Hit Berlin, Ludwigshafen

WILHELMSHAVEN I$ THE TARGET FOR RAF RAIDERS AGAIN   Another Heavy Load Bombs Dropped on German Naval Base.   OTHER OBJECTIVES HIT   Army Cooperation Command Planes Attacked Electric Transformer Stations.

German Base. Again Blasted   R.A.F. Squadrons Also Concentrate On Electric Transformer Stations.

RAF Again Bombs Nazi Naval Base’   Electric Stations In France also Hit

000 Fortresses, Fighters Combine corces to Attack Nazi U-Boat Base

COMPANY UNION CASES DROPPED   NLRB Action Results From Congressional Rider Interpretation

7 Ruling Erases Cases From  NLRB Docket   Board Stops Study Of Complaints In Company Unions

German Losses Up To 42,000 Dead In Bloody Fight   Savage Counterattack By Reds Paralyze Enemy Spearheads In Belgorod

Large Reserves Of Nazi Panzers Push  Through Red Lines   Advance In Belgorod Sector Paralyzed By Heavy Losses Inflicted In Savage Counter-Attacks; Other Lines Hold

Nazis Suffer New Losses In Russia   Break-Through Nullified as Reds Stem Fierce Attack

Counter Blows Paralyze Nazi Break-Througt   Russians Inflict Tremendous Losses And Liquidate Gains By Elastic Defense

German Reserve: Bolster Breach In Soviet Lines  Battle-Line Sways As Bloody Fighting Erupts At Belgorod

RED SOLDIERS PUNISH NAZIS AT BELGOROD   INVADER IS SLUGGED TO STANDSTILL IN KURSK SECTOR

Breaches in Russian Line Are Remedied   Nazis Said to Have  Been Held After Breaking Through

Nazi Reserves Crack Russian  Belgorod Line   German Advances Paralyzed By Tremendous Losses So wiete Declare   ALLIES BOMB FRANCE

Soviets Hold Most Lines, Halt Advance   Terrific Fight Finds Many Germans Caught in Big Trap

U.S. Bombers Follow RAF Raid on Ruhr   Four Million Reported Evacuated to Escape Miohty Offoenctvu.n

Heavy Fighter Opposition In Latest Attacks   Allies Lose 173 Aircraft; U. S. Toll _ 38 Bombers in 6 Days

U.S. BOMBERS RIP AT NAZIS LOSE 18 SHIPS   Hammer At Undisclosed Targets In Northwest Germany During Adverse Weather; Strong Opposition   RAF Strikes At Ruhr

Bomber Piloted by Texan Downs 7 Nazi Planes In Big Raid on Germany :

Northwestern Germany Attacked by Daylight _ "Raiders  18 AIRPLANES LOST BY THE ATTACKERS Assaults in Bad Weather  Followed Night Raid “im Raabe 

RUHR VALLEY AGAIN ROCKED BY BOMBERS   Germans Reported Moving Thousands of Persons From Area

U. S. HEAVY BOMBERS POUND GERMANY, BUT LOSE 18 SHIPS   Bv LYNN HEINZERLING

RAF Crushes Another Town;  Forts Follow Up  Heavier Opposition Feynd; Bern Says & Million Flee Valle,

Millions Leaving Bomb-Lashed Ruh   ‘Merciless Round- The-Clock Battering Of

Millions Leaving Bomb-Lashed Ruhr   Merciless Round-The-Clock Battering Of Naziland Goes On: Vallev Said In Ruins

Heavy Bombers Atfack Germany   Americans Follow R.A. F. Night Blow

GERMANY HIT BY FLEETS OF U. 5. BOMBERS   NAZI DEFENSES IN GREECE FOUND TO BE WEAK

Heavy Bomber: Raid Germany; 18 Ships Lost   Targets Undisclosed— Bad Weather Coupled With Strong Fighter Opposition Reported

‘AMERICANS LOSE 18 BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON RUHR   Total Of 173 Allied Planes Destroyed In Six Days Of Rombine   GERMANS LEAVING INDUSTRIAL SECTION

YANKS, BRITISH KEEP BLASTING REICH TARGETS   American Raid Fol. lows Up Heavy RAF Attack in Ruhr

Young Kansan  To High Post   Calder To Direct Operations For WPE

Soviet Secrecy Veils Fighting In Kuban Area   Fighting Continues For Bridgehead In West Caucasus Is Only Report   NAZIS TRY RAID NEAR LENINGRAD

PUSH ON EAST TO CORK TRAP *FOR ROMMEL   “Two-Gun” Patton, ‘Replac. ing Gen, Fredenall, Fights _ with Tanks,   J. S. FORCES ONLY 100 MILES FROM 8TH ARMY.

GAFSA, AXIS BASE, IS IN U. §. HANDS   Signs Multiply That Big Allied Drive on Rommel Is Now In Progress.

AMERICAN, BRITISH FORCES MOVING EAST IN ATTEMPT 10 CORK BOTTLE-NECK AT GABES   German-Italian Forces Retreat Toward El Guettar, Leaving Mines

Meanwhile Eighth Army Appears on Verge of Opening Its Smash, Trapping Axis in Nut - Cracker   Gen. Patton (“Old Blood and Guts”) of Tank Fame, Replaces Gen. Fredendall in South-Central Sector.

REGAIN BASE IN MOVE TO TRAP AXIS AT GABES   Allies Silent Of Nazi Claim That Montgomery Big Drive Is Underway

Americans Take Gafsa As 8th Army Moves Up   U. S. Troops Under Patton Advance 30 Miles As Axis Retreats On Road To Gabes Under Air Attack

AFSA IS REPORTED CAPTUREL   anks Move Forward fc Cork Bottleneck at Gabes and Net Large Axis Forces.

MINES ARE LEFT BY ENEMY, DELAY ADVANCING ARMY   Lieut. Gen. Patton, RipRoaring Tank Officer Known as “Ofd Blood and Guis” Takes Command.   CHANGE IN COMMANDER IS PART OF NEW PUSH   Allies Find Evidence of Plans of Jans to Land Forces In: New Guinea, Rabaul Is Bombed.

Americans hel  North Africa.       -German- Italian ~ Forces” Réeported Withdrawina

rush Eastward In Apparent Try To Reach Gabes   Stab to Coast Would Cut Off Rommel; Axis Columns on Road to Gabes Re- ’ ported Withdrawins

Eastward From ‘There         PLAN IS TO REACH CITY OF GABES AND TRAP * THOUSANDS OF AXIS TROOPS

Greatest Air Battle of War Fought   Twenty U. S. Bombers and Fighters Are Lost In Day's Operations; Raid on Emden Follows British Mosquito Stab at Reich

ALLIED FLIERS SMASH EMDEN   SOFIA ROCKED IN NEW, “SHOWDOWN” ATTACKS

Quiet Prevails  In Argentina   Castillo Asks Permission To Enter Uruguay

Reapportionment  Bill Said Ready   Venango to Be Placed In 29th Dist... MeKean To Remain in 20th

BOMBER HITS RAILWAY, DERAILS FREIGHT TRAIN   Western Pacific Rails Damaged at Wendover As Big Plane Crash Lands on Right-of-Way

Crash Bomber Derails Train   Army Officer Fatally Hurt os Plane Tears Ue Treckse of W.P.

FIGHT RENEWED ON LIQUOR TAX   New Yorker Declares $3 Boost Would Be Blow To ‘Poor Man’

New Yorker Protests $3 A Gallon Boost On Liauor Levy: Poorman's Pat

Time At Hand For Sacrifice Hour Has Come, People  Of Free Nations Must Prepare For Losses

End of Third International Arouses Comment  Believed To Indicate Rus sia Has Changed Gen-

OHIO ASSEMBLY COOL TO CUT IN FOOD SALES TAX   Bricker’s Recommendations Shunned; State Budget For Year Put Over

Bricker’s Tax Repeal  Plan Rejected by GOPs   Governor’s Chagrin Tem- pered by Probable 44 Surplus

Bricker’s Tax Cut Plan Rejected by Legislature In Interest of Surplus

GOP HEADS REJECT BRIGKER’S TAX CUT   May Need Surplus for PostWar Problems

HUNT FOUR IN FARM SLAYING   Revenge Only Known Mative in Killing of Three in Fayette County Family.

HUNT 4 IN DEATH (OF FARM FAMILY   Prosecutor Says Plain Case of Revenge, Breeder Had Carried Gun for Protection

REVENGE ANGLE INVESTIGATED BY AUTHORITIES   Slain Farmer Difficult To Work For Officers / Learn

REVENGE SEEN MOTIVE AS FOUR MEN ARE SOUGHT IN SLAYING OF FARM FAMILY

3 SHOT T0 DEATH IN REVENGE CASE   4 Men Hunted After Triple Slaying On Ohio Farm

FOUR HUNTED IN ~— DHIQ SLAYINGS   Farmer, Wife And Daughter Found Slain - On Farm Thursday

FOUR MEN SOUGHT TN FARM SLAYING   Farmer, Wife, and Daughter Killed for Revenge, Savs Official.

Anti-Poll Tax Act Upheld By Solons, 12-0  Bill Would Bar Collections as  Vote Requisite

Anti-Poll Tax  Bill Favored   Senate Judiciary Commitiee Votes 12 To 6 For Controversial Measure.

Anti-Poll Tax Bill Out Of Committee   Expected to Stir Filibuster in Senate

Bill Against - Poll Tax Wins ~~ Committee OK   Senate Filibuster “Almost Certain; Measure Will. Not Come Up. Before. Monday

oGERMANS RUSH MORE TROOPS TO “PLUG BIG HOLE   ® enemy Suffers Heavy Casualties, Loses Much Equipment

Great Quantities Of Equipment, Dead, Wounded Left Behind By Fleeing Enemy Army In Italy   Driven From Adriatic End Of Heavily Fortified Winter Line; Reinforcements Sent In: Fifth Meets New Nazi Division

Germans’ Winter Line  On Adriatic Collapses   Abandon Great Quantities Of Materials, Suffer Heavy Casualties Before Fleeing Before Battering Of-British Eighth.

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM WINTER LINE "EXPECTED T0 HOLD   Lose More Than 1,000 Prisoners and Much Equipment   LARGE NUMBER OF DEAD. WOUNDED

Sth Buckles Adriatic End Of Nazi Line   Foe; in Full Fight, -Abandons Materials: British Capture 1,000

BLOWS CRUSH ENEMY LINES   Germans Abandon Supplies, Suffer Heavy Casualties, Lose Many Prisoners

Much Equipment Said Abandoned: 1000 Capturec   U. S. Flying Fortresses.  Carry Out Heavy Haid! On Great Fiat Plant’

ADRIATIC END OF HUN WINTER LINE RIDDLED      Montgomery’s Eighth Army  -Inflicts Heavy Casualties ©  - On Enemy and Takes 3,000 Prisoners   HITLERITES STRIVE TO STEM ONSLAUGHT   iGermans Blowing Up In  stallations In Viciaity of  Cassino On the Main  Highway to Rome

Nazis Rush Reinforcements From Northern Italy in Effort to Stem Retreat, Which Has Cost Heavy Casualties

Germans in Full Retreat Before British in Italy   Many Wounded, Dead Left Behind by Nazis

Adriatic End Of Italian Defense  Line Is Broken.   British Take 1,000 Prisoners; Germans Forced To Leave Much Equipment Behind

8TH ARMY CAPTURES 1000 NAZIS   More Troops Rushed In To Halt Advance Of Gen. Montgomery

Germans Abandon Great Quantities Of Equipment Following Heavy Casualties And Loss Of More Than 1,000 Prisoners To British On Adriatic End Of Winter Line—Enemy Rushing Reinforcements  From North In Attempt To Halt Break-Through

Los Angeles Area Has Air-Raid Alert But Plane Proves to Be Friendly

Another Heavy Aerial Attack Is Made At Wewak   Jap Airdromes At New Guinea Stronghold Bombed By Allies   PROBABLY 37 JAP PLANES DESTROYED

36 JAP FIGHTER PLANES SHOT DOWN; JUNGLE TROOPS BESIEGE ENEMY BASE AT SALAMAUA

SMALL CARRIERS ARE PLACED IN SERVICE   Converted From = Merchant-Trype Vessels, Ships Have Demonstrafed Worth In Pacific

Dozens of Small American Carriers Now at Sea Combating Axis Forces

SMALL CARRIER SHIP REVEALED   Many Are In War Areas, Others Are Under  Construction

AIRCRAFT GARRIER FLEET AUGMENTED   Dozens of Small Craft New or Operation

Knox Reports Dozen: of Small Aircraft © Carriers in Service  Navy Secretary Says. Vessels Provide Triple Threat to the Enemy's Undersea, Surface and Air Raiders

‘Dozens of Small Aircraft Carriers Now Serve U. S.  Combat Forces on Seven Seas   Following Successful Tests, Scores More Are Now Under Construction, Knox Announces

SMALL CARRIER SHIPS INCREASE   Converted Vessels Found Useful For Convoy Duty In Ocean

Hitler Conscious His Time Running Short; Is Aging   Nervous Breakdowns Numerous; Himmler And Bormann In Conttrol

SWEDISH NEWSPAPER MAN SAYS HITLER 15 CONSCIOUS OF FATE  NEW BOOK TELLS OF IN. TERIOR WORKINGS IN GERMANY RECENTLY

“BEHIND THE STEEL WALL” HITLER SEES TIME RUNNING OUT = BUT STILL “INTUITIVE”   Ry BENWINT SQUANIR

Hitler Sees Time Running  Out, but He's Still “Intuitive”   ‘Swede Reports on Two Years ‘Spent Inside Germany

inside Germany  Hitler Suffers Breakdowns, Knows Time Is Running Out

PUSH VOTE ON MINERS’ WAGE   Threats of New Coal Shutdown Next Monday Increase

WLB Strives For Decision On Portal Pay  Vata OF Raard   Vote Of Board Awaited Amid Strike Threats

MINERS MURMUR THREATS OF NEW WORK STOPPAGE   WAGE DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED; TRUCE EXPIRES SUNDAY

W. L. B. STRIVES TO REACH VOTE ON  PORTAL-PAY ISSUE   Threats of a New Nation-wide ‘Coal Shutdown Next Mon: day Hinted by UMW Work‘ers Unless Demands Are Wet a

UMW Members Murmur Threats of New Nationwide Shut-down Next Monday Unless Their Demands Are Satisfied.

WOULD RELIEVE JOHN LEWIS OF RESPONSIBILITY   WLB Striving For Vote; May Award 80 Cents Portal Pay

W.L.B. SEEKS TO REACH VOTE ON PAY ISSUE   Portal To Portal Dispute Holds Threat Of Strike

WLB DIVIDED ON MINE PAY; UMW RESTIVE   Soard Considers Awards Ranging from 80 Cents Upward for Portalto-Porta! Time   LEWIS ASKS $1.30   Miners Reported Considering District Strike Conventions to Relieve Lewis of Blame

UMW Would Shift Blame  from Lewis   Policy Committee Sets $1.30 as Minimum for  SettleMent

GOVT. TURNS 39 MORE . MINES.” BACK T0-OWNERS  930 Coal Mines Have Ba 

AGREEMENT ISREACHED   ‘Government Reports Turning 69:  Mines Back to Their Owners

DINNER BY PARACHUTE   GOP Chances Best Since ’60, Willkie Tells Wisconsin Group

LAST REMNANTS OF JAPS WIPED. OFF CUADALCANAL ISLE   Japan ‘Has’ Tasted . Defeat ’ For First Time In 1000  Years —— 17 Japanese vow eign OR

Gen. Patch Tells of Las! Action That Wiped Out Jap Forces in Land At. tachke.

Stimson Reveals Flanking Movement Led to Capitulation of Japs On ‘Guadalcanal: Some Escaped to Sea

VOLUNTEERS * ASSISTANCE IN TREATIES      Hull Asserts U.S. Still Demanding Axis Surrender

ppp      Judge Prescott Keyes (Retired) Succeeded Father on Bench

Full Honors Accorded Liberian President ‘On White House Visit: First Negro So Received

SHORT SESSION PRI POLICE COURT.    PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA GUEST   ‘irst Time Negro Has Beer Entertained Overnight At White House

LIBERIAN PRESIDENT WHITE HOUSE GUEST   Barclay Repays Visit Of Roosevelt; Accorded  Full Honors

LIBERIAS PRESIDENT.   Received Officially at White House by President Roosevelt.

NEGRO DIGNITARY ROOSEVELT GUEST   Edwin Barclay, President of. Liberia Stays at White House

Federal Loans on 194? Corn Called To Stimulate Trade   Union County Has 159,000 Bushels in Storage at 80 Cents

WFA CALLS IN CORN LOANS TO EASE SHORTAGE   Hopes to Force More Grain Into Usual Trade Channels

CORN LOANS CALLED IN   Action Will Force More Grain Intd Trade Channels

WFA Calls in Corn Loans And May Requisition Grain From Elevators

Federal Loans On 1942 Corn Crop Called In   W. F. A. Acts To Force More Of The Grain Into Normal Trade.

Big German Munitions Depot Blasted at Wilhelmshaven   50 Long Sheds Full of Explosives Detonated in British Air Attack

GERMAN DEPOT BLOWN TO BITS   Hit Scored On Munitions At Wilhelmshaven By RAF Raiders

NAVAL OFFICER'S BRIDE MURDERED ON COAST TRAIN   Wide Search Begun in Oregon for Slayer of Woman in Pullman

NEGRO DETAINED IN TRAIN SLAYING   NAVAL OFFICER'S YOUNG WIFE SLASHED TO DEATH IN BERTH OF PULLMAN.

YOUNG WIFE OF NAVAL OFFICER SLAIN ON TRAIN   Mrs. Martha Virginia Brin. son James’ Throat Slashas She Slept in - Berth   Police Seeking Negro Seen Running From Scene by Marine Private, Occupying Upper Berth

Mystery In Train Murder Of War Bride   Widespread Search for Man Who Cut Girl's Throat in Berth

Knife-Wielder. Eludes, Arrest   Virginia Officer’s Bride Slain In West Coast Train’s Berth —

ENSIGN’S BRIDE SLAIN IN LOWER 13 ‘ABOARD TRAIN SPEEDING THRU NIGHT

WIFE OF ENSIGN SLAIN ON TRAIN   Victim Was Aboard a West Coast Limited

Blond Bride Murdered In Berth 13 Of Coast Train   Dark Man’ Seen To Flee; Manhunt Is Launched; Husband Is Navy Man

Seminole People Killed In Wreck   Fourth May Die As Result Of California Accident

Three Killed In Car Wreck   Three Other Persons Injured; Victims Were From Seminole

BOND DRIVE REGIONAL HEAD ENTHUSIASTIC   Pre-Campaign Survey Shows Rising Tide Gf Patriotism

HUNGRY SOLDIERS PRAISE RED GROSS   Canteens Meet Emergency When Field Kitchens Fail to Arrive.

Little Man Faced With  Extinction   He Always Has Had Such A Battle, Bill White Points Out

A $2,500 BLAZE   Fire Destroyed Property at Bismarck Grove Last Night —

Flyers Cause Havoc Four Miles From Vatican  In Great Daylight Raid   All U. S. Planes Safe After Italian Sweep; People Warned First; Sacred Areas Avoided in Attack; Reds Advance Within Gun Range of Orel

News Behind wT... MT ~---2 LIC i4%cys  Copyright MeCiure Newspaper Syndicate   WASHINGTON Ry Yay Tucker

Senator Places Jap War First   Wheeler Says Red Position Obscure

Mubo. Key Jap Base. Seized By Forces Of Lnited States   Point Protecting Salaman Held With 950 Japanese Destroyed—aAction Flames on Both Ends of Pacific Offensive

MacArthur’s Air Force Also Shoots Down 45 Enemy Planes Over Rendova   AMERICAN DESTROYER GWIN SUNK IN KULA

CAPTURE TOWN ON NEW GUINEA   Allies Take Key Point Protecting Salamaua; Shoot Down 45 Jap Planes

Mubo, Key Jap Base, Captured By Allied Forces   Enemy Strong Point Protecting Salamaua Is Eliminated

New Guinea Key Bastion Is Captured   American Troops Annihilate 950 Jeps in Attack

MUNITIONS CARS BOMBARD CITY   Eight Are Injured As Train Catches Fire In Colorado Town

CARLOAD OF AMMUNITION EXPLODES ©   Grand Junction, Colo., Thought It Was Under Attack

Quirk Saves Town from ‘Barrage   Ammunition Car Burns. But Shells Fire Away From City,

Colorado City Under Bombardment When Carload of Ammunition Upsets

DOLORADO CITY BOMBARDED BY SHELL BARRAGE   Munitions Train Car Upsets, Fire Sets Off Blast   JAP SUB PROBABLY DESTROYED; ANOTHER BOMBED IN CORAL SEA

AMMUNITION CARS EXPLODE   Shells from Two Freight Cars Set Off at Grand. Junction, Colorado— Eight Persons Injured.

Seek to Prevent Clothes Rations   Nelson Reveals Increased Pro duction Has Part in His Six-point Program

FATHER DRAFT SHOWDOWN IS. “COMING SOON   WHEELER TO DEMAND ‘THAT HIS BILL BE BROUGHT UP FOR VOTE: EARLY NEXT WEEK

WHEELER TO INSIST ON PROMPT CONGRESSIONAL [DEBATE ON DADS’ DRAFT

FATHER DRAFT TEST NEARING   Wheeler Demands Measure Be Made Unfinished Business

THOUSANDS FLEE PATH OF FLOOD   LEVEES CRUMBLE AS HIGH WATERS SWEEP SOUTHWARD IN ARKANSAS,

Arkansas Valley Residents Flee Fury of River   110-Year Record Broker By Rising Waters At Fort Smith, Ark.

FLOOD DRIVES THOUSANDS TO HIGH GROUND   Arkansas River Crest Breaks Record of 110 Years

Ban Drilling Of Gas Wells   Petroleum Administration Blocks Action in Kansas  And Oklahoma Panhandle

Foe Fighting Desperately With Nine Divisions to Hold “Winter Line;” Eighth Army Captures Ridge   Allied Guns Give Foe in  Italy Terrific Pounding

AUSSIES REPEL JAP ASSAULTS   Three ‘Foe Counterattacks ‘Before Wareo Futiles: Air Raids Staged   Allied Guns Give Foe in _ ’ HHaly Terrific Pounding

NO MORE STATE AIR RAID ALERTS   Surprise Alerts Are Called Off By Defense Council

Woman Slain  Aboard Flyer   Navy Officer's Wife. Bride Of Four Months, Killed While Asleep .

Bride Of Ensign s Murdered — In Pullman Berth 13; Police Are Seeking Dark Husky Man

CLEAN OUT THE MUD   City Flusher Was Used or the Underpass in North Lawrence

OWI SAW ICKES’ » PREPARED TEXT, BUT LET IT G0   Statement Placing War Responsibility on the Businessman Is Okayed

IGKED oPEEGH HAD CWI. K,   Blamed Businessmen in Government for Any Failure in War Effort.

CRITICISM BY IGKES HAD OWI APPROVAL      Inter-agency Disputes Stil One of Its Headaches

RUSSIANS HANG — WAR CRIMINALS   Three Nazis, One Red Traitor  Pay For Crimes

Town in Idaho Marooned by Flood   Salmon Cut Off From Cutside World

Three Religious _Faiths United in Peace Term Aim  . And Jewish Groups  [ ee, .f eer Serene

‘DECLARATION OF PEACE AIMS IS ‘MADE BY FAITHS   Catholic, Protestant And Jewish Groups Unite In  Joint Statement   FOR PRESERVATION OF RIGHTS OF MAN

GERMANS IN PREPARATION FOR FLIGHT.   Port Area Being Wrecked by Hit. ler Dynamite Squads. Meanwhile Allies Make New Gains

Scuttle Ships Not. Hit By Allied Bombs; More  lialian Towns Taken -

Naples Port Graveyard Of 30: Ships   “Nazis. Wrecking City ° : Harbor“Area; 11-Mile Gain Made'by Allies: ~

Enemy  Wrecks All Dock  Facilities   Fifth Army Engaged in Bitter Fight North of Salerno

At Least 30 Ships Are Sunk and Appearances Indicate That One of the Largest and Best Peace-Time Harbors of Europe Will Be Made Useless to Allies— All Useable Docks Are Fired and Entire Port Is Undergoing Terrific Blactina.

ALL NAPLES HARBOR SHIPPING SCUTTLED; NAZIS SET TO LEAVE   Germans Destroying Port Area As Allied Armies Capture Three More Towns In Southern Italy

Fifth, Eighth ¢ Armies Drive ‘Toward Naples   At Least 30 Ships Lie On the Bottom Of Naples Harbor

Nazis Apparently Getting Ready _ To Abandon Naples Sector; Yanks Pushing Toward City, Engage Foe In Bitter Fight North Of Salerna

NAZIS FIRING DOGKS, CRAFT INPORT ARES   Allied Planes See 30 Ships on Bottom of Bay and Fires on Quay.   FIFTH ARMY IN BITTER FIGHT ON NAPLES ROAD

FIFTH ARMY IN BITTER FIGHT IN FOOTHILLS   Allies Hold Half of Corsica

Flying School Rent Survey Made In Alpine and Marfa   Brewster County Town's Rental Property Produces SIS7,000; Marfa’s $50,000

Non-Civil Service Workers Ai the Field Are Not Included In Report

37 OUT OF 98 ENEMY PLANES KNOCKED DOWN   Thwart Nips’ Attack On U. S. Shipping  In Solomons

Yanks Score Big Air Win  "37 Japanese Planes Chat Dawn In Rattloe

American Flyers Score Victory  37 Japanese Planes   37 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down

U-Boat Pens Raided Anew   R.A.F, Again Biases Lorient, St. Nazaire; English Town Raided

SUB BASES HIT AGAIN IN RAF NIGHT SWEEPS   Lorient And St. Nazaire Are Targets; Two Planes Lost

RAF BOMBERS HIT LORIENT, “ST. NAZAIRE      Nazis Retaliate With a Raid on English South Coast Town — Several Killed in Bomb Hit on Air-Raid Shelter.

Nazi Sub Pens Again Attacked By RAF Fliers   U.S. Bombers fuflict Heasyv Damage On Terminals

HEAVY BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST NAZI SUB BASE   German Plenes Attack Coastal Area In England

ATTACK U-BOAT YARDS   Two Bombers Lost in Raid on Western France Last Night

THE NAZI SUB PENS AT LORIENT AND ST. NAZAIRE ATTACKED   The Air Ministry Announced the Assaults Occurred Last Night.   2 BOMBERS WERE LOST   The Two German U-Boat Pens Have Been Attacked Frequently.

SUB PENS HIT BY RAF BOMBS   St. Nazaire And Lorient Fee] British Blows

T. NAZAIRE AND LORIENT RAIDED BY RAF   Heavy Bombers Aga Again Blast Axis  U-Boat Pens — Germans Bomb English Coast Town

RAF ATTACKS GERMAN SUB PENS IN FRANCE   At Lorient and St. Nazaire in First Night Raid Since Monday Nioh+ «

GERMAN U-BOAT PENS TARGETS OF NIGHT RAIDS   ‘Lorient and St. Nazaire in Western France At~ “tacked by Heavy RAF Bombers   TWO PLANES MISSING   Mines Also Laid'in Enemy Waters: Britain Free of Raids for Second Night

R.A.F. Attacks Sub Base: Of Lorient, St. Nazaire; Britain Free Of Bombing

ENEMY SUB PENS AT LORIENT AND ST. NAZAIRE HIT   Western France Undergoes First RAF Raid Since Sunday Night Heavy Bombers Take Part; Britain Free of Raids For Two Nights.

RICH INDIAN RULER DIES   Maharajah of Bikane Bikaner Had Ruled for 44 Years

RICH INDIAN RULER DIES      Maharajah of Bikaner Had Ruled   for 44 Years

ALLIES GAIN INBATTLE OF SHIPPING      Balance i in Their ‘Favor: Firat‘Time Since U: S. in War

ATLANTIC BATTLE BALANCE TIPPING TO. ALLIED SIDE   April Record Much More Favorable Than Mare; Tunis. Victory Helps.

Italians Flee One of Dodecanese As Allied Invasion Seen Imminent

Report Italians Evacuate Island   German Radio Spreads Report Castel Rosso In Dodecanese Is Evacuated

ITALIANS FLEE AEGEAN SEA ISLAND-NAZIS   Leave Castelrosso in Dodecanese in Face of Invasion

AXIS: FEARS ~ ALUED BLOW. ~ FROM SYRI   BERLIN. RADIO SAYS ITALY HAS. EVAOUATED ONE © ISLAND OFF THE  TURKISH COAST

CITY IS LIVING IN REAL PANIC,’ ARTICLE STATES   Publication Reveals Berliners Fear Capital Will Be ‘Hamburged’ Soon

Goebbels Tells Berliners Save Themselves   PANIC GRIPS CAPITAL AS ALLIED RAIDS SET GERMAN NERVES AJAR

Newspaper Die Nation Reports City Is In Feverish Fear And That War Of Nerves Has Reached A Peak Previously Thought Impossible—Furniture Shipments Banned

Berliners, Terrorized By Allied Raids, Flee To Protection Of Nearby Forests

Yankees Make Smashing Raid  On Italy Base   RAF Mosquito Planes Pound Away At Berlin

Berlin Living In Panic; City Reported Terrorized By Thunderous Air Raids

Allied Bombs Panic Berlin Populace; Thousands In Flight   Nazi Troops Fire On Rioters In Copenhagen

Berlin Lives In Panic Due 'To Air Raids.  Paper Says   People Having Eyes Opened; Feverishly Evacuating City; RAF Using New Weapons

Hear Berlin Lives in Real Panic From Raids of RAF   Clam Residents Flee to Protection of Surrounding Forests

YOUNG GRANDSCN OF PRESIDENT INVOLVED IN FATAL ACCIDENT   BULLET FROM GUN’ WILLIAM ROGSEVELT TRIFPED OVER KILLED HIS CHUM YESTERDAY -

TO RESTRICT ADVERTISING   Miami Herald Acts to Mect News print Shortage

Laber Heads Protest At Living Costs   ‘Little Steel’ Formula Is Too Rigid, Says -* ° Green”

Green, Murray Protest Living Costs to FDR   Hint Wages Should Be Increased to Meet Rising Prices

FOR HEARS COST OF LIVING GETTING OUT OF BOUNDS   -abor Leaders Ask Roosevelt to Do Something About [t Quickly

PROTEST FRO LABOR ON U. S. COST OF LIVING   Green of A.F... and Murray ol C.1.0. Claim H.C.L. Getting Out Of Reasonable Bounds

LABOR HEADS HiT COST OF LIVING   Green, Murray in Protest to F. R. on Rising Prices, Freezing of Wages

Great Force of Bombers ~ Struck at Munitions Plants in the Upper Rhine Vailey

BOND DRIVE PASSES THE HALF-WAY MARK   National Director Gamble Says Workers Will Have to Beat Bushes to Get Remainder.

Italians May Evacuate Island: Montgomery’s Troops Maul Germans   Yanks, Tommies, Canadians Advance All Along Front; Dozen More Towns Are Taken

ALLIED ADVANCE DRIVING ENEMY TO SHOWDOWN   Attempts To Halt Invaders Smashed But Some of Fighting Is Fierce   CAPTIVES TAKEN IN DROVES   Warships Blast Path for Troops as Yanks Rush To Join British Forces

GERMAN ARMOR NEAR CATANIA   Observers Think Foe May Be Compelled to Fight Rearguard Action

Nazi Armored  Divisions Met, Severely Mauled   Allies Capture 12 More Towns {n Gains All Along Front; 20,000 Prisoners Taken

Towns Seized By Americans In Fast Foray   20,000 Prisoners Reported Taken In Sicily Drive

BRITISH ARMY NEAR CATANIA   Americans ~ Have Taken Nearly 16,000 Or 20,G00 Prisoners.   ENEMY ARMOR SMASHED

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S: VETERANS SEVERELY MAULED ELITE NAZIS   HERMAN GOERING AND 15TH GERMAN ARMORED DIVISIONS BOTH WHIPPED

Maul 2 German Armorec Divisions In Surge T« North; Americans Take 16,000 Prisoners.

OVER 20,000 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN   British Within 15 Miles Of Catania: Great Raid Made On Naples: Battle Of Tanks Rages

EIGHTH ARMY 15 MILES OUT OF VITAL CITY   12 More Towns’ Taken As Allied Advance  Continues

Allied Troops Occupy 12 Towns; Capture More Than 20,000 Prisoners

Sth Mauls Two Tank Divisions As Allies Take 12 More Towns   Yanks Have Captured 16,000 Prisoners Thus Far

12 TOWNS FALL T8 BRITISH 20.000 TAKEN   Pyis-ners As British 8th Army Continues Frontal Assault Geiman Forces On Catani:  Plain   Priests Assist

20;000 Axis Prisoners in:  Allied Hands   British Drive North_ward To Edge of * Strategic Plain

TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS 1S 20,000   Axis Powerless to Deal-With Fleet Covering 8th Army's Right ‘Flank -

Sritish, in Drive Northward Up Sicilian Coast, Severely Maul Goering and Fifteenth German Armored Divisions—Capture of 12 More Towns Announced, a Number of Them by Americans, Who Account for 16,000 of the Prisoners Taken.

Two Armored Divisions Of Nazis Mauled  20,000 Prisoners Are   20,000 Prisoners Are Taken, Majority By Yanks; Enemy May Try To Withdraw From Isle

Allies Seize 12 More Towns 20,000 Men      Montgomery’s Veterans Rout Two:Crack Nazi’ Divisions; Americans And Canadians Gain

(ALLIES TAKE 13 MORE TOWNS   More Than 18,000 Axis Prisoners Taken During First 7 Davs of Battle

Withdrawal of Enemy From * Jsland of Sicily May my Start Soon :   20,000 “ARE PRISONERS   Drive on atania Con_tinues; Mai land Ports:  re Bombed

Two German Units Given Bad Mauling   More Than 20,000 Prisoners Captured; 12 More Towns Taken

EIGHTH ARMY MAULS NAZIS? AAMOR UNITS   Axis Loses 12 More Towns on Sicily; Prisoners NoW.:. Total 20,000, :   AMERICANS CAPTURE °°. STRATEGIC CENTERS

British Repulse Nazis To Drive Near Catania   Two German Divisions Thrown Back as Montgomery Drives to Within 15 Miles from Siellian Seaport.

Allies Overrun 12 More Sicilian Towns And Capture 20,000 Prisoners   OBSERVERS PREDICT ENEMY WITHDRAWAL

The Hard-Punching Troops Are in a Northward Surge Up the Sicilian Coast,  It Was Announced.   SEVERELY MAULED 2 GERMAN DIVISIONS   Allied Headquarters Announced the Capture of Twelve More Towns; 20,000 Prisoners.

Prisoner Toll Mountsto —  Over 20,000   Troops Pour Onto Catania Plain to -

Montgomery's Army Mauls Two Nazi Divisions.   Allies: Advance on All Fronts, Take Twelve Towns

Yanks and British Fight Way Forward In Sicilian Drives   British Smash Armored Unit, Yanks Take Many Towns and Prisoners

Montgomery Punching at Nazi Armo.   Second Whipping Handed  Two Divisions Believed  Main Axis Strength

Invaders Capture 12 More Sicily Towns: Troops 15 Miles From Catania

Great Air Raids Leave Port OF Naples In Ruins   Other Planes Strike Italy From England: Prisoners Now Total 20,000

Withdrawal of Enemy From [sland of Sicily May Start Soon   20,000 ARE PRISONERS   Drive on Catania Con tinues; Mamland Ports Are Bombed

British Eighth Army‘ Menaces Catania’ As Yanks Move Ahead All Along  Line.

British Draw Near Catania   Allied Drive Nets 12 More Towns In Advance All Along

British, Within 15 Miles Of Catania, Smash German Tanks   U. S, Has 16,000 of 20,000 Prisoners Taken in Week of. Invasion *

Both American and British Armies Advance Taking 12 Towns and 20,000 Prisoners; New  Devastation Dealt Foe in Air Sweeps

British Eighth Army Is Within 15 Miles Of City In Its Surge Along Sicilian Coast

British Eighth Army Is Reported To Be Only 15 Miles From Catania

British Smash Back Armored Enemy Forces  19 Tawne Takan:   12 Towns Taken; Yankees Capture Bulk of Prisoners

INVASION BASE BEING PREPARED   Britain Is Taking Over 10Mile Strip Along the Coast for Troovs

EXTRA!   Troops Take Over 10-Mile Coastal Strip   British Coastline Will Be Used As Base For Invasion Of Continent, Authorities Indicate

ENGLISH COAST INVASION BASE   British Military Takes Over 10 Mile Strip; Invasion Date Secret.   IBERLIN, RUHR BOMBED

ERROL FLYNN IS ACCUSED AGAIN   21-Year-Old Blonde Says Actor Is Father Of x Her Child ~

Actor Enters Denial  ‘Errol F lynn Named As Father \Of Two-vear-old in Lawsuit

Germans Fall Back On Both Sides Of Kies   Russians Are 70 Miles From Latvian Border As Offensive Continues On Northern Front

GERMAN TROOPS PRESSED BACK ‘ALONG: DNIEPER   Out of Range of Red Artil. lery: Soviets Advance   Within 70 Miles Latvian Frontier

soviet Lroops Only 70 Miles - From Latvia  Major Drive Drive Shays ed to Clear Nazis From Rus  ARMY GAINS SPEED   Firmer Terrain in North Helps Red Army to Advance

GIVING ATTENTION 10 LONG DORMANT, LENINGRAD FRONT   Would Push Germans Back On Northern End of Line   SITUATION ON THE ‘DNIEPER SECURE

Russ Extend Bridgeheads  Drive to Within 70 Miles of Latvia; Kiev Danger Grows

THREE RUSSIAN BRIDGEREADS ON DNIEPER SECURE   Soviet Command Apparently Building Up To A Major Effort To Drive Germans Out Of Rus sian lerritory.

Reds Within 70 Miles Of Frontier Of Latvia   Extend Bridgeheads North And South O: Kiev; Heavy Artillery On Dnieper Banks Out Of Range Of Germans——______—__

RUSSIAN DRIVE GAINING SPEEI   Germans Pushed Back at Kiev; Northern Front Units Advance.

GERMAN TROOPS WITHDRAW ABOVE AND BELOW KIEV   RUSSIAN COLUMNS ADVANCE ON VITEBSK IN WHITE RUSSIA

Reds Drive Forward On North Front   Some Units Within 70 Miles Of Border  Of Latvia

Reds Build Up Drive To Clear  Russia Of Foe   Nazis Pushed Back Out Of Artillery Range In  Kiev Sector.

Reds But 70 Miles From Latvian Border; Move On Vitebsk In Major Offensive

Push Nazis Back Along Dnieper  Soviets Building Up for Maior Offensive

SOVIET FORCES IN NORTH DRIVE NEARER LATVIA   Three Bridgeheads in Central Dnieper Area Secure

NAZI TROOPS PUSHED BACK ALONG RIVER   Red Army Is Only 70 Miles From  Latvian Front

Enemy Destroyer Among Victims In Pacific Area   Four Other Ships Either Sunk or Damaged, Navy Reports   Iransports Carrying Jap Reinforcements Hit Hard by Yanks

12 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   No details of raids disclosed but much enemy shipping is damaged in Pacific   Bomb Solomons

American Undersea Boats Raid Enemy Shipping NO DETAILS GIVEN IN REPORT BY NAVY.  One Destroyer a ond Number of Transports Sunk

Navy Lists Destroyer Among 12 Vessels Sunk, Others Damaged   Transports and Supply Craft Listed As Victims in Navy Report; Chinese Continue Rout of Foe Along Yangtze

U.S. Subs Sink 12 Enemy Ship:   Torpedoes And Shells Hit Japanese Shipping Throughout The Pacific; One Jap Destroyer Sent To The Bottom

U. §, SUBMARINES ‘SINK 12 JAP SHIPS   ONE ENEMY DESTROYER AMONG CRAFT DOWNED IN SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.

12 JAP SHIPS OUT OF 16 ARE SUNK BY AMERICAN U-BOATS   One Enemy Destroyer Lost And Another Put Out Of ' Action; Transports With Reinforcements For Nipponese Bases, Also Hit Hard

DESTROY 12 JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC   One Additional Ship Probably Sunk and Three Damaged. One Destroyer Definitely Sent To Bottom.

U.S.Subs Sink 12 Jap Shins   Destroyer Included: Four Others Sunk Or Damaaed

Navy Says Four More  Craft Hit   Cargo Vessels, Transports Destroved

Four Other Vessels Damaged In Attacks Or Enemy Transportation In Pacific: Destrover Known Sunk

U.S. Subs Sink 12  J apanese Vessels  ——__—_—   Four Other Ships Hit In Pacific Forays

Yanks Strike 16 Vessels In Wide Raid   Americans Torpedo, Shell Foe With Devastating Force

12 Vessels Known Sunk, Others Struck   Supplying of Enemy Bases Curtailed hy American Attacks

Self-Made Captain Does Well So He Promotes Self to Majo   Washington Service Circles Are Laken in  By Grocery Clerk Who Purchased Medals

Bond And Stamp Sales At Peak   Total For April ‘At Post. office Around $185,000; Receiotsz Un.

P. O. Receipts Set New Record   Increase Last Month Largest In History Of Office.

Hull And Eden To “Confer In Moscow   Long-Discussed Conference Of Secretaries ~,May Be Forerunner Of Another Bia Meeting

Future Europe Primary Job of Moscow Parley   Tri Partite Meeting May Discuss Second Front, Germans’ Fate

FALL OF LAE NEAR: AUSSIE! JOIN FORCES   Hurl Barrage At Town's Defenses: Japs Return Fire

KING BORIS TO’ LEAVE THRONE, LONDON HEARS   Mysterious fillness Cited As Heart Attack After Being Upbraided by Nazi Fuehrer

King Boris Seen Leaving His Throne   Bulgarian Monarch’: IIIness Is Mystery

Bulgarian Monarch Stricken By Heart Attack After Parley   CONDITION IS CRITICAL   Political Crisis Looms In Wake of New Nazi  Demands

KING BORIS OF BULGARIA ILL: MAY ABDICATE   Mystery Clouds Critical ‘Sickness’ Which Follows Visit to Hitler: Nation in Turmoil.

KING BORIS CRITICALLY ILL   Weakened Heart May Cause Abdication fron Throne

King Boris In Critical Condition   Rumors Fly Over Cause of Bulgarian Monarch's HlIness ©

BULGARIA KING GRAVELY ILL   Assassination Plot Not Con. firmed; Row with Hitler 1s Reported.

EXTRA!   London (.!?)—The German radio announced tonight that: King Boris of Bulgaria had died. sag Gene

Der Fuehrer Attempted Personal Attack After Monarch Resisted Demands for Assistance, One Report Says   HEART ATTACK SEEN AS RESULT   berlin Broadcasts Deny Illness Result o! ‘Anything Coming from Outside,’ Say Boris Not Out of Country

King Boris Is Reported Ill after Parley   Hear Report — ‘That Hitler Slapped Bulgarian King: When Refused Troops 

Nazi Pressure For Bulgarian Aid Increased   First Belief Was That Monarch’s Illness Is ‘Diplomatic’

Wants Army Ranks Statie  For Officers   Farm Groups Strike At Measure To  Aid Food Subsidies Proposed By Taft

Sen. Wallgren Would Put Halt  On Promotions   Democrat Says It Is Time To Call Halt on High Promotions of Those in Army Positions. ,

Nazi Prisoner Alters Face ‘ ‘ith Crude Plastic Surgery, but Escape Plot Fails.

 Face Lifting Trick Fails-‘Fine Nazi Hid den  in Camp      Ile aan on Own Fearure

LABOR DRAFT AND CLOSED SHOP ARE RELATED ISSUES   Amendment to Wadswortt Bill Brings Dispute Before Congress.

CONTROVERSY ON CLOSED SHOP CUTS DRAFT-LABOR PLAN   ff Bill'And Amendment Is Enacted As Planned Shops Will-Be Outlawed

Closed Shop Fight Looms In Work Draft   Amendment To Bill Now Pending Would Outlaw Union

‘Amendment To Draft Labor Bill Would Relieve Conscripted Workers of All Liability to Join a Union

Yankees Roll Up Axis In North Sicily   Allies In Artillery Range of Italian Mainland

Yanks Drive To Within 15 Miles Of Messina Foday   Axis Escape From Sicily Harrassed by Constant Bombardment; Allies. Plunge. ' Toward Last Axis Stronghold -

Evacuation Of Germans Is Hastened   Allied Armies Not More Than Ten Miles From Tip gf Island

Revisions In Tax Bill Blocked   Decision Made By House To Consider Solely Whether To Accept O: Reject Measure

House Moves New Tax Bill Along —   Measure Far Short Of Program Set By Administration

Two Billion Tax Schedule Nears House Approval   Amendments To Bill Are Banned By Top-Heavy House Vote

New Revenue Bill Faces House Vote   $2,140,000,000 Measur Mere Drop in Huge Bucket of Treasury

HOUSE MOVES NEAR VOTE ON REVENUE. BILL   Measure Falls Short Of Goal Asked by  Administration

House Nears Approval Of  Revenue Bil   New Measure Calls For Two Billions Instead Of Ten Billions Asked.   DOUGHTON ATTACKS

House Blocks Floor Amendment Of New Tax Bill   Moves to Approve Drastically Cut Wartime Revenue

Amendments To Revenue Bill Blocked   Wartime Tax Program Is Far Short of $10,500,000,000 Requested   CONFLICT IS AVERTED

HOUSE MOVES TOWARD PASSAGE OF TAX BILL SMALLER THAN ASKED   ADMINISTRATION BADLY MAULED ON SUBSIDIES FACES NEW SLAP

House Presses Toward Passage  (Qf Revenue Bil   Chamber Refuses To Consider Amendments From Floor.

BLOCK CHANGES IN NEW REVENUE BIL   House Moves T Toward Approval of War-Time Tax Program Today.

Tax Bill On Way to House Acceptance   Administration Due For Second Body Blow in Single Week

 Scope Of Drive In Russia Is No! Yet Apparent According To Report

Guadalcanal Vet Home, Is Injured   Neck Broken When Car Skids, Hits Side Rail

Guadalcanal Vet Injured   John Milton Hunter Suffers Broken Neck In Cor Wreck

ALLIED LINE AT MUBO ATTACKED   100 Japanese Killed In Unsuccessful Action;  Both Sides Strafed

Yanks repulse Japs raiding allied lines .   Nip casualties reach 100 total

Japanese Attach In New Guinea ls Thrown Back   Enemy Suffers 100 Casual ties in Mubo Area; Jap Base Bombed

JAP CASUALTIES IN NEW GUINEA   100 Enemy Troops Accounted For In Action  Below Salamaua

GOLD STANDARD RETURN SHAPING   Morgenthau Reveals Plan for Partial. Return; List ~ 3 Points

PLANS MAPPED 10 STABILIZE MONEY      Morgenthau Plans to Re. turn Partially to Gold Standard

Currency Plans  Are Outlined   Partial Return to Gold Standard Sought by Morgenthau

WORLD MONETARY PLAN DISCLOSED. BY MORGENTHAU   Secretary Tells: of. Adminis. tration Scheme to: Stabilize ' Post-War Currencies 1 in : Terms of Gold;   IN TERNATIONAL. FUND:  7 “WOULD BE. OREATED   Devaluation ‘of Paper ‘Would ‘Be. Prohibited—Proposal . _ Designed to Prevent Chaos.

Treasury’s Scheme to Stabilize Currency After War.to Be Revealed to Public Today

Stabilizing Fund ‘Leak’ Is Deplored   Morgenthau Explains Plan to Senate Group

WORLD MONEY STABILIZATION BEING PLANNED   Morgenthau Discloses Post-Conflict Gold - Standard Program

U.S. Diseloses Plan To Avert Money Chaos   Seeks To Stabilize World Currency On Basis af Gold   TREASURY FEARS POST-WAR CHAOS   United Nations Accord And Stabilization Fund Part of Vast Program

Partial Return To Gold Standard Proposed To Avert Post-War Chaos

Morgenthau Sees Monetary Chaos As Grave Threa!   Has Plan for Post-War Currency, He Says in Statement

STABILIZATION OF CURRENCY IS TO BE STUDIED   Morgenthau Has Plan To Put World On Post-War Gold Standard   5-BILLION DOLLARS CAPITAL PLANNED

THIRD MEMBER OF MUSSERT CABINET SLAIN BY DUTCH   Nazis Mobilize All Policemen in Holland to Hunt Patriots; Quislings Live in Terror,

GERMANS MOBILIZE DUTCH POLICE. TO SEEK ‘BLACK HAND’   Underground.’ Patriots Ii Holland’ Have Shot Down’ 3 Pro-Nazi OFfFiciala

Raising of Security Tax ‘Postponed   Rail Strike Nearer; Senate Committee Approves New Tax Bill; Tremendous US Battle Casualties Predicted

River Hits 28 Feet, 3 Inches ot Muskogee, inch Over Flood Stage; Rise of 5to7 Feet Is Expected to Hit Fort Smith

U.S. Marines Use Tanks, Artillery in Hot Fight To Maintain Beachhead   Barges Pour Several Hundred Japanese Troops Ashore on Vital Island; Allied Airmen Aiding Our Land Forces

Wants More For Service Men’s Families.....  To Ask Increase In Pay To Dependents

KIDDIES, WHO SENT DOG TO WAR, DO NOT WORRY ANY MORE   Joe, Billy and Careline Compton Hear From the Army Regarding “Prince,” Canine Enlistee in @ - Doas-for-Defence

Joe, Billy, Caroline and Their Dog Prince’ Are All Out for Victory

STUDY PLANNED OF AIRPORTS IN STATE   ee all  Survey Is Ordered in Program to Develop Facilities

STUDY PLANNED OF AIRPORTS IN STATE   Survey Js Ordered in Pro gram to Develop Facilities

U.S. INCOME IS CLIMBING   Annual Rate Reaches 143 Billion in First Half of 1943.

Shop Early And Mail Your Gift Soon After September 15   Weeks Are Requirec To Reach Many Of The Stations

SHOULD BE BE MAILED BEFORE OCT. 15   Weeks Are Required To Ship Packages To Overseas Saldiers

THE CHRISTMAS BUYING SEASON OPENS SEPT. 15   Soldier Packages lust Be Mailed Between Sept. 15 - Oct. 15

Postmaster Gives Mail  Instructions   OVERSEAS PARCELS MUST BE MAILED BETWEEN SEPT. 15 AND OCT. 15

POSTAEDEPT.. RULES ON"XMAS OVERSEAS MAIL   Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 Period for Mailing; Rules On Packing and Mailinw*

MAIL YOUR CHRISTMAS PARCELS TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS QEPTREMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15

OVERSEAS GIFTS MUST BE MAILED SEPT. 1510 OCT. 15   > Specific Instructions by Post Office Dept. Insure Gifts Reaching Men bye Christmas

Early Christmas Mailing Urged To Servicemen   Postmaster Gives Regulations For Oversea Mailing Between Dates Sept. 15-Oct, 15.

Christmas Presents For Boys Overseas Must Be Mailed. Between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15   MAIL THEIR GIFTS EARLY SO THEY WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED

DEADLINE FOR SENDING CHRISTMAS MAIL T0 MEN IN ARMY OR NAVY NEAR, P. 0. ASSERTS

START MAILING YOUR GIFTS NOW e   Soldier Mail For Overseas Should Be Started

AWAITING FALL OF SALAMAUA   Allies Continue Furious Air Assaults on Japan’s Supply Lines

Ask Increased Wheat Acreage   Midwest Senators Want Increase In Grain Price To Boost Plantings.

Would Dispose Of Surplus Supplies      After War Goods Must Be Used

Wants Post-War Disposal Board  Mansaco Says Plan Would Aid Industry

BR ITISH RENEW QFFRENSIVE IN LIBYA, REPORT   ‘Axis Sources Claim Eighth  Imperial Army Seeking  To Drive Toward   Tripoli   HIT AT WADI ZEM-ZEM   British Do Not Confirm Report; Air Fighting Throughout Tunisia Held Intensive   Allies Closing In On Japs On Last HoldInPapuanArea      Intimation of Approaching Climax to Peninsula Cam paign Supplied Friday Communique Telling of  Allied Break Through at Sanananda; Lae  :   Being Watched Constantly

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON. JAP REMNANT   Reconnaissance Plane Sights And Attacks Enemy Cruiser Off ‘New Ireland; Shoots Down Jap Fighter Plane

ARMY ADMITS MANY  WELL TRAINED MEN  INU. 5. CAMPS FIGURES, HOWEVER,  CONFLICT WITH THE 2r0n N00 CLAIMED

\ REPORT ON MEN(RAIM   Fewer in Avy Trained Than Stated by Colo rado Senator

\ REPORT ON MEN   Fewer in Army Trained Than Stated by Colorado Senator

Claims Enough Ven In Service   Johnson Shows Figures Indicating 3.500.000 With Training.

Today’s War Commentary  Italy’s Fleet  May Not Fight, But Constant Threé

Not Ballet Dancer, Says Bovingdon   $5600 OEW Employe Says He Got His Job Through Civil Service

OEW Appointee Answers Critic   Says Civil Service Believed Him Capable

JAY P. MOFFAT DIES SUDDENLY IN WASHINGTON   American Minister To Canada Praised By Officials Of Both Nations

U.S. Fliers Back in England From Africa All Decked Out  In Fezes and Arabian Knives

CONTROL TAKEN BY REPUBLICANS   Minority Group Holds Power In House Roll Call

Republicans OutvoteNew Deal To Win      SIX DEMOCRATS AND TWO MINOR PARTY MEMBERS ALSO VOTE TO STOP MAILING FRANCHISE.   ee   Uphold Dies Committee

Price Floor  On Mill Feed   U. S. Takes Another Step to Prevent Flour And Bread Price Rise

SUBSIDY:: BAN. S” WARNED: AGAINST   BY EDWARD V..ROBERTS U. PF. Staff Corresvondent

WARN CONGRESS GN SUBSIIES         Administration Says Ban as Means of Holding » Down Foed Prices Will Boost Cost of Consumer Goods and Rents. 

BOWLES FOOD SUBSIDIES BE SUPPORTED   Opponents Confident of Enough Strength to Override Veto

Rooseveit Denounces  Coal Men   President Seeks Age Raise For  Inductees

‘Declaring Coal Miners’ Walkouts As Intolerable, Nation’s Chief Will Ask Law Placing Top Age 65

President Wants to Raise Draft Age to 65, Permit Army Induction of Strikers

Would Induct All Strikers Up To 65 Years Of Age   Ending Of Strike Denounced As Intolerab!< By President But His Draft Plan Arouses Disfavor In Many Key Centers.

Grim Picture Portrayed By Traveler from Reich, Casualty Totals High

GIRIMNESS OF WAR FELT IN GERMANY   ODOR OF DEATH, CITIES IN RUINS, MAIMED SOLDIERS, BRING HORROR HOME.

Germans Expect To Lose Homes  Shocked Citizens Show Indifference

JITTERY NAZIS INDIFFERENT 10 PROPERTY   Returned Traveler Reports Bombed Cities Are “ Terrible Sight;” Cripples Of All Kinds Cleaning Up   Fear Guerrillas

Smell of Death Pervades Heavily Bombed Nazi Cities, Says Traveler   Germans Expecting Property to Go Up in Smoke Any Time, Become Indifferent to Property Values

UMW Leader Asserts “If Parley Fails’ Blame Rests On Financiers, Politicians   FLAYS RAILROADS   Issues Fiery Statement After Steelman Says No Settlement In  Dispute Seen

Lewis Speaks — Of ‘Lockout’   Says Railroads Hoarding  Coal For Fmersenrey

Mystery Ship of Savo Island Battle Revealed as Battleship South Dakota

SCORE IS HICH FOR BATTLESHIP   U.S.S. South Dakota Bags 3 Cruisers And 32 Jap Planes In One Fight

Mine Contract Parleys Resume   Extension of Strike Truce Apparent If Progress Is Slow

DE MARIGNY’S HAIR SINGED, SLEUTH SAYS   Physician Bares Threat by Defendant Against Sir Harry

De Marigny Burns Told   Miomi Detective Tells of Damaged Hairs on Defendent

Detective Tells Of Singed Hairs At Marigny Trial   Fingerprint Will Be Offered as Evidence  Later by Crown

De Marigny Jury Hears Ace Sleuth   Singed Hairs And Missing Shirt Related By Detective

MARIGNY’S HAIR SINGED DAY OF OAKES’ MURDER   Miami Detective Also Offers Missing Shirt As  Fvidence   DEFENDANT HATED HIS FATHER-IN- LAW

Marigny’s Shirt And Burned Hair Figure in Trial   Fingerprint Also Under Discussion

48-Hour Work Week In Area By July Ist   Regional Director Of Manpower Commission Aymounces Many Pennsylvania Cities To Be Affected In Smmmer   URGES FIRMS ADOPT NEW PLAN IN TIME

SCHNACKENBERG MAY BE LIEUT. GOVERNOR CANDIDATE, REPORT   Rumor Says it is Possible if Cross Seeks U. S. Senatorship

Allied Armies Smash Ahead © Aided by Aircraft and Heavy Barrages of Artillery Shells

Axis Line Falls Back Under Fire   Onslaught Gains Momentum Hourly

Red Reports Omit Word Of Offense   Soviet Dispatches Say Nazis Lose 131 War Planes.

Soviet, Nazi Reports On Battle Differ   Germans Claim Reds Stopped With Big Losses

RUSS LOSSES ARE HEAVY CLAIM NAZIS   ‘German’s Defense Blocks Attacke In Kuban’

Royal Air Force Roars Over Axis Nations in New Raids  Continental Offensive Recumed In Fall   Continental Offensive Resumed In Full Strenath As Foas Over Enalish Channel Lift

RAF BOMBERS HAVE DROPPED 100,000 TONS   Enemy Dive-Bombers _ Dwindling, Says Commentator ~

NAZI TROOPS SEIZE VIENNA PATRIOTS   Move Swiftly To Squelch Rising Touched Off By: Pledge Of Conference © °

ALLIED VICTORY IS LAUDED BY LOVETT   Called Perfect Demonstration of Air Power Properly Used

Allied Victory in Bismarck Sea  Tactical Lesson  Rare Case When Well Planned Task Perfectly Executed

ALLIED VICTORY IS” LAUDED BY LOVETT   Called Perfect Demonstration of Air Power Pro-.  _perly Desd —

CITY ROCKED BY HEAVIEST BOMB LOAD OF WAR   Reports From Neutral Capitals Tell of Great Devastation

DE GAULLE BECLOUDS GEN. GIRAUD AGAIN   Inference of Ties With Vichy Aired Before Forum

ALLIES TAKE MUBO, PUSH ON IN NEW GUINEA   Salamaua Next Objective of Men of MacArthur

Allied Forces Drive Forward In New Guinea   Push Attack On Salamaus After Capture Of Mubo Key Point   REPORT 43 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN

Livestock: Dealers: No: onger.-: Need Keep Record Of Purchase   No Need, Either, To Ge Permit For Handling Livetock .

“Interpreting the War News— ~ Belief Prevails Allies Plan Unpleasant Surprise for Japs

JUST ENOUGH  TO GET BY?   Officials Say Potato Sapply Will Sust About Reach

England to Cut Milk Ration   Two and Half Pints Weekly After Aug. 

HOODS BILL FACING NEW OPPOSITION   More Delays Placed In Path Of Legisiation

BUILDING OF SHIPS SLOWED BY STRIKE   Union Leaders Denounce It And Ask Inquiry

STRIKE IN SHIPYARDS   ‘Mest of the Day W Workers, However, Are on the Job in East

‘NEEDS A PERMIT   Temporary Injunction  Issued on a Eudora — Trailer Camp

Rail Unions of Nafion Taking Strike Vole:   Steel Workers Press For Wage Incredse As Committee Tkes Up Cost of Living

LABOR LAUNCHES WIDER ASSAULTS TO ADJUST WAGES   Leaders Seek to Eliminate 60-Day Time Limit to Investigate Some of Different Problems.   TWO ORGANIZATIONS, OTHERS INTERESTED   Report on Cost of Living May Be Too Late to Have Any Bearing on Settlement of Rail Differences.

Er ARE Sen ROT ok ee at  LABOR ASSAULTS ON WAGE CEILINGS ARE BEING WINENEN

GOST OF LIVING SURVEY RUSHED   All Rail Unions 7 Taking Strike Vote, Report May Come Too Late

LABOR’S ATTACKS ON WAGE CONTROLS BROADENING TODAY   Chief Assault Comes From the C.LO., the A. F. L. Railroad Unions and Independent  _ Rail Brotherhoods

Start Inquiry Into Living Cost   Rail Unions Reject  - Offer; Other Unions  Oppose Ceilinas

ypecial Board Begins Study Worker Wage   In Meantime Labor Assaults on Wage Ceilings Increase

Labor Starts New Drive on Wage Ceiling   Living Costs Group Works Against 60-Day Limit On Its Studies

BROADEN ASSAULTS ON WAGE CEILINGS   CI. . and Railroad Men Take Up Where Miners Left Off   NEW STUDY ON COSTS

Step Up Fight On Pay Limits   ClO Workers Intensify Fight To Have Little Steel Formula ‘V oided.

Living Costs Probe Pushed   Labor Is. Making Assault On Wage Ceilings As Showdown Nears '

Labor Broadens Attack To Erase Wage Ceilings  Unions ne Rise In Livi

LABOR ASSAULT ON FIXED WAGE GROWS STRONG   CIO and Rail Unions At Head of Attack On Ceilings

LABOR MAKING ASSAULT ON WAGE CEILING   Presidential Committee Charged With Reporting On Living Cost Sets Out To Beat Deadline

Pay Ceilings Facing Broad Labor Attack   Main Assault Come:  From C.1L.0. and Rail road Unions

COST OF LIVING IS THREATENED ON TWO SIDES   Wage Ceilings Attacked by Labor as Steelworkers Add Demands for Pay Boost

WARE PARKING ~~ IN PIITSBURGH   Violating Motorists to Receive Calls to    Home Boards

Allies Destroy 18 More  Axis Planes   Total of 303 Have Been Downed in Last Four Days

Brazil sends armed forces to aid allies   Latin America’s first expedition

BRAZIL IS SENDING TROOPS 10 EUROPE   Ground Forces and Air Units to Serve With Allied Armies

BRAZIL TO DISPATCH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE   Ground Troops And Air Force Wil Be Sent Into Action On Side Of United Nations

FEEL NAZIS HAVE NEW SUB TRICKS UP THEIR SLEEVE   Naval Experts Think They May Put U-Boat Fleets in the Indian and Pacific  Pg Spee

Still Trying, But They’re Doomed.....  U-Boats May Pull New Tricks Out Of Sleeve

U-BOATS MAY SHIFT ATTACK   Licked In Atlantic, May Try Luck In Pacific  Ocean

U-Boats, Defeated in Atlantic, May Shift to Indian and Pacific Oceans

SUB STRATEGY CHANGE HINTED   Nazi U-Boats May Cooperate With Japs in Pacific

BELIEVE GERMANS MAYATTEMPTNEW UNDERSEA TRICKS   NAZIS EXPECTED TO EXPAND SUB WARFARE INTO PACIFIC OCEAN

EXPECT NAZIS TO CONTINUE H-BOAT FIGHT   Naval Experts Are On Alert For New Attack By Enemy

Look For U-Boats  To Try New Blow  May Tie Up With Japs In Indian. Pacific

TROOPS TOLD a TIME TO OMAGH NAZIS   Montgomery Says “We Will Now Hit Germans a  Colossal Crack.”

Giraud Names Admiral as Commander   De Gaulle Accepts Peyrou. ton’s Resignation in Rift ix New French Government in North Africa

Trouble In New  Regime   ~ «+ North Africa French In Confusion, Strain

Giraud Appoints Muselier Deputy Commander-In-Chief   Bitter Enemy of DeGaulle Selected After Resignation of Marcel Peyrouton in Algiers

Confusion Exists As French Set Up A Governing Body   Muselier, Who Broke With DeGaulle, Named by Giraud as His Deputy.   Adds to Tension in Uniting Algiers Rule

Confusion In French Circles      De GAULLE AND GIRAUD STILL FACE MANY  PROBLEMS

GIAAUD NAMES MUSELIER AIDE   De Gaulle and Giraud. Split Over Resignation of . Peyrouton,

Calls Crisis “Bad Dream’   But DeGaulle Certain Fighting France Will “Emerge Triumphant”

Tension Mounts Between French Groups in Attic  De Gaulle Foe Appointed to Daet Ry Girand

UNITY THREATENED BY FEUD BETWEEN FRENCH LEADERS   Foe of DeGaulle Appointed as Deputy by Giraud

GIRAUD NAMES DEPUTY CHIEF   ‘Muselier to Serve Instead of Algiers Governor Who Resigned in Midst of Confusion

FRENCH END UP IN JAM ON TASK   Strains Grow Deep In Effort To Set Up Assembly

PEYROUTON OUT AS ALGERIA HEAL   Tension Grows Between French Factions In North Africa

Giraud Picks Muselier as Aid in Africa   Peyrouton Sends Letter of Resignation to Two © French Rivals

Giraud Names Deputy To Keep [Order In Midst Of Confusion [Attending Political Revamping   Appointment Of De Gaulle Opponent !s Expected To Increase Tension

Giraud Appoints Muselier Deputy To Keep Order   Confusion Mounts Rapidly In New French Union As Peyrouton Resigns

Giraud Appoints Foe Of De Gaulle As Chief Aide   Tension Increases As French Leaders Seek To Form  Government

French Affair Is Growing In sabaiiees   Resignation Treated Differently By Giraud And De Gaulle

GIRAUD NAMES MUSELIER AS CHIEF DEPUTY   Peyrouton’s Resignation Accepted By De Gaulle

French Situation Still Is Muddlec   Giraud And De Gaulle At Odds As Official — OF Fighting French Unity Committee Quits 

Giraud Appoints Foe Of DeGaulle As First Aide   Naming Of Muselier Ma Add To Tension In France’s Rebirth.

NEW FRENCH NEGOTIATIONS IN TURMOIL   Appointment of Muselier As Deputy To Giraud Causes Rift Between Two Leaders   DE GAULLE WINS POINT

Giraud Names DeGaulle Foe To High Post   Conflicting Orders Given By Two French Leaders In  North Africa.   PEYROUTON OUITS JOB

MUSELIER NAMED GIRAUD’S DEPUTY   Peyrouton Ousted From Algerian Post

Tension Increases In French Situation   Confusion Mounts As De Gaulle And Giraud Take Varying Actions On Assignment Of Pevrouton To Tasks

'Muselier Named Giraud’s Deputy..... French Situation Is Still More Strained

GIRAUD SELECTS EMILE MUSELIER AS NEW DEPUTY   Given Tough Task Of Keeping Order In French Algiers

NEW FRENCH REGIME MOVING AHEAD IN DIFFICULT PATH   GEN, GIRAUD NAMES BIT. TER FOE OF DE GAULLE TO RULE ALGIERS

Muselier New Giraud Deputy; Tension Grows   Peyrouton Resignation As Algeria’s Governor Adde Ta Strain.

De Gaulle Gains Point As Peyrouton Resigns; Giraud Names Own Deputy

New Tension Grips French ~ North Africa   Birth Pangs of Government Shows in Clash— De Gaulle, Giraud

GIRAUD, DE GAULLE STILL UNRECONCILED   Peyrouton Resignation Fails To Bring Unity

GIRAUD NAMES MUSELIER T0 ALGIERS POST   CONFUSION ATTENDS BIRTH PANGS OF NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT

TALKS TO K. U. GIRLS   Lt. Treat Gives Address in the Interest of Air-Wacs

Today’s War Commentary  Nazis In Russia Will They Hold Or Try New Drive?

Russians Drive To Regain The Ukraine.....  Reds Push On Toward Kharkov And Rostov

RED ARMY MOVES TOWARD ROSTOV BY RAILROADS   Within 79 Miles Of Kharkov in Drive To Regain Ukraine

SOVIETS ACTIVE ON FIVE FRONTS   Surging ‘Russian Armies Push to Within 79 Miles Of Kharkov.   ROUT 2 NAZI COMPANIES

Take Number Of Towns In New Advance   Clean Up Blockhouses In Leningrad Area; Great Steel Center Neared By Russians

MANY TOWNS RECAPTURED IN ADVANCE   Important Railroad Line Cut By Soviets   KAMENSK FALLS   After Hard Street Battle; Most Of Prisoners Are Italians, Hungarians

Reds Pressing Kharkoy Drive   Capture Numerous Town: As Rostov Campaien _Ts. Being Shaped

SOVIET FORCES RETAKE TOWNS INNEWDRIVES   Push to Within 79 Miles of Kharkovand Shape Thrusts Toward Vital City of Rostoy   SEVERAL RAIL LINES _ IN CENTRAL SECTOR   52,006 Prisoners Taken In Week, Moscow Says, But Only 2,500 Are German Troops

RUSSIANS NOW ONLY 79 MILES FROM KHARKOV   Apnive Tn DCRAIN   DRIVE TO REGAIN UKRAINE ADVANCES AT SWIFT PACE

REDS CONTINUE OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN AREA   Still Cleaning Out Axis Bases Near Leningrad

CROP CONTROL BY THE VOTING   Wheat, CoRR, Peanuts Draft: Put. Aside     Temporarily

Plans To Kill AAA Program In House Fail   Bill For Removal Of Some Controls Is Shunted Aside

Nazis Shuffle Land Strenath   Report 39 Divisions On Atlantic Coast

REDISTRIBUTE NAZI DIVISIONS   Report Germans Send Many to Balkans, Italy

Plane Output Threatened By Boeing Protest   Seattle Union Chief Retracts Warning After Temporary Walkout    ARMY SEES 'TREASON'   Coast Plants Asked To Join In Pay Demands; WLB Seeks Decision

SUBSIDY IS OPPOSED   Kansas Farm Bureau Wants the Program Discontinued

EVE WITNESSES SAY LIGHTNING HIT AIRPLANE   Twin-engined army plane crashed to earth near Mason City

2 WOMEN FOUND SHOT IN OFFICE   Body of One's Husband Also Found at Tulsa Oil Firm :

Soviets Have Begun Drive  Nave Renart Newact   Naizs Report Newest Of Russian Attacks

Houes Committee Abandons Pay-As-You-Go;  Votes to Collect Income Taxes at Source

Lend-Lease Not Cause of Shortage   ‘42 Shipments Only 6% of Food Output

REPORTS FOOD SMALL PORTION OF LEND-LEASE   Stettinius Urges Help To Allies Continue Under Program

SHIPMENTS NOT CAUSE OF FOOD SHORTAGE HERE   Stettinius Says LendLease in Reverse Has  Helped in U. S. Army

Lend-lease shipments cause  no U.S. shortage—Stettinius   Asks year’s extension of program; ‘allied hardships dwarf those here’

Lend-Lease Is Not Causing A Food Shortage   Shipments Abroad Comparatively Light, Says  Administrator.

C.W. Taylor,  Kducator. Dies   State Superintendent Of Education 16 Years Suecumbs To Heart Ailment.

RAF KEEPS UP AERIAL DRIVE   British Flyers Strike a Foe Locomotives, Rail Centers, Airfield

Axis Positions Attacked In France By RAF Fliers   Locomotives Damaged in Aerial Jabs Against Europe After Widipraed Rastds During Tuesday iaht   RUSSIAN DRIVE REPORTED NEAR

R.A.F. Strikes North France  © pacsseset TF aaa athens   Several Locomotives Reported Damaged

R.A. F. Typhoons Stab at Railways  Big Bombers Fail To Make Attack

British Bomb Several Nazi  Locomotives  C erman Aarrlraniac’   erman Andromes Transport Ships Ave Rlactad

Union Jack Flies : At Seized Tripoli Victorious British Army  Begins to Restore Vital Harbor     Allies Now Dominate Key Sicilian Narrows     Naval Ferces Harry Axis   Allies Now Dominate  Key Sicilian Narrows   Naval Ferces Harry Axis On Coast—Montgomery  — Van at Zuara

NEAR FRONTIER IN CHASE OF ROMMEL FORCE   Engineers Start Repairs Of Bomb-Shattered - Tripoli   PLANES ACTIVE

BRITISH PLAN FOR PEACE 1s BEING SOUGHT   Some Senators Want Anthony Eden to Make a Full Statement.   MEEFTING WAS HELD   Sponsors of Bal! Resolution Intend to Go Be‘ore the Country.

Gnilfon FLAN ft PEACE 5 “BEING. SOUGHT   MEFTING WAS HELD   Sponsors of Ball Resolution  Intend to Go Before the. ~~ Country. ;

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Kgismissal Of Litvinoff Lakely Means Stalin Wants Showdown

RECALL OF LITVINOFF-MAISKY FROM WASHINGTON AND LONDON IS PECULTARLY SIGNIFICANT

 The War Today  What’s Behind Shifting Of Russian Ambassadors? Observers Speculate

: The War Today Lityinoff. Removal Indicates Lack of Allied Understanding

Lack Full Understanding ‘Replacing of Litvinoff Unexplained  USSR and Western Allies

U. S. AIRMEN BLAST IPS 0} NEW BRITAIN   Cape Gloucester, West of Arawe, ls Bomb Target

MARTHUR MAY STRIKE NEXT AT CAPE GLOUCESTER   Bombers Smash Jap Defenses Over Wide Area   RECALLS PREPARATION FOR ARAWE INVASION

Jap Bases Blasted on New Britain   Secretary Knox Reports Japs Evacuating Part of Bouganville

RAID SHATTERS JAPS ON CAPE -GLOYCESTEI            414 ‘Téns Dropped: Mg wr. May..Be’

Big Cape Gloucester Raid May Be Prelude. To New Yank Invasion   U. S. Fliers Drop 414 Tons of Bombs to Shatter Jap Forts on Tip of New Britain; Aussies Force Bougainville River

BLOCKADE TO BE TIGHTENED AROUND RABAUL   Record 414 Ton American Raid Made On Gloucester Defenses

MAKE GREAT RAID ON JAP DEFENSES   Germans Forced to Abandon Big Supplies of Arms, Ammunition In Escape.

GERMAN COAL. IRON MINING CITY BLASTED   Preliminary Reports Indicate Bombing Was Well Concentrated By RAF   ‘DAMAGE BELIEVED HEAVY   Fortresses Attack Industrial Area Of Antwerp; Hague Power Plant Hit

Heavy Attack Made By RAF: On Dortmund   Coal And Iron Mining Cen. ter In Germany Bombed By British   NEARLY 500 PLANES SHARE IN RAID

BRITAIN SPENDING BILLIONS IN U.§,   Commons Told Purchases of War Supplies Total $6.000,000.000.

SENATORS VOTE PUBLIC HEARING ON FLYNN’S CASE   Foreign Relations Committee To Hear Witnesses in Controversy Over President’s Apnnointee.

Inquiry Into Flynn’s Nomination is Decided   Senate Committee on Relations Approves Open Hearings

ARMY SENDS MEN TO HELP BULWARK CITY   ‘Crest Of 62 Feet Expected In Cimcinnati   LUNKEN AIRPORT   May Be Flooded By Sunday; Thousands Of Ohio Families Evacuated

Portsmouth Prepares For Approaching Floed Crest  Army Engineers Sent In To Aid City: CoO TT. _1. Er 1 Ft. 7 ry

PORTSMOUTH IS AGCING’ WALL AS CREST NEARS   Troops Will Assist Residents As Danger Of Acute Emergency Rises   PEAK MOVES DOWNSTREAM   Thousands Of Families Evacuated From Lowlands; Damage Tol! Grows

FLOOD CREST RACES TOWARD PORTSMOUTH   U. $. Sends Army Engineers To City to Help Battle Water Peril.   SITUATION ‘CRITICAL’   Town Piles Up Sandbags as It Awaits Water Wall on Ranging Ohio.

MENACE ACUTE IN PORTSMOUTH DESPITE WALL   Army Engineers Move In To Help Raise Bulwarks Against Rising Water   CREST ROLLS DOWN RIVER   Highway Department Workers Believe Every Endangered Family Moved Out

INDIANA HOG NEN mse   Production of Hogs in Thi: State Incrbased, Kiwa nians! Told..

INDIANA HOG MEN PRALSEL   Production of Hogs in This State Increased, Kiwanians Told.

Second Front Fears Keep _ Axis Jittery; Watch North   New Means Of Increasing Aid To Russia Subject Before Allied War Council

SECOND FRONT FEARS MAKING AXIS JITTERY   SETBACKS IN AFRICA DELAY DAY; FINNS UNHAPPY

BLACK + MARKET IN LIQUOR IN OHIO IS PROBED   Former Washington C. H. Man In Department Reveals Parallel Inquiry   OPA INVESTIGATING TOO   Confidential Leads Being Checked by Department Tom Craig Says

BLACK MARKET IN LIQUOR CHECKED   State Department Making Investigation Of Ohic Operations   Report Retailers Are Paying More Than Double For Whisky

VOLCANO MAY COME TO LIFE   General Warning Iusued Near Mt. erapi, in Java

VOLCANO MAY COME TO LIFE   General Warning ning Tnnued: Near Mt, erapl, in Jay .

WHEELER HITS STATE QUOTA “DRAFT SYSTEM   Urges Immediate Physica Examinations For All Registrants.   WANTS BILL CHANGED   Senator Says Men Coming Up For Induction ‘Don't Know Where They Stand”

OPPOSES STATE  DRAFT QUOTAS   Sen. Wheeler Sees Loopholes In House Bill Delaying Draft of TNhads

WHEELER ASKS ABOLITION OF STATE QUOTAS   Immediate Physical Examinatior Of All Draft Registrants Proposed Z

Wheeler Would Abolish State Draft System   Immediate Examination of All Registrants Proposed By Senator

WHEELER PROPOSES TO ABOLISH STATE QUOTAS FOR DRAFT   Would Also Have Immediate Physical Examination Of All Draft  Registrants

Would End State Draft Quotas —   Senator- Wheeler Makes Suaaestion

CHANGES SOUGHT IN DRAFT SYSTEM OVER NATION BY WHEELEF   Montana Senator Would Have Examination of All Registrants With out Delay.

WHEELER URGES SPEEDY DRAFT   MONTANA SOLON WANTS EVERYBODY INDUCTED

ROWMEL HEADS  FOR NEW POST   Reports Say Nazi Leaders Will Make Him Supreme German Commander

Name Rommel Army Leader   German Officials Consider Giving Nazi Field Marshal High Command.

Supreme Command To Rommel:   Nazi Leaders Said To Be Considering Move to Forestall Anti-Hitler Coup

CLAIM ROMMEL TO HEAD ENTIRE GERMAN ARMY   Move To Tighten Defense: Against Invasion, Check Anti-Hitler Group

Rommel May Be Placed In Full Command   High Nazi Leaders Are Understood To Favor Rommel Os One Who Is Loyal To Party

ROMMEL MAY TAKE COMMAND GERMAN ARMY   Refugees from Germany Repor! Nazis Considering Move te Tighten Defense, Save Hitler

ROMMEL MAY TAKE COMMAND      ‘Desert Fox’ Reported Tour: ing North European oo... Defenses.

Hitler Builds Defenses Against Allies And Foes Now Rising In Germany

ROMMEL REPORTED; SLATED FOR NAZI OVER-ALL COMMAND   The Move, If Consummated, Would Be To Tighten AntiInvasion Defenses And Forestall A Junkers Coup:

May Put Rommel In High Command   Nazi Leaders Consider Him as Chief to Forestall Anti-Hitler Coup.

ROMMEL MAY BE MADE SUPREME COMMANDER OF GERMAN ARMIES  WOULD TIGHTEN ANTIINVASION DEFENSES AND PROTECT HITLER

Gen. Rommel May Head Nazi Army   AFRICAN LEADER NOW CHIEF GERMAN HOPE

‘Supreme Command May  Be Given “Desert Fox”  To Tighten German  Defense Plans

Report High Nazi Leaders Considering Rommel For Supreme Command Of All German Forces

High German Leaders Consider Plan To Tighten Anti-Invasion Defenses And Forestall Possible Junker Anti-Hitler Coup.

Rommel May Take Commanc   ) He Is Strictly Nazi and Hitler. Crowd Seeks to Guard’ Avainst Coup   ‘SOME-GENERALS. _ FOR PEACE BID   Germans Are Watching Both, Baltic and Balkans for. © Invasion: Thrusts 

Rommel May Command TAU  Nazi Armies   Move Seen to Forestall Coup by Junkers Against Hitler   LOYAL TO FUETRER   Germans Fear Invasion Push Any Day in Denmark and Nor’

—fAOMM EL—  JUNKERS COUPE FEARED, REPORT   Move To Strengthen Germany’s Anti-Invasion Defenses Seen

Rommel May Get: Supreme ‘Nazi Command   Nazi leaders Said Seeking to Tighten Anti-dnVasion efense and Forestall Anti- Hitler Coup by Junker Cligue.

ROMMEL MAY BE NAMED AS TOP GENERAL   Invasion Feared By High Nazi Officials

Nazi Leaders Fear Anti-Hitler Coup May Be in The Offing And Are Understood To Be Making Preparations; Invasion Feared

ROMMEL SEEN AS NEW CHIEF OF NAZI STAFF   Move By Hitler Seen As Scheme to Prevent Attempt by Junkers Group To Oust Him

Rommel May Take Full Command  Of Nazi Forces  Enemy Is Expecting Invasion Daily; Denmark Seethina

Rommel Due To Head All Nazi Armies   Hitler Seen Ready Po Oust Generals Thy Fear of Coup

Top Nazi Army Post Believed Set For Rommel   Ranking German Leaders Reported Planning Shakeup

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FLYING FORTRESSES HIT'5 JAP SHIPS IN RABAUL HARBOR   Also Start Huge Fires Is Airdromes — 44 Jap Planes Attack Milne Bay

Third War Loan Quota For Linn  Set At $630,000   Nearly. double amount allotted in former loan ‘drive; Brookfield must  raise $220,000. —

SORROW MASKED BY RADIO COMIC   Costello Goes Ahead With Show After Baby’s Death

‘Show Must Go on’—Costello Laughs, ‘Yak,’ Though Heart Is Breaking Over Son’s Death

SHOW GOES ON DESPITE TRAGEDY  Lon Costello's Baby Drowns in Swimming Pool

STRICKEN BY GRIEF, COSTELLO GOES ON   Makes Radio Appearance After Learning: Of Son’s Death

Show G Goes on Despite Costello s Son 5 Dei ath   Child Drowns in Family Swimming Pool Shortly Before Dad Goes on Air

: Costello Clowns Way Through First Program i n Months After Learning Baby Has Drowned

HERO OF FEVER EXPERIMENT DIES   Chillicothian Served a Human ‘Guinea Pig’

‘HUMAN GUINEA PIG’ DIES AT AGE OF 66   Volunteered Self for Test on Yellow Fever Cause

HUMAN ‘GUINEA PIG’ SUCCUMBS FRIDA)   Colonel England Dies Suddenly of Heart Ailment

Troops Being Hit From All Sides   Air Bombing Called Off Because Of Danger Qi Hitting Own Troops: End Seen Near

Cap Bon Bombing Is Discontinued   Victorious Allies So Mixed With Surrendering Afrika Korps, Own Men in Dancer of Bombs

rit Last pocket of Resistance   Renewal of Altied Offensive Forecast In Ne

Allies Blast Remnants of Ayis Forces  Halt Air Attacks As Frotection to

Axis Forces Head For Last Roundup   German Resistance Melts on Cap Bon and Thous‘.ands Surrender   BOMBINGS CALLED OFF   Further Inland One Group,  Surrounded, Continues the Fight

GERMAN TROOPS SURRENDERING FREELY TOU, S.   British Complete Circuit Around Peninsula Area  BULLETINS

© Some Still Resist ®Bomb Invasion Step  © Supply Routes Cut   By ROGER GREENE

PRISONERS 10 NUMBER OVER 100,000 MARK   Axis Still Offer Resistance in Mountains North of Enfidaville

Position Now Hopeless, Is Berlin View   London — (AP) — Keulers reported from Algiers today that Gen. Jurgen Von Agnim had been captured.

Only One Pocket of Axis Resistance Remains, Where Italian Commander Refuses to Give Up.   OUR PLANES RUN OUT OF ENEMY TARGETS

ALLIES BLAST FEW REMAINING ENEMY POCKETS   Bombings Of Cape Bon Area Halted For Fear Of Hitting Friendly Troops   100,000 ARE PRISONERS   Main Action Now Centered In Mountains Near Bou Ficha, Enfidaville

9-Mile Circle ‘All That's Left in North Africa Now   ~ Allies Announce Col. “Gen. yon Arnim Is Prisoner

END OF AIR BATTLE OVER TUNISIA NEAR   Allied Bombings Reportec Halted Because of the Danger of Hitting Friendly Troops   CAPTURES MOUNTING

CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN CONTINUES   Halt Bombing Of Cap Bon To Protect Allies   Offered By Troops North Of Enfidaville; Sicily Is Heavily Attacked

LAST POCKETS OF RESISTANCE BEING CLEAREI   Isolated Axis Forces, Mostly Germans, Still Surrendering Freely in North Africa

BRITISH HEM CAP BON AREA   Hammering from All Sides At Last Pocket of Axis Resistance

British armor stabs inland. taking thousands captive; one spot of resistance left

Fighting in One Area In Africa   Many Thousands Prisoners Rounded  Up On Cap Bon

sEF Tanks ineircele %eninsula   Yied Bombing Halted For Fear, Of Hitting Racing _Patrols.Of British Army

TOTAL OF PRISONERS MORE THAN 100,000   Allied Bombers Grounded for Fear They Will Hit Friendly Troops

British Tanks Ring Cap Bon, Round Up  Last Axis Pockets   Nazis and Italians Southwest of Peninsula Hemmed In and Pounded by Bombers and Ground Forces

British Hem [n Axis  Forcesin  wo Areas   Patrols Make Complete Circuit of Cap Bon While Foe to South Herded into Area Only About 15 Miles Across

Only Enemy Fighting Back In Tunisia Are Located South Of Cap Bon

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Last Resistance Of Axis Fiercely Pounded By Allie:   Air Forces Halt Bombing Of Enemy Remnants On Cap Bon As Allied Infantry Infiltrate Over Area; Yanks Nab 40,000 Prisoners

British Cut Off All Axis Forces Left onCap Bon   Allies Pinch Enemy Into So Small a Space They Have to Cease Air ‘ Attacks to Avoid Hitting if Their Own Troops.

Halt Bombings To Spare Raids On Own Patrols   Isolated Germans Continue Surrendering Freely; Prisoners Near 100,000 Mark

British Armor Hems Nazis Up   LAST REMNANTS OF AXIS ARMY BEING WIPED OUT

THOUSANDS GIVE UP FIGHT AFTER ALLIED SWEEP   Only One Strong Pocket of Nazi Forces Left, South Of Peninsula

BRITISH MAKE FULL CIRCUIT OF CAPE ARES   Italian General Reported To Have Rejected Proposal For Mass Surrender

ALLIED BOMBING CALLED OFF FOR COFFIN CORNER’   British Forces Have Made Complete Circuit of Cap Bon Peninsula   REDS STEP UP ASSAULT   War in Russia Surges Into Increased Tempo and on Broadening Front

Isolated   Enemy Force Sur ‘renders F reely   Stiff Resistance Being Encountered By Allies In Some Sectors Of Front

ALLIES ROUND UP PRISONERS BY THOUSANDS   German Resistance Is Melting Away on Cap Bon in North Africa.   Only One Center of Fighting Is Reported

ISOLATED ENEMY FORGES ON CAPE BON BEING ROUNDED UP   British Armor Is_ Fiercely Hammering From All Sides at Remaining Pockets.   BOMBING CALLED OFF   Danger Was Seen in Hitting Friendly Troops, It Was Announced.

Enemy South Of Peninsula Is Hemmed In   Allied Bombings Halted For Fear Of Hitting Own Men As Last Pocket Of Resistance Is Hammered From All Sides  a

Axis Troops Surrendering Freely Today   Only One Pocket Remains And That Is Getting Hcavv Pressure

Reds Make New Withdrawals West of Kiev   Report 40 Towns Are Taken in Advance In Pripet Marshés

Soviets Fall Back To German Attacks  Big Nazi Forces Beat At Red Lines

Bulk of 800 Vessels Prepared for Action   Fleet, Spiked by 40 Air Carriers, Ttches:to Deliver Coup de‘Grace

New Raid Shatters Jap Base   300-TON BOMB LOAD HITS CAPE GLOUCESTER IN 10TH DAY OF DRIVE

GERMANS ADVANCE AFTER CAPTURING GAP OF KASSERINE   Nazi Marshal Seeks to Cut Allied Lines, Force Withe drawal; Russians Near Dnieper River

Americans Turn Baek Two Assaults   Germans, Forcing United States Forces From Pass, Threaten Rear of First Armv

Germans Turn Northward in Effort to Drive Back Allies and Tangle Coms munications; Violent Tank Engagements Continue; Russians Advance Fast Towards Dnieper.  25

Kasserine Pass Captured as Germans Drive Northward, Try To Cut Communication

GERMANS TAKE KASSERINE PASS   Have Driven Another 12 Miles to; North in Heavy Fighting

Takes Vital Gap But Is Set Back Twice On West   Pritish Seize Mareth Line Outpost; ‘Fox’ Uses Flint: Thala Ficht Raaes.

FIERCE ATTACK CUTS THROUGH LINES OF ALLIES   Yanks and British Forces In Tunisia Bear Brunt Of Second Assault   BREMEN BLASTED FROM AIR   Red Army Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary with Continued Success

Tunis Fight Again   Thrust Sends Germans Less Than 90 Miles South of  Mediterranean

Allies Halt German Drive  toward Sbiba   Russians Continue Cleanup Campaign on Eve of 25th Birthday: RAF Visits Bremen

Kasserine Gap Is Captured By  Advancing Nazis   Red Armv Successes Continue: Russia Celebrates 25th Anniversary

NAZIS DRIVE “TWELVE MILES T0 THE NORTE  ‘Threaten in. icntire Al. lied Hold On North  Tunisia KNIFE FORWARD Rommel Scores An.  other Success In  Africa Fioht

Threat Looms  To Allies In North Tunisia   Axis Drive 12 Miles From Kasserine Gap

PERIL ALLIED NORTH TUNISIA DEFENSE LINE   Remme! Tank Forces Continue To Forge Ahead Following Capture of Vital Gap.  2 OTHER JABS REPULSED  Nazi General 21 Swings to North, Seeks to Relieve Pressure  nn Rizertea Thnie

ROMMEL'S LARGE . TANK FORGES GAIN ANOTHER 12 MILES   Take Kasserine Gap and Turn Northward Toward Coast   AMERICANS STOP a SOME OF THE TANKS

French Guiana To Back Giraud   Republic Breaks _ Neutral Attitude,

French Guiana > Joins Giraud  Officials Telegraph Their Allegiance

FRENCH GUIANA CUTS VICHY ALLEGIANCE   Government Breaks Away From Admiral Robert To Join Forces Of Gen. Giraud

French Guiana’s Government Breaks With Pro-Vichy Officers to Favor Giraud, Commissioner Reports

French Guiana > Joins Giraud Officials Telegraph  PE Ft OTT ee? ree am

Too Soon to Talk Of Fourth Term   Politics Might Hurt War Effort, Says First Lady

KING PILOTS PLANE    Farouk ‘of Egypt. ‘Takes General and Envoy on Tour ~-.

HOLIDAY LIQUOR RUSH EXPECTED   State Director Says Supply Depends On Transportation

Lt. Commander O'Hare Missing In Air Battle   Famous Flier Shot Down in Pacific

NAVY SEARCHES PACIFICFORBATTLING BUTCH O'HARA. SHOT DOWN IN COMBAT

‘FAMOUS AMERICAN AIRMAN IS MISSING FROM AERIAL FIGHT   Lt. Commander “Butch” O'Hare Recipient Of Con gressional Medal Of Honor, Reported Shot Down Dur ing Battle With Jap Planes Attacking Task Force

Buddies Say Butch O'Hare Shot Down In Battle With Jans in Central Pacific

BUTCH O'HARE IS DOWNED IN BATTLE   Noted Fighter Pilot Shot Down in Air Battle (  - With Japs

Famous Fighter Pilot Fell as Americans Broke Up Attack of Torpedo Planes on Carrier Force—Tracer Fire and Flames From Burning Aircraft Muminated Scene—U. S. Airmen Give Different Versions of What Happened.

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‘Butch’ O'Hare, Famous Fighter Pilot, is Shot Down in Night Battle   By ELGENE BURNS

COMMITTEE REPORTS ON FSA PROJECTS   Recommends Certain Plans Be Cancelled

Farm Security Administration  Under Attack   Charge Families At Chandler Live Rent Free And Fail To Work On Farms

FSA ACCUSED OF APEING SOVIETS   PROBERS IRKED BY COLLECTIVE FARMS AND OTHER SCHEMES

Rap Collective Farming Setup  FSA Program Has   FSA Program Has Cost Millions

FSA FARMS ARE COSTLY T0 U.S   Solons Declare Plan, Modeled After Russia's, to Require Millions

FSA UNDER FIRE BY COMMITTEE   Group of Congressmen Find Soviet-Type Collective Farms in U. §.

FSA Projects Are Attacked By House Group   Collective Farms Set Up in States, Charges Cooley

Collective Farms Found — By Congress Committee In FSA Investigation

Thousands, Patterned After Russian Model, Cost Taxpaver Millions.

Japs Reported New U. S. Raids   AMERICAN N BOMBE RS MAKE ATTACKS ON JAPAN MAINLAND

18 American Bombers Yesterday Raided Kurile Islands.  TWO TRANSPORTS DAMAGED—TOKYO  China Celebrating Election of Chiang Kaishek as President.

BOMBERS ATTACK JAPANESE SHIPS   Twe Cargo Vessels, Schooner And Four Launches Targets; Heavy Raid Made on Airdrome in Solomons

Two Jap Ships Ana Four Launches Hit   Krueger Arrives For New Duties As Big Bombers: ‘Continue Widespread Forays “

FBI Quarterly Conference Is Set For Boerne   H. Hoffman To Be Installed As New Head of HCPOA At Meeting

Harlingen Meet To Study How To  Use War Prisoners   All - Day Conference Set Sept. 22

Strike Threat Nears Crisis   War Labor Board Turns Dispute Over to President Roosevelt

Brief Statement Is Made  Without Recommendations : [fAppeal To Miners Is Not Heeded There  Of Ren! Deeet eta Bie Boni dank

17 MINERS TRAPPED   Blast Mile Underground Traps Men In Kentucky Pit

May Lift Ban On Retreading   Enough Reclaimed Rubber To Carry Out Program Says Director Jeffers

TIRE REPAIR BAN MAY BE LIFTED   Jeffers Orders Restrictions Taken Off Recapping And Retreading

OPA Abolishes Restrictions On Tire Recapping   Certificates From Ration Boards No Longer Needed Under New Order

MORE RECAPS ARE PLANNED   RECAPPING WITHOUT GOVERN MENT AUTHORIZATION — EXPECTED TO START ABOUT MARCH 3ST

REDS STOP NAZIS IN KUBAN REGION   Destroy Some Tanks And Over 100 Nazis In Fighting

Reds Repulse © German Attack   Fighting Along Entire Front Reported Light

BODIES OF VICTIMS OF CRASH REMOVED      Twenty Persons Killed in Fall of Airliner in Kentucky

Charred Bodies Of 20 Persons Found in Plane   Only Two Escape Wher Airliner Crashes and * Catches Fire

Air Liner Crashes  20 Killed   ‘Mother, Baby Included In   Casualties

Plane Wreckage Yields 20 Bodies   Airlines Transport: -Falls In Kentucky

20 Lose Lives In Plane Crash,  ‘Two Survive   American Airliner Burns After Plowing into Field Near Trammell. Kv.

NAZI OVERLORDS FAIL TO CONTROL BANISH REVO:   Hitler’s Aides in Argument As Sabotage and Unrest Jnpraaceac.

GERMAN BOSSES AT ODDS OVER DANISH UNREST      Seek Measures To Try To Stcp Intensifying Sabotage Ware

GERMAN BOSSES SPLIT AS. DANISH UNREST SPREADS   Nazi Troops Reported Tc Have Fired Upon Copen hagen Crowd; Berlin De mand Spurned.

OPERATORS NOT TO LEVY FINES   Pennsylvania Groups In Line With W. Va. On Strike Fees

APPROPRIATION BILL FOR STATE UP NEXT WEEK   Ohio’s Annual Payment of 12 Millions To Cities, Counties Continued ~~ *

Meet OPA’s Latest Boss, Mr. Bowles   He Never Met President Until After Sen. Brown Quit

German Armies on Southern Front in Caucasus Are Cut   Reds Flank Kharkov on South, Spearhead To ward Dneiper Basin

FIERCE NAZI RESISTANCE IS OVERCOME   Strong Arms Are Linked Around Vital Donets Basin and Northern Bank of Don   KHARKOV [S FLANKED

Ukraine Capital Is Now Object Of Soviet Army   Surprise Move Puts New Threats Against Germans

REDS THREATEN IN OONETS AREA   Break Fierce Resistance, Smash Deep Into German Defenses.   ADVANCE NEAR KHARKOV

bet. Vatutin’s Army I: i Strong Positior for Determined Puak Against Rostov

RED ARMY SMASHES DEEP INTO GERMAN ~ DEFENSES TODAY   Stretched Two Strong Arms Around the Vital-Held Donets Basin.   IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA   Extended the Threat to Kharkov, Capital of the Ukraine. :

CLOSING TRAP CN COAL AREA NEAR KAMENSK   Troops Threaten German Forces  Near Kharkov

The Donets Basin  A Red Objective   Russian Encircling Movement May Recover Coal Country   IMORE WEDGES DRIVEN   Russians Take More Towns in Campaign Against © ostov

.RED ARMIES CLOSE AROUND DONETS BASIN   Troops Break Through ‘Deep German Defenses and Ranks of Reserves in That Vital Area of  Sonthern Ruecia.

REDS BREAK FIERCE NAZI RESISTANCE   Stretch Two Strong Arms Around Vital Nazi-Held  Donets Basin.   Kharkov Under Threat  Of Russian Advance

RUSSIANS BREAKING FIERCE RESISTANCE BOLSTERED GERMANS  KHARKOV, CAPITAL OF THE UKRAINE, ALSO FACING SOVIET THREAT

Kharkov Drive Extended In New Assaults   Position Gives Russians Strong Points From Which To Strike At Rostov

AXIS SEEKS T0 PREVENT HEW LOSSES   Vatutin Is Moving Toward Rostov Corridor

EXTEND ARMS ARQUND VITAL NAZI-HELD CITY   Break Fierce Resistance, Smash into German Defenses, Reserves

OUVIETS ADVANCE IN ONETS BASIN   Reds Smash Deep Into German Defenses And Ranks Of Reserves   NEAR KHARKOV   Surprise Thurst On South Threatens Capital , Of Ukraine

Russ Clamp Twin Grip on Donets Basin  Soviets Smash Fierce Re sistance of Nazi Reserves  MAIN RAILWAY CUT  Kharkov Is Flanked or South by Surprise Thrust

Red Army Is Stretching Pincer ‘s On Donets Basin   Threat To Kharkov Is More Menacing; Russians Also Are Closer To Rostoy

Throw Arms Around Donets Basin   Russians Point Spearhead at Site  Of Great Dam on Dnieper—Vatutin’s Army Drives Down Corridor to Move Against Basin and Rostov

Nazis Fight Fiercely To Check Tide   Vatutin Executes Strategic Turn To Clear Coal Area.   Kharkov Flantad   Dnieper Industrial Region Closer To Reclamatian

(REDS 1 POSITION TO MOVE AGAINST ICITY OF KHARKOV   Towns All About City Fall To Advancing Russian Troops

Russians Break Fierce Resistance, Smashing Into Deep German Defenses And Ranks Of Reserves, To Spread Threat To Kharkov, Moscow Reports—Surprise Thrust Carries Soviet Forces Forward In Direction Of Great Dnieper Industrial Region

Russians Cut Deeper Into Donets Basin  Kharkov May Fall Within Encircled Area Of New Drives

MARINES IN ACTION ON BLACK SEA   Heavy Fighting Flames Around Novorossisk  Naval Base

RUSSIANS TAKE MANY TOWNS AROUND ROSTOV   Black Sea Fleet Pounds German Shore Positions At City

Russians Clamp 2 Arms Around Donets Basin   Threat Extended To Capital of The Ukraine

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES AS DRIVE NEARS KHARKOV   Russian Army Is Smashing Ahead To Pocket Invaders In Donets Basin   ALLIES STRIKE IN TUNISIA   Axis Forces in North Africa Being Attacked at Both Ends of 300-mile Front

TAKE LOZOVAYA AND THREATEN CITY KHARKOY   Red Army Has Stretched Two Strong Arms Around Nazi-Held Donets Basin   PITCHED BATTLES RAGE IN CAUCASUS   Russian Biack Sea Fleet Pounds German Shore Positions In Western Area of Sector

Clamp 2 Arms Around Vital Coal Region in South Russia   Surprise Thrust Takes Lozovaya. 75 Miles South of Kharkov

Throw Arms Around Donets. Basin   Russians Point Spearhead at Site. Of Great-Daim on Dnieper—Vatutin’s “Army Dri cs # Down Corridor to Move

Russian Extend Theat I Three Directions As The} Close In On Nazi Armies’:

The Donets Basin A Red Objective   Russian Encircling Movement May Recover Coal ’ Country:   Russians Take More Towns in Campaign Against — Rostov

F.D.R. Approves Force If Needed To Keep Peace’   May Ask Congress To Endorse PostWar Reélationshine

Administration Approval of Peace To Be.Maintained by Force May Be Brought Before Congress Soon

Wallace and Hull Outline Peace View   Expect Roosevelt to Seek Congress Approval of  Post-war Plans

Hull Endorses Use Of Force To Keep Peace   World Court Also Urgec By Secretary In Hi: Outline Of Americar Foreign Policy

INTERIM POST-WAR POLICY DISCUSSED IN RADIO ADDRESS   Secretary of State Hull Gives Outline of Program in Carefully Worded Address.

‘Hull Suggests Use of Force if ‘Necessary to Preserve the Peace   World Court for Peaceful Adjustments Also Outlined

FORCE TO MAINTAIN PEACE BACKED BY HULL IF NECESSARY   Proposes World Court For Adjustments Of Disputes

MODIFIED VERSION OF TAX BILL SEEN   Dissatisfaction. Expressed . Over House Bill — Changes Believed Near.

SENATE PLANS OWN TAX. BILL   Finance Committee Favors Modified Version Or Cari. son-Ruml Pronosal

OPPOSE HOUSE TAX PROPOSAL   Senate Committeemen Wan Modified Version of CarlsonRum! Plan.

Modified Version Of Carlson-Ruml Tax Plan Drafted   Senate Committee Rejects House Compromise Bill

MODIFIED RUML PLAN MAY GET SENATE'S OKA)   House-Approved Pay-Go Tax Bill Unacceptable To Committee

Russian forees win in two sharp river battles with nazis   Foe driven across river on western front: Germans claim 550.000 toll

Reds Force Germans Across River   §5,000 Russians Killed in 45 Days, Nazis Claim

AEDS, NAZIS WAGE AERIAL BATTLES   German Airports and Soviet City of Gorki Pounded; Nazis Claim 550,000 Reds Killed in Caucasus

NAZIS LOSE IN RIVER BATTLES   Reds Drive Enemy Across Stream and Defeat Foe Near Kharkov

990,000 SOVIETS REPORTED KILLED BY NAZI TROOPS   Claim Of Enemy Unconfirmed By Reds; Gorki Is Raided   GERMANS REPULSED IN RIVER BATTLES

BERLIN CLAIMS BIG VICTORIES   Propaganda Sources Say Russians Lost Over Half Million In Four Battles

GERMANS LOSE RIVER BATTLES   Attempt To Span Donets Fails; Aerial War U nabated

2 RIVER BATTLES WON BY RUSSIANS   NAZIS BROADCAST REPORT 550,000 REDS WERE KILLED IN CAUCASUS,

River Battles Are Reported By Moscow   German Radio Asserts Half a Million Red Seldiers Killed

NAZIS REPULSED IN TWO SHARP FIGHTS   German Airports and Soy. iet City Bombed in Atr Warfare

RUSSIAN UNITS WIN TWO RIVER BATTLES AS AIR WAR CONTINUES   Enemy Force Wiped Ou below Kharkov; German Airports Bombed

Nazi Force Is Repulsed Near Kharkov   Enemy Claims the Destruction of 550.000 Russione

Soviets Beat Nazis in River Battles   Red Airmen Continue Raids; Germans Bomb City of Gorki

Soviets, Nazis Continue Air Battle Unabated   German Claim of Big Russian Caucasus Losses Is Discounted

DANE MINISTER QUITS COUNTRY   Free Exile Governmen! May Be Formed To Join Allies

Danish Minister Cuts Home Ties   Food Shortages In Nistion Snidl Acijta

Nazis Decrease Grip on Danes   Government in Exile Is Considered Likely

Danish Minister Severs Bonds   Envoy to Sweden Say: Government Is Dead

NOMINEE’S MOTHER A RESIDENT HERE   Mrs. F. G. Hagenbuch a Sister of Second District Candidate   AN ACTIVE :CAMPAIGN

NOMINEE’S MOTHER “A RESIDENT HERE   Mrs. F. G. Hagenbuch a Sister of Second District  Candidate

COMMUNICATIONS CEASE BETWEEN TURKEY, BULGARIA   No Explanation For Discontinuance of Telephone: Communications Given.

TURK-BULGARIAN PHONES CUT   Budapest Radio Says  Service Discontinued

Report Turkey-Bulgaria Telephone Communications Have Been Cut Off

Rationing May Be Coneluded   Coffee And Sugar Supplies Increased

SCAN THE WAR SKIES   ‘Capital Observers Wa Watchin ng Developments After Historie Macting

FATHERS FACE DRAFT CALL Ir “ARMY ISHIKED   Will Be Inducted Within a Year In Event Armed Forces Are Increased to ‘Ten Million   CAPITAL THRILLED BY AFRICAN PARLEY   WPB Approves Project te Build Pipe-Line From Texas, to Cost $44,000,000

Capital Looks — For New. Move   FDR - ‘Churchill, Meéting Expected To: Result ° In. Stratesies

Capital Awaits Military Action Mapped In Africa Fathers Face Draft Call

Wash ngton Exhilarated And Looks For Quick War Action:      But No Quick Victory Expected And Fathers May Be Drafted In Near Future

Washington Weighs News  from Africa   Officials Believe That Strategy Mapped Out by Roosevelt, Churchill Calls for Invasion

Congress Watches For War Attacks   AFRICAN CONFERENCE DRAWS ATTENTION OF NATION’S CAPITAL

 Today In Washington: 'Exhilarated By North (Africa Meeting, Capital 'Watches For War Action

BIGGER U.S, ARMY IS IN PROSPECT DESPITE HOPES   Plan To Draft Fathers Next . Winter Indicates Quick End Of War Not Counted On

CAPITAL SCANS WAR SKIES FOR DEVELOPMENTS   Official Comment on Casablanca Conference Varies

Capital Watches For Action   Draft of Fathers May Get Under Way Next Winter

Hull To Comment On “Vital Phases”, Wheeler Lukewarm To Achievements

TIME-CONSUMING ISSUES TO SOLONS   Credit For Initiation of Schoo! Bill Up

BRIDGE AT STRAITS WOT TO BE BULL   State Highway Head Reveal: Revised Decision at Resor  Meet Thursday

BRIDGE OVER STRAITS OUT, TIECIER SAYS   Resort Conference Is Told Project Is Waste Of Money   FERRY PLAN DROPPED   Tourist Clinic Studies Post-War Effects On Industry

President Orders Minimum 48 Hours Work Week in 32 Critical Areas

48-Hr. Week For Critical Areas of U-§   EFFORTS BEING MADE T¢ SOLVE BIG PROBLEM OF MANPOWER. 6

Minimum Work Week 48 Hours In 32 Districts   All Overtime — Pay Protected In New Order

48-Hour Work Week Is Ordered In 32 Areas   Policy Established By President Roosevelt—-State Not Affected

48-Hour Work Week Ordered By President.   Plan Under Way  to Freeze Essential Laborers to Jobs

48 HOUR WORK WEEK ORDER IS TOBE ENFORCED   President Issues Directive ~and McNutt and Byrnes Explain Plan to, Aid In duetry and Farmers.

‘JOB FREEZE, RETURN-T0- FARN EXPECTED SOON   48-Heur Work Week Ordered; Byrnes’ Sneech Hints At Compulsion To Selve Manpower Problem

Roosevelt Orders 48-Hour Week in 32 Critical Areas   Steps Taken-to Halt Shortage: Of Manpower; Overtime Pay to Continue

PLANS TO SEND FARM LABORERS BACK TO JOBS   Moves Made to Secure Greatest Use of All U. S. Manpower

‘All Workers’ Included in Longer Week   Byrnes Skirts Word ‘Compel’ in Announcing Work Weel: Minimum   WACES PROTECTED   Overtime Remains: Surplus in Critical Areas Goes to the Farms

Essential Workers To Be Frozen To Jobs—Farm ‘Labor Must Stick  To Jobs ‘32. CRITICAL AREAS  Matter Of "Wages To Be Paid Not Fully Decided

GOVERNMENT MAY RETURN FACTORY WORKERS TO FARMS   Use of Army Men to Relieve Farm Labor Shortage Also Considered in Capital

Forced Return Of © Labor To Farms ts Indicated   Byrnes Proposes Freezing of Essential. Work: ers to Jobs; May Use Army Men  in BRielde

May Use Soldiers  On Farms   Manpower Officials Take Steps to Increase U. S.  Production

Minimum 48-Hour Work Week Ordered in 32 Areas in Nation.      IMPERIALS PENETRATE 2SECTORS   Montgamery‘s.Men. Cross the :Frontier: in Different Locations, Reports.  - Say.

FDR AND AIDS PLAN FURTHER WORK FREEZES   Propose Forcing Agricultural Labor to Return to Place on Farms.   32 AREAS NOW AFFECTED   Dayton, Akron Only Cities In Ohio Placed Under Ruling Exnlained 8y Byrnes.

PROPOSING TO FREEZE LABOR   Administration Moves to Solve Manpower Problem — Former Agricultural Laborers May be Forced to Return to Farms,

EMPLOYES ARE “FROZEN’ IN THEIR JOBS   Former Agricultural Labor Will be Forced to Return to Farms.

Report Sharp Gain In Traffic Deaths  18 Per Cent Increase Noted in October

U. §. Has Answers to Hitler's Reprisal Threats; Cannon Bearing Plane One

U.S. Bomber Firing Artillery Gun ‘Sinks Large Japanese Destroyer

U.S. Has Some Answer to  Nazi Threat   German “Reprisal” Weapon Will Meet  “Cannon” Bomber

U.S. HAS POTENT ANSWER TO NAZI ‘REPRISAL’ GUNS   Bomber With 75 MM Cannon Is One New. Form of Armament Now Already In Use— Other Weapons Not Re sroalod

Newton Warns Operators and Miners ‘Against Prolonged Labor Troubles

LABOR PEACE IS ESSENTIAL FOR MINES? RETURN   Federal Official Says Government Wants To Return Pits To Owners   SOME OPERATORS ARE ASKING FOR MONEY

MORE ITALIAN SHIPS GIVE UP   Battleship Leads Four Destroyers, Other Craft To Malta

MORE ITALIAN SHIPS GIVE UF   Battleship, Four Destroyers,  Seaplane Tender, Subs Steam to Malta

Most of Italian Fleet Liquidated   Allied Naval Power Freed for Jap Drive

Italian Fleet’s Liquidation Is About Complete   Surrender Releases Allied Units for Action in Pacific

Last of Italy's  Battleships in Hands of Allies      Liquidation of World's Fifth Largest Fleet Virtually Complete. -

More Italian Warships Now Held by Allies   Additional Ships Reach Safe Ports

ANOTHER WARSHIP JOINS THE ALLIES   Liquidation of the Italian Fleet Practically Completed

Big Navy Freed To Assail Japs   Htaly Fleets) Surrender Roelieves Allied Craft

Look Out, Tojo! John Bull’s Battlewagons On The Loose Headed Your Way. . Italian Fleet Liquidation Nears Finish Freeing British Ships For Pacific Duty

ITALY HANDS OVER FIFTH BATTLESHIP   FLEET’S LIQUIDATION AftMOST COMPLETE—39 VESSELS IN ALLIED HANDS.

NAVAL POWER BOLSTERED BY ITALIAN FLEET   FIVE BATTLESHIPS SURRENDERED TO UNITED NATIONS

More Halian Ships Taken   Addition To Allied Fleet Speeds Jop Wa

MIDDLE SEA IS CLEAR GF ALL ENEMY SHIPS   Liquidation of Italian Fleet Leaves Allies Free to Increase Forces Operating Against the Japanese.   Battleship Unreported

Subsidy Fight. Is Upon Slate   Compromise’ Efforts Are Renewed}. Settlement "Next Year Seen ~

COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES SEEN   Issue Expected To Be Settled Soon After Congress Reconvenes.

Predicts Accord on Subsidy Fight  Compromise New Thought Prabable

Chest Campaign Nearing Climax  ahr. J... Ld... OTN ee   _ Wednesday Drive Aimed At Public

MILITARY AFFAIRS GROUP TO CONSIDER BILL BY CONNALLY   Bill Passed By Senate Yesterday Gives WLB Power To Discard “Little Steel”

Action Promised  On Connally Bill   Anti-Strike Measure Gets Senate Approval

PLANT SEIZURE MEASURE HAS SENATE'S OKAY   Strike Penalty Bill To Get Early House Consideration

CHANGE POINT RATE FOR MEATS’ RATION   Some Are Raised in Vaiue, Others Lower: Effective Monday.

OPA ANNOUNCES ~NEW MEAT RATION - POINT SCHEBULE   Change Becomes Effec tive Sunday, May 2nd  - Some Items Higher Some Reduced:

Zolli ANNIVERSARY UF WURLD WAR ONE   Civilians Will Take Little Time Out for Parades and Speeches.

COMMITTEE MAY VOTE AGAINST TAX INCREASES TODAY   Higher Personal Income Taxes Are Voted Down By House Group

House Fights. Corporation  Tax Boosts  May Vote Down Proposal Today in Assault on New Program  VICTORY TAX OUT  Put in Regular Levy; Boost in Personal Income Excise Voted Down         VICTORY TAX OUT

House Group May Block Firm Tax Rise   Trend Evident in Vetoing of Higher Income Taxes

Organize For. ‘Another Drive In New Guinea   MacArthur Is Regrouping Troops For Attack On Sananana Point After Cleaning Up At Buna

ALLIES SHAPE FINAL ATTACK IN NEW GUINEA   To Clean Mikado’s Men Out of Sananada Point, Last Stronghold of Enemy   AIR BASES BOMBED   Jap Airdrome At Lae Suffering Heaviest Blows;  300-Pound Bombs Being Used 

ALLIES MASS _ FOR JAPK.O   Attack ° To Clean Out Foe From Southeastern New Guinea Shaping

Sanananda Next Goal On Guinea   ‘Boniberé Pave Way for Arnty Being. Massed

Allies Ready To Clean Out Japs   MacArthur Reports Troops Regrouped For Last Attack

Attack Soon To Drive Jap From New  Guinea Grip   MacArthur Plans TRun Enemy Out Of Sanananda Point, ln

MAC ARTHUR’S ‘UNITS REGROUP   Prepare for Assault on Last Jay Holdings on Sanananda Point— Lae Heavily Strafed

ALLIES SHAPING SANANANDA DRIVE   TROOPS REGROUPED TO CLEAN JAPS OUT OF LAST FOOTHOLD

Allies Regroup For Affack on Jap Foothold   Mopping-Up Starts In New Guiriea on Remaining Japs

Planes Point WayforAttack on Sanananda   Knox Reveals Jap Supply Attempt Was Broken Up, Oil Drums Smashed by Allies

Allies Shape Plans To Mor Up Japanese   Plan To Clean  Out New Guinea

MacArthur Groups Forces For All-Out Assault On Enemy At Sananda Point

PLAN ATTACK TO CLEAN JAPS OUT OF SANANADA   Regrouping Forces Before Assault; Still Intermittent Fighting Around Buna

MacArthur Regroups Troops T¢ Clean Up Sananada Point Area   Report Far Ranging Air Activity Against Jap Bases And Installations

Sananda Point, Last Foe Holdeut, Due For Early Attack.   Buna Fight Ends   Fliers Set Pace For Final Phase On Largest Island.

Drive To Wipe Out Japs Near   M’Arthur Is Getting Set For Sananada Point's House Cleaning

Continue ‘lo Tighten Grin On HMnemy   Italian Rear Cuards Wiped Cut In Tunisia

3ritish First Army Now Is Within Short Distance of . Important Axis Heid City

_ WHAT OUR BOYS < ARE DOING TO - WIN THE WAR   Tokoinkink tok &k

Food Outlook Causes Worry  Senator Says Marked  Dean In Penanert

LEGISLATURE. WILL START MONDAY WITH CROWDED CALENDARS  - SMALL TAG AUTOMOBILE “LICENSES UP FOR SEN- ,

ODT BLOCKS TRAVEL IN SPECIAL BUSES   Eastman Rules Against Travel of Baseball Teams During Coming Season

SPECIAL BUSES DENIED TEAMS      But Clubs May Use Existing Public Transportation Facilities For Travel

RUSSIANS BREAK IN1O FOE'S LINES NEAR BELGOROD   New Red Gains Also Reported In Lake Ilmen Sector and In Caucasus.

Red Gains On All Fronts Are Reported   Russians Slash Into German Trenches Near Belgorad: Kill 200

Kk German Trenches in Belgo. ‘Area — Nazis Killed in nd-to-Hand Fighting — Posilions Being Captured.

SOVIET IN NEW NORTH GAINS   SOVIET HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTERS KILL 200

REDS CAPTUR NAZI TRENCHES NEAR BELGOROI   “onsolidate Positions In Outer Defenses Of Smolensk

Break Into * Nazi Army’s 5 Trenches    SEIZE NEW POSITIONS IN AREA;  GAINS ALSO REPORTED BY REDS. IN TWO OTHER BATTLE SECTORS

RUSSIAN TROOPS MAKE NEW GAINS   Germans Evacuated 800,000 In Dutch Coastal To Pre-  pare For Invasion.

250,000 Dead In Berlin?  Bern Paper Tells Of Racnits OF Rombings

“UNWED MOTHER *T0 BE TRIED   Career Woman Is Confessed Slayer. Of Three Babies.

GIRL [S CALM AS CHARGEOF MURDER FILED   Slayer of Babies Asks ‘What Is the Penalty?’

Seaman’s Union  Sues for Million   Libel Action Based on Guadalcanal Story

NEWSPAPERS AND AP ARE SUED FOR LIBEL   Story About Unloading Ships At Guadalcanal Basis

NEW JOB GIVEN TOU. 5. PRESS BY GOVERNMENT   To Keep Americans Constructively Critical In War

Bureaucrats Vital to Total War Says Stabilizer Byrnes   Tells Editors Brasshats Are Necessary If We Are To Be Victors

"BRASSHATS’ NEEDED TO WIN WAR SAYS TAMES F. BYRNES   Keep Public Critical But Not Angry He Tells ANPA Members

Allied Convoys Battle Combination of Sub  Wolf Packs and Relays of Enemy Aircrat

Nazi Air Fleets Team With Subs To Hit Convoys  US. Navy Reveals Auxiliary Carriers

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD TO CONFER   Fighting French Chief To Leave For Algiers Shortly

DE GAULLE, GIRAUD EXPECTED TO TALK UNIFICATION PLAN   French National Committee Says DeGaulle to Leave For. Algiers For (Confab Requested by Gen. Giraud

Will Leave Soon for ‘ Conférence in Algiers; ‘Rapid Agreement-on_ French Unity Expected

DeGaulle, Giraud Plan Conference   Fighting French Leaders to Meet

DeGaulle To Go To Afriea To Confer  With Giraud   ‘Accepts Invitation Extended By French High Commissioner In Address Sunday

De Gaulle, Giraud  To Confer Seon   Free French Leader To Fly To Algiers

De Gaulle to Go to Algiers   Will Confer With Giraud on Cementing French Meeting

De Gaulle Is on Way to Algiers to Confer With Giraud  Leaders to Discuss Unity of All French

GEN, DE GAULLE IS -TOJOIN GEN, GIRAUD FOR A CONFERENCE   Will Discuss the Cementing of a Union of All Frenchmen Fighting Axis.   WILL LEAVE SHORTLY   Gen. Giraud Called for Such a Conference in His Speech Last Sunday.

DEGAULLE TO VISIT GIRAUD   French Committee Announces Quick  Response to Invitation.

TRY TO UNITE ALL FRENCH FIGHTING AXIS   U. S. And British Welcome Move For Unity   Ousted As Civil Affairs Head In North Africa; Catroux Moves Up

GENERAL DEGAULLE EXPECTED TO LEAVE FOR NORTH AFRICA   WILL CONFER WITH GEN GIRAUD ON CEMENTING FRENCH FIGHTERS

DeGaulle Plans Algerian Visit To Meet Girau:.   Parleys Expected To Cement All French Factions

DE GAULLE 10 MEET GIRAUD   FIGHTING FRENCH HEAD TO LEAVE FOR PARLEY

 DeGaulleto Confer With Giraud On  Free French Union   Free French Leader tc Leave Shortly for Al. giers,

De Gaulle Soon To Meet Giraud  Fighting French Leader Moves Toward Unity

United French Front Likely To Be Welded   DeGaulle To Visit Giraud in Africa To End Strife

De Gaulle And Giraud To Confer   Effort To Cement Union Of AN! Anti-Axis French Will Be Made At Algiers

RENCHMEN WIL MEET IN AI RIE AS   Fighting French Leader  To Leave London Short ly, Report   BERGERET QUITS   Consolidation Of All Frenchmen Fighting Axis Is Hope

DGAULLE WILL MEET GIRAUD I AFRICA PARLFY   Union of All French Fighting Axis Expected to Follow Conference

DE GAULLE TO MEET GIRAUD IN ALGIERS SOON   To Cement Union of An Frenchmen .Who Are Fighting Axis   Answers Appeal

De Gaulle To Go To Algiers   Giraud’s Action Gets Approval Both In Washington, London

TO MEET SOON IN ALGERIA   Plan On Cementing All Frenchmen Fight-. ing Axis.

FRENCH CHIEF ACCEPTS BID TO UNITY PARLEY   General DeGaulle to Go te  Algiers, Fighting French  Committee In Lon  don Says   ure Over Moves to Unite Factions Against Axis

One Hundred And Thirty Four Rural School Pupils To Graduate June 18   Grand Old Man Of Music Will Direct the Choir

RURAL STUDENTS WILL GRADUATE   134 Pupils To Receive High School Admission —  Certificates -

WORKER KILLED AS CAR HIT BY FREIGHT TRAIN   Two Others Injured — Crash Occurs In Bridgeville Section

Labor Leader: Back Veto of Bankhead Bill   Rooseveli’s Action Criticised by National Grange

USS Chicago, Destroyer Are Sunk; Knox Bares 6l-22 Air Edge !n Guadalcanal Windup

Japs Lose 15 Ships in Giant Battle With  Yanks in Pacific   Sixty Enemy Planes Downed in Action as American Forces Block Nip Try to Remove Guadalcanal Troops

Mme. Chiang Raps “Mental Myopics’   Answers Recent Churchill Talic

DRAFT GROUP LEAVES HERE   Contingent Split Between ~ Various Branches of Service

More Selectees Called To Colors   Local Group Leaves For Various Camps

VINSON STANDS PAT ON VETO   Stabilization Director Is Firm, Ever in View of Rail Strike Threat.

Vinson Holds To His Stand   Says Boost to Non-Operation Rail Unions Dangerous

Seek To Divide Burden Of Foreign Relief Among All United Nations

Other Allies Agree To Share Foreign Relief   Congress To Have Contro  Over U.S. Help Ender Pact:

ALLIES WILL ASSUME FOREIGN RELIEF LOAD   State Department Announces Plan To Care for Needy Nations of World

Division of Relief Responsibility Among Allies After War Planned

Share World Relief Load   Other United Nations Expected to Take Over Portion of the Burden

Yankee Bombers Complete Dispersal Of Major Effort To Land New  Forces.

2 More Ships Reported Hit hy Bombs   Brig-Gen, Walker Reported Missing in Action

ROUND UP DRAFT EVADERS BY FEB. ]   LOCAL BOARDS MAY GIVE NEWSPAPERS LIST OF SUSPECTS

. vr sf a Dag tiett Wb ci 'g ‘Cub cy ‘Wille  WAH BONUS   Vici-ry Todaey—Security Tomorrew

Vesta 4 Miners Vote To Return ~ To Work Today   Blacksmith Is Reinstated: Action Is Made  Unanimous

COLD WAVEIS LOSING STING; LOSSES HEAVY   CITRUS NOT DAMAGED BU1 OTHER CROPS SUFFER, IT IS REPORTED

SHOWERS EXPECTED   Eastern Kansas Farmers Would ‘Welcome a Few Dry Days

Employes of 16 Concerns Favor Strike   Western Grocer Workers in Carroll Show State Trend in 5-0 Vote

Only Five Miles From Important Jap Base at Munda.  NAVY AND ARMY MEN PARTICIPATE  Taking of Rendova Is Another Step in Knocking Munda Out.

NAVY TELLS OF LANDING YESTERDAY   Important Step Toward Knocking Munda from War

U. 5. Infantry Occupies Pass In Tunisia Area   Destroys 15 Nazi Tanks and Captures Material as Germans Flee

WPB AULES OUT IRON AND STEEL   This Is War, Bud; Thoughts About Buying Merry-GoRounds -Made of Iron or Steel May Be Discarded 

Lewis’ Plans Suffer Blow   Government Control Of Mines Faves Test

Lewis Is Upset As Nation Controls Mines   F. R. Fourth Term Claimed Hit As Veto Downed

Plans Are Upset For Government Mining Control   Law Provides Return To Private Owners If Operation Normal

MINES £0 BACK TO OWNERS IN SIXTY DAYS   New Anti-Strike Law Upsets John E. Lewis’ Plans

GOVT MUST RELINQUISH MINE CONTROL  One Reault of   One Reault of Anti-Strike Measure

Anti- Strike Law Upsets Lewis’ Plan To Have Gov’t Retain Control Of Mines

Mexican Army May Fight On Foreign Soil   President OK’s Move ‘If Necessary’

Mexico Will Fight Abroad If Army Can Maintain Its National Identityv-Camacho

F. S. BUTCHER DIES   ‘Had Been Resident of Douglas  County 29 Years

Holiday Travel  Taxes Carriers      Rail, Bus Lines Have Heavy Load

Bowles Predicts Ration Changes   Forecasts Higher Ration Point Cost As Fresh Ham Rises

ONLY ONE CHANGE MADE ON JANUARY MEAT RATION LIST   Point Value of. Fresh Ham Boosted One Point—Foresee _ Climb In Ration Costs of Meats in February

Ration Cost of Meat Expected fo Be Higher   Noticeable Increase Predicted in February and Early Summer

LITTLE CHANGE IN POINT VALUE MEAT FOR MONTH JANUARY   FRESH HAMS ONE POINT HIGHER; MORE CHANGES DUE IN FEBRUARY

ONE POINT BOOST ON FRESH HAMS      Few Other Changes. Next Month, But Values May. Go Higher Later   OTHER RATIONING - PROGRAMS REVIEWED

February Hike In Meat Ration Cost Indicated   Only Point Value Boost For January Is A Small One On Fresh Hams.

Meat Values _ Little Changed  For Ja anuary  we te _   Ration Cost Of Meat  Likely To Rise I, February, Report O Chester Bowles

FEBRUARY MAY BRING JUMP IN MEAT POINTS   Ham Only Item Boosted Or New Chart For January

RATIONING FOR 1944 WILL SEE LITTLE CHANGE   Scarcity Of Gas Is Main Worry Of Civilians

Small Point Value Hike   Fresh Ham Up 1 Point Sunday, But Most Other Meat Costs Same

Fresh Hams Present Lone Small Point Boost For January, But Bowles Sees Higher Point Values In February And Later.   BY MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH.-

Sees Meat Ration Cost to Increase   Chester Bowles Predicts Higher Values on Some Products in February.

MEAT RATIONS REVISED AGAIN   Point-value Slightly Down Except on Fresh Ham

OPA Plans To Increase Ration Value Of Meat   Ham Goes Up A Point In Spite Of Reported . Pork Surplus With Further Increases Scheduled Beginning In February

PREDICTS BOOST OF MEAT POINTS   BOWLES SAYS RATION COSTS IN FEBRUARY LIKELY TO INCREASE

MEAT POINTS 10 BE HIGHER EARLY ~ INCOMING YEAR   ‘Administrator Bowles Says In Radio Talk That Change Will Become Noticable During February.   SHARP CRITICISM IS GIVEN SOME GROUPS   Shocked at Chiselers, Profiteers Clamoring For Profits With Nation Fighting For Existence.

FRESH HAM RATION POINT VALUE UPPED   Small Boost Only One Listed  On New January Meat Chart—OPA Chief Indicates Other Items May Rise

New January Meai Chart Lists Only Small Point Value Boost   Rv MARVIN JT, ARROWSMITH

HAMS 10 GET POINT BOOST IN JANUAR   OPA. Chief Bowles Sees Ration Cost Climbing in February, March and April

Meat Ration Costs May be Increased Month After Next   OPA Administrator Expects Advances He Says in Address

ALLIED WAR PLANES CUT RAIL LINES   Northern and Southern Italy Lines Disrupted

THAIN TRATEIL PARALYZED IN SOUTH UTALY   All Main Rail Lines Smashed By American And British Bombing Assaults

Allied Bombers Disrupt Main. Rail © Lines Linking North,- South ily

» Flying Dutchman Of The Air Lanes’ Flew 2000 Miles With No One Aboard

VICTORY GARDENERS MAY GET GASOLINE  Must Show Need For New Driving

* See ee SE ee ke Ee pee ee ee Pan NENG BARGES TED AT GCIRRALTAR

Economy Report Made to Senate   Patterson Tells Of Costs of Army

War Department Economies Told  Reduction In Civilian Personnel Noted

War Department Had Balance of Over 118 Billion on Aug. 31 Committee Told

$64 Billion Fund in War  Department   $118 Billion Balance But Part Is Spent — Army May Be Enlarged

PATTERSON TELLS ECONOMY. COMMITTEE OF BIG REDUC“‘T1ON DURING ‘TWOMONTH PERIOD ~

BOUGAINVILLE NEXT MAJOR OBJECTIVE   Of Americans in South Pacific; Unofficial Reports Place 40,000 to 50,000 Enemy Troops On Island.   Heavy Bombing

Von Arnim Is Held In Mansion’ —   « « « General Swallows Dislike Of British

Rail Workers Restless:  Won't Strike   Brotherhoods Ask 30 Per Cent  Increnace in Wacee

WALLACE o€Eo FlGnT TO HELP COMMON MAN   Vice President Says Revolt Certain Until Proper Goals Reached,   OUTLINES SEVEN POINTS FOR PEOPLES’ FREEDOM

Wallace Sets ‘Common Man’:  Goal of Peace   Vice President Declares Soldiers Won't Stati

Faces Court In ‘Missing Baby’ Case   Woman Says She Was Former Patient Here

BRITISH NAVY CRITICIZED IN WARM DEBATE   Near Demand for Resignation of First Lord of Admiralty in House of Commons Debate

Tawes’ Next Heari ing Set For Monday Betore Md. ‘OP A Panel   In Meantime. Editor Who ‘Told’ About Trip.   In Meantime, Editor Who ‘Told’ About Trip, Is Under Arrest: ANPA May Enter Controversy

O’CONOR ASKED POR SURVEY OF GASOLINE USE   State and Office of Price Administration Would Undertake Study of Mileage Equipment   TAWES CASE ANGLE   Meanwhile, State Comp. troller Faces Hearing Before OPA Panel On Alleged Pleasure Driving

Allied Commanders Gath« ering Force For a Giant Offensive Against Germans. 

Fifth Army Massing on a 10)-mile Line on Banks of Volturno River.  PORTUGAL TO AID WITH AIR BASES  Jugoslavy Patriots Have Driven Into the City of Trieste.

Nation Facing : Farm Problem   Wickard Urges Farmers Make Post-War Plain.

Warns Farmers To Prepare for  Postwar Problems  Wickard Urges Farmers to Join se AAmbena Diane

WLB Plea Fails To End Strikes In Alabama Pits   Birmingham Furnaces of Steel Industry ‘Forced To Shut Down

Significant Italian  Gains Made By Allies Soviet Note Disagrees With Earlier Claim to Capture

Only Stamp 4 Can Be Used Now   Filling Stations Warned Not to Cash Nos. 5, 6

R e districting Bill Launched In Legislature   Measure Would Restore Set-up in Effect Before Recent Change   PASSAGE IS EXPECTED

Harry Hopkins Denies Letter Naming Willkie   Letter Interpreted: By Some as Effort. . To ‘Purge’ Connally

Roosevelt Intimate Reported To Have Expressed View in Letter to Tavan   SOME SEE PLAN TO “PURGE” CONNALLY   Congressman Contends  Book Book “One Man—Willi kie” Reveals Such  » Scheme

ES OE  DENIES REPORT   Hopkins Says He Made No Willkie Prediction

Bulgaria, Sitting on Powder Keg, Will Have to Act Soon Or Be Knocked Out of War

Knockout Blows May Come Soon   Next 100 Days Regarded as “Importan as the 100 Days Before- Waterloo   BALKAN CRISIS ‘ MOUNTING STEADILY   Bulgaria Expected to Break When Allies’ Strike. and Drive Mav Be Imminent

CRISIS IS SEEN FOR HITLER IN NEXT 100 DAYS   Bulgar Crisis Affects Other Balkan Nations, Arnold Predicts Step ped-Up Air War

HAPPY HEAR™ CONTRIBUTORS   Bulgaria Wobbles   Balkan “Invasion Route” Takes On  Renewed Interest

BULGARIA SHAKEN BY GREAT CAISIG   Indications Are World Has Little Time to Wait for Bia Blows.

Germans Pour Men  Into Shaky Balkans   British Told Next 100 Davs As Important as Those Which Preceded Batile of Waterloo

Bulgaria Reported  Nervously Awaiting Moment To Break Alliance With Axis

PEACE OR WAR CRISIS SHAKING BULGARIAN OFFICIALDOM TODAY   INDICATIONS THAT PROMISED ALLIED KNOCKOUT RLOWS DUE SOON

BALKAN NATION SHAKING UNDER DOUBLE ATTACK   Hit by Propaganda and Threats of Attacks From Both Sides

More Nazi Troope Are Sent To Balkans. In Effort To Prevent Definite Break ,

World Awaits Movement Of Balkan States   Bulgaria) Remains Under Both Impact Of Nazi, Allied Propaganda.   URGE RESISTANCE

Peace or War Crisis is Shaking Bulgaria   Situation Develops Amid Indications the World Has Little More Time to Wait for Three-Way Allied Invasion. J

Hungary, Rumania / Waver   Rommel Shif ted To Western Europe_As - * Ineaeton Fever Mounts

Hitler's Vassal Nations Waver   Germany Watching Balkans Closely, But Expects Greatest Allied Blow From West

REACHING END OF LINE   Hungary And Rumania Als¢ Wavering While Tito’s Forces Grow Stronger Ir Yugoslavia

War's End Near for Bulgaria   Balkan Nation Tottering Amid . Indications of Allied Assault

Crisis Facing.   Balkan People   Bulgaria Rocking Under Peace Or War Moves; Knockout Nears

BULGARIA HOLDS VITAL PART IN COMING EVENTS   Indicated World. May Not Have Long To Wait For East-WestSovth Blows Against Hitler.

Bulgarians In > Daily Fear Of Allied Attack   Other Hitler Satellites  Seeking Means of Ending German Alliance: °.

BALKANS TOTTER UNDER IMPACT OF ALLIED BOMBINGS   GERMANS RUSH MORE TROOPS AS TENSION MOUNTS IN BULGARIA

Kettle Boils Dangerously For Germans   ‘Next 100 Days’ To Be Important; Foe Makes Rommel Overlord Of Wee Defenses

Germans Seek To Bolster Balkans, Fearful Of  Invasion Thrust.   Other Vassals Waver.

Bulgaria Seen as Eager To Keep Friendship With Both Russia and Germany

Balkan Crisis Coming To Head   BULGARIA NOW FACED WITH PEACE OR WAR

Unrest Spreading to Hungary; Sofia. Reported Bombed Again As Hull Warns Hitler’s Allies

Bulgaria as a Nazi Power Reaching tnd   LitHe Satellite Is Anxious to Continue Friendly With Russia

Bulgaria Is Shaken By Uncertainty As Invasion Nears  Little Nation Faces Crucial Pressure From Nazis, Allies

Balkan invasion threatens wobbling central kingdom with terrible annihilation   Hitler marching -more troops into nation to bolster sagecving morale

‘Unrest, Inspired In Part By Fear Of Expected Allied 2 Invasion Of Balkans, Increases In Nation Which  : Was First To Bow In 1918 Debacle Of Germanic : Powers—Hungary And Rumania Also Reported  Wavering—Yugoslavs Exhorted To Resist Nazis

Bulgaria Shakes Under Threat Of Allied Drive Starting Another Front

BALKANS SLIP AS SATELLITES OF THIRD REICH    Bulgaria Shaken. - to: ‘Her  Very. Foundations As Al-  lied Invasion Draws Nearer

SHIFTS IN ARMY HIGH COMMAND SEEN PROBABLE   Marshall May Get New Job, MacArthur Lose ok Power i

Mystery Involves Change for Gen. Marshall, Criticism by MacArthur

GEN. MARSHALL TO GET GLOBAL COMMAND, TIP   U. S. Army Chief Center Of Deep Military @ Mystery

Generals F igure in Mysteries   MacArthur Blasts Allies’ Pacific War Strategy

MARSHALL, MOUNTBATTEN, MACARTHUR,  GLOBAL COMMAND TAKES FORM WHILE SPARKS FLY

MARSHALL MYSTERY CAUSE OF COMMENT AT CAPITAL TODAY      Only President Roosevelt Or Prime Minister Churchill Hold the .  bwmetcwe

‘GLOBAL WAR’ POST SEEN FOR STAFF CHIEF   Statement From Commander In Australia Indicates He’s Being By-Passed.   UP TO FOR, CHURCHILL   Head of American Army Dus For World-Wide Command From London, Report.

Marshall Is Slated © For Commander Of All Allied Forces      MacArthur May be Slated to Operate Under _Lord Mountbatten in Pacific Area if +» Gurrent Reports Are Correct

MYSTERY MARKS HINTED PLAN TO SHIFT GENERALS   Top Chief Would Command 20,000,000 In Allied Armies

MYSTERY CENTERS ‘ON FUTURE PLANS FOR STAFF CHIEF   Marshall and MacArthur Involved In Series of Rumore on Anosintmanis.

CEN, MARSHALL TO BE ALLIED GLOBAL CHIEF   Experts Claim This Decision Was Reached At Quebec Conference

Hits Aldermen  Seeking to Be  Policemen, Too Cireuit Judge Weber Tells  Poplar Bluff ‘Dads’ to Observe Law

SEARCHERS FIND ® AVIATOR’S BODY   Pilot of Construction Company Plane Had Left to Get Aid

Announcement Of Withdrawal Made In Berlin   Fall Of Krivoi Rog, Key To Entire German Defense, Is Seen Near At Hand

People Advised Army Pounded  Back in Russia   Great and Fateful Tank Battle Thunders North From Krivoi Rog.   Red Pincer Tightens In Dnieper River Bend

Fall of Krivoi Rog Imminent, Germans Flee   Moscow Clainis Enemy Shifts Armor  From Italian Front.

SOVIET FORCES ON OUTSKIRTS OF KRIVOI ROE   Fall of Big Mining Center Only Matter of Time. Germans Fighting in Desperation

GERMANS MOVE EQUIPMENT TO SOVIET FRONT   Planes, Tanl:s And Troops Taken From Italy

Australia Will Accept Flynn   Editorial Comment Says FDR Judgment Is of “Highest Worth”

UNRRA Studies Relief For Jews   Compromise Measure Drawn By Committee

RR; Women more than men <9; apt to suffer SIMPLE  SANEMIA        if Weakened From Lack of tron Bue to “Moanthliy tf accac!?

Heres one of the best ways to  BUILD UP RED BLOOD  To Get More Strength for You

One Squadron Got 72 Japs In 6 Months   Eight Shot Down By One Member

Single Squadron Downs 72 Planes  Aerial Combat Occurred Over New Guinea

Single Yankee Fighter Force Downs 72 of Jap Planes in Eight Months

STAGE IS SET FOR REGISTERING HERE   List of 41 School Buildings Announced by Rationing Officials

STAGE IS SET FOR: - REGISTERING HERE      List. of 41 School Build ings Announced by Ro* Honing Officials .

Tunisian Leaders Are Congratulated   Prime Minister Churchill Sends Messages To Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Alexander

CHURCHILL PRAISES ALLIED GENERALS   Says Tunisian Victory I. Solid Fundation For  Future

REDRAFT OF ROSS BILL IS.STARTED IN STATE SENATE   Work Is Begun on-Measure to Relax Statutes Regarding’ Female Labor.

Bill to Amend State’s Labor Laws Rewritten   Labor’s Demand For Commission Faces Rejection

COMPROMISE SEEN LIKELY ON FEMALE, CHILD LABOR BIL!   Senate Group Revising Measure To Relax Restrictions

DEWITT SEES COAST DANGER   DECLARE LETHARGY OF PUBLIC CAUSES PERIL

Many Holiday Travelers Are Stranded by Sleet and Rain Storm on Atlantic Seaboard

Roads Blocked in Atlantic Sleet Storm   TRAVEL BLOCKED AS HEAVY RAINS SLASH ACROSS SEABOARD

Sleet and Rain On East Coast   Traffic Paralyzed in Many Sections From New England to Virginia

LAWRENCE LEVY IS. LOWEST SINCE 1923   Tax on Lawrence Property, to Be 30.9333 Mills for * 1944 Budget

LAWRENCE LEVY IS LOWEST SINCE 1923   Tax on Lawrence Prope to Be 30.9333 Mills a, 1944 Budget ofl

Today’s War Commentary  Historic 48 Hours  Allied Vietories Show Turn of Tid

Crushing Blows Agreed Upon at Historie Confab   Coordinated Drives to Split Nippon Fleet and Shatter Shaky Supply Lines of Enemy

Objectives Set Forth by Council In Pacific War   President Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Meeting in Unknown Place

President and Prime Minister Believed Now Conferring With Stalin in Teheran; Chinese Envoys Back in Chungking

RETURN TO GOLD STANDARD AFTER WAR IS PLANNED   5-Point Morgenthau Pro. gram Designed to Ease Peace Stabilization

MORGENTHAU REVEALS PLAN   Scheduled to Outline Proposals To Exeraordinary Joint Sesscion of Senate Committces

GOLD STANDARD RETURN SOUGHT   Morgenthau Commits U. S. to World Monetary Stabilization

ANKARARECALLS ENVOY 10 VICHY, ALGIERS REPORT   Premier’s Statement Shows Growing Sympathy for Allies

CITIES SERVICE GAS CO. ORDERED TO REDUCE RATE   federal Commission Acts to Sut Wholesale Charges in Missouri, Kansas, .Oklahoma and Nebraska.   SMALLER CONSUMER BILLS IN PROSPECT   ’ Edict Does Not Directly Affect Retail Sales, but Adjustment Is Considered Probable.

One of Major War Moves Is Expected   Flashing of Go-Signal For Final Blows To Axis Predicted

RUMORED MOVE ‘PLACES RUSSIA IN FOREFRONT   Moscow Held To Be Taking Full Place Alongside  U.S. and Britain Under. Recent Accord   ‘MEETING OF “BIG TJHREE” SEEN NEAR   ‘Chiang May Join in Sound.  ing Final Warning to  Hitler and Hirohito of ~ Certain Deom

London Looks for Move in Diplomatic Field Related to Allied World-Wide Victory Strategy—Writer Holds Opinion It May Have to Do With Giving Go-Signa! for Final Crushing Blows Against Germany and Japan.   By JAMES M. LONG.

Go-Signal For Final Crushing Blows Expected   Meeting Of Major Allied Chieftains Believed Started  fe *HROTeOe ast ££ MP

RUMORED “BIG THREE" NOW IN CONFERENCE   Set to Give Go Signal For Crushing Blows Against Enemies

Go-Ahead Signal For Invasion Is  Hinted In Londor   Victory Strategy Is Seen As Outcome Of The Diplomatic  Parley

One Of Major Developments Of War Is Expected Momentarily In London

London Sees Big-3 Break  Momentarily   Mounting Evidence Of In. formation From Abroad Strengthens Belief,   IEXPEC oy 57S KALSHEK

London Believes Majo War Development Is Nea   Rumors Involve Second Front Opening, Parley Of United Nations Leaders

HINTS. MAJOR DEVELOPMENT 5 IN THE AR   London Hears Evidence That Diplomatic Blast in Making for Axis.

Major Development Expected i in Political Warfare   Important Break Believed Likely to Be the Flashing of a Go-Signal for Final Crushing Military Blows

London Hints “Big Three’ to Meet Soor   Churchill and FDR May Be Enroute to Conference in Moscow

Expect Major Development In War Soon   Diplomatic Action On World Wide Strategy Expected

Rumored Move Likely Diplomatic, May Be Big-Four Meeting; May Mean Go-Ahead Signal for Final Crushing Blows on Axis

May flash signal for  final push   Big diplomatic  events in wind

Major Break For Allies in War Expected   Development Likely To Spell Doom of Hitler, Hirohito; Russia to Do Part

Go-Signal For -Final Crushing Blows Expected   Meeting Of Major Allied Chieftains  Ralipyed Ctarted

Tri-Power. Diplomatic Move Seen   Development Imminent, London Hears

DEFENSE OF ACTOR OPENS   Seaman Aboard Flynn’s Yacht Summoned To Testify For Him.

JAPANESE RAID PAGIFIC BASES   Navy Reports Bombing of Airfields and Ground Positions.   YANKEE PLANES ATTACK

Furious Bombing Of Air Bases  In South Pacitic Told By Navy  Kien tttacka Mada Wr 17 & Dlanac- Uiie   Five Attacks Made By U.S. Planes; Hils Scored By Jap Barge Loaded With Suldiers

Japanese Cruiser Blasted From Air   Allied Airmen Active in East

Yanks Hi  Jap Bases in Pacific   U. S. AIR CENTER ON ESPIRITU SANTO ISLAND NIP TARGET

In The Pacific Jan Cruiser Hit In Rabaul Harbor      Airmen Force Japs Tc Retreat In Area

JAP BASES HIT IN FIVE RAIDS “BYU.S. AIRED      Navy Announces Japanese Plane Dropped Bombs On U.S. Airfield At Guadalcanal   MUNDA IS BLASTED   Nip Barge Loaded With Troops Hit By Bombs Fram Search Plane Off Choiseul

Yanks, Japs Trade Furious Air Blows Japanese Make Attack  On American Base On Espiritu Santo Isle

Yank Bombs Raining On Jap Stations  Three Land On Cruiser In The

Jap, Yank Pacific Bases Bombed   Japs Bomb Base On New Hebrides— 5 U. S. Attacks

Foe Gets in Single Raid On Island   U.S. Navy Announces Series of Furious Allied Air Blows.   Nips Bomb Tylaa;i

U.S. AIR FORCES RAIN BOMBS ON ENEMY’S BASES   Fierce Aerial Activity Reported in South Pacific; Yank Isle Attacked

U.S. Planes Wage 3-Day Offensive Against Japanese  Americon Base on  Espiritu Santo Isle O.°4../ O.. Coenen:

JAPS, YANKS TRADE BLOWS IN AIRRAIDS   Nips Blast Santo Island. Americans; U.S. Aces Bomb Warship

FIVE ATTACKS ON JAP BASES   Air Forces Trade Blows; Jap Warship Hit

Yanks And Japs Bomb From Skies   U. S. A. Returns Raids O: Japs With Interest Ir South Pacific Zone O} War. Savs Navy

FOOD PROBLEMS TO BE ANALYZED BY COMMITTEE   Ohio Congressman Named To Make Study and Reports May Be GOP Policy Basis   ADVICE OF HOOVER SOUGHT   Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins Says Purpose Constructive and To Help War Agencies

JENKINS TO DIG INTO FOOD FLOW   Chief Of G. 0. Pp Committee Sees Hoover, Others

Rw Dain MAtION ©   (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction in Pull or in Part Strictly Prohibited.)   WASHINGTON — THE WAR INTOR MATION MAN Fimer  TWDavis.

LABOR SHORTAGE ON FARM MAY SOON BE EASED   Official Washington Acts To Get WMC To Relax Draft Regulations   SEVERAL FIGHTS BREWING   Investigation of Fitness of Flynn Minister To Australia Is Hot

48-hour Week Proposal Again’ Before. Congress  Manpower : Chenmiieslor   Manpower Commissio! Eases Rules For Farm Deferments; Flynn ‘Menaring Next Weak .

Manpower In Many Phases Faces Congress   48-Hour. Week's Revival Brings Labor Tension

‘Effort Ils Wade “Po Posh Return om Sete Week   Senator Reed Wilk Foree Showdown In Senate On His Labor Measure

Lower Draft Deferment for Farm Workers   Wartime Labor Problems Confront Washington with 48-Hour Week on Deck

CAPITAL EYES LABOR ISSUES   To Relax Draft Deferment Regulations for Agriculture

, Washington Roundup  ‘STUDY 48-HOUR WEEK, FARM LABOR AID; ii MAY QUIZ STATE DEPARTMENT ON FLYNN

Official Washington Takes Work-Week and Strikes Ahead of Other Measures for Concentration.

MANPOWER TAKES ATTENTION AWAY FROM SQUABBLES   AGREEMENT TO RELAX DRAFTING OF FARM LABOR WELCOMED

New Demand for Longer Work-Week   Sen. Reed Plans to Force Showdown on Returning to 48-Hour Schedule   ONE OF THE MANY. MANPOWER ISSUES   Farm a Labor Deferment Rules Relaxed; Handicapped Persons Given Jobs

LABOR PROBLEMS WORRY CONGRESS   Revival Of Effort Tc Return 48-Hour Weel Is Seen

LABOR PROBLEMS 18 MAIN CONGRESSIONAL WORRY AT PRESENT  FIVE DIFFERENT PHASES Fie Beas BINAMUWIICN C§rrry 62 eiok

GOV'T LEADERS START WORK ON LABOR PROBLEM   48-Hour Week Again Urged By Some Officials

Congress Probes Labor Problems   48-Hour Week Effort Tightens Tension Between Congress and Labor Circles

CONGRESO IN OIEW ABOUT LABOR DELAY   Hard Coal Strike Is Real Test of Control of Union Heads.   DRAFT TO FAVOR FARM EMPLOYES   Flynn Appointment Is Irritant Added to More Troubline Problems.

Wartime Manpower Problems Confront  Federal Officials   Washington Takes Only _Sideglances at Other ~~ Squabbles Today

Official Washingten Concentrates On Labor Problems, With Other Phases of Worry Over Manpower

WAR AGAINST SUBS NOT YET WON, KNOX      Navy Secretary Warns Nazis Are Resourceful Foe

U-BOATS NOT THROUGH   Knox Warns Submarine Menace Not Broken Br United Natiens

NEW OUTBREAK OF U-BOATS EXPECTED   Knox Says No American Naval Losses Are Reported In Sicily Action.

Knox Says Subs Not Licked Yet  Expects New Attacks; Hints At U, S. Raid On Kurifes Islands

Knox Foresees More Trouble From U-Boat:   Submarine Fighting Will Break Out Again, Is Warning Delivered By Secretary Of Navy

No Navy Loss In Sicily Reported  Knox Expects New U-Boat Outbreak

KNOX SAYS: U-BOAT MENACE NOT QVER   Evades Reply on Rumored Attack on Jap-Held Kuriles Islands

Sians of the Times   Newest Move May Force Showdown with Jap Fleet

SINKING U.S. BATTLESHIPS   Tokyo Broadcast Says Huge U. S. Fleet Im Solomons

U.S. FLEET IN ACTION   Believed To Be Preparing Japs For Big Losses

SAYS HUGE U.S. FLEET IN ACTION   Believed To Be Preparing Japs For Big Losses

Jans Evidently Preparing to Give Losses   Enemy Says Huge U.S. Fleet Engaged  Te Galamanc Wiaehk4

Tokyo Prepares For Sea Losses   Radio Declares: Fleet Outnumbered

Broadcast Preparing Nipponese For Announcement of Lusses; Washington Says Both Sides Spar For Knockout

Slayer Kills Self Where Victims Died   Officials Close Case Of Hunter

Allied Commander  Hsenhower Meets With Staff  President Nominates Popular American For Full Generalship

‘Eisenhower Is Promoted to Full General   Allied Commander Confers With British Officers

"ARE HELD IN NORTH AFRICA   Brilliant Array Of Allied Leaders Are Included On General’s Staff.

GEN. EISENHOWER AND BRITISH STAFF OFFICERS CONFER   Discuss Completion of Command for Offensive Designed to Drive Axis From Tunisia.   TEDDER IN CHARGE OF AIR OPERATIONS   Alexander to Serve as Eisenhower’s Deputy—Cunningham to Direct Allied Navies.

Eisenhower Confers With Staff Officers  Completion of Unifie Command for Final

HARDEST STORY HE EVER WROTE    Editor Forced To Tell Of Own  Son's Death In War

Panama City War Work Area Plans Under Revision  Gulf Cou may Ales fected B

New Labor Rules Effective Today  2 8* & Beane ——s 2 ory poy Ss   Minimum Regulations Are Listed

OTRINGENT LABOR RULES IN EFFECT   Federal Controls on Migration and Job Changes Begin Today.

JAPANESE ACTIVITIES IN CHINA INDICATE THEY MAY BE SEEKING CONSOLIDATE IMPORTANT GAINS

The War Today— : New Jap Yangtze Drive Threatens Rich Chinese Agricultural Region

THE WAR TODAY~*YY'""*  t New Thrust of (Japs in China ‘Holds Danger

CHINA IS FACING CHUNGKING THREAT   Japs Out. To Consolidate Important Territory Along Yangtze

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Japs’ Impending Attack 4 China Dangerous ssue For Allies

EDSEL B. FORD DIES IN DETROIT TODAY   Only Son of Henry Ford; Had Been Ill for One Week.

UNDULANT FEVER FATAL TO FORD MOTOR CO. HEAD   Edsel Bryant Ford, 49, Suc: cumbs At Detroit; Loss To Nation Great

P-385 COLLIDE; FQUR ARE KILLED   "Matin Wet Army Pilot  ‘West Coast

Three Children and Pilot Die in Flames  When Plane, Spinning Out of Air ‘Collision, Rams Into Housing Project

INVEST IN AMERICA BUY WAR BONDS !   Central Pacific Command Created By US Navy

AMERICA BUY WAR BONDS !      Central Pacific Command Created By US Navy

Byrnes Has Hands Full In New Job   Kind Of Bickering Under New Setup Would Be Weleome

GOONEY GIRLS GUSH OVER FRANK SINATRA   Beiween 5,000 and 6,000 Scream, Claw And Pull Hair To Reach Singer

Frankie Sinatra Mobbed by Girls   Youngsters Scream and Pull Hair To See Idol of Jitterbugs

SINATRA ARRIVAL “CAUSES “GIRL TAM      Furore at Pasadena Station When Jitterbug Idol Arrives in West

‘Teen Age Girls Fight Over Station Platform To View Jitterbug Idol

LANGHORNE JR. SOROSIS TO RESUME ACTIVITIES   First Meeting of Season Will Be Held Next Week   LOCAL SOCIAL AFFAIRS

U. S. Landing on Rendova Island Was In'‘Despicable Conditions’ Says Lodge

Americans Heed  Order to Hold —   Allied Warplanes and British Naval Power Cover Enemy with Curtain of Fire; Germans Forces to withdraw from Wedge Driven into 5th Army Beachhead

GRIM NEWS FOR NAZIS CAME FROM TWO VITAL WAR AREAS THURSDAY  ALLIES HURLED GERMANS BACK AT SALERNO; NOVOROSSISK TAKEN

Hold Firmly in Italy, Soviets I akeVital Point   Americans at Salerno Lash out at Germans, British Advance in South; Nazi Position In Caucasus in Jeopardy.

Hitler Hard Hit on Two War Fronts   Black Sea Naval Base Lost to Russians as Fifth Army Hurls Nazis Back fram Sal‘erno Bridgehead in italy

Allies Hurl Nazis Back From Salerno Bridgehead; Soviets Capture Big Black Sea Base

Clinch — Italian Foothold   Germans Pushed Back: As Allies Take the ; Offensive; 8th Army. . Takes Port of Scalea

THREE SHIPS IN ENEMY. CONVOY NEAR AUSTRALIA REPORTED SUNK AND OTHERS UNDER ATTACK-AXIS COUNTER-BLOWS IN TUNISIA ARE. ‘HURLED BACK AND ALLIES CON“CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCES

JAPAN TO. FAGE ~ HEAVIER BLOWS   Undersecretary of War Patterson Promises   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS   Reports Progress in Offensive Actions in- Solomons And New Guinea

Allies To Deal Japs Hard Blows   Patterson Predicts Increased Attacks

New Offensives Against Japs  Are Promised   Patterson, Knudsen Arrive for Meetings With MacArthur on Action in Southwest

ON JAPS WILL BE INCREASE   New Heavier Blows te Be Dealt Japs Soon, : Patterson Says

Patterson Says Blows of Great Strength to be Delivered  REPORT GIVEN ON ALLIED PROGRESS Assistant Wor Secretary  Accompanied by Knudsen

Cheaper Licenses  For Automobiles   Fix Flate Rate of $10 for Passenger Cars

FCC Is Under Fire Of House Committee  ‘Charge Power Used Tx Destroy Free Speech

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER OPERATION OF MINES; FDR 10 SPEAK TONIGHT AT 9   Coal Miners Expect Soldiers To March Into Digging Shortly

U. M. W. Defies President's  Plea for Work   Roosevelt Will ddress Nation Tonight

Doubt Expressed Whether 521 ,000 Now Idle Miners will Respond to Plea; Roosevelt To Speak At 8 P. M. Today

Roosevelt Plea  Received Coldly   Military Protection Guaranteed; President Broadcasts Tonight

TO OPERATE COAL MINES   Military Protection Offered Men Who Will Work

Union Men Stand Firm BehindChie   Doubts Expressed As to Mine Workers Hecdine FDR Plea

TWO PEOPLE KILLED ‘IN TEXAS RACE RIOT   1,600 State Guardsmen Patrol City Today

Nazis Stiffen, Block British At Tunis Rim   Americans, French Score Important Gains, But German Shock Troops Hur! Back English At Diebel Bou Aoukaz

Heavy Fighting On American Front in Tunisia Reported   Number of Counter-attacks Launched in Trying ¢ Block Continuing U. S. Advance—Allied * Forces Slice Deeper

Germans Burning Rostov As Soviets Surround That City   Vital Kharkov-Bryansk Railway Cut When Zolachev Captured By Russians

City is Half Encircled By Smashing Offensive   Say ‘Nazis Set Rostoy Afire; Axis Lines Reported Crumbling Along 400 Mile Front .

‘Tighter Net Is Drawn Around Rostov   Germans Reported Burning City Bafore Retreating

CITY PARTLY ENCIRCLED BY STEEL RING   Fires Reported Raging in Rostov—Germans Believed Preparing to Evacuate Race.   BARRIERS TO SOVIET PUSH TOPPLE FAST   More Towns Captured by Russians in Drive— Fighting in Some Sectors Savage,

UKRAINE CITY NOW PARTIALLY RINGED BY GUNS   Soviet Forces Also Tightening Their Net on Other Major German Base of Rostov   ONLY 15 MILES FROM METROPOLIS ON DON   Invaders Reported to Have Set City Afire in Apparent Plans to Evacuate Forces

Driving Reds Reach Suburb: Of Kharkov   ” Vital German Base Is More Than Half Encireled

Vital Base Near Encirclemes Reds Drawing Net Tighter’ Around Burning Rostov ~

Limited Opening For 17-YearOids In Naval Aviation Now   They Can Use Only A Few So Want The Best Boys Available

Surtax May Yet Be Turned Down  House Could Muster Its Power To Rejeet Veto  so. 2a’ ara? see Bes. eeeeer a’ a”

Allied Warplanes Lash Japs On Rising Scale From Burma To South Seas In New Action

Japs Are Hit Hard In Pacific   Allied Airplanes Attack in Rising Scale; Sees Victory

ALLIES POUNDING JAPANESE BASES IN PACIFIC ZONE   Nipponese Survivors of   New Guinea Invasion Army Fight Last Stages of Losing Rattle.

Guadalcanal Fighting Described By B. H. Mar   Long, Difficult Fight Ahead, But Japs Are Being _Annihilated, Declares ‘Marine Colonel ° By she p- ‘HM dacchka

Attack Tempo Increases in Global Fight   Jap Armies Pushed Into Last Stage of Bitter Fighting  CAPTURE FOE GUNS  Report 15 Japs Killed to  One American Lost in Jungle

Allied War Planes Rule Pacific Sky   Blast Jap Bases from Burma to South Seas; Draw Noose Tighter  On Nips at Sanananda

Allies Hit Japs On Wide Front   Further Gains Against Trapped Enemy in New Guinea Announced

JAPS BOMBED IN BURMA AND NEW GUINEA      It's Question of Time, General Says, Until Guadalcanal Won

FURY OF ALLIED ASSAULT RISES   Survivors of Jap Invasion Ar. my Make Last Stand in New Guinea

Yanks Slay 186 Nips on Guadalcanal   Vital Hill Falls in Fierce American Solomons Thrust

Nips Blitzed From Isles To Burma   Allied Warplanes Hit Strategic Bases As MacArthur Drivea On,   Gain Guadal Hill   Army and Marines Kill 186 Japs and Get Equipment.

NEW GAINS ON NEW GUINEA BY GROUND FORCES   ‘Last Stages of Losing Battle Being Fought by Orientals on Narrow Defense Lane

Allied Planes Hit Japs on Rising Scale   MacArthur’s Forces Make Further Gains Against Japs Trapped on Papuan Beach; RAF Bombers Hit Burma

Attack Tempo - Inereases in Global Fight   Global Fight  Jap Armies Pushed Into Last Stage of Bitter Fighting  CAPTURE FOE GUNS  Report 15 Japs Killed to One American Lost in Tungle

Allied Planes Hit Japanese on Risine Scale in Pacific   MacArthur's Men Make ‘Further Gains’ On New Guinea Front

ALLIED WARPLANES SWEEPING SKIES OF WIDE PACIFIC AREA  LAST REMNANTS OF JAP FORCE OF 15,000 ON NEV GUINEA FACE DEATH

SWEEPING SKIES FROM BURMA TO SOUTH SEAS   In Land Fighting General cArthur’s HeadquartAnnounce ‘Further ‘us’ Against Trapped emy Forces On Papuan  ach In New Guinea.

ALLIED PLANE MAOH AT JAP o ON ALL FRONTS   “Further Gains” Scored On Guadalcanal And New Guinea

Allies Bomb Japanese In Far Pacific   Raids Reported On Rising Scale; Push On In New Guinea   Jap Stronghold On Guadalcanal Taken   Enemy Dead Totals 186 and a Number of Guns Are Captured

Further Gains Made in Papua   Planes Hitting Japs on Rising Secale

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSEIN THE PACIFIC GAINS   MacArthur Also Reports Advances On Land

Japs Fighting Losing Battle onNew Guinea   RAF Ranges into Jap Held Burma to Strafe Rail and River Transportation

ALLIES INCREASE PLANE WARFARE AGAINST JAPS   Further Gains Made on Nip ponese in New Guinea Front

Yankee Raids  On Japs Grew   MacArthur Pictures Foe As Fighting Losing Battle At Sanananda Point.

GOP fo Join in Demand — for Delay   Work on Compromise on Subsidies as U. 5. Senate Plan

Showdown Loom On Food Subsidy Isstie  Senate Bloc Tinkers With Prospect

Subsidy Vote, Delay Sought   Republican’ Bloc Hoping To Study. Canada: Plan “Before Balloting:

Want Decision On Subsidies   Bloe Of Senate Republicans Appear To Join Opponents For Showdown.

Imminent Rome Landing Seen   ~-Report Pope Renewing Open City Attempts

PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED BY FDR   First One Since WallaceJones Dispute Burst, Expected on Friday.

HINT WALLAGEJONES INQUIRY IS HEADED OFF   Doubt Roosevelt Will In. tervene Now In Dispute

President ° May Act In Capital Ficht   “First Conference Since Trouble Began Is Scheduled Today

Plan Probes Of War Costs, Capital Feud   Investigations Bloom Along Several Lines As President Signs Huge Military Bill

Inquiries Plentiful In Congress   Investigate War Costs, JonesWallace Feud, and Federal  ~ Communications Commission: :

CONGRESS IN INQUIRY MOGI   Jones-Wallace Feud, War Costs, FCC Subjects of Proposed Probes,

Find Eating Most Fun   ‘Eggs, Milk, and Meat Greatest: Treat to Flyers Back in U. S. A.

Cite Army Chiefs In Cantempt Case   “ca. Se_eczive Service Soarc Tirs- in  faine Wit _nver.cory

EXPECT ‘INVASION’ COMMAND WILL BE FORMULATED SOON   Many In London Feel Establishment of Such an Allied ‘Command Will Be Early Sequel to Tri-Partite Meet

Seen As Sequel to Moscow Paci  Allied High Command Expected to Come Soon

Britons, Expect Invasion Chiefs To Be Named   Formation of Council Believed Approved At Moscow Talks

Shape Second  Front Board   London Sees Establishment Of Command As Early Sequel To Talks.

EARLY ESTABLISHMENT OF HIGH COMMAND FOR WESTERN ASSAULT ON EUROPE EXPECTED

FANS CERIN   American Heavy Bombers Strike Enemy, Aided By Fighters.

SECOND FRONT 1S NOW CONSIDEREL   Assault From West Expected As An Early Sequel to Moscow Conference.

39 Leave to Begin Army Camp Life   Several Others Enter Other Branches of Armed Service

30 Leave to Begin Army Camp Drill   16 Others Accepted by Navy Already Have Started Work

CASTORIA MYSTERY SOLVED, 'TIS SAID   Product Back “on Market After Nausea Caused

City Woman's Father Dies   Mike H. Thomas, 77: Multi-Millionaire Cotton King, Passes

mnnennreninninnontnsieenaminie  Only Three Pairs A Year, G-0-5-H!

UNITED FRENGH EASE QUARREL   Obstacles Cleared Away For Efficient Rule In Wartime

MeNuttVisions Extension of  48-Hour Areas   Says Regions Other Than 32 Named Face Labor Crises

48 Hour Work * Week Nullifies Short Contracts   WMC Commission. Clarifies Order; Com" pensation Rates Given

McNutt Says Labor Shortage Areas Soon To Be Extended To Many Other Regions

SIX WARSHIPS LOST BY U. 3. IN TWO MONTHS   Destroyer Maddox Sunk Off Sicily; Sub Is Overdue From Operations   Gunboat Blown Up

SIX VESSELS -OFU.S. LOST   Loss of Warships An nounced by the Navy . - Department

SIX AMERICAN WARSHIPS LOST LAST 2 MONTHS   Submarine Pickerel And ' Destroyer Maddox Head The List   110 COMBAT CRAFT DESTROYED SO FAR

Navy Announces Loss of Six Of Its Vessels *  Destroyer Largest of U. S, Craft Named in Communique as Sunk

12,000 CASUALTIES — MOVED BY PLANES   Deaths “Amazingly” Few Once the Wounded Reach Hospital.

Anmy Chiefs Issue Peace Ultimatum To Bulgarian Government; Report Nation Threatened By Civil War

MARAUDERS ATTACK AMSTERDAM   Other Force Hits At Boulogne On French Coast

ILS. BOMBERS IN NEW ATTACK ON WEST GERMAN   Marauders Raid Air Field Todoy in Holland   138 NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN ON SATURDAY

Democratie Leaders in Congress Have Next Say; McNutt Refuses to Delay Induction

SENATORS PLOT TO HALT PLANS SET FOR DRAFT   McNutt Says Call Of Fathers Can Not Be Delaved

Can’t Delay Dads’ Draft      Congressional Leaders to: -Determine Course of Ac-' tion in Wheeler’s Charge 

MCNUTT ORDERS DADS INDUCTED   OCT, +DATE SET AS WHEELER SEEKS LAW REVERSING DIRECTIVE

AWAIT ACTION BY DRAFT BLOC   Dem J.eaders Study Wheel: er’s Plea To Recall  Congress

HUGE DAMAGES At INFLICTED LONDON CLAIMS   Russian Hold Upon Kharkov Seriously Threatened By German Offensive

Weather Will Remain Mild   Temperatures Are 25 Degrees Above Normal In Kansas

TOO GOOD TO LAST   But Mild Spring Weather Will Hold Over Tonight

FDR Talks Of Message OnInflation   President Expresses Hope  That Compulsory Saving May Net Be Necessary

SPECIFIC TAX PLANS EVADED BY ROOSEVEL   President Says Jt Is Up to Congress; Plans Message Dealing With Inflation   AGAINST SALES TAX   Says One Is Possible Over His Veto; Declines Comment Withholding Tax May Reach 406¢

Message Near By President On Inflation  Chief Executive Says Confusion Must be Dispelled

FDR May Give Inflation Views  Whole Field May Be Covered In  Congressional Message

U.S. Inflation Confusion May Prompt Message to Congress By Roosevelt!

New Taxes Left Up to Coneress   President Prefers Not Tec Provide the Blueprint On Inflation Controls   HOPES TO DISPEL THE CONFUSION   He May Send Message To Congress Dealing With Entire Field of Inflation

FDR Outlines Money Status   President Opposed To Sales Tax: Inflationary Gap Widening.

FDR TALKS OF TAX PROBLEMS   President May Send Message To Congress — Defends  Siuheidisae hvu Inferenca

AIR ANT SFA \  DEFEAT AXIS.   Australian air command er says they bring defeat to Japs and Nazis

MAY RETURN T0 AUDIBLE SIGNAL TO END ALERTS   Test In Phila. District ...roves Successrs avi

RAF Branches New Lines on. ‘Mediterranean  Extends Fighting _ Ove Area from Aegean to. French Riviera ~~

BRITISH STRIKE FROM NEW BASE   Development Of Another Invasion Wing Begins  After Taking Coo

RAF STRIKES FROM DODECANESE BASE   Planes Soar From NewlyConquered Coo Island; Develop Right Wing of Immense Invasion Line

Allied Front Spreads in Island Zone   Right Wing Develops As RAF Planes Extend Operations

'R. A. F. Fighter Planes Strike at Nazis From Newly-Won Dodecanese Island

RAF Operates From Captured Aegean Islands   Great Allied Drive Develops Over Whole South of Europe

Enemy Has Trouble Getting Away Retreat From Central  Solomons Is A Hell Of  Cannon Fire For Japs

US Warships Blast Japs’ Evacuation   Bring Deom To Rie Enemu Fares

Japs’ Evacuation of Solomons is Hell of  Shell, Black Water   Whole Flotillas of Nip Barges Destroyed U. S. Naval Command

USED BY JAPS IN EVACUATION   Retreat From Central" Solomons Is Costly to Nipponese Forces

Japs Retreat From Central Solomons   Destroyers Smashing Jap Rescue Boats And Enemy Troops

\ALLIES DESTROYING JAP EVACUATION IBARGES IN PACIFIC.   Adm. Halsey Sends Destroyer Fleet In To Clean Up Craft

Yanks Destrov Escape Barges   Enemy Vessels Attemptin: To Withdraw Kolomban fara Force Kscape.

Japs Flee On Solomons Amid ‘Cannon Fire Hell’   U. S. Destroyers Move Onto Scene To Rain Destruction On Jap Evacuation

U. S. Warships Pour Devastation On Jap Boats Evacuating Solomons

U. S. Warships Blast Japs’ Solomons Evacuation Fleet, Doom Jap Force.   Halsey’s Naval Force Sinks More Than Forty -Barges Filled With Fleeing Enemy; Very Few Reach Destination.

FORCING JAPS OUT   Evacuation of Kolombangara Harried by U. S.  Planes and Boats

Jap Retreat Disastrous   Hundreds Slain, Drowned As Yanks Sink Barges

Yank Warships Sink Jap Barges   Many Carrying Japs From Kolombangara Blasted by Shellfire

HALSEY'S FORCE SINKS 40 BARGES IN GULF OF VELA   HUNDREDS OF JAP SOLDIERS KILLED, WOUNDED, DROWNED

U. 5. Warships Blast Loaded Nippon Barges   Unknown Number of Japs Attempting to Flee Sent to Bottom

Jap Retreat In Solomons  Is Shattered   American Ships Blasting Landing Barges Out of Water Wholesale

Jap Barges Blasted   More Than a Hundred Believed Destroyed in Attempted Evacuation Of Central Solomons

JAPS’ EVACUATION FLEET IN SOLOMONS HEAVILY ATTACKED   Nipponese ‘Attempting to Flee Kolombangara Find Séa  . Escape Routes a Hell of Gunfire and Dark Water

Pacifie Retreat Seen Nightmare For Jap Forces   Central Solomons Flight cported te  Fire And Black Water

FLEEING JAS AT SEE   Destroyers Sink Many Barges, Killing Hundreds Of Enemy.

UNCOUNTED JAP SOLDIERS MEET WATERY GRAVE   Retreat From Central Solomons Has Become Hell Of Cannon Fire and Black Water

Ration Board Aids Congress   Special Service Board Gives Legislators Gas Books — Mostly Cs,

OPA TO DEFENSE OF CONGRESSMEN   Special ‘Ration. Board. fo: " Members Merely Speeds -. Aplications :

SUPER-SERYICE RATION BOARDS ARE DEFENDED   OPA Statement Denies They Give Congressmen Anything They Are. Not Entitled to   EXPEDITES NEEDS   Board Has No Special List of Representatives Receiving Special Service

SUPER RATION CHARGE MADE   Story Says Congressmen Have Secret Gas Supply Method. '

SPECIAL RATIONS TO CONGRESSMEN   OPA ADMITS UNLISTED QUICK SERVICE BOARD FOR NATION'S SOLONS

Ration Board Is Operated For Congress   Quick Service Is Given Lawmakers Who Seek “C” Cards For Their Gasoline Supply

SUPER-SPECIAL RATION BOARD FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 10 GET TIRES, GAS DISCLOSED  Rationing Unit Set Up To Handle Only Special! Requests From U. S. Legislators

Semi-Secret Ration Board Set Up for  Members Congress   Feared Its Revelation May Bring About Row ~—Like Last Year's

Super Rationing For Congressmen   An Unlisted Agency Handles Quick Action Cards For Law Makers.

Special Board Not Handing Out Favors   Congressmen Supplied Gas And Tires Through Special Agency Under OPA

TEXAS SULPHUR OUTPUT IS PAID HIGH TRIBUTE   In Awarding “E” to Frgeport Sulphur Company Saturday

HEAVY RAIDS MADE ON KISKA   Co-Ordinated Sea-Air Offensive Under Wavy

Kiska Bombed B: Naval Aircraft —   Attacks Preceded, Warship Shelling

Many Fires, One Large Explosion Noted.....  Kiska Blasted By Both Warships & Bombers

Kiska Damaged By Combined Air ‘And Sea Attacks   Heavy Warships, Planes Soften Up Jap Defenses

THE BOMBARDMENT OF KISKA PRECEDED BY HEAVY AIR RAIDS     As a Result Enemy Coastal Batteries and Anti-Aircraft Positions Were Hit.   MANY FIRES STARTED   Canadian Flyers Are Participating in the Campaign, it Was Said.

Navy Blast Is Followed By Planes   One American Plane Shot Down But Rescue Crew By Navy—Many Fires And Big Explosion

Hard Raids Open Path For Attack Upon Kiska   Aerial Force Used To Blast Path For Ships

Hint Sea-Air Drive Against Kiska Started   Aertal Raids Accompany Naval Bombardment Of Foe’s One Base Left In Aleutians

SOFTENING UP KISKA DEFENSE   ticipating in Attacks. Canadians Also Attacking

Heavy Air Assault On Kiska After Ships’ Attack   Raid By Planes  Also Preceded Recent Shelling By Fleet: Softening Up Japs

JAPS HIT HARD IN KISKA RAID   CANADIAN WARPLANES JOIN IN ATTACKS ON KEY ALEUTIANS BASE

—NAVY COMMUNIQUE—  Kiska Hit A Double Blow   Bombers Strike Before and After U.S. Warships

Navy Announcement Reveals Kiska Bombardment Preceded By Heavy American Air Raid:

AERIAL ASSAULTS ACCOMPANIED KISKA SHEUING   Japs Coastal’ Batteries, Anti Aircraft’: Positions and  Buildings Were Hit in :the ' Combined Operations

Soviets Half Five Attacks   Heavy Losses Suffered By Germans In Attacks

Sovieis Make New Gain in Kuban Seetor   Waves of Nazis Fall Back from Stony Red Lines

BELIEVES PROVISIONAL  GOVERNMENT SOLUTION Hindus, Mozlems Can Work Together

Indian Leader Demonstrates Willingness to Compromise   Mohamed Ali-Jinnch Has Program for Moslem State in Parkeston; Offers to © Join Hindus in Government for Duration

MOSLEM LEADER WOULD BE WILLING TO COMPROMISE  Plan That Would © Ultimately Effect Ar  Vow Nm ed ent Sata

GERMAN PLANES ATTACK AGAIN   London Undergoes Second Raid In 12 Hours.

JAP DEFENSES OF SALAMAUA BAACKED OPEN   Fall Of New Guinea Bastion Reported As Imminent By Gen. MacArthur

Enemy Abandons Guns, Equipment   Victory ‘Imminent’, MacArthur Reports

Fallof Jap Stronghold Is Imminent   Salamaua Defenses Cracked; Enemy In ‘Full Retreat

Foe Is Driven Into Retreat At Salamaua   Fall Of Japanese Stronghold On Huon Gulf Is  Reported Imminent   LINE IS SMASHED   Collapse OF Enemy Defenses Presages Cleanup In New Guinea Areas

SUBSIDY HITS. ANOTHER SNAL   TAFT COMPROMISE PROPOSAL 18 GIVEN, COOL RECEPTION “BY LEADERS. OF BOTH FACTIONS

INCREASE IN GAS SUPPLIES FOR DISTRICT      Announcement Comes Along With That Of Lifting Pleasure Driving Ban

Roosevelts Vote At Hyde Park   Go Through* Usual Routine At :Ballot Box in Town Hall

TREE GROWER ROOSEVELT VOTES FOR LOCAL CANDIDATE AT HYDE PARK POLLS

US Casualties To Be Heavy Says Stimson   Forecasts Heavy Fighting in North Africa; Eisenhower Nominated Full General; FDR to Speak

SECRETARY STIMSON FORECASTS HEAVIER U). $. CASUALTIES  HERSHEY DECLARES FATHERS TO FILL ARMY  Tr hent Frere meat Carer

Stimson Says Many To Die For Country   Heavy Fighting, Many Casualties Predicted Soon

——~ Foaay in Washington—————______ Stimson Sees Heavy Losses for Americans in Africa Fighting

Desperate Situation In Berlin   Panic Stricken Throngs Fight To Escape Bombs In Open Country.

Newton Woman’s Club To Bring News Analyst Here For Forum Program

SHIPYARDS IS HIT BY BLAST: WAYS TORNUP   NAVAL VESSEL DAMAGED WHILE IN WAYS AT TACOMA

Surrender Is Only Means To Avoid Attacks      Allied Radio Charges Badoglio Betraying People Now   CIVILIANS FLEEING.   » Hundreds Of Thousands Racing From Danger Spots In Cities

WAR LEADERS REACH QUEBEC   High Commands Prepare For Momentous Talks

IMPORTANT TALK ARE FURERUNKER OF MAIN SESSION   Attack Strategy cf United Nations Under Supervis:ona of High Commands.

Stockholm Reports U. S Supplies Will Be Sent To Russia Via Alaska

A NEW POLIO CASE HERE   chit Stricken With Disease Taken l Memorial Hospital

A NEW POLIO CASE HERE   Child Stricken With Disease Taken to Bell Memorial Hospital

SPECTACULAR SCORE OF THIRTEEN T0 ONE AGAINST JAPANESE   ANOTHER FLEET RAF _ BLOCK-BUSTER RAIDERS SMASHED AT COLOGNE

Knock Out 77 Jap  Planes in Pacific   American Fliers in a Great Sky Battle Over  Guadalcanal    RAID MADE ON COLOGNE   Block Busters From R. A. F. Fleet, Heap Destruction on City

SPECTACULAR SCORE OF THIRTEEN T0 ONE AGAINST JAPANESE  ANOTHER FLEET RAF  DENY pICrrn BAIrArpa

ONLY SIX NAVY FIGHTERS ARE LOST. RAF RAIDS COLOGNE DROPPING HEAVY BOMB LOADS   Fourteen. Bombers and Oe Fighter Missing from Night Forays; baikans -.ppear Center of New Nerve War as New Turkish Moves Are Rumored

77 Jap Planes Destroyed;New Raid on Europe   Heaviest Loss Ever Suffered By Enemy In Guadalcanal Area; Block Busters Upon Cologne

CHINA GLAD FOR RIGHTS I NEW TREATIES   Nation Celebrates New  Year With This as ’ Principle Theme.   CONFIDENT OF TIES WITH ALLIES   Japs Make  No ' Major Gains in China a  Pearl Harbor.

CHINESE NEW YEAR BEGINS TODAY AND FESTIVAL BEING DEDICATED TO NEW TREATIES

-CHINA TO CELEBRATE TREATIES WITH ALLIES New Year Festival Begins Today

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ) Gen, Chiang Holds China ‘steadfast To Allies Despite Pressure

DAYTON CRASH ~ KILLED EIGHT   FOUR-ENGINED TRANSPORT AND -TWIN-ENGINE CARGO PLANES COLLIDED OVER WRIGHT FIELD

ARMY TO PROBE PLANES’ CRASH   Collision Over Wright Field Kills Eight Members of Crews

Many Germans Expect Purge   Hitler's Secret Police Arrest 34 Persons At Nazi ‘War College.’

HITLER'S SECRET POLICE ARREST MILITARY STUDENTS   Growing Fear That Fuehrer Plans Another  Purge Such as June, 102A

Hint Purge In Germany   May Plan to W Wipe Out Supposed Leaders of Anti-Hitler Movement

RECORD OF FOREIGN DEBT ‘FORGIVENESS’ WANTED BY HOUSE   Treasury Asked For Data After Opposition To Tax Plan

WMC. PLAN HITS AT LABOR PIRACY   First Stabilization Draft Effective in Guif Area Nong ~~

Ship Workers On Coast Are  Froze in Jobs   Cannot Change from One Plant to Another Without Permission of Employer or US Employment Service

Labor “Freezing: Program Started In Gulf Region   Immediate Order Applies To 80,000 Workers In The Mobile District

Unlikely Four-Gallon Area Will Be Extended Eastward, OPA Hints   NEW PROTEST IS HEARD

U.S. Bombers Reportedly Raid Germany   Germans Tell of Furious Aerial Battles

BOMBING RAIDS ARE RESUMED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   American Bombers Hit Germany In Daylight; RAF Night Raiders Out

Jap Losses In Solomons Are  10 To 1, Claim   Foe Loses 7 Planes To One Of Ours, Declares Marine Leader; Force  Cut To 4.000

Vandergrift Reports 10 Japs Killed for Every Yank on Guadalcanal

Victory Is Near on Guadalcanal, Says Marine Lt. Colone!   Japanese Troops There Have Been Whittled Down to 4,000 Men

Japs Lose 10 For One on Guadalcanal   Vandergrift Says U. S. Position on Island. Secure’

JAPS HAVE LESS THAN 4000 LEFT ON GUADALCANAL   COULD BE WIPED OUT IN TEN DAYS WITH FULL OFFENSIVE

“MARINE SAYS . JAPS WHIPPED      Officer Claims " Nipponese Army Whittled*from 1,500 Troops To 4,000

10 Japs Lost For Every One Of Our Boys   Their Plane Losses 7 To Our 1, Says Gen. Vanderegrift

WHITTLE DUWN  JAPS TO 4000 ON GUADALCANAL  American Tre oops Re ported Mopping Up ockets  ENEMY L! LOSSES  OT a rs a   Fixed By Veteran Marine Officer At . "1-000

Veteran Marine Office: Saee End of Campoiun   ‘Japs Tough—Not Super,’ Avers Vandegrift

Says Guadalcanal Victory Possible In Brief Period   Marine Officer States Only 4,000 Japs Remain

GUADALGANAL CAMPAIGN MAY SOON BE ENDED   Veteran Marine Officer's Report Shows Jap Forces on Isle Have Been Whittled to 4,000   LOST 11,000 MEN   Lieut.Col. Lewis B. Puller! Believes Nipponese Can be Wiped. Out in 10 Davs

ENDING BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL   Veteran Marine Officer's Report Indicates Campaign Drawing To Close; Japs Reduced From 15,000 To Under 4,000.

FASCISTS WARNED . THEY CAN EXPECT HEAVIER ATTACKS   Yanks Slug St. Nazaire and La Pallice, U-Boat: Bases, and Also Pound Rennes.   DOOLITTLE’S FLIERS HIT PORT OF LEGHORN   Great Damage Caused to Shipyards—K in g Vittorio — Emanuele Visits Devas-.' tated Sections.

Wickard Says Criticism of Butter Shipments to Russia Is Unjustified

Upholds Butter Sent To Soviet   Should Be Glad To Help, Wickard Says

REDS GET LITTLE BUTTER FROM U.S.   WICKARD SHAMES CRITICISM OF SHIPMENTS

AMERICAN BUTTER IS SENT TO RUSSIA   Wickard Answers Critics of Support to Allies

SLAPPED SOLDIER'S IDENTITY NOT TOL   Definitely. Was Not Charles H. Kuhl of Mishawak, indiana.

TRADE PROGRAM ON HOUSE FLOOR   G. 0. P. Oppesition Stiff As 2-Day Debate Begins

Extension Ot Pacts Is Urged   Nation At Crossroads On Foreign Policy, Says Chairman Doughton On House Committee

ENTIRE GHETTO AT WARSAW IS LIQUIDATED   School Children In Holland Wreck  Cannon

Many Incidents Of Terrorism  Break Out   Germans Try to Trap Patriots by Spreadine Pamnhlet«

REVOLT 1S SWEEPING THRU HOLLAND   Similar , Surge Is Reported In Belgium

70 DIE IN HOLLAND REVOLT; MUSSOLINI TALKS OF INVASION   ‘Nazis . Themselves Incite _ Riot To Find Leaders—  , Patriot Army Of   75,000 Waits —

Nazi-ineited Dutch revolt is spreading   Il duce prepares countrymen for allied invasion

Holland Swept By Nazi-Incited Revolt, Report   Mussolini Prepare Italian People For Invasion By Allies

REVOLT SWEEPING THROUGH HOLLANL   Mussolini Preparing Italians For Possible Invasion By Altied Forces.

Nazi-Inspired Revolt Sweeping Through Holland   Mussolini Prepares Italian People for Allied Invasion.

DUTCH REVOLT 1S NAZLINSPIRED 10 REVEAL LEADERS   Germans Touch-cfl Uprising Now to Uncover Part of lnvasion Plan.

Howard Is In List Of Passengers   Three Children Also Are Victims Of Attack By Enemy On Overseas Airways Transport

‘Transport Plane With 12 on Board Is Missing Today   Leslie Howard, Noted Actor, a Passenger—-Nazis May Have Shot It Down

Leslie Howard, Famous Actor, On Missing Plane   Transport Believed Shot Down By Nazis Enroute To England

RUSSIANS SLICE NAZI OREL LINES   Reds Send Spearheads 25 Miles Through Nazi Lines.

SOVIETS _ BLASTING OUT NEW GAINS IN TWO-PRONG THRUST   Germans Bitterly Resis' Against Capture Of ~ Orel, Held Since: Autumn, 1941

REDS DRIVE INTO EXPOSED NAZI SALIENT   Orel Now Within Range of Soviet Artillery

STRONG POINTS OF NAZIS GRUSHED BY STALWART SOVIETS   Two-Pronged Drive ts Under Way With Germans Losing Ground Gradually.

A HUGE GERMAN ARMY AT OREL IS THREATENED WITH ‘ANOTHER STALINGRAD’   Counter-Offensive Apparently Caught Nazi Savages Napping; Russians Score Gains Up to 28 Miles in An Encircling Movement

RUSSIANS OPEN FIRST SUMMER DRIVE ON OREI   Score Gains Up To 28 Miles In 2-Way Offensive

RUSSIANS SMASH AHEAD NEAR OREL   Red Army Scores New Gains in First Soviet Summer Offensive.

Complete Plans To Offer Ration Stamps In Kitchen Waste Fats Salvage; Starts Dec. 1:

Press Supports Huge Bond Drive   Receives Praise. Of. Moraenthau

Record Firm Pays Crosby $298,916   Andrews Sisters Get  248.306 in 1942

Sales Tax Test Seems Certain   Compulsory Savings  Fight Also Looms

More Changes  Among High Americar Officers Announced For Invasion.

ALLIES WILL INVADE NORTHWEST EUROPE   First Disclosure Of Region To Be Hit Made By U.S.

Everything to Be Thrown at the Enemy   No Agreement Made on Proportion of Troops to Be Used

Yanks Reveal European Invasion Area  High Command Says > Northwest Shore Chasen far Attack

Changes in Red Stamp Values. Are Announced   Two More Ration Points Fixed — For Butter

HOLIDAY TOLL SMALL IN 1940   Wartime Curtailment of Highway Travel Saves Scores of Lives.

Curtailed Travel Saved Lives on 4th  Lowest July Holiday Death Rate in Years Attributed to War

HOLIDAY ACCIDENT LIST GUT SHARPLY   298 Deaths Reported over Week-End; Traffic Fatalities Far Fewer Than Year Aco

HIGHWAY DEATHS LOW ON HOLIDAY   Ration of Gas Credited As Death Toll Held To 298

Curtailment Of Travel Saves Many Lives; Only 307 Holiday Fatalities

FOURTH ACCIDENT TOLL 1S LOWEST   No Fireworks’ orks’ Deaths in Nation

ACCIDENTS FEW OVER HOLIDAYS   AP Survey Lists Only 127 Traffic Fatalities in Nation.

LOW DEATH TOLL FOR NATION OVER HOLIDAY WEEK-ENI   _ 298 Deaths Occurred Over Week-End But Only 127 Were Traffic Accidents

GASOLINE RATIONING CHECKS ACCIDENTS   Curtailment on ‘Driving Is Saving Lives

Holiday Death Toll Is. Light   Resorter Drowns At Saugatuck. Monday

MILITARY TRAFFIC JAMMING COASTAL AREAS IN BRITAIN      Speculations Mounts As Observers Believe Zero Hour Is Nearing

FIVE ARE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Car Strikes Culvert and Overturns Near Huyetts

FIVE ARE INJURED IN HIGHWAY CRASH   Auto and Army Truck Col. lide on Route 40 Sunday

IN THE ARMY 45 YEARS   Brig. Gen. Donald A. Robinson to Retire on March 31

Phillips Says Didn't Do If   Ex-Governor Denies Snatching Cash Offered On Parole

PHILLIPS DENIES PRUITT’S STORY   Congressional Medal Awarded Airman for Heroic Duty in Pacific

entra Seam GE Deere et oameme SL TTC  Actors Want Dies Committee To Desist

HITS POLISH '39 BORDER CLAIMS   Russian Bulletin Rejects Proposal

SLOW GAINS AT MUNDA FOR U.S.   Violent Battle Rages at Close Range for Possession of Island Air Strip.

DOOM NEAR FOR MUNDA NIPPONS   NEW GEORGIA BASE IS SURROUNDED BY YANK INFANTRYMEN

YANKS ADVANCE ON MUNDA BASE   Airfield Useless To Japs But Would Be Help To Allies In Pressing Offense

YANKS FIGHTING ENEMY ON EDGE OF MUNDA FIELL   dl Violent Battle Reported As ® Troops Seck to Take Air Strip

Yankees Break « Through Munda Defense Sector   Japs Trapped, Fall Is Expected Soon

AMERICANS, JAPS FIGHT AT CLOSE GRIPS AT MUNDA   U.S. . Forces, Break Through  Long Covered ‘Trench and Battle . Fiercely on South Edge of the Airfield

U5. INFANTRYMEN  BATTLE VIOLENTLY  FOR MUNDA AIRBASE AMERICANS BREAK  THROUGH LONG, COVERED TRENCH AT CENTED

Line Breached, Nippos Trapped On New Georgia   Long, Bloody Siege In Final Stage; Enemy: Cannot Escape

Breaks In Munda Line   Yanks Drive Into Center Of Vital Airfield On Island

Yanks Fight At Edge Of Munda Fielc   Encirclement Soon To Doom Japanese Force Defending Air Base On New Georgia Isle

U. S. Infantrymen At Grips With Japs   Troopers Battle at Close Quarters Today For Important Munda Airfield in Pacific

Munda Battle Continues Slow ‘And Violent   Infantrymen Fighting’ at  Close Grips With Japs  -on Fringe of Base. Sharp Fighting Reported Near Salamaua.

YANKS BATTLING JAPS AT CLOSE GRIPS ON MUNDA   Hard Fighting For Enemy Base Continues; Sloow-Moving  And Violent Fight.

Invaders About To Take Hills From Japanese   Navy Corsairs Keep Aid From Reaching Enemy Garrison

U.S. Soldiers Break Through Trench of Japs   Reach South Fringe Of Munda Airfield; American Attack Bibolo Hill

PIERCE MAIN NIP LINE AT MUNDA., ADVANGE SLOW   Airmen Chase Japanese from Foxholes, Drop 45 Tons of Bombs

Break Through  Covered Trench   Capture of Air Field Will Be A Serious Blow To Japs   WILL SPELL DOOM OTHER JAP BASES

YANKEES REACH EDGE AIRBASE IN MUNDA FIGHT   ‘Americans Battling Japan_ ese At Close Grips After Breaking Through Covered Trench.

Violent Battles Rage   U.S. Infantrymen Fight At Close Grips With Japanese Af Edge Of Munda Air Field On New Georgia

‘kes Repeats ras Reduction iow Necessary   el Administrator Declares Production Cannot Keep Ahead Of Needs.   JTLINES 4 REASONS   anks At Close Grips On Munda Against Japs

YANKS PIERCE MUNDA’S MAIN DEFENSE LINE   Battle Is Slow Moving, Violent One; Planes Batter Barges

Refrigerator Production  May Resume   WPB May Lift Ban _On Farm Equipment, Other Civilian Items  NELSON EMPHASIZES PUBLIC HEALTH  Disclosure Is Held To Indicate WPB  Sewriwtkeaef& ss &d ¥ ts &e rw .) (oe

Attack Near. On Red Front   Actions Intensified By Russian Soldiers

DEFENSE CORPS — EXPECTS ALERT AND BLACK QUT   Army Command Considers Plans For First State-Wide BlackOut Of War Throughout The Illinois Area.

Nye, OPA Mix On Gas Usage   Senator Replies To Question On Use Of Car For Pleasure Driving.

OPA Wants To Know Why Senator’s Car Was Parked In Front Of Country Club

Three Axis Powers Placed On Defense By Allied Nations   Russia Opens Offensive Killing 12,000 And Captur. ing 2,000 More; Italy And Japan Thrown Back In Sicily And South Pacific

Value of Goods Sent to Soviet Russia Mounts  Shipments to End of Pe .,....t .~ Bm. PR le   Shipments to End of September Run Over Three Billion

AID 10 RUSSIANS OVER $3 BILLION   Thousands of Planes, Tanks, Guns, Other Supplies Provided.

SHIP GOODS TO RUSSIA   ‘Military and  Industrial Material and Food Stuffs on List

‘Ann Sheridan Aims To Please-Or Is It Tease?-In Wartime Sweater Crisis

Allied Forces Regain Posts in Tunisia   Take Positions Lost in Recent. German Drive

ALLIES. “IN TUNISIA REGAIN POSITIONS TAKEN BY GERMANS   Small Force Of Axis Planes Attack Algiers Area-— 4 Enemy Planes Shot Down  t

ARKANSAN INDICTED IN FATAL BUS CRASH   Richard Miller Accused of Negligent Homicide in Accident That Cost Nine Lives.

DAKAR PLEDGED TO AID ALLIES   Governor-General Gives Assurance Avs Giraud Arrives For West Africa Visit

Boisson Renews Pledge To Allies   Giraud-DeGaulle Alliance Favored

British Naval  Force Pounds Italian Boot   Armada Boldly Sweeps Messina Straits to Hit  nF, eee 

British Warships Pulverize Toe of Italian  a a a ee ee ae  ene in Pini - War’ S ata Bombardments

British Battleships Shell Shore Batteries at Reqgio Calabria, Italy

Canning Sugar  Plans Are Made   Maximum Allowance Of 25 Pounds Per Person An. nounced By O P A.   OTHER REGULATIONS FOR CANNING GIVEN

THIRD PARTY PLAN LAID TO WILLKIE   WRITER REPORTS STUDY MADE OF PLACING CANDIDATE IN THE FIELD.

GIRAUD OFFERS TO RESIGN POST   Willing to Quit as Chief o: French Armed Forces

REPORTED: FINLAND HAS BEEN ADVISED OF U.S. INTENTION   Link Rumors To Germany’s New ‘Strecng Demands Of Recent Weeks .  On Finns

REPORT US. WARNED FINNS   Diplomatic Relations  May Be Broken Gf

SAY U, S.-FINN BREAK IS NEAR   U. S, Intention to End ‘ Relations Trans-

STOCKHOLM HEARS OF - U.S.-FINLAND BREAK   Unconfirmed Reports Spread Over City That the United States Has Informed Finland of Severance — of Diplomatic Relations—State Department  Officials Offer No Comment Today.

Reports Spread J.S. To Sever —  I innish Relations      Removal of Diplomats ‘Lends Credence To -~Rumors In Stockholm -

HINTS AT NEW ALLIED DRIVES   Axis Commentator Expects Other Attacks Against Southern Europe

Red Army Closes in on Vital Oil Fields  and Railway Centers   Germans Retreating in Caucasus Are Driven  Back Steadily

REDS CAPTURE RAILROAD CITY      Drive Steadily Westward on Plains Near Voronezh Today.   HAND TO HAND FIGHTING

page  ALP ws oye  MS aK 30  N yo" ie  \ 9 oS ve re, 9   «is Lose 9000 Men In Killed and Captured West of Voronezh; Three Generals Are Captured

RED FORCES DRIVE STEADILY FORWARD WEST OF VERONEZH   Capture Of 33 More Place: Reported, 3,000 Killed € 420 Prisoners Taken

Voronezh Offensive Nets 33 More Cities, Advance 12.5 Miles   Capture 6000 Enemy Troops Last Night on Mid-Russian Front, Three Generals in Group

ENCIRCLEMENT IN CAUCASUS IS GOING FORWARD   Ine Russian Army In Possession Of Vital Rail City; Pincers Movement Around Maikop Oil Field Closing In.

RUSSIANS CLAIM STEADY ADVANGE   More Than 9,000 Germans Killed and Captured In Battle   3 GENERALS HELD   Spread Of Soviet Pincers Around Maikop Is Reported

REDS TEARING  INTO FLANKS OF DEFEATED FOE   Retreating Germans Lose 9,000 Killed and Captur-. ed In Kharkov and  Kursk Sectors —   FOE FAILS TO STEM ONRUSHING SOVIETS   Capture of Kastornoye Be. tween Voronezh and Kursk Affected By Sharp Attacks

RUSSIANS ARE TEARING INTO GERMAN FLANKS   Soviets Take Three Generals; Push Germans Back 12 Miles

NAZI EFFORTS T0 STEM DRIVE UNSUCCESSFUL   9,000 Killed And Captured As Russians Advance 12 Miles

Reads Capture 9000 Nazis Near Voronezh  Caucasus Drive Is   Caucasus Drive Is Stepped Up; Nazis Lose Oil Wells

Germans Lose 9000 Men In Falling Back   Three Generals Counted Among Troops Captured On Plains Of Voronezh

MoreCaptured On Voronezh Sector  Russians Hang o on Nazi Retreat, Kill or Cap ture 9, ny  3 GENERALS IN BAG        Encirclement of Maikop - Oil Field by Reds Is  Imminent

Red Army Drives Steadily Against Retreating Nazis   German Losses Reported Heavy By Russians

Soviets Reported 75 Miles From Kharkov and Kursk; Other Troops Are Closing In On Important med Junctions In Caucasus

Reds 75 Miles From Kursk And Kharkov   Russians Smash At Flanks Of Nazi Troop: West Of Voronezh For 12-Mile Advance: - 6,000 Enemy Soldiers Captured

PORTANT R.R. JINCTION FALLS BEFORE ATTACK   Three Generals Among 6.000 Nazis Taken At Voronezh

SPECTACULAR GAINS MADE BY RUSSIANS   Take Important Middle Front City and Close Pincers in Caucasus.   Smashing New Blows in Voronezh Area

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE KEY RAIL CITY FROM AXIS   Forces Closing In On Two Vital Centers In South

HITLE 9,000 MEN IN RED ADVANCE      Mounting German CounterAttacks Fail To Stem Steady Drive of Soviet Forces  t

‘RED ARMY FORCES DRIVING STEADILY FORWARD ON PLAINS  DETDOATIAC CRPDMARIC

Germans Fail To Halt Reds On Any Front   Counter ‘Attacks: Fizzle; Trapped  Nazis Surrender

Thrust Nazi Units Back 1? Miles   9,000 Germans Killed or Captured; 3 Generals Taken

GERMANS PRESS RESERVES INTO RUSSIAN SCRAF   But Soviet Army Rolls Un checked—Nazis Lose 9,000 Killed, Captured

Russians Drive Steadily Ahead  Tear Into Flank« of   Tear Into Flanks of Retreating Nazis

FAST P-T BOATS STRIKE BLOWS AT JAP BASES   Airfields On New Britain And Enemy Shipping Are Attacked   NUMEROUS NIP BARGES REPORTED DESTROYED

GILBERT GROUP ISLAND BOMBED   Navy Liberators Blast Makin Seaplane Haven Without Losses

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   MILLION DOLLAR FIRE   @ Northern California Disaster Proves To Be Expensive

- _— ~~ ere  FOREST FIRES ARE WORSE THAN IN “42   Increase Due To Excessive Drought But Picture Still Looks Bad.

FOREST FIRES ARE WORSE THAN IN “42   Increase Due To Excessive Drought But Picture Still Looks Bad.

MacAvoy Sentenced  To Chair   .. + Execution Set For Dec. 30; Will Appeal

ATTEMPT 10 PUSH CIVILIAN SUPPLY   Clean Senate Docket, Backers Urge Senate of Maloney Bill

Two Reduced in. Rank Following. Moscow Parles   Demotions Announed -~ As War Departmen Mokes Shakeup

IN aples Within Range of ‘Allied Guns Following Capture of Two Islands   Aerial Support of American, British Troops Maintained; Allies Pour Men, Supplies Ashore Below Salemo

Plan On Large Wheat Reserve   Farmers Will Be Asked To Boost *44 Acreage

Davis Hopes To Build Up  Wheat Reserve   Farmers to be Asked to Increase  A rraaga (‘ancidarahly

Yanks Leave Target Ablaze, Fight Way Through Half-Hour Rocket Ship Attacks

AUGSBURG AND INNSBRUCK ON TARGET SLATI   Aerial Might MHurled Against Reich Territory by U.S. Warplanes From West, South   Down 43 Fighters ly ASSOCIATED PRESS

5000 Deferred Men in State Now Face Draft   Selective Service Head Warns Employers To Train Replacements  AFFECTS 2A, 2B  Onl. MW... So ee ee

ROUND - CLOCK ALLIED BLOWa SMASH AT FOE   American Aerial Activites Cost Germans 52 Planes In Desperate Battles

22 PLANES ARE LOST BY AXIS NORTH AFRICA   Russian Army Closes In On  Axis In Caucasus

Italy, Ruhr Severely  Bombed   American Planes in North African Raids — Reds —  Push on Rostov

Marines Now Mile and Half From Airport   Marshalls Hit Again; Japs Lose 37 Planes In Battle Over Arawe  12 JAP SHIPS SUNK

Marines Near Jap Airfield   Subs Sink Jap Ships And Pianes Hit Bases

Marines Close In On Jap Air Base  On New Britain   37 Japanese Planes Shot Down in Battle Over Arawe Sector

U.S. Subs Sink 12 Jap Ships; Enemy Loses 3] Planes   Marines Beat Off Heavy Counter Attack in New Advance

Air Warfare Sets Record  During June  R. A. F. Alone Has Dropped  13,500

Air Warfare Sets Record During June   R.A. F. Alone Has Dropped 13,500 Tons on Germans

Allies Finish Reeord Month ‘In Air Warfare   13,500 Tons of Bombs  Assail German Targets, Messina Area Hit Avain

BLAST 20 NAZI LOCOMOTIVES   Allied Planes Pound French Coast Area; Fortresses Raid Le Mans

Record Month Of Aerial Warfare Ends   RAF Planes Shoot Up 20 Locomotives, Yanks Raid Le Mans

FRENCH BASES ARE RAIDED BY BRITISH   Locomotives Shot Up in Sweep During the Dov

Record Month Of Aerial Warfare Ends  RAF Planes Shoot Up   RAF Planes Shoot Up 20 Locomotives, Yanks Raid Le Mans

Allied Planes Blast France   20 Locomotives Shot Up by Air Raiders

20 Locomotives Shot Up In Air Raids On North France  Aerial Forces Cap Record Month Of Battle fn Which Thousands Of Tons Slap Germans

Seize Heights Without Losing a Man in Early ‘Morning Fierce Attack

Boys Mangled By "Dud" Shell   Youngsters Throw 55 Millimeter Shell on Bonfire: It Explodes

BARKLEY GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE   THREATENS TO QUIT AS LEADER I¥ DEPRIVED OF APPOINTIVE POWERS.

BARKLEY IS GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE   Senator Threatened te Quit if Stripped of  Power

Democrats Give Barkley  Confidence Vote  Majority Leader Threatened  te, Raciaqn Paci

SEN. BARKLEY — -- RETAINS POWEF   Majority Leader Threaten ed To Resign At Party Caucus

Confidence Vote As Demo Leader  Senator Threatened to. Resign’ if. Powers Wana Takoncdwae

BARKLEY WINS CAUCUS FIGHT   Plan to Strip Him of Power to Name Steering Committee Defeated

Barkley Wins Senate Fight By 34-20 Vote   Threatens to Quit lf Stripped of His Appointive Powers

BARKLEY 1S GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE   Senate Democratic Caucus Fills Vacancies After 34-20 Ballot

Democrats Give Barkley Confidence Vote  Fe ee Os ee eee   Majority Leader Threatened to Resign Post

MINERS WALK OUT: FEAR NEW POWDER   Union Leader Ansists on Use Of Approved Explosive

A RADIO SQUABBLE   Walter Winchell Charges Airways Are No Longer Free

Commentators Get The Axe   Network President Believed To Mean Winchell, Pearson

WINCHELL DOESN'T LIKE CENSORSHIDS   Insists Newspapers Must Fight Hard Against  TL noe

ARIZONA REPUBLIC Phoenix, Arizona Friday, Feb. 12, 1943 Pace DO   Censorship  ft Radio Hit

MOSCOW SAYS GERMANS FLEE RUSSIAN TRAP   Red Army Now Races Toward Crimean Rail Junction

Gand Scale Assault By Russians Knocks Gap Of Over Two Miles In  Lines Near Kiev

NAZIS SEEK TO AVOID RED TRAP   Retreat Hurriedly From Crimea And Dnepropetrovsk

Berlin Speaks: Gloomily Of Big Battle; Allies Fight Forward In Italy

BERLIN INDICATES DNEPROPETROVSK TOBE ABANDONED   Admit Soviet Attacks Break Nazi - Line North of Kiev

Dnieper Bend Is Pierced by Russians   Fighting Inside Melitopol Is Becoming Intense

Reds Drive On Krivoi Rog   Loss Of Last Rail Line Would Unhinge Nazi Defenses   RY HENRY SHAPING

BIG GAP KNOCKED IN NAZI BATTLE LINE NEAR KIEV   Moscow Reports Army Hat Driven More Than OneThird Across Dnieper Bulge at Krivoi Rog.   NAZI COMMAND SPEEDS BLACK SEA EVACUATION   Australians Break Repeated Counter Attacks of Japs In Drive to Recapture Finsehhafen.

German Flight Claimed   CLAIM NAZIS FLEEING DNIEPROPETROVSK TO AVOID RUSSIAN TRAP

ENTIRE ARMY IN CRIMEA IN PERIL “DUE TO RIGOR   Nazis Send In Ail Available Reserves, Some from Western Front.

DIED AT THEIR PALERMO GUNS   Held Up Entire American Armored Division for Half Hour Before  * They Fell   MANNED 90 MM PIECE   Letter One Had Written Family Found on Body; American Added ‘Dead!’  and Mailed It

 Officer and Private Pay for Honor  Two Italians Die By Their Gun:

ARMY DENIAL ~ OF COERCION   Declare No Intelligence ‘Agents Seeking Information at Mines.

MAM INTIMIDATING MINERS, SAYS LEWIo   “Second Military Front’ Charged By Unionist

Lewis Says Army Intimidates Miners   Second Front in Coal Fields’ Claimec

Army Implies Second Front In Mines-Lewis  UMW Comments on Alleged Intimidatior After Conference

DENY ACCUSATION HURLED BY LEWIS   NO ATTEMPTS TO INTIMIDATE MINERS MILITARY MEN SAY

LEWIS CHARGES MINERS BEING INTIMIDATED’   Says Second Front Being Opened In Coal Fields

Army Intimidation of Mine Workers Is Denied by Officials      Lewis’ Accusation Is Sec: onded by Heads of  Miners Unions

Intimidation of Miners Charged   Lewis Says Military Front Is Threat

LEWIS ANNOUNCES HIS — WILLINGNESS: TO GO BEFORE WLB   Must Convince Board That New Wage Agreement Is “In Public  Interest”?

LEWIS CONSENTS 10 GO BEFORE BOART   Will Depend Wage Pact At Aug. 3 Hearing

Lewis to Defend Wage Contract   Will Appear Before War Labor Board

Plan to Hold French Union Conferences   Gen. Georges Flies to Algiers to Open Talks with Giraud

CH UNION FIRAWS NE ARE   Berlin Radio Reports Shakeup in Vichy Government Staff.

No ‘indestructible’ ship, but Blandy seés U.S. craft  las best prepared against attack from enemy’s airplane:

‘No ‘indestructible’ ship, but Blandy sees U.S. eraft  ‘jas best prepared against attack from enemy’s airpianes   BY ADMIRAL W.     PP, BLANDY

ALLIED BOMBERS WATCH SHIPPINE   Ready to Pounce on Jap Shipping Attempting to Aid Beleaguered Garrison in Solomons and New Guinea

Allied Bombers Reach Out North of Equator   Strike At Shipping In Enemy Attempts To Aid Beleaguered Garrisons In Solomons, New Guinea

MARTIN ADDRESSES ATTORNEY'S GROUP   Warns U, 5. Cannot Afford” Another Post-War Crime Wave

WAR RATION BOOK  CARDS DELIVERED  BY POST OFFICES APPLICANTS WARNED B' POSTMASTER TO FILL OU  faDnre WIT CADE

WAR RATION BOOK CARDS DELIVERED BY POST OFFICES  APPLICANTS WARNED BY POSTMASTER TO FILL OU CARDS WITH CARE

YARNELL FAVORS BLOWS AT JAPAN’S SUPPLIES   Outlines Four Plans 1 Tall At State College   Suggests Striking Sources, Batber ‘Than Frontal Operations In V'acific Islands

Outlines Four Plans in Talk At State College   Suggests Striking Sources, Ralher ‘Than Frontal Operations In Pacttic Islands

NURSE BRAND EYE LOTION For tired eves, 49c at Craiez’s—Ad   FARTILY WEEKLY AWARD

Warren County Boy One of Three Children to Aid in Ship Launching

SHELLS RAINED ON PANTELLERIA   British Warships Pound Island; Fortresses Give Support

Italian Island Bases Again Take Blasting   Pantelleria Hit Second Time Within Less Than 48 Hours

British Warships And U. S. Planes Team Up   Italian Outpost Of Pantelleria Is Pounded From Sea And Air; Italian Fleet Is Absent.

War Ships, Air Armadas Bomb  Pantelleria  Harbor Area Hard Hit in Two Day RBambardment

British Shins Again Bombard Pantelleria   Joined By Fortresses; Allied Planes Also Hit Other Targets

British warships join bombarding of Italian island   Sicily and Sardinia also tarqets of air offensive

Axis Kicked Again In the Pantelleria   British Warships Bombard Tiny Island With Big Guns— U. S. Planes Hammer at Rack

Allied Ships Shell Italy's ‘Gibraltar   Two Attacks Made In 48 Hours As Planes Hit Enemy Bases On Strategic Isles

Warships Join Blows On Italy   Island Is Pounded From Sea And Air

WARSHIPS USED TO BLAST BASE SOUTH OF ITALY   American Bombers Join In Attack On Pantelleria, 45 Miles North Of Tunisian Coast      DAMAGE SEVERE   Italian Fieet Fails to En. gage Allied Vessels Shelling Strategic Island Fortress

HARBOR AREA OF PANTELLERIA I$ SHELLED TWICE   British Ships Pound Italian Port—Fortresses Continue Devastating Raids

SHIPS SHELL PANTELLERIA   Heavy Blow Aho Struck at Island by American Flying Fortresses

Pantelleria Is Bombarded - By Warships   Hits Seored on Barracks _ and Gun Batteries as _ ." Air Raids Continue —

Allied Naval Units Shell Pantelleria   Serious Damage to Island ‘Step-Stone” To Italy Reported

Pantelleria Harbor Shattered In Two Attacks As Planes Continue Assaults

SH IPS SHELL ~ PANTELLERIA   1 ea EY ‘Heavy Blow Also Struck al Island by American Flying Fartresses

For Second Time in 48 Hours British Naval Units Move  in to Aid U. S. Air Force in Reducing Installations Off Tunisian Coast.   Italian Fleet Appears Powerless To Intervene Against British Navy

British Shells Pound Italian Isle’s Defenses   Fortresses, Coordinate Air Blows in 2-Day

BARRAGKS, GUN PASTTIANS HIT   Italian Communique Admits Buildings Are Serjiously Damaged   RAIDERS ACTIVE   Naples, Paola In Italy And Sicily And Sardinia Blasted

IS GIVEN THE AREF   Vessels Add to the De Struction Wrought by. Planes on Italian Iceland.

It Was the Second Bombardment in Forty-Eight Hours It Was Announced at Allied Headquarters.   FLYING FORTRESSES JOINED OFFENSIVE   Other American Attacks Were Made on the Islands of Sicily and Sardinia,  It Was Stated.

British Naval Force Shells Pantelleria   U, S. Forts Join Attacl On Battered Island Of Tunisian Coast   HARBOR, GUNS HIT   Italian Fleet Appears Powerless To Intervene Against Sea Thrusts

British Warships Bombard Pantelleria; While Flying Forts Pound Axis Outpost

WARSHIPS SHELL TTALIAN OUTPOSt   ‘HARBOR AREA OF PANTEL LERIA TWICE BOMBARDED ‘: «BY BRITISH VESSELS. .

American Foriresses and British Warships Deliver Stiff  : Blow to Italian: Bases; Italy's Fleet Is Powerless

British Warships Shell Pantelleria; Bombers Cause Further Damage

BRITISH WARSHIPS CHELL PANTELLERIA   Second Shelling To Harbor Area, Barracks and Battery In 48 Hours; VU. S. Flying Fortresses Join Offensive.

ITALIAN ISLAND! ATTACKED FROM OCEAN AND AIR   Pantelleria Blasted Twice By English Warships Within 48 Hours; Bombardment From Air Continues.

British Ships Bombard Pantelleria   Co-ordinated Air Blows Also Dealt Isle Off Tunisian Coast

Brit Warships Bombard  Pantelleria   Flying Fortresses Also Blast Italian Outpost

ISLAND OFF TUNISIA IS BOMBARDED   British Warships And U. S. Bombers Blast  Pantelleria

Defenses Of Pantelleria Hard Hit By Ships, Planes   Shrieking Shells From British Warships Drop in Har bor—-No Casualties Suffered by Attacking Forces

Italian Harbor Defenses under Terrific Attack   British Warships ant American Planes Bombard Pantelleria

BRITISH. WARSHIPS IN SECOND ATTACK UPON PANTELLERIS   U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES RAID SICILY AND SARDINIA ALSO

PANTELLERIA BOMBARDED BY SHIPS TWIGE   Naval Vessels Add to Destruction by Air Raids

* STEPPING STON   Harbor at Pantelleria is Shelled Twice as Bombers Continue Raids on Italian Islands.

Warships join Fortresses In Poundi  Pantelleria  Team Up To Smash At Harbor Defenses Of Little Island   Off Coast of Tunisia  SHORE BATTERIES REPLY ONLY WEAKLY

British Navy Guns Bombard Italian Isle  Tl Duce’s. Warships Dotlan Thefend   Tl Duce’s. Warships Fail‘to Defend Pantelleria Harbor

J, 9 FORTRESSES JOIN OFFENSIVE AGAINST ISLAND   Other Important War Installations Hit In Assaults

Texas Senator Would Delay All Such Action Until Axis Has Unconditionally Surrendered     ATVAATNUICRD ATION TH   Reported Favoring Vague Commitments Rather Than Proposals For Concrete Aims

President Takes Over Coal Mine Operation:   Executive Order Names Ickes Head Again and Directs Men to Return to Work; U. M. W. Policy Committee to Meet Today

Takes Over Idle Pits As Policy ‘Board Fails To Act   President Calls On Miners To Resume Work By Wednesday Morning With Protection Of Soldiers To Offer Union Wage Pact For Duration.

FARMER 1S SLAIN, ROBBED (F MONEY   Believe Killer Laid in Wait in Farm Home, Victim Flashed Roll of Bills

Owens Tells 0f Board's ecision   Says Men Will Remain Off Job After Mav 18

CUERRILLA TROOPS STILL HOLDING-OWN   Hard-Fighting : Reported Around Town Of Brcko

RED ARMY NOW TO ROLL BACK ENEMY FORGES   Loss of Nazi Bastion Equal to “Loss of Half of Berlin’— Hitler.

Evacuation Announced by Hish Command   Propagandists Get Signals Crossed Up

Germans Evacuate Key Strong Point West Of Moscow   Hitler's Armies Now Face Retreat As Far As Smolensk

NEXT GERMAN RETREAT SEEN TO SMOLENSK   Heavily Fortified Nazi Stronghold Now In Russion Hands

See Russians rolling foe clear back to Smolensk; claim gains in key areas

AXIS STRONGHOLD, ANCHOR OF NAZI! SALIENT WITHIN 130 MILES OF MOSCOW. FALLS   Evacuation of City One of Reds’ Most Strategic Victories of War

Stronghold © Abandoned  By The Axis          HAD BEEN IN GERMAN HANDS . SINCE MIDDLE OF 1941; BELIEVE: a REDS WILL ROLL ON TO SMOLENS®

NAZIS EVACUATE IPORTANT ClTY, ~ SMOLENSK NEXT   Hitler Once Said “‘Loss of Rzhevy Would Be Equal to Half of Berlin.”

Hitler Warned Last Fall Loss Of Rzhevy Equal To Half Of  - Berlin  REDS CONSOLIDATE

PROCUREMENT SCHEDULE FAR BEHIND FOR YEAR, GEN, SOMERVELL DISCLOSED TODAY

Somervell Says U. S. Procurement  ‘Schedule Falls Behind In Past Three Month:

US. INDUSTRIAL LAG DISCLOSED   Gen. Somervell Declares U. S. Effort Is 300 Million Behind in Last 3 Months.

SLUMP IN SUPPLIES   Army Procurement Schedule Falls Behind in Last Three Months -

TEXAS COAST 15 HIT BY HURRICANE   LOSS TO TEXAS COASTAL CITIES FIXED AT 2 MILLION—NO DEATHS LISTED.

HURRICANE HITS HOUSTON AREA   Damage Over $2,000,000; Wind Gust Reaches 132 Miles An Hour

Tax Abatement Compromise Is  Now G.0.P. Aim   Ruml Plan Beaten; All Pay - As- Go Legislation  Back To Committee.

REPUBLICANS MAY SEEK TAX COMPROMISE.   Democratic House Majority Defeated Republican Bloc by Close Margin in Tax Rioht

G. 0. P, MEMBERS CONSIDER PLANS TO COMPROMISE   Democrats Whip Proposals For Skipping Year

Knutson says GOP may swing behind compromise on tax   Eye Robertson, Doughton plans; Rayburn indicates delay in action

Sompromise on Tax Considered   Rum! Plan Beaten By 215-198 Vote  In House

Robertson or Doughton Proposals May Be Considered After Easter Holiday  Rarace.

ABATEMEN] COMPROMISE ISSUE SOUGHT   House Republicans Determined to Secure as Much Of Year's Taxes Skipped as Possible   RUML PLAN IS BEATEN

Ruml Skip-A-Year-Tax Plan Is Defeated In The House  By A Vote Of 215 To 198

G.0.P. Studies Compromise Tax Program   ‘Rep. Robertson’s: Abate“mnent: Proposal. Forward as + “Ruml ‘Plan: Loses   IT Is ‘REJECTED IN HOT BATTLE   But Congressmen Say.. It Was a Good Fight as They   : Seek: New: Pian:

HOUSE REJECTS RUML TAX PLAN BY CLOSE VOTE   ACTION SENDS ALL PAY-AS-GO BILLS BACK TO COMMITTEE

RUML BACKERS ARE SEEKING ANOTHER PLAN   SR ge  GOP Seeks Bill Abating Part Of Year’s Taxes

Compromise Tax Plan To Be Promoted      Republicans Fail In Effort To Have 1942 Levy Abated

Democrats in House Defeat Rumi Tax Plan   Republican Leaders Consider Getting .  Behind Compromise Pay-as-You-Go Plan

RUML BACKERS MAY OFFER A COMPROMISE      Consider Backing Plan to Skip Normal Tax and First Bracket Surtax, or Proposal for 50 Per Cent Abatement.

Ruml Pay-As-Go Plan Voted Down   Republicans Prepare To Accept Compromise On Skip-year Income Tax

Republicans Will Seek Compromise For Rumi Plan   Skip-a-Year Turned Down by 17-Vote Margin in House

DEFEATED, SEEK  vm EOMPROMISI   Want As Much of One Year’s Taxes Abated As Possible

G.0.P.  Seeking Tax Plan      REPUBLICANS HOPE FOR PARTIAL FORGIVENESS OF 1942 INCOME LEVY

“ALL TAX BILLS 60 BACK TO COMMITTEE   House. Republicans Come promise With View of Cet ting Some Abatement”

RUML TAX PLAN 1S ‘VOTED DOWN      Defeated. - 215 to. 198, Taxation Subject Re. turned to’ Committee.

G. O. P. Seeks Compromise Tax Measure   House Vote Kills Ruml Skip Plan

‘House Kills All Pay-Go Tax Programs   Ruml Bill Defeated, 215 to 198; GOP Considers Compromises

BILL TO COMMITTEE   Federal Tax Question Back Where It Started Ten Weeks Ago

GOP CONSIDERING A COMPROMISE IN TAX LEGISLATION   Looking Toward Getting as Much of One Year’s Taxes Abated as Possible.   RUML PLAN REJECTED   Was Result of Most Hectic House Battle In Recent History.

GOP-Backed Ruml Tax Plar Is Defeated   Democrats Take 215-198 Victory; Republicans to Back Compromise Clause

REPUBLICANS TO SEEK TAX COMPROMISE   Rum! Plan Beaten in Hectic House Fight By 215-198 Vote

~SKIP-AYEAR TAX BILL REJECTED IN HOUSE 215 10 198   Beaten By Close-Ranked Majority of Democrats, Republicans Are Now Consid: ering Compromise.   TWO OTHER PLANS ARE GIVEN CONSIDERATION   All Pay-As-You-Go Legislation Sent to Committee, includes Withholding Levy on Salaries, Wages.

Compromise Bill Said Aftermath Of Ruml Defeat   “6-13-Skip”’ Plan Or “Half Forgiveness” Idea May Prevail, GOP Believes

Compromise On Taxes Sought   Republicans Attempt To Keep Abatement High As Rum! Plan Beaten.

TLOCAT, OPePRVATITAWe   A Hectic House Fight on Taxes   GOP May Swing to Compromise Since Ruml Income Plan Is Beaten.

Look For Tax Compromises   Republican Advocates Of Rumi Plan Beaten By Close House Vote

ML TAX PLAN BEATEN 215-198 IN HOUSE VOT!   Republicans Talk: ‘Compromise Alotig Lines of Robertson Bill or Abating Half Tax

Rum Plan Beaten, Compromise Seen  House Republicans Hope to Get Year's Taxes Abated

Ruml Plan Beaten in House; Income Levy Legislation Delayec   All Pay-as-You-Go Proposals Resubmitted to House Committee

House G.O.P. Members “Consider Compromise  On Pay-As-You-Go Plan

GOP Talking Compromise  On Tax Bill   Ruml Pian Rejected Bs 17 Votes in Hectic  House Fight

Compromise Tax Plan Now Mapped   Rum! Plan Is Beater By Democrats

Ruml Tax. Plan. Beaten; Compromise Is Sought   Skip-A-Year-Proposal Smashed. By Democrats In 215-To-198 Vote In House After pporniest - Session’ In Recent Congressional History.

Coal Sirlke Causes WLB Deep Concern  Says Its Continuation Could Sharply Hinder Our Fighting Forces  20,000 NOW OUT IN SEVEN STATES  Cavarnm owt Cantuuwrl

hipyards, Steel Plants May Soon Run Out of Fuel   Production Board Tells "Sad Story’

Coal Walkouts Hit War Effort   Shipyards and Steel Plants May Close

CONCERN FELT OVER POSSIBLE MINE WALKOU   “Serious Sethack” Will Be Handed War Effort If Men Strike   RAILROAD UNIONS MAY TAKE A STRIKE VOTE

MINER STRIKES SEEN AS DANGER T0 WAR EFFORT   WPB Says Walkouts Will Soon Hamper Shipyards Through Lack Of Fuel Supply

Martial Law Is Ordered At Jap Tule Lake Ares   Youngsters Parade For Japan

BEET WORKERS TAKE WAR JOBS   wc Maps Special Plan For Winter Months

TEXAS BEET LABOR TO BE RETAINED   USES Will Transfer Men To Plants With Critical Shortages

STATE TO PUT BEET WORKERS IN WAR PLANTS   Place Men Only in Jobs That Women Cannot Fill

GEN. BLOOD AND GUTS STICKLER FOR FORM   Here’s Story from Battle That Gives Proof

Lt. George H. Parker Gets First Nazi Plane Ir Italy With 8th Army

Local Group is Notified of ischarge of County  War Boare’   DUTIES OVER TO FDA

MEAT COMMITTEE ~ COMPLETES WORK   Local Group is Notified of Discharge of Countv War Board   DUTIES OVER TO FDA

AUDOIA MAY AaK POWER FOR Rel MILITARY FROWN]   Official Washington ‘‘Dis mayed” Over Report , .From Moscow.

AUSOTA MAY ASK POWERS FOR KEW MILITARY FRONT   Official. Washington “‘Dismayed” Over Report .From_ Moscow. .

Moscow REPORTS INDICATE. ISSUE OF ‘SECOND FRONT   eS PLAN TO INJECT I8SUE GF NEW FRONT INTO 1. CONFERENCE! ‘ON POST° WAR AIMS

Some Dismay On Moscow Reports   Washington Surprised At Talk Of Second Front Issue For Coming Parley

Will Rayburn, Bonham, Passes In Hospital   Brother Of Speaker San Rayburn Passes Away Af ter Serious Illness; Service Will Be Held There Satur day; Speaker Rayburn f En Route To Bonham.

Speaker Rayburn’s Brother Dies  Rites Arranged For D..Li.. fF... 4: ys   Rites Arranged For Bonham Farmer And Former U. S. Marshal

BOMBARD GERMANS FROM GAETA GULF   Gemans Winning on Lero; Trouble Grows in Leb anon

HIKE IN.GANNED RATIONS LOOMS   More Points May Be Given As Buying Slacks Up

PURCHASES ARE SLOWER THAN ‘ANTICIPATED AND. 64 POINTS MAY BE ALLOWED  NEKT MONTH .

SARDINIA AND SICILY DEALT NEW BLOWS   Comiso Airdrome Pounded, Port Also Is Blasted

COMISOAIR FIELD AND OLBIA GNEN ‘HEAVY POUNDING   Raids Cause 2 Violent Explosions and Start Fires   THE AMERICAN AIR FORCES ARE IDLE

SICILY AND SARDINIA OBJECTIVES BOMBED BY BRITISH PLANES.   BULK OF AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS RE‘MAINED IDLE WEDNESDAY

SICILY AND SARDINIA OBJECTIVES BOMBED BY BRITISH PLANES  BULK OF AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS RE-

BRITISH BOMBERS. BLAST ISLANDS OF SICILY, SARDINIA   Bulk of U. S. Air .Forces ‘Remained Idle Wednesday— Airdromes and Dock Areas Hardest Hit

Sicily, Sardinia Struck In Raids  Italian Troo ps Quit Dodecanese Isle

AIRFIELDS ON SICILY POUNDED BY RAF PLANES   Fires Started; Americans Idle During Day

RAF ACTIVE OVER SICILY AND SARDINIA   ‘Sets Fires in Raids on Airdrome at Comiso and Docks at Olbia—Bulk of the American Air Forces Idle.

Sardinia And Sicily Bases Are Attacked   Fires Left After ‘Raids On Comiso, And Olbia Docks

RAF Blasts Two Italian Island Bases   Fires Set on Airfield at Comiso, Sicily, and Docks at Olbia, Sardinia

COMISO AIRDROME IN SICILY RAIDEL   Attack Made By British Heavy Bombers From the Middle East; Wellingtons From North Africa Blast Olbia.

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK ENEMY AIRDROMES   Crossed the Mediterranean te Hit at Comiso, Sieily Tuesday Night.   OTHER AIRMEN BUSY   Wellingtons From Northwest African Bases Blasted Olbia, Sardinia.

SICILY BOMBED BY RAF PLANES   Comiso Airdrome Attacked By Big Force—Rome Radio Buzzes Anew

SARDINIA AND SICILY BOMBED BY THE BRITISH   “omiso and Olbia Bear Brunt Of Mediterranean Attack: Bulk Of American Air Force In Africa  Spends Idle Day.

ALLIED FLIERS BLAST TARGETS IN ITALIAN ISLES   Hit Airfield in Sicily, Attack Docks in Sardinia; British King Visits Malta

Full Farm Parity Bill Is Okaved   oo Ag Group Approves Higher Price Floor

OPA RAISES CEILING (OH FLANNEL SHIRTS  Bureau Says Actin ‘Will Restore Fair Margin For anmitartarara

Shouts Of “Liberty,” “We Want Peace!” Hurled At.Fascists   American Troops Capture Cefalu And Advance Toward Messina; Germans Fight Hard At Catania

Inmates Mutiny, Burn. Prison; Naples Also Scene of Fights; Americans Capture Cefalu In Drive Along Sicilian Coast.

‘Disappearance of $50,000 Worth of  Bonds in August, 1940, Is Solved

Discover Missing Bonds, Securities From Estate ‘Inherited By Mrs. Rainey

Hopkinses to Move When House Ready  Mrs. FDR ‘Very Sorry’ To See Them Depart

GOODLAND NOT TO ASK TAXES   Governor Says it Is Legistature’s Duty to Enact Levies.

79 INJURED AS BLAZE SWEEPS BOWLING ALLEY   Policeman’s Son, One Of Victims, Died Trying To Lead Others To Safety   PLAY SPOT IS WRECKED   200 Spectators Panic After Explosion Spreads Flames Thruout Building

Rudger Clawson, Prominent Mormon Church Official, Dies in Salt Lake After One Weeks TllIness

HIGH-RANKING LDS OFFICIAL DEAD AT 8¢   Rudger Clawson Was Next in Line for Presidency

Prominent Mormon Church Official Dies  Rudger Clawson Had   Rudger Clawson Had Been Ill for Week

ARMY CLARIFIES PLANS 10 ASSIST FARM HARVESTING   Troops Will Be Assigned a . Units in Emergencies; In dividuals Will Not B: Furloughed.

APPROVE ARMY FARM LABOR   U. S. TROOPS IN UNITS TO SAVE VITAL CROPS

Farm Aid Policy Of Army Is Told   Will Assign Troops as Units, But No Individual Furloughs Given for Farm Work

if “Men as Allied Forces. Press.  Hard on Tu  Rommel eda His Key. ;  iS and Bizerte

Rommel Evacuating His Key Men as Allied Forces Press  Hard on Tunis and Bizerte

Today’s War Moves   BY THOMAS J. DONOHUE  Siweisna,t Gieanaen A me tfisad

Today’s War Commentary  New French Crisis  Dispute OF De Gaulle and Giraud

HESS FAMILY 1S IN BRITAIN   Disclosure Made in Question by Laborite

WHEAT NEEDS MOISTURE:   Western Kansas Growers Are Becoming Alarmed Over Rain

Capital laces Food Problems   OPA Puts Ceiling On Prices for Beef and Mutton

Wartime Food Problems Hold  Interest Now   Three Different Phases of Problem Occupy Congress and Administration Leaders in Capital.

JUNCTION WIT VON ARNIM IS ROMMEL HOPE   Desert Fox Not Fighting To Save Italian Empire

ESCAPE. RAGE INTO. TUNISI IS DESPERATE   ‘Rommell Fights for Delay, Hopes Road Is Kent Onen.   BLOODY RETREAT ' AT. WORST STAGE

ROMMEL APPARENTLY FIGHTING ONLY FOR PRECIOUS TIME TO CET ARMY REMNANTS TO TUNISIA

ROMMEL SEEKS TO JOIN FORCES   Combined Strength Is Needed in Tunisia to Hold Off Allies

Rommel Fights to Forestall Disaster to His Warriors   Strive: to Make Junction Between His Tattered Columns and General Von Arnim’s Tunisian Forces; Two Axis Armies Appear, About Equal to Holding Corridor Until He Reaches Sfax

JUNCTION’ BETWEEN NAZIS’ TATTERED FORCES AND AXIS ARMY IN TUNISIA. ‘OBJECTIVE: NO TIME CAN BE WASTES

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rommel Merely Trying o Save His Troops, Not Italian Libya

Rommel At Tripoli Plays For Time Now   Seeks Precious Days To Strengthen Men

Africa Corps Being Bombed Day and Night   Retreating Down Ribbon of Hell in. Effort to Avert Complete Disaster   UNION: OF GERMAN FORCES PROBABLE   They Will ‘Be Formidable Bui They Face a Battle WithoutHope of Rescue

Rommel Expected To Join Germans In Tunisia For Last-Ditch Battle

14 NEW DIRECTORS NAMED THURSDAY CHAMBER COMMERCE  REPORTS HEARD ON DAIRY ACTIVITIES AND

14 NEW DIRECTORS NAMED THURSDAY CHAMBER COMMERCE  REPORTS HEARD ON DAIRY ACTIVITIES AND INDUSTRIAL MATTERS

BLACK MARKET WHISKY RINGS HIT BY AGENTS   Million Dollar Combine Reported Smashed ai New York, Seven Men Under Arrests   23 OTHERS HELD   Federal Men Take Suspects Into ” GCistody in St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis

SEVEN ARRESTED IN WHISKY RAID   Believe Black Market Ring Smashed

SEVEN NABBED IN BIG WHISK Y BLACK MARKE’   Federal Agents Crack Down On Nation’s ‘Larg-. est Liquor Racket; Claim Ring Smashed

Black Market - Ring Cracked   Gigantie, Liquor. Selling Plan, Is Nipped; Seven. To Eaee Charees. ©

DRIVER IS TRACED   Explains He Did Not Know Man Struck by Car Was Injured

Tire Inspections: Are Urged Here   Avoid Last Minute. Rush. Is Advice

‘OHIO TIME’ REPEAL IS NOW SOUGHT IN STATE LEGISLATURE   Prospects of Success Are Considered Doubtful by Competent Observers

TO ASK REPEAL OF TIME LAW   Ohio Legislature To Reconvene Monday Night

MANY ASK REPEAL (F TIME GHANGE   Bill To Rescind Recent Action Already Before Ohio Senate

TO SEEK REPEAL OF TIME-SWITCH LAW THIS WEEK   Bill Introduced by Senator Bubna, Expect Early — Consideration

MARSHALL ISLES NEXT GOAL OF U. 8, DRIVE IN PACIFIC   American Land, Sea and Air Forces Victorious in Gilbert Group

EDUCATION BILL PASSAGE PREDICTEL   Federal Grants To Schools Certain, Says Hill

Limbaugh Quits As Road Engineer   State Chief to Enter Private Employment

Hopkins Pages The FBI: Denies He Wrote Letter Predicting Willkie Nomination; Asks for Probe

Hopkins Claims Letter Forgery  FBI Requested to Investigate Matter

WILLKIE LETTER IS CALLED FAKE   Hopkins Denies Writing Missive, Asks FBI To Investigate

Letter About Willkie ‘For gery, FBI Investigating , Hopkins Says

DEMS KEEPING HANDS OFF IN CAPITAL FEUD   Republican Members of the Senate Clamor for Probe Of Flare-up Between Jones and Wallace   ROOSEVELT COMMENTS

Jones and : Wallace to See Byrnes   Byrnes Brings Them to His Office to Discuss Their Vigorous Quarrel   SENATORS KEEPING THEIR, HANDS OFF   But Republican Contingent Says an Inquiry Should Be Interesting

House Republican Group Demands  Full-Dress Probe   War Mobilization ~  Chief Will Attempt . To Appease Disputants

Byrnes Calls Wallace. Jones  To Conference Differences Of Opinion Come Between Men Of Strong Convictions.  ——- = =h30lhéhlmlc i _ ‘iéiéiéirr O!..Ul.ULhLUVv Tl!

flare-up Between ~ Wallace and Jones Is Surprise to FDR   startled by Public Accusations

Feud Stirs GOP Solons   Clamor for Prompt Investigation of Vallace-Jones Row

SENATORS ARE RELUCTANT 10       Wallace-Jones- Controversy. Deplored by President Who Says Press” =a Manv Sauabbles. .-

FDR Expected to Bawl Out Squabbling Aids   President, Disturbed as Two Cabinet Members Add to Confusion, Admits Press Not to Blame This Time.

Call Jones, Wallace To  Conference   James F. Byrnes Makes Attempt To Settle Officials’ Quarrel Ove: War Materials

HANDS-OFF ATTITUDE  HAS BEEN ADOPTED  BY DEMO SENATORS GOP MEMBERS CLAMOR ING FOR PROBE WALLACI JONES FLARE.DP

BYRNES CALLS UP WALLACE AND JONES   Face-to-Face Effort Made to Settle Dispute

investigation Of Feud Asked   WALLACE AND JONES ARGUMENT MAY BE PROBED

Byrnes Calls In Wallace, Jones To Settle Dispute  President Accuses Press Of Stirring

Byrnes Asks Wallace, Jones To Meet Face to Face, Settle Bitter Fight

Investigation Of Wallace - Jones  Feud Is Asked   Demos Silent But Foes Insist

Inquiry Urged Into Dispute of Wallace, Jones   Democrat Chiefs Keep Hands-Off Attitude in Row

DEMS AVOIDING NEW SQUABBLE   GOP Demands Probe Of Charges Made By Wallace

‘Demand Full Probe of  _ Latest Capital Uproar   Outbursts Hurt War Effort, Democrats’  Chances in 1944 Campaian

Irge Probe Into ‘Shots’ By Wallace   pemocrats Keeping Hands Off.In Rattle Between Wallace and Jones On Tack of Materials   REPUBLICANS SEEK PROBE BY CONGRESS   Roosevelt Expresses His Surprise Over Charge, Blames Newswriters and Commentators

Demos Back Away From  Wallace-Jones Spat; GOP Demands Probe of Charge

FDR ACCUSES PRESS, RADIO FOR SQUABBLES   Says Columnists and Commentators “Under orders” Have Stirred Trouble

BYRNES GALLS PRINCIPALS TU TALK AT OVER   Home Front Unifier Requests Wailace and Jones to See Him.   DEMOS KEEP HANDS OFF; REPUBLICANS FOR QUIZ

Demos Shun Wallace-Jones Controversy   Roosevelt Blames Press And Radio for Stirring ._ Up Trouble

Byrnes Invites Wallace, Jones To Talk it Over   ' Democrats: Maintain Neutral-Attitude In Leaders Dispute

Some Speak of Investigating Wrangle; Roosevelt Spanks Press, Radio Commentators As Causing Official Squabbling

_ BYRNES IN MOVE TO END TILT OF WALLACE-JONES   i Vice-President, Secretary of Commerce Are Called to White House to Face Each Other.   HOUSE REPUBLICANS TALK INVESTIGATION   Byrnes Says Men of Strong Convictions in  Departments Have Differences, tlones to Settle.

GOP CASHES IN ON CAPITAL ROW   Democrats Silent Over Feud Of Wallace and Jones as Republicans Seek Probe

BYANES HOPES TO SETTLE RUMPUS   Wallace And Jones Called To White House For Conference   PRESS ASSAILED   F.D.R. Blames Newspapers For Stirring Up Controversies

Byrnes Seeks to Pacily JonesWallace Battle  War Mobilization Chief Calls Confab Today

Byrnes Calls Wallace And Jones To Settle Dispute   House Republicans Seek Full Probe Of BEW-REC Funds Row

OFFICIALS IN QUARREL OVER WAPEARE PI AN   Disputes Within Administration Held As Damaging To War Effort

ASKS CONGRESS PROBE CHARGES   Byrnes Tries To Settle WallaceJones Dispute

Byrnes Calls In Wallace, Jones To Explain Row   Democrats Shun Stockpile Dispute As Republicans Ask Investigation

WALLACE, JONES TO MEET TODAY      Byrnes Calls Officials Together to Discuss Difficulties.   FR BLAMES PRESS, RADIO

Byrnes Summons Jones, Wallace to His Office To Settle Differences   House Republicans Seek Full-dress -Congressional Investigation of Uproar Caused By Wallace’s Charges

STATE CAPITOL NEWS LETTER   Telling Activities of the lowa General Assembly

Solons Feeling Pulse Home Folks   Three Important Problems Are-Just Ahead for Them

Jowa Assembly Inu Recess Until  Next Monday   School Code’ Revision To Receive Attention

State Legislature In Spring Recess Until March 8   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

SMALL BUSINESS MAN MUST LIVE NEAR HIS OPERATIONS   Babson Discusses Successes of Old Friend Who Made Success After Giving Up Job Driving Wagon at $7 Weekly.

SMALL BUSINESSMEN CAN BE SUCCESSFUL   Roger Babson Offers Some Ideas Regarding Means Of Being Independent and Enjoyinge Moderate Success.

Future Of U. S. Small Business   ROGER BABSON TELLS THE LITTLE MERCHANT HOW TO SUCCEED

Nazi Propagandists Are Bolder Now   ‘Naturally’ Italy Will Defend Self

German Envoy ToRome Talks With Badoglio   Communique on Talks Expected to Be Issued From Rome; Armistice Rumors Unconfirmed

Nazis Comment on  The Italian Break   Express Hope New Regime Will Continue With Axis in War   PEACE FEELER RUMOR   The Rome Radio Reports Changes Effected With ~ out Disorder

Nazi Radio Insists Italians To Carry On Fight; Rumors Of Peace Persist

Badoglio’s Acts Cloaked In Secrecy   No Official Source Hint: at Negotiations Reported Under Way   Berlin Radio ‘Quotes’ Defiant Italian Official Statement

ARMY SLASHES BUDGET OTHER ‘CUTS PROPOSED   War Department Changes Plans

House Committee Would Extend Economy Drive To Maritime Conunission

‘War, Navy Budgets Are Cut   Cut Appropriations For 2 Departments $13,913,519,000

HOUSE APPR. COMMITTEE WANTS MORE INVESTIGATIONS   Economy Move May Be Extended to Two More Agencies

13 BILLION GUT IN MILITARY BUDGET JUST A BEGINNING   Further Investigations Mray Result In Vast Reductions In Expenditures.

WILL CUT MORE BILLIONS FROM WAR, NAVY BILL   Will Be Extended To Maritime Commission, War Shipping Administration

Two-Alarm System Asked   State Defense’ Council Will Petition Army

COUNCIL STUDYING. 2-ALARM SYSTEM      Present Multiple Alarms. May Be Discarded For 2, Simple Alarms

Arrest 779 On Draft Charges   FBI Brings To 237.732 Number Of Selective Service Investigations.

779 Arrested ‘On Charges of  Draft Evasion   FBI Director Hoover Makes Report for Second Six Week Drive

OL Draft Law.   Hoover. ‘Asserts ‘Bureau: Is Continuing: Policy - Of Avoiding Mass “Arrests

799 Arrested For Draft  Violations   FBI Seizes Second Large Batch in ~ Several Cities

FBI ARRESTS 778 AS ORAFT-DODGERS   New York -Has Largest ~ Number, Chicago and Cleveland Next,

Round Up Many Draft Dodgers   F.B.I. Chief Hoover Says 779 Seized In Nationwide Roundup.

KING REPORTED PRISONER OF THE GERMANS   Premier Refused To Accept Nazi Demands

“Denmark Cabinet Quits Under New German Demands   King Christian Reported Take: Prisoner by Nazis; Military  Administration Now in Power

Telephone Connection With Sweden Cut; Rift With Nazis Is  Becoming Serious

HEAD OF AFL  8 OPPOSING - LABOR DRAFI   GREEN ASSERTS PROPOSED LAW WOULD BE VICLATION ‘ OF CONSTITUTION OF: “UNITED STATES, ©

BRICKER SILENT ON PRESIDENTIAL PLANS   Indications Mount He Will Be Candidate

DOOR LEFT OPEN TO GOV. BRICKER   Informed Sources Hint He May Make Bid for GOP Nomination Soon

BRICKER SEEN “FAVORITE SON”   Indications Mount That Ohio Governor Will Seek GOP Prosidential Nod

PLANE CRASHES INTO DWELLING   Girl Pilot and Sailor Companion Slightly Hurt At Bridgman

Two Miss Death In Plane Crash   Woman Pilot And Sailo: Hit Bridgman House -

HOMA GLINTG SCHEDULED HERE   Sufferers Will Be Treatec Here Thursday And Al Osceola Friday

TRACHOMA CLINIC UPENS TOMORROW   Diagnosis and Treatment Scheduled For Sufferers Of Eye Disease

FLEXIBLE SPEED LIMITS ADVOCATED   Joseph B. Eastman Is Opposed to  Rigid 35-Mile-an-Hour Gtandara.

RAF RAID -LEAVES ONE-TENTH: OF CITY OF BERLIN IN RUIN   3 Square ‘Miles  Of German ~ Capital Scene: Of. : Debris, And’)  Wreckage’... _

TENTH OF BERLIN IS DEVASTATED OR BADLY DAMAGED   Reliable Reports indicate That Three Square Mites are fust Debris.

BELIEVE TENTH OF BERLIN WRECKED BY R.ALF. RAIDERS   Photographs Reveal Thirty Three Square Miles Devasted; Railroad Yards Heavily Damaged.

Ickes Believes Coal Situation  To Grow Worse   Thinks New Wage Contract Needed Immediately

PRESSURE: COOKER DEMONSTRATION . HERE ON JUNES   GAS COMPANY WILL LOAN COOKERS ON No COST BASIS

REDS CLOSING INON NAZI KEY BASES   - Advance Toward Poland And Rumania

Pincers Clamped Against '. Kerch As Collapse Of Nazi Defense  _ Nears GERMANS § HEMMED IN Three-Way Dri Drive Toward  ‘Poland, Rumania "Pressed

ANCHOR BASES OF MAJOR NAZI LINES IN PERIL   Fierce Fighting Rages In Perekop Area, Reports Say

Units Close In At 10-Mile Daily  Pace On Bases   Collapse of German Resistance In Kerch Area Appears Near

RUSS CLOSING IN ON GERMAN ANCHOR BASE      Red Army Develops Threat tc Defenses Before Poland and Rumania.

ANCHOR BASES OF NAZIS IN UKRAINE ~ ARE ENDANGERED   Front Dispatches Also Report Fierce Fighting on Perekon Isthmus.

10-Mile a Day Is Pace Set by Reds. in Ukraine Thrust   Kerch Pincers Are Closing Tighter

REDS MAINTAIN  TEN-MILE DAILY PACE IN ORIVE   Russians Moving Rapidly Against Defense Bases For Poland, Rumania

REDS PUSH ON UKRAINIAN BASE NEARER POLAND   10 Mile A Day Pace Being Maintained Rv Russian Forces

Republican Party Optimistic of Chances   for Taking Over National Control in °44

PROGRAM IS BEING PREPARED _ TO EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY   PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY DISABILITY PAYMENTS PROPOSED IN NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

——  Expansion of Social Security Benefits’ Will Be Handed Congress by President

Kaiser Asks Peacetime — Production    U.S. Shipbuilder Envisions Fantast Future Devclopmer

Shipbuilder Declares Peak of War Production Has Passed and Time Has Come to Begin Task of Planning for Shift Back to Peacetime Economy

War Output Peak Passed, Kaiser Says   Asks Return to Civilian Needs

industrialist Says U. S. War Production Passes Peak; Urges Start of Reconversion

Russians Attack In Kuban Region   Reported To Have Taken Important Center And Held It Under Attacks   AIR ACTIVITY IS SHOWING INCREASE

Wickard Reports Back-to-the-Farm Move under Way  And hMA-RAE, 44  Pe eee bear ae!   And McNutt Now Believes Farm Labor Supply Will Be Adequate

BACK-T0-FARM MOVE STARTED   Adequate Labor Supply In Food Production Is Forecast

Farm Labor Supply To Be Adequate McNutt Predicts   Sec. Wickard Reports Back to Farm Movement in the Nation

ALLIES ABLE TO OBTAIN SUFFICIENT BOMBERS TO DESTROY NAZI WAR POWER

FAIR PAY’ WILL BE GUARANTEED IN WORK PLAN   Continued Control Seen For Prices, Wages, Rationing

Reds Drive on  Past Kharkoy   Poltava Apparently Next Russian Target

Reds Driving On Beyond Kharkov   Pursue Germans After Retaking Former Capital  of Ukraine   DRIVE FORRECONQUEST   Attacking Columns Fan Out for Recovery of Great Area

MOST OF CITY SET AFIRE AS GERMANS FLEE   Wholesale Demolitions Leave Little But Holiow Walls  REDS PUSH ADVANCE

Germans Put City To Torch, Burning And Destroying All Installations

Drive Through Smoking Ruins  Of Khar kov   Historic Battlefield Of Poltava Southwest Of City Is Believed Next Objective Of Russians

Soviets Expand Drive To Retake Ukraine   Retreat From Kharkov; Russians Pursue Germans and Launch Into Full Drive Ahead Into Donets Basin.

Russians Chase Nazis West Of Ruined Kharkov   Separate Red Onsurge Breaches German Lines In Donets Basin.

Soviets Pursue Germans After Taking Kharkov   Expand Drive For Re-conquest of The Ukraine

Pursue Germans from Newly Recaptured Base to Wesi and South of Destroyed City   DONETS OFFENSIVE   Russians Advance 18 io 22 Miles in Izyum-Voroshilograd Area, Altack on Both Flanks

SOVIETS DRIVE PAST KHARKOV; CITY IN RUINS   Germans, in Full Retreat, Had Applied Torches To the Base

REDS MAINTAIN PRESSURE, HIT RETREATING FOE   RUSS FORCES DRIVE WEST AND SOUTH OF SHELL-TORN KHARKOV

Victorious Reds Sweeping Onward  Pour Through Holes In German Lines

Russian Forces — Keep Up Pursuit Of German Army   Drive East And South From Kharkov; Smash Through Breach In Donets Basin

Red Armies _ Drive Ahead ~ Relentlessly   Germans Given No Respite After Fall of Bloody Kharkov

Russians Driving Thru Breach In Nazi Lines   Pursue Retreating Germans West Of Kharkov; Twin Drives Threaten Southern Wing Of Detatides Anchored On Sea Of Azov. .

Russians Are Keeping Up Heavy Pressure From Their New Kharkov Base, Giving Retreating Enemy No Time To Recover.

RUSSIANS PURSUING  RETREATING GERMAN  WEST FROM KHARKOV SOVIETS ALSO REPORTED  HAVE BROKEN NAZI TINES SOUTHEAST

Poltava May Be Next Russian Objec  Reds Driving West And South Out Of Kharkov

Reds Pursue Nazis West Of Kharkov   Farther South, Break Into Donets Basin After Three-Day Battle

REDS PURSUING GERMAN ARMY   Russians Drive Through Kharkov to Follow Retreating Nazis.

Reds Maintain Heavy Pressure  On Fleeing Foe   Pursue Germans West And South From Shell Of Demolished Kharkov

REDS PURSUE GERMANS NOW IN. "FULL RETREAT FROM KHARKOV. WHICH NAZIS LEFT BURNING   Reds Gain Ground in Drive into Donets Basin. Germans Applied Fire to Kharkov Before Getting Out. Sav Soviets

SOVIET TROOPS SPEED PUSH IN KHARKOV AREA   Forces Pursuing Retreating Nazi Ground Units

Reds Streaming Info Breached Donets Defenses  Twin Offensives Threaten Nazis fhe Ueant Deennd

Germans In Full Retreat After Fall Of Kharkov   City Set Afire B: Fleeing Nazis

REDS EXPAND CAMPAIGN TO TAKE UKRAINE   Soviet Push In the Donets Basin Reported Gaining Momentum After Tak-  ing of Donetsko   RESISTANCE IS BROKEN

Russians Push PursuitNazis Out of Kharkov   Historic Poltava, Where Swedes Met Defeat, Appears Next Russian Obiective

Russian Army In Pursuif Of Germans   Nazi Army Said In Full Retreat From Kharkov; Reds Push

Red Army Drives On From Kharkov   Troops Move South And West After Passing Through Smoking Ruins Of Famous City: Nazis Have Little Time To Recover

Newfangled Tax Report For Some  Is Due Sept. 15   Detailed Explanation Is Given How Government Plans To Get Collections, Pay-asYou-Go.

American Jungle Troops Nearing Bairoko Harbor   Now within Two Miles 0 Last Jap Holding on New Georgia Island

JUNGLE TROOPS OF U. 5. GAIN GROUND   Forces Within Two Miles of New Georgia Island Harbor

Troops Nearing Bairoko Harbor On New Georgia   Drive From Munda Is Meeting Stiff Fighting By lance

JUNGLE TROOPS TWO MILES FROM BAIROKO HARBOR   Japs Putting Up Stiff Re. sistance Against Northward Advance   85 TONS, OF BOMBS FALL ON SALAMAUA

Blast 22 Japs In Darwin Raid   New Spitfire Force Too Much For Nips

SPITFIRE FORCES BREAK UP ATTACK   22 of Jap Bombers, Fighters Destroyed In Raid Upon Darwin Base.

Hit in Attempt   Spitfire’: Force’. Strongest Evér Used in Area —

Tennessee and Alabama. WwW ‘on’t Induct .  slang 1 More. Men-Until. Coal Strike. Ends 

Tennessee and Alabama Won't Induct : Any More Men Until Coal Strike Ends

FIFTH ARMY PREPARES TO HIT GERMANS’ NEW DEFENSE LINE   Eighth Captures Two Towns Dominating Highway; Cologne and Leipzig Bombed

Revenue Ofhcers Expect Jain Today  Thousands to File Tax Doiurne on Last Dav

Income Tax Rush Expected Today   Thousands Are Late in Fil ing Their Returns for 94?

Post Offices Prepare for Rush  Midnight Zero Hour To Pay Income Tax

MIDNIGHT IS TAX DEADLINE   Late Income Payments Jam Offices All Over Country

PEPOPEPP PP PP PLO ODS  Midnight Is Deadline On Income Tax Return

400 Union Members Strike Against Imperial lrrigation District Today

onger Work-Week to Boost feel Payrolls $100,000,000      creases Would Come From Payment of Time and Half Wages for All Hours Worked Above 40, a . Provision of Wage and Hour Law; Mills Says Jt Will Not Increase Production

U. S. Paratroops Seize Choiseul   ALLIED FORCES CLOSE IN ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND SECTOR AS TWIN ATTACKS THREATEN TO LAY OPEN ENTIRE JAPANESE POSITION

NEW WAR SPENDING PEAK   Previous Record Set in June Was Beat by $72,000,000

Yanks Seal. Hill Victory Tn New Pust   Units Command: Flat. Country ;: Roads to Rome.

‘SUCCESS IN CAMINO-MAGGIORE MOUNTAIN BARRIER REPORTED   British Eighth Army Tanks Force Moro River: Higchwav to Rome Reing Cleared

Ancrican Tro-ps Sweep to North: ern Rim Above Liri-River Valley on Main Road to Rome — British Eighth Army Tanks’ Forcing Ad. vance in Eastern Italy, ‘

American Troops Seal Victory In Mountain Barrier   Fifth Army Captures Bulk of Heights In 25-Square-Mile Area

AMERICANS GAIN MOUNTAIN HOLD ON ROAD 10 ROME   British Eighth Crosses Mort River on Eastern Italian Frant.

Plane With 15 ~ Aboard Missing   Rescue Parties Plunge Into Peruvian Mountains; Long Overdue.

Naval Transport Plane Missing With 19 Aboard   Another Carrying Six Men Lost: Peru Hunts Airliner Gone With 14

RESCUE PARTIES SEARCH FOR PLANE   Comb Mountains Of South ern Peru For Transport With Fifteen Aboard

Plane With 15 Aboard Missing Search Started In ’  Poruvian Moaiuntaine

Big Transport Plane Is Lost   Rescue Parties Plunge Into Southern Peru Mountains; 15 Aboard

ENEMY THROW BACKWARD ON ENTIRE FRONT   Soviet Guns Are Shelling Smolensk, Kiev And Cnepropetrovsk

L. A. Bus Operators Ordered by War Labor Board fo Show Cause Why Walkout Was Called, Defying U. S.

Martial Law Hinted in L. A. Transit Strike  WLB Hales Union Heads Trucks, Cabs, Cars  Derren: Warkara

War Board Acts In Big los Angeles Strike:   Demand Union Show Cause for lts Defiance

WLB Acts in LA. Car Strike   Union Leoders Summoned to Answer U.S. Chorges That Transport Stoppege Is ‘Detiance of Federal Government Policy’

Could Shorten War in Europe, Simpson Asserts   15,000 Nazis Killed In Fighting at Kiev

SLAVS DAMAGE KEY NAZI RAIL LINKS   Partisan Troops  Carrying Out Attacks. From Austrian Alps

Byrd Heading Guffey Battle   North-South. Contest: Of Democrats Continuing Without Result

Democrats Are Still Feuding Over Positions   Sen. Guffy of Pennsylvania Says He Will Not Be Ousted as Chairman of Committee.

North-South Demo Feud  Flares Anew   (rufiey Declares He Won't se Forced Out — Byrd Demands Action

Byrd Demands That Gutfey Be Replaced As Chairmar   Says Latter Does Not Repre sent Majority Of Democratic Members Of Senate And Has No Right To Speak For Them

Solons Renew Fight As Guffey Says He Won't Be Hired  North, South Split; Byrd Demands Chairman’s Ouster

Senate Dispute Flaring Anew  Guffey Refuses to Resign Chairmanship

Allied Flyers Pound Japanese Base of Gasmata  Australian Troops Repulse Attacks On New Guinea

Yanks Pound ‘GasmataUse 248 Tons Of Bombs   Navy Secretary Says “Allies Getting Ready To Drive Home Some Hard Riawe”

House, Senate Complete Organization   First Measures Are Introduced at Routine Sessions

Brief Sessions Held hy  House, Senate   Final Organization Completed After Week-End Recess

Sessions of Houses Are Brief   Bill Is Noticed for Reducing Wards In Municipalities

EMPLOYES WALKOUT AT HEINZ FACTORY   Strike Curtails Canning Of Food For Armed Forces; Cause Of Action Not Disclosed

WMC SETS UF JOB-CONTROL TEST SYSTEN   Seeks to Solve Problems  With Legislative System Inside An Execu  tive Agency   FORM “AGREEMENTS”   Programs Give WMC Au. thority Almost Identical to Potential National Service Act

Dining Car Suspect  ~ Waives Extraditior  Fails To Sign Statement Of Confession

NEGRO IS RETURNED TO OREGON FOR TRIAL   Dining Car Cook Is Being Held In Connection With Death Of Navy Ensign's Wife

HIGH WATER TRAPS SEVEN MEN IN MINE   Pennsylvania Coal Inspector Believes Workers Are Alive

SEVEN TRAPPED IN COAL-MINE   Flash Flood Blocks En. trance To Pit; -Ohic Baby Is Killed

SEEK RELEAGE OF IMPORTANT BILLS   Michigan House and: Senate Bear Down to Get Action This Week,

Japs Renew Threat of U.S. Bombing   Nip Head Says Blow Would “Bring America to Knees”

$29,463,687,198 Voted For Navy, Roosevelt Asks $59,425,586,500 More

HUGE ARMY FUND LATEST FDR PLEA   Navy Appropriation Passes House Before New Request Made

Fd) Asks Huge  Sum for Army   Plea for 72 Billions Made as House Votes 29 Billions for Navy

House Passes Bill Allowing Navy Immense Budget  President Requests ¢71 000.000.0000

House Passes Bill Allowing Navy Immense Budget  President Requests $7 1,000,000,000 For Army’s Expenses

Texas Plans On Dad Draft Vary   Some Boards Delay Calls Ta November

Rep. Jed Johnson Tells Miss Perkins She Has Done Little Toward Stopping U.S. Strikes

Robbers Beat Two And Loot Stores   Money, Narcotics Stolen at Towns Near Corsicana

HITLER, TOJO TO PAY FOR ‘BLOODY CRIMES’   Knox Says Invasion Hour Draws Near

‘Secretary Knox Promises Axis Leaders Will Have To Account For Their “Bloody Crimes”

nD  PUNISHMENT VOWED FOR AXIS LEADERS   Hitler and Tojo Mentioned by Secretary Knox

Knox Vows Axis Leaders Will Be Held To Strict Accounting for Bloody Crimes   "We Have Kept Record of Hitler, Toio Crimes,'' Says Navy Chief

AXIS LEADERS GIVEN WARNING   Knox Tells Hitler And Tojo They Must Pay For Bloody Crimes

KNOX NAMES TWO IN RADIO SPEECH   Hitler, Tojo, Accessories In “Bloody Crimes” To Be Held For Deeds.

MARTIAL LAW "IN PARIS AS RIOTS SPREAD      French Patriots Set Pace for Unrest In Europe

Allied Might In Pacific Believed Set For Series Of Major Stabs At Japan

Allies Preparing For Drive on Japs   Series of Offensive Thrusts Scheduled With Present War Strateay to be Scrapped

Offensive Is Looming For the Japs   Island Hopping to Give Way to Major Stabs at Vital Points

Major Thrusts Against Nippon Hinted By Knox   Navy Secretary Indicates Island - To - Base Plan May Be  Disregarded

ALLIES READYING FOR JABS AT JAPS IN PACIFIC—KNOX Re TOUN M HICGCHTOWER

Allied Might Being Readied In Pacific  Preparing For Great Thrust Against Japs

MAJOR STABS AT JAPANESE EMPIRE SEEN   Miont af Allied cirowing ead ewe SeSs Arms in Pacific Makes  Great Offensives Imminent   ™0 CHANGE STRATEGY   island-to-Island Method Will be Scrapped for Thrusts at Vital Nipponese Points

U.S. PREPARES FOR NEW BLOWS ‘AGAINST JAPAN   Offensive Thrusts Impend When Preparatory Action Concludes   LINKED WITH CHINA   Knox Says Island to Island Tactics Will Be Scrapped

MAJOR STABS © AT JAPS SEEN   Growing Allied “Might In Pacific Hints of Impending Offensive

Major Stabs at Japs Expected   Knox Indicates Island-to-Base Plan May Be Scrapped

GREAT OFFENSIVE PLANNED FOR JAPS   Present Strategy May Be Cast Aside With Increased Might of Forces.

MAJOR THRUST AGAINST JAPS   Readying Series Of Great’Drives In Pa nitin   KNOX COMMENTS   Island = To - Island Strategy To Be Soranned

ALLIED PACIFIC MIGHT SET FOR STABS AT JAPAN   Will Stop Present System After Forming Bases; Hint Drive on Philippines

Great Blow In Making For Japan In Pacific   Strategy Is Drawn For Attack In  Near Future.

UL. S. MAPS NEW PACIFIC BLOWS   Island-to-lsland Strategy {s Likely To Be Abandoned for Major Attack.

NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN BEING PLANNED   Island-To-Base Strategy To Be Dropped By U. S.

ATTACKER SLAIN IN ESCAPE TRY   New Orleans Police Report Parent Prevously Fired gt Man

Rapist Is Slain By Detective In New Orleans   Previously Wounded By Coast Guard Officer, Father of Little Victim

Officer Kills Rapist Wounded By Father of One of ¥ oung Victims   Confessed Attacker Ines to Wrest Gun From Captor, Begs to Die

MINERS IN ALA. WALK OUT IN PROTEST FINES   Walkouts Spread Despite Pleas of United Mine Workere Officials

Grand Assault Is ‘Verv Near’   Eden Says Allies Will Put. Full Power Into Bia Blaw

INVASION NEAR, EDEN ASSERTS   Zero Hour Believed To Have Been Set At  Conference

EDEN HINTS BROADLY BIG ASSAULT IS NEAR   Foreign Secretary Tells Commons Bombing Is but a Part of AllOut Drive on Continent.

Buoyant And Contident, Anthony Eden Talle Commons Grand Assault Is Near

Eden Hints Big Thrust Is Near   Allies to Go All Out In Grand Assault

Bad Weather Keeps RAF Home On 25th Anniversary After Record Month of Bombing Foe

RECORD OF 15,000 TONS OF ‘BUSTERS’ DROPPED ON NAZIS   Fearful Punishment Given German Areas During  One-Month Period.

BEST MONTH FOR ALLIED RAIDERS   15,000 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Europe In March By R. A. F., DU. & Planes

15,000 Tons Of Bombs Drop On  “European Fortress” In March   Bad Weather Prevents RAF From Celebrating 25t] , Anniversary. With Another Raid

RAF CELEBRATES Zalll BIRTHDAY AS FIGHTING FORGE   15,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Hitler’s Reich During March.

Allies Drop 223 Tons of Bombs Upon Jap Base:   Alexishafen, Madang Blasted in Heaviest New Guinea Attack

Heaviest Raid of the War Made on New Guinea Taraets   JAPANESE PLANES __ BOMBED ON GROUND   Base of Rabauf on New Britain Plastered Anew by Airmen

TONS OF BOMBS POUND DUISBURG   Great Forces of British Bombers Used in Raid

RECORD RAID ON DUISBURG   Bombing Reported Highly Concentrated Severest of War

Duisburg Hit Hard By RAF Warplanes   NIGHT BOMBING FOUND EF. FECTIVE AGAINST GERMAN PORT.

ae oa A  City. of D uisberg   1,500 Tons of High _ Explosives Dropped On Important Center

RAF IN HEAVY RAID ON GERMAN PORT, DUISBURE   British Break 5-Night Luil With One of War's Heaviest gir Attacks

HEAVY ASSAULT ON DUISBURG IS MADE BY RAF   1,500 Tons of Bombs Fall on Important German Industrial City

GREAT. FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS HITS DUISBERG, BIG NAZI FACTORY CITY      thy WILLIAM BE. DICKINSON

BiG CITY ATTACKED IN NIGHT   Upwards of 1,500 Tons of - Bombs Dropped in One of the War's Biggest Raids.

Duisburg Hammered  By Planes   Raid On River Port And Steel City Compared With Cologne Attack   JLast May 30

DUISBERG HIT BY BIG BOMBS ANMASS RAID   Raid On - Steel City Is Severest Ever Made _ On Germany

BRITISH SMASH “DUISBURE, CREAT NAZI STEEL CITY   River Port Recieves One of Big Raids Of The War   AMERICAN BOMBERS SMASH ITALIAN PORT

DUISBURG TARGET OF ONE OF BIGGEST RAIDS ON GERMANY   British Lose 17 Planes In Bombing Of Key Port Connecting Ruhr And Rhine

1,500 TONG OF BRITTON BOMB: HIT DUISBURG   One of Heaviest Raids of War on Germany Blasts Stee! Plants.   17 PLANES LOST: OTHER " RAIDS HIT RAILWAYS

Duisberg Hit By Greatest Raid Of War   1,500 Tons Of Bombs Are Unloaded On Inland Port   BLASTS SHAKE CITY   Smoke Sent Billowing 10,000 Feet In Air By Big Explosions

For Strong Independent State las Pledge Co-Operation In Notes To Soviet Russia

Stalin Reaffirms Pledge To Polane   Favors Free, Inde» pendent State

‘WLB May Review Wage Program ' As Labor Increases The Pressure  On “Little Steel” Pay Ceiling

Labor Hits Little Steel Pay Formula   Green and Other Leaders Confer With Roosevelt

LABOR APPLIES NEW PRESSURE ON PAY CEILINE   Outcries May Lead To Review Of ‘Little Steel’ Formula

"LITTLE STEEL” FORMULA FACES LABOR ATTACKS   Leaders Tell President More Flexible Wage Conitrals Are Needed

Little Steel Formula Again Attacked by Organized Labor   Top Ranking Union Officials Conferred With President Yesterday.

Russians Capture Localities on Smolensk Front  Infantry Concentration By Foe in Donets Reported Dispersed

GERMAN GUNS, BLOCKHOUSES ARE BLASTED   Local Fighting Is Reported In Kuban Delta Vicinity  Near Novorossisk.

Russians Report More Advances   Reds Claim Nazis Sufferina Heavily

REDS MOVING YET CLOSER TG SMOLENSK   Capture Two More Localities. Destroy Nine German Guns And Three Blockhouses;  Disperse Infantry.   Nazis Suffer Heavily

NEW GAINS MADE BY RUSSIAN ARMY BEFORE SMOLENSK   Two Villages Taken, 200 Germans Killed—Sharp Local Fighting Reported Near Novorossisk.   REDS STANDING FIRM SOUTHEAST OF KHARKOV   Moscow Reports Attacks Against Soviet Bridgeheads on Donets Cost Enemy 500 Dead.

Russians Report Local Fighting  No Essential Change in Battle Positions

Reds Advance On Smolensk   Two Localities Taken and Concentration on Donets Dispersed

REDS CAPTURE 2 LOCALITIES   Continue Gains Toward Smolensk; Kuban _ Fight Flares

Russians Report More Advances   Reds Claim Nazis  Siyffarinn Waavih,

REDS REPORT GAIN IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   Capture Two More Localities; Little Changes in Line

Saw Lumber ~ Hauled Into Big Fire Pit   Informer’s ‘Story af Waste on Big Federal Project Heard by Truman   QUIZZED SHARPLY * BY SENATE PROBERS   Much of Waste Due to Improper Management, the Witness Savs

Tells Of Lumber Burned At Plant   Two-Thirds of 250 Truckloads Usable, Witness .  _ Tells Committee   “BAD CONCRETE MIX”   SOW Management Rapped by Man Who Filed  - Informer Suit .

Tells of Waste In Building Of War Plant   Usable Lumber Burned, Bolivar Man Tells Truman

Says Lumber Was Burned   Charges Gross Waste In Building of Sunflower Ordnance Plant

Tell of Waste At Suntlower Ordnance Plant   One Hundred Truck Loads of Lumber Wantonly Destroyed

LUMBER BURNED ATUL S, PROJECT   TRUMAN TOLD 150 TRUCK ‘LOADS CONSUMED . DAILY AT SUNFLOWER WORKS.

Tells of Waste At De Soto Plant   Inspector Says 150 Loads of Lumber Burned Daily at the Project.

Postwar Relief Plan Proposed   Only 10 Pereent Need Move Out Of Country If Nations Accept Formata.

TUESDAYS WILL BE ‘MEATLESS’   Kelly Asks Restaurants To Remove Rationed Items From Menus

Clare Booth Luce Evokes Catealls And Rebel. Yells   Says FDR Changed From “Outstanding Isulationist” to "Renepade Interventionist”

Rep. Clare Boothe Luce Charges FDR Is ‘Renegade Inferventionist’   Connecticut Congress woman Says President Was Once Isolationist

Texan Rebukes Blond Rep. Luce for Cry Dallying \U. S.: Should End Isolationism

Clare Luce Terms Roosevelt “Renegade Interventionist’   Declares That Even At This Late Date America Has No Foreign Policy—Stirs Up Warm Debate

HEAVILY SLASHED  TAK BILL ON WAY T0  FLOOR OF HOUSE CONGRESS APPEARS  READY TO TAKE UP CUD CFLS FOR ECONOMY

JAPS LOSE HEAVILY IN AIR   Enemy Alarmed  At Quebec Parley   Axis Nervous Over Military Developments; Roosevelt Believed to be in Canada Now

Eisenhower May Aitend War Talks   Quebec Meet Handled So as to Intensify War of Nerves Against Axis   NO LIMIT TO THE WAR SPECULATION   Allied Plans May Be Ready Except for Needed LastMinute Changes

War Parley Into 2nd Week    Expect FDR in Quebec Tonight; a Hint That Gen. Eisenhower May Attend Conference

ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED FOR FDR’S ARRIVAL   Axis Nervousness Intensified By Canada Meeting

President Expected In Quebec Tonight   Canada’s Governor General Arrives to Entertain at Dinner—Gathering of Military Men Called One of Greatest Ever Held.

Vital War Conference  In Quebec   Gen. Eisenhower May Attend Meeting With F. R. and Churchill

Eisenhower May Jon Churchill FD In Canada   President Due Soor In Quebec; Pilar Of Parley Adds Tx Axis Jitters

THINK F. R. TO BE GUEST FOR QUEBEC DINNER   Conference Method Is Believed Designed to Make Axis Nervous

CONFAB DELAYED TO WORRY AXIS   Secrecy Which Veiled Other Roosevelt - Churchill Meetings Lifted

Expect FDR ‘At Dinner dn Quebec   Canada's Governor Genera), Princess Alice to Be Hosts At Tonight's Event

Sav President  Now In Quebec   Believe Roosevelt To Be Guest Of Canada’s Governor Tonight In City.

Mystery Guest Is Waited at Quebec   To Be One of Greatest Gath_erings of Military Ex~ perts, Report   MAY. BE EISENHOWER?   London Neéwsman Hints Commanding General May Cross Atlantic

SECRECY STILI IS RULING WAR  STRATEGY MEET   Suspense Element  Sur rounding Conference Provides Ammunition for New “War of Nerves”

PRESIDENT 1S BELIEVED 10 BE IN QUEBEC   Canada's Governor General Arrives From Ofttawa and Will Entertain At Dinner This Evening   ALLIED CHIEFS GATHER

QUEBEC CONFERENCE —  Military Experts Gather   . . ». Reoserett Expected Some Time Tuesday

HLEIEFL, ~ HOW IN OUEREE   Reported He Will Be Dinner Guest Of Earl Of Athlone Tonight   AXIS JITTERY   Allied War Conference In Canadian City Enters Second Week

QUEBEC WAR CONFERENCE BEING HANDLED IN MANNER TO INCREASE NERVOUSNESS OF AXIS COUNTRIES   Arrangements Completed To Receive President Roosevelt Shortly for His Sixth Formal War Council With Churchill -

BELIEVE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO BE IN QUEBEC LATE TODAY  _GOVERNOR GENERAL AND WIFE TO GIVE DINNER PARTY TONIGHT

ROOSEVELT GOING TO MEETING SOON   Arrangements Made To Receive President For His Sixth Formal Council.

Eisenhower Expected at Quebec Parley   Commander-in-Chief Is to Join Military  Experts at Meeting, It Is Being Rumored

F.R. Expected In Canada Tonight And Its Hinted That  Eisenhower May Atteud Ry PDOVerac R CORNET IT

oNYS CONFEREES AWAIT GENERAL   Churchill - Roosevelt Conference Conducted to Confuse Axis ‘Planners on Invasion

F.D.R. Expected To Dine Tonight At Quebec Event   Method Of Holding Parley ‘Seen Plan. To Intensify Nervousness ‘Of Nazis

Conference Intensifies _ Axis Nerves   Deliberate Manner in Which It Has Been Handled Aimed to Keep Germany and Italy Guessing.

FDR-Churchill Talks Tune Up War Of Nerves   Suspense Element Seen As Causing Axis Headaches

QUEBEC PARLEY STILL DELAYED   Stispense Surrounds Allied Meeting: Eisenhower May Attend

Gen. Eisenhower Might Join Military Leaders, FDR and Churchill in War Council

Earl Of Athlone Arrives For Quebec Parley   Reports Indicate Eisenhower May Join Conferees

CANADA Crier IS IN QUEBEL   EARL OF ATHLONE MAY HOLD DINNER FOR F. R.

CHURCHILL SAYS: WAR EFFORT SLACK DEADLY DANGER   Prophesies Heavy Blows During Coming Year; Audience Assembled Secretly In London Hall.

BRITISH WOMEN TOLD TO EXPECT 2 YEARS OF WAR   Churchill Says There Must No Slackening Of War Effort

Present Effort Must Be Maintained Iwo More Years, Churchill Says

CHURCHILL WARNS WAR MAY: GO INTO SEPTEMBER 1945   Prime Minister Tells: 6000 Women War Workers Of Gigantic Task ° Still Ahead: °

Churchill Urges Home Front Aid   Terrific Struggle Yet Ahead, He Says

Churchill Sees” War Until 1945   Says Huge Force To Be Hurled Against Enemy

HUGE FORCES T0 ATTACK ENEMY   Churchill: War May Go On Until September, 45  a

‘Churchill Warns Theré Must Be No Letuy Or Allies Will Face Deadly Dangers

CHURCHITL, ADDRESSING SECRET MEETING, SAYS WAR WORK MUS'I' GO ON

Churchill Forecasts Big Offensives, Warns War May Last 2 More Years

HUGE FORCES TO STRIKE GERMANY IN YEAR’S TIME      Churchill! Warns War May Last Until September In . 1945

CHURCHILL WARNS AGAINST RELAXING   Prime Minister Says Full Effort Must be Main- — tained

WARNS AGAINST BRITISH LET-UP   Churchill Says All-Out Effort Must Go On 2  Years If Necessary

Army Will Train 150,000 Cadets In Universities   Students Selected Will Be Governed By Strict Military Discipline

ARMY'S COLLEGE PLAN ONLY OPEN FOR 150,000 MEN   Program Is Not . Designed For Easy Training

TRAINING PLAN   College Program Will Be Available Only to About 150,000 Men.

Hold Local Exams For Service Jobs  Women Between 18-35 Are Needed In Panama

‘EXAMS TO BE 6I TO BE GIVEN AT HIGH SCHOOL HERE ‘FOR U.S: WOMEN AIDES

HOOVER WARNS TARDY DRAFTEES   Week Remains to ‘Get Right? With Board

FB] WARNING FOR EVADERS   New Penalties for Failure to Comply With Regulations Effective November Ist.

ANNUAL CONCERT ~ FRIDAY EVENING   Program Open - To Public . Without Admission Charge

Annual Concert Of The Instrumental Music Department Of Public Schools   Program Presented And Personnel Of Various Grouns

German Offensive Reported Crushed   Fierce Battle of Attrition  Foitinnes to Rage  - Around Orel °    AXIS TROUBLES GROW   Russians ‘Say Their Fight  Helps the Alliesin. » Sicily

HITLERITE DEAD LITTER STEPPES IN OREL BATTLE   RED SLEDGEHAMMER POUNDS APPROACHES TO VITAL FORTRESS

Nazis Killed U.S. Bombers By Thousands Sink Tender Around OrelOf Japanese

Soviets Forge Ahead to Threaten Capture of German Bastion  DOWN 52 PLANE         Russian Paper Asserts Hitler’s Whole Offensive Is Crumbling

Germans Lose 4,500Soldiers m One Day   Russians Claim Hitler’s Entire EurOpean Defense Is Crumbling Before Onslaught

4,500 Nazis Die In One Day at Orel   Attackers Hurl Back Many Nazi Attempts to Break Out of Pincers

Russian Columns Forge Steadily Ahead, Slaying More Than 4, 500, Knocking Ou! Tanks, Planes   RED STAR EXULTS   Sialin Asserts Hitler's Offensive Smashed—Axis Vulnerable Now fo Atlacks in Fast, Star Says

MORE THAN 4,500 GERMANS KILLED NEAR OREL FRIDAY   The Russian Forces Continue to Throw Back the Nazi Counterattacks.   FORGED AHEAD 4 MILES   The Battle Crushed Hitler’s Plan for a New General Offensive.

Soviet Pincers Closed   Moscow Says Offensive Breaks Down Entire Nazi Defense

German Offensive Reported Crushed   Fierce Battle of Attrition Continues to Rage Orel   AXIS TROUBLES GROW   Russians Say Their Fight Helps the Allies in  Sicily

Red Army Breaks Across River in Orel Region and Repulses All Counter Attackle” 

Red Forces Throw Back Nazi Attacks   Moscow Says 4,500 German Soldiers Killed at Approaches to Orel; Pincers Continues to Close

EDS-GERMAN FIGHT ENTERS TWELFTH DAY   Russians - Smash Across River East of Orel: Nazi Losses High

Russian Army Closes Pincers On.Orel Bastior   Say Hitler Plan Crushed As 4500 Germans Die In Major Engagement

4,500 Nazis Die On Russian Front   MOSCOW CLAIMS HUGE VICTORY IN LAST SECTOR

REDS TIGHTEN PINCERS AROUND NAZIBASTION   Soviets Slaughter 4,500 German Troops, Repel Counter-Attacks

ann a aint ee ae a aS tea pei eV SST RR  OVER 4,500 GERMAN SOLDIERS DIE AT APPROACHES 10 OREL

REDS ADVANCE TWO 10 FOUR MILES IN DAY   ‘Russian Paper Says Whole German Defense In Europe Breaking apart; Gain At Belgorod

eRed Wedge ~ Cuts Deeper   Moscow Sees Enemy Armvy Breaking Down

REDS TIGHTEN “NOOSE ON OREL   4,500 Germans Die Before City; Nazi Counter Attacks Broken

Soviets Make New Gains in ‘Orel Move   Continue ta Throw Back German Counter Attacks

RUSSIANS DECLARE THOUSANDS GERMANS KILLED AT OREL  SOVIET ARMY ORGAN  ALSO SAYS BATTLE OF eieny wnw w cvacr

4,500 Nazis Killed Yesterday at Orel In Russian Drive   Red Star Credits Offensive With Helping in Sicily

Russians Close Pincer on Orel   Fierce Battle Rages Into 12th Day

Russians Kill *4.500 Germans In Day At Orel   Reds Cross River East Of City, Press In From North And South.

New Red Offensive Is Also Indicated South of Leningrad In Nazi Dispatch

Roosevelt Has Conference With i Eisenhower   Talks With Allied Chieftain On Grand Mediterranean Strategy

STOPS AT CARTHAGE TO TIP EISENHOWER ON GRAND STRATEGY   President Enroute Home After Touring Sites Of Historic World War II Battles Follow ino Conferencee

PRESIDENT STOPS ~ATANCIENT CITY -ONHISWAY HOME   Date of Conference Lasting Two Days Not Revealed Tours 1500-Mife Route oi Histaric Finht.   MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS ARE,DISCUSSED   Roosevelt Lived In Large Villa Near -Sea, Scene Where German Resistance Ended During Spring.

Roosevelt On Trip Home Pays Carthage Visit   President Confers At Ancient Ruins With Fisenhawer

ROOSEVELT AT CARTHAGE, SEES GEN, EISENHOWER      Discusses Grand Mediterranean Strategy—Also Visits Malta

THEY CONFER ON STRATEGY FOR VICTORY   Carthage Was Meeting Place For  President, Allied Commander For North Africa.   Rye ViFRRIAM SMITH

President Roosevelt At Carthage   Confers With General Bisenhower at Ancient Afric. an City, Is Revealed .

NEW DRIVE IN MEDITERRANEAN’ MAY BE PLANNED   President On Way Home

Reveal Roosevelt  Visited Carthage   Conferred There With Eisenhower

President Stops At Ancient City of Carthage for Conference With Gen. Eisenhower; Strategy Outlined

President Halts at Old Carthage   COMMANDER IN-CHIEF STOPS FOR 48 HOURS IN DISCUSSION OF MEDITERRANEAN STRATEGY; CLIMAXES TOUR OF 1500-MILE BATTLE LINE

ROOSEVELT, EISENHOWER CONFERRED   Met At Carthage Regarding New Battle Strategy —

FDR-EISENHOWER CONFERENCE HELD   President Acquaints American Commander of Plans Made At Cairo and Tehran

County Offices Consolidations Urged At Mee   Vocational Studies Emphasized; Transportation Plan Drafted

Senate Unit A pproves Connally Postwar Plan   Committee Rejects Stronger Wording In ‘Preserve the Peace’ Resolution; Pepper Promises Further Fight on Floor

Senate to Get Connally Plan   Committee Okays Texan Post-War Resolution

Post-War Policy Debate Slated  Resolution Passes Senate Committee

Senate Approving Post-War Demands  "Preserve The Peace Measure Coming Up

SENATE POST-WAR ~ RESOLUTION 0.%.D   Connally Statement to be Up for Senate Debate Monday

ESTIMATE 446,000 FATHERS — — WILL BE GALLED BY JAN, 1   DEFINITE ASSURANCE BY HERSHEY THAT QUOTAS CANNOT BE MET UNLESS FATHERS DRAFTED

MINESWEEPER LOST IN ALEUTIANS AREA      Vessel Wrecked by Explosion of Its Own Depth Charges—i34 Aboard Rescued.

Navy Reports Loss Of Mine Sweeper  Vessel Is Wrecked - By Own Depth Bomb:

COAL MEETING SET FOR MONDAY   WLB Orders Lewis, Operators To Continue. Talks,

WLB Calls For Further Negotiations   Spanks Both Groups for Being Too Stubborn

COAL MINERS WAITING FOR WLB RULING      Decision Probably Not Acceptable To John L. Lewis

DECISION IN COAL DISPUTE THOUGHT NEAR   May Be Handed Down Tomorrow  By Labor Board

WLB AWAITS WORD FROM JOHNL. LEWIS   He's Likely to Agree or Guaranteed Six-Day Week Plan

EXPECT LEWIS AGREEMENT 10 REOPEN TALKS   Acceptance Of WLB Order Would Stave Off New Mine Crisis

WLB AWAITS WORD i LEWIS ABOUT NEW NEGOTIATIONS   Board’s Endorsement of 6day-week May Help to Effect Meeting...

Await Response From Mr. Lewis   War Labor Board Sceks Reopering of Negotiations—Think Lewis May Agree

GOAL OPERATORS AWAIT DECISION iN WAGE BATTLE   Three Months Wage Dispute De cision Is Expected By Wednesday

1, Mine Operators Tole Re-open Negotiations On Demands.   'TH SIDES SPANKED   ington Sees UMW Boss  ‘ty to Acede as Board Jorses Miners’ Claims.

War Labor Board Awaits Response  From UMW Chief   Believe Lewis May Accede To Demand For Reopening Parley

UMW Policy Committee Meets Wed. for Discussion   OPERATORS FAIL TO FOLLOW CENTRAL PA.

WLB AWAITS REPLY FROM UNION. CHIEF TO. LATEST DEMAND      Federal Group’s .Criticism OF  Mine Owners’ _ ‘May Spur Lewis ' To Answer

WLB COAL GASE RULING AWAITED   Approval Of Central Pennsyl vania Agreement Appears Unlikely

MacArthur Discovers Enemy “In Readiness; ”  Nazis Claim Red Defeat   Moscow Admits Donets Basin Fight Terrific ; Rommel Still Retreats Before American Drive As Other German Stabs in Tunisia Fail

PREDICT LIGHT VOTE FOR OHIO ELECTIONS   Mayor Contests in Columbus, Cleveland Hold Spotlight

LIGHT TUESDAY VOTE IS SEEN   Three Contests Will Be De. cided by Voters In Salem Tomorrow

New Washout ~ Blocks Trains   Pere Marquette R. 'F Suffers Fresh Loss

HEAVY DAMAGE LEFT IN WAKE OF HEAVY RAIN   Basements And Fields Are Flooded; Highways  Washed Out   258 INCHES OF RAIN   Washout Again Ties Traf. fic On Pere Marquette Main Line

10 Coal Miners Killed In Blast   Men Are: Trapped In Alabama Pit

RUSS REPULSE GERMAN TROOPS   Heavy Losses Inflicted on Nazis, According To Soviets

Nazis Attack In Russia   Reds Claim Donets Assaults Fail; Germans Advance Near Smolensk

STRONG COUNTER ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY GERMAN FORCES   Was in the Lisichansk Area of Donets River Front Last Night.   ENEMY THROWN BACK   Soviet Mid-Day Communique Said They Suffered Heavy Losses.

NAZI ATTACKS — IN LISICHANSK AREA REPELLED   DNB’s Reports of Strong German Drive Above Smolensk Not Of. ficial Claimed

NAZIS REPULSED ~— ATUSICHANSK   Launch Two Strong CounterAttacks But Are Thrown Back To Initial Position With Heavy Losses.

Nazi, Rumania Row Reported  Struggle Develops Over Demands for More Tranne Fard

Nazis Launch Counter-Blows At Lisichansk   Russian Communique Says Germans Thrown Back

Nazis, Reds Jockeying  For Position   Germans Launch Attacks, but Are Thrown Back

Nazis Suffer Heavy Loss in Donets Area   Thrown Back to Initial Position After Strong Counterattacks

GERMAN TROOPS CHECKED IN TWO STABS AT REDS   Heavy Losses Suffered b: Nazis in  Lisichansk Area Last Night

PICKETING CEASES IN STRIKE SECTION   6,000 Miners Back To Work — Only 8,000 Still Remain Idle

FBI Agents In Field Collecting Evidence For Grand Jury Investigation; Some Fayette Mines Work 40 Percent   13 BLAST FURNACES DOWN IN DISTRICT

WALLACE TALK GIVEN LASHING   Vice President Playing Into Hitler’s Hands, Says GOP Chairman

Says Wallace  playing into Hitler hands   Spangler Scores vice president

G. 0. P. Chairmar Answers Wallace  Says He Plays Into  bande vt Witter

Germans Claim  Vatican Bombed   Carried Gun in His Fear — Of Bioff, Film Man Says

Movie Executive Tells of Fear of ator Racketces  ‘Reason for Gun and  elt

OPPOSES 2-ALARM AIR RAID WARNING      State. Chief Says Changes In System Being Considered .

IN SALE OF BONDS   Second War Loan Drive Off to a Good Start in County

aT RC NDS   Second War Loan Drive Off to a Good Start in  County   ON SALE AT 2 STORES

Sgt. Vanderwal Killed In Battle In North Africa  Volunteered For Service At Opening Of Hostilities

Set. Vanderwal  Killed In Battle   In North Africa..  Volunteered For  - Service At Openin; ‘Of Haetibitiea

SENATE FARM BLOC SHOWS BUT LITTLE INTEREST IN PLAN   Is “Unimpressed” by the Army's Initial Move to Ease Farm Labor Shortage.

WEATHER .WARMS UP   Typical Spring ‘Conditions Forecast for Week End

Fathers Under 38 Rush To War Jobs   Employment Offices Keep Late Hours To Accom. modate Registrations

Oakes Witness Shouts Replies At Examiner   Defense Attempts to Cast Doubt on Witness’ Testimony

De Marigny Trial Grows Dramatic   Witness Shouts Replies to Quiz

DeMarigny Trial AtNew Drama Pitch   DEFENS£ COUNSEL SEEKS TO DISCREDIT ‘TESTIMONY OF HEROLD G. CHRISTIE, CROWNS KEY WITNESS.   Loud Talking Twice

NEW DRAMATIC PITCH REACHED IN MURDER CASE   Friend Of Sir Harry Oakes Is Relentlessly Cross  Examined

Bahamas Trial Reaches New Dramatic Pitch   Defense Tries to Cas! Doubt on Testimony Of Christie, Key Witness at Hearing

DRAMATIC PITCH i$ REACHED AT TRIAL   Man, Who Discovered the Body of Sir Harry Oakes, Is Grilled

Agriculture Fund Cut by Half  Changes Ordered  Ae Suhkheammittaa

13,000 Killed, More Than 1000 Tanks Destroyed  Russian Lines Holding Firm at Other Points; - Counterblows Launche  SICILY, SARDINIA HIT  30 Flying Fortresses  Beat Off 100 Axis  ' Planes Over Gerbini

BAD WEATHER SLOWS FIFTH’S GAINS IN ITALY   British and Polish Destroyers Shell Nazi Positions on Gaeta Gulf

Fifth Army In Further Gains On Winter Line   Allied Destroyers Aid Ital. ian Campaign In Assault On Gaeta   BAD WEATHER DOES NOT HALT ADVANCE

DESTROYERS AID ATTACK OF ALLIES   Gen. Clark’s Men Def} Nazi Resistance and Bad Weather

FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY SMASHES OUT NEW GAINS   Destroyers Bombed Nazi Positions  = ee  WEATHER DEFIED     Allies Capture More Towns

3,000 MINERS CO ON STRIKE   Seven Cambria County Pits Are Closed in Defiance Of Truce Order

3000 Miners Idle; Defying U. S. Orders      DON GINGERY, FEDERAL MANAG ER IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANL REPORTS SITUATION TO AD MINISTRATOR ICKES.   200 Coke Workers Quit

3,000 MINERS G0 ON STRIKE   Johnstown Walkout Hits 7 Operations Despite UMW Truce; 15,000 Tons Daily Lost

5] PENNSYLUANI MINES ARE IDLE   ®&trikes in Defiance of UMW Truce Take More Than 3,000 Miners Out of Pits: Want Contract Action

— _ a ee a en Oe od ee ee ee, ell) _ ie a? A> eee oan 8 6k ek,  6,  Bits About Bombs  Dortmund Raid Five Times German's Best

Fifth Army Tries Leapfrog Landing In Italian War   Berlin Claims Clark's Forces Try to Establish Beachhead at River.   Amphibious Operation To Break Front Line

New Allied Landing Is Reported   Berlin Tells of Leapfrog Action on Italian West Coast Near Garicliano   MAY BE 5TH ARMY FLANKING ATTACK   Similar Operations Used Repeatedly in Sicily to Out. flank Germans

Reds’ Three-Front Offensive Rolling Toward '39 Border   Germans Fall Back in Steady Retreat Over Frozen Steppes

BRITISH 8TH ARMY PRESSES UP COADI   Fifth Army Storms Mountain In Western Italy

Sth Army Drives Toward Pescara ite Mines   Nazis Still Hold San Vittore On Cassino Road

BRITISH ADVANCE TOWARD PESCARA ON ITALIAN FRONT   American Bombers Smash at Naiz-held Seaports, Railrand«

ltaly Allies in New Landing   Clark’s Fifth Army Swarms Ashore Near Mouth of Garigliane

No Confirmation But It Might Be Yankee Fifth Army Move on Gaeta Gulf Coast

Allied Leapfrog Action Reported  ‘Nazis Report Landing On Italian Coast

‘Allies make leapfrog stab at Italy coast   Action localized. - Germans report

Nazis Report New Landing   Claim Allied Forces In Leapfrog Maneuver On West Italian Coast

ALLIES DRIVE FOR PESCARA   AMERICAN BOMBERS RIP NAZI SUPPLY LINES

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY CONTINUING TO ADVANGE SLOWLY  EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS  PPree PDOeVNIN ADTONA.

lile Up Adriatic Coast  British Gain a W   American Bombers, in the Meantime, Tip Into German Supply Lines and Fifth Army Storms 3,000-Foot Mountain.

AIR RATS BACK ~ UP YUCOSLAVS   Americans Who Fought In Africa Carry War To Balkans

Legislature Adjourns After 21-Week Session; Largest State Budget

Ohio Assembly Completes Work After 21 Weeks   Will Meet June 24 for Formal  Adjournment

Northern Italy, Axis Fields, Bombed By RAF   Aerial Offensive Reaches Stage Before Sicily Hit

PRE-INVASION AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST EUROPE CONTINUES   Around-The-Clock Pounding Of Axis Airfields Sample Of Softening Up Process

BRITISH PLANES BLAST EUROPE ITALY AGATI   Drop Leaf lot 5 on Rome in 2nd Straight Nicht Offensive

WAREHGUSEMEN DISCUSS LABO}   Leaders From Three States Attend Meeting Held In Raleigh Monday; Wilson Represented By Senator Eagles.

Tobacconists To  Submit Own Plan   Decline to Approve Man: power Shortage Plan of US, Assocnition:

PLAN 2000 SHIPS FOR COMING YEAR   319 Speedy New-Type Victory Cargo Ships, 200 Merchantmen On List.

Combined Chiefs Of Staff Approve 20 Million-Tow Shipping Program; Speedy Liberty Vessels Included

: °44. Merehani Shipbuilding Program Is  ‘Approved   Will Produce About 2,000 Vessels And  20 Million Tons; 319 New-Type Ships

OKEH GIVEN HUGE MERCHANT SHIP” BUILDING PROGRAM   Combined Chiefs of Staff Pass on Construction Plan for 20,000,000 Deadweight Tons of Shipping .

U. S. Will Build 20,000,000 Tons Merchant Ships   Many Speedy  “WU Vaccale

HUGE MERCHANT FLEET MAPPED   TWENTY-MILLION TON SHIPPING PROGRAM IS SCHEDULED FOR 1944

Ship Construction Program Approved  20 Million Ton Plan Okaved Rv Leaders

Approve Big Ship Program   20,000 Tons of Merchant Ships to Be Built in 1944

Heavier Livestock Marketing   Food Administration Ex. pects Increase in Sales—  Study Allotment Plans

SEE BRIGHTER ~ MEAT OUTLOOK   War Food Chiefs Develop Plan to Prevent Market Glut

MEAT SHORTAGE DUE FOR RELIEF IN THE COUNTRY IS BELIEF   Sharp Upturn in Marketing May Save Situation —DMore Severe Short age May Follow.

RELIEF 1S SEEN ~ INMEAT CRISIS   But No Indication Given Of  Ration Increases

Beef Supply Hike Looms’ As Feed Hit Dry Ranges May Force Cattle To Be Marketed

Meat Shortage  May Be: Relieved      Expect Rush of Livestock to Market

MEAT SHORTAGE ~ RELIEF IS NEAR OFFICIALS SAY   Sharp Upturn Aeported in Movement of Livestock to Markets.

RUSH OF BEEF TO MARKET IS SEEN BY WE   Predict Meat Shortage Over Nation Will Be Eased Soon

Livestock Marketing to Relieve Shortage   Officials Believe Slaughter Facilities Will Re Ruched

EXPECT MORE MEAT TO BE AVAILABLE   Food Officials See Upturn in Livestock ‘Marketing

Meat Shortage May Be Relieved As Result Of Grain Scarcity   Rush Of Livestock To Markets Expected Within Fev Weeks—Plans To Prevent Swamping Studied

WFA Members See End of Meat Shortage Crisis   Less Feed, Dry Ranges Given As Reasons For Expected Selling Rise~«..

House Leaders Break Deadlock On Tax Plan   To Seek Compromise On Pay-As-You-Go Levy, Hope for Early Action

TAX COMPROMISE SOUGHT BY SOLONS   House Leaders Bury the Hatchet in Effort to Solve Problem

TAX DEADLOCK NEARLY BROKEN   Republicans, Democrats Take Up Modified Rum! Proposal Again

Pay-Go Tax Jam Breaking   Foes, Proponents Agree To Seek Compromise

COMPROMISE PAY-GO- PLAN “TOBE SOUGHT   Leaders Expect Some Sort of Bill to be Passed Soon

Fewer Accidents To Mar Holiday   Lessened Speed and Use of Cars and More Work in War Plants Reduces Deathe

Less Than 30 Casualties Suffered By Allies in Brilliant Strategic Landing

News Behind The News  Copyright MteCinre Newspane:   WASHINGTON By Rav Tucker

Japan Claimed Massing Troops For New Blow   -200;000 Men Said Gathered In Arc”  Abin Ace tt

200,000 JAPS MASSEDNORTH OF AUSTRALIA   Gen. Blaney Warns: Of Imminence Of Attack Even As Allied Fiiers Celebrate  Victorv.   More Planes’ Allies’ Need

Jap Menace Grows Near Australia   MacArthur Hints Aerial Baitle May Settle Fight   Japs Said Massing 200,000 Troops North of Australia

Reds Capture  Novorossisk  On Black Sea   Novgorod Severski on Road to White Russia Also Seized: Gain  Made on Trek to Kiev

REDS REGAIN NOVOROSSISK IN CAUCASUS   Also Capture Town on Road Leading to White Russia

AUVEROS SISK RECAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   in Combined Land and Sea Assault; Loss of Strategic Black Sea Port May Force Nazis from Caucasus.   Grozny Oil Fields

Novorossisk Is Recaptured By Russians   Caucasian Nayal Base Falls After 5-Day Siege, Reds Advance Elsewhere

Reds Recapture Black Sea Port In Great Drive   Death To The Germans, Says Stalin In An Announcement

Soviets Reporl ‘Major Sea and land Victories  Novorossisk Re-Taker  To Give Russians Dbccce Cocelec ec ben coed

Reds lake Black Sea  Key Point North Ukraine   North Ukraine City Also Falls  — ‘To Russians

Soviets Refake Novorossisk, Drive on Kiev   Red Army Is Pouring Through Crumbling Nazi Eastern Defense

SOVIETS DEMAND OEE BY ALLIES   Moscow Magazine Differs With Hopkins, Asks More Allied Blows

RUSSIANS RENEW DEMANDS OF MORE ALLIED ATTACKS AGAINST HITLER   Moscow Magazine Disagrees With Harry Hopkins View About  War Situation.

Russians Demanding Allies : Open Second Front Quickly   Soviets Massing Equipment and Men for Two Tvpes of Offensives.

Chinese Announce  Wiping Out  Many Jap Troops Half of 40,000 Enemy   Attackers Perish, Eieht Still Goes On

Gaither ‘sburg  Boy Is Winner   Is Star Farmer Of North Atlantic Region

Reich Puppets Restive, Peace Desires Grow   Nazis Work Frantically, Whipping Up Ebbing

SKIP AHEAD OF NAZIS ALONG SICILIAN COAST   U. S. Troops Execute Daring Amphibious Operation

Bridgehead East of Cape Established in Daring New Surorise Attack on Nazis

YANKEES AGAIN LAND BACK OF GERMAN LINES   Large Scale Attacks on italian Mainland Resumed by Americans

Americans Land Behind Nazi Lines on Sicily’s Northern Coast and Battle on Beaches

SECOND FLANKING  ATTACK ON NORTH  OOAST OF SICILY <u, S. SEVENTH ARMY UNITS LAND EAST OF  fADE ADT ANRnH

Doughboys Again Cut Behind Foe In Sea Landing   Bridgehead Js Established East Of Cape Orlando In Second Daring Thrust

Task Force Lands Behind Nazi Line ~In Northern Sicily   Major Coon Base At Ranifazzo Repor ‘ted ‘Under Heavy Fire Of Advancing American Units

:Bridgehead Established alter Dar ing Attack from Sea that Lackee Surprise Element   ALLIES ADVANCE   Flying Fortresses Bomb Terni Rail and Industrial Center S{ Miles North of Rome

Powerful Nazi Resistance Smashed By Americans In Bitter Fighting

ATTACK MORE DARING: “THAN THE OTHER ONE            Bridgehead- Established ‘De: spite “Vicious. German: -* Counter-Attacks

Yanks Land From Sea to Trap Nazis   Second Amphibious Flank ing Attack Even More  Daring Than the First   OUR TROOPS FIGHT THEIR WAY ASHORE   Navy Guns and FighterBombers Support Landing; Counter Blows Repulsed

Sea Landing At Night Puts Yanks In Rear Of Axis   Eighth Army Advanc es Along Mt. Etna Slope; Dead Germans Litter Approaches To Randozzo; Axis Escape T riangle Grows Smaller

Germans Not Taken By Surprise, Open Powerful Attacks on Amphibious Force  But Are Driven Off, Warships Helping Yanks; British Advance North Along Coast.

‘This Operation Took Place on  the North Coast of Sicily,  Allied Headquarters   Announced.   A BRIDGEHEAD HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED   The Yanks Had to Fight Their Way Ashore to Launch Assault, Dawn,  Wednesday.

Operation Is More Daring _ Than Before   Troops Fight All Night To Make Contact With Main Body

Wacs One Year Old Today; Now Have 65,000 Serving   Army Says It Could Use 600,000 Women WACs No Longer Self-Conscious

Betty WAC Has Had Big Year, Started Qut With 25 Jobs, Winds Up With 141, Spreads to 225 Army Posts Over Nation

MOB SEARCHES FOR MURDERER   Threaten to lynch Negr suspected of killing lowa woman

BRUTAL MURDER.   Mob After Negro Accused of hilling White Woman.

Seabees Ready Air Strip After Battle of Tarawa   By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON

'Sea-Bees convert landing strip on Tarawa   BY RICHARD W, JOHNSTON.

SEABEES ARE BUSY ON TARAWA IS.   Landing Strip Being Prepared Savs Correspondent

First Texas Governor Joins  Mexico In Sept. 16 Holiday   Stevenson Formally Joins Celebration In Mexico City; Guest Of President

Billion Asked For World Relief In Next Year   Would Amount To 10th of American Income To Help Reconstruction

U.S. Share In Food Aid $500 Million   First Contribution -Halt “Cash, Half in Stored Supplies

Huge Sum Sought For War Relief   One Percent of U. S.  Income Is Estimate

Politics Seén In Methods Of Allied Relief   Some Countries Hint They Are Eager To Use Relief For Business Promotion

FOOD SURPLUS EARMARKED IN RELIEF ABROAD   Stored Supplies Of U.S Britain To Reduce Cash Outlay

Thanksgiving Day Observed Through World  Holiday Brings No Rest for Men On World Fronts

Americans All Around World Pause In Midst Of War To Voice Prayers And Give Thanks For Country's Freedom   Allied Headquarters Tells Of Nazis Massacre Of 54 Persons At Bellona

ALLIES JOIN AMERICA IN OBSERVANCE   Even in Yugoslavia Thanksgiving Bonfires Are Lighted to Show Enemy People’s Faith i in Democracy.

Prayers Mingle With Thanks Voiced i in Nation  Turkey Dinners Served Yanks  Ashore, at Sea

PRAYERS MINGLED WITH THANKS OVER WHOLE NATION TODA  wwree@iaarmrAa mee reat Aemaimiinann em   THANKSGIVING STRIPPED OF CAREFREE FESTIVITIES OTHER YEARS

Allies Pause To Give Thanks   Air Of Festivity Is Gone During War

War Goes On AtSea, On Land   Gov. Kerr and Family Spend Day in Ada With Mother

PRAYERS MINGLED WITH THANKS OVER WHOLE NATION TODA)   THANKSGIVING STRIPPED OF CAREFREE FESTIVITIES OTHER YEARS

THANKSGIVING IS DAY OF PRAYER   And of Fighting, Too, on Far Flung Battlefronts of The World

FARM SPOKESMEN  TAKE SHARP ISSUE  WITH LABOR LEADERS NATIONAL GRANGE ASKS  ADMINISTRATION TO REcier TARNR’S NEMANDS

Grange Resists Labor Demands  For Price Decline @ Farn: Aides Take Issue With Hike in Wages

GRANGE TAKES ISSUE WITH LABOR’S STAND   Oppose AFL-CIO Request For Either Rollbacks or Wage Increases

GRANGE OPPOSES LABOR DEMANDS   Asks Administration To Resist Price Rollbacks Or General Wage Increases

GRANGE FIGHTS ROLLBACK PLAN   Farm Group Asks Gov't To Resist Labor’s  Demands

GRANGE FIGHTS - LOWER PRICES OR WAGE HIKES   jommitice Takes Issue With La. hor, Denying Prices Out of Line —wWanis One Agency

NEWSPAPERS PRAISED FOR LOYAL SERVICE TO COUNTRY AT WAR   Congress Asked — To Assure Paper for Free Press

SOLON GOES T0 -BAT-FOR PRESS   Senator Asks Congress to Keep Administration Off _ Newspapers’ Back

SOLON SEES MOVE: TO WEAKEN PRESS   Asks Congress To Fight Against Restrictions .

A FREE.PRESS IS PEOPLE’S SPOKESMAN CONGRESSMAN THINKS   Senator Brooks Asks Congress to Serve Notice ~ On Administration. Restrictions of News:, papers Won't Be Tolerated

Newspapers of America Draw Praise in Senate   Senator Brooks, Describing Strong Free Press As Vig: orous Spokesman of People, Asks Congress to Serve Notice On Administration It Will Not Tolerate Restrictions

American Naval Task Force Begged In Vain For Battle Off Coast Of Norway

FEINT AN ATTACK   J. §. Battleships Many Miles Away Held in In vasion of Sicily

OPPOSES SUBSIDIES   O'Neal Claims System Is Designed To Create “Santa Claus”

Subsidies Assailed   Attempt Cover Wage, Deht Inflation’--O’Neal

Senate Opens Subsidy Fight   Farm Leader Assails CCC As Colossal Santa Claus

O'Neal Assails Subsidy System   Senate Group Launches Hearings on Plan

O’Neal Hits Subsidy As  ‘Santa Claus   Says Distribution Planned Without Regard to Real Necessity

HEAR REPORTS CABINET QUITS IN BULGARIA   Anti-War Demonstrations Are Reported Sweeping Nazi Satellite Nation

REPORT BULGAR CABINET QUITS:   Anti-War. ‘Atmosphere Sweeps Balkan Nation

“LOSSES OF FOE EXCEED ALLIES’   5539 Yanks Killed, 17,621 Wounded, 7966 Missing

Casualties in Mediterranean Theater In Past Year 6 fo 1 in Favor of Allies

FDR SAYS RUML PLAN GOOD FOR WEALTHY CLASS   He Claims Rich Would Save Under System—A Lower Net Return Seen

Roosevelt Voices Ruml Plan Dislike   Says It Will Return Less Tax (o Government Than Now

FD. R. AGAINST SKIP-A-YEAR TAX PROPOSAL   President Indicates He Looks On Rum! Plan With Disfavor; Treasury Would Suffer, He Says.

FDR OPPOSED ~JORUMLPLAN   President Says Net Tax Re‘turn To Gov’t Would Be Less Under Plan

President Roosevelt Voices Opposition To Forgiving 1942 Income Payment

Opposition To Ruml Plan Indicated By President;  Sees Decrease In Revenue

FDR Opposes Ruml Tax Plan  Claims Government Will Lose; Credit  For Early Payment

Roosevelt Is Opposed To Ruml Plan   Return To Federal Government Would Be Less, He Says

Roosevelt Says He's Against Ruml Tax Plan   Committee Wants Discount to Speed Tax Payments

FDR To Oppose Ruml Tax Plan   Says It Will Reduce  Year's Revenue

Ruml Plan Is Unsatisfactory To President   Executive Says It Would Result in Loss Of Revenue and Would Favor Big Money Men

Pr esident And Marshall Talk  Conference Held  aa 871°... FF ...2..

Armed Forces Put On Call; 500,000 Idle Miners Are Asked To Work For U. S. .

Papa and Mummy Blamed for Many Neuro-Psychiatric Cases in U.S. Army

Next Move Ickes’ Union Chief Says  Men Start Work Today Under 15-Day Truce

Lewis Declares UMW Not Bound By Strike Pledae   ‘Up to Ickes Now’ He States; Charges That WLEB Breached Pact.

Miners Start Back to Their Jobs   Lewis Says Workers Will Insist Upon Prior Wage Demands

Lewis: Declares Armistice Does Not Mean Retreat      Sticks to Minérs’ Original Demands;, Says’ Next Step Up'to. lekes:

Lewis Says Union No Long: er Bound By “No Strike” Agreement   NEXT MOVE IS UP TO ICKES, HE DECLARES

Men Drift Back To Coal Mines On 15-Day Truce   UMW Stands Firm on Demands, Put Next Move Up to Ickes; Full Production Resumes Today.

Lewis Insists On $2  Raise   Union Head Charge: No-Strike Pledge  Voided by W.L.B..

Lewis Declares Armistice Does Not Mean Retreat   Sticks to Miners’ Original  Demands, Says . Next  Sten Up to Ickes.

Lewis to Insist on Original Demands; Miners Return To Work Under 15-Day Truce

LEWIS STANDS FIRM ON UNION “PAY DEMANDS   No Retreat is Indicated "As Miners Trek Rack to Pits

yohn L. Lewis Says Truce ‘No Retreat’ From Stand  Says Original Demands Still Held i by Miners  A...) T..   Says Original Demands Still Held by Miners And Initiative Now  IIln to Serretarw Trkac   FULL OPERATION OF MINES DUE TODAY

SECRETARY ICKES HAS NO AUTHORITY TO BARGAIN WITH MINE WORKERS AS TO WAGES OR WORKING CON DITIONS.

Labor Ruler Says Move Is Up To Ickes   Nation’s Miners Go Back To Work Unde 15-Day Armistice.

Next Step Up To Ickes, Boss Of Coal Fields   Full Seale Production Resumes Today in 15 States: Mine Leader Puts Blame on WLB

Miners Still Demand Raise   All Mines Expected To Be Operating Tuesday

trike Pledge Leader Avers ing WLB  t Move Is Up Ickes, Union { Declares  ‘' PRrnApnraeaar

LEWIS DECLARES MINE TRUGE MEANS NO WAGE RETREAT   Asserts Union Will Stand Pat On Its Demand for $2-aDay Boost—Tosses Ball to Ickes.   MEANTIME DIGGERS TREK BACK TO PITS   Hundreds Resume Work After Week-End Shutdown With Full-Scale Production Today Predicted.

Lewis Mokes It Clear Armistice Means no , Retreat  ‘STATEMENT GIVEN  BY UNION LEADER  Says Miners no Longer Bound by No-Strike  . Pledae

NEXT STEP ” LEFT UP TO   “Truce Is No Retreat From Original . UMW Demands

NEXT STEP IN MINE DISPUTE UP TO ICKES   NO-STRIKE PLEDGES NOT BINDING, SAYS UMW LEADER

Mine Union Stands Pat on Wage Issue   War Labor Board Ha: Complete Support of White House

Union President Declares Miners Will Not Retreat   Issues Defiant Statement Saying Next Move s Up to Ickes   Declares Men Are No Longer Bound by No Strike Pledge

House Adopts  Stringent Act  Against Strikes Goes Back To  Senate For Concurrence

HOUSE PASSES ANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATION   Resentful of Coal Work Stoppage, John Lewis

Martin Fills Vacancies on Two Boards   EDWARD NOEL JONES AND JAMES J. COYNE GO TO TURNPIKE COMMISSION; TORRENCE TO FOLLOW.   Game Board Named

EDEN RECEIVES STIMSON, KNOX   Conferences : Take Place At Embassy; Topics Not Revealed

SERVICE. CHIEFS CHAT WITH EDED   Britisher Calls on Siimson; Knox Received at - Embassy

“Great Waliz’’ Returns To St. Louis Municipal Overa Mondav. Tulvy 12

LECLERC MEETS GIRAUD’S FORGE   Fighting French from South Contact Main Army in Tunisia

French Troops Gain Ground   Take Two Strategic Heights With Aid of New LaFayette Escadrille

December Sales  Bring Total Up   Urged to Start Buying Bonds Now for 1943 Quota   Bank Sales Are $1.562.137

FAYETTE COUNTY HAS MET ITS BOND QUOTA   Chairman John F. Miller Issues Statement Showlng That Amount Desired Has Heen Sold

Jap Aggression Policy Effected Collapse — OF Plans for Pre-War ‘Peace’ Canferencx

Collapse of FDR ‘Peace Parley’ With Jap Prime Minister in ‘41 Revealed

RED AIR FORCE HITS NAZI-HELD PORT OF TAMAR      B ombers Blast Southern City On Sea of: Azov to Disrupt German Offensive Moves   FRONT UNCHANGED   Aerial“Activity Is Seen As Soviet:Strategy to Keep Nazi Troops:Out ~ of Kuban

RED BOMBERS ATTACK NAZIHELD TAMAN  Germans Reported Moving Fresh Troops Through That Port for  Possibie Offensive

Red Bombers Raid Nazi Base Along Taman On Sea Of Azov As Land Front Remains Quiet

Hifler Ousts Three Envoys   Nazi Party Members Appointed to Tokyo, Madrid and Sweden

HITLER SHUFFLES HIS DIPLOMATS   New Ambassadors sent To Spain, Japan And Sweden.

FIFTH BREAK FOUND IN OIL PIPELINE   Fire Develops After Oil Is Dis. covered Flowing From “Big Inch’ Extension On Sunday

IOWA FUGITIVE SURRENDERS 10 COUNTY SHERIFE   Gave Up at Woodbine After He Had Got Past Sheriff's Wife at the County Jail

SURRENDERS TO LOGAN SHERIFF   Towan Had Been Hiding in Weeds and Fields

URGE FARMERS TO RENT TOOLS   Department of Agriculture Prepares Bulletin Listing Fair Rates

HIT PHOTOGRAPHER, MAJOR 1S CENSURED   Officer Ordered to Apologize For Action Against Newsmen.

OFFICER HITS NEWSMAN   aArmy Major Strack and Threatened Photographer at Fire

MIGHTY SOVIET DRIVES UNDERWAY TO CLEAR WAY  FOR ROSTOV DRIVE   Red Army Launches Thunderous Bombard ment At Last Pocket Of Axis Resistance At -Stalingrad.

Reds Break Last Axis Resistance   End Battle of Stalingrad, to Start Rostov Fight

Germans Raid Enalish Town   Four Bombers Level Many Buildings and Cause Casualties

German Planes Bomb England   Bombs Drop On Market Place Trapping Civilians

Many Trapped In Bombed Building   eaelae Inland Town Raided By Low-Flying * . Germans.

Germany, Italy, France Bombed During Nigh   Turin And Italian Navy Base At Spezia Hard Hit By The RAF

RAF REPORTE RAIDING EUROPE   Daylight Assaults Follow U S. Attacks Sunday

HEAVY BOMBERS KEEP UP ATTACK   RAF and Yanks Alternate in Attacks; Salonika . Also Target

R. A. F Bombers In New Attack:   Roar Over Channel Today To Nazi-Occupied European Points

BOMBERS ARE OVER EUROPE   NAF WARPLANES ROAR OVER ’ CHANNEL AFTER AMERI‘CAN RAIDS ON FRANCE YESTERDAY

H. V. HOYER RETIRES AFTER 56-YEAR PUBLISHING GAREES   ‘Lew Warren and W. S. Rupe of Ames Purchase Oelwein Register from Pioneer Publisher.

AMERICANS BOMB 2- HERMAN U-BOAT BASES IN FRANCE   Daylight Attacks Made on Lorient and Brest—Five Flying Fortresses Lost.   RAIDS FARTHER INLAND ARE MADE BY RAF   ) Troops, Trains and Barges - Pounded — Many Casualties Inflicted on One Company of Soldiers.   Rt wera

Kolombangara   “Japs Push Allies : - Back Slightly In. =New Guinea Fight

Vila Brought  Within Range Of U. S. Guns   Occupation Of Arundel Island Paves Way For Attack On Jap Base On Kolombangara

VILA WITHIN CLOSE ARTILLERY RANGE OF U. S. SOLDIERS   Americans Take Arundel Island — Fighting Is Fierce In Area Of Salamaua

ARUNDEL ISLAND TAKEN BY YANKS      307 Nazi Planes Destroyed ~ On August 17, Japs Lost 191 During Month.

‘YANKS CAPTURE NE WISLAND IN SOLOMONS —   New Guinea Fightin gShadp

UJ. §. TROOPS TAKE ISLAND   Capture Arundel Island Bringing Vila, Last Major Japanese Base in New Gvorgias, Now’ Within Close Artillery Rane.

Yanks Seize Island Near Jap-Stronghold at Vila   Nipponese Fighters Counter-Attacking Savyagelv. at New Cuinea Carctal Patnte

YANKS HAVE CAPTURED ARUNDEL ID.   Vila Only Jap Base Now Left in New Georgias

Vila Brought in Artillery Range By Yank Troops   Arundel: Island In New. Georgia Ie Captured

YANKS SEIZE ISLE 2 MI. FROM VILA   Close Pincers On Jap Base And Air Field

MID-SOL ISLAND TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Captured Arundel Puts Our Forces In Position To Turn Guns Loose On Villa, Jap Base

Last Jap Outpost in New Georgias Now Threatened   U. 5. GROUND FIGHTERS MEET SLIGHT REVERSE

South Pacific Island Taken  By Americans   Occupation ¢ Of Arundel Cuts Off Jap Base At Vila

Guns Set to Blast Last Jap  e * Base in Georgia   Island Given Up With out Fight; Blocks  wy A ae Kula GU

ARUNDEL ISLAND “CAPTURED, VILA “WELOSE RANGI   66 Enemy Aarges or Luggers Destroyed—Four Larger. ore Yaseple Sunk.

Soviets Bite Deep Into Orel Defense   Narrow Cor=dor Left for Gerrz: Withdrawal

HOLD QREL AT ANY COST IS. HITLER ORDER   Russians Meet Fierce Counter Attacks of Reinforcements But Still Close Circle.

Reds Gain In Orel Battle   Crucial Phase Near As Three Soviet Armies Close On Vital German Base; City’s Main Defenses Penetrated

Soviets Sterm Deeper into City’s Defense:   Battle For Strategic Town Nearing Climax: Fall Expected Soon

REDS STORM DEEPER INTO OREL DEFENSE   German Stronghold Now. Almost Encircled And Near Fall 

‘NAZI BASE IS ALMOST ENCIRCLED   Massed Planes And Artillery Blast Pillboxes

Storming Deep Into Orel Area   Planes And Artillery Of Soviet Army Rip Into Nazis -~ Battle Near Decisive Stage

RUSSIA NARROWS ESCAPE CORRIDOR OF NAZIS IN ORE!   Battle’ for Great German Strongpoint Nearing Its Decisive Phase.

Soviets Pull Tighter Ring Around City   Last Enemy-Held Railroad Under Artillery Fire

RUSSIAN ASSAULT TROOPS ARE PENETRATING OREL’S DEFENSES   Big Battle Reported to be Reaching Decisive Stage: Nazis in Bad Way

PLANES, GUNS BOMARD OREL   Russian Ground Troops Narrow ] Nazi Escape Corridor

“LOOSE” TALK AUP MAKES SOLON GRIN   Mrs. Luce Hears Testimony at House Unit That Rrings Laughter

Dr. Farrell Resigns As College Head   K-State President Thinks Young Man Should Be Named

FOREIGN LIQUOR PURCHASES OK’D   Fisher Outlines Procedure fot Ont-of-State Buvers.

Says Public Back Of Ruml Tax Plan   Martin Says “Main Street’’ Wants it

GOP Leaders Say Publie ~ Backs Pay-Go   Martin Avers U, S. Citizens Indorse Carlson-Ruml Plan

RUSSIAN TROOPS BATTLE NAZIS IN KHARKOV STREETS   Fall of Steel City Believed Ymminent—Other Parts of 500-Mile Front Ablaze.   10,000 GERMANS DIE IN DAY’S FIGHTING   Reds Seize 80 Villages and Wreek Scores of Tanks— Push Closer to Brvansk.

10,000 NAZIS RILLEO DAY'S SOVIET SCORE   Red Troops Take Heavy Toll and Much Booty on 500-Mile Front.   RED TROOPS FIGHTING IN KHARKOV STREETS

Nazis Slain By Thousands ~   Wild Fighting Flares Along Raging 500-Mile Red Front

Fighting ls Raging in City Streets   10,000 Germans Sloin In Dey; Vast Booty Ceptured by Soviets

Soviets Storr Vital City; we Battle Rages   Collapse of Kharkov Is Near, Russians Believe, Other Major Triumphs Are Imminent; German Losses Are High

RUSSIANS FIGHT WITHIN KHARKOV   Battles Rage On Approaches To Karachey, And Along Central Front

Russians Move Info Kharkov   Bitter Street Fighting Marks Day as Reds Regain Steel Center

REDS RUSHING INTO KHARKOV ON ALL SIDES   FALL OF KEY CITY IMMINENT; NAZI ESCAPE CUT

Reds Advanee Meanwhile in.  New Offensive   Fighting Rages Along 500-Mile Front; j Many Germans Killed

Reds streak ahead along  broad front   F ighting blazes  inside Kharkov

REDS FIGHTING IN STREETS OF UKRAINE CITY   Battles Being Waged on Approaches to Karachev in Bryansk Offensive; Nazi Losses Heavy

Soviets Report Fresh Advances   Bryansk Offensive Reaches Karachev

Soviets Push  Offensives In Heavy Attacks   Red Summer Campaign Gaining Momentum: Fight In Kharkov. Move On Brvansk

Wild Fighting Rages on  500-Mile Front   Russians Battle Germans on Kharkov Streets

Soviet Forces Battle Nazis Within Kharkov   Escape Gao Through Karachev Narrowed; 8000 Germans Killed

Russ Battle In Streets Of Kharkov   Onrushing Reds Slaughter Nazis On Three Fronts

RUSSIAN TROOPS ENTER KHARKOV   Soviets Battle Germans ir Streets of City—10,000 Nazis Are Slain

Soviet Troops In Streets OF  Steel Center   Fall Of Kharkov Believed Imminent As Russians Pound Last Resistance.   THIRD DRIVE ADVANCE

SOVIET FRONT BLAZING WITH WILD FIGHTING   Thousands Of Ger. mans Killed: New Drive Threatens Smolensk

TWO CRUISERS SUNK: 8 OTHER WARSHIPS HIT   Two Large Cargo Vessels Also Damaged in First Stages of New Enemy Moves in Pacific      BIG RABAUL HARBOR LEFT MASS OF FLAMES   Biow Described as Staggering; Total of 134 Enemy Vessels Destroy ed Since October 11

U. S. Planes Sink Two Jap Cruisers in Assault on Rabaul Eleven Others Are Damaged   Airforce Strike at Nip ponese Reinforcements Rushed From Truk for Showdown in Solomons; Navy Awaits Battle With Big Convoy

Japs Rush Huge Warship Force To Aid Rabaul  Two Cruisers Sunk   Two Cruisers Sunk As Allied Planes Attack Convoy

Two Cruisers Sunk, 10 Other Ships Are Struck By Bombers   Eleven Enemy Vessels Are Pounded at Rabaul; Nip Reinforcements Dealt Staggering Blow in New Action in Pacific.

Yanks Prepare Reception For  Jap Challenge   Divebombers, Torpedo Planes Make Good Score In First Rabaul Raid.   SINK TWO CRUISERS

1 Jap Cruisers Sunk; 10 Vessels Are Damaged   Avengers, Dauntless Divebombers Open Daylight Attack

Army, Navy Airmen Gang Up On Rabaul: KZ Jap Ships Hit   Two Enemy Cruisers Definitely Sunk, Ten Other Craft Are Damaged As American Aerial Might Slashes At Reinforcements

Navy and Army Airmen Tean Up in Attacks on Rabaul; 26 Enemy Planes Downed

11 OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED AS BATTLE FLARES   Amy, Navy Air Forces  Join In Allied Attack

11 Enemy Vessels Damaged In Smash On Rabaul Harbor   Allies Down 26 Jap Planes; Heavy Raid Made On Rabaul

Jap Defeat Marks Opening of  (New Pacific Drive   Allies Sink Two Enemy Cruisers, Hit Many Other Vessels, Pound at Airfields; Climactic Fight Is Seen

Six Cruisers, Two Destroyers, Two Cargo Ships Hit   Allied Planes Smash Jap Reinforcements Rushed From Truk for Their Desperate  Effort to Hold Raboul Against Allies

TWO CRUISERS SUNK: 11 OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED   Enemy Attempting to Rush Reinforcements In the Solomons

ARE LISTED AS DAMAGED    11 VESSE      Harbor At Rabaul Scene Of Fight On Eridse 

Two Nippon cruisers downed, 7 others hit in allied air assault   Destroyers, big cargo ships also damaged; Rabaul harbor in flames

SOMBERS DAMAGE 7) CARGO VESSELS   Mianes Smash at Reinforcements Rushed From Turk   AIRMEN LEAVE   Rabaul’s Big Harbor Mass of Flame and Smoke; Air Forces Team up

Jap Vessels Reported Sunk By Air Smash   Curtain Rises On Solomons Showdown With Allied Blasts

Two Cruisers Sunk, Six More, Two Destroyers and Two Big Cargo Ships Damaged in Smashing Aerial Blows

Reinforcement Rushed By Japs From Truk; Rabaul Is Blasted 9th Time 

Jap Cruisers Go Bottoms Up hh Pacific Clash  Sea-Air Battle Gathers Fury For Rabaul Prize

Bombers Sink Two Cruisers”   Ten. Other. Vessels  Damoanec:in RAs-H.-

Japs Lose Ships   Two Cruisers Sunk, Ten Other Vessels Hit As Allies Baiter Reinforcements From Truk

HUGE TROOP MANEUVERS IN OREGON      75,000 Men to Be On Hand At’ the Start

Giraud and DeGaulle  Both Designated  As French Leaders Liberation Committee  Thus Averts Disruptive Showdown

Giraud, De Gaulle To Share Equal  French Command Former Given Sway ie are

French Leaders Both Delegated As Commanders   ’ Giraud Will Boss _Agrica, DeGaulie ATL Mthar Aranc

Disruptive Showdown Averted  French Committee Designates Two Commanders-in-Chief

FRENCH DIVIDE ARMY COMMAND   Giraud, De Gaulle Split Responsibility In Africa, Empire

Test Blackouts Slated For Ohio   Surprise Alerts Will be Held Soon

EDUCATORS RAP PRESSURE LAWS   LEGISLATORS TOLD STUDIES MUST BE FOUNDED ON TRUTH

NEW WORKERS FOR UNOKILLED JOBS WANTED   WMC Report Says Only Labor Pools Not Yet Combed Are on Farms.

lowa Facing Most Critical Labor Deficit   Survey Shows State's Need Is Largely for Unskilled Workmen

BRICKER IS PRAISED BY WILLKIE BACKER   Rep. Halleck Says New Deal Has Led to Bankruptcy

heeler Bill ll Be Sent  0 Committee  Debate Starts n Measure Tuesday

Senator Seeks Draft Bill Vote   Wheeler Opposes Recommittal Motior

GERMAN TROOPS DRIVEN BACK IN BALKAN SECTOR   Guerrillas Take 21 Key Stations In Recent Push

GREAT LANDSLIDE "AUSED BY FRENCH 10 BLOCK PURSUIT   F amilies in Foothills Forced to Evacuate as Guerrilla  Patriots Retreat Over Saa. he

French Patriots Hurl Rocks Dow: at Il Duce’s Men   Landslides’ Said to Have Halted Italian Column -

French Patriots Retreat Deeper Into Savoy Alps   Guerrilla Tactics Include Landslides

French Patriots Send Avalanches Crashing Upon Heads of Pursuing Italian Troons

French Fight ltalians With Big Boulders   Patriots Retreat High Into Alps; Stall Pursuers

PATRIOT FORCES HIDE IN HILLS   French Guerrillas Start Landslides To Harass Pursuing Italian Troops

FRENCH PATRIOTS DROP LANDSLIDES ON AXIS COLUMNS   Guerrillas Retreat Deeper Into Fastnesses of Snowcovered Alns.

Forces Ketreating Deeper Into the Snow-Covered Savoy Alps Send Boulders.and Landslides Crashing Down in Path of Advancing Italian Forces—Dynamite Aids in Program Aimed ct Italian Enarene

PATRIOTS SEND LANDSLIDES ON AXIS SOLDIERY   Armed Italian Column Stalled By Tacties Of French

Air Attacks Restricted, But Germans’ Fields Are Raided by Allies  AMERICAN ARMY CONTINUES PUSH  Montgomery Reported Reeroupines 8th Armv   Montgomery Reported Regrouping 8th Army For New, Crushing Blo

Juncture of Tunisian —  Axis Forces Reported   Amalgamation Means Foes Compras ed Into Tighter Trap Than Ever}! Weather Is Handicap one

Forces 18 Miles From Krivoi in Dnieper Bend   Tank Thrust Below Kiev Threatens to Tray Even More German Troops in River Loop

Reds Smash Toward Big  Power Dam   Advance Moves Within 4-1 Miles Of Kiev Bastion

Drive Within 30 Miles Of Duieper Riveranid to Within 44 Miles of Kiev, Capturing Two Railread Centers and 733 Villoone

SOVIET DRIVES NOLL ONWARD AGAINST NAZIS   Russians Within 37 Miles 0  Dnieperopetrovsk, Boulder Dam City

Russians Slash Closer To Iron Mining Center   Over 50 Towns Fall To Advancing Soviets In Dnieper Area

Over Fifty Towns and Hamlets in the Area Captured  SUDDENTHRUSTTO NORTH IS REPORTED  Reds Within 18 Miles of Krivoi Rog, Communiaue Saves

Soviets Win Back 733 Villages, Kill 8,700 Nazis; Rail Centers Recaptured

REDS FORGING GERMANS INTO RIVER ELBOW   Slashing Close to Several Cities; Over 50 Towns and Hamlets Fall to Advancing Russians.   Flaming Streets

Russians Trap More Nazis at Dnieper Elbow   Germans Rush Troop Divisions From Norway and France; Reds Smash Close to Krivoi Ros

[New Thrust Increases  Nazi Danger   Red Forces 18 Miles I'rom Dnepropetrovsk 18 from Krivoi Rog  32 TANKS WRECKED

CAPTURE RAIL ROAD JUNCTION OF PAVLOGRAD   230 Towns Taken in One Area: Kill More Than 1,000 Nazis

Russians Smash Ahead Along 600-Mile Front   Soviet Columns Near Ukraine Capital In Dnieper Thrust

Germans Lose Thousands Of Soldiers   Ukrainian Capital Is Center of Drive From Many Directions

eds of Thoutands -Diiven Pack Soviets Slashto Within 31 Miles Dnepropetuorsk and 18 Miles of voi Rog Gertnan Reinforceat Front Moiway, Holland and ance Unable t Check Reds or to inésin Linc.

GERMANS DRIVEN INTO DNIEPER LOOP   WUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FORCED INTO ELBOW AS RED ARMY PUSHES ON,

Soviet Forces Drive Toward Dam Site, Kiev   Russian Columns Within 37 Miles Of Dnieperopetrovsk, 44 From Kiev.  nw   AUTUMN RAINS HINDER

RUSSIAN TROOPS CONTINUE GAINS ON ALL FRONTS   Reds Now 31 Miles From Dnepropetrovsk And 18 From Krivoi Rog   THOUSANDS OF NAZIS FACE ENTRAPMENT

Aloo COLUMN DRIVING ANTAL ON 10 SECTOR   Kil! 8,700 Nazis, Take 733 Villages, 500 Prisoners in Day’s Fighting.   ARMY NOW 44 MILES FROM UKRAINE CAPITAL

RUSSIAN. TRAP PERILS FOE IN DNIEPER BEND   Fierce Fighting Still Rages in Streets : Of Melitopol

Soviets Drive on Dnepropetrovsk Draw Closer to Krivo Rog: Crack Strong Points; Melitopol in Flames   German Counterattacts beaten Back; 50 Towns Captured in Area; Reds Straddle Railway; Enemy Improvises New Defenses

Over Fifty Towns and Hamletsinthe Area ~~     Captured . SUDDEN THRUSTTO . « —_NORTH.IS REPORTED  Rode Within 18 Milee af      Reds Within 18 Miles of Krivoi Rog, Communi- © aque Says

Soviets Push Near Dnieper,  Kiev Bastion:   Reds Take 733 Villages, Kill 8.700) Nazis In  Smashes: Gains Made In 10 Sectors

Drive Brings Troops Nearer Capital City   Kiev Only 44 Miles Away As Conquests Aid Russians

Reds Tighter Vise On Foe {n Crimea   Germans Forced Into Elbow Ot Dnieper

mash to Within 37 Miles of Dnieperopetrovsk, and to Within 44 Miles of Kiev   ae 733 TOWNS; KILL 8,700 NAZIS   eports Mounting From  Three Sources Germany:  Plans To Withdraw to Polish Frontier

Germans Are Ousted From 733 Villages   Slashing Drive Captures Vital Rail Junction

Soviets Smash Closer to City of Kiev   Total of 733 Towns and Villages Captured Saturday

SOVIET ARMY SWAMPS NAZI REAR GUARD   RAILWAY JUNCTION OF PAVLOGRAD CAPTURED

Soviets Force Nazis Into Dnieper Elbow   Russians Slash to Within 31 Miles of Dnepropetrovsk

Reds Encircling German Troops in Dnieper Area   Fierce Fighting Within Melitopol

PLANNING FINAL BLOW AT GERMANY   lo Strip Japan of All Territorial Gains in Past 50 Years.

Roosevelt Believed Turning Away From ‘Dreamer-Theorist’ Advisers

DREAMERS ARE DROPPED BY PRESIDENT   Home Front Control Put in Hands of. Practical Men

FDR Mending Home Fences For Campaign   Washington Sees Shift to Conservatism With Blow to Wallace.

PRICE CHANGE ON VEGETABLES   Hi. 'T. Beckman, Director of Colum bus Office of Price Administration Restates Ceilings in 36 Counties in Central Ohio.

MacArthur Bomb: Break Up Japan’s Plans At Rabaul   Prepare Countersmash At Bougainville Raid

ALLIED PLANES IM AGH RABAUL FLEET UF JAPS   Convoy Assembled To Attack Allies On Bougainville Blasted Apart

Pacific Sector Sees Air Battles   ALLIED PLANES STRUCK HARD AT JAP SHIPPING

Jap Shipping Ts Blasted   Rabaul Harker Scene Of Heavy Lesses te Bombers

Armada Massed at Rabaul to Counter Attack Destroyed   MacArthur’s Forces Dis. play Dazzling and Diversified Power

Allies Smash Rabaul Fleet By Air Attack   Eleven Ships Sunk; Countersmash Planned By Jap Forces Wrecked

JAPAN NAVAL SHIPS BOMBED BY AMERICANS   160,000 Tons Of! Shipping Sunk By Air Force

Air Might Rips Japs.   Enemy Losses Staggering As U. S. Warplanes Dominate the Skies

Japan Suffers Heavy Loss in Southern Seas   Three Destroyers and Eight Big Transports Sent to the Bottom

MacArthur’s Bombers Sink Three Destroyers and Eight Transports; Planes Blow New Holes In Bougainville Base.

SEA ARMADA AT RABAUL IS BOMBED OUT   Nearly 100,000 Tons Nipponese Shipping Sunk or Damaged and 129 Enemy Planes Destroyed   DRIVE GAINS GROUND

ALLIES DESTROY 129 JAP PLANES   “STRIKE MIGHTY BLOW IN DRIVE TO OUST NIPS FROM SOLOMONS

3 Jap Destroyers Sunk by Yankees   Americans Also Knock Down  29 Nippon Planes in Northern Solomons.

Japanese Ships Sunk At Rabaul  Allies Control Sky ver Bougainville

100,000 Tons Jap Shipping Out of Action   Planes Also Protect U. S. Marines Now Occupying Bougainville

Three Jap Destroyers, Eight Transports Sunk; 129 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed

Passenger Train Carrying German Captives Wrecked   Firemen and Engineer . Killed, Many Hurt * In Ple-Un

Two Men Killed in Wreck of Train Carrying German Prisoners to Camp

TRAIN CARRYING NAZI PRISONERS LEAVES TRACKS   Two Members Of Engine Crew Killed And Military  Guards Injured In Virginia   TWO CAPTIVES ARE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

WAR PUBLICITY PROBE WIDENED   Senate Group Will Examine Entire Public Relations Program

GENERAL PROBE.   Will Be Carried Out In War Publicity and Propaganda.

GOVERNMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS INQUIRY IS BEING BROADENED   BENATE, COMMITTEE. INVESTI‘TIGATION NOT TG STOP AT PROBE OF OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION

FURNITURE STORE CLOSES ITS DOORS   E. Hamm  Discontinues Business For Duration — Stock Sold To W. E. Miller Company, Washington

AIR FIGHTS ARE RAGING IN PAGIEEG   Yanks Increase Bag to 134 Craft in Far-Fling Engagements in Solomons Area.   AMERICANS SET RABAUL ABLAZE   U. S. Fleet Shells Enemy, Off New Georgia Isle and Drives Nip Warships From Rendova,

Jap Aerial Offensives  Hurled Back   ‘Enemy Warships” Also Driven. Off In Salamone Pioht

100 Nip Planes, 7 Warships Routed as They Oppose New ‘Offensive; Big Bases Bombed

Balileships Chase Naval Forces Away   Enemy Plane Losses Extremely High For Two-Day Sky Battle

Allied Fliers Rain Tons Of Bombs On Nips’ Strongholds   Airmen Rout 100 Japanese Planes In Last Two Days; Enemy’s Losses In Aerial  Fighting Now Total 134 Shot Down

100 Jap Planes Routed By Allied Flyers; Toll Of Enemy Hiked to 134   Rabaul, Munda, Other Key Bases of Tokyo Forces Blasted From Skies; Japanese Naval Squadron Flees U. S. Warships

Enemy Loses 134 Planes In Two Days   Battles Are Farflung; Americans Hold Air Supremacy, Continue to Bomb Enemy’s Most Important Bases

GERWAN NAGBED IN DRAFT GASE   Woman Companion Is Booked as Violating Enemy Alien Act

LEADER OF BUND JAILED BY FBI   Companion Also Arrested As Violator Of Enemy Alien Act

Bund Leader, Companion Held   Draft, Alien Act Violations Charged

ASKED TO CONVERT   Fuel Oil Users Are Urged to Buy Coal Burning Stoves

KED TO CONVERT   Fuel Oil Leen. Are Urged to Buy Coal Burning  Stoves

BOMBS ON JAP BASE    Akyab City and Province Blasted : by Yanks and British

Americans Bomb Frankfurt After RAF Raids Kassel   Germans Use Rocket Shells to Battle Flying Fortresses

FLYING FORTS HIT FRANKFURT, ARSENAL CITY      American Raid Seventh In Fou Days — RAF In Raid On Kassel

Frankfurt Blasted By Fortresses   Rocket Shells Are Used By Nazis In’ Futile  Effort To Break Up  Attack By Big Fleet

U3, BOMBERS DELIVER BLOW AT FRANKFURT   Smashing Daylight Attack ls Made By Fortresses Of American Forces

New Rocket Shells Used By Germans   New Weapon Put to Use Against Allies In Frankfurt Raid

FORTRESSES Hil FRANKFURT; RAF ATTACKS: KASSE   Americans’ -Penetrate Heait of Industrial Germany In Davlight Raid.

AMERICAN . ‘FORTS BLAST FRANKFURT; RAF HITS KASSEL   2 Vital Targets In Heart  “OF iGermaby,..Only 90-. ~ “Miles"Apart, Get: - Heavy Bombing .

FRANKFURT, KASSEL ARE BOMB VICTIMS   Continuous Bombing of Germay In  Fourth Day

Yanks Bomb Arsenal City OfFrankfurt   RAF Fleet Raids Germany’s: Arms Center of Kassel .

FRANKFURT HIT BY U.S. ‘FORTS   Hundreds of Tons of Big : Bombs Dropped

Seventh Heavy Assault In New Air Offensive   RAF Night Bombers Attack Important  Factories At Kassel 

1, PLANES HIT FRANKFURT WITH HEAVY ATTAGK   Big German Industrial City Mass of Smoke and Flame   RAF RAIDS KASSEL, 90 MILES FROM FRANKFURT

Frankfurt Left Smoking Ruin By Fortresses   German Fighters Use ATW... EP Vena NL EVGW MOCKEL GUN Un  Americans

FAMOUS FLIER DIES IN CRASH   In 1928 Schiller Rescued Fliers On Lonely Labra- . dor Island.

World War I Flier, Now R. A. F, Ferry Command ‘Pilot, Killed In Crash

Capfain Schiller Dies in Crash   Famous Veteran Piiot Meets Death In Bermuda Landing

Famed Air Pilot Dead   Captain Duke Schiller Killed in Crash Night Landing in Bermuda

Famous Aviator Killed in Crash  Capt. Schiller,  World War ) Pilot Wae Wek DAL

BRITISH FLIER DIES IN CRASH   Duke Schiller, Known as Former Gar Wood Pilot

United Nations Relief Meeting In November   All 43 Countries Invited To Attend Sessions At Atlantic City Accept  MAY LAST A MONTH

Nazis Fail To Dent Red Lines   Reinforce Land Armies In Kuban Region

Nazis Continue Heavy Attacks,  Reinf orcements   scanning er ee  Red Army TTolding Un-'  der Tleavy  Incessant, German Attachs.

GERMANS FAIL DENT RUSSIAN LINE WITH REINFORCED ARMIES  RUMANIAN TROOPS BEING . USED AND SPEARHEAD COSTLY RESULTS

Reinforced Nazis Failing To Dent Red Defenses   Nazis Up To Old Tricks Using Rumanian Troops As Spearheads,

SOVIETS BATTER GERMAN ARMIES IN KUBAN AREAS   Reich Pours More Men Inte Campaign, But Russians Hold Positions

NAZIS BOLSTER RUSSIAN FRONT   Hundreds Of Planes Shifted Into Vital Crimea Area

NAZIS STEP UP PACE IN RUSSIA   Heavier Activity Reported: Reds Say Lines Hold  ee i iin si i i

Germans Throw More Troops Into Kuban   Battle in Caucasus Grows More Fierce, Death Toll Mounts  Re EMMY cy arin ww

Red Armies Smash New Nazi Assaults   Red Star Says Hitler Feverishly Plans ‘New Adventures’

NAZIS REINFORCE LAND ARMIES IN THEKUBAN DELTE   Shift Hundreds of Bomber and Fighter Planes Into Crimea For Use In North Caucasian Battles; Fail To Dent Russian Lines.

TRANSFER  PLANES INTO THECRIMEA   Despite Incessant Attacks Reds Hold Lines Intact

REDS REPULSE EACH GERMAN ASSAULT SO FAR   Hitler’s Generals Requiré Rumanian Troops To Lead Way

SOVIET TROOPS STAND FIRM ON SOUTHERN FRONT   Repulse German Attempts, News Reports Show

GERMAN F IN KUBAN AREA IS REINFORCED   Hundreds of Planes Shifted to Crimea for Nazi Assaults

NAZIS FORCE RUMANIANS TO LEAD ATTACKS   Germans Reinforcing Kuban Ar. mies in Determined Assaults— 800 Slain in 20 Hours

German Forces Getting Reinforcements Hourly In Kuban; Shift Hundreds Of Bombers Into Crimea; Russians Hold  ast.

Nazis Receive Reinforcements   Troops Arrive in Kuban Area, Planes Pour into Crimea

Nazis Bolster Kuban Armies  Much Of Air Force Shifted Into Crimea

RUSSIANLINE  HOLDS INTACT   New German Forces F ail to Crack — Defense ‘in  Cavcasua. —

Soviets Hold Firm Under Nazi Attacks   Hundreds of Bombers and Fighter Planes Are Shifted to Crimea

STRONGER NAZI FORCES HALTED   Fail to Crack Russians Line in Kuban Area

Hull a Hero To President And Capital   Sen. Byrd Proposes Congressional Medal for Moscow Paci-aker

Ege ee eae a re  JAP COUNTER-BLOWS REPULSED IN BURMA   Nipponese Lose Heavily As Allied Forces Advance

Allies Advancing In Wesfern Burma   Throw Back Heavy Japanese Counterattacks

Allied Troops Hurl Back Japs On Burma Front  Heaviest Ground Action In Months

FIERCE FIGHT RAGES IN WESTERN BURMA   Allies Advance After Jar Attacks Hurled Back

Oklahoma City Draf Board Balks On Calling Fathers  Occupational Defer  ment Termed As “ #ILT go. A, LILI

Board Balks af Fathers’ Draft   Want Eligibles Deferred for Other Reasons Taken First

THREE VeotLo HIT AT MAPLE: SARDINIA RAIDEL   Allied Bombers Strike At Vital Axis Supply Lines  To Tunisia

17 Generals Are Included; Victory Called One Of History’s Greates!

Allies Say Africa Victory Is One Of History’s Best   Booty Is Tremendous Chief Declares; Gain Is Inestimable

Soviets Make New Gains In Rostov Drive   Troops Threaten Real Break-Through Toward Voroshilovgrac

IN TWO KEY AREAS TODAY   Nazis Reported Fleeing Thru Rostov Gateway

LAST HOPE OF ESCAPE [8 GUT (FF FOR NAZIS   Gateway to Caucasus Is Now Within Range of Russian Big Guns.

RED TROOPS NOW DRIVING ON ROSTOV   New Drive ive Sought To Rival Historic Stalingrad Win

THREE COLUMNS WAKE PROSRESS TOWARD CT)   Big Breakthrough Toward Voroshilovgrad Threatens

NAZIS FORTIFY FRENCH COAST   Mediterranean Area Declared Restricted Zone: Civilians  Told To Move

PAY INCREASE VOTE ASSURED   SENATE APPROVAL. OF RAIL WORKERS WAGE BIKE Is  EXPECTED AT SESSION oot TODAY .

Negotiations Continue Between UMW Miners and Operators.   NEW CRISIS LOOMING

Most of Miners Go Back to Work   New Crisis Seen In Long Dispute

Miners Back on Job; Sign of New Crisis in Dispute Seen   Dissension Among Southern Operators on Issues Reported

Operators at Odds in Coal Talks   Reported Divided Over Negotiating Contracts or Ask! ins WLE Action   MINERS RETURNING TO PITS TODAY   Full Negotiating Committee  Is Scheduled to Hold Meetine Today

MINE OWNERS ARE REPORTED PrINC AT ANNS   Split Between New Contract and Adjudication by WLB   MINERS STREAM BACK   Only Scattered Breaks Reported In Back-toWork Front

Miners Return To Pits: Split Threatens Among ‘Dixie Coal Operators .

New Crisis Looms In Coal Dispute As Bulk Of Miners Return To Work Under Truce   Dissension Among Southern Operators Reported At Washington Negotiations

Southern Group Dissatisfied With Pay Suggestions; UMW Back On Job

Miners Trudge To Pits Under Fourth Truce   Dissension Among Southern Operators Indicates New Crisis

Coal Miners Go Back To Work In Nation Today   Resume Parleys On New Contract

NEW CRISIS INDICATED IN CONTROVERSY   Union Chief and Aides Are Closeted Briefly With Representatives of Operators   DISSENSION IN SOUTH

Split Among Operators of Coal Mines   Owners Undecided on New Contract Framing At Conference Table

OPERATORS IN SOUTHERN PITS NOT AGREEING   WLB “Assumes” Negotiations Will Be Re-opened Without Instructions From It

South Wants WLB to Rule On All Issues  Northerners Would Re sume Wage Negotiations  With Union  ‘PENALTY LAW SEEN ‘Passage of Anti-Strike ; Bill Given Impetus by  pee, Me ME Ee   PENALTY LAW SEEN   Passage of Anti-Strike  Bill Given Impetus by Truce Limit

MINERS RETURN TO PITS TODAY TINDER TRICE   New Crisis In Wage Argument Is Predicted

Crisis Remains ut Miners Go  Back To Work  t   Operators Now Disagree On Referring Disputes To War Labor Board

UST OF MINERS EIU 10 WORK; DISOENSUON SEER   erators gery Divided On OQuefion of Whether To Seek New Contract At Conference Table Or Ask Adjudication of All Issues By WLB.

Lewis Miners Back in Pits Under Peace Terms This Morning   Few Instances in Which Men Refuse to Work Without Contract

SAY SOUTHERN UPERATORG IN DIOAGREEMENT   Most of Lewis’ Strikers Go Back ‘to’ Mines Under 20-Day. Truce.   WAGE NEGOTIATIONS FORMALLY RESUMED

MINERS BACK ATJOBS TODAY IN 4TH TRUCE   Reports of Dissension In Southern Operators’ Ranks Heard   LEWIS, OPERATORS CONFER IN SECRET   WLB Silent On Negotiations, Sending No Word To Conferees

Indications Now Coal Operators Face Dissension   Most of UMW Miners Back to Work; Lewis, Operators Confer

MINERS RETURN TO PITS UNDER FOURTH TRUCE   Operators Divided on Question of Asking Decision by WLB

WLB IS SILENT ON NEW CRISIS   Another Threat to Coa Production in Two Weeks Held Up by Lewis

BULK OF MINERS RETURN TO JOB   Union Leaders And Operators Have Brief Meeting In Capital

Miners. Back To Pits   -New Crisis Looms As Operators Wrangle; Some Object to Bargaining With Miners

Miners back at jobs; new crisis looms   South operators want referee’s  ruling by WLB

New Crisis Seen ~ Among Operators   Some Want to Appease Miners But Others . Would Hold Out   PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ISSUE IS FADING

Dissension In Ranks Of Coal  Mine Operators   Bargaining Negotiations Threatened As Miners Return To Work.

BULK OF JOHN L. LEWIS'S MINERS GO BACK TO THEIR JOBS   Trudged Back to Their Pits Today Under a Fourth Agreement.   A NEW CRISIS IS SEEN   Reports of Dissention Among the Southern Operators Is Made.

Dissension Among Soft Coal Operators New Threat To Contract Negotiations

Most Miners Return to Work Today   Dissension Among Southern Owners  . Reported at Meeting

New Crisis Appears in Coal Dispute  Operators at Odds  Qe, Tris Tle Den necc   Operators at Odds On How To Proceed With Miners

Operators Split On Policy In Coal Parleys  ' Northern Operators ’ Want To Neaotiate   Northern Operators Want To Negotiate Directly; Southerners Far WIR Actan

Dissension Among Operators Threatens New Crisis In Wane Dispute   MINERS RESUME WORK UNDER FOURTH TRUCE   Union Officials Confident Agreement Upon Wages To Be Reached Soon

MOST OF MINERS RETURN 10 WORK: DISSENSION SEEN   Operators Reported Divided On Question of Whether To Seek New Contract At Conference Table Or Ask Adjudication of All Issues By WLB.

Most Mines Are Back To Normal Today   Northern Operators Are Hopeful Of Settlement Of Portal - To - Porta  Pay Issue Soon

Most Coal Miners Back On Job Today   New Rift — Looms Among Operators

(Most Miners On Job, But  Owners Fuss   North And South Not In Agreement On Procedure

NATION'S MINERS RETURN TO JOBS   RESUME WORK IN PITS UNDER FOURTH TRUCE AGREEMENT

Coal Operators — Now In Dispute   INTEREST SHIFTS NOW AS MINERS RETURN TO JOBS

Miners Return To Pits But  See New Crisis   Lewis Discusses Next Steps In Negotiations

Miners At Work;  New Crisis Looms  Reports Heard OF Dissension Among Southern Operators

Miners Return to Pits Under Truce; Southern Operators Split—Report

= wee TT eee  Miners Return  Again   , «+ Dispute of Operators May Delay Settlement

‘Coal Miners Trek Back To Work Under Fourth TruceAqreementBy Lewis

Workers Return  To Their Jobs  Report Trouble Among Southern Operators

INDICATION OF NEW COAL MINE CRISIS LOOMS   Dissention Among Southern Operators Reported As Miners Return to Pits In Nation   TALKS RESUMED   First Session, Without Nod  From WLB, Cut Short : When Operators Go  7 * aN  LTO Waucus.

‘Miners Return To Work Under  Strike Truce   Dissension Among Operators Threatens to Throw Monkey Wrench. Into Negotiations.

Bosses Split In Coal Talks   Bulk Of Half-Million Idle Miners Return To Jobs Under Two-Week Truce.

Disagreement Among Coal Mine Operators   Southerners Create New Crisis; Leaders In Conference

Miners Go Back To Pits as New Crisis Develop:   Southern Operators May Throw Monkey-Wrench  in Coal Negotiations.   Hold Out For Ruling From WLB’s Referee

MINERS RETURN AT MOST PITS TALKS RESUME   @dperators Reported Split On Issue Of Letting WLB Serve As ‘Referee’

Super Material And Manpowe  Czar Is Urged  Senale Committee Sees Production

Super-Czar In War Efforts ls Called For   Drastic Reorganization Of War Production And Manpower Agencies Is Proposes

Senate Group For Changes ly  War Agencies   Propose Plan For Economie  General Staff

Senate Group Would Alter War Agencies   Seeks To Create Suvner-Czar Post

War Production Revision Urged By Senate Grour  “guper- -Czar” For  Manpower, WPB

Pepper Report Urges Super-Czar To Supervise All War Production   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

Seek Production Super-Czar  Reorganization of  War Production  a fae oo

Reorganization Of Two Agencie: Recommended   Subcommittee Reports on War Production and Manpower

SUB-COMMITTEE CALLS FOR RE-HASH OF WAR MANPOWER AGENCIES  Pepper Files Report

WAR AGENCIES MERGER URGED   Appointment Of Super-Czar Seen Necessary To Secure Total Production

/WPB And Manpower Agencies  Would Be Changed Drastically And Placed Under “Super-Czar”

PEPPER URGES. REORGANIZED ~ WAR AGENCIES   Files Committee Repor! Proposing Super Czar to Head, WPB, OPA; “Procurement, WMS

ASK CHANGES IN 2 WAR AGENCIES   Drastic Reorganization Of WPB And Manpower Agency Urged

“OHIO VALLEY   TRIBUTARIES OF ORIG OUT. OF BANKS AND FLOOD STAGES REACHED ALONG THE RIVER

Seareh Goes On for Dozen ‘Pen Breakers   Two Patroluen Wounded aut One Convict Believed Hit

Search Pushed In Large Area   12 Conviets At Large As Result Of Pen’ Break . In Mississippi

Convicts Sought  In Four States   Escape Fram Mississippi Prison

Twelve Parchman Convicts Still Out   four States Join In Search For Remainder Who Broke Saturday

Armed Convicts Still at Large   Officers Search For Dozen In Mississippi

OFFICERS PRESS SEARCH FOR CONVICTS   _ Dozen Armed Mississippi Convicts Still at Large, Being Hunted in 4 States

MINERS CONTINUE TO DEFY FDR ORDER   UMW Threatens Ts Expel - Strikers From Union -——-22nd Day

Convoy Smashed By Yank Flyers   Afrika Korps’ Attacks Repulsed With Loss of 33 Tanks Saturday

Brit. Score A Cleancut Victory ~   AFRIKA KORPS PULLING BACK. INTO HILLS, PURSUED BY BRIT. EIGHTH ARMY; U.S. AIRMEN ACTIVE me

Rommel's Army IsReported Retreating Aaain   U. S. Bombers Have Smashed Enemy Convoy

6 Attacks Fail: Patrols Pursue Retreating Axis   Yank Planes Smash Convoy Off Tunisia, Hit Seven Vessels

Six Na i Attacks Repulse 3   American Air Force Rald Convoy — RAF Lays  Mines on Coast

AXIS CONVOY BLASTED BY U. S. FLIERS   British Chase Atrike Korps Back Toward Coast Bottleneck

NAZIS RETREAT AFTER COSTLY TANK ATTAGKS   British Repulse Six Axis Blows; Foe Heads For Hills

GOEBBELS FORESEES 1944 AS DANGEROUS   Says Eriemy Has Caused Much Difficulty and Wil! Cause More.

German Propaganda ‘Minister Goebbels Sees Dangerous Year In 1944

‘Dangerous Year’ Seen By Goebbels   Admits That Allies Have Caused Nazis Much Difficulty

No Comfort In Goebbels Talk   Says 1944 Contains ‘Riddle: Upon Riddles’

lartin Calls Conference "1 States to Discuss ttitieal Milk Shortage

AXIS CAUCASUS FORCES FACING BITTER * DEFEAT   Soviets Pour Thru Elaborate German Fortification Line   PLANES ‘AID DRIVE      Nazi Debacle Looms As Allies Gain Control  In Tunisia

Debacle Looms For Axis Force In Caucasus Wa   Russian Forces Pour Through Defenses Around Novorossisk.

RED ASSAULI PUSHING FOE TOWARD SE   Russians Smash Strong Fortifications Within Nine Miles of Key Port of Novorossisk.   FURIOUS DEFENSE OF NAZIS CRUSHED   Soviet Artillery, Infantrymen and Air Forces Co-Operating in Powerful Offensive.

 e  Axis Forces In Caucasus Threatened   Soviet Troops Pour Through Defenses Toward Novorossisk.

Staggering Defeat For Nazis Looms Under Relentless Soviet Assaults

Red Troops Pour Through Nazi Defenses: Threaten in Caucasus   - New Debacle for Enemy Impending; Furious German Resistance Overwhelmed in Steady Advance Aimed to Throw Invaders Into Seas

Red Troops Blast Nearer Black Sea   Axis Defense Network Being Smashed By Russians

REDS AUSH TO SSH NAZI ~ TN CAUCASUS   Break Thru Intricate Lines of Defense Girding Novorossisk,   AMERICAN PLANES AID IN FURIOUS FIGHTING

Soviets Approve Plan for Polish Fighting Force  Reds Smash Defenses Within Nine Miles Of Novorossisk  AIR BATTLES HEAVY  Flanking Movement By Amphibious Force In Kuban Area Reveale   Reds Smash Defenses Within Nine Miles Of Novorossisk

NAZI DEFENSE BELT PINCHED BY RED ARMY   STAGGERING DEFEAT FACES CAUCASUS INVADERS

Soviets Smash Nazis’ Network Of Pillboxes   Russian Infantry, Artillery and Air Coordinated to Drive Germans Into Black Sea

Germans Face New Defeats  In North Caucasus Sector  Russian Troops Overwhelming Nazi Defenses In Latect Offeanciveae Near Navarnceick Port

Reds Threaten New Staggerinc Blow To Nazis   Elaborate Defense  Lines Crumbling Rlanr Nlavarnaceiele

ENEMY REELING AFTER TERRIFIC AERIAL LOSSES   Soviet Troops Pierce German Defenses Holding on at Novorossisk

Soviets Thrash  Into Enemy's Strongest Line   Nazi Defense Is Furious But Futile; Reds Threaten to Achieve New, Staggering Victory; Germans Weaken

REDS INCREASE CAUCASUS PUSH   Germans Threatened With Staggering Defeat

REDS THREATEN NAZIS WITH NEW LOSS IN SOUTH   Prospect of Staggering Setback Faces Germans Before Novorossisk

Reds Threaten. New Staggering Blow To Nazis   Elaborate Defense Lines: Crumbling Nlaqr Novoroscick

Soviets Gain Ground Toward Novorossisk   Russian Airmen Flying American Planes Pave Way In Assault

SOVIETS BREAK THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE BELT   Th reaten to Inflict Staggering Defeat On Axis Forces

Reds Break: Nazi Lines In Caucasus   Staggering Defeat Suffered by Hitler  Lemans in Russia

Reds Report Gains in the Caucasus  Overcome Fierce Resistance _ Ss ene eran = ~

Soviet Troops Pour Through Axis Lines   Furious German Resistance Overwhelmed: 190 Of Hitler’s Planes Destroyed

Russians Smash Through Nazis In Caucasus, Seek To Match Tunisia Triumph

German Caucasus Forces Face Staggering Deteat   ALLIES PURSUE AXIS FOR ‘KILL’

Defense Belt Falls Before Red Forees   Novorossisk Menace, Germans in Danger of Caucasus Dunkerque’

ROOSEVELT ON. ALL NETWORKS   pene ‘seen PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO MAKE IMPORTANT AN - NOUNCEMENTS IN SPEECH THIS AFTERNOON :

President At Hyde Park Home   To Observe Third Christmas Of War At Home On Hudson River   MAKES NOTABLE ADDRESS TODAY

MOVE MADE 10 HELP FARMERS   Price Controls Are Clamped On Farm Machinery Sales.

Officials Of Ohio War Plant. Convicted On Sabotage Charge   Prison Terms Faced by Three Brothers for Supplying Faulty Castings for Warplanes To Be Used by American and British Fliers in Combat With Japs and Germans

OFFICIALS FACE STIFF SENTENCE      Schmellers Found Guilty By Jury in War Fraud Case

WAR WORABRD WALK TO JOBS —INTWOCITIE:  se of AFL Tra ispor tation 1 Worke = Altes   Strikes of TAFE Transportation Workers Affect Johnstown and Mc-~ Keesport Areas   THIRD STRIKE-ENDS   Johnstown Ration Boarc Wili issue Supplemental Gasoline Coupons to  Workers °

Assembly Gets Bill on County Pay Increases   ‘Would Authorize Boost of 15 Per Cent For the Duration

*Two Killed , on Route 422 Icy Stretch   " Trailer T rucks and Small Truck Meet Near Kittanning   ’ ‘FIVE STAR FINAL’   ‘Author Weitzenkorn Burned to Meath in Wilkes-Barre

Leads Action Against Jap Island Bases   Is Second Appearance in. Field; Move Believed Significant

Pays Attention to Occepation of Two Tiny Islands  BETWEEN SOLOMONS ~~ AND NEW GUINEA  Second Time in 8 Months  He Has Taken the. Erald =

General Takes Full Charge As Allied Forces Hammer Foe by Land; Sea and Air   Nippohese Attempts to Counter Attack With Planes and Warships Defeated as Small Naval Force Chased and 11 More Aircraft Shot Down

Hitler Claims Reds Stopped   Russians Do Not Concede Loss Of Towns Reported Taken By Foe.

Russ Troops Pushed Back  Say Germans   RAF Continues Pounding Of Axis Bases on the French Coast

Berlin Claims Red Army Units Pushed Back Over Donets   Moscow Statement Says Soviet Forces Still Move Forward

NAZIS CLAIM REDS HALTED ALONG DONETS   But Russians Pushing Deeper Into Ukraine Win Successes to West of Kharkov.

‘Former State Auditor Dies At His Home   Frank E. Baldwin Attorney And Prominent Republican Leader Passes Away  ENDS AN ACTIVE CAREER

Former State Auditor General Dies In Austin   Well Known Here, Married Former Smethport Resident

HON. F. E. BALDWIN DIED MONDAY      Former Auditor Genera. And State Senator Died At Austin.

Former Auditor ‘aeneral Dies  Frank E. Baldwin Passes Away, Was 77 Years Old

FRANK BALOWIN DIES IN AUSTIN   Republican Served As Auditor-General 1933 to 1937

Native of Duke Center Ill for Year Frank Baldwin. Former State Auditor General. Dies at 77

LULL IN BATTLE ALONG ROUTE T0 ROME 1S ENDED   Nazis Introduce New FlameThrowing Tanks tn Italy In Futile Attempt to Stop Advancing Army.   NEW AERIAL ATTACK iS BEGUN BY YANKS   Berlin Has Two-Night Respite From Bombing, Citizens Extinguish Fires In Battered City.

MITLE OF ITALY RESUMES; BRITISH HIT NAZI LINES   Nozis Using FlameThrowing Tonks On 8th Army   gCOND BRIDGEHEAD is WON OVER SANGRO

LULL ENDS INMARCH TOWARD ROME   Land, Sea and Air Action Picks Up in Italy

BAIT ofl Elonth ATTACK FLANK OF GERMAN LINE   American Fifth Scores Limited Advances To New Ground

German Flame Fails To Stop Attackers   Americans Also Move Forward As Montgomery Sends His Men Against Nazi Flank

Tempo increases In Allied Battle On Italian Soil         < Flame-Throwing Tanks Used By Nazis In Move To Stop Foe

15 More Men Called For the Army Inductior   WILL LEAVE EARL. IN APRIL FOR ARM) INDUCTION CENTER

Registrants Selected For the February Oraf      FORTY-TWO SELECTED TO GO TO INDUCTION CENTER THIS MONTII

Russians Drive 18 Miles Beyond  Dnieper River   Other Breaks Are Made In Nazi  Defense [ines

TAFT PROPOSES DAD GALL LIMIT   lans Amendment Limiting Draft To Those Under 30 Years Old

Taft to Demand ‘Under 30’ Draft   Wants Young Fathers To Be Called First

Commissioner  E.R. Benson Taken by Deatl   Prominent Political Figure in County for 30 Years Ill for Number of Years

Bob Smith Buys — Lucke Building  Requires More Space For Increasing Trade

CANCELLATION OF SOME TAXES POSSIBLE STEP   America Won’t Ask ‘Pound 0} Flesh’ from Allies

OST-WAR PLAN [FT CONCERNS OOSEVELT KIN   New Scrap Steals Show In  Washington; Uncle Of   President Finds Self   In Middle   \ELSON FIRES AIDE “IN WPB CIVIL WAR   3elieve Chief Seeks to Keep Control of Arms Production Out of  Military Hands

New Tax Plan  , Considered         Latest Plan Offered by Legislators Would ' Wipe Out Income Taxes for About Seventy Percent of Nation’s In'’ come Taxpayers

DOUGHTON ASKS GOV'T FOR CUT IN 1942 TAXES   Showdown Vote Near On PayAs-You-Go

Cologne Target Of RAF Bombers 15 Planes Lost   Transports, Other Objectives Hit In Low Countries

RAF Again Hurls Bombs On Cologne   Badly Battered City And Other Gorman Areas Under Assault

RHINELAND AGAIN TARGET OF RAF: COLOGNE HIT HARD   Transports and Other Tar. gets In Holland and Bel. gium Also Attacked By RAF Fighters; 14 Bomb. ers and One Fighter Reported Missing.

RAF PLANES POUND © COLOGNE, OTHER RHINELAND ‘TARGETS   Transport and Other Varied Objectives in Holland and Belgium Also Draw Fire From Fliers’ Guns

Cologne Is Target Of Night Raic   Other Objectives in the Rhineland Are Also Hit. - Punishing Blows

Allied Fighters Raid Belgium And Holland   Air Offensive Continues as British Shuttle Across Channel

FIRST NIGHT RAID ON CITY SINCE FEB. 16   RAF Again Carries Attack To Vital Rhineland City

14 BOMBERS, ONE FIGHTER ARE MISSING   Air Attacks on Sicily Continued by RAF Mosquito Planes

RAF Bombers Stage A Raid on Cologne   Also Attack Transport and Other Targets in Holland and Belgium and Damage Three Ships Off Netherlands—15 Craft Lost.

AIR OFFENSIVE —   Attacks Transport And Other Targets In Hol-: land And Belgium ~  RBOMR OCOMOTIVES

Attack Against Europe is Carried On By Day   14 Bombers Fail To Return From Raid; Targets In France, Holland Blasted -

Air Offensive Resumed By RAF, Cologne Targel   Rhineland City Gets 116th Pasting From British Bombers

‘BOMBERS AGAIN ‘BLAST COLOGNE ‘AND. RHINELAND   Great Industries Recovering from February Raid Again Targeis af RAT   SHIPPING DAMAGED   At Least Nine Locomotives Damaged in Raids Aimed al Hiller's Transport

COLOGNE JOLTED BY RAF BOMBS   Other Rhineland Targets ) Also Blasted by British in Night Attack

Other Rhine Targets Are  Blasted   Enemy Convoy Is Wrecked Off The Dutch Coast

Cologne Again Raided To Halt its Rebuilding:   “Rhineland Industry \s Being Destroyed On Big Scale

Cologne Battered Ben RAR Attaek   Mosquitoes Bomb Igalw and Sicily

Badly Hit Nazi Cities Bombed Again RAF Keeps Up Its Drubbing  Across Channel

HEAVILY - BATTERED: COLOGNE IS. AGAN, TARCET OF BOMBERS   Fighters Raid Transport and Objectives in\Holland . and Belgium   15 RAF-PLANES ARE LOST

Cologne Is Attacked By RAF For The ‘116th Time   British Go Back To Destroy Plants Being Built Since Last Devastating Smash

DROP BOMB LOADS ON OBJECTIVES IN RHINELAND   FOURTEEN BOMBERS AND ONE FIGHTER DECLARED MISSING

HEAVILY BATTERED COLOGNE WAS AGAIN BOMBED LAST NIGHT   OTHER RHINELAND OBJECTIVES TARGETS OF AERIAL OFFENSIVE

Transports and Other Targets In Holland and Belgium Also Attacked By RAF Fighters; 14 Bombers and One Fighter Reported Missing.

FRENCH MOVE NEARER UNITY   DeGaulle Expected to Confer This Week,

DE GAULLE WILL GO TO ALGIERS   Path Appears Cleared for French Unity Move

WAY SEEMS CLEAR FOR UNIFICATION OF FRENCH - FACTIONS      De Gaulle Will Leave. For Algiers This Week To Confer With Giraud

Clear Way For French Parley   Anti-Axis Forces Appear To Have Edge

FRENCH MAY BE GETTING TOGETRER AT LAST   Plans Made to ‘stablish Central Authority at Algiers

TRADE PACTS’ PROBE SOUGHT BY MINORITY   10 House Republicans Urge Congress Investigate

NAB FUGITIVES: “AT CLEVELAND   TWO DETECTIVES’ CAPTURE FIVE MEN WHO ESCAPED © _.FROM MISSOURI STATE . ~* —pRIgoN ~

REPUBLICAN POST-WAR POLICY _ > S ADOPTED AT CONFERENCE      ADVISORY COMMITTEE CALLS FOR “COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATION" TO PRESERVE FUTURE WORLD  PEACE

GOP CALLS FOR POST WAR UNITY   Cooperation Among Nations Urged, New Deal Asked To Follow Lead

FOREIGN POLICY UNITY IS URGED   GOP Calls For “Responsible” U. S. Participation In “Cooperative” Group

Berlin Handed Heaviest Raid By RAF Planes   900 Tons of Explosives Cascade on Capital In Half-Hour Assault

900 Tons of Explosives Dropped In Furious Half-Hour Attack; Yanks Pound French Rail Center

NAZI NAZI DAYLIGHT RAID TOLL = HAS GONE OVER 200 MARK   CASUALTY LI8T INCLUDES « CHILDREN AND TEACHERS DEAD AND 3 CHILDREN  E MISRING

CONSIDER PLANS TO DISPOSE OF SURPLUS WHEN WAR ENDS   Uncle Sam May Have 25 Billion In “Odds and Ends” About Five Times as Much  as at End of Previous War, *

TWENTY-FIVE BILLION SURPLUS WAR GOODS   Is Babson’s Estimate Of The Materials U. S. Army And Navy Will Have To Dispose Of When War Is Won.

War Surpluses And Civilians   BABSON SAYS EXCESS OF GOODS PRESENTS PROBLEM

Floods Drive 2000 From Their Homes  North Dakota Area Suffers Severely

CHURCHILL AND FDR CHARTING PEACE ACTIVITY   Drafting Broad Outlines For World After Axis Powers Fall   DECISION TO BE SECRET   Plans Also To Be Laid For Later Conference With Russian Leader

PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL IN NEW TALKS   Discuss Peace to Come After Allied Victory Is Won

OENATOR FRAMES AIR WAVE BILL   Commentators Who ‘Slander’ Others May Have to Share Time with Victims

URGES REPLY 10 RADIO SLANDER   SEN, WHEELER WANTS RIGHT TO ANSWER RADIO COMMENTATORS

Wheeler Feels Persons Slandered on Radio Should Have Chance to Answer

APPROPRIATION ~ BILL IS PARED   Joint Treasury, Post Office Measure About 9% Less Next Year

CHARGES MADE-BY SPARKS SETTING ACTION IN HOUSE   COMPLETE I NVESTIGATION MAY BE MADE OF ALLEGED  “PURCHASE” OF 'G.0.P. NOMINATION

Three Marines Die. 77 Injured  In Mountain Fire 14 Reported Near

3 Marines Die In Brush Fire  77 Others, 2 Civilians Burned in Battling San Dieao County Blax:

HOUSE ANXIOUS FOR SLOW TIME   Five New Bills on Variety Of Subjects Introduced in Ohio Legislature

MAKE THREATS OF BIG STRIKE   Union Leader Asserts Owners Hide ‘Behind WLB Skirts’

Bituminous Mine Workers Threaten Strike   Union Representatives Promise Halt of Work Unless Demands Met

Will Walk Out If Refused Pay Boost, They Say   Iwo Dollars a Day In crease April 1 or No Work, Is Ultimatum   Charge Operators Are Hid ing Behind War Labor Board

RESUME TALKS ON MINERS’ WAGES   THREAT OF WORK STOPPAGE UNLESS INCREASE GRANTED

NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUED ON MINE CONTRACT   Operators and, Union  Heads Confer in Face of Threat of Strike April 1   88 DAY WAGE ASKED   Unionization-of 50,000 Foremen and Assistant  Foremen Also Being _  Demanded 

WORK STOPPAGE THREATENED BY UNION MINERS   Leaders Say They Will Get Raise Regardless Of  Consenuencee   LEWIS REFUSES TO COMMENT ON ISSUE

U.M.W. Threatens Mine WalkoutIn Contract Dispute   Union Spokesman Says New Pact Must Be Mad By March 31 With Substantial Raise Granted Or Work Will Stop

WORK STOPPAGE THREAT VOICEL   Miners’ Spokesman Sees Hall If Demands Refused   DISTRICT HEAD   Says Operators Are ‘Hiding Behind Skirts of War Labor Board’

Threat mine work stopped on Mareh 31   ‘Won’t go back to work unless contract signed’

Mine Walkout Is Threatened   Union to Stop Work If Contract Not Signed by March 31

SOVIETS MAKE PROGRESS WITH SMOLENSK GOAI   Black Mud Hampers Operations As Spring Thaw Sets in.—Reds Claim Heavy Nazi Losses.

Reds Reach Dnieper East of Smolensk   Spring Thaw Comes To Central Front

Soviets Keep Up Advance On Smolensk   Sweeps Germans From Eastern Dnieper Bank; Retire Near Kharkov

CRISIS AVERTED AND MINES EXPECTED BE FIT EN AN THESTAY   UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT IS NEW EMPLOYER ‘AS MEN ASKED RETURN

Harold L. Ickes, New Boss of Cool Fields  Will Seek Settle Wage Contract Dispute Between Operators and the Miners

MINERS STARTED BACK T0 THEIR WORK DURING THE DAY   Mines Are Expected to Be Running Full Blast by Tuesday Morning.   GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE   The Stars and Stripes Wave Over the Shafts as Men Return.

Miners Start Back to Work.  ‘Cancel Freeze   Most Strikers Delay Return Until Tomorrow When Lewis Truce Becomes Fffective

CRISIS AVERTED AND  MINES EXPECTED BE  FILLED ON TUESDAY UNITED STATES GOVERN  MENT IS NEW EMPLOYER AS MEN ASKED RETURN

Most Workers To Be Idle Until Tuesday   Lewis Announces 15day Truce Just Before President's Talk

Lewis Calls Meet OfU UMW Group To  Discuss Next Moye   Lewis and Ickes: to Seek to Settle Wage Coritract Dispute: During 15 Day Trace. After Govt, “Fakes Over Operation of ‘Mines. 0

TO REACH FULL PEAK TUESDAY   Miners Go Back Te Work Under Fifteen-Day   Truce   U.S. THEIR NEW BOSS   Secretary Ickes To Seek Settlement of Wage Dispute

Lewis Halts Strike Under 15-Day Truce   Men Go Back to Jobs Under Operation Of Mines by U. S.

Policy Committee Assembles Today  President Has Promised © Drastic Actinn

MINERS START. BACK TO WORK: ~ IN MINE PITS   Trickle in Morning, Promises to.Be Steady Stream.by .+ - Nightfall.   CKES SEEKS: SETTLEMENT DURING NEXT 15 DAYS

Strike is Averted; Miners Go to Work   All Coal Mines of Nation Expected to Be Running Tomorrow After a Fifteen-Day Truce Is Announced by  ohn - ] pune   President Makes Radio Appeal For Miners to Go Back to Their Jobs

LEWIS GIVES UP WHEN PRESIDENT TURNS ON HEAT   Government Takes Over Mines When Union Leaders Balk At Contract Negotiations   ROOSEVELT STATES CASE   Wave of Walk-outs Called Off for 15 days in Which Problems To Be Settled

Crisis Is Averted:  Miners To Work   Lewis Agrees to Resumption on 1 5-Day Temporary Basis   FULL FORCE TUESDAY   Ickes to Act as Referee as Well as Manager of the  Mines

Miners Respond to Appeal By FDR, Declaration of 15 Day Truce by Union Head

Normal Output Seen Tomorrow As Men Retur   Lewis Cancels . Strike; President Appeals For Production

Crisis Averted “At Last Minute By 15-Day Truce   Now Work For U. S.. Mines; Ickes Is With Flags Over Coal Czar

John Lew's and Poticy Board Meel   Discuss Next Course of Ac. tion Following Truce Made Sunday   ACTION PRECEDES ROOSEVELT TALE   But President’s Speech Is Unchanged; Six-Day Week Being Talked

WORKERS READY TO START BACK TODAY, TUESDAY   Conferences Are Planned Between Men, Operators

Coal Miners Start Back ToWork, With UM W Calling Truce   Their New Boss Is United States Government: Lewts Asks 15-Day Period For Negotiations; Resumption In Full Expected Tuesday

_ Coal Crisis Ended When Ickes, Policy Committee Agree to Wage Parley; Supply Assured

Ickes To Attempt Wage Settlement In Next 15 Days    Shafts To Operate Under Governmen Supervision; FDR Makes Appeal

MEN WILL BE BACK ON JOB BY TOMORROW   UMW Policy Committee Agvees With Ickes to Resume Work for Uncle Sam Pending Efforts to Settle WVage Dispute.

Lewis Offers Truce Plan of 15 Days   All Mines to Be in Operation by Tuesday; Ickes to Necotiate Wage Contract ——

Miners Start Back fo” Work On U. 5. Payroll Seek Pact Under Iruce   Freeze Of Fuel Shipments Is Can celled As Lewis Orders Strike Ended; Crewe Heed Roosevelt Plea ~

OPERATION BY TOMORROW   Roosevelt Makes Appeal To Idle Workers   NEGOTIATIONS   To Continue For 15 Days; All Eight Plants In Ohio Are Booming

-Agreement Had Been “Reached Just Before FDR Appeal  Te Coal Diggers

MINES ARE EXPECTED TO BE RUNNING FULLY TOMORROW MORNING AS MINERS STARTED BACK TODAY IN A TRICKLE THAT MAY GROW TO A STREAM BY NIGHT—ARE ON TEMPORARY BASIS 

Miners Head Back To Work For U.S. In 15-Day Truce   Ickes Seeks To Settle Wage Contract Dispute

COAL CRISIS IS AVERTED AS AMERICAN FLAG WAVES OVER VITAL WAR INDUSTRY; TRUCE IS REACHED ON 15-DAY BASIS.

Some Back on Roosevelt’:  Pleas, Others Wait Lewis   Conciliator Steelman Advises UMW to Reach Wage Agreement with New Boss, Ickes—Status of WLB In Doubt   FDR SAYS MINING WILL NOT STOP   President Appeals to Miners’ Patriotism in Crisis, Declares ‘Every Idle Miner . . . Is Obstructing Our War Effort’

ho Abt ON JOG RET DRN UNDER TRUCE   Full Resumption Qf Coal Mine Operations Seen By Tuesday Morning   TRUCE REACHED SHORTLY BEFORE FDR RADIO TALK   Government Will Operate All Pits With Owners As Sub Officials

Union Policy Group Calls New Meeting   Return Tuesday Ordered by Lewis; Resume Work, Roosevelt Asks Men

Pace Slow Today Will Reach Full Scale Tomorrow   Ickes To Seek Settlement During 15-Day Truce; UMW Calls Meeting

Full Operation  Of Mines Certain By Tomorrow With U. S. In Charge

AVERT C  Alla IN GOAL TIEWP   Lewis Orders 15 Day Truce; FDR Asks Miners to Go Back toa Work.   WILL RETURN TUESDAY

MAY BE ON FULL TIME BY TUESDA)   Respond to F.R. Plea to Return to Pits; 15-Day Truce Ordered by John L. Lewis

Mine Committee Meeting to Act On WIR Rulings   Policy Leaders to Make Decision on Labor Bourd Verdicts

Operations Expected to Be Resumed On Full-Scale Under the Stars and Stripes Tuesday   HICKES AND UNION TO SEEK AGREEMENT    Meanwhile, Question As to Whether Roosevelt Bypassed War Labor Board Raised

Ickes Will Seek  __ Settlement —  * Some Miners Act On FDR's Appeal

'15-Day Delay Ordered By Lewis Shortly Before FDR Appeals To Workers

15-Day Truce Sends Men To Pits For U. S.   Agreement Reached Just Before F. R.’s Appeal To Keep Digging Fuel For War Machine   Telegrams Pour In

Miners Are Going Back to Work   Full Production Is Expected Tomorrow

Ickes, Directing Federa Operation, Will Seel Wage Settlement During 2-Week Truce.

PRESIDENTS TALK HAILED BY AMERICA   Roosevelt Bluntly Tells the World That Nation's War Effort Will Not Be Halted  BREVUAsIC IC LIRMIAZEAITIOACH

Fourth Coal Mine Stoppage in Six Months Threatens U.S.A   War Effort Endangered With Indications Almost All of 530,000 Miners Will Stay Out

U.S. Boss Truce of. 15 Days   Ickes to Seek Settle- ment Before New ~ Deadline

LEWIS ORDERS MEN TO JOBS IN 15 DAY TRUCE   President Stresses {mportance of Output to Meet War Demands

Miners Returning To Pits Under 15-Day Truce in Wage Row   ickes Has Authority to Settle Miner-Operator Coal Wage Trouble

15-Day Truce Accompanies Work Return   Eight Major Mines In Ohio Report Nearly Normal Complement

SHOWDOWN DUE TODAY AS UMW LEADERS MEET   115,000 Miners Still On Strike; Drastic “Ac tion Is Promised

MINES SHOULD BE OPERATING FULL TIME SOON   Hoved Full Operation Will Be Resumed By Tuesday Morning; Lewis Agrees To “At Least’’ 15-Day  Truce.

Full Production Expected Tomorrow   Miners Heed President’s Summons To Work for Uncle Sam— Lewis Announces 15-Dav Truce

Fruce Will ermit New Nage Parleys   FDR Makes Plea after Lewis “Halts Strike

PRODUCTION AT FULL SCALE IS SEEN TUESDAY   Ickes Is New Boss of Miners; Will Seek Wage Agreement

Mines Expected To Be In Full Operation By Tomorrow Morning As 15-Day Truce Is Called

Full Operation  Of Coal Fields Due Tuesday   Return Under Stars And Stripes And Flag Of Truce Announced By UMW Chief Only Minutes Before President’s ‘Duty’ Call.

SOME OF MINERS — ARE. RETURNING TO WORK TODAY      Others Await Hour Set By John L. Lewis  Tomorrow   U. S. FLAG WAVES OVER THE SHAFTS

Mines Due to Run at Full Speed Tuesday   Men Trickle Back to Work Following  5-day Truce; Roosevelt Makes Appeal for Workers to Stay on Job.

Secretary Ickes Acts As Boss Of Mines As John Lewis Agrees To "ruce OF 15 Days

MINERS TO JOBS SEER   Ickes Takes Over As Operator Of Mines For Government

500,000 MINERS WILL RETURN 10 PITS TOMORROV   Coal Boss John L. Lewis ‘Per: mits’ Reopening for At Least 15 Days

Half Million Men Ready to Work ~   Coal Crisis Temporarly Ended; Most Mines Expected To Be Working Tuesday

With Crisis Averted, Miners Start Back To Work In Prelude To Full Resumption Of Operations Tomorrow—Government Will Have Status Of Employer _—_John L. Lewis’ Union Announces F ifteen-Day Truce Pending Further Negotiations

Coal Miners Slowly Returning to Work; Fifteen-Day Truce   Mines Expected to Be Running Fully By Tomorrow Morning Under Government Control; Ickes to Seek to Settle Wage Contract Dispute

Treasury in Approval of Pay-as-Go   MORGENTHAU BACKS PLAN FOR CURRENT TAX COLLECTIONS

DISMANTLING OF PARK IS FINISHED   Wrought Iron Pump Is Al) That Remains Of Pen-Mar: Amusement Site Has Been Cleared

PEN-MAR PARK IS NOW ONLY MEMORY; BUILDINGS TORN DOWN   Wrought Iron Pump Only Reminder of Amusement Center—Government Purchases of the Land Rumored

HARLEM RIOT BLAMED ON HIGH FOOD PRICES   Held Underlying Cause of Uprising; OPA to Open Office: . . to “heck Costs 

Food Prices One Cause of Harlem Riots   OPA Will Open a Branch Office There to Check On Prices

New Battle Dress of Navy Gives Men Four Kinds of Protection: Described

Snowdrifts Maroon  a See on Tleale   Navy Displays New Battle Dress, ‘Strap-on’ Life Raft

New Battle Dress for Men of Navy  Protects in Four Ways Against Injury

BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF ST ATE IS REDUCE2   Total Is $14,538,000 Less Than When Governor O'Conor Took Office In 1939

11 WAR WORKERS KILLED IN CRASH   eta  Bus Carrying 20 Overturns and Burns After Hitting Trailer Truck

ELEVEN DIE IN BUS CRASH   Right Injured When Vehicle, Trailer Truck Collide

ELEVEN KILLED IN BUS MISHAP   Vehicle Destroyed by Fire After Crash With Truck

1] War Workers Die In Bus Fire   Their Vehicle Collides With Trailer Truck

1 War Workers Die in Wreck   Bus Overturns After Collision With Truck and Burns

11 DIE AS BUS, TRUCK COLLIDE   8 Others Injured in Crash Near Rath N Y

11 War Workers Die In Flames  As Bus Crashes   Eight Others Badly Injured

11 KILLED WHEN BUS HITS TRUCK:      Eight Others: Hurt InN. Y. Disaster; Victims Burned

Lower Point Values For December  To Hike Meat Supply 30 Per Cent

VALUE OF MEAT RATIONS TO BE CUT THIS MONTH   Cut Applies To All Meats But Butter Remains At 16 Points

JOAN KIGER ACCUSED   Sheriff Testifies That Girl Admitted Killing Brother

Increased  Production Of Civilian Goods Seen   Production for War Has Reached Peak  Where Scaling Down Maw Roramea Parcethtla   CUT IN ESTIMATES FOR WAR SUGGESTED

Writer Says U. §. War Production Has About Reached Necessary Peak   1944 Program May Be Trimmed 6 or 8 Billion Dollars: More Civilian Goods Are Possible

More Goods for Civilians; Less for War   PRODUCTION FOR WAR HAS REACHED PEAK; BUT PRESI DENT MUST DECIDE; MAY SAVE 8 BILLIONS,   Joint Chiefs Seaeway

REDUCTION OF ~ WAR SUPPLIES   Indications Are That More Civilian Goods Will Be Manufactured

WAR ECONOMY CHANGE HELPS PUBLIC GOODS      Scal- Down Military Needs to Aid  Civilians

More Civilian Goods Possible   War Production May Be Scaled Down

Peak of War Production May Cause Production of More Civilian Goods

Float-type Planes Attack Ships in Aleutian Island   ‘First Jap Move in Many Months Reported Today

Jap Planes Attack U.S. Ships in Aleutians, Navy Reports; Gains Made on Guadalcanal, 40 Japs Killed   Allied Losses in Papuan Campaign Less Than Half Those of Japs

JAP ATTACK IN ALEUTIANS FLOP   Two Enemy Float Planes  Attack U.S. Ships, But Inflict No Damage.

Jap Planes From Kiska Make Attack  United States Ships  Te When. t Ameer BTS

Japan Renews Aleutian Raids   ? Float Planes In First Attack In Months Fail To Dam age U. S. Ships: Papuan Battle Losses Light

Japs Attack U. S. Ships West Of Aleutian Islands  Navy Says Planes Do No Damage

SHIPS ESCAPE IN JAP ATTACK   U. S. Vessels in Aleutians Targets of Two Raiders

JAPS RAID SHIPS IN ALEUTIANS   TWO U, S, VESSELS ATTACKED BUT BOTH ESCAPE DAMAGE

U. S. Fiith Is Joined By British   Strategic Points Are Taken In Alhied Push

Foe Opens Movement  Of Retreat   Combined Forces Shatter Germans’ Hope To Hold Ground in Italian Toe; Americans Toke Strateaic Inland City

Weakened Nazis (annof Establish Defense Line Now In Salerno Area   irmly Holding Initiative Clark's Fifth Army Baffers 10 Miles Inland and Captures Albanella

U.S. British Armies Join Near Salerno  Germans ‘Apnear ToB   Germans Appear To Be Retreating to ‘Avoid Being Caught in Trap

SEIZES HILLS; BRITISH 8TH JOINS CLARK   Juction Shatters German Hopes of Establishing Defense Line in Salerno Area.   ALLIED FORCES FORM SINGLE FRONT   Crushing Air Blows to North Indicate Battle for Naples Is in Its First Stage.

Hopes of Germons of Establishing Defense Line Shattered   ELEVATED VILLAGE SEIZED BY ALLIES   Allied Holdings in Southern, Eastern and Western Italy Welded

FOR ESTABLISHING DEFENSE LINE IN SALERNO AREA; GENERAL CLARK'S TROOPS CAPTURE VILLAGE OF ALBAN ELLA.

Clark's Men Drive 10 Miles Inland   Several Important Heights in Region Are Seized

Fifth And Eighth Armies In Junction At Salerno; Axis Forces Retreating To North   Germans’ Hope Of Establishing Defense Line South Of Naples Appears Shattered; Clark’s Troops Advance Ten Miles To Capture Albanella

YANKS JOINED BY BRITISH AS NAZIS RETIRE   AMERICANS PLUNGE 10 MORE MILES INTO ITALY

Clark’s Force Batters Way 10 Miles Inland to Seize Heights; Enemy Communications Are Blasted   Contact is Established

German hope shattered as armies join   Clark’s offensive making big gains

N azis Appear In Retreat xo Avoid Allied Trap   Junction of 2 Armies Shatters Nazi Hopes Of Maintaining Line  In Area of Salerno   ONE ALLIED FRONT WELDED IN SOUTH

Fifth Batters Route Inland   British Eighth Joins For Northward Lunae In Italy

Junction Ends German Hopes For Defense Line   Clark’s Forces Move 10 Miles Inland to Take Albanello

Bogus Officers Are “Headache’  For F. B.I. Men   Most. impersonations are. of officers of air forces of. one of the United Nations.

Senate Provides FSA With Funds   , Expects to Finish Action Today

MILLIONS VOTED FSA BY SENATE   Agricultural Bill Due T« Be Completed In Another Day

Coffee Extendors Chemistry's Proposed Gift To Americans   One Of Chemical Ingredients Of Coffee Bean Js Mercaptan. Close Chemical Relative Of Skunk

Hourly Readings   April Calendar   Chemists’ Coffee Extenders To Stretch One Cup to Two

Investment in War  Bonds by State Proposed by Solon   House Bill Would Call for Use of All  State Surplus Funds for Purchase; 35 Measures Appear as Deadline Nears

Solons Offer Many Bills as Dead Line Nears   House Still Short Of Last Year Total, But Senate Is Ahead

Turkey Chloroformed, Dry-Picked, Put In Refrigerator; Comes Back To Life, Owner Puts Sweater On It

AUGUSTA TURKEY STORY CHALLENGE TO IMAGINATION .   Herald Staff Searches for Bird Allegedly Chlote-! formed, Picked, Dressed ir Sweater, Then Laid Egg And Escaped

Large Egg Is Only Trace of Augusta Herald's ''Pinfeather Sweater Girl’

PRESIDENT TANNED AND RESTED AFTER FISHING VACATION   Is Engaged Today in ApPraising Latest Reports on Tide of Events -in Eurons

FDR, Rested By Vacation, Now  Studying News   Examines Latest Reports On Tide Of Events; Talk With Churchill Held Likely

President Busy Appraising Latest Reports On Happenings !n Europe

FDR RETURNS FROM FISHING   President Busy Appraising Latest Reports, on Tide of Events. in Europe —Enjoyed Vacation Fishing in, ‘Canadian Waters.

Battle Of Kiev Is Raging With Bitterest Fury   Fate Of German Armies In Crimea Hangs On . Kiev Defenders   BLACK SEA ISSUE   Russiana Said Py Nazis To Be Attacking In Unusual Vigor

Russians, Germans in Dramatic Struggle at Kiev, Dnieper Fortress

Congress Nears Showdown on Food Control Problem   House Committee Would Vest Powers  In One Food ‘Czar’

Early Showdown On Whole Issue Of Focd Contrel Seen   Plans For Czar. Near House Action; Half Billion Subsidy Ceiling Asked In Senate

Congress Seeks Showdown on Food Control   Special Emphasis Is Laid Upon Price Rallback Subsidies

HOUSE DEBATES FOOD SUBSIDIES   Price Rollback Measure Near Showdown; Czar Is Proposed

Food Czar Decision Seen Near  Drastic Limits q  D.....   Drastic Limit: Proposed On Qaheadies

FCC Action Off To Bang With Threat Of Cop Call   Reading Of Charge Furnishes Heat At Hearing

INVESTIGATION OF FCC STARTS WITH A BANG   Chairman Cox Threatens To Call The Police

STORMY SCENE MARKS OPENING OF FCG PROBE   Chairman of House Group Threatens to Call Police to Seat Counsel For Commission   FLY IS UNDER FIRE   Charged With “Unjustifi. able Delays Endangering National Defense” and Dictatorial Tactics

ARMY AND NAVY MEN CALLED IN FCC INQUIRY   Cox Committee Charges FCC Chairman Ply With Incompetency, Endangerment of Security

GU INVESTIGATION SINGS SHARP CLASH   Agency's Counsel And Cox Figure In Fireworks

INVESTIGATION OF FCC STARTS OF WITH BANG   Chairman Cox Threatened to Call Police to Have FCC Council Seated

BLOC FORMING  TO WORK OUT NEW TAX PLAN   Pay-as-you-go Compromise Is Likely; Would Rebate Some Taxes

Some Income Ta) May Be Abated  To Steer Between Rum! And Committee Plans Far Pay-Go

oc Will Press Pay - As-You- Go Compromise Bill   Group Wants Abatement Of Large Part Of One Year’s Income Taxes

SEEK PARTIAL TAX ABATEMENT   Capitol Hill Bloc Is Bent On Pay-As-You-Go Compromise  4-DAY DEBATE OPENS

Bloc Forms  For Partial Tax Skipping   Middle Course Is Sought Between Ruml Plan, No Abatement Bill

SKIP-YEAR TAX BLOC FORMS ON CAPITOL HILL   Bent On Pressing Through House. Pay-As-You-Go Compromise to Abate Part Income Levy   DEBATE UNDERWAY   Middle. Course Between Ruml Plan, Sponsored: by Republicans, and “No” Abatement”. Sought

Seek Middle Plan betweer  GOP-Dems    2 Compromise Offers Are Viewed by House as FourDay Debate Looms

BLOC FORMING TO FIGHT FOR TAX MEASURE   House Begins FourDay Debate on Current ax Legislation

PAY-AS-EARN BLOC FORMED   Compromise to Abate a Portion of Year's Income Tax

House Presses. Tax Compromise   Leaders Seek -Middle Course Of Action

TAKE 2 MORE GERMAN nALL STRONGHOLDS   Nazis Oriven Back Another 30 to 50 Miles Southwest of Kharkov.   INVASION TROOPS LEFT TO WALLOW OVER PLAINS

RED TROOPS CAPTURE TWO RAIL POINTS   Russians Capture Krasnograd, -Pavlograd _ In New Push

KEY RAILWA\ JUNCTIONS CAPTURED   Russian Troops Drive to Within 39 Miles of River

Key Railway Junctions Are Taken In Heavy Red Attack:   “Two Of Biggest German Bases’ Destroyed As Drive Rushed: Spring Thaw Mav Slow Ficht

ABSENTEEISM WORSE  THAN STRIKES FOR  CAUSING LOST TIME THIS TROUBLE IN WAR  PLANTS INCREASING INSTEAD OF DIMINISHING

Knox Hits af Absenteeism   Time Lost From That Cause More Than From Strikes. He Says

ABSENTEEISM IS GROWING   Time Lost Thus Far Is Many Times Greater Than That Caused by Strikes or Shutdowns, Knox Renorte.

Absent Factory Worker Worries   Absenteeism Causes More Loss of Time in Plants  Than Strikes.

House Checks Absenteeism   More Unexeused Absences From War Plants Now Than Year Ago,

Absenteeism In War Plants Hit by Knox   Says Loss Is  Greater Than That Suffered From  Strikes, Shutdowns

Absenteeism Costs More Time Than Strikes, Knox Says   Navy Secretary Fayors Move to Curb Practice

(IN ARSENTEFS   Testifies Loss of Time in War Plants Has Been Increasing.   REVIEWS WORK OF NAVY

ABSENTEEISM LOST TIME. ON INCREASE IN WAR INDUSTRY   Knox Proposes Chronic Absentees be Reported to Draft * Boards For Call

Says Time Lost in War Plants Due to Absenteeism Greater Than in Strikes

Knox Says That. . ‘Absentee Problem Slows Production   Gives Support to Legistlation to Reduce Absenteeism.

KNOX TESTIFIES ON ABSENTEEISM JN.WARBLANTS   CAUSES GREATER LOSS OF TIME, PRODUCTION THAN STRIKES, HE SAYS

Absenteeism Hurts War Effort—Knox  Losses Far Worse Than Strikes, He Declares

BSENTEES COST ORE TIME THAN STRIKES IN WAR   ecretary Knox Says Loss of Production Through Absence Is Growing

ABSENTEEISM IS STRIKE - BEATER   Knox Says Loafers Causing More Lost Time In War Industries Than Strikes Orr Shiutdawns.

HERSHEY PREDICTS 6 MONTHS OF DRAFT   Says Tatai in Armed Services by June 30 Will be 131,300.060

Draft Won't Ebb in Next Six Month:   Continued Growth of Army Until at Least June 30, 1944, Forecast by Director of Selective Seruica.

DRAFTING OF MEN TO CONTINUE FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS   Hershey Says 2,100,000 More Are Necessary, Half of Number to Be PrePearl-Harbor Fathers.   OVER 11 MILLION IN SERVICE BY JUNE 30   Director Gives An Account of 13 Million Between 18: 38 Years Who Are Nol Called to Service.

Grand Junction “Under Fire’   Two Carloads of Munitions. Set Off by Freight Train Fire

4 HURT AS MUNITIONS ON TRAIN EXPLODE   Find Shrapnel Mile Away from Burning Cars

GRAND JUNCTION COL. UNDERGOES FOUR-HOUR BOMBARDMENT FROM SHELLS EXPLODING IN FREIGHT: CAR   Residents Picking Shell Fragccents from Buildings As Souvenirs of Terrifying Experience. At Least Four Persons Iniured. ;

BOMBARDS TOWN   “our ,Are ~ Injured When .Freght Car, Loaded with Eynlosives. Catchac Fire ©

-4 Wounded as Car of War Shells Catche: ‘Fire, Explodes and Bombards Town

Fusillade Of Exploding War  ‘Ammunition Terrorizes Town   Bursting Shells During Freight Train Fire Fly Over Wide Areas

ANMUNITION FED RAILROAD BLAZI   Four-Hour Bombardment Ir Night Arouses Number, Four Are injured.

Freight Train Fire Sets Off.  Ammunition   Grand Junction, Colo., Is Bombarded Four Hours —Roofs Riddled

Train Fire Sets Off Munitions, City Bombardec   Colorado Town Ha: Four - Hour ‘Raid: Four Are Injurec Sunday

Judge Rodman Holds Court Here Saturday  Order Made to Destroy Worthless

Judge Rodman Holds Court Here Saturday  Order Made to Destroy Worthless Records and Ledger:

Russ Onsurge Engulfs Six  More Towns  Drive to Seize’ Rostov Goes

Six Villages on Lower Don Captured   1,000 Nazi Troops Are Killed: 29 Tanks Destroved

REDS ROLLING FORWARD IN LOWER DON   Overwhelm Nazi Resistance In Bitter Fighting

KEY VILLAGES FALL T0 RUSS STEAM ROLLER   Nazi High Command Admits Heavy Drives

Capture 12 Towns In Dor Bend, Gain 12 Miles, 3 Towns On Caucasus  Rail Line.

STIR OVER ~ AID GIVEN RUSSTANS   Ambassador Standley’s Statement Brings Quick Reaction in Capital   ADMIRAL DID NOT . CONSULT OFFICE   Denials Are Made to His Claims Russians Have Not Been Told of U:S. Helv

, Statement On Soviet Status Unauthorized  U.S. Envoy Declares Red Citizens Not Told Of Aid Being Received In Lend-Lease Pracram

State Dept. ‘Asks Envoy For Copy Of Remarks   Welles Says Standley Spoke About Russia Without Prior Consultation

Welles Awaits Text Of Statement To Effect Russian People Are Uninformed On Aid

STANDLEY'S COMMENT ON RUSS UNAUTHORIZED   State Department Demonds Text of Talk; Ambassador Will Confer With Stelin

Standley’s Indictment On His Own   Washington Wasn’t Consulted, Welles Tells Reporters

STANDLEY PULLS NO PUNCHES IN  NOTIFYING REDS   Bellavéd That Stalin Deliberately Withheld Aid News from People.

Russians Not Being Told Of Aid Given By America      U. S. Envoy Says Situation ‘Unfair’ To U. S. Lease-Lend Totals Revealed Now   To See Stalin Soon

AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA IS PUT ON SPOT   Welles Cables Standley for Text Regarding Charges Against Soviets.

yassador U.S. Aid Admitted   2s Calls for of Standley's irks to Press.

WELLES UNINFORMED ABOUT STATEMENTS OF U 5. AMBASSADOR  STANDLEY’S CRITICAL   STANDLEY’S CRITICAL STATEMENT MADE WITHOUT PRIOR CONSULTATION

LOCAL OBRRRVATIONS   Russian Problem Stirs Washington   Standley Spoke on LendLease Without Governments Consultation.

Welles Disclaims Envoy's Charges   Lease-Lend Aid To Russia Involved

Standley Hadn't. . Consulted Capital   Said Soviet Isn't Telling of U.S. Aid

Russian People Not Aware of Extent of American Help Says Ambassador Standley

Says.U. §.- Eivoy's State ‘ment Was Made Without “Previous Consultation

Welles: Standley made statement without prompting   Furore caused as ambassador says Russ iqnorant of U. S. aid

Sfandley Scored For Saying Reds Silent On Help  Ambheaseadare UnaLla   Ambassador Spoke Without Authority, Welles Declares

'U. S. Envoy To Soviet Union Charges Russian Government Conceals From  ‘People News Of American Aid In War

‘PEOPLE IN DARKABOUT AID GIVEN’   Standley Criticizec Ally Without Wash ington’s Knowledge

Ud. DIOUWNING STANDLEY TALK UF SOVIET All   Envoy’s Claim That Russian People Not Told Of Aid Unauthorized, Claim   WELLES DISOWNS STORY TOLD BY AMBASSADOR   Full Trust, Understanding Exists Between Russia And U. S., He Says

SKS FOR TEXT F STATEMENT N AID TOREDS   Ambassador Standley Says  ‘Russian People Not Ad — vised of Extent of .American Help   WELLES VOICES NEED ‘OR COMPLETE TRUST   Undersecretary of State Says Understanding Between Allies Not Worth  Much Without it

Says Ambassador to Russia Did Not Mean That U. S. Has Not Fullest Confidence in Soviets.

RUSSIANS NOT TOLD OF HELP   Standley Says People Not Being Informed Of Aid From United States.

Welles Says Standley’s Remarks On Russian Aid Made Without  Consultation With Government

AMBASSADOR STANDLEY’S STATEMENT IN MOSCOW ON LEASE-LEND AID TO  RUSSIA MADE WITHOUT CONSULTATION  TY.3.._.   Undersecretary Welles Prefers Not to Comment on Standley’s Statement Until He Has Received Tavt

U.S. REPUDIATES ENVOY'S REBUKE ON AID TO SOVIET   Welles Cites Trust Betweer America, Russia; Asks ® Standley Text

Welles Declares ‘Standley’s Talk  Not Sanetioned   Siatement By Ambassador That.Reds Don’t Admit -«Q7"S. Aid Is Deplored

OTATEMENT OF oTANDLEY DISAVOWER   Welles Says U.S. Ambassador in Russia Had Not Consulted.   STANDLEY ASKED FOR OFFICIAL TEXI   U ndersecretary Asserts U.S., Russia Have Com. plete Understanding.

No Official Backing For His Words   No Consultation With Government. Welles Savs

REMARKS BY STANDLEY 10 BE STUDIED   Ambassador in Moscow Requested by Welles to Send Text of Statement of Tuesday   ENVOY IS CRITICIZED

America Distrust Denial Is Issued   - Standley Failed To Consult Washington

Welles Comments On Statement   Says Standley Didn’t Consult State Department

Standley’s Lend-Lease Remark Made Without Consulting Government - Welles

WELLES UPSETS STANDLEY VIEW OF RUSSIAN AID   Criticized Soviets for Lack Of Aporeciation of U. S.  Help in War

‘Says Russians Kept In Dark On U. S. Aid   Ambassador Standley Precipitates Controversy  On Lend-Lease Bill   Welles Says Department Was Not Consulted   Foreign Affairs Chairman Cites A. P. Article From Moscow

RUSSIAN PEOPLE NOT INFORMED OF AMERICAN AID   GIVEN IMPRESSION THEY ARE FIGHTING ALONE: STANDLEY

Eden, Welles May  ~ Travel To Russia  Trip May Follow Meet Of F. R., Churchill

Thought Start of Softening Up Atlantic Wall   Report Paris Raid After Gigantic Attack On Germany

AIR ATTACK ON EUROPE INTENSIFIED   indicate Purpose is to Prepare Way For Second Front

SOFTENING UP PHASE OF WA THOUGHT HER   Mighty Assault Rains Bombs on Paris Area; Allies, Maintain Silence.

Hundreds Of U. S., British Bombers Are Taking Part In Aerial Drive To Crush  Nazis’ Invasion Defenses

ALLIES START SOFTENING UP INVASION ZONE   Non-Stop Raids Forecast On Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Defenses

MANY CRAFT TAKE PARTIN BOMBING ‘DURING EARLY DAY   Bombardment of Installations Much Heavier Than That of Germans For Raid Upon England.   FIRST ALLIED TROOPS ARE ACROSS MINTURNO   Air Campaign Against German Transportation Facilities Behind Lines Are Near Record.

Americans Hammet1  At Paris Suburbs   Attack on French Capital » Carried’ On: in Conjunction “With Assault on Channel Parte

Cross Channel Area And Paris Are Targets; US. Planes Also Raid Reich

MIGHTY AERIAL ASSAULT MADE ALONG COAST   Hundreds of Allied Bombers and Fighters Shuttle Across Dover Straits.

GIANT RAIDERS WEAK DAMAGE IN PARIS AREA   Air Experts Believe Softening-Up Process May Take Months

House Debates Allowance Boost   GOP Backs Senate Approved Levels

DEBATE STARTING ON HIGHER FUNDS FOR SERVICEMEN      Republicans Leading Move To Raise Funds To Even Higher Amounts Now

ene ne er nn Sa aan nee EE EEE EE EEE EE OOo  Allied Blockade Ships Become Rescue Vessel:

BRITISH WARSHIP CREWS PULLED NAZI [PRISONERS FROM WATER  ko. Dr...” ' Bn. FRO Be   - What Began As Tight Sea Blockade Ends Ase Mercy Mission.

German Command Has Lost Control On Russian Front   “Hitler Guessed Wrong In Counter-Offensive West of Kiev

Vatutin's Troops 43 Miles Distant From Polish Line   Other Russian Units Said Closing In On Zhitomir From North And East

German High Command Loses Control Of Russ Front Army   Von Mannstein’s Whole Front Caving In; Black Period For Nazis; Troops Cut Of; Tanks Buried

Command May Have Lost Control   Nazis Guessed Wrong Again ir Counter-Drive West of Kiev

Nazi Command Loses  Control Of Armies   Hitler’s Legions Shattered, Panic-Stricken By Soviet Attacks; Entire Ukraine Front Caves In: Blunder Is Disastrous

Great Blunder Committed By. German Ar ‘my   Ukrainian Front Caving In As Result Of Failure Of German,’ Attempt To Recapture Kiey

OHIO STATE GUARD SUBSTITUTE LOOMS      ‘Legislature Approves Bill for ‘Military Reserve’

INTRODUCE EQUA PAY FOR WOMEN IN STATE SENATE   SHUNT SIMILAR BILL IN HOUSE TO SUB-COMMITTEE

Russian Troops Take Initiative; Recapture More Than 100 Towns   Resurgent Soviet Army — GainsUp to 28 Mile: on Orel Front; 12,00¢ Germans Killed

Russia Takes luitiative From Nazis   100 Towns Retaken, 12,000 Germans Killed in Drive

SOVIETS WREST INITIATIVE ON EASTERN FRON]   More Than 100 Towns And Villages Recaptured In 20°'Mile Advance   AXIS CASUALTIES TOTAL 54,000 MEN

More Towns and Villages Retaken by the Soviets ‘  MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN FIERCE ATTACK Victory Triumphantly Pro.  claimed Over Russian Radio

Russians Start Offensive, Make 28-Mile Advance   Recapture More Than 110 Towns, Villages From Nazi Invaders

Initiative Taken In Orel Section   Over 100 Towns And Villages Captured From Stalled Nazi Forces; 12,00 Germans Killed In Counterattacks

850 Persons Dead, Missing in Sinking of 2 American Shins   Most of Casualties Re. _ported Men-of Uncle  Sam’s Armed Service

“U-BOAT MENACE REMAINS GRAVE: TWO ARE SUNK   Navy Secretary Reveals Sinkings in Atlantic, Pacific Waters by U. S.

JAPANESE AND GEMAN SUBS SUNK BY U.S. .   Seceretary Knox Says . Every Available Means Is Being Used to Combat Submarines

Knox Admits Submarine Menace Is Uncheckec   German Construction Still Outrunning Destruc: tion; One More German, One More Jap U-Boat Sent To Bottom

GERMAN AND JAP SUBS ARE SUNK   Knox Reveals Action While Admitting U-Boat Menace Still Serious

German, Jap Subs Are Sunk   neta  Knox Says Losses Are Decreasing

Americans Sink Two Enemy Subs   *~ German Sent Down in Atlantic and Japanese In the Pacific

All-Out Effort To Meet U-Boat ‘Menace Is Made   Knox Admits Menace Still Grave After Loss Of 850 Men In 2 Sinkings

ONE NAZI, ONE JAP SUBMARINE ACCOUNTED FOR   Two Undersea Craft Definitely Sunk Knox Says Every Means Being Usec To Combat Grave  Menace.

Knox Reports Sinkings Of Axis U-Boats   Still Remain Grave Menace

Destruction of German and Japanese U-Boats Announced by Secretary of Navy     SINKINGS MERCHANT   SHIPS DECREASING      Sub Menace Continues: Grave; Every Available  Weapon to End It  Being Used    SINKINGS MERCHANT SHIPS DECREASING

2 Enemy Subs Are Destroyed   Knox ‘Says All Available _ Means Being Used To End U-Boat Menace- -

KNOX REPORTS ALL-OUT DRIVE AGAINST SUBS   Navy Announces Two Axis Subs Downed;  Losses Smaller

Sink Two Axis Subs Recently   One Jap. One German In Pacific And Atlantic; Expanding War On U-Boats.

Two Axis Subs Sunk, Says Knox   But Navy Chief Admits UBoat Still Is A Grave  Menace.

Sink Two Subs In War Against ‘Grave Menace   Secretary Knox Says Every Available Weapon Used  in Campagin.   Danger Shown by Loss Of 2 U. S. Transports

NAVY ANNOUNCES SINKING OF TWO ENEMY SUBMARINES  SECRETARY KNOX DECLARES ALL-OUT EFFORT ACAINGT Clipe IN ENPCE

Toll Taken In Atlantic And Pacifie   Knox Says Every Weapon Used To Bring U-Boat Menace Under Control

NAZI, JAP SUBS ~ SUNK SAYS KNOX   Secretary Declares U-Boa ‘Emphatically Still Is _ Very Grave Menace

U-Boat Still Real Menace Knox States   Every Available Weapon Being Used to Clear Atlantic of Subs  TWO REPORTED SUNK

Navy announces sinking: of Jap, German submarine:   Knox reports every available weapon used on U-boat menace

GERMAN SUB SUNK IN THE ATLANTIC KNOX ANNOUNCES   Navy Secretary Also Said a Japanese Submarine Was Sent Down.   SUBS A GRAVE MENACE   Every Available Weapon Is Being Used in Effort to Check Subs.

Knox Cites Sub Menace As U.S. Forces Sink Two   One Is Destroyed In Atlantic And Other In Pacific

Yank Seamen Sink 2 Axis Submarines   One Is German, Other Japanese—Knox Says U.S. Is All Out Against U-Boats, but Warns That Menace Still Is “Very Grave.”

ALL-OUT DRIVE ON U-BOATS   Every Available ‘Weapon Being Used to Control Grave Menace   TWO SINKINGS OF SUBS ANNOUNCED   And They Are Not Isolated Cases, But Navy Declines .to Give Full Figures

NAZI AND JAP SENT DOWN IN NIGHT BATTLE   Destroyer Blasts U-Boat and Merchantman’s Guns Wreck Nip.   KNOX REVEALS FIGHT TO. HALT SUBMARINE PERIL

ENEMY U-BOATS SUNK; SHIPPING LOSSES ARE CUT   Secretary Knox Says U.S. Using Every Weapon

Not Isolated Cases, Knox Says, bu! Stresses Sub Menace Wil! Con Hane   NEED MORE SHIPS   Secretary Says Germans Building U-Boats Faster Than They Are Being Destroyed

Nazi and Jap Subs Sunk,  Knox Reveals   Undersea Raiders Meet Destruction In Atlantic And Pacific Areas

Sinkings Of 2 Axis Subs Are Told By Knox   Menace Is Still Grave. Secretary Insists ; Nazis Build U-Boats Ranidly. He Savs

Loss of 850 On 2 Ships Is Worst of War   Knox Follows News of Disaster With Story of 2 U-Beat Sinking

Navy Reports Sinking of Jap And Nazi Subs   Construction of Subs Still Exceeds Losses, See. Knox Declares

2 Foe Subs Sunk, Navy Announces   All Available Weapons Being Used Against Them, Knox

BY BRENTON   German, Japanese Submarines Sunk By Navy, Every Weapon Now Used to Control Sea Menace

U.S. RECOGNIZES ARGENTINE GOV'T   BRITAIN FALLS IN LINE; ARGENTINA'S COOPERATION SEEN.

U.S. Favors Argentine’s New Setup   Hull Reports Recognition Of Ramirez Regime As British Take Same Step

U.S., Britain Recognize  New Regime In Argentina   Notice Delivered  By Both Governments, Announcements At Capitals Say

RAMIREZ SETUP 5 RECOGNIZED   Both the U. S$. and Britain Recognize New Argentine Government.

ARGENTINE BANS AXIS CABLE CODE   Believed First Move in Lineup  With Allies

NEW ARGENTINE REGIME GIVEN U.S. APPROVAL      !Recognition of Government : of President Pedro Rammirez Announced by Secretary Hull   BRITAIN ALSO ACTS   Meanwhile, Axis Embassies Agents Denied Right to Send Code Messages to Governments

U. S., BRITAIN GIVEARGENTINA RECOGNITION   Ramirez Government Forbids Cables in Code Despiie Recognition by Germany, Italy

HULL DISCLOSES " OTHER NATIONS WILL ACT SOON   No Prediction Made on Ar gentina’s Plans to Change Her Policies

U. §.-Gives Recognition To Ramirez   Britain Also Joins In Relations With New Argentine Government   SETBACK FOR AXIS   Buenos Aires Regime Ban: Use Of Codes In Radia  Communications

[. S. Recognizes Argentina's New. Government   Latin Nations Expected to  ewww: Bact vvo

U. S. And Britain Recognize New Argentine Govt.   Leading Allied Governments Approve Ramirez Regime.

Argentina Bans Code Messages To Axis Nations  Move Described As Cooperation With Amoaricracd

Regime Accepte By U.S.   Britain Does Same After Argentina Curbs Axis Agents

Recognition To Ramirez  From Allies   Argentina To Halt Code Messages By Axis Diplomats

HULL AND LONDON AGLEPT RAMIREZ   Argentines’ New Government to Get Full Sanction.

New Ramirez , Government  Recognized   U. S. Takes Customary Steps in Favor of New Argentine Regime

Rubber Situation Reported Better   New Methods of Chemists Solving Problem of Supply

U. S. Rubber Crisis ls Now Past Its Peak, Delegates Ai Chemical Meet Believe

Eccles Suggests Withholding Tax,  More Sacrifices   Put War Finances Upon Sound Basis

‘Withholding Tax Of 30 Per “Cent Is Said Necéssary   Eccles. Says Alternative Is 11 P. C, Sales Tax; Hits At‘Squabble On Dollars?

Spartan Living Standards Needed To Put War Financing On Sound Basis   Eccles, Head Of Nation’s Federal Reserve System Urges 30 Percent Withholding Tax, Further - Economic Sacrifices.

GENERAL MACARTHUR  WATCHES PARATROOP  TAKE STRONGPOINTS DECLARES DROPPING MEN  “BEAUTIFUL, TRULY WONDERFUL” SIGHT

Jump Viewed By M Arthur   ‘It's Beautiful,’ Says General os Hundreds Of Parachutes Open

Britain May Be Used For Allied Attack  Offensive Drive Is Shaping On Isles, Washinaton Hears

Today In Washington: Accounting of Lend-Lease Billions Assured; Congress  Prepares to Renew Program

War Offenses Started From British Isles   Lend-Lease Makes Island Impregnable Base, Stettinius Asserts.   He Asks Continuance  Of Lend-Lease Aid

Lend-Lease Aid Defended   Has Made Britain Base for Offensive Operations

CITES BENEFITS OF LEND-LEASE   Stettinius Says Britain Made Into Safe Base

HOUSE COMMITTEE 'HEARS STETTINUS ON LEND-LEASE   Administrator Insists pen Continuance ‘Dati! 1944

HEAR STETTINIUS BACK LEND-LE AE   Says.It Has Made Britain Bas e Mor: ‘Ottenaive ae

Britain Held Offensive Base   Stettinius Intimates Invasion of Europe to Stem From Britain

ENGLAND MADE IMPREGNABLE BY LEND LEASE AID   American Help Has Made British Isles ““Impregnable Base For Offensive Operations, Says Stettinius.

Congress Told Large Part of African and Other Allied Offensives Stemmed from  lies

British Isles Made Into Base for Offensive Operations — h. ~ Through Lease-Lend Program

Lend-Lease Has Made British Isles ‘An Impregnable Base For Offensive Operations,” Stettinius Says ‘

Lend-Lease Has Made British Isles Impregnable Offensive Base, Stettinius Tells Congress

LEND-LEASE AID T0 BRITAIN HAS MADE ISLES IMPREGNABLE   STETTINIUS SAYS GREAT BRITAIN IS BEST FOR OFFENSIVE DRIVE

Lend-Lease Was Aid in Offensives   Stettinius Gives Facts to Congress

Lend-Lease Aid Built Offensive Base In Britain   Vital Factor In Allied Push, Says Administrator: Extension Asked.

LEASE AID HAS MADE ENGLAND “IMPREGNABLE”   Stettinius Declares Isles Base for Many Offensive Operations

Britain Is Made Impregnable’ By Lend-Lease Aid   Stettinius Asks Continu. ance Until July, 044; Passage Seems Certain

LEND-LEASE 1S GIVEN BACKING OF STETTINIUS   Asserts Only Question Should Be Whether To Send More

Lend-lease aid made Britain attack base, Stettinius declares   Administrator, asking renewal, credits agency for successec

LEND LEASt AID INDIOPENGABLE, CONGRESS TOLD   There’s Only One Conflict Going On, Administrator Reminds Committee   ALL OUR AID FOR ALLIES HURTS ENEMY, HE SAYS   Britain Impregnable Base For Coming Offensives Through Our Help

LEND-LEASE AIDS BOLSTER BRITAIN   Offensive Ally Base Stressed by Administrator Stettinius in Request for Funds

BRITAIN MADE IMPREGNABLE THRU U.S. AID   CONGRESS ASKED TO EXTEND POLICY UNTIL JULY NEXT YEAR

LEND-LEASE CONTINUANCE ASKED TODA)   So Far it Has Made Britain Im pregnable as Base for Offensive By United Nations,

POINTS OUT VALUE OF U. 8. AID TO BRITISH   Administrator Testi. *  fies On Lend- ~ Tease   ASKS EXTENSION   Passage Of Legislation Is Seen ‘Certain

‘Impregnable Base’ Made Of British Isles   Stettinius Makes Report On Benefits Of Lend Lease

LEND - LEASE IS TOO SMALL IF DEBATENEEDED   Administrator Presents Statistics on Aid Already Given to Alfied Nations   LABOR’S STRENGTH IN CONGRESS NEARS TES]

American Aid To All Fronts By Lend-Lease   British Isles Made ‘An Impregnable Base For Offensive Operations.”   WANT PLAN CONTINUED

Says Lend-Lease Has Made Britain Impregnable Base For Offensive Operations

Reds Destroy Nazi Cannons Russian Airmen  ant ruse   Russian Airmen Shoot Down 24 German Planes

AZ ATTACKS IN CAUCASUS BALKED   Russian Airmen Shoot Down 24 German Planes; Reds Continue Attack Around Novorossisk Stronghold

Reds Destroy 48 Enemy — Gun Batteries   24 German Planes Are Downed in Caucasus Area

GERMAN PLANE LOSSES MOUNT   Russians Knock Down 24 En. emy Craft—Nazi Counter-Attacks Crushed

Soviets Repulse Counterattacks   Destroy 48 Enemy Batteries, 24 Planes

Nazis Tell of Fierce Battle Tn Caucasus  Russians Tell: of Guns aud Planes Lest hy Germans

Red Gunners Knock Out 48 Nazi Batteries   Russians Repel Enemy At facks In Northwest Cau casus; 24 Planes Downac   STALIN GIVES VIEWS   Optimistic Report Or War, Tribute To Allies, No Peace Stirs Nation

SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN DRIVES   Stalin’s Order Of Day Sends New Wave Of Optimism Over Russia

Reds Destroy 48 Enemy Gun Batteries  24 German Planes Are Downe in C'aruieecic Arar

Reds Down 24 German  Planes   Soviet Artillery Hits Blockhouses 

Nazi Air Raiders Bomb British Aree   American Bombers Blast French Area

U. S, ADVANCE 1S. CONTINUING N ~ PACIFIC. DRIVE   Troops Within. ‘Three: mils  ‘of Munda, ‘Vital: J ap : _Airdrome. *   FIERCE BATTLE-RAGES   Americans . Ccritinwe Attae! -- by Land, Sea and Air “ ‘2. ‘Gn-Solomons. -

1.5. ADVANCE I GONTINLING I DACIEIC. RIVE   Troops Within Three Miles of Munda, Vital Jap ‘Airdrome.   FIERCE BATTLE. RAGES   Americans Ccntinue Attacx -by Land, €ea and Air in Solomons,

OOVIET PLANS LEADING ROLE   Moscow To Have Say In Post-War World, It Is Announced

Moscow Against United States of Kurope Proposal   Intends to Assume Leading Role in Post War Organization

Russia Demands Role in Post-War  Reorganization   Opposes ‘United States Of Europe,’ Embassy Statement Avers

REDS LOOK 10 POST-WAR ROLE   Russia Will Not Favor European Federation, Circulated Article Points Out

RUSSIA DEMANDS SAY IN POST-WAR SETUP   Embassy Circulates Editoriat Condemning Partitioning Of Euro ~  Dpeaun States

Top Peace Role Plan Of USSR   ..- Reds Oppose U. S. of ‘urope., Embassy Says

FIND PRISON CLOTHES   Farmer Near Eudora Finds Shirt and Trousers of Weeks

FIND PRISON CLOTHES   Farmer Near Eudora Eudora Finds Shirt . and Trousers of Weeks

ROOSEVELT CONFERS WITH MILITARY ADVISERS ON PLANS TO MOVE ON AXIS   Broad Outlines of Plans to Attack Europe and Bomb Japan Given in Talk

Wallace Seeks Travel Rules   Vice-President Says Monopolies Must Yield To Needs  Of Common Man.

VICE PRESIDENT  HENRY A: WALLAGE  TALKS ON MONOPOLY BLAMES RAILROADS FOR  CHEATING PUBLIC OF  CHEAP TRANSPORTATION

RAILROAD, BUS SERVICE TIED UP IN CLEVELAND   Damage To Run Into Six Figures; Lightning Strikes Street Car

WIND AND RAIN LASH SCATTERED AREAS IN OHIO   Near-tornados and Deluges Do Damage Estimated at Thousands of Dollars   CLEVELAND HIT HARDEST   Trees Uprooted and Cities Drenched in Belt Across Southcentral Ohio

CLEVELAND fAd $200,800 LO   Rail And Bus Traffie \- Tied Up; Suburban Villages In Darkness   STREETS FLOODED   Zanesville, Newark And Cincinnati Also Hit By Heavy Storms

WIND - LASHED CLOUDBURSTS SPREAD HAVOC   Electric Storm Ties Up Traf. fic, Floods Streets, Homes In Cleveland   TRAIN SCHEDULES UPSET   Zanesville, Newark And Cincinnati Feel Effects Of Disturbance

@iudger Clawson, President of  Apostles, Passes George A. Smith  . Looms as New Head of Council

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Cairo Commander   Allies Poise Nutcracker   Axis Forces Facing Crisis.in Tunisia

ALLIES MAKING ALL PLANS FOR TUNISIAN DRIVE   No Chances Will Be Taken. Everything Possible Is Being Done.

FX-GOVERNOR HOEY WILE SPEAK HERE   Will Be Heard At Din. ner Launching 2nd War Loan Drive

TEN PERCENT CASUALTY RATE PREDICTED; HUGE AMOUNT FOR NAVY SPENDING IS REQUESTED

KNOX WARNS 10 PC CASUALTY RATE EXPECTED   Reveals Plans for 2,250,000-Man Navy ‘Big Enough to Dominate ALE Seas’

HIGH CASUALTY RATE PREDICTED   Knox Gives 10 Per Cent Figure In Plea For 4 Billion In New Funds

WARNS NAVAL LOSS 10 HIT 10 PER CENT   ‘Knox Tells Congress, Nation Casualties To Be High as  Fighting Grows.

‘KNOX SEEKS NAVY - SEAS DOMINATION   ‘Plans 2,250,000 Strength Looks for 10 Per Cent Casuglty Rate

NAV PREDICTS. CASUALTY RISE   Knox Warns Nation to Expect 10 Per Cent Increase in Losses,

TEMPERATURES:      Knox Says U.S. Wil Dominate WorldSeas   Naval. Secretary Reveals: Plans: For Mightiest _ Fleet With 2,250,000 Men; ‘Subcommittee .. Votes Record Appropriations af

ASKS FOR INCREASE IN SIZE OF U. S. NAVY   Expects 10 Percent Raise in Casualty Rate

‘(Navy Secretary Cites Losses Maw Danoh Town  { AVACAY ACCMULE RULE   Per Cent As Force: Will Be Boosted  “HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT,” HE ADDS     Senate Group Is Given Plan For Great Naval ' Force, to Dominate Seas of World

NAVY BIG ENOUGH = ~ TO DOMINATE SEAS. ~~ OF WORLD: PLANNEL   Program Calls for Force of 2,250,000 Men’ By Tele: 4#Oad

Knox Tells of Navy Need of  ABillionMore   Plans Operating Force ‘Big Enough to Dominate All Seas’

Knox Sounds Grim Warning To Expect 10 P. C. Casualty Rate In American Navy Personnel   Discloses Plan Calling For Fleet Big Enough To Control All Oceans

., may Sutter 10 Per Cent Loss  Knox Calls for Navy  Bin Prasuat ta Dale

Navy Casualties Will Be Large, Knox Declares   Predicts One of Every Ten Men Will Be Killed or Wounded

Predicts Heavy Sea Casualties  Knox Warns To Expec: 10 Per Cent Rate

NAVY CASUALTIES MAY BE 10 PERCENT   Knox Hands Grim \ Warning to Committee

‘Navy Must Dominate   ‘Knox Asks for Funds~ To Carry Out Naval Plans; Warns Casualty Rate Will Be High

10 Per Cent Casualty Rate In Navy Expected   Knox Discloses Plans For U.S. Flect Big Enough To Dominate All World's Seas

Knox Warns of Possible 10 Per Cent Casualties for Navy, Asking For Funds for Increased Personnel

NAVAL CASUALTIES EXPECTED TO MOUNT ~ ASWAR PROGRESSES   Secretary of Navy Makes Estimate with Request For More Training

Knox Predicts Navy Casualties Of 10 Percent   Calls for All-Ocean Navy With 2,250,000 Men,  Anppronriation Ts Cit

Expect Navy Casualties Of 10 Pct.   —SECRETARY KNOX. U. S. Plans Fleet Force ‘Big Enough To Dominate All Seas.’

WARN OF CASUALTY HATE OF ONE IN TER   Knox Announces Plans for Making U. S. Fleet Dominating Force on High Seas

Knox Warns Of Ten Per Cent Casualty Rate In U. S. Navy - Large. Enough To Rule Seas

Knox Reveals Program For Navy Of 2,250,000,  Foresees Big Casualties

Knox Calls For Navy Ample To Dominate Seas   Grim Warning That High Casualty Rate Faces Personnel Sounded As Secretary Unveils Plans.

Nation Is Warned To Expect 10 Per Cent Naval Loss   Knox Discloses Operating Force Plan to Dominate  All Seas.   Calls For Navy in 1944 of 2.250.000

Knox Predicts Ten Per Cent Casualty List   Plans Navy Big Enough To Control The Entire World   Hope For 2,250,000 Men By July, 1944   Nearly Four Billions Appropriations Asked By Secretary of Navy

Secretary Knox Issues Grim Warning  Navy Casualties Of 10 Pct. Seen

Navy Casualties of One Man Out of 10 Predicted by Knox   Fleet Big Enough to Dominate All Seas Plan of His Department

Knox Tells. Of Plans for Bigger Navy  Warns Congress   Warns Congress Of Increasing Casualty Rate

KNOX IN WARNING TO NATION EXPECT MORE CASUALTIES  ‘ NAVY SECRETARY ESTIMATES THAT ONE MAN

Secretary Knox Warns That U. S. Can Expect To Lose One Out Of Ten Men In Personnel Of Navy

Navy Will Lose 10% Of Personnel   ‘Knox Discloses Plan Calling   for Navy Big Enough to Dominate All Seas Over the World

10 Per Cent Navy Casualty Rate Must Be Anticipated,  Sec. Knox Warns Committee

Navy Secretary. Discloses Plan, Calling For: a Navy “Big Encugh te Dominate All  [ ne 2 2

Knox Warns Tc Expect Heavy Naval Losses   10 Per Cent Casualty Rate Expected

GRIM NEWS ON CASUALTIES   Knox Warns As He Tell of Operating Force Plan

Navy Expects 10 Per Cent  Casualties  Knox Says Fleet To Be ‘Big Enough  oe ge a

“WE HAVE JUST ” BEGUN TO FIGHT:   4 Billions Scught for Naval Spending; Secretary Ex-” plains His Position.

10 Per Cent Navy Casualties Expected: U. S. Is Planning to Dominate All Seas

U.S. Building All-Seas Navy  Knox Declare      Navy Secretary Says Nation Must Expect 10 Percent Personnel Loss.   NOT “TWO-OCEAN’ NAVY

PLAN U.S. NAVY OF 2.250.000 BY JULY, 1944   Knox Warns To Expect 10 Per Cent Casualty Rate In Navy Personnel

A 7-Ocean Navy Held U.S. Goal   nox Warns Heavy “Casualties Due As  Sea Arm Fights

Knox Forecasts High Casualties   House Group Trims Request for Funds

KNOX WARNS TO EXPECT 10 PCT. CASUALTY RATE :   In Naval Personnel. Wants Navy Large Enough to Dominate  All Seas

Knox Warns Of Ten Per Cent Navy Casualties   Wants 2,250,000 Men By July. 1944

Plans Set Up For Dominant Navy Of World   A 10 Percent Casualty Rate Expected; Force To Be Expanded To 2.250.000 in 1944

Sea Forces Adequate To Control All Seas ie nticipated By Knox   Secretary Tells Nation To Expect 10 P.C. Personnel Casualty Rate; ’ Building Program Is Unfolded

NAVY FIGURES TOLOSE 1 OF EACH 10 MEI   Knox Brings Grim Warning In Disclosing Plans To Dominate All Seas

Expect 10 Percent Casualty Rate in Navy, Nation Told  Knox Outlines Plan Calling For Force to Dominate All Seas

SETS NAVY TOLL AT 10 PER CENT   Knox Estimates Losses in Committee Hearing

10 Pet. Navy Casualty Toll Seen by Knox   Gives Figure in Outlining Needs For Huge Fleet, 9 DEO ON Aon

Knox Warns Of 10% Casualty Rate In Nav)   Issues Grim Warning To  _ Congress and Nation; Dis closes Operating Force Plan Calling For Navy Big Enough To Dominate All Seas of the World.

NAVY PERSONNEL OF 2,250,000 MEN BY JULY NEXT YEAR   A Grim Warning to Expect a 10 Per Cent Casualty Rate Made Before Congress.

Pay-as-You-Go, Defers a “New Tax Bill in the Opinion. of George and Dotighton

 (Continued Un Sage #OMED HIKE IN INCOME TAXES DELAYED, KNUTSON SAYS

KNUTSON SAYS AGREEMENT REACHED NOT TO PUT HIGHER TAXES IN EF.  FECT THIS’ YEAR

Two Senate Committees  Apt To Go   Jealousy Aroused Over Proposed Trip To Africa

Rival Senate Groups: Engage In  Bitter-Tug Of. War Which Will Make North African Inspection Trip

North Africa Jaunt Lures   Senate Committees At Odds Over Who Shall Visit Fighting Front:

SQUABBLE OVER AFRICAN VISIT   SENATE COMMITTEE PROVES THAT BOYS WILL BE BOYS

AGREEMENT ON NEW TAX BILL NOW REACHED   Conferees Agree on Plan Which Is Expected To Get \Quick Congress Approval

How Compromise Pay-Go Tax Program Works Is Explained   Payers Face Task In Bookkeeping As Coming Installments Fall Due

PROPOSED TAX: PLAN EXAMPLES OUTLINEL   Withholding Levy, Starting July 1 Will Cover: All Obligations for Some Taxpayers. :

STRIKE CLOSES PLANE FACTORY   Workers Balk At WLB Order Requesting Their Return

 Allies Stage ‘Air Blitzin  Mediterranean   18 Axis Transport Planes Shot Down; Enemy  Tinetrawae Fit - -

Airmen Slam Down 3] Planes   U.S. FLIERS RUIN 18 GIANT TRANSPORTS AS ENEMY DESTROYER GOES UP IN BLAST; SEE SLASHING BLOW TO ROMMEL SUPPLY LINE

Lincoln Would Not Approve — Of Bureaucracy Or Bossism. - Of Today, States Governot

Government: Bureaitcracy  Is Assailed —   Lincoln’ Would ~ Regret “Bossism,” “Green Savs.

Dwight H. Green, Illinois Chief Executive Sees ~ Two Imminent Dan ' gers to Our Liberty   CITES CHICAGO   Declares Blatant Bureaucracy, Bossism Must Be Wiped Out; Says Solution Lies With GOP

Sees Little Prospect Of Accord Soon   UMW SPOKESMAN SAYS MINE OPERATORS NEVER AGREE TO AN» THING LIN ADVANCE OF THE HNKANELINE.   Burke Says No $2 Day Hike

SUPPORTERS OF RUMI PLAN WILL FIGHT ON FOR SENATE PASSAGE  STALEMATED COAL WAGE DISPUTE TRUCE MAY BE EXTENDED FURTHER

Committee tc Take Up Tax Proposals   Rum! Plan Supporters Still Fighting for Full Year’s Abatement; Senate Debate on Labor Legislation

PAY AS YOU 60 TAX PLAN NOW GAINS STRENGTH   House Approves Abatement Of 75 Percent and Senate May Go Further   MINE ROW IS UNCHANGED   Capital Cheered by Naval Victory in North Pacific; War Production Studied

Senate Approves $48.800.000 for NYA Operations   Money Voted in Face Of House Demands for Agency's Liquidation

Senate Votes More Funds for Youth Program   Missouri Senators Divided on Value of NYA Training

Senate Votes Funds For NYA Operation   Acts Despite House Move for Liquidation

NYA FUND GETS _OKEH IN SENATE   Pends Other Measure Action: House Demanding Liquidation

COAL IN TRANSIT IS FROZEN BY ICKES   Action Taken to Make Fuel Avallable to War Plants and Other Essential Wsers.

3.000.000 Tons Of Coal ‘Frozen’   Fuel Available for Wer Industries

COAL FREEZE IS RESTORED   Ickes Ties Up 3 Million Tons In Transit For Essential Users

Tugwell'to Face: New Crificism  No Progress Made in Darth Dien Ha Cave

TUGWELL CHARGES PUERTO RICO NOT IN SAME POSITION   Island Governor’s Idea  Expected To Open   Criticism By  Congress

Na7i Home Front Given Warning   Broadcast Plays Up Invasion Alarm

Nazis Tell Pesple Allied Preparations For Large-Scale Invasion Now Are In Progress   R abaul Battered In Massive Raid; Allies Are Batiling Japs On Choiseful

German Radio Warns Listeners of New Allied Amphibious Invasion Plar

British Planes Drop Greek  Paratroops On Samos Island  Famous ‘Do Or Die’ Brigade Reinforces The AMied Teanne (im leland Im The RNedannnnce

FORMER TIPTON WOMAN 19 DEAL   Mrs. Jennie S. Read Died at Kendallville Hospital Wednesday.

FORMER TIPTON ~ WOMAN 1S DEA   ' Mrs, fennie S. Read Died at  Kendallville Hospital  : Wednesday, -

Medical “Mickey Finn” Is Army’s Newest Method of Saving Soldiers

Corn Refining Industry Faces Shutdown in July   Shutdown in July  Midwestern Plants  Awaiting Supply  Of Requisitioned Grain URGE HIGHER PRICE  Many Products Vital for War, Pe i ee mene Me.  at

Ickes Accused _ of Control Acts   Tries To Dictate Oil Operation, Allen Says

FLOYD HAMILTON IS RECAPTURED   Barrow Gangster Found Hid. ing in Cave on Aleatraz; No Courage for Swim

PRISONER IS FOUND   Fléyd C. ‘Hamilton Tried to Escape  From Aleatraz .

Two Alcatraz Convicts Die: Iwo Capturec   Four Attempt Break From Istand Prison; Overpower Guard

PLOT FAILED  AT ALGATRA?   BULLETS OF GUARDS STOPPED DESPERATE ESCAPE ATTEMPT—ONE CONVICT KNOWN DEAD.

Floyd Hamilton  Found in Cave  Desperado With 3 Others Tried  ee ee oa ee

FOUR CONVICTS ARE FOILED IN PRISON BREAK   One Dead, Two Recaptured And Another Believ ed Drowned   PRISON-MADE KNIVES USED BY DESPERADOES

Search For Bodies of Aleatraz Convicts   Only One of Four Who Escaped Known To Be Dead

Floyd Hamilton Slain In Break   Four Men Fail In Alcatraz Deliverv

Desperado Knew He Couldn't Swim That Far   23 Convicts Break Out lOf Georaia State Prison

FOUR FAIL IN ESCAPE PLOT ATALCATRAZ   One Dead, Another Be lieved Drowned and Two Recaptured

Four Men Fail In Spectacular Alcatraz Break   One Convict Killed, Two Recaptured and Other Believed Dead

4 Convicts Escape From Alcatraz Pen   ONE DEAD, TWO RECAPTURED AND FOURTH SWEPT TO DEATH IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY FROM ALCATRAZ,   Trial in Pittsburgh

Floyd Hamilton Slain In Break   Four Men Fail In JA lertrnacsn Deliv

Four Convicts Try To Escape Alcatraz   Break for Freedom Fails With One Dead, Two Recaptured, Other Believed Drowned

Desperadoes sek Alcatraz  ison Break hi Men Retaker  Pair Believed Skat Drowned -

Prisoners Break From Alcatraz   Two Recaptured in Hail of Bullets

2 Convicts Killed, 2 Recaptured in ~ Alcatraz Break   Dash for Freedom From Rock Bound Prison Ends in Disaster

BARROW GANGSTER ONE OF FOUR n ALCATRAZ BREAK   Floyd Hamilton, Who Preyed on Southwest Decade Ago, Believed Wounded and Drowned.   ANOTHER LOSES LIFE, TWO ARE RECAPTURED   Convicts Race to Water Under Fire From Wall Towers After Binding and Gaging Two Guards.

Hull Said to Have Asked Roosevelt To Remove Undersecretary Welles

Hull Has Asked Removal Of Sumner Welles, Writer For St. Louis Paper Says

Batter strong convoy of 14 vessels bent on reinforcing troops in New Guinea jungle

Allied Bombers. Defy Weather; Down 13 Planes   Battle Continues As Airmen Trail. Fleeing Nip Ships

CRIPPLING BLOWS DEALT JAP CONVOY   “ALLIED FLIERS POUND SHIPS  MOVING ON NEW GUINEA —DOWN 13 PLANES.

ALLIES SMASH JAP CONVOY SINK 4 SHIPS   a  Brave Foul Weather to Attack Enemy Thrusting Toward New Guinea; Scatter  Balance of 14   Battle Continues

4 Vessels Hit And 10 Others — Put to Flight      Allied Bombers Brave Foul Weather To Hit at Foe Off New Guinea; 13 Enemy Planes Are Downed

Column of 14 Vessels Heading for Lae Area Dispersed by Attacks  13 OF 40 PLANES DOWNED BY ALLIES  Foul Weather Defied And Battle Continues, Communiacne Save

At Least Four Ships Blasted By Warplanes   Allied Fliers Down 13 of 40 Jap Planes Protecting Vessels: Rest of Craft Scatters

Four Transports Sunk or Hit: 10 Scattered  Down 13 Jananece   Down 13 Japanese Fighter Planes in Bismarck Sea Action

Planes VOR Attack on Fleet, MacArthur Says  . ie of 40 Enemy  Planes Shot Down

Allies Batter Jap Convey in — Bismarek Sea  4 Ships Smashed, and 13 of 40 Planes Brought Down

FIFTH ARMY WINS NEW HEIGHTS   Eighth Beats Back Nazis, Secures River Crossings

CANADIANS STORM TATTERED WINTER LINE OF GERMANS   Bazooka Rocket Guns Uses to Destroy Nazi Pillbaxes, Canadians Begin Crossing of Mere.   GENERAL MOBILIZATION ORDERED IN BULGARIA   German Agency Announces That 750,000 Men, About 50 Divisions Are Poised For {nvasion.

BAZOOKAS, YANKS, CANADIANS PUSH GERMANS BACK   Allies Take Heights . Above Main Highway to Rome. Fighting Intense.

CAMPAIGN Ih ITALY BEING SDEFEDEN Up   Germans Showing Signs of Leaving Tattered Lines

ALLIED DRIVE UPON ROME Is ACCELERATEL   Enemy Pillboxes Are Smashed by Americans Using Bazooka Rocket Guns.

ARRIED Nel SLATED FO! RECLASSIFYING   Changes May Be Allowed From 3-A to 3-B in Case Of Essential Jobs

FATHERS 10 BE RE-CLASSIFIED   Those Engaged In Essential War Work ‘Will Be Rated 3-B.

Manpower Action Is Under Way   Move Started To Herd Married Men Into Vital Industries To Release  Others.

Unless In Essential Industry   Manpower Ruling Puts 29 Industries in NonDeferment Categories.

10 Yanks Listed as “Bomber Aces” For Destroying 5 or More Planes

Japs On Huon Peninsula- Are Helpless   Whole Grip on New Guinea Shaken By Speed of  Allied Thrusts

JAPS DESPERATE IN NEW GUINEA   NIPS OUSTED FROM FINSCHHAFEN HOLD HOPELESS POSITIONS

JAPANESE POSITION ON NEW GUINEA HAS GROWN UNTENABLE   CAPTURE OF FINSCHAFEN BY AUSTRALIANS ADDS TO ENEMY TROUBLES

JAPS TRAPPED ON PENINSULA IN NEW GUINEA   Allied Advances Take Enemy By Surprise MacArthur Says

JAP. NEW GUINEA POSITION HOPELESS   Whole Northeastern Shore Of Island Menaced

Position Of Japs In Huon Sector Seen Hopeless   Say Entire Northeastern Shore In New Guinea Is Menaced By Allics

JAPANESE POSITION ON NEW GUINEA HAS GROWN UNTENABLE  CAPTURE OF FINSCHAFE MV ATICTDATITANGC anne

Finschhafen is Seized   Japanese Garrison Is Trapped in Hopeless Position by Austrian Ninth Division

JAPS ARE OUSTED AT FINSCHHAFEN   Allies Menace Northeastern Shore Clear To Madang

Japanese Positions on Huon Peninsula Virtually Hopeless   Veteran Australian 9th Division Takes Finschhafen Saturday

Allies Press  Jap Garrison   Nipponese Compressed Into Hopeless Positions On Huon Peninsula.

Jap Troops Outflanked   Placed in Hopeless Positions Following Fall of Finschhafen

Red Fliers Smash Large Group Of Nazi Trains  Germans Are Thrown Far Back; Bombs Cause Much Damage

Russian Planes Hit Nazi Trains  ee  ee   Bryansk, Karachey Heavily Raided

Concentration of. German Trains Is Smashed by Reds  hance Raid Eallawe   Mass Raid Follows Assault on Orel By 520 Planes

GERMAN TRAINS BOMBED BY REDS   RUSSIANS SMASH AT EQUIP. MENT MOVED BACK FROM OREL BY NAZIS.

SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN TRAINS   Mass Raid Hits Orel Rail Junction; Push Sevsk Wedae

SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN TRAINS   Mass Air Raids Are Only Development Reported On Russian Front

Russian Bombers  Hit Nazi Trains  Long - Distance Planes Raid Brvyansk

Russian Planes Hit Nazi Trains  Bryansk, Karachev Heavily Raided

US Soldiers In Africa Are Well-Trained   Stimson Says Not Enough Emergency to Send Troops to Pick Cotton; Billion Doller Navy Bill Anproved

‘Troops Beating Nazis Back Weren’t Green’ - Stimson   War Secretary Sees No Sufficient Need For Soldiers to Help Pick Arizona Cotton

SEORETARY STINSON SAYS U.S, AFRICAN TROOPS WELL-TRAINE!   NOT ENOUGH OF FARM EMERGENCY TO SEND SOLDIERS INTO COTTON FIELD

Yanks Who Beat Back Nazis Not  Green Soldiers   Stimson Says Boys Fighting in’ Africa Are Highly  Ti. marl   He Takes Exception to ‘Green Troop’ Gossip

AMERICANS IN TUNISIA NOT GREEN TROOP   Sees No Need Of Soldievs To Harvest Cotton

DEVASTATING STORM LASHES NORTH OHIO   Damage in Cleveland and Suburbs Unestimated

DAMAGE HIGH AS STORM HITS OHIO      2 Campers Severely Injured by Falling Tree

OHIO CITIES HIT BY SEVERE STORM   Trees Uprooted, Campers Injured, Fires Started In Northern Ohio

CONGRESS LEADERS PREDICT NEW HIGH TAXES OR SAVINGS   Secondary:. Sales co “Also     OF, Rabe. ; Billicn ”

10 Per Cent Sales Levy Demanded   Congresamen Strive to Meet EDR Request

VICTORY TAX BOOSTS HELD INEVITABLE   Swollen War Budget To Demand Increased Tax Rates

Doubling Of Victory Tax, Tax, New U. S. Sales Levy May Be Needed To Raise New Taxes

RETAIL TAX. STUDIED AS FUND SOURCE   More Money Needed to Meet F. R. Budget Sum for War

REQUIRED FOR 1944   New Form of Compulsory Savings May Be Imposed to Meet Al! : Necescities.

Predict Double Victory Tax, Forced Savings   Sales Levy Also Needed to Meet Budget, Belief

Ponder 3 Plans For More Taxes   May Double Victory Tax Impose Sales Levy, Foree Savings

DOUBLE VICTORY AND 10 P.C. SALES TAX SUGGESTED   Congress: Leaders Think Cam: ‘pulsory Savings May Aliso Ba Necessery.’

10 Per Cent Sales Tax Is  Considered   New Levy, Doubling Of Victory Tax, ” Forced Savings Needec

Former City Sealer of Chicago Found Dead in Room, Gun Beside Him

Allied Army Is Within Sight Of Naples   Germans Systematically Wrecking Great Ttalian (Cite,

Troops Within Sight of Base; Advance 10 to 15 Miles From Bridgehead

GERMANS REPORTED WRECKING NAPLES IN OYOTEMATIC MANNER  ADVANCES OF MANY MILES _ MADE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ITALY

Germans Scuttle Ships. To Block Harbor At Naples   Conquest Of Corsica Is Pressed; Allied Armies Tackling Las t Mountain Barrier Or Road To Naples; Nazis Retreating

Nazis Evacuating Port Of Bastia   Germans Scuttle 30 Ships at Naples; British and Americans Advance 10 Miles, Capturing Three Towns.

Corsica Put Under Tight Blockade, Nazis In Hot Spot   First Phase of Battle For Italy Over, Opponents Regroup For New Fight

Nazis Scuttle 20 Vessels In Berths In Attempt To Render Harbor Useless To Allies On Occupation Of Naples   American Troops Gain 15 Miles In Sweep ‘In Central And Southern Sectors Of Italy

Germans Wreck Naples As Allies Drive Forward   Docks Being Demolished In Important Naval Base

ALLIED FORCES CLOSING IN ON WRECKED CITY   American Bombers Batter Communication Routes of Beleaquered Nazis   THIRTY SHIPS SCUTTLED   Both Sides Regrouping for Next Blow, Say Reports From Battle Front

Nazis Scuttle Many Ships dtNaples   More Towns Captured by Allied Troops

NAZIS WRECK BIG. PORT AS ALLIES NEAR      Germans Scuttle at Least 30 Ships, Blow Up Harbor Workings

INazt Demolition Squads Reported Wrecking Big City   French, Americans Driving Germans Back In Corsica; Nazis Scuttle Ships In Naples Harbor

INVADERS IN OUTSKIRTS OF BIG PORT CIT)   Americans and French Also Pushing Nazis Back in Corsica

American, French Troops Press Nazis Trapped On Corsica Into Tight Corner

Fifth And 8th Army Move On. As Corsica Squeeze Put On; Nazis Wreck Nanles Fleet

NAZIS FORCED TO GIVE UP NAPLES ROADS   City Being Burned. German Ships Scuttled To Block Harbor

Advances Of Ten To Fifteen Miles In Central And Southern Sectors Recorded, Forcing Uncovering Of Inland Approaches To Naples—French And American Troops Press Germans Back On Island As Air Forces Bomb And Strafe Escape Ships

HUNS DESTROYING EVERYTHING Ot VALUE IN NAPLE'   One of Best Harbors In Europe Completely Wrecked   ALLIES IN SOUND OF THE BLASTING

Germany Seen. Forced To Free rates To Naples   Nazis Pushed Further Back Into Corsican Corner By Americans, French

Naples Defense Cracked; Nazis Leveling City   Allies Press Foes Into Corner Of Corsica: Nazis  Admit ‘Dent’

Germans Also Senttle. At \Least 30 Ships   Enemy Apparently De« termined to Make Big Port Useless To Allies

ALLIES GAIN GROUND NEAR NAPLES ARFA   10 To 15 Mile Gain Announced; Force Germans Out

YANKS SMASH DEPOT AT OSLO   Liberators Blast Big Nazi Plane Repair and Main tenance Plant

BOMBERS WING ACROSS NORTH SEA TO ATTACK ~ VITAL NORWAY TARGETS   Airmen Face Below Zero Weather To Smash Nazis. Big Repair Depot Outside Oslo; Other Targets Hit

Liberators Hit Norway Drome  Chief Nazi Repair Base In Norway Attacked

Plane Repair, Maintenance  Depot Target   ‘Allied Planes Also Hit Cities in Germany, Athens Area Airfield  CERMANS RETALIATE

Big Norwegian Airplane Repair Depot Near Oslo Blasted By U. S. Bombers

President Acts Before The 11th Hour  Army Takes Over U. $ Railroads, Ending The Threat Of A Walk-Out

Entire System Taken Over By Presidential Order To Avert Strike That Threatened To Interfere With “Major Military Offensives Now Planned’? — Seventeen Of Twenty Unions Had Agreed Earlier To Accept Proposal For Arbitration Of Dispute

Entire Railroad System Now Under Control of Army   “Government Will Expect Every Workman to Continue At His Post,"' President Says in Official Announcement   [O PREVENT INTERRUPTION OF MILITARY MOVES

Vove Ordered By President As Kmergency  r >   Action Comes As Surprise  To Mediators In Wage Issue

ORDER ISSUED BY ROOSEVELT AVERTS STRIKE   Action, After 17 of 20 -Brotherhoods Had Call- ed Off Walkout, Comes  As Surprise   GRANTS 9c AN HOUR . INCREASE IN WAGES   President Says Government _ Will Expect Every Railroad: Man to Continue At His Post of Duty

Army Takes Over Control Of: Nation’s»Railroads   President Orders Government Seizure Afte Failure Of Conferences.Called To Avert Operating Strike December 30

President Takes NoChanceson Slip-up in Negotiations Interfering With Military Offensives — No Evidence Of Change Which Is Described as Temporary

President Roosevelt Takes Over Railroads  Tr. Mmorwpmma FF rrwrtec

Roosevelt Places All Lines Under Control Of Secretary of War   Ruling on Extra Pay and Vacations Made by White House; Action Is Taken To Prevent Break in Flow of War Supplies

Railroads Being Operated By U.S.   ROOSEVELT TAKES OVER ALL LINES IN  NATION

FDR’s Decision Comes as Surprise To Most Observers   [ Can Not Wait Until the Last Moment’, President Says in An-' nouncing Drastic: Action

Rail Seizure By Order of White House   ‘Cannot Wait Until Last Mo. ment,’ Roosevelt Says. in Giving Directive   EXPECTS MEN TO CONTINUE WORK   Major. Military Offensive ’ Now.-Planned Must Not Be Delayed, He Says

Three Unions Refuse to  Cancel Strike   Executive Order by President Roosevelt Is Put Into Effect Within an Hour; Move Is Made to Avert Transport Tieup

FDR Places Rails Under Army Contro   Action Surprises Capital—17 Unions Had Cancelled Strike Calls

Nelson May Retire From WPB Office  Chairman Plans Vaca: tion to Resi, Think Over Plan  BARUCH PROPOSED  Eberstadt Onsted, Wilsor Takes Over All Board Activities

Don Nelson Ponders Retirement   FOES SEEK SCALP OF WPB CHIEF AFTER EBERSTADT OUSTING

NELSON STUDIES HIS NEXT ACTION   WPB Boss, Advised to Resign. Will Make Up Mind After Vacation

DONALD NELSON MAY RETIRE AS ‘WER CHAIRMAN   Ponders Suggestions From - Friends and Foes to Quit   Job Because of His   Waaith   WILSON FAVORED   New Executive Vice Chairman Now In Charge Of All Activities; Some Want Baruch

Donald Nelson May Quit WPB   Production Chief Considering Move; Wilson May Succeed

NELSON MAY RESIGN POST   Studies Suggestions otf Friends to Retire

NELSON URGED BY FRIENDS AND FOES TO RETIRE   WPB Chairman Reported Consider. ing Quitting for Reasons o! Waslih   STANDS BY WILSON   Former GE Chief and Baruct Backed by Rival Camps As Successor If Nelson Quits

NELSON MAY RESIGN WAR BOARD: POST   Friends Say Rest Needed By Chairman to Get Back Health 

Donald Nelson May Quit Post As WPB Chie!   Chairman Of Production Ponders Suggestions He Resign From Office.   OK EBERSTADT OUSTER

Giraud Invites Fighting French To Join Forces   Plea For Unity Pledges Ouster Of Vichy Regime

UNION OF FRENCH ELEMENTS NEAR: SEEK AGREEMENT   General Giraud Invited Gen eral de Gaulle To Discus: Details for Union of Al French Forces Now Op. posing the Axis.

ROOSEVELT CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL — MAY HAVE FAR-REACH-. ~  tt EFFECT :

Presidents (if U.S. And Brazil Confer On War   Part Of Brazil In Coming Great Allied Offensive Is Discused   ROOSEVELT MAKES STOP IN BRAZIL

BRAZILIAN AID SEEN PLEDGED TO WAR EFFORT   President Discusses Strategy With South Americans On Return From Africa   CONFERS WITH VARGAS   Increased Assistance To Allied Powers Cause Offered By 10 Nations

PROBABLE. THAT ROOSEVELT GOT HELP OF VARGAS   President Has Prcbakly Ce. mented a Valuable Military Alliance.   WITH NEGRO REPUBLIC   story Toid of Extra Trip Made by Rocsevelt Aftter Casablanca.

Soviets Plunge To Crimea Threshold   150 Populated Places Captured During Day; Advance Rivals Former Blitz Pace Of Nazis

Red Warriors Plunge  ‘To Gates of Crimea  150 Towns Fall in Drive Rivaling Nari Blhitse- Caine RPangce tn 2? MT Loc

RAYBURN ATTACKS CRITICS IN UL 5.   RAPS THOSE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC MOVES.

School Students Buy 39.539 Jeeps   Pennsylvania Leads In Number Bought

Italy Drafts Defense Plan   Mussolini and Fascist Chiefs Will Battle for Sardinia and Sicily

Italy to Keep on Fighting   To Resist in Sicily, Sardinia to End, Chiefs Agree.

LOGaY EM V¥ AGhsang Lnss Summer Europe Invasion, Drive Through Burma Seen Result of Talks

Italians Flee Sardinia, Sicily   BOMBERS BLAST PORTS ANEW AS COAST RESIDENTS EVACUATE ISLANDS AND SOUTHERN ITALIAN DISTRICTS IN TERROR

Axis Columns Withdrawing At Kasserine   Americans And British Chase Retreating Army

Axis Tank Forces Retreat Deeper in Narrow Kassarine   German Marshal Driven Back 14 Miles in Three-Day Fight

U8. FORCES MOVE IN TOWARD MUNDA BASE   Intensify Air And Land Atlacks On Japanese

Mighty Assault Now In Progress Avainst Munda   Air, Land And Sea Attacks Being Made On J ap Air — Base    ATTACK ATTAINS NEW FURY TODAY

U. S. SHIPS BOMBARD NIP BASE   Torpedo, Dive Bomb. ers Loose 70 Tons  Of Bombs In Area

Observers Feel: Certain Japan Is To Be Discussed   Russia Not Invited to Churchill-Roosevelt Conference, Leaving Way Open To Talk About Japan.

General Speaks On Bataan’s Fall   MacArthur Says He’s Praying For island’s Redemption

 MacArthur ‘Prays From A Stricken Heart’ For Heroes Taken At Bataan

MacArthur Grieves on Anniversary of Collapse of Bataan   Issues Statement at Headquarters; News of War in Pacific

MacArthur Prays For Philippines On Anniversary Of Fall Of Bataan

YEAR AGO TODAY   MacArthur Hopes That A Merciful God Will Not Delay Too Long  Philippines Redemption

U-BOAT WAHOO SINKS 13 SHIPS   Destruction To Enemy Vessels Accomplished Within One Week

U.S. Sub Sank Hight Jap Ships While On One Trip   Wahoo's Total Of Enemy Craft Sent To Bottom Mounts To Thirteen

SINKS 8 MORE   U. S. Sub Wahoo Sets Record Destroys 37.000 Tons.

SUBMARINE WAHOO RETURNS FROM SECOND MISSION   With Another Eight Ships Sunk For A Total of 13 in Two Successive Patrols.

Submarine Wahoo Back After Sinking 13 Ships   Hears Tokyo Radio Say Sub Menace Over, Then Sinks 9 Ships In 7 Days

Wahoo Bag: 8 Ships In Latest Run   Yank Sub Sinks 13 Enemy Vessels in Successive Patrols

The Great Game of Politics   ~ By FRANK R. KENT™ Support For The Army

Suspension of NLRB Is Asked  AFL Leader Calls For This During Wa rere Pee  pice a es

OUTLINE OF . FOOD PLANS   OWIO. FARM BUREAU SECRETARY SAYS TECHNICAL AGRICULTURE ADVISERS WILL BE SENT OVERSEAS

U.S, WILL TEAC FOOD PRODUCING   Lincoln Says Help, Not Gifts Is Plan for Underfed Nations

2 DEPARTMENTS RULE ON POLITICS   Officers of Army or Navy Are Permitted to Seek Political Places.

Army-Navy Clear Path   MacArthur or Stassen Could Seek Presidency Under Department Ruling

FRENCH CHIEFS SEATED TO- END LENGTHY FIGHT   Settlement. Due Tomorrow In North Africa, With DeGaulle, Giraud In  Compromise :   PLAN OUTLINED   Committee Will Consider Revamping Military Setup; Vichyites May Be  . Ousted

FRENCH DISPUTE MAY COME T0 END ON MONDAY   Two Factions Indicate Increased Satisfaction

FRENCH DISPUTE VERDICT NEAR   Compromise On Control Of Military Forces To be Considered Monday

Long-Standing Dispute Between French Factions May End Monday As Generals Agree

Gambling Probe  Closes ‘Bookies’   Other Forms Of Gambling In Chicago Also At ~ Standstill.

MURPHY SAYS PATRIOTISM MUCH NEEDED   Legion members told America doesn’t need making over

U. S., British Governments Have No Differences on African Political Issues

NO DIFFERENCES ONMAJORISSUES IN NORTH AFRICA   U. S. And British Ministers "Issue Joint Statement  On Criticisms   PEYROUTON CENTER OF CONTROVERSY

DENIAL MADE OF ANY DIFFERENCES   Envoys Give Statement on Political Situation in Africa

ltalian Force Wiped Out   Guerrilla's Take 400 Prisoners—Kil 343

Break in Levee Imperils Municipal Airport of Omaha and Small Village

Flood Breaks Dike at Omaha   Army, Militia, Civilians. Papils Man Levee

Omaha Battles Missour! Flood   Sudden Levee Break Threatens Airport

lowa Village and Airport in Omaha Imperiled as Levee Gives Way Suddenly

Flood Waters Of Missouri Break Dikes  Omaha Airport, Town Placed  In New Danger

Ceylon In No Hurry To Produce Rubber   U.S. Senators Believe Could Supply Us Much More

Senators, Back From Wars, To Report  Report May Show That Natural Rubber Flow Could Be Far Greater  ee f+ # *@

American Jungle Fighters Are Closing in on : Mubo.  ALLIED PLANES CUT PATH FOR NEW PUSH  Three Enemy Dive Bombers Are Knocked Out by Yanks.

Hitler, Duce In Conference   Axis Leaders Meet To Draft Strategy For Europe Defense

HITLER AND DUCE "IN CONFERENCE   TWO REPORTED DISCUSSING ENTIRE PROBLEM OF DEFENDING CONTINENT.

Hitler and Mussolini Said Conferring At Brenner Pass on Defense of Europe

Hitler, Mussolini Conference Reported   Defense of Europe Believed Studied

MEETING REPORTED ON DEFENSE PLAN   Hitler and. Mussolini Prob ably Had Conference at  Brenner Pass.

Board Sets Thursday Morning as Deadline For Miners to Return to Work—Otherwise Trouble Wi'l Be Referred to President.

Lewis Is Silent  On Board Proposal  $10 Weekly Raise Seen  Wiital, Mhcw?.

WAGE INCREASES GRANTED MINERS BY LABOR BOARD   Boost Of $10 Weekly 1: Under Amount Request * gd Rw Lawie   ORDER STRIKE VOTE

ACCEPTANCE OF PROPOSITION I HELD DOUBTFUL   President To Be Notified Of All Closed Pits Thursday, Board;  Announces

WLB Turns Down $1.50 Increase For Coal Miners   Offers Proposal Whict Would Increase Pay $1.12 1-2 a Day

DEADLINE FIXED IN MINE STRIKE   W ork Must Be Resumed Thursday; New Wage Schedule Framed

WLB Offers UMW 31.122 Wage Raise   Lewis Silent: Rail Workers Consider Strike

Proposed Wage Schedule For lilinois Miners Is Rejected   War Labor Board Counters With Proposition Offer ing Workers Increased Earnings of About $10 for a 6-Day-Week

Pelain Turns Against Lava And Hille   Moarshol Procloims Democratic Low As Basic; May Resign

Petain Drafts New French  Constitution   Prevented by Germans From Carrying It Out; Marshal Renounces Laval

FRENCH CRISIS HITS CABINET   Petain, Refused Right To Make Speech, Renounces Pierre Laval

Petain Deties Laval   Democracy Proclaimed In A Hushed-Up Decree

DRAFT OF NEW CONSTITUTION   New Crisis In France As Result of German Interference ‘

PETAIN DRAFTS [NEW FRENCH cONSTITUTON   Abrupt Turn from NaziDomination Revealed in  Speech Nazis Refused to Allow Marshal to Deliver

PETAIN SEEKS RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY   Balked by Nazis in Effort to Broadcast Announcement! to Nation, Restore Constitution   WOULD FIRE LAVAL   Germans Reported Preparing to Take Over—Swiss Paper Publishes Forbidden Speech

Petain Turns From German Domination   Aged French Chief Drafts Democratic Constitution and ‘Renounces Laval

Petain In Break With Laval, Nazis   ‘Marshal Drafts New Constitution, Rejects Laval as Successor   DECREES HUSHED UP   Copies of Banned Speech Reach Swiss, Disclosing Situation

REVEAL PLAN IN PUBLICATION OF CANCELLED TALK   Report Germans Ready To Take Over If Vichy Government Collapses

Petain Renounces Laval And Drafts  New Constitution   Actions Revealed in— Speech He Was Never Permitted to Broadcast

PETAIN AIMS FOR FRANCEREVEALED   REPORTS PREVAIL THAT AGED FRENCH CHIEF HAS RESIGNED

Reveal Petain Breaks With Laval, Nazis   Story Of Why Aged Marshal’s Radio Speech Was Muffled Is Told

Germans Suppress  Appeal   Ages Chief Reputcd Backing Democratic Constitution

Petain Dares Nazi Wrath   Disclaims Laval As Succes. sor, Demands Constitution  a ‘ieee iii i a alt ibe ce 9. ol a OR cali tO

Petain Sets Up Democracy  Attempts to Decree   Attempts to Decree End to Acts Forced By Nazi Conquerors

Petain Sets Up NewLaws   MARSHAL RENOUNCES LAVAL AS SUCCESSOR; NAZIS HUSH ACTIONS

NEW FRENCH CONSTITUTION I$ REPORTED   Petain Turns From Germans In New  Draft Order

MARSHAL PETAIN REVOLTS AGAINST NAZIS AND LAVAL   Decree for New French Con: stitution Blocked by

Nazis Block Efforts To Promulgate New Constitution Based On Democratic Principles

PETAIN TURN FROM GERMANS   Recent Actions Reported Hushed Up By Nazis, Save Renort.

CONSTITUTION IS DRAFTED BY PETAIN DEMOCRATIC LINES   AGED CHIEF STAFF MAKES ABRUPT TURN FROM CERMAN DOMINATION

French Chief Of State Aitempts To Set Up Democratic Government; Renounces Pierre Laval As Successor; Germans Silence Decrees

Petain Abruptly Turns From Nazi Domination; Suppressed Speech Espoused Democracy   Address He Was Not Permitted To Make Decreed End To Acts Ordered By Germans

Petain Drafts New French Constitution   Renounces Laval as Successor; Nazis Prevent Promulgation of Decree Intended to Resina TietorceGe Decime

Laval Is Renounced By Marshal Petain As:  His Suecessor   Decree By Vichy French Leader Is Hushed Up B; Germans As Is Aged Marshal’s Draft Of A Nev Constitution For France

New French Constitution Is Drafted By Petain But Rejected By Nazis

Forbidden Talk Finally Printed,  Reveals Changes   Threatens To Resign, But Doesn't Want Laval To Succeed Him As Chief

Aged Marshal Turns Toward Democracy   Writes New Constitution—His Resignation Reportec

A Petain Challenge To Axis   Renounces Laval and Drafts New French Constitution in Speech Hushed Up By Germans

Nazis Check Petain Move For Freedom   Aged Vichy Leader Renounces Laval As Successor

Nazis Prevent Promulgation Of New Constitution; Decree Renouncing  Laval Also Hushed Up.

Petain Is Hushed Up on Plans For Democratic State   Aged French Marshal Renounces Pierre Laval as His Successor.   Crisis Is Created as  Speech Not Published   Crisix Created.

Nazis Block Petain’s Try for Freedom   Prevent Promulgation of New Constitution for French People

BOND SALES IN THIS AREA FOR MAY $102,046   Sales In Freeport Area Are $91,210; $4,096 For Stamps

Gotham’s Big Time Jail Breaker and Killer Is Dead   Reynolds Forsbrey Even Fooled Franklin —~DBe Roosevelt

ACE CRIMINAL DIES IN PRISON   Reynolds Forsbrey, Once Called Most Dangerous Criminal In America, Dead At 58.

SUPPLY BILL GUTS. HEAVILY gWI AND OPA   House Committee Calls Halt on Expansion of Fed ) eral Agencies.   MILLIONS LOPPED OFF   Only the War Shipping Agency Rece.ves a Sizeable Increase,

‘SLICING BREAD AGAIN   Local Bakerys Are’ Again Putting ; Sliced Produet on Market

STATE MAY RETURN TO AUDIBLE SIGNAL   Army Has Announced Regulations Permitting Change In Announcing “All Clear”

AUDIBLE AIR ~~ RAID SIGNALS   Hutchison Waits for New Details from Headquarters

ALLIES RAID 3 JAPANESE AIRDROMES   16 Fires Started In Wewak Area Of New Guinea

Allies Attack Three Airdromes   Grounded Planes Hit By Bombing Blasts

19 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON 3 JAP ‘DROMES IN GUINEA   Continued Storms Hamper Allied Plans—Enemy Bombs Fall In  Darwin Area 

QUICK ACTION UN oUBolllta ASKED BY JONES      “Tell The Farmer Where He Stands,” Administrator lirqes Today

SUBS TAKING ~~ HEAVY TOLL   TEN AMERICAN SUBMARINES HAVE SUNK MORE THAN * 125,000 TONS OF JAP SHIPPING :

125,000 TONS OF JAP SHIPS SUNK   Ten American Submarines Report Good Hunting In Pacific

NAZIS THREATEN POPE BECAUSE OF ~ ANTLGERMANISM   Promise “Radical Measurés” Unless Vatican Changes Its Sentiments.

BERLIN VOICES DIRECT THREAT TO VATICAN   Nazis Warn of “Radical Measures” by Puppet Government

Hit Vatican's “Anti-German Sentiments”   Promise "Radical Measures" Against - The Waly Sea

WARNING is GIVEN Dope   BROADCAST. FROM BERLIN HINTS AT “RADICAL” STEPS IF POLICY 15 NOT CHANGED. .°

PO” PIUS AND HOLY SEE HEAR GERMAN EDICT   Must Decide For or Against Fascism   THREATS VOICED

ELBOLI TAKEN BY ALLIES IN ~ FORWARD PUSE   German forces at Salernc front wheel in sharp retreat

New Republican Fascist Government Of Italy Attacks Vatican Pacifism

VATICAN GETS NAZI WARNING   Holy See Must Change Its Stand. Berlin Says

AUTUMN RAINS HAVE SLOWED. UP RUSSIANS.   Only Limited Gains Reported Last 24 Hours

RAINS HERALD END OF SOVIET SUMMER DRIVE   German Troops Counter: Attack On White Russia Front

SALES TAX TO BE HOT ISSUE   Big Cities 0.K. Prosposal To __Turn Back Ohio." Clocks

PULPWOOD IS BIG PROBLEN   FOOD DISTRIBUTION WILL BE AFFECTED UNLESS LARGER SUPPLY 18 AVAILABLE  -

TECHNICIAN — MADE PRISONEN      7_—  Insane Patient Makes Bold Escape from -Farview Hospital

Abducted Girl Phones for Aid  Calls Father From   Calls Father From Camden—Held by Escaped Inmate

FUGITIVE HAS YOUNG NURSE AS CAPTIVE   Girl Technician Ils Abducted By Inmate of Farview When He Makes Escape In Car   PHONES SHE IS SAFE

Hollywood Files Appeal For Actors   By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood

DEFERMENT ASKED FOR MICKEY ROONEY   Studio Says ‘Andy Hardy’ of Movies Is Essential

ROONEY'S DRAFT GLASS APPEALED   Movies, Listed As Essential, Open Fight To Halt Call Of Actors

Movie Makers Fret as Army Calls Actor:   Mickey Rooney’s Case Brings Problem Into Open; Industry Wants Showdown

Studio Appeals 1-A Listing of Mickey Rooney   Film Industry Feels Induction of Actors Is Harming Morale

STATUS BRINGS STUDIO APPEAL   ' Actor-Soldier Problem Flares In MGM Test Case

Four Jap Vessels Sunk without Shot   Three Old Destroyers, Con: verted to Minelayers, Are Heroes

MINE FIELD BLOWS UP FOUR JAP SHIPS   Strange Sea Victory Scored With Nearest UL 8. Warships  Miles      Away

City Vote By Precincts   Four Japanese Ships Are Sunk in Strange Victory

Chinese Troops 12 Miles From Main Jap Base   Changyang Taken By Chiang’s Warriors; Ichang Is Now Threatened

Chinese Troops Continue Drive   Entire Positien of Japs on Upper Yangtse  Menaced   CHINESE ADVANCE ABOUT 20 MILES

UHINESE FORCES TAKE CHANGYANG   Also Occupy Yangtze Port of Chihkiang Below Ichang In Continuing Advance On Yangtze Front In Central China.

Scouts Conduct Drive To Make Stronger, iBefler Citizens   Cetebrate ThirtyThird Birthday On Fabruary 4 To 12

33d BIRTHDAY OF NATION'S SCOUTS MARKS FEB. 6-12   Sheriff Peter Carey Is New Finance Chairman of  S. W. District

Boy Scout Week Opened Saturday   “TOUGHEN UP-BUCKLE DOWN” SLOGAN FOR ‘43

GERMANS GIVE NO INDICATION OF NEW LINE   Germans. Increase Counter-Attacks Against Reds

IN DEMAND    Newspapers Favorite Reading of Soldiers Says Article,

PATTON INCIDENT LIKELY 10 LEAD 16 SHAKEUPS IN ARMY   Promotions Held Up Until Investigation Made

Patton Incident Brings Fight Against   Elevation of Gen. Brehon H. Summervell

SENATE MILITARY  COMMITTEE CLAMPS  HOLD ON GENERALS ASKS FULL REPORT ON  PATTON INCIDENT AND HONS TIP PROMOTIONS

Promotions For 14 Generals Halted By Senate Committee   Others Affected

NEW MANPOWER CONTROLSIN: EFFECT TODAY   ‘Affect Both — Draft and War Plant Setups

Draft Reins Drawn Tight   “Roundup of 100,000 Delinquents. Resins

TIGHTEN RULE OVER MANPOWER   Roundup Of 100,000 Draft Delinquents Is Started

CHECKING 100,000 DRAFT OFFENDERS EFFECTIVE - TODAY   Selective Service Group Sifting Supply Of  Draft-Age Men

CONTROLS OVER MANPOWER ARE TIGHTENED   Roundup of 100,000 Delinquents Becomes Effective Today

Tighter Control Over Manpower Effective Today   Start Roundup Of 100,000. Draft Delinquents

100,000 DRAFT DELINQUENTS GET WARNING   Face Induction After Nov 1; Other Controls Tightened

Draft Delinquents Warned as Labor Controls Tighten  Area and Regional   Area and Regional Manpower Programs  Are Revised

Russians Encircling Important Vitebsk   Thousands Of Germans Killed And Much War Material ‘Is Destroyed In The Triumphant March Of The Reds Toward Baltic eB

IN WINTER DRIVE   Encirclement of Nazi Fortress {   City Seen Matter  mf Ld mrive

Russians Are’ Only 15 Miles From Vitebsk   Advance Of Five Mile: Made By Baltic Army Which Is Approaching Fortress City

Soviets Drive On Vitebsk  15 Miles Away From Fortress; Entire Line

Encirclement Of Nazi  Fortress Due   Stability of Entire German Line Defending Baltic States Endangered; Polotsk Also Threatened by Advancing Red Forces

Nazis Unable to Check Red Baltic Army   Full Encirelement of City of Vitebsk Seen As Imminent

RUSSIANS PUSH AHEAD IN HUGE BALTIC DRIVE   Menace Nazi-held Fortress Of Vitebsk. Threaten to Encircle City; Also Advance In South

Reds Surge In 15 Miles Of Vitebsk   Alsoo Strike Toward Polotsk; Kherson Fall Endangers Two Nazi Bases

Encirclement Of Vitebsk By  Reds Imminent   New Five-Mile Gain By Russian Baltic Army Ir Unchecked Surge.

Soviets Close In on Fortress City, Vitebsk   This Thrust With Companion Drive Threaten Entire Nazi Baltic Line

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON VITEBSK   Red Advance Threatens Nazi Positions In Leningrad Area

RUSSIANS ONLY 15 MILES FROM VITEBSK FORT   Reds’ Baltic Army Surges Forward With Advance of 5 Miles

Only 15 Miles From Nazi Stronghold; Kall 1.600 Germans   Other Soviet Forces Drive Toward Polotsk, Smash Enemy Bridgehead on Southern Battlefront

Red Advance Toward Baltic Is Unchecked   Russians Now Only Fifteen Miles From Fortress City of Vitebsk  ENEMY LINE MENACED

FORWARD ON BALTIC FRONT   Nazi Fortress City of  Vitebsk Now Only 15 Miles from Advancing Red Armies

Encirclement Of Nazi Fortress City Imminent; Drive Toward Polotsk Threatens Stability Of Entire German Line Defending Baltic States

REDS NEARING VITEBSK; NAZI MAIN FORTRESS   Gain Five Miles In Fast Driv > Agvainst City

Surging Soviet Army Tightens Net Around '- Fortress of Vitebsk   Stability of German Line Defending Baltic:  States Is Threatened; Russians Blast 50-Mile Gap in Nazi Defenses

Soviet Drive Menaces Two German Keys   Twin Thrusts Move Unchecked Toward Vitebsk And Polotsk

TROOPS MOVE FORWARD FIVE MORE MILES      Soviet Forces Now but 15 Miles From Nazi For _ tress City — Second yYDrive Adds Danger to Enemy Baltic Line.

Russians Gain Five Miles To Make Encirclement Of Vitebsk More Imminent—Westward Thrust And Companion Drive Toward Polotsk Bodes Disaster For Entire German Line Defending Northern States __Enemy Counter-Attacks In Central Sectors

Red Baltic Army  Gains Five Miles  Encirclement Of Nazi - Stronghold Imminent

ALL OF GERMAN BALTIC SYSTEM 1S THREATENED   Encirclement Of Big Nazi Base Imminent

ARMY ADVANCES ~AMILES AGAIN   Russian Baltic Troops Now Stand Only 15 Miles From Nazi Fortress.    DRIVE TOWARD JUNCTION

Reds Only 15 Miles From Vitebsh   Drive Toward Rail Junction Threatens Entire Nazi Baltic Line

Nazis’ Entire Baltic Defense Line Menaced   Russian Army Storms Forward; Another Drives On Polotsk

REDS’ BALTIC ARMY SCORES 5-MILE GAIN   Stands 15 Miles From Nazi Fortress City Of Vitebsk

ENCIRCLING OF VITEBSK 1S CERTAW   Entire Nazi Line Is 7 “hreatened By New Gains

Red Army Unchecked In theNorth   Now Only 15 Miles From Vitebsk —  Reuters

Entire German Defenses Ir North Defending Baltic States Threatened «B) Smashing Soviet Drive

Reds 5 Miles Nearer Nazi Vitebsk Base   Germans Launch Desperate Counter Attacks

Allied Bombers Blast Five Bases  In South Pacific  Considerable Damage Done in New Guinea, New Britain. Aroe   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, April 7

{.$. Bombers Atfack Bases   Wide Area Is Covered By Individual Planes

Officers Named By Legion Pos!   Arthur Kreitner New Commander Here

OTHER COLUMNS WITHIN 3a MILES OF POLISH BORDER   Nazis’ Bastion of Korosten in Northern Ukraine Threatened by Swift Soviet Drive.   LENINGRAD-ODESSA KAIL JUNCTION IMPERILED   Berlin Reports Russian Gains Near Krivoi Rog in Attempt to Break Through to Black Sea.

Soviet Armored Troops Push Within - Striking Distance of Old Polish Border: Korosten’s Fall Near —

Fall of Bastion Of Korosten Expected Soon   Spearhead Is Within  Striking Distance of  Polish Border; 3,00€ Nazi Troops Killed

One Railroad From Gomel  Left to Nazis   Huge Struggic Raging Inside Dnieper Bend,  German Command Says  KOROSTEN MENACED

Ja 0; Soros:en 4xreccec LS ECS Xus.a “ewarc 3orcers; Score Sains _ ear <rivoi Rog

Fall of Northern Ukraine Bastion ls Imminent  Gain Near Krivoi   Gain Near Krivoi Rog in Effort to Trap Huge Forces

RUSSIAN FORCE IS CONVERGING ON KOROSTEN   Armored Spearhead Now In Striking Distance Of Old Polish  Frontier

Forces of General Vatutin 35 Miles From Polish  Border   MANY MORE TOWNS. TAKEN IN ADVANCES   Enormous Losses Suffered by Enemy, Moscow Communique Says

Enemy Holds But Faint  Hope to Flee   Garrison at Gomel Is Helpless; Soviets Plunge Ahead for Stunning Gains; Armies Draw Nearer Old Border of Poland

Reds Converge on Town of Korosten   Berlin Says Soviets Have Gained in Krivoi Rog Sector

Reds Isolate Gomel Pocket   Fall Of Korosten, Ukraine Rail Bastion, Is Said Near

Russians Isolate German Garrison Defending Gomel   3,000 Nazis Slain, 14 Villages Taken

MAKE READY ~ BOOK THREE   Next Ration Book To: Be ‘Handled Through the — Mails “1

FUR ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF NEW LENO LEASE   ‘‘Reverse’ Program by Which Great Britain Will Aid Revealed

AGREEMENT ON. WAR SUPPLIES TS ANNOUNCE!   ROOSEVELT REPORTS TO CON /: GRESS NEW. “REVERSE  : LEND-CEAWE” PLAN 19 POOLING RESOURCES

GREAT BRITAIN BALANCING BIG UL S, SHIPMENTS   Raw Materials Provided To Yankee Industry Without Cost   SERVICES ALSO GRATIS   President Tells Congress About Completion Of New Agreement

BRITISH RAW GOODS BALANCE AID FROMU.S.   Reverse Materials Worth Over Billion, Paid In One Month

New Agreement  Is Announced   President Tells Congress 0! ‘‘Reverse Lend-Lease’’ Agreement With Britain

U.S, BRITAIN IN NEW WAR AlD AGREEMENT   United Nations Supplies Raw Materials in Reverse Lend-Lease

WARNING GIVEN T0 DEALERS IN FOODS   Violations of Ceiling Price to Bring License-Sus. pension Proceedinas

Revolt Flames  In North Italy   Germans Evacuate Large Areas Of Rome; Harsh  Penalties Faced

Germans Now “Mining Rome   Nazis Preparing To Destroy Sections of City; Stop Traffic After 7 p. m.

North Italy In Revolt   Situation Behind Nazi Line Reported More Serious Than in Any Other Conquered Land

REVOLT IS FLAMING IN NORTHERN ITALY   Conditions Most. Serious of Occupied Lands, Claim

North Italy Flames With Revolt  Against Germans  Officials Are Shot;  Nazis Evacuate  Portions of Rome

NORTHERN ITALY RISES AGAINST NAZI COMMAND   German Engineers Reported Planting Mines in

NORTH ITALY REVOLT FLARES   GERMANS EVACUATE ROME AREAS; LAND MINES SEEN

German Actions Hint They May Evacuate Rome   . Preparations Seen To Destroy Part OF Italian Canital

Northern Italy Said To Be Flaming With Revelt Against Nazi Military

INVESTIGATION OF FLYNN CONTINUES   Senate Committee Will Hear About Paving Block Episode

Flynn Hearing  Is Resumed   Berle Testifies On Fiscal: Practices

Trap Menaces Jap Units On Guinea Coast Aussies Advance  ~ Slows At City’s Outskirts

DRIVE ON JAPS SLOWED DOWN   Circling Of Finschhafen From Rear Threatened  By New Moves

ENCIRCLEMENT OF JAPANESE S THREATENED   By Australians in Attack On Finschhafen; _ Encounter Strong Enemy Defenses Near Jap Base.   Little Damage

ATTACK SLOWED BY ENEMY RESISTANCE   Japanese Garrison Faces Encirclement From Rear

Jap Resistance  Slows Up Allies   Flanking Movements Started ‘Ry Ayssies

Japs Delaying Frontal Attack On Finschhafen   Australians Meet Stiff Opposition

Trap Threatens Japanese At Finschhafen, Although Aussies’ Drive is Slowed

ST, MARY'S SOLDIER CONVICTED ON BRIBE COUNT, SENTENCEL   Complete Last Of Five Selfridge Field Army Trials

ARMY. CONVICTS ST. MARYS MAN   Given Discharge. 18 Months Sentence On Bribery Count

OHIO FARMERS TO MEET GOALS   Pledge To Use Labor Supply to Best War Effort Advantage

PROMISE FARMERS AID IN FOOD DRIVE   Officials Confident Goals Will Be Reached

Ohio Tillers Pledged Aid Toward Food   AAA Official Tells Farmers U. S, Will Help Meet Goal.

HOUSE APPROVES ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Forms Powerful Cudgel With Which to Deal With Wartime Strikes; Measure Is Sent to the Senate

HOUSE, VOTES MEASURE 10 BAN STRIKE!   Much Amended: Cor: nally Bill Passed, 231 to 141

CURBS ON LABOR DURING WAR ARE VOTED BY HOUSE   Measure With “Teeth” Ir It Is Sent To Senate For Approval   COMPROMISE DUE TO BE WORKED OUT

House Passes Dras tic Bil To Curb Strikes   Leaders, in Certain Cases, Made Liable To Terms in Prison

ANTI-STRIKE BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE   Powerful ‘Cudgel to Deal With Wartime Strikes Approved

House Approves Plan To Prevent Wartime Strikes   Votes 231 to 141 To Pun ish Those Who Hamper War Efforts

House Approves Anti-Strike Bill   Stiff Penalty Set; Senate Fiaht Seen

House Passes Drastic Bill to Battle Strikes   instigators Can Get Prison Sentences in Terms of Measure  Returned to Senate

House Votes Antistrike Bill, 231-141   Measure Started In Upper House Returns for Okeh

House Puls Teeth Into Strike Bill   Prison Terms Set For Leaders In Walkouts

CONNALLY BILL GIVEN TEETH IN HOUSE VERSION   Amended Measure Holds Year’s Prison . Term For Instigating War Strikes  P Se—Ulc“ i‘Cirl

War Strikes Outlawed By House   BY RECORD VOTE OF 231-141 CONNALLY BILL IS RETURNED TO SENATE; FULL OF SHARP TEETH.

English Writer Says Yanks Won by Narrowest Margin and Only Because of Vast Naval Force,   BLOODIEST FIGHT TO DATE IN PACIFIC   London Daily Express Correspondent Declares It Shows What Is Ahead in March to Tokyo,

OPA Puts Retail  Geiling On Pork  Designed To Give  Everyone Fair Share

Ceiling Prices On Meats Start On April 1st   New Program: to Assure Share of — Meat to All

New Ruling Listed On eS Meat Prices.      START WITH PORK, EFFECTIVE APRIL 1; MOVE IS TOWARD A. ‘(FAIR SHARE AT A FAIR PRICE’

Pork Price Ceilings Established   Brown Moves To Protect Buyers and Oust Blaelk Markets

PORK GEILING URDER DOOM DARK MARKET   Fair Share, Fair Price Aim of OPA Move April 1; Prices Announced,   NATION DIVIDED INTO NEW CONTROL ZONES

OPA Moves To Regulate Meat Sales   Promises Everyone Fair Share at Fair Price

Price Maximums Will Be Set On Other Meats Later; Move Designed To Give All Share Of Meat At A Fair Price

“A Fair Share at a Fair Price’  To be Assured All Savs Brown   Pork Ceilings To Initiate Reonlations

PRICE LID PUT ON PORK; TWO CEILINGS FIXED   Program Starts April 1 Assure ‘Fair Share At Fair Price’

DEMAND LIQUOR STOCK RELEASE   Senators Would Tax Warehouse Stocks to Force Beverage into Retai! Outlets

ithdrawal llowing Plar ays Germans   Russian Offensive Continuing At Breath-Taking Pace in Two Major Sectors

SOVIET TROOPS SMASH THROUGH      Russians Recapture Railroad Center of Salsk

Fresh German Forces Fail to Halt Reds   Wide «Caucasus Campaign Follows Fall of Salsk; - Air avid Rail. Base ’   ANOTHER, MORTAL BLOW.-TO ENEMY   More. Towns .Captured. in New Sweeps; Battle for Armavir: Indicated:

REDS CAPTURE SALSK, DRIVE INTO UKRAINE   Gain Important Base in Effort to Surround Rostov, Further Cut Off Nazis at Stalinorad   ADVANCE RAPIDLY   Near Voroshilovgrad, in Ukraine, “Important Rail and Communica: tions Center

UNITS GATHER MORE TOWNS UNDER BANNER   Trans-Caucasian Army Also Is Credited With Rapid Advance and Capture of Dozens of Populated Places.

REDS CAPTURE BAIL CENTER OF SASK        German Defenses Fail to Stop Onrushing Russians Proceeding at Fast Pare

DEFEAT FRES NAZI FORCES IN SOUTHWEST   Red Drive Continuing A Breath- Taking Pace  THER CITIES   Reported Retaken In Two Major Areas; Voroshilovgrad Threatened

RUSSIANS TELL OF RAPID GAINS   Ukraine City Falls as Soviet - Forms Aim at Flanking Kharkoy

Reds Speed Ahead After Salsk Falls   Advance Continues With Breath-Taking Rush In Central Caucasus; Near Voroshilovgrad

Reds Drive On After Retaking Salsk Air Base   Disperse Nazi Forces Threatening To Slow Russian Advance.

SOVIET TROOPS HAVE  CAPTURED IMPORTANT  AIR BASE OF SALSK OTHER RUSSIAN DRIVES HAVE CARRIED  FORWARD  OW ATT Con

Red Seize Salsk, Rail and Air Base,  Continue Swift Advance on Germans

Soviets Take Salsk, Key Ai And Rail Base   German Defense Crumbles Before Drive; Many Other Towns Seized

Russians Capture Salsk —   After Stopping Furious Nazi Counterattacks on Don Reds Forge Ahead At ‘Breakneck Speed’

REDS TAKE SALSK, } RAILROAD. CENTER  AND PLANE BASE   Breath-Taking Advance Is Re“. ported ‘Southeast Of Restov Area   MATERIAL IS CAPTURED

SOVIET TROOPS SMASH THROUGH    GERMAN LINES   Captured a Railroad Center and Air Base at Salsk, Is Report.   SOUTHEAST OF ROSTOV   Dispersed the Fresh German Forces, Dispatches From the Front Said.

BASE TAKEN. BY SOVIET   Important Rail Center Falls to Russians, 100 Miles  From Rostov.   Advance in Central Caucasus Is Rapid

Reds Capture Railway Center, Salsk Air. Base      Only One Line Left-To Germans To Route Supplie: Southwesternward Into Donets Basin; Forces On “‘Trans-Caucasian Fronts Virtually Fused.

ARailroad Center Is Taken by Reds   Soviet Troops Continue to Smash Thru the Ger man Lines   FRESH NAZI SOLDIERS   Russian Army Has Wiped Out Two Axis Cavalry Squadrons

‘Russian Forces, After ‘Taking Salsk, Disperse Threatening Nazi Unit

Reds Take Rail Point   Smash Through Nazi Lines Southeast of Rostov

SOVIETS RESUME SWEEPING DRIVE AS SALSK FALLS   RAILROAD CENTER AND AIR BASE TAKEN FROM NAZI RESERVES

Russians Riddle Nazi Lines With Smashing Blows   German Forces Driven Out Of Important Rail Center

MORE NAZI TROUBLES   Allies Rapidly Compieting Bomber Bases On Italian Mainland

“FORTRESSES” RENEW BLOWS ON CONTINENT   U. S. Bombers Attack German Centers: Mosquitc Planes Raid Berlin; Fight:ers Also Active.

American Troops Tighten Pincers Against Germans  New Pressure W cakens Enemy   New Pressure W eakens Enemy In_BatUe of Vollturno: Nazi Flanks Collapse

Germans Admit Reds Break . Through Lines   Counter-Attacks Have Restored Positions Is Claim

Reds Breach German Lines   Heavy Attack Staged Along Russian Front

This Is the Most Enemy Planes Lost in Any One Encounter.   98 NAZI TRANSPORT PLANES INCLUDED   Fresh Ground Forces Take More Prisoners With Advancements.

Otfensives Aimed at Poltava ‘And Konotop   Russian Drives Starting from Kharkov Develoned

CONTINUE STEADILY   One Spearhead Smashes Ahead 30 Miles Toward Poltaya in Heart of Ukraine,

REDS BLAST NEW GAINS ON SO. FRONT   Continue West and Northwest from  Kharkov

Reds Gain Along 40 Mile Front  Seek Approaches  To Dnieper River —

RUSSIANS CLAIM 132 TOWNS FALL WEST OF RZHEY   Yankee Patrols on Heels of Axis Rear Guard at Faid Pass

EXEMPTION FOR BUYING BONDS: “PROPOSED IN NEW TAX PLAN   PROGRAM NOW BEING STUD. JED INCLUDES NEW IDEA TO ABSORB EXCESS BUYING POWER

STUDY DRASTIC NEW REVENUE PROGRAM   Would Increase Rates and Stimulate Purchase of Bonds

TAX EXPERTS PLAN HOIST OF INCOME RATES   ‘Drastic Program _ Aimed At Elimination Of Inflationary Gap   ‘CREDIT FOR WAR BONDS   Individual Levy May Be Increased To 8 Or 10 Percent Ceiling

TEARS IN EYES. PLED  GE ON LIPS   Count Sforza Returns To Italy From Exile To Help Speed Allied Victory

Raid Cologne, Duesseldorf, German Base   1,000 U. S. Planes Deal Wilhelmshaven Big Blow

Government of  Argentina Having  Grave Difficulty Ramirez Appears te  Having Trouble in Deciding on Policy

Allies Blast. Jap Convoy Off Kavieng   Heavy Transport, Tanker Go Down; 2 Destroyers. Hit

TROOP-LADEN JAP TRANSPORT IS SENT DOWN   Allied Bombers Hit Japs On Wide Front

TROOP-LADEN NIP TRANSPORT SUNK IN PACIFIC   Fliers Hit Two More Jap Destroyers, Down 21 Enemy Planes

Jap Transport Bomb Victim   Other Enemy Shipping Is Also Sunk By Prowling Allied Planes

[roop-Laden Japanese Transport Sunk; 900 Marines In Raid On Bougainville

ALLIED PLIERS SINK JAPANESE TROOP CARRIER   Large. Tanker Also Dé stroyed and Two Enemy.

Allied Bombers Sink Jap Transport, Tanker   Troop-Laden Enemy Ship Reported Sent To Bottom In Pacific; 20 Nipponese Planes Downed In Widespread Aerial Rattlec

Transport Sunk by Ally Airmen   ENEMY BASES BLASTED WITH 200 TONS OF BOMBS; 21 NIPPO PLANES ARE DOWNED IN BATTLES AT ENDS OF 2400-MILE SEA ARC

Troop Laden Transport and Large Tanker Sunk; Two Destroye vo.Demnged While Prowling Bombers Blast Enemy Bases.

Allied Bombers Score New Blows  In Pacific Area   Sink Troop-laden Transport and Tanker, Damage 2 Destroyers, Blast Enemy Bases.

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAP SHIPS   Sink Transport, Tanker And Damage Two Destroyers In Pacific

JAPANESE TROOP TRANSPORT SUNK BY ALLIED FLYERS   Two Enemy Destroyers Also Hit by Bombs Near  Naw Iraland

Allied Bombers Sink Transport Big Jap Tanker   2 Destroyers Blasted And Enemy Bases Are Heavily Raided

ALLIES HAMMEF JAP SHIPS, BASES   Troop Transport Sunk An¢ Two’ Warships Blasted

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES BLAST JAP SHIPPING   Ground Troops Converge On Wareo, Marines Raid Bougainville Arsenal

AXIS PREPARES TO MEET NEXT ALLIED MOVE   Today Third Anniver: sary of Nazi Occupation of France

Axis Speeding  Defense Plans   Anticipates Early Blow At Italy By Large Allied Forces   INVASION ‘‘JITTERS’’ BEING INCREASED

Axis “Dunkirk” From Sicily in Full Swing   _ American and British Forces Closing in Fast on Messina  ar TET. «3CTmL PDE CUA TTA DOM! 0 O06OCUR RT

YANK, BRITISH PLANES POUND ESCAPE GRAFT   German Dunkirk Looms — As Enemy Defenses Begin ' to Crumble.

Randazzo Fall: To Americans; Defense Gone   Plight Of Axis Army Tn Sicily Like That In Tunisian Collapse

AXIS FORCES FLEE SICILY VIA STRAITS   Evacuation Now in Full Swing, Allies Report

WITHDRAWAL FROM ISLAND IN FULL SWING   Allied Advances Tighten Death Trap on Remaining German Rear Guards.

Flight Craft Jam Strait   Allied Planes Strafe Boats Leaving Sicily

Randazzo Capture Brings Downfall _ To Axis Defense   Allied Planes, Ships Pounding Withdrawal As Armies Move Up ~

ALLIES DOMINATE MOUNT ETNA AREA GERMANS CUT OFF   Enemy Massed Many Italia Vessels After Randazzi Collapse For Genera Flight to Mainland. °   PLANES IN 2600-MILE VIENNA BOMBING TRIF   Rome Dectared Open City te Prevent Bombing Raid: With Vatican Acting at intermediary.

INTO WHEAT SOON   Harvest of Crop in Texas and Oklahoma Under Way in 10 Days

SUPER-TAX HIT BY HOUSE UNIT   Committee Urges Repeal Of F. D. R. Order Limiting Salaries

President’s Proposal Brushed Aside. . ...  Committee Votes To ~ Repeal Salary Limit

Ways and Means Committee Reaffirms Approval Of Limit Repealer   LETTER IS DISCUSSED

Income Super-ta) Brushed Aside By Committee   Passage by House Of Pay-Pegging Bill Predicted

FDR'S PROPOSAL FOR SUPER-TAX BRUSHED ASIDE   House Committee Reaffirms Plan  To Kill Order

BRUSH ASIDE TAX RECOMMENDATION   SUPER-TAX FAILS TO MEET WITH COMMITTEE APPROVAL

House Group For Repeal Of Pay Peak   Committee Reaffirms Its Position Against $25.000 —_ Limitation Salaries

HOUSE WAYS-MEANS COMMITTEE APPROVES SALARY LIMIT REPEAL   PRESIDENT’S RECOMMENDATION FOR SUPER-TAX BRUSHED ASIDE

Super-Tax on Incomes Is Vetoed   WAYS, MEANS GROUP RE-URGES REPEAL OF $25,000 SALARY LIMIT

DISNEY SALARY BILL APPROVED; FOR I$ BEATEN   House Committee Okay: Measure Pegging Incomes at Pearl Harbor Levels

Approve Repeal Of Salary Order   House Committee Brushes Aside FDR's Proposal

BILL TO REPEAL SALARY LIMITING ‘ORDER REAFFIRMED   House Ways-Means Committee Brush. Aside “SuperTax” Proposal by Presiden! to Hold Incomes Down

WHITE “IS UP AND AROUND”   Emporia Editor ‘Will - Not Leare Hospital] for Awhile

GEN. SPAATZ IS COMMANDER   Appointment Of Veteran Airman Ix Announced.

ASSAIL CANOL OIL VENTURE   Ickes, Other Government Officials Hit Army for Starting Project

OIL VENTURE OF THE ARMY HIT BY ICKES   Three Government Agencies Criticize Canadian Protert   OFFICIALS OF ARMY TO TESTIFY TODAY   Witnesses Say Investment May be Lost After the War

RAP ARMY FOR VENTURE IN OIL   Ickes Says Canadian Oi Project Ought To Be “Junked”

CRITICIZE ARMY'S OIL VENTURE   Ickes Says Whole Project. Ought To Be Junked;) Open Smouldering Argument.

Army on Carpet On Canadian Deal   Ickes Says Oil Plan Should Be Junked

EXPENSIVE OIL PROJECT SHOULD BE JUNKED NOW   Ickes Says Army Defied Opposition In Starting Canadian Wells   GOVERNMENT STANDS TO LOSE HUGE SUM

DEATH TOLL OF SEATTLE FIRE MOUNTS   Blaze Breaks Out Anew; 6 Firemen Asphyxiated

Bomber Dives Into Meat Plant; 28 Feared Dead.   Flames Spread Thru Building After Crash; Large Amount of Pork Burned

Plane Crash Toll Still Mounting    Fireman Killed When _ Flames Break Out; 16 Known Dead

FEAR 28 KILLED AS BIG BOMBER RAMS BUILDING   Twelve Bodies Recovered But More Thought To Be In Seattle Building Which Was Wrecked Br Plane   WORLD FAMOUS TEST PILOT IS CASUALTY

Fireman Is Added to 28 Plant Dead   28 Are Believed Dead in Factory Crashed by Plane

Fireman Killed When Blaze Breaks Out Anew in Seattle Building, 28FearedDead

BOMBER MAKING TEST FLIGHT, CRASHES IN PLANT EXPLOSION FIRES CAUSE MORE DEATHS

BOMBER LANDS IN MEAT PLANT; 28 LOSE LIVES   Factory Is Destroyed By Fire After Test Flight Ends In Disaster   HUGE PORK SUPPLY LOST      17 Missing In Pacific Accldent; 12 Die In South Dakota Smashup

Plane Crash Toll At 28   Fire, Gas Poisoning Account For Deaths As Bomber Falls Into Meat Plant

23 PERSONS FEARED DEAD WHEN BOMBER HITS PACKING PLANT   Bodies Of Kight Plane Crew Members, Four Factory kimployes Recovered From Wreck; 13 Workers Missing

FIREMEN FEAR 28 DEAD IN BOMBER GRASH AT SEATTLE   Four-motored Ship Plunges Into Fifth Floor of Packing Plant.

War Is Boon To Beggars   People Have More Mone; And Give It Away

“State Blackout elo Be Ignored In Some Towns   - Joplin, Springfield And Dallas County Will Not Participate

ST. LOUIS TO USE RAID SHELTERS   Persons Downtown Ordered to Leave Vehicles During > Blackout Tonight

CONTINUE POUNDING OF JAPANESE BASES   Japs Apparently Planning New Offensive in China

Utilities Are Being Strained   Public Is Asked To Conserve in All Possible Ways

All Types Of Fuel, Power  To Be Saved   Nationwide Dimout To Save Electricity May Be Necessary

AMERICANS WARNED OF MORE SHORTAGES   Voluntary Conservation Plea To Be Stressed Soon

PUBLIC MUST EASE UP      Government Will Urge Less Use Of Important Utilities

Dralt Boards To Reclassify Next Thursdat  i  Pe en <   Men in Nonessential Occupations to Have Status Changed

Draft Reshuffle Starts Thursday   Boards Reclassify On Basis Of Work

Dratt Boards Begin Reclassifying Men In Nondeferable Jobs Thursday

Reclassifying Of  Men To Commence  Those In Non-Deferable  Jobs To Be Changed

Reclassil ying Of Men Not In War Johs Is Launched   Draft Boards To Take Fathers’ Soon As Grace Period : Ended

DRAFT LISTS TO BE REVAMPED   Person In Non-Deferable Work To Be Reclassified Starting Thursday

MORE TO BE PUT IN TA DRAFT GLASS   (BOARDS BEGIN THURSDAY RECLASSLEYING THOSE IN NON-DEFERABLE JOBS.

NATION'S DRAFT BOARDS 10 ACT ON BARTENDERS   Dancing Teachers, Others in Non-Essential Jobs Will Be Reclassified

Draft Eligibles To Be Regroupec   Action Will Follow Eight Weeks’ Notice

DRAFT BOARDS TO RESHUFFLE LIST THURSDAY   Registrants Who Still Are Not in Essential Work May Be.Called

Reclassification Of Non Deferable Men to Begin  Those Not in War Jobs Will Be Regrouped by Board:

DRAFT BOARDS START CHECKUP   Men In Non-Deferable Jobs Face Induction , As Class 1-A   '

TORECLASSIFY NON-DEFERABLI REGISTRANTS      Boards May Postpone Induction Of— Some Men

N ondeferable Men Will Be  Reelassified   Have Had Eight Weeks Notice To Change ITobs

Will Reclassify Nondeferrables  Draft Boards Start Action Thursday

Reclassify Men In Non-Deferable Work Thursday  1-A Rating for Those Failing to Change T. Besantial lobe

Non-Essential Workers To Be Reclassified   Draft Boards Will Start Combing Lists April 1

—  NON - DEFERABLES TO BE REGROUPED   Draft Boards to Start Reclassification of Men in Non-essential Jobs Regardless of Dependents

NonDeferable 3A Men Face Draft Call   Family Heads Whe Have Not Heeded Warning Go Into IA Thursday   EIGHT WEEKS' NOTICE   Registration With Jok Agency Will Give 30 Day Stay Of Induction

Evacuation of ‘Berlin Reported   Ploesti Oil Fields in Rumania are Crippled; Naples Plastered Again

SUBSIDIES CALLED UNSOUND BY BROOKES   Master Of State Grange Says Gov. ernment Would Defer Consumers’ Groecey Bill Until After War

Master of Grange Scores Subsidies   Unsound in Practice, Says Thomas Brookes

ALLIED NATIONS SENT SECOND RELIEF PLAN   Lehman Looms As Director Of World Organization -

POST-WAR HIGHWAY PROGRAM IN STATE [S BEING PLANNED   Hundred Million to Be Spent in Improvements to Facilitate Traffic, Sours States.

JAPAN FACES NEW THREATS   MANY-SIDED SMASH AT PACIFIC ENEMY LOOMS

THREE NATIONS 10 COORDINATE AL RESOURCES   Plan to Trim Japan Down to Original Territory

94 DEAD, 250 HURT IN MIGHTY BLAST AT NORFOLK AIR BASE   13. Injured . In Critical Condition—3 Hangars Destroyed By Fire

NORFOLK BLAST KILLS 24, INIURES MANY CRITICALL   Explosion In Hangar Felt 20  Miles Away—One WAVE Among Dead.

BLAST DEAD AT NORFOLK NAVAL BASE SET AT 24   Twenty-Three Sailors, One WAVE Are Victims Ot Explosion

Toll in Blast Mounts to 24   ‘Wave, 23 Sailors Killed at Norfolk

Chances of a Tunisian “Dunkirk” by The Axis Declared Practically Nil

SLIM CHANCE FOR.TUNISIAN  DUNKIRK SEEN   British Authority Thinks Axi Will Not Be Abie To “Repeat”

Chances of Tunisian ‘Dunkirk’ Nil  t . %, ae wv ® - a * * er Cie Gin ven * Why Rommel "Man, Have to Give Up

Army Helps Save Stafe’s Bean Crop   500 Soldiers Sent Out To Harvest Crop

Violent Fight Resumes In Caucasus  Force of 1. 600 Nazis   Force of 1,600 Nazis Thrown Back; Two Other Thrusts Fail

Fighting Flares In Caucasus Area   1,600 Nazis Repulsed With Heavy Losses

Violent Fighting In Caucasus Ends Rest for German:   Force of 1,600 Thrown Back with Heavy Losses, Moscow Reports

Nazi Force Thrown Back With Losses   Two Other German Attacks In Russia Also Repulsed.

Violent Fight Resumes In Caucasus   Force of 1,600 Nazis Thrown Back; Two Other Thrusts Fail

BATTLE FLARES IN KUBAN AREA   German Force Foiled In Caucasus; 2 Other Attacks Held

NAZIS THROWN BACK AT KUBAN   Thrusts In. Rostov And Donets Sectors Also Shattered

Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses In Caucasus  Violent Fight  Is Resumed  Kuban River: ”

Interpreting e \War   Rommel’s Retreat Probably Marks Maior Axis Defeat

Unharvested Potatoes Is New Racket   California Dealers May Not Get Away With It, However

Victory Widens Naples Wedge; British Advance   Chaos Grips Peninsula as Italians Battle With German Forces; Planes Balk Foe on Reinforcements

Messages Broadcast; Eisenhower Says Allies To Use Italian Warships   Whereabouts of Italian Leaders Not Revealed in Radio Broadcast; Norte Hald Cantrol in North Italy

REP. DIRKSEN ENTERS RACE   Illinois Man Announces He Will Seek GOP Presidential Nomination

REP. DIRKSEN IS ENTERED IN 1944 BATTLE   Illinois Republicon Condidate for Presidential WNomination   FDR EXPECTED TO SOON TELL PLANS   Intentions’ May be Reyealed in Next Two or Three Months

DIRKSEN TO OEEK GOP NOMINATION   Entrance Into Presidential Race Draws Attention te Lack of Democratic Can: didates; Await FDR’s Move

Dirksen in GOP Race ForPresident   ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY WHILE ROOSEVELT KEEPS DEMOCRATS GUESSING.   Will Enter No Primary   Much GOP Material   Silence Means 4th Try

Parly Awail: Roosevelt's  1944 Plans   GOP Nomination List Gains Name; Democrats Silent

Democrats Lack Candidate Timber  Illinois Republican fe CREE <ceRT TR . Cereee eee

Kiev Battle Expected To Be Decisive   Russians Mass Forces For Assault on Nazi Fort on River Bank

Fury of Conflict Rages Round Kiev   Tremendous Forces Flung Into Battle for Dnieper ~  Line   Gains Further North Announced in Soviet Order of the Day

HUGE RED, NAZI FORCES CLASH   Fight Fiercely for Dnieper Line Mastery

Russians Battle  For Kiew Area      DECISIVE BATTLE OF WAR IS NOW RAGING

Kiev Battle May Decide German Fate   Struggle, Raging With Unabated Fury, Enters Upen Its Fifth Day

Furious Battle Of Kiev Rages As Reds, Nazis Fight To Hold Dnieper

Mastery Of Dnieper Line is At Stake   Picked Soviet Fighter: Facing Entrenched Germans

GREAT BATTLE CONTINUES AS GERMANS HOLD   Reds Make No Claim Of Advances in the Dnieper Area

DATILE OF KIEV CONTINUES WITH UNABATED FURY   Coth Pussians and Germans  Are Throwing in Tremendous Forces.   A DECISIVE STRUGGLE   The Germans Were Entrenched in the Ancient City on West Cliffs of Dnieper.

Battle for Kiev Rages Unabated   Russians Separated from Foe By 100-Yard Batter of Water

BATTLE OF KIE\ RAGING WITH FURY   Both Sides Throwing Tremendous Forces  Into Battle

KIEV BATTLE ° ANCES TODAY   Expected to Be One of Decisive Struggles of Entire War.   ONIEPER LINE IS PRIZE

ARE LOCKED IN KIEV BATTLE      Mighty Forces Hurled Into Fight For Dneiper Line

Russians, Germans Hur! Great Forces Into Kiev Fighting   Possible Decisive Battle Rages With Unabated  Violence

HUGE FORCES BATTLING FOR CITY OF KIEV   One of Most Decisive Battles of War Being Waged There Between Germans, Soviets.

Kiev Fight Raging in New Fury.   Fall of Gomel Said Imminent; Melitipo} Battle Near Climax; Both Sides Reinforced

Reds Score Gains In White Russia; Capture Of Gomel Is Expected Hourly

Battle Of Kiev Rages Savagely  Reds, Nazis Throw  In Everv Resource

Battle Of Kiev Rages Unabated With No Gain:   Control Of Black Sea May Be In Outeome; Reds Take Northern Towns

savage Due On Dnieper   Russians Predict : Capture of Gomel Within Few Hones

Both Sides Throwing Everything Into Fight   Artillery, Airpower And Infantry Being Throw: ' Into Breach; May Be A Decisive Battle

SOVIETS STORM FORTRESS CITY AS NAZIS HOLD   OPPOSING FORCES SEEK TO CONTROL THE ONIEPER LINE

NAZIS PUTTING UP FIGHT T0 HOLD DNIEPER   Red Army Makes Gains But Finds Attack On Kiev Meeting With @irang Resistance.

Fury of Conflict Rages Round Kiev   Tremendous Forces Flung  Into Battle for Dnieper ~ _ Line Base © .   FIGHT ACROSS: RIVER   Gains Further North Announced in Soviet Order ~ of the Day

—RUSSIA—  BATTLE OF KIEV RAGES UNABATED   Both Sides Use Great Forces Of Artillery, In fantry, Planes   NAZIS DESPERATE   Outcome May Decide Fate Of German Armies In Dnieper Bend

Furious Land And Air Battle Rages At Kiev   Reds, Nazis Hurl Tremendous Forces Into Decisive Dnieper Clash.

aREAT BATTLE OR KIEV 1S INDIMINISHED   both Germans and Rus}sians Throw Tremen'dous Forces of Infantry, Artillery and Air {Power Into Struggle.

BATTLE FOR KIEV RAGED IN UNABATED FURY ON FRIDAY  EXPECTED TO BE ONE OF DECISIVE STRUC.

FATE OF NAZI DNIEPER ARMY {5 AT STAKE   Russians Attack With Unusual Vigor; Krichev, Bayevo And Lebedevo Taken By Soviets

Russians Battle Strong German Forces At Kiev   Nazis Hurl Tremendous Power Into Struggle

BOTH REDS AND NAZIS EMPLOY HEAVY FORCES   Tremendous Units Artillery, Infantry, Air Power Thrown Into. Fight For Dnieper

bial sl 7 tal = al = btitns =  Rayburn Is Picked For House Speaker  ee te re a a el Ae

Rayburn Nominated Again For Speaker  , Democrats Also Reelect McCormack Ac Flane  weeine

PLANE MISHAP KILLS GENERAL      Olympic Track Star Dies With Ranking Marine Officer

General Upshur Killed In Crash  Former Track Star, MN ATI Pee an

Gen. Upshur And Paddock Die in Crash   Marine Commander and Former Sprinter Lose _ Lives in Alaska

ETS FLING ANS BACK VST OREL   riel Losses ermans Are Fytra Heavy

70,000 Germans Killed: Stalin.   38 Nazi Divisions’  Used In July 5 Push

70,000 German: Killed by Russ, Stalin Declares   Axis Offensive Fails Completely, Order of Day Says

Picked German Troops Decisively Beaten, Says Stalin —— 70,000 Killed By The Soviets

CROSSROADS OF SEA VALUABLE IN SUB BATTLE   Ergland’s Ancient Ally To Remain Neutral; Commands Main Atlantic Lanes

BRITISH GIVEN USE OF BASES IN THE AZORES   Grant Provides Allies Valuable Help in War on Subs

British Agree To Withdraw At War’s End   . Portugal Maintains  Neutrality in Europe, Churchill Announces  RERTIN SIT ENT

WHILE REMAINING NEUTRAL ON MAINLAND; BASES WILL GIVE ALLIES VALUABLE AID IN BATTLE AGAINST UBOATS.

Portugal Signs With  Britain   Churchill Makes the : Announcement Before House of Commons

Britain Invokes  —-570-Year-Old Pact   Spain Reiterates Neutral Position in War

Naval and Air Bases Permitted at Atlantic Crossroads  WILL AID BATTLE AGAINST U-BOATS  Portugal Desires to Continue Policy of Neutrality

Perekop on West Crimean Road Captured   Nazis Now Only: -Haye Sea Route Ta Leave Scyastopol

Bombers Hammer Joluit in Marshall Isles; Australians Gain in New Guinea Fighting

Japanese Outpost Defenses Feel New  Allied Aerial Blows   Australian Land Forces Make Headway In Jungle

Jap Islands Hit Anew by Yank Bombers   Enemy Bases in Marshalls and Solomon: Are U. S. Targets; Australian Soldiers in New Guinea Jungles Gain

JAP CHAIN OF OUTPOSTS HIT BY AIR ATTACKS   Marshalls and Solomons Under Attack and Aussies Make New Gains in New  Guinea

Bombers Rip Jap Islands   U. S. AIRMEN SMASH JALUIT ATOLL; AUSSIES SLASH AHEAD ON GUINEA

AIR ATTACKS EXPANDED IN PACIFIC AREA   Nimitz’s Planes Hit Marshalls Group

Liberators Pound Marshalls, Others Assail Solomons; Resistance Light

American Airmen Strike New Air Blows Against Japanese in Solomons

NEW ‘AERIAL BLOWS LAUNCHED AGAINST TAPS IN PACIFIC   In New Guinea's Huon Peninsula Aussie Troops Make Slow But Steady Progress Against Nip Defenders

Air Blows Struck At Japanese In Marshalls And Gilberts As Allies Press Their Advantage

Ceiling On Live Hogs Is Reported Imminent   Price Control Officials Agreed On $15 Per Hundred Pounds Limit.

Jones County Singing Convention to Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary

Here's Recipe for Kickless New Year’s   W. C. T. U. OFFERS 1944 COCKTAIL DEVOID OF “MORNING AFTER” EFFECT

SOFT WHEAT FLOUR PRICE UP   8 Per Cent Increase  Authorized by OPA

Nazi Executioner Boasts of Crimes   Gestapo Captain On Witness Stand

Nazis Admit Executions °  At Russ Trial  Captain, Trooper Say They Only Carry Out Orders

Carrying Out Orders From Hitler And Gestapo Chief Himmler Navis On Trial In Russia Tell Of Mass Butcherings

First Nazi War Criminals Admit Guilt Before Court  Falsified Documents for Executions; Say Leaders to Blame

British Hammer Berlin: 30 Bombers Missing   Great Fires Kindled By RAF; Much Damage Reported Done To German Capital

Berlin Target Of Big RAF Raic   1,500 Tons Of Bombs Hit Nazi Capital

Lost 30 Bombers On Raid   Berlin Calls It Terror Attack On Big  Scale.

SOME STRENGTH STILL IN MARKET   Steels, Aircrafts Slow a First, Push Up; Gains Widespread at Close

Nation's Railroads Face Bigger Burder  Already Carrying Great est Traffic In History

Hanover Goes Over Top; Bond Sales Now $2,469,095   General Chairman Hoffheins Makes Announcement This Afternoon—Total Still Growing—County Passes Its Goal

WAR BOND TOTAL IS STILE GROWING   Subscriptions Continue To Come In With Hanover Over Top—Final Figures Will Be Issued Monday

NOW 40 MILES FROM ROMMEL’S RETREAT ROAD   Ground Regained at Ousseltia Valley Tunisia

Wilhelmshaven Heavily Bombed By Fortresses   YANKEES TOSS NAZIS BACK 6 TO 9 MILES IN TUNISIA   Reds’ Advance Now Only 62 Miles From Rostov

Senators Approve Inclusion of Labor in Parity  Measure Is Expected  To Be Vetoed as Ceanea nk Wiak Prico

FARM PRICE BILL WOVES FORWARD   Senate Committee Approves Measure to Include Labor Costs in Parity; Expect  8 Vote Friday

FARM PARITY BILL IS SENT TO SENATE   Passage of Measure to In: clude Labor Costs Is Predicted

HIGHER PARITY PLAN APPROVED   Senate Committee Favors Including Labor Costs In Farm Prices

Senate Body Favors Farm Parity Change  Approves Inclusion Fon A ER, SOTTO co Seer sie

INDUSTRIALIST'S PLANE MISSING      Hunt Lost Aircraft in Huntington, Cincinnati Areas

Nuremburg {s Heavily Bombed During Night   Large Industrial City In Bavaria Target For R. A. F. Attacks   SERIES OF RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY

MIGHTY AIR RAID ON BULGAR CAPITAL STAGED BY ALLIES   WARNING TO HITLER SATELLITES TO GET OUT OF WAR DRIVEN HOME

SATELLITES OF HITLER FACING CRISIS OF WAR   Signs Mounting Bulgaria and Hungary Governments Might be Forced  Out by Own Masses

Air Blow at Sofia Warns Axis Helpers   Allied Planes Over the Bulgar Capital For Over an Hour

HIGH EXPLOSIVES RAINED ON SOFIA FOR 105 MINUTES   MIGHTY AERIAL BLOW WARNS BULGARIANS TO GET OUT OF WAR

MIGHTY ATTACK ON SOFIA WARNS BALKAN STATES   ditler’s Satellites Get Taste Of What's To Come Unless They Manage To Get Out Of The War.

vighty Air Blow On Capital Of Bulgaria Emphasizes Warning To Hitler’s Satellites To Get Out Of War _—Great Destruction And Many Deaths Reported— Tension Said To Be Mounting In Rumania As Russians Move Nearer Border

BALKAN GOV'TS TOLD 10 QUIT SIDE OF AXIS   Allied Bombing Of Sofia Emphasizes Warning; Crisis Looms

Raid Emphasizes Warning To Balkan Satellites of Axis to Get Out of War

BULGARIA IS FIRST BALKAN COUNTRY HIT   Sofia, Capital, Is Heavily Damaged By Bombers

Raid Seen as Effort To Warn Germany’s Vassals to Quit War   Sofia Admits Great Destruction, Many Killed in 10 5-Minute Attack Rak “and Troop Areas Dev: astated

British Bombers Blast Dortmund   American Planes Raid Antwerp In Daylight

NEW CORN CEILING   Nine Cent Boost Was Made to Stimulate Grain Flow to Markets

Cagliani Again Heavily Bombed   Capital City Of Sardinia Target Of Allied Bomb. ing Planes   ENEMY BARRACKS CENTER OF ATTACK

FATHERS’ DRAFT DELAY FAVORED   Senators Ask Showdown On Requirements Of Armed Forces

Reich Plans Agony for Allies   Will Unleash Secret Weapon in November

There’s That Thing Again!   German ‘Secret Weapon Just ‘Waits Orders’

Well, Guess War’s Over--Berlin Trots Out Dreaded ‘Secret Weapon’ to End It

AXIS READY T0 LAUNCH SECRET WEAPON ATTAGK   Details Secret But Date Set In November

Goebbels Says Germans Have Secret Weapon That Will End War In Month

Goebbels Gorges, Then Dreams Of Super Duper Weapon To Annihilate

Germany’s Newest ‘Secret Weapon’ Not a Bomb, Rocket Nor Gas But Will Completely Annihilate Enemy

f£ighth Army Has ‘Made Advance  Jn Drive On Rome   Fifth Army Patrols Test Nazis Mt. Massico “Line In Preporation For New Assault After Completing Successful Crossing Of Volturno

Capt. M. D. Mieras Sends Home Unique Souvenier Of Africa War   Piece Was M:ide By German Prisoners In Camp of His Command

Unique Gift Presented Capt. Mieras By German War Prisoners in Africa

NAZIS ABANDON RZHEV, KEY CITY OF NORTH FRONT   North African Air Force Makes Devastating Raid on Tunis

 Berlin Is Without Weter, Electricity   NAZI CAPITAL DIGGING OUT OF SMOLDERING RUINS FCLLOWING BITTER R. A. F. ATTACK   Western Germany Hit

YANKS HAMMER ENEMY CONVOY IN SOLOMONS      Fortresses Blast Tunis, And RAF Continues German Bombing   NAZIS EVACUATE RZHEV   City Hitler Declared Worth Half Of Berlin Falls To Advancing Reds

RAF Hits Reich  Once More Wille  Berlin Smoulers Germany Reported Trying-To Get Pope To Stop Assaults

RAF Bombers  Rip Western > Industry Area   Stockholm Reports Flames Still Lick Ruins of Berlin Government Office ~ And Apartment Sectors, Many Residents Left Homeless.

FR. TO GIVE FIRST-HAND REPORT ON WAR PARLEYS TO CONGRESS IF ASKED

PRESIDENT MAY REPORT   Stephen -Early Suggests Roosevelt Would Speak to Congress

Devens Takes Half Million N. E. Soldiers   First Draftees Three Years Ago

REGISTRATION OF AUTOS SHOWS SHARE DECLINE THIS YEAR   . Receipts In In Gasoline Taxes Also Shows.a Big Decrease

‘Staggering Job Ahead of Nation,  Nelson Warns  Cites Half-Billion Dollar Lag in June War Production  OPEN NEW DRIVE  War Agency Leaders Seek Business Aid On ‘Home Front’

Nelson Declares Production Rate Must Be Speeded   Drive for War Message Advertising Launched by Broadcast

Production Lags Nelson Blames Complacency   WPB Chieftain Warns Of Staggering Job Ahead If Deficit Is To Be Licked

Business Called Upon To Keep Home Front Abreast Of War Offensives

FOLKS AT HOME CET WAR FACTS   Advertising Planned To Keep Public Posted On Job Ahead

OUTPUT DROPS DURING JUNE   Officials Call For Full Mobilization Of Home  Front Resources

Drive On Home Front Is Urged:   Business Asked To  dé6in tn Camnnian

NELSON ASKS FOR SPEED IN PRODUCTION   WPB Chief Charges Lag in Part to Public Com. placency

Federal Officials Join — In Appeal to Business on Behalf of Front at Home

DVERTIOING DRIVE 19 PLANNED   Calls for Full Mobilization of American Business Behind Campaign to Keep Home  — Front Abreast of Offensive

ltaly Agreed to Its Sur-)  render Under Armistice   Aecepted From i Allies  EISENHOWER MAKES  ALL TERMS PUBLIC  Italy Agreed To To Transfer  Naval and Air Units to   Allies, and To Protect   Military Resources

Agrees To Allow Use Of All Ships  Against Germans   Will Transfer Naval And Air Units To Allied Forces; Terms Of Armistice Announced

Armistice Terms To Italy Bared:  Full Surrender   Corsica, Prisoners Go  To Allies

Naval - Air Units Are Transferred; Prisoners Freed   Marshal Badoglio, King Emanuele Urge Italians To Abide By Armistice And Defenc Nation Against Attacks By German Forces

Armistice Terms Provide Transfer Of Navy Air Units   Allied Prisoners to Be Handed Over in Surrender Pact

Italy Gives Up Corsica, Cargo Ships To Allies   Armistice Terms Also Surrender Sea, Air Units

Terms Of Armistice   Surrender of French Corsica, Transfer Its Naval and Air Units Among Some of The Conditions Agreed To By Marshal Badoglio

FRENCH CORSICA TOBE GIVEN UP   Armistice Terms With Victorious Allies Announced

REVEAL TERMS OF ARMISTICE   Italy To Surrender French Corsica. Free Alt War Prisoners

italian Armistice Agreements Announced Allies To Get French Corsica, Naval Units

Pact Allows Use of All  Peninsula   Air Units, Naval and Merchant Fleets Are Included in Cession; Prisoners Will Be Freed: Franch Corsica Ils Given

Italians Come Across   We Get Corsica, Naval And Air Units, Prisoners, Merchant Ships

United Nations Given Control Of Defeated Foe’s Fleet, Planes, Merchant Shins. Bases

Corp. Walter C. Abele, Sandusky, Member Of “‘Pawlak’s Raiders” That Attacked And Beat Superior Jap Force

BRITISH ATTACK TARGETS IN RU   U. S. Bombers Smash At St Nazaire Sub Base

U, 5. BOMBERS RAID SUB BASE   Attack St. Nazaire Port, Eng lish Planes Hit Western Europe   First ‘43 Raid

British Bombers Top Day-Long Assault On Nazi Strongholds With Sunday Night Raid In Ruhr

St. Nazaire Sub Base Raided By U.S. Airmen   Smashing Daylight Raid Is Staged By American Bombers; British Follow Up With Night Attack On German Stronvholds In Ruhr

U. S. BOMBERS SET FIRES AT ST. NAZAIRI   Seven Lost in Heavy Fighting  Over Nazi Submarine Base —  RAF Raids Rubr Targets

Americans Hit At St. Nazaire   U. S. Air Force Loses Seven Bombers in Raid on Nazi Base

BRITISH ATTACK TARGETS IN RUHR   SEVEN U, S, BOMBERS MISSING FROM RAID ON ST, NAZAIRE

n U. S. Bombers Lost In Rai  British Planes Attack Targets In The Ruhr

Nazi Targets in Ruhr Attacked   U. S. Bombers Make Smashing Raid on St. Nazaire Base

BRITISH PLANES ~ ATTACKED TARGETS INTHE RUHR AREA   Raid Made Last Night to Top Off a Day Long Sunday Assault.   ON NAZI STRONGHOLDS   Three of the RAF Craft Re. ported Missing From Assault.

RAF, ATTACKS RUHR TARGETS   St. Nazaire Sub Base Hit By British; Mines Are Laid

British Bombers Raid Ruhr, Yanks Hit St. Nazaire   U. S. Air Forces Lose 7 Big Bombers In Heavy Assault On U Boat Base

CERTAIN FATHERS TO BE DEFERRED ‘UNDER NEW ORDER    Selective Service Bureau ssues Orders To State Offices to Readjust Induction fralle ¢   APPLIES TO CHILDREN BEFORE SEPT. -15, 1942   Wheeler Seems Satisfied By — Plan But Suggests Con/ gress Be Called to Act on   Legislation.

FATHERS DRAFT 7 AFTER. ALL. “OTHERS « BRAVE BEEN CALLED   :: Result Some States Will Hav ‘To Furnish More For The  oo eryiee

Argentina Watched   Cautions Optimism In Relations With Axis Shows in Washington

CAPITAL EYES REVOLT RESULT IN ARGENTINA      Official Washington Exhibits Cautious Optimism On Overthrow Of  Castillo Government   AXIS BREAK SEEN   Chances That Buenos Aires Will Severe Ties With  Hitler’s Gang “Looks   Pretty Good”

British Leaders Warns Italy “Will Be Seared . . From End To End”

TRAINING PLANE LOST OVER LAKE   Pilot Is ‘Killed in Training Hop to IU. S. S. Wolverine, Lake Plane Carrier

JOB PICTURE * ~—. NOT BRIGHT   ESTIMATE TWELVE MILLION WILL BE UNEMPLOYED SIX MONTHS AFTER WAR ~ “ENDS

Airdrome At Buin Attacked By Catalina:   Fuel Dumps Are Blasted By Allied Planes In Raid On Targets On Bougainville Island

500-Pound Bombs Hit Jap Airport   Allied Planes Start Fires on Kahili Airdrome

Catalinas Rake Kahili Airdrome   Lt. Gen. Krueger  In Command of 24h FY @ Awsee

House Begins Work On Income Tax Bill   GOP Solons Meet To Draft Report Opposing Plan Of Senate; FDR’s Opposition Is Scored

G.0.P. Congressmen Hold Parley to Prepare for Battle Over Ruml Plan

FOUNDER OF IRETON LIBRARY 1S BURIED   LeMars Residents Attend Funeral Services of Mrs, Donald . G. Johnson

FOUNDER OF IRETON LIBRARY IS BURIED   LeMars Residents Attend Funeral  Services of Mrs. Donald fi JTahnean

NEGOTIATIONS AT STANDSTILL   UMW-Operator Meeting: Postponed With Steelman Away

Troop Replacements, Foreign Air Bases, Washington Topics   Senate to Receive Confidential Report from Touring Committee

SENATE WILL RECEIVE WAR TONE REPORT   _ May Have Direct Bearing On New Post-War Plan

SENATE TO HEAR  FROM FOUR JUST BACK FROM TOUR   Quartet of Senators to Make Confidential Report Wednesday On Trip To All Fighting Zones Except Russia; May Have Important Bearing On Post War Policy.

SECRET SESSION TO HEAR REPORT FOUR SENATORS   Disclosures of Group Touring World Front Will, Be Highly Confidential

Senate Will  - Close Doors   At War Talk   Members Back From Tour _ Of Battléfronts Will Re port Wednesday

DISCLOSURES MAY DETERMINE U. S. POSTWAR POLICY   SENATE TO RECEIVE CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON WAR OVERSEAS

OPA MAINTAINS RATION OVERLAP   Stamps N, P and Q Become Valid First of July

Anaconda is fined $10,000  for war fraud   Two officials get prison sentences

BALKANS PRESENT PROBLEM 10 BOTH ~AXIS-AND ALLIES   Nazis’ Job Is to Hold Them Allies’ How to - Handld Them If Thev Fall.

Swift Events Cast Balkan Shadows   Crises Are Possible Among Satellites

UNION TRUCE SETS JUNE 20 AS DEADLINE   540,000 Miners Expected To Return To Pits On Monday   PARLEYS HALTED   B PRN PaO A AR A  WLB Orders Negotiations Delayed Until Work Is Resumed

With Qur — : Soldiers and . Sailors @ @°      Schleisman to Second Chicago Training School

AKYAB BRITISH MENACED BY JAP ATTACK   Offensive Advantage Lies With Japanese But Wavell Is In Position To Attack In Burma.   British Gain Objective

lor ‘ ; we  Wavell in Position for Attack  ‘Jap Attack on Arakan Front Creates Situation for British

British In Serious Situation. ]On Arakan Front, With Japs \Having Offensive “Advantade

Krefield, German  Production Center,  ' Blasted by Allies   Heavy Bombers in Strong Force Raid Targets in the Ruhr and Belgium; Naples Suffers Heavy Attack

Allied Bombers Strike at Axis From Three Sides   RAF Raids Krefeld: Naples Kept Under Constant Attack

TWIN RAIDS FOLLOW ATTACK ON KREFELD   RAF Drops 2,000 Tons Of Bombs On German Arms Center; Naples Gets New Aerial Pasting

Judge Rodman Excuses Jury For The Term  Case Where Panel Was Secured Is

Judge Rodman Excuses Jury For The Term  Case Where Panel Was Secured Is Transferred By Court

NAZI BOMB TURNS GAY DANCE PARTY INTO DISASTER   [Death Toil In London May Be Largest of Any Singie - War Incident,

NAZI BOMB HITS LONDON DANCE CLUB   Many Killed, Including Some - Yank Soldiers

GERMAN BOMB HITS DANCE HALL; TOLL OF DEAD WITHHELD      Rescue Squads Still Search Ruins Of Structure In London For Victims Of Tragedy

Applications Not Accepted Before Oct.    Fees for Antlerless Deer Permits Being Returned to Senders

Cambridge City Council Seeks Bronze Statues But They Aren’t Bronze

Congressmen Say Food Conference Is ‘Political Circus   Barred, They'll Ask Congress To Investigate

Food Parley Faced With: Probe Threat   2 Congressmen indignant After Being Kept Out

FORD STRIKE ENDS; CHRYSLER TES DISPUTE CONTINUES   Ford) Charges’ Tieup Was Linked: With ClO: Attempt - to Take Over Willow Run   ‘MANAGEMENT  CENSURED

CONGRESS PROBES MANPOWER NEEDS OF ARMY AND NAVY   Must Decide if Big Force : Consistent With Role As Arsenal. —

House Retects Ruml Plan   Refuses To Accept SenateApproved Measure

Big Surplus Of Hogs Again   43900 Jam Chicago Yards As Market Opens

Hogs Situation Serious Ir Chicago No Sale For 200 To 300 Pounders

Errol Flynn Flatly Denies Charges Against Him As He Appears On Witness Stand

Girls’ Stories Declared Lies By Errol Flynr   Actor Denies Having Relations With His Accusers

Flynn Gives His Side Of Story  Denies He Violated Either Girl In Case; “Talle OF Yacht Party

Sponsor of Legislation Is Rep. Ed Tonissen of Mecklenburg Who Believes This Is Proper Time To Eliminate State Income Tax.

AUDITOR BILL ENACTED BY UTAH SENATE   Bill Proposes to. Put Auditor in Charge Of Finances

UTAH SOLONS GIVE OKEH ON AUDITOR'S BIL!   Lawmakers Refuse to Act On Tax Proposals, Reporter Says

Little Hope To Raise Tax Bill   Senate Group Believes 2 Billion Dollars All Will Be Able To Raise.

Limit Is Seen. On New Levies   7 Senate. Finance. ‘Group's : “M embers. Abandon All ' ~-Hope Of Boosts ©: :

ABANDON HOPE FOR MORE THAN TWO BILLION   Senators of Major Parties See Little Chance for Bigger Tax Bill

LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR RAISING OVER TWO BILLION TAXES   Leaders of Senate Finance Committee Doubt If the Revenue Measure Can Be Enacted Refora Holidays

P-T. A. To Held First Meeting of Year October 14   Mrs. Frank Taylor To Be Principal Speaker at Meet.

P.-T. A. Holds Firs! Meeting of Year Last Thursday   Reports on Membership Drive to Be Given October 25,

SOLDIERS CAN GET TONY FURLOUCHS   Request by Men Inducted at Detroit Will Bring Extended Leave

Office Of Foreign Relief And Rehabilitation Faces Problem In Getting Italy Back On Her Feet

Only Italians Left To Slow Allied Drive   Successful Evacuation Believed To Have Removed  (,ermans From Isle.   112 MILES FROM GOAL

Germans Pull Out, Leaving Italians Again   Allied Big Guns Now in Range of Italy; Many Prisoners, Guns and Tanks Taken As Evacuation Bein* Completed

Uo, DRUTTOH TAOOPS CLOSE IN ON MESSINA   Americans Only Dozen Miles From Final Objective Of Tough Campaign

Finish of FiveWeek Campaign 1s Now ‘af Hand’   Nazi Artillery on Italian Mainland Slows British Gains

GERMAN EVACUATION OF SICILY BELIEVED VIRTUALLY COMPLETE   FIVE-WEEKS’ CAMPAIGN ALLIES FOR ITALIAN STRONGHOLD NEAR END

PATTON'S TROOPS PASS MILAZZO IN SWIFT ADVANGE   British Rush Up Eastern Coast Toward Straits; Believe Bulk of Germans FPled Island

Americans Bowl Over Light Rearguard; Germans Pull Out Leaving Italians to Do Fighting—Russians Take Karachev, Threaten Bryansk

End of Sicilian Campaign ls Now at Hand   US Troops Are Sprinting Last Miles  - Toward Messina; Red Armies 19 Miles from Bryansk; RAF Bombs Milan and Central Italy

Little Opposition Met In Push On Mes- — j  sina  RACING FORWARD  British Eighth ‘Army  Pushes Up Eastern’. Coast

GERMANS PULL OUT EVEN THEIR REAR-GUARD AND LEAVE ITALIANS TO FIGHT   Prisoners Being Captured Too Fast To Count Them. 293 75-Milimeter Guns and 188 Tanks Amongst Booty Captured

Escape Port in Range of Big U. S. Gunz   But British Come Under the Range of Enemy Guns on Mainland   MANY GERMANS HAVE FLED SICILY   But Prisoners Now Exceed 130,000; Many Guns and  Tanks Captured

AXIS DEFENSES COLLAPSE UNDER YANK ASSAULT   Allied Forces Now Close Enough To Messina To Turn On Artillery   EVACUATION TOLL HEAVY   Russian Offensive Continues To Roll Ruthlessly On Over German Horde

Indications Evacuation ls Complete   Last Axis Escape Port Within Range Of Guns

Only Sacrifice Units  Of Italians Remain To Defend Island   American 7th. Army Now Within 14 Miles Of Main Escape Hatch; British Rush Through Taormina:

Smuts Predicts American Troops Will Piay Leading, Decisive Role   Says Allies Will Make All Out Assault on Continental Europe Next Year

NEW INVASION SEEN NEXT YEAR   Marshal Smuts Believes Americans Will Play Leading Part

DAVIES SUGGESTS OUD STALINGRAD BE LEFT AS MEMORIAL  PERSONAL ENVOY OF PRESIDENT WOULD BUILD  NEW CITY NEARBY

Would Leave Stalingrad Ruins Stand   Davies’ Proposal Made At Banquet Given By Stalin

STALIN GIVES DAVIES DINNER   Roosevelt’s Personal Postman Suggests That New Stalingrad Be Built, Leaving Ruins Of Old As Mon ument.

Davies Wouldn't Rebuild Stalingrad   U. S. Envoy Suggests Leaving Volga City As Memorial. Lesson

DAVIES SUGGESTS OLD STALINGRAD BE LEFT AS MEMORIAL  PERSONAL ENVOY OF

State Dinner For Davies In The Kremlin   President's Envoy Suggests Not Rebuilding Stalingrad on Present Site   FILM S WITNESSED

Davies Honored By Premier Stalin  Unusual Reception Given U. $. Envoy.

Lone Bill Is Introduced In General Assembly As Legislators Adjourn After Four Minutes

ASSEMBLY HOLDS BRIEF SESSIONS   Four Minute Meetings Held This Morning By Both House and Senate With Only About 20 Assembly: men Present.

FSTABLIGH UNIFGRN CEILINGS FOR PORK   New Edict Strikes Blow at Black Markets; Ceilings to Cut Meat Costs

UNIFORM PRICE CEILINGS SET FOR PORK IN ‘MOVE AGAINST BLACK MARKETS

All Retail Sales of Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton Will Be Affected and Eventually To Hundreds of Other Common Food  Items.

PROPOSE RETAIL PRICE CEILINGS ON MEATS SOON   PRICE ADMINISTRATOR LISTS BEEF, VEAL, LAMB AND MUTTON

OPA Acting To Eliminate Black Markets In Meat Quickly As Possible

UNIFORM PRICE CEILING ON ALL MEATS PLANNED   Specific Ceilings on Pork Announced By Administrator

Price Ceilings To Be Set For All Meats Soon   Retail Lid On Pork Al. ready Fixed; Others Ir  Time For Rationing.

TO.SET PRICE LIMITS.. ON MEATS IN FUTURE   Will Add Other Items to Food Rationing

UNIFORM CEILINGS “ON MEAT WILL BE ~ APPLIED SHORTL’   Hundreds of Other Food Articles Will Eventually Be Included to Prevent increased Costs.   PORK iS FIRST UN- DER LATEST ORDERS   Others Are Anticipated Fa Meat Rationing Now Ex pected to Be Ordered Bi About April 1.

Ceilings On Meat Prices   OPA Believes They Will Reduce Price Of Hogs On Hoof

PRICE CEILING WILL BE PLAGED ON ALL MEATS   Will Apply to Retail Sales Of Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton, OPA Ad Torey ew hare:   CEILING FOR PORK   Described As “Heavy Blow At. Black Marketing:” “Ceiling On Other Foods Forthcoming

Uniform Ceilings  On Retail Meat:   “ent-Per-Pound Maximums Will Be Issued About First of April.

Uniform Price Ceiling to be Placed on Meats  Price Administrator Brown Gives Specific

PAIGE FIXING DUE FOR ALL MEATS SOON   O.P.A. Puts Ceiling on Pork at Retail, Others To Follow.   ‘PLAN LICENSES FOR SLAUGHTERERS   Wickard to Announce Tonight Scheme to Control Livestock.

Meat Ceilings To Be Imposed  Hundreds of Other Common Foods to Be

PRICE TOP. ON FOODS. TS PLANNED   Specific Ceilings on Pork te Come First.and: Others : May. Follow:   MAY FORCE LOWER. PRICE ON HOGS   Black. Market. Regarded as One Reason for the Re) cent Advances

PRICES ON PORK ARE ESTABLISHE   Hundreds Of Other Common Food Items To Be Affected Eventually   ZONES OUTLINED   Brown Believes Step Will Aid In Elimination Of Black Markets

Naples Bitterly   Germans Driven Back From Corsica; Sardinia In Complete Control.”

VILLAGE OF EBOLI CAPTURED BY FAST _ MOVING 5th ARMY   Ajaccio, Capital Of Corsica, In Hands Allies—British Eighth Still ~ Advancing In Face Of   -_ Light Resistance.

Germans Are Driven Back In Corsica   Americans Are Battling Toward Plains of Negles

Allied Gains in Mediterranean Are Revealed   Three Strategic Dodecanese Isles Are Seized

Several More Towns Seized, Dispatch Says   Corsica, Sardinia Almost Completely -Subjugated Now

ALLIES MOVE ON TOWARD NAPLES   Sardinia Seized; Gains Made On Corsica

Foothold Is Gained  On Corsica   Dodecanese Islands Are Taken By British To Provide Bases Which Outflank Crete

3 ITALIAN ISLANDS NEAR TURKEY TAKEN   Reds Continue To Occupy ore Towns

Drought Loss In Southwest 879,000 Bales Of Cofion   Crop May Turn Out Even Smaller Than New Estimate

French Row Flares Anew   Fusion of De Gaulle And Giraud Armed ' Forces Basis of Dispute

GIRAUD-DE GAULLE ROW FLARES ANEW   Dispute Between Pair Breaks Out More Violently Than Ever Before.

RAILWAY PROBERS   3 Federal Court Jurists te Study Pacific Coast Demands--

Lewis Out To Overcome Southern Coal Operator Opposition To Contract

LEWIS TO SEEK MINE CONTRACTS   Meets with Southern Operators in Attempt to Get Portal-to-Portal Plan Set

Grew Contends. China’s Resistance Slowed Japanese Attack on U. S.

Grew Says Japs Attacked U. S. And Britain Too Late Die Ta tlnexvnectedhy Stiff Resistance Met In Ching

Japan Attacked Too Late, Grew Says in Speech   Former Ambassador Also Credits China with Delaying Assault

GREW SEES ERROR IN JAP TIMING   SAYS CHINA’S RESISTANCE CAUSED ATTACK ON JU. 8. TO COME TOO LATE.

RAF Loses Only 26 Of 1,000 Planes As Smoke Hampers Nazi Fighters

Big 3’s Decisions: Still to Be Told, Smats Discloses   Vital News Kept Secret Says South Africa Union's Premier

Smuts Says World Still in Dark on Important Results   HOPES FOR VICTORY BY NEXT CHRISTMAS   Hard Fighting Yet Ahead, Field Marshal Tells Writers

Smuts Says Big News to Come   Conferences Most Significant in Century

BIGGEST NEWS NOT YET TOLD ON WAR AIMS   VICTORY BY NEXT CHRISTMAS SEEN BY GEN, SMUTS

SMUTS EXPECTS GREAT EVENTS   Savs Greatest Results Of Conference Can't Be Revealed Yet

Smuts Says Wortd Still in . Dark on Important Results  HOPES FOR VICTORY BY NEXT CHRISTMAS  Hard Fighting Yet Ahead,   Hard Fighting Yet Ahead, _ Field Marshal: Tells Writers .

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U.S. OFFICIALS TOUR SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   Patterson, Knudsen Head List on Inspection Trip

Dodge U-Boat Pack in Crossing Ocean  From Dakar, Africa   Crippled Richelieu To Be Placed in Shape for Combat Duty

GREAT BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU ARRIVED NEW YORK HARROR   CRIPPLED FRENCH WARSHIP DODGES SUBMARINE PACK IN ATLANTIC

French Battleship Richelieu Reaches New York Harbor; Montcalm At Philadelphia   Ry JOSEPH “tor TON

YANKEE SUBS SEND 12 JAP VESSELS DOWN   One Destroyer Included In List Of Ships

Bloodless Coup By Colonial Army Officers Brings Big French Possession To Allies

French Guiana Won by Coup  Anti-Axis Officers Of Colony Compelied -  —. yy wm. Fe

FRENCH GUIANA DISCARDS VICHY   Bloodless Coup Places Colonial Possession On Allied Side

Bloodless Coup Captures Colony   French Guiana Falls To The Allies

Anti-Axis Wins French Guiana   High Colonial Army Officers Take Colony Into Allied Side

Intern al Revolt Brings  French Colony to Allie:   Bloodless Coup March 16 Rallies French Guiana to Standard of DeGaulle and Giraud in Vichy Break

Bloodless Coup In French Guiana  President Flees When Country Joins Allies

GUIANA JOINS ALLIED POWERS   Bloodless Coup Carried Out On March 16

lowa State Bookkeeping  Is Adequate   Public Finance Expert Makes Report § Afte Detailed Study

New Report Places British Near  Vital Airdromes  Army Is Advancing To Point Only 30 Miles From Foggia

CLARK CAPTURES HILL POSITIONS IN NAPLES DRIVE   Fifth Army Reaches Mountain Tops Overlooking Plain Before Wrecked Port City.   ADVANCE IS SLOW; MULES CARRY GUNS   Toll of Nazi Prisoners Grows —19 Transports Taking Germans to Italy Shot Down.

ITALY AWAITS INVASION OF HER ISLANDS   Sicily’s honsb>-ecasved ports and industrial centers hit again

TIRE SHORTAGE TO CONTINUE FOR FROM SIX TO NINE MONTHS   SUPPLIES OF EYNTHETIC RUBBER FOR MOTORISTS NOT TO RELIEVE SITUATION FOR SEVERAL MONTHS

HIGH OCTANE GAS PROCRESS IS MADE   Two War-Time Developments Announced Yesterdav in East Area

ENEMY CONVOY VESSELS SUNK   MacArthur's Planes Bag 3 Transports, Set Destroyer Afire

THREE FREIGHT TRANSPORTS ARE SUNK AT WEWAK   Two Other Vessels In Jap Convoy Set Ablaze By Allied Raiders   ENEMY UNABLE TO FRUSTRATE ATTACK

Allied Fliers Send Trio of Jap Transports Down  Enemy Loses 12 Zeros In Attempt to Halt Blow in Pacific

Jap Destroyer, Ath Transport Left Ablaze   Enemy Bal?” Barrage Fails to. . Halt Convoy Attack

Destroyer and Transport  Are Set Afire   Twelve Intercepting Zeros Downed by Allied Planes

4th. Transport; Destroyer Set Ablaze in Attack And Many Zeros Downed

Bombers Sink 3 Jap Shins.   Two Others Fired At Wewak And 12 Fighters Shot Down

3 TRANSPORTS SUNK NEARBY NEW GUINEA   Also Jap Destroyer And Fourth Transport Set Afire; 12 Zeros Shot Down Balloon Rarrage   Four Planes Lost

3 JAP VESSELS SUNK BY ALLIES AT NEW GUINEA   Destroyer and Transport Set Ablaze In Raid On Convoy Off .Wewak Base   12 Planes Downed

Allies Destroy Three Ships In Jap Convoy   Two Others Set Afire in Raid On Wewak Harbor

THREE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY BOMBERS   Destroyer and Fourth Transport Set Ablaze by Planes”

Japanese Lose 29 Planes Trying To Guard Ships   Three Transports Sunk, Another and Destroyer Set Afire

Three Japanese Transports Sunk By Allied Planes   Destroyer Damaged In Wewak Harbor

AIMS AT COMFORT      Governor Schoeppel Plans to Work  in His Shirt Sleeves

Stalin to FDRThanks for Faith   Soviet Leader Sees Final Defeat of Common Enemy Soon

Axis Doom Mapped in Quebec Talks   Genter in Quebec on impending War Moves

sritish Head, FDR Map Out New War Plar      President Arrives Last Night At Chateau Frontenac In Canada.   WORK THROUGH NIGHT

Allied Leaders To Act Promptly At Quebec  FDR And Churchill Expected To Approve Speeded-Up Plans

Allied Chiefs Map Strategy Of Days Ahead   Roosevelt Arrives From Washington Tuesday  Evening

STAFF C MAPPING NEW WAR PATTERN   President Roosevelt Given Rousing Welcome By  Cheering Thousands on _  Arrivai in Quebec   MAY REQUIRE A WEEK

F.R. Arrives In Quebec for  Conference   President and Churchill With Military Leaders Study Strategical Moves

Historic Conference Is Underway   Next Strategical Moves to Compel Unconditional Surrender of Axis Powers Being Planned in Quebec

EDEN IS DUE TO ARRIVE AT QUEBEC TODAY   Will Attend Allied Parley, Which, It Is Intimated, Will Take No Longer Than the End of This Week.

FDR Joins War Parley In Quebec —   Decision on Prime — Military Projects _.* May Be Reached By ;*; The End of the: Week

HOLDING THEIR 6TH WAR CONFERENCE   President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Met Today.

Map Strategical Moves For Allies   Roosevelt Arrives at Quebec, Canada, to Conference With British.

AMERICAN, BRITISH  LEADERS CONFERRED  ON WAR STRATEGY MEMBERS OF ALLIED HIG!  COMMAND AND WAR PT_ANS STALE PRESENT

NAZIS IN ORTONA FIGHT TO DEATE   Hurl Huge Tank Forces Into Battle to Keep Key Village

EIGHTH TAKES VILLAGE OF VEZZANI   Heavy Fightirg Still in Progress in and Around Ortona

Verzani Falls To Eighth Army In Hard Battle   Nazi Forces Still Seeking To Hold Adriatic Port Of Ortona   FIFTH ARMY HAS PATROL ACTIVITY

Announces State Farm Labor Plan   Johnson Is Appointed Supervisor of Program

MAY INCREASE FORCE AT ORDNANCE PLANT   Scioto Storage Depot Plated on ‘Stand By’ Basis

CHANGING OVER   Scioto Ordnance Plant to Keep Up Operating Schedule.

DEWEY CONFERS WITH AL SMITH   HOUR’S TALK AT ALBANY DESCRIBED BY BOTH AS “SOCIAL VISIT.”

——— fara Sia er es acta 2  SENATE. COMMITTEE TO ACT THIS FALL POST WAR POLICY  EXPECT TO HAVE RESOL  FRET em RT RAr eS   EXPECT TO HAVE RESOLU , TION TO REPORT, SAYS SEN. CONNALLY

TODAY'S WAR MOVES ———____________.____ MacArthur Gains Control of Air: ——- ~~ By LOUIS F: REEMLE

U.S. Fliers Who Went On Berlin Raid Not Fooled By Dummy Fires And False Buildings; Called Aid

Allies Win Mighty Air Fought Victory   Enemy Loss Reported Serious by MacArthur; Transports Attacked

Americans Braved-. 6 Warships’ Fire   Gen. M’Arthar . ‘Reports \ Enemy’ 's Air Loss As ‘Serious’.   Glare of: New Guinea Port Seen..50 Miles   Horde of Zeros ‘Knocked. Out Like Clay. Pigeons, In Battle Fury -

77 Jap Planes Downed by Yanks   Nip Convoy Attacked Off New Guinea

Yanks Shoot Down 77 Jap Airplanes  MacArthur's Men Keep Up Pounding

85 JAPANESE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Nipponese Attempt to Land ' Reinforcements on North Coast of New Guinea Proves Costly.   CRAFT DESTROYED IN THREE-DAY BATTLE   Three Transports Sunk and Three Others Badly Damaged—Other Vessels Steam Away.

Jap Convoy Is Put To Flight   Great Air Victory Won By U.S. In Three-Day Attack

Enemy Convoy Smashed Off New Guinea In All-Day assault After Landing A Few Troops; Loe Airfield Blasted

SOCIETY FOLK LOSE RATIONS   OPA Cracks Down On Nine Alleged Violators In Detroit

BIRTH INCREASE IN MONTH REPORTED   First Child of New Year Born at at Hospital

BIRTH INCREASE IN MONTH REPORTED   First Child of New Year Born at Hospital ao Bov

WAIT REPORT ON “MARION BLAST   Authorities Study Case of Strange Home Explosion. we

Prince Umberto, Marsha Badoglio Seeking Tc Take Italy Out Of War Algiers Report

Rumor Italian Peace Envoys Visit Algiers   Large Invasion Barges, 18Ship Convoy Pass Through Gibraltar.   REDS ATTACK AIRBASE

Pit ~ INVASION AOOAULT HOARG STEADILY ON   Two ltalian Peace Envoys Are Rumored In Algiers But Report Doubted

ENVOYS ARE REPORTED IN NORTH AFRICA   Crown Prince Said to Be in Group, but London Unable to Verify Story Current in French Af riean Canital.

Crown’ Prince Said In Camp of Allies   Bombers Drop Leaflets Inviting Italians To Collaborate; Benito Calls Meeting

ITALIAN PEACE  FEELER BENIED   'Rome Flays Report Prince Makes Trip To Africa

mors of Rome sace Talk Heard  ‘om Algiers   ardinia, Sicily Aerial Raids Reach Tempo  Used on Pantelleria 'T 39 AXIS PLANES  German Raiders Strike at London Early Sunday

Badoglo, Prince Umberto Believer In French Africa   Rumor Of Algiers Missior Is Unconfirmed By Offi cial Allied Sources

Report Rome Peace Envoys In Algeria   Nazis Deny Rumors as Absurd; Britain Has  No Confirmation

Allies Intensifying Air Blows Against Sicily and Sardinia   Two Islands Kept Under Constant Rain of Bombs All Day Friday; 39 Enemy Ficshters Shot Down

PEACE TALK RUMOR   Unverified Report of Ital ian Envoys Sent to : Algiers

‘Crown Prince And Badoglio Head Group   London Hears Unconfirme Report and Mussolini Issued New Decrees

Civilian Life In Italy Tightened  Peace Rumors Denied; Nation Jittery

Names of King’s Son, Badoglio, Are Mentioned As Negotiators   Mussolini Imposes Martial Law on Southern Italw

TWO SAID TO HAVE GONE TO ALGIERS; AXIS DENIES STORY   Il Duce Meets With Cabinet as. Toe and Heel of. Italian Boot Are Put Under  Martial Law, spo   DOMESTIC ISSUES 7 REPORTED DISCUSSED   Morocco Radio Says Fascist Party Directorate Seeks Ful, Power to Con-  duct War.

Prince Umberto Is  Reported In Africa   Both Italy And Germany Deny Reports That Prince ls On Mission To Seek Peace Terme

Reuters Report Not Confirmed   Crown Prince And  Badoglio Involved By JAMES M. LONG

ltalianPeace Moves.  Denied   Allied Centers Fail To Confirm Algiers Reports

Rumors Of Peace Bid ~ By Halians   [Both Prince. Umberto, and  Marshal Badoglio Report ed in Aigiers   LONDON UNABLE TO VERIFY REPORTS      Mussolini Faves Rising Bit.  terness, More Areas Go Under Martial Law

HEAR ITALIAN PEACE ENVOYS ARE IN ALGIERS   REPORTS TELL OF RISING BITTERNESS TOWARD MUSSOLINI

Italian Peace Envoys Are Reported To Be In Alsviers   Reuters Hears Prince Umberto And Marshal Badoglio Are Emissaries: Doubted In London

Envoys Rumored le Mussolini Calls Cabinet   But No Confirmation: Full Surrender Is Only Acceptable  Peace

Reuters Report Not Confirmed   Crown Prince And Radonlio Inyualve-

PEACE RUMOR ABOUT ITALY HEARD AGAIN   AXIS DENIES HER ENVOYS ARE IN ALGIERS

FASCISTS DENY ITALY PUT OUT PEACE FEELERS   British News Agency Says  High. Officiais Are In  ‘Algiers Seeking To Get eo Our OF War   REVOLT FORECAST   Rome Radio Reports U.S And British Airmen: Drop Leaflets For Italian  Citizens °

NAZIS PREPARE TO HALT ALLIED NORTHERN PUSH   Believe British, Yanks To Strike  From Denmark

RUMOR COMES AS MUSSOLINI CALLS CABINET   Crown Prince Umberto and Badoglio Reported on Secret Mission.   ALLIED PLANES GET 39 KILLS IN LATEST BLAST

Martial law on most of ‘boot   Sicily and Sardinia reel under fiery bomb torrent

Mussolini Summons Henchmen While Mighty Blows Fall On Invasion Road to Italy

Allied Air Fleets Strike Heavy Blows  Italy Is Expecting Invasion At Any

Axis Denies Rumors Italy Seeks Peace   Premier Mussolini Calls His Cabinet Into New Conference On Defense Plans

Mussolini Calls Italian Cabinet Info: Conference   Axis Denies Report Peace Ambassadors Are in Algiers

Mission of 2 Reported to Be in Algiers   Prince Umberto and Marshal Bedoglio Reported Emissaries

ITALY RUMORED SEEKING PEACE   Unconfirmed Report Says Crown Prince, Badoglio Are in Algiers.   ITALIANS ARE BITTER

Bitterness Against ‘Mussolini Mounting   - ++ Tempo Of Mediterranean Assauit Increases

Italy Reported Asking for   j Peace As Mussolini's Aides   Gather for War Conference

BOG DOWN IN DEM. EFFORTS TO HALT F.D.R   Giving Up Attempts To Prevent Fourth ‘Term Nomination

HIMMLER GETS ADDED POWERS   Nazi Effort To Strengthen Home Front Indicated

HIMMLER GIVEN GREATER POWER   Move Seen Effort To Keer  Nazis In Complete Charge  Over Germany

Himmler to Rule Germany   Will Keep Nazis in Fight and Check  Home Front Weakness

- AY-Man Himmler Will Keen Germans Lovina The Nazis Or Eliminate The Unromantic By His Own Means

HIMMLER'S JOB 10 KEEP NAZIS ON TOP   Appointment Shows Check Toward Weakness on — Home Front.

HOUSE LEADER HITS “LITTLE STEEL” PLAN   Rep. Ramspeck Says It Has Proved “Inequitable”

SHORTAGE IS FOUND IN STATE TREASURY      Employe Responsible Has Been Fired, Ebright Says

FIND STATE TREASURY SHORT OVER $5,000   Besjamin Russell, Assistant Cashier, Found Responsible

COLD TO MODERATE   But Another Freeze Is Forecast for State Tonizht

‘FALL OUT WITH DE GAULLE   Communists Insist Upon Choosing Own Members for Committee

American Forces Consolidate New Arawe Positions   Japs Lose 14 Planes In New Britain Fight; Retreat in New Guinea

JAP AIRMEN STRIKE BACK ~14 DOWNED   U.S. Liberators Again Bomb Cape Gloucefter

South Anchor of Entire Nazi Defense Line Smashed When Russ Seize City of Taganrog

Smash Southern Anchor Of Nazis,  Encircle Enemy   Taganrog And 150 Other Towns Captured As Russians Break Through; Clean Out Rostov Are: And Threaten German Army In Donets Basin.

REPORT ON U. S. LOSSES   ‘American Casualties Are Less Than First Estimated

Casualties j in   Tialy Revised   New Total Issued by Secretary of War Stimson Is Lower Than Previous Estimate

Canned Goods Point Values To Be Reduced   Changes Due on Sunday; Fruit Juice Points Too High

BIGGEST CUT N FRUIT 10 SPUR BUYING   Meat Point Values to Re Announced on  Wednesday

OPA to Cut Point Values Next Month   Officials Pleased With Results of Rationing System

 MAAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAA Point Rationing  Successful; Values Will Be Reduced

System Is Seen asa Success   Works Out Better Thar Expected—Announce New Values Soon

REDUCTIONS SEEN IN POINT-VALUES   Biggest Cuts Are Anticipated In Canned Fruits and  Tuices

Father, Tot Victims Of  Home Fire   Blaze Razes Dwelling Sunday At Old Bethany, Near Scottdale

Backers Seek More Ruml Pian Support      Congressional Supporters Concede They Are on Defensive

Supporters Of Rumi Plan Seek Recruits   Looks Like First Installment Must Be Paid By March [5th   CHANGES ANTICIPATED

BACKERS 01 RUML PLAN ON DEFENSIVE   Seek. Reinforcements For Pay-As-You-Go Taxation

CANCELLATION OF PART OF ’42 TAX SEEMS CERTAIN  BACKERS OF RUML Di Aa Nal NECCCNCIVE.   BACKERS OF RUML PLAN ON DEFENSIVE; ACTION PRESSED

SKIP-YEAR TAX ON DEFENSIVE   Solons Concede Rumi Plar Losing Support

RUML TAK PROGRAM. PROPONENTS ADMIT THEY'RE ON DEFENSIVE   But Ways, Means Members Agree Some of Last Year's Taxes Will Be Forgiven   QUESTION. IS: HOW. MUCH?

TIME QUESTION IN OHIO MAY PROVIDE PROLONGED DEBATE   Donald Nelson or Repre.  sentative of War Pro duction Board May Be Called In.

WLB FIRM ON ITS AUTHORITY   Says Jurisdiction Will Be Upheld By Public Opinion, Arms If Necessary

FFC INQURY. ~ 1S IN RECESS   AGENCY'S ATTORNEY _OFTEN MONITORED BROADCASTS IN STUDIO, COMMIT TEE IS TOLD’.

BRAVERY IN HOME ACTION   Private Cited for Revewsny Buddy trom Mined dole

BRAVERY IN HOME ACTION   Private Cited for Re-cuing Buddy from Mined Hele

US. Smashes Hong Kong   Bombers Hit Docks, Shops; Rain Missiles On Kowloon Section

AG HIT HONGKONG   Wharf Area of Jap-Held Harbor Smashed By U. S. Air Foree.   CHINESE ARE ADVANCING

Bombers Pound Hongkong Docks   Many Direct Hits Made by Planes,  Communique Says

AMNES Udtuil Japs in Nutcracker Grip  Enemy Position  Desperate on  Lae, Salamaua

Reds Smash On In Orel Sector   Trip-Hammer Blows  “Beat Germans. Back Av LYNN UFINZERTING «

TRIP-HAMMER BLOWS DEALT BY RED ARMY   RUSSIANS MOVING CLOSER TO KEY OREL BASE

Soviets Thrust Ahead in Drive On Orel Bastion   Report More Than 50 Populated Places Captured From Nazis

NAZIS DRIVEN BACK BY SOVIET ATTACKS   Onrushing Russians Move Closer to the City of Orel

RED TRIP-HAMMER BLOWS PUSH OREL DEFENDERS BAGH   Repeated German CounterAttacks Repulsed as Soviets Capture More Than _ 50 Populated Places.   NAZIS IN DESPERATE FIGHT FOR RAIL LINE   Attackers Within Five Miles of Supply Route From West—44 Hitler Planes Downed During Day.

Reds Smash On In Orel Sector   Trip-Hammer Blows Beat Germans Back  tpt.  @ S2FPareary Ces VTarryCTemags Farce

SOVIET TROOPS STORM HEIGHTS IN OREL SECTOR   Germans Are Pushed Back Despite Desperate Counter-Attacks   RUSSIANS IMPROVE BELGOROD POSITIONS

(sermans Reel  Back Under Grim Assault   Countless Enemy Positions Crumble; Reds Seize 50 Villages, Speed Forward on All Fronts During Day

bed Jaws (lose On  el Base   Keventy More Centers Fall - Ty Soviets

SOVIET TROOPS STORM HEIGHTS ON OREL FRONT   Germans Pushed Back To 4 Miles Despite Repeated Stabs Against Reds   50 Places Captured

Russian Troops Push Nazis Back With Heavy Blows   Capture More than Fifty Towns in Moving Cioser to Orel

NAZIS ADMIT LINE SWAYING AROUND OREL'   As Russians Storm Heights “of Great Tactical Importance,” Pushing Germans from Position to Position   Reds’ Strength Massive

SOVIET ARMY NEARING ORE!   Further Gaine Are Reported By Soviets in Smashing Drive Toward City

Reds Force Nazis Back Near Orel   Soviets Forge Ahead Despite Counterattacks

Jap Lines Cut As Allies Oren  New Maneuvers   Fincer Movement Executed to Isolate Lae and Salamau; No Opposition.   Nips Surprised by Latest Air-Sea Move

Pi NCERS MOVE WWIED AT VITAL ENEMY BASES   Daring Sea Jump Finds Japanese Totally Unprepared

Allied Foree  Threaten Lae   Australians, Americans Stage Daring Sea Jump: Take Japs By Surprise.

Daring Attack By MacArthur Surprises Japs   Little Resistance En countered In Move On Salamaua

Allies Advancing After Executing Daring Sea Jump   Japs In Lae-Salamaua Area Trapped ~ As Americans, Aussies Sweep Forward

Japs Surprised By Allied Sea Pincers Attack   Brilliant Tactic Is Supported By Planes And U. S. Naval Guns

Clamp Pincers On A Main Jap Base   Daring Sea Jump Imperils e and Salamaua in New Guinea   MacArthur Directs Move: of Australians andU. S.  Engineers

Clamp Pincers On  A Main Jap Base   Daring Sea Jump Imperils e and Salamaua in New Guinea   TO ISOLATE AN AREA   MacArthur Directs Moves of Australians and U.S. _  Engineers

Allied Forces Give Japs a Big Surprise    Throw Pincers About Lae and  Salamaua; Air Offensive _ Against’ Enemy Bases in  Netherland East Indies

Girl, 10, Is Victim As Fire Razes Home  Scenery Hill Child Burned To Death ©

Truce in Coal Dispute Due to Expire Monday   Negotiations Still Deadlocked But Extension Order Js Exnected

Baker U. Gym Up In Smoke   Basketball Team Homeless; Art Collection Saved

GERMAN GENERAL TAKEN WHILE ASLEEF   One of Score of Officers Cap tured by British at Nazi Headaquarters in Italy.

Even Nazi General Taken Without Sho!  British Surprise And Take Entire Headquarters

Affacker Tulsa Woman Flees   Woman Tore His Hands Away From Throat and Screams for Help

SOUTHERNERS 10 JOIN COAL DISCUSSIONS   Miners And Operators Back In Session

Reds Fight Back With Fresh Troops   Germans_ Claim Gains North Of Belgorod

ROOSEVELT TRYING TO GAIN  PRESS CONTROL. DITTER SAY:   Pennsy Solon Charges Administration Acting Under Guise of Keeping Information From the Enemy 4 —Points to Censorship Tendency

German Gains.  Are Reported   Slavs Forced To Abandon Peljesac Peninsula As Pressure Grows

GERMANS IN A GAIN.   Yugoslay General Reports a Re treat Under Ndzi Pressure

FAMOUS GRID STAR MISSING   Tom Harmon fs Unreported In Army Bomber In LatinAmerican Area

HARMON LOST ON FLIGHT IN LATIN AMERIC!   Family Awaits Further News of All-America Football Son   DETAILS NOT DISCLOSED

De Gaulle Hail; Gen. Giraud’s  Promises   Fighting French Leader Willing To Diseuss Unity

‘De Gaulle Hails Giraud Pronouncement ‘As Unity Boon; Ready to Collaborate

GEN. DEGAULLE HAILS POLIGY OF GEN, GIRAUD   Declarations of Chieftains Believed to Bring Full Cooperation Closer.

FRENCH UNITY EXPECTED SOON   Giraud’s Repudiatton of Vichy Believed Paving Way for Unison With Fighting French Forces

GIRAUD MOVE: PLEASES FREE FRENCH HEAD   Repudiates Vichy Armistice Made in 1940

De! Gaulle Hails New Giraud Policy Pronouncement, Ready To Discuss Unity. Measures

GIRAUD'S NEW POLICY LAUDED   DeGaulle Willing To Seek Full Unity Of Ail French Elements

POLICY OF GIRAUD IS HAILED BY DE GAULLE   New Pronouncement “Marks Great Progress Toward the Doctrine of the Fighting French” General Declares—lIs Prepared to Discuss Ways and Means of Effecting Full Unity of All French Elamoantec

NEW DEAL STANDS PAT ON SUBSIDIES   MARVIN JONES DEFENDS PROGRAM TO HOLD DOWN PRICES BEFORE GRANGE.

Roosevelt Takes  Stand Pat Stand  On Gov't. Subsidies WEA Head Tells  Grange Delegates of Inflation Program

Roosevell Insists upon Subsidies To Combat Inflation, Says Jones

Jones Tells Grange Roosevelt Is Standing Pat On  Present Plan      POLITICAL ANGLE SEEN IN ADDRESS

U.S. Keeps a Pledge Made By Washington; Pays Oneidas For “’Peace and Friendship”

NAZI TARGETS HIT BY YANKS   Airplane Factory Struck In Flight Deep Into Germany; Turin Is  Pounded

WIDELY KN CHURCH WOMAN KILLED BY SON   Father’s Arm Grazed by Bullet; Son Tries to Commit Suicide

Forces Face Stiff Fighting   Enemy Rearguards Demolish Roads,  Repairs Necessary

Clark’s Men Gain Another Ten Miles   Montgomery’s Army Continues To Swing Ahead In East

YANKS TAKE CASSANO AFTER 1O-MILE DRIVE   Push To Within 50 Miles Of Great Port of Naples   BRITISH NEAR FOGGIA   Germans Offer Only Rear Guard Opposition In Retreat

Hard Fighting Marks Advance In Naples Area   Nazis Retreat After Bitter Fighting In In Mountain Passes

Clark’s Troops Get Key Town 50 Miles East Of Naples As Niavie Racin Werk eawel

British 8th Closing Upon. _ Aerial Base   Weather Hampers Allied. Operations For First. Time

GASSANOVA, 00 MILES EAST OF NAPLES, SEIZED   Meanwhile, British Eighth  Is Driving Swiftly Up Adriatic Coast Toward Foggia      IMEET ONLY SLIGHT NAZI RESISTANCE   Germany Admits Its Forces Are Carrying Out Another Retreat “Undisturbed by Enemy”

Clark's Army Meets Nazis Trying Nazis Hand-To-Hand [0 Saye What In Frontal Assaults They've Won

“mashed a Ten-Mile Deep Salient Into the Mountains: as a Result the Germans Be gan Withdrawing.    OFFERED ONLY REAR GUARD RESISTANCE   The British Sth Army Drove Rapidly Up East Coast to Within 22 Miles of Foggia, Airport Center.

GERMANS BEGIN WITHDRAWAL IN NAPLES SECTOR   CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES CASSANO, 50 MILES DUE EAST

Forces Withdrawal of Enemy by Capturing Cassano, 50 Miles East of the Port—Eighth Army Presses Close to Big Air Base at Foggia. Which Weuld Enable Allies to Bomb All Parts of the Balkans—Fighting Bitter North of Salerno.

Americans Slash Another 10 Miles Into Mountains   Catpure Cassano; Nazis Flank Naples Positions; British 22 Miles From Foggio

TAKE CASSANO IN 10-MILE PUSH INLAND   British Troops Move Up East Coast To Increase Menace To Foggia

Fifth Army Takes Cassano: British Capture 2 Towns   Yank’s 10-Mile Salient Forces Nazis To Withdraw From Bay And Port Areas; Eighth Army Pushes Toward Foggia Airport Center

British Eighth Army Drives Up East Coast Within 22 Miles of Foggia Airport Base   Lt. General Mark W. Clark's American Forces Smash Ten-Mile Deep Salient Into Mountains Near Vital Southern Italian City ©   ‘MONTGOMERY STILL IN CONTACT WITH ENEMY

TAKE CASSANO IN BRILLIANT © NEW ADVANCE   Germans Withdraw East Of Naples: Fifth Army 22 Miles From Air Center Of Foggia

U.S. STH ARMY TAKES CASSANO EAST OF CITY   British 8th Army Neat Foggia In West Of Italy

NAZIS BEGIN WITHDRAWAL FROM NAPLES   American Fifth Army Drives Deep Salient Into Italian Mountains.   British Advance Up Coast Near Foggia

German. withdrawal east of Naples area forced by powerful flanking action   Foggia’s 13 key airfields given up by nazis as Eighth army advances

ALLIES GAIN 90 MILES IN DARING PUSH   Take Cassano As Germans Begin Retreating

YANKS CAPTURE CASSANO AFTER SHAR? THRUST   Fall of Town 50 Miles East Of Naples Leaves Nazis Hanaina on

Germans Quit Naples Area; Yanks Advance   British Eighth Driving Up Coast And Now Within 18 Miles Of Airport Center Of -Foggia: Resistance Light.

American Group Drives Salient In Naples Line   Nazis Abandon Main Base, 12 Smaller Landing Fields

Town East Ot Naples Captured   Germans Are Forced To Withdraw From Area On Flank Of Their Position Along Bay

Clark Drives 10-Mile Wedge Into Mountains As British Roll Ahead   Eighth Army About 20 Miles From Foggia Airfields; Retreating Nazis Being Pursued

FIFTH ARMY DRIVES FIFTY MILES EAST OF NAPLES ON MONDAY  GERMANS REPORTED WITHDRAWING ALONG BAY OF NAPLES

Germans Fleeing Naples ‘Sector As Yanks Capture Cassano; British Advance

Cassano Captured _As Yanks Advance.  In Mountain Area   British Speed Up East Coast To But 22 Miles Of Foggia Airfield; Several Adriatic Towns Taken

American Fith Army, Agains! Heaviest Fighting, Drives 10 Mile Salient Into Mouniains   ‘Clark's Advance Threatens ts Flank Germans—British Withic 22 Miles of Foggia

Yanks Capture Cassano; British Near Foggia In Drive Up East Coast.

IN MOUNTAINS   British Eighth Army Drives Rapidly Up East Coast Of Italy.   ‘NAZIS ADMIT RETREAT

CLARK'S OTH ARMY HAS CAPTURED THE TOWN OF CASSANG   Salient 10 Miles Deep Smashed In Nazi Lines    NAZIS WITHDRAW IN NAPLES SECTOR

Fifth Army Captures Town Only 50 Miles East Of Naples In Salient As German Troons Begin Withdrawals   British Eighth Army Drives Rapidly Up East Coast Toward Big Airport Center At Foggia

Force Germans To Begin Withdrawal East of Naples   British Race Up East Coast Near Foggia, Important Air Base

British Encounter Little Resistance   Americans Now 50 Mile: Due East of Naples; Ger mans Offer Only Rea: Guard Opposition; Eighth Army Captures Three Adriatic Towns.

Eighth Army Only 22 Miles From Foggia   “Germans Forced.. ‘To Withdraw East “Of Port City

Take Cassano In Mountains Near Naples   British 18 Miles From Foggia In Advance Up Eastern Coast; Nazis Admit Falling Back

Court Upholds» AMA Conviction   Restraint Of Trade Said Not An Issue

Conviction Of AMA Is Upheld  Applies Also To D. C, Medical Society

AMA Loses Out in Court   U. S. Supreme Court Upholds Conviction on Anti Trust Charge

Conviction Of Medical Association Is Upheld   Supreme Court by 6 to 0 vote Affirms Action of Low er Court in Case Involving Cooperative Group Health Plan

SHERMAN LAW CONVICTION OF AMA UPHELD   Supreme Court Sustains, 6 to 0, Contention That Group Conspired Against a Group Health Organization.

Conviction of AMA Upheld by: High Cour’   Medical Society ‘Violated Anti-Trust’ Law, the’ > Justices Hold   FOR OPPOSING A GROUP HEALTH UNIT   Organization Was Charged With Conspiring Against the Co-Operative

Medical Group Stands Convicted   Supreme Court Upholds A.M.A. Conviction

RULING AGAINST DOCTORS UPHELC   U, S, SUPREME COURT FINDS CONSPIRACY IN MEDICINE CASE

‘American Medical Association Anti-Trust law Convidion Upheld by Supreme Court

AMA VERDICT OF GUILTY [S UPHELD TODAY   SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS CANVICTION IN GROUP HEALTH CASE

Rule Against Medical Body   Supreme Court Upholds Conviction Of AMA On Anti-Trust Violation.

Susreme Court Holds Medical Group Violated Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Triple Blow Is Dealt Jans   6! Nip Planes Downed After 3-Way New Britain Landing

Yanks Land On North Tip Without Loss Of One Man   Establish Footholds Sunday on Both Sides Of Cape Gloucester And Drive Inland   LONG ISLAND TAKEN OFF HUON PENINSULA   Gloucester Airstrip And Borgen Bay Put Under Artillery Fire

Three-Pronged U.S. Drive Opens  New Pacific Area  Marines Invade Cape Gloucester Area Without Losing Man

Three Pronged US Marine Drive Opens New Base:   Veteran Fighters Push Inland After... Establishing’ Beaches

TWENTY DIE DIE. IN ACCIDENT   TWO OHIOANS WERE. AMONG  VICTIMS OF ARMY PLANE .  DISASTER IN *°:.": FLORIDA

Makers Unable To Fill Demand   Holland Craftsmen Are Swamped With Work

DOWN TO 15 BELOW   Plumbers and Garagemen Swamped With Calls This Morning

CENTERING EFFORTS  DEFENSIVE   lext 12 Months o Be Costly Rlood. Men

NAZI VICTORY HOPES ABANDONED, BELIEF   Stalemate Only Thing Desir. ed Now, Says McNarney

NAZIS GIVE UP VICTORY HOPE   GERMANS TRY TO BLOCK WAR DEFEAT: McNARNEY

Nazi Leaders Give Up Hope . McNarney   Eftorts Directed Now Towards Staving Off Defeat

McNarney Says German Chie.s Direct Efforts to Staving Off Defeat

German Military. Leaders Give Up Hope Of Winning the: War Reports McNarney

JAPANESE ROUTED IN NEW GUINEA   MLKADO’S TROOPS FLEEING TOWARD MUBO AFTER SUFFERING DEFEAT,

Decisive Defeat Meted Jap Force In Wau Battle   Japanese Losses Believed As High As 1.000 Men

Allies Defeat Large Jap Force   Nipponese Retreat Leaving 1,000 Dead

JAPANESE LOSE 1,000 DEAD IN 1-DAY FIGHT   Many More Of Enemy Reported Wounded In New Guinea Section.

JAPS LOSE 1000 IN WAU ATTACK   Attempt to Take Town In New Guinea Fails: Enemy Retreats

1,000 Japs Die In Rout on New Guinea   Aussie Units Spearhead of Bitter Jungle Drive Toward Mubo Base

Allies Beat Japs on New Guinea   Nipponese Lose 1,000 Men in Attempt At Capturing Wau

Wau Jap force is  defeated   Enemy in full retreat; leave thousand dead

ALLIES DEFEAT A BIG JAP FORCE AT WAU, NEW GUINEA   Enemy Group Retreats ‘Toward Mubo After Leaving 1,000 Dead in Attempt to  NCapture Yau January 30

LARGE NIPPON UNIT DEFEATED N NEW GUINEA   Force Trying to Capture Wau Sent Retreating To-  ward Mubo, Says Allied Headquarters   1,00€ JAPS KILLED   Other Casualties May Be Many Times Dead Toll; Allied Losses Are Light

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Draft Board Head Tries Censorship On Curran’s Case

Steams 400 Miles Into Jap Territory  to Bombard Naura   Carriers Loose Fleet of Air Planes to Bomb Far Targets   ‘MAY OCCUPY THE ISLAND   Japs Chased All Over Other Pacific Area; Tokyo Says Spirit Willing but Troops  Lack War Tools

U.o. TAOK FORGE ASSAULTS NAURI   Jap-Held Phosphate Island Pounded By Warships And Aircraft

WARSHIPS STEAM 400 MILES WEST OF GILBERTS T0 HIT JAP ISLAND   Jap Main Fleet Refuses To Be Drawn Into Action Against American Navv.

NUE BIL REPORTED OUT   Wisconsin Assembly Gets Measure Dropping 60 Per Cent Surtax.   ENACTS OTHER LEVIES

Emergency Taxes May Be Retained   Re-enactment Of Special Levies With Exception Of 60 Per Cent Surtax Urged In Legislature

Soviet War Plants Impress Standley   Russian War Plants Doing Effective, Efficient Work

Price Not Too High For Results Achieved, Officer Reports  DOWN MANY NAZIS  Two-Pronged Smash Follows Heavy Night Attacks by RAF

Cost of 26 Planes  Said Not Too High  RAF Hits Boe hum. Othe tr  Deslew Kce Dectea.

26 Heavy American Bombers Shot Down During Raids On Bremen, KielOver Week-End   Loss Is Most Serious Yet Suffered By Eighth Air Force; Widespread Damage Done To Nazi Sub . Bases; Many Enemy Fighters Bagged

26 Four-Engined American Bombers Lost in Battle; German U-Boat Bases Effectively Attacked

Large Formations of American Bombers Blast U-Boat Bases  26 BOMBERS LOST IN FURIOUS FIGHT  Bremen and Kiel Effectively Bombed, Communique Says

Ruhr Area Is Blasted By British   Americans Pound Cities Of Kiel And Bremen

American bombers raid U-boat bases at Bremen and Kiel   Smash down many enemy fighters in 8th U. S. air force’s greatest battle

Two Large Formations of U. S. Heavy Bombers Blast Bremen, Kiel, at Cost of 26 Planes

Fleets Make Greatest Of All Raids   U-Boat Bases at Bremen, Kiel Suffer Stunning Blows; RAF Follows With Attacks on France, Lowlands

American Airmen Pound Sub Bases At Bremen, Kiel   26 Bombers Lost In Greatest Air Battle Ever Waged By U. S. Force; Many German Fighters Brought Down

Big U.S. Plane: Attack Bremen Kiel in Force   8th Air Force Loses 28 Bombers in Its Greatest Air Battle: RAF Strikes at Ruhr

BREMEN - KIEL BLASTED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Sky Fleets Fly Unescorted To Heavily Defended North German Bases For Double  Barreled Attack   Destroy 3 Planes

26 American Bombers Lost in Heavy Assaults On Nazi U-Boat Bases   MANY NAZI FIGHTERS DOWNED IN BATTLE   U.S. Attacks Follow Heavy RAF Night Raid On Ruhr Valley Points

Large Formations of Am. iericon Bombers Blast . ’ U-Boat Bases   26° BOMBERS LOST - IN FURIOUS FIGHT   Bremen and Kiel Effect. ,ively Bombed, Com-: munique Says

Do Much Damage But Lose Record Number of Planes   Eighth U. $. Air Force ir Greatest Air Battle of the War   RAF Also Raids Key Points Vital to German Industry

Breman, Kiel Hard Hit by Fortresses   28 of Four-Motored Are Reported Lost in Attacks

Heavy Losses Are Suffered By Americans   Attack on Sub Bases Follows RAF Night Attack on Bochum

AMERICAN ARMORED UNITS UNDER LT. GEN. PATTON SWEEP INLAND TWEN.TY MILES, JOIN WITH BRITISH.

‘Americans hepel — ‘Axis Tank Attack  ‘4 Uieutenant Colonels  ants ta Invaders

ESSEN BOMBED BY RAF: FOUR PLANES DOWN   TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ARE DROPPED IN ONLY 12 MINUTES

RIOTING FRENCH PATRIOTS KILL 50 MORE NAZI TRGOPS   Secret Organizations Forming to Resist Draft of 400,000 Staves.

Fighting French Report 50 More Germans Are Killed By Rioters in France

NAZI DEATH TOLL ~ IN FRANCE RISING   ‘Patriots Renew Street Fight. ing Against Invaders in  Many Cities.

ORGANIZED LABOR 10 FIGHT 52-HOUR BILL   Extra Time Would Drive Women Out of Plants

Longer Hours For Women Start Fight   Organized : Labor Contends They Could Not Stand Extra and Would Quit

LABOR OBJECTS VIGOROUSLY TO §2-HOUR BILL   CIO. ~Leader Says Women Can’t Stand Long Employment

OHIO TREASURY SURPLUS GROWS   Increase in 1943 Amounts to Around $23,000,000

U.S. Heavies Hit Naziland Again:   Thunderbolt Escort Goes All The Way

U.S. Planes Hit Germany Deep Inland   Thunderbolts Make Longest Escort Trip In 400-Mile Raid

U. S. Bombers Again Hit Reich by Day   Undisclosed Targets in Northwestern Germany Attacked

3 FORTRES ARE BAGGED IN RAID ON NAZIS   15 German Fighter Planes Downed In Attack On Unspecified Bases   AMSTERDAM AIR FIELD RAIDED BY MARAUDERS

15 GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN IN RAID   Americans Fly 400 Miles to Blast Northwest Germany—Lose Five Big Bombers.

War’s Longest Eseort Raid Blasts Reich   US. Fliers Down 15 Nazi Planes, Lose Five Forts

Full Blast Opened Up on Europe by American Airforce  FIFTEEN ENEMY PLANES DOWNED Coastal Towns of North ern Germany Attacked by Fliers

American Planes Blast Targets Deep in Reich; 15 Foe Craft Downed

U.S. Heavies Hit Naziland Again   Thunderbolt Escort Goes All The Way  By ROBERT N.  STURDEVANT

Yankee Bombers Make Raid Deep In German Area   Fortresses, Liberators And Escorts Fly 400 Miles to Targets

U.S. bombers penetrate far into Germany   Fighter planes in long flight

Americans Lose Five Bombers in Daylight Atiack   15 German Planes Downed in Battles

Down 15 Enemy Fighters; 5 U.S. Bombers Are Lost   Target Unspecified; Raiders Penetrate 400 Miles for Strike

LARGE SCALE RAID MADE BY U.S. BOMBERS   NORTHERN GERMANY COASTAL TOWNS BLASTED

Italian Rail Lines  Hammered   Fortresses Attack Mystery Target In French Forest

SUDGE RUTLEDGE'S RECORD SATISFIES   Senate Will Undoubtedly Confirm towan Now As Sunreme fustice

Says Coal Shutdown Being Attended By More Clamor Than Calm Judgment

NAVY BOMBARDS JAP-HELD BASE   Surface Attack On Vila, Raids In Aleutians Presaged By Ac+ tion {n Pacific

‘Naval task foree bombards Solomons base as thiers rain bombs on Kiska; new, important action indicated

Planes, Ships Strike Both Ends of Line   Fleet Bombards Solomons Base—  Kiska Badly Battered

PALIEIL Robo UF JAPANESE bET POUNDING   Light Warships Participate In Growing Offensive Against Enemy

U. 5. SPENDING FAILS 10 STAY UP 10 BUDGET   Lags Behind Program Despite 50 Billion Month Outlay

COV'T SPENDING LAGS BEHIND BUDGET LEVELS   Opening of 4th Quarter Shows Outgo Below FDR Figures

Titanic Battle Still Is Raging but Allies Hold   Wave After Wave of German Tanks Repulsed as Germans Gamble Everything in Effort to Hold Italv   GERMAN AIR FORCE WIPED FROM SKIES AS AMERICANS MAKE 2,000 SORTIES OVER BATTLEFRONT WITH NO LOSSES   Eighth Army Units Reported Among Constant Stream of Allied Reinforcements Being Thrown Into Battle; Main Army Only 70 Miles From Scene

Air And Naval Forces StrenothenYankStand; British 8th Moving Up   Allies Occupy Isle of Capri

Allies Are Now on the Attack Backed by Air and Navy.  EVEN BERLIN ADMITS ALLIED LINE HOLDS  Badoglio’s Government May Openly Line Up With Allies.

Senate May Pass Some Version of Ruml Tax Measure   Majority of Finance Com mittee Said To Favor Skip-a-Year Plan

GOP Senators Favor Ruml  Skip-Year Tax   Finanee Commiltee Begins Hearings Today on Measure

Senate Group Today Begins Tax Bill Study  Rum Skip-Y ear Plan  Version Favored

Senate Plans Tax Argumen'   House-Approved Bill Up For Consideration

Compromise income tax plan favored   Both proposals take 20 percent of all ealaries

TAX BILL GOES ON TO SENATE   House-Approved Measure Skipping 1942 Levies May Be Modified

George Promises Quick Tax Action   Majority Favors Some Rum! Plan

SENATE WILL BEGIN STUDY OF TAXPLANS      Backers of Ruml Plan to Press Fight in Com. mittee

Senate fo Begin Consideration Of Income Tax   Treasury Group Will Appear at Closed Hearing This Morning

SENATE GROUP TAKES UP TAX   Committee Leans Toward Modified Form Of Rum! Plan -

SENATE TO HOLD TAX BILL HEARING   Majority of Finance Committee Members Apparently Lean Toward Some Versicn Of Rum! Skip-a-Year Plan

Study of Wild Turkey Nesting To Be Continued   Chamber of Commerce And Kerr Wildlife  — Association Vote to Continue Program

City May be Turned !nta a Summer Stalinarad   MUCH MATERIAL IS SEIZED BY SOVIETS   Number of Populated Places Captured in Advance

Nazis Say New Red Push Set  For Smolensk   Russians Threaten to Trap Great Numbers Of Germans in hey Base: Gain on Brvans

MANY GERMANS BEING TRAPPED IN ONSLAUGHT   Offensive Rolls Ahead From Orel; Enemy’s Supply Lines Sheared   80 Planes Destroyed

City May be Turned inte a Summer Stalin. . grad MUCH MATERIAL tS-— SEIZED BY SOVIETS  SS a  _ - . _   Number of Populated Places Captured in _ Advance

Red Column Far to West Of Kharkov   Russians Also Roll On Unchecked from Orel In Great Offensive  MANY TOWNS TAKEN

Kharkov’s Defense Lines Fall  Before Russians   Great German Bastion Now Is Facing Fate of Stalingrad; Many Nazi Troors Captured by Onrushing Soviets

Substitute For Butter Will Be Available Soon   Dairy Industry To Have New Product, Says Member Of State Aoriculture Rade

Anglin Lends Hand To Vet Reporter   Diffendaffer Took ‘Oceans Of Words’ in Barnett Case

‘SOFT COAL " BACK TO NORMA   UMW “Leaders: ‘Await WLB Approval of Contract Phases

FIGHTH ARMY TROOPS BREAK STUBBORN COUNTER-ATTACK OF AXIS AND EDGE FORWARD   Bitter Hand-to-Hand Fighting With Knives, Bayonets Ils Waged

Break Through Violent German Counter Blows   Allied Air Forces Bring Down 27 More Planes Swelling Axis Loss to 151 For Three Days; Hand-to-Hand Fight Climaxes Battle. —

Eighth Army Opens Drive For Tunis in Moonlight Behind Tremendous Barrage

British, German Troops  In Hand-To-Hand Battle   All Initial Objectives On 50-Mile Road To Tunis Reported Captured

ALLIES STRIKING HEAVIEST BLOWS   British Eighth Army Overcomes Axis Attacks, Berlin  Visited By Bombers.

‘BITTER HAND-TO-RAND FIGHTS ‘CHARACTERIZES STEADY DRIVE   All German Counterattacks Broken Up; srit. Ist Army Edges Forward From Wes!

BRITISH ARMY — DRIVES THROUGH AT ENFIDAVILLE   Bilter Fighting Rages As Allies Penetrate Rommel] Defenses.

G. 0. P. Group Agrees on Compromise Statement Regarding Foreian Policy

GOP Leaders Agree on World Policy   Compromise Pledges U.S. Collaboration In Enforcing Peace

SOME FREEZE DAMAGE   Victory Gardens and Early Fruits: Were Hurt by the Cold 

ALLIED FORCES EXTEND GAINS, CAPTURE PALM   Occupy Delianuova In Push Deeper Into Center OF Italian Peninsula   'NEW TROOPS ARE LANDED   Coastal Area Is Cleared; Bombers Concentrate On Railroad Lines

BRITISH TAKE PALMI AND DELIANUOVA   Push Deeper Into Peninsula With Support of Air Force

SENATOR'S SON MISSING   Lt. Joseph George Officially Listed As Missing In Action

Axis Troops Flee To Hills Of Cap Bon   Allied Armies Closing in for Final Mop-up after Fall of Bizerte and Tunis; Reds Smash Nazi Defenses on Approaches to Novorossisk

BATTERED FOES FLEE TO HILLS; MANY CAPTURED   Attempt To Escape Would Lead To Disaster for Axis Troops, Experts Say   AIR ATTACK IS INTENSE   Rome and Berlin Admit Fall Of Tunisia and Bizerte But Discount Importance

Battle-Shocked Axis Troops Are Fleeing ALLIES MOP UP French Forces Are Making Gains In The South

BATTLE-DAZED AXIS TROOPS REPORTED BE FLEEING TO HILLS   VICTORIOUS ARMIES OF ALLIES CLOSING IN FOR PINAL CLEAN.UP

Pont du Fahs Taken by French Troops— Axis Forces Hemmed Into Two Pockets —Planes Strafe Troop-Congested Roads Reds Smash at Nazis in the Caucasus

Foe Retreats © To Peninsula And Beaches  Allied Troops Clean Out Stragglers in Tunis and Bizerte  PATTON REPLACED  French Force Captures Pont du Fahs, Seizes  wr.°* f@<¢4. ¢. Y.....z

Take Over At  Pont du Fahs In Big Drive   Seize Captives, Supplies As Foe Flees To Beaches

AXIS TROOPS FLEE AS ALLIES CLOSE IN FOR MOPPING UP: SOVIETS HAIL AFRICAN SUCCESS

Report Foe Flees To Cape, Beaches   Pont du Fahs Taken by French Troops— Axis Forces Hemmed Into Two Pockets —Planes Strafe Troop-Congested Roads —-Reds Smash at Nazis in the Caucasus

OPA Adopts Subsidy Plan To Prevent Imposing Ceiling on Livestock

BIG BILL STARLING IS TO RETIRE SOON   Guard of Five Presidents Tc Get in Some Fishing

EuropeanWar Theater Thunders To A Crisis   Pace So Rapid Another Roosevelt-Churchill Conference May Become Necessary Soon

A z n eythois ® am © p eSAta  Cun  va  rises ‘at  Neng Sox  Compare " ve Be tarry ay,  Pe. 158202. 0 Mrr  re p  we i]  ode _ Mat es ae

Expects F. D. R. And Churchill To Confer Soon   Writer Says European War Events Are Fast Nearing Crisis

New Allied Successes May Bring FDR-Churchill Parley   Events ig Europe Thundering Toward Crisis, Kirke Simpson Says—Speed of Campaigns Makes * Revision of Plans Necessary

PACE OF WAR DEMANDS NEW ALLIED PLANS   FIFTH CHURCHILL. ROOSEVELT TALK IS INDICATED

Yank P-38 Has What It Takes   U.S. Plane Master Of Luftwaffe’s Best

OWI's Domestic Branch Salvaged   Senate Revokes House Death Sentence, but Limits Expenses

SENATE EASES BLOW FOR OW   Home Front Propaganda Funds Limited For Fiscal Pear

Constitutional Ban On Rent Refusals Because Of Children Is Asked

Russians Deal Germans Stunning Dnieper Blow  By Taking Pyatikhatka   Mthailovic Leads 100,000 Yugoslavs on Danube While Three Guerrilla Bands Threaten Rommel; Hannover Bomb-Battered; Allies Keep Up Air War

Move Indicates Lewis Despairs Of Negotiations Being Resumed In New York; Kennedy To Remain In New York   OFFICE HAD BEEN . OPEN SINCE MARCH 10

LEWIS GUES BACK 10 WASHINGTUN   Closes Five Room Hotel Office in New York.

HOTLY DEBATED FOOD SUBSIDIES FLARE UP AGAIN   Bill to Go Before House Thursday With  2 Davs for Discussinn

Subsidy-ban bill is given  right of way   Issue flares up  in senate again

SUBSIDY FOES WIN SUPPORT   House Rules Committee  Limits Backers

House Committee Backs Foes of Food Subsidies   Issue Flares Again At Senate Agriculture Unit's Hearing

LIFT REGULATION ON KILLING HOGS   No Permit or License Wil Be Required During Next 990 Days

SENATE VOTES U, S. POSTWAR CO-OPERATION:   May Eliminate Foreign Policy As Campaign Issue In 1944

World Peace Plan Voted By Senate   Action May Keep  Foreign Policy Out Of 1944 Campaign

SENATE ADVOCATES U.S. PARTICIPATION IN PEACE PROGRAM   85 Te 5 Vote: Favors Plan To Preserve World Security. And  Peace.

SENATE VOTES FOR PEACE PLAN, 85 10 5   Puts Approval On Pact Made At Moscow

-_— oo me lL Two simple steps to amazing   New STRENGTH    hotter LNOKSE

JAP EXCHANGE SHIP DOCKS AT MORMUGAQ   Group of 1,500 Internees in Apparent Good Health—Await Arrival of Gripsnolm.

Allied Prisoners of Japs Will Receive Freedom Today; Repatriated Newsmen Have Many Stirring Yarns

RESCUE MAN “IN FIRE AT. CONCORD HOME   Mother and Three Children Grope. Through Smoke “to Safety

NAZI FORCES PUT TO ROUT BY YUGOSLAVS   Remnants Of German Groups Being Cut To Pieces

TAKE 2 STRONGHOLDS.   Yugoslav Partisan Forces Are Fighting the Germans

d FREIGHTERS ARE AGROUND AT S00   Poor Visibility Blamed for Ships on Shoals; One Blocks Channel]

ORE FREIGHTERS RUN AGROUND IN RIVER   Poor Visibility Is Blamed for Mishap in St. Mary’s River.

C.1.0. FIGHTS FORMULA   Asks 17 cent Increase, Guaranteed Weekly Waves

IGHT FOR PAY  RAISE OPENED BYSTEELMEN   cio President Heads Union Delegation.  Meet- ; ing With U.S. Steel. Corporation

ClO OPENS ITS FIGHT TO BREAK WAGE FORMULA   Meets With U. S. Steel te Press Demands for 17-Cent Raise

UNION BEGINS FIGHT AGAINST WAGE FORMULA   ‘Little Steel’ Schedule I: Flaunted by Demand For Pay Raise

STEEL WORKERS PRESS DEMANDS   CIO Opens Fight To Break “Little Steel’ Wage Formila. ‘

ClO Chief Would Perinit Civilian se of Steel To Prevent Lay-Offs

Wage Formula  Fight Opened   C1Q Wants to Breakdown op ittle Steel Plan To " “Cain Demands

Renewal Of New Deal Laws Asked   President Urges Congress To Take Action On Number Of Measures   MORE TAXATION IS ALSO DESIRED

GUARD PAY ACT IS PASSED BY HOUSE: BILLS CONSIDERED   Increase in Membership of Commission on Streams Gets House Approval

STANDLEY SPOKE HIS OWN VIEWS   Sumner Welles Says Envoy To Russia Didn’t Give Official Statement

Was Talking For Self And Not For U.S.   Admiral Standley Clears Up Remarks Made At Moscow

Standley Said He Spoke For Himself  Envoy Declares Remarks Not For

AMBASSADOR OPOKE ONLY FOR HIMSELF   Tells State Dept. He Was Not Speaking in Mos. cow for U. S.   MOSCOW GIVES OUT  LEND LEASE REPORT   Newspaper Publication of Figures Follows Radio Announcement.

STANDLEY CLEARS UF i, §,-RUSSIAN ISSUE   Envoy Speaking For Himself, He Tells Welles

Standley’s Charges Unofficial---Welles   Denunciation of Soviet by Diplomat “Personal”

KISKA GETS 17 TONS OF BOMBS   U. S. Air Drive Hampers Jap Ef. fort To Strengthen Bases

AMERICAN FLIERS BOMB KISKA AGAIK   17 Tons of Bombs Fell Sunday on Enemy’s Stronghold.

Lengthy Resistance In N. Africa Is Impossible Without Sufficient Air Reinforcements, Leaders Say

‘NINE RAIDS SUNDAY  ON KISKA BY YANKS   17 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Aleutian Stronghold

RAID KISKA NINE TIMES   17 Tons of Bombs Dropped Sunday; Fighters Used

Kiska Base Pounded by U.S. Planes   Jap Targets in South Pacific Also Hit Hard

JAPAN'S PLANS Ant DISRUPTED BY Wo. RAIDS   17 More Tons Of Bombs Poured On Kiska In Aleutians In General Attack

KISKA IS AGAIN HEAVILY BOMBEE   Reds Destroy Wedge In Their Line, Enemy Bases !n Pacific Blasted.

SPREAD: Allied Planes Hit Five Jap Bases Along Islands   RYvrieTixy

17 Tons Of U. §. Bombs Paste Kiska   High Speed Fighters Are Used To Dump Explosives On Submarine Base   “FIRES ARE STARTED   Runway On Solomons Munda Base Is Cut Up By Heavy Bombers

YANKS RUIN JAP AIR TRY   Ca  STEPPED-UP PLANE WAR NIPS ENEMY IN PACIFIC

—/EELY £ y—  SOUTHERN MINE OUT OF PARLE}   Government Will Hold Shafts Until Agreement Is Reached

Coal Owners Meet Lewis   Southern Mines Not to Be Restored Until Wage Contract Agreed Upon

South Left Out of Coal Pay Parley   Lewis Assured by Ickes * “Government Will Keep ; Control ‘Until They  join In Contract    WEST VIRGINIA IS “YN GROUP AFFECTED   WLB Approval Sought In Tentative Agreement, Operators Ask Coal Prices Be Fixed

ICKES TO HOLD SOUTHERN PITS   Not To Return Control Until They Sign Wage Terms

OWNERS, UNION ~ ARE PLAYING: ~ BRIDE   Lewis and Operators. Sit Down to Game of ~ Contract

LEWIS 10 GET IEKES BACKING   \perators Can’t Get Mines Back Uniess Contract Is Signed with UMW

Ickes Pledges His Help To John Lewis   Northern And Western Operators In Conference

PROMISES LEWIS HE WILL HOLD MINES  SOUTHERN COAL MINE OPERATORS MUST JOIN WAC LC CAWECDrACL

Will Keep Southern. Mines   Ickes Says Government Will Continue Operation Till Present Wage Avreement Is Signed

SOUTHERN COAL MINES TO BE KEPT BY GOVERNMENT UNTIL OWNERS SIGN PACT

SOUTHERN FIELD COAL OPERATORS LEFT IN COLD   ickes Close Door to Restoration of Mines in Promise To Lewis

Ickes Attempts to Club Them Into Signing Contract He and Lewis Agreed On, Along With Other Operators

a  Ickes Backing:  Contract: Plan   Promises Lewis T hat us ., Ww ill Not. Free. ‘Mines: OF Southerners:

OWNERS MUST SIGN CONTRACT TO GET MINES   _Ickes Promises Lewis He Will Keep Operations

DIXIE MINE BLOC LEFT OUT IN COLD   Lewis Works On Pact With Northern, Western Units

U.S. REVEALS ONE OUT OF EVERY 10 AMERICAN PRISONERS IN JAP CAMPS DIED OF DISEASE

THE NATION'S COAL MINES RETURNED TO PRODUCTION   Released From the Grip of a Paralyzing Three-Day Strike.   A RAISE OF $1.50 A DAY   Miners Were Given That Advance by an Agreement Reached.

Coal Miners Return To Work Today   WLB To Consider New Wage Agreement Today. Increase of SLS0 a Day Accounted For In Fart by Lunch Hour  “Wt

Coal Miners Back-fo Pits.   Paralyzing Strike Ends With $1.50 Daily Boost

Agreement Increases Miners’ Earnings At Least $1.50 A Day; Return To Work On Order of John L. Lewis.

Miners Will Get $11.50 Week Raise   This Runs Counter To Ruling Of The War Labor Board   BUT MINERS CUT THEIR LUNCH TIME

COAL MINERS GET “$1.50 PAY BOOST, WORK IS RESUMED   Agreement Provides For About $11.50 For SixDay Week But Lunch Hour Is Cut to 15 Minutes   PROVISIONS MADE FOR UNDERGROUND TRAVEL   Men Virtually Ignore Appeal of Roosevelt—But Comply With Orders of Lewis, Other Officials.

STRIKE EASED BY AGREEMENT TO WORK MORE   President Defied But Coal Diggers Return To Job On Orders of Lewis

Coal Miners Go To Vork O1  Lewis’ Advice   UMW Chief Says Ickes Agreement Satisfactory To Striking Miners

Mine Agreement Is Reached  Workers lo Get Increase of at Least 210m . TM]...

NeW CONTRACT GIVES WORKERS $1.50 DAY MORE   Agreement Is Reached By UMW Officials and Secretary Ickes

Lewis Sends Miners Back to Work With Wage Increase of $1.50 Daily

MINERS BEGIN WORK RETURN WITH PAY HIKE   Lewis And Ickes Draw Up Plans To Provide Pay Increases Sought By Men

Coal Miners Are Returning To Jobs   MEN REPORT FOR WORK AFTER GETTING NEW CONTRACTS

Strike Over, Coal Miners  Resume Work   Agreement Reached Giving Pay Boost Of $1.50 Daily.

COAL MINERS RETURNING TO MINES TODAY    War Labor Board To Consider Pay Raise

$1.50  Day. Pay Boost For Miners      Agreement Between Tekeés And Lewis Expected Tc ‘End Walkout

Wages Increased About $11.50 Weekly Coal Mines Returning  To Production Slowly Under Pay Agreement

Order To Return To  Mines Given By John . L. Lewis  REACH ACCORD  Agreement ent Will In weenne Paw OF

AGREEMENT STARTS ~ PRODUCTION AGAIN ANUS. COAL MINES   Miners’ Earnings Increased About $11.50 for a 6Day Week   WLB TO CONSIDER PACT

Reopening Of Mines Slow After Agreement Reachec   Men Get Extra $1.50 A Day But Sacrifice Part Of Lunch Period For It

$1.50 Per Day Wage Hike Is Approved   John L. Lewis Orders Met Back to Mines Following Conference with Ickes

Unionists Reach Agreement With Secretary Ickes      Normal Coal Production at Many its Unlikely Before Next  Week

AWAIT ITALIAN REACTION 10. ULTIMATUM   Unconditional Surrender Still Basis for Any Peace

AWAIT POPULAR SENTIMENT ON JOINT APPEAL OF ALLIES.   Terms Are Hinted   Desire is Expressed for Italians to Rid Themselves of Dictatorship.

Congress Bucks Administration  Would Sell Surplus Qaads After War

Yanks Land on  Two Sides of. Big Jap Base   Toll of Enemy Ships Sunk In Kula Gulf Battle Grows to Nine, Possibly 11; ’ Many Rescued In Sinking of Helena. Sole U.S. Loss.

FALL OF JAPS’ BASE AY MUNDA BELIEVED NEAR   U.S. Ground Forces Land at Beachhead six Miles Away

U.S. Forces Are Pushing Closer To Munda Base   Marines Land Near Base And Collapse Of Jap Defense Looms   YANKS CROSS FROM RENDOVA

Pittsburgh Plants Soon to Hire Women on Large Seale, Wright Says

WAGE INCREASE ASKED BY TEXTILE WORKERS   WMC Clamps Down on Ohio Firm; “Too Much Labor Turnover,’ Reason

REDS LAUNCH BIG SCALE CAMPAIGN IN LENINGRAD SECTOR   Offensive Started Against Germans South Of Lake Ladoga Region

Red Army Races Toward Dnieper; Kiev Major Goal   Soviet Summer Drive Gains New Speed On 600 Mile Front; 200 Towns Taken In Fresh Advances

Red Army Begins Race Against Fall ~ Rains For Capture of Kiev, Nazi Base

REDS 150 MILES FROM THE POLISH BORDER NOV   Aim At Kiev After Taking Nezhin 72 Miles te the East.

KUBAN PORT OF NOVOROSSISK IS TAKEN BY REDS   Russian Army Hurrying Agains Autumn Rains Toward Riev

Foreign Relief Director Schedules London Trip To Secure Data About Aid

LUMBER YARD WIPED OUT BY $100,000 FIRE   Firemen Battle Blaze Fou Hours at Youngstown

U. 5. Subsidy Will Cut Butter Price 5 Cents   Price Slash’ Will Net Reach Public Until About June 10th   MEAT IS NEX1   Action Is First Move “tn Price Rollback Plan Announced By Brown

BUTTER PRICES TO BE REDUCED   Government Subsidy Will Result In 5-Cent Cut By June 10

Butter Prices   5 Cents a Pound Slash To Start Living, Cost Subsidy

Enemy Attacks Repulsed Affer 12 Dav Battle   Russians Improve Own Positions In Western Ukraine

Yanks Kill 6000 of Foe In Gilberts   RUSSIANS BLOCK ‘LAST GASP NA ATTACKS IN KIEV AREA

REDS BEAT ATTACK   Russian Army Maintains Kiev Area Against German Thrusts

Reds Improve Positions Before Kiev   Chances of Further Major Nazi Assaults Believed Slight; Enemy Lines North and West of Gome!] Are Breached

BELIEVE REDS OVERCOMING NAZI ATTACKS   Troops Reported Not Only Repulsing Blows in Western Ukraine, but Also Are Improving Their Own Positions,

RED ARMY APPEARS BE OVERCOMING NAZI OFFENSIVE DRIVE  GENERALLY BELIEVED PRESENT CAMPAIGN IS “LAST GASP” OF GERMANS

GREEN SAYS HE IS OPPOSED 10 CUTTING TAXES   Presents Lower State Budget To Legislature

Green Cuts State’s Budget $15,058,603: Opposes Tax Trim   Recommends Retention of Sizeable Postwar Reserve Balance

Deaths Blamed On Negligence   Two Die From Overdose Of Drug Administered Intrayvenously

ODT SEES NEW PROBLEMS FOR ‘bh TRAVELERS   Reshuffling Of Humanity To Be Greater

Travel Situation Will Grow Worse Greatest Reshuffling Of  : Humanity

BUFFALO FORGE STRIKE CALLED _OFF BY UNION   Company's Alleged Refusal to Renegotiate Expired Contract Referred to WLB

Ickes Pictures Small Business Man As Loser During Conflict,   SALES TAX IS PROPOSED

New Policy Sought By  Secretary   Diligent Effort To Aid Small Business Man Requested Of Senate By Cabinet Member

Ickes Says Small Business Man Is Loser in the Wat   Urges, Before a Senate Committec  More Diligent Effort to Keep   Him on Going Basis,

Ickes Calls For More Diligent Effort To Keep Small Business Man On Sound Operating Basis

Smaller Mines Need Aid Says Secretary Ickes   Congress Ready To Tackle Issue Of Tax on Sales

Ickes Urges Ad for Small ~ Businessman      ‘Pictures Little Concerns as ‘the Forlorn’ Loser in Turmoil of War.   TRENDS:ARE CLEAR, SECRETARY. SAYS   Sales Tax. Issue. Bobs . Up Again; Coal Strike Causes Concerm:

lea in Behalf  Business Man   Secretary of Interior Says Efforts Must Be Made To Keep Him Going   SALES TAX IS 3OOSTED

Says Small Business Man orm Loser   Seeretary Ickes Calls for More Diligent Effort to Keep Him on a Going Basis; Other News of Convress

ckes Urges Aid for Small  3usiness Man   Secretary Pictures Him As Forlorn Loser In Turmoil of War

SMALL BUSINESSMAN PICTURED AS LOSER IN TURMOIL OF WAR _ SECRETARY OF INTERIOR  _ ICKES APPEARED BEFORE CENATE COMMITTEL

ICKES SEES SMALL ~~ BUSINESS LOSER   New Englanders Talk ot Fuel Shortage; Petrillo Gives Ground

ICKES SUPPORTS SMALL BUSINESS   Interior Secretary Asserts Greater Effort Needed For Little Operators

Jap Ships © Is Tip-off    LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF _ THE WAR IN SOLOMONS AND N GUINEA AREAS IS REPORTED .

Allied Planes Hit Large Jap Convoy   United Nations Alert for New Blows In Solomons, New Guinea Areas

NAZI SOLDIER HEEDS HIS FATHER’S ADVICE   Dutiful Son Follows Counsel t« Volunteer for Front Line Servlen. Then Surrender.

New Baton Rouge Rubbe: Plant Starts   First Bale of Synthetic Rubber Rolls Out of Project Erected in Record Time With NonCritical Material

First Synthetic Rubber Turned Out  Product Rolls From New Plant Replacing War-Lact Sunnly

FIRST FEDERAL ‘RUBBER’ PLANT IN OPERATION   Jeffers - Says. Qual Quality Exceeds Promise, Production May’ Not ‘Top: Rated Capacity --

Rubber Plant In Production   Government's First Synthetic Rubber; Is Turned Out in Plant

FIRST SYNTHETIC RUBBER FOR ALLIES BALED TODAY IN NEW LOUISIANA PLANT

First Government-sponsored Factory in Operation in 20 Weeks - - - Output Not for Civilian Use

Victory Rubber s Turned Out For First Time   Compact Bales Roll From Louisiana Factory To Replace Natural Supply

First Rubber From Gasoline   Government Plant Will Produce Four Million Tires Yearly

Job of Feeding United Nations Said Too Great  Bankhead Warns Farmers Unable to Handle Task

Job of Feeding United Nations Said Too Great  Rewleh arse] UT menens   Bankhead Warns Farmers Unable to Handle Task

STATE WILL CLOSE BOOKS IW BALANCE   $28,000,000 Earmarked for Post-War Reserve. and Construction.

GIRAUD HOLDS BOTH BRITISH, U.S, SUPPORT   Churchill Bares Request He be Kept In Command   Warning is Given Axis May Bomb JU. S. Cities

US, BRITISH “WAR SACGNE      Chur hitt Says Army _” Change Now Is © ;   Dangerous

Japs on Island of Attu Wiped Out   Japanese Reports Indicate Those Not Killed by the Americans Committed Suicide

$100,000 Voted For State C-D   Cuts Request in Two: House Votes Two Millions For State Guard.

House Votes Funds for Hike At State Prison   Republicans Override Opposition; Defense Slashed

VOTES CUT IN DEFENSE ALLOTMENT      House Allows $100,000 for , State Council Which 7 Asked $717,006   STATE GUARD FUND ALSO REDUCED   Other Appropriations ‘Are Acted Upon; All Must Go Before Senate

Seeks Ruling  On Integrated Bar Bill Vote   Validity. Of. Proceedings In: Which Bill . Was Passed Over Veto = Is Questioned Today

U.S. Bomber Bags  Nazi Submarine   German Satlor Rescued In Canbbean Waters

NEW.PLAN TO ~ DELAY DRAFT   MOVE IN BENATE TO POSTFONE FATHER DRAFT. FOR 60 DAYS PENDING AN INQUIRY

FATHER DRAFT LISTED FIRST. BY SENATORS    CHARGES OF “HOARDING MAN  POWER BY ARMED FORCES AND INDUSTRY WILL   BE AIRED.

SEEK 19 REVISE WHEELER BILL   Would Limit Fathers’ Draft Deferment to 69 Days for Waste Probe

CHARGE WASTE OF MANPOWER   Fathers’ Draft Precipitates Intense Controversy; Debate Tuesday

BATTLE OVER HOARDING OF LABOR GROWS   Precipitated by Controversy Over Drafting of Fathers

Travelers Out of Germany Agree: ‘No Internal Crackup This Winter’

Mussolini's Fall  Is Blow To Hitler   Huss Does Not Believe That Hitler Will Ever Resign, However   SPIRIT OF ALLIED FORCES IS SOARING

@B AWVEF AL AARWIEE  Resignation ot Mussolini Is Body Blow to Hitler—Huss

Naval, Air Units — Again Engaged In ~ Major Contest   Present Activities “Feelers” Knox: Says; Blows Exchanged in Wide Area as Japs < Make Mighty Bid for Control :

BLAST JAPS' PLANES Bast MEAD PARA      Gen. MacArthur Reports U. S. Bombers Destroy Many of Concentration of 950 Grounded Units.

U.S. Blasts at Gathering Jap Air Strength   Devastating Raid Staged on Three Enemy Airdromes-

New Holes Being Blasted By Americans   GERMANS SHOWING GAENS ON TWO IMPORTANT SEC. TORS NOW.

YANK BOMBERS HIT JAPANESE AT RABAUL      Destroy Majority ‘Of 250 Planes ‘Grounded There

At Least One Person Is Killed, 50 Injured As Windstorm Sweeps Down On Freeport Causing Heavy Property Loss

One Killed, 50 Hur In Freeport Storm   AUSTIN. Nov. 6—(AP)—The governor's office received reports tonight that two persons were killed and about 200 injured in a storm at Freeport.

ALLIES CATCH BIG SHIPS ON TUNISIA FLIGHT   Toll of April 17 Raid on Bremen Set at 63 Fighter Planes

AMERICAN ENVOY IS BACK FROM CHINA   Gauss And Two Chinese Officials Acrive In Miami In Special  Army Transport

Hitler’s Speech Seen As Signifying Nazis’ Determination To Hold Italy

NAZIS INTEND TO HOLD ITALY   London Times Warns Brit. ons Not to Underrate Hitler's Appeal

Feel Hitler Talk Will Spur Nazis   Britons Warned Not To Underrate Appeal

ITALIAN CHIEF'S RUMORED DEATH IS UNCONFIRMED   ALLIES WARNED NAZI LEADERS PLAN DEATH STRUGGLE FOR ITALY

FUEHRER SAYS ALLIED POWER TO BE CURBED   Swears Vengeance Against  ‘Treachery’ of Italians

BRITONS WARNED NOT TO UNDERRAT! ADOLF HITLER   Fuehrers Address Leaves No Doubt Nazis Will Put Up Stubbon Fight for  Italy

HITLER'S APPEAL MAY BOLSTER ~ NAZI. MORALI   n One of Most Direct Speeches He Promised Fighting in Italy—Condemned King .and Premier -Badoglio   ARMY CAN STAND

Believe Germans May Establish A ‘Defense Line Near ~ Rome As Result Of Moves

Control Of Air, Sea Gives Allies Advantage In Drive Through Italy   American Military Men Not Surprised By Swift Disposition Of German Army To Meet Invasion.   Hitler’s Speech Suggests German Defense Line To Be In Rome Area   Britons Warned By London Times Not To Underrate Force Of Appeal To German Soldiers And People; Speech Called Weak Effort.

HITLER'S APPEAL STILL POWERFUL   Feels Address Yesterday Left No Doubt Nazis Intend To Fight For Holds In Italy.

London Times Regards Hitler Talk. Effective with Germans; Others Say It Weakest Speech

BRITISH NOT TO OVERLOOK NAZIS’ TALK   Hitler’s Speech To Bolster Morale Of Germans

BRITONS ARE WARNED NOT TO UNDERRATE APPEAL OF HITLER  NO DOUBT LEFT THAT GERMANS INTEND TO TO FIGHT FOR ITALY

Rome Defense Line Probable  Paper Warns Agains‘ £22 Sey Seyi  SEE   Paper Warns Against Underrating Force Of Hitler Appeal

WEI LS FURNACE MAY BE MOVER   Unused Plants W anted For $3.500,000 Tron Ore Works In Texas

HOUSE 10 VOTE ON PAY-G0 TAX   Little Opposition Expected To Compromise On Forgiveness Plan

ROLLBACK OF BUTTEh PRIGES IN EFFECT   5 To 6 Cents Per Pound Price Cut Is Ordered

Entire Week Passes ‘Without Word of [Allied Ship Losses  U-Boat Seems Cripplec  As Merchant Craft  = Travel With Impunity

SUB CAMPAIGN LOSES FORCE   Figures Bear Out Churchill Statement of Failure of U-Boats

La Guardia Acts To Assure “leat   Challenges OPA To Stop City Plan

LAGUARDIA SETSUP MEAT SYSTEM   Faces OPA Opnosition B: Method of Consianment

WOUNDED MEN SENT TO STATE   175 War Casualties Arrive At Battle Creek Hospital Today.

GERMAN KURSK ARMY IS WIPED OUT BY SOVIETS   Reds Capture Kursk, To Find It “An Enormous Cemetery: Kharkov Menaced By New  Russian Movement.

SAGGING GERMAN LINES ARE POUNDED   Garrison Which Has Held Kursk Since Nov. 11, 1941,

German. Army of  Kursk Wiped Out   Russians Storm Into City, An Anchor Point of   German Line   REDS MENACE KHARKOV   Germans Counter Attack in Effort to Hold Rostov _ in South

Vatutin's Mobile Units Press To ward Sea of Azov to Bottle 0; fermane at Rostoy   COUP WINS KURSK   Simulfaneously Assaults From Several Points Take Vital Point in Nazi Defense Plan

‘Russians Find Enemy Anchor Poirit Is “Enormous Cemetery’’: Kharkoy:- Menaced

REDS CONTINUE HITTING NAZIS   Smash Anew at Foe’s Sagging Lines After Capturing Kursk,   NEAR KHARKOV, ROSTOV

Reds Hammer Nazis After Taking Kursk   Destroy German Army in City— Kharkov Also Menaced

RUSSIANS RENEW BROAD ATTACKS   Germans Counter-Attack About Rostoy in Attempt to Hold That City

Kharkov and Rostov Likely Next Victims   Russians Close In on Rostov, Driving Down Donets River

SOVIET FORCES "DESTROY NAZIS IN VITAL CITY   Russians Surge Ahead On Three Major Fronts

Strong Base Captured In , Bloody Cour   Encircled Germans Even Call Men From Hospitals to Help Make Stand   ‘RELIEF WILL COME,’ MEN ARE TOLD   Fierce Battles Are Waged On Steep River Bank; City Virtually Demolished

REDSSMASHANEW AT THREE POINTS IN GERMAN LINES   KURSK CAPTURED; HELD BY INVADERS SINCE NOV. 11, 1941

NAZIS TRYING HARD TO HOLD ROSTOV BASE   Kursk Said Virtually Demolished: Soviets Move Ahead Everywhere

Kursk Reported an Enormous Cemetery   Nazi Army Destroyed in Fall of City, Red Dispatches Say—Soviets Continue to Smash at Sagging Enemy Lines in Three Sectors.

Nazi Army Tn Kursk Is Destroyed By Russians   Red Troops Smash  Anew At Enemy In Three Other Sectors After Starming City

Reds Find Fallen Kursk  An ‘Enormous Cemetery      Soviet Army Smashes At Sagging German Lines tn) Three Sectors After Capture Of Kursk And Destroying Enemy Garrison.

Fall Of Citadel To Reds Imperils Whole Nazi Line   Russians Keep Up Pursuit; Kharkov Menaced By Similar Encirclement

(EVE-WITNESS TELLS cr WHAT HE SAW AT STALINGRAD       emaining Germans Put: ing Up Stiff Fight

Kursk Falls Before Big Russian Smash   Soviets Find City ‘Enormous Cemetery’; Reds Continuing Their Encirclement Of Foe At Kharkov, Rostov

RUSSIAN FORCES WIDEN ROUT OF —HITLER’S ARMY   Reds Advance Along Thre Fronts After Smashing Through Kursk’s Gates

Entire German Army Taken In Key Bastion   Kharkov And Rostov Threat ened By Encircling Movements Of Russian Armies  .. I a a a

REDS SMASH GERMAN LINES IN 3 SECTORS   ACTIVITY FOLLOWS CAPTURE OF KURSK, DESTRUCTION OF NAZI FORCES

Nazi Lines Sag In 3 Areas; Kharkov Is Menaced By Reds   Germans Counterattack At Rostov, Trying Desperately To Hold Vital City

Russians Smash At Sagging Nazis   NEW GAINS MADE BY REDS IN SOVIET DRIVE

NEMY ANCHOR POINT FALLS 10 RUSSTAN DRIVE   erman Force In-Area.De stroyed, According to Moscow High Command Announcement   URSK FOUND TO. BE GIGANTIC CEMETER})   jazis Counter-Attacking  About Rostov In Attempt  to Hold City From Reds, 3 Miles Away

Nazi Troops At Kharkov . in Grave Peril   Germans at Rostov Counterattack in Effort to Hold Citv.

SOVIET ARMIES SWEEP TOWARE AUSTOV, KHARK CY   Army Under Gen. Schneider Destroyed: German Counter Attacks Quickly Broken Up

Red Army Smasl..,, Into Kursk, Wipes Out Hitler Forces   Russians Sweep Into Kursk, Nazi Ancho Point on Moscow-to-Crimea Rail Line, From Several Directions, It Is Stated

Pass Kursk In Pursuit  Of Nazis   Russian Army = Strikes West And South Ir Following Up Seizure Of German Bastion

GOP Leaders Post Warnings  Hit “New Dictatorshi; vlad diaciiddielaeabli

REPUBLICANS SOUND WARNING OVER FREEDOM   Senator Willis Charges “Controls of Free Citizenship Are Needlessly  Being Stripped Thin”   HITS BUREAUCRACY   Says Precedents in Hands of Designing Executive Could be Used to Over throw Government

[Russians Surge On Despite Cold, Fog   Gunbarrel "Every 20 Yards’’ Pounds At Sagging Nazi Lines As Winter Moves In

REDS LENGTHEN OFFENSIVE ARC WEST OF KIEV   Russians Surge Within 35 Miles Of The Rail City Of Zhitomir   WITHDRAWALS ARE ADMITTED BY NAZIS

Victors Push On From Kiev Triumph   Stalin’s Forces Drive Steadily Toward Vital Rail Communications of Foe And Press Ahead Despite Bad Weather

Russ Forces Surge! ead   60 More Pic. cs Taken During Day’s Bettles

SAGGING NAZI LINES BASRED BY RED ARMY   MASSED ARTILLERY PUSHES GERMANS BACK 66 MILES

Picture: Of “’Mister’’ _ Fortress’ Mascot, Is... God. News. To Local: People, Crewmen’s: vic in

Picture Of “Mister”, Fortress Mascot, Is ‘Good News To Local People. ‘Crewmen’s Kin

TAX MEASURE NEAR PASSAGE IN HOUSE   Knutson-Pledges No Further Increases to Be Asked

HOUSE SET 10 PASS GREAT NEW REVENUE BILL      Solons Told Government Has Departed From Sound Principles   REVISION IS PROMISED   Measure Carries Only Fifth Of Program Asked By Administration

NEW TAX BILL ~ BEFORE: HOUSE   KNUTSON DECLARES REPUBLICANS WILL OPPOSE FUTURE "INCREASES IN. FED, _  _ ERAL TAXES

Board to Ask: FDR to Open  Collieries   12,500 Miners Vote to Continue Strike Despite Secor WLB Ultimatum

WORKERS GIVE FLAT REFUSAL TO WLB ORDER   13,500 Idle as Government Debates Next Step

13,500 Pennsylvania Coal Miners Refuse to Return to Their Jobs: Labor Board Asks President’s Aid

MINERS AWAIT NEXT MOVE BY GOVERNMENT   Anthracite Strikers Defy Sec ond WLB Order; 8,400 Vote To Obey

MINERS FLATLY REFUSE TO END WILDCAT STRIKE   Thousands Of Defiant Miners Await Pos. sible Government Seizure Of Thei:  Collieries.

Striking Coal Miners Retuse To Resume Jobs  WLB Refers Case Th Pracident

SEIZURE LOOMS UNLESS STRIKE ENDED   Total of 12,500 Miners Now Idle in Pennsylvania; Lewis Is on Spot

May Turn Coal Walkout Over  To Roosevelt   Over 12 Thousand Miners Stay Away From Mines Despite Second Order.   #000 BACK AI JOBS

DEFIANT COAL MINERS AWAIT ACTION BY U.S   Total of 12,500 Vote to Re.  main Idle Despite NLB’s 7 Ruling They End Strike   8.500 WILL RETURN   Public Member of Labor Board Says Matter Will Have to Be Referred to President

13,500 Miners ‘Flatly Refuse To End Strike   Ignore Second W. L. B. Ultimatum; Government Seizure Impends.

pret MOVE BY ROOSEVELT 18 FORECAST   WAR LABOR BOARD TURNS . OVER COAL STRIKE PROB.  LEM TO PRESIDENT ‘ \ °° MAY CALL TROOPS °

* Miners’ ,Defy WPB Order   ® 43,500 Hard Coal Men Refuse Backto-Work Move   8,400 TO OBEY   Anthracite Section Awaits Action by Government

Thousands of Pennsylvania’s Striking Miners Refuse To End 19-Day-Old Walkout

VLB Will Ask F.D.R. lo Appeal   ‘housands Flatly Refuse To Remrn To Work In Pennsylvania Mines

Mexico Will Furnish Men if Necessary   Contribution to Allied Cause Now Mostly Supplies

MEXICO IS SENDING SUPPLIES TO ALLIES   President Camacho 5a ys Nation Can Send Men If’ Necessary

WILL INGREASE BEET ACREAGE   Jones Declares Extent to Be Announced Saon

SEPARATE ATR ARM.   Maas Warns Navy's Air Chief tc “Get More Air-minded.”’

Allied Dispatches Indicate Battle to Drive Nazis Into Sea ts at Hand.

Mareth Line Hit By Eighth Army Force   Coastal End Of Old French Fortifications Struck In Heavy Force By British Troops

DRIVES INTO MARETH LINE   Terrific Artillery Barrage Precedes Onslaught

GERMANS SAY EIGHTH ARMY OPENS ATTACK   Allied Dispatches Do Not Confirm Nazi Reports But Leave Little Doubt.

HAMBURG NE BREAKING POINT DUE TO BOMBING:   Sleepless Days, Nights and Wrecking of City Beginning to Tell on Poputace,

‘City Smashed Five Times In 60 Hours—1918 - German Riots “May Return *  ‘NO, REST FOR ENEMY RAF; U. S. Air Force Raid  : Many Other Vital a 1 Targets

BOMBERS GIVE ~ HAMBURG TEST OF AR POWER   Nazi Port Is Under Continuous Day, Night Raids   GERMAN CRACKUP IN 1918 STARTED THERE

Electrical Storm Hits Pittsburgh  Naval Lieutenant Is Drowned As Squall Overturns Sailboat

Important Victory South of Kiev; Nazis -Desperately Counter Still Further South

Nazis Counter Reds In Battle For Bridzehead   Launching Dozen Sallies Daily To Hold Their Grip On Eastern Bank Of Dnieper

Beat OH ~ Nazis at Dnieper   Russian Artillery Breaking Down Strong Counter . Blows, Moscow: Reports   GERMANS PLANNING NEW DEFENSE LINE   ‘But Reds Are Pressing: On Despite. the Fierce. and Stubborn Resistance

COURSE MAPPED: ROR HANDLING RED-POLE ISSUE   Churchill and Roosevelt  Reached Agreement, it  Is Believed, by TransAtlantic Telephone   POLES SOFTEN STAND   Deny Having Claims or Soviet Territory and of Quisling-Like Dealing With Nazis

U.8. And Britain Agree   one On Course To Follow In Russ-Pole Crisis

LEADERS SEEK T0 PATCH BREAK IN ALLIED FRONT   AGREE ON COURSE TO BE FOLLOWED IN RUSS-POLISH SPLIT

Quisling-Like Dealings with Nazis Denied   FDR, Churchill Agree on Course to Follow in Attempting to Patch Up Russo-Polish Differences

Polish- Russian Course Charted  Roosevelt and Church ill Agree on Policy

UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN. ATTEMPTING SETTLE DIFFERENCE   _ ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL CONFER ON RUSSIAN. POLISH SPLIT

 Churchill and Roosevelt Reported In Accord ‘On Course To Be Followed In Russo-Polish Rift

Churchill And Roosevelt In Accord On Course To Follow In Patching Up Red-Polish Dispute

CHURCHILL, FDR IN AGREEMENT ON POLISH QUESTION   Reach Agreement On Course To Follow In Attempting To Patch Up Differences Between Russia and Polish Government.

Agree On Course  In Pole Dispute  F. R., Churchill Confer On Healing Breach

ASKS RELEASE OF POLES WHO ARE IN RUSSIA   Churchill, F.D.R. Re ported Trying To Patch Up Break

U.S.-British Go to Stalin In Poles’ Case   Roosevelt and Churchill Reported Seeking to Heal Differences

Seek to Join Poles, Reds      Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt Lay Reconciliation Plans

FOR, Churchill Move To Settle Red Pole Breach   Allied Executives May Ask Stalin To Cooperate

Roosevelt And Churchill Plan Appeal To Stalir   Urgent Measures Taken To Heal Russian-Polish Breach In United Front; Crisis Blamed + On German Propaganda Trick

Allies Try to Heal Break   British and U. S. Authorities Would End Pole-Russian Dispute

Agreement on  Poles Hinted   FDR, Churchill Said to Have Reached Accord

Plan Course En  Pole-Red Fued   Churchill, Roosevelt Will Attempt To Patch Differences With Appeals.

TONS OF BOMBS PLASTER SOFIA   American Planes Return Without Loss After Raid On Capital

Hull Urges Renewal Of  Trade Pacts   Says We Must Show the World We'll Work For Lasting Peace

HULL THINKS RECIPROCAL TRADE SETTLED   Thinks U. S. Should Demonstrate They Will Cooperate With Allies In Peace or War Time

Hull Pleads for  Donowal of Trade  Agreements Act  House Group Told Action Will he

HULL STRESSES TRADE PROGRAM   Agreements Should Be Renewed, He Declares, to Avoid Future Troubles

Hull Urges Trade Pacts Renewal   Will Demonstrate U. S. Cooperation. He Says

TAXES ADDED 10 MATERIALS COSI   Representative Says Industry Has Paid 3 Billion From   Uncle Sam’s Pocket. 

48 Corporations Accused Of Making Huge Profits By Charging U.'S. For Taxes   Companies on War Contracts Have Figured Their Taxes Part-of' Production Cost

CALLS 48 FIRMS WAR PROFITEERS   Congressmen Claims War Piants Figure Taxes As Cost

ENGEL CITES CASES OF HUGE PROFITS   Says Firms Are Including Taxes in Production Costs

PRESS EXCLUSION ROW STIRRED UP   YNRR Conference Pepped Up With Russian En vov Blamed

100 Italian Warships, 150,000 Tons of Cargo Craft in Allied Hands

HEAT CENTERS HERE   Temperatures Above 100 Generally in Kansas Yesterday

HOUSE BEGINS SECOND DEBATE ON RUML PLAN   Proposal Is Attacked, Defended in Showdown Fight

ATTACKS MADE QN RUML PLAN   Representative Doughton asks House to kill controversial bill

FILL AUDITORIUM FOR K. U. VESPERS   Annual Christmas Program Was Given Yesterday  Afternoon

FILL AUDITORIUM FORK. U. VESPERS    .  Annual Christmas Program _ Was Given Yesterday . Afternoon   YULETIDE ATMOSPHERE

YANKS RAID TARGETS NEAR ROME AREA  fe. _ a ae "Ta   Operate from Bomber Base In Italy

U. §. Airmen Operating From Italy Bases Stage Daily Raids on Nazis

U.S. AIR CRAFT GO ON DAILY FORAYS FROM ITALY BASE   Officer Lauds Deadly Work Of Versatile A-36 Invader Assauit Pinner

_A-36 Best of Its Kind In Air F orce.  Now Operating From lealy  Base

U.S. May Seize Mines Closed  ByWalk-Out   12.500 Men Idle In Biggest Manpower Tie-up Since Japs Struck Pearl Harbor

Allies Slash Ahead in Big Leros Battle   NAZI CASUALTIES HIGH AS BRITISH IMPROVE  DODECANESE POSITIONS

SPANISH OFFICERS. FLEE TO PORTUGAL   Arrest Threats Cause Six Leave Home Country.

Mrs. Catherine Wright, Wife of Soldier, Says She Walked to Hospital and Took First Baby She Came To on Entering Nursery—Posed Nine Months as Expectant Mother— Seized While Preparing to Leave Albany, Ore.

WOMAN CONFESSES TAKING OF INFANT   Prisoner Dictates Story of Abduction of 2-Day Old Baby

Woman Tells Of Taking Baby From Hospital   Walked into Institution, Picked Up First Infant She Saw and Departed

Woman Admits KidnapingBaby  Accused Says She Took Ome Dene. Bonus Poh

Woman Admits Abducting Child From Hospilal   Wife of Soldier Took Firs Baby She Came to in Nursery

Aloysius Marblehead Shows How To Figure Tax Estimate   BY JAMES MARLOW awn SEARLE TIFT E

Today On The Home Front   The Long Form Way of Figuring Your Income Tax

' TODAY on the HOME FRONT   How to Figure Income Tax on Short Form

Use of the Short Form Work Sheet In Working Out Estimate of Tax   By JAMES MARLOW AND tore SIPITKSE

Short Form Method of Working Out Income Taxes Explained   By JAMES MARLOW AND GEORCE ZIELKE

oe ee IE ee ge _oOoOoO Se  One Texas Cold Wave Passing But Another Is Coming

U.S. Agencies Silent on 3-Foot Plan   Scheme for 17 Feet Abandoned; Seek Storage in Idaho

Fish Tug Balks Entry Of Diver   Lighthouse Tender Will Try To Raise Craft

INSPECT HULL OF SUNK TUG   High Seas, However, Balk Efforts to Reach Five Bodies

City Preparing For Air Raids   Says Pittsburgh May Be Axis Target

MINERS REICICE WHEN SAVED FROM FRLEWIS CHOICE   Resent Slur on Patriotism. Ail Listen to President’s Anneal.

Miners Rejoice Truce Saved  Choice Between FDR And Lewis   President’s Appeal To Miners’ Patriotism Most Touching, —- Large Number Of Miners’ Sons In Service

MINERS HAPPY BECAUSE WORK IS TO RESUME   Rejoice Over Circumstances That Saved Them Necessity Of Choice

Yanks Battle Savagely To Drive Nazis From Naples; Soviet Forces  Open Terrific Offensive At Kiev

FLYING FORTS POUND EMDEN IN NEWEST RAIL   Resumption of U-Boat Campaign Is Being Caped With Gnce More.

Allied Planes End Lull Over Europe   Hit U-Boat Center,  Bases in France

SHIPBUILDING CENTER OF EMDEN IS BLASTED   American Flying Fortresses in Considerable Strength, Pounded Noxi U-Boat Base in First Raid Over Germany in Three Weeks—Raid Coincides With Resumption of German Submarine Attacks on Allied Convoys in North Atlantic.

HoH BP OT le ee ONLY STRONG GERMAN’ PRES‘SURE HAS PREVENTED OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENTS, IT ’ ¥83 SAID

F orts Bag 38 Nazi Planes in Big Raid   Few Attacks Made on Shipping  More U-Boats Sunk Than Cargo Ships in August, OWI Reports

SUB HUNTING GOOD DURING LAST MONTH   More ¥°-Boats  Ynan Merchant Ships Were Sunk In 4ugust,  Government Reports

U-Boat Warfare Is Successful  More Subs Are Sunk Than Merchantmen

OWI SAYS AUGUST - HARD ON U-BOATS   Reoorts -More— Subs— Surik: Than Merchant Vesesle -

Soviets Pierce Last Stalingrad Defenses   Admission Comes From Nazi High Commance —Russians Also Score New Gains on Rostov Front and Are Only 40 Miles From City.

Nazis Admit Lines Broken At Stalingrad   Russians Also Tell of Pin cers Move Pushing Closer to Rostov   ANOTHER DRIVE ON SEA BASE   Other Moves Progressing as Berlin Reports Death of Two Generals

Stubborn Resistance By Germans  Is Broken   Berlin Announces ‘Defensive Ring’ At Stalingrad Breached: Two Generals Killed

Reds Riddle Nazi Pocket   Berlin Admits Troops In Stalingrad ‘Host’

Berlin Admits Nazi Defensive Ring Breached  Broadcast Also Reports Death of Two German Generals

RUSSIAN TROOPS — BREAK THROUGH DEFENSE RING   Into Last Bulwark of the German Defenders of Stalingrad.   IN SEVERAL PLACES   Berlin Military Quarters Announce Death of Two German Generals.

AST BULWARK T STALINGRAD ‘AS COLLAPSED   Sront West of Voronezh Also Alive With Action, : With Reds Advancing  3 Toward Kursh   BERLIN ANNOUNCES EATHS OF GENERALS   ungarians Shot by Gerfmans to Keep Them From Surrendering; Reds ’ Nearer Rostov

NAVY REVEALS CITY OF FLINT VICTIM OF SUB   Famous U. S. Ship: Sent To Bottom By Reich U-Boat In Atlantic During January   17 CREWMEN LOST   First Seized By Germans In 1939, Soon After War. Began; Later Turned Loose By Norway

Sub: Gets Famed City of F ‘lint, Which Nazis: Tried To Seize Before Ameri ica Enter ed. War

American Ship City Of Flint Sunk By Axis   Steamship Was Once Seized By Germans, Later Set Free By Norway.   CREW LOSES 17 OF 65

City of Flint, Center of 1939 Controversy, Sunk By German Submarine

CITY OF FLINT IS TORPEDOED   U.S. Loses Steamship, Which Figured in Controvery Before War’s Outbreak

IN APPEAL _ TO HITLER      More Secret Police Units Asked as Unrest Spreads 7 in Burope   GERMAN ADMIRAL LEAVES FRANCE   } But Dutch Radio Warns Holland Against Any Premature Revolution

DUTCH TOLD TO DELAY REVOLT   Time Not Yet Ripe Fer General Uprising, Nation Told

BULGARIA ASKS HITLER'S HELP AGAINST RIOTS      King Boris Makes Urgent Appeal For Secret Police As Protection Against Disturbances —   HIMMLER ENROUTE   Meanwhile, Indications Trouble Might Be Brewing In France Seen In Reports of Arrests

Report Rioting in Germany as Unrest Spreads in Europe   Dutch Warned by Their  Government Against

DUTCH WARNED TO HOLD BACK   Told Time Is Not Yet Ripe For Staging Revolution   RETALIATION FEARED

Bulgaria Asks Gestapo Quelling Unrest   Dutch Government In Exile Warns Against Premature Revolt

Unrest Gains On Continent; Boris Worried  Himmler In Bulgaria:   Himmler In Bulgaria: Seize 200 Members Of Vichy Government: Doenitz Moves Office

DISTURBANCE IN BULGARIA ON INRCEASE   Reports Reaching Allied Headquarters State King Boris Has Appealed For More Police   VIOLENCE IN FRANCE

Waring’s Attack On Lewis Has  Repercussion   Legion Commander Hints At Ousting of Post That Assails His Stand

R.A. F. Batters Nazi Sub Base   Nearly 300 Bombers Blast St. Nazaire

RAF Throws Nearly 300 Bombers At U-Boat Base  Large Fires Started At. Nazi French Davi wf St Noagvniroe

St. Nazaire Battered Again by RAF Raiders; Brittany Railways Hit

RAF Batters Sub Base At St. Nazaire  “Petech Purl Nearly   ‘British Hurl Nearly 300 Four-Motor Bombers at Enemy

Nazi U-Boat Base Of St. Nazaire Is Battered by RAF   Only One Plane Lost Speedy Mosquitos Blast Locomotive Works

RAF Stages Big Air Raid   One Bomber Is Lost In St. Nazaire Raid

RAF Throws Nearly 300 Bombers At U-Boat Base  Large Fires Started At Nazi French ss Dart af St Nazaire

NAZIS PUT WEDGE INTO RED LINES   Germans Claim Advance s Made Above Smolensk: Moscow Reports 31 Naz Planes Shot Down Sunday

Reds, Nazis Claim Victories in See-Saw Battling   Both Sides Report Thrusts and Parries on Front

‘Nazis put wedge in Russ line’   Best weather for fichting arrives

Nazis Claim Some Gains  jay Wedge Driven   jay Wedge Driven nto Soviet Lines.

CLAIM WEDGE IN RED LINES   Germans Report Thrust Above Smolensk Was  Successful

WEDGE IN RED LINES CLAIMED   Germans Report Thrust Above Smolensk ; Best Weather Arrives

June Is Best War Month For Soviets   Germans Claim Break in Red Lines in North

1 KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK   12 Hurt as One Train Sideswipes Another

SEVEN MEN KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK   Passenger Train Sideswipes Train From Branch Line In Central Washington

MARTINQUE WILL LINE UP WITH THE ALLIES SHORTLY   Henri Etienne Hoppenot Has Been Designated Plenipotentiary.   GO FROM WASHINGTON   lhe French Possession in the Caribbean to Break Ties With Vichy.

Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Giraud Offers Resicnation.

TROOPS PAID ~ UNION DUES   SOLDIERS WHO WORKED IN ‘EOMATO: ‘HARVEST: CHARGED  “38 ‘CENTS PER WEEK  . IN DUES ©

Restore Order in Detroit   Motorized Army Troops Put Down Violent Race Riot

RIOTING ENDo Aa ULDIERG PATROL DETRONT STREETS   lotal of 25 Dead, 700 Injured During 24 Hours Of Racial Outbreaks

Demand French Solve Dispute  - Communist Deputie: Teeae Manifesto

Communists Urge Early Accord in Camps of French   Leaders in Algiers De  mand DeGaulle and  Giraud Get Together

Troops Drive on Toward San Vittore   Americans Are Now Within Five Miles of Cassino

DETROIT RIOT INVESTIGATED   Negro Leaders Blamed By FactFinding Committee

ANOTHER STORY ON OPA SITUATION IN STATE OF TEXAS   DALLAS PAPER SAYS  Hpeernpe peniiccn   DALLAS PAPER SAYS DIRECTORS REDUCED TO DISTRICT HEADS

ANOTHER STORY ON  OPA SITUATION IN  STATE. OF TEXAS DALLAS PAPER SAYS  DIRECTORS REDUCED  TH NieTRICT UFANC

Yank Attack Inches In On Munda Field   Encirclers Withir 1,900 Yards Of Tan Air Race

Reds Surprised At Their Gains   Entire Strategy ~ Being Redrafted

Reds Surprised At Their Gains  _ Entire Strategy Cte To lip Eten ofl

Smashing Successes, a Surprise Even to Soviet High Command, Brings Change in Strategy — Losses of Germany and Her Allies Placed at 1,000,000 Men Since First Blow in Russian Winter Drive Was Struck at Stalingrad.

Scope of Russian Successes Amazes Even the Sqviets   “Entire Nezi Defense , Svsfem Defeated: Axis Losses Over 1,000.000

German Losses Set at Million   Soviets Surprised At Huge Successes

AIRMEN SMASh NAZI RAIL HUB   AMERICAN LIBERATORS KNOCK OUT BOLZANO

BRENNER PASS CITY BATTERED   ‘Bolzano Railway Yards And Bridge Are Hammered

BRENNER PASS 10 /TTALY HIT AGAIN BY LIBERATORS   Raid on Bolzano Follows Swiftly After Bombing of Moareeilies -hoat Pens.

RAIL LINK BETWEEN ITALY AND GERMANY MAY BE SLICED   Liberator Bomber: Conduct Heavy Raid on Bolzano

Railway Link With Italy Is Cut By Bombs   Bridge, Tracks Below Brenner Pass Knocked Out By Heavy Raid

Wac Murdered Mysteriously In Indiana Hote!   Half-Nude Body O  Divorcee Found

A WAC Corporal Killed in Hotel   Mystery Surrounds — the Slaying of Prominent Georgia Divorcee.

WAC CORPORAL IS FOUND SLAIN IN HOTEL ROO)   Attractive Divorcee, 32, Is Murdered In Indiana; Army Finds Meagre Clues In Death

WAC SLAIN IN INDIANAPOLIS   Cpl. Ridings’ Semi-Nude Body Found in Downtown Hotel Room

Wac Found Dead Thought Murdered   Body of Attractive Member of Prominent Family Found in Hotel

Pretty WAC Slain   Partly Nude Body Of Member Of Prominent Georgia Family Discovered In Hotel Room

WAC’s Body Found In Room In Hotel   Mystery Injected Into Killing by Bellboys’ Reports of ‘Woman In Black’ in Room, Scream Into Telephone and Room Vacated by Soldier

WAC CORPORAL, 32 IS FOUND SLAID   Of Divorcee In Hotel af Indianapolis

Air Campaign on Continent Gains  Shipping Hit Off Holland's Coast

Allies Bomb Nazi Vessels   Coastal Shipping HitDuring Big Raid Lull

ALLIED BOMBING FORAYS RESUMED   LOW-LEVEL ATTACK SEES ENEMY SHIPPING OFF HOLLAND AND FRANCE HIT.

Allied Air Attack Across Channel Again Stepped Up by Fighters and Bombers

Allied Air Raids Gain Momentum  In Channel Area  Attacks on Shipping And Military Points Continue Second Day

AUSTRALIANS TAKE BONGA, SUPPLY CENTEF   Light Allied Naval! Forces Bombard Sio on New Guinea

BONGA FALLS; WARSHIPS RAIN SHELLS ON SIQ   Jap Base Bombarded Along Coast Of New Guinea

Allied Naval Forces Bombard New Guinea Base   Bonga Supply Center Captured By Australians

New Guinea Coast Shelled  By Warships   Allied Warcraft Pound Jap-Held Sio, North of Finschhafen

WARSHIPS SHELL SIO, JAP BASE   Aussies Continue Advance On Huon Peninsula

Light Allied Naval Forces  Bombard Sio   Bonga Supply Center Captured Rv Australians

AUSSIE TROOPS CAPTURE BONGA IN NEW GUINEA      Pursue Japanese Troops From Huon Peninsula — Sio Is Shelled

Four Children Burn fo Death   Wife of Soldier and Two Older. Children Escape Burning Home

Consumer Rationing Of Liquor Is Predicted Within Next Few Months

CONSUMER RATIONING OF LIQUOR COMING   Dealers Forced Fo Take Action Be cause OF Duindling Sup. lies, Official Saves

Liquor Rationing in Sight Throughout Entire Nation   Dealers to be Forced to Curtail Sales As a Result of Sharply Limited Supplies

LIQUOR RATIONING IS EXPECTED SOON   Consumers to be Limited, Association Officials Acceart —

RATIONING OF LIQUOR MAY START SOON   Stocks Throughout Nation Getting Slimmer

Liquor To Be Rationed, Too   Supplies Sharply Limited For Duration

School Teachers May Lose Pay Boost In Bitter GOP Wrangle   ‘House Stands Firm Against Senate Attempt To Cut Wage  ; Increase By $2,500,000

Chairman Dick Lane Favors Liquor By The Drink In Iowa      State Capitel News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent _

By-the-Drink Question Again Before  —— Sowans   Liquor Commission Head Favors Change In Law

Enders Bus Line Ouster Is Sought   Greyhound Sues, Wants St:-Joe-Kazoo Rights

CHINESE FORCED BACK IN BURMA   Two - Column Offensive Of Nipponese Gains On Vital Gateway

See-Saw Fight Puts Japs Somewhat Forward in China  Defenders Are Pushec Back Despite Determined Battling

RAINFALL SETS NEW MARK IN CALIFORNIA   25.83 Inches Fall in 24-Hour Period

NWO -WIDESPREAD RESTORATION OF PRODUCTION FOR CIVILIANS EXPECTED, — ' HOWEVER -

MAY OPEN UP UME PLANTS UVER GUUNTRY   Believed WNation’s Civilian Economy Has Been Cut Too Much.   TRUCKS ARE NEEDED   Radiz Tubes, Batteries, Furniture and Refrigerators Are Short.

Hershey Foresees More Scarcity Of Men for Army  Draft Chief Declares Supply Is Low; 4-F’s Will Be Called

DRAFT SUPPLY NEAR BOTTOM OF BARREL   Director Hershey, if He Has His Way, Will Take Those in Class 4-F Next.

House Votes Against Food Tax Repeal   Republicans Decide To Tur Down Bricker Proposal

BRICKER’S PROGRAM REJECTED (N STATE   Surprise Inaugural Recommendation for Sales Tax Slash Is  Turned Down,

366 MILLION BUDGET IS PASSED; HOUSE REFUSES TO CUT MEALS SALES TAX

EMERGENCY WAR ACT DEFEATED   Senate Strikes Out Special Governor Power

YANK BOMBERS HIT JAP BASES   292 Nip Planes Shot Down While Liberators Blast Targets in Burma

United States-Finland Break Is Soon Expected      Finns Will String Along With the Axis, It Is Believed —People of Nation Express Anxiety Over Possibility of Break

Finnish relations strained   See possibility of early break, perhaps Monday

U. S.-Finn Break Is Said Imminent; Germans Confident  Indications Suggest _ Rupture But ' Officials Are Silent

Break of U. S., Finland Nears   Diplomatic Breach May Come Today

U. S. BREAK WITH FINLAND SEEMS QUESTION OF HOURS   Reliable Sources Indicate Washington Is Bringing Strong Pressure on Helsinki Government

Break Between U.S. - Finland Appears Likelv   Reports from Helsinki indicate Germany feels confident. of rupture between countries.

U. §., Finland Near Break  in Relations   Indications Are That Action to Be Taken Soon

U.S. Break With Finland Expected Almost Hourly  Sweden Hears Nazis  Confident That Finns Uarrdes O, ooo  A .   Washington ‘Can’t Ask Us to Put Rope Around Necks,’ Says Spokesmar

United States-Finland Break Is Soon Expected   Finns Will String Along With the Axis, It Is Believed — Eee of Nation Express Anxiety Over Baecihilitu aft Rraal

LARGE CONVOY ATTACKED BY ALLIED PLANES   Direct Hits Scored On 8,090 Ton Transport

2 Hits Scored On 8-Ship Jap Convoy   tour Vessels Struck Since Running Attack Ofi Northern New Guinea Began; Ambon-Dobo Area Reinforced

‘Allied Planes Hit Two More Jap Ships   Action Continues Against Convoy Sighted Saturday

American Bombers Attack Jap Ships  Near New Guinea    Convoy of Eight Vessels Intercepted One Transport and One Cargo Ship Struck, High Command Reports

Another Jap Convoy Hit    Allies Lash Two Of Eight Ships Near New Guinea

BOMBS FALL ON NIP TRANSPORT AND CARGO SHIP   Enemy Convoys of Three Destroyers and Five Merchant Ships Covered by, Jap Fighters   SOLDIER-LADEN VESSEL IN FLAMES   Allies Continuing Attack  Despite Bad Weather in  Effort to Wipe Out All Vessels

Hit Two Ships, One a Destroyer, Off New Guinea   Japanese Attempting To Concentrate Fleet North of Australia   Flying Fortresses Bomb Enemy Shipping in Bad Weather

Election By Voting Boxes   Allied Planes Bomb 8-Shipn Jan Convov

Troopship And Cargo Carrier Hit By Bombs   Eight Boats Intercepted Near New Guinea; Ak lied Bombers Seek To Continue Attack Des-  pite Bad Weather And Long Distance  _—

Foe Concentrates Many More Craft In Australia Area  Tokyo Sending More Ground Forces and Expanding Air Fields  BLAST KISKA TWICE  Four of Eight Vessels Sighted Off New Guine: Saturday Are Blasted

‘Growing Concentration Of 'JapaneseShips Observed Northwest Of Australia   fwo More Vessels In Enemy Convoy, Including De stroyer, Hit By Flying Fortresses Off Wewak: * Weather Hampers Operations

ENEMY CONVOY UNDER ATTACK   Allied Bombers Sight Eight Jap Ships Off New Guinea; Bombs Damage Transport and Cargo Vessel

Enemy concentrating ships northwest coast Australia, reinforcing ground forces   Building airfields; allies hope for crushing defeat

Two More Jap Ships Bombed   Foe Masses Vessels In Ambon-Dobo Arec

AN AVISORY VOTE   Citizens Will Express Views on Parking Meters Tuesday

LABOR WOULD GET VOICE IN MANAGEMENT   Recommendations for Government Controlled EKconomy Submitted by FDR.

CONGRESS GETS NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY PLAN   Plan Has Enthusiastic Sanction Of Roosevelt—Action Desired

POST-WAR SOCIAL REVOLUTION PLAN IS BEFORE HOUSE   Program Involves Government Portnership in Private Industry—F.D.R.  Racke Pranaram.

Blo STEEL CITY IN RUHR BLASTEA   RAF Hurls Blockbusters ) and Incendiaries Down  On Duisberg

The Army To Run Railroads   Ready to Use Troops ' If Necessary to Keep Trains Moving; Labo Conditions Frozen.

Wages: Labor Terms Frozen Under Orde:      Arbitration Award to Train men, Engineers in’ Effect Rail Heads Sworn In:         WILL KEEP TRAINS ©... =: . GOING; ARMY SAYS   Also Will.Use Army Trucks If Necessary; Seriousness: of Any Stoppage Cited ~:

MINIVER”  “TOPS FOR 1942   Academy Award Also Te Film’s Two Leading Actresses, Director

GARSON, CAGNE' AWARDED OSCARS   Win Honors For Movie Performances ; “Mrs. Miniver aan Picture

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST RAIL JUNCTION NORTH OF ROME, TWO FACTORIES HIT

Important Italian  Rail Center Hit.   Terni Blasted By :  American Planes‘

Italian Rail Town Ripped   Flying Forts Moke Strong Attack Upon Terni; Heavy Damage

FLYING FORTRESSES HIT VARIOUS POINTS TO NORTH OF ROME   Only Minor Opposition I: Met In Raid On Terni Rail Junction Arid No Ground Fire

UNION HEAD REFUSES 10 TALK TERMS   Threat of second nation. wide coal strike grows more serious

OPA ACCUSED BY COMMITTEE   Violation Of Price Control Law Is Charged.

SOVIET PAPE SEES SECOND FRONT “NEAR”   War and Working Class Talking of Invasion in W. Europe as Further Symbol of Unity.

Three Executed In Electric Chair   ‘One Declares Death Better Than Prison

RAF Long Range Bombers Smash At Western Germany, Occupied Belgium   Railway Targets In North France Hit

R. A. F. Bombers Raic Rhineland, Belgium   Night Fighters Join In, Blast French Railroads

Rome Can Escape Bombing By Allies   But British Spokesman Warns That City Will Be Spared Only If It Keeps Out of War—Allied Air Assault Grows in Spite of German Scoffing

Rome Is Warned Bombs May Fal   RAF Official Hints At Allied Attack’

ITALIANS CAN NAME ROME AN OPEN CITY   Word Not from Military Headquarters in London

Rome Told How to Escape Bombings   Must Be Declared an Open City, Give No Help to Axis

NOTED EDITOR  DIES IN NEW YORK   Blancard— B. Weber, 95, Publisher of Salamanca Press

Mercury Climbs ’ To 111 In Texas   Little Relief Yet Ir Sight Over State

Finding Of Oakes’ Body Is Deseribed  Close Friend Testifies In de Marigny Trial

FARM LEADERS WORKING 10 OVERRIDE VETO   Pace Labor-Cost Bill May Die With Bankhead Measure

Martin Will Not Intervene In State Assembly Filibuster   Refuses Minority Appeals For Aid In Compromise On Reapportionment And Ripper Legislation

BALTIMORE BIRTHDAY BALL IS INFORMAL   Usual Array Of Celebrities And Orchestras Will Feature Event  However

62 OTHERS IN MINE ESCAPE FROM LEVEL   Rescue Crews Search For  Survivors

14 Men Trapped In Blazing Mine   62 Miners Escape As Coal Ignites

14 COAL MINERS ARE - TRAPPED AFTER FIRE   Workers Are Caught Behind a Wall of Flame and Smoke Two Miles Inside West Virginia Mine— Two Others Escape After Mine Motor . Touches Off Blaze—Rescue Crews Attempt to Reach GMraun ,

RE TRAPS 14 MEN TWO MILES INSIDE “MINE. 69 FSPAPE   Gas-masked Rescue Workers Trying” to Reach Isolated Gallery.

Umbrella Of Security Covered Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin   Every Means Of Deception Used To Foil Axis Spies: Most Of Them Reported Captured

SECURITY FOR TEHBRAN MEET LARGEST EVER   Every Known Means of  ' Deception, Weapons Of  - Authority and Keenest Brains Employed   GERMAN AGENTS IN. CITY ARE SEIZED   Had Been Dropped Among Tribes; Scene of Allied © Conference Gigantic _ Camp 

All Security Means Put Into Use At Historic Meet  Weapons, Deception And Brains Used Ta Pratect landere

Three Leaders: Are Protected   Teheran Is Filled With Troops On Day Allied Chiefs Conferred —

Teheran Bristled During Conference   Air Umbrella, Guns, Guards, Tanks, Etc. Protected Leaders

Big Three’ Closely Guarded As They Conferred At Teheran, Iran   Largest Umbrella Of Security Covered Isolated Capital; Most Of German Agents Dropped Among Tribes Reported Captured.

Six Slain in Harlem Riot   40 Policemen Injured 380 Looters Arrested

Planes Destroy Practically Alt Enemy Stragalers   xarcely a Survivor Leff, Official Statement Declares   Ihree More Japanese Planes Reported Shot Down O'{ Lae

Stragglers Jap convoy  ‘mopped up’   American forces give Huon gulf heavy pounding

Allies Blast Japanese Base at Lae   Straggler Groups of Convoy Survivors Destroyec

LARGE FIRES FOLLOW ATTACK ON LAE BY ALLIED BOMBERS    Flames Are Visible For 40 Miles Among Airdrome And Installations; En emy Offers Weak Aerial Defense; Few, If Any, Convoy Survivors

MOPPING-UP JOB ENDED BY AIRMEN   Entire Area Swept: by __ Fighters and Bombwe em" ae Up goon

MOPPING-UP JOB ENDED BY AIRMEN   Entire Area Swept by Fighters and Bombing Units

Japanese Force Chinese Back   Fighting Reported Near Burman Border

Axis Pleased With Russian: Polish Split   Berlin and Rome Declare Incident Is Triumph for Nazi Propaganda; London Tries to Patch Up Break

RESTORATION  SOVIET-POLISH TIES DOUBTFUL   View Gains Increasing Support In London Press as Churchill’ Presses For Friendship Renewal   CONFERENCES HELD   Possibility of Creation of Polish Military or Political Organization In  Russia Implied ~

Axis Gleeful Over Russian  Polish Row   Purge of Government-inExile Seen as_ Likely Soviet Demand

Russians Would Require Purge of Polish Government   Alternative Might Be Exile Regime Set Up in Moscow

CHICAGO LAST RACKET FORT   IHinois Governor Says They Parade Through City Hall Unmolested.

Gangsters Still Rule In Chicago?   Governor Says City ‘Last Stronghold’

Says It Will End Reign of Greediest, Most Ruthless Setup In Civic History   GANGSTERS IN CITY HALL UNMOLSTED   State Executive Green Asserts They Moved In When Present Mayor Was Elected

BRANDS CHICAGO GANG STRONGHOLD   GOV. GREEN URGES DEFEAT OF KELLY POLITICAL MACHINE

Rehabilitation Fund Is Provided Under Terms Of Bill Approved By State Legislature

BRIDGE TAKES ANOTHER   Narrow Bridge Near Clanton Claims Another Traffic Fatality

House Shouts Down Luce Tax Abatement Plan  Voting On Various PayAs-You-Go Proposals I: Under Wav.

House Starts Its Voting on Income Tax Proposition:   Vote Down Booth’s Plan to Forgive 1942 Taxable Income Up to $25.000.   Supporters of Varied Proposals Confident

REPUBLICANS OFFER RUML PLAN TO HOUSE   ~ As Substitute for Admin: _.istration-Sponsored “No Abatement” Tax Plan

Flood of ‘nays’ drowns tax  plan of Clare Boothe Luce   GOP formally offers Ruml’s  method as house opens votmeg

CLARELUCE TAX PLAN VOTED DOW!   COP Offers Rum! Proposa in Hoase; Rayburn, Martin _ Give Their Views

House Nears Vote on SkipYear Proposal   Minority Leader Martin Predicts Ruml Plan Will Succeed  STRATEGY CONFERENCE

House Shouts Down Canceling ‘4? Tax  Republicans Formally Offer Ruml Plan In The MHauce

Rayburn Forecasts Rejection Of Rum! Plan As Republican Chief Sees Passage

RUML PLAN PUT UP FOR BALLOT   Republicans Set Stage For Vote On Much-Debated issue In House

Clare Luce Tax Foraivin Plan Beaten   House Shouts Down Prepesel; Rum! Pion Formally Presented

HOUSE SHOUTED DOWN LUCE PLAN   Tax Liability on Individual Taxable Income to $25,000 Would Be Cancelled.

House Voting On Tax Bill   Shout Down Move of Rep. Clare Boothe Luce; GOP Present Ruml Plan

House Near's Vote On Tax Propositions   three Groups Split Lawmakers On Pay As You Go Bill   Republicans Put Up Ruml Measure   Stalemate May Result On Much Debated Issue

HOUSE SHOUTS DOWN PROPOSAL TO CANCEL [942 TAX LIABILITY   PLAN REP. CLARE BOOTHE LUCE FOUND NO SUPPORTERS IN HOUSE

Luce Tax Plan Gets Not A Vote   Preliminary Tests Of Sentiment In House Are Begun

House Votes Down Opening Tax Proposal   Rep. Clare Boothe Luce Suggests Incomes Under $25, O00 Not Be Taxed.   NO RUML PLAN BALLOT

HOUSE KILLS LUCE PLAN TO ABATE TAXES   Roar of “Noes” Greets Measure Which Would Cancel 1942 Liability on Individual Taxable Income Up to $25,000.

CLARE BOOTHS TAX PLAN FAILS TO GET AN ‘AYE’   Honse Begins Voting on Series of Proposals for Collecting Levies

"House Begins Votes on “Pay-as-You-Go’’ » Income Taxes Plans   Republican Leader Joe Mertin Confident of Passing Rum! Bill

Skip-A-Year Defeat Seen By Rayburn   But Martin Forecasts Ruml Tax Proposal Will Be Approved By House Members

CLARE LUCE’S TAX PLAN IS - VOTED DOWN      First Amendment Offered to Committee Bill Quickly Defeated— Stalemate Feared

LOCAL FIREMAN 10 HEAD ASSOCIATION   Spencer G. Lindsay Elect. ed President of C. V.  Firemen

LOCAL FIREMAN TO HEAD ASSOCIATION      Spericer G. Lindsay Elect. ed President of C. Y. Firemen:

Knox Says Nazis Have  400 U-Boats   Bombing of Sub Bases is Proving  Effective, Claim

SUB MENACE IS "PRETTY STABLE’ SAYS SECTY. KNO}   Bombing of Lorient, St. Nazaire Doing Some Good.

Knox Says Nazis Have 300 to 400 Subs Available   U-Boat Situation ‘Pretty Stable’

KNOX SAYS SUB - SITUATION SAME   Reports Bombing Attack: On Bases Effective

300 U-Boats Available ~~ For Atlantic   Secretary Knox Says Submarine Situation Stabilized

KNOX SAYS SUB MENACE STABLE   Believes Nazis Have 400 UBoats Available For Duty In Atlantic

WORTH CASUALTIES   Vandegrift Asserts Attack Well A Planned And Executed

EXPECT ROOSEVELT TO JOIN DEFENSE OF CORDELL HULL      May Add To Denanciation Of Drew Pearson Who Charges. Hull Is Anti-Russian

PRESIDENT TC DEFEND POLIC}   FDR Expected To Announce Welles’ Resignation

JOSEPH. SNYDER DIES SATURDAY DUE TO INJURIES   Was Well Known Churchman -And Businessmah   Hit Less Than Week After His 78th Rirthday

JOSEPH SNYDER DIES SATURDAY NUE TO INTRIFS   Was Well Known Churchman And Businessman   STRUCK BY AUTO      Hit Less Than Week After His 78th Birthday

New, Stricter Beer Drinking Laws Are Asked   House Bill Designed  t¢ Tighten Up Existing  Legislation

British Navy, Troops Reported Gathering in Eastern Mediterranean

Stanley Johnston Who Wrote : Pacific Epic to o Speak Here Here   le'll Open Public Civis Forum Series Next hureday

Civic Forum Will Resume Winter Sessions Oct. 7  First Speaker To Tell Of Battle Of The Pacific ="

German Losses 220,000, Italian 400,000, Say Deputy Prime Minister

Axis Flyers Miss Invasion But Come Back Hard at Allied Fleet   Writer Aboard Cruiser Tells of Repeated Attacks While Radio Says Allies Clear Sky

SENATE GETo SUGIAL BILL 10 CONSIDER   American Version of the British Measure Has Been Offered.   AS BASIS FOR ACTION   Wagener, of New York, and Murray, of Montana, Are Sponsors.

NEW SOCIAL SECURITY BILL IN SENATE   Wagner and Murray Base Plan on 12% Pavroll Tax

NEW SECURITY PLAN OFFERED   ‘Cradle To Grave’ Plan Is Proposed By Wagner

SCRAP PILES LARGE      —— Penn Praises Work of Lawrence School Childrea

IOWANS URGED TO INCREASE BOND BUYING   June quota bor state is $25,000,000 in E, F and G series

New Drive To Sell Bonds In lowa   New Quota of 25 Million For The State

U.S. FLIERS RAID JAPANESE IN CHINA   Ships, Port Installations Targets of 7-Day Missions

AMERICAN FLIERS HIT JAPS IN CHINA   Troops Along Yangtze River Strafed—Ships Blasted

 Underwater Sound Waves Are Giving Navy Doctors A New Kind Of Injury To Care For; Caused By Depth Bombs

FRENCH GA IN TUNISIA FIGHTING   Axis Units Wiped Out In Mountain Passes

Lafayette Fliers Aid  In Tunisia   Members Of Famous Escadrille Support French Infantry In Mountain Fighting

Speculation Rife in Britain as to Date of Actual Invasion of Germany From West

GARDEN LAND TO BE ALLOTED   Room for 30 Gardens Open for Persons Interested

NAPLES BOMBED BY LIBERATORS   Daylight Raid Is 38th of War on Italy’s Big Supply Port

nd Se  American Bombers Raid Naples Again   Harbor Region Reported Aflame

Liberators Hit Naples By Day Harbor Installations,  Shipping Attacked By I’ § Warnlanes

US. Bomber: Raid Naples In Attack In Daylight   Flying Fortresses Hammer At Rommel In Africa: French Defeat Germans

U.S. AIR FORCE BOMBS NAPLES HARBOR   Attack Was 38th of War For Italian Supply Port For Axis In Africa

Yanks Blast Naples   Four-Engined Liberators Hit: Shipping. and - Installations in Thirty-eighth Attack of War on Italian Supply Port.

Four-Motored U. S. Liberators Assault Shipping In Palermo And Messina Harbors In Sicily

SN EEE: ETL IO LOE I  TARGETS IN ITALY HI® AGAIN BY ALLIED BOMBERS

U.S, LIBERATORS BOMBED NAPLES BY DAYLIGHT MONDAY   The Four-Engined Planes Hit Harbor Installations and Shipping.   An Italian Communique Plac* ed the Dead at 23, Injured at 75.

ITALIANPORT SHIPPING HIT DURING RAID   Huge U. S. Bombers Blast At TripolMania, While French Seize Pass

Heavy Yankee Planes Blast Naples Again   2 Bombers Lost; P-4’5 Are Active In Tripclitania

U. 5. Liberators Attack Naples   Harbor Installations And Shipping Hit, It is Reported by Cairo

Swedish Sub Fired On By Germans Found on Bottom  Down April 16 With 33 Men Aboard in 180 Feet of Water

New Deal Lifts  Acreage Limits   Farm Production To be Unrestricted

RIGID CROP CONTROLS ARE REMOVED   1944 Food Program To Be On “Purely Voluntary” Basis

Farmers Are Assured Of Government Program Of Unrestricted Production

GOP Avoids Fight Over Peace Plans   Compromise Proposal Given Approval’ World Co-operation on Qualified Basis   ‘MEETS APPROVAL OF VANDENBURG   Party’s Home Front Group in Demand for Governmeni; Food Agency

GOP Wants Some Post-War Action   Compromise Policy Proposal Adopted

SOVIET GENERALS ARE DECORATED BY STALIA   Commanders of Forces That Captured Kharkov and Orel Singled Ont

NAZI FEAR OF INVASION GETS FRESH IMPETUS   Invasion Armies in Italy Widening Hold; Russians Continue to Push Nazis Back

Munich Bombed in Allied Air Raid   In Sixth Successive Day of Bombings, Key Center Is Devastated.

Montgomery Is 60 Miles  Up Coast   Hear General Marshall May Take Full Command In Europe; Reds Gain

AMERICAN BOMBERS BLASTED AT GERMAN OCCUPIED SECTORS  U. S. PLANES MOVE OUT RIGHT AFTER RAF RETIRNG FROM MUNICH RAIL

Heavy R. A. F. Night Assault Lashes Munich   Yanks Blast Targets I Belgium And France fh Daylight Follow-up.

Yankees Bomb Targets in Beloium, France   R. A. F. Bombards Munich, Nazi Party Birthplace ©

AMERICAN BOMBERS BLASTED TARGETS IN BELGIUM, FRANCE   Carried the Allied Aerial Offensive Against Western Europe.   This Action Followed Heavy RAF Night Attack on City of Munich.

Yanks Follow Up Heavy Night Raid On Munich   Daylight Assaults Direct. ed At Belgian And French Targets.

American Bombers Blast Belgium, France Targets  Follow Up Heavy RAF Night Attack  On Imnortant Munich

U.S.Bomber: Hit Targets In Belgium And Franee   Heavy Daylight Assaults Follow Night Attack On Munich By RAF

American Bombers Strike at Belgium’ and France Today Following Up Heavy RAF. Attack on Munich - Lost Night

Targets in Belgium And France Bombed   Yanks Stage Daylight Attacks, Following a Heavy Overnight Raid by the British on ~ Munich, Nazi Party Birthplace.

RAF Attacks Munich Again   U.S. Bombers Hit Target: In Belgium. France

YANKEES POUND FRANCE; MUNICH HIT BY BRITISH   Clock-Around Air Offensive Against Nazis Goes On

MUNICH TARGET OF HEAVY RAID BY RAF PLANES   \merican Bombers Follow Up Night Attack On Birthplace Of Nazi Party With Blows At Bel gium And France.

Air Drive  " Paces New Gains for the Allies   Bomber Assault Continued for Sixth Successive Day in Occupied Europe   * ALLIES WIDEN HOLD IN ITALY   Russians Fast Clearing All a of Donets Basin;20,000 Japs Trapped in New Guinea

Yanks Follow R. A. F.Raid On Munich ‘With Day Attacks On Belgium, France

Allies Hammer Europe Sixth Straight Day Prelude To Italiar  Invasion Is Simulated

U.S. BOMBERS OVER EUROPE   Heavy and Medium Planes in Action Sixth Day in Row.

—ALK WAR—  MUNICH TARGET IN RAF ASSAULT   J. §. Heavy, Medium Bombers Blast Areas In France, Belgium

Munich Hit By Powerful ~ Aerial Fleet   Daylight Blows Follow a Night Raid By Big RAF Formations

Allies Continue Steady Blasting Of West Europe   U, S. Heavy And Medium Bombers: Strike At Belgium And France

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS ACCELERATED   American Bombers Follow Up Heavy RAF Night Attack on Munich by  Blasting France

FOR olXTH DAY CUROPE GIVEN BOMB GLATINt   U. S. Bombers Blast Targets in Belgium and France; RAF Bombs Munich.   RAF LOSES 16. BOMBERS; AMERICAN LOSSES 35

Attack Europe For Sixth Day   . $. Bombers Blast European Targets; RAF  Bombs Munich,

British Bomb Munich, U. S.  Raids France   Heavy Blows By Day And Night

Yankees Blasf Axis Targets   Heavy and Medium Bombers Attack Western Europe

U. 5, Marauders Batter France  St. Pol, Other Rail Centers Bombed; Foe  BReeictnare Futile

Ruhr and Rhineland, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen Other Targsis—Americans Get 70 Nazis Planes

MUNICH RAIDED BY RAF: YANKS OVER BELGIUM   Targets In France Also Are Bombed by Americans; Attack On Munich Concentrated

YANKS STRIKE WEST EUROPE   American Raids. in France, Belgium Follow RAF. Blow at Munich,

AIRMEN CRUSH EUROPE CITIES   BELGIUM, FRANCE HIT AFTER MUNICH ATTACK

Ship Sinkings By Subs Show Sharp Decline   Oiily 36 Vessels Lost: From May to September Against 295 Last Year

ALLIES SMIAGH 36 TH LOSS, ~ OF ONE PLANE   Flying Forts Blast Rommel’s _ Supply Lines, British Hit from East.   LAND BATTLES RAGING — IN MOUNTAIN PASSES

ALLIES IN TUNISIA DESTROY 36 PLANES WITH LOSS OF ONE   Axis Undergoes Extensive Bombing: From Bizerte To Tripoli. In Last Weelc

ONE P-38 LOST BY YANKS IN BIG AERIAL MELEE   Increasing Pressure In Air Felt By Axis—-Battle Lasted 24 Hours.

ALLIES WiN AIR BATTLES IN TUNISIA   36 Axis Planes Downed In Day; Allics Lost One

WARPLANES IN AFRICA SECTOR   Only One American Fighter Lost, Desert Headquarters Reports; Supply Lines Badly Battered.

AFRICAN AIR ACTIVITY UP   36 Axis Planes Downed In 24 Hours; Fierce Mountain Battles Rage

AIR OFFENSE IN TUNISIA STEPPED UP   Allies Destroy 36 Axis Planes While Losing One

DAVIES BRINGS STALIN LETTER   Russian Leader Replies To War Note From Roosevelt

AXIS MAY TRY “RAIDS ON U.S, STIMSON SAYS   WAR SECRETARY BTATES MILI“TARY LEADERS FEAR SUI‘CIDE BOMBINGS ARE  PLANNED

SUICIDE ATTACK ON U. S. FEARED   Military Chiefs See Raids as Effort to Force Planes’ Return

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Finahio tn Ydentifye Narrno.

MARINE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY FOLKES   Can’t Say For Sure He Saw Negro Fleeing.

Daily Temperatures   ALLIES ON OFFENSIVE, SAYS CURTIN AFTER PARLEY WITH MAC ARTHUR

REPORT PARLEY   Curtin And MacArthur Hole ‘Important Conference’

IN AGREEMENT ON OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPAN   Prime Minister Tells People There Is No Shortcut to Victory -

P3 “Ur n ¢ VW i? 7 ui st e > 5 of Au st ix al l a Cc 0 n ? Y et e Dp Ss  ’ 0 nf ab W "ttl 2 M a c Arthi ir 0 n fi a Dp Af ta ck

YANK U BOATS IN PACIFIC ARE BUSIER’N EVER   Secretary Knox Reports Steady GrowthOfSubmarineOpera. tions Against Japan; 8 U.S. Subs Destroyed   Many New U.S. Subs

12 JAP VESSELS SUNK BY UNITED STATES U-BOATS   Take Revenge For Loss Of 2 Yank  Submarines

Navy Promises More Bad News For Jap Ships   U. S. Submarines Sinking Vessels at Fast Rate; Sub Losses Replaced.   They Carry Brunt of War in the Pacific

Tribune etter   Lost Subs of U.S. Replaced ‘Many Times’   So Frank Knox Says. in. Outlining Japs’ Big Losses

U. S. SUBLOSS IS MINIMIZED   Knox Says Subs Replaced Many Times Over

Japs Face Huge U.S. Sub Armada In Pacific War   Pig Boat Force Is On Steady Increase; Knox Hints More Bad News For ,Japs

U.S. INCREASING TOTAL OF SUBS IN PACIFIC WAR   Steady Growth Pointed Out by Knox; Sinking of 12 Japs Ships Revealed

UJ. 5. Submarines Sink Dozen Jap Ships, Damage 3   Navy Avenges Loss O! Amberjack, Grampus In Pacific War

KNOX REVEALS U.S, BUILDING SUBS RAPIDLY   Eight Subs Reported Lost Replaced ‘Many Times Over,’ Secretary Says; American Undersea Raiders Get  2 More Jap Ships.

NEW BLOWS TO JAPAN   Declares 8 U. S. Subs Lost Replaced ‘Many Times Over’

KNOX PREDICTS BLOWS AT JAPAN   SECRETARY REPORTS SUBMARINE OPERATIONS, GROWING IN PACIFIC.

Navy Promises More Bad News For Axis   U.S. Submarine Losses Have Been Replaced ‘Many Times Over’

Knox Reveals Growing U.S. Sub Fleet; Japan’s  Ship Losses Now 256

 eo ;  Navy Head Repor ts Steady Increase  In US. Sub Fleet      Follows Announcement Of Sinking of 12 More Jap Vessels.

NAVY PROMISED MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE JAPANESE   Sec. Knox Reported the 8 American Subs Lost Have Now Been Replaced.   U.S. Subs Have Sunk 12 More Japanese Ships and Damaged Five.

NAVY REPORTS BIG INCREASE IN SUB FLEET   Eight Lost in Pacific Replaced Many Times Over, Knox Says— 12 More Jap Ships Sunk

KNOX HINTS OF COMING BLOWS   Explains Pacifie Lull By Saying It Takes Time To Prevare For Big Actions

AMERICAN SUBS STRIKE HARD AT JAP LINES   U. S. Losses Replaced Many Times Over In Under-Sea Warfare

KNOX TELLS OF HUGE INCREASE IN SUB FLEET   Navy Secretary Intimates U. S$. Preparing Blow Against Japs   ENEMY SHIPS ARE SUNK   40 To 60 New Under Sea Craft Believed Built Since Pearl Harbor

New Blows Are in Store for Japs, Secretary of Navy Knox Asserts   Steady Growth of U. S. Sub Operations in Pacific Are Reported

KNOX REVEALS BIG EXPANSION OF SUB FLEET   Secretary Intimates U. S. Prepares Important Move Against Japs   SIZEABLE BLOW LOOMS   Loss Of Undersea Boats Replaced Many Times Over, Is Statement

Knox Hints Major Blow Against Nips   Increase in U. S. Sub Operations Told by Secretary

Knox Promises Japs More Blows   U. S. NAVAL SECRETARY SAYS UNCLE SAM TO BE TOUGHER

ADDITIONAL BLOWS i FALL ON JAPS   Navy Announces Sinking of 12 Enemy Ships in Pacific Area

AMERICAN SUB LOSSES MADE UP MANYFOLD   Knox Says Eight Craft So Far Reported Lost Have Been Replaced “Many Times Over”—Construc ‘tion Is Steady.

U. S. Subs Get Twelve Jap Ships   Size Of Submarine Fleet Is Increasing Steadily, Says Knox In Report On Pacific Successes

SAYS U.S. SUB POWER GROWS   Knox Reports: 8 Lost Have Been Replaced Many Times;  jan Toll Hits 286,

SUBS SINK OR DAMAGE 16 JAP SHIPS   Undersea Craft Con. tinue Devastating Raids on Enemy

Navy Promises More Bad News For Japs, Every Sub Lost Replaced ‘Many Times Over’

Avenge Loss Of Grampus, Amberjack   Knox Reports American Losses ‘Replaced Many Times Over’

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 12 MORE JAPANESE SHIPS   SINKINGS INCLUDE DESTROYER AND 11 CARGO VESSELS

Navy Pledges More Grief  For Japanese   Submarines Sink 12 Enemy Warships In Recent Action

'U. S. Undersea Fleet Growing ‘Steadily, Knox   Navy Secretary Promises More Bad News For Japs Due to Subs

Knox Reports Sub Strength Growing Steadily; Losses Less In Atlantic

Boost U.S. Subs 7 Now On Prowl In Pacifie Area   Replacements Oulnumber Losses. Knox Reports: 12 Jap Vessels Sunk

MAJOR BLOWS FORECAST BY NAVAL SEC'Y   nena.  lowerful Assaults Against Japan Hinted at Con. ference

U, S. SUB FLEET READY FOR NEW ~ BLOW IN PACIFIC   Knox Says Eight Undersea Craft Lost Are Replaced ‘Many Times Over’

NAVY PROMISES MORE BAD NEWS FOR JAPANESE   Secretary Knox Says That Eight American Submarines So Far Reported Lost In the Pacific Have Been Replaced Many Times Over.

Knox Indicates Major Blows in Store for Japan   Secretary Says L. S. Sub Loss Replaced  ‘Many Times Over’

Preparations for Major Blows Against Japan Are Hinted at by Sec. Knox

U.S. Sub Losses Replaced ‘Many Times, ’ Knox Reveals   Announcement by Secretary Promises More Bad News For Japs In Wake of Destruction Recently of Twelve More Enemy Ships; Indicates Larez- Seale Action In Making

Knox Sees Sub Gain in Pacific   Impliés Increasing Blows Against Japs

8 U.S. Subs Lost Thus Far Many Times Replaced.   Steady Growth In Preparation For Sizeable Movement—Knox.

U-Boat Output Far Over Loss Knox Declares   Navy Lists 12 More Japanese Warships Sunk By U. §.  Submersibles,   'PACK GROWS STEADILY

EIGHT LOST SUBS IN WAR REPLACED MANY TIMES OVER   ‘Knox Tells Press Conference Submarines Have Sunk 12 More Jap Ships, Damaged Five Others.   256 ENEMY VESSELS DESTROYED: DAMAGEL   Secretary Declines To Revea When Present Lull ir Large Scale Operation: Will Break Up.

U. 0, O08 FORCES SHARPLY INCREASED   Despite Losses, U. S. Fleet Bigger Than Ever

Light U.S Sub Losses Replaced Rapidly   American Underseas Craft Carrying Brunt Of War In Pacific: Making Fine Record

Knox Predicts Major Blows Against Japs  lull Pariad af   Lull Period of Readying for a New Attack?

United States Subs Sink Dozen of Jap Ships! Damage Five   Bring Total of Their Bag in War to Daie to 256  Enemy Vessels

BOMBERS BLAST AT SICILY AND OTHER ISLANDS; ENEMY REPORTS ALLIES MASS SHIPPING   Fake Over Island         U. 8. STEADILY ADDING SUBS TO FORCE, CARRYING BRUNT OF WAR IN PACIFIC WITH AIRPLANE

BLOWS HINTED AGAINST JAPAN   Submarine Operations Growing Steadily, Knox Declares

Knox Forecasts Major Blows Against Japan   Reports Steady Growth of Submarine Operations in Pacific; Lull Described as Period to Get Ready

12 More Jap Ships Sunk by American Subs; U. S. Undersea Fleet Grows Steadily, Says Kno»

Secreta Knox Declares Loss of Amberjack and Gramous Has Been Avenged   FLEET IS INCREASED

KNOX REVEALS EXPANSION OF UNDERSEA AI   Says Loss of 8 Submarines So Far in War: Replaced Many Times. ‘   INTIMATES GATHERING STORM. FOR JAPANESE

Submarine Output Showing Big Gain   Underseas Craft Thus Far Reported Lost Replaced “Many Times Over” Declares Knox

Our Lost Subs Replaced  12 More Jap Vessels Sunk; Knox Hints At Naval Action

ANVA SAYS U. 3. SUBS ARE BEING ADDED RAPIDLY  Bight Lost Ave Replaced “Many Times Over”  HITS AT JAPS   ca an Twelve Nippon Vesopilee RT intiene CHE Orb.   HITS AT JAPS   Twelve Nippon Vessels Victims Of Submarines

Knox Foretell Major Blows Against Japan   U, 5S. Undersea Craft Re" port Nippon Destroyer, 11 Cargo Vessels Destroyed   ADDITION IS. STEADY   Knox Says 8 Submersibles Lost Were Replaced "Many Times Over’

Knox Reports Big Growth In U.S. Sub Fleet   Disclosure Follows Announcement Of 12 More Jap Ships Sunk.

U.S. Sub Fleet Much Expanded   Pacific Underseas Fleet Greatly Increased Says Secretary Knox   REPORTS LOST SUBS LONG AGO REPLACED

KNOX BMPLIES NEW BLOW AT. JAPAN SHAPES      Time Held Essential Prevaring Major Movement

Disclosure Follows News American Undersea Craft Sinks 12 More Jap Ships, Including Destroyer; Fleet Operating Principally In Pacific

Replace Lost Subs Many  Times, Knox   Increase in Strength Steady Growth, Secretary Declares

MAJOR BLOWS ARE FORECAST   Knox Reports Steady Gain In U. S. Sub Operations in Pacific

NAVY PROMISES MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE JAPANESE      12 More of Their Ships Sunk; ‘Knox Says U, S. Sub Losses Replaced   256 ENEMY SHIPS RIT

SECRETARY OF NAVY REPORTS LOST U.S, U-BOATS REPLACED  DISCLOSURE FOLLOWS»   DISCLOSURE FOLLOWS ANNOUNCEMENT TWELVE MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK

Rennel Isle Combat Site   Losses on Both Sides Disclosed by Navy ©

Enemy Renews Try To Regain  Solomons Area   Little Information On Latest Skirmishes. Exact Loecation Not Known,   FOE STRETCHES STORY

NAVY LAUNCHES DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE FLEET   Both Sides Said To Have Suffered Losses In Fight

TOULON CIVIC CLUB SETS NEW MEMBER RECORD   Have Total Of 395 Paid-Up Members; Try For 400; 45 Honorary.

TOULON CIVIC CLUB SETS NEW MEMBER RECORD   Have Total Of 400 Paid-Up; Discuss Various Plans Old Settlers.

GERMANS RUSHING TROOPS. 10 SOUTH   MORE THAN 250,000 ARE RE' PORTED ON WAY TO ITALY : AND BALKANS.

NAZIS RUSHING MEN TO ITALY   German Forces in Balkans Are Also Being Greatly Reinforced

301 Divisions of Nazis Reported , Rushed to South  Troops: Said Drawei i From Russian Front and: Occupied - Nation

Germans Rush 30 Divisions te  Italy, Balkans   Allied Menace to Southern Flank of Nazis Grows; Sea Approaches Cleared

Nazis Bolster Balkans, Italy   Fear Growing Allied Menace to Flank

THEY’RE GLAD HE’S DEAD  Wife Wounds Husband, ‘Other Woman’ Kills

Executive Offered Services New York’s Mayor Isn’t Going Into Armed Forces After All

NO ARMY TASK FOR LA GUARDIA   New York Mayor Will Stay On The Job In Metropolis

LaGuardia Will Not Get Commission, Secretary of War Stimson Declares

Gullickson Named To State Council  Goodland Sends Senate List Of Appointments

State Defense Council Named By Goodland   Bernard C. Ziegler Of West Bend Is Chosen As Representative Of Sixth District

SCHNEIDER WORKS  FIRED BY BOMBERS            : . get; Italian ce umor Fizzles; . German Defe Weak

War Committee Replaces ‘Imperial Council’ With With General Henri Giraud at Its Head   PERSONNEL IS SAME   Believed Direct Result of Casablanca Parley; Seen As Clearing Political Atmosphere

New French War Council   Move Seen As Step Toward Conciliation With Free French

FRENCH COUNCIL IN AFRICA REPLACED BY WAR COMMITTEE   Gen. Giraud’s Action Believed To Be Result Of Conference  With FDR

Giraud Sets Up Group To Replace Darlan’s Council   Restrictions On Jews Are Eased, Fascist Type Veterans Are Dissolved

Giraud Revamp: French Control  Committees Set Up With Posts Left Open For Fighting French

French War Committee Set Up Under Giraud in Africa   Establishment Believed Outgrowth of Parley Held at Casablanca

Plot To Learn Location Of Imprisoned Man’s Millions Is Believed Motive For Slaying

Chicago Night Club Beauty Is Tortured, Slain   Evidence Found Of Fire Torture

CHURCHILL SAYS TURKS LINED UP   Prime Minister, Personally Reporting On Conference With Inonu, Declares Broken Friendship Mend ed.

Prime Minister Breaks News of Turkish Pact   British Chief Tells Friendship of Two Nations Filled “With Fullest Strength”

CHURCHILL MAKES PEACE WITH TURKEY   Friendship Of Two Nations ‘Now Filled “With The Fullect Strength”

Allies Carry Air Offensive Into Sixth Day   Yankee Raids Follow Bombing of Munich by Bia RAF Force

Forts Blast At Occupied Europe   RAF ‘Blockbusters Bombard Munich’

BLOCK-BUSTE TREATMENT IS GIVEN MAUNIGE   U. S. Bombers Then Raid Over Belgium And France

MUNICH BLASTED YANKS FOLLOW IN MORE RAIDS   Air Offensive Enters Gth Straight Day Against Furope

SEEK COMPROMISE FOR COAL MINERS   Six-Day Week Is Proposed to Affect 450,000 Without Price Increase.

OPERATORS 10 CONSIDER SIX DAY WORK WEEK      Proposed By Secretary Perkins As Compromise For UMW Demands

Six-Day Week in Mines Proposed   New Appeal Made By Miss Perkins

OPERATORS OF SOFT COAL MINES MIGHT ADOPT 6-DAY WEEK   Direct Appeal Sent By Perkins As Plan To Eliminate Wage Rooct

MERGER OF U. S. FOREIGN! ECONOMIC AGENCIES TO COORDINATE OPERATIONS

CREDIT BYRNES WITH TROUBLE SHOOTING JOE   Link Merged Agencies And _ Stettinius Selection

CONSCLIDATE “WAR AGENCIES   Eaward Stettinius, Jr., Nominated to be Undersecretary of State — Foreign Economic Agencies Con. solidated in President's Plan,

ADMINISTRATION SEEN   _ Consolidation of Foreign Economic Agencies and Nomination of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., to Be Undersecretary of State, Credited to James F, Byrnes. Who Worked Out Pilen

Foreign Aid Program Revamped   Bymes Engineers Changes in Clumsy Setup

Heavy Bombers Make Deepest Thrust Into Germany  NEW AERIAL BLOWS MADE IN EVENING   Round-the-Clock Bombing Continues in Full Swing

Heavy Bombers Make _ Deepest Thrust Into Germany  NEW AERIAL BLOWS _ MADE IN EVENING  a is re. 7 Pee ee ie      Round-the-Clock Bombing Continues in Full Swing

LIQUOR STORES SHUT TILL JUNE   Closing Ordered Today As Blanks Flood Workers

CLOSE OHIO RETAIL LIQUOR STORES TODAY   Discontinue Sales Five Days Ahead of Schedule

Sudden Order, Effective at 4 P. M. Today, ‘Closes All Retail Liquor Stores in Ohio

LIQUOR FLOW IS SHUT OFF      Stores Will Remain Closed Until June 1, Beginning of Rationing

Liquor Stores To Close This Afternoon At 4; Open Again When Rationing Starts On Tune 1

LOW-PRICED CLOTHING NEAR   WPB Has N ew Formula for Averting Textile Rationing

WPB Chief Says Heavy Production Oj Low-Priced Clothing  biti Can Avert Rationing

Clothing Cut Not Necessary   WPB Director Turning From Fancy Goods To Volume Production.

Rationing of Textiles May Be Averted   WPB Suggests Producing Low Priced Clothing on Large Scale °

Sees No Need For Clothes Rationing  Nelcon Acsertsc Chean  Nelson Asserts Cheaper Clothes Needéd

Claims Turks To Enter War By Spring; Notes New Crisis   Associated Press Authority At Ankara Changes  Forecast; May Overcome Recent Losses

BRITISH VESSEL TORPEDOED   FORECAST FROM ANKARA Regarded Highly Significant

MINE OWNERS SEEK RETURN - OF THE SEIZED PROPERTIES   ICRES- GOING! AHEAD WITH PROGRAM FOR ACTIVE “OPERATION OF MINES ‘BY GOVERNMENT

MINE OWNERS DEMAND RETURN OF PROPERTY   “Wildcat” Strikes Spread As Government Enters The Mining Business   CONFERENCE TODAY

GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS AS OPERATOR   TAKES OVER ACTIVE MINE BUSINESS AS OWNERS ASK RETURN.   Many Miners Out   Refusal to Work Stiffened by Government Order to “Work or Ficht.’"

Paris Firm Pays $10,000 Penalty   Southland Cotton Gil Co. Enters Agreement To Sattle Charna

AXIS’ SICILIAN LOSSES 6 TIMES THOSE OF ALLIES   Enemy’s Casua!ties Number More Than 167,000°Compared With 25,000 for Victors.   CONQUERORS SET FOR NEW OFFENSIVES   ! People of Nazi-Occupied Eu rope Told by Algiers Radio to Get Ready for Invasion.

CONQUERERS READY to MOVE FROM SICILY   General Eisenhower Says American Seventh And British Eighth Armies ’Rarin To Go On New Conquest   Sink 8 Boats

Allies Armies in Sicily ‘Ready To Go, Eisenhower Says; Axis  a  ‘Captives Are Told To Be Ready   (Germany Expected to Try To Fight Delaying Action From Southern Italy

ARMIES READY FOR INVASION, SAYS GENERAL   AXIS LOSSES MORE THAN 167,000 IN SICILY

Axis Losses Put At 167,000 in Island Fighting   Big Guns Duel Across Strait and Warplanes Hound Fleeing Enemy Up Italian Mainland

Armies Poised For Next Invasion Job   Eisenhower Reports Axis Lost Over 167,000 Soldiers

‘Kaisenhower Hints of New Thrusts Soon   Sets Axis Casualties In Sicily at 167,000 And Allied at 25,000  STRAIT GUNS BOOM

People Warned To Prepare For Fight   ‘Liberation Of Occupied Countries Begun,’ Allied Radio Says: Axis Casualties Larae

167,000 axis casualties in Sicily battle   Warn people of  early invasion

Eisenhower Reports Yank, British Troops in Fighting Fettle; Ready to ‘Go Anywhere, Any Time’

Algiers Radio Warns People of New Invasion Axis Lost 167,000  in Sicily; Allied Losses 25,000

Rickenbacker Presents Eleven - Point Program To The Ohio Legislators For Eliminating Labor Union Racketeers

RICKENBACKER IN VEHEMENT ‘DENIAL. REGARDING STANL   Says ta Ohio Lawmakers Last Night That He Is Not Attacking Labor  Groups.

RICKENBACKER DEPLORES STRIKES, URGES RETURN TO “INCENTIVE BASIS’

SAYS ALL STRIKES SHOULD.BE FORBID   Capt. Rickenbacker Favors No Extra Pay Rate For Overtime

Rickenbacker Assails Unfair Labor Practices   Favors Return To ‘Incentive Basis’ in Industry

British Merchantman Sunk in West Atlantic; Brings Total Up to 582

‘Give Initial Program In Court Yard At. 8.30 P. M.   BAND HAS 40 MEMBERS

TOULON BAND GIVE SECOND CONCERT HERE   Continue Wednesday Night Series, Court Yard At 8.30 Tonight.

Bombers Pound Jap Base on Lae   Lull in New Guinea Ground Fighting Is Indicated; Planes Strafe Fae

ANIONG THE BOYS WITH THE COLORS   News About Trojans and Others In the Different  Branches of Service.

INTERESTING LETTERS FROM ARMY BOYS TELLING MUCH ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES

NEW CLUES ARE SOUGHT INVA. PLANE CRASH   CAP Pilot Discovers Wreckage: Three Bodies Found

Wreckage Of Big Bomber Is Found; Also 3 Bodies   Other Bodies May Be Under Wreckage Of MonthsOld Crash On Mountain.

CALL FOR WOMEN “COPS”   Washington Has Jobs Open for Those Who Can Qualify.

TRIP 10 WAR FRONTS MADE BY CHURCHILI   MILITARY LEADERS HEAR PLAN FOR BLOW AT AXIS

WAR PLANS ARE PLAGED BEFORE ALLIES CHIEFS   Churchill Reveals Program, Agreed on in Washington, During Tunisia Meeting   MARSHALL PRESENT   U.S. Chief of Staff Tells Newsmen Situation Has Changed Tremendously  for Better in Eight Months

General Marshall Pledges Powerful Blow Soon; Attends African Conference

Situation Changed Greatly, Marshall   U.S. Chief of Staff Attends Churchill African Conference

COS EVACUATED BY BRITISH UNITS   Driven from Isle Off Turkey by Nazi Sea, Air Attack

OTHER NAZI SHIPS MAY BE ENGAGED IBY BRITISH NAVY.   Two British Vessels Damaged in North Atlantic Battle But None Were Quine

Royal Navy May Be Chasing Enemy Warship Which Attacked Convoy Bound For Russia

German Announcements Raises Possibility Other Ships Which Were With Scharnhorst May Be Object Of Continuing British Chase.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SCHARNHORST LOSS IN SEA FIGHT  GERMAN ANNOUNCEMENT INDICATES NAVAL ACTIO! MAY BE CONTINUING

Allied Convoy Unharmed In Battle That Cost Germany Big Battleship

How Scharnhorst Went To Arctic Sea Grave Story Of Nazi Battleship's Last Fight Crippled By. Torpedo, Sunk By Gun

Think British May Be Chasing Other  Units of Scharnhorst Attack Force

NAVAL BATTLE IS CONTINUING, LONDON THINKS   Berlin Says Several German Units Involved

Royal Navy May Still Be Chasing Scharnhorst Pals   ‘Germans Announce. “Several Surface-Units “Enaaged in Battle.

Berlin Announcement Indicates Royal Navy May Be Chasing German Warships

Blueprint of Nude Helps Boys In L.A. Plant Keep Mind on Work   by FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

GERMANS EVACUATE BRIDGEHEAD MOUTH OF DNIEPER RIVER  SRP MrrMmaayr remem £4 rere   AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY PUSHES BEYOND CAPTURED SAN PIETRO

GERMANS EVACUATE BRIDGEHEAD MOUTH OF DNIEPER RIVER  AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY PUSHES BEYOND CAPTURED SAN PIETRO

Yanks Push to Cassino  onRomeRoad   Allied Bombers Rake  Germany. from Top to. Bottom jn Heavy Raids

Germans Quit Bridgehead At Kherson   Reds Kill 20,000 Nazis in Violent New Offensive; Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance; Innsbruck Railway Yards Bombed

RUSSIA ATTACK DRIVES GERMANS FROM KEY POINT   Yanks Close In On Jap Force Holding Vital Airfield To Put Squeeze on Rabaul

Germans Quit Kherson In  Odessa Drive   Baltic Army Advances 20 Miles In Snow, Ice

Reds Tear Hole In German Lines In New Baltic Fighting   Vitebsk Threatened; Americans Take San Pietro, Push Two Miles Farther

Germans Pull Out Of Kherson   Bridgehead at Mouth Of Dnieper in Soviet  Hands; Allies Extend Gains in Italy

Red Offensive Costs Foe 20,000 Dead, 500 Towns   American Fifth Army Advances in Italy; Air War on Germany , Is Resumed

Day’s Developments on Fronts in Italy, Russia Summarized   Yanks Punch Forward on Road to Rome in Bloody Fighting

Bridgehead at Dnieper River  Mouth Evacuated   Americans and British Steadily Gaining in Italy

GERMANS ADMIT RETREATS ALONG DNIEPER IN SOUTH WHILE RED BALTIC ARMY MOVES FORWARD   Soviets Now 90 Miles from Odessa, Great Black  Sea Port and in Frozen North They Report 20,000 Germans Killed in Drive Towards East Prussia

Fourth of Berlin Destroyed By RAF Bombers  Communications Are Crippled; Shops Are Closed

Fourth of Berlin Jumble of Ruins  German Officials Confess Damage

Stockholm Newspaper Says Germans Admit Fourth of Berlin Destroyed

Fourth Of Berlin Destroyed By Two Heavy Raids By RAF   Large Part Of Damage In Center Of City; Firemen Still Unable To Search For Dead

Fourth Of Berlin Is Wiped Out By Raids   No Bread, Milk On Sale; Transportation Is At Standstill; Fire Damage Worst   Fire Damage Worst

GERMAN OFFICIALS ADMIT FOURTH OF BERLIN DESTROYED   STOCKHOLM NEWSPAPER SAYS WRECKED AREAS NOT SPECIFIED

GERMANS ADMIT ONE FOURTH OF BERLIN RUINED   xveturning Mmyewitnesses Say Destruction In Center Of City Runs Between 50 And 100 Per Cent.

NeutraFEstimates Run ‘Higher —- oa oe German Officials Admit Fourth O Berlin Destroyed In British Raids.

GERMANS ADMIT ONE FOURTH OF BERLININ RUIN   Refuse For Military Rea. sons to Specify Areas; Eyewitnesses Say Heart  Of City In Rubble

TO ASK ACTION   Speedy Vote On Dependency) Allowance To Be Sought

Yanks Occupy Jap Island, Capture 350   American Bypass Isle Of Kolombangara, Bag 18 Nip Planes

BY ALLIED FORCES   Vella Lavella, of New Georgia Group, Reported Captured

ISLAND 1S SEIZED BY ALLIED FORCES      Vella Lavella, of New Georgic Group, Reported Captured

Indict 105 In Auto Tire Black Mart   FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN PHILADELPHIA CHARGES LEADERS MADE HUGE SUMS ON THEIR TRANSACTIONS.   Over Sold Ceiling Prices

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WANTS PRICE TO RULE IN RUBBER   Wallace Says Synthetic ’ Should Have No Tariff  Protection.

Future Vague For Synthetics   Tires, for Instance, May or May Not Be Made After War

Pursuit Of  Rommel Is Stepped Up   British Contact Axis At Zauia

BRITISH CONTACT RETREATING FOE   U.S. Infantry Clinches Hold In Vital Tunisian Valley

British Push After Rommel   Eighth Army Contacts Rearguard of Axis 30 Miles West of Tripoli

EIGHTH ARMY BATTERS AXIS RE ARGUARDS   Reports Indicate Montgomery is Stepping Up Pursuit of General Rommel   FRENCH DRIVEN BACK

Nazis Flee Under Hail Ot Explosives   One British Column And Three American Threaten Axis Flank  6,000 CAPTURED

Rommel Going North; ~ Gabes Is Threatened   Allied Columns In Commanding Spot  On His Flank; Decisive Stroke of Tunisian Campaign

BritishOverwhelm Mareth Line, Take 6000 Prisoners   _ Americans Threaten Flank of Africa Corps, 200 Miles From Aid of Von Arnim Troops; Battle for Russia Bogs in Mud, Both Sides Say

Rationers At Vinton Refuse To Resign   Say They’ll Keep On Giving  Gas To Service Men

Program For Willkie Bid Is Outlined   Outspoken ''Basic Political Philosophy'’ Emerges as Platform   CITES "FOUR FREEDOMS"

GOP Platform ‘Is Enunciated   Form Outlined In Willkie Bid For. Nomination. : ~-Resembles FDR---:

With A Slight Rooseveltian Flavor.....  Four-Point Platform For Willkie Emerges

 Four-Point Program Outlined In Willkie Bid ‘For Renomination; Resembles 4 Freedoms’

WILLKIE BASES BID ON 4 POINTS   GOP CANDIDATE IN 1940 REFUSED TO BUY VOTES: COWLE

REPUBLICANS TRY TO FIND COMMON BASIS FOR ACTION   Willkie Seems To Be: Outstanding Leader: Bi Lacks Support of . ”  Cc... eg

Willkie Offers 4-Point Plan   Bid For G.O.P. Nomination Resembles F.D.R.’: “Four Freedoms.’”’

BELIEVE ZERO HOUR NEAR IN TUNISIA AREA   British Eighth Army Crowds Rear Guard Of Fleeing Afrika Korps   ESCAPE ROUTE NARROWED   Axis Radios Sound Alarms Of Big Allied Drive Believed Underway

Yank Bombers Blast Sfax in Heaviest Raid   British Crowd Korps; 2 Hint Grand Assault Started in Tunisia

SFAX DEVASTATED, ZERO HOUR NEARS   American Operations in Tu- nisia Narrow Coastal Cor  ridor for Escape.

U.S. Ground Forces:  Drive Toward Coast   Sfax Hammered by Three Waves Of Bombers—Rommel Pressed Between Two Allied Armies

Russian Troops Kill, Capture More Nazis   Hour At Hand For Showdown In Tunisia Against Last Horde Of Huns

Hour For Showdown In Tunisia At Hand Axis Radios Alarmed   By United Presse

GAFSA RETAKEN OY OUR FORCES IN OHARP DRIVE   Big Nutcracker Offensive Against Rommel’s Troops Believed Underway

POUND TOWARD PORT OF GABES TO HEM AXIS IN   British Eighth Army Also In Action

Sweeping Back the  Germans   Americans and British Armies Aim to Sweep  Rommel Out of Africa

CAPTURE GAFSA   Drive on Toward Sea in Effort to Slice Axis Line

Major Battles Raging Across A lantic And Over Tunisian Hil Seek To Drive Eommel iat Sea: Spring U-Boat Drive On   NO MAJOR CHANGES ON RUSSIAN FRONT

U.S. TROOPS CAPTURE GAFSA   -_Drive_on Toward. Sea in Effort toSlice Axis Line

HAY AND GRAIN TO BE PROVIDED STATE FARMERS   Steps Taken By Farm Leaders To Aid Drouth Stricken Areas

PROMISE IS GIVEN ~ OF HAY AND GRAIN   Shipments to be Made te Drought Stricken Areas

U.S. Navy Knocks Out 10 Jap Ships   One American  Destroyer Lost in Kula Gulf Battle

WEAKENED — BY BLOWS   Position in Pacific Is Less Threatening After Blasting of Ten Voeceale.

ELLAND HAS... “POSTWAR PLAN   GOP NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN PROPOSES FIVE-POINT PROGRAM TO MEET POSTWAR PROBLEMS

WAITRESS KILLED IN CINCINNATI ROBBERY   Girl Cut by Knife, Police Hunt for Negro

WAITRESS IS KNIFED IN CINCINNATI! HOTEL   Well- dressed Negro Hunted For Bizarre Killing

Giraud Wipes Out Decrees  Against Jews All Vichy Deerees   All Vichy Decrees Repudiated; Agency Is “Liquidated™

Giraud Repudiates Decrees of Vichy   Suppresses Bureau Restricting Jews

Laval Gets New Demands   Nazis Want Government tn Raturn ta Paric

MANY SOVIET PLANES HiT NAZI SHIPS   Warships in Crimea area suffered in big night attack

Soviet Planes Hit Heavy Blow   Surprise Attacks On Port Of Kerch And Sennava Moscow Reports   NAZI WARSHIPS UNDER ASSAULT

RUSSIANS ASSAULT WARSHIPS   Heavy Blows At Kerch And Sennaya Made Without Loss

SOVIET PLANES STRIKE BLOW Al NAZI WARSHIPS   Reds Seek to Blast Germans Out of a Bridgehead

UloMloo BOWLES PLEA Ad PART UF “PRESSURE PLAY”   Administration Faces Fight on Subsidies; OPA May Lose Out

RED LETTER DAY AT LOCAL GHURCH   Flags Presented, Honor Roll Unveiled Pressly Memorial

No Change in ‘Gas’ Rules — For at Least Two Weeks, Ickes Tells Delegation

State Will Keep 45-Mile Limit   Dempsey Denounces  OPA, Hopes for lest

Admits Slaying Her 3.Children   Their Hacked Bodies Were Found In Bed

Bizerte Is Almost Cut Off and German Troops Are Falling Back From Last Defense in Front of City of Tunis

Ist Army Only 14 Miles From Tunis   Big Guns In Range Of Tunis And Bizerte: Bombers Open Great Hole In Axis Defenses

1-H Boys Stress War Production      Will Also Increase Assistance In Salvage Campaigns

Three Butte Men Drowned in Lake   Fourth Man Survives When Boat Founders

Less Gas on West Coast, Says Ickes   Pacific and Rocky Mountain States Due For Cut Soon

ROCKY MOUNTAIN, PACIFIC STATES: TO GET LESS GAS   Petroleum Administrator Ickes Tells Western Solons the Gas Reduction for Civilian Pur _ poses to Be About 15,000 Barrels Daily

RAILWAY JUNCTIONS © BOMBED BY‘RUSSIANS   Bomb Hits Reported on German Trains Filled With Ammunition and Arms.

Ribbentrop Reported In Rome For Conference; 22 Prominent Fascists  Under Arrest As War Profiteers

Communism Feared In Complete Surrender;  VonRibbentropin Rome   Italians Say Soviets Will Take “Pound Of Flesch”

SUSPECT HELD IN 3 MURDERS   Attack Victim Identifies Man As Slayer Of  Companion

‘Heavy Rains Halts Yanks  In Center   Eighth Army Gains Before Mareth Line With Bayonet Charge

Russian Lines Yield Along Donets River; Germans Provide Stiffer Resistance in Smolensk Zone

Bayonet Attack Of British Takes New Positions Near Mareth Line Front In South

ITALIANS CLAIM GEN. VON ARNIM HAS CAPTURED IMPORTANT POSITION FROM BRITISH.IN NORTH TUNISIA   - American Forces Slug Ahead Thru Torrential Rains and Mud After Capturing El Guetar. British First Army Withdraws From Tamera South of Bizerte

British Ist Army Forced to Withdraw   Attacks on Mareth Line and in Central Tunisia Recorded: Stop Axis Thrusts

Yank Advance Being Slowed By Heavy Rain   British Ist Army Set Back In North; Giraud Says Gafsa Is Opening Of Drive To Berlin

British Gain In Mareth  Line Zone   Americans Advance from El Guetar Reds Sweep Nazis Back from Whol Eastern Bank of Dnieper River

MORE GROUN GAINED ALON MARETH LINE   On Central Tunisian Front Americans Slog Through Heavy Rains.   Long-Awaited Grand Assault Still Delayed

Yankee Tank Forces Push  Toward Coast  Fall of El Guetar Open: Two Paths to Smash at  Rommel’s Forces MARETH ‘LINE GAIN Bayonet-Charging Brit— ish Win New Ground; Rain Slows Allies

BAYONET-CHARGING — FIGHTH ARMY FORGE GAIN IN MARETH AREA   ITALIAN REPORTS ASSERT BRITISH LOSE GROUND NORTHERN TUNISIA

NEW TERRITORY TAKEN IN PUSH BY 8TH FORCES   Yanks Piow Thru Bad Weaiher To  Continue Gains

WEATHER HALTS U.S. TROOPS ON CENTRAL FRONT   Axis Gain in Northern Sector: Reds Near Smolensk, Hold in Donets

British Eighth Wins Ground Along Mareth   Torrential Rains and Mud Slow Down American Troops

U.S. Forces Also Gain  In Tunisia   Giraud Sees Allied Drive Carried Right To Berlin. Reds. Force: Nazis Back

BRITISH FORCE ADVANCING TC SQUEEZE AXIS   Long Expected ‘Big Push’ Is Believed Taking Form In North Africa   REDS STEP UP OFFENSE   Nazis Beaten Off at Kharkov While Russians Surge On Toward Smolensk

NEW CONGRESS CHEERS SPEECH   There Must Be No Stopping When Victory Is Won, Says Speaker.   ‘WIPE OUT PAGANISM?

Rayburn Organizes Congress for President Roosevelt’s Report Tomorrow

CANADIAN GRAIN MAY COME 10 U. §. FOR FEED   Importation Depends Largely On Availability of Ships And Cars To Get It Here   WANTED FOR LIVESTOCK   Increased Demand for Meat Has Put Dent in Surplus Stocks of Feed Grain

MERCURY HITS LOW MARK FOR MONTH   Temperature of 64 Degrees Reported Last Night

MERCURY HITS LOW MARK FOR MONTH      Temperature of 64 De grees Reported Last 2” Wight

EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS FROM BERLIN STARTED   Pamphlet Urges All Non-Essential Persons to Leave

CIVILIANS LEAVING BERLIN IN FEAR OF AIR BOMBARDMENT   Germans Push Propaganda In. Try To Prevent ' Break Down In Morale

Report Civilians Being Evacuated From Berlin, Morale Break Feared

EVACUATION OF BERLIN BEGINS   CIVILIANS REPORTED FLEEING BOMB THREAT

Evacuation From Berlin Started, States Report   Refugees From Bombed Cities Make Profound  Impression On People

CIVILIANS EVACUATING. FROM BERLIN      Fear City May Suffer Similar To Hamburg

Nazi Evacuees hae Persons From Purgatory   Raids on Cities   Raids on Cities Held Worse Than Big Battles

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST ONE OF NAZIS’ BIG AIRCRAFT PLANTS   Demonstrate In 2,600Mile Raid That No Enemy Ground Is Safe

BIG PLANE FACTORY IS BATTERED   Details Of Daylight Attack Near Vienna Not Announced

RECORD 2600 MILE FLIGHT SUCCESSFUL   Aircraft Plants Bombed By Fliers From Near East

PREAT GERMAN PLANE FACTORY IN AUSTRIA ill   liberators Fly 2,600 Miles From Base In Africa   MESSERSCHMITT WORKS BOMBED TO ‘SHAMBLES’

Reich Plane Plant Near Vienna Fired By Tons of Bombs   Liberators From Middle East Make Record 2,600 Mile Raid; Nazis Admit Damave. Cacnaltia

Daylight Raid Of 2,600 Mile:  Is Successful   Craft Based In Cairo Find Area Virtually. Undefended

TURKISH-BULGARIAN  BORDER IS CLOSED   Balkan Explosion Possible As Turks and Germans Square Off Across Line

Nazis Cleared From All But Two Isolated Heights.  CLEARING WEATHER AID ALLIED PLANES  “Toughest Mountain Battle in American History.”

Yanks and Tommies Score Victory In Mountain Struggle Against Ger-

RELIEF GRANTS TOBE INCREASED   Cost-of-Living Addition Applies to All Recipients

Lowered Fooc Price Is Due   Price Administrator Promises ‘Roll Back’

Sweeping Revisions  Of Prices Planned   OPA Chief Maps Four-Point Program, Urges Striking Miners To Not Pursue Demands

OP A Director Promises Curb on Living Costs —   . Prentiss M. Brown Urges Coal Miners To Return to Jobs in L1th-Hour Appeal; Reiterates ‘Hold-the-Line’ Policy -in Nation

SIZE LIMITATION FOR ARMY ~~ PROPOSED BY CONGRESSMAN   CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE MIX. TARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE” —— FAVORS ARMY LIMZY-—~OF 8.500.060 MEN

NEELY PREDICTS FOR FOURTH TERM   Makes Prediction in Speech To 300 Party Leaders Gathered for Washington Dinner in Charleston

FOURTH TERM ~~ TS PREDICTED   Neely Tells Democrats At Annual Dinner Roosevelt Will Be Reelected

Mussolini, the Opportunist-— Duce, Caesar, Finally Egoist   Son of Blacksmith, School Teacher, Became Socialist Editor, Opposed World War I, Changed Ideals when Offered Paper

SEVENTH ARMY OF  UNITED STATES IS  IN SIGILIAN ACTION WHEREABOUTS OF TEXAS TRAINED 45TH INFANTRY  QRINAITY DEUGRAICHR

Powerful Russian Armies ~ Are Closing In On Smolensh   Two Gateways Near Important Base Cracked, Stalin Announces in Significant Order of the Day —Krasnoqrad Overwhelmed

Reds Crack Gateway t Swolensk   Soviet Advance Shifts Into High Gear All Along 7 ACL Benes

REDS CRACK GATEWAY 10 SMOLENSK      Sweeving Westward Along 700-Mile Front With Gathering Momentum Russians Also Capture 1,107 Towns.   “Volchyi Vorota”

RED TROOPS PUSH THROUGH TO SMOLENSK   German Supplies Falling Into Soviet Hands

Nazis May Be Planning To Abandon  Soviet Campaign, Madrid Reports

Russ Forces Crack Gate To Smolensk   Smash 30,000 Nazis Manning Six Lines of Defenses

Reds Crack Gateway to Smolensk   Soviet Advance Shifts Into High Gear All Along 700-Mile Front

SMOLENSK A KIEV NEXT ON RUSSIAN LIST   Speculation That Germany May Plan to Withdraw to New Siegfried Line on Polish Border

Reds Within 160 Miles of Poland —   Germany May Withdraw From Russia Entirely

Soviets Liberate 1200 Towns And Villages Along 159-Mile Front   Big Smolensk Stronghold Being Battered By  Reds -

Soviet Columns Grind Toward - Smolensk, Kie   Nazi Defenses Cracked In White Russia By Red Offensive

German Lines Broken North ‘Of Smolensk   Reds Within 24 Miles Of Lower Dnieper River And 1,107 Towns Fall  NOW MENACE KIEV,

Another Column Approaching Kiev   Moscow Celebrates With Bombing Of Cannon

REDS CRASH GATEWAY T0 SMOLENSK   German Retreat  Fast Becoming A Debacle

SOVIETS WIDEN VICTORY SHAS THRU UKRAINI   Crack Gateway to Smolensk to Imperi! Two Great German Bastions  On Dnieper River

“Russians Push Closer to Kiev And to Smolensk   Two Great German Bas tions on Dnieper Are En dangered by Red Forces  Battle Shifts to High Gear Along 700 Miles

RUSS ADVANCE INHIGH GEAR ON 700 MILE LINE   Soviet Column Gains in Thrust Toward Kiev, Ukraine Capital

Soviet Only. J0-Miles from ‘White Russia   ‘Record- breaking Ad-vance Against Herren‘yolk Made Week-end

Reds Push To Within 160 Miles of Old Polish Boundary Soviet Troops Liberate 1,700  Towns, Villages   Main German Defenses Before Stronghold of Smolensk Cracking

SOVIETS SMASH WAY CLOSER T0 DNIEPER RIVER   HUN SOUTHERN FLANK ALSO THREATENED BY RUSS CRIMEAN DRIVE

Reds Drive On Near Smolensh  Only 30 Miles . Away, Germans Retreat Rapidly

Russian Advance Shifts Into High . On 700-Mile Front   Red Army Shatters Smolensk Gateway

feds Roll Along in High Gear   Both Smolensk and Kiev Are Threatened in Widening Russian Drive   HUGE STOCKS FALL INTO SOVIET HANDS   The Red Drive Now Parallels Duieper River Along a 100-Mile Front

Smash To Within 160 Miles 0: Old Polish Border — Liberate 1,200 Towns And Villages Along 760 Mile Front   SMOLENSK GATE IS BREACHED, REPORT

Powerful Soviet Armies Reported Closing In Fast On Smolensk   Forces in Ukraine Smash Last Major Nazi Bastions Short of Kiev; Several Towns Are Captured

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE WITHIN THIRTY MILES OF SMOLENSK   Red Army Cracked Through Gateway to City on Cen tral Russian Front.    VICTORY GUNS BOOMED   The Soviet War Bulletin Indicated the Westward Advance Was Rapid.

NAZI SMOLENSK LINE FALTERS   Soviet Advance Shifts Into High Gear ‘During Weekend

Big Victory Also Gained  In Ukraine   Dual Triumphs Are Announced. in Sialin’s Orders of the Day

REDS’ ADVANCE IN HIGH GEAR ON WIDE FRONT   Russians Crack Gateway to Smolensk,  Vital Rail Point

Soviets Crack German. Lines Before Smolensk   Drive Onward Into Ukraine While Drawing Nearer To Smolensk And Kiev, Great German Bastions On Dnieper.

RUSSIAN ADVANCE  SHIFTED INTO HIGH  GEAR ON ALL FRONTS RED ARMY TROOPS CRACK  THROUGH THE GATEWAY TH CMOT ENCE

PUSH ON SMOLENSK GROUP OF 24 MEN   ot Advance Goes Into Drafrees Left Lawrence Th gh Gear Along 700- Morning for Fort Mile Front Leavenworth

Nazis im Full Flight Along Whole Line   Towns Flanking Kiev Taken Into Russian Net

RED ARMIES IN HIGH GEAR OVER 700 MILE FRONT   Crack Thru Gateway to Smolensk and Press Steadily On Retreating Germans

Soviets Crack Smeiensk Gate   Russians 30 Miles From Smolensk. 42 Miles From. Capital Of Kiev.

Russ Capture 1,200 Towns   Crack Main Defense of Smolensk Bastion

NAZI DEFENSE OF SMOLENSK   Reds Take 1,100 Places in Sweep Along  700-Mile Front

SOVIETS CRACK NAZI DEFENSE OF SMOLENSK   Reds Take 1, 1,100 Plac es in Sweep Along 700-Mile Front

5 CONTINUING   Russians Draw Nearer Smoalensk and Kiev in Rapid Movements.

Soviets Crack Nazi Defenses  Near Smolensk Victorious Red Armie: Speed Toward Germar Bases; Troops Only 42 Miles From Kiev

REDS NEARING OLD POLISH BORDER LINE   1,200 Towns Are Liberated and Smolensk Looms

RUSSIAN DRIVE NOW NEARS KIEV AND SMOLENSK   Victory Guns Boom Again in Moscow as Reds Approach Dnieper River Bases   RAIL CENTERS AT STAKE   Soviet Forces in High Gear All Along 700-mile Line Of Gigantic Battle

1200 TOWNS ARE LIBERATED NEAR POLISH BORDER   Think .Germans May Be Withdrawing From Russia Altovether

Gateway To City Has Beer Cracked With Loss Of 30,000 Germans   FINNS STUNNED BY FAST SOVIET ADVANCE

Russian Troops ~ Near Smolensk   SOVIET ADVANCE SHIFTED INTO HIGH GEAR

REDS DRIVING ON SMOLENS!   Gateway to City on Centra Front Cracked.in Red Advance; .

Soviet Forees Capture Over 1,100 Villages   Spearhead Drives to Within 24 Miles of Lower Dnieper; Stalit Issues Two Orders

TERRITORY LIBERATED   1,200 Towns and Villages Freed As Russians Near the Old Polish Border Area.

Russians Crack Nazi Lines In Smolensk Area   Within 30 Miles Of Big German Base; Drive Nearer Kiev.

700-Mile: Red Battle Front Goes Forward   Soviet Troops Crack Through Gateway to Smolensk and Approach Kiev

Red Advance Shifts Into High Gear All Along 700-Mile Battle Line; Gateway To, Smolensk Cracked

Liberate 1,200, ‘Towas and Villages Along 750-Mile Front, — Crack Main Defenses Before Big Stronghold of Smolensk,

Reds Sweeping Down On Kiev And Smolensk   Gen. Yeremenko, Hero‘ Stalingrad, Leads -Re Troops. In Cracking Gateway To Smolénsk; Now Only 30. Mil Away: Other Column: Within 42 Miles of Kiev

REDS CRASH THE GATEWAY TO SMOLENSK   Drive to Within 30 Mile: of Base and Other Columns Press Closer te Kiev in Gains All Along the Front.

Soviet Army Smashes Through Gateway To Smolensk, Roll On In High Gear Toward Kiev   Russians Sweeping Westward Rapidly, Meeting Only Rearguard Resistance

Red Drive Gathers Speed   Victorious Armies Imperil German Key Defense Positions  At Kiev and Smolensk

Red Army 30 Miles From Smolensk               Russians Crack: : German Lines Befor  dete WRawbhlan

Reds Within 30 Miles Of Smolensk   Soviet Advance In High Gear Over 700-Mile Front

Russians Crack Through Defense Near Smolensk   Kiev Also Threatened By Red Advance

Reds 30 Miles  From Smolensk   Another Column Only 42 Miles from Kiev

Yeremenko Is Driving On Smolensk   Two Columns Are Closing On Gateway to White Russia

REDS MOVING NEARER SMOLENSK AND KIEV   Main Defenses Of Germans Cracked By Soviets ,

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON SMOLENSK IN HIGH GEAR   Rapid German Retreat Leaves Only Light Rear Guards to Contes Advancing Reds

SOVIETS CRACK SMOLENSK LINE   Drive In Ukraine Area Is Rolling On

Red Armies Drive Nearer Smolensk, Kiev   Third Column Pushes Within 27 Miles Of Dnieperopetrovsk

80 Italian Warships To Allies   Number of Merchant Vessels Also Are in Our Hands

umber’ of Prisotiera Soars to Between 60,000 and 70,000; Bitter Fighting Continues on Catania Plain ; Germans Will Try ~ to Wald Meseinsa

Palerme Captured by American: th Army — Four.Fifths of Steily: AL ready.in Allied Hands — No }  - to Destroy Military and- Naval  - Installations.

TORPEDO BOAT ATTACK ENEMY OFF SOLOMONG   One Jap Destroyer Hit, Possibly Two Others, Navy Reports

LOCAL ORKERVATIONS   Jap Destroyers Hit by PT Boats   Nippons Try to Get Supplies Through to Troops on Guadalcanal.

8 Destroyers A Found Near Isl,       Motor Torpedo Boats Score Strike on One Vessel and Possibly Three Others:

Pr BOATS TORPEDO DESTROYER, TWO MORE BELIEVED HIT   Japs Apparently Attempting To Supply Troops ‘On Iceland

MOTOR BOATS ATTACK JAPS IN SOLOMONS   ONE DESTROYER HIT AND TWO OTHERS OF EIGHT _ BELIEVED HIT

PT Boats Attack Jap Destroyers   Result Of Nip Attempt To Supply Guadalcanal Troops Uncertain.

TORPEDO BOATS AND FLIERS HIT JAP WARSHIPS   Score on Three Enemy Destroyers, Possibly Fourth, in Solomons Area   ONE SET ON FIRE   Airmen Leave Another. Apparently Sinking, Raid Jap Airfield a! Munda Twice

Skip Boats Whack Jap Destroyers   Buna Pocket Cleared: Foe’s Position Now Called Hovelecs.   Fliers Strike Lae   Fortresses and Fighter Planes Raid Isles, Fire Enemy Ship.

Attack Jap Warships   Eight Destroyers Discovered Off Guadalcanal

Jap Destroyer Hit By Torpedo Boats   ‘Two Others May ‘Have Been Struck Three Times in Attacks Upon Eight Vessels Off the Northwestern End of Guadalcanal.

Torpedo Boats Rout Japanese Destroyers   U. S. Vessels Battle Eight Jap Fighting Ships in Solomons Area

Hit Jap Vessel Off Guadalcanal   Torpedo Boats Attack 8 Jap Destroyers 3 Possible Hits

Eight Jap Destroyers Trying To Reinforce Guadalcanal Troops Attacked By PT Boats

Allies Close Out Japanese In Buna Area   American-Australian Forces Close in on Remnants of Enemy Left in New Guinea

U.S. PT’s Hit Jap Cans Off Guadalcanal   “Enemy Makes New Desperate Effort To Land Forces

SOVIET THRUST THREATENS T0 DIVIDE ENEMY   Russian Gains Unbroken On Six Battle Fronts

Navy Torpedo > Boats. Score Hit On One Vessel   ‘Slight Damage Inflicted on U. S. Craft, Presence of Ships Seen — As Enemy Effort fo Supply Island.

EIGHT JAPANESE DESTROYERS OFF OF GUADALCANAL   They Were Discovered Last Saturday, the Navy Reported Today.   TORPEDO BOATS ATTACK   Scored One Hit and Possibly Two Others, It Is Announced.

8 JAP DESTROYERS FOUND, ATTACKED BY TORPEDO BOATS   Kit Scored on One and Probable Hits on Two Others— Action Occurs Off Guadalcanal Island

JAPS CONTINUE GUADAL EFFORT   Eight Destroyers ’ Attacked Off Northwestern End of Island. -

Jap Destroyers Off Guadalcanal  Hit On One -Warshi; Possible fin O¢thara

Hits Scored * On at Least One Vesse'   _ Whether Enemy Destroyers Succeeded in: Landing Stores is Not Clear   @SOME MAY HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH   Japs Probably Acted at Night and With Weather - an. Their Favor

Jap Destroyer Force Affacked At Guadalcanal   Enemy Renews Attempts To Supply Marooned . Land Forces

Jap Destroyers Off Guadalcanal   Navy Says Motor Boats Score Hit On One Vessel

8 DESTROYERS ARE ATTACKED BY YANKEE PT’S   Torpedo Boats Hit One Japanese Vessel and Possibly 2 Others

PT Vessels Hit Destroyer Group  Jap Ships Believed To Have Been Bringing Sunnplies To Forces   Trving Te Supply Treeps   Possibly Night Action

Discover Jap Destroyers   Eight Located Off Northwestern End of Guadalcanal! Island

Score One Hit, Possibly Three Others During Effort To Turn. Back  Jap Reinforcements —

TORPEDO BOATS BLASTED NUMBER OF JAP VESSELS   FAIL IN ATTEMPT SUPPLY HARD PRESSED TROOPS ON GUADALCANAL

BUSINESS IS USUALLY GOOD WITH THE MAN WHO GOES AFTER IT   Soviets Closing In On Strategic Railway Center After Recapturing Mozdok, Key City In Oil Distric   On Other World War Fronts Rommeil Making Final Stand in Libya; MacArthur’s Forces  Near Complete Victory Over Japs In New Guinea.

Tiny Ships Attack Kight War Vessels   Navy Reports Torpedoes Score Near Guadaleanal—Japs On Buna Beins Wined Out

Cherkasi Is Abandoned By Germans   Give Up Last Stronghold on Lower Dnieper, Admitted by Nazis

KEY BASE ON LOWER DNIEPER FALLS TO. REDS   Eighth Army Units Push Deep er Into Adriatic Flank Of ; German Line

RUSSIANS PREPARE TO RESUME DRIVE ON POLAND, RUMANIA   Bad Weather in Italy Holds Allied Armies’ Operations to Minor Clashes; Raids on Western Germany Continued

Reds Gird For Drive After Handing Foe Major Defeat At Cherkasi, Last Nazi Stronghold On Lower Dneiper

Food Lack Could Lose Next Vote   Political Master Minds Overlook Reaction At. Eleetion

GOV'T MOVES TO TAKEOVER RAIL SYSTEMS   Roosevelt Acts After Brotherhoods Reject Arbitration   TWO UNIONS AGREE TO FDR’S PROGRAM

UNIONS TURN DOWN OFFERS TO ARBITRATE   PAPERS PREPARED FOR SEIZURE OF CARRIERS

FDR Prepares To Take Over  Railway Lines   President Orders Biddle to Ready Legal Papers After Three Unions Reject Offer of Arbitration

Executive Calls for Papers  N  Ih Government Control of Carri  Companies, Two Brotherhoods. Accept Offer Ta ‘Arbitrate Dispute:on: ©,

Roosevelt Gets Ready to Take Over Carriers After Three Brotherhoods Reject His Proposal to Arbitrate Controversy — Two Unions, Together With Management, Had Agreed to Let Him Decide Case.

Roosevelt Move: Looks Toward: Seizure of Lines:  President Orders Biddle to Draft _ _ Necessary Papers When

Rail Unions Turn Down  FDR’s Ofter   War Labor Board Decision Angers  Steel Workers

ORDERS BIDDLE PREPARE PAPERS   ‘Three Brotherhoods Reject Offer to Arbitrate   STRIKE THREATENS   Move Indicates President Not Hopeful of Situation After Conferences

Noosevelt Orders Biddle To Get Papers Ready After Three Unions Reject Proposals

FDR MAKES MOVE TO SEE RALS, - PREVENT STRIKE      Biddle Ordered to Prepare Documents For Govern‘ment Control Previous to Dav Set to Susnend.   EMPLOYES EXPECTED TO WORK UNDER PLAN   Three of Five Unions Reject Offer, 15 Nonoperating Groups Decline Without Saying No.

Three Of Five Unions Reject President’s Help   Turn Down  His Offer ‘Lo Personally Arbitrate Wage: Controversy. Roosevelt Acts to Take Over the Railroads: Strike Seems Certain

Three Brotherhoods Turn Down Roosevelt Offer to Arbitrate   Hope of Averting Strike Dec. 30 Believed Fading: Non-Operating Unions Delay Decision on Chief Executive's Proposal

F. D.R. Orders Drawing Up OfN ecessary Legal Papers   Takes Quick Action After 3 Brotherhoods Reject Arbitration Of Dispute by Him MOVE INDICATES HE’S NOT HOPEFUL Rail Managements, Two Operating Union: Acree to Arbitration

Rail Unions Reject Plea To Arbitrate   Nationwide Strike Sched.  uled Soon

UUV T MOVE) TOTAKE OVER RAILSYSTEMS  Rooseveit Acts After Fi Ar  TWO UNIONS AGREE TA FRC mmmemmaki   TWO UNIONS AGREE TO FDR‘S PROGRAM   Hope of Settlement by Christmes Goes  Glimmerina

ARBITRATION OF WAGE WRANGLE IS TURNED DOWN   Three Of Five Operating Brotherhoods Refuse Roosevelt’s Offer   GOVERNMENT READY TO TAKE OVER ROADS

BIDDLE TOLD TO PREPARE   3 Of 5 Unions Balk At FDR Offer to Arhiteate

President Acts When Big Groups Reject Proposals   Two Brotherhoods Agree To Arbitrate

Three Big Rail Unions Reject President's Arbitration Offer to Head Off a Nationwide Strike   Roosevelt Orders U.S. Attorney General to Prepare Legal Papers Preparatory to the Seizure of Lines After His Plea Fails

Dpen All-Out Drive To Eliminate China   Invaders Have Edge in Men, Supplies; But Chinese Aided by Rough Terrain

BILL FOR ARMY IS STAGGERING   But Quick Passage Looms in House Monday

30 JAP PLANES DOWNED, ALLIED COMMAND SAYS   Losses Included 22 Bombers In Milne Bay Raid

30 Planes Lost By Japs In Air Raid In Pacific   15 Shot Down, 15 Damaged In Attack On Milne Bay

ALLIED PLANES HIT 6,000 TON JAP FREIGHTER   30 Nippo Planes Downed In Raid On Milne Bay

Third Heavy Air Attack on American Bases in New Guinea Has No Better Results Than Others.

COMPROMISE ON TAX PLAN SEEN   Believe Doughton And Knut son Plan Rendezvous Tt Discuss Problem,

TAX PLAN TALK REFUSES 10 DIE   Report Leaders May Seek  Compromise on Bill

Solons May Meet In The South  - For Parley On Tax Plan Aimed — ‘At Pay-As-You-Go Compromise

COMPROMISEON TAX PROGRAM RUMORED   Republican And Democratic Agreement Probable

COAL PRICES TO ~ BE HIGHER SOON   Extra $9 Weekly For Men To Be Passed To Custamers tckes Reveals.

Ickes Predicts Coal Prices  To Be Advanced   Blames Miners’  48-Hour Week

CONCEDES BOOST IN COAL PRIGES   Secretary of Interior Ickes Admits Prices Will Have to Go up When Mines Go on 48-Hour Week

PRICES SEEN   Longer Work Week Make: Increase Certain,  Ickes Concedes

BOOST IN COAL PRICES SEEN   Longer Work Week Make: Increase Certain, lekes Concedes

Must Boost Coal Prices Says Ickes   WHEN MINES GO ON 48-HOUR WEEK: OPA STUDIES HOW MUCH ADVANCE WILL BE.

PRICES OF COAL TO G0 UP. IKE   Time and Half Pay Involved In 48-Hour Week for Miners

SOAL PRICES T0 BE INCREASED   Action Will Be Taken Ts Provide More Pay  For Miners

Grand Strategy Conference Held by Hitler to Escape. Results of Total Defeat

FUEHRER SEEKS NEW STRATEGY   Desperate Reich Leaders Threatened With Total Defeat

Second Council Of War Called By Navi Leader   Overhauling ‘of Weat Strategy Believed Hitler's Aim

STRATEGY TALKS HELD BY HITLER AND WAR GHIFES   Highest Political and Military Authorities Gather at Behest of Field Marshal Keitel.   OBSERVERS PREDICT CHANGE IN TACTICS   Thrents Posed by Russian Drive, Invasion of Italy and Air Raids Be-. lieved Considered.

GERMANS HOLDING ‘STRATEGY PARLEY   Attempting To Find Means of Saving Nazi Empire From Destruction.

HITLER, AIDES   Nazi-Leaders:Hold Second Strategy Conference bs Tiyg Weeks

Hitler Attends Second Nazi Parley In Two Weeks; Overhauling Of Grand Strategy Top Business

Hitler Holds Another Grand Strategy Meet   Reich Service Chiefs Overhaul Plans to Meet Allied Threats

American Fliers in Solomons Attacked Rekata Bay.  ENEMY CARGO SHIPS WERE HIT SQUARELY  One Thousand Japs Are Drowned When Big Warship Is Sunk.

Allies Make Advance In Northern Tunisia  Nazi Observation Ridge Captured; “-., ¢ . roy ses - tL

HELP OFFERE  BY PRISONER’   LARGE NUMBER OF 60,000 ITAL IAN PRISONERS IN U. 8. WANT  TO JOIN ALLIED SIDE

Exceed Longest Flights by RAF   Nazis Learn Distance No Longer Is Protection for War Industries

FLYING FORTS HIT FOUR BIG NAT! TARGETS   Daylight Raids ‘Most Audacious’ From British Base

Poland Blasted By Yank Forts In Record Raid  _ Four Targets Deep in Reich Battered

GO-CENT BOOST IN COAL PRICES FOR IOWA FIXED   OPA Orders Increase Averaging 7 Cents Per Ton

FAMOUS BLOOD SCIENTIST DIES   Vienna-Born Specialist’s Work Developed Process Of Transfusion *

GIRAUD-HAILS © BIG VICTORY   FRENCH: LEADER IN NORTE AFRICA LAUDS AMERICAN, . BRITISH AND FRENCH © TROOPS

Allies Pursue Nazis Driven From Orton   Germans Flee Adriatic Port After Battle Lasting Eight Days   CANADIAN TROOPS DRIVE NAZIS BACK

CANADIAN UNITS PURSUING NAZIS BEYOND ORTONA   Spearheads of Eighth Army Push North After Taking Adriatic Port

CANADIANS Wit ORTONA AFTER S-DAY BATTLE   Pursue Fleeing German Forces Along Adriatic Coast

Move To Raise Corn Ceiling Balked By House After Approval By Senate

Fleet Units Of Tl Duce Are Targets   Daylight Raids on French and Belgium Points Follow

RAF Hammers Italian Naval Base at Spezia   Single Bomber Lost in Violent Attack on Dock Area: Northern France. Lorient Hit

Fleet Units At Speria Pounded   Big Italian Base Ie Lached Rv RAF

RAF BOMBERS Leek BASE OF “TTALIAN FLEET   British Planes Cross Alps to Hit Ships, Docks at Spezia

VTALIAN FLEE] UNITS HAMIMME REL   RAF Crosses Alps in Strong Force to Deliver Violent At » tacks Against Shipping in Spezia Naval Base

Fleet Units At Spezia Pounded   Big Italian Base [Is Lashed By R'AE-

RAF CROSSES ALPS AGAIN FOR ITALY   ‘Second Assault In Week On Fleet Units In Spezia Naval Base; Only One Bomb er Lost.   Damage Sheds

Bombers Cross Alps For Devastating Raid On Italian Naval Base  ONE BOMBER LOST IN LONG JOURNEY  RAF Also Continues Attacks on France By Fighter Bombers

RAF Delivers Ait Blow af Italian Fleet in Spezia   Report Heavy Toll Taken; Palermo and Ragusa Are Targets

Great Damage Is Caused at Spezia; Fires Are Started; Many Ships Are Known To Be Crippled: France Is Also Struck

Pendergast Loses Fiahtf   Justice Department Refuses to Recommend Clemency for Him: ©

Clemency Is Refused fo Pendergast   Democratic Boss Now On Parole

POSTAL SERVICE WILL HIRE WOMEN   Department Says Persons  Over Draft Age Appear Necessary Shortly.

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FL000 WATER NEAR GRESTS   WEATHER -OBSERVERS REVISE CREST PREDICTIONS DOWNWARD—SEVERAL HUN‘DRED FAMILIES EVACUATED

CUT ESTIMATES OF OHIO GREST   Residents Sigh Relief With River Flood Confined to Lowlands

FLOOD CREST ON OHIO IS LOWER   Forecasters Revise Predictions On Stage To Be Reached At Cincinnati

33 Thousand Mexicans to  Aid California   Imported Labor Now Coming Into State 2500 Daily

445 Jap Naval And Merchant Ships Sunk Since War Began   Now Building Large Bamboo Rafts To Transport Materials: Enemy Seeks Way To Ease Position

Japanese Feel  _ Shipping Loss      Junks ‘And Rafts, Rushed Tn Move To Overcome + “Then Handicap...

445 JAPANESE SHIPS DAMAGED IN PACIFIC   U. S. Subs, Warships, Plane: Destroy Vessels

Japanese Facing Serious Ship Shortage As American Forces Continue To Slash Supply Lines

JAPANESE LOSSES AT SEA CONTINUE TO BE EXTREMELY HEAVY   ALLIED SUBS, PLANES AND WARSHIPS TAKING ~ HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY

TERRIFIC TOLL ON JAP SUPPLY LINEREVEALEL   Allied Subs, Warships and Planes Slashing Away - At Nippon’s Dwind linc Fleet   445 DESTROYED   Huge- Rafts Being Used By Japanese to Take Supplies Over Far — Eastern Routes.

Japanese Reported Facing Shipping Shortage With Allies Slashing Away At Lone ¢ Supply Lines: 445 Ships Lost

Japan's Navy Loses 445 Vessels, Faces Shipping Shortage  Axis Reports Tell Of Transporting Materiales By Raft«

U. Ss U.S..Bombers Did Much Damage to the * Renault : Auto Plant Outside of. Paris

U.S. Bombers Did Much Damage to the Renault Auto Plant Outside of Paris

— os  Ss >  § 3  !  o 9  es  ~ =  > J  ~ ~ 2 a ~—t  > ilies Expand ir, Naval Power In Mediterranean

HITLER SAYS NAZIS READY FOR ALLIES   Tells German People That Wherever They Land, Invasion Forces “Will Receive an Appropriate Welcome.”

Hitler Sends New Year's ‘Greeting’ To Herrenvolk   _ Says Allies Will: _ Get ‘Appropriate -s Welcome’ to Invasion

HITLER: ALLIES ON LANDING TO BE “WELCOMED”   Says War to Have No Winners But Merely Survivors, Annihilated

Defeat Rings in Hitler's Speech   Fuehrer’s New Year Message Is Grim

Grim, Defiant Hitler Message _ ‘to Germans; “To Be, or Not to Be” the Guestion Today, He Says

Hitler’s Reception For Invaders Ready, He Asserts   New Hymn of Hate  For England  Given Germany

NEW FREE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SET UP AT ALGIERS MEETING: FLEET GOES OVER TO ALLIES

7-MAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NAMED TC MRECT FRENCH WAR  GENERALS DEGAULLE AND GIRAUD PLAN UNIFIED CAMPAIGN

CHARGE OF WASTE   Truman Says Thirty Million Dollars Squandered  at DeSoto

Charge $30,000,000 Wasted In Building One Kansas Plant   Senator Truman Says ‘Simply Squandered’ of Money Spent Lavishly, With Architects, Contractors Partners

UNIONS AGREE NOT TO STRIKE   Three Remaining Rail Group Say Walkout Plans Cancelled

RAILROAD STRIKE ‘ORDERS ARE RESCINDEL   : ln  After Conference ‘This  * Morning Between Sec. Stimson and Heads of 8 Remaining Unions:   5 CENT INCREASE

d UNION CHIEFS QUE STATEMENT   No Arbitration of Wages to Be Pushed While Gov’t Runs System, Stimson Says

RAIL STRIKE IMPROBABLE. OFFISIALS SAY   Do Not Believe Workers Woulkc Defy Army  BULLETIN

Rail Unions Halt Strike Order, Remain on Duty  - Union Heads Agree To Continue Trains in Service

Union Heads Confer With Army Chief And Announce They Will Do Nothing To Imperil Our Successfui Prosecution Of The War -

Strike Called Off By Agreement Of R. R. Unions   Operating Group Chiefs Issue Joint Statement  With General Somervell

Firemen, Conductors — And Switchmen Cancel Walkout, Stimson Says

Rail Union Walkout Is Withdrawn   War Secretary Stimson imson Announces Brotherhood.: : ha; * Chiefs Cancelled 2  Walkout Orders      230, 000. WERE DUE TO . STRIKE TOMORROW   No -Arbitration of Wage Problem ‘Will Be Made™ ‘While: Railroads Are “In Army Control

Action Averts Walkout Set For Thursday   Joint Statement Issued By Union Heads and Gen. Somervell

Strike Order Called Off by Three Unions   Conductors, Firemen and Switchmen Act Following Conference

REACH DECISION AFTER PARLEY WITH SOMERVELL   3 RAIL UNIONS WERE  @LATEN TO CTRIKE AT   3 RAIL UNIONS WERE SLATED TO STRIKE AT 6 A M. TOMORROW

Three Railway Brotherhoods Call Off Tieup   Union Representing 230,000 Employes Act After Conference With Somervell

Last Three Unions Call Off Strike   Firemen, Enginemen, Conductors And Switchmen Act Today.

3 GROUPS ACT AFTER PARLEY WITH GENERAL   Wage Controversy Remains Despite Agreement That Calls Off Walkouts

LAST 3 RAIL UNIONS CALL OFF STRIKE   Their Action Completes Capitulation of 20 Employe Groups Which Had Originally Planned Walkout Tomorrow.

Remaining UnionsCancee' Strike Due Thursday   Secretary Of War Announces Cancellation Of Order By Three Brotherhoods

Union Leaders Call. Off Threatened Rail Strike   Last Three Operating Brotherhoods Decide Not To Quit  Pere: TET eee Veermeeren

LAST OF RAL UNIONS CANCEL STRIKE ORDER   Removes Last Threat 0: Walkout Scheduled  For Tomorrow

Call Off Railroad Strike   Three Remaining Operating Unions Cancel Walkout Order; Wage Issue Still Unsettled

Cail Off Walkout  et For Tomorrow  : R. Union Chiefs   issue Statement After Conference With Army

UNION CHIEFS ADVISE ARMY OF DECISION   Had Been Set for Tomorrow: Wage Controversy Still Unsettled

Rail Strike Is Called Off By Operating Men   Stimson Announces Decision Following Conference With Somervell, Unions   No Wage Arbitration.

American, British Soldiers Not Enthused Over Welcoming Italians As Comrades In Arms   RY EDWARD KENNEDY

YANKS, BRITISH COOL TOIDEA OF ITALIAN ALLIES   Badoglio May Declare War in Order to Get Favorable Settlement

BADOGLIO'S GOVERNMENT FOR ALLIES   Wants To Become Recognized As Ally

RussBigGuns Still Pound Novorossisk   Tanks, Dugouts Smashed ' —Ammunition Dump -:. Blown Up -. -

FORD ELECTED -TO HEAD FIRM   Chosen to Succeed Son as President of Company

PAPER SUPPLY "ON DECREASE   V e ara? WPB RULES OUT CONFETTI, -FIREWORKS, PAPER WINDOW  i DRAPES AND OTHER  PRODUCTS

U.S. Now Takes Offensive Asserts Officer Viewing — Abandoned Kiska Island 

Hysterically Rejoicing People Welcome Allied Armies as Thev Move Into Tunis

Happy Civilians Welcome British With Wine, Song   tith Hussars, Who Lex Into Bengasi, Tripoli, En ter Tunis First

HYSTERICALLY HAPPY TUNIS INHABITANTS GREETED THE BRITISH   VIVID EYE-WITNESS STORY OF CAPTURE OF TUNIS RY DANIEL DE LUCE

Defeated Nazis Threaten, Fascists Cry “Outnumbered’      Happy Thousands Greet British in Tunis Torantiee Free 400 “Pals” From Prison Yard

OPEN ARMS FOR ALLIES IN TUNIS   British Prisoners Liberated While Citizens Accord Heartiest Welcome To Allied Troops.

400 ‘Commies Are Set Free From Prison   War Correspondent Witnesses A Brilliant, Triumph After Covering Three Allied Defeats In Poland, Greece And Burma—Cheers, Tears Mingle

Weep Tears Of Joy When  “Troops Arrive   Inhabitants Of Tunis Become Hysterical ‘As Armored Units Move Along Streets

Army Develops ‘Pocket Size’ Machine Gun to Meet Need for Lightweight Deadly Weanon.

CRACKDOWN ON BLACK MARKET   OPA GENERAL MANAGER _PLANS DRIVE CENTERED ', AGAINST BIG’ OPERA-__ “HORS IN ILLE . GAL SALES .

House Passes Pay Increase   Senate Almost Repeals State Income Tax Law

FOR PAY INCREASE   House Passes Measure Today and Sends It to the Senate

Salary Limit Action Delayed By Congress   Roosevelt Wants To Sumbit His Views on Measure

HOUSE COMMITTEE DELAYS ACTION ON SALARY LIMITATION   . PRESIDENT WRITES CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON REGARD_ING PROPOSED PLAN

Propose “Rider” to President’s' New Debt Au thorization Bill.  EXPECT CLOSE VOTE

GROUP IN HOUSE DELAYS ACTION ONSALARY CURB   Proposal: to. Nullify $25,-000-Net Limit by Execu-. - tive Decree is Opposed  -sby--Roosevelt. ~~~      TO SUBMIT VIEWS   Writes Committee: Measure to Increase Public Debt Limit Should Stand Alone

INCOME ACTION WAITS F.R. SAY   Ways and Means Committee Delays Move on Limitation of Incomes to $25,000

DELAY VOTE IN SALARY — LIMIT ROW   House Committee Decides to Wait a Week After President Intervenes   OPPOSES ACTION BY ‘RIDER’ METHOD   Republicans on Committee ‘Solidly Behind Move .to Nulbfy $25:000 Limit

SUPPLIES 10 REDS HAVE BEEN GREAI   Stettinius Reports 2,900,000 Tons Delivered, Shipments to Be More. —

Driving Ban To Be Lifted In The East   OPA Expected To Act Shortly After Lengthy Discussions

PLEASURE DRIVING BAN LIKELY 10 G0   Officials Undecided on Possible Cut in Value of “A”  Fe

BOMB ENEMY BASES OVER WIDE FRONT   Tons of high explosives dumped on fifteen enemy strongholds

FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN   Allied Bombers Smash Enemy Positions On  1600-Mile Front

Eden: Makes His Ficst. Visit to United: States ‘Since War. Started:

Let Them Guess What's Coming-—  The Allies Love It   Fascist Italy Faces Foreboding Prospects

FIELD MARSHAL VON PAULUS IS RED PRISONER   Fourteen Other German, Two Rumanian Generals, 5,000 Troops Captured.   BULLETIN

BATTLE FOR VOLGA CITY ALMOST OVER   Generals Seized, Many Prisoners Captured in City

REDS SAY SIEGE OF STALINGRAD WEAR END   @ield Marshal, 15 Generals Reported Captured  VORONEZH GAINS LISTED  g 150 Axis Troops Taken In Advance On Kursk

DIPLOMATS GATHER AT WASHINGTON   - United Nations To Plan Europe’s  Rehabilitation

DIPLOMATS ARE GATHERING FOR MEETINCAPITA!   Tests International Collaboration Fol. lowing Moscow Meet Last Week

Diplomats Study European Relief   Counselors Gather In Washington

President Favors Tax Forgiveness  On Sliding Scale  Give Most Benefit To Lower Brackets,  SHES gee? aire? Boke, «eae pcneniens

Yankee Fliers Shoot Down Si) Enemy Planes   Probably Destroy 12 Others and Do Not Lose Plane in Fight With Japanese

Withdrawal on Whole Russian Front Is Started   Red Army Seizes Vital Base — On Sea of Azov; Other Atlacks Gaining

K..U. GRADUATION WAS HELD IN HOCH   Degrees and Certificates ters on the Class of 1943   FAREWELL :-BY MALOTT

K.-U: GRADUATION WAS HELD IN HOCH   Degrees and Certificates ogfeured on the Class oO   FAREWELL BY MALOTT

Post-War Food Parley Eyed  President Savyvs Allies   President Says Allie: Mav Discuss Problems

FOOD SUPPLIES TO BE STUDIED   FDR Considers Meeting To Ponder Post-War  Problems

F.R. WARNING REALITY SEEN   SEA DISASTER, RATION OF FOOD UNDERLINE TALK

FOOD PARLEY WILL BE HELD BY ALLIES   United Nations Will Discuss PestWar Problems At Series Of Ex ploratory Sessions

TYMES, PLACES FIXED FOR NEW ATTACKS~F DR   Tells Congress Nazis’ Satellites Thirst For Peace

Tr! re et Ne LA Vs es Sows 4. y  en  “"y t7282 ne en . - e aa nl De ia 2 Lug  an “ ata “tr seen  Tee L cone Gove 4,

WAR OUTLOOK IS REVIEWED BY ROOSEVEL   NEW INVASIONS ARE PROMISED; AXIS AIDES TIRED

President Warns Nation Of Long Way to Victory   Special Message Discloses Quebec Parley Mapped Mightier Blows; Says Nazi Satellite People Want Peace

OPTIMISTIC PICTURE OF WAR GUILOOK   President Roosevelt in First Messave to Congress; Says Smaller Countries Want Peace.  Painted by   Long Fight

DATES FOR NEW ALLIED INVASIONS ON EUROPE FIXED   Roosevelt Tells Congress Militarists Are to Be Rooted Out of Germany With Hitler,   DECLARES JAPAN MUSE GIVE UP STOLEN AREAS   Warns Fight in Orient Will Be Long—Says Rumania, - Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria Desire Peace,

FR. Promises New Blows At Axis Powers   Says Satellite Nations ‘Thirst’ For End of War

SAYS TIME, PLACES ALREADY SELECTED      President Warns We Still Are Long  Way From Ultimate Victory, In Congress Address

New Invasions Mapped, Says  President   Sketches Optimistic Picture of Outlook Warns Long, Long Way From Victory

Japan Included In Allies New Offensive Plan   Roosevelt Tells Congress Victory Is Not Yet In Sight

Declares Prussian Militarists Must Go Inte Oblivion With Adolf idler and That Japan Must Be Stripped of All Stolen ‘Lerritory

‘Enemy Satellites — Thirst For Peace   Prussiitn, Jap Militar: vena Theil

President, in Long Messoge, Sketches Optimistic Picture   SAYS MILITARISTS DUE FOR OBLIVION   Japan to be Stripped of All Stolen Prop-

F.D.R. Gives Optimistic  War Picture To Congress   But Warns ‘We Still Are Long, Long Way From Ultimate Victory In Any Major Theatre  ASSERTS SATELLITES THIRST FOR PEACE  Says Japan Will Lose AJ Stolen Territory, Militarists Must Go

FDR's Message Pictures Bright Outlook In War   President Issues  Warning That Hard Teek Stil] ABagd

U. S. Legation Staff Quits Finn Capital   STATE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMS DEPARTURE

“CTAFE DEPART:   Americans Leave Sudden.  Jy By Airplane For  Stockholm   TENSION MOUNTS   Nazis Reported To Have Been Increasing Pressure On Finns

Tension Mounts in Finnish Crisis.   OFFICIAL ENVOYS LEAVE FOR STOCKHOLM BY AIRPLANE; IRONCLAD CENSORSHIP CLAMPED ON FINN POLITICAL DISPATCHES

U.S. Withdraws Most of Envoys From Finland   Issue of Relations With Germany Is Headed For  a Showdown.   Country Is Subjected To German Pressure

Part OF U.S. ‘Legation Staff Quits Finland   Envoys Take Plane For Stockholm In Sudden Change

U. S. Legation Staff at Helsinki, Finland Leaves Suddenly for Stockholm   ONLY SKELETON DIPLOMATIC STAFF LEFT—FINLAND’S . ‘ STATUS ON QUESTION OF ADHERENCE TO GERMANY ‘  MAY BE ISSUE ; ( F

U. 5. Legation Staff Leaves Finnish Capital   Helsinki Ties With Ger many May Face Show: down As Result Of Move   GO TO STOCKHOLM   Charge D'Affaires  Remains; Washington Says Change ls ‘Administrative

SHOWDOWN ON FINN STAND IS BELIEVED NEAR   Tension Reported as Allies and Germans Put on More Pressure

U.S. Officials Quit Finland   Members of Staff of Legation at Helsini -Leave Suddenly by Air

U.S. Legation Members Quit Finland Post   Departure Of Officials May Foree Settlement Of Fin. land's Course.   ARRIVE IN STOCKHOLM

Legation Staff Quits Helsinki   Deporture Is Unexplained in Detail as Crisis Looms With Increased Pressure By Germans Upon Northern Republic

U, S, OFFICIALS LEAVE FINLAND   Main Body of American Em. bassy Evacuates Finnish Capital by Air

Tension Rising In Finland   United States Legation Staff Leaves Country Suddenly Today; No Explanation Is Given

U.S. Legation Staff Leaves Finn Capital   Mystery - Shrouds Flight to Stockholm; Envoy Left Months Ago

6 on U.S. Legation ‘Statt Leave Finland   Fly With Families to Stockholm as Question of Whether Helsinki Will Stay With Germany: Appears Headed for Showdown.   Japs Warn U. S. “Inhuman” Airmen Will Be Punished

YANKS QUIT FINLAND IN NEW CRISIS   Showdown on Nazi Policy Looms as Staff Withdraws

EXTRA!   U.S. Envoy Staff Quits Finn Capital   Showdown Looms On Helsinki’s War Relations With Hitler.

U. S. OFFICIALS  QUIT HELSINKI   Charge D’Affaires McClintock Remains—Washinglon Says ‘Administrative Move’

CRISIS SEEN APPROACHING IN HELSINKI   American Diplomats Go By Plane To Stockholm   Clamped On All News Out Of Capital; Finns May Announce Position

“IS INDICATED > IN FINLAND   _Tension -Mounting, Most Members of American ‘Diplomatic Staff Leave   TIGHT. CENSORSHIP ON DEVELOPMENTS   ® London Sees. Strong Hint to Finns to Break With. the Avice .

U.S. Staff Quits Finns’ Capital;  Cri isis Near   Envoys And Families Leave; Situation  In Helsinki Believed Critical

Only Small Staff Left In Helsink   Ironclad Censorship Laid Down on Political News From Finland

American Envoys Leave Helsinki   INNO Explanation For Sudden Move

American Staff Flying To Stockholm; German Pressure on Nation Reported  Increntina.

 U.S.LegationStaffInFinland Leaves WithoutExplanation; Families Accompany Them

Germans Increase Demands onFinns   [ron Clad Censorship Is -Clamped on Finland Po litical News   MAY CHANGE PICTURE   Main Body of U. S. Legation Left Helsinki This  Afternoon

Legation Leaves  Finland   No Explanation Given Of Departure of U. 8. Officials

CRISIS APPEARS IN FINN TENSION   Main Body Of U.S. Legation Leaves For Stockholm

TENSION GRIPS FINLAND TODAY   Crisis Believed Near as  Iron-clad Censorship is Clamped Down.

  7 Germans Increase Demands on Finns Iron Clad Censorship Is -Clamped on Finland Po- .  litical News MAY CHANGE PICTURE  Main Body of U. S. Legation Left Helsinki This  Afternoon               MAY CHANGE PICTURE

Allies Report Slight Advance  Near Mignano   Bombers Pour More Heavy Loads on Hitlers’ Communications

RedsReported Only 15 Miles From Railway   Planes Soar Over Alps To Blast at Rail Lines In Northern Italy

CEILING WILL BEPLACED ON ~ MILK PRICES   OPA to Set Rate to be Paid Formers for Fluid Milk

Milk Ceiling To Be Fixed At Farm Soon   Temporary Order Will Fix Figure At Peak In* January; Current Price ‘Favorable’   $2.75 To $4.80 In Range

OPA Ceiling Nationwide OnFluidMilk      LIMITS PRICES DISTRIBUTOR MAY PAY FOR HIs SUPPLIES; REP} ACE TEMPORARY REGU LATION IN 60 DAYS.

Ceiling Price To Be Ordered On Fluid Milk   Price Paid To Producer Soon Will Be Set By OPA To Avert Higher Retail Costs

NATION-WIDE: FLUID MILK CEILING DUE      Temporary Regulation to Be Replac-. ’ ed In 60 Days

ional Ceiling Farmers Milk  ces Due Soon  eduction of Feed osts in Many reas Also Planned  PORARY ORDER  ermanent Rules

PLAN CEILING ON MILK PRICE      Amount to be Paid Farmer Will be Fixed to Halt Further Increases

OPA Orders Ceiling On Milk Prices   Nation-Wide Curb Expected In Near Future On Product

January To Be Basis Of Price   OPA Seeks To Halt  —Ever-Rising Price

CEILING ON MILK PRICES EXPEBTED ~NUNEAR FUTURE   Distributors Will Not Be Allowed to Pay Producers Greater Price Than In January 1943.   PERMANENT ORDER: IS DUE WITHIN 60 DAYS   Companion Order Will Reduce Cost of Alfalfa tr Three Western States, Lowering Production Cost.

CEILING PRICES ON FLUID MILK SOON RELEASED   Scale As Of January, 1943,   To Determine Price   For 60 Days   PLAN CUT PRICE  ON ALFALFA HAY

Ceiling Price on Milk Is Forecast  Temporary Order . to Be Made Soon

NATIONWIDE TOP ON RAW MILK DUE      OPA to Establish Ceiling Prices in Attempt to Stop Price Hike

SWEDEN AGAIN BOMBED   100 To 150 Fire Bo bs Dropped By Unidentified Plane

Draft Delinquents To Be Cleaned Up   Selective Service, FBI To Cooperate

1989 VILLAGES TAKEN IN DRIVE PAST SIX WEEKS   Unrelenting Air Activity over Battle Area in North Africa

175,000 AXIS TROOPS SLAIN, MOSCOW SAYS   136,650 Are Prisoners; 1,589 Towns Recaptured

Take 1,589 Towns In 6-Weeks Drive   Quantities of German Equipment Also Are Destroyed: 22 Enemy Divisions Trapped

Seize 136,000 In Stalingrad Winter Attach   Soviets Capture More Towns as Drives Continue on All Fronts, Claim Axis Garrisons Encircled Near Velikie Luki.

Russian Winter Offensive Beginning November 19 Has Dealt Death To More Than 175,000, Made Prisoners Of 137,650, Trapped 22 Divisions In Tight Ring And Retaken 1,589 Towns, Soviet Authorities De clare In Exultant New Year Communique

Many Prisoners Taken, Villages Are Recaptured   Vast Quantities Of German Equip ment Destroyed, New Year Communique Reports.

Serbs Battling To Halt Rommel  Germans Suffering  Wy ono or er  Meccan

UNION FLAYS . -WARE RULING   SAN DIEGO AIRCRAFT WORK * ERS’ GROUP. WANTS ARMY ‘AND. NAVY TO OPER“AYE PLANTS 

‘We're Ready,’ Marshall Says  Legion Told Offensive Just Beginning Now

Rommel’s Beaten Army Being Forced Rapidly Into Narrow Mountain  Trap In North.

Attack Ruins Ten Axis Tanks   U. S., BRITISH AIR FORCES STRIKE AT ENEMY IN DEVASTATING BLOWS; SCORES OF VEHICLES, 41 ROMMEL PLANES DESTROYED

Submarines Gel 15 Axis Ships British List 8 As Definitely Sunk —

15 More Axis Ships Sunk or Damaged  Beptich Suhe Sell   British Subs Still Harassing Enemy In Moditerronenn

15 Axis Vessels Sunk By Submarines   Enemy Shipping Runs into Trouble

Germans Said To Have Begun Flying Troops Out of Tunisia   Yanks, British Knock Out 41 Planes, Lose 14   British Subs Blast  13 Enemy Vessels

ITALIANS OPPOSE ORDERS ISSUED BY THE GERMANS   Armed Italians Prevent Transfer Of 100 American And British Citizens From France To Germany

Italian Soldiers Save Americans   They Oppose Nazi Orders to Transler Allied Citzens to Germany.

ITALIANS RESIST NAZI ORDERS IN FRANCE   Prevent Transfer of War Prisoners to Germany

ce eee A a a tI atte testi eietereiriniiiies  Nazi Orders Defied By Armed Italian:

Nazis Balked In Seizure Of U:S. Citizens   Italians Rebel At Arrests In Area They Are Guarding

Ttalians Halt Transfer.Of U.S. Subjects   Used Machine Guns Te Liberate Americans Wanted By Nazis

ITALIAN FORGE FREES BRITISH, U.S, CITIZENS   Action In Former Unoccu.pied Zone of France Prevents Transfer to Germany   STORY CONFIRMED.   [talians Claimed Responsi bility For Foreigners In Territory They _ Occupied

ITALIAN SDLDIERS OPPOSE AMZ RULE   Prevent Transfer of 100 American and British Citizens. _

Troops Reject Hitler Order   Italians Refuse To Send American, British Citizens Into Germany.

Italians Opposed Nazi Orders In Unoccupied France When Americans Were Started To Reick

Italians Oppose Nazi Orders   Halt Transfer of U. S. And British Citizens From Italian-Occupied France To Germany

MORGENTHAU IN ALGIERS FOR TALKS ON POST-WAR FINANCES, INVASION CASH

MORGENTHAU IS AT FRONT IN ALGIERS DISCUSSING MONEY   Secretary Of Treasury And Allied Commanders Confer On Use Of  Invasion Funds

Japanese Supply Routes Punished   Supply Barge Flotilla Attacked

2 ee ee ee a eo ae ae ee eS ee Se  Nomination of Flynn Approved by 13. to 10  By Senate Committee

VOTE ON FLYNN PROVES CLOSE   Senate Group Approves Roosevelt Nominee to Australia, 13-10

Flynn Nomination  Approved 13-10   Senate Committee Okays President's Selection; Senl to Floor

FLYNN PASSES FIRST HURDLE   Senate Committee Puts Approval On Choice For Australia

Senate Committee Indorses Flynn Appointment, 13-10 Three Democrats Support 7 GOP  Members Against Nomination; Ultimate Action Remains im Doubt

Russians Retake Entire Taman Peninsula, End Nazi Caucasus Oil Hopes   Advance in Italy Reported to Be on Broad Front, Despite Delays Caused by Rains; American Planes Strike 450 Miles Behind Red Front

Forts Hit Nazis In Record Trip   — Fleet Base, U-Boat Yards Are Blasted

Yankees Blast Remote Points Deep In Reich   Flying Fortresses Hit at Targets in Pomerania, Poland, And East Prussia

U. §. Stab To East Prussia Aids Soviets   Yanks Give Direct Help To Reds, Down 91 Nazis In Daring Exploit   HIT FLEET HIDEAWAY   Tirpitz. May Have Been Gdynia Target; FockeWulf Factory Is Smashed!

Fliers Strike Heart of   Enemy Land   American Airmen Set New Distance Mark, Knock Out 91 German Planes, Smash Big Industrial Objectives Deep in Europe

GHEATEaT AAI OF WAR oT AGED AY U.S. FORGE   91 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Deepest Penetration Of German Empire

TRAVEL 1,800 MILES TO HIT NAZI TARGETS   Poland Also Pounded By Heavy American Air Raiders

Forts Hit Nazis In Record Trip’   Fleet Base, U-Boat Varde Are Rincted

, ENEMYS FLEET BASE IN GDYNIA » GIVEN POUNDING   Danzig ‘Sub’ Yards Hit i Biggest Yank Raid—91 Fighters Bagged

29 American Craft Downed In Daring Forays Over East Prussia And Poland

No Session After Death ‘Of 2 Members   House Suspends Business for 24 Hours; Showdown on Subsidy Bill Expected; Ickes Wants Oil Contract Junked

Two Sudden Deaths In House Delay Subsidy Vote   Opposition Head Rep. Steagall Dies; Rep. Ditter Killed

NIPPONESE HIT ON ALL FRONTS   American Airmen Make Widespread Raids Without Loss

Japs Hammered By U.S. Airmen   Blast Basés in China Burma, Indo-China

ESTRANGED WIFE OF CADET SLAIN      Hunt Bludgeon Killer Young Mother; Address Book, Diary Are Clues

Hunt Slayer Of Woman   Estranged Wife of RCAF Cadet Found Dead in N. Y. Hotel

New Strike Wave In Coal Mines Is Subsiding  UMW Leaders Make Efforts to Get Mer to Return to Work

Striking Miners Return to Work   Protest Walkouts Reported Lessening

TENSION EASED IN COAL STRIKE   District UMW Officers Express Hopes For Early Settlement

COAL STRIKE LESSENS   Union Leaders Urge Men To Return As ploppages Unauthorized

FREE TO CHANGE JOBS    School Teachers Do N Do Not Come Under of Job Freeze

- FREE TO CHANGE. JOBS   School Teachers Do Not Come Uni der of Job Freeze -

Armament s Being Installed On Attu Island   U. S. Prepares Defense— Reveal That Col. Earle Was Killed In Invasion

Many WACs Ask Army Discharges   Prefer Not To Enlist In Reaular Service

Fifth Of WAACs Not Reenlisting   Some Needed At Home, Some Want to Go To Soldier. Hubbies

Many WAACs Asking For Discharges   Family Ties Principally The Reason, Says Public Relations Officer

PUBLISH LIST i AUGUST   County ‘Treasurer Rusy Working ‘Delinquent Taxes

PUBLISH LIST wy AUGUST   County Treasurer : Busy Working  Delinquent. Taxes

Balks at Terms -Unconditional Surrender  Orders Ire Axis General

Von Arnim Quits Without A Fight   German General Tells Hitler His Order Carried Out, But Radio Operator Adds: ‘We Are Closing Down Forever’

VON ARNIM GIVES HIMSELF UP AFTER MESSAGE TO HITLER   Tells Homeland Order Tx Defend Tunisia To Last Cartridge Carried Out 

We Are Closing Down Forever   Radio Onerator Gives Mess aae toGermany After Truce

BIG BATTLE BREWS IN YANGTZE REGION   Chinese Report Japs Launch Seven Pronged Attack In ‘Rice Bowl.’

‘Britain's Loss 416 Warships   Royal Navy Said Much Stronger Now

TALLIES LOSSES   Britain Says 416 Warships Sunk. But Navvy’s Stronger.

MUSIC FOR VICTORY CONCERT IS ENJOYED   Several Hundred Persons Attenc First In Series Of Events At Wirt Park

95TH ASSEMBLY CONVENES; WAR IS PARAMOUNT   Governor’s Address Scheduled for Next Mon- ;  day

SHORT ASSEMBLY SESSION 19 SEEN   Work Should Be Completed By April 15, Says Whittemore   OFFICERS NAMED   McCulloch Reelected To Third Term As Speaker Of House

SHORT SESSION IS PREDICTED BY GOP LEADER   Rep. McCulloch Is Elected to Third Term as Speaker As Precedent Broken   REPUBLICANS IN CONTROL   Gov. Bricker Is To Deliver Inaugural Message to Legislators January 11

SOTH ASSEMBLY MEETS TODAY ATCOLUMBUS   Will Devote First Few Days to Organization of Houses

U.S. HOLDS SUPPLY   LINES TO RUSSIA   Americans Maintain Flow of Materials to Fighting Reds Through Iran; Job Rated as of First Import. ance; Dewitt MacKenzie Visits Outposts of Supply, Says Area Is Hitler’s Most Coveted Prize.

The War Today   U.S. Troops in Iran Helping  Mava Sunniiec ta Ruececia

LOS ANGELES FACING NEW BUS TIE-UP   Only Direct Intervention By Roosevelt ‘Can Stay Strike

Intervention of F. R. Asked in Transit Strike   New Walkout Threatens  to Halt Major Los Anveles Line

New Car, Bus Strike Slated For L. A. Area   Scheduled Walkout May Paralyze Traffic Of 55 Southern Communities   TOKEN TIEUP ENDS   Presidential Intervention Cited As Only Way To  Maintain Service

Predict New Gasoline Cut for Midwest   May Eliminate Farm Non-highway Coupon to Hal? "Leakage"

Sees Cut in Gasoline for Midwest   OPA Director Exnects A Possible 15 Per Cent Reduction

BOMBER PLANT CALLED FAILURE      Willow Run Outstanding Flop Of War, Says Michigan UAW

Lewis Wins Over Dues Protesting Hard Coal Miners   Anthracite Strikers Ordered Back To Pits Following WLB Hearing

War Board Orders End Of Strike      REFUSiS TO CONSIDER GRIEVANCES OF ANTHRACITE MINERS REBELLING AGAINST THE LEADERSHIP OF JOHN LEWIS   Contract Must Rule

WLB Refuses - TaPass Upon Coal Walkout   Miners Are Told'to Return: To Wark, Use Grievance  Machinery Existing Under Contracts   Lewis Says Only Few Protesting Dues Hike   Leaders of Locals Agree To'Ask Their Members To End Strike

AS WLB ORDER COPIES STAND   Anthracite St rikers Told to Return To Work

Mine Strikers Lose Appeal On Union Contract   , Lewis ‘Emerges As Victor At Hearing Conducted By WLB

Open Debate in Senate On American Foreign Policy in Post-War Era

SOLON URGES POSTWAR ACT   CONNALLY CALLS FOR PEACE LEGISLATION -AS SENATE OPENS CLASH

‘Isolation Failed, Says Connally In Debate on Post-War Resolutior

Bombings Fail To Dislodge Foe From Aleutians   Returning Flyers Say Jap Positions Ate Stronger Than Ever

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO “ WIN THE WAR  ; ie Ve See” ‘ae! ‘ey cid! (fee ‘Seco ‘Galery Ges

U. S. Naval Task Force Devastates Two Jap-Held Equatorial Islands

TWO ISLANDS IN GILBERT GROUF TARGETSOFU.S   Tarawa and Nauru Given Day-Long Pounding By Carrier-Borne U.S Naval Planes

Enemy Bases in Northern Gilbert Group Raided by Warships Aided by Warplanes

Navy Lashes Out At Jap Islands   America’s Growing Naval Strength Makes Assaults on Tarawa and Nauru.

YANKS LASH AT ISLAND BASES      Navy Hits installations on “. Tarawa, Nauru

AVY ATTACKS NEW JAP ISLES   Tarawa and Nauru Islands Hit'In Prolonged Attack Report Says

FAR PACIFIC JAP ISLANDS ARE BLASTED   Naval Forces Make Sustained Attack on Tarawa and Nauru in Outer Fringe of the Nips’ Zone of Conquest.

American Naval Units Lash Anew At Jap Islands   Tarawa And Nauru Struck In Extended Air, Sea Attack

FEW DETAILS OF GILBERT ACTION GIVEN   Continue Aerial Attacks Or Bougainville: 16 Of 60 Enemy Planes Shot Dowr Over Ballale

Heavy Raid Made On Gilbert Islands   Japanese Say 200 U. S. Navy Planes Took Part In Big Raid On Tarawa And Nauru Islands

Navy Hits 2 Islands  in Pacific   Powerful Attacks Made on Enemy 2,000 Miles South-_ west of Hawaii   SHIPS MAINTAIN RADIO SILENCE   But All Indications Point te Another Successful’ Blow by U.S. Forces

Believe Carrier-Borne Planes Spearhead Of Gilbert Islands Attack

U. 5. FORCES Hill AT JAPS' PACIFIC ZONE OF CONQUEST   Tarawa and Nauru Islands Lashed By Heavy American Naval Strength In Prolonged Attacks.

JAPS’ GILBERT BASES BLASTED BY NAVY FORCE   Tarawa and Nauru Islands Along Equator Hit Simultaneously In Attack Lasting Hours   JAPS REPORT RAID   Say 200 Planes Altasked Tarawa and Makin, of Which 20 Claimed Shot Down

PROLONGED ATTACK MADE ON TWO JAP ISLAND BASTIONS   Tarawa and Nauru in the North Gilbert Group Blasted by Strong Pacific: Forces ‘Saturday Night, Sunday

Strong United States Naval Forces Lash Again in Force Against Jap-Held Tarawa, Nauru Islands in Pacific

Ranges Leadership Against Mussolini   Yanks, British Close In On Naples; Italian Troops Drive Enemy From Sardinia   Navy Air Arm Pounds Tap Isles In Pacific

GILBERT GROUP HIT BY RAIDERS   Outer Fringe Of Japs’ Defenses Blasted

Two Escaped Convicts: Caught: Tn Bladen County   Massey Was One of Tric That Blew Safe at Red Springs and Shot Po.  hceman Breeden.

ESUAPED CONVICTS BACK IN PRISON   Massey Captured Saturday Night In Elizabethtown; Cromwell Taken Early Monday Near Elizabethtown, Escaped Saturday.

‘EISENHOWER RELIED ON 10 OBTAIN TTALY’S SURRENDER. DECLARES HULL

Lisenhower To Obtain Surrender  .Ntaly’s Capitulation Ur - To Chief, Hull Declare:

Hull Depends  On Eisenhower   American Commander Has Authority To Deal With Surrender Problems.

DICKERING IN PROGRESS NOW, HIS IMPLICATION   Mild Occupation Held Forth by General. Germans Called Only Obstacle to Peace

Will Rely on  Eisenhower,  Hull Savs   Secretary Expresses. Oupreme Confidence in General in Italian Situation   HE WILL OBTAIN FULL SURRENDER   War Department to Be First to Hear of Any Moves for Peace

Hull Implies Lisenhower To Demand Surrender   Half-Way Measure Is Ruled Out For Italy.

TAKE DEMANDS TO WHITE HOUSE   Easterners Call For Lifting Of Stringent Gasoline Ban.

H. 8. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY COMING SOON      “Parents and Pigtails* Will Be Prerented dct. 12 In the High School Auditorium

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 1,  Gandhi's Condition Grows Some Worse

Rommel Speeds Defenses Along Mediterranean   Berlin Radio. Dares Allies to_ Beain Invasion

BERLIN BOASTS OF DEFENSES ON ~— -EUROPE’S COAST   Marshal Rommel, Axis Radio Says; Has Been Fortifying Shore Line.

Rommel speeding construction on Mediterranean   Axis frantically working on south border of France

ROMMEL IN CHARGE OF DEFENSES   Speeding Work of Defending ‘French Mediterranean Coast

PIONEER GOUNTY RESIDENT DIES   Mrs. Anna Ott, 87, Lived in Cole County All “Her Life

Mrs. Anna Off Dies at Her Home Was a Life Long —   Was a Life Long Resident of Cole Co.; Rites at Honey Creek

Another Union Seeks AFL Berth   Warfare In AircraftAuto Industry Seen

MACHINISTS ASK AFL CHARTER, FEUD BREWS   Int'l Machinists Quit AFL. Mechanics Society Reported To Have Applied

MACHINISTS ASK FOR AFL CHARTER   Hint Move “May Be Union’s Way of Wooing Back International Body

INTENSE GOLD SWEEPS OVER VAST REGION   NORTH CENTRAL, MIDWEST, SOUTHWEST AND. ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREAS BARD , HIT BY BLIZZARDS

SUFFERING AND DEATH CAUSED BY FRIGID WAVE   Paralyzing Cold Grips Wide Area; Drifts Cripple War Plants   Chicago Records 13 Below: Minus 51 in Minnesota Coldest Spot

Chief Barriers To Rome Broken   American Troops on 3000-Foot Crests, With Clear Route Ahead

500 Guns Roar Out Barrage   Germans Dug Out Of Foxholes By Storming Allies

YANKS REACH CRESTS OVER ROME HIGHWAY   Eighth Army’s Tanks Enter Flat Land By Adriatic

Esquire Magazine Banned From Mails  Privileges Revoked   Privileges Revoked Effective Feb, 28

TELL BELGIANS, FRENCH, “FIGHT REICH MASTERS’   Call To Resist Comes From Government - In - Exile Leaders, New Blows By Yugoslays

Trans-Atlantic Flying Boat Crashes In Portugal; Four Dead, 20 Missing

4 Die; 20 Are Missing In Clipper Crash   Pan-American Flying Boat Meets Disaster in Lisbon Landing

20 MISSING IN CLIPPER WRECK   Four Known Killed In Plane Crash In Portugal

CLIPPER CRASHES; SCORE MISSING   4 Killed When Flying Boat Sinks in Tagus River at Lisbon

Four Known Dead 20 Missing in Crash of Clipper   Flying Boat Wrecked in Landing in River near Lisbon   Sixteen of 40 Passengers and Crew Rescued; Some Injured

20 Missing, 4 Dead in Crash   Yankee pper In Grash Landing In Portus!

‘Yankee Clipper’ Dives Into River   Four Killed And 20 Missing Of 4C  Aboard Big Flying Boat; Crashes At Lisbon

4 DEAD, 20 MISSING IN PLANE WRECKAGE   Yankee Clipper Crashes While Landing at Lisbon

TRANSATLANTIC CLIPPER CRASHES   FOUR KILLED, 20 PERSONS MISSING—MANY OF 16 SURVIVORS INJURED.

Clipper Crashes In Lisbon Port  Pilot Can't Fix Cause - Of Landing In Which ADiaed 20 Miccina 

20 MISSING IN CLIPPER FALL   Big Flying Boat Crashes in Landing in Portugal

4 Die, 20 Missing In Clipper Crast   Big Craft Explodes, Sinks in Portuaal

20 MISSING IN CLIPPER FALL      Big Fiylis Boat Crashes in Landing in.  Bortuaal .

Fear 24. dead as U.S. flying  boat crashes   Yankee Clipper plunges in river Janding at Lisbon

24 Lost in Wreck of Air Clippe:   New York Ship Crashes In River Just Off Lishon,   Cause Unknown   EE A GEER V0 TE  Jane Froman Among Women Passengers; All Four Saved

16 Rescued from Airship in Tagus River at Lishan,   NO TROUBLE HAD BEEN REPORTED

YANKEE CLIPPER CRASHES IN RIVER   Dead, 20 Missing After Ac: cident in Portugal

20 Missing, 4 Dead in Grasti   Yankee per In Grash Landing tn Portugel

U.S. Clipper Crashes in Lisbon River   Four Dead, 20 Are Missing; 16 Others Survive

Clipper Crashes In Portugal With 40 Aboard   Four Dead, 20 Missing After Flying Boat Sinks in Gagus River   Survivors in Lisbon; First Accident For Pan-American Line

Local Defense School Enrollment Open Again   Women Are Urged To i Take Special Courses  Through U. S.

Accept Enrollment  In Defense Schoo  Women Are Urged Tx Take Special Courses

Guerrilla Army Ready To Strike   Mihailovic Says His Force Awaiting Signal From Allies.

FOO COST INDEX SHOWS INCREASES   Costs Have Been Becoming Higher Since Price Control Law Last Spring.

Germans to Keep Out Of Sweden   Movement of Nazi Troops and War Materials Willi Cease

REPUBLICAN: FLOOR LEADER DECLARES THAT “RUBBER  BTAMP" DAYS ENDED .IN CONGRESS -

Opposition To Secrecy Is Taken To Hull   Members of Senate Agri: cultural Committee Join In Protest   SPECIALLY INVITED

Hull Will Hear New Demands   Congressmen To Confer With Secretary

NEW SUB CAMPAIGN IS BELIEVED NEAR ON PART OF NAZI   Secretary Knox Says Ger mans Are Refitting UBoats and Will Resume Their Assaults.

NINERS MEETING TO-VOTE ON COAL WORK STOPPAGE   Parley in Capital Deferred @f our Hours Till Members Arrive

540,000 Miners on Strike in Nation as Pledge Expires; Poliey Group Actine Today

UNION POLICY BOARD PLANS FUTURE ACTION   Heatless Homes For Nation Loom If Work Stoppage Is Prolonged   FOR ACTION EXPECTED   Congressional Leaders cye Situation And Consider Stronger Laws

CARRY FRUITS 0 17 STATES   150 Truckers Bid On Holiday Offering On Local Market

Governor Says Dictatorships Are Planned  Warns Nation Against New  TT)... .. 2 2

Rescue Fifteen Adrift At Sea In Rubber Rafts   Flying Fortresses Spot Americans In Coral Sea, Missing  For Six Days

Commander U.S. Air Force and Party Saved in Thrilling Coral Sea Rescue

Much Colder Here Tonight   More Snow Drifted By High Winds Also Predicted For State

SNOW COVERS KANSAS      Much Colder ‘Temperatures Fore. Cast for Tonight

YANKEES PRESS SEIZURE OF PASS   American ‘Peak Busters’ Drive on from Heights in Italy

Americans Are Pushing Ahead  On Italian Line   Drive Southwestward From Heights Guarding Approaches To San Vittore   CANADIANS STILL BATTLE IN ORTONA

Twin-Killing Gets Award For Kansan   Flier Gets DFC and Another Award Equivalent to It

oO SR ee  Two Cameramen Killed in Taking Historic Pictures at Tarawa

ARGUMENT OVER OPA CONTINUES   Brown Orders” Extension Controversial Ceiling

Makes Saturday Deadline; Brands Walkouts ‘Strikes Against the Government’

TELEPHONES BUZZ IN LIQUOR STORES   Order for Secret Numbers Rescinded by Fisher

JAPS ORGANIZING MAIN FLEET FOR POSSIBLE *ATTACKS      Fear Attack In Home Waters OF. Surprise -Offensive Against Their Major Bases

Believe Japs Are Organizing Fleet To Guard Against Raid On Homeland

Worried Tokyo Calls in Fleet to Guard ‘Many Roads’ to Hnmp Teloe

NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY  AWAITS ELABORATION WN.PAPER REDUCTON   U. S. Produces Only On Fifth of’Total North — “American Production. Canada Supplies Over "0 Per Cont.

Paper Industry Awaits New Cut      Fears That New Cut Will Come April 1

WRB Sharpens Axe for New  ‘The only Thing bes Is the N cursprapier’ tinh t  wr lle at Noweprint Business

BABY IN TRAILER  ~ BURNS TO DEATH   ‘ather Away at Work; Mother In Hosnital.   OVERHEATED STOVE SETS TRAILER FiRE

Nazi Troops Fire on Hungry Citizens In Italian Cities, Swiss Are Told   Much Looting by Nazis Seeking k ood and Gold h, ported al Border: Vat an Guards nn ‘War Unik

Germans Fire On Hungry Looters   Nazis Loot Italy Of Food And Gold

German Troops Are Looting Occupied Haly   Nazis Fire on Hungry Crowds and Plunder Churches in Rome

Half of Ohio To Remain  On War Time   33 or More Cities  Ignore Change; Others Uncertain

31 CITIES TO STAY ON WAR TIME   Half Of Population May Not Acceytt Time Change

POLICE ROUTED   Enter Home With Guns at ‘Ready —~Retreat Refore Fleas.

KEY DEFENSE CITY OF AXIS   American 7th Army Gains Another Six Miles   CATENANOUVA IS TAKEN   Badoglio Calls Cabinet As War Becomes Closer

The Yanks Have Taken Caronia, a Town on North Coast.   ALLIED BOMBERS RAID ITALY AGAIN   Premier Badoglio to Call Emergency Meeting Tomorrow.

Premier Badoglio Calls New Italian Government Into “Important” Session.

German 16th — Army Smashed Below Leningrad   Timoshenko Sweeps over . 900 Square Miles In Smashing New Red Of:  fensive,

Russians Win New Victory In Far North   8,000 Germans Killed In 8-Day Red Offensive

NAZI ARMOR AND FIRE CAN'T STOP SUDDEN RED DRIVE   Russian Marshal Returns to The Forefrent Against the Germans -—~ Smashes Sea-

Timoshenko Cracks Nazi 16th Army   Russians in North Kill 8,000 in Push Near Starava Russa

SOVIET TROOPS SMASH THROUGH CERMAN FORCES   Russians Sweep Over $00 Miles Of Territory

NAZIS UNABLE TO HALT SUDDEN RUSSIAN THRUST  REDS SMASH GERMAN   REDS SMASH GERMAN 16TH ARMY; REPORT THOUSANDS KILLED

RUSSIAN DRIVE SMASHES 16TH GERMAN ARM   Timoshenko Leads Blow Ir Northwest; 8,000 Nazis Are Reported Killed

Timoshenko Leads Lake limen Gains   Reds Smash léth German Army To Capture Enemy Fortress !n North   8,000 NAZIS KILLED   Soviets Also Penstrate Donets Basin, Push +Further Wast Of Rostov

RED ARMY SMASHES SEASONED NAZI 16TH UNIT ON NORTH FRON'  MARSHAL SEMEON TIMOSHENKO_ IN SUDDEN THDIICT NEW TERRITOR'S

IMPORTANT GAINS MADE IN NORTH   302 Towns Retaken, 11,000 Germans Slain Or Taken Prisoner

RUSSIANS SMASH NAZI 16 ARINY   Timoshenke Makes Sudder Thrust in Region About Lake ilmen

SLUSH HAMPERS ACTION AROUND KHARKOV, KURSK   Soviets Claim 16th German Army Put Out Of Action

PUSHING IN NAZI SECTOR   Soviets Make Sudden Thrust Unhalted By Nazi Heavy Mortar Fire.   DRIVE IN DONETS BASIN

Reds Smash Nazis Near. Lake [I Ilmen   Seasoned 16th Army Is Crushed in New Drive on Northern Front   302 VILLAGES ARE RETAKEN BY SOVIETS   Slush and Water Still Hampering Operations in the South

Timoshenko Strikes Blow In the North   Russians Capture 302 Towns and Strone Points

Northern Drive Routs Hitler's Famous Troop:   900 ‘Square - Miles - Of * Territory Regained; — 8 000. Killed

GEAMANY’S 16TH ARWY SMASHED   Russian Forces Make Sweeping Gains Along. Northwestern Front Today

SEASONED GERMAN 16TH ARMY SMASHEC IN SUDDEN THRUST   Red Army Has Driven Inta the Nazi Positions on Broad Sector.   UNABLE TO HALT DRIVE   German Armor and Heavy Mortor Fire Unable to Check Reds.

Nazis Unable To Halt Red Threat   Soviet Troops Have Smashed the Seasoned German  6th Army   AN 8-DAY OFFENSIVE   Slush and Water Hampers Russian Soldiers South —   of Orel

Reds Smash German Army In New Dash   Marshal Timoshenko Makes Big Gains On  Northwestern Front   Sweeps Over 900 Square Miles; Takes 302 Towns   Offensive Eight Days Old Before Success Is Told

Timoshenko Puts Russian Attack On North Front   Veteran German Army Smashed Moscow Reports

Reds Crush  Germans In New Attack   300 Villages  Are Recantured

Russians Say 8,000 Germar Captured In Quick Sweep By Soviet General

TIMOSHENKO SPRINGS DRIVE IN FAR NORTH   Sweeps Over 900 Square Miles 0: Territory Between Lake Seliger Lake Ilmen   NAZIS RETREAT   Germans Threatened With Encir clement in Eight Day Campoign 16th Army Smashed

New Russian Drive Breaks  German Line   Timoshenko Strikes, Out Near Lake Ilman; 302 Towns Taken, 11,000 Nazis Slain, Captured

Timoshenko Hits in North   Nazi Armor and Heavy Mortar Unable to Stop Sudden Russian Smash

NAZI ARMOR, GUNS, UNABLE TO STOP THEM   Timoshenko’s Name Again In Forefront of Red Army's: s  Dneratinn<«

Sudden Thrust By Russians Smashes German {6th Army   Marshal Timoshenko Back at Forefront; 302 Villages Taken

Soviets Smash Nazis in North   2 Villages Retaken by Timoshenko’s Men

REDS CRACK LINES BELOW LAKE ILMEN   Over 900 Square Miles Taken And 394 Villages Reported to Have  Been Recaptured  16TH ARMY SMASHED

NAZI SIXTEENTH ARMY SMASHED BY TIMOSHENKO   New Thrust Drives Into German Positions On Broad Front; Heavy Nazi Fire Unable To Halt Advance.

NEW RED DRIVE ~ GAINS GROUND   Crack German Lines Below Lake Ilmen, Timoshenko Leads Troops

Soviet Shifts Force; Smash Axis In North   Veteran Sixteenth Army Foreed Back By Russians Near Lake Ilmen.   'NEW GAIN IN AFRICA

Timoshenko Drives Ahead in New Push   Sweeps Over 900 Square Miles On Northwestern Front

Red Offensive In Northwest Smashes Nazis   Timoshenko Leads Surprise Drive; Many Towns Taken

Nazis Surprised By Timoshenko  Red Marshal Returns To Scene of Action

Timoshenko's Forces Hit Germans On Broad Front —  y   Marshal Timishenko Smashes German 16th Army in Broad Drive on Northwestern Front. Successes First Mentioned in Last Night’s Communique

OEE EOE  NAZIS UNABLE TO. HALT RED THRUST   Timoshenko’s Forces Drive Into German Positions On Broad, Wind-Swept . Sector In Northwest.

8,000 GERMANS KILLED IN GAIN   Timoshenko Smashes 16th German Army

Timoshenko’s Men Gain On Wide Front   Russian Army Smashes Seasoned Nazi Units West Of Valdai Hills On Northern Front

Russians Drive  West of Valdai Hills in North   Timoshenko Leads New Offensive on Northern Front-

New Red Offensive Cracks Nazi Lines Near Lake Ilmen; 8,000 Germans Killed

Riss Smash’ Seasoned: Germany Army In: Sudden Thrust Led By: Timoshenko

Reds Finish Reconquest Of Stalingrad; Great Masses Of War Equipment Is Taken

Nazis’ Best Lost at Stalingrad   Victory Releases Flood of Reds For Other Action   Nazi Stalingrad Loss Five Times That of Reds at Tannenberg

Nazis’ Best Lost at Stalinorad   Victory Releases Flood of Reds For Other Action

Stalingrad IsCleared O{Germans   Definite Turning Point Of War Seen By Reds

SIEGE ARMY IS SMASHED COMPLETEL}   Reds Finish Liquidation of Hitlerites, Releasing Troops for Action on Other Fronts.   SEEN AS TURNING POINT IN WAR   Moscow Says Nazis Had Lost 500,000 Men in Bitter Engagements Since Mid-November.

DESTRUCTION OF NAZI UNITS IS COMPLETED   Remaining Forces are Smashed by Reds At Stalingrad

RED ARMY AT STALINGRAD ERASES NAZIS   3 91,000 Captives Taken, One Is Field Marshall, 23 German Generals; 100,000 Dead.   Huge Spoils

ANNIHILATION OF INVADERS BEST COMPLETE   Triumphant Victory To Release Huge Forces For Heavier Blows  On Other Lines   100,000 Slaughtered

Late News Bulletins   Nazis to Execute Hostages for Belrian Slavings

Fire Neutrality  Rests On People   Defeat of DeValera Party To Mean War

DEPRESSION 1S SURE RESULT OF INFLATION    Severity Of After-the-War Depression Depends Upon Extent Of The Inflation Permitted During the War, Savs Roger Babson.

Inflation Is — ~ Your Business   ROGER BABSON WARNS CITIZENS TO WAKE UP NOW

‘Ask Resolution Be Strengthened  Senate Fight Pending on Postwar Policy

Compromise Pay-as-You-Go To Put All Taxpayers’on Current Basis. By July 1 Offered by Freshmen. .

ALABAMIAN OF FERS TAX COMPROMISE   Rep. Newsome Is Co-Author Of New Proposal

FEW UPSETS MARK STATE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TUESDAY   Rhodes New Columbus Mayor; GOP Sweeps City Ticket

20 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Nips Challenging Allied Control Of Solomons Skies

20 More Jap Planes Bagged   Aerial Action Flares In Buin-Faisi Area

TRUMAN T0 PROBE CANADA OIL DEAL   WILL CONDUCT HEARINGS ON SPENDING OF $150,000,000 IN U. S. FUNDS.

Slapped Soldier Tells His Story  He Is Herman Kuhl ef South Bend, Ind.

Wherry Would End Meat Quotas   Situation Nearing Crisis. Savs Senator

CIVILWARLAW  SUITIS FILED   Group of Contractors to Face Damage Case For $20,000,000

Charges U.S. Was. Defrauded   Sunflower -Contractors Sued for $20, 000,000; Ryan Accuses Firms of Padding Expenses

HUGE WAR FRAUD CHARGED IN SUIT   GOVERNMENT ALLEGEDLY BEATEN OUT OF MILLIONS ON PLANT IN KANSAS.

Contractors Are Charged With Frauds   Ex-Field Engineer Files Suit Against De Soto Builders

Contractors Face Big Government Fraud Charges  Informer’s Suit Filed By Former Engineer  Under Old Statute

FRAUD CHARGED IN SUNFLOWER ACTION   Former Field Engineer Files Suit in Federal District Court   HUGE SUMS INVOLVED

REPORTS ARMY IS OVERSTAFFED   Probably 20,000 Commissioned Officers To Be Released In Next Six Months

THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS =  ARE TO LEAVE SERVICE   OVER-AGE OFFICERS AND THOUSANDS COMMISSIONED - FOR SPECIAL DUTIES TO RE DISCHARGED

MOBILE PUCLIonEh CITED IN CONTEMP?   Criticism Of Jurist Results In Court Citation

Stimson Tells of Casualties  )   Losses Substantial On Both  Sides

Lillie AScensiun Tstand Vital in “Allied Strateg)  Pinpoint of Land  in At   Pinpoint of Land in Atlantic Serves as Fun~nelto Africa . _-

DOT ON OCEAN IS VITAL SPOT   Army Reveals Important Part Played By Tiny Ascension Island

Bedaux Taken Into Custody   Efficiency Engineer Arrested in Africa, Hall Announcec

'U. S, ENGINEER IS HELD IN AFRICA   PCharles Bedaux Arrested on Charge ot Trading With Enemy. Hull Says

AMERICAN HELD ON CHARGE OF AIDING ENEMY   Charles Bedaux, Industrial Engineer, Arrested in North Africa for Alleged Trading Ac: tivities.

FRIEND OF DUKE HELD iN AFRICA   U. S. Engineer Charged With Trading With The Enemy .

Originator of Speed-Up Jailed   Charles Bedaux Is Seized on Charge

Bedaux Held In Africa For Trading With Foe Of U.S.   American Industrialist Under Arrest, Hull Announces; Was Friend Of Duke Of Windsor

Former King’ Friend Placed Under Arrest   Charles Bedaux Charged With Trading With Enemy

Author Of Industrial Efficiency System ‘Is Under Arrest In North Africa, Hull Reports

Yankees Poise for Blow Against Enna   More Than 30,000 Prisoners Have Been Taken in Sicily

Battle for Catania Approaches Climax; Enemy Weakens; Many Germans Are Captured, Thousands Are Killed

Germans Fight Bitterly on Plains to Hold Port Which Warships Bombard; ~ Allies Hold One-Third of Sicily

American Troops Battle to Point 22 Miles Inland  30,000 BEING HELD AS WAR PRISONERS  British Move Against Stiff Opposition Outside Cetania —~

Yank, Canadian Forces Overrun Sicily’s Interior .   Eighth Army Inflicts Heavy Losse: On Defending Germans In Advanee Alone East Coast

Decision AtCatania Seen Near  Americans Make  More Gains  tT -l.. J

U. S. Makes Broad  New Gains   Battle for Catania Approaches Climax; Enemy Weakens; Many Germans Are Captured, Thousands Are Killed

U. S$. Seventh Army’s Plunge Rolls Up Conquest Which Already Has Yielded Third of Isle; Toll of Prisoners Grows to 30,000;  Drive for Enna Indicated

U.S. Troops Foreing Way  Into Interior   One-Third of Sicily Is Now in Hands of Allied Invaders

‘Fighting For Great Sicilian Seaport Heaviest Since Start Of Invasion   30,000 PRISONERS ARE INOW IN ALLIED HANDS

Vital Positions Guarding Catanie Seized by Allies   Fall of Important Hfalian Port Seems Question of Hours   One Third of Sicily Now in Hands of Allied Forces

«Continued on page 4.)  TOULON GRADE SCHOOL LISTS FINAL EVENTS   Will Award 18 Diplomas At Graduation May 27; Plan Parties.

Small Class 18 Pupils; Hold Annual Event Baptist Church.   HOLD FINAL ACTIVITIES

Manpower Problem {Is Still Unsolved   McNutt Criticises Voluntary Methods

WMC CHIEFTAIN ADDRESSES AFL   McNutt Says Voluntary Manpower System of Control Inadequate

Labor System Not Success  McNutt Lists Six Requirements For Voluntary System

MeNutt Outlines Six Conditions For Manpower   Tells Labor Convention Voluntary System Has Not Yet Proved Itself

MacArthur Sees Smaller Role In Pacific War   Comments on Reports Mountbatten to Take Over Supreme Command

MacArthur ls Agreeable To Play A Subsidiary Role in the War   Says It Makes Little Dif. ference Who Wields Weapons So We Win

M’ARTHUR OKAYS SECONDARY ROLE   DECLARES PART HE PLAYS IS UNIMPORTANT SO LONG AS WAR IS WON.

MacArthur ‘will accept secondary command if tt will aid in victory’

Pacific Fleet Vessels Putting to ‘Sea From Pearl Harbor Sail to Avenge Jap Sneak Attack of “41

HANNOVER AGAIN SUBJECTED T0 HEAVY BLASTING   Emden, Brunswick Also Targets of Smaller RAF Forces

RAF Knocks Out Nazi Rubber City   60% of Hannover Believed in Ruins

IS BLASTED BY BRITISH   Over 60 Per Cent Of City Believed Destroyed

60” OF VITAL CITY IN RUINS; SEVEN NAL PLANES FALL   Blockbuster Attack One Of War’s Heaviest — ' 38 Allied Planes ‘Lost In Raid

HANNOVER LIES IN RUINS AFTER BRITISH ATTACK   60 Percent of German City’ Believed Destroyed   INDUSTRIAL TOWN HIT TWICE IN’ WEEK

AAT UNLOADS HEAVY GAnGE UN HANNOVER   Second Blockbuster Attack In Five Days On German City Made By RAF

Hannover Hit By Powerful . RAF Bomb Raic   60 Per Cent Of Large German Industrial ‘City In Ruins

Hannover Gets: Another Severe. Plane Attack —   Brunswick and Emden Also Are Bombed

NIGHT LONG QU’? FAILS TO BREAK LONERGAN’S NERVE   Protests Innocence In Death of Wife After 13 Hours * of Questioning. :

RUAD JUNCTION UF EL GUT TAR TAKEN IN DRIVE   Two Separate U. S. Columns Moving To Coast To Cut Off Rommel Retreat

Ld)  — me °o 9 — me ~ ad ~~ =~ ~ bl —_  a  on os      ~.nerican Planes And British Subs Hack Supply Lines

Dr. Allen Resigns; Rhealn   Reformatory Board for + Most, Part Exonerates . Superintendent 

Pays Tribute To Ohio’s 37th Division for Its Part In Fight for Air Base at Munda

RAF Blasts Nazi Capital In Third Raid   Other Bombers Hammer  Stuttgart; Claim = ThirtyTwo Bombers Lost.   ‘GOUGE NEW WOUNDS

Stuttgart Is . Also Hit in Same Night   British Pay Tribute ‘to Previous U. S. Raid on Bremen

Steel, Fire Spread Fresh Ruin Over Stricken Capital   Bombers Guided by Fires Still Blazing in Berlin; Stuttgart Raided

Heavy Bombers Deliver Fresh Ruin on Berlin   Other Planes Hammer Stuttgart, 300 Miles Southwest of German Capital, at Same Tin

1000 MORE BOMBERS SPREAD BERLIN. RUIN   Huge New Load of Explosives Loosed on Reeling Nazi Copital; Stuttgart Hit

BRITISH BORBERS SPREAD NEW RUIN IN NAZI CAPITAL   Fresh Wounds Gouged as More Than 1,000 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped in Third Great Raid.   STOCKHOLM REPORTS 500,000 HOMELESS   /Wholesate Evacuation of City Now Seems Like! y—Other R. A. F. Planes Pound Stutteart.

R. A. F. Again Blasts Nazi Capital   Big Bombers Also Blast City of Stuttgart

Obliteration Of Berlin Nearer Fact   More Than 1,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped By RAF in 20 Minutes

RAF PLANES SPREAD RUIN (VER BERLIN   ord Mighty Assault DL eaves Capital Sm olderi ing:

Half-Million Berliners Left Homeless By RAF   New Destruction Heaped On German Capital; 29 Bie Bombers Lost In Attacks

Red Army Batters Out New Salient at Historic Berezina Where Napoleon Met Defea   Report 300,000 Nazis Retreating From Gomel; RAF Reveals Over 1,000 Long Tons of Bombs Hit Berlin in Third Assault Within the Week

Hammers Berlin In Third Big Scale Raid   Deoppal's an rop n City; Stuttgart Hit

BOMBS GOUGE NEW HOLES IN BERLIN RUINS   RAF’S Night Attack Guided By Huge Fires Blazing in Nazi Capital.

Third Mighty Raid Leaves  Berlin Dazec   RAF Credits American Blow Against Bremen ‘or Part Of Sucéess In Latest Attack

British Heap More Destruction On German Capital After Aitack On Bremen By American Bomhers   Stuttgart Also Hit In. British Assaults; U.S. Heavies Pave Way for Fifth Night Battering Of Nazi City In Daylight Foray

OVER 900,000 HOMELESS IN STRICKEN CITY   HITLER'S CAPITAL BLASTED BY 1000 TONS OF BOMBS

Conflagration Set by Third Mighty Assault Visible Over 200 Miles  * Away

PROPOSED NEW ALLOWANCES. — PLACED BEFORE COMMITTEE   BILL PROVIDING. INCREASED BENEFITS FOR FAMILIES OF ENLISTED MEN INCLUDES SEVERAL NEW FEATURES

Schedule of Increased Allowances for Service Dependents Is Laid Betore House

Allied Forces Make New Gain  In New Guines   Japanese Decisively Defeated By Australians In Wau Battle Area   NEARLY 1, 000 JAPS  REPORTED SLAIN

DEFEAT ENEMY QN NEW GUINEA   Australian jungle fighters slay 1,000 Nipponese in Wau area

SAY CHERRIES TO 60 TO 7 CENTS A POUND   Canners Predict That Fruit Will Reach 20-Year Mark; Wait OPA Decision

Registration for Ration Book2 To Open Monday  Residents Will Register At Public Schools Throvahout Counitv

Registration for Ration Book2 ~~ To Open Monday  Residents Will Registe   Residents Will Registe At Public Schools Throughout County

Reporters Give Word Pictures Of Falls Of Tunis And Bizerte   Effective June 1 .— OPA Begins Roll-Back Which Tunis Citizens Shower British With Flowers

Reds Capture Taganrog And  Rout Germans   Nazis Reported Fleeing Headlong Toward Dnieper River   IS CRUSHING BLOW   Berlin Claims City Was Evacuated According To Short-Line Plan

U.S. Subs Sink lO More Jap  Cargo Ships   Big Enemy Convoy Is Wrecked While Assembling at Rabaul

Germans (ling  To Ortona in  Italian Struggle Fifth Army  Advances In Apennines

4-H GIRLS HAVE RALLY DAY   Elect New County Offi. cers for Coming Year Friday Afternoon

Lorraine Brace Heads 4-H Girls OF Mills County   Driftmeter of Shenandoah ad. dressed 4H girls at Rally Day Program in Malvern fra Wetdeaw

SICILY BLASTED; GERMAN AIRMEN TO MOVE NORTE   Russian News Agency Says Goering Has Ordered Headquarters of Force Shifted —  to Mainland.   DECLARES CIVILIANS ~ : ALSO WILL DEPART   Tons of Bombs Dropped on Airfields at Gerbini and Catania—Five Planes Shot Down.

LAMPIONE FALLS TO ALLIED ARMS MINUS STRUGGLE   Fourth Italian Island In TE +e Days To Hoist Flag Of Surrender      SICILY BELIEVED NEXT OBJECTIVE

LAMPIONE IS FOURTH PRIZE OVER WEEKEND   Unconditional Surrender On Sunday Reported Without Details Of Situation   Is Near Lampedusa

Lampione Forces Give Up Without Firing a Shell   Sicily Believed To Be Nex Objective of Allied Forces   Catania and Gerbini Heav ily Bombed by Large Air Fleets

Allies Seize. Fourth Island   Lampione Captured Sunday; Bombers Smash At Sicily _-

ee re weet renee  NEW STATE BUDGET IS FOR $366,028,921   Governor To Submit It To Legislature Tonight

Land Invasion Depends  on Weather If Bombers Are   If Bombers Are Grounded, Nazis May Hang On

Weather Holds Fate Of. Nazis   Victory May Be Speeded Ws Allies Can Blast German Cities...

COMING WEEKS SEEN DECISIVE IN WAR OF AIR   German Industry Staggered From Air

SEEK FREEDOM AT FOOD MEET   Newsmen Want Access tc Delegation Members

Reporters Still Seek Admittance   Food Conference To Open Tonight

Food Conference  Starts Tonight  Restrictions On Press In Effect

FOOD CONFERENCE OPENING TONIGHT; PRESS RESTRICTED      Newsmen. Permitted At Opening Tonight—Not Given Free Access To Meetings

200 Foreign Delegates at Food Talks   -Newsmen Allowed To Rub Shoulders At Reception

BAH REPORTERS AT GONFERENGE   Newsmen Still Seek To Crash Allied Food Dis  cussions Opening Lonight

French Slay Many Nazis   De Gaulle Reports That Guerillas Are : Active in Homeland

Guerrilla War In France   Fighting, Sabotage Flares Against The Nazis

French Wreck Train Killing. 250 Nazis  De Gaulle Reports 300 Attacks Made In France in Yeor

Plans To Wipe Out Dependency Class Progress   Special 3-A Group. Would Be Established Under Present Idea

Plan Special 3-A Class Of Fathers   Other Reclassification Planned April 15, Reports Say

Draft Shakeup Expected Soon   Dependency Classes Would Be Cancelled

Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers to hee ‘in Special Class:      . Reclassifications Of Others Comes About April 15 ~

New Draft Plan Revealed Today   To Wipe Out Dependency Classes —New Class of Fathers and Others to Be Established

DEPENDENCY GLASSES OUT   ‘Draft Officials to Classify Mex Strictly on Type of Work.

Work on Plan to End Dependency. Draft Classes   3-A, 3-B and -3-C Registrants To Be Changed

Draft Officials Working On Plan to End 3-A. 3o-B, 3-C Classifications   Change, Expected Within Three Weeks,  To Eliminate Dependency As Cause For Service Deferments

SPECIAL 3-A CLASS WILL BE FORMED FOR SOME FATHERS   Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Will Be -In This Class ““Uritil Present Ban  - Is Lifted

DRAFT GLASSES TO Be GHANGED TN NEAR FUTURE   Wiping Out Of Dependency Classes 3-A, B And C Being Considered   DRAFTING OF MARRIED MEN IS ALSO STUDIED   New 48-Hour Work Week Goes In Effect Today In 32 Communities

Selective Service Plans to Place Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers in Special 3-A Class; Order Expected April 15

DEPENDENCY DRAFT CLASSIFICATIONS TO BE CHANGED SOON   3-A, 3-B, 3-C Registrants To Be Reclassified Under Plans Pending At Capital

Draft Boards to Wipe Oat Classifications _ Based On Dependency   All. 3-A, 3-B and 3-C Registrants To Be Reclassified Within Three Weeks

Married Men Who Have Dependents To Be Placed  In New Classification _

PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS 10 BE IN NEW DRAFT GROUP   Selective Service Working _ on Plans to Eliminate De pendency Classes of Reg.  ae ee meee ee

SPECIAL DRAFT CLASS PLANNED   3-A Group Would Include Pre: Pearl Harbor Dads; Others In 1-A, 2-A Or 2-8

DETAIL PLANS DEPENDENCY   Reclassifying  Of Such Draft  Cases Starts Soon

CLASS 3 DRAFT LISTINGS MAY BE ELIMINATED   Reclassification To Be Ordered For All Except PrePear! Harbor Dads   LIFTING OF BAN URGED   Officials Move To Force Exempt Men Into War Plant Or Farm Jobs

DRAFT OFFICIALS RECLASSIFYING MARRIED MEN   Dependency Groups are Being Eliminated Under New Procedures,

J.S. Draft Chiefs — Map Plans to Place athers in Service   DEPENDENCY CLASSIFICATIONS MAY BE WIPED OUT UNDER NEW MOVE TO TAKE 3-A MEN FOR DUTY IN ARMED SERVICES

PLAN TO END DEPENDENCY DEFERMENTS   Would Make War Jobs Chief Key. To Exemption

Special 3-A Dratt Class Proposed.   Fathers May Be Reclassified Yet This Month

Reclassify Men With  Families   Selective Service Officials Work on Plans to Lift  Deferment Ban

Changed Status For Registrants Indicated Soon   3-A, 3-B, 3-C Draft Classes Would Be ~ Erased Under Plan

DADS TO BE IN SPECIAL 3-A   Hardship Cases Also Includec In Classification, Draft Ofticigle Indinatea.

3 Dependency Draft Classes To Be Changed   New Order Expected To Be In Effect Within 3 Weeks, Reclassifying Many

Carnegie-Illinois is Indicted For Concealing Steel Tests   Federal Grand Jury Alleges Data on Sub-Specification, War Contract Steel Removed from Files

Camegie Steel Corp. Indictec   Concealed Facts On Product, Charged

INDICTS STEEL FIRM   Federal Grand Jury’ Charges Carnegie-Illinois Company

Maldistribution Would Follow Abandoning of Pork Rationing, 2 Say

Farming Operations Are At a Standstill Due to Wet Weather in Missouri

Iraq Declares Waron Nazis   First Arab Country To Join England in Fight on Germany

IRAQ ISSUES A WAR DECLARATION   Will Be at War With Germany, Italy and Japan After Midnight.

PIE AND CAKE FLOUR MAY BE HARD TO GET   Plenty of Wheat But It’s of Different Variety

Skipper Tells How Destroyer Crew Battled Sub Crew With Everything They Could Get Hands On

Mt. Jewett Soldier Missing In Action   Floyd M. Carl Was a Gunner on Flying Fort

By Wendell L. Willkie—Carefully Condensed Version of His Famous Best Selling Book

Parents of OMA Oppose Politics   Plan Organization To Keep School Out of Politics

Negro Cook Admits Slaying Ensign’s W ife  Robert Folkes Confesses      Robert Folkes Confesses Slashing Throat Of Woman Passenger In Speeding Pullman

NEGRO ADMITS TRAIN MURDER   Cook Tells Story of Fatal Attack on Ensign’s Wife

VAST AREAS OF KEY CENTER IN FLAMES AFTER HEAVY RAID   Bombs: Range From 2-Pound ' Incendiaries To Big Block-Busters ~~ 33 Planes Lost

NURNBERG IN FLAMES AFTER RAF ATTACK   Nazi Shrine Is Given Unusually Hard Pounding by British Pilots.

Railway Center Left In Flames Following Attack   Believe Shifting of Strength Caught Germans Off Guard

MYSTERY TARGET IN FRENCH WOODS BOMBED BY YANKS   Well - Directed Attack Includes Use of Four-Ton Super Block Busters te Small Incendiaries.   REDS ARE NEARING BRYANSK RAILROAD   All Main Raif Lines-In Seuth Italy Are Cut By Allied Bombs, Transport Centers Blasted.

NURNBERG IS TARGET FOR HEAVY RAID   Vast Areas Of City Turned Into Flaming Ruins

FLAMES AFTER FIERCE ATTACK   33 Bombers Lost as Hundreds of Thousands of Explosives Fall

RAF Stages 2-F 2-Hour Attack On German Industrial Center; ‘Yanks Hit “Mystery”’ Target

NURNBERG IN RUINS AFTER NIGHT RAID   Two-Hour Parade of British 4-Engine Bombers Wreuks  Havoe 

NAZI SHRINE HIT BY 2500 ‘TONS OF BOMBS   Mystery Target For Fortresses

AGAIN IS ATTACKEL   Railway Center Turned Into Raging Inferno— Other Targets Given Rain of Bombs.

Four-Ton Super-Blockbusters Blast City Along With Incendiaries; U.S. Forts Hit French Mystery Area

RAF Strikes Only Few Hours After American Flying Forts Smash Mystery Target Hidden In French Forest   2.500 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON TARGETS

Bodies Recovered From Montana Mine   Explosion Toll Remains at 78

You Gotta Have Uncle Sam’s Okay to Have Baby in Federal Housing Area

Greenbelt Residenis May Have Babies with Permits   One of Those Characters Who Reads Leases Discovers Uncle Sam Must be Consulted Before '  ~ Change in Composition of Federal Community Households Can he Made

HIGH COURT BANS UNION REVIEWS   Says Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes Up To the National Mediation Board Or the Unions.

TEMPERATURES:   Sunday Volume And Prices At ~ All-Time Higt   Growers Rush Concords To Mart To Beat WEA Order

201,581 PACKS OF GRAPES ARE SOLD ON MART   Highest Prices For Peak  Day Bring Growers $182,682   RECORD SINGLE DAY   Brought About by OPA Order Restricting Sales To Processors

LEGISLATURE ENDS SESSION   Wisconsin Lawmakers Adjourn for Three Weeks; Will Return.

Legislature In -Week Recess: Pass Fund Bill  Both Houses To  Return July 13 For Cleanup Job

Session Of Legislature  Concluded   Record Total Of About $103,600,000 Voted For Various Purposes Iv  Last Five Months

6,750 Miners Defy Roosevelt Return Order   Six Locals Continue Strike; Five Others Voting on Action

6000 MINERS DEFY ORDER OF PRESIDENT   Half of Original 12,000 Strikers Vote to Continue

{ALF OF COAL STRIKERS DEFY ORDER OF F, D   Six Locals Vote To Stay Away From Mines In Pennsylvania

Government Expected to Seize Mines   48-Hour Deadline Set by President  Expires Tomorrow

MINERS OPENLY DEFY ORDER 10 RE°UME WORK   Six Locals Representing 6,750 Strikers Vote To Continue i Stoppage   DEADLINE IS THURSDAY   President Expected To Order Pits Seized And Operated By Government

Vote Against Return to Pits in Hard Coal Regions Although Union Poll is Light.

86,000 Trust Of Mansfield’s To Stay Intact   Supreme Court Refuses to Order an Immediate Division

AMERICAN. TROOPS  KELLED < 1800 AND CAPTURED FOUR DURING FIRST 20 DAYS  OF BATTLE

4 JAPS CAPTIVE AND 1500 DEAL   Attu Slain to Be Much Higher When All Remnants Mopped Up

Official in Trouble Over ‘Gas’  OPA Cites City of Pittsburgh, Says Mayor Misused ‘C’ Book

NEW DELIVERY RESTRICTIONS ARE OUTLINED      Eastern Gasoline Shortage To Be come Increasingly Serious

NEW RESTRICTIONS ON WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DELIVERIES      Bans Go In Effect Thursday In Preparation For More Serious Gas  Shortage

East Gets New  Bans On Delivery   15 Commodities Placed On Restricted List

East Facing More Serious » Gas Shortage   Additional Restrictions on Transportation Hinted bv ODT   LIST COMMODITIES   Companies Must Rearrange Routes to Avoid Duplication

GASOLINE CUT IN EAST HITS AT DELIVERIES   Wurtailment Ordered as Supplies Disrupted By Floods

tn  OFLIVERIES GUT BY. NEW BAN 10 START THURSDAY   ODT Bans Deliveries Of 15 Articles in Retail Trade   DESPERATE CRISIS IN EASTERN AREA

JAPS DETERMINED 10 STAY ON KISK:      No. Indication That Enemy '. Ts Weakened Despite ‘ Air Blows

HOUSE GETS TIME BILL   Proposal to Turn Back Clocks One Hour Has 42 Sponsors

JAP ATTACKS ARE CRUSHED BY CHINESE   chiang Kai-Shek's Armies Repulse Numerous Onslaughts and Launch 17 of Their Own  TITILAATAARAL CTA BIiILIsScCcT,;

CHINESE CRUSH NIPPO ATTACKS   ALLIES HAMMER JAPS ON WIDE SEA FRONT

TWO RAIDS MADE ON JAP HELD IKISKA ATTU   Nippon Munda Base On New Georgia Island Has Been Raided More Than 100 Times

Blast 57 Planes  Aground; Knock ©14 From Skies;  Patton’s Forces _In Mine Fields -

Yanks Make 3 Bombing Raids In Alwutions   Kiska Hit Twice And Attu Is Blasted Once; Munda Gets 100th Air Raid

13 OF THEIR ATTACKS GET NO SUCCESS   Japs Being Hit From Burma to South Sea as Aerial Blows of Allies Grow Ever Stronger

U.S. Planes Twice Raid  JapsOnKiske And Attu   One American Bomber Reported Lost; Attack On Enemy Base On Munda Island

U. 5. Planes Hit At Kiska Twice   Attack Attu Island Once, One Bomber Being Lost, Navy Reports .

Lose One Bomber In Kiska Raid   American Dive Bomber: ‘Make New Attack Or “Jap Installations Or  New Georgia Island

AT KlaKA HIT BY RAIDS   Installations in New Georgia Also Bombed By U. S. Planes.   SMASH AT NEW GUINEA

Chinese Crush 13 Jap Attacks In Week’s Time   Chiang’s Men Launch 17 Of Their Own During  Same Period.

Allies Lightly Raid  Japanese Bases e   - Stormy a re Halts, Heavy ‘Bloy Ener tis :

Weather Undermines ‘Pacific Battle But Fliers Are Busy  Allies Drop Bombs On Airdromes In Light Attacks

Allied Planes Raid Kai and Aroe Islands, Score Hit on Jap Vessel

Allies Raid Japan Bases   Bombers Are Active In Pacific Theatres

REDS MOVE FORWARD AT RAPID PACE   Streaming Through 45-Mile Gap in Nazi Lines   GATEWAY TO UKRAINE   Also Sweeping Toward Big German Bryansk Base

SURGING REDS DRIVE CLOSE T0 KHARKOV   Unstoppable Armies Move At Top Speed To To Continue Gains. 

NAZIS MASSING BACK OF LINE  GUARDINGROME   Yanks Advance Six Miles, Take Two Towns Be low Trigno

Rommel Heads All Nazi Forces In Italy; Berlin Recalls Gen. Kesselrin:

‘Report Violent Earthquake In Turkey; 15,000 Dead In One City, Berlin Radio Says   Claim 40 Per Cent Of Houses Razed; Report istanbul Seized With Panic

Berlin Says Damage Heavy In Turkey   Half of Population Of Single City Reported Wiped Out

Report Violent Turkish Quake  Bertin Savs 15.000   Berlin Says 15,000 Persons Killed

Turkey’s Anatolia Province Rocked by Quake, Nazis Say   Unconfirmed Reports From None-Too-Reliable Transocean News Agency Place Dead In City Of Adapazar Alone At 15,000, With 40% of Houses Demolished

QUAKES DAMAGE TURKISH CITIES   Berlin Reports 15,000 Dead in Gne Gity, Communica: tions Disrupted

BERLIN RADIO SAYS HEAVY EARTHQUAKE ROCKED TURKEY  FIFTEEN THOUSAND REPORTED DEAD IN CITY OF ADAPAZAR ALONE

BERLIN RADIO SAYS: HEAVY EARTHQUAKE ROCKED TURKEY  CLCILTCOH TUHOTICAMN DE   FIFTEEN THOUSAND REPORTED DEAD IN CITY OF ADAPAZAR ALONE

FEAR MANY DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE   Unconfirmed Reports Say Half Of Population Of City Of 30,000 Killed By Quake In Turkey.

BERLIN SAYS QUAKE KILLS 15,000 TURKS      News Agency Declares That Number Dead in One Town Alone in Anatolia Province, Where Shock Is Violent.

15,000 Reported Killed In Turkish Earthquake   Berlin Claims Widespread Damage Caused In Anataha: Town af 24.000 Destroved

Toll of (Quake In Turkey 15,000   Violent Earth Shock Rocks Northwest Part of Anatoha.

Earthquake Is Reported  In Turkey   ‘(German Broadcast Says 15,000 Persons Dead in Anatolia

15,000 Reported Killed By Quake In Turkish City   Tremor Reported To Have Occurred During Heavy Thunderstorm.

Berlin Reports A Quake In Turkey   HALF APAZAR KILLED BY VIOLENT ERUPTION

EARTHQUAKE ROCKS TURKEY   15,000 Persons Killed By Violent Tremors In Adapazar

REPORT MANY DEAD IN QUAKE   Claim 15,000 Killed in One Turkish City

ONY 19,000 DEAD IN TURKISH QUAKE   Violent Earthquake Rocks City of Adapazar; Tremors Felt in Other Parts

'Berlin Reports Violent  Earthquake In Anatolia  Province Of Turkey

Tells of Big Earthquake In Turkey   German Radio Reports 15 000 Killed In One City of Anatolia Province   AREA OFTEN HAS BEEN DAMAGED   No Reports of Disaster Received Today From the Turkish Officials

cad ROCKS      Berlin Radio Says 15,000 Killed In Province of © Anatolia

Violent Quake Takes A Heavy Toll In Turkey   Thousands Of Dead Reported In City Of Ada nazar Alone.

134 Nipponese Planes Have Been Downed   . Enemy Ships Bent _on Shelling RendovaChased Off

UM AREA REPORTED   Jap Air Reinforcements Having Little Effect On Course Of War

Peace Action Talked   Nazis Reported Seizing Control In North; Ciano Quits

NAZIS DISARM ROME TROOPS ON GREEK SOIL   London Hears Eisenhower Armistice May Be Signed Sunday

SEND $45,000 _ FOR PARALYTICS       dack and Ueints EF.  mploye ‘op Whole County's  ift Last Year.

$45,901 SENT TO FOR BY JACK & HEINTZ   Fund Raised i in War Plant To Fight Disease

RAF’S BOMBERS POUND GERMANY   Industrial Suburb of Cologne Hit by Heavy Force At Night

Nazi Chemica   R.A.F. Looses 1000 Tons of Bombs on Leverkusen Works

Ucn POINTS HET IN ATTACK OVER ENGLANT   RAF Pounds German Poison Gas Chemical Plant at Leverkusen,

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT NAZI-HELD FRENCH AREAS   Chemical Works In. Reich Blasted In Night Raid By RAF Bombers; Huge Fires Started

POISON GAS CENTER HIT BY BRITISH   RAF Continues Offensive Against Continent

NO REST FOR NAZIS   Hitler's Homeland Taking Terrific Pasting From Allied Bombers

Heavy Bomber Raid Is Staged   RAF Aitacks Leverkusen With 5 Planes Being Lost In Operation

British Heavy Planes Pound Nazi Centers   Lighter Allied Planes Follow Up With Daylight Foray  Oe ee i ais oa ve   Mit LONDON AREA

R. A. F. Atfacks: Chemical Works  Strike at Ger rmany's  Caspwene nf B°....

1,000 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED UPON TARGET!   Small Number of Nazi Planes Strike Back © At Britain

hirmen Work Hayec on Vital Cites  Chemical Plant Is   Chemical Plant ts Prime Target; Other Points Hit

British Bombers Blast Poison Gas Source in Germany   Lighter Planes Follow Up in Day Foray on France

Source Plant Fer Poison  Gas Blasted   Leverkusen, Suburb ol Cologne, Struck by. 1000 Tons of Bombs

Airmen Work Havoc on Vital Cities   Chemical Plant Is Prime Target; Other Points Hit

Aerial Blows Against Nazi Cities Go On   Daylight Raids Follow Heavy Bomber Assault On Poison Gas Center Of Leverkusen

COLOGNE SUBURB BOMBED BY R.A. F   ‘BIG PLANES STRIKE AT , PLANTS MAKING INGREDI: ENTS FOR POISON GAS.

U, 5. U-BOAT SINKS 16 JAPANESE SHIPS   Lose One Man, Killed by Horse in Australia

Boalswain’s Mate Tells Story of Sub That Took Pres. Quezon, Sayre From Philippines, Sank 16 Jap Ships

ONLY LOSS FOR SUB COMES ON DRY LAN   Horseback Ride Fatal To One Member of Crew

HORSE RIDING ACCIDENT COST ONLY LIFE OF SUBMARINE CREW THAT SAW MONTHS OF ACTION

U.S. Sub That Sank 16 Jap Ships Lost One OF Crew—Jn Accident   American Underwater Craft On Continuous Prowl; Evacuated Quezons And Savres

U. S. ‘Sub’ Boasting 16 Jap Ships Sunk Has Lost But One Crewman--On A Horse

Sub Crew’s Lone Casualty Due to Fall From Horse    Crewman of U. S. Submarine Tells of Happy Hunting of Japanese Ships In Pacific; Only Member of Company Lost During 18-Month Period Killed In Riding Accident

Yank Sub Sinks 16 Jap Ships And Loses One Man, Killed Riding A Horse  Riding Accident Caused Onlv Death In Most Fxciting Submarine Adventure Of American Naval Historv

Te ten  U.S. Submarine That Took Quezon From Philippines  Home After Sinking 16 Ships

Showers Visit In State During Day   Heavy Clouds Threaten For Several Areas

Complete Disarmament of Enemies to Insure Lasting Peace Urged by Norris

TOKYO RADIO CLAIMS U.S, LOSSES RUN HIGH      Broadcast Staies U.S. Suffers 5.000 Casualties a ‘Githert Islands Operations

Senate Debate Rages Over Army Political Bar   Sen. Barkley Declares President Never Saw Stimson Order

POLITICS BAN STIRS DEBATE   Senator Barkley Denies Army Order Intended ta Aid FBR.

Army Politics Controversy Grows Warmer   Barkley Denies It’s Scheme to Insure 4th Term

Politics Ban Fires Senate   Vandenberg Says Army Cannot Prevent Party from Drafting. Candidate. -< --

Post-War Planning Hits Snag   Russia's Desire to Hold Baltic States Is Biggest Hurdle

U. S. Plans for Better ‘World Following War ‘Run Into Difficulties

Air Crash Kills Rep. J. W. Ditter   Plane Falls Near Pennsylvania Airport

CONGRESSMAN IS KILLED IN CRASH   Representative Ditter and Naval Officer Fatally Injured

DUTCH DEMAND NAZI LOOT PAY COST OF RELIEF   Delegates From Countrie: Invaded by Huns Seek UNRRA Program For  Assuring Payment —

MILITARY RULE IS IGNORED BY MILAN CROWDS   Demonstrations Reported Sweeping To Naples And Other Areas   GAYDA SUICIDE RUMORED   Peace Feelers Put Out By Hungary; Spellman Leaves Africa For North

Boys Held After Attempt To Wreck Troop Train  In Arizona Is Reported

Russian Aerial Sorties Take Toll Of Nazi Planes  Total of 72 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed; Attack Axis Bases

Russians Report  Widespread  Aerial Actions   74 German Planes Are Destroyed at Cost of 23 Soviet Aircraft; Bitter Fighting Continues in Novorossisk Area

SAVIFTS BAG 74 NAZI AIRPLANES   Bitter Battle Continues In Novorossisk Sector Of Caucasus

Mercury On Rampage   Season’s High Recorded Yesterday As Official Mark Set At 98

Mountbatten to Visit Chiang Kai-shek, Map  New Burma Campaign   Disorders Spreading in Denmark ; Sweden Protests Sinking of Ships; Reich Capital Still Burning From Air Attack

Japs Concentrate  For Major Effort  Allied Airmen Surprise Foe on Timor Isle

Japanese Are Preparing For Stroke   May Expect Attacks Or May Plan Attack on Australia

(Troops, Ships And Planes  Concentrated  Nipponese Based on 2000-Mile Perimeter of Pacific (stands +

Enemy Takes Position Of Readiness   MacArthur Reports Japs Reinforcing Troops on 2,000-Mile  Island Perimeter

Raids Take Heavy Toll  InGermany   More Than 2,000 Plants Damaged, One Million People Are Homeless, Sinclair Estimates

PLANE LOSSES FAVOR ALLIES, THREE TO ONE   Million Germans Made Homeless By Raids, Briton Says

Million Germans Driven From Home:   Sinclair Reveals Great Damage Dene Enemy—His Plane Loss Is Three to One

BOMBERS LEAVE MILLION NAZIS WITHOUT HOMES   2,000 Factories Are Hit Or Destroyed by R. A. F. Raids

2000 Axis Industrial Plants _ Damaged: by RAF in Past Year, Qne Million Germans Homeless

Million German: Homeless From RAF Battering  2,000 War Plants Damaged as Allies Take 3-1 Edge

2000 FACTORIES DAMAGED BY RAF, COMMONS HEARS   Million Germans Homeless in Aerial Offensive, Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair Reports.

ALLIED PILOTS HOLD THREE 10 ONE ADVANTAGE OVER FOE   British Air Minister Also Reports 2,000 Industrial Plants in Europe Hit

List Meetings On Employmen   New Ruling Will Be Explained To All

G.0.P. LEADERS 10 PICK CONVENTION CITY IN JANUARY   Spangler Calls Nationa! Committee Meeting For January 10-11 In Chicago; Windy City Said To Be Favored By Both Parties For Sessions.

COP MEETING AT CHICAGO IN JANUARY   National Convention Plans Will Be Made. State Chairmen Also Will Be Invited

GOP to Pick Session City In Januan   spangter Calls Leaders to Chicago: Democrats Meet Soon After

Republicans Issue Call  Convention Plans to   Convention Plans to Be Laid Jan. 10-11

REPUBLICANS PLAN MEETING IN JANUARY   Will Get Together In Chicago For Pre-Planning

GOP LEADERS RECEIVE CALL   Will Meet to Plan  National Convention

GOP to Select Convention City  Leaders to Mee Chic aes Jun “teal

GOP To Confer Upon Jan. 10th      Stevens Hotel Is ‘Selected  2F or Convention ; Dems: May. Follow Suit ~

WALKER 1S NAMED DEMOCRATIC HEAD   Postmaster General Elected to National Chairmanship by Unanimous Voice Vote

Postmaster General Is Unanimous Choice Of National Committee At Chicago Meeting

Walker Elected Democrat Chief   Committee Names Flynn's Successor

/ELECT NEW DEMO HEAD   Postmaster Walker Is Chairman of the Democratic Party

Democrats Elect Walker National Party Chairman   Former Postmaster General Named to Replace Flynn

Walker to Head Dems   Postmaster General Elected As Party Chairmarm to Succeed Edward J. Flynn

WALKER 1S ELECTED CHAIRMAN NATIONAL NEMO COMMITTER   POSTMASTER GENERAL SUCCEEDS EDWARD J. FLYNN. RESIGNED

WALKER GIVEN FLYNN’S POST   POSTMASTER GENERAL HEADS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMTITEE

Walker Is Named By Democrats Tc Succeed Flynn   Postmaster General Nomi nated By Olson To Heac National Committee

Walker Named Demo Chief   Postmaster General Selected Without Dissenting Vote! To Sueceed Flynn.

Walker Made ‘New Chairman of Democrats   Postmaster. General’ I Elected Without. One Dissenting Vote   ‘STRONG RIGHT ARM", FOR ROOSEVELT   Committee Resolutions Praise Edward. Flynn and Commend President

WALKER 15 NAMED DEMOS’ CHAIRMAN   Postmaster General Elected To Succeed Edward J. Flynn.

WALKER CHOSEN HEAD OF DEMOS   High Regard for Flynn Voiced at Chicago Session

WAR TALKS ON PACIFIC INDICATED   Speculation — Rife Or Topics Of Meeting Between Leaders

ALL SORTS OF RUMORS CAM‘OUFLAGE STRATEGY BEING: PLANNED FOR EUROPE.  AND FAR EAST ..

No Ending to Food Problem, ~— It Appears   Two Problems. Arise . for Every One Solved; Wickard’s Task. One of Biggest   KEEPING BALANCE ONE OF HARDEST   Shortages. at, “Every, Turn Result.in-Daily Increase of Complications —

FOOD SUPPLIES AND DEMANDS MAKE PROBLEM   Job of Administrator is Complicated by Handicaps Resulting from War   PLANS OFTEN GO AWRY   For Instance: More Fat Hogs Produced by Needed Lard is Sold as Meat

If Crop Production Marks are Met U. S. Civilians Should Kat Very Well Next Winter

‘Work or Fight’ Order for Civilian Navy Employees Pushed in Congress

WORK OR FIGHT ORDER INIFIATED   House Naval Committee Gets Blil To Halt Absenteeism In Shipyards

LOCAL OFFICES OF OPA GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS   No Indication That Value of Gas Rations Will Be Increased.

BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING WILL BE LIFTED WEDNESDAY   Notice Sent Out To Ali " Lecal Officials In East Coast Region

OPA Sends Instructions tc Local Officials; No Hint of Change in Coupon Values,

Htalian Army to Fight Alongside Allies Shortly,   Will Aid -Effort To Drive Germans From Country

Italian Navy And Air Force To Join Allies   Badoglio Says "Quite Sizeable" Army Ready In Free ltaly

POLISH GUERRILLAS CLASH WITH NAZIS   Official OF Government In Exile Reports Open Warfare

THOUSANDS OF POLES IN NAZI PRISONS   Desperate Terrorism of Nazis, Polish Patriots Have Been “Punishing” Their Captors

Villages Inhabited by Germans Burned and Many Poles Arrested   Conquerors Seek to Wipe Out “Underground”  Groups of Patriots

GOVERNMENT SAYS NAZI TROOPS, PATRIOTS FIGHT   guerrillas Take on Troops Killing Them At Every Turn.

REPORTS POLES IN OPEN REVOLI   Guerrillas Battling German Troops, Exile Govern mant  eader Save.

Poles. Nazis In Virtually Open Warfare   Three Trainloads Of Germans Blown Up By Saboteurs

ENVOY WILL GO TO MOSCOV FROM QUEBEC   Allied commanders promise to ruthlessly destroy war creators

ENVOYS WILL . TELL STALIN OF WAR PLAN   RUSSIANS TO BE FULLY IN. FORMED AS TO INVASION DETAILS WORKED OUT AT QUEBEC

To Give Stalin Details Of Plan Of Second Front   Envoy Expected To Dispel Russian Disquiet Over Bearing Brunt Of a” Attack   MAY SEND WELLES AS SPECIAL ENVOY   Britain Likely To Send Anthony Eden, Or Churchill May Make Trip  In Person

COLLETT PLEA IS NOT GUILTY   Farmer Arraigned in Wash: ington C. H. on First Degree Charge.

TREASURY “SOUNDS OUT CONGRESS. ON 25 PER CENT. TAX      Plan’ Invelves Abolishing 5% Victory Tax And Forgiving Pari Of 1942 Tax

WITHHOLDING TAX. PROPOSED BY TREASURY   25 Per Cent Take Would Abolish Victory Levy. Part Of ‘42 Income Impost   CURRENT BASIS FAVORED   Administration Gives First Indication Of Pay-As-YouGo Support

SEEK OPINION QN PAY-AS-YOU: £0 INCOME TAX   ‘Treasury Officials Sound Ou  Congress Members On Prosram

TEST CONGRESS SENTIMENT FOR NEW TAX PLAN   Seen As Compromise On Pay-As-You-Go And Withholding Tax

29 Per Cent Withholding Tax Preposed   ~ New. Plan Would Eliminate Victory Levy, Now Collected

British Take Contraband From Spanish   Five Ships Stopped and Platinum Seized

NAZIS TAKE HARSH STEPS IN NAPLES   Communist Rising. Reported ‘In Cooperation With , Allied Army

Nazis Report "Red" Revolt inNaples —   Severe’ Measures Taken by German Military Chiefs 

NAZIS ADMIT EVACUATION OF CALABRIA   British and Canadians Drive 10 Miles on Italian Toe  To Slope of 6000 Foot Mountain   Want Naples

BRITISH GAIN IN ITALY DRIVE   invaders ‘Take 10 Towns f And Advance 10 Miles Along 40-Mile Beachhead

Invaders Near Palmi; 10 More  Towns Seized   Nazis Say Southern Calabria Evacuated; Bombers Hit Area  Far North of Rome

‘Allied Drive Continues With Little  Resistance  Tl xan w Dy we Nee Tu ltaerrl   Forces Push Inland On Italian Toe  And Stand on Slopes Of Mount Aspromonte   Allied Bombers Leave Destruction in Central And Southern Italy

Allied Troops Make 10-Mile Advance in Italy   Berlin Reports Axis Force Has Evacuated Southern Calabria

TEN MORE TOWNS SEIZED BY ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY   Montgomery’s Army Plunges Half Way Across Calabrian Peninsula in Drive Inland.   CIVILIANS EXTEND A FERVENT WELCOME   Meantime Planes Smash Airdromes and Bases of Enemy —Resistance to Ground Troops Feeble.

ALLIED TROOPS SMASH INLAND TO ASPROMONTE   Germans Leave Southern Calabria; 10 More Towns Captured,  ‘Dromes Hit   Resistance Is Light   Invaders Welcomed

Allies Make Gain Of 10 Miles in Italian Campaign  Feeble Resistance Marks Continued Invasion Advances

Allies Drive Ahead in  Italian Action   Axis Evacuate Sector, Berlin Reports

Italian Toe Is Evacuated   Little Resistance Is Met By The Invaders

Ten More Cities. Fall To Allies   Prisoner. Rank: - Swelled To ¢3,000

Troops Drive Inland From the 40-Mile Beach head  MORE TOWNS FALL TO ALLIED TROOPS  RAF Wellingtons Con.  tinue to Destroy Rail     Systems

Vital Italian Ridge Falls  To Invaders   Allies ‘Take Ten More Towns; Prisoners Mount

Allies Drive Inland From Italian Beach   More Towns: Captared and Numbér of: Prisonera Grows

Allies Capture Ten Additional  Italian Towns   British And Canadian Troops Plunge 10 Miles Inland; Forced To Push Through Extensive Demolitions

RESISTANCE OF AXIS IN ITALY IS VERY FEEBLE   Berlin Radio Admits Evac uation Of Southern Toe Of Country   MYSTERY SURROUNDS AMERICAN 7TH ARMY

10,000 Nazis Die To Pay For Tiny Gains In Russia   Tanks Destroyed In Record Numbers, Nazis Pour Huge Forces To Front

Russians-Nazis End Two Days of Bitter Fighting   Germans Pay Terrific Toll For ‘Insignificant Gains’

Germans Have Paid Terrific Toll In Equipment And Manpower For “Insignificant Gains” In Two Days Of Fighting, Russians Declare—Enemy Dead In Excess Of 10,000, Moscow Says—Soviets RexnOW: ledge Loss Of Two Towns Near Belgorod

Red Lines Break As Nazis Attack   Germans Poy Terrific Toll for Their Gains In Latest Offensive Now Raging in Russia

Soviets Take Terrific Toll Along Front   Nazis Pay High Price for  Capture of Two Tx

THE GERMANS LOST 1271 TANKS IN TWO DAYS OF FIGHTING   The Dead Placed at 10,000. the Russians Announced Today.   INSIGNIFICANT GAINS   Paid a Terrific Toll in Tanks and Manpower in the Battle.

Germans Pay Heavy Toll In Tanks And Manpower For Insignificant Gains

1.271 GERMAN TANKS LOST IN 2 DAY BATTLE   Hitlerites Maintain It’s Fhe Reds Who Have Opened Offensive

Nazis Pay Enormous Price For Tiny Gains   Russians Lose Only Two Small  ’ ‘Towns

GERMAN ARMY PAYS TERRIFIC PRICE FOR OFFENSIVE GAINS  NAZI DEAD NUMBER 10,000; 1,271 TANKS AN 314 PLANES DESTROYED

NAZIG PAY HIGH PRICE FOR GAINS   Red Army . Announces 10,000 Germans Dead in Two Days Fight.

\CERMAN ARMY PAYING HEAVY. ‘PRICE FOR’ GAINS MADE IN NEW” OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIANS

Moscow Says Germans Pay Terrific Price   Make But Insignificant Gains In Three-DayOld Summer Offensive; More Than 10,000 Killed, Much Equipment Destroyed.

Nazis Pay Heavy Price For Gains   Russians Claim They Have Annihilated More Than 10, 000 Germans in Two-Day Battle in Which Nazis Cap  ture Two Unnamed Towns.   Germans Send Repeated Waves of Armored Units, Men Against Reds

Nazis Paying Heavily For Small Gains   Red Army Claims 1,271 Enemy Tanks, 314 Planes Lost

Missing In Action Report Of Italy Boy   MARION R. MITCHELL LAST HEARD FROM IN NOVA SCOTIA WATERS.

Lt. John Rodgers  Missing in Action  Paris High Graduate Former News Carrier Flaw Ovar Sicily

AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SKIP SUNK   Centaur Sent to Bottom by Torpedo: 299 Lose Lives

Red Cross Painted Upon Sides Of Ship   Survivors Claim It Was Impossible For The Submarine Officere To Mistake The Vessel

64 ARE RESCUED; VESSEL GOES DOWN IN 3 MINUTES   ONLY ONE OF TWELVE WOMEN ‘RESCUED AFTER ENEMY STAB

JAPANESE TORPEDO HOSPITAL SHIP WITH HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE  NO PATIENT ABOARD BU’ CREW, MEDICAL STAFF AND NIRCEC 1NCT

Hospital Ship Is Sunk By Japanes«      Brilliantly Lighted Mercy Vessel Is Sunk Off Australia; 229 Lose Lives

299 Lost as Hospital Ship, Fully Lighted and Marked, Falls Prey to Japs' U-Boat

Hospital Ship Sunk By Japs   Plainly Marked Allied Vessel Sunk Near Australia, 299 Lives Lost.

HOSPITAL onl? SUNK BY JAPS      Brightly Lighted, Well Marked Australian Vessel Torpedoed.   299 PERSONS ARE LOST

Australian Hospital Ship Is Sunk By Japs   Vessel, Plainly Marked And Brilliantly ‘Lighted, Sent Down In Flames; Fear 299 Are Lost; 64 Are Recened

299 Die as Jap Sub Sinks Hospital Ship   Australian and English Medical Personnel and Nurses lictims of Torpedo Attack: 64 on Vessel Saved: No Americans Aboard

Only 64 of 363 Saved After 36 Hours on Raft,  No Americans Aboard

HOSPITAL VESSEL IS SUNK BY JAPS   Total of 299 Die; Ship Was Brilliantly Lighted, Clearly Marked

Hospital Ship Sunk By Jans   288 Medical Personnel And I] Nurses Lost; 65 Rescued

All But 64 Persons Aboard Torpedoed Australian Red Cross Ship Drowned   JAPANESE SUBMARINE SURFACED AFTER RAID

RED CROSS VESSEL OF © AUSTRALIA DESTROYED BY AN ENEMY TORPEDO   General MacArthur Declares That Wanton Act of Ruthless Enemy Was One of “Limitless Savagery” —Only 64 Saved, Others Died in Fuel Oil Flames, Drowned, or Fell Prey to Sharks—One Nurce Survivac.

Jap Submarine Torpedoes Craft In Darkness   Only 64 Rescued From Australian Boat En Route to New Guinea   NO PATIENTS ABOARD Only One of 12 Nurses  Is Saved; Survivors See Enemy Vessel

HOSPITAL SHIP “SINK BY JAPS   299 are Killed in Torpedo"ing of Autealin Yes : vel Off Queensland

Jap Sub Sinks Hospital Ship; 299 Lives Lost   11 Women Nurses Among Victims; Only 65 Reseued

JAPS TORPEDO HOSPITAL SHIP   299 Perish As Australian Merc} Vessel Goes Down

Japanese Torpedo Hospital Ship, 299 Lost   Eleven Women Nurses Perish on Marked, Lighted Mercy Craft

Japs Torpedo Hospital Ship; 299 Lives Lost   Plainly Marked Vessel Sunk Without Warning Off Australia.

Ship Brilliantly Lighted and Well Marked; No American: Were Aboard Vessel

Japs Torpedo  ~ Hospital Ship   299 Lives Lost Although No Wounded Men Were; On Board

JAP SUB SINKS AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SHIP   289 Lose Lives, Many Trapped Below Decks, When Ship Torpedoed, Suak in Flames   NO WARNING GIVEN   No Americans Reported Ahoard— Only 64 Persons, Including One Woman Saved

HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK BY JAPS; 299 ARE LOST   Only 64 Persons Saved; Attack Called ‘Deliberate’

Hospital Ship Torpedoed:; ~ Nearly 300 Feared Lost   Australian and English Medical Personnel and Nurses Lost—Ship With Red Cross Sign Was © Traveling Unescorted

JAPANESE TORPEDO HOSPITAL ~ VESSEL EAST OF AUSTRALIA   299 Persons Lose Lives In Sinking Lighted Ship Plainly Marked With Red Cross

Japs Torpedo Hospital Ship: 299 Are Killed   Brightly Lighted and Well-Marked Australian Vessed Sunk in Three Minntes

Hospital Ship Sunk by Japs, 299 Are Losi   Vessel. Plainly Marked With Red Cross and Well Lighted :

1299 Die as Japs Sink Hospital Ship in Night Off Australian Coast   Centaur Brightly Lighted and Plainly Marked Sent to Bottom by Sub Without Warning; Only 64 Saved

‘Limitless Savagery”’ Aeuwelinn Hospital Ship Sunk By Japs, 299 Perish

VESSEL PLUNGES WITHIN 3 MINUTES AFTER BEING HIT   Bore Red Cross Markings and Was Fully Uluminated — Those Saved Spend 36 Hours on Raft.   NO PATIENTS ABOARD AUSTRALIAN URAFT   Ship on Way From Sydney to New Guinea When Attacked — Eleven Women Among Dead.

Australian Hospital Ship Is Sunk With Many Lives Lost As Jap Sub Shells It

299 LIVES LOST AS NIPS STRIKE MARKED CRAFT   Only. 64 of 363 Aboard . Vessel Rescued

HOSPITAL Suir SUNK BY U-BOAT OFF AUSTRALIA   Japanese. Assault - Described by General Douglas MacArthur As “Limit less Savagery”.   999. LIVES: LOST   awry  of 12 Women Nurses Saved; No Patients Were Aboard  Sixty-Four, Including One

Only 64 Are Saved from Hospital Ship   299 Perish When Australian Vessel ls Sunk by Sub

Brightly Lighted Australian Hospital Ship Sunk By Jap Sub, 299 Lost!

Jap U-Boat Torpedoes Mercy Ship   Australian Hospital Vessel Is Blasted; _ 299 Lives Lost

Jap Sub Sinks Hospital Ship   But 64 of 363 Aboarc Survive Torpedoing

Japs Torpedo Hospital Ship: 299 Are Lost   Australian Vessel Was Unmistakably Marked, Is Claim: 61 Saved, Including One Woman

JAPS TORPEDO HOSPITAL SHIP   Australian Ship, Plainly Marked. Sunk With Loss Of . 999 Persons -

Bright Lights Clearly Show Kind of Ship   Vessel Capsizes and Sinks In 3 Minutes; Only 64 Are Saved

Jap Submarine Sinks Hospital Ship, 299 Die      inescorted, Brightly Lighted, Plainly Marked Red  Cross PV pssel le Darnedned During Lien: Miaht

JAP SUB SINKS HOSPITAL SHIP299 LOSE LIVES   Australian Vessel Brilliantly Lighted, Unmistakably Marked

Vessel Marked With Red Cross Complying With All Regulations Governing War   NURSE TELLS STORY

M’ ARTHUR SCORES ATTACK ON VESSEL   Sinking of Hospital Ship Called Unnecessary Act of Cruelty

199 Lives Lost When Japs Sink Hospital Ship   Autsralian Red Cross Ves: sel Slips under Waves in Three Minutes

Brilliantly Lighted Australian Hospital Ship Sunk By Japanese Submarine With Loss Of 299 Persons

HOSPITAL SHIP [5 SUNK BY JAPANESE   299 of 363 Aboard Lost ‘ives as Lighted Vessei Goes Down Quickly.

Hospital Ship Sunk by Japs   Was Lighted and Marked 299 Lives Lost

HOSPITAL SHIP TORPEDOED BY JAP SUBMARINE   Sunk. Off ‘Australia With Loss Of 299 Tives ('

Part cf Buemy Horror Campaign Called) “Limitiess Savagery” by General Douglas MacArthur — Ship En Route from Sidney, Australia, to New Guinea.

299 Lives Lost As Japan Sinks Hospital Ship   Japanese Submarine Attacks Lighted Australian Mercy Ship   Il NURSES DIE   64 Survivors Fight Off Sharks For 36 Hours In Waters Off Brisbane 

NIPPO SUB SINKS BIG AUSSIE HOSPITAL SHIP   299 ALLIED VICTIMS LOST AS TREACHEROUS ENEMY COMMITS ACT OF “LIMITLESS SAVAGERY”

General MacArthur So Declares in Reporting Sinking of Hospital Ship; Premier Curtin Protests.

Only 65 Lives Saved In Sinking   Hospital Vessel Sunk in Darkness Near Australia

Jap Sub Sinks Hospital Ship; 19 Lose Live:   Only 64 Saved From Brightly Lighted Australian Vessel

299 LIVES LOST WHEN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SHIP WAS TORPEDOED BY JAPANESE SUB OFF BRISBANE   Only Béitish and Australian Hospital Personnel Aboard Ship at Time of Sinking. Ship Was En Route to New Guinea.

JAPS DESTROY HOSPITAL SHIP   288 Medical Personnel Lose Lives As Sub Blasts Plainly Marked Craft

MOST OF THOSE KILLED DOCTORS AND ASSISTANTS   Australian Hospital Ship, Clearly Marked, Sank In Three Minutes; No Amer. icans Among Cas valties.

JAPS’ RECORD OF ATROCITIES WITS NEW HIGH   Brilliantly-Lighted Hospital Ship Sunk By Jap Sub   299 LIVES ARE LOST   Mostly Members of Medical Staff; No Ameri cans Aboard

HOSPITAL SHIP TOLL REVISED   268 Probably Perished When Japs Destroyed The Centaur

HOSPITAL SHIP DEAD NOW 268   Only 61 Saved From Jap Cruelty; 11 Nurses Among Missing

As Hospital Ship Is Sunk By Sub   Survivors Of Centaur Say No Warning Whatever Given By Jap Attacker

299 Persons Die As Aussie Ship Sinks   Vessel Was Lighted And Marked; No Warning Was Given

HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK BY JAPS, 299 LOSE LIVES   64 Saved from Australian  Vessel Which Was Plainily Marked.

LIGHTED CRAFT TORPEDOED BY JAPANESE SUB   Only 64 Saved After Early Morning Attack On Mercy Vessel   “SAVAGERY’ IS ASSAILED   Deep Revulsion Expressed !n Official Statement By MacArthur

“SUNK BY JAPS   299 are Killed in Torpedo: ing of Australian Vessel Off Queensland

JAP SUB SINKS HOSPITAL SHIP, 299 LIVES LOST   Australian Mercy Vessel Capsized, Sank Three Minutes After Hit

Brilliantly Lighted and Plainly Marked     Vessel Torpedoed   No Warning Given; 64 of Those Aboard IIlFated Ship Saved

199 Perish as Jap Submarine Torpedoes Hospital Ship   288 Australian, English Medical Personnel, 11 Women Nurses Victims; Only 65 Rescued; Vessel Capsized, Sank Within Three Minutes

NO WARNING GIVEN; SINKS IN 3 MINUTES   Vessel Unescorted, Fully Lighted, And Marked With Red Cross

Hospital Ship Sunk With 299  Drowned  Tew Seelke AE   Jap Sub Attacks Autralian Vessel; Medicos Lost

Jap Torpedo Sinks Aussie  Hespital Ship   Only. Gf of Saved; ‘Lin  303 Aboard iless Sav.

No Warning as Torpedo Hits Lighted Craft   American Troops Join Forces at Attu; Raise ‘Beat Japan First? Cry

JAP SUB SINKS HOSPITAL SHIP; 299 LIVES LOST   TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN ADDS 5000 NAMES TO U.S. CASUALTY LISTS, NOW OVER 80,000

299 Lost As Japs Sink Australian Hospital Vessel   Plainly-Marked Ship Hit By Nippon Torpedo Off Brisbane Friday

‘Buffer State Declaration Lifts ‘Thorny Probiem of Post-War Days

LIBERIAN CHIEF VISITS CAPITOL   President Of Negro Republic Sits In On Session Of Congress

Congress Greets Liberia President  Negro Applauded; Dines With F. D. R.

Liberian Leader Is Introduced to WashingtonSolon:  ‘Precedent Broken as Negro Presentec to Congressmen

County Quota Is $1,452,050   Oklahoma Assigned $100,000,000 Quota in Third War Loan Drive

Big Qui Quofa For County Drive   War Bond Assignment For Pontotoc County $1,235,300

Today’s War Moves   BY THOMAS J. DONOHUE  LTnited Preece Analvat

Today’s War Commentary  Siberian Bases  Nol Likely To Be Available Soo

HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED BY PAPUAN JAPS   Sananand a Village Captured by Allies

ALLIED TROOPS MOP UP JAPS ATT SANANANDA   Fate Of Enemy Troops On Point Sealed

Allied Forces ‘Wiping Out * Enemy Pocket:   Sanananda Vil age Taken by Australians, Yanks

BOMBARDIER I$ AMONG MISSING   Staff Sergt. William R. Smitt Unreported In New Guinea Since May 21

Mercy Flight Is Resumed   SABY BEING FLOWN EAST TO CORRECT UPSIDE-DOWN STOMACH

Non-Deferrable List Additions Held Unlikely   Modified Job Freeze Forbids Shift to Work With Higher Wage Rate

AdditionsTo Draft List Not Likely      NON-DEFERABLE LIST ELIMINATES “PATERNITY - DEFERMENT FOR FATHERS HOLDING DESIGNATED JOBS.   $1,000 Fine

Essential Jobs Prove No Bar To Army Dut;  Draft Will Beckon   Draft Will Beckon All Physically Fit Young Men

Selective Service Situation Stated as Job “Freezing” Goes Into Effect

Additions to Non-Deferable Draft List Unlikely; Dads to Be Called By July 1

NO ADDITIONS EXPECTED 10 M'NUTT LIST   Non - Deferable Draft Group Likely to Remoin Same

Non-Deferable Army Call List Growth Peggec   Switching From Non-Essential Jobs - Doesn’t Preclude i  McNutt Action Hints

2.300 MONTREAL CITY EMPLOYEES OUT ON STRIKE   Second Walkout In a Week Paralyzes Municipal . Oftices.

STRIKERS BALK - LEWIS’ PLEDGE   3,600 Pennsylvania Miners Sick and Tired of Delay, Walk Out

‘Bio Three’ Agree to Crush Germany With Three Major Drives   Allied Leaders Pledge Nations To Peace for Many Gencrations

BALKANS BLOW NOW STRONG POSSIBILITY   Hopes Run High for Campaign in Kastern Mediterranean

Foresee New Blow Through Balkans in -Short Time; Big Forces Ready in East

STRONG FORCES POISED FOR NEW VICTORY DRIVES   Occupation Of Dodecanese Isles Seen As First Step Toward Greece   ITALY MAY FIGHT HUNS   United Nations May Soon Be Able To Stage New Mediterranean Push

ALLIED BLOW . IS FORECAST FOR BALKANS   WASHINGTON FILLED WITH RUMORS THAT THRUST BEING PLANNED ON STRATEGIC FRONT

No Mercy For Touhy   Gangster Loses Petition Fer Habeas Corpus Writ

5,000 Miners Out i in State; 15 Pits Close   West Virginians Are Resigned to Full Cessation of Wark

FIFTEEN MINES. CLOSED DOWN IN WEST VIRGINIA   Five Thousand Workers Leave Pits Until New Wage Agreement  Is Signed   OTHERS TO QUIT   Union. Spokesmen oaj Mines Will Not Operate After Friday Unless Set tlement Is Reached

LEE WILEY, SINGER, LEAVES INTEHNED   Racio Songstress Weds Pi. . ano Player Day Ahead ——-- of “Bid’™-Plans

Nazi Attacks Force 1st Army Retreat But Yanks and French Gain in Tunisia

BRITISH FIRST ARMY FORCED TO WITHDRAW BEFORE AXIS BLOW   AMERICANS AND FRENCH LUNGE DEEPER INTO BATTLEFRONTS, HOWEVER

" Second Counter Attack 5 Nazis. Forces Withdrawal by Anderson’s Men  @ GERMANS SENT , TO ALL FRONTS Battles Mount to Full Fury;  No Collapse by Enemy  in Sight

Desperate Counterattacks by Germans Launched; VU, S. And French Advance

NAZIS STRIKE DFSPERATELY AT 1ST ARMY   British Forced to Retire But Americans Advance on African Front.   Stiff Resistance Put On on Entire Front

British First Army Forced To Fall Back   Fierce Battle Fought for Last Major Hill Guarding Gpen Piain Before Tunis—Americans and French Advance

Bizerte Hills - May Be Axis Last Stand   British Forced to Make Slight Withdrawal Due To Counterattacks

First Army Withdraws Slightly   Fierce Fighting As Germans Lash Out in  Counter-Thrusts

AMERICAN AND FRENCH TROOPS STILL ADVANCE   British First Army 1: Forced to Retreat Before Attack

YANKS, FRENCH HIT FLANKS OF TUNISIAN LINE   First Army Falls Back After Taking Hill  Before Tunis   NAZIS COUNTERATTACK      Allied Planes Rain Bombs On Europe; Russians Raid East Prussia

BRITISH FIRST ARMY FORCED TO WITHDRAW   American and French Troops Knife Deeper __ Into Both Ends Of Front   REPULSE TANK ATTACKS

British 1st Army Stalls; Whole Axis Line Stiffens   ‘RAF Works — On Wilhelmshaven

Ist Army Falls Back Before © Nazi Attacks   American and French Forces Knife Deeper into Tunisian Battlefront; Allied Planes Smash Enemy Ships; Reds Destroy 50 Axis Planes 

BRITISH WITHDRAWAL MADE ‘AFTER R ACHING CREST OF DJEBEL BOU AGUKAZ   Enemy Resistance Stiffening Along Entire 140 .Mile Front. Germans Fend Off French In Outskirts of Pont Du Fahs.

German Lines Stiffen, Hold Allied Drives   Advanee Of French Forces Halted On Outskirts Of Pont Du Fahs.   AMERICANS ATTACKED

Nazis Force British  To Fall Back   Lash Out In Desperate Defense Before Plains Of Tunis; French and American. Troops Gain

Pope May Move To Rome Palace   -" To Consider Removal From Vatican City If Rome Is Aqain Bombed

POPE MAY — LEAVE VATICAN         Berlin Hears He May : Occupy Papal Palace Within Rome

POPE T0 GO T0 ROME BERLIN RADIO SAYS   Propaganda Desi gned To Prevent More Bombing

GOEBBELS READS HITLER MESSAGE   Propaganda Minister Explains That Fuehrer Is Too Busy With War

GERMAN PEOPLE WERE DEFRAUDED, HITLER CHARGES   Fuehrer Says Reich Must Win War to Prevent Bolshevism From Overrunning Continent.

MATERNITY CARE PROGRAM ADOPTED   Government Gives Approval to Ohio Plan to Aid Servicemen’s Wives

OnIO MATERNITY PLAN APPROVED   Maximum Doctor’s Fee Of $40 Allowed By Bureau

JAPS LAUNCH-BIG OFFENSIVE IN CHINA   Drive May Be Launched at Capital at Chungking.

FEAR NEW JAP MOVEIN GHINA   Central News Agency Says Chinese Ready for Fight Along Yangtze River

Japs Massing For Drive On Chinese   Rivers Strongholds, May be Chungking May Be Their Cosrle.

HELMET SAVES LIFE OF M’NAIR   Commander of Army Ground Forces Hit on Head and Shoulder

READY FOR SIGN-UP   Registration for Rationing ~ Book 2 Will Begin on  Monday ©

T READY FOR SIGN-UI   Registration for Rationing Book 2 Will Begin on Monday

REDS ADVANCE IN UKRAINE ON KEY NAZI BASE   Soviets Close Pincers on Orel on Eve of 25th Anniversary

MENACES 4 NAZI BASES   Bitter Battle In Progress Around Orel, Key City

Soviets Only 30 Miles From  Dnieper River   Broadside Offensive Now Menaces Many German Strongholds

Four German Bastions Are  Heavily Menaced   Red Army Pushes Deeper Into NaziHeld Ukraine

RED ARMY DRIVING THROUGH UKRAINE TOWARD DNIEPER   Russians One Day’s’-March From Dniepropetrovsk, Stronghold: On  West Bank =<

2-PRONGED OFFENSIVE   Soviets Are Closing Pincers Movement  Around Orel ©

Red army within 30 miles of Dnieper, closing trap at Orel   Four German defense keys are menaced in ‘birthday’ drives

REDS WITHIN 30 MILES OF DNIEPER   Broadside Is Menacing Key Nazi Bastions

Soviet Army Draws Near To Dnieper   Reds Only 30 Miles From the Great Dniepropetrovsk

Dnepropetrovsk Being Menaced From Two Sides   GERMANS REPORTED EVACUATING ESTONIA

NAZI KEY BASES IN NEW TRAP   sitions of the Enemy at Several Points in Peril Due to Thrusts.

High Winds and  Fire Whip Coast California Damage Into the Millions;  No Early Reports ~ Of Casualties

Loss Estimated In Millions In Coastal Storm   Unchecked Fires Fanned By Gale Causing Alarm

Winds and Flames Whip Through Coastal Districts  Millions of Dollars _ Of Damage Is ~» = pm yet

Winds and Flames Whip Through Coastal Districts  _ Millions of Dollars Of Damage Is

Wind and Fire Ave Damaging  In California   Property Loss in Central and “Western Sections of State Is Expected to Run Into   Millions of Dollars

Storm Whips California   Flames and Wind Cause Millions of Dollars Of Damage in State

Bad Fires in California   Millions of Dollars Worth of Damage Done; No Casualties Reported

Winds, Flames Sweep Coast of California   MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IN DAMAGE PREDICTED IN INITIAL REPORTS

Winds, Fire Sweep Over California   Damage Expected to Run Into Millions Before End of Storm

Gales, Fires Cause Havoe  In California   Heayy Damage Is Reported in San Fenncisce. Ookland

Sees Military Government As Invasion Need   By MAJ. GEN, DAVID PRESCOTT RARROWS

Jap Bases tit With Ground Action Imminent  Heaviest Attack Occurs North  Of New Georgia

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST JAP BASES   Vila Airdrome Suffers Heavjest Attack of War in Pacific.

Seek to Capture More Jap Bases   Allies Rain Bombs  On Enemy Positions

Allies Opening ‘Pay-off’ Battle   Americans Seize Last Obstacle ta Sea on Advance Toward Bizerte

BRITISH DOWNED 738 NAZI PLANES IN 1942   Bagged 235 Over England and 443 on Enemy Side of Channel— RAF Lost 593 Ships.

SANITARIUM ~ FIRE FATAL TO AT LEAST 28   Match Head Flying from Hands of Repairman Starts Holocaust

Flying Match Head Blamed For Worst Disaster in Northwest History

At Least 30 Die in Fire at Home for Aged   Flying Match Head Starts Tragedy in Suburban Seattle

MATCH HEAD IS CAUSE OF FIRE   29 Die As Sanatorium is _ Razed By Flash Blaze; ~ 3 Unaccounted For

At Least 29 Are Burned To Death  Match Blamed For Worst Fire Of Its Kind In Seattle Region

‘SANATORIUM BURNS IN SEATTLE; 29 DIE; 17 BADLY BURNEL   Match Head Starts Flames Resulting In Disaster; Many Trapped In Beds   3 ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR

29 DEAD IN FIRE AT SANITORIUM   FLYING MATCH HEAD BLAMED FOR BLAZE; 17 OTHERS HURT

FIRE STARTED BY REPAIRMAN'S MATCH   Three of 49 Patients ini Building Are Unaccoun¢ ed For. Officials Fear { They. Too, Are Dead

Flames Started As Match Head Flies Into Waste   Old Frame House Was Refuge for Aged Pensioners

HOSPITAL FIRE TAKES 29 LIVES   Match Head Flies From Hands af Stove Repairmen Into Waste Box.

19 People Die In Sanatorium Fire  Flying Match Head Starts Flash Flames

FIRE IS FATAL TO 29 PERSONS   Blaze In Sanatorium Helped Started From Match

29 Aged Pensioners Die In Seattle’s Worst Fire   Faulty Match Starts Flash Flame Sunday,  Sweeps Through Private Sanatorium

29 Perish as Fire Destroys Sanatorium   Match Head Flying From Hands of Stove Repairman Starts Blaze

SANATORIUM FIRE KILLS 29 INMATES   17 Others’ Under Treatment for Burns in Hospital.   THREE OTHERS ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR

Sanatorium — Blaze Started by Repairman   Flames Consume Haven oi Elderly Folks in Matter ot Few Seconds

At Least 29 Die In Fire   Three More Likely To Be Added ‘To List

19 Known Dead In Seattle Fire   Sanatorium Swept By Flames Sunday —

SANATORIUM FIRE NEAR SEATTLE TAKES 29 LIVES   Tragis Fire Is Worst. Disaster Of Its Kind In. That Area— 17. Are Under * Treatment For Burns

SOUGHT IN FIRE IN SANATORIUN   Staris Blaze in Flimsy 1 dng tion Near Seattle  ‘Match Head Landing in Waste

29 Die as Flash Fire. Sweeps Invalid Home   Three Others Are. Feared Dead; Blaze Is Started Accidentally

Match Destroys Seattle Hospital; 31 Believed Dead   Stove Repairman's Ligh Falls In Pile Of Waste 17 Suffer Burns

29 PERSONS DEAD IN SANATORILIM FIRE   Repairman’s Accident Cavs: es Holocaust In Few Minutes

Soviet Government Firmly Against Post-War Union Of European States

Nazi Satellites To Take Own Medicine Says Soviets To Suggestion Of Cordon

Russians Make Position Clear   Won't Have Union of Small Europe States

Won’tAllow Walling Off From West   Moscow Says Axis Satellites Must ‘Take Medicine’

REDS SAY FINLAND MUST BE PUNISHED   Russia Against Postwar Fed: eration of Small States

Russia Will Not Allow Buffer Plan   Small Axis States Cannot Expect Federation   \Stalin Sold on Deadliness \Of Allied Bombing Attacks:  (New Planes To Be Vicious

SMALL AERIAL LOSSES LISTED   STIMSON SAYS EUROPE TOLL UNDER 5 PER CENT

Cook Questionec In Train Death   Murder in Berth 13 Baffles Officers

Corn Price  Meet Called   Cornbelt Legislators Invite Marvin Jones To Attend Conference

CALL JONES 10 PARLEY ABOUT CORN SITUATION   Corn State Solons Seeking to Solve Knotty Problem Without Passing Rigid Legislation

ped NS ;                   Police Claim “Full and Complete” Confession -from Youth--°

Youth Admits Killing Three In Mercer Co.   Charges of First Degree Murder to Be Made Against Slayer   GIRL IS EXONERATED

MANY TONS OF EXPLOSIVES DUMPED ON BERLIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHTS; OTHER AREAS ARE ATTACKEL    Block-Busters Batter City After Which Shower of Incendiaries Starts Fires Visible for 100 Miles.

BIG RAID REPORTED BY R.A.F.   Second Foray in 24-Hour Period Made on the Nazi Capital Ends in Heavy Damage.

Yankees Raid Maknassy fo Answer Taunt   American Operations Indicate Rommel May Be Cut Off From Axis Forces in Tunisia

Allied Troops May Threaten Escape Route   U. S. Troops Officially Reported In Action In Central Tunisia Near Gabes

U.S. TROOPS ACTIVE ALONG ESCAPE ROUTE   General’s Plan to Join von Arnim May Be Imper _iled—Most of Fleeing Troops Behind Mareth Line.

Raid By USS. Fliers On Weak Nazi Link  Answers Axis Dare   Russian Army Rolls Relentlessly Westward On 500-Mile Front;   Report Voronezh “Evacuation”  Dp

Fighting French, Reaching Hills Southwest of Tripoli, 50 Miles from Mediterranean, Add to Threat to Axis   BRITISH REPORTED AT BORDER   Allied Bombers and Fighters Strafe Rommel’s Fleeing Forces, Break Axis Cargo Ship in Two, Damage Destrover

Rommel’s Escape Lane Threatened   80 Prisoners Captured in Raid on Maknassy Near Gulf of Gabes Follows Taunt of Germans — Thrust Might Outflank German Forces

American Forces Active 33 Miles From Gabes Gulf   Axis Strategy For Union Of Rommel And Von Arnim May Be Imperilled

British 8th Army Continues Advance West from Tripol   fighting French Forces under Brig. Gen. Leclere are Operating Only 50 Miles South of Mediterranean

ENEMY’S ESCAPE ROUTE NARROWS IN AFRICAN WAR   American Bombers Aid British in Pushing Nazis Out of Conflict

BRITISH ARMY, AIDED BY WARPLANES, KEEP ROMMEL ARMY MOVINC   INDICATED ALLIED TROOPS MAY THREATEN ESCAPE ROUTE OF AXIS

American Bombers. Fighters Striking From Two Sides; Nazi Push Halted

US. Troops Strike Near Gulf Of Gabes   Yankees Quick To Answer Taunts OF German Airmen

Allies Push Rommel Army Info Tunisia  Ceaseless Poundina   Ceaseless Pounding By Allies Seeks To Prevent Union

YANK TROOPS MAY CUT OFF FLEEING NAZIS   Americans Are In Action 33 Miles From Gulf   VANGUARDS   Of Eighth Army Believed In Tunisia; Start Repair Work In Tripoli

Push Rommel Farther Away From Tripoli   Allies May Already Threaten Axis Escape Route Along Gabes.   Most of Axis Force Reaches Mareth Forts

Driving In Wedge To Stop Rommel   t Americans in Action Near . Gulf of Gabes Threat Do, en Retreat   WEAK POINT ON ROUTE   Allied Air Operations In- crease Against Weak~ ening Axis -

Senator Hits ~— Tax Bill Hike   Senate Finance Committee Chairman Deelares Request For Gain Futile.

TREASURY GETS BLUNT NOTICE ‘FROM GEORGE ©   {Georgia Senator Tells Trea sury It Will Be Wasting  Time Trying to Get More lLavee Piled an Pennie -

TREASURY WARNED AGAINST SEEKING. INCREASED TAXES:   Told’ It Will Be Wasting Ef* forts to Ask Congress to Add. More Taxes ae New  Revenge Bill

Limit Neared On New Taxes      Treasury Warned Not Te Attempt An Increase “2. Over New Plan .-:.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXES   Sen. George Warns Treasury Cengress Will Refuse Any Hikes

CHAIRMAN GEORGE WARNS. TREASURY OF TAX INCREASE   Says Treasury Will B-« Wasting Time To Pile More Taxes On New Rev: enue Bill.

CONGRESS REBELS OVER TAX INCREASE   Tell Treasury That ‘They Will Come to Goat’s House for Wool’

TREASURY TOLD NO MORE TAXES WILL BE LEVIED   Senator George Says It 1: Waste of Time For Secretary Morgenthau te Seek More

Boost In Income Taxes Is Blocked   Treasury Bluntly Told Limit Is Reached

Martin To Approve One License Plate  Government Wants Use  Of Single Plate

Marines, Soldiers Battle Japanese In First Phase  Of Mid-Pacific Offensive

MARIGNY SAYS. HE WON'T LEAVE   Deportation Proceed. ing Left to Atty

\NEW TIRES DESTROYED   Large Warehouse and Recapping Plant Burns in Kansas City

COLLABORATION OF SOVIET RUSSIA IS ASSURED THURSDA   Continuance of Program {nto Days of Peace Seen by Conference Devel opments.

Howard Sheetz of Vermillion  Weds Miss Rush  Ceremony Takes Tay. . e -s

Robbery Angle ‘Seen In Death   Apartment 1 Dweller Tells Of Seeing Man Leaving, “Model’s Quarters

MOTIVE SOUGHT If MURDER OF MODEL   Police Consider Robbery Angle After Tenant Reports Seeing Man.

SAW MAN FLEE MURDER SCENE   Robbery Angle Advanced As Mo tive For Slaying Of Pretty Chicago Model

Rescued Sailor Tells _ Of 83-Day Sea Oraeal   Used Toes for Bait to Catch Shark After Food Ran Out

Army Mountain Troops Get Kegular Doses of hough Work, Overnight Bivouacs in 20 Below Zero Cold

Brit Attacks on Rommel Are Renewed   Axis Sources Say 35 Allied Tanks Destroyed   BER eRA  Army Mountain Troops Get Regular Doses of Rough = Work, Overnight Bivouacs in 20 Below Zero Cold

Texas Badman Jumps From Train And Escapes From Custody Of U. S. Marshal

Reds Enlarge Bridgehead In Cherkasi Area   Powerful German Tank And Infantry Drives Repulsed By Russians At Korostyshev; Moscow Claims Gains In 3 Sectors

WAGE BITTER BATTLE EAST OF ZHITOMIR   Russians Claimed to Have Slain 1,000  Foe in Area

Soviets Beat Back Strong Nazi Attacks   German Army Seeks To Develop Recapture Of Zhitomir

Powerful Blows Are Beaten Off   Germans Seek To “Develon Zhitomir

Ryssians beat down powerful tank- -troop thrust near Zhitomir   Gain ground in Cherkasi, Rechitsa, Cc hérnieov areas; 4.000 nazis slain

NAZI ATTACKS BEATEN BACK: REDS ADVANCE   SOVIET BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS DNIEPER BROADENED

Powerful Blows Are Beaten Off   Germans Seek To Develop Zhitomir  me TrRasewa wu TANG

Red Army Troops Slaughter 1,000 Nazis In Repulsing Massed Tank And Infantry Drive Near Zhitomir   Powerful Thrusts By Enemy Hurled Back As Russians Regain Initiative Along Entire Front After Furious And Costly Fighting

Report 4,000 Nazis Are Slaughtered   Soviets Broaden Newly Won Cherkasi Bridgehead

COUNTER - BLOWS STRUGK BY NAZIS AY THREE POINTS   “Moscow Reports All Failed  and That 4,000 Enemy Troops Were Killed   in Fighting.   ONE AIM BELIEVED TO DELAY RED ADVANCE   Rumanian Divisions Said to Be Withdrawing From Crimea, Presumably bv Sea.

TOP THRUSTS BY NAZIS EAST OF ZHITOMI   Moscow Says 4,000 Germans Were Killed in Repulse of Counterattacks.

Bitter Fight Costs Many Nazi Lives”   Russians Gaining Ground in:Lower Pripet River Area

SOVIETS MAKE GAINS IN DRIVE NEAR NIKOPOL   Bitter Fighting Is Raging In Zhitomir Axrea

Soviets Smash Enemy on Many Fronts   Reds Gain in Drive For Nikopo! Goal, Crush Nazi Defense

SOVIET FORCES REPULSE NAZIS NEAR ZHITOMIR   Red Army Shatters Massed Tank And Infantry Units In Bitter Fighting East OF Junction   THOUSANDS OF HUNS KILLED IN ATTACKS   Nine Nazi Counterblows  In Rechitsa Sector Are.  Thrown Back: Soviet ~ Army Takes Towns

Slap Down Furious Nazi Counter-Attacks, Slay Thousands On Fronts

Mail Your Christ   Russians Beat Back Counter Blows of Nazis   Soviets Repulse Powerful Nazi Tank And Infantry Attacks In Korostyshev Area

MOSCOW LISTS NEW VICTORIES AGAINST REICH   Russians Lunge Ahead in Fierce Fighting East Of Zhitomir

Russians Smash Nearer Nikopol: Kill 4.000 Nazis   Bridgehead At Cherkasi Widened; Germans Throwing Everything Into Battle Around  Uf & ey creer oe

Enemy Drive Near Zhitomir  Gets Setback      Bridgehead Widened by Red Army; Nikopol ‘Further Menaced

MADOED TANKa AND INFANTRY OF NAZIS FAIL   Foe Unable To Capitalize On Victory At Zhitomir As Attacks Repulsed

Sam Rayburn Endorses New Tax Plan   Speaker Thinks Principle Should Be Taken Up Soon

PAY-AS-EARN TAX FAVORED BY RAYBUR   U. S. May Compromise By Skipping Part Of '42 Levy

1942 Tax Carry-over  Called ‘Bad’   Ruml, Author of Pay-as-Go Plan, Opposes Policy

Rayburn Likes Pay-As-You-Go  Tax Proposition   Advocate of. skipping 1942 levies says idea i simple as ‘turning up the clock.”’:

TREASURY ITAS PLAN OF OWN ON TAXES  All 1[QA9D "T....   All 1942 Taxes May Not Be  Forgiven

ENDORSE NEW TAX PRINCIPLE   Rayburn Advocates Current Collection As Ruml Explains Plan To House Group

The War Today Postwar Cooperation Among Allies Inevitable Topic For Discussion

The War Today   IES ER Greater United Nations  Postwar Cooperation Mav Re Thisenssad.

 The War Today See Russia Dominant In Far East as Well as Continent

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Y: S., England Must Reach ecord With Russians On Postwar Program

SOVIETS WILL BE DOMINANT POWER IN EUROPE AFTER WAR   Agreement on Post-War Plans by United Nations Next in Importance to Winning of War, MacKenzie Thinks

Russian Domination Would Represent Political Upheaval Many Countries Afraid of Results

Farm Prices  To New Hig   Nebraska Farmers’ Markets At Highest Lev@l Since 1920 Statistics Show.

Enemy Thwarted In Move To Half Huge Offensive als Bus Waranipe To eth Rendova

PAVING WAY 10 CONQUER NEW GEORGIA AREA   Jap Sea and Plane Attack on Rendova Broken Up

134. craft new total claimed   Yankee push on New Georgia is pressed forward

American Warships Rout Jap Naval Force Trying Sneak AttackOnRendova

NIP WARSHIPS PUT T0 FLIGHT  IN §0,. PACIFIC   American Battlewagons  Pounce on Enemy: Dur ing Attempt to Bom  bard Rendova Island   JAPS, SURPRISED, QUICKLY WITHDRAW   Air and Land Fighting Continues on Invaded Islands With Allies Closing in on Foe

Allies Continue Efforts to Conquer New Georgia Area, Warships Pouring Shells into Vangunu Island

Naval’ Forees Drive -Off 7 Enemy Ships,   Japanese Navy Makes Only Brief Show =In Battle In Solomons, Of Tien Pinwiliwviies +

‘Allies Push on New Georgia Area; Italian Airfields Yankee Targets   Flyers Succeed in Mission in Spite of Heavy Opposition; RAF Blasts Rail Yards; Gen. Giraud En Route to the United States

Ships Driven From Rendova   Jap Plane Losses Rise, Americans Push Drives

Units Of Jap Fleet Routed.   I] More Plaiies Downed As Nips Seek To Halt Drive

Ward Off Jap Attempts To Halt Pushes   11 More Nip Warplane:s Downed At Rendova: Enemy Bases Pounded In Aerial Blows

Allied Fliers Down 134. Enemy Planes   U.S. _ Warships Repulse Jap. Tast: Fo: To. Shell Rendova;. ‘Enemy ‘Positions on? Vadect Blasted; Rabaul Hit Againin Milt Rigo oa     orce e Tiyin ing ©

40 Towns Fall As Soviets Get Near Zhlobin   Retreating Germans Pushed Closer to Old Polish Frontier And New Disaster

RUSSIAN PINCERS CLOSING ON RAIL HUB AND FORTRESS   Reds Plunge to Within 12 Miles of Zhlobin Guarding -German Escape Corri dor From Gomel.   FOE PUSHED CLOSER TO POLISH FRONTIER   Soviets Seize 40 More Towns —Throw Back Heavy New Enemy Assaults in Kiev Salient.

Reds Develop ‘Giant ‘Pincers   Escape Gap. Narrowed; New Attack Explodes In Bend

Soviet lunge pinching off vital Zhlobin   Germans facing new disasters

City Guarding Escape Gap Threatened   Reds Within 12 Miles Of Zhlobin to West Of Captured Gomel  MANY NAZIS KILLED

SOVIET ARMY STRIKES HARD NEAR ZHLOBIN   Russians Report Other Successes on Long Battle Front

sritish Press Thinks Arm Something Wrong   Army Chiefs Aren‘t Surprised

CRITICIZE SLOW PACE INITALY   London Papers Critical of Allies’ Progress”

PRODUCTION OF WARPLANES . “TS RAPIDLY REACHING GOAL   NELSON REPORT FOR NOVEMBER REVEALS STEADY INCREASE IN OUTPUT OF - WAR EGUIPMENT:

NATION'S PLANE OUTPUT TO HIT (0.000 MONTHLY   Production Expected to “Level Off” at That Figure

REDS PRESS ON TOWARD NOVOROSSISK   Air Fighting In Kuban Area Now In Acute Stage

GERMAN AIRDROME BLASTED BY REDS      23 Nazi Positions Fall To Heavy Artillery Fire OF Soviets

Swedish Town Is Raided By Lone Plane    University Town Thrown tnto Panic; British Blamed -

Takes 700 Foot Chute Plunge, Lives Over. If   Paratrooper Considerably Battered Up; Thought Of Mother and Girl Friend

Leaders Predict Miners Will Be On Job Tomorrow   Blast Furnaces Closing Down in Pittsburgh and Others To Follow

MINERS EXPECTED TO HEED DECISION   Trek Back to Pits Will Get Under Way Thursday, it Is Said

Miners Expected To Return Quickly   Most of Men to Be Back bv Thursday

Quick Return To Mines Seen By Union Heads   End of Strike, However, Won’t Prevent Closing OF Some Rlact Furnarec

PREDICT MINERS WILL OBEY ORDER   UNION LEADERS LOOK FOR TREK BACK TO PITS TO START BY THURSDAY,

Coal Strike Takes Toll ‘Steel Mills   U. S. STEEL HARDEST HIT BY SHUT-DOWN; EXPECT MINERS TO RETURN TO WORK QUICKLY.   B&O May Curtail

East-Bound Pick-Up Mail Piane Is Lost   Two Men Aboard Missing All-American Aviation  Ship   MANY JOIN IN SEARCH

OFFICERS IN ) S. CAPITAL   ‘Plans Against European Conti ment Believed To Be Well Per fected; Plas For A}l Fronts To - Be Reriewen   CARRY OUT NEW SOLOMONS RAID

CHURCHILL BRINGS. FAR EAST EXPERTS ALONG TO PARLEYS   Wavell, Somerville, And Péirse Accompany Prime Minister To Washington

Home Edition   High Military Leaders Of Indian Area Accompany  Churchill To Washington —

SON OF FDR CRASHES IN NORTH AFRICA   Elliott Roosevelt On Daring Flight For Photos

JA lliott Roosevelt Was On Plane Which Crash-Landed On Daring  Photographic Mission Over Africa Before Invasion, Army Reports

Pay Tribute To Wright on Anniversary   Extensive Program to Celebrate Birthday Of Airplane

REDS NEAR MORE BIG VICTORIES   Kiev, Melitopol, Gomel Within Grasp Of Russians

German Hopes of Stopping Soviets Al Dnieper Appear to Have Rean Foiled.

General Clark’s Men Begin Great. Push On Rome; Men. Guns, Tanks Swarm Across Voiturno PBiver   ‘MAJOR VICTORY IN GRASP OF RUSSIANS

BIG BATTLES RAGING NEAR CITY OF KIEY   Reinforced Nazi Armies Launch Counterattacks

GERMAN HOPES OF STOPPING REDS AT DNIEPER. CRUSHED   Fall Of Melitopol:And Gomel Believed Near — *“Seviets Slice, Into

NAZIS DESPE okt   Germans Throw New Troops Against Red Armies   BITTER FIGHT RAGES a NORTH. SOUTH OF CITY

Reinforced Germans Strive To Stem Tide   Crucial Strugele Centered At Junction of Dnieper and  Desna—Reds Said in Gomel

Fresh Units Poured Into Kiev Battle   Crucial Struggle Rages Near Confluence Of Dnieper And Desna Directly Above Kiev

Capture e Of Melitopol. Kiev. Gomel By Soviet Troops Believ ed Near   Russians Near Realization Of . Hopes To Split Nazi Defense Lines Wide Open On Long Front; Fate Of Crimea Already Sealed

NAZIS STAGE FIERCE FIGHT TO SAVE KIEV   But Russians Closing In On Several Key Points

Titanic Battle Soon te Determine Fate of-Kiev      SEE SPAIN AS NEXT. DIPLOMATIC TARGET

Yanks Raiding Tokyo Took Of  From Carrier   Hornet Carried Them to Within 800 Miles of Jap City: Attack Planned Four Months

Attack Launched  From the Hornet   Pians and Training for Daring Assault Made Four Months Earlier

 Tokyo Raiders Left Hornet, Flew 800  Melos Hit-5 Cities, Lost All Planes

Aircratt Carrier Hornet Identified as Shanari La’ for Tokvo Raid

AIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET WAS SHANGRILA DOOLITTLE’S MEN USED IN TOKYO RAID   Planes, Taking Of 800 Miles From Japan, Were To /Have Landed At Chinese Airfields; All Making Forced  Landings Were Wrecked, Report Reveals

BOMBING PLANES LAUNCHED FROM CARRIER HORNET   Flattop Carries American Army Fliers to Within 800 Miles of Tokyo   PLANES UNABLE TO REACH CHINA FIELDS   One Lands in Russian Ter. ritory, Others Make Forced Landings in China; 5 Fliers Interned, 8 Prisoners, 2 Missing, One Killed

Details of Raid On Tokyo  Announced   U. S. S$. Hornet Carried Medium Bomber Within 800 Miles of Japan For Daring Dash on Mikadoland

Details of Tokyo Raid Revealed; Planes Took Off From USS Hornet   Miltary Objectives, Armament Plants, Docks, Railroad Yards Hit In Attack; 64 Men Returned: All Planes Wrecked

Planes Took Off From USS Hornet   War Factories, Docks, Railways Blasted By U. S.

DAY NURSERY I). EAPLAINEL   Mrs. Harold Planck Tells How One in Tipton Would Be Operated.

DAY-NURSERY 18 EXPLAINED   Mrs. “Harold Planck Tells How ‘One -in Tipton Would Be Operated.

NEW OFFENSIVE HITS HARD AT “WINTER LINE”   Second Bridgehead Won By Montgomery’s Army Along Sanjro   RED ARMY CLOSING TRAP   Jap Cruiser Sunk By 1,000 Pound Bomb And Nip Installations Pounded

CIGnTH ARMY GAINS GROUND IN 2 ATTACKS   Montgomery Launches Drive from New Bridgehead North of Sangro.

CONSOLIDATE SANGRO RIVER BRIDGEHEAD   Fifth Trades Patrol Punches and Gains Two High Points

Kandanos on on’ ‘Greek Island of Crete Is ~ Wiped Out in Reprisal

RED TROOPS PUSH AHEAD T0 GRAIVORAN   Soviet Forces Wi thin 16 Miles of Kharkov In New Drive

Reds Batter At Gateway To Kharkov   Russians Fan Out Behind Germans’ Key Ukraine Base

‘Russians Nea Kharkov in Speedy Drive   Offensive Launched Against City, Enemy Announces

Russians Press Driye on Kharkov   Germans Threatened by Pincers Movement From Shuguev Area

KHARKOV {5 EXPECTED 10 FAIL SOON   Kharkov-Bryansk Railway Is Cut By Soviet Forces

TOTAL VICTORY PLEDGED ANEW   General Eisenhower Promises Final Triumph ‘With Help of God’

CENTER ASSAULT ON BOCHUM GELSENKIRCHEN DISTRICT; OTHER TARGETS IN LOW COUNTRIES

L GREAT BLOW 1) Ur LVERED BY RAF PLANED   Force of €00 Bom*ing Craft Drcpped Tons of Explosives on Ruhr,   30 FAIL TO RETURN   Industrial Section, Neces-. sary to War, Was Badly Damaged. 

CHEMICAL, COAL AND STEEL INDUSTRIAL AREA BLASTED BY RAF AS RAIDS ARE ’ CONTINUED

R.A.F. PLANES AGAIN ATTACK  RUYR VALLEY   Center Assault on Bochum-Gelsenkirchen District

U.S. CONTINUES POUNDING DOCKS OF SICILY FERRY   Large Blazes Are Startec in Nazis’ Steel, Tin and Zinc Areas

Another Area In Rubr Valley Bomb Wrecker   Mass R. A. F. Raids Are Made On Bochum-Gelsenkirchen District   VITAL WAR CENTER HEAVILY ATTACKED

CLUSTER OF  TOWNS SEIZED ON ETNA LINE   Orel, Munda Are Ready To Fall  To Allied Arms

ETNA DEFENSE SAGS UNDER ~ BRITISE PUSH   Germans Virtually Concede Fall of the Orel Salient to Russian Red Forces.   Rome Government Wavers Between War and Peace, Workers Quit.

Finish Expected Within Few Days   Yanks, Canadians, British Gain on All Sectors; Hamburg Hit Again

REPORT SAYS MUSSOLINIIS UNDER ARREST   DEATH OF FASCISM Buow +0 AAla: REVOLT GROWS   BY RICHARD McMURRAY  Aceociated Preece War Fditar

MARSHAL BADOGLIO SELECTS CABINET   Nation On Verge of Ir of cam Revolt; Prisoners

Senate Approves ‘Skip-A-Year Tax   Measure !s Modified Version Of The Rumi Tax Plan Which Almost Passed In The House

SENATE APPROVES MODIFIED VERSION OF RUML TAX PLAN   Passes Bill Canceling Year’s Obligations for All Except Those With “Windfall” Incomes.   COALITION CRUSHES NEW DEAL OPPOSITION   Measure Now Goes Back tc House With Administration Leaders Hopeful of Gaining Compromise.

SENATE APPROVES MODIFIED RUML PAY-G0 TAX PLAN   Passes Bill Skipping Year’s Taxes Except Those With ‘Windfall’ Incomes   WOULD ABATE EITHER 42 OR ‘43 CHARGES   Measure Now Goes Back to Uncertain Decision in the House; Senate and House Measure Oalls for Withholding Levy July 1

Bill Would   Forgive One Year Taxes   Members Of Two Parties Join To Pass Measure.

F TAX ABATEMEN' $ PLAN ADOPTEL D BY THE SENATE   CONVENTION OF T CITY DEMOCRATS P IS POSTPONEDB   Year’s Taxes Cancelled Fo: All Except “Windfall”   ae      MEASURE IS SENT BACK TO THE HOUSE

Current-Pay Income Tax Bill Passed By Senate   Legislation Cancels  Year’s Liability  For All Except Those  With ‘Windfall’ Pay  FACES UNCERTAIN HOUSE DECISION  Administration Men Hope for Compromise With House Measure

Administration Unable To Stop Coalition Vote   Amendments Beaten Back by Group of Democrats and Republicans   Measure Now Goes fo House Where Outcome Is Uncertain

PAY AS -YOU GO BILL PASSED BY SENATE   Measure to Cancel Year's Taxes For Practically All ‘Now Goes To the Heuse. oe

SKIP-A-YEAR. TAX MEASURE IS APPROVED   Modified Version of Rumi « Plan Passes, 49 to 30

Year’s Taxes Would Be. Cancelled.   House Reaction To Modified Bill  Is Uncertain

SENATE PASSES MODIFIED RUML T AX MEASURE   Alternate Proposal By George Is Rejected By Vote Of 50 To 32   Bill Goes To House

nate Votes o Cancel ear's Taxes   House Must Act on Modified Version Of Rum! Measure _ Vote 49 to 30

Senate Votes Modification Of Ruml Plar   “Skip: -a-Year’ Proposal Passed, 49-30, © And Sent to House; Would Cancel Lower of 1942 or 1943 Levies

Push To Western  End Of City Held In German Siege   New Gains In Caucasus, Lower Don Drive Slowed

Farmers Urged ~ Make Plans for Post-War Perioc   Make Use of Present High Markets to Get Debts in Better Shape

Tracks: Man Whe Killed Frienc   Wm. F. Mahoney Helps ~ Police In Capture

M'NUIT AND NELSON APPEARING BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE   Both Will Testify On Bills To Defer And Furlough Farm Labor From Army

Can WPB Change Nature’s Laws? No! Says ‘Poetic’ Solon   Virginia Representative Writes Verse To Satirize Government Advice To Sheep Rancher

Would Change Lambing Time   WPB Comes Up With Another Bright One

HUNTING TOLL fo UP 10 47 LWES   18-Year-Old Douglas Schrade of itikado Killed When Gun Falls, Explodes

Rios Trip To ~* U. S. Postponed   Mass Resignation of Cabinet Causes Delay

SMASH FORWARD 6 TO 10 MILES IN SOUTHERN SICILY   British Press Up Eastern Coast Toward Important Port of Catania; Axis Resistance Stiffeng

SOLDIERS SMASH TO MILES ANEAD IN SOUTH SIGILY   Americans Join Canadians & Capture Three Cities, Are Reported 30 Miles Inland at Places.   BELATED INVASION MESSAGE REVEALED   Berlin Denies Rommel’s Death on Way to Sicily, RAF Heavily Bombs Aachen and Other Points.

Capture Important Axis Base   BRITISH PRESS UP EASTERN. COAST TOWARD CATANIA, A AXIS RESISTANCE STIFFENS:

“PUSH AREAD G10 MILES   American Treops Effect ‘Junction With Canadians At Ragusa

6 fo 10 Miles. In $. Sicily.   Resistance of ° Axis Seems to Be Stiffenina

'U. S. TROOPS ALSO TAKE NARO, PALMA, PONTE OLIVO  Ten Nazi Tanks   Catania  Is Shelled

COMISO, PORTE OLIVO © FALL TO AMERICANS AS DECICTANCE STIFFENS —

Warships Aid in Pounding Enemy   Capture of More Towns Pats U.S. Forces in Stronger Position

ADVANCE ON ENTIRE SOUTH SICILY FRONT   Americans Knock Out Nazi Tanks To Repulse Attack

BRITISH TROOPS DRIVE UP SHORE NEAR CATANIA   Kort Of Augusta Surrenders As Invasion Moves Forward

U. S. Warships Aid Advancing Troops; Catania Is Periled   Patton’s Troops Hammer Way Into Naro, Palma, Ponte Olivo; Heavy Counter-Attacks Expected

U.S. Warships Aid Advance In The South   Americans Move Ahead Six to Ten Miles Under Heavy Naval Barrage; Patton Hammers Path to Three Towns

Warships Blast Axis To Assist ‘Allied Advance   American Troops Take Comiso; British Move Toward Catania

Americans Advancing All Along South Sicily Front.  30 MILES INLAND  AT SOME PLACES  British Successes Along East Coast Also Reported.

American And French Units - Join In Relentless Chase Of Nazi Afrika Korps  ANDERSON ADVANCES  Eighth Anne. Lays Down Terrific Artillery Barrage

‘U.S. Forces Join Eighth Army In  Tunisian Advance   “Much Ground” Gained By First Army, Says Eisenhower Communique

Americans, Their Allies Slice Gashes in Axis Lines   British First Army Slugs Its Way to Top of Strategic Hillin Tunisia

Americans Edge Forward in North   British Fall Back on Central Front

Baca Sees Trade  Shift to South   Great Opportunity, Says Army Officer

COST COUNTY $713.94   Gerhart Reports on Expenses for the Snecial Election

Sicily Final Battle Opens   RANDAZZO FALL LOOMS AS NAZIS BLOW UP ROADS, STORES; FRANTIC AXIS TRIES TO SLOW ALLY PUSH AS YANKS, BRITISH JOIN IN SWEEP

U. S. 7th, British 8th Armies Meet  ‘Between Bronte  _ And Triona   CAMPAIGN IN 2ND MONTH

Extravagant Policy Of Demolition Told   Whole Mountainsides Sent Crashing As United Allied Armies Advance

DEFENDERS OF ISLAND FRONT ARE CORNERED   Retreating German Troops Begin Demolition of Communications.

Nazis Wreck Communications In Retreating   Fail to Check Allied Advance . In Sicily

Yanks, British Effect Junction In Battle Area   Joined Forces Move . Upon Cornered Axis Defenders On Island

Plunge Ahead > For Showdown Near Randazzo   Retreating Nazis Blow Out Whole Sides Of Mountains In Efforts. To Slow. Drive; Prisoner Toll In Yanks’ — Raid Climbs To 1,500.

VICTORY FOR ALLIES NEAR IN SICILY   Nazis Blowing Up Roads But Fail to Check Allies

ALLIES PLUNGE NTU LAST FIGHT OVER LOLAND   Nationwide Italian Strike Imminent: RAF Blasts Ruhr Valley

ROADS IN AREA ARE BLOWN UP   Demolition. of Communications Systems Continues on a Large Seale.

FAIL TO CHECK DRIVE THROUGH STRATEGIC PASS   Sunday Toll Of Prisoners 1500

FRANTIC NAZIS RETREAT IN TICiLy   Allied Columns Strike At Randazzo

Retreating Germans Begin Demolition Of Communications   Germans Fail To Check General Allied Advance, Effecting Junction of U.S. and British Forces At Randazzo

SHOWDOWN FIGHT EXPECTED FATE OF AXIS DEFENDERS   Enemy Opens Big-Scale Cam= paign to Blast Mountains For Debris to Fall - on Highways.   PEDARA IS ONLY NEW CITY To BE CAPTURED   Over 1000 Tonos of Explosives Dropped on Two In: dustrial Centers tn Rhineland Area.

Whole’ Mountainsides Collapse Under Dynamite. But Enemy Appears Tranoed.

Shortage Of Cars Likely  For Harvest   Temporary Storage Need Apt To Be Great Once Mere

LEGIONNAIRES SEEKING HEAD      Alberton, California Most Likely Waring’s Successor

J. §. Planes in Il Raids within  xermany Lately   Summary Shows 1s of Heavy Bombardment Missions since May 14.   Photograph Hits   Damage at Bremen Indicated as Heavy by War Department.

Frank Nitti Suicide After NY Indictment   “The Enforcer” And Others Charged Witt Racketeering

Capone Leader Kills Self After Being Indicted  Frank Nitti Once   Frank Nitti Once Figure in Galveston Rum-Running Activi

RACKETBOSS, SHOOTS SELE    Set of Capone. Syndicate nds Life After Indictment —

FRANK NITTI COMMITS SUICIDE IN CHICAGO   Faced Extortion Charges by Federal Grand Jury

‘The Enforcer’ Commits Suicide  Capone Syndicate Chief Found Dead Following Indictment

Gangster Boss Ends Career   Train Crew Witnesses End of Frank Nitti

Suicide of Gang’s Chief Not To End U. S. Investigation   Head Mobster Takes Own Life After Hearing of Indictments

Frank Nitti, Gang Head, Kills Self   Capone Aide, Indicted on Federal Count, Closes Career

FRANK NITTI, RACKET BOSS, SHOOTS SELF   Chief of Capone Syndicate Ends Life After Indictment

RACKET BOSS SHOOTS SELF   Capone Gangster Beats Rap By Suicide Five Hours After Indictment

INDICTED CAPONE “CHEF 1S: SUI   8 Other Racketeers Charged — With Extortion-Earlier..... in New York

CHICAGO GANGSTER FRANK NITTI SUICIDE   “Brains” of One of Nation’s Major Gangs Shoots Self After  ' Hearing of Indictment

A BlG Lal 1) GRANTED IIRcG, TUBES   Tire Panel Gives Approval to 74 Petitioners Befcre Board.   LAST MARCH SESSION   Now A!l the Auts Owner Has to Do Is t? F.nd © : Tires for Sale.

A BIG LIST (5 GRANTED TIRES. TUBES   Tire Panel’ Gives Approval -to-74 Petitioners. Befere Boavd.   LAST MARCH SESSION   Now “Au the Aut3 Owner a Bas to Do Is t3 F: nd ~ os Pires. for, Sale.

The'War Foday— : Churchill's ‘Report Brings To Open Questions Of Postwar Collaboration

Churchill Has the Knack of ‘Hitting the Nail on the Head  Demonstrated in Report to Commons

The W ar Today— : Churchill’s Report Brings To Open \Questions Of Postwar Collaboration   By DeWITT MACKENZIE

Man, 100, Prepares for Spin on lee To Be Attraction at Skating Show!

EGISLATORS SET 10 VOTE FOR MEASURE   aw Would Turn Clocks Back One Hour on Sunday After Passage.   SOLONS IN ACCORD   ouse Gets Proposal To Pay $50,000,000 Bonus To  Bese “Ves: OSes s cw:

Legislature To Turn Back Clocks In Ohio   Passage Of Legislation To Return State To Eastern Standard Time, An Hour Slower Than Present Time, Expected Next Week

CHANGE IN TIME LOOMS FOR OHIO   Bill To Pay Bonus To Ohio Servicemen After War Is Offered in Legislature

egislature Likely To Vote Next Week To Move Clocks Back An Hour To Aid Factories, Farmers

1e Change Probable ‘As Ohio Solons Parley      Electric § Savings Plan Negligible

STALIN CONFERS WITH BRITISH, 'U. S. AMBASSADORS   Moscow Radio Makes No Comment in Announcing Meeting

Stalin Talks With Allied  Ambassadors   No Moscow Comment, But Timing Seems to Tie Up With Churchill-FDR Meet

Allied Envoys Talk to Stalin   Red Leader Sees British. U.S. Ambassadors

DEBATE ON FATHERS DRAFT ‘TO CONTINUE SEVERAL DAYS   SENATE .LEADERS ABANDON PLAN FOR QUICK VOTE—~ BOWNEY ASKS BOMB ING FIRST

EX-FRENCH PREMIERS GOING TO GERMANY   ‘Blum, Daladier And Gen. Gamelin Being Transferred To Thwart itish And U.S.

France's Leaders Taken to Germany   Berlin Hears Daladier, Others to Aid Allies

Former Premiers Of France To Be Taken to Berlin   Blum, Daladier and Other Leaders To Be ‘'Rescued’ from Allies

NAZIS MOVING BLUM, DALADIER   French Leaders Will Be Taken To Germany To ‘Thwart Coup’

County Airport Bond Election Set For Nev. 20   Court Announces Cal! Will Be Issued   2, ener eae

Court Will Call County Airport Bond Election   $3 Million Issue Decided On as Condemnation Action Te Ordered

PLAN TO SPACE WELLS   Way for Developing Shallow  Oil Fields Is Proposed .

LABOR BILLS IN  SPOTLIGHT OF LEGISLATURE   Developments On. Industrial ‘Labor Front “Expected to Decide Course It Takes   HOBBS BILL AT TOP   Would Permit Prosecution  of Individuals and.Union  Interfering With In  terstate Commerce

Spotlight Plays On Labor Laws In Washingtox   Congress To Take Action; Strikers Viewed Facing Threat Of Union Curbs

GIVE HOBRS BILL HOUSE ‘GO’ SIGN   May Make Legislation Cover All Labor Difficulties; Watch Outcome of Coa! Talks

Ohio Liquor Rationing Bill Awaits Governor's Signature After Okey By Senate; No Details Of Plan Are Given

LIQUOR RATIONING DETAILS ARE LEFT TO BRICKER, AIDE   Governor and Director to Work Out the “When end How" of Ohio Program.

Liquor Rationing Bill Passed; House Votes for Revision Recodification of School Laws

INSURANGE AGENTS UNION MUST VOTE      Bargaining Election Must Be Repeated

Flames Destroy  Big Warehouse In Philadelphia   Fire Is Menace To War Industries

WAR PLANTS ENDANGERED   Philadelphia Has Fifth Major Fire in 15 Days  

Philly Has Fifth Fire in 13 Days   Causes of Major Blazes Not Yet Determined

Philly Has Fifth Fire In 13 Days   Fifty Block Area Sprayed With Sparks As Ware houee Burns.

ALLIES EXTEND AIR CAMPAIGN AGAINST ITALY   Bomb Civitavecchia, Mainland Port . North of Rome

‘Forts And Other Allied Bombers Used   Score Several Hits On Ships  In Harbor

Allied Bombers Making Attacks On Italian Ports   Extend Campaign To Immobilize Axis Bases In Mediterranean Sea Area   SARDINIA ALSO HEAVILY BLASTED

REDS BAG MAIN INTERMED! ARY OREL DEFENSES   Massive Three - ‘Way Assault on Bastion Is Under Way

GAINS IN ‘AREA ARE REPORTED   Intermediary Defenses of City Fall As Russians Advance on Nazi Bastion.

Main Defenses Of Orel Fall  To Russians   Germans Facing Trap; Last Supply Route _To Taganrog Also.Cut

NAZI TROOPS IN DANGER OF BEING CUT OFF   Red Forces Sever Only Rail Line Serving Taganrog On Southern Front   ENEMY LOSSES MOUNTING   London Hears Stalin Takes Personal Charge Of Russian Offensive

Restrictions on Gasoline Supply Being Tightenec   Dealers or Individuais Selling Car Must Give Up Ration Coupons

LEND-LEASE PROBE LOOMS   OW! FACES INVESTIGATION AFTER SENATORS’ REPORT

PUGH LEND-LEASE, OWI INVESTIGATION   War-Front Senators Demand Probe in Reports to Senate: OPA Is Also Hit

REDS SQUEEZE ESCAPE ROUTES   Nazi Forces Fight Desperately To Prevent Cut-Off At Kharkov

Germans Battle To Hold Routes Open For Escape   Russians Advance To Within Six Miles Of Kharkov, Menace Rail Lines   CAPTURE ZMIEV TAKE HUGE BOOTY   Moscow Communique Announces New Gains In Drive On Bry! ansk  bee

NAZIS FIGHT TO KEEP WAY OUT OF KHARKOV   Russians Take Town of Zmiev, Cutting Railroad Line

GERMANS GATTLE T0 HOLD EOGAPE CORRIDORS OPE   Russ Canture Zmiev, Cut Kharkcyv Rail Line Sout*east of C.ty

N. A. M. Opposes Increased Taxes   Solons Hear Demands To Curtail Spending.

Business Chiefs Oppose Increase In Tax Burden   Tell House Committee Even Sales Levy Must Come As Last Resort

‘Tax Muddle Discussed: Manufacturers Take Firm Stand Against Higher Revenue Plans

NoMoreTax KE conomize  Says N.A.M.   HOUSE WAYS ANp MEANS COMMITTEE SHIFTS EMPHASIS FROM NEW REVENUE TO CURTAILING SPENDING.   Taxpayers Protesting

Navy Raises To 199 Number of Jap Planes Downed in Middle Solomons

ENEMY PLANE LOSSES   Navy Computations in Solomons Raised to 199

Germans Shell, Bomb Eternal City; Yanks Beat Down Foe In Advance On Naples

Willkie’s Hat ‘Tossed In Ring   Candidate Out For ‘Republican Nomination

WILLKIE SEEKS 1944 GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION   Announcement Made In Magazine Publishd In Mississippi Valley

Willkie Willing to Be Candidate of Liberal GOP   He Also Offers Self as ‘Worker in Ranks’ If Party Has ‘Rebirth’

PRIOUNERS OF WAR NEAR BERLIN CAMP   2,700 Americans Are in Largest Camp, Known as Stalag 3B.

JAP-SEIZED LANDS READY FOR REVOLT   Air Attacks by Yanks in China Create Uncest

Brother-in-Law Admits One of Three Murders In Argument Over Money

KILLER'S MIND BLANK OVER 2 OTHER DEATHS   J. W. Collett, Clinton Co. Farmer, Victim’s Brother-In-Law

Red Cross Cares for Refugees   Galveston Area Hit by Storm, Which Is Sweeping Inland

INAZIS HOLD POLA BASE   Claim to’ Control Major Part of Italian Peninsula

HUNS REPORT ITALY’S POLA BASE THEIRS   Berlin Broadcast Also Claims Capture of Dodecanese Island of Rhodes and Taking of Milan. Turin and Padua.

Nazis Seize Pola, Rhodes   Berlin Soys Balkens, Most of Italy ‘Safely in Hands of Germans’

Plan Actions On Price Rule   OPA Enforcement Gathers Evidence On Corn Sales Cealing Violation.

STANDLEY, STALIN TO MEET SOON AND TAKE UP PROBLEMS      Ambassador, However, Wilf Not Discuss Question of U.S, Aid to Russia,

STANDLEY PLANS CONFERENCE WITH STALIN SHORTLY   Will Not Raise Question Of Publicity For Aid By America

MOSCOW TALKS WON'T CONCERN AMERICAN HELP  Stan ndley’s Remarks Intend'yta Convey Per  Standley’s Remarks Intended Only to Convey Personal Disappointment

Indicate Envoy Standley’s Statement Intended as Personal Expression of  Disappointment, Not Official Protest

Standley to Confer With Red Leaders   Attempt Being Made To Clarify Opinion Of U. S. Ambassador

AIR ATTACKS 10 BE INTENSIFIED SAYS BYRNES   OWM Chief Says U.S. Has Now Produced 100,000th Plane

SAYS BYRNES   OWM Chief Says U.S Has Now Produced 100,000th Plane

AIR POWER Is 10 DECIDE THE WAR'S OUTCOME   Brynes Sees Increasing Air Blows Before Allied Invasion.   HE GIVES’ FIGURES   He Says Firmly That We Will ‘‘Drive the Axis From the Skies.”

AIR- WARFARE TO INCREASE, BYRNES SAYS   omucrom OF WAR MOBILIZA TION REVEALS EXTENT : OF  GROWING AIR, SEA AND  ol GaROUNY POWER

U5. GOVERNMENT RETURNS 33 COAL MINES 10 OWNERS   <ennedy Tells War Labor Board Wage Boost for 77,000 Anthracite Miners 1 Justified.

MINE. CONTROL IS TURNED OVER TO 53 COAL GROUPS   Termination _ Of Federal Direction Announced By Adniinistrator Ieabes.

None From The i ayette Region Are Affected   Ickes’ Announces Action In Which Government Terminates Its Control

Coal Mines Given Back To Owners   Government Contro] Ends at Properties of 53 Companies Today

Ickes Turns Back Coal Properties   Secretary Of Interior Returns Mines To Private Ownership

Ruling Declares PreStrike Production is Restored   WILL TEST UMW POLICY ESTABLISHED BY LEWIS

STATE SENATE CONSIDERING POST-WAR LABOR PROBLEMS   BILL TO INCREASE. FUND TO  MEET UNEMPLOYMENT WN-  SURANCE DEMANDS 15 NOW BEING STUDIED

High School To Graduate Largest Class In History This Friday Night   One Hundred Ten Names On 1943 Class Roll

Tax Parley Deadlocked  Once Again   Democrats Fail To Agree on Any Compromise Plan

WET-DRY QUESTION ARISES TUESDAY IN 23 OHIO COUNTIES   Bond Issues, Special Tax Levies Proposed In Many Areas ‘

Vichy Announcer s Arrested Because He Renorts That ‘War Ended October 2°

0. W. 1. SELECTS ADVISORY BODY   Editors Named To Help Work; Will Stop Pamphlets

Question Of OPA Price ‘Roll-Back’   You Don't Save Money Or Foodstuffs You Can't Buy

RODEO PERFORMER DIES IN NOWATA FIRE   James S. Nesbitt Found Suffocated in Burning Home of His Former Wife.

PROSPECTIVE BRIDE, 20, TAKES MOTHER'S ADVICE MAN OF 80 IS ‘TOO OLD’

Driver Killed In Gas Truck Blast   Truck Hits Viaduct And Explodes

Food Parley Ready to Open   Representatives From 43 Nations Will Confer on Program

WPB Criticized   Troops Bar Newsmen at United Nations Food Confab

FOOD CONFERENCE NEAR   Internationa! Meeting Will Open Tuesday In Virginia

Amid Surroundings Steeped In Lux  FOOD CONFERENCE BEGINS AT HOT SPRINGS TOMORROV

Delegates Ready To Oper Food Parleys   Press Will Be Admitted To Opening, Closing Sessions Only

UNITED NATIONS’ DELEGATES MEET FOR FOOD PARLEY   CONFERENCE WILL START TOMORROW AT HOT SPRINGS, VA.

SULOIHS WATCH PRESS   State Department Outlines Restrictions to Shield Delegates.

WOMAN DELIVERS HORSES BY RIDING      12-Day Trip Affords Her “Best Time of Life;” Enjoys “Discoveries”

Pompeii's Famous Ruins Bear New Scars-.  Put There by Exploding Bombs and Shell

Troops Moving Through Pompei   Allies Drive Through Great Ruins Of Pompeii, Both Old And New

'U. S. Admiral Says Advane Will Continue as Long As Supplies Are Received

KENTUCKY FARMER-PREACHER — BARRICADES FAMILY AND SELF IN HOME FOLLOWING GUN DUEL

Slayer Refuses  To Surrender   Farmer-Preacher Barricades Himself And Family In Kentucky Home.

BIG PACKING FIRM CLOSES ITS DOOR   President Says Must Have Fed Aid

LOSS MOUNTS IN MIDWEST'S RECORD FLOOD   Levees are. Broken: in Three States by Rising Waters _

Winter Is Cominc!   Midwest Flood Toll Mounts As Levees Fail   Swirling Waters Leave 100,000 Homeless, Inundate Over Million Acres in Six States

More Land Inundated In 3 States   ~ Three Levees Break As Record Floods Continue in Mid-West   3,500 EVACUATED AT BEARDSTOWN, Ill,

More Levees Break Before  Rivers’ Force   _ Additional Thousands of Acres Covered; Inhabitants Trapped

Allies Set © For Invasion Of Europe    Eisenhower to Command New Offensive to Encircle Germany

Roosevelt, Revealing Appointment, Declares German People Will Not Be Enslaved.      ALEXANDER TO LEAD ARMIES IN ITALY   Mediterranean Command Goes to Gen. Sir Henry Wilson—President Hints New Blows Imminent.

Eisenhower to Lead Invasion Against Europe   Other Important Appointments Are Made Known

Eisenhower Is Named Chief   _ FDR's Message Says Europe To Be Cleansed Of Nazism —

[Invasion Blows ‘Against Europe _May Come Soon   Roosevelt Gives World Bad News For Fuehrer; America Told To Expect Heavy Casualty Lists

AMERICANS IN THEIR INITIAL BATTLE ACTION   Yankee Tanks, Under Airplane  Umbrella, Score Success Against Forces of Rommel

CALHOUN bUta OVER Tht. TOF IN BOND DRIVE   County Surpasses Quota By $54,786.25 Margin, Officials Report

QUOTA PAgatU UNG CAMPAIGN IS CONTINUED   Leadership Of All State Now County Objective For Rest Of Month

$1.25 PER DAY PORTAL-PORTAL PAY IS SLATED   Get Extra $1.50 Daily Through Boost in Working Hours

Administration Lieutenants in Opposition   Compulsory Labor Draft Is Point at Issue

t  OPPOSED BY ~ PAUL MNUTT   Mandatory  Law Need Gets Stimson’ rs Okeh

LABOR DRAFT OPPOSED BY PAULM'NUTI      War Manpower Chief Disagrees With Sec’y Stimson

‘Stimson And McNutt Differ On MP Draff   Manpower Head in Opposition; War Sec’y. Indorses Workers Draf

BYRD SPONSORS WORK - OR - FIGHT BILL IN SENATE   Draft Boards Would Be Authorized To Induct Strikers Into Armed Forces   MANPOWER SETUP IS UNDER ATTACK

McNutt, Stimson Disagree Over Draft of Labor   Manpower Commissioner and Secretary of War in Sharp Conflict

High Officials At Odds On Forced Labor Draft For Factory And Farms

ROW DEVELOPS OVER DRAFT OF WAR WORKERS   McNutt Opposes Plan As Stimson Endorses It, Charging Inadequacy Of Control   Hearings Continue

High Court Upsets Viereck Conviction   McNutt Sharply Disagrees With Stimson on Issue of Drafting U. S. Manpower

Russians Re-Take Initiative in Kiev Salient on Eastern Front   Red Army Troops at Outskirts of the City of Kirovograd.

GERMAN COUNTER FINALLY FIZZLES   Threat to Kiev Believed to Be Smashed by Stubborn  Russians

: Most of Convoy ‘Gets Into Port, But Not All Subs   By ROBERT VERMILLION AND ROBERT RICHARDS.

AXIS LOSES 309 PLANES IN 4 DAYS   Airmen Fail To Meet Any Opposition In Series Of Raids

TARGETS IN ITALY HEAVILY BLASTED BY ALLIED FLIERS   At Least 317 Enemy Planes Destroyed In 4 Days” ~—-Docks; Harbors Bombed

ALLIED PLANES ON OFFENSIVE   Squadrons Lash Docks and Airfields on Italian Islands — No Serious Opposition.

United Nations To Acquire Meat   Brazil, Argentine Food Is Sought

Interoreting  The War   Raid Anniversary Finds Japs Very Nervous

UP STARTS DRIVE AGAINST 4TH TERM   Makes Plea to Dispe) Belief ‘Only One Qualified To Rule.’

GOP Starts Move to Break Regime _ of 'Roosevelt-Hopkins-Frankfurter

GOP Opens Campaign on Fourth Term   New Clipsheet Is Sent to Small Newspapers

REPUBLICANS TO BLAST AT FOR   Clipsheet, Called ‘On the Home Front’, to Fight Against ‘Fourth Term’

Triple-A to. Elect the 1944   Twp. schoo! houses will be used; delegates to be elected.

Annual Triple A Election Friday, November 26  . Officers For 1944 To Be Chosen

BRITISH IN NORTH CAPTURE HEIGHT ON WAY TOTUNIS   Five Axis Vessels Believed Sunk Off Brittany Coast

BRITISH FIRST ARMY 21 MILES FROM TUNIS   Yanks Occupy Town Six Miles West of Gizerte Lakes

ALLIED NOOSE AY TUM [o BEING DRAWN   American, French and Brit. ish Troops Are Making More Progress.   RE:ISTANCE IS STIFF   Fali of Pont du Fahs, Im. portant Axis Base, Regarded Imminent.

REDS. THREATEN. SREY BASTIONS. ON RIVER FRONT   Kiev, Smolensk and Dniepropetrovsk May Fall; Kuban Area Cleared.

Battle For Kiev Now Under Way  Moscow Report   Red Forces Smash Ahead Today Within Inner  Defense Rings    ARTILLERY DUELS ; ARE DEVELOPING  BULLETIN )

RUSSIAN TROOPS BEACH DNIEPER IN FORCE AND. FALL OF KIEV 18 NOW EXPECTED.

AEDS THREATEN ACY BAoTIUKo ON RIVER FRON   Kiev, Smolensk and Dniepropetrovsk May Fall; Kuban Area Cleared.

 Aussies Push Near Japanese  Base At Madane   Heavy Air Raids Cause Damage To Enemy

Australian Troops Advance  Nearer Jap New Guinea Base  Allied Airmen Paving Way For New Attacks ‘ When New Guinea Are a Hos Been Cleared Out

19-YEAR-OLD YOUTH PLANS FARM CAREER; ABOARD FOUR SHIPS LOST IN SOUTH PACIFIC SEA BATTLES

JAP BOMBERS: RAIDORA BAY; 25 SHOT DOW)   40 Fighter-Escorted Bomb: ers Take Part In Display of Acrial  Strength   JAPS SINK VESSEL   MacArthur Communique Credits Allied Pilots With “Brilliant Interceptions”

JAP CHALLENGE MET   Allied Alrmen Down 25 of the 40 Attacking Enemy llanes

Russians Drive On Past Gomel   SOVIETS NEARING UPPER DNIEPER _SECTOR IN ADVANCE

RED ARMY FIGHTS IN GOMEL OUTSKIRTS FOLLOWING ADVANCE   ELIMINATION OF GERMANS THAT AREA WOULD BE DNIEPER LINE THREAT

Reds Push Into  Streets of Gomel   Russians Reach First Majo» Objective in Battle Fo White Russia.

Soviet Forces Fight Way Into Edge of Gomel  . Suburbs of City   33" * Suburbs of City 7” een Captured; : an vn. ads Won  > 3" a. Sozh River

Russian Army Enters Gomel   Soviet Forces Near Upper Dnieper River

Russian Forces Fight Through Gomel Suburbs   Red Army Nearing Upper Dnieper To Support Salients

SOME GOMEL SUBURBS FALL TO THE REDS   Troops Lined Up Before Sozh River on: 100-Mile Front, Ready for a Drive Toward the Upper Dnieper.

Russians Enter Gomel In White Russia Tuesday   Fight In. Suburbs: Forces Line Ur Along 100 - Mile  River Front

Russians In Gomel   Driving Into Suburbs Of Major White Russian Stronghold

RUSSIAN ARMY REACHES GOMEL   Red Forces Push Into Suburbs Of Vitol EnemyHeld City

REDS ADVANCE INTO GOMEL, NEAR. VITEBSK   Increase Threal to Flank of Dnieper Line as Bridgeheads West of River Strengthened   REPULSE ATTACKS   Troops Batile in Suburbs of Gomel, Gateway io Minsk and Polish Border

Warpianes Fighting Almost Constantly Above Dnieper River  Re Weepw nm coe ee

Russians Fight Way Through Suburbs of Comiol Ne aring Upper Dnieper to Back Middle Salients   Air Parcre on Defensive

Russians Fight Their Way Inte Gomel Suburbs   Advance Poses Flanking Threat To Nazis Along Middle Dnieper.

Red Army Drives To Gomel Suburbs   Flanking Threat Faces Germans Alona White Russian Defense Line

Russians Are in Suburbs of Gome!   Wedge Will Support Dnieper Crossing

Russians On East Bank of Sozh River   Driving Into Suburbs of Gomel—First Objective In White Russia

Weaker Beer in Prospect Now   stable Egg Prices and Less ChocOlate Also Provided by Price  Adhiainistration Rules

PRICE OF EGGS . FIXED MARCH 11   OPA Lists 54-Cent Price Top; Weaker Beer and Less  Channlatse Gaan

EGG PRICES 10 BE STABILIZED   Weaker Beer And Less Chocolate Also In Prospect For Americans

Price Ceilings On Egg Sales, Weaker Beer anc Less Chocolate In Prospect

Ceilings Fixed On Egg Prices   Chocolate Output Further Restricted

Americans Wipe Out Jap Troops On Guadalcanal   Un Guadalcanal  Kill Thousand Enemy as  Planes Hit Ships 300 Miles Away  ‘PREMIER TOJO ILL Diet Session Recessed Un til January 27 as About   ‘Ty Onen

HARD-HITTING U. 5. MARINES AND ARMY TROOPS KILL JAPS  WIPE OUT 1,032 ENEMY  “SOLDIERS “IN FIVE DAYS

Yanks Kill 1,032 Japs in Five Days On Guadalcanal   Flying Fortress Sets Cargo Ship Afire in Shortlands

Areas Around Air Field Are Cleaned Out   Fortresses Blast Enemy Shipping In Shortland Ielande

Americans on Guadalcanal Kill 1000 Japs in Five Days, Tojo — Reported I11, Diet Recesses _

1,032 JAPS ARE KLLED IN 5 DAY SOLOMON FIGHT   Yanks Mop Up Near Airfield; Think Tojo Iness “Diplomatic’”’

1032 JAPANESE ARE SLAIN ON CUADALCANAI   U. S. Forces Continue Mopping Up Operations — Japs Seriously Handicapped by Ship Losses

U.S. TROOPS WIPE OUT MORE JAPS IN GUADALCANAL AS BOMBERS POUND SHIPPING

'Inflict Loss ‘On Enemy in 5-Day Fight   Mopping Up Continues on Island; Cargo Vessel at Shortland Island Bombed

Americans Wipe Out 1,032 Japs   US Army Troops and Marines Hit Japs Hard in Five-Day Battle on Guadalcanal Island

Wipe Out 1.032 Japs In 5-Dav Marine Attack   lying Fortresses In Mean* ow) time Pound Enemy’s Shipping Near Solomons.   BATILG 14%. to 10) 47

Americans Wipe Out Jap Troops On Guadalcanal   Kill Thousand Enemy as Planes Hit Ships 300 Miles Away  PREMIER TOJO ILL  Diet Session Recessed Until January 27 as About To Onen

1,032 JAPANESE SOLDIERS SLAIN BY U.S, FORCES   Five-Day Battle on Guadal. canal Brings Major Victory to Army, Marines

Smash Nippo Supply Lines in Solomons   U.S. Army, Marines Mop Up Nips Near Henderson Field

032 JAPS IN SOLOMONS ARE “OBLITERATED   Enemy Shipping Pounded by Flying Fortresses, Tojo, Jap Premier, Ill of Cold

Conditions in Jap Prison Camps Are ee Y S 3 r Tay r . Terrible, Evaguees Tell INS Writer

CHANGE IN JAP ATTITUDE TOLD   Nation Gloomy as, Allies Win, Says Repatriates

Yanks Toughen ‘For Invasion   , Biggest War Maneuvers Held » In Great Britain

Yanks Toughen For An Invasion   All Kinds of U. S. Forces Take Part in Massive Dress Rehearsals.

Great War Maneuvers Under Way   Battle-Rager’ Troops. Are Training for Invasion Under Live Gunfire   SOME CASUALTIES NATURALLY RESULT   A Number of Men Drowned When a Tank’ Landing Craft Is Upset

Thousands of American Soldiers Engaged in Invasion Dress Rehearsal

American Soldiers Getting Ready For Big invasion  Thousands Are Going Through Paces In Massive Drills

U. S. Soldiers in England Staging History’s Biggest War Maneuvers

YANKS TRAINING HARD IN ENGLAND   PREPARE DAY AND NIGHT FOR OPENING OF SECOND FRONT

SET SERIES DATES   First Three Contests Will Be Played in Yankee Stadium

World Series Starts Oct. 5   First Three Games Te Be at New York

DR. A. 1 HADLEY 5 STRICKEN / AT       Wayland Dentist Had Been Shopping in Concord; Succumbed to Shock

MINE OWNERS ARE SPLIT IN WAGE DISPUTE   PENNSYLVANIA COAL GROUP WON OVER BY LEWIS

PENNSYLVANIA MINE OPERATORS SETTLE DISPUTE   Increase Of $1.30 A Day  For Miners Reported ‘Basis Of Agreement   WHOLE CONTROVERSY MAY SOON BE ENDED

LEWIS IS REPORTED TO HAVE AGREED TO ACCEPT $1.30 A DAY AS PORTAL. TO-PORTAL DEMAND. :

Lewis Agrees On Pay, Report Says  Settlement Would Mean $1.30 A Daw tae owawe

Ranks Divided  Agreement Reached With Pennsylvania Operators Group  INVOLVES CEILINGS  Doubt Expressed WLB Will Approve Any Such Roost

MINE OWNERS: FRONT CRACKS IN PAY DISPUTE   Central  Pennsylvania Group Reaches Accord with Lewis

SOLI0 FRONT OF OPERATORS SPLIT   Lewis Accepts $1.30 a Day Portal-portal Pay   OTHER OPERATORS   Express Doubt WLB Will Ap« _ prove. Board Hearing Set This Morning

Agreement on Coal Labor Pay Reported   Operators Split on Issues Lewis Said to Have Accepted Plan

Coal Dispute Move Splits Solid Front Of Operators   UMW Head Reported Ready To Accept $1.30 For Travel Time;  Coal Prices Involved   LEWIS’ POSITION IS STRENGTHENED Pennsylvania Accord  Must Be Submitted To War Labor Board

Report Lewis Has Agreed fo Wage Settlement  To Accept $1.30a — Day; Splits Ranks _ of Coal Operators

RANKS OF MINE ‘OPERATORS SPLIT BY LEWIS OFFER   Union Chief Agrees to Accept $1.35 a Day—One Group Employing 65, 000 Ready to Settle.   APPROVAL OF LABOR BOARD NECESSARY   Wage Increase of Size Proposed Would Involve Ceilings Placed on Coal Prices.

PENNSY MINE HEADS AGREE ON CONTRACI      Common Front in Pay Dis. pute Cracked by Ac* cord With Lewis

WAGE AFFECTS 65,000 MINERS IN NORTH FIELD   Pennsylvania Agreement May Cause Split In Ranks Of Soft  Coal Owners   Board Gets Dispute

Lewis ReachesAgreement With Group of Operators Employing 65,000 Men   Pennsylvania Employers Accept Basis of Settlement  Offered by UMW; Provides for $1.30 a Day in  Settlement for Portal-to-Portal Pay Demand;  Other Operators May Refuse To Agree   Rv JOSEPH A. LOFTUS   CEILINGS INVOLVED

Probe Death Of K’bunk Soldier At Camp Devens   Rodney Cousens Ic Found Dead

CRAZED KILLER IS BEING HELD   a  5 Slain. 2 Wounded In Utah Shooting Spree

Once Threatened To Tear Out His Wifes Tongue   Brooding Led To Act In Ogden

Jealous-Crazea Man Slays Five In Ogden Oray   Madman Seeks To Avenge ‘Bum Deal  IA DMivuarea Crrirt

FIVE ARE SLAIN BY CRAZED MAN   Judge Who Gave Wife Divorce, Four Innocent Persons Are Victims

jealous-Crazed Man Slays Five In Ogden Oray   Madman Seeks To Avenge ‘Burn Deal!’  Tou This geet PO Uk

RUSSIANS DRIVE OVER MANYCH TO GIRD ROSTOV   Threaten to Ciamp Pincers on  Kharkov, Driving 50 Miles Into Tiere ta   ‘GAIN IN CAUCASUS   Move on Armavir With Capture of Nevinnomysskaya — Caucasian Red Forces May Unite

SHOCK TROOPS OF RED ARMY SEEK ISOLATE NAZIS IN CAUCASUS   VETERAN SOVIET FORCES IN DRIVE TO CLAMP ARC OF STEEL AROUND ROSTOV

Reds Ring Axis Army   Soviet Troops Isolating Nazis In Caucasus Region

Nazis Move Back On Soviet Front   Russian Shock Troops Pouring Westward Across Manych River   IN A RAPID RETREAT   Red Army Is Firmly Entrenched After Advance  on Rostov .

Rail Junction Of Salsk Next Russian Goal   Drive To Isolate Axis Army Of The Caucasus Is Pushed Vigorously By Russian Troops

RUSSIANS POUR WESTWARD ON ENTIRE FRONT  PRESS CAMPAIGN   PRESS CAMPAIGN TO ISOLATE AXIS ARMY OF CAUCASUS

Soviet Tightens Ring On Rostov   Forge New Pincers As Threat To Kharkov With 17-Mile Gain

REDS POUR OVER MANYCH RIVER IN HARD DRIVE   Continue Rapid Advance In Effort To Isolate German Army In Caucasus And Catch Rostov In Arc Of Steel.

HUCK TROOPS  MOVING WEST   Russians in Drive to Isolate Axis Army of the Caucasus,   ROSTOV, KHARKOV GOALS

SHOCK TROOPS DRIVE ACROSS MANYCHRIVER   Seek To Isolate Forces Of Axis In Area Of Caucasus   GERMAN LINES BREAK   Kharkov, Voroshilovgrac Maikop Objectives On Other Fronts

RUSSIANS DRIVING TO TRAP ANOTHER,      Clamping Steel Are About Rostov and Caucasus   GERMAN FORCES IN A RAPID RETREAT

RUSSIANS MAY — CLAMP PINCERS ONTO KHARKOV   Feverish German Efforts Fail To Stabilize Line On River   BLOWING UP BRIDGES   Soviet Detachments Reported Capturing Point After Point

POUR ACROSS MANYCH RIVER NEAR SALSK   Germans Fail to Hold Bank of Stream—Soviet Drive Also Intended to Isolate Axis Army of Caucasus.

ADVANCING “SOVIETS CLAMPING STEEL ARC ABOUT ROSTOV:   Feverish German Efforts To Fix Stable Line Resorted Failing

REDS DRIVE TC ISOLATE AXIS IN CAUCASUS   Soviet Shock Troops Re ported Pouring Westward Across the Manych River   NORTHERN ARMY GAIN!

DRAW CLOSER TO KHARKOV AND ROSTOV   Soviets Capture Point After Point; Foe Wrecks Bridges

FORGE STEEL ARC AROUND NAZI FORCES   Russians Drive Hard to Isolate Axis Army of the Caucasus.   Reds Move Westward Toward Objectives

SOVIET FORCES PLUNGE ACROSS MANYCH RIVER   Russian Shock Troops Renorted Only 15 Miles From Salsk Rail Junction   ROSTOV PUSH EXTENDED   Two Armies Are Moving To Close Pincers On EnemyHeld Kharkov

Russians Pour Shock Troops At Germans   Reds Seek to Isolate Axis Army of the Caucasus

Reds Closing Ring of Steel About Rostov   Final Collapse of Italy’s African Empire Seems To Be a Matter of Hours; French Forces Join British in Forming Arc Around Last Axis Libyan Stronghold

Russian Shock Troops Are Pouring Across Manych River to Isolate Nazis In Caucasus   STEEL RING AROUND ROSTOV, OBJECTIVE   Feverish German Attempts io Fix Staple Line Along River Are Failing, Moscow Learns

Reds Cross Manych River Nearing Salsk   Russian Advances Continue Steadily Along All Fronts

" ssians Seek » ation of Caucasus Axis   Drive Across Manych River to Within 15 Miles of Salsk to Close in on Rostov

Reds Closing Clamp on Rostov, Germans Fail to. Consolidate... Lines to Stop Soviet Advance

SOVIET SHOCK TROOPS MOVE NEAR SALSK   Rostov, Kharkov Are Main Objectives Of Red Army      GERMAN EFFORTS   To Fix Lines Are Futile; Four Populated Places Reported Captured

REDS MAKE NEW GAINS ON SALSK   Axis Army In Caucasus Is Nearly Isolated By Russians

/  —RUSSTA—  RUSSIAN ARMIES FORGING AHEAD   Germans Reported Failing In Efforts To Fix Stable Line   ADVANCE ON SALSK   Rostov, Kharkov And Maikop Oil Fields Sovjet Objectives

NEW PINCERS ON KHARKOV IS REPORTED   Red Army Moves 17 Miles to Clamp An Are Of Steel On Soviet “Pittsburgh”

Reds Close Clamps on Kharkov, Steel Center of Ukraine   Threaten Rostov Flank With New Drives Into  Caucasus Sector .

RUSSIANS TRY TO CUT OFF FOE   Shock Troops Pour Across Manyck River; Others Push Westward

Arc Of Steet Being Welded Around Rostov   Retreating Germans Blowing Bridges And Laying Mines To Impede Russian Advance

Reds Seek to Isolate Axis In Caucasus   Driving to Clamp Steel Arc Around  Rostov

President Faces Task Of Finding Men For Many important Federal Jobs

CANADIAN UNIT HAD NO LOSSES   Large Force Transported From Britain To Sicily Without Loss Of Single Man Or Ship.

PRESIDENT SIGNS FARM: MEASURE   Regrets Congress Denied Funds To Continue Crop Insurance Program.

FDR Approves  Farm Measure   Signs 848 Million Dollar Bill, Wants Crop Insurance Given Fair Trial.

Roosevelt UK S Farm Bill, But Fund Lacked  President Hopes For Continued Crop Insurances

PRESIDENT SIGNS AG. SUPPLY BILL   REGRETS FAILURE TO CONTINUE CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM

Signs Agriculture Bill But Regrets  Insurance Is Out   President Hopes That Congress Will Provide Fund:  For Program.   FDR Says Weather Is  Main Farming Hazard

Farm Supply Bill Signed By F. R. Regrets Crop Insurance Funds Dropped

Roosevelt Signs  Big Farm Bill   Regrets That Congress Stopped Crop Insurance

Urges Crop Risk Plan  ~ Continue   Roosevelt Regrets Action of Congress in Killing Insurance Program   ‘TELLS VIEWS AS HE  SIGNS FUND BILL   Declares Program Was Not Given Fair Trial, Citing Other New Measures

FDR Signs Ag. Department Ap. Bill   Failure of Congress to Provide Crop Insurance Prooram Reecretted

F.D.R. Signs Agricultural Supply Bill   Regrets Statute Does Mot Provide for Crop Insurance

FDR Mourns Loss Of Crop Security In Last Congress   Voices Hope Next Session Will Provide Funds For ‘Program Of Such Poten. tial Value’

 Sicily and Sardinia Are Both Bombed  . ee and Beitich Prom Africa 

Devastating New Assaults Are Made By British And American Bombers   CATANIA IS HARD HIT BY ATTACKERS

ITALIAN (SLANDS ARE PLASTERED   Allied Bombers Raid Sicily and Sardinia—Others Hit Nazi Fields in Greece

é Was An Untried Division Before Salerno, But  Germans Have Come to Know Well the 36th

Court Sets Day For Hearing of Final Reports  Close of Receivershi In Two LeMars  rt &t«§ fs

Court Sets Day For Hearing of Final Reports    Close of Receiverships In Two LeMars Bank Cases

Flying Lightly-Armed Catalina Flying Boats Into Almost Certain Death Against Japs In South Seas; Using Slow Planes As Dive Bombers and Fighters Deep In Enemy Territory

SOME GREAT WAR STORIES IN SOUTH SEAS BEING WRITTEN BY UNITED STATES NAVY PILOTS

‘Suicide Missions’ in Pacifie Show  Valor of Navy's Patrol Plane Crews

y ; - ; m Navy Patrol Pilots Take Lumbering Catalinas on Suicide Missions

Tax Bill Signed. More Revenue Now Is Sought   Republicans Offer Legislation  To Increase Dependent Payments

Fscapes From Plane Crash ii Jungle   _ Fate of Others  ~ Nol Given — Missing Since pevepil

Reaches Base After Bomber Falls In Jungl   Fate Of Remainder Of Crew Not Revealed By War Department

Air Force  Announces   Missing Since April 8. He Has Reached South American Base

Fscapes Fron Plane Crash in Jungle   Fate of Others Not Given — Missing Since April 8

Harmon Found Safe in South American  Base After Crash   Fate of Other Members of Crew, Lost Since April 8, Unknown

Lt. Thomas Dudley Harmon Is Safe   Missing Since April 8, He Reached South American Base.

Harmon  Safe   All American Foothalt Star Reaches South Ateriean Base

Former Michigan Football  Star Had Been Lost Since April 8 During Army Bomber Flight   CRASHED IN JUNGLES OF SOUTH AMERICA   Has Reached Base; Fate of Other Members of His Crew Not Disclosed by Announcement

Tommy Harmon Is Reported Safe   Foiiowims Crash   All-American Grid Star, Missing Since April 8, Found In Jungle Area

REACHES BASE AFTER CRASH IN A JUNGLE   Former Michigan Football Great Reported Missing Wednesday. “Thank God,” Says Mother

LT. TOMMY HARMON IS FOUND; — BOMBER STILL MISSING IN JUNGLE   “THANK GOD” SAYS HIS MOTHER

BRITISH WIN GREAT BATTLE NEAR CATANIA   Biggest Advance Is Made By Americans In Inland Push: Messina Blasted By 200 Planes

GERMANS MAKING ~ GREATEST FIGHT TOHOLD CATANIA   Shift Forces From West _ to East as Outline of Trap Appears   THE YANKS SCORE BIGGEST ADVANCE

Americans And British Advance Despite Strong German Counterattacks

Armored Forces Turned Back In Furious Battle    American Seventh Army Scores Greatest Advance In Drive Into Inland Sicily

ALLIES EXTEND GAINS ALONG EASTERN COAST   Americans Dig Into RagusaVizzin! Sector, Advance Some Six Miles   BRITISH REACH BsRUCOLI   Enemy Resistance Is Stiffening In Effort To Halt Push At Catania

Americans Press Forward Six Or Seven Miles In Vizzini Sector In Line Parallel With British Forces Along Coast

ALLIED FORCES DRIVING WEDGE NEAR MESSINA   Americans Pushing Enemies Back In Terrific Drive

Nazi Thrust on British Beaten Back: Americans Take Important Fields

TWO PRONGED ALLIED FORCE. ADVANCES   American, British and Canadians Meeting Stiff ening Reaistance

Americans Pushing North On Line Parallel to British Advance Up Eastern Coast   General Patton's.Men Seize Airdrome; Another Italion General is Captured: Messini Suffers Heavy Bombing Attack

BRITISH HURL BACK GERMAN ARMORED UNIT   Americans Drive Inland; Nazis Set On Preventing Catania Invasion

PATTON’S MEN MAKE SEVEN MILE ADVANCE   Allied Forces Meeting Stiffening Resistance; More Big Tank Battles Expected

General, Entire Staff Surrender To Allies Todar   Yanks Drive Ahead As British Smash Nazi Counter-Attack

British Beat Off a German © Counter: Drive   Montgomery Pushes  Forward After Weathering Crisis: Yanks Also Advance.   8 AIR BASES TAKEN; 12,600: PRISONERS   Planes Get in Heavy New Licks; Axis Making More Determined Stand: —

Enemy Resistance Increases as Allies Continue Advances   8th Army Pushes Forward 4 Miles After Weathering Powerful Attack; Yanks Take Airfield in 7-Mile Push

BRITISH STOP — COUNTERDRIVE   Greatest Advance~Scored By American Sev-— enth Army

British Hurl Back Powerful Nazi Armored Counter , Attack   YANKS DRIVE INLAND   Gains of Combined Force Parallels Movement  Up Coast .

Allied Forces Capture Two More Towns; Sweep Toward Impending Tank Battle On Catania Plains; Considerable Gains Reported

Americans Score Sharp Advance On Flank, Take Another Airfield; Stiffer  Onnosition Looms.

The Greatest Advance Was Scored by Combined Allied Forees Driving Inland in Sicily.   MOVED FORWARD SOME SIX OR SEVEN MILES   Another’ Italian General, Commanding the 54 Napoli Division, Surrendered With Staff.

Nazis Regain Augusta Port For Short Time   General Patton’s Seventh Army Pushes Inland on. Line Parallel With British In Attempt To Close Tran on Enemy

British Repulse Powerful Axis Counter Drive at Augusta Edge. As Americans Report Advances   Enemy Centering Its Forces To Block 8th Army, Save Catania

Stiffening Axis Resistance Felt North of Augusta   Bighth Army Beats Off Counterattack That Reaches Port, Then Advances 4 Miles; U. S. Forees Capture Another Airport

Yankee Troops Score Big Gain In Sicily Drive   Axis Resistance Mounts as Allies Advance on Enemy

‘Americans Pushing In On West Threat To Enemy's Rear   Indications Grow Axis Means to Make Major Battle on East Coast

ALLIED FORCES IN CONTINUED ADVANCE ON SICILIAN FRONTS   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY  HURLS BACK DETERMINED  NAZI COUNTERATTACK

SEVENTH ARMY DRIVES INLAND TO TAKE FIELD   ‘Counter - attack Repulsed  By Eighth Army, Pushing Along East Coast of Eastern Sicily      AUGUSTA IS FIRMLY IN HANDS OF ALLIES   German Armored Forces Driven Back After Foe Had Cut Off English Unit Near Port

AMERICANS SCORE BIG ADVANCE   Powerful Nazi Counterattack Is Repulsed

MONTGOMERY STILL ~~ PERMANS” MASTER   Gives Crack: Goering Division, Previously’ Mauled By Americans. Beating

BRITISH DEFEAT ARMORED UNITS 'N PUSH NORTH   Americans Capture Another Airdrome and Important Heights

Second Italian General Surrenders with Staff as Allies Tighten Grip on Sicily— Nazi Troops Shifted to East

British 8th Hurls Back Counterattack   Italian Divisions Reported Making More Determined Stand

DRIVE INLAND PARALLEL TO EIGHTH ARMY   British Beat Back Heavy Axis Counterattack and Make Further Gains.   FORCES ‘MASSING FOR BATTLE NEAR CATANIA

British Weather Crisis In i Cernuin Counter-Attack And Drive On From Augusta      Axis Commanders Shift Bulk Of Forces From Opposing Americans In Order To Head Off British Drive Up East Coast

Another Italian General Taken         ee id  Gen. Patton’s Men Drive Inland Six Miles Take Important Heights, Airfield  AMERICANS WHIP GOERING DIVISION  Crack Nazis Badly Mauled By Yanks And Division Shifted To Face British ~~

Patton’s Troops Gain Four ‘Miles, Capture Airdrome; British Repel Counter-Attack

Americans Capture Another Airdrome, Important Heights   Sth Army Pushes Germans Toward Italy; U.S. Forces Score Largest Advance, Take 8,000 Prisoners

Greatest Advance Is Made By Combined American, British, Canadian Forces

U.S. Troops Score Largest Gains And Capture Airdrome   Eighth Army Meeting Stronger Resistance In Push Up East Coast Towards Catania But Allied Advance Is Continuing

NAZI ARMORED FORGE HALTED   American Seventh Army Under Patton Makes Rinogest Advance.   ‘TIGHTEN HOLD GN COAST

British Smash German Attack   Greatest Gains Made by Combined Forces Driving Inland — Germans Break Through Eighth Army but Counterattack Sweeps Tommies Forward

Hurl Back Nazi Tanks in Sicily   Jaws of Allied Clamp Take Deeper Bite on Easterr Sicily When British Hurl Back Powerful German Ar  mored Counterattack.   Americans in West Advance Into  Difficult Mountains, Take Airfield

Advance of Armies  Slowed   Jaws of Allied  Clamp Bite Deeper In Eastern Sicily.

‘Yank Troops Move Ahead  Seven Miles   Jaw of Allied Clamp Takes Deeper Bite; More Enemy Resistance

Aloha Eastman Weds Sergeant Keith Kendall  Pretty Candlelizh   Pretty Candlelight Service at Church, Tuesday Evening

Aloha Eastman Weds Sergeant Keith Kendall   Pretty Candlelight Service at Church, Tuesday Evening

Duff to Confer With Estep   Probe Will Cover All Phases of Wilson Farm Slayings

H. A. ESTEP NAMED AS INVESTOGATOR   In the Bungled Murder Trial of Wm. Morrell. . of Mereer Co,

Details Account of American Airman’'s Death at Hands of Jap Executioner Disclosed in Diary

Japs Behead American Flyer   Diary Reveals Yank Victim of Atrocity

Japanese Atrocity: Captured U. 5. Aviator Beheaded  According to the ‘Samurai’ Code   Verbatim Translations from Soldier's Diary Reveals Execution of Young American Flier

Graphic Story of Beheading Of U.S. Flyer By Japanese  Given in Diary of Captive   Execution Carried Out With Sword According To ‘Samurar’ Code Is Described in Detail; Army Names de Who Committed Atrocity

Diary Reveals Beheading Of Yank Airman   Stark Details Told Ir Record Found On Jap Soldier

Yank Pilot Beheaded and Disembowled By Jap Samurai for Allied Bombings

Japs Behead Captured U. §..Airman  Nip Diary Reveals Execution in Sumurai Fashion

JAPANESE BEHEAD AMERICAN AIRMAN TAKEN PRISONER   Flier Executed With Sword by Nipponese Officer as He Sits, Arms Tied, on Edge of Crater.   SOLDIER’S DIARY SETS FORTIL DETAILS   Victim of Atrocity, an Instructor at Moresby, Had Been Shot Down by Anti Aircraft Fire.

Diary of Captured Jap Gives Stark Details Of Beheading of American

Latest Attacks on Aleutian Island Coming in 48-hour Period Apparently More Destructive Than Previous Onslaughts; American Gunners Destroy Seven  vp . oe foe, 5 . EF F

Wake Is Bombed, Hint Recapture Of Isle Planned   ; Kiska Nips Hit Also-in More. Devastating Raid

ALLIES PROBABLY GETTING READY 10 SEIZE WAKE ISLAND   Vital Mid-Pacific Base Will Advance American Lines 1000 Miles Nearer Japan and Philippines.   ISLAND LOST EARLY IN PACIFIC BATTLE   American Jungle Troops Move Yard-By-Yard in Advance on Major Japanese Base at Munda.

VITAL “MID-PACIFIC BASE’S RECAPTURE MAY BE NEXT GOAL   Navy Bombers Shot Dowg 7 Zeros — Kiska Also Attacked By Bombers

TRY 10 TAKE WAKE   Liberators Raid Wake for Second Time in Four Days

DESIGNATED TARGETS HIT   Japanese Held Island Object of Rald—Foreshadows Possible Early American Move to Recapture Vital Mid-Pacific Base.

Japs Get Heavy Pounding By Allied Bombers; Wake Blasted For Second Time

Report Fascist Editor. Virginio Gayda.      Yanks Push Yard-By- Yard Through Japanese Defenses

Kiska Island Has Been Raided 19 Times in 48 Hours.  MORE DAMAGE DONE THAN EARLIER HITS  American Jungle Troops Stubbornly Slashing at Munda,

Raid Wake Island For 2nd Time   Possible U. S. Move To Recapture Mid-Pacific Island Foreshadowed By Attacks By Bombers

Second Assault In Four Days Portends Possible Early Move To Recapture Base Taken-By Japs Early in War

HIT KISKA 19 TIMES IN PAST 2 HOURS   J. S. May Soon Attempt te Re-Take Wake Island

Second Wake Attack Hints Capture Plan   All Liberators Return After Downing 7 Zeros, 1 Damaging 8 Others   POUND KISKA AGAIN   19 Havoc Spreading Raids Batter Aleutian: Japarese In 48 Hours

WAKE ISLAND IS POUNDED BY LIBERATORS   Seven Zeros Shot Down by Bombers On Wav to Target

YANK BOMBER‘ AGAIN HIT — WAKE ISLAND   ‘May Forshadow -Move to Re-Take Island from Japs

Coal Mines To 23 Companies      Act May Lead To Fresh Row With John L. Lewis As His Order Unheeded

Mines Restored To Their Owners   Order Is Made Despite Lewis’ Threat to Operate Only Under U. S.

ICKES RETURNS MORE MINES T0 OPERATORS   Turns Over Pits Despite Lewis Threat

MORE MINES RETURNED   ickes Releases Additonal Coal Mines Frem Government Centroeil

LEWIS AGREES 10 APPEAR FOR BOARD HEARING   WLB Calls Session After Anthracite Operators Report No Progress  In Negotiations

Ickes Returns 53 Mines to Owners Despite Lewis Threat of Walkout

END CONTROL OF 53 COMPANIES   Mines Are Restored to Qperation of Owners

Lewis Mines  Back To Firms   Ickes Discusses CIO Leader's Statement Concerning Private Ownership.

UMW Miners To Owners   Fifty-Three Mines Now Returned To Owners; Await Lewis Action

TO OPERATORS   Lewis’ Threat Hangs over Return of Pits; Miners Demanded Gov’t Control

33 Companies Get Mines Back   Restored By Ickes Ts Private Control

More Mines   Ickes Acts in Accord‘ance With Anti-Strike Law: Lewis Silent

53 COMPANIES GET COAL MINES BACK   Secretary Ickes Restores Properties to Private Control ©   ‘SOME ARE IN THE WEST

More Coal Mines Back To Owners  Wonder What Lewis’ Reaction Will Be

Ickes Returns Mines To Owners   Work Stoppage Report ed in Some Mines Turn: ed Back, but no Clarification of Reports.

Senate May Look Into A & M Change   Walton Resignation, Williamson Dismissal Up for Investigation

Sky Troops Trap Japs   Air-Borne Artillery Sent Allies to Spring Trap Around - 20,000 Nips

Yank Guns Roar Doom for Nips   AUSSIES ROUT HUNDREDS OF ENEMY TROOPS 10 MILES EAST OF LAE; U. S. ARTILLERY DROPS FROM SKIES TO BLAST TRAPPED JAPS

Yankees Nearing 20,000 Japs Trapped at Lae  Nippons Routed By Advancing  Australian Army

AMERICANS USE CHUTES TO DROP HEAVY GUNS   ' Air-Borne Artillery: Play‘ing Big Part:.In Blasting * Japs In New Guinea Area

BRICKER MAKES BID FOR SUPPORT   Hits New Deal Domestic Policies in First Eastern Appearance in Campaign for ‘GOP Presidential Choice

Governor Bricker Lashes Out at New Deal Domestic Policies in First Major Eastern Campaign Appearance

NEW REGULATIONS TO GET MINERALS   Temporary Military Fur. loughs ts Possible Part of Proposed Program.

NEW PRODUCTION POLICY FORMED BY WPB CHIEF   Would Cover Production Of War Materials And Metals

News Behind The News  Copyright AicCiure Newenaner Byodicate   WASHINGTON By Ray Tacker   HEPTESe Ne  Tnvestioation . 2... os

KGENCY SPOKESMAN HITS ANIL PROFITS   Claims Size of Earnings Violate National Stabiization Policy.

GERMAN REACTION QN TRI-POWER MEET   Berlin Attempts to Picture U S. as Yielding to the Demands of Russia.

Biggest Flight of Ducks and Other Migratory Waterfowl Since 1910 Reported by Wildlife Service Man

SUMMER VACATION WILL END TUESDAY   Lawrence City’ Schools to Start New Term, Sep- 4 tember 7

WILL END TUESDAY   Lawrence City Schools to Start New Term, Sep- a tember 7   NEED ONE TEACHER

Gutfey Predicts Byrd-Farley Boom   Senator Declares Opposi tion Forces Hope To Name Candidates

A BYRD-FARLEY TICKET PREEOSED   SENATOR GUFFEY SAYS ROOSEVELT’S OPPONENTS HOPE TO BOOM TWO.

dyrd-Farley Ticket Seen As Possibility  Penn. Democrat Sa   Penn. Democrat Says Republicans Oppose Southern Views

BYRD, FARLEY TICKET BEING CONSIDERED   Senator Guffey, After Trip, Say: Republicans Cannot Win  nuthern Tiatac

PEOPLE CLAMOR FOR PEACE AS RUMOR SPREADS   BADOGLIO TIGHTENS GRIP ON COUNTRY; GERMANS ‘STUNNED’

Troops Mass For Stand in North Italy   Duce’s Ouster Laid to His Proposal to Give In to German Plans

Nazis Enter Italy By Brenner Pass   German Troops Reported ‘Taking Defense Positions in North   SAY CRETE IS STRONG   Allied Air Activity Over Ttalian Mainland in Lull Since Sunday

BIG NAVAL BATTLE SEEN BEFORE FIGHT FOR SOUTH EUROPE   Hitler Thought Considering Use Of Italian . Fleet To Prevent Allies From Landing 

Cleveland Workers Are Frozen in Jobs   313,000 Ordered To Stay at Posts

BURNED TO DEATH   Oil Field Worker. Was Trying to Thaw Out Frozen Pipes :

Goodland Blasts At All Gambling  Games In State   Says Racine Will Quit Bingo; Warns Other Areas

Bingo Will Be Prohibited In Racine County   Gov. Goodland Assured By Officials They Will Enforce State’s Laws Against Lotteries

SERIES SCORELESS AT END OF FIRST   Brazie, Walker To Report for Army. Exams Tuesday

Dickey’s Home Run in Sixth Wins Title for New Yorkers   Yanks 000 002 000-2 7 1 Cards 000000 000-091

(Willkie Takes Issue With Wallace’s Talks 'On Post-War International Co-Operation

NACI FEAR LOoo CF OREL IN AGE UF fUgo ATTALK   Armcred and Infantry Units Fighting Furicusly to Hold Reds.

CHARGE HATCH ACT VIOLATIONS   NAME OFFICIALS OF THE ILLINOIS HIGHWAY DIVISION

HATCH ACT VICLATIONS IN ILLINOIS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT CLAIMED BY GOV'T COMMISSION

CONGRESS HAS GLAMOUR GIRLS   Look Like Fashion Editors, Congressman Declares

COUNTER-BLOW BY JAPANESE BEATEN BACK   Allies Holding Firm Near Salamaua  Airfield

Allies Advance Upon Salamaua   Reported Within Mile Of Japanese Airfield

Counterattacks Thrown Back B y  Aussie Troops   Nips Seek To Ease Pressure On Salamaua

Meat Allowance For Civilian Use. May Be Reduced   Government Now Will Get Specified Percentage Of All Meat Processed

SET ASIDE MEAT FOR GOVERNMENT   MEAT PACKERS SAY NEW ORDER CURTAILS CIVILIAN SUPPLY

Meat Set Aside — For Government   U. S. Takes Specified Amount for Armed Forces And Lend-Lease

RENAMED BY SCHOEPPEL   ‘Jeff Robertson and Dewilt Stiles to Continue on Board

NOVOROSSISK DRIVE OPENED   Recs Seek To Regain Possession Of Big Naval Base On Black Sea

Red Army Units Smash Furiously  At Nazi Defense   Unleash Determined Assault To Regain Black Sea Naval Base Of Novorossisk   HEAVY BATTLING REPORTED IN AREA

REDS SMASHING AT NAVAL BASE   Fierce Battle Reported On Novorossisk Front

MARINES LAND ON NEW GEORGIA WITHOUT FIGHT   Japanese Fajl to Fire Single Shot and Weren't Fired Upon, War Correspondents Reveal   EXPECTED AIR RAID      Natives Light Bonfires Along Coastline to Guide Invading American Forces

RAF Strikes" At Nazi-Held West Europe   Day. Raid Follows Night Attack . on German Ruhr

RAF BOMBERS STRIKE AGAIN   Daylight Attack Follows Night Raid on Ruhr

BRITISH BOMBERS RAID RUHR AGAIN   RAF Planes A Attack ‘Naz Industries Seven Timez In 10 Nights

British Iliers Batter German War Industries   Attack On Ruhr 7th in Last 10 Days; Other Targets Hit

RAF BOMBERS - GO BACK OVER EUROPE BY DAY   ‘Two Nazi Planes Bomb, Machine-Gun Town In England

Turkish Foreign Minister Reports Conferences Successful In Leading Nation Closer To Allies

Turkey Is Closer To Allied Camp,  Minister Asserts   we Menemnecioglu Avoid: Saying That Turke ry Will Enter War.   First Official Word  Since Inonu Returns

Turks Nearer Allied Camp After Parley   Foreign Minister Gives Statement; Actual Entry Into War Not Mentioned

Turkey Still Silent About Part in War   Official Guarded in Giving Statement About Conference

Meeting Draws ~ Turkey. Closer’ To Allied Camp   Inonn’s Return To Ankara Followed By Statement From Foreign Minister

Turks Nearer Allied Camp, Official Says   Avoids Inference Nation Is Nearer Participation  In Conflict

STATEMENT WORDED CAREFULLY   Nazis And Turks Rush Troops To Entire Border

TURKEY HAILS CLOSER TIES. WITH ALLIES   Foreign. Minister © Declares Alliance Is Strengthened

“Closer To Allied Camp”   But Statement by Turkish Minister Sheds No. New Light As To Where Turkey Stands in War

Return Of Turkey’‘s President Raises Hope On Just Where Country Stands In The War

Tnonu Is Given  Welcome  Turk President Back   From Cairo Conference

P. das are tS a i  : Use r am 1   Foreign Minister Avoids Inference That His Country Is Closer to War

Turkey “Closer To Allied Camp”  Foreign Minister ‘In First Official Statement; Silent. Qn War Intention

TURKEY CLOSER TO ALLIED CAMP   So Declares Foreign Min. ister As Inonu Arrives Home from Cairo

“Y_—earre—eeroror/  Turks Nearer  Allies   Nation Headed for War

Inonu Talks With Leaders   Turkish President Returned To Ankara Yesterday and Received Enthusiastic Welcome:

PRES. INONU CONFERRING WITH CABINET   Turkish Executive Arrives In Ankara to Find An Enthusiastic Welcome Awaiting Him   STATEMENT IS DELAYED

INONU PLEASED WITH MEETING      Foreign Minister Gives Report on President’s Trip To Cairo.   LAVOIDS TALK ABOUT WAR

Turk, Nazi Troops Face Each Other Along Border   State Of Emergency Reported Declared Along Entire Boundary ;  Warvanennec Wweidant

CONFERENCES LED TURKEY CLOSER TO TINITED NATIONS   FIRST TURKISH STATE. MENT, HOWEVER, FAILS TO GIVE DETAILS

Conference Puts Turks Near War, Spokesman Says   Foreign Minister Says Country Now Leans To Allies

Turks Veil Intentions But Troops Man Border   Bulgaria Seethes, Cabinet Meets, Troops Desert to Join Guerillas While Turks Cheer  Homecoming President Inonu

Tnonu Happy Over Results _ Of Meeting   President Of Turkey I: Highly Elated After Conference . At Cairc With Roosevelt

Turkey Closer to the Allied Camp   Was an Outgrowth of Inonu’s Conference With Roosevelt and Churchill.

Turkey ts Closer To Allied Camp   ROOSEVELT IS LAUDED BY TURKISH PRESIDENT

Turk Cabinet Meet Awaited   Seen As Clue To Meaning Of F. D. R., Churchill, Tnonu Talk.

TURK SAYS HIS NATION HAS BEEN LED CLOSER INTO: ALLIED G AMP   But . Avoids Inference That Turkey Is Nearer to Par*  “"“sigipation in War   CONFERENCE IS FRIENDLY

Where Turkey Stands A Secret   Turk President Carried Away by Roosevelt’s Personality   “RARELY MET SO PLEASANT A MAN”

Japanese Concede American Forces Superior in Air      nor Returks toAnkara; May 2 e  ‘Make Statement About Confer

INONU CONFERS WITH MINISTERS   ANNOUNCEMENT ON ALLIED UNITY TO COME AFTER TALKS

TURKEY CLOSER TO ALLIES NOW AFTER MEETING   Expects Country  To Enter War Next Year

First Turk Statement Is Cheering   Foreign Minister Points Out Strengthening of Friendships

JAPS BEGIN AIR DRIVE IN PACIFIC   23 of 45 Planes Downed In Raid On Allied Base

Z) of 49 Enemy Planes  Stopped Cold   Nipponese Try  Large Seale Action Dieran finan Wace

TALKS TO FLYNN   FDR Confers With Former Dem Chairman. ure In Row.

Agreement Is Reached For Salary Fund   Method of Computing Corporate Net Income Tax May Be Changed  WAR-POWER MEASURE

GOP Leaders Agree on Finance Play   Change in Corporate Tix ‘To be Used for  . Teachers’ Raises

CHIANG SAYS JAPAN'S FATE IS SEALED BY SURRENDER OF ITALIAN NAVY TO ALLIES

Sees Surrender Of Italian Fleet Fatal To Japan   President Chiang Views War In China Linked With Euronean Theater

STATE OF REVOLUTION   Proclaimed by Jittery German Military Heads

CERMANS PROCLAIM STATE OF REVOLT ALL OVER GREECE   Invasion-Jittery Nazi Army Authority Orders Death Penalty For Slight Infractions  ,   GUERILLAS ACTIVE IN BALKAN AREA

Germans Clamp Down In Greece   Proclaim Nation In State of Revolution

JITTERY NAZIS DECLARE GREECE IN OPEN REVOLL   King Peter of Jugosiavia Asks -U. S. to Send Military

Death Penalty Set For Patriot Acts; Guerrillas Attacking   King Peter of Jugoslavia Seeks U.S. Aid in Laying Ground Work  For Co-oneration During Invasion

NAZIS TIGHTEN RULE IN GREECE   Death Is Ordered for  Minor Infractions

Declares All Of Greece In State Of Revolution   Nazi Governor Deerees Death Per alty For Even Minor Infractions

NAZI ORDERS OVER GREECE ARE T0 BE RIGIDLY ENFORCEL   Invasion-Jittery Germans Proclaim Country in Revolt and Threaten Death Penalty.

ALL GREECE IN REVOLT: NAZIS   Decree Follows ‘Pitched Battles With Guerillas

Today’s War Commentary  Germans Gamble  Drain ‘Troops From Occupied Countrie:

Japs Bayonet, Machete, American Wounded: Yanks Kill 175 of 300 Attackers      Baby Missing Three Days Found: To Live

Michigan Officer Tells How Japanese 'Ambushed, Butchered Wounded Yanks

3 DEAD, 8 INJURED IN MYSTERY BLAST   Fight Believed Buried In Debris At Kearny, New Jersey

DEATH TOLL IN KEARNEY BLAST MAY REACH {i   Three Known Dead With Eight Persons Now Reported Missing

Allied Planes Leave Jap Base Flaming  [of SSS  ee «ape   42 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Koepang Friday

Timor Battered By Heaviest Raid Of War  42 Tons Bombs Dropped On

Allied Planes Leave Jap Base Flaming   42 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Koepang Friday

Report Blasts At Gibraltar  Reported Attack By Axis Subs Als Cnnbtieweed

Tunis and Bizerte Firmly In Hands of Allied  Forces   INVASION STAGE SET   African Campaign Prac tically Ended With Hitler’s Worst Defeat

Axis Subs at Gibraltar   Three Freighters Beached After Attack Early Today

THREE VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS. AT GIBRALTAR  Tugs Beach Three Mer chant Ships in  a Pe

Hundreds Surrender With Fall of African Strongholds and Big Stores of Arms and Epuipment Fall Into Hands of Victors

Conquest of Tunis, - Bizerte on Friday Amazingly Sudden   American and _ British —_—_ Press Hard on __Remnants of Axis

WLB Asks Clarification   3 Ships Beached After Explosions At Gibraltar

SHOULD APPLY FOR RATION BOOK NOW   OPA Ready To Receive Applications From Consumers —Blanks Were Distributed Through Mails

WAR RATION BOOK 3 READY   Applications May Be Sent to Philadelphia at Once

Treasury Is Behind  Income Bil   Morgenthau Says Admin istration Favors 20%  Withholding Tax Plan

TREASURY BACKING WITHHOLDING TAX   Morgenthau Gives Approval To Committee Proposal

FIGHT SEEN ON ‘WITHHOLD TAX’   Administration Favors Plan, Says Morgenthau

Treasury Backs  Withholding Tax   Open Fight Looms Over Rum] Bil]

Yanks Defeat Desperate Foe Forces In Violent Hand-to-Hand Battle; Germans in Frenzied Flight

Axis Middle Lines Suffer Total Collapse   U. S. and British Troops Within 30 Miles of Messina

ALLIES SEIZE AXIS BASTION OF RANDAZZ0   MESSINA DEFENSE LINE COLLAPSES IN MIDDLE

U.S. Soldiers Smash Over Pivotal Base   Germane in Frenzied Flight With Total of Prisoners No

ALLIES TAKE RANDAZZO IN BITTE      Americans Smash Into Bomb-Torn City in Violent Hand-to-Hand Struggle With Nazis.   FLEEING ENEMY HOTLY PURSUED   Conquest Likened to Capture of Tunis-—Speeds German Evacuation of Island.

Allies Pursue Nazis Fleeing From Randazzo   Enemy Evacuation To Mainland Is Accelerated

British Menace Taormina Along Western Coast And Nazi Hold Dwindles

RANDAZZ0 FALLS INTO HANDS OF ALLIED TROOPS   ‘Middle Of Axis Defense  : Line In Sicily Suffers  Complete Collapse   GERMANS REPORTED IN FRENZIED FLIGHT

Allies Capture Randazzo, Major Axis Stronghold   ivotal Position in North east Sicily Falls after Battle

Axis Line Suffers Collapse In Center   Ace German Grenadiers Face Capture After Most OF Nazi Traone Flee Taward Meccina

Foes Yield Hold in Grim Fight   Axis Defense Lines Diminish; Americans Spearhead Capture of Randazzo After Violent Battle; Foe Is Frantic

GERMANS REPORTED *' IN FRENZIED FLIGH"             Taormina Area Menace: by Advancing British: Forces

RANDAZZO IS CAPTURED BY ALLIES   U. S. Soldiers Smash Through Desperate German Rear Guard In Violent Hand To Hand Fighting   Move Bomb Line

Americans Force Way Into City   Germans Fast Losing Hold On Big Island

Axis Defense Lines  Middle of netnee Collapse   GERMANS REPORTED IN FRENZIED FLIGHT   Taormina Area Menace by Advancing British Forces

Nazis Sent Into Frenzied Flight   Stronghold’s Fall Likened To Tunis

Stronghold Taken In Hand-to-Hand Battle   U.S. And British Troops Push Hard Against German Flanks Within 30 Miles Of Messina At Some Points

NAZI POSITIONS DETERIORATE IN SOUTH UKRAINE   Soviet Troops Storm Into Suburbs of . Krivoi Rog

REDS NOW PUSH SOUTH TOWARD DNIEPER MOUTH   Storm Krivoi Rog Suburbs After Retaking Vital Hydro Center

Planes Won't Replace Ships  Two Vessels Needed   Two Vessels Needed For Each Transport

Huge Expansion Of  U. S. Power Seer      But OWI Warns Against Over-Optimism For Post War Transportation Claims

$270,000 Flaugher Will Case F. zzies Out; Plaintiff Settles   Bedell, Attorney For Estate, Says It Saves Costly . Litigation

SHERW9OD NAMED ON PAROLE BOARE   Served as Director of State Welfare Department

COVIET DRIVE ROLLS AHEAD FOR 15 MILES   Reds Ignore Nazi Announcement of Fall  Of Bryansk

Red Army Force Crosses Dnieper   Battles For Toehold On West Bank Today

Russian Forces Are Now Only 100 Miles From Polish Border   Ukrainian Capital Under Seige Of Big Artillery Other Points Threatened With Capture

Domes Of Kiev Lie Under Siege Of Soviet Guns   German Forces Reported Retreating Westward Along 750-Mile Front

NAZIS STILL REELING WEST IN RETREAT   Glittering Domes of Kiev, Ancient Holy City of Russia, Now Under  Siege Guns  ow ee  MANY ENEMIES SLAIN

Germans Reel Westward As Reds Push Ot   German Retreat Is Becoming A Rout: 750 - Mile’ Front Is Active

Red Forces Smash On Howert Kiev  ne Column   One Column Only 160 Miles From Poland

BERLIN ADMITS SOVIETS CROSS DNIEPER RIVER   Reports Indicate German _ Setbacks May Develop Into Rout

RUSSIAN ARMY REACHES KIEV RIVER SECTOR      Reds Battle for Dnieper  Toeholds as Germans  Retreat Westward

ds Punch Jes In jieper Line   rls Next Objective In  sian Offensive

Germans Ree! Back Under Red Blows   Russians Grapple Fo New Toe-Holds Across Dnieper

KIEV UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE OF REDS   Fall Of Six Other Towns Appears Imminent: Resistance Is Stubborn At Dnepropetrovsk

NAZIS REEL BACKWARD IN RETREAT   Kiev, Ancient Holy Russian City, Now Under Siege of Red Guns

reds Struggle Near Dnieper   Soviet Armies See Toehold Across River; Kiev Fall Near.

DOMES OF KIEV UNDER RUSSIAN STEGE WEAPONS   Polish Border Only One Hundred Miles Beyond Grasp of Rolling Soviet’ Forces   INAZI ADMITS REDS. ON DNIEPER’S EDGE   Battling For Toeholds Across Broad River and Germans Reel Westward In Retreat

RED ARMY TROOPS BATTLE FOR HOLDS ACROSS DNIEPER  KIEV THREATENED BY  FAST-DRIVING RUSSIANS IN MAD OFFENSIVE

BITTER BATTLE IS RAGING ON DNIEPER BANKS   Retreat of Germans Developing Into Rout on Parts of 750-mil Front in Russia—Heavy Casualties Inflicted on Invader Horde by Victorious Soviet Armies— Fight in Kuban

Steel Plant Chemical Works Damaged, Large Amount Of Railway Equipment Destroyed In Allied Attack On Rome

Rome Alerted But No Raid Is Announced   Refugees Seeking  Shelter Of Vatican City Safety Area

SUPPLIES OF WATER: MILK LOW   Pipes Are Fractured and Deliveries Halted—New Air Raid Alarm Is Sounded.

Death Greatl y Exaggerated  Jim Die. No, 88-Year-Old Chinaman. Only Indisposed

JIM DIE CASE HAS CHINATOWN AGOC   Prepares Handyman’s Funer al While He’s Lonesome in Hospital

Jim Die’s Dilemma  Not Dead, Only Lonesome, So Funeral Is Postponed

To Delay Talks  + + + Roosevelt-Churchill Meet With Stalin Must Wait Result Of Drives

PACKAGE TRADE T0 BE GIVEN PRIORITY   Business Prospects Poor for Liquor Sale By Glass, Says Dunn.

PACKAGE LIQUOR GETS PRIORITY      Business Prospects Poor For Places Selling By The Glass

at AM RAAVER AV BU  MILAN RUUACU DT NCH RAIDS AS PEOPLE CRY —  — Sse eee lh a  FOR PEACE: PARIS HIT

PEACE RIOTS REPORTED ON RISE IN CITY   Opposition To Bombers Slight

Another Heavy Raid Staged on City of Milan   . Mosquito Bombers In New Attack Upon Berlin

LIVESTOCK IS MOVING EAST FOR PACKERS   Military Service To Accumulate Big Reserve

HOGS, BEEF GATTLE MOVE TO MARKETS   Civilians Won’t Necessarily Benefit from Upturn

STOCK MOVING TOWARD MARKET   Larger Meat Rations Fo Civilians Not Indicated

Cattle Market Sees Increase   Gain Doesn't Necessarily Foreshadow Larger Meat Rations For Civilians.

Beef, Hogs Flow to Market But It Doesn’t Mean More for Civilians

Livestock Moving To Market Again But Meat Ration Increase Unlikely

RUSSIAN-POLISH BREACH STILL WIDE AS EVER   Reds Expected To Demand Purge Of Polish Govern want. le Dell.   GERMAN MISSION TO CONDUCT AN INQUEST

RUSS-POLISH RIFT REMAINS WIDE AS EVER   CHURCHILL MAKING NO HEADWAY TO HEAL RUPTURE

Russian-Polish Breach Remains As Wide as Ever   Soviet Government Angry over Charges Made in London

Allied Political Breach Still Far from Healed,  Nazis Organize ‘Mission’

Breach Between Russians And Polish Government in Exile in London Widened

Russo-Polish Breach Still Wide as Ever   Reds Indicate They Will Demand Change in Exiled Goyernmeul

Soviets Asked To Free Poles  Now in Russi   Exiled Government Says  Families Are Needed kT. Babatld Pealend

Russia May Create Rival Polish Government; Poles Demand Reds Release Those Now in Soviet

Day. of  Britisherican’ Attempts: to Heal ‘Breach, Break Seems Wide Open As Ever

SOVIET AND POLISH BREAK STILL WIDE      ‘Purge of Government-in Exile May be Demanded  hy Ruecia

\Bitter Russian-Polish Diplomatic Breach Over German “Cmolensk Gravevard Story’ Wide as Ever

'Red-Polish Breach Wide Open Following Latest Soviet and Nazi Claims On Deaths

POLISH SIGRY PUBLICIZED BY RUSSIANS   May, Demand Purge Of Polish Government-1InExile In London Or Create Rival Regime   True Poland

Russian-Polish  Breach Unhealed   Both Sides Brush Off British. L. S. Ureings

STATESMEN TO VISIT MOSCOW   American And British Representatives To Go To Russia Shortly; No Misunderstanding.

FULL UNDERSTANDING BY ALLIES ASSURED   British and U. S$. Statesmen To Go To Russia Soon

BREMEN RAIDED IN DAYLIGHT BY HEAVY BOMBERS   42 German Fighters Are Shot Down To Loss Of 33 Allied Aircraff   BULGARIAN CAPITAL ATTACKED ONCE MORE

GERMAN PORT OF BREMEN IS HIT BY FLIERS   Fortresses and Liberators Bomb Big U-Boat Center   ANOTHER ASSAULT. ON SOFIA REPORTED

BREMEN ROCKED BY FORTRESSES   42 Nazi Planes Downed, 33 Lost; Berlin May Be Bombed Again

GERMAN PORT OF BREMEN IS HIT BY FLIERS   Fortresses and Liberators Bomb Big U-Boat Center  ANOTHER ASSAULT ON SOFIA REPORTED  New RAF Night Activity Over Continent Indicated

Destroy 42 Nazi Planes, Lose 25 Bombers in Raid   RAF and Dominion Fliers in Action

BOMBING OF BREHAN BY U.S. PLANES   Causes Destruction of 42 Nazi Planes At Cost Of 25 Bombers And Eight Fighters; Sofia Bombed Again.   Roar All Day

Over700 Raiders Over Ruhr   Industrial Center of Krefeld Bombed and Naples is Hard Hit ;

HUGE AMERICAN CAAT] RAIDING IN DAYLIGHT   Today's Attacks Follow Up Crushing British Assault On Krefeld Last Night

DANISH JEWS FLEE HEINRICH HIMMLER   Nazi Chief In Copenhagen To Oversee Exile To Germany

Nazis Deport Danish Jews   Report Himmler To Supervise Personally

Delegates End ‘Moscow Confab   U.S, BRITAIN, RUSSIA, CHINA TO UNITE IN ACTION AFTER DEFEAT OF ENEMIES; SET “GENERAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION”

RURAL SCHOOLS REMAIN CLOSED   Absences Increase in Cit) Due to Continued Cold and Ice

Search Discloses Weapons   BEST SAYS NIP CROWD SURROUNDED HOUSE WITH CLUBS THURSDAY NIGHT   COLONEL VERNE AUSTIN SILENT ON QUESTIONS ABOUT FURTHER EVENTS

 Army Seizes Jap Weapons »At Tule Lake   Evidence of Planned Break Found; Search Is Still Going On

ALLIED FLIERS MAKE HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR ON ITALIAN BASE   Island of Pantelleria off ‘Tunisian coast hit hard by air fleets

British Squadrons Hit 20 Trains in Nazi Europe.   POUND CONTINENT’S INVASION ROUTES   French Patriots Derail German Troop Train Kill 130.

SIX ENEMY SHIPS HIT BY ALLIES   Americans Strike At Trapani in  Weetern Sicily

OHIO FARMERS TO SET UP PLANS   To Devise Methods for Increasing State’s Food Production

What Strategy Will Follow New Invasion? . .  What Will Next Move Be To Invest Rabaul?

DOMINATE ALL NEW BRITAIN   Bougainville’s Investiture Seen as Possible Pattern for Knocking Out Rabaul

Ponder Next Allied Move   Neutralizing of Jap Island Bases from Air May Be Objective

GEN, MACARTHUR IN  SUCCESSFUL SMASH  ENEMY STRONGHOLD BACKDOOR ROUTE TO  RABAUL, GUARDING JAPAN AND PHILIPPINES

Air Control  Key to Drive On Rabaul   Great Base and Harbor May} Be Neutralized Without Frontal Assault

Thrust Best Ground Stroke In Pacific War   By HAROLD STREETER Ranannitatad Prac War i’ eitar

Invasion Of Jap Island Succeeds   ALLIED LANDINGS ON NEW BRITAIN ROUT ENEMY

REA CHARGES ~~ ARE PROBEL   INVESTIGATION STARTED INTO CHARGE PRESSURE BROUGHT IN PURCHASE OF

Lend-Lease Fund Passes House ~  Approval Is Given by 299-t4.4: Unita _

Lend-Lease Fund Passes House  Approval Is Given by 309-to-4 Vote

LEND LEASE GETS APPROVAL   House Votes Six-Billion Appropriation; Bill Bans Subsidies

House Votes Six Billions For Lend-Lease Following Assurance of Exchanges

House Passes Bill For Nation’s Lend-Lease Costs  Appropriation Sets Six Billion Aside for Budget

FISHER CITES RECORD TO COMBAT RUMORS   Claims Ohio Getting Better Than Even Break

The War Today   Start of Burma Offensive Hinges on Defeat of Nazis

Today’s War Moves   Cannot See Big Drive on Nips Until Hitler is Defeated

The War Today  eee  Analyst Considers Answer to Question, of Offensive In Burma.

Doesn't See All-Out Blow Against Japanese Until Germany Is Beaten

WAR ANALYST SEES LITTLE CHANCE OF ALL-OUT DRIVE ON JAPAN UNTIL HITLER WHIPPED

DeWitt Mackenzie Says  Can't See All-Out War On Japs Until Germany ls Handed Its Licking

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS      Total Bag of 100.000 Axis Prisoners in Making in Sicily

ONLY SMALL TRIANGLE YET UNCONQUERED   Official list of prisoners hasn't caught up with Yank mop-up

Axis Prisoners In Sicily Will Reach 100,000 Shortly   Over 60,000 Already Taken And Thousands More Are Trapped By Yanks   U.S. TROOPS MOVING EAST ON NORTH COAST

ALLIES’ BAG OF PRISONERS IS NEAR 100.000   Control Ali Parts of Island Exeept Catania-Messina Area

BOYS NOT SOFT THEY PROVEII   Confound Draft Officers’ . Charges That They are Flabby.

Ask Setup Expanded   Huge Social Security Plan Proposed By Union

Free Booklets Available For Victory Gardens   Petersen Implement Co. Has Supply

BLAST FAUVILLE AIRPORT IN EVER BAUX, FRANCE   New, Fast German Planes Raid London with No  Losses

Vote Earmarking Of Highway Funds  Would Set $17 Million Aside For Counties

War Casualties Now Total 18,235  Increase of 12,855 Noted Since Last Repoxt Feb 20

Casualty List of 18,235 Is Out   List Names Only Those Whose Next of Kin Are Notified, It Is Explained

U.S. Casualties Put at 78,235   Doesn't Include  All Tunisian Losses

U. S. War Casualties Total 78,235; Include 12,123 Dead, 40,435 Missing

Grand And Petit  Jurors Drawn For Court Duty  Judge Van Oosterho   Judge Van Oosterhout To Preside At February Term

Trial Jurors:  Are Selected:  ‘For November Term of the District Court

Assignment for County War Food Committee Told by J. W. Doud, Area Marketing Head

Permanent U. S. Military Mission Is ‘Created in Moscow, Lend-Lease Agreement Gives More Help to Reds

KISKA SHAKEN WHEN BOMBERS BLAST AT JAPS   100,000 Pounds of Bombs Sent “Whistling Down” on Harbor and Camp; Make 8 Forays

Kiska Blasted © Heavily Friday   Over 100,000 Pounds of Bombs Delivered

Kiska’s Volcano Is Beacon For New Devastating Raids; Yanks Win Kavieng Battle

TONS OF BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON KISKA   Heavy And Medium Bombers Hit Jap-Held Base In Aleutians

SOLON VOICES: OPPOSITION TO MANPOWER ACT   Army Should Halt Drain.  On Civilian Workers, ! Reynolds Says   :   OPPOSES WORK DRAFT      Expects Youths Will Make Up Increases In Armed Forces

Manpower Draft Arouses Senator  Reynolds Worried At Size of Army

U.S. MANPOWER DRAIN BY ARMY SLATED TO ENT   Senator Reynolds Opposes - Compulsory Legislation to Draft Men.and .  * Women Workers   PREDICTS FIGHT   Asserts Army Big Enough and Expects Tapering . OFFOFSelective Service Quotas

Manpower Draft To Face Fight   Strenuous Effort Seer To Squelch Bill

Opposition To Manpower Bill Growing   Chairman of Senate Mili. tary Committee Says Drain Should Halt   FIGHT BEING MAPPED

Interpreting he \War   Battle Reports From South-Central Tunisia Brighter

Interpreting the War News— =  Batttle in Tunisia Has lts Brighter Aspects

GOING HIGHER   Shain Cyrnan Te Mis oat State Expected TO Pile Up  Even Larger Surplus.

STATE GOVERNMENT SURPLUS GROWING   Unexpected f Rise in Sales Tax Yield Is Credited

Allies Gain In : Heavy Rains On Haan Front  ae i o: Strategic” re Hills Reported , ge en re

ALLIES TAKE TWO HILLS OW ITALY FRONT   Canadians Gain In Bitter Fighting In Ortona Streets

Tamper With. Army Tanks  F go eae   Group Of Men Chased From Train At Oakland

3) ARMY TANKS MEDDLED WITH   Seals Broken, Machines Entered While On Siding; Gang Seen Near

BARE TAMPERING WITH ARMY TANKS   OFFICERS FIND SEALS ON VEHICLES BROKEN—SEARCH BEGUN FOR GANG.

Sabotage of Ariny Tanks Is Feared      Shipment Tampered With. Probers Ask Why No Giatrd Stationed

SABOTAGE ON ARMY TANKS DISCOVERED   Seals were broken whil train stands in Oakland, California

PROBE DAMAGE TO ARMY TANKS   Intelligence Officers Say Seals On Conning Towers Were Broken

36 Army Tanks Tampered With On Oakland Rails:   Seals Broken, Armore Cars Entered; Suspiciously Acting Men Sought

WAR BOND oALto OPURRED BY ols   Kiwanis Club to Sponsor Visit of Jap Suicide Craft Here.

WAR BOND SALES ‘SPURRED BY SUR   Kiwanis. Club - to: Sponsor ‘Visit of Jap Suicide - Craft. Here. : ee

AIR FLEETS WIDEN BOMB-GOUGED GAPS IN NAPLES SECTOR   Great Damage Reported To Key Axis Rail Routes In South

SOUTH ITALY RAIL SYSTEM IS BLASTED   Allied Air Fleets Smash At Yards And Junctions

Furiously Attacking Allies Widen Bomb-.Gouged Gaps in Shaky Italian Railroad System—Smashing Communication Lines.

SHAKY ITALIAN RAIL SYSTEM SLUGGED AGAIN   Day and Night Attacks Range Near Rome and Great Damage Reported.

More Bribery Arrests Loon   Rushton Says Other: Face Prosecution

WHEELER SAYS "FATHER DRAFT TO-BE BLOCKEL   MONTANA SENATOR DECLARES CONGRESS WILL OVER. " WHELMINGLY . BUP-PORT HIS BILL

Wheeler Says Bill Will Pass   House And Senate Leaders Promise Action On  Measure To Prevent Draft Of Dads

Wheeler Aids Dads   Promised Support On Measure To Prohibit Drafting Of Fathers

Fighting French Force Joins With Eighth Army In Western Libya   CHILDREN KILLED IN LONDON ATTACK

Russians Move Toward Kharkov And Rostov — French Forces Join British In Africa

FRENCH CONTACT  BRITISH FORCES   Rommel’s Retreat Complicated As Al:  ied Armies Join; Reds Closing In  On Key Towns

SENATE URGED BY TUNNELL TO ADOPT CONNALLY PROGRAM   DECLARES DETAILED FORMULA NOW MIGHT PROVE EMBARRASSING LATER

ARMY CURFEW ON JAPS IS HELD CONSTITUTIONAL   a id wg he Defense Meesure; Relocation Not in Ruling

OU UAT UNM WORLD GYM, OAS WILLKIE   U. S. Must Not Rebuild Barriers To World Collaboration, Says GOP Leader

ODT PLANS POOLS FOR COAL HAULING   See 22 Percent Hike in Coal Use

Believe That Castillo iseapes In Gunboat; Suenos Aires Seized   Minister” of War Leads: $000- ‘Men - In Revolt As Govt. Head Refuses To Change Attitude Toward Axis

Castillo Flees as Pro-Allied Units March on Capital   Castillo Government Installed On Warship; Says Revolt Is Sure to Fail

Troops Clash in Argentina; Gov't Flees   Revolutionary Forces Seek to Ease Restrictive Measures  Laid Down by Chiat

Blood Spilled As Insurgents Enter Capital   Strategic Points Captured By Rebels; President Castillo Forced To Transfer Government’s Seat To Argentine Warship   BULLETINS

Pres. Castillo Believed to be On Gunboat   Forces of Gen.  Ramirez Take Over Peacidantial Palara

REVOLT FLARES IN ARGENTINA; CALLED SUCCESS   President with ‘Policy of Prudence’ Flees and Takes Refuge on Warship   REBELS CAPTURE CAPITAL   ‘Long Live Democracy’ Cry Goes Up in Buenos Aires As Leader Takes Over

Castillo Flees to Warship   Army Seizes  © Control of Strategic Points In City

Castillo flees as Gen. Ramirez takes over power   Clashes in Buenos Aires cause some casualties

CASTILLO RULE OVERTHROWN IN SHORT REVOLT   President Reported Using Navy Gunboat To Flee From Country   WAR MINISTER (S LEADER   Action Is Protest Against ProAxis Neutrality Of Government

Pro - Axis Chief _ Resigns; Revolt. _ Strongly Backed   7000 Revolutionaries Marching On Buenos Ayres, the Capital; Part of Navy Loyal ' To Pro-Axis President

Troops March Into Buenos  res; Provisional Coun cil Set Up   PRESIDENT IN FLIGHT   Revolt Aimed at Only Re  gime on Continent With Axis Relations

Revolution in Argentina Ousts Castillo  President Flees Yn Gunboat After Skirmish

Gen. Pedro Ramirez, Minister of War, Heading Movement Begun in Army   DEATHS REPORTED   Revoluiionaries Aim at Reversing Policy Maintaining Ties Wilh Axis

ARMY REVOLTS IN ARGENTINA: CASTILLO FLEES   Rebels Seize Contrel Of Strategic Points In Buenos Aires   REVOLT ‘SUCCESSFUL’   Report Castillo and Aides In Flight Aboard Gunboat

Pan-A merican Solidarity Aim  Or Rerolutionists; Seize Police i Headquarters In The Canital   Fighting In Suburbs Of City; Casualties Are Reported; Castillo Said ‘To Be On Gunboat Being Watched For At Montevideo

Units Led By Gen. Pedro Ramirez Rise Against President Ramon S. Castillo’s Neutral Government—Official Quarters Term Action Simply As “Military Movement”—Chief Executive And Cabinet Said To Have Fled From Capital City To Warship

Bloodshed Occurs as Army Revolts Against Castillo's ‘Middle of the Road’ Regime   -Pre-Allied Revolutionary Forces March Into Buenos Aires, Forcing. . Government to Take Refuace on Ship

§.000 Revolutionaries Rout ‘Repressive Forces’ of Castillo  LED BY WAR CHIEF  *Revolt Aimed at Break of Axis Liaison, Report

HEADQUARTERS BUENOS AIRES POLICE SEIZED   One Or Two Persons Killed In Initial Clashes But No Street Rioting fs Reported   REPORTED CASTILLO MAY FLEE COUNTRY   Revolt Being Led by Gen. Arturo Rawson; Return to Constitutional Government Demanded

CASTILLO IS FORCED TO “ FLEE CAPITAL   Free Elections Are Demanded By Rebels

LEADER SAYS TRIUMPH HAS BEEN GAINED   President Castillo Is  Reported on Gunboat After Flight

CASTILLO IS REPORTED TO BE ON GUNBOAT   Montevideo Reports Buenos Aires Radio Appeal by Fleeing President for Support   “FLEES CAPITAL   Radio Reports Revolutionists Plan fo Create Provisional Three-Man Government

PRESIDENT FORCED OUT BY PRO-ALLIED GROUP   Castillo Flees On Gunboat When   Troops March Into Buenos Aires

Revolting Troops Occupy Positions in City of Buenos Aires   Report Minister of War in Castillo Cabi net as Revolution Leader; Acting President Transfers Capital

President Castillo Flees Country After Army Stages Uprising   NEUTRAL STATUS CHANGE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT   Control Of Country Taken With Little Bloodshed By Military Units

AANALL WILL GALL SPECIAL SESSION   Georgia To Act On Voting For Service Men

Action Follows Suggestion of Senator George ‘That State Act to Facilitate Voting by Absentee Service Men. Atkinson Says Present Laws  Adequate ;

WOULD REPEAL VICTORY TAX   Robertson Proposes 10 Per Cent Sales Levy; CIO Protests

Congress Bil Will Urge Tax on Sales  Robertson Plan Would Drop  Victory Levy

Robertson Puts Strength Behind Sales Tax Plan   Virginian Determined To Put It Across Despite Roosevelt

Rep. Robertson To Introduce Sales Tax Bill   Wants 10 Percent Levy; Would Include Repeal Of Victory Tax

Solon to Offer Sales Tax Bill  Measure to Repea  Us ataecd T acer

SALES TAX T0 . BE INTRODUCED   Rep. Robertson Favors 10 Percent Levy And Victory Tax Repeal

Rober tson Will ~ Bring Sales Tax. Refore Congress  Plan To Be Linkes With Repeal of Mi ha boy ge oer

[Senate Acts to Simplify State  Licensing Rules   Practices of 47 Agencies Covered By Legislation

LICENSE SYSTEM IN OHIO MAY BE GIVEN THOROUGH REVISION   State Senate Approves Face-Lifting Operation Affecting 47 Agencies

poviel Lroops Wo basen Ween Lapuire 1 Wo  Kiev Suburbs  Advance Brings Russians fo Within 5 Miles of Cily Proper   COSSACKS MoP UP

SOVIET OFFENSIVE MAY DRIVE ENEMY BACK 10 POLAND   German Losses in Summer Campaign Placed at 5 700 000 Men

KIEV SUBURBS TAKEN AS REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE   Nazi Evacuation Of Crimea Starts: Near City Line

Nazi Retreat Forces Reach Bulgaria   Russians Five Miles From Heart of Citadel

RUSSIAN FORCE GRABS 2 KIEV SUBURB TOWNS   Cossacks Mop Up Last Enemy Troops From Nogaisk Steppes

KIEV SUBURBS CAPTURED BY SOVIET FORCES   New Assault Holds Threat Of Splitting German Armies In Russia

AUOoTAN DRM MAY PUT NAZI BACK IN POLAND   Complete Capture Of Kiev ls Opening Objective Of New Offensive

Two Suburbs Of Kiev Taken  By Russians :   Germans Evacuating Crimea Beginning to Arrive in Rulearia

Evacuating Nazis Said Arriving At Black Sea Ports   Break-Through Brings Soviet Forces Within Five Miles of Kiev

Reds Capture Two Suburbs Of Kiev In New Offensive   Only One More Important Suburb, Priorka, Almost On City Line, Remains Between Soviets And Their Prize — 2,700,000 Nazi Casualties ;

* Believed to Be Final Assault on Ukrainian Capital; Winding - Up Conquest of Dnieper Sectors   RULLETIN

OPEN NEW DRIVE IN DNIEPER ARE!   Nine More Japanese Ships Are Sunk or Damaged at Bougainville Invasion.

TAKE SUBURBS OF UKRAINIAN CAPITAL CIT}   Cossacks Wind Up Campaign on Nogaisk Steppes to Free Vast Area.

Japan's Munda Base Attacked In Allied Raid   Other Centers in North western Solomons Also Bombed

MUNDA BASE IS ATTACKED   Other Enemy Positions Are Raided by U.S. Airmen

Air Base at Munda Bombed by Yankee Airmen  Other Enemy Sites In Solomons Also Attacked

BURLINGTON STATION TO BE REBUILT   Search goes forward two bodies lost in Wednesday fire

May Not Invade Italy This Year   Observers Believe Germany Will Be Major Objective.

Summer Invasion Of Italy Unlikely, \Observers Claim   Alps Would Block Allies From Germany; Policy Is Blast It From The Air

Invasion of ltaly Heid Not Likely   Easier Ways to Germany; Churchill Urges TiaHans Ouit

Italy Is Not _ Likely To Be  _ Invaded Soon   Observers Believe Allies  Will Strike at Germans By Easier Routes 

EXPERTS DOUBT ITALY WILL BE INVADED SOON   There Are Easier Roads To Germany, Allies’ Prime Objective; Situation Reviewed By Astute Observers.

CHAPLIN WO0S YOUNG ACTRESS   So Says Gossip Which Puts Spice in Other Woman’s Paternity Charges

No. 1 Deb Of Last Year To Wed Chaplin  ro... oe! ee  aT   Ex-Comedian Now Coaching O'Neill For Movie Part

Hear Chaplin To Wed Debutante   Paper Hears He Will Wed Playwright O’Neill’s Naushter.

Chaplin to Marry Author's Daughter   Eighteen-Year-Old Oona O'Neill will Wed Film Comedian, His Fourth ‘Teen-Age Bride

CHAPLIN PLANS TOWED AGAIN, CRTS LIGENS]   Daughter of Playwright Eugene O’Neill Will Be Fourth Bride of the Famous Comedian   HE’S 54: SHE’S 18   Manhattan’s Debutante ~ No. 1 Last Year Now In -Hollywood, Signs for Movie Role

REPORT CHAPLIN T0 BE MARRIED TODAY      To Wed Teen-Age Daughter of Playwright

CHAPLIN SAID TO WED TODAY   Bride Given As Ona O’Neill, Daughter of Playwright

CLAIM CHAPLIN TO WED AGAIN   Oona O'Neill, Daughter of Playwright, Is Reported Bride

Chaplin Obtains  License to Marry  Oona O’Naill, 18, - Bride-to-Be, Named N VY ’e Nea 7 Dob

CHAPLIN GETS LICENSE   Movie Comedian Plans to Wed 18Year-Old Girl

British Chief Gives Stand On Invasion   Warns Russians Plans Will Be Governed By Military Strategy  DEFENDS EFFORTS

DESIRES UNITY OF THOUGHT ON WAR PROBLEMS   Advises Reds Political Reasons Will Not Be Considered When  Assault Comes   Looks To Crossing

Invitation For Conference Is Sent To Stalin   Churchill Says Second Front Is Governed By Military Considerations

Churchill Invites Stalin To Meet With Him and President Roosevelt   Decisions on Second Front To Be Based on Military Considerations Alone

Churchill Asks Stalin to Join  In Ally Confab   Premier Says Cross Channel Invasion Will Be Governed by Military Strateay, Not Political Reasons

CHURCHILL SAYS 2ND FRONT PLANS MUST BE SOUND   Warns Russia Military Considerations Alone Will Dictate Time of Invasion of Continent.   HE INVITES STALIN TO 3-POWER PARLEY   Expresses Hope “Unity of Thought and Decision’ Can Be Reached by Allied Leaders.

BID T0 STALIN GIVEN IN TALK -BY CHURCHILL   But Reds Are Given * Warning on Second Front Demands

Warning on Second Front Issue Given   Invasion Plans To Be Governed by Military Reasons. Russia Tok

a. . * —t  ~. @: . 1 an we”? =: i . “SS S'S Jas ten oe eee A AE  : : f . nn C _——@  ~ Srexre 1738  we   “‘avices Jarey "Wi-a S-ain, 3-308 § (0. ascv _nvasion

VICTORY SIGNS ARE REVIEWED BY CHURCHILL   MILITARY STRATEGY ALONE TO DECIDE INVASION TIME

Says Second Front Hinges ‘Upon Military Requirement   Confidence Is Expressed In War's Outcome But Need For Continued Allied Unity Cited

Stalin Invited By Churchill © To Join In War Conferences      Prime Minister, However, Declares Allied Plans for Future Attack Will be Governed by Military . Considerations and Not Political Reasons

Churchill Asks Soviet Leader To Join Party   Churchill Pointedly Warns Russia 2nd Front Will Come When Time Is Ripe

Extend Invitatior To Stalin, fo. a Trparie Parley   “Warns That Allied «Plans Are Controlled “by Military Outlook

Cross Channel Operations  to Be Studied   Churchill Extends Parley Bid to Russian Premier

Churchill Asks Stalin fo Join Next Conference   Warns Russia Second Front to Be Based On Military Strategy

SCHOOL SUBSIDIES ASSAILED IN SENATE   Educational Bill Attacked B Republicans

Americas Bombers Deliver Heavy Attack At Bizerte, Hitting At Axis-Held Railroad In Eastern Tiuwrisia: Eieht Planes Downed      RETREATING AFRIKA CGRPS if STRAFED

 AXIS SUPPLY LINES NORTH AFRICA HIT   Industrial Ruhr Blasted For  Fith Time

AMERICAN ARMY TROOPS DO GOOD ON GUADALCANAI   U. S. Fighters, Under First Baptism Of Fire, Capture Ridge Dominating Henderson = Air-

Americans Capture Mt. Austen   Army Wins First  Solomon Offensive

JAPS OUTFOUGH ON GUADALCANA!   U. S. Army Troops Capture Important Ridge In First Offensive

YANKS, BRITISH ARE 40 MILES FROM JUNCTION   Fleet Now Pounding Rommel Retreat To Bizerte

Eighth Army Fans Out Over Plains   All Allied Forces Tighten Squeeze on Rommel’s Units

HEAD OF i ASS Gn   Stomach Troubl2 With Undulant Fever Caused His Dea h.   ‘WAS ILL SIX WEEKS   Ccntrol'ed One of the Largest Private Foriunes in tre Wor:d.

Edsel Ford Is. Taken By Death   Only Son Of Henry Ford Dies Early Todav At Home In Detroit   WAS PRESIDENT OF FORD INDUSTRIES

7 * EDSEL B. FORD, ONLY SON OF WENEY FORD, ay EARLY TODAY IN fRorr

Fdsel Ford President Of Large Industrial Empire  Died Wednesday In Detroit

UNITED RELIEF BREAK OCCURS   Four Latin-American Countries Say They Can’t Pay Amount

US War Casualties Total 90,860; Issue   Warning That Hea vier Losses Ahead

U. 5. Casualties Listed 90,860   Stimson Says Heavy Losses Lie Ahead

‘Number U. S. Losses in War Hit Total Of 90,860; Stimson Warns of ‘More to Come: Enemy Suffers Worse

Enemy’s Losses Greater, But Future Operations To Be on Larger Scale

WAR BOND oALts STILL BAD HER   Total Not Known, But Sub scriptions Don’t Total — Half of Quota, 

WAR BOND SALES: - STILL-BAO HERE   Total Not Known, But Sub'  seriptions Don’t Total” ” Half ‘of Quota, .:

Harassed Nazis Claim People’s Revolt Crushed   General Strikes Add to Troubles Of German Forces

New Strikes Break Out In Danish Cities   German Authorities Face New Difficulties After They Crush Revolt Of Military Units

King Encourage: Danish Revolt; Many Are Shot   2,000 Casualties Reported In Two Days Of Fighting; General Strikes Break Out In Nine Cities

Danes Slain, King Okehis Revolt; Nazi Troops Suppress General Strike in Nine Danish Cities   King Will Abdicate If Hostages’ Taken; State of War Exists

Monarch Approves  Rebels   NAZI ARMORED PATROLS SHOOT DOWN DANES AS KING SIGNALS FEELINGS

Indications That Troops Are Being Withdrawn Are Reported Today In Unofficial Sources

Withdrawal To Stronger Defense Line Is Reported   Berlin Seys Castelrosso Evacuated: Nazis Pour Troops Into France

SATURDAY SESSION FOR ASSEMBLY MAY WIND UP BUSINESS   Senate “Share - the - Ride” Bill Dies in Committee —Important Cusiness  Pending.

“Share Ride” Bill Dies In Assembly Committee; Labor  Measure Revived

RIDE SHARING BILL I$ KILLED   Ohio Legislature Anticipates Completion Of Business In Saturday Meet

‘hitler Now Preparing for Gas Warfare, Radio Mystery Source Warne

GERMAN UNDERGROUND RADIO  Says Hitler Sends Two Train . Loads of Gas Daily to Red Front   "Sealed Wagons Contain Poison Gas," Broadcast Informs Listeners

MYSTERY RADIO IN GERMANY WARNS OF USE OF GAS   Appeal Is Made to Hitler's Labor to Prevent Change in Warfare. *

‘SECRET’ RADIO WARNS FITLER WILL USE GAS   Broadeast Appeals, For German Labor, To Prevent It

State Bank Resources Total Exceeds ‘One-Eighth Billion; Gains ‘Are Made in Holdings of U.S. Funds

Weather in Helena  By U. 8. Weather Burean   State Bank Resources Total Exceeds One-Eighth Billion; Gains ‘Are Made in Holdings of U. S. Funds

COFFEE RATION IS INCREASED   Next Stamp Will Only Be Required To Last For Five Weeks

President Ordered Federal Troops to Disperse Mobs After Governor Could Not Cantrol.

Federal Troops Restore Order In Detroit Race Riots; After 25 Are Killed and 700 Injured

4 KILLED, ° 700 INJURED IN DISORDERS   Riots Nation’s Worst Civil Disturbance Since Last War

As'. ‘ed to  Sa e, Too oO: Butter   Pric me sdministration Urges Farmers Only to Eat Their Fair Share

2 Democrats Face t in Attempt To e Pay-As-Go Tax   House Defeat Revise

Eight Placed In Class 1-A   Carter County Draft Board No. 1 Re-Classifies 80

3B Men Placed In 1-A Class   Thirteen of Men / Reclassified into 1-A Are Married

26 Men Placed In Class of 1-A   Twenty-Four Placed In 4-F Class and Six Each in 2-A and 2-B

17 Fathers Placed in 1-A   Twenty-one Men Are Classified 1-A By Draft Board

14 Men Placed In 1-A Class   15 2-A, 12 as 1-C, Nine as 4-F, Five as 2-B. Announced

CANADIANS, BRITISH, YANKS, NEAR   Yanks Capture Caronia on North Coast of Sicily

BADOGLIO FORBIDS ITALIANS 10 HEAR ALLIED BROADCAST   Hopes Are Fading That Badoglio Will Agree to Peace.   PREDICT THE ALLIES WILLSTRIKE AT ONCE   People of Italy Are Cry ing for Peace at Any Price.

Badoglio Bans Allied Radio   Military Dictotor Trying to Stitle Sentiment for Peace

No Peace Terms Offered Italy,  Eden Declares   Allies Still Stick To Unconditional Surrender   INVASION EXPECTED   Lightning Drive Into Mairland May Be Started Soon

U. S. Warships Hammer Axis   HEAVY CRUISERS FROM AMERICAN FLEET ENTER BATTLE FOR FIRST TIME, SHELL ENEMY DEFENSES; EISENHOWER GAINS

Examination Schedule   Dr. G. P. Smith Visits Mexice During Christmas Holidays

ALLIES NEAR ADRANO OF ETNA LINE   Axis Evacuation Ships at Messina Fired by Planes

‘Fighting Is Nearing Messina   Axis Position Is Now Deemed  Ac Honelese

ALLIES BLOCK ESCAPE ROUTES FROM ISLAND   Resistance Stiffens as Advance Nears Key Center on Mount Etna Line.

AXIS CAUSE IN SICILY TS HOPELESS   No Chance Left For Troops to Even Evacuate

AXIS MAY PLAN SWCILY ESCAPE IN ~MESSINA AREA   But. Allied Aerial Tormentors are Laying Harbor In-stallations In Waste to Avert It.

ADRANO IS ‘ONLY FIVE MILES OFF   Key Communications Town Neared by Invaders Who Find Stiffen ed Resistanee. °

ALLIES SMASH TO WITHIN 5 MILES.OF KEY TOWN, ADRANO   Aerial Squadrons Batter Rear-Line Sicily Roads, Fire Evacuation  Vessels —

ALLIES RAID MESSINA IN SICILY PUSH   @ sane. Key Communications Town, Goal Of Our Troops

 American Forces Around Troina  ‘Get Stiff Fight —   Aerial Squadrons Fire Evacuation Ships  At Messina Harbor

BACKS TO WALL, AXIS FORCES IN SICILY STIFFEN   But Allies Forge Ahead

GIRGUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS. TF INTEREST   Former Tipton Girl Award. ed Judgment Amount+ ing to $660. °   HAD ASKED FOR ‘$2,500   Another Damage Suit Filed, Livoree Action Filed and One Withdrawn. .

CIRCUIT COURT PROGEEDINGS ~~ OF INTEREST   Former Tipton Girl Awarded? Judgment Amounting to $6C9.   HAD ASKED FOR $2,500   Ancther Damage Suit Filed, Civorce Action Filed and One Withdrawn.

TAG RECEIPTS LAGGING   Patralmen Are Watching for Driv< ers Minus 1943 Plates

RAYBURN 1S SPEAKER  AT DEDICATION OF  M’KINNEY HOSPITAL DECLARE JOBS MUST BE  PROVIDED FOR ABLE AND CARE FOR SICK

POLISH EXILES FEARING RIVAL   Activities of ‘Free Poiand’ Group in Moscow Arouse ‘ Anxiety.

EE POLAND” He WORRY. TO DIPLOMATS   lear Competing Governments-in-Exile May Be Formed

L SCHOOL TEACHERS 10 MEET AUG. 3   Some Schools to Open Tuesday, Others on Wednesday

RURAL SCH TEACHERS 10 MEET AUG 3   Some Schools to Oper Tuesday, Others on Wednesday

‘Nine-Months Drive Of 700 Miles Reaches Approaches Of Zhitomir, Vital Railway Link—Soviet Forces Also Make Gains In White Russia—Germans Set Kerch Afire—Berlin Says Russians Are Trying To “Force Turning Point Of War”

Reds Advance 700 Miles in Nine Months   Russian Troops Reach Halfway Mark from Stalingrad to Berlin; Allied Bombers from Mediterranean and Britain Converce on Cannes

Soviets Halfway To German Capital - From Stalingrad   Nazis Set Port City of Kerch on Fire; Rain, Snow Slows Up Alfies in Italy

Soviets Half Way on March Upon Berlin   Drive 700 Miles Westward Since Turn at Stalinarad

Most Advanced Point 700 Miles West of Stalingrad   Germans Seem Unable to Slow Down Soviet Drive

Soviets Nearing Ahitomir   Italian Front Bogs Down In Rain, Snow

Go Forward 18 Miles in Night   Russians Trying To Force Turning  Point of War. 

German Lines Broken in Gomel Sector of White Russia, Hitlerites Set Kerch Ablaze

Red Army Halfway To Berlin   Nine-Month Drive . Reaches Point MidWay Between Stalingrad and Nazi Capital

RUSSIAN TROOPS CONVERGING ON LAST JUNCTION POINT OF NAZI HELD-NORTH-SOUTH RAIL LINE   Occupation Announced of Radomysl Puts Red Spearhead of First Army in Ukraine Less Than 30 Miles from Vital Korosten-Zhitomir-Berdichev  Railway

Reported 10 Miles From Zhitomir   Between Berlin  And Stalingrad

ALLIED ADVANCE IN ITALY BEING SLOWED BY MUD   Supply Gates from Germany Blasted Again - - - Allies Tighten on Solomons

Threaten Zhitomir, Vital Railway Town In West Ukraine   See Way Opened To Polish Line; Soviets Gain On Gomel Front; Fighting In Crimea Continues

Soviets Now Halfway From Stalin-. grad To Berlin.   By RICHARD McMURRAY AP War Fditor °

RUSSIANS GAIN GROUND; DRIVE TOWARD BERLIN   Reach Half-way Mark Between Stalingrad and —

Reds Drive © 720 Miles Since Feb. 3   Allied Bombers Converge on Nazi Rail Center of Cannes from Britain, Italy

Bad Weather Slows Allied Drive In Ital   Russians Only Ten Miles From Zhitomir After Night Advancement.   /'HUNDRED TOWNS FALL

NINE MONTHS’ DRIVE OF 700 MILES BRINGS NEW THREAT TO NAZIS  DEMORALIZED GERMANS APPEAR POWERLESS TO

REDS DRIVE 700 MILES IN NINE MONTHS   Reach Halfway Mark to Berlin and Drive Near Last Railway.   Kerch, Crimean Port, Set Afire by Germans

Five Children, Woman Die in Houston Fire   Two Other Occupants Of Two-Story Apartmen Building Burned, One Critically Reported

Six, Dead In  Houston Fire  Two Others Burned I:   Two Others Burned In Apartment Blaze

FIVE CHILDREN BURNED 10 DEATH   MOTHER ALSO DIES; ANOTHER LEAPS FROM BLAZING APARTMENT

5 Little Children, Woman Burned te Death in Houston   Fire Spreads Like Flash Through Apartment Building

SIX DEAD IN TEXAS BLAZE   Five Of Victims Children From 3 Months To 5 Years; Mother dJdumoed

WOMAN. FIVE TOTS BURNED 10 DEATH   Two-story Frame Building at Houston, Tex.,  Wrecked by Fire.

PARK ATTENDANCE”. CLIMBS WITH FRIED a... ce, p GHICKEN ..WEATHE!

Rescue Crews Hampered by Mine Gases   However, Efforts Pushed to Find Trapped Miners

‘Wall of Gas Tord: 67 Miners Caught In Mine Tragedy  Rescue Squads Work Wearing Masks in “ame 22 tlag nm .). Chalt   USE SUCTION FANS  Only Five Bodies Recovered, Report Seven More Seen

Biq Offensive Ready   ‘Swift Massing Of Allied Forces Brings Zero Hotir Near For Japs Holding Vital Air Field At Lae

Allies Pounding Air Base of Japs   General MacArthur's Army Is Moving Ahead Almost Unopposed   [MANY PLANES IN AIR   Installations at Lae’ Have Virtually Been Destroyed  in Attack

FINAL AooAUL UPON LAE NEAR, JAPS TRAPPEL   M’Arthur Pours More Troops Into New Guinea Area For.Final Action

TWIN COLUMNS ASSAULTING LAE   Troops And Guns Massed For Final Smash Against Jap Base

Reinforcements Are Sped Into New Guinea Lines   Zero Hour for Big Lae-Salamaua Drive Is Believed Near

‘Japanese Army Encircled at Lae-Salamaua   MacArthur Massing His Forces For the Zero Hour

TRANSPORTS CARRY TROOPS, GUNS TO LAE   Zero Hour Near for Jap Base in New Guinea, Australians Only Two Mites from Airdrome

Zero Hour Near For Lae; Allies Two Miles Away   Rarely A Moment When Formation Transports Not In Air Over Moresby Field; Meeting No Sizeable Opposition From Japs.

ALLIED FORCES BEING MASSED FOR LAE “KILL   Airborne Troops From Stanley Mountain Sector Reinforcing MacArthur’s Forces

TROOPS AND GUNS SPEED TO SUPPORT . MACARTHUR’S ARMIES  ZERO HOUR FOR JAP BASE AT LEA APPEARS TO BE NEAR

Zero Hour Near For Japs At Lae   Allies Advance With Slight Opposition

Allied Artillery Bombards Japanese: 20,000 Of Enemy Reported In Trap

Fall Of Lae Nearer As Allies Mass   MacArthur's Armies Move Virtually. Unopposed From Two Sides Upon Base, With Heavy Reinforcements  Moving From Port Moreshy.

ALLIES RUSHING TROOPS, GUNS TO LAE BATTLE AREA   Zero Hour For Lae Seen Near As Swift. Maasing of Forces  Progrest—Motesby Is Busy Qa

ALLIES BOOST TROOPS AT LAE   Guns And Men Speed To Reintorce MacArthur's Armies

Huge Armada Moving On Japs   ALLIED FORCES MASSING FOR ATTACK ON LAE

Troops Mass To Take Lae   Yank Paratroopers Tighten Trap On Big Force Of Surrounded Japanese

LAE BLOCKED ON THO SIDES   Reinforcements Pour in by Air as Allied Troops Advance on Jap Base.

ZERO HOUR IS” NEAR FOR JAPS AT LAE AIRBAST   Troops and Guns Speed Over Owen Stanley Mountains to Reinforce Allied Drive — «

Zero Hour Nears For Great Jap Base   Troops and Guns Massed by Allies For Final Assault in Move to Seize Lae

REINFORCEMENTS RUSHING TO LAE; ZERO HOUR NEAR   Aussies Approach on East, Yanks  on West; Artillery Now Shelling Nip Forces

Zero Hour For Lae Is Near   Streams of Reinforcements Being Rushed To Allied Forces By Air from Port Moresby

—PACIFIC—  Fall Of Bomb-Smashed Jap Base At Lea Near   Troops And Guns Speed Over Owen Stanley Mountains From Port Moresby To Reinforce Allied Armies Moving In From Two Sides .

ARMIES MASS FOR CAPTURE OF LAE BASE   American and Australian Forces Close In On Jap-Held Center

Zero Hour Is Near at Lae   Troops, Guns Flown in for Guinea Showdown

Rainbow Division Reborn at Ceremony Marked by Message From MacArthur, Commander of Famed World War Unit

Blue River On Rampage   Eleven Feet Over Bank Full at Blue Rapids; Solomon Out at Beloit

Stocks Of Lard Piling Up Again   Outlet For Surplus May Be Found in Soap Making

OUTLOOK BETTER   More Soap Bought But Supply of Fats Reported Larue.

AXIS TARGETS HIT BY ALLIED FLIERS   New Round-the-Clock Assault on the Nazis Launched

Aerial Armadas Smash Naziland   Round-The-Clock Rattaring Resumed

ES PRESS AERIAL DRIVE   Air Armades in Round-the. Clock Assault on Nazi  Positions in Europe

Allies Launch New Air Drive   Yanks Embark Upor Twilight Attacks

Allies Launch New Attack on Nazi Targets   Flying Forts Bomb Naval Installations At Port of Nantes

Bombers sRake  Port on Loire Air Blitz Also Takes In   Air Blitz Also Takes In  Berlin. Parise

POST-WAR MILITARY TRAINING ~ WILL BE URGED IN CONGRESS   MILITARY AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN .TO INTRODUCE BILL FOR YEAR OF COMPUL SORY TRAINING

Military Training ~ For Youths After War Is Proposed   Kentucky Congressman To Ask Action To Provide Year’s Training For Boys By ROBERT HUMPHREYS

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED AS REVOLT GROWS   Nazi Ultimatum To Guerilla Army In Alps Expires Tonight

BIG BATTLE IN ALPS LOOMS   Ultimatum Given Patriots; Planes Dropping Arms

FRENCH PATRIOT ARMY GROWING IN LAKE GENEVA AREF   Allied Planes Dropping Arms and Ammunition to Fighting Natives.

~ FRENCH PATRIOTS   Full - Seale Battle Is Developing, Swiss Say   PATRIOTS MOBILIZING TO HARASS GERMANS

PLANES DROP MUNITIONS TO THE FRENCH   Patriots Hidine In Alps Are Given Weapons

Outbreak of Full-Scale Fight Between French Guerrillas, Nazis Expected Momentarily

Allied Planes Drop Arms To French Patriot Army Gathering in Mountairis

Western Hemispheric Union Offers Possible Pattern for Post-War Plans

HEMISPHERIC UNION HOLDS CELEBRATION   Twenty - One Republicans Are Represented at Observance in Washinaton   GREETED BY PRESIDENT

Pan American Way Offers Postwar Pattern  50-Year-Old Hemispheric Union mate Inta Cnatliiaht

PAN-AMERICAN DAY IS MARKED   HEMISPHERE UNION SEEN AS POSTWAR PATTERN

PAN-AMERICA DATE MARKED BY NEW AIMS   a Union May Be Pattern of Post-War World Planning

HULL TO MAKE PAN-AMERICAN DAY ADDRESS   Commemorative Programs Arranged Throughout U.S. and Her Sister Republics   UNITY EMPHASIZED   President Roosevelt Sees Union As Possible Pattern For Postwar Planning

POLICY GROUP ENDS MEETING   Lewis Says UMW Meeting Is ‘Just Adjourning’; Silent On WLB  Hearing

LEWIS EXPECTED TO IGNORE WLE SESSION TODAY   President Of Miners Has No Comment After New York Meeting   COAL SEIZURE PLANS ARE BEING READIED

i rai bee i 3 Oy : Cage 5 oS e ei "ae ae : te Sms ‘ ‘ %, is   Private George I. Simpson, _ 24, Was Killed In the , Berobean ‘Area ©

ONCORD MAN REPORTED LOST _ IN ACTION   Private George I. Simpson, 24, Was Killed In the   ‘European Area -

VEG PRICE CEILING * PLACED IN HOCKING      35 Other Ohio Counties Af. » tected By OPA Order

Pacific Chiefs Meet To Plan War Offensive   Curtin Sees MacArthur Says Australia Invasior Threat No Longer Exists   "HOLDING WAR' OVER   Manpower, Materiel Are Chief Considerations [n Strategy Talks

Fight to Hold Japs In Southwest Pacific Won; Curtin, MacArthur Meet   Allies Ready to Develop An Offensive to Roll Back the Japs, Leaders Hint

OFFENSIVE LOOMS, HINTS JOHN CURTIN   Says Fight to Hold Japs In Pacific Has Been Won

AUSTRALIA NOW ‘BELIEVED SAFE   Yrime Minister Wopsful After Conference With MacArthur

CURTIN SAYS HOLDING FIGHT IN PACIFIC NOW   Hints Allies Now Ready to Develop Otfensive

‘Labor Carries  Subsidy Ball   Present Arguments  Against House Bill

LABOR SEEKING TO SAVE FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN   Goes Before Senate Committee In Effort To Held The Administration

LABOR URGING. - FOOD SUBSIDY   BOTH AFL AND CIO. SPOKES. _MEN APPEAR BEFORE COM_ MITEEE--C HAIRMAN ROPES FOR COM. PROMISE: .

OHIOANS WILL FETE NEW YEAR   Prepare To Give Rousing Welcome To 1944 At Midnight Tonight

Welcome To ’44 Planned  ++ + + ++ + + Ohio Couples To Pay Up To $17.50 (Drinks Extra) To Greet New Year In Style

END OF STRIKE IN CLEVELAND VOTED   Transportation — Workers Return Immediately to Jobs

Cleveland Street Car Strike Ends   Union Votes To Return fc Work after 17-Hour Walkout

CLEVELAND STRIKERS TO RETURN TO JOBS   Municipal Transportation Sysien Paralyzed Thursday When Men Walked Gut

STRIKE ENDED AT CLEVELAND   City is Paralyzed for 17 _ Hours by Tieup of Bus Aud Trolley Lines ;

Transportation Strike To End In Cleveland   Strikers Vote To Return After 17-Hour Walkout Tying Un War-Busvy City

FOOD PROBLEMS BEING STUDIED   Marvin Jones To Outline ‘43 Program Before Congress Group Monday

FDR, CONGRESS EYE “44 FOOD OUTPUT SNARL   Jones Invited To Outline Ideas For Next Year’s Farm Program   POWER ISSUE ARISES   President Assures Farm Leaders Subsidies To Be Used Sparingly

FOR, CONGRESS TAKE UP FOOD PROBLEMS   Production Is Under Examination by White House and House Committee

NEW APPROACH TO FOOD ISSUE  nnn  BEING SOUGH   Both White House anc Congress Takes Up Problem For Minute Examination

NATIONAL FOOD OUTPUT SUBJECT OF CLOSE STUDY   White House and Congress Examining Matters Relative to Adequate Diet for People

Russians Press New Offensives West Of Dnieper   Crossing Below Kiev May Prove To Be One Of Decisive Operations

Three Bridgeheads On Dnieper Are * Expanded Today   Germans Might Be Forced to Retreat From Russian Soil

Russians Expand Their Positions   Reds Cross Dnieper River, Catching Germans by Surprise,

Reds Menace Entire Nazi Eastern Front   Break Across Dnieper at Three Points in Surprise Offensive

Surprise Red Drive Is Moving   Vaunted Dnieper Line Is Cracked in 3 Places— —Pressure Continues

REDS STAGE BIG NEW OFFENSIVE   Front Active From White Russia To Black Sea

Russians  Expand 3 Bridgeheads   Crack Dnieper River In Three Spots, One Just Below Kiev

Reds Threaten Nazis Entire Eastern Front   Press Surprise Offensive All Way From White Russia To Black Sea.   SLASM AL VITEBBSA

Reds Crash Through In Three Places   Expanding Bridgeheads On West Side of Dnieper That Threaten Whole Front

Surprise Push Covers Entire Eastern Front   Stalin’s Armies Cross Dnieper At Three Places

SOVIETS RENEW SWEEPNG DRIVE ON ENEMY LINE   Reds Widen Three Bridge heads West of the Dnieper River

The Red Army Pressing New Surprise Autumn Offensive, Reported Expanding the Dnieper Bridgehead.   A MAJOR CROSSING NEAR PEREYASLAV   Caught Enemy by Surprise and Was Carried Out in Four Hours Under the Cover of Darkness.

Entire Eastern German Front It Threatened   Dramatic “Smashing of  Dneiper ‘Line. Pressed “2 From White Russia. Tc ‘Black.  Sea... Major _ Crossing. ‘Below. ‘Kiev “May be One of Decisive >? Onerations of War:

New Red Drive May Cave In Nazi Defenses   Soviets Secure Several Bridgeheads On West Bank Of Dnieper   KIEY FALL IS NEAR   Teutons May Withdraw To Bug River, Undermining Northern Front

Russians Crack Dnieper Defense At Three Point:   Autumn Offensive Is Gaining Speed

NEW SURPRISE AUTUMN OFFENSIVE... BEING PRESSED ALL THE WAY FROM WHITE RUSSIA TO BLACK SEA   Dozens of. Populated Places Already Captured on West Bank of Dnieper River at Central Crossing. Red Positions Beyond River Believed Secure

Reds Expanding Holds On West Banks Of River   Battle To Wrest Kiev From Nazis Reported Started

Reds Form Wedge In Dnieper Line   Battle For Complete Liquidation of German Defense Line and Occupation of Kiev Believed Underway.

Big Surprise Push Drives Nazis Back   Soviets Preparing for Kiev Offensive; Enemy Caught in Night Smash

SOVIET ARMY IS EXPANDING BRIDGEHEAD S   Dispatches Say Crossing of Dnieper Caught Enemy By Surprise and Was Staged in Darkness   DOZEN VILLAGES TAKEN

soviets expanding Three: Bridgeheads West of the  Dnieper From White  Russia to Black Sea THREATEN TO CAVE       THREATEN TO CAVE IN WHOLE FOE FRONT   Major Crossing of Dnieper, Fifty Miles Below Kiev, "Proves Staggering  : Blow

Russians Unleash Offensive On Front From Leningrad To  Ria-bk Gea Cract

Capture Nevel In Big Smash  Enemy’ s Bridgehead In Caucasus Mopped Up

Entire Nazi Line Porites On Dnieper   Russians Extend Three Bridgeheads; Thrust at Leningrad Salient

NAZI FRONT IN DANGER OF CAVING IN      (Soviets Crossing River at Three Places Are Reported Already Organized for Advance of Additional Troops.

Reds Pressing New Offensive On Wide Front   Surprise Move May be Decisive Action of Wor

RED ARMY PRESSING ITS NEW OFFENSIVE UPON WIDE FRONT   THREE BRIDGEHEADS WEST OF DNIEPER RIVER BEING EXPANDED

Russians Expand 3 Bridgeheads   SOVIET TROOPS CROSSED DNIEPER RIVER IN DRIVE

a, ee With Our               Soldiers and  Sailors   our Gerken Brothers Of Arcadia in Service   AT CAMP Hoop

Vv With Our Soldiers                and i) Sailors — se @   Four Gerken Brothers Of Arcadia ‘in Service

Negroes Are Sought For Kidnapping   '14-Year-Old Boy Tells How Pair Snatched Blonde Girl

Reds Capture Bridgeheads  From Germans   _ Attacks Seen As Prelude. to Huge Offensive

LOZOVAYA FALLS IN RED ADVANCE BELOW KHARKOV   Strategic Rail Center Is Latest To Be Freed , OF Invaders   BLACK SEA FLEET USING BIG GUNS

Russian Forces Stacdity Advancing on Kharkov  city, ENGULFED BY . ‘SOVIET ARMY ARC  Thirty. five Mile Advance - Westward Is An nounced

Kharkov Isolated By Severing Of  Route To Crimea   Capture Of Lozovaya Re ‘presents 50-Mile Advance From Karvenkova.

Surgeons Save Soldier's Life   Replace Brain In Delicate Operation

ISLAND NATIVES HEAR FIRST BAND CONCERT   Startled at First by Task Force Music, They Remain to Listen in Delight.

Vast Radio Blackout ‘Blankets Continent   American Fortresses Pound Targets in Muenster; Santhern Coast ef France. Cherboure Hit

BOMBERS PLUG BRENNER PASS   Allied Air Forces Also Dam Entrance to Mont Cenis Tunnel

PLANES BLAST GERMAN EXITS ACROSS ALPS   FLYING FORTRESSES FROM AFRICA HIT AT MUENSTER

Bombers Blast Brenner Pass  Sey Oe er; es,    Fertresses Pound Strateqic Muenster

Allied Force Cuts Brenner Pass To Hamper Enemy   Fliers Bomb Vital Passage Into Italy Also Block Strategic Tunnel; Great Plane Force Heralds New Raids

Bombers Lash Brenner Pass   Tunnel Entrances  Believed Dammed By GLADWIN HILL 

Brenner Pass and Tunnel Targets Of Allied Airmen   Yanks and British Work Together for a Pincers Blow

Crippling Blows Struck at Entrances to the Tunnel i  MUENSTER TARGETS AGAIN ARE BOMBED German City Po Pounded for  Second Time in Week

President Roosevelt Urges American People to Be Generous With War Benefit Groups and Relief Agencies

F. D. R. Appeals for Finances  Welfare Fund Driv: - Formally Launched

ASOLINE FROW RAW   ‘resident Roosevelt Urges American 'eople to Be Generous With War ienefit Groups and Relief Agencies

FDR Appeals To Americans For  War Fund Drive  $125,000,000 Be Sought In  Campaign

WAR FUND IS ~: ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT :   Donation Termed ‘Share in Winning»  Of the War’

FD. R. Appeal: For War Fund   President Opens ° Contribution Drive

NAVY PLANES AGAIN BOMB JAP KAHILI   Change Number Of Enemy Losses Yesterday From 37 To 34

Debate On Trade Pacts Nears End   Administration’s Hand Strengthened

HARGISS RELEASED FROM K. U: STAFF   [rack Coach to Recreational and Welfare Work in Kansas City’   FOR PRATT & WHITNEY,

HARGISS RELEASED FROM K. U. STAFF   Track Coach to Recreational and Welfare Work in  Kansas City

A TIPTON MAN #8 PICKED Ut   And. Olficers ire Lookin, for aiJeffergon. Town-  ship Res: ent, ~

A TIPTON MAN ID PIGKED UF   And Officers Are Looking for a Jefferson Township Resident.

ALLIES HAVE WON DIPLOMATIC BATTLE AND GET TURK AID  APPEALS AND THREATS NAZI VON PAPEN FAIL TO HAVE EFFECT

The Diplomatic Battle Has Been Won..... Turkey Already Giving Allies Every Aid Short Of Declaration Of Was

Reds Pierce Nazi Lines Near Orel   Germans Admit Red Onslanghts Drive 2 Wedzes

NAZI GOVERNMENT MOVES TO VIENNA   Many Major Offices Reported Shifted Away ie  r

Transfer Nazi Government To Vienna   May Declare Berlin Open City; 1,250,000 Civilians FPvaruated

Bern Hears Nazi Chiefs  Leave Berlin   Government Reported Te Be Planning Open-City Proclamation.

Nazis Move Major Offices To Vienna   May Declare Berlin Open City to Save It From Ruin

NAZIG MOVE OFFICES TO VWENNA, REPORT   Substantial Part of Government Machinery Moved For Safety.

BERLIN MOVING GOVERNMENT TC VIENNA, GLAIN      Substantial Part Transferred to Escape Raids; Consider ‘Open City’ Proposal

NAZI CHIEFS FLEE BERLIN   GOVERNMENT MOVED TO VIENNA, REPORTS SAY

NAZI GOVERNMENT TRANSFERRED FROM BERLIN TO VIENNA   This Move Was Made for Safety From the Allied Air Raids.   BERLIN AN OPEN CITY?   Nazi Authorities Are Considering Proclaiming This Move.

NAZI GOVERNMENT MOVES 'TO. VIENNA   Many Major Offices Reported Shifted Away Room : Berlin ©    CROWDS QUIT CAPITAL

ais MOVING BUREAUS TO VIENNA Rumors of Open City Status Heard in Berlin

Nazi Offices  Go To Vienna      Officials Moving Out OF Allied Bomber Range; Evacuate Other Cities.

PART NAZI GOVT. MOVED TO VIENNA   Transfer of Government Agencies Made Because Of Fear of Allied Air  Raids on Berlin

GOV'T MATERIAL TRANSFERRED TC SAFETY BY NAZIS   Offices Set Up In Vienna, Bern Reports Say

Nazis May Operate Out Of Vienna   Government Machinery Sent There From Berlin

BUTTER QUIPUT NOW INCREASING   Dairy Men Say They Know Nothing Of Gov- eynment Rationing

Butter Shortage Will Continue   Dairymen Say, However, Output Will Expand Now Until July.

Butter Shortage By Dairy Men   Trade Sources Of Belief Situation May Become More Serious In Fall

naneenetinememaannaianentl ——— EE SET  ‘No > Immediate Relief In Butter Shortage

Litfle Relief Seen In Butter Shortage   Storage Stocks Show Decline

Must Boost Output, View Of Bankhead   'Present Rate Of Taking Men From Production Into Army Should Stop,  . Senator Contends

Bankhead Hits Heavy Drain On Manpower   Alabama Senator Charges Army Demands Lowering Power Of Production For Soldiers

BANKHEAD AIRS PROPOSAL FOR LIMITED ARMY   Alabama Senator Says It Would Facilitate Greater Production of Munitions and Food   DECRIES SCHEDULES   Declares Disaster to Ameri. can Soldiers’ in Africa, if _ dre, Due, to. Lack of Eguipment

BANKHEAD WANTS ARMY MANPOWER LOWERED .   And More Emphasis Put on Munitions and  Food Production

Walkouts Continue as Miner’s Hour to Strike Approaches   President Offered Any ~ Congressional Help Needed by Sen. Taft

THIRTEEN YOUNG. MEN : WHO _ BECAME 18 IN APRIL, ARE  : ON REGISTRA. . . ‘TION LIsy. 

FORMALLY OPEN ARMY CHAPEL   New Chapel At Transfer Camp To Be Used At  Services Sunday

CAMP CHAPEL TO BE DEDICATED   Ceremony to Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon at Shenango Denot.

MacArthur Calm But News Wasn't   Hoped For Some ‘Remarkable Results’"—Broke Back Of Rabaul Hub

Jap Base Back Broken: MacArthur   U. S. GENERAL SAYS SMASH CRUSHING BLOW AT MOST VITAL POINT

Almighty God Blessed Our Arms’—  Enemy's Back Broken, MacArthur Declares

General MacArthur Declares Heavy Raid On Rabaul Has Broken Back Of Jap Air Defenses:

WILL PROBE SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES   Special five-man committee is appointed by President

Press Lauded By Censorship Head   Price Is Speaker At Editors’ Meet

Ickes To Hold Hard Coal For  Eastern Users   Places Western Shipping Embargo

Ickes Steps West-Bound Anthracite   Charges Dealers In. East Refuse To Handle Bituminous

SEVERE HARD COAL SHORTAGE IN EAST   Embargo Placed on Hard Coal Shipments West of OhioPennsylvania Boundry.

ICKES ACTS TO FASE EASTERN COAL SHORTAGE   Puts Embargo _ Qn ShipMents To West Until After April 1

ICKES BARS SHIPPING COAL WEST OF PA      Acts to Protect Easi, Says Manpower Shortage ‘to Considerable Extent’ Responsible

ICKES PUTS BAN ON ANTHRACITE   Stops Westward Shipments Of Hard Coal To Alleviate Eastern Shortage

Give supplie: of anthracite to east coast   Ickes takes poke at WMC, dealers

Anthracite Coal Banned In West For 3 Months   Ickes Hopes Embargo Will Help To Relieve Severe Shortage In ‘The East

Coal Shortage In East To Restrict Shipment To West   Ickes Decidés On Embargo On Westward Shipments. E

Hard Coal Shortage In East Severe, Ickes Says   All Shipments To West Halted Until April 1; Blames Manpower Shortage

EMBARGO LAID ON HARD COAL TO WEST AREAS   No More Will Be-Shipped Beyond Ohio-Pennsylva nia Boundary Until  “<A pril 1. Iekes Decrees —   HITS EAST DEALERS, “MANPOWER GROUE   Says Shortage of Anthracite In East. Due to Dis--tributors’ Refusal to  ~ ‘Pandle Bituminous

Shipments Of Anthracite To West Stopped   Embargo Is Effective Until April 1; WMC Not Helping Coal  i a: o an

Place Embargo On Hard Coal   Shortage In East So Severe, None Will Go To West.

Embargo Is Ordered By Secretary Ickes As Result Of Shortage In Eastern States

Sec. Ickes Declares An Embargo On Westward \Shipment of Hard Coal

PUT EMG ARGD ON HARD GOA   Shipments West of OhioPennsylvania Boundary Stopped Until April.

FUEL CHIEF SAYS SHORTAGE DUE T0 LACK OF MINERS   Raps Manpower Commission for Failure to Meet Labor Crisis

East Short Of Coal   Ickes, In Blast At ; WMC, Says It Ig Due To Manpower Shortage

Ickes Goes On Tear Over Hard Coal   Harshest Comment Made About Manpower Board

COAL SHIPPING BAN IMPOSED   Anthracite Supply To Be Protected For East Coast

TA NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   American Heavy Bombers Set Record In Single  Day’s Bombing

Americans Shoot Down 74 German Planes in Day   Bombers Based in Britain Establish New Record for the War

RECORD IS SET IN ~ WRECKING PLANES   Forty-seven German Warcraft Sent Down in Single Dav

ANTI-OTRIKE LAW TESTED IN COURTS   30 Coal Miners Charged With Violations

MINERS ENTER ~ INNOCENT PLEA   Say Smith-Connally AntiSttike Law Uncon* stitutional

FDR, CHURCHILL IN PRELIMINARY WAR CONFERENCE   British Prime Minister Meets President At Hyde Park.

LAMOUR WILL WED OFFICER   SARONG GIRL TO MARRY CAPT. WILLIAM HOWARD

Allied Blows Against Japs  Are Forecast   Significant’ Developments Include Meeting of Halsey and MacArthur and Conference in Washington £

MacArthur ‘and Halsey ‘Map Plans   ‘Japan Also. Believed One of @ Main Topics in RooseveltChurchill Talks   INDIA MAY BECOME  ADVANCED BASE   “Moves to Reinforce U..S. Air Force and China Are Foreshadowed

MacArthur and Halsey Confer on Action in Pacific   Possibie Action in Reopening Route To China Is Seen

Foresee New Blows At Japan   Observers Believe FDRChurchill Parley To Deal Mainly With Allied Strategy In Pacific

Blows Against Jans Indicated   Halsey Confers With MacArthur In Australia

NEW BLOWS MAY  SOON BE MADE ‘ON JAPANESE   Adm. William F. Holsey and Gen. Douglas MacArthur Hold Conference.

PACIFIC HEADS  MAP NEW PLAN   Allied Planes Continue Heavy Raids On Jap Supply Lines

NEW ALLIED BLOWS AGAINST JAPAN ARE SHARPLY FORECAST   HALSEY AND MACARTHUR CONFER; INDIA CONSIDERED AS BASE

Halsey Confers With MacArthur  Action In Pacific Expected Following Present Conferences

Secretary of State Hull Speaks — to Nation on Moscow Meeting   Gave Congress Detailed Review of Conference Today Noon.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO MAINTAIN PEACE NEEDED, SAYS HUL   Secretary Of State Gives Congress Report On Moscow Conference.

$26,600 Quota In War Bonds Nov.   Randall County Citizens Asked to Resume Regular Monthly Buying of Bonds

Union Labor Control Bill  Before House   Members Urged Not To Permit Emotions To Sway Them

RAM AXIS BACK INTO TUNISIAN ‘COFFIN’ CORNER   Yanks Rejoin British; Reds Send 200 Planes in Raid In East Prussia

AMERICANS HURL ROMMEL'S ARMY BACK TOWARD SEA   British First and Eighth Armies Closing in on Enemy Forces From South and Southwest.

Probe Ship Crash That Killed 83   Ammunition Ship and Tanker Hit Off Atlantic Coast

NAVY. CONDUCTING INVESTI “.GATION INTO COLLISION  " OF AMMUNITION SHIP: AND TANKER = -

Ship Collision Costs 83 Lives   Ammunition Ship And Tanker Collide Off Atlantic Coast—Ammunition Ship Explodes   MANY SURVIVORS ARE BADLY BURNED

cITy FOLKS ASKED T0 HELP FARMERS   Labor : Shortage  Farmers’ Big Problem, Horst Declares

AIRFIELD IN ITALY AGAIN RAID TARGET   American Heavy Bombers Strike at Foggia on Mainland Second Successive Day   FEW PLANES MISSING

Foggia In Italy Again Plastered   Allied Losses Amaz: ingly Small In Many Raids.

Foggia Again BR arget For Heavy  US. Bombers        Airtield, Kailway Yards, Administrative Buildings Fired By Doolittle’'s Men

RAF BOMBERS ARE ACTIVE   Nazi Naval Base Hammered And Mines Are Laid.

WESTERN UNION AND POSTAL TELEGRAPH MAY BE CONSOLIDATE!   Sign Merger Agreement Seek FCC Okay Now.

AGREE TEACHERS ARE POORLY PAID   Senators Debating A Bill To Provide Federal Aid For Schools.

New York Pays Most to Teachers; U. $8. Aid Arguments Pro and Con   BY JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGY ZIBELKE

Allied Drive On Rome Renewed: Nazi Retreat May Be Taking Shape   Fifth And Eighth Armies Appear To Be Headed Toward Vatican City In Parallel Move

Vatican Seeks To Save Rome From Bombardment— —By Kirke L. Simpson (4  Last Natural Defense Before Rome Crumbles

Text of Joint Statement By President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin on Italy's Stand

Catholic Church to Launch Crusade for Victory in 43    Hemispheric Movement Will Begin In Churches Where Novena To Our Sorrowful Mother Is Conducted; 1,100 Churches In U. 8. and 156 Outside to Conduct Services, Starting March 12

Peace Crusade.  To Be Started      1.100 Cat holic Churches Back Move; Prayers To Ask Divine Aid

Catholics Plan Great Crusade   Prayers For Victory Wil Be Offered

VAST PLOESTI FIELD IS NOW FLAMING RUIN   Great Rumanian Qil Field 1 Raided Surday By 200 Liberators

20 American Bombers Lost Over Pclesti   Rumanian Oil Refineries Are Blasted by U. S.

SERIOUS BLOW 0 GERMANS’ SOURCE OF OIL SUPPL’   One-third of One-half. o Nazis’ Aviation Gas Believed Gone As Result.

RUMANIAN OIL FIELDS WRECKED   Many Fires Are Started By U. S. Liberators

RAID ON PLOESTI PROVES COSTLY   20 U. S. Planes Shot Down Over Target, ‘Several Others’ Fail To Reach Base.

RUMANIA’S VAST OIL FIELDS HIT BY YANK PLANES   Vast Ploesti Fields Supply One-Third to One. ' Half of Germany’s Entire Oil and  yf . Hegahan

Vast Ploesti Oil Fields In  Flaming Ruins   Drop 300 Tons Of High Explosives And Fire Bombs On Record 2,400 Mile Flight

Vast Rumanian: Oil Field Raided By Yank Fliers   20 Shot Down And Others Have Failed to Return

HEAVY RAID ON RUMANTA OIL FIELDS   Lost, But Ruin Nazi Oil Supply

Four Jap Ships Sunk  In Solomons Battle   Fifth Destroyer Damaged in Second Sea Struggle of Solomons: Marines Extend Holds on Empress Augusta, Kill 75 Japs

FIFTH ENEMY WARSHIP HIT. IN SEA FIGHT   Clash Occurs Between Rabaul and Invaded Bougainville

Marines Capture Betio Island to Clinch Our Grip  4,000 JAPS SLAIN; BUT FEW PRISONERS  Enemy Is Mowed Down When They Launch Counter Drive

RUMOR PERSISTS   Pittsburgh Hears Agents Wil! Sunervise Gaeollne Gales,

Gasoline Under U. S.   Direct Supervision Reported Near As Shortage Grows

- NORMANDIE-ON UP   Pumps Keep  Working and Ship Now Has 35.4 Degrees List

BOMBARD CAGLIARI,   Allied Bombers “Hit at Sardinis Cupital City in Big Bidw. *

BOMBARD CAGLIARL   Allied Bombers Hit at Sardinia Capital City in Big Blow.

BROWNSVILLE AIR PILOT FIRST TO SMASH GERMANY   First American Airman Ove1 Land Of Hitlerites And Huns Tells Story

BROWNSVILLE FLIER FIRST Q’ER GERMANY   Fcrmer Fayette County Mine Mechanic Stages Another Important “First”; Particirated In Raid Over Dieppe.   Hit Target

Million Acres In Six. States Flooded When  Rivers Overflow Banks

FLOOD WATERS INUNDATE MILLION ACRES OF LAND   Ten Feet Of Water Over Hollister Main Street

FLOODS COVER MILLION ACRES   Seven Lose Lives. Highways Blocked. Crops Ruined In : 6-State Area

FLOODS DAMAGING 6 MID-WEST STATES   Over One Million Acres Of Farmlands Under Flooded Streams

FLOODS TAKE TOLL OF 7 LIVES   Hundreds of Farm Families Homeless In Six States”

Troops To Aid Farmers   Proposal Is Endorsed B; President, Ful- ~  mer Says

F arm Labor Compromise Anticipated   Roosevelt Approves Plan Of Using Troops To Help

Use Children, Soldiers To  Harvest Crops   Labor Shortage Suggests Plan

DRASTIC ACTION PLANNED 10 GET FOOD PRODUCED   School Children Also Being Counted on To Help With Planting and Harvest   ARMY EXPANSION STANDS   House Committee Assails Draft of Fathers and Urges __Deferment Priority

SOLDIERS, STUDENTS IN. CROP. PROGRAM   Expect Far More Extensive — Use of Schools; President « Endorses Proposal

COMPROMISE’ SEEN POSSIBLE ON FARM LABOR PROBLEMS   Soldiers May™ B Be Detailed To Help Farmers. When Civilian Help Is, Uncbtainable

Soldiers, School Boys May Help In Farm Work  Roosevelt Approves ‘Plan Jn. Principle;  Committee Starts Pa Aa i Mie Pownce

FARMS MAY GET AID FROM SOLDIERS   Mder School Children in Tentative Plans; Pay-AsGo Tax-Opposed

Troops May Take Over Farm Work  Plans Also Studied For Use Of Older School Children

TENTATIVE PLAN TO USE TROOPS ON FARMS MADE   Chairman Fuller Says President Has Approved

SOLDIERS MAY HELP FARMERS   FDR Approves __ Harvest Plan in Principle

BLANKET OF CLOUDS   i wil Help Keep Kansas Tempera: tures Above Freezing

Bomber Missing With 10 Aboard   Left Wendover, an Base On Saturday Morning

Soviet Troops Converging  F Qn Zhitomir   Spearheads of Russian Army Only 28 Miles

Rail Junction Next Target of Russian Troops   Torch Applied To Crimean Port Of Kerch Is Claim

RUSSIANS THREATEN LAST GERMAN-HELD SOVIET RAIL LINE  RED ARMY TROOPS HAVE ANVANCED SIXTY MILES

Reds Converge On Zhitomir, Vital Rail Junction On Nazi Supply Line

Soviets Advance Toward Nazis Last North-South  Railway Junction Point

Soviet Army Closing in on  Whitomir   Strategic Junction Point of Last Nazi Rail Communication Line

REDS ADVANCE ON STRATEGIC RAIL JUNCTION   Russians Push West From Kiev and Converge Rapidly Upon Vital Center of Zhitomir   RADOMYSL IS OCCUPIED

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Rationing Board Finds John L. Lewis Essential Tourist

URS. G. 8, PAT. CFP,      JOHN LEWIS AUTO GIVEN C MAS FOR YIINION BUSINESS

Swift Allied Attacks Worry Hitler Europe   Invasion Of Itay Bringing Closer A Real Test Of Germany's Hold On Peninsula

Spanish Fork Flier Leads In Attack On German U-Boat Base   Fortresses Drop 1000 Tons:of Bombs on Emden U-Boat Base; Jack Oberhansley. Wins Promotion to Major on Return

Carry Out 1,000-Ton Area Raid   American Planes Use Tactics In Attacking Fountainhead Of Nazis’ U-Boat Warfare

Chief Executives ToMake Radio Talks Tonight   Discussions of, “Warand Future-of Natione Scheduled

LEADERS CONFER, BOTH WILL SPEAK FROM MONTERREY   Executive Spends Week ‘on War Inspection to Complete Visitation Planned In Fall of 1941.   MENTS KEPT SECRET   Absence From Washington For Week Not Announced Until He Finally Reached Mexican City.

Roosevelt, Camachoin U. 8. for More -Talks After Visit in Mexico   Brilliant Dinner Party Staged as Two Presidents Cite Friendship as Example to World

IN MONTERREY AFTER TRIP TO SOUTHERN CAMPS   abet aerate Says Incognito Tour Confirms Belief Country Is Ahead of Washington.

‘FDR Warmly ‘Welcomed by ‘The Mexicans        Be Used in Africa ~

CAMACHO ON ROOSEVELT TRAIN IN U.S.   Good Neighbor Policy Stressed In 2 Addresses

‘Roosevelt and Camacho Met i in Old Mexico Today; Both t o.!  \Speak There Tonight 

TWO LEADERS TO BROADCAST   FD Sees U.S. Troops in Excellent Condition, Ready to Take on Foe

Leaders Discuss Future Welfare Of the Americas   Roosevelt, Camacho To Speak To the World By Radio Tonight; President Stops On Week’s Tour of Army Camps

Chieftains Lay War  Plans   PRESIDENTS EXCHANGE WARM GREETINGS IN FIRST MEET SINCE 1909

VISITS TROOP CENTERS FOR cruERAT QAYS   Second Major Inspection Trip Covers Many Army Bases.   CONFINES STOPS TO MILITARY CAMPS   Swings Through Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas in  Past Week.   BULLETIN

Presidents Meet Today On U.S. Soil, Continue _ Talks On Post-War Work

ROOSEVELT COMACHO IN U.S. PARLE}   President Of Mexico Returns Visit Of U. S. Executive

LEADERS ADD EMPHAS!S TO UNITY   Mexico Meeting Climaxed with Radio Broadcast

FDR, COMACHO OFFER GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY AS MODEL FOR WORLD PEACE

TWO PRESIDENTS —ARENOWINU.S   Conference In Mexico Lastec Until Late Hour to Discuss War Problems.

Allied Republic Chiefs Discuss War, Relations   Presidants Will Broadcast Tonight From Industrial Monterrey

F, R, CONFERS WITH MEXICAN ON WAR PLANS   President, Camacho te Deliver Broadcast Tonight

Camacho crosses into U. S.   Conferring with F.D.R. here afte: Monterrey visit

is First Time Since 1909 that* Presidents of the Two Countries Have ‘Met—Roosevelt on Tour :

Roosevelt Feted In Visit With.  ‘Mexican Leaders   Avila Camacho Crosses Over To American Soil In Historic Meeting

FDR and Camacho In Texas   Pledges of Unity Are Given in  DReandreact

FDR, CAMACHO AT MEETING IN MONTERREY   President of Mexico  and Roosevelt Also  Confer on U. S. Soil.

Pres. Camacho Crosses Line  To Visit U.S.   F. D. R. Host to Mexteo President at Texas Feta

Chief Executive Of U.S. Confers With Camacho   Journey Follows Army Camp Tour Made In Southeast

BEGIN DEDUCTING ‘PAY-AS-GO" TAX   Today Starts First Effort by U.S. to Make Income Levies Current

NATIONS NEW TAR LAW NOW NN EFFECT   American Taxpayers Are Compelled to Pay as They Go

Italy Blasted By Big Raids   Transportation Is Hit In South Italy

Wm. Korleski, Father Of Mrs. Doerning, Is Dead   One Of Palo Alto’s Oldest Citizens

Death Takes Well Known Residents   W. A. Korleski funeral Friday. Albert Fish dies suddenly.

Americans To Double Kighter Plane Strength In Great Britain Shortly

U.S. FIGHTER PLANE FORCE IN ENGLAND WILL BE DOUBLED   New, Improved Craft Will Be Capable Of. Escorting ~ . Bombers Deep Into Nazi Territory.

RUSHING PLANS FOR INVASION OF CHANNEL COAST   MAJOR GENERAL KEPNER ANNOUNCES AMERICAN. FORCE IN BRITAIN WILL BE DOUBLED IN SHORT TIME.   NEW TYPE AIRCRAFT BEING ASSEMBLEL   Asst. Sec. of Navy Urges U. 5S. Collaboration With Russta and Maintenance of American Fleet After War.

Long-Range Fighter Plane Support Will Reach Peak In Britain In Two Months

U. S. FIGHTER PLANE STRENGTH IN BRITAIN TO BE ALMOST DOUBLED IN NEXT 2 MONTHS. SAYS COMMANDER

Other Planes Hit Targets in Coast Area   Night-Flying. Craft Also Lay Mines in Enemy Waters

Allies Continue To Bomb German On Large Scale   Mightiest Non-Stop Air Of. fensive Goes into Second Week   Many German Planes De- Stroyed and Other Dam-_ age Is Heavy

Bombers Pour Death Over © Nazi Europe   Northwest Germany Bears Brunt of &th Straight Night Raid

Allies Continue  Non-Stop Attacks  Bombers, Fighters Make Forays Over Europe

Mighty non-stop offensive into second week; targets in France also hammered   Airfields, communications and radio stations struck; 2 fighters downed

RAF Strikes Anew  At German Targets   British Carry Greatest Allied Aerial Offensive Into Second W eek as W est and Northwest Germany Attacked by Bombers

War’s Mightiest Air Offensive Goes Into Second Week;  France Also Swept by Raiders.

Airields, Radio Stations ana Lines + Of Communication Battered in   Evanee: Foe Shipping Blasted

Airfields, Radio Stations and Lines Of Communication Battered in France; Foe Shipping Blasted

BATTER TARGETS IN WEST AND NORTHWEST GERMANY CARRYING NONSTOP OFFENSIVE INTO SECOND WEEK.

Fliers Score Hits Upon Vital Areas   Bombs Shake Airfields And Communications As Attack Continues

BOMBERS LASH NAZI TARGETS   Non-Stop Offensive In Second Week As RAF Hits Germany And France

RAF BOMBERS HIT NAZIS FOR EIGHTH NIGHT   Mighty Non - Stop Offensive by Allies Entering Second Week   NAZI SHIPPING HIT OFF DUTCH COAST

RAF SQUADRONS RAID GERMANY FOR 8TH NIGHT   Airfields And Communication Lines In France Are Also Attacked   NAZI SHIPPING OFF  HOLLAND ATTACKED

Cycle of Destruction Goes into Second Week With No Slacking Up  WEST, NORTHWEST GERMANY POUNDED  Assaults by Daylight Hit Coastal Countries And Enemy Shipping

Russians Surge Ahead In Drive  On Novorossish   New Gains Reported In Move To Capture Black Sea Naval Base   LARGE LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY NAZIS

NOVOROSSISK   Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses in Attempts to Halt Russians

REDS ADVANCE IN ATTACK ON NOVOROSSISK   Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses in Attempts to Halt Russians

St. Louis Battery Brothers Say ‘Dad Would Want’ Them to Stay   STANDS FILL EARLY   New York Seeks Second Victory of Series After Winning, - to 2

Bereaved Coopers To Work Series Game Today   Father Of Cards’ Battery Dies: Expect Crowd Of 60,000

2 HOMERS AID MORT COOPER CHALK UP WIN   Cardinal Ace, Shaken By Death of Dad, Hurls 6-Hit Game   STARTING LINEUPS

Card's Ace And Brother Form Battery Today   Tiny Bonham Take Mound For Yank In Second Gam  Of Series

COOPER FACES YANKS DESPITE DAD'S DEATH   Cardinals’ Battery Carries On Despite Sad Blow

 Guests Take ‘Internment™ W ell Hotel Quarantine Lifted When Illness Found to Be Chickenpox

SOVIET APPEAL PUTS ‘SECOND FRONT’ FIRS]   Calls Military Matters No. 1 Issue For Conference

SOVIET. NEWSPAPER HINTS AGREEMENT AS IMPOSSIBILITY   Possible Only If Britain And U, 5, Plan On Early Europe _ Invasion

Another Food Cut ls Coming, Davis Declares   Administrator Says There Will Be Only Enough for Health

ANOTHER CUT IN * FOOD EXPECTED IN NEAR FUTURE   Food Supply Will Be Large Enough For Health But Not For Waste Says Food Administrator Chester Davis.

FRED PASHANS ARE . MARRIED 25' Hee        Large . Group of - Relativ 3" Friends. Honor Couple on Occasion:

FRED PASHANS ARE... MARRIED 25: YEARS   Large Group of Relatives’. “and Friends. Honor Couple =. on Occasion:

ANOTHER JAP EVACUATION IN SCLOMGNS   With Allied Troops Moving To Salamaua Airdrome; No Resistance At Seta , ee, SPE   Barges Destroyed

Japs Fail To Resist Yanks In New Drive   American Artillery Moves Up To Blast Stronghold At Vila

Interpreting  The War   Possibilities of Open Door for Supplies To China Considered   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Wide World)

New China Supply Routes Immediate Allied Problem   Must Soon Take All Measures Necessary To Trans Ship Goods To China From Indian Ocean

DELINQUENTS WILL BE PLACED IN 1-A   Selective! Service to Crack Down on Men Breaking Rules

Careless. Dratt: Age Men to Go In 1A Nov. 1   Delinquents to Face Prison Term for Ignoring Orders

Draft Boards To Crack Down  On Delinquents   Order Classification And Quick Induction After This Month

DELNQUENIS 10 BE CALLED SOK   Men Who Failed to Keep Ob: ligation In Draft May Enter Armed Forces.

U.S. to Crack Down on Draft Delinquents   Those Breaking Rules Will Be Inducted Immediately

Draft-Age Men Are Warned To Keep Records Straight   Selective Service To Put All Suspected Delinquents Into 1-A Classification After November 1

Draft Rule Violators AllToBel-A After Nov. ]   Will Be Ordered Up For Induction Then: Despite Order Number, Government Reveals  DELINQUENTS’ NAMES TO BE MADE PUBLIC  Face Prison and Fine If They Ignore Induction Notices

Warning Given To Delinquents   Will Be Rated 1-A After November 1}

DRAFT OFFENDERS HEADED FOR 1-4   VIOLATORS OF SELECTIVE SERVICE RULES FACE QUICK INDUCTION,

Draft Officials Crack Down on  All Violators   Men Breaking Rules Will Be Inducted into Service Immediately Under New Ruling

PRICES FOR CUTS OF PORK RECEIVED   Dollars-and-Cents Prices to Help Wipe: Out Black Marketa

CEILING PRICE *LISTS READY FOR RETAILERS   Storekeepers must post pork prices starting Monday, April 1

Enemy Planes Are Downed in  Island Raids   Pantelleria Still Object of Allied Bombing Heavy  Assaults

U.S. Planes Carried Out Week End Assaults Against _ Tiny Island That Is Well Fortified.   OTHER OBJECTIVES BOMBED IN ITALY

Baccalaureate .  Services Held Sunday Night  Rev. Glen Morrow Delivers Address T: High School Class

BACCALAUREATE   With Pomp And Circumstance Proud Seniors  March Down Aisle

BIG CROWD AT BACCALAUREATE   With Pomp And Circumstance Proud Seniors March Down Aicla

TALMADGE RETIRES   Former Attorney General Inaugurated Governor of Georgia

Separate Labor Department — Bill Is Killed   Constitutional Amendment Alsa Voted Down

Amendments Fail in Upper House  Ee ee   Separate Departmen Of Labor Also Has Met Reverse

Bill for Labor Department Dies in Senate   Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan Also Loses In Upper Brench

Separate Labor  Department Bill Is Killed  Constitutional Amendment Alen Vaated Dawn

WITHHOLDING TAK ACTION {3 SPEEDED   House Committee To Make Decision Soon, Belief

IMMEDIATE TAX ACTION URGED   Committee Member Says Delay Hurts Morale Of People.

pene Circles Of The First hristian Church To Give Playlet, Sunday Night, “The Last Best Hope’

MATTOON SEI FOR JULY 4TH CELEBRATION   “Salute to Chanute” War Bond Drive Is Feature of Program

U.S. PLANES ROLL UP JAPS IN SOLOMONS   Bombers and Fighters Are Chasing Foe From Northern Islands; Navy Fliers Attack in Gilberts. ‘

AC RIAL ATTAGK AGAINoT JAPo HITS NEW PEAK   MacArthur’s Air Offensive Taking Terrific Toll Of Enemy’s Power

ALLIED PLANES SMASH RABAUL   Drop 115 Tons of Bombs On Jap Air Base

Meany Bombers At Rabaul   U. S. Paratroopers Engage Large Jap  Koreae an Choican!

45 NIP PLANES DESTROYED AT RABAUL   Allied Airmen Bring October Total To 1,1059 Aircraft

1,059 RISING SUN PLANES OUT OF WAR   That's Toll Taken by Allies in October in S. W. Pacific. New Blow Against Rabaul

ALLIED AIRFORCE SMASHES. AGAIN AT JAP BASE RABAUL      115 Tons Of Explosives Get 45 To 63 Enemy: Craft, Running October Total To 1,059

NEW ALLIED SMASH AT RABAUL WRECKS 45 ENEMY PLANES   October Bag Of 1,059 Jap Aircraft Reported; We Lost 17

SMASH RABAUL WITH MANY TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   Many Japanese Aircraft Are Destroyed At Important . Pacific Race

SWASH RABAUL AIRBASE. ARAIN   a , es ‘Destroy -45 ‘to. 68.) dap:       ACSE

ALLIES SEEK SETTLEMENT OF SLAV RIVALRY   Balkan Affairs Studied To Smooth Way For Drive

Political Activity Shaped Up To Fit In With Military Phase Of Big Drive

Union Leaders Call Fishermen To Strike Today   Report Two Men Arrested In Walkout Involving 2500 Leather Workers

New England  Fishermen Go on Strike  . 120 Boats Tied Up In Protest Over

Seizes Two Strategic Towns At Gateway To Plain; Americans Push Inland 320 Miles.

Marines Are Withdrawn At  Guadaleanal   U.S. Army Takes Over Island Offensive With Gen. Patch In Charge

MARINES’ JOB DONE ON. ISLE   Army Troops Take Over On Guadaleanal

Army Troops Replacing Marines On Guadalcanal   United States Planes Score Bomb Hit On An Enemy Destroyer

SET DATE OF HEARING   OPA Rent Jurisdiction Action Will Come Up Monday

STATE TO INTERVENE’   Permission Granted by Court in Wichita Rent Case

BOY WANTS TO — “GETIT OVER”   ‘Accused Slayer f, Own Family Says: He'll Face Consequences.

Boy Ready te Pay Penalty   aay fT rnalty  © 'Pranksters Beware’ Warning Of National Jokers’ Society

or rrarry Was hesentiut  De Marigny Impatient to Testify As Crown Concludes Prosecution

Peace Bill _ Gains Favor   Measure to Tie U. s. With Post-War Work

House Ready To Enact Program   FULLBRIGHT RESOLUTION DUE TO PASS BODY

 woovE~ FAQSIMICU Roll Call On Postwar Peace Plan Is Due In House

VISE TIGHTENED IN BOTH RUSSIA AND IN TUNISIA   Reds Get Set To Annihilate invaders as They Close In on Novorossisk   SIEGE BEGUN IN TUNISIA   Americans Drive on Toward Bizerte as Allied Bombers Hit Nazi Supply Lines

Picture Darkens For Hitler Hordes   Soviet Navy Poised for Death Blow ai Nazis; Yanks Near  Bizerte

American Forces’ Striking Power Unimpaired by Two Weeks of Fighting; Increase Pressure on Bizerte—Reds  Take 10 Towns, Kill 7,000 Nazis

Allied Fighting on Continent Certain This Summer, Says Dayis of the OWl

Face Pressure in Caucasus and Tunisia   Allies Carve Out New Gains Ail Along 125-Mile Front in North Africa

NOVOROSSISK MENACED BY RUSS FORCES   While Smashing New Gains Are Being Recorded Hourly by Allies on Tunisian Front

Forced Evacuation of Caucasus, North Africa Is Pictured   Nazi Future Is Further Darkened by Threat  __ of Invasion

PATLER FACING NEW DUNKERQUE IN SOVIET CAUCASUS, TUNISIA  AMIS CUITIOOWN DARKENED

HITLER FACING NEW DUNKERQUE IN SOVIET CAUCASUS, TUNISIA  AXIS OUTLOOK DARKENED ALSO BY IMMINENT ALLIED INVASION

Axis Armies Face Double Dunkeraue   Powerful Soviet Naval Forces Waitin to Pounce on Any Nazi Attempt tc Evatuate Caucasus; Allies Make  ~—Smachina New Gains in Tunisia

Hitler’s Armies — In Dire Straits   AFRICAN AND RUSSIAN FRONTS HOLD BAD NEWS

Capture Of Foggia Puts Wide Section In Bombing Range   Allied Air Forces Within Easy Reach Now Of Balkans, Italy, Austria And Part of Germany; Heavy Blows Again Struck On The Continent

Hitler Rushes, Reserves to Halt  Russian Advance Fall of Italian —   Fall of Italian Air Center Perils Germans at Naples

STATEINCOME TAX REDUCTION BILL RNACTED   Governor Plans to Sign Measure Monday, Orders Jt Given Precedence By Printer   PLAN FURTHER CUTS   Bills Being Prepared To Permit Deductions Federal Victory Tax On  —- {943- Income .

MINERS GOING ~ BACK TO JOBS      SCATTERED. WiLDCAT ‘STRIKES BEING ENDED ANT: 6,000 TD”  AENUME-COAL DIGGING

Falling Revenues  Hit Welfare Work   State Board Seeks To Hold Payment Leve

Merger Approval  Of Western Union And Postal Telegrap! Announced

BRITISH RENEW NAZILAND RAIDS   Air Offensive Against Continent Resumed After Lull

To Launch One Of Greatest Financial Campaigns   Objectives Of Drive Will Be Explained . At Meeting

CROPS HIT.HARD BY POOR WEATHER   Excessive Rainfall Hinders Planting Operations

WEATHER IS A BARRIER   Farmers Having Difficulty in Meet: ing Production Goals

WAR DEPARTMENT ‘SEEKS 10 SETTLE COAL MINE STRIKE   Four Thousand More Miners Join Pennsylvania Walkout; Workers Ignore Appeal From Lewis.

TE EMPLOYERS TOLD ABOUT DRAFT   60 Per Cent _ of Single Childless Married Men To Be Called.

FERGUSON SETS OFF FIGHT ON PARTY LEADER   Caucus Demands Jones Deliver Jobs By July 1 Or Face Ouster Move   CENTERS ABOUT OPA HEAD   Rayburn Tells. Washington Day Assemblage “Things Will Grow: Better”

REDS ISOLATE DNIEPER BEND RAILWAY HUB   5th Clears Germans From All Mountain Peaks Except Two

JAPS ATTEMPT TO STRENGTHEN DANGER SPOTS   Activity Noted in New Guinea Area. Enemy Unable to Tell Where We'll Strike Next

Butch O’Hare May Have Used Parachute, But Is Unfound After Search

BIGGEST NAVAL TASK REPORTED IMMINENT   French Coast Given Thorough Working Over by R. A. F.

Large City Is Under Fire Of Russian:   Important Industrial And Mining City In Donets Basin Is Bombarded By Russian Artillery

Red Army Near Voroshilovgrad   Artillery Bombards Industrial City

Reds Capture Nazi Air Base, ‘Smash Ahead   Artillery Launches _ Heavy Bombardment On Voroshilovgrad

Attack Voroshilovgrad Which Is Key Point Of Drive; Take Air Base

POUNDING KEY TOWN   New Russian Advances Reported On Three  Major Fronts

RUSSIANS REPORT NEW ADVANCES ON 3. MAJOR . FRONTS      Voroshilovgrad Blasted — Salsk, Great German Air, Rail Base > Falls

ARTILLERY AINONG VIAL ‘ERNAN CENTER   Warning to France is Hint of Things To Come   JINCTION OF ALLIED  FORCES IN AFRICA SEEN

Mining City Brought Unde  Russian Guns   Soviets Attack Voroshilovgrad— Near Kursk

Budget of $109 Billions Presented By Roosevelt   President Proposes That $100 Billions Be Spent On War; Calls for Higher Taxes Or Use of Compulsory Loans

BUDGET OF 100 BILLIONS DUE   Both Parties Call For ‘ Close Check

Congressmen Gasp, But See Quick Passage And Further Reduction In Non-War Spending  PROGRAM REQUIRES MORE SACRIFICES  16 Billions To Come Through New Taxes Or Compulsory Loans

EXPECTED TO BE HUNDRED BILLION   Non-Essential Expenditures  To Be Slashed

INCOME LIMIT OF $25,000 18 GOAL FOR 1943   COMPULSORY LOANS AND NEW TAXES ARE OUTLINED

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SPENDING OFFERS  UTMOST FOR WAR   $25,000 ng de Limit Limit Urged To Raise Record Fi Recommends ee hee

He Desires Nation ‘Pass Ammunition’   16 Billions New Taxes,   $25,000 Pay Limit Personal Objective   ‘Civilian on Average to Get . But 6500 Goods Yearly, ’ + Says President

Hundred Billior For War In Fiscal Year   President Suggests Increased Outright Tax Payments Supplemented by Compulsory Savings by Every American

‘F. RB. Proposes 16 Billions in New Revenue   National Effort of Gigantic Magnitude Outlined   Text on Pade 2?

President Calls For New Budget Of 109 Billions   —_— ae  Of 109 Billions  Spending for War To Total 100 Billions Next Year, He Says  FOR PAY-AS-YOU-GO  Added Sacrifices, New Taxes of 16 Billions  Nececsaryv. Is Plea

100 Billion  for War Needs OfU. S$. in 1943 President Says   Roosevelt Recom mends 16 Billions in New Taxes or Loans

Budget Message Sounds Call for Heavy Sacrifices   Congress Prepares for Quick Action In Voting Fighting Funds; New Taxes Set at $16.900.000.000

$109 BILLION BUDGET ASKS ROGSEVELI   Hundred Billion For War And Nine Billion For NonWar Expenditures In 1943AA   Congress Gasps

Adds Nine Billion For Other Purposes; Recommends 16 Billions In Taxes Or Loans

ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR WAR OUTLAY OF 100 BILLION   Budget for Fiscal Year Placed  Before Congress—$16,000,000,000 in New Taxes Contemplated.   t '‘ASSURES LAWMAKERS NATION IS SOLVENT   ‘Declares Debt Can and Will Be Paid—Legislators Gasp at Size of Planned Expenditures.

FDR Calls For 10¢ 100 Billion More For Cauldron Of War   Nine olllion More Said Needed To Carty ’ On Other Work; New Taxes Also IAcluded’

REQUEST FOR NEW TAXES IS MADEBY FDR   Plans for Spending 109 Billion Dollars Out. lined

FAVORS LIMIT ON INCOMES IN HIGH BRACKETS   Congress Gasps At Sum Presented To “Pass The Ammunition’ ;  Sacrifices Seen   Favors Pay-As-You-Go

SALERNO YARDS HIT BY ALLIES   Mighty Air Blow Struck At Italian Railroad Center‘ 33 Planes Are Shot Down

BOMBER RAIDS RAZE SALERNO   American Fliers Meeting Stiff Resistance In Battle Of Italy

SALERNO TARGET ” OF BOMB ATTACK   g hird of Enemy Attacking Planes Shot Down   BLAZING COMBAT   Shar Cracks Down on Cro. tone, on Arch of Italian Foot;Leaves Big Fires

Salerno and Other Parts Of Italy Hit   Axis Resistance on Increase and Battles in Air Are Fierce

Salerno Is Flattened by Methodical Allied Campaign 33 ENEMY PLANES   REPORTED DOWNED  City Left “Flaming Under Canopy of Smoke by : Airmen

Air Assaults Qn ltaly Continue   Nazi Resistance Pravee Stiihharan

Allied Bombers Attack Salerno   City in Southern Italy Left Afire   Salerno Left Burning

Fierce Air Battle Fought As Allied Bombers Smash Strategic Town in Italy

ALLIES SMASH RAILROADS OF SALERNO   Vital Communications Center Bombed By Day And Night; Meet German Resistance; Scatter New Holo  Attack Foggia

Allied Bomber: Level Salerno, Bag 33 Planes   Marauders Fight Way Through Swarm of 100 Axis Planes to Hit Main Rail Point

Axis Plane Resistance Is Intense   Allies Knock Down 33 of 100 Defenders Over Southern Italy  CITY MASS OF FIRE

Salerno Blasted By Allied Raiders   German Resistance Raises Air Battle For Italy To High Intensity: Many Shot Down

Yanks Fight Through Nazi Planes   Bombers Flatten Salerno Despite Axis Resistance

db ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN FIERCE FIGHT OVER ITALY   Germans and Italians Send Up 100 Fighters to Resist American Raid on Salerno.   VITAL RAIL CENTER RIPPED BY BLOWS   Axis’ Recent Opposition Convinces Allies Nazis Are Garrisoning Bases to North.

Blazing Air Combat Marks New High  In Aerial (gunnery   Salerno Flattened in Methodical Allied Campaign to Wipe Out All Vital Communications on Italian Mainland

Aerial Battle Rages in Italy   Nazis Are Putting Up Fierce Fight

Battle Rages Despite Opposition   U. S., British Leave Rail City of Salerno in Flames

SURPRISE AT ~ FILM COLON   RITA HAYWORTH AND ‘ORSON  ‘WELLES MARRIED WITHOUT  " USUAL HOLLYWOOD AD-.— VANCE BALLYHOO’ .

Invites Governors to Attend Conference   Man-Power and Machinery To Be Topics Discussed

IOWA PLANS ‘CONFERENCE ON MANPOWER   Hickenlooper invites government officials to attend special meet

Borozovich’s Army Stops Full Scale German Offensive In Yugoslavia

Slavs Shatter German Drive, Launch Push   BROZOVICH’S PARTISANS SCORE “HEAVY VICTORIES” IN NUMBER OF SECTORS

Slav Partisans  Halt Nazi Drive   Wide Counterattack Defeats Reich Thrust

PARTISANS RAP GERMAN FORCES   Slavs Report Tide Of Battie Turned In Their Favor

EDICT USELESS TO ROOSEVEL!   President Says He Can't Force John L. Lewis To Sign Contract

How to Enforce Order Is Problem  F, D. R. Comments On U. M. W. Case

ClO TIRE WORKERS TERMINATE. STRIKE   Production Resumed At Akron Plant

RUBBER STRIKE ENDS AT AKRON FACTORY   Workers Vote To Return Output Near Normal

“Hundreds of Thousands’ of Patriots Ready To Fight, Giraud Says.

FRENCH PATRIOTS AWAIT INVASION AS REVOLT SIGNAL   Giraud Confident Hundreds of Thousands are Ready for lnrising.

JAP FORCE TRAPPED ON GUADALCANAL BY FLANKING STRATEG'   Yank Troops March 50 Miles Through Jungles

GUADALCANAL TRAP JAPS   U.S.F orces Have . Established Strong “Position at Titi

Yankees Trap Remaining Japs In Guadalcanal   Long March In Jungle Puts Americans Near Japanese Base

TRAP JAPS ON GUADALCANAL   Fianking Movement Pins Nips Into V-Shaped Pocket

JAPS TRAPPED IN V-SHAPED POCKET   U, S.° Soldiers In Strong Position At Titi, Key Point

TRAP JAP FORCE IN GUADALCANAL   3,000 Enemy ‘Troops Bottled Up In Mountains 25 Miles West of Henderson Field.

U. S. TROOPS TRAP JAPS ON GUADALCANAL   Americans Establish '- Strong Position; At Titi Base

Trap Japs in V-Pocket on Guadaleana!   American Force Dug ir at Titi, 25 Miles From Henderson

Remaining Japs On Guadalcanal Island Trapped   U.S. Troops Make Difficult Flanking Movement in Jungle

U.S. Troops Trap Japson Guadalcanal   Flanking Move Confines Japs To Small Pocket

U.S. Warships Blast Nazi Defense Line; Allies Push Ahead   Heavy Rains Impede Movements All Along Front as Allies Mass Men, Equipment For Mountain Attack

Moscow Reports General Ront ¢ Nazi Forces In Vital SectorsHeavy Rail Damage In Italy   KNOCKOUT BLOW IN SOLOMONS IS COMIN

Food Conference Program To Be Given Congress   Dispute Continues Over Barring of Press From Parley

POST-WAR F000 MEETING TOPIC   Plan to Admit Press ta Some Sessions of United Nations Meet.

SOLONS WILL PREVIEW U. S. FOOD PLANS   Agriculture Committees to Study Proposals of Nation’s Delegates Before United Nations Sessions Are Opened.

Solons To Get A Look At Food  Parley Program   U. S. Delegates To Discuss Plans With Con orese Cammittees.

DEMANDS OPEN DISCUSSION AT FOOD PARLEY   SEN. GEORGE FEELS CLOSED SESSIONS TO HAVE BAD EFFECT

New Blows At Jap Shipping Are Announced   Prevents Movin;  Needed Supnlie:

Japs Admit Ships Needed   Losses Cuf Moyement O€ Products From Conquered Lands

TOKYO BROADCAST FEATURES REPORT ON JAP SHIP LOSSES  _ LATEST LOSSES ARE DE STROYER AND TRANSPORT. NO MIINDA NEWS

Japs Warned Shipbuilding Is Important   Tokyo Broadcast Recalls Lack of Shipping Determined Fate of Germany in First World War

TOKYO WARNS NATION OF NEED TO BUILD SHIPS   Recalls Fate Of Ger  "many In ‘World --War I

HURL NEW BLOWS AY JAP SHIPPING   Japanese Radio Admits Shortage of Ships as Mac - arthur’ Reveals Attasks

Tokyo Radio Admits Lack Of Shipping   Broadcast Warns It Is Essential to Concentrate on New Construction

Tokyo Hindered By Ship Shortage  Resour rces Of Islands sn Dp. At dd

Japs Warned Of Ship Need lu Broadcast   Admit Lack of Transport Stops Shipments of Products to Isles

U.S. Troops In Sight of Munda Base   But Daily Gain Is Slow In Spite of Blows Against Ships

Japs Admit Ship Losses  Are Serious   Munda Fighting Difficult—U. S. Planes Range Far

Japanese Admit Shipping Losses In Pacifie Area   Broadcast Warns People More Vessels Needed To Transport Supplies

Drivers Licenses Must Be Renewed   FIRST GROUP, ISSUED IN 1941 WILL BEGIN EXPIRING DURING OCTOBER

Drivers Asked to Look — At the Dates On Their _ Operators’ Licenses

Seek Safeguards For Family Men  Measure Would Require Draft Of Those. With No Children First

WMC Decision to Induct Men With Children Spurs Solon Action on Safeguards

Solons Safequarc Fathers, Propose Draft Priorities   Statewide Quota Basi: Would Take Single Childless Men First

Congress to Seek Deferment For Men With Children  Senate Group Warns Of Food Shortage,   ee Cs en men cee

W.M.C. Issues Warning For Family Heads   Those in Non-Essential Jobs Must Shift to War  Industries   OPPOSITION APPEARS

a ‘to Have Married en With Children   ASURY PREDICTS  SUBLING OF TAXES             @utt Program Is Under _As Bloc Seeks to @ave Army Increase  %& Proposal Probed    an Opener In U.S. Kitchens ill Yield To Cook Books      ter, Midnight On February 20, No Canned Goods Will Be Sold, Under OPA Ruling; Rationing Of Frozen, Dried and Canned Fruits and Vegetables Will Start March 1

Married Men To Get Aid In Draft   Solons To Safeguard Men With Tots

Congress Maps Switt Action in Battle on Drafting of Fathers   Members Declare Men With Families Should Be Last to Be Drafted; Would Put Calls on Statewide Basis

Solons Oppose Plan to Call Fathers Without War Jobs; Favor Drafting Others First

Plan Action For Protection  Of Dependents   House Members Favor Induction Of Others Before Taking Men Who Have Children

MCNUTT’S PLAN STIRS CONGRESS   Men With Children Would Be Called Only After Others Are Taken

Family Head Draft Move  Rouses lre   Move to Enact New   Safeguards for  Fathers

CONGRESS MAY TAKE HAND IN MANPOWER SITUATION SQQM   MOVE PLANNED TO SAFE GUARD MEN WITH CHILDREN FROM DRAFTING

Would Safeguard Fathers in Draft   Some Congressmen Want Single, Childless Men Taken First

Congress Moves To Block Dratt Of Family Men   House Bill Would Exempt Fathers Until Other Quotas Exhausted

Family Heads > Gain Backing   Bill Te Insure - Drafting “Of Single Men: First "ead By Kilday

New Safeguards For Family Men Will Be Sought   Manpower Ruling On Draft Needs Before Congress

New Deferment Legislation Urged   Would Put Quotas On State-Wide Basis

Draft Order Speeds Action On Kilday Bill   Interest Heighte:.s in Plan to Make  Svctem Statewide

House Moves To Block WMC Work Proposal  Kilday Would Not Draft Any Fathers

CONGRESS MOVES TO PROTECT MEN WITH CHILDREN  ACTION SPEEDED ON mitt * VFR TLIC AS   ACTION SPEEDED ON BILL TO KEEP THEM LAST ON DRAFT LIST

Congress Aroused Over Plan To Draft Family — Men Who are Unessential

BILL OFFERED BY KILDAY [5 NOW FAVORED   Would Call All Single, Childless Men —  First   STATE T0 BE UNIT   Proposal Has Support of Military Affairs  Committee

MARRIED MEN DRAFT POLICY PLANS MAPPED   Non-Essential Workers’ Safeguards Studied By Solons

Congress May Pass Kikday Bill To Hold Married Men Until Unweds Gone

Allies Massing Huge Forees For Invasions   Norway, Greece Seen a8 Main Points; france, Hotland Too

Altes Massing Forces  For Invasion of Europe   ‘Main Landings To Be Made In Greece  Norway, Observers Says

INVASION TO FOLLOW WIN IN AFRICA   Most Likely. Points Are Thru Greece And Norway .

GIGANTIC FORCES BEING ORGANIZED TO INVADE EUROP   United States, ‘Britain: Can: ada. Preparing For Land Sea and Air After Fall 0  « Trnioin .   TWO,PRINCIPAL SPOTS ~ BELIEVED CONSIDERED   Great Throngs of French Pa:  —_triots Will Participate ‘With Allies According ‘ Gen. Giraud.

GIGANTIC FORCES BEING MASSED FOR _ MULTIPLE INVASION OF CONTINENT

Allies Are Massing Gigantic Forces for Kuropean Invasions   War Summary

MAP LANDINGS ON NORWEGIAN, GREEK COASTS   Pincers Directed at Germany; Nazis Are Nervous

Believe Allies Prepare For European Invasion   Massing Gigantic Land, Sea And Air Striking Forces For Invasion

Mass Attack Waits Africa Drive Finish   Gigantic Forces Waiting to Strike At Manv Points

MASSING FORCES FOR INVASIONS OF FUROPE 1S REPORT   Men and Machines Pouring Into England and North Afrlea.

Americans, British and Canadians Massing for Several Attacks on European Navic. ic Belief.

Allies Are Massing for Invasion   Observers Believe Atternpt to Follow Tunisia Conquest

Extensive Preparations ? Under Way   ALVIES GETING READY TC MAKE ENTRANCE TO WARK ‘THEATER,

Allies Prepare Bases for Projected Europe Invasion   BRITAIN, U. S. CANADA MASSING GIANT ARMIES FOR INVASION OF THE CONTINENT

ALLIES PREPARE FOR INVASION   ee Several Simultancous Landings In Europe Planned, Observers Say,

GOP PLEDGES WAR SUPPORT IN CONGRESS   Republicans Demand Check Against Bureaucracy

COLD WAVE ON , WAY TO STATE   Sub-Freezing Temperatures Expected Tonight, Weather Bureau Reporis

Aussies Land At Lae, Catch Japs Napping   MacArthur Personally  Commands Action Tn Naw Crimean   Allied Officers Secretly Enter Greece. Plot Revolt

Allied Troops Land “In Force” On The Coast Of Huon Gulf   Forces. Near Loe, One of the Principal Japanese Strongholds in New Guinea—New Land Blow Struck =

Allied Force Lands OnHuonBayCoast   Japs Caught Off Guard By Strong Force © Alhed Troops; MacArthur Declares Investment Of Lae Has Begun

Allies Invade Huen Gulf, East of Lae   Split Enemy Forces In New Guinea, Block Jap Supplies

Jap Stronghold In New Guinea Next Objective   MacArthur Reports Important Advance

Landing “In Force’? On Important New Guinea Base Surprises Japs   AIR AND NAVAL UNITS SUPPORTING INVASION

TO TRAIN WORKERS   Session for Indian Service Employes to Be Held - at Haskell

AXIS FORCES ADVANCING 10 AID ROMMEL   Aim To Throw Strong Bar. rier Between Allies and Coast; 8th Army Nears Trivoli   Axis Ships Sunk

Axis Forces In Tunisia Advance to Aid Rommel   British Eighth Army Moves Up To Within Thirty Miles Of Tripoli, Aided By Fighting French From Lake Chad Area

AXIS FORCES TRY TO GUARD TUNISIAN LINE   ADVANCES CLAIMED AS PROTECTION FOR ROMMEL

Nazis Fight For. Escape Corridor   Some Gains Made Against French

Germans In Tunisia May Aid Rommel   Tunisian Foe Seen Trying to Bar Coast to Allies

Kharkov Loss Jolis Germans   Axis Peoples Had Thought Danger There Was Past

KHARKOV FALL SHOCKS NAZIS   German People Reported Led To Believe Danger Past

INB.&L.E. CASI   Meanwhile, Court Orders Resumption of Discontinued Trains.

Two Vet Organizations Support Move To Pay Soldiers Bonus Before End Of War

GOP LEADERS BACK FOOD TAX REPEALES   Caucus To Be Held Tuesday or Wednesday

BRICKER GAINS BACKING ON TAX BILL REPEALER   Columbus, Cleveland GOP Delegates Fall in Line With Governor

REPEAL OF TAX GAINS SUPPORT   Two Delegations Join Bricker In Asking For House Vote On Measure

CHANGE MEAT QUOTAS   Call for Use of More Mutton and  {Lamb in September

oie, ty eer? $6 Ay ly  September Meat Quot>s Call far More Mutien

BEEF, MUTTON, ~ BUT LESS PORK   WPA Predicts Some Changes in September Quotas °

TURKS® STATUS BIG FACTOR IN WAR STRATEGY   Neutral Nation's Policy May Become More Pro-Allied

SPOTLIGHT STRIKES NEUTRAL TURKEY   Dispatches From Turkey Indicate Far-Reaching  Policy Changes

ALLIES WATC TURKS AS AXIS FEARS INCREASE   Expect That If Turkey Changes Her Attitude, It Will Be More In Favor Of Allies

HOUSE VOTES 10 PERMIT TAX CREDITS   Immediate Credit May Be Secured by Many

House Votes Victory Tax Credit Bill   Would Give Taxpayer Immediate Credit For Payment

House Urges Tax Refund   Repaying Victory Tax Is Included in Bill

House Votes to Permit Taxpayers To Take Advantage Immediately of Post-War Credits Against Victory Tax

Heavy Bombers Resume Aftacks On Nazi Cities   German Soldiers Attacked on Road

May Have Early Effect On Politically-Shaken  Citizens of Bulgaria

ALLIED PLANES HAMMER SOFIA   Bulgarian Capital Rail Yards Hit; Damage Is Heavy

Shattering Attack Made on Bulgarian Capital — Many Killed, Great Destruction Caused.   PARLIAMENT MEMBERS SCURRY TO SHELTERS   Reports-on Raid Indicate War Has Come in Full Strength to Germany’s Satellite.

Americans Kill Many Bulgarians in Long Attack   Capital Damaged By Heavy Bombs

R.A. F. Bombers Attack Europe   Nazi Raiders Also Thrust at London

American Aircraft Bomb Sofia For One Hour, 45 Minuies, Spreading Ruin, Killing Many

Sofia Pounded, Panicky Bulgars Are Near Crisis   Rumanians Also In Throes Of Panic;   es

SOFIA POUNDED BY AMERICANS   Railways Used By Nazis Bombed By Several Waves Of Planes

BOMBS FALL ONCAPITAL OF BULGARIA   Many Killed in Raid on Sofia, Radio Broadcast. Discloses   AMERICAN PLANES USED IN ASSAULT   May Have Been Opening Blow in Three-Way As cault an Avie

GERMAN RADIOS GO OFF THE AIR   BLACKOUT INDICATES NEW AIR RAIDS—NAZI PLANES OVER ENGLAND.

Great Damage As Result of New Raid on Capital   Many Dead as Allies Strike at Axis Satellite

Sofia Pounded, Panicky Bulgars Are Near Crisis   Rumanians Also In Throes Of Panic; Many Leave Cities

BOMBS CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE AND KILL MANY   Railroad District Target of Third Heavy Raid in Month

Allies Bomk: Bulgaria's Canital City   Politically-Shaken Sofia Blasted In Long Raid

LPM SAAS SE TOY OF _  CITY COUNCIL HOLD ROUTINE MEET“MONDAY   Allow Total Claims $1,758; Continue Work On Old City Deep Well.

CITY COUNCIL SETS APRIL 17 CLEAN-UP DAY     Wama Klacrtinan TIndgoeae And   Name Election Judges And Clerks; Bills Total $2,559.59.

ITALIAN UNITS NOW FIGHTING WITH ALLIES   TROOPS SEE CHANCE TO REDEEM THEIR PLACE IN WAR

WEATHER. LIKE FALL   Night Temperatures Dipped to Forties Over Kansas

Manpower, Tax, Rationing Scene In W eekend Review   Butchers Fear All Housewives Will Ask For Hamburger To Save Loss On Bones And Fats

Third Game Is Taken by N.Y.   Combination of Card Errors and Base Hits Gives Yankees Victory   Mammoth Crowd Sees Red Birds Collanse in &th

RECORD CROW SEES THIRD OF SERIES GAMES   Cards’ Rookie Loses Control

YANKS WINNERS. BY 62.IN THIRD. CAME ORSERIES      : Ganie Today or’ Saturday.’ i

FIVE RUNS IN STH GIVE WY. GAME   Card Defense Crumbles in Critical Inning:  Meas mine;  Score 6§-2

Soviet Airmen Smash 456 German Planes   Kuban, Leningrad Areas Report Sharp Engagemerits

Reds teds Bag 456  Enemy Planes   Raises Total for Month To 2.069 Aircraft

REDS PRESSING OFFENSIVE ON PAIR OF FRONTS   Germans Say Soviets Fighting With Immense Amount Of Material   2,069 AXIS PLANES BAGGED IN MONTH

LOST BY NAZIS   Russians Claim They Shot Down 456 German Craft In Past Week

Reds Claim Air Victories,  lenore Kuban      Russians Assert 456 Nazi Planes Destroyed During Past Week

Russians Mark Up Great Score; Foe Loses 456 Planes in Single Week, 2,069 in Month: Fight Rages

GERMANS LOSE 2,069 PLANES   Month’s Toll On Kuban, Leningrad Sectors Reported

MANY PLANES LOST BY NAZI   Russians Claim They Shot  Down 486 German Craft’ In Past: Week

Seismologist Believes Japan Is About Due For Another Big Earthquake

TO TEST LEGALITY OF LABOR STATUTE   Head Of CIO Auto Union Arrested On Texas Labor. Violation

Man Shoots Trio Of Boys and Self   Children Wounded After Argument

BIG ALLIED OBJECTIVE IS TO KNOCK ITALY OUT OF WAR   Italians Advised by Churchill to Overthrow Leaders

Allies Seeking First to Force. ltaly From War   Revolt, Bombing And Invasion May Be Used

Hit Italy First, Churchill Hints   Make Peace Now, He Advises Fascists

Italy K.O. First Allied Aim   Churchill Warning To Italians Points Strategy

FORCING ITALY OUT IS FIRST OBJECTIVE OF UNITED NATIONS   Allies Apparently Intend To Gain Goal Through Riots, Eembing And _  Invasion

Italians Get Admonition To Quit War   Overthrow Leaders And Sue for Peace, Churchill Advises

People of Italy Are Advised to Ask For Mercy   CHURCHILL DISCUSSES FUTURE ALLIED PLANS

FORCE ITALY ‘OUT OF WAR   People’ of Italy Advis‘ed to Overthrow Their Leaders

Churchill Urges — People of Nation To Give Up Fight   Statement Indicates Impending Allied Drive In Mediterranean Area

CHURCHILL INDICATES © ITALIANS MAY SUFFER   Immediate Objective of Allies Appears to Be Forcing Itely Out of the War Witheut Undue Delay—. Minister and President Discuss War Program With Newspapermen at White House.

ALL QHIO’S MINERS RETURNING TO PITS MONDAY, IS REPOR]   Light But Satisfactory Force Trickles Back In Pennsylvania

TOKYO SeND3 LARGE FORGE TO SOLOMON   Dispatch Breaks Thru Veil of Secrecy to Report Japs’ Full Strength.   NAVY WITHHOLDS ITS VERSION OF SKIRMISH

Delayed Story Says Foe Heads For Guadalcana   Navy Denies Tokyo Report of Struggle Now in Progress

Reds Push Nearer to Key Cities   Close in on Important Centers in Caucasus—Near  Rostov, Salsk

ROME SCARED BY ALARMS AFTER RAID   Wailing Sirens Keep City in Jitters for . Several Hours

Rome Suburbs Reported Hit By Light Bombs   Incendiaries Also Said Dropped on Fringe of Capital

Bombs Dropped On Rome Suburbs   Air Raid Alarm Reported by Berne

Rome Suburbs Attacked By Allied Bombers   No Planes Over City Proper In New Assault

Rome Suburbs Hit By Bombs Last Night   City Not Attacked: Landing Attempt In ltaly Reported

NAZIS CLAIM LANDING TRY REPULSED   Say British tish Tried ©. "To Make. ‘Landing: 8 On Italian Mainland

REPORT LICHT  BOMBS FELL ON ROME SUBURBS   Nazi Claim Repulse Of Allied Altempt To Land In Italy

NAZIS SAY ALLIED DRIVE ON ITALIAN MAINLAND - BEATEN   Air Raid Alarm Sounded In Rome Today-—-Report Hitler, Mussolini Meet

39 Zeros Shot From the Skies   _. Japs Lose Heavily \' Trying to Reinforce New Guinea

Epidemic of Mild Influenza Causes Wave Of Absenteeism in War Plants, Schools

Flu Covers Wide  Area of Nation   Health Officers Say It's in Mild Form

Much of U.S. Is Affeeted  By Epidemic Of Mild Fa  fan n Danwcnees 2. TPT.   One Person in Ten Ill in Some Sections, School and Factory Absenteeism Moaiuntc   COLDER WEATHER MAY RETARD SPREAD

Mild Form of Grippe and Flu Sweep Sections of U. $.; Deaths Are Few

DANISH ARMY, NAVY OFFICERS ARRESTED   National Leaders Among Those Seized By Infuriated Germans; Report Danes Resisted Enemy In Streets

Patriots Sink Navy Vessels   BIG FIRES BLAZE AMONG SCUTTLED HULKS OF DENMARK'S FIGHTING SHIPS IN COPENHAGEN HARBOR; SCORES DROWN AS NAZIS SINK BOATS

ARREST 1500 ARMY NAVY OFFICERS TO ~ STOP RESISTANCE      40 Danish Warships Flee, 30 Scuttled~ King And Staff Believed In German Custody—Inciters  _ Ordered Executed

Nazis Arrest All Danish Officers; Open Fighting Follows Navy Scuttling

NAZIS FIRE ON ‘DANES FLEEING MILITARY RULE   Many Drown as German Shots Sink Small Boats Seeking Haven In Sweden.   SCUTTLEO NAVY IN FLAMES   ‘Bulgarian Premier Strives To End Unrest In Balkans - After King’s Beath.

NAZIS FACE ‘OPEN REVOLT IN DENMARK   Country's Political Leaders ‘Seized: In Gérman Round-up

AQ WARSHIPS SLIP AWAY: 30 SCUTTLED   Violent Fighting In Streets of Capital Reported

Pacific Area Is Getting Material  Patterson Says No Shortage Seen

Pacific Forces Get Equipment   Patterson, Knudsen Report After Tour

Capture of Messina Would Trap All Axis Defenders on Island of Sicily

Concerted Opposition Impending on Sicilian Invasion Front Unless Axis Does Unbelievable Thing of Quitting

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Axis Likely To Choose Famed Catanian Plain For Battleground

The War Toda Allies ave Good Fortune On Their Side In Sicily, But Big Fight Ahead

(CONCERTED OPPOSITION DUE IN SICILY AFTER FIVE DAYS THAT IHAVE SEEN LITTLE BATTLING

Catania May Be Scene of Tank Batile   Axis Probably Will Try Strong Resistance on Broad Plain   ALLIED PROGRESS Is UNCHECKED   Concerted Opposition Must Come Soon Uniess Enemy Quits Cold

Concerted Opposition by Enemy Expected in Sicily Easily Beat First Counterattack

ae Wear i0ddy  Concerted Opposition Is Near In Sicily Unless Axis Onite Cold.

Yugoslav Fighters Drive Germans Out Of Bosnia: Vienna Bombed By Allies

Germans Driven From Bosnian  Industrial City   Vienna Hit. by Planes Based at Foggia, Italy, Stockholm Repor ts Say

PARTISANS DRIVE NAZIS FROM BOSNIA   After 12 Hour Ba Battle; Vienna Bombed From Italian Fields By Allied Planes; Chaos In Italy.   Major Battlefield

SLAVS CAPTURE BALKANS CITY   Vienna Bombed Probably From Foggia Base; Cos Evacuated

DEAD MAN LANDS ON NATAL COAST   Air Corps Officer Washes Ashore In Liferaft; 6 Died At Sea  ae a ee a age

BODY OF U.S. FLYER IS WASHED ASHORE QN BRAZIL BEACH   Rubber Raft Brought In Remains of Maj, Arthur Mills, Ferry Command.

PRESIDENT SIGNS WORK-FIGHT EDIGI   Order Calls for Induction of Strikers in War Industries.

FDR ORDERS WAR ~ PLANT STRIKERS - TOWORK OR FIGHT   Executive Order Calls Fo Their Induction

Russians Keep Up Fast Clip   Nearing Kharkov, Advance All Along 300-Mile Front

Soviet Armies Rolling Along _Jn Twin Drive:   Push Unchecked Toward: Kharkov And Brvansk;_ Menace Railway Town’

Seven Persons Burn fo Death   Mother and Six Children Perish When Farm Home Is Destroyed by Flames

Japs Bomb U.S: Supply Base    No Damage, Reported, However, By Navy

‘JAP... PLANES . BOMB ESPIRITU. ISLAND: FIRST AIR ATTACK   Enemy And American Fliers Active In Solomons—~ _Mop-Up Process Continues

Liberators Cruise Over Jap Regions   Sink Ship South of Thailand, Smash Burma Point:

LIBERATORS STRIKE JAPS   Big American Planes Fly 800 Miles Into Enemy Territory

Resistance Of Japs In Papua Ends  Americans Wipe Out Last Pocket

NIPPON SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES   Lose Big Wireless Transmit ting Set in Surprise Attack Near Sanananda

Sanananda Point Is Captured by Allied Infantry on Friday   Japanese Dead in Buna Area Placed at 2,100 © by High Command

ALLIES CRACK ~ JAP DEFENSES   Slay 725 Japs On Sanananda Point, Virtually Ending Papuan Campaign

JAPS SMASHED AT SANANANDA; 4 SHIPS SUNK   More than 725 of Remaining Enemy Wiped Qui, Ending Organized Resistance   RABAUL BLASTED   Allied Bombers Split Cargo Ship, Leave Transport Burning, Sink Two Others

Jap Resistance  At Papua Ended   Americans and Australians Wipe Out Remaining Pockets in New Guinea.

Last Hold of Japs On Papua Broken   Last of Organized Force of 15,000 Wiped Out Near  Sanananda   RADIO SET CAPTURED   Final Assault Made After Bivouac i in Mud after. Deluge

ORGANIZED JAP RESISTANCE ON PAPUA HAS ENDED   Last Two Remaining Pockets Were Wiped Out at 2:05 p. m. Yesterday.   FORCE NUMBERED 15,000   Last to Fall Was a Group of Japs on Coast Northwest of Sanananda.

ALLIES BATTLE AXIS FOR VITAL TUNISIA HILLS   Ground Forces of Both Armies Fighting in Qusseltia Valiey Below Pont Du Fahs   U.S. PLANES ACTIVE   Shoot Up Axis Equipment in Area Rommel’s Forces Must Travel From Tripoli

SANANANDA STRONGHOLD IS TAKEN BY ALLIES   All Allied Planes Return Safely In Raid On Salamaua

New Guinea J aps  Hunted and Killed   Last Pockets Wiped Out by Americans and Australians— Few Escane Death

Papua Japs Wiped Out; For ce Was Once 15,000   Americans, Australians Take Considerable Equipment; Losses Of Foe Are Heavy

ALLIES FINISH PAPUAN BATTLE   LAST OF ORGANIZED JAP RESISTANCE AT SANANADA SMASHED

Japs Cleaned Out and Four Shins Sunk   Americans Fighting - With Australians Crush Enemy - Dines at Sananauda   2,100 KILLED, MANY PRISONERS TAKEN   Big Radio Station and: Oth. er-Equipment Taken in Allied Offensive.

TWO REMAINING JAPANESE UNITS ARE WIPED OUT   Americans Kill 32 Of 33 Japanese Trying To Escape; Enemy Once Numbering  15,000 Wiped Out.

Clean Out Last Japs On Papua   Long Campaign Ends In Allied Victory;  United Nations Planes Hammer Jap Shipping

LAST TWO POCKETS OF ENEMY FALL IW NEW GUINEA   Only Isolated Soldiers Left Wandering In Swamps By Americans, Aussies

JAPS. SMASHED IN NEW GUINEA   Last Resistaee Crushed Al Sanananda Point: Planes Sink Four lan Shins

Resistance Of Japs Is  Overcome   Last Two Positions Of Japs In Papua Are Smashed By Americans And Australians

Last Pockets On Sanananda Cleaned Out   Papua Resistance Now Ended; Planes Sink Four Vessels

15,000 Force Is Eliminated In New Guinec   Enemy Resists Bitterly Before Being Destroyed Completely By Allied Force:

British in Powerful Attack on Axis Mountain Hold Near Tunis   Americans Capture Three Strategic Hills Near Bizerte, Mateur; French Cut Axis Main Road; Air Forces Hammer Enemy Front Line

French Drive Column South of Pont du Fahs And Cut Main Road Leading to Djebibina  ENEMY RESISTANCE CONTINUES STRONG  Nazis Concentrate Guns In South in Attempt To Halt Eighth Armv

ench, British so Advancing ainst Enemy   mans and Italians Figh lard and Use Flame Throwers   ed Air Forces Continue 'o Pound Axis Lines and Bases

Allied Forces Push Ahead in  Tunisia Drive   First Army Storms Foe Positions in Mountains as Yanks Complete Capture of Strategic Hills

PEAK COMMANDS VALLEY LEADING TO THE CAPITAL   Meantime Americans Capture Three Vital Hill Defenses on Way to Mateur and Bizerte.   FRENCH PUSH CLOSER TO PONT DU FAHS   Flame-Throwing Tanks Used by Axis Forces as They Fight Desperately to Stem Advance.

Britain's First Army Opens Major Assault   Americans Capture Three Vital Nazi Hill Defenses

BRITISH ATTACK POWERFULLY ON MOUNTAIN RIDGE   Americans Take Three Hills En Route To Bizerte And Mateur   FRENCH ADVANCING TOWARD PONT DU FAHS

BRITISH DRAW NEARER TUNIS; FRENCH SCORE   AXIS FORCES REEL TO THEIR DOOM IN TUNISIA

U.S. TROOPS STORM ENEMY HILL DEFENSES   French Drive Colum Southeast Of Pont Du Fahs Despite Heavy Fire.

Yanks and British Advance On Tunis, Bizerte as French Score in Southern Attack

British Now 91 Miles  From Tunis   French Pounding at Gates of Town To South as Allies Continue To Advance Along Tunisian Front

TAKE THREE POINTS ON BIZERTE FRONT   Axis Forces Battle Bitterly to Halt Allied Drives Against Key Cities

British Assault — Axis Position 21 Miles From Tuni:   American Troops Capture Three Important Hill Defenses on the Route to Moteur and Bizerte  —_—Steady Advances Reported

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ALLIED DRIVE CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS   8th Army Opens Assault Against Mountainous Defenses; French  Gain Ground   Yanks Take Barrier

BRITISH HURL 137 ARMY Ih AXIS MOUNT   Americans Capture Three Important Hill Defenses Oa the Route To Mateur And Bizerte   Weather Holds Airmen

Report New Yank Raid on Kuriles   Tokio Dispatch Broadcast Today by ‘GérmanRadio

FLYNN FACES. 2ND GIRLIN COURT TODAY   Peggy Satterlee To Tell Of Yacht Trip With Actor

PEGGY SATTERLEE TO TAKE STAND   Entertainer Will Testify Against Errol Flynn

FLYNN ACCUSER TO TAKE STAND   Young Hollywood Girl Plans To Tell Of Seduction By Film Star

Postwar Autos Not to Show Radical Change   Exaggerated Tales Of New Cars Hurt Industry -fs Claim

Global Command Action Means War Strategy Planning Finished   Marshall, After Becoming Head of All Anglo-American Forces, Is Expected to Retain Title of Chief of Staff of Army

Strategic Planning for Global War Has Been Completed   U. S. Chief-of-Staff George C. Marshall Is Slated to Become Commander of All Anglo-American Forces in World

Stale Is Planning “Post. War Periad   A Planning Commission Is Being Considered

ite Gov. Personnel  Believe Should Start  Post-War Planning ©   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Council of States Told Rights Must Be Guarded  Should Be Alert Against Centralization of Power

ASKS WATCH ON STATES RIGHTS   Maryland Governor Tells Conference Inaction Will Result In  Losing Powers

Meet of State Governments Council Opens   Leader Calls for Opposition to Centralized Power

Food Demonstration Next Monday Eve   Food Preservation Demonstra: tion to Be Held in West . Rand Mondnv. Mav 2 

Sugar For Home Canning Available Like Last Year   Same Quantity To Be Allowed

QUVIET ARMY CRACKS NAZ DEFENSE LINE   Vatutin’s First Ukrainian Army Only 49 Miles From Old Polish Border; Reds Near Rumanian Reantier   RUSSIANS SWEEPING THRU MANY VILLAGES

Proposes Renewal Of Food Stamp Plan As Price Subsidy Substitute   BULLETIN

Hands-Off Poticy Recommended byy Prine Ministeet  Churchill Silent .owr Criticism from

NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEW COAL PACT RESUMED   Appeal Made To President To Have War Labor Board Intervene

NEGOTIATIONS ARE PROCEEDING TODAY,, "IN WAGE DISPUTES   Operators. and United Mine Workers Still Ar guing — Intervention Asked For,

Mine Operators Ask WLB to Act In Wage Dispute   Claim Miners Haven’t Shown Increases Needed

OPERATORS APPEAL TO FDR IN DISPUTE   Ask WLB Intervention In Soft Coal Wage Demands

Sergeant In Lead Bomber  Clearfield Youth  So Good He Guides  Entire Squadron

HOUSE FIGHT ON -RACKETEER BILL   Centers on Cellers Amendment: Hobbs Sore

No Threat of a Strike on Railroads   Counsel for Brotherhoods Says They Believe in the No-Strike Doctrine   WILL RELY UPON FEDERAL AGENCIES   States Policy, He Says, Because of Suggestions Made From Others

A NEW CAMPAIGN   “March of Dimes” Drive Starts Tonight at Local Theaters

Uncle Sam Is Recipient Of Various Gifts   Americans Want  To Beat Axis

SIFTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS SENT TO CAPITAL TO HELP ALLIES DEFEAT THE AXIS

Beat-The-Axis Gifts Come To Capital From Many Countries   Dog Sleds, Gold Teeth, Racing Pigeons Among Strange Collection Which Includes $4.500.000

Gifts of All Descriptions Pouring Into Washington to Help Whip Axis Nations

U.S. PLANES ARE INTERNED   Ships Landed At Lisbon Field When Fuel Expired.

Manpower Use to Dictate Letting of New Contracts. War Board States

Forces Landed After Fierce Aerial Blows   Eisenhower's Attacking Army Made Up of Americans, British and Canadians, it is Announced

Landing Of Allied Soldiers Is Preceded By Attacks By — Air And Navy Forces

American, English And Canadian Troops Landed Early  Today Under Eisenhower   BITTER DEFENSE OF ISLAND ANTICIPATED

GOP Seeks To Unite Forces  For Ruml Plan   Party Reported Almost Solidly For Writing Plan Into Bill

GOP TO  TO FIGHT FOR RUML PLAN   ‘House Minority Not Satisfied With Simple Tax Withholding Program

GOP ISSUES CALL IN BEHALF OF RUML TAX PLAN   To Hold Meeting Next Monday To Mobilize Party Strength

AOUSE G.0.P. ASKS CAUCUS 10 BACK RUML'S TAX PLAN   /Republicans at Conference Monday Will Seek to Mobilize Party Strength for  H Beng io tna

Mobilize For Ruml Plan OK   Republicans Set Caucus Next Monday To Organize House Fight.

GOP Supports Plan Of Ruml   Party. Caucus Is. Called -For Monday: To Get” ~~ Full Backine

Republicans Line Up for Ruml Plan   Plan to Mabilize Strength For Fight in Lower House

HOUSE REPUBLICANS PLAN TO MOBILIZE FOR RUML TAX PLAN  WAYS AND MEAN COMMIT TEE BILL WOULD NOT GIVI ANY TAX REBATES

Republicans For Ruml Plan   Expect To Carry “Pay-As-You-Go” Fight To Floor

Compromise Tay Program Voted By Committee   All Abatements Of Year's Levy -Are Turned Down

House GOP-Gom: To Align Party For Ruml Plan   Predict Sufficient Strength To Pass “Skip-A-Year” Income Tax Proposal

Republicans To Go All Out For Rumi Plan   Suspension of Taxes For Year To Be Majo: Party Objective

PAY-AS-EARN TAX VOTED BY HOUSE G. 0. P   Caucus Set to Mobilize Party Behind N. Y.  Banker's Plan

House G.O.P. Votes Rum] Plan Backing   Party Caucus Called for Monday to Mobilize for Floor Battle

GOP MAKES PLANS TO BACK UP RUML TAXATION SYSTEM   Steering Committee Behind the Plan — Believe Skip-A-Year Proposal Can Be Passed in the House

OEE PAGOAGE OF ~ AUML TAX PLAX   House Republicans Plan Fight For Pay-As-You  Go Program

GOP Calls ToArmsor  Rum! Tax   Skip-a-Year Plan May Yet Be Gotten to Test Vote

House GOP For Tax Plan   Steering Committee Would Align Strength Behind Ruml’s Abatement Plan

REPUBLICANS FOR RUML PLAN   G. O. P. Members of House Think They Have Needed Votes.

REPUBLICANS 10 PRESS RUML TAXATION PLAR   Set Caucus for Next Mon -- day to Mobilize: Party Strength Behind’ ’ Banker’s. Scheme   FORECAST PASSAGE   Disappointment: Expressed  Over Committee’s: Ap proval of Optional -: Skip-a-Year-Plan

GOP Gets Behind Rum! Tax Plan   Skip A Year’ Measure Passage Hinted

GOP Calls House Caucus For Monday  Republicans To Back Rum! Plan

REPUBLICANS STILL BACKING >RUMLTAXPLAN   Believe Sufficient Strength Can Be Mustered In House To Pass

G.0.P. WILL WORK: FOR JAX SKIP   Steering Committee Seeks Passage of Rumi Plan in the: House   MAJORITY FOR IT, MARTIN REPORTS   But Republican Conference Action Does Not -Bind All Members

Republicans Of House To Fight For Ruml Plan   Caucus Monday To Mobilize Behind Proposal To Skin Tax Year.

REPUBLICANS TO SUPPORT THE RUMLPLAN   To Abate A Year’s Taxes And Put Nation On Pay-As-You-Go Plan

House Republicans To Mobilize Power Behind Rum! Plan  Indications Are. That Representatives  wees Aar rr oe dD, ro’ Fy.t.,

May Have The Votes To Win  In The House   Ruml Proposal Called Solution To Getting On Current Basie

GOP Body Plans to Back Ruml Plan   Steering Group Supports Plan —Party Caucas On Monday

GOP Leaders To Fight for Ruml Plan   Martin Thinks Skip A Year Proposal Will Win in House

G0. P. SOLONS BACKING RUML   HOUSE GROUP PLANS FOR PAY-AS-YOU-GO SUPPORT

PLAN BOMBING OF ROME WEEKS AGO   Mussolini Builds Power Plants Close to Churches

Roosevelt Food Cost Plans Are ~ Given Congres:   War Subsidy Program Is Finding Foes In The Capitol

FDR's Message On Subsidies Not Impressive   Leaders Continue Strong Opposition

President Calls On Congress to ~ Vote Subsidies   Pledges Enough Food To Go Around in. Lona Message

Food Message Stirs Solons   Long-Smoldering Row On Subsidies Fanned

FDR Urgently Appeals for Food Subsidies   President Warns of Dangers Inherent in Wartime Inflation

FOR. PLEA FANS QUBSIDY BATTLE   ‘BANKHEAD DOUBTS MESSAGE WILL WIN ANY VOTES FOR PRICE PROGRAM.

Subsidy Appeal Fans Old Flame   FDR. Asserts Plan Will Check Prices

FDR REOPENS SUBSIDY FIGHT   Warns Against Inflation in  , Long Message to Congress on Food

MESSAGE STIRS SUBSIDY BATTLE   President Reviews Fight For Plan To Control Cost Of Living

SUBSIDY OKEH CONGRESS PLEA OF PRESIDENT   Food Message Given To Reluctant Solons

FDR MESSAGE FANS BATTLE ON SUBSIDIES   President Calls on Reluctant Congress to O:K. Rollback   LONG MESSAGE IS SENT TO CONGRESS   Enough Food to Go Around Roosevelt Assures People

EXPECT ACTION ON OHIO TIME CHANGE DURING THIS WEEK   Assembly May Settle Issue With Little Delay— Herbert May Give Opinion.

Ruling on Time Change Awaited   Legislature to Act Soon on Issue

BARGES STREAM 10 PANTELLERIA, ROME RADIO SAYS   Icstimates 5,000 Planes, Million Troops Asi  sembled on Mediterranean Rim; Swiss 2  Report Demonstrations in Italy

OME REPORTS INVASION FLEET AT PANTFI  FRIA   Claim 5,000 Airplanes And Million Troops Massed   LANDING BARGES ARE REPORTED ASSEMBLED

INVASION BARGES ON MOVE FROM ArRICA ROME RADIO CLAIMS   Steady Flow Of Allied Landing Craft To Pantelleriz Island Reported As Zero Hour Nears For Sicily Assault

Barge Massing At Pantelleria By Allies Seen   Radio Rome Says 5,000 Planes, Million Troops Gird For Europe Assault   HINT ITALY UPRISING   Axis Reports Gibraltar Convoy Moves, ‘Unfaltering' Blows At Shipping

ITALY HAS INVASION JITTERS   Report Allies Have Million Men Poised For Attack

LANDING BARGES DINGENTRATED A SEIZED ISLANDS   Allies Also. Mass 5,000 Planes and Half of British Fleet.

Gathering of 5,000 Planes, Thousands Of Tanks Revealed   More Than Half of British Fleet Declared Now in Mediterranean; Peace Outbreaks in Italv Told

ASSAULT ON EUROPE SEEN COMING SOON   Peace Demonstrations Are Said to Have Broken Out In Southern Italy.

In Steady ~ Movement ~ From Africa A      ROME RADIO ESTIMATES ALLIES HAVE 5000 PLANES AND MILLION MEN ALONG MEDTERRAEAN RIM

ALLIED SHIPS MOVING INTO SEA OFF AFRICA   Nazi Fears Increase Over Continent Blow Starting In Near East   RUMANIA BEING WATCHED   Opposition Groups tn Satellite Countries Boosting Resistance

Invasion Barges Said Proceeding To Pantelleria   Italian Estimates Million Allied Troops Massed For Attack

SAYS MILLION TROOPS READY FOR INVASION   5,000 Allied Planes in \lediterranean, Rome 2adio Claims

[Rome Radio Says Allies Are Massing   Invasion Barges, Fleet and Big Army TBreclared Poised

ME NE VER REPORTED TROOP MASSING   Million Allied Soldiers, 5,000 Planes, Large Fleet Poised for Invasion Fascists Say

OHIO FIRMS 70 BUILD TIRES FOR CIVILIANS   Akron Factories Prepare fo Synthetic Production

Factories Shift To Civilian {tenis   Akron Rubber Plants Show New  rend

RUBBER COMPANIES RECONVERT PLANTS   Return to Manufacture of Civilian Goods

Mayors Charge Discrimination   Seek Means to Get 25 Counties Into New Ration Area

MAYORS DECRY DISCRIMINATION   Complain That ‘ Gasoline Ruling Has Badly Up.  set People.

CRITICISMS NUMEROUS AT CONFERENCE   Smoky City Executive Says Much Western Penn‘a Gasoline Going to Nearby States   CALLED "INEQUITABLE"

Great Tank Battles In Ukraine   Germans Pouring Ir Reserves As They Counter-Attack

WILLKIE SURE DEWEY WAL NOT RUN IN 194   Believes New York Governo  _ Will Serve Four-year . Term,

Deadly Crop of Mines in Varke’ Path   Engineers Harvest Them as French and Arab Farmers. Gather Their Hay   CLEAR THE ROADS AS SHELLS FALL   Americans Move Ahead ‘Too Fasi for Germans to Entronch Themeelves

Axis Laying Deadly Mines By Thousands   Report New Signs Of Axis Forces Disintegrating

PACIFIC RAIL “WORKERS QUIT   FDR’s Last Minute Appea  Fails To Prevent  Strike

Railway Strike Ties Up Traffic At Los Angeles   President Fails  To Avert Walkout

Rail Employes Go On Strike   Los Angeles Faces Tieup; F.D.R.’s Conciliation Efforts Fail.

Transportation  Halted By Strike   2600 Employes Of Pacific ~ Electric “Are Out; “Road Serves 55 Commitnities

2,600 RAILWAY WORKERS WALK OUT ON STRIKE   Work Stoppage Comes In Spite of FDR's Efforts

RAIL WORKERS OUT ON COAST   Start Strike Despite Conciliatory Efforts of President.

Rail Strike End Demanded  Before Federal Board Acts   White House Announces Appointment of Board to Review Pacific Electric Wage Case — Strike Ties Up Vital Transport

WEoT COAST RAIL WORKERS STRIKE   2,600 Pacific Electric Railway Employes Leave Jobs at 2 A. M. Today

White House Appeal Fails To Halt Strike   Pacific Electric Railway Employes at Lost Angeles Walk Out  GUARDS ARE POSTED

FDR'S APPEAL LACKS PUNCH   2,600 Electric Rail Employes Strike at Los Angeles; Board Named

Pope Unable To Obtain Information From Russia About Italian Prisoners

Explosives-Filled Freighter Is Sunk   Tons of Water Poured into Holds

U. S. Submarines Sink 10 More-Jap Supply Ship:   Two Large Transports Bagged, Underscoring President Roosevelt's Statement That Foe’s Position Is Growing Desperate __

SINK 10 MORE JAP VESSELS IN PACIFIC   U. S. Sub Sinkings in Area Total 297 Ships

10 Jap Ships Sunk By U.S.   American Submarine Continue Attack Of Enemy Supply Lines In Pacific.

PROBE CRASH FATAL 10 2 AT TERRE HAUTE   Funeral of O'Neal Tentatively Set for Friday

CITE NEED FOR FOOD RATIONING REVISION   Report Present Allotment Insufficent for Workers

SOVIETS ENGULE 133 MORE TOWNS   Russians Roll oll Up Total In  Swiftly-Moving Offensive This Week

: Reds Take 133 Villages And Towns   Threat to Nazi Central Front Bases Growing

NAZIS WERE ROUTED FROM 30 LOCALTIES LAST NIGHT, BRINGING TOTAL SINCE THURSDAY NIGHT TO 133

GERMANS ALTER U-BOAT TACTICS   Knox Reveals Mid-Atlantic Concentration Hits Supply Lines

SUBS TAK HEAVIER TOLL IN ATLANTIC   U-Boats Concentrate In Effort To Cut Vital Supply Lines   ACTIVITY ON INCREASE   Change In Enemy Tactics Hoists March Toll Far Above April

More German Subs oi thn the: Atlantic   Effort, 2a Cut Supply Lines Across Ocean

MORE U-BOATS CONCENTRATED IN ATLANTIC   Enemy Subs Using Changed Tactics, Secretary Says

lowans Unite For War Work   Teachers, Students and White Collar. Workers - Aid in War Plant

White Collar Workers Make Good Manual Laborers in Iowa War Plant

DRAFT 10 TAKE 3/ MILLION IN NEW YEAR   Half to Be 18, 19; Others Childless Married Men up to 38

ELECTION IS TUESDAY   A Contest in Fifth Ward; Will Vote on Parking Meters:

GERMANS DRIVE YANKS OFF HILL   Nazis Counter to Protect Core of Winter Line in Italy

YANK TROOPS HELD BEFORE NAZI ATTACKS   Fifth: Army Forced to Abandon Hill in Ridges North of Venafro.

Alaska Deer Perishing Fron  Wolf Attacks   Unless steps are taken. to protect herds, ihe reindeer industry. will he donmei.

Yanks Under  Siege From  Dusk to Dawn American Hugs Foxhole as  Nippons Attack

Area Lost to Germans Recovered   ‘Americans In New Surge Go Past Wednesday’s Gain In Italian Mountains   MAIN JOB FALLS . ‘ON INFANTRYMEN

Yanks Take Two Towns’ From Nazis   British Patrol Crosses Sangro River; Little Change on Front

YANKS RETAKE LOST GROUND   Nazis Fall Back In Italy After Counter-Attacks Gained Ground

SANGRO RIVER ALSO CROSSED BY BRITISH   Stream Is at East End of  Nazi Winter Line—U.   § Gains Recover Ground Lost in German Counter-Attack.

SANGRO RIVER IS CROSSED BY BRITISH   Regain High Grounds Lost In Nazi Counterdrives; Allied Bombers Strike Points In Balkans 

ALLIED FORCES CAPTURE TOWNS NEAR VENAFRO   American Troops Reported To Be  Leading Drive

YANKS TAKE 2 ITALIAN TOWNS IN BITTER FICHT   Recover Some Ground Which Nazis Captured; Gaeta Gulf Is Shelled

AMERICANS TAKE TWO MORE TOWNS BEYOND VENAFRO   REGAIN POSITIONS LOST IN GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS

‘AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE TWO TOWNS INSHARP FIGHTING, BRITISH CROSS SANGRO RIVER   Bitter Fightixig at Several Points Along Line in Italy Under Extremely Difficult Conditions. Allied Planes Strike Out in New Forays Against Ralkane

Americans In Italy Take Two Towns   Points Recaptured After Falling To Germans

U. 5. CAPTURES 2 ITALY TOWNS   BRITISH MOVE AHEAD AT END OF NAZI LINE

2 Towns in Italy Taken dy American:   Allies Battle  To Take High Grounds Lost in Nazi Attack

Allies Send Patrols Over Sangro River  Reitich Wake (rn«ccing   . S)  British Make Crossing As Yankees On West Capture Two Towns Near Venafro

U. S. FORCES TAKE 2 TOWNS NO. OF VENAFRO   Brifish Pairel Crosses Sanaro River, bul Malian Froni Little Changed in 24 Hours   FIGHTING IS HEAVY   British Warships Bombard Nazi Positions, Airmen Raid Relinery al Beral, Albania

Americans In Italy Capture 2 More Towns   Lost Heights Regained Above Mignano; British  Cross Sangro River.

Sharp Fighting Of Yank Troops ‘Nets: Capture Of 2 More Towns; British Unit Crosses Sangro River

Allies Regain Ground Lost InNaziAttack   American ‘Troops Capture Two Towns North of Venafro

AMERICAN TROOPS ON ITALIAN FRONT CAPTURE TWO TOWNS  BRITISH PATROL ON ADRIATIC SIDE CROSSED

Hot Fight Raging Qn Mountain Line   Americans Retake Ground Lost to German Counter- attacks   END WITH A NET GAIN   Allies Battle in Rough Coun. try Against Dug-In Enemy

U.S. Troops Capture 2 More Towns   British Also Pushing Ahead On Halian Front

German Winter Line Hit   Americans Regain Areas Lest By Enemy Counterattacks

ALLIES PRESS FORWARD FOR SLIGHT GAINS   Yanks Capture Two New Towns Near Venafro After Sharp Fight

Nazis Hold Positions.  Stubbornly   Americans Capture Two More Small Towns

TWO MORE TOWNS NEAR VENAFRO ARE TAKEN BY THE U, $   A British Patrol Crossed the Sangro River Along the Eastern End of Line.   REGAIN HIGH GROUNDS   On Mt. Camino Allied Forces Battled Back to Seize Lost Positions.

YanksRegain Losses In Italy Area   Reveal Germen Counter Attacks Forced Them Back For A Time

Hard Fighting Gains For Allies in Italy   Two More Towns Captured and British  Patrol Crosses Sangro River; Reoccupy High Ground Lost to Germans

YANKS CAPTURE 2 MORE TOWNS   Allied Forces Regain Positions Lost to Germans Thursday.   PLANES RAID BALKANS

British 8th * Crosses River; Yanks Advance   Allies in Italy Retake High Ground Previously Lost to Enemy

BRITISH CROSS SANGRO RIVER ALONG EASTERN ENI OF NAZI WINTER LINE—BITTER FIGHTING, BUT LIT TLE CHANGE IN POSITIONS IN LAST 24 HOURS

Yanks Take 2 Towns in Sharp Battle   Allies Recover High Ground  Taken by Nazi Attack Thursday

YANKS GRAB 2 MORE TOWNS IN ITALIAN SECTOR   British Patrol Crosses Sangro River Along Eastern End of Nazi Winter Line

Yanks Take 2 More Town:   Fifth Army Regains Ground Lost in Noxi Counter-Attacks

2 More Towns AboveVenafro Also Captured   Terrain Over Which the Advances Are Made Is Very Difficult

BRITAIN’S LEADER SAYS RUSSIANS HAVE WRECKED GERMANS   WOUNDS INFLICTED THAT MAY WELL PROVE MORTAL CHURCHILL DECLARES

RUSSIA HAS WRECKED GERMAN MILITARY MACHINE AND: INFLICTED WOUNDS THAT MAY PROVE FATAL   British Prime Minister Prediets Campaign i in = Europe in 1944 Will Be. Most Severe and Contly Yet Undertaken by Allies §=8 -«-_—.

BRITISH OCCUPY ITALIAN WEST COAST PORTS; BATTLE IS STILL RAGING IN SALERNO AREA

Congressional Investigations Get Early Start   Special Senate Group To Open Hearings ‘Today On Gas, Oil Rationing

PROBE OF GAS, OILRATIONING OPENS TODAY   Hearings Will be Started on Highly Volatile  ip ee   NEW SESSION WILL OPEN JANUARY 6TH

MANY PROBES ARE EXPECTED   One Senate Group to Jump The Gun in Oil Ration ing Investigation

Fuel Qil, Gas Hearings Open Today  a SE   Congress Groups Pian Probes In Many Fields:

Oil, Gas Rationing Hearings Today   Senate Committee  Ready to Start Work

PROBE OF GAS, OILRATIONING OPENS TODAY   Hearings Will be Started on Highly Volatile Topic   NEW SESSION WILL OPEN JANUARY 6TH   Many Congressional In quiries Will Mark New Term

Senate Group To Open Gas Hearing Today   Chairman Maloney Says System ls Not Workable

SENATE GROUP TO OPEN PROBE ON GAS RATION   Committee Starts Today On First Of Many Investigations  Scheduled   Congress Starts Wed.

MONTGOMERY'S 8TH ARMY NOW IN ENFIDAVILLE   Rommel’s Furious Counter Blows Fail to Stem Advance

British Smash Through A'ong Tunisian Coast   Enfidaville Is Captured And Held Against Furious Rommel Assaults   FIRST ARMY PUSHES NEARER TO TUNIS

AUSOIAN FORGE AEPULOE ATTACK ONNORTH OONET   Red Artillery Fire Forces Germans Back In Balak leya Sector

Spain Reports 24 Merchant Ships, Large invasion Barges Enter Mediterranean

Integrated Bar  Measure Passes Override Goodland Veto In State Senate

Drive Nor From The Volturno —           ADVANCE IS AIDED BY LANDING FROM THE SEA BEHIND ENME LINES; RUSH TANKS ACROSS 

Leap-Frog Tactics Aid Fifth Army To Advance Five Miles Past River

Dr.A.R.Livermore Honored at School _ Directors Meeting   dent At Meeting In Harrisburg

Dr.A.R.Livermore Honored at School  Directors Meeting   Elected Second Vice President At Meeting In Harrisburz

JAP FORAYS HIT SOLOMON BASES   Pacific Aerial Forces Active With Kiska Attacked As Weather Breaks

“STIMSON REVIEW PROGRESS OF WAR   Secretary Declares Axis Got Nowhere in Desperate Lunges in Tunisia; Allies  » Gain in Week’s Fighting

IS RULER OF BULGARIA   Six Year Old Son of Late King Boris Is Proclaimed 

Chinese in New Drive   Recapture Many Towns And Inflicted Heavy Losses on Japanese

CHINESE RETAKE SEVERAL TOWNS   American Air Support Civen Craund  Dn

SOVIET TROOPS FORGING AHEAD ON ALL FRONTS   Voroshilovsk Taken Ass Reds Continue Triumphs

Voroshilovsk Is Captured by the Soviets   Russians Report 500,000 Nazis Have Been Killed

WIVES OF MINERS THREATEN ‘STRIKE      ‘Say They'll Quit Cooking : If Husbands Return  To Jobs Now

Reds Lift Siege of Leningrad, Smash Sagging  Gm Frcs Wil Feb Cae Rommnel’s Battered Treape In Altica; Ales Capture 2 Vital Jap Strenghelds Ia New Guinea

Reds Lift Siege Of  Leningrad   Schluesselburg Fortress Falls   Two Columns Advance.

Fierce, Ceaseless Battle Rages Across Broad Catania Plain   Gen, Montgomery's Eighth Army Drives Back Bitterly Resisting Germans Through Fields

British Press  Nearer Big Jap Base At Akyab   Nipponese May Decide Not To Defend Vital  Port In Burma.

BRITISH UNDER WAVELL DRIVE NEARER AKYAB   Troops Last Reported 25 Miles Outside Port City

British Move Nearer Jap Base At Akyab   Foe May Elect Not To Defend  Port In Burma   Jap Destroyers Fail To Land Men On Guadal   Americans And Anzacs Regroup In New Guinea

AKYAB DEFENSE DY JAP FORGta IS UNGERTAIN   Gen. Wavell Forces Push On Toward Enemy Base In Occupied Burma

WAVELL ARNIY 1S 23 MILES FROM AKYAB   Japs Use Jungle Waters For Hit and Run Attacks   AKYAB PORT ACTIVE   Uncertain If Jap Ships Bring Supplies Or Remove Troops

British Move On Jap Base At Akyab In Burma   Knox Says Jap Ships  Made No Landings on ~ Guadaleanal, But Set — Supply Druths Afloat.

British Are Advancing Nearer Akyab   Not Known Whether Jap Ships Moving in and Out of Akyab Are Bringing Supplies or Taking Of Troons

Wavell’s Forces Reported Moving Nearer to Akyab   Jap Destroyers Didn‘t Succeed in :

BRITAIN'S INDIA ARMY ADVANCING   Move Within 25. Miles Of Japanese Base At Akvab

JAP SHIP SEEN GOING IN OUT OF HARBOR   Knox Says Nipponese Destroyers Floated Supplies to Guadalcanal

British Near Akyabwithout Meeting Foe   Japs Are Busy i in Key City but Offer no Resistance to Advancing Allies

BRITISH MOVE NEARER AKY AE   Heavy Activity By Japs  Reported In Harbor

British Moving Nearer Big Jap Base ‘In Burma; Allies Mop Up In Buna Area

British Army Moving Close To Akvab Base   Uncertain Whether Point Is To Be Defended or - Deserted  FOE LANDS SUPPLIES Sisebistiner Says Yanks,  Aussies Preparing For New Attack

British Army Moving Close To Akyab Base   To Akyab Base  Uncertain Whether Point Is To Be Defended or Deserted  FOE LANDS SUPPLIES MacArthur Says Yanks,  Aussies Preparing For New Attack

Dr. Hens Held As Violator of U.S. Draft Laws   Helped Men Avoid Service, FBI Says

DRAFT DODGER DOCTOR CLAIMS ‘OTHERS DOIT   Baltimore - Socialist, Held For Grand Jury, Quoted As Saying Evaders "Are Given Help

HIGHWAY OF Gt 5 GOP TARGET   Supporters of Plan to Abolish Commissioner Post Exnect Action.

Highway Bill Ts Released by Committee   Wayne County Representative Limit Shares Spotlight with Road Legislation

Jap Cruiser Hit By Bomb   Big Merchant Vessel Also Hit In Attacks

U.S. Planes Score Hits on Jap Cruiser   Attack Two Convoys Headed for Bougainville from Rabaul

WLB TO INVESTIGATE CLEVELAND STRIKE   Regional Heads Asks National Board to Check

WARN FOR 10 DROP SUBSIDY   Continued Demand May Bring End to OPA, Says House Group Head.   LIQUOR PLOT CHARGED

CONG GET SEVERAL NEW ACCOUNTS   Hull To Reiate Story Of His Moscow Trip

FDR’s Demand for Subsidies May be Death Blow to OPA   Committee Warns OPA May Take Its Place Alongside NRA

OPN 16 THREATENED 'N SUBSIDY SCRAP   House Member Will Lead Fight on OPA Wnless FDR Drops Subsidy Fight

Axis Counter- Attacks Repulsed As Allies Drive 15 Miles Inland   Allies Aided by Friendly Sicilians Supported By Powerful Air and Naval Bombardment in Current Invasion

HEAVY ITALIAN BUUNTER ORI THROWN BAGK   British Forces Take Syracuse As Allies Consolidate Hold On Vital Beachheads

4,000 PRISONERS TAKEN; 7 COUNTER DRIVES REPULSED   Invasion Units Make Good Progress Toward Conquest Of Island— 7 Forces Roll Inland At. Least 15 Miles   DAMAGE TO MESSINA IS TERRIFIC; PORT DESTROYED

Brilish Take Syracuse; Yanks, Under Gen. Patton, Seize Airbase at Licala

Allies Capture 10 Major Towns On Islands, Including Syracuse, Vital Port; Seven Axis Attacks Repulsed; Allies Advancing Inland

Friendly Sicilians  Give Aid   Yanks Repulse Blows Of Mussolini’s Famed 4th Livorno

See Debt Of 210 Billion   Ask Authority To Increase Debt Limit; Ne Rider On Salarv Limitation.

U.S. Public Debi Expected fo Hit 110 Billions   Pay-As-You-Go Compromise Wins Favor in Congress

NAME CHAMPION WAR INDUSTRY WORKER   Works 81 Hours Each Week in Defense Plant

Heart Attack is     > Merchant  Oscar Mayer Dies cC..j3..f... Pras   Oscar Mayer Dies Suddenly; Rites to Be Thursday

‘Oscar Mayer eDies Suddenly * Of Heart Attack   Veteran Merchant 71 in Vil Health for Several Months

AFL DEBATING ON RETURN OF LEWIS MINERS INTO FOLD      13. Labor Leaders Begin To Thresh Out Very _ Ticklish Matter About UMW: 

LABOR LEADERS IN TICKLISH PROBLEM AT-MEETING TODAY   Debate Whether to Take Lewis and His Miners Back Into the Fold or Not.

Chennault Says Japs Are On Downgrade, With.Two Major Aerial: Bottlenecks Indicated

Japanese Air Power Past Its Peak, Chennault Says; China's Outlook Better

JAP AIR POWER DIMINISHING —CHENNAULT   Enemy Runs Into Bottlenecks — Aircraft Production And Training Airmen, Says Flying Tiger Ex-Chief.   Move Help To China

ARTHUR MILNES GIVEN MEDAL   One-of . hr «tor Re      “Honor for marine Duty.

BOMBER PLANT PLOT CHARGED   Ford Officials Claim CIO Trying To Take Over Factory

Germans Bolster Fighting Forces   Reinforcements Sent to Yugoslavia

More Reich Troops Pouring Into Balkan Sectors  Partisan Forces Drive Germans Back to Stall New Offensive

FRESH GERMA TROOPS THROWN BACK BY SERBS   Nazis Have 14 Divisions In Yugoslavia

ECONOMIES 10 AIT FOOD MARKETING   Ban: on: Pint and HalfPint Bottles for Milk Sala. :   PURPOSE TO BOOST PRICE TO FARMERS   Dairymen Fear Attacks to Abolish Restrictions on Oleo.

Expect More Food Changes   New Milk Order Eliminates Delivery  Of Less Than Quart

23Years Needed  To Demobilize   Slow Dismissal Will Ease _ Employment Problem, .  ~°U.S. Survey Says 

Brown Threatens To Oust OPA Aids It They Continue Hectic Quarrels

Bickering In OPA  Irks Brown   Say He'll Keep Best, Drop Other In Word Battle

BROWN IS DISGUSTED WITH OPA WRANGLING   Says Top Executives Will Ge Along Together Or He Will Fire One Of Them

May Revert 1942 Taxes To ‘41 Rate   Plan Suggested As Expedient Switching To Pay-As-You-Go   Would Reduce Lower Brackets By A Half   Proposal To Take Place Of Ruml’s  Forgiveness Idea

Treasury May Revert ’42 Taxes To ’41 Rates, Exemptions, Paving Way for a ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Plan

Treasury Studies Reverting Income Tax to 1941 Rates   Considered As Means of Starting Pay-As-You-Go. Plan

Warlime Tax To Be Heavy  ao Phil   Treasury Official Quotes New Figures

TREASURY CONSIDERS PLAN TO REVERT 1942 INCOME TAXES 70 1941 RATE AND EXEMPTIONS

OPPOSITION TO REMITTING OF ‘42 TAXES   ‘Treasury General Counsel   Fears Inflation Spiral  ' And Demands For Wage Increases  ABATEMENT DISCUSSED

TREASURY PLAN  WOULD PUT TAXES  ON 1941 BASIS MIGHT BE USED TO  EASE SHOCK OF NEW oOa~avy AC YNUG

MAY REVERT 10 194? TAX RATE   Treasury Announces It Is Giving Serious Consideration To Plan

1942 INCOME TAXES MAY BE SAME AS 1841      TREASURY CONSIDERS PLAN TO FURTHER PAY-AS-GO PROPOSAL

1942 Taxes May Be Reverted to°4l Rates, Exemptions   Treasury Considering Move To Expedite PayAs-You-Go Plan” °

Treasury Dept.  Is Considering Tax Reversion   Weighs Plan To Revert *42 Levy To 1941 Rates To Aid Pay-As-You-Go

CONSIDER — Boe WD. TAX RATE   Treasury. Studies Plan’ ‘of ‘Applying 1941: Schedules.” to.1942 Incomes   OULD, RELIEVE: “MANY MILLIONS   Pay- as. You-Go'° . Go: ..: Formula > Still: ‘Sought; Bigger War Taxes. Loom: Ahead

REDUCED TAX RATE STUDIED   No Decision Reached on Problem, Is Report

souay 4zn washington:  Tax Discussions, Manpower Needs Brings Cost Of Total War To Americans

PART OF 1942 TAXES MAY YET BE FORGIVEN   Treasury Studies Substituting 3941 Rates for 1942 to Achieve Pavy-As-Go Basis   INFLATION FACTOR   Wage and Cost of. Living Issues Taken fo President by CIO and AFL Leaders

May Cut Tax Rate Back to Last Year's”   Treasury Has Plan To* Get on  Pav-assVou-Go. Bacis

1942 INCOME TAXES MUST BE PAID UP   Report Must Be Filed by All Before March 15 Neadlina.   TO BE REBATED FORGIVEN   Treasury Opposes Ruml Plan, Doesn’t Want to Lose 1942 Tax.

Reverting To 1941 Tax Rates Is Considered   Payment Of 1942 Taxes On Basis Of Old Rates Proposed As Part Of Pay-As-You-Go Plan

Be Moved Back Year   Action Would Cut March 15 Levy In Half For Millions

TREASURY MIGHT ALLOW 1941 RATES ON 1942 TAXES   Looked Upon As Expedient To Pay-As-You-Go Plan Wanted

TREASURY VIEWS ~NEW TAX PLAN   Considers Reverting 194; Income Levies To 1941 Rates, Exemptions

May Rebate Part Of 1942 Income Taxes   Forgiveness Would Cause A Spending Wave, Says Expert

May Use ’41 Tax Rate       To Aid Taxpayers in Switch to Pay-As-You Go Income Tax Levy ©

1941 Tax Rates Being Considered   But Treasury Reaches No Conclusion on Federal Income Tax Plan.

TREASURY WEIGHS 194] TAX BASIS   Adoption of Program Would Drop Levies to Half of Liability Now Faced

TREASURY MAY SET 1942 TAX RATES BACK TO OLD LEVEL   Move Would Be A Pessible -Expedient To Put Taxpayers On A Pay-As-You-Go Basis

Reverting To Old Level Seen As Mow  To Help Shift To “Pay-As-You-Go”

Greater War Taxes to Come ToHomeFront  Treasury Reveals Collection   Treasury Reveals Collections For 1944 Will Be Increased $16,000,000, 000

INCOME TAXES MAY BE BASED ON “41 RATES   No Conclusion Is Made; Taxpayer Still In Quandary

Treasury Considering 1942 Taxes Be Paid On Basis Of 1941 Rates, Congress Told

"41 Tax Rates Proposed for 1942 Returns   Treasury Says Serious Consideration Given to Plan

TREASURY GIVING CONSIDERATION TO INCOME TAX MATTER   INDICATED PLAN MAY BE TO REVERT 1942 TAXES TO 1941 RATES

Wartime Tax To Be Heavy  Treasury Official Qeaatae Pew, Bi escnoe

U. S. Considers Return to 1941  Income Rates   ‘Possible Expedient’ for a Pay-as-Go Plan,’ Paul Save

Treasury Says Ruml Plan Will Help Inflation  Withholding Tax On Income After Proper

GUT TAX RATES   Seriously Considers Reverting 1942 Income Taxes To 1941 Rates.

the Weatner   May Revert Taxes To 1941 Rates As Pay-As-Go Offset

Reversion of 1942 Income — Taxes to 1941 Rates and Exemptions Is Considered

May Use 1941 Rates On 1942  Income Taxes   Treasury Considering Plan To Relieve Qitiane OF Amoricang

42 TAXES MAY GET ’41 BASES   Treasury Counsel Reveals Plan Under Discussion

Treasury Studies Plan To Revert To Rafes of 1941   Pay-As-You-Go Basis Considered For Tax Payments

Weather Forecast   941 TAX HATE MIGHT BE Votl ON °42 RETURN   New Means Of Putting U. S. On Pay-As-You-Go Basis Studied By Treasury

SEES EXPEDIENT   Treasury Considers Using Old Rate to Sneed Pay-As-You-Go

iA rears      Returns for "42 Must Be Filed as Usual by March 15

1941 Tax Rate Is Proposed To Aid Pay As You Go’   Treasury Studies Possibilities, But Emphasizes No Decision Reached

Pe te TD...  er ® U4eae Bh OUPARS  State MP  Three Jug Bridge Guards Are Drovped

OVER MILLION IS ADDED TO PENSION AVAILABLE FUNDS  TEXAS HOUSE BACKTRACKED TO SEND ’ MEASURE TO GOVERNOF

RED ARMY TROOPS UNLEASH FURIOUS ATTACK ON GOMEL  TUDCATOCA TA ANN   THREATEN TO ADD VITAL NAZI BASE TO LIST OF CONQUESTS

Last German Base East Of Dnieper River Threatened   Despite Weather, Russians Pressing Drives On All Fronts

G. 0. P. Plans for Postwar Program  Advisory Council Announced by Party

Republicans Establish: Advisory Council to Make Study of Post-War Needs

GOP NAMES GROUP TO OFFER ADVICE ON ‘44 PLATFORM   Korty-Nine Leaders to Draw Up Peacetime Program to Be Used as Basis for Party Declaration.   SENATORS, GOVERNORS AMONG THOSE CHOSEN   Spangler Says All Leaders Will Be Consulted, In- cluding Willkie, Landon and Hoover.

taresannt fioetivwht« VW avced   HOLDS BILLS RIDER INVALID   President Hits Action of Congress Barring Employment of Three

Seeond Wave of Allied Troops Are Sweeping Into Italy   ARE PLUNGING INLAND   Italians Reported to be Sur _ rendering in Droves ‘ As in Sicily

Second Wave Of Troops Lands   Eighth Army Spearheads Meet Relatively Weak Opposition — Beachheads Enlarged  Large Number of Prisoners Are Taken— Nazis Leave Italians for Rearguard Actions

Enemy Putting Up But Little Fight, Report   Reinforcements Pour Across Straits To  Mainland To Expand  WH 2 FD nw tans Lf" atesea

SECOND WAVE OF TROOPS SWEEP ACROSS STRAIT TO REINFORCE BRITISH 8TH ARMY   At Least 3 Cities Captured On Toe Italian Boot. Italian High Conimand Says British end Canadians Attacking With Naval Support and “Over- . whelming Superiority In the Air’”’

‘WEATHER FOREGAST   HOLD ON BEACHEAD   Hard Grip Held on 10- Mile. Bridgghead Be‘tween: Resgio Calabria  and San Ciovanni 

Three Cities Taken, Advance Continuing:  Ahead Of Schedule   Allied Ships Pour Supplies, Reinforcements Into Italy

Encounter Only Weak Opposition Alorg Coast   Italians Acknowledge Evacuation of Southwestern Toe and Loss of Three Large Towns.   Residents Cheer Allied C aptors

INVASION FORCES PLUNGING AHEAD 10 CONSOLIDATE GAINS  p ONLY WEAK OPPOSITION

Additional Troops Are ~ Now Landed   Italians Surrendering to Invaders Much as They Did in Sicily

Italian Opposition Weak Along Coast   Reinforcements of Trops and Supplies To Back Invading Army Pours In As Froces Drive Ahead

Reinforcements Pouring Across Strait; Invaders Meet Slight Resistance

Report Occupation Of San Giovanni  And Fall Of Melito   Initial Invasion Spearheads  Meet “Relatively Weak Opposition” From Axis On Italian Mainland

British, Canadians Push Deeper Under Powerful Aerial ‘Umbrella’; Many

Italians: Are Surrendering In Big Droves    Nazis Again Apparently Are Leaving Them to. Bear Brunt  of Rearguard Protection   LITTLE OPPOSITION + TO ALLIED DRIVE   Overwhelming Superiority In. Air Maintained; No Sion of Italian Fleet.

ENCOUNTER ONLY WEAK OPPOSITION   New Invasion Forces Ashore  On Southern Tip

Only Weak Opposition Encountered Along _ Coast Allied Communique Says; Many Italians Surrendering   ROME ADMITS LOSS OF MELITO   Nazis Report Further Landing - Between Melito and Cape Spartivento, Claim Landings Behind Lines Prevented 

ADDITIONAL TROOPS POURED INTO ITALY AS REINFORCEMENTS   EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS SAY ITALIAN TROOPS SURRENDER IN DROVES

ALLIED FORCES TAKE TOWNS IN RAPID ADVANGE   Berlin Announces Another Landing On Coast, [5 Miles South From First Invasion   BRITISH-CANADIANS PLUNGING FORWARD   Rome Admits Evacuation Of Areas In Toe of Boot; Axis Opposition Is Termed Weak

Relatively Weak’ Opposition Found (n the Mainland   Strong Airpower of United Nations Is Racking Astault

Towns Captured In Invasion of Axis Satellite  Weak Resistance   Weak Resistance Reported; Many Prisoners Taken

Second Allied Wave Crosses To Italy Mainland   British Pushing Ahead Without Opposition;  Germans Run Again

Second Force Reinforces British Army   Three Cities Occupied  As Advance Continues

ALLIES REPORT GOOD PROGRESS ON ITALY SOIL   ‘More Cities Captured By Invaders; Italians Surrendering

Allies Surge Ahead After Capture of Two Key Points; Meet Only Weak Opposition   British and Canadian Troops Clamp Firm Hold On 10-Mile . Bridaehead On Italian Toe

TROOPS POURING ONTO MAINLAND, BRITISH ADVANCE   MELITO FALLS, 8TH ARMY FORCES WIDEN VITAL BRIDGEHEADS

Gains Are Made; Many Italians Surrendering   Airfield South Of Reggio 1s'Seized: Correspondents Stress Weak Opposition

MORE TROOPS SWEEP ACROSS FROM MESSINE   At Least Three Cities On “Toe” Taken As Italians Start Giving up in Large Numbers

Seeond Wave ‘of Allied  . Troops Are Sweeping Into Italy  ARE PLUNGING INLAND        Ttalians Reported to be Sur~ rendering in Droves ‘- As in Sicily .» ‘

‘Axis Troops Yield  ee Cities on Bo ‘As British Advanc             .Pommies’ Spearheading Deeper Inland, Taking Many Prisoners. Reinforcements Pour Over Stra;

Invasion Fleet Bolsters Army   Reggio Calabria And San Giovanni Captured While Reinforcements Reach Toe Of Mainland; Enemy Puts Up Weak Fight Against Spearhead Of British

Briti sh, Canadian Troops Have Firm “Hold on FenMile Bridgehead .

ALLIED TROOPS PLUNGE AHEAD   Only Weak Resistance En countered; Many Italians Give Up,   PLANES BLASTING ENEMY

NAZI OFFENOIVE DYING IN DONE: AED ORIVE GAINS   Germans May Cease [Efforts To Reach Banks Of Dor River In East

RUSSIAN GUNS AND COURAGE HALT GERMANS ON BANKS DONETS   Soviet Forces In North Sector Are Rolling Toward Smolensk.

Stephan Not To Go To Gallows   FDR Commutes His  Santancea To  ife

53% Tax Paid Profits Made On War Jobs   Report to House Alleges Contractors Figures Taxes in Costs

FINDS BIG PROFITS   One-Man Committe. Reports Investigation of War Contracts:

Charges Profits For War Work  Are Exeessive   Some Up To 53 Per Cent, Engel Survey Claims; Blames Administration

53 Per Cent War Profits Charged   Engel Says Companies Include Federal Taxes in Their Cost To Government

WAR PROFITS OF 53 PCT, CHARGED   Investigator Says Enormous. Profits Made By Corporations. 

War Hero's Widow Is Quietly Married  Mrs. Colin Kelly Wed:   Navy Lieutenant

Himmler Puts Fresh Brakes onHomeFront   Demands Complete Subjugation to the Government's Wiil  ‘

Himmler Tightens His Rule   ‘Complete Subjugation’ Is Demanded — He Even Holds Reins on Army

Gestapo Tightens Grip On Germany   Even Demanding Complete Subordination — Of Nazi Army.

POLICE POWER 5 TIGHTENEL   Anything But Complete Subjugation to Nazi Will Is Punishable.

“Anything Other Than Complete Subjugation to Will of Government  Punishable Offense

Tribute Paid  To Press Heroes   AP Official Urges News Freedom Plea at Next Peace Meet

Newsmen Are Given Honors at 1943 Gathering of AP   O. 5. Warden Named To Official Post; Free Press Is Lauded

A? eat ~1g38 ‘American ? ress “o Seéx 3 Wet ya‘iona ews 4peecoria: 2ecace Con-erence

Cooper Praises War Reporters At AP Meeting   Also Calls for Militant Leadership To Keep Press Free

Invasion Becomes Pursuit Of Almost Non-resisting Enem\   Allied Forces Go Twice As Far And Twice As Fast As Planned; Axis Air Forces  Miss Their Big Chance

Fleeing Enemy On Sicily Runs Allies Ragged   Invasion Becomes Footrace as  Opposition Fails

Two More Axis Supply Ships Sunk By Planes   42 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down During Continuous Raids

DOWN 42 PLANES DAMAGE SHIPS OVER SICILY   New Around - Clock Raids by Allied Planes

SMASHING BLOWS ARE DELIVERED TO ENEMY   Allied Planes Sink Two More Supply Ships, Damaged Two Destroyers, Shot Down 24 Axis Aircraft and Battered Communications in New Raids Made in Sicilian Area.

Fire Brought Death To (Many. In Hamburg Raid   Allied Bombing Of Important German Port Touch_ ed: Off Holocaust In ‘Which Flames Took Oxygen Out Of Air

Roof Of Fire, That Followed Allied Raid On Hamburg, Trapped Thousands

Flames Soared Skyward Four Miles When Hamburg Was Levelled By Allies

TERRIFIC BOMBING OF HAMBURG CAUSED STRUGGLE FOR AIR   MEN, WOMEN AND CHIL DREN LOST FIGHT FOR  ' AIP OXYGEN TO FLAMES

Swiss Paper Says Almost No. One Escaped From Hamburg Holocaust Caused By Terrific Allied Bombing

Swiss Reports Say Flames Soared Nearly 4 Miles Over Hamburg After Allied Raid

Hamburg Was Holocaust   Thousands Perished From Heat, Lack of Oxygen

AMBURG BOMBING WAS DESCRIBED AS A HOLOGAUS!   Women and Childrer roueht for the Oxygen of the Air.   PE*SY ESCAPED WITH LIFE   A Phenomenon Resulted in Which Fire Drew Oxygen From Surrounding Air.

Hamburg Holocaust Caused When Flames Drew Oxfgen From Air And Licked City In Typhoon Fashion

RESIDENTS OF HAMBURG DIED BY THOUSANDS   Many Suffocated Because Of Lack Of Oxygen

Misundersfanding Over Trip Cleared  Eisenhower And De Gaulle Exchange Friend!y Macsones

STRONG FORTIFIED LINE EAST OF CITY HAS BEEN PIERCED   Russians Score New Gains In Kharkov Area—Fall Of Kursk Revealed —Most Glorious Day Of Winter Campaign

Red Troops Mopping Up At Kursk   Swift Advances Are Continuing; Fall OP Two Cities Near

ENTIRE NAZI ANCHOR LINE ENDANGER EL   Industrial Capital of Ukraine Put In Jeopardy by Soviet Victories.   BULLETIN

REDS SWEEP WESTWARD FROM KURSK   Russians Pierce Fortified Line East of Rostov

Fortified Line Broken By Soviets   Advance Steady Although German Tanks Stubborn

KHARKOV IS INCREASED   German Positions At Rostov Captured By Russians

DEMOCRACY FACING PERIL AT HEME IS SUMNERS STATEMENT  TEXAN SAYS WE’RE TRAV ELING TOWARD CENTRAL WED REURFAUCRACY

U.S. Headed For Centralized  Bureaucracy, Sumners Warns   Democratic Chairman Of House Judiciary Committee Sees Nation Drifting Away From Democracy

U S, TRAVELING FROM REPRESENTATIVE ‘DEMOCRACY TO BUREAUCRACY SAYS SOLON

GINGER ROGERS WED T0 MARINE   -Elopesto Pasadéna -- +. After 3 Month Romance

HOPE FINLA TO BREAK FROM BONDS OF AXIS   Not Too Much Optimism In This  Country, However, Despite Outcome Of Finn Election

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 6.   REP. LEA NAMED TO TAKE COX PLACE AS CHAIRMAN

Rep. Lea Heads Probe Committee   Will Investigate Federal Communica: tiane Cammiccian

ARMY WORKING 10 EXPEDITE CHECKS 10 SOLDIERS’ FAMILIES   Sen. Thomas Cited Complaints OF Enlisted Men On Tardy Payments

F. D. R. Promises Freedom To Filipinos; Allied Leaders To Discuss Pacific War Is Beltef

SCHEDULED TALKS YF CHURCHILL IND F. D.R. MEAN TROUBLE FOR JAPS   ‘resident Roosevelt Promises Philippines That Their Homeland Soon Will Be Redeem ed From Jan Invader.

Green Bay Is First City In District Affected By New Maximum Food Price Order

Set Definite Price Ceilings In 150 Cities   Milwaukee, Green Bay And La Crosse Are First In State To Go Under OPA Program

Pearl Harbor Is Ready If Japanese Attack Again: Nimitz Awaits News of Fresh Drive  i  On 2nd Anniversary of Sneak Attack

Nimitz Surveys Rebuilt Arsenal Of Pearl Harbor With Grim Memories

JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR GAME JUST TWO YEARS AGO  TAMAWY 424 NRE wT Resa De   TODAY A REBUILT PEARL HARBOR AWAITS DETAILS ACCELERATED WAR

German Lines Stormed By Infantry   Eighth Army Sends Tanks Roaring Across Moro River   Second Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor Attack Finds Americans Accelerating Offensives

PACIFIC FLEET REBUILT SINCE ‘JAP SNEAK BLOW   ““Ywo Years Have Witness. ed Changing Events Which Put Japs on   Defensive

Airmen Strike Hard In Italy   Italians Warned to Stay From Military Objectives

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST GERMAN BASES IN ITAL}      Communications Lines Also Bembed While Fliers. Frevide Cover for-AHied Ground Forces

ALLIED PLANES, ATTACK ITALY   Assaults Carried Out to Drive Germans From Path of Yanks

Bombardment Of italy Continues      IN ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OUT GERMAN TROOPS

APPRECIATED: HELP   Farmers Along Kaw Raise $1,105 for Fund for: /  ServiceMen = ['

APPRECIATED HELP   Farmers Along Kaw Raise $1,105 for Fund for. , Service Men

OURS: MENAGE GREAT AS EVER, KNOX DECLARES   Navy Also Announces Sinking Of Enemy Undersea Craft Recently

NAVY SINKS TWO AXIS SUBMARINES   Follows Loss of Two Amer. Ships In No. Atlantic

WARNING OF KNOX   Novy Reveals Loss Of 850 Men To Nazi Submarines   TWO U. S. PASSENGER VESSELS ARE SUNK

Sec. Knox Reports Germany Building U-Boats “Faster Than We Are Sinking Them” Sub Remains Chief Menace

a ; ry U. S. Destroyer Dodges lorpedo Then Sinks U-Boat With Guns

2 Axis Subs Sunk, Navy  Announces   Knox Warns Axis U-Boat Menace Greater Than Ever

Legislature To Get New Bills   SEVERAL MEASURES TO COME UP BEFORE BODY

Yanks Holding : Front, Launch New Offensive   ‘Drive Nazis Back In Altavilla Sector As Battle for Beachhead Rages Into — Eighth Day With Planes, Naval Guns.  Hurling Steel Into Nazi Positions.

US Beachhead AtSalernoHas Been Secured   Gen. Clark Says Not One Foot of  - Ground Will Be Given Up; British Eighth Army Is Advancing; RAF Resumes Bombing of Axis Targets; London Suburbs Bombed _

‘No Retreat’ Order To 5th Allied Army   British Eighth Advances Forty Miles In Two Days To Take Sealea.   ‘GERMANS LOSE GROUND

Hohenzollern Wed   Grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm Married to Princess

MINERS PIECE WORK SCALE I0 BEFORE THE WLE   NEW AGREEMENT WILL GIVE PIECE WORKERS A PROPORTIONATE INCREASE IN THEIR WAGES.   7,000 MINERS ARE STILL OUT   United States Steel Corp. Reports That Its Coal Pits Are Now Getting Their Best Output Since General Strike.

SWEDEN. NO’ LONGER IN FEAR “210 4OF RETALIATION BY NAZI      BANNIME7OF GERMAN TROOPS CROSSING-NEUTRAL sor  _ INDICATES ENEMY  ~ * PRESTIGE GONE.

SECOND LOUIE AND SINGLE PLATOON CAPTURED GAFSA   Chaplain Fails to Make: -Village In Time: for ‘St. Patrick’s Day Mass.

3 Small Boys in California Spot Texas Bank Bandit Counting Loot, Turn Him in To Police Officers

Girl trom South Texas  eS. Be 2 eee Oe ee Se ee See ee  Leaves lommyat Altar

Girl from South Texas  * * * * & * * * x * * q   eaves lommyat Altar

At 112, Has Seen Five Wars; Says They're Due To "Pure Cussedness''

FIVE COMPANIES OPEN OPERATIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN   Reds Beat Off Series of Axis Patrol Thrusts Along 800 Mile Front, Planes Are More Active.   14 ARE SELECTED TO RULE FRENCH EMPIRE   Various Air Crafts Are Used In Raid on Pantelleria, Turkey Hopes to Remain Out of Conflict.

ALLIES TEST AXIS DEFENSE IN SHORT JAB   Five Companies Take Part In Landing Island Raid

BRANDED AS FAILURE BY AXIS RADIO   Lampedusa in Mediterranean, May Have Been Jab to Test Strength of Defenses

Allied Blow Is Test   Less Than 1,000 British Commando Troops Jab At Island

SEE TEST OF ENEMY — STRENGTH   British Commando Troops Reported in Brief Action on Island of Lampedusa.

AXIS REPORTS TERM ATTACK INVASION STAB   Allies Silent On Raid Of Italy’s Mediterranean Qutpost

LAMPEDUSA fll BY COMMANDOS, LONDON THINKS  Peon   ‘Official Reports Are Lacking; Failure, Axis Claims

Claim Force Wiped Out By Italians      ALLIES FAIL TO PACK WAS ADE:  FIVE COMPANIES AND — WAS FAILURE -

Action Lasts Only Few Hours, But Allies Offer No Information Pending Reperts; Air Forces Step Up Onslauchis   PANTELLERIA AGAIN . HIT BY AIR RAIDS

Commandos Strike at Lampedusa   May Have Been Jab to Test  Enemy Defenses

Allied Sources Fail To Confirm Reported Attack   Five British Companies of Commandos Storm MA eAttexwvanann T..]. ae

CLAIM SEVERAL COMPANIES OF. TROOPS REPULSED   Allied Sources are Silent Action Lasted But for Few Hours.

First Jab To Test Italian Defenses Seen; Raid Is Compared To Dieppe Blow

AT ISLAND OFF TUNISIA   ‘Attack’ On Lampedusa In Mediterranean Unconfirmed

AKIO OURO BARE LANDING, SAY AT FAILEL   Berlin Radio Claims Attack Made on Lampedusa Was Repuised.   HINTS AMERICANS MAY HAVE ASSISTED BRITISH

Gestapo in Firm Control  No Internal Disruption Seen on Anniversary

1 CURB HOKE FRONT UNREST   Drastic Measures Are Taken by Himmler to Check  Mounting Disorders _  In German Cities   DEFEATS IN RUSSIA AND BOMBING CITED   Nazi Press, Radio Pouring Out Appeals and Warn- , ings On Eve of Armistice Day Anniversary

HIMMLER GRIP STILL SAID FIRM   Internal Chaos As of 25 Years Ago, Not Yet Apnarent

Gestapo’s Grip is Bolstered as Nazis  Recall 1918 Collapse   Hitler’s Gang Acts to Prevent Repetition of German Collapse

Gestapo Hold Tightened to Offset News   Himmler Determined To Black Collapse Asin 718 Crisis

Gestapo Keeps Nazis. In. Line      Prev ent “Reoccurrance  -Of 1918 Debacle

Gestapo Retains Secure Grip On Nazi Home Front   Conditions Serious On Eve Of 25th  Armicetiz-n Annivarcnrs

Gesfapo Holds Home Front   Taking Strong Measure To Prevent Collapse There

GESTAPO KEEPS GERMANS IN LINE Tashtons Grip to Avert Internal Collapse

Gestapo Tightens Home Front Grip On Anniversary of War One Collaps

Gestapo Tightens Control To Avert German Collapse Like 25 Years Ago

Gestapo Holds Strong Grip On Germany   Force Strengthened To Avert Possible Uprising

Nazis Act to Strengthen Grip on Home Front on Eve of Armistice Anniversary

Gestapo Keeps Reich in Hand   Home Front Kept Under Control by Number of Precautionary Measures.

Nazi Gangsters Reveal Fear   Drastic Action Taken Tc Prevent Revolt

GESTAPO HOLDS. GERMAN ‘PUBLIC. UNDER: CaO      “Reports. from Gerthany Indicate Nazi Leaders-Tak “ing All Precautions to. alin Chaos - ae

Precautionary Measures Inside Germany Reports From Germany Indicate Himmler Has  Home Front In Control

Gestapo Holds Germany With Iron Hand   Armistice Day Finds Nazis in Complete Control

GESTAPO STILL RULES GERMANS   Home Front Under Control, Partly Through the Threats of Himmler

SOVIETS WREST IMPORTANT RAIL LINK FROM FOE   Tikhoretsk And Oil. City Of Maikop Are Taker; Advance Continttes

Close in On Another Big  Enemy Foree Annihilation Of Other  German Troops Told   Annihilation Of Other German Troops Told As Soviets Roll On Along All Fronts

Reds Closing New Trap On  German Force   Soviets Capture Tikhoretsk And Oi City OF Maikop

~Tikhorestsk And Maikep In Red Hands   Red Army Steadily Rolls Westward in Voronezh Cartnr   NEW FRONT OPENS   Russ. Army: Is Reported Striking in Area Near Leningrad

Reds Retake Rail Junction, Maikop, Roll On Westward   _ Remnants Of Nazi Caucasian Army Face’ ; Entrapment; Stalingrad Cleanup Goes On

RUSSIANS MAY TRAP 300,000 NEAR ROSTOV   TWO RISKY AVENUES OF ESCAPE LEFT FOR NAZIS

Railway Center Taken by Soviet   Tikhoretsk Is Back In Russian Hands and Trap on Nazis Tightens

Axis Caucasus Armies Facing New Red Trap   Five Russian Columns Are Converging On Key Positions At Rostov As Noose Is Tightened On City; Enemy Faced With Only Three Avenues Of Escape

Reds Capture Maikop Oil: Trap Nazis —   -Two Key Railway Junctions Leading To Rostov Taken

Red Troops Capture Oil City of Maikor   British Eighth Army Crosses Border Into Tunisia

Soviets Capture Railway Junction Of Tikhoretsk   Seizure Of Oil City Of Maikop Also Reported In Late Russian Communique.

Stalin States That Russians Alone Are Carrying On War In Europe Against Common Enemv—Hitler.

SOVIETS BEAR ENTIRE LOAD OF WAR, SAYS STALIN   Red Armies Celebrate 25th _ Birthday With Victories  On All Fronts

Red Army Surges Ahead On All South Fronts to Celebrate 25th Birthday

PACKARD PEACE EFFORTS FAIL   Plant Paralyzed By Wildea Strike As Toledo Disputes Continue

RACIAL TROUBLE IN DETROIT: MAKES 25,000 PERSONS IDLE   WILDCAT STRIKE AT PACKARD CONTINUES DESPITE VOTE OF UNION STEWARDS AND ==" CO OMMITTEEMEN

Ex-Senafor Lee Wins Approval   Senate Committee Okehs Appointment to Aeronautics Board

Soviet Attitude On Framing — Post-War Policies Becomes Major Issue Of Senate Group

Soviet Refusal to Join in Post-War Planning Now Seer  Senators Say Reds Won't Toke Port Until Conflict Won

Soviet May Decline Immediate Part In Framing World’s Post-War Policy

Russian Issue Injected . In Senate Consideration Of World Security Plans

Italy Ordered Out of Balkan:   Armistice Terma Send Armies Rack Hamp

F. R. Orders Hold-Release Ban on News   PRESIDENT REGRETS PENALIZING “LOYALTY” OF AMERICAN PRESS

States Facing Coal Shorfage   Ickes Urged To Help New England Area

Martin Warns ‘Economic Fascists’  Planning ‘New Order’ After War

REGIMENT ATION OF AMERICANS FEARED   Pennsylvania Governor Aitacks “Economic Fascists In Seats Of Mighty” In Washington

POST-WAR Nel ° ORDER IS SEEN   Gov. Martin, Pennsylvania @ Says Economic Fascist Hope to Control Every Ste Americans Take

Martin Jabs atNewOrder Uncle Plans      GOVERNOR STRIKES AT REGIMENTATION OF GLOBE BY ECONOMIC FASCISTS IN SEATS OF THE MIGHTY.   Flag Day Speech

More Steaks On Way For Nation  Low Point Of Cattle Marketing Passed

INCREASE NEAR ON HAMBURGERS      Cattle Market Receipts Mount As Ranchers Unload Stock

Ahrendt-Downing Wedding Friday  Groom In Service At Sioux City Base 

BETTY DOWNING MARRIED FRIDAY   United to Cpl. Carl W. Ahrendt at Hildreth: - Memorial Church '

Fierce Battle Proves Costly To Japanese   Americans List 17  Yank Planes as Missing. With Ineomplete Toll of 67 Jap Planes

“Stong Enemy Reaction” Develops to the Offensive Launched by U. S. in Pacific.   INVASION DUE THIS WEEK END, AXIS SAYS

Farm Production Higher Than in Pre-AAA Period   Output Six Per Cent Above _ Average for ° Before 1933

Million Rejected For Illiteracy   Committee To Look Intc 4-F Classifications

PACIFIC AERIAL WARFARE LIGHT   Air Activity Dwindles After 100-Plane Jap Attack On Allied Positions In New Guinea.

LIVESTOCK FEED SHORT   Farmers’ 1943 Production Program Threatened By New Problem

FARMERS FACE FEED SHORTAGE   Bottleneck Threatens Success of Government’s 1943 War Food Program

COUNTY GROUP 10 REPORT WEDNESDAY   Local Men to Take Final Examinations in Baltimore

COUNTY GROUP TO REPORT. WEDNESDAY      Registrants Will Toke Final Exams in Bal. timore

COUNTY GROUP 10 LEAVE ON MONDAY   Local Registrants to Take ~ Final Exams in Baltimore

COUNTY GROUP TO "REPORT MONDAY   Final Physical: Examinations to be Held in ~ Baltimore

COUNTY MEN ARE INDUCTED JULY 29   Registrants of Board No. 2 Pass Final Physical Exams

ANOTHER GROUP TO LEAVE WEDNESDAY   County Registrants  ¢c Take Final Exams in Baltimore

COUNTY GROLIP 10 REPORT SATURDAY   Local Board No. 2 Announces Those Who Will Take Exams

COUNTY GROUP 10 REPORT WEDNESDAY   Registrants Will Take Final Exams in Baltimore

COUNTY GROUP TO ~TAKEFINAL EXAMS   Registrants Will Report Tomorrow at induction Center

COUNTY GROUP TO, REPORT THURSDAY   Men Will Take Final Phy“sical Exoms i in Baltimore

GROUP TO REPORT FOR FINAL EXAMS   County Registrants to Re. ' port in Baltimore Tomorrow

COUNTIANS CALLED FOR FINAL EXAMS   Group Will Report in Bal. timore on Saturday Morning

COUNTY GROUP T0 REPORT THURSDAY   Registrants to Take Final Examinations in Baltimore

COUNTY MEN WILL TAKE FINAL EXAMS      Group to Report in Balftimore Friday Preparatory to Inductian

Russians at  Kharkov in Dire Peril   is orces Retreat To New Defense Lines in City

German Troops Seek to Bolte Up Balkan Foes  Bulg arian Guerrillas Open Attack on Aomas Danes locre

Soviet Advance Adds to Tension In the Balkans   Nazi Forces Seek To Bot tle Up Mihailovics Yugoslav Army

Nazis Seek To Surround Yugoslavs ;           “Heightene “Tension: Throughout Balkans.

Germans Attempt To Bottle Up  Yugoslav Forces Balkans Are Seethin   Balkans Are Seething With Resistence And Rising Tension

Germans Attempt To Bottle Up Yugoslay Forces  Balkans Are Seethin« With Resistence

Germany Is Misled by Conference   Nazis Are Heaping Denunciation on  U.S. President

Axis Confused On Roosevelt Churchill Confab   Secrecy of Meeting Raffles Nazis

NAZIS-MISLED. ON F. R. FLIGHT   Suspect Agents Seized As Result of Fake Reports

NAZIS COMPLETELY MISLED BY SECRET MEETING IN AFRICA   Germans Report On Meeting Of FDR, Churchill 3°  Hours After U. 5. °  Release .

Meet Catches Axis Powers Flat-Footed   Germany Heaps Denunciation on President; Thought Conference Was in U. S.

Say Duce Backed German Plan   Wanted to Abandon Central and Southern Italy

REPORT PEACE DEAL MAY BE UNDERWAY   Prime Minister, However, Says No Overtures Have Been Made: People In Many Demonstrations

Mussolini Out Due to Stand To Slice Italy  Il Duce Backed Hitler on  Defense Lines

Last Fascist Meeting Hot   Mussolini’s Old Cronies Cut Him Down in Violent Word Battle

ONE DOUBLE-CROSS TOO MANY  Plan To Sacrifice Italy: In Behalf Of Hitler End: Mussolini's Gangster Rul

Mussolini’s Former Cronies ‘Gang’ Him’ When Final Meeting Is Held

ll Duce Resigned From Opposition   Proposed To Abandon Central, Southern Italy For North

Il Duce Favored Plan to Abandon Southern Italy   This Is Given as the Reason for His Fall From Power in Italy.

Italian People Expect Swift Peace Bid By Badoglio Government; Anti-Fascist Demonstrations Follow Mussolini’s Downfall.   But Disorders Surprisingly Few

How Mussolini Went Down to Defeat At Hands of His Friends and Enemies

Italy’s Council Stops Strategy To Defend Only Northern Part   New Heads To Protect Entire Mainland, Force Germans To Accept Badoglio Terms

Details Are Told Of Fall of Il Duce   Travelers from Rome Arriving in Madrid Say Mussolini Lost Because of Nazi Support

MUSSOLINI’S — FALL LAID TO SPLIT COUNCIL   Duce Reporied to have Backed Hitler's Wish to Abandon Central, Southern Italy   DESERTED BY PALS   Even Son-in-Law, Count Cianc Supported Count Dino Grand Pre-War Critic

ussolini Fell Because He Backed Nazi Plan Abandon Southern Italy - Say Travelers

Nazi Plan Cost Duce Hich Post   .He Agreed to Abandon South and Central Italy

Broke With * Duce Over _ Nazi Plans   Fascist Council Refused to Agree to Hitler Strategy to Yield Part of Italy   BADOGLIO INSISTS” ON DEFENDING ALL   Germans Forced to. Agree; @eople Overjoyed by Fall of Mussolini and Fascism

Say Duce Backed - Hitler Plan, Lost   Fuehrer Would Abandon  Central, South Italy  Re CBHARI Fe <€ POE TZ

ITALY REJECTED HITLER PLAN   ff Duce Turned Down By Former Cronies

Dictator Struggles to Keep Hold During Violent Session of Grand Council   Italian Fascism Ended In “Farce In Which Founders Could No Longer Agree”

How Mussolini Fell, Even Fascists Loved  - Italy More Than Duce   Fascism Collapsed When Duce Urged Hitler Plan of Making Stand North of Po River

Duce Fell When “ Backed Hitler      Germans Wanted To Abandon Central And Southern Italy to Allies

Travelers Arriving by Plane From Italian Capital Throw New Light On Duce’s Fall   NAZI PLAN UNDOING    Had Agreed With Hitler to Abandon Central and Southern Italy For Stand In North

Duce’s Support Of Nazis’ Plan Led to Ouster, Travelers Say   Proposed Abandoning Half of Italy, Madrid  Hears

Nazis Wanted to Stand at Po River   Reports Say Duce Fell Because of Plan

UPHELD NAZI PLAN   Duce’s Agreement to De_fend Only Part of Italy  Cause Overturn

» INSIDE STORY:  Mussolini Cut Down “By Former Cronies In Stiff Word Battle   By Frank Brutto

Old Cronies Ousted Duce, Says Panet   Mussolini Cut Down in Violent Meeting of Grand Council

Il Duce Favored Nazi Plan To Abandon Southern Italy    Air Travelers Reaching Madrid Give First Itallan Ver sion of Mussolini’s Downfall: Duce Reported Ai Villa Near Ostia

MUSSOLINES FORMER CRONIES OF FASCIST COUNCIL CUT HIM OUT  MILAN NEWSPAPER GIVES PURPORTED LAST HOURS

Mussolini’s Support Of Nazi Battle Plan Led To Downfall   Hours Of Acrimonious Debate Preceded Vote In Which Former Breast-Beater Was Defeated

BENITO'S CRONIES NOW DESERT Hid   Violent Word Battle Occurs In Conference Just Before Duce Resigns.

Would Have Abandoned Italy   Mussolini. Forced To Resign After Backing Hitler Plan To Make Stand North of Po

Ex-Premier Is Reported Located In Villa Today   Mussolini Agreed To Weaken Parts Of Country.

Duce’s Agreement to De_ fend Only Part of Italy.  Cause Overturn

rs ros _) . rs  Travelers Explain Mussolini’s Fall   Kk Kk Ke KK, Germans Are. Letting Things Mature.

Mussolini Reported In Villa Near Rome..... Duce Fell Because He Backed Hitler Plan To  Abandon Part Of Italy

SAY GERMAN PLAN WAS CAUSE OF — IL DUCE’S DOWNFALL   Travelers From Rome Say Mussolini’s Acceptance of Nazi Military Plan Brought - Dissension

Says Il Duce Fell Because He Planned With Nazis to Sacrifice Southern Italy

Blame Ouster On Support Of German Plan   Mussolini Would Have Abandoned Defense Of Central And Southern Italy, Say Travelers

'Badoslio Said” ‘Determined On Total Defense   Report. Mussolini Ousted Because He Supported Hitler Plan’ To: ‘Abandon Southern and Central Italy and Establish Defense Line In North.

Hopes to Solve Murder Mystery   Sheriff Continues McCoy Case Probe

REWARD SPURS MURDER PROBE   Sheriff Thinks He Can Solve Slayings

AVERSA WIPED OFF THE WAR BOOKS   Railroad Yards There Are Heavily Pounded   RAID ZINC FACTORY  ON ISLE OF SARDINIA   Grottaglie Airport Near Taranto Naval Base Also  Blasted

Believed That Sardinia and Nearby Corsica Will Be Invaded.  MAY SKIP ITALY FOR OTHER POINTS NOW  Germany Will Have to Bear the Burden of Feeding Italians.

Spanish Sources See Ine vasion Of Southern France Rather Than Italy As Likely.

Contract Renewals Continue But institute Revises Weekiv Estimate

Political Pot Boils as GOP Heads Discuss Plans for 1944 Campaign

Political Pot Starts to Boil at Harrisburg—P®ocst Heyburn For United States Senate  TAY! ©OP ANANOLNCES

Face Entrapment on Three Battle Fronts London Agency Says   Signs German Command Is Unable to Stop Red Army Breakthrough

ARMY MARCH HERE TYPICAL TACTICS   Heavy Rolling Equipment fs Feature, 33-Ton Medium * Tank to Be Seen.

ARMY UNIT READY FOR S. COOK TOUR   g"9 Vehicles Accompany ' Battalion for Salute to Heights

Army Caravan Six Miles Long   More Than 120 Vehicles Comprise Convoy

REINFORCED NAZIS BATTLE TO TAKE LEROS   British and Italians Inilict Heavy Casualties on Invaders Reported Moving on Town   OUTCOME IN DOUBT   Germans Aided by Divebombers, Allies Lack Bases Near Enough io Give Fighter Protection

Nazi Capture Of Leros Looms  British Situation   British Situation On Aegean Isle Critical

Enemy Casualties Heavy On Island Defended by British, Italian Troops

NAZIS REINFORCE _ THEIR BEACHHEADS ON LEROS ISLAND   Are Attempting to Consolidate Them Despite Heavy Casualties.   BEACHHEADS STRAFED   Bombers Are Blasting Nearby Islands Holding Reinforcements.

NAZIS REINFORCE CAINS ON LERGS      British Send Bombers T Support Garrison

NAZIS REINFORCE  BEACHHIEADS ON. LEROS ISLAND   Attack British and Italian Troops; Now Attempting To Consolidate Forces; Critical Situation.

Nazis Succeed In Reinforcing Leros Troops  Bi essme Seochl ¢a. Beit¢giels

Nazis Gain. On Leros   Berlin Claims Greek Island Has Fallen; Allies Admit Reverses

NAZIS REINFORCE LEROS BEACHEAD   RAF BOMBERS SPEED TO AID OF BELEAGURED BRITISH GARRISON

Positions of Allies on Leros Island in Aegaen Sea Critical   Nazis Reinforce’ Their Beachheads; News of Fighting in Italy

Allied Food  Conference ©  Completed   Start Made on Feeding People of ‘World After War

AID FOR MACARTHUR IS ARRANGED TODAY AUTHORITIES STATE   Program Worked Out at Casablanea Conference to Be Fully Executed,

WARTHUR TO GET ENOUGH PLANES 10 FULFILL ALL PLANS      Operational Plans Wil Govern General Plans In Australia Pacific

1S. PROMISES 10. SEND ADEQUATE AID TO MPARTHUF   Officials At Loss ta Explain _ Chorus of Warnings from Australia. .. ae

Say MacArthur To Get Air Aid   Assert Pacific Plans Made At Casablanca

U. 5. SINKS OR DAMAGES 13 JAP SHIPS   Two Cruisers and 13 Destroyers in Group; 88 Planes Destroyed

88 FOE PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN DARING BLOW   Carrier and  Land-Based Planes Open Major Offensive

Japs Sutter Big - Warship-Plane Loss At Rabau!   Fifteen Warships Sunk Or Damaged And 88 Planes Are Destroyed   MAJOR OFFENSIVE APPEARS UNDER WAY

DARING U.S, AIR ATTACK IN RABAUL   South Pacific Drive Appears On PORT SHATTERED Halsey’s Plane Carrier Unharmed

OPA PROTECTS LIQUOR BUYERS   Increased Costs On Imported Stocks Not To Be Passed On To Consumers

Hall to Speak On Foreign Policy   ‘Very Important’  Br oadcast Today

Hull fo: Make Report Upon U.S. Relations   Secretary te Speak Over Radice on His

Kansas City Contractor Bids Low And Gives Away His Large Profits

Congress May Slash War Bill In Thrift Drive   Treasury Warns That Cut Will Not Alter Need For New Tax Bill Before Congress

More Money May Be Saved By Congress   Savings Totaling Twenty-five Billion May Be Made During Sudden Economy Spree in Capitol.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Reports Persist on Italian Peace Discussion

Reports Persist of Peace Move   ‘Great Manifestations’ Occur In Italy

leaders Give  Account of Big Campaign   U. S. Fliers Increase Assaults as End Of Successful Drive by British Is Revealed; Accomplishments Great

Nazis Ready To Pay Heavy ~ Price To Hold In Tunisia   Crucial Battle For Control Of Mediterranean Sea Must Still Be Fought In North

Interoreting  The War   Rommel Perhaps to Escape With Only Few of Men

German Ruhr Pounded by Flying Forts   Round-the-Clock Blows Leveled on Heart of  Industrial Germany; Alitec T nee £0 Blew ne

Flying Forts Blast Buna Rubber Plant  Big Fleets of  Fighters  A... co

Set Square Mile of Huge Fires   Americans Follow Up Tremendous RAF Raid on Steel Town

RUHR TARGETS ARE HAMMERED BY FORTRESSES   First Time American Bombers Have Raided That Part Of Germany   SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANT DESTROYED

Steel and Rubber Towns Blasted In Big Raids   Pires, Dewtruction Lef:

Huge Nazi Plants Left  In Flames   Industrial Area Paralyzed By Yanks. RAF .

GERMAN PLANTS HIT IN CYCLE OF AIR RAIDS   Fortresses S et Square Mile Of Fires At Ruls; Antwerp Factory Hit   Allied Loss Heavy

Round-Clock Air Assaults Continue  Avainst Reich   Fortresses Blast Huls In Industrial Ruhr After Krefeld Is Hit By 7600 British Planes   YANKS ALSO STRIKE ANTWERP FACTORY

Yanks, Brifons Blast Germany In Heavy Raids   U.S. Planes Make First Visit to Ruhr; Bomb Rubber Plant

yas s208IeS Oo  Air Power May Be Finishing Japs In Southwest Pacific

ALLIED AIR POWER POLISHING OFF JAPD   Enemy Taking Heavy Beating In Aerial Warfare

Berlin Says Reds Land in Norway   Amphibious Attack Reported in Far North

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP NAZIS DEFENDING ORE   SOVIETS OVERCOME BITTER RESISTANCE IN 3-PRONGED DRIVE

Red Encirclement  Of Orel Advances  Russians Claim Capture  Of 130 Villages

Russians Smash Germans Af Ore   Capture 130 Villages In Heavy Fighting

130 VILLAGES RECAPTURED BY SOVIET FORCES   Counter-Attacks Ineffective; Reds Sweeping meatarence In Path

Soviet Siege Guns Blast German. Base At Orel  From Three Sides   Red Army. Tightens Its Semi- Circle Around Fortress As 130 More Villages Are Captured By Hard-Hitting Russian Army

Russians Capture 130 Villages In Continuing Furious Drive On Ore!   Approach Important Base From Three Ways

_ LLM MLL LLL LLL  Berlin Reports Russ Army Tries Norway Invasion

Red Siege Guns Blast at Pivotal Bastion of Orel   Soviet Army Tighte ns Semi-Circle Around the Nazi Held Fortress.

Russian Pincer Tightens Grip . On Orel Nazis   Capture ‘ 130. Villages In Advance: On 3 Sides Of Mighty German Bastion

Advancing on Orel from Three Sides   Several Dozen Populated Places Have Been Captured by Russians.

ADVANGE ON 3 SIDES OF ORE   Russians Take 130 Village: But Report Bitter Nazi Resistance.

REDS IMPERIL BIG KEYSTONE BASE AT OREL   act sb rorons pon Romy ee Move  ag wn of von Kluge’ 5 Forces

Red Army Moves Closer To Nazi Encirclement  Russions Capture 130 Villages Advancing On Orel

Three-Pronged Threat   Russians Capture 130 Villages In Drive To Encircle German Forces Defending Vital Bastion Of Orel

Eneirelement m (sermans  Grows Nearer   Nazis Unable To Stem Russian Advance Around Ore!

Orel Within Gun Range Of Soviets   Desperate Germans Try Costly Lunges; 300 Towns Retakeon

CLOSER TO OREL IN SUMMER OFFENSIVE  SOVIET TROOPS REPORT ED SWEEPING EVERY-

REDS ENGINELE GERMAN FORGES      Russian Army Captures 130 Villages on Three Sides Of Orel.   NAZIS COUNTERATTACK

Soviet Units Sweep Ahead. Moscow Says   Advance in Effort to Encircle Nazis  In Orel Area

SOVIETS ATTACK VARDOE COAST   Nazi Sources Say Norwegian Landing Beaten Off

Reds Closing In on German rmies at Ore}   Von. Kluige’s Forces Threatened With Enrirclemernt

Nazis Report Red Landing In Norway   Berlin Claims Barents Sea Attack Beaten Off By Coastal Batteries   OREL FALL NEARS   Soviet Siege Guns Blast Key Stronghold From Three Sides

Advancing Upon Orel From Three Directions Take 130 Towns, Sweer Everything  Before Them Despite Bitter Nazi Resistance.

RED FORCE ATTACKS NORWEGIAN COAST   Soviets Spearhead Thrust at Orel; Reports Indicate Crushing Russ Strength

Red Gain In Fierce Battles   Dozens More Towns Fall to Russians in 3-Bided Push on Grel   ADVANCE AGAINST STUBBORN FOE   Germans Bringing More Troops Up to Continue Strone Defense

Berlin Says  Reds Struck  Norway Coast   Landine Attempt Fails And Several Craft Sunk, This Report States

RUSSIAN PINCERS CLOSING ON OREL, NAZI-HELD BASE   Red Army, Within Thirty  _ Miles of City, Menaces Last Railroad Line Carry: ing Supplies.

REDS CLOSING IN ON GERMANS IN ORELSECTOR   Encirclement of Field -Mar. shal Guenther Von Kluge’s Forces Near  er, Moscow Says   130 TOWNS SEIZED   Frontline Dispatches De clare Soviet Troops Are Sweeping Everything Before Them

PROPORTIONS JAP SETBACK Ih CHINA GROWING   Victory In Upper Yangtze Sector Over Nips Called Greatest of War,  So Far   NEW AREAS SEIZED   Point in Outer Defenses oi Ichane Captured; Main Base of Enemy Drive

Chinese Drive ‘Into Jap Base of Ichang   Plain-Clothes Units Infiltrate ‘Into City Itself

Chinese Crush Large Jap  Invasion Site   Confused Enemy Retreats After Losing Heavily; Many Are Wiped Out; Explosions Shake Great Ichana City

Chinese Drive Gaining Speed   Outer Defenses Of  [chana Penetratec)

Chinese Menace Ichang Defenses   Scope. of Victory Over Japs Mounts

ew Points re Captured y Kai-Shek   Entire West Bank Of Yangtze Reported Cleared of Enemy

MAIN BASE OF INVADER IS ENTERED   Japs F leeing In Disorder To Southeast Of Ichang

CHINESE WIDEN YANGTZE GAINS   Break Outer Defenses Of Ichang. Jap Base For Drive On Chungking

PARTISAN SCRAP FLARES ON USI   HURL CHARGE THAT GOVERNOR SEEKS TO DEFEAT PROPOSAL

Contouring  : aN To Save Soil   Erosion Is A Serious Problem In Iowa

Contouring  To Save Soil  mW RRA Y   Erosion Is A Serious Problem In Iowa

TWO ESCAPED NAZIS FOUND   Whereabouts of Other Fou: Unknown to Officers

HOLD PROTEST MEETINGS   Swedish Fisherman T Fells of Nazi's Firing on Vessel

Giraud Invites DeGautle To Unity Parley   Message Follows Speech Junking Vichy Policies, Embracing Charter   GUARANTEES VOTE   Resignation Of Bergere Reported; Anti Jewist Decrees Repudiated

KILGORE ASKS FOR FOOD COOPERATION TO AVERT FAMINES   Makes Plea to “Save the World from Starvation” in Statement Today.

FRILLS ON SHOES PLACED UNDER BAN   Ceiling Is Put On Height Of Women’s Footwear — Colors Restricted To Four By WPB

HEIGHT OF SHOE HEELS LIMITED   GOVERNMENT RESTRICTS COLORS OF FOOTWEAR TO FOUR--FRILLS BANNED.

HEIGHT OF HEELS -GINNEW CELIN   Shoes In Four Colors, Paten  Leather, Other Frills : Now Prohibited.

Limits Put On Many Shoe Styles   WP Reiterates No Clothing Rationing Seen Now

Government Puts C eiling On Women’s Shoe Heels, Restricts Colors To Four

Style of Women’s  Shoes Restricted  Ceiling Is Placed On Heel Height

Cc eiling goes on height of heels  for women’s shoes: four colors

FDR SIGNS LARGEST NAVAL BILL   Measure Provides Approximately $33,000, 000,000 for 12 Months Period

F.D. R. Signs Naval Measure   Record Appropriation Bill for Navy Now Becomes Law

THE LARGE NAVAL _ APPRORIATIONS BILL IS SIGNED   President Roosevelt Affixed His Signature to 33 Billion Measure   FOR 12 MONTHS PERIOD   The Bill Carried $27,370,222,000 in Direct Appropriations.

GET FREEDOM.   North African Prisoners And Bet. - mioeies Relea aad

U. S. Envoy To Russia Returning   Coming Here  For Consultation About Discussion Between Nations

MOVE LINKED TO EXPECTED 3-WAY TALKS   State Department Says He’l Consult on Problems That Allies Will Discuss.   RESIGNATION RUMORED   Washington Speculates Envoy Will Give Up Post After He Gets Back.

STANDLEY TO QUIT MOSCOW   Likely To Resign As Ambassador  Africa May Get Tripartite Meet

LEWIS FAILS TO GIVE STATEMENT   Refuses to Explain Cause of Changed Plans

Lewis Stays Silent on Coal Dispute   Today’s Statement by Mine Chief Is Suddenly Delayed

Ud. ALIEN LURE VIGTONY OVER JAPANESE   Ten, Possibly 16, Jap Zeros Destroyed In Dogfight Near Gaudalcanal

American Investments in Axis Countries Are Reported Well Over Billion Dollars

General Dies In Alaska Plane Crash   Charley Paddock, Old Track Star, Also Killed, Navy Says

arine General parles Paddock led in Crash   Four Others Die ‘As Navy Plane Falls Near Sitka, Alaska  DIES RECOVERED

Crash Fatal To Nofed Athlete   ‘Marine Commander Laity Othere Die

CHARLES PADDOCK: FORMER ATHLETE KILLED IN CRASH   MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM P. UPSHUR, COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE MARINES IN PACIFIC, ALSO DIES.   NAVAL PLANE CRASHES NEAR SITKA, ALASKA   War Brings Sudden Death To Two More Famous Americans and Others. Paddock Was Olympic  ‘ Games Winner.

Charles Paddock, Track Star And General Upshur, Hero Of Marines, Die In Plane Crash   Four Others ers Perish In Plane Crack-up In Alaska

Major General, Paddock Killed In Plane Crash   Four Other Men Di In Flaming Craft In Alacka .

ithe Marines Dies in Alaska  a Hero   ormer Track Star anc Four Others Succumb with Him   AVY Reports Fiery Crash of Plane in Sitka Territory

HOUSE OKAYS RECORD NAVY FUND BILL   29 Billion Dollar Measure Passed 360 to 0.

ASKS ARMY BUDGET OF $71,898,499, 700   Roosevelt Asks Congress For Amount For 1944 Fiscal Budget

ASKS 72 BILLION FOR ARMY NEEDS   House Approves 29 Billion In Navy Program Without Negative Vote.

RED PINCERS CLOSING IN ON ROSTOY   German Dunkirk On Shores of Sea Of Azov Indicated

Bulgaria, Hungary Worried   Balkan Nations Impressed by Reported British. Turkish Agreement

LARGE GAINS MADE WEST OF STALINGRAD   Red Army Making Scythe-like Sweep - Southwestward on  - Nazi Forces.   BULLETIN

Rostov Threatened _ From Three Sides By Russian Troops   Onward Surge of the Russians Holds Promise That There Might Be a “German” Dunkirk On Shores of Sea of Azov

THREATEN BASE. AS GERMAN DUNKIRK LOOMS   Germans Already Try’ ing to Cross Kerch Straits, Report

TEN MILES DISTANT IS MENACED   Russians Surge Onward For ‘Best News Yet’  AZOV ‘DUNKIRK’ LOOMS  Reds Gain On All Fronts, Get Nearer Kharkov

Railroad North of Kursk Also Cut and Reds Commence Sween Toward Rostov

NAZIS FLEEING INTO CRIMEA 0 ESCAPE DEATH   Red Columns Advance So Swiftly. ) Srecial Maps Are Out- dated

RUSSIANS ONLY 27. MILES AWAY FROM -ROSTOV DEFENSES   Nazis Trapped In Caucasus Already Trying To Escape Across: Kerch Strait—Reds Now 300 Miles -From Stalingrad :

Russians Only 10 Miles Out of Great Nazi Base   ‘Offensive Gathers Momentum As Germans Fall Back To Former Lines

Russians Reach 1941 Nazi Line At Two Places   London Reports Foe Attempting to Flee Across Kerch Strait

Axis Believed Faced With Nazi Dunkirk   London Experts  Term. ‘Taday's._. News ‘Best Yet’

27 MILES FROM ROSTOY   News from Russia ‘The Best Yet,’ Say Military Leaders

200,000 More Germans Face  Gigantic Trap   One Column Of Red Army Only 10 Miles From Big Axis Base

Machines to Improve Times Herald Service   Automatic Teletypes Will Furnish Fast Coverage Of Happenings

American Troops in Drive to Join the British Troops.  NUMBER OF ENEMY PRISONERS TAKEN  Heavy Air Raids on Enemy Supply Depots.

GAIN SIX MORE MILES AGAINST STIFFENED NAZIS   Slight Gains Made On All  Tunisian Fronts

LOWER ITALY 10 BE DEFENDED BY GERMAN FORCES   ‘Swiss Report Decision Was Reached At Last Week’s Conferences.

NAZIS DEFENDING SARDINIA, SICILY, PARTS OF ITALY   Decision Made At . Last Week’s Conference—To Use German Guns And Men

Germany Agrees To Take Over Defense of Sicily, Sardinia and Part of Italy

GERMANY TO SEND TROOPS INTO ITALY         nd to Have  nd: my ra E te be  Reporte d

Italian Mainland To Be Defended By Nazis, Report   Equipment That Can Be Spared To Be Rushed To Main Points

Nazis Taking Over Defense  Of Italy Area   Will Send Soldiers. To Southern Part Of Country

Swiss Reports Say Germany Has Agreed to Take Over Defense of Sicily, Sardinia, South Italy

COUNT DE MARIGNY ADMITS THREAT ON SIR HARRY OAKES   Handsome Defendant Takes Stand in Bahamas Mirdear Trial

Eden Asked If Hungary Wants To Quit   Vatican. Indicated As Mediator With Alles

Escape of Nazis Swells From Trickle to Tide   GERMANS TRYING TO FLEE BEFORE REAR GUARD GIVES WAY COMPLETELY

Evacuation Of Nazis in F ull Swing   Allied Planes — Batter Escaping Enemy Boats

RUSSIAN INFANTRY KILLS 900 NAZIS   Russian Front Has Been Comparatively Quiet Two Days.

Kelly Suggests New Time Plar   Detroit Area May Stay On Present Schedule

KELLY DEMANDING EASTERN WAR TIME ~—FORMUNITIONS BEL   Governor Sends Message To Senate Affairs Group; Area Not Defined   WPB OFFICIAL TO SPEAK

Kelly Seeks Special Area for War Time   ‘Eastern Michigan Munitions Belt? Must Remain on War Time Governor Tells Senate

FOUR BIG NAZI TOWNS ROCKED BY BOMB RAIDS   Large-Scale Attacks Are Carried Into Third Day By Allies; 20  Planes Downed

RAF Pounds Four More Industrial ~~ Cities of Reich   Intensified A-s saul ! Continues Through  Second Day

BOMBERS AIT 4 BIG NAZI CENTERS   American Fliers Raid Air field Near Paris   DAY, NIGHT ATTACKS   RAF, Dominion, Allied Escort Fighters Shoot Down 20 Enemy Planes

HEAVY ATTACKS ARE MADE ON 4 GERMAN CITIES   35 Bombers Fail to Return From Smash on Industrial Centers

tAF Blasts 4  German Cities   Second Heavy Attack In 24 Hours On Vital Nazi Industrial Centers.

BOMBERS BLAST GERMANY AGAIN   Second Heavy Blow Struck In 24 Hours

32 Bombers Fail To Return From Raids On Germany; Twin Bases Struck

Four German Industrial Capitals Suffer Terrific Attacks in Non-Stop Air Campaign; Enemy Loses Many Planes

Allies Carry Aerial Assault Into Third Day   RAF Hits Four Nazi Industrial Centers:  Yankee Fliers Raid Airfield Near Paris

32 BOMBERS FAIL 70 RETURN FROM RAIDS ON NAZILAND   Mannheim-Ludwigshafen  Darmstadt, and Aachen Bombed ;

Four Big Nazi Industrial Centers Raided as Aerial Attack Enters Third Day   Four Major Campaigns

Tour German Industrial And Transportation Cities Blasted By RAF On Wednesday-Night    Observers Say Luftwaffe Still Has Fuel It Needs

RAF Bombs Blast Four Nazi Cities   U. S. Planes Strike At . Air Base Near Paris Today As Latest Allied Air Assault Continues

BLOCK BUSTERS. FALLONGERMAN WAR FOUNDRIES   ‘Mannheim, ‘Ludwigshafen, Darmstadt and Aachen, Near Cologne, Shudder Under Attack   17 TONS A MINUTE DROPPED ON AREAS   Thirty-Two Bombers Lost;  Vichy Radio Says Amer ican Fliers Start Fires  } In Paris

Important Nazi Centers Hit By Big Fleet Of RAF Bombers   Four Cities Vital To Transport Of Supplies To Coast And Italy Rajded

ALLIES DOWN 21 PLANES IN FRANCE   DAYLIGHT RAIDS FOLLOW NIGHT ATTACKS ON 4 GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITIES,

RAF HITS FOUR GERMAN CITIES   Industrial And Transportation  Centers Blasted

RAF BOMBERS BLAST FOUR NAZI CITIES   Thirty-Two Planes Fail tc Return From Second Heavy Attack

Bombers Pound German Centers   Assault Goes Into » Third Straiqht Day

R. A. F. Smashes Four Nazi Areas  U.S. Marauders Hit at Airfield

In Second Heavy Blow at Europe   Fleet of Big RAF Bombers Blast Four German Cities During Night.

RAF Raiders  Hammer Four Nazi Centers   Blockbusters Pound At Enemy War Foundries Americans Strike At Rases In France

R. A. F. BLASTS 4 NAZI CITIES   1,730 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On Mannheim. Ludwigshafen  TWO TOWNS SHUDDER

A NAZI CITIES RAIDED BY RAF   Heavy Attack on Industrial Centers; 32 Bombers. Are Lost.   iFOE’S OIL SUPPLY GOOD

32 Big British Raiders Lost in Blasting Nazi Rails, Industry   Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, Darmstadt, Aachen Tarcets

RAF Unloads 1500 Tons on — 4 Nazi Cities   Second Heavy Blow in 24 Hours Against Industry  Of Reich

GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTERS ATTACKED   Big Fleet of of RAF Bombers Take Part in As-  saults

Yanks, RAF Raid France  And Reich   Thirty Bombers Fail To Return

MAF SENDS. HEAVIES OVER REICH AGAIN   Four German Cities Blasted By Giant Bombers

British Heavies Pound Twin Cities of Manneheim-Ludwigshafen and Darmstadt and Aachen Near Cologne

4 NAZI CITIES RAIDED BY RAF   32 Bombers Fail to Return From Big Attack On Germony

Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Rocked By 1,500 Long Tons; Americans Return To Blast Nantes Second Time; 24-Hour Air Activity Heaviest Of War

A NAZI CITIES BOMB BLASTED IN NIGHT RAID   RAF Makes Heavy Attacks on German tndustrial and Rail Centers.   32 BOMBERS FAIL TO ‘RETURN FROM ASSAULTS

RAF BOMBERS POUND FOUR NAZI CITIES   German Industrial Centers Targets For Intensive Night Raids; Also Bomb French Airfields.   Smash Nantes

FOUR GERMAN CITIES HARD HIT BY RAF   32 Bombers Fail To Come Through

LUDWIGSHAFEN AND MANNHEIM BOMBED AGAIN   32 RAF Bombers Fail to Return from Second Raid on Twin Cities in Three Weeks   NANTES STRAFED   American Forlresses Twice Blast Port, Reported Also in Raid on Paris

RAF Bombs 4 Nazi War Plant Cities   Over 30, Planes Lost As Air Offense Is Intensified

Blockbusters Blast Centers On Continent   Four German Cities Visited During Night by R. A. F. Bombers

U.S. RAF Smas! Again at Europe Targets   Four German Industrial Capitals Suffer Terrific Attacks in Non-Stop Air Campaign; Enemy Loses Many Planes

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS STEPPED UP   RAF Raids Three German Bases  Thursday Night

RAF BOMBERS BLAST FOUR REICH CITIES   : Mannheim - Ludwigshafen Hit by 1,730 Tons ot Bombs—Darmstadt and Aachen Other Two Tarvets in Raid.

STIMSON LEAVES SAME FOG OVER GEN, MARSHALL   Says Any Change Will Be Ir Interest of Victory, Hits Political Implications.

To Honor Eisenhower As Outstanding Father Of 1943 On Father's Day

Ickes Worries Over Oil Field Labor   Get Workers Back To Fields or Production Down

aut ACTIVITY.   Violent Air Activity Continues Over Isle of Sicily.

Knox Says Two Groups Are Close To Meeting Point   When They Join Mopping Up Japs Will Complete Job

Wedge Forced Into Japanese  Island Fron   Army Bombers Attack Wake Island, Three Interceptors Shot Down.   ‘COMMANDOS IN BURMA

U.S. TROOPS ARE MEETING SUCCESS ON ATTU ISLAND SECRETARY KNOX SAY:  BITTER RESISTANCE   omgorrarmee lili

Believe Americans Have Joined Forces In Southern Sector   Knox Sees Only Mopping Up Left; Two Main Landings Effected; Enemy Resistance Found Stiff

WREST RIDGE FROM JAPS ON ROCKY ISLAND   Casualties Lighter Than Expected, According to Announcement From Secretary Knox   Re ASSOCTATED PRESS

  : ae a Seck Strategic Junction Of Two US. Contingents   Capture of Defense Ridge Of Entrenched Jap  ~ Forees May Signal Jmpending Victory Of U. S. Forces.

LATE NEWS DEVELOPMENTS   U. S. TROOPS CAPTURE MAIN RIDGE ON ATYTU

U.S. Troops Seize Ridge On Attu _   Captured In Face Of Fierce Enemy Resistance; End of Battle Fo: Island May Be Near

JUVENILE JURIST EXPIRES IN WEST   Heart Attack Fatal to Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey at Age of 73

German Troops Practicing for Coming Invasion   Air Attacks Are a “Damn ed Serious Affair, ’ Hitler's Paper Says

Reds Encircling Key Caucasian © Rail Junctions   Russians Fast Over-running Maikop Oil Fields Area Inflicting Terrible Punishment on Germans

SOVIETS SEIZE KEY CAUCASUS RAIL CENTERS   MAIKOP OIL FIELDS REGAINED; NAZIS ENCIRCLED

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Russians Rapidly Encircle Two Key: Railway Junctions   -Maikop Oil Fields ‘Now Gldimed Lost To Nazis: Other. Columns Steadily Advance

OIL FIELDS AT MAIKOP INSIDE ENCIRCLEMENT   Latest Successes Of Victory-Flushed Reds Are Reported In Two Communiques.

REGISTER FOR DRAFT   Thirteen Young Men in County Sign : for Selective Service

SIGN FOR SERVICE   Several 18-Year-Old Men Registered During the Past Month

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ST. NAZAIRE IS TARGET FOR BRITISH RAID   Sustained Aerial Offensive Against Enemy Passes 72-Hour Mark   HEAVY DAMAGE LISTED   Allies Believed Softening Hitler’s European Fortress For Invasion

St. Nazaire Blasted by Sharp Attack   British Appear To Be Softening Nazi Coastal Defenses

Softening Up Hitler Bases For Invasion   RAL. Makes “Thunderbolt Saturation” Attack  on St, Nazaire   FIVE BOMBERS LOST   High British Officers Hlint Day of Land Offensive Is Near

U-Boat Base Was Victim Last Night.      HUNDREDS OF BRITISH BOMBERS: BLAST ST. NAZAIRE; OTHERS RAID OBJECTIVES INWESTERN-CGQERMANY

St. Nazaire, U-Boat Base Is Latest Target; Drive Is Biggest of War

Hundreds Of RAF Planes Blast U-Boat Base As Air Offensive Passes 72-Hour Mark

Around-Clock Air Attacks Soften. Fortress Eurove'   Allies Believed To Be Preparing For  Eventual Invasion

_NAZAIRE S LATEST TARGET “OF IANT PLANES   Tremendaus Weight of Bombs Dropped—See Act As Softening Un.

RAF LASHES AT ST. NAZAIRE IN FIERCE ATTACK   Speculation Grows on Softening Up Process Leading to Invasion

R. A. F. BOMBS SUB BASE IN HEAVY ATTACK   Commando Raids Sure . In Preparation for Invasion

BOMBS OF AL alZES nNED “OW NAD BAS   Super Blockbusters and: Foy Incendiaries Shower St. Nazaire ‘Docks.   CARRIES AIR: OFFENSIVE © PAST 72:HOUR- MARK

EVERY BOMB TYPE DROPPED ON BASE IN HEAVY ATTACK   43 Attacks Made on Germany, Occupied Territory In February, Total Loss of 176 Airplanes.   ALL NAZI THRUSTS HAVE BEEN CHECKED   Allies Smash Through Air as Means of Wrecking Communication Lines of Rommel’s Forces.

ST. NAZAIRE SWAMPED BY ~ RAF ASSAULT   Sustained A n gl 0American Offensive In Europe Passes 72-hour Mark.

Continued Raids Hint ‘Softening’ Before Invasion  Hundreds of Bombers Smash at Target in

SEARS ERTIES: te si. vasa amenteasionsemmumaasl MANY CASUALTIES IN ROME. SWEDES SAY

WLB Rejects Proposed Coal Wage Schedule   Counter-Proposal Is Offered io Hike, Pay of Miners

MINERS DENIED $1.00 WAGE BOOS!   WLB TURNS DOWN ILLINOIS SCHEDULE AND OFFERS $1.1214 RAISE.

MINERS WIN HIGHER WAGE FROM W.LB.   Increase Will Be About $10 A Week For 6-Day Week: Strikers Must Return By Thursday.   lilinois Pact Rejected

Illinois Coal Plan Rejected by WLB  Board Counters Wit! Wiane Hileea Proannsc

ITALIANS SAID TO BE SEEKING A SEPARATE PEACE WITH AMERICANS   Secret Meeting Said To Have Been Held In Spain Last  Month; Terms Said To Have Been Given Italian Envoy Marion Badoglio

Unrest Grows Among German People   Big Developments Are Being Planned by Nazis

NAZI CONFABS INDICATE NEW PLAN FOR WAR   ‘Fadeout’ by Hitler Improbable, Say Observers

Crushed In Air Raid Shelter   Woman Falls On Steps, Piles Up Terrible Toll; No Bombs Were  Involved.

Kansas City Mar Shot and Killed On Busy Street   Politically Prominent Resident Shot Down By Director of Traffic

GOP Leader Shot to Death In K. C. Street   Unofficial Traffic Direetor Kills First DeMolay Member

Factory Guard Slays Noted  Kansas Citian Unofficial Traffic  Director Shoots Ty..1.°..... Dcterae’

Louis G. Lower  Fatally Shot   First DeMolay Member: Slain By Man Directing Traffic.

AUTOIST IS SLAIN AT STATION PLAZA   First DeMolay Member Shot by Man Directing Traffic

Revolutionary Move Reporte In Argentina   Chilean Broadcast Gen. Ramirez Dismissed As Head Of Military Rule.   NEW VICE - PRESIDENT

New Military Revolution Reported In Argentina: Ramirez Said Ousted

ARGENTINA SAID TO BE IN MIDST OF NEW REVOLT   Chile Reports Gen. Arturo Rewson Has ‘Dismissed’ Pedro Ramirez

WY all > Tools aN /= Japs ‘Posed W ith Problem Through Euvobean Events

Attack Plan’ For “Equality” In Rationing   Senators At Conference In Kansas City Are Bitter Over Report Or   New Program

Take Strategic Heights Qit 3 Main Seetors OF Tunisian Front   Pose Threats On Central Tront of Crashing . Through to Tunisian “-Plain to Crumble All  _ Enemy's Mountain Tswhae:

ALLIES DRIVE AXIS FROM 3 VITAL HILLS   Advance Made in Furious Fighting — Gaing Threaten German Mountain Defenses,   FRENCH TROOPS MOVE UP 12 MILES   First British Army Env gaged in Finish Struggle With All Tanks Foe Could Muster.

American and French Troops Score Signifi- _  ° cant Gains  HEAVY LOSSES BY ENEMY. “SUFFERED German Lines Are Threat ened in the Central Area

Allies Take Vital New Strongholds   Important Heights Continue to Fall; Enemy Resistence Weakens; All Positions on Battlefront Improve

Germans Fall Back Before Americans Driving at Mateur   French Fight to Within 3 Miles of Pont du Fahs; Ast Army Battles All Tanks Foe Can Muster;  Rnamy RPannasted Mising Shart af Rocervae

Germans Retreat Before Yank Attack ia North; French Gain in South;  Eivet Army, Foe Tanks Battle.

Important Hills  In Three Sectors Seized By Allies   Nazis Faced With Threat Of Complete Break-Through In Central Battle Area

FINISH FIGHT RAGES ONIN NORTH AFRICA   AMERICANS GAIN; ENEMY LINES CRUMBLING

BREAK THROUGH THREATENS AXIS TUNISIAN LINE   Germans Muster Full Armor In Desperate AllOut Fight With British   STRATEGIC HILLS TAKEN BY ALLIES

ALL-OUT TANK BATTLE RAGES AT GOUBELLAT   2To 3 Mile Gains Made Into Axis Defenses; Key Heights Are Captured   Positions Improved

Germans Falling Back as Yanks Attack in North   French Drive fo Within Three Miles of Pont Du Fahs   Military Spokesman Says Germans Put Up Hard Opposition

ALLIES TAKE HEIGHTS ON TUNIS FRONT   Pose Critical Threats Of Smashing Through T Tunisian Piain To Crumble Axis Mountain Lines   Germans Fall Back

Seize Important New Heights: Poise for Surae Thru Axis Lines   French Near Pont du Fahs and Tunis; British First Army in Tank Scrap; Enemy Sustains Big Losses; Fall Back Before Americans

CLARK HEADS 5th U. S. ARMY IN TUNISIA   Hero Of Secret Meeting With French To Pave Way For  U.’S. Invasion Is Advanca    Airmen Active

CLARK DIRECTS NEW U.S. ARMY   Fiftn. Force Organized In North Africa To Work With Allies;  Railroad Bombed

Lt. Gen. Clark To Command U.S. 5th Army  Progress in Allies in  Forces Geared for Nev Tinie Dizarta Atbacl

Yankee Army Ready in North Africa   Clark to Command In Field; French Win Again

Clark To Lead New U. 5. Fifth Army In Africa   Huge Force Being Geared For ‘Attack On Tunis, Bizerte

U.S. Army in Africa Is Orcanized   Lieut.-Gen. Clark Named to Command Force

GENERAL CLARK GIVEN COMMAND OF FIFTH ARMY   Large American Force Of Several Divisions To Be  Headed By Gficer

U.S. 5TH ARMY IS SET UP IN NORTH AFRICA   Lieut. Gen. Clark Put In Command of New Organization

BIGU. 5. FIFTA ARMY SET IN NORTH AFRICA   AXIS TANKS FLUNG BACK; RAILROAD YARDS BOMBED

NEW U. 8. ARMY FORMED TO FIGHT AXIS IN TUNISIA   Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark Put in Command—Yanks May Take Place Alongside British.   GERMAN TANK FORCE BEATEN AT FONDOUK   Americans Shoot Down Four Planes and Lose Two in Raids on Kairouan and Cherichera,

Lt. Gen. Clark  Heads New Force   [s Organized asAmerica’s ‘Sth Army,” No Hint Given as to Size   Germans Regrouping After Tanks Repulsed   Yankee Airmen Continue To Lend Strong Aid To Land Troops

Interpreting  The War   Japs Acquainting People With Allied Aircraft

MORE STICKY HEAT   Some Relief May Come in Cooler Breezes Tonight

Tax Reduction Bill Shelved in Illinois House Subcommittee   Equal Pay for Women in Manufacturing Gets Committee O. K.

SHELVE SALES TAX REDUCTION BILL IN LEGISLATURE   SENATE COMMITTEE HEEDS VETO THREAT OF GOVERNOR GREEN

Germans Start Withdrawal From Sea Around Port as American Troops Close In

Germans Leaving Naples   Withdrawing Forces Ag Allies Slash Forward, : 3 10 More Miles in Wide -Flanking Move to East

Clark’s Men Slash 10 Miles Into Mountains to Capture Cassani-—-British Eighth Army Within 22 Miles of FoggiaFifth Only 10 Miles From Avellino

Allies Drive Up Both Sides Ot Italy Boot   Americans Capture Cassano; British Threaten Foggia Airfields.   91H IN BITTER. FIGHT

FIFTH ARMY SLASHES 10 MILES MORE   Only Rear Guard Opposition Being Offered Allies.—British Within 22 Miles of Foggia.

American Forces — Ring Up New Gain, Capturing Cassano   Germans Are Now Offering Only Rear Guard Resistance

Yanks Advance {0 More Miles, Pursue Enemy   British Eighth Army Closing [In On Major ’ Airfield :

GERMAN FORCES BACKING UP BUT FIGHT FIERCELY   Hitler’s Troops Retreating From Area Around Sea As Yanks Slash Ahead   BERLIN ADMITS THREATS   British Armies Moving In Without Meeting More Than Token Resistance

Nazi Troops Retreat From Naples Area   Fierce Fighting Taking Place North and Northwest of Salerno; Red Forces Reach Dnieper River at Kiey

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY GAINS 10 MILES INTO MOUNTAINS TO CAPTURE TOWN OF CASSANO  Americans Pressing Retreating Enemy.: British Troops Driving Up Adriatic Coast Within 22 Miles of Foggia and Its Vital Air Base

Nazis Moving Out Of Naples Region   Fifth Army Takes Cassano, Fifty Miles East of  the Port   PUSH ON IN PURSUIT   German East Line Crumbles  as Russians Cross the Dnieper

8th Army Nears Foggia Air Base   British and American Troops. Have Occupied . One-Sixth of Ttaly in 24 Days of. wiguting” Foggia Air Base System Puts Germany’  Nearer to Allied Bombers

bth Army Carves Out New Gains   British Press Drive Toward Foqgia Air Base

AIR WAR OVER WESTERN EUROPE GAINS IN POWER   Be THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

YANKS ADVANCE 10 MILES AND TAKE CASSANO   Americans Start to Press Retreating Nazi Forces Around Naples

Offer ‘Little - Resistance In Fleeing “From Port  5TH ARMY. GAINS  American ~ Forces Capture Town  tf. PF

Modane Target Of Bomber Raid During Night   Second Raid Made On Rail. way Center Near Tunnel To Alps   NORTHERN FRANCE IS ALSO BOMBED

—EUROPE    Anti-NaziParaders Carry U. S. Flags;  Reds Score Gains

Say 73,000 Are Made Homeless — after Berlin Raid   Germans Retreat in Russia, Firy Wreckage in Berlin and Revolt in Denmark Paint ‘’ Black Picture for Adolf Hitler ,

THOUSANDS OF DANES PARADE AGAINST NAZIS   Himmler Elevation Is Considered Move to Avert German Collapse

Germans Retreat In Russia   Nightmare Wreckage in Berlin—AntiNazi Parade with U. S. Fiags in Den mark

Berlin Attacked Again As Reds  Win New Gains   Himmler Shift Is Seen As Hint Nazi Home Morale Not So Good

JAY'S NEWS OF WAR BAD FOR HERR HITLEF   Mosquito Bombers Again Raid Berlin While Russia, Danish Situations Cause Worry,

Der Fuehrer Has Dark Outlook From Smoking Berlin   Russians Continue Gains; Underground Revolt Is Spreading

HITLER'S HORDE ON RUN WHILE LINES CRUMBLE   73,000 Reported Homeless in Germany's Capital After All-out Air Attack   JAP WARLORDS WORRYING   Yanks and Aussies Close in On Jungle Island Bases To Wipe Out Nips

TEMPERATURES:   Unrest Mounts In Reich; Danes Defy German:   Gestapo Striving To - Prevent Collapse Of Home Front

RAF Returns ; To Batter at Flaming City   Thousands of Danes Parade With U. S. Flags In Anti-Nazi Demonstrations — As Russians Turn Foe’s Retreat . From Kharkov Into a Rout.

Nightmare Bomb Wreckage in Berlin Also Adds to German Woes; Gestapo Moves to Keep Home Front in Line

Doom Stalks Hitler   Havec in Berlin, Retreating Armies in Russia, Rising Tide Of Revolt Tell Tale

Composite Picture Of Foreboding For Hitler  OUTLOOK DARK  Anti-Nazi Group: Stage Parade In Denmark

Great Damage In Berlin Reported   Thousands of Anii-Nazi Demonstrators Parade in Denmark, Report — Nazi Retreat From Kharkov May Be Turning Into Rout

Anti-Nazi Groups Demonstrate in Denmark’s Cities   Fire Rages Over 4 Square Miles In Heart of Germany’s Capital

RETREAT IN RUSSIA, BERLIN WRECKAGE, DENMARK PARADES  THESE ARE AMONG WARN INGS TO AXIS THAT DAY

Germans Plagued by Retreat, Bomb Blasts   Anti-Nazi Demonstrations in Denmark, Draw Contingent of Axis Soldiers Cities Under State of Emergency.

BRITISH MOSQUITO BOMBERS HIT NAZI CAPITAL WHICH NOW IS A NIGHTMARE OF WRECKAGE   Unrest in Germany and Conquered Territories Together with Defeats on Russian Front Present Foreboding Picture to Hitler and His Crowd

SECOND NIGHT ATTACK ROCKS NAZI CAPITAL   Mosquito Bombers Pound Berlin; 73,000 Reported Homeless   NAPLES AREA IS HIT      German Retreat In Russia Becomes Rout; Reds Drive Ahead

Anti-Nazi Move Grows in Reich; Danes in Riots   Unsettled Conditions Exist in Europe as Berlin Damage Is Reported.   Naples Again Is Hit At Night by Airmen

GERMAN ARMIES STILL IN ROUT FROM KHARKOV   Anti-Nazi Demonstrators Parade With U. S. Flags in Denmark

MASS RIOTING IN DENMARK IS UNCURBED   Thousands of Anti-Nazi Demonstrators Parade With American Flags  At Odense   SABOTAGE SPREADING

Anti-Nazis Stage Riots in Copenhagen   Nazis Rush Troops to Danish Capital; German Retreat from Kharkov Is Turning into a Rout; 73,000 Berlin Residents Left Homeless by RAF

Central French Authority Seen   De Gaulle Expected For Conference

Possibility Is Seen  For Union of  French Authorities Spokesman Declares  Groups Already Are Working Well

French Unity Seen As Certain Now —   Atlantic Seaboard Feels Impact of New Gasoline Conservation Measure

Yank Fliers Rip Jap-Held Isles.   LAND-BASED AMERICAN LIBERATOR BOMBERS RAID JAPANESE OUTPOSTS IN MARSHALL, GILBERT ISLANDS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT DAY

MacArthur Bombers  Continue Offensive  Japs Are Blasted Fifth Day In Row

NO CALL TO DADS YET   All October Calls Can Be Met By Others in This County

MILK PRICE RAISE COMING   Orders ‘Affecting All of . State Posted Tomorrow

Yanks Seize Mt. Cavallo In Hot Fight   Street Battles Rage In Ortona

set Fight Rages Jrtona;  es Gain Slowly ghth Army Battles City; Fifth  akes Hill in West

Yanks Take Snow Covered 3,000 Foot Mt. Cavallo   Germans Throw .. New  , Parachute Troops Into Bloody Ortona Battle— Sth Army Continues Clean-up -of San’ Vittorio Outer Defenses.

Eighth Army Tanks and Infantry Battle Desperate German Defense in Stroatc of Ortona.

Struggle in Its Third Day; 8th Using Tanks in Street Combat   Foe Making ‘Stalingrad’ of Town: Yanks Take Mt. Cavallo

BATTLE RAGES IN ORTONA STREETS   GERMANS RESIST STUBBORNLY ON ITALIAN FRONTS

Eighth Army Still Fights For Ortona   Third Day of Sharp Street Clashes Reported in Tiny Adriatic Port

Pitched Battle Raging In Italy   Eighth Army, Foe Locked In Fierce Fighting

EIGHTH ARMY TANKS BATTLE NAZIS IN ITALY   Bitter Street Fights Arc Raging In Ortona; Fifth Gains

TANKS BATTLE IN STREETS OF ORTONA ©   Tiny Adriatic City Bem Turned into Miniature + Stalingrad by Germans:

MT, GAVALLO CAPTURED BY U. §, TROOPS   Germans Die On Front Rather Than Retreat

CLARK'S ARMY CAPTURES SNOW COVERED PEAK   Mt. Cavallo Taken By Fifth Army; Eighth Army Engaged In Third Day Of Fierce Battling In Ortona; Italian Political Situation Reviewed.

Ordona New ‘Salingrad’   Germans Die Rather Than Retreat From Stronghold

Eighth Force To Fight for Every House   Fifth Gains New Heights—Enemy Tices Chute Troaps

Ortona Conflict Rages   BRITISH, NAZIS STAGE BITTER FIGHT; YANKS CAPTURE MT. CAVALLO

BRITISH FIGHT “TN STREETS OF -ORTONA, ITALY   American Troops Capture Mt. Cavallo, West of Venalro and Near Viticuso

Fierce Battle Rages in Ortona   Germans Turning Port Into Miniature

Eighth Army Tanks and Infantry Fight Bitterly With Nazis in Streets of Ortona for the Third Straight Day.

EIGHTH ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY FIGHT BITTERLY FOR ORTON!  FIFTH ARMY FORCES   FIFTH ARMY FORCES CAPTURE ANOTHER SNOW-COVERED HEIGHT

CANADIANS IN BITTER FIGHT FOR ORTONA   Battle House io House as Nazis Turn Tiny Adriatic Port Into Miniature Stalingrad   FIFTH TAKES HILL   Americans Capture Mt. Cavailo, Bring Viticuso Under Shell and Mortar Fire

EIGHTH ARMY FIGHTS HARD FOR ORION   Village Street Battle In Third Day: Americans Take Mt. Cavallo

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES BETWEEN BRITISH, NAZIS   Third Day of Fighting in Streets  Of Ortona — Yanks Extend Gains

STH BATTLES IN STREETS OFORTONA   Nazis Stubbornly ‘Defending Port; French Also Gain

Ortona Street Battle Rages   Eighth Army Tanks And Infantry Fight Germans; Fifth Advances

British Battle In City Streets   Furious Fighting Rages in Italy

French Units Of 5th Army Reported Making Gains In Flanking Movement

FIGHTING FOR ORTONA GOES INTO 3RD DAY   German Forces Making “Stalingrad Stand”

BITTER FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE ORTONA STREETS   Nazi Forces Were Attempting to Turn the Port into a Miniature Stalingrad.   FOR 38RD STRAIGHT DAY   American Troops Captured 300°-Foot Mount —-vallo.

Street Fight Rages In Ortona; Allies Gain Slowly  Eighth Army Battles In City; Fifth Takes Hill in West

FURY OF FIGHT FOR ORTONAIS UNDIMINISHED   Eighth Army Tanks and Infantry Battle Bitterly in Streets of Tiny Adriatic Port City   MINIATURE STALINGRAD

ORTONA STREET FIGHTING RAGES   Adriatic Port City Becomes Miniature Stalingrad

BITTER FIGHTING IN STREETS OF ORTONA   German Forces Turning Tiny Port Into Miniature Stalingrad.

British Fight inside Ortona   Eighth Army Tanks And Infantry Make Second Stalingrad

Street Fighting Rages Into Third Day; U. S. Troops Take Mt. Cavallon

Tanks Fight In Desperate ‘Battle To  Take Ortona   British Eighth Army And Nazis Locked In Bitter Conflict For Italian Town

ORTONA STREET FIGHT GOES OX FOR THIRD DAY   American Troops Take Snow Covered Peak; _ French Forces Advance

Germans Battle to Hold Ortona   Heuse-to-house Fighting in Streets

FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ORTONA STREETS   Americans Take Mt. Cavallo, French Gain in Mountain Pass

Third Day Of Bitter Ortona Street Fighting   Fierce Nazi Resistance To British; U. S. Troops Take Mt. Cavallo.

PORT CLASH (S FIERCER -ON3AD DAY   Yanks’ Advancing As French Push New Gains

Tiny Adriatic Port Becomes a Stalingrad   ‘But Fierce Action at Ortona Is On Smaller Scale Than in Russia

BRITISH BITTERLY ENGAGING NAZS —INCITY STREETS   Third Straight Day of Fierce Fighting For Ortona   AMERICAN TROOPS TAKE MT. CAVALLO

EIGHTH ARMY TANKS AND INFANTRY FIGHT BITTERLY FOR ORTON!  Perm, sana PAR Ara

BattleRaging In Streets of Adriatic Port   Nazis Turn Ortona Into ‘Baby Stalingrad’; Yanks Take Mi. Cavallo

Italian Town A Miniature Stalingrad   British and Nazis Fight Bitterly in Streets of Ortona Third Strairht Dav

Japs Make Attack  In Ichang Sectors  Chinese See Thrust Against Chungking

Huge Supplies Of Food. Necessities  Shipped To Africa   U.S. Has Sent Great Quantities Of Supplhes To Countries Now Occupied

MORE THAN 118,000 TON® OF FOOD, CLOTHING, MEDICINES AND OTHER NECES- © BITIES SENT

REDS BRING WARNING OF DECISIVE BATTLES   Russians Big Guns Destroy 10 Nazi Blockhouses

/Enemy Strikes Repeatedly At  Anglo-American Fifth Army  Troops On Western Flank Of ] Italian Front   FLYING FORTRESSES POUND GENOA WORKS

Germans Try to  Block Rome Road   Eighth Army Advances Five Miles; Red Tanks Smash Thru Ukraine

COLLAPSE OF NAZIS SEEN NEAR      Nazis Stiffen in Italy © But Collapse in Russi;

ALLIED FORGE GAINS 100,000 > GRACK TROOPS   Boisson Turns Over Entire Military Resources of West Africa

ALLIES GIVEN BIG WAR Al   li Military Resources o French West Africa Turned Over.

All Military Resources Of French West Africa, Includine Dakar. Handed Over To Allied Cause

LLIES GIVEN "IG WAR Al   . diuitary  Resources   - French West ‘Africa  Turned Over. .  :  fir, Piet  e4g 8 24

GOMEL FALLS. NAZI FORCES SPLIT   ANUS AETH 1 WITH FIFTH ARAN   Division, Once Part Of Seventh, Is In Action In Tialy   CHECKED GERMANS   Helped Roll Back. Nazis In Salerno: Bridgehead Battle.

Soviets Take Gomel; Nazi Forces Solit   Powerful New Drive Smashes Gaps North and South of City

Big Bastion Evacuated, Berlin Says   Russians Gain: To Slash Open Road to Minsk

Germans Say Gomel Captured   POWERFUL RED ARMY CONTINUES TO GO FORWARD

Powerful New Offensive Cuts German Lines   Heavy: Force Hammers Frankfurt While :Mosquitos Stab Anew Af Razed Capital

Another Russian Offensive Moving   Germans Concede Loss of Gomel

Berlin Announces Key City In White Russian Area Falle Ta Red Armies

13 Day Nazi Drive Weakening   Also Take Surrounding White Russian Territory; Gomel Destroyed Before Evacuation.

Red Offensive Smashes Gaps In Nazi Lines  Germoanc Ranart   Germans Report City Destroyed Before Retreat

Reds’ Capture Of Gomel Splits German Forces   Powerful Russian Offensive Smashes Gaps in Enemy Lines North, South of Gome

BERLIN ADMITS  GOMELS FALL TO RED ARMIES   Separation Of Nazi Forces In Center And Ukraine Completed Today

German Forces In Ukraine Split By Gomel Fal   New Gaps Smashed 1  German Lines

Nazis, Reporting Evacuation, Asseri Gomel Destroyed — Moscow Withholds Announcement   ESCAPE RAILS CUT   Vatutin's Army Reported Standing Firm Againsi Repeated Heavy Assaults Before Kiev -

Powerful New Red Army Offensive Smashes Gaps In Enemy Lines Near Big Rail Center; Nazi Forces Cut Off

SEPARATION OF ENEMY FORCES IS COMPLETED   Nazis in Ukraine and White Russia Split By City’s Fall

German Lines Ripped by Soviet Drive   Enemy Defenses North end South of Key Railroad Center Are Broken; Nazi Orive on Kiev Now Weahkenina

NEAR KIEV WEAKENING   Rail City First Captured In August, 1941, Other Sectors Of White Russia Also Evacuated

Gomel Falls To Russians Nazis Admit   Germans’ Drive West of Kiev Appears To Have Been Stopped

REICH REPORTS NEW REVERSALS EAST OF RIVER   Meanwhile, Reds Widen Their Sweeping Gains—Battle Rages Near Kiev

Germans Yield Last Stronghold’ East Of Dnieper   Reds Launch Powerful New Offensive In White Russia

New Offensive Smashes Gaps In Nazi Lines   Germans Claim City Was Destroyed Before Its Evacuation

‘Communique Says City Destroyed Before Red Armies Sweep Nazis Out

GERMAN DRIVE. WEST OF KIEV LOSES POWER   New Red Victory Completes Separation Of Enemy’s Retreating Forces

Railway Center Destroyed Before Nazis Evacuate   Gomel Was Last Important Stronghold East of Dnieper River.   37-Mile Gap Blasted  In German Defenses

Germans Claim City Destroyed; Soviets Hold West of Kiev   y Russian Forces Penetrate Enemy Lines North, South of Fallen Rail Center

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE   Nazi Attacks Believed Weakening In Area West Of Kiev

LONDON SUBURBS  BOMBED BY NAZIS   RAID HEAVIEST IN MONTHS— AMERICANS BLAST PARIS AIRCRAFT PLANT,

5S FNA NEWS BUI EING      Lnadan Suburbs Get Heaviest Raid in Months

YANKS BLAST PARIS PLANTS   American Bombers Also Hit At Airfields Through out France

GARMENT AND BROOM PLANTS COMING HERE   Equipment for Both Factories Already on Hand

McNutt Confronted by Protest from Members of Unit Added to His Post

FEPC, ICKES SCORE M'NUTT FOR DELAY {IN MANPOWER PLAK      As WMC Committee Protests, Three Members Resipn Posts

TROPICAL oT ORM Alo TO AVERT AAID ON RABAUL   bires Visible 60 Miles Away  After Allied Fliers Hit Jap Base

JAPS STRIKE BACK   Bomb Allied Shipping Be. tween New Guinea and  Australia

ITALIAN RAIL CENTER GIVEN AIR BLASTING   Rain of Allied Bombs Disrupts Communi‘ations Lines Leading North.

ENEMY PLANES: ARE DESTROYED   Grow Located Near Maintand .of Italy—Foggia, Near Naples, Subjected to Concentrated Bombing’ Attack Friday Night.

AFL REFUSES. ~ ENDORSEMENT      FEDERATION CONVENTION DOES NOT VOTE ON RESO“LUTION FOR FOURTH TERM FOR ROOSE- .  nn ta --4 Oz 12

Commandos Flown from Britain to Aid Danes?   SITUATION MORE TENSE.

GERMANS SHIFTING TROOPS IN WIDE CONTINENT CHANGE   Due To Russian Retreat French and Balkan Rest Areas Now Active War Zones. .

German High Command Reshuffles Its Troops on Continent to Meet New Pattern as New War Fronts Develop

NAZIS MOVING MANY TROOPS   Retreats in Russia, Italy Bring Gigantic Reshuffle of Forces

Nazis Changing Rest Zones lo Active Sectors   German High Command Reshuffling Troops In France, Balkans

High Profits To Efficient FirmsShown   Salaries Of 3 Machine Gun Makers Are Cited

BRTISH GAPTURE WTONA: GERMAN IFENSES SACEIN   Transport Junction of Castel di Sangro Also Falls   GHTING BREAKS OUT ON WHOLE EAST SECTOR   War in Brief:

POUND JAPS ON KISKA 13 TIMES   Flyers Cause Heavy ; Blast at Harbor Mouth

Jap Aleutian Base Bombed 13 Times  Heavy Explosion And Several Fires Caused Saturday

U. S. FLIERS CARRY OUT 13 RAIDS ON KISKA SATURDAY   Another. Group Attacks Jap Camp at Attu, 200 Miles From Kiska, on Same Day

JAP PLANES RAID PORT OF DARWIN   HEAVY ALLIED AIR LOSSES ARE REPORTED

Aitacks Continue On Base at Kiska   Outpost of Japs Also Battered

JAP AIR, SUB ATTACKS PERIL PACIFIC FRONT   Allies Suffer Greatest Plane Loss as They Fight Off Port Darwin Raid.   UNDERSEA TOLL HIGH   Enemy Subs Reported To Be Doing ‘Efficient’ Job Against Supply Ships.

Bombers Raid Kiska I3 Times —   Heavy Explosion Caused At Mouth of Jap-held Harbor e

Far-Reaching Air-Sub Blows At Japs Barec   Heavy Allied Loss, However, As Foe Raids Darwin With 51 Planes.

Wouldn’ t Hitler Like To Know? Joe Says When ‘Quizzed About Shadow   YES, HE DID

Senate Votes  On Tax Bill   Two Amendments Killed Early Vote on Modified Ruml Pay-Go Tax Seen

SENATE VETOES TAX BILL CHANGE   SHIFT WOULD DROP ONLY 75 PER CENT FOR YEAR

Rumlites Defeat  2 Tax Measures   George, Ellender Bills Voted Down by Senate.

Effort To Amend Tax Bill Fails  “Skip a Year” Lines Ld nidinn Fact

Today's Activities in Nation's Capital » City Told in Briel   Associated Press Boils Down Washington News for Busy Readers

Change In Tax Bill Rejected  Early Vote Forecast On Modified Ruml Plan

SENATE REJECTS AMENDMENT T0 REVENUE BILL   TURN THUMBS DOWN ON FULL COLLECTION AND 75% ABATEMENT

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WICKARD SAYS GOOD MANY U.S. CITIZENS DISLIKE FOOD RATION

Women’s Hair Turning Weird Colors Now   Tinting Specialist Blames Home-Made Dyes For Colored Hai

Green Hair—Or Purple? Specialist Warns Weird Colors Likely Result Of Use Of Homemade Dye:

Athens Port Of Piraeus Also Raided   Greatest Aerial Blow _ Struck at Holdings Of Hitler in Balkans  ONE FORTRESS TOST

Winter Bombing Offensive From Mediterranean Bases Opened   GREATEST AERIAL BLOW AT BALKANS   Heavy Damage Inflicted on Nazi. Airdromes and  Harbor Area

ATHENS TARGETS HEAVILY BOMBED   SMASHING BLOWS DEALT AIRFIELDS AND HARBOR BY 300 ALLIED PLANES.

‘Allies Bomb ‘Athens Area   Airfields And Harbors Are Bombers’ Targets

i) Fortresses Bomb Big Nazi Bases in Greece   Greatest Aerial Blow at Balkans

Winter Bombing Offensive From Mediterranean Bases Opened  ~~ ——_~-. »§ hee aoe , =—_— ~~ ££ A   GREATEST AERIAL BLOW AT BALKANS   Heavy Damage Inflicted on Nazi Airdromes and Harbor Area

New 15th Force “Raids Three Big Nazi Airdromes   Greatest Blow Struck At Hitler's Balkan Installations

Strike Great Air Blow af Hitler's Balkan Holdings   Heavy Damage Is Reported to Airfields and Merchant Ships

American Planes Strike at Nazi Bases in Balkans  Military Airdromes Are Targets of Heavy Bombings

YANKS SMASH NAZI BASES IN AEGEAN AREA   200 Bombers Open Big Winter Assault on  Balkan Holdings

300 BOMBERS HIT BASES IN ATHENS AREA   Greatest Air Blow Yet Struck Against Nazi Holdings In This War Theater

ATHENS AREA IS HIT BY 300 UU. 5. BOMBERS   HITLER'S MILITARY AIRDROMES GIVEN HARD DRUBBING

Allied Planes Smash at Greek Targets   Three Big German Airdromes Are Heavily Hit

Three Big Nazi Bases Pounded   Blow Is Heaviest Struck At Balkans

Three Big Nazi Bases Pounded   Blow Is Heaviest Struck At Balkans  By EDWARD KENNEDY

Hershey Explains New Draft Plans  Concerning Dads   Need 446,000 Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers By Jun. 1

Hershey Lists 446,000 in Fathers’ Draft   Declares Quoia-Needs Between Nov And January Mean Calls; Will Hit Seven Out of Every 100

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS, ESCORTED BY SPITFIRES AND THUNDERBOLTS, TODAY RAIDED TARGETS IN WESTERN GERMANY

Spaatz Reveals Allied Airmen Roam Freely Over Mediterranean Battle Zone; Losses 175 to 519

Reds Forecast Big Events In Next Month   Campaign May Decide War’s Outcome, Says Official Paper

COMING MONTH WILL SEE BEGINNING OF INTENSIVE LAND CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA THAT MAY DECIDE THE WAR   Air War Mounts on Russian Front. Germans Claim Strong Red Tank and Artillery  Attack on Kuban Front Repulsed.

REDS PREDICT “GREAT EVENTS      Look to Land Drive Which May Well “Decide Outcome of War”

NEW GROUND BATTLES IN RUSSIA NEAR   _Air'Fighting Over Russ-Front Already At New Pitch

AERIAL FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRON   Japs Kept Busy In Protecting Bases, Abrogate Martinigue Agreements.

AIR WARFARE STEPPED UP IN RUSSIA   Crucial Battles Imminent, Soviet Officials Warn

REDS PREPARE FOR BIG DRIVE   Soviet Newspaper Says Coming Month To See Start Of Major Campaign  os. enri eauere Uw ee Ue

Intensive Campaign anned. by: Russians   Summer Offensive Scheduled by Reds

Aerial Activity Mounts as Russians Anticipate Intensive Campaign Soon

Momentous Push Hinted By Soviets   Next Month Expected To Decide Course of War on East Front

Crucial Fight In Prospect In Russia   Outcome Of War Ma: Hinge On Campaign,  Moscow Save

Violent Air War Mounts On Red Front   Soviet Paper Says Summer Campaign May Decide War

Soviet Press Gives Hint of ‘Big Events’   Outcome of War May Be  Decided Next Month, Says Newspaper

“Big Events Not Many Days Away.”... Soviets Ready To Open Campaign Expected To Decide Outcome Of War

RED OFFENSIVE NEAR, OFFICIAL PAPER ASSERT‘   Germans Report Beginning of New Russian Drive in Kuban—Reds Control Air

A SUMMER LAND CAMPAIGN BY THE RUSSIANS PLANNEL   May Well Decide the Outcome of War, the Newspaper Izvestia Says.   BIG EVENTS ARE COMING   Says We Are on Threshold  of a Decisive Stage of War of Liberation.

WAR IN RUSSIA MOUNTS IN FURY ASSUMMERNEARS   PREDICT CAMPAIGN MAY DECIDE FINAL OUTCOME OF WAR

[Russians To Launch Summer Drive Soor   Official Government Newspaper Declares Intensive Summer Land Campaign May Well Decide Qutcome Of War; Reviews Soviet Gains

Coming Battle May Decide  ‘War's Outcome   Intensive Summer Land Campaign In Russia Expected

SOVIET. AIR WAR HITS HIGH PITCH   Important Ground Battles Thought Imminent In This Area

REDS LAUNCH KUBAN DRIVE   Soviet Newspapers Hint Next Month To Determine Qutcome of War.

Soviets Predict Intensive Drive Against German   Pledge To Shorten War Made Amid Raging Air Battles

REDS FORECAST SUMMER DRIVE   Campaign May Decide Out come of War, Says Official Newspaper.

Air War Over Russian Front Gains in Fury   Berlin Reports -Big-Scale- Red Drive in South

Combat Reaches New High Piteh— Official Sources Warn that Ground Battles May Decide Whole War in East, .

SEES INTENSIVE SUMMER DRIVE BY THE RUSSIANS   Izvestia, Official Soviet Newspaper, Says Forth. coming Campaign May Well Decide Outcome of the War; Predicts ‘Big Events’ Ahead.

Russian Paper Predicts Crisis  Big Events Foreshado' Battle For Outcome

Reds Map Campaign For War’s Decision   Month of May to Witness “Big Events,” Including Land Push Which Russians. Believe Will Bring Defeat to Nazis.

Showdown On Russian Front  Believed Neat   Intensive Campaign Is Expected To Begin Next Month, Says Official Newspaper

Russians Say “Big Events” Are In Offing   Nazis Moving Up Reinforcements

Crucial Battles Near, Reds Warn   Spring Offensive Starte in Mav

Soviets See Big Events   Red Armies Prepare For Big Drive to Oust German Forces

SOVIET. FLIER BAG 116 PLANES IN KUBAN AREA   Decisive Ground Battles  Expected in May, Reds   Report, as Offensive Opens in South   HOLD AERIAL EDGE’   Berlin Announces New Drive by Russians in Caucasus, But Claim  No Gains Made

Air Action On Red Front Grows   Important Ground Battle Said Imminent

Plans Probe Of Divorce By Heiress   Action Finished Eleven Days After Marriage, Records Reveal

ANOTHER CUT IN NEWSPRINT IS ADVOCATED   Smaller Newspapers Excepted By Suggestion

ASKS FURTHER NEWSPRINT CUT   5 Per Cent Reduction I: Urged by Committee

Mrs. Helen Herron Taft,  Aged 81, Had Been Ill for About Eighteen Months   AIDED IN PLANNING CAREER OF HUSBAND   LAREN UF SUSAN  Was His Constant Com panion During Years When He Was Politi gemtles Anbien

Ex-President's Widow Passes   Mrs. William Howard Taft Dies at Home In Washington

PRESIDENT TAFT’S WIDOW DIES AT 81   LATE EXECUTIVE'S STEPS: UP POLITICAL LADDER ‘ASORIB- 2 D TO HER URGING. .

WIFE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DIES   Mrs. William Howard Taft, 81, Passes Away Saturday In Washington

AIR OFFENSIVE CENTER IS StT UP ON GUADALCANAL   New Series of Attacks or Japs to Be Operated - from Henderson Field.-

GUADALCANAL TO BE U.S. AIR GENTER   Americans Strengthen Air Facilities On Pacific Base:

READY FOR MORE PACIFIC ACTION   — . U. S, Strengthens Guadalcanal for Air Base, Pacific Chiefs Meet to Plan More Vigorous Warfare Against Janan.

Guadalcanal to Be Air Center   Plane Strength  Being Concentrated

American Forces Setting Up Powerful Center To Concentrate on Rabaul, No. Solomons __.

U.S, SETS UP ISLE AIR BASE   Imminent Offensive Set Against Japs From Solomons

VESTOCK ON FOR ARMS; MEAT — HAR AMINE LOOMS OF   Many Packers Forced Out of Business by Black Market Squeeze

DATTLE ARE BelNG FELD (QFE MARKET   Ranch Owners and Farmers Are Gambling on Price Inc: eases.   PLENTY OF MEAT   Slaugttering Declines But There Are Plenty of Cattle and Hogs.

CATTLE ARE BENG HELD OFF MARKET   Had Owners and Farmers Are Gambling on Price © “Increases.   Slaughtering Declines - ‘But. _ There Are Plenty of Cat-  tle and Hogs. .

REPORT SUPPLY OF LIVESTOCK 19 LARGEST IN TWENTY YEARS   UNCERTAINTY OVER PRICE CONTROL CAUSING SCARCITY OF CATTLE FOR PACKING HOUSES

Ranch Owners And Farmers Holding From Market Greatest National Herd Of Livestock

‘Allies Suffer Losses in Australia   Japanese Attack Darwin With Total of 51 Planes

‘Darwin Raided By Big Force Jap Bombers   Allied Losses In Attack Are Heavy

SAYS SHE POUNDED HUSBAND TO DEATH   ——  Faces Murder Charge, Accused of Using Handle of Feather Duster as Weapon

WIFE HELD IN FATAL BEATING   Attractive Red-Head Jailed After Husband Dies From Wounds

Daylight Bombing Resumed   American Planes Raid U boat Base at Bremen  —Reds Advance

Sportsman’s Wife Is Convicted In Slaying   AU-Male Jury Returns Verdict Of Manslaughter Against Mrs. Helen Randle Accused oF Killing Hich Schaol Rav

Woman Convicted Of Slaying Youth  Sentence to Be Given Weoalthy Snarteman’s

SEEK 10 CHECK ALLIED MARCH TOWARD ROME   Intensified Bombing Campaign Wrecks Key Bridge And Airdromes

Also Carry Air Battle Into Italy   FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES TOWN O) MONTESARCHIO; FLIERS WRECK: VITAL BRIDGE AT BOLSANO *

U.S, Troops Capiare Vital Road Junction   Greece Raided From Italy For First Time

YANKS ADVANCE GMILES IN ITALY, ATH AT TERMOL   Northwest African Air Forces Swarm, Back Into the Battie.

ENEMY USING 7,000 MEN TO DEFEND LINE   Squeeze Play Of Allied Armies Is Proving Successful Against Germans

YANKS POST NEW GAINS ABOVE NAPLES:   Air Force Steps Up Activities Over Italy

A4 Planes Lost In RAF Attack   Heaviest Loss Since Attack On Berlin: Kassel and Frankfort Hit.

-' Craft Lost; Raid Costliest British Attack In Two Months   Smaller Force Hits Frank. fort; Germans Stab at London

GREAT FORCE OF RAF  BOMBERS DELIVERED  ATTACK ON KASSEL FORTY-FOUR BIG BRITISE  RAIDERS FAILED TO RETURN HOME

OTHER PLANES HIT COLOGNE, FRANKFURT   Nazi Raiders Jab At London Seventh Night In Row; Daylight Action Continued Heavy

GERMAN CITY OF KASSEL TARGET: HEAVY BOMBING   Aircraft Assembly Plant and Huge Locomotive Works Raided: 44 Brit ish Planes Missing

Double Dose Of Air Woe For Reich   RAF in Concentrated Attack on Key Industrial City of Kassel; Frankfurt Also Bombed

RAF BOMBERS HIT HARD AT KASSEL; ANOTHER FORCE MAKES RAID ON FRANKFURT

Brifish Hammer Kassel At Heavy Loss In Planes   Key War Base Blasted But 44 Bombers Fail To Return

RAF Loses 44 Planes At Kassel   Heavy Bombers Fight Theu » Way Through to Blast Industrial Center   4A SMALLER FORCE HITS FRANKFUR’   Night Raid Is Ninth and the Costliest of Month for British Forces

RAF BOMBERS BLAST KASSEL, FRANKFURT   British Suffer Costliest Loss in Month With 44 Heavy Bombers Failing to Return

BRITISH LOSE 44 PLANES IN RAID OVER GERMANY   RAF Attacks Kassel in Ninth Raid of Month, Down Many Fighters

RAF Heavy ~ Bombers In  Kassel Raid   44 Aircraft Lost in the Month’s Costliest Aerial Foray

BATTLE MANY NAZI PLANES   Frankfurt and-Cologne Also Hit at Night  Re PMpPpowm  cmenevene.....

44 BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN FROM RAID ON KASSEL   . GREAT RAF FLEET ATTACKED BY MANY GERMAN FIGHTERS

Ar Blasts Xassel, Loses 44 §— 3ombers   Great Raid on German Industrial Center Is Costliest of the Month—Lesser Assault Made by British at Frankfurt.

A GREAT FORGE OF RAF HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACKED KASSEL   it Was the Ninth and Cost liest Major British Raid of the Month.   if PLANES WERE LOST   British Ships Forced to Fight Their Way Through Many Nazi Night Fighters.

BRITISH LOSE 44 PLANES IN HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS   RAF Heavy Bombers Fought Way Through Swarms Nazi Fighters To Deliver Concentrated Blow On Industrial Center of Kassel; Frankfurt Also Blasted.

44: Bombers Lost In Third Big Raid On Reich In Week   Heaviest Load Of Bombs Carried By Canadians In War To Date Is Dropped On Key. Airer aft City

AF Bombers ake Raid  n Kassel   Assault Made On Cologne; 44 Heavy Bombers Are Lost

Huge Airplane and Locomotive Works Blasted; British Lose 44 iBombers; Frankfurt Also Hit

RAF Blasts Kassel; 44 Planes Lost   Frankfurt and   Frankfurt and  Cologne Areas Also Pounded.  By Bombers

Heavy Attack By RAF On Kassel Costs 44. Bomber St Frankfurt Also Attacked   British Make Costliest Major Assault Of Month; Key Aircraft Center And Site Of Locomotive Works Hit In Force

RAF Loses 42 Planesin Kassel Raid   Frankfurt Hit By Smaller . Aerial Force

Kassel Takes  Pounding In  RAF Assault   44 Heavy Bombers Are Lost After Running Into Stiff Fightes Opposition

40 RAF Planes Lost In Raid on Kasse!   Ninth October Trip Was Most Costly

AA TOMBERS OO NOT COME BACK   Planes Fight Stubbornly, Send Several Nazi Fighters Down. 7   CITY INDUSTRIAL CENTER

KASSEL HIT — ~_ BY.RAF BOMBS   Fight Way: Through Defenses for Ninth, -Costliest Raid

BRITISH BLAST KASSEL; SUFFER GREATEST LOSS   Great RAF Force Fights Its Way Through Swarm Of Nazi Fighters Te Bomb Industrial Center; 44 Heavy Bombers Lost.

RAF Blasts Kassel; 44 Planes Lost   Frankfurt and Cologne Areas Also Pounded By Bombers

SLAYER PRAYS AS HE GOES TO CHAIR   Pays Penalty For Fatal Beating of 18 Year Old

KILLER IS EXECUTED WITH TEARS IN EYES   Convicted of Clubbing Man to Death After Accident

OHIO NEGRO PAYS DEATH PENALTY   Utters Lord’s Prayer, Cries as He is Strapped in Chair

ShipsTakeSupplies To Forces Holding New Bridgeheads   to Invaders; Advance Continuing

ADVANCES MADE BY INVADERS AS ENEMY BACKS UP   Attacks on Other Parts of Mainland, Possibly France, Expected   YANKS HELD IN RESERVE   Heavy Bombardment by Warships Add To Damage From Aerial Attacks

BYRNES NAMED CHAIRMAN BY PRESIDENT   Agency to Be Known as Office of War Mobilization

Supreme War _ Directing Body To Be Headed By James F. Byrnes  JUDGE VINSON TO SUCCEED BYRNES

SMASH JAPS FROM CENTRAL CHINA KILLING, WOUNDING, SOME THIRTY THOUSAND

ALLIED PLANES COMMAND SK}   Bombers, Fighters Shoot Down 42 Axis Aircraft Over Sicily.

‘Allied-Airmen Spread Flaming Path Of Destruction Across Sicily   Two More Enemy Merchant Ships Sunk And Twe Destroyers Damaged While Shooting Down 42 Aircraft; Trains And Trucks Destroyed.

Bombers Spread Bombs On Sicily   TWO AXIS SH SHIPS SUNK AND TWO MORE DAMAGED

Airmen Pour Destruction Across Sicily   ~ Two Merchant Ships, 42 Axis Planes Bagged By Allied Airmen

Allied Planes Raising Havoe  Across Sicily   42 Enemy Craft Downed With Loss Of Seven; Two Destroyers Hit By Mustangs

Heavy Allied Air Action Continuing   Liberators Batter Two Main Italy Airdromes

Sicily Under Terrific Fire  Destruction Spread Across Island by   Destruction Spread Across Island by Africa Air Force

ALSO BOMB 5 AIRFIELDS IN SICILY, ITALY   Two of the Vessels Attacked Are Sunk and Other Two, Destroyeys, -Ave Damag ed—Locomo. tives, Trucks Blasted.”

Spread Flaming Path on Sicily   Allied Warplanes Rain Destructive Bombs Over Ports and on Island.

Destruction Spread By Vast Allied Air Attack   Flaming Carpet Of Ruin In Sicily; 160 Trucks, 45 Freight Cars Destroyed

PLANES SPREAD DESTRUCTION OVER SICILY   Transport Facilities Hit; Airfields Blasted

Planes Rake Entire Isle   42 Fighters Downed, Destrovers Damaced

AIRMEN TAKE WAR  “ALL OVER SICILY   Eneiny Ships i in ;Surrounding Waters and Many » Planes Destroyed ©   STRAFE LAND . FORCES

4D AXIS PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Heavy Liberators Rain Destruction On Crotone And Vibo Valentia.

Flaming Path. of Destruction Is Spread Across Sicily. By Allied Fighters and: ‘Bombers

ALLIED FLIERS CUTTING SWATH ACROSS SICILY   Sink Two Mere Ships, Damage Two Destroyers. Shoot Down 42 Axis Planes   MUSTANGS SCORE      Bulfalo, Albany Airmen Tell o Raids—Forts Play Havoc with Calania Airbase

ALL OVER SICILY   Enemy Ships in ‘Surrounding Waters and Many Planes Destroyed   STRAFE LAND FORCES

” t aE Feige deg Jl ante ean 4s, Mair  ~  Legivat ot i geass tk Rk Pate ae a a re bw ke

Makin Atoll Falls to 27thU.S. Army Division   100 Bombers Rain Explosives on Jap Base at Gasmata

Gilberts Being Cleared Of Jans   Stiffest Resistance Found On Tarawa

Makin Atoll Captured and Seizure of Tarawa , Assured   GOOD PROGRESS IS MADE BY MARINES      Situation °n Abemama Atoll Reported Well tn Hand

FIRST PHASE OF  OFFENSIVE WON BY AMERICANS   Makin Already Captured And Fall Of Tarawa  Te Cortain   NEXT OBJECTIVE TO BE MARSHALL ISLANDS

Success of U.S. Pacific Offense ls Now Assured, Nimitz Declares   Americans Capture Makir Atoll, Fall of Tarawa s Cerfain and Situation on Abemama Satisfactory

Capture of Makin Atoll Completed   Situation On Abemama Reported Well In Hand; Occupation Of Terawa, Held Certain, Will Provide Strategic Field

Another Is Due To Fall; Marine ~ Corps Mops Un   Capture Of Tarawa Is Certain; Shorten Route To Japanese Base

Gilberts Being Cleared Of Japs   Stiffest Resistance  Found On Tarawa By CHARLES H. McMURATRY

Makin Atoll Captured by U.S. Forees   Marines Consolidate Positions on Tarawa: Situation on Third  Island Well in Hand

SAYS VICTORY [S CERTAIN IN ATOLLS FIGHT   Makin Already Taken, Other Islands are Near Capture

Fall of Makin Atoll  Is Announced   Capture of Tarawa Is Certain as Positions Improve

‘Warships Bombard Pantelleria Once Again   Planes Also Pound Island Force While Naples Is Dealt Another Heavy Blow

ITALIAN FORTRESS OF PANTELLERIA 15 BLASTED HEAVILY   ISLAND ALSO BEING BOMBED DAY AND NIGHT RY ALLIED PLANES

Pantelleria Attack Smashes Ahead; Defenses Weak    Air-Novol Allied Onslaught Hammers Italian Sea Fortress Hour After Hour Without Mercy, Communique Soys

British Fleet Again Batters Tiny Outpost   Pantelleria Shelled; Naples Heavily Bombed

SHELLS HURLED INTO HARBOR OF PANTELLERIA   Rocky Island Has Been  Under Heavy Bombardment Since Wednesday Nicht, It Is Reported   BRITISH GUNS RAKE FOE ENPLACEMENTS   Reduces Enemy Retaliation to Weak Firing; Outpost  Raided; Naples Closed to Newspapermen

Pantelleria Raked. Anew By Big Guns Of British Fleet —   Allied Warplanes Extend Battering Of Island Fort To Port Of Naples   British Press Heaps Worry On Invasion- Minded Europe

ITALIAN SHORE GUNS FIRE BUT MISS TARGETS   Aircraft Attack Other Important Coastal Sections

British Navy Again Shells Pantelleria  ‘Naples Also  Hard Hit in At. AAL.. f/f.

BRITISH NAVY AGAIN BLASTS PANTELLERIA   Valian Rock Fortress Bombarded Twice More, Air Bombers Confinue Assaults   NAPLES BOMBED   Wellingtons Drop Block-Busters on Damaged Port, Reported Denied to Foreiqn Newsmen

[OLAND onELLED FOR FOURTH TIME   Only Weak Reply Is Made By Defender’s Shore Batteries   NAPLES BOMBED   Block-Busting Raid Made By Allied Planes On Italian Port

British Warships Again Blast Pantelleria As Planes Drop Destruction

PANTELLERIA IS SHELLED AGAIN BY THE BRITISH   Explosives Hurled Into the Harbor and Battery Areas, It Is Said.   : POUNDED ROCKY ISLAND   It Was in Duplication of Their Double Assaults Earlier in the Week.

Pantelleria ShelledAgain By Warships   Shots Fall in Harbor and on Gun Batteries; Naples Battered

Warships Hurl More Shells af Fortress Island   Pantelleria Hit For Third, Fourth Times This Week

POUND ITALIAN FORTRESS BOTH DAY AND NIGHT   BRITISH WARSHIPS SHELL PANTELLERIA FOR FOURTH TIME

ATTACKS FAIL TO BRING OUT AXIS FLEET   Attacking Warships Draw Only Feeble Fire From Island

British Naval Vessels Pound at Harbor and Italians Return Only Slight Fire in Defense.   NAZI AIR LOSSES IN RUSSIA HIGH

PANTELLERIA IS BOMBARDED BY WARSHIPS   Continue Devastating Rain Of Shells On Axis Fortress   ITALIANS’ RETURN FIRE INEFFECTIVE   RAF Unloads Block-busters; Yanks Maintain Daylight Attacks

Pantelleria Garrison Is Punch-Drunk   British Navy Shells Island Again and Again, Bombers In Ceaseless Raids

ritish Warships Bombard talian Fortress Island ourth Time Within Week   Allies Suffer No Damage As Italians Reply Weakly; Enemy Fleet Still Shows No Sign Of Fight; Naples Raided

BRITISH HURL SHELLS AGAIN AT FORTRESS   Pantetleria Pounded Anew by Warships; Return Firing Is Weak.   ALLIED AIRMEN GIVE NAPLES HEAVY DOSES

(TALIAN fSLAND 5 BOMBARDED   Pantelleria Attacked -Night And Day By Allied Planes, Warships.   NO FIGHTER OPPOSITION

Island Fortress Of Pantelleria Shelled Again   Big British Warship: Stand Off Island, Poune “Harbor, Gun Pits   2 NIGHTS IN ROW   American, "RAF Planes Add To Damage; Naples Hit By Block Busters .

: Eddie Rickenbacker Declares American “Industries On ‘Share-The-Work Depression’

Rickenbacke: Reports On Manpower   Says Nation Has Plenty Of Labor

FDR Hopes Tc Avoid Draft Of Civilians   Rickenbacker Wants Home Front To Work Like Soldiers In Field   Piece-Work Plan In War Plants 's Suggested By Rickenbacker

SEEK GOP olPPORT ON SOLDIER'S VOTE   Southern Solons Want tc Keep Control of Voting Under State Rules

er aaSaeGrKe-=L—eeeE7E~C~OS-mWLWL.C:”SCS  WESTBROOK PEGLER   King Carol Hires Agent To Gain American Entry

Badoglio Tells of Air Attacks   Says Cities Paralyzed By Bombing Assaults

FULL EXTENT OF ITALY’S PLIGHT [S TOLD BY BADOGLIO   Official Version Of What Is Happening Inside: Given In Letter  To Hitler

Nazis Lose 23 More Planes On  Russian Front   Bitter Aerial Warfare Con. tinues Over Kuban Valley Moscow Reports   DETAILS MEAGRE ON GROUND ACTION

REGULAR TRIPS.   Made by British Plane Over Ierlin All Through June.

REGU L: AR TRIVS.,   Made by British ‘Plane Over Ber. jin All Through) June..

RAIN SOAKS SOIL   Additional Moisture for State Is Forecast for Tonight

BOND AUCTION.   ‘Kroger Super Market Auction Sold $2,750 In War Bonds.

BOND AUCTION.   i so Kroger’ Super Market Auetion Sold -$2,750 In Wir Bonds. «

DRIVER ENDS LIFE AFTER COLLISION   Hands Keys to Motorist and Jumps Into Connecticut River.

Undertakers to Report Deaths Raticn Coupon Book Holders   Gas Rations To Come Ir Coupons of Higher Values

B-2 AND C-2 GAS COUPONS GOOD DEC. 2   New coupons good for 5 gallons; present B and C stamps only 2 gallons

‘Sgt. Ottomar Braunschweig, Local Aerial Gunner, Awarded Silver Wings

E. E. Bates Graduates from Gunnery Schoo!   Along With His Diploma He Received Pair of Silver Gunner’s Wings.

Would Add 5 More  Representatives GOP Member Wants  Cs Lante Mamene fie

ee a ee  Representatives  GoP Member Wants St. Louis, Kansas City. tm flak Adana Adapelauik.

Russo-German Agreement Rumot Heard In Spain   U. S., Britain Deny New Pact

Three Youths Die  In Electric Chair  Alleged Killers Are Put to Death _

OIAIKE JITTERS EMBRACE STATE   Miners and Union Bosses Look to UMW Policy Committee Meeting Today to Pattern Course of Action

STATE MINERS ~—AREUPINAIR   Unions Look To U. M. W Policy Committee For Pattern In New Crisis

Japs Offer Reward for Yank Fliers   Price of ‘10,000 Yen Set on  Heads of Raiders Based  +t) in China  F

Germany and Satellites . Due for Fearful. Winter, Air Forces Chief Asserts

Warning to Germany:     coerce emanate ne  Fearful and Terrible Air Attacks Coming Soon, Says General Arnold

Gen. Arnold  Reveals Plans For Assaults   U. S. Army Air Chief Pictures Grim Future for Germany

PLANE PATROL OFF GUIANA TEDIOUS TASK   : Crews Do Their Flying in - ¥ 8-Hour. Stretches:

Plane Patrol Off Guiana Is Tedious Task   ‘No medals, no. glamour, but assignment is important one; on  8-hour shifis.

Curtiss-Wright *’Guilty of Gross eNegligence   Truman Committee Charges Delivery of Defective Engines

WRIGHT PLANE PARTS FAULTY, REPORT SAYS   GOVERNMENT SUES COMPANY AFTER SENATE SIFT

Charge Plane Plant Guilty Of Negligence   Discontinues All CurtissWright Plane Production But €-46.   REPLY FROM COMPANY

Curtiss Firm Accused By. Truman Group   Probers Declare Aircraft Company Sc:d Defective Goods To U. S.   INSPECTORS BLAME DI   Many Planes Declared Imperfect; Government Files Damage Suits

FIRM DELIVERED FAULTY PLANES?   Curtis Wright Co. Denies Negilence Charged In Truman Report

LANE MOTOR —e UNDER PUMAN’S FIRE   ‘onate Committee Charges Curtis- Wright Corporation “Guilty of Gross   Negligence”   ‘OMPANY DENIES,  ALL, ACCUSATIONS   resident Says Firm Never Sold or Delivered Engines Known To Be Tefective

Defective Parts In Plane Engines Probers Report   U. S. Sues Wright  Aeronautical on Heels Of Truman Inquiry  COMPANY IN DENIAL  Senators Put Part Of Blame on Acts Of Army Inspectors

Charge Plane Firm Negligent In Productio1   Committee Says Curtiss Company Responsible For Handling Defective  EE noimec

Plane Firm Draws Fire  Of Probers   Report Charges Negligence in’ Inspection Work

Cartis-Wright Charged With Gross Neglect Tn Inspections   Turman Committe Calls P-40 Fighter “A Kest A Seeond Choice” Corporation Retort:  “False and Unwarrant. ore

CHARGES COMPANY MADE DEFECTIVE AIRCRAFT MOTORS   Truman Committee Says Curtiss-Wright Delivered Unsafe Engines to Army and Navy.   U. S. FILES SUITS TO COLLECT DAMAGES   Firm’s Head Denies Products Were Sub-Standard and Defends Performance of Fichter Planes.

Red Army Surges Closer to Polish Border: Imperil Thousands of Nazis

U.S. Legation Quits Finland: Crises Is Near   Troubled Relations Between Two Nation: Force Drastic Action

U.S. Brings New Pressure On Weary Finns  Showdown Seen As American Diplomats Leave

DIPLOMATIC BREAK WITH FINLAND NIGH   US. Withdraws All But SkeletonStaff FromHelsinki Indirect Notice To Break With Axis   TO Counter Nazi Threat

U.S. Showdown With Finns Is Believed Near   Orders Remove. All ’ But Skeleton Of  Dinlameatin Capnff

Newest American Move May Be To Counteract Nazi Pressure on Finns

U.S. 15 FORCING FINNISH ISSUE   Full Break with Helsinki Appears Near as Diplomatic Staff is Cut

JUGOSLAY FORCES BEAT OFF GERMANS   Four Nazi Attacks Repelied By Partisans-—-340 Casualties

SAY-NAZI-TANK FORCE BEATEN   Jugoslay Partisans Defeat German Troops

NAZIS REPULSED BY GUERRILLAS   Yugoslav Forces Beat Off  Four German Assaults

MELITOPOL BATTLE CONTINUES, RIVER GAP IS WIDENED   Reds Drive West and South After Breaching Onieper Line.

REDS POUR THRU GAP IN DEFENSE LINE   Flanking Move Threatens to  Entrap Nazis

RED LANKING PUSH un TRAP GERMAN FORCE   Fierce Battle Rages In Mcli topol; Kiev And Gomel Are Encircled

Reds Tighter  Orel Noose   Soviets Batter Down Nazi Outer Defenses and Storm fnner Forts

Russians Force. Pincers Tighter On Orel Sector   Report 1500 Nazis Dead - As Red Column Drives On Bastion From South

Red Clamp Tightens : Upon Orel   Now Storming Bastion’s Strongest Defenses Af ter Over-running'. More Occupied: Places; Inflicting Heavy. oe  - alties.

REDS HAMMER OREL'S INNER DEFENSE LINE   Capture 30 More Towns; Heavy Rains Slow Action

REDS TIGHTEN PINCERS ON OREL   Soviets Advance Close To Four Miles South of Nazi Bastion

Russians Force Pincers Tighter About Nazi Fort   Masses of Red Army Troops and Tanks Batter Orel  Defense Systems.   Germans Throw Fresh Reserves Into Battle

NAZIS HEMMED UP BY RUSSIANS   Soviet Column Driving From South Tightens  Pincer Claw About Germans At Orel.

SOVIETS BATTER OUTER DEFENSE GUARDING TOWN   CARNAGE GROWS AS NAZIS WAGE BITTER FIGHT FOR FORTRESS

e e RussianPincers  Closing On Orel   Reds Fight Through Swamps, Swollen Rivers

Russians Force Giant Pincers  Tighter On Orel   Drive Over Bodies  Of 1.506 Germans

Reds Slay 1,500 Nazis In Steady Drive On Orel   Germans’ Outer Defenses Crushed By Tank Forces

Russians Advance Over Nazi Bodies  Reds Batter Down German Bastions At Strong Defense

RUSSIAN SQUEEZE ON OREL TIGHTER   Soviet Army Is Attacking City’s Main Defenses

Red Armies Kill 2,500  More Nazis   Take 30 Villages As Germans Throw In Fresh Reserves

Rapid Advance From The South   Claw of Giant Pincers Tightenel Around Vital City   DRIVE OVER BODIES 1.500 GERMAN DEAD

SOVIET PINCER TIGHTENS ON   Masses of Red Army Troops Batter Down German Hedgehog Defenses of Vital Town  rPreneearPpa hi saere ae maar ss fF

LDS BLASTING [NNER DEFENSE NAZI BASTION  Rireciane Drive Ove,      Russians Drive Ove! Bodies of 1,500 Germans In Advance On Orel From South   GAIN UP TO 4 MILES   Hitler Hurls Fresh Reserves Into Battle; Counter-Attacks Are Stubborn

Reds At — Orel’s Gates   Hedgehog Defenses Broken, Attacking Main Defenses Now

Southern Jaw of Russian Vice Clamping Tighter on Nazi Stronghold: ~~ Drives Over 1,500.. Bodies of German Foemen

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Rorvivare Teall Storv.

Russian Forces Moving Toward Smolensk Base   Red Advance Westward Continues Despite Nazi Counter-Attacks   MANY LOCALITIES ARE RE-OCCUPIED

Two Cabinet Officers Visit Capitol Hill   One Urges Continuation of Reciprocal Trade Agreements; Other Asks Defeat of Farm Bill

BLACKOUT SEPT. 27 MOST SUCCESSFUL   Unattended Lighting In Homes Resulted In : Violations

McNutt Urges Broadening Social Insurance Program Now in Effect Eight Years

DETROIT QUIETER; RULES. MODIFIED      Riot Restrictions Being Lifted as Calm. Preyails

Detroit Approaches Normality; Chief Relaxes Restrictions, Lifts ‘Curfews: Army Remains on Patrol

BANS LIFTED AS CITY GETS TONORMALCY   Race Riot Emergency in . Detroit Greatly . Easad

Troops Continue to Patrol Streets     : :  Detroit Approaches Normaley; Emergency Restrictions Eased

PLANS FIRMER PRICE CONTROL   Brown Denies Cost Of Living Leads Wages; — To Check Rises

BROWN PROMISES TO ROLL BACK PRICES NOW 100 HIGH   Administrator, However, Declares Living Costs Have Not Outstripped Wage Increases

Living Costs Have Not Increased Faster Than Wage Advances, OPA Chief Declares

BROWN PROMISES EXTEND CONTROL   Would Include Every Important Commodity, Roll Back Prices Out of Hand; Denies Costs Outstrip Wage Hikes

EXTENSION OF. PRICE CONTROL BEING PLANNED   OPA Administrater Says Living Costs Have Not Outstripped Wages   TO BRING CHISELERS TO AN ACCOUNTING

OPA Chief Hits Mine Pay Rise  He Pledges Price Curbs £ab ...... gi... Ye... yw

To Extend Price Control to Major Commodities   Four Point Program to Roll Back Prices Announced by Brown

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Fiac Arthur’s Blast Fails Ito Reveal Trye Story Rehind Outburst

AM ARTHUR'S STATEMENT ON WAR ROLE IS CAUSE FOR PUZZLEMENT   MacKenzie Thinks Com mander Will Remain Tops With People. Whatever riis Future. Role:In War May: Be:

ALL SORTS OF GUESSES GOING AROUND AS TO WHAT CAUSED RECENT MACARTHUR STATEMENT

The War Today—.   MacArthur Stitement Hinting Role ‘In: War: Subordinated Still Mystery

iSharp Drop In Nation’s Wheat Production From (1942 Levels Predicted

PAY DISPUTE -~ 1S IN MIXUP   HOUSE COMMITTEE LEADERS INDICATE BILL GRANTING '’ ENCREASE WON'T BE SENT TO FLOOR

PROBLEM IS SOLVED   Fats May Be Sold To Markets Or Given to Scouts

At Least 46 Hurt When Trains Crash  Many Servicemen Are Among Injured

HOME CASUALTIES EXCEED WAR TOLL   93,000 Killed Is “Yet A Reduction Over 1941 Figure

SAFER AT WAR!   Home Front Casualties in °42 Far Exceed Battle Losses.

93.000 Killed On Home Front   Casualties Far Exceed Those Of Battle

Latest Jap Battle in Early Phase   Details of Losses On Both Sides Still Withheld by Navy

U.S. Bombers Rain 1,000-Pounc Bombs on German Air Base in Raid on the Island of Crete   Correspondent Gives Eyewitness Account of Attack in Which More Than 150 High Explosives Were Dropped on Field

ROMMEL LOSES WHAT MAY PROVE LAST OFFENSIVE   Marshal’s Forces Mauled on “Banana Ridge” in Tunisia as They CounterAttack,   GUNS AND COURAGE WIN FOR BRITISH   Desert Fox Makes Mistake of Sending Panzers Into Heaviest Part of Allied Line,

Rommel Loses Probably His Last. Offensive ‘Gamble in anana Hill! Battle ..

CLEVELAND RIDES AS STRIKE ENDED   Threat To Call in Troops Brings Quick Action

STRIKE ENDED AT CLEVELAND   Transit Workers Heed Plea To Return After 18-Hour Walkout

TRANSIT EMPLOYES RETURN TO WORK   Heed Pleas of Union Leader, City Officials

BUS TIEUP ENDS AT GLEVELAND   Men Vote To Go Back After Appeals Of Leaders

Transportation Service Returns To Normal In Cleveland After Strike

END STREET GAR, BUS TIEUP IN CLEVELAND   Transit Employes Vote To End Strike

Farm Machinery Quota Boost Seen   Some Will Range Up To 150 Percent Of Peacetime Normal.

Farm Machinery Quotas Increased   Production in 1944 to Be Boosted as High as 150  Per Cent.

FARM MACHINE QUOTAS IN ‘44 TO BE HIGHEF   Will Range Up to 150 Per Cent of  Normal Needs. Some Imple ments Will Be Fewer

INCREASE FARM EQUIPMENT QUOTA   RANGE UP TO 150 PERCENT NORMAL PEACETIME NEEDS

Boost Farm Tool Quota   Will Range Up-To 150% of Peace Time Normal Purchases

Machinery Quotas Range Up to 150%   Tractor Supply in ‘44 Won’‘t Meet Demand

JAPS ARE NOW RESISTING BRITISH DRIVE ON AKYAB   Fighting Now Rages 20 Miles  From Burman City.

British Run Into Fierce Jap Attacks   Resistance Is Strong on Coast Of Western Burma

Jeffers Wins Partial Victory In Compromise   Effort Being Made To Put Action Into Synthetic Rubber Plan

$75,000 ASKED IN FOUR SUITS   Damage Actions Resulting From Accidents Are  Filed Here

Widow of Oakes To Take Stand   Lady Eunice Most Important Witness

STATE'S LIQUOR SALES REDUCED   Dollar Volume Greater However Than For “40 And ‘41

HULL DEFENDS FOREIGN POLIC) OF NATION   Also Advances U.S. Six-Point Plan for Better World Order

SUICIDES AFTER ROW AT PLANT   B. H. Man Sends Wife and Children Down Town, Turns On Gas

Arrested Ship Worker Released, Kills Himsel   Charles :Bishop‘Commits Suicide After Row With: Watchman .

URGES PROBE OF STATE TAX ORGANIZATIONS   House Group Recommends That Activities of Missouri Public Expenditure Survey Be Included in Inquiry..

Sicilian Drive Ends With Messina’s Fall   Stage Now Set’ For Greater Operations Against Hitler’s Fortress Of Europe

BRITTON EIGHT AND YANKS MEET   Battle for Sicily Started Just 38 Days Ago   RESISTANCE CEASES   Stirring Finish Appears Only To Be Setting Stage For Invasion

All Sicily is in Hands (Ot Allies as Messina Falls to U. S. Troops

“AALS In Haty, Yanks Stage Big Gun Duel  Across Strait   Successful Finish Appears To Set Stage   For Next Operation Against Continent  aR Te Bore arracw   FORTRESSES ATTACK SOUTHERN FRANCE

Axis Resistance in the Island Has — Ceased  STAGE IS SET FOR... NEXT OPERATIONS Southern France Is Given  First Bombing by Al- : lied Airmen

U.S. Forces Take  Last Stronghold, Fire on Mainland   All Axis Resistance Ceases as Enemy Admits Defeat; Large Invasion Fleets  Reporied Assembling

Next Offensive Move May Be Through Southern France, Italy Or Greece   ARTILLERY STARTS SHELLING MAINLAND

STIRRING FINISH OF BATTLE FOR SICILY SETS STAGE FOR NEXT OPERATION IN EUROPE.

Americans Capture Messina; Germans Unleash Artillery   Large Formation Of Flying Fortresses Give South. ern France Its First Bombing; Leave  Newly Established Bases

Flying Fortresses Make Initial Raid on Southern France; Yanks Eagerly Wait Next Move

Messina Falls To Yankee and British Forces   Stage Set for New Operations in Europe

Americans Due! With Germans Across Straits   Nazis Blow Up All Installations on Toe Of Italy; Next Move Of Allies Mystery

Germans Blowing Up Their Installations On Italy Toe   General Eisenhower Now Has Choice of Many Routes Of Invasion Upon Continental Furone

New Assault Will Probably Be Heralded By Bombing Offensive On Even Greater Scale Than Ever Before Conceived   SECOND FRONT TO BE OFENED EARLY

HULL SAYS WORLD SHAPED FOR LONG TIME BY CONCLAVE   Receives Press At American Embassy In Moscow— Tired But Elated By Outcome

Senators Approve Navy Bill Before Offered    Most of Vessels Are  _ Be en  ie ee A ee

Senators Approve Navy Bill Before Offered  Most of Vessels Are To Be Employed For New Landinas

Plan Sign Up  For Ration:   Rationing, Public School Officials Arrange “Point Rationing Program.

Germany Will Collapse Within as in 1918 But Again Will Not Be Convinced It Is Licked, Says Former Berlin Correspondent   BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW

DRAFT BOARD BALKS AT CALLING FATHERS   Oklahoma City Chairman Says None Will Be Summoned “Until. This Mess” Is Cleared.

‘THREE MARKERS ARE DEDICATED ‘AT BROWNSVILE   ‘Governor Martin Pays Tribute —_ To District's Part  Jf Inu History

Korosten, Rechitsa Fall To Russians, Seal Gomel’s Fate   Nazis Fail In Attempt To Widen Zhitomir Gains

Attacks Break German Anchor In White Russie   Capture Of Korosten, Rechitsa May Spell Nazi Disaster

FATE IS SEALED BY CAPTURE OF RAIL JUNCTIONS   aermans In Ukraine Are Cut Off From Those In White Russia

GOMEL FATE IS SEALED BY RUSSIANS   Soviets Capture Rechitsa Today  From Germans

Fate Of Gomel, Anchor Stronghold Of Nazis, Sealed By Red Victories   Fall Of Rechitsa And Capture Of Korosten Blow To German Communications; Last Escape Corridor From Gomel Narrowed.

German Stronghold on  White Russian Front Is Doomed; Korosten Falls

Fall Of Rechitsa & Korosten Seals Fate Nazi Anchor   Gomel-Z hlbon Rail, Line Already Within Range Soviet Artillery Fol. lowing Great ‘Pwin Red Army Victories.

Comic Sight on North African Road: 4 Army Officers Try to Thumb Ride

Four Officers And TwoWomen Thumb Rides _   _ They Finally ~ . <«\ “From F Ne ace A a0 \\ we Sal ‘ aU " Cc. \s yy’ n&S a~tTERS IN =v. 21.—Delayed) —(PP, vi & woman War cor-

Two F leeing Colonels Try To Thumb Rides  TT fm - Frm,   The Lighter Side Of War Related By Girl Reporter, Who Was There

Woman War Correspondent Tells of Hitch-Hike Flight From the Front

Measure Aimed to Halt Excess Spending  Bureau Heads Who Overdraw Budgets  ee ae worl SS Leer

Seek Penalty For Exceeding Appropriation   Bill in Legislature Would Call for Officer's Dismissal

Measure Aimed to Halt Excess Spending   Bureau Heads Who Overdraw Budgets Would Be Dismissed

Notice Given Of New Bills In Legislature   One Measure Would Place Check on Institution Funds

FOUR CITES BATTLE FOR MEDICAL SCHOO   Birmingham Argument Placed Before Commission

New Jap Plane Much Tougher   Surpass Old Zeros, Require ‘Big League’ Opponents

JAPS USE NEW FIGHTER PLANE   Is More Formidable  Than Zero—Brewste:

JAPANESE USE BETTER PLANE   Come Up With Fighter Aircratt More Forrid. able Than Zero

JAPS' “SUPER-ZERO' MAKES APPEARANCE   Senator Brewster, Back From Pacific, Tells of New Enemy Craft

Congress Stringent Act Seen Blow to President: Miners Launch Revolt

Congress’ Stunning Rebuff Of F. D. R. Brings Fresh Miner Revolt.

SEE CONGRESS’ ACT DIRECTED AGAINST LEWIS   How Law May Be Applied Ques tion In Minds Of People Afer Action Came Swiftly

Union Chiefs Call it Major Catastrophe   Confusion and Doubt as To Enforcement Swell In Informed Circles

Anti-Strike Bill Passed Over Vete   President Reversed In Whirlwind Action, Miners Angry.

ATTENTION FOCUSED ~~ ON THE COAL FIELDS         President Content Likely: to: Foment: Trouble a ee be

ith Term Held Unlikely Now  Anti-Strike Defeat Seen As Indicative

Swift Action Follows Veto Message, Result Seen as ‘Major Disaster’ by Unions, Mortal Blow to FDR by Republicans   20,000 MORE MINERS STRIKE   Roosevelt Says Law Will Foment SlowDowns and Strikes, Legalize Strikes in Some Plants, Not Assure Production

20,000 Additional Miners Quit After Congressional Act   Union Leaders Predict ‘Major Disaster’; Haif of UMW Extend Third Walkout Into Sixth Day

- Veto, Measure. Is No  i i  Passed Over the ier, s  ‘Law. © f:   BLOW TO WHITE HOUSE   Production Under: Strin‘gent Control   ‘Anti-Strike. Law Puts

‘SHARPEST’ REBUFF IS GIVEN FDR   Both Houses Act With Unequalléd Speed To Pass Law

A Whip Over Labor   Congressional Action Overriding FDR Veto Comes With Record Breaking Swiftness

SENATE, HOUSE SHOVE MEASURE PAST PRESIDENT   “Major Disaster’ Labor Leaders Tell Nation

Anti-Strike Bill Body Blow To  Administration   Union Chiefs Call it Major Catastrophe   Confusion and Doubt as To Enforcement Swell In Informed Circles

MEASURE BECOMES LAW IMMEDIATELY   Provides Fines And Imprisonment For Persons Instigating Strikes; Objeetions Are Listed By President In Message

Congress Puts Wa: Production Under Anti-Strike Law   250.000 Miners Idle

U.S. War Production Under Anti-Strike Law; Main Test Monday for Back-to-Work   Some Coal Miners Resentful; GOP Cites  Blow to Administration

Overriding — Of Veto Blow At New Deal   Effect of Drastic Law on Growing Revolt of  Miners in Doubt   Principal. Objection by Roosevelt on Secret Ballot Provision

Congress Passes AntiStrike Bill Over President’s Veto   Union Leaders Proclaim Passage “Major Disaster” Republicans See in Passage A Mortal Blow to Administration As Coal Miners Start New Revolt

Confusion Over Effect of Bill ls Anti-Climax   Mine Strike, Which Inspired Drastic Action, Spreading

GOP CITES END OF FOR'S POWER   Republican Hopes Jump as Congress Overrides AntiStrike Veto

LABOR LEADERS CALLING ACTION MAJOR DISASTER   Republicans See Mortal Blow To Administration in Quick Congressional Reversal of President's — of Anti-Strike Bill.

War Output Is Put Under  Stringent Act  Labor Leaders Call New Law ‘Maior Disaster’ z   Labor Leaders Call New Law ‘Major Disaster’; More Coal Miners Are Leaving Jobs

VETO ACTION SLAP AT F.D.R   No Fourth Term Is View Taken by Republicans

AMERICAN WAR ~ PRODUCTION UNDER ~——ANTI-STRIKE LAW   So Stringent Was the Action of Congress That Union Leaders Rebelled.   NEW REVOLT BY MINERS   Fresh Strikes Caused 20,000 Workers to Walk Out, It Is Reported.

Passed Over the President's Veto, Measure Is Now , W :   BLOW TO WHITE HOUSE   Anti-Strike Law Puts War Production Under Strin‘gent Control

PRESIDENT VETOED MEASURE FEARING NEW DIFFERENCE:   Roosevelt Says, With Excep: tion of Coal Miners, La: bor Has Maintained = Its No Strike Pledge:   APPLICATION OF LAW IS LATEST QUESTION   Law Prohibits Strike In Government Held Plant Witt 5,000, Year Imprisonment For Violator.

Strike Bill Vote Jolt To FDR.   Swift Qverriding of Veto Surprises Even * Congress Itself)

Big Reaction To Overriding Of FDR Veto   Even Fourth Term Enters Into AntiStrike Discussion

Stiff Ban on Walkouts in War Plants   President’s Wishes Are Ignored; Labor Leaders See “Major Disaster”

Congress Hits At President; Vetoes Veto   Union Leaders Call New Restrictive Law “Major Disaster;’ GOP Says Veto Sure Sign of No Fourth Term; — _Demos Claim Vote Bi-Partisan,  No Reflection on FDR

Speed Marks Bill’sPassage: Watch Miners   Shortly. After President ‘Vetoes Anti-Strike Bil, Congress Rises in Revolt

Veto Reversal On Strike Law Hailed By GOP   Republicans See Blow To Administration, Labor Fears ‘Major Disaster’   SPEED UNEXPECTED:   Congress Provides Punishment Of War Strikers, Broadens WLB Power

War Production Is Placed Under Stiff Strike Law   President's Wishes Ignored On Strike Ban; GOP Claims Over-Riding Of Measure Sign Of No Fourth Term; Union Leaders Proclaim It ‘Maior Disaster’

REPUBLICANS CLAIM OVERRIDING VETO I$ DEATH FOURTH TERM  SENATOR BYRD SAYS VETO WAS POLITICAL,

F.D.R. WISHES IGNORED AS WAR PRODUCTION IS PLACED UNDER STRINGENT RULES   Both Houses Override President's Veto Within Two Hours After Message is Received: Senate Vote Is 56 to 25: House, 244 to 108

Anti-Strike Bill Is Enacted Quickly by Aroused Law Makers   Se  Full Effects of Statute Doubtful; Aimed at Striking Miners

Congress Puts Wai Production Under  Anti-Strike Ban   Ignores President By Overriding His Veto

U. S. Agencies Unprepared to Enforce Aci   Speed of Congress in Going Over President’s Head Finds Officials Unready   ANTLCLIMAX TODAY, SEVERAL PROBLEMS   Fresh Coal Strikes Follow Passage of Law; Some Fear of Ultimate Reaction

4TH TERM HOPES HURT, BELIEF   President’s Veto of Labor Bill Brings Criticism From Own Party

NO FOURTH TERM IS THE CLAIM OF REPUBLICANS NOW   This Was Prompted by the Enactment of Anti-Strike Bill Over Veto.   CAST NO REFLECTIONS   President’s Veto of Bill Also Provoked Criticism From Own Party.

CONGRESS GOES OVER FR’S VETO   Labor Leaders Call It ‘Mas jor Disaster’: Miners Revolt Anew.

War Production Under Whip-Lash Of Anti-Strike   Congress in Stunning Reversal of President, Overrules Veto.   Coal Miners Explode Toward New Revolt

ANTI-STRIKE LAW CALLED A “DISASTER’   ‘Such Is the View of Union Leaders as Confusion Follows in Wake of Quick Overriding of F. D. R.’s Veto.

Union Heads Dismayed at Passage Of Anti-Strike Bill Over F.D.R. Veto

Strike Bil Veto Quickly Overridden   Union Leaders Call Measure "“Moior Disaster"

Union Leaders See Disaster in Action   Rooseyelt Smarts Under Stunning Reversal: Mine Circles “Explode?

Labor Calls Strike Law Major Disaster   Republicans Jubilant After Roosevelt’s Veto Overridden— Miners Are Resentful

CURB S APPLIED BY CONGRESS 10 UNION LEADERS   Stunning Reversal Handed Administration—Unrest Among Miners Grows

CONGRESS REVERSES PRESIDENT QUICKLY ON ANTI-STRIKE BILL  AMERICAN WAR PRO-

U.S. MAY HAVE 12 MILLION MEN IDLE WHEN WAR CLOSES   Mass Output Of Law Cost Goods Urged To Help Speed Up Work  For Servicemen

Cold Spell on Way fo State   30-Mile-an-Hour Wind Will Aid: Advance of Frigid Weather

Axis invasion Jitters Near  Frenzy Peak Nazis Put Dutct  TT.JjJ.. RA. ux]

CONSUMER GOODS REPORT GIVEN WPB   Program Would Insure Enough Goods for Civiljan Population

HOUSE VOTES FOR RENEWAL OF POWER   Trade Pact Authority Ex. ’ tension for 2 Years Approved

TRADING POWER BILL APPROVE!   Roosevelt's Reciprocal Authority Cut To Two Years By House

Roosevelt Given Trading Powers For Two Years   Republicans Cut Off Third of Time from Reciprocal Pacts

TRADE PACTS BILL PASSED   House Votes, 342 to 65, for Extension of Roosevelt Powers Two Years

Pay Of Warden  Is Raised   ... Five Bills Passed In Day's Session

Sale of Confiscated Car at Muscatine Nets  - County Schools $177.1

NURSE HURT ON WAY T0 WORK   Mrs. Beryl: Thompson, R. N., Enters Emerson Hos-. pital as Patient —

ITALIANS FEEL BIG WEIGHT OF ALLIED BOMBS   Fortresses Spread Pattern Of Ruin To New. Mainland Areas

ALLIED FLIERS PLASTER ITALIAN MAINLAND WITH SHOWERS OF BIG BOMBS   Fortresses Bomb Submarine Base, Shipbuil ing Center Of Leghorn; Believe Units Of Italian Fleet In Harbor

Island-Based Air Defenses Of Exposed Peninsula Hit   100 Fortresses Bomb Subrrarine Base, Ship Center And Industria! Port Of Leghorn

lortresses Spread Ruin Over Italy   Sub And Shipbuilding Center Victim Of Longest Flight

Enemy Island Air Defenses Are Hammered   Powerful Air Fleets Spread Ruin on Italian Mainland

U; Ss. Bombers: Pound Leghorn As’ Relentless: Aerial Attacks On Italian: Defenses Continue

AAF Bombers Fron Africa Extending Assault On Navy Bases In Italy

Strategic Port Hit From South   Islands Also Are Pounded Severely

ITALY PROVES EASY MARK IN AIR ASSAULTS   FLYING FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS SPREAD RUIN

WIFE'S LETTER PUTS HUSBAND INTO ARMY   “Don’t Tell Him,” Woman Writes, That “I Need His Grub for ‘ Kids’—“Just Take Him.”

TINGLE SERVICES. “TO BE.ON SUNDA   Jerry ‘Tingle, 86, Died Fri- day Morning at S.m-. ’ mons Nursing Hcme.-

TINGLE ot h¥ibto T0 Be GN cUNDAY   Jerry Tingle, 86, Died Fri. day Morning at 5S mmons Nursing H-me..

UW. S. Grnys. Official Pocket Guide to ALASKA  Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Along with the a Pesple      Kew People... alaska i

ee eee Oe ae  Pocket Guide to ALASKA.   MEER: Se: a  Sunday's Issue     U.S. Army's Pocket Guide to  WEST AFRICA 

WAGE PARLEYS ARE CONDUCTED   Non- Operative Leaders Confer With Rail Officials

RAILROAD UNIONS SEEK WAGE RAISE   No Definite Action Taken At Meetings Held With Managements Yesterday

RAILWAY UNIONS ASK PAY RAISE   Non-Operating Employes Delay Action On Strike Ballot

Rail Heads Meet Union Officials   Discuss Demands For Wage Boosts

RECONVENE TODAY   Two inconclusive Meetings Held Yesterday on Wage _ Proposals

Three Alleged Spies Jailed in  Detroit by FBI   Fourth Caught in N, Y.;  Two Women, Two Mon Hald

3 Accused Nazi Spies Held On $50,000 Bonds   Man Denies Guilt. But Two Women Are Mute On Arraignment

Nazi-Trained French Beauty Acts as Counterspy; Helps FBI Arrest Alien Enemies

GERMAN oPY RING 9 OMAGHED BY FBI   Members Accused Of Sending Military Data To Reich

THREE JAILED AT DETROIT ON SPYING CHARGE   Accused Getting Military Information for Reich. Two of Those Held Are Women,

FBI ARRESTS 3 PERSONS ON SPY CHARGES   Two Women Included In Trio Picked Up In Detroit

3 NABBED ON SPY COUNTS BY G-MEN   First Case of ts Kind During Present War

FBI ARRESTS TWO WOMEN, 2 MEN IN ESPIONAGE CHARGE   Wife Of Nazi Party Member Berlin-Born Countess Involved In Spy Case

ONLY HARD FIGHT CAN DEFEAT JAPS   Lt. Col, James Roosevelt Sees Japan As No. 1 Enemy of U.S,

Japanese ‘Our’  Particular Foe  James Roosevelt Sees Stiff Fight Ahead

MONSIGNOR ROLFES DIES   ‘Reverend Priest Had Been In. Poor health -6 Weeks. 

Msgr. H. Rolfes Oyens Pastor Answers Call   Priest At St. Catherine’s For Forty-three Years

UENERAL SPAATZ NAMED AIR CHIEF IN MEDITERRANEAN   New U.S. Force to Be Created and Teamed With Veteran Twelfth to Increase Strength in Zone.   LONG-DISTANCE RAIDS TO GROW IN NUMBER   Set-Up Announced as Ameri can Bombers Blast Messerschmitt Plant in  Germany. }

New U. S. Air Force Formed   American Bombers Blast Austrian Plant

Spaatz to Head New Air Arm  Mediterranean Uni Makes First Attack

General Spaatz Is Chosen  New Army Air Force Head   Announcement Is Made Shortly After Heavy Bombers Batter Nazi Assembly Plant Near Vienna for the Third Time

NEW ARMY AIR FORCE SET UP   Lt. Gen. Spaatz Named Commander Of 15th Aerial Fleet

SPAATZ HEADS AIR FORCE IN NORTH AFRICE   LONG-RANGE PLANES POUND NAZILAND FROM ALGIERS

Spaatz To Head New Air Force   Group Centers On  Long Range Raids By NOLAND NORGAARD  Pee Gene Ce ee . ee  eee rat  oe 2

Spaatz to Take Charge o! New 15th Army Airforce; ‘(Mediterranean Airfleet _

New Air Force Hits Nazi Plane Factory   Gen. Spaatz Heads All-American U nit In Mediterranean to Concentrate L pon Long-Range Strategic Bombing of Reich

Spaatz To Head New Air Force   Group Centers On Long Range Raids  By NOLAND NORGAARD

GEN. SPAATZ IS GIVEN NEW AERIAL COMMAND   15th Air Force Is Created To Join 12th In All-American Mediterranean Bombing Fieet

First Plenary Session of Relief, Rehabilitation Conference Opens Today   Asst. Secretary of State Acheson to Green Conferees at Atlantic City

ICKES abla UP MINE PROCEDURE   Aimed Giving Companies Operating Mines Under Government Chance Gain Wider Freedom

Red Drive Lags In South But Surges On In North   Recent German Broadcast Implies Scene Of Mair Action Is Definitely Shifting North

NAZI FIGHTERS FAIL TO CHECK HUGE ATTACK   Allies Intensify Agsaults At Hitler's European ; Bulwark q   SIX PLANES LOST,   ltaly, Sicily And Sardinia Are ‘Targets In The  Mediterranean

BIGGEST U. 9. AIR FLEET WN BLAZING RAID   Daylight Attack Starts Huge Fires in Bombed Nazi U-Boat Base.   OTHER GERMAN TARGETS HAMMERED DURING DAY

Hard Drinking Film Actress Sent To Jail   Frances Farmer In Rough Scene Before Cell Door Closes

Once Glamorous Actress Knocks Down Officer in  Melee in Courtragm

JAPANESE THREAT TC BOMB MAINLAND OF AMERICA 15 VOICED  MACARTHUR AND CURTAIN RENEW WARNING OF NEW OFFENSIVE

Kiska-and Solomons. Plas_-tered as. Tokyo, Talks of Raids on U.S.  © PREPARED FOR. _ WAST: ATTACK’  ‘MacArthur and Curtin g@ Warn of Jap Offensive. to Win Air Control

Kiska Blasted In U.S. Bomb Raids   American Planes Set Fires in Munda Base in the  Solomons   JAP THREAT TO INVADE.   MacArthur Warns Again of Offensive to Seize Air  Control

MacArthur and Prime Minister Curtain Warns Japanese Are Ready To Strike Out on New Offensive to Gain Control of Skies in Southwest Pacific

U.S. Flyers Blast Japs At Kiska ©   Japanese General Says Plans Are Complete For Vast Assault On American Mainland

Japan Voices A Threat To Bomb U). §. Mainland   Yankee Airmen Attack Kiska Six Times, Set Firee At Munda.

Axis To Join In Attacks On U.S. Points   In Meantime Nips At Kiska and Munda Are Hit By Yankees

Japs Threaten Air Attack on US Mainland   MacArthur and Curtin Renew Warnings That Japan Is Ready for New Offensive ta Gain Control of Skies

Kiska Is Raided As Japs Threaten To Bomb States   American Bombs Blast Nippon Base in the Aleutian  Islands.   Plan Vast Air Attack On the United States

U. S. Blasts Kiska After Jap)Threats   Sato Asserts Axis to Collaborate in Bombing U. S.; Nipponese Planes Raid Milne Bay in Daylight Hours.

Vast Air Raid On US Planned  Japanese Warn   American Bombers Blast Foe On Kiska With Six Flights On Monday.   ENEMY ATTACKS MILNE

SOVIETS SLASH AT HEELS OF FLEEING ARMY   Red troops narrow enemy escape corridor  to only 90 miles

NAZI SPY PUT 10 DEATH IN LONDON   Franciscus J. Winter Came to England Disguised as Refugee.

FIERCE  FGhT NEAR CATANIA   Nazis Get Fresh Parachute Troops; Italian Division Surrenders.   AXIS’ LOSSES ARE GREAT

AIM AMERICAN OFFENSIVE AT ISLE'S CAPITAL   British Fleet Shells Italian Mainland at Crotone Today

Other Columns Are Nearer North Coast   More Italians, Dispirited, Giving Up, While Germans Fight Bitterly On, Hanging to Catania

AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY IN LIGHTNING DRIVE WESTWARD  GERMAN CRACK TROOP: FIGHTING DESPERATELY TO SAVE CATANIA

Castelyetrano, Sciacca Fall To The Seventh Army   Thunderbolt Drive Pushes Just Twenty Miles From West Tip Of Island

Island Cities Fall in Drive On North Coast   British Troops Making Progress Against Catania

Patton’s Columns Now Approaching Palermo: Many Towns Captured   Germans Shooting Italians Who Try To Give Up; Mussolini’s Mainland Shelled

No Scrap Is Left in .  Italians; British Navy Bombards Mainland  OF Fascists

ting Continues in Catania Region-—British Warships Shell Crotone On Mainland — Allied Air Forces Aleo Smashing at Mainland Airdromes

Trap Is Closing On Axis   7th Bushes North, Setling Stage for Isolating Eneyny

Americans Drive to Western End of Island in  i ih Punch  : ction IN STRAT!     Fierce Fighting Continues -as Axis Guards “*Cof fin Corner”

AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY IN LIGHTNING DRIVE WESTWARD  GERMAN CRACK TROOPS FIGHTING DESPERATELY

‘American Ith Blast Way Near Western Tip   U.S. Columns Are Within One Mountait Range of Palermo

Yanks Sweep Unchecked: British Warships Shell Italian Mainland Again

ONE MOUNTAIN RANGE STANDS BEFORE CITY   Castelvetrano, Sciacca mong Towns Captured In Sweep; Duce’s Men Surrender In Droves

Palermo Goal Of Furious Dash   Seventh Army Occupies Strategic Towns As Italion Armies Collapse; Prisoners Exceed 40,000; British Also Gain

MONTGOMERY'S MEN?  FIND GOING TOUGH   ‘Germans ‘Contest ‘Every Inch. of Ground; ltalian! ‘Army. ~* Disintegrating -:

U. S. Forces Plunge On Across Western Sicily; British Gain Slowly In Fight For Catania.

U.S. COLUMNS DRAWING NEAR PALERMO PORT   Take Castelvetrano, Sciacca, Other Cities With Quick Advance

Yanks Plunge Forward; Port Is Threatened   Panicky Italians And Nazis Being Herded Into Northeast Corner Of Island 

Capital City Of Sicily  May Fall Soor   Thunderbolt. U. S, Drive Sweeps. Past Castelvetrano-and Sciacca on South Coast, 20. Miles From: Western Tip

Also Striking Toward Palermo   Fierce Fighting Continues in Catania Region.— British Warships Shell Crotone On Mainland — Allied Air Forces Also Smashing at Mainland Airdromes

Half Dozen Other Sicilian Centers Fall in Swift American Advance to Seal Off Western Section of Sicily

‘Western Tip Of Sicily 20 Miles Away   Castelvetrano and Sciacca Latest Towns to Fall; Moving Toward Palermo

Steamroller — Meets Light  Resistance   British 8th Army Fighting. Fiercely For Each Mile In Catania Sector

AMERICANS NOW NEAR PALERMO, SICILY CAPITAL   Eisenhower's Troops Ad. vance Within 20 Miles of  Western Tip of Island;   Seize Eight Towns   ITALIANS GIVING UP  ALMOST EN MASSE   Reinforced Germans Con tinue to Put Up Stiff Resistance Against British At Catania

1 South Coast Cities Captured By U. 5. Forces   Bag OF Axis Prisoners Now Totals 40,000; {tolians Panicky

EIGHT TOWNS CAPTURED IN NEW ADVANCE   Steamroller Drive Puts Americans Closer To Siciliain Capital

NEW TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN DRIVE BY YANK ENRCES   8th Army Meeting Tough Resistance Near Catania

AMERICAN TROOPS MOVING TOWARD SICILIAN GAPITAL   Only a Last Mountain Range Guards That Vital  Seaport. #   TAKE TWO MORE PLACES   7th Army Captured Castelvetrano and Sciacca on the Southwestern Coast.

Swift Progress Is Made by Yanks in  Drive to Palermo   Panicky Italians and Their German Allies Are Being Herded Into Northwest Corner of Strategic Island   BRITISH ENCOUNTERING MOUNTING OPPOSITION

SMASH TOWARD PALERMO ON NORTH COAST   Thunderbolt Advance Selzeg Several Towns, Routing Italian Forces   CATANIA BATTLE RAGES   Axis Forces Reported With drawing Toward Escape Port At Messina

YANKS ARE FINDING. THEIR PRISONERS BIGGEST BURDEN   One Italian Division Surrenders Almost En Masse   YANKS SPEARING TOWARD PALERMO

U. S. Steamroller Engulfs Key City Of Castelvetrano   Sciacea Also Taken; Drive Toward Palermo; Italians Surrender En Masse

Americans Drive to Western End of Island in Swift_Punch  ——  CUNBOATS IN STRAIT   Fierce Fighting Continues as Axis Guards “‘Cof fin Corner”

YANK ADVANCE PUTS THEM NEAR BRITISH FORCES   American-Canadian Drive Approaches North Coast Clear Across Island   ONLY FIGHT FOR CATANIA   Panicky Italians and Nazis Surrender in Droves as Officers Desert Them

Seven Towns Fall As Allied Lunge  Pushes Past Enna   British Put Pressure On Catania; Axis Defenders Reported Ret reating Toward Messina Strait; 40,000 Prison ers Reported Taken

Duce's Forces Surrendering —  by Thousands      But Germans Are Fighting Bitterly to Check British Drive on East Coast   GENERAL RETREAT TOWARD MESSINA      Axis Forces May Attempt Escape in Small Boats; Yanks Nearing Palermo

Patton’s Men Only 20 Miles - From Coast  Castelvetrano and Sciacca Taken, Enemy Evacuates Big Port Cities CROTONE SHELLED  British Fleet Turns Big  Guns on Port of Ital     British Fleet Turns Big Guns on Port of Ttalian Mainland

Exchange of Wives by Two Husbands Revealed in Plea To Aid Children

SOVIET FRONT LESS ACTIVE      RUSSIANS REPORT’ ONLY MINOR-LOCAL ENGAGEMENTS— DECLARE GERMAN WEDGE HURLED BACK

INTO SECOND WEEK   Lawmakers Face a Battle as Osteopathic Bill Is  Introduced

Osteopathic Bill Before  Legislature   Stormy, Time Looms With Introduction By Western Men

FINAL SPURT S WIN TO.      Concord Chalked up Early - Lead in Nip-and-Tuck Match .

Dive Bombers Join War in South Pacific   Strike First Blows in Battle Zone of Gen. . MacArthur

Divebombers Aid MP Arthur Forees   Witness Tells of  Guadalcanal Air Battle

BEEF ON HOOF. NONE FOR PAN   Cattle Jam Stockyards, But Few Are Ready For Slaughter

Citle Pour in Aff Range, Feed Dutlook Darkens   'Neient’s Laryest-Run- Is _.kported, _ Stockmen _ a “Thinning Herds

CLAIM AIRDROME IN ROME RAIDED   ttaly Lists Toll of U. 5. Attack on Canjtal

Rome Says 717 Lost In Raid   Also Reports 1,599 Persons Were Injured

ATTACK ROME AIRDROME   British Machinegun Field, ' ‘Says ' Italian Communique .

SENATE LEADERS ASSAIL LEWIS   :VTruman Committee Warns Labor  Not To Repeat Mistakes

LEWIS ACTION IS CONDEMNED BY COMMITTEE   Says No Individual Has Right to Jeopardize  Nation’s Welfare

Lewis Rebuked For Laying Aside No-Strike Pledge   1 Committee Also Favors Combining Labor Agencies

Senate Group Attacks Lewis      U.S. Need Paramount, Committee Warns

SENATE COMM CONDEMNS ‘LEWIS’ STAND   Also Urges Gov't Labor Agencies Be Put Under One Head

LISTED DAILY   Casualties To Be Announced Reg: uiarly, Nave Annnaunrec

SEA CASUALTY LISTS WILL BE GIVEN DAILY   Navy Department to Change Policy of Waiting for Accumulation of Names,

JAPANESE DIET IN SPECIAL SESSION   Measures Urgently Necessary to Meet Current Situation.

One Of Measures To Be Taken Up By Nips Is Problem Of Raising More Money To Fin ance the War.

STALIN NOT ASKED TO CONFERENCE   Leads Experts to Believe Meeting Deals with Pacific

ALL PREPARATION: FOR WAR TALKS Al QUEBEC COMPLETED   By JOHN A, REICHMANN

STALIN NOT INVITED TO THE CONCLAVE RUSSIANS DISCLOSE   It Is Assumed That Matter: With Which Soviets Are Not Concerned’ Will Be Discussed

Experts Think Pacific to Be Quebec Topic   Russ Statement Seems to  Rule Out All But Jan Front

NOT TO BE ~ IN QUEBEC   Russians Disclose That He Hes Been Neither In. vited Nor Expected at Conference. ~

Quebec Meeting Expected to Deal With Pacific War   Soviet Government Not Invited to Participate, Word

Roosevelt, Churchill Expected to Discuss PlansforPacific War   Russia Says Stalin Not Expected to Attend, Indicating Main Subject Willi Be Pacific Theatre Planning

Russians Make First Official Claim Of Trap   312.650 Germans And Satellites Declared Killed Or Captured.

175,000 Enemy Killed. And 184,450 Captured In Six-Week Struggle  GREAT QUANTITIES OF BOOTY CAPTURED  Russian Offensives Aimed at Liquidating All Germans in South

22 Divisions Surrounded at Stalingrad   Special Report Is Given on Six Weeks of War

312,650 Axis Soldiers Killed or Captured in Three Big Offensives   175,000 Killed; 137,650 Captured by Red Army; 36 Divisions Routed, Mass of Materials Taker

Appresgyyen, Of Cookies  Sv Soldier   Writes Donor How They Brightened dis Christmas

REPORT ol2,000 AILLED, CAPTURED IN WINTER DRIVE   Special Communique Reports Results of Six Weeks of Bitter Fighting .   TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES TAKEN   Broadcast Recording Con~ taining Phrase ‘the German Army in Stalingrad Is Li« quiated Completely’ nog Carried Out in Communique

Moscow Dec bares Slrong Noose Has Been Thrown Around Germans in Stalingrad Area.   HUG I TOLL TAKEN  IN WINTER OFFENSIVE   Total of 075,000 Nazis Reported: Killed and 137,650 Captured — Reds Still Ralline On

137,650 CAPTURED IN SIX WEEKS, RUSSIANS DECLARE IN REPORT   22 German and Rumanian Divisions in Stalingrad Trap, Soviets Claim; Vast Amount of Booty Taken

Aussians Seal 22 Axis Divisions In Wintry Trap  137,650 Are Captured And 175.000 Killed.   137,650 Are Captured And 175,000 Killed,  Moscow Announces  HIT HARD IN CAUCASUS  Huge Quantities Of Axis Materials  ae »  P , Seer Cent . 

Toll Of Enemy Set At 312.650   36 Divisions Said _ Completely Routed

Nazis Held In Tight Pinch At Stalingrad  Soviets Tell OF Huge Enemy Losses In Six Weeks

Soviet Lists Enormous Advancement   German Dead, Taken Total 312,650; Reds Gain Materlal

GERMANS ARE SEALED TIGHT IN STALINGRAD   WINTER OFFENSIVE ROLLS AHEAD ON THREE FRONTS

22 DIVISIONS ARE SEALED IN 6-WEEK DRIVE   312,650 Enemy Soldiers Killed Or Captured In Three Great  Offensives   Much Materiel Taken

359,450 Enemy Troops Either Killed or Captured  MUCH BOOTY HAS BEEN CAPTURED  Great Winter Offensive Has Accomplished Much

rn  Cem ncn 0: 3,2, a5  nN. fos n et oy, os Jes 2.8 mers “Ass agers

Rent Authority Case Dismissed   Supreme Court Rules Collusion Existed

American Subs Sink Seven Jap Ships, Including One Destroyer, Six Auxiliaries

Jap Shipping Suffers From  Sub Attacks  Seven Vessels Sunk by Undersea craft cay a eee Cee,  poms

7 Japanese Ships Sunk by U. S.; 400 Attu Snipers Die   Enemy Destroyer And Auxiliary Ships Bagged By Submarines In Supply Lanes; Island Force Consolidated

SEVEN JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY U. S. U-BOATS   Destroyer And Six Auniliary Ves. sels Bagged To Raise Total To 169 Ships Sunk

JJ.S. Subs Destro 1 Jap Vessels; Mop up in Attu  Scattered Pockets ® of Enemy Remain

Seven Japanese Ships Are Sunk By U.S. Subs   More Than 400 Of Enemy Reported Killed In Single Night’s Fighting On Attu.

>ricans Push  ! Clean-Up Attu Island   S. Undersea Craft . Destroyer, Other Vessels  SUPPLY LINES    ly Small Groups ' Enemy Troops ft on Island

U.S. Subs Account For Seven More Japanese Vessels   Land Fighting on Attu Moves Into Final Cleanup of Pockets

Seven Japanese Vessels Sunk By U.S. Submarines   Navy Communique Also Announces That Land Fight. ing on Attu Moves Toward Final Clean-up of Remaining Pockets

One Destroyer ls Among Toll   Fighting On Attu _ Nearing Clean-Up  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER  Beannintads Benen Gtals Ul elitauw

U.S. Submarines Sink Seven Ships  In Pacific Area   Destroyer And Six Cargo Ships Included In Lotest Report Of Sinkings Japs Have Felt

Subs Sink Seven Jap Warships U.S.ForcesMop  Up, Pockets CY, Attn -

U. 5. SUBS SINK’. “JAP DESTOYER, ~ SIX OTHER SHIPS   Enemy Tanker, Four Cargo Vessels and Medium Sized Transport Bagged by Undersea Craft.   iSMALL GROUPS OPPOSE AMERICANS ON ATTU   Communique Reveals More  ‘' Than: 400 .of Mikado’s Troops Were Killed in . One Night’s Fighting. ©

Navy Announces Seven Jap Ships Sunk by U. S. Subs   Land Fighting on Attu Moves toward Final Cleanup of Enemy

LEGION RAPS WRA OPERATION   Veterans Repeat Demands That Jap Camp Control Be Given To Army

LEGION BACKS ARMY CONTROL   ASKS THAT JAPANESE CAMPS BE TAKEN: FROM SUPERVISION. OF CIVILIAN ‘AGENCY

Vital Decisions™ Of FDR-Churchill Talks Unrevealed      Strategy Toward Bringing Axis Wineondé: tional Surrender Mapped; New Command in Mediterranean Expected

Full Story Of Conference Remains To Be Divulged By Offensive Action   ALLIED MILITARY STAFFS COLLABORATE ON PLANS   Many Diplomatic Maneuvers Connected With Meeting In African War Zone

Additional news and pictures on the preeedent-shattering Roosevelt-Churchill conference at Casablanca may be found on Pages 2, 5 and 7.   By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Corresnondent

Unconditional Surrender Believed Only One Phase of Morocco Understanding; Stalin Was Absent   Many Dramatic Events and Important ‘Decisions Will Be Revealed in —Action This Spring.

Strategic Decisions Indicated   Climactic Results Expected from Historic Meeting  at Casablanca

"See Possibility Of Moves Designed Tc Wean Axis Satellites Away From Hitler; Finland Hinted As One Get-Ont-Of-War Sub qeer   TEN-DAY SESSION ENDED ON SUNDAY

Roosevelt, Churchill Make Plans For °43 Offensive Against Axis, “Unconditional Surrender” Is Basis Of War Strategy   Believe FDR, Churchill Agreed On Plans For 1943 Offensive

STORY OF TEN DAYS AT CASABLANCA REVEALED   World Hears of the Conference in Which President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Placed Stamp of Approval Upon 1943 Offensive— any Important and Dramatic  -_Decisions Unrevealed —

SCHAAKE NAMED AS SHENK’S: ASSISTANT   Former High School Coach . Joins K.U. Physical. “Ed Staff. -.*  '2 OTHERS ARE ADDED

SCHAAKE NAMED AS  SHENK’S ASSISTANT   Former - School Coach Joins K. U. Physical Ed Staff if

Rawson Bans Celebrations  In Argentine  Pro-Allied Cavalryman   Pro-Allied Cavalryman Emerges As Head Of Military Government  After Revolt

Castillo Gives Up Presidency Of Argentina   Freed. After Resigning Office; Military Junta Governs Nation.

Take Control of Gov't — after Revolt   President Castillo of Argentina Still Aboard Warship; Arrest Pro-Axis Leader

ARGENTINA’S ONE-DAY REVOLUTION COST 50 SOLDIERS IS REPORT  FORMER PRESIDENT CASTILLO SURRENDERED TO NEW REFIME: RELEASED

One-Day Revolt In Argentina Costs 50 Lives   Pro-Ally General Takes Control of Nation with Ease

SURRENDERS 1 REBEL LEADERS   One Day Revolution Costs Lives of 50 Soldiers in Only Clash.   MOVEMENT IS PRO-ALLY

Order ‘Ts (Restored In  Argentina   People Called Upon To Resume Work After One - Day Revolt In   Which Fifty Died

Argentine President Signs Resignation   Acts Shortly After Surrendering to the Forces of a Military Junta Which Carried Through Friday’ Revolt, and Is Released.

RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT   Head of Argentina Surrenders to Military Junta That Takes Over.   One-Day Revolution Costs Lives of Fifty

CASTILLO RESIGNS   Former Argentine President Released After Surrender to Junta

50 Killed In Army Uprising   Ex-President Lands After Aimless Night On Minesweeper

Castillo and Aides _ Surrender   Argentine President Is Released Shorily After Sionineg. Resionation.   NATION QUIET AFTER BRIEF REVOLT   One-Day Uprising Cost 50 Lives; Nation Ordered Rack to Work.

MONTH JAP LEAD  TOMPHAL PPE   Marshall Report Discloses  at Time

Jap Emperor Forbade War Against US.   State Department Reveals Warlords Spurned His Order

7 Story of Ruler’s Peace Order Bared Jap Warlords Flouted -Hirohitoon Warlssue

Storm Lake Woman Dies In Collision    Others Injured in HeadOn Collision During Snowstorm Last Night

Woman Killed In Car Crash .  Accident Occurs In Blinding Blizzard —

RAIL UNION HEADS DEFER STRIKE VOTE      Conference Set With Railroad Executives Next Friday

Need More Men In Defense Corp:  James Says 3-A Men » Should Be Found To Replace Youths -

General Speaks at Formal Opening of WAAC Branch No. 7. at SR Saturday

OPENING OF WAAC SCHOOL IS HELD HERE   Gen. Holdridge Labels Wat As ‘Episode In Fight For Democracy’

Two Men Slain In Prison Fight   Oklahoma Guard And Convict Killed

TUG-OF-WAR Oh SOLDIERS PAY BILL IN HOUSE   Argue on Whether to Enact Bill Before Christmas

‘Steel Given 48-Hour Week   Chairman McNutt of Manpower Commission Issues New Order

A$ hour steel  week assured  eee manent   Will release men for operations

Longer Week Is Effective By July Ist   Change Is Being Made To Assure Maximum Production

STEEL. FIRMS. ORDERED ON -AS-HR. WEEK   Steel Industry To Ge On Longer Week By July l

Four Governors Agree upon Plan For Employment   O'Conor, Bricker, Brough ton and Saltonstall Meet at Columbus, Ohio

Marines Use Old Razor Blades to Bring Down Jap Snipers From Trees

New Use For Razor Blades   Marines Discouraged Japs Climbing Trees For Sniping

 Old Razor Blades In Bark Of Trees Help Marines Wipe Out Jap Snipers

Ctandestine Radio Station Re ports Badoglio In Secret Conference.

ITALY TRIES TO GET SEPARATE PEACE. 1S CLAIM   Report Italian Diplemat Discusses Terms With Americans On Spanish Soil

LEGISLATURE — DUE TOMORROW   Coming Session Pointed for Economy and War. time Brevity.

LEGISLATORS BEGIN GATHERING FOR. ASSEMBLY cree   Wartime Economy Heads Long List of Problems Facing 135th Sessien  ies Pa. Legislature  STARTS TUESDAY

 War-Time Thrift Pegged On Tax Reduction Holds Attention  As 135th Session Convenes

Pumping CallsTo 2114.   Rotary Diccuccianc:   Legislator: Gather For. First Session Tomorrow’

Nazi Bombers Raid English Village Today   Report Number Of Casualties

EUROPE RAIDED AGAIN   Allied Bombers And Lighters Kesume Davlight Attacks Today

[RAF RESUMES DAY ILIGHT SMASHES AT CONTINENT   Fifteen German Fokker_ Wulfs Swoop Down on East Anglian Town, Bomb and Machine Gun Streets.

TAX MEASURE REVAMPED IN CONFERENCE   Greater Relief Provided For Taxpayers In Lower Braciets

Terms Broadened on Relief for Small Taxpayers   Conferees Agree to Forgiveness up to $67 Level

Broaden Terms of Tax Measure   Provide More Relief For Lower Brackets

New Tax Reliet Planned For.  Small Payers   Broadened terms of “forgiveness”. feature considered. by pay-as -you-go tax conferees.

‘Low-Bracket Tax Relief Broadened   Flat $50 Forgiveness Provision Extended Te Additional Class

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Measure Terms Are Broadened by House, Senate Conferees

SALES TAX SEEN ‘AS REVENUE AID   Drive Expected By Fall As Substitute For Higher Income Rates

New Tax Measure Terms Broadened By Conferees  $50 Forgiveness Extended, Service

CONFEREES BROADEN TAX BILL TERMS   Provide Greater Relief For Lower Income Groups

BOLIVIA DECLARES WAR   Landlocked ‘South American Na: tion Joins Against Axis

WEST GERMAN AREAS HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   Dusseldorf Still Afire With 3,000 Persons Reported Dead

REPORT SECURITY AGREEMENT WILL BE OFFERED RUSSIANS   ANGLO-AMERICAN ACCORD WITH SOVIET ‘UNION ON POST-WAR EASTERN . /  " BUROPE 15 STUDIED

SOVIET PLEDGE TO BE ASKED ON EASTERN EUROPE   Agreement On Joint Policy Toward Defeated Huns Also Desired   HULL MAY MAKE OFFER.   Discussions Under Way On Time And Place Of Three Power Conference

REFUSE TO FIRE ON COMPATRIOTS SEEKING PEACE   City’s Military Leader Ousted By Premier

Dispatch from Italy Declares Troops Revolt   BERN, Switzerland (UP)—A mob was reported Friday to have stormed the Cellari prison at Milan and released hundreds of political prisoners.

TALS D)SOBEY ~ OFFICERS” ORDERS   Bern: Dispatch Says Crowds ‘«s Are Demanding Peace-. For Italy -

Soldiers Defy Order to Fire On Thousands  Urging Peace   Badoglio Replaces Mili tary Chief; Stiffens Restrictions

Badoglio Attempts To Quell Unrest; People Think Peace Coming   Milan Commander Ousted; “Mussolini” Ty Censorship Ordered By New Government

Fretting Under Restrictions Of Badoglio Regime   Definite Stiffening Of  Governmental! Discipline

Turbulence In ltaly Growing   Fighting in Milan, Groups Demand Peace, Badoglio Hasn’t Stemmed Riots

TroopsWill NotFireon ‘Milan Mob   _ Public 1s-Convinced ; Peace Is Due; Eisen: hower Address !s  * Widely Circulated

ITALIAN TROOPS REFUSE TO FIRE ON COUNTRYMEN   Soldiers Rebel At Milan; Will Not Shoot Demonstrating Compatriots; Badoglio Acts In Effort To End Unrest.

REVOLT REPORTED IN ITALYAS PEOPLE AROUSED BY DELAY IN SEEKING TERMS WITH ALLIES

Military Command Changed At Milan As Troops Revolt   Italians _Reported Con. vinced Despite Denials That Some Sort_ of Peace Talk is in ProSress.

Soldiers Refuse to Open Fire   Badaglio Unable To Keep Eisenhower Offer From People

Bern Says Big Revolt fn Italy   ITALIANS OF MILAN IN RIOTS AND FIGHTING WIDESPREAD

ARMISTICE REPORTS CONTINUE   Soldiers Refuse To Fire On Thousands Shouting For Peace: Stiff Censorship Ordered

ITALIAN TROOPS REFUSED 10 OBEY ORDERS, REVOLT   Would Not Fire Upon Demonstrating Compatriarts and Shouting Peace Demands.   A COMMANDER OUSTED   Marshal Badoglio Relieved Gen. Canale of His Command at Milan.

ITALY — sx  Disobey Order To. Fire On Crowds      Premier Badoglio Ousts Milan Military Command er When Troops Refuse To Fire On Demonstratars Shantine Rar Paara

Retuse to Fire on Populace Shouting for Peace; Crisis Seen as Italy Keeps Silence

ARMY REFUSES URDER TO END PEAGE PARADE   Badoglio Ousts Canale in North Italy Command; - Poputace Defiant.   EISENHOWER OFFER IS - GENERALLY CIRCULATED

MOB VIOLENG: CONTINUES IN NORTH ITALY   Report Troops Defy Orders

WON'T FIRE ON CIVILIANS, REPORTS SAY   Bern Hears Military Commander in City Has Been Ousted as Part of Move to Silence Public Cries for Peace.

PEOPLE RAISE CRY FOR PEACE   Troops Refuse to Fire at Demonstrating Compatriots in Milan.   ‘MILAN LEADER OUSTED

ALLIES MAKE READY FOR FINAL BLOW   IHdamburg Bombed Again; Reds Close In On Ore] e

Troops Revolt: Refuse to Fire On Demonstrators Shouting Peace Demands

Troops Revolt Against Firing OnCountrymen   Sharp Measures Taken By Badoglio To Quell Growing Unrest

Milan Soldiers Refuse to Fire On Crowds Shouting for Peace; Premier Shifts Military Leaders

TROOPS HOLD FIRE   Refuse to Attack Crowds in Milan: Demonstrating for Peace

Soldiers In City Refuse To Open Fire   Demonstrators Sweep Through Streets With Cry For Peace; Army General Ousted

 Military Commander In City ‘Ousted By Badoglio; Peace Offer Spreads Among People   Mimeographed Copics Of Eisenhower's Proposal Appeared On Streets Few Hours After Dictator Tried To Suppress Dissemination

Army Revolt In Milan; New Peace Cries   ‘Troops Refuse to Fire Upon Demonstrators Who Ask End to War .   STRICT MEASURES AROUSE BITTERNESS:   Bui Badoglio Fails to Keep: Risenhower Message. From People: Rome Complains ©

Troops Rebel At Firing on Milan Crowds   New Nazi-Italian Clashes in North Reported From Spain

ITALIAN TROOPS AT  MILAN REFUSE OBEY  ORDERS KILL PEOPLE SHARP MEASURES BEING  TAKEN BY BADOGLIO TH RESTORE ORDER

Eisenhower's Message Is Distributed Widely Despite Ban Imposed By Premier Badoglio

Badoglio Employs Sterner Measures to Quell Unrest, But Peace Demands Grow

Badoglio Fires General In Area As Population Continues Crv For Peace

Soldiers Refuse To Fire Guns at Mobs on Streets   Talk of Armistice Persists: Germans Grab Submarines

Belief Grows That Sur* render Ultimatum Te Germany Will Be Drafted At the Conferences.

ALLIES MAKE: NEW ATTACKS ON JAPS AT SANANDA POINT   American And ~ Australian Troops :-Prépare. For Final Drive At Enemy

PATTON NEARS. OAST BERING ~ MARETH LINE   Montgomery Smashes at Axis Front After Continuous Bombing Attacks.   AMERICANS SEND 1,400... . ITALIAN PRISONERS BACK

AxxisForces Squeezed Inte Narrow Strip Along Coas' As Battle of Tunisia Begin:

This Move of the Armored Division Bars the Way to the Gulf of Gabes, It Was  Announced Today.   ABOUT 1400 ITALIAN PRISONERS TAKE   Gen. Montgomery Also Pressed a Full Scale Attack on the Mareth Line Today.

Americans Reported Within Sight of Mak- _nassy, Squeezing Rommel Into Strip of - Coast Barely 70 Miles North to South 

ARMORED UNITS SMASH THROUGH ROMMEL’S LINE   Eighth Army Is Attacking The Mareth Line

Patton's Army Within Sight Of Maknassy   General Montgomery's Eighth Army Starts Offensive On Mareth Line of Southern Front

U. 5. COLUMNS WITHIN SIGHT OF MAKNASSY   About 1,400 Italian Prisoners Captured   ALL-OUT DRIVE   Launched By Eighth Army On Mareth Line; Nazis Rally In North

Yanks Take 1,400 Italian Prisoners; Montgomery Presses Full Scale Drive   American Armor Driving Wedge Into Rommel’s Last Defense Barrier on Way to Sea — Eighth Army Opens Drive Under Strong Air Attack

Yank Troops Within Sight Of Maknassy; British Press Big Attack on Mareth-Line   More Than 1,400 Italian Sciciers Captured as Full-Scale Offensive  QGatharc MMamoantim in Temicia

Mareth Line Under Full-Scale Attack    Patton’s Columns Within Sight of Maknassy; Powerful Aerial Attack Helps British Eighth Army

Attack Line Along 6Mile Front; German Resistance Strong   Americans Drive Wedge Into Rommel’s Final Defense Position

'U.S. Column Within Sight Of Maknassy . Strong Nazi Point ‘On Gafsa-Mahares Ratheay   Axis Southern Forces Squeezed Into Narrov Coastal Strip; Patton Leading Smashing Accanlt Rye Our Troops Against Enemy

U.S. Troopers Drive Wedge lnto Nazi Line   Montgomery Opens Full-Scale Attack On Mareth Front

British Dent Strong Mareth Line Defense   Rommel Believed to Be Pulling Out Divisions; Germans Gain in North

WEDGE 15 DRIVEN INTO AXIS DEFENSE AF COASTAL ROADS   BATTLE OF TUNISIA FINDS ROMMEL’S FORCES SQUEEZED NEAR COAST

‘American Troops Drive Wedge Into Defense; 1,400 Italians Captured

Large-Scale Push On Mareth Line Is Opened By British   American Armored Units Force Wedge Into Last Axis Defenses Barring Way To Gulf Of Gabes; Airmen In Action

U.S. Army’s Push Grabs 1,400Italians   Last Axis Defenses Met by Americana; Goal 60 Miles Away

Americans Drive Wedge Into Axis Escape Corridor   Yanks Capture 1,400 Italians In Drive To Coast; Montgomery Hits Mareth Line

Full-Scale Attacks © :: Aimed At Rommel   Americans Drive Wedge Into Last Axis Defense ‘ Line As Montgomery Presses Blows Aaainst Mareth Forts

American Troops Are at Grips with Last Axis Defense Guarding Communication Routes on Coastal Plains

YANKS ARE CLOSING ‘ESCAPE CORRIDOR ~~ BEHIND ROWIMEL   U. S. Forces Capture About 1,400 Italian  Prisoners   PLANES LEVELING _ THE MARETH LINE

MARETH © LINE HIT BY BRITISH   American Column Within Sight Of Nazis At Maknass'

BRITISH BEGIN OFFENSIVE. IN MARETH AREA   Yanks Within Sight of Maknassy in Drive  Toward Coast

WEDGE DIVIDES ARMY GUARDING GULF OF GABES   General Montgomery Presses Full Scale Attack On Mereth Line   GERMANS IN SQUEEZE   Nazi General Held In Narrow Coast Strip Barely 70 Miles Wide

WEDGE IS DRIVEN INTO AXIS LINES   Montgomery Pounds Mareth. Line; Americans Capture 4400 Kalians

AMERICAN UNIT DRIVES CLOSE TO MAKNASSY   Within Sight Strong German Position On GafsaMahares Railway, It Is Announced   BRITISH 8TH ARMY PRESSES OFFENSIVE   Both Drives Squeeze Axis Forces Into Coastal Strip of Barely 70-Mile Corridor

Roosevelt Pays Homage Today to Abraham Lincoln   President Works On Tonight's Talk

FDR OBSERVES LINCOLN’S DAY   Prepares Address to Give Over Radio Friday

ORDER STRIKERS TO RESUME WORK BY MONDAY NOON   Eastern Plant Filling War Orders Will Be In Production or Federal Agency Will Take Charge. .   LEWIS FAILS TO ATTEND CONFERENCE   Wage-Hour Negotiations Are Deadlocked Over Demands of Labor Leader For Increase of $2.

President Orders Strikers to Go Back to Work, Cease Picketing Celanese Plant by Noon Monday

Orders Strikers To Work   President's Ultimatun Gires Strikers Until Sunday to Resume Work

FDR Orders Strikers Back to Work   Employes of Celanese Corp. Get Ul4inatum

33 Nipponese ‘Hunting Pack’ Fighters Fall   New Defensive Tactics Latest, Most Serious Failure !s Reported   BOMBINGS CONTINUE   Big Flight Of Enemy Planes Is Engaged Over Russell islands

New Air Technique Adopted by Enemy   Japs Staging Desperate Effort in Pacific To Halt Relentless Bombing of Their Bases

JAP HUNTING PACK ATTACKS IN SOLOMONS   Ai Least Half of Enemy Fighter planes — Possibly 33 — Sho: Down in Air Battle

New Jap Air Tactics Fail ToHaitY anks   33 Fighters Reported Downed in S, Pacific; Kiska Pounded

New Technique of Sending Fighter Planes on Hunting « Expeditions Used  By Japan in Effort to Halt Bombings

Jap Defensive Tactics Fai   33 Enemy Fighter Ships Are Shot Down

Japs Adopt New Flying Tacties   EFFORT MADE TO HALT HEAVY BOMBING OF NIP BASES

Great Jap Fighter Flights Sent Out Yin Effort to Check U.S. Bombings

JAP FIGHTERS USED TO HUNT YANK BOMBERS   Half Of Group Shot Down By American Pilots

COTTEN OPPOSED T0 LIBERALIZING AID CERTAIN CHILDREN  SENATE, HOWEVER, PASSED RESOLUTION TO THIRD READING

ROUND-ThE-CLOCK BANS CONTINUE   Big Rhine Industrial Cit¥ Is Hammered For 116th Time   15 PLANES LOST   Targets InSicily And Southern Italy Plastered During Night

Bombs Rip Cologne For 116th Time   Balkans Developments Cause Invasion - Jittery Axis Grave Concern.

Cologne Is Raided for 6th Time   Report Italians Leaving Sicily And Sardinia.

VACATION FO ATTACKERS OF SICILY TODAY   Attacking From Middle East Bases. Allied Fighters Sink Three Vessels in Aegean

RAF Block - Busters Rain On German  Home Front  SHIPS ARE SUNK Report. Mussolini Is

BOMBERS POUND GERMANY AGAIN   RAF Visits Rhineland Fifth Time In Sixth Night of Offensive

Mosquitos Batter Sicily, Italy   15 RAF Planes Missing in Cologne Attack —Three Axis Ships Sunk in Aegean — Berlin Betrays Nervousness Over Probable Allied Invasion of Balkans

Five Airfields In Sicily Attacked By Yank Planes   Balkans  Spotlighted As New Unrest Flares; Rumania  Talks Peace

Destruction Rains on Nazi Homeland   War Foundries of Cologne Bombed for 116th Time; Three Enemy Ships Sunk in Aegean Sea; New Flashes Flare on Smolensk Front —

German Hor 2 Front Suf & £3 More D' * oe       War Foundries of Cologne  Hammered for 116th Time in Allied Air Forces Contin ued Blasting cf Axis Targets

RAF. Raids City Of Cologne, Holland, Belgium   Rhine Is Target In Dropping Block-Busters

Cologne Hit 116th Time; Allies Off OnDayRaid   Mediterranean Is Calm Following  Raid On Sicily

Big Block-Buster Armadas Hit Again In Rhineland; Fliers Rest In North Africa

COLOGNE WAR PLANTS, OTHER POINTS HIT-RAF   Belgium, Holland Raided: Sicily, Italy Undergo Air Assaults

Cologne Hammered By Block-Buster Raid From RAF   Offensive Activity In Mediterranean Still Taking Shape

Allied Long-Range Fighters Attacking From Bases in Middle East Sink Three More Axis Ships; Axis Fear Invasion

Extend Raids With Sweeps Across Franee   Russians Engaged In Series Of Clashes On Dormant Smolensk Line.   SINK SHIPS IN AEGEAN

Sicily ‘Attacked By Yank Planes   Berlin Still Nervous Over Fears Of Invasion In Balkans

Cologne Is Given New  Bomb Shower  Block Busters Are Dropped By RAF;  Oniet In Russia

SPAIN SAYS FLEET MASSED AT GIBRALTAR   Sicily And Southern Italy Again Blasted; Invasion Talk Continues Throughout Europe

COLOGNE POUNDED ~ BLORK BUSTERS      Round The Clock Ham. mering of War Plants Continues   ENSLAVED PEOPLE KICKING OFF YOKE

Block Busters Tear Up Nazis’ War Foundries   RAF Fighters Drop Bombs on Nazi-Occupied Holland and Belgium.   Is 116th Raid Made On Cologne Targets

"INE INFLECTION   Thomas D. Tombena, . Jr. . President, Succeeds Reed O. Beharrell _

RELIEF ROUP. N ELECT 101   Thomas D. Tombena, .Jr., President, Succeeds  Reed O. Beharrell

Greatest Naval Campaign — Knox   At Guadalcanal Japs Lost More Ships Than Germans at Jutland

We've Done Top Navy Job   Pacific Action Greatest Naval Campaign—Knox

Navy Blimp Crashes In - Barnegat Bay   No Additional Informa tion Available to Identify or List Casualties

14Dead, 91 Hurt In Train Wreck  Fast Pennsylvania Derailed in East 

14 KILLED, 91 HURT IN TRAIN DERAILMENT   Three-Way Probe Begun Into New Jersey Accident

TWELVE KILLED IN NEW JERSEY WRECK SUNDAY      Search Train Wreckage To De termine Cause Of Derailment

SOCIAL WORKEh SAYS SHE IS GERMAN AGENT   Leader of Detroit Nazi spy ring makes confession to FBI

133 TONS BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON BAIROKO BASE   Allies Lash Fiercely At Japanese Defense Of New Georgia Island   19 ENEMY PLANES ARE LOST OVER MADANG

HITS JAPANESE SUPPLY POR’   Heaviest Air Attack Ever Made in  Southwest

Americans Drop Tons of Bombs North of Munda   Bairoko Blasted in Fierce Attack on Japanese Positions   Count 282 Japanese Dead in Advance on New Guinea

Bairoko Harbor Battered By 133 Tons Of Bomhs   Allied Planes Rake Japanese Bases In Wide Area

ALLIED BOMBERS tASH FIERGELY AT JAP. DEFENSE   McArthur Announces Heaviest Air Raid of the Southwest Pacific War   133 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON BAIROKO   Allies Repulse Heavy Enemy Counter-attack at Munda, Sharp Ground Skirmishes Flare Anew on New Guinea;  @19 Jap Planes Downed

JAPANESE BASE LASHED BY 133 TONS OF BOMBS   Bairoko On New Georgia Target For Heaviest Raid In Southwest Pacific War   Munda Attack Broken

Tons of Bombs Dropped on Bairoko by : Bombers.  COUNTER-ATTACKS AT MUNDA CHECKED  Jap Sea Losses in the Central : Solonions

Allied Bombs Batter New Georgia Japs   Enemy Defenses at Bairoko Plastered with 133 Tons of Explosives in Heaviest Raid of Southwest Pacific War

Tons of Bombs Dropped on Bairoko by Bombers  COUNTER-ATTACKS AT MUNDA CHECKED  Jap Sea Losses in the Cen. tral Solomons Mount

WRIGHT PLANT PRODUCTION OFF AFTER CRITICISM   Senate Investigators Hint Slow Up Deiiberate To Justify Contentions

Drop In Wright  Output Is Told  Motor Output Falls At Lockland Plant

Tells Slump in Wright Engines   Output Off 5-6 After Truman Report: Echols

TRUMAN COMMITTEE REPORT FOLLOWED BY DROP IN OUTPUT  APPARENT EFFORTS MADE BY WRIGHT COM-

PLANE OUTPUT DROPS AFTER TRUMAN CHECK   Firm Blames Army for Too Rigid Inspection Plan

“Produce--Or Else... ”   Army Threatens to Take Over Aircraft Plant to Speed Output

PLANT MAY BE RUN BY ARMY   Truman Group, Air Forces Warn Wright Aeronautical Corporation

Production At Plant Fell Off After Report   Gen. Echols Says Army Considered Taking Over, Wright Factory

Aussies Swim River To Take Jap Airdrome   Enemy’s Hold On New . Guinea’ East Coast . © Rendered Weaker.

Earthquake Jolt Rocks Mexico City   Porous Ground Averts Major Disaster

Mexico City Quake Claims Life of One Resident   Observers Believe Porous Nature Of Ground Saved Capital  From Tremendous Casualty List

OVER MILLION ARE REPORTED LOST I STALINGRAD FIGHT   Russians Claim Capture of Sufficient Materials in 20 Days to Equip One Maior Army.      MacARTHUR PREPARES NEW ATTACK ON JAPS   U. S. Fleet Blasts Kolombangara Island Base, Puts Three Ships to Flight, Fire on Coast.

GERMAN FORCES IN GREAT VOLGA CITY - FACE LIQUIDATION   Field Marshall And Sixteen Generals Taken By Powerful Reds In Drive To Rid City Of Enemy Forces— More Materiale Seized    GERMANS SMARTING UNDER GREATEST DEFEAT OF WAR’

Berlin Admits Its Army Overwhelmed   Marshal and 15 Generals Captured—330,000 Men Lost to the Reich

GERMANS IN POCKETS ARE LIQUIDATED   German Commander. in-Chief. 16 Other Generals Taken

“STALINGRAD NEAR CLOSE   Pusei ons Kill 900 » More “Of Germans Caught In Trap

Pitiful remnants of axis troops remain   Million or million and half Germans wiped out in region

JEN RUSSIANS SURPRISED AT GREAT VICTOR)   (ured Nazis Reveal Hitler Hac $30,600 Men At Stalingrad When Final Battle Beran

BATTLE NEARING ITS END TODAY,   Stalingrad Being Cleared of Germans —Russia Kilt 900 More Nazis Vocketed in Northern Area.

STALINGRAD EPIC BATTLE NEARS CLOSE   Over a Million Men Lost There By Germans

HURL JAPS BACK IN BURMA TODAY   Wavell’s Forces Only 25 Miles From Nips’ Base at Akyab

THREE BURNED IN HOUSE FIRE    Mother and Two Children Victims of Flames at  - Elizabeth.

{t Happened This Week.. U. S. Airforce Proving Itself Best In World

U.S. Fliers Have Bagged 7.312 Enemy Aireraft   OWI Reports Our Losses Are 1.867: 223,758 Sorties Flown in 21 Months

AMERICAN AIRMEN HAVE SHOT DOWN 7,321 AXIS AIRCRAFT   1,867 United States Planes Have Been Lost In Combat, OWI Reports; Better Aerial Equipment On Way To Give This Nation Marked-Superiority

American Warplanes, Crews Best. OWI Asserts   Yanks Have Shot Down 7,132 Enemy Planes, While Losing 1,867, Ratio of Four to One’   U. S. SUPERIOR IN ALL CATEGORIES   And Better Equipment For Fighting Fliers On Way, Report Says

Score of Aerial Warfare: American Warplanes and Crews Far Superior to Those of Nazis or Japs

AMERICAN AIR SCORE 4701 AGAINST AXIS   Yanks Downed 7,312 Enemy Planes From Pearl Harbor to September 1, at a Loss of 1,867 U. S. Craft.

American Planes And Crews — Prove To Be Best In Battle:   Total of 7,312 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down With Losses of Only 1,867—Still Better Equipment ls On the Wavy .

Allied Air Forces Drubbing Axis Bases in Tunisia; Tripoli Pounded

PRELIMINARIES TO BIG TRIPOLITANIA BATILE UNDER WAY   Nazis- Expect 19° Divisions OF Eighth Army Ta Begin Encircling Movement

Believe Libyan Battle Under Way At Wadi Zem Zem, 165 Mi. East of Tripoli

Battle To Annihilate Nazi Forces In Tripolitania May Be Underway Already

Maneuver Perils’ Axis Tripoli Grip   “LO Divisions.of Montgoniery’ 6. Men Deployed to Envircle Flésine Nave

Tripoli Bombed   Germans Anticipate Try At Encirclement Of  Rommel Ferce

Senate Group Approves Ban Against Agencies Holding Money ‘Not Needed in Reserve Funds

Flood Damage Heavy, Nazis Now Disclose   Rows Of Houses Engulfed When Dams Blown Up

Another Island Taken By Yanks   Island Near Vila Base In Solomons Is Occupied By U. 8. Troops   BITTER FIGHTING NEAR SALAMAUA

YANKS LAND 0 ARUNDEL IN SOLOMONS   Meet No Opposition in Establishing New Artillery Positions

NO UPPOOITION MET Ao TRUGPO TAKE NEW Tal   Arundel Island Falls to Give U. S. Troops New Base on Kolombangara.

ARUNDEL ISLAND SEIZED BY YANKS   Japs. Chased Off New Georgia, Stiffen Opposition On New Guinea

AXIS HAD ADVANCE INFORMATION TOBRUK RAID   British Prisoners Relate After Being Exchanged For Italian and German Prisoners

Mine Strike Laid In Lap Of Roosevelt   War Labor Board Is Powerless To ‘Handle Situation

GOP SEES DEWEY ~ AS POSSIBILITY   aera aa N. ¥. Governor Ranks As Organization Favorite for '44 Race

DEWEY SEEN AS FOREMOST. CHOICE FOR GOP TICKET   Gavernor’s Aides Say He Won’t Seek the Nominatinn,

COMMITTEE CLEARS MERCHANT SEANAN   Want Source of Story Tha‘ Sailors Refused to Unloac Shins at Guadalcanal

Big Armadas Strike Italy From Africa   Attack Officially Called “Terrific”; Damage Is Great

ALLIED AIRMEN POUND ITALY'S OUTER DEFENSES  -  Heerroy 22 AXIS   DESTROY 23 AXIS PLANES IN AIR COMBAT YESTERDAY

Bombers Strike Axis War Cities   SICILY, SARDINIA, PANTELLERIA TAKE “TERRIFIC HAMMERING” AS ALLIED AIRCRAFT SHATTER ITALY DEFENSES; DUESSELDORF BLASTED

Sardinian Bases Of Axis Hit Heavily   Attacks On Enemy Continue Night And Day; Total Plane Losses Of Foe 355

Allied Bombers Hit At Italy's Outer Defense   Sicily, Sardinia, Pantelleria Given Terrific Hammering

Messina Raided From Two Sides; AQ) Planes Used   23 Axis Craft Are Sho Down: ‘Terrific Ham mering’ Reported.  pore

POUND ITALIAN PORTS, BASES   Score Direct Hits on Air Base Installations; Down 6 Planes.   Indicate Heavier Blows in Offing

ALLIED WARPLANES GIVE DEFENSES OF ITALY HAMMERING   NEARLY 400 PLANES BASED IN NORTH AFRICA IN CONTINUED SWEEPS

‘Planes Raid Italy’s Three Big Outposts   400 Ships From North Africa Attack Sicily, Sardinia and Panteleria

SICILY, SARDINIA, PANTELLERIA WERE ~ BOMBED LAST NIGHT  ;   During a “Terrific Hammering’, 23 Axis Planes Were Destroyed.   400 PLANES TOOK PART   Docks, Railroad Yards and Power Stations Were’. Blasted.

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST AGAIN AT SICILY, ITALY   Sardinia and Pantelleria Also Subjected to “Terrific Hammering’ i from Africa   11 PLANES LOST   400 Planes Take Part in Raids, Shoct Down 23 Axis Planes in Air Combats

Heavy Attacks On Axis by Air Are Continued   Italy, Germany Again Pounded By Allied Planes

WAVES OF YANK BOMBERS POUND ITALIAN TARGETS   23 Axis Planes Destroyed A: Allies Hammer at Invasion Defenses

Allies Blast Island Forts Around Italy   Sicily, Pantelleria ‘and Sardinia Hit in New “Mass Assaults

HIT SICILY, SARDINIA AND LITTLE MALTA   Allied Attack Is Described Officially as a “Terrific Hammering” — 23 Axis Planes Shot Down in Combat.

i  HIT DOCKS, AIRFIELDS, SUPPLIES   Estimated 500 Bombers Take Part In Raid

Allied Aircraft Deliver Hard Blow to Italy’s . Outer Invasion Defenses

LEE NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT AS FEDERAL JUDGE   TEXT OF LETTER TO   JIMMY ALLRED FROM  DOOSEVELT MADE PUBLI

Duncan Named Federal Judge in Missour}   Former Congressman From St. Joseph Had Unrelentino Support From Truman    SENATOR CLARK AGAINST HIM   Served Five Terms in Congress, Always Supported the New Deal

A BLANKET OF SNOW   Freezing Temperatures Return to Prolong Winter Weather

Snow General Over Kansas   Temperature Will Remain About The  Same, Flora Says

Chieftains Map Global Strategy   Allies to Press War on Alf Fronts

Synchronize Strategy to Hasten War   See Increased Tempo on All Fronts; to K. O. Germany First

Parley With Stalin Expected to Finish World War Strategy   Leak in News of Cairo Conference Arouses Ire in Washington

NEW STRATEGY SEEKS QUICKER END TO WAR   FDR-Churchill Meet with Kai-Shek Seen As Move For Greater Solidarity

GERMANY TO BE KNOCKED OOT FIRST   Synchronize Global Strategy To Hasten War On All Fronts

Global Plans Synchronized  Coordinated Strategy Aqainst Axis OQutcom

GLOBAL STRATEGY OF CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT CHARTED  PLANS BELIEVED MADE TO HASTEN WAR ON ALI

Cairo. Meeting Synchronizes  War Strategy   Stalin Conference Is Expected To Put On Finishing Touches

U.S.--British Chiefs Agree On Details of New Fronts   Allies to Strike in Balkans  And Also in West, Indicated; Japan to Be Stripped of Loot   Allied Plans Coordinated To Crush Axis   Drives From East and West Synchronized To Knock Out Hitler In Spring Campaian

Global Warfare, Believed Plan Of Alied Heads  FDR And Churehil Reportedly Rus

Program To Beat Down Japan Synchronized With Strategy To Hasten War On All Fronts   Agreement of “Big Two” With Stalin To Co-ordinate Blaws on Nazis Seen

SOVIETS TAKE GZHATSK BASE NEAR MOSCOV   Red Offensive Fans Out; Villages Are Taken

Key Anchor Of Nazis Moscow Salient Falls   Broadside Drive Toward Smolensk Cuts Into German Holdings Below Rzhev. Leavina Trail Of Blazina Towns

Reds Take Key City Of Gzhatsk   Nazis Driven from Anchor Point on Central Front

Key Anchor Of German Salient  Falls In Drive   More Than a Regiment of Germans, 3000 to 4000 Killed in the Storming of Gzhatsk After Being Flanked

Soviet Army Wipes Out Nazi Threat   Gzhatsk, 100 Miles West of Moscow, Captured by Reds

Reds Capture Anchor City Of Nazi Salient   Seizure of Gzhatsk Hammers Dent in Bulge Before Moscow

30,000 TO 40,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE JAP PRISONERS   Allied Troops Held by Nips Total 320,000

ICKES DEFENDS COAL CONTRACT   Berates Policy Of Mines Owned By Steel Firms; New Order Issued

REGULATIONS ON OFT GOAL ISSUED   SFA Acts to Divert Large Share to Domestic Heating Purposes: Operators — and Lewis Continue Wage Talks

ICKES DEFENDS HIS HANDLING OF AGREEMEN   Says He Was Ordered Te End Coal Strike And That Is What He Did   CAPTIVE MINES NOT JOINING IN PARLEYS

More Soft Coa! To Heat Homes   Ickes Diverts Supply  From Industries

JAP SUBMARINE SUNK BY AIRMEN   FOUR BOMB HITS MADE ON SUBMERSIBLE AS IT UNLOADS CARGO AT LAE.

Allied air force bags enemysuh   Surprise Jap vessel, score. A Atreat hitc 

JAP SUBMARINE RAIDER 1S SUNK   Nipponese Strongholds Blasted By U.S. Army Fliers

Germans Deny     Loss O€ Vital  Northern Town   Hitler Admits Loss Of Kalmyck, Says Velikie Luki Still Held By Axis.

Moscow Also Says Red Army Is Driving Forward Through Ancient Fortress of Welikie Lukie, Beating Back Nazis

NED. AVALANCHE ENGULES NAZIS ON ALL FRONTS        Important Railway Center Of Remontnaya Captured — By Avenging Soviets 

Father Draft Bill Arouses Paul McNutt   Manpower Director May Quit If Roosevelt Fails To Veto Measure

MCNUTT MAY QUIT fF BILL GOES THROUGH   Roosevelt Receives Amendment After Senate Passage

McNutt May Resign If FDR Does Not Veto Measure  Bill Removes Draft Supervision From His Hands

MCNUTT STEAMED UP OVER FATHER DRART BILL   Manpower Commissioner May Quit Job If FDR Doesn’t Veto Bill

REPORT CHIEF OF MANPOWER MIGHT RESIGN.   McNutt Seeks Veto Of Father Draft Act

MNUTT READY TO QUIT WMC   Stripped of Authority Over Draft By Bill Sent to White House.   BILL SLOWS DADS DRAFT

WMC HEAD MAY GIVE UP POS]   Threatens To Quit Unless F.D.R. Vetoes Legislation

Dad Draft Bill  Passes Senate  Report McNutt Irate, Demanding Veto

Report McNutt To Resign : Unless President Vetoes New Father Draft Act

MONUTT TO QUIT Tr DRAFT BILL PASSES   ‘So Steamed Up’ over Plan to Strip WMC of Power He Threatens to Resian

M'NUTT REPORTED ALL STEAMED UP   SENATOR HEARS WMC CHIEF MAY RESIGN OVER FATHER DRAFT

McNutt ‘Boiling’ Over Draft Act   May Quit Post Unless Roosevelt Vetoes the Bill  Paccad hv Senate

Dra Bill Action Arouses McNutt   WMC Head May Qui ft Dilan Not Vetoed

MONUTT IRKED BY DRAFT BIL   Threatens To Quit If FDR Okays Bill Delaying Call of Fathers

NAZI CATASTROPHE WORST IN COUNTRY   Last Germans In Central Stalingrac Liquidated; Paulus Just Advanced By Hitler

Ke ew Germans Sull Fi eht At Stalinerad   One Nazi Field Marshal, 16 Generals Surrender, Russians Announce  GAIN ON ALL FRONTS

German Army’s Losses In Greatest Catastrophe Larger Than Estimated   Field Marshal and 16 Generals Surrender to Soviets; Great Quantities of Axis Supplies Are Captured; U. S. Flyers Bomb Port of Messina in Sicily

y Admits Of Four ps In Raid  lan Planes   Jap Planes  e Shot Down AttarLeL

ALLIES LOSE 3 SHIPS AT GUADALCANAL    Destroyer, Corvette And Tanker Casualties Of Raid Which Cost Japs 34 Planes Wednesday.      Loss Of Life Unreported

FOUR VESSELS IN SOLOMONS   Japs Sink Destroyer, Corvette, Tanker And Fuel Ship

Navy Reports Four Ships Sunk by Japs   List Losses During Enemy’s Raid On Guadalcanal

JAPS SINK 3 SHIPS OFF GUADALCANAL   VESSELS LOST DURING HEAVY ENEMY AIR ATTACK—ONE A DESTROYER.

Allied Loss In Jap Attack Set At Four Shins .   One Destroyer Is Sunk; Others Are  Smaller Vaccale

ALLIES LOSE FOUR VESSELS TN SOLOMON   Japs .Sink Destroyer, Corvette; Tanker And Fuel Ship

4 Ships Sunk By Japs in  Solomons Area   Allies Lose Destrover Corvette, Tanker anc Fuel Boat — 34 Jap  Planes are Shot Dow?

Destroyer, Lanker Corvette, Fuel Boat Sunk off Guadalcanal  34:"ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN ACTION  Cruiser and Destroyer, 10 Transports Victims, Japanese Claim

FOUR ALLIED VESSELS LOST  IN GUADALCANAL BATTLE   Destroyer, Tanker And Oil Boat Believed To Have Been American Ships; Australian Corvette Destroyed; Loss Of Life Undetermined

JAPANESE DESTROY 4 ALLIED VESSELS   Ships Sent Down While U. S. Destroys 34 Enemy Planec

 apanese Attack Costs Allies Lotal of 4 Ships   Bombing of Guadalcanal Wednesday Results in Sinking of Destroyer, Corvette, Tanker and Small Fuel Boat

Four Allied Ships Sunk by Japanese   Destroyer and Tanker Among Craft Lost in Fierce Attack at Guadalcanal; Enemy Air Loss Revised to 34

Tokyo Report of Great Pacific Victory Denied By American Officials   Heaviest Bombardment of Guadalcanal Area in Five Months Costs Japanese 34 Planes against Seven Lost by Americans; Allied Casualties Not Announced by Navy Spokesman

JAP ATTACKS SANK 4 SHIPS IN SOLOMONS   Navy Announces Loss Of Destroyer, Other Vessels

NAVY REVEALS LOSSES WHEN JAPS ATTACKED   Nipponese Sink Destroyer In Assault That Cost Them 34 Planes.

Signs Contract With Ickes For  Wage Increase   Resumption At Once In Pennsylvania Mines Bu Full Production Is Not Expected Before Next Week. UMW Notifying Rank And File.

ITALIAN ISLES HIT FIFTH DAY   Enemy Fighter Opposition Reported to Be on ‘Reduced Scale.’

ASSAULT ON SICILY AND SARDINIA CONTINUES   Enemy Opposition Reported To Be Reducec On Fifth Day of Bombing. Strafing

PRE-INVASION OFFENSIVE IS CONTINUING   Relentiess Allied Air Assault Against Sicily end Sardinia Goes Through  Fifth Day

Allies Bomb Sicily Again   Assaults Against Italian Strongholds Pressed Relentlessly

96 MORE AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN DAYS WORK   Two-Day Total In Fights Over Sicily, Other Italian Outposts Reaches 101   7 Towns Pounded

BIG AERIAL OFFENSIVE CONTINUES   Paralyzing Blows Dealt Two Islands; Bag 30 Axis Planes

RELENTLESS AIR ATTACK AGAINST SICILY GOES ON   Gerbini Battered 19 Times In One Day; Other Ports And Fields In Sicily And Sardinia Blasted In  Continuous Assault.

FORTRESSES SHOOT DOWN 30 FIGHTERS   Paralyzing Blows at Enemy Resistance Are Struck In Conflict For Air Supremacy   DROP 375,000 POUNDS

JHE AIR ASSAULT =: AGAINST SARDINIA, SICILY, CONTINUES   Went Through Its Fifth Consecutive Day Yesterday.  “aaa   AIRFIELDS ARE BOMBED   Enemy Fighter Opposition Reported to Have Been on a Reduced Scale.

Allied Forces, Spearheaded ‘By. U.S. Flying: Fortresses, Strike Paralyzing Blows At Enemy   30 GERMAN: FIGHTER PLANES: ARE BAGGED   Axis Attempt: to‘ Recover Air Supremacy Over Sicily, Sardinia; Crete In ‘ yaded by Commandos —

ISLAND CITIES. BLASTED AGAIN   Allied Air Forces Strike Paralyzing Blows at Sicily, Sardinia.   12 ALLIED PLANES LOST

Same Song, Fifth ‘Verse Reported ‘on Italian Raids   Sicily and Sardinia Blasted as Gerbini Rocks with Bombs

Relentless Air Attacks Maintained   Sicily and Sardinig Are Bombed for the Fifth Consecutive Day   BRITISH FOLLOW UP - AMERICAN ASSAULT   Allies Direct Attack on Great Network of Axis Airfields

Relentless Assault Is In Its oth Over Italy   Enemy Opposition On Reduced Scale

SICILY AIRDROMES AGAIN BLASTED BY BIG ALLIED PLANES   5 Key Targets “Hit On Nose” By Bombers On Fourth Day Of Offensive

Allied Planes Strike Hard  at Axis. Bases   101 Enemy Cratt ‘Shot Down : in Two-Day Period

ALLIED —AIRFLEETS BOMB KEY TARGETS ON ROUTE'TO ITALY   Airfields On Sicily And Sardinia Hit For Fifth Straight Day

Break German  Island Guard   Allies Down 42 Axis Planes Against Loss Of 12 In Mediterranean.

Sicily, Sardinia Heavily Bombed By the Allies   Forty-Five Enemy Aircraf Shot Down in Series of Battles

ALLIED GET dd NAZI FIGHTERS IN SUGILY RAID   Forts, Qutnumbered Four to One, Bomb Half Dozen Axis Air Bases.   42 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN WITH LOSS OF 1¢

ITALIAN QUTPOSTS BEING DEVASTATED   Axis High Command Has Ordered State of Seige On Three Islands.

Smashing Raid Downs 56 Nazis   Forts Get 41 Out Of 100 Attackers

RELENTLESS ALLIED AIR ASSAULTS UPON SICILY, SARDINIA   ENEMY FIGHTER OPPO. SITION REPORTED GROWING MUCH LARGER

Sicily, Sardinia Get It Again  Allied Assault Goes Through Fifth Day

Paralyzing Blows Aimed at Italian Outpost Islands   In 24 Hours 42 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down  by Allied Forces.   Big Liberators Join In Devastating Raids

ALLIES HAMMER AT SICILY AND SARDINIA AGAIN   Enemy Opposition Fades, But Pilots Shoot Down 10 Axis Planes

10 ENEMY FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN   Airdrome At Gerbini Is Hit 19 Times By U. S. Airmen

ALLIED ATTACK ON SICILY, SARDINIA ENTERS FIFTH DAY   Airfields and Other Military Targets Heavily Bombarded; Enemy Fighter Opposition On ‘Reduced Scale’; Ten Axis Planes Shot Down To Five For Allies.

GERBINI RAIDED 19 MORE TIMES IN DAY’S SPAN   Oiher Targets in Sicily and Sardinia Strafed, 10 Axis Planes Shot Down

Ally Fliers  Pulverize Foe Bases   RELENTLESS ASSAULT ON SICILY, SARDINIA ENTERS FIFTH DAY

HEAVY RAIDS ON -BUCE’S ISLANDS   Frequent Convoys Add to Axis’ Mediterranean Jitters

NO LETUP IN RELENTLESS AIR ASSAULT   Sardinia, Sicily Targets Hammered; Opposition Wanes

Air Assaults On Sicily, Sardinia Are Continuing   Gerbini Battered 19 More °Times; No Enemy Air- “ craft In Sight.

30 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down   U. S. FLYING FORTS RAID AXIS BASES IN ITALY

UO AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN RAIDS ON SICILY TOWNS   Thirty Flying Fortresses Battle 100 Nazis in One Action, Destroying 41 and Losing 3.   DOZEN ALLIED SHIPS ) IN ALL ARE LOST   Germans Resort to Suicide  Tactics in Effort to Block Bombers— Messina Dealt Heavy Blow.

Gerbini Under Constant Raid   Gets 19 Bombings in 24 Hours, No Air Resistance

ALLIES BLAST SICILY TOWNS   (Place in Sardinia is Also Hit Hard; 56 Foe Planes Are Shot Down

DROMES ARE KIT AGAIN AND AGAIN   Axis Resistance Is Apparently Diminishing

AIR OPPOSITION OVER SICILY ON REDUCED SCALE   Relentless Assault Against Axis Airfields Continued by Allies

WAVES OF ALLIED BOMBERS ATTAGK SICILY’S DROME:   Opposition Diminishes In 4t Day of Heavy Aerial Offansive.

AXIS RESISTANCE STRUCK BLOWS AT SICILY, SARDINIE   Smashing Aerial Offensive Against Italian Outpost Islands Goes Through Third Straight Day; 30 German Fighters Are Shot Down.

FIFTH DAY OF HEAVY RAIDS ROCK TARGETS   Airfields on Sardinia and Sicily Are Terrificatly Bombed as Softening Up Process Proceeds With Precision —- Fighter Opposition Continues :on  Reduced Scale—Ten Enemy Planes Ara Chak Pawea

42 PLANES SHOT DOWN IN BLOWS FROM N, AFRICA   12 Allied Craft Reported Lost In Assaults

More Raids On Italian Isles   SICILY AND SARDINIA HEAVILY BOMBED BY ALLIES

Ten Axis Planes  Are Shot Down      But Enemy Fighter Opposition Less and Less   NO ENEMY PLANES SEEN ON ONE RAID

Pound Sicily Bases 4th Straight Day   ALLIED FLIERS REPORT DECLINE IN RESISTANCE BY DEFENDERS OF ITALIAN ISLAND

Pounding at Two Islands   i wo isiands  Allied Planes Smash Sicily and Sardinia EC. Dilek Ctvaioht Dav

Allied Ships. Bag 30 Nazi. Fighters   Paralyzing Blows Struck at Enemy Over Sicily and Sardinia   LIBERATORSIN ACTION   Germans Are Handed a Terrific Mauling by the - U.S.Planes

AIRFIELDS IN SARDINIA AND SICILY HIT AGAIN   Eight Axis Air Bases Feel Weight Of Allied Bombs

Forts’ Paralyze Sicily Defense   Yanks Down 30 Foes ln Few Minutes os Allies Smash Bases

TWO OF AXIS PLANE LOSSES IS 101   Al Enemy Aircraft Out Of 100 Shot Down By For tresses Over Gerbini   AMERICAN GUNNER PERSONALLY GETS 7

Air Defense Of AxisEbbs   Few Planes Are Met In Bombing of lialy

Paralyzing Blows Struck at Enemy   Battle for Air Supremacy Over Sardinia And Sicily Continue with Mounting Fury

Yankees Mau Nazi Fighters In Italy Raids   “Fortress Smash At Gerbini Costs Foe 41 Planes, Others Get 15 More   DEFENDERS WHIPPED   i * Allies Lose Only 12 In Paralyzing Blows At Seven Enemy Bases

Htaly’s Island Bases Battered For Fifth Day   Offensive Swings Into Faster Pace; Opposition Light

rortresses Best Germans In Air Batile   Shoot Down 30 of More Than 100 Attacking And Destroy 25 Others Parked on Ground

_ Allies Continue Merciless Attacks On Italian Isles In Mediterranean; Ten Planes Downed Over Gerbini

Sicily and Sardinia Feel Acrial Blows For Fifth Consecutive Day, [t Is Announced   AIRFIELDS TARGETS   Enemy Fighter. Opposition On “Reduced Scale,’ Ten Axis: Planes Are Bagged

¥ ortresses Bag 41 Planes In One Battle   Big Successes Scored As 7 Towns in Sicily And Sardinia Bombed  DEFENSES STIPFEN

AIR ASSAULT AGAINST SICILY’ AND SARDINIA IN FIFTH DAY AS TARGETS GET HEAVY BOMBS

Sicily, Sardinia Pounded In Fight For Air Supremacy Damage Extensive

Allies Hammer Axis Airfields In Air Battles   30 Nazi Fighters Shot Down By Flying Fortresses

INVASION ROUTE BLASTED 4 DAYS   Italian Newspapers informPeople Allied Invasion Will Be Defeated.

Allies Continue Aerial Offensive Against Outposts   Gerbini in Sicily Battered 19 More Times Yesterday:

ALLIED AVIATORS SHOOT DOWN 30 GERMAN FIGHTERS   Sicily and Sardinia Roch Under Heavy Bombing: Messina Docks and Rail wavs Blasted.

Strike Hard At Italian Island Towns   Bombers Down 56 Foe Planes for Total Of 101 in Two Days

Allies Down 30 Planes Over Sicily   Strike New Blows in Battle to Secure Air Supremacy

10 AXIS PLANES SHOT DOWN; RAID SICILY TARGETS   Five Allied Craft Lost In Missions Over Axis Bases

Crushing Blows Rained  On Sicily And Sardinia   Allied Airmen Strike Hard at Towns in Pre-invasion Campaign to Gain Air Supremacy in Mediterranean Sea

BOMBER WAVES POUND SICILY AIRDROMES   Opposition Diminishes on 4th Day of Offensive

ALLIED BOMBERS “RAD ARDRONES NN SIOLY, AL  ensive in OUR ROMSBERS FIND  eakens   OUR BOMBERS FIND LITTLE OPPOSITION

Battle for Air Supremacy Over Sicily and Sardinia Was Fought Yesterday,  It Is Announced.   HIT BASES FOR THE AXIS AERIAL FLEETS   The Smashing Air Offensive Against Italian Outpost Island Went Through Its Third Day.

Thirty Nazis Planes Are  Shot Down   Allies Hammer Italian Islands

Great Air BattleWon By Allies   Sicily, Sardinia Pounded By Bombers —

IN FIFTH DAY OF AIR RAIDS ON ITALIANS   Allied Air Forces Keep Up Relentless Attacks on Southern Points.   Gerbini Is Battered Again by Big Bombers

ALLIES AGAIN SMASH SICILY AIR DEFENSES   Diminishing Opposition to Raiders is Noted as Bases  _Are Damaged But Few Planes Downed.

Allies Strike Heavy Blows In Mediterranean   Flying Fortresses Spearhead Attacks On Sicily, Sardinia

Axis Air Resistance In Sicily Paralyzed By Fortress Raiders   42 Enemy Fighters Downed in Day as Allied Bombers Smash at Key Airfields; British in “Commando” Stab at Crete

Raid Italy For Third . Straight Day   Forty-Two More Enemy Planes Downed; Fortresses Make Big Raid

Allies Strike Heavy Blows Over Italy   Seven Towns Are Hit; 101 Encmy Planes Downed in Two Days

Flying Forts Score Heavy  Victory Over Axis Planes .  101 Enemy Aircraft Downed In Two Days Of Aerial Battles In Mediterranean War Area

BOMB GERBINI 19 TIMES IN ONE DAY   AERIAL SIEGE OF SICILY, SARDINIA ENTERS SIXTH DAY

BATTLE FOR SUPREMACY OVER 2 ISLES   Smashing Aerial Offensive Against Outposts Spearheaded by Fortresses—Enemy Resist: snee Stiffens.

SICILY TOWNS HIT HARD BY ALLIED PLANES   In Addition To Six In Sicily, One In Sardinia Feels Pre Invasion Campaign Oi oie   101 Planes Downed

ALLIED AIRMEN DEVASTATE DUCE’ OUTPOST ISLANDS   Sardinia and Sicily "Dromes Battered on Fifth Day of Heavy. Raids.

SICILY PASTED HARD; 101 AXIS CRAFT BAGGED   FORTRESSES DOWN 41 OUT OF 100 GERMANS

5 Airdromes In Sicily Hit Hard In Raids   Down 30 To 100 Enemy Fighter Planes lu Battle; Commandos In Attack On Crete

Big Air Victory Scored By Yanks   Shoot Down 30 German Planes Over Sicily

Allied Bombers Hammer Sicily   Blast 6 Towns, Down 56 Enemy Planes

Allies Deal New Paralyzing Blows Axis Air Defense   3) German Fighters Shot Down If Third Day Of Smashing Aerial Offensive Over Italian Out: posts. Against Heavily Defending Axis Acrial Fleets.

FLIERS HIT AIRDROMES ON SICILY   Fifth Straight Day of Heavy Raids On Fields

Gerbini Is Battered 19 Times In One  Day By Allies   All Western Sicily Plastered Time After Time; Bombs Fall  Caniinnuonsly In lavers

Airmen Shatter Axis Isles   U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES HIT SICILY, SARDINIA; ENEMY LOSSES 41 PLANES

NEW ASSAULTS POUND SICILY   Raids on Invasion Island  Continued by Allies

SICILY IS SUBJECTED TO INTENSIVE FORAYS   Smashing of Axis Strength on Invasion Route Con tinues With Opposition Decreasing in Blasted Areas——Wave After Wave of Allied Bombers Maintains Incessant Bombardment in Aerial Offencive.

AXIS AIRFIELDS POUNDED ANEW   Bases On Sardinia And Sicily Hit For 5th Successive Dav

Danger To: Liberty In House Bill?   Congress Loath To Grant Gestapo Powers To Office

Anti-Sabotage Bill Up Again — Suspicious House  Considers Measure 2eA Tima ln 2 Vsaale

Suspicion On Death Penalty Sabotage Bill   Measure Approved For Passage Gets Heated Reception

Machine Guns, Tanks Occupy  Japanese Camp   Military Pats End to Long Series of Enemy Disturbances

Four Uninjured. When Car Drops ~ Over High Bank  Auto Demolished After   Auto Demolished After Crashing Down 15 Foot Embankment

MAN KILLED AT CHURCH SERVICE   JEALOUSY-MADDENED HUSBAND FIRES SHOT AT PRAYING SOLDIER

Soldier Stain During Sermon   Slayer Surrenders And Claims Other Broke Up Home

SOLDIER SLAIN DURING CHURCH      “ Killed Him Because He _Broke Up My Home,” Greek Taven Owner Tells Policeman

QOLDIER 1S SHOT DURING SERVICES   Jealous Husband Gets Revenge From Man Who Brake Un Home.

SOLDIER SLAIN AS PRIEST SAYS MASS      Man Who Wielded Gun Surrenders To Police

SOLDIER FATALLY SHOT IN CHURCE   San Francisco Tavern Owner Held for Murder of  Sarvice Man.

MEAT IS ALL GONE IN SAN FRANCISCO   Appeal for Help Is Sent te Federal Government

SAN FRANCISCO ASKS FOR MEAT   Sends Appest Te Government Alter Three Vieatless Dave

Fighter Planes Maintain Aerial War on Europe   RAF Scores Five-One Vic tory over Enemy Craft: Bombers Inactive

RAF KEEPS UP DAY OFFENSIVE   Fighters Continue Raids On Unannounced Nazi Positions

DAY ATTACKS ARE MADE BY RAF AIRMEN   Fighter Planes Score Fiveto-One Victory Over Enemy

Fighter  Planes Maintain. Air — iPressure-on Western Europe. But Bia Bombers Stay Inactive

NAZIS HAVE A NEW TANK   Heavier Equipment Is Being Sent _+To Battle of Kursk

~ DEFENSE COUNCIL   Appropriation Measure Is Da ssed by House and Sent to Senate

MONEY FOR STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL   Appropriation Measure Is issed by House and Sent to Senate     fATTIC rap OF YIN

House Passes State Defense Council Bill   $85,710 Appropriation Goes To Senate; Busy Week For Legislators   New Bill Would Permit Primary Absentee Vote   Senate Gets Long Building And Loan Code From The House

135,000 Steel Workers Out Over Nation   Workers At 215 Plants  Remain Away From Posts

Paralyzing Strike Grips Steel Industry _ With Over 70,000 War Workers Off Duty

Alhies Join In Heaviest Day  Raid Of War   Assault Follows Up RAF Night Bombardment Of Nazi Capitol.   CITY LEFT IN FLAMES

Parts of Berlin Mass of Flames  From RAF Bombs   Great Fleet of RAF Plane: Foils Berlin's Weary Defenders.   Daylight Campaign on Continent Is Resumed

‘ROCKET GUN’ COAST, BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN      Heavy Daylight Assaulis or France Follow Seventh Big Bombing Reich Capital   17 BOMBERS LOST   Whole Sections of Berlis Turned Into Spouting Volcano, Returning Fliers Sey

CITY TURNED INTO MASS OF FIRE   Capital Is Rocked By More Than 1,120 Tons   17 BOMBERS   Missing In Action Carried Out In Cloudy Weather; France Also Hit

New Raid On Weary Berlin   Great Fires Started By Day-Before-Ohristmas Deluge of Bombs

FLEET OF AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS HIT “ROCKET-GUN COAST _ RAF BOMBERS BLASTED  BERLIN AGAIN LAST NIGH} IN HEAVY ATTACK

Calais Under Attack; Nazi Capital Blasted   Raid on French Coast Follows Devastating Nizht Blow by RAF

Biast Berlin Into a Solid Mass of Fires   RAF Bombers Carry Christmas Message to Capital of Reich

GREAT FLEET U.S. PLANES MAKE ATTACK   “Rocket-Gun Coast” of France Comes Under New Pounding by Americans Today

Sky Men  Hammer France   YANK FORTS, LIBERATORS JOIN SHATTERING SMASH AT “ROCKET-GUN COAST”

CHRISTMAS EVE ATTACK MADE TODAY ON PAS DE CALAIS   Great Fleet of Flying For tresses and Liberators Joined in Heavy Attack.   RAF HIT AT BERLIN   Hammered at Mysterious Objectives on the French Coast.

‘Rocket Gun Coast’ Is Pounded by Americans; British Blast At Berlin

GERMAN OFFENSIVE ON 400-MILE FRONT HAS BEEN STOPPED     ‘Troops of Soviet Baltic Army  Are Storming the Outer Defenses of Vitebsk.   NEAR FORTIFIED BASE   Eight Hundred Germans Killed in Drive; New Gaps in German Lines.

RECORD FORCE OF BOMBERS S INCLUDED   Collection of “Heavies” Largest Ever Sent Out y Eighth Air Force— arget Is the Pas de Calais Area. .

BERLIN GETS BOMB SHOWER AS SAPS CHRISTMAS GI ONLY TT PLAWES ABE LST

Over 1,300 U. S. Planes — In Force Attacking Nazi Ractions On French Coast

—AIR WAR—  HUGE AMERICAN BALD LAUNCHED   German Fighter Planes Foiled In Deceptive Attack On Capital   17 BOMBERS LOST   Three-Fourths Of Great Nazi City Believed Laid Waste

RAF Again © ¢ Leaves Berlin In Flames *   Great Procession Of U. S. Bombers -Opens Gigantie  Davlicht Assault

Over 1,300 Planes Of U. S. &th Air Force Take Part In PocedeeCalais Attack

BER  LIN GIVEN 7TH BOMBING   1,120 Tons of Four-Ton Blockbusters and Other Eplasives Usect.   CITY IN FLAMES AGAIN

Seventh Raid On Capital ls Success   Section Of City Is Mass Of Flames From Incendiary Bombs

HEAVIEST RAID ON © _ “ROCKET GUN COAST’: RAF BATTERS BERLIN   Great Fleets of Flying Fortresses, Liberators. ‘and Fighters Keep Up Unending Day-Night Attacks, On Calals Area. Berlin Caught by Surprise, Great Fires Se.

Daylight Blow Follows Heavy Berlin Attack   U. S. Forts, Liberators Smashing Invasion Area; RAF Losses In Night Assault Licht

BERLIN GIVEN 7TH ATTACK IN FIVE WEEKS   Assault Probably Brings Destruction of the Reich Capital Near ThreeQuarter Mark   GREAT FIRES STARTED

1,120-TON BOMB LOAD SETS FIRES IN BERLIN AGAIN   RAF RAIDING FORCE OUTSMARTS GERMANS IN SURPRISE ATTACK

ROCKET COAST’ POUNDED AGAIN BY AMERICANS   Another 1,120 Tons of  Bombs Dropped on Nazi Capital   Started by RAF

Berlin Gets Seventh Night Raid   Number of U. S. Planes Sets Record; Calais Area Is Hit

British Lose Only 17 Of Their Planes In Attack   Day-Before-Christmas Deluge Starts Fires Again; Nazis Use Tapegre Talk Again

RAF BOMBERS STRIKE BERLIN DURING NIGHT   City Left A Mass Of Flames; Was Surprise Raid

City Battered Seventh Time In Five Weeks  Three Quariers Of Nazi Capital Arne Yu Diutna

ROYAL AIR FORGE HAMMERS BERLIN IN TERRIFIC RAID   German Capital Plastered with 1,120 Tons of  Biicle Bareilinetesnce

YANKEE AIRMEN BLAST FRENCH COASTAL AREAS   Huge Fleet of Flying Fort resses and Liberators i: Pound “Rocket-Gun  WN ocfe”   AERIAL PARADE - WAS THUNDEROUS   Assault Follows German Bombardment of English ‘Sectors. Across ~ Channel -

1,00 PLANES OVER CHANNEL   Follows Up Smashing Night Assault on Berlin;. Calais Region Hit.

ROCKET COAST ALSO POUNDED   Mightiest Daylight Attack Is Made On Pas De Calais

ENEMY FIGHTER PLANES CAUGHT “RL AT-FOOTED”   More Than 1.120 Tons of Four-Ton Blockbusters and Other High Explosives Used   FIRES VISIBLE TO AIRMEN 120 MILES   No More Than 17 Bombers Of Total Force of Many Hundreds Lost In Deyastating Assault

Berlin Left Atfire By Previous Raid   Big and Sittle Planes Cross Strait on Heels of Powerfu RAF Attack on Capital

Raids Rock Reieh   7th Raid On Berlin Leaves City ThreeFourths Destroyed

Biggest Day  Raid of War  ~ Sweeps Coast   ‘Follows 7th Major Blow — Struck at Berlin By RAF Night Shift

Planned Cattle Ceilings Flayed   Beef Bloc Asserts Plon Unworkable

Turkey to Free Flyers Of Allied, Axis Nations Who Have Been Interned

HINT TURKS PLAN 10 FREE AIRMEN   interned Allied Pi Pilots Likely to Be Released in Few Days, Report

NACo FALLING BACK Ao ALLIED DRIVE RENEWED   Fierce Fighting Still Going On But Allies Definitely Have Better Of Going

ADVANCING NEAR NAPLES   Patrols of 8th And 5th Armies Make Contact

ACE ROW FLARED AT MOBILE YARD   Disturbance Quickly Quell ed, But Guards On Alert

White, Negro Welders at Mobile Clash   Soldiers and Police Called into Shipyard to Quell Disturbance; Eight Men Are Iniured

Gas Firm Here Takes Name Of Texas  Public Service Company, New Owner

COOL RECEPTION GIVEN SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN   Grandiose Scheme To Make Over American Way Of Life Put On Shelf   NO LEGISLATIVE PLANS   Press Of Vital Business Given As Reason For Delay In Action

SFE NO HOPE OF ACTION IN '43 CONGRESS   Senator George Plans Nine- Member Group For Inquiry

Post-War Plan Submitted But Little Chance Congress Will Take Any Action This Year

SOCIAL PLAN REPORT SENT TO CONGRESS   POST-WAR AND SOCIAL SECURITY EXPANSION PROGRAM OF PLANNING BOARD I5  . « PRESENTED

Premier Pledges Pitiless Attack   “Avalanche of Fire and Steel”  Is Moving, He Tells Badoglio

Churchill Says Italians Have Made  No Peace Overtures, But Other  Scurces Would Not Be Surpris ed To See Them Soon   HAMBURG HIT BY ROYAL AIR FORCE

Tough Soviets Claim 30,000 Germa ns Slain   Count Shows More Than 1,500 Axis Tanks Destroyed In Push

Germans Rush Reserve Units  To Red Front   Russians Declare Brilliant Fighting Holds Foe To ‘Limited Gains.’   HEAVY: TANK BATTLES

SLIGHT ENEMY GAIN COSTLY, REDS REPORT   Tank Battle Greatest Ever Fought in East,  Germans Claim

OVER 30,000 NAZIS SLAIN SOVIETS SAY   German Losses in Men and Material Regarded As Greatest Single  ' Blow   REDS STILL GAINING

30,000 Germans Are Slain   Russians Make Hitler Pay Dearly For Gains

Mass Air Force, Army In Belgorod Area: Russians Report 30,000 Foe Dead

HEAVILY FOR SOVIET GAINS   Russians Claim 30,000 Nazis Killed During Three-day Battle   GREAT BATTLE RAGES ON EASTERN FRONT   Reds Admit Germans Have Made Gains In Area Around Belgorod

NAZIS USING RESERVES IN KURSK DRIVE   __ Limited to Small Gains in One Sector in Biggest Armored Clash on Eastern Front—Reds Fight Brilliantly. ,

Nazis Hurl Fresh Troops Into Offensive To Deepen Initial Gains On Belgorod Front

Nazis Pouring Fresh Reserves Into Fight: 30 Divisions Involved   Soviets Fighting More Brilliantly Than Ever Before; Great Rapid-Fire Blow Dealt Germans

Only Minor Gains Made By Nazis, Despite Desperate Efforts: Fresh German Reserves Pushed Up To Bolster Offen sive.

NAZIS: PUSHING FRESH TROOPS INTO BATTLES      ‘Red’ Army. Fighting Brilliantly Holds German Hordes to ~ Small Gains   HEAVY TOLL EXACTED BY REDS IN MEN. WEAPONS

Fresh Nazi Reserves Are Pushing Up   Battle in Russian Area Called ‘Greatest Ever Fought on Eastern Front to Date’

30,000 Germans Killed Toll Of First 4 Days   Forced To Bring Up Reserves As Soviet Armies Slash Away To Hold Enemy To Slight Gains: Lose Tanks And Planes.

Small Gain Made Near Be lgorod   Russians Report Nazis Have Lost 30,000 Ir First Three Days 0! Battle In Plains

Germans Throwing In Huge Reserves   Russians Claim Gains Smal] In Offensive Designed To  Eliminate Kursk Salient

HSS HOLDING. UFNSHE TO ~SHMLL CI   Air Battles in Belgorod Area Declared Greatest Ever Fought in: East,   30,000 GERMANS KILLED _ IN-3 DAYS OF FIGHTING

Report 30,000 Germans Killed {mn Gigantic Battle In Kursh Sector

Nazis Bolster Forces In Russia Drive   New Soviet Air Cannons Smash Tanks; Glider: Bring Up Hitler Troops   GAINS ARE SMALL   ES eee. EN RR GER ee     Teutons Mass Aircraft, ‘Tanks In Fresh Tactics To Pinch Off Salient

GERMANS RUSHING FRESH TROOPS 10 “THE SLAUGHTER   Reds Are Fighting More Brilliantly Than Ever Before   LIMIT THE NAZIS TO SMALL GAINS

1.539 TANKS DESTROYED   "Germans Rush Reserves To Bolster Drive On Kursk: Both Sides Say Aerial Fights Are Raging

NAZI RESERVES POURED INTO RUSSIAN FRONT   Reds Say 30,000 Germans Dead, 649 Planes Down, 1,639 Tanks Damaged.

Nazis send it fresh troops to red plains   649 planes shot ‘down in first 3 days of fighting

Nazis Met  By Immense  Red Armies   Soviet Troops Are Fighting More Brilliantly Than Ever Before

REDS SAY WAZ! GAINS ARE SMALL   Soviets Report 30,000 Of Enemy Slain In @ Three-Day Fight

‘Brilliant Red ‘Army Holds Nazi: To Small Gains   30,000 Germans Slain, I,539 Tanks and’ 649 Planes. Deetroyed by Russian Forces in First Three Days of Fighting.

NAZIS RUSH RESERVES TO FRONT   Apparently Aim Pincers To Join Behind Kursk

REDS’ DECLARE 30,000 OF FOE SLAIN IN 3 DAYS   Germans Assert 862 Soviet Tanks Destroyed in Blazing Battles

Nazis Send In Reserve Troops In  Kursk Area   30,000 Casualties: 1,539 Tanks Are Destroyed

HEAVY DESTRUCTION. ~ REPORTED BY.2 FOES   Russian “Defense = To -. Death Holds German Onslaught: = To Minor ‘Advanase

‘oe Rushes reserves fo cursk Front   German Gains Limited In Hard Fiahtina

‘30,000 Nazis Already Dead  Soviets Claim   Germans Bring Up Fresh Reserves; Both Sides Using Planes and Tanks

Germans Pour Fresh Forces ° (Into Kursk Drive; 1539 Tanks, 649 Planes Smashed, Say Reds

Nazis Fighting Hard Near Orel   RUSSIANS KILLED — 3,000 IN THREE DAYS SAY REDS

Nazis Throw Fresh Reserves Into Belzorod Fight: Reds Give Little

Nazis Throw In Reserves   Airmen Attack Constantly To Bolster Drive

TERRIBLE LOSSES SUFFERED BY NAZIS IN NEW OFFENSIVE  THIRTY THOUSAND MEN SLAIN, 1,539 TANKS AND f£AQ PIANES BEEN TOcT

NAZI RESERVES FAIL TO CRACK RUSS. DEFENSES   German Advance Limited  To Small Gains Near   Belgorod   TANK BATTLES RAGE   Massed Soviet Defenders Kill 30,000 Nazis In Three Days

GERMANS PAY DEAR PRICES FOR ADVANCE   No Decisive Break-through Scored by Germans Despite Ferocity of Their Offensive

NAZI RESERVES PUSH AHEAD ON KURSK PLAINS   Small Gains Made Against Stiff Soviet Resistance In Belgorod Area   HUGE LOSSES REPORTED   Russians Warn Against Undue Optimism, Say Enemy Force Is Strong

Nazi Losses High In Kursk Salient   Drive Is Costly  in Men, Planes and Tanks in  Three Day Fight   NEW RED RESERVES IN.   Counter Attacks Prevent Consolidation of Ger- man Gains

Great Offensive Of Nazis Limited To Small Gains   Unequalled Number Of Tanks and Planes Thrown Into Battle

FRESH HITLER HORDES MAKING SLOW PROGRESS   Pushing Through Smoke and Dust Along Paths Marked by Wrecked Machines, Dead   RED DEFENSE IS HELD. BRILLIANT   i  Berlin Describes Tank Battles In Belgorod Area “Greatest Ever Fought On Eastern Front”

Nazi Reserves Used to Bolster Russian Drive   Kursk Offensive Limited to Small Gains at Belgorod

Russian Infantry And Artillery Halt Tank Drives   Air Forces and Armor Used by Both Sides in: Strength Seldom Seen Before On Any Front: Soviets‘Hervest Grain

Nazis Bolster Their Offense In Kursk Area   Fresh Reserves Brought Up After Russians Slaughter 30.000,   Germans Limited to Small Gains in 3 Days

30,000 GERMANS SLAIN AT KURS   Russians Fighting Brilliantly To Stem Giant Nazi Offensive   LIMITED ADVANCES   Hitler's Forces Score Only Slight Advances, ’ Reds Declare

Fresh German Troops Moving  Against Reds   Gains Limited, Moscow Says; 30,000 Slain In Early Stages, 1,539 Tanks Smashed

Hifler Makes © Supreme Effort On East Front   Record Land, Air Forces Clash; 30,000 Axis Trooos Killed

Nazis Throw In Reserves ToBolster Kursk Drive   Russians Claim 30,000 Of Enemy Killed, 1,539 Tanks, 619 Planes Destraved In Battle

‘GERMAN PLANES ATTACHED T0 ARMORED COLUMNS UNDER NEW PLAN OF ATTACK   Enemy. Apparently Attempting To Pinch Off Soviet Salient Extending 60-Miles West From  Kyrelk As Immediate Goal ,

CLAIM 30,000 NAZIS KILLED IN S-DAY BATTLE   Soviets Admit Only Smal Enemy Advances in Belgorod Sector

JAP SHIPPING IN CHINA SEA Hil   Gunboat and Freight. er Are Sunk

HARD IN NEW RAF ASSAULI   Reconstruction Work In Battered Reich City Demolished

R.A. F. Heavy . Bombers Again Pound Coloane   Air Fleets Also Hit Three Axis Ships And Rail Transport

Cologne Hit In RAF Raid   Most Bombed City In Germany Raided Aaain

COLGGNE 1S POUNDED FOR 116TH TIME   RAF Sent To Flatten Any Reconstruction In Vital WarlndustriesConcentrated  Along’ Rhine   9 Nazi Fighters

COLOGNE IS AGAIN BOMBED BY FLIERS   German City Is Pounded by Airmen for 116th Time

COURAGE AND SKILL SHOWN AS PATROL. KILLS 110 JAPANESE ON GUADALCANAL

Low Receipts Push Retail  Sales Levies   Eight Billion Short of Demands, House Tax Group Joins in Showdown Scrap

House Approves Farm Labor Bill  To Include Costs in Reaching Parity

House passes farm parity revision bill   Asks inclusion aft lahar cast«

VOTE TO REVISE PARITY FORMULA   HOUSE WOULD REQUIRE INCLUSION OF LABOR COSTS IN FIXING FARM PRICES,

HOUSE VOTES FARM LABOR COSTS BIL!   Requires Inclusion of Increase In Setting Parity

House Votes to Include Labor Costs in Parities for Farm Products

House Passes Bill to Add Labor Costs to Parity   Farm Bloc. Brings Up Pace Measure During. Absence of ‘City Members’; Threats of Presidential Veto Ignored

INCLUDES COST OF FARM LABOR   House Votes New Parity Basis Despite Threat of FDR Veto

Labor Added To Parity Despite Threat Of Veto   House ‘Farm ‘Bloc “Slips Bill Over’. - On Surprise Vote:

House Accepts Parity Revision In Surprise Move   Inclusion of Farm Labor Costs Required In New Measure

TEN SEA SCOUTS. DROWNED IN BAY   Only One Survives After Cabin Cruiser Cap sizes

110 Sea Scouts Drown ‘When Vessel Overturns Off Coast of New York

Ten Sea Scouts Drown Off Coast; Skipper Rescued   Converted Submarine Chaser Capsizes and Sinks in South Bay

SCOUTS-DROWNED: AS BOAT SINKS   Skipper Rescued; 10 Sea Uni Youths Perish-in- Great South Bay

10 DROWN AS CABIN CRUISER GOES DOWN   Sea Scouts Lose Their Lives in Great South Bay—Skipper Is Rescued.

10 SEA SCOUTS LOST IN GREAT SOUTH BAY   Only One Surviyer Picke:l Up After Their Cabln Cruiser Capsizes.

American Army Takes Sparanise        Red Forces Storm Krivoi Rog in Effort to Close Trap on Nazis

Cossack Raiders Near Approaches Along Black Sea   Entire Nazi Position In Southern Ukraine Reported Tottering

SOVIET TROOPS SPEED TOWARD CRIMEAN GOAL   Motorized Units Gain 50 Miles; Fall of Krivoi Rog Seen

CAPTURE OF TWO CITIES ANNOUNCED   Cossacks Ranging Approaches To Peninsula

Says Wage Stabilization Policy Holds   Hull Greeted at Airport by FDR;. Leaders of Move ‘to Outlaw Poll Tax Seek Compromise

WARNG LABOR OF ‘SHOVING   WLB to Stand Firm By ‘Little Steel Formula,’ Says Chairman.   ‘TAX DEBATE FORESEEN

WLB Chief Says Wage Line Held   Stabilization (Policy Upheld By William Davis; Can’t Discard Little Steel Formula

JAPS CHASED INTO JUNGLES ‘OF N. GUINEA   Combination Of Air Power, Infantry Means Victory: Few Prisoners, Equipment Taken

Yanks Fight Way Out Of Nazi Trap In Africa And Bring Prisoners Too

THRU ENEMY RING   Two Trapped American  Companies Fight Way Out in Tunisia

Privates Who Stole Plane Are Taken   Army Admits Men Did “Pretty Good Job of Flving”’

Soviets Press Forward in the Kuban Offensive  MANY NAZIS FALL BEFORE RUSS GUNS  More Than 560 Enemy Planes Have Been Destroyed

REDS HIT HARD AT FOE BY AIR   Claim 930 Nazi Warplanes Destroyed or Damaged In Week's Fighting

Russians Blast 930 German Planes in Week   Soviets Smash Nazi Attacks in Caucasus:  Aerial Raids Links With Allies in West

RED AIR MEN DESTROY 930 NAZI PLANES   American Made Ships Used By Russians As Aerial Might Increases; Blast German Rail Junctions   Sink Transport

Soviets Press Forward in the Kuban Offensive   MANY NAZIS FALL BEFORE RUSS GUNS   BEFORE RUSS GUND  More Than 560. Enemy Planes Have Been Riactraved     ,

Nazi Attacks In Caucasus  Are Smashed   Aerial Activity Seen as Prelude to Great Ground Operations~

Triumphant Week Passes in Russia; Germans Lose On All Sides: ‘Many Enemy Ships. Planes Down

930 Axis Planes Smashed by Reds In Week's Drive   Moscow Reports Successfu Start of Summer Campaign   VUNG  German Key Rail Junctions and Bases Heavily Romhed

Red Air Force Takes Toll of 930 Nazi Planes   Russians Also Smash Counterattacks in Novorossisk Sector

Reds repel German attempts to regain sround in Caucasus   Russians down 930 German planes in one week of fierce air battles

Reds Destro} 930 Planes InOne Week   Germans Getting Sample of What's To Come Next

Russians Repulse Nazi Effort To Cross Donets; Destroy 1,300 Planes

New Record in Bombing Set   Enemy Loss of Men and Supplies In Africa Heavy.

RAF Drops 1,500 Tons Of Bombs   34 Planes Lost in Attack on Nazi Transport Center— Total! Prisoners May Reach 175,000 — Alexander  Hails Tunisian Victory

Nazi Home — Front Rocked By RAF Bombs   More Than 1,500 Tons of Bombs Were Dropped on Duisburg in Heaviest Aerial Attack of the War; Last Axis Resictance Ceases in Tunisia

Duisburg Pounded With More Than 1,500 Tons Bombs   All Organized Resistance in Africa Vanishes

Duisburg Target Of War’s Heaviest Air Bombardment   ast Enemy Resistance Collapses in Tunisia; Gen. ‘Von Arnim : Among 150,000 Captives

Duisburg Mit Hard Krone Air   .- - Raiders Drop 1,500 Tens of Explesives

Make Biggest Raid Of War  Before Dawn   Last Axis Resistance Terminates In Tunisia

Duce Calls Surrender In Africa   Nalinn Messe Among 16 Axis Gener: Captured in ‘Tan

Camp Gruber Calls Out Soldiers to Evacuate Residents af Fort Gibson in Path of Grand Lake Flood, Webber Falls

CREST OF 49 FEET MAY HIT “IN OKLAHOMA   Thousands Are Homeless. Scores of Communities Isolated — Grand Lake Stabilized Near Top of Dam..

1,000 Persons To Evacuate Fort Gibson   Coody’s Bluff Engulf_ed by Rampaging Verdiaris River

THOUSANDS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF LOWLAND HOMES   Record - Breaking Crest on Arkansas River Awaited At Muskogee Today

FATHER DRAFT BECOMES LEGAI   But Senate Continues Its Debate on Question

Draft of Fathers Officially Starts   446,000 Will Be Called This Year

SENATE DEBATES PROPOSAL: OF DEFERMENT   October U'shars in Drafting 6f Fathers and Two Calls a  Month

May Call Dads According To Attained Age   Draft Boards Seek To Avoid Calling Fathers Until Senate Takes Vote

DRAFTING OF PRE-WAR FATHERS BECAME LEGAL TODAY SOME MAY - BEINDUCTED DURING OCTOBER

Senate Debates As Draft Of Fathers Is In Effect: Taft Has New Proposal

FATHERS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR DRAFT TODAY   Become Subject To Induction While Debate Continues

INTEREST HIGH IN OTH COLES COUNTY FAIR   Thursday to Be Observed as Annual Mattoon Day

RESTAURANT PRICE CEILINGS ORDERED   Frozen As Of Last Week Some May Be Lowered

PRICE GEILING ON RESTAURANTS NOW   From Swank Hotels to Night Owl Beaneries All Included.

NAZI MARSHAL FAUtO JOUECZE IN EVERY AREA   Allied Land, Air And Sea Forces Combine To Deal Misery To Axis

» berlin Plunged Into Jitters By Moscow Parley   Nazis Uneasy Over Dangers Etched In Roosevelt Report

TAX COLLECTIONS DROP   Nazis Say Moscow Meet Has Set Date For Opening Of Long Sought Second Front

Berlin Worried Over Conference  Nazis Report Date Set for Invasion

Moscow Parley Plunges Berlin In New Anxiety  "Fixed Date’ for ~ Launching Seconc _. Front Reported

Berlin Fears Allied Thrust   Hears Allies Have Given Russia Fixed - Date for Invasion 

»Berlin Plunged. Into Jitters By. Moscow Parley.   Nazis’ Uneasy: ‘Over Dang rs: Etched In:  ot f,

Says Contract Failure Will Not Cause Strike   Union Organ Outlines Policy In Editorial; Attacks Radio Crystal Gazers and Commentators

Accept Food Parley Bid   Soviet Union To Sit « In On Talks Slated To Begin April 27

Russia Will Take Part In Parley  Accepts Invitation     To Food Conference

Reds Accep! Bid to Food Conference   Acceptance Brings Talk  On Other Planned Parleys

Reds Accept Bid to World Food Parley   Deliberations Set To Begin April 27 Ai Unnamed Point

Russ To Appear At Food Parley   Allied Heads To Meet At Undisclosed Place

ALLIES. ATTACK ON 1200 MILE BATTLEFRONT   War’s Heaviest Raid Carried Out On Submarine Base Of Lorient, France

Sardinia  And Sicily Battered   Extensive Bombings Ri ported—Nazi Industria] Centers Raided Again

SEVEN RAIDS CARRIED OUT BY BOMBERS   Nazi Submarine Nest Suffers Heaviest Raid On Record

RAF, AMERICAN PLANES. SPREAD DESTRUCTION   Russians Ready To Smash Rostov In Offensive

‘Red Army Knocks At Gates OF   Rostov And Threaten To Capture City Soon; Big Russian Triumph Int East Expected   ‘BUSY SUNDAY FOR . RAF U.S. PLANES

NEW LEGION HEAD   W. H. Pasewark Commander of Dorsey-Liberty Post

NO SHIFT OF RELIEF LOAD TO COUNTIES   Governor, at First for It, Finds Adjournment Date Prevents.   WATER AUTHORITY. PROBE STARTED   Democrat Accuses G.O.P. of Ripper Billing Democrats.

Issue jis Eliminated After Conference With The Governor  CYOTWER CAPITAL NEWS

NACI REAR GUARD OtEKG TO COVER HURRIED RETREAT   Withdrawal Almost A Rout As Cars and Trucks Jam scape Corridor

HOOVER'S FOOD PLAN SPURNED   State Department Says Probfem Is One For Military

PLANT HERE T0 GET EQUIPMENT   N. Y. Governor Orders Work Rushed On Plane Gas Job

DELAY IN BUILDING TEXAS REFINERY 1S ENDED BY NEW YORK  GOVERNOR DEWEY AND PARTY LEADERS AGREE TO LEND-LEASE PLAN

DEWEY SPEEDS REFINERY JOB AS LEND-LEASI   Barge Canal Machine Shop Okdered to Expedite Work for Texas Plant Now Held Up

Churchill Speech Is Reassuring to American People   Is Heartening Survey of Our Prospects, Glenn Babb Declares

Churchill Hints That Allies Seek Axis Collapse By Air Power Alone   Churchill Has Budzet OF Good News—   a aa —By Glen  Only Hope For Axis Is To Snlit Demacraciac.

One-Fourth of Troops Killed on Reef as  Texans First to Attack New Britain

TEXANS PLAYED BIG  ROLE IN INVASION  "OF NEW BRITAIN CAPT ED WRIGHT OF  DALLAS LED TEXAS UNI’ IN ONE 'TANDING

Many Texans Take Part in American Sixth  Army's Successful Invasion of New Britair

Lifeline of  Germans Into [taly Smashed By Fortresses   Big U. S. Bombers  Operating from North African Bases Wreck Rridge Near Brenner

PLANES SMASH NAZI RAILROAD LINE TO ITALY   Bridge Near Brenner Pass Destroyed in North Italian Raids

RAIDING ITALY   Complete Longest Kaid of War from North African Buses to Smash German Lifeline by Wrecking Railroad Bridge.

American Forts Smash German  Lifeline To Italy   Railway Bridge South of Brenner Pass  Blasted By Bombers 

FORTRESSES SMASH NAZI LIFELINE INTO ITALY NEAR PASS   Flying From North Africa, Force Makes Its Longest — Raid And Wrecks 2 Railway Bridges:

BRENNER PASS AREA BOMBED BY U.S. FORCE   n Long Raid to Cut German Lifeline To Italy

AMERICANS WRECK BRIDGENEAR  BRENNER PASS CRIPPLING NAZI 4 ~ COMMUNICATIONS WITH ITAL’   Longest Raid Of War From North African Bases—Rail way Cut At Trento and Industrial Center Bomhed By Forts

WPB Estimates Minimum Supplies Can Be Slashed If It Becomes Necessary

ARMY  MAKES LANDING ABOVE RIVER   After securing beach. head, drove forward to meet other troops

Nazis Fall Back Along Entire Italian Front   Anglo-American Forces Score Decisive Gains; British Infantry, Tanks Are Landed At Mouth Of Volturno

Yanks Make Gains Along River Front   Germans Preparing For Siege of Rome

LITTLE GIRLS - STRUCK BY AUT   Patricia Mullins, Age Nini Years, Suffered Broken Left Leg _

LITTLE GIRL fo OIAUGA BY AUT?   Patricia Mullins, Age Nine Years, Suffered Broken Left Leg.

107 Deaths On  Thanksgiving   War-Time Factors Credited With Holding Traffic  Fatalities Down.

VIOLENT DEATHS TO 103 FOR DAY   Traffic Fatalities Total 41 in U. S. Yesterday—4 Die On Oklahoma Roads

Violent Deaths Touch 107 Mark   Holiday Traffic Tol Droos-To 44. However

103 Persons Die On Thanksgiving   Traffic Deaths Are Held to 41, Survey Reveals

107 Die in U.S. Holiday Accidents   TRAVEL CURBS, OTHER RESTRICTIONS HOLD TRAFFIC DEATHS TO 44

Merit Plan Killed in > the House   Streamlined Substitute for Governor's Program Voted Down 84 to 24   2 DEMOCRATS AND 12 OF G.O.P. FOR IT   Republican Speaker and Floor Leader Among Those Voting Against It

Republicans In House Spurn Merit System   Donneli’s Measure Gets as Many Votes From Democrats

Terrific Boosts in Taxes Proposed by Bipartisan Groups   Sentiment for “Pay-asYou-Go” Policy Is  Growing on “Hill”

GOVERNOR EXPECTS “ppgsaie’ seccin   Members of Congress Move to Boost Taxes to Meet Demands of Budget -

Solons Call For Stiff Increases  Of Federal Tax   Demand Close Scrutiny Of Appropriations In  Congress

STIFFER TAX ~ BOOSTS NEAR   Congress Hears Reports of Increases Recommended

MOTHER OF WELSH TO THE STAND   Fights Back the Tears as She Testifies in Son’s. Defense   TELLS OF FINDING DAUGHTER’S: BODY   ‘Brother and’ Sister Were Very Close to Each Other, She Tells Jury

Mrs. Welsh Takes Stand In Son‘s Defense And Tells of Affection for His Sister

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Nawaparer   WASHINGTON Ru Rav Tucker

fommel Orders Destruction Of Second Port; Flees Northward Toward Tunts.

FDR-CHURCHILL IN A SECRET SESSION   Believed Discussing Coming Conference With Russia

CHURCHILL SEEK 3-POWER PARLEY   Secrecy Shrouds Washington Meeting, How awenr

CONGRESS QUITS FOR A VACATION OF TWO MONTES   SENATE AND HOUSE WILL BE IN VACATION UNTIL SEPT. 14TH UNLESS CALLED BACK SOONER ON EMERGENCY.   APPROPRIATIONS TOTAL 109 BILLIONS   Federal Food Agency Promises More Beefsteak for the Public— Anti-Strike Law May Be Used for First Time Against Miners.

?  SOON RE-APPEAR ON J. S. TABLES   Congress Goes Home For  Two - Month Respite; Coal Miners Continue Strixes.

DROP TO 17 AT ELLIS      More Freezing Temperatures Over State Tonight Predicted

Draft Manpower  Hyes Tarn 0  US. Employes Hershey Will Be  Summoned Before Congress

Hopes For Delaying Draft Of Fathers Get Dimmer, Congress Looks To The Gov’t Workers As Manpower Source

EYE FEDERAL EMPLOYES AS DRAFT SOURCE   Estimate 300,000 Non. Dads Deferred In U. S. Service

Seek to Draft Government Employes   At Least 300,000 Deferred Men Are Available

RSHEY BE ED EXPLAIN ATION   eeler Bill Is pected To  ce In Senate

FEDERAL EMPLOYES — MAY SAVE FATHERS   Congress Looks Forward to Induction of Workers to Fill Manpower Demands.

Hershey Asked to Explain Deferment Of Goverment. Men   More Than 300,000 Non-Fathers in Government Service Have Not Been Drafted; - ‘Over 6000 Listed: As Unclassified

U.S. Employes Eyed for Draft   Hershey to Explain 300,000’s Deferment

FEDERAL EMPLOYES LOOM AS SOURCE OF DRAFT MANPOWER      Prospects Grow Dim For , Senate Approval Of © Bill To Defer ~° - " Bethebe 6° aver ia,

GOV'T EMPLOYES INSTEAD OF DADS MAY BE NEXT      Hershey Will Have: to Explain Why. Washington Workers Are Not Drafted

Government Men Seen As Source ‘For Manpower   Hope For Approval of Wheeler Bill In Senate Appears Dim

CONGRESS LOOKS . TOU. 8. EMPLOYES FOR-DRAET-SOURCE      Rilled. ae Service,

PANTELLERIA IS AGAIN ATTACKED BY AMERICANS   The Fortified Italian Island Raided Three Times Yesterday.   RAF IN A FOLLOW-UP   Raided the Docks and AirFields Sunday Night.

Allies Bomb Pantelleria   Americans Make Three Attacks Within Five Hours, British Raid

AXIS AIRFIELD TARGETS FOR ALLIED FLIERS   Pantelleria is Attacked Three Times Within Five Hours Enemy  Planes Destroyed   NO OPPOSITION GIVEN

Four Air Fleets Focus Attacks Upon-Pantelleria   Yanks Raid Italian Isle Three Times In 5 Hours; RAF Follows At Night

Italian Island Bombed 3 Times   305 Axis Planes Destroyed In 5 Days

ALLIED WARPLANES CONTINUE BLASTING ITALIAN OBJECTIVES   PANTELLTRIA ISLAND AT  TACKED BY U. S. AND BRITISH BOMBERS

Allies Keep Up Aerial Attacks   ITALIAN SECTORS ARE BLASTED BY HEAVY BOMBS

LITTLE MALTA HIT 3 TIMES IN 5 HOURS   Italian Island of Pantelleria Is Blasted Again at Night by RAF, Following Heavy American Daylight Attacks.

Yank Planes in Three Raids on Pantelleria   R. A. F. Wellingtons Follow Up With Rlack.Ructar Attack

ITALIAN ISLE OFF CAP BON HAMMERED   Americans Attack Pantelleria Three Times In Five Hours

PANTELLERIA BLASTED FOUR TIMES IN DAY   Three Daylight Raids Follow Each Other Rapidly in Five Hour  See   NO AIR OPPOSITION   Blockbusters Dropped by RAF Wel: lingions in Night Assault—Sar. dinia Hit Again

Allies Down 305 Planes in 5-Day Smash   Pantelleria Island Fort and Ports-in Sardinia Blasted Again

ALLIES PUMMEL ITALIAN ISLAND OF PANTELLERIA   No Stiff Opposition Met I: Heavy Assault on Isle Near Cap Bon

305 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed In Five Days  American Craft   American Craft Hit Pantelleria Three Times In Five Hours

AXIS PLANE TOLL IN 5 DAYS 305   Heavy Attack Made on Sardinian Airdrome  Sees

Island Attack Staged by RAF and Yank Fliers   Blast Docks and Gun Emplacements in Raid on Italian Ports.   305 Axis Planes Ruined in 5 Day:

Yank Bombers, Fighters Hit Fortified Italian Islands In Three Raids

305. Axis Planes Destroyed In  Italian Raids: Cost Allies 18   American And British Air Forces Plaster Pantelleria Thrice Yesterday, Encountering No Enemy Onnosition.

U.S. Assaults Centered On - Dantelleria   Americans. Strike. Hard’ at Italian Island 3 Times in 5 Honrs   R.A.F. FOLLOWS UP - WITH NIGHT RAID   Defense Installations and Harbors. Are Targets of Various Planes

Pantelleria Island Is Again Raided by U. S., British ©   Axis Planes Destroyed in Mediterranean: Area Boosted to High of 305: Against Loss. of 18 Allied. Aircraft; Attack Follows Well-Laid Pattern:

Sees Success For Bombing Of Germany   Maj. Gen. Eaker Hints Bombers ‘‘To Take Hitler’s Measure’’ Yet This Summer

HINTS BOMBINGS TO DOWN HITLER   Maj. Gen. Eaker’s Statement Reveals Growing U. S. Air Power

SEES FRAUD IN COURT RULINGS   Prober Believes Philadelphia Judge, Gaye, Six “Crogk2d Dectsioris”

SEES FRAUD IN COURT RULINGS   Prober Believes Philadelphia _ dudge Gave Six “Crook ed Decisions”

Oil Patent Case Among Rulings  Six ‘Crooked’ Decisions Laid  To Former Circuit Court Judge

DUN AND BRADSTREET HEAD IS APPOINTED   Whiteside Succeeds Joseph L Weiner In Charge Of  a Ronnie

WAR PRISONERS TO HELP HARVEST  AMERICAN CROPS   German and Italian Soldiere to Work in Northwest Wheat Fielde.

SOLDIER BREAKS, ADMITS MURDER   Wayne Lonergan Meekly Tells of Killing His Wife In Her Apartment.

ere's How To Get Your Next Fall’s Fue! Oil Ration   Pplications From Local  sa Will Receive  War Board

ere’s How To Get Your Next Fall’s Fuel Oil Ration   Nsumers Will Receive Applications From Local War Board

GIRAUD SAYS ATTACK MUST BE 3-FRONT   And _ Simultaneous, North Sea Mediterradean And Russian; Expects Axis Defeat This Month   “Absolute Entente”’

HITLER MAY GIVE UP ARMY TITLE   “Intuition” Has Played Him False

NATION'S COAL FIRES  BURNED DANGEROUSL!  LOW ON MONDAY TUMULT AND SHOUTING   CONTINUES IN SENATE - POSTWAR POLICY

Germans Virtually Cleaned Out of the Donets River Basin   RUSSIANS TAKE KONOTOP; FALL OF STALINO IS EX PECTED MOMENTARILY AS REDS REACH THE CITY’S OUTSKIRTS

Stalino Expected To Fall   Russian Troops Have Crashed Into the Suburbs

Russians Say Whole German Front in Donets Collapsing   Soviets Army Is Rolling Steadily Toward the Dnieper.

Axis Authorities Ask 100 000 French  i chor ers to Help Fortify Italy’s Coast

22 MORE CITIES FALL IN SWEEP UPON ROSTOV   South Wing of Army Within 65 Miles of Important City

Desperate Axis Maneuver Fails   22 More Populated Areas Recaptured

-RED ARMY CAPTURES ‘22 TOWNS   Russians Push Attacks In Caucasus Area  And Northwest

RUSSIAN FORCES CONTINUE DRIVE TO ROSTOV BASE   More Than 100 German Units Brushed Aside — 12 Towns Recaptured

Liner Coolidge’s Skipper Cleared Declares Beaching Of Ship Saved Thousands  Of Lives After Blast

Captain Of Sunken Ship Is Acquitted   Coolidge Commander Was Courtmartialed After Liner Sank

LINER SKIPPER ISEXONERATED   Acquitted In Sinking Of Troopship That Hit Mine 2 In Pacific.

Liner Skipper Exonerated By Court Martial   Captain of the President Coolidge Is Cleared By Navy Board

SKIPPER OF LINER CLEARED; COOLIDGE STRUCK TWO MINES   Captain Claims Only Two Lives Were Lost in Mishap Off  Solomon Islands

LINER COOLIDGE SKIPPER ABSOLVEL   Nelson Freed of Blame in Naval Probe of Transport Sinking.

SKIPPER. FREED OF ALL BLAME IN SHIP SINKING   Captain Henry. Nelson’ of}  Liner President €oolidge.  Given Court. Martial and Exonerated - —   WAS TROOP LADEN   nly Two Members Of Crew Lost; Beached to . Save Lives of American Soldiers

COURT MARTIAL FREES CAPTAIN   ICOOLIDGE’ SKIPPER SAYS WARNING CAME BUT WAS TOO LATE

U.S. Troops Were Led By Bradley   Eisenhower Says Fight Will Go On as Long as Single Armed Nazi  Riverina:   Nazis Withdraw   British Battle In Street Against: Few Enemy Batteries

French Put   Bizerte Deliricus 2s Americans Enter but Nazi Guns Halt Celebration

BIZERTE TURNS QUT FOR YANKS   French Populace Showers  Troops With Flowers As Axis Retreats

"rench Deliriously Happy As Yanks Roll into Bizerte   American Tanks Strewn With Flowers as They Reach Axis Stronghold Few Minutes Before French Take Tunis; Enemy “Suicide Squads” Try  to Impede Americans; Residents Weep

North Afric People Hail Deliverers   Yanks and British Kissed, Decorated With Cut Flowers

Flowers Strewn On U.S. Tanks By Happy French In Bizerte   Americans First To Enter City As Remaining Residents Ween With Jov And Cheer Victory

SHIP REMAINS ON WAYS AFTER A DRY-LAUNCHING  -Bands Play, Champagne Splashes But Carpenters Refuse to Work

Lt. Tommy Harmon Not Injured in Crash in Jungle   Two Companions Fount Dead, Two Others May Be Found Alive

HARMON GETS A REST AFTER JUNGLE CRASH   MICHIGAN MAN NOT HURT; TWO OTHERS MAY BE SAFE

ALSO WARD OFF KHARKOV PUSH IN HEAVY BATTLE   Estimated 25 Divisions are Feeling for Weak Spot In Red Lines.

REIS PUSH ; AZTS BACK N EAR VYAZMA   Also Hold Own On Kharkov Battle Front

NAZ BACK BY REDS   Germans Seek Weak Points In Russian Lines Protecting Kharkov

Nazis Pounded Back   Enemy Retreats To Within 12 Miles of Vvazma

Reds Holding On All Fronts, Gain In North  Hammer Germans Back   Hammer Germans Back To Within 12 Miles Of Vyazma   GAIN IN CAUCASUS   Nazis Use 300,000 In Kharkov Drive But Gain No More

NAZIS POURING NEW TROOPS IN SOUTHERN LINE   Russians Hammer to Within 12 Miles of Central Front Bastion

Noose Closing Around Vital German Base   Nazis Still Strike At Russian Lines Near Kharkov

Soviets  Halt Axis  Rushes   RUSSIANS FORGE AHEAD TOWARD VYAZMA WHILE NAZIS BOG DOWN

FOES PUSHED TO 12 MILES OF VYAZMA   Reds Ward Off Fierce New Jabs By Axis Panzer Troops

Russ Continue Gains Toward Base at Vyazme   Germans Try Desperately to Gain in Donels Offensive

ALL-OUT DRIVE 10 TAKE MUBO IS LAUNCHED   Pacific Spotlight Shifts from Munda To New Guinea

U.S. Shifts Plans to Try for Closer Russ Relations   REDS GET MORE ARMS UNDER LEND-LEASE PACT; AMERICAN MILITARY IN MOSCOW REVAMPED

Huge Force In Day Attack Over Channel   Sustained Aerial Offensive Reaches Record-Breaking  Porportions in Europe

DUREN UNDER ATTACK OF U.S. FORTRESSES   Net A Single Bomber Lost In Operation; London Suburb Is Bombed By Nazic

U.S. BOMBERS POUND DUREN   Nazi Factory And Other Enemy Targets Blasted Without Loss

Surprise Atfack Drives Foe Back In Major Action   52 Towns Captured By Allied Forces   Fortresses Raid Germany, Escape Without Loss of a Single Bomber

Nazi Europe  Americans Smasbk Without Losses   Duren, Important Airplane Parts Site, Is Target; Thunderbolts Assist; Enemy Response Is Light and Futile; London Hit

RAID GERMANY THIRD TIME IN FIVE DAYS   Heavy Bombers With Thunderbolt Escort Blast Duren Plants: No Planes Or AntiAircraft Fire Noted.   New Records

Fortresses Raid Germany Third Time in 5 Days   Attack on Duren Marks First Time Heavy Bombers Have Hit Reich Without Loss; Total of 158 Planes Bagged Over Europe

Duren, Site of Metals Plants, Blasted by Fortresses  THUNDERBOLTS USED AS ESCORT PLANES  Three Noxi Air Bases in France Bombed by ~ the RAF

Americans Smast   Nazi Europe Without Losses   Duren, Important Airplane Parts Site, Is Target; Thunderbolts Assist; Enemy Response Is Light and Futile; London Hit

¥ ortresses hit German Duren plant   Nazi industrial centers blasted

AERIAL BLOWS BATTER ENEMY ON CONTINENT   Heavy Attacks From Skies May he Prelude to Battle For  Furepe   AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT GERMAN TARGETS ERIDAY

German City And London Both Bombed  U. S..Fortresses Hit Duren; Many Killed

U.S. Fortresses Bomb Duren  Without Loss   Thunderbolt Fighters Provide Protection  And Nazis Keep Clear

Duren Attacked By Fortresses   Not Single Bomber Is Lost on Raid

QUA CHIEF FOE “1S-JAPAN, SHYS UL §, GENERAL   Believes a Few More War Planes Would Spell De‘eat of Japs.   NOW A PRESSING NEED   Says America Is Far From Being Safe From a Direct Attack.

OUR CHIEF FOE 15 JAPAN, SAYS. L$, GENERA   Believes a Fe More War Planes Would: Spell - Defeat of Japs.   NOW A PRESSING NEED   ae America -Is Far From "Being ‘Safé From a Di- tect Attack.

Tito Launches New Offensive  Partisans Aim Drive On Peliesac Peninsula

Germans Face Widening Balkan Battles   Allied Planes Swing To Support of Yugoslav Atmies

Yugoslavs Counterattacking "Against Nazis Upon Peljesac Peninsula; Allies Lend Help

YUGOSLAV ARMY WIDENS BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS   Strongly Supperted by American and British Air Might Now Swinging Over Balkans

U. S$. and Brifish Planes Support Yugoslav Armies   Guerrilla General Launches Offensive In Peljesac Area

YUGOSLAV ARMY FRONT WIDENED   Bitter Campaign Waged To Oust Germans From Peninsula

Allied Fliers Help Yugoslays in Heightening Fight  _ Airmen Give Support  To Partisan Army; Bigger Battles Seen

Tito Broadens. Fight On Nazis   Counterattack Or. Daniaeila Ctaread

PATRIOTS OPEN NEW. OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Allied Airpower Comes To Life In Balkans Area

POLITICAL CIRGLES SPEGULATE: ON FARLEY AS GOP CANDIDATI   POLITICIANS. SPEAKING OF POSSIBILITY OF COALI-. _TION TICKET—MaoAB:-THUR'S NAME BEING™  HWENTIONED ‘s

MACARTHUR [5 MAGIC NAME Ih MINDS OF 6.0.P   And of All Things, There Is Talk cf Farley as His Runnire Mate.   BUT ONLY A RUMOR   Some Talk That Bricker’s Popularity Is Now on the Wane. ~

DEFENSE RESTS PARROTT CASE   Testimony Submitted Ta Indicate Soldier Not Deserter

Parrott Case Is Near Jury   *Deéfense-Motion For~ Acquiltal Denied

Akron Is Without Resident Dentist ~  Dr. Mason and Dr.  Kessler Now In Service

TOWN NOW WITHOUT DENTAL SERVICE   Dr. A. J. Kessler Left Sunday To Become An Army Dentist In Texas

Servicemen’s Wives Free Maternity Aid Begins As Applications OK’d

Burglar Found Dead Near Unopened Safe  Had Served Most Of Hi: Life In Jail

DENY EASTER ISLAND OCCUPIED BY U. S.  eaeaarrrwactm iimnit. 8a <

Late News. Bulletins.   ” ‘ onld Intern All Aris Nationals in Americss

JAIL BREAKERS KIDNAP DOCTOR      Cincinnati Police Intensify Search for Quintet

THREE MEN ROB, KIDNAP DOCTOR IN CINCINNATI   Believed To Be Fugitives Whe Escaped Hamilton County Jail Friday

Assembly Bill Would Change  Trailer Laws   Another Measure Gives Game Rights to All Service Men

Jury In Flynn Trial Slow To Reach Verdict   Deadlock Is Seen As ~ Possibility In Rape Case

Film Star Errol Flynn May Learn His Fate Today   Jury Is Locked In For Night

FLYNN JURY UNABLE TO AGREE ON VERDICT   Lock up for Night, Resume Deliberations Today

FLYNN JURY DEADLOCKED   Will Resume Deliberations Today; Locked Up During Night.

Destroyers Blast Four Japanese Ships" Gives Account Of Navy Triumph

Destroyer Flotilia’s Captain Gives Report   NO AMERICAN SHIPS LOST IN ENGAGEMENT

State Welfare Supervisor Is Visitor Here   “31-Knot” Burke Tells How His Boys Blasied Jap Ships in Turkey Day Battle

eee Fe te  Urges America To Take Over Former Trade Routes of Axis

CIVILIAN DEFENSE PRAISED BY BRICKER   Work in Recent Floods : Proof of Worth

Field Guns Softening Crossings   Russians Rush Through “Smolensk Gate” Deep Into White Russia.

Jobs After The . War Discussed   ROGER BABSON GIVES SUGGESTIONS TO SOLDIERS

EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK WHEN WAR IS ENDED   Babson Discusses Situation, Listing Industries Which He Believes Will Have A Surplus Of. Labor.

WAY OPER FOR DRIVE ON VYAZMA   Russians Pound For: ward As Nazi-Held Spearhead Taken

SOVIETS SCORE THIRD VICTORY WITHIN A WEEK   Reds Storm Town of Gzha- tsk Twice Before it is Wrested From Ger. man Hands   WAS FOE SPEARHEAD POINTED AT MOSCOW   Capture Releases ThreeDirectional Russian Drive on Vyazma, 35 Miles From Smolensk Road

Germans Yield Town After Twe Heavy Alfacks   Russian Shock Troops South and Southwest Of Rzhev Capture 30 Towns. Moscow Savs

Gzhatsk Falls; Soviets Take 30 More Town:   Three Directional Drive at Vyazma, Smolensk Released

Reds Slashing On Westward   ‘Another Vital Point In Nazi Defense Crumbles

Gzhatsk, Nearest Nazi Point fo Moscow, Taken  Russian Shock Troops Capture 30 More Towns

SOVIETS READY FOR DASH T0 SMOLENSK BASE   Red Army Takes Big Base 100 Miles West Of Capital

REDS CAPTURE GZBATSK, NAZI STRONGHOLL   Capture Releases Directional Drive On Vyazma

RED SOLDIERS SCORE AGAIN, TAKE GZHATSE   NAZI DEFENSES ON CENTRAL FRONT CRUMBLING

Reds Announce Capture Of Gzhatsk Stronghold, last Threat To Moscow   Fall Of Nazi Spearhead Releases 3 . Way Drive On Vyazma; 30 Additional Towns, Including Osuaqa, Are Taken

Nazi Central Front Line Is Crumbling   New Conquest Release: Three-Dircetional Drives on Vyazma

Gzhatsk Taken In Soviet Assaults  Important Base Falls Before Red Storming

TRIUMPHS OF SOVIETS COME WITHIN WEEK   German Spearhead Of Gzhatsk Pointed At Moscow For Past Year And Half.

SOVIET STORM TROOP DRIVE TAKE GZHATSK   Capture Nazi Spearhead Only 100 Miles West of Red Capital.   RETAKE 30 MORE TOWNS IN ATTACKS BY NIGHT

GZHATSK FALLS AS REDS NOTCH MAJOR VICTOR'   Nazi Forces Left Reeling After Losing Town West of Moscow

Russians Take Third Major Town in Week  Gzhatsk, 100 Miles West Of  BAageaw Ealle

CORN PRICE BOOST ~ BILL GOES TO THE HOUSE “AG” GROUF   Senate Approves Measure and Howse Shunts It to Committee for Consideration.

Deductions From Payroll, Living Costs   Taxes, Pay-ss-You-Go System, etc., to Make Big Dent in Income of Average American Family

Joe Finds War Will Mean Lower Standard of Living   Told Income Tax, Under Present Law, Will Take, Roughly, 19 Per Cent of Taxable 1942 Income Total, Victory Tax Will Get Five Per Cent and Social Security One Per Cent —

MEAT BOSS IN IOWA CHOSEN   Sheehe, State Food Distribution Administration Supervisor, Serves in Dual Capacity

Sheehe Head of Meat Marketing   Wallace Shinn of Creston Area Man

Point Value For About 200 Items Will Be Given   Housewives Have One More Week In Which To Buy Butter, Meat And Fats

Workers Idle as Time Passes President's 10 O'Clock Deadline   John L, Lewis, in Session With Union Representatives in New York City Today -

“No Comment,” Says John L. Lewis This Morning  REFUSES.TO TALK Nation’s Hard And  Soft Coal Mines Are Closed

UNION MINERS IGNORE FOR'S WORK ORDER   250,000 Already Out And More Following Each Hour   HEED LEWIS’ CALL   War Plants Report Supplies To Last But Few Weeks

WAGE PARLEY IS ADJOURNED   UMW President Issues No Formal Order for Strike, Refuses Comment on FDR‘s Order

LIVESTOCK AND FEED PROGRAM MAPPED   Meeting of a Committee Representing Agricultural Interests Was Held Thursday

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   Livestock and Feed Program Mapped for Favatta County

FRENCH MAKE SHARP GAINS TOWARD FLANK   Bulk Of Rommel’s Army Pours Into Tunisia To Join Gen. Von Arnim.

Axis Army Hit By  Americans, Allies   Bulk Of Rommel’s Army Pours Into Tunisia; Stand At Mareth Line Discounted By Military Observers

Rommel Lines Pounded hy Yanks, French   Path of Retreat for Germans Put in Jeopardy

Rommel's Men Pour Info Tunisia   American Forces Strike At Line Ot Retreat

THRUST INTO MAKNASSY TO CAPTURE 80 AXIS PRISONERS 33 MILES SHORT OF GULF OF GABES.

Americans and French Forge Closer to Line Of Retreat for Rommel  BULK OF HIS ARMY ALREADY IN TUNISIA  Americans Capture 80 Axis Prisoners In Town of Maknaccv

Allies Force Nazis From Rear. Flank   Americans Push Into Town 33 Miles From Gabes Gulf

MEDICOS MOVE IN   Field Hospitals Taken by Truck and Muleback   Into China

U.S. WARSHIPS ENTER BATTLE FOR ROME   Bombard Germans’ Shore Positions North of Naples

ADVANCING REDS PUT NEW WEDGE IN GERMAN LINES   Solomons Landings Indicate Big Allied Smash é in Pacific

POUR SHELLS INTO GERMAN DEFENSE LINE   Cruisers, destroyers bom. bard Nazi fortifications in Italy

BRITISH TAKE Hill POINTS   Counterattack Drives Germans from Positions Seized in Tunisia

2000 STRIKERS HEEL WLB, RETURN TO HARD COAL MINES   But 17,000 Others Defy Ultimatum, Remain Idle For Sixteenth Day

2000 GOAL MINERS COMPLIED WITH REQUEST OF WL8   Returned to Work in the Hard Coal Mines of Pennsylvania.   17,000 OTHERS REFUSE.   Despite the Growing Tension There Was No Disor? r or Picketing. = =

2 000 Miners Accept Work Order of WLB   17,000 Others, However, Remain Idle for the 16th Day

2,000 MINERS ~~ BACK TO WORK   17,006 Men of Anthracite Defy WLB; Idle for 16th Day

2,000 Coal Miners Back   Vote to Return to Collieries Under WLB Request; 17,000 Idle

2,000 Miners Return to Work Today   17,000 Others Defy WLB Ultimatum and Remain Idle; Tension Grows Throughout Strike Area  ys

17,000 MINERS DEFY MANDATE   2,000 Strikers Return Tt Work; WLB May Take Over Mines

MINERS SPLIT IN COAL STRIKE   2000 Workers Return to Jobs 17,000 Others Defy WLB Order

17,000 MINERS REMAIN IDLE IN SPITE OF ORDER   2,000 Strikers Return To Their Jobs Today   TENSION GROWS   Split Develops In Ranks Of Hard Coal Workers

ENEMY RETREATS UPON GAPE BON FOR LAST STANT   Tunis and Bizerte Fall To Allies Yesterday; Fighting Still Heavy

RECEIVING TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT FROM AIR   ALLIES PRACTICALLY WIPE OUT ALL CHANCES OF ESCAPE FROM SEA OR BY AIR; ANNIHILATION OR CAPTURE ONLY REMAINING ALTERNATIVES

HEAVIEST RAID MANE ON BABG   Liberators All Returr From Sweep On Dutch New Guinea

Daring Allied Raid  Made on Dutch  New Guinea Base Large Fires Started,  Jap Planes Are Damaged on Ground

HEAVIEST RAID MADE ON BABO   Allies Deliver Daring Attack In Daytime On Jap Base

ALLIES MAKE HEAVY AIR RAID ON BABO   Two Enemy Planes Downed in Daylight Attack Over Dutch New Guinea.

Big Allied Raid Made on Babo   Two Enemy Planes Trying to Intercept Raiders Shot Down

Allied Bombs Hit Japanese Base at Babo   Large Fire Reported Started and Enemy Aircraft Damaged

Heavy Daylight Raid Made by Allies On Jap Base in Dutch New Guinea   lwo Enemy Planes Shot Down in Daring 1,200 Mile Foray

AaK VOLUNTARY ACTION TO END CALL ON LABOR   Agriculture, Management and Labor Sign Pledge to Push Production.’

Adkins Urges More Church Activity  Christianity Must   Christianity Must Be Spread Abroad, He Asserts

LONE JAP PATROL PLANE BROUGHT ON GREAT AIR BATTLE  WAS SHOT DOWN BUT   WAS SHOT DOWN BUT RADIOED FOR HELP IN SOLOMONS ACTION

LONE JAP PATROL PLANE BROUGHT ON GREAT AIR BATTLE  WAS SHOT DOWN BUT RADIOED FOR HELP IN SOLOMONS ACTION

Allies Prepare Air Bases In  Italy For Use Will Move Allies Nearer To Nazi

SAYS INVADERS MET FIERCE RESISTANCE   Nazi Commentator Reports ’ Heavy Fighting In Progress

Situation is Improved Quickly With U. S. Soldiers on Job; Over 700 Hurt and Over 400 Arrested

Army Forces Called By Governor After Military Rule Is Put Into Effect

WILL GIVE USERS OF ‘A’ CARDS NEW ‘B’ ISSUE AT ONGE      A’ Card Will Not Be Necessary For Driving To Work, OPA Declares

Quarryville's Noted Citizen Passes Away   'Hibernating Governor’ of Groundhog Lodge Is Dead at 76

GEO. HENSEL, JR. PASSES AWAY IN QUARRYVILLE   Widely. Known As Founder Of Groundhor Lodge :

‘ Lhe War today  Allies Fling Selves Into Liberation  Of Europe Prepared For Hard Fight

ALLIED TROOPS STORMING UPON SHORES OF SICILY MARKS GRAND OPENING OF CRUCIAT PERIOD

Sicily Is the First Stride In Our 7 League Boots Conquest Will Be Major Triumph

‘DeWitt Mackenzie Says  Allies On First Steps To Liberating Europe   Allied Invasion Caught Washington By Surprise

Forest Fires Hit Los Angeles Area   Homes of Screen Stars Endangered

COSTLY HOMES OF SCREEN STARS ARE MENACED BY FIRES   Probe Sabotage After Brush Blazes Rage Out Of Control

FOREST, BRUSH FIRES RAGING ON WEST COAST   Fire Causes $100,000 Damage So Far; 15 Homes Destroyed

Brush Fires Are Spreading In California   Twenty Separate Fires Burning In An Area Reaching From Malibu To Mexican Border

LEGISLATORS MEET AS FILIBUSTERING STILL CONTINUES   Martin Studies Program Offered By Minority As Price To Change Their Tactics

New Warning From Pacific   Yankee Fliers Hit Jap Aleutians Base With 15 Attacks Monday,

JAPS BUILD FORCES   Situation Menacing on Aus- tralian Front, U. S. . Spokesman Warns

MacArthur Again Warns  Japan’s Power Is Growing   By VERN HALGLAND i Asgswectated Presse }

Japs on Kiska Bombed 15  Times in Day   American Raids Increased— Australia Warns of Menace

Jay Strength Growing Rapidly   MacArthur Spokesman Warns. Situation is Be.

JAP SOUTH PACIFIC ARMY REINFORCED   Spokesman Says  Situatior Is Becoming More Menacing

SAYS JAPAN'S POWER GROWINC INS. PACIFIC   MacArthur’s Bombers Sink 6,000 Ton Supply Ship

Jap Strength Growing Rapidly   MacArthur Spokesman Warns Situation is Becaming More Menacing

Japanese Power  : Mounting, Claim  Situation Menacing Or Australian Front

GROWING WARN   South -. Pacific. Air and -Ground Strength More  Menacing.

JAP AIRPOWER INS. W. PACIFIC [GROWING RAPIDLY   Situation Becoming More Menacing on Australian Front.

Eastern S. D. Hit by Storm   Strikes With Unexpected Near Mid-Winter Fury; Some Highways Blocked

SHIPS SUNK DURING RAIDS NEAR AFRICA   Mud Slows Operation On Ground Front In Tunisia

Congress Convenes ‘Pledging To Fight “Bureaucracy”   78th Congress Organizes Today, With Demos and Republicans Likely to “Stand Up” to Presitient

Congress Convenes at Noon Teday   BUSY AND SOMEWHAT STORMY SESSION IN PROSPECT NOW.

F. D. BR. Opposes Law Changes  Aviation Agencies Are Satisfactory

KiSS THE BOYS SOODBYE AND GET TRENCH MOUTH, WENTAL “ORFICIAL? WARNS

Bryansk Falls Before Russian Assault Forces   Germans’ 1943-44 Winter. Defense. Line: Crumbles

CAPTURE BRYANSK   Stalin Announces Seizure of Two Industrial Centers

German Defense  Line Crumbling   Reds Drive Across  Desna River Barrier

PUNT PeAbE PAOPOGAL acti BY ClAIE DEPT.   Believe Hull Will Outline Plan for World Peace at Moscow Parley.

THREE MAIN POINTS BASIS FOR HULL'S POST-WAR PLAN   PROPOSALS SAID TO INCLUDE USING U, 8, FORCES ONLY TO RESTRAIN ARMED  . AGGRESSION

HULL TO OFFER 3-POINT PLAN   Secretary Would Pledge U. S Arms Only in Curbing Aggressor

Coal Rationing Board Planned, But OPA Hopes Rationing Not Needed

NAZI AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE RAIDED   ONLY A FEW: ENEMY FIGHTERS RISE TO GIVE COMBAT ~—ONE SHOT DOWN.

NAZI AIRFIELDS LASHED BY RAF   Americans Join In Raids On Three Bases In France; Radio  Is Silenced

NAZI AIRFIELDS IN FRANGE RAIDED   Explosive Destruction Showered Down on Three Bases And One Power Station; Opposition Light

FRENCH AIRFIELDS BOMBED BY FLIERS      Power Station at Rouen Also Attacked Dur. ing Day

ALLIES BOMB NAZI BASES   Airfields, Power Station: In Occupied France are Targets in Raids

RESISTANCE BY ENEMY FIGHTERS I5 FEEBLE AND NO ALLIED PLANES ARE REPORTED LOST.   (Rv GLADWIN HILLEL)

Nazi Airfields. In France Are Allied Targets   Nazi Resisténce Slight; No Loss OF Allted Dlanac

Russians Push Beyond Advance Of Last Winter   Silent Nazi Radios Indicate More Blows From Air

JAPS RUNNING LOW ON WAR MATERIALS   Commeni Made Or  U. S. Production

Jap Official: Nippon Army Has Reserves for   “Only Short Period”

ARMS OUTPUT ALARMS JAPS   Tokyo Official Compares Nippon Reserves With Those of Allies

Japs Declare War Supplies Reserve Low   Call Attention To U. S. Production

JAPS FEAR U. S. WAR PRODUCTION   TOKYO BROADCAST STRESSES GROWING ALLIED STRENGTH

‘The Wind Did It .... Not The Japs..... J apanese Official Says His Nation Is Running Short On War Material

Japanese Heed U. 5. Production   Call Attention to American Output of Ships and Planes

Japan Outrun In Production  Race --- Tokyo   Mikado’s Armies Have  Only Small Supply of  Arms Left

‘PRODUCE MORE’   Jap Official Says U. S. Anc Britain Beat Nippon

JAPAN ADMITS WAR RESERVES RUNNING LOW   ‘Official Says Material Will   ) Last Only Short Period; Plane Loss Explained.

Japanese Express Fear of America s Production Might   MacArthur Reveals Heavy Toll of U. S. Planes by Storm

AP POINTS 10 WAR PRODUCTION OF U.S, BRITAIN   Japanese War Production Official Asserts the Mikado’s Armies Have Reserve Material Left For Only A Short Period of War.

JAPAN AUNI To LOOTING ErFUHI IN PROUUGT ON   Reserve War Material Left For Only Short Period, Broadcast Asserts

JAPS EXPRESS FEARS OF U.S. WAR INDUSTRY   Official Points To Great Gap “Left In Reserve Supplies For Mikado’s Armies

High Nipponese Official Declares Jap Armies Have Material Left For Only ‘Short Period Of War’

REGISTER OCT. 4 FOR RATION BOOK   Arrangements Made for Another Ration Book Registration Early This Fall.

NEW RATION BOOK DATES OCT. 20-22   Arrangements Made for Another Ration Book Registration Early This Fall.

Book No. 4 Coming Up   Nationwide Registration to Take Place From Oct. 20 to Nov.

REGISTER FOR BOOK NO. 4 IN OCTOBER   Method of Application for Next Ration Book Is Not Disclosed.

REGISTRATION FOR NEW RATION BOOK   Application For No. 4 Book Will Tre Made Between October  2% And November 

PLAN REGISTRATION FOR RATION BOOK NO. 4   Will Take Place Between Oct. 20 And Nov. 1, Rationing Official Announces At Chicago

Sef Dates For Registration   For Book 4 Will Be Between October 20 and November 1

REGISTRATION FOR BOOK FOUR   Book Three Coupons Ar Valid Sept. 12

RENEW EFFORT TO FORGIVE TAX FOR LAST YEAR   Senate Republicans Want Te Put AH Taxpayers On 100 Percent Basis

WAR VOTE PLANS AUN INTO SANE   Proposed System Takes a Beating From Two Sides; Chief Justice Stone Refuses Participate in Balloting

GIANT PLANES . TRAVEL 1300 MILES IN RAID   Big Aluminum Plant  Wiped Out by Bombers

27 ARE DEAD IND. L. & W. TRAIN WRECK   About 150 Are Reported Nursing Injuries Suffered in Collision Near Wayland, N. Y.   ‘BUT FEW IDENTIFIED

16 Meet Death In Train Wreck   New York State  Scene of Disaster

LIMITED TRAIN, SWITCH ENGINE CRASH HEAD-ON   \i erst Rail Accident in \ew York State in Three Years

26 PERSONS DIE IN N. Y. TRAIN WRECK   Crack Lackawanna Passenger and Switch Engine Crash Head-on; 150  Iniured

26 s Toll In Train Wreck At Wayland, N. Y.  150 Others Hurt As Lackawanna Limited Collides With Switch

26 MEET DEATH IN TRAIN WRECK   Numbers Killed By Inhaling Live Steam As Lackawanna Passenger Train Hits Switch Engine.

2/ Killed In Lackawanna -Train Wreck   Limited Collides With Switch Engine; Victims Inhale Live Steam.

LOCOMOTIVES COLLIDE , 26 ARE KILLEL   Sealding Steam Fatal to 24, Injuries to Two Others   150 ARE HURT   D. L. & Ws New Train Meets Switch Engine at Wavland

27 Dead, Scores  ~ Injured In Wreck Victims Inhale Steam As ’ Boiler Bursts

26 Killed, 150 Hurt When Passenger Train Crashes Into Locomotive In N. Y.

In Head-On Train Crash 27 Killed   Many of Victims Are Killed From Inhaling Live Steam.

26 DEAD AFTER TRAIN, SWITCH ENGINE COLLIDE   150 Others Injured in Railroad Disaster at Wayland, N. Y.

27 DIE AS FAST EASTERN PASSENGER TRAIN, SWITCH ENGINE COLLIDE   150 OTHERS INJURED AS ACCIDENT BEFALLS LACKAWANNA LIMITED ON NEW YORK-TO-BUFFALO RUN OF DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN

Limited Train and Freight Engine Crash Head-on in N. Y.; 27 Dead

26 Dead When Trains: Collide   PASSENGER AND SWITCH ENGINE CRASH IN NEW YORK

4 More Die      List of dead and injured will be found on Page Three, .

—TRAIN WRECK—  DEATH TOLL IN WRECK NOW 2A   Approximately 150 Others Injured In Headon Crash In New York   500 ON TRAIN   Limited Smashes Into Switeh Engine; Live Steam Kills Many

Twenty-Six Persons Die When Limited Cracks Switch Engine   Many Die From Scald ing by Live Steam

27 Killed In Head-On Collision      A Lackawanna, Limited Hits Switch Engine, Which Pulls Into Main Line   BLOOD PLASMA FLOWN TO WRECE   Scenes of Steam-soaked Hor ror as Bursted Pipes Loose Hot Vapor on Passengers

26 PERSONS DEAD "IN TRAIN CRASH   Crack Lackawanna Limited Passenger Train and Switch Engine Crash Head On Near Wayland, N Y_

27 Dead, 150 Injured In Train Crash    Shoots Rape Suspect At Police Lineup

26 Persons Die And 150 Hurt In Train Wreck   Lackawanna Limited  Crashes Into Switch © Engine; . fany Victims Scalded ‘to Death

26 Are Dead,  in Rail Crash   Many Begged to ‘Die After Being Trapped in Seething Furnace ‘of Steam

[27 Killed, 150 Injured in Train Wreck   Live Steam Traps Many Victims When Limited Collides With Switch Engine in Wavland, NY

26 NOW DEAD IN RAIL WRECK   150 Others Hurt as Limited Train Hits Switch Engine in New York.

Passenger Train Crashes Head-On With Switch Engine; 27 Persons Die

DEATH TOLL 2/, 150 INJURED IN RAILROAD CRASH   SWITCH ENGINE AND ‘LIMITED’ COLLIDE AT WAYLAND, WN. Y.

27 DEAD, 150 INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK   Victims Scalded By Live Steam From Bursting — Locomotive   TOLL MAY INCREASE   Crack Passenger Train and Switch Engine Hit Head-on

Allied Fliers Send Nine Jap Planes  Down, Damage 13  Japs Again Suffer Severe Blows At Rabaul Airfield

NINE JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED   13 Others Damaged Ir Raid On Darwin; Rabaul Struck By Bombers

Allied Air Forces Stab Into Austria   Make 2,000-mile Round Trip Without Losing a Plane; Axis Lines in Sicily Are Crumbling

Nazi ‘Dunkerque’ Is Endangered    American Troops Complete Capture of Entire Mt. Etna Area as Randazzo Falls in Flank Attack, Cracking Entire Central -   T.ine of Enemy a)

Messerschmitt Airplane Factory Hit by Americans   175 Tons of High Explosives Carried On 2,500-Mile Trip

Allied Bombs Smash Large German Plane Plant Near Vienna      ALLIES RULE MT. ETNA   Russians Surge Ahead Along 500-Mile Front

AMERICAN DRIVE PUTS SQUEEZE ON ESCAPE PORT   Allied Guns on Land and Sea and Warplanes Pour Death on Fleeing Forces   AIR ATTACK INTENSIFIED   Big Yank Bombers Reach Out In Spreading Offense To Smash at Austria

US Troops Are 28 Miles  From Messina   All of Mt. Etna Now in Allied Hands; Russians Are Fighting in Streets of Kharkov; Launch Third Offensive East of Smolensk 3

JAP BASE AT SALAMAUA IN SMOKING RUINS   Fleet of Liberators Pounds Important Town In Austria   REDS DRIVE NAZIS BACK   All of Mt. Etna Now in Allied Hands After Several Thrusts ;   By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press War Editor

Allies Move Ahead On All Fronts    Liberators, 2000 Miles from Base, Ham: mer Wiener Neustadt, South of Vienna —Huns Fall Back in Russia on 500Mile Front; Reds in Suburbs of Kharkov -

FTVA WILL TALK PAST-WOR PLANS   Liberty to Be Site Of Vital Gathering Thursday, May 20

AUSSIES CLOSE IN ON JAP POSITIONS   Troops Supported by Tanks and Bombers in New Drive

AUSSIES MENACE JAP STRONGPOIN?   ALLIES SUPPORTED BY TANKS AND PLANES AS THEY MOVE ON BONGAN,

ARMY LIMITING. THREATS HEARD IN WASHINGTON   ea ae May Would Urge Immediate Bill To Limit Size

Threat To Limit Army Size Heard Anew At Capitol  Moat Fathers Will   Moat Fathers Will Enter Service In 43, Says MeNutt

DECLARES ARMY PLANS 100 BIC   Congressman May Threatens Congress Re. views of M.P-C. Plans.

Fathers In Military Service By Year End Predicted By McNutt   Will Check Demande

Threats to Limit Army Size Heard In Capitol After McNutt Forecast

SEE LIMIT 10 ARMY’S SIZE      May Threaten Probe of Man. Power Plans; Urges Passage of Deferments

SOLON ATTACKS DRAFT REVISION PLAN OF M’NUTT   Rep. May Voices Opposition to Calls for Most Fathers Under 38 Years Old

Army Size Limit Gains in Congress   House Passes Kilday Bill by Big Margin; ‘Expect Senate  tn Fall in tine

Congress Talk Ot Army Limit   Rep. May Threatens Action’ If Manpower Commission. Keeps “Fooling Around.’ 

Legislation to Put _ Limitation on Size of Army Threatened   House Votes Deferment Priorities to  AbleBodied Fathers

RENEW THREATS TO LIMIT SIZE OF U. S. ARMY   HOUSE APPROVES MAY BILL TO DEFER MEN WITH CHILDREN

Dads Under 38 in Service Soon,  McNutt Asserts   Legislation To Limit Size Of Army Threatened: Seek Manpower Probe

Congress May Place Limit On Army Size  Naw Reaft Plane   New Draft Plans Spur Opponents Of Fathers Use

Congress, WMC Clash Over Plan To Call Father:   Manpower Confusion In Capito! Spotlight; - MeNutt Assailed

May Seek Limit On Size Of Army  Plan To Call Fathers Stirs Congressmen

ATTEMPT TO LIMIT ARMY THREATENED   Announcement By McNutt Draws Warning From Chairman of Military Committee   NEED IS QUESTIONED

Army Limit Cry Raised In Congress   Chairman May Asks Where U. S. Expeets To Place Millions

FATHERS DRAFT BRINGS THREAT OF ARMY CURB   Kilday Bill to Give Deferment Pri orilies to Men With Children Passes House 143 fo 7

MOST FATHERS UNDER 38 WILL GET DRAFT CALL   Only Those With Work Deferments Are Excluded

Congress Again Talks Of Limit On Army’s Size   Legislation Deferring Fathers Will Be  Given Senate

LIMITING olZt OF ARMY GtTa NEW IMPETUS   Congressmen In Opposition To McNutt On Drafting Of Nation’s Fathers

DRAFTING DADS BRINGS THREAT  JOLIMIT ARMY   May Will Ask Review of Manpower to “Stop Fooling”

Restauranteurs Define 1943 Food Picture For Housewives Of Nation

N one-Too-Bright Food Picture Painted For Restaurant Men   Meat Scarce, Fish Kept Close To Local Markets, Less Cream But Plenty Of Cereals

WILLKIE WARNS OF LONG FIGHT   Citizens Of West Hear Critical Questions Regarding War

Allies Lose One Plane, Down 59 Japs in Battle   MacArthur Seeks To Crush Enemy's Island Air Power

59 JAPANESE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Allies Open New Air Offensive In New Guinea

MONEY 10 SUPPORT GREATEST. ARMY IN OUR HISTORY   Calls for Total Use of Preductive Capacity te Wreck Axis.

Budget Based On Capacity To Produce   Eight Billion a Month To Be Spent for War

Budget Stresses Services’ Needs   100 Billions Asked for War Spending

President’s Budget Calls For 100 Billion For Way   Expenditure Will Be 2 Billion More Than Current Outlay Per Month—Also Calls For 7,500,000 Mer :

SAY THAT SINGLE MEN ARE “HIDING” FROM DRAFT CALL   Charge Made That Hun. dreds of Eligibles Must Be Ferreted Out in  heedaebevane

“BEDROCK” REVIEW FOR FATHER DRAFT IS DEMANDED NOW   Rep. Vah Zandt Is Backing Move Of Veterans’ Leaders In Congress

Demand ‘Bedrock’ Review Of All Draft. Deferments Before Inducting Fathers

Margaret Streng — Dies In Spokane ©  War Former Residen OF TeMare

Berlin Raid Starts New Fires inCity   Russians Send Nazi Army Reeling Back Toward Polish Border

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today.   Scores in Northwest Ukraine.

REDS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF ZHITOMIR   Routed Nazis Are Retreating Toward Old Polish Border

186-MILE NAZI FRONT CRACKS UNDER ATTACK   Reds Score Important  Break-Through, Says Stalin Report

COLLAPSE NAZ AUSOIAN ARM IS IMMINENT   Soviet Drive Demoralizes Germans Falling Back From Zhitomir

RUSSIANS SMASH THROUGH GERMAN LINES IN UKRAINE   Stalin _Announces Sensational Victory Over Newi Invercdarc

Red Troops In Outskirts of © Vitebsk Base   Nazi Legions Said In Demoralized Retreat In Ukraine >

Madang Laid Waste By Powerful Air and Sea Raid Believe Task Force May be Continuing Attacks

ALLIED PLANES, GUND POUNDING HAPLESS JAPS   Enemy Stronghold On North New Guinea Coast Smashed By American Bombers

U.S. Planes, Artillery  Pound Japanese Bases   Navy Officer Says Marcus Raid Is Only Prelude to Destruction of Japan Itself

U.S. Ships Japs Sunk In Sneak Attack  On Pearl Harbor Now Back In Action  Set To Avenge Nipponese Treachery 

ENEMY SUFFERS SEVERE LOSSES   Rommel Stopped, Tempor~ arily At Least, Just Short of His Goal

ALLIED AIR FORCE RETURNS TO BATTLE FRONT   Rommel Still Faces Threat From British In Rear

Rommel At Least Has Been Temporarily Stopped By Americans and British Forces.

Betrayal Charged By Demonstrators In Near-Revolution   Ignoring of Allied Peace Offers Brings Outbreaks Against Premier: Clandestine Radio Ioins Clamar

Mobs Shout For Badoglio Quster In Near Revolt   Allied Warning Bombers Are On Way Sets Off Frenzied Outbursts

Overthrow of Badoglio and Peace Sought   Allies Threaten to Resume Crushing Air Offensive Soon

OVERTHROW OF BADOGLIO DEMANDED   Soldiers Join Civilians In Bringing About Near-Revolution

RIOTS FLARE AFTER ALLTED RAID WARNING   Badoglio Accused by Mobs of Betraying Them

MILAN [GRIEF REVOLT GENTER IN HECTIC AREA   -isenhower Ultimatum Brings Revival Of Peace Cries From Italians

RIOTING IS BREAKING OUT IN SOME CITIES   Soldiers Join Civilians in New ‘Revolution’

Little Thrill In Fast Dive      Army Test Pilot Says He Was “Too Busy” to Note Terrific Speed

RECORD DWE NOT MUCH OF THRILL   Hough Travels Fastet ‘ Than Sound But No Sensation

t, Col. Cass Hough, Crack Army Test Pilot Who Flew Over 780 M.P.H. in P-38 Lightning, Even Took Hands off Controls for 15 Seconds.

Dive of Five Miles Provides Little Thrill   Flier Who Travelled Faster Than Sound Not Conscious of Any Sensation   KEPT HIM TOO BUSY

Test Pilot Had No Sensation of Speed While Diving 780 Miles an Hour

Army Flyer Too Busy To Get Thrill From 780-Mile-An Hour Power Dive

Son of Sanduskian Said Drowned In Kanawha Rive: Boat Accident; Girl Victim

EXTEND COAL ACT   Bituminous Coal Agreement Will Not Be Allowed — . to Expire. -

SIMPLE RULE WILL EXTEND COAL MEASURE   Roosevelt Asks For Some Extension “Of Act

RESOLUTION T0 EXTEND LIFE OF SOFT COAL ACT   Would Prevent Lapse Through Lack of Time For Action On Pending. Bills   DEADLINE APRIL 26   Roosevelt Calls For Temporary Lease On Measure Establishing Minimum Prices

British Eighth Advances Tw Miles On Sangro River Froy Despite Rain; Liberators Carr Out Norweeian Raid   RHINELAND CHEMICAL _CENTER IS BOMBE

Liberators Again Blast At Norway   British Bombers Raid Rhineland Center—Battle » Slows Up in Italy

Yank Flyers Pound Nazis Tn Norway   Allied Offensives Slowed by Winter In Italy, Russia

Tito’s Forces Take Offensive on Every Slav Front  King Peter’s Regime Denounced by Broz’ Government

Tito’s Forces Take Offensive on Every Slav Front  King Peter's Regime Denounced by  Reas’? fravarnmont

Palmer Meares Is Executed In Central Prison   Wisharts’ Man Enters Chamber at 10:01, Dead 11 Minutes Later.

PALMER MEARES PAYS WITH LIFE   Asphyxiated In Gas Chamber Today for Shotgun Slaying of His Uncle, George Allen, In Robeson County Last May.

Federal Jobs Hit Total Of 2,750,000   November Report Shows 2.3 Per Cent Rise Over October

BUILD ARSENAL FOR ATTACK ON JAPAN   Navy Expands Aerial Transport Line Into Alaskan Area

AFRICAN DRIVE OCCURRED JUS} 12 MONTHS AGt   THE AFRICAN CAMPAIGN HAS TURNED THE GREEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS INTO SEASONED TROOPS,   AMERICANS FOUGHT HITLER’S “FIRST TEAM’   Gives Allies Large Force of WarTrained Troops Who Are Ready for the Jump-Off of the Second Front Invasion.

Russian Forces , Surge Ahead On  Smolensk Front   Red Forces Also Drive Ahead In West Caucasus Says Moscow   HEAVY BATTLING IN BELGOROD REGION

Donets Detense Is Firm   ...» Reds Surge Ahead On Smolensk Front

Army Flouts Jurist Over  Writ Order   (:en. Richardson Ignores Court Writ in Hawaii Controversy

Federal Judge And Army at Odds in Hawaii   Jurist Imposes Fine on General, Faces One Himself

CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITIES CLASH OVER HAWAIT LAW   ARMY OFFICER HOLDS MARTIAL LAW STILL PREVAILS IN HONOLULU

FEDERAL JUDGE, GENERAL SPAR FOR POWER IN HONOLULU, OUTCOME IS QUESTION MARK

CIVIL-MILITARY CLASH IN HAWAI   Federal Judge and Department Head Disagree

Hilitary. Puts  uth on Court   Federal Judge in Honolutu Is f a fram “Enforcing “Fine Imposed on General -

CLASH OF COURTS   Civil and Military Tribunals at Odds in Honolulu  Case

ARMY GENERAL STRIKES BACK AT U.S. JUDGE   Federal Jurist Prohibited By Army Order From Enforcing $5,000 ; Fine

ARMY DEFIES FEDERAL COURT HABEAS CORPUS   Hawaiian Commander, Held i: Contempt, Orders Army Ca Remeved from Court

Authority of  Military Rule ‘Put to Test   Army Takes Direct Action in Hawaii’s Explosive Test of Relative Precedence of Civil and Military Law

Forbid Judge To Urge Fine   Prospect Of Fine, Prison Term For Himself If Per sists Charge.

Hawaii Commander  Halts Court Move  Slaps Restrainer On  Judge Who Fined Him

Hawaii Case A Martial Law Test. 2   Furore Over Action ut Federal Judge: in” Holding Military Governor= In Contempt-.of Court:

hed’ Warplanes Also” - Pound at Rommel Lines on Tripolitanian Coast

FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACKED EASTERN TUNISIAN PORTS  NO CHANGE REPORTED  IN NORTH AFRICAN CROUND SITUATION

Softening Up Starts . From North Africa And Great Damage Inflicted

BOMBERS RAID  SOU SSE, SFAX   Axis Tunisian Supply Ports Are Left Aflame After Attack.   HIT RAIL LINES; ROADS

Enemy Rail Lines, Highways on Coast Given Battering   Aerial Attack Is Kept Underway From Bases in The East

Harbor Is Left In Flames By Heavy Attack   No Change Reported In Ground Situation On North African Warfront

U. §. BIG BOMBERS HIT SARDINIA AND ITALIAN SEAPORT   Fliers . Score I Direct Hits On Numerous Ships — 4,000 Tons Of Bombs Used In Raids:

U. S. PLANES RAID ENEMY SUPPLY PORTS   Flying Fortresses Attack Eastern Tunisian Bases Leaving Harbor Areas  In Fiames   GROUND FORCES QUIET

Biast Nazi Seaports In Tunisia   Rail Lines and Roads Bombed; Situation on  Ground Quiet.

START FIRES IN SFAX AND SOUSSE AREAS   Other Fliers Attack Rail Lines on Tunisian Coastal Road, While Warplanes From East Pound Rommel’s Bases.

Fortresses Make Heavy Attack Or Italian Seaport   Civitavecchia Center of Assault From  African Airfields

FORTRESSES HIT PORT OF SOUSSE IN JOLTING RAIL   American Fighters Range Over Extensive Area to Carry Battle to Axis

Forts Hit Italian Port: Many Axis Cities Targets   Thousands of Tons of Explosives Soften Up Europe for Invasion

RAIL LINES, ROADS POUNDED IN WIDE SWING OVER AFRIC    Cloudburst Of Bombs Leaves  Harbors At Sfax, ‘Sousse Atlame

Airfield on Island of Pantelleria Believed Knocked Out.   BOMBARDED BY NAVIES

Two Harbors Are Fired by U.S. Bombers   Fortresses... Loose... Grea - Downpour’ of Explosives on Sousse and Sfax - -:   ;ROMMEL’ $ LINES  - “ALSO ATTACKED   13; “Allied - Pilots. Said: t6 Be: Missing; No Change i ~ "liv Ground Situation °

U.S. Airmen Smash af Two Supply Ports   Flying Fortresses Leave Harbor Areas at Sousse and Sfax in Flames, Allies Say

' Two North African Ports Set Afire by » — Flying Fortresses   Increased Air Actions Al_ most All Inside the Enemy’s Lines

TUNIS PORTS TARGETS FOR BIG BOMBERS   SOUSSE, SFAX HARBOR AREAS REPORTED LEFT IN FLAMES

FLYING FORTS RAID HARBOR OF —CIVITAVECCHIA   Cagliari, Messina and Olbia Also Strafed by Bombers Operating from North Africa

Fires Are Set In Tunisia Harbors   Flying Fortresses Attack Eastern Supply Port of - '  Sousse .   -RAIL LINES ARE HIT   British Submarines. Have Scored Heavily in the Mediterranean

4 Axis Ships Sunk by Subs   Sousse and Sfax Harbor Instollations Left in Flames by Flying Fortress Bombe; American Fighters Bag 15 Enemy Planes

INSTALLATIONS AT HARBOR ARE FIRED   Three American Fortresses Score Hits on Axis’ Vital Tunisian Ports.

Fortresses Blast Bases While Subs Sink Three Ships   Destructive Downpour Of Explosives Leave German Harbor Areas Aflame

U.S. Fortresses Set Fire To Supply Ports   Four Allied Aircraft Lost, One Pilot Safe

Forts Pound  Mainland of Italy, Isles   Freed of Tunisian Tasks Allies Softening Up Weaker Axis Link

FLYING FORTS BLAST SOUSSE IN HEAVY RAID   Harbor Areas In Flames, Airmen  In Attack Say

U.§. Bombers Leave Tunisia Ports Aflame   Sousse, Sfax Are Blasted From West; Eastern Planes Batter Rommel   LAND FORCES QUIET   American Fighters Range Over Wide Battle Area; Allies Lose 17 Fliers

FLYING FORTRESSES RAID AXIS TARGETS   Score Numerous Hits -And ‘Set Fires At Vital Supply Ports

FORTRESSES RAID POINTS IN ITALY; DAMAGE IS HEAVY   Direct Hits Scored On Several Ships In Hatbor of Civitavecchia, 40 Miles From Rome; Another Attack Staged On Sardinian Port of Olbia.

FORTRESSES HIT SFAX AND SOUSSE   Supply Bases Of Axis Left Aflame From Exnlosives

FLIERS BATTER RAILS NEAR SFAX   Allies Hit Roads Along Gulf of Gabes; Nazis Report ‘Air Combats

YANKEES BOMB ITALIAN PORT, BLAST PLANTS   Sardinia Port Is Target; Nazi Prisoners on Way to England

Ports Fired In Raid By IF lving Forts   Rail Lines And  Coastal Road Also Hombed; Planes Range Over Wide Area

UNLEASH HEAVY AERIAL ATTACK ON ITALIAN PORT   FLYING FORTRESSES SCORE DIRECT HITS ON SEVERAL SHIPS

U.S. Bombers Start Fires Axis Ports   Fighters Range Qver Tunisia

Blast Harbors Of Sousse And Sfax  No Change Is Reported In Ground Situation; Air Forces Active

SUPPLY PORTS HEAVILY RAIDED BY FORTRESSES   American Bombers Set Big Fires In Two Tunisian Harbors Held By Axis; Other Raids Renorted.

Bombers Attack Supply Ports   Flying Fortresses Hit Sousse and Sfax In Tunisia

Direct Hits Made On Port in Italy   Flying Fortresses Carried Out Raid on Ships and  _ Storages   IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK   Group of Axis Ships Were _ Sunk From April 30 to May 12

Harbor Areas Left Aflame by Allied Raiders   No Change Noted In Situation in Ground Fighting

AXIS TUNISIAN SUPPLY BASES TINDER ATTACK   Flying Fortresses Bomb Ports of Sousse and Sfax, Leaving Harbor Areas Aflame   RAIL LINES TARGET   Highways Along Coastal Road At Mahares In Africa Battered; Ground  Situation Unchatigéd =

AHEAVY ATTACK MADE YESTERDAY ON CIVITAVECCHIA   Flying Fortresses Scored Direct Hits on Several Ships in the Harbor.   HIT AMMUNITION DUMP   A Simultaneous Attack Was Made on the Sardenian Port of Odbia.

Direct Hits Scored on: Many Ships   Harbor at  Sardinia Alea Met.

Tunisian Supply Ports of Axis Are Bombed by Yanks   Sousse and Sfax Harbors Left Aflame From Down pour of Explosives.   No Change in Ground Situation in Africa

ITALIAN PORT RAIDED BY U. S. BOMBERS   Hit City Only 40 Miles from Rome

WALTER F. GRIES NEW WELFARE HEAL   Michigan State Social Welfare Commission Is Reorganized.

NEW WELFARE CHAIRMANIS WALTER GRIES   REPUBLICANS MAKE FAURI ACTING DIRECTOR

Wheeler Says Size Of Armed  Forees Be Cut   Induction Rates Depend On  War'’e Procress

foal of Armed Forces Revised Downward and Plans Launched to Cut Induction Rates, Wheeler Reports

Slick Bank Bandit Gets His Freedom   Denied Clemency, Woolworth Walks Out At Lansing

SUNSHINE IS WELCOME   Portions of the State May Be a Little Cooler Tonight

CYCLIST BADLY HURT IN CRASH   Warren Vincent, 19, Runs  Bike Into Machine

Sychevka Has Fallen Into _ Soviet Hands   8,000 Nazis Killed, Material Is Taken In Soviet Offensive

SYCHEVKA FALL PAVES WAY TO FRESH ATTACK   But German Thrust Is Menace to  Kharkov

Bear "An Essential  Business’ Texas Ration “Board Finally: Decides

American-Torpedo Boats Blast Japs  Are Victorious Over Enemy Destroyers

Torpedo Boats Repulse Jap Destroyers Trying To Get to Guadalcanal

ENEMY FLEET TURNED BACK IN SOLOMONS   THREE DESTROYERS BELIEVED HIT AT GUADALCANAL

Torpedo Boats Put Big Jap Ships to Rout   Tiny Craft Attack Off Guadalcanal; Score Several Hits

TORPEDO BOATS TURN BACK JAP SHIPS: TWO ARE STRUCK   Daring Raid by Vessals of the U. S, Fleet Engage Superior Enemy Force and Return Victorious * in Solomons Area

J. 5. Motor Boats Engage Superior Enemy Sea Force  Speed Out From Guadalcanal To Torpedo, Turn Back Destroyers

Deadly Little Boats Chase Jap Destroyers In Guadalcanal Area  PUT ‘FISH’ IN TWO AND POSSIBLY THREE  Enemy Force Abandon: Appcrent Attempt  Toa Reinforce [sland

Demonstrations Still Prevail in ‘Lebanese Capita   Crisis in Middle East by No Means Over, Official Says

Police Join Lebanese Demonstrations Against French Committee Actions

HOUSE: GOP TO USE OPPONENTS’ VIEWS TOBOOST OWN PLAN      Treasury-Approved Plan Of ’ Doughton On Tax Issue  Linked Closely To  ' Ruml Plan’

Say Morgenthau Confused About Pay-Go Tax Plan   House Republicans Outline Strategy  To Be Used On F loor

FORGIVENESS OF TAXES FAVORED   Treasury Approves Plan But GOP To Continue Fight For Rum! Program

Yanks Blast M At Amboini He   Confusion Charged Over Pay-Go Taxes

MORGENTHAU CONFUSED: GOP   Spokesmen Says Administration Tax Plan Easily Mieunderstood.

BERLIN BOMBED BY RAF PLANES   LONG-EXPECTED AIR BLITZ ON GERMAN CAPITAL MAY BE UNDER WAY.

Meats, Butter, Cheese Available Today; Some Dried Fruit Points Cut

Meat Ration On Points Change On Some Food:   Restrictions Lifted On Al Dried Fruits and Veretables

Mrs. Roosevelt Criticizes Last-Minute Buying Spree   “Energies For Total War,” Ar. Need Instead Of Shop Stormince

HALF NATION'S FOOD RATIONED   As Meat, And Fats Go Under Control, OPA Changes Point Value of Processed Foods

SATIONING OF MEATS, BUTTER BEGINS TODAY   Wild Buying Spree Throughout Nation Comes to Halt

BUYING SPREES OVER AS MEAT ~ RATION STARTS   Point Values Reduced On Fruit Juices And Other Items

NEW RATIONING BEGINS AFTER BUYING SPLURGE   Mrs. Roosevelt Berates Nation’s Rush To Buy Meat

Start Rationing Of Meats, Fats In Nation Today   Mrs. Roosevelt Criticizes Last. : ‘Minute’ Buying Rush

TOKYO RAIDERS MEET IN AFRICA   Men Who Bombed Japan In Flanes From Aircraft Carrier, Now Fighting In Tunisia ‘

STOP BUILDING WORK   Military Science Building Construc tion Ended Yesterday

Deferment Claims of State Workers Must Be Approved By Special Body

Congress Is Ready to Cut Al War Cost   Senator Russell Says Spending Could Be Cut by 25 Billions; Probe Asked

Big Cut in War Spending Is Expected   House to Start Debate on Tax Bill Tuesday; Food Czar to Control Prices and Producthon Suggested

Congress Ready To Cut Spending   APPROPRIATIONS WILI BE SLASHED BY TWO HOUSES

F orsee New Economy Campaign   Refunds By Army and Navy Expected to Set Congress Off on Spree Of Fund-Slashing

Deep Cuis "in Spending _ Demanded   Economy. Wave Sweeps - Through Congress as House Prepares. to Debate Tax Bill   TOTAL FAR BELOW ‘° TREASURY PLAN   G.0.P. Approves House Program But Makes Strong Stand. for Retrenchment

PEARSON ACCEPTS FORD'S CHALLENGE      Radio Speech By Pearson On Henry’s Health - Responsible

PEARSON ACCEPTS FORD CHALLENGE   Motor Magnate May Race Columnist to Determine Better Man Physically.

Columnist, 46, Agrees to Race or Jump Against Hale Henry Ford, 80

Pearson Accepts Ford’s Challenge   Sumner Welles Believed Out As Cordell Hull Assistant

Columnist Accepts Henry Ford's Challenge to Match Physical Powers

GEN. CLARK'S =. FAMOUS PANTS FIND HOMI   Smithsonian Institute Is Final Resting Place fot “Noted Shorts — ‘Mrs «Clark Is Helping Bond  * Drive   NOW IN ITALY

High School Bill Killed In Senate   Uniform School Finance Measure Voted Down, 19 to 17   AFTER SHARP DEBATE   First School Aid Bill Falls ~ Before Move for  Economy

Exemption Is Voted Those In - Armed Forces   Final Approval Is Given To Measure To Lift State Tax On Wages From Government

Men Deferred For Farm Labor Cannot Change Jobs Or They Will Face Draft Call

Men Deferred For Farm Work Must Stay On Farm Or Go To Army, Goble

BYRD JOINS OPPOSITION   Virginia Senator Opposes Passage Of School Fund Measure

MOTOR VEHICLE FEES AND TAX DROP IN IOWA   Receipts drop $3,000,000 during fiscal year ending June 30

Russians Join in War of Nerves, Stabs at  German Lines Keep Nazis Off Balance

NOWRUSSIA ADDS BIT TO NERVE WAR   Moscow Hints Big Scale Drive Soon; 4 Axis Ships Sunk

AIR TEAMS ASSAULT ON HUGE SCALE   Russia Adds Her Bit to War of Nerves on the Eastern Front,

New Mexico Driver Hit Highest Speed Average 44 Miles Hour  Survey Discloses

THREE CHILDREN SLAIN   Axe Used To Hack Bodies. Mother Hunted As Murderer

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT ~ Congress And Economy

Robert Leaves Martinique   Natives of Island Jubilant Over Removal of Vichyite

BADOGLIO HAD LONG BEEN REGARDED AS MAN WITII WHOM ALLIES WOULD DEAL IN PEACE TALKS

Allied. Troops fake 40 Towns n South Italy   Axis Resistance Easily Overcome

40 Coastal and Inland Towns; 2000 Prisoners Captured; Commando Force Seizes Baenar:

tas Invasion ane Firmly: Held; Prisoners T aken  Commiando: Force Given: Support by

Allies Take 2,000  Prisoners   Advance on Peninsula Continues; Axis Still Fails to Resist; American Attack Pattern Aaain Proves Success

Allies Take 2,000  Prisoners   Advance on Peninsula Continues; Axis Still Fails to Resist; American Attack Pattern Aaain Proves Success   Weakness of Italian Defense Gives  Invaders Great Surprise; Only ‘Occasional Gunfire Is Encountered

British Occupy 4 Towns In Italy   Commandos Land at Two Places to Helo Infantry Expand. Gains

Raiders Claw Over Boot Toe   Forty Coastal, Inland Towns  Ave Taken

allies Seize Bagnara, 40 raastal and‘ Inland Towns Along 40-Mile Invasion Arc

BAGNARA SEIZED AND 2000 PRISONERS TAKEN; 40 COASTAL TOWNS AND VILLAGES OCCUPIED.

Clamp hold on 40 mile invasion arc   Capture coastal towns, prisoners

At Least 40 Towns And Villages Captured; 2,000 Prisoners Taken   COMMANDO TACTICS ARE BEING EMPLOYED

British and Canadian Troops Fan in Both Directions Along Coast and Plunge Deeper Inland on the Toe of Peninsula

Allies Use Commando Strategy Successfully   Bagnara Atop of Toe Taken by Invaders, Who Clamp Firm Hold On 40-Mile Bridgehead   DEFENDERS FLEE FROM COAST TOWNS   Slight Resistance Encountered So Far, Montgomery on Hand

Bagnara is Captured By Big British Commando Force; 40 Towns, 2,000 Prisoners Are Reported Taken

Bagnara and Melito Seized by Montgomery’s Forces   MANY BEING HELD AS WAR PRICONEDE   Casualties So Far Light on Both Sides, Dispatches Stata

Airfields In Naples Are Hit By Bombers   Steady Blasting Knocks Out Usefulness Of Italian Railroads; 2,000 Prisoners Are Taken In One Day

MEXICO DEMANDING BETTER TREATMENT FOR HER NATIONALS   FOREIGN MINISTER WRITES GOV. STEVENSON ABOUT FARM WORKERS

Alles Hit Ruhr, Muelheim, Naples Crippling Blows   Axis Rail, Industrial Centers Badly Damaged Aerial Pictures Show

UJ. §. PRESIDENT AND GREAT BRITAIN TELL ‘AE LEND-LEASE DEALS  BRITAIN HAS AIDED   U. S. TO EXTENT OVER  PITTION NOLLARS

BRITAIN’S AID TO THE UNITED STATES IS $1,174,900,000   This Amount Received From British Empire Under “Reverse Lend-Lease.”   REPORTS MADE TODAY   Were Given by President Roosevelt and Sir John Anderson.

‘Reverse LeaseLend Has Aided U.S. $1,174,900, 00(   Britain’s Assistance To America Totaled In Separate Reports

REVERSE LEND-LEASE  America IsGetting War Aid   One-Way Flow Has Ended: Washington and London Issue Separate Reports

Aid From Britain Report Given Out   President Lays Heavy Stress On Reverse Lend Lease Proaram

British. F.D.R. Put Stress On Lend-Lease Aid   Reports Of Reverse Material  Aid To United States (,iven Today.  CHES WHITE PAPER

U.S, GETS GOODS FROM BRITAIN ON LEND-LEASE   Congress Faces Father-Draft Row Renewal and WLB Gives Labor Warning

LEND-LEASE IS DEFENDED, FOR CITING FIGURES   America Has Received Over Billion Dollars Worth of British Material

Stress Aid From England to U. S.   President Roosevelt and British Government Make Separate Reports; Follow Charges Made In Congress  * Of ‘Collossal Dole’ To Allies.

Report On Lend-Lease  In Reverse    Material Assistance Has Been Given By British Government, Is Report Of President Roosevelt

U. 5. PRESIDENT AND GREAT BRITAIN TELL (IF LEND-LEASE DEALS  BRITAIN HAS AIDED U. S. TO EXTENT OVER

Fixes Reverse Lend Lease at $1,174,900,000 Through June   British Also Release White Paper on Subject

Officials Of Both Nations Vow Mutual Aid   Many Commodities Now Coming To U. § From Enaland

British hid ‘Well Over’ * One Billion   ‘Reverse Lend-Lease’ Given Eniphasis in Reports From Wachinoton and London   ANSWERS CHARGES MADE IN CONGRESS   *Roosevelt Tells of Goods Being Received; U.S. Also to Get Rubber, Other Supplies

GREAT BRITAIN LISTS BILLION IN AID 10 U. S.   It’s Lend-Lease In Reverse, FDR Informs  Congress

BRITISH LEND-LEASE IN REVERSE 10 U.S. BARED   Empire Extended More Than Billion Aid, F.R. Message, London White Paper Reveal

A Billion In Reverse Lend-Lease   FDR Message to Congress Backs Up British Report of “Mutual Aid” Furnished to the U. S.

British Empire Has Provided U. S: Over A Billion Dollars Worth Of Reverse Lend-Lease   Roosevelt And London Government Simultaneously Release Figures

GREAT BRITAIN REPAYING. PARI OF LEND-LEASE   FDR’s Report To Congress Shows Flow Of War Goods Not In One Direction

Great Britain Gives Report on Lend-lease   "White Paper” Reveals More Than Billion Dollars to America

Caught Two Blocks From Scene  Man Kills Wife on Courthouse Steps After Alimony Hearing

Vinson Blasts Failureto Boost Taxes   Says 10 Billions Needed to Prevent Inflation

SUARING PRICES OLEN BY VINSON UNDER TAX BILL   Stabilization Director Says Congress Must Impose Heavier Levies to Pre vent Inflation.   PUTS EXCESS BUYING POWER AT 20 BILLION   Predicts Financiat Disaster for Country Unless Part of This Vast Sum is Taken.

Vinson Requests Revenue Bill   Says It Must Stop Inflation Threat

BILBERT ISLANDS SECURE FOR U. S. NIMITZ REVEALS   g/th U. S. Infantry Division ” Takes Makin; Marines Cleanup Tarawa

MARIN FIGHTING GEAote, Th. Ath MATTER GF ME   Capture of Betio Asured; Admirai Sees Victory Over Japanese

JAP FORCES WIPED OUT ON MAKIN   Fall of Betio and Abemama Pelieved Matter of Hours

Broughton Recommend: $20 Million Post-Wai Reserve Fund —. Urge: Solons to “Keep Faith’  - With Men in’ Armed Forces.

No Increase In — Taxes Favored   Asks Salary Increases For State Employes And Teachers   9-MONTH SCHOOL TERM IS URGED

Republicans Riding Full Tit For Showdown In. Face Roosevelt’s De nunciation of Bill   ‘TERFERENCE BY EXECUTIVE CHARGEL   resident Tries to Heac  Off Vote On Proposal;  Terms Measure “Highly Inequitable”

GOP Risking Veto of Ruml     Tax Proposal   Will Call Up Forces to Send Bill to President Despite Disapproval

Fifth Army Is Massed Alone  Velturno River   Soldiers Swim Swollen River  For Advances

BE ENFORCED   Commissioners Urge Other Action on Delinquency Problem

CITY'S CURFEW NOT LIKELY 10 BE ENFORCED   Commissioners Urge Other Action on Delinqueney Problem   Wricht Offers Suggestion.

Russians Racing Toward Kherson At Dnieper Moutt   Reds Accelerate Drive after Having Sealed Off the Crimea

More German Forces Are  Hurled Back   With Nazis Sealed Off in Crimean Trap, Red Troops Sweep Ahead As Victorious Maneuver Progresses

Russians Race Toward Large Dnieper Port   Nazi Armies Faced With Assaults From All Sides in Crimea

RED OFFENSIVE IS CONTINUING ALONG DNIEPER   Soviets Seal Off Crimea And Press Toward Port Of Kherson   NAZI RETREAT ACROSS NOGAISK GREAT ROUT

Important Dnieper River Crossing Town Is Captured : ARMIES GO TOWARD * PORT OF KHERSON  Russian Landing on Kerck   Russian Landing on Kerch Neck Reported by  Nazis

Important Dnieper River Crossing Town Is Captured  ARMIES GO TOWARD PORT OF KHERSON  Russian Landing on Kerch Neck Reported by Nozis

WAY CLEARED TO BLACK SEA BY RED ARMY   GERMANS SLASHED FROM ALL SIDES IN RIVER LOOP

Small Air Force Does A Big Job   Chenault’s. Fliers Celebrate End of First Year of Service in China Sector

Swift Senate Action Expected on Measure Deferring Farm Workers, Postwar Proposals Hit Spa.

POST-WAR PLAN CENTER OF FUSS INU.S. CONGRESS   Proposal for World Police Force Opposed as Threat To Allied Unity   FIGHT LOOMS OVER TAXES   Showdown on Disputes Over Farm Worker Deferment Is Near in Senate

20 Percent Withholding  Tax Proposed   House Battle Between Republicans and Democrats Looms: Salary dict Dying

Yanks Prepare Eastward Push  Soon, However   Allied Drive Perils Axis Positions On The Mareth Line

WEATHER HAS SLOWED YANKS IN TUNISIA   Has Made Air Activity Alniost Impossible

AMERICANS CONSOLIDATE POSITIONS   U. S.-French Advance Threatening to Encircle Axis Along Mareth Line.

Pincers Closing On Axis   American Forces Consolidate Newly-Won Po sttions In Tunisia

AMERICAN FORCES PREPARE 10 MOVE   Drenching Rains Convert Battlefield Into Quagmire of Deep Mud.

U.S. PLANES STAGE ‘RAID ON HAIPHONG   29 Jap Planes, Probably 42, Shot Down In 40Minute Battle

Santa Fe Chiet Hits Bie Truck   Driver Hurt Seriously In Mishap at Grants   DRIVER REPORTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION   VEER SING, SHIPS FOUND   U.S. Lawyer and Nazi Professor Talk Philosophy In Ditch Amid Dead and Wounded As Battle Rages

Second Front First on Reds ParlevAoenda   ‘Dallas Lieutenant Wins Philosophy Argument Over Nazis in Italian Ditch

Yank, Nazi Argue As Shells Whine  Philosophy Is Debated  / In ADitch   ~~

Large Subscription Puts County Over The Top In Bond Drive   $500,000 Purchase Brings Thermometer, To $2,640,000 Mark This Morning; Countians Urged To Continue Buying. —

Residents Increase Purchases   Mace Gets Early Returns— Will Tabulate Final Reports in Few Days

CIVILIAN GOODS FACE NEW CUTS   ruel Oil Siash Ordered By Non-Essential Industries

Sharp Drop In Civilian Goods Seen   Fuel Cut 40 Per Cent For Non-Essential Plants in East

USE OF FUEL OlL BY NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES IS CUT   Sharp Cuts In In Production Of Civilian Goods Seems Inevitable Today

Success Of War - Loan Drive Seer   Treasury Confident Big Quota Will Re Mot

THIRD BOND DRIVE   Officials Confident Full 15 Billion Dollars Will Be Met; No Breakdown Yet Available For Latest Total; $328,000,000 Individual Sales.

HIGHER WAGES NOW ASSURED INDER ORDEF   Directive May Satisfy UMW Demand For More Pay

Negotiation: Unchanged By Order   Disagreement Betweer Miners and Owners  Still the Same

Ickes Sets 6-Day Week For Miners; Will Boost Pay   But New Mine Boss Denies He Can Negotiate on Lewis’ Demands

Coal Mines — Go On Full Production   Operations Resume Under Terms of 15-Day Truce in Wage Dispute

MOVE ASSURES MINERS OF MORE PAY INCREASES   Ickes Formally States. Action Caused by Need of Adequate Supplies

ICKES IMPLIES: WLB WILL GET COAL DISPUTE   Makes 6-day Week Mandatory As Miners Return to Work

Ickes Directive Assures Boost In Workers’ Pay   Situation Reported Unchanged As Far As  Bargaining Concerned

@cOAL MINERS AT WORK WITH HIGHER WAGES   Utah Unaffected Due to BD six Days Per Week  Agreement

Miners Put on 6-Day Week: Get More Pav   W.L.B. Jurisdiction Dispute Resumed, Despite Seizure

APPLIES TO ALL MINES OPERATED ~ BY GOVERNMENT   Prices Ordered Increased To Cover Cost—Move Formally Ascribed To Necessity’ For Assuring  _ Adequate Coal Supplies

All Coal Miners  Return to Pits   Stream Back to Work, Assure Virtually Full Production

GET BIGGER PAYCHECKS   Reports From Field Claim Nearly All Return To Jobs

Miners Stream  Back Into Pits   Most Coal Workers  Resume Operations

QMES AS DIGGERS POUR BACK INTO PITS   Coal Prices Cover Sixth Day Costs, Ickes Says; Bargaining “Back Where it Was Last Week”

COAL MINERS ARE BACK AT WORK ALL OVER NATION   Virtually Full Production Re sumes Following Complete Strike.

UAT WEE UNDEAD TOM IN GOAL HELOS   Substantially Higher Wages Assured For U. $. Miners By Ickes’ Decree   ALL MINES OPERATING AT FULL BLAST TODAY   Virtual 100 Per Cent Flow Of Coal Is Certainty Under Federal Plan

ALL PITS IN U.S. HANDS ARE INVOLVED   Action Assures Miners of Higher Weekly Earnings Under Government.   BULLETIN

Senate Military Affairs Committee Practically Kills Kilday Measure

AUDIBLE ALL CLEAR MAY BE REVIVED   Original Signal Has Been Resumed In Several Other States

Urge Passing Of Social Security   Would Soften Distress Of Post-War Years

Bill To Defer Fathers Killed By Senate Group   Kilday Measure Tablec and Regarded as Dead for All Time

BILL TO DEFER FATHERS DOOMED   SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO TABLE MEASURE SPONSORED BY KILDAY.

Kilday Measure Thought Dead   Bill Deferring Fathers Tabled bv Conuuittee

KILDAY DRAFT PLAN TABLED      Senate Committce Shelves Bill to Defer Fathers Vatil Last

Father Draft Bar Tabled —   Believe Kilday Bill Is Killed Bv Committee

KILDAY BILL “IS KILLED IN COMMITTEE   Measure to Defer Fathers Quietly Knocked in : Heod

Kilday Bill To Defer Fathers Is Killed by Comm.  Tabling Dooms Measure; Group:

Senate Tables Bill to Ban Fathers’ Drafi   Unanimous Action May Knock Out Texan’s Measure

FATHER’S DRAFT BAN IS KILLED   Measure Sponsored By Rep. Kilday Doomed In Committee

BUTTER SUPPLY CUT ONE THIRD   Rationing Seems Certain As 30 Per Cent Is Reserved For War Needs

BUTTER RATION ~ DRAWS NEARER   THIRTY PER CENT. OF PRODUC “ION ‘GOES FOR WAR REQUINEMENTS—CITRUS: FRUIT ORDER

MNutt Softens  48-Hour Edict   Some to Get Exemption: Rules Gut Soon

McNutt Promises Some Exemptions Under Work Rule   Establishments Unable Te Obey Order Will Be Shown Leniency

WORK SCHEDULE RULES PENDING   Exemptions Possible In Certain Cases On  48-Hour Order

Work or Fight Order Issued Bv President   House Passes An Anti-Strike Measure

PROMISES TO RECOMMEND’ o MINERS RETURN   Action Follows House Passage Of Anti-Strike Measure And Warning  From Roosevelt And Ickes

British Pound German Rail Center: Axis Shipping Off Sicily Smashed

AACHEN BOMBED HEAVILY BY RAT; 20 PLANES LOS]   Steel Works, Chemical Plants and Railway Plants are Damaaed.

STAGE HEAVY BOMBING RAID   German Industrial and Railway Cen. ter of Aachen Hit — Twenty  British Planes Lost in Operations —Fifteenth Raid on-City.:

BRIT. BOMBERS RESUME RAIDS ON GERMANY      Railway Cente Was Last Nig Main Objective

Fritz Kuhn, Once Boss-of Bund, Refuses Chanc To: Defend Himself From Deportation Action

EX-BUND CHIEF TO AVOID TRIAL   Fritz Kuhn To Lose Hi: Citizenship, Face Deportation

AMERICAN NAVY UMBARDD JARS IN SOLOMONS   Munda Airfield Pounded By Heavy Naval Guns; Jap Planes Downed

Bombers Sink Or Damage 10  Jap Vessels   U.S. Fighters Down Four Bombers Trying To Break Up Yankee Attack.   ALLIES HIT MANDALAY

Allied Heavy Bombers  Smash Nine or Ten Jap Vessels, Rabaul Harbor

U.S. Surface Ships Bombard Base af Munda   Wildcat Navy Fighter Planes Drive Off Jap Bombers Which Try to Intercept Vessels

US Hits Hard In Two-Way Attacks   Fighter Planes Pre. tect Task Force From Bombers

U.S. WARSHIPS BLAST JAPS AT MUNDA BASE   American Bombers Follow Ships in Daring Foray 180 Miles Northwest of Guadalcanal   JAP SHIPS BOMBED   Allied Airmen Sink or Fire Nine _ Enemy Vessels, Perhaps Ten, a! Rabaul, New Britain

SMASH JAP SHIPS AT RABAUL DOG   U. S. Fifth Army Is Organiz: ed to Help Carry on Campaign tn Africa.

Nine Jap Ships Are Blasted At Rabaul Harbor      Direct Hit Smashes Destroyer, Tender; © Six Jap Planes Downed.

Jap Ships Set Afire   Allied Air Force Strikes South Pacific Harbors

BOLDLY STEAM INTO HEART OF SOLOMON ZONE   Jap Bombers Try to Intercept Americans But Are Shot Down

HEAVY BOMBERS QRALLES AGAIN OMAGH AT RAB   Leave Eight Vessels Afire and Sink and Destroy Ninth With Direct Hit; Tenth Probably Destroyed,

Yank Surface ‘Craft Hit Jap Raga at Munda   - Base at Munda  Jap Bombers Driven Off In Try to Intercept Americans  TEN FOE SHIPS SUNK  Enemy Said To Be Massing War Fleet in South: west Pacific

TEN SHIPS OF NEW JAP FLEET HIT AT RABAUL   50,000 Tons Of Shipping Suffer Under New Blows From The Bombers

Nine Jap Vessels At Rabaul  Smashed On Heels Of Report Vast Enemy Armada Massing   One Vessel Destroyed, 8 Afire Or Sinking In Heavy Allied Attack

OEA AND AIR ATTACK UPON NEW JAP BASE NEW GEORGIA ISLAND  HEAVY BOMBERS CREDIT. ED WITH SINKING OR DAM. AGING TEN JAP SHIPS

U.S. Navy Tash Force Bombs Munda Field   Attack” Reported “Successful, Jap  Planes Driven Off

U.S. Navy Task Force Bombards New Munda Base   Heavy Bombers Hit 10 Japanese Ships In Rabaul Harbor

YANK BOMBERS SINK SHIPSIN RABAUL RAIDS   Allied Fliers Smash At Jap.  anese Cargo Fleet and Set Eight of Ves  sels Afire  DOWN: SIX. PLANES   Japs. Gathéring Nava! Forces: For, Assault In Pacific Area, Says  ° Aussie Official _

U.S. TASK FORCE BOMBARDS JAP MUNDA BASE   Japs Have Been Attemptting to Establish Strong Air Base There for Weeks

HIT 9 JAP SHIPS IN RABAUL HARBOR   50,000 Tons of Enemy Shipping Damaged by U.S. Air Attack

JAP SHIPS AT RABAUL PORT ARE ATTACKED   Ten Enemy Vessels Claimed Suak or Damaged in Allied Assault in New Britain  ONE BOMBER IS LOST

Warships In Bold Smash At Munda   British Subs Sink Big Axis Transport

Jap Base Shelled By Task Force   Four Enemy Bombers Are Shot Down When They Attempt To Attack American Warships

Allies Blast 9 Ships As Japs Mass Fleet Anew   Rabaul Harbor Scene of Fresh Air Activity: Plane Lose 1 to & af Fae.

8 JAP SHIPS SET AFIRE, 1 SUNK ~ ATRABAUL   Tenth Vessel Probably Destroyed by Blow At Gathering War Fleet

U. S. task foree bombards Japanese airfield at Munda   Knock down seven planes in Solomons. hit Jap transport

SHELL JAP MUNDA BASE   84 More Japs Killed In Fight On Guadalcanal

Jap Bombers Driven Off In Try to Intercept Americans  TEN FOE SHIPS SUNK Enemy Said To Be Mass ing War Fieet in Southwest Pacific

U .S. Ships Shell _ Airfield at Munda   Jap Base Presumably Intended for Use in As: sault on Guadalcanal—Task Force Shoots Down Four Attacking Enemy Planes

BOMBERS STRIKE RABAUL HARBOR   Ten Enemy Ships Reported Sunk or Damaged in Heavy Raid.   MANDALAY HIT BY AMERICAN FLIERS

PLANES HIT ‘BUAP SHB, ~ SINK NINTH   Heavy Bombers Smash Again ’ At Massed Enemy Shippine In Rabaul Harbor   ery JAP PLANES DOWNEL

American Navy Task Force In Bombardment   Attacking Japanese Bombers Driven Off By Wildcat Planes   Yank Fighters Raid Jap Cruiser At Buin   Ten Enemy Ships Reported Damaged In Rabual Harbor

Munda Airfield Blasted Again   Japanese Attempt To Fight Back, But Are Driven Off

New Airfield In Solomons  Under Attack   Enemy Bombers Attempt To Hit Ships, But 4 Are Shot Down And 2 Others ‘Probable’

Smash Nest Of  Japanese Ships  Allied Troops Closing In On Last Foothold In Papua

VESoELS BLAST MUNA AIRBASE   Allied Bombers Smash at Massed Enemy Shipping At Rabaul.   TEN SHIPS ARE DAMAGED

10 Jap Ships Sunk, Damagec In Raid On Rabaul Harbor   Australia Warned Japanese Massing Large War Fleet In Southwest Pacific

Rabaul Harbor  Again Blasted      Several Ships. Are Sunk Or Set On Fire; One Bomber. [Is Lost

FLIERS AID RAID _ IN SOLOMONS   Flying Fortresses Attack Nippon Cruiser at Island of Bougainville

Yanks Sink 9 Jap Ships   Tenth Vessel May Have Been Lost in Raids on Harbor

U.S. SURFACE TASK FORCE BOMBARDS JAPS’ MUNDA FIELD   Task Force Units Attacked By Jap Bombers After Raid But Are Met By U. 5. Fighters, Who Downed Four

ALLIES BATTER “TAPS AT RAR   Eight Ships Reported Sunk Or Set Afire In Bomber Attack

U.S, Airmen Batter Japs In Far East   ‘Rabaul and Othe: Pacific Points Are Hard Hit

U.S. Task Force Successfully Bombards Japs’ Munda Airfield   Four Enemy Dive Bombers Shot Down; Bomb Hit Scored On Jap Transport In Shortlands

Australia Insists On More Equipment  Heavy Allied Bombers Blast 50,000 Tons Of Jap Shipping At Rabaul

MEN ACCEPTED FOR  MILITARY SERVICE   Board No, 2 Announces Names of Those Accepted December 7

MEN ACCEPTED FOR _ MILITARY SERVICE   Board No. 2 Registrants Pass Their Final Exoms —-

COUNTIANS TO GO IN ARMED FORCES   Group Accepted for Mill. tary Service on Sept. 14

MEN ACCEPTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE   Local Men Go Into Army, Navy and Marines. Oct. 19

COUNTIANS 60 IN MILITARY SERVICE   Group From Board 2 Accepted for Army and Navy Duties

MEN ACCEPTED FOR MILITARY SERVICE      Countians Take Final Ex. aminations on December 20th

ALLIED AIRMEN WATCH GROWING JAPANESE FLEE   Enemy Concentrating Transports and Cargo Ships in Island Arc Northwest of  Ayctralia 

15 AIR ATTACKS MADE ON KISKA IN SINGLE DAY   Americans Blast 3 Jap Bases, Freighter in Solomons Area

RAID KISKA 15 TIMES IN SINGLE DAY.   U.S. Fliers Score Many Hits On Main Camp Area

INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Bad Weather and Stiff Nazi Resistance Slows Up Soviets ©

Germans Announce Landing By Reds In Kuban Region, Say Foe Wiped Out

FORWARD IN WHITE RUSSIA   Stiffening German Resistance and Worse Weather Slows Drive

REDS CONTINUE TO DRIVE INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Move to Within 25 Miles of Vite hbsk While Nazis Report Activi fy Around Lake Ilmen   MAY TURN FLANKS   Successes Against Mud, CounterAltacks in North Maiched by Ac. lion in Kuban

Allied Powers Promise at Moscow To Make No Individual Peace Settlements.   POST-WAR ACTION IS ALSO DISCUSSED

Lewis Assails Army Spies in. Mine Area   Says Workers Resent Threat ° _ Of Bayonet—Congressional — - Report Attacks Miners’: Leader

UMW LEADER RAPS ARMY TACTICS TO GET INFORMATION   Lewis Says Agents In Coal Fields While Wage Conference Is In Progress

MacArthur In Hospital Visit   Chats With Men Who Were Hurt At Arawe

Occupants of Hospital Ship Hurled Into Shark-Infested Waters; Only 64 Survivors

Knox Reports Attu Battle Continuing With Japanese Pressed On End Of Island   Reports Enemy Corralled Out On Peninsula, Fighting Unceasing

Yanks Press Japs On Attu; Bombers Lash Rabaul Base   Annihilation of Nips in Aleutians; Start Fires in New Britain.   16 Tons of Bombs Dropped in Raids

Japs Corralled On Attu Island   Battle for Aleutian Base Against Enemy Continues; Strongholds Reported Liquidated

4 Japs Downed Over Solomons   Large Force Of Enemy Bombers Make First Major Raid In Area Since Last November

U.S. Fliers Rout Large Force Of Japanese Fliers   Four Jap Planes Shot Down In Sky Battle Near Guadalcanal   GROUND FORCES MAKES ADVANCES

Yank Airmen Rout Air Force At Guadalcanal   Four Zeros Downed A: Reinforced Japanese At tack Solomons

U.S. Revolts At Subsidies Says Writer   "Germanic Theory’ Opposed by People, Bromfield Tells Quiz

Local Clubs To Recruit WAAC   Mrs. Carl Klingaman Was Named Wacruiting Representative for Emmetsbure and Cylinder.

Badoglio May War On German With ‘Allies’   British, American Troops Are Cool Toward Suggestion

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE pecartnted Yreac War Analyst

TTALIANS PRESENT NEW PROBLEM WITH ARDENT DESIRE TO SALVAGE SOMETHING BY JOINING ALLIES

US.-BRITISH UNWANT ITALY ASTHEIR ALLY   Soldiers of Both Nations Unenthusiastic About Welcoming Surrendered Troops Comrades

Allies Have No Intention  Of Crushing Italian People  Will Help Them Get a Fresh Start

U, 5. and British Troops Not Enthusiastic Over Accepting Italians As Companions

Italians Want To Join Allies But Men Who Fought Them Resent Idea

ltalian Efforts To Join Allies Find Yanks Cold   British Soldiers Demand Defeated Foe Pay Price: AMG Aides Hit Setup

 American And British Soldiers Unenthusiastic About Having Italians As Comrades-In-Arms

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   \s Full-Fledged Partner  th Not Being Accepted Yn Line-Up Of Allies

The W ar Today— Italian Government Causing Some ‘Resentment Among Allied Troops

Italians Still Control Civil Power in Italy   American and British Soldiers Are Unenthusiastic About Welcoming Italians as Comrades in Arms

BRITISH ARMY RESENTS ITALY BECOMING ALLY      Badoglio Government Is Forcing Itself On United Nations

NEXT DRIVE BY U.S. MAY BEIN ALEUTIANS   Halsey Tells Eisenhower, “Hope to Beat You to Punch”

MUST ENDORSE RATION STAMP   New Ruling Effective fo New Gasoline Books.

AGREEMENTS — WITH RUSSIA ARE BEAPHED   ROOSEVELT DECLARES CONFERENCE AT MOSCOW 18 BEING CROWNED ~~ " WETH SUCCESS

POSTWAR POLICIES GIVEN APPROVALS AT MOSCOW MEET   Roosevelt Acclaims Tripartite Conference Big Success as Work Ends, Documents Will Be Signed.   FULL UNDERSTANDING, — COOPERATION REACHED   Date For Personal Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Has Not Yet Been Determined.

Tripartite Conference A Success   FDR claims all agreements reached between three powers

CALLS PARLEY GREAT SUCCESS   Three Nations Agree on War and Future Policies President Says

LAURA DOMINICK, JOE FELLER MARRIED   Fretty: June ‘Weddng Celebrated At St. James Church Tues-, day Morning

LAURA DOMINICK, . JOE FELLER MARRIED   Pretty duns Weddng Celebrated At St. James Chureh 'Tucsdav Morning

AVERY DIES BEFORE UTAH FIRING SQUAD   Slayer Of ft Ogden Detec _tive Faces Without Emotion

KAISER WOULD SPEAK TO MEN   Shipbuilder Asks Right to Talk With Labor When Strikes Threaten

FOR.A LABOR CHANGE   Kaiser Proposes Employer Be Permitted to Consult Workers .

Blast Occurs At Ravenna   Two Killed And Ten Injured In Explosion At Ordnance Depot Today  (BULLETIN)

Poll Tax Menace  To House Contro!   Southerners Threaten  Bolt to Republicans

OFFICIALS UF BANK INDICTED   Three Others Also Served Warrants In Bank Shortage.

ALLIES SCORE TRIUMPHS ON LAND AND SEA      United Nations’ Forceg Improve Positions In South Italy   NORTH HELD BY HUNS   Americans Closing Trap On Japs—Russ Take Azov Sea Port Of Mariupol

YANKEE WEDGE IN NAPLES AREA GROWS DEEPER   Several German Armored. Attacks Thrown Back in Bitter Fighting in Italy   CHAOS IS REIGNING THRUOUT NATION   Smashing Aerial Assaults Prevent Enemy From Getting Reinforcements  Into Naples Sector

NAZIS VACATE SOUTHERN TOE OF PENINSULA   To Make Stand North of Rome  ALLIES DRIVE ON  British Welcomed In Taranto   ALLIES DRIVE ON

Hitler’s Hope For Oii Given A Hard doll   New Red Victory Repulses Nazis Almost Within Sight of Great Fields   THREATENS ANOTHER BIG GERMAN ARMY   Retreat From Mozdok May Prove the Beginning of Flicht From Caucasus

PNPA TURNS BACK T0 1ST WORLD WAR   Publishers Seek Means ‘of Conserving “News Print

GERMAN MORALE HITS NEW LOW    Berlin Broadcast Hints at Possible Political Changes in Reich.

EDEN St ES LONG WAY YET 10 G0   Reviews Vast Problems with President Roosevelt   MEETS OFFICIALS   Eden Says Weeks of Talks Ahead to Cover All Aspects of War and Peace

Anthony Eden, FD Confer In U. S.   ‘Long Way To Go’ ‘Says British Envoy

DISCUSSION OF ALL ASPECTS OF WAR EDEW’S AIM   British Foreign Minister Says Allies Not to Make Mistake of World War J Peace   LONG-FIGHT AHEAD   Dines With President;  Given Run of White  - House During Conference Davs

Anthony Eden Meets With FDR   Britisher Tells Newsmen That Enemy Is Now Feeling Allied Power

“ictory Is Long Way Off: Eden   Allies Grow Strong But Setbacks Aheod,  Says Britain's Foreign Secretory Here For ‘All-Aspect’ Conferences On Problems

‘Allies Have Long Way To Go Eden Says  atescae VASA. Reactdant   Drives With President; Confers With Ministers of British Dominions

FDR And Eden  In Conference   British Foreign Official Sees Allies As Having. Lone Way. To Go

EDEN DECLARES ALLIED VICTORY IS FAR DISTANT   “We've Got a Long Way to Go,” Foreign Secretary Says on Eve of First Talk With Roosevelt.   ASSERTS SETBACKS ARE BOUND TO COME   Weeks of Conferences Ahead, He Ayers, Will Cover All Phases of War andthe Peace.

Nazis Seeking New Capital; 10.000 Killed   Smoke From Burning City Reaches Sweden; Rein ~ Comnileata

WORKER TALKS TO MEN AND STOPS STRIKE   Brief Speech to Fellow Employes Turns Trick

WILL USE U.S. LABOR      Housing Standards of Japs Too Hich-for Sugar Beet Growers

Japs May Not Harvest Beets   Requested Housing Standards Too High

Warehouse Is Wrecked fh Virginia   Fire Breaks. Out After Explosion Of Stored Mines

Naval Mine Depot Blast Kills Six  Score Or More Injured: Damage Fxtensive

FEAR SIX KILLED IN NAVAL BLAST   Over Score Injured in Explosion at Yorktown

Norfolk Area Shaken by Shattering Blast Which Injures Scores of Workmen

BLAST IN MINE DEPOT KILLS 6   Navy Warehouse Explosion Causes Heavy Damage

6 DIE IN BLAST AT NAVY DEPOT   Possibly Eight Civilians Kill* ed, 20 To 30 Hurt

SCORE INJURED AN BLAST AT. a YORKTOWN, VA   Tragedy «. Preceded: by - Yellow. Flash. from. Explosives: Plant

Six Dead, Score Hurt In Blast At Navy Depot .   Explosion Occurring In Mine Warehouse, Tres Much Damare

Estimated Six To Eight Civilian Employees Killed and At Least 20 Injured In Blast That Awakened Many Residents of Area.

6 Die In  Explosion   ..+ 20 To 30 Injured In Virginia Depot Blast

Blast Of Navy Mines Kills  Six C ivilians   injures Score, Damage Severe

6 DIE IN BLAST AT NAVAL MINE DEPOT, VIRGINIA   ‘Between 20 and 30 Are In' -jured, Two Seriously, In Explosion That Rocks Wide Area

Six Employes Die in Blast   Between 20 and 30 Injured at Yorktown Naval Mine Depot

N orfolk-Portsmouth Section — Shaken; Heavy Damage Seen;  20 To 30 Are Found Injured

SixDieln = Blast Af Naval Mine Depot   Explosion Damages Yorktown Naval Statior

SIX ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION   ‘Blast Causes Heavy Damage At Naval Mine Depot

EXPLOSION IN NAVAL DEPOT FATAL TO SIX   More Than Twenty Are Injured At Yorktown, Va.

NAVAL DEPOT BLAST CLAIMS 6 WORKERS   Thousands — in - Vicinity ( Norfolk, Va., Jarred

Navy Mine Depot Blows Up; Rocks Yorktown Area   Victims Listed As Civilians; People In Norfolk Section Fee! Explosion

MINE BEPOT BLAST KILLS SIX PERSONS   20 To 30 Others Injured In Norfolk Explosion

BLAST KILLS SIX, INJURES AT LEAST 30   Explosion in Yorktown Naval Depot Feit For a Distance of Thirty Miles From Scene   DAMAGE IS_ EXTENSIVE

BLAST KILLS 6 i MINE DEPOT   20 to 30 Injured in Explosion; Fires Extinguished Quickly; Damage May Be Heavy

SIX CIVILIAN WORKERS DIE IN DEPOT BLAST   Explosion mn In Naval Mine Plant At Yorktown, Va.   Extensive Damage Is Caused Early Tranav

BLAST KILLS SIX AT NAVAL DEPOT   EXPLOSION ROCKS CITIES 30 MILES FROM YORKTOWN, VA,

ITALY TO LOSE - AFRICAN BASES   EDEN DECLARES ITALY WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO RETAIN. ALL FORMER  "POSSESSIONS

Committee Recommends 60 Days To Effect Compromise On Subsidy Measure

Washington Roundup oh  Senate Bank Group Turns Thumbs Down On Plan To Outlaw Food Subsidies: Vinson “Onposes Rallnen’s Pay Boos! Af Hearing

T0 SEEK VETO OF STRIKE. BILL   Measure Will Be Ready For Roosevelt Today; Speculation On Action Arises   CIO, AFL To Protest

Organized Labor To Bring Strong Demands against Anti-Strike Bill

Protests Expected On Antistrike Bil  Organized Labor May Ask F. D. R. Veto

LABOR TO ASK FDR TO REJECT STRIKE OUTLAW   Bill May Reach President’s Desk Today; Observers Predict Passage   SIGNATURE NECESSARY TO THWART NEW WALKOUT

Labor to Ask FDR to Veto Strike Bill   President Expected, However, to Let og Wleasure Become Law

CALL FOR VETO QF STRIKE BAN KILL EXPECTED   J abor Expected to Demand Roosevelt Reject Measure

Union Labor  Likely To Ask F.D.R.To Veto Strike Bill   Measure Is Expected To Go To White House Today After Getting Congress’ Approval  TO BECOME LAW, CAPITAL BELIEVES  But Chief Execntive May Let It Do So Without His Signature

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Labor Expected To Ask Veto of Anti-Strike Act   Capitol Speculation Is That Bill Will Become Law: Lewis Has No Comment

Labor Unions Will Ask Veto Of Strike Bill   Capital Observers Think President Will Sion

LABORLEADERS TO URGE VETO OF STRIKE BILL   Measure Curbing Walkouts In War Plants Will Be Given President Today   ROOSEVELT’S ACTION IS UNDETERMINED

ANTI - STRIKE MEASURE UP TO PRESIDEN]   Organized Labor Expect. ed to Make Demands for Veto

OF STRIKE BAN BILL EXPECTED   I abor Expected to Demand Roosevelt Reject Measure

May ask FDR veto  measure   Expect appeal by labor groups on antistrike

Dr. Morris Sues Brother's Widow In Court Suit   Threats Charged Tc Charles Morris Ir Old Cases; Asks  Release

Coast Won't Be Opened to Japs  WRA Restrictions tc Remain in Force

Coast Won't Be Opened to Japs  WRA Restrictions ic  ”  BS een eee OOS, Serene

WRA Retain: Restrictions On Japanese   Byrnes Declines To Permit Return to Coast

Evacues Will Be Kept Away From Coast   Byrnes Declares Present Restrictions Against Jap anese Will Remain   SEGREGATION. PUSHED   Danial Is Issued To Dies Group Charge Disloyal Persons Are Released

AMERICAN SUBS STRIKE ENEMY SUPPLY LINES:   Add to Success of Army’s Invasion of New Britain

CARGO VESSELS SUNK IN FORAYS BY YANK SUBS   Invasion Of New Britain Opens New Pathway To Strategic Areas

EIGHT JAP SHIPS BRING SUB TOLL 10 374 VESSELS   Crushing Attacks by Yankee Undersea Craft Assist Invasion Units

U.S. Subs Strike New Blow Against Jap Supply Lines   Two Transports, Two Tankers, Four Freighters Of Japs Are Sunk   LOSSES OCCUR IN FAR EASTERN WATERS

; ;  Russian Armies Drive to ‘Within Five Miles of ‘Only Railroad From Orel

RED OFFENGWE LAPLODES ALONG 450 MILE FRON   Germans Rush Several New Divisions Into Endanger ed Orel Sector

Reds Make Advances on Two Big Nazi Strongholds.  HITLER ORDERS MEN TO HOLD AT ALL COST  Russians Scored the Biggest Victory Yesterday.

Courage of US Naval Men Praised   British Officer Tells How Americans Carried His Forces Onto Invasion Beach Under Fire

MenMissing After Wreck  Of Freighter       Seventy Su ive as Ship Is Smashed on Alaskan Istand

Would Draft Bureaucrats Before Inducting Fathers   Rep. Gavin Favors Sending Swivel Chair Eligibles Into Service Before Breaking  Up Families

Interoreting The War   Blockade and Then Bombard Is Policy in Pacifié

Blockade, Bombardment Far East Allied Strategy  System Of Attrition Adopted For Destroying The j “a -— 2 wre if.  ge

Interoreting The War   Blockade and Then Bombard Is Policy in Pacifie   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Wide World War Analyst)

COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDY URGED   Two Moves For Major Modifications Started

MOVE TO MODIFY FOOD SUBSIDIES REPEAL MEASURE   Sen. Taft Urges a Limited Subsidy Plan Ending Rollbacks But Retaining Most Retail Price Controls

Taft Offers Subsidy Plan   Moves For Major Modifications Of Food Subsidy Repeal Bill Given.

FOOD SUBSIDY FOES EASE UP   Two Modification Plans Are Offered—Wage Increase Given Railroaders

Senators Propose Two Changes in Subsidy Measure  Taft Advocates Limi! On Plan; Ellender Would laclude Wage:

Herron, Corbett Out in Front  Rivals in Spirited   Rivals in Spirited GOP Fight Believed  Nominated

Sums Spent InS. A. Will Bear Probe   Senator Butler’s Report Reveals Need For Close Inquiry

THREE WAR AGENCIES ARE CONSOLIDATED   Crowley. y Unites Lend-Lease With Two Others

GONODLIDATION TO REDRGANIZE GOVT OFFICES   Crowley Combines Operations of Lend Lease, OEW and Foreign’ Relief.

Swift Thrust Rolling Back German Army   Important Position Taken To Damage Nazi Forces Poised In Caucasian Foothills

Russian Steamroller Surges Onward.....  Reds Capture Mozdok In Strong New Drive        

New AirDrive Against Japs In Making   Attu Airfield Being Developed, Others Studied, Knox Says

See Signs of Aerial Drive Against Japs  Trend of War Seems Battle F or Air Bases,

U. S. Preparing For Major Blow; Tojo Is Alarmed   Captured Enemy Bases Being Converted By U.S. Forces

Coal Truce End Set for lune 30   \Paecifie Battle for Bases.  ‘Aerial Drive on Japs Seen

See Signs of Aerial Drive Against Japs   Trend of War Seems Battle For Air Bases, Gates Says

, AIR DRIVE SEEN   Trend Of Pacific War Held Battle For Plane Bases

Don't Make Wounded War Veterans Feel Like Shoestring Peddlers by Over-Sympathy, Is Advice

BOVINGDON GALLS DIES “NAZI PUPIL’   Ousted OEW Official Raps Congressman for “Char acter Snooping.”

Hitler's Batkan Satellites at Mercy of Allied Air Fleets  TOWNS SEIZED BY AMERICAN FORCES  Historic City of Helfi,      Historic City of Helfi, Birthplace of Horace, Also Falls

Foggia Falls ‘To Lunging British 8th   Balkans, Yugoslavia, Southeastern Germany Under Fresh Menace  U.S. FIFTH ADVANCES

NAZI DEFENSE LINES AROUND NAPLES SHAKY   FIFTH ARMY GAINS; BALKANS NOW IN BOMBER RANGE

Peril to Enemy Increased by New Allied Gains   13 Large Airfields to Allies; Yankees Capture Towns

Heart of Hitler’s fortress wide open to offensive by allies’ great aerial fleets   German defenses of Naples. are iamneriled: Fifth army advances

ALLIES CAPTURE GREAT ITALIAN BASE OF FOGGIA   Occupation Of Airfield: Poses Threat To Axis Balkan Satellites   IMPORTANT VICTORY ROOSEVELT SAYS

BRITISH EVGHTH TAKES GREAT AIR BASE OF FOOGI   Southern Germany and Balkans Brought Within Bombing Range With Seizure of 13 Fields.   PERIL TO GERMANS AT NAPLES INCREASED   Britons in Clark’s Army Advance Two Miles on Extreme Left in Handto-Hand Fighting.

Peril Grows For Nazis At Naples   Big Airbase Taken ‘Laraqely Undamaaec

Foggia Is Captured By British   13 Undamaged Airfields Fall To The Allies

Armored Lunge Perils Nazi  Defenses   Balkans. New Open to Allied Bombers Based at Italian Airdromes

Balkans, Southern Germany Put at - Mercy of Bombers By Taking of Strategic Italian Airport

itish Capture g Halian Air ase of Foagia   cores Advance in  merican Fifth Army Drive Upon Naples

Way Openec To Pound Nazi Realm   Allied Warplanes Now Can Strike at Hitler’s Balkan Territory and Hit Important German Production Centers

Possession Places Balkans at Mercy Of Bombers, Increases Naples Peril Advance From Salerno Continues

Boy’s Testimony Dooms Father   Gave Father Hug Before Telling How He Killed Mother.

British Lose 55 Planes In Record Attacks On Pilsen And Mannheim, Nazi Munitions Centers   AMERICANS REPORTED __ TAKING MANY PRISONELS

Air Raids Feature  War News   Manheim, Pilsen BombedDestroy Axis Supplies  for Tunisia

Jap Positions On Mayu Are Bombed   RAF Bombers Again Hammer Akyab Island

‘1 dm An American Day’ Marked  Over Million Hear Wallace Talk at Central Park Rally

SOUTH AMERICANS WORK FOR COMMMON CAUSE. WALLACE SAYS   Vice-President Tells Central Park Audience of His impressions Gained on Trip Through , Seuth America

‘Wallace Praises Latin Americans For Their Services in War Effort

U. 5 SOLDIERS FIGHT WAY T0 NAPLES PLAINS   Nazis Hurled Back As They CounterAttack at Salaena

French Force On Corsica To Battle Nazis   Battle To Wrest Isle From Foe; Germans Still Falling Back In Salerno Struggle

NAZI RAILROAD SHOPS BOMBED   British Mosquito Planes Blast German Town In Surprise Raid

Kidnaped Baby Found Sale, Woman Seized  Blanket on Line Is Clue to

‘KIDNAPED BABY RETURNED HOME ALIVE AND WELL      Woman Is Arrested Within Six Blocks Of Hospital In Oregon

KIDNAPING OF OREGON. BABY SOLVED   Child, Now Eight Days Old, Is Back With Parents

kight-Day-Old Baby Returned to parents; Woman Held After Confessing Abduction

Bad Weather Said Cause of Plane Crash in Iceland   Ship of Gen. Andrews, 13 Ottiers Reported  To Have Struck Hill

Plane Crashed In Bad Weather   Statement Tells Of Accident In Iceland

TREAT FATIGUE NEAR THE FRONT   Army Doctors Working On Shell Shock Victims Only Six Or Seven Miles From Front Lines.   —BY NOLAND NORGAARD-

ONE OF MOST EALTHY MEN N AMERICA   Has Been In Government Since  Davs Of NRA

Herriman New Envoy To Russia   Prominent Rail . Head To Succeec! Admiral Standley

PEGGED FRUIT PRICES TERMED NOT WORKABLE   W ill Cause Widespread Mal-distribution,  OPA Told   AID TO BLACK MARTS   Provokes Serious Situa: tion, Says Figy In Wire  To Washington

State Demands Abolition Of Fruit Ceiling:   Formal Protest Follows Action By Berrien County Growers -

BAYS BERRY PRICE TOPS UNWORKABLE   Charles Figy Wires Brown, Wickard, Senators in Protest Against Ceilings

WOMEN TO AID SALVAGE DRIVE   WIGS To Seek 2 Million Mem: bers For New Ohio Organization

JAP ATTEMPT TQOTRENGTHEN BASES FAILURE   Enemy Has Little Success In Boistering Positions On New Guinea

House Hears Debate Ranging From War to Errol Flynn; Group Would Pass on Federal Employes

GAS SHORTAGE FOR WEEKS 1S SEEN BY ICKES   Urges Use be Cut to Minimum; Drought: May Spread

Oil Situation Serious Says Sec. Ickes   WILL BE BAD FOR WEEKS TO  COME FUEL ADMINISTRATOR ICKES DECLARES; MAY SPREAD INLAND.   Wells Have Run Dry

GAS SHORTAGE WILL. CONTINUE ON EAST COAST   Ickes Says The Situation Will Be Tight For Weeks  To Came   WESTERN STATES ARE SOON TO BE AFFECTED

Gas Drought Continuation  Seen by Ickes   Says Eastern States Face Tight Situation ‘For Weeks To Come’

Special. Broadcast Goes. t« Nazi Army Trapped Before Stalingrad  REDS CONTINUE TO PUSH. AHEAD  Hard Blows Els Elsewhere Ac company Nazi Reversal - On. Big Red Front

Trapped Foe Get Berlin Morale Boost   Allied Airmen Turn from Nazidom to French Sub Bases; Report French Hit

1800 Germans Shot In Day’s Fighting On Lower Don Front   Hitler’s Soldiers Ordered To Carry Out Commands In Spirit of Blind, Unquestioning Confidence

1,800 Slain In 24 Hours; Reds Claim   German High Command Fears for Morale of Trapped Stalingrad Troops

Guerillas Raid Bia Axis Base Of Krasnodar   Rapid Pace Of Caucasus Drive Face Soviets With Supply Problem; Mor: Nazis Strona Points Occupied.

RED ARMY HURLS NAZIS BACK AFTER BITTER FIGHTING   Berlin Radio Calls on Hitler’s Troops to Hold on in Russia “Despite Personal Wishe. ”

Radio Preaches Death and Duty  Idea to Troops   idea to Lroops  Soldiers Told Bluntly Personal Wishes Are of No Account  REACH STALINGRAD  Britain’s Air Offensive Turns From Germany Ty Nazi Branca

Six More Towns Taken In 24 Hours   Berlin Radio Betrays Alarm Over Morale of Trapped Divisions

Seize Six More Towns And Slay 1,800 Of Enemy   Hitler Expresses Alarm Over Morale Of His Men

BUT FACE JOB OF MOVING UP MAIN FORCES   Must Support Troops Consolidating Newly Won Positions in Order to Thrust Farther Toward  Ractay

Berlin Displays Its Alarm Over Morale Of 22 Divisions   Moscow Report Reveals Fighting in Stalingrad Continues

German Armies Stagger Back Betore Rostov   Berlin Betrays Alarm Over Morale With Death-And.Dutv Sermon To Troops.   REDS GAIN 26 MILES

Berlin Worried Over Fate of Volga Forces   Officers Reported Fleeing Stalingrad  Area as Soldiers Get Death-Duty  Sermon; Fierce Fighting Rages  Around 22 Trapped Divisions.

Fearful Berlin _ Would Buck Up Sagging Troops   Nazis Radio Morale Preachment as Russians Roll On Toward Raciay

Russians Seize NewBridgeheac   Red Army Tonks and Covalry Drive Wedg Between German Strongholds at Rzhev anc Viozma on Vital Sector West of Moscow

Russians Take More Towns   Nazis Trapped at Stalingrad: Told  To Remain Firm

Red Army Faces Task of Moving Up Mair Forces to Support Men Consolidating Newly Won Positions for New Thrusts

Russians Gain in All Major Sectors; R. A. F. Blasts U-Boat Nest.

RUSSIA CLAIMS NAZIS RETREAT NEARER ROSTAV   Berlin Radio Betrays Alarm Over Trapped Troops Near Stalingrad

Russians Tell Of Killing 18,000 In 24-Hour Period   Germans Admit Red Army Attacking In Lower Don and Caucasus Areas; Soviets Now Faced With Supply Problem

NAZI SLAUGHTER IS ONE-A-MINUTE RUSSIANS SAY   Fear for Germans Caught In Stalingrad Trap Is Betrayed in Berlin   AFRICAN REPORTS VAGUE   Allies Continue Slow but Steady Pressure on Japs On Pacific Islands

Axis Supply Lines, Other Targets Swept on Tunisian Front—Fortresses Blast Ports of Sougse and Sfax; Surprise  Attack on New Guinea Objectives .  —Weather Hampers at Papua

Russian Troops Batter Nazis In Heavy Fightine   Enemy, Being Driven Out Of Lower Don With Severe Losses

Nazis Sell Lives at Rate Of One Per Minute In Russ War  ATTACKS CRUSHED Berlin Betrays Alarm at Morale of Trapped 22 Divisions

CASUALTIES OF ONE-A-MINUTE SEEN BY REDS   Berlin Radio Preaches Death-and-Duty to Trapped Troops

SLAUGHTER OF NAZIS AS REDS PRESS FORWARD      Six More Towns Are Captured By Russians   GERMANS REEL   Berlin Urges Soldiers To Fight To The End

BACK TOWARD ROSTOV GATES   Soviets Crush Repeated Counterattacks by the German Invaders. .   Berlin Alarmed Over Fate of 22 Divisions

Red Army Drives Nazis In Retreat   German  Lines Reported. Reeling Back on Ap proaches to Rostov   COUNTER MOVES FAIL   New Drive Develops on Upper Don as Nazis Retreat in Caucasus

‘Radio Preaches Death and Duty Idea to Troops   Soldiers Told Bluntly Personal Wishes Are of No Account  REACH STALINGRAD  Britain’s Air Offensive Turns From Germany Ty Nazi Franca

MORE THAN ONE MAN PER MINUTE SLAIN IN ROSTOV SECTOR  RED ARMIES CRUSHED   RED ARMIES CRUSHED REPEATED NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS BY TANKS

Nazi Radio Preaches Death-and-Duty Sermon to Hitler's Soldiers Trapped Before Stalingrad; Reds Gain in  ' Three Major Sectors; RAF Bombs Nazi U-Boat Nest at Lorient

‘Hitler Headquarters Admit Fierceness  Of Attacks      Invaders Confused

SELLING LIVES AT RATE OF 1 EVERY MINUTE   Death And Duty Sermon Preached To Trapped German Troops Through Radio in Berlin

KILLING NAZIS ON LOWER DON ONE A MINUTE   Berlin Radio For First Time Betrays Alarm Over Morale Of 22 Divisions T rapped In Don-Volga Cor ridor.

Germans Reeling Back As Soviets Take Six Towns   Berlin Alarmed Over 4 = Morale Of Armies In Russia, Radio  Reveals

Army Trapped At Stalingrad Told To Stay   Russians Continue To Converge Their Forces On Rostov

Reds Maintain Silence  On Leningrad Offensive   Berlin Radio Betrays Alarm over Morale of 22 Divisions Trapped Before Stalingrad—Russians Gain Within City   Report Other Assaults

Attempts To Cheek Reds’ Drives Fail   No. 1 Soviet Problem Now Appears To Be Lengthened Supply  Lines To Front

Berlin Is Alarmed At Soldiers’ Morale In Stalingrad Area   U-Boat Nest In Franee Attacked; . Freneh African Drive Success;  _U.S. Fliers Blast Axis Supplies

GROUP WOULD STUDY FOOD PRODUCTION   May Be Concrete Proposal Coming From Group

PEACEFUL ENDING COAL STRIKE GIVES RELIEF TO CAPITAL   DEVELOPMENTS SHIFT PARAMOUNT INTEREST TO INTERNATIONAL SCENE

Settlement of Coal Strike Relieves Officials of Greatest Worry of War On Home Front; Turn to War Strategy

END OF STRIKE EASES DRIVE FOR NEW LAWS   Antagonism Toward Unions Cools in Congress as Disaster Averted   LEWIS HELD TO BLAME   Post-war Problems Arise With Proposal for World Police Force

NEW COAL PACT. PROVIDES SIX DAY WORK WEEK   Agreement Signed By Operators, United Mine Workers In District

Soft Coal Pact Signed   Provides 6-Day Week In Most Region Mines

RESISTANCE OF GERMANFORCES [S STIFFENED   Pontelandolfo Capture Threatens Flanking Of Volturno River Line

Resistance Of Germans Stiffening  Mud—Ejighth wees metic: gliocn cel

Russians Drive Forward on Caucasus Front   Many Said Killed At Stalingrad And Voronezh

RECONQUEST OF CAUCASUS REDS GOAL   Hacking Remnants Of German Armies; Capture Railway Town Of Svatovo; Kill S00 Nazi Survivors.   Nazis Surrender

NAM PRESENTS “NO TAX BOOST’ PLAN TO HOUSE GROUP   ‘Argues Puiesent: - “Laws:-ils. Sufficient To Take Care Of Needed  Revenue

OW! IS TARGET OF N. Y. SOLON   Taber Wants Davis Replaced By Trained Executive

0. W. 1. Target For Congress Economy Drive   Reorganization, Including Ouster Of Elmer Davis, Urged By Taber.

ECONOMY GUNS BEING TRAINED UPON THE OW   New York Solons Calls Their Continuing Operations “Menace”, Would Remove Davis

Attack Labor Probler   Bill Introduced Today. Would Bring Unions Under Strict Control ‘ Of State Authorities -

LABOR MEASURE IS INTRODUCED TODAY   Senate Proposal Would Put Unions Under Corporation Commission   LICENSE OF ONE YEAR

Every Montana County Goes Over Top In National War Bond Drive; Total of Nearly $39,000,000 Is Hit

Record Is Set In Individual Series E Sale   State Leads Nation In Per Cent of Quota on E Bonds

Weather in Helena   Every Montana County Goes Over. Top In National War Bond Drive; _ Total of Nearly $39,000,000 Is Hit

British Cool To Overture Via Turkey   Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania Shunning Surrender Terms:

Klkington blames congress for consumer meat shortage   Proposes price controls from farm to home buyer to break jam

TALIAN AIRDROME SUBJECTED 10 'HARD AIR ATTACK   U. §. Liberators Drop 125 Tons ef Bombs on the Grottalgie  ‘Ale Base Near Brindisi, Taly

Grottalgie, Near Brindisi On Heel of Mussolini’s Empire, Suffers Great Damage   LARGE FIRES LEFT BURNING BY YANKS

Draft Delinquents Roundup Ordered  By Government   ‘MUST CARRY CARDS

Vigorous Action Planned Against. Draft eats        ds by Registrants.

WILL ACT ON DELINQUENTS   Draft Heads Plan Prosecutions; All Men, 18 to 45, Must Carry Cards

VOVCPrPHmMent Plans Action Against Draft Delinquents  All Registered Men  - Ordered To Carry Classification Cards To Avoid Jail, Fines

MEN DELINQUENT IN DRAFT SOUGHI   Federal Department Plans ‘For Vigorous Action Within Another Month.

DRIVETO OPEN ON DRAFT DELINQUENTS      Vigorous Action by Justice Department Will be Started

Draft Delinquents , Checkup Ordered   Headquarters Also Decrees . Classification Cards Must Be Carried

DRAFT DODGERS TO BE CHECKED   Justice Department Te Start Action On Delinquents

Time Drawing Near for Allied Armies OL East and West fo Joinin Final Assault on Enemy in North Africa

FORCES NEAR WNCTION FOR FINAL ASSAULT   U. S. Group Answers German Challenge To Move Toward Tunisian Coast   SEEK TO CUT OFF ESCAPE   Aerial Power Concentrated On Coastal Road Over Which Rommel Retreats

AMERICANS TAKE AXIS PRISONERS IN TUNISIAN RAIL   Yanks Accept Nazi Challenge to “Come Out and Fight;” Zero Hour for Big Battle Nears.

Aljies About to. Unite for Drive  In North. Africa   Final Assault Against Axis — Ils Awaited

Americans raid coast below Sfax; British patrols may be across Tunisian border

ORITISH UNITS CROSS TUNISIA BORDER, SAID   Fleeing Axis Forces Are Battered From Two Sites   Re Tinifed Prace

Capture 80° Men During Daring Raid   Time Near for Joining Hands With 8th Army

DUCE CELEBRATES - PACT WITH NAZIS   Fourth Anniversary Cere. mony, However. Is Somewhat Dull

ITALY OBSERVES 4TH ANNIVERSARY PACT WITH NAZIS   Mussolini and Hitler Exchange Messages As Italians Look at Inadequately Guarded Skies. ;

20 Killed In Explosion At Elkton   MORE THAN 100 INJURED AT TRIUMPH EXPLOSIVE WORKS; RED CROSS RUSHES ASSISTANCE TO SCENE.   “Gretna Green”

LEGION HEAD MAY SUSPEND POST MEMBER   Com. Warning Cites South Fork Post as Setting Lewis’ Interests Before Country   MINCES NO WORDS

National Legion Head Asks Probe of South Fork Post For Stand On Lewis

YOUTH SHOT IN ARM   Harland Weibel Was Accidentally Wounded ‘by 22 Rifle Bullet

House Rejects Thres Amendments for Larger Tax Cut   Debate in Session Today Followed Two Main Courses

Income Tax Amendments Fail to Pass   House Kills Attempts To Increase Relief From lowa Levy

Three of Eight Airmen Missing 5 Survive Exposure  In Idaho: Mountains

CONTINUE HUNT FOR U, S, AIRMEN   Civilian Pilot Rescues Five; Stranded 16 Days in Idaho Wilderness

Three Missing Airmen Sought  Five Others in Crew   Five Others in Crew Of Wrecked Bomber Rescued in Idaho

THREE OF EIGHT MISSING ARMY AIRMEN SOUGHT   Five Who Disappeared Jan. uary Are Safe’ After Sixteen Days In Moun tains After Crash.   ONLY. ONE INJURED   Civilian Pilot Lands: SkiEquipped Plane te Rescue Ouintet; One Has  Broken Knee-Cap

Army Airmen. Sull .Missing   Five From Lost. Bomber’ Crew, Are Rescued lv Idaho Wilds.

Woodsmen Search For Army Fliers   Three Still Missing Five Survivors Found,

5 FLIERS SAVED AFTER 16 DAYS   SEEK THREE OTHERS IN WILDERNESS OF IDAHO MOUNTAINS

THREE FLIERS LOST AFTER BOMBER CRASH   Eight Reach Safety After 16-day in Idaho Wilds

FIVE ARMY AIRMEN SAFE AFTER CRASH   Woodsmen Search for Three Who Disappeared After Mishap.

Five Airmen  Rescued After  Sixteen Days Three Still Missing In Snow-Covered

“Rights Of Free Press Are People’s Safeguard”  TO THE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA.

Ickes’ Figures Disputed War Labor Board Gives New Mine Pay Formula

FORMULA GIVEN FOR COMPUTING PIECEWORK PAY   Is 30 Cents Less Thar Ickes-Lewis Rate

Plans Complete for Mining Group Meeting   Annual Convention Will Be Held in Helena Jan. 19

for Mining Group Meeting  Annual Conventior Will Be Held in Helena Jan. 19

1,000 Bombers Hit Capital in Heaviest Air Attack in History.      Attackers Find Berlin Still Burning From Thurs ~-= day Raid

1,000 Bombers Hit Capital in Heaviest Air Attack in History      ENGULF CITY IN FIRE   Attackers Find Berlin Still Burning From Thurs y Raid

Soviet Bombers  Hammer Nazis   Report Several Ships Sunk In Attack On Northern Axis Port

GOVERNOR GETS UNION MEASURE   Labor Regulation Bill  Passed By Legislature

Troop Carrier Command Shows How It Got There Fustest With the Mostest’ in Sicily Invasion

Invasion Thrust Is Demonstrated  Air Troop Carriers Seen in Action

Texan, Who Took Over Bombsight Post Of Brother Killed In Raid, Missing In Action Over Germany

ARMY AIR FORCES BLENDING FLYING, TECHNICAL TRAINING  THOSE IN AIR AND THOS! ON GROUND WELDED INTO ONE BRODY

AMERICAN . PLANES BOMB. JAP. TARGET ON NEW. BRITAIN   Set Large Fires Visible For 60 Miles — Other Bombers Struck At  ' ‘Timor In Night

U.a.FARMERS 1 BE BOND BUYER   Producers Of Record Cash Crop Will Be Asked To  Invest Their Cash

RURAL BACKING FOR THIRD WAR LOAN 1S ASKED   Big Drive Begins Tomorrow; Farmers, With Record Sales To Their Credit, Will Contribute  Heavily.

Farmers Appealed to  For Loans   Ask Record Cash Crop Producers to Contribute Heavily

OCD HEAD MAY RESIGN   Newspaper Hesrs Dean James M Landis Will Go to Cairo.

U.S. Jury to Probe Coal Stoppage   Pennsylvania Miners Pass Picket Lines

Coal Miners Pass ThruaPicket Line To Go fo Work   U. S. Investigation Oof Work Stoppages Gathering Speed

MINERS TGNORE      Federal Probe Gains Speed in Pittsburgh Steel Sector

Federal Jury _ Probes Strike   Pittsburgh Miners Pass Picket Lines To Work

Work Stoppages May Be Probed By Grand Jury   Thousands Kept Idle By Mine Picket Groups; Some Miners Go Throuch

'U. 5. Investigates Mine Work Halt  Grand Jury Will Conduct Probe

PROBE OPENED INTO WORK STOPPAGES   Grand Jury May Take Up Pennsylvania Mine - Cases

MINERS FLOUT PICKET LINES TO ENTER PITS   Special Grand Jury I. Called To Inquire Into Strikes In  Pennsylvania   New Law Invoked

INSURGENT WORK STOPPAGES ARE P ROBED BY FBI   Federal Grand Jury Has _ Been Called Into Session Next Wednesday   PICKET LINES DEFIED BY WORKING MINERS

Coal Strike Probe ls Set   Work Stoppages Will Be Investigated Now

District Miners Shatter Tradition By Passing Through Picket Lines At Gates

Allied Solidarity Emphasized In Speech Made by Stalin  Much Distrust Has Been Eliminated

‘Stalin's Talk [Held Important   May Have Far-Reaching Effect on Friend And Enemy Alike

STALIN PROCLAIMS SOLIDARITY OF ALLIES IN MOSCOW SPEECH: TELLING OF VICTORIES FOR'RUSSIAN ARMS ~   - Sphinx of Moscow Declares Disaster Now Faces Germans and He Prediicts Confidently A Victory For The Allied Forces

The War Today   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE  Awpriated Preece War Analyect

CAPTURE OF KIEV APPARENTLY WAS INCENTIVE TO RED ARMY IN FURTHER PURSUIT OF INVADERS

The War Today— New Russ Gains Emphasize Stalin s Statement Reich Faces Catastropiie

The War Today  ee 6  Russian Victories Double-Barreled Menace To Hitlerites.

3 ALLIED PLANES ‘CRASH IN SPAIN   Two American, One. British Army Craft Mishaps Kill 8, Hurt 14

Eight Die in Crash Of Three Planes  14 Others Injured In Spanish Accident

STATEMENT [S TO BE GIVEN OUT.ON INCOME TAX PLAN   House Committee Members Promise Something “Decisive” During Wednesday.

Tri-Power Meet Is Reported © Going Smoothly   Session of Stalin, F, D. R., Churchill Seen by End of Year

Davis Looks For Invasion _ Before Fal!   War Information Chief Forecasts Defeat of Rommel in Africa

Jap Freighter Sunk, 45 Barges Wrecked, Ammunition Dumps  Exploded In 100 Plane Assault

SGT. MKENZIE ON BOMBER THAT SANK JAP SHIP   Myron McKenzie Was On Successful B-24 Mission; Pilot Of Bomber Listed As Lt. Joseph Rodenburg, Also Of Gas tonia.

LivestockMeatProgram Is Announced   New Policy by Davis Has Three Mapor Points

Davis Starts Action To Pursue FDR's Policies   Program Designed To Eliminate Squeeze Between Live Animal And Meat Prices.

Weather in Helena   Madame Ericke Zimmerman Richards Noted Musician of Early Days in City Called by Death

Madame Ericke Zimmerman Richards Noted Musician of Early Days in City Called by Death

THREE DIE IN OHIO STORMS; SCORES HURT   Series of Tornadoes Leave Nearly 500 Persons Homeless

TORNADO HITS NORTHERN OHIO   Three Known Dead While Damage Mounts To $4,000,000

North Ohio Counts Three Dead   Series of Tornadoes leave 500 Homeless, 150 Hurt

ThreeKilled In Ohio Tornadoes  ca nnn nnn   $4,000,000 Damages Reported: 500 Are Homeless

4 Lose Lives, 150 Injured In Tornadoes   ‘Damage at $4,000,000 As Twisters Attack Cleveland-Akron Area.   200 HOMELESS,  WAR PLANTS HURT  Thousands of Homes Damaged in Cities And Smaller Towns

$4 Millions ‘Storm Loss ‘In No. Ohio   SERIES OF FOUR TORNADOES DEMOLISHES 160 HOMES AND DAMAGES 500 IN CLEVELAND   3 Dead; 150 Injured

NORTHERN OHIO IS RAVAGED BY SEVERE TORNADO   Three Persons Killed And Destruction Estimated At $4,000,000   CLEVELAND, AKRON ARE HARDEST HIT

Tornadoes Rip Through North Ohio Region   ee ee  Three Killed, 15 Hurt By Storms; Damage Tops $4,000,000  WORST SINCE 1924 Cleveland, Akron,  Dozen Smaller Cammunitiec Hit

Three Killed In Tornadoes   Cleveland And Akron Suffer Severe Damage

OHIO TORNADOES CLAIM 3 LIVES   Nearly 500 Homeless, 150 Injured; Losses Over $4,000,000

Three Killed, $4,000,000 Damage Done When Tornado Sweeps Northern Ohio

Ohio Tornadoes Kill 3, Injure 130; 500 Left Homeless, Damage $4,000,00C

Ohio Twisters Kill 3, Injure Over 150; Property Damage is Close to $4 Million

Tornadoes Sweep Northern Ohio; Loss Is Heavy   Three Known Dead and Hundreds of Homes Are Destroyed

rrific tle On  t Kiev   brmans Putting Up psperate Stand At hieper Bend City

THREE ALLIES WILL MEET TALK OVER MILITARY PLANS   Russia Will Be In On the Discussions; Her Recent Brilliant Successes Make Her Participation In Talks Important.

Army Chiefs: Meet Soon tc Review War   Staffs of Three Nations Expected at Conference

Early Meeting Of Three Powers Believed Certain   Military Leaders To Meet Before Diplomats, Source Reveals

Early Military Parley Planned For ‘Big Three   American, British, Russ Officers To Take Part In Tripartite Talks.

Reds’ Success Is To Hasten Allied Talks   Military Men From All Sidea Expected To Take Part

Russian Success Spurs Conference   3-Power Military Staff Talks Seen

Karly Military Discussions  Marshall Likely To Join In Conference

Allied Military Staffs Will Meet   Russian Military Officers to Take Part in Strategy at London.

MILITARY MEETING 9 MADE NECESOAR)   Advances on Fighting Fronts Expected to Bring Big Three Powers Together

Russia’s Successful Drive Speeds Up Plans For Next Blows; Meeting Is Called

REDS’ SUCCESS CALLS FOR 3-PACT MEETING   Claim Decision Made To Meet Soviet War Leaders

MILITARY MEN THREE POWERS TO MEET SOON      Definite Decision for Conference: Reporied, Result of Unexpecter Allied Victories

SOVIET VICTORIES TO BRING EARLY MILITARY PARLEY FOR ‘AMERICA, RUSSIA AND ENGLAND

Three Allied Staffs fo Meet In Conference   Successful Russian Offensive Leads to Strategy Meeting Of Military Leaders

Early and Intimate Discussions, Even Aheac of Diplomatic Conference, Required. by Unexpected Rush of War Events.

Tri-Partite Military Parley Soon   Rush of Events on War Fronts Make AmericanSoviet-British Staff . Discussions Necessary

War Strategy First At Parley Russian Successes  Shift Emphasis Of Tri-Power Meeting

RUSSIAN MILITARY SUCCESSES © HAS LED TO PLANS FOR EARLY 3-POWER MILITARY DISCUSSION   Rush of Events On Russion Front at Faster Pace Than Had Been Expected Cause for Decision to Hold Meeting of High Army Officers of Nations

More Help Urged For Gen. MacArthur   Military Menace Seen by Wheeler

THREE VETERANS AT GAR MEET   John R. Bennett, 98, Of Waynesfield, First To Register At Columbus

BUS STRIKES TRACTOR TRUCK   Fourteen Hurt, Three Seriously, Near Somerset

Dark Horse Gets New French Post   Criticism of High Command — Hurting War Effort: Marshall

HARMFUL 10 WAR EFFORT   General Marshall Bemoans Congressional Criticism of U. §. Army's High Command

ASK PENSIONERS TO 60 TO WORK   Senate Slated To Act o1 Liquor Sales Measures

1,000 MINERS G0 ON STRIKE   Walkout Caused By Shift Of One Man To Coal Cutting Machine

DESTROYER COLLIDES WITH MERCHANT SHIP   Part of Forward Structure of Warship Cut Off—Reports on Casualtles Awaited.

GRAFT PROBERS PAVE WAY FOR MORE. ARRESTS   Warrants Issued For Two! More Members of Legislature   TWO MORE IN MAKING   Grand Jury Moves on Both Detroit and Lansing Fronts

TEMPERATURES:   Graft Inquiry Nears Climax   ‘Two More Legislators Facing Arrest

EISENHOWER OFFERS ITALY AN IMMEDIATE, HONORABLE PEACE   Badoglio May Be Forced To Ask Peace Re Crain Vahe 4 More Towns   20 Persons Killed In Kentucky Plane Crash   No Message ForMussolini On 60th Birhtday

If Italians Stop Giving Aid ‘To Nazis, Allied Troops Will ‘Drive Out Enemy, He Promises   Cessation Of Mostilities Possible Under Honorable Terms; Exchange Of War Prisoners Offered; Liberties To Be Restored

GERMAN TROOPS THE ONLY OBSTACLE T0 AN ITALIAN PEAGE   ‘Must Cease Immediately Any  Assistance to Germans,  Gen. Eisenhower Said.   i COMMENDED THE PEOPLE   Promised Return of Italian Prisoners In Exchange for Those Held by Italians

Allied Commander ih Chief  Broadcasts Terms to Italians .   COME: AS LIBERATORS   Withdrawal of ‘Assistance to: Germans. the First Requirement

Eisenhower Tells Italians  German Troops Must Leave Before Peace Can Be Made

TOLD TO STOP HELPING NAZIS   Commends Italian People, Royal House fer Quster Of Mussolini.   WILL FREE PRISONERS

OPENS WAY TO HONORABLE END OF HOSTILITIES   U.S, General Outlines Five. Point Program for Capitutation by Halians,

Nazi Troops On Italian Soil Only Obstacle To  Peace. Fisenhower Says

Allied Commander Says. Getting Germans Out Of Italy Is Chief Obstacle

EISENHOWER APPEALS TO ITALIANS   Promises Prisoners To Be Traded For Americans Held

Legislative Body Dissolved: New Measures Taken   Eisenhower's Offer Of Peace Being Examined; Badoglio’s Control At Stake

“Kick Out Germans and You Have Peace,” Gen. Eisenhower Tells Italians in Broadcast

Assistance To Germans Must  End, He Claims  Five-Point Program I: Given People; Pledges

Restoration Of Ancient Liberties Promised By General In Message To Italian People

ITALY CALLED UPON TO EXPEL NAZI TROOPS   Told by Allied Commander. in-Chief Their Presence Only Remaining Obstacle to Peace   PROMISED FREEDOM OF WAR PRISONERS   Italians Will Be Restored to Famities Providing Allied Prisoners Not Sent to Germany

Honorable Peace Offered Italy by  Gen. Eisenhower   Continued Presence of German Troops Is Only Remaining Obstacle,   Five Salient Points  Are Offered Italians

FISENHOWER'S PEACE OFFER   FDR, Reporting Axis On Run, Calls For K. O. Punch; Bares Plan To Aid Returning Troops   His War Report Encouraging; Calls For Harder Work Toward Victory

Honorable Peace Offered Italy By Eisenhower  Only Obstacle Is Presence of Nazis in Country

Eisenhower Asks Italian Surrender   Says German Troops Bar Honorable Peace; Promises Beneficience

NZL TROOPS THROWN OUT   First Official Allied Message Maps War's Cessation with Honor.   EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS IN FIVE-POINT PROGRAM

German Troops In Italy Main Drawback Now   Eisenhower Offers Exchange Of War Prisoners, Beneficient Oecupation.   DEMAND AXIS BREAK

‘We Will Rid You of Germans’ If You Cease Giving Them Assistance, Allied Chief Says   COMMENDS KING   Promises Freeing of Italien Prisoners if Italians Return Americans, British

Presence Of Hitler Troops Is Only Bar To Peace, Declares General In Address

Gen. Eisenhower  Talks To People Over Radio Today   Says “We Are Coming To You As Liberators”’

MUST REMOVE REICH TROOPS GEN, DECLARES   Five Points Are Outlined By U. S.  Commander

Honorable Peace Offerec Toltalians    Eisenhower Says Continued Presence of German Troops on Italian Soi] Only Remaining Obstacle to Peace

WOULD ASSIST IN IMPROVING FOOD STANDARD   Would Help Backward Nations Of World

A SUBSIDY TO DOCTORS   Dentists and Medical Men Urged to Enter Boom Communities.

TEXANS PLANNING FINAL DRIVES FOR SALE OF WAR BONDS  DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTIES AMONG THOS! EXCEEDING QUOTAS

Pen Portrait Of A Hero--And Moral   Brawny Merchantman Delivered Goods, Takes Fling

Burma For Governor   Speaker Of lowa Announces For GOP Nomi: nation; First In Field

WORK STOPPAGE WAVE SWEEPING WAR FACTORIES   Prospects of Settlement o! Mine Row Only Bright Spot in Dark Picture

Fourth Major Rubber Plant Is Idle; Settlement Of Coal Situation Near

RUBBER STRIKE HALTS WORK IN AKRON PLANTS   50,000 Workers Walk Out in Protest To WLB Wage Decision

WLB REFUSES TOACTUNTIL OUTPUT STARTS   CIO United Rubber Workers Call Meeting to Study Case

COL DEVELOPMENT EASES LABOR FRONT   United Mine . Workers, Operators Back Around Bargaining Table

Walkout of 50,000 Rubber Workers Complicates Nation's Production Picture   Transportation Strike Vote in Baltimore Discord in Over-All Labor Picture

AkronStiikes Grow;Busmen Vote Walkout   50,000 Rubber Workers Out; Baltimore Strike Voted: Miners Bargain

0,000 RUBBER WORKERS QUT      Baltimore Transport Strike Also Complicates War Production.   UMW, COAL MEN CONFER

Squeeze Tightened Upon - Jap-Held Munda; Reds  Repulse Tank Attack

American Bombers Sink One Jap Ship  Two Others Damaged When Novy Patrols Intercept Cargo

JAP SHIP SUNK IN KISKA AREA   Three Others Damaged In Breaking Up Attempt To Land Supplies At Outpost

Yank Planes Pound Four Jap Ships   One Sunk— Thought Enroute To Kiska  With Supplies

INTERCEPT ENEMY  CARGO FLEET NEAR HOLIZ BAY. ATTU      Four Jap Cargo Vessels Battered By American Bombers; One Sunk and Second Left In Sinking Condition; Uther Two Badly Damaged,  oO

U.S. Bombers Batter Enemy Ships At Kiska   One Cargo Vessel Sunk, Two Others Heavily Damaged

Kiska-Bound Jap Ships Bombed   One Sunk; Another Was Left Sinking

Jap Supply Ships Batlered By Bombs   Apparently Were Trying Tc Take Supplies to Kiska

4 Jap Cargo Ships Battered   Group Caught Trying To Supply Kiska Base

Bomb Jap Convoy Of Supply Ships   U.S. Airmen. Sink or Dam_ age Vessels Heading for Kiska .   MUNDA’ BASE POUNDED   Enemy. Base in Solomons Is ‘Softened for Ground  ’ Attack

FORMUNDA DUE MOMENTARILY   American Soldiers and Marines Close In Steadily on Jap "New Georgia Base.   PLANES BATTER ENEMY   Jap Naval Force Gives Up Its Attempt To Land Help as “U.S. Planes Hit It

AMERICAN BOMBERS BATTERED FOUR JAP CARGO VESSELS   Sank One Ship and Left « Second One in a Sinking Condition.   OTHER TWO DAMAGED   Cargo Fleet Intercepted 280 Miles Southwest of Attu Island.

BLAST 4 JAP CARGO SHIPS   Sink One, Leave a Second in Sinking Condition and Badly Damage Other Two in the Aleutians Ares.

One Jap Cargo Ship Sunk, Another Is Left Sinking   American Bombers Batter Four Taking Supplies To Kiska: Warships Again Bombard Foe Position

Japs in Effort To Help Kiska Are Damaged   ‘One Supply Ship Sank and Others Heavily Hit

Yanks Blast Japs’ Kiska Supply Fleet   1 Ship Sunk, 1 Left Oe Petro! Planes

Batter Enemy Cargo Vessels   Intercept Jap Ships Off The Aleutians

Bombers hit A Jap ships  near Kiska   2 believed sunk and 2 damased

Japs Trying To Aid Kiska   U. S. Bombers Sink One Ship; Leave Another In Sinking Condition; Hit Twe

Tons Of Bombs Scourge Mund:   Yanks Give Nippon Base Severe Pounding

Jap Supply Ship At Kiska Sunk by Yank Bombers   Army-Navy Flyers Flush Convoy Attempting To Bring In Cargo

U.S. Fliers Smash At Four Enemy Vessels, Sink One  Indications Suggest Japs Will Offer Resistance at Kiska

Navy Breaks Up Jap Attempt To Reinforce Kiska   One Enemy Ship Sunk, Second Left in Sinking Condition, Two Badly Damaged: Munda Base in Solomone Pounded

Jap Convoy Off Kiska Smashed: One Ship Sunk   ~ Another Left-In Sinking Condition And Two Damaaec

U.S. Bombers Stop Attempt To Aid Kiska   One Supply Ship Is Sunk, Three. Others Damaged by Planes

KISKA-BOUND JAP VESSELS BLASTED   One Sunk, One Left Sinking And Two Others Damaged By Aerial Bombers; Japs Try to Sneak Through Fog

Four Cargo Ships Bearing Supplies To Kiska Smashed  One Is Sunk, Second Left   One Is Sunk, Second Left Sinking And Remaining Two Are Dam4ged

WINS VICTORIES   Reports Indicate Heavy U. S. Losses in Gilbert Islands

Japs Pounded On All Fronts   Allies. Strike By -Land, Sea. And: Air

By JOHN F. CHESTER   Allied F. orces Strike Hard At Japs Along Entire Pacific Front:

Allies Attack In Pacific by Land, Sea. Air   Greatest Naval Concentration in History. Hundreds of Thousands of Troops Await Attack Order

ALLIES MASS FOR ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON JAP DEFENSES   ATTACK ORDER IS AWAITED BY GREAT FORCES IN PACIFIC

LAND, SEA, AIR BLOWS HIT JAPS   Huge Naval Concentration Awaits Attack Order

Allies Fight for Japs’ Full Defeat   Chinese Gain in Three Provinces

GILBERTS COST US, 1,092 MEN   2,680 Others Wounded Ir Fighting Against Japs

ALLIES BATTLING JAPS BY LAND, SEA AND AIR IN PACIFIC  SEEK TO HASTEN DAY OF DISSOLUTION OF JAPANESE EMPIRE

LARGEST NAVAL CONCENTRATION IN HISTORY AND MANY TROOPS READY FOR ALL-OUT DRIVE      Island Chains Forming Outer Defenses for Japanese Empire Will Be Subjected to Attacks By Overpowering Forces by Air, Land and Sea.

Huge Allied Fleet, Army Wait Momentary Attack Order Against Japanese

Cairo Parley Decrees End of Jap Gains   Allies Step Up Offensive Against Yellow Foe in Air, on Land and Sea

Allies Fight Along Pacific Front to Make Cairo Promises Come True for Unhappy Japs

Pacific Battle Shapes   Chinese Success Is Claimed in Allied Bulletin

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Hoover Suggests Easing Of Manpower Strain By Slowing Army Inductions

Ex-President Warns Against Breakdown  OftHomeFront   Suggests Slowing Up Military Inductions And Munitions Making To Boost Manpower  SEES MILLIONS MORE WORKERS NEEDED  Legislation Offered To Draft Men, Women For Farms. Factories

Lewis Offers Portal Wage Pact to WLB   UMW Chief Says Illinois Contract Brings Pay  "We hea neta, T nce7

John Lewis Asks WLB Approval Of UMW Portal Pay   Presence Before Board An Anti-Climax To Months Of Criticism

“eWis Reviring as\e Suomi:s To "War a )0F S0¢FC O24 aV _ssue — ,

LEWIS URGES APPROVAL OF PORTAL PAY   Union Leader, Quiet and Self-effacing, Appears Before WLB

LEWIS YIELDS TO WAR BOARD   Appears Before WLB After Long Defiance; Argues Case for Miners

Lewis Pleads Before WLB for Miners   PRESIDENT OF UMW SUBMITS TO WAK LABOR BOARD, QUIETLY AND WITH SELF EFFACEMENT.   {llinois Pact Before Board

Lewis Places Mine Case Before WLB   Asks for Approval Of Hlinois Contract

LEWIS IS TAME IN WLB SESSION   Boss Of UMW. Roaring No Defiance, Pleads For Portal Pay

Lewis Drops Feud With WLB. Seeks Contract Approval   Miners’ Head Urges Portal-to-Portal Pay Is Just Compensation

Lewis Urges ‘Portal’ Pact Before WLB   Pictures, Winois Agreement as National Pattern

PRINT QUESTIONEL   Defense Attacks Chieti Item  in Evidence Against Marigny

Renew Attack on Marigny Prints   Miami Police Officer Faces Cross-Examination.

Italy Move Recalls Act During War    BREAK FROM GERMAN ALLIANCE DUPLICATES SHIFT OF FIRST CONFLICT

Our Landing Boat Losses Are Heavy   Over Half Of Those Used In African Invasion Were Lost.

Landing Craft Losses Heavy  Can Be Over 50°, Admiral Cochrane Savs

Vegetable Seed Ceiling Is Set   Price Same Level As Early This Year

Tunisian Victory Helpful Psychology Says Marshall In Address To Governors

Russians Renew Second Front Appeal; Nazi- Soviet Casualties Over 10 Million   Tunisian Victory Exploded Nazi Superman Myth, General Marshall Declares At Governors’ Parley

Nazi Superman Myth Exploded By Tunisian Victory, Says Gen. Marshall

Tunisian Victory Downs Nazi Myth   SERMAN SUPERMAN IDEA DESTROYED BY ALLIED FIGHTERS

‘Superman’  Myth Gone      Tunisian Win Gets Credit: Dads Last In Draft

Myth Of Nazi Superman Blasted In  Tunisia, General Tells Governors

GOVERNORS TOLD: OF ARMY: ACTIONS   Father Draft to Be Delayed; _{tckeq, Warns of Gas Restrictions

Nazi Superman Myth Exploded Says Marshal!  Governors Hear Chief of Staff At Conference

TUNISIAN VICTORY. EXPLODED MYTH OF GERMAN SUPERMAN   GEN. GEORGE MARSHALL SPEAKS BEFORE GOVERNORS’ CONFERENCE

TUNISIAN VICTORY EXPLODED SUPERMAN MYTH GF NAZIS, GEN, MARSHALL ASSERTS

Next Mine Dispute Move Up To Lewis Operators Agree To WLB Order Toa Necatiate

WLB ABANDONS HEARINGS OVER’ MINE DISPUTE   Orders Negotiations be Resumed Between Oper<ators and Soft Coal  Mine Leaders’   OWNERS ACCEPT   Next Move Up to Lewis; ‘Leaves Some Doubt Whether Truce Will be Extended

NEXT COAL STRIKE MOVE APPEARS UP FORLEWIS ACTION   Operators Accept WLB Order to Resume Bargaining, Continue Production of War-Vital Fuel.   ORDER PROHIBITS ANY PRODUCTION STOPPAGE   Lewis Withheld Immediate Comment Leaving Doubt on Possible Extension of 15-Day Truce.

COAL DISPUTE STILL IN DOUBT   Next Move Appears to Be Up to Lewis as Operators Accent. WLB Order

LEWIS TO DECIDE (ON NEW WLB ORDER   Operators Accept Decision That Bargaining Must Be Continued; Rap Both Sides

Await Reply By Lewis To WLB Order   Mine Operators Accept Board’s Instructions To Resume Bargaining In Wage Dispute

NEXT MOVE IN MINE DISPUTE UP TO LEWIS   OPERATORS ACCEPT ORDER OF WLB TO RESUME BARGAINING

NEXT MOVE BY MINERS UP 10 JOHN L, LEWIS   Operators Accept Board’s Terms To  Solve Argument

WLB Watts . Lewis Move On Directive  Mine Leader's Silence   Mine Leader’s Silence _ Leay es Doubt on Truce Evtencioan   TIME UP TUESDAY   Operators Ready to Bargain; WLB Proposes 6-Day Week, Overtime

Next Move In  Coal Scrap Is Up To Lewis  Operators Accept Order Of WLB

Coal Onerators Accent Order to Resume Hearing:   Next Move-Up To Miners in Eastern Field

Next Move in Coal Strike — Up to Lewis   Operators Accept Order Of WLB to Continue Bargaining

Next Coal Move Up  To Lewis   Operators Agree to WLB Order on  Rargaining

Next Move in Coal Scrap Up to Lewis;  WPB Orders Parley   Operators Accept Edict to Resume Bargain  ing Over Issues

Next Coal Move Is Up To Lewis  Operators Obey Orde: To Resume Bargaining

NEXT MOVE IN THE COAL WAGE BATTLE 1S UP TO LEWIS   War Labor Board Order for Resumption of Bargaining and Production Is Accepted By Operators

Next Move it Coal Dispute Up to Lewis   Operators Accept WLB Order to. Resume Bargaining With Miners

NEXT MOVE UP T0 LEWIS; OPERATORS ACCEPT WLB ORDER   Mine Owners Willing to Con. tinue Negotiations in Coal Workers Dispute

Lewis Holds Fate of Coal  Mine Solution   Owners Agree To Continue Bargaining  And Work '

NEXT MOVE IS UP TO JOHN L. LEWIS IN COAL DISPUTE   Operators Accept WLB Order to Resume Bargaining and Continue Dundusatinn

TENSION STILL HOLDS   Satuation in “Lebanon Is Not Relaxed, Says British Minister

OFFICIAL OF BALL GLASS JAR CONCERN, DIES IN MUNCIE. IND   One of Two Surviving Broth. ers,. Succumbs At 95.

ARAWE AIRPORT IS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Record Load of 414 Tons Bombs Dumped on Cape Gloucester, May Presage New Landing   Aussies Cross Masawang on Huon  to Oust Japs, Bougainville Hold  Strensthened

Arawe Air Strip Is Captured By American Forces   Allied Aerial  Power On Gain

Arawe Airstrip Captured As Jap Air Power Fails      Allies Get Strategic Landing Field — Japs Fleeing from Southern Bougainville to Concentrate  _ On North Part of Is:  land.

AMERICANS EXPAND HOLDINGS IN CAPE MERKUS DISTRICT  ARAWE AIRSTRIP CAPTURED AND ALLIED AIR SUPREMACY CONTINUES

Australians Gain In Drive To Cleats Japs From Huon Peninsula Areas

Allies Gain Supremacy In Skies Of New Britain Area As Arawe Air Sirip Falls To Americans —-

Japanese Show Signs Of Giving Up Southern Part Of Bougainville   Aware Air Strip Captured by Americans; Jap Resistance In Air Slackens

Yanks Capture Arawe’s Field   New Britain’s Beachhead Falls As Japs Lose . Their’ Air Power

U.S. Controls Skies Through Whole Sector   Australians in Added Ground Gains on Huon Peninsula

U. S. Troops Take Arawe Airstrip   Allies Control Skies And Jap Air Blows Taper Off

NEW GAINS ARE SCORED BY FRENCH IN SOUTH   gommel Reported To Have Resumed Retreat  GHADAMES IS POUNDED  g-and Fighting In Northern Area Is Limited

HEAT TO STAY AWHILE   Flora Predicts “Tonight Will Be : Another Hot One”

Gen. Spaatz to Head Entire BombinaForce   Big Three Agreed at Teheran on Every Point for Launching Gigantic Attack Aaainst Nazis, FDR Declares

President Announces Appointment ‘Of American   British Officer To Take Over Operations In Mediterranean By Conference Decisian

British Officer To Command In Mediterranean; Roosevelt Warns of Hard Fichtine Ahead

General Will Have Supreme Command of Anglo-American Forces.   SELECTED BY ‘BIG 3’

No Comment On Future Of Marshall   President Makes Announcement In Worldwide Radio Broadcast Today

Eisenhower Named Supreme Chief   President Declares That Allies Are Agreed on Victory Plans

 Appointment of U.S. General  To Head Second Front Army Announced by Chief Executive

NamedSupremeComman der Of Anglo-American Invasion Forces, Roosevelt Discloses 

HIS SELECTION TS ANNOUNCED RY ROOSEVELT   President Makes No Reference to Future of General  George C. Marshall,  - Chief-of-Staff :   BRITON TO DIRECT. ITALIAN CAMP! AIGN'   Nation’s, Chief “Makes ‘It Clear Eisenhower's’ Ap" pointment Agreed.  Upon At Teheran

ANNOUNCEMENT BY ROOSEVELT IN RADIO TALK   President Says Plans Made at Teheran for Big Attack On Germany

Eisenhower s Named Leader of Big Invasion   Selection Announced by President in Talk Broadcast Friday

PRESIDENT TELLS OF ACTION DECIDED ON AT CONFERENCE  BRITISH OFFICER TO LEAL ITALIAN CAMPAIGN WILI

PRESIDENT SAYS ALLIED LEADERS IN FULL ACCORD   Mediterranean Command Will Be Given To British General; Hints Blows At Japs

Other Chiefs — i fe Be. Named - in Few: Days      Roosevelt in Speech Radioed * Around” ‘World: Announces: the Appointment :      BIG: THREE AGREED . vis = ON’ SECOND FRONT           =  Gigantic Attacks, “But Vic, Gigantiic. Atacks“But Vice!" * tory’ Won't: Be. Cheap:

PRESIDENT MAKING WORLD WIDE BROADCAST ON XMAS EVE CVE /PREVIEW ON THINGS TOCOME   Gen. Eisenhower’ Will Direct Operations of Angk American Forces Who Will Open Second Front Against Germany. _Britisher to Succeed Eisen hawer in Mediterranean 4 oy

BRITISHER WILL TAKE UVER HIS PRESENT POS]   Roosevelt, in Worldwide Broadcast, Makes No Mention as to Future for Gen. Marshall

Designation Announced  ByFRToday   Reference Is Not Made To Future For Marshall

Roosevelt Tells Listening World Of Appointment   Full Details for Plan of Attacking Germany Settled

Second Front Plans Are Charted   President Announces Eisenhower Is To Direct Assault

Appointment Announced ‘By Roosevelt. During Radio. Broadcast Of Christmas: Message ..

Briton To Top Southern Operations   Big Three Agreed On Launching Giant Attack On Germany

FDR Announces His Selection   All Steps For West Front Decided On At Conference

F,D.R. MAKES — YULE ADDRESS      Says British Officer To Take Command In Mediterranean    ATTACK AGREED UPON

Announcement  Made By FDR In Radio Talk   Promises Bad News For Japs Before Lona

Roosevelt Announces Spaatz Air Commander   No Reference Made to Future of Marshall but President Promises ‘Gigantic Attack ; upon Germany’

American General Will ‘Direct Second Front;  FDR Makes Announcement

Appointment as Supreme Commander for Invasion Announced by Roosevelt

DR Announces      ‘Briton To Succeed .. “Him In. Mediterranean “et No. Announcement “OF Marchal’<: Future

FDR REVEALS SELECTION ON WORLD RADIO   Roosevelt Is Silent on Future Status of  Gen. Marshall

Approval Of Leadership For Second Front Given  At Cairo-Teheran Talks

Appointment Of Leader Of Anglo-American Forces Which Will Open Second Front Against Germany Announced By President Roosevelt In Broadcast Address—British Officer Will Take Over Mediterranean Post—New Blows At Japan, Too, In Making

Roosevelt Makes Announcement [n  Speech To World   Churchill To Name New Leader in Mediterranean Area, No Mention of Marshall's Future

His Appointment to This Supreme Post Was Announced Today in Washington By President Roosevelt.   SECOND FRONT AGAINST GERMANY TO BE OPENED   The President Made No Refernce As to the Future of  Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of Army.

—EISE. NHO OW ER—  NAMED CHIEF OF ALLIED COMMAND   Appointment Announced By Roosevelt In Worldwide Radio Address   BIG DRIVE READY   Decision Reached At Recent War Conferences In Middle East

Announcement Given in 'President’s Message: No Mention Made of Marshall

Gigantic Attack on Reict Pledged by Roosevelt   Hammer Blows of United Nations to Fall On Germany, Japan, Vows President; British Generals to Be Aides to Chief

Allies Name ‘Ike’ To Head Second Front   Choice Revealed In F. R. Yule Broadcast; Briton To Take Over Mediter ranean Command.

Appointment Disclosed In FDR’s Talk   President Makes No Refer. ence As To Future Of  General Marshall.   ‘SPEAKS OF MEETINGS

Successor To © Be Selected ~ By Churchill   Selection of Command for Second Front Agreed On at Recent Talks

BIG FOUR Is DETERMINED KEEP PEACE   America, Britain, Russia And China In Agreement To Strip Germany of Her Military Might, FDR Informs World   President Warns Of Grim Days Ahead

Eisenhower To Lead All Forces Attacking From “Second Front”   WILL NAME ASSISTANTS

Will Open Second  Front on Germany   A British Officer Will Be Appointed to Succeed Kansas  General in Command of Allied Mediterranean Forces.   In World-Wide Address Roosevelt  Warns Nation Against Complacency

Second Front Against Germany Slated With Attack Points Agreed Upon at Teheran Confab

NAZIS ARE ACCUSED OF RAZING VILLAGE   Italian Town of 2,000 Sald to Have Been Burned by Enrared German Troons.

WAGE RAISES ARE CHECKED BY NEW RULE   Drastic “hold-the-line”’ order is issued to halt rising prices

Nearly All Wages, Prices Are Affected   Sweeping Order To Stop Inflation

ORDER ISSUED BY ROOSEVELT TO ‘HOLD LINE   PRESIDENT DIRECTS FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PUT INTO EFFECT SWEEPING ECONOMIC PROGRAM

Virtual ‘Freezing’ Of Wages, Salaries, Prices Directed By President

Reds Advance Within 75 Miles of Kursk   Russia’s Armies Crash into Middle of Nazi Front Between Moscow and Rostov; Rommel’s Escape Corridor ‘Imperilled by US Thrust

Reds Punch Holes  In German Lines   Great Gains Made on Middle. Russian Front and Armies Draw Nearer Oil Fields

Advance Toward Key City   Press Pursuit of Rommel In Corner of Libya

MOSCOW REPORTS 3,000 AXIS TROOPS SLAIN IN BATTLE   ‘German Defenses Buckle Under Terrific Smash;  i Allied Offensive Seen

Thrust Toward Kursk   German Defense Lines Buckle Under Crashing Red Offensive In Voronezh Sector

Advance On Key Base At Kursk   USAF Blasts Enemy’s Supplies At Sfax

REDS CRASH  DEEP INTO  NAZI LINES IN CENTER   bal Defense-In-Depth System Below Voronezh Penetrated for 12 1-2. Miles   po 000 NAZIS SLAIN, 6,000 CAPTURED   Three Generals. Taken as Hitler’s Losses Go Higher * Than Napoleon’s

Rommel Escape Lane In Tunisia Imperiled By American Thrust; Brit ish Surge On.

TRIUMPHANT SOVIET ARMIES ADVANGE IN MOSCOW-ROSTOY AREA  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CONTINUES TO PRESS

Triumphant Armies Hit German Defense  For Gain Of 12 Miles   U. S. Thrust Toward Gulf Of Gabes Menaces Rommel Escape Route; BEF 65 Miles West Of Tripoli

Russ Punch Hole  In German Center   Gain 12'% Miles; Place Forces 75 Miles From Key Base of Kursk

Reds Buckle Middle of  ‘German Line   Defense System Pushed Back 12} Miles Between Rostov And Moscow; Russians Nearer Kursk

KASTORNOYE SURRENDERS TO SOVIETS   Spectacular Gains ‘Made; ‘Oil Area —  Encir cled

Reds Hit Middle Front Hard, Killing 3,000 And Taking 6000 Pricanarc

Russian’ Armies Ad‘vance Over Twelve ‘Miles More  BRITISH H ACTIVE Continue Pursuit Of Axis Troops In.

Reds Buckle German. Defenss Line on Middle of Front to Recister 12 Mile Advance   Russian Armies Use  Divide and Annihilate  Tactics Against German: Re ROCER OCREENE

Soviets 45 Miles From Vital Nazi Base At Kursk   Rommel Escape Lines Endangered No w By Americans In Major Dnve

Russians Exploit Tactics Used -Bv Hitler in Devastating Sweep   NAZIS LOSE MORE MEN» THAN IN NAPOLEON ARMY

Now Within 75 Miles of Kursk   Hitler's Command  Paints Gloomy Picture of War

VITAL RAIL HEAD ALSO RETAKEN IN SOVIET DRIVE   German Casualties Heavier Than Those Suffered by Napoleon in Disaster   MYSTERY VEILING AFRICA   Yank Thrust Threatens To Cut Off Part of Rommel’s Fleeing Remnants

Suspect in Ballet Dancing _ Case Denies Accusation of  Dies but Is Fired by OEW

OEW's ‘Ballet Dancer’ Fired   Bovingdon Ousted By Director Crowley

ANALYST FIRED FROM OEW JOB   ‘Ballet Dancer’ Refuses To Resign $5,600 Per Year Post

‘Ballet Dancer’ Bovinaton Fired From OEW Post   Analyst Says He’s Qualified and That Dies ‘Smearing’

Crowley Fires Ballet Dancer  ‘Economic Analyst’ Loses Job With OEW

BALLET DANCER FIRED BY OEW   ADMINISTRATION IS SHORN OF ‘AID’ TO VITAL WAR OFFICE

Ballet Dancer Loses OEW Job   Director Leo T. Crowley Fires Bovingdon After He  Refuses to Resign.

Ballet Dancer Fired By OEW   Bovingdon Would Not Run From Dies Group

Dancer Is Fired By Fconomic War Chief   Treasury Recovers $56,444,954 In Taxes from Professional Chiselers

BALLET DANCER OUSTED IN OEW   Analyst Dismissed From $5600-a-Year Post In Washington

OEW Dismisses Dancing Tutor  From War Post   John Bovingdon Fired After Attacks Were Made By Dies Committee

Ballet Dancer Is Dismissed  From The OEY   Crowley Acts Quickly Following Storm Of Protest Over Bovingdon

Dancer Fired From U. 5. Post   Bovingdon Refused To Resign So He Was Dismissed

Ballet Dancer Official Fired   Bovingdon, Ex-Bey Resident, Loses Job As OEW Economist

FORMER RHYTHMIC GYMNAST IS FIRED   John Bovingdon Dismiss. ed From Job With OEW :

: eclined to \; sign His $~ 600 Job   Says He's Victim of At tempt to Undermine the War Effort

DANCER FIRED BY OEW CHIEF   John Bovingdon Released As Economic Analyst After Complaints

Ballet Dancer  Analyst ‘Fired’ From Govt. Job   John Bovingdon, Charged By Rep. Dies, Loses 85600 Federal Post

Ballet Dancer Is Fired From Analyst Post  re  ae ees ae   Bovingdon Cut As Economist

AMITY NOT REACHED   Detiaulle, friraud Negotiation Reach Temporary Stalemate

GIRAUD, DE GAULLE REACH AN IMPASSE   French Circles Certain Settlement Will Be. Reached

French Peace Conference Breaks Down   Giraud and de Gaulle May Meet Again Today

French Chiefs In Deadlock On New Rule   Algiers Parley Recessed Until DeGaulle and — Giraud Heal Rift

FRENCH TALKS HAVE HIT SNAC   Gen. Catroux Is At Work Tc Patch Up Differences

Allies Move To Close Ring Of  Steel On Japs  Nip Bases Are Bombed From Ast. AnD S..

CLEVELAND FIGHTS BLACK FOGD MARKET   Opens Produce Market for Area Growers

JAPANESE ARE STRENGTHENING PACIFIC BASES   Air Force Circles Say Allics Don’t Have Planes To Check Enemy Moves

Reds Tighten Orel Pinchers In Big Drive   Chase Germans  From 100 Towns

Russ Troops Continue Slow Drive On Orel   Germans Lose 100 Villages as Reds Advance up to 744 Miles

Reds Seize 100 Villages   Pincers Against Orel Tightened by Soviets

RED ARMY TROOPS CONTINUE TIGHTEN GRIP AROUND OREL  MANY VILLAGES RECAP~ “TURED AND 3,000 GER-

Soviet Units Continue to Sqeeze Ore!  Hurl Nazis Out Of 100 Villages

Reds Recapture 100 More Towns   Pincers Tightened In Orel Sector

REDS TIGHTEN NOOSE ON OREL   Soviet Troops Drive Nazi Forces From 100 More  Villages

3000 NAZIS DIE IN SOVIET PUSE   Reds Hurl “Germans From 100 Towns On Orel Front

Russian Army  Makes New Gains  On Orel Defenses Nazis Hurled Out  Of 100 Villages — As Pincers Tighten

RED ARMY TROOPS HURLED NAZIS OUT OF 100 VILLAGES   Tightened the Pincers Threatening Orel With Advance of 5 to 7, Miles.   Russian Communique Said 500 Germans Were Killed.

IN MASON CITY   REDS CONTINUE DRIVE ON OREL   ~ Hurl Nazis Out -of 100 Nearby Villaces

RUSSIANS TAKE 100 VILLAGES IN OREL DRIVE   ‘Score Advances of Five to 74 Miles, Repulsing Counter-Attacks   TIGHTEN PINCERS   Airmen Center Furious Attack on Forest Where Germans Concentrate Troops, Supplies

Soviet Units Continue to Sqeeze Orel  Hurl Nazis Out Of 100 Villages oe Crete

Soviet Forces Grind Out New Gains At Orel   Pincers Tightened With Capture Of Villages In Steadv Advance.

NAZIS ARE HURLED FROM 100 TOWNS BY SOVIET FORCES   Reds Make Gains of From 5 To Seven and A Half Miles; Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Beaten Off To North and Northwest of Orel.

Russians Take 100 Villages Outside Ore!   Beat Off Counterattacks To Advance Within 744 Miles Of City.   OTHER FRONTS QUIET

Reds Capture 100 Additional Villages In Sweeping German ‘Forces Back In Orel Sector   Score Gains Of 5 To 7% Miles; Drive From North Takes Toll Of 3,000 Nazis

ENEMY YIELDS 100 VILLAGES   Soviets Crush Counter-Attacks, Kill 3,000 Germans Near Orel

Soviets Hurl  Germans From  100 Villages   Fall of Orel Now Seems -Matter of Days as Advancing Red Columns Tishten:- Pincers.

SOVIETS NAZIS FROM 100 VILLAGES   Slow, Relentless Investment Of German Defenses Around Orel Being  Effected by Reds  Paar a 447 8 amere Same a2tahes Qs

Rail Line Under Artillery Fire   Russians Relentlesslv Wiping Out Great German Army   PINCERS BEING HAMMERED SHUT

Nazis Hurled Out of 100  Russ Towns   Soviet Air Force Keep Nazis From  Consolidating Lines

Youth Welfare Plans Underway  Committees Set up and Leaders Are Named at Session

Railroad Yards and Storage Tanks Bombed 45 Miles from. Coast in France, Leaving Damage.   GERMANS ON RETREAT FROM SMOLENSK TODAY

Heavy Attack on Stuttgart; French Coas'   U.S. and R.A. F. Continue Air Offensive; Germans Bomb London Suburbs

RAF DROPS BOMBS ON STUTTGART   NAZIS RETALIATE WITH ATTACK ON LONDON SUBURBS

Stuttgart Raided by RAF in Eighth Night Visit of the Month   Loss of 11 Bombers Is In~~dicative of Size of Raid; London Hit

Groundwork for Turk Mediation Believed Laid   New Italian Foreign Minister Con ferg at Sea With Ankara . Representative,

Importance {s Seen In Meeting of Two Top Statesmen  italy May Ask Turkey To Aid in Peace Move; Envoys Confer

Turkish Mediation Believed Asked At Conference At Sea   ltaly’s New Foreign Minister Confers With Turkish _ Official—Belieyed Effort to Lay Basis for Peace Talks

ltalian-Turkish Leaders Confer   Mediation Attempt Relieved Started

BYRNES STUDI GAS, OIL QUTLODK   Entire Situation s Being Scrutinized Anew in Light Of New Military Developments; Agencies Differ

Entire Gasoline Situation Will Be Scrutinized   War's Drain on Supplie: Emphasized--Farmers To Get First Call

GASOLINE AND OIL PROGRAMS STUDIED      Entire Situation Is Being Scrutinized, Byrnes Asserts

OIL SITUATION BEING CHECKED   Byrnes Announces Survey As Drain on Supplies is Stressed at Parley

GAS SITUATION IS SCRUTINIZED   Byrnes Emphasizes Drain On Reserves At White  House Conference

Ul Situation Studied Anew In View of © War’s Drain White House Meeting Deals with Reserves  Of ‘Gas’ and Fuel Oil And Demands of War   FARMERS ARE GIVEN FIRST CALL ON ‘GAS’   Oil Industry Group Again Asks Increase In Price of Crude

GASGLINE AND OIL SURVEY 18 BEGUN   INCREASED SUPPLIES DEMANDED BY ARMED FORCES LEADS TO NEW STUDY.

War Activities Increase Demand For Gas And Oj   Director James F. Byrnes Announces New Federal Fuels Survey

GAS SITUATION IS DISCUSSED IN WASHINTON   Setup In View Of “New Military Activities” Be ~  . Soputin sed   FARMERS WILL GET FIRST CALL ON GAS

Berlin Radio Tell: Of Raid, Reports  ‘Some Damage  Attacking Planes Strike in Two Waves, Says Report  CLAIM FIVE DOWNED  Nazi Story Indicates Bombing Continued  For Some Time

RAF Bombers Raid Berlin And Duisburg   Five Planes Lost In Saturday Night ‘Raid On Capital

‘Buy Bonds Now, Plea Of Johnson   Drive Ends In 6 Days: County Is $284,000 Short Of Goa!

COUNTY MUST RAISE $100,000 IN FOUR DAYS   DPL $25,000 Purchase Reduces Deficit By One-Fourth

Drive Hits Home Stretch   County Needs $130,097 T Reach Goal; Sales Saturday $31,626

HAS CHANCE T0 BE OHIO'S FIRST ‘OVER THE TOP’   Quota In Sight This Week Chairman Says In New Plea

Fifth and Eighth Armies Straighten Line; Potenza,  Railroad Center, Seized   Bombers Join Fight for Corsica: Jugoslav Patriots Reported to Control More Than Half of Native Land

Americans Dare Japanese Fleel To Leave Truk   Afraid To Fight, Cassady Asserts

JAPS DECLINE 10 FIGHT AMERICANS   Fleet Dared Out But Stays Securely Behind Nets in Harbor

U. S. Carrier Task Force Sails Near Truk, Dares Japs To Come And Fight

Coal Industry Heading for New Crisis   Lewis Denounced by WLB; House Occupied with Income Tax Bill, Senate with Extension Trade Agreement

NEW GRISIS BOBS UP IN SOFT COAL WAGE CONTROVERSY  DEFIANCE OF JOHN L,   LEWIS THREATENS AN-

WLB Denounces  Lewis Position  As Defying Gov’ UMW Failure To Join Hegrings Attacked;   House Split On Party

NEW CRISIS BOBS  UP IN SOFT COAL  WAGE CONTROVERSY DEFIANCE OF JOHN L. LEWIS THREATENS AN ATWIPThH wAadndwy crTrnapnpaircet

Jap Resistance Is Stiffening   Shortland Island Area Of Solomons Apparently Reinforced By Japs   FOUR U. S. PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE

JAPANESE MOVE TO CHECKMATE U. $. ADVANCES   Reinforcements Moved In By Enemy Ahead Of Expected Drive   HEAVIER PLANE DEFENSE   Developments Reflected In Reported Appearance Of More Nip Zeros

JAPS BRACING FOR OFFENSIVE DRIVE BY U, §   Indicated by Strength of Aijr Forces Resisting Americans in Shortlands Area

AUGUST OUTPUT ~— OF OL 10 Rist   Ickes Calls for Daity Increase -of 96,100. Barrels for Month

ROOSEVELT SAYS INVADERS TO HIT AT MANY POINTS   President Hails Sicilian Drive @ as ‘Beginning of End’ for Axis

LANDING PRECEDED BY GIGANTIC AIR ASSAULT TO DESTROY AXIS MILITARY HEADQUARTERS   Troops of Liberation Go Ashore Under Cover of Merciless Bombardment of Island by Air and Naval Forces

Beginning Of End For Hitler Says President   Many Other Invasions Of Europe Are Predicted By Roosevelt 

Thrust Inland Under Massive Aerial Umbrella After Warships Pave the Way for Invasion With Fierce  Bombardment of Coast Points.

WMC ABANDONS WOMEN SIGN-UF   Occupational Registratior Program Supplanted

Registration’ S. Plan Dropped   Education Plan Favored Po Get Female’ (abor . - For War Effort

LEGAL PROBLEM FACES BRICKER   Constitutionality of State Commissions Created by Governor Questioned

SOLONS MEET FOR LAST DAY   Hope Final Action Can Be Taken On : Issues

Describe Hanging of Russian Quislings   Crowd of 30,000 Sees Public Hanging

Interpreting  The War   Fisheries Treaty Not to Alter Asiatic Status

General Montgomery’s Air Arm Pounding Mareth Line Forts Ceaselessly and Systematically.

ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE REPORTS HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE ON BOTH SIDES OF »  MARETH LINE IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA   All-Out Attack Believed Already Started As Tremendous Aerial Preparations Reach Climax; Rommel’s Chief Supply Port Of Gabes and Railway To Sfax Heavily Blasted

REED TO RUN AGAIN   Senator Celebrates 72nd Birthday With Announcement — 

MORATORIUM URGED — ON MEAT RATIONING   Farm Slaughter Is Seen as Feed Problem Solution

UNION LABOR LEADER FLAYS RICKENBACKER   Head Of Auto Workers Says Flier Is Using Popularity To . Aitack Labor

Discover Fleet Of 20 Ships   Yanks Uncover Nip ponese Plans To Meet More Pen meter Invasions.

Japanese Seen Rushing Aid Into Marshalls   Nimitz Reports Sighting of 20 Nip Ships in Kwajalein  Lagoon bv Planes in Tuesdav Raid

‘DUEL’ BETWEEN TWO GIRLS — "BUT ONE IN THE HOSPITAL   "TEEN-AGE FEUD OVER BUS DRIVER LEADS TO MIDNIGHT BATTLE IN LOB AN . GELES ALLEY

CHINCH BUGS EXPECTED 10 BE BAL   Heavy Infection Indicated By Entomologists’ Checkup

Infestation By Chinch Bugs Heavy In County  Weather This Spring May Alter Situation

MYSTERY OF LOWER 13’ MURDER GROWS   Folice Hold Two Passengers on Death Train For More Questioning.   BLOOD TRAIL FOUND   Unidentified Negro Hunted In Slaying of Bride on Speeding Train.

BRUTAL MURDER IN LOWER 13 BAFFLES POLICE   Further Complications Attend Mystery Death Of Ensign’s Bride   MONEY NOT DISTURBED   Victim Not Arsaulted, Say Investigators On Trail Of Slayer

KING OF EGYPT HURT IN CRASH   Royal Automobile And Truck Collide On Suez Canal Road

REPEAL OF FIVE PERCENT VICTORY TAX IS PROPOSEL   Offered As Cure For Decimal Point Jitters Suffered By Many Income Taxpayers; Higher Taxes Are Now Anticipated On Capitol Hill.

Victory Tax Repeal Plan Is Considered   Cure For Decimal Point Jitters Suffered by Citizens Objective Sought   TOPIC AT CONFERENCE’

‘VICTORY’ TAX MAY BE KILLED BY LAWMAKERS   Seen As Cure Of Decimal Point Jitters Of Tax Pavers

Third War Loar Drive Here Of To Fine Start   South Penn Purchases $500,000 in Bonds: Theatre Sales Listed

WHEELER BILL GETS APPROVAL   Measure Would Defer Fathers; Committee Votels 11 To5

SENATE MILITARY GROUP MAY KEEP FATHERS AT HOME   Wheeler’s Bill to Defer Them Is Favorably Approved By 11 to 5 Vote With An  Amondmant_   WOULD BE APPLICABLE UNTIL FIRST OF YEAR   Bill increasing Allowances to Wives With Dependent Approved, $68 Monthly Provided.

Committee Favors Wheeler’s Measure To Defer Fathers, Increase Benefits to Soldiers’ Dependents

Senate Committee Approves Bill by Wheeler ‘'To Defer Fathers from Draft a

Yank Unit Lands On Corsica Allies Face Bitter   Allies Face Bitter Fire And Tough  "TT os. wi a Sy

Three Vital Towns Fall To Americans   U.S. Rongers Land On Corsica To Help With Cleaning Up Island: Germans Pushed North

DRIVE LAUNCHED NEAR LENINGRAD   Marshal Timoshenko Is Reported Commanding New Red Thrust

FOUR MORE TOWNS, RAIL STATION TAKEN BY REDS IN ADVANCE   Gains Are Also Made By Russians on Lower Don River; 26 Big German Transport Planes Destroyed

REPORT RED DRIVE NEAR LENINGRAD   TIMOSHENKO SAID TO HAVE STRUCK TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON CITY.

More Towns Recaptured In Caucasus Drive, Red Radio Reports  ADVANCES MADE ON LOWER DON, ALSO  Nine German Planes Destroyed by Soviets  Tee Lien DO pe eee oe ee Bal

DE MARIGNY CONVICTED   Count Found Guilty Of Hlegal Pos session Of Gasoline

‘DeMarigny Gets  New Conviction   Found Guilty of  Illegal Gas Possession

RETR — ENN See NRO ee  NAZI WARSHIP TIRPITZ REPORTED IN NORTH SEA

Late News Bulletins   “O. 8. Has Fnourh Camps For Axis Prisoners:

Enough Camps In U.S. Set Up To ©  Handle Prisoners   267,000 Captured In Tunisian Campaign, Says Secretary Stimson

‘PRISON CAMPS READY TO RECEIVE TROOPS TAKEN "IN TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN

PRISON CAMPS READY   ‘pois Already Prepared for Axis Prisoners Taken In Africa

AXIS PRISONERS 10 BE BROUGHT TOUS.   They Will Not Replace Any American Labor.

NAZI ARMY MAYBE ‘GRUMBLING AS RED ARMY MOVES AHEAL   Indications Seen of Disas‘ter But Definite Concelu. sion Is Withheld at Present.

CONSUMERS 10 iiramelnn IN RATIONINE   Supply of Goods for Balance of This Year Will Be Reduccd.   BY SIX . POINT PLAN   Everyone Will Suffer L<ss cr Discomfort in 1943, Says Report.

NEW RATIONS ~ ARE FORECAST   WER COMMITTEE SAYS FUR. THER DECLINE EN GOODS MADE FOR CtVILIANS {8 AHEAD

FURTHER RATIONING EXPECTED THIS YEAR   Report Decline in Production Of Consumer Goods

JAPANESE AIR POWER GROWS   Enemy Strength In South Pacific Ic Not On Wane.

ENEMY SHAKES OFF EFFECTS OF THUMPING    97 Bismarck Battle   Survivors Drift : To Shore

Nazis Throw New Force Upon Ortona   Allies Keep Gaining Despite Storm, Keen Resistance

Nazis Battle Furiousl fo Save Orfona   New Italy Fighting Compared to Russiar Stand ot Stalingrad

Furious Battle Over Strategic Port on Adriatic   German Cruiser Is Torpedoed By Motor Boats

‘RAF Drops 100 Tons Of Bombs On Krupp Works   Attack On Essen Is Eighth On Ruhr In 11 Nights

RAF Drops 100 Tons Of Bormbs on Essen   Fliers Use Both Explosives and Incendiaries in Concentrated 12-Minute Downpour of Destruction on Home of Krupp Works.

Big Bombers Hammer Essen  Tn Ruhr Area   Continuous Raids On German Industries Taking Heavy Toll

—KRUPP WORKS HIT—  Bombs Blast  Essen   ...81H REICH RAID IN 11 NIGHTS

Hundred Tons Of Bombs Fall In 12 Minutes   Essen Hammered—  Fortresses Assail Tiklla

Essen Hit Hard By RAF Attacks   Giant Krupp Armament Works Target For Third Straight Night.

Essen Blasted ‘By RAF Planes   100 Tons Of Bombs Fall On German Munitions Citv Last Night

RUHR SMASHED THIRD TIME BY ALA. F, PLANES   100 Tons of Explosives, Incendiaries: Dropped On Arms Plants

100 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED   R. A. F.’s Eighth At. tack On Germany In Last 11 Nichts

CONCENTRATED BOMBING RAID MADE ON ESSEN   100 Tons of Explosives, Incendi aries Dropped in 12 Minutes or Home of Krupp Works   OTHER RUHR RAIDS   Flying Forts and British Planes Raid Lille, in France and Other Points in France and Holland

ESSEN BLASTED IN 12-MINUTE BRITISH RAIN   100 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Home Of Huge Krupp Armament Works   FOUR BOMBERS MISSING   , Other Planes Stage Intruder Operations Over France And Hoiland

Eighth Raid In 11 Nights Hits Ruhr Valley   100 Tons Of Explosives, tncendiaries Dropped On Essen In 12 Minutes   4 BOMBERS LOST   Germans Admit Damage Claim British City ©} Sunderland Attacked

KRUPP BOMBING RENEWED BY RAF   100 Tons of Bombs Rain On Armament Plant in 12 Minutes

ESSEN WAS HEAVILY  BLASTED LAST NIGHT  BY BRITISH BOMBERS THIRD CONSECUTIVE  ‘NIGHT ATTACK UPON RIHR WAR INDIISTRIFS

BOMBS WEIGHING 100 TONS DROPPED ON ESSEN PLANTS   Despite Bad Weather Allies Continue. Round-theClock Air Raids.

Eighth Assault On  Germany In Eleven Nights; Concentrate Blow In 12 Minutes

40F THE BOMBERS ARE REPORTED LOST   Attack Follows Vicious Day. light Assault On France And The Netherlands

Giant Home of Krupp Works Battered by Tons of Explosives   12 Minutes of Concentrated Destruction Poured Onto Essen by British Air Squadrons

100 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Ruhr Region as R.A.F. Raids Continue

FACTORY IS TARGET OF ATTACK BY BIG PLANES   FORTRESSES HIT LILLE   Estimated 20 Planes Used In Latest Attack

100 TONS OF GREAT BOMBS STRIKE ESSEN   Site of Huge Krupp ~ Works Is Target of Latest RAF At tack.

BSSEN ATTACK DEVASTATING, LONDON CLAIMS   jant Krupps Armament, Works Battered by 100 Tons of Explosives and Incendiaries ~   CENTERED ATTACK LASTS 12 MINUTES   Four Bombers Fail to Return; One Fighter Lest In Operations Over France and Holland

Drop 100 Tons of igh Explosive and Incendiary Bombs in 12 Minutes in German Industrial Region During Night — Other Axis Cities Hit.

RAF Rains 100 Tons of Bombs  On Ruhr Region   Attack is Eighth In 11 Nights;  Bocan ia Taweawat

BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST ESSEN WITH TOO TONS OF BOMBS   All Missiles Unloaded on Industrial City Within 12 Minutes, Air Ministry  Gawe

RAF DROPS 100 TONS OF BOMBS IN ESSEN RAID   Marks 8th Attack on Germany in 11 Nights by Heavy Bombers

RAF. Batters War Foundries At Essen Again   Airmen Drop 100 Tons Of Explosives In 12Minute Raid.

ESSEN, HOME OF ~ KRUPP ARMAMENT WORKS, IS BOMBED   The City Was Battered by 100 Tons of Explosives and Incendiaries.   ASSAULT LAST NIGHT   Four of the Planes That Carried Out the Raid Failed to Return.

RAF Drops 100 Tons of Bombs On Essen in Third Consecutive Night Attack on German Ruhr

Drop Tons Of Bombs On Essen   Krupp Munitions Works Target of Third Consecutive Night Raid  Rv British Fliers

ESOEN TARGET OF RAF BLAST DURING NIGHT   Giant Krupp Plant Battered in Another Raid on Ruhr Section.   THREE U. S. PLANES LOST IN ATTACKS ON LILLE

Hundred Tons in i2 Minutes Is Last Night’s Record Bombing of Nazi Ruhr

BRITISH ‘UNLOAD OVER ESSEN   100 TONS OF BOMBS SHOWERED ON CITY IN 12-MINUTE RAIN

Night Raid Hits Ruhr Following Big Day Attack   ‘Crack U.S. Fortresses Part of Fleet of 400 Which Hit  France Yesterday

RUHR VALLEY IS BATTERED AGAIN BY RAF   Hundred Tons of Explosives and Incendiaries Rain On Industrial Area In Germany   ESSEN IS MAIN TARGET

100 Tons of Bombs Hit Essen Area   Third Consecutive Raic On War Factories in  Ruhr Valley

RAF And Yanks Slash At Big Nazi Bases    100-Ton Raid Rocks Essen, Ruhr Valley Arms Center

RAF Batters Industrial  Ruhr Valley   Four Bombers In 12-Minute Raid Were Lost

RAF DROPS 100 TONS OF BOMB ON ESSE   Third Consecutive Night At tack on Ruhr Valley

SITE OF KRUPP WORKS RAIDED   British Planes Rain 100 Tons Of Explosives And Incendiaries On Big German Munitions Center; Other Targets Hit.

British Seek 20 End Riots In Lebanon   Diplomatic Agents to Attempt Solution Of Problem

May Rush British Army to Lebanon   Move Will Follow. lf France Fails in Restoring Order

French Steps Bring Deluge of Protests   British Armed Forces Reported Set To Take Over if Uprising Spreads

5 Indicted in Lynching      Jailer Among Group Named By Federal Jury

U.S. Jury Indicts  Five in Lynching   Fowr Citizens, Deputy Accused

Indict 5 For Lynching In Mississippi   FOUR PRIVATE CITIZENS AND DEPUTY SHERIFF ACCUSED OF HANGING CONDEMNED MURDERER AT LAUREL, MISS.   Deputy Didn’t Protect

FOUR NAMED IN LYNCHING CASE   Mississippi Deputy One Of Men Indicted For Negro’s Death

FIVEINDICTED IN LYNCHING CASEBY JURY   Four Citizens and Deputy Sheriff Accused in Mississippi

JAILOR, FOUR MEN INDICTED IN LYNCHING   Federal Grand Jury ai Jackson Miss., Charges Group Conspired to Hang Negro

LYNCHERS OF NEGRO UNDER INDICTMENT   Four Privaie Citizens And A Deputy Sheriff Are Charged By  Government In Mississippi

ALLIED CHIEFS TO MAP DRIVE ON GERMANY   All Other Factors Out at RooseveltChurchill Parley

FLEETWING FARM HOLSTEIN HAS STATE RECORD   "Della" Gives 997.2 Lbs. Butterfat From 27887 Lbs.

Homerville Cow Is State Champ   Holstein Owned _§ B: W. J. Loufman Leads In Production

111 SIGN OIL PRICE PETITION      Seek Action on Bill Trans-ferring Authority to ickes Department

Representatives From Oil States Press Petition   Claim 111 Signatures In Move To Force Shift Of Price Control Power

House Responds To Petition to Consider Shift  aa i 2 Argae Oi nisfer From

skWALOM SAYS “ALLIES HAVE “ATRORAFT. AND MEN. FOR 1,000-PLANE, RAIDS ON GERMANY

ALLIED AERIAL POWER AT PEAK   Downey Suggests Joint 1,000Plane Raids On Reich

CIVILIAN FLIER INJURED IN CRASH   Nelson Stake, 31, Instructor Of Naval Cadets At Mount St. Mary’s, In Hospital Following Plane Smashup

CIVILIAN PILOT IS INJURED IN CRASH   “Nelson Stake, 31, Attached Tc ; Mount St Mary's College, In Gettysburg Hospital

RED COLUMNS ARE CLOSING IN ON OREL   Two Main Roads Leading From Bolkhov South to Base Reported Taken By Soviets   GERMANS WITHDRAW

Reds Take Main Roads Before Orel   Threaten Communication With Bryansk —- Only One Road Open

Orel May Be Isolated By Nazi Retreat   Enemy Line In Northwest Shattered, 2 Main Roads Taken and Remaining Communications Threatened.

90,000 Axis Troops Are Taken Prisoner   American And British Troops Race For Catania As Enemy Defenses Disintegrate; Badoglio Reported In Receipt Of New Ultimatum   Orel Encircled; Russians May Have Entered Foe Base

Two Main Roads } To Orel Taken: - By Red Armies   Nazi Communications  Threatened Now

Russians Take 2 Roads Into Orel   German Communications  With Bryansk Now Are Threatened   MAY ISOLATE THE BASE   Entire German Regiment Reported Surrounded -by Thrust.

Soviet Army Takes Two Main Roads: One Leads to Orel   Important German Line Liquidated In Red Occupation

SEE-SAW BATTLE RAGES FOR OREL   REINFORCED NAZIS PUT UP DESPERATE DEFENSE FOR CITY

Russian Columns Advance on Orel   German Lines Broken by Onslaught of Reds With Nozi Communications Now Threatened

REDS CAPTURE TWO MAIN ROADS   Threaten German Communications With Bryansk, Leaving Them Only One Unmenaced Highway.

Only One Highway Left Open For Germans To Escape From Orel; Nazis Face Isolation      Soviet Army Captures Two Main Roads Leading From Bolkhov South To Orel And Southwest To Karachey

[wo Main Roads Gained, Thu Leaving German Only One Way To Get Our -

Russians Take Two Main Roads   Threaten German Communications With Bryansk

Russians Take Roads Leading To Orel Base      Threatens Post Held By Nazis

Reds Take Two Roads Near Orel   German Line Is  Broken; Capture Of Karachev Is  Believed Near

REDS TIGHTEN HOLD ON OREL SAYS MOSCOW   Indications Are That Russians Have Already Entered City

Island Defense Falters; Peace Proposal Reported   Reds Slowly Isolating Orel

REDS THREATEN TO ENCIRCLE NAZIS AT OREL      Capiure Two Main Roads to Pu German Communications i Danger, Threaten Third Road   TAKE 70 VILLAGES   Red Troops F; an Out from Bokhov Against Rear of Defending German Troops at Orel

OREL FACING ISOLATION, REDS CLAIM   Soviet Army Paper Reports Capture of Two Main Roads, Threaten‘ing Nazi Communications With Brvansk.

Two-Main. Roads. Leading 'To Orel Taken By Reds   Russians - Near Karachev In Effort To Cut Road ” To German Supply Base

TAKE 2 ROADS [LEADING TO OREI   Reds Trap Regiment by , Maneuver in Ravine

Soviets Capture Highways to Ore!   Reds Threaten German Communications and Orel Now Is in Danger.

Germans Now Have Only Qne Unmenaced Highway . From Their Orel Bastion Southwest to Dmitrovsk   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

CHIEF OF UAW-ClD FAVORS 47H TERN   R. J. Thomas Will ‘Support Commander. in Chief,’ He Declares.

RUSS DRIVE REPORTED AT LENINGRAD   Timoshenko Is Said To Be tn Command

Guerrillas Harass Big Nazi Base   Timoshenko Opens Drive to Free  North Key City

Nazi Shock Troops Routed By Soviets   ‘Nazis Thrown Back On Three Fronts, Unable To Halt Russian Offensives

RED OFFENSIVE IN STALINGRAD INTENSIFIED   Repeated Counter-attacks By Nazis Broken Up With Heavy Losses.   BULLETIN

DEATH ASKED FOR MRS. HOLT   Closing Arguments Made in Trial After Widow Takes Stand

Jury To Decide Fate Of Blonde Suspect Killer   Widow Sobs Denial Ir Greene County's Sensational Trial

Strong Forces of RAF Bombers Jar Kiel Base —   Round Out Weekend of Around-Clock Visits © With American Crews

ALLIED PLANES CROSS CHANNEL FOR NEW RAINS   Paris Suburbs and Kiel Naval Base Hit Over Week-End   DAY - NIGHT ASSAULTS REACHING NEW PITCH

NAZI BASE AT KIEL TARGET OF R.A.F. RAID   Allies Keep Up "Round the Clock Air Offensive

KIEL NAVAL BASE RAIDED BY BRITISH   Renault Arms Plant In Paris Heavily Hit By Fortresses

But victory ‘assured’ if nazis work   Fuehrer absent from ceremony marking rise

RAF Bombs Berlin As Nazis Gather To Celebrate 10th Anniversary: Talks Delayed

R. A. F. Planes ‘Verrorize Nazi Observance   Bombers Blast at Berlin at Precise Moment Goering Was to Begin Speaking in tne Ministry Building

Hull Indicates Recognition of Bolivia Mav Be Withheld Until Policy Is Known

Hull Studying  Bolivian Cour   Axis Sympathizers a! Worl In Hemisphere, He Savs

Hull Warns of x _ bis Interests ~ In Hentisphere   Indicates: Recognition o! Bolivian Regim-_to . Be Withheld 

ALLIED PLANES BLAST JAP BASE ON NEW GUINEA   20 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Rabaul Shipping

90 TONS BOMBS ARE RAINED ON JAPS ATRABAUI   Allied Raiders Pound Concentration of Enemy, Shipping in New Britain Area   AIRDROMES ARE HIT   Docks Also Target After   Reconnaissance Fliers   Spot 170 Nip Bombers on Field

Rabaul Plastered By Allied Bombs  ‘Raiders Run Into Heavy  : Opposition; Two Lost

Milan and Turin Pounded By Britain-Based Planes   American Fortresses, Mitchells and Marauders Blast Rome’s Rail Yards, Mosauito Bombers Stab at Berlin

YANK ARMADA BLASTS ROME   500 Planes Swarm Ove City, Damage Key Railroad Yards

Rail Yards Targets of Big Bombs   Attack Fulfills Warnings Of Mass Raids; Fighter Planes Accompanied Raiders

500 BOMBERS RATTLE ROME   RAIL YARDS SMASHED BY ALL-U. S. AIR BLOW

All-American Air Fleet Emphasizes To Italians Warning Given By Allies

Mass Attacks On Great City Are Resumed  500 Planes Take: Part in Raids

ITALIAN CAPITAL 15 BLASTED FOR SECOND TIME BY U. $, PLANES   RAILROAD FREIGHT YARDS AGAIN MAIN OBJECTIVE OF BOMBERS

RAILROAD YARDS IN: ~ ROME ARE SMASHED   Number Of Bombers Used Equals’ That Of Raid duly.: 49- EnH

ROME ATTACK SMASHES TWO RAIL YARDS   Fortresses Hit San Lorenzo and Littorio Centers, Key Hubs of Axis Communications System in Ttalvy.

Estimated 500 Planes Attack Rome   Railway Yards Again Are Chief Targets in AllAmerican Foray

Knockout Air Blows Aimed At Axis Cities   Milan And Turin Devastated During Mightiest RAF Raid On Northern Italy; Fortresses Rlact Rame: Sicilian Mon-Un Proceeds

Flying Forts Make Precision Raid on Military Areas in Italy Capital; Heavy Damage

jary Selected and Sworn Into Hear DeMarigny Case   Negro Prosecutor Demands Life of Oakes’ Son-in-Law Because He Feared He'd Lose Chance to Share in Baronet’s Fortune

QAKES TRIAL PROCEEDS 10 SUPREME COUR’   W hite-Wigged Prosecutor Asks For Justice Against The Dapper Accused.

Ask Death for De Marigny for Murder of Oakes   Son-in-Law of Millionaire Calm , as Trial Begins

PERSONAL GAIN, REVENGE LED TO OAKES’ MURDER    De Marigny Is Calm As His  Trial Opens In Nas ean Court   PROSECUTOR TRACES ' MOTIVES FOR CRIME

Motives In Oakes Murder Are Citec  Crown Seeking Life O} Dapper Sportsman

De Marigny's Murder Trial is under Way   Negro Prosecutor States His Case

Revenge And Personal Gain Cited As Motives For Slaying   Prosecutor Asks British Justice for Alfred de Marigny, Charging That Yachtsman Bludgeoned Sir Harry Oakes to Death

FLYNNS. YARD PAVING DONE BY CITYS MEN   Witness Claims City Blocks Were Used With Consent of Demo Chieftain   SAYS THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT AFFAIR

Foley Defends Flynn Against Senate Foes   Paving Block Case Was Fully Investigated By Grand Jury, Asserts District Attorney

MARSHALL AT — WHITE HOUSE   ARMY OHIEF OF . STAFF AND -ORHER, MILITARY LEAD “OES TAKING PART CONFERENCE **

Trapped Enemy  Killed   No Mercy Shown Nazis Ordered To Fight to Last

@ ANSWER OLD QUESTION  10 Women, Staging Exhibit Here, Prove They've Got Buttons

GOVERNOR STARTS DUSTER ACTION   Sogebic..,. Canty _ Officials. Charged with Misconduct of Office, Face Impeachment

SALES TAX BILL IS SIDETRACKED   GOP Solon Predicts Hikec Income Taxes Have ‘Little Chance’

TAX SOLUTION “AT IMPASSE   Both Sales Tax a n d Higher Income ~ Levies Bogged

HOUSE GROUP TOWORK ON NEW REVENUE PLAN   Sales Tax And. Higher Income Levies Are Sidetracked

Japanese Bases In Burma Bombed   U.S. Bombers Resume Pounding of Japanese Base on Kiska

 Jap Kiska Area Raided 4 Times In Single Day   Another Concentration Of Euemy Ships Seattered By Allies In The Pacific

Allied Planes Scatter Jap ‘War Vessels   Enemy Believed to Be Planning New Guadalcanal Thrust

Japs Stopped in Pacific But Can Hold Own: While U. S. Gets Ready for Big Attack.   Ry CLARK LEE

Pacific Batile Shaping Up  as Stalemate United States and Japs Facing Powerful Obstacles

Pacific Situation Believed Near Military Stalemate  Both U. S. and Japan Facing Powerful Obstacles to Drives

Crash Kills 10 in Glider   Mayor of St. Louis, Army Officers Dic

ARMY GLIDER CARRIES TEN MEN TO DEATH   Maj. -Robertson, Pioneer Glide: Manufacturer, and Mayor of St Louis Among Victims

Air Tragedy Kills Ten In St. Louis   Glider, Carrying City Notables in Demonstration Ride, Loses Wing And Plunges te Earth

ST, LOUIS MAYOR AND NINE OTHERS  KILLED IN CRASH   WING OF GLIDER FALL! AND IT PLUMMETED

Army Glider Kills 10 In Collapse Mayor, Nine Others  Killed At St. Louis Air Demonstration

GLIDER CARRIES 10 10 DEATH IN ST. LOUIS SHOW   Crowd Horror Stricken as Officials Plunge to Death in Accident

10 PERSONS DIE IN GLIDER CRASH   St. Louis Mayor, Noted Airplane Manufacturer, Are Among Victims of Mishap

St. Louis Mayor, “Army Major And 8 Men Are Deag   Wing Falls Off Ship, In First Accident Of Its Kind During The War

TEN PERSONS KILLED AS BIG GLIDER CRASHES   St. Louis: Mayor Ane Prominent Officials  ana oe ee Amone WVietime   WING BREAKS OFF   Large Crowd Of Spectators Witnesses Accident

Weil-Anown Men Die in Crash Of Army Glider  St. Louis Mayor, C. C Head and Manufac trevor Amana Victime

Glider Crash In St. Louis Kills Ten   Mayor of City and Other Prominent  Officials Perish

TEN KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHED ATST. LOUIS”   Demonstration of TroopCarrying Glider Fatal to Maker and Mayor of City

TEN PERSONS KILLED AS BIG GLIDER CRASHES   St. Louis Mayor’ And Prominent Officials Among Victims   Large Crowd Of Spectators Witnesses Accident

CROWD STARES AS BIG ARMY GLIDER TAKES FATAL DIVE   Ten Persons Perish As TroopCarrying Glider Plunges to ‘Earth at St. Louis After Wing Crumples

CIVIC LEADERS DIE IN GLIDER GRASH SUNDAY   St. Louis Mayor, Pioneer Aircraft  Maker Are Killed

TEN KILLED IN ST. LOUIS GLIDER CRASH   Mayor of City and Three Other Officials, an Aviation Pioneer and C. of C. President Are Among the Victims.

10 Killed In Collapse Of Army Glider   St. Louis Mayor Among Victims; FBI Helping Military Officials In  Tneectioatiaon

AE DEAD IN GLIDER GRASH   St. Louis’ Mayor and City Officials Killed in Demonstration.

Thousands See Mayor Of St. Louis Killed      Nine Others.Die: Down- And Sim Public Demonstration .          lid Plummets Nose! Near. ‘Runway In: First

10 Are Killed im St. Louis Glider Crash      First Public Glider Demonstration Kills High Officials of City and: Army

10 Killed in Crash of Glider   St. Louis Mayor, Nine Others Die When Glider Collapses

eT EE ke. oo ee ee es oe   Ten. Persons Lose Lives Ir First Glider Catastrophe

TEN ARE KILLED IN GLIDER CRASH   St. Louis Mayor and Army Major Among Victims of Spectacular Tragedy

Glider's Maker, 9 Others Killed In Army Crash   St. Louis Mayor, Civic Leaders Die Before Exhibition Crowd.

Transport Army Glider in Crash, Taking 10 Lives   Mayor of St. Louis and Pioneer Manufacturer  Among Dead.   It Falls 1,500 Feet With Right Wing Gone

OFFICIALS DIE IN GLIDER CRASH AT ST. LOUIS   Mayor, Plant Head Amonc 10 Killed in Air Demonstration

St. Louis Mayor, Officials Killed   Army Glider Carries Ten Persons to Death During Public Demonstration on Sunday

St. Louis Mayor, Nine Others Killed When Glider Collapses at Army  Rae

10 Killed in Glider Crash In St. Louis   Pioneer Airplane  Manufacturer, Mayor And C. of C. Official Are Among Victims .

Glider Crash Kills 10 in Army Show   AVIATION PIONEER, ST. LOUIS MAYOR AMONG CASUALTIES

SFVEN DIE IN GLIDER CRASH         Mayor, Judge and Plane Pioneer of St. Louis Among Victims

ST. LOUIS AIR ACCIDENT FATAL TO TEN PERSONS   MAYOR BECKER AND OTHER CITY LEADERS ARE AMONG VICTIMS

Ten Killed In Glider Accident   Many Prominent Men Are Killed In Crash; FBI And Army Board Will Investigate

Few Entries Received In Contests For Naming County and Town Bombers; 200 Theatre Tickets To Be Awarded To Win ners,

THOSE BOMBERS MUST HAVE NAMI   Few Entries Received In Contests For Naming County and Town Bombers; 200 Theatre Tickets To Be Awarded To Winners.

Subsidy Vote Reversal Seen   Senators Express Belief Sentiment Changed Since Saturday.

U. 8. and British Blast af Burma   Hit Supply Centers And Communication

Allies Seize Three Isles Near Sicily   Land Troops Gain In Assault That Is Nearing Victory

East Coast Road Of Sicily Bombed   British Naval Forces Again Attack Coast Road Near Taormina

MEMBERS DELAY SUBSIDIES vor  on  an . rs   Reps. Steagall, Ditter Die Within 12 Hours’ Time   ALABAMAN LEADER AGAINST SUBSIDIES

Germans Retake Isle Near Crete   Surrender Claim First Hint Allies Had Occupied It

Germans Claim  Island Captured   Seizure of Thera  Reported by Radio

GERMANS TAKE AEGEAN ISLAND   Thera Surrenders to Navy Nazi Report Says

More Ration Points Needed  For Hamburger   Values on Some Meats and Butter Ty Go Dawn

Hamburger Will Get More Points   Points of Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Redyced

POINT VALUE FOR HAMBURGER T0 Go ~ UPOVER COUNTRY      Quality of the Product Has Increased and Present Status Is Too  WB omuce

Point Values: To Be. Changed  cet me Cf oe me  ree he   Hamburger Goes Up, Sausage Down

Bridges Demands Proof On Allred   Says Political Motive Causes Opposition

WPB CUTS NEWSPRINT CONSUMPTION ANOTHER 5 PER CENT; MORE NEXT YEAR

5 PER CENT CUT MADE IN PAPER   i Newspapers Ordered ta Reduce Newsprint Use Still More.

NEWSPRINT ~ GETS NEW CUT   Manpower. ‘Shortage .. “Ts “Blaiied. for. "Slash of: Five: Lea

NEWSPRINT CUT ORDERED OCT.   Consumption Of Paper Reduced 5 Percent; More To Come

NEWSPRINT SLASH ORDERED BY WPB   Announces 5 Percent Cut Ef fective October 1, Publishers Told Deeper Curtai'ment Faced Next Year

New Newsprint Cut Is Ordered  Ten Per Cent D acliarntinn Stinete   Ten Per Cent Reduction Starts In October

Reds Plunge Ahead On Widening Front   Flanking Grip Tightens On Kharkov And Another Column In 45 Miles OF Brvanck

RUSSIANS SEIZE (0 MORE TOWNS IN KHARKOV ARE!   Drive On Industrial City Continues Unchecked With Some Forces Only 12 Miles Away.   BRYANSK MENACED BY OTHER COLUMNS   Reds Push Up Railroad From Orel—Fight in Smolensk Sector Grows in Intensity.

Reds Forge Ahead On Long Front   Sumy Threatened: Soviets 12 Miles From Kharkov

FLANKING GRIP UPON KHARKOV IS TIGHTENED   SOVIET OFFENSIVE UNCHECKED; 100 TOWNS TAKEN

Reds Pierce Northeastern  Ukraine Area   Advance Toward Sumy And Tighten Lines Isolating Kharkov  100 TOWNS TAKEN

REDS TIGHTEN GRIP AROUND KHARKOV CITY   Drive Within 14 Miles Of Sumy And Advance Toward Bry ansk; 70 Towns And Villages  Taken   Bombers Busy

Reds Tighten Flanking Grip About Kharkov   Soviets Smash to  Within 12 Miles of Sumy. Drive Closer To Bryansk District

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO UKRAINE . TONEAR SUM   General Advances Along 300-Mile Front Made .  By Russian Armies   KHARKOV STEADILY BEING SURROUNDED

Reds Batter German Lines  Grip On Kharkov Is Tightened Ry Sevier:

REDS BATTER AHEAD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Peril Nazis at Sumy,  Tighten Flanking Grip on Kharkov

Soviet Army Closing in On Kharkoy   Red Troops Advance On 300-Mile Front As Germans Retreat

Russians Batter Into Ukraine to Threaten Sumy, Vital Outpost in Kiev Defense Area   Flanking Grip Around Kharkov Also Is Tightened by Advancing Red Army Troops; One Hundred Towns Are Taken

Russians Peril Nazis in Triple Drives  or a a ee a eT   Unchecked Advance Closes In on Kharkoy, Bryansk ,

Flanking Grip Around Kharkov Is Tightened  HAMLETS TAKEN IN SWIFT OFFENSIVE  Red - Armies nies Sweep to Within 14 Miles of  Sumvy

Five Men Held For  Treason   ... Former High French Officials In Custody

Jail Five on Charge ~ of Treason   Former Premier Flandin Among Those Arrested by French: Committee   ALL ARE HELD IN MILITARY PRISON   Full Details Not. Given; Roundup Started Two Days Ago, Officials Say

GERMAN COMEBACK OFFENSIVE F AILS ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Reckless Drive Of German Armor Stopped With Heavy Losses Inflicted.

RED, GERMANS IN TANK BATTLE   Nazis Failing In Effort To Throw Back Russians Last of Zhitomir

fermans Attacking Russians Furiously East of Zhitomir   Greatest Battle of Tanks Since Dnieper Line Was Smashed,

2000 AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN AFRICA  770 Allied Craft Reported Lost

AIR LOSSES IN-AFRICA ARE GIVEN   Allies Destroyed 2,000 Axis Planes Against 770 Lost

2,000 AXIS — PLANES BAGGEL IBY ALLIES   Airmen During the Battle For Africa. Allied Lo:ses Were Only 770 Planes.

DOWNED 2,000 - ENEMY PLANES   Allies Lost 770 in War for North Africa

Allied Air Forces Bagged 2,000 Axis Planes While Losing 770 to Win Afriea

ROOSEVELT URGES SECURITY BOOSTS   FAVORS HIGHER -CONTRIBUTIONS AS MEANS OF DISCOURAGING INFLATION.

PLEA RENEWED FOR INCREASE IN SQCTAL TAX   Roosevelt Recommends Boost in Contributions as Means of Combatting Inflation   vAVORS SECURITY LEVY TO 7 PERCENT   Gives Views in Signing  istrict Act Providing  Reduction in All Branches

U. S. Chief Hits Cut in Security Tax   Adheres to Early Stand on Maintaining Rate

Security Tax Boost Urged   President Roosevelt Seeks Increase to Combat Inflation

Higher Security Taxes Urged  Roosevelt Renews  Barcammnandaitnew

Social Security Hike Advocated   F. R. Bases Plea On Inflation Grounds

Seeks Higher Contributionto Social Secarity   Sees Increase as Means to Combat Inflation in U. S.

FDR Still Wants Larger 5.5. Rate   Would Raise Social Security Rate to Hold Inflation

"Hlouse on R Street’ Probe Draws Statements From Various U. S.. Officials

MYSTERY HOUSE FIGURES IN QUIZ   GROUP PROBING WAR CONTRACTS TOLD WINE AND DINNERS WERE SERVED.

More Liberal Allowances Urged For Families of Servicemen, After Senate Kills Rep. Kilday’s Bill

Messina Harbor  Heavily Bombec   American Attack On Sicilian Harbor Follows Huge Raid On Palermo

Americans Sink Three Jap Ships In Big Convoy   Liberators Blast Landing Attempts

THREE ENEMY SHIPS SUNK BY U. S. BOMBERS   Destroyer, 2 Merchant Vessels Sent Down From Jap Convoy  At New Guinea

'U. S. Liberators Surprise 11-Ship Convoy Believed Headed to Vila

‘Bombers Sink Three Ships   One Destroyer Among Toll From 11-Ship Jan Convoy

Jap Destroyer And Merchant Ships Sunk   U.S. Bombers Swoop Down on Conyey That Was to Aid Rase

Three Japanese Vessels Are Sent Down By U.S. Airmen   ‘Two Merchant Ships and a Destroyer Sunk When Planes Surprise 11!-Ship Enemy Convoy, General MacArthur Announces

Destroyer, Two Merchantmen Sent to Bottom   Vessels Believed Attempting to Aid Vila Evacuation   ALLIED HEADQUAR. TERS IN THE SOUTH. WEST PACIFIC, Saturday

AMERICAN PLANES SINK 3 SHIPS IN TAPANESE CONVOY   Destroyer and Two Merchant Vessels Are Blasted to Bottom in Northern Solomons.   4TH CRAFT DAMAGED BY TWO DIR=ZCT HITS   Nipponese Apparently Had Set Out to Aid Trapped Forces at Vila on Kolombangara Island.

AMERICANS SINK PAP ESTROYER TWO CARGO SHIPS   Big Planes Surprise 11-Ship Enemy Convoy Off New  . Georgia Island >   REMAINING SHIPS OF CONVOY ARE SCATTERED   SMistralian Fighting Men Tighten Noose of Men and Guns Around Finschhafen; Sharp Fighting Breaks Out m Markham Valley

F. D.R., Vargas Discuss African Threat   Conference Between Presidents of U.S. and Brazil Is Held Aboard an Ameriéan Destrovear at Nota) Thuredec

BRAZIL-U.S. PRESIDENTS ~ MEETATSEA      Agreement on War Plans Mapped ot Momentous Conference    JOINT STATEMENT : FOLLOWS PARLEY

DECLARE MENACE OF INVASION MUST NEVER RISE AGAIN   Decision Reached at Conference Aboard Destroyer De  mands Guarantees for   American Republics.   TWO PRESIDENTS WANT ATLANTIC SAFE FOR ALL    Axis Submarine Campaign  Discussed—Vargas Promises - Increased Efforts to Com  bat U-Boats.

RAZIL -U.S. PRESIDENTS MEET AT SEA   Agreement on War Plans Mapped at Momentous Conference   JOINT STATEMENT FOLLOWS PARLEY

Roosevelt And Vargas Agree. On War Plans   "> him'to Make Seas Safe for All; Brazil Increases Efforts -

Safe Shipments On Atlantic Assured   Two Presidents Reach Agreement Aboard United States Destroyer Off Brazil Coast

Roosevell And Vargas Agree On War Plans  © Alm to Make Seas Safe for All; Brazil Inevaacae Effarte

Expos auary Fore Hinted  After Talks   Leaders Agree Atlantic Ocean Must Be Kept Open

PRESIDENTS OF TWO REPUBLICS IN CONFERENCE   Roosevelt And Varga: Meet On American Destroyer At Natal, Brazil   SUBMARINE MENACE UNDER DISCUSSION

UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL PRESIDENTS MEET UNDER SETTING LIKE THAT FOR “ATLANTIC CHARTER.”

FDR, Vargas In ‘Agreement   Africa And Dakar To Be Invasion Threat No More

TWO LEADERS TALK SAFETY OF AMERICAS   VARGAS OF BRAZIL MEETS ROOSEVELT ON DESTROYER

PRESIDENTS OF TWO NATIONS AGREE FULLY   Roosevelt Visits Vargas Of Brazil To Discuss Future Atlantic Safety.

ROOSEVELT-VARGAS MEET ON WARSHIP   Chiefs Agree West Africa, Dekar Never Again Will Become Threat To the Americas

Agree That West Africa Must Never Again Become Block. ade or Invasion Threat to Americas; High Military Men at Parley

U.S. Brazil to  Eliminate  Dakar Threat   West Africa Is Not to Become Point For Invasion of Americas; Two Presidents Discuss War, Peace

Drive Against Submarines s Leading Topic   Conference Staged In A Shipboard Setting Reminiscent Of That Producing Atlantic Charter

AN UNBEATABLE TEAM   “Free Press and Free People’ Néwspaper Week Slogan

‘Free Press and Free !  People--AnUnbeatable )  ' Team.’ News Week Cry

BLIND AT SIX MONTHS, NOW 17, SHE’S ON STEPS OF RICH MUSIC CAREER

Girl, Blind From Infaney Wins Acclaim  nhH.....b,... fir PD.   Daughter OF Rail Section Hand Is Find OF Year

Allied Bombers Attack Rome For First Time   Vatican Carefully » Avoided as City Is Bombed ~

Troop Rail  Center Is Main Bombing Target   Daylight Raid Spares Re ligious Center, Washington Reports

Papal City Avoided In Precision Attack On Capital of City   Religious and Cultural Mon uments Spared hy Special Instructions; Targets Two Miles From Holy Sea

Allied Plane; Blast Large Rail Yards   ‘Leaflets Warn Populace Before Raiders Cut Loos

39-Mile-An-Hour Speed Limit For State Proposed   Legislature Also Gets Bill To Lower School En. rollment Age.

FARMERS TO TAKE WAR LOAN LEAD   Expected to Play Big Part in Coming War Bond Campaign; Country Banks Hold Plenty Idle Money

HEAVY BUYING Ct FARMERS IS SEEN   U. 8. . Treasury. Reports Country Banks Are Bursting With Idle Money: -

FARMERS GIVEN WAR BOND SOAL   Treasury Official Say: Country Banks Are Burst: ing With Idle Cash

Farmers Expected to Play Big Part in Third War Loan Opening Sept. 9

Miners Return  October 3Ist   Policy Committee Calls Off Two Day Strike

UMW POLICY COMMITTEE ISSUES ORDER   Union Will Work Until Oct. 31 Under U. S. Government Control.

Two-Day Strike © Called Off; New Deadline, Oct. 31   Miners Ordered to Work Under Government Control Until Oct. 31, by UMW Policy’ Committee, Headed by J. L: Lewis

Says Miners Will Work ’Til Get. 31 Under Ickes Rule   I re ° Mines Begin to’ Resume Bul   Men Irked by Failure To Win Raise

WILL MINE COAL UNTIL OCTOBER 31 MEN RETURNINE   Meanwhile UMW Dictator Will Seek Portal-to-Portal Pay Bid via Court. .

CCAL MINERS GO BACK INTO MINES UNDER NEW TRUCE   Back-to-Work Order Relieves Grave Crisis on Home Front Until at Least October 31.   FULL PRODUCTION IS DELAYED THREE DAYS   No Explanation About Date, Old Contract With Increase of 20 Cents Per Day Applies.

UNION DIRECTS — WORK CONTINUE TO OCT. 31ST   Back to Work Order Relieves Home Front Crisis

Will Return To Pits To Work Until October 31 Under Government Control; Only Few Small Mines To Resume Today   WAGE STIPULATIONS OF WLB ACCEPTED

BACK-TO-WORK ORDER RELIEVES. CRISIS IN COUNTRY LAST NIGHT   Government Takes Over Operation of Mines Until "October 31—Full Production Is Not Expected for Two or Three Days—Terms of 1941-43 Contract Are Employed Temporarily,

Plan To Remain In Coal Pits Until October 31   United Mine Workers Policy Committee  Orders Return To Jobs

Striking Coal Miners Begin Return to Jobs   Full Production Not Expected for Several Davs

MINERS RETURNING 10 WORK SLOWLY   Steel Production Outlook Dark—Many Furnaces Idle

KNOX SEES OIL SHORTAGE SOON   Navy Secretary Declares ‘Adequate Reserve’ Vital to U.S. War Effort

KNOX PREDICTS OIL SHORTAGE   DECLARES SITUATION LIKELY TO BECOME SERIOUS THIS YEAR

SAYS NATION FACES CRUDE OIL SHORTAGE   Knox, Defending Elk Hills Petroleum Deal, Asserts Situation Will Be Serious by Early 1944 at Latest.

Knox Tells House Committee That U.S. Faces Shortage Of Crude Oil

FEDERAL NEWS SETUP STUDIED   Senators Check Up On Army And Navy Press Conferences

Senate Study Of Army, Navy News Is Uraed   O’Mahoney Suggests Solons Sit In On Press Conferences

HEAVIEST AIR ATTACK OF WAR ON REICH CITY   34 R. A. F. Bomber Planes Lost in' Night Attack Made After Flight of 500 Miles

Groups Accused O1  Temporary Action  By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Associated Press Staff Writer

UNIONS HOLD UP RAILWAY PEACE   Firemen And Enginemen And Conductors Fail To Cancel Sirike

Two Rail Unions Delay Return of Roads fo Owners   Strikes Reported Merely Postponed

‘lan to Return railroads Hits Jnion Snags   Army Says Two Only Postponed Order For Work Stoppage

Army Release OfRailreads Is Delayed  By War Dept.   Learns Two Unions ‘Merely Postpone  Strike for Period  Of Cavernment Contro   ACTION BY THIRD NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR   Government Accused Of Delay, Mishandling Of Dispute Over Wages

ADMINISTRATION IS RAPPED BY UNIONS   Delay and Mishandling of _the Wage Dispute ls Charaed

Rail Unions Make Protest   Delay In Settlement Blamed OnGovernmen:

Chiefs charge rail dispute  ‘mishandled’   Unions accuse administration

Unions Charge Delay in Rail Pay Settlement   War DepartmentSays Two Groups Merely Postponed Strike

War Department Says Action Prevents Return Of  Lines To Owners      ENGINEERS GRANTED NINE-CENT INCREASE

MARINES FIRST TO LAND ON ISLAND IN NEW GEORGIA GROUP  _ SPECIAL EQUIPMENT IN. ~ CLUDED: COLORFULLY CAMOUFLAGED CLOTHIN¢

Sixth Sense Of Officer Saved Ship   Why French Sub Shots Missed U.S. Cruiser Is Revealed

COLOSSAL WAR FUND APPROVED   Total For Year Is Three Times Cost Of First World War

MANY IDLE IN DONORA WALKOUT AT OPEN HEARTH      Strike Is Termed ‘Outlaw’ By Authorities — Seek An Early Settlement

Wheat Yield in State Forecast  70,536,000 Bushels May Be Harvested

NO NEW TAXES STAND IS TAKEN BY REPUBLICANS   Many Other Controversies Are Blossoming in Congress; Some Get Bitter

REPUBLICANS SLAM DOOR ON NEW TAX BILL   GOP Asks Economy; Demos Call Stand “Political”

GOPS SLAM DOOR ON HIKED TAXES   10 Solons Oppose Measure in Formal Statement .

Service Will Call All Available  Non-Fathers Soon  Many Will Be Moved - From Deferred Classes by Boards

Drafl Officials Promise. to Call Un Fathers last   Eligible Non-Father: To be Inducted Immediately —

DRAFT ROSTERS BEING SCRAPED      Selective Service Call: Non-Fathers; Boards Make Inventory

All Available Non-Fathers To Be Taken First   Draft Heads Order New Scraping of Manpower Barrel

Take Inventory Of Non-Fathers For Next Draft   Would Select All Other Eligibles Before Inducting Dads

NON-FATHERS 10 BE CALLED FIRST   Selective Service Orders Scraping of Manpower Barrel

ALL NON-FATHERS 10 BE INDUCTED WITHOUT DELA)   DRAFT BOARDS HAVE BREN GIVEN ORDERS TO SCAN INVENTORIES OF ALL MEN WITHOUT DEPENDENTS.   LATER, FATHERS MAY HAVE TO BE CALLED

WAKE ISLAND WRECKED BY 2-DAY ATTACK   Sixty Japanese Planes Destroved; LandBased Planes Helped

WAKE ASSAULTED BY U.S. NAVY IN TWO-DAY ATTACK   320 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped on Jap Occupied Wake Island; 61 Nip Planes Were Destroyed.

JAPS PAY STIFF PRIGE ON WAKE   Island Attack By U. S. Navy Was Severe And Destructive.

320 TONS OF BOMBS DROP CN. WAKE IS, IN TWO. DAY RAIDS   Japanese Defenses Pounded; 61 Jap Planes Destroyed; Shops Are Burned   SHIPS JOIN: BOMBARDMENT

Wake Island Hit By Pacific War's Greatest Weiaht Of Explosives In 2-Day Sea, Air Raid

RETRIBUTORY BLOW AIMED AT JAPANESE   Three Hundred and Twenty Tons of Bombs Dropped On Three Tiny Atolls In Pacific   RECORD IS BELIEVED SET

Wake Was Hit By Pacific War’s Greatest Weight Of Explosives .   Sixty-One Jap Planes Destroyed, Two Ships Left In Ruins And Jap Base Aflame After Navy’s Two Day Attack.

Wake Istand Hit By Record Bomb Tonnage  Jap-Held Pacific   Jap-Held Pacific Outpost Battered By U. S. Navy

WAKE ISLAND LEFT DESOLATE IN NAVY ATTACK   61 Jap Planes Downed, Others Destroyed on Ground, Two Ships Left in Ruins   320 TONS BOMBS   Machine Shops, Barracks and Sup ply Dumps Pounded and Left on Fire

Enemy Languishes In Wreckage of Battering More Severe. Than Any Yet Endured

61 Jap Planes * Downed At Wake   2-Day Ship And Plane Attack Made

Destroy 61 Jap Planes In Big  Attack On Wake   U. S. Navy Loses 13 During Raid

U. S. Forees Batter Wake   > Day Ship-Plane Attack Wrecks Enemy Insiallations; OL Planes Down.

Wake Given Terrific Pounding   320 Tons of Bombs Dropped —Biggest on Single Pacific Target

320 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON WAKEISLAND   U. S. Task Force Gave! Island Most Severe — * Pounding of Pacific Wa

DOWN OVER 61 ENEMY PLANES, SINK TWO SHIPS   Destruction Probably More Severe Than What U. S. Suffered on Isle

At Least 9 Jap Subs Sunk Off West Coast Since .. Attack on Pearl Harbor 

At Least 9 Jap Subs Sunk Off West Coast   Most of Undersea Craft Sent to Bottom Off California, Oregon in Opening Weeks Of War After Six U. 8. Vessels Attacked

NINE JAP SUBS REPORTED SUNK OFF WEST COAST   Los Angeles Newspaper Says Nip U-Boats Were  Driven Elsewhere

Nine Jap Subs Sunk So Far Off West Coast   Figures Unconfirmed, Los Angeles Times Says. But Data Substantial   SUNK OFF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA   Navy and Coast Guard Vessels and Air Forces Account for Sinkines

AMERICA’S ENORMOUS WARTIME EXPANSION OF AIR TRANSPORT  OWI WARNS AGAINST EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS FOR PEACETIME ROLE

Second War Loan Drive Nets Five Billion Over $13,000,000,000 Goal

Plane Sacrificed To Evade Snare  Japs Scuttle Zero Over Free China ©

BRITISH CONTINUE ~ SWIFT PURSUIT OF ~ FLEEING GERMANS   Huge Force U. S. Troops Massing In Rommel’s Path   ALLIED AIRMEN  a ARE HITTING HARD

EIGHTH ARMY NEAR BORDER OF TUNISIA      Derense Of Mareth Line Not Indicated By Axis Retreat   FLIGHT IS SPEEDY   Fearful Of Being Cut Off Along Coastal Highway

VANGUARDS MAY BE AN TUNISIA ALREADY      Speed Of Axis Retreat Indicates Stand May Not Be Made At Mareth Line

BRITISH SWEEP INTO TUNISIA ON AXIS HEELS   Rommel, Racing Toward Union With Von Arnim’s Forces, Swiftly Pursued   MARETH LINE STAND NOT NOW EXPECTED   Allied Airmen Strike At Port of Zuara and Range Deep As Sixty Miles Into Tunisia

‘ALLIES MAY TRY TO.CUT OFF NAZI FLIGHT   Huge Force Of Amer: ieans Reported Massing Ou AlgerianTunisian Border

Chutists Land On Choiseul   Allies Speed Offensive To Clear Solomons

Nazis Draw Back Under Continued Heavy Blows In Both Russia and Italy   American Naval Vessels Shell German Positions; Yugoslavs Keep Up Dispute as They Fight Foe; Chinese Report Triumph Over Japs in East China

Miss. ‘Margaret: ree Hanley Weds Lieut. Thomas J. Gannon, Dorchester

UNITED IN ~ MARRIAGE AT       Miss Margaret G. Hanley Weds Lieut. Thomas J.  Gannon, Dorchester

Ihe War I oday— _— Turko-Allied Agreement Means End Of Hard-Eyed Looks Toward Russia

Unity With Turkey Is Major Bloodless Victory of the War  Has Great Strategical Importance

WINNING OVER OF TURKEY BY UNITED NATIONS ONE OF MAJOR BIOODT ESS VICTORIES OF WAR

WINN OF Biome Anioyh FOR’   "Just What Arikara Willy Bio-in the Way of Aid te - The: Altes i. Yet U nknown But Better Feeling. vs Now Exists---..-

The War Today   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE Aseeciated Prece War Analwvct

FRENCH REPORTED FLEEING SOUTH COAST   Dispatch Says Large Number 0: People, Fearing Invasion, Have GQona Intn Mountains.

French Flee As Allied Landing Rumors Spread   Fears Of Italians Are Reflected In  Rewsk*a. Ddeteien

French Flee As Allied Landing Rumors Spread   Fears Of Italians Are Reflected In  RBambbinn Rannrte

Colonial Troops Fight Sharp Skirmishes With Foe On Chindwin Front

PART OF § GERMAN “DVSONS HELD IN  PUSCIAN DEATH VISE   Reds Developing. Drives. Toward Key Cities Of Kursk, « Belgorod And Kharkov   GERMAN LINES SMASHED

RUSSIANS TRAP PARTS OF NINE NAZI DIVISIONS   Reds Continue Relentless Advance; Huge Toll Of Germans; Report Hitler Flew To Stalingrad To Make Personal Ap peal.

New Advances Take Soviets Near Kursk   Large Number Ot Enemy Troops Feel Blow

RUSSIANS GAIN ON WIDE FRONT!   New Troops Aid Near Yor onezh in Drives on  Kurak, Kharkoy

Reds Trap Large Force Of Nazis West Of Voronezh   Capture Kropotkin, Rail Junction In Caucasus

MORE GERMAN UNITS CAUGHT BY RED TRAPS   Russians Develop Smashes Toward Three Key Rail Centers In Offense

Russians Trap Big German Force West of Voronezh Base   Capture Kropotkin City in Caucasus; Now 65  Miles From Kursk

Reds Trap 9 Divisions In Vast Pincer    Bolsicred Army Driving Towards Kev Rail Centers

SOVIETS SMA NAZI DEFENSES   Powerful Red Army, Bolsterecl With Fresh Forces, Scores Gain.   RUSH TOWARD RAIL CITY

PARTS OF NINE AXIS DIVISIONS CAUGHT IN VICE   More Prisoners Are Taken By  Soviet Troops

NIPPON FORCES PUT TO FLIGH   Chinese Score Powerful Victory, Rout Enemy In Changteh Area

BANKHEAD BILL MOVES   Federal Advertising Measure Appreved By Banking Committee —

Senate Group Favors Ads To Aid Bond Sales   Promises Early Action On Bill

Labor Backing Civilian Post   Nelson, MeNutt Opposed To Plan For Powerful Boss  Of Civilian Supply.

CIVIL SUPPLY BILL HEADS TO SENATE TEST   CIO Comes Out in Support of Measure as WPB Names Whiteside to Take Over Duties

Civilian Supply To Be Directed By Single Head   Lay To Set Up Powerful, Independent Leader On  mar hr Eh ee ‘ma Watnen ke

36th Birthday  Of Air Force  Is Celebrated Yankee Airmen Mark Day By  Bombing Nazis

7,000 PLANES MADE MONTHL'   U. 8. Output More Than Entire Production of All of Axis

PLANE PRODUCTION HITS 7,000 MONTHL   ‘Army Air Force Reveals Tha’  73,182 Units — Deliveres   Ginga Pear! Harbor

AXIS'LL WEEP AT FIGURES FOR U.S. PRODUCTION   USAAF Gets More Than En+ tire Axis Output—And

PEACE FEELER OF SPAIN HIT BY OWI CHIEF   Truce Would Leave Nazi Power Unbroken, He Declares

Alliies Cold To Spanish Offer   Washington. Londen, Ignore Peace Suggestion

Peace Feeler Gets Little Favor   Unconditional Axis  Surrender Still Demand

Oppressed Nations Rise Against Nazis   Sabotage, Armed” Clashes --And. Open. Defiance __ Spread: Like Wild Fire'As News OF Allied: Victory la. North Africa.Is. Learned ’   Hard Fighting Is-Renewed In Donets River Valley

Capture of Maknassy Expected as Eighth British Army Closes on Rommel’s Korps.

Says Preparations Only Defensive   Some Think Portugal May Declare War On Janan

Heavy Allied Reinforcements Thrown in to Hold Bridgehead   LIKENED TO GALLIPOLI   Powerful Enemy Attacks Endanger the American Fifth Army

Veto Of Bill Is Beaten   Leaders Desert Roosevelt As House, Senate Grab  New _ Initiative

BOTH HOUSES OVERRIDE VETO OF LABOR BILL   Justice Department Gets Ticklish Job of Enforcement

VETO ACTION “KNOCKED OUT. BY CONGRESS   ROOSEVELT LOSES FIRST TEST i OF STRENGTH IN LABOR  LEGISLATION SINCE . “BECOMING PRESTDENT ¢.  ,

PRESENTS F. D. R. WITH ANTI-STRIKE BILL HE DOESN'T WANT.   Leaders Desert   Even White House Spokesmen Resent Failure to Live Up to Promise to Sign.

Congress Action On Anti-Strike Bill Significant   Recovers Law-Making Initiative First Time Since Advent Of New Deal   PASSES LAW OVER PRESIDENT’S VETO

DISCOVER. SPAIN I OBTAINING LARGE PETROLEUM SUPPLY   Congressmen Have Varied Reaction To Report By : U.S. Ambassador’ Carlten Hayes

Revelation That Spain is Getting Large Quantity of American Oil Brings Charge of Appeasement

LARGE OIL SUPPLIES FOR SPAIN REVEALED   Will Not Get Into Axis Hands, Promise

Absenteeism Cost Nation 14 Destroyer:   Bard Would Set Up Incentives For Steady Work

SEEK ( CURE-FOR WORK ABSENCES   Nevy Official Suggests System Of Rewards, Penalties; Congtessmen Blame Liquor For Lost Days.

ABSENTEEISM IS TAKEN UP TODAY   Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gives Views and Makes Recommenda brane.

TWO MEASURES ARE KILLED, BY POCKET VETOES   Roosevelt Permits. ‘Bill Authorizing Payménts of $5,000 Each to Two  FBI Agents’ Widows   BOTH PROVIDED FOR   Act to-Compel Fertilizer Distributors To Comply With State Inspection Laws Also Dies

PLACE LINIT GN ~AUCTION SALES   To Relieve Farmers from Pay: ing High Prices, Caused by Demand

NAZIS GATHER BiG FORCE AT BRENNER PASS   ENEMY WONDERING WHERE ALLIES WILL STRIKE

NAZIS MOVING TEN ARMY DIVISIONS TO NORTH ITALY TO PROTECT PASS   Seek to Guard Brenner Pass, Mountain Gateway to Germany~—Purge of Anti-Fascists in Rome Reported

GERMANS GUARD BRENNER PASS   TEN DIVISIONS REPORTED MASSED NEAR SOUTHERN GATEWAY TO REICH.

NAZIS GUARDING PASS   Ten Divisions Rushed To Brenner Pass Leading To Haly

Sea-Going Grecian Patriots Give Axis New Cause for Worry   Report 1,125,000 Axis Troops in Balkan Countries

‘Nazis Move Troops to North Italy Report British Eighth in Syria

Nazis Reported Massing Troops At Brenner Pass   Germans Concernec Over. Fears Italy About To Collapse

Says 150,000 Nazis Being Sent to ltaly      Purpose, Asserts Unofficial Source, Is to Guard Brenner Pass Approaches, Due to Distrust of Fascist Invasion Resistance.

Nazis Reported Massing Big Force in North Italy As Guard at Brenner Pass

NAZI ARMIES ARE MASSING, IT IS REPORTED   Ten Divisions Are Sent to Guard Brenner Pass in Italy 2

Nazis Expect Italian Collapse — Put 150,000 Troops on Guard To Stop Alliesat Brenner Pass

Berlin Says 8th Army Is in Syria   Nazis Apparently Fear Collapse by the Italians

Nazi Reported Massing Troops In’ North Italy To Guard Brenner Pass

Germans Said To Be Massing At Brenner Pass   Berlin Reports British 8th Army Is Now in Syria

Germany Massinc Troops in Italy To Defend Pass   Reported To Have 150,000 Men Ready To Repel Invaders

BRENNER P ASS REINFORCED BY GERMAN TROOPS   Force of 150,000 Men Placed At Southern Portal To Reich As Safeguard   Crisis Zones Deserted

rianes Aid Allied Ground Troops  In Mubo Region  New Guinea Village Near Salamaua Is  Strafed, Bombed Twice STORMS LIMIT ACTION  Flyers in Pacific Hit by Unusual Weather Conditions  t

AIRMEN BACK UP ALLIES IN MUBO ATTACK   APPROACH TO VITAL SALAMAUA BASE IS STRAFED

Allies Strike Anew Over Vital Islands   Main Target Is Mube Airstrip; Storms Imperil Operations

Bostons Join Guinea Fight   Jap Positions Strafed In Support Of Ground Forces

Allies Attack Japs at Mubo   Ground Troops Get ‘Barst of Aerial Aid; Other Action Limited

‘Ground Activity Repor ‘ted In Mubsc  ‘Area New Guinea   Allied Planes Fit Japanese Bases  Over Wide Sector

German Garrison Falling Back Steadily—Retreat ' Becomes Rout At One Point  NNOIcnANroc © pantry      PRISONERS, BOOTY MOUNTING HOURLY

Reds Entering Kharkov. After Bitter Battle.   Final Assault ToTake Key. City Is Opened Today. -::

Ae Do LAUNGH FINAL SMASH TO ROUT FOES   Moscow Claims Troops in North Suburbs; German Garrison Yields.   DEFENSE ANCHOR TO SOUTHEAST IS TAKEN

RED VANGUARDS SMASHING INTO KHARKOV AREAS      Begin Final Assault To Capture City — Drive Germans Back Farther ;

Capture Of Defense Anchor Of Chuguev Seals Fate Of German Bastion

Fall of Kharkov Appears Near   German Garrison Continues Retreat

REDS IN FINAL OFFENSIVE 10 TAKE KHARKO\   Nazi Defenders Try To Escape Through  Narrow Corridor

ROUT NAZIS SOUTHEAST OF FACTORY CITY   Capture Defense Anchor Guarding Ukraine’s Capital: Also Make Gains On Brvansk Froni.

RUSSIANS ARE “TN SUBURBS OF . CITY OF KHARKOV   Remaining Germans There Falling. Back -Steadily. Reds Pursue Broken  m fFaraac

REDS INITIATE FINAL ASSAULT TO SEIZE CITY   German Garrison Reported Falling Back Steadily Toward Dnieper River   ESCAPE ROUTE NARROWED   Russian Forces Menace Nazi Base At Karachev, Bryansk Rail Line

SUBURBS GO IN FINAL ASSAULT BY RED ARMIES   German Retreat From Kharkov Becomes g Rout

RUSS TROOPS IN SUBURBS OF KHARKOV   Begin Final  Assault. to Drive Nazis to Dnieper

OBERS STORE ROBBED   Cash and Merchandise Amounting to $57 Taken Last Night

TIGHTEN RULES ON FUEL OIL AND GAS APPEAR LIKELY   Pacitic Northwest Is - Nov _ Hard Hit By Shortage of Tank Care.

EXPECT MORE FUEL OIL RESTRICTIONS ON -EAST. COAST   Fuel Oil: Rationing Has Also Been. Extended To Include Oregon, Washington

MORGAN IS NEAR DEAT   OXYGEN EQUIPMENT RUSHED . TO BEDSIDE OF. FAMOUS FINANCIER ILE IN FLORIDA

EASE PRIORITIES ON OIL SUPPLIES   WPB ORDER MAKES MATERIALS MUCH EASIER TO OBTAIN

TELLS OF BURNS ON DE MARIGNY   Witness Asserts Hair Of Accused Oakes Slayer Singed

Observers Say Hitler Can Muster '2 Millon Troops Against Invasion

Hitler Holds “Reserve For Emergency   STLIED °° OBSERVERS?>-S A Y COULD BE USED EN CASE INVASION,

Hitler May Have  Two Million Men: To Meet Invasion   Large Reserve Forces Estimated By Observers

HITLER RESERVE SEEN AS HUGE   Believe Hitler Could Use 2,000,000 Troops Against Allied Invasion

Million-Man German Reserve Reported Ready fo Combat Allied Invasion of Europe

Hitler Hold: Two Million  In. Reserve ©   Germans Still. Have Great-Power for Summer Campaions

Hitler Has “Strategic Reserve” of 1,000,000 Men to Combat Invasion

COAL PARLEY AT IMPASSE   No Sign of Contract Forming Between Operators, Miners

[ALLIES CONTINUE AERIAL ATTACKS   Nuremburg Blasted in Last Night's Bombings

NUREMBURG GET OLIFF BATTERING IN BIG RAF RAID   Allied Air Offensive Turns On Important Nazi Manufacturing City

OPA Won't Tolerate U.S. Potts Joi Searching Of Homes Wainwricht §

WON'T SEARCH HOMES FOR CANNED FOODS   ‘Most Flagrant Violations Are Exception, However

Nazis Show Signs  Of Bewilderment:  May Make Stand Mild Winter Offers Germans No Alibi;  Sunmniice Ahandaned

News Behind The News  Copyright ‘SieCiure Newspapes ge age   WASHINTTON Bv Rav Tucker

RUSSIAN FORCES CAPTURE PETSAMO   Finland Loses Only Port On Arctic Ocean  N

Hear Red Army Is In Petsamo   Finnish City Occupied, Swedish Source Reports

Pilot School To Hold Open House Observing “AAF Salute to the Wacs

Pilot School To Emphasize Work of  Women’sArmyCorps   Prospective Members Of Army Organization To Be Special Guests, Sunday

ALLIED AIRCRAFT CONTINUE DAY AND NIGHT ATTACKS ON ENEMY CONCENTRATIONS IN ITALY   Ten Italian Fields Now at Allied Disposal, With Japanese Carrying Out Far Reaching Attacks On Reinforcements Headed for Naples Area

FULL WEIGHT IS THROWN AGAINST AMERICAN FIFTH   German Troops, Tanks And Planes Strike Heavy Blows In Salerno Sector; Allied Bridgehead Holding  Firm.

Hitler Is Making Desperate Effort To Stop Allies   More Italian Ships At Malta; Liberation Of Mussolini Claimed

~ Germans Battle Fiercely Against 5th Army; British Mop Up In South

GERMAN MOTORIZED FORGES STRIKE AT SALERNO INVADERS  NAZIS HURLING FULL WEIGHT AGAINST AMER. ICAN FIFTH ARMY

‘Salerno-Naples ‘Area: Crucial Point Of Invasion Fight As Nazis Abandon’ Southern Italy — General Clark’s Fifth: “Army Bearing Brunt Of German Attack — -Report Mussolini Captured By Germans

Germans Hur!  Full Force At 5th Army   Allied Troops Drive To Cut Deeper Salient

Southern Italy © Overrun; Allies Seize Brindisi   Bryansk Shelled by Advancing Rus__ sians; More Italian Ships Surrender

Nazis Strike Savagely at Allied Army   Fifth Army Battles to Carve Deeper Salient in Salerno Battleground; Action Flares Along 30-Mile Coast-

Heavy Fighting Faces 5th Army   Nazis Apparently Abandoning Southern Italy as British and Canadians Move Up from — Toe; Allied Bag of Italian Warships Swelled with New Arrivals

Troopsof Hitler Resist Savagely   ... British Win Adriatic Port of Brindisi

BLOODY BATTLE FOR NAPLES BUT BRITISH ADVANCE   German Positions in Russia Continue To Collapse and Japs Kept on Run

Bloody Battle Is Under Way; Nazis Quit South Italy   British Soldiers Take Ports On “Heel” Against Weak Opposition; Italians-Germans Fighting At Turin

Southern Italy Abandoned As Nazis Hurl Full Weight Against Allied Filth Army

Salamaua Airdrome in New Guinea Seized by Australians, Close Trap. Tighter on Town ‘and Lae--Swell.  Italian Fleet in Custody of Allies— ‘Air Scourging Continues oF

Germans Fight To Avoid Trap Of Dnieper Bend   Soviets Outflank Several Important Cities In Drive

NAZIS THROW MORE TROOPS INTO LINES   Red Army Surging Toward Crimea; Bitter Battle

Nazis Hur! In Reserves To Stem Reds   Russians Strike In Effort To Seal Off Crimea

Red Army Steam Roller Outflanks Several Important Cities and It Seems Doubtful If Enemy Con Hold Them Long

Reds Rolling On To Rail Center Of Krivoi Rog   Nazis Desperate In Attempts To Stem Red Tide; 5€

Desperate EffortTo Halt Russ  Advance   Enemy's Only Escape From Trap ts 50-Mile Gap; Important Cities Outflanked

Nazis Fight Back Violently To Prevent Being Sacked In Dniener Bend

NAZI COLLAPSE   Russian “Steamroller”. : Moves On and Reports: Hint All Is Not Well On  Carman Mama Eroant 7

50-Mile Gap Only Outlet  From ‘Sack’   Soviet Forces Reported _ Within Six Miles of - Krivoi Rog

Florence, and upon Fomia and nearby Minturno on the west cosat.   Germans Try to Stem Advance of Soviets

Battle Violently Against Swiftly Closing Red Trap      Rugsians. Within 6 Miles of Krivoi Rog; Key Rail Junction Guarding Escape Route.

Germans Hurl Reinforements Into Struggle   Hitlerites Threatened With Encirclement In Dnieper River Bend

GERMANS TRYING TO ELUDE TRAP IN RIVER BEND   Red Forces Within 6 Miles Of Krivoi Rog, Iron And Rail Center

STEAMROLLER DRIVING NAZI ARMIES BACK   Germans Throw More Troops Into Battle to Hold Dnieper Line.

ot. Mile Gap - Only Outlet  From ‘Sack’   Soviet Forces Reported Within Six Miles of Krivoi Rog

Russians Near Krivog Rog In Crimea Cut-Off   Trap Nazis At Dnieper Bend

Desperate Nazis Try to Halt Reds Germans Call Upon Reserve Fore  _. Pee. 5 2. Ca... PP... Sellen...

NAZIS THROW MORE TROOPS INTO FIGHT   Red Army Pushes On Despite German Bids; Enemy . Admits Retreat

LICENSES IN DEMAND   Present Driving Certificates Ex. pire an June 30

LICENSES IN DEMAND    Present Driving Cer g Certificates Expire af 5 June<30

Vee ae ee GO ee  Ration Boards Te Lose Control Over Recaps  Of Reclaimed Rubber

END OF OPA CONTROL OF RE-CAPS LOOMS   sa caaepeeensiaen tenement  Lifting of Ban Doesn’t Mean Shortage Over, However

EXPECT OPA TO END RECAP RATIONING   Ration Boards Will Not Control Release of Recapped Tires After March 1

Tire Recapping: Rule Modified    “Decision Soori To. Be. With Motorist

TIRE RECAPPING CONTROL LIFTED   Repairs With Reclaimed Rubber Now Left to Motorist

OPA fo Permif Recapping Of Auto Tires «   Eliminates Ration Board Control Over Passenger Cars

Tire Recapping Rule Modified  Decision Soon To PL ouAsest kdl lel

WILL PERMIT RECAPS OF AUTOMOBILE TIRES   Ration Board Control Will Be Eliminated By OPA To Con serve Present Tires

Allies Attack Rome Airdromes   Three Nazi Bases Are On City’s Outskirts

Airfields Near “Rome Raided by 15th Air Force   Report of Attack on City Contradicted --By Communique

Allies Bomb Airdromes in Area of Rome   Nazis Assert That Explosives Fell Near St. Peter’s Basilica

RUSSIANS THREATER NAVY BASE   Dispatch Save Nazis Admit Red Troops  In Novorossisk

Soviet Troops Now Closing In On Novorossis   Nazis Hurl Repeated Waves Of Troops At Great Loss In Black Sea Area   NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPORTED REPULSED

GEAMANS PAY HEAVILY FOR KUBAN CLASH   Red Army Repels Repeated Assaults by Nazis in Sea Base Area.   HITLER SENDS’ FRESH MEN, PLANES TO ZONE

NAZI TROOPS THROWN ITE BLOODY FIGHT   Losing Hundreds of Men to Stop Reds Near Black Sea Port.   CUT DOWN IN DROVES   Germans Try Desperately to Crack Soviet Lines in Kuban Area,

ACCIDENTAL ‘SETTING OFF OF EXPLOSIVES BELIEVED CAUSE OF DISASTER WEAR NORFOLK

SUBSIDIES T0 BE SUPPORTED BY ROOSEVELT   President Says Cost Is Small Compared To War  * Eynenditures

Roosevelt Chides Opponents of Subsidy Program   Plans Message Today or Tomorrow  On 1944 Food Plans

VYAZMA VITAL RUSSIAN POINT   Strategic Importance of City Explained.   (ASSOCIATED PRESS:

ROUT DESCRIBED WORST FOR HUNS SINGE LAST WAT   Western Tip of Nogaisk Steppes Graveyord of Men. Material

Rout of German Army Said In Final Stages   Dnieper Filled With. Bodies As Cossacks Cut Troops To Pieces

‘Greatest Rout Since -1916 Swings Into Last Stages Along Dnieper

GOSSACKS GRASP DNIEPER ESTUARY   Three German Cities Bombed, 1000 American Planes In Wilhelmshaven Raid

COSSACK HORSEMEN ROUT NAZI ARMY IN TERROR DRIVE   Cry Die Cossacken: Kommen Spreads Like Wildfire Through Fleeing Enemy Ranks

Cossacks   Have The:        RUSSIAN HORSEMEN, SWINGING: SABERS, SLAUGHTER THOt OF FLEEING SURVIVORS IN STEPPES

DNIEPER ESTUARY NOW WITHIN RUSSIANS’ GRASP   Greatest Rout of a German Army Since 1916 Now in Its Fina! Stages

AN- ROU WORST SYNCE 1916 DEBACLE   Cossacks Cut Trapped Soldiers to Pieces, Kill Thousands as Rapid Advance in Russia Continues.

DNIEPER ESTUARY WITHIN GRASP OF COSSACKS   Russians Launch Strone Offensive North of Kiev

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS Ole NEAR CRIMEA   Horsemen Race Through Ranks and Fire At Nazis Under Bellies of Ani male

RED GRAVEYARD FOR THOUSANDS GERMAN TROOPS   Saber-Wielding Cossacks Hacking Nazis to Pieces, Others Die in Dnieper River

WIPE OUT NAZI UNIT   Famed Cavatry Troops Send Rout Into Final Stages .

CRACK CAVALRY UNITS CUTTING FUE TO PIEGES   Slaughter Of Fleeing Enemy Reaches Tremendous Figure In Russia

ByrnesOpens Inquiry Into Gasoline Muddle   War Mobilization Chief Investigates Situation; Canadian Program Urged

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT HARBORS AT RABAUL. AMIBOIN:   Direct Hits Scored on One Cruiser and Three JapCarao Ships.

ALLIED BOMBERS IN SOUTH PACIFIC ARE RAID JAP HARBORS   Smash Rabaul, New Britain “And Amborna-In Dutch  East Indies—Push PSeebacc) Boxed 385

LIQUIDATE JAP TROOP POCKET ~ IN-NEW GUINEE   Offensive of Allied Troops Hamp ered by Ten Inches Rain Falling in One Day.

Rabaul and Amboina Are Attacked   Enemy Pocket At Sanananda Is Liquidated

Withdrawal By Nazis Indicated   ‘Fifth Uses Period Ts Reagroun Lines

Hull Calls Report Big Falsehood   Uses Strong Language Regard. ing Story

Bakhinach, Key to ‘German Supplies, Falls to Soviets   Russians Capture North Ukraine Center, Other Forces Advance

Reds Take Key Supply City Of Ukraine, Split  German Defense Lines

Soviets Retake Key City; Sweep Closer To Kiev   Red Army Continues Triumphant March, Stalin Announces

Russians Drive On Dnieper: River and Kiev   Moscow Reports 300 More Towns, Hamlets Captured by Soviets

Russians Split German Central  South Defenses   Allied Forces Squeeze Airport At Japs’ Lae Base

SUPPLEMENTAL GAS RATIONS TO BE CUT   York And Adams County Included In Area To Be Affected Under Fuel Recovery Program

SAUSAGE, PORK GUTS SLASHED   Point Value Decreasec  14 To 50 Pct.

Pork’s Point  Values Lower   OPA Makes Reduction To - Become Effective At 12:01) Monday

Pork Points Are Slashed By OPA   New Regulations Effective Monday

Pork Ration Values Again Are Slashed  All Except Variety, Canned Maate Cyt

SAUSAGE POINT VALUES SLICED   Perishable Meats Move Too Slowly; Changes Effective Today

POINT VALUE UF OAUOAGES CUT SHARPLY   Certain Cuts Of Pork Also Sharply Slashed By OPA To Move Products

PORK POINT COST ORDERED REDUCED   RATION VALUE OF ALL BUT VARIETY AND CANNED MEATS CUT BY OPA.

OPA Slashes Points For Pork Products   Ration Book Values For Sausages, Etc., Reducec 14 To 50 Per Cent   FOOD BALANCE GOAL   Davis Announces Plan Te Increase Output Of Meat, Dairy, Poultry items

Sausage Products At Lower Values   Changes Made In Ration Points

Pork Points Pared Again To End Glut   Heayy Market Runs Spur OPA to Ease” Ration Restriction

Point Value of Pork Again Cut   All Items Except Variety and Canned Meats Affected

Point Values of Some Meats Cut  Sausage Products, Certain Pork Cuts Are Included

OPA Cuts Point Values of Some Sausage, Pork  Perishable Products Moving Too Slowly, Agency Explains

Cuts Ration Point Values of Sausages   Wieners, Bologna, Pork Sausage Included

RATION VALUES CUT FOR PORK   Reduction Effective Monday Boosts Civilian Supply

*  Sam Value of Sausage Is Cut   Wieners, Bologna, Pork Neck and Backbones. Included in Slash

CUT SAUSAGE POINT VALUES   Slow Sales Cause Action by Price Office

Cut Point Value Of Sausage Meat  Wieners, Bologna, Other Products Included

UPA ANNOUNCES POINT AEVIGION ON MEAT ITEM   Market Conditions Cause New Order Which Is Ef  fective Sunday

POINT VALUE OF SAUSAGE, SOME PORK REDUCED   Included in Slash Are Wieners, Bologna, Pork > Sausage, Pork Neck   and Backbones   SLASHED UP TO 50%   Action Results From Slow Rate at Which Perishable Products Are Selling

Cut Ration Point Values of Pork   OPA Officials Act To Reduce Surplus

OPA Shears Point Value of  Sausage Products, Few Pork Cuts “By 14 to 50 Percent

Ration Points  For Pork Reduced   Second Cut Announced  By Price Office

PORK AND SAUSAGE POINT VALUES GUT   Action Taken To Reduce  ~  §tocks by More Sales

While Sheriff’s Away Bastile Inmates Play Getaway—Unsuccessfully

COMMISSION 10 MAP POST-WAR PLANS VOTED   Ohio Body Would Plan Return Of Business, Industry To Peace Basis   NUMBERS FIGHT REVIVED   House To Decide Next Week On Measure Designed To Kill “Racket”

$150,000 Fire Levels Vinton Produce Plant   ‘iremen Had Difficulty in Supplying Water te Fight Conflagration

TAX PROPOSALS APPEAR DOOMED   Committee Drafting -Own Levy Measure

New Tax Plan Seen As Good As Scrapped.   House Group Starts Drotting New Plan

House Committee Working On Lighter Tax Program   Fight Inflation

House To Draft Tax Bill Asking Half Of Origina   As Administration Plan Is Faced With Defeat

“House Cold To Tax Bill   Administration Plan Termed ‘Ambitions’

Slim Chances For Treasury ry Tax Program   House Democrats. Republicans Alike Criticize Plan  As Too Stiff.   WORK OUT NEW SETUP

‘COMMITTEE IS ‘DRAFTING BILL   » Ways and Means Group Studies Less Severe Revenue Measure

Solons  Block Tax Plan   WAYS, MEANS GROUP MAPS LEVY MEASURE FOR HALF REVENUE

TAXPROGRAM IS REJECTED   House Committee Prepares To Draft Measure to Yield Half Amount

Army’s Pocket Guide Is Real   SOUTHWEST PACIFIC Is NOT LIKE MOVIES PICTURE

ALLIES PUSH AXIS FORCES INTO CORNER   New Advances Made By American. Canadian Troops In Sicily

ALLIED LAND, SEA, AIR FORCES CONTINUING TO APPLY POWERFUL PUNCH   INDICATIONS NATION MAW SOON GET OUT OF WAR INDICATED BY ENGLISH CABINET MEET

Allied Aerial Offensive Hits New High Pitch   German Panzer Unit Withdraws Before  American Advance

STALIN PRAISES ALLIED ACTIONS   ‘Combined Assaults Prelude To European Invasion’

Social Security Equality For All Workers Uraed   Some 20 Million Workers Excluded From. Coverace

CONTROVERSY OVER PARTY STRENGTH ON COMMITTEES SEEN   Representation May Furnish First Test OF Strength In Conoeress *

FLOOR FIGHT IS FORECAST   Hot Controversy Over Ratio OF Party Representa tran Seen.

V With Our Soldiers and  \ Sailors Bi\@ @ G           Mrs. Lucille Agnew Reports for Active Duty in WAAC’

faa,  With Our Soldiers and  i\ Sailors 8\e @             Mrs. Lucille Agnew Reports for Active Dutv in WAAC’s

JAPS STILL ARE ON LAM   Continuing To Withdraw Af. ter Sharp Defeat Near Allied Airport.

JAPS STILL WITHDRAW   Forces Which Stabbed at Wau Air. port Are Retreating

JAPS WITHDRAW IN NEW GUINEA   Enemy Forces Falling Back After Sharp Defeat.

Japanese Withdrawing In New Guinea; Allied Pressure Is Continued

 4 June Successes Mark Precision  ‘Bombing High   Huls and St. iNazaire Raids Top; Fighter Strength Strained

Reveal U. S. Precision Bombing Hit High For Accuracy In June Action

L. A. STRIKERS REFUSE T0  MOVE TROOPS   Say Strike. _ Is 100. Per Cent

COAST STRIKE HALTS MOVEMENT OF WAR MATERIALS, TROOPS   Only Mail Trains Move Over 1,100-Mile Network

Knox Urges Bourbon And GOP to Adopt Similar Foreign Policy Platforms

Boys and Girls WantedTo vs? "0 .. Detassel Com’ For: vy bind   Should Be Over 5 Feet Tal To Be Able To Reach .  Taeccele

Boys and Girls Wanted To: Sr. ;. Detassel Corn For: va buic   Should Be Over 5 Feet Tal! To Be Able To Reach  Tassels

ODT DIRECTOR © SEES NO LETUP   Eastman Hints Bleak Outlook for Transportation Situation. 

Transportation Rules Likely To Be Tightened Before End of This Year

Cadet McKendree Long, Jr., Now Enrolled In Pre-Flight School  At Maxwell Field

John L. Cameron ~ In Fliaht School   Son of Mrs. Mae Cameron Enrolled AS Officer Cadet At Maxwell Field, Ala.

Two Lose Lives During Fighting In New Guinea   Issue Casualty List

INAMES OF 407 U. S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN ACTION MADE PUBLIC   List Includes Soldiers From 42 States Who Died In  ‘Various Theatres

ARMY ANNOUNCES 407 CASUALTIES   27 OFFICERS AND 197 ENLISTED MEN KILLED IN AFRICA   (Editor's Note: Names of the downstate Illinois men will be found in the story on page 5.

Court Upholds Johnson Verdict   Guilty of Evading Income Taxes Past Year

FIFTH ARMY FIRMLY ESTABLISHES BRIDGEHEADS OVER RIVER AS FIRST STEP_IN PUSH TO BREAK GERMAN DEFENSE LINE AFTER ENEMY ~  _ -COUNTER-ATTACKS ARE BEATEN BACK— t RUSSIANS ARE NOW IN GOMEL  -

NAZIS READY TO EVACUATE CITY OF KIE\   War Material Being Removed   LIBERATE TOWNS

BRITISH REPORT RED TROOPS IN ~ GOMEL SUBURB   Last North-South Railroad Junction in Nazi Hands * Menaced

SOVIETS DRIVE WESTWARD IN WHITE RUSSIA   Threaten Cities of Vitebsk, Orsha and Gomel

DEATH PENALTY FOR INTENTIONAL PRODUCTION OF DE_ FECTIVE WAR MATERIALS 18 GAINING  SUPPORT -

 Death Penalty Advocated for Persons  Delivering Defective Army Materials

REPORT PETAIN NOW PRISONER   Marshal Considers His Position Similar To That Of King Leopold Of Belgians

CHIEF OF STATE IN. FRANCE SAID 'TO HAVE BEEN PREVENTED FROM URGING CONSTITUTIONAL . ACTION 

EISENHOWER'S ARMY POISED FOR ASSAUL   Allied Planes Raid Sfax And Axis Bombs Algiers

Both British And Americans  Ready For Pust   Montgomery Crowds Axis In The East, Eisenhower In West

Russians Set Nazi Trap at Voronezh; Japs Socked Again in Solomons

Axis Force - : Jammed. frot Two Sides       BRIT. EIGHTH ARMY CROWDS THEM FROM THE EAST; EISENHOWER TROOPS DO. SAME FROM WEST

SEEK TO LIFT RED PRESSURE IN UKRAINE   Soviet General Pulls Surprise Shift to iencircle Vitebsk

Germans Seek Frantically To Halt Red Drive   New Winter Offensive Ir White Russia Causes Shift In Battle Lines   NAZIS USING 2,000 TANKS IN DEFENSE  Rey NATALIA PENT

NAZI TANKS Hl AUSOIAN LINED   Hurl 2,000 Tanks Into Ukrainian Battle

Five Pronged Red Army Drive Makes New Gains on Bryansk   Prize Target of the Whole Central Front Offensive.

MILK PRICE BOOST _ IS GIVEN APPROVAL   Increase Of 40 Cents Hundred Pounds For Class 1 Proposed For Washington Market

BISCUSS LAG IN STEEL OUTPUT   Government Calls In Company Officialy As Plate Production Drops

WPB CALLS STEEL CHIEFS 10 PARLEY ON UNIFORM TESTS      Over-Rigid Inspection Is ,Crippling Output Of "Steel, Nelson  Declares

TOUGH TESTS BY WPB INSPECTORS WORRY INDUSTRI   Steel. Executives :Meeting, .In Washington Today With ~ ’ Welson’s Aides.

GERMAN PLANES STRIKE AT LONDON   ATTACK ON CITY HEAVIEST IN TWO YEARS—PEOPLE RUN TO SHELTERS.

GrimBattle Follows Long Hight   Allies Now Contend With Strong Foe But Keep Advancing

Germans Strike  at London  Two of Raiders Are  - Downed in Flames

Big Air Raid Made by Nazis On London   RAF Meanwhile Starts Over Channel to Hit Continent

Soviets Report Success of New Offensives   100, 000 Caplired Since Mid-January; Advance Rolls:0n

Reds Continue Big Advance To Westward   Nearly 100,000 Prisoners Taken Since Mid-January

Soviets Trap Nazi Troops   ~ Much Material Is Reported Captured When Russians Break Through Nazi Defense Line

Soviets Report  Success of New  Offensives 100.000 Cantured   100,000 Captured Since Mid-January; Advance Rolls On

Thousands Of Nazis Trapped   Kropotkin Retaken, Seven: Nazi Divisions Sewed Up ©

Nazis Trapped      Kropotkin Retaken, Seven Nazi Divisions Sewed Up —

100,000 NAZIS PRISONERS OF THE RUSSIANS   Seven Divisions Trapped In Three Days In Offensive West Of Voronezh, Reds  Announce.   Nazis Retreat

RUSSIANS TAKE KEY RAIL JUNCTION TOWN IN CAUCASIAN DRIVE      Seven German Divisions Smashed or Trapped in Three Days on Wide Voronezh Front, Soviets Say

INSPECTOR RETURNS FROM GUADALCANAI   amis Brighter Than Year Ago

STATE LABOR FEDERATION BACKS HANLEY   Non-Partisan Committee Votes Unanimously Endorses Republican—Long Backed Demscrats

FREEZE MISSES STATE   But Is Expected to Hit in Western Sections Tonight

RUSSIANS ARE IN SIGHT OF KIEV   Smolensk and Melitopol Also Expected to Fall Soon

Soviet Armies Now Are Within Sight Of Golden Domes Of Churches At Kiev.

Kussian Armies Now Are in Sight of Church Domes in Kiey.  FALL OF wWELITOPOL EXPECTED ANY TIME  Soviet Arn Take 1,100 Towns ” 100 Netty.

PREDICT LONG TRIAL FOR FLYNN   Both Sides Carefully ~ Study: Fury Selection.

‘European Fortress ’ Strategy Of Nazis May Be Abandoned   Planning Final Defense Deep within Continent, Swiss Observers Hear

Nazis Dropping Fortress Theory   Ideas Of Defense Shrinking Rapidly  By THOMS HAWKINS

SEE STRATEGY CHANGE BY FOE   Swiss Report Nazi Retreat From Theory of “European Fortress”

Germans Plan Inner Defense Against Allies  Coastal’ Barriers Ar Intended-To Delay’  Invaders. -

NAZIS BOLSTER INNER DEFENSES   Retreat From the Theory of European Fortress to Final Defenses Deep Within the Continent

Idea of European Fortress Is AbandonedinLine _ Taken by Nazi Propaganda

CHANGE IN GERMAN THEORY REPORTED   Idea of Basic Defense Within Continent Now Prevails

Two American Servicemen Can Thank Nip Carelessness, Fallen Tree For Lives

Capt.  Charles Schnee Has Narrow Escape In New ‘Georgia  iCorporal ‘With Him Tells of Dodeine Jap Death For 24 Hours and Haw rev "Pee aneA

Japs Warned Of New Raid On Tokyo   Broadcast Marks First nniversary of U.S.  Air Attack

SUCCESSFUL THIRD BONE LDRIVE ENNS   Harrv Curtis Is High “Minute Man” Here

BOND SALES IN G’DALE GAIN DAILY   Township Now Over $376,474,44: To Help County

Denies Giving Lewd Parties  Monroe Tells About LTancoa On RP Stirant

NEVER BUSINESS AND NO ORGIES THERE, HE SAYS   Mystery Woman Also Called To Tell About Goings-on With High Officials   MAN HAD CHANGED NAME   Patronizing Air Adopted ir Hearing Before House Military Committee

yIVY PEED PYAR WALAING  Mystery Man of R Street Denies Parties Were Lewd

NO APOLOGY BY AYSTERY MAN   War Contracts Not Discussedi at Parties, He Tells Probers.

Washington's Mystery Man Of “House on R Street’ Denies Social Parties Were ‘Orgies’

“Mystery Man’ of R. Street Appears Before Senators   John Monroe, Formerly Monroe Kaplan, Tells of Capital Parties

“No Orgies,’ Declares Mystery Man Monroe Denies Parties  At Big Red House On itv Street Used For Bait

Mystery Man Of R Street Testifies Parties Were For The ‘Best And Intelligent People’

Mystery House Owner Quizzed By House Com   Jj. P. Mouroe Denies Parties Given For Prominent Persons Were Orgies

DECLARES SOCIAL FUNCTIONS WERE NEVER ORGIES  MYSTERY MAN OF R STREET TESTIFIES

YSTERY MAN TALKS BEFORE HOUSE GROUP   John P. Monroe of R Stree! Denies His Parties Were “Orgies”   DISCLAIMS ACTING ' “AS A WAR BROKER’   Occupant of Big Red House Testifies Before House Committee

jammed Committeeroom Hears Monroe Declare Parties Weren't Orgies

DENIES PARTIES WERE “ORGIES   Mystery Man OF Capital's D St., Testifies Before Committee

Fist Thumping Mystery Man Denies Drunken Orgies Held in R Street House

U, 5, PREPARING TO TAKE OVER, RUN RAILROADS   Will Duplicate Action Of '17 Unless Pay Dispute Is Adjusted

THE PRESIDENT. MAY TAKEOVER ALL RAILROADS   Uies Threat Of Federal Operation To Break Deadlock

GOV'T OPERATION IS THREATENED U.S. RAILROADS   Three of Roads Re: fuse Roosévelt’s Of- fer to Arbitrate-.

uw GLYN, NOVELIST, DIES   Author of ‘Three Weeks,’ Taught Valentino How to Love ©

Elinor Glyn, Woman ° Who Taught Valentino Ta Lave. Dies in London

Elinor Glyn Is. Dead, Aged 78   Noted. Novelist Establish ed Reputation With “Theaep Weeks.”

Enemy Claims Victory Over French Troops   Germans Say 800 Killed In Attack Launched 35 Miles South Of Trnis.   “FOUR AXIS SHIPS SUNK

Save Every Bit of Food: Stop: Waste   Flood and Drought Have Inflieted Serious Damage To Crops, Davis Says   MAY TIGHTEN UP ON CIVILIAN FOOD   Future Supply of Canned Vegetables May Go Below Present Ration Levels

TIGHTENING OF FOOD SUPPLIES IS FORECAST   No Hope For Surpassing 1942’s Record Yield

No Hope of Surpassing Record Crops of Last Year, Federal Official Says

SMALLER CROP  YIELDS IN “42   Department of Agriculture Report Blames Weather Conditions.

ORE TIGHTENING OF FOOD APPEARS   Adverse Weather Conditions - Indicates Reduction In Yield tn Crops.

Tightening Of Civilian Food Supplies Seen   Adverse Crop Reports Reflect Seriousness Of  Floods And Droughts.

Tehran Conference Of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Presumably Enabled Leaders To Place Final Approval On Plans For Early Inv vasion Of Europe.

UNITED NATIONS LEADERS CLOSE PARLEYS ON WAI   WORLD IS WAITING FOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULT OF CONFERENCE WITH PREMIER STALIN.   WESTERN INVASION PLANS DISCUSSED   Announcement Is Expected to Notify Germany the Price It Will Have to Pay If It Quits Now or Goes on Fighting.

WOULD FREE ITALY, SAYS EISENHOWER   General Issues Proclamation Calling on Populace to  Drive Fascists Out.

Edict Given Out  By Eisenhower   Tells Italians They Will Be Liberated

HOUSE SCRAPS FARM PROGRANW   Plan Of Incentive Payments To Farmer. Is Forbidden.

Ten Arrested For OPA Charge   Alleged Operation of Extensive Black Market For Tires and Gas Cited

LARGEST GASOLINE, TIRE BLACK MARKET UNCOVERED DALLAS  FORMER RATION BOARD  CLERK ARRESTED ALONG - WITH SEVERAL OTHERS

Not Over The Hump On Rubber   Truman Committee Seeks Answer To Reported Easing Up On Tire And Gas Quotas

WARNS RUBBER SITUATION IS STILL CRITICAL   Expected To Improve Sometime During 1944

MEAL CUT DUE   Order Planned to Limit Size of Restaurant Servings

BS > Oe Se  WILL LIMIT SIZE OF MEALS SERVED IN U. S. RESTAURANTS

DOUBTS WE'LL SEEK RE-ELECTION IN “44   If Wisconsin Governor Runs It Will Be on Republican Ticket.

Gov. Goodland Plans To Stay In His Party   Contends He Will Run As Republican Should He Decide To Be Candidate  For Second Term

Army Corrects Wricht Faults   Patterson Reports Strong Action at Plant

Fugene Risser Is Named Chairman Of Bonham CE. D  Committee Will Seek To Boost

Errol Flynn's Trial to Go On  One at Acericac   One of Accused  Jurors Dismissed

Housewife Is Sworn In To Replace Miss Forbes At Hearing   TESTIMONY WILL BE RESUMED IN CASE

FLYNN TRIAL WILL ~ CONTINUE IN COURT   Agreement Reached to — Proceed With Case of Movie Actor

LeGrand Friends Church   John H. Hadley, Pastor   A FRIENDLY CHURCH WITH 4 FRIENDLY WELCOME

ISLAND BASES HIT HEAVILY IN ALLIED ATTACK   Axis Believed Striving To Protect Sicily From Devastating Blastings   POWER STATION TARGET   Systematic Blows Aimed At Instaliations On Sardinia And Pantelleria

ATTACK ON U.S, AIR FORTS FAILS   No Yankee Bombers Lost in Dispersing Fifty Messerschmitts

Fall Of Smolensk Means: _ Germany Has Lost Fight To Conquer Vast Russia

Smolensk may be springboard tor Baltic push   Napoleon fought big baitle there

200 Absentee Workers To Lose Arsenal Job:   KENNEDY'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY PRESIDENT

Allies See Ideal Road To Invasion   Ankara Believed-to Desire Voice in Post-War Affaira’

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Turkey On Allied Side . Means More Trouble For Adolf Hitler

Turkey's Chief Infers Nation Will Join War   Hitler’s Reverses Lift Axis Threat To Get Oil, Belief

CROWN ATTACKS TESTIMONY IN NASSAU TRIAL   Offers Witness To Dispute Evidence That Marigny’s Friend Slept in Oakes Home

BLAZE CAUSES $5,000 LOSS AT 115 CLUB   Fire Believed Due to Short in Wiring and Gas Leak

OWI! Report System Not So Popular   Must Clear All Agencies Interested, Leading To Feuds

Fourteen Writers, Art Director  Quit OWI; Charge War Ballyhooed   Clash of Personalities Ie Denied

Other Raids Made Over  France, Italy   Two Axis Ships Sunk: Russians Continue Advance

See Hope of Collapse in Germany   Persistent Raids Aimed at Knocking Out Nazi Eco nomic System

Mosquito Planes Hit Specific Targets In Cleanup Raid After RAF Heavies

Flynn's Jurors. Closely Quizzed   RIV Man, Sever Women Questioned

Flynn's Jurors. Closely Quizzed         ive Men, Séven™ ”“ Women Questioned

MUSSOLINI 16 TAKING. OVER   Cabinet Purge Sees Soa-in Law and Eleven Others Pushed Off Jobs.

Cabinet Purge By Mussoling   Only Three Unimportant Posts Are Left Untouched After Changes   VIOLENT POLICY SPLIT IS SCENTEL

NEW FIGHTER IS ‘BEING PRODUCED WPB ANNOUNCES   Super-Secret Plane Designed to Meet Latest Combat Conditions For Part In Air Offensives.   WILSON DECLINES TO — PROVIDE ARMY DETAILS   Peak of 10,000 Planes Monthly Will Not Be Reached Until 1944 According to Renorts.

SUPER FIGHTER PLANES ARE IK PRODUCTION-WLB   Changes in Types Pesent Obstacle to Volume Output

New Super-Secret Fighter Planes Now Rolling Off Production Lines

New Super-Secret Fighter Planes Rolling Off U. S. Assembly Lines Nowadays

NEW FIGHTER PLANE NOW IN PRODUCTION   Details Withheld for Reasons Of Military Security

Super - Secret Planes Being Constructed   Fighter Types Designed to Meet Combat Conditions Are Rolling Out  PEAK 10.000 MONTHLY

‘NEW SUPER-SECRET FIGHTING PLANES ROLL FROM LINES   Rew Plane Will Mect.Denunels of Stepped-Up Offensive of Allied Forces

Zimmerman’s Actions Face Senate Quiz   Explanation Demanded Of Intended Plans In Role He Occupied As  Actine Governor

Senate Asks Zimmerman To Explain His Actions As Acting Governor For a Day

ZIMMERMAN ON PAN IN SENATE   Wisconsin ‘Secretary of State Ordered to Explain Actions.   ASK REPLY BY TUESDAY

Request’ Explanation Of Order For Automobile While Gov. Goodland Was Out Of State

Suicide Slashing Of Jap Flyers Sent Hornef fo Ruin   Enemy Concentrated on Vessel: Fires Follow Torpedoing

Every Fellow Doing His Job And Japs Falling Like Flies  Suicidal Nips Dived At Hornet, Sailor On ‘Carrier Says In Dramatic Story Of Scrap

Large Area Of Germany  Is Flooded   Dam Bombing Major Achievement For ~ British Bombers

Southern Germany Hit; Fighters Raid Northern France And Belgium Area:

NEW PICTURES SHOW FLOOD WATERS FROM DAMS SWEEP GERMAN)   NAZI INDUSTRIAL AREAS BEING INUNDATED RESULT RAF ACTION

FLOODS CAUSE REICH'S WORST WAR DISASTEf   Thousands Drowned, Whole Cities Under Surging Waters As Result Of R.A.F. Bombing

DEFERMENT OF FARMERS EASED   Selective Service Says Liberalization Of Rules Ordered

DEFERMENT OF FARM LABORERS IS LIBERALIZED   Local Draft. Boards Are Given Wide Discretion ary Authority   ACTION IS TAKEN AFTER CRITICISM

Con-Con to send News  to Counties   Special Press Bureau Will Be Set Up to Serve the Weekly Papers   HOPES TO STIR UP: RURAL AREAS   Proponents of Move Point to Light Country Vote on the Convention

AFRICAN COMMAND UNIFIED, SAYS F.D.R   Asserts Eisenhower Is in Control ia French Colonies and British Generals in Libva.

Fall OF Gity Near; Germans  Are Fleeing   Over 250,000 Face Gigantic Trap As Russians Move Up

RESISTANCE DELAYS FALL OF KHARKOV   Nazis Put Up Battle But Are Bein Repulsed

SOVIET FORCES EXTEND DRIVE INTO KHARKOV   Nazis Reported Fleeing As Escape Corridor Is Being Narrowed   250,000 MAY BE TRAPPED   Enemy Lines Collapsing With Sea Of Azov “Dunkirk”  Seen Probable 

GERMAN FRONT COLLAPSING IN DONETS REGION   Narrow Escape Corridor For 250,000 Nazi Troops

Nazis’ Kharkov  Defense Pierced   Russians Hammer  At Gates of City

Corridor of Nazi Retreat Is Narrowed   Germans Take Up Scorched Farth Poliew

AVENUE OF ESCAPE FOR 250,000 ENEMY : TROOPS. REDUCED      Russians Reoccupy Score:Of Villages —Soviet Vanguard Within 5( Miles  Of Sea Of Azov— Rostov Destroyed .

Powerful Nazi Rear Guard Action   Whole German Front Appears to Be Falling Apart.

SOVIETS SURGE INTO AHARKUY DEFENSE RING   Fall Of Strategic Ukraine Stronghold Mere Matter Of Days, Is Belief   GERMANS ATTEMPTING TO EVACUATE TROOPS   Rostov Largely Destroyed By Fire Before Germans Yielded Great City

U.S. Plans  Drive on Japs   Secretary Knox Makes Comment on Shelling  Of Base at Kiska

B.S. to Drive Japanese Out of Aleutians   But Knox Adds That He Can’t Talk About Details; More. Bombardments

KISKA’S DAILY DOSE   American Warship Again Bombard« Japs On Aleutian isiand

J.S. Fliers Bag 45 Jap  Warplanes   lungle Fighters Driving Ahead, Capture Mubo and Menace Vital Base At Munda   JAPANESE TRICKS USED BY YANKEES   Outwitted At Own Game,  Nipponese Garrison Is  Wiped Out In Savage   Battle to Death

Fifth Attack Made on Kiska Island   The Navy Announced a Small American Warship Shelled the Island.

Missouri River Plans Must Be  Co-operative int eonald Emphasizes

Roosevelt Silent on Federal Move As Miners Strike   ASK GUFFEY ACT RENEWAL

FUEL CRISIS an FACED ~ BY INDUSTR)   HOOSEVELT SILENT ON PLANS  - TO MEET LATEST THREAT  TO , THE’ COUNTRY'R ‘wa EFFORT

20PPOSING LEADERS WAIT, COAL SHORT   Stoppage became general at midnight; Steel — if  mills near close a! ae

LEWIS BID TO ICKES VIEWED AS SOLE HOPE   UMW Chief Says Men Wil Work For Government, But Offer Comes Too Late:   CONFERENCE EXPECTED   OW! Sees Home-Heating Crisis, Industrial Heads Fear Cut In Operations.

ENTIRE WAR PRODUCTION NEAR HALT UNDER LEWIS PRESSURE.   One Ray of Hope   Mine Czar Says Men Are Willing to Work for Government Under Orders.

SON-IN-LA OF MUSSOLINI GIVES UP POST   ‘Mussolini Himself To ‘Assume Control of Ministry

ll Duce Revamps ltalian Cabinet  ee: Oe eee   Mussolini Displaces His Son-in-Law

MUSSOLINI IN HOUSECLEANING OF HIS CABINET   Count Ciano, His -Son-InLaw, Is Relieved As Foreign Minister   OTHER IMPORTANT CHANGES ARE MADE

Mussolini Personally Takes Over Post Of  foreign Minister Once Held By Count Ciano  Many Other Changes Are Made In Cabinet In Latest Shakeup Announced From Rome

IL DUGE SHAKES UP HIS CABINE]   Son-In-Law’s Minist r) Post Taken Over By Mussolini

CHARGE FATHER “IN SON'S DEATH   Harvard Graduate Is Held Without Bail

Lawyer Held Without Bail inBaby Death   Arraigned ‘in Pittsfield Court This Morning ©

WIDER POWERS FOR DAVIS ARE SOUGHT   Farm Leaders to Urge Greater Authority for  Farm Bosc

FARM LEADER URGES END OF PRICE SETTING   Head of Grange Urges Also Meat Rations Less Than Supply  n.. FRiitrr A AZAD TIA

Farm Leader  Urges Limited Meat Ration   . Grange Master Goss Wants Ceilings Off To Clear Situation

Major Farm Groups Will Urge Greater Power for Davis   Leaders Go to White House for Conference; to Discuss Shortages

FOOD PROBLEMS TO BE STUDIED   Farm Group Leaders Tc Urge Price Authority For Davis

ORGANIZERS AT STRIKE. PROBE   Grand Jury ‘Still, in Session Hearing of Work Sotppages

Grand Jury Will Hear Organizers  Seeking Cause Of Mine Work Stonpage

NAZIS WRECK OREL BEFORE WITHDRAWAL   Red. Army Expected Tc “Drive Into Orel At Any. Time

STALIN AT’ FRONT   Premier Inspires Troopsand ~ They Slash Thru Axis  Defenses

German ‘Strongarm Boys’ In Turkey With Mysterious Moves In Bulgari:

FIRST GLASS “WAR SGARE” HITS TURKEY  itizens Warnec   Citizens Warned To Stay Off Of Streets

War Fright Sends Istanbul Folk Seeking Shelter  Panic Seems Unbased But Many Flee; Gold Prices Zoom Up

‘War Scare’ At Istanbul   Turks Get Excited, Many Families Cross Bosporus

War Fright Sends Istanbul Folk Seeking Shelter  Panic Seems Unbasec   Panic Seems Unbased But Many Flee; Gold Prices Zoom Up

MINERS TO GE] RAISE OR STOP   Lewis Says Union Members Must Have $2 Pay Increase.

PRESIDING BISHOP: MAY RETAIN POST   Rt. Rey. Henry St. George Tucker Expected to be Named Acain _~

Bishop Tucker May Retain Post   Action on Retirement Age Limits Taken at Episcopal Meeting

TAKE 2 TOWNS ATAPPROACHES TO VITAL PORT   Caltagirone Falls, Periling Germans’ Right Flank   OTHER GAINS LISTED   Airports On Italy’s Main land Take Merciless Battering

Meat Ration Values Cut, Butter Raised   Effective Sunday, Creamery Butter Will Go Up Two Points, Sirloin Steaks Down One Point—Canned Goods Ratings Revised.

Ration Change Values   Butter Up Two Points But Most Meat Cuts Down in Sweeping Over haul of Point Values

FOOD STAMP VALUE CHANGES ARE MADE   Creamery Butter To Go Up Two Red Points Sunday— Reductions Set For Meats And Other Items

Butter Will Cost 2 More Ration Points   OPA Increases Value Sundav

(Will Increase Ration Points ifor Creamery Butter From 10 Ito 12 Points a Pound Sunday

OPA UPS POINT COST OF BUTTER   Less Red Ration Stamps  Needed to Purchase 35 Cuts of Meat

INCREASE POINT VALUE ON FOODS   OPA Boosts Blue Stamp Cost on 13 ems to Reduce Buying

Several Revisions Made ; OPA to Meet Changing Conditions  ® ONE-POINT CUT ON STEAKS, OTHER MEAT  Butter Goes to 12 Points ‘@ ward, Cheese, Cooking Oils Are Unchanged

OPA Ann es Changes In Ration Values...  Butter Up 2 Points; 35 Meat Cuts Lower

OPA BOUoTs BUTTE! i DOZEN POINTS   Cut Ration Values of 35 Cuts of Fresh Meat; Hike Canned Fruit

Batter Goes Up ‘To Ration Points Sunday  Value of Meat ’ Cuts Slashed By OPA Orders

BUTTER HAS GONE UP TO 12 POINTS!   Ration Value of Meat Will be Reduced a Little.   Live Stock Quota Lifted — Civilians May Have More Meat.

Butter Value, Except Farm Made, Raised   More Roasts, Steaks And Bacon Available For . Public Purchase

Increases In Most Food Items in Cans   Some Reductions However, in New List Just Issued

Butter Up Two Points. Meat Lower   New Ration Setup Effective Sunday

Points Increase; ‘Meat Values Cut   Other Ration Schedules Overhayled To Meet Changing Conditions

Canned Fruit Points to Zoom in New Values   OPA ORDERS SUNDAY BOOST IN BLUE-STAMP RATION VALUE OF FOUR TYPES OF PROCESSED PRODUCTS IN ATTEMPT TO SLOW DOWN SHOPPERS’ DEMANDS

Ration Value Increased For Canned Fruit   Changes In 21 Items Are Made By OPA, Effective Sunday, To Slow Down Shoppers’ Demands

BUTTER RATION COSTS WILL BE UPPED SUNDAY   Values Of 35 Cuts Of Fresh Meat To Be Reduced One Or Two Points   LARGER SUPPLY INDICATED   OPA Also Announces 13 Increases. 8 Decreases For Canned Goods

Ration Value Of 35 Kinds Of : Meat To Be Reduced Sunday   But Canned Fruit Values -To Increase A: Major Changes Announced In Stamps

- CREAMERY BUTTER GOING UP, 35 CUS  OF FRESH MEAT DUWN IN POINT VALUE

Point Values Of Some Food Hiked   OPA ANNOUNCES LIST OF CANNED GOODS CHANGES

Point Values Of Four Types Canned Fruits Increased To Ease Demands

Increase Canned Fruit Stamp Values In Attempt To Slow Down Demands   CREAMERY BUTTER TAKES 12 POINTS

Changes in Point Values Announced   Butter To Go Up Two Points, Meat Ration Values Low . ered, Canned Goods Values Inereased

More Ration Points to Be Required for Purchase of Creamery Butter, OPA Rules

Changes Made in Some Ration Point Values; To Be Effective on Sunday

RATION VALUES OF 35 CUTS OF MEAT REDUCED   Thirteen Types of Canned i Goods Increased and * Eight Lowered   EFFECTIVE ON SUNDAY   OPA Says Butter Produc: tion Down 5%, With Shortage Growing

CANNED FRUITS VALUE BOOSTED   Point Values’ on Apples Cranberries, Peaches, Pears Raised.

POINT VALUES RAISED FOR 18: CANNED FOODS   Butter Goes Up 2 Points but Reduction Made Upon 35 . Meat Cuts.   ALL STAMP REVISIONS _ ARE EFFECTIVE SUNDAY

Several Changes In Butter And Meat Points Announced As Well As On Canned Goods

Butter Ration Points Raised   Values Are Reduced by OPA at Same Time, However, on  32 Cuts of Fresh Meats

Butter Point Value Up, Mea Points Down   Blue-Stamp Ration Values Shifted on Several Canned Food Groups

Creamery Butter Upped Two Red Points While Country Butter Cut Four Points; Value of 35 Meat Cuts Reduced; Blue Point Values Also Change.

Ration Values Of Creamery Butter, Nine Types Of Canned Foods Raised; ‘Meat Ration Values Lowered By-OPA   Red Stamps

CREAMERY BUTTER — TO COST TWO © ADDITIONAL POINTS   Ration Values on 35 Cut: Of Fresh Meat Will Be Reduced

BUTTER RATION VALUE BOOSTED   Decrease in Preduction Cited As Reason By OPA

OPA ANNOUNCES POINT CHANGES >ON FOOD ITEMS   Value of Canned Fruits Upped By Executive Order

—RATION POIN TS— Butter Ration Boosted To 12 Points; Meat  Values Lowered   New Ration Values To Become Effective Sunday; Number Of Changes Made In Canned Fruits And Vegetables

Point Hike On Peaches. _ And Pears   Increases Also Ordered on Apples, Cranberries Effective Sunday   CHANGES ARE MADE . IN 21 FOOD ITEMS      Canned and Bottled Beans Higher: Cut Is Made on Dried Beans

UP RATION POINTS ON BUTTER   Creamery Produce -12 Points; Some Meat Points Down

Ration Points for Butter Increased;  Value of Meat Cut   Four Types of Canned Fruit and Nine Canned Processed Foods Increased and Value of Eight Others Is Lowered

RATION VALUE OF MEATS CUT      Creamery Butter Goes Up At Same Time; Changes Effective Sunday

Ration Points For Creamery Bultter To Be Boosted; Meat Values Are Ordered Reduced

WAR COUNCIL “TO BE URGED   TRUMAN... SOMMITTEE - eH + PECTED . TG, RECOMMEND ~ “@ENTRAL GkOUP TO / OVER ALL WAR PRODUCTION

NEED SEEN FOR WAR COUNCIL   Production Board Believed Needed To Iron Out Rival Agencies

SENATE ASK ARMY'S IDEAS ON NEW PLAN   DRAFT OFFICIALS AL8O TO EXPRESS VIEWS ON PROPOSAL . OF NATIONWIDE POOL OF MEN

DRAFT REVISION REPORTS ASKED   Senate Leaders Seek Data from Selective Service -— -and Army Heads

DRAFT SYSTE REVISION URGEL   Demand Growing In Senate To Tighten Service Act

Interoreting he War   Nazis Can't Long Conceal! Latest Failure of Hitler

ar er’s  -Turcive ‘iicary Genius Sicers ’‘1iré 3 ow at Lenir erac

Must Abandon Leningrad Area Or Face Entrapment   Attempted Repetition Of Stalingrad Strategy That Trapped Axis Army Seems Apparent

United States Is Hailed On.  Anniversary   Friendship Shown Ir Celebrations By Manv Lands

United Nations Honor America; Flags Wave, Guns Give Salutes as World Uses Fourth of July as Great Symbol

Three Killed in Blast at Steel Mills  Scores Are Hurt, 10 Critically, in Mexico Citv

Three Killed in Blast at Steel Mills  Scores Are Hurt, 10 Critically,

JURORS ARE DRAWN FOR ADAMS COURT   Those Who Will Serve In Session Starting April 22 An: nounced By Officials At Gettysburg

{t Happened This Week. .  63 More Jap Planes Destroyed By Allies

63 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   New Ajir Battles Over South Pacific Bag 23 In Air

Thirty-five Enemy Aircraft Destroyed at “ Rabaul  JAPANESE VESSELS REPORTED BOMBED  Marines Continue to Consolidate Positions on . Bay

Battles Flare Over Wide Pacific Front   Enemy Meets Defeat As Climactic Campaign Approaches

63 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN SOUTH PACIFIC BATTLES   ‘23 Jap Aircraft Shot Out Of The Air And 12 Destroyec _ On Ground In Attack On Rabaul; Nipponese Strike At Marines On Bougainville Island

63 Jap Planes Destroyed in New Air Battles   23 Shot Out of Air. 12 Hit on Ground In Growing Series of Smashes on Rabaul

63 More Japanese Planes Destroyed in Air Battles   Twenty-Three Blasted From Skies and 12 Knocked Out on Ground in Raid on Rabaul—Nipponese Planes Strike at Bougainville Where Marines Hold Bridgehead and Attack U. S. Positions on New Guinea and New Georgia.

Down 63 Jap Planes in New Aerial Battles   Enemy Planes Active on Large Scale Allies Say

Enemy Loses do Aireraft At Rabaul   Japanese Planes Raid Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Treasury  WARSHIPS ATTACKED

63 Jap Planes Destroyed in Air Baitles   Bombers Sink Six Enemy Ships in Raid Off Buka

AIR FIGHTS AGE IN PAGIFIG ARES   Allied Airmen Destroy 6% Japanese Planes   Strike at Empress Augusta Bay, Also Attack AlliedWon Treasury Island

RED ONSLAUGHT CRUSHES NAZIS   Breaking Of Desna_ Line, Fall Of Novorossisk Se vere Blow to Germans

Virtually Expelling the Germans From the Caucasus.  HITLER’S HOPE FOR OILFIELDS ARE GONE  Soviets Driving Deeper and Deeper in the Ukraine.

‘GARDNER NAMES FLORY   New County Treasurer Will Take Office on October 12

New Reichstag re Started    a Bombs Dropped Elsewhere          o Bombs Dropped Elsewhere ould Have Same Effect, wtich Air Head Says

Germans Abandon  Kuban Offensive   Six Day Drive. There Cost Nazis Lives Of 7,000 Men   WAR IN AFRICA IS HELPING RUSSIA

TAKE 3. VILLAGES   Russians Have Successes Along the Coast of . Black Sea

Russ Capture Three Towns   Red Army Continues Closing Ring About ' Black Sea Base

Soviets Take 3 More Villages   Minor Activity Reported Elsewhere On Long Front

SOVIET ARTILLERY RAID POSITONS IN THE KUBAN SECTOR   Germans Abandon Efforts to Expand Their Bridgehead in That Area.   THEY LOST 7000 MEN   German High Command Said Russians Failed in Their Fresh Attacks.

‘THREE VILLAGES FALL TO SOVIETS NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Outside of the Russian Gains Along the Black Sea Coast Other Activities Were of Minor Nature

RED ARTILLERY RAKES GERMAN INKUBAN AREAS   \Shelling Continues Thruout Night Despite Fact Hitler’s Forces Aban i don Bridgehead   7,000 NAZIS KILLED:   Berlin Claims Russians Fail In Fresh Attacks; East Prussia Is.  Again Raided ‘ -

RED ARTILLERY. RAKES ENEMY      Germans Abandon Effort to Expand Kuban Sector Bridgehead.

Russians Near Novorossisk   Red Army Threatens Other Positions on Black Sea Coast

THREE MORE VILLAGES FALL TO REDS IN NOVOROSSISK AREA. LITTLE ACTION ELSEWHERE   German Radio Announces Russians Have . Launched Series of Sirong Attacks South of Lake Ladoga. Claim Attacks Beaten Back

RED ARTILLERY RAKING NAZIS IN KUBAN SECTOR   Russians Report German Efforts to Expand Bridgehead Abandoned! —W.S., Britain Lauded 

REDS REPULSE 6-DAY ASSAULT   NAZIS LOSE 7,000 MEN IN DISASTROUS CAUCASIAN DRIVE

MORE VILLAGES IN BLACK SEA SECTOR TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   RED ARMY CONSOLIDAT.ING POSITIONS NORTHEAST OF SMOLENSK

RUSSIANS SLAY 7,000 NAZIS IN KUBAN FIGHTING   Six-Day Drive Costly to Germans—Air Struggle Is Raging On

Germans Give  UpKubanDrive   Violent Air Fighting On Russian Front

Russians Take Three Towns On Black Sea   Minor Activity Reported On Mud-Laden Eastern Front

Germans Try Moves ‘On Two Red Positions, Fail   Enemy Takes Big Loss  In Dav’s Battle:

Germans Try Moves On Two Red  Positions, Fail Enemy Takes Big Loss In Day’s Battle;  Mine Blasts One Unit

MORE TOWNS REC APTURED BY KUSSIANS   Series of Strong Assaults Js Launched South of Lake Ladoga Area   NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED

RUSSIANS HURL BACK SIX-DAY NAZIASSAULT   New German Drive Fails To Gain in Western Caucasus

RUSSIANS PUSH UP NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Slush Keeps Activity On Other Fronts Quiet

BRIDGEHEAD OFFENSIVE — ABANDONED   Fail In Effort To Expand Positions In Kuban Section

Russians Beaf Back Germans   Soviet Artillery And ‘Infantry Units Repulse Invaders —

Red Artillery .  Rakes Germans   Enemy Abandons Efforts To Expand

REDS ADVANCE ON BLACK SEA BASE   Capture Three More Villages In Drive Toward Novorossisk

Nazis Abandon Move To Expand Kuban Holdings   Six-Day Campaign Costs Germans 7,000 Men

SOVIETS SAY SIXDAY NAZI DRIVE FAILS   Germans Are Reported to Have Abandoned Efforts to Expand Kuban Bridgehead After Losing” 7,000 Troops.

Russians Push Toward The Blaek Sea   Troops Closing On Important German Positions

RED ARMY ARTILLERY RAKES NAZIS   In Kuban Area of Western Caucasus  Throughout Night.

RUSSIANS TAKE THREE VILLAGES   Red Troops Closing. About German Black Sea Coast Positions, But Little Activity Reported Elsewhere.

RED ARTILLERY POUNDS NAZIS IN KUBAN AREA   Germans Lose 7,000 Men In Six Days Of Action

6-Day Attack By Nazis Repulsed 7.000 Germans Slain  In Kuban Struggle

AREA DRIVE NETS GAINS   3 More Towns Taken In Push On Novorossisk

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY BLASTED GERMAN KUBAN POSITIONS ©  NAZIS ABANDON EFFORT  TO EXPAND BRIDGEHEAD AFTER SIX DAYS

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY BLASTED GERMAN KUBAN POSITIONS  NAZIS ABANDON EFFORT  TO EXPAND BRIDGEHEAI

THREE VILLAGES SEIZED BY REDS   Advance in Kuban Valley Sector Only Major Action Reported by Soviets

AUOUIAN FRONT 5 QUIET TODA)   Nazis Say Attack in North Stopped; Reds Consolidate Positions.

7000 Lost By Germans In Kuban Area   Soviet-Allied Rela tions Showing Great + Improvement

N: azis Suffer Heavy Loss in Soviet Blows   Violent Air. Battle Rages 7 Along. Entire. Russian... = Bang -

Soviet Front Like Great Slushy Lake   Operations Almost Completely Bogged Down, But Red Army Gains “In Caucasus 

GERMAN THRUST FRUSTRATED BY SOVIET FORCES   Artillery, Mortar Batteries Silenced By Reds

Russians Foil German Effort   Nazis Abandon Move To Expand Bridgehead In Kuban Sector

Russians Frustrate German Thrusts at Central Front Lines Before Smolensk

SOVIET TROOPS CAPTURE THREE MORE VILLAGES   ENTIRE RUSSIAN FRONT RESEMBLES GREAT SLUSHY LAKE

Reds Closing In  On Novorossisk Only Major Activity In Kuban Valley

Russian Artillery Pounds Germans  Red Planes Active In Kuban Sector

NOI GUILTY ~ AERIGT By GROSE JURY   Took Only ‘Ten Minutes to _. Free the Tiptcn ~- Young Man.    ONE BALLOT TAKEN   Grose and His Mother ‘Over- joyed’ When Verdic: » Came In . ;

NOT GUILTY VERDICT BY bHUOE JURY   ONE BALLOT TAKEN   Grose and His Mother Gver joyed When Ve-dic: Came “in

ltaly Defense Hub Taken  ae Baintnteraman?®   Nazi Reinforcement Division Repulsed ot Battle at Venafro

Yanks Capture Key Nazi Front in Italy   Victory Certain, Troops Told By Eisenhower

AMERICANS CAUSE JINX ON NAZI PLAN   Fresh Divisions Suffer Beating

GERMANS TRY TO HOLD LINE      Enemy Throwing Fresh.“ Divisions _ into Fight ‘in Futile « Effort’ to > Stop’ American Troops:’

AMERICAN TROOPS TAKE ENEMY BASE   Venafro Is Captured After Reinforcements Are Moved Up By Germans.

British Patrols Cross Garigliano River Barrier   Eighth Army Opens New Threat To Enemy By Capture of Vasto

YUGOSLAVS ADVANCE ON CITY OF STOLAC   Gen, Tito’s Headquarters Also Announce Repulsing of Nazi ‘Attacks In Montenegro

YUGOSLAVS ON TO STOLAC   Guerrillas Centinue Advance, Be pulse German Attacks

YUGOSLAVS SCORE NEW SUCCESSES.   “Advance On Stolac, Repulse Germans, “In Montenegro

New Crisis For  French Polities  de Gaulle May Quit If Demands Aren't Met

DeGaulle Causes Crisis In Africa, Threatens To Quit French Committee

FRESHGRISIS CONFRONTS NEW FRENCH RECIME      DeGaulle Threatens to Resign Unless Certain Frenchmen Are Ousted Fram Committee   FORMER VICHYITES   Pressing Demands; Settlement Difficult In Face of Uncompromis-. ising Attitude

De Gaulle Said Threatening, To Resign Post   Will Quit Unless He Gains Disrnissal of Former Vichy Men

Crisis Develops In French Unity.   DeGaulle. Threatens To Quit Committee

DE GAULLE INSISTING ON VICHY DISMISSALS   General Threatens to Resign From Liberation Committee Unless He Wine Point.

DEGAULLE THREATENS TO QUIT COMMITTEE   General Is Said To Be Insisting Upon Dismissal Of Former * 4 Vichvites

De Gaulle Stand Seen As Cause For New Crisis   Demands Quick Dismissal Gf Ex-Vichy Leaders; Threatens Resignation

De Gaulle May ~— Quit After Spat   French Facing Crisis In Aligers

French Unity Imperiled By Sudden Crisis  De Gaulle Threaten: To Resign From . Committee

FRESH CRISIS ARISES   Reported That General DeGaulle Threatens to Resign

DeGaulle May Withdraw From French Regime   Demands Former Vichvites Purge

DeGaulle May Spike Unity  Insists On Dicitating   Insists On Dictating ‘In New Regime

REPORT DE GAULLE THREATENS RESIGN   Wants New Committee To Bow To His Demands For Dismissal of Certain Frenchmen Still Holding Government Posts.

Fresh Crisis Facing North Africa Regime   Gen. De Gaulle Reported To Be Threatening To Resign  DEMANDS DISMISSALS

American Diet To Be Adequate Civilians Told   But Further Rationing Of Some Commodities Considered Probable

SEE LESS FOOD FOR CIVILIANS   Less To Be Available This Year, Department  Promises

Food Rationing  Mav Be Extended   ‘Adequate Diet’ Per Capita Seen

Adequate Diet for Everyone Promised for 1943 by Department of Agriculture

Adequate American Diet Is Forecast  Further Rationing May Be Ordered

Food Rationing Mav Be Extender  = apes. Eadigueeieee pgp!  eens   ‘Adequate Diet’ Per Capita Seen

Reasonable Food Supply ‘Assured   But Civilians Will Get Less Than in 1942

Soviet Scores Impressive Triumphs At Both Ends Of 1,600 Mile Battle   ine

Most of Ital) rail system lies in ruins   Said useless for defense purposes

Surveys Disclose Italy Rails Completely Ruined  Fliers’ Success Is Even Better Than Was First Believed

ITALY’S RAIL SYSTEM RUIN; BOMB ACTION   Spitfires Break Up _ First Large Attempt By Italian  Planes To Strike Counter =   12 Enemy Planes Lost

Italy’s Railway System Ruined And ‘Valueless   Huge Allied Fleets Of Planes Maintain Heavy Attacks on Naples, South Areas

Rail System Lies in Ruins, Airmen Report   Valueless to Germans In Defense of Italy; Naples Area Hit Again

Much of Italy's Communications Lines Ruined —  AIR FLEETS POUND HARD IN SECTIONS Heavy Attacks in Naples ‘and Southern . Areas

Much of Italy's  Rail System  Is Now in Ruins Huge Allied Air  Fleets Blast Nwelac Garwstkh Rear

Italy's Railway System Hard Hi   ManySections Ruined By Aerial Bombings

BLAST ITALIAN RAIL SYSTEM   Allied Planes Continue to Pound Strategic Areas On Peninsula

Japs Prepared ; for Fight; Got Cold Feet  U. S. Fleet Reports Nips Afraid —

Japs Prepared for Fight; Got Cold Feet   U. S. Fleet Reports Nips Afraid to Stace Batile

British Guns Batter Mareth Defense Line   Eighth Army May Be Open ing Attack On Rommel’s Last Stronghold   WEATHER HINDERS PLANE ACTIVITIES

REDS ADVANCE TO WITHIN 15 MILES BRYANSK   Fierce Battles Rage Before Kharkov, Now Virtually Encizcled by Russian Armies

Nazis Open Series Of Counterattacks But Fail To Check Advance Of Soviet:

Russ Pushinc To Bryansk   Drive of Third Prong Of Army 15 Miles From Strategic City

Drive on Bryansk Goes at Fast Pace   But Russians Meet Stiff Resistance in the Battle  For Kharkov.

Great Drive On Bryansk  Accelerates      But Reds Meet Stiff Resistance Before . Kharkov As Germans Hurl Up Fresh Concentrations of Reserves.

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON BRYANSK   Soviet Troops Meet Stiff Resistance In Blows Against Kharkov

Bryansk Drive Moving Quickly      STIFF RESISTANCE AT BATTLE FOR KHARKOV

SoviEr FORCES: FACING’ FIERCE. RESISTANCE: IN‘ KHAR=KOV BATTLE AS NAZIS THROW IN LARGE CONCEN. TRATIONS OF RESERVES  °   sBe HENRY C. CASSIDY

RUSS RACE AHEAD   --Bryansk Drive Fastest Moring of Red Thrusts   Shatter Defenses.

Russians Push Rapidly Ahead For Bryansk   Stiff Resistance Met In Soviet Push To Capture Kharkov

Reds Smash Near Bryansk   In 15 Miles of Key City; Hard Fighting At Kharkov

DRIVE ON BRYANSK REPORTED BE MOVINC AT MORE RAPID PACE  RUSSIAN FORCES MEETING DETERMINED OPPOSITION AT KHARKOV

Bryansk Drive Moves Faster  Than Other 2   Fierce Strugglé For Kharkov Control’ At Its-Peak

SOVIETS FORGE AHEAD IN BIG FIGHT FOR CHT)   Germans, However. Slow Up Drive On Kharkov

Bryansk Drive Is Moving Rapidly   Russians Now Only 15 Miles From City

SOVIET DRIVE ON BRYANSK SETS RECORD   Push Toward Hinge of Nazi Front Southwest of Moscow Moving Faster Than Any of Three Current Red Thrusts.

Red Troops Closing in On Bryansk   Drive Is Moving At Fastest Pace Of Any of Three  Russian Thrusts

Russian Drive On Bryansk \Moves At Fast Pace: Nazis Fight Fiercely At Kharkov   Germans Using Masses Of Reserves In Desperate Effort To Halt Reds

Russians Close In On Bryansk In 2-Way Push   Germans Counterattack Desperately In Effort To Save Kharkov.

Soviets Step Up Drive Into Bryansk Area   Very Tense Battles Raging Around Kharkov; German Losses Heavy.   GAIN ON LONG FRONT

DRIVE ON BRYANSK, HINGE OF GERMAN FRONT SOUTH OF MOSCOW. MOVING FAST   Enemy Hurling Large Concentrations of Reserve: Into Battle in Attempt To Improve Their Precari ous Position

MOVE ON BRYANSK   Germans Send in’ Reserves and Resistance Stiffens .  at Kharkov .

BRYANSK DRIVE RUSHES AHEAD   Soviet Troops Meeting Stiff Resistance From Nazis At Kharkov.

Large Groups Of Reserves  Used By Nazis   Germans Meeting Little Success in Counter Moves Against Reds

SOVIETS STRIKE ON 3 FRONTS   Greatest Progress Reported at Bryansk Where Encirclement Is Started,

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON NAZIS AT BRYANSK TODAY   Reds Inch Ahead Against Stiff Resistance at Kharkov

REDS 15 MILES FROM BRYANSK   SOVIETS ALSO CLOSE TRAP ON KHARKOV AS ENEMY GIVES GROUND

SOVIETS ROLLING ON TO BRYANSK   Sweeping Gains Reported In One Sector—Stiff Resistance Encountered

RESISTANCE AT KHARKOV STIFFENIG   Drive on Bryansk Moving at - Fastest Pace of Any of Three Current Red Army Thrusts   MORE NAZI RESERVES

Drive on Bryansk Hits Faster Clip   Stiff Resistance Met by Russian Troops In Battle for Kharkov Says Moscow Report

SOVIETS OPEN THROTTLE ON BRYANSK LINE   Germans Offering More Determined Resistance on Other Long Battle Fronts

—RUSSIA—  BRYANSK DRIVE ‘GAINING OPE   Russian Troops Pushing -Toward Important Ger. man Base

SOVIET TROOPS QUICKEN DRIVE NEAR BRYANSK   Steady Advance Along 3 Fronts  Is Announced

RUSSIAN DRIVE IS NOW MOVING AT FAST PACE   Assault on ‘Hinge’ of Moscow Front Is Meeting Stiff Nazi Resistance   KHARKOV FALL EXPECTED

FALL OF KHARKOV NOW IMMINENT: BIG BATTLES RAGE   Red Star Indicates Drive on Bryansk Is Moving At Fastest Pace of Any Three Current Russian Thrusts.

ARMY HOARDING OF FOODSTUFRS MAY BE PROBED   Senate Group -Calls. Offi. cials of. Quartermaster Corps for‘BehindDoor-Testimony   OVERBOUGHT, CLAIM   Purchases-of Canned  Goods and’ Other Com- ©  modities Pinched _ Markets,. Charge

SENATORS PROBE “HOARDING” OF FOOD BY ARMY: POST-WAR PROBLEMS UP FOR ARGUMENT

‘ARMY HOARDING’ OF FOOD AIRED   Senator Truman Calls for Inquiry, Invites Testimony Behind Closed Doors

Army Hoarding Of Foodstuffs Is Investigated   Canned Goods Were ‘Overbought'’

Hoarding By Army Subject Of An Inguiry   Senate Committee Takes Testimony Behind Closed Door:

REP. CLARE LUCE — SCORES WALLACE   First Congressional Speech =... Stresses- War Score“ —_In Aviation

Mrs. Luce Labels Wallace Views As “Globaloney”  Urges Consideration Of Post-War Civilian Aviation

PLANS MAPPED AFTER PARLEYS HIT SNAG   Vinson, Roads Study New Ot fer of NonOperating Groups

Government May  Seize Railroads   Preparations Being Made For Move In Case Strike Is Not Averted   NEW PROPOSAL IS CONSIDERED

ATTORNEY GENERAL PREPARING LEGAL DOCUMENTS FOR USE IF ARGUMENT 18 NOT REACHED -

Navy Claims Rain Cloud Passed Through Large Blimo Hangar at Miami

Vote An Inquiry Of Survey Group   raxpayer Organization Called  Hitlerites — and Skunks in House.

‘Allies Repulse Enemy Attacks Near Sedjenane   Three Attacks Made By Axis In Northern Tunisia Are Routed   HEAVY FIGHTING ON SOUTHERN FRONT

ALLIES CRUSH AFRIKA KORPS' THREE ATTACKS   Eighth Army Presses Ahead in Move to Outflank Mareth Line.   FIGHTING STILL BRISK AROUND KSAR RHILANE

Fifth Army Smashes Ahead In Drive Against Naples   Seven Transport Planes Shot Down As Nazi Forces Attempt To Eva cuate Corsica Icle

5th Army Launches  At Naples   Airmen Blast Air And Sea Fugitives As Full Scale Drive Opens.

Citizens Confer  With Aldermen  On Curfew Law No Immediate   Action Taken  After Diecnuagiona

Citizens Confer With Aldermen On Curfew Law   No Immediate Action Taken After Discussions

Chinese Smash Into Itu; 2,000 Japs Wiped Out   Nanhsien Also Captured As Rout Of Nips On  Upper Yangtze Grows.

Recapture of Itu Announced   Chinese Victory Over Japs Assumes Growing Importance

Chinese Push Japs Back In Steady Drive  U. S. Airmen Helping To Pound Retreating

CHINESE EXTEND AMAZING CAINS   Forces Roll into Yangtze Port After Routing 2,000 Jap Troops

Chinese Forces Smash Way Into Yangtze Port of Itu Affer Annihilating 2,000 Japs

JAPANESE DRIVE TURNS INTO ROUT   Chinese and American Airmen Pour Death into Ranks of Foe

Chinese Turn Battle Into Rout of Japs   Yangtze Port of Itu Is Captured: 2.000 of Foe Annithilated

CHINESE PUSH ON IN DRIVE    Smash Into River Port After Annihilating 2,000 Japanese Troops, Claim Today

Chinese Seize Twelve Towns Continue Pus!   Yangtze Port Of Itu Captured, 2.000 Japanese Troops Annihilated.   ALLIES CONTROL AIR

Chinese rout enemy, drive into Itu port   Seize Nanhsien;  Nippon supply  lines disrupted

YANGTZE PORT OF ITU IS TAKEN BY CHINESE FORCES   Defenders Smash Into City After Anzihilating 2,000 Jap Troops—U. S. and Chinese Airmen irr Battle’s Midst

000 Japs Slain As Chinese  Take Port of Itu  Nanhsien Fails As Nips Flee Allied Airmen

CHINESE oMASH WAY INTO UTM   American and Chinese Airmen Combine to Rout Jananece Forces.

Chinese In Ttu, River Port City   Other Gains Mark Drive  To Remove Jap Threat  Brom Capital

CHINESE TROOPS PUSH INTO PORT HELD BY ENEMY   Fierce Street Fighting Told In Dispatches

Chinese Forces Smash Japs Into Yangtze Port Of Itu And Capture NorthernArea

Gen. Giraud Hails Victory   Says Gafsa First Stop -on Road to Berlin

40-hOUR WEEK IS ATTACKED   Rickenbacker testifies before Senate military committee

SENATE DROPS HGHT AGAINST SUBSIDY PLAN   Instructs Conferees tc Compromise on Measure

Senate Abandons Its Prohibition Against Subsidy   By Vote of 34 to 33 Body Agrees to Accept House Approved Bill.   Would Extend Life of Credit Corp. 6 Months

ANTI-aUBolUlto HIGHT GALLE UKE BY SENATE   Senators Abandon Attempt To Prohibit Payments Of Food Subsidies

SENATE FINALLY  BOWS TO INEVITABLE  ON FOODS SUBSIDIES ITS CONFEREES INSTRUCT ED TO ACCEPT MODI Lien LIACr Dit Ff

Senate Votes To Lift Ban On Subsidies   To Accept Version of House Approved Measure

MAY Rak SENATE TO GHANGE STAND   Attempt Is Being Made To Retain Meat-Butter Rollback   RBYULLETIN

‘SENATE FINALLY OWS TO INEVITABLE ON FOODS SUBSIDIES  ITS CONFEREES INSTRUCT ED TO ACCEPT MODIFIED HOUSE BILL

Senate Abandons  Subsidies Battle  Modified Version Of House Plan To Pass

Senate abandons prohibition of food subsidies   Plan to accept modified version of CCC measure

Senate Drops Fight Against Subsidy Prograrr   Conferees Drop Measure and will Ask Vote on Floor

Subsidy W ins inSenate   Finally Gives In To House Bill Version 

Senate Bows To Thre Of bhi    Abandons Legislative Prohibition Against Subsidies; Giraud and FDR Discuss Military Questions

Veto Threat On Subsidies  Beats Senate   Upper House Gives Up Its Prohibition of Food Price Support

Senate Drops Ban on Food Price Subsidies   Conferees Told To Accept House Measure

Senate Votes To Lift Ban ‘On Subsidies   To Accept Version of House Approved Measure   Steak Pan May Sizzle Again as Beef Herds Start Move to Market

Senate GivesIn On Subsidies   Approve  the House ;: Bill. Extending Life of CCC a and Allowing: Food: Price Subsidies

Senate Drops” Subsidies Ban   Bows to Threat of Veto By One Vote

One-Vote Margin Removes Ban on Food Rol!-Back   Conference Report Ending Insurance on Crops Is Approved

Asks Senate To Recede On Stand Against Food Subsidies Immediately

SUBSIDY FIGHT DELAYS RECESS   Compromise Is Sought Over CCC Bill Deadlock

SENATE DROPS PROHIBITION OF SUBSIDY PAY   7 By Vote cf 34 to 33, Instructs Con  ferees Accept House CCC Bill  Estending CCC   ROLLBACKS WIN   Action Leaves in Force Coniroversial Pricing Program of Administralion

SENATE MAY RECEDE (IN SUBSIDY STAND   Possible Congressional Recess Tonight if Controversies Can Be troned Out

Lawmakers Still Consider Subsidy  Would Compromise On Opposing, Not Outlawing Rollback

Senate Quits Fight Agamst Subsidy Plan   Threat Of Presidential Veto Causes Abandonment Of  Battle.   SEN. GEORGE OBJECTS

Reds Bolster Left Flank By Beating Nazis   Overcome Unexpectedly Strong Opposition Around Kharkov

BITTER BATTLE WON BY SOVIETS AROUND KHARKOV   Powerful Counter Attacks Being Mounted by Germans But Russ Lines Holding Firm

Reds Wir  Fierce Battle   NAZI DEFENSE BROKEN SOUTHEAST OF KHARKOV AS RUSS BOLSTER FLANK

RED TROOPS — WIN BATTLE INEAR KHARKOV   German Defenses Of City Stronger Than Expected

4,000 NAZIS KILLED BY RED ARMY   Crucial Struggle Ends In Great Victory For Russians

Soviets Break Nai Lines Below Kharkov   Russian Triumph Held Vital In Ukraine War

NAZI UKRAINIAN DEFENSE BROKEN   Clearcut Russian Triumph May Prove Vital Factor In Decisive Battle

Red Army's Left Flank Bolstered   Crucial Struggle In Forests Ends In Soviet Victory

RUSSIANS WIN BITTER BATTLE   Break German Defenses Southeast . of Kharkov — Materially Boister  Left Flank of Red Army Ham“ mering Ukranian Strongholds.

Russians Win Big Battle South-East Of Kharkov   Left Flank Of Red Army Is Bolstered   Persistent Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Beaten Off

RUSSIANS BEAT NAZIS BACK IN KHARKOV AREA   Triumph May Clear Way to Drive to Dnieper River

RUSSIAN TROOPS SCORE VICTORY BELOW KHARKO\   German Defenses Broken After Heavy Fighting; Reds Continue Advance in RBrvanek Sector.

Bill Provides Postwar Plans For Aviation   Government Regulated and Financed Aeronautics to Be “Considered by Congress When It Meets in Fall

GOVERNMENT PLANS TO REGULATE AND FINANCE AVIATION  POSTWAR PROGRAM REPORTED DRAWN UP ~ FOR CONGRESS ACTION

Far-Reaching Aviation Plar   Bill Drawn for U. S, Con trol of I aduntey

Plan Postwa: Aviation Progran   Far-Reaching Legis lation Framed to Take Care of Expected Expansion of Sky Travel

GOVERNMENT PLANS TO REGULATE AND FINANCE: AVIATION  POSTWAR PROGRAM REPORTED NRAWN Ip

Postwar Aviation Plan Drawn Up For Fall Action   Framers in Congress Call it Far-Reaching In 40-Years’ History

Joint Draft:Plan Goes Into Effect: M onday; ‘With Quotas Foy:Each State. Local: Board

Joint Draft Is Effective Next Monday   Conscript Men For Army. Navy

Joint System for Drafting Men Announced   New Arrangement Goes Into Effect on Monday

JOINT SYSTEM IS MADE FOR SERVIC   Drafted Men Will Not Know Which Branch They Are To Be Assigned.

Joint Draft Plan Goes Into Eifect Monday, With Quotas For Each State. Local Board

Draft System Affects All ‘Armed Service   Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard Under New Program

FOUR SERVICE BRANCHES 10 JOIN IN DRAF I   MANPOWER NEED OF U.S. PLACED AT 65 MILLION

Joint Draft Plan For Services In Effect Monday  Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard Will Draw From Same List

Armed Services  Agree on Joint Draft System  Selective Service Announces Plan Effective Monday  HIGHER STANDARDS  Individual Preference As to Branch Will Be  Given Consideration

All Branches Of Service To Gain Under New Draft  Individual Preference O: Inductee se Get Fullest   : Pricey ve Geese eee 4pm

Drafting for All Services Begins Mon.   Men Over 38 Will Be Discharged as Soon as Possible

Soviets Tighten Hold On Bases   Beat Off Mounting  Nazi Counterattacks

RUSSIANS TIGHTEN GRIP ON 3 BASES, REPULSE ATTACKS   Germans Take Advantage of Inclement Weather, Reds Wallow tn Deep Mud as Planes Are Downed.   OPEN ANOTHER WEEK OF ASSAULTING JAP:   50 Planes Bomb Larga Area In New Britain Coast, 68 Tons of Bombs Used In Blastings.

Reds Smash Ahead in White Russia   Bad Weather Hampers Recovery Effort In Ukraine

MUD HALTS ALL ARMIES INRUSSIA ”   Weather Also Grounds Air  Forces There

RICKENBACKER 1S INVITED. JO. ADDRESS THE ASSEMBLY   ‘LABOR BAITER” CHARGE HURLED BY TWO CUYA‘HOGA COUNTY REPRE. SENTATIVES CAUSED STORMY SESSION

ASSEMBLY ASKS ‘RICK TO SPEAK   Senate Takes Steps To Stop Sale Of Young Veal On Black Markets

SE RN TR. ETL NTO RTGTNEeRR TOTS. MET EY fay Sane NE ce  NAL: PRISONERS IS NOT IN: RUINS ~NEW YORK ARE AMAZED —   EXTENT OF GERMAN SOLDIERS ACCEPTANCE OF PROPAGANDA AS TRUTH RE . VEALED BY CAPTURED MEN

NAZIS NOT TOLD AFRICA IS LOST   Prisoners Led to Believe New York in Ruins

@ PROPAGANDA PUPPETS  German Soldiers Are Amazingly Ignorant of War Conditions

gon . } . Saeco + y . :   Emergency Decision Temporarily Removes from Rationing All Dried or Dehydrated Soups — Reductions Atsa Listed for Fruit and Vegetabie duices.

ENEMY I$ PUT IN BAD SPOT BY OTH ARMY   CONTINUED RETREAT TOWARD ROME DUE WITHIN HOURS

Laud Allied Staff Leaders  For Advancing Toward Rome   Eisenhower Pattern In Battle Of Sicily Recalled As Yanks And British Continue North

De Gaulle Raps French Regime   Says New Government Is Baseless—Disagrees With Girand

DeGaulle Crifical at Giraud Regime   Would Restore Republic’s Laws

DE GAULLE IS FAR FROM SATISFIED   iNew ‘Government in North Africa Declared ‘Baseless and Artificial’

BRICKER HAS — NAMED MOORE   CANTON NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHER 18 PRESIDENTIAL « CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR BRICKER BOOM

MOORE DIRECTS BRICKER’S DRIVE   Canton Publisher Choser as National Campaign Manager

U.S. Aims Bombs At Nassau Bay   MacArthur's Men Hit Jap Pacific Holds

NASSAU BAY IS TARGET OF ALLIED PLANES      Fortress Beats Off Four Zeroes In 160 Mile Fight

MacArthur’s Airmen Slash At Jap Bases   Attack Over Wide Front, Bomb AA at Nubia, Supplies at Dobo

Geysers Of. Flame Rise From City   British Lose 41 Planes In Night Operations Against Berlin And Other Nazi Targets

Nazis Smash Back At Berlin Raiders   RAF Battles Germans in Attack On Reich Capital. Lose 41 Planes

‘Blockbusters Battle Nazis in Great Melee   11 Allied Aircraft Missing from Day’s Operations that Included Western Reich—Tarvet Lighted by Fires

Bombs Dropped During Violent. Aerial Battle   RAF Loses 41 Planes As Nazi Defenses ‘Show Greatest Strength Yet Offered. :

2,000 Tons Of Explosives Are. Dropped On City   RAF Loses 41 Planes in Raid Last Nisht Against Concentration of German Defense Weapons and Fighters.

BRITISH ATTACK NAZIS’ CAPITAL IN GREAT FORCE   Many Fires Set As Blitz Against Hitler's Greatest City Is Resumed; 41 Aijircraft Lost In Night's Operations.

Gigantic Air Battle Over Nazi Capital   Great Fires Left Raging in 30Minute Assault; 4) Planes Lost

FURIOUS AERIAL BATTLE STAGED ABOVE CAPITAL   Great Geysers of Flame Seen Shooting Up From Stricken City

BERLIN LEFT IN FLAMES BY RAF BOMBERS   British Lose 41 Aircraft in Greatest Battle With  German Defense.   Nearly 2,000 Tons of Explosives Dropped

Most Bombed City in World Suffers Spreading Attack   At Least Thirty Four-Ton Blockbusters on Reich’s Capital

Fire Paths Light Way   Fierce Attack Lasted Half An Hour; Over At Eight P. M.; Thirty Four-Ton Blockbusters Dropped On The German City.

CREAT AIR DUEL “WERNHZI EIT   German Capital Battered ‘For Fifth Time Ey Two  Weeks   41 BOMBERS LOST   RAF Blockbusters Inflict _ New Damage On Hard ’ Hit German Capital

RE LOST IN  AIRCRAFT ATEST RAIDS   Imost Unprecedented Air Battles Rage Over German Capital For More Than An Hour   WAITING FOR ATTACK

Berlin Is Attacked Again By Huge RAF   German Capital Is Assaulted In ‘Great Strength’; 41 Planes Fail To Return

Great Geysers Of Fire Leff in Stricken City   British Encounter Heaviest Ack-Ack Fire and Fighter Opposition in Raid

British Planes Stage Greafest Raid On Capital   German Defenders Fail To Scatter Night Bombers

CORD AIR FIGHT WAGED OVER CAPITAL      Explosives, Including at Least 30 Four-Ton Block-Busters, Blanket Metropolitan Area — Great Fires Are Set.

THE CITY WAS ALREADY ONE-THIRD DEMOLISHED   The Squadron of Big Bombers Went Through Heavy AntiAircraft Fire and Slugged It Out With Fighters.

German Capital Left In Flames; RAF Squadrons  Meet-Fierce Resistance

Nazis Were Prepared for Attack and Battle of the Air Began 65 Miles Before British Planes Reach ed Capital. Was One of Greatest Night Air  Rattlae in Hietary

Greatest Air Battle; Huge Fires Blaze   600 Bombers Drop 2000 Tons on : Capital; 30 4-Ton ‘Busters’

British Attack Berlin; Fight Greatest Ar Battle of War   Drop 2000 Tons of Ex plosives and Fire  Bombs

‘RAF BLOCKBUSTING  ARMADAS RAID NAZI  CAPITAL LAST NIGHT BRITISH ANNOUNCE LOSS  OF 41 PLANES IN BIG CEST RATTLE YET

RAF Blockbusters Stage Fifth Attack In 2-Week Period   British Report Loss Of 41 Planes; Oppose Scores Of Enemy Craft; Smoke, Flame Climb 3 Miles

Blockbusting Armadas Continue Relentless Campaign To Destroy German Capital With Heavy Raid   British Lose 41 Aircraft In Attacks On Enemy Targets As Germans Throw In Large Formations Of Planes To Intercept Raiders

Huge Fires Left Burning In Capital   RAF Loses 41 Planes ‘in . Great Air Battle

FIERCE NlGnT BATTLE FAILS TO HALT BALD   RAF Pushes Thru Swarms of  Nazi Fighters, Loses 41 Rlanaec in Attank

RAF Attacks German Capital In Great Strength For Fifth Time In Two Weeks, Pouring Nearly 2,000 Long Tons Of Explosives And Incendiaries Upon Smouldering City—41 Aircraft Lost In Night’s Operations—Furious Aerial Battle Fought

41 Aireraft Lost In Half Hour Blasting   Bombers Drop Nearly 2.000 Long Tons Of Explosives, Incendiaries.   BLANKET WHOLE AREA

RAF RETURNS TO BOMB-TORN NAZI GAPITAL   2.000 Tons of Explosives Smash City; Engage In Bitter Air Duels

At Least 30 Four-Ton Blockbusters Hurdle Down Among Defenders.   BRITISH LOSE 41 PLANES

‘Giant Air Battle Rages as Berlin Gets 2,000 Tons   ‘ 600-Plane: Armada: Braves Swarm: of Fighters to Shatter Capital; ‘41 Craft Lost in Moonlicht Fisht

RAF FORCED 10 FIGHT BIGGEST BATTLE OF WAR   Squadron of Bombers   Drives Through Defense   As Far As Fifty Miles From City   41 PLANES LOST IN 90-MINUTE BATTLE   More Than 2,000 Tons of   Explosives Dropped; Ber  lin Admits Destruction Is Widespread

HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED OVER CITY OF RUINS   RAF Loses 41 Planes in Fierce Battle — 30 Blockbusters Dropped

Great Fires Race In City   Germans Put Up Bitter Battle But Can’t Stop Bombers

MAJOR ATTACK IN TWO WEEKS   41 Planes Lost In Action; Nearly 2,000 Long Tons Of Bombs Fall; Flames Shoot 3 Miles High

Fifth Big Raid In 2 Weeks   Terrific Battle Over City As Nazis Shoot Works In Defense

BRITISH LOST 41 PLANES IN ALL ATTACKS   2,000 Tons of Bombs Pounded Capital in  Renewed Assault

Nazis Employ  All Means To Halt Raid   British Lose 41 Warplanes in Fifth Attack On Reich Capital in Two Weeks; Four-Ton Block Busters Used by Attackers

pky Battle .  Over Elbe _   Is Severe   British Admit Loss of 41 Aircraft—Heavy Pighter Opposition

CITY IN FLAMES AS AIR ARMADA FINISHES WORK   One of Greatest Air Battles In History Fails To Stop Renewal of Assaults

British Lose 41 Planes In Raid   1,000 Tons Of Bombs Kindle New Fires In Nazi City

41 Bombers Listed Lost In Big Raid   Squadrons Of German Fighters Meet British Force Outside City; Canital In Flames

Nearly 2,000 Long Tons Of Bombs Add To Devastation In City; R. A. F. Loses 41 Planes.

Berlin Again Battered by RAF Bombers   Every Section of City Hit; 41 Allied Planes Reported Lost

CHANGE IN SUGAR   Each Person Will Be Allowed 5  Pounds for 11 Weeks

RATIONED FOOD FOR RESTAURANTS WILL BE SLASHED MAR,   Skimpier Menus And Smaller Portions To Result

Retreate 14 Miles   Quotas on Sugar Changed; To Get 5 Pounds, 1] Weeks

 The of Pai: 1 Are Re: ued   William (= ghiin, Edith  ta Godwin L.” .xives When

Manufacturer Hits  Low Profits Deal  Says War Plants Are Being Penalized

Pay Boost Given Boeing Workers   Stabilization Policy Stretched By WLB

AINCRAFT WORKERS GET SALARY BOOST   WLB Helps in Possible Solution of West Coast Mannower Crisis.

Policies Assailed By Leader   Warns Of Prospective Failure Unless  Young Lawyers  Are Eased Out.

MAXON QUITS OPA, BLASTS AGENCY SETUF   Calls for Purge of ‘Slide-Rule’ Theorists

Ceiling Price. On Meat Cuts Listed by OPA   Values Effective May 17 In Utah, Idaho and Wyoming

Secures Valuable Building In Akron  _H. H. Wetzeler Make:  Good Investment

BUSINESS PROPERTY HAS NEW OWNER   H. H. Wetzeler Bids In Former Akron Savings Bank. Building Friday

SIX KNOWN DEAD IN FLOOD WATERS      Arkansas... River .CrumblingLevees as it Crushes  Southward

CRUISER !S DAMAGED IN ATTACK   Sardinia Also Feel: Sting Of Allied Bombing Sweep

Fortresses Hit Port Of Leghorn   ITALIAN CRUISER AND FOUR SUPPLY SHIPS DAMAGED

NORTHERN ITALIAN PORT OF LEGHORN HIT BY FORTRESSES   MADE ROUND TRIP OVER THOUSAND MILES DROPPING TONS OF BOMBS

LEGHORN, ITALY ATTACKED WITH NO U. $. LOSSES   Fortresses Make Round Trip Of Over 1,000 Miles To Blast Italian Port; Islands  Also Attacked.

Cruiser, 4 Ships Oil Tankers, Rails, Industries Hit   Great Ruin Created int Raid on Italian City; 175 Killed and 300 Injured. All Planes Return Safely.

100 AMERICAN PLANES WREAK HAVOC IN ITALY   Several Hundred Tons of Bombs Poured On Port  City In Nine Con  centrated Minutes   SHIPS, OIL TANKS, PLANTS SHATTERED   Destruction So Great Tha For Five Hours Attack Port Is Enveloped In  Fire and Smoke ©

‘Li ght Cruiser, Four Supply Shi ps Damaged; Wreak Havoc 1 nOil Su nplivs. Rail Yards   Industrial Plants Also Ward Hit: ‘Very Great? Damage Admitted By ftalians; AN Storage Tanks And Renners A\blize: sardinia Pounded

Italian Port Of Leghorn Is Dealt Smashing Blow © By 100 Flying Fortresses

Flying Forts Hammer Leghorn Italian Port.   Four-Engined Bombers Return Home Without A Loss.

FORTS PUMMEL ITALIAN PLANTS   Light Cruiser Hit, Rail Yards Blasted at Leghorn by Yanks

DAMAGE FOUR SUPPLY SHIPS AND CRUISER   One Hundred Planes, Flying 1,100 Miles Round Trip, Also Blast Oil Tanks, Rail Yards and War Plants.

Italian Port Hammered By U. S. Bombers   ‘Very Great Damage’ at Leghorn Is Admitted by the Italians   R.A.F. PLANES FROM MALTA ALSO STRIKE   Other Mediterranean Spots Shot Up by Fighters; Shipping Damaged

Cruiser Damaged In Fortress Raid On Italian Port   Four Supply: Ships Also. Hit? ‘Havoc » Created in Oil Tanks, Railway Yards And Industria! Plants'at.Leqhorn ..

Tribune Notte.   Light Cruiser As Damaged in ‘Leghorn Raid   _ All Fortrasses Re- turn; Sardinian - Airports Bombed

Forts Attack Italian Port Of Leghorn   Damage Light Cruiser, Four Supply Ships and Set Oil Tanks Afire

War Plants, Shipping,  Oil Tanks, Railways Bear Brunt Of Assaults

I lying Forts Make Trip Of 1.100 Miles   No Losses As City Of Leghorn Shattered With Bombs

175 WERE KILLED IN AN ATTACK ON LEGHORN, ITALY   Three Hundred Persons Were Reported to Have Been Injured.   A CRUISER IS DAMAGED   Five Hours After Raid the Port Was Heavily Covered With Smoke.

100 FLYING FORTRESSES HIT LEGHORN   Italy. With Several Hundred Tons of Bombs. Cruiser, 4 Supply  Ships Hit

U.S. Bombers Cause Havoc At Leghorn   ‘Cruiser and Supply Ships Damaged; Oi] Tanks and  «=> Rail Yards Hit

U.S. Fortresses Blast Italians’ Base At Leghorn   Havoc At Railway Yards, Oil Tanks Left By Bombers

TRIED TQ ESCAPE   James Bailey Was Being Taken to Topeka By Sheriff's Force

TRIED TO’ ESCAPE   James Bailey Was Being _ Taken to Topeka, By ~ Sheriff’s Force

Japs Once Lost 30,000 in Landing   Major Says During Solomons Drive Only 560 Prisoners Taken

JAPS ‘DO IT OR DIE’ YANK OFFICER SAYS   Marine General on Solomons Describes Losses

Japanese Face Big Losses at Bairoka Harbor   Americans Closing In or Last Stronghold on New Georgia   deavy Casualties Inflictec on Convoy of Enemy Shipping

Encircled Japs Still Hold Out at Bairoko   Closing of Trap by Yanks Continues: One Vessel in Enemy Convoy Sunk by Bomber: Jap Plane Heard Over Australia

Japs Still Battle As Allies Move On Last Toehol¢   U. §. Bomber Sinks Enemy Vessel In South Pacific

Americans Seal Japs Doom on New Georgia   Enemy Is Trapped in Closing Arc of Hot Steel

JAPS CLING TO GEORGIA HOLD   Island Trap Is Drawn Closer: Liberator Sinks Vessel

JAPS STILL ARE HOLDING OUT AT BAROKO   Last Foothold On New Georgia Island Is 10 Miles Above Munda _ Airfield; Taken By Marines.   Raid Woodlark

TRAP CLOSING ON BAIROKO HARBOR   Japanese Cling Desperate. ly to New Georgia Is-land Position

Russians Sweep Through Don and  Caucasus Areas   Soviet Armies Force Way Closer to Rostov, Shap ing a Pincers.   Drive Only 65 Miles From Don River Port

OVER 20 ADDITIONAL TOWNS RETAKEN, CAMPAIGN TURNING INTO ENGINEERS OFFENSIVE   Melting Snow Turning Caucasus Roads Into Bogs. 34,000 Land Mines Reported Neutralized In One Sector. Nazis Fight Like Beasts

Four Russian Armies Fight Way Ahead It Mud, Snow   Carrying Out Giant   Carrying Out Giant Enveloping Process On Entire Lower Pastern Front

bad Weather Fails To Halt Red Advances   German Forces Described As “Fighting Like Beasts In A Cage”  ye.. Fee’ wsua”r se vy° a4 cong &’

DRIVE ON ROSTOV CONTINUES GAINS   Russians Remove Thous: ands of Mines Planted by Retreating Nazis

ON THROUGH MUD BOGS, ~ HEAVY FOG   “Thousandse of “Land Mines - Removed as ..Push Inio “----Gagncasus Deepens   GIANT ENVELOPING “MOVE UNCHECKED      Germans. Are ‘Fighting “Like Beasts ina Cage,’ But Russians. Proceed

Cold Rains and Snow Slow Up Caucasus War   Long Cofumns of Russians Pushing Slowly Toward Rostov

DESPITE FOG TROOPS MOVE NORTH, WEST   Advance Is Over Boggy Roads, With Visibility Limited to 100 Yards in Some Areas—34,000 Mines Removed.

Fourth Develops Pincers Movement against Rail Center of Georgievsk in Cancasns   STRAKHOV TAKEN   Cold Rains and Melting Snow Turn Roads Info Bogs, Campaign Inio Engineers’ Offensive

Russians Push on Toward Objective: Approach Rostoy   Nazi Claim of Straightening Line Derided in Red Bulletin

GIANT ENVELOPING MOVEMENT AGAINST GERMANS IN SOUTH  COLD RAINS AND MELTING SNOW CONVERT ROADS INTO BOGS

Reds Ignore Bad Weather And Push On   Cold Rains And Light, Melting Snow Hinder Advancing Army   TAKE MORE CITIES   Zimovniki Aud Other Towns Taken After Hard Fighting

RED ENGINEERS REMOVE THOUSANDS ‘OF LAND MINES   Germans Described As “Fighting Like Beasts In A Cage”

Large Amounts of Jap Supplies Taken   Enemy Leaves 9300 Dead Behind as They Retrect

Beachhead Is Widened   Yanks On Bougainville Extending Footholds

YANKS EXTEND FOOTHOLDS ON BOUGAINViLLE   Village ‘of Pava Is Taken; Equipment Captured

Large Amounts of Jap Supplies Taken  Enemy Leaves 300 Dead Behind   Enemy Leaves 300 Dead Behind as They Retreat

Forts Attack Nazi Cities Tn Daylight   Widespread Raids Cost Germans 54 Planes, Allies 26

DAY RAIDERS SMASH CITIES GF GERMANY   Upwards Of 54 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Defense Of Hannover, Wilhelmshaven  And Wesermunde   Essen Bombed

iew Daylight Smash lasts 23 Big Bombers; amburg Is Hardest Hit   #\ mericans in Sicily Continue Drive Toward Messina British Continue Pressure on Axis at Catania; . Russians Capture 70 More Towns in Orel Region

Battered Ruins Of Nazi Cities: Lashed By Forts   Crews “Have Made  History,” Chief Of 1) Capea Chee

Hamburg and Other Cities Are Bombed   rae es Attaeks Are Follow-Up for Giant Assault on Essen

Fortresses Returr To Hamburg; Hit Industrial Cities   ® Germans Lose 54 Planes; Allies 2 in Heavy Assaults

HAMBURG RAIDED BY FORTRESSES IN DAY ATTACK   Hannover, Wilhelmshaven And Wesermunde Also Bombed By Allies   54 GERMAN PLANES REPORTED DESTROYED

Three Other German Cit-ies Hit in Daylight Raids  26 ALLIED PLANES LOST IN BATTLES  Upwards of 54 Axis Planes Reported Shot Down

Battered Ruins Of Nazi Cities : Lashed By Forts   Crews ‘Have Made History,” Chief Of  t}S Earerac Save

U.S., RAF Hit Big Nazi Sites in Raid   Airfighters Score 54-26 Over Enemy Defenders

Americans Bomb Hamburg Ruins; Blast Hannover   Flying Fortresses Pay An other Visit fo the Continent

Flying Forts Raid Hamburg Other Cities   Daylight Raids Cost Nazis 54 Planes to 26 for Allies; French, Belgium Areas Blasted

UL 5, FLIERS HIT 4 NAZI CITIES IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS   Attack Climaxes Three Days of War’s Heaviest Bombings of Port. of Hambure.   54 ENEMY PLANES AND 26 ALLIED ARE LOST   RAF Joins Other American  Airmen to Batter German Bases in France and Belgium.

Nazis Blasted By Fortresses   Yankees Bomb Four Big German Cities

Four Germar Towns Hit By Yanks   U. S. and British Strike Belgian And French Bases

Forts Heavily Batter Four  German Cities 23 Bombers and 3   23 Bombers and 3 Fighters Lost; 54 Nazis Downed

BOMBS RAINED ON HANNOVER AND HAMBURG   FORTRESSES BLAST FACTORIES; ESSEN HIT AGAIN

Sustained Air Offensive Pounds Four  Reich Cities  Hamburg Hit Again By Flying Fortresses, Also Wilhelmshaven,   RAF GIVES ESSEN THOROUGH BLASTING

ALLIES POUND NAZI CENTERS   Fortresses Blast Hamburg, Other Cities and Bag 54 Enemy Planes

NAZI PROPAGANDA LEADERS WORRIED   Trying to Ward Off Any Kickbacks From Big  Conference   FEAR FOR HOME FRONT

Nazis Start Building Up Word Shelter   War Parleys Bring Quick Reaction Both From Germany, Japan

LEADERS WORRIED   Trying to Ward Off Any Kickbacks From Big  Conference    FEAR FOR HOME FRONT

Giraud Agrees To Confer — With De Gaulle  Recmest for Delay   Request for Delay Meets Rebuke Of Army Leader

French Leaders: Near Agreement   Giraud Asks Delay In Unity Meeting .

Bishop Leonard Killed In Crash   Dies With Lieut. Gen. An drews In Plane Accident In Iceland   FORMER BISHOP OF PITTSBURGH AREA

Plane Deaths Cast Gloom   Gen. Andrews and Bishop are Among Victims

atN MAXWELL AND BISHOP DIE IN AIR CRASH   Other Military Leaders Believed to Have Perished

EARLY PRIMARY VOTE 1S. ASKED BY GOVERNOR   Suggests July 11 To Give Time for Soldier  Vote In Fall

Governor Urges July 11 Primary   Acts To Expedite Vote OF Service Man

Tax Bill Given Final Overhauling      May Reach Senate Early Next Week

Murray Bids CIO Chiets For May 14   *LLEGES COMPLETE FAILURE ON PART OF GOVERNMENT TO CARRY CUT PRESIDENT’S STABILIZATION PLAN

STABILIZATION FAILS, CLAIM   Murray Calls cio Board To Mobilize Support For FDR Directive

MURRAY SLAP AT OPA POLICY   Stabilization Is Failure. President Of CIO Teils Officers

CIO Executive Session Called   Stabilization Plan le Called Failure

CIO CHIEF CALLS MAY 14 MEETING   Executive Board Summoned Ag. Cleveland By Philip...» ~~." Wurray

CIO President Calls for Meet May 14   Executive Board Will Probe Problems — Confronting Nation

STABILIZATION HELD FAILURE   Murray Calls Meeting Of CIO Committee For May 14; Denounces Price Boosts

TUM HARMION HAS BEEN FOUND   Former Football Star Was Missing Twice in Seven Months.

Reds Hit Back at Kharkov   SOVIETS RECOVER TO ADVANCE ON SOUTHERN RUSSIAN BATTLEFRONT

REDS PULL» A COMEBACK NEAR KHARKO\    Take Several - ‘Towns in New Counter-Attack

Advance s Also Made  On Smolensk   Russians Withstand Attacks by Scores of Stuka Dive Bombere

Soviets Seize  2 Strongholds   And 60 More Villages Are Captured

REDS STAGE “COME-BACK ~ AT KHARKOV   Hurl Germans Out Of , ,Several Villages In Counter-Blow

oviet Forces Also Counter- Attack In Kharkov Area, Hold Donets Positions Against Nazi Dive-Bombers

SOUTHEAST OF KHARKOY   Russians Are Reported 40 Mi. From Smolensk

COUNTER-ATTACKS HURL NAZIS FROM NEWLY WON ZONE   Overrun 60 Mere Towns tr Enveloping Drive on Srinlanel.

NAZIS OUT Of MORE CITIES   Advance on Great City of Smolensk Is Continuing

REDS 40 MILES FROM SMOLENSK   Kecapture Villages Only 18 Miles From Kharkov In Fierce Counterattacks

GERMAN TANKS FAIL 0 OPEN PATH FOR ARMY   Nazis Hurl In Air Power Against Red Positions Below Kharkov.

SOVIETS TAKE MORE POINTS NEAR KHARKO\   Overrun Sixty Towns in Advance on Smolensk

FIGHTING REPORTED   Russian Offensives In ~ North And Central  Sectors Advance

GIRLS’ AUXILIARY OF ZOOT SUITERS ENTERS GANG WAR   Dark-eyed “Cholitas,” Carrying Razors, Engage In Street Fights.

How To Handle Female Zoot Suitors  Presents Problem For Servicemen

Razor-Armed Cholitas In Zoot Warfare   ‘Black Widows’ Wielding Brass Knuekles In Newest Outbreak.

FEMALE ZO0TSUITERS CARRY ON GANG FIGHT   Cholitas’ Vows To Keep Alive Feud With Service Men

Loot-Suit Auxiliary Is Defiant   “Cholitas” Vow to Carry on Fight  Againet Sarvicaman

‘CHOLITAS” PACKING RAZORS IN EFFORTS - TO AID THEIR PALS   Disturbances in Los Angeles Continue With Females Taking Active Part.

GIRLS JOINING IN ‘ZOOT SUIT STREET FIGHT   Waitress Is Attacked — Girls Garbed In Midnight Black

Senator Suggests Vice President Apologize to US.  Expenses of ‘Global WPA” Subject Of Hot Exchanae

butler Says Apology Due Taxpayers For “Wild And Wooly Global WPA Activities”

Stock Prices Drop on Market   Selling Apparently Based on F. D. R.’s Anti-Inflation Order

i SPLITS. IN ASSEMBLY   GOVERNOR MAY INTERVENE IN . EFFORT TO END SCRAPS BETWEEN REPUBLICAN ‘ GROUPS

HALE’S TRIAL DELAYED   Defense Witnesses in , Wichita  Sheriff's Case Late in Arriving

J: C. Millar, Top Turret Gunnery, Participates in Altack on Mazi-Held Fighter Bases; Heavy Clouds Open Up Lang Enough for Crew To Ticp Bomb Load at Caen

FLYING OVER FRANCE      Sergeant Bergman of Lawrence Was a Member of the Crew

TOLD TO EXCLUDE PUPILS WHO ARE ILI   Superintendent Bagshaw Acts Promptly Upon Receipt Of Message From State Health Secretary

Thrilling Sea. Fight Revealed  . Sailor Chokes - ; _ And Drown 4 deer:

CHOKES JAP SAILOR AND DROWNS HIM IN TERRIFIC STRUGGLE   Wounded Coast Guardsman Tells of Experience in Guadalcanal Waters. .

Push Tax Bill, Leader Urges   Start Levy by July, McCormack Says

New Fight Over Taxes ‘Foreseen   Some Pay - As - You - Go Plan is Forecast By McCormack — Doubt Is  . Shown By Morgenthau

NO ‘PAY-AS-YOU-60’ TAX PLAN LIKELY EFFECTIVE IN 743   Morgenthau Pleased House Defeated Carlson Plan To “Forgive”  Paymoente

‘Call The Herald   TAX PROGRAN COMPROMISE WINS. FAVOR   McCormack Urges Some Kind Pay-As-You-Go Tax By July 1

Gigantic Fleet Of RAF. Bombers Hits Duesseldorf   ‘‘Great Preliminary To Invasion’’ Attacks Are Being Made Upon Germany   ATTACK EQUALS DORTMUND SMASH

Called Prelude To Invasion On Continent   Termed ‘Great Preliminary”  To Attack

SECOND BIGGEST ATTACK OF WAR STAGED BY RAF   One of Three Japs Positions on Attu Wiped Out by Americans

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Gigantic Fleet of Bombers Blasts Duesseldorf

Congress for Dependency Measure   Provides $50 Monthly For Wife, $30 for First Child

REP, BROWN OPENS BATTLE TO AVERT MIDWEST GAS GUT   No Shortage, He Advises Ickes; Hits Further Restrictions

LINK DETROIT DOCTOR WITH SABOTAGE   Had Already Been Arrested As Spy Suspect

ORIOAN'S LINK TO SPIES GIVEN   Physician Sought To Place “Leader” In Ford Plant, Dies Group Reveals

OhIO-BORN DOCTOR, § PY SUSPECT, TRIED TO UNDERMINE FORD WORKERS, DIES SAYS

DETROIT PHYSICIAN REPORTED INVOLVED IN SABOTAGE PLANS   More Details of Alleged Spy Program Are Revealed by U.S. Inves tigators.

Dr. Thomas Accused in  Dies Report   Committee Links ‘Him With Leader Of Anti-Semitics

AUXILIARY WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR FRACTURE BEDS   Two Of The Devices To Be Available For Use In This County

2 FRACTURE BEDS! TO BE PURCHASEL      May Be Used In: Ay Home Or Hospital . As Needed .

IRWIN BOOKS SURRENDERED   Federal Grand Jury Begins Its Hearing; Fairless to Testify.

Bullitt Resigns To Run For Mayor  Navy Assistant To Try For Philadelphia Post

Sixty Enemy Planes Blasted In Week - Long Solomon Fight   Unidentified U. S. De-stroyer, 22 Aircraft Lost Jan. 29-Feb. 4

Beaten Foe Fleeing Key Coastal Town 22 Miles From Sfax   Hammering From Air Forces Flight On Broad Front Between Uplands; 10,800 Axis Troops Taken Prisoner

BRITISH EIGHTR TROOPS PURSUE FLEEING FORCES   Allied Aircraft Blast Retreating Axis Soldiers

AMERICAN FORCE TIGHTENS VISE ON BEATEN AXIS   British Eighth Army in Hot Pursuit of Remnants Of Rommel’s Army   PRISONERS TOTAL 20,000   Reds Balk New Nazi Drive On Kharkov Front and Take Hill on Smolensk Road

THOUSANDS ARE MADE PRISONER iBY U.S. BRITISH   Stukas Violently Lash Nazi Tanks as German Airmen Make Mistake

Germans Abandoning Towns Along Coast: Yank Troops Advance   Rommel Said Short Of Transport; Berlin Admits Superiority Of Allied Forces

Nearly 12,000 Axis Prisoners Are Reported Captured     NAZI COMMENTATOR  NHRYKTrCeTS we AN ite

ROMMEL REELS BACK; YANKEES PRESS ON SIDES      New Junction Of British, Americans Near; Drive in North Keeps Up

The Weather   Enemy Pounded Prisoner Toll Reaches 9, 500  foot ma

Axis Still Carrying Out “Prearranged Movements in Good Order;” Rommel Doesn’t Take Time to Plant Minefields—Fighting in Donets Valley

Eighth Army And U. S. Force Both Keep Up Sweeps   Axis Yields Mezzouna To Americans, Mahares To British; Prisoners Mount

Yanks Capture Height Over Maknassy   Mahares, Left Behind, Only 22 Miles From Sfax Harbor

ROMMEL LOSS IN PRISONERS NOW IS 10,800   Americans ‘Capture Height ‘North of Maknassy as ~ Advances Go On... ~   ALEXANDER LAUDS U.S. : TROOPS FOR FLANKING

MAHARES IS ABANDONED BY ROMMEL   Airmen Hammer Axis Retreat; Army In North Advances

Enemy Believed Running Out Of Motor Vehicles   Total Of 12,000 Prisoners Taken By British, Yanks

KEY PORT OF AXIS IN CENTRAL TUNISIA TAKEN BY BRITISH   GEN, MONTGOMERY IN SWIFT CHASE OF BEATEN AFRICA CORPS

Yanks Occupy. Another Town. Along Route   Berlin Radio Admits Superiority Held By the Allies

10,800 Prisoners Taken by British and Americans Since Axis Retreat Began   BERLIN FORECASTS BIG NAVAL BATTLE   American Northern Column Nears Junclure with British, Engages Axis Armor

Gain Forty Miles In Twenty-Four Hours As: Drive Engulfs Mahares, Graiba And Sfax  - == More Than 20,000 Axis Prisoners Ar  ede ce = OS et th 1. EE

Another Junction of American and British Forces Near; Allies” Take More Prisoners

20,000 Axis Troops Are Taken Prisoner Since Mareth Push   Graiba And Mahares Are Seized In Swift Pursuit Of Beaten Nazis; Yanks Push On From Fondouk

Rommel Chased Hard by Britis      Pursuit So Close Enemy Unable to Plant Many Land Mines; Americ Advance South of Fondouk Again Axis “Escape Corridor”; Axis Say: Withdrawals Are in Good Order

AXIO ABANDONS MAHARES TODAY   Rommel’s Beaten Troops Fleeing Northward on a Broad Front.   MANY TAKEN PRISONERS

Rommel Abandons Mahares; British  Forces in Pursuit   Eighth Army Captures 9500 Prisoners And U. S. Second Army Corps Take 1300 More in Mop-up of El Guetar Sector:

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES 9,500 ENEMY TROOP‘   Second U. S. Force Neat Junction With Other Allied Forces

ROMMEL’S HARASSED TROOPS HAVE QUIT MAHARES, MEZZOUNA  FLEEING ENEMY BEING PURSUED BY ARMORED UNITS OF ALLIES

12,000 Prisoners Captured By Allies as Romme! Hastily Retreats   Marshal Heads Toward Sfax Under Hammering of Americans, British, French Forces on Ground and by Air

ALLIED TROOPS PRESS ROMMEL BACK ON SFAX   Armored Vanguards Pursue Retreating Enemy Being Hammered From Air   PRISONER LISTS MOUNT,   American And British Units Plan New Junction In Mezzouna Area

ALLIES PUSH NORTHWARD IN NEW DRIVE   9,500 Prisoners Taken In Last Four Days   ALEXANDER   Praises Work Of Patton’s Troops; 330 Vehicles Wrecked Or Damaged —

Axis Is Driven To Within Few Miles Of Sfa   Americans And Eighth Army Take Thousands Of Prisoners

REPORT NEW AXIS FLIGHT IN TUNISIA   Abandon Mahares, Only 22 Miles South of Vital Harbor of Stax   GERMANS ADMIT PRESSURE

12,000 Troops Captured by Allied Armies   German Commentator Says Allies Preparing To Launch Large-Scale Break-Through Attack

Yank Troops NScore Gains {n Mountains   9,500 Axis Troops Taken By Allies

GERMAN COMMENTATOR SEES ALLIED DRIVE TO CAPTURE GERMAN AIRBASE AT KAIROUAN AND PORT OF  SOUSSE.

BEATEN NAZIS FLEE TOWARD PORT OF SFAX   ROMMEL PURSUED BY BRITISH AND U.S. TROOPS

Seize 2 Other Nazis Bases; Gain 40 Miles   Toil of Prisoners Taken Since Mareth Line Break Totals 20.000

BOMBING CONTINUES ' BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Retreating Divisions May be Running Short of Motor Transpore

Allies in Swift Pursuit of Nazis Who Lost 40 Miles in 24 Hours   U. S. Troops Drive Toward Second Junction With Montgomery; Axis Desperate

ommel’s Forces handon Mahare n Wild Retreat   is Army under Attack of British, Americans and French   welve Thousand Prison: ers Taken Since Recent Break-through

Foe Flees Toward New Defense Line In Mountains Below Tunis; Allies In Hot Pursuit.

UNITS EVACUATE CITY 22 MILES SOUTH OF SFAX   Enemy Abandons Mahares, "Allie Forces Take Many Prisoners

AXIS FLEEING  VITAL POINTS IN TUNISIA   Rommel'’s Forces Abandon Mahres, Near Important Harbor of Sfax.   Under Heavy Blows Along a Wide Front

Mahares Abandoned as Troops Flee Toward Stax   BOMBING CONTINUES BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Retreating Divisions May be Running Short of Motor Transport

Fliers Hammer Fleeing Rommel   MAHARES, MEZZOUNA FALL AS TANKS OF EIGHTH ARMY ROAR FORWARD IN PURSUIT OF ENEMY; SFAX ONLY 22 MILES AWAY

Allied Forces Cut Down Foe On Broad Front   Americans Capture Mountain Heights; Air Service Active

Mezzouna, Railway Town, Also Being Evacuated; Achievements ‘OF Patton’ s Corps Win Praise   Engaged Bulk Of Axis Armor Earlier In Week;  er a Peat . Daten. Pant Aporarinmiels 2aSed py 3 Taken; Fleeing  Foe Pounded Mercile From Air

ABANDON BASE ONLY 22 MILES BELOW SFAX   Other Rommel Units Flee Northeast From Mezzouna Under Hammering of Air Force—Allies in Pursuit.

MAHARES I8 ABANDONED BY FLEEING ENEMY   German Commentato’ Says Allies Plan  Big Seale Attack  On Nazi Air Base.

12,000 Axis.  Soldiers  Are Captured Key Officers And   Key Officers And Technicians Are Evacuated

AXIS FORGES ARE ABANDONING THE TOWN OF MAHARES   It Is Located Only 22 Miles South of Vital Harbor of Sfax.   \CONTINUE WITHDRAWAL   Armored Vanguards of the British 8th Army Pursued Rommel’s Forces.

THIRD LARGEST AXIS HELD TOWNIN TUNISIA; AFTER 40 MILE GAIN IN 24 HOURS   Rommel Strongly Posting his Armor In Mountain Passes To Ward Off Sidedoor Attacks by Americans and British

Extend flight north under heavy attacks   Allies capture many prisoners; American achievements lauded

Allies Advance in Central Tunisia as Axis Army Retreats   British Eighth Army I Near Junction With Second JU.

FLERING ARMY 18 HAMMERED BY AIR FORCES   Eighth Army Captures 9500 Prisoners Since Initial Offensive Attack  Opened Tuesday   U.S. SECOND ARMY CORPS SEIZES 1,300   Achievements of Americans Highly Praised by General Alexander, Allied . Deputy Commander

Mahares, 50 Miles North of Gabes is Abandoned; Total of Axis Forces Taken Prisoner Now 12,000

Allies Launch New Drive Against Rommel’s Escape Corridor in the Fondouk Sector; 20,000 Prisoners Taken Since. Break Through in Mareth Line

ROMMEL’S BEATEN MEN FLEE UNDER HEAVY POUNDING   EIGHTH ARMY NEARS JUNCTION WITH U. S. SECOND ARMY CORPS

Rommel Headed For Mountains Close to Tunis   His Retreat From Mareth Line 100 Miles in 12 Days

KEY PORT TAKEN IN SWIFT DRIVE BY MONTGOMERY   Forces Advance 40 Miles In One Day’s Campaign

Allies Advance On All Fronts, Threaten Sfax   Many Prisoners Taken; U. S Troops Busy Moppine Un

Rommel Loses Mahares to HisPursuers   ‘Nazi'Broadeast Says Big ‘Break-Through’ Atteck. fs Exneérted

Montgomery’s Army Occupies City in — Pursuit of Romme!   Victorious British Gain 40 Miles in Day; Axis Air Resistance Nil

Beaten Axis Army Is _ Rushing Toward Sfax   Americans Little More Than 20 Miles From Montgomery s Spearhead for Second Junction; First Army Advances

Key Port Taken In 40-Mile Gain in Day   Prisoners Captured in Tunisian Drive Now Exceed 20,000; Rommel Reported In Headlong Flight to Mountains Above Sousse

Rommel Abandoning Mezzouna, Mahares As Patton’s Army And Montgomery Combine Their Blows

ALLIES BEAT OFF ATTACKS BY GERMANS   Second Bridgeheacd Over Moro River In Italy Established by Sth Army.

EIGHTH ARMY SETS UP NEW BRIDGEHEAD   Ts Second One  “Established” - Across ‘Moro River

Forces Cross Moro; Capture San Leonardo   Americans and British Hurl Back Continuous German Counterattacks

BRITISH LAUNCH TWO BRIDGEREADS NEAR MORO RIVER   Enemy Driven Back With Tank Fire and Artillery Permitting New Formations at Frisa.   ITALIAN TROOP HELPS ALLIES AT MIGNANC   Gen. Arnold Believes Entire Axis Europe Will Be Subject to Allied Bombing Very. Soon.

EIGHTH ALSO TAKES TOWN ALONG COAST   Allied Forces Tightening Grip on Heights Commanding Road to Italian Capital.

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES 2ND BRIDGEHEAD   Allies Repulse Continuous Nazi Counterattacks

Today’s War Commentary  Nazi Fighters  Allies Strive To Cut Their Strength

SUVIET BUMBERS UVER RUMANIA   More Air Activity Over Long Russian Front.

What Is the Country Coming To?   NOW YOU MUST SAY “PRETTY PLEASE” TO GET OFF BUSES

UMW MAY CANCEL AFL APPLICATION   Leaders Convinced Political Interference Is Stalling Application; Tobin Denies Any Maneuvering

To the People of This Community:  — A een 2 Gee, ete ae em 2 Sit ee

American Warships Shell Japanese Positions on Attu  South Pacific Bases Of Enemy Bombed By U. S. Aircraft

Japs On Attu Are Shelled   American Ships Attack Under Cover Of Fog

ATTU SHELLED BY NAVAL GUNS   Enemy Positions At Tip of Aleutians Target for U. S. Warships

U. S. Warships Shell Attu Isle  Jap Positions in Aleutians Blasted

U. §. Warships Shell Attu Isle  Jap Positions in  1 gw Oh fone 9D ok

Allied Planes Blast 15 Jap  Island Bases   Ports, Anfields Fal Prey To Air  [a

Allies Bomb Jap Ships: And Bases.   MacArthur Airmen And Navy Flyers, Strafe Enemy

BEST RESULTS OF WAR SHOWN IN FEBRUARY   Three Month Tonnage Loss Far Below Year Ago, ° Commons Told   SETBACKS ANTICIPATED   Alexander Says Gap Between Production And Killings Being Reduced

Sees Progress In Battles On Sub Menace   Allied Campaigns Cutting Losses From Sub Attacks Says British Leader

Occupants Of Missing Mail Plane Found In Mountains   Pilot Suffered Broken Foot In Crash—Mechanic Was Uninjured—Took Refuge In Hunting Cabin

AIRMEN ARE SAFE; PLANE IS DAMAGED   Two Forced Down in Storm Near Chambersbura

HOPE DARE FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE FROM DIXIE DAVIS   Former Vegas Show Girl Seeks $200 Monthly From Noted Ex-New York Attorney

MAIL GAS BOOK APPLICATIONS TO LOCAL RATION BD   Blanks Are Available at All Local Service Stations

PICHER AIRMAN LEADS ATTACK   Second Lieut. Leaford Bearskin Makes Perfect Run On Jap Target

FEDERAL SALES TAX URGED BY CHAMBER   Proposal Offered as Substitute for Treasury Program

Sales Tax Gets  - Endorsement  Higher Levy on Incomes Withel & Chamber

C. OF C. URGES TAX ON SALES   National Organization Al. so Calls for Slash in Federal Expenses

U. S. Chamber Of Commerce  Urges Sales Tax   Spokesinan Also Asks Rigid Scaling Down Of Government Spendine

SALES TAX IS LOSING GROUND   United States Chamber Asks Passage Of 10 Per Cent Levy

U.S. Chamber Backs Sales Tax   Drastic Economy Lirged on Government

U. §. Chamber Of Commerce Backs Sales Tax   Urge Substitute for Administration’s Revenue Proposal

Food and Fuel  In The News   More Meat Expected—Gas Reduction Believed Near

Food, Gas And Clothing Hold The Spotlight   OPA Official Predicts Less Gasoline for A-Card Holders All Over the ames States. ~*

VIOLENT NAZI ASSAULTS ARE BEATEN BACK   Axis Fails to Ease Pressure on Their Tunisian De fenes I ined.   Axis Striking With All Their Strength

Eighth And First Armies oe 500 Germans        AML? -Pros'sib) x , Strength Without’ 'Religa ed ty Cet.

German losses in engagement heavy   Allies hold fresh gains on southern front of Tunisia

Germans Attack With New Fury In Tunis Area  Allied Warplanes Active Despite vee Weather

Nazi Counterattacks Fail To Regain Positions Lost In Wednesday‘s Operation

2/ Tanks Are Destroyed By Allied Forces   Rommel Uses Some Of Be Best  Fighters In Vain Attempt To Crack British Defenses At Enfidaville And Medjez-El-Bab

oritish Beal Off Three Nazi ‘Counter Blows   Montgomery Throws Infantry, Artillery And Tanks Into Battle Against Axis Forces.

British Destroy 27 Tanks; 500 Prisoners Taken   Three Major Axis Thrusts Seeking To Ease Pressure On Defense Lines Repulsed

500 Germans Captured In Tha! Sector Alone as British Hold Presh Caine   ALLIES HOLD RIDGE   Both American and French Troops Carry Out Penetrating Patrols on Sections of Front

500 GERMANS TAKEN AND TANKS BLASTED   British Stop Moorilight Raid at Medjez-E!-Bab and Hold in South.   NAZIS TRY DESPERATELY. TO BLOCK ALLIED DRIVE

300 Germans Taken. Tanks  Destroyed   British Holding Firm In Their  New Poasitiane

ROMMEL'S CRACK TROOPS CAN'T GAIN   Suffer Heavy Casualties and Survivars Are Forced to Retreat

Heavy Toll. of Tanks and Men is Taken   3 German Counter Attacks Fail to Ease Pressure on Defenses

ROMMEL SUFFERS SEVERE LOSSES IN COUNTER ATTACKS   27 Axis Tanks Destroyed and 500 Germans Captured   BEST TROOPS USED BUT IT WAS NO GO

Hold All New Gains  In Tunisia   72 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out in Bitter Fighting.      eee

SMASH BACK 3 NAZI THRUSTS   Fresh Allied Gains Are  Reported On Tunisian rant

Defense Lines Pressed By Allied Armies   Twenty-Seven Tanks Destroyed In Futile German Blows

PATRICK HURLEY HAS CLOSE. CALL   PLANE DEVELOPS ‘MOTOR TROUBLE AT SEA AND BARELY REACHES LAND.

Roosevelt, Churchill and Perhaps Stalin May Have Meeting Soon, Germans Say

HIGHER POULTRY CEILING URGED   foost To 30 Cents Favored By Small. Business Committee

OHIO DEMOCRATS PLAN CAMPAIGN   Unity Sought - - Sawyer Says He Is Not Candidate

Democratic Leaders Confident “Pay-As-You-Eam”’ Tax Bill Will Be Signed By The President

‘PAY-GO' VOTE SET IN SENATE   Solons Slated To Act On Bill Late Today

OPPOSITION TO TAX BILL = —- GOLLAPSES IN CONGRESS   ONLY 114 VOTES AGAINST COMPROMISE MEASURE IN--HOUSE—SENATE PASSAGE IS ASSURED

FEDERAL. AUTO. USE STAMPS ON SALE~ NOW; MUST BE ON ALL VEHICLES USING  HIGHWAYS NOT LATER THAN JUNE 30

AUTO TAX STAMPS ON SALE JUNE 10   Must Have $5 Tax Stamp Before July First.

TO HEAR CHARGES. IN DEATH OF OAKES   Son-in-Law Alfred De Marigny to Stand at Hearing; Postponement Hinted

HERE’S HOW TO GET MOST FOR YOUR POINTS   Gov't. Nutritionists Prepare Meat, Egg, Rutter Shopping List

Give Hints On How To Use Points   Experts Tell Family of Four How to Plan Meat Purchases.

MME. KAI-SHEK MAKES DRAMATIC APPEAL FOR AID  SYMPATHY ALONE WILL   SYMPATHY ALONE WILL NOT HELP CHINA’S CAUSE, SHE SAYS

FARM HARDWARE NEEDS ARE GIVEN NEW PRIORITIES   Emergency Program Rations Many Items Used On County Farms.

To Aid Farm ‘Buyers of 50 Needed Items   New Supply P Program to Be Set up to Simplify ‘Purchasing. —

WILLKIE MAY ——GLEAR STAND         MIDWESTERN  ‘POLITICAL  LEADERS SAID TO BE -ASI-_  ING’ FOR ‘CLARIFICATION OF DOMESTIC POLICY

SENATE HEADING FOR SHOWDOWN ON PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAY   Administration 1s Allegedty Applying Delaying Tactics. As Vote Nears.

CONSUMER BE ALLOTTED 16 POINTS A WEEK   Meat will average 6 points per pound when rationing begins

Meat Averages Six Points Per Pound   16-Point Allotment For Meat, Butter and Cheese

MEAT WELL, TARE AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT SIX POINTS PER POUND UNDER THE — \ REGULATIONS 

7 Point Values In Rationing  Of Meat Giver   O. P. A. Announces Sched. ule Of Values In Effect On Next Monday   BUTTER, FATS, ETC. VALUES PRESENTED

OPA Makes Known Official — Point Values on Meat, Cheese and Other Items; Rationing Is  to Be Started Next Monday

Workable Agreement With Russia Needed fo Prevent Another War, Wallace Says

SECURITY IS FIRST INTALKING PLANS OF POSTWAR DAYS   Wallace Makes Two Addresses With Comment Relative to War, Business. When It Is Concluded.      OTHER NATIONS MUST oe DEVELOP RESOURCES   Urges American People to Assist Preventing Another War Instead of: Anticipatjing One.

New U.S. Base Threat To Jans   Americans Are Poised To Strike Fresh Blows At Japs In Pacific   NAVY REVEALS SOME OF PROGRAM

J, $, ISINGREASING BASES ALL ALONG PACIFIC FRONT   LAST ANNOUNCED NEWLY ACQUIRED BASE IS ONLY 172 MYLES FROM KISHA IBLAND

BLACKOUT IS. REAL SURPRISE - ON WEDNESDAY  ats Raid Test Is Sue. cess In Lebanon. :,County  cD GETS, TS_ON JOE  Some Confusion ‘Or lean Os oy C1434         CD GETS O   Some “Confusion *’On Blue: Signal Still Exists” ™

BLACKOUT IS REAL SURPRISE ON WEDNESDAY  Air Raid Test Is Success In Lebanon County CD GETS ON JOB  Some Confusion On Blue Signal Still Exist         Some Confusion On Blue Signal Still Exists

Macassar, Celebes Metropolis, Is Bombed  =. eat-eet th! ckcUreDe

OPA CONTRIBUTIONS FOLLOW PRECEDENT   Policy Used by Hoover, Reply To Criticism

Henderson Says Hoover Began Policy   Acceptance of Voluntary Contributions in Settlement of Violations Started During First World War

Survey Reveals that More Than 2,000 Jobs Available in. Ohle Government — Welfare Department -Appéars Hardest Hit.

U. S. Planes Take Up By Day After RAF Hits Hamburg; Reds Gain Ground

Hamburg Gets Big Blasting   Americans in Daylight Raids—Allied Planes Destroy Jap Convoy

13 BILLION WAR LOAN TOTAL ASSURED, BUT INVESTORS ASKED NOT TO RELAX

Nazis Say Reds Attempt Landing At Novorossisk   ‘Enemy’s © Entiré “Defense System Is Imperiled, According To Moscow

Red Blow Reported In Novorossisk Area   Nazis Say Soviets Made Large-Scale Landing Attempt and Fighting Still Is in Progress—Admit Loss of Mariupol.

Nazis’ Escape Corridor From Crimea Menaced   Blows Of Russians Turn German Retreat Vatu That

ed Landing ~ In Caucasus  Being Fought  Germans Acknowledge   Germans Acknowledge Loss Of Mariupol As Advancing Russians Threaten Zaporozhe

ENTIRE NAZI DEFENSE  OYOTEM IN RUSSIA 18  REPORTED IMPERILED SOLE REMAINING GERMAN ESCPAE OF CRIMEA  10 THIDLRATCRNCN

LANDING AT NOVOROSSISI IS REPORTED   Large Scale Attack Indicated; German Rout Continues

Nazis’ Caucasus Base Faces Doom   Russians Move Forward To Oust Germans

Reds Make New Landing   Forces Attempt To Dislodge Germans Imbedded In Novorossisk Area

REDS ATTACK IN CAUCASUS   Russians Attempt LargeSeale Landing in Novo_ rossisk Area.   NAZI LEGIONS FLEEING

New Red ” Assault - In South      ‘Nazis Tell of Big Soviet * Landing at Novorossisk in the Caucasus   BERLIN ALSO FEARS BLOW AT LENINGRAL   "Retreat Becomes a Rout in Some Areas; ‘‘Very Grim Fishting’’ Nazis Say

*leeing German Legions Battered Along 400-Mile Front From Sea of Azov To Bryansk; Reds Make Large-Scale Landing Attempt In Novorossisk.

Fleeing Nazis Battered by Russian Army   Retreat of Foe Turns into Rout In Many Places

President Sees Flagrant Violation of Pledge and Threatens PromptActior   Sends Telegram fo Akron Leaders Demanding End of Strike by Noon Tomorrow; Directs Thaf All Picketing Cease; Declares Men Must Obey Decisions of the War Labor Board

Dr. Lamance Wins Acquittal af Trial   Jury, Deliberates Three Hours Before Returning Verdict in Case

UNION OF ALL ALLIED FORCES SEEN AS GOAL   All Discussion Centerec Around Eisenhower   PARTICIPANTS   Include Marshall, King, Arnold Of U. S. Staff; Two-Day Session

ALLIES HOLD WAR COUNCIL IN N. AFRICA   Meeting of High U. S.. British Military Officers Follows FDR, Churchill Parley.   EISENHOWER KEY MAN   Combining of All Forces In Mediterranean Area Under One Cammand Seen

Coordination Of Mediterranean Fronts Planned   Allied Staff Chiefs Counsel for Two Days at Eisenhower Quarters.

Second Conference Now Reported Held By Allied Leaders   Allies May Be Planning Union of All Forces In Mediterranean Under Coordinate Command

MILITARY OFFICERS HOLD CONFERENCE   British, United States Leaders Meet in Africa

MARTIAL LAW IN HAWAII RELAXED   Authority In 18 Functions Relinquished.

MARTIAL RULE IN HONOLULU IS MODIFIED   Military Gov ernor Yields i in 18

Meat Price Cuts Slated For June 21   OPA Orders Slash Seen Averaging About 3c a Pannd

Meet Prices To Be Rolled Back by OPA   Retail Prices Of Most Meats to Be Cut 3 Cents

Says U.S. Alert In Pre-War Era  State Denarfment   State Department Iesues Documents arnings .

State Department Defends Self  White Book Shows Moves to Hal? War

STATE PAPERS. SHOW EFFORT TOHALT PERIL   Documents Recite Warning. of _ ‘Danger from Political © Systems in Axis,”   FROM GREW’S  MESSAGE TO PEARL HARBOR RAID

‘Offers white book to show America diplomatically aware of war clouds

HLL FORESAW HAR LONG AGO, FILES REVEAL   ‘hite Book, Issued by State Department, Shows Length of Alertness to Dangers   ‘AZI ENVOY TOLD © yAR BELIEVED NEAR   ‘ounselor to Berlin Found Germany Wanting Peace Only Long Enough To  : Get Prepared

Says U.S. Was Alert  In Pre-war Year:   State Department Cites Documents  To Prove It

Americans in Italy Are Forced Back   Weather Prevents All But Patrol] Activity

GermansPust Allies Back   Fifth Army Withdraws From Mountain Post

F, R. SUFFERING FROM GRIPPE   President Ordered to Remain in-Red

President’s Cold Turns Into Grippe   Mr. Roosevelt Cancelled Cabi- net Meeting Today; Confined to His Bed.

CEILING SET ON CORN PRICE   New Regulation Effective Now For All Sales.

LIMITED U. 8. REGU! ATION OF VOTE FAVORED   Compromise Soldiers’ Bill Is Offered by Rep. Ramspeck

Down To Zero Here Tonight   Snow Expected To Accompany Cold Wave In Kansas

MacArthur Emphasizes Air Power   Swift, Massive Strokes Urged By General, On Basis Of Lessons Learned In Papua

MacArthur Air Tactics Point  Way To Victory   New Type Campaign To Permit Massive,  Swift Blows   AIR TRANSPORT KEY   Liberators Shown Te Be ‘Zero-Killing’ Air Giants

PLANES STEP UP AIR OFFENSIVE IN NEW GUINEA    Fortresses Attack ttack Airdromes On  New Britain Rarly P Sunday

New MacArthur Tactics Point To Defeat Of Japan   Air Power Allows Swift Massive Blows; Bomber  Score Added Triumphs

Step Up U.S. . Air Gampaign In New:Guinea   Gen. MacArthur Evolves New Aerial Tactics

AMERICAN - PLANES STEP UP DRIVE IN NEW: GUINEA AREA   MacArthur sas Evolved ‘New Aerial Tactics. To Bring Defeat Of Japs

Government's One-Two Punch Puts John L Lewis on Defensive; He Has Capital ‘Guessing as fo What Next Move Will Be

LEWIS LOOKING AT HOLE CARD   Government Decisions Are Cramping John L's Style These Days

JOHN L. LEWIS S ON DEFENSIV   Aggressive United Mine Workers President Is Keeping Everybody Guessing About His Next Move.

JOHN L. LEWIS ON DEFENSIVE AFTER SUCCESSIVE DEFEATS  WHAT BEETLE-BROWED

JOHN L. LEWIS ON THE DEFENSIVE   Acceptance of Recent Devel opments Discernible Among His Associates

Government Places Lewis On Defensive   United Mine Workers’ President Has Capital Guessing On Next Move   GIVEN TWO SETBACKS

Lewis Placed. On Defensive By War Board   Mine Union Head May Be Forced to Revamp Strategy

LEWIS AGAIN ON DEFENSIVE   One-Two Punch Has Capital Guessing on Next. Move

Await Next Move By Lewis  ‘Turning Back Mines, Rejection Of Pay Many Reinn Artian

MINE LEADER ON THE DEFENSIVE   Next Move of John Lewis Watched With Interest

Workers: Said by WIB Chief to Suffer Unduly  Barden of i Fight on,  J... ttt... Wor. PP.

WLB Head Scores Wage Control; Coal Truce Made  Workers Bearing Brunt of Plan, Davis Declares

Wa age Controls “Held Problem   W eight. Of ‘Laws, Falling Heavilv On W orking ~Man. Says Davis

Coal Crisis Eased, Steel Claim Looms   Steel Workers Assail “Little Steel” Wage Formula, May Demand Raise

WLB Approves: Miners’ Pact   Operators Refuse To Open Mines Until Coal Price Is Hiked

Making Anti-Inflation Program Bear More Heavily On Working Man, WLB  Chairman. Save   PRESSURE GROWS  FOR RELAXING BANS   Davis Expresses View at Time When Food Sub-. sidy Program Is Under   Farm Bloc Fire

Anti-Inflation Program ‘Heavier  On Working Man   So Declares Head Of WLB: Steel Unions To Ask Wage Boost

Controls Affect  Workers, Claim  Bear More Heavily On Some, Says Davis

WLB Head Says Anti-Inflation Program Bearing Heaviest on the Working Man

PROGRAM FOR  MEETING OF COUNIY CLUBS   The 14th Annual Conventicn of Federation of Cubs on Friday.   AT BAPTIST CHURCH   Timely and Interesting Toyics With Outstand'ng Speakers.

~ EMT CLUB   The 14th Annual Conventicn of Federation of Cubs on Friday.   .AT BAPTIST CHURCH   Timely and Interesting Tor* 4es With Outstanding Speskers.

HOUSE OPENS  ITSDEBATE ON SUBSIDIES:   Supporters Of Program Admit Defeat

GEN. CLARK SPEAKS OVER SOLDIER DEAD   Fifth Army Commander Says ‘We Have Caught the Torch and We Will Carry It to Berlin.”

Soviets Roll GermansBack   Berlin Admits Three Red Drives Started

GERMANS HURLED BACK NEAR KIEV 2ND DAY IN ROW   Tank Thrust by Von Mannstein’s Forces South of Malin Broken Up by Stalin’s Troops.   SOVIETS LASH OUT IN WHITE RUSSIA   erlin Reports Area Is Aflame With Three Offensives Under Way—Moscow Silent on Fighting.

Nazis Rolled Back In See-Saw Battle   ‘Germans, Say White Russia Aflame With Three Battering Offensives By Soviet

Russians Push Germans Back At Kiev Bulge   Nazis Report Three New Soviet Thrusts In Northern Sector

THE WA wee feet os =) be * of  2.4                     By DeWITT MACKENZIE  Rag. 2a SE  ee. eG, eee, CateEes)”

Reds Attack Left Flank  of Germans   (Note—During the temporary absence of Dewitt MacKenzie, this column is being conducted by William Frye of the Washnigton Bureau).

The War Today—  Red Baltic Drive Aimed At Relief Of Leningrad, Isolation Of Finland   By WILLIAM FRYE

GREAT RED ARMY OFFENSIVE IN NORTHERN SECTOR DESIGNED TO COLLAPSE GERMAN LEFT FLANK

The War Today— ~ ys Red Baltic Drive Aimed At Relief Of Leningrad, Isolation Of Finland

Advance on Jap Base of  Salamaua   Enemy Garrison At Mubo Wiped Out by Allies

AMERICANS TAKE MUBO, N. GUINEA   Mubo Was Japs’ Strong: hold on Road to Salamaua.

ALLIEO DAW  (IN SALAMAUA   Mubo Wiped Out In Battle Yesterday ; i, Troops Inch Toward Munda

Guadalcanal Reinforced _ Materially   [8 TROOPS OPEN FINAL, OPERATIONS AGAINST PAPUAN FORCE.

MORE MEN LANDED ON GUADALCANAL   Jap-Held Munda Bay Is Bom bed to Occupy Enemy While Troops Go Ashore.

Sullivan Magistrates Crowd Closing Minutes \Of October Term With Passage Of Resolutions

Sullivan's Bonded  Indebtedness Reduced   Sullivan County Court Passes Nine Resolutions

Italian Prisoners Happy To Get American Food ir Form of C and K Rations

FASCISTS QUIT FIGHT FOR FOOD   Surrendering Soldiers Stomachs Gladdened By C-K Rations

Italians Giving © Up By Thousands  They Like Our Food, Hate Duce And Nazis  on oz —~_ ae eo. oes See, on 4 oes een,

I talians en joy American food in prisoncam ps   Many sent back to North Africa

WLB in Lewis  Clash   BOARD ORDERS SOFT COAL MINES TO HALT PARLEY UNTIL SIGNAL

WLB IN HEADON CONFLICT WITH JOHN L. LEWIS   30ard Risks Existence In All- Out Tussle With Mine Union Leader; Lewis Defying “Lawful Procedures Of Government.”

Labor Board Assails Lewis On Coal Issue   Labor Chieftain Challenged U. S. Says Statement

WLB Declares Lewis Challenges the U.S.   Orders Soft Coal Operators Not*to Resume Negotiations in Wage Dispute Until Further Notice—Strike Truce Ends Tuesday. .

WHO'S BIGGER, LEWIS OR U.8.? ASKS THE WLB   No Contract, No Work Threat Spreads as Truce Nears End

Lewis Aids Foe, Says WLB   Issue Now Whether He Is Above Laws of U. S.. Bourd Charges

Lewis Defiance Brings On Nev Crisis In Coal   W. L. B. Declares Mine Leader Challenges Sovereignty Of U. S.

WLB Tells . Owners Not To Negotiate   Board Now in Head-on Clash With Lewis Over Refusal

Holds Mine Head Defies Laws of U.S.   Lewis Refuses to Attend Wage Parley; Threat of New Coal Strike Looms

LEWIO DEFYING U).5,, SAYS WL   Board Risks Existence in All-Qut Conflict With UMW Chief.

WLB Comes To Grips With Lewis   Says Main Issue Now Is Whether Mine Leader Is Above Laws Of The United States

WAR LABOR BOARD DECLARES LEWIS HAS CHALLENGED U. S.  WHAT STEPS BE TAKEN TC   WHAT STEPS BE TAKEN TO AVERT ANOTHER STRIKE NOT NOW KNOWN

‘Lewis Is Defying Laws by Refusal To Attend Parley   Federal Board Stakes Existence in Resuming Coal Wage Bargaining.   Tie-Up in Mining of Coal Becomes Acute

‘War Labor Board In All-Out Fight With John Lewis   UMW President Challenges Government Sovereignty. “Issue is Whether Lewis is Above the Law Which Applies to All Other Citizens of Country.

Leader Of Miners Would Evade Laws Which Others Must Obey, Says Board

NEW CRISIS IN SOFT COAL WAGE DISPUTE   Head of United Mine Workers Announces He Will Not Comply With WLB Order   BARGAINING RENEWED

Lewis Assailed By WLB; New Tieup Feared   UMW Chief's Refusal Te Attend Meeting Called Defiance Of Laws   TRUCE. END IS NEAR   Operators Instructed Not To Proceed Until Both Parties Are Ready

WAR LABOR BOARD DECLARES LEWIS HAS CHALLENGED U. 5.  WHAT STEPS BE TAKEN TO AVERT ANOTHER STRIKE  NOT NOW KNOWN

# WLB Says Issue Now I: ' Whether He-Is Above and Beyond Laws  .. ‘NO COMMENT,’ HIS *® REPLY TO NEWSMEN  Next Official Step Not Clear; Present Truce Ends =) Tomorrow Night

Roosevelt Defied Again By Senators      Roll-Back Subsidy Program is Tumed  Down; OPA Balkec

VOTE KILLS ROLL-BACK, SUBSIDIES   Senate Action To Mean Butter. Meat Prices Will Increase

ROLL-BACK PLAN IS DEALT BLOW   Senate Cancels Food Price Slashes

“Subsidy Ban Kills -OPA Food Rollback. Jolts New Dealers   Senate Votes to Cancel Slashes, Transfers Powers to C. C. Davis; Enactment of Amendment Certain

North African Vet Enjoys Manicure; Soldiers Dream Of Trip Home And Then Become Bored

eaves From War Correspondent’s Notebook  Captain Gets A Manicure

OQutnumbered  Yanks Capture 85 Italians   U. S. Patrol Takes - Enemy Position Without Losing A Mar

MAY CALL MEN WITH CHILDREN IN 1943   Youths Just Registered Will Not Supply Demand

WMC MAY CHANGE DEFERMENT RULE   Officials Cannot Say When Army Will Draft Men With Dependents or Jobs

RED ARMY’S NEW OFFENSIVE MAKING PROGRESS TODAY   DISPATCHES FROM FRONT STATE GERMAN LINES BEING ROLLED BACK

Red Drive on Voronezh Front Gains   Full German Division Reported Encircled By New Offensive

Red Offensive Plowing Ahead   Nazi Lines Are Rolled Back In North

RED FORCES SLASH NAZI HELD AREAS   Donets Is Crossed “As Army. Presses ; Its: Gains

Russians Push On ‘Road to Kharkov    + New Progress Is Made 50 .. Miles West of the Don  River   2 RETREAT IS HURRIED   5 Russians Have Impressive List of War Material  —_ Captured

REDS THREATEN » COMPLETE ROUT OF REICH ARMY   Gaining Momentum On Vor onezh Front, Forces Push 50 Miles Beyond Don

Russians Pouring Across Donets As Offensive Extends Toward Voronezh

RED ARMY'S NEW OFFENSIVE MAKING PROGRESS TODAY DISPATCHES FROM FRONT STATE GERMAN LINES  DOING DOTICN DACY

Russians’ New Offensive On Voronezh Front Makes Progress West of Don

New Russian Drive Rolls Nazis Back On Kharkov Route  Full Enemy Division Encircled; Germans Hurriedly Retreating

NEW VORONEZH DRIVE MAKING RAPID STRIDES   Direction of Main Thrust js Toward Southwest, Aimed At Ukraine and Kharkov   ONE FULL GERMAN DIVISION TRAPPED   Mescow Reports Red Army Pouring Across Donets In Southward Drive On Rostov

Kerch Believed Taken As Reds  Land New Men   ) Counter - Attacks Hurled In __ Italy By Germans But Are Held

The New Deal Is Dead, Qr:So They Say, So Congress Gets Problem. For Xmas Day

Wallace-Jones Feud Still Going Strong   Verbal Combat Indulged In By Vice President And RFC Head During Past Week Reaches New High In Recrimination

JONES & WALLACE JUST "WARMING UP   Far Now That Only the Firm and Personal Touch of the President Can Heal It.

‘Fones- Wallace Dispute Grows In Intensity   RFC Chairman Has Acted Like Famed Sleeper, Rip Van Winkle, Says Assistant To Wallace

WALLAGE - JONES FLARE-UP AIRED FOR COMMITTEE   Jones Uses 7,500 Words to Tell What He Thinks Of Wallace

Jones Lays Waste-Orgy To Wallace   BEW ‘Squandering’ And 100-Man Trips To Brazil Assailed

jones Replies At Great Length To Wallace  Milo Perkins Of BEW Comes Back At Jones  As Aroused Senators Desc Wee cee 8 eee ee

NEW DEAL’S KEY MEN RENEW BIG VERBAL BATTLE   Jesse Jones Lands Sunday Word-Punch—FDR May Call Truce

NOW OCNOQTS VEMmUnas oo coesieimeeeseeeeetemednemenmeesnetiaieneetieemenenninmemnnetienenmnnaenammmmmnnealall  For Inquiry Sprout As Wallace-Jones Feud Flares

Jones Resumes Verbal Batfle With Wallace   Cabinet Member Slugs Back at Vice President

Jones-Wallace  Rift Widens   Roosevelt May Be Only One Who Can Smooth Out Bitter Dispute

FEUD CAUSES REACTION IN THE SENATE   Vice President Wallace and RFC Board Chairman Apparently Warming Up in Slugging Match   DEMANDS FOR PROBE

RIFT WIDENS BETWEEN JONES AND WALLACE —   Only Firm Touch of ~ President Roosevelt. Car Heal Breach It Now,   Anneara

Jones-Wallace Verbal Battle Just Warming Up  New Explosion Rips Breach of BEW-RFC Official Heads

Wallace And Jones Battling   HIGH RANKING U. S OFFICIALS FIGHT WITH WORDS

SEN. BRIDGES ASKING PROBE   Officials’ Appraisals of One Another Full of Recrimination,   ACCUSATIONS ARE MADE

Jones Blasts Wallace for His Criticisn   7,500 Word Retort to Vice President’s Charges Hits “Malice, Half-Truths”

RFC Chief Trades New Blows With Wallace; It May Take F. R. To Settle Squabble

Senate Demand for Inquiry Rises as Wallace-Jones Feud Flares Again

JONES AND WALLACE FEUDING WARMING UP AS DAYS PASS BY  ~ ‘TEXAN IN WORDY BLAST ~ AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT’S TACTICS

RIFT BETWEEN WALLACE AND JONES WIDENS  a ae nf Rarnanctritc      Chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Accuses Vice President of Untruths   PROBE CALLED FOR   Jones Says-He Is Glad to Piead Guilty to Charge of Safeguarding Tax payers Money ©

Jones, Wallace Apparently Just Getting Warm   Former Uses 7,500 Words To Tell What He Thinks Of BEW

Jones Replies ToWallacein  Bitter Terms   ‘eud Appears To Be Out Of Hand — President Will Have to Help

Governor Ford To Address  Masonic Groups   Banquet Will be Held in Havre On Januarv 22

Gov. Ford To Address  Masons Here Fri   Banquet to be Served by Havre Chantar 20 OF KF ©

Will Clamp Down On Iowa Motorists   40,000 lowans To Get Notices About $5 Stamps

YELLOW STAMP QN AUTO VERY IMPORTANT   Federal government checks up Des Moines; 35,000 notices sent

Old Silver Dollars Being Melted Down   Alloy 1s Sought For New Coins

MONETARY EXPERTS FROWN ON PLANS   Doubt If Treasury Post. War Program Will Be . Workable 

Wewak Dealt Heavy Blow By Bombers   Bronx Flier Brings Damaged Plane in Safely

Honorable Deferment Certificates for War Workers Requested   Nation's Soldiers of Production Would Be Saved from Embarrassment

NAZIS ROUND UP SLAVE LABOR   Czechs and Greeks Are  Included tn Program

Nazis Begin Roundup of Czechs, Greeks   Slave Labor Edict Enforced in Nearly All Occupied Lands

Bil) Regulating Labor Passed by Kansans Today   No Strikes, Annual -Fnancial Reports Made Mandatory

Kansas Outlaws Sit-Down Strikes   Unions Must File  Financial Reports

MESSINA BOMBED IN THREE WAVES   75 Heavy Liberators Drop 400,000 Pounds Bombs on Port 

Bombers. Basec In Egypt Hit Messina Port   More Than 400,000 Pounds Dropped

Bombs Blast Messina Again  Attack Carried Out From African Bases

Germans’ 61-Ton Tanks Almost Broke ‘Up Allied Invasion Of Italy In The Bloody Battle On Salerno Beachhead

ALLIES ARE GRADUALLY CLOSING IN ON AXIS’ LAST STRONGHOLD IN AFRICA AND END SEEMS NEAR:

The Collapse of the Axis in ‘Tunisia Will Come Suddenly It May or May Not Come Quickly

lac War Today  Tunisian Battle No Ordinary Struggle, But a Decisive Conflict.

 The War Today—  Five Separate Operations Squeeze  Axis In Tunis-Bizerte Defense Arc

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Present Tunisian Battle One Of Most Decisive Engagements Of War

NAVY ON ALER TO HEAD OFF EVACUATION   Only Bad Weather Has Prevented Annihilation of Enemy

REMNANTS OF ENEMY FORCES ON ALEUTIAN ISLANI BEING WIPED OUT AS TOKIO VIRTUALLY ADMITS AMERICANS HAVE BEEN VICTORIOUS—-TERRI_FIC BOMBING ATTACKS ON AXIS ARE CON.  . TINUED ON ALL FRONTS .

RED ARMIES GETTING SET FOR ATTACKS   Indications of Mighty Offensive With “Decisive Stage” Talked of in Soviet Press

Russia Preparing For New Offensive   War Has Entered ‘Decisive Phase’

‘BARUCH CROSS-EXAMINED BY WHEELER TODAY AT HEARING OF DRAFT MEASURE

Reds Join To French      Evidence of Political Co-operation in Recognition of Committee   ACT ALONG WITH THE U.S, AND BRITAIN   But Red Siar Again Makes Call for Second Front; ‘Threats’ Not Enough

REDS ALSO GIVE ‘THEIR BLESSINGS TO FRENCH BODY   Russians Indicate Close Co. operation With Allies in Recognizing Committee

RUSSIANS GIVE EVIDENCE OF CO-OPERATION THROUGH ‘RECOGNITION GIVEN FRENCH

Railroad Wage Tiff Unsettled   National Panel Fails To Reach Accord

Board Fails in Rail Wage Settlement   NATIONAL LABOR PANEL TO DRAW UP REPORT TO PRESIDENT ON DISPUTE

RAIL LEADERS ” FAIL TO END WAGE BATTLE   Labor Panel Head Ad_ mits Failure to Settle ¥ Dispute

‘Nazi Subs Launch ‘Greatest Offensive; 2 Conve:'s Attacked   More Than 14 U-Boats in One Pack Loss to Allied Vessels Admitted; Cutter Wins 12-Hour Ocean Duel

GREATEST U-BOAT OFFENSIVE SINCE 1917 BELIEVED OK   Germany Using “Wolf Packs” to Forestall Opening of Second Front in Europe.

Announcement Of Recent Battles With Nazi Subs Indicates Germany Is Pushing U-Boat Offensives

Nazis Speed Sub Packs to Balk Invasion   Bitter Battles in Underseas War Due This Spring in Atlantic

Lose Three In Attack On Convoy   Determined Effort Te Disrupt Allied Plans For Invasion Shown Iy U-Boat Activity:

Indications Pointing to U-Boat War   Effort Is Being Made to Delay Allied Invasion

JNVOY BATTLES {OVE SUB DRIVE INTENSIFIED   man Step-Up U-Boat Offensive ! In Attempt To Delay Invasion

3-DAY ATTACK IN ATLANTIC ON CONVOY BAREL   Signs Multiply That Germany Pushing Big Sub Drive

GERMANS PUSK UBOAT WAR 10 DELAY INVASION   Lendon, ‘Washington Describe Battles In Atlantic   14 U-BOATS SIGHTED IN ONE PACK, BRITISH SAY

GERMANS ARE INTENSIFYING SUB CAMPAIGN   Action Seen Effort To Delay Impending European Invasion By Allies   [RUNNING BATTLES TOLD      Officials Expect March To Be “Bad Month” As Regard Ship Sinkings

PAROLE BOARD RIPPER GOES TO GOVERNOR   Martin Signs Bill to Provide Child Care  Centers in State

ouse Sends arole Bill  9 Governor   GOP's Brush Aside Opposition of Demos: Assembly Struggles Toward Adjournment

Jury Told of Alealde Hint te Get Rid of Girl   Many Witnesses Identify Murder Victim as Alcalde Friend

Three Hurt In Wreck Of Freight On B.&O.R.R.   Doubleheader ‘Hot Shot’ Plows Into Marriottsville Store And P. O.

Wickard Denies Food Shorfage   Say Large Supplies Must Be Conserved

Food Keports Branded Lies  By Secretary Comfort To Axi:  ~ Seen in Rumors _  Of Shortage

PRIVATE KESTER SUFFERS WOUND IN NORTH AFRICE   His Injury Slight, According to. Word to His Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kester

FAILS TO SEE ) ANY BENEFIT   Fefuses To Join Union That Can‘t Get Him More Pay.

‘NINCOMPOOPS'   Rep. Short Raps Farm Experts With ‘Sidewalk Training.’

—MARSHAL ROMMEL RUNNING FOR COVER—  Allies Beat Off Axis Attacks In North Tunisiz   ‘The Fox’ Burning Supplies And Blowing Ur Airports As He Retreats; Eisenhower's Troops Advance On 36-Mile Front

Allied Forces Beat Off Four German Tank Assaults   Eighth Army Has Little Opposition On Mareth Line

Rommel Burns Stores, Blows Up Airports In Headlong Retreat On Central Front.

Axis Tanks - Beaten Off In 4 Areas   Kasserine Reoccupied By British and American  Troops

~ Allies Continue To Pursue The  5 Fleeing Columns Of Nazi Hordes

BRITISH ESTABLISH POSITIONS SOUTH OF FAMED MARETH LINE   BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS IN CENTRAL AREA CONTINUE ADVANCE

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED IN FOUR SECTORS   As Battles Continue in Long-Dormant Tunis~ Bizerte Zone, Allies. Strike Out at Rowamet an 26.Mila Are.

Rommel Fires Stores in New Retreat Move   Desert Fox Withdrawing. to Position to Pounce on British Coming Through Maréth

FLEEING NAZIS BURN SUPPLIES THEY CAN'T TAKE   Yanks Beat Off Tank Attack And Surge On in Pursuit Of Rommel’s Army   BRITISH CLOSING IN TOO   Aerial Assault on Germany Stepped Up as Russians Beat Back Invaders

Axis Tank Assaults Near Tunis, Bizerte  Beaten Off By Allies   Rommel Destr oys Stores, Airports In Retreat From Kasserine Gap; Reds Push Back Nazi Reserves

Allies beat off tank-led axis attacks in 4 zones as Germans burn supplies

Axis Attacks In North Beaten Off   RAF Carries Out Unusually Heavy Raid on German Industries

New Fignting Is Raging In North Tunisia   Allied Troops Beat Off Axis Attacks in Four Sectors; Rommel’s Forces Blow Up Airports in Their Retreat

Retreating Foe Ruins Airports; Allies Seize One   8th Army Reaches Gorge at North Of Mareth Line: Coloane Hit Aaain.

New Fighting Rages in North African Front   Allied Troops Beat Off Tank-Led Attacks by  Germans in Tunisia.   Nazis Burn Supplies And Blow Up Airports

GERMANS ARE RETREATING ON CENTRAL FRONT   Burning Stores of Supplies and Blowing Un Airfield Installations

Fleeing Nazis Blow Up ' Central Front Airports   Fighting Continues in Northern Tunisia While Far to South Montgomery Establishes Positions South of Mareth Line.

British Hurl Back Strong Tank Attacks   Allies Keep Chasing Rommel; Fleeing Germans Demolish Seized Airports

Germans Blow Up Airports; Burn Stores   Allied Troops Beat Off New Axis Drive  In Northern Tunisia   American And British Troops Take Kasserine   Heavy Air Raids Are Reported On Bizerte And Gabes

LONERGAN ADMITS KILLING HIS WIFE WITH CANDLESTICK   RCAF Aircraftsman {s Held on Formal Charge of Mur nar

LONERGAN CONFESSES SLAYING      Beat: Heitess: Wife To.Death Wi ithe: 3 Candle Sticks ~

HOLD LONERGAN FOR N.Y. MURDER: ADMITS CRIME   Aircraftsman Bares Details; Background Is Revealed

HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MURDER; HAS CONFESSED: CRIME   Admits He Beat, Strangled Pretty Heiress-Wife During Jealous Argument

Cadet Bares Wife-Killing   Quarrel Over Infant Related by Lonergan

Montana Mess Sergeant Serves President Roosevelt F.D.R. Declares “This Is Really Good Ham,” Cooks Pleased   Ry CORP. RALPH MARTIN

Montana Mess Sergeant Serves President Roosevelt  EDR Declarac “This Is Really Good Ham,” Cooks Pleased

POLICY COMMITTEE SELECTED BY UMW   Group to Meet AFL Group to Consider Application

UMW GROUP TO MEET WITH AFL   Lewis. Tetlow Members Of Body To Discuss Federation Bid

UMW NAMES SIX FOR AFL CONFAE   Membership Application Con. wane Toy _

Committee Named  in Union Merger  - Consolidation of U.M.W., A.F.L. Seen

WILL CONTINUE TAX BILL WORK   Effort to Write Legislation Saved by Promise Of Economy Efforts

NEW TAX LIFE SEEN OW PLEA FOR ECONOMY   Administration A c ! Yesterday Saves Legulation

WORK RESUMED ON NEW TAXES   Administration Officials Promise To Economize On Expenditures

wt to Write iw Tax Spared Defeat by House  ys and Means Vote: Tae + Yen   ys and Means Vote: o Continue Work  Dn Bill

Tax Bill Gets —  Lease on Life   House Committee Again To Tackle Measure

Administration Assures ‘Streamlined’ Spending House Committee Told

Continue Work On Tax Measure   Economy Is Pledged By Administration

Promise of New Deal Economy Gives New Tax Legislation Better Chance

PROMISE IS MADE TO CUT EXPENSES   Committee, Given Assur. ance, Resumes Work on Tax Bill

POLITICS IS CHARGED BY CONGRESSWOMAN   Rep. Clare Boothe Peeved When Column Discarded

Nazis Leave Huge Booby Trap In Gen. Clark’s Naples Hotel   Hundreds of Bombs Placed by Enemy  Keep Populace on Edge Over Large Area

Gen. Clark’s Life Possibly Saved By Discovery of Bomb Trap in Hotel

Legion Head Promises Day Of Reckoning   Says Returned Troops To Battle Against Un-Americanism

Bureaucrats Are Assailed By Waring   ... springfield Honors Abraham Lincoln

NATION TOLD 10 DESERT AXIS OR FACE INVASION   Churchill Urges New Regime To Lay Down Arms, Escape Land, Air Attacks   THREE DEMANDS ISSUED   Prime Minister Says Moves For Armistice Not Yet Received

Italian People Are Told How To  Escape Invasion   Surrender Unconditionally And Quit Nazi Alliance, Demand Of Churchill   ‘EITHER QUIT WAR OR BE DEVASTATED’”’

LITTLE ISLAND OF DJERBA JUST OFF NORTH AFRICAN COAST QUIET AS CODS OF WAR AT MOST FORCET

The Island That War Forgot      Djerba, Just Off the Coast ‘of Tunisia, is Haven of Peace, Though Within Earshot of Guns

LOWER ARKANSAS VALLEY BRACES ‘FOR WORST FLOOD:   Fort Smith Weather Bureau Predicts 39 to 39.5 Foot Crest There Today.

— es pe, ee ee net  Two Kansans Decorated  For Action Against Japs

WPB TOLD — TO USE ALL AUTHORITY   Truman Committee Calls for Strong Leadership, Less Controversy   RUBBER. GASOLINE FEUD IS CITED   Points to Confusion in Setup, But-Demands That All Hands Work

Urges Firm WLB Hand   Truman Committee Would “Knock Heads Together” If Necessary

SEEK TO NULLIFY GERMAN GAINS OF ~ SEVERAL MONTHS   4°Main Forces Advancing On Paralle - Lines On Long Battle Front—-Now Within 42 Miles Of Rostoy-—  Several Towns Seized

Red Armies Tighten Traps Around Nazis at Rostov, Kharkov and Kursk

Red Armies Driving on Objectives   Kursk, Kharkov And Rostov Are Russian Targets

RESTORATION OF SPRING LINE (S NOW POSSIBILITY   Americans Clean Germans Out of Sened as Fortres-~ ses Blast Enemy Convoy In Port of Tunis.   FAID PASS IS STILL HELD BY ENEMY ARMY   Japs Advance to Only Short Distance From Objective In New Guinea But Are Driven Away.

NAZI REMNANTS NEAR STALINGRAD BEING POUNDED   Reds Score New Gains on Voronezh Front; 65 Miles from Kursk.

Rep. Ditter Asks FDR To Help Win War by Refusing To Be a Candidate

FDR RENUNCIATION ~ CAN UNIFY NATION   Pennsy Solon Replies te Statement of Rep. McCormack

LIBERTY SHIP QUOTA BOOSTED   Aircraft Carrier “Shangri: La” Would Put County’s Stamp on Axis.

QUOTA TO BUILD SHIP S BOOSTED   Special Plans Made To Raise $2,250,000 As County's Present Quota.

FIRST GOLDENROD CROP HARVESTED IN GEORGIA; TO BE USED FOR RUBBER

SPIES SPARED DEATH PENALTY   U. S. District Attorney Not To Seek It In Detroit Case

Explains Cap Worn In Fast With Gandhi   Bishop Wants To Liberate India

_ ENGINEERS BUSY. .   They Did° Most off the Werk’ it Capture af; Gafsa,

ENGINEERS BUSY.   They Did Most of the Work in Capture of Gafsa.

rWO PLAYERS ADDED TO MOOSE CAGE SQUAD   Marl Stiegemeter and Ted Owens, High School Coach, Will Play Sa Charity Game,

Slashed Body Found in l nderpass Youth Confesses Murdering  Three-Year-Old St. Louis Girl

Youth Confesses Murder of Child   James Franklin Admits Killing of Three-YearOld Child

YOUTH CONFESSES ~ SLAYING OF CHILD   Body of Three-Year Old Girl Found i in Under.

Little Girl Found  Slain in St. Louis   Child, 3, Stabbed; Suspect, 21, Held

YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING CHILD   ‘I'm Sorry  Did It,’ He Tells Police as  Body Found

YOUTH CONFESSES SLAYING OF CHILD   Body of Three-Year Old Girl Found in Under. pass

Man Confesses Attack On Baby   Semi-Nude Body Of Girl. 3. Slashed

YOUTH, 21, ADMITS RAPE DEATH OF TOT   Ex-Inmate Shows Officers To Crime Scene

Tot's Nude Body Found, Youth Held   2 Veal thd ; Adu Rape Murder

Brown's Argument Against Oil Price Boost Said Unsound   Jester Declares Chief Is Making Serious Mistake

Are You ‘Interested... ob Joining Women's fae ~ALand Aimy in lowat

Weather in Helena   Record Number of Cattle Shipped To Markets; Could Mean Temporary Feast, Then Famine

$66,000,000 ESTIMATE OF EDSEL FORD ESTATE   Figure Will Likely Be Increased Since Several Months Will Be Required For Full Appraisal

RED) ARMY SEIZES ENEMY TRENCHES   Russians Continue to Take Ground in All Sectors.

Russians Turn Back Nazi Assaults South Of Kharkov  —   Artillery Active In Caucasus Fighting

Just New Face For Fascism,  OWI Asserts   Vittorio ‘Moronic Little King’ and He And Badoglio ‘Fascists’

Emanuele, Badoglio Are [Branded As Fascists By IShortwave OWI Broadcast

MERCURY MOVING UP   Expected Freezing Flareback . Failed to Reach Ratsael

AMERICAN WARGHIPS BOMBARD JAP BASES   Vessels Steam Boldly Un To Madang, Gasmata

U. S. Ships Blast Madang, Gasmata   Vessels Penetrate Deep Into Japanese Waters

Warships Batter . 2 Japanese Bases   Light U. S. Naval Forces Serve Notice American Fleet Controls Area By Attacks On Madang And Gasmata

Jap Bases in” New Guinea, New Britain Shelled:   Deepest Penetration Of Enemy Waters. Is Reported

American Warships Shell Japs at Madang, Gamsata   Demand Repeal of Oleomargarine Tax

Americans Serving Nolice on Japanese that Allies Now Control Southwestern Invasion Route To. ward Rahsnl,

U.S. WARSHIPS BOMBARD TWO JAP QUTPOSTS   Steam Between Islands To Shell Madang And Gamsata

U.S. WARSHIPS SHELL MADANG, OTHER POINTS   Allies Now Control Southwestern Route Toward Rabaul, Revealed

U.S. WARSHIPS SHELL TWO JAP BASES   Serve Notice That Allies Now Control Invasion Route

U. S. Warships Shell Madang And Gasmata  Penetrate Areas Once Controlled By Japs  For First Raid  HAVE AIR SUPPORT  Steam Between Islands Tan Steike At Fae

Bob Nathan And ‘Goons’ Supper Club   Brains Boys Of Civilian Agencies Battled Army Bosses

a---“\Where Every Prosect Pleases, And Only Man Is Vile” As Seen By Levins   mpressed By “Bright: t Jewel In His Ma Jesty’s Crown”

a---“\Where Every Prosect Pleases, And Only Man Is Vile? As Seen By Levins   Jewel In His Majesty’s Crown”  Fev By “Bright-

Allies Press Air Attack To Knock Italy Out Of War   American Planes Batter Airfield In Sicily

POUND HOME WARNING TC ITALY GOVT,   New Activity on Russ Front Helps Point to Decision in ‘43. Gen. Crockett Assigned

Substratosphere Raids Blast Key Sicily Air Base   Sky Forts Break ‘Through 50 Messerschmits Te Smash At Comise

BOMBERS RIP ITALIAN DAMS   TWELVE P-38 RAIDERS HIT TIRSO RESERVOIRS

Appropriations Would Be Restored To Various Organizations Under Terms Of Measure

Budget Measure Tops Goodland s Recommendatior  Go Over Governor's Figure By Nearly Million Dollars

More Corn In 1944   AAA’s Proposed Goals Next Year Indicate Less Hay, More Soybeans

SCHOOL BILL IN BALANCE   BOTH. SIDES CLAIMING. VICTORY AS SUBSIDY PROPUSAL MOVES CLOSER  TO VOTE «

School Aid Bill Nears Showdown   Both Sides Claim Victory In Fight Over Great Federal Subsidy

Typical Americans To Great Britain   Sent by Office of  War Information to Acquaint British With People of the U. S. A.

Interoreting  The War   Eden’s Visit Brings Many Problems Of War and Peace

GEN. MARTHUR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO WOUNDED   Four - Star Genera Thoughtful Of Men Bitter Fighting Now Ir New Britain.

General McArthur Visits Yank Wounded Troops on New Guinea   Spends Few Minutes With Each Man in the Hospital.

CUT ESCAPE CORRIDOR 10 43 MILES   Fall Of City Inevitable: Soviets Advance Within Five Miles: Nazis Reported In Retreat

REDS NARROW ESCAPE ROUTE, FALL IMMINENT   Nazis Face Another Defea' Equal To Fall of Stalingrad

RED ARMY WITHIN FIVE MILES OF OREL, NAZI STRONGHOLE   The Fall of This Strong Ger man Point Appeared Inevitable Today.   THE ENEMY IN RETREAT   Only a Question of Time, It Is Said, Before the City Will Be Abandoned.

SOVIETS STORM WAY WITHIN FIVE MILES OF TOWN   REDS THREATEN TO TRAP GERMANS IN DOOMED FORTRESS

Fall of Orel Near; Reds 5 Miles Away   Soviets Narrow Escape Path to 13 Miles; Nazi Donets — Drive Broken

FALL OF OREL BELIEVED NEAR: SOVIETS GAIN   Nazi Retreat Reported Under Way Although Germans Say Attacks Repulsed.

Germans still Retreating In  Salient At Orel   Fall Of Stronghold Is Appearing Inevitable As Reds Smash On.

GERMAN-RETREAT ~ PROCEEDS STEADILY   Expect Elimination of Whole Enemy Salient on Cen¢era) Front

FALL OF OREL INEVITABLE IT APPEARS   Smashing Red Army Offensive Moves Forward in Face Strong Resistance

SMASHING RED OFFENSIVE 1 NEARING CITY   Nazis Face Second “Stalin« grad” As Escape Corridor To West (s Narrowed   COUNTERATTACKS FAIL   Russians Report Serious Losses Halt Enemy Orwe In Donets Basin

Collapse of Orel  Seems Inevitable   Smashing Russian Army Drives to Within Five Miles o Nazi-Held City and Escape Corridor Is Gradually  Narrowed.   Frantic German Counter-Attacks Fail to Stave Off Russian Advance

SAY NAZIS IN FULL RETREAT FLEEING “TRAP”   Reports Indicate 250,000 Germans Making Frantic Effort to Save Their Own Necks

Capture Of City Seems Inevitable   Russian Army Offensive   Carries To Within Five Miles Of The German Stronghold

FALL OF © OREL IS EXPECTED   Red Army Within Five Miles Of Nazi Stronchold

Soviet Troops Within Five Miles Of Orel   Moscow Sees Abandonment Merely as Question of Time

Fall Of Great Nazi Base At  Orel Nearing  German Retreating To West; Blast Bridges As Red Armies Storm  we.t.?. * ages. .

NAZI RETREAT ON UneL FRONT Io OPEEDED UP   Russian Capture Of City Only Question Of Time After New Advance

Orel’s Fall Inevitable; Reds Neat TownToday   Nazis Retreating Steadily; Reds Driving Hard.

Orel Collapse Inevitable As  Reds Close hi   3 Main Russian Armies Drive Germans Westward In Steady Retreat.   NAZI LOSSES HEAVY

Reds Smash Within Five Miles of Orel   Nazis Retreat Before Mighty Soviet AtMack

Fall OF Orel Is Inevitable; Reds Five Miles Away   Nazis Retreat Before Russian Drives

OREL CAPTURE FROM NAZIS HELD CERTAIN   Red Army Only 5 Miles From City; Nazis Say Attacks Repulsed

GERMANS BLOW UP BRIDGES IN OREL RETREAT   Red Armies Storm Within Five Miles of Nazi Stronghold   3.500 GERMANS SLAIN   Soviets Also Crush 5-Day Nazi Offensive Below Voroshilovgrad

Say Fall Of Orel Is Now Merely - Question Of Time   Red Army Smashes Carry To Within Five Miles Of Nazi Stronghold

FALL OF OREL 1S BELIEVED BE NEAR AS REDS ADVANCE   GERMAN RETREAT FROM  POINTS NORTH AND SOUTH REPORTED

Russians Push To Within Five Miles of City   Counter-Attacks of Germans in Effort to Avert Encirclement Fails to Stop Russian:

NAZI DISASTER IN RUSSIA NEAR; REDS AT OREL   Smashing Soviet Drive Breaks German Lines and Starts General Retreat   HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED   Escape Corridor Narrowed And Another Stalingrad Debacle Is Possible

Escape Corridor At Orel Narrows   Reds Dive Closer‘ to City; Its Fall Appears:  Inevitable   COUNTER DRIVES FAIL   Sector North of Orel I: Scene of Much Savage — Fighting ~

‘Nazis Face « Disaster in  Orel Ares   “Escape Corridor Narrowed to 13 Miles as Fall of Base Avpears Inevitable   #GERMANS RETREAT, . CHASED BY REDS   Possibility of ‘Losses as Great as Those Suffered J at Stalinerad

REDS WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CITY OF OREL   German Retreat Westward From Points North and South Proceeding Steadily   COUNTER-ATTACKS FAIL

REICH DEFENSES » [MPERILED, OREL MAY FALL SOON   ® Soviet Army Is Reported Within Five Miles of Enemy’s Stronghold

Days Of Orel Are Numbered   Escape Corridor :  Narrowed to Onl;  13 Miles

Reds Smash Within & Miles of City. Germans Retreating with Escape Corridor Now” Narrowed to 13 Miles, Foreshadowing Anoth.er Disaster Equal To ‘Stalingrad.

Orel May Become Another Stalingrad   British Writer Says Nazis’ Eseape Corridor West of Bastion Narrowed to 13 Miles —Fall of City Appears Near.

REDS DRIVE WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CITY   German Retreat Continues; Base To Be Abandoned

Fall of Orel Appears Certain As Reds Within Five Miles of Raetion: Nazi Drive Checked

Red Offensive Paves Way To Fall Of Orel   Russians Drive To Within Five Miles Of German Stronghold

Fall of Orel To Red Troops Reported Near   Offensive Carries Russians to Five Miles of Stronghold

Fall Of Orel  Now Seems To Be Inevitable   Troops Within 5 Miles Of German Bastion,  Plowing Ahead

BOR HIE SE  GERMAN FORCES ARE RETREATING   Russians Drive To Within Five Miles Of Nazi Stronrhold   LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Repulse Full Strength Of : Hitler’s Manpow er, Mechanized Units

FALL OF OREL ® ~ LIKELY TOM   Only Question of Time Until Orel Will Be Abandoned By Nazi.   REDS WITHIN FIVE MILES

Reds Moving Nearer Orel   Germans Threatened With Disaster Like Stalingrad

Germans Pulling Out, As Russians Encirclement  Closes In On Bastion

Seems Only Question of Time Before the Enemy Stronghold Will Be Abandoned, Eliminating Entire Nazi Salient On Central Front.

Red Army Smashes To Within Five Miles Of City; Nazis May Withdraw

Fall of Orel !s Apparently Certain   Russians Drive in Behind Vital City

GERMANS FAIL IN DESPERATE ~ OREL DEFENSE   Russians Push In Inexoribly While Nazis Relreat from Positions North and South   REDS TAKE TOWNS      German Offensive in Donets Basir Halted, Russians Score Else: where on Front

REDS TIGHTEN VICE ON BNEM   Fall of Orel Reported to Be Imminent As Saviet Forces Grind Ahead On Two Sides

OREL’S FALL IS IMMINENT; REDS AT EDGE OF CITY   German Stronghold Apparently Doomed With Russian Forces Now Within Five Miles Of Goal.

Besieged Orel Appears Doomed To Fall Soon   Russians Within Five Miles Of Great German Base After Capturing Important Communication Points.

SOVIET TROOPS SPEED PUSH AT KEY OREL CASE   Forces Advancing Only Five Miies From Vital City

Reds Within 5 Miles of Orel  E nil al Alaa: Cheana   Fall of Nazi Stronghold Inevitable

NEW MOVE IS SUGGESTED INSENATE   . May Adopt Moscow Agreement as Its Own Plan

Miners Return After Ickes  Gives an Out   Parade of New Strikes Halts, Pending Further Facts

[Alabama Miners Call Off Strikes; Ickes Provides Means to Avoid Fines

Alabama Mine Strikers Turn  Back To Work   Appeased By Ickes’ Announcement Of Way To Avoid Fines.

Miners in Alabama go back to pits   Take advantage of ‘out’ by Ickes

ALABAMA MINERS TURN BACK TO WORK DUE TO ICKES: “OUT”  SIXTEEN HUNDRED PENN. SYLVANIA MINERS, HOW. EVER PLAN STRIKE

ICKES’ ORDER ENDS PROTEST ON FINE RULE   Alabama Strikers Return To Jobs After New  Decision   UP FOR ARBITRATION   1,600 Miners In Pennsylvania Stay Away  From Jobs

Coal Feud Heightened By Walkout   Yorkers In Two Sections Protest Levy Of Fines; Majority Stay On Jobs

Coal Miners In Alabama  End Strike   Abortive Walkouts Ended As Ickes Offers Out on Fines Ruling

SOME MINERS ARE BACK, OTHERS OUT   615 Men Return to Work - in Alabama as Ickes  Stalls on Fines   PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE

MINERS PROTEST ICKES' THREAT OF GOV'T FINES   THIRD STRIKE LOOMS AS WALKOUTS OCCUR IN TWO COAL FIELDS

Miners Given An ‘Out’ By Ickes, Return To Jobs   Whether Fines Stick Up To Collective Bargaining

lrate Miners Go Back to Digging   Alabamans Had Voted to Strike in Protest to  Ickes’ Threat of Fines.

615 Alabama Coal Miners  Resume Jobs   End Strikes on Ickes Ruling Fine Subject io Negotiation with Op eralors   1600 OUT IN PENNA.   Join Protest Over Fine With Kick at WLB’s Delay in Deciding Wage Issue

Coal Strikers Return To Job   Ickes Opens Way For Cancellation Of Fines On  Walkout Absences.

Coal Workers Refurn to Jobs Once More Today   Ruling of Ickes Resented by Men Despite Change

Miners Turn Back to Pits In Alabama   Men Given ‘Out’ by Ickes to Avoid Fines for June Strike   BARGAININGMATTER   Pennsylvania Workers Vote Walkout Despite Announcement

New Walkout Threat Looms In Coal Area   Fines For June  Strike Result In Work Stoppages

Tckes Says Miners Can Appeal Order   WLB to Review Contract Between United Mine Workers and Pennsylvania Operators

New Kiska Blows Reported by Navy   Warship Shelling Follows Air Raid

New Battleship Given Test   Mightiest of U. S. Ships Soon to Join Battle Fleet

NINE BIG GUNS FORM BATTERY FOR U. S. SHIPS   Mechanical Devices Simplify Firing of All but Machine Guns

RUBBER INDUSTRY PROGRESS. PRAISED   Jeffers Says Synthetic Program Will Be Going Within Year

JAPS ISOLATED IN TWO AREAS ON BUNA FRONT       Parachulists, Tanks, lafantry and  Artillery Cooperate in Narrow ing Enemy. Zone

Base Is Taken 32 Days After Yank Landings   Hundreds Of Nipponese Slain In Assaults On Position; Salamaua In Danger As Allies Near

SUDRE VIGTORY AFTER 32 DAYS   Activity Now Limited to Mopping Up Operations; Many Japs Slain.   'GIVES U. S. NEW BASE

Occupation Of Munda Complete, Jans Mopped Up   Victory Comes After 32 Days Fighting; Jap Casualties Are Heavy

AMERICANS MOP UP BEATEN NIPS AT MUNDA BASE   JUNGLE-WISE YANKS NOW IN CONTROL OF NEW GEORGIA ISLAND

Key Air Base Taken After 32-Day Siege   Allies Are Now in Fighter Plane Range of Rabaul, Feeder Base

1,671 Japanese Dead Tes tity To Bitter Struggle ~ Now Ended. Loss O Base Leaves  Twe Other Jap Footholds or New Georgia In Pre.  carious Position.

Uccupation Of Airdrome Completed   US Invasion Troops Battle Yard by Yard Through Jungle

JAPS’ MUNDA STAND ENDED: 1,071 KILLED   American Ground Forces Take Gver After 32 Days of Fight.   RESISTANCE CEASED, MACARTHUR REPORTS

Strategic Solomons Base Is Conquered   Hundreds Of Japanese Slain In Death Struggle, Victory Marks Another Stepping Stone Toward Recapture OF Philippines

AMERICANS OCCUPY ALL OF MUNDA   Find.1,671 Dead Japs As Battle For -Airdrome Ends

TROOPS ROUT ENEMY AFTER BITTER FIGHT   Occupation Comes .Within 32 Days After Establishment of Beachhead

Mopping Up Operations Begin on Important — New Georgia Air Base ©

Jap Garrison In New Georgia Being Wiped Out   Few Details Told Of Final Assault On Vital Airfield

Prize Air Base In South Pacific Falls After a Short Siege   Over Sixteen Thousand Japanese Dead Are Counted To Testify to Bitterness of Struggle For Important Airfield      AMERICANS ARE BUSY MOPPING UP GUERILLAS

4,000-F oot Long Airdrome Anc Its Protecting Fortifications ‘Are Taken From Japanese   1,671 Enemy Dead Counted; All Organized Resistance Ceases; Isolated Groups Of Foe Are Being Destroyed

Northern’ Solomons Bases Now Within  American Fighter  Craft Range

Enemy Bases Jeopardized By Conquest   Complete Victory Is Won After 32 Days Of Fighting

G71 JAP DEAD ARE COUNTED IN BITTER BATTLE   Conquer Airfield Just 32 Days After Getting New Georgia Beachhead

Americans Complete Occupation Of Air Base In 32 Days Of Hard Battle

BLOODY SIEGE OF JAP BASE ISNOW OVER   All Resistance Ended Yankee Troops Mopping Up Nips

RESISTANCE BY JAPS FINALLY CRUSHED BY U.S.   Preliminary Announcement Of Victory Reveals },671 Nip Dead Already Counted   CASUALTIES ATTEST TO BITTER CAMPAIGN   Triumph Breaks Core of Tokyo's Defense In Central Solomons; Doughboys Mop Up

Claim American Units Ready To Hit Elsewhere in Pacific   Hint Drive on Philippines; Jap Death Toll Grows as Mopping Up Operations Continue

jnfield Only 450 Miles.  From Japanese Base. At Rabaul Is Entirely tn American Hands

MacArthur’s Troops Take Airfield After Bloody Jungle Battle   Salamaua Air Base On. New Guinea Also Menaced By American And Australian ‘Forces; Rabaul Believed Next On Allied Timetahle

AMERICAN TROOPS OCCUPIED MUNDA AFTER KILLING JAPS   IMPORTANT AIRBASE TAKEN IN 32 DAYS; 167! DEAD ENEMY COUNTED

Japs Give Up Strong Point In Solomons   One Other Weaker Foothold On New Georgia Still Held By Japanese.   ‘THREATEN SALAMAUA

TEMPERATURES   SALEM WEATHER REPOR!   Year Age Today   NATION-WIDE REPORT (By Associated Press)

JAPS DRIVEN BACK SIX MILES BY AUSSIES  New Fighting   New Fighting Occurs In Salamaua Sector

Japanese Are Pushed Back  in New Guinea   Australian Troops Report an Advance of 6 Miles

AUSSIES PUS JAPS BACK IN NEW GUINEA   Main Enemy Force Is Thrown Back For Distance Of Over Six Miles.

Xmas Day Battle Won By Chinese  Regain Four-Fifths Of Jap-Held Area

URGES RETURN TC GASLESS SUNDAYS   Cox Suggests New Restrictions on Driving

COX PRESENTS DRIVING SETUP   Suggests Ban on Pleasure Driving After 8 P. M. on Holidays, Sundays

RAF Makes Heavy Attach On Essen   New Groups in Air Today to Continue Big Air Offensive

Essen, Hamburg-Blasted. By Allied Bombers In One Of War's Greatest Raids

British-Based Planes Make Heavy Attacks   RAF Loses 25 Planes, Americans 19; Essen Hit Hard

HEAVY AIR RAIDS MADE ON GERMAN   Essen, Cologne Hamburg Given New Going Over

Fresh Squadrons Of Raiders Sweep Over English Channel After RAF Blasts Essen And British And American Bombers Stage Dual Assault On Hamburg—25 Allied Planes Missing In Far-Flung Operations— Bologna And Leghorn Attacked

RAF Bombers In 57th Raid On City Of Essen  Also Strike At Other Targets

Essen Plastered By RAF In Night Raid: 25 Missing   Hamburg And Cologne Are Raided By Mosquito Bombers.

Essen Hard Hit Tn Heavy Attack By RAF Planes   List 25, Bombers Missing - In. Far-Flung Assaults Over France, Germany

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT GERMANY IN 24-HOUR ATTACK   Heavy Bombers Blast Essen Lighter Aircrafts Rip Hamburg, Cologne

BRITISH STAGE HEAVY RAIDS ON FRENCH, NAZIS   Essen, Hamburg, Cologne, France And Low Countries Feel  Might Of RAF; 25 Planes Missing.

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS IN CONCENTRATED ATTACK ON ESSEN  MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT STRUCK AT HAMBURG, CO

ESSEN TARGET OF HEAVY RAID; HAMBURG HIT   Fresh Squadrons Wing Channel to Carry On Aerial War Today Atter Raids Saturday, Sunday   Hamburg Twice Hii, First by Brit. ish, Then Americans—Essen Attack Concentrated

Airmen Plaster  German Cities Over Week-end   Continue Bombings After 1,000 Plane Raid On Hamburg

WEST GERMA BOMBED BY RAF   Far-Flung Overnight At. tack {neludes Essen, * Dambura Colaane

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS IN A CONCENTRATED ATTACK ON ESSEN   Mosquito _Air _Craft — Alsa Struck at Hamburg and Cologn   HIT THE LOW COUNTRIES   [wenty-five Planes Were Listed as Missing in the Operations.

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS IN CONCENTRATED ATTACK ON ESSEN  MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT STRUCK AT HAMBURG, CO  TONG ANN ATUCD DAINT

R.A.F. STAGES RAIDS ON TWO NAZI CENTERS   Concerted Attacks Made on Both Essen and Hamburg in Northwest Germany

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS FLY   25 Missing After Raid on Essen, Hamburg and Cologne

NAZI TARGETS   Essen, Hamburg, Cologne _ Visited As Allies Carry ) Out Attacks

Bombs Blast “Axis Europe Around Clock   Essen, Hamburg, Cologne, France And Low Countries Hammered.

U. S., British Raids Hit Reich Day And Night   Hamburg Showered With Record Load Of Explosives

Round Clock  Bombings Of Ruhr Progress   Mightiest Day Raid By U. S. Bombers Follows 2300-Ton RAF Raid

RAF Planes Hit Essen; Yanks Raid Continent   Attacks Follow Up Devastation Of Hambura Bombing

Capital Falls To Mighty  Soviet Army   Russian Offensive Hits Climax; Stalin Proclaims Kiev Victory as Major Coup of War, Sees Many New Triumph:

STALIN. CLAIMS "REAL SECOND FRONT IS NEAR”   p Fall Of Kiev Sparks Anniversary Of Revolution

Germans Neat Catastrophe, Stalin Says   Russians Incade Crimea From East, Get Bridgeheads On Kerch Peninsula

Soviets Smash On Following Kiev Capture   Announce Invasion O! Crimea From East As Germans Fall Back Before Poundings

UPENG WAY 10 CLEARING AGH WEST UKRAINE   Army Also Invades Crimea from East and Takes Half Dozen Towns.

STALIN SAYS NAZIS FACE CATASTROPHE   »-Premier Indicates Way Is Open to Drive Germans From Rich Soil of  « Western Ukraine.   DECLARES SECOND FRONT IS NEAR   Bridgeheads Established by Soviets on Kerch Peninsula—1 ,800,000 Germans Killed in Year.

Kiev’ sk all Highlights ‘Prediction   Germany’ on n Edge of Catasitophe Red Premier Declares

Victory Guns Salute Kiev Capture   Premier Indicates Master Stroke May Free Rich Ukraine

Bridgeheads Established On Kerch.   Ukraine Capital Taken by Storm By Russians

Reds Invade Crimec From Eastern Side   Stalin Makes Special Announcement of Capture Of Kiev, Says Germany at Edge of Catastrophe Now

RICH UKRAINE TO BE FREED SOON BY REDS   CRIMEA IS INVADED FROM EAST; MANY TOWNS TAKEN

Russians Also Launch New  Invasion Of The Crimea   Germany ‘On Edge Of Catastrophe’ Stalin Says; Is Satisfied With Allied Drive

SOUTH OF KIEV   Reds Less Than 130 Miles From Polish Border   VICTORY GUNS ROAR   Dozens of Towns Captured in Landing Operations on Kerch Peninsula

Stalin Declares Way Now Open To Free Ukraine   Russians Also Announce Crimea Is Being Invaded

Second Front Is Near Stalin Tells Moscow Crowds   Invasion of Crimea Announced; Nazis on Edge of Catastrophe

DALLES GIR DEI FOR SHOWDOWN YIPREMIER SAYS   Capture of Ukraine Capi_ tal Climaxes Four Months  of Great Russian   Offensive   BRINGS REDS WITHIN 130 MILES OF POLAND   ‘Great German Losses Lit-: i ter City and Roads; So-   viet Forces Drive   Ahead

‘Nazi Armies In ‘South Russia May Be Split In Two   Enemy Has No Natural Defense Line Between Reds And Old Polish Border

Troops Smash On Beyond City   - Over 60 Towns In. Aréa Are Retaken

STALIN SAYS NAZIS ON RIM OF DISASTER   Foe Seeking Ships for Evacuating Army From Crimea

Russians Take Kiev and Invade Eastern Crimea; Stalin Tells People ‘Real Second Front’ Near   Nazi Line Before Rome Is Failing Before Assaults

Soviet Troops Liberate Great City Of Kiev And Invade Crimea From East

Gas Picture Is Grim   Henderson Sorry He Wasn’t Tougher; No Improvement in Sight

Henderson Is Sorry - Wasn't Tough Enough   Price administrator says people are more indifferent to need of conserving gas.

HENDERSON ON WITNESS STAND   Retiring OPA Chief Says He Regrets He Was Not Tough Enough.   JEFFERS, ICKES TESTIFY

Bootlegging Of Gasoline  Denounced   Henderson Tells Senate Group People Reluctant To Accept Rationing

Henderson Not Tough b nou oh In Rationing   People Do Not  Realize Seriousness  He Declares

Too Easy On People, Says L. Henderson   Would Be Tougher Again, He Says; No Relief For East

HENDERSON SAYS  HE REGRETS HAD NOT  BEEN TOUGH ENOUGH DECLARES PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT TO NEED CONSERVE MOTOR FIFI.

Gas Rationing Isn  ‘Tough Enough’   Henderson Hits At Bootlegging

Finds People Indifferent To Gas Curb   Enforcement Aggravated . By Their Reluctance, Henderson Says   SERIOUSNESS NOT YET REALIZED   Jeffers Would Supply: Farmers, Give Boards More Latitude

OPA EX-CHIEF SCORES FUEL BOOTLEGGING   Was Not Tough Enough, Says Henderson, at Senate Confab   ICKES ALSO TESTIFIES   Jeffers Upholds Farmers In Receiving Fuel to Ald Production

SMALL CHANCE FOR MORE GAS ON EAST COAST   ICKES SAYS SUPPLY WILL CONTINUE ON ‘HAND-MOUTH BASIS’

Not Tough ‘Enuf’ On Gas Rationing   Chief Henderson Says People Are Indifferent to Conserving Oil.

INDIFFERENCE 10 SHORTAGE SCORED   Henderson Says U.S. Fails to Realize Need for Ration; Denounces Bootlegging

FIVE CANS TO - PERSON UNDINIK  RBATIONING   Containers Less Than Eight Ounees Will Be Counted—OPA Made Announeement,:

OPA SETS § CANS LIMIT UNDER RATION   Stamp Loss Penalty For Excess Number

Five Cans Of Food Fixed As Limit For Each Person   Indications Yesterday Had Been That It Would Be Ten — OPA Reflects Pessimistic View Of Size Of Inventories

EVERY PERSON MAY HAVE FIVE CANS OF FOOD ON HAND   Five Cans of Fruits Or Vegetables of Not Less Than 8 Ounces Each Allowed Individuals At Start of Rationing; Will Lose 8 Point Stamp for All In Excess.

OPA Announces Five-Can Food Limit for Each Person   Penalty for Excess Will Be Loss Of Stamps From New Ration Books

Dispute May Bloc Engines for Ships  Kaiser Plants in California Hit

FARM BILL IS BACK IN HOUSE   Conferees Optimistic On Ac. cord Despite Five Items In Dispute

SHELL ITALIAN ISLE TWICE BY SEA IN 2 DAYS   Allied Warships Cause Severe Damage, Rome Savs

Allied Ships Blast Isle of  Pantelleria   Italy Admits Heaw Damage; European Invasion is Near

Damage by Subs Is on Decrease   Germans Admit They’re Finding Fewer Targets These Days

Damage Admitted To Pantelleria,' Stepping Stone Island Toward  Italy; Victory Risirig In Battle’ Of Atlantic    JAPS LOSE 30,000 SOLDIERS IN CHINA

Rising Tide _ of Victories  Significant   STEPPING-STONE ISLE IN PATH TO ITALY ROMBARDED.

OPERATION 1S SUCCESSFUL   Large Malignant Tumor Is Removed from Brain of Child

. Saad : no Nom te  1° .G- C.. poms peel   BY RICHARD McMYRRAY  eg ee     ie

Berle, Hull Offer Strong Defense O} U.S. State Department Policy

Roosevelt Returns as  Welles Quits   Vigorous Defense  Of State Dep't. Policy is Voiced

STATE DEPARTMENT POLICY DEFENDED IN LETTER FROM BERLE   Hull Also Lashes Out At Critics; F. D. R. To Act This Week

STATE DEPT. POLICY IS DEFENDED   Asst. Sec. Berle Answers Charges Of Critics

FOREIGN POLICIES STRONGLY. BACKED BY HULL AND BERLE   FDR Expected  ‘To Nama Successor To Suriiner Welles This _  Week -

McNutt Called Before Senate  VWATSIUD PP nw tite,   Will Testify On Manpower

War Manpower Commission Acts to Prevent Workers From Moving From One Town to Another to Take a New Job Without the Consent of the WMC

WMC Atts To Prevent Shift On Job Transfers  Relaxes Rules on Changing Work

WMC Cracks Down on Job Changes  Workers Required To Have Full  Tm _.... gh 2

Manpower Board Tightens Rules On Changing Jobs  _ Town to Town Without WMC Permission

Tighten Control On Job-Changing  New Rulings Revealed By WMC Chief

THOSE VOTING TO END BOARD   Sees Spendthrift Ac: tion in Killing of Planning Body

Planning Unit Abolition Hit By President  Legislators Reply » With Attack On ©  ee a eT Ee

President Pans Foes Of Planning      SENATOR TYDINGS IMPEACHES PRE-WAR PLANNING OF NEW DEAL TO QUESTION POST WAR PLANNING.

‘Spendthrifts,’ Roosevelt  Calls Hostile Congressmen   Says Abolishing Resources Planning Board Will Cost Milhons; ‘Boondoggling’ [s Answer

FALSE ECONOMY PRESIDENT SAYS   Abolishment Of Funds For Planning Board Will Be Costly

Weather in Helena  By U. S. Weather Bureau  weer ie a? Was wer *   President Refers to Foes of NRP ‘As Spendthrifts of Future

F. D. R. in Role of ‘Money Saver  Defends National Planning Board

Weather ii in Helena   President Refers to Foes of NRP As Spendthrifts of Future

GONFEREES MAKE LITTLE HEADWAY   Head of Union Trade Councils Says Lewis’ Attack on Expansion of Social Security Program Is Bewildering

ARGENTINE CRISIS IN CABINET BUILDS IDEA OF BLUNDER      Foreign Minister Storni Is Believed Better Navy  Officer Than - -. Diplomat

Cabinet Crisis In Argentina Due to Blunder   Minister Gets Rebuke From Secretary Hull

Argentina Faces Cabinet Crisis   Diplomatic Blunder Has Stormy Effect

150 Leaders of Three Religious Faiths Issue Joint Declaration On World Peace: 7 Points Listed

Boys of 17 Allowed To Enlist in Army  Get Reserve Status Till They Are 18

German Army Has Only One Rood Left Open From Base South to Dmitrovsk

RED ARMY FURTHER  THREATENS GERMAN  POSITION AT OREL RUSSIANS CAPTURE TWO  MAIN ROADS LEAVING ONLY ONE OUT TT

FEAR FOR 3 WOMEN IN CLEVELAND FIRE   Fifteen Other Workers WHospitalized as Chemical Plant Burns With $200,000 Lass.

Australian Troops Maintain Steady Progress in Battle   Bombers and Fighters Break Inactivity Enforced by Weather and Give Jap Airstrips on Bougainville Heavy Pasting

JAP-HELD BASE UNDER ATTACK   One Of Marshall Islands Victim Of 50 Tons Of  Bombs; Aussies Gain

Busy Schedule Faces Congress Before Recess   Several Matters Are Being Pushed in Washington So that Easter Recess May Be Taken.

Busy Schedule In Nation’s  Capital Today   Easter Recess in Background as Senate Probes Curb On Guayule

‘War Council Has Meeting   Churchill’s Attendance Under scores His Statement Britair Will Stay in War

LAWMAKERS TO HEAR FARMER'S TROUBLES   Meeting in Minneapolis To Study Federal Controls

Two Dead, Several Hundred Homeless As Rain And High Winds Sweep Ohio

OFFICIALLY vet FOOTBALL. SEASON   Coaches of 3 Local! Teams Were Guests of KickOff Luncheon   K.U.PRACTICESTONICHT

OFFICIALLY - OPEN FOOTBALL SEASON   Coaches of 3 Local! Teams Were Guests of KickOff Lanchtor  aba @ mek & St      K.U.PRACTICES TONIGHT

NOT so GOOD:   Condition. of Mrs. Titans, ' Burns ed Three Weeks Ago, Gritica?.

Arms Output Of U.S. Exceed: That Of Axis   Progrant for 1944. is ‘aking’ shape, hut details are, of course, a military secret.

SEE OPPOSITION ‘TO SENATE PLAN   Fight Expected Over Resolution To Set Up Machinery For Allied Counctl. .

FOUR SENATORS FORMALLY INTRODUCE POST-WAR BILL   Connally Cast s Doubt on Extent of Administration Approval of Plan

Solons Sponsor Resolution For  Allied Council   Administration Approval Of Plan Questionable; Willkie Backs Proposal But Connally Opvoses Parts Of It

MODEL CITIZEN PROVES TO BE AXIS AGENT   Pleads Guilty to Giving Nazis Information On U. S. Shipping

SPY NABBED BY FBI IN GOTHAM   U.S. Citizen Pleads Guilty To Charge Of Aiding Germany

Eight Are Killed In Bomber Crach   Allies Carry Out Biggest Air Sweep Of War In Pacific Area   MacArthur Sends Bombers On Damaging: Attacks On Japs Over Wide Territory

EIGHT FLIERS DIE IN CRASH OF ARMY PLANE   Were On Routine Flight From Greenville Base; Accident Near Winnsboro: List Of Vié¢tims.

U. 8. Sub Skipper Tells of Destruction of Jap Ships   Fight Are Torpedoed, Including Transport Laden With From 1,500 to 6,000 Nipponese Troops Bound For Wewak, Northwest of Salamaua; Shells Destroyer At 500 Yards; Breaks In Two

Our. Subs Are Doing A Little Bit Of All Right Themselves, Report Shows

SUBMARINE BAGS FIGHT JAP SHIPS   FLIES BROOM FROM PERISCOPE TO SHOW ‘CLEAN SWEEP

U. S. Sub Broom Denotes Clean Sweep Of Japs   Accounts For  Ficht Vescelc

Sub Wiped Out Whole Convoy   Broom Attached to Periscope to Indicate Clean Sweep

Two.Jap.Combat.Ships,. Auxiliaries Sunk By. Sut   6,000: Enemy Troops May Have Perished When Daring American Craft Destroys Conyoy;- Commander Describes Sea Battle

Broom On Sub For Clean Sweep  Of 8 Jap Ships   Destroyer, Big Troopship Victims Of Wahoo On Cruise Near N. Guinea

Lone U.S. Sub Bags Eight Jap Ships In Clean Sweep   Transport, With  * 1,500 To 6,000 Of Enemy Troops Aboard Among Those Sunk

OUTPOSTS OF ITALY AGAIN HIT BY US.   Axis Reports Huge Allied Convoy Is In Mediterranean   Yanks, In Hand-to-Hand Fighting, Gain on Attu   American Drive Supported by Heavy, Medium Bombers, Fighting Plane:

Boats Massed In Tunisian Ports, Enemy Reports North African Fliers Bag 13 Planes; RAF Loses 23 Bombers   (RULLFTINY

AMERICANS FIGHT JAPS HAND TO HAND IN-ATTU   fokyo Claims Sinking of Seven U. 8S. Warships

U. S. TROOPS GAIN MORE HIGH POINTS   Hand-To-Hand Fighting In Progress On Attu Island

AMERICAN CROWD JAPS ON ATTU   Capture Several More High Points, Bulletin Says

The Amcrican Drive Is Supported by Bombers and Fighters.   CANADIAN AIR FORCE BOMB KISKA ISLAND   Hawaiian Commander Promises Heavy Blows Against Japan,

DRY GASOLINE PUMPS LIKELY   Ickes Says East Exceeding Quota By 30,000 To 35,000 Barrels

DRY GAS PUMPS LIKELY UNLESS  MOTORISTS AID   ickes Says East Has More Cousons Than Gasoline and Driving Must Be Curtailed

PROSPECT OF DRY GASOLINE PUMPS IN EAST MATTER DAYS  THIS IS DECLARATION OF WAR FUEL ADMINISTRATOR ICKES

GASOLINE Lack             Nation. Facing Shortage : Wai Boss: W:

GASOLINE PROSPECT IN EAST IS DARK      Midwest Motorists Going ‘On Borrowed Time’

Ickes Sees Gas Shortage  Prospect of Dry Pumps in East in Few Days Seen

MANY GAS PUMPS MAY BE DRY SOON   Ickes Warns Nation as East Consumes Far More Than Daily Allowance.

DRY GASOLINE PUMPS IN EAST MATTER OF DAYS   Secretary Ickes Says Trouble Is Ahead For Nation

 Trouble Adveak: Gar Entire _ Nation Unless Motoring  Is Held Down  ON "BORROWED TIME’

SHORTAGE OF GAS   Ickes Says Trouble Lies Ahead for the Entire  Nation

GENERAL HITS GROUND   George S. Patton Went Thru Two Air Raids While at Front

M’ARTHUR DRAFT PLANS CONTINUING   Supporters Still Hope to Nominate the General

UMW District 50 Official Heard InFederal Probe   Three District Four Or ganizers On Witness Stand In Pittsburgh

JURY SUMMONS U.M. W. LEADER   Cleveland Organizer Te Be Questioned On Mine Stoppage

ALLIES READY “OR THREE-WAY BLOW ON JAPS   Enemy’s Flight From Kiska Frees Many Ships and Men

Pacific Forces Ready To Hammer Japanese Front   Evacuation Of Kiska Re. leases Fighting Ships And Men For Other Fronts   ALEUTIAN CHAIN NOW FREE OF JAPS

MORGENTHAU GIVES THANKS 10 PRESS   Aid in War Loan Drive Invaluable and Unparalleled, He Savs.

FIRE AND POLICE SALARIES RAISED   Men in Departments to Receive $10 a Month — dditional

FIRE AND POLICE. SALARIES RAISED   Men i mn Departments to Receive $10 a Month ° Additional —   BUY PORT EQUIPMENT

NO NEW TAKES FOR THIS YEAR   Congressmen Meet With Morgenthau to Plan Tax Bill for ’44.

Solons Speed Drafting of New Tax Bill   Public Assured of Ne Added Burden On 1943 Incomes

Additional Burden on Incomes in 1943 Banned by Congress   Leaders Say New Legislation May Be Enacted Coming Fall

New Tax Bill to Be Considered Soon Will Not Place Additional  Levy on Incomes of Present Year

CONSIDER NEW TAX MEASURE THIS YEAR   Congressional Leaders Agree to This Action at a Conference.

Shall News About War Be Glossy:   OWI Thinks You Should Get Bad News Along With Good

Want Your War News Straight, or would You Rather Have It Toned Down a Bit?

FOR ANNOUNCES DRIVE TO NORTH REAL ‘CRUSADE   First Major Mainland City Entered by Clark Force at 11 A. M.

HUNS LOSE FIRST MAJOR CITY 10 FIGHTING ALLIES   Great Victory Marks End Of Initial Phase Of Italian Campaign   RUSSIAN CLIMAX NEAR   Kiev Under Rec Gunfire And Fall Of Gomel Believed To Be _ Near

Welles Solution Up To Roosevel   Resignation Of Undersecre tary Of State Still In Rumor Stage

Sumner Welles Apparently Has Quit; Capital Awaits the President’s Answer

Kiska Suffers 10 Hard Raids In Single Day   Record Number Of Attacks By Yankee Bombers Causes Damage And Fires

Nippos Get Set With Big Fleet   AUSSIE AIR MINISTER WARNS OF “GRIM DANGER” TO ISLANDS NORTH OF CONTINENT AS ENEMY GATHERS STRENGTH AT TRUK

ENEMY LOSES 30 PLANES AT MILNE BAY   Third Warning In 3 Days Given By MacArthur   FIRES STARTED   On Two Allied Ships: Another Forced On Beach: Hansa Bay Hit

Stimson Heeds Plea For Planes, More Supplies   Promise Made As Japs Mass Mighty Fleet Off New Guinea

Kiska Hit Ten  Times in Day   Ba Bs Air Reids Set New Bomb Record

GOOD WEATHE MADE TARGETS EASY TO FINE   Allied Air Forces Now Aided With Thunderbolt Fighters Going “All Way” With Bombers

Flow Of Planes ‘Is Promised To  Gen. MacArthur   Stimson Takes Cognizance Of Jap Threat Above Australia.

Kiska Attacked Ten Times By U.S. Tuesday  All Previous Records Broken; Many Hits  a 1:

Japs Given Drubbing at Milne Bay   ‘Allied Generals Worry Over Concentrations ir Nearby Bases

10 Air Raids Are Made on Kiska Isle in Single Dav   Many Hits Scored; Fires Started in Runway, Camp Area

Kiska Under 10 Day Raids   Heavy and Medium Bombers Strike Record Blow Against Japs

Ten Raids in One Day Break Previous Record of Attacks On Jap Stronghold at Kiska '

Russian War Industries More Efficient In Some Respects Than America’s, ‘Donald Nelson Reports on Soviet Trip

Civilian Internees in Jap Camps Face Grave Food Shortages. Writer Says

Civilians Interned In Jap Camps Face Shortage of Food Supplies   Re RI'SSELL BRINES.

6,300 Americans In Japanese Hands  War Prisoners Of J aps Face Growing Shortage Of Food And Medicines

Drastic Food Shortage in Jap Camps   Returning Americans Paint Bleak Picture Of Conditions Facing ‘Those Still Captive

Thousands Now Face Starvation In Jap Prisons, Say Those Freec   By RUSSELL BRINES

AMERICANS IN HANDS  OF JAPANESE FACE  GREATER HARDSHIPS DWINDLING FOOD SUP PLIES AND SHORTAGE OF MEDICINES REPORTED

Civilians Held In Jap Internment  Camps Sorely Need Food, Medicine

Internees Face Acute l ood Shortage in Camps   By RUSSELE RRINES

TEMPERATURES:   U. S. Nafionals Facing Disease And Starvatio   Grim Story Is Brought Home By-Repatriates Aboard Gripsholm

JAPS STILL HOLD 6,300 U.S. CITIZENS        Most of Them Are in Philippines, but All Face Dwindling Food Supplies and Growing Shortage of Medicine.

COOL, CRISP WEATHER   Forecaster Sees No Moisture for Kansas in Next 36 Hours

Two More Jap Ships Lashed   Catalina Ties Into Convoy Off Rabaul For Direct Hit

Fifth Airforce Bombs Jap Ships   Two Merchantmen Hit near Rabaul   Convey Attacked

Ships Lashed   Catalina Ties Into Convoy Off Rabaul For Direct Hit

Damaging Blows Struck on Enemy Merchont Marine   CONVOY BOMBED BY VATALINA PLANES   Other Limited Activitie: Reported During the Day

JAP MERCHANT SHIPPING HIT AROUND RABAUL   Damaging Blows Are Scored On Two More En emy Cargo Vessels   PACIFIC ISLANDS ARE RAIDED BY ALLIES

PACIFIC AIRMEN HIT CARGO SHIP’   Score Damaging Blows or Two Merchantmen; Catalina Flying Boats Attack Enemy Convoy

U. S. Fliers Aifack Jap Cargo Ships   Pacific Air Force Adds Two Ships To Damaged List

AIRMEN ATTACK JAPANESE CONVOY   DAMAGING BLOWS DEALT TWO MERCHANTMEN—TEN BARGES SENT DOWN.

Believes Millions Of Men CEE: or ATLAINES  Against Hitler’s _ Fort

Berlin Drive May Follow 1 of 10 Paths   Col. Lanza Warns Of Great Losses Jn Allied Invasion

MAPS ROUTES FOR INVASION   Sharp Fighting In Russia Hints Big Blows Are Developing   INVASION TALK GROWS   Have 100 Divisions In West Europe, 200 On Russian Front

Allied March to Berlin May Follow One of 10 Roads, Expert Declares

ONE OF 10 ROADS LEADS TO BERLIN   Allied Invasion Offensive Presents Many Difficulties

10 Roads Lead To Berlin: None Easy  Invasion Talk Mounts; Huge Force Needed

Ten Invasion Routes Open To Allied Armies, Authority Says  Clnl Tanwo Drainte lit Vaerw T avon Warvenne   Col. Lanza Points Out Very Large Forces Would Be Needed For Most Onerations

Sees 10 Routes For The Allied  Drive On Berlir   Military Expert Stresses Enormous Difficulties Of  ins wisi a cain

OFFENSIVE MAY TAKE ANY ONE OF TEN ROADS   Some of Enormous Difficulties to be Expected Outlined by Noted Military Student   NONE OF THEM EASY. COLONEL LANZA SAYS   Estimate of Force Needed Varies From Comparative Limited Number  to “Millions of Men”

TEN INVASION ROADS LISTEL   Best Chance of Success Is In Hitting Hard in Many Manv Places.

Lists 10 Allied  Invasion Routes Military Expert Finds None Easy

Expert Reviews Roads to Berlin   Overlooks Bombing, Sudden Collapse

March to Berlin Could Follow Any Of Ten Courses   Military Expert Believes Invasion on Big Scale Most Feasible.   Nazis Likely to Risk All in a Big Offense

ALLIED MARCH INTO  BERLIN MAY FOLLOW  ANY OF TEN ROADS SOME OF GREAT DIFFI CULTIES INVOLVED OUT. LINED RY EYPERT

Many Roads To Berlin, But None of Therm Easy   Retired U.S. Army Officer Points to Problem: Ahead of Allie: in Invasion’ of Germany.

Strike Threat Is Raised by Lewis   Unauthorized Work Stoppages Continue

SEN. CHANDLER BACKED UP BY COLLEAGUES   Others Plead for All-Out Warfare Against Japan

OPA Officials Testify Before Senate Committee Today in Effort to Save Administration's Food Subsidy Program.

SOLDIER VOTE UP FOR FINAL ACTION   Two Obstacles Stand in Path to Allow Serviccmen Vote.

Change In Press Policy Expected   Nazis Given Break On Big Four Story

NEWS FUMBLES HELP GOEBBELS   Closer Liaison Sought In U. S. And British Censorship

ALLIED PRESS POLICY FACING TIGHTENING UP   Liaison Between Censor: ships To Be Revised: Since Fumble on Gairo   Parley .

RED ARMY TROOPS CONTINUE THEIR DRIVE WESTWARD   They Have Passed Korostyshev on Way Down KievZhitomir Highway.   ARE NEARING THE CiTY   Cossacks Advance Guards Are Operating Near Korostyshev.

MURDERS SOLVED   Etowah Suspect Reportedly Con. fesses Double Slaving sunday   e* PER CHEAT ASKED

BOND GOAL SET   Treasury To Ask 16 Billior Dollars In Third Drive

Applications For A Ration Book .  yearn  “Should Be Mailed To Local Board

GAS APPLICATIONS RECEIVED LOCALLY   No ‘Use Sending Them To Sioux City Or — Chicago «-

FAIL TO CLEAR UP CONTROVERSY IN STATE DEPT,   President Backs Up  Up Secretary Hull  In Argument With  Columnist

He Played Cards ‘Hull Only Man Aboard Plane 1N ot Ill. Crewman Reveals

HULL STOOD MOSCOW TRIP LIKE VETERAN   Played Cards Calmly During First Flight While His Two Physicilans Were Violently IL.

Reduce Japs To Single Papua Post   Allies See No  Hone For Enemy

ALLIES CUT OFF MORE JAP TROOP!   Battering Last Small Pocke of Resistance in Buna Area

JAPS CUT OFf FROM ESCAPE FROM BUNA   About 100 Japs Remain In Pocket In New Guinea  Battle With Allies. Closin;

Germans See Allied Drive As Inevitable  Axis Fear Betrayec By Commentators In. Berlin

Axis Believes Signs of Impending Invasion Indicate Italy Will Bear Brunt in Mediterranean

NAZI SPEAKERS SHOW TENSION   Express Belief Invasion May Strike Italy; Allied Movement  Reported

GERMANS EXPECT ALLIES TO ATTACK ITALY FIRST   Rubber Plant Laid Waste

LAYING PLANS FOR NEW JUNIOR HICH   School Board. Considers Construction in Post War Period   IMAY LEVY FOR FUND

LAYING PLANS FOR NEW JUNIOR HIGH   School Board. Considers Construction in Post War Period

FDR-Churchill To Keep Russians Informed. Of What Goes On At Quebec Confernce

POST-WAR PRICE CONTROLS URGED   WPB Officials Suggest “Emergency Period” To Prevent Inflation Peril

J. MeCorkle Dies Sunday   RETIRED FARMER HAD BEEN SERIOUSLY ILL- FOR. THE PAST THREE WEEKS

LANDIS FORGES COX OUT OF BASEBALL   Philadelphia Club President Barred For Gambling

Landis Ousts William D. Cox From Baseball   Betting On Games Brings Order Which Deprives Phillies’ Owner From Any Regular League

DIVERSITY IN IDEAS OVER GAS CONTROL CAUSES NEW PROBE   Brown Believes Ickes Has Not Allotted As Much As Possible For Civilian Use

Brown Back Of New Fuel Investigatior   Believes Ickes Has Not Allotted Enough Gas for Civilians

Allies Blast German-Held  War Plants   Red Army Suffers Slight Reversals At Tip of Advance West of Kiev

New Blows from Skies Are Being Directed on 24-hour Basis by British and  Americans.        ee ee ee ee ee   ‘STORMS OVER ITALY QUIT: SUN SHINING

ROWAN MEMORIAL BILL INTRODUCED   Would Be Erected on Statehouse Grounds.in Tribute To West Virginian Who Carried ‘Message to Garcia’

SUPPORT BILLS AREPROPOSED   Legislative Measures Would Remove Cases From J. P. Courts

REDS 21 MILES FROM BLACK SEA PORT OF KHERSON   Germans Abandon Thousands of Dead and Vast Stores as They Flee Across  Dniener.   RETREATING COLUMNS POUNDED FROM AIR   Russians Storm Through 80 Villages and Hamlets in Relentless Pursuit of Nazis.

SOVIETS DRIVE NEAR KHERSON   Nazis Leave Thousands o! Dead as They Retreat Across River

Sweep Within 71 Miles of Black Sea Port City   Germans Pour Back Across Dnieper in Retreat

Soviet Forces Get 21 Miles From Khreson   Reds Charge Through 80 Towns in Vast Steppes; Retreating Nazis Abandon Arms

Soviets Announce Important Gains   Approach Kherson As Germans Flee

RUSSIAN ARMY PUSHING 10 DNIEPER PORT   At Rate of 10 Miles Per Day Killing Over 3000 Germans En Route; Take Armament.   Counter Attacks

Soviets drive thru nazis; near Kherson   Within 21 miles Black sea port

U.S, PLANES AND WARSHIPS STAGE ATTACK ON WAKE   Indicated Japanese Defenses On Tiny Is: land Overwhelmed: No Report On How Long Attack Lasted.

WAKE ISLAND BATTERED BY SFA AND AIR   Reports of Attack Indicate Japanese Defenses There Were Overwhelmed   \DETAILS NOT DISCLOSED

Assault on Wake Isle May Be Continuing  Book ak wheety Nak eres a De   Further Details ‘Not Available’; Strong Force Includes: Carrier

, U.S. Warships Planes Batter  e Jans On Wake   Details Not Yet Given; Enemy Defenses May Be Knocked Out.

U.S. WARSHIPS BOMBARD WAKE   Navy Reveals Attack on Jap- occupied American Island

Assault Upon Japs At Wake   U. S. NAVY IN ATTACK ON TINY PACIFIC ISLAND

U.S. NAVAL FORCE HITS JAPS AT WAKE   Carrier Based Planes and Heavy Navy Guns Loosed On Enemy at Tiny Island

U. S. WARSHIPS HIT JAPS ON WAKE ISLAND   Australian Troops Drive Dowr Ramu Valley Toward Base At Madang

U.S. Warships, Planes Attack  Isle Of Wake   No Details Given Of Action Against Small Japanese Held Base.   ‘MacARTHUR ADVANCES

U.S. WARSHIPS ATTACK JAPS ON WAKE ISLAND   Ships Move in Close on Isle Tuesday; ‘Aussies’ Gain in Ramu Valley

ENEMY-HELD ISLE TORN AT ~ CLOSE RANGE   Navy Holds Back Results 0 Raid, But Reports Point To Heavy Damage

Details of Wake Island Attack Awaited As Naval Action Again Is Reported

Carrier Planes Used In Assault On Jap Outpost   Silence Screens Progress Of Navy’s Surprise Blow

U.$. WARSHIPS RAKE JAPS ON WAKE ISLAND   Heavy Attack Carried Out On Tuesday, Navy Announcement Says

Warships, Planes of U.S. Task’ Force’Attack’Jap: Garrison on Wake: Island

U. S. WARSHIPS “NAVAL AIRMEN ATTACK WAKE   Heevy Assault With Guns anc Planes Reported, Indicating Ships Able lo Move In Close   DETAILS LACKING   Australians Advance Seven Miles Up Ramu Valley in Drive on Madang

Warships Attack Jap Force at Wake   Big Guns of Navy Are Used To Lay Waste to Base of Enemy

Details Not Revealed: Indications Are Japanese Defenses In Sector Are Overwhelmed

Heavy Attack With Guns and Planes Launched At Dawn Tuesday; Clear Indication That Jap Defenses Were Overwhelmed; No Details Available Yet.

Strong Force U.§. Warships Attacks Wake   One of Many Moves Being Made Against Japan in Pacific

Fleet Shells Wake Island   American Task Force Seeks Vengeance on Jap Conquerors of Isle

FULL DETAILS OF ACTION UNAVAILABLE   Second Assault On Island Since Invasion In °41; May Be Follow-Up Of Allied Meeting

Russians Only 26 Miles of Smolensk and 35 From Kiev.   SUNDAY, GREAT DAY OF SOVIET VICTORIES   Red Army Now Is Only 160 Miles From Polish Border.

REACHES ALL TIME HIGH   Daily Newspaper Circulation in U. S. Sets a New Record

10 In Every 14 Men Soon ToBeln Armed Forces, McNutt Says   Those Between 18 And:38 Affected; Figures Include Only Those Who Can Pass Physical Examinations

FATHERS IN JOBS NON-ESSENTIAL TO WAR GO APRIL {   65 New Activities Named Non-Essential; FDR Says Te Million Army Sufficient

Seek to Solve Acute Labor Shortages   House Naval-Military Committee Is Scene of Fight Between Pattterson, Jeffers

Three - Fourths Of Able Men To  Sérve In Army   10 Of Every 14 Passing Examinations Will See Service   RULES ARE CHANGED      4 Dependency Deferment Is Abolished Under New Ruling

M’ Nutt Cuts Dependency Deferments   Even Men With Children Must Obtain Essential Employment.To Escape  4  Service In Armed Forces

DEPENDENCY NO LONGER 10 BE DRAFT BAR   Registered Men Get Virtual Work-or-Fight Order from WPB.   DRAFT BOARDS TO “MOVE AFTER APR. 1   Get McNutt Instructions to Act “With Common Sense.”

Government Soon to Place Fathers in Armed Forces   New Draft Rule Puts Emphasis on Occupation Rather Than Dependency

bo ngton Today  TAXES, AFRIGHA TRIP; MANPOWER ARE HIGHLIGHTS      Roosevelt Holds First Press Conference in Weeks; McNutt Talks Draft; Treasury Plan

FAMILY HEADS TOFAGE DRAFT IN NEAR FUTURE   Selective Service Changes To Take Effect April 1 For Non-Essentials   OCCUPATION DEFERMENT REPLACES DEPENDENCY   All Deferments In Future Will Depend Upon Jobs Not Family Status

WILL RUSH MEN INTO THE SERVICE   Able Bodied Men Between 18 and 38 to Be Put Into Armed Service.

Figure To Be Reached This  Year~-MeNutt   Thousands Get 60 Days To Take War Jobs Or Don Uniforms, Even If They Have Children

‘Essential Job Or Army’ Edict Set For April 1   Voluntary Manpower Plan Has Failed, MeNutt Asserts

To Induct 75 P.C. Of 18 To 38 Class Before Year Ends   Dependency Draft Deferments To Be Lifted For Those Not On War Jobs

MANPOWER, TAXES AND LABOR STILL WORRY CONGRESS  LEWIS STARTS DRIVE Tn CRACK FEDERAL

Thousands Get 60 Days To Get War Jobs Or Shoulder A Rifle   List 65 Occupations Which Will Be “Non-Defer‘able’ After April 1, Regardless Of How Many Children, Announced By McNutt.

Today In Washington: Congress Committees  Broaden Their Study Of Manpower Problems

Sees Most of 18-38 Group In Service   10 of Every 14 To Be Called by End of Year, McNutt Says

ny rs oe Dependency as Deferment Cause Liffed .   ' Men: Have to May 1 to Get Into: _ Vital Work.

FATHERS MoT WORK OR FIGHT   Selective Service Officials Gives List Of Non-Essential Jobs

Major Draft Calls Near.   Majority of Alie Men To Be Inducted Seon

Two-Month Warning Served Registrants Having Dependents   Must Give Up Non-Essential Jobs To Staff American War Plants; Voluntary System Said Failure

30 Days Given Men to Find . Defense Job.   McNutt Issues: List of Occupations; No De-. ferments.

GET WAR JOBS OR SERVE THE NATION, ORDEF   Sixty-Day Notice for Registrants With Dependents Given Today By Czar McNutt.

10 OUT OF 14 MEN ELIGIBLE TO SEE SERVICE   McNuit Stresses Needs of Armed _ Services as. Farm Manpower Need Probed

And Registrants With Dependents Must Get War. Jobs -*  NEW ORDER FROM   NEW ORDER FROM  SELECTIVE SERVICE  ‘Non-Essential Jobs. . Are  Listed in Plan Becoming DEfoaatien Avail f

PLAN TO CALL FATHERS INTC SERVICE SOON   29 Non-Essential Jobs To Give Up Workers  To Armed Services

Ban Partially Lifted On Drafting Fathers; 29 Occupations Named      First Non-Deferrable Occupation List Made Public By Selective Service Bureau; May 1 To Be Deadline For Men

Many Workers Dec n-Deferrable  Five- Sevenths Of All Able-Bodied Men Will Be In Service By ‘44

Service Due For Three Of Four Able Mer   McNutt Prediction For Men Between 18 And 38 Years Of Age

Fathers Get 60 Day Draft Warning To Obtain War Essential Job ‘Or Fight’

65 Activities, Occupations Listed Which Are To Be Made Non-Deferable

Workers in Some Non-esential Jobs Face Induction into Army, Due  To Be Built up to 7.500.000 Men

WMC Order Requires War Work or Fight   Even Men with Children to Be Called After April 1 If They Are Not Engaged in War Work or Seeking Job

SHE DEVELSPHENTS OURPRISING NATUTE IN GAPITAL TODAY   MANPOWER, SELECTIVE SERVICE AND ROOSEVELT

McNutt Says 10 Out of Every 14 ‘Able Bodied Men Aged 18-38 Will Be in Armed Services This Year

INDUCTION RATIO FOR ‘43   10 Out of Every 14 Able Bodied Men Between 18 And 38 Will Be-Inducted Committee Hears _

MeNUTT SEES ‘CIVILIANS DWINDLE   Manpower Chief Expect Most in 18-38 Group to ~ be in Service

HEAVY CALL ON MANPOWER BOSS   McNutt Asserts 10 Out Of 14 In Group Will Be Drafted

List Non-Deferrable Jobs In Order Effective April 1   Treasury Tax  Plan Outlined

‘Non-Deferrable’ Jobs Expanded; Labor  Shortage Growing In U. S.

MANPOWER Grit ~ MAKES PREDICTION   To Ask Wickard Where He'll Get Men, Money, To Boost Farm Production

10 Men Out of 14 Will Be in Armed Services   McNutt Testifies Before Committee On Manpower Needs

RAM SAYS TO BET ESSENTIAL -J08S 08 FIGHT   Is. First Move to Put Married Men with Children in Armed Service.   ORDERS DEFERMENTS TO BE ABOLISHED APRIL 4

10 of 14 Mente Be in Service, Mc Nuff States   Dependency Draft Deferment Even for Men With Children To Be Wiped Out

Ban On Drafting Fathers Is Now Partially Lifted   Selective Service Issues An Order  Abolishing Some  Nefarment:

60-Day Notice Handed To Those Non-essential Activities; Must —  Get War Jobs or Fight

THREE FOURTHS OF ABLE-BODIED MEN TQ SE IN SERVICE   COUNTLESS THOUSANDS AFFECTED BY NEW ORDER JUST ISSUED

TO START DRAFT~ ING MARRIED MEN   “Non-Essentials” May Dodge Draft by Switching to War Work.   “WORK OR FIGHT” IS NEW ORDER   No Married Men to Be De ferred in New Orders  Effective April 1.

Fathers’ Draft  McNutt Sees Ten of 14 Men in Armed Services   Deferments in Slice of Industry to Be Banned April 1 “Despite Dependents”

DEPENDENTS NOt TOCOUNTFOR THOUSANDS   List Of “Non-Deferable” Jobs Is Announced By War Manpower Commission

MNUTT SAYS TEN OUT OF EVERY 14 ABLE-BODIED MEN 18-38 YEARS TO BE FIGHTING BY END OF YEAR

10 Out of 14 Men to Enter Armed Service  McNutt Says Numbe   McNutt Says Numbe Of ‘Eligibles’ to Be Expanded Again

Men With Children Will Be _ Drafted From Certain Jobs   Order Goes Into Effect On April.1 But Men Will Be Given “Until May 1 To Gat Inte Vital Work.

Selective Service Lifts Ban on Dratting Fathers by Abolishing Deferments April 1

Huge Draft Set: Deferred Jobs Slashed   Three-Fourths 18-38 phen in Service by Yeor's End: McNutt

Three-Fourths of Able Bodied Men, 18 to 38, in Armed Services in *43

THOUSANDS TO FIND WAR JOBS OR DON UNIFORM   Manpower Commission Orders Selectees With Dependents to Get Into War Effort   60-DAY DEADLINE SET   Barteriders, Florists and Newsboys Included; Roosevelt for 7,500, 000 Army Limit *

BAN ON DRAFTING FATHERS. LIFTED IN'SOME BROUPS   Work -In- War-Plant. °Or-Fight. Order Is issued   29 NON-ESSENTIAL JO8S ARE LISTED BY M‘'NUTT

Men Now In Unnecessary Occupations Must Find War Jobs Or Fight; Regardless Of Dependents; Reclassifications Will Start April 1

‘MNUTT LISTS NON DEFERRABLE JOBS 10 TAKE EFFECT APRIL 1   Virtual ‘Work-In-Right-Industry-Or-Fight’ F(dict First Move To Draft Married Men With Children

SAY 10 MEN OUT OF 14 70 BE IN SERVICE, END ’43   Statement Made By Paul V. ‘McNutt Who Was Speaking Of - Able-Bodied Men 18 to 38

THREE-FOURTHS OF ABLE-BODIED SEEN IN SERVICE   McNutt Predicts ‘10 Out of 14° To Go by End of This Year

STATUS OF LARGE LIST DUE TO END   Dependents Plus War Work To Be Necessary   'WILL START ON APRIL 1

New Orders Will Provide Manpowe For War Factories   Further Expansion Of Non-Deferrable Jobs Expected Soon

Ban Deferments For Dependency in Non-War Work   Selective Service Action Effective April 1  Means Work in Essential Industry we Biocht

Storm Damage On West Coast   Toll Of Death And Destruction Is Reported In San Francisco Area

YANKS DOWN CARDS 42 INOPENER   Errors, Ragged Defensive Play Blot Opening Of World Series.   CHANDLER GIVES UP 7   SIXTH INNING

Comedy of Errors and Weire Defensive Play Marks Game.   SPUD CHANDLER WINNER.

YANKEES TAKE UPENING GAME ROM GARDS   Lanier Unable To Quell Bats Of Yankees Effectively; Chandler Tames Cards   THIRT INNING

CAPACITY CROWD WATCHES BATTLE   Spud Chandler, Max Lan. ier Opposing Hurlers In First Clash   YANKEES FAVORED   Betting Odds, However, Drop Sharply Before Game Time .

YANKEES CAPTURE FIRST GAME WORLD SERIES TUESDAY   MAKE TWO RUNS IN EACH OF TWO INNINGS; SOME RAGGED BASEBALL

CARDS DEFEATED IN NEW YORK BY SCORE OF 410 2   GORDON SMASHES OUT HOME RUN IN FOURTH INNING

IN COMEDY OF ERRORS YANKS WIN   American League Team Whips St. Louis Cards 4 to 2 in First Game.   Spud Chandler Holds Cards to Seven Hits   lasing pitcher, Lanier, Attendance, 68,676.

Yanks Win 4-2 In Weird Game   Chandler, Victorious Pitcher, Gave 7 Hits

SERIES OPENER WON BY YANKEES FROM CARDS, 4-2   Champions Beaten Partly by Odd Fielding Coupled With Challengers’ Hits

YANKEES WIN FIRST SERIES GAME, 410      In Play Resembling Sandlot Baseball at Times, American Leaguers Triumph Behind Chandlews 7-Hit Pitching.

70,000 PEOPLE PRESENT FOR OPENING GAME   Yankee Stadium Scene * of Thrilling Game Which New York Team Won 

FIRST GAME GOES TO N. Y. YANKEES   Spud Chandler Turns in « Seven-Hit Game Against Cards   BY A\SCORE OF 4 TO 2

American Leaguers Score 4 to 2 Win   IN Tl & St. Louis Cardinals .. 010 010 000—2 7 2 New York Yankees... 000 202 00x—4 8 2

Yanks Take Opener   Whip Cards 4 to 2 in  Game Featured By Er. rors; Crowd of 68,676 Jams Yankee Stadium

Martin Marion Drives in Initial Run With Sharp Double to Right; Joe Gordon Slams Out Home Run

First Blood To Chandler; 4-2 Win tor Yanks   68,676 Attend Opener in Yank Stadium  —Joe Gordon’s Homer, Error By

Weak Defensive Play Marks Start of World Series Competition   ~~ Ot INNING. B 5 6 7 8 9—R H R  3 Cards . nooo D OD D—-Aa a vat oo DAEOBD BHA sB

Yanks Beat Cards In Series Opener   American League Champs Win. 4 to 2 in Comedy of Errors

Yankees Take Series Opener By 4-2 Score   Chandler Holds Cards While Errors Help His Mates Score

Gen, Anderson Receives Von Arnim, Captured by First Army, Demands _ Axis Cease Destruction of Materiel

Gen. Von Arnim Received by Anderson in Pasture Where Big Allied Drive Started   German Chief Refused at f at First to Accept Unconditional Surrender Terme

Anderson Lauds Allied Fighter:  Holds Conference After ‘Von Arnim Is Taken

STUDY PLAN TC FEED POORER NATIONS   U.S. to Urge Foods be Made Available at Low Cost

Furnishing Post-War Food May Be U.S. Job   American People May Be Called On To Help Finance Feeding Of Masses In India, China And Elsewhere 

TELLS OF SEA BEES   Naval Recruiting Official Addresses Local Carpenters

Bank District Business Volume for Oclober Exceeds Same 1942 Parioc

Rescuers Seek Crew of Ulven  Sweden Protests to Berlin Over  Firing on Sub by German Ship

Sweden Stirred As German Ship  Fires on Sub   Incident Takes Place On Same Day, Same Area Where Another Sub Sunk

LAST STAMPS IN BOOK TWO VALID   X, Y, and Z Coupons Can Be Used Until Nov. 20

NACI COLLAPSE SEEN IN AUCoIE   Victorious Red Troops 20 Miles West of Captured City of Taganrog.

NAZIS FOLD 0 SOUTH FRONT IN RUSSIA   Victorious Reds Already 30 Miles West of Taganrog

GERMANS FIGHT TO ESCAPE TRAP   Soviets Lunge Forward Al Along 400-Mile Ukrainian Battlefront

Dionne Sisters to Launch Five Sleek Cargo Vessels   Superior, Wisconsin, Expects to Break Ship Launching Records, Strengthen International Relations and Hasten Victory In Four Action Packed Hours Sunday

Fact Finding Committee at Work—Repeal of Emergency Levies Expected By Legislators   PROMISES SAVINGS

SAVAGE DUEL — OFF CANAL «WON BYU.S.   50-Zero Armada Is Ambushed by  Americans

Yanks Ambush And Destroy 19 Jap Zeros   =nemy Aircraft Los ln Solomons Passes  1.000 Mark

Herman Frerichs  Claimed By Death  Life Long Resident - Of Craig Vicinity

ROMINENT FARMER PLYMOUTH COUNTY ° CALLED SATURDAY   Herman F. Frerichs Had Spent Entire Life Here— Funeral Wednesday

Long, Heavy Air Raids on Nazi Points   Offensive. Operations Are Continuing After 24Bour Foray   GENERAL MELEE OF PLANES INDICATED      Weather Is Ideal for Operations; Few Reports on Results So Far

AN R. A. F: ATTACK   Crippling Blows Are Aimed at Nazi Railway Lines,  Trains, Etc. -

RUSSIANS ARE INPOSSESSION CITY'S SUBURBS   Less Than 100 Yards Across Dnieper River, Moscow Declares      RED SNIPERS PICKING OFF UNWARY NAZIS   Berlin Admits Big Scale Crossing Thrusts Continuing Without Revealing Success Assaults

Entire Eastern Portion Of City In Russians’ Control; Machineguns Fire On Cliffs

Reds Shell Kiev From Positions  Across Dnieper   Russians Take ‘Outlying Posts; Germans Rush More Troops To City

Reds In Kiev’s Suburbs; Shell Enemy In City   In North, Soviets Take Rudnya, 10 Miles From White Russian Border.

RUSSIANS IN KIEV SUBURB ALONG RIVER   Germans Picked Off Cliffs By Red Gunners

SOVIETS DRIVE INTO SUBURBS OF VITAL CITY   Russians In Possession of Entire Eastern Portion of District Less Than 100 — Yards Across River   GOMEL'S FALL IS NEAR

Red Army Shells  Germans In Kiey   Russians Are in Possession of Entire Eastern Suburbs of City   ‘ACROSS THE DNIEPER   Soviet Reinforcements Are Thrown Against the Nazi Defenses

Fall of Gomel Is Expected At Any Time   s Central Dnieper Conflict Is Raging Without Nazi Withdrawals

Russians Shell Germans on High  Cliffs of Kiev   Reds Take Possession of Entire Eastern Suburbs of Important City.   Fall of Gomel, Above The City, Is Imminent

RUSSIANS IN KIEV SUBURBS AND ARE CROSSING DNEIPER   Germans Have Entrenched Themselves In Ancien! Cells of Monks High Above the Dneiper anc Are Shelling the Oncom

Reds Shell Germans On Kiev Cliffs   More Than 6,000 Nazis Reported Killed In Big Battles

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM POSTIONS IN CUBIIRRS OF KIFY   ‘Soviets Making Heroic Efforts To Cross The Dnieper   RAKE CLIFFS WITH MACHINE GUN FIRE

RUSSIAN GUNS SHELL NAZIS AT KIEV   Reds In Possession Of Entire Eastern Suburbs of City

REDS SHELLING GERMAN HELD CITY OF KIEV   Are So Close To City That Machine Guns Are Being Used

Germans Concede Soviets Continue Steady Crossings Of Dnieper River

SHELL NAZIS HOLDING CITY ON DNIEPER   Fall Of Gomel Is Expected Any Time; Thirty Towns Near Big Fortification  Taken By Red Army

REDS SHELLING NAZIS IN KIEV   Russians in Possession of Eastern Suburbs of , * Large City:

RED GUNS SHELLED GERMANS ON HIGH CLIFFS OF KIEV   Russians Were in Possession _ of the Entire Eastern Suburbs of the City.   IN KIEV’S “FRONT YARD”   Soviets Were at Railway and Highway Bridges on the Eastern Side of River.

Soviet Forces Bombard Kiev From Suburbs   Russian Reinforcements “Hammer Central Dnieper Bastions From The East   KRICHEV IS TAKED   Other Reds Gain 6 To  Miles In Gomel Drive, Oc cupy Svetifovli

Russians Are Crossing River To Shell Kiev   Capital Of Ukraine Certain To Fall To Reds In Short Time

Soviet Guns In Attack On Nazis   RUSSIAN ARTILLERY IS BLASTING GERMANS IN KIEV

LOSEY DEAKYNE “HTN VICTIM   Mail Carrier Suffers Broker Leg; Car Sneeds-Frem Scene of Accident.

LOSEY BEaRYKE —HITRUN VIGTIN   Mail Carrier Suffers Broken Leg; Car Sneeds From Scene of Accident.

Camden Flier Gets His Wings   LIEUT. FLOYD H FINCHER COMPLETES AIR TRAINING

SPECULATION RISES ON WHETHER FDR SEEKS 4TH TERM   Bets ‘Are Being Made. Both Ways — State Of War In 1944 May Be Factor

SAY PRESIDENT MAY AGAIN SEEK OFFICE      Some of His Friends and Political Enemies Are Convinced That He Will.   BY LYLE C. WILSON U. P. STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Bets Being Made On Fourth Term   Roosevelt Faces Big.Decisions.in?44

FOURTH TERM BETS BEING WAGERED BY FR'S ASSOCIATES   ‘Speculation Rife on Possible  New Purge Similar to That of 1938.

12 Planes Destroyed as U. S. Loses 25   Shore Batteries at Rendova > "Turned.on Munda; Ships Shelling Other Points   MOVE BOLDLY INTO ENEMY DEFENSES   a WN Operations Proceeding Satisfactorily; Japs Making Usual Fantastic Claim

123 Planes’ Shot Down; Shell Munda   No Sign of Japanese Fleet; Liberators Heap New. Destruction on Rabaul

American Troops Occupy Rendova      Japs Lose 123 Planes Near Ne Georgia Islands, Americans _ Count 25 Planes Lost

13 Enemy Planes Blasted Out Of Pacific Skies   Halsey Announces Loss of 25 American Planes, 15 Pilots

U.S. WARSHIPS SHELL BASES IN SOLOMONS   Japs’ Claim Six Allied Warships, Three Transporis Sunk, Others Damaged, Held Fantastic   CAGLIARI BOMBED   Assault on Satania Renewed—Big U.S. Troop Contingents Reach Britain

JAP PLANE TOLL IS RAISED 10 123 IN YANK ATTACK   Rendova Island Conquest Completed—Last of Enemy Garrison Wiped Out   OCCUPATION IS EXTENDED   Casualties for Americans Reported Light Despite Hazards of Assault

ken, Shell  en 8 Is unda Base    Of 123 Jap Planes ocked Out Of Skies Two Days Fighting

American Troops Wipe Out Garrison On Rendova Island   Report 123 Jap Planes Blasted Out Of Skies In Two-Day Battle; U. S. Loses 25 Craft, 15 Pilots

Allied Land, Naval Forces  Rule Pacific   Blast 123 Planes Out Of Skies, Lose But 25

ALLIED NAVAL MIGHT IS NOT CHALLENGED   Heavy Artillery Pounding Away at Munds Base; 123 Japanese Planes Destroyed

Series of Enemy Strongholds Shelled By Our Warships   Rendova Is Mopped Up and Used Now For Artillery Base  oe. Baovaansiaka, A Gaawee

U.S. Guns On Rendova Hit Munda Airport   American Troops Meet Only ‘Medium’ Resistance In Viru Capture.   ‘NEW GUINEA ADVANCE

Victorious Ameri. cans Finish Conquest of Rendova  FIGHT ¢ GOES ON  Pound C Capital of Sardinia — New * Men in England

Warships May Be Extending Offensive In The Pacific   British Reporter Describes Battle

US Warships Shell Series Of Jap Bases   American Shore Batteries on Rendov:  __.Bombard Jap Air Base at Mund:  .. After Completing Conquest of the Island

Yanks Complete Rendova Conquest   123 Jap Planes Downed Over New Georgia Islands in Two Days With  25 Yank Ships Lost—Allied Casualties Termed Light Despite Hazards

ALLIED NAVAL SUPREMACY IS UNCONTESTED   United States Warships Steam Into Enemy Weters Without Be ing Opposed   LITTLE NEW TO REPORT

Fleet, Supremacy Is Not Challenged   U.S. Warships Steam Fat Into Northern Solomons  Group.   JAP PLANES’ BLASTED   123 Downed in Two Days; Munda Base Is Heavily Shelled . a

ALLIED SUPREMACY  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC  NOW UNCHALLENGED U. S, WARSHIPS STEAMED  DEEP INTO NORTHERN SO; OMONS TODAY

JAP BASES ARE POUNDED FROM LAND. SEA. AIR   Munda Shelled From NewJy Acquired Base In  Rendova   BAG 123 JAP PLANES   No Sign of Japanese Fleet Venturing Out For Battle

U. S. Warships Steam Deep Into Solomon Region   U. S. Shore Batteries on Rendova Bombard Jap Base at Munda.   Destroy 123 Nippon Planes in Engagement

NIPS’ PLANE LOSS 10 123 IN TWO DAYS   Cost to Allies Only 25 Craft in Pacific Campaign — Naval Forces Roam Unchallenged in Enemy Waters. © od

U.S. BATTERIES ON eNOOvA ISLAND “SHELLING MUNDA   fankee Dive-bombers Also Blasting at Enemy Base; Nipponese Lose 123  Plenac

Enemy Loses 123 Planes in Battle   Ships and Aircraft Strike Deep Into Jap Territory— New Guinea Fichtinge Stiffens

ALLIED NAVIES HAVE OWN WAY IN SW PACIFIC   Closing in on Munda From Land,! Sea and Air With Operations Proceeding Satisfactorily

ALLIES POUND MEDITERRANEAN SEA ISLANDS: BERLIN HAS NEW JITTERS   Rye THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JAPS LOST 123 PLANES TO 23 YANKEE CRAFT   Conquest of Rendova Is Completed; New Attacks Are Made on Vila

Push Unchallenged Into North Solomons; Yankee Troops Wipe Out Foe’s Rendova Garrison.

Raids Made on Brenner Pass 2. R.: Gains Notched by 5th and 8th Armies   Weather Takes Turn for Better On Tialiian Frant

Northern American Troops Captured San Stefano to Do This Job, Headquarters Announced.   FLYING FORTRESSES SHATTERERD NAPLES   Heavy Assault Followed Up Saturday’s Ultimatum to Quit or Be Bombed; In vasion Soon.

8th Army Open: Big Push; Begin Blitz On Italy   Americans Capture Anchor Of Axis Line; Bombs Rain Destruction On Naples Area

SAN STEFANO CAPTURED BY YANK TROOPS   British Open Long-Awaited Offensive Against  Catania   UNLEASH ITALY BLITZ   Nazis Move Over 180,000 Troops Into Po River Area

San Stefano Is Captured By Americans   British Eighth Army Launches Big Push At Catania Defenses

To Invade Italy Soon; Naples Is Bombed   Millions of Italians. Thousands of Berliners Flee Homes: Destructive Raid on Rumania Oil Fields

CAPTURE STEFANO AND CRUMPLE THE AXIS’ NORTH FLANK   Big Drive Against Catania Started by Gritish Eighth Army — Believed All-Out Push to Fold Up Messina Bridgehead

SAN STEFANO CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Northern Flank Of Axis In Sicily Crumples: Mistretta Also Falls; Big Raids Reported

Simultaneous. Moves May. Presage Final Break In Axis Sicilian Defenses

Yanks Capture ‘Bloody Ridge   UNITED STATES TROOPS MOVE INTO SAN STEFANO AS ALLIES OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN SICILY; BRITISH, CANADIANS JOIN ALL-OUT DRIVE

Allies Keep  Up Pounding On Continent   Germans And Italians Reported Near Panic

German Lines On East Coast Crumbles   Nazi Flank Based On Heights of Mt. Etna Now In Danger

Britons Rush Around Base Of Mt. Etna To Crumble German Line On East Side

Entire Mt. Etna Line Area Now Exposed; Ex. pect Stand At Taorminia

Axis Defense Line In Sicily Crumpled   Eighth Army Pounds Ahead Around Mt. Etna Base To Capture Paterno; Yanks And Canadians Menace Entire Escape Route

Paves Way For Swift Conquest Of Italy; “Allied Troops Also Seize Paterno, At Foot Of Mt. Etna, Which Cut Road.   Allied Warships Blasting Enemy

NAPLES HARD HT BY. FLYING FORTRESSES   Port of Crotone Set. Afire As Allied Warships Join ,In Battle ~

ALLIED ARMIES SWEEP AROUND MT. ETNA BASE   Capture Paterno, 10 Miles From Capital, to Crumble German Line On East Coast   ENEMY ABANDONING ENTIRE BATTLE AREA   British Warships Shelling Road and Railway Between Catania and Messina

Yanks Crumple [Axis Key Flank’   Mighty British Eighth Army Opens Big Push On Catania.

Sth Army Opens Catania Attacks   Allies Renew Aerial War on Italy, Smashing at Naples—Yanks Within 65 Miles of Messina Strait— Advance May Presage Break Through

ALLIED PLANES BLAST NAPLES AND AIRFIELD   Hit Mainland of Italy Again While Thousands Flee from City Areas.   GOVT STILL DALLIES OVER PEACE TERMS

Italy Warned Land Invasion Coming Soon   US and British Troops Launch Com-' _ bined Offensive to Clear Sicily; ~ Germans Move 18 Divisions into Po  River Area

NORTH FLANK OF ETNA LINE 1S CRUMPLED   American Troops Capture San Stefano to Crack Important Flank Of Axis on Island   8TH ARMY STARTS PUSH

AMERICANS CAPTURE SAN STEFANO ALONG NORTHERN COAST   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY. HAS STARTED BIG PUSH AGAINST CATANIA

British Sweep Exposes Nazi Flank on Mt. Etna; Messina Battle Begins   ’

CAPTURE PAVES WAY FOR SWIFT CONQUEST ‘s   Strongly Defended Axis Stronghold and Key to Sicilian East Coast Defense Falls

ALLIED BOMBERS SEAR AXIS IN ALL-OUT DRIVE; GERMANS MOVE IN FORCES TO OCCUPY ITALY

Entire German Line In Eastern Sicily Crumbles   Heart Of German Army Corps Broken; May Abandon Whole Mt. Etna Area

AXIS’ DEFENSES ARE SMASHED IN EASTERN SICIL'   Meanwhile, American and Canadian Armies Continue Their Sweeping Advance

British Capture Important Seaport After Long Siege; Messina Is Next Allied Goal   Meeting of. Italian Government . Revives Rumors of Peace Move; Protest Strike<c Sween Natian

British Kighth Army Makes Heavy Gains _In Push On Catania   Threat By Eisenhower Fulfilled As Flying Fortresses Unload 500-Pound Bombs On Naples  

Pianes Over Mainland Carry Out Threat To Blast Military Positions

IMPORTANT GAINS ALONG NORTH AND EAST COAST AREAS  AMERICANS TAKE SAN STEFANO AND BRITISH START CATANIA DRIVE

RENEW AIR WAR UPON MAINLAND   Allied Bombers Carry Out Threat of Saturday's Ul timatum to Italy.   Battleships Bombard Two Southern Harbors

‘Yank Land Drive May Be Start of Breakthrough On North Sicily Coast

GERMAN LINE ON THE EAST COAST OF SICILY GRUMBLING   Heart of German Army Corps Appears Broken   ENTIRE MT. ETNA AREA DOOMED

Yanks Capture Yi ‘Bloody Ridge’ ane Take San Stefano   British Eight Army — Starts Long-Prepared Drive for Catania ,

U. S. Doughboys Capture ‘Bloody Ridge” and Move to Take San Stefano As Allied Planes Pound Naples

Action Crumbles the Nazi Line on Sicilian Coast; Control Over Island Near

 British Army Sweeps Around Mt. Etna Base After Taking Catania, as Heart of Nazi Defense Effort Appears Broken

YANKS SEIZE SAN STEFANO, 10,000 TROOPS      City Is Northern Anchor of Enemy Defenses —~ Captives Taken at Mis< tretta — Eighth Army Reported in Big Push,

YANKS CAPTURE BLOODY RIDGE’   Americans Launch Offensive on North Coast; Take San Stefano.   NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN

Naples Under Heavy Attack Of Fortresses   Americans Take 10,000 Prisoners, Majority Of Them Germans, In Fall Of Mistretta

Bombers Pound Naples As Rome Blocks Peace   Hundreds Of Thousands Of Italians Fleeing Industrial Zones

Allied Drive ls Stepped Up  British Open Major Assault on Catania

San Stefano Falls. As Yanks Advance   Enemy’s North Flank Crumpled; Big Push Against Catania Onens

The Troops Swept Around the Base of Mt. Etna to the Northwest, Capturing Paterno.   CRUMBLE GERMAN LINE OF SICILY’S EAST COAST   German Withdrawal of NonEssential Personnel From Sicily in Progress Last  the 5 or 6 Days.

North Flank Of Axis Defenses In Sicily Shattered   8th Army Opens It: Big Push On Vita Catania; Knockout aunched

Americans Crumple North Flank With Capture of San Stefano  SZTAarmy T"- *acae rar rx. «47*™ 2 Tat      NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN   Allied Air Forces and Navies Hammer Ports on Italian Foot

Americans Gaining Along North Coast Of f Sicily  BRITISH START  Open Drive Along East Coast; Bombers Busv

Axis’ Southern Line Crumbles As Allies Gain   Paterno Also Occupied As Entire Mt. Etna Defenses Of Enemy Are Reported Falling Apart! Warships Shell Coast Roads

TRANSPORTS IN KEY GULF BASE  ARE BOMBARDED   Five Enemy Pianes Shot Down, {sland Officers Report

British Advance Crumbles Germain’ Defenses On East Coast Of Sicily; Heart Of Nazi Corns Seems Broken :

8th Army Springs Offensive To Meet Americans In Move To Bottle Up Foe

Allies Advise Italy Invasion “Coming Soon”   Fall of San Stefano, “Bloody Ridge” Threaten German Mt. Etna Stand.   BRITISH 8TH ADVANCE

Americans Win . 2 Towns, Take 10,000 Captive   Montgomery's Eighth Army Begins Big Smash Toward Catania: Berlin Civilians Ordered To Leave As Nazis Fear Air Blows.

Heart Of Nazi Army Is Broken   British Storm Ahead To Capture Paterno, 10 Miles To Northwest; Heavy Enemy Resistance Overcome; Messina Is 55 Miles Away

Italy Carried Out To Hasten Peace         Jittery Germans Order~ Non-Essential Civilians Out Of i Berlin ae      By CARL C. CRANMER ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR EDITOR

British 8th Army Reported In Big Push On Catania   Axis Loses Northern Anchor To Patton’s Men: Naples Bombed As Eisenhower's Threat  Holds Good

British Warships Aid In Battering Catania Defense   American Troops Continue Advance Despite Bitter Resistance; Axis Admit Losses

YANKS CAPTURE ‘BLOODY RIDGE’ AND DRIVE ON   Powerful Sea and Air Attack Launched on Italy Proper As Invasion Prglude   RUMANIAN OIL FIELDS HIT   Allies End Respite for Italy When Peace Terms Fail; Nazis Build Defenses

Victorious Troops: Sweep Around ‘Base Of Mt. Etna And Capture ‘Paterno. 10 Miles Northwest   British And American Warships Lay Down Salvo After Salvo In Line Of Axis Retreat; Enemy Defense System Blasted Apart

Strong Enemy Defense Gives   British Surge Ahead; Planes, Ships Batter Roads

{ San Stefano, 60 Miles West of Mes sina, Main Anchor in North of Axis Defenses   CONTROLS ROADS   Warships Patrol Coasi, Seek to Cut Off Reinforcemenis, Airmen Blas! Axis Troops

REPORT 18 NAZI DIVISIONS SENT TO PO DISTRICT   Yanks Capture “Bloody Ridge” as British Open Offensive on Catania

HEART OF NAZE ARMY CORPS IN SICILY BROKEN   ‘Capture Of Paterno After  Catania Cuts Off Escape Road   ‘ENGULF MISTERBIANCO   Nazis Withdrawing NonEssential Personnel From Island

Captured Italian Admits Killing More of Hitler's Soldiers Than Englishmen in Sicily

Warships Batter Italian Mainland—v. S. Seventh Within Two Miles of San Stefano; Crete Menaced — Reds Slug Ahead, Take 100 Villages— New Nicks in Munda Base

ALL-OUT DRIVE TO MESSINA IS NOW FORESEEN   Nowth Flank of Axis Crmples As U. S. Trbons Seize San Stefanc

POWERFUL DRIVES UNLEASHED, EARLY BREAK-THRU IN SICILY © SEEN. ITALIANS EVACUATE CITIES   “Blody Ridge” Falls to American Doughboys and San Stefano Is Next, to Fall—Eisenhower’s Promise to Renew Bombing of Italians Made

Americans Crumple North : ~ Flank With Capture of  San Stefano   NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN   ‘Allied Air Forces and Navies Hammer Ports on Italian Foot 

British Smash German Flank   Eighth Army Sweeps Around Mt. Etne Bose to Take Paterno, 10 Miles Further On; Yenks, Canadiens Also Advance

Threat of Recent Ultimatum Carried Out as Fortresses And Warships Hit Mainland   Offensive Launched in Sicily As Axis North Flank is: Smashed; Reitich on Mave at Catania

BRITISH OPEN ITS BIG PUSH ON CATANIA   Axis North Flank in Sicily Crumbles as San Stefano  Taken.   important Gains Are Gained Near Catania

Americans Crush North Flank, Get 10,000 Prisoners   8th Army Ralls Upon Ca tania As Yanks Take Sar Stefano, Mistretta

San Stefano Falls ~ In American Sweep   Axis Northern Flank Is Crumpled, Threatening To Roll Enemy Back Into Messina Bridgehead Rapidiy

Halian People Evacuating Cities As Eisenhower’s Warning Brought Home

Heart of German Army Corps Appears To Have Been Broken by Lightning Advance Around Base of Mt. Etna

Naples And Nearby Airfield Are Blasted In Carrying Out Ultimatum By Eisenhower

Americans Smash  Nazi Right Flank   San Stefano Northern Anchor Of German Defense Line   NAZIS FALLING BACK ON MESSINA

British Eighth ‘Army Gains Important New Positions In Series Of Furious Assaults Near Catania — Formations Of Flying Fortresses Attack Naples Area

GERMAN LINE IN EASTERN SICILY IS TORN APART   San Fratello, on North Seacoast, Is Already Menaced by Americans

Deck Areas and Nearby Airield Blasted While Warships Pound Two Southern Harbors   BERLINERS FLEE   Nazis Warn Those Not Essential to War Effort Leave City—lItalians Run to Country

Narrow Escape Route Left Open to Nazis in Sicily, but Quick Cleanup Is Expected; Allies Push On

Yanks Shatter Axis North Flank   Oth Army Launches Push in Concerted Drive te Smash Through to Messine; Bombers Nail Neples; Fleet Shells Besas

Strategic Town Of San Stefano Seized; Forts Shatter Naples   8th Army Told to Drive German Forces  From Island

PATERNO ALSO REPORTED IN BRITISH HANDS   Germans, Abandoning Etna Defense Line, Retreat Toward Messina

YANKS CAPTURE SICILIAN TOWN; BRITISH IN GAIh   Troops Approach Point Of Break through; Push On To Catania; Axis Has Jitters

HEAVY BOMBERS HELPING ITALIANS MAKE UP MINDS   Berlin People Near Panic As They Are Believed Next   TO BLAST EUROPE’S ROOF ON AXIS HEAD

Take San Stefano, British Open Drive On Nazis at Cantania  Allied Air Forces Carry Out Warning   Allied Air Forces Carry Out Warning of Raids on Italy; Blasts Naples, Other Points

Naples Rocks under First Allied Blows   Madrid Says Germans Moved 18 Divisions into Po Valley; British Advance

ALLIES ADVANCE TO CLOSE IN ON ‘COFFIN CORNER’   British Smash Prize Troops Of German Army in Dash Around Mt. Etna’s Base   ESCAPE PATH IS BLASTED   Yanks and Canadians Drive Across Island Toward Port of Messina

‘Enemy Withdrawal of Non-Essential Personnel From island Said to Have Been In Progress For the Past Five or Six Days   ABANDONMENT OF MT. ETNA AREA ANTICIPATED

Americans Push Against North Flank of Axis   Final Battle Believed Opened To Capture Sicily

Sicily Drive On; Naples Battered   Americans Take San Stefano As Eighth Army Opens Its Big Push Against Axis at Catania

MISSOURI FLOOD  REACHES “AIRPORT   Red Cross Evacuates 1,000 Families in Area

MISSOURI RIVER FLOODS AIRPORT   Man’s Fight Against High Waters Fail at Omaha Airfield

RAF SINKS 6 SHIPS IN BAY OF BENGAL   Japanese Vessels Hit Were Loaded With Troops

EAPLOSION KiLLa TWO, INSURES ot   Fire Follows Blast In New York City War Plant This Morning

ASKS TAXES FOR HALF WAR COSTS   onc i Morgenthau Urges Increased Levy As Senate Seems Swinging to Rumi Plan

16 Billion More In Taxes Needed, Says Morgenthau   Senator Clark Said Enthusiastic Over Ruml Plan Chances

16 BILLIONS MORE NOW ASKED BY TREASURY HEAL   Will Be Sought After Pay-asyou-go Legislation Is Paesead.

MORGENTHAU ASKS 16 MILLION TAXES ABOVE PAY-AS-6O      Says Jt Will Be Easie. On Our Children And Grandchildren If We Pay Now

More Taxes Due After Pay-as-Go   Morgenthau to Ask 16 Bilhon In Addition

Ask to Put Part of Pact in Peace Bill   14 Senators Would Sub Two Paragraphs to Commit U. S. to Post-War Union

NATE POSTWAR POLICY STILL LAGS   Connally Urged To Incorporate Moscow Declaration

HULL, EDEN TALK OVER PEACE AND WAR POLICIES   Will Be Guided by 5-Point Program Adopted by Congress

LONG WAR AHEAD HULL WARNS U.S.   Confers With Eden, Halifax. Urges Nation Increase War Effort

(iska, Attu Blasted Again; May Be Softening-Up Prelude fo Sea, Air Offensive to Drive Japs Out of the Aleutians

AIR MEDAL ~ 1S AWARDED ~ CONCORD MAI   Lieut. (jg) Robert F. Shed‘den, USNR, One of 17 to Win Caveted Award

Lieut. ( jg) Robert F. Shedden, USNR, One of 17 to Win Coveted Award

Munda Air Base Heavily Blasted By Allied Fliers   American Invasion Patrols Are Moving Steadily Nearer To Base   SALAMAUA DRIVE ALSO IN PROGRESS

LABOR DRAFT IS FORECAST ~ AT HEARINGS   PROPOSED LEGISLATION ire. CEIVING MORE ENDORS MENTS AS HEARINGS ARE CONTINUED

DRAFT OF LABOR ~ HELD INEVITABLE   Grenville Clark Tells Senate Military Committee “People Will Demand It.”’

BABSON SAYS STORE OWNERS SHOULD PLAN FOR FUTURE   Believes Merchants Are Really Sitting In Driv. ers Seat, Should Have Special Consid  eration in Postwar Work.

EMPLOYMENT PLANS FOR AFTER THE WAR   Babson Says Retailers Should Cooperate With Manufacturers and _ Industrialists In Postwar Planning.

Storekeepers — Control Work   BABSON URGES SMALL MERCHANTS TO WAKE UP

FURTHER ADVANCES MADE IN ASSAULTS   Americans Now Stand on Both Sides of Munda Airdrome

AMERICANS ARE INCHING AHEAD TOWARD MUNDA   Yanks Now Stand On Two Sides Of Vital Solo mane Atrdrama   JAP INSTALLATIONS — AT SALAMAUA HIT

JUNGLE TROOPS ADVANCE ON2 MUNDA FLANKS   U. S. Troops Continue to Inch Forward on Key Objective; 13 Jap Planes Downed

F WIDOW MAY BE DECIDED BY JURY TODAY   Case To Be Placed In Hands Of Seven Men And Five Women Teday

Holt Case fioes to Jury  Can Return Four Verdicts Judge  Tells Jurors

West Virginia's Miners Threaten Another Strike   Government Order for Fines Angers Union Workers

STATE MINERS RESENT FINES   New Walkout Threatened Throughout W. Va. As Union Spokesmen Assail Action

SMITH-CONNALLY BILL SLATED TO REACH WHITE HOUSE TODAY   Anti-Strike Measure Passed Senate Saturday, Sentiment Aroused by Strike

President Learned Of — Invasion During Dinner  And Told His Guests

President Thinks Beginning of End Now Under Way   Reveals Invasion -To White House Party Honoring Giraud

Davis Hopes Flood Will Spur Move For Flood Control Dam at Kinzua

SMALL FIRMS DE      Four Proposals Studied For Submission to Congress

DOLLAR-CENTS SCHEDULES UP IN 130 CITIES   Five Per Cent Over-Alt Cui In Eating Budgets Seen Under Enforcement.   NEW ‘TOP’ LISTS OUE   General 10 Per Cent Drop on Seven Major Items Ordered

Ten Per Cent Reductions in Seven Major Food Items Now in Effect ‘In Retail Stores in Many Cities   Dissents Are Noted From Two Sources

PPOSITION 10 JLL-BACK PLAN ROM 2 SOURCES   \ Says Enforcement of Present Rule Would Cut Food Costs 5 Fer Cent

OPA Begins Rollback  Price Drive   130 Citics Feel Effect-—Miners Not Gouged. Report Says

Roll Back of Prices Hits 2 S. M. Areas   Beginning Made; Will Cut Consumer Budget 5 Per Cent

OPAROLL-BACK, SUBSIDY PLANS DRAW ATTACKS   Officials Claim Effective Enforcement Would Reduce Consumer Costs   LABOR CHIEF CRITICAL   Report On Mine Areas Reveals Real Price Control Never Has Existed

ATTEMPT 10 CUT PRICES DISCOUNTED   OPA’s Roll-Back Program Is Described As “Peanuts”

OPA Opens Drive To ‘Roll Back’ Food Prices   New Community Price Ceilings In Effect In 130 Cities But Labor  And Some Lawmakers Dissent ~

OPA DRIVE 10 REDUCE FOOD COSTS OPENS   Strict Enforcement of Regulations Expected To Cut Expenses

5% REDUCTION IN PRICES POSSIBLE BY EFFECIIVE CONTROL   Labor and House Spokesmen: Criticize Subsidy Program Opened By OPA

Food Declared 5 Per Cent. Over Ceilings   Report Estimates Savings To Consumer If Enforcement Plan Succeeds   CAMPAIGN MAPPED   Community Dollars And Cents Levels Is Prelude “To June Rollback

OPA’s Campaign For Rolling Back  of Prices Starts   Effective Enforcement ~ Would Bring Cut of Five Per Cent, Claim

Campaign To Roll Back Food Prices To Sept. 1, 1942 Level Started Today

PRICE CONTROL NOT EFFECTIVE OPA CONFESSES   Food Budget 5 Pet. Cu Seen With Proper Enforcement

UPA tts oPUl. CUT IN BUDGETS; ~PRIGES SLASHED   LABOR LEADER CALLS PROGRAM ‘PEANUTS’

5 Pct. Food Cost ReductionPossible   OPA Admits Price  Control Ineffective

OPA Starts — New ‘Ceiling’ ‘Enforcement   Admits Ef fective Contro! Can Cut Food Costs More   5 P. C« FOR NATION   Meany Calls Subsidy “Peanuts”; Cannon Hits RFC Powers

Miners Name  Envoys to AFL  Lewis Heads Del leg wg gation whe. EP *...

LEHMAN ELECTED BOSS OF RELIEF   Deleoates From 44 Nations  Official!

LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS. TO RULE ON FATHERS   Up to Them to Say Whether Man With One Child Shall Go Before Parent With More.

BELLAMY TRIAL IS CONTINUED   Murphy, Witness in Case, Mysteriously Disappears

Plansin Making To Get Farms Machines. Help   New Food Production Head to Form Land  Army of 3.5000,000 — Mistake Is Admitted

President Says None Will Starve; Davis Gets Virtual Cabinet Status

President Optimistic About Food   LARUE FUUU  Orders Organization ' Of Huge Land Army To Assure Production  MORE MACHINERY FOR FARMS PLANNED  F. D. R. Says Defermen For Three Million  J ee W ae .. BAW .... .. ]

Roosevelt Plans To Supply Farms With Machinery   Also Hopes To Provide More Labor To Help Administrator

FDR OPTIMISTIC ON FOOD OUTLOOK   President Says No One Will Starve As Plans Are Disclosed to Complete Program

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Plans to Aid Farmers Are  in the Making  Davis Will Have Virtual Cabinet Status

FDR Diseloses Big Land Army To Boost Crops   Says None Will Starve: New Food Buss Gets Lahinet Rank

Food Boss Directed To Raise Big Land Army   President, Saying no One Will Starve, Outlines Program to Get More Machinery and Labor  an the Eanrrme

Damage To Vital Axis Rail Hub  In Rome Severe   Accuracy of Aerial Attack Revealed By-Plane Pictures

Raid On Rome Exceptional In Its Accuracy   Italian Railroads Badly Hit And Traffic Gets Set-Back—Axis Admit   Heavy Damage

PICTURES SHOW YANK PRECISION IN RAID ON ROME   .Every Bomb Lands Squarely on Target—All Churches ~ Rnarad

U.S. BOMBERS HIT TARGETS IN ROME RAID   Vital Axis Rail Hubs. ' War Plants Suffer Heavy Damages

HOWLING BLUE NORTHER HITS   Sneaks Into North Texas T. Chase Balmy Weather

Blue Snap Drops Texas Temperature   WAXA READING REVEALS LOW OF 22 ON MON. MORN.

News Behind The News  Copsright McClure Newsearer       WASHINGTON iv Bav Tucker

Senator Aiken Saus Government Can  Cut Tax Bills by Eliminating Waste

RAPS ‘LOOTING’   ‘Tax Bill Could Be Slashed I Waste Were Cut’—Aiken

Large Group of Inductees Leave   Twenty-nine County Men Enter Armed Forces

Volunteers Inducted into Armed Services   List 18-Year-Old Boys Who Registered in July

Four Laurens Men Listed As Inductees   Some Transferred to the Enlisted Reserve for 21  TNiave

Group Inducted into Services Last Week   Several Laurens Young Men in Bunch to Go Into Various Branches

Volunteers Were Inducted July 23 In Armed Forces   Two Laurens Men in the Group; Carter to Go to "Pho Newey

2 Orderlies Sent Out For Wounded  Bring Back 90 Italian Prisoners

BREMEN AND HANNOVER © ARE BOMBED   Targets of Last Night’s Raids By Big Bombers

GERMANY AGAIN   Bremen, Reich’s Second Port, and Hannover, Arms City, Blasted — German Broadcast Claims . 25 Bombers were Shot Down.

BREMEN.HANNOVER TARGETS OF RAF IN RAIDS LAST: NIGHT      Americans Shoot Down 142 Nazi Planes In Effort To Halt Raid On  Veresack —

RETURN TO WORK IN FULL SWING IN SOFT COAL FIELDS   Miners Emphasize However That They Will Strike Again If Demands  , Aren’t Met

ABBREVIATED LEGISLATION IS OUTLINED   Skeletonized Program, !s Shorn of Non-Essentials, Is Considered at Capital   FLOOD OF NEW BILLS

WAR NEWS FROM “POOL”   Invasion Reports in Bigger Volume Come to U. S. Faster

PUBLIC KEPT WELL INFORMED ON WAR   Better Communication and Army Aid, Pooled Copy Reasons.

Post-War Air Supremacy Is Debated  Solons Rally Arow   Solons Rally Around Proposal for Aviation Committee

Post-War Air Supremacy Is Debated   Solons Rally Arounc Proposal for Aviation Committee

Army Official Sees Peril In Dratt Reques   House Told Proposed Changes Might Force Army To Take Illiterates.   CHARGE ARMY TOO BIG

TEXAS RAILROADS NOT EXPECTED BE GREATLY AFFECTED   RAIL MEN, HOWEVER, DI. VIDED ON WISDOM OF SEIZURE OF LINES

Labor Draft. Law Is Proposed   Would Halt War’ Industry Stoppadae

NAZIS APPROVE JAPS ACTIONS   Hint Given Germany and Italy Also. May Execute ° Aviators. ~ _

Jap Destroyer and Two Merchant Ships Sunk by Liberators   Allies Driving Enemy out of Central Solomons Islands’

JAPANESE BEING DRIVEN FROM THE CENTRAL SOLOMONS   Relentless Air and Ground Pressure Pushing the Japs to the North.   A Destroyer and Two Merchantmen Were Latest Losses to the Japs.

JAPS WITHDRAW BEFORE ALLIES   New Guinea. Air: Base Ringec In By Australians

BOMBERS SINK JAP DESTROYER, 2 MERCHANTMEN   NIPS APPEAR TO BE FACING NEW PERILS IN SOUTH PACIFIC

Japs Move Northward  ~ In Solomons   Continued Allied Pressure Drives Them Out—Convoy Caught Tuesday

COMBINED UNITS DRIVING ENEMY BACK IN PACIFIC   Expect Allied Troops to Clear Up Central Solomons Soon

JAP DESTROYER AND TWOCARGO VESSELS SUNK   Enemy, Slowly Being Driven Out of Southern Solomons and New Guinea, Pays Increasing Toll   CONVOYATTACKED   Finschhafen Ringed While Kolombangara Appears on Point of Falling to Allies

Ailied -Forces Appear to be Driving Them Out of Central Into Northern Portion

Enemy Surface Force Put To Flight Relentless Pressure  Is Driving Japanese Into North Solomons  et: 4: ee

Japanese Driven From Islands By Relentless, Damaging Air Attacks

MORE PRESSURE IS PUT ON JAPS   Island Invaders Blasted as They Try To Escape

Allies Posing New Threats fo Japanese   Foe Being Driven From Central to Northern Solomons

Japs Being Driven Out Of Solomon:   New Perils Facing Foe In New Guinea; Supply Ships Lost

Japanese Being Driven Out Of All Central Solomons   Gradual Rout Under Relentless. Attacks Poses New Perils For Them In New Guinec

RELENTLESS GROUND AND AIR PRESSURE AGAINST JAPANESE  ENEMY BEING DRIVEN FROM CENTRAL SOLOMONS AREA

Japs’ Position ~ Is Desperate   Facing Disaster Ir Solomons, Guinea

Pressure Mounts Against Japanese  Enemy Flees to North Solomons   Enemy Flees to North Solomons As Allied Might Grows Stronger

New Disaster ° Facing Japan  In Solomon:   Forsake Kolombangara At Mounting Cost In Ships; Vella Lavella Push Threatens

[Air and Ground Pressure Drives Japs Northward i in the Solomons

Turn Back Jap Fleet   First Enemy Sally Into Solomons In Weeks Put To Flight

Japs in Central Solomons Being Forced to. Islands In the Northern Section

JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS HARD-PRESSED BY YANKS   BRITAIN-BASED PLANES SMASH RUHR INDUSTRIES

Japs Fail Again in Effort To Run Solomons Blockade   Heovy Air and Ground Convoy of !1 Ships Pressure Pushes Enemy Smashed by Bomber: ‘Steadily Northward One Destroyer Sunk

Japs Are Driven Into New Perils   Pressure Increased in Solomons as Their Supply Ships Are Sunk.

JAPS PUSHED FROM ISLAND BY AMERICANS   11-Ship Enemy Convoy Attacked By Liberators

Driving Japs to North Solomons   Relentless Pressure May Be Forcing Them  From Central Area

Army Private Kidnaped, Searched At Gunpoint by Four Men, FBI Told

Town and Farm in Wartime   News Digest Prepared by Rural Press Section

ILLINOIS FARMS HOLDING RECORD TOTAL SOYBEANS   Corn Reserves Are Also At High Level; Much More Not Harvested.

GRAIN STOCKS ON ILLINOIS FARMS SHOW BIG GAINS   Report Of Agricultural Statistician Indicates That Supply Of Soybeans Is Largest On Record In History Of State.

Berlin Radio Says Target Was Paris   Invasion Rehearsal Revealed in British Stotement

COAST IS ATTACKED THURSDAY   Hundreds of Allied Planes, Including American Fortresses Take Part in Foray.

Axis Reported Preparing  Frantically  For Invasion   Apparently ‘Pulling Forces into Interior With Plans To Stand  On General Dafanctwa   ITALIANS REPORTED LEAVING ISLANDS   Air Offensive Goes On, Shuttle Flight Raids Made by RAF Planes

AFRICA-BRITAIN ~ LOOP FOR PLANES   Germans, Italians Appear To Be Pull’ ing Back Immense Forces To Interior Fortresees 7

AFRIKA KORPS  ABANDONS TWO MORE VILLAGES  a ann }§ «3C=3+l   RAF Strikes At Ruhr; Reds Halt Nazis Again

Warning Given Italians  Algiers Radio Tells Italians To ‘Hold On’ to Their Fleet

Six Chickens Inoculated With Sleeping Sickness Were Eaten by Group of Boys

NEW BLOWS STRUCK IN THE ALEUTIANS   Airmen Attempting Prevent Enemy From Building Airfield

ALEUTIAN RAIDS ARE INCREASED   21 Attacks Made Against Kiska This Month To Smash Building Of Runways

Kiska Bombings Aimed at Jap Airfield Builders  Situation in South Pacific Reported As Generally Quiet

U.S. Steps Up Drive Against  Japs on Kiska   New Offensive Blows Designed to Prevent Foe From Building  Airfield on Aleutians

RAIDS ON KISKA ARE INCREASED   U. S. Bombers Keep Japs From Building Air Base In Islands

Raids on Kiska Designed To Keep Japanese from Building Airfield   Enemy Works To Construct Flight Strip between Attacks 

NAZIS EXECUTING MANY IN BERLIN   Use Drastic Punishment to fCambeat Nefeaticm

Today’s War Commentary  Tunisian Battle  Only Beginning---Hardest Job Ahead

2nd Financing Drive Planned   Treasury Pats. ‘Attention On Another Big: Fund » ‘During Spring 

New Federal Fund Drive Is Due in Spring   Treasury. Fresh From Over-Subscription. Is Charting Next Call.

Map Another Fund Drive   Treasury Turning Its Attention to Campaign Planned for Spring

GREATEST BOND RAISING TRIUMPH   Officials Study Plans for Spring War Fund Campaign

TREASURY PLANS WAR FUND DRIVE   Morgenthau Silent on Financial Goal New Borrowing Campaion.

PRISONER ASKS OLD JOB BACK   Held In Italy He Thinks War Will End Soon.

President Signs Great War Bill  Will Buy 99, 740  Dianac Mar rmy

Congress Eyes  Military Costs   Trend Grows for Probing War Spending   Record 71 Billion War Rill Sieaned hve FR

Roosevelt Signs 11% Billion Law   Fund Three Times Cost of World War 

U. S-Airmen Down Fifteen Enemy Planes   Cargo Ship Hit Near Buin Off Shortland Islands   Greatest Bomber Raid On New Britain Base   Japanese Navy Dodges American Ships In Pacific

Reveal How Jap Fleet Refused To Risk Battle   Expected Vital Naval Clash Off Guadalcanal Sidestepped By Nips.

15 JAP PLANES DOWN   Enemy Cargo Ship Was Also Hit in Aleutian and Solomons

15 Planes Lost  By Japs in Series  1   of Air Battles   Enemy 5hip Hit; Cost to U. S. is 2 Bombers. 6 Fighter:

RABAUL IN RUINS AFTER ATTACK BY 30 BOMBERS  REPORTER WITH U. S.   REPORTER WITH U. S. FLEET TELLS HOW JAPS FLED FIGHT

15 Enemy Planes Downed In Pacific  Actions Cost Americans Two Bombers And Six Fivhters. Says Navy

SERIES OF AERIAL BLOWS TAKE TOLL OF 15 JAP PLANES   Hit On-a Cargo Ship Also Listed in Battles in the Aleutians and Solomons

NELSON WILL AVOID RATION FOR CLOTHES   Six-point program will care for needs if public cooperates

Enemy Surprised In Solomons Area   Experts Doubt If Nips Can Recover From Heaviest Aerial Raids of War

Japs Reeling Under Heavy. Ait Attacks   Belfidle, Kahili: Airelds Devastated. ' -By Air Forces:

JAPANESE AERIAL — DISASTER MOUNTS IT IS DISCLOSED   215 of the 225 Planes Enemy Had Gathered at Wewak Reported _ Wined Out:°**-"-

NIPPON AERIAL DESTRUCTION AT WEWAK FINISHED      215 Of 225 Planes Gathered  Enemy Base Completely Wined Out

AIR FLEET WIPED OUT   Allied Airmen Destroy 215 Nip Planes, Lose 6

Japs Meet Disaster in New Guinea   Over 200 of Their Planes Wiped Out — Only Six Allied Planes Lost

(JAP AIR FLEET IN NEW GUINEA WIPED OUT IN TWO DAYS   215 Of 225. Airplanes At - Wewak Destroyed — Cargo Vessels And Barges” Hit

JAP AIR FORGE IS WIPED OUT   Two Days Of Crushing Allied Blows Smash Airdrome At Wewak

WEWAK PLANE FLEET ERASED BY NEW BLOW   All But 10 Of 225 Jap Aircraft There Destroved

NAZIS MAY BE PLANNING DRIVE   Travelers S ay Winter Offensive Is In Preparation

German Offensive Looms: Nazis Believed Preparing Winter Drive with 150 Reserve Divisions   Travelers Report Hitler's War Machine Still Strong Despite Quarrels among Party Leaders

WARE ALL! YOU COFFEE USERS   Especially You. Who Have Used Kids’ * Coupons

WILL CHECK ON USE OF COFFEE COUPONS   Will Determine Whether Parents Have Used Units Improperly From Children’s Books

Nazis Regain Tunisian Hilltops   Drive British Back From Points Won Yesterday

POWERFUL GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK IS SUCCESSFUL   New General Appointed by Hitler to Head Tunisian Forces.

BRITISH LOSE HILLTOPS TO GERMAN TROOPS   Tunisia Points Won By Nazis After Heavy Counter - Attacks On Exposed Allied Posi Be maca

Deadline For Farmers’ Income Tax Declarations Is December Fifteenth

TAX REDUCTION MOVE SLOWS UP   Outspoken Critics Wonder If Economy Programs  Go Far Enough

Pending Tax Bills Are Brand. ed as ‘Trivial’ Attempts at Relief; Crippled Voting Machine Slows Down Activity In the House

Less Gas for  Midwest: lekes   ‘Nation’s Supply to Be ‘Equalized’   Congressman Against  ‘Punishing’ Midwest

Right To Refrain From Saluting U.S. Flag Upheld   High Court Reverses Famous Decision.  of Three Years Ago

SAYS CHILDREN NOT REQUIRED TO SALUTE FLAG   Absolves Sect Members of Conduct Harmful to General . Welfare

GERMANS LOSE IN KUBAN AREA   Thousands Of Men And Tanks Thrown Into Futile Attack.

Soviets Stop German Counterattack   Heavy Fighting in Kuban Region Reported by Reds

Fastest Bombers Of All Fret Germans   Wooden-Built Mosquitoes Hard On Nazi Nerves

NEW-TYPE SHIP READY FOR DUT)   Aircraft Carrier Passes Tests. Built at Tacoma, Washington

Potent New Vessel Able Ti Run Forward Or Back, Shut Off Shell Hits

KU Observes Music Week   Festival To Be Held May 2 to 7 Will Feature American Music

MUSIC WEEK TO BE OBSERVED AT K. U.   Several Noted Musicians to ‘Appear on Program atUniversity.   SPALDING .IS COMING

PLAN MEMORIA! CAMPAIGN FOR SULLIVAN BOYS   Nation-wide drive launched to honor brothers missing in action

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DEATH ATTRIBUTED TO POISON ICE CREAM   80-year-old Retired Farmet of Circleville Victim

GREAT AMMUNITION STORE OF JAPANESE EXPLODED AT WEWAK   NEW BLOW FOLLOWS DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY PLANES AND SHIPS

Jap Ammunition Stock Exploded By Yank Bombs   Wewak Is Devastated By New Raids; Aussies Inc In On Finschhafen.

Jap Ammunition Dump Exploded   Ground Troops Nea Finschhafen Jetty

Jap Ammunition Stores Explode In Allied Raid   Huge Supply Ruined At Wewak; Blow To Jap Plans I:  Serious

JAP MUNITIONS DEPOT BLASTED   Liberators Score Direct Hit In Blowing Up Supplies at Wewak

HUGESTORE OF AMMUNITION ON WEWAK FIRED   American Airmen Deliver Paralyzing Blow Against Japanese On Southwest Pacific Island

Blast Huge © Store of Jap ° Ammunition   Dump at Wewak Ex-:‘ ploded By Allied Bomb. ers; Australian Troops Closer to Finschhafen.

NIP AMMUNITION HIT BY BOMBERS   Surprise Raid at Wewak Results in Crippling Losses to Japs

Huge Store Of Ammunition Of  Japs Exploded   New Blow’ Delivered Enemy At Wewak By Liberator Bomber<._

Big Jap Supply Dump Blown Up   Allies Inch Forward Toward Finschhafen

Japanese Munition Dump Fired   Liberators Fight Past Jap Fighter Screen for Blow . At Wewak

Jap Munitions Dump Blown Up   L\LLIED BOMBERS DROP LOAD ON WAR STORAGE

t Spectacular Bonfire At Wewalk   lowed A Day of Destruction of More Than Sixty Japanese Planes and Seven Ships At Wewak.

HUGE JAPANESE AMMUNITION DUMP IEXPLODED BY ALLIED BOMBERS: 60 PLANES AND 7 SHIPS DESTROYED   Australian Troops Reach Point Within 600 Yards of Main Jetty at Finschaffen. 35 Bomber Hit Jav Airbase at Bougainville

AMMUNITION EXPLODED IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Huge Jap Store at Wewak Were For Use Against MacArthur

Jap Ammunition Dump Exploded By Liberators   Powder Stores Were To Be Used On MaeArthur

ARMS DUMP AT WEWAK RUINED BY U. §. AIRMEN   Ammunition Explosion Causes Great Display. of Pyrotechnics

BLAST STORE OF JAP SHELLS   Planes Set Off Explosion of  Huge Ammunition Dump  in New Guinea.

JAPS LOSE BIG AMMUNITION DUMP IN RAIDS   Liberators Support Troops Drawing Nea Finschhafen

Jap’ Ammunition ‘Stores Exploded At Wewak Base   Liberators Destroy Huge  - Supply of Ammunition Transported  Overseas By. Japs For Use Against MacArthur.

VAST STORE OF AMMUNITION IS FIRED AT WEWAK   Liberators Blow Up Enemy Cache Planned For Use Against M'Arthur's Troops; Bag 60 Jap Planes, Seven Ships.

Elista Recaptured As Russians Cos tinue Unbroken March In South; Yanks Bomb Wake

Two Axis Strongholds  Taken; Aleutians And Wake Blasted By U.S.   Three Axis Merchantmen Sunk In Mediterranean; Attack On Island But Beginning, Says Nimitz  By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE   Tremendous Crisis Facing  _ All Of Germany In Russia   Stalingrad Salient Has Lost Flank Protection Value For Hitler’s Caucasus Drive

South Penn To Cut Crude  Deliveries   Refineries Get Less Oil Starting June 1: Zook in Statement  Puts Blame on OPA

U.S. Loses Two Ships; Japs Lose Fifteen   J. S$. Cruiser Chicago And Destroyer Sunk

NAVY VIGTORY TN OULOMON:   We Lost Cruiser and One Destroyer, Waile Jars Were Heavy Losers.

Red Forces In New Move To  Trap Germans   May Cut Off 300,000 Nazi Troops From Chance TO Escape   SURGE FORWARD IN NORTH CAUCASUS

i¢DG ATTEMPT Dale 10 TRAP OU0,000 NAZI   Two Columns Advancing North -and South of Rostov to Cut Retreat.   GERMANS CAPTURED IN 1,000-PRISONER LOTS

REDS RUSH TO CLOSE TRAP ON 300,000 NAZIS   Two Columns Move Toward Caucasys And Black Sea Pincers Drive   25-MILE ADVANCE MADE   Soviets Recapture Scores Of Towns Held By Enemy For Several Months

Soviet Forces Go Forward In Caucasus   Only Cne Avenue of Escape Left Germans

BERLIN RAIDED BY MOSQUITOES: FORTRESSES Hl]   U. S. Forts Plow T:rough Heavy Wea‘her to Bliest Their Targets.

BERLIN RAIDED BY MOSQUITOES - FORTRESSES Hi   ‘U.S. Forts Plow Through _! Heavy Wea‘her to Blest. , Their Targets.

SPEEDY GAPTURE OF ISLANDS EXPECTED BY. NAVAL EXPERTS   JAPANESE GARRISONS NOT RATED A CHANCE TO WITHSTAND U. 8. LANEING  . ‘PARTIES

OPEEDY VICTORY MAY BE POSGIBLE IN GILBERT AREA   Islands Not Easily Defended, Experts Say; Campaign May Be Easy

Withholding Tax Will Start July 1; Part Of Tax Liability Forgiven

FDR SIGNS NEW INCOME TAX BILL   Twenty Per Cent Withholding Tax To Start Julv 1

President Signs Pay-as-Go Bill   Aides Start Study Of New Levies

NATION NEEDS 16 BILLION IN NEW REVENUE   PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX BILL IS SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT

TAX MEASURE IS MADE LAW BY PRESIDENT      New: Law Sets Up With. holding Levy on July 

ROOSEVELT SIGNS PAY-G0 TAX BILL   LEVY ON SPENDING PROPOSED TO HELP RAISE 16 BIL-. LION NEW REVENUE.

FD Signs Pay-as-Go Tax Bill Into Law   Compromise Measure Approved as Aides of Executive Confer on Program to Secure Additional Savings. Revenue He Has Asked

President Signs Pay-As-Go Tax Bill   New Law Grants No Re: lief from Tax Payments Due June 15.

FDR Signs New Tax Bill More Planned   WITHHOLDING LEVY EXPLAINED IN DETAIL; ABATEMENT CLARIFIED.

New Tax Bill Is Made Law By President   Further Levies Are Being Planned by Treasury Deparimen

F.D.R. Signs Tax Bill For Pay-As-You-Go   Puts. American taxpayers on current payment basis for first time in history.

PAY-GO BILL IS SIGNED BY FDR   Aides Confer On Plans To Raise 16 Billions More; Effective On July 1

FDR Approves Pay-Go Tax Measure   Approved Bill Is Compromise Of Several Plans

Nation’s Chief Pens Okeh On Pay-GoTax   Government Starts Work on New Pian for 16 Billion

British Blast Sub Base Again   Yank Fliers Get 22 Nazi Planes in Raid On Wilhelmshaven

U-BOAT BASE AT LORIENT HIT BY PLANES   Germans Retaliate With Feeble Attack On Southeast Coast Town

British Bombers Blast German Base at Lorient.  Results of Recent All-American Raid Announced

BOMBERS BLAST LORIENT AGAIN   American Fortresses Shoot Down 22 Nazi Fighting Planes

GERMAN U-BOAT BASE HIT AGATA   British Bombers Blast Lorient for Sixth Time in 16 Days; Results of All-Yank Bomber Raid Told

GERMANY’S SUB BASE, LORIENT, AGAIN BOMBED   Raided Sixth Time in Sixteen Days With What is _  ; Believed Good   Effect   U.S. AIRMEN TAKE HEAVY TOLL NAZIS   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Shoot 22 Enemy Planes Down in Wilhelmshaven Attack

Russ Smash Westward Into  Nazi White Russian Lines  Red Troops Push 19 Miles Through Heavy Enrect And March Land Ta Rench Now River

Russians Break Through Last German Fortifications Around Orel, Begin Siege of City

NS WITHIN. (F ORFL   And Have Started on the Siege of the City Itself.

Canning’ Sugar To Be Increasec   ; § Es Registration For Extra Rations- To Start

RUSSIANS STILL GIVING GROUND ON THE KIEV FRONT   fens of Thousands of Nazis Driving Behind Waves of Tiger Tanks

Nazis Suffering Heavy Losses For Small Gains in Russia   Russian Naval Fliers Sink Nine Nazi Boats, Down 28 Planes,

POISON GAS FACTORY HIT BY BOMBERS   RAF Battles Storm In 500- Mile Flight

British, Canadians Blast Rhineland  More Than 100 Fires  Set in Factory Arends

Poison Gas Plant Heavily Bombed  British, Canadians, Carry Out Raids

WAR PRODUCTION CENTER   No-Slicing Rule for Bread Will Continue for Canada

OFFICERS ARE NAMED MEETING CORSICANA PRODUCTION CREDIT  G. R. LOVE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT AND J. C. PARK VICE-PRESIDENT

OFFICERS ARE NAMED MEETING CORSICANA PRODUCTION CREDIT G. R. LOVE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT AND J. C.  rar

Nimitz Launches Surprise Drive On Japanese Islands   Faces 2,300-Mile Stretch Of Ocean Between Main Base And Limits Of Two Objectives

Lewis Wins Poll Most U npopular   Led Fortune Survey At 70 Pet.; F. D. Second With 5.5 Pct.

i caer Alters nd-Lease Note   Strikes Passage Implving No Repayment

Destruction Cag War Industries Buk Halts Possible sive Against Russia By Nazi Armies. —

DUMDAI AtinKriInLDS  Seven People Were Killed in London by Few Nazi Raiders.

EIGHTEEN PLANES LOST IN FOGGY NIGHT ATTACK OVER RUHR VALLEY, FIRES STARTED

Soviet Armies Narrow *Corridor on Vital City; ,2-Way Drive on Rostov   Important Rail Junction Falls ta Reds; Nazis in Donets Basin Face Threat: Report Krasnador Taken

RUSSIANS CLOSE TRAP IN UKRAINE ON AXIS TROOPS   Krasnoarmeiskaya Taken, Cutting Major Rail Line There   KRASNODAR FELL EARLIER IN DAY

STALINO FALL 1S IMMINENT   Red Troops Capture More Towns, Smash Close to Flaming City

Russians Smash To Outskirts of Burning Stalino   Believe Axis Bastion Will Be Captured Within 24 Hours:

500,000Naz  Troops Threatened   Red Army of Ukraine Captures Main Rail Junction to Aid Other Units at Rostov. Donets

Fall Of Stalino Expected Today   Nazis Apply Torch As They Flee City

Russians Cut More Deeply Into Donets Basin as N azis Retreat Along Line

Reds Surround  Huge Force In  Donets Basin Nazis Have Only One Outlet In  Bierce Bishting -

Copture of the Northern Ukraine Citadel of - Konotop Reported  MAKEEVKA SEIZED, COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Dozed Groups of Persons Being Rounded Up

KRASNODAR, KUBAN COSSACK CAPITAL IN WESTERN CAUCASUS IS REDEEMED BY RUSSIANS, SPECIAL COM MUNIQUE SAYS.

Soviets Reach Outskirts of  Burning Stalino   Reds Capture North Ukraine Citadel of Konotop; Nearly 300 Villages Taken

Donets, Rostov Gaps Closing .   Rail Junétion IA — Stalino Area Held

Red Army Hurling Foe Back on Edge Of Pripet Marshes   Soviets Have Penetrated Quier Defenses of Kiev Germans May Be Pulling Out of That City; Other Slavic Hordes Are Plunging Toward Border of Latvia

Reds Threaten to Flank German Lines   Vital Rail Suburbs Are Taken by Advancing Russians

Reds Are Now Threatening City, of Kiev   -Fall:of Stalino Is Expected to Come “at Any Time

KONOTOP TAKEN BY RED FORCES; MENACE STALINO   Russians Advance To Outskirts Of Burning Metropolis   SOVIETS MOVING ON TO CITY OF KIEV

REDS REACH STALING: DRIVE TOWARD KIEV      Capture Konotop, Northern Ukraine Citadel, In Direct Plunge Towards Capital; 300 Towns Reclaimed   ~ Nazis Apply Toreh

Stalino Fall ls Said Near   Red Troops Capture Konotop In New Fiah?

Successes By Russians Piling Up   Krasnoarmeiskaya Falls And Main Railroad To Dniepropetrovsk Cut   KRASNODAR TAKEN IN WEST CAUCASUS   Soviets Also Fighting Closer to Kharkov, Press Rostov Harder

UARAINE ARMY SET 10 TRAP 900,000 NAZIS   KRASNODAR, COSSACK CAPITAL, TAKEN IN CAUCASUS

Reds Threaten To Trap Half Million   Army Of Ukraine Captures Main Rail Junction O! Krasnoarmeiskaya; Fighting On Approaches To Kharkov Begins

Reds Push To Stalino Outskirts  Konotop ” Taker  In Plunge To Kiev

Russian Advance May Trap Enemy In Donets Basin   Special Communique An nounces Cutting Off of Communication   Russian Black Sea Fleet Aids Army near Port of Novorossisk

RAILWAY POINT IS ~ TAKEN BY SOVIETS. IN TRAPPING MOVE   Cutting.of Main Line Announced in Lote Dispatche: ~—Krasnodar, Cossack Capital in the Western : i Coucasis, Is Also Taken

Reds Reach Outskirts Of Stalino   Capture Konotop, Ukraine Citadel, And Other Localities   FALL OF STALINO EXPECTED SOON

REDS SEIZE MORE TOWNS IN UKRAINE: KHARKOV MENACED   Russians Only 20 Miles From Capital With Columns Rushing Forward on Both Sides.   IMPORTANT RAILWAY JUNCTION OCCUPIED   Fall Endangers 500,000 Nazis in Two Other Areas—Corridor to Rostov Cut to 70 Miles.

Russians swiftly isolating German Caucasus troops   Single, perilous exit route  left with fall of Krasnodar

~ END ONMAY 14   Expansion ‘of A Aviation Program Shortens School “"e Vear

END -ON MAY 14   Expansion. -of of Aviation Program Shortens School ws ’ Waar

NERVOUSNESS INCREASES, NEERPNSE WATTS TIGHTEN   Nazi Bases At Orel Battered

REDS LASH AT RAIL CENTERS   Supply Depots At Orel Steadily Pounded  By Russians

REDS FIRE NAZI SUPPLY DEPOTS   Orel, Key Rail Junction Hammered For Third Time In Week

Reds Continue Air Smashes In Orel Area Rail’ Centers, Dumps  Supply Depots. * Ava Rinctad --

Russians hit Orel  junction.   Continue lashing axis rail center

Red Fliers Attack  Orel Sector A gain   15 Big Fires Set By Russian Planes

Severe Fighting Raging in China  Chinese “Adjust” Their Position

NEW TAK BILL  SENT TD nOUot BY COMMITTEE   Need or Additional Revenue Exaggerated By Treasury, Congress Is Told

Tax Demands TooHlighSay  Congressmen   Administration 1s Exaggerating Need For Funds, Claim

Pare °44. tax need  $ billions   Administration’s request assailed

IRISH REBELS ESCAPE   Four High Ranking TRA Members Flee Belfast Prison

Germans Send Bulgarians  Into Greece  Apparently Fear New Allied ©

Germans Send Bulgarians Into Greece   Apparently Fear New Allied Attacks in Balkans

Attack On Truk May Come Soon   Recent Attacks By U. S. Naval Forces Prelude To Main Assault

Powerful Naval, Sea, Ar Attack on Jap Held Nauru May Be Prelude to Invasion

EVANS ISSUES INJUNCTION. IN ROAD WALKOUT   Restrains Union And Its Members From Molesting Workers   WIRE HINTS VIOLENCE   Employes Threatened By Strikers, Road Com mission Charges

U. S. Forees Head For Axis-Held Port   Sustained Offensive May Cut Enemy Forces in Two—British In North Fall Back

Allied Drive Threatens To Split Axis Units — British Withdraw From Town Of Sed Jenane

British Troops Evacuate City On North Front   American Success Puts Allies Within 50 Miles of Sousse

ADVANCE MADE TO WITHIN 50 MILES OF COAST   British Forees Evacuate Sedjenane, Cover Tamera

PICHON Is CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Efforts Being Made to Drive Wedge Between Rommel’s forces.

Yanks Capture Tunisian Town,  Take Over Pass   Sustained Drive Puts Allied Forces Nearer Vital Port Of Sousse

CAPTURED IN ADVANCE   Yanks Are 50 Miles From Vital Axis Port Of Sousse

Americans In Tunisia  Take Pichon   Rommel’s Supply Line Menaced by Capture of Town

Allies Take Key Town in Mid-Tunisia   “Seek te Drive  Wedge Between Enemy Armies.

DRIVE TOWARD VITAL PORT   Takin’ af Pichom Accomplished by Amcrican Forees — Drive Carries Advanced Elements of Allied Forces to Within About 50 Airline Miles of Coast of Tunisia. .

ALLIES WITHIN 50 ARUNE MLE OF PLAST OF TUNISIA   Probably Move For Sousse; Port Used By Rommel to Feed Troops and Provide Supplies to Forces.   NAVAL TASK FORCE BOMBED JAP BASES   Lae, Japan’s Biggest Remaining In New Guinea Is Blasted By Many Waves of Airplanes.

Allies Push Nearer Coast Of Tunisia   Yankee Armored Troops Take Pichon, Threaten Drive to Sousse

Republicans In Congress  Blast OPA      Claim Department Of Agriculture is Right Food Agency

Troubles Increase For Price Bureau   Lawmakers Urged to Take Action; Agency Reorganization Postponed:

G.O.P. Congressmen _ Ask Abolishment Of __ OPA Food Control   Criticism Also Mounting. Against Proposed Subsidy Plan; Storm Gathers Around OPA With Increasing Fury. . 

romise Relief Chil ‘rom Cold Wave Axi   Joins Hemispheric Solidarity Drive

CHILE BREAKS OFF AXIS. RELATIONS      Concentration of Axis Nationals Started in Nation

Chile Breaks and Begins Roundup of Axis Nationals Within Borders

CHILE BREAKS AXIS RELATIONS   Concentration Of Enemy Nationals Ils Begun In Nation

Church In Which Columbus Was Baptized Destroyed By Allbed Air Raids

Gypsy CarriesOut  Death Sentenceof  * , * * *  Family on ‘Sister

BROTHER SHOOTS SISTER AS SHE SCREAMS FOR MERCY  Dishonored Gypsy Girl of 18 Executed On Lonely Hill After Family Sentence

Senators Sean New Curb on  Rail Program   U. 8. Ownership Bobs Up in Control of  Plane, Bus Systems

'Government Ownership o All Transportation May . Be Congressional Issue.

URGES KEEPING UP BIG FLEET   Sen. Radcliffe Points Out Opportunity When War Ends

ALTMAN FEED ~ STORES BURNEL   Twin Granary, Hatchery, Warehouse Lost in €500.000 Fire

GERMANS LOSING AIR SUPREMAG\   Allies Lost 114 Planes Dur ing African Invasion, Enemy Lost 277. -

COURSE IN WATER SAFETY PLANNED   Plymouth Co. Red Cross Chapter Will Be Host To Others

ALLIED LEADERS CONSULT CHIANG   Officials Represent Churchill, Roosevelt in Series of Conferences

JAPANESE ON GUADALCANAL “ELIMINATED”   Speculate on Directions Which  New Campaign of Allies Would  Take Against Nippon   Rey ASSOCTATED PRESS

New Allied  Drive Near In Pacific   Jap Loss Heavy At Guadalcanal

Allied Dr.ve On Japs May Start Soon   Foe Completely Eliminated in Solomons, Spokesman for Halsey Says   NEW OFFENSIVE INDICATED NEAR   Japs Lost 1,100 Planes, 72 Ships and Between 30,000 and 50,000 Men

Japs Now Entirely Wiped Out   Ancrican Farees Ready for New Of fensive in South Seas

View Truk Or Rabaul Objective   U.S, Navy Spokesman Says Enemy On Guadalcanal Completely Eliminated

Japs Completely Eliminated on Guadalcanal Now   New Offensive by Allies in Pacific Intimated Today

SOLOMON SWEEF PREVIEWS ATTACK   Two Routes ta Victorious Allied South Pacific Army to Slash Back at Foe

NEW ALLIED OFFENSIVE FORMS IN PACIFIC: JAP: FORCES ARE DRIVEN FROM GUADALCANAL

Latin American Armed Help Now Pledged In War   Troops Promised If Need Arises Says Padilla; U. S. Is Praised

Padilla Offers Help  Of Latin American  Troops Would Be Sent To Allies lf Necessary, He Says

MEXICO WILL AID WITH ARMED FORCES FOR DEFEAT OF AXIS  LATIN AMERICAN STATES - MEN APPLAUD STATEMENT FOREIGN MINISTER

3-A Induction Seen Complete By Mid-Summer   Speed-Up of Draft Rate Hinted—15 Million Man Army Expected

Hint Inductions To Be Speeded   All 3-A Men May Be Taken by Summer

HINTS SPEEDUP OF INDUCTIONS   Defense Official Says All 3-A Men May be in Army By Mid-summer

All 3-A Men May Be Callec  This Summer  Taft of Health Group Heard by Committee And Hints Speed-Up  DOWNEY SEES ARMY OF 15,000,000  He Is Authorized To Make Statements,  LX yep.

SENATE TOLD ALL 3-A’S TO BE INDUCTEL   Rate of Draft Indicate: Call by Summer, Taft Asserts

Official Hints Speed-Up in Draft Inductior   Health, Welfare “Aid Sees 3-A Pool Dry By Midsummer

3-A Registrants Face Induction, Taft Indicates   Senator Downey Sees Armed Force of 15,000,000 This Year

Official Hints Draft May Be Speeded Ut   3-A Registrants May Be Inducted by Mid-Summer

A INDUCTION MAY BE INCREASED   Taft Sees Calls for Entire Group by Mid-Summer   ARMED FORCES   Will Total Close to 15,000, 000 by Next January, Sen. Downey Declares

ALL 3-A’S WILL BE IN SERVICE THIS SUMMEF   Senate Is Informed That Armed Forces May Grow ~ Te 15,000,000   12,000 ARE DAILY BEING INDUCTED

May Speed Up “1 Rafe  Of Inductions  3A Registrants May Be Called Up Mid Summer for Army

SENATE TOL ALL 3-A'5 10 BE INDUCTED   Rote of Draft Indicates Call by Summer, Tott Accerte «¢

Draft Inductions  To Be Speeded   All 3-A Registrants To Be Called in Summe

induction To Be Speeded   All 3-A Registrants May Be Gone By Auaqus'

Report Italy Seeks Surrender To America Alone  Actively Hunting Way Out of War, Washington Hears  LITTLE CHANCE  Sees Better Peace Terms Than From United Nations

» ITALY WILLING TO SURRENDER:   / Maybe, But Only To U. S., ls Current Report

AIR ATTACKS UN GERMIARY ARE BOOSTED   Joint American and British Raids Against German Factory Centers.    EIGHT PLANES LOST   Attempt Being Made to Get at ‘Source of Nazi UB-at Production

New Bombing Attacks Made  Upon Germany   R. A. F. Follows Up Raid Made By U. S. Bombers Yesterday   NAZI INDUSTRIES BEING BLASTED

Firing Range Fireworks Are Gaudy   Night Practice Near Fort Bliss Spectacular Exhibition

Must Register Next Week For Ration Book Four  Times and Places _ For Registration In  Pa RTE Eee

Must Register — Next Week For Ration Book Four   Times and Places _ For Registration In Plymouth County

Must Register This: Week For Ration Book Four  Times and Places _ For. Registration In.

Roosevelt Reports He And Churchill Agree   Observers Believe Statement Presages Early Intensification Of War On Japs.

PROGRAM FOR WAR VETEANS GETS SUPPORI   INDICATIONS POINT TO HEARTY APPROVAL BY CON.  GRESS OF SIX-POINT FLAN  FOR POST-WAR PERIOD

PRESIDENT 10 SEEK HELP FOR FIGHTING MEN   To Propose Post-War Aid; Congress Likely to Favor Plan

SOVIETS SEVER NAZI LINES IN WHITE RUSSIA   Press New Offensive in Drive Toward Polish Berder

TANKS, TROOPS POUR THROUGH BIG GAP IN LINE   Berlin Broadcast Announces ‘Neighboring Sectors’ Also Abandoned

STEAMER SINKS, BODIES HUNTED   45 Rescued Atter Ship Goes Down in Amazon.

NOVEMBER TERM OF COURT GPENS HERE  Negro Involved In Buttariand.EKoo Rackat

AUGUST TERM OF SUPERIOR COURT PONVENES HERE   New Grand Jury Empaneled To Serve Six Months   TWO DEFENDANTS PLEAD GUILTY

EXPLOSION AT ARSENAL   ‘No One Was Killed in Accident Destroying Two Magazines

ARMY ARSENAL IN NEW JERSEY BLAST-ROCKEL   French Ammunition Brought to Storage At Plant Explodes: No One Killed, Injured

GOP TO PONDER POSTWAR POLICY   ISOLATIONISTS DEAD AS LEADERS GATHER FOR MICHIGAN MEET

PEACE POLICY: COP PROBLEM   Compromise Plan Voiced As Delegates Meet At Mackinac

GOP LEADERS IN CONFERENCE   Discuss Platforts Plans at Michigan” Meet

IF ANY WILL REACH COAST   Allied Bombers Complete Masters Of Sea and Air

MacArthur Fliers Hunt Down Enemy   Roar Over Huon Gul! Area Strafing Survivors of Jap Armada

AREA LITTERED WITH LIFEBOATS, BODIES. DEBRIS   Macérthur’s Planes Sweep Zone for Straggling  lane

WRECKAGE OF 4 con      MacArthur's Fliers::Are Complete Masters Of Bismarck’ Sea -

Allies Mop Up Following Pacific Win   SEARCHING SEA TO GET POP AT ANY NOT YET SOCKED.

SEARCH FOR JAP CONVOY SURVIVORS   Allies Intend No Survivor To Reach Shore

LAST ENEMY SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM   No Longer Any Threat of Attack as Bismark Sea Is Swept Clear.

Allied Planes Rule Air Over Huon Guif   Destruction Of Jap Convoy Is Total   Vital Enemy Base at Lae Te Rlactoad

Allied Planes Scour New Guinea Waters For Last Survivors of Destroyed Convoy

Gen. MacArthur Reports Last Two Destroyers Sunk And Small Craft Sent Down.

FLYING FORTS, BOMBERS RULE IN SOUTHWEST   Finish Job of Mopping up Huge Japanese Convoy in Ancient Gulf of Huon Off N. Guinea.

ALLIED PLANES HUNTING DOWN JAP SURVIVORS   Lifeboats And Rafts Bombed, Strafed By Avenging Allied Airmen

LAST IAP SHIPS ~INGONVEY SUNK   All Threats of Assault Gone and Lae, Convoy Goal, ls Bombed.

ENFIDAVILLE AND OTHER KEY POINTS FALL TO 8TH ARMY      Allied Planes Further Assert Mastery Of Skies Over Mediterranean And /Tunisia—Twenty-Seven Axis Planes Downed

Enfidaville, Key Point of Defense,  Falls to 8th Army   German Counter-Attacks Are Repulsed in Bitterest Fighting of War

U-Boats Take Toll Of 9 War Craft In  New Pacific Zones   Allied Power In Ships And Planes Is Being Felt By Nips; Claim 505 Japanese Ships Sunk Or Damaged By Our Undersea Aces

SHIPS SHELL JAPS ON ISLE   Destroyers in Action Near Bougainville; Aussies  Take Sattelberg

Today At the State Capital: Pennsylvania Excels All Other States In Scrap ‘Collection; New Goal Set

State Leads in ScrapDrive   Awarded Plaque For Collection——Plan Drive in Sprine

To the People of this Community:   BONDS WALKED INTO  se ersrceay &re

Stories Told By “D. C. Speaker” No Flights Of Repertorial Fancy;  References To Old Sources Cu

ROTARIANS HEAR SPEAKER      Allister F. MacDougal. Addresses Group on “War Food Production

ROTARIANS   Allister. F. MacDougal, Ad- dresses Group on “War “Food Péaduction’. ”

NAZIS SEIZE THREE ITALIAN TROOP SHIPS   Soldiers Aboard Protest — Vessels Ordered Interned at Crete Pending Rome Developments.

Near Majority Claimed For Farm Deferment Bill; Legislation, Giving Exemption To Fathers, Lags

FOES OF BLANKET DRAFT DEFERMENT EAR FARM WORKERS SEEK SUBSTITUTE

DEFERMENT BILL LACKS MAJORITY   Plan to Keep Farm Worker:  At Home Supported by Only 43 Senators

Draft Deferment For Farm Help Is Seen Possible   “Blanket”? Has 43 Senators tn Favor; Opponents Would Free “Essential”’

FARM DEFERMENT ACT GAINING NEW VOTES IN SENATE   Supporters of Bill Find They Lack Only Six Votes of Clear Majority “

DEFERMENT OF FARMERS VOTED   Opponents Seek To Limit Application To Those In “Essential” Activities

CLAIM MAJORITY FOR DEFERMENT OF FARM LABOR   LIST43 SENATORS AS SPONSORS OF MEASURE; WAR DEPT. OPPOSES

MOVE TO DEFER FARMERS GAINS   Sponsors Of Blanket Actior Report Near Majority

BILL TO Dtrth FARM LABOR GANG GROUND   43 Senate Votes For Measure Certain, Only Three More Needed For Passage   OPPOSITION OF ARMY IGNORED BY SPONSORS   Blanket Farm Deferment Approved By Military Affairs Committee

43 Senators for Farm Deferment   Opponents Work on Substitute to Limit Its Application

Sponsors Of Blanket Farm Draft Deferment Claim Near Majority In Senate But Fathers Bill Delayed

ATHERS FACE DRAFT CALI. AS ACTHITS SNAG   Jeferment of Farmers Is Approved by Committee . In Senate; Passage Is Predicted   RUML TAX PROPOSAL . OPPOSED IN HOUSE   ers From Call to Service ’ Js Buried In House Comruittee  cnt Bill to Protect Fath-

43 SENATORS — COUNTED FOR BANKHEAD BIL]   Opponents Work on Bill to Restrict ~ Draft Deférment of All Farm Workers

Sponsors of Blanket Deferment for Farm Workers Claim Near-Majority

Deferment For Farmers Gains   Six Less Than Clear Majority Favor Bill, Kilday  Plan Loses.

Claim Victory In Senate For Farm Deferment   Heavy Support Assurec For Blanket Measure O. K.’d Bv Committee.

Miners lgnore Order   American Flag Flies Over 3,000 Of Nation's Mines

COAL MINERS ARE IGNORING ORDERS TO RESUME WORK   Stock Piles Dwindle, Industry Reduces Operations and Homes Are Cold Due to Fuel Shortages.   STOPPAGE COSTS TWO MILLION TONS DAILY   Upwards of 25,000 I!linois Miners Remained Away From- Work, Few Shafts Are In Production.

FDR WORK RETURN ORDER 1S IGNORED BY COAL MINERS   American Flags Fly Over Nation’s 3000 Mines Now Operated By Covernment

3000 PITS IS IGNORED   Await Word  Of Lewis, Who Meets Again With Sec. Ickes

Will ‘Recommend Miners Return To Work Monday   Union Leader Denies He Can ‘Direct’ His 500.000 Followers

INDUCTION LAW [S EMPHASIZED BY ROOSEVELT   Miners who Refuse to Mine Become Eligible For Army Duty   RULE HITS ALL ESSENTIAL WORK   Lewis Silent After F. D. R. Orders Unionists Back To the Pits

"FDR Orders Miners To Work, Says Men Quitting Essential Job Subject To Induction   No Response Yet From Lewis; Miners Still Seek. Contract

Gives Miners Four Days To Decide   Must Choose by Monday Whether or Not to Obey President Roosevelt’s Back to Work Order

Roosevelt Hints at Work-or-Fight Rule for Striking Miners   Strikers Face Momentous Choice on Obeying His Order to Return   BULLETIN

Work,Fight Choice Put To Strikers   President Hopes Miners Wilt Rerom: > To - Jobes: Lewis Remains Silent

Momentous Choice Is Facing 500,000 Miners Now Idle   John L. Lewis Holds His Own Counsel As Nation Awaits Decision of Union Men Participating in Walkout   LITTLE COMMENT ON USE OF FEDERAL TROOPS

Attitude Seen in Comment On ‘Work-or-F ight Order  For Nation’s Coal Miners

FDR Lays Down Simple Work Or Fight Rule  Coal Miners Ordered Back To Work Monda' By President

Miners Now Liable To Army Induction, Roosevelt Declares   President Fails to Commit Self On Possibility of Drastic Order; Lewis Silent on FDR Work Demand

Lewis Silent As FDR Hands Down Ruling   President Says Rule Applies To All, Not Only Miners

RULE FOR MINERS S VERY SIMPLE, AFFECTS OTHERS   Roosevelt Expresses Hope of Men Returning to Work as'He Comiments” During Press Meeting. :   SOME INDICATIONS OF MEN DISOBEYING ORDER   WLB Has Jurisdiction,  Resume Hearing of Question on Monday, Will Endeavor to Settle Case,

Strikers Subject to Draft at Once   But President Does Not Disclose Plans of Contemp' — Jated Action   HE ORDERS MEN BACK   Attitude of Defiance to White House Order Is  in Evidence

fajority Indicate They Will Follow Lewis In Fina Showdown With President, Who Sets Monday As Deadline   (RITLTETIN,

UMW Leaders Will Recommend End To Strike   Iekes Orders Chief   Ickes Orders Chief Of Union To Heed Order For Work

U.M.W. Chief Accedes to Secretary Ickes’ Ultimatum Following President's Order to Men to Resume Work

Retrest Is Revealed In Letter   To Committeee To Direct Return to Jobs

FDR Asserts Miners Quitting Work Subject to Army Call as _ Anyone Leaving Deferrable Job   Roosevelt's Order To Work on Monday Had Unheld WLB Stand

Chict Pixcentivo Says Strikers Are in Danger of Losing Occupational Deferments — Expresses Hopes that Miners Will Go Back to Work Monday.

WORK OF FIGHT WARNING (ooUE AT WHITE HOWSE   Draft Deferments May Be Cancelled Unless Coal Miners Resume Work

Unexpected Recession Late Today Follows Demand From Secretary Ickes

President Lays Down Simple Rule Without Saying Whether Has Drastic Work-or-Fight Order In Mind; Only Silence Comes From Lewis, Whose UMW Are Staying With Him  PEWIC FAVADC DETIIDNI Ac AAINIEDC

JOHN L. LEWIS WILL RECOMMEND MINERS RETURN TO WORK   The U. M. W. Chief Disclosed He Had Written Sec. Ickes to This Effect.   BACK TO JOBS MONDAY   Lewis Told Ickes He Had No Power to Direct, Only to Recommend.

Union Leader Advises Ickes Of Intentions   Statement Is Issued As F. R. Claims Striking Essential Workers  Can Be Drafted PINT ETIN

Lewis Will *~Ask Miners To Go Back   Coal Crisis Apparently Solved As Union Chief Retreats From Stand.

FDR Orders Coal Workers Back to Pits   If Miners Stop Work, Liable for Induction, President Tells Press Gonference

A SIMPLE RULE   Man Who Quits Essential War Work Becomes Liable for Draft.   ‘LEWIS REMAINS SILENT

President and. John Lewis at. Showdown Sage   Miners’ Chief Is Silent as Strike Enters Fourth Day

Up to Policy Committee of ‘Mine Union    ‘His Suddenly Announced, Retreat Is in Reply. to  Mine Boss’ Letter   PRESENT CRISIS. APPARENTLY SOLVED   ‘Men Who Quit. Essential ' Jobs Liable for Army In= duction. F.D.R- Sars .

SEVELT WARNS ‘STRIKERS TC BE AT WORK MONDAY   Meanwhile Lewis !s Silent. Oefiance to Government le Scored.

Lewis Silent  As Strikers Back Him Up   Miners Indicate They'll Wait Word From UMW Boss; President Says Man: Who Quits War Work Faces Army Semice: Industry Hit.

Man Who Quits Essential War Job Is Liable To Army Service  President Lays Down Law In Discussion Of Coal Strike: Gets Racking Of Gov. O'Conor

FR: HINTS LOSS OF DEFERMENT “FOR STRIKERS   Majority Of Miners Apparently Ready To Ignore Presidential Back-To-Work Order

SETS MONDAY AS DEADLINE      Occupational Delerment Becomes Invalid As Work Stops

Liable For Army By Quitting War Job, FDR Rules    President Gives No Indication What Action He Will Take To End Strike

Strikers Awaiting Orders From Lewis   President Says Deferments May Be Lifted—His Order To Return to Work Scorned

ANNOUNCE NEW DRAFT PLAN FOR ESSENTIAL MEN   Lewis Silent on His Opinion of FDR’s Work Return Order

President Tells John L. Lewis’ Striking Coal Miners To Return To Jobs Gn Monday — Says Men Who Quit Essential War Work Become Liable For Army Services

ROOSEVELT CITES MINERS AND DRAFT   Points Out That Man Who Quits Essential Work Is Liable For Gorvice

LEWIS SILENT ON PRESIDENT'S ORDER TO WORK   Coal Diggers Inclined To Obey Union Boss, Survey in Mine Area Shows   ‘WORK OR FIGHT,’ NOT NEW   Troop Protection for Men Who Return Likely Is General Belief

President warns strikers liable for army service   Ickes tells Lewis to send miners back to work

Lewis Suggests That His Men Go Back fo Pits   Work-or-Fight Edict Not Yet Issued by FDR

President Is Urged To ~ Ask Congress For Laws To Stop War-time Strikes

RULE IS a DOWN BY FOR   Holds Man Liable for Army Duty If He Quits Es sential Work   IMINERS PONDER ORDER   Must Choose Between FDR’s Edict or Upholding Union

Weather Forecast   Mit STRIKERS 10 RESUME JOB   Union Leader Takes Action After Roosevelt Order For Work Resumption   TELEGRAM FROM ICKES ALSO FIGURES IN CASE   Opening Of Strike-Bound Mines Monday Probable After Lewis Acts

STRIKERS’ OBEDIENCE  TO ROOSEVELT LATEST ORDER BY UMW HEAD   BULLETIN 

WORK OR FIGHT EDICT EXPECTED FROM PRESIDENT   Lewis Remains Silent as Real Showdown Between Government, Coal Miners Nears

Roosevelt And Lewis Reach Showdown Stage In Coal Dispute; Deferment Only Good As Lone As Empleye Is Working   HOPES MINERS WILL RETURN ON MONDAY

URGES MINERS RESUME WORK NEXT MONDAY   Answers Ickes Order To Cease Strike Against U. S.

 ° unese Lewis Will ‘Recommend’ Return  Of Miners to Their Jobs Monday

Mines Ordered Open Monday Or FDR Will Act   Reaction Wary Amid Strikers, But Majority Wait On  Lewis

Hurricane Still Hangs 200 Miles Off Texas Coast   Long Menaced Area Told To Maintain  Cuall Deawar itin‘ne

Moves Southwest, But Where, When It Hits Unknown   Warning Still Up As Storm Dangerous Freeport - Velsacc Evacuated

Gulf Hurricane Is Stalled. South Of Port Arthur Area  Disturbance Is Expected To Move Northward Sometime Sunday: Freeport. Galvecton Set

Hurricane Still Hangs 200 Miles Off Texas Coast   Long Menaced Arec Told To Maintain  C,.)1. Desaernritinne

GIVEN DEATH PENALTY   Rebinsen Guilty Second Time In : Louisville Kidnaping

CHINESE STOP JAP OFFENSIVE   Threat to Chungking Ends With Foe in Retreat

Chinese Score Biggest Victory Over Japanese  ~ American Planes Help Kill Threat   RT. Chonekineg

Air Support Lets Chinese Score Victory   Large Jap Force  Routed, Threat To Chungking Halted

\Chinese Smash Chunking Drive,  Slay Thousands   Jap Survivors Encircled As American Bombers Join In Major Victory

Chiang Kai-Shek Had Air Support in Important Battle   Chungking Threat ls Reported To Be Virtually Broken

Chinese beat down threat  to Chungking   Kai-shek armies rout 5 divisions, recapture cities

CELEBRATION OF A MAJOR SINO VICTORY   Five Jap Dj isions Beaten Into Retreat For One Of Few, FarReaching Chinese Victories

Chinese Rout 5 Divisions Of Japs in Great Victory   ~~ KF SF + oa + 75,000 Enemy Troops Are Forced to Retreat

CHINA CELEBRATED ONE OF HER BIGGEST VICTORIES OF WAR   JAPANESE TROOPS NUM BERING 75,000 MEN BEAT

Chinese Now Jubilant Over Jap Defeat   Invaders Thrown Back Near Ichang in One of Biggest Setbacks in China

CHINESE CRUSH ENEMY FORCES   Greatest Victory in Six Years Scored Against Five Jap Divisions

Survivors Have Been Tropped in "Big. Encirclement” Aided by American and Chinese Support, Front Line Reports State

5 Divisions Of Jap Troops Lost In China Fight   Biggest Victory In Six Year War In  China Claimed At Chungking

75,000 Japs Fall in Trap   Allied Airpower Aids Valiant Chinese Armies to Stop Jap Move 

GHINtot abORt OAR VIGTORY OVER JAPANESE   75.000 Jap Troops Thrown Into Disorderly Retreat By Chiang’s Armies

Chinese Victory Jars Japs   Threat ‘To Chungking Definitely Eased By Smashing Defeat In Yangtze River Sector

Patriots’ Units Driving Germans Out; Sor: rento Peninsula Captured By U. S. Fifth Army; MacArthur Delivers Fresh Blows

Berlin Claims Big Offensive Ish Now Ended   American Losses Heavy As Forces Take Up New Positions

AMERICAN “FORCES IN TUNISIA SUFFER SUBSTANTIAL LOSS   Secretary Of War Reveals ‘Nazis Are Using Two Armored Divisions In Battle

Farmers Set For ‘New Army Front   Picking Cotton Crop War Maneuver

Soldiers May Save 7,500 Bales Cotton   Cooperation of Growers With Army Pledaed

RAF RAIDS FRANCE   French Railway Yards Targets Of Daylight Raiders

Aerial Attack Puts Naples on Brink Of Complete Disuse  Big Enemy Port Gets  Nearly Fatal

Aerial Attack Puts Naples on Brink ‘Of Complete Disuse  Big Enemy Port Gets Nearly Fatal  Blew Eram Rawbare

WAVES OF AIR ATTACKS LEAVE NAPLES ON FIRE   Allies Borrow Tactics Of RAF In Crushing Blows On Italy’s Main Seaport   Opposition Weakens

SHATTERING AiR ASSAULT LEAVES NAPLES AFLAME   Italy’s Chief Seaport Possibly Knocked Out as Factor in Mussolini’s War Effort.   Clouds of Planes Shoot Up Everything in Sight as They Sweep Over Island.

Allied Bombs  Turn ‘Naples ‘Into Inferne Armory And. Harbo  ‘Devastated, City T aft kn Blasaae °

Allied Bombers Blast Naples  City Is Transferted  , oo er, LF en

CRUSHING AIR RAID MADE ON ITALIAN CITY   North African Bomber _ Force Adopts RAF . Tactics

Naples Tastes  Fury of Allied  Aerial Might Chief Italian Port  Transformed Into Bhat Viet nent:

Allied Bombers Blast Naples  City Is Transferred Into an Inferno

Allied African Bomber Force Blasts Naples   ltaly’s Chief Seapor Transformed into Blazing Inferno

$1,963,094.00 In War Bonds Sold Ir Winnebago County In 1942  War Bond Drive for 1942 ta ‘Start Saan

Ten Japanese Planes Hit on Ground   Rabaul Airdrome Is Attacked by Allied Bombers

U.S. Strikes Japs Over Wide Area   Fliers Attack Air Centers, Buildings In South Pacific; Major Enemy Bases Suffer Severe Damage in Raids

AMERICANSEA WARFARE WILL BE REVIEWED   House Naval Committee Anxious to Give Public ‘ Information,'te Hold Inquiry      ‘SESSION SECRET   Inquiry to Get Under Way With Vice Admiral F. H, Horne As the First Witness

House Committee Probes Conduct Of Sea Warfare   Inquiry Scheduled On Battle Tactics, Ship Construction

House Calls For Review Of Sea War   ‘Investigation’ No. 1 Begins On Navy Behind Closed Doors.

To Review U.S. W. arf are At Sea   House Committee To Hold Heurings

House Naval Committee Opens Broad Review of U. 5. Sea Warfare, All iPossible Testimony To Be Released *

BOARD WILL REVIEW NAVAL OPERATIONS   To Study Happenings Since Pearl Harbor

War Loan Dollars Buy Lives   Written Exclusively For AP Features By HENRY A. MORGENTHAU, JR. Secretary of The United States Treasury

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Germans Retain Ability To Slow Red Advance, But Can’t Halt It

TREASON CASE IS REVERSED   Serious Errors Found In Trial Of 3 Chicago Couples

COURT REVERSES TREASON VERDICT   Decision Saves Three Men From Death in Electric Chair and Spares Wives Prison Terms, Fines

Three Men Convicted on Charges of Helping Germans T, Escane Electric Chair Through Chicago Court Errors

Republican Spokesman Believes Ten Billion Could Be Cut From Government’s Expenses

Passage otf new tax law  is doubtful   House committee eloses h. .-ings

Draft of Tax Bill This Year Held Doubtful   Democrats Claim Rival: ‘Playing Polities’ As Hearings Conelide

Close Hearings On Revenue Bill   See No Tax Measure For This Year

NEARING ON NEW TAX BILL CLOSE   Republicans Demand Desired Billions Come Out of Government Spending Cuts Instead of More Taxes

No Tax Bill This Year; Economize      WAYS AND ‘MEANS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES PUBLIC HEARINGS; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STANDS IN THE WAY.

Harold Sampson And Miss Louise Schleis Wedded  -Marriage Takes   -Marriage Takes Place At Mapleton Monday Morning

DRASTIC ACTION IS DEMANDED T0 STOP LABOR HOARDING =’  PROBER DECLARES NAA LABOR NEEDS CAN BE CUT 10.000 MEN

SENATORS WILL ~ AIR MANPOWER   Committee Demands Federal Action to Break Up Labor Hoarding

Demands For Action To End Hoarding Of Labor In Aircraft Plants Sounded

Labor Hoarding Charges Alleged   War Investigating Group Would Remove Dallas From Critical Labor List.

Adion Asked On Labor Hoarding   Senate Group Demands Drastic Federal Move

Christmas Tree Supply May Be 60P.C. Of Normal   Labor, Hauling Are Big Factors

KIGKA PICTURE; JAPS’ ROASTS TO GOME BAGK   Threat Scrawled on Piece of Cardboard Makes Men i Laugh Grimly,   EVERYTHING IN JAP CAMP RIDDLED BY EXPLOSIONS

‘BLOCK BUSTER AAIN ON BREMEN   Heavy RAF Bombers Show Little Indication Of Letting Up On Reich

TIME CHANGE BILL 1S BEFORE GREEN   ‘Columbus Council Adopts Fast Time Ordnance

China Assured Road in Burma  Will Be Opened   Allies Are Expected, However, To Go All-Out Against Germany Before Throwing Full  x. se im

00D STAMP PLAN GOES OUT MARCH 1   Welfare Clients May Use Stamps During Month of February

FOOD STAMP PLAN GOES OUT MARCH 1   Welfare Clients May Use Stamps During Month of February   USED TO BUY FOOD

BRITISH ARMY NOW SIX MILES FROM TEBOURBA   Americans, French Move Closer to Bizerte

Executive Branch and Legislative Leaders Appear to be Getting Together  NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Truce On Farm Problem Seen   FDR AND CONGRESS 'TO AGREE ON BASIC PROGRAM

TRUCE NEAR ON FOOD PROBLEMS   COOPERATION TO AID FARMERS, PUBLIC IS CAPITOL KEYNOTE

Administration, Congress Near Subsidy Truce   Groups May Meet “Halfway” To Iron Out Differences

APPLY GAG RULE 10 AAA WORKERS   2000,000 Field Employees Forbidden To Distribute Information About AAA Farm Programs To Press, Radio Or Other Means of Publicity.

See Truce Ahead on Food Plan   Executive and Legislative Leaders Working to End Many Differences   NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FOOD CONTROLS      New Ceiling on Fish Is Ordered; Senate Inquiry on Chain Stores

TRUCE IN FOOD POLICY ISSUES THOUGHT NEAR   Executive, Legislative Leaders Appear Headed Toward Acreement

Truce Foreseen In Farm and Food Program  Administrator to Talk Problems

FARM & FOOD FRONT TRUCE APPROACHING?   Evidences That Executive, Legislative Branches Soon to Get Together on Problems

Truce Expected On Farm Policy   Executive Branch, Legislative Leaders May Compromise

GOV'T LEADERS SEEK TRUCE ON FOOD POLICIES   Administration And Legislators To Meet Halfway

CITE TRUCE ON FARM POLICIES      Jones To Study Problems With Congress Before Making Final Decision

EXECUTIVES. AND LEGISLATORS HAY REACH FOOD TRUCE   DIFFERENCES OVER AGRI. CULTURE AND FOOD POLICIES MAY BE HEALED

Attain Truce On Important Food Policies   Senator Russell Calls For Reconciliation With Ad. ministration.   AAA CUTS ACTIVITIES

Truce Nearer On Farm and Food Policies   Senator Russell Locks for Accord on Knotty. Subsidy Problem

COMPROMISE O} FARM POLICIES NOW EXPECTED   Senator Pleased With Decisions Of W.F.A. Chieftian

Executive Branch and Legislative Leaders Appear To Be Headed Toward Truce on Some Major Food, Farm Policy Differences

TRUCE LOOMS ONFOOD FRONI   Leaders Also Seek To Settle Differences On Farm Problems

Headed Toward Truce in Major Farm Problems   Executive and Legislative Leaders Seek Reconcihia.  tion on Issues.   To Consult Congress  About Food Problems

EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES SEEK TRUCE ON FARM, FOOD MATTERS

Truce Near On Farm and  Food Problem   Legislative and Executive Branches Heading Toward Better Feeling

AAA Employees Forbidden To Distribute Information On AAA Through News Channels. Step Complies With Provisions Of Congress’ Appropriation Act,

Farm Policy Dispute May Be Eased Up   Executive and Legislative Farm and Food Leaders. May Reach Truce in Fight

RAF UNCORKS MICHTY RAID ON HAMBURG   Unprecedented Air Assaults Reach Seventh Day

U. S. Sources Say Luftwaffe ls Defeated   Kassel Attack Follows R. A. F. Raid on Hambura

HULL TO TALK TO CONGRESS   Secretary to Shatter Precedent as He Reports On Parley Today

Doughton, Longtime Foe of Sales Tax, Says U. S. May Have One Yet

Sales TaxMay Become‘Last Resort’ Plan   Congress Ponders Means Of Raising Additional! $16 Billions

U. S. Sales Tax May Be Needed  Doughton, Long - Time Foe, Sees Possibility

Sales Tax May Get Approval Of Committee   Long-Time Foe of Federal Retail Levy Such Action May be Necessary  Sp oy oe _sp nae po _ianunX*f*_. _ =,

Federal Sales Tax Bill Looms; Quick Approval Seen On Pay-Go Measure   Rep. Doughton Says He Would Favor Sales Tax “As Last Resort’’ To Win War; House Group To Start Work On New Tax Legislation

FEDERAL SALES TAX MAY BE NEXT STEP   Capitol Hill Spe ‘Speculates on Means for Raising $16 Billion More.

Hint Sales Tax As Last Resort  May Be Favored To Help Finance War

U:S. SalesTax Now Hinted _AS War Need   Doughton, Its Fo Its Foe, Might  Support -Levy “as° ' Last Resort”’

Retail Sales Tax Appears   Doughton Changes Stand. Declares He Might Favor Revenue Method.

Long-Time Foe On Sales Tax May Favor It   Doughton Says He Might Favor It As A-Last  -Reeavek.

‘LAST RESORT’   Doughton Agrees U. $. Sales Tax May Be Nerescary

DAUGHTON ADMITS  DALES TAX MAY BE  FINALLY FAVORED DETAILS COMPLETED ON  PAY-AS-YOU-GO BILL RY CONEFREFS

MIGHT FAVOR SALES TAX AS 'LAST RESORT’   Capitol Hill Wondering How To Raise Money

Doughton Sees Federal Sales Tax Possibility   Work On New RevenueProducing Measure Will Start Soon.

FRENCH FLEET 10 STAY WITH ALLIES   Political Complications Have Made No Change in Darian’s Pledge.

“eALAN'S DEATH ~°THE FRENCH FLEET  1ear.   vet xe to Use at Dakar With ing av: 420d British Navies,  heard; Stands Good.   in't FORT SLACKENING

PROMISE OF FLEET BY FRENCH, STANDS   Crews Ready To Join Allies Despite Darlan Death

French Sailors at Dakar Ready to Take Fleet Against Axis Any Time

French Fleet  At Dakar To Support Allies  Death Of Darlan Makes No Change In His Pledge

French Navy Still On Side of Allies   Political Upset Following Darlan Assassina tion Has Not Affected Use of Fleet or ’ Hurt Military Effort, Official Says.

Darlan Pledge  “Ts Being Kept   Little Change In Africa Policy’ Is Seen Under Giraud’s Rule

DARLAN’S DEATH HAS MADE NO CHANGE IN PLAN FOR FRENCH FLEE’   French Sailors Sadden by Death But No Slackening of Morale Visible 

French Nava! Units Will Keep Pledae   No Change Indicat ed Since Death of Admiral Darlan

MINERS TO. AWAIT LEWIS’ “GO” ORDER      43,000 In Over 100 Pits Out On Strike In State Today

Temporary Lull Today In Ukraine   Reds Prepare for Winter Fighting — Allies Take Villages in Italy

Cossacks Push Far Ahead of Soviet Army   Strategic Railway Almost Within  Russian Grasp

Quintuplets Swing True for Victory Sending Five New Ships Down Ways

Angry Waters Take 6 In Oregon   Dozen Villages in Path of Flood, Others in Peril

That Means Take No Time Out to Gloat   We Must Continue Intensive Action On Front and at Home

Rallies Nation   Says Speed With Which Victory Is Won Depends On Efforts Americans Exert Here At Home

TOTAL VICTORY GOAL OF ALLIES NATION IS TOL   Roosevelt Calls On American People and Fighting Comrades to Deliver Knockout Punch   TALK IS OPTIMISTIC   Too Early to Think of Fu ture; Hitler and Tojo Must Be Floored On Home Grounds

F.. R. Calls For K. O. Of Axis   President Delivers Optimistic War Address To Nation Wednesday

Post-WarPlar for Fighters Is Revealed   FOR Suggets Harder Work,  Food Production and Bond  Purchases for Civilians

Say S ltaly Is On Ropes and  Nazis Weaker   Roosevelt Deals With War and Home Front Questions in Talk to Nation

FOR DEMANDS KNOCKOUT OF CRACKING FOE   Declares All Axis Leaders, Including Ex-Duce, Must Be Punished.   LIFTS COFFEE RATION   Praises Allies, Proposes Mustering Qut Pay For U. S. Fighting Men.

Roosevelt Tells U. 5. Ayis Is On The Run, Asks Knockout Punch   Nation ls Urged To Boost Effort For Total Victory, Not Take Time Out To Gloat Over Duce's Fall

SPEED URGED   Americans Asked To Gird for Victory Punch  NO TIME TO GLOAT

CALLS ON ALL TO PREPARE FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW   Vows Punishment for Il Duce; To Take Care of Soldiers After War

Roosevelt's Report on War Bad News for Axis; Pledges Criminals Will Be Punished

) Roosevelt, Reporting Enemy On the Run, Calls on Allies To Register Knockout Punch

F.D.R. PLEDGES TOTAL VICTORY OVER ENEMIES   Calls Upon Americans To _Aid Offensive; Says Il Duce to be Punished

President Declares Axis Is On The Run  SEES HARD WORK Roosevelt Reports On  War Effort Here And Abroad

Kiockout Blow~ To Shaky Axis Urged By FDR   Says Nation Cannot Relax To Gloat Over Gains; Coffee Off Ration List

Unconditional Def eal Of: Axis Still Allied Demand, Says FDR   President, In Wednesday. Night: “Broadcast, Urges _ Americans And Allies To. FollowThrough With  Knockout Piinch For ‘Total Victory’

F.D.R. Reports Axis On The Run, Calls For Knockout Punch To Bring Final Victory

Pres. Roosevelt, Reporting Axis — Powers on Run, Calls on Allies for Knockout Punch fo Bring Tofal Victory

PRESIDENTS GALLS FOR FINAL PUNCH IN TOTAL VICTORY WAR   ALSO GIVES OUTLINE FOR ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR FIGHTING FORCES

President Calls For Victory Punch   Chief Executive Reports to United States On War Effort, Says Italy’s on the Ropes

ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR KO, _ HOME, ABROAD   President Pledges Italians Freedom, Promises Mussolini Will be Punished   AID FOR VETERANS   Announces Six-Point Program of Mustering Out Pay, Job Insurance, Training Where Needed

United Nations Will Not Take Time Out To Gloat Over Mussolini's  _ Fall. Says Roosevelt

Requests All-Out Drive To Victory   ‘Mussolini And Fascists To Be Punished, He Adds: Enemy Nations Warned Only Unconditional Surrender Will Be Acceptable To Allies

‘Roosevelt Optimistic, Says Italy On Ropes And Axis Is Tottering

Roosevelt Calls On Americans to Follow Through Until Axis Leaders Knocked Out; Refers to Plans for Vatios

Final Blows For Axis in Making: E.R.   Terms ter Fee Not Changed; Urges New Effort on Home Front

Axis Leaders  Will Be Hunted Out, Punished, FDR Promises   Post War Security Measures for Service  Men Charted

_ To Nation On Our War Effort   Calls On American People and Their Allies For A Knockout Punch That Spells ‘Total Victory’.

Japs And Germans Must Be Whipped On Home Grounds He Tells Nation

Allies Rallied For Knockout Of Nazis, Japanese   President Appeals For All-Out Effort To Speed Foes’ Fall

President Asks Americans for Knockout Blow   He Asks Them to Delive: so That Total Victory I: Assured.   It Demands Increased Home Front Efforts

Reports That Japan Is Losing Initiative in Pacific Struggle.   MUST NOT STOP NOW

Asks For Total © Victory   ‘Warns Against Gloat. ing Over Duce’s  -Fall.

with Axis Cracking, American People And Their Allies Are Called Upon To Follow Through With Knockout Punch—No Time To Gloat Over Mussolini's Downfall, President Says In Repeating Demand For Unconditional Surrender Of Enemy

WORK HARDER FOR VICTORY PEOPLE ASKED   Roosevell Says There fs No Time Now To Gloat Over Mussolini.

President Calls On People To Land Knockout Punch Against Enemies

FDR Calls For All-Out Effort   Outlines Policy for Taking Care of Service Men, Women

Must Push War On All Fronts, President Says   Allied .Successes So _ Far Good, but FDR Says Germany and Japan Must Be Licked on Home Ground.

FDR Promises Food. Freedom To Conquered   President Urges American People To Follow Through With Knockout Punch.   COMMENDS RUSSIANS

Roosevelt Calls for All-Out Effort To Deliver Knockout Blow to Axis

HAVE OPENING FOR WOMAN EXPERIENCED IN FUR WORK APPLY AT SCHWAKTZ5 PERSONALLY

FOR FULLER BRUSH SERVICE CALL H. J. HIXENBAUGH 454 N. LINCOLN AVE. PHONE 6770

May Not Hit J  Jap Mainland   Officer Says Can Beat Japs By Sea-Air Blows

Two More Years Of War Against Japan Are Seer   Military Authorities Predict Vietory In Europe Next Year   Japs Can Be Beaten Without Invasion, MacArthur. Aide Says

COMPROMISE . LIKELY ON TAX PLANS   Partial ‘Forgiveness’ Of 1942. Taxes Held. Most. Likely

Tax Compromise Is Said Likely   Partial Forgiveness For 1942 Expected

Compromise OnSkip-Year Tax Shaping   Ruml, Doughton Advocates Both Claim Victory

Tax plans now face  deadlock   Compromise on 1942 income tax may be réached.

Pioneer, 100, Dies At Washington. Pa  Mrs. Lamoyne Reed, Wa: — 'Grand Old Lady’

Hitler Pulls 50 Divisions From Russia to Bolster Germany s Western Front

American Battleships Join British, Say Axis Reports; Smash at Foe’s Navy Looms

Invasion Said Due. Anv Dav   Nazi Reports Fail To-Give Points Blow Is Expected.

WILL BE  AT DERBY NEXT WEEK   1943. Program Streamlined in Line with Labor Shortages and Gasoline Rationing.   I. §. C. PEOPLE JUDGE   Next Thursday and Friday, Aug, 26, 27; Baby Beef — Sale Friday.

4-H ACHIEVEMENT SHOW AT DERBY FAIR GROUNDS   Annual 4-H Market Sale to Be Held Friday Afternoon.

NO RAINFALL IN SIGHT      Flora Says Temperature: Is Just Richt for the Corn

Freneh Act On Lebanon Setup   ‘ommittee Reinstates Presideni Khoury : Promises Independence Action,

FLYNN CASE “(8 ORDEREL   Senate Committee to Probe Charges Against President’s Appointee.   INVESTIGATION TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK   Will be Limited To Direct Testimony and Hearsay to Be Barred.

Hearing On Eddie Flynn  Appointment Next Week   Testimony About Envoy To Australia To Be Taken In Public Bv Committee

“lynn’s Appointment And Wildcat Coal Strike. Iccupy Washington AsCongress Begins Reces:

Connally to Confer With Flynn, Will Limit ~ Investigation     NEW TAX iS TOPIC     Coal Miners' Strike Also Gets Attention in Congress

Restraining Tax Being Discussed In Washington   -May Be Compromise On General Sales Tex

Flynn Hearings Open Next Week   Protests Against His Appointment as Envoy Are to Be Heard

Flynn Foes — to Be Given Full Hearing   Public Airing of All Pro. tests Ordered, Starting  Wednesday   BUT COMMITTEE WILL BAR HEARSAY   New Yorker Confident, Declares Charges Are Purely Political

Flynn Inquiry Publie   Senate Committee To Probe Charges Starting In Week

Senators Vote Full Airing of Flynn Dispute   Public Hearings Approved in Envoy Squabble

New Kind of lax Prepared “or Congress   “Restraining” Levy Would Curtail Spending on Certain Kinds of Goods

Brand Dem Party Chief Unfit for Job   Senator Bridges. of New Hampshire Leads Attack. on FDR’s Australian Minister

Order Hearing  On Demo Chiet   Protests Against Appointment Of Flynn To Be Heard Starting Next Week

SUBSTITUTE FOR SALES TAX PLAN RECOMMENDED   New Proposal Is “Restraining Tax” To Limit Buying

SET HEARING ON FLYNN PROTESTS   Foreign Relations Greup to Hold Public Discussion on Naming of Aussie Envoy

THREE ISSUES HOLD ATTENTION OF BOTH HOUSES   Paving Blocks, Taxes, Wilacat Coal Miners’ Strike Major Problems

‘SCANDAL PROBE’ SPICES CAPITAL DURING RECESS   ‘Restraining Tax’ as Check on Spending Is Discussed In Congress Circles   STRIKES CAUSING CONCERN   But Big Show Expected in Investigation of Flynn Appointment

SENATE TO EYE FLYNN’S RECORD   Public Hearings Set for Next Week—Senate Group Unanimous in Move

Edward J. Flynn Hearing Ordered   ‘Hearings May Start Wednesday, Thursday

OEMATE WILL HOLD HEARING ON FLYIN   Open Meetings Will Begin Wednesday, Thursday

PUBLIC HEARINGS ORDERED ON FLYNN   Begin Wednesday or Thursday After Senate Refuses Withdrawal Plea

Another Plan ~ Advanced Today For Tax Bill   Washington Considers Restraining Tax Method, Designed To Keep People From Spending.

PLAN HEARING FOR.ED.FLYNN  Protests Made to F. R, Appointee.to Australia

HEARING SET ON EDWARD FLYNN   Senate Committee Unanimously Orders Public Hearings On Protests Over Roosevelt Appointment.

FLYNN LABELED UNFIT DEMOCRAT   Public Hearings Ordered On Picking Minister To Australia

FLYNN HEARING DECIDED UPON   Investigation Of FDR's Nominee Likely To Start Next Week

Paving Blocks, Taxes And Coal Strike Draw Major Attention At Washington

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Orders Airing Of Roosevelt Selection

HEARINGS ON FLYNN CASE AREORDERED   Committee Unanimously  Orders Inquiry Opening Next Week

Schedule Public ~ Hearing On Flynn  Senate Committee To Consider Nomination To Australian Post

Paving Blocks, Tax,  Coal Mine Strike  Occupy Congress Something New—  is, a ne   Something New— “Restraining Tax” Talked at Capitol

Paving Blocks, Taxes and Strikes Draw Main: Attention. In Capitol

Restraining Tax Is Being Studied Today   Measure to Cut Non-Essential Spending Discussed On Capitol Hill

AIR PROTESTS ON FDR.'S GHOIGE   Foreign Relations Committee Vote For Inquiry Is Unanimous   OPENS NEXT WEEK   Appointment As Minister To Australia Made By Roosevelt

Congress. Faces Problem Of Ney Taxes For War  Flynn’s Nomination; ©   Flynn’s Nomination; Hard Coal Strike Among Problems; Prontic Choice OK

Senate Votes Public Hearin:  On Flynn’s Job   Past of Roosevelt's Diplomatic Choice Will Be Examined

at itt CONSIDERED   Restraining Slash Upon Purchases _ Suggested

OPEN HEARING PLANNED FOR FLYNN'S CASE   Sen. Connally Says Will Be Started Sometime Next Week   PROTESTS ARE FILED   Named As Minister Te Australia By President

ORDERS FLYNN HEARINGS HELD   Senate Group Plans Public Inquiry Into Envoy Nomination

Senators to Hear  Fiynn Rejoinder   Democrats Decline Appeal Of GOP w Withdraw  Whe wea teanetoies

FLYNN, TAXES AND STRIKE OCCUPY SPOTLIGHT   ‘RESTRAINING TAX’ WOULD CREATE LEVY ON SALES OVER $500

Order Public Hearings in Flynn Case   Probe to Be Limited to Direct Testimony

SENATE GROUP VOTES PUBLIC FLYNN HEARING   Committee’s Action On Ambassadorship to Australia Unanimously to  tart Next Week   CHARGES ARE BARED   Senator Bridges Makes Series of Accusations Against Roosevelt's Appointee to Post

Arguments Will Begin Next Week   Bridges Says 31 Will Tell Of Democrat’s Unfitness . For Post In Australia

12,000 MEN REMAIN OUT _ON STRIKE   Government Ready To Take Measures To Protect Nation

 Subsidy - Rollback Compromise Urged By Wyoming Solon   Direct Subsidy Payments to Farmers Urged By O'Mahoney in Order To Save the Commodity Credit Corporation

COMPROMISE BEING URGED OVER SUBSIDY   Administration Given Second Major Defeat In Roll-back Price Plan.

URGE CONGRESS COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDY ISSUE      Seeking To Prevent Possible Abolition Of The cca.

COMMODITY CREDIT CORP, 'N ‘MIDDLE’ ON SUBSIDY ISSUE   Sen. O’Mahoney Urge: Compromise To Save Agency

Compromise on Subsidy-Rollback Being Urged   Sef aiken oney  VaAmMminnt

O’Mahoney Urges Compromise On Subsidy Program   Direct Payments To Farmers Requested By Wyoming Senator

headjustment of  Price Ceilings  Urged By Solon Lower Values on  Meat, Butter Still in Effect

ZERO HOUR MAY BE AT HAND FOR BIG TUNISIAN OFFENSE   British) Eighth: Army. J: Crowding Rear Guard Of Gen, Rommel’s Afrilea Korne

Move To Cut Rommel’s Army Off Before He Can  Join Forces in Tunisia_

JAPS CLAIM BIG AMERICAN LOSSES   Attempt To Gild Ove Defeat On Guadalcanal Island

Navy Seizes Portion of  War Plant   Remington Rand Factory Ordered Taken Over

49.000 Workers Idle As Pickets Dissuade Those Who Desire To Return

49,000 RUBBER WORKERS IDLE   War Department Demand For Resumption Of Work Goes Unanswered.

RUBBER WORKERS  IGNORE DEMAND  ¥ HALT STRIKE ~ WAR DEPT. ORDERS ~   49,000 STRIFERS TS  RETURN TO’WORK™ ~

49,000 Rubber Workers Idle; 3 Plants Down   Raidon WLB Prestige Is Apparent Air   Mitchell Wires Union - Head Safety of Armed Forces Is.at Stake

WORK STOPS AT 3 MAJOR TIRE PLANTS   Despite War Department Demand for © Production, 49,000 Are Idle in Protest Against a WLB Wage Decision.

49,000 RUB  WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY   Akron Industry Almost Completely Closed Down By Stoppage.

49,000 Workers on Strike or Barred by Pickets from Goodyear, Goodrich, Firesione   WLB ORDER IRES   ‘Spontaneous’ Strikes Protes! Board's Paring of Wage Increase to Three Cents Hour

WORKERS {DLE      Many Other Walkouts and Disputes Disrupting War Plants.   WALKOUTS WIDESPREAD

All Production Halts At 3 Big Rubber Plants   49,000 Akron Strikers Ignore Army’s Demand  They Resume Work.

All Production Halted for Three Rubber Companies Because of Strike

49,000 RUBBER WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE   Production At Standstill At Three Major Companies As Result of WLB  Wage Decision.

41,000 ClOWORKERS ARE TOLE IN AKRON      Shoulder-to-Shoulder Picket Lines Hold Out Rubber  Company Employes

49,000 Employes of Rubber Plants in Akron Ignore Army   Demand That Production Be Resumed Falls  on Deaf Ears

MOVE IN RUBBER ~ STRIKE DELAYEL   WLB Refuses To Act Until Men Return to Jobs, 49,000 Workers Are Idle.

Employes Idle In Protest Aqainst WLB   War Department Demand For Resumption of Work Iqnored

Army Request To Return To Jobs Rejected   Plants Normally Turn Out Vital War Goods; Picket Lines Again Form Around Plants

BASEBALL     NATIONAL No games scheduled.  AMERICAN No games scheduled.   BULLETINS

STRIKERS ‘LACK CONFIDENCE IN WLB’ CHARGE   Several Large Rubber Companies Shut Down

Strikers Defy War Dep’t Demand to Return To Work   GATES BARRICADED   Pickets Turn Back Workers Employed On First Day Shift

49,000 Idle Today In Akron As Three Plants Shut Down   Ignore War Department Demand for Resumption of Work: Pickets Form Shoulder-to-Shoulder Rarricade at Gates

49000 Out in Rubber Strike   War Output Stops as Work Stoppoge Takes Turn for Worse; Appeals for Resumption Are lanored: No Violence

Union Pickets Form Barricade At Factories   Employes Ignore War Department Demand To Resume Work

Three Major Rubber Firms Cease Work   49,000 Workers Idle In Protest to WLB Wage Decision

THREE MAJOR RUBBER  COMPANIES REPORTED  PRODUCTION CEASES DESPITE WAR DEPART MENT DEMAND 94,000 WORKERS ON STRIKE

Strike Halts Output in 3 Akron Plants   49,000 Idle  ;- Despite War Department Plea— Plants Picketed

AkronUnion Flouts WLB   49,000 Workers Out In Rubher City Strike

Output of 3 Major Rubber Ractaries in Akron Ceases   49,000 Idle_Despite War Department Order for Resuming of Jobs

: Protest Strike Enters Its Fourth Day —  49, 000 Rubber Workers Still Idle

Akron Rubber Strike in Fourth Day; 49,000 Idle   Three Large Plants Shut Down; Union  Leaders in Washington for Conference

GOV'T DEMAND UNANSWERED IN RUBBER PLANTS   Workers Refuse To Return To  Their Jobs

49 000 Rubber Workers Idle in Protest to WLB   War Production in Three Major Plants Completely Stopped Today.   Pickets Stop Other Help From Working

All Production Ceases In Three Rubber Plants   49.000 Men Idle As WLB Protest

Says Navy Has Secret Weapons   Admiral Blanding Tells of Progress

FURIOUS NAZI COUNTER-BLOWS ARE REPULSED   British Eighth Army Con: solidates Positions

Yanks Take Two More Towns in Slow Advance   Sizeable Area to South of New Nazi Line Mopped Up

Allies In New Gains In Italy   Capture Highway Town 10 Miles  North of Dragoni.

Liberators Bomb Chief Jap ‘Base in'G bert Islands—Nippon Move. Ahead  ‘Burma—Partisans ‘Claim Capture o          Key Town and Big Iron. Mine

Counterattack Beaten Back by Americans   Alife and Piedimonte D’Alife in Italian. Mountains: Are. Captured by Yanks

Yanks Advance Despite Savage Counter-Blow:   Reds Inside Melitopol; 350,000 Germans In Crimean Trap .

10 Mile Advance Is Reported In Mountain Sector   Nazis  ‘Disintegrate’ Before Savage Red Attacks; Japanese Advance

Huge Savings Gain Is Seen as Threat  Postwar Inflation Possibility Feared

EK LEADERS UT ON SPOT   ‘egional Directors Must See Hours Hiked to Ald Shortage

WMC TO SPEED JOB OF HIKING WORKING WEEK   Regional Directors Order: ed to Do “On the Spot” Job In 32 Labor Shortage Areas   WILL FIND WORK   Quick Absorption of Al Released Workers Predicted In Baltimore By  Manpower Head

Awic Fi ohte Way 7 Miles Into Defense  Penetration Near Pont Du Fahs Told   we (a

Axis Forces Push Seven Miles Into Allied-Held Section Of Tunisic

AAI ADVANCES 7 MILES INTO FRENCH LINES   Allies Report Penetration on Tunisian Front South of Pont du Fahs.   EIGHTH ARMY CHASING AND BOMBING ROMMEL

Axis Forces In Africa Gain  Seven Miles   Allied Headquarters Admit Advance; Rommel Still in Retreat

EIGHTH ARMY NOW 30 MILES FROM TRIPOLI   1 Peyrouton Named Governor General Of _Of Algeria  FARTRESSES   Bomb Industrial Targets In Sousse: Drive Italians From Desert

GERMAN TROOPS DRIVE THROUGH TUNISIAN LINE   Allied Aircraft Blast Coastal Area Of Sousse

Germans Make Advance Against French in Push to Aid Fleeing Rommel

Axis Gains 7 Miles On Tunisian Front   Troops Advance in Pont-du-Fahs Area, 40 Miles Southwest of Tunis, as Rommel Flees Headlong Into 3-Way Allied Squeeze.

AXIS UNITS GAIN SEVEN MILES ON TUNISIAN FRONT   BUT U. S. BOMBERS BLAST FOE HARD IN AERIAL RAIDS

Axis Forces Advance In Tunisia   Reported To Have Penetrated Seven Miles

—AFRICA—  ROMMEL ($ STILL FLEFING BRITISE   Axis Penetration Is Re. ported Southwest 0! Pont Du Fahs   SOUSSE BOMBED   Long-Time Foe Of Pierre Laval Named Algerian Governor General

Youths Slug Jailer, Escape   Atoka Slayers Are Sought After Daring Jail Delivery

BIG TAX BATTLE HOLDS ATTENTION CAPITOL THURSDAY   LEGISLATURE SKIRMISHING ON OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS CONTINUES

HOUSE BATTLE LOOMS ON TAX ABATING PLAN   Bloc Is Forming To Force Compromise On Pay-AsYou-Go Legislation   SALARY LIMITS REPEALED      Administration May Be Forced To Early Declaration Of Post-War Aims

BATTLE BREWING IN CONGRESS ON TAX ABATEMENT   Block Forming To Force _ Pay-as-you-go Plan to Showdown Soon   MANPOWER HEARINGS OPEN   Farm Price Dispute Spice Wartime Activities in Nation’s Capital

EXPECT EARLY STATEMENT OF POST-WAR AIMS   President To Sign Debt Measure, Even With Repealer

Tax Abafemen Battle Starts In Congress  Administrative   Administrative Battle Over Supply Boss Touched Off -

BiG TAX BATTLE  HOLDS ATTENTION  CAPITOL THURSDAY LEGISLATURE SKIRMISH _ ING ON OTHER IMPORT-

Shipping ‘Goal Is Approached   May Be Adequate. For Second Front

Speaker Here Says Europe ° Soon Will Decide Between. U.S. And Saniet: Londoerehin

Speaker Here Says Europe ‘Soon Will Decide Between U .S. And Soviet Leadership

LEWIS WARNE WAGE INCREASE WILL BE DENIED      Refusal Of Demands Of Aircraft Workers Seen As Future Guide   MINE CHIEF IGNORES ACT   Knock-Down And Drag-Out Fight Looms Between U. S. Agency And Miners

WAR. LABOR BOARD SERVES .. NOTICE IT 18 AGAINST  CHANGE. IN NATIONAL  ‘ WAGE FORMULA:

WLB HURLS DEFY AT LEWIS’ UNION   Grants Small Increase Te Plane Workers But Opposes General Rise

Federal Officials Warn Legislature Social Security Fund Is Inadequate

begislature Is Warned on.5. Appropriations   ‘Appear to Be Inadequate’ Missouri Told

 Nobody Knows Who's En tertaining Whom  Paratroopers Take Over Washington After Landing   They Heard Capital Mor ale Needed Boost

Paratroopers Hit Capitol And Hostesses Are Having Fun Showing ’em Arounc

DELIVER 20 MILLION TONS    OWI Reports U. S. § U. S. Ship Building Is Moving Along

DELIVER 20 MILLION TONS   OWI Reports U. S. Ship Building Is Moving Along

 This ls Year Of The Goat For Nips, Parallel To ‘41 As Year Of Snake Japs Share Heartily In New Year’s Festival, Viewing \It As Time For Rededication And Thoughttul Appraisal

JAPANESE OBSERVE  ‘ADVENT NEW YEAR  SAME AS ENEMIES ‘PREMIER TOJO BROAD CAST MESSAGE OF VICE* \wapv proaprir Ar NIPPON

Tojo Does Lot Of Bragging, Some Truth In It, To The Japanese People On The New Year In The Twelve Months Of The Goat

Ice Jam Makes River Rise Four: Feet Ind 4 Hours   Level Recedes After Channel Is Broken By Coast Guard

COAST GUARD BOAT EASES FLOOD THREAT   St. Joseph “tee Jam Clogs ~ River Forcing Water into  Lowlands

_ Today In Washington:  War, Navy Chiefs, Former President Called In © Capital Committee Probes

MANPOWER, TAX ISSUES BEFORE CONGRESSMEN   Herbert Hoover Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee   PROBE SHORTAGES   Secretary Wickard Appears Before Senate, Military Committee

Distribution of Manpower AdviceSought   Other Cabinet Leaders to Tesify; Administration Pushes Rum! Tay Plan

Taxes, Lend-Lease  And Manpower Up   Hoover Will Testify  Before Solons

LONG FIGHT NOW SEEN IN SECTOR   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst (Reg. U. S. Pat. Offier:

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WEEP CHILDREN INTL DEATH WATERS   18 Reported Drowned As W. Va,. Creek Breaks From Banks

‘in Naval Ordnance Chief’s Opinion  U.S. Warship Defenses World’ s Best

AFL TO OPPOSE LEWIS’ RETURN   Convention Sentiment Reported Against Readmission

AFL IN SESSION   Sentiment Appears Agains! Plea Of John L. Lewis’

AFL MAY BLOCK RETURN OF UMW   Convention Sentiment 5 to 1 Against Re-Admission of Miners

Uncover ‘Black Market’ In U.S. Rations In Italy   Number Of American Soldiers And Truck Drivers Are Arrested

“BLACK MARKET” IN NAPLES EXPOSED   Soldier’s Purchase of Wine Trapped Ring

Purchase Of Bottle Of Wine Leads To Uncovering Of Black Market Rina

CAPTURE PICHON   Axis Attacks On British In North Are Subsiding ”’

AMERICANS NOW 0 MILES FROM SEA IN TUNISIA   Doughboys and Armored Cars Capture Pichon, 20 Miles From Faid

DARLAN PLO PLOT “GROUP HELD   THOSE UNDER’ ARREST RF * PORTED NOT CONNECTED  1 WITH TWELVE MEN IN MIE. FIRST ROUNDUP

COFFEE, TEA, ‘SUGAR COMING   Stocks Improve Due to Se Travel Conditions: Have 4-Months Coffee Supply

Ohio Clocks Will Be Turned Back 'To Eastern Time Sunday, Feb. 21

BENES TO URGE FEDERATION OF EUROPE STATES   Proposes Collaboration Between Group and Russia—Rank of Legations to be Raised

MAP STRATEGY CIF NEW MOVES   Internal Edropean Problems Also Believed Under Discussion.   CONSIDER PACIFIC AREA

SIMPSON TD OPPOS LISTER HILL IN 44   Birmingham Paper Asserts Candidacy Certain

CLOUDS OVER STATE   But Forecaster Sees No Prospect of Rain or Snow

PREDICTS RECORD ILLINOIS CROP   A. J, SURRATT DOESN'T BELIEVE MANPOWER SHORTAGE IS CRITICAL

BELIEVES STATE FARMS WILL UP WAR PRODUCTION   Situation Is Not Critical, Surratt Tells Citizens

U. S. Prepares To Take Farm  Labor Census   Senate Committee Fears Shortage Perils Food Output

Census On Farm Labor Planned   Dark, Food Pictu re Seen By Officials

ASSERTS O'CONOR HAS DRAFT POWER      General Reckord Com_ ments on Measure in Leaislature

Reckord Says 0 Conor Already Has Power To Draft Men for Siate Guard

Allied Bombers Strike At Rabaul   Third Raid In Four Days On Jap Base

Rabaul Hit Vigorously By Allies   SsPRUCK HARD BY THIRD RAID CONDUCTED IN KOUR DAYS.

AMERICANS FIRM AS WASP STRUCK   Mental Reactions of Men Aboard Carrier Told To Psychiatrists

Main Germar Fleet Sails Northward   Leaves Trondheim for All-Out Try to. Cut Red Supyly

Says Rumanians  Head For Home   Withdraw From Russia In Deal With Hitler

Rumania Quits Russia Is New Report   CLAIM ANTONESCU HAS WITHDRAWN TROOPS IN NEW HITLER AGREEMENT

Rumanians Quit Russia   Antonescu Trades Grain, Oil for Right To Withdraw Troop:

Nazis Trade Men For Grain, Oil   Seven Divisions Quit, Is Report—Germans Recapture Rail Center, but Lose Elsewhere

Rumanians Withdrawing  From Russia   Hitler Will Gain Stocks of Petroteum, Grain Through Deal

Soviet Is Disclaiming Any Interest In Internal Europe:  Romanian Units Fall Back

Ration Dates   Schedule Furnished to Journal by County Rationing Board

REPORT J JAPS - ARE MASSING   ‘GERMANS, REPORTED UNABLE TO GET OFFENSIVE ‘ UNDERWAY IN NORTHERN TUNISIA AS ALLIED _ FORCES TO SOUTH STEADILY CLOSE IN ON ' EUROPE ARE CONTINUED.

Tunisia Attacks By Nazi Forces Are Beaten Back   Reports Indicate Germans Sustain Severe Losses In Northeast Tunisia   YANKS ADVANCE IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA

AXIS TUNISIAN THRUSTS HALTED   Reports That Allies Have En. tered Feriana Base Not Confirmed

LUTHERANS RAISE MILLION IN CASH   Trinity Lutheran Church Oversubscribes Quota

Dodge County Ration Board Head Resigns   .. + Following Dismissal Of Greenlee Case

S50 LESS THAN SEVERAL SALES ALREADY MADE   Deliverable Brush May Be Scld Before Effective Date

N30 LESS THAN SEVERAL SALES ALREADY MADE   Deliverable Brush May Be Scid Before kKffective Date   Sales Here T'p toe $350.

Allies Now Only 18 Miles From Bizerte   U.S. Artillery Quickly Checks Armored Raid: Planes Rake Foe

ANGLO-AMERICAN A ARMADA GIVES AXIS LITTLE REST   German Positions Raked By Bombs As Allies Prepare New Attack.

Big Yank Guns  Smash German Tank Attack   Americans Hurl Back Sortie on South Central Tunisian Front as Ist Army Strikes Toward Bizerte; Axis Forces Harried From Air.

NAZI TANK ATTACK ON SOUTH-CENTRAL FRONT IS SMASHED   British First Army Drives Closer To: Bizerte —— 8th Army Prepares For Assault

AMERICANS STOP NAZI TANK DRIVE   Fierce Fighting Looms In South As Fliers Lash Axis Bases

ARNOLD SAYS U.S. AIRMEN WONT FORGET   Demands for Revenge Resound Through Congress

Plays Santa Claus fo Poor Children  Spencer Insurance Man Brings Joy to Many

Voice. Concern ‘On Farm Prices      Three Sources “Express Worry At United Nation ~~ Parley In- Hot: Springs

SCHARNHORST SENT DOWN IN NAVAL BATTLE   Nazi Battleship Sunk By British Fleet Units Off Norway

Loss of Scharnhorst Is Big Blow To German Navy   British Home Fleet Sinks 26,000-Ton Warsliin  Detail

German Battleship Scharnhorst Sunk by British Home Fleet   War Analysis

BRITISH SINK SCHARNHORST   Nazi Battleship Goes Down In Attack On Convoy

Warship Is Sunk Sunday   Scharnhorst Sunk By British Fleet In Arctic Waters

OF PLANS NOW SEEN   Former Dictator May B Too! for Nazxis—Other Views of Situation Aired.

Germany Boasts Mussolini Is Seized From Italian Gov't.   Italians Under Nazi Domination Are Resisting Agvoression

Germans Boast Mussolini Freed From Bondage   Believe Hitler Trying To Maintain Fascist Unity

Germans Boast Capture Of Mussolini  ot Formation of a >   Formation of New Fascist Regime Slated

German Radio Builds Up Story Of “Rescue” Of Former Premier From Place Of Interment

GERMANS CLAIM RESCUE OF IL DUCE; ALLIES SEE TRY TO REVIVE FASCISTS

Duce Seized From Island  Off Sardinia   Madrid Reports Says Former Premicr Headed Toward France

Rescue Of Mussolini Seen As Attempt By Hitler To Revive Axis Partnership

Hitler Believed Trying To Maintain Fiction ~Of Fascism And Nazism RUMOR DISCOUNTED  Internal Situation In Italy  _ Near State Of _ Civil War

Mussolini [s Reported On Way To See Hitler   Reich Exults Over ‘Dering Exploit’ By $5 Men, Parachute Troops

Allies Get More Italian Warships   Nazis Boast Duce Snatched From Hands of New Regime in Italy

Peyton Cain Receives Commission As Second Lieutenant July Eighth

KASSERINE PASS ROARING INFERNG@   British and Americans Con— verging On Pass Choked With Nazis In Retreat

Crack German § Fank Force Now Falling Back. Allies Use Heavy Air Power Against  Navie

Germans Find ‘British Guilty Of Air Terror   Fail To Mention Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry In Their White Paper On Air Raid “Guilt”

British Instituted Bombing of Civilians, Nazi White Paper Charges

Nazis WhoLeveled Warsaw NowSeeking SympathyAnd Blaming Britain For War

Germans (ry Over Bombing   Nation Which Bombed Dutch, Polish, English Cities Complains Now

Nazis Forget Their Crimes   Cry Against Allied Bombings of German Cities  Hite New Hich.

Blame British For Raids On Civilians Germans Forget About Their Own Crimes

AT TRINIT!   Miss Helen Barlow is Bride of Private (fc) George E. Vialle

Bombers Strike Weakly ot City in Reprisal Raid ANOTHER ATTACK ON _ REICH IS INDICATED Capital of Britain Under ~” Alert for Ninety. .  Minutes

GERMANS STAGE REPRISAL RAID   London Hit By Explosive Bombs, Incendiaries For More Than An Hour

Bombers Strike Weakly at City in Reprisal Raid   ANOTHER ATTACK ON REICH IS INDICATED   Capital of Britain Under Alert for Ninety Minutes

NAZIS STRIKE AT LONDON IN WEAK ATTACK   Fire Bombs, Explosives Dropped; Nazis Use Few Planes

SEE GERMAN © FLEET; BUT BOMBS GONE   Nazi Navy Base, Sub Factory Suffer Rough Day

“Strong Force’ Loses Only Three Ships in Sue cessful Opening Attack.

Bombers Hit ‘German Ports   is First American ® Attack On Germany

‘American Bombers Blast Wilhelmshaven; R. A. F.  ‘Hammers Copenhagen

HULL BLASTS REPORTERS FOR STORIE!   Welles’ Resignation, Friction Stories Inaccurate’

Hull Angered Over Stories About Welles Resignation   Chief of State Depart ment Sees Comfort tc Enemy-in Some of the Versions; Under Secretary Confirms Reports He Is Through

CONFERENCE CONFUSES AXIS POWERS         Quebec Meeting Permits Rife Speculation

Leaders of Great Powers Plan to Confuse Axis and Accomplish Objectives Behind Sercen of Unbridled Speculation.

Hull and Eden To Join Parley   Foreign Secretary Arrives in Quebec

Hull Hi School Music ~~ Program On April 2   AH Of Music Groups, And Soloists, To Appear In Program On Friday; No Admission Charge

Music Program To Be Held Friday, April 2         Boys’ Giee Clubs, Mixed Nall Groups And  Also A Play

Roosevelt Recommends Billion-Dollar Program For Post-War Education

Plan Post-War i ducation For Armed Forees   President Roosevelt’ Reeommends Billion-Dollar Pro cram Lo Congress.   APPOINTS COMMITTEE

FD. R. Ask: Billion for Education —   Huge Post-War Program Advocated For U.S. Ex-Soldiers

Post-War School Plan Is Advised   President Says Educational Opportunities Should Be Available.

Big Educational  Program Proposed  Offer Opportunities Ta War Veterans

Asks Fund ~ to School War Vets   Roosevelt Proposes Billion _ Dollar Program Worked Out by Educators   YEAR’S TRAINING ig RECOMMENDED   Educational Costs and Maintevance Are Included in Plan

BILLION-DOLLAR: POST-WAR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR SERVICE MEN RECOMMENDED   Committee Drafting Program Recommended That All Men and Women Serving 6 Months or More in Service Be Given Year’s Educational Training —

ASKS. BILLION T0 AID VETS   FDR Recommends Plan for Post-War Education Of Servicemen

Fund Of A Billion Is Urged   «++ TO OFFER AFTER-VICTORY SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES

AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE IN SERVICE   A Billion Dollar Program to This Effect Recommended to Congress by Roosevelt.

Yer Of Training In Institution Would Be Available To Those In  Armed Services

BILLION-DOLLAR  PROGRAM TO PROVIDE  POSTWAR EDUCATION PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS  OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARMED CERVICEMEN

FR Wants F ree Education For War Veterans   Billion Dollar Program Sent To Congress Recommending Opporturity For at Least. a Year's Study at Educational Institutions For Ex-Service Men And Women.

PRESIDENT OFFERS EDUCATION PLAN   Recommends To Congress Billion Dollar Program for Pest War Educational Opportunities.

Post-War School Program Outlined   President Asks Congress to Send Soldiers to Colleqe When War Ends

BILLION DOLLAR PLAN IS URGED BY ROOSEVELT   President Believes Nation Obligated to Provide Trainine

Plan Is Sent To Congress By Roosevelt   Program Developed by Special Committee of Educators .   FOR MEN, WOMEN   At Least Year’s Training Would Be Provided by . Government 

Postwar School Plan For Vets   F. R. Proposes Measure To Give All A Year’s  Educational Training

RECOMMENDED AY ROOSEVELT   President Asks Congress for Billion Dollar Fund for Program.   PLANNED BY EDUCATORS

Post-War Education Of Fighters Urged   President Asks Congress to Authorize BillionDollar Program Promptly, So Plans for Project Can Be Started.

Billion Dollar Post-War Education  Program Recommended By President

Roosevelt Recommends Program For Post-war Education Of Fiahting Men

Gen. Clark’s American Troops Lunge Forward One Mile To Gain Important Height While Other Forces Move Nearer Cassino—lItalians Organized By Badoglio Join Allies In Action—British Eighth Army Captures San Leonardo North Of Moro River

AMERICANS TAKE IMPORTANT HILL EAST OF CASSINO   GERMANS BEAT OFF FIRST ATTACK BY ITALIAN TROOPS

AMERICANS IN ITALY GAPTURE NEW HEIGHTS   Road To Rome Is Shortened Each Day

Italians Join Allies in Fight  Against Germans   But Their Forces Thrown Back as Americans Gain important Height.   Nazis Throw Tanks Against British 8th

Yanks Drive on Cassino; Fierce Battle Is Waged For Fortified Village

Italians Fighting With Clark’s Army » Repulsed by Nazis   Americans Gain One Mile in Campaign Against Cassino

YANKS PUSH MILE CLOSER 10 CASSINO   Americans Also Capture an Important Height as Fifth Army Units Advance in Face of Increased Resistance.

lies Smash ward in ily Battle   L §%., British Brave tiff Resistance or Important Gains

Americans Go Ahead Again In Italy   Italians On Allied Side Thrown Bact By Germans

Allies Lunge Ahead Toward Vital Cassine   Italians Join Fight Ai Side Of Sth Army A: 8th Takes Coastal! San Leonardo

Clark’s Army Gains Mile In Slugging  With Nazis   Troops Of Fifth In Fierce Battle; Italians Thrown Back In First Fight With Germans

STH ARMY BEATS OFF NAZI TANKS   Italians Thrown Back In First Action On @ Side Of Allies

Fifth Army In New Gains   Advance Mile and Take Important Height; Nazis Drive Back Italians

Yanks In Italy Lunge Ahead   Cassino Drive   Gain Important Height In Hard Going Against Bitter Resistance.

Slug Way Onward In Rough Country   Americans in Fifth Army Take Another Mile, Another Height   BATTLE ALONG FRONT   First Italian Troops in the Line Take Ground, Lose [t

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY TROOPS IN A DRIVE ON CASSINO   Plunged Forward One Mile td Gain Important Heights.   ‘MOVING FROM THE EAST   Other 5th Troops Fought a Fierce Battle for a Fortified Village.

Slight Gain Is Scored In: Cassino Drive   Important , Height Taken By Fifth Army During One-Mile Advance On East Side Of Town

TTALIANS JOIN ATLIFD FORCES AGAINST NAZIS   Badoglio Troops Forced to Give Ground; Americans and British Make Slow Advance.

Yankees Seize Important Hill; Italians Yield In First Fight   Goering Division Hurls Badoglio’s Troops Back 

Coastal Road Town Taken By British   Eighth Army Pushes New Bridgehead . Over Moro River

Yanks Gain. Mile in Italy   Malians Join Allies But Are Hurled Back

5th Army Hits German Lines For New Gains   Italian Troops Meet Nazi Force But Lose Ground

oth Army Treops Take Vital Height In Fierce Battle   Adriatic Town Falls To. British; Italian Troops Fight With Allies; Fliers Strafe Nazi-Held Roads

Allies Smash Onward in Italy Battle   U. S., British Brave Stiff Resistance For Important Gains

Important  Height Won By Yanks   Other Fifth Army Troops in Bitter Battle; Germans Hurl italian Rack

Americans lunge forward one mile   Fierce battle fought for fortified village San Pietro

CAPTURES NEW HEIGHT   italian Forces, Fighting With Americans, Thrown Back: Another Bridgehead Established

5th and 8th Armies Make Fresh Gains   Germans Slowly Being Swept From Mountain Fastnesses in italy

CLARK’S FORCE SLUGS ITS WAY AHEAD ONE MILE   Other Fifth “Army ‘Troops Driving .Toward San Pietro From South  Fight Fierce Battle   EIGHTH ARMY FIGHT . REACHES NEW PITCH   Germans Hurl Tanks and Infantry Into Steady Series of Counter ; ttacks

US., British Slug Ahead   Fifth Drives Toward Cassino os ‘Monty’ Parries Counter-Attack

YANKS SEIZE NEW HEIGHT   CLARK’S ARMIES SLASH AHEAD ONE ITALY MILE

Italian Troops, in First Battle, Thrown Back By Germans.   BRITISH CAPTURE TOWN

AMERICAN TROOPS OF FIFTH ARMY IN DRIVE ON CASSING   ITALIAN TROOPS REPORT: ED FIGHTING UNDER GENERAL CLARK

Americans"  Slugging — Out Gainz   One-Mile Advance Made in Fierce Battle in Drive on Cassino   BRITISH ALSO GAIN. . IN HARD’BATTLE   Italians Fighting . Alongside Yankees. Are Thrown Back by. Germans

'  ‘Save Serve And Conservs’, Motto For Program   ‘Cullman County Schools Progress In War Program

150,000 Prisoners 1000 Guns Taken   Hundreds Of Tanks And Motor Vehicles Also Carew.

Stalin Hails Might of Soviet Army   F. D. R. Praises Reds for Kiev Victory

Big Smash hy Carrier > Divisions   Planes From Just One. Of Several Yankee Units Knock © Down 46 Jap Planes.   OTHER FLAT TOPS ' ON THE PROWI      @,000° Japs Killed’ In The Gilberts; Five Enemy Ships Sunk By Destroyers

TO MARSHALLS ARE HIT ANEY      Raided: While Yanks MopUp On Gilberts; Carrier - Planes Ward Off Japs; - A6 Zeros Bagged

eventh Air Force Libera. tors Bomb Jaluit, Chief Nip Marshall Airbase; Few Japs Alive In Gil. berts Today-

Marshall Islands Pounded in Raids   Ground Troops on Gilbert Isles Seek Out Last Surviving Japs

American Planes Hammer Invasion  Path To Marshalls   Last Japanese In Gilberts Being Wiped Out; 46 Enemy Planes Shot From Sky

Marshalls in Path of Heavy Bombing Raids   Mopping Up on Gilberts Progresses Rapidly — Airfield Pr epared

Americans Pound Invasion Route to  Marshall Islands   Victorious U. S$. Ground Troops Seek Out Jap  Survivors on Gilberts.   U. S. Engineers Repair Airfields on Tarawa

Hit Invasion Route into» Marshalls   Main Jap Base Bembed by U. S. Airmen; Enemy. Loses 46 Planes

CONQUEST IN SOUTH PACIFIC IS EXTENDED   Invasion Route to Japan's Marshall Islands Pounded By Army and Navy Warplanes  CARRIER FORCES AiDING

PLANES POUND INVASION ROUTE TO MARSHALLS   New Air Assaults Made on Jaluit, Main Base for Nippon Aircraft

Rain Bombs On Marshalls   Seen As Prelude to Invasion There; Mop Up Japs in Gilberts

JAP INVASION ROUTE POUNDED   Gilbert Islands Being Cleaned Up; 46 Planes Downed

U. S. Controls Gilberts Now      MARINES SEEKING ALL REMNANTS OF JAP TOPS

Invasion Route To Japan Being Pounded  Last Few Defenders Of Gilberts Are Hunted Down

Most Of 5,000 Japs On Gilberts Slain; U.S. Planes Ward Off Aerial Assault

FEW JAPS ALIVE IN THE GILBERTS: SAYS ADM. NIMITZ   ENEMY BASES IN MARSHALL ISLANDS ARE BEING POUNDED

INVASION ROUTE INTO MARSHALS POUNDED BY AIR   Land Forces Mopping Up in Gilberts; Jaluit, Mili Shalled Heavily.

Invasion Route To Japan Being Pounded   Last Few Defenders Of Gilberts  AL. Loe cae Pee

AIRMEN POUND INVASION ROUTE INTOMARSHALLS   Blast isles’ Main Air Base 450 Miles From  Gilberts

INVASION ROAD BEING POUNDED   Last of Japs on Gilberts Being Hunted By Victorious Yanks.   REPORT GN NAVAL FIGHT

Marshall Isle Bases Blasted By U.S.Foree   Yankees Bomb Enemy’s Airfields; Few Live Japs Remaining In  tlhortc.j.Wimite

U.S. BOMBERS POUND ROUTE TO JAPAN   American Troops on Gil berts Seek Out Few. Remaining Enemy Troops

AIRMEN BLAST JAP MARSHALL ISLAND BASES   Pound Out New Invasion Route While Troops Mop Up on Makin  Tarawa, Abemama   DESTROYERS SUNK   Four Jap Warships Sent to Boitom Of Rabaul, U. S. Beachhead on Bougainville Extended

PLANES POUND INVASION PATH TO MARSHALLS   Fighters on One U. S. Aircraft Carrier  Down 46 Japs

Yankees Blasting Marshall Targets  Army, Navy Bombers Pave Way fer Troops

Seek Out Surviving Japs In Gilberts. .... Invasion Route To The  Marshalls Is Pounded By Army, Navy Planes

Ground Troops Seek Enemy on Gilbert Isles .   American Airmen Shoot Down 46 Jap Planes in Battle in Mid-Pacific Theater

Invasion Route To Marshalls. Bombed Anew As Fliers Ward Off Air Blows At Gilberts   Troops Continue Mopping Up Japs On Islands; Jaluit Is Bombarded

Allies Pou n d Invasion Route Into Marshalls   Conquest of Gilberts Exposes: Marshalls,. Gives Japs Choice of Retreat or Die. 46 Jap Planes Shot Down.

Road To Tokyo Is Allied Objective   Army and Navy Bombers Are Pounding the Marshall Islands   DOWN 46 JAP PLANES   American Forces Are Expanding in the Northern Solomons

Army And Navy Planes Hit Jap   Invasion. Route Inte Marshalls. Pounded

Brown Stamp For  Meat Valid Sep. 12   Red Stamp. Values Unchanged «

New Ration Book Good Next Month   Brown Coupons. To Replace Red And Blue Ones

—RATION BOOKS—  BROWN STE TIMES TO BUY MEATS   No. 3 Book Brown Cou pons To Replace Red Stamps

Ration Book 3 Use Starts on September 12   Brown Stamp “A” in Book Three Good for Meats, Fat, Butter, Cheese

RATION BOCK NO. 8 5 VALID SEPT, 12      Old- -Type of Gas B and C Coupons No Good After - Sept. 1

Dip Into New Ration Books   Brown Stamps Become Valid Sept. 12 for Buying Meats, Fats

CHANGE RATION ORDER   Start Using Book 3 Sept. 12; Must } Exchange Gas Coupons

BROWN STAMP ‘A’ TO BECOME VALID SEPT. 12   By Oct. 2 Book No. 3 Stamps Will Replace Red Stamps.

Ration Book 3 Starts Sept. 12   Brown Stamps Will Be Ones for Meats And Fats, Says OPA

Ration Book No. 3s Brown Stamp ‘A’ Becomes Valid Sepl. 12 for Purchase Of Meats, Fals, Oils, Butter and Cheese

M’KELDIN TAKES OATH OF OFFICE   Newly - Elected Mayo Pledges His Administra tion To Economy

McKeldin Takes Over as Mayor Of Baltimore   Declares Economy Must Be Watchword of the Republicans

BALTIMORE MAYOR PLEDGES ECONOMY   Theodore McKeldin Takes Oath as Former Mayor Looks On

Some Left On Befuddled Side When They Find That Morgenthau Is Not Treasurer of the United States and Harlan Stone Is Not Chief Chief Justice of Supreme Court

Ten Jap Bases Bombed By Allies   MacARTHUR BOMBERS RAID MANY NIP SECTORS

ALLIED FLYERS ATTACK JAPS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Rip Nipponese Positions at 10 Different Points in One Day

MACARTHUR’S AIRMEN ATTACKED JAPANESE HOLDINGS WEDNESDAY  TEN ENEMY POINTS IN ISLANDS NORTH OF AUSTRALIA RLASTED

PLANES STRAFE GERMAN FORCES IN BLOODY FIGH]   Axis Loses Many Prisoners to Anglo-American Combat Teams

ALLIES BLOCK TANK AVANCE. AT ALL POINTS   Axis Armor Being Destroyed and, Prisoners Taken by Combat Teams, ~   BRITISH USE CHURCHILL TANKS IN FRONT LINES

siege Of Leningrad Smashed By Victorious  Red Army Forces.. Rail: roads Now Open Ee  Rissesane

Showdown Approaches In Lae   Aussies and U:S.  Forces Move in For Last Assault

CLOSE IN ON JAPS   Lae Stronghold Brought Under Aussie Artillery  Fire

“Missouri and ,Osage Threaten Another Flood   » Heavy Rains In Kansas Add to Dange: In Both Rivers

Wounded Yanks from Nerth Africa Reach Valley Forge      Train Load Reaches Army Hosnital Memorial Day Morning; War For Most of Men Over; Wounded During Recapimre of Kasseriie Pass; One Hides Leg Stump From Photographer

ND DUISBURG      Attack In Industrial Ruhr Vai ley Second Consecutive Ninh   LOCOMOTIVES AND SUPPLY TRAINS DAMAGED IN RAIDS

RUHR ATTACKS ARE REPEATED   Duisburg Is Hammered; Pictures Show Krupp Works Lying Idle

Brits Keep Up Pounding Of Ruhr Valley   Duisberg Blasted, Rail Communications Slashed

RAF Again Blasts Vital Enemy Armament Sites   Widespread Attacks Are Reported Grea! Successes; Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Duisburq, Other Vital Areas

British Flyers Blast German Coastal Links   Daylight Attacks Follow Night Raid On Ruhr Valley

RAF Again Hits Duisburg, Ruhr With Big Raids   Fighter Planes, Bombers Continue Daylizht Assaults

d Big Raid On Rul   RAF Fliers Range Wide to Strike Varied Targets

INLAND PORT OF DUISBERG 1S POUNDED   Photographs Show That Recent Raids On Krupp Works  Leave Plants Idle.

Duisburg, Other Ruhr Valley Industries Hit By RAF In Third Night Raid On Germany

british Bombers Hammer Duisburg In Heavy Attack On Ruhr Valley   Lighter Planes Continue Day - Night Offensive By Slashing Communications From Le Harve 1o Holland

hatds by Day Follow Blow To Duisburg   Transporlation in Occupied Countries Is Made Target

BRITISH BOMBS JAR RUHR AREA   Duisburg Also Blasted in RAF’s Sweeping Attacks On German Targets

War Ministry Discloses That Great Krupp Works, One of Hitler's Key Armament Works, Stands Almost Idle as Result of Air Attacks

British Bombers Pound Duisherg  Light Planes Blast Barges, Railroads

Ruhr Valley Is Target of Heavy RAF Bombing   British Destroy RailShip Lines; Krupp Works Incapacitated

U.S, SEES NO NEED TO RATION CLOTHING   Nelson, Brown Urge Public To Stop ‘Overbuying’

CLOTHING SCARE NOT NECESSARY   Public Asked to Cease Overbuying; Shortage Does Not Exist

SHOE ORDER STARTS RUNS FOR CLOTHING   No ‘Shortage and No Néed for Rationing, Public Told in Plea Against “Overbuyine.”

FROWNS ON RUSH TO BUY CLOTHES   Nelson And Brown Request Public To Halt Run On Supplies

STATE FUNDS — FOR SCHOOLS   State Makes Semi-Annual Payment To Tioga County School Districts.

LOCAL SCHOOLS GET $194 807.76   Semi-Annual Support for Teacher Salaries, Closed Schools ‘

KHARKOV IS HEAVY   German Radio Admits Evacuation From Northern City

BELIEVE REDS HAVE TAKEN _ VYAZMA, KEY RAILWAY HUB   Berlin. Broadcast_Announces German Troops Have Evacuated City; Fall Would Mean That Fast-Driving Soviets Advancing Upon Smolensk.

Railway Hub ls Evacuated By Germans   In The South, Russians Busy Beating Off Strong Nazi Attacks

Rv FENDY GILMORFE.   R. A. F. Pays Eighth Night Visit of Month to Germany

BELIEF IS HELD IN MOSCOW REDS HAVE VYAZMA   Germans Say Troops Have Evacuated City

RUSSIANS FIGHT ON SOUTH FRONT TO HOLD ENEMY   Other Gains Are Reported Along Central Sector

Germany Claims Battle Raging In Kharkov Suburbs   But Russians Report Enemy Being Held Off In Fierce Fighting On That Front

BERLIN REPORTS FIGHTING RAGES INSIDE KHARKOV   Russians Fail To Claim Capture Of Big Base

Vo ary, Su 3007 Seen: “or Sa es “ax "-ro0708a.. 207 _ssu2 Grows 

Sales Tax Not likely to Get. _ Party Support   Legislators F ro-m- Both .Groups Speak Aguinsr’ Proposed Levy

Both Parties , In Congress fo Oppose Sales Tax   » But It’s the Big Issue to Bring in More Billions

Bi-Partisan Opposition To Sales Tax Shaping Up   However, Idea Looms As Important Issue In Drafting of New Revenue Lesislation   REP. LYNCH (D-NY) AGAINST SALES TAX

PROPOSED TAX ON SALES MAY START BATTLE   Levy Shapes Up as Big ' Issue in Writing of New Measure

Sales Tax's Path Obstacle-Strewn By Both Parties   But Idea Persists As Biggest Issue In New Revenue Action

OALES TAX OLEN AS MAJOR (SSUt   Neither Democrats Nor Republicans as a Party Seem Likely to Support 10 Per Cent Federal Sales Levy

Republicans and Democrats Both Shun Sales Tax as Party Issue   Strong Support of Revenue Plan To Come From Individual Members of Both Houses   Rep. Lynch Opposed

BOWLING GREEN DRAFT CHAIRMAN RESIGNS TODAY   Quits Rather Than Call PreWar Fathers Into Service

YOUNG TOUGH KIDNAP TRIO   MEMBERS OF WEALTHY FAMILIES FREED UNHURT

Three Kidnaped And Robbed by Chicago Toughs   Wealthy Youths And Girl Escape After Wild Night

ThUGo ott HEIREGo AND TWO YOUTH   Victims, Members of Wealthy Families, Escape After Robbery, Chase.   POLICE.CATCH THREE AND HUNT TWO OTHERS

WEALTHY SOCIETY YOUTHS KIDNAPED BY CHIGAGO THUGS   Helen Priebe, Thomas S. Armour and Kent Clow, jr., Released Unharmed; Three Suspect. Jailed.

HOODLUMS KIDNAP TWO YOUTHS, GIRL   Victims Are Members of Wealthy Chicago Families

GIRL AND TWO YOUTHS ROBBED BY ABDUCTORS   Three of Gang Nabbed After Widespread Hunt by Police

Young Toughs Face Charges Of Kidnaping   Three Of Five Seized After Wealthy Youths And Girl Are Abducted And Robbed

Seize 3 Youths  For Abductions  Two More Are Hunted; Kidnaped Girl, 2 Boys

THREE ALLEGED KIDNAPERS HELD   Two Youths And Girl, Meme bers Of Wealthy Chicago Familics, Abducted And Robbed; Released Un harmed.

Chicago Trio Seized, Freed   ‘Society Scions. Heiress Unhurt; 3 Held

Three Socialites Kidnaped, Robbed   Gang Of Five Chicago Toughs Captured

Two Youths and Girl Kidnaped   Members of Wealthy Families Released; Three Toughs Captured

Heiress, Boys Are Kidnaped   Robbed By Five Young Toughs, Three Of Whom tater Captured.

Two Chicago Youths And Girl: Kidnaped And Robbed By Five Young Toughs; Girl Unharmec

Probably Sinks One; Allied Fliers Rain 1, 000-Pound Bombs on Enemy Base at  Qieaemata   Two Youths And a Girl ‘Are Kidnaped

Derby Field OF11 Awaits Callto Post   60,000 Expected To Witness Famed Herse-Race Classic

ISSUE TIRE CERTIFICATES   Board Panels Were in Session Yesterday and Wedneadey

ISSUE TIRE CERTIFICATES   County and City Panel of Ration Board in Session

ISSUE TIRE CERTIFICATES   County Panel of Rationing Board in Session Yesterday

OLD AGE PENSION CHECKS SENT HERE   Amount to Be Received in Livingston County Totalled $15,038.

Japanese Camp Is Taken Over By Army Force   Restores Order  Gn West Coast

Army Takes Over Camp at Tule Lake   Threats of New Violence by Japs Held There Bring Drastic Action

Troops Sent to Jap Internment Center   Hundreds of Men, Tanks and Armored Cars on Duty at Tulelake, Calif.—Round-Up of Troublemakers Brings Injuries.

Army Is Guarding Nippon Internees   Tanks and Armored Cars Sent to Tule Lake to End Violence.

SOLDIERS TAKE (WER JAP CAME   Move Swiftly to Restore Or. der After Demonstration By Jans.

Tanks Surround 15,000 Japs in Segregation Center With Move for Ending Violence

Disloyal Japs Surrounded By Army's Might   lanks And Armored Car Patrols Keep Japs Subdued Today

Army Rounds Up 500 Japs At Tule Lake   . Score Injured When Troops Act; Armored Cars, Tanks Ready

Rommel Makes Desperate Effort To Halt British   Details Of Tunisia Battle At Mareth Line Are Meagre On Movements   YANKEE TROOPS HOLDING KEY PASS

BRITISH LOOSE BIGGEST GUNS ~~ ON AXIS LINES   Claim Some Gain in Bloods Fighting on Southern Tunisian Front

EIGHTH ARMY TURNS LOOSE HEAVY ATTAGK   Airmen Supporting . Biggest Barrage on Mareth Line’ of Defense,   BATTLE S-BLOODIEST TO DATE IN TUNISIA

i i i   Tule Lake Director Says Fear for Life Caused Him to Call for Troops

Army Halted Tule Lake Riot   Project Director Threatened, He Says

People of Cologne € ‘onvinced That by Summer Their Town Will Be Dead City

COMMERCIAL LIFE IN RHINE. LAND CITY VIRTUALLY PARALYZED, TRAVELLER . REPORTS

NEW GAS A BOOKS.  HERE FOR ISSUING   Processing’ of Applications Filed Here to Begin . ~ Next Monday   MAIL OUT BY JULY 21

HERE FOR ISSUING   Processing of Applications Filed Here to Begin Next Monday   MAIL OUT BY JULY 21

Subs Bag Nine More Jap Ships   Raises Toll To 355 Enemy Craft Sunk

Farm Louse Pistol Duel Fatal to Three Brothers; Son of One Is Wounded

Three Brothers shof fo Death   Son of One Wounded In Farm House Pistol Battle in Texas

FARMHOUSE BATTLE LEAVES THREE OLD BROTHERS DEAD  SON OF ONE OF THEM I! HOSPITAL WITH BULLET WOUND IN HEAD

DRIVE GERMANS OUT OF ITALY IS NEXT TASK   Roosevelt Says Nazis Must Be Struck From All  Tiractinne   EXECUTIVE LAUNCHES THIRD LOAN CAMPAIGN

FD Says Italy’s Fall Great News; Opens Bond Drive   President Declares Time Has Not Come for Celebration and War Must Not Stop for Single Instant: Refers to Conferences

Must Still Drive Germans Out of Italy, Says President in Address Opening Gigantic National War Bond Campaign

FD. R. Makes War Bond Plea   Says Nazis Must Be Driven From Italy

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President Roosevelt Launches Third War Loan Campaign; A No Let-up On Home Front, Purchase Of Bonds

PRESIDENT CALLS NATION 16 BUY BONDS   Chief Executive, Making Ra. dic Address Asking Foi 15 Bilhons, Says italian Sur vender Does Not End War   Exclude Banks

GREAT TASK AHEAD, ROOSEVELT STATES   President, Hailing Italian Victory, Opens Bond  Brive:

Roosevelt Says War Will Become Bigger  Opens War Loan Drive With Warning

Ultimate objectives still Berlin, Tokyo—Roosevelt   Enemy must be driven from. all eaptive lands: fousht on own soil

Reminds Berlin, Tokyo Still Prime Objectives As He Opens Bond Drive

Huge 3d. War Loan Drive Will Help Speed Victory   President Roosevelt Opening Drive, Asks United Saupnart For 15 Billion Dallar Conl

Problem Of U.S. System (st i vansit   Congress Must Decide On Post - War Policies

Bubble Dancer To Soldiers Is A Dish Washer   Army ‘slang hard for rookies to understand and civilians just don’t  C6. navevds 2?

BLACK MARKET TICKETS   Cleveland Press Charges Industry With Railroad Difficulties

DUTCH AVIATORS BOMB TOWN AND HARBOR OF DOBO   Japanese-Occupied  Community Is Left In Flames By Raid

ADVANCE ON KEY POINTS IS UNBROKEt   Big Battle in Progress in Drive Up Orel Railroad

REDS PURSUE RETREATING GERMANS   Aim Offensives At Orel, Konotop And Poltava

RedsPust to Orel   RUSS LEGIONS POUND ONWARD TO NEW NAZI DEFENSE KEYS

RUSSIAN ARMIES TRYING TO ORIE NAZIS INTO ROL   One of Biggest Battles ot Winter Taking Place North of Kursk in Move for Orel.

EDS CONTINUING KNOCKOUT BLOWS   Russians Making Drives Ti Win German Key Bases In Dnieper Sector.

KNOCKOUTS AIMED AT NAZI BASES   Russians Consolidate Southern Gains And Push Northward

me tbtF & fF F&F F&F F&F FF HF  Rampaging Russians Roll on Toward Nazi Bases at Oral, Konotop, Poltava

Red Army Trying to” Convert Nazi Retreat Into Disorderly Rout   Knockout Offensives Are Aimed at Three Cities; Big Battle Near Kursk

Offensive Directed Al ‘Orel, Konotop And . Poltava—Key. Cities:  ee wl Eu, aie Boo   BATTLING AT. KURSK   Other Thrusts Take Whole Series Of Towns In  Past 12 Hours

Russian Views On Postwar Plar Concem Capital  jSome Led By Nye ‘Await Further Moves 2 “By Britain, Russia; VS te day Te Sen Hill

Soviet Attitude on Post-War Plans Concerns Dinlomatic Washington

STANDLEY BACK FROM RUSSIA TO SEE HULL TODAY   Russia’s Attitude Toward Post War Platis Cause Of Concern:-

Urge Caution in American Peace Policy   Standley Returns to Make Report to Hull After Sojourn as Russian Ambassador

STANDLEY BACK FROM RUSSIA   Washington Keeps Close Watch on Post-War Attitude of Soviets.

SENATE AWAITS RUSSIAN VIEW   Admiral Standley To Meet Secretary... Hull

Standley, Hull To Discuss Postwar Role Of Russia   May Not Return

SUBLETTE COUNTY'S TOTAL WAR BOND QUOTA FOR JULY 18 SCHEDULED FOR $19,200

Leverkusen Is Heavily Blasted During Night   HUGE FORCE TAKES PART IN NEW RAID  BULLETIN

SOVIET USING “CHUTE TROOPS   CHEMICAL CENTER -NEAR COLOGNE TARGET OF RAF ' BOMBING ATTACK LAST NIGHT AS BERLIN STILL . BATTLES FLAMES CAUSED BY MASS RAID— LITTLE ‘CHANGE ON ITALIAN FRONT

NAZIGAS CENTER HIT BY BOMBERS   Allies Continue Campaign to Blast Germany Out of War

BLOG Biloitha BAIN ON HEIGH   Other Targets Hit: Tonnage A2ain Heavy

LEVERKUSEN HIT BY SATURATION RAIN OF BOMBS   Only Five Of Sky Giants Fail To Return From Raid On Reich   BERLIN STILL BLAZING   Russ Suffer Setback On One Front, Repulse Huns On Another

NO LETUP IN NEW ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS   Leverkusen target as round-the-clock bomb ing continues

FATHERS’ DRAFT BAN IS OPPOSED   Raising Of Army Should Not Be Impeded, Says Secretary Stimson

Stimson Fights  Legislation to  Exempt Fathers   Secretary Says Huge Army Needed to Bring End to War Quickly:  Senate Test Monday

Dil loExempt Fathers Hit By Stimson  Says Opportunities Now Developing —  rr £ #3 rf

FIGHTS PROPOSAL TO DEFER FATHERS   STIMSON SAYS WAR EFFORT WILL SUFFER IF WHEELER BILL BECOMES LAW.

Stimson Opposes Draft Proposal   Says Wheeler Bill Threat to Victory

STIMSON FIGHTS WHEELER BILL   Secretary Opposes Blanket Deferment For Fathers; Army Needs Men

BAN OPPOSED   Stimson Says Such Action Might Dangerously Affect Victory

Stimson Hints Of Great Blows   ‘Opposes Delays in ‘Fathers’ Induction

Stimson Urges Fathers’ Draft To Speed War   Says War Department Seeks to Preserve  co fae

STIMSON FIGHTS EXEMPTION BILL   Says Deferment Of All Pre-War Fathers Is Hindrance To Victory

Spring Opening Tomorrow  Night   Three $25 War Bonds Will Be Given Away as Grand ©  Prizes   EXPECT LARGE CROWD   Fifty-One Merchants ‘Will Give Window Guessing - Prizes

Spring Opening Tomorrow Night   Three $25 War Bonds Will Be Given Away as Grand  Prizes   Fifty-One Merchants Will Give Window Guessing Prizes

OPARTA HIT BY AFLASH FLOOD      Little Beaver Creek Rampage Causes $750,000 Damage.

Flood Waters Swamp City in Wisconsin   CREEK SMASHES CITY BUSINESS DISTRICT, WRECKS TWO BRIDGES

Interrupts Debate On Poll Taxes   ‘Why Should a Man Have to Pay to Vote?’ Sailor Shouts From " Gallery   AGREES TO LEAVE SCENE OUIETLY   Vote for Reveal Appears Certain; Southerners Continne Protest

SAILOR CREATES SCENE IN HOUSE ON POLL TAX BILL   Demands To Know “Why A Man Have Pay A Tax To Vote.’’—~le Taken Out

Southern Solons Face Heavy Odds To Keep Poll Tax   Repeal] Hinges On Senate Vote: Unity Endangered

HOME and FINAL EDITION —   ‘LONG GREEN’ WILL KEEP THE YELLOW OUT OF YOUR RED, WHITE AND BLUE

‘Pitch In and Chip In’ Call To Americans   ‘Uncle Sam Asking All His Nephews and Nieces to Buy Bonds   US. WANTS MONEY, FASTER THE BETTER   Greatest Bond Drive in World History to Begin Next Week

WAR LOAN DRIVE FOR 13 BILLION STARTS IN WEEK   Uncle Sam Calls on Nieces And Nephews To Do Part In War With Money   CURB ON INFLATION TOO   People Have More Money in Banks Than Ever Before And Less To Buy

FOR 13 BILL IN BOND ‘PUSH’   Second Campaign Will Start April 12; Public Counted On To Buy 3 Billion Of Se riee *E’ Savings —

Extra Cash Wanted By Unele Sam   You Can’t Spend Tt And War Costs Are Mounting

PAeoo TO Lead PAILS DAI FOR WAR BONDS   Treasury Sets 15 Billion As Goal For Three-Week Campaign In Nation   SHARPLY STEPPED-UP DRIVE BEING PLANNED   Financing Of War Effort, Anti-Inflation Objects Of National Drive

FINISH EXTERIOR WORK ON BUILDING   Construction on K. U. Military Structure Is Moving Along

WORK ON BUILDING   Construction on K. U. Mil. itary Structure I; Mov- , ing Along ~   15 MEN ARE EMPLOYED

SEVERAL POINTS WEST OF KIEV ARE SACRIFICED   On Other Part of Line Russians Encircle German Garrison at Rechitsa and 2 Break Into Gomel

Encircle Rechitsa Garrison   Take First Back Step Of Big Campaign But Break  Into Gomel.

Loss Of Several Places Announced   Reds Claim Nozi Garrison At Rechitsa Is Encircled: Other Gains Reported Scored

BAN SALE HOME CANNED FOODS   Householders Must Have License to Dispose of Praduric.

AXIS WARNED BY FDR ON GAS   Fullest Possible Retaliatiot On Military Gbjectives Is Promised

WARNING GIVEN ON USE OF GAS   President Tells Enemies America Will Retaliate Against Barbarism

BY FDR ON GAS   Fullest Possible Retaliation On Military Objectives  Is Promised

AXIS WARNED BY PRESIDENT NOT TO EMPLOY GAS   United Nations Are Prepar ed To Retaliate On Military Objectives

Axis Warned On Poison Gas   FDR Issues Third Promise Of Reprisal! If Plan Used

Axis Warned On Using Gas   United Nations Will Retoliate If Started

‘Poison Gas’  Use Hintecd    Roosevelt Declares Axis Intend:  To Use It; Allies Will Retaliate at Once!

WARNING GIVEN ON POISON GAS USE   Roosevelt. Promises Retaliation if Axis Employs Gasses

FR Warns U.S. Will Quickly Retaliate if Axis Uses Gas Against Any United Nation

ROOSEVELT WARNS ON USE OF GAS   RESORT TO ‘IT BY AXIS, HE SAYS, WILL BRING SWIFT RETALIATION.

Axis Warned on Use  Of Poison Gas by FD   U.S. to Regard Use of Poison Gas Against Any of Allied Nations as If lt Had Been  Committed Against Nation: Retaliation Se

ROOSEVELT WARNS.   Use of Poison Gas By Axis Will  Bring Retaliation.

Impeachment Of Murchison — Threatened; Group Demands Two Board M embers Resian

VOTE TODAY ON BIGGEST BUDGET   Ohio Legislature Expected Te Approve $366,000,000 For  State Operations.

APPROPRIATION BILL IS UP IN  - QHIO ASSEMBLY   House Meets Today to Give Approval to Largest Measure in State’s  : History.

Slavs Continue Fierce Struggle   Germans Forced To  Jen Crean le aig Sate ee

YUGOSLAV FORCES BATTLE GERMANS      Patriots Continue Successful Operations on Wide Front

3 Hitler's Woes Increase: Yugoslav Army of Liberation Hits ‘Crack Nazi Troops on Wide Front

YUGOSLAV ARMY BATTLES NAZIS   Fight Rages on Wide Front, Including Trieste   HITLER FORCED   Send Top Grade Troops to Oppose Patriots; Nazis Retake Port of Split

American Losses in Italy Given  Does Not Include Volturno Fighting

American Losses Below Estimate  Previously Made  879 Killed Before Volturno Fight, Stimson Reveals

American Losses Below Estimate Previously Made  879 Killed Before Volturno Fight,

VOLUNTEER PLAN AT STAKE IN CAMPAIGN   Japan and Germany Trying To Break Up Third War Loan Drive.

Fate of Volunteer War Financing At Stake In Bond Drive—Morgenthaa

BUY BONDS - - ORELSE MORGENTHAU HINTS   Drive Two-thirds Complete, Treasury Head Says

Ruml Tax Plan Ils Subject of Hot Arguments   Both Republicans and Democrats Confident of Victory

SENATE OPENS DEBATE TODAY ON OPA POLICY. OF SUB-.SIDIES IN PRICE CONTROL SYSTEM

CONGRESS NEAR SHOWDOWN IN SUBSIDY FIGHT   House to Vote Overwhelmingly Against Further Payments

SUBSIDY FIGHT   House to Vote Overwhelmingly Against Further Payments

TAX MEASURE VOTING DUETO START TODAY   Democrats and Republicans Strive to Hold Lines

Fight Over Ruml Plan Is Near Climax   Party Leaders Trying Despérately to Hold Lines for Voting

VOTING STARTS ON RUML PLAN   Pay-As-You-Go. Proposal Nears Climax; Bitter Charges Hurled

Ruml Plan Hangs In the Balance As House Argues  Democrats Stand Pat On Committee Bill; GOP for ‘Skip-a-Year’  MAY RE-COMMIT  If Compromise Fails, Final Action Likely To Be Long Delaved

PAY-GO ISSUE NEARS CLIMAX   Voting On Tax Measure Amendments Start Today

TWO PARTIES TRY TO HOLD LINES ON TAX PROPOSAL   Republicans and Democrats Stand Firm For and Against Ruml Pian as Vote Approaches,   COMPROMISE SEEN AS IMPROBABLE   Cries of Demagoguery Hurled in Debate—Some Believe Issue May Go Back to Committee.

VOTE NEAR ON PAY-AS-YOU-G0 ISSUE IN HOUSE   Both Sides a are Battling Desperately to Hold Lines

PARTY LINES TIGHTEN FOR -VOTE ON TAX   Pay-As-You-Go Issue Brings Cries Of Demagoguery

Tax Issue Nears Climax As House Starts Voting Today; Party Lines Tightly Drawn

TAX MEASURE VOTING DUETO START TODAY      Democrats and Republicans Strive ta Hold i erorers

Pay-as-You-Go Plan Nearing Climactic Vote  Republicans and Democrats Strive to Hold Lines

Near Decision  On Subsidies   Congress To Debate Issue Today And Tomorrow— Compromise Likely  w« WRF are & **<"e" a0

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Issue Move: Toward Vote   Both Sides Hold Lines In Ruml Plan Struggle; First Ballot Due Today

DECISION ON SUBSIDIES TC AID OPA NEAR   Issue Debated in Senate Today, in House Thursday

House Tax Bill Battle Rages   Three Factions Seen As Balloting Nears

Pay-as-Go Tax Issue in Doubt  _ As Vote Near:   House Sharply Divided On Ruml Levy Skip,  rm mn wecee.

DECISION NEAR ON SUBSIDIES   Administration Seeks Compromise As Defeat Looms Jn Congress

War Spending, Revenue Estimates Hit by Report   House Committee Criticizes Federal Administration; Says Taxes High Enougt

Committee Denies Need  For Revenue   Says Government Exaggerates Tax Demands

Need for Revenue : “Exaggerated, Report Says   RECOMMENDS ONLY TWO-BILLION INCREASE

Group Asserts Need For Taxes Is Exaggerated   Advocates More Strict Economy Through Price, Wage Control

REVENUE NEED EXAGGERATED, HOUSE HEARS   New Tax Bill ‘Is Rejected

SOLONS SCORE TAX DEMANDS   REQUESTS FOR LEVIES TERMED EXAGGERATED

Hoover Sees Worker Need   Former President Would Even Take Some From Services

Hoover Warns Too Big Army May Block Production Which Is Required for Lengthy War

 SHORTAGE OF WORKERS   Herbert Hoover Fears An Over« strain on the Home Front

HOLDS NATION NEEDS MILLION HORE WORKERS   Herbert Hoover Holds Some Must Come From Armed Forces to Home Front   LONG WAR FEARED   Including Defeat of Japan He Says, “We Must Envisage Three More’ Years of Conflict

Need Million More Workers, Hoover Says  Former President  Sees War Lasting Wi wan Tin Ben: Saws

Hoover Avers Nation Must Have Million More Working To Avert Acute Shortages

Need Million Workers, Hoover   Warns Against Overstrain on the Home Front

Can’t Rob  Home Front For Fighters   Must Not Extend Military Side Too  Far, Says Hoover

Hoover Visions 3 To 5 Year Wa   Believes Worker Ranks - Should Be Increased

HOOVER FORESEES MANPOWER NEED   Former President Calls fot Army, Industrial Plans for Five-Year War

HOOVER WARNS OF LABOR SHORTAGE   Nation Must Have Million More Workers, Some From Army, Says. ‘   EXPECT THREE MORE YEARS TO WIN WAR

he so at rs nce ame a a, oa ria  Rename Miller Inter- County Firemen Head

“TANKBUSTERS” DESIGNED TO INVASION OF EUROPE BEING USED AGAINST AXIS IN AFRICA

‘TANKBUSTER’ PLANES HALT ARMORED UNITS  Agile ogg Se ES i> ne. Oe ee

ritish Use “Tank buster” Planes Against Axis Forces   irricane Fighters Mounting Cannon Have Been In Operation In Western Desert Months During Montgomery’s Offensive, It Is Now Revealed With Lifting of Ban

Allies in Tunisia Using Hurricane "Tankbusters”  Disclosure Made After Censorship Ban Is Lifted

PLANES CARRY ~ TANKBUSTERS   British. Cannon i in Air. Believed an Answer. to  . Tank Problem.

British Use Tankbusters   Hurricane Fighter Planes Hurled Against Rommel’s Tank Army

Watches U.S. Naval Force Repel Larger Jap Fleet In North Pacitic

U. S. Naval Force Routs  Jap Fleet Twice Size   AP Correspondent, On Bridge Of American Flagship, Describes Victory In Sea Battle In The Northern Pacific

Yankee Airmen Rain Bombs On Paris Suburbs   French Coast Also Battered In Heavy New Daylight Assault.

Americans Out Over France In Force   Suburbs of Paris Declared Bombed By U. S. Raiders

HEAVY BOMBERS SMASHED TARGETS IN FRANGE TODAY   Bombs Were Dropped in the Suburbs of Paris, it Is Announced.   IN DAYLIGHT ASSAULT

Allied Fliers Blast Paris in Grand Finale   Attack Friday Follows Greatest Raid Ever Made by Americans

VITAL PLANTS HELD TARGETS OF DAY ATTACK   Assault Comes In Wake of Blow At Ludwigsshafen By Huge Fleet Of Air Giants   3,000 PLANES SENT OVER REICH IN DAY   All Attacks Part of Pattern to Soften Enemy For Mammoth Invasion In New Year

Poison Gas Plant Thought Target Of Earlier Rai   Big Formations Of Fighters And Bombers Take Part In 1943 Grand Finale

Suburbs Of Paris Bombed In Daylight Allied Raid   Large Forces Of Fighters And Bomber: Take Up Where They Left OF Yesterday

Damage to French Capital Undisclosed In RadioStatement         Great Formations of Fighters and Bombers of All Types Siveam Away From England in Continv~ : >7 Of 1943 Grand Aerial Finale   OVER 3,000 PLANES OVER cNEMY TARGETS THURS.

3,000 Ships In Grand Finale Of °43 Raid   Paris Just One Of Many Objectives; Poison Gas Works Are Blasted

ALLIED BOMBS FALL ON PARIS IN DAY RAIDS   Targets In Western Germany Are Hit; Few Craft Lost

Heavy Yank Attack On France Carries New Blows to Foe   American Headquarters Discloses No Objec tives in Announcement of Raid—Radio  * Reports 200 Persons Killed, 2,000 Injured Near Capital.

MAJOR BLOWS APPEAR AIMED AT BIG PLANTS   Germans Admit Mannheim Ludwigshafen Were Hit In Thursday Attacks

Bir Raids — On Paris  Suburbs   Paris Radio Tells of Big As- sault by American Heavy Bombers   MANY PLANES OUT.' 7 TN BIG ASSAULY      1,500 Aircraft Used Yesterday in U.S. Attack on War Plants in Germany

U. S. Heavy Bombers A Supported By American And RAF Fighters.   TARGETS UNANNOUNCED

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT TARGETS IN PARIS, REPORT   Over 3,000 Planes Assault Unannounced Points in Reich Thursday

American Planes Drop Bombs Upor Suburbs Of Paris   British Fighters Join In Attack Upon France

3,000 Planes Are Used In 24-Hour Span   RAF Night Shift Also Hit Industrial Targets Not Yet Named

sankee Planes Rain Bombs on Paris Suburbs   American Heavies Are Supported by R. A. F. and U. S. Fiahters in Raid

Over 3,000 Planes Push Air Offense   Year-End Smash by Allies Continues; More Destruction for Germany

—AIR WAR   Paris Suburbs Blastec By Allied Bombers In Daylight Raid   Great Formations Of Bombers And Fighters Stream Out From British Bases To Continue Devastating Air Attacks On Germans

3,000 PLANE POUND REICH IN ONE DAY   22 Bombers From Greatest U. S. Fleet Missing   Believed Target Of Yank Attack: More Airmen In Action Today

France Target Of Big Attack As Year Close:   Industrial Suburbs Of Former Capital Blasted Today

200 Perish, 2000. Injured by Explosives as American ‘Heavies,’ Supported by R.A.F., Rain Destruction on Nazi War Industry

NO-LET-UP IN AERIAL OFFENSIVE   French Raids Come After 3,000 Planes Strike In 24 Hours

PARIS SUBURBS HIT IN’ ALLIED PDAYLIGHT RAID   Southwestern Germany And “Invasion” Coastal Areas Also Blasted

Bombs Are Rained On Paris Suburbs By U.S. Airmen   Year-End Aerial Assault or  Europe Rayes to Climac tic Finish.   3,000 Planes Sent on  Mission Over Germany

U.S. Bombers Lash Targets In France   Bombs Rain on  . Paris Suburbs; Great Fleet Hits Southern Germany

Record Fleet of U. S. Bombers Blasts Southwest Germany   1,500 Planes in Raids; Aerial Warfare at New Pitch at Year’s End

Kxact Nature Of Day’s Ratd Not Disclosed   American Planes Last Bombarded Paris Region On a ae   IN €COLD WEA TAMER

Allied Planes Bomb Suburbs Of Paris; Report Huge Fleet Blasts Ludwigshafen

COAST OF FRANCE IS ALSO HIT   1943 Air Grand Finale May Be Opening Of  Invasion Blow

 More Than 3,000 Planes  Sent ‘Against Enemy.  ' Targets During Period  OF 24Hours - 1

1943 Grand Finale That Sent 3,000 Planes Over Enemy Targets Yesterdav.

Bombers Supported By American And RAF Fighters Smash At Enemy Targets—Year-End Aerial Offiensive Rages On To Climactic Finish With More Than 3,000 Sorties In 24-Hour Period—Possibly 1,500 In Yesterday’s Raid On Southwestern Germany

In Day Attack   Giant Allied Fleet Blasts At Germany In Year End Raid

3,000 PLANES IN CEASELESS RAIDS ON FOE   Nazi Targets Pounded In Day and Night Blows by Allies

Paris Targets Blasted By Allied Plane Fleet In Year's War Climax

Raid Revealed By French; No Announcement  Of Targets Hit   Blow Follows 3000-Plane Smash at Hitler's Europe

Fresh Blows ollow RAr SNight Raids      Another Heavy Attack Rocks French Coast

More Than 3,000 Planes Sent Thundering Against Axis Targeis as Year Nears End   NEW RECORDS SET   Some Escorting Fighters Fly En tire 1,100 Mile Round Trip it Smash ai Reich

BOMBS RAINED ON NAZI WAR PLANTS IN PARISSUBURBS   ALLIES CLOSE 1943 WITH 3,000-PLANE ASSAULT ON REICH

1,500 U. S. Planes Smash Major Nazi Poison Gas Plant   34 Craft Lost-in Rhine Area Raid; Allied Planes Lash at Industries In France, Soften ‘Rocket Coast’

Daylight Raid Completes Bombing Year   More Than 3,000 Allied Warplanes Smash At Hitler’s Fortress in 24 Hours; RAE Operations Continue During Night

Allied Airmen Blast Wide AreaA boutJap-HeldMadan;   Airdrome and Harbor Among Targets Pasted by Rain of Bombs, Setting Big Fires That Send Smoke and Flames Rising 3.000 Feet, Photographs Taken Later in Day Reveal

2 Are  Burned Th Hotel. Fi ire   130. ‘Scantily -€ Clad. Guests Flee From Flames: In. -.- Philadelphia: -

LIQUOR PROBE OFF T0 A FAST STARI   Experts From Department Of Justice May Be Bor rowed For The Investigation.

Transportation  Tieup Hits Akron   Workers Denied  Increased Wages

Bomb Railroad  Yards In Burma   British Fliers Make Attack In Rangoon, Causing Damage

COUNTY RECEIVES $2,134   Money Was From a ; aS — Social] Welfare Fee

COUNTY RECEIVES $2.134   Money ‘Was Fron a a Special Social Welfare Fee Fund

BLASTS F. D. R.’S TALK   Republican  Says: Address Last Night Opened Fourth Term Drive

FDR’s Talk Last Night Degenerated Into Fourth Term Political Bunk

WAVELL A VISCOUNT:   Title Is in Line With Appointment as Viceroy of India.

CONGRESS MAPS HOLIDAY RECESS   Action On Tax, Subsidy Meas: ures To Be Postponed

Major Turn In Far East  War Looms   M’Arthur Confers With Australian  Premier on Moves

EXECUTIONS STAGED IN REGIMENT AL FORM   To Save Handling Of Bodies, Vic lims Are Shot On The Edge Of Their Graves By Nazic«

TRAINS SOUTH TOSTART AGAIN   No Word Received Today By Bessemer of P. U, C. Order.

Fifth Army Drives Nazis from Hills   Six-Day Offensive More Than Germans Are Able to Endure

MARCHON ITALY’S THIRD CITY BEGINS   German Mountain Defense Line Is Cracked by Yanks

Jap Who Boasted He Would Dictate Peace in White House Is Now Dead

JAP GENERAL KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS   Said He Would Be In Washington At Peace Time

Japanese Admiral Killed In Action   Death During April In Plane Fight Disclosed .

Admiral ¥ amamoio, Who Boasted He Would Dictaie Peace in Washingion, Dies on Plane   KOGA SUCCESSOR   Commander in Chief of Jap Combined Fleet Credited with Early Jap Victories

Tokyo Announces Death Of Admiral Yamamoto, Nips’  Top Rank Officer

Was Aboard Warplane in “South” Area   Boasted He Would Dictate Peace  ‘ee oe es ey WE VA/L oa. bdadien

‘boasted fe WouldDictate  Peacein U.S.  Planned Sneak Altach on Pearl Harbor, Wrecked London Conference        Nes avecceemA camteres ae eee ee ca   KILLED IN ACTION

NIPS ADMIT  DEATH OF YAMAMOTO   Admiral ‘Planned Te Dictate Peace In  White House

PEARL HARBOR: PLANNER DIES INA BATTL   Famous War Lord, U. Ss. Hater, Boasted of “Dictating’ Peace in Washington. ~   PRESUME DEATH CAME. AT AMERICAN HANDS

fsoroku Yamamoto Boasted. He Would Dictate Peace Terms in ' White House   DIED IN WARPLANE   Was Directing Genera } Strategy on Front .Line - Tokyo Radio Announc es: Details Withheld

Head of Sea, Air. Fleet Carried Out Pearl Harbor Raid   Coimmander Once Saic ‘He'd Dictate Peate In - White: House -

U.S.-Hater Dies While — On ‘Very Front Lines’   Admiral Yamamoto Was Man Who Wanted To Dictate The Peace Terms In White House; Japan’Upset By News Of April Death  

No. 1 Enemy of America And Chiefly Responsible For Pearl Harbor Attack

Adm. Yamamoto, Planner Of Pear! Harbor, Is Dead   Treacherous Jap Who Declared He Would Dictate Peace in_ White — ‘House’ Shot ‘Down Over “Southern Waters

Yamamoto Is — Killed In Action   LEADING JAP ADMIRAL MET DEATH IN APRIL

JAP ADMIRAL FAILS 10 HIT WHITE HOUSE   Yamamoto, Chief of Combined Nippon Fleet, Is Killed In Action   ) DEATH REPORTED BY TOKYO RADIO   Made Boast That He Would Dictate Peace Terms In White House

Yamamoto, Who Planned Attack on Pearl Harbor Reported Killed in Action

BITTER FOE OF U.5. LOSES LIFE WHILE ON DUTY   Admiral Yamamoto Met Death While In Combat, Says Tokyo Radio i   NEW NAVY CHIEF NAMED   Strategist Planned Raid On Pear! Harbor, Starting Pacific War

Meets Death  In Plane In Sea Conflict   Once Boasted He Would Dictate Peace In U. S.

NIPS MOURN DEATH OF YAMAMOTO   He Executed Attack On Pearl Harbor; Dies On Pacific Front Lines

TOP JAP MILITARY LEADER [5 KILLED   Adm. Yamamoto Won't Dictate Terms In White House   Saturation Bombing Can Win War For Allies, Claims Ziff

Jap Fleet  Commander IsDead   Adm. Yamamoto, Who Boasted He’d Dictate  Peace Terms in White House, Killed in Action

TOKYO NAVAL CHIEF KILLED IN AIR ACTION   AUTHOR OF ASSAULT ON PEARL HARBOR IS MOURNED

ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO. WHO PLANNED PEARL HARBOR SNEAK REPORTED BY TOKYO AS KILLED

Dream of Dictating ‘In Washington Ends   Boastful Admiral Dives to Death In Plane During Pacific Action

Boasted He'd  Dictate Peace  In Washington   Killed In Action Story Doubted In U. S.; It Was He Who Planned Pearl Harbor Attack

COMMANDER OF JAP FLEET MEETS DEATH   Man, Who Plonned Pearl _Harbor Attack, Dies in Combat

PLANNED JAP TREACHERY AT PEARL HARBOR   Yamamoto Boasted He Would Write Peace  In White House

Commander Ot Japanese Navy War Casualty   Isoroku Yamamoto Boasted He Would Dictate Peace In White House.   [PLANNED DEC. 7 RAID

He Wanted To Dictate Peace In White House!  Jap Fleet Commander lsoroku Yamamoto  Killed In Action

JAPANESE NAVY CHIEF KILLED IN AIR FIGHT   Yamamoto, Designer Of Pearl Harbor Blow, Reported Lost In Pacific Action   No. 1 U. S. Enemy

Japs. Mourn Chief Of Navy Whose M1 ystery Death’ Halt His Peace Dictation Plane

Adm. Yamamoto, Jap Naval Chief, Killed In Action in Pacific   Once-Threatened to Dictate Peace Terms ir White House; Believed Responsible For Pearl Harker

Jap Navy Chief, Enemy of White Race, IsKilled   Yamamoto Authored Pearl Harbor Attack ; Koaa Is Successor

Jap Naval Ace Dead, Says Tokyo   Man Who Wanted To Dictate Terms To ‘US. War Casualty

Tokyo Admits April Death . Of Navy Chief   Jap Leader Once Said He Would Dictate Peace in White House

TOKYO ADMITS DEATH OF FAMED ADM. YAMAMOTO  BOASTED HE WOULD   BOASTED HE WOULD DICTATE PEACE IN THE WHITE HOUSE   ROOSEVELT COMMENTS ON VAMAMOTO’S DEATH

Had Boasted Of Dictating Peace in US.   Tokyo Says Fleet Chief Killed in Action

£35 £2730 DU IVF AE PV EEE EE FIV OE Admiral Yamamoto, Commander Of Japanese  Fleet Was Killed In Action. Savs Tokvo   Beli.  POSSESSED HATRED EAR TINTTOR Crarec

‘Pearl Harbor Planner Dies  In Air Battle   Tokyo Reports Commandery Of Fleet Lost Life  Tee G@rivehsem Vil obi

No. 1 U.S. Hater Killed, Japs Say   Japs Reported Evacuating Attu

COMMANDER OF JAP FLEET = REPORTED DEAD IN ACTION   i _ YAMAMOTO, WHO BOASTED HE  WOULD DICTATE PEACE IN WITTE HOUCE, KILLED

Adm. Yamamoto Killed In South Pacific Battle   Jap Fleet Chief Boasted He’d Dictate Peace Terms In White House.

Yamamoto Killed During Battle, Tokyo Reports   Had Boasted He Would Dictate Peace Terms  In U. S. White House’

BRAGGED HE'D DICTATE PEACE IN WHITE HOUSE   Loss Of Chief Strategist Blow To Tokyo

Sea Leader Who Planned ‘Pearl Harbor Attack Dies Hero’s Death  KOGA HIS SUCCESSOR

Japanese Navy Chief Reported Killed in Actior   Admiral Yamamoto, Bitter Enemy of U. $., Victim of Air Battle

Jap Naval — Commander ‘Dies in Action   Admiral Yamamoto, Who Planned Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dies in Air Battle  - in South Pacifie

DEAD, SAYS RADIO TOKYO   Killed In Action Aboard Plane In Pacific, April

A NOTED JAPANESE COMMANDER KILLED IN ACTION IN APRIL   Tokio Radio Announced the Death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.   IWAS ABOARD WARPLANE   He Boasted at One Time He Would Dictate Peace Terms in the White House.

JAPAN REVEALS HEAD OF NAVAL FORCES KILLEL   Admiral Yamamoto, Who Di rected Pearl Harbor Attack, Dies in Pacific

Japanese Naval Chief Is Killed; Able Strategist   He Boasted He Would Dictate Peace Terms In White House.

Allied Bullets Account For Man Who Planned and Carried Out Attack On Pearl Harbor and Boasted He Would Dictate Peace Terms In  White House.

JAPANESE NAVAL COMMANDER DEAD   ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO SAID TO HAVE DIED ABOARD PLANE DURING OPERATIONS.

YAMAMOTO DIES IN PLANE CRASH IN LINE OF DUTY   Tokyo Radio Reports Wreck Occurs in South Pacific Area

YAMAMOTO DIES INACTION   Jap’s Boast He Would   Dictate Peace Terms  in White House

Tokio Claims Its Highest Officer Died in an Airplane   He Had Boasted He Would Dictate Peace From White House

Boasttul Nippon Admiral Killed   Isoroku. Yamamoto, Jap Commander - in - Chief,  Meets Death in a Plane.

YAMAMOTO JAP NAVY TOP BATTLE DEAD   Authur Of Pearl Harbor Attack Was Killed Last Month Tokio Announces Nation Mourns   No 1. Enemy Of U. 5.

Tokyo Mourns Death of Jap Navy Chieftain   Admiral Yamamoto Authored Raid On Pearl Harbor

Jap Whe Wanted te Dictate Peace Terms ‘In White House Keported By Tokyo Killed In Air Action

WAS DIRECTING OPERATIONS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Admiral Once Boasted He Would Dictate Peace in White House

Yamamoto, Nip admiral,  dies in actior   Killed in front lines, broadcast from Tokyo says

Foes Trapped Near Attu Village;  Yamamoto, Nip Navv Chief. Slain

Japanese Naval Chief Is Killed  He Won't Be Able To “Dictate Peace”

ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO KILLED IN ACTION TOKYO RADIO SAYS   Official Who Helped Plan the Sneck Attack on ‘Pearl Harbor Is Dead.

JAP SEA CHIEF MEETS DEATH   NIP ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO DIES IN AIR OPERATION

Yamamoto, Jap Admiral Who Promised He’d Write Peace In White House. Killed

Jap Naval Head Killed In Action   Admiral Yamamoto, Who Boasted That He Would Dictate Peace Terms !n White House, Killed In Pacific Area

YANK FLYING ACE GETS 5 JAP ZEROES   30-year-old Major Sprays Death Over Pacific

LAUNCH NAVY CRAFT HERE   Anniversary Ship Is Sent Down Ways At Local  Plant

Okies Head West Again-- By Special Request  me Be ee eS. ee a ee -T" Ft fT ry i y. “nf @” q   Needed On Farms, They Travel On Plush Cushions Of Coaches

‘Okies Heading ‘For West Again   This Time They Travel On Plush Cushions of Roilrood Trains

Weather Forecast   KOKA, WAKE ISLAND GIVEN NEW ATTACKS   American Planes Strike At Japs Over Wide Area

Monty Tells Men They Can Be Proud   Year Ago Eighth Army Just Through El Agheila

LAUNGH BOOM FOR MARTHUR   TWO STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND FORMER STATE’ HOUSE EMPLOYE IN- CORPORATE PRESI-  -DENTIAL CLUB

Indian Issue Becomes One  Of Major Crises of Allies   Becomes Interwoven With Destiny of America, Accord ing to DeWitt Mackenzie, War Analyst; Urgency of Settling Independence Fight In Immediate Future Stressed

India, A House Divided Against Itself, Presents Allies One Of Its Major Crises   Re DEWITT MACKENZIE

Immediate Solution of Indian Problem Vital, Says DeWitt MacKenzie, Nation Seen as Key Country in Allied Viclory   RY DEWITT MACKENZIN

End of India Crisis Urgent for the Allies, Dewitt Mackenzie Says

MacKenzie Begins Series On India  Indian Problem Is Vital One For United Nations

Associated Press Expert Regards India As Absolutely Essential To Allied Drive

Discussing British-Indian Squabble. Mackenzie Declares It Has Become One of Major Crises Facing Allies

First of a Series... British-India Controversy No Longer a Family Affair

PROBLEM OF VITAL INDI  NEAR CRISIE   DeWitt Mackenzie Writes of Personal Observation of Conditions.   VIEWS COUNTRY AS ARSENAL OF ORIENT   Gives Reasons for Need of Haste in Settlement of Disputes.

ASSCCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES INDIAN QUESTION IN MANNER OF MAN ON THE GROUND

The Indian Crisis   Quick Solution of Problem Vital, Says Dewitt Mackenzie—A Key Nation in Winning War

Indian Problem Must Be Solved Quickly   Gandhi’s Death Might Be Spark To Set Off Conflagration Dangerous To United Nations

INDIA VITAL TO ALLIES ARSENAL OF ORIENT FACES NEW CRISIS AS GANDHI FASTS.

"Wevw itt Mackenzie ays:  Solution Of Indian Problem (Vital For All United Nations

QUICK SOLUTION OF INDIAN PROBLEMS VITAI  Important to United Nations

SENIOR LAGS ae   “Brother - st yl Be . Giver. at the Gym Tuesay Evening ee.

SENIOR CLASS PRESENTS PLA   ‘Brother Gocse” Wiil Be Given at the Gym Tuesday Evening.

Lnough s Hnougnl  Keep Those Blonde Tresses, ‘Girls, OWI Doesn’t Need ’em

Keep Your Loc ks Blondie! ow! Smothered Under Avalanche ‘Of Unwanted Straw Colored Hair

Now It Appears That The OWL—  Doesn't Want Blondes   Achievement Awards Presented At Cathedral High Baccalaureate

Blond Locks Getting Into OW!ls Hair   Now the Cry Goes Up: “Put Away Your Scissors, Girls. and Relax.”

Vation ’s Blondes Called on 3y OWI to Put Away Shears   Kes Blondes As Well As Next Fellow But It Doesn’t Need Any of Their Hair; Avalanche of Parcels Bring Everything From Strands to Sizeable Hanks

Blondie Put Away Those Scissors, Uncle Sam Doesn’t Need Your Hai

OWI LIKES BLONDES BUT THEIR HAIR NO LONGER NEEDED IN WAR EFFORT; TRESSES SHOULD BE SAVED

Normandie’s Tilt ls Now Reduced To 40.8 Degrees   Knox Declares Critical Stage of Salvage Operation Is Safely Past

TILT OF LINER BEING REDUCED   Work Progresses on Righting Of Former French Liner Normandie, With Critical  *® Stage of Salvage Past

Subsidy Vote Appears Near   Administration Leaders And Subsidy Foes Admit Result In Doubt

FOOD PRICES. “CONTROL PLAN 1S IN DOUBT   BOTH SIDER NOT CERTAIN. Ad  {TO OUTCOME OF EENATE   VOTE ON SUBEIDY ~~ SYSTEM - .

JAPANESE TOLD WAR SITUATION IS TRULY GRAVE   Diet Asked To Approve “Urgent Supplementary Budget” For Mobilization

TOIO DECLARES, HOWE v ER, THERE 18 NOT “THE SLIGHT,  EST DOUBT’ OF AXIS ri VICTORY

August Draft Call Cut. Wheeler Says   Reductions Made for Rest of Year

Huge Force Of Germans Raid Base Of Kursk   Red Airmen Down 56 And Anti- Aircraft Guns Get Nine; Artillery Action Reported On Whole F rent; No News From South

Soviets Destroy  69 Nazi Planes Attacking Kursk   Red Air Force Destroys or Damages at Least 10 German Tanks, More Than 50 Trucks and Three Railway Trains

M’Arthur Clears  Papua Peninsula   Sanananda Sector Taken. Last of 15,000 Japs  Overwhelmed

ALLIES SEIZE } FULL CONTRO   OY, 7, KILLS ALL GIRL, AGED 3 FU   Enemy Forces Overwhelm med in New Guinea Area

Jans Around Sanananda Overwhelmed   Allies Now Control Entire Papuan Peninsula of Guinea

Papuan Peninsula Captured ‘By Allies; 750 Japs Killed In Final Sanananda Battle   ‘MacArthur’s Headquarters Also Announces Destruc:  ' tion Of 24,000 Tons Of Enemy Shipping By Bombers In Pre-Dawn Raid On Rabaul Harbor

Allies Control Whole Sector Of Peninsula  Four Ships Sunk af Rabaul as Bombers Ctrike at Harhoar

ALLIES SEIZE FULL CONTRO!   Enemy Forces Overwhelm. med in Hew: Guinea

Advance Seven Points in Month   Towa Farm Price Index Up 3 Points

suture Subsidy Operations transferred From Control Prentiss Brown to Chester C. Davis   FUTURE OPERATION OF GPA AT STAKE   ‘Also Faces Financial Crisis, Subsidies Already Promised to be Met by Government

House Puts  O. K. on New Tax Measure   Reduced Bill Is _ Major Defeat for Administration; -Vote Is 200 to 27

New Deal Takes Hard Beating In Quick Vote   Withholding Tax Rate Unchanged   Doughton Leads Vight

enale Votes limination i Rollback   Joins House in Move To Abolish Subsidies; Gives Chester Davis Power on Subsidies

SCNATE Allbo wUBUIUY PLAN TO GUT PRICES   OPA’s Rollback Program Thrown Into Disorder By Congress Action   ADMINISTRATION HANDED SECOND SHARP SETBACK   Future Subsidy Operations Taken Away From OPA, Given Chester Davis

HOUSE VOTES APPROVAL OF “TAX MEASURE   Administration Dealt {Second Major. Defeat In Two Days

House Speedily Passes New Tax Bill 200 To 27   Administration !s Dealt Second Big Rinw [In Twa Dave

2 BILLION DOLLAR TAX BILL PASSED ¢ BY HOUSE, 200-27   Quick Action Taken on Measure Which Repudiates Treasury’s Plea for Sum  5 Times as Great.   SECOND NEW DEAL DEFEAT IN TWO DAYS   Legislation Makes Few Changes in Burden on Personal Incomes—-Now Goes to Senate.

Administration Suffers Second Major Setback   Senate Joins House In Voting Ban On Food Subsidies  OPA CRISIS

‘OF PRICES 4S OUSTED   Roosevelt’s Challenge Held Answered By  Solons’ Action

‘se Approves ‘ply Reduced Bill, 200-27   ministration fers Second heat j in Two Days

Administration  Handed Second Defeat in 2 Days   Senate Votes To Transfer Subsidy Operations From OPA To Chester Davis’ Office

CRISIS FACED BY BROWN IN OPA PROGRAM   ROOSEVELT TAKES SECOND SETBACK IN TWO DAYS

Senate Kills Rollback of Food Prices   Subsidy Rapudiaties, Transfer of Power te Davis Hew te OPA

House Passes Drop In Bucket Tax Measure   Administration Dealt Another Major Defeat as the ' House Approves $2,139,300,000 Bill by a Vote of 200 to 27

All Subsidies Transferred te ‘Czar’ Davis  Payments Already  Ordered by Brown AT ot Tse 

Senate Measure Transfers Future Subsidy Operations From O.P.A. to War Food Administrator; Upper House Agrees to Carry on Program to Encourage Agricultural Production

‘Senate Joins House fo Kill Subsidies   Transfers.Power to War Food Administrator

Congress Votes To Repudiate Food Subsidy   Transfer Further Operations to ® Chester C. Davis

SENATE 46-29 AGAINST FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN         Joins House in Expres ing Opposition— P; gram Dead So FarCongress Is Concerned                A MAJOR DEFEAT FOR ADMINISTRATIO   Upper Branch Also Call for Transfer of Par OPA Powers to Ches C. Davis.

FUTURE OF OPA OPERATIONS IS NOW AT STAKE   Transfers Subsidy Authority to War Food Adminstrator

Senat te Rejects OPA’s Food Subsidy Plan   Votes to Transfer Such Operations To Chester Davis

SCongress Knifes Rollback Plan In Swiit Move  New Revolt Is  p Second Defeat For Roosevelt

House Approves Revenue Measure   Passes $2,139,300,000 Tax Bill, Repudiating Treasury Request For Larger Sum; Vote 200 To 27 Without Roll Call

New Crisis In OPA Operation   Any Future Subsidy Operations Taken From OPA Head

Subsidies Voted Down By Senate   Operation Of OPA Faces New Crisis

*House Passes Curtailed Tax Bill And Urges Economies  Excess Profits Taxes Raised And Luxury Ratec Are Increaced In Houce Meacure

Senate With House Rejects OPA Food Subsidy Rollback   Votes to Transfer Future Operations From Brown to Davis

GIVES SUBSIDY AUTHORITY TO DAVIS OF   Votes, 49 to-26, to Support House Repudiation: of OPA Program.   SECOND MAJOR SETBACK FOR ADMINISTRATION

OPA’S ROLLBACK SCHEME BOOTED OUT BY SENATE   Administration is Handed Another Stunning Defeat By Irate Congress

Soviet Army Now Threatens Northern Flank To Baltic   Critical Crisis Springs Up For Germans In Russia With Capture Of Nevel

AIR, SEA FORCES IN NEW GUINEA ACTIVE      Continue To Smash At Jap Concentrations On Island

Farmer Is Sued  For Damages  Claims Hay Loading Equipment Faulty

NEW COAL ROW AND PEACE TALK STIR CONGRESS   Scrap Over Tax Bill Gets No Place and Compromise On Subsidy Plan Offered

Capitol Hill Differs on Leneth of War   Several Senators Believe Germans  Can Not Be Beaten Before Next Summer

Opinions Over Peace Differ With Congress   Allied Conference of High Officials Stirs Up Numerous Reports in Nation’s Capital.

Will Seal Final Big Inch Link In Program Today   Stretches Across Half A Continent To Phoenix ville: Last Weld

Three Jap Cargo  Ships Attacked  ‘Near Miss Scored on One Vesgel

Small Jap Convoy Is Attached By  Single Bomber   Near Miss Scored ~ On One Of Three

Seerererereereeeet eee eee ees: Plan Service Centers in Jap Capital

10 SUBS SUNK OR DAMAGED   13 Air-Sea Battles in Atlantic Reported

U. S. Bombers Sink Or Damage 10 Subs In Series of Fights   B-24’s Return to Home Bases Safely After Long Flights Over Ocean to Battle Underseas Craft—No Planes Lost After 13 AirSea Engagements.

U. 5. Airforce Destroys Five Nazi U-Boats   Damages Five Others As Result of Air-Sea Battles Far Out in Atlantic Ocean

10 U-BOATS SUNK IN 13 BATTLES   AAA B-24 Bombers On Patrol Far Out  In Orean

B-24’s Hit 10 Nazi U -Boats   5 Believed Sunk in 13 Atlantic Battles

Planes Hunt Far To Sea   Five Subs Known Sunk,  Others Kept From Convoys

~ HAZE SUBS   Sunk or Damaged By U.S Planes In 13 Air-Sea Battles

TOLL TAKEN IN 13 FIGHTS: FAR AT SEA   Five Nazi Craft Believed Sunk and Five Damaged, While Three Are Forced to Give Up At tarke an Shinnine.

13 AIR-SEA BATTLES SINK 10 NAZI SUBS   Specially Equip ped B-24 Bombers Turn Trick

AT LEAST TEN GERMAN U-BOATS SUNK BY PLANES   Anti-Submarine Campaign By Airplanes Producing Heavy Toll of Subs

TEN NAZI SUBS SUNK, DAMAGED — BY U. S. PLANES   B-24's Fly Far as 1,000 Miles to Sea to Batlle U-Boals, All Refurn; Five Ctewrhen Wounded

5 Definitely Sunk By Patrol Planes — In Runs Far at Sea   All American Craft Return Safely. From Roundup of Sea Marauders; One U-Boat Torn in Two by Bomb:

Air Forces In Battle With Subs   10 U-Boais Sunk!or Damaged, Three Forced to Leave Convoy Lane   BATTLES STAGED FAR OUT AT SEA   Five Members of One Bomb. er Crew Wounded in One Fight

10 GERMAN SUBMARINES SUNK, DAMAGED IN ATLANTIC IN AIR-SEA BATTLES WITH YANKS

Jn Daring Sea Patrols U. 8. Planes  Sink or Damage 10U-Boats in 13 Fights

1 0 U-Boats Sunk Or Damaged In Battles With Army Planes   B-24's Flew As Far As 1,000 Miles From Base To Beat Off Submarines Attacking Shipping

NAZI SUB PACKS SMASHED IN MID-OCEAN ATTACKS BY B-245   BOMBERS RANGE TO 1000 MILES AT SEA TO BLAST VESSELS DESPITE RETURN FIRE

U.S. Army Air Forces Account For Subs in 13 Air-Sea Fights   B-24 Bombers Patrolling Far Out Into The Ocean Get Hitler's Tin Fish; Flew Out As Far As 1,000 Miles At Times

~-U-BOATS—  ARMY TELLS OF SEA-AIR FIGHTS   American Planes Range Far Out Over Atlantic  Oeean   5 BELIEVED SUNK   Thrilling Encounters Far From U. 8. Coast Are Reported

Five Subs Sunk, Five Damaged By Patrol ‘Bombers   Announcement Tells Of 13 Air-Sea Battles Far Off Eastern Coast

10 U-Boats Sunk By U. S. Airmen   Some Of Our Bombers Flew 1000 Miles To Sea To Attack Suha.

Range Far To Sink  U-Boats   Ten Subs Accounted  For By Air Force _. Patrol Bombers Flying 1.000 Miles from Base

NAZI U-BOAT LOSSES GROW IN ATLANTIC   Report 5 Sunk, 5 Damaged ir 13 Air-Sea Battles  '

ers Take pavy Toll 13 Battles   nti-Submarine ommand Tells  Shan Artian

WARNS COSTLY FIGHTING AHEAD   Patterson and High Officers Plead for Greater Arms Output

Post-War Policy Fight in Senate   Group Demands Stronger Resolution

READY TO HELP   Governor Schoeppel Receives Word from the Red Cross

Nazis Claim Bryansk Abandoned   Reds Report Fighting Still Rages In City

Germans Report Bryansk Retreat   Moscow Does Not Claim City Taken

Germans Evacuate Key Bryansk Base   Soviets Declare Fighting Is - Still Going Or In Streets Of Rail City; Unhinging Of Nazi Line Threatened

Nazis Keport Relinquishing Key Rail City   Reds Noncommittal; Capiure Is Greatest . Victory Since Kharke

Milestones That Mark The Way To Berlin  KEY ELEMENTS OF ALLIED TUNISIAN VICTORY CITED

GERMAN MILITARY TRAFFIC THRU SWEDEN TO STOP   Troop Movements to Halt Aug. 20. War Material Aug. 15th, It is Announced

Action Taken After Military Preparedness Is Raised to High Point

Sweden Closed to Germans   Passage of Troops, Materials Across  Nation to be Halted.

GERMANS BATTLE DESPERATELY 10 EVACUATE ARMY   SOVIET FORCES RACE TO ANNIHILATE NAZI TROOPS IN GARRISON

Stockholm Cracks Down   Movement of War Meterials Alse Barred By lronclad Edict

Shops Menaced By Point Ration  Committee Defends Small Businessmen

POINT DANGER TOFOOD STORES   House Committee on Small. Business Reports Selfish Activities.

De Gaulle, Giraud Fail to Reach Political Aceord   Leaders Agree On Certain Degree Of Military Coordinetion But Little Else

Two French Factions Fail To Agree   Allies Will Bring Giraud and de Gaulle Together Again

Majcr Issues Not Settled By Generals   De Gaulle, Giraud Agree on Certain Number of Points

DE GAULLE, CIRAUD UNABLE TO REACH  FINAL AGREEMENT   Agree On Certain  Points, But. Fail Te Sée Frerich Politiéal) Issues  Eve. Ts. Eve

Plan Second Attempt to Unite French   Meeting Between Two Leaders in Africa Sought Soon

RIFT STILL UNSETTLED BY FRENCH   Political : Differences Untouched In Talks In Africa

ON PERCENTAGE BASIS   OPA Makes Announcement of In dustrial Users of Meats and Fats

DECISION IN WAGE CRISIS. COMING SOON   AGITATION FOR REVISION OF PAY FORMULA BEING CARRIED TO PRESIDENT  : TODAY

LABOR REVOLT PUT UP TO FOR   President To Decide On Protests Against Little Steel Formula

ATTACK ON ETERNAL CITY FOLLOWS RAF NORTH ITALY RAID  BIAUAT ARITA Ath RAR SHA      NAVAL AND AIR FORCES BLAST AT NAZI SICILIAN EVACUATION

Soviets Close Trap Tighter on Kharkov; Within Five Miles from Northeast—_ Bern Dispatches Report Widening Gulf Between Germany and Italy

RAF Also Raids Northern Italy In Twin Assault   Red Army Closing in on Kharkov Advances To Within 5 Miles Of City From North

Bomb Rome Again   Berlin, Milan and Turin Also Blasted; Pound German Troops Retreating in Sicily

Allies Loose. Air Blows at Italy’   Attempt to Knock Italy Out of War Echoes  in Raids on Northern Italy and Capital;: Allied Troops Continue to Push German ~ Rear Guards Back on Sicily :

ams With’ Berlin, Rome,  Milan, Turin   Soviets Close Trap Tighter on Kharkov with Its Fall Imminent; Drive Deeper into Bryansk; Americans Capture Port Orlando

Yanks, RAF Aim Twin Knockout Blows At Italy   Two More Towns Fall To U.S., Navy Shells Island

 MASSED RAID BY AMERICAN BOMBERS RAIN DESTRUCTION , (ON ROME RAILWAY YARDS   RAF Delivers Its Mightiest Raid on Northern Italy Alied Troops in Sicily Batter Back Axis Rear Guard Traone

Heavy German Blows Pushing Soviets Back  Rail Communication Te Kharkov Cut, Report; ' Reds Lose 8 Cities

8 REY CITIES ARE RETAKEN BY NAZI ARMY   Hitler Sends 375,000 New _ Troops Into Battle   KHARKOV   Goal Of Serious Counterattack: Germans Lose 20,000 In Week

Russians Fight To Hold Ground, Upper Donets River Valley   British 8th Army Patrols Hit Axis Hard Along 60-Mile Mareth Line in Southern Tunisia

Hitler Hurls 375,000 Men Against Reds   Makes Counter Drive Upper Donets Valley

Red Army Loses Eight Key Cities In Nazi Resurae   375,000 Fresh Men Gain 100 Miles; British Begin Mareth Line Forav<.

Germans Sweer 100 Miles Into Russian Lines  Capture Eight Cities As Reds Battle to Retain Kharkayv

Reds Driven Back 100 Miles in Upper  Donets River Basin   Admit Loss of 8 Cities in Drive of Reinforced Nazi Legions

Eight Key Cities Taken By Germans   Hitler’s Army Driving In Donets Basin; Reds Make Gains Elsewhere

‘BACK NEAR KHARKOV      Grave Setback: .for “Reds, Bat Ne. Signs: of ‘Major: Collapse Appear.   DRIVE In CENTER STILL: ROLLING      It May. Force’ Hitler. to Again Shift His Strength tg Ease Crisis © :

But Germans Are Evacuating City On Central Front   Montgomery Seems About Ready to Open Battle of Mareth Line

HITLER HUALS 978,000 NEW MEN IN ORI   Soviets Lose-Eight Towns and Fight to Stem Drive on’... Kharkov, ~    NAZIS TAKE 12-DIVISIONS: FROM FRANCE, REPORTED

Reds Battle Desperately For Kharkov   Soviets Driven Back 100 Miles With  Loss of Eight Key Cities; Climactic  Assault on Mareth Line Near; RAF  Bombs Munich

GERMANS CAPTURE EIGHT CITIES IN GREAT OFFENSIVE   British Launch Attacks on Mareth Line in Tunisia; Royal Air Force Bombs Munich Again.

Soviets Lose 8 Key Cities In Retreat  Nazis Throw 375,000 Fresh Troops Against     CRITICALSITUATION  Axis Advances 100 Miles  in Upper Donets Wallac   Axis Advances 100 Miles in Upper Donets Valley

Reds Battling Desperately To Save Kharkov   Climactic British Attack On Mareth Line In Tu nisia Near.

British Army Prepares For  Atriean Push   No Major Soviet Collapse Seen In Capture Of Eight Towns By Foe.  HITLER SHIFTS UNITS

Battle Desperately To Hold Hard-Won Gains Of Winter   Montgomery Begins Attack On Mareth Line; Six Axis Offensives Are Crushed

Hitler Throws 375,000 Fresh Troops Into Offen sive Against Kharkov   NAZIS YIELD GROUND IN OTHER FIGHTING   Tunisian Conflict In Lull But Allied Offensive Is Believed Imminent

‘EIGHT KEY CITIES IN BONETS BASIN IRETAKEN BY GERMANS   RUSSIAN SETBACK BELOW KHARKOV TEMPERED BY GAINS ELSEWHERE

iKed Armies Lose Eight Key Cities   Russians Strive To Hold Gains Made In Winter Drive   Eighth Army Bestirs ‘Itself In Tunisia   General Eisenhower Reports Increased Allied Patrol Action

375,000 Fresh German Troops   Soviets Push Ahead In Central Area, As Donets Section Lost.

Reds Fight To Check  Nazi Gains   Say Kharkov Threatened As Germans Advance 100 Miles In Big Drive

GET 8 CITIES IN COUNTER DRIVE NEAR KHARKOV   Report Hitler Putting 375,009 New Troops Into Raging Sector

R.A.F. Delivers Heavy! Attack On Munich; 11 Warplanes Are Missing

SOVIET TRIES TOSAVE THEIR WINTER PRIZE   Russians Pushed Back 100 Miles in Donets Basin by  Germans.   Hitler Throws Large Unit Against Kharkov

Hitler Throws 375,000 Men  in New Drive   Montgomery” Pr Prepares to Take Offensive Along Mar: eth Line: Reds Advance ©

REDS FALL BACK IN FIGHTING IN DONETS VALLEY   Military Analysts See No Sign of Major Collapse Of Russians, However   LOSSES IN BATTLE HEAVY   Meanwhile, Allies Appear To Be Maneuvering for Attack On Axis in Tunisia

Germans Gain 100 Miles in Counter Drive  Montgomery Open   Montgomery Opens Sharp Patrol Forays Along Mareth Line

379,000 NEW TROOPS USED IN OFFENSIVE   Russians Drive Within 19 Miles of Vyazma On North Front

Soviet Army Driven Back  100 Miles   _ German Drive in South Countered by Red Success in North

In Desperate Fight to Save Strategic City   Timoshenko Continurs To Push Ahead on B. 4 parry OE

DESTRUCTION OF AXIS PLANNED   Grew Says Plans “Perfectly Coordinated and Timed” to do Worst to Each of Them.

 hd q e United Nations ‘Coordinate Plane Ho Sawe   Grew Says Strategy Is Perfectly Timed Tn All Areas

Plan for Destruction of Axis Well Timed, Says Grew   Jesigned to Do the Worst That Can be Done to Ger many and Japan While Fighting Both, Former U. 8. Ambassador to Tokyo Tells Canadian Victory Loan Rally

PAY-AS-GO° INCOME TAX PLAN MAYBE REVIVED-IN HOUSE   SENTIMENT . FOR ATTEMPT .TO PASS COMPROMISE MEASUBE 19, REPORTED GEOWING

Americans Bomb Port Of Naples   Vatican Takes First Precautions Against Attack

AIR BATTLES RAGING OVER SOLGMGN IS.      Yanks Strike Five Times For Japanese Three, _ Inflict More Damage On Munda Air Base.   Started Sunday

AERIAL SLUGGING MATCH IS UNDERWAY IN PACIFIC   Jap Vessels Are Attacked by Fliers

Slug lt Out In Air Over Solomons   Japs Strike at U. 5. Positions; Damage Base, Troop Barge

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS TRADED IN SOLOMONS   Enemy Planes Strike Three Times, Americans Five

AIR SLUGGING MATCH RAGES IN SOLOMONS   JAPS HIT 3 TIMES} U. S. PILOTS COME BACK WITH FIVE

Aerial Fight Under Way  in Solomons   Details Are Lacking on Damage in Exchange of Blows

AIR WAR RAGES IN SOLOMONS AREA      AMERICANS AND JAPS' EXCHANGE BLOWS IN THREE DAYS OF FIGHTING.

de Marigny To Leave Bahamas   Close Friend Asked To Depart With The Count

DE MARIGNY IS TOLD 10 LEAVE NASSAU   His Friend and Alibi Witness at Murder Trial Included in Executive Order—Pair May Go to Mexico.

Aldred De Marigny, Friend Invited to Get Out of Bahamas   Husband of Nancy Oakes to Remarry Her in  Church Today

DeMarigny, Invited to Leave Bahamas, Announces Heand  Nancy Will Be Re-Married

DEMARIGNY ASKED TO LEAVE BAHAMAS   ‘Count and Close Friend In yvited To Leave The Is Jand.

OUSTED DE MARIGNY STARTS BUILDUP 10 COME TO NEW YORK   Acquitted of Killing, He s To Remarry Wife

De Marigny To Wed Naney In a Chureh   Frenchman and Friend Ordered Out of Bahamas

De Marigny fo Remarry Wife   He and Friend Ar Asked to Letve Bahama Islands

Count de Marigny to Rewed Wife  Church Ceremony Set for Monday Afternoon

—DE MARIGNY—  ASK DE MARIGNY TOLENVE NASA   Close Friend Also Invited To Quit Bahamas By Council

INVITE DE: MIARIGIY TO LEAVE BAHAMAS   Invitation Is Extended to His Friend, Marquis Georges de Visdelou

Marignys Will Move To Mexico:  Are Re-Marriet   ‘Invited’ To Leave The  Bahamas

NASSAU OFFIGIALS “INVITE” MARICNY TO LEAVE ISLAND   Marquis De Visdelou, His Friend, Included in Gov- — ernment? Order

DE MARIGNY INVITED a TO.MEAVE THE   Order Issued After. Mee! ing of Governor-in-: -Council ‘Saturday ~~

De Marigny And Nancy To Rewed Today   Church Wedding Decided Upon Because Other Was Civil Ceremony   iS WNVITED 1O..LEAVE

U. Boat Sinks Merchant Ship In ( aribbean      Three Killed When Ship Is Struck By. Three ‘Torpedoes.

U-Boat Sinks Merchant Ship In Caribbean   Three Killed When Ship Is Struck By Three "Tornedocs.

Reds Slam Shut Caucasus Door; Disaster Looms   > Miles From Rostov; ‘Real ‘Dunkerque’ Faces Hitler In Russia

‘Nazi Caucasian Army Is Caught in Riissitin Noose By Lighting Thrust. -

HITLER FACING TASK OF SAVING FORGE 200,000   Presented His First ‘“Dunkerque’, Following His Disaster at Stalinorad   RUSSIANS WITHIN 5 MILES OF ROSTOV:   Burst Across Donets River in Sweep Which Threatens Encirclement of Crimea

Reds Hit ‘Last Line’ 5 Miles  Below Rostov   Stalin's Troops Stab Toward Keret Straits To Cut Off Sea Escape O7 200,000 In Caucasus Trap

Germans Face Task Of Extricating Forces In Caucasus; Sea Blocked  Main Rail Line Between KharkovRostov Captured. Success in Uk am comin Daeiieten A DB. Oe ea

VETO PUUND NACI OtrENoto ARDUND RUST OV   Seaward Escape Of Large German Caucasian Army Also Cut By Russians

10 GUT OFF NEA ESCAPE   Flying Columns Dashing  - Toward Kerch Straits to Prevent a German “Dunkerque.”   RUSSIANS STORM ROSTOV DEFENSES   Threaten to Encircle City and Also Donets Basin and Approaches to the Crimea,

Soviets Sweep To Point Near Key Nazi City   London Radio Hears Reds Five Miles Outside Important Town OF Rostov.   -DUNKERQUE FOR NAZIS

Drive to Azov Sea Pockets Great Nazi Force Below Don   General Eisenhower Named Commander of Allies In North African Theater; More Daylight Raids Hurled at German-Controlled European Areas

Huns Must Go By Sea After New Red Push   Russians Close To Rostov In New Enveloping Movement And Are Pressing Toward Kharkov

Soviets Move  To Cut Off Sea Retreat   Russian Forces Already at Sea Of Azov; Hitler Presented With Problem of Freeing Army

CAUCASIAN ARMY OF HITLER INTO JAWS OF DEATH   ‘Soviet Forces Hammer at Rostov Defenses — Others Race Toward Kerch Straits

SWIFT SOVIET DRIVE TO SEA CUTS OFF ARMY   Reds Approaching Rostov From South Are Within Five Miles Of City.

SWIFT SOVIET THRUST CUTS ESCAPE LANES   REDS SURGE WITHIN FEW MILES OF ROSTOYV

Flying Columns Racing To Cut Water Escape   Sea Of Azov Reached And Now Heading For Kerch Straits To Complete Move

SEAL FATE OF 200,000 NAZIS IN CAUCUSES   Russian Drive Takes Them Within 10 Miles of Rostov

RED ARMY MOVE! INFROM ALL SIDES ON NAZIS   Hitler Has Estimated 200,000 Men Caught In Caucasus

Méviet Army Only 5 Miles From Rostov  ‘ed Troops Reporte Fighting in Suburbs of Key City  ATAISK IS TAKED {itler Faces ‘Dunkerque to Free Encircled  Baprenc

BIGGEST CONVOY SINCE DUNKIRK SAILS CHANNEL   Fails To Draw Single Shot From Hitler's So-Called Fortress

— Huge Allied Convoy Maneuvers Off France Without Drawings a Shot

Russian Noose ~ Around Rostov  Draws Tighter  Germans Admit Retreat From Veronezh, Score New Caucasus Gains

German Public Is Being Prepared to Receive Bad News   Press Tells of the Great “Difficulties” Nazi Armies Encounter

Betlin Indicates This is Foreriinner of Further Major Withdrawals in Russia

Capital Hails   Iran Avowal   Washington Official: Wait Bond's Details

Teheran Report Fails To Please All Congressmen   Details Awaited By Some Crifics

HAIL PARLEY   Government Leaders’ Comment is for Most Part Very Favorable

Praise Is General  At U.S. Capital   Tehe ran Dec larat ion  ‘Big News for World’

More Details on War Conference At Iran Awaited   Washington Differs ir Reaction to Results Of Allied Parley

CHERBOURG AREA IS POUNDED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Berlin Uneasy Over In creasing Number Of - Planes In Britain

U.S. AIRFORCE STRENGTHENED   Britain-Based Armada Is Approaching Size Of R.A.F.

GERMAN AIRFIELD, RAIL TARGETS HIT      Nazis Retaliate With Another Attempt to Raid Landon

British Bombers Blast Cherbourg In North France   Germans Retaliate With London Raid

Reds Mass Guns Against Nazis At Kiev Bulge   Germans Launch Serious Attacks

BROWN CALLS FOR DEFEAT OF 2 FARM BILLS   Says Bankhead, Pace Acts Would End Stabilization of Wages, Prices.   SEES FOOD COST RISE   OPA Chief Says Agricultural Income Four Times Better Than at Start of War.

Asks Conaress Reject Farmer Parity Bills   OPA Administrator Says They Would Meke For Inflation   Claims Consumer Budget Would Soar 3 3-4 Billions   Little Steel Formula Also Would Suffer  Blow Brown Predicts

BROWN SAYS ENACTMENT OF FARM MEASURES WOULD END STABILIZATION OF PRICES

U. a. BOMBERS DINK I7 ofllPa IN SINGLE DAY   Mediterranean Shipping Of Enemy Is Hard Hit By American Craft

Mainland Of ‘Italy Blasted By Warships   American Warships Bombard Bridges and Power Installations in Violent Attack; Red Armies Narrow German Escape Corridor from Kharkov to 30 Miles

BRIDGES AND POWER INSTALLATIONS ARE OBJECTS OF ATTACK  NEWS OF NAVAL ACTIVITY   NEWS OF NAVAL ACTIVITY CAME IN WAKE OF “READY” ANNOUNCEMENT

Germans Report . Allied Invasion F leet Massing fe FEAR ASSAULT  Nazis Moving Into North Sector Of 4 Ttaly a

Movement of Nazi Troops to South Indicates Intention To Make Real Fight For at Least Northern Section of Badoglio's Kingdom      ARTILLERY DUEL OVER THE STRAIT OF MESSINA

Ask Patriots To Ready For  Invasion Soon   Madrid Reports Assault On European Fortress Only Few Hours Off,   NAZIS GUARD FRANCE

Nazis Say Invasion Fleet Is Massing In Mediterranean   German Troops Are Moving Into Italy To Defend Peninsula

Warships Bombard Italy   Big Allied Naval Guns Pound Mainland; Invasion Fleet: Reported Massing Off Bizerte

Invasion Orders Aired to Europé   German Troops Move into Northern Italy in Considerable Strength to Defend Lirie to Last; Twin Invasion Possibility Seen .

Warships Used For First Time  To Shell Coast   Bridges and Power Inatallations Blasted as German Broad. casts Report Massing of Al lied Invasion Fleet

ALLIES MASSING FLEET, BERLIN REPORT CLAIMS   Nazi Reinforcements Defend French Coastal  Area

US Warships Shell Italian Coast Points   Germans Rush Troops To Defend Northern Section

Germans Moving Reinforcements Of Considerable Strength Into Italy to Help Bolster Line

AXIS JITTERY OVER TALK OF INVASION MOVE   Germans Send Troops Into Italy, Indicating They'll Make Determined Resistance.

Bad Floods Are Expected in Missour      Serious Conditions Faced All Along Missouri; Osage   Area Threatened   WASHOUTS IN NORTHWEST AREA      Heavy Rains Cause Many Streams to Go Out; Many  Residents Must Evacuate

Abolishment of NYA Is Advised  Cla aim It Overlaps  rareariaaceé

Youth Administratior Program Under Fire  Senate Group Would Cut Funds

Abolish NYA, Byrd Report To Congress   Duplicates or ‘Overlaps 6 Other Federal Bureaus, - Inquiry Charges 

Clothing Needed for Flead Sufferers   Byrd Committie Recommends NYA Be Abolished June

Sicily Campaign Near End With 80,000 Germar And Italian Troops Doomed In ‘Coffin Corner’   Ry UNITED PRESS

QUISLINGS LOSE   Nazis Ousted From Two Seats In Danish Parliament.

Mrs. Joe Branch  Dies Suddenly         " Death ‘Came Few Mom: ' ents After Head Attack —Funeral-5.P..M. To dav.

Irs. Joe Branch ies Suddenly   Lath Came Few Momcents After Head Attack ~Funeral 5 P. M. Tor

Power Group Demands Vote Of Citizens   ~ «+ On Nebraska Power Company Ownership

MYERSVILLE FLIER SEEKS MORE ACTION   Lieut. John D. Mause, Jr., Recover ing From Injuries Received In Plane Crash

ACTION IS SOUGHT ~ BY INJURED FLIER   Lieut. John D. Mause, Jr. Recovering From  Wounds 

Od NEW POLIO CASES AEPOATED IN STATE   Moyer Says Increase Not an Epidemic, Ingham County, ‘Detroit ‘Hot Spots’

LABOR BOARD BLOCKS LEWIS IN WAGE FIGH]   No Collective Bargaining Conferences Allowed, Ickes Says

Lewis’ Attempt To By-Pass WLB Seems Blocked  Ickes Disclaims Authority Over

COAL DISPUTE NOW TUG-OF-WAR SETUP BETWEEN FACTIONS   WLB and Lewis Hold Limelight in Argument for Present, Is the View.

Lewis Told WLB Has Upper Hand   Ickes Backs Board I nMine Dispute

ICKES LEAVES DISPUTE TO WLB   Disclaims Authority In Move To Force Lewis To Recognize * Board

WLB FORCES LEWIS TO RECOGNIZE ITS WAGE AUTHORITY   Labor Board Stocks All Avenues for Mine Leader to By-nase It.

LEWIS’ MOVE TO BY. PASS WLB IN WAGE DISPUTE BLOCKED   Union Demand For $2 Boost In Wages Now Tug-of-War Between Board And UMW Chief

BLOCK AVENUES TO LEWIS FOR WLB SHOWDOWN   Coal Wage Dispute Resolves Itself Into Tag Of War

War Aid Agencies  Unitied   .« + Gow. Griswold Heads Statewide Group

Benes Talks Today With Roosevelt   Czech President Proposes Federation of European Nations

New Whisky Ruled Out During 1943  WPB Issues Order con TE ie Cee eee

HOPE OF EARLY SETTLEMENT IN DISPUTE. FADES   Polish Government in Exile Won’t Withdraw  Reaguest for Inqnirv

Chance of Early Reconciliation In Dispute Unlikely   * Polish Government Appeals To: Russia ‘To Release Refugees

POLES STAND GROUND IN DISPUTE   Reaffirm Their Demands On Soviet Gov't.

CHANCE TO END POLAND-RUSSIA BREAK REMOTE   Poles in New Appeal To Russians; Fail to Withdraw Request

Reconciliation Of Reds, Poles Seen Unlikely   Polish Government - Is Asking Release Of All Refugees

Poland Appcals For Release of Polish Refugees   Reconciliation Chances Fading

POLES APPEAI FOR RELEASE OF REFUGEES   Reconciliation Hopes Are Smashed With . New Developments

HOPE FADES FOR “RECONCILIATION   Polish Statement te Soviets Reaffirms Territorial Demands, Asks Aid for Refugees

RAF UNLOADS 900 TONS RUIN UPON BERLIN   Heavy Squadrons Of American Airmen Strike By Daylisht At Railway Yards Ot Rouen.   “Results Good’

Army Units Relieve Marines in Solomons   Sec. Patterson Also Announces Improvement of American Position in Solomons and Says Over-All War Picture Is Bright.

ARMY INTO  ‘SOLOMONS; WAR SCENE ~ BRIGHTEN:   Patterson’ Anmounces- the Marines Have Been Giver a Chance to. Rest   WORLD PICTURE LOOKS BETTER   Undersecretary. Reviews the Global Situation; Great’: Success in Russia

Over-All Picture Of War Is Bright   One Black Spot Is Submarine Sinkings, War Sec retary Says.

Maxey State's New Chief Justice Today  Testimonial Dinner Tc Mark Event This Evening

New Chiet Justice Is Sworn Today      JUSTICE GEORGE W. MAXEY BEGAN LIFE IN MINES AT FOREST CITY. SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY

WAR REPORTERS HEAVE A SIGH   Correspondents Had Known About Coming Invasion Of Sicily Since Mid-June, But Couldn't Say A Word.

THIS IS ‘D’ DAY AT U. 8S. HEADQUARTERS  FAIS IS "D’ DAY AT U. S. HEADQUARTERS Eisenhower Told Correspondents  Of Sicilian Drive A Month Aso

Correspondents. Called It 'Maqoo’   Given Time And Place; Told Not To Talk

Manpower Crisis Solution Urged   More Cooperation  Deemed Necescaryv

Jap Prisoner Tells Allied Army Men ‘His Country Plans War with Russia

MARKO CLOSING PAoe OF FIGHT   82 Planes Destroyed or Put Out of Action   BARGES, LIFEBOATS   Carrying Convoy Survivors Also Destroyed; Crippled Enemy Ships Sunk

Nip Campaign Shattered by Sinking of 22 Ships and Loss of More Than 15,000 Troops

59 JAPANESE PLANES * SHOT QUT OF FIGHT      Action in Bismarck Sea Seen as a Majer Disaster to the Enemy

ALLIES LOSE ONLY THREE FIGHTERS AND ONE BOMBER   Most of 55 Planes Protesting Convoy Shot Out of Fight and 22 Listed as Probably “Damaaed.   BATTLE OF BISMARCK SEA MAJOR DISASTER   Communique Says 10 Cruisers and Destroyers Are Lost In Attempt to Reach New Guinea.

ALLIED PLANES SINK 22 SHIPS OFF N. GUINEA   15,000 Nip Warriors Lose Lives As 15 Transports Are Sent To Bottom   95 ZEROS ARE SHOT DOWN      Attack Reduces Australian Menace; MacArthur Thanks Providence

Remnants of Jap Convoy Destroyed, Communique Says  Additional Planes Sho Down in Great Allied Triumoh

Only Three Fighters, One Bomber Lost   Jap Force Estimated at 15,000 Soldiers, _ Bound for New Guinea, Thousands of Enemy Sailors Slain :   Only Four U. S. Planes I nat

‘Remnants Of Jap Convoy Los!   Powered Barges Carrying Soldiers Sent to Bottom

BE AMAZING   Cost to” United Nations Only  Four. Airships Nowned,-    22 SHIPS, AND 1500 ~ SOLDIERS SUNK

Remnants Of Convoy Of Jap Vessels Wiped Out   Complete Destruction of Ships Involved Loss of Some 15,000 Jap Troops Bound for Lae—Total of _ 82 Jap Planes Put Out of Action

TWENTY-TWO ENEMY SHIPS, TEN OF THEM WARSHIPS. SMASHFN   ABOUT 15,000 JAP TROOPS LOST IN ANNIHILATION LATEST ENEMY THRUST

15,000 Japs Lost With 22 Enemy Ships  Allied Bombers Sink 10 Warships and 12 Transports  55 IZEROS DOWNED MacArthur Says Ene my’s Campaign ‘Is Comniately Dicloraten’

15,000 Efiemy Troops Bound for New Guinea‘ Are Casualties  GREAT, ALLIED VICTORY  Of 22 Enemy Ships All Are Sunk or Left in Sinking Condition

22 Ships Go Down Under Allied Fire   Ten Cruisers Or Destroyers Sunk With Cargo Vessels   15,000 Land Soldiers Aboard Shins Killed   Threat To Australia Reduced; Attacks Are Made In Bad Weather

Enemy Loses 15,000 Men In Disaster   55 Nipponese Planes Shot Down; Losses For Allies Total But 3 Fighters. Bomber

Sink 2 Ships of Convoy  Still Afloat   Barges, Lifeboats Carrying Nip Survivors Blasted

Two Crippled Jap Destroyers Sent to Bottom   Action Wipes Out Entire  Convoy—27 Additional DBlavescs Phavocicg J

15,000 Enemy Troops Perish in Sea Disaster   Three Fighters, One Bomber Lost In Great Triumph

Only U. S. Planes Lost; Australia Threat Fade   Defeat Is Termed ‘Major Disaster’ For Japs; Pacific Battle Lasted Two Days   PLANES DEFEAT VESSELS AGAIN   Most Fearful Storms Of Year Fail To Keep Allied Airmen On Ground

SINK LIFEBDATS, BARGES CARRYING ENEMY SOLDIERS   Two Destroyers Found Afloat Also Sent to Bottom in Concluding Phase of Battle.   FOLLOW UP TRIUMPH WITH NEW AIR BLOWS   Fliers Begin Softening Defenses at Lae, New Guinea, at Moment of Nipponese Setback.

Nipponese Lose 15.000 Men and  55 Warplanes   ... Amazing Triumph Costs U.S. 4 Aircraft

ALL SHIPS IN JAP CONVOY ANNIHILATED   Amazing Victory Achieved At Cost of Only Three Allied Fighters and a Bomber   THREAT IS REDUCED

Enemy Loses 15,000 Troops, 55 Planes In Two-Day Battle   Only 4 Allied Planes Shot Down; 10 of Foe’s Warships, 12 Transports Sunk or Sinking in Bismarck Sea='Major Disaster’ for Nippon

27 MORE JAP PLANES BAGGED BY M’ARTHUR’S AIR FORCE   82 Enemy Aircraft Have Been Put Out Of Action During Operations In New Guinea Area; No _ Traces Of Destroyed Convoy Remain

FLIERS SMAS BISMARCK SEA ENEMY CONVO)   Major Disaster for Enemy as 22 Ships, Estimated 15,000 Men Destroyed at Sea.   Rw ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bombers Wipe Out Last Remnants Of Bold Jap Armada   Two Destroyers Found Afloat Are Sunk And 27 More Nip Planes Are Shot Down

15,000 ENEMY TROOPS LOST IN BISMARCK SEA   Allies Score Sensational Victory over Japanese Naval Force

U.S. Losses Light in Blasting Jap Convoy   22 Enemy Vessels and 15,000 Men Reported Lost From Air Attacks in Bismarck Sea; Termed ‘Major Disater.’

Campaign of Foe Is Said ‘Dislocated’   Growing Optimism Seen In China After Ship Sinkings

55 of Enemy Planes Shot “Out of Fight   Americans Score Amazing Victory at Cost-of Only. 3y . Fighters." Bomber"?      MAJOR DISASTER: FOR THE ENEMY.   ‘Merciful Providence: Must -Have Guided ‘Us,’ Says. Cen: MacArthur:

10 Warships Are included in Toll   15,000 Japanese Warriors Bound for New Guinea Battleground Are Lost; 55 Planes Protecting Convoy Are Knocked Down

ALLIED AIRMEN SINK 22 SHIPS; DOWN 33 PLANES   ACHIEVE AMAZING VICTORY IN SEA-AIR FIGHT OFF NEW GUINEA

A Major Enemy Disaster   Amazing Victory Won By Allied Airmen in One of Greatest Air  vs. Sea Battles of War

About 15,000 Jap Troops Destroyed   Losses of. Allies Light in Smashing Suceess, - *

Brilliant Naval Victory Scored By Allie: Southwest Pacific As Entire Japane: Convoy Is Virtually Annihilated -- United Nations Losses Are Slight

Smash Victory In Pacific Costs Only 4 Aircraft   Loss Seen Major Disaster to Foe, Reducing Dire Threat to Australia

ALLIED AIRMEN ANNIHILATE: 22 JAPANESE SHIPS   Entire Convoy, Including 10 Cruisers or Destroyers, Out of Action

Allies Complete Smashing Of Japan’s Convoy   British, Dutch and Australians helped the. Yank ‘fliers; enemy loses 82 planes.

AIRMEN SMASH ENTIRE CONVOY   15,000 Forces, Bound for New Guinea, Virtually Wiped Out.   55 PLANES ARE DOWNED

15,000 Enemy Troops Killed In Sea Action  Only Three Allied Fighters, One Bomber Missing

High Pointer Distinguishes  Self In Raids   First Lt. Harlan Reid Plays Large Part In Sinking 22 Jap Ships And Drowning 0f 15,000 Japanese Soldiers In Action In Bismarck Sea

ENTIRE ARMADA WIPED OUT BY ALLIED BOMBERS   At Least 15,000 Troops on Way to New Guinea Lost When Transports Sunk   MAJOR DISASTER TO JAPS   Reconnaissance Flier Later Reports Ships Sinking, Many Dead, Much Wreckage

Entire New Guinea-Bound Fleet Annthilated With Allied Loss Of Only Four Planes

United Nations Airmen Lost One. Bomber, 3 Fighters   Defeat Is Serious Set-Back to Jap Strategy in Pacific

Allies Lose Only Four Planes In Amazing Victory, While 55 Jap Planes Shot Out Of Fight And Many Others Damaged In Two Dav Aerial Attack.

Foe’s Campaign Plan ‘Completely Wrecked’   Allied Fliers Knock Out 22 Enemy Vessels, Including 10 Warships, In Amazing Bismarck Sea Victory At Cost Of Only Four Planes; 15,000  Ninppvonese Soldiers Perish.

IAP SOLDIERS LOST AT SEL   Three Allied Fighters And One Bomber Lost In Amazing Victory

ATLEAST 15,000 ENEMY SOLDIERS KILLED 'N FIGHT   55 Jap Aircraft Downed; Only 4 U. S. Planes Lost

Blow Delivered By Allied Airmen Off New Guinea3 Total Includes 10 Cruisers Or Destroyers; Nearly All Of Protecting Planes Shot Down

Wipe Out Score Of Ships, Losses Of Enemy Heavy   MacArthur Hails Major Victory In Bismark Sea

Rzhev’s Fall Shows Reds’ Offensive Still Potent   Sinkings Key Effects on Strategy

TOMMY HARMON IS REPORTED MISSING   Famed Football Player {s Missing in Action -Over China

TOM HARMONIS MISSING AGAIN, PARENTS TOLD   Former Michigan Football Star Was In Action Over China   REACHED SAFETY LAST SPRING AFTER CRASH

TOMMY HARMON MISSING IN ACTION   MICHIGAN'S FAMOUS FOOTBALL STAR LOST OVER CUINA OCTOBER 30.

Tom Harmon, Ex-Grid Star,  Lost in Action   All-America Halfback Mis China Since uctoner 30

AIRMAN HARMON LISTED MISSING   Michigan Fighter Pilot Believed Downed Over China Oct. 30

SERVICE CITATIONS TO 12 K. U. GRADS   Two Army Officers and [wo Women Are on This: Year's ‘Group   HONOR LAWRENCE GIRL

MORE HEAVY TRUCKS   Sharp Increase In Production Slated During Next Year

Order Al] Bootleg Coal Mines Out   “TRESPASSING ON LANDS AND STEALING COAL” WILL BE BANNED NOVEMBER 4,0 IN PENNSYLVANIA,

Bootleggers to Oypose State's Closing Orders   Independent Miners Promise Fight to “Last Ditch’’

GEN, RAMIREZ, WAR MINISTER, LEADING ARMY   Strategic Points Seized In City By Insurgents

ARMY GROUPS MARCH INTO BUENOS AIRES   Seize Control of Various Strategic Points About City   CASTILLO, STAFF TAKE TO WARSHIP   Revolt Said to be Aimed at Reversal of “Neutral Policy

Military Engineers Cour d' Etat Against President Castille   Revolt Interpreted § as Aimed at Full Pan-American Solidarity -

Plans for Invasion Apparent   Continue Bombing of Italian Islands in the  Mediterranean

Claim 104 Allied Transports, Tankers And Supply Ships Riding At Anchor At British Stronghold Of Gibraltar; Their Use Remains Secret   100,000th PLANE IS RUILT IN AMERICA

Nazis Look For Invasion  June 22nd   Anniversary of _ France’s Fall Is Date, They Guess

Fortresses blast 3 Italian cities   Germans claim June 22 set for continental invasion

Pathway to Invasion Is: Bomb Spot   TRANSPORTS, TANKERS AND SUPPLY, SHIPS SENT TO GATEWAY. By United Press

FOGGIA RAIDED THIRD TIME BY ‘FLYING FORTS   Axis Now Speculating On Invasion Date; ' Pick June 22

Another Jap Drive On Hunan Province Halted   Resolution Favors 8-Cent Rail Pay Hike

Reds Attack Section of  L. S. Press   Hearst, Howard, Patterson-McCormick Blasted in Magazine

LONDON SUBURBS BOMBED BY NAZIS   REPRISAL ATTACKS MADE AS RAF BLASTS GERMANY FOURTH STRAIGHT NIGHT,

Review Reveals Tremendous  U. S., RAF Gain   Raid Over Europe, Led by Yanks, Was Great Success, Photographs Show; important Nazi Shisyards Are Struck

TO RRVAMP OPA.   Spontaneous Shakeup In the Organization Ts Avoided, -

WAR ON JAPAN AND HITLER K, 0. PRIMARY TOPICS   Roosevelt and Churchill Expected To Meet Soon For Vital Decisions   SPECULATION INCREASING   Britain Expected To Affirm Pledge To Stand by U. S. In Pacific Clean-up

HOW TO DRIVE HOME  WINNING WAR PUNCH  CONFERENCE AGENDA QUEBEC CONFERENCE  ALSO EXPECTED DEAL WITH WAR WITH TAPAN

Quebec Conference Probably Will Take Uy ‘Winning Europe's War; Also Measures ‘To Increase Pressure Against Japanese

MAY DISCUSS NIP SQUEEZE   QUEBEC CONFAB WILL STUDY EUROPE VICTORY

FINAL PUNGH AND IAPS APPEAR AS MAIN QUESTION   Churchill Expected To Reaffirm Britain’s Assistance In Crushing Enemy In Pacific.   RUSSIAN EXCLUSION CONTRIBUTED TO JAPS   Stalin Not Tendered Invitatian on Account of Embar. rassment, Rejection Anticipated.

War In Pacific Is Stressed At Quebec Parley   Churchill Is Expected To Reaffirm Pledge Of All-Out Aid

HOW TO DRIVE HOME WINNING PUNCH BELIEVED PRINCIPAL TOPIC OF NEW PARLEY

Wage Ceilings in Asparagus Work Applied   FIRST FARM PAY TOPS CLAMPED ON PICKING IN CALIFORNIA AREAS

Gates Open To Poland. Rumania   ... Allied Patrol Crosses Sangro River In Italy

6 ONIOANS LOSE LIVES IN WATER   Three Die In Columbus As Thousands Seek Relief From Excessive Heat

MAZARENE CHURCH CALLS FOR VOLUNTEERS   Members In October Will Make “A Mililon Contacts Bor Christ”’

SCHOOLSTO OPEN FARLY   Will Let Out Earlier To Aid Spring Farm Wark

LeMars Public Schools Will Open Aug. 30 With Many New Teachers   Some Decrease In Enrollment Is .Expected ~—Three Less Teachers

SCHOOLS 10 ~ OPEN EARLY   Will Let Out: Earlier To Aid Spring Farm ‘ Work

U.S, SENDS OUT FORMS TO FILE »PAYROLL TAXES      Speed Pay-as-Go Machinery » «a Roosevelt Signs Measure

HURRY TO GET TAXPAYERS ON PAY-G0 BASIS   Treasury Workers Sending Out 200,000,000 Certificates of Employe Exemotion.   EMPLOYERS GET BLANKS   Deductions To Start July 1; Many Must File Estimates of 1949 Income.

PAY-ROLL TAX ID OUARTING UN JULY Tol   Pay-as-You-Go Forms Are Being Rushed to All Emp!oyers.   LEVY IS 20 PER CENT   Important That Emplcye Fill Out Blank to Gain Exempt.ons.

PREPARE TO COLLECT TAX   {4 Million Taxpayers On A Current Basis

MACHINERY FOR COLLECTING  ” TAK MOVES INTO ACTION  - AFTER PREBIDENT   ROOSEVELT SIGNS .BLU

PAY-AS-60 TAX PLAN ADOPTED   Treasury Moves To Initiate 20 Pet. Withholding Levy On July 1

TOE OF iTALY PARALYZED BY RAF BOMBINGS   ‘Army Targets” Raided In Region Where Enemy Could Be Expected To  Concentrate Troops   43 Direct Hits

ALLIES PRESS AIR ATTACKS AGAINST ‘TOE   {falian Mainland Being _ Pounded Without i Letup

REDS ADVANCE TO NEW LINES NEAR KHARKO\   Closest Force Withir 12 Miles of City as Offensive Rolls

Drive Reaches To. Within 12 Miles Of Big Kharkov Base   Pincers Squeezing Tighter On City: Soviets Make New Gains Toward Bryansk Bastion

Red Army Nears Kharkov Limits —   Within 12 Miles of _City and Offensive Rolls Steadily Ahead

Soviets 12 Miles From Kharkov In Drive From North   Four Columns Converging On Major Enemy Base; More Towns Captured

Soviet Forces Within 12 Miles Of Kharkov   100 Villgges Captured, Bryansk Threatened By Drive From Orel

SOVIETS ROLLING ON TO KHARKOV   Russian Forces Only 12 Miles From Gool—Four Columns In Advance

Reds Push Beyond Major Gain Made In Past Winter   Now Within 12 Miles Of Kharkov

Campaign Ahead Of Last Winter’s   Kharkov Assault Results In Capture of More than 100 Villages With Indications the Germans Are Retreating In Some Disorder.

FOUR SOVIET UNITS MOVE ON KHARKOV   One Is 12 Miles Away on North, a Second 30 Miles West, a Third, 20. and the Fourth Is 25 Mileg Away.

Reds Surpass Winter Gains   Soviet Troops Are Within 12 Miles of Kharkov While Other Columns Approach City ‘from All:Sides; ‘Nazis Reveal Smolensk  Offensive

One Red Column Only 12 Miles North Of City   Other Soviet Armies Move On Ukrainian Center From West And South

RUSSIAN DRIVE GAINING FORCE   REDS NOW ONLY 12 MILES FROM VITAL UKRAINIAN CAPITAL

GERMANS ARE RETREATING IN DISORDER   Soviet Forces are Reported Stepping Up Assaults In Fighting For Base At Bryansk   LEAVING MUCH BOOTY

Reds Also Stepping Up Drive On Big Germen {7 Base 250 Miles. North of Kharkov at Bryansk.  Berlin Says Reds Have Launched Offensive in ' North

Four Lines Of Attacks On Kharkov   Russians Also Pushing Hard In Drive Against Large North German Base At Bryansk.

Fast Rolling Offensive Passes Western Point  Reached During Winter

Red Drive ~ Gathering Momentum   Passes Westernmost Point  Achieved in  Winter’s  Campaign

Sovi iets Push Nears Kharkov      Reds Beyond Point Reached Last Winter: Nazis Retreat In Disorder.

Russians Hammer  On a Wide Front   Fast Folling Soviet War Machine Drives to Twelve  Miles of Kharkov.

City Within Range Of Big Red Guns   Surging Russian Army Threatens ‘Stalingrad Trap’ Of Huge German Forces In ThreeSided Push On Big German Base At Kharkov

Soviet Offensive Rolling Westward   Russians Pass Point Reached During Last Winter's  Campaign   ARE NEARING KHARKOV   Assaults in Campaign Toward Bryansk Also Are Stepped Up

Kharkov Doomed: Russ Only 12 Miles From City   Three Columns Closing in on Nazis; Assaults on Bryansk Also Stepped Up

SOVIET TROOPS QUICKEN DRIVE AGAINST ENEMY   Forces Drive To Point Twelve Mi. From Kharkov

Russian Offensive Pushes Near Kharkov   Soviet Troops Surpass Westernmost Point Reached in Last Winter's Campaign; Converge Toward Ukrainian Center.

Soviet Drive Gaining Speed   Soldiers Sweep Farther West Than Did Last Winter

Russian Offensive Gains Momentum   Soviet Forces Drive Ahead on Wide Front, Ronch ta Within Twelve Milec of Kharkay

Russians Surpass  Westernmost Point  Reached Last Winter   Reds Hammer Forward Along Wide “Front, Reaching Within 12 Miles ‘of Kharkov — Assaults Stepped Up

RED OFFENSIVE GAINS SPEED ON KHARKOV LINE   One Column Within 12 Miles of Big City; Others Push Nearer

RED ARMY DRIVES TOWARD KHARKOV OVER WIDE FRONT   Smash Threatens to Trap Thousands of Germans; Soviets Pass High Mark of Winter Campaign.

Soviets Drive Past Winter’s Farthest Gain   First Summer Offensive Of Russians Picking Up Greater Speed   POUND WIDE FRONT   Sweeping Toward Vital Kharkov Base In Big  Entrapment Move

REDS 12 MILES FROM KHARKOV   Russian Forces Approach City From Three Sides

GERMAN BASKIN UKRAINE FACES 4-WAY THREAT   Indicated Nazis Are Re_ treating In Disorder; Much Equipment Being Abandoned

USSTANG ARE NEAR KHARKOV   Soviet Forces Step Up Drive On Big German Base At Brvansk.

Reds Driving On Kharkov From 4. Sides   Western Prong of Great Red Offensive. Now Within 12 Miles of Big Ukrainian Center.

Red Offensive — Nears Kharkov   SOVIET .TROOPS WITHIN 12 MILES OF BIG CENTER

FAST-MOVING RED: = “OFFENSIVE wm ~ TOMILES OF KHARKO      Reds Pass Westernmost Point »’ Reached: During Last Winter’s Campaien   SPEED ‘UP BRYANSK -PUSH

SOVIETS SPEED TRAP MANEUVER ABOUT KHARKOV   Ine Russian Column Within 12 Miles Of Vital City; Red Troops Pass Westernmost Point Reached In Last Winter's Campaign.

KHARKOV REPORTED  WITHIN RANGE OF  RUSSIAN ARTILLERY EVIDENCES APPARENT  THAT GERMAN ARMY IN FULL RETREAT

Portugal Gives Permission. For Use Of Islands   Shipping Cross-Roads-Provides Base To Fight Subs And Protect Shipping

Anti-Submarine Bases In Azores Are Made Available To Allies By Portugal; Nation To Stay Neutral   Islands Lie 1,000 Miles West Of Lisbon On * Vital Airways, Sea Lanes From United States; U. S. Government Informed Of Negotiations

Britain Gets Ship Bases  on Azores   Portugal Opens Ports to British for the Duration of War

ISLAND BASES HANDED OVER FOR DURATION   Added Protection for Vital Sea Lanes Is Provided

London Discounts Rumors Portu- gal May Declare War on Japan  Over Occupation of Timor   AID FOR PORTUGAL   Britain Pledges Materials to Ally's Armed Forces and National Economy

Portuguese open ports to aid war on enemy U-boats   Tiny ally to stay neutral; key airfields also gained

PORTUGAL AIDS ALLIED BATTLE AGAINST SUBS   Grants Use of Harbors Both for Naval Craft, Planes but ‘Stays: Neutral,

Allies Get Anti-Submarine Base as Portugal Permits Use of Strateaiclslands.   Britain's Oldest Ally Remains Neutral, Although Nazis May Consider Move "Unfriendly Act"

Negotiations Completed For Allied Operations From   Islands, But Tiny Nation Will Retain Neutrality, Churchill Announces—All Wartime Forces Will Be Withdrawn At End Of Hostilities—Arrangements Given Approval By U. S. Government

Portugal To Stay Neutral In Europe   Island Group To Be Used to Combat German  Submarines

TO CONTINUE NEUTRALITY ON CONTINENT   Island Group at Atlantic Crossroads Will Strengthen Allied Ability to Combat New Nazi U-Boat Warfare.

Will Be Used In Combatting Sub Menace   Tiny Nation However Will Remain Neutral; On European Mainland

Tiny Nation ‘May Declare War On Japs   England’s Oldest Ally Provides Facilities For Battling Nazi

English Armed Forces Are Already at Scene; U.S., Russia and Spain Fully Informed, Says (Churchill; Lisbon to Maintain Neutrality

Portugal Gives Use of Facilities There  Under Treaty of 1373   Action Comes as Talk is Heard Portugal May War on Japs

ENGLISH T0 USE ISLES IN FIGHT AGAINST SUBS   Allied Fliers Pound Targets in Italy, Balkans, Greek Island Airfields

Will Remain Neutral In War But Grants Ally Aid   Churchill Says Step ‘Vastly Strengthens’ Allied Ability To Whip U-Boats

Concession Will. ° Be Important in New Phase of War   Islands Lie 1000 ‘+ Miles West of be European Continent

Tiny Nation Will Remain Neutral In War Against Axis   Portugal’s Action Vastly Strengthens Allies in Fighting German Submarines

PORTUGAL GRANTS ATLANTIC ISLANDS FOR ANTI-SUB BASES   ACCEDDED TO REQUEST FOR OCEAN CROSS. ROADS FICHTING SPOTS

BASES WIEL PROVIDE ALLIES — WITH PERHAPS THE DECISIVE WEAPON IN ATLANTIC BATTLE   Bases Will Be on The Méi n Atlantic Air Route Between New York, Bermiida and Portugal. Bombers Based on Islands Will Greatly Aid in Atlantic Patrol

AGREEMENT ON USE OF ISLAND MADE IN SECRET   Concessions Made by Lisbon Government In Midst of Rumors She Would Declare War   ALLIED VESSELS PATROLLING WATERS   Will Afford Added Protection For Vital Sea Lane from U. S. to Further  Fighting on Continent

Valuable Positions For War on Subs — Received by Allies   - Acquisition. ‘Revealed by. Churchill Island Group 800 Miles Off Lisbon; Atlantic Air Umbrella Completed

ortugal Te Stay Neutral ln Europe .   Island Group To Be Used to _ Combat German

Anti-Sub Bases In Azores Granted To Great Britain   HOW DEAL WAS HANDLED

Diplomatic Victory Gives Allies More Protection For Supply Lines

British To Use Azores   Portugal Grants Britain Anti-Submarine  Bases in Islands, But Will Remain Neutral

Vast Help in ; F ight Against ~ German Subs   Portugal Will Stay Neutral in War, Churchill’ ~ Tells House of Commons:

Portugal Makes) Strategic : ! Grant at Crossroads of Atlantic   TO REMAIN NEUTRAL   Action’ Viewed as Undoubt‘ed Gain to Allies in Atlantic Battle

ANTI-SUB BASES IN AZORES ISLANDS GRANTED BRITISH   Tiny Portugal, However, Will Remain Neutral in War, Churchill Announces.   LIES WEST OF LISBON   Anti-Sub Bases Would _ Include Both Harbor and Airports.

Anti-Sub Bases for Azores   Portugal Grants Use of Area to Great Britain.

PORTUGAL GIVES WORD T0 BRITAIN   Country To Stay Neutral; New Drives On U-Boats Seen; U. S. Informed Of Negotiations

Britain To Have Anti-Submarine Bases In Azores   Rumor That Portugal May Declare War on Japan Circulates

Nation Holds To N  eutrality Stand In War      Use Of Harbors. Airports To Provide Added Guard Over Sea Lanes.   U. 8. FULLY INFORMED

Grant British Anti-Sub Base   Portugal Gives Great Britain Anti-Submarine Bases in the Azores to Enable: Allies to Combat U-Boat Menace in Atlantic with  . Greater Effectiveness

Churchill, Announcing Step, Tells House of Commons That Roosevelt and Soviet Leaders Have Been Advised of Negotiations for Island Bases—Germans Not Expected to Act Against Portugal.

sritain’s Oldest Ally To Keep Out Of War But Allow Allw Bacee In Azores

Portugal Grants Use of Islands to England for Use in War Against Subs

Enables Allies To Strike Nazi  Submarine War   Portugal, Owner of Azores, to Stay Neutral in the Global War.   U.S. Ships Will Not Be Based in Islands

CHURCHILL REPORTS  NEW WEAPON AGAINSI  GERMAN SUBMARINES BERLIN RADIO REPORTS  NAZIS RETREAT IN IN WESTERN ITALY

Azores Will Be Used To Fight Nazi U-Boats   Little Country Helps Allies, But Will Remain Neutral

Use Of Vital Islands Given By Portuguese   Announcement Made By Churchill Today In In Commons

USE OF VITAL PORTS GRANTED BY PORTUGAL   May Provide Allies With Decisive Weapon In Atlantic War

Portugal remains neutral but permits allied use of vital air and naval ports   ‘Crossroads of the Atlantic’ vastly strensthens ability to fight U-boats

Portugal Acts To Aid Allied Side   Islands Form_Important Link In Anti-Submarine Battle In Atlantic

Churchill Announces in House of Commons Portugal Has Granted British Request As Means of Fighting U-Boats

Island Group Is At Crossroads Of Atlantic Routes   Gives Allies Protection On Routes Approaching Gibraltar Strait

Lisbon Accedes To Plea for Facilities  To Assist the Allies   Report Comes From Bern That Vessels of the United Nations Have Been Patrolling Waters Off the Islands Recentiv   EFFECT OF ACTION IS SUBJECT OF SPECULATION

AZORES OPEN TO ALLIES FOR WAR ON SUBS      Bases At Crossroads Of Atlantic; Portugal Te Remain Neutral

PORTUGAL GIVES BRITAIN BASES   Azores ~Anti-Sub Positions Ceded by  Cnvarnmant

Portuguese Action Aids War On U-Boats   Strategic Island Ports Made Available To Allied Warships And Planes, But Portugal Herself To  Remain Neutral On European Mainland.   To Withdraw After War.

A Slow Return To Mines Indicated   But Workers Generally Are Headed Back to Resume  ‘Production   OVER 300,000 ON JOB   Altho © Dissatisfied, Coal Miners Heed Appeals to Loyalty

Back to Mines Trend Slow   Scattered Gains Made In Some States— Only 25,000 Working in East

Penn Miners Slow to Get Back on Job   Most of Bituminous Field Is Fully Manned Again Today

[A Slow Process Now Indicated   Scores of Locals Vote To Return To Work   BUT OTHERS STILL IN A SULLEN MOOD

Miners Slowly March fo Pits fc Resume Work   Resumption of Norma Production May Be — Slow Progress, Early Reports Indicate

Getting Miners To ' Resume Operations Proving Slow Work   ® Many Absentees Despite Unions’ Votes Sunday  To Return to Work 

A Slow Return To  Mines Indicated   But Workers Generally Are Headed Back to Resume Production   Altho Dissatisfied, Coal Miners Heed Appeals to Loyalty

MINERS VOTE TO RESUME WORK IN EASTERN FIELDS   SITUATION IMPROVES SLOWLY AS SCATTERED GAINS ARE REPORTED

Scattered Gains In Nation’s Coal Fields Reported   Full Production Not Yet Sighted, Operators Say

SCATTERED GAINS IN NUMBER OF MINERS RETURNING TO WORK   INDICATED MOVEMENT TC  RESTORE FULL SHIFTS  pe crow pRocESS

IDLE IN VITAL COAL INDUSTRY   Many in Pennsylvania Fields Fail to Go Back to Diggings

Movement to Get All Coal Miners Back to Work May  Prove to be Slow Process

LEWIS’ MINERS ARE SLOW TO RESUME WORK   ‘Many Meetings Held In Coal Fields Sunday   F.D.R. ASSAILED   Some Improvement Is Noted In Captive Stee] Mines

Gain Reported In Number of Men in Mines  Ickes Comments On Coal Control  By Government

Miners Going Back to Work Slowly Today   ‘Meetings of Local Units  Sunday Speeded_ Re- turn to Jobs

REPORT SLIGHT GAINS IN TREK TO COAL MINES   Movement To Restore Full Shifts Looms As Slow   Process   PICKETS DETAIN MEN   Opposition To ‘Go To Work’ Order Centered  In Pennsylvania

COAL MINERS GOING BACK TO WORK   “Go To Work’ Calls Sounded Throughout Mining Villages Sunday

MINES SLOWLY RESUME WORK   Situation in Eastern Pennsylvania Anthracite Fields Grows Worse.   156.000 MEN STILL OUT

MINERS SLOW TO RETURN IN PENNSYLVANIA   Only 15,000 Of 15.000 Miners In Central Pennsylvania At Work

BACK - T0-WORK TREK BY MINERS 1S PICKING UP   Operations Being Resumed In Scattered Spots But Process Is Slow   SOME PICKETING REPORTED   Few Local Unions Vote To Continue lIdleness But Others Fall in Line

Coal Miners Slow In Going Back To Work   Hoped For Surge Of Resumption Turns Out to Be Trickle

‘Swing’ Back To Mines A Crawl   Despite Urging of UMW Leaders, Large Numbers of Coal: Workers Stay Away from Jobs

200.000 Mine Workers Idle Despite Order   Steel Company Captive Mines Hardest Hit By Ex. tended Walkout,   PENNSYLVANIANS OU7

dents; Asheville Mechanic  veral Die Im Auto AcciDies of Heart Attack.

EIGHT DIE INN. C. OVER WEEK END   Several Die In Auto Accidents; Asheville Mechanic Dies of Heart Attack.

Hardest Job Yet — To Be Done   The 5'% Billion Still To Be Raised In. Bond Drive Must Come From The General Public

NATIONS BOND SALE OF BILLION   Hardest. Part S Still Ahead, With Public to ‘Be  Buyer.

PURCHASERS FOR BONDS”   Only 5 1-4 Billion Dollars of Bond Drive ‘Fund Remains to be  Raised

‘New Blows ‘Looming © In Pacific   Only Mopping Up Operations Remain To Give Yanks Gilberts Control

More Attacks Face Japs   Three Pivotol Gilbert Islands In Allied Hands.

CAPTURE MAKIN AND TRAP 4,000 JAPS ON BETIO   MacArthur’s Bombers Drop 142 Tons of Ex plosives on Gasmata

Gilberts Victory Assured   Swift Conquest of Jap Held Islands in Mid Pacific Shortens Road To Tokvo By 700 Miles

GILBERTS TAKEN, YANKS SET FOR NEW CONQUEST   Aerial Blows Are Showered on Japs as Allies Widen Pacific Sweep

Have Control Of Gilberts   Mopping Up Now, Looking To New Lightning Blows

Makin Is Captured; Next Blow Mapped   Allies Expected To Capitalize Quickly O: Victories In Pacific, Attack Again

JAPANESE FACE NEW THREATS IN GILBERT SECTOR   Only Mopping Up Operations Remain on Three Pivotal Atolls in Pacific

ONLY MOPPING UP REMAINS IN GILBERTS   Yanks Have Captured Makin, Fall of Tarawa Is Assured and Situation “Well in Hand” on Lit tle Ahemam3.

AMERICAN FORCES SO SOLIDLY IMPLANTED IN GILBERTS NIMITZ PLANS FOR FURTHER ATTACKS   “The Gilberts Now Are Securely in Our Ha: Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet States. Tarawa About to Fall ;

Shorten Tokyo Road by Taking Pivotal Atolls   Control of Gilbert Islands Swiltly Achieved by American Attacks.   Allied Bombers Active In Southwest Pacific

Road To Tokyo Cut 7100 Miles ‘By Yank Victory   Only Mopping Up Left As Allies Poise For New Drive On Japs

U. S.Forces Take Over. Gilberts   Road To-Tokyo.’ Shortened 700: Miles; Marines .Mopping Up Main Atolls”         MARSHALL ISLANDS: : "> ARE-NEXT ON-LIST:   Japs Threaten a Decisive Sea _ Battle, Just the -Thing:: Uv. 3. Navy: Wants

NEW ALLIED ATTAGKS IN PACIFIC SECTOR   CAPTURE OF THREE  Hat 1S FACING   CAPTURE OF THREE SMALL GILBERT ISLANDS REPORTED TO BE NEAR

Shorten Road To Tokyo 700 Miles   Allies Busy with Mopping Up Operations on Gilbert Islands ‘   JAPS FACE NEW RAIDS   Bombers Pound Japanese Positions in Southwest Pacific

Road To Tokyo Cut 700 Miles   Heavy Assault Expected  Soon on Jap-heliL Worchall Ceann

Japs Threatened With New Attacks   America Controls Gilberts Now

New Allied Attacks On Jans Loom   Victory In Gilberts Campaign Hailed By Admiral

Yank Gilberts Blow Shortens Road fo Tokyo   Capture Makin, Have Abemama Well in Hand, Fall of Tarawa Assured, Admiral Nimitz Savs

Japan Faces New Attacks From Allies   Americans Control Gilbert Islands;  Rombinac Effective

Japanese Facing Threats Of New Pacific Attacks   Makin ts Captured, Fall Of Tarawa To Americans Assured

Law to Check Unions Backed  interference With Interstate Commerce Will Be Punished

LABOR. RACKET CURB APPROVED   Bill Applying to  Unior Leaders Passes Committee

FINES FOR UNION HEADS APPROVED   Legislation Voted by House Committee Also Authorizes Jail Terms.

Hearings on Tax Plans to Start Tuesday   House Also to Have Hearings on Bill to Punish Labor  - Leaders Interfering with Interstate Shipments

Measure Hits Labor Rackets  Urge Stiff Penalties For Interference

House Group Adopts Measure That Would Imprison Labor Leaders For Interfering With Truck Shipments

BILL PROPOSED 10 OUTLAW STRIKES   ESS Ben gen Rare ge Re Ee  Labor Union: Leaders Would Be Subject To Heavy Penalties

OLD LAW REVIVED   Action Deals With Interference With Interstate Commerce

Would Place Unions Under  Racket Law   Heavy Penalties Urged for Blocking  Tnterstate Shinments

WOULD APPLY ACT TO LABOR   Unions Would Be Subject Tc Racketeering Charges

NEW BILL AIMED AT UNIONS THAT BLOCK TRUCKS   WOULD PENALIZE LEADERS IN CASES OF INTERFERENCE

Young Victim Of Attack Dies   Leman E. Turner, 15, Succumbs Without Becoming Conscious

Authorities Seek to Link Mutilation Attacks Near Walters to Ada Murder:

KNOX ANNOUNCES PACIFICFRONT .~ IS VERY QUIET   Navy Secretary Says “The War Is Still On Out There-—Very Much”

KNOX SAYS JAPS TO STRIKE AGAIN   Secretary Thinks Let-Down in Pacific Only Calm Before Storm

[Knox Says Lull in Pacific  May be Calm Before Storm   Secretary of Navy Tells Press Conference “War Is Still On Out There—Very Much;” Says Things Getting “a Little Tight” In Martinique;  Allies On Move In Africa

Calm Before The Storm In Pacific, Knox Says   War Still Being Fought Out There, Secretary of Navy Emphasizes

KNOX SEES LULL ON PACIFIC FRONT   Present Quiet May Be Calm Before Storm, Secretary  Warns.

Pacific Quiet But Ominous   May Be Quiet Before the Storm, Knox Declares. _

Pacific Calm May Be Lull Before Storm, Asserts Knox   By JOUN VM. THIGHTOWER

Lull In Fight In Pacific Area  SE ee WR ce PR eee: Bp   ‘Calm Before Storm,’ Secretary Knox Says

Pacific Quiet, Knox Asserts   Navy Secretary Says This May Be Calm Before the Storm

Storm Seen As Likely In Pacific   Heavy Action May Follow Present Fighting Lull, Knox Declares

SEC. KNOX LOOKS — FOR BlG DOINGS      Present Quiet May Be Calm Before The  Storm

PACIFIC QUIET  AT THE MOMENT   ‘But War Is Still on Out There—Very Much, Says See. Knox

QUIET IN THE PACIFIC      Knox Says “This May Be the Calm ; , Before the Storm”

KNOX LOOKS FOR PACIFIC ACTION   Both Sides Planning Devastat. ing New Blows, Navy Men Believe

KNOX ASSERTS PACIFICWAR ISSTILLON   Present Inactiv rity  May Be Calm Before Storm

ARMY FLYERS KILLED   Ft. Leavenworth Officials Take Charge at Crash Scene

UNIONIZATION OF FOREMEN SCORED   Spokesmen for Coal Industry Contend Action Would Destroy Principle of Collective Bargaining

BILL URGED 10 CURB UNIONS BY COAL MEN   Legislation to Ban Fore men From Unions !s Proposed

Coal Operators Oppose Plan To Extend Union:   Say Organizing of Fore. men Would Cause Much Trouble

U.S. Fortresses Pound Northern France in Raid   Nazi Industrial Region Blasted In Non-Stop Assault  RAF BUSY, TOO Flight of 100  Smashes Messina, Key Sicily Port

French fields latest target for Yankees   Thunderbolts cover attack

Son-in-Law of Rich Brit. ish Baronet is Facing Charge of Killing

Charge Son-in-Law With Murder Of Multi-Millionaire  Peer Bludgeoned   Peer Bludgeoned to Death; Bed Set Ablaze Officers Say

HELD IN DEATH OF GOLD BARON   Son-In-Law Is Charged With Murder Of Sir Harry Oakes

S0n-In-Law felt  In Club Death of ulti-Millionaire Baronet Bludgeoned  Fatally, Bed Set On Fire, Police Say

Oakes. Murder In Isles Laid To Son-In-Law   Charge Is Sensationa Climax To Slaying Of Wealthy Man

KILLING BLAMED ON SON-IN-LAW   Multi - Millionaire Briton Bludgeoned To Death, Bed Set Afire

Son-in-Law Held As Murderer of Sir Harry Oakes.   Alfred De Marigny Charg ed with Slaying MultiMillionaire

Son-in-Law Faces Charge of Killing Sir Harry Oakes, Millionaire Landowner. Former U. S. Mining Man

SPORTSMAN HELD IN OAKES MURDER   SON-IN-LAW OF SLAIN MULTIMILLIONAIRE BARONET ACCUSED OF CRIME,

SON-IN-LAW IS BEING HELD IN MURDER CASE   Alfred De Marigny Book. ed in Killing of Rich Beronet

A INTERESTING LETTERS FROM ARMY BOYS - TELLING MUCH ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES

CROAT GUERRILLAS OCCUPY. KRK, RAB IN ADRIATIC SEA  C('nackal Dn elkinuwms BA. Ja      Coastal Positions Made Stronger For Jugoslav —  Patriots In 2 2:  cna hoes Bey thes     ee

Output of Fortress bombers slowed as workers ‘walk out’   Unionists demand WLB act on pay request; Branshaw hits stoppage

Plane Plant Strike Threatens   Boeing Works Row May Spread Over Entire U. S.

AIRCRAFT PLANT WORKERS DEMAND WAGE DECISION   Threaten Work Stoppage at Boeing Factories Unless Labor Board Grants ° Increase.   QUIT WORK 3 HOURS TO PROTEST DELAY   Thousands Parade in Streets of Seattle—Roosevelt Called On by Unionists to Intervene.

UNION HOLDS UP BOMBER OUTPUT   Two Seattle Plants Are Closed As Workers Hold Meeting

HALT ATTACK OF 20 JAP PLANES   Four Enemy Raiders Shot Down by Allies

Yanks Slap Nip Air Drive   R. A. F. HAMMERS NIP OFFENSIVE BASES IN CRUSHING BURMA RAIDS

3 Jap Bases in  Solomons Blasted  22-Plane Enemy Attack Broken Up

Allies Break Up Jap Air Attack   Warplanes Bomb Three Enemy Bases, Score Hits on Five Japanese Cargo Ships; Chinese Crack Jap Drive

Planes Blast Jap Bases in Soiomons   Enemy Attack Beaten Back Northwest of Guadalcanal; Five More Japanese Ships Damaged in South Pacific.

FIVE MORE JAP MERCHANT SHIPS SUNK BY ALLIES   Destruction of Enemy Vessels Reported In South Pacific; RAF Continues To Punish Jap Invasion Forces On Burma Front.

Jap Bases In Solomons Hit;  Raid Repulsed   No United States Planes Jost in Two Actions in South Seas Area,

American Planes Blast Three Jap Bases i in Solomon:   None Were Lost in Stopping Attack Of Enemy. Formation

Jap Bases Hit In Central Solomons   Navy Reports No U. S. Planes Were Lost During the Action   BAG 4 ENEMY RAIDERS   Allied Fliers Strike Hard at Japanese Vital Supply Lines

U.S. Planes Break Up Jap Bomb Force   22 Planes Enroute to Guadalcanal Dispersed During Sky Battle

AMERICAN PLANES IN BLASTING ATTACKS JAPS IN SOLOMONS   NO UNITED STATES PLANES LOST IN WIDESPREAD AIR ACTIVITY

Pepper Japs in Solomon Islands Raid   Americans Intercept Nipponese Attempt To Bomb Guadalcanal   Continue To Harass Enemy Communications   Five More of The Mikado’s Merchant Ships Are Blasted

American Planes Blast Three Jap Bases And Repel Assault At Guadalcanal, Bagging Four

Allied Bombers Continue Drive   Light Planes Blast Nazi Industry Areas

U.S.and RAF Smash Great Seaport, Industrial Center   Fliers Drop Bombs  On Many Nazi '  ‘Toraete in Eurone

Allies Bomb North France  aes Ralatim BRacoce   Nazi Belgium Bases Horassed From Air

U.S.andRAFSmash Great Seaport,  Industrial Center Fliers Drop Bombs   On Many Nazi   Targets in Europe

FAST BOMBERS RAID NAZILAND   Industrial Areas Still Smouldering From Blockbusters

Industrial Targets and Airfields In France, Holland, Belgium Blasted

NAZI TARGETS ARE BLASTED   Enemy Defenses Eluded In Swift Stab At  Coast Bases

Bombs Smash North France, Holland Areas  Belgian Industria Plants Also Are. Left Afra -

Many Targets On Continent Receive Bombs   Hamburg, Essen Raided And Light Bombers Hit Trance, Holland. Beleiun:

Steel Company Is Indieted In ‘Tests’ Case   Carnegie-IHinois Records Concealed and Destroyed, Presentment Declares

_INDICTS FIRM   Federal Jary Cites Steel Firm for Theatravine BRarord«

URGE FIRMER PRICE CONTROL   CIO Committee Expresses Concern Over OPA’s  Effectiveness

(.1.0. Leaders Worried about Cost of Living   See Danger under OP! and Want Brynes To Have Contro

OPA FUTURE HELD IN PERIL BY ClIOGROUP   Urges Byrnes Get Final Control Over Food and Farm Prices

Hitler Flees Berlin After Record Brilish Air Attack   Walls of Flame Are So Hot in Berlin That the Asphalt Boils

ANIMALS IN 200 ESCAPE IN RAID   Walls of Flames Licking at Buildings in Ger- man Capital

REICH CAPITAL BOMBED INTO CITY OF RUINS   Nazis Talk Revenge as Berlin is Made In ferno of Flames

NEGRO OOLDIERS WOUND OFFICER   Shooting Follows Altercation With Civilian Officers At Ripley

Montgomery Jailer Pleads Innocent   FBI Charges Henry Montgomery Aided Gene Paul Norris

BIG DALLAS WAR PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE LAST NIGHT  TEAIMCBIRG £ARw RAGgR 74 CTR   INCENDIARY BOMB CASINC PLANT OF AUSTIN BRIDGE CO. BURNS

Half Million Loss Estimated in Fire Of Dallas Plant   Glow of Burning Magnesium Visible 225. Miles Distant

SENATE GROUP FLAYS TAX BILL      Contra ct _  Renegotiation Amendments Get Attention

RENEGOTIATION CHANGES LOOM   Senate Studies Law After Cutting House Tax Bill

FINANCE GROUP CUTS TAX BIL!   Senators Continue Study Of House’s Measure

BEFORE BROWN   Calls Reports of Breakdown In Price Contre! Agencv Absurd.   DAVIS AGAINST SUBSIDY

OPA CONTINUES IN NEVER DULL MOMENT CLASS   Row Between Two of Ad. ministrator Brown’s Advisers Enliven Capital Scene   AUTHORITY CLASH   Brown Says OPA Could Stand Seven Or Eight,:   Or Even Fifty,  Restonations”:

BROWN IS IN SPOT IN ROW WITHIN 0.P. A.   Price Administrator is Placed In Position of Deciding Which of Two Officials Must Go   BREAKDOWN IS DENIED

BROWN MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO TOP OPA AIDES   Detroit Advertising Man And Former Professor In ~ Open Break   TANGLE OVER AUTHORITY

ANOTHER ROW ROCKING 0.P.A   Prentiss Brown. May Have to Choose Between Two Aides

Petain !s Dying Says Africa Report   {Iness Is Secret Rumor Declares

 Underground Reports Received That Petain  Isi in Critical Conditior

ALLIED BOMBERS  BLAST ENEMY IN  NORTH AFRICA SCORE MANY HITS  AND LEAVE LARGE FIRES BURNING

Hero of Verdun Reported Through Underground Sources to Have Fallen  Tl During Week  wr fT ar~rsr Terese to Tee   ILLNESS BEING KEPT SECRET FROM PUBLIC   Had Been Permitted to Leave Quarters in Vichy Only in Company With German Soldier

OPA VIOLATORS.   Two Packing Companies Put Under Temporary Injunctions.

“COOL OFF” PER      Lull Alter War Suggested Before Writing of Treaties

Stalin Meeting Is Expected By Allied Sources   President Hints Something Big To Be An nounced Soon

Victors to Keep Order in Interim   Talk With Stalin Near.  President Revrale

PEACE ‘COOLER’ PERIOD FAVORED   Meeting With Stalin May Not Be Far Off, White House Hints

BELAY ON PEACE TREATY FAVORED   U. S. WOULD WRITE DOCU. MENT ONLY AFTER “COOLING OFF” PERIOD,

COOLING OFF TIME FAVORED   Government Against Haste On Peace Treaties; Par ley With Stalin Hinted

ANNE ARUNDEL FIRST TO SURPASS QUOTA   State Is Congratulated Upon War Bond Showing By Secretary Of Tre     rv Morrenthau

Maryland Gets High Praise in War Loan Drive   Progress Pleases Sec. Morgenthau

Solons Demand FR Jail Lewis lf Strike Called   Congressmen In Effect Voice Displeasure At Action In Mine Dispute

VETO REJECTION PART OF REVOLT ON HOME FRONT   aces Same Repassage Of Bill Seen As Part O: Congress Rebellion In Domestic Issues

REBELLION ON HOME FRONT IS INDICATED   Mandate for Roosevelt to Crack Down on Lewis In Further Work Stoppage.

Congress Makes Most Of First Chance Since 1937 To Wave Big Stick Over Labor Leader   Ry LVILF C WItsown

Congress Overriding of Veto Seen As Break With President Over His Handling of the Strike Situation

Bill Passed Over Veto Last Night   IS ADMITTEDLY AI AIMED AT. nes ONE MAN, JOHN L. LEWIS; 'e Al WLB MEMBERS MAY: RESIGN

Legislative Rebellion Is Reflected On Home Fron   Overriding Veto Seen As Mandate To Crack Down On John L. Lewis

Congress Irked Over FDR’s Handling Of Home Front, Overrides Anti-Strike Veta

HAVE 205 ENROLLED   /Many More Are Needed To Give Blood on July 19 and 20

Two Pennsylvanians  Down Enemy Fighiers Credited With One Eacl  Over New Guinea

ROLE OF MERCHANT SHIPBUILDER HELD BY UNITED STATES   Transfer  Of 150 To 200 Vessels Being Made To Great Britain  WN aw

INVENTION STEPS UP MUNITIONS OUTPUT   One Machine Cuts Time ir Making Bombs

OUTPUT OF SHELLS FOR U.S, INCREASED   Manufacturing Time Cut by Two New Machines

WNIAKERS SHAPE MICHIGAN BUDGET   Recommended Expenditures Mount Near $136,000,O00 Mark.

OVATE BUDGET NEAR (36 MILLION MARK   Figure Would Be $12,000,000 over Recommendations Made by Fact Finders

MARIGNY TAKES WITNESS STAND INLIFE FIGHT   Oakes “Was Very Rude” to Him, Accused Slayer of Millionaire Tells Court

DE MARIGNY TAKES WITNESS STAND   Tells Court That Sir Oakes Became ‘Rude’ Following. Operation on His Daughter

Won't Quit, Rome Intimates  Wouldn't Find Peace lf She Surrendered

ROME RADIO SAYS ITALY CANT. TURN BACK ON WAR NOW   Intimates Italians Have Strung Along With Hitler Too Long to Accept Allies Peace Propcsition

‘Linked With Germany Too Long to Stop   Would Still Be In War Against Germany ; First Ultimatum Reaction

Italians Know It’s Life Or Death... ..  Surrender Demand Is Turned Down By Rome

Rome Sees No Turning Back For Italians   Italian Radio Gives First Direct Reply To Surrender Demand

TOO LATE 10 QUIT, ROME RADIO SAYS   Stefani Agency Reports Italians ‘Rallying’ Around Mussolini.

AWAIT REPLY TO PEACE BIL   ‘Non- Military Surprises’ Hinted In Italian Press

“Too Late To Quit”   Rome Radio Says Italy Wouldn’t Find Peace Even in Surrender

aly to String Along With Hitler, Rome Says in Answer fo Ultimatum

ITALY HAS STRUNG ALONG WITH HITLER T00 LONG TO QUIT   Even If Italy Surrendered It Would Not Mean She Had Found Peace.   STILL WOULD BE IN WAR   Italians Know Full Well This War Is One of Life or Death, Reply Said.

ITALY IN TOO FAR TO TURN BACK NOW   Fascists Marshal Arguments to Fend Off Capitulation Trend

—ITALY— .  Italy Will String Along With Hitler, Says Rome   Surrender To Allies Would Not Mean Peace For Italians, Radio Broadcasts Declare; Allied Planes Fiv Qver Rame

TOTURNBACK, ITALIANS SAY      Rome Radio Makes First Direct Reply To Allied Surrender Demand

TELL ITALIAN PEOPLE THEY'D GET NO PEACE   Seeking Reply to Ultimatum Of Allies, Rome Says Guns Would Turn Against Nazis.  TALK CONCERNS DEFEAT  Italian Press Complains of Lack of Help Fram Arie Partner.

Nips Rushing Reinforcements  To Rabaul Base   Strong Naval Units Sighted By U. S. Planes

Escorted Convoys Are Being Attacked   Bombers Are Active In Scouting Out Enemy Convoys And Making Attack In Rabaul Area

Clam Diggers:   es Sees  Hearing to Be Held On Move to Close  Bays for Digging

Interpreting  The War   Japs Count on Six Months to Deal With Chinese Army

Tokyo Tightens Grasp On Its War Plunder—   aeEY Senn Dabo  Japanese Reopen Drive To Knock Out China

House Approves War Dependents’ Allowance Boost   Increase Size Only Question

House Drives For Raise in Allowances   Exact Amount Said Only Problem  To Be Settled

House Moves To Boost Payments   Amount Of Increase To Dependents Only Question Remaining.

ALLOWANCES VOTE NEAR   House Moving To Certain Approval Of Higher Dependency Pay

Court Says Rent Law. Is Invalid   Federal Judge Hit: OPA Reaulations

Wind, Hail Damage Is Half Million   Two Killed, Many Injured in Storm  In Northern Ohio

Snuff Wealth Vanishes Ir State Taxes   DREAMS OF 26,000 COUSINS OF MRS. HENRIETTA GARRETT GO UP IN SMOKE As BILL IS SIGNED.   Retroactive Clause.

DREAMS VANISH AS TWO BILLS SIGNED   Would-be Heirs of Eccen. tric Widow to Get No Money

ANOTHER NAZI PUSH FAVORED BY MONTGOMERY   Attack On Eighth Atmy Was Act Of Madness, British Declare   “TRAPPED LIKE RATS”   More Men And Munitions Assembled For Drive On Mareth Line

NAVY MUNI ON JAP BATTLE REPORT, WON'T CONFIRM I}   Enemy Claims Not Discussed Says It Occurred Over Week-end.

JAPANESE REPORTS OF NAVAL: BATTLE STILL UNCONFIRMED      Navy: Department: Officials Refuse Tao Discuss Claims Of Enemy. On Big Victory

U.S.1s Silent On Jap Report Of Sea Battle   Tokyo Reports Sinking of Five Allied Warships

OLD CANAL LOCKS TO BE SALVAGED   Local Committee to Handle Program in Washington County

‘Metal From Old C. And 0.  Canal Will Be Salvaged  By Government

Winged Courage Of America on Sicilian Raid  To-Hell-and-Back Flying

Pricedale Sergeant ~— On Raid Over Italy  With One Of 30 Fortress. es To ''Hell And Back''

SOLONS DEMAND MORE REVERSE ALD   Congressional 41 Curiosity on Lend-Lease Unsatisfied by Presidential Report

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Slayer of Warden Watches As Cloek Ticks Last Hours   Pardon and Parole Board Affords Hiram Prather Last Thin Shred of Hope

MILK STRIKE IS THREATENED IN JAMESTOWN   Most of Producers Supplying Dur kirk and Fredonia Again With holding Milk

ITALIAN MACHINE IS DETERIORATING. AS BOMBING . GOES ON   Germans Are Worrying Over Effect Of Continued Propaganda On Her Ally

GERMANS FEAR INFLUENCE OF ALLIED TALK   Italian Military Strength Declines Rapidly Under Barrage of Bombs From Air

NAZIS WORRIED BY EFFORT 10 KNOCK ITALY OUT OF WAR   Mussolini’s Military Machine Said to Be Deteriorating Banidty

LEADERS OF ‘COAL UNION IN SESSION   POLICY COMMITIEE CONSIDERING NEXT BTEP IN DEADLOCK OVER WAGE  DISPT

BACK TO FARM MOVEMENT IS SEEN IN OHIO   New Draft Classifications Provides Impetus For Return

Ortona Is Taken By  Canadian:   Bitterly Contested Port On Adriatic Finally Seized By Units Of Eighth Army

250,000 Miners  Continue Strike   Big Drop In Steel Output Seen Unless Strike Ye Fnded.

Half Of Miners Not At Work  Both Hard And Soft ‘val Miners s Defy  sek an FAL... 2...

MINERS’ STRIKE IN SIXTH DAY; STEEL MILLS FEEL EFFECT   BLAST FURNACES SHUT:   BLAST FURNACES SHUT: TING DOWN AS MORE MINERS JOIN STRIKE

First Question Posed By Anti-Strike Law.....  250,000 Miners Ignoring AnttStrike Measure

250,000 MINERS REMAIN IDLE IN U. $. COAL FIELDS   UNION LEADERS SAY 80* OF MEN WILL RESUME WORK MONDAY

FEAR BIG DROP IN OUTPUT OF STEEL PLANTS   250,000 Miners Continue Strike  In Vital Fields

250,000 Coal Miners Still Out on Strike   Big Drop in Steel Production Seen Unless  Walkout Ends Quickly

Nearly Half Of Miners Are Still On Strike   Fuel Shortage In Steel Mills Has Now Been Created

More Than 250,000 Miners Continue Strike; Big Drop In Steel Output Foreseen

~~ INSIXTH DAY   » Fuel Shortage In Steel Mills Threatens Output of Metal   » TOTAL OF 250,000 MINERS ARE IDLE   Stay Away from Jobs In Defiance of Presidential Orders

LACK OF FUEL FORCES BLAST FURNACES Ov]   More Than 250,000 of Nation's 521,000 Miners ReZoen TR Wark

More Than 250,000 Coal Miners Still Out As Strike Moves Into Sixth Day; 14 Blast Furnaces In Pittsburgh Area Are Down

STEEL MILLS, ' LACKING COAL, REDUCE OUTPUT   14 of 37 U.S. Steel Furnaces Down Republic Cuts Operations a Miners Stay Qut

CANNING SUGAR ON HONOR RULE   Two Stamps Will Be Designated for Use During Season

BIBLES WON'T STOP BULLETS, WPB SAYS   Board Approves Several Tons Waste Plate for SteelJacketing of Bibles

County War Bond Purchases Reach New Low  Community Holds 30th Place in State’s Honor Roll

County War Bond Purchases Reach New Low  Community Holds   Community Holds 80th Place in State’s Honor Roll

ENGLAND AGAIN RENEWS PLEDGE TO SMASH JAPS   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst {(Re>. Th. & Pat. Offre)

New Invasion Seen by Davis   OWI Head Forecasts Invasion From England. Italians Warned

OWI CHIEF PREDICTS BIG DRIVE IN EUROPE   Troops Will Strike From England in Sweep Like That in Sicily, Davis Savs in Algiers.

NEW INVASION IS PREDICTED   Elmer Davis Forecasts Attack On Continent From England

Davis Forecasts Great Invasion to Be Made  by Allies From Enoland

DAVIS PREDICTS KNOCKOUT PUNCH   OWT! Chief Warns Europe Big Invasion to Be Started From England

Battle Tested American Troops ‘Encounter Women Fighting For ‘Water In Naples And Give Up

MEAT RATIONING REGULATIONS ARE ‘EASED FOR FARMS   /Custom Slaughtered Meats No Longer to Require Rationing Coupons

If You Have Extra Ration Book 3, Return It To. The. - ‘Boards: No Questions: Aiked   It Seems Some Duplicates Were Sent Out By Mistake

If You Have Extra Ration Book 3, Return It To The --Board;'No Questions Askec Askec      t Seems Some Duplicates Were Sent Out By Mistake

Persons Possessing Ration Books To  Which They Are Not Entitled —   Such Cases To Be Turned Over To Investigation Division

Cars Collide,  Burn Down Home   3 Injured Saturday In New Braunfels

rtillery Lays Down Effective Barrage, Ger mans Declare   COORDINATED DRIVE BY ALLIES EXPECTED

London Silent — On Developments  OnlyNews of PushComes From Germans

Major British Attack Under W ay   Massing of Troops and Artillery Reported; German Mareth Line Positions Under Assault

British Assault On Mareth Line Gets Under Wa   Allies Believed Getting Set for Cleanup of North Africa

British In Assault On marelt Line  eliaitiae Rartand   Activities Portend Important Blow Is About to Be Struck

Nazis Assert Big Attack Is Under Way   London Silent but Unofficial Sources There Hint at Drive

APPEARS TO BE “MAJOR ATTACK” ON AXIS LINES IN SOUTHEASTERN TUN!SIA; MONTGOMERY MAY BE OPEN ING AXIS EXPULSION.

Allies Reported Set for Great Coordinated “ Blow in Africa  HOUR APPROACHING FOR FINAL ASSAULT   Lord Beaverbrook Predicts Early Continental : Invasion

Allies Getting Set for Blow To Drive Axis From Africa   Nazis Report Major Assault by British on Mareth Line; Beaverbrook Sees Conquest

FRONT ASSAULT IS LAUNCHED BY TANK DIVISIONS   Allied Forces Preparing For Coordinated Blow To Knock Axis Out Of Africa   Second Front Asked

Major Attack is Reported Launched By Eighth Army   Bie Push by Allied Forces in North Africz Appears Imminent; Beaverbrook Asserts Conquest of Tunisia ‘‘Not Far Off”’

Nazis Report Assault Is Under Way   Signs in London Indicate Push Is Imminent

British In Assault On Mareth Line   “Adivities. Porfend “Important. Blow fs _ Abouf-to Be Struck

Smashing British assault against Rommel started   Major attack gets underway with powerful artillery duel

Four British Divisions Move Against Rommel. Berlin Radio Reports  BIG BRITISH PUSH BELIEVED IMMINENT  Field Dispatches Hint Co-ordinated Action  By Allies in North

GERMANS REPORT BRITISH ASSAULT ON MARETH LINE   Berlin Radio Says Heavy Fighting Is Under Way in What Appears to Be a Major Allied Drive.   ASSERTS AXIS TROOPS ARE HOLDING FIRM   Field Dispatches Indicate British and Americans Are Preparing to, Strike in North Tunisia.

MARETH LINE ASSAULTED BY BRITISH ARMY   BERLIN RADIO TELLS OF MAJOR ATTACK IN AFRICA

Europe Air Campaign In Lull; Heavy  Rain Impedes Offensive Action

More Towns  Captured   Heavy Rain Agair Impedes Fifth Army Offensive

Germans Heading Northward   Fierce Fighting Reporter as Nazis Are Steadily Forced Back

Usual Fish Story ‘With Reverse End   Stay-at-Home Caught ‘Cat’ He Hadn't Bargained For

Allied Columns Batter Nazis Back In Tunisia   U. S. Armored Columns And British 8th Army Imperil Rommel; Nazi Sources Hint At Retreat; 1,000 Italians Taken Prisoner By Yanks.

GRAND CLIMAX APPROACHES IN AFRICAN DRIVE   Eighth Army, Two Yank Columns Open FullSeale Assault

News Of Start Of Altied-Offensive Given To World By Prime Mfinister Churchill — Eighth Army Plowing Forward   RUSSIANS CAPTURE pUROVO JUNCTION

British 8th Army Hits Mareth Line; Yanks Advance   i 5  ‘Americans Encounter Little   Resistance in Drive Towards Coast

‘AMERICAN DRIVE ~ TO COAST MEETING  LITTLE RESISTANCE   Fierce Battle Rages As Eighth Army Assaults Mareth Line

Americans lake 1,000 Italians: Drive Toward Sfax To Cut Two Forces

Four More Enemy  Vessels Damaged; U. S. Cruiser Lost   Japs Have ‘Taken Another Damned Good Licking,’ Knox Announces; 16 More Tokyo Planes Downed in Growing Air Conflict

Reds Slaughter Nazi Forces In Belgorod Area   Four Additional Nipponese Vessels Damaged At Cost Of One United States Cruiser

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEARSON (Trademark.)

ELEANOR PAYS MARINES A CALI   Visits Camp Hospital, Chats With Sick And Wounded.

Drink Curfew Bill Sent Back to Committee: After House Hears Denunciation of ‘Drivel’

Wets Win Round In Austin F ight ‘Over Beer Bill   Opponents Ciaim Few Legislators Realized Extent of Measure

Donnell Acain Asks Action on Corn Shortage   Problem Is Urgent And Requires Prompt Solution, He Says

flien Farm Labor Sought   ‘Conferees See Hopes Of Aareeing On Plan

Carlson Offers His New Tax Plan   Version of Rum! Plan Substitute For House Bill

Carlson Presents. His Version of  Skip-a-Year Plan   Heated General Debate On Taxation Issue  Concluded In House

Japs Claim Pacific Toll of 98 Warships   Report, for Last 6 Months, Follows Communique Admitting Previously Unlisted Loss of 3 Destroyers, 3 Subs, Patrol Vessel.

Tokyo Broadcasts Figures On Allied and Jap Naval Losses in Last Six Months

APPARENTLY SEEKING DIVERT ATTENTION FROM NEW DISASTERS  ‘BROADCAST DECLARES . 98 ALLIED WARSHIPS SUNK TO THEIR 19

Japan Makes Wild Claims   Allied Records Show Tokyo Broadcast Of Ships Sunk Is Wrong

Japan Claims 98 Allied Ships Sunk   Also Says 42 Warships Damaged in Last Six Months; Admit Loss of 19 Jap Ships Sunk and 16 Damaged

TOKYO CLAIMS 98 OF ALLIED WARSHIPS SUNK   Broadcasts Set This ‘Ridiculous’ Figure Against Admitted Loss o! 10 al fren   -SAY 42 DAMAGED   ‘Claims Seen as Effort fo divert At. tention from Jap Disasters on Papua, Guadalcanal

98 Warships Sunk in the Last: Six Months, Says «the Jap Report   FAR OUT OF LINE WITH U.S. FIGURES   Tokyo Apparently Trying to Divert Attention From Recent Disasters

Figures on Fighting  in ‘Solomons Area Do. Not Agree With /ith Others.  SAY 98 AMERICAN  Maan le ea

NEW GASOLINE CRISIS EASTERN INDUSTRIAL AREA IN SPOTLIGHT  _ SENATE DEMOCRATS PUT  PRESSURE ON CONFER. REC AN TAY RITT

EAST FACES NEW GAS PROBLEMS   OPA Orders Drastic Cut ir Deliveries Effective Thursday

‘Problems Yielded by  Gas Crisis   Congress also Occupied with Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan Foreign Trade and Labor Controversies

Conferees Cant Agree On Taxes  Many Controversial  Issues On Floors CArYE Beasoh Marncac

BILL GOES TO HOUSE FOR OK   Would Exempt Drivers From Liability in Carrying Workers   New Gasoline Crisis - Creates Many Problems

GAS SHORTAGE CRAMPS EAST   Deliveries Curtailed’ While OPA Battles Criticism; Congress Fights Taxes

Labor Chiefs Renew No-Strike Pledge: Government Agencies Begin Plans to Comply With Dispute Law

Antistrike Bill Arouses Labor   Leaders Renew Thei Pledge Despite Vote

Labor: Renews Its No - Strike Pledge ToF.R.   Union Representatives On WLB Not Qutting; Legislation Results In Confusion

LABOR BITTER OVER PAaoAGE (F STRIKE BILL   Government Agencies Puzzled Over Steps Necessary to Enforce Law.   MANY MINERS STILL IDLE; TEST MONDAY

LABOR LAMBASTo CONGRESS ACTION   Enactment of Anti-strike Bill Over Veto Brings Bitter Words; AFL and CIO Pledge ‘No Strikes’   BY THF ASSOCIATED PRESS

LABOR BITTER OVER PASSAGE NO STRIKE BILL    Congress Denounced for  Overriding President  ' — Roosevelt’s Veto of   Anti-Strike Measure   WLB STANDING PAT      Heads of AFL and CIO Re iterate “No ° Strike” Pledges; Methods of  Enforcement Studied

Labor Spokesmen . Denounce Congres: As FD's Veto Dies   ‘Anti- Strike Measure Passed, AFL and ClO Heads Renew. Pledae

NEW ANTI-STRIKE LAW IS ASSAILED BY LABOR LEADERS   But Green and Murray Renew Pledges That Workers Will  Not Walk Out During War.   CONFUSION CAUSED IN FEDERAL AGENCIES   Face Problem in Administering Act—Threat of Crisis in War Labor Board Vanishes.

GREEN, MURRAY REITERATE NO STRIKE PLEDGE   Bitter Words Unleashed By Labor Leaders

labor Heads Are Angered   “Congress Enoctment Of Strike Bill Is Hit

Labor Leaders Tlay Congress   But Renew No-Strike Pledge; Seek to Avert Application of Law

Labor Bitter Over Congress Over-Riding FD Strike Veto   But Unions Renew Their ‘No Strike’ Pledge, Administration Of New Bill Mapped

SCORES ACTION BY CONGRESS ONFDR’S VETO   Labor Chiefs of CIO. AFL Renew Their ‘‘No-Strike’’ Pledge

Labor Denounces Passage of Anti Strike Legislation  AFL and CIO Again Pledge ‘No Strike’; -

Labor Leaders Bitter Over « Congress Vole  But CIO, AFL Head Renew ‘No Strike’ Disadae After Vata

Statute Put On Books Over FDR's Veto   Govt. Agencies Not Prepared To Take  Iin Fnfarcement

PLAGER GRUNDY CO, AGENT, PASSES ON   IOWA FARM LEADER DIED SUDDENLY AT 6!

attle of Italy I lel U Ip by Rain   d Air Forces Sweep Over Mediterranean as Floods Keep. : Ea oN ieee ia Bay en ik:

F loods Delay Allied Action Along Volturno   Some Equipmnent Mired, But Allied Air Forces Continue Heavy Blows

Flood Waters Bog oth Army At Volturne   Nazis Sirengihen Lines;  Allied Air Force Hits

CLARK'S FORCE IS MIRED DOWN BY HEAVY RAIN   Allied Airmen Range Sky To Soften Positions Behind River For  Future Blow

FLOOD DELAYS BATTLE OF VOLTURNG   With General Clark’s Equip. ment in Heavy Mire: Nazis Use Respite to Strengther Defenses.   Train Shot Up

Hopelessly mire heavy equipment   Allied air forces softening enemy

HIGH WATERS DELAY ACTION ON VOLTURNO   Clark’s Forces Bogged Down As Stream Overflows Banks

GOVERNOR PLEDGES SUPPORT OF FDR’S ORDERS ON STRIKES      Offers Support Of State Reserve Defense Corps And Police To End Shut-Down

ALLIED BOMBERS MASS 10 COMBAT HUGE JAP SONVO'   Enemy Ships Moving Toward New Guinea Behind Protective Storms.

Allied Bombers Poise to Attack Huge Jap Convoy   Enemy Ships Mass Near New Guinea,  MacArthur Reveals

Believe Allied Bombers Massing For Attack On Japanese Convoy Said Moving Toward New Guine:

Allies Mass Planes to Hit Jap Convoy   Nippon Ships Move on New Guinea During Storm

jap Convoy Heading for New Guinea   Allied Planes Ready to Attack lf Weather Clears

Bombers Are Massing for Jap Convoy   All-Out Attack On Threatening Convoy Is Seen

Huge Japanese Convoy Moves On New Guinea   MacArthur Masses Bombers, Keeps Close Watch On {4 Ships Riding Behind Starm 220 Miles Fram Lae

Allied Bombers Mass to Attack Bia Jap Convoy         Enemy. Ships Are” Believed Moving — Toward New Guinea

MASS AIR POWEF FOR ATTACK ON BIG JAP CONVOY   14 Enemy Ships Moving Toward New Guinea; Storm Prevents Immediat= Assault

2 NEW DEVICES AIDING ALLIES   Sub Spotter And DelayedAction Bomb Reported  From London

MAGIC EYE’ USED BY RAF   Secret Device  Locates Subs In Dark: New Bomb Tried Out

Russians Close. In on Germans At Middle Don   Heavy Battles Rage On Five Fronts As Newest Circle Slowly Closes On Enemy; African Rains Slow Up Tunisian Campaign.

Rebellion Among Miners Spreading To Coke Oven Plants; Organized Picketing Is Partially Successful At Several Mines

BANDS OF PICKETS HAMPERING MINERS   12,000 .Of Pennsylvania’s Miners Idle—-More Pits Close

‘Germany Rocked By Another Large Assult By RAF   € Chemical Works Where Poison Gas fs Made Is Blasted By Newest Allied Air Assault Which May Have Loosed The Gas Over Reich

R.A. F. Blasts Sulphuric Acid Factory  Attack May Have Loosed Poison Gas Over Reacion

Day Air Blows Follow Raid On Acid Factory   Leverkusen Bombs May Have Released Poison Gas in Area

SEE NEW CRISIS IF OWNERS GET BACK MINES   Roosevelt Hints He Intends to Return Mines to Owners

RETURN OF COAL MINES   Jiove Raises Prospect Of New Crisis In Long Dispute

New Crisis May Arise In Mines   FR's Hint To Return Pits To Owners Cause

SEE PROSPECT OF NEW RUMPUS IN GOAL FIELD   President Gives Hint That Mines May Be Turned Back To Owners

New Crisis In Coal Strike Seen   FDR's Hint of Returning Mines to Owners is Basis

ROOSEVELT HINTS MINES 10 REVERT TOQWNERS SOON   May Bring New Crisis in Lengthy Coal Dispute   GRAND JURY PROBE BEGINNING TODAY

MAY RETURN MINES TO FIRST OWNERS ROOSEVELT STATES   Also Indicates Possibility Of Administration Moves ' Against Lewis And UMW

See New Crisis In Coal Dispute   President Hints Mines Will RReturned to Owners, Upset ting Union Plans

NEW CRISIS LOOMS IN EXISTING GOAL DISPUTE OVER U. §   Hint of FDR That He Intends to Return Mines to Owners May Upset  Program.

NEW MINE ALK: UP SEEMS POSSIBLE   Roosevelt Calls Attention To Provisions of New Anti‘trike Measure.

F. D. R. Hints That He Intends To Return Mines To Private Owners

Soviets Make More Gains in Ukraine Area   German Supply Route to Bryansk and Orel Threatened

Russians. Smashing  Path Around Orel   Breach German Line Guarding Central Front Bastion and Capture Men and Equipment

Reds pound thru nazis’ Orel front   Defenses for city believed cracking open

SOVIETS POUND OUT NEW GAINS  THRU UKRAINE   Wazi Defense Line Guarding Road Approaching Orel Is Pierced   DRIVE NEARING KONOTOP   Canture Of Three Strongholds Puts Reds 125 Miles From Kiey

REDS PIERCE OREL DEFENSE   RUSSOS SPREAD OUT IN UKRAINE DRIVE   Take Defense Point

SOVIETS CRASH - VITAL GERMAN LINE NEAR OREL   New Gains Reported In Ukraine Near  Supply Line 

NEW GAINS IN UKRAINE ARE MADE BY REDS   Soviet Army Crashes Through Strong Nazi Defense Line Below Orel.

RUSS ADVANCE INTO UKRAINE, TAKE PRISONERS   Turkey Expects to Enter - War; Peru on Side Of Allies

RED ARMY 41 MILES FROM CITY   35 Enemy Planes Are Claimed Destroyed In Air Attack

REDS CRASH AXIS LINE BELOW OREL   Gains Reported In Ukraine, Drive Toward Konotop

VILLAGES CAPTURED IN RAIDS   New Advances Accomp. lished in Orel Vicinity —Two Companies Annihifated.

Crucial Battle Rages at Naples   Yanks Carry Battle Outcome of Which May Decide Fate of Italy

ASSO, U. 8. ENVOYS TO MEET WITH EDEN   See Early Anglo-American: Russian Conference as Result of Talks

Early Conference Of 3 Big Powers Expected Soori   Eden to Meet Maisky, Winant to Consider Joint Conversations

Stalin-Churchill-Roosevelt Parley To Be Considered in London Talks

EDEN TO MEET U.S. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS   British War Cabinet To Hear Quebec Report Today

Secretary Eden, Maisky, Winant ToAttend Parley   Early” Tri-Partite Meeting --.Seen-. Given--Boost:..By-. Conference Tomorrow.

RUSSIA'S VIEWS TO BE FITTED 0 ALLIED PATTERN   Possibility of Conference by U. S., Britain and Russia Seen in Making Now   PRELIMINARIES UNDER WAY   Roosevelt Back in Capital Meets China’s Minister And Awaits Churchill

British See Chance For Another Leaders’ Gathering  Observers Say Reds Will Attend Next War Parleys

Eden to Meet With U. $., Red Ambassadors   Believe Meetings Prelude to “Big Three Conference’

Eden Back in England: Maisky Also Reported To Be Back From Russia

Eden Will Seek Tri-Power Meet   Plans to Talk WithU. S., Soviet Envoys

MOSCOW JOINS WAR STRATEGY   Three-Power Conference With Stalin Included Believed In Wind

Eden Returns Home From Quebec Meet  Observers Speculate On War Conference

SEEK ELIMINATION OF FARM SUBSIDIES   Senator Wotlld Restore ‘Fair Level’ Farm Prices Rather Than Use Benefit Pavments

CLOUDS GATHER OVER SUBSIDIES   Hatch Advocates Elimination of Payments but ‘Fair. : Levels’

Farm Benefits Are Opposed   Hatch Advocates. Program Of “Higher. Prices And No Subsidies &. 2

CANADA PONDERS      Pay-As-You-Go Income Plan Forgives Half of 942 Levy

Canada to Have Pay-as-Go Plan   Forgives Half of 1942  Earned Income Tax

Nazis Conscript Labor In Italy   All hA~. 31099 1 ANIL UIVIET 10-393 i) Some Arence Called

oyernment Makes First Move Under Strike Ban Law: Inquiry Starts In Mine Stoppage   PION HEADS SAY t WALKOUT ILLEGAL   © LB Prepares New Order Which Will Not Compel Lewis to Sign Pact For Compliance

COAL STRIKE PROBE STARTS IN PITTSBURGH   Government Makes First Move Under ConallySmith Act at the Smoky City   MORE MEN RETURNING

GRAND JURY CALLED TO PROBE STRIKES   First Action Taken Under New Anti-strike Law

————EEEEEEEEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEEeEEaamESEammes a  ANTI-STRIKE AGT UP FOR 1ST MOVE TODAY   ‘Special Grand Jury Session Called on Coal Walkout

Coal Strike Into Court      Government Acts Under New Anti-Strike Bill; 3,000 Miners: Idle

INVOKES LA  W   J, S$. Acts Under Anti-Strike Act, Probes Coal Tie-up.

LOOKS INTO STRIKE   Government Under AntiSt rike Act Calls Special ~ Grand Jury »

GRAND JURY WILL PROBE COAL STRIKE   Number of of Idle Pennsy Miners Dwindles

Special Session of Federal Grand Jury Convened As Government’s First Move Under Connally -Smith Anti-Strike Act.

Coal Strike Jury Convenes   Half of 10,000 Miners Still Idle Expected Back Today

GRAND JURY STARTS COML STRIKE PROBE   Miners Troop Back into Pits on Eve of Investigation by Federal Groun

Jury To Probe “Lengthy Strike. In Coal Industry      Regarded As First-ActionTn Which. Government’ “ Uses. Anti-Strike -Law-

GOVERNMENT MADE FIRST MOVE UNDER ANTI-STRIKE LAW   SPECIAL SESSION GRAND JURY TO INQUIRE INTO LINGERING COAL STRIKE

Switch In Names. Amazes Dionnes   Cargo Ships Will Not Be Named For Quints

ISSUE PERMITS FOR SLAUGHTER OF LIVESTOCK   Bureau County Board Gets Instructions From State Officers To Help Check The ‘‘Black Market’’

AXIS BARGES ACTIVE   Movements Acroag Messina Strait Reported Increasing

STRIKE THREATENED BY FARMER GROUP   Action Proposed as Prospect To Food Subsidy

Reds Drive Within 30 Miles Of Smolensk as Desperate Nazis Hurl in Heavy Forces

Russian Troops Continue to Make Gains  Naevie Dacnarcrialyu   Nazis Desperately Resist Advancina Reds

Russian Troop: Continue to Make Gains   Nazis Desperately Resist Advancing Reds

Beer Shor tare. Looms in. United States: . "we Cam Gluts the:Nation’s Farm Barns

Beer Shartace Loams in United States as Corn Glits the Natien’s Farm Rarns

NATIONAL BEER SHORTAGE SEEN   WPB Expresses Concern Over Inability Of Brewers To Secure Corn

Woman Slain; Another Hurt   New York Business Woman Beaten to Death in Her Room

 5,000,000 Nazis Sacrificed To Meat Grinder—  ' Hitler Plans Last Attempt To Destroy Reds

LAGOA DAY OF WOnK 13 PLEA UF AUOSEVELT   Message to Workers, Farmers and Employers Says Need Is Urgent.   LABOR LEADERS URGE GREATER PRODUCTION

In Labor Day Message Roosevelt Asks For Increased Production To Speed Up Victory

President Proclaims Labor Day, Asks Continued Production to Speed Victory, Save Lives, Avert Misery

FOR GALLS FOR GREATER OUTPUT   Directs Labor Day Message to Workers, Farmers and Employers; Would Speed Day of Victory

F.D.R. Asks: Larger Outpul  Directs Appeal ta Workers, Farmers And Emplovers

America Called To Greater Bifort ByF. Re  Dn... dJeant land   President Lauds Production in  Labor Day Talk

Even Greater Production Is  Needed—F.R.   President’s Labor Day Statement Calls For Effort To Save Lives, Suffering

Labor Vay statement  FDR Calls For Greater Production To Save Lives

Roosevelt Pleads For Workers To  Save Lives   President’s Message To Nation Stresses Need Of Greater Output  To Shorten War   ADMIRAL KING SAYS ‘TOUGH JOB AHEAD   Labor Leaders And WPB Urges Workers To Give Up Holiday Tomorrow;  As In 1942

FD Appeals For Increase In  Production To Speed Victory Still Greater Speed In Output Of War Goods  Is Uraed By President: Workers Get Praise

PRESIDENT CALLS" FOR ‘INCREASED. PRODUCTION To SPEED VICTORY DAY

Roosevelt Calls for Still Greater Production to Speed Victory   Labor Day Another Day of Work  For Industry Throughout Country

Mrs, Seth ewig Suffers Broken Arm In Heuad-On (Collisions In Hospital

Mrs. Seth Lewis Suffers Broken Arm In Head-On 'Collision; In- Hospital

Axis Looks For More Landings   Maintains Invasion of Italy Expected

Forces Landed After Fierce Aerial Blows   Eisenhower's Attacking Army Mad  Up of Americans, British and  Canadians, it is Announced  }

Germans Press Slav Guerrillas      In Bosnia Tito’s Forces Kill 20 Germans and Wound 33.

YOUNG SENATORS WILL CONTINUE TO HECKLE DEBATERS   Connally Of Senate Foreign Relations Committee’ ed Admits Vagueness 7 OF Resolution

Peace Plan Critics Continue Sniping   Say They'll Keep Heckling Sponsors

PEACE RESOLUTION VAGUE; SPONSORS 'HECKLED’ BY GROUP   Young Senators Want Specific U. S. Stand On Postwar Plans

Train Of 24 Depth Charges Touched Off By Fire Caused Naval Air Station Explosion   Toll Stands At 24 Dead, 250 Hurt, Many Seriously; Disaster Described

Depth charge train blamed  in 24. deaths   Sailors and one  WAVE victims

FEAR 24 DEATHS IN NORFOLK DISASTER MAY BE INCREASED   Thirteen of the 250-Odd Injured Reported Critically Hurt; Navy Keeps Mum On Cause of Area’s Worst Disaster Since Crash’ of Dirigible Roma.

EXPLODING DEPTH CHARGES CAUSED FATAL EXPLOSION  TWENTY-FOUR DEAD AND MORE THAN 250 IN.

24DEADIN ~ PLANT BLAST   Train of 24 De pth Charges Set Off By Fire At Norfolk: .

Train of Depth Charges Set Off Says Witness  Reports Fire Among  rewnt

FEAR BLAST TOLL WAY GO OVER 24   Train of 24 Depth Charges ' Explodes at Norfolk Train  ~ ing Station

FIRE CAUSE OF NORFOLK BLAST   Naval Air Base Toll At 94 Dead, 250 Badly Injured

TELLS OF BLAST FATAL 10 24   24 Depth Charges Are Set Off by Fiames

Depth Charges Blast Kills 24”   Charges Were Touch. ed Off By Fire

Train of Depth Charges Set Off  Says Witness   Reports Fire Among Depth Charges, Firemen Killed

Fix Cause Of Blast      Eyewitness of Norfolk Disaster Says Train Of Depth Charges Set Off By Fire Exploded

MOUNTING DEATH TOLL FEARED IN AIR BASE BLAST   24 DIE, 250 INJURED FROM REPORTED FIRE ON MUNITIONS TRAIN

Air Base Blast, Fatal to 24, Traced To Depth.Charaes On. Truck-Train

RUMANIANS ON WAY OUT RUSS   Attached To German Army, The Are Evacuating From Batt'e Lines In Crimea Area

Rumanians In Crimea Evacuating. Is Report   Number Of Divisions Quitting Peninsula,  Bucharest Newsman Infarme Swice Paner

Divisions Attached to German Army Quitting (Garrison on Red Front

RUMANIANS EVACUATING THE CRIMEA   Quit German Army, Begin: Withdrawing From Peninsula

EVACUATION OF RUMANIAN TROOPS BEGUN IN GRIMEL   It Was Hoped to Remove at Least 50 Per Cent of Troops Garrisoned There.

Reds Evacuate Zhitomir, High Mark of 1943  Russian Drive   Heavy Battle Raging in Cherkasi Sector in Dnieper   Rumanians Reported. Fleeing the Crimea

SAYSRUMANIA CALLS TROOPS FROM CRIMEA   Bucharest Correspondent of Swiss Paper Reports Evacuation Has Begun for Seven Divisions Aiding Nazis.

RUMANIANS ARE LEAVING CRIMEA   Claim  Division Has  Already Reached Odessz

Rumania Quitting Crimea   Report Divisions Withdrawn; Nazis Take Zhitomir.

Politicians  Watch Vote   F. R. and Willkie Back Candidates in State Elections Today

See Light Vote In Seven States; Trend Awaited   Philadelphian . Mayoralty, N. ¥., N. J., Ky., Miss., Va., Mich. Highlighted

LIGHT VOTE ORECAST IN SEVEN STATES      Politicians, However, See in Off-Year Elections an Opportunity to Determine Probable 1944 Trends.

Cotlinas, Glenwood Hold Elections Today; Politicians Scan Vote In New York And Six Other States

EVE VOTING IN 7 STATES   May Provide ‘Trend’ For Presidential Vote Next Year

State Votes Are Straws  In the Wind   Seven Elections Being Held Through Nation

MONTGOMERY IN LEADING TUNISIA ROLE   Brit, General First Under  Eisenhower

MONTGOMERY WIL “CARRY THE BALL” IN TUNISIAN ‘FICHT      In Forces Under Eisenhower we

Hard-bitten Eighth Army Vet. erans te Be Eisenhower’s Striking Force.

FDR Says Tax Plan Is Inadequate   Congress Considers Pacific Strategy, Antistrike Legislation, Trade Pacts and Federal Salaries

CAPITAL CHEERED  BY PROGRESS REPORT  AGAINST JAPANESE TAX FIGHT FINDS REPUBLICANS BATTLING  CAD DIIMI TAY DI AW

DIES COMMITTEE T0 MAKE REPORT UPON BEAUMONT RIOTING  MARTIAL LAW IN SOUTH  TEXAS CITY MAY BE TIETED SIINDAY

FARM BLOC PLAN CONTINUED BATTLE   Increased Prices Still Sought Despite Warning

HITLER MAY HAVE BEEN BEATEN TO PUNCH IN CAUCASUS EFFORT AS REDS REPORTED BE ACTIVE

The War Today— Nazi Effort To Crack Gateway Te Russian Oil Now In Initial Phase

Americans Destroy 113 Enemy Planes   100 to 1 Victory as Yanks Roam Over Italian Coast, Isles; Break Dam

Alkes Score Air Victory   113 Planes Downed As "Only One Is Missing

Sardinia Raid Is Field Day   American Bombers And Fighters Score  13-tol Victory.

Great Air Vie ‘tory Is Reported   Axis Loses 113 Planes To One American Craft.

Survey Shows 64% of Nation’s Families Expect To Buy Major Articles After War

Production For Ground Forces  Off Last Month   Patterson Blames Com placency, OverConfidence.

Industry Fails To Supply Army  Complacency Blamed For Production Fall

War Goods Production  Takes Slump  ee See Sessa   Patterson Says Industry Failed to Meet Needs Of Army Last Month

Patterson Sees Danger In War  Goods Decrease   Production Figures In May Below Schedule On Most Items For Front.   PLANES SHOW GAIL

War Production Lags—Patterson   Blames Overconfidence For Let-Down

Supplies For War Lagging   --- 514% Deficit in May For Ground Forces

WAR OUTPUT SLUMP IN MAY HELD CRITICAL   Patterson Reveals Industry. Not Only Failed to Increase, but tha! Praduction Declined

Arms Output Falls Sharply   Failure of Industry To Meet Goals Blamed On Over Confidence

Says Army’s Needs Are Not Being Met   Undersecretary of War Patterson Declares Decline in May Output Will Deprive Troops in Training of Critical Equipment.

PRODUCTION IS OFF   Needs of Amny Ground Forces Were Not Met - in Month of May

ARMY NEEDS NOT FILLED If MAY   Production “Dropped 4 1-2 Percent, in Planned Two Percent Raise

PRODUCTION OF WAR NEEDS OFF IN LAST MONTH   “Over-Confidence and Complacency” Blamed for Slackening by Undersecretary of War Patterson   DEPLORES STRIKES   ‘Our Overseas Troops tc Suffer From Shortages of Critical Material,” He Declares

Arms Output Falls Under May Goal   Production Fails to Meet Army Ground Force Needs

War Output Under Quota  Last Moni=   A Number of Factors: Are Mentioned As. Responsible: for Failure   CRITICAL PERIOD IN MILITARY SUPPLY   Must Deliver According T¢ Plan To Exploit Recent Military Successes

Equipment Production For Army  Falling Off   Patterson Says It Will Deprive Men Of Needed Arms Fort Invasion Of Europe

INDUSTRY FAILS TO PRODUCE ALL NEEDS FOR ARMY   Under Secretary. Patterson Declares Materials Needed For Ground Forces Critical Situation. :   TROOPS: IN TRAINING ARE DENIED SUPPLIES   ‘Midwestern Floods Are Cause,, “Deep-Seated Intangible Had Very Far Reaching Effect.”

PATTERSON ASSERTS  INDUSTRY FAILED T0  MEET PRODUCTION MAY WAR PRODUCTION  SUPPOSED TO INCREASE RUT DECREASED

Production Of War Materials Falls Behind   Over-Confidence Seen As Main Cause For Sharp Decrease

War Goods Are Off 52 Per Cent   Patterson Says Nation Is  Too Complacent; Strikes  Have Slowed Work

Complacency Blamed For Industry’s Failure To Meet Army’s Needs In May

Industry Failed by 514% to Meet Needs   May Production Too Low, Patterson Says

INDUSTRY FAILED FOUR AND ONE-HALF PER GENT IN MAY   Production for Last Month  Scheduled to Increase,  Says Patterson.   WAS A SERIOUS BLOW   Means That Troops in Training Must Be Deprived of Critical Equipment.

U.S. Workers Complacency ls Attacked   May Production Letdown Is Reported By UnderSecretary Of War   INCREASE S NEEDEC   Industry Fell 51% Per Cent Short OF U. S. Military Requirements

atterson ys U.S. is Arm   eveals May Output  Dept. Official 14% Behind Needs

PATTERSON BLAMES OVER-CONFIDENCE, COMPLACENCY FOR PRODUCTION DROP

War Output Slackoff Hit By Patterson   May bY PC. P.C. Under Quota, He Says, AEF Troops Endangered

Blames Slackened War Production In May On ‘Over Confidence and Complacency’; Overseas Troops May Suffer From Shortages.

V-MAIL VOTING URGED   : Speed-LUp Ssstem For Absentee fal. lets Is Proposed

V-Mail Vote By Soidiers is Proposed   Measure Ready For Senators

JAPS TRYING 10 FLEE ISLAND FRUSTRATED   More Than 40 Barges Sunk by Allies Off Kolombangara

NAVY SMASHES JAP FLOTILLA   Evacuation Attempt Broken Up  Many Japanese Die In Sea

U. S. SUB SINKS 8 JAPANESE VESSELS ON SINGLE PATROL      Record Of Sinking 37,000 Tons Of Shipping Is Credited To Crew Of “Wahoo”

SUBMARINE SINKS EIGHT JAP SHIPS   U. S. Sub Back At Pearl Harbor After Bag Of 32,000 Tons

News From Solomons Kept Secret for Reasons of Strategy, Davis Anounces

Advertising Secn as Great ‘actor in. Postwar Plans         News. From Solomons Kept Secret for ~ Reasons of Strategy, Davis Anounces

Suspect Admits Wyoming Killing   Prosecutor Quotes Him In Katmo Case

MURDER ‘SUSPECT HELD IN WYOMING   3 Slayings Result in Grin . Manhunt on Weekn

Fire Destroys Union Church At Kushequa   Kane and Mt. Jewett Firemen Called: House Next Door Damaged

Kushequa Church Destroyed By Fire Saturday   Kane and Mt. Jewett Firemen Called; House Next Door Damaged

House Changes Regulations of Employe Rules   Soldier Tax Exemptions Filing Deadline Also Changed

2 BILLS ARE VOTED BY HOUSE   Ail Records for Speed in Assembly Broken

CIVILIAN MEAT QUOTAS REVISED   More Pork Allowed But Less Beef, Veal, Lamb And Mutton

Finance Affairs of U.S. Good Morgenthau Opens  ee ee ra Sh  r Lest ee am

Morgenthau, Opening War Bond Campaign, Promises Second Front Shortly

Morgenthau Launches Immense Drive Says Allies Are Ready to Rock Foundations of All Enemies

TRANSPORT PILOTS DOING GREAT WORK IN NORTH AFRICA  YOUNG FLIERS GET NO GLORY BUT ARE DOING ESSENTIAL JOR

- Young Transport Pilots Played Important ‘Role In Chasing Nazi Army Out Of Libya

Today's War Commentary  Sweden Turns  Stockholm No Longer OWS To AKL

Today’s War Moves   BY THOMAS J. DONOHUE  liniteaHt Drees Analvet

AXIS LAUNCH ATTACK IN TUNISIA   Attempt Made To Forestall British Advance

"Robust Policy Is Needed’   Senator Burton Urges ‘Specific Declaration’

‘ROBUST AMERICAN’ POST-WAR POLICY NEEDED, SOLON SAYS   Senator Burton Feels Moré Specific Plan Than Peace Maintenahce Resolution  Urged by Committee Needed

Robust Policy Urged on U.S   Senator Assails Post-War Resolution As Too General

Uree ‘Robust’ Policy Stand   Ohio Senator Wants More Than Peace-Maintenance  Resolution.

INVAS SURRENDERS TO ALLIED FORCES   Gives Up Unconditionally After 19 Days of Terrific Pounding   BIG AERIAL VICTORY   ‘First Blood Is Scored By   Allies In Battle For E.urove

Lampedusa May Be Next   It’s Isolated, Probably Short of Provisions

Italian Island Of Lampedusa May Fall Next  London Expects Quick Follow-Up Of Day's Victory

¥ DD. 8 ON LEND-LEASE   Anniversary Message Says We Have Stood Test Of Time

Draft Dodgers In Government  Few Says FDR   President Shows — Figures That Only 3.2 Percent Employes De ferred,  LETTER TO CONGRESS

F. R. Refutes Charges That Many Government Workers Dodging Draft

In Letter Sent To Congress President Denies Government Is Haven For Draft Dodgers

FD. R. Denies Draft Charges  ‘Mud-Slingers’ Are Answered i in Notes + Bask Hrasene

F.D.R. ANSWERS DRAFT CRITICS   Declares Only 3.2 Percent of Government Employes Are Deferred

F.D.R. Gives Figures To Show No Draft Dodgers Working For U.S.   Only 3.2 Percent Of 3,000,000 Full-Time Civilian Government Employes Have Received Occupational Deferment.

600 Workers Are Needed At Once In Battery Plant   F.D.R. Says Few Federal Workers Receive Occupational Deferments

DATAGE : WN LETTERS -TOLEADERS   Only: 3.2 Per Cent Have Been Kept From Duty

PRESIDENT SAYS °"MUD-SLINGERS’ ARE T0 BLAME   ‘Chief Executive Avers Only 3.2 Percent of Workers Now Deferred

INGRESSMEN AKENTO TASK BY ROOSEVELT   resident Denies Govern ment Has Been Haven For Draft Dodgers and Slackers   )NLY 3.2% DEFERRED, \< ESSENTIAL, CLAIM   erms Aceusers “Mud-Slin gers”, Charges “Groundless." in 2,700-Word Letier to Representatives

Government No Haven For Dodging Draft, Says   President, In Message To Congress, Replies To ‘Mud-Slingers’ And Quotes Figures

F DR Answers Charges On Govt. Workers   Message To Congress Asserts Charges of Draft Dodgers In Govt. Employe Are Groundless and Irresponsible.

President Raps Slacker Charge:   Asserts Very Few U.S Employes Deferred

“MUDSLINGERS’ SCORED BY FR   Says But 3.2 P. C. of 8 Million Civilian Employes Deferred.

FDR Denies Charges About Draft Dodgers   Says Only 3.2 Per Cent of Government Employes Deferred

Roosevelt Spikes Reports U.S. Workers Not Drafted   Only 3.2 P. C. of 3 Million Have Been Deferred: Hits Mud-Slingers

FDR DEFENDS WORKERS IN WAR OFFICES   Says Only 3.2 Per Cent Of Workers  Have Deferment

‘Roosevelt Denies Government ts Haven for Draft Dodzers   ‘President Calls Critics ‘Mud-Slingers’ in Submitting Figures to Show Only 3.2 PC “Federal Employes Deferred

Defer Few Because Of U. S. Jobs   No Haven Is Offered To Draft Dodgers, Says President In Reply To Congressmen

Wallace, Rayburn Scolded By FDR  On Draft Charge   Says Few Workers Are Deferred

FDR TAKES ISSUE = WITH “MUDSLINGERS’   President Calls Charges ‘Groundless’ “a

PRESIDENT DENIES GOVERNMENT HAVEN FOR DRAFT DODGERS   LONG LETTER SENT HOUSE AND SENATE IN DEFENSE FEDERAL JOBHOLDERS

Roosevelt Hits Criticism Of Federal Workers   Declares Only 3.2 Per. cent Have Received Droft Defarments

Dralt Charges Are Unfair, F.D.R. Declares  Very Few U.S. Workers Have Been Deferred

Roosevelt Denies Federal Jobs Are Slacker Haven; But 3.2 Percent Deferred

President Hits at “Mud-Slingers” Who Call Gov't. “Haven”   Says 3.2 Pet. of Nearly 3,000,000 Payrollers Given Deferments.

FDR Defends Gov't Employes  Denies Federal Service Is Haven For Draft

Accusations Denied by Roosevelt   Attributes Charges Government Is Haven for Draft Dodgers and Slackers ta “Mud-Slingers”

CALLS CRITIC MUD-SLINGERS   President Says Only 3.2 Per Cent of Federal Employes Deferred.   SENDS LETTER TO HOUSE

F. D. R. ANSWERS DRAFT CHARGES   President Cites Figures Showing Only 3.2 Per Cent Of Federal Employes Have Been Deferred From Militarv Service,

DENIES GOVT UFFEHO HAVEN FOR SLAGKERE   -Roosevelt Answers’ What He Calls ‘“Mud-Slingers” with Figures.

w2 PERCENT GOVT WORKERS DEFERREL   President Brands Persons, Who Call Federal Jobs Draft Haven. ‘Mud-Slingers’

Roosevelt Answers~ Critics of Federal Employe Deferment         Salvation Army Benefits From Community Chest!

NotSlackers Says F. D.R.   President Denies ‘Charge That Gov’t Workers Dodge Draft

GOV'T WORKERS NOT SLACKERS, FDR DECLARES   Only 3‘: of 2,980,404 Deferred, President Says In Stern Rebuke

Ban On Pleasure Driving Continues   State OPA Says It Will Be Several Days Before Motorists May Get Added Gasoline; Await Washington Orders

PLEASURE BAN YET IN FORCE   OPA Office Says Present Driving Regulations  Hold Several Days

Planes Destroyed In First 3 Days Of Air Offensive Against Germany

NAZIS LOSE 121 PLANES INU. S. RAIDS   Blastiug Of 3 German Dams, Heaviest Blow Of The War

New Raids On Lorient Bordeaux   Question of Bombing Rome Comes Up—Air Offensive in 6th Day

M’Arthur Sees New Effort to Take Offensive   ‘Enemy Concentrates Ships, Planes And Men In Former Dutch Islands; Opens Attack Against British Army In Burma To Beat Monsoons.

Japs Massing Supplies in New Threat to Australia as Allied Flyers Keep Up Blows at Convoy

MacArthur Warns Enemy Is Massing Ships, Men, Planes   U. S. And Allied Fliers Continue To Smash At Convoy Off N. Guinea; Attack British Units In Burma

JAPS MASSING SHIPS, PLANES IN NEW THREAT      American Fliers Believe Two Ships in Convoy of Eight Sunk in Atiack   BRITISH ATTACKED   Japs Recover Some of Initiative in Burma—Chinese Throw Invad: ers Back

NEW THREAT TO CONTINENT IN MAKING   Allied Planes Still Hitting Enemy Convoy   INITIATIVE   Regained By Nips In Burma; Summer Offensive On Kiska Started

Nips Persistent As Yellow Jackets   british Campaign In Burma Slipping Its Wheels   ANOTHER JAP CONVOY FORMING

Japanese Again Mass Strength Off Australia   Some Of Initiative In Burma Reported Held By Nips

ASSEMBLE MEN, SHIPS, PLANES NEAR AUSTRALIA   JAPS PREPARE FOR RENEWED OFFENSIVE, MAC ARTHUR WARNS

Japs Massing Forces Near Australia   Attack Wavell’s Forces in Burma as Allied Fliers Blast Targets Over Wide Area

NEW THREAT TO AUSTRALIA IS FORESEEN   Japs Reported Massing Ships, Men and Supplies On Bases in Northwest Pacific

JAPS. AMASSING SHIPS AND MIEN FOR NEW DRWE   Threat This Time Comes From Northwest of the Continent; Gaining In Burma, Too

New Jap Threat to Australia   Many Enemy Ships  And Planes Reported Gathering 500 Miles  To the Northwest

Japs Massing In New Threat to Australic   Sigus of More Action i Several Theaters of the Pacific Front   AMERICANS AGAIN BLAST AT CONVOYS   Powerful Summer Aerial Smash on Aleutians May — Just Be Starting

MASSING THEIR STRENGTH NEAR AUSTRALIA NOW   MacArthur in Second Warning of  “Yellow Peril.” Japs Making Stronger Stand, Burma 

JAPS ARE MASSING FOR A NEW THREAT TO AUSTRALIA   This Time at Their Bases to the Northwest of the Continent.   A MAC ARTHUR WARNING

MacArthur : Warns. of New Venture   Enemy . Also Strikes ‘at British in Burma

FOE RECOVERS INITIATIVE ON BURMA FRONT   ‘American, Allied Fighters Punish Enemy Convoy, Land Bases

Japs Massing Ships Men In New Threat To Australia   Forces Being Gathered at Base Northwest of Australia This Time. Nippons Regain Initiative From British In Burma Fighting

Japs Massing Troops Near Australia  New Threat Of Invasion Seen By MacArthur

Australia Is Warned of Nev Jap Invasion   Massing Ships And Planes, Nipponese Threaten In Northwest   McArthur’s Airmen Hit Another Enemy Convoy   American Bombing Of Kiska Signal For Summer Offensive

WARNS JAPS ARE MASSING AGAIN   - MacArthur Says Nippon  __ Ships Concentrating

AMERICAN, ALLIED FLIERS CONTINUE 10 BLAST AT CONVOYS   GEN. MACARTHUR WARNS OF NEW THREAT TO AUS. TRALIA BY ENEMY

Nipponese Again Have Initiative On Burma Front   Allied Planes Are Attacking Convoy Of Eight Vessels

JAPS. MASSING NEW UNITS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   MacArthur Says Foe Gathering Forces in  Amboina Area

JAPS PREPARING FOR BIG SMASK UPON AUSTRALIA   MacArthur Reports Enemy Massing Ships, Planes at Their Pacific Bases

Australia Faces New Jap Threat, Says MacArthur   Enemy Massing Ships Men And Planes Neat Amboina Island.

Japs Prepare For New Push On Australia   Ships, Planes And Men Massed In. Dutch East Indies

JAPS MASSING SHIPS, MEN AND PLANES   Concentration This Time Is at Bases Northwest -of Continent — Enemy Forces British Back in Burma Theater.

MacArthur Warns of New Jap Thrust   Enemy Increases Temp of Burma Campaign with New Ground Attacks; Airmen Gaak Convov

JAPS ANNOUNCE MORE GAINS IN BURMA SECTOR   Allied Fliers Strike at Enemy Shipping Off New Guinea Coast

JAPAN MASSING FO NEW MOVE  IN 3. PACIFIC   New Threat To Australia Seen In Concentration Of Gigantic Forces

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST ANOTHER 8-SHIP CONVOY   Enemy Bases Being Built On Pacific Islands Where Navy Craft Assembling   WARNING FROM MacARTHUR   Invaders Step Up Attack In Burma—yYank Assault From China Worries Nips

New Australian Threat Seen In Another Convoy   Japs Mass Ships Anc Men In _ Pacific Initiative Taken By Enemy

Mass Forces  At Bases NW Of Continent   Enemy Regains Initiative As Warning Is Given

ATTEMPT SEEN TO OPEN DRIVE ON AUSTRALIA   Allied Planes Blast Convoys Concentrating In Amboina-Doho Area   ITWO ARE BELIEVED SUNK   British Readjust Lines In Bure ma; Aleutians Outpost Smashed

Ships Being Concentrated  At Islands   Allied Airmen Continue To Strike At Enemy Convoys

Japs in Threat To Australians   Nippons Are Massing Ships, Men and Planes North east of Continent.

Japs Mass Forces in New Threat   Allied Planes Continue to Batter Convoy Off New Guinea

Japs Mass in New Australian Threat   Growing Concentration Observed at Bases Northwest of South Pacific Continent; Japs Attack in Burma.

Japs Massing Ships, Planes   Gen. MacArthur Warns Enemy May Be Preparing Attack On Australia.

MacArthur Warns Of a Jap Attack   “Enemy Is Massing Forces ina New Threat to "Australia   “HIT TAPANESE CONVOY   American Fliers From India Get in on the Aerial Battles

Japanese Mass Large Forces   Consolidation of Ships, Men, Planes Seen as New Threat

SHIPS SHELL OE, AIRMEN DROP BOMBS   Strong Task Force Carvies Out Assault on Enemy Garrison and Installations,   ADMIRAL NIMITZ GIVES NO DETAILS   Attack Comes on Heels of Conference of Three Top-Ranking U. S, Naval Officers.

Carrier Planes, Ships Bomb, Shell Jap Base   Task Force Under Montgomery Pounds Installations, Garrison; Reports Hint of Heavy Damage

Few Details Are Given on Pacific Move   Aitack Comes Soon  After Disélosure of Haw:     nm C'nntferanre

Strong Task Farce of Pacific Fleet Makes Attack  SECOND ATTACK ON ~ ISLAND SINCE FALL  New Offensive Stroke Follows Strategic Conference

Pacific Fleet Unit Bombaras In Dual Raids   Large Task Force With Carrier Heavily Attacks Japanese Garrison

Pacific Fleet Task Unit Aids In Heavy Atfack   Nimitz Discloses Strong Offensive

Jap Installations On Wake Island Heavily Bombed And Shelled By U. S. Task Force   Warships, Including Aircraft Carrier, Launched Bom'  bardment Of Pacific Base At Dawn Tuesday; Details Of Attack Are Not Announced

Jap Garrison At Wake Bombe By Strong Force   Second Stroke at Island Follows Strategy Parley

Americans Lash Foe On Wake Isle During Dawn Attack  Heavy Blow Follows Conference of Top U. S. Naval Chieftains

lask Force Includes  U. S. Carrier      Second Such Attack On Pacific Island Since Fall, Dec., 1941  DETATY S WiTtuorrin

CARRIER GIVES PLANE SUPPORT TO NAVY UNITS   Bombardment, Shelling Of Japanese Garrison  Follows Meeting Of Admirals

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Heavy Attack Is Carried Out Against Island   New Offensive Strike Follows Disclosure Of Strategic Parley Held at Pearl Harbor

STRONG TASK FORCE DRUBS JAP OUTPOST   NEW BLOWS STRUCK AT ENEMY BY AIR, LAND AND SEA

U.S. WARSHIPS, PLANES BLAST JAPS ON ISLE   Details of Assault on Tuesday Morning Not Given Out

Jap \ake Island Gaison Raided BStrong Force   Ad mr a I Montgomery Caitits Fleet en _ heavy Attack —

AY, TRAIN IN TRILLA   Mrs. Anzi Willis Hit by Westbound Nickel Plate Freicht

WOMAN KILLED AY TRAIN IN   Mrs. Anzi Willis Hit by Westbound Nickel Plate Freight

Many Changes Seen in House   More Bald Heads Come In With Increase in G. O. P. Membership

More Republicans And Less Hair Feature Changes\f In New Congress As /8th Session Gets Under Way   More GOPs, Less Hair

House Old-Timers Lose One Title To Youngster As Will, Jr., Yawns

U.S. Takes Up Situation In Lebanon   Hull Won't Confirm Reports Of Strong Protest to French

Lebanese Asked to Open Shops   French Controlled Regime Seeks Early Return to Normal Conditions

MAY EXTEND FUEI OIL RATIONING TC NORTHWEST COAS'   Petroleum Shortage’ In Washington, Oregon To Be = Studied “At: ”  Conference

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Nazis Widen Attack Zone In Ukraine   Frozen Ground Helps Maneuvering of Big Mobile Gun Force

FROZEN GROUND ‘NS AEE  First. Heay y Frosts Dry      First. Heavy Frosts Dry Roads And Speeds Op. erations In Russia   WINTER SETS IN   Preliminary Stages Of Third Campaign Now Under Way

Nazis Strike At Reds on Wider Front   Maneuvers Are Facilitated by  Frozen Ground ‘In Battle Area

Nazi Troops Press Attacks in: Russia Bravcn Pavth Ulelew tdeuwmome   Frozen Earth Helps Movement Of Troops in Climactic Battle

Soviet Fight Rage: As Foe Widens Field of Activity   Germans Gain Advantage as Cold Weather Makes Movement Easy, but Russians Continue Resistance Along All Fronts

NAZIS WIDEN MAIN ZONE OF COUNTER-DRIVE   Freezing Mud Facilitates Movement of More Mobile Guns—Cermeans Seek Sofi Spots   REDS RAID BALTIC   Regain Initiative in Some Sectors of Bulge, Push Westward in Rechitsa Area

GERMANS WIDEN ZONE OF DRIVE   Frozen Earth Aids in Maiieuvers of Increasing Number of Guns.

Initiative Again With Red Forces; New Advances Told In Dnieper Bend

GERMANS WIDEN ZONE OF COUNTER - ATTACKS IN THE UKRAINE ON 20-MILE FRONT   Lesser But Strong CounterAttacks Reported at Other Principal Points of Contact in White Russia. Frozen Earth Facilitates Moving of Mobile Guns

Initiative Is  Taken byReds on All Fronts   Germans Claim to Strip Land of Everything of Value in Broadcasts

Nazis Widen Assaults In Ukraine Area   Strong German Force Launches Sharp Attack On British Eighth.   LESS RAIN FALLING

Nazis Widen Attack Zone . Against Rus:      Frozen Earth Facilitates Maneuvers of Mobile Guns   SOVIETS MOVE UP   Red Air Force Starts Bombing Offensive on Bellic Ports

OPA PRAISED, FLAYED   Rent Contrel Program Successful But Methods All Wrong

ONE-THIRD OF COAL MINERS HOLDING OUT, PREVENTING 100 PER CENT PRODUCTION

POLL TAX BILL.   Perennial Political Measnre Seems Destined To Be Passed.

BITTER CONTROVERSY LOOMS ON BILL TO END POLL TAX   SIDES LINING UP FOR ANOTHER VERBAL BATTLE OVER MEASURE OPPOSED IN SOUTH

Supreme Court Opens Etght Months Term Today With Constitutional Issues on Tap

SUPREME COURT IS OPENING ITS EIGHT MONTHS’ SESSION      NY. QUESTIONS INVOLVING INTERPRETATION OF CONSTI TUTION TO BE DECIDED DURING COMING TERK

HOPE FOR FURTHER INTERNEE TRADES   GRIPSHOLM EXPECTED TO) SAIL FROM MORMUGAQ TOQDAY WITH 1,500 ABOARD,

HEAVY TOLL OF JAPS   Plagues Reported in Wake ot Jap Conquest, Netherland Officials Report .

JAPS HIT BY DISEASES   Typhoid and Malaria Are Waging War Againat the Enemy

Sulfa Drug Aids In Treatment of Babies   Cholera and Plague Join in March Against Jap Empire-Builders

Cholera And Plague March Against Japs   Typhoid, Malaria, Dysentery Wage Guerrilla Warfare

CANADA MERT HELD WEIGHING NEW INVASION   ‘Plans to Speed Thrust Into ' Europe-to Fie vin With Russian Offensive Seen Major Topic

Hull Joining Quebec Talks   Secretary Of State Makes Comment On Badoglio’s Radio Broadcast.

NAZI TROOPS MOVE TO ITALY, FRENCH COAST   Allies Advise Patriots in Europe to repare for Invasion ‘Whici Miqh! Be Near’      ‘Liberation of Occupied Countries Has Now Begun’ Says Message Beamed to France

SEC. HULL 10 PARTICIPATE IN PARLEYS   War Chief Announces Plans To Go to Quebec as Strategy Talks Are Re ported Speeding Up   RUSSIA IN LIMELIGHT

HULL T0 ATTEND QUEBEC MEET   Fails To See Any Occasion ' for Badoglio’s Pledge to the Sicilians

State Department Shakeup Puts Stettinius In Office  Oennsienticn: Stinntinnd lxcdan bMiad hestaa   Organization Streamlined Into Hard-Hitting Unit As Welles’ Resiqnation Is Announced

Stetfinius {s Appointed To Welles’ Post   Roosevelt Names LendLease Chief As Undersecretary Of State   CITES EXPERIENCE   Crowley Heads All U, S. Foreign Economic Tasks; Lehman Is Shifted

Crowley Heads New Foreign Relief Office   Stettinius Becomes Undersecretary of State

Report af Least 6,000 Persons Killed When R, A. F. Raided Kassel

SOUSSE AND SFAX SHOWERED WITH AMERICAN BOMBS   BRITISH SUBS SINK 3 MORE AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS, SHELL ITALY

Salem’s Bond Sales  ~ $247,377 Over Tor   New Goal Set By City Leaders Is $325,000 Over Top; County Short $486,000, But Colley Sights Quota

INSURRECTION SWEEPS THRU ITALIAN TOWNS   Gunfire, Prison Mutiny And Bloodshed In Milan   MOBS ROAM STREETS   Yanks Capture Cefula In Sweep Toward Port of Messina

Fight To Hold Italy Indicated   Nazis Are Expected To Make Stand Despite Demand Of Badoglio For Their Withdrawal

Records Topple In State Hot Wave   First Life Claimed By Warm Weather

HITLER'S HORDE REELING TOWARD RUSSIAN BORDER   Allied Forces Forge Ahead in italy Siowly as Warships Blast Mediterranean Ports

Main German Air Field in : Yugoslav: :  Oil Refinery in Albania Hit--RAF "Mo: quitos Over West Germany— o1

Big U. S. Fleet Raids Two Jap  Island Bases   Tarawa And Nauru Are Pounded By Day. Nicht

Gilbert Islands  Hard Hit   Bombardment Continuec For Almost Twenty Four Hours In Twin Attacks Sutday.

Yanks Pound Bic Japanese Bases In Gilberts Area   Tarawa Island and Nauru Are Targets of Latest U. S. Smashes

Soviets Drive Deep Into Nazi Defenses   Heavy Fighting Reported in Orel Sector

Reds Open Big Gap In  Nazi Line   Huge Ai Fleet Employed By Both Sides

Russians Yield Kharkov Area,  Take Semlevo   Nazis Report Steel. Metropolis Taken ' After Encirclement; Soviets Cross Dnieper In Central Front Gain

Nazis Claim Citadel Has Been Taken   Soviets Admit Withdrawal in One Sector  After Bitter Fighting   HEAVY NAZI LOSSES   Red Army Declares Axis Thrown Back in Repeated Attacks

RUSSIA ADMITS ONLY STRENGTH QF FOR GROWING   Also Acknowledges Soviet Forces Had Withdrawn In One Sector After Bitter Fight   REDS PRESSING DRIVE ON CENTRAL FRONT   Headed Toward Smolensk, Important Citadel In German Defense System, 80 Miles Away

‘German Claim to Capture Of City Not Admitted; Russians ‘Continue Smolensk Drive

NAZIS CLAIM HUGE CITADEL OF UKRAINE   Russians Acknowledge in Mid-Day Statement Army Has Withdrawn in One Sector   MANY VILLAGES TAKEN

CEDE ARMY THROWN BACK ‘WN ONE PART   Heavy Casualties Suffered By Invading Forces   NEAR VYAZMA   Reds Take Several Dozen Populated Places: Nazi Equipment Captured

Red Army Admits Heavy Fighting Continuing and Withdrawal in One Sector But Denies City Taken.

Heavy Attacks Are Launched By Germans   Moscow Does Not Admit City Has Fallen To Hitler Forces

RUSSIANS ADMIT. WITHDRAWALS WOE      But Do Not CGoncede Kharkov .ds Lost; Claim Gains On Other Fronts

100 Slaugh terers Lose Permits In Drive On Meat Black Markets   Many Licenses Revoked For Unsanitary Conditions — Honest Slaughterers Will Gain

Against Any ‘Gas’ Cut to Appease East   Midwest Ready to Accept  Sacrifice, However, to Aid  Army and Navy   GOVERNORS TELL - VIEWS AT HHARING   For Freight Rate Cut if Coupons Are Devalued to Give Fast More Gil

AGAINST GAS CUT TO APPEASE EAST   Representative From Seven States Attending Meetnme. .  fa eat @€ Px Fai Tra Tawrst Ss yy os!) mm re, FS" A. G PSS

AGAINST GAS CUT. TO APPEASE EAST   Representative From Seven States Attending Meeting K.C,   SCHOEPPEL, IS PRESENT

NAZIS SCOFF GAS WARNING   Assert FDR’s Statemen Shows Nervousness Among Allies

Police Solve Delinquency By Sending Cards, Valentines To Town Youngsters

SOLVE JUVENILE CRIME PROBLEM   SULLIVAN POLICE USE NOVEL METHODS TO CURB DELINQUENCY

Indicated Virtually All UMW Members Following Lewis Order to  PRathirn Tomorrow   WORKERS AWAKENED “BY ROOSEVELT PLEA   Smile Their Approval Over  Truce; Express Resentment Patriotism Had Been Challenged

Coal Output To Be Normal  Tomorrow,  Ts Belief   Miners Slowly Going  Back To Jobs; ‘Here  To Work’ Says Father Of Four In Army

Gallitzin, Pa., Miners First ~ Back on Job   Men Had Voted, Even  Before Truce, to Return! to Work

Some Miners Back at Work   Gallitzen Group Votes to Return Before Truce

REPORT WOMEN IN JAP PLANES   ‘Hornet’ Survivor Reveals Feminine ‘Suicide Pilot’

FRENCH SHIP SINKS AXIS SUPPLY VESSEL   Cruiser Destroys Warship in South Atlantic

Troops Only 50 Miles Off, Says Report   British Moving In On Homs, Tarhuna; Berlin Savs Parachutists Are Rotherine Rommel

BRITISH GLOSE IN ON TRIPCL   British Eighth Army Has Reached Crest of Nefusa Ridge Today.   AMERICANS BOMB CITY

U. §. Bombers Blazing Way For Advance   Seven-Mile Penetration By Axis Forces Admitted In North Africa Sector

BRITISH PREPARE  FOR DOWNGRADE DRIVE TO TRIPOL!   Montgomery’s Eighth Army, Closing In On Libyan Capital, Reach Crest of Nefusa Ridve Today

AFRIKA KORPS HEADS TOWARD TUNISIAN TRAP   Retreating Army Facing Three-Way Squeeze By: _ Allied Armies In Af- rican: Theater   FLYING FORTS HIT TRIPOLI AIRFIELD   French Political Moves Further Complicated By Appointment of New Governor

Eighth Army Continues To Roll Forward   Gathers Prisoners, Guns And Vehicles As lt Advances

PLANES CONTINUE. . BLOWS AT TRIPOLI   Liberators Pound Sousse; Nazi Chutisis Reworted ‘ Dropped on Algeria

CLOSING ON TRIPOLI   British Eighth Army Has Down Hill Sweep of  Less Than 50 Miles .

23 U. 5. OFFICERS AND MEN KILLED BY DYNAMITE CHARGE   Blast Due to Delayed Action Mine Since Arrival of Allies in Naples.   THE FOURTH EXPLOSION   No Estimate Has Been Made of the Number of Civilian Casualties.

30 Injured as Blast Razes Building   Others Feared Buried As Dynamite Cherga Razes Army Quarters

23 Yanks Die in Naples Explosion   THIRTY OFFICERS, MEN HURT AS DYNAMITE BLAST RUINS BUILDING WING

NAZI-SET TIME BOMB KILLS 23 U.S, TROOPS   More Than 30 Others Hurt In Naples Building Blast

23 Americans Die in Blast Of Nazi Mine   Thirty Or" Injur-~~ ere a . 5  HOV\VO” + MORIN  ats a ee

Nazis Mobilized On Greek Borde   Believe Guerrillas Reach Accord’

GERMANS MASSING ON GREEK BORDER   TROOPS MOVE TO FRONTIER AS FIGHTING INCREASES IN BALKANS.

FORD WILL BUILD GIANT AIRPLANES   Cargo-Passenger Crafts Wil  Provide Employment at  End of War.

Ford to Build  Giant Planes After War   Government Hay Given Company ‘First Option® on Willow Run

ILLINOIS SECTION IS INUNDATED   1000 Civilians Trapped As Mississippi Levees Smashed

1,000 PERSONS  TRAPPED BY FLOOD   APPEAL TO COAST GUARD: FOR - RESCUE—HUGE. RAILROAD . YARDS INUNDATED,

Rising Flood Torrent Rolls Over Huge Area  1,000 Seek Coast   1,000 Seek Coast Guard Aid To Flee Inundated Region

1,000 TROOPS ID TRANSFER OF RESIDENTS   Other Soldiers Patrol River Danger Area In Six States

Flood Traps 1,000In  —  Missouri   Rising Waters Spread Over Rie Rail Yards

Big Mississippi Breaks Barriers   100,000. Homeless In Six-Staote Aran

Over Million, Quarter Acres Are Inundated By Waters In Six States   100.000 PERSONS RENDERED HOMELESS   Nation’s Biggest Railroad Yards Are Under Water At Town In Hlinois

River Inundates Large Rail Yards And Traps 1,000  Rising Mississippi heeamtenme hin   Rising Mississippi Threatens More Middle West Areas

HUGE RAILROAD YARD FLOODED BY MISSISSIPPI   ‘Father of Rivers” Breaks Through Barriers in Southern Hlinois and — Eastern Missouri   1,006 ARE TRAPPED   Civilians Appeal to Coast Guard for Rescue Boats; 100,008 Homeless in Mid-west

River Floods Big Rail Yard, Isolates 1,000 Civilians; 100,000 Are Homeless; Huge Acreage Inundated

Mississippi Breaks Dikes, Traps 1,000   Weakened Barriers Give Way In South Illinois Eastern Misseuri «   RAIL LINES FLOODED   Crops’ Washed Out As High Water Spreads Over Yast Area In Six States

FLOOD GORGED TIDE HURDLES NEW BARRIERS   Thousands Left Homeless As Mississippi Covers , Two Rail Points

Rail Yards At Dupo Flooded;  Barriers Crack   1.000 Persons Isolated In Missouri County; Coast Guard Aiding; Millien Acres Covered

Swollen Mississippi Breaks Weakened Barriers Saturday   One Million Acres Flooded; Thousands Are ‘ Homeless In Six Midwest States: Rails Hit

$1,413 More Toward War Bond Quota   Campaign Continues To Lag With 12 Per Cent Still Out

Bb Per Cent Of Bond Quofa Is Subscribed  Gordon Sees Boom   Gordon Sees Boom In Sales as Answer To Jap. Barbarism

French Seeking To Drive Nazis  Out OF Corsice   Report Rapid Progress Be. ing Made In Sweep Against Germans   FIVE SPEARHEADS ARE DRIVEN EAST

Powerful Aerial Blows Shatter Sicilian Targets  AFDIC AN.MEDITEDDANEAN

ALLIES KEEP UP POWERFUL AIR ASSAULT      Sicilian Port. Blasted In 2-Hour Barrage of Block Busters

ALLIED AIRMEN RAID MESSINA FOR 2 HOURS   Bad Weather Holds Up Ground Operations In North African Theater 19 Axis Planes Destroyed.   Suffer No Loss

BLOCK BUSTER BOMRS RAINED UPON MESSINA   AXIS HARBORS AND AIRBASES ARE HAMMERED

MESSINA ATTACKED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Other Axis Points Also Raided by Heavy  Bambere

Long Barrage Batters Axis Harbor-Base   Messina Hit In Offensive; Large Scale Atfack Near

Tunisia And Sicily  Battered Raids Believec   Raids Believed Prelude To Bie Push

Allies Continue Air Offensive Against Sicily   Large-Scale Offensive By Allies Imminent In Africa. Germaus Say

ALLIED AIRMEN MAKE DESTRUCTIVE RAIDS IN AFRICA   Fliers Bomb Sicilian Port of Messina and Axis Air Base and Harbor in Tunisia.   BIG GROUND PUSH BELIEVED IMMINENT   Air Attacks Regarded by London as Prelude to Drive by British First and Eighth Armies,

ALLIES POUND ITALIAN PORT. BAG 19 PLANES   Two-Hour Barrage Rakes Messina; Axis Harbor In Tunisia Also Battered   Ground Action Lags

Messina Rocked By Bombs, Axis: Fears Offensive   Berlin’ And Vichy Hint Of Big-Scale ' Accault Due Soon

Air Barrage Shakes. * Axis Port   Bomber Operations In African Area Believed Prelude

Powerful Air Offensive Shakes Axis   Ground Activities in North Africa Continue to Log

fae FOR TAX GROWS   FLYER DIES IN CRASH   Advocates Get Upper * Lieut. Orville Stone Hand on House Ways One of Five Killed and Means Committee in South Carolina

SALES TAK GAlh AECOROES ai BUCKS TREASUE   Advocates of General Sales Tax Appear to Be Gainine Upper Hand.

TAX ON SALES. GETS SUPPORT IN CONGRESS   FEDERAL SALES TAX TO RAISE PART OF REVENUE MAY BE _ ‘PASSED DESPITE ROOSE- ‘ VELT OPPOSITION,

PREMIER BACK FROM JOURNEY   Churchill's Report May Shed Light On Plans Of Allies; Used U. S. Plane

CHURCHILL IS BACK FROM AERIAL TOUR   Prime Minister Begins Preparation of Report to Nation

Churchill Back In London with Victory Reports   Prime Minister Pleased with Results of His 10,000 Mile Trip

Talks with Commanders, French in North Africa Before Heading Homeward

Churchill Get: Home From  Air Odyssey   Premier Will Speed Report on Talks With Roosevelt, Inonv

TRIP IS ENDED BY CHURCHILL   British Prime Minister is Back in England After 10,000 Mile Trip

Churchill Returns to London After 10,000-Mile Air Tour   Prime Minister Silent on lalks With Leaders Of Armed Forces and President Inonu of Turkey

CHURCHILL IN HIGH GLEE IS HOME AGAIN   British Are . Enterested To Know More About His Conference With President Inonu of Turkey   WILL REPORT SOON

CHURCHILL BACK IN LONDON FROM EXTENSIVE TOUR   Greeted At Train By Wife, Officials And Turkish Ambassador   HIS REPORT AWAITED BY BRITISH PEOPLE

TRIP REPORT BEING. READIED BY CHURCHILL      Prime Minister Back In London After : Confab a

Anguished Father of Slain Child Makes Anneal for Death of Accused Youth

AKRON GIRL AND — FONDA AIRMAN ARE MARRIED IN TEXAS   Migs Frances Clayton And AC Rex M. Wilde Take Vows August 27

‘Berlin Is. in Chaos  after Raid   Reds Suffer Setback;. British Capture (Perafio, 5th Improves Position at Venafro

State Hospital Employes Strike   Kankakee Group Objects T Payless Paydays

sovernment Seeks Injunclion o! Music Ban Second Time on Amended Petition

ALLRED NOMINATION EBATED BUT ACTION POSTPONED ONE WEEK   COMMITTEE ALSO CONSID. ERED BUT POSTPONED AC. TION ON CHANDLER

AXIS FEARS — - ENE POINTS. — OF INVASION   NTTERS ON EVE OF EXPECTED ALLIED EUROPEAN O¥FENSIVE REFLECTED ¢ “BY STATEMENTS ) OVER RADIO

Berlin And Rome Fear Invasion  At Five Places   Axis Quarters Appear In. creasing Alarmed Over Prospects Of Allied Moves   MANIFEST SIGNS ~ ZERO HOUR NEARS

Submarine Still Greatest Menace, Churchill Says; Prime Minister, FDR to Meet Again in Few Months

MASTER PLAN COVERS NEXT NINE MONTHS   Allies Now Have What Amounts To Global Plan

EISENHOWER PROMOTED TO FULL GENERAL   Russians Still Advance; Fighting Flares In Tunisia

Shipbuilding Efforts Offsetting Losses by, Submarine Warfare; Britain Has" Pledged All-out War On Japan

GLOBAL PLAN FOR VICTORY IS REVEALED   Churchill Outlines Strategy Aimed at Utter Defeat of Axis.

CHURCHILL CITES WAR PLANS MADE AT CASABLANCA   Second Front Aid to Russia To Follow Scourging Of Nazi Subs

Grade Label ‘Plan Should Interest You   Canned Goods Enigma Important To All Of Us

Aerial History Made in Attack By U. S. Planes   Thunderbolts Use Long-Range Tanks

Special Fighters Escort Forts  On 800-Mile Trip   Thunderbolts Make Aerial History in Runnin Interference for American Bombers On Mission to Blast Nazi Base of Emden

EMDEN NAVAL BASE POUNDED   Thunderbolts Use Extra Fuel Tanks To Make 800-Mile Foray

Air Mark Is Made By P-47’s   Emden Pounding By Forts Gets Fighter Aid -

NEW CHAPTER IS WRITTEN IN AIR BOMBINGS   LONG-RANGE TANKS GIVE FAST P-47s CRACK AT NAZIS

Thunderbolts Make Aerial History Escorting Fortresses in Raid  on German North Sea Naval Base at Emden: Other Tarcets Blasted

THUNDERBOLT EMDEN RAID; 800 MILE TRIP   Carry Long Range Fuel Tanks Running Interference for Flying Fortresses to Naval Base.   98 Germans Downed

EMDEN NAVAL BASE BLASTED   Thunderbolts Escort Fort resses on 800-Mile Bombing Trip

Thunderbolts Back Forts On 800-Mile Epoch Raid   Speedy P-47s Carry Long-Range Fuel Tanks to Help Hit Emden, Aurich; Allied Fliers Bag'58 German Planes

Heavy Bombers Attack Emden   Thunderbolt Escort Makes 800-Mile Trip

SNOW STORMS BLOCK ROADS IN NORTHWEST   Twelve Inch Fall Reported Today; To Get Cold

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‘ew Sulfa Drug Described Unusual Cold Treatment   bs War Plant Absentecism In Half, American Chem  eal Society Told by Aircraft Firm’s Physician;  Known As Vasosulfa, It Is Used As Nasal Sprav: Not Cure-All

BLAMES CROWDING FOR DETROIT RIOT   ) BANDITS HUNTED BL N COOKSON HILLS FOI   PRIEST FINDS NO EVIDENCE KLAN OR AXIS INSPIRED RECENT OUTBREAK,

Axis Scoffs as ‘Invasion Day’ Prediction Fizzles   By DeWitt Mackenzie

Today’s War Moves   Axis Claim Allied Invasion of Europe Plans Fall Through

‘Some Sort of Invasion in Mediterranean Appears Near Double Attack May Be Planned

'GLOSE TO ZERO HOUR OF INVASION, WAR WRITER SAYS: SHIPS SAIL FROM ‘ROCK’

The War Today Nazi-Held Paris Radio Backs Away From Invasion Forecast.   Re REWITT MACKENZIE

INDICATIONS MULTIPLY THAT WE ARE CLOSE TO ZERO HOUR OF SOME SORT OF INVASION

GIRL SCOUT WEEK STARTS SUNDAY   At Present Five LeMars Troops Have 100 Members

Observe National  Girl Scout Week  On Anniversary Five Active ‘Troops  Now Engaged i in Work In LeMars

WORD RECEIVED OF DEATH OF SOLDIER   Private William A..Gless  ~iner Loses Life in: ~

WORD RECEIVED OF DEATH OF SOLDIER   Private William A. Glessner Loses Life in Honolulu

O'NEAL TALKS ON FEAR OF FARMER!   Head of American Farm Bureau Says Ruralists Must Be Freed of Control.

France, Italy, Spain‘Form Union   “Latin Union’ to Fight Fascists Being Organized

Latin Union For Fascist Combat Born   italy and France Join Re. publican Spaniards in ' Union

HOME FRONT MUDDLE LOOMS ANEW TODAY   Congress, President Wider Apart; More Walkouts In Coal Fields Indicated.

One Provision Forbids President to Use Any Part of Fund for Project For Which Congress Has Refused an Appropriation.

FD.A. THREATENS 2 MORE VETOES   Conflict Over Important Measures May Delay Recess By Congress

WARNS AGAINST WILD INFLATION   Funkhouser Says Nation Needs Less Borrowing And Less Waste

FUNKHOUSER TELLS INFLATION DANGER   Industrialist Points Way for Controlling Problem

Youth Allegedly Admits Damagine Three Aircraft   Government Introduces Statements in Harvey Thomas Trial

FORMER STUDENT GOES ON TRIAL IN BALTIMORE   Case Of Harvey L. Thomas Adamstown, Will Be Continued Before Jury Today   ALLEGEDLY DAMAGED MARTIN AIRCRAFT

Crushing Raid Made On Cologne By RAF Airmada   British Drop More Than 2000 Tons Of Bombs On City

RAF drops 2,000 tons of explosives on Rhine center   Bomb-ferrying service kept going at both ends of axis   Broadcast Thursday to open retailer victory bond drive

Leghorn, Cologne Bombed In Allies Latest Air Blow   Two Heavyweight Raids Spearhead Allies’ Two-Front Air War Against Europe; 2000 Tons Dropped On Cologne

Big Fires Started By Blasts   Italian Oil Refining Port  and Rhineland Industrial  Center Suffer

Leghorn, Italy, Victim — Of U.S. Fortresses As RAF Strikes At Cologne

LEGHORN, PORT IN ROME AREA, ALSO POUNDED   Two - Front Aerial War Against Europe In 10th Day

Battle Of Tunisia Has Been Won, But It Is . Only Beginning, Say Prime Minister an a  Danenuals

Wedges Driven Into Nazi Lines   Eisenhower Warns ‘Of Tough Fighting  Be PYANMIFT. Trea Y.UICE

British, French Attack Axis In Mountain Heights   Future Advances to Be Difficult, Costly Eisenhower. Warns

Mountain Attacks — Win Edge for Allies   Eisenhower Warns Troops Heavy Fighting Ahead in African War

New Wedges Cut In Enemy's Ring Around Cities   General Kisenhower Warns That  Fighting Ahead Will Be Diffieut

British Stabs Hack Wedges In Tunis Line   Eisenhower's Forces Knuckle Down To 'Difficult And Costly’ Fighting Predicted By Yankee General

Heavy Cost To Be Paid  For Tunisia   Eisenhower Points To Lavish Use Of Mines By Nazis

Eisenhower ‘Sees Difficult Days Coming   “Reveals Losses in Pat‘ton’s Corps of 5,372 ' .Yanks in 3 Weelxs   FIELD MINE - SOWN   Germans Keep ExplosiveFilled Terrain Under Mortar Fire

Hard Costly Fight Ahead   5,372 of Patton’s Men Killed, Wounded Or Missing

Allied Forces Push Within 25 Miles of Tunis   Eisentiower Predicts Hard Fight to Clean Up Tunisia; Americans Lose 5372 men

BRITISH RENEW DRIVE IN NORTH   French Attack Western Flank Positions

EISENHOWER otto  HARD FIGHT AHEAD   Discloses Patton’s Army. Has Lost 5,372 Men   TAKE MANY PRISONERS   Says Battles Yet to Come Will Be Costliest of Entire Tunisian Campaign

Allies Slash At Germans’ Siese Lines   Hard Fighting Ahead In Tunisia, Warns Eisenhower

WEDGE DRIVEN IN TUNIS AND BIZERTE LINES   EISENHOWER WARNS OF COSTLY TASK STILL AHEAD

ALLIED FORCES OUT WEDGES IN NORTHERN LINE   ‘British And French Hit  Hard Blows At Enemy  Siege Lines Near  ; Tunis. Bizerte   SICILIAN HARBORS BLASTED BY YANKS   Eisenhower Warns That Future Advances Will Be Costly; Predicts Hard Fighting

PATROLS PUoH THRU DCFENOE AROUND TUNI   Eisenhower Warns of Hard and Costly Fighting in Future Advances.   PATTON’S SECOND CORPS PRAISED FOR GOOD WORK

Hard Fighting Ahead, Gen. Eisenhower Says   Patton’s Losses Said To Be Over 5,000 Men; British Within 25 Miles Of Tunis

ALLIED THRUSTS ‘PIERCE GERMAN LINE IN TUNISIA   But General Eisenhower De clares There Is Much Hard Fighting Ahead

Axis Siege Lines Hit In Tunisia   Fisenhower Warns of Hard Fighting Ahead for United Nations

BRITISH UNITS ARE 25 MILES FROM TUNIS   Eisenhower Disclose Americans Lost 5,372 Men in Three Weeks’. Fighting at Gafsa,   CAPTURED 4,600, “ MOSTLY ITALIANS   Staggering Air Blow Dealt Sicilian Harbor of Palermo by Yanks— Hight Ships Damaged..

Allied Troops Open Slashing Attack on Axis   Gen. Eisenhower Warns Of Hard Fight ing Yet To Come

Senate Seeks Way To Avoid Tax Threat To Boost Teachers’ Pay   Upper House Passes And Sends To Lower Branch Fo Concurrence Bill Suspending Civil Service

Ask Army Or Navy ta Take Over   Workers Vote to Halt Pro duction of War Products  Today

Strikers Ask Army Control   2000 Bendix Workers Halt Work on Orders

2,000 Union Workers Strike At Bendix Aviation Factory   Attempt To Force Army O; Navy To Take Over Plant

2000 Bendix Employees Quit Work   Strikers Deniand Government Take Over Plant

25 SOLDIERS DROWN IN BOAT ACCIDENT   Soldiers Wearing Life Pres serves Believed Trapped Under ‘Cruiser-Type Boat

BOARD STUDIES LAME ACCIDENT   At Least 25 Soldiers Die In New Orleans Mishap

68 ARE DROWNED IN MARITIME ~ DISASTERS —   25 Soldiers Lost: When - Cruiser Overturned 3: 43 Off: Collier -

US Soldiers Advance on Guadalcanal   Japs Put Up Stiff Resistance; Two-Plane Jap Raid on United States Ships Is Unsuccessful

Americans Gain On Guadalcanal   Keep Up Westward Advance Despite Stiff Resistance

U. S. Continues Ground Advance On Guadalcanal  First Jap Air Raid In Months Reportec =e Alantiane Araa

Japs Offer Americans  Stiff Fight   2-Plane Nipponese Attack On American Ships In Aleutians Unsuccessful

Two Jap Planes Attack Ships   First Attack In Aleutians In Months

GUADALCANAL  ADVANCE SLOW   Westward Drive Continues Despite Stiff Enemy Resistance.

U9. TROOPS ADVANCE UPON GUADALCANAL   Stiff Japanese Resistance Met By Americans

Visit of Roosevelt to N. African Battle Zone Recalls Statement: ‘IT Have Seen War and I Hate War

ROOSEVELT’S TRIP 10 AFRICA SET UP NEW HISTORY MARK   WAS NOT FIRST BATTLE FRONT EXPERIENCE FOR PRESIDENT. HOWEVER

JAPAN TACITLY ADMITS SETBACK   Tokyo Headquarters Report Says 36,000 Chinese Killed; Review Of Pacific War News.   ‘BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)

(Jap Retreat In China   Continuing   Tokyo Tacitly Admits Setback on Route to Chungking; 132 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Lae and Wewak

JAPS LASHED IN BATTLE OF “RICE BOWL"   Tokyo Forces Set Back By Fighting .Chinese In Tungting Sector   CHIANG’S BOMBERS HIT SUPPLY ROUTES   Invaders Falling Back To Ichang Under Heavy Attack

Japanese Concede Setback in China   Chinese Command Says Enemy Is Retreating Toward Ichang and Traps Are Closing Around Nips in Hupeh, Hunan Provinces.

Tokyo Admits China Setback   CHINESE CONTINUING TO ATTACK JAP ' FORCES

Japanese Tacitly Admit Defeat At Tunating Lake  Rains Boq Down   Rains Bog Down Fighting In Burma; U.S Planes Active

Jap Leaders Admit Setback   Chinese Successfully Defend Nation's Rich Rice Bowl

SETBACK ADMITTED BY JAPS IN FIERCE BATTLES IN CHINA  TOKYO HEADQUARTERS, HOWEVER, MAKE VICTORY OUT OF DEFEAT

Japs Admit Drive Halted   Tokyo Reports Fierce Battles With Chinese On Road to Chungking

Japanese Admit  China Set-Back   Monsoon Rains Begin,  Delay Allies

laps Try To Cover Up Defeat By Claiming Operations Fully “Completed”

Russia, Czechs Agree Upon Pact, Alliance   Finns Ready to End War, Sweden Reports

Americans Dig In, Guarding Allied Right Flank in Central Tunisia; Major Battle Expected Weeks Hence

Yanks Await Big Chance Against Rommel's Men   ‘Americans Are Along 150° Mile Front 

U.S. TROOPS AWAIT TEST IN TUNISIA   Guard Allied Flank Along 150-Mile Front

New Worries In Store For Japan   .. Gen. MacArthur Confers With Army Chief

Mississippi Is Receding   Many Farmers Hope To Start Wartime Food Program

Flood Waters Now Receding   DANGER IS PAST FOR SOME AREAS IN MIDWEST

Mississippi Flood Water Receding in Most Danger Points   Thousands of Farmers Hope to Return to Their Homes Soon

RIVER RECEDING AT SEVERAL CRITICAL POINTS   Farmers Ready To Go Back To Their Tohe

FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING   Farmers Hope to Start Food Production Soon

FLOODS RECEDE IN MIDWEST   Lower Mississippi However Still Presents Serious Problem and Menace

RELIEF SEEN IN MIDWEST FLOOL   Waters Receding At Several Critical Points

FLOOD THREAT EASES AS RIVERS RECEDE   Ohio, Mississippi, Other : Rivers Lowering

MUNICIPAL PLANTS AND P. E. TIED IN   Chambersburg System Is Linked With Extensive P. E. Power Lines

MUNICIPAL PLANTS ~ AND PE. TIED Ih   Chambersburg ‘System fs Linked With Extensive  PE Power Lines

News Behind The News  paaevieh? Motlure Newspaper   WASHINGTON Tye Ray Tocker

UNIONS DEMAND INCOME CEILING   ClO, BRT with Support of Other Organized Groups Urge $25,000 Top After Taxes as Part Revenue Bil

Congress Whets Paring Knife For Tax Progran  Groups Demand Ceiling on  Private Income

Income Ceiling Plan Is Proposec   Demand Presentec Ry,  abhor Grouins

Fight for $25,008 Top on Individual Incomes Renewed   Republicans Link Economy Demands  To New Tax Bill

KEY HEIGHTS ARE CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   British Tanks Join In Furious Engagement With German Forces.

Heavy Tan Battle Is In Progress   RAGING ON SOUTHWESTERN SECTION OF TUNISIAN BATTLE FRONT; IS STILL UNDECIDED

YANKS, BRITISH, FRENCH ALSO ARE  NEARING TUNIS   Terrific Tank and Infantry Assaults Reault In Enemy Giving Way.

U.S. Flyers Bomb Bremen Ship Works  Germans Ready for Attack; Aerial Fight Fnsues: Few Casualtie

U.S. Bombers. Pound Bremen   Nazi Fighters Set For Daylight. Raid

Flying Forts And Liberators Have Field Day   Shoot Up 75 to 100 German Planes in Series of Air Battles   ‘ind Nazi Planes and Crews Greatly Inferior to Their Own

U.S. Bombers. Pound Brettien   ~ Nazi Fighters Set ‘For Daylight; Raid

GATRELL SERVICES HELDHERE TODAY   Succumbs In Local Hospital Following A Heart  Attack . "9

SCREAM WOKE HIM UP  Marine Private Testifies Im Lower 13 Murder Cace

U.S. MITCHELLS ATTACK AIRFIELD AT CASTELVETIANO   Americans Flew Through a Heavy Haze Which Obscured Their Target.   NEGRO TO THEIR AID   Qne Warhawk Pilot Shot Down a Focke-Wulf 190.

ALLIES BOMB ~TTALIAN ISLES   Yanks and RAF Strike at Palermo, Sicily, and Cagliari. Sardinia.

U. S. Mitchells Raid An Airfield in Sicily   Attack Is First by Medium Bombers From Northwest African Force Since Fall of Pantelleria—Sardinia Is RAF Target.   Py NOTAND NORGAARD.

AIRFIELD IN; SICILY RAIDED BY U.S. FORGE   U.S. Mitchell Bombers Fly Through Heavy Haze, Which Obscures Targets,  to Deliver Blows   RAF BLASTS PALERMO: AND CAGLIARI AREAS:   Escorting Negro P-40 Pi. icts Bag German Planes in. Beating Off 20 Enemy Attacks

Mitchells Blast Base In Sicily  Negro Warhawk Pilots Drive Off Enemy

NEGRO AIR UNIT SCORES VICTORY   WHIP INTO ACTION FOR FIRST TIME IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA

MARRIAGE MIX-UP REVEALED BY CRASH   Son of Col. Lynn Black Had Two Wives, Claim

COURT TO DECIDE LEGAL WIDOW CASt   Aviator’s Wife Asks for Status Clarification

Newton Fund To $14,500   Combined War FundCommunity Chest Drive Pushing Towards Goal

Reserves Through  Ukraine   German Forces to Area Where Hitler Started Of. fensive Last Spring

ALLIES RETAIN AIR SUPREMACY   — Moscow Announces Big German Reserve Army Moving Into Ukraine

LAND FIGHTING IN TEMPORARY LULL IN AFRIGK   Moscow Hints New German Drive In Donets Basin Being Prepared

Strikers Halt Aircraft Work   5,000 Walk Out Toda : In State Capital

5,000 WALK AWAY FROM LANSING JOB:   Production of of Propellers  Stopped at Nash-Kelvina tor Camnany

Failto Stop Allied Advance; British  And Yanks Meet   ‘Germans Dynamite Roads  And Communication Lines  In Last Desperate Effort  t

A SHORT WALK TO NEXT BEER JOINT   37 Suds Licenses Issued in  wrence Since First of Year      PERMITS EASY TO GET

A SHORT WALK TO. NEXT BEER JO   37 Suds Licehses Issued in Lawrence Since First: : of Year     [PERMITS EASY TO CET.

Yanks Destroy 88 Nip Planes   American Attack Blasts Last Jap Hope of Saving Solomons Bases

Nippos Lose 88 Rabaul Planes   200 CARRIER, LAND-BASED PLANES SINK ENEMY CRUISER, 2 DESTROYERS, DAMAGE SECOND CRUISER, 11 JAP DESTROYERS

Martin Urges Filibuster End   Parley of Leaders Suggested to End Assembly Slowdown

SEFKING END OF FILIBUSTER   Party Leaders of Legislature May Get Together At Conference

HED SHELLS ON AALWAY TRE 500.000 NAZIS   Russ Artillery Bombards Line to Cut Off Any Traogs Trying Escape.

REDS POUNDING LAST RAIL LINE OUT OF CRIMEA   Tanks Only Three Miles from Escape Route of 500,000

Eighth Army on Move Against Mareth Line, Churchill Announces  AMERICANS PUSH FORWARD IN CENTER Take Sened Station  As Great Air Force Pounds at Axis Army

HITLER ALSO SPEAKS IN EARLIER ADDRESS      Minister Signalizes Long - Awaited Allied Drive To Rid Africa of Axis Forces ©

Eighth Army, Yank Troops Are on Move   Churchill Reveals Montgomery's Men Have Opened Drive; Americans Take Sened, Push Toward Maknassy

Picket Line at Zanesville Fails   Work Resumes as  Police Clear Path

Pattern of War Not Unlike That of First Clash   .Germany, Satellites ‘Now Surrounded, Being Gradually Strangled

ATTACK AIMED TO HALT AXIS RAIL TRAFFIC   Several Waves of Planes in Attack, Bringing War to Bulgaria, An Axis Satellite   War Brought Home Ry ASSOCIATED PRESS

WRECK HUB OF ENEMY’S BALKAN SUPPLY SYSTEM   Italo-French Railway Bombed

GERMAN RAIL LINES IN BALKANS HIT   Mitchells Make Daring Daylight Raid on Sofia

Bombs Hit Sofia Railroad Yards, Leave Part of City in Flames: Blow Called ‘Extremely Accurate’

FIRST MADE UPON BULGARIA, BLAST AXIS SUPPLY HUE   Two Formations Range Large Over Cities In France, Italy, Three Points on Jugo-Slav Coast.   ALLIES SHOWER BOMBS -QN JAP MADANG BASE   American Subs Extend Operations to Bag Seven Jap Cargo Ships, One Plane ‘Transport.

NEAR 26 PER CENT OF MEN REJECTED   Over Five Million Are Unable To Enter Armed Forces In 26 Months.

REJECTIONS IN DRAFT 28 PCT, REPORT NOTES   Over 5 Million Sent For Induction In 26 Months

1 IN 4 TURNED DOWN BY ARMY   South Carolina And Michigan Lead In Rejections Among Five Million

REJECTIONS IN DRAFT OF U. S, TOTAL 27 P. C   More Than 16,000 Rejected in Iowa Report From Selective Service Reveals Today.

WLB PUBLIC MEMBERS SHOULD QUIT BOARD   Miners’ Publication Calls Recen Wage Agreement A Partial Victory Fer Labor

Biggest Job To Win War, Martin Says   Newly Inaugurated Governor Pledges Six-Point Program

OATH OF OFFICE. GIVEN BY CHIEF — JUSTICE MAXEY   New Executive Pledges All-Out Aid To State’s Soldiers, Workers And Farmers—To Safeguard Health, Education Prosrams :

MARTIN PLEDGES AID 10 SOLDIERS FOLLOWING WAR   Takes Office In First War Inougural Since Civil

WORLD WAR It VETERANS T0 JOIN LEGION   ~ Mass Induction To Be Held  In Herrin

‘New Taxation Plan Offered   Senate Conferees To Suqgest Compromise

Senate Tax Group Offers Formula   Would Compromise Pay-as-You-Go Plan

Another Tax Plan Offered   New Pay-As-You-Go Scheme Would Forgive

Subsidy Payment Price Announced   Will Pay Two Cents Per Pound For Dressed Meat

Landing Hint Is Seen As Strong Fleet Closes In   Island Rocks Under Worst Shelling, Bombing; Planes Drop Surrender Demand

HITS SCORED ON TWO JAP DESTROYERS   By U. S. Motor Torpedo Boats In Solomons

Police Aid Is Asked In Enforcing Driving Ban   Decline in Traffic Noted Here as Pleasure Ban Goes in Effect—State Police to Observe Suspected Violators

Police Aidls AskedIn __ ;  Enforcing Driving Ban   Decline in- Traffic Noted Here os Pleasure Ban Goes "in Effect—Stote Police to, Observe Suspected Violatar<

FIGHT OVER USI BILLS IS UNDER WAY IN SENATE   Backers Of New University Block Request Of U. I.

FIGHT BREWING ON U. OF S. 1.   PROPONENTS BLOCK ™ U, OF , REQUEST FOR AIRPORT FUNDS

“You’ve Got What It Takes,” U. S. Troops Told At Rendova Invasion

British-U. S. Junction Means Relief To Allies’ Shipping   Eighth Army Can Be Supplied Now From North Africa Instead Of From Egypt

Kuban Fronf Flares  Into Action Again  Nazi Infantry \s Thrown Back

GERMAN TROOPS STOLE A MARCH ON THE RUSSIANS   Sprang Upon the Soviets in Effort to Regain Lost Positions.   ON THE KUBAN FRONT   Germans Were Repulsed Each Time of an Attack on Russian Lines.

Violent Nazi Action Flares  In Kuban Area   Big German Guns Making Desperate lffort to Prevent Russians’ Consolidating New  Positions Below Kharkov. German Air Attacks May Prelude Offensive.

Soviets Stop Germans On Kuban Front   Sharp Fighting In Other Areac

Kuban Front Flares Into New Action   NazisStage% Fiolent Drive To Regain Lost Positions _—_..

Germans Hurl Tanks, Planes, Artillery Fire At Red Lines In Violent Effort To End Siege

GERMAN FORCES ’ LAUNCH ATTACK   Russians Report Three Enemy Stabs Turned Back On Kuban Front

Kuban Fight Flares A gain  All German ‘Attacks Repulsed By Russians

ACTION FLARES IN KUBAN AREA   German Troops Spring On Russians In Violent Effort To Regain Lost Positions.

RUSSIAN KUBAN FRONT ACTION AGAIN FLARES      German Troops Steal Thru Forested Hills and Spring Upon. Red Troops [n Area   NAZIS THROWN BACK   Suffer Heavy Losses Every Time They Strike With Tanks, Planes and Artillery —

GERMAN FORCES TRY TO REGAIN LOST POSITIONS   Kuban Front Flares Into New Activity

ds Repulse zi Atfacks   Germans Fail: in Efforts to Regain Important Positions

Nazis Hurl Quick Attack On Russians  flearpmane Tew TR   Germans Try To Get Back Kuban  Vallev Positions

Kuban Warfront Flares Up Again  \Cormens Steal Through Forests Onto Reds

Action Flares . On Kuban Front As Nazis Attack  Germans Seek to Re  Germans Seek to Retain Important Positions Lost Weeks Aac

Germans Fail To Regain Area Lost To Reds   Nazi Artillery Hampers Soviets Near Kharkov

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS AT BLACK SEA   Attempts to Drive Soviets From Inner Positions of Novorossisk Thrown Back With Heavy Losses to Enemy.

NAZIS THROWN BACK ON KUBAN FRONT BY REDS   Germans Stole Thru Forest to Spring Violent Atack on Russians.

7 Meet Deaths  In Maine Fire   Boston Hotel . Also Burns Early Today With 150-. Guests Fleeing 9 -

ROOMING HOUSE FIRE KILLS SEVEN   13 Others Rescued Ouring Biaze In 26 Below Zero Weather In Maine

4, Ets meee ae  Salerno  Taken By. Americans       NEXT OBJECTIVE IS NAPL  MILES TO NORTH; 17 ITALL WARSHIPS GIVEN TO ALLIE AT MALTA

17 Italian Warships Surrender to Allies   Reinforce Positions in Northern Italy Germans Take Over Rome and

For Key Spots  In Peninsula.   Nazi Forces Hold Most Of North Italy: Américans Advanee

Salerno Is Captured by Americans   yerman Planes Sink Ita lan Battleship — Other Vessels Reach Malta

Yankee Army Moves 0: Naples, Belief; King 0; Italy Reported In Sicih

SIX DIE IN CRASH   Thirty-Five Others Injured in Bus: Train’ Wreck

35 Injured in Tracy Collision   NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRAGEDY STREWS WRECKAGE AROUND CROSSING WHERE CRACK WESTERN PACIFIC LIMITED STRIKES BUS

Train, Bus Collide; Six Are Killed   35 Others Injured As Bus Is Swept 95 Feet Up Track

TRAIN CRASH, 6 DEAQ   35 Others Injured in Coast Accident; Seven Hurt In Winois.

BUS AND PASSENGER TRAIN GRASH FATAL TO AT LEAST SIX   WICHITA FALLS MAN AMONG THOSE KILLED ABOARD GREYHOUND BUS

6 Die, 35 Are Hurt In Tracy Bus Tragedy   Fresno Resident Is Vietim As Crack Flyer Hits Greyhound Vehicle   STALLS ON TRACKS   Driver Is Held For Manslaughter, Claims Brakes Fail, Gears Jammed

TRAIN HITS BUS; 6 ARE KILLED   35 Others Injured in Tracy, Cal. Accident

Six Die When Train Hits Bus   Thirty-Five Others In Crowded Vehicle  Are Injured.

Corn Price Ceiling Is Being Violated   Charges Will Be Filed in Creston

Doris Duke Cromwell ‘Says Husband Interested ‘Mainly In $7,000,000

AXIS TROOPS FALLING BACK IN ALL AREAS   New Allied Advance Reported in Italy; Reds Gain

Allies Gain In Russia And In  Italian Drive   Continental Targets Hit By Bombing Raids Today

British Take  More Towns In Advance   Soviets Smash Nazi Resistance In Donets Basin

British Eighth ‘my 7 Cantures 5 Palmi   A Total of 38 Communities Seized in Italy Since Friday,

NAZI BLOW FAILS IN SOUTH TUNISIA   Yanks Advance in Center Without Encountering Opposition

STRIKING UNION CHIEFS TO MEET   1,200 Miners Refuse To Return To Work

Ten Vessels In . Rabaul Harbor Sunk Or Fired   Fortresses And Liberators Rain ] ,000-Pounders

U. §. Bombers Destroy Nine Jap Vessels  Liberafors Down Leros; Forireses Take

NINE JAP SHIPS BAGUED AT RABAUL   SET AFIRE OR SUNK IN RAID —SIX ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN COMBAT.

MacArthur’s Planes Rain 1000-Pound Bombs On Vessels at Rabaul   Believe 10th Enemy Vessel Destroyed as Raid Leaves 50,000 Tons of Shipping Wrecked;  Bombers Knock Down Several Zeroes

Another Vessel  Declared Probably Hit   Only One of American Heavy Bombers Participating in Major Attack on Base at Rabaul! Fails to Return

Jap Shipping Struck By Allies   At Least 9 Vessels Sunk; Enemy Is Concentrating

~—MEN WOUNDED  t   Former Members; ‘of .Company. “ Hurt in’ North ‘Africa. -

THREE SHELDON ~— MEN WOUNDED   Former Members: of Company ‘J Hurt in North ‘Africa.

Berlin Berlin Rendered Almost Unrecognizable By Bombs   Mayor Steed Of German Capital Tells Of Damage By British Bombs

MAYOR OF BERLIN ADMITS HAVOC IN CITY AFTER RAID   Tells Foreign Newspaper  men German Capital Almact Unracoonizahle

Some Shoes to Be Ration Free   Berlin Is ‘Unrecognizable. Nazi Official Now Admits

Berlin Mayor Says Capital Is Now “Almost Unrecognizable’ After Record Allied Air Attacks; Is Still Burning

BERLIN RUINED SAYS MAYOR   Fires F rom Sevond Heaviest Raid _ Burning

OAILOR DROWNS WHILE BATHING  THE IVER   Companion of the Victim Rescued by Life Guards   RESCUE SQUAD AT SCENE

}Permanent Armed Bases Considered Around World for U.S. Protection

Knox Believes U. S. Should Establish Military Bases “Over the World”

Knox AGVOCAICS Permanent U. S.  Bases Over World  ; Says Nation Should ' Start Discussions  With Other Powers FOR iene  Nase ie a

CHURCH MEN’S BROTHERHOOD MEET THURSDAY   Plan Evening Session At 8; Rev. James W. Reeder Will Be Speaker.

MEN’S CHURCH BROTHERHOOD MEET THURSDAY   Senator Gunning Speaks At June Evening Meet At Baptist Church.

NEXT WEEK WILL BE CLEAN-UP TIME   Citizens Urged By Health Officials To Gather Refuse And Rubbish From Their Back Yarde

SUBSIDY LIMITATION REJECTED BY SENATE   Upper Chamber Reverses Self In Less Than Hour

SENATE VOTES SUBSIDY LIMIT   One Vote Margin Marks ce on n Rollback

SENATE VOTES SKY LIMIT ON  SUBSIDY EUND   { iFluke Counts Kesult in Passage of Direct Opposite to Intended Amendment, Ki? cce

Ration Butter t 12 Points   Reductions Reported In 35 Cuts of Meat

Creamery Sure: . 9 Two 29. Ts, Frozen 7006s, Sore Jatne- “ruts  DAKEC; 35. ‘Fea. O ak si re Xecucet  pola eretec nn En ntleen Gundas Mu Parva

PRICES’ HIKED IN FEW CASES   Some Canned Fruits, Frozen Foods,  Meats Hit

Points Reduced on 35 Meat Cuts; Values of Butter, Frozen Food Upped   Some Canned Fruits Increase, Also; Changes Are Effective Sunday

More Points For Butter, ‘LessOn Meat   FARM CHURNED BUTTER TO COMMAND LOWER POINTS TO St) MULATE PRODUCTION; HELP MEET THE DEMAND.

OPA Announces Value Change In Food Stamps   Butter Leads Parade in Raises While 35 Meat Cuts Drop; New Schedule Starts Sunday

Point Values Increased On Butter, Frozen Foods, Some Carined Foods: Meats Dron

Country Butter Points Slashed   Creamery Butter Lifted, Woes, Ryonte Rhife

SEVERAL POINT VALUES CHANGED   OPA Raises Stamp Price of Creamery Butter, Frozen Foods; Decreases Different Cuts of Meat

HIKFS BUTTER, FROZEN FOODS POINT VALUES   OPA Reduces Stamp Price for Many f Cuts of Meat

OPA CHANGES POINT VALUES   Creamery Butter To Be Raised, Many Meats Will Be Reduced On New Lists

MORE POINTS  FOR BUITER   Boost Creamery Butter From 10 to 12 Points.

Slashes Made In Point Value Of 35 Cuts  Of Fresh Meat   Ration Stamp Price Of Creamery Butter, Some Canned Fruits  And Frozen Foods Up

Few Are Left  Among Ruins      Liberators and Mitchells Raze Defenses of Jap Air Base for Ground’ Troops

Ground Troops Find Only Few ‘Remnants of Jap Forces Leff After Air Pounding   DEATH TRAPS SET   New Aerial Assaul! on Bougain ville in Solomons Emphasize: MacArthur's “On Way Back’

Allies Capture Jap Base at Lae   Major Step by MacArthur Back (> The Philippines

Lae Falls Under Heavy Air Blows  "Ground Troops Mop Up After Bombers Blast New Guinea Airfield

New Guinea Base  Captured by Allie:   Lae Wrested from Japanese as Troops ‘From U. S. and Australia Forge Ahead

MacArthur Reports Fall Of Jap Stronghold  BOMBERS ‘BUSY  Major Step Toward - Return To Philip-

Air Base of Lae In Allied Hands   Jap Stron Is Taker After Heavy Blows ' From - Air   Australians Found Only . Few St rs on Anam The

LAE CAPTURED BY WARTHUR’S GALLANT ARMY      Held Step Back to Philippines by General; Halsey'’s Area Flames In : to Aerial Action

BACK, ARTHUR SAY! AS LAE FALLS   Americans Capture Jap Base In New -Guinea And Increase Air War In Solomons. ' 

APTURE OF LAE IS ANNOUNCED BY CEN, MACARTHUR   Major Step by General Mac Arthur Toward His Avow ed Return To the Philip  pines; Stronghold Fel   Thursday.

AUSSIE FORCE CAPTURES. LAE   Halsey’s Solomons Area Flames Into Big Aerial Action

“We Are Making Our Way Back.’”’... Capture Of Lae Is Seen As Major Step On Road Back To The Philippines

BASE CAPTURED ON NEW GUINEA   Few Surviving Nips Chased Into Death Trap Through Jungle by Yanks

CAPTURE OF LAE 1S” LATEST STEP TOWARE RETURN PHILIPPINES  FEW JAPANESE SURVIVORS CHASED INTO JUNGLE DEATH TRAP

Lae Captured  From Japanese   MacArthur Announces Fall of Air Base

Lae Taken  By Allied  Jungle Mer   Hammering By Air and On Land Reduces important Japanese Base

LAE, NEW GUINEA, ~— TS NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIED TROOPS   Was Wrested From Japanese by Sledgehammer = Air  Blows, It Is Announced.   ‘MacARTHUR THE LEADER   “With God’s Help We Are the General Said.

LAE AIR BASE NOW IN HANDS OF AMERICANS   Enemy Survivors Pushed Into Death Trap

TEMPERATURES:   Allied Capture Of Lae Is Major Blow For Japar   Gen. MacArthur Another Step Nearer Return To Philippines.

ALLIES CAPTURI LAE AIR BASE FROM JAPS   Another Step Made  Toward Reconquest Orel DhSlieeitrnme

LAE AIR BASE IN NEW GUINEA IS CAPTURED   “We Are Making Our Way Back Toward  Philippines, MacArthur Says.   Surviving Japs Chased Into Jungle Trails

Fall Of Lae To  Allied Armies   STRONG JAP BASE TAKEN AFTER BRILLIANT ATTACK

Allies Take  Lae; Air War  In Solomons   Halsey’s Area Flames Into Bitter Fighting In Skies; Plane Bases At Fallen Base

CAPTURE LAE » ON THURSOA   We Are aon Way Back te Philippines, Says General MacArthur.

Lae Captured By MacArthur   "With Ged’s Help,’ Seys South Pacific Commender, ‘We Are Making Our Wey Beck;’ Jops Flee inte Deeth Trap

Snap Death Trap Shut On Lae   Ragged Remnants of Jap Defenders Flee Into Jungle; Air Battle Flares Over Solomons

MacArthur Men Surge In, Take Lae From Japs   Herd The Few Surviving Enemy Into Death Trap In Jungles.

Air Base of Lae  In Allied Hands   Jap Stronghold Is Taken After Heavy Blows ‘From the Air   MANY BOMBS DROPPED   Australians Found Only ; Few Stragglers Among The Ruins

iot Call uuded ir ot War   Honsands Hunt Gangs. rip Suspects in ec Aneeles Outbreak

Zoot Suit Riots Rage on Streets Of Los Angeles   Soldiers, Sailors Battle Youths In 4-Night Clash

TOBACCO GROWERS AWAITING OPENING MARTS THURSDAY   Look With Conflicting Fore-

North And South Carolina Leaf Growers Look Forward To Sales With Conflicting Forecasts

Border Belt Markets Open Tomorrow; Forecasts Of Tobacco Growers Conflict   North Carolinians Say 41¢ Ceiling Not Enough For Them To Show Profit

Starobelsk Rail  Junction Seized   Russians Push 22 Mile: North of Armavir To Oibfields   Three-Fourths of Nazis’ Summer Gain Wiped Out   More of Trapped Germans In Stalingrad Give Up; Others to Yield

SOVIETS DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS IN ALL SECTORS   Red Forces Are Closing In On Vital Cities Of Rostov And Kharkov   NAZIS ACKNOWLEDGE BEING ON DEFENSIVE

50- MILE DEEP PUSH IS MADE INTO UKRAINE   Entire Battalion Gives Up At Stalingrad; Enemy Routed In  Voronezh Area   Rostov Peril Grows

CASE TURNED OVER TO RATION BOARD   Probe of Trip of Wife of Governor to the South to be Made

MRS. O’CONOR’S DRIVING CASE GIVEN TO PANEL   Governor’s Wife Used State-Owned Car For Trip To South Carolina   OPA DENIES TAWES GASOLINE RATION

Conservative Heads Finns’ New Cabinet   Governmental Crisi: Ends; Peace With Russia Not Now Stressed

FINNS’ PREMIER LATIN TEACHER   New Government, Headed by Linkomies, Ends Crisis

PHILIPPINES ARE "FREED" BY JAPAN ©   Change Effective October 14; New . Flaq Is Desianed

Japs Set Up New Philippines   _ Announces Islands to Become “Independent” Tagalog Is Lanquage

JAPS PROCLAIM ISLANDS ‘FREE   Philigpines to Be ‘Indepen dent? Oct. 14, Says Tokyo Radio.

SAY PHILIPPINES ARE INDEPENDENT   Japs Follow FDR Announcement with Claim That Island Is Separate Nation

Japan Announces Philippine Isles To Become ‘Independent’ On Oct. 14

Japanese Will ‘Free’ Filipinos On Oct. 14; Kill English Language

JAPANESE ALSO 10 FREE PHILIPPINES   To Be Placed on ‘Independent’ List on October 14

Offers Freedom fo Philippines  Japan to Set Up New State Oct. 14

TOKYO SAYS PHILIPPINES Tp OF EDEE   Rerort “Tagalos” To Be Official  Lanruage

hilippines To Be ‘sdenendent Oct. 4 Assert Japanese   Beat U. S.:-to Formal Announcement; Still in Jap “Co-Prosperity Sphere”

RAF'S BOMBERS RANGE BROADLY OVER CONTINENT   British Planes Plaster Targets From DenMark To France: May Have Dropped Some Bombs On Rerlin.

BOMBERS RANGE “OVER WIDE AREA   Nervous Axis Broadcasts Stories Of Allied Preparations   FLEET MASSING?   Most Of Rumors Deal With Activities Centered In Mediterranean

ALLIES CLOSE SYRIAN, TURK BORDER LINE   Germans Report Invasion Army Formed In Syria; Allied Sources Mum On Subject

RAF Bombers Range Over  Continent   Berlin Says Some British Planes Were Near Nazi Capital

DAR UAMMEDSG POL TAT .  NAZI AIRPORTS AND RAILWAYS   British Airmen Keep Up Intensive Bombing of German-Held Areas On Continent   ALARM IS SOUNDED  IN REICH CAPITAL   American Flying Forts and Lightnings Blast Italian Airfields; Seven Planes Lost

Massive Raids Carried Ouf By Big Bombers On Germany   Smaller Planes in Numerous Forays Attacking Nazi Communications, Shipping Over Centinential Areas

Bombers Range Over Europe In Nightly Forays   Sweep Continent From Denmark To France; _ Berlin Has Alert

Invasion Hint Turns Toward Syrian Front   Suggest Allies Preparing Army In Syria, Palestine  For Attack.   TURKEY EYEING U.S§

Allied Bombers Range Continent  In Night Raids   Renewed Aerial Offensive Takes RAF Planes Close to Berlin.   Also Attack Factory In Northern France

BRITISH PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON ENEMY TARGETS   Alert Is Sounded in Berlin; Raids Extend From Denmark to France

RAF Ranges Wide Areas In Bombing Axis Holds   Targets Are Found From Denmark To France

RAF BOMBERS AGAIN ACTIVE OVER EUROPE   Range Continent From Denmark to France, Ripping at Enemy Airfields and Railway Communications.

FORCES MASSED ON THREE SIDES TO ATTACK AXIS   Aerial Assault Is Spread Over Europe from Norway To Mediterranean   REDS READY TO HIT TOO   Axis Jitters Increase With Reports of Allied Force at Gate to Balkans r

Air Offensive Continues In West Europe   Germans Hint Raiders May Have Been Near Berlin During Fifth Night Of Operations

NO LETUP IN ATTACKS ON CONTINENT   RAF Ranges Land From Denmark To France In Night

CONTINENT FROM DENMARK 10 FRANCE RANGED BY THE RAF   Germans Indicated Some of the Raiders Were Near Berlin Last Night.   REICH CAPITAL ALERT   Probaby Was the Result of British Reconnaissance Flights.

Sofia Bombed Early Friday   Raid And Conference Making People Shaky   Hitler Satellites Begin To Seek Way To Get Out Of War

RAF Strikes For Fif th Night In Row   Blast Targets From Den mark To France, Berlin Has Alert.

RAF Bombers Raid Targets Near Berlin   Germans Report Allies Massing ‘Traops In Syria

Allied Raiders Range Over Wide Area Of Europe      Strike From Denmark T France In Fifth Suc eeeaive Raids.

Sofia Is Heavily Damaged During Chiefs’ Meeting   Allied Blasting Believed Timed To Help German Satellite Make Decision To Follow Italians Over To Winning Side Of War.

RAF Bombers Range Wide Over Reich   Airfields, Transport Systems Are Principal Targets

BOMBERS BUSY FOR FIFTH NIGHT IN ROW   Nazis Say Invasion Units Massing In Syria   To Be Maintained By Turkey, Premier Declares; Expect Break Anytime

MANY PLACES ON CONTINENT ARE BOMBED   RAF Ranges From Denmark to France In Renewed Violent Aerial Offensive   PLANES NEAR _ BERLIN

GERMANS HIT ON WIDE FRONT BY RAF PLANES   Bombers Range From Denmark To France

U.S. MOVING?   , Report Says Warships And Others In Mediterranean

Ale NOPPOSED TN RAIDS CN ITALY   In Only Air Fight Reported, Liberators ‘Dispose of 14 Enemy Fighters

Allied Bombers Blast At Naples      NO OPPOSITION OVER KEY RAILROAD POINTS

Assault Staged By Liberators On South Coas   No Enemy Fighters Rise To Challenge U.S. Mitchells , In Raid On Battipaslia

Allies Hammer  Rail Keys   BOMBERS MEET NO OPPOSITION IN SWEEP OVER ITALY CITIES

More Key Rail Points Around  Naples Bombed   Yanks Also Raid Bari In S. E. Italy, Downing 14 Knemy Planac.

Allied Bombers Hammer Two More  Points at Naples  No Axis Defenders Met by Fliers Who CsetlL. Bail fantarce

Not A Single Axis Defender Encounter In Bombing Battipaglia Or Bagnoli; U. S. Liberators Down 14 Enemy Planes In Attacks On Bari.

TWO MORE KEY RAIL CENTERS ARE BLASTED   Two French Cruisers Operating With Allied Fleet In Mediterranean

ALLIES BLAST AT KEY POINTS   Allied Airmen Bomb Railways Near Naples Without Opposition.

[FLEETS OF ALLIED BOMBERS CONTINUE HAMMER RAIL YARDS  KEY RAILWAY POINTS & SOUTHERN ITALY SYSTEMATICALLY BLASTED

ALLIED BOMGERS ATTACK NAPLES   No Axis Planes Met i Devastating Raid on Italian Targets

AIR BATTLES BEING WAGED NEAR NAPLES   Allied Warplanes Hammer Two More Key Railway Points Without Meeting Single Axis Defender     OTHER POINTS VISITED

Allied Planes Hammer Vital Italy Tareets      Aerial Offensive Continues Against Ports And Key Railroad Points

Allied Planes ‘HitatNanles    No Axis Fighters Take To Sky to Battle Allied Raiders -

Allied Planes Rip Railreads Around Naples   Little Opposition Met; Liberators Strike Bari With Blazing Air Battle.   FRENCH SHIPS AID

TWO VITAL RAIL POINTS BOMBED IN NAPLES AREA   Allied Bombers Strike At Battipaglia And Bagnoli Without Opposition; Liberators Hammer Bari  Without Loss.

ITALIAN RAIL POINTS BLASTED   Enemy Fighters Fail To Chailenge Allied Sweeps. Over Mainland

Allied Bomber Fleets Blast Italy Anew   Liberators Down 14 Enemy Planes In Blazing Air Battle

Allied Planes Hit Rail Lines Near Naples  French Naval Units Operating Against

AXIS AIRMEN FAIL TO RISE TO DEFEND NAPLES   4 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Air Battles Over Bari but None Rise Elsewhere in ltaly   RAIL POINTS HIT   Battipaglia, Bagnoli, Cagliari, Sardinia Among Targets of Allied Bombers

2 MORE KEY POINTS NEAR NAPLES HIT   No Opposition Met; Southeast Attack Brings Air Battle

Bombers Hamme: Italian Points  No Axis Defenders   No Axis Defenders Met in Attacks Near Naples

Allied Bombers Hammer Rail Points Near Naples; No Opposition From Axis

TWO KEY RAIL CENTERS NEAR NAPLES RAIDEL   Strings Of Bombs Rip Ve Trecks At Battipaglia  NO DEFENDERS MET

Hit Italian Rail Communications   Allied Fliers Meet Little Opposition

BLAST ITALIAN CITIES WITHOUT OPPOSITION   Allied Airmen Rip Railway Targets Near Naples

Raids on Italy Are Unopposed   Allies Hammer Rail Points South of Naples

REGISTRANTS MUST REPORT CHANGES   Those Who Haven't, Given Until January 31 To Do It

Draft Rules Tighten on Delinquents   No More Leniency After Feb. 1, Is Word: To Publish Names.

PDONNELL USES. PRUNING KNIFE ON HICHWAY   ®siashes Out 4 Millions; Soldiers Bonus Bill In; Small Loans Scored; Money . for Probe

ad  CUTS FUNDS -- FOR ROADS   Vetoes $4,000,000 Out - of Six-Months’ Appropriation for Highway Department   TO THE LEVEL IN HIS BUDGET   Also Requests $46,000 for an Investigation of State Buildings

HOLD PARLEY ON MARTINIQUE   Viée Admiral Hoover Meets Georves Robert

Murder Charge Filed On Womar   Hearing Is.Set In Slavind- OF Bahiec

WAR MOTHER LAUNCHES SHIP   St. Clair Day’ Celebratec At Dachel-Carter Shipyards

Soviets Only 36 Miles From Dnieper as Two Important Cities Yield   American, British Troops Entrench Selves After Crushing Two New Tank Thrusts By Rommel’s Forces in North Africa

Tide Turning in Afriea as British Forees Hammer at Axis Armies in Tunisia

Allied Troops Welcomed As They Drive Germans From Holy Moslem City

KAIROUAN IS WRECKED BY GERMANS   Population Greets Allies Joyfully; Nazis Hard Hit

Mosiem Holy City Greets Al‘ied Army   Citizens Are Overjoyed;Tell .of Damage Inflicted By the Nazis ~   ALL MUNICIPAL . UTILITIES. WRECKED   Even the Bakery Is Torn Down; Americans Move In as Holding Force

Patton's Americans Capture Faid Pass   WRECKED KAIROUAN GREETS ALLIES JOYOUSLY

Overjoyed Kairouan Citizens Extend Welcoming Hands To Allied Troops

Troops Welcomed In Kairouan   Jews Rip Star of David from Lapels, Stomp Them in Ground

Savings-Loan Officer Reports Year So Far is Record in Mortgage Loans

ADMINISTRATION LOSES IN HOUSE   Subsidy Ban Passes; Huge Cut in Tax Bill

Hit ATT ACR ON APRON HPATS S. Be eREES 8448   Wilkes-Barre Mayor Speaks at CIO Meet

GEN, MARSHALL DAYS INVASION  PLANS ALL SET   Plans For Decisive Triumphs Against Japan Also Ready, Reports Chief Of Staff

Gen, JHATSHE DAY. . Northwest European Invasion Plan Plotted at Casablanca, [Axis Is Driven on Defensive

Plans For 2nd Front Are Set   Victory Now Certain, General Marshall Says: Campaign Against Japan Also Mapped; End Not Yel In Sich?’

Plans: For Destruction Of Hitler’s Europe Are Complete Marshall Says

INVASION PLAN NOW COMPLETE   Marshall Says Preparations Made To Strike Blow Into Eurone.

ALLIES ABOUT EADY TO PUT GERMANY QUT   Extraordinary Report Made by General Marshall Says Victory Sure.   NOW ON FINAL PHASE OF WAR, STAFF CHIEF SAYS

MARSHALL SAYS PLAN COMPLETE TO SMASH NAZIS   \llied Preparations For Crushing European Fortress Include Invasion Of Northwestern Eu rope, Chief Of Staff  Reveals.

Gen. Marshall Gives Report In Full On War Saying ‘Victory Is Certain‘

Victory Sure, Marshall Says   Allies Ready to Smash at Hitler, Japs, He Indicates

ENEMY FORCED ON DEFENSIVE ROAD TO DEFEAT   Blockade of Europe Complete, General Marshall Reports

About Ready To Invade Europe,  Says Marshall   Second-Front Plans Laid Long Ago; Victory Is Certain. Savs General.

ECOND FRONT INVASION PLAN ALREADY MADE   Allies Are Set to Smash Germany, Japan, Gen. Marshall Discloses

ES ESS Se TT EE SS ee NY 8 O16 BS0)7 2268252422  Masterful Summary Assures That Plans For Crushing Japan Well Advanced—" Victory Is Certain”

Army Chief of Staff Says The End Is Not In Sight But Victory Is Certain; Plans for Decisive Triumphs Over Japan Well Advanced.

“War’s End Not Yet In Sight”   But Victory Is Certair Says Gen. Marshall in Detailed Report on Progress of the War

Plans For Second Front in Europe Already Made, Gen. Marshall Discloses

Plans Made For Further Invasion   MARSHALL CERTAIN OF ALLIED VICTORY

Marshall Says ‘Victory s Certain’, Northwest Europe Will Be Invadec   General Reports ‘Smash Hitler Plan Is Complete, Japan Is Suffering ‘Terrific’ Plane. Shin Losses

Second Front Plans Ready, Marshall Says   Victory “Certain”, Chief Of Staff Tells Stimson

Victory Plans Complete, States Aeesions Chief   General Marshall Reports to Secretary Stimson that In- vasion and ‘Conquest Is  Started.

Allies Perfect  Invasion Plans   Preparations For Smashing Germany’s European Fortress Almost Complete, Gen. Marshall Discloses But End Is Not Yet in Sight.   CERTAIN VICTORY SEEN

Second From Plans Made, Marshall   Moves For Real  - Triumphs Against Japs Well Advanced

Plans for Second Front In Europe Already Made, Gen. Marshall Says

SECOND FRONT PLANS READY, MARSHALL SAYS   Victory Certain In All Allied War Theatres

Finish Plans For Smashing  Axis —Marshal!   Army Chief States End Of War Not Yet In Sight But  Victory Certain,   MAKES WAR REPORT

VICTORY SURE, SAYS REPORT OF MARSHALL   Plans For Decisive Moves Against Japan Are Well Advanced, General Says In Comprehensive Note

Second Front Preparations Virtually Completed, Says  Marshall; Sure Of Victory   Major Invasion Of Northwest Europe Plotted As Long Ago As January

‘PLANS FOR SECOND FRONT IN EUROTE ALREADY MADE, MARSHALL DISCLOSES

Marshall Says Allies Ready  For Invasion    Says Preparations Virtually Complete For Smashing. Europedr Fortress, Including In. vasion of Northwesterr Europe.

Plans for Second Front   In Europe Already Made   ‘Marshall Asserts Aerial War on Germany Blocked  Sustained Offensive in Russia This Year, End Not in Sight but Victory Certain

Victory Certain, Marshall Claims      U.S. Chief Of Staff Discloses That Plans For In: vasion Of Northwestern Europe Virtually Com plete: New Blows Fating Japs

Preparations for Real Second Front Virtually Complete   In Report on War's Progress Marshall Says Victory Certain

WAR'S PHASES REPORTED ON BY MARSHALL   "End is Not in Sight, But Victory is Certain” Army Chief of Staff  Declares   OBJECTIVES OUTLINED

Declares Plans ‘On Second Front 'In Europe Made   Gen. Marshall Discloses Victory Now Certain For The United Nations

IARSHALL SEES ‘VICTORY CERTAIN’ OVER GERMANY, JAPAN      ‘Plans to Smash Axis Bastion Ready

RULES LEGISLATURE CAN'T EXEMPT STATE FROM WAR TIME      Rushton Holds Law Enacted As Necessary In Interests Of National Defense   SAYS STATES MUST YIELD

FAMILIES MAY GET PAYMENTS WITHOUT COST   Red Croes; government  help dependents get soldier’s benefit pay

Hourly } panna tives   ‘Widow of Houdini Dies, Convinced That ‘Communication With Dead Is Impossible

WIDOW OF FAMOUS MAGICIAN DIES CONVINCED DEAD CANNOT SPEAK TO TO THOSE THEY HAVE LEFT BEHIND   Harry Houdini and Wife Were Center of Controversy Brought on By Efforts. to Expose Dpinite  von Ltebe

Yanks, French ‘Push Ahead In  - Tunisia Drive   Allies Fight Through Steep Hills tc © Close in ‘on Mateur and Bizerte; British Navy Hunts Foe Ships

VICTORY IN HUNISIA BY END OF MAY   Is Prediction Of General Giraud, As Allied Armies Fight In Mountaincous DastrictsSupplied By Planes   Severs Nazi Loss

ALLIES FORGE AHEAD THROUGH TUNISIAN HILLS   Americans, French Take 600 Prisoners; Gen. Giraud Predicts Victory In May   Blockade Strengthened

Yanks, French Drive Nearer Mateur, Bizerte   British Naval Forces Swing Into Day and Night  Action at Doorstep of Tunis

American, French forces push closer to Tunis and Bizerte   Advance thru steep hills; Giraud predicts African victorv this mouth

Allies Forcing Way ‘Towards  Mateur, Bizerte   General Giraud, . the French leader, says Axis. will be beaten in ‘Tunisia this month.

Yankees, French Make Small Tunisian Gains   Complete Victory by End of Month ts Predicted by Giraud

Yankees, French Push Ahead, Take 600 Prisoners   Troops Drive Closer to Mateur, Bizerte, as British Light Naval Forces Swing Into Action Close to Tunis: Four Ships Sunk

Tunisian Campaign  Near End’   Giraud Sees May As Last Month Of Battle.

U. S., French Advance in Mateur Area  Complete Victory in Africa by

U. S., French Advance in Mateur Area   Complete Victory in Africa by June Is Predicted

Public Spirited Citizens Offer Aid to State   Personal Checks to Help Institutions Tintil Julw 1

RUSSIANS CAPTURE FOUR VILLAGES ON “KALININ FRONT”      Action Probably Occurred In Vicinity Of Kholm 175 Miles West Of Kalinin

FOUR VILLAGES TAKEN BY REDS IN NEW ACTION   Seven Enemy Vessels Sunk in the _ Black Sea at Same Time Fighting Revives on Land

Fatally Injured When Hit By Truck  Driver F ailed To See Man On Highway

June Will Be Hottest Month   Sixteen Of 26 Days This Month Mercury 90 Ta BWieher.

June Is Driest  On Record Here   Expected To Equal Hottest As Last Day Sees Heat Broken:

Allied Taking of Salamaua Seen  At Any Hour ©   Airfield Mile From New Guinea Town Taken Yesterday

ALLIES TAKE JAP AIRFIELD AT SALAMAUR   Capture Of Salamaua * Expected Any Time t Says Report

Japanese Give Up Airdrome At Salamaua   Yank, Aussie Troops Swim Francisco River; Fall Of Town Is Imminent   20,000 ARE TRAPPED   Garrison Remnants Are Forced Into .Peninsula And Toward Lae

oH GARRISON FAILS TO OPEN ESCAPE PATH   American And Australian Troops Slowly Squeeze Lae; Capture Salamaua Airdrome, Swim River.

‘Airdrome at Salamaua Now In Allied Hands   Jap Defenders Routed by Yanks And Australians

Salamana Will Fall Within — A Few Hours   Hopeful Report Is Given Following Fall Of Air Field

Allied Troops Gain Airdrome At Salamaua   American And Australian Units Are Moving Into Position To Clean Up 50-Mile Coastal Area

IREDELL MAN MEETS DEATH AT NEW BERN   John R. Reid Fatally Injured In Auto Accident

26 Japanese Planes Are Dest roved in Aerial Battle   15 Others Are Seriously Damaged in Series of Dog Fights Over New Guinea; No Allied Craft Are Lost

Allies Knock Out 41 Planes InNew Guinea   MacArthur Reports Big gest One Day Air Battle in Southwest Pacific   ALL U.S. CRAFT SAFE   Three Japanese Ships Hit, Enemy Bases Bombed As Aid To Solomons Fight

Raid By Jap: Very Costly ©   4] Planes Shot Down And Three Ships Are Blasted

Allied Pilots Down 26 Jap Planes  Damage Fifteen Others in AU-Day Battle

Biggest Air Battle in SW Pacific.an Allied Victory   - Japs Make All-Out ‘Attempt to . Destroy Wau: Airdrome: Planes © ~ Battle: Over Wide Area ‘in Islands

Allies Down Mb Japs, Damage 15   Day of Aerial Battle Below Salamaua; Raids Widespread

26 Jap Planes Shot Down By Allied Fliers   15 Others Damaged Without Loss Of Single USS. Craft

Allied Forces Score Victory Without Loss   Fifteen More Nip Planes Damaged In Air Battle Of Wau Airfield In New Guinea

26 Jap Planes Dow ned For A Recor d Day   15 Others Damaged In Guinea Battle; Yanks Lose None

Allies Lose Not a Single Fighter As Enemy Attempts ‘to Ruin: Wau Airdrame

Allied Aviators Down, Damage A{ Jap Planes   Was Biggest Single Day's Battle in Southwest Pacific

FLIERS DESTROY 26 JAP PLANES   Salamaua - Lae Sector Next Allies Target In New Guinea

Allies Bag 26 Jap Planes in Single Day   Report, Too, That 15 Others Damaged in Same Air Fight

Plane Losses By Japanese Running Higt   ‘Allies Down 26 And ‘Do Not Lose Plane #\In Heavy Dodfighting

Not A Single Allied Craft Lost In Day   Battle Rages Over Wau Air Base; MacArthur's Bombers Again Attack Foe At Bougainville

26 Japanese Planes Are Destroyed in Aerial Battle  15 Others Are Seriously Damaced in   15 Others Are Seriously Damaged in Series of Dog Fights Over New Guinec: No Allied Cratt Are Los!

$1.75 More Pay Asked by Lewis   He Resumes Conference Wel, Qoueratoare

OPERATORS, UNM HESUME PARLEYS   Lewis Is Said to Have Re@ newed Original Demand for Contract Carrying Pay Increase of $2 a Day

YOUTH ADMITS THIRD SLAYING   Reform School Parolee Says Body Of Boy Was Thrown Into River

YOUTH ADMITS THIRD SLAYING   Killer of Cleveland Twins Declares He Shot Boy Last March

25,000 Additional Highway «Workers To Be Hired As Soon as Conditions Warrant

-JAPS LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS IN SOLOMONS   Fierce Air And Sea Battle Is Reported Raging

Nips Also Strike At Americans In Aleutian Isles   see U, §.—( Official) BRy United Press

Americans Trading Tre mendous Blows With Enemy; Losses  Are Heavy.

YANK AERIAL, SEA FORCES TRADE BLOWS   Enemy’s Claims of Our Losses Said Exaggerated

GREEKS RECEIVE PATROL VESSEL   Anti-Submarine Ship Lend-Lease Gift To Conquered Nation

Greeks Get  New Vessel   Presentation Made by President Roosevelt as Expression of American Hopes

Roosevelt Gives Anti-Sub Ship to Greeks  Craft Is Named After King,  Miatlece Wataecnw a

F.D.R. HOST TO CONGRESSMEN   New Members Meet President, Have Refreshments in White House.

New Solons Chat With President   They Find Him in Good Health and Very Sure of Himself.

ALL ENJOY PARTY AT WHITE HOUSE      President Chats - With Freshman Lawmakers About the War

Social Gathering At White House  Republicans, Includin: Mrs. Luce, Get Along Fine With President

'Roosevelf Retains Sense of Humor and Asks Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce ‘How's Henry?"

vew Congressmen Get Kick jut of Roosevelt’s ‘At Home’   t Cheese and Crackers and Drink Beer; “Nobody Converted, But I’m Softened Up a Bit,” Says One Republican; President Inquires “How's Henry?” of Congresswoman Luce .

Plane Falls in Flames in Ohio  Several Persons Are Reported Killed in  Pi omale al Rambkar

Praise the Lord, Buy Another Bond  Chaplain Who Coined Famous Phrase Writes  See OES

Willkie Will Run If MCormick Does   Challenges —‘Miinois  Publisher Today

Willkie to Be Candidate   Expects to Enter Illinois Primary If McCormick Takes Step

WILLKIE TO BE 19446. 0.P. CANDIDATE.   1940 Candidate Challenges McCormick To Campaign for Illinois Primary

Willkie To Run In Ul. Primary  To Bring McCormick To Test On Foreign Policy Iccues

Wendell Willkie Will Seek Republican Nomination for President in 1944, He Indicates in Interview

Willkie Ready To Run Against Trib’s Colonel   1940 Nominee Wil! Enter Illinois Primary Next April If McCormick Is On Candidate List

PRESIDENTIAL RACE. BECKORS   “J  {Primary—In—tilisete Challenge Made To McCormick —

Willkie Plans To Enter "44, Campaign   Hails Opportunity To Debate With Colone} McCormick

Willkie Chooses To Run for 1944 Nomination   Challenges Chicago Tribune Publisher In Hlinois Primary

Willkie Will Be Candidate If Col. McCormick Enters Illinois Primary

TO ENTER RACE AGAIN IN 1944      Says He'll Seek Illinois GOP Votes If McCormick Becomes Candidate In State’s Primary   TO MAKE SURVEY   Willkie Opposes Chicago Publisher, Who Was Ast ed to Be Candidate Next Year’s Campaign

WILLKIE SEEKS VOTE SHOWDOWN WITH MPCORMICK   Challenges Publisher of Chicago Tribune to Enter Illinois_ Preferential Primary.   HIS FIRST OPEN BID FOR 1944 NOMINATION   Whether He Will Run in Other States, He Says, Depends on Results of Survey.

WILLKYE WILL GET IN FIGHT, HE INDICATES   1940 Candidate Chal lenges Col. McCormick to Battle

WILLKIE MAKES M’CORMICK’S RUNNING ISSUE   Would Fight Republican National. ism Issue Out With Colonel ir Iinois, Siump State

Willkie to Seek GOP Nomination Again in 1944   Challenges Colonel McCormick in Illinois Preferential Primary  RAPS PUBLISHER  Says Race Would Present ‘Clear-Cut’ Issue to Voters

WILLKIE FLINGS  DOWN GAUNTLET  TO M&CORMICK INDIANIAN TO ENTER  STATE PRIMARY IF PLIRLISHER DOES SO

WILLATE OPPOSES MCORMICK STAND   ‘Challenges Tribune Publisher in Bid for tlinois Preferen' tial Primary ;

Willkie Will Seek Presidential — Office Next Year   GOP Leader Intends - To Campaign for Preferential Vote

Wendell Willkie Chooses to Run ir 1944 He Discloses   Challenges Chicago Publisher to Hammer: Tongs Campaign

Willkie, Challenging McCormick To Run In Hlinois, Ready For Race Next Year

Willkie To ~ Oppose Col. ~ McCormick   Will Run for President in Illinois Primary If Publisher Enters

Willkie May Be GOP Candidate   [Declares He'll Oppose  MeCormick In Illinois

WILLKIE WILL BE CANDIDATE   Challenges McCormick tc Campaign for Illinois Primary Vote

WILLKIE WANTS TO RUN IN 1944   Nominee Of 1910 Issues Challenge To Tribune Publisher MeCormick

Willkie Will. Run Again for Presidency.   GOP Stand-Bearer Is’   GOP Stand-Bearer Is’ Ready: for. Fight With Col. McCormick:

House Debates Big Army Bill   Passage by Unanimous Vote Is Expected At Monday Session

HUGE SPENDING MEASURE READY   House Set To Approve $71,510,438,873 Bill Monday

HOUSE COMPLETES WAR BILL DEBATE   Passage of History's Largest Single Spending Bill Expected Monday; Bad News for the Axis

House Ends Debate On History’s  Biggest Cash Bill  - Passage Is Expected  Monday; Full Support Anticipated

House Due To Pass Huge Bill  Historv’s Greatest   History’s Greatest Measure Debated

HOUSE FINISHES DEBATE ON BILL   71-Billion-Dollar Measure Te Be Approved By Unanimous Vote  :

LUNDY TO SEEK GOP NOMINATION   Will File Nomination for. Lieutenant Governo

House Group  Hits at Navy Men at Desks  Cites 4000 Working Ae Cloclee.

Navy Using 4,000 Physically Fit In Clerical Jobs  House Group Demand:  Replacement of Washinaton Force

City’s First Brick Veneer House, Built 69 Years Ago, Being Razed

@ “DREAM” OF 1874  City’s First Brick Veneer House, Built 69 Years Ago, Being Razed

Captive Toll of Germans and Italians Reaches 175,000  VICTORY DECISIVE, ALEXANDER STATES  Italian General Among the Last to Surrender

Prisoners in Africa May Total 175,000   Decisive Victory Nets Allies 17  Decoarcied Generals

Captives Now Near 175,000   War Material Of All Kinds: Taken In Great Quantities

rrisoners Now Number Nearl 175,000 Men   Victory for Allies Termed Greatest One in History

TOTAL OF AXIS TROOPS TAKEN NEAR 175,000   1,000 Guns, 250 Tanks Among Tremendous  Amount of Booty

AXIS PRISONERS TOTAL 175,000; MATERIEL TAKEN   17 Axis Generals Among Captives Of Allies  ln Tiiaia   BERLIN AND ROME ACKNOWLEDGE LOSS

1] Generals Are Taken: Italians Last to Give Up   ‘Enormous Booty’ Gen Eisenhower Discloses; Look Toward Sicily

17 Generals,.175,000 Soldiers In Final Roundup in Africa; Immense Axis Stores Captured

Prisoner Toll In North Africa Reaches 175,000   ‘otal of 17 Generals Now in Hands of Allied Forces   arge Italian Force Sur renders on Orders from Mussolini

Great Mass OftGuns, Tank: ‘Also Taken   Gen. von Arnim Shuns Signing of Order, But It Doesn’t Matter  CI RF ARNTID CONTIN GI CG

Allies Say Africa Victory Is One Of History’s Best  Booty Is Tremendous Chief Declares; Gain Is Inestimable

17 Generals Included In  Prisoners   Victory Is Termed One Of Outstanding In World History.

175,000 Axis Troops AreCaptured   War In Africa Ends With Heavy Losses by Enemy

Captive Toll Nears 175,000 in Tunisia   Triumph Puts Allied Airmen Few Minutes’ Flight From Italian Sicily’s Ports: 17 Generals Seized; Booty Declared Enormous

Rome Unit Is Last To Quit Fight   Thousand Guns, 250 Tanks Are Among Booty

175,000 AXIS PRISONERS. IN NORTH AFRICA   Tunisia Cleared Of Germans And Italians In A Week; One Of Historys  Decisive Battles   17 Generals Taken

Several Senators Criticize Patton: Ability Praised   Truman Is Confident Gen Eisenhower Handled Incident Correctly

PATTON'S ATTACK STIRS CRITICISM   MOST LAWMAKERS TAKE VIEW ROW IS ONE TO BE HANDLED BY ARMY.

Mussolini Scores Italy King   DUCE BREAKS SILENCE IN RADIO TALK; SAYS HE WAS PLOT VICTIM

Postpones at- Least.-Until Tomorrow Vote on House-" Passed Resolution Con~ tinuing CCC   NEW BAPTLE LOOMS   Efforts Being Made to ‘Attach Restrictive Amendments to. CCC.Rollback Fund

New Battle Over Subsidies Looms   250 Million: Fund: Holde Mact Eanvay

Another Subsidy Battle Is Seen   Senators Seek to Limit Payments

New Battle Over Subsidies Looms   250 Million Fund Holds Most Favor

SHORTAGE IN  PULPWOO0D   Is Serious — Pulpwood Is Needed For Many War  Items.

Ruston Leader Enlists in U.S. Victory Pulpwood Campaign   Government Hopes To Solve Serious Shortace Situation

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VINDIGATOR JOINS UTHER PAPERS IN PULPWOOD DRIVE   Thousands of Cords Of Pulpwood Needed For War Purposes

The Daily News Enlists In U.S. ° - Victory Pulpwood Campaign   Sponsoring Committee Named To Assist In Effort — Woodcutters Asked For 3 Extra Days

U. S. Bombers Smash At Japanese Bases In North and South Pacific

Americans Hit b m8, : 'S in Sor youth   - Start Fires at Mundo In Solomon Islands And Also Attack Jap Positions at Kiska

MUNDA I$ SET AFIRE BY BOMBS   Allied Planes Sweep Far And Wide In Pacific Raids

In The Pac ific Allied Convoy Beats Off Jap  Torpedo Planes   Munda In ee As Allies Attack

Lash at Jap Bases In Pacific   Fire Started at  Munda; Convoy Beats Off Attack.

ESCAPED GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR TAKEN NEAR AUSTIN  LAST TWO MEN ESCAPIN( FROM CAMP HOOD HAVI BREEN CAPTURED

RESCUER SQUADS.   Working Frantically to Get to 66 Entombed Men.

Compromise Food Subsidies Plan Gets Approval  Committee Votes 525 Million for Use  From Now to Jan. 1  EXTEND CCC  Action Follows Long Conference

Subsidy Limit  Of Half Billion .  Moved i in Senate Taft Compromise,  Would Altow CCC  Descie antoax tox 1

Senate Authorizes Subsidy Payments Until January 1   House Approves CCC Extender, Sustains FDR’s Earlier Veto

Meat, Butter Rollback Plan Would Go On   Attendment Would Give Commodity Credit Corp. New Lease on Life

Senators Urge Half Billion For Subsidies   Banking Commitee Recommends Sum For Half Year

GROUP HOLDS 3 HOUR SESSION WITH BYRNES   Subsidies Could Be Viet Between Now And January 

925 MILLION T0 BE EXPENDED IN FOOD SUBSIDIES   Vast Sum Would Be Turned Loose Before Next Jan. 1

$25,000,000 SET AS FOOD SUBSIDY UMIT TO JAN.    Senate Committee Votes to Restrict Payments After 3Hour Session With Byrnes and Others.   TAFT PREDICTS UPPER BRANCH WILL APPROVE   Proposal Authorizes RFC and CCC to Borrow Money for Use in Price Rollback Program.

Compromise Is Made on Fund For Subsidies  Committee Okays Limiled Plan After Conference

Paying of subsidies  approved   Limit amount to $525,000,000 up until Jan. 

‘Senate Group Recommends Summ for Subsidy  $525,000,000 Limit; House Ok’s CCC Bill

INYO alld PLAN FUR YEAR   Half Billion Dollar Fund Recommended By Senate Banking Committee

NAVY CONFIDENT OF U. S. AIRMEN   Japs May Be Massing For Fresh Blows, But Yanks Control Situation

Man and Woman Shot to Death   New Mexico Rancher Kills Texas Divorcee And Takes Own Life

Divorce Found Shot io Death   Prominent Rancher Fatally Wounded, Held Responsible

‘MAJORITY OF 530,000 MINERS REMAIN IDLE DESPITE PRESIDENTIAL ORDER   Thousands of Homes Face Coalless Winter as Result of Coal Already Lost by Sabotaging Strikes; War Effort Is Crippled

‘American Bombers Raid ‘Sofia, Rumanian Capital   Italian Positions Are Being Consolié dated; Fighting Blazes On Bougainville Island

JAPANESE CARGO SHIP EXPLODED AND SUNK IN SOLOMONS   Hit by Bombs in the Course of a Heavy Attack, the Navy Announced.   NEW AERIAL ASSAULTS   Japanese Bases at Kiska in the North Pacific Was Also Hit.

JAP CARGO VESSEL SUNK IN SOLOMONS; KISKA IS ATTACKED   Solons Struggle With Farm Labor Shortage Problem— Aim Not to Deny Army Needed Men

Jap Cargo Ship Is Sunk in Allied Raid On Shortland Island   New Air Assaults On Enemy Base at Kiska Reported

JAP CARGO SHIP DOWN   U. S. Bomb Attack Hit Enemy in Shortland Island Area

SINK JAP SHIP   Cargo Vessel Explodes During Heavy Attack on Shortland Ssland.   NEW AERIAL ASSAULTS

Shortlands Raid Downs Jap Vessel   Kiska Also Hit; Nimitz Says Navy Is Set to Bomb Japan

Jap Cargo Ship Reported Sunk By U.S. Planes   General MacArthar Warns Fneiny Masses Forces  To North Of Australia

Navy Sinks Jap Cargo Ship In Solomons Raid   Jap’s Base On Kiska Receives New Aerial Assaults By Navy

Jap Cargo  Ship Blown  Up By U.S. Navy Reports On Aerial Attack On

JAP CARGO SHIP SUNK IN RAID ON SHORTLAND ISLE   Enemy Vessel Explodes And Goes To Bottom; New Aerial Assaults Made On Kiska By American Planes.

jAxis Advance Six Miles i tn Drive Toward Bein   Jap CargoShip Explodesand Sinks When Hit by Torpedoes   Navy Department Discloses Heavy Air Attacks On Enemy-Held Shorland Island Area, and Aerial Assaults On Nipponese At Kiska Over the Weekend

American Bombers + Raid Jap Targets on Pacific Fronts   » Enemy Bases at Kiska and in Solomons Are Pounded Heavily

Cargo Ship Is Sunk By U.S. Planes   Heavy Attack Is Made By American Bombers On Jap Positions In Shortland Island Area

JAPANESE CARGO SHIP DESTROYED; STRUCK BY BOMBS   "NEW AERIA ASSAULTS « ON ENEMY BASIS IN NORTH PACIFIC

Air Activity _ In Solomons ° And in Kiska   American Dive Bombers Take Heavy Toll of the Jananese

STRATEGY PLAN AIM OF PARLEY   Unified War, Peace Plans Seen Objective Of Moscow Meet

Map Str ategy Fo r Both War And Pea  Broad Problems Face Conference In Russia

BELIEVE .FATE OF REICH I      Ways to Encourage Successor to Hitlerism Considered One of Issues Before Moscow ThreePower Conference.

‘Los Angeles Bans Wearing of the Reat Pleat and Stuff Cuff in Desperate ' Effort to Stop Rioting Between Service Men and Zoot-Suited Rowdies

Ban Zoot Suits In Los Angeles   New Ordinance Sets 30-Day Jail Penalty

COUNCILMEN THINK LAW ENDS RIOTS   Sharpies in Auto Run Over and Injure Policeman

‘MAIN RAILWAY LINK SEVERED IN BIG DRIVE   Speed Of Advance Hints At Retreat To Dnieper River: One-Day Toll Of German Dead Is 10,000

Germans Reeling Back After Hard Red Army Drives   Nazis Retreating On Full Southern Front

Reds Stagger  Enemy With Mighty Blows   Berlin Reports New Offensive Opened By Rus sians On Central Donets Basin Front

EISENHOWER IN NEW COMMAND   Controls All Forces in North African Theater

Action Resulf Of Casablanca  Conference Giraud Designates We  Committee fo Replace Imperial Council

Eisenhower  Leader In Africa   Named Commander of Allied Forces in New Theater; British Push Into Tunisia

American Put In Charge Of Vital Front   Giraud Organizes French "War Committee”; Eighth Army 60 Miles In Tunisia  wT... Cheha °° &2Y ft a2 tase ee

Eisenhower to Direct Allies in North Africa; Showdown Battle Nears

GEN, EISENHOWER TO COMMAND ALL FORCES IN AFRICA   American Given Authority Over Land, Sea and Air Units in Algiers, Tunisia and Morocco.   ‘BRITISH TO DIRECT IN EUROPEAN THEATER   Allied Effort to Drive Axis From “Dark Continent” Is Fast Approachine Showdown,

ANOTHER MOVE IN PLANS LAID AT CASABLANGE   British Eighth Army Now in Tunisia to Come Under Hie Comniand.   RESHUFFLING SEPARATES AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST

Eisenhower Will  Head All Allied  Forces in Africa War Committee to  Replace Darlan's Imoerial Council

Showdown In Tunisia Is Approaching  Speculation Starts Over Promotion to Full General  NEW WAR THEATER  Giraud Designates French War Committee to Replace Council

ALLIED DRIVE TO OUST AXIS NEARS CRISIS   AMERICAN GENERAL SETS STAGE FOR SHOWDOWN

BRITISH ARMY MOVES 60 MILES INSIDE TUNISIA   U.S. African Forces Separated From European Forces  In Command

‘Americans Set Up New Theater Of Operations  Eeitiah Siti Army  po: ell Ingide Tirnicia

GEN, EISENHOWER TO LEAD ALLIED DRIVE IN AFRICA   American Officer Placed in Full Charge of United Nations’ Troops

Gen, Eisenhower New Commander  In North Afric   Is Over Montgomery Brereton Is Namec Middle East Heac Saturday

Complete Shuffle Of U.S. Command  Eisenhower Apparently Not Yet Promoted To Full General

Italy Plainly Is a Sick Belligerent   King Tells Sicily to Hold Faith in Better Future

Fogeia, Italian Railroad Center, Left Smashed and Torn; Italy Is Plainly War Sick Belligerent

King of Italy Makes Pathetic ‘Appeal to People   Shows Fear Allies Will Soon Atiack

Italy Plainly Is Sick Belligerent, King Broadcasts   Loss Of Seven More Italian Islands Heartening To Allies

Italy Plainly Sick Nation: King Broadeasts ‘Vo Sicils   Vittorio Emanuele Calis for Sicilians to Remain Loyal in Proclamation Avoiding War— Growina Apprehensions

King Calls on Sicilians To Remain Loyal, Avoids War in His Proclamatior

Raids Make lialy Sick Belligerent   King Makes Pep Talk Feliowing Allied Attacks

Italy Plainly Sick Nation; . _ King Broadcasts To Sicily   Vittorio Emanuele Cafis for Sicilians to Remain Loyal , in Proclamation Avoiding War— Growing Annrehencjanc

PROCLAMATION IS SILENT ON ROME'S PLANS   Timorous Message Taken As Attempt To Stop Separatist Move By Sicilians   Frenchmen Disarmed

CHINESE REJOICE ‘ON CRUSHING APS   Belated News Is Hailed Everywhere as Great Diplomatic Triumph.

China Rejoice: Over Pledge   Pact Hailed as Great Diplomatic, Political Triumph for China

CHINA REJOICES OVER WAR PACT   Pledge To Crush Nippon Empire Welcomed As Great Triumph

FOREIGN POLICY NOT CHANGED BY TALKS AT GAIRG   But Relations With Allies Were Strengthened, Spokesman Declares

CUT_an <ec anc - _ “en: eC, serman To -urno- Yrerno ‘ron: Srum) ing

Italian Campaign Has Accomplished Purpose—   Two-Front Air War Ma y Sink Nazis By Spring

Nazi Front In Italy Weaker; Berlin Admits Allied Gains   Probably Preparing German Home Front For More  Bad News; Press Volturno Battle

British Troops Take Over   Island Occupied After Only 22 Minutes of Fighting; Blame Lack Of Water for Defeat

BRITISH TROOPS LANDING UNDER BIG NAVAL GUNS   Landing Parties Fight Only ZZ Minutes Against Pockets Of Defenders; Roosevelt Hails Conquest As Good News And Appeals To Italy To Get Out Of War

British Troops Land as Island Shows White Flac   End Comes After 19 Days of World's Worst Bombina

Pantelleria Bombed Into Submission in Most Violent Attack   Capitulates Early Today 19 Days of Assault From Air and Sea

Italy’s Bomb - Dazed ‘Gibraltar’ Surrenders   First Of Axis Mediterranean Outposts Guarding Europe Against Invasion Knocked Out From Air Without Risking Costly Troop Landings.

BRITISH TAKE POSSESSION IN FEW MINUTES   Demonstrates Power of Aerial Attack. New Commando Raid Reported on Isle of Lampedusa

ITALY’S GIBRALTAR OF MEDITERRANEAN GIVES UP FIGHT   BOMB-DAZED GARRISON SURRENDERS AFTER CONSTANT POUNDINGS

Unconditional Surrender by Pantelleria   British Troops Take Over Italy’s “Gibraltar”; Berlin Says German Armies Ready to Start Spring Drive in Russia

Spangler Is Confident of GOP Victory   Memorandum Declares South Won’t Be Needed To Win Presidency

Spangler Sees Victory in 1944  Declares Republican Now Dominant Party

AERIAL BLOWS. AGAINST AXIS. HIT NEW PEAK   U.S. Bombers Follow Up RAF Night Saturation Raid on’ Krefeld,   25 HUGE FIRES LEFT BLAZING THRU NAPLES

ITALY ALSO GETS HEAVIEST BLOWS BY FLYING FORTS   Vast Allied Air Fleet Hits Naples and Near By Airport

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Aerial Blows Against Axis Reach New Peak

G-MEN THINK BEVER CAUGHT   Nab Robber Who Escaped Cincinnati Jail

Concessions Other Than Flat Pay Boosts Emerge From Talks ‘As Way To Avert Rail Strike   No Final Agreement Reached During Five-Hour White House Conference

CONCESSIONS 10 RAIL UNION MAY AVERT STRIKE   FDR Mediation Conference Adjourns Without Final Agreement

Study Plans Meet Demands  Q in Old B ASE   ‘Other Concessions’ Are Con sidered At White House   ¢   NO END YET IN SIGHT

MEDIATION MEET FAILS 10 AGREE   Discuss Concessions To Rail Workers To Prevent National Strike Dec. 30.

CONCESSIONS TO RAILROAD > WORKERS SEEN   . President Meets With Operators And Werkers

RAIL WORKERS TALK WITH FDR   STUDY CONCESSIONS TO AVERT THREAT OF NATIONWIDE STRIKE

CONCESSIONS TO RAIL MEN UNDER STUDY    Vacation Pay, Mote Liberal Over. time, Layover Expenses Among  { t Pranncale   MEETING TUESDAY   President Roosevell, Byrnes anc . Vinson Gpen Parleys in Five Hour Conference

House Group Proposes to Change Law   But. Further Congressional Action Is Postponed Until After Holidays   CONFEREES STUDY “ NEW PROPOSALS   Concessions Other Than-Pay Incréases. Considered. in Ware Dispute. :

CONCESSIONS MAY AVERT BIG RAIL WALKOUT   Plan Other Than Flat Pay Boosts Emerges from White House

Concessions May Increase  Railroad Pay   White House Meeting May Start New Plan to Give Workers Additional Money

House Body Acts In Rail Cases  Committee Would Remove Rail Cases From Vinson

Rail W orkers To Get Boost   Concessions Rather Than Flat Pay lierease Are Seen After Parley —

SOLUTION FOR RAIL PAY CASE ISNOW SOUGHT   _ Concessions in Some - ‘ - Form Other Than Direct * Raise May Be Effected -

FALL TO SOLVE RAIL SQUABBLE   Concessions, Other Than Wage Increases, Are  Studied

CONCESSIONS MAY CHOKE OFF RAIL STRIKES   Proposals Emerge From White House Talks With Leaders

Strike Peril — Spurs Meetings   CONFERENCE ADJOURNS WITHOUT “FINAL AGREEMENT,” BUT FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WILL BEGIN ON TUESDAY MORNING

See Possibility  Of Concessions  For R. R. Grou   Considered Instead Of Fiat Wage Boost In Effort To Avert Strike Dec. 30

CONCESSIONS INR. R. WAGE FIGHT HINTEL   Basic Wage Increases _ Are Unacceptable to _ Administration

Raise May Not Be Flat Increase in Basic Schedule; House Committee Seeks to Take All Rail Labor Wage Cases from Jurisdiction of Stabilization Head

CONCESSIONS PROPOSED IN RAIL DISPUTE   Mediation Conference Adjourns After Fire Hour Parley Without "Final Agreement"   LEADERS ARE CALLED

Hope Held Out Railway Strike May Be Averted   President Confers With Workers But Without Agreement

Concessions Other Than Fla Pay Boosts Seen As Possible Way To Avert Railroad Strike

Leaders Seek Settlement of Rail Dispute   Another Meeting to Be Held in Capital Tuesday Morning

Concessions lo Avert Railroad Strike Studied   Grants Other Than Flat Pay Boosts Now Seen As Strong Possibility.

Strike Relief ls Being Sought   Concessions in Lieu Of Wage Increases Are Suqaested

House Committee Would Take Rail Wage Cases from Vinson   Defers Action Until After Christmas Recess but Directs Chairman Name Sub-Committee to Draft Proposed Amendment

Concessions To RR Workers Are Likely Solution  No Flat Pay Rise But Other Devices Likely; Conaress Recesses Fo

CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE TO RECONVENE   Concessions May Take From Other Than Flat Pay Boosts 

Railroad Wage Matter Aired   ROOSEVELT CONFERRED  WITH LEADERS ON PRORITRW

New Move In Rail Case   Action By House Committee Would Strip Vinson of Authority Over Labor Wage Cases

LABOR WAGE GASES TAKEN FROM VINSON?   Movement Started by House Interstate Commerce Committee Today.

RAIL SITUATION SNOT CLEARED   Discuss Concessions to Workers in Some Other Form Than Pay.

Overtime Rail Pay Pondered   FDR Clears Pathway Groups Sit Fuesday

FOR SEEKS AVERT ANLAOAG STRIKE   ICC Committee Takes Wage Cases From Vinson

CONCESSIONS CIKEL FOR RAIL WORKERS BUT: NOT: PAY. BONS]   President and ‘Union Officials ~ Will Renew. Conference. Tuesday Morning: >   LAYOVER PAY PROPOSED

Concessions May Avert Rail Walkout   White House Conference Sunday to Be Resumed .. Tomorrow

WAY SOUGHT TO GET INCREASE ~ UNDER FORMULA   President, Byrnes And Vinson Meet With Representatives

Rail Workers Concessions Being Studied  Paid Vacations, Overtime and. Expenses Loom

Stalin Eases Curb On Church Activity  NoObjection Made To Holy Svnod Setur

Stalin Restores Russian Church   Dictator Declares No  Objection to Orthodos  a) a

QUICK PASSAGE OF PLAN IS PREDICTED   Author Of Pav-As-You-Ge Tax Idea Hopes Congress Will Act Before March 1

Doomed Slayer Plays Records   Former Jeweler Who Slew Young Sweetheart, Must Die Today.

Plays Phonograph While Awaiting His Death Date   Music Pours From Cell, Close to Gas Chamber, of Former California Jeweler, Who Must Die For Slaying of His Young Sweetheart; Opposes All Clemency Moves

WMC May Get Tough If Needed   Byrnes Has Plenty of Means Of Enforcing Accept- ; ance; Hopes For Co operation.

Adoption of 48-Hour Work Week-Urged for All Firms   Army’s Need for Men Explained at Joint Meeting o Coneress by Marshall

Key Town Ol El Hamma Is Also Taken °      TRAP IS DRAWN TIGHTER  AROUND ROMMEL FORCES FOLLOWING BREATH THRU. MARETH LINE

“Another Severe Defeat” for Axis, Churchill Reports   Indicates British Maving Past Gabes;: Wars Tunisia No Fasv Job

BRAZIL TAKES BIGGER PART   Government Decides To Throw Entire Strength Into War.

STIMSON FLIES TO WAR AREA   Visit To England May Result In Further Major Blows Against Axis

Stimson's Visit Tints Big Drive   Believe Secretary’s Arrival In London Forerunner Of Major Attacks   CABINET MEMBER ARRIVES BY PLANE

ALL FIGURED OUT BY NAZI EXPERTS   Invasion Of Axis -Held Islands Coming This Spring, They Say

PRODUCTION LOSSES CUT COAL SUPPLY   To Reduce Dealers’ Quotas 10 Percent

THE PRODUCTION OF GOAL WAY OFF   But Ickes Doubts That Rationing Will Be Necessary

Order a Cut In Hard Coal Use   Allow Only 90 Pct. of Requirements

Note Shortage Of Anthracite   Coal Dealers Limited To 90 Percent Of Last Year's Requirements.

COAL SUPPLIES TO BE LIMITED   Anthracite Dealers To Get 90 Per Cent Of 1943 Totals

Anthracite  Supplies to Dealers Cut 10 Percent   Ickes Blames Strikes For 3,500,000-Ton Slash in Production In Hard Coal Fields   DOESN’T BELIEVE RATIONING LIKELY

LIMIT 15 PLACED ON GOAL DEALER   Anthracite Dealers To Be Limited to 90 Per Cent of Last Year’s Requirements, Secretary Ickes Says

WRA Director Defends Policy With Japanese   Dillon Myer Denies Charge Of Laxity In Release : Of Japs In Camps 

Denies Dangerous Japs Freed Dies’ Charges Assailed By Nip Camp Director

POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION IS FACING TROUBLE WITH RUSSIAN SEVERENCE OF POLISH RELATIONS

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MachENZIE  (Associated Press War Analyst)

The War Today   ‘Advance Rumblings Heard Of Trouble at Peace Table

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Finland Must Change Or Face Consequences At Hands Of Allies

The W. ar T oday— Russian Severance Of Polish Ties 'Tosses Wrench Into Postwar Plans

HITLER RETURNS TO BERLIN FROM EAST   Italian Workers la Reich Demand To Be Sent Back To Italy

ADOLF RETURNS IN WAR CRISIS   Flies to Berlin From East Front. Italian Workers in Reich Causing Difficulty,

HITLER RUSHES HOME   Italian Crisis Brings Fuehrer Back From Eastern Frent

Legislators in Caucus This Evening  AAnes AAamkar   Most Members Are On Hand for Monday Opening

Legislators in Caucus  This Evening   Mest. Members Are On Hand for Monday Opening

AAD T   80 Per Cent on Jap Military Installations Destroyed by - Task Force Attack on September 1

Japs Hit Hard In U.S. Raid On Marcus   Attack by Aircraft Carrier Task Force Destroys 80 Per Cent of  Stranathanaed Enamy Installations

Nine Vessels In Squadron   Ships Add Little Strength But Psychological Effect Good

7-Man Board Is Named: Algiers Is French Capital   Joint Rule Is Slated To Continue For Duration; Amity Is Seen

French Navy At Alexandria Joins Allies Voluntarily; ‘Consists Of Nine Warships   Giraud Negotiated Transfer; Deny Nazi Charge Squadron Starved Into Submission

9-MAN COMMITTEE WILL DIRECT THE FRENCH WAR EFFOR}   Set Up Today Under Joint Presidency of De Gaulle and Giraud.   ONLY SEVEN ARE NAMED   At Least Four of the Seven Originals Are Said to Be De Gaulsts.

Talk Nets Fleet for Allies   DE GAULLE, GIRAUD HEAD COMMITTEE TO GOVERN FREED FRENCH

Big Battleship And Cruisers to Battle Germans   7-Man Committee Set Up in Algiers To Govern French

OVER TO THE ALLIES   French Naval Squadron Acts After Negotiations With Giraud’ .

French Fleet af Alexandria Joins Allies Voluntarily   Charge Repudiated That Unit Starved Into Submission

JOINT COMMAND NOW SET UP FOR FRENCH FORCES   De Gaulle and Giraud Meet In Africa To Cooperate In War on Axis   EXECUTIVE BOARD FORMED   Unity Achieved Leader o' Fighting French Says; Government Organized

FRENCH NAVAL SQUADRON COMES OVER TO ALLIES   Several Months. Will Elapse Before Ships Will See Action. Must Be Refitted.

Squadron Of French Fleet Joins Allies   Came Vuluatas uy Following Negotiations With Gen. Giraud

French Ships Follow Allies   Nine Warships Stationed At Alexandria Voluntarily Join Against Axis,

JOINED ALLIES VOLUNTARILY   French Naval Squadron At Alexandria Willingly Came Over To Allies, Report Says.

French Fleet Joins Allies   Squadron Which Had Been at Alexandria To Fight Axis

COAL SITUATION IS BECOMING SERIOUS   Ickes Says Drop In Production Partly Attributed To Labor Day Holiday By Miners

LARK 'G FORGES CEE HILLTOPS   Allied Fifth Army Now Has Downhill Pull Into Lin Valley

Eighth Army Advance to Within Ten Miles of Peseara.  BACK DOOR TO THE ITALIAN CAPITAL  Allied Air Foree Has Turned Toward the Balkans.

General Clark’s Troops In Possession Of Most Of 25 Square Miles Of Mountain Ridges Looking Down On Liri Val1.

Nazis in Russia Only 165 Miles From Start Point   Russian Army Able To Keep Going for Stalin’s Foresiaght

Theoretically, It Would Take Reds Only 11. Days To Reach Line Where German Attack Begam i in  1...\MiacKk envie —

The War Toda  Nazis Hurled  Back Only 165 Miles From Starting Point June 21, 1941

INVADING HITLER ARMIES HAVE  ONLY 165 MILES MORE RETREAT BEFORE STARTING POINT FOUND

A Killed As Plane Hits Martin Plant   Workers. Twe Pilots ¥ ictims

PLANE STRIKES PLANT: 4 DIE   Bomber Crashes Into Fort Crook Building

Evacuees Contempt Is Cited   Subversive Nip: Control Poston Activities

File Your Tax or Get Into a Jam!   Returns, Picking Up Some Speed, Are Still Too Slow; Free Help at U.S. Branch Office Here.

Deadline for First Quarterly Return Is Next Monday   Free Help to Payers Available at Southeast Side Branch.

MORE VEGETABLES PUT UNDER CEILING   rere  Lettuce and Spinach Are Latest on List

96% of Food Supplies Are ~ Controlled   OPA Puts Lettuce and Spinach Under Ceilings, Rice Not Rationed

EXTEND CEILINGS TO 2 VEGETABLES   Lettuce and ~ Spinach Are Placed Under Price Control--Rice is Not Rationed 

U. §. Bombers Score Hit On Jap Cruiser   Fires Visible For 70 Miles After Attack On Macassar

A ., \ericans Fly ‘9 Miles to Som Jan Base   Moke Direct Hit on Cruiser and Set Fires at Macassar In Dutch Celebes

YANK FLIERS SCORE HIT ON JAP CRUISER   Also Set Fires Visible 7( Miles in Daylight At. tack on Macassar—Only One Bomber Lost in 2.900-Mile Round Trip.

Direct Hit By Yank Bombers On Jap Cruiser   Enemy Base At Macassar Blasted In 2,000-Mile Round-Trip Flight.

JAP CRUISER HIT BY U.S. AIRMEN   Also Set Large Fires on Nip Land Base at Dutch Celebes

AMCRIGANS FLY L000 MILto TU BUM JAPS   Enemy Base In Dutch Celebes Given Heavy Pounding By Big Liberators

Hit Cruiser, Set Big Fires Raging ‘At McCassar Port   Drop 38 Tons of Explosives; Aussies Repulse enagie Attack

Jap Base Blasted on Long Hor   2,000 - Mile e Round - Trip Flight Made in Attack on Macassar   SET FIRES SEEN 70 MILES AWAY   Other Raids in Pacific Area; Tokyo Warns Nips of Bie Blows to Come

AMERICAN BOMBERS FLY 2,000 MILES T0 ATTACK MACASSAR  DIRECT HIT SCORED ON CRUISER ; LARGE FIRES SET

Yanks Extend Raids On Japs   Smash Enemy Cruiser, Set Large Fires In Celebes; Ground Drive Repulsed.

Jap Cruiser  Hit by Bomb   American Bombers Mad« 2,000 Mile Trip; Set  Fires at Macassar

U. &. PLANES EXTEND FLIGHT DISTANCE   Fly 2,000 Miles to Bomb Jap Base and Hit Cruiser; Nips Warn of New Blows

AMERICAN BOMBERS  FLY 2,000 MILES TO  ATTACK MACASSAR DIRECT HIT SCORED  _ ON CRUISER; TARCE FIRES CET

U.S. Bombers Hit Cruiser At Macassar   Longest Flight Taken From Australia Repays With Important Hits

U.S. Fliers Bomb  Jap Warship,  Base at Macassat Daylight Raid  Made By Aces From Australia

Yankee Pilots On Longest Hop From Australia   Japanese Cruiser Gets Direct Hit and Enemy Base Burned

American Bombers Hit Cruiser, Set Fire fo Jap Base  Only One Plane Lost In Longest Flight

AMERICAN BOMBERS DROP 38. , TONS OF BOMBS ON JAPS AT MACASSAR. DUTCH CELEBES °   American Airmen M: de 2,000-Mile Over Water Flight to Plant Explosives on Newly Built Jan Fortifications in Grim Warning

JAP MACASSAR BASE SMASHED   Australian Jungle Fighters Repulse Third Enemy Ground Attack

Nazis Losing Their Struggle To 8th Army   WORD FROM RADIO ALGTERS DECLARES HITLERITES DEFEATED.

Officers on Long Trek Through Nazi Lines to Rendevous With Guerrillas

Allies Meet With Greek  Guerrillas   Secret Mission Traveled Across Enemy Territory

PEOPLE OF NATION SEEK STOCK UP ON MEATS SATURDAY  REAL FRENZY DISPLAYE! BY WOULD-BE SHOPPERS

STAGING RUSH   Long Lines Form at Oawn In Some Cities; Ration Meat Monday.

» ON STORES FOR MEAT   Buying Rush Becomes Nai, tion-Wide; OPA Head “Is Disturbed   AN EXTRAORDINARY . “DEMAND. HE SAYS   50,000 Mill Around Three + “Major Cleveland Markets, Snarline Traffic

Supply Far Under Demand Rationing Starts Monday   Rations, Prices And Wages

Expects Attacks Against Forests   Fire Bombs Probably Sent By Japs

Senate Favors   Salary Measure  Farm Measure Expected Te Provide Fireworks

Report U.S. Warships Are Headed  For Martinique T ermed ‘Baloney’

GERMAN REPORTS OF MOVE TO - SEIZE VICRY-ConTRorxae—: { 8 CALLED  \)” sBALONEY”

INGREASE IN POWER BILL UP FOR VOTE   Would Enable Legislature tc Call Special Session

MME. CHIANG ADDRESSES HUGE THRONG   22,000 Listeners Hear Her in _New York City

SAYS AXIS SHOULD BE FORGIVEN IN REBUILDING WORLD   Mme. Chiang Kai-shek Talks te Audience of 22,000 Persons, China Has Suffered Longest.   CHINESE FIRST LADY IS NEAR EXHAUSTION   Disregarding Present Conduct of War She Spoke Largely on Future When War Is Finally Won.

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Says United Nations Must Try to  Forgive Axis After Victory

JUDGE BENERTT PLAN OFFERED   House Bill Would Give Retirement System  To.Bench

JUDGES PENSION BILL [5 OFFERED   Would Be Blanketed Under Retirement System; Reduction in State Auto Licenses Proposed

BATTERED REMNANTS OF NINE-SHIP ENEMY CONVOY IN FLIGHT   - TWO BIG SHIPS SUNK, ONE BEACHED, ANOTHER CRIP.PLED BY BOMBERS

One Of 7 U.S. Fleets Assigned To Australia   May Mean Strong Reinforcements For MacArthur Battered Remnants Of Jap Convoy Flee To Escap Allied Bombs Off New Guinea.

Assign Fleet To Australia War Theater   Knox Reveals Navy Now In Seven Sections: Chase Off Japanese Convov From Wewak

View Decision to Strengthen MacArthur —   One of Seven Fleets Sent; Kiska Heavily Attacked in Two-Day Assault

One of Seven U. S. Fleets at Disposal Of Gen. MacArthur   Report Is Coupled With Promise of  Air Reinforcements By Associated Press

Bolstering Due for Campaign in Pacific   One of Seven U. S. Fleets to be Assigned to Australia; Japanese Convoy Flees  After Being Badly Battered.

Fleet Is Sent To Bolster U. S.  Drive on Japs   In Southwest Pacific Front Remnants of a Jap Convoy Flees,   Knox Says 7 Fleets Operate Against Axis

Flow of Planes, Supplies To Australian Front Being Hiked  TWO SHIPS BAGGED Jap Convoy Flees Out o1  Range of Yankee _ Bombers

ROOSEVELT PRAISES METHODIST BISHOP   “Powerful Influence Has Been Lost,” President Says OF Late  Clergyman

ADDITIONAL PAY INCREASES PROPOSED FOR STATE JOBS   DEMOCRATS FACE DEFEAT ON - HIGHER PERCENTAGE+ _ APPROPRIATIONS BILL - OUTS ARE MADE

‘AIR POWER ALONE CAN SAVE LAND’   MacArthur, Blamey Say 200,000 Japs Massed

FOOD PRICES . SUBSIDY PLAN IS UP AGAIN   ISHUE PLACED SQUARELY BEFORE CONGRESS BY PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY. OPA MANAGER

FOOD MESSAGE TO OPEN FIGHT   Battle Over Subsidies i: Likely to Follow Action By President '

New Democratic Institution Born,/ Says Frenchman   French National Liberation Committee Accepts Collective Responsibility

French Agree On New Government   ‘Democracy Born’ In  Algiers Today?

FRENCH IN AGREEMENT AT SESSION   Victory for De Gaulle Seen In Summoning Entire Free French Committee In Session   TWO POINTS SETTLED

Agreement Reached By  Frenchmen   Announcement Made After Session That Lasted 80 Minutes

French Groups In Agreement  ‘Consultative Assem! lv’ To Be Created

Agreements Are Found Today With Giraud Rule   Thirteen Member: Of Committee In Accord

New French Committee in Agreement   General Giraud Presides Consider Procedure and Collective Responsibility

Accord on Procedure and Collective Responsibil. ty Said Reached at 80.  “Minute Conference Te dav.

Believe French Accord Near   Agreements Reached By Committee Seen As Most Hopeful Sign

A Consultative Assembly Next   Recognition Of Other Governments Now In Order   THE FRICTION IS BEING IRONED OUT

PINCERS CLOSING IN ON LAE BASES; JAPS IN FLIGHT   Between 22 And 25 Grounded Enemy Planes Destroyed In Wewak Raid   JAPANESE ABANDONING FORMER DEATH STANDS

ALLIED BOMBERS COMPLETELY DESTROY 2 AXIS HELD PORTS, ALSO POUND ENEMY SHIPPING

DESTRUCTIO OF 2 PORTS REPORTED   Bizerte, Tunis Believed Wrecked By Allied Bombs

MAJOR AXIS-HELD PORTS ARE RAZED BY ALLIED PLANES   Germans Said to Be Forced to Use South Tunisian Ports Diverting Shipping to Sousse and Sfax.   FREE FRENCH FORCES © DRIVING NORTHWARD   British Eight Army Drives Axis Motorized Units Back Toward Tripoli Past Last Libian Defense’ Arca.

Tunis, Bizerte Made Useless ‘As Axis Ports   Germans Divert Shipping; French Draw Nearer Tripoli

Tunis, Bizerfe Said Knocked Out by Raids   -Allies Keep Up ’ Constant Attack of Axis Ports .

TUNIS, BIZERTE “ARE VIRTUALLY DESTROYED NOW      Continuous Pounding of Axisheld Ports Begins to Tall

Sabotage Devices To Be Featured At FBI Meeting   200 Officers Expected For Sessions; To Be Guests Of City-County Tuesday Night

Determined Effort By Administration To Keep Cost Down Expected By Solons

MARVIN JONES 1S ‘NEW FOOD CHIEF, DAVIS . RESIGNEL   Incumbent Is Third to Take Over Reins of Tough Job Since March.

Legislator-Judge Takes Over As Third War Food Boss In Half Year   Administration Seen More Determined To Keep Prices Down; Change In Food Bosses Come After Davis Resigns; Jones Named. 

A Healthful Diet for All Is Assured   Jones Expresses Confidence on That Point in Taking Over Food Program   THIRD CHAIRMAN IN SEVEN MONTHS   Has an Agricultural Background; Long Has Supported Roosevelt

WARVINJONES' GIVEN TASK OF FOOD CONTROL   Roosevelt Indicates Determination to Put Stabilization of Prices Over All Other Considerations   DAVIS DISAGREES . WITH HIS PROGRAM   Ineffective Unless Ac companied by Taxes and Savings  Pinet Subsidies Will Be

Jones Assumes Food Post   Named to Succeed Chester Davis, Who Resigns

Marvin Jones To Succeed Davis who Resigns Food Post   eee! eee  Appointment of Jones Seen as Indica: tion of FDR’s Determination to Keep Down Prices

Replaces Chester Davis Who Resigned in kKow Over Subsidy Program

TAKESTEPS TO HOLD OR LOWER PRICES OF FOOD   Texas, Staunch Backer o FDR’s Policies, Replaces Chester Davis

One World   Jones feels U.S. to have enough food   New ezar sees thealthful diet’

ITHIRD FOOD BOSS TAKES ‘POST; DAVIS RESIGNS ‘OVER SUBSIDY DISPUTE

Marvin Jones Takes Oath As Food Boss   “Davis! Successor Assure: Nation Of Enough For ‘Heathful Diet'   RAPS FEAR TALK   New Emphasis On Price Stabilization Is Seen. As St. Louisan Quits

Judge Takes Over As New  Food “Czar   Administration Seen More Determined Than Ever To Keep Prices Down In Nation

Legislator-Judge Is Food Administrator, — Third in S:x Months   Chester Davis Resigns; Marvin Jones Takes  Over Job Today

ARVIN JONES 5 FOOD CHIEF   Takes Office As Third Administrator in 6 Months Period.

Jones Becomes 3rd U.S. Food  Administrator   Davis Is Let Out For Failure To Back F. R.  Price Procram.

JUDGE JONES TRIES HAND AT STABILIZATION   Third Food Administrator in Six Months Tackles Job After.C. C. Davis Re eiane.

SRD WAR FOOD BOSS IN HALF YEAR S NAMED   Chester C. Davis Resigns Job After Policy Dispute   JONES SUPPORTS FDR   Administration Seen De termined To Keep ) Prices Down

‘Roosevelt Notes Davis’ Reluctance ‘To Hold Down the Cost of Liv ing’      OPPOSED SUBSIDY   Davis Says Number Concerned with Developing Policies, Wished Talk With FOR

Jones Takes Job As Food Administrator To Succeed Davis   Bitterness Shown Underlying Differences Between Davis and President Roosevelt in Exchange of Letters

TAKES OATH AS NATION’S FOOD CHIEF   Judge Marvin Jones Confident Civilians Will Have Healthful Diet.   » He Is Determined to  Stabilize Food Price

Legislator-Judge Takes Over As Third War-Time Food Boss In Less Than Seven Months   Change is Made After Chester C. Davis Offers His Res ignation With Explanation That He Did Not  Agree With Policies  ee ann  LIAC RIA CALAICKIT ON TETTOD CROW POCCINENT

Third War-Time Administrator Of Food Named   Chester C. Davis Goes Out and Judge Marvin Jones Comes In

He Will Back F. D. R.’s Policies. . . . .  Marvin Jones Is New Food Administrator

Resignation Of Chester C. Davis Is Accepted; Program Of Subsidies Defended By Roosevelt; Newcomer Has Agricultural Background

Davis Resigns Over Split With Reosevelt On How Program Is Handled

JONES TAKES OATH AS FOOD ADMINISTRATOR   New Food Administrator Confident Nation Will Have Enough Food

Davis Resigns After Dispute With Roosevelt   Former Banker Raps Bad Planning, Divided Authority

DAVIS toll, J0Nto NAME AS FOOD BOs   Administration Determined On Price Stabilization Actions Indicate

Jones Becomes Third To Take Food Chief Role   Moves Into New Position Known As Supporter Of Roosevelt Policies

Supply Of Food To Be Adequate   Healthful Diet For All Assured By Jones As He Takes Office As  * Food Administrator

Clash Over Food Price Policies   New Food Czar. Jones Backs Up FDR Stand That Stabilization  Is All Important

Jones Sworn in As New WEA Chief   Promises Healthful Diet to Nation, Despite Shortages

Food Director Takes Office   JUDGE MARVIN JONES IS THIRD MAN IN POST

ROOSEVELT BACKS SUBSIDY POLICY TO BITTER END   DEFENDS PROGRAM IN ACCEPTANCE OF DAVIS’ RESIGNATION

SRD FOOD BOSS IN HALF-YEAR   Judge Jones Takes Over  Davis Job; Aim to  Keep Prices Down

3rd Food Boss Assumes Post   Marvin Jones Known as Administration Man

Davis Quits in Dispute over Prices   See Move as as Determinatior to Extend Stabilization o! Food Prodram

F.R.’S PROGRAM   Third Ford Chief In Three Menthe Steps Into Hottest Spot In Washington

Jones Takes Food Job As FR Supporter   Price Stabilization Is Administration’s No. 1 Food Goal

ENJOINED FROM "ALIKE WATER   Says Valuable Farm Land “Cannot Be Used On Account Mud

DIVORCE TROUBLES FACE RICHEST GIRI   Default Decree Granted But Husband Has Suit Too

+ STEPHAN TO HANG   Cenvicted Traitor Leses Third Fight Toe Escape Death

“Code in Head”’ Affects Doughboys  Censors Find the Ailment Common

MUD, RAIN AND FLOOD SLOWING SOVIET FORCES   But Moscow Promises Germans They'll Have to Keep Troops on Front

GERMANS CLING TO POSITIONS ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT  MUD, RAIN AND FLOODS  HINDER OFFENSIVE OF RED ARMIES

Red Drive In North Reported   Berlin Claims Activity South  Of Velikie Luki

GERMANS CLINGING TO POSITIONS ON THE SOVIET FRONT   Mud, Rain, Floods Hinder Red ‘Drive -— Nazis, Announce Major Russ. Attack South of Velikie Luki . ~

REPORT NO CHANGE ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Rainy Weather Slows Up the Advance Against the Germans   PLAN AN OFFENSIVE

General Mud Gives Soviet Army Trouble   Weather Stalls The Russian Offensive On Lono Front

Mud Conditions Hamper Russia Drive On Nazis   Mighty Red Army Assaults Expected Within Short Time

Rains And Floods Delaying Soviets   Entire Russian Front  Unchanged Today

Fleet Jolts Nauru Base   Yanks. Make. Daring Mid-Pacific Thrust:

Phosphate Isle Nauru Is Under U.S. Navy Guns   Daring Thrust By Yank Warships Second In Five Days

MMERIGAN FLEET STRIKES JAP NAURI   U. S. Shows Domination Of Pacific Sealanes

U. S. Domination of Mid-Pacific Shown By Shelling of Jap-Held Nauru

ROVING US. FLEET PLASTERS ISLAND WEST OF TARAWE   Enter Enemy Waters to Deliver Smashing Bombardment to Installations.

DARING THRUST MADE AT NAURU BY U.S. FLEET   Warships Steam 400 Miles T: Shell Isolated Island On Tokio Route

Attack lens Sealanes for Allied Smash at Japs’ Truk Forts   MALGELAP RAIDED   Other Bases in Marshalls Blasted; Wareo Falls to Aussie Troops

Texas Labor Bill Test Suit Filed   Unions Ask-Ruling By District Judge

War to Date Has Cost $128 Billion   This Was Told Congress To day as Roosevelt Listed a Few Items.

War Has Cost Us 128 Billion So Far   Roosevelt Gives Production Figures

Groundhog To See Shadow?   But Kansas Weather Forecaster Does Not Think It Important

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES   Nazi Drives Against Partisan Forces Have Been Stopped

SLAVIC UNITS CAUSE HEAVY NAZI LOSSES   National Army of Liberation Declares German Forces Are Stopped Short in Both Herzegovina and Bosnia.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC COMMAND AIRMEN IN FINAL CONVOY RAID   TWO BATTERED DESTROYERS FOUND AFLOAT SUNK; PLANE TOTAL GOES TO 82

ALLIED AIRMEN FINISH JOB IN PACIFIC FICHT   Total Of EightyTwo Jap Aircraft Downzz! In Battle

AIRMEN FINISH UP JAPANESE CONVOY   Battered Destroyers Sent To Bottom

ALLIED AIRMEN FINISH UP JOB ~ ON JAP CONVOY   Sinking of Two More De: stroyers Is Coup de Grace; 82 Planes Are Downed

ALLIED AIRMEN SINK 2 DAMAGED JAPANESE SHIPS   Increase Jap Air Losses; Complete Final Destruction of Convoy

Number « of Enemy Planes Shot Down Raised.to. 82 Allied  Casnimiintnia Save

Finishing Touch Applied To Jap  Pacitic Convoy   Raise To 82 Number Of Planes Downed: Tokyo Is Silent On Battle   To Study Pictures

Two Severely Battered Destroyers Are Sent To Bottom To Bring Battle To Close

TWO SURVIVING JAP WARSHIPS ARE DESTROYED   Airmen Find Two Battered De stroyers at Huon Gulf —Troog Laden Power Barges Destroyed

LAST OF JAP CONVOY SUNK   Allied Airmen Put Finishing Touches By Sinking Crippled Destroyers

'Finishing Touches Put To Jap Convoy; 2 Destroyers, 17 More Planes Wrecked

Allied Bombers Finish Off Last Of Jans’ Convey   Two Remaining Nip Destroyers Found And. Sent To Bottom

RECONNAISSANCE  FAILS TO REVEAL  ANY SURVIVORS ALLIES FOLLOW UP  WITH DAMAGING ATTACK ON LAE

Allied Planes Put Finishing Touches To Total Destruction Of Powerful Japanese Armada   Charred, Floating Wreckage Only Visible Remnant Of 22-Ship Convoy !n Bismarck Sea

Allies Finish Convoy, Boos! Toll Of Planes   Two Battered Japanese Vessels Sunk: Aircraft Loss Reaches 82   STUDY BATTLE FILMS   Three Of {0 Warships Sunk May. Be Cruisers Or Large Dastroyers

Finish Job on Enemy Convoy  29 'Eeam: Din   82'Enemy Planes Shot Out of Action

ALLIES alNK 2 DAMAGED SHIPS   Airmen Bomb Battered Destroyers, Raise Enemy Plane Tol} to 82.   POWER BARGES ARE HIT

Enemy Loses 82 Airplanes And 22 Ships   Hundreds Of Jap Soldiers Killed On Power Rafts

Charles Eberhard Liberty Pioneer Resident Dies  Lived i in Plymouth For More. Than  Seventy-Five Years

Charles Eberhard Liberty Pioneer Resident Dies  Lived i in Plymouth F or More. Than

Angry Mobs Hunt Negro In Texas   Accused of Assault of a White Woman

Reds Down 313 German Planes  Lose 71 in Battles of the Last Week

EYEWITNESS SAYS BERLIN HELL ON EARTH? IN RAID   STOCKHOLM. DISPATCH QUOTES MAN WHO WAS IN GERMAN CAPITAL DURING MONDAY BOMBING

People Hysterical. Eyewitness Reports-- Berlin Hell On Earth in Mass Raid    x 2

MANY SERVICE GROUPS TAKE — PART IN COLORFUL PARADE IN OBSERVANCE ARMISTICE DAY

Legionnaires, Soldiers, Georgia State Guard, Bo} And Girl Scouts and School Children Participate Interesting Program Presented at MunicipalBuilding With Judge H. J. McIntyre Featured

U.S. MAPS AID TO PHILIPPINES   Ickes Discloses Program 01 Economic Rehabilitation

ALLIED AIRMEN RAID JAP BASE AT MACASSAR   Fly 2,000 Miles to Hit Nips for Second Time in East Indies

ALLIED AIRMEN RAID MACASSAR DUTCH CELEBES      Hig Jap Base 1,000 Miles from Darwin, Ausizalia. Gets Second Pasting—-Huge Fi      TROOPS ADVANCE   zains Made in Drives on Mundé and Salamaua, Jap Bases in Nev Guinea, Solomons Hit

Bombers Attack Major Jap Base   Fly 2,000 Miles In Raid on Macassar

Planes Fly 2000 Miles To Blast Japs   Liberators Bomb Celebes in Dutch East Indies

ALLIED FLIERS RAID MAGASSAR IN EAST INDIES   Great Fleet of Liberators Fly 2,000 Miles, Round’ Trip to Blast Major Jap Base   WATERFRONT AFIRE   Factory Area and Airdrome Also Blaze From Hits During Daring Assault

MACASSAR GOAL OF DARING RAID   Allied Bombers Make LongDistance Attack On Japanese Base.

MACASSAR RIPPED BY ALLIED BOMBS TAKEN 2.000 MILES   Fires Visible for Eighty . Miles Left Raging Afte: Raid in Southwest Pa.  when.

2000-MILE RAID CARRIED OUT BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Limited, Advance Near Munda Is Made By Yanks

Allied Bombers Make 2,000 Mile Flight To Attack Big Jap Base   Yankee Troops Make New Advances In Munda Area

IS OBJECT OF ALLIED RAID   Great Fleet of Liberdtors Flies 2,000 Miles Round Trip, to Great Harbor  City   BEACHHEAD ENLARGED

BIG UNITED STATES BOMBERS BLAST -JAP BASE AT MACASSAR  AMERICAN TRO“?S ENLARGED BEACHEAD

Allied Bombers _  Fly In Daring Raid  On Macassar Base American Troops  Enlarge Beachhead AAvaneea Moe hdumdn

Liberators Hit City In Celebes   AMERICANS CONTINUE ATTACKS ON MUNDA

JAPS’ BIG BASE . AT MACASSAR IS RAIDED FROM AIR   2,000-Mile Round Trip Is Flown by Fleet of Liberators to Attack Foe’s Major Base in Dutch East. Indies

MADANG RAIDED IN NEW GUINEA   Nipponese Feeder Base Plastered With 2000 Pound Bombs

JAP BASE AT LAE HIT HEAVIEST BLOW   Allies’ Fliers Drop 28 Tons o Bombs in Raid—31 Enemy Planes Strike Rack.

BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON JAP FEEDER BASE   Madang, New Guinea, Hit With Explosives and Fragmentation Loads Despite Bad Weather.

NEW GUINEA BASE IS HEAVILY RAIDED   Madang. Jap Feeder Point For Salamaua. Blasted With 2.000 Ponnd Bombh«

Allied Raiders Attack Madang   2.000-Pound Bombs Dropped on Japanese Base in New Guinea

ICKES PLAN TO “EQUALIZE” SUPPLY IN NATION MAY " BE PUT INTO EFFECT ~  - .” §60N

Gas Rationing Changes Seen   Nation East Of Rockies May All Come Under Same Regulations   LITTLE MORE FOR EAST POSSIBLE

BUTCHER KNIFE KILLER INSANE   Pretty Wife Of Army Officer Victim In Detroit Murder

GAS RATIONS: QUT IN WEST   PACIFIC “COAST. “AND: RECKY MOUNTAIN. STATES. AF- ° FECTED BY ORDER OF . THE OPA.

HULL REQUESTS TRADE ACT 0.K.   Failure to Renew Agreement Would Be Disaster, Says Secretary

SENATE NEAR VOTE ON FARM DEFERMENTS   Interrupts Deliberations to Take Up Lend-Lease Bill Extension.   VOTES DOWN O’MAHONEY. PLAN FOR FARM DRAF1

SENATE EASES DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKER   Defeats Bill Making Draft Exemption Difficult

O’MAHONEY PLAN IS DEFEATED   Senate Begins Vote on Deferring of Farmers

Farmer Deferment  Proposal Defeated  Way Is Cleared To Pass  Another Measure

SENATE REJECTS ~ FARM DRAFT PLAN   Action May Clear Way For Bill Fayoring Deferment Of Full-Time Workers -

SENATE REJECTS DEFERMENT BILL   ACTION CLEARS WAY “FOR NEW°MEASURE ON FARM DEFERMENT

Farm Worker Deferment Out   Senate Rejects Administration-Backed Measure. Another Plan Ready.

SENATE SPURNS O’MAHONEY BILL   Measure Providing for Draft Deferment of Farmers Voted Down, 49-32

FARM DEFERMENT: -< PLAN REJECTED   Senate Considers Another “Measure Deferting. Those «(Bull Time’ Farm Jobs

SENATE KILLS O’MAHONEY’S DRAFT PLAN   Expected to Act on More Liberal Bill Deferring Workers Employed “Substantially Full Time” on Farms.

Senate Rejects Measure  To Defer Farm Workers   CLEARS WAY FOR EARLY PASSAGE OF BILL DIRECTIN : DEFERMENT OF WORKERS EMPLOYED “SUBSTAI ° TIALLY FULL TIME”

Congress to Probe FDR’s Post-War  Recommendations   Senate Rejects O’Mahoney Bill to Defer Farm Labor

Senate Rejects Move to Defer Farm Workers   Clears Way For Passage of Another Bill Not So Bind ing.   Would Junk Unit Plan Under Johnson’s Bill

Republicans Sound Calls to Arms for Rum! Plan Suppor!   Skip-a-Year-Tax May Be Voted Yet; News From Washington

Navy Plane in Crash Landing at Brighton   Mud Prevents Pilot Lifting Plane Above Hedge on Clyde Coffin Farm

Powerful Searchlight Credited With Success Of Drive Against Subs

C.P. A. to Elect Officers Today   Banquet Will Close State Convention

Stalin Avows Twin Victory  Rips ‘Legend’   Berlin Reflects German Alarm, Hints More  Ctr: t. 3......Fy.3

‘Cities’ Loss Huge Blow  To Germans   Could Foree Germans To Fall Clear Back To Dnieper River 270 Miles to West   KHARKOV IN PATH OF FLANKING MOVE

BELGOROD AND OREL FALL TG RUSSIANS   Double Victory Announced By Stalin; Entire German Defenses Threatened With  Collapse   Rankles At Home

Reds Score Twin Victory against Faltering Nazis   Entire German Defense: in South and Center Menaced   Stalin in Message De. mands ' Death for German Invaders

Soviets Pursue Nazis West of Captured Base:   Triumph Threatens German Defenses in South-Central Area; Kharkov Menaced

Double Victory Announced by Stalin in Order of Day  GERMAN DEFENSES BEING THREATENED  Guns Are Fired to Salute   ayes F « SES   Guns Are Fired to Salute the Significant Victory

Push Nazi From Strongholds Of Belgorod, Ore   Victory Threatens To Col. lapse Entire Defense Lines Of Germans

‘Capture of nazi stronghold threatens to ‘collapse defense in south-central Russia

Menace Entire German Defense In Double Victory   ® Garrison Runs — Death Gauntlet; Threaten Bryansk

“Big Twin Triumph “Scored In Attacks   Entire Nazi Defenses In South-Central Russia Threatened With Collapse In Fight

Nazis Driven From Two  Strongholds   Double Victory Threatens to Shatter Whole German Defensive Line as Triumphant Russians Press Advantage

STRONGHOLD OF KHARKOV THREATENED   Fall of Two Cities May Force Nazi Retreat to Dnieper River 270 Miles to West.

Victory Is Greatest For Soviets   Entire German Defenses Menaced By Double Loss

Whole German Setup Menaced.   Germans May Fall. RBacte To Dniener

Great Double Victory of, Red Forces ‘Threatens to Break Entire Nazi  Line in South-Central Russia

Double Victory Announced by Stalin in Order of Day  GERMAN DEFENSES ' BEING THREATENED Guns Are Fired to Salute  the Significant Victory

GERMAN LINES THREATENED AS OREL GIVES UP   Collapse of Enemy Front Imminent in SouthCentral Russia By Fall of Bases   Enemy Troops Pursued

LOSS THREATENS NAZI DEFENSES ON WIDE FRONT   Stalin Commends’ Troops In Special Order Of The Day Announcing Victory   AXIS MAY BE DRIVEN TO DNIEPER RIVER

BERLIN ADMITS LOSS WARSHIP IN ARCTICSEA   Claims Damaging Several Allied Cruisers and Sinking Destroyer. During Naval Engagement   CARGO SHIPS HIT      Communique. B “face Evidence 6f Covers” ing Nazi Naval Failure in Battle

Germans Tell Of Battle in  Arctie Ocean   Loss of British And Nazi Destroyers Claimed

Germans Claim Destroyer Sunk   Damage to Several Allied Cruisers, Also Claimed

GERMANS REPORT BIG NAVAL FIGHT   CLAIM DESTROYER SUNK AND SEVERAL CRUISERS DAMAGED

Nazi Claims May Cover Naval Fiasco _ Berlin Tells Of Alleged Damage To  b

GERMANS CLAIM THE DAMAGING OF SEVERAL CRUISERS   Sinking of a Destroyer and - Torpedoing of Merchantmen, Reported.   NAZIS LOST DESTROYER   Battle Developed From the Pursuit of a German Convoy.

Vague Reports On Arctic Sea Battle Nazis Claim Sea Blow  Without Confirmation

Sw EE EEE  ATTACK ON CONVOY REPORTED BY AXIS   German Claims Unconfirmed

Yugoslav Partisan Army Wages Fierce War Agains! Nazi Invaders of Nation

DEATH TAKES ADM. POUND   FORMER BRITISH FLEET CHIEF DIES AT AGE 66

Sir Dudley Pound Dies in London   Directed British Fleet Thru Four of Its Most Critical War Years.

SIR DUDLEY POUND SUCCUMBS IN LONDON   Resigned British Naval Post on October 4th

SIR DUDLEY POUND HEAD OF BRITISt NAVY. DIES AT 66      First Lord of Admiralty Sucoumbs After 52 Years In Royal Service.

Adm. Sir Dudley Pound Dies  fn London   Famous British Admiral Retired Two Weeks Ago

Was Taken Ill While Re turning From RoosevelitChurchill Conference In Quebec

DUDLEY POUND DIES IN LONDON   Retired First British Sea Lord Passes At Age Of 66.

Adm. Pound Dies After Short Ilness   Britain’s Former First Sea Lord Succumbs at 66

Reds Maintain Air Bombardment   German-Held Railway Lines Are Blasted ©

SOVIET PLANES CONTINUE 10 HiT NAZISUPPLY LINES   Reds ‘Claim 72 German Air craft Destroyed—Artillery Active.

RUSSIANS MAINTAIN STEADY AIR BLOWS ON WESTERN FRONT   Nazi Railway Targets ‘Hit, 72. German Planes Are Reported  Destroyed

Yugoslav Leader Advancing On Nazis Steadily  Mihailovic Sets Army  Of More Than

DANUBE LOOP IS THREATENED   Yugoslav Army Is Thrown Against ‘Bottleneck’ To Oil Fields

100,000 Yugoslavs Advance Steadily Against Germans   Mihailovic's Forces Are Threatening Nazi Traffic on the Danube

Yugoslav Leader Advancing On Nazis Steadily  Mihailovic Sets Army   Mihailovic Sets Army Of More Than 100,000 Against Foe

U.S. Acts to  Secure Food   Committees Will Be Created to Dispel Temporary Local Shortages

MOVE TO END FOOD DEARTH   State And Area Committees Will Handle Critical Sup. piy Problems

Gen. Catroux in London Eo.» DeCaulle Parley   Met toe Butter Groups

i\Committees ‘To Handle Food Problems   U.S. Moves To Dispel Temporary Local Shortages

Uniontown Business Area  Ravaged By $350,000 Fire   WOMAN SPECTATOR SERIOUSLY INJURED

U.S. Believed Preparing New Pacific Blows   Current Lull Is Seen As Presaging A Powerful Offensive.

BOMBERS RAID   Strike. Jap Base in North Four : Times” ‘on Wed  nesday. ©

U.S. Believed Preparing For Offensive in Pacific   Lull Seen Hinting Blow Organized; Yanks May Compcl Tans ia Fieht

FOR EXECUTIVES   Babson Gives His Opinion Regarding Selection of Boys He Considers Qualified For Entering Colleges.

PARTISAN AIR ARM TO AID IN BATTLE   Airforce Being Organized ~— Planes Received,  Crews Needed

BARNEY ROSS 1S BACK AFTER. HEROISM IN THE SOLOMONS   Former: Boxer Kisses the Ground as He Returns From Guadalcanal—Commended for Standing . - Guard Over Wounded Marines

Boxer Barney Ross Upholds Name On Guadalcanal   THREW THE PUNCHES

20,000 STILL UNEMPLOYED IN THIS DISTRICT   WPB Tells Bishop Industry Might Move To Egypt

CITIZENS EAGER FOR WORK, IDLE IN 22 COUNTIES   BRING INDUSTRY TO STRICKEN CENTERS, GOVERNMENT URGED

‘Roosevelts Get New ‘No. 2 Ration Books   PF. R. Unity Plea Fails to Halt House Revolt

Congressional Rebellion Goes On Unabated.   Ignore Pleas Of President And Wallace

ROOSEVELT PLEA FAILS 10 QUELL CANPRESS REVOLT:   Wallace Sees Defeat: Of Nazis Possible This Year   DEMOCRATIC DINERS HEAR UNITY APPEALS

Revolt Against New Deal Leadershiy Continues Despite Pleas For Unity

UNITY’ PLEAS FALL ON DEAF CONGRESS EARS   Revolt Unabated Against Administration Leadership

Congress Rebels On Policy; FDR, Wallace Talk Unit,    Labor Laws, Manpower, Spending,  Taxes, Powers Assailed By Party Leaders—-Warn Aga  inst Over-Ontimism

Roosevelt And Wallace Hit ‘Skeptics, Cynics’ In Washington Day Address   Nation’s Leaders Warn Against Premature Confidence That Axis is Licked

Unity Pleas Unheeded  In Congress      Revolt Against Leadership Gains Momentum

UNITY PLEAS TO BE IGNORED BY CONGRESS   Coalition Moves To Seize Control Despite Roosevelt's Appeal   WAR OPTIMISM ATTACKED:   President And Wallace Qualify Victory Predictions, Hit Skeptics

ROOSEVELT VOICES PLEA ° FOR UNITY      Hits at ‘Skeptics And Cynics’ in Talk Last Night

Roosevelt Strikes At ‘Skeptics And Cynics’   Both President and Wallace Make Washineton Birthday Unity Pleas

Unity Pleas Fail to Slow Rebellion   Roosevelt and Wallace Heard At Dem Dinners

THE COAL CRISIS AT A GLANCE   eak The Backbone Of The Fascist Beast’’  STALIN SEES SECOND FRONT IN ALLIED RAIDS ON EUROPE

Break Nazi ~ Back, Stalin Tells Allies   Soviet Leader Scoffs at Efforts to Split Up Anti-Hitler Forces

STALIN HAILS AIR WAR AGAINST FOES   ‘Echoes Roosevelt-Church - hill Unconditional Surrender Keynote

Stalin Calls for Utter ‘Routing, Unconditional ‘Surrender of Germany

Stalin Calls For Routing Of Fasicsts   Eussian Premier Echoes Unconditional Surrender Keynote of Roosevelt and Churchill

Stalin Hails Air Blows at Nazis; Demands Unconditional Surrender

STALIN HAILS BRITISH. S. AERIAL BLOWS   As Foreshadowing a Second Front in Europe. Attacks Will Break Backbone of Fascist Beast. ;

Stalin Sees A ‘Second Front’ In Europe Soon   May Day Message Calls For Unconditional German Surrender.

Stalin Hails Allied African Drive; Nazis Facing Crisis, He Declares

Stalin Hails Allies Success  Says Combined Forces  Will ‘Break Backbone  AVE Enerict Ranct’ :

Joseph Stalin Hails Aerial Blows As Bid To New Front   Premier Calls For Nazi Surrender To Last Man

Foresees Crisis For Hitlerites   Stalin Hails Aerial ‘Blows In Europe As Prelude To Opening Cif Second   Front

PREMIER STALIN IN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ECHO  _ HAILS* BRITISH-AMERICA!  AIR BLOWS AGAINST , “RACIST REAST”

STALIN LAUDS AERTAL BLOWS AGAINST NAZIS   iRussian Leader Demands  Surrender of Germany,   Declares Backbone  t To Be Crushed   RED ARMY’S POWER STEADILY GROWING   ‘Opening of Second Front _ in Europe Predicted by  Premier in May Day Order to USSR -

STALIN BELIEVES AERIAL ATTACKS “MAY OPEN FRONT   Blows Foreshadowing Occasion When Allies Will Break Fascist’s Beast Backbone He Believes.   RUSSIAN PREMIER IS SPEAKER ON MAY DAY   British-American Successes With Red Campaign Ir Winter Places Axis In Very Grave Crisis,

STALIN DERIDES EFFORT T0 SPLIT UNITED NATIONS   RIDICULES PEACE TALK AND CALLS FOR COMPLETE VICTORY

AIRCRAFT BLOWS FORERUNNER FOR ECOND FRONT   Stalin Fizmly Against Peace With Germany

Stalin Demands Full Surrender Of Axis Enemy   Russian Chief Says Allies will Soon Beat Fascists

Second Front Near, Soviets  Told by Stalin   British-American Air Blows Paving Way For European Invasion

Stalin Praises Atriean Front. Bombing Raids   Russian Leader Joins Allies In Calling For *‘Uncondi. tional Surrender.’   ‘SOVIET FORCE GROWS

RaidsPrelude To 2d Front, Stalin Says   Allies Will Break Back of ‘Fascist Beast,’ May Day Order Declares

STALIN DEMANDS UNCONDITIONAL AXIS SURRENDER   Allied Armies to Break Germany's Backbone, Russian Declares

Uraes a Lottery To Raise Funds   Would Sell Billion Chances a Month

rrice Controls For Restaurants  Next OPA Move  Last Week’s Charges Will Be Base for Meals. Drinks Costs

OPA Directs Price Lid on Meals in Cafe:   Move to Peg Costs Follows Protest On’$1.20 Quart Milk

OPA Moves To Control Prices In Restaurants   Regional offices. may set maximitims or even use “‘freeze”’; to hold down cost of meals.

OPA to Act . On Prices of Restaurants   Senator Proposes Inquiry Into Charges Made for Food -

PRICE CONTROLS IN RESTAURANTS HELD PROBABLE   Senator Nye Tells Of Man Paying $1.20 Quart For Milk In Hotel

RESTAURANT PRICE LIMITS TO BE FIXED   Control Over Food and Beverage Prices to be Taken by OPA

PRICE LIMITS TO BE FIXED   Control Over Food and Beverage Prices to be Taken by OPA

Man Pays $1.20 for Quart of Milk Restaurants Face Freeze Orders Unless They Keep Prices Down

OPA TO CONTROL PRICE OF MEALS   Bars, Restaurants Included in Price ‘Freeze’

Prices Fixed For Servings In Restaurants   OPA Authorizes Regional Offices to Set Maximum Prices

Short Cut To Japan-Knox   Discusses Invasion Of Gilberts; Land On © Third Island

Russia Io Be Part of New War Command   Plans Indicate Marshall Will Become Supreme Allied Commander   Gilberts Campaign Opening New Pacific Phase--Knox

Japs Fall Back From Beaches As Battle Rages   Central Pacific Campaign to Open New Supply Line

NEWEST DRIVE WILL SHORTEN SUPPLY ROUTE   Knox Says Enemy To Be Driven Krom Isles

1S, FORCE. ISCAINING ONISLANI   Abemama Landings Proceed; Wedge ~ Is Sought wen

NAVY SECRETARY OUTLINES PLAN TO CRUSH JAPS   U. S$. Landings on Islands to Pave Way for Thrust At Japan

Gilbert Move New Campaign   Secretary Of Navy Savs Two Principal Strategic Objectives Ahead.

Move Aimed af Shortening of Supply Lines   Secretary Knox Declares Tarawa And Makin Islands Are “Badly Mauled’”’

KNOX TELLS OF NEW OBJECTIVE   Gilberts invasion to Shorten Supply Lines to Southwest Pacific.   WILL DRIVE OUT JAPS

DOES NOT AFFECT HER NEUTRALITY QN TRE MAINLANE   Churchill Makes Announcement te House of Com mons — First Treaty ggacln In 1279

Bases Turned Over To Great Britain Under Treaty Signed In 1737; Bases Wil Be Returned When War s Ended

PORTUGAL CONCEDES ISLANDS   Bases Will Be  Invaluable on Atlantic Route

CENTURIES-OLD TREATY GIVES AID TO ALLIES   Help in Battle Against Subs

Allies Get Portugal Air Bases   Dramatic Move Is Major Victory For Alhes To Guard Shans

Portugal Agrees To Occupation of Strategic Isles   Naval Vessels Already Believed To Have Reached Atlantic Site

BRITAIN GIVEN USE OF BASES IN AZORES      Important Contribution To Allies Made By Portugal

Portugal Gives Hubs to Britain   CHURCHILL ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO COMMONS; PORTUGUESE DESIRE FOR EUROPE NEUTRALITY UNAFFECTED; BRITISH TO AID WITH SUPPLIES

PORTUGAL GIVES ISLAND BASES TO BRITAIN FOR WAR: NAVY TAKES OVER.

ORTUGAL GRANTS AIR, NAVAL BASES TO BRITAIN; TO REMAIN NEUTRAL ON EUROPEAN MAINLAND   BRITAIN AGREES TO MAINTAIN ASSISTANCE TO PORTUGUESE ARMED FORCES AND EVACUATE  TERRITORY AT WAR’S END

Arrangement Approved by State Dept.   Equipment to be Provided for  Dinwé scosseccame, Weneens

AZORES BASES TURNED OVER UNDER TREATY   Germans Putting Torch To Kiev; Fall Of City Nears

PORTUGAL TO GIVE BRITAIN SEA, AIR BASES IN AZORES   Churchill, In Announcing Move, Says Portugal Still Maintains Neutrality

WAGE AGREEMENT © 18 BEING SOUGHT   Renewed Efforts Made to Effect Program to Restore Peace to Industry.

Demos Decline GOP Appeal On Tax Abatement   Issue Is Believed Facing Long Delay As lt “Cools Off"

Demo Leaders May Forget Tay Issue St Time   No Enthusiasm Showr For GOP Suggestion For Compromise of Pay-as-Go System

Compromise Tax Plan Urged By Republicans      But Democratic Chiefs  Show No Enthusiasm For 6.0.P. Suevestion

Slight Chance For Ruml Action   Democrats Cool To Compromise Talk

NEW TAX PLAN IS. DEMANDED   Democrats Cool Toward Republican Proposal On Pay-Go Issue

Democrats Not Inclined to Hurry Up Decision on Taxes; Proposals May Lie in Committee for Time

TAX PROGRAM EXPECTED 10 LIE DORMANT   Democrats Show no Enthusiasm for Skip-aYear Plan

Pinch Axis Tighter All Directions   CORD LOAD OF BLASTS IS DELIVERED TO GERMANY.  RE

38 Planes Lost in  Raid on Dortmund   Air Blows at Europe Continue in Campaign Leading up to Invasion

2,000 TONS DROPPED UN GERMAN FACTORY CENTER IN RAF RAID   Devastating Attack By Nearly 1,000 Planes Costs 38 Bombers; Big Fires Kindled In War Plants   Ry UNITED PRESS

Farm Security Setup Doomed   Organization Stripped of Funds In Measure

HOUSE VOTES DEATH OF FSA   Refuses Money For Incentive Payments; Limit Soil Conservation Rewards

INCENTIVE PAYMENTS ELIMINATED   Agriculture Bill Passed By House Contains Proviso

HOUSE OKEHS SENATE BILL ON FARM AID   Amendment Bans Money As Incentive Payments To Agriculture

NAZI EMPIRE  IN EUROPE MAY COLLAPSE      Anti-Axis Trend Increased in Last Ten Days

WAR'S BALANGE FAVORS ALLIES, HITLER LOSING   Qualified Observers See Possibility Of Hitler's Empire Collapsing

\Land, Air Blows From — Outside, Unrest Inside Fortress” Plague Nazis

NAZI EMPIRE MAY COLLAPSE THIS FALL AS CRISIS LOOMS      Anti-Axis -Trend Increases In Eufope>=~ “War -~ Heavily In Favor  Of Allies

Events of Last 10 Days Reveal Startling Weakness  in Nazis’ European Defenses

Hitler's Continental Europe May Collapse. Yet This Fall Observers Say, as Allies Begin to Close In on All Cidac

Hitler Empire May Collapse This Fall, Say Observers,  As Balance of Power Mounts

Tito’s Yugoslavs Hurl Back Nazis Along Sea Coas   Partisans Force Enemy Into Retreat Toward Northwest Section

ROMMEL ARMY IS PUSHED BACK   Yugoslav Forces Clash Sharply With Nazis Along Coast

Yugoslavs Repel Rommel’s Troops   Fierce Fighting In Fiume Section

RATIONING CALLED “NATIONAL DISGRACE”   President Of CIO Says Price Control Has Fajled To Check Rapid Rise OF Cammadi

PRICE CEILING . CHARTS READ - NOVEMBER       "Cut Two Points”  ‘Tomorrow

CHICAGO GIVEN BACK TO TRIBES   400 Indians to Do Dance On Busy Corner

TRE GETTING UPPER HAND IN EVERY SECTOR   General Amold Says War Noi to End Soon But Allies  Scoring Victories   LOSS OF 60 FORTRESSES CLASSED AS ‘INCIDENTAL

U.S. Gaining Upper Hand, Says Arnold  Schweinfurt Loss Was Incidental. He Says

Arnold Says We Are Getting the Upper Hand in Every War Theater   a a ie ei caine aed,  Downey Formula Aims  At Hitler Fall Feb. 1

Arnold Sees Schweinfurt Raid Tipped   Air Chief Says Planes Are Opening Way  Bar Teeueiny

Harvesting: Of All Crops Will’ Be Possible If Labor Is Fully Used,  Contends Davis

DAVIS MAINTAINS POTENTIAL LABOR SUPPLY SUFFICIENT   Tells Byrnes That If Potential Labor Supply Is Fully Used That Farm Production Need Not Suffer This Year From Lack of Labor.

Labor Supply Adequate For Farm Needs   More Agricultural : Machinery And Part: To Be Made

dd FARMER TO Mt T GUALG DAVIS AdOERTS   Highly Optimistic Outlook Revealed For Food Crops In Nation This Year   AVAILABLE LABOR SUPPLY SUFFICIENT FOR PROGRAM   Farm Machinery Situation Rapidly Being Improved Administrator Reports

FARM PROBLEMS EASED, IS CLAIM   Labor Ranks Strengthened And Machinery Sufficient For Needs, Belief

Administrator Davis, Says Production and Heaviest  Goal Will Be Met

DAVIS POINTS OUT SOURCES TO BE TAPPEI   Men, Women, Youths in Towns, Cities Expected to Help Out Considerably During Shortage

DAVIS SAYS FARM LABOR SUFFICIENT   Administrator Gives Analysis Of Situation

Farm Labor Supply Said Sufficient for 1943 Crop   Administrator 'Wante Postwar WPA

DECLARES FARM “LABOR IS AMPLE   Davis Asserts Machinery Situation Not Entirely Satisfactory

ENOUGH LABOR ON THE FARMS   Food Director Davis Opines There Will Be Ample Supply to Harvest Crop

DAVIS SEES FARMING WIN   FOOD HEAD SAYS LABOR SUFFICIENT FOR HARVEST

Food Chief Says Supply of Farm Labor Sufficient   Machinery Situation Not Satisfactory, Davis Tells Byrnes

Says Plenty Of Farm Workers   Food: Administrator Says Production Need Not Suffer This Year From Lack of’ Labor -

Enough Farm Labor, Davis States, Today   Machinery Situation To Be Remedied, Says Food Administrator

LABOR SUPPLY lo JUFFICIENT FOR HARVESTS   Davis Declares Production Need Not Suffer from Lack of Help.   WORKING TO IMPROVE  MACHINERY SITUATION

DAVIS REPORTS ON FARM LABOR   Supply Atlequate If Fully Used, Says Food Administrator,   TO INCREASE MACHINERY

Aerial Attacks Are Chief Activity In European Area   British Continue Battle for Leros;  Partisans Fall Back

Korosten Sweep Nets Russians 60 Towns      American Air Power Lashes Nazis  From Britain, Mediterranean; Norway Is Target

Believe 28 Lost — As Bomber Hits Seattle Building   Packinghouse Employes, 11 Aireraft Technicians Victims In Plane Crash

TEMPERATURES:   Disaster Is Worst I Northwest History; Ship Takes Fire

Crash Toll Is Heavy   Twenty-Eight Dead or Missing When Bomber Hits Packing House

BOMBER CRASHES, 28 DEAD, MISSING         Regular Testa Flight Al Boeing’ ‘Sthasties - Into Plant

BOEING EXPERTS PLANT WORKERS IN VICTIM LIST   Fear Many In Debris; Plane Engine Flames In Test Causing Crash

28 Are Feared Dead In Crash      Boeing, Craft Hits Plant In Landing Attempt As Motor Catches Afire

Huge Bomber Hits Seattle Building   28 Killed Thursday: ‘Worst Tragedy’

Plane Crash Into Building Fatal to 28   Blazing Four-Motor Bomber Tears Hole In Packing Plant

PACKING HOUSE HIT BY BOMBER   Huge Four-motored Plane Crashes in Seattle—28 Dead or Missing

28 Die as Plane Crashes Into Factory   Bomber Carrying Ait Experts Strikes Packing House

28 MISSING OR DEAD IN PLANE CRASH   Flaming Death Spread By Crash of Giant  Bomber

Toll of 29 Dead or Missing Counted in Northwest's Worst Disaster

Bomber Crash Takes 28 Lives   ‘Huge, Four-Motored, Boeing Smashes int _ Seattle Packing House; Famed Ameri—. can Test Pilot Is Victim of Accident

28 Known Dead Or Missing In Bomber Crash   Four-Motored Bomber Piloted By Edmund Allen, Famed Test Pilot, Crashes Into Large Packing House In Worst Aerial Disaster In Pacific Northwest History.

28 DEAD, MISSING... ~ INSEATTLE CRASH   13 Feared Burned in Rub ble In Plane Plunge Into Packing House

Crippled Airship Falls on Big Packing Plant, Spreads Flaming Death   BODIES RECOVERED 12 HRS. AFTER CRASH

BOEING BOMBER PLUNGES INTO PACKING HOUSE   At Least 28 Are Dead Or Missing In Seattle Travedyv

Plane Falls On Factory: 28 Are Lost   Bomber Crash In Seattle Costs Lives Of Technicians.

28 Die When Fiery Plane Hits Factory   Death Toll in Seattle Tragedy Includes 11 Technicians

29 Dead or Missing in Test Plane Crash into Seattle Packing Plan

Bomber Hits Packing Plant; Fear 28 Dead   BUG @V 7UaAU  15 Bodies Recovered, Including 11 Skilled  Technicians; 13 Are I tutead Miccinag

Death To 28 In Crash Of Huge Bomber   Plane, Under Test, Hits Packing House In Seattle Plunse -

BURNING PLANE HITS BUILDING   28 Dead or Missing in Aerial Disaster at Seattle, Washington

BOMBER CRASH KILLS29IN SEATTLE   Worst Aerial Disaster In Pacific Northwest History

20 PERSONS DEADOR MISSING AFTER BONER HTS PLAN   Big Plane Spreads Death and Destruction Throughout Brick Building ¢   TECHNICIANS KILLED

One Engine Afire, Plane Plunges Into Four-Story Packing Plant.   MANY WORKERS ESCAPE

Dead or Missing Toll Reaches 28   Four-Motored Bomber Crashes into Seattle Pocking House

Willis Smith, Testifying In Textbook Inquiry, Admits Big Payoff to Five Persons

JAPS SEEKING SOVIET PACT   JAPANESE DIPLOMATS AT‘TEMPTING TO BRING AHOUT PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY

GIRL ROBBED MONDAY NIGHT   Richard A. Thomas Arrested And Pleaded Guilty.

WEATHER THE SAME   Forecaster ‘Predicts Little Change ‘for Kansas

200,000 JAPS ARE A THREAT TO AUSTRALIA   Leader of Allied Ground Forces Says Enemy Bid to Regain Initiative in Southwest Pacific Is Imminent,

Japs Massing 200,000 Men Off Australia   Huge Army Waiting In Island Are For Air Mastery Again

200,000 Jap Troops Reported Massed Near Australia, Allies Score Victory Over Port Moresby

Allied Victory In Air Disrupts Enemy's Plans   Nips Make Effort To Regain Parity And Mastery of Air

Japs Massing Troops Above Australia   37 Out of 100 Jap Planes  Downed Over Porl Moresby

200,00 JAPS IN NEW GUINEA ARMY REPORT REVEALS   Information Made Public In Connection With Smashing Aerial Victory Over Port Moresby.   37 OF 100 ENEMY ARE KNOCKED OUT   Commander of Allied Foroes' in Conference Says Orient-; als Seek to Gain Parity  Then Master Air...

JAPANESE UNITS MASSED IN S. W. PACIFIC ISLANDS   37 Enemy Planes Downed From Armada In Air Battle With American Airmen

OFFICIAL WARNING DECLARES JAPANESE TO START NEW BID  SMASHING ALLIED VIC-:: TORY IN SKIES OVER POR! - MORESBY REPORTED

Air Raiders Again Handed Heavy Losses   Enemy Still Has A Force In Numerous Ttealian Raseee

200,000 JAP TROOPS REPORTED MASSING FOR NEW ATTACH   37 of 100 Japanese Air Raiders Knocked Out of  Action

Allies Smash 2 Day Pacific Air Offensive   Japanese Lose 76 Planes, Mass 200,000 Troops In Arc Above Australia   BLAMEY WARNING   Commander Says Enemy Makes Tremendous Effort For Sky Supremacy

J ap Aerial Raid Costs  37 Planes   Attack on Moresby Disastrous; Enemy Masses Men Agsin

Nips May Strike At Any Time, Say: Gen. Blamey; Air Superiority Goal

200,000 Crack Japs Reported Massed North Of Australia   Gen. Blamey Says Foe Plans Return to Offensive

Smashing Allied Air Victory Coupled With Report of Jap Activity.

ALLIED PLANES SCORE VICTORY OVER MORESBY   Shoot Down 37 Of 100 Jap Planes In Great Air Victory; Report 200,000 Japs Massed In Arc Of Islands Above Australia.

Australian ‘Leader Sees Grave Peril   Declares 200,000 Jap Troops Massed On Island Bases

37 Of 100 Enemy Planes Shot Down; 15 Others Lost Or Badly  Damaged In Other Encounters   Enemy Submarine Sunk Off New Britain; Convoy Of Foe Damaged; 200,000 Enemies Concentrated In Islands Near Australia: Plans Dislocated

‘Destroy 37 Planes Raiding Port Moresby; -200,000 Jap Troops Mass Above Australia

Fortresses Down 45 Nazi Planes; Others Get Six   Heavy France Day Raids Cost 12 Craft, Follow RAF Blow At Aachen

NAZI BASES RAIDED BY ALLIES    RAF In Very Heavy Attack On Central Ruhr During Nicht

Allies Bag 51 Axis Planes Over France   Strong Formations of U. S. and RAF Craft Raid German Installations at Three Points, Following British Assault on Aachen.

5 German  ” Airfields in France Altacked   “U.S, Fortresses and R.A.F. Fighter-Bombers Shoot Down 45 Planes   *GOOD HITS MADE ON AIR CENTERS   Sky Filled With Planes on Raid, Watchers Say; Fol_ Tare Blast at Aachen

U.S. Flying Forts Destroy 45 Fighters Over France   Strong Formations Strike at German _ Aircraft Installations

Yank Planes By Hundreds Pounc Western Europe   Raid Follows Heavy R. A. F. Night Attack On Aachen.

Installations In   France Blasted  45 Enemy Fighters Are Destroved Bv Forts

Yank Planes Staging Big Daylight Raid   Strike Western Europe Following RAF Night Assault Upon Aachen

Forts Hits France; RAF Strikes Aachen   — Reds Pitch  Into Germans

FLYING FORTRESSES AND RAF BOMBERS IN RAIDS ON CONTINENT  BRITISH AIRMEN BLASTE! RHINELAND CITY OF AACHEN LAST NIGHT

PETRILLO DENIES BEING ON STRIKE; DEFENDS HIS STAND      Head of Musical Union Enters Series of Denials and . Vehemently Declares He Is “Not a Tough Guy”

ARMY 100 BIG NOW IS CLAIM   Exem ption Of Fathers Backed By Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.)

Too Many In Army, Says Sen. Wheeler   MORE THAN CAN_ BE_ SENT ABROAD IN TWO YEARS HE DECLARES IN SPEECH CONCERNING INDUCTION.

There’s One Consolation Of Being A Private-- Actresses Favor Them

B-O Pays $45,000 For Youth’s Death   Brother Injured in Wreck in September

Rail Brotherhood Leaders Favor Calling Strike Vote   Rejection of Proposed Four-Cents-an-Hour Wage Increase Seen; Heads of NonOperating Unions Also Confer

35,000 COAL MINERS STRIKE: RAILROADERS PLAN TO VOTE   Four Operating Brotherhoods Reject Proposed Four-Cents-an-Hour Increase as Unsatisfactory

Humor Fails To Amuse Scared Folk   Goering Is Reported Critically Ill; Goebbels Gives Show

Germans Turn to Levity as  Invasion Date Becomes Dud  - Goebbels’ Propaganda Machine Fails to Conceal Uneasiness in Hitler's Europe

Nazi Uneasiness Said Mounting .   Goering Reported To Re Gravely II]

MisgIViNgs kre Noticed   "Announced Date For Attack Passes Quietly

Nazi Jitters Goebbel's Radios Attempt To Laugh Off Invasion Scare

Nazi Europe Upset When. July 4 Fails to. Ease Invasion: Jitters.

Nazis tn te Get Funny  Own Date For lavasion  - * @ @ @&,. +: © &

Goering Reported ‘Very Ill’; Goebbels Tries Heavy Humor  To Ease Nazi Nerves As Second Invasion Date Rolls Around 

Axis Jocular On Invasion as July 3  Passes Peacefully Goering Reported

Ponderous Attempts at Levity by Nazis Fail to Conceal Their Jitters Over an Invasion

COOLER IN THE EAST   Showery Conditions Are Predicted For This Section of State

TAKING UP FOR CONGRESS MEN   Dr. Calver Thinks Congress Is Overworked And Underpaid, But Not Everybody Agrees With Him.

Japanese Leaders Know They Are Fighting Losing War But Keep It Secret From People   Militarists Wooing Asiatic Races In Hope Of War On White Races In 25 Years

Lewis Attacks U.S. Policies   Inflation Inevitable, Says UMWA Chief

Lewis Charges U.S. Inflation Policies Conflict   Hits ‘Excessive Rewards’ Provided For War Plants

Sen. Ellender Calls for Billion Dollar Subsidy Program to Combat Inflation

COMPROMISE. OP FERED BY LOUISIANA SENATOR ‘FOL’ LOWING SPEECH GIVEN  + LAST NIGHT

Motorists with Delinquent Registrations Warned To Get New License Stickers Now

‘Names of Top Admirals and Generals Who Planned Hew Georgian Campaign Released by Halsey

Planners Of New Georgia Campaign  Are Listed   Plenty Of Glory For All In Victorious Expedition, Halsey's

Labor Draft Plan Ready When Needed   McNutt Says He Has Bill Prepared If Asked For

Labor Drafting Plans Ready, McNutt Reports Y Act Affects Only  Men, Women  Renorter Told

 Republicans Beat Drums For 1944   Meeting Held to Organize Strong Pressure Group

AYMUTT PREPARING LABOR DRAFT BILL   Legislation Will Be Ready When Wanted, Says WMC Chief.

LABOR-DRAFT VERSION READ)   MeNutt Prepared To Give Views On Bill

Tripolitanian Stalemate ©  Believed Nearing An End   Weather Probabilities Should Not Influence General Montgomery’s Renewed Attacks

Interpreting  The War   Forward Surge by British Eighth Army Is Expected

HARMON, GRID ACE IS SAFE   Army Flier, Missing On Flight Since April 8, Has Reached Base

TOMMY HARMON REPORTED SAFE BY WAR OFFICE   Famous Football Star Survives Air Crash in South American Jungle

HARMON, ARMY FLIER. IS SAFE   All- American Football Star Had Been Missing Since April 8. ..

ELOQUENCE MATCHED  BY BIG THREE DURING  CHURCHILL DINNER MUTUAL ADMIRATION EX PRESSED AT BIRTHDAY DINNER PV “WINNIE”

Leaders Match Eloquence As Churchill Gives Self Teheran Birthday Dinner  i    Five-star Guest List, lactuding Roosevelt and Stalin, Attends Exhilarating Party at British Legation

69TH BIRTHDAY OF CHURCHILI MARKEDINIRAN   Roosevelt, Stalin and Prime: Minister. Match Eloquence In Demonstration of Mutual Admiration

ELOQUENCE MATCHED BY BIG THREE DURING CHURCHILL DINNER  Berm A weTraATY OUT wy   MUTUAL ADMIRATION EX: PRESSED AT BIRTHDAY DINNER BY “WINNIE”

STALIN DRINKS 34 TOASTS AT BIRTHDAY PARTY :  Churchill Te Host As He Becomes 70

Joe Stalin Says American Factories Winning The War    Has His Own Sign Language  Stalin’s Breeziness Sets Key At Party ‘Given By Churchill On His Own Borthday

Goodwill Of 3 Nations Marked At  Tran Dinner   Churchill Was Host  To Roosevelt And Stalin AsPrime Minister Began 70th Year

PAY ‘FREEZE’ ° Wstussen BY > LABOR BOARL   DEFINITE DOLLARS AND CENTS CEILING OF WAGES BEING CONSIDERED FOR THE  ; . DURATION :

WLB MEETING IN SECRET ON WAGE CEILINGS   Proposal Sponsored By Labor Members Of Federal Board   APPROVAL ANTICIPATED   Maximum Pay Considered For Workers In All Basic Industries

PERSIAN GULF LANDING MADE BY AMERICANS   BERLIN RADIO ALSO REPORTS NEW ARRIVALS IN INDIA

Soviet Forces Tighten Ring Around Orel   Seize Strategic Heights North Of Besieged City, Moscow Reports   FIFTY MORE TOWNS RETAKEN BY REDS

REDS TIGHTEN RING OF STEEL AROUND OREL   Seize Strategic Heights and Capture 50 More Towns

Avers Career Men ‘Hoo’ U.S. State Department   Grant, Ex-Envoy, Attacks Group: Says Welles Virtually Gunnlenic U..71

PRATHER WAITS EXECUTION HOUR   ‘Slayer Of Warden Jess Dunn ) Bearing Up Well, Says Prison Head

SHOES ONSALE . ~ AFTER FREEZE   Public . Asked . to. Make ‘Shoes Last, Buy. Only * for. Necessity.

SHOES BACK ON SALE   Stamp No. 17 in Coffee-Sugar Book Good for 1 Fair

SELLING OF SHOES S RESUMED TODA   OPA Director 8 Brown Asks Public ta Buy Only When  Rnnsacocarm

PRESSURE PUT ON DOUGHTON   Nine Members Of Committee Deman4 Tax Consideration.

FRENCH FLEET AT ALEXANDRIA WAY JOIN WITH ALLIES   Action of Richelieu Sets Precedent for Decision of Admiral.

PLANS MADE FOR YOUNG FOLKS’ FAIR   Annual 4-H and Vocational Agriculture Show on . Friday

PLANS MADE FOR YOUNG FOLKS’ FAIR   Annual 4-H and Vocational Agriculture Show on ; Friday   MANY ENTRIES ARE. IN

Red Army Holds Firm At Kharkov   Germans Hurl Many Machines, Men, in Fight

RUSSIANS BEAT OFF STRONG NAZI  ATTACKS AROUND CITY OF KHARKOV   Germans Striking At a  Number Of Points Along Line Seeking  For Weak Spot. 

RUBBER EMPLOYES STAGE 2ND STRIKE   Firing of One Worker Cause of Akron Walkout

PRODUCTION OF TIRES HALTED BY STRIKE   Unauthorized Walkout Over Firing of Workers

Bricker Hat In President ‘Ring For ’44   Governor of Ohio Touches OF G. O. P. Pohtical Scramble

BRICKER ENTRY MAY START RAGE FOR NOMINATION   Willkie Refuses To Comment on Move of Ohio Governor

FIGHT FOR GOP NOMINATION ON   Other Hats Expected To Follow Bricker’s Into Ring; Several Democratic Possibilities, Too.

Bricker’s Entry in AA Race May Result  in General Scramble   Ohio Governor First to Announce Entry for Presidency

CAPITAL EYES BRICKER MOVE   Political ‘Observers Look - For Other Candidates’  Declarations

Bricker Move Starts Ball Rolling Fast   Others Expected Soon to Announce They Will Seek Nomination

¥. S. Navy Has Grown from 907 Ships in 1941 to 3.183: Now in Ocean Service

U.S. Navy Has Grown From 907 Vessels In 1941 To 3, 183 In 1943   By July 1, 1944, Navy Will Have Opernting Force Of About 5;100 Shipe—Seneational Expansion

Marcus Island Raid Just ‘Token’ Of Attacks on Heart of Japanese Empire Soon, U.S. Admiral Avers   Deputy Chief tor Air Says Naval, Aerial Power Massed to Blast Lnemy I leet

Marcus Raid Said Token of  Future Blows U. 8. ‘Navy to Attack  Dc Pe 2 nee   U. 8. Navy to Attack Heart of Japanese Emnire, Admiral Save

Blow At Heart Of Jap Empire ls Said Nearer   Island Homeland Of Savage People Ts Ro  nid Wlracts

SINKING OF MAJOR PART OF JAPAN'S FLEET PREDICTED   Vice Admiral John S, McCain Believes Ground Troops Eventually Will March on Tokyo.   AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TO PLAY VITAL ROLE   Preparations Well Advanced, He Says, for Destruction of Enemy’s Army, Navy and Air Force,

OPA In Washington Defines What “Pleasure Driving” Is; Local Boards May Use Discretion In Administration of Regulation; Are Some Exceptions to Board Definition:

BOMBARDMENT UNDER WAY BY LAND, SEA, AIR   Weight of Aerial Bombs Reminiscent of Big Assault Made Upon Sicily.

BLAST TARGETS OF PORT TOWNS ON ITALY TOEOF BOOT      Italian Sixth Army Wiped Out In Sicily Campaign—Enemy Troops Still In Sicily Exchange Uniforms For “Civvies”      HIGHWAYS, RAILROADS IN SOUTHERN ITALY BOMBED

ANENIUAN NAVY SHIPS BLAST AT ITALY MAINLAND   Destroyers, Cruisers Shell Coastal Towns

Mainland ™ Undergoes   “4  8. te  Bombardin   ITALIAN BOOT IS BLASTED  BY LAND, SEA AND AIR AS  FOLLOW-UP OF SICILY’S CONO!

VITAL WAR WORKS TAKING POUNDING FROM BIG. GUNS   Crewmen See Shells Hit Targets—155’s. are Also in Action Naw. :

WARSHIPS SHELL VITAL BRIDGES, OTHER LOCATIONS   American “Long Toms” Having Range of Over 10 Miles Hammering Axis Concentrations.   BOMBING IN FRANCE IS FELT IN ENGLAND   Over Three Years of Work of Germans at U-Boat Base In Norway Smashed In 10 Minutes.

PORTS FACING SICILY ARE KNOCKED OUT   Axis Had 400,000 Men On Sicily At Invasion Time

LOWER PRICES FOR LIQUORS ARE ORDERED   Cuts ‘Bootlegging’ by Dealers as Policy  Changed

Lower Retail Liquor Prices Due Under New OPA Policy   Per Cent Change

Lower Liquor Prices To Be Forced By OPA   Price Drops Expected To Be Greatest In Areas Where Military Is Quartered

LOWER PRICES ON ALCOHOL DRINKS = §COHBETY BY 0D}   Revised Policy In Ceilings -Aimed At Eliminating Bootleogina.

LINK IS PROVIDED BETWEEN AGENCIES   Gen'l Hershey Is Made Member of Manpower Commiccion

Two Government Agencies Split  F.D. R. Holds WMC, Draft Body Link

HERSHEY, MINUTT UNITS SEPARATED   FDR Provides Link Between Selective Service, WMC  However

-OUT OF NAVAL RESERVE   Coach Elmer Schaake Has Re, turned to“Lawrence

OUT OF NAVAL RESERVE   Coach Elmer Schaal Schaake Has Re turned to Lawrence

Coke's Conquest Of Mexico  Gov. Stevenson’s Goodwill Tour Really Won Friendship, Is Belief

Yanks lake Tunisia City   Gain Back Most Of Ground Teken By German Thrust

ALLIED TROOPS RETAKE SBEITLA   Powerful Air Offensive Ranges From Sicily To Mareth Line

African Town. ReportedRetaker By Allied Troops”   Capture itla and Push re kee  4 Beyond City

SBEITLA IS RECAPTURED BY ALLIES   Retreating Axis Forces of Rommel Are Being Pursued

Sbeitla Taken As Allies Push  Rommel Back   Tremendous Aerial Offensive Accompanies Ground Assaults

ALLIES TAKE SBEITLA IN TUNISIA WAR   American And British Troops Pursue Rommel’s Forces

Allies Win Back  Town In Tunisia   Recapture Sbeitla, Press On In Pursuit Of Rommel

Rommel’s Forces Are Retreating   Powerful Air Offensive Paves Wav for Drive

YANKS, TOMMIES RETAKE SBEITLA IN TUNISIA   Rommel’s Afrika Corps Army Continues to Flee Toward Stay.

FOR IS SET 10 PUSH PLAN FOR SOLDIERS’ AID   Seeks Action On Measure While Public Sentiment Is Hot   EXPECT QUICK OKAY   Demobilization Program May Include Civilian  Workers

F.D.R. Determined To Push Program For Putting Armed Forces Into Civilian Posts

STILLWELL AND F, R. CONFER   Chennault Will See President Saturday

Ruml Planner: Will Fight   Intend to Go to Floor With Forgivencas Plan

Approval Nea) For Pay-Go Tax Plan   20 Per Cent Withholding Levy Gets Approval Of House Subcommittee

20 Per Cent Withholding Tax Approved   Rum! Backers Will Continue Skip-a-Year Fight

Approve 20 Pet. Levy On Pay, To Begin On July 1   Ruml Plan Supporters Still Hope To Attach ‘Skin-A-Year Rider.

Backers OfRusl. Continue Battle To Enforce Plan   20 PC Withholding Tax Receives Approval Of House Sub - Committee

May Skip a Year’s Tax  Under Plan   New Withholding Levy, To Start July 1, Given Approval

RUML MEN PLAN TO HOOK ONTO 20 PER CENT LEVY MEASURE   Seek to Tie “Skhip-A-Tax-Year”’ Provision to, the Legislation _ For New Withholding Levy

Ruml Plan Backers To Fight for Skip a-Tax-Year Provist   House Committee For 20 ») Per Cent Withholding Levy

Pay-Go Half AndHalfPlan Gets Support      (20% Withholding Levy Would Have Same Effect as Rum! Plan

RUML TAXATION PLAN BACKERS TO PRESS ISSUE   Will Attempt to Tie a ‘Skipa-Tax-Year’ Provision Onto Withhold ing Levy .   FLOOR FIGHT LOOMS   House Committee Votes for 20S Withholding Tax Against Taxable Income Beginning July 1

10% Payroll Tax Plan. ‘Approva   Ruml Plan: Backers Press Forgiveness Clause.

‘  BACKERS MAY GO TO HOUSE   Talk Attempt to Tie Skip-A-TaxYear Plan to Withholding Levy Bill Approved by Committee

House Tax Group Approves 20 Percent Withholding Tax As Rum! Plan Backers Continue Fight .

New Levy Is Voted By  Committee   20 Per Cent Withholding  Tax Effective July 1  Is Approved By House  Sub-Committee

RUML IDEA TIE TO BILL PLANNED   Backers for Including Pro vision in 20 Per Ceat With holding Tax Legislation

SOLONS MAP “20 PER CENT ~ TAX ON PAY   ‘irst Two Installments of 1942 Income Levy Due Under Plan

Sub-Comittee's OK Given 20 Pct. Tax on Payrolls  ‘Withholding Levy. Nould Start on Firet af July

TAX WITHHOLDING PLAN APPROVED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   _ “Ruml Plan” Backers Plan to Tag “SkipA-Tax-Year” to Withholdine Tay Rill

WITHHOLDING TAX APPROVED      ‘Rumi Plan’ Backers Plan to Add ‘Skip a Year’ Provision.   INCOME TAX STILL DUE

Ruml Backers Push Plan Uy   Withholding Tax Approved With No Change In 1942  Levies.

10P.C. Tax May Be Withheld  New Levy Proposed For July 1 Would Include Victary Tay

APPROVE 20% TA) ON PAY CHECKS EFFECTIVE JULY 1   PLAN INCLUDES VICTORY TAX NOW BEING WITHHELD

RUML BACKERS 10 PRESS FIGHT FOR “SKIP-TAX-Y EAR”   House Committee Favors 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy to Become Effective July 1.

Rum! Plan and 20% Tax May Be Joined   Withholding Plan Takes First Step

Big War Loar Drive Starts  National Unity Asked By FDR   Drive Opens Monday

Greatest War Loan Drive Is Launched   Senate Farm Bloc Strives to Delay Test on Vetoed Bankhead Bill; Labor Legislation Protested

DISSENSION AND UNITY LIMELIGHTED WASHINGTON TODAY   FARM AND LABOR DIFFERENCES FACE CONGRESS, UNITY AT WHITE HOUSE

Farm Bloc Strives to Delay Test Vote on Vetoed Measure   Bankhead Seeks Way to Save Bill; Capital News Summarized

 Washington Today ‘Dissension Over Farm, Labor iLegislation Holds Washington

NEW OPA.HEAD GAYS. SLOW RISE IN PRICES APPEARS TO BE INEVITABLE ~

Italians to Aid In Potato Fields   Dempsey Seeks Use Of War Prisoners

Union Dues Are Root O! Labor Rows   AFL Has Waxed Rich In Kaiser Case, Making CIO Jealous

WAC Recruitment Plan Makes Service In Air Force Open   Over One Hundred Positions Presented To Women Volunteers

Put Church And Charity In Politics   THAT’S EFFECT OF PROPOSED 325,000 LIMIT ON INCOMES SAYS M. L. BENEDUM, Famed OIL MAN.   Hard Cn <chools

Nazis Think They'll Get  Good Terms   Germans Believe They Can Hold Of - Ales Another Year

MOUSE DEFEAT FOR SUBSIDIES “TODAY LIKELY   @ther Plans of White ‘ouse Also Face Assault in Congress

Administration Program Faces  More Buffeting   Triple Assault Awaits In Congress for F.D.R. Home Front Strategy

Subsidies’ Defeat Expected Today In House Vote   Move to Give Ickes Contro] of Coal, Oil  Prices Gains Strength

Price Programs Face Assaults   Triple Drive Seen By Congress Forces

House Votes Today on Food Subsidy Plan   Move to Take Control Of Oil. Coal Prices From OPA Gaining

SUBSIDY BILL VOTEMAY BE TAKEN TODAY   Administration's Program on Living Costs Faces Buffetina   BATTLE WILL OPEN  ON: REVENUE BILL   New Demands Arise for One Man Food Administrator

SUBSIDY PLAN FACES DEFEAT   Triple Assault On White House Price Program Is Developing

SUBSIDY BILL VOTE MAY BE TAKEN TODAY   Administration's Program on Living Costs Faces Buffeting   BATTLE WILL OPEN ON REVENUE BILL  New Demands Arise for

RADIO STAR -. S STRICKEN   FRANK. . CRUMIT. FOR WEARS POPULAR STAGE AND BADTO ENTERTAINER DIED  SUDDENLY

Northeastern States Unite To Get Corn   Committee Will Meet Qn Monday

ED UrrcNallt SWEEPS ORWARL   Nazis Forced to Abandon Large Amounts of Equipment in Retreat.

Red Offensive  ~— Sustains Power   Nazis ‘‘Bled White In Re cent Battles’’ Says Russian Communique  —_ *s* army av FF & ver «ST eC

RAVAGING CROPS   Guerrillas Ruin Wheat to Keep It From German Army.

“Back Salerno” Day Friday; Big Parade Here   Parade By Camp Davis Detachment To Feature Observartice Here Tomorrow. Extra War Bond. Purchase Lirsed. ~

“Back Salerno” Day Friday; Big  Parade [ere      Parade By Camp Davis Detachment To Keature Observance Tere ‘Tomorrow. Extra War Bond  Purchase TL Jeesseocd.

‘GINGER ROGERS MARRIED   Movie Actress Weds Jack Briggs, Private in Marines

Rites at First Methodist Church at Pasadena, Cali fornia, Takes Holly  wood by Surprise   THREE AT CEREMONY      Couple Met Several Months Ago While Actress Was on Bond-Selling Tour

Delegates Are at Important Meet Topics   Silence . Surrounds . Meeting _ but Official View Says ‘So . Far, So Good’

TREPARTITE MEET IS NOT NEAR ENT   ‘Delegates Have Reached Some of Important Questions For Ninth Day.

TRI PARTITE. CONFERENCE IN.NINTH DAY   Some of Most Important Questions of Meeting  Arrived At It Is Reported

Conferees Study Vital Moscow Acts   TRI-PARTITE PARLEY IN NINTH SESSION; LONG CONFAB SEEN

Eighth Army Near Joining  With U.S.2   RAF Batters Anew in Ruhr Offensive

BAG OF ENEMY PRISONERS NOW EXCEEDS 9.500   British Army, Pushing Along Gulf, Approaches Second U. S. Column

ars a      Concord Department Answers 123 Alarms*to Date; Only 130 in 1942

Concord Department d Ans. wers 123 Alarms*to Date “4 “Only 130.in 1942

Major Soviet Victories In Prospect   Nazis’ Hopes of Holding Dnieper Line Fade

Chile’s Cabinet Resigns In Body   Dispute In. Radical Party Causes Move

Polish Premier  Killed in Crash   15 Others, Including His Daughter, Die

CHURCHILL WILL “WORK TO-REALIZE ~OKARSKT IDEAL   Prime Minister Pays Tributs to Polish Premier Killed * In Crash.

GREAT BRITAIN TO WORK FOR IDEALS OF GEN. SIKORSKI   Polish Premier Killed Ir Air Crash Off Gibraltor On Sunday

Russians Bag 15 German Generals   Almost all of 330,000 Axis Soldiers “Liquidated” Before Stalingrad; Field Marshal Taken   Captured General Promoted  Berlin Radio Admits That Nazi Forces at Stalingrad Wiped Out

MINOR FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRONT, 900 ENEMY DEAD   New Attacks On Leningrad Threatening. Russians Beat Off Heavy Attack Yesterday.

SPRING STALEMATE ON RUSSIAN FRONT   It Is Thought Nazis Are Planning Attack on Leningrad.

CHETNIKS WIN CONTROL   Mihailovic Claims Montenegro; : Partisans Fight in Serbia

NEW GRAFTS BEING MADEFORINVASION   Navy Pushing Production of Amphibious Crafts For Attack On Enemy-Held Shore.

AN AGED WOMAR PASSED AWA)   Mrs. Sallie Croyle of Windfall, in Il] Health Several Months.

AN AGED WOMA PASSED) AWAY   Mrs. Sallie Croyle of -Wind., fall, in Ili Health Sev. eral Months. :

Danville BoyOn Battered Fort Which Limped Way Back From Raid; Bails Out Safely _.   ‘Sam S. Walton Among Members Of Crew Of Crippled: Plane Which Made Way Home

Carrier's Crew Praised Highly  Says Young Sailors Were Real Heroés

Crack Down On Black Markets   O. P. A. Seeking Injunctions Against Slaughterers And Packers.

OPA WILL RAP 150 OHIO SLAUGHTERERS   Attempt to Eliminate Black Market in Meats

Slaughterers,  Packers Cited   Injunctions Being Sought Against Large Number Jn Black Market:

OPA to Seek to Eliminate  Black Market   Seek Injunctions: Against 120 Slaughters and Packers for Unlawful Meat Dealing

Launching of Battleship Wisconsin Scheduled at Philadelphia December

THIRD OF ‘BIGGEST SHIPS’ READY SOON   ‘Wisconsin’ Is One of Heaviest Vessels in Maritime History.

CONGRESS 10 GO HOME FOR THREE WEEKS   Legislators Go Conservative, at Least Until Election

Congress Adjourns With Breach Between  President and Legislators Growing Daily

CONGRESS BEGINS HOLIDAY RECESS   Sessions Adjourn Today For Three Weeks; Breach With President Widens  By RORERT HUMPHRFVES

COPENHAGEN SHIPYARDS ARE BLASTED   RAF Also Wreaks Devastation At Lorient Submarine Base In France, Ordered Evacuated.   Ruhr Also Attacked

Lorient Target  Of 65th Raid, Called ‘Heaviest   Other Points in France And Industrial Ruhr Hit in RAF Attacks

BG SHIPYARDS AT COPENHAGEN BLASTED BY RAF   Devastating Attack Made on U-Boat Base at Lorient— Germans Order Area Evacuated.   KEY AXIS BASES IN ITALY POUNDED   Great Fires Sweep Entire Length of Harbor at Naples—Air Fields in Sardinia) Bombed.

Whole “Boot” of Italy Now in Gontro! Of Invaders; Clark's Fifth Army. - Oyercomes Bitter Opposition

Allies Control Whole ‘Boot’, Ten Airfields   Fifth Army Battles Nazi Armor in Area  Of Salerno

Yankees Push Deeper Into  Salerno Area Virtually Entire   Virtually Entire ‘Boot’ Is in Allied Control

Catanzaro Also Falls to Allies As Nazis Retreat   Fifth Army Hits Hard near Naples

British Troops Seize Adriatic Port of Brindis   Allied Fifth Army Punches Deeper in Naples-Salerno Area

Allies Rule All ftalian Toe and Heel   Naples-Salerno Area Also Sees Fifth Army Drive Deeper Inland  BEACHHEADS SECURE

Allied Fifth Army Is Punching Deeper Into The NaplesSalerno Sector   CATANZARO CAPTURED BY MONTGOMERY’S MEN

Italian Springboards Into Albania Occupied   Allies In Position For ‘Possible Thrust Into Balkans; Clark’s Army Clinches Beachheads At Salerno

Allies and Nazis Locked in Bloody Conflict in Naples-Salerno Area

British Win Big Port Of Brindisi   Americans Tighten Hold on Naples Area; Radio Reports Other Gains; Fight Is Still Furious; Salerno Crisis Passes

Upton Close To Speak At Tech, In Howard Auditorium, April 27   Will Speak Intimately Of Affairs In Asia  Ad Th Danette

Upton Close, Noted Radio Commentator, ‘To Appear Here   Howard Auditorium Under Auspices Tech Women’s Dept. Club

Women’s Dept. Club, Tech Committee To Present Speaker   Upton Close, Authority ‘On Asia, Orient To Speak April 27

Congress Leaders Say They Are ‘Ahead’ Of FDR In Proposal For One Year 01  “Lompulsory Service

TRAINING OF YOUTH URGE      ORESEIONAL LENDERS JEN.  “DORSE ROOBEVELT'S VIEWS ON POSTWAR. PROGRAM  OF MILITARY TRAINING

BACK MILITARY PEACE TRAINING   Capital Reaction Lukewarm on Including Women in FDR Program

3 Negro Soldiers Die for Murder’.   Executed in  Arizona Chamber

Three Negro Soldiers Die in Lethal Gas Chamber For Murder of Cab Driver

IEL, BREMEN ATTACKS COST 26 U. S$. CRAFT   Round-the-Clock Bombings of Continent Extend Into Fourth Day

Hitting At North Coast, Ruhr, Sicily   Heavy Raids on Important Centers

NAZI FIGHTER PLANES DOWN 26 FORTRESSES   London Claims Mass Evacuation Of War Industries From Western Germany   BOCHUM AND BREMEN HIT   *Round-The-Clock Air Offen: sive Extended Into Fourth Consecutive Day

MASE EVACUATION OF IMPOR. TANT INDUSTRIES FROM UHR VALLEY I8 RE‘PORTED UNDERWAY

AIR OFFENSIVE NOW IN FOURT STRAIGHT DAY   Yanks in Crippling Blow on North Sea Naval Bases

British Attacks Follow Up Raids By Yank Fliers   Round-The-Clock Bombing Of Europe Now Extended Into Feurth Day   AMERICANS BLAST : NAZI SUB BASES

Draft of Fathers _ May Be Held Up,  Discloses WMC   McNutt ‘Forced’ to Ask   Induction or Cause  Production Crista

ting Fathers essary, McNutt s Wheeler  t Childless Men ll Be Taken st, It Is Said  TOR OBJECTS  ks Action Be t Off Until  ngress Can Decide

cl SPONSORS ~ VOTING UNITY   RESOLUTION URGES MEMBERS OF ALL UNIONS EO PRESENT SOLID) FRONT AT POLLS

Enemy Trench Lines Fall to Reds   Savage Fighting Reported on Eastern Front

Reds Attempting To Split Forces Holding Kuban River Sector Near Novorossisk Port  Germans Fail In Attacks Upon Isyum, Donets River Point After Suffering Severe Losses

Auction Sale News Of Interest To Local Buyers  Full Particulars In Display Ads

Four More Ninnon Warships Sunk In Latest Sea Fight   All Heavily Laden With Enemy Troops; Battle Above Kolombangara

Third Enemy Destroyer is Probably Destroyed as Troop-Laden Ships fare Annihilated in Vella Gulf

U. S. Navy Picks Fights in Solomons—and Wins Them; Enemy Loses 23 to 26 Vessels Against a Loss of Three for the United States

State Patrol Auxiliary With Police Powers Is Proposed to Legislature

~ HICHWAY UNN   Bill Has Endorsement of Gov. ~ — Bricker, Lynn Black

Jones Pleads for Subsidy Payment  Says it Helped to Get Food Production

PLEA FOR CCC FROM WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATOF   ‘Jones Urges Continuation of What Has Worked in Place of Something Doubtful

FARMERS CAUTIONED ABOUT POST-WAR SLUMP   Jesse Jones Urges Use of Credit Funds

Marvin Jones Urges Subsidies for 1944   Says Farmers Need Support Prices

Sunday Driver Returns To East Despite Appeals To Save Fuel   Increase In Travel Noted B OPA Agents Yesterday No Comment Made

U.S. AIRMEN BOMB FIELDS NEAR PARIS   Resume Offensive Paralyzed By Fog Since Oct. 22

GERMAN AIR FIELDS HIT BY AMERICANS   Area 50 Miles. West O: . Paris Target In Offensive

“CAMPAIGN BUTTONS’   Roosevelt Pictures Sent to Arabia Touches Off Controversy

Farmers Praised By President; Told They’re Brothers-In-Arms Of Nation’s Fighting Sons

FOOD IS VITAL, FARMERS TOLD BY ROOSEVELT   Production Victory Won In 1942, President Says in Talk

FDR AT WARM SPRINGS FOR BRIEF STAY   President Says He’s Spending a Stolen 26 Hours With “Warm  Springs Family.”

TO MAKE MESSINA ANOTHER CAP BON   Montgomery in Drive to Seal Off Sicilian East Coast

American Drive Takes Two Vital Axis Air Bases   Allied Invasion Forces Grow Stronger Through Continued Landings; Nazis Predict Mighty Tank Battle On Catania Plains

British 8th Army Runs Into Little Fighting; Americans In Contact With Goering Division  ~— wmweaea.reres? Tse FF Tree

Veteran British Army Races Past Augusta Toward Catania In Effort To Set Stage for Another Cap Bon

Capture Of Catania By British Would Block Vital Escape Route Of Axis Forces

U.S. Troops SettingPace As Comiso,  Olivo Fall   Axis Is Expected To Counterdrive At Agrigento

ALLIES DRIVING TO SEAL COAST   Naval Forces Already Dispute Domination of MesSina Straits.   WARSHIPS HELP TROOPS

Gigantic Tank Battle Looms Near Catania   Weak Eastern Coast. Resistance Due To Be. Stronger Soon

U.S. Army Nears Point Where Axis  Massing Forces   British Veteran Army Plunges North Beyond Fallen Augusta.   Allies Increase Their Strength in Sicily

YANKS CAPTURE 2 OF ENEMYS MAIN AIRFIELDS   Are Within 10 Miles of Agrigento, Where Axis Forces Are Massing

Eighth Army Seeks Another Cap Bon Coup   Meeting With Weak Resistance; Yankees  Capture Two Airfields

U. S. Captures Two Importan: Enemy Bases   Allied Lines J Are Solid, Americans All Set to Meet Counter Action ~   SHIPS AND PLANES BLAST A PATH   Thousands of Prisoners in Allied Hands; Stage Set for Another Cap. Bon

BRITAIN’S VETERAN EIGHTH ARMY HEADS FOR CATANIA TODAY   AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY SPREADS WESTWARD AND NORTHWARD

East Sicily Coast May Be Cut Off By Montoomery   Repetition of Tunisian Trap: Believed Object

Resistance Weak As Allies Gain In Sicilian Battle   British Speed to Seal Island While Yanks Knife Inland To Slice Axis Force In Half

TO MAKE MESSINA  “ANOTHER: CAP: BON      Montgomery in Drive to Seal” Off ’ Sicilian East Coast

Allies Push Deep Beachheads on North Bank of River.  ALLIED SHIPS AIDING ATTACKING SOLDIERS  New Airbases Carved Out on the Coast of Italy.

GAIN FOOTHOLD: UN NORTH BANK FOR ROME DRIVE   British and Americans Overcome Counter-At tack, Seize Offensive

Raft Sitters Plead for Aid at Portland   LIFE GROWS STERNER ON PORTLAND BOND CRAFT IN THIRD DAY OF VIGIL

Airmen Have Field Day Or Congested Roads As Rommel Makes Run  For Tunisia.

French Troops Move Into Tripoli Area   Rommel May Not Defend That Bomb-Blasted City

More Americar Airmen Arrive In Britain   Heavy Bombers May Be Shifting To Another Theatre

LARGE SONTINGENT  AIRMEN, FOUIPMENT  EIGHT U. 3. ARFERoe INVASION SPECULATION  HEIGHTENED BY CHURCH WT CONEERENCES?

Big Group-Of U. S. Airmen Bolsters  Forces Gathering For Invasion   Large Contingent Arrives In England; In Meantime Germany Speeds Preparations To Meet Any Land Invasion.

U. S. Bolsters Air Forces In England  Big Contingent Arrives As Allies Prepare

BiG AIR ADDITION REACHES ENGLAND   Invasion Talk Heightened as  Yanks Swarm into Offensive Base. Lull in Air War

ARMY AR FORCE INCREASED WITH MEN, EQUIPMENT   Invasion Speculation Heightened With Churchill’s Con: ferences After Trip te Washington.   CONTINGENT STRENGTH NOT BEING REVEALED   Bad Weather, Shifting Bombers For Concentrated Ac: tion Intimated Cause For Recent Lull.

U. S. Air Forces In Britain Are Strengthened; Axis Leaders Fear Allied Thrust Through Spain   THROUGH SPAIN

LARGE CONTINGENT AIRMEN, EQUIPMENT EIGHT U. §. AIRFORCE  INVASION SPECULATION HEIGHTENED BY CHURCH ILL CONFERENCES

SPECULATION ON INVASION IS INCREASED   Bombers, Crews Streaming Across Atlantic, With All Equipment   LULL IN AIR WAR GOES INTO STH DAY   Churchill Continues Conferences Bearing On War Strateayv

UNITEDSTATES ATR FORCEIN ENGLAND GROWS      Arrival of Big Contingent Of Airmen and Equipment Disclosed by London. Source   STRENGTH SECRET   Lull In Aerial Onslaught to Soften Europe for Land Invasion Continues Into Ninth Day.

INVASION TALK (5 INCREASING   Lull in Aerial Offensive Continues Into Ninth Day Today.   PLANES CROSS CHANNEL

Big U.S. Contingent Of Airmen Arrives   Reds Claim 752 Nazi Planes Lost In Week

U. S. FORCE IN ENGLAND AUGMENTED   Arrival of Another Large Contingent With Equipment Speeds Invasion Specuiation   GIANT RAIDS PLANNED

New Contingent Of Airmen , Equipmen Arrives in London   ‘Churchill’s Round OF Conferences Still in Spotlight

New Large U.S.” Air Force Units Arrive In England   Feverish Invasion Specti: lation Further Height: ened by Continuing Round of Churchill Conferences:

NEW EQUIPMENT AND MEN REAGH GREAT BRITAIN   Talk Of Invasion Holds Spotlight Thruout Europe

IN ew U.S. Air ‘Group Spurs Invasion Talk   Another Large Contingent of Men, Equipment Reaches Britain

CHURCHILL CONTINUES CONFERENCES   No Heavy Raids Reported For Last Nine Days   Will Lead Troops Across Mediterranean, Belief: Fifth Army Set

Huge Reinforcements  Of U. S. Fliers Arrive: Churchill Holds Talks

U.S. Builds Up Air Force In England   Constant Arrivals Swell Striking Power Over Europe .

“NOT DISCLOSED ~ BY THE ALLIES   Churchill Still Conferring With British Leaders; Lull in Air Raids

Invasion Fever Mounts in Europe   Arrival of Contingent of American Fliers Auaments Ldrge Force Already in England

More Airmen . Go To England   EXPANSION OF FORCES ‘ RAISES INVASION SPECULATION

‘Observers Think Plans Completed For Great Attack   Bilg Air Unit Arrives In Britain; Germans More Invasion Conscious Than Ever

Air Forces In ~ Britain Boosted   USS. Fliers, Equipment  Pouring In

Big Contingent OF U.S. Airmen Lands In England   Allied Air Power Bolstered For Invasion

ALLIED INVASION FORCE GROWING; HITLER JITTERY   Big Contingent of American Fliers and Equipment Reaches Britain   NEW BOMBING POLICY, TIP   Attack on Europe Through Spain Feared by Axis, Reports Indicate

stallations at Kahili, In the Bum area of the same island. i  aty Saree Enlarged :

AAF Expands  Kurepean Unit   Airmen, Arms Arrive In England: Churchill Continues Conferences.

US Airmen Bolster Invaders   Allied Plans Believed Complete for Action   No Assault on Ninth Day but Jitters Continuing

Expansion of U.S. aerial force  in England hikes invasion talk      Lull in European attacks extended: axis fears allied thrust thru Spain

Saloons Near Army Camps May Be Closed at Midnight   Emergency Act Is Rushed Through the Montana Senate After a Conierence With Military Authorities

Senate Approve: Drastic Saloon Closing Measure   Would Affect Places Within 25 Miles Of U.S. Army Posts

Midnight Closing of Bars Near Army Posts Is Favored   Measure Is Rushed Through Senate; Teachers Fund Given Increase;' Other Bills Killed. Some Passed

ISLANDS NORTH OF AUSTRALIA ARE FORTIFIED   Move May Be Step In LongAwaited Smash At DownUnder Continent   ACTIVITY WIDESPREAD   MacArthur Expects Intensified Air-Sea Warfare In Near Future

Soviet break into Ukraine scored with 37 mile gain around German stronghold   120,000 nazis die in Belgorod, Orel fighting; axis supply losses huse

(German base Outflanked In New Gains   Entire Nazi Front in Russia Threatened With Collansce

Scores Advance Up to 37 Miles In Sweeping Drives; Nazis Map Retreat to Dnieper

Kharkov, German Base, Menaced by Russian Armies   Reds Enter Ukraine In Terrific Drive

Soviet Armies Into Ukraine: Outflank Base  37 Mile Gains   37 Mile Gains Scored in Smash West of Belgorod

SOVIETS HEA FOR KHARKOV IN FAST PUSH   UKRAINIAN CENTER IS MENACED BY PINCERS MOVE

Kharkoy Outflanked by the Capture of . Zolochev  PINCER THREAT IS POSED BY ADVANCE  Many Settlements. Token by the Onrushing Russions

Reds Gain To Threaten Kharkov   Russians Break Into Ukraine On 43-Mile Front

RED PINGERS THREATENING NAZI BASE   -.Soviets Break Into Ukraine on 43-Mile Front as They Smash Westward from Belgorod.   OTHER COLUMNS MOVE ON BRYANSK   Stalin’s Summer Offensive Has Cost Germans 120,000 Dead and 12,418: Prisoners. 

Red Army Breaks Into The  Ukraine Area In New Drive «Gains Up To 37 Miles Made West Of Belgorod  In Advance Unon Krurkay And Bevanck Sertnre

Nazis Break On 43-Mile Front   120,000 Said Slain Diurring Pact Mont

LARGE UNIT OF SELECTEES GET REPORT ORDERS  Board Sends Out OC. BH Moe fb   Board Sends Out Call For Draft This Month

NAMES OF MEN IN NEXT DRAFT GROUP RELEASED   Call Issued For Early In August By Local Board

0.H.P. Shelley, Prominent Montana Publisher, Succumbs; Had Been ‘Active in Politics for Many Years

Pacific Supply Job Is Tough   But More Troops and Materiel Promised As Soon As Possible

Hardest Job  For Engineers   Commander Commends Men For Their Work

5 JAP SURVIVORS: ALL, DAVIS CLAIMS   Rest of Estimated 15,000. in Bismarck Sea Tilt Accounted For

Eisenhower's Night Before Is Unworried   Sleeps in Navy Office For War News

Eisenhower Is Calm As Forces Poise to Invade   Like Expectant, Unworried Father, U. S. General Waits For Time To Strike—He’s ‘Had Children Before.’

General Eisenhower Spends Eve of Invasion Like Father Awaiting Birth of His Baby

GEN. EISENROWER CEE MG CONFIDENT   Goes to Lonely Vantage Point and Waits in Moon light for Aircraft to Begin Historic Mission

Fishermen Find Man Near Death   Frank Sobezak Found Unconscious From Poisoning in Isolated Spot.

Hull Man Named To Head County Drive   Mr, MW. W. Huibregtse, County Chairman, Lowa War Chest, Aifiliate of National War Fund

Van Allen Appointed War Fund Chairman   Combines 16 War Relief Appeals - Including USO

Interpreting  The War   Axis Break-Through Should Spur  American Forces

MASS MURDER IN GREEK TOWN   Nazi Lure People Back By False Offer

MEAT RATIONS BELIEVED NEAR   Cheese May Be Included Ir Order Seen For April 1

POINT RATIONING OF MEAT, CHEESE IS DUE IN MONTE      May Begin About April 1 and Cooking, Fats, Oifs May Also Be Limited.

MEAT, CHEESE MAY BE PUTON RATION LIST   Butter, Lard Also May Be Ordered Rationed April 

Point Rationing of Meat, Cheese May: Be Ordered to Begin About April 1

MEAT, CHEESE POINT RATIONS   Expect To Order Rationing Or These Items April 1

Rationing Of Meat, Cheese Due In April   BUTTER, OLEO, LARD AND COOKING FATS MAY BE INCLUDED

NEW GAINS REPORTED IN DNIEPER BEND   Battered Remnants of Field Marshal Von Mannstein's Army of Ukraine in Wild  Flight Across Steppes   ‘ABANDON EQUIPMENT

BELIEVE SOVIET FORCES NEAR DNIEPER MOUTH   Russians Advance 10 Miles in Steppe Region, Retake 80 Towns

COSSACKS LASH RETREATING FOE   Russians Report Nazis  Abandon Much Materie

Nazis Crushed And In Flight  Before Soviets   Abandoning Dead And High Stores In Rush To Escape Reds.

Once-Proud Ukraine Force:  Being Turned Into Dis- :  ordered War-Weary Mob

BATTERED REMNANTS NAZI UKRAINE ARMY FLEE FOR BUG RIVER   ONCE PROUD GERMAN ARMY BEING TURNED INIG WAR-WEARY MOB

NAZIS’ UKRAINE ARMY BECOMING WAR-WEARY MOB   Once Proud Fighting Force Disorganized In Retreat; Whole German Position In South Russia Grows  Worse By The Hour.

Reds At Edge Of Kherson In Pursuit Of Foe   Retreating German Army Fast Becoming Disorgan.  ized Mob.

REDS SLASH AT NAZIS’ HEELS   Russians Near Outskirts Of Port of Kherson On Black Sea

Weary Nazis Flee Ahead Of Cossacks   Once Proud Invaders Point Toward New Defense Line on Bug River

COSSACKS DRIVE HARD ON ENEM   Bug River, Line’: Defense Sought By Nazis

MOUTH OF DNIEPER IS RED GOAL   Cossacks Pace Soviet Drive; Russians Near Kherson

‘Once-Proud German Army Of Ukraine ‘Becomes War-Weary, Fleeing Mob

BATTERED REMNANTS  NAM UKRAINE ARMY  FLEE FOR BUG RIVER ONCE PROUD GERMAN ARMY BEING TURNED  aT. BAD UITADY BOD

Nazi Abandon War Materiel In Withdrawal   Russians Indicate Complete Demoralization Of German Army.   TURN COUNTERDRIVE

Proud Legions Are Disrupted By Russians   Cossack Cavalrymen Pace Soviet Charge In Determined Drive

Nazi Army Cut to Bits   Turned Into Disorganized War-Weary Mob by Driving Russian Attack

Fleeing For Their Lives From Russia   Cavalryme nCutting Down Thousands

Once-Proud German Army , OF Ukraine Is Turning Into  Disorsanized. War-Wearv Moh

Once Proud Army War-weary Mob  Von Mannstein's Army Fleeing Before Soviets

ALLIES CLOSING IN FOR THE KILL   DESTRUCTION OF ROMMEL'S FORCES IN TUNISIA APPEARS NEAR AT HAND.

Nutcracker Attack in Tunisia Believed About to Accomplish Its Purpose’ and Speculation Opens On When and Where Allies Will Open Invasion  To Get at Germany

Last Blow In In ‘Tunisia Near   ‘Talk Of Greater Battles ~ On Continent Is Renewed

COAL STRIKE IS SPREADING   More Than 8,000 Men Idle In “Captive” Mines of Pennsylvania

Strikes Spread In State Mines   Growing Absenteeism, Work Slowdowns in Other Pits Reported

9,500 on Strike In Pennsylvania: Slowdowns Grow   Operators Also Report In crease in Absenteeism among Miners

HULL TU JUIN MOSCOW MEET   EDEN, MOLOTOV, U. S. SECRETARY TO CONFER

PLANS FOR BIG THREE MEETING ARE DEVELOPING   Secretary Hull Announces British-American and  Soviet Conference Planned

HULL GOING 10: VISIT MOSCOW?   Early Meeting With Eden Molotov in Soviet Capital Is Seen.

Believe Hull to  Go to Moscow   Expected to Confer There = ith Eden, Molotov

VISETING NURSE BOARD PLANS BUDGET DRIVE   Chairmen Are Named At Monthly Meeting For Canvass In April —Nurse’s Report Heard

Bus Drivers Strike Affects 100 War Plants   WLB Denial of Pay Increase Results  In Illinois Walkout

HOLD-LINE ORDER TIES UP BUS LINES   ‘  Transportation in Area Embracing Five Cities Halted; Bus Drivers, Maintenance  » Men Refuse to Work

BUS DRIVERS QUIT; PROTEST PAY RULE   ‘Men Strike Against the WLB “Hold-the-Line” Order

Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, Now Soviet Prisoner, Responsible for ‘Stalingrad Atrocities, Writer Reveals   BY HENRY SHAPIRO

EDEN CONFERS WITH FDR TODAY   Auto Drivers Must Haul Three To Work To Get “B” and “C’’ Cards Renewed

EDEN TO CONFER WITH ROOSEVELT   British Foreign Secretary ~ In Washington; Plans  Week End Talks

GOP. FIGHTING TAXATION PLAN   Hardship On Small Taxpayer Used As Dehate Point.

ALL SERVICES TO TAKE MEN BY U. S. DRAFT   “Men Will Have Opportunity to Express Their Choice for Branch of Service for U. 8S.

Soviets Check Nazi Thrusts   Germans Throw Fresh Troops Into Battle in lzyum-Balakleya Sector

Plane Fails lear Hump f of Airport  aft Tries to Land ith Engine Dead; ve Others Hurt

COUNT FLEET WINS PREAKNESS STAKES TODAY   Blue Sword Second, Vincentice Third. Count Won Kentucky Derby A Week Ago.

Count Fleet Wins Preakness Stakes   Blue Swords Runs Second to Champ

Substitute Is Passed By Senate   Problem Of Soldier Vote ls Thrown Back Into Laps  Of States.

Fight on Subsidy, Despite OPA Plan   Congress Opponents To Push Legal Ban

“TINNED GOLD.”   Thieves Got 300 Cans of Food At Wholesale House.

SPELLMAN HOPES FOR ITALY PEACE   ARCHBISHOP URGES ROME TO SURRENDER SOON

Bishop Hopes Italy To Quit   Spellman Thinks Surrender Would Give Allies Chance To Show Intentions.

14 GENERALS WOULD GAN BY FDR PLAN   Ask Permanent Rank Ratings for Key Men In War

Mystery Parley Is Held   Italian And Turkish Foreign Ministers Meet On Launch

Turkey Looms Dramatically As Mediator   Hasty And° Mysterious Conferences Held Between New Itailan Foreign Minister and Turk: ish Leader:

SECRET PARLEY SEEN AS MOVE TO SEEK PEACE   Mysterious Conference!  Held Between Italian Official and Turkish  Foreign Minister   MEETING HELD ON LAUNCH OFF COAST   Rome’s Envoy Departs On Plane Following Hasty Session; Minister Goes to Ankara

Turkey Viewed  As A Mediator  'Htalian Foreign Chief  Meets Turk Leader

TURK TO MEDIATE?   Italian and Turkish F oreign Ministers in Mysterious —  Meeting ©

Believe Turkey May Be Mediator For -Ttaly And Allies: Ministers Contferring

Turkey Hinted   Turkish, Italian Foreign Ministers Meet Secretly

TURKEY POSSIBLE “MEDIATOR TO HELP ITALY FOR PEACE   italian Minister, Turk Official Hold Secret Meeting On Launch For Presumahle Pact.   ROME AMBASSADOR 1S RETURNING HOME   Guariglia, Representative of Fascists, Went to Turkey About Three Months Ago as Second Choice.

Hasty and Mysterious Conference Held Between New Italian Foreign Minister and Turkish Foreign Minister.

ICKES CLAIMS SHORTAGE OF CAS IN EAST   Deliveries Now Building Up; Has Nothing To Do With Ban, He Says

NEW DEALERS VEERING AWAY FROM SUBSIDIES   Jones’ Proposal Found Less Objectional Than Others By Bloc Leaders   RESTRICTIONS SOUGHT   Bitter Foe Of Original Cash Pian Sees Chance For New Offering   Restrictions Demanded

‘SUPPORT’ OF © ‘FARM PRICES 1S FORECAST   PROGRAM PROPOSED ny JONES SAID TO RE GAINING IN FAVOR AMONG CONGRESSMEN

Jones Program Gaining Support   Veering Away From Original Subsidy Plan

Battleship Tirpitz Is Damaged   British Midget Subs Torpedo German Warship

British Subs Hit Ship Off Norway   Admiralty Says Three Midget Subs Probably Lost in Attack Sept. 22

HERBERT HOOVER URGES REDUCTION IN SIZE OF ARMY   Says Armed Forces Should Supply Some of Million Workers Needed onFarms  and in Induatrv.

Must Modify Size of Army Declares Former President   Herbert Hoover Witness Before Senate Committee; Capital News

HERBERT HOOVER SAYS SIZE OF ARMY MUST BE MODIFIED   Would Use Soldiers in In: dustry, On Farms; Warns oe a Tn Ruch

CUT IN ARN   Urges Modification of Plans For Increase; Sees Long War.   WARNS AGAINST ERROR

Hoover Says Size of Army Must Be Modified for ’43   Believes Aymed Forces Should Supply Million Needed on Farms. Industries

hoover Urges a Modification In Army's Size   Points To Growing Need For Labor On Nation’s Farms

ARMY CUT SUGGESTED BY HOOVER   Ex - President Envisages At Least Three More Years Of War

Must Modify ‘Size of Army, Hoover Says   Believes We Should: Not Go “Too Fast as .Time ds. On Otr Side         WORKERS NEEDED - IN-MANY-LIEGRS   Muat:.. Not. Break Home Front; Sees’ Three'to Five Years:More War-~ -

csore Workers  Needed--Hoover  Some Must Come From Armed Forces, Former President Declares

HOOVER WOULD MODIFY ARMY   Forces Should Supply Some of Million More Workers for Farms, Industry

AMERICA NEEDS MORE WORKERS, HOOVER WARNS   He Sees Labor Shortage In Farm, Metal, Oil Industries

Hoover Urges a Modification In Army's Size  - Need F ~ On Nation’s Farms

Hoover Asks Size Of Army Be Modified   One Million Additional Workers Are Needed In Industry, Asserts Former President

ALLIES CONTINU CHINESE SUCCES   Air Activities In Pacific Are Limited Qwing to Adverse Weather.

AND CHINESE DEFEAT JAPS   /Retreating Jap Troops Strafed Heavily By Flying Forces

Repairs Slowed ~ Downey Charges   California Senator Says Manpower Shortage Delays Ship Repairs  By ELLIOTT HAYES

Nation’s Food Bil Is Sliced By OPA  Bowles Says Aim Is Tc Ban ‘Snooping’

OPA Plans Roll Back of Food Prices   CUTTING DOWN OF NATION’S GROCERY BILL IS AIM ALONG WITH BANS ON “SNOOPING AND COERCION.”   15% Below Last Winter

Further Living Costs Cut Sough'   ‘Snooping, Coercion’ Are to Be Banned

New Price Cuts  Ahead for Foods   OPA Lists Six Items To Be \ade Cheaper

New Rollback Program For Living Cost Is In Making  * Several Grocery Items Will Cost Less For Civilians After Third Straight Decline

LIVING COSTS BEING REDUCED   Government Subsidies Ex. pected To Cut Nation’s Grocery Bill

OPA Slashes Af Cost Of Living   _ New Plaris Launch Fight On Inflation

New Move To Cut Nation’s _ Grocery Bill Is Announced   OPA Also Reports Cost of Living, Whittled Down Last Month—Stabilization of Milk Prices Proposed

OPA Announces Drive To Lower Cost of Living   Partial Success Already Reported

DRIVE LAUNCHED TO SLASH LIVING COSTS 2.3 PCT   OPA Promises Lower Prices on Apples, Oranges, Potatoes, Onions and Other Food Items.

OPA Pledges New Cut in Price of Food   Bowles Announces Plan Banning Agency’s ‘Snooping’

OPA Reveals Drive To Cut Living Costs 2.3 Percent   To Mean Lower Prices On Apples, Lard, Oils, Potatoes, Oranges, Onions, Bowles Says   'PLAN INCLUDES USE OF SUBSIDIES  Compliance Program Inaugurated Banning ‘Sua pits, Coercior’

EUROPE BEING POUNDED BY AIR DAY AND NIGHT   American Bombers Over Northern Germany Today Following Last Night’s RAF and Soviet Raids

Roaring Bembers of Alhes Hit From All Directions at One Time.  Vi TT THRDDINVVIN GC   ‘MOST TERRIFYING SIGHT IN HISTORY   Naval Force Supports Airmen Between Mediterranean Islands.

Bombers Roar on  All Sides   RAF Pounds Berlin, Yanks  Cross Channel

HEAVY ALLIED AIR CAMPAIGN ROCKS EUROPE   Axis On Receiving End Of Gigantic Bombing. Allies Lose 34: Planes.

C.1. Monroe Must Pay Back $30,000   Court Rules Against Watervliet Man

ORDERED 10 ~ PAY $30,000   Chester I. Monroe Told to Reimburse Baldwin Estate

Seaplane Wreckage Yields Bodies of Admiral, 18 Others   Wreckage Found 140 Miles North of San Francisco, Reveals Terrific Impact In Crash 11 Days Ago

Find Wreckage Of Seaplane   19 Aboard Plane Missing 11 Days Died In Crash

Bodies of 19 Who Died in Crash of Plane Recovered   Rear Admiral Is Among the Dead

Bodies of 19 Found in Plane Wreckage   Rear Adm. English Among Victims of Seaplane Crash

19 BODIES FOUND IN WRECKED PLANE      ‘ Charred And Twised Plane Found Southwést Of Ukiah, Calif.

RECOVER BODIES QF ALL DEAD IN PLANE DISASTER   Big Naval Plane Crashed In Rocky California Canyon

Two MP's Acquitted in Great Falls   Number of Citizetes Satisfied With  Canrt’ce Findinoe

SUBSIDY ISSUE DELAY 1S URGED   McCormack Suggests Verdict Be Left To '44 Vote

Food Subsidy Delay Sought   “McCormack Asks Stay Of  Judgment Until After  Eleetions.

Cormick For etting Aside ubsidy Bill   Would Continue It Until Next Election, Then Let . People Decide  eee   BHOWDOWN SLATED FOR COMING WEEK   Test Will Be On Extend  ing CCC, Into Which Has  - Been Written Stringent Ban-on Subsidies-

SUBSIDY PLANS FACE VOTE SOON   Rep. McCormack Says Program Could be Settled By People in ‘44

House Leader Asks Subsidy ‘Truce Until Elections   Issue Should Be Decided by People, McCormack Says

Wants Public to Decide Question  McCormick Asks Stay of Subsidies Judgment

SUBSIDY DELAY URGED IN HOUSE   LEADER McCORMACK WOULD LET PEOPLE PASS ON ISSUE IN ’44 ELECTIONS. 

Allied Armies In Italy Continue To Drive Ahead   Smash Through Breaches In Western Flank Of Nazi Defense Line   GERMANS DROP BACK NORTHWARD  BULLETIN

ALLIES CRACK LONG - PLANNED NAZI DEFENSES   German Forces Pushed North. ward In Italy Under Punishing Blows

NAZI DEFENSES ON RIGHT WING IN ITALY CRACK   Fifth Army Smash at Croce and Massico Pays Big Dividends

Navy Set To Block Escane   Two Italian Ships Sunk In “Campaign Of Annihilation

Britain's Navy Ready for Axis   Say Evacuation Try Will Be Smashed

MANY VESSELS KNOWN TO BE AROUND ITALY   Two Enemy Destroyers Are Sunk By Allied Warcraft Off Sicily   Supply Tonnage Given

BRITISH FLEET READY FOR GERMAN ESCAPE ATTEMPT   Admiral Cunningham Says Any Effort by Enemy to Flee Tunisia Will Be Smashed by Warships,   BOATS ARE GATHERING IN PORTS OF ITALY   Declares Allied Shipping Losses in Theater Small — Subs Have Dene Good Job.

British Navy Ready Smash Nazi Attempt To Stage ‘Dunkerque’ from North Africa

[Believe Tri-Partite Meeting May Speed iUp Allied Post-War Program For Germany

Decision by FDR, Stalin, Churchill On  Disarming Germany Believed Imminent

CHURCHILL, FDR AND STALIN MAY MEET SOON   , Consideration of Post-War 'Politicial Economic’ Structure for Germany Believed   Among Plans

POST-WAR PLANS FOR GERMANY TO MOVE RAPIDLY   Expected to Be Speeded Up by Roosevelt-ChurchillStalin Meeting.   IS BELIEVED IMMINENT   Problem Will Involve Peace Enforcement and Control of German Industry.

‘What To Do With German Nation ToBe  Discussed   Future May Be Considered By Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill

Allied Leaders Are Expected To Meet Soon   Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill to Take Up Postwar Plans

HITLER, AIDES GIVE PEP TALKS   German Leader Blames Allies. Jews for Starting War

WITH VICTORIES LACKING OF WHICH TO BOAST HITLER TURNS WRATH ON JEWS IN NEW YEAR MESSAGE   Fuehrer Pictures Geriritin People as Peace-Loving. Himself as Leader Seeking to Save Them ° From Enemies and Insure Future Welfare

THE SAME HITLER (SI   Nazi Leader Blames Allies and “Jews” for Start- ° ing War 

Hitler Gives Germans Pep Talk’.   Fuehrer Places Blame for War on Allies, Jews

Old Theme Is Voiced By Hitler   Adolf Promises Reich No Repetition Of 1018   People Praised   Germany Will Never Capitulete, Dor Fuehrer Savs_

Unable to Boast of Victories. Hitler Blames Allies and Jews For Starting Second World War

Hitler Unable to Promise People Anyihing in 43   But He Does Blame Allies And-Jews For TheWer “

Hitler Again Promises No  Surrender  Fuehrer Says Year Ahead T. Pp. Wed m.

Hitler Talks . On Defensive   Says Germany Will Not Be Conquered and Will Not Capitulate

HITLER RANTS ON   Fuehrer's New Year Speech Singularly Devoid Of Victory Claims

HITLER PRAISES BERMAN MORALE   Fuehrer ‘gnores War De-velopments in Pep Talk To Nazis On New Year

ADOLF HITLER AND HIS AIDES GIYEPEP TALKS   Revert to Favorite Theme In New Year Message by   Blaming War On the   Allies and “Jews”   PROMISE VICTORY   Fuehrer Pictures Germany As Peace - Loving; Ig_ nores Recent Army po Reverses

Hitler Speaks To His People      Blames Allies And Jew For War; Another °18 Will Not Oceur

HITLER, DEVOID OF ANY NEW VICTORIES, BLAMES JEWS, ALLIES  NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO GERMAN PEOPLE GIVES . NO WORD OF REVERSES

Hitler Blames Allies For War I New YearSpeech   Fuehrer Fails To Mentior Battle Developments On Russian Front

Hitler Unable to Boast of Victories Again Blames Allies for Starting War

miller Says Reich Can't Be Beaten   ‘Germany Called “PeaceLoving’ ‘Jews Get Blame.

Fuehrer Reverts To Favorite Theme Hitler, Strictly On The Defensive, Blames Jews And Allies For The War

Hitler Has No Victories To Boast Of   Adolf Reverts to His Favorite  Theme of Blaming the   Allies and Jews for Starting  Wap -

HITLER REVERTS 10 OLD THEME. BLAMES ALLIES FOR WAR   Der Fuehrer Chooses To Ignore Staggering Blows In Russia, Africa

End of African Campaign Is Told ‘to Commons   “Came More Swiftly “Than Anticipated’ Reports Deputy

Schools Seen As Polio Check   13 Cases Reported In State Since July

SENATE CAUTIOUS ON PEACE POLICY   MOVE TO DELAY FOREIGN RELATIONS DECLARATION TILL ALLIES SPEAK OUT.

Senators Eye Delay on Peace Policy   Fear Open Debate Will Frustrate Tripartite Meet

Senate Leaders Would Postpone< Rew! on Bill  of . Country's.   * all és Believed

Await Stalin’s Views: Strong Move Developing To Delay Postwar Planning Pending Parley

Germans Split Partisan Lines  - Villages Burned by vancina Noazic

N azis Smash ‘Hole i in Lines Of Yugoslays   Germans, Serbs. Croats Fire Villages; Tito’s Partisans Kill Regiment

Cleveland NewsPaper Executive Is Victim of Shooting   Assailant Kills Self After Critically “Wounding McCarren

News Publisher Shot in Office By Man He Aided   Assailant Fatally Wounds Himself After Shooting  LEAVES NOTES  ‘Some Hope’ Held For the Recovery Of Newsnaner Man

PUBLISHER IS SHOT; ASSAILANT SUICIDE   John S. McCarrens, Cleve. land Newspaperman, Critically Hurt

Cleveland Newspaper Man Shot   ASSAILANT THEN COMMITS SUICIDE; HAD GONE TO PLAIN DEALER .MANAGER’S OFFICE FOR FIV ANCIAL AID.   ANPA Director

OHIO PUBLISHER SHOT THREE TIMES   FLAIN DEALER MANAGER CRITICALLY WOUNDED—ASSAILANT KILLS SELF.

PUBLISHER SHOT AT CLEVELAND   Assailant Kills Self; Victim In Serious Condition

GUNMAN WOUND: OHIO PUBLISHER   John $. McCarrens, General Manager of Cleveland Plain Dealer, Wounded; Assailant Kills Himself

Ai:\erican B.-mbers In Attacks   No U. 8. Planes Lost in So omons Action—Japs Lose  Four Planes

Absentees ‘Laid Off At Ship Plant   150 Welders Released for Being Absent from Jobs Without Excuse; Poor Planning Blamed By CIO

150 Welders Lose Jobs   Dismissed by Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding Plant For Being Absent

OL MEN HOP ON “TPA POLICIES   Blame Bureau and Its BackStage Rulers for Sour Oil, Gasoline Situation

Il Duce’s Sagging Morale Bolstered By Von Ribbentrop   Mussolini Decides To Stay With Germany To The “Bitter End’’

Jap Subs Reported Active Off W. Coast   Navy to Construct Three Super Aircraft Carriers

NORWAY, DENMARK TROUBLE GERMANS   Nozi Occupation Authorities Resort to Stern Measures to Keep the Peace.

Twin Little Boys Burned to Death   Portales Mother Hurt In Rescue Attempt

FORCE ENTRY IN SOUTHWEST PART OF CITY   Hope To Isolate Big German Garrison; Fall Certain

Russians Blast Way Into Orel   Counteroffens1v« In Donets Is Failure

Nazis Report Reds Break  Orel Defenses   Russians Strike Enemy With Terrific Force

Fall OF Orel To Russians Believed Near  Soviets Smash Way Into Edge Of City

Predict Swill Confirmation Of ‘New OPA Head   Senate Pleased Over Choice of Brown for. Henderson Job

SENATE EXPECTED TO CONFIRM BROWN   Committee Receives No Protests Against His Appointment as Price Administrator,

BROWN AWAITS SENATE ACTION   Nomination of New Price Administrator Up For Contirmation Monday

Houston Fire Culs .  Four-Story Building,  Threatens Block $1,000,000 Blaze _ Termed Worst in:  City Since 1924

HUGE ARMS INVESTMENT   U. S. and Private Industry Have Spent 19,339 Million.

Americans Lose Over 20 Planes But Raid Success   Ninth Air Force Hits Staggering Blow At German War Machine

Heavy Blow To German  War Effort   More Than Twenty American Bombers Are Lost in Raid

ALLIES BOMB OIL FIELDS IN RUMANIA   Raid Devastates Vital German Supplies of Fuel Oil, Gas

RUMANIAN « OIL HELO RAIDED BY U.S. FLIERS   20 Liberator Planes Lost But Heavy Damage Dealt Naz! War Machine

200 U.S. PLANES RAID RUMANIA'S BiG GUL CENTER   Over 20 Liberators Lost; Damage is Heavy   STAGGERING BLOW ‘ AT GERMAN POWER

GIRL DENIES SLAYING   16-Year-Old Insists Unknown Man Murderer Of Pather, Brother

DENIES SLAYING OF FATHER, BROTHER   16-Year-Old Girl Thought Family Was In Danger

LOWER POINTS OUT ON MEAT, OPA SAYS   Further September Reduction Hopes Shattered By Bowles

Boys of 17 Eligible For Army Reserve  Orders Are Sent to Recruiting Stations

NAZI TROOPS “ARE STATIONED ~ AROUND VATICAN   Belfeved It May Be. Prefude to the Complete Occupation ef Rome.

POPE PIUS Xi IS TECHNICAL NAZI PRISONEF   German Parachutists Have Monted Guuard: at St. Peter’s Square’ in Rome

Nazis Take Over Guard At Vatican   Germans Don’t Want Anybody There, Dispatch Says

BRICKER SAYS COP MUST LEAD GOVERNMENT   National Chairman Attacks New Dealers in War Effort

HOUSEWIVES 10 Al) RATIONING   Job Wil! Be to Teli OPA What Kinds of Food People Are Eating.

FOOD RATIONING TO BE GUIDED BY HOUSEWIVES   Survey To Be Made To Get Facts and Figures of Actual Housekeeping   CENSUS PLAN TO BE USED   Data Expected To Show What _ Foods Should Be Rationed   And Give Reasons

TO ENLIST WOMEN FOR FOOD RATIONING   Will Require 5 to 10 Thou: sand Housewives

Housewives To Aid Food Rationing   Five to Ten Thousand Will Be Enlisted te Assist Government Run Program Aecording te Heusekeeping

Housewives To Help Fix Food Points  More Than 5,000 To Be Consulted In Rationing Plan

HOUSEWIVES 10 HELP-CHECK FOOL   ANSWER WILL GIVE OPA HINTS ON HOW TO RUN RATIONING

Paratroops Trap 20,000 Japanese Troops in Lae And New Salamaua Areas

Markham Valley Air Field Is Taken By Allies   Australians Rendezvous With Americans To Close Trap On Enemy

Atfack Planes in Biggest Air Formation Ever Massed In Area Lay Smokescreen as U. S. Chutists Float Down In Vari-Colored Chutes to Cut Jap Supply Lines at Lae

JAPS TRAPPED BY AIR TROOPS   Paratreops Cut Off Retreat of 20,000 in Lae and Salamaua Area,

Yank Paratroopers Soon Join Aussies To Close Ring Around 20,000 Japanese in Lae Area   MacArthur and Other Generals See Surprise from Planes 

20,000 JAPS TRAPPED BY P ARATROOPS   Hundreds of Airborne Am: erican Soldiers and Aussies Land Near Air field in Markham Valley   HAD BEEN ABANDONED

U.S. Paratroops Trap Japanese On New Guinea   20,000 Nips Cut Off From Supply Lines On Island

Yank Parachute Troops Cut Off Big Jap Force   Surprise Aerial Pincer Move Closes Ring At  Lae And Salamaua.

YANKS SEVER” JAP SUPPLIES   Allies Capture Enemy Airfield In Markham Valley

Yanks Cu Nip Isle  Supplies   PARATROOPS TAKE ENEMY MARKHAM VALLEY FIELD AS MacARTHUR WATCHES

IN CHARGE OF TROOPS   Airborne Forces Capture Airfield: Enemy, Taken By Surprise, Inflicts Few Casualties

SalamauaLae Ring Is Closed   Airborne Troops Joined By Land Armies in a Surprise Move

PARATROOPERS TRAP JAPS AT LAE, SALAMAUA   Flying Soldiers Seize Airfield in Markham Valley While MacArthur Looks On from Bomber

20,000 Salamaua, Lae Japs Caught In Noose   Paratroopers Draw Ring Tighter; Have No Hope For Escape; MacArthur Watches Action

Americans Cut Off Japanese Supply Sources   Paratroopers Join Aussie Artillery Unit To Take Field

'Paratroopers Cut Off Supply Lines ‘Of 20,000 Japs At Lae, Salamaua

Supply Lines Of Japs Cut By Allied Troopers   Paratroops Land In New Guinea To Trap Enemy

Paratroopers Sweep Down As M’Arthur Looks On —  Fram Bio Fortress

20,000 JAPS TRAPPED NEAR SALAMAUA AREA   Paratroopers In Surprise Raid; Australians Aid

Yank Paratroops Cut Jap Supply Lines Near Lae   MacArthur Watches Airfield Capture

All Nip Land Supply Lines Cut by Action   Gen. MacArthur Waiches  Procedure From Bomber; Airstrips Taken.   Land, Air Troops in Surprise Movement

Paratroops Trap 20,000 Guinea Jans   Capture.of Airfield Cuts All Possible Supplies by Land

20,000 Japs Are Trapped  In Lac Area   American Paratroops Are Aided By Aussies; Cut Off All Possible Land Supply Lines Of Japs

Paratroops Cut Japanese Supply Lines   Assault In LaeSalamaua Area Takes Strategic Airport

20,000 NIPS CUT OFF IN NEW GUINEA   Paratroops Seize Vital Airfield, Sever Supplies

Paratroops Take Over. Jan Airfield   Trap Closing Around Enemy On New Guinea

SUPPLY LINES   U. S. Paratroopers Capture Enemy Airfield in Markham Valley.   CLOSE IN ON SALAMAUA

TWENTY THOUSAND JAPANESE TROOPS TRAPPED NEW GUINE:  AMERICAN PARATROOPS CUT OFF LAE AND SALAMAUA FROM OUTSIDE

Land Supply Lines Severed In Sky Attack by Hundreds Of Yanks and Aussie Infantry

PARATROOPS AID AUSTRALIANS IN SURPRISE BLOW   Twenty Thousand Japanese Soldiers May Be In Lae-Salamaua  Trap With Little Chance Of Escape.

AIRBORNE FORCE SURPRISES JAPS ABOVE SALAMAUA  KEY AIRFIELD TAKEN AS ALLIES CLOSE IN

Gen. WArthur Pleased With  New Advances   Twenty Thousand Enemy Troops Caught Without Supply Route By Land.   PAR ATROOP TRIUMPH

American Paratroopers Trap 20,000 Japanese in Lae, Salamaua Area

‘CUT WITH CAPTURE OF ENEMY AIR iD ‘IN MARKHAM VALLEV OF NEW GUINEA   Australian Artillery Units Complete with Supplies March Overland Five Days to Rendzevous i: With American Near Field   Capture Of Donets : Mining Area: Almos (Completed By- ‘eds       Forces Jump Forward ‘Aftey Captiting Rail ~ Junction of Konotop and Threaten Bakhmtnach. Soviet Airforce Softening Way for Advance _

M’Arthur  Watched From Fort   Enemy Completely Fooled By Spec tacular Move.

U, S, AIRMEN HIT GERMAN COAST SECTOR TODAY   34 British Bombers Lost in Raids Over Occupied Europe

Daytime Attack Extends Allied Blows By Night   Berlin, Ruhr Valley And  Czechoslovakia Targets

BERLIN, RUHR ‘CZECHOSLOVAK ‘CITIES POUNDED   American Bombers Blast at Meault  St Omer in Follow-Up to RAF Raine   FRENCH COAST HIT      Russians Add to Round-TheClock ‘ Continuing Air Offensive with Raid on Warsaw

Berlin _ And Ruhr Blasted   Americans Follow R A. F. In Daylight Raids.

BERLIN JARRED, CZECH TARGETS HIT BY BOMBERS   British Lose 34 Planes in Assault Close on Heels Of Duisburg Raid

Czech Towns Also Hit in Night Attack   U.5. Planes Lash German Coastal Area

US. BOMBERS SLASH COAST OF GERMANY   Take Up Incessant 48 - Hour Air Offensive Where RAF Leaves Off.   CZECHOSLOVAKIA HiT   British Lose 34 Planes; Loud Biasts Roll Across English Channel From France.

Ruhr Valley ‘Hammered Also By Big IRAF Force   Créchoslovakian Points Are Also Attacked; 34 Bomber: Lost By British

RAF Pounds Berlin And the Ruhr Valley   Bombers Also Blast Targets in Czechoslovakia, All Blows Being in Great Strength— Nazis Report Yanks Over North Germany.

U.S.. British  Bombers Keep Attack Going   RAF Bombs Berlin, Czechoslovakia, And Ruhr In Strong Night Raids.   AAF HITS COAST AREA

Air Assault On Germany Continues   Berlin and Czechoslovakia Blasted in 8 Hours of Incessant Attack   NON-STOP RAIDS ON NORTH GERMANY   Berlin Radio Reports Big American Bombers Taking Part

BERLIN, RUA ARE ATTACKED   Allied Air Offensive Extended to Many Points on Continent.   HIT CALAIS. DUNKERQUE

BRITISH ATTACK BERLIN, RUHR AND CZECH AREA   RAF Loses 34 Planes In Second Night Of Great Aerial Offensive Over Europe; U. S. Planes Raid North German Coast

Foes Vie For Isle   Allies Bomb Berlin, Ruhr   34. Planes Downed. In Sweeping Raids

Berlin, Ruhr And Czechs Bombed   Heavy Raids Blas Wide Axis Area

BERLIN AMONG AREAS HIT IN NIGHT ATTACKS   Nazi Radio Says Americans Stage Daylight Raid Along North German Coast   ‘DAMAGE {S$ WIDESPREAD   Czecho-Slovakia And Ruhr Valley Bombed; Russians Strike At Warsaw

Non-Stop Offensive Against French Coast Targets Continuing. Explosions Indicates Calais and- Dunkerque Afeas Receiving Rent of Raids.

U. S., British, Russian Bombers Blast Nazis   Berlin, North Germany, Czechoslovakia, Ruh Valley And French Invasion Coast Pounded Incessantly During Last 48 Hours

GERMAN OBJECTIVES HEAVILY BLASTED BY RAF AND U.S. BOMBERS  BERLIN, RUHR VALLEY, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, GERMAN COAST ATTACKED

Germany Target Again For Big Allied Air Raid   Punishing Blows Dealt Naziland In Continuing Attack

CZECHOSLOVAKIA, RUHR AND BERUN ATTACKED   British Lose 34 Planes In Smash At German Port Of Duisbere

British Smash German Targets   Attack North German Coastal Area and Berlin, Nazis Say

RAF SMASHES AT GERMANY   Bombs Rain on Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Ruhr Valley

RMADAS RAID ERLIN, RUHR   Nazi- Occupied Czechosloyakia Alsa Pounded In Great Strength During Nicht   U.S. BOMBERS HIT REICH COASTAL AREA   Tremendous Explosions Heard From Calais and Dunkerque Areas; 34  British Planes Lost —

34 Bombers Lost During Powerful Raids On Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Rhur Valley, Also North German Coastal Area. :

Reich Is Pounded By Allied Airmen For Second Night   In Great Strength American and British Fliers Continue Assault.   British Lose 34 Big Planes in Their Raid

LARGE AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE COASTAL REGION   Ruhr Valley And Berlin Blasted In Night Mission

Berlin, Ruhr. Valley and Czechoslovakia Pounded  By RAF in Night Attack

RAF Bombs Berlin, Rubr Valley Area   Czechoslovakia Also Pounded— Coastal Area Hit Today

Air. Attacks Extended Over 2 Days   34. More RAF Planes Lost; American Fliers Assault Germany’s North Coast

Air Raiders Continue to Pound Nazis   RAF Night Attack on Germany Followed By U. S. Action

AMERICAN AIRCRAFT HIT COAST   British Again Lose 34 Planes As Air War e fare Intensifies

2nd Front Need May Be Ended   .. + By Iran Conference, Service Journal Says

F lyi ing Fortress Piloted By Tulsan Survives Air Fight; Crewman Dies, Gunner Hurt

Fortress ‘Boom Town’ - Beats Gremlins, Whips ~ Germans In Wild Raid

LAST OF JAP RESISTANCE AT BUNA BLASTED   Secretary Knox in Negative Opinion on Enemy Reenforcements for Guadalcanal Area

Allies Destroy Buna Pocket; Hit At Sanananda   Guns, Planes Bomb North Coast Garrison: Relief Sectors Also Raided

Last of Japs on Buna Wiped Out by Allies   Americans and Australians Now Attacking Remaining Few Trapped on Sandspit

BLAST JAP BASES IN NO. NEW GUINEA   Might Have Sent Help to Japs at Sanananda Point

LAYING PLANS 10 STRIKE JAP BASE   U. §. Forces Make Nev Gains In Guadalcanal, Enemy Unable to Land Food.

BUNA AREA OF NEW GUINEA IS CLEAR OF JAPS   Wipe Out Last Pocket Of Resistance, Find 50 Bodies

LAST JAPS IN BUNA AREA WIPED OUT   Allied Troops Are Moving On Forces At Sanananda

ENEMY RESISTANCE IN BUNA SECTOR IS TOTALLY SMASHED   MacArthur's” 8 Forces Massed  For Drive To Throw Japanese Out OF  Papua   HEAVY BOMBERS PROVE EFFECTIVE

RED CROSS RELIEF AT A NEWHIGH   Huge Amount of Supplies Sent To War Victims

All-Time High In Relief Set By Red Cross   $63,000,000 in Supplies Are  Distributed

Hit Nazis Hard  In Norway Area   Planes of a S. Carrier Team With British in Blow at Supply Lines.

HIT NORWAY COAST TOWNS   Surprise Germans In Blow Against Supply Lines

YANK-BRITISH WARSHIPS HIT  NAZI SHIPPING   Planes From U. S. Carrier Sink Craft Off Coast Of Norway; Germans Stay In Hiding

NAZI SHIPS OFF NORWAY HIT BY U. §., BRITISH   American Plane Carrier In Force; Nazi Navy Dared To Fight

U.S. Ships And Planes Strike Daring Blow At Nazi Shipping Off Norway   Americans Team Up With Units Of. British Home Fleet In Defiance Of Enemy Warships

SY Ten <i[s-c-sonescmeeene  Planes From U. S. Carrier Attack Coast Of Norway      Surprise Blow At Nazi Supply Lines Defies Strong Nazi Navy, Which Doesn’t Fight

—SEA ATTACK—. =  GEAMAN SUPPLY LINES ATTACKEL   Planes From. U.- S.- Aircraft Carrier Strike At Nazis Off Norway

Yankee Planes  Challenge Foe   U. S. Aireraft Carrier. British Ships Strike Off Coast Of Norwav.

Nazi Supply Lines Off the Coast of Norway Are Blasted by British Planes With Aid of Yank Carrier

Allies Raid Norse Coast   U. S. Carrier-Based Planes Strike Blow At Nazi Supply Lines

THE BOX SCORE ST.LOUIS 0013000001472        NEW YORK 00(0100002/31610   Navies Strike Blow Off Norway’s Coast

Nazis Ignore Allied Dare in Sea Attack   Large Axis Tanker ts Hit in Raid Along Norwegian Coastline

DARING ATTACK UPON NAZI SUPPLY LINES OFF NORWAY COAST  FORAY, HOWEVER, FAILED   FORAY, HOWEVER, FAILED TO DRAW GERMAN WARSHIPS FRO;1 HIDING

Yankee-British Fleet Units Blast Nazi Ships   Allied Attack Fails To Lure German Warships Into Action

SURPRISE BLOW HITS NAZI SHIPS   U.S. Carrier, British Flee . Strike. Foe Off Norway.

IN SURPRISE BLOW   U.S. Carrier Planes Hit Nazi Sup« ply Shipping Off Norway

Allies Strike At Nazi Supply Lines  Planes Attack Supply Lines Off Norway

U. S., British Fleet Units Smash German Supply Lines Off Norway   Surprise Blow Carried Out Monday In Defiance Of Strong Enemy Naval Forces Concentrated In Area.

German Shipping  Takes Pounding  U. S., British Wars hips In Surprise Raid

Planes From American Carrier Score Many Hits Or Large Enemy Merchant Ships; Full Report Of Action Not Yet Revealed   MacArthur Gets Enough Supplies, President Hints

PLANES FROM U. S. CARRIER ATTACK ENEMY SHIPPING   RAID FAILS TO DRAW NAZI WARSHIPS FROM NORWEGIAN FJORDS

Combined U.S.., British Fleet Units Smash Nazi Shipping in Surprise Raid Off Norway

REPUBLICAN WINS SPECIAL ELECTION   Chester 0. Carrier Defeats His Democratle Opponent Easily Fer Congress In Kentucky Voie

Place Ceiling on Used Machinery   Five Types of Farm implements Placed Under Price Control —Prices Too High

Sicilian Port: Virtually Wiped Out by Bombs   Allied Flyers, Freed From African Duties, Strike at Italy’ -

Allied Bombers Hammer Vital Ports of Sicily   Marsala Virtually Wiped Off Map: Dock Area of Catania Is Left in Flames

WAGE -DISPUTE REPORT AWAITED   Vinson To Give Government's Side Of Rail Problem

VINSON TO AIR RAIL PAY ROW   Economic Czar To Present Government’s Side

VINSON TO AIR . RAIL PAY VIEW   Economic Czar Will Present Congress Government’s Side in Dispute

Giant Normandie Refloated After 18 Months’ Task   Job. However, Still Far From Completed: 93 Pumps Stopped

Salvage Workers Are Re-Floating Normandie Liner   Engineers Fear She May Again Become Mud-logged As Tide Goes Out

Former French Luxury Liner Is Again Afloat  ‘Hull of Vessel Said as Good as It Eve Was by Naval Man

Former Liner Normandie  Refloated. Tide Feared   (Picture of Salvage Operations on Pase §)

Huge ‘Normandie Afloat Again   Liner Up From Mud After Year and Half

EXPECT A BATTLE   Allies Look for Enemy. to Make a Stiff Fight on Sdle 

Yankees Plunging Inland; Enemy Opposition Grows      Major Clash Shapes On Flanks Of Allies

Major Battle Is Expected On Sicilian Front   Military Observers In London Believe Axis Still Is Able To Make   a ee Chand

Berlin Sees No Balkans Threat   Claims Allies Will Not Land This Year

RANKS FARMING WITH MUNITIONS   ‘Hoover Makes Closing Plea at Midwest Parley on Food Crisis

Hoover Presents Plan To Forestall Critical Food Shortage In U. S.

EX-PRESIDENT SPORE BEFORE _ FARM STATE. GOVERNORS . —SIX-POINT PROGRAM ADOPTED 1

TRIES AGAIN   Steelman Seeks to Break Mine Pay Dispute Deadiock.

Late News Bulletins   Exchance Ship Saile Today from South Africa

Allies Capture 12 More Sicilian Towns   Total of 20,000 Prisoners Have Been Taken

Battle to Decide Fate of All Sicily  Warships Shell “Drome;  OS Wace: PS peel

Allies Take Mor e Towns, Pri "isoners  Total 20,000   Americans, Canadians Capture Vizzini  And Reported Pouring Onto Catania Plain   COUNTER-ATTACK OF NAZIS SMASHED

STAKE HIGH IN STRUGGLE CY ABLAZE   Fall Would Give Allies Control of Much of Sicily and Threaten Axis With Disaster.   INVADERS OCCUPY 2 MORE TOWNS   Americans Capture Agrigento in 10-Mile Plunge —20,000 Axis Captives Taken to Date.

Invasion Forces Capture {2 New Towns as Armies Continue Advance   British Eighth Army Surges Northward up East  Coast and Are within  15 Miles of Catania

Battle Rages As Allies  Press Gains   Enemy Prisoners Total 20,000; Troops Of Americans, Canadians Rush Toward Catania; Fight Gets Tougher

ALLIES FORGE FARTHER INTO SICILY PLAINS   LEAFLETS DROPPED; PRISONERS TOTAL OVER 20,000

Allied victory will give control of Sicily without need for full occupation   Agrigento, important axis troop center falls to American adweanna

Total of Foe Prisoners is Now Over 20,000; German Armored Divisions Hurled Back With Heavy Losses

eee ee CY) ~ a eee  Council of Church ‘Women Will Unite fr  Prayer Service

U-BOATS RESUME ACTION   Brazilian Ship Goes Down i in South ; Atlantic Waters

REVOLT OVER ~MARCANTONIO   SOUTHERN DEMOCEATS BEBINI ‘MOVE TO: WAGE _ ALTTER : FIGHT, ON APPOINT. - MENT TO" COMMITTS

American Raid On Wilhelmshaven Proves Expedition Of Close Shaves

‘YANKS HAVE NARROW ESCAPES BUT THEY’RE GRINNING WHEN THEY RETURN FROM GERMANY

PRAYING CREW RCHTS ITS WAY   Fortress Group Safe with 4-Foot Hole in Rudder

'Lt. James Moberly of Moberly _ Has Clase Call in Bomber . Raid on Wilhelmshaven

Praying Fortress Crew F ights Way In From Wilhelmshaven Al] Shot Anart

Lady Luck An Unlisted Passenger On U. S. Air Raid On Withelmshaven

Lady Luck Goes Along As Unlisted Passenger On Wilhelmshaven Raid

Lady Luck Rode With ’em   “SOUTHERN COMFORT” TORN TO BITS BUT GETS BACK; CAPT. “GUSSIE” PYLE MAKES 16TH RAID OVER GERMANY, GRINS AGAIN   U. 8. Bombardiers Declare

LADY LUCK HAS FRONT SEAT IN BOMBER ATTACK   Plane Narrowly Misses Disaster On Nazi Mission

U.S. Air Force’s Assault On Wilhelmshaven Was An Aerial Expedition Of Close Shaves

UNLISTED PASSENGER ON U.S. BUMBERS  GLADWIN HILL, AP COR. RESPONDEND, TELLS OF AIR RAID ON CERMANY  mt LUCK WAS AN

American Fliers Braved. Withering Fire tc  Attack Nazi Base of Wilhelmshaven

Praying Fortress Crew Fights Way Back With 4 Foot Hole in Rudder

Luck Rides U.S. Planes   Correspondent Says . Raid on Wilhelmshaver One of Close Shaves

Lady Luck Rides With Big Yank Bomber: As They Deal SmashingBlow At Germany

FORTRESS CREW HAS   U. §. Bomber With Big Hole in Rudder Fights Way Back * Frou Wilhelnshaven

K K > .@ > G “Lady Luck” Rides With “Close Shave’ Boys   Jury Quickly Frees Ursula Parrott

STIFF FIGHT ON FARM SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS   SENATE ENGULFED BY CONTROVERSY ON FARM PROGRAM

SANDUSKY WOMAN AND THREE SONS AND DAUGHTER * “VICTIMS.OF KENTON,  ACCIDENT

Chaplin Named  In Paternity Suit   Comedian to Appear  In Court June 17

SAYS FASCISM IS DEAD IN SICILY   Correspondent Writes Of Islanders’ Attitude

Three British Newsmen Killec  Reporters With Clark’ Fifth Army Die In Eiahtina Near Nanlec

Newsten Are War Victims   Three British Correspondents Killed While with Fifth Army Near Naples

Three Newsmen Are Killed Near Naples   Makes 10 British Correspondents Killed in War

CATROUX PROGRESSES   Settlement Of Lebanese Crisis Ou Way, Reports Claim

GANDHI'S FAST . IN THIRD WEEK   Mahatma’s Condition Helc To Be Unchanged

BEGINS THIRD WEEK OF FAST   Gandhi in Final Week of 21-Day Fast — Rallies to Such Extent that Friends Predicted that He would Survive Ordeal. .

GANDHI RALLIES IN 21-DAY FAST   Friends Now Feel Indian Nationalist Leader Wil! Survive Protest Plan

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Pound “Jap” Airdromes at Wuchang and Hankow

UTTER DEFEAT FASCISM SURE, BRITON CLAIMS   Foreign Secretary Emphasizes Italy “Now Lies Wide Open to Air Attack”   REPLIES TOALL  RAID APPEASERS   Declarations Come On - Heels of Fresh Reports: of Attacks On’ Mus  solini’s Bases

ITALIANS FACE UTTER DEFEAT   WE ARE DETERMINED TO DESTROY FASCISM SAYS ANTHONY EDEN

ALLIES TO POUND ITALY WITH NO LET-UP; GERMANY STARTED IT, NOW MUST TAKE IT, EDEN DECLARES

taly Lies Wide Open To Air Attack—People Must Decide if They'll Endure It—Eden

EDEN PROMISES MORE BOMBINGS FOR THE ENEM)   Briton Avers Attacks to Continue Until Nazi, Fascist Regimes Crushed

Eden Vows Bombing Of Italy, Germany Until Utter Defeat   Relentlessly Determined To Strike “With Ali Force We Possess” He Says

EDEN PLEDGES AIR RAIDS TILL AXIS FOLDS UP   Assures Germany And Italy Will Be Bombed By Allies Into ‘Utter Defeat’

Relentless Bombings Tc Continue, Eden Says   ’ Geering Started It And Gloated Over It, And None Who Talk Now Protested Then

Axis Faces Air Attacks To The End   Eden Says Germany, Italy Will Be Bombed Until Regimes Are Defeated

EDEN PLEDGES AXIS BOMBINGS   Says Allics Arc Determined To Destroy All Of Nazi And Fascist Regimes

EDEN PROMISES UTTER VICTORY   Says Italy And Germany Will Be Bombed “Until  Utter Defeat”

EDEN PROMISES MORE BOMBINGS   Italy Particularly Open to Attack, Is Claim

DAVIS DEFENDS OW! BOOKLETS   eee  Director Denies Political Propaganda Charges

Fleeing Nazis Under Steady .  Fire From Air   British Troops Hardly Pause In Tripoli But Continue On Heels Of Germans, Who Seek Uninn With Tunisian Army

Paratroops Aid Rommel Flight Toward Tunisia   Nazi Legions Seek Junction With Von Arnim

Axis Wiped From Libya   Race Westward to Help Allied Troops Mop up Nazis Seeking To Widen 50-Mile Escape Valley

Allied Forces Mop Up Nazi Parachutists   Capture of Tripoli By Gen. Montgomer Topples African Empire of Italy

Fall Of Tripoli Fails To Check Speeding Army   Rommel’s Routed Forces Battered By Allied Planes

Tripoli Fails as Rommel Seeks Escape   Il Duce’s Italian Empire Is Completely Toppled

Ancient Citadel’s Fall Climaxes 1300-Mile Thrust   Allied Troops Round Up German Parachutists Trying to W iden Beeane Corridor of Fleeins Rommel

BRITISH DRIVE ONWARD ARTER TRIPOLI FALLS   Allied Planes Hammering Rommel's Columns On Coastal Highway To Tunisian Border   AMERICANS AIDING FRENCH IN BATTLE   Axis Parachute Troops Landed In Effort To Aid Rommel, But Are Soon  Rounded Up

Allied Planes Keep Poundin, Rommel Armv   March Across Libya Shatters Duce’s Dream Of Empire

Tripoli's Fall Last Of Duce's African Empire   Nazi Parachutists Who Tried To Widen “Bomb Alley” Are Being Mopped Up

MOVE ONWARD AFTER TAKING OVER TRIPOLI   Allies Mopping Up Paratroops Trying To Aid Rommel

Montgomery’s Men Topple African Empire Of Mussolini; Mopping Up Rommel’s Parachutists in Bomb Alley

Race Through Captures Tripoli in Attempt To Close Allied Trap   Planes, Naval Guns Take Toll of Axis Officials Trying to Escape by Boat; Nazi Parachutists Are Mopped Up

ALLIED FORCE MOPS UP NAZI PARACHUTISTS   MARSHAL ROMMEL IS FLEEING INTO TUNISIA

Duce's Empire Topples When Rommel Flees  British Continue To Punish Fleeing German Columns

British Push On Westward From Tripoli   Axis Strives To Widen ‘Bernb Alley’ Escape Corridor To Tunisia   ALLIES WITHDRAW   French Bulletin Tells Of All Day Fighting With American Aid

RAIN BOMBS ON FLEEING AXIS ARMY   Mussolini’s African Eme pire Topples as Seaport Falls to Gen. Montgomery’s Forces.   ROMMEL HEADED TOWARD TUNISIA   (rermans Repulsed in Protectorate as They Try to Secure Line of Marshal’s Retreat.

TROOPS ENTER CAPITAL AFTER O MONTH PUSH   Capture of Libyan City Sends Mussolini’s Empire in Africa Crashing.   ALLIED PLANES POUND RETREATING AXIS FORCES

OPA CZAR SAYS NO MORE CUT IN RATION VALUE   Estimates Five Million Cars Would Be Halted By Further Slash

EASTERN GAS RATIONS WILL BE MAINTAINED   Henderson Denies Reports Further Cuts Are  Imminent   USE LIMITED

Pleasure Ban Is Tightened      Five States To Check Cars Today ;-No. Change In. . «A Coupons Seen. 

REDUCTION OF GAS COUPONS IS WITHHELD   Henderson Says That A, B, and C To Remain at Three Gallons

[HEAT GOOD FOR CROPS   Flood: Crests Passing Slowly. Out Of State si.

Mannheim, Pilsen Pounded In Heavy British Attacks   More Than 600 Planes Join In  Record 1943 Sweet

New Reduction In East’s Gas   Value Of B. C Coupons Cut As Inventories At Critical Levels,

GAS RATION IN EAST REDUCED   Cut to 2'4 Gallons by New Order of OPA

VALUE OF “B” AND “C” GAS COUPONS IS CUT   Effective At Midnight They Will Be Good For Only Two And One-Half Gallons Each

Sensibaugh Completes (Classification As An Aviation Cadet S. An.

PLAN 18 PER CENT. REDUCTION FROM THE PRODUCTION RATE LAST QUARTER OF 1542

ANE IGANG NOW UN FINAL MILE OF MUNDA DRIVE   Japs Hold Strong Positions As U.S. Jungle Fighters  Creep Forward

AMERICANS HACK ~ WAY TOWARD JAP BASE AT MUNDA   Nipponese Bitterly Contesting Advance of Yanks in Jungle

Going Is ‘Slow But Steady   Airmen Scor Hits Or Japanese Convoy; Land Advance Moves Forward By Feet and  Inches.

YANKS AT LAST MILE TO MUNDA   Advance Through Jungle Slow And Difficult

SWISS NEWSPAPERS SAY HATRED “1S REACHING BREAKING POINT   GERMANS FACING WAVE OF SABOTAGE AND ASSASSINA4 TIONS IN OPINION OF SWISS

Allied Planes Bomb Jap Base Heavily   Town of Madang Is Reported Engulfed in Flames

JAP BASE AT MADANG HIT IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur’s Bombers Drop 38 Tons of Explosives

Labor Fights Proposed Regulations   Curb on ‘Unfair’ Union Practices  Provided in Bill.

OHIO-LABOR-FORCES-- CARRY ON FIGHT IN. LEGISLATURE TODA)      Join Forces: Against: Plan Requiring Registration of All Labor Unions.

Martinique Sends Terms to U. §.   Robert Confers With Admiral Hoover

AUSSIES BREAK UP ATTACKS BY 2 JAP FORCES   Enemy Columns. Still Separated By Few Miles

MacArthur's Aussies Repel CounterBlows   Repeated Attempts To Recapture  Finschhafsen Fail; 200 Of Foe Die   BUILD INDIES BASES   Former Dutch Islands Are Reported Studded With Enemy Airfields

AUSTRALIANS REPEL JAPS IN NEW SUINER   Enemy Attacks Repeatedly Against Finschhaten

Aussies Smash Two Drives By Jap Forces   Enemy Columns Striving To Re-establish Their Lines At North End Of Huon Peninsula

REPEATED JAP COUNTERATTACKS AT  FINSCHHAFEN BROKEN UP   Enemy Columns Attempting to Establish Contact

AUSSIES HALT  LATEST JAP COUNTER MOVE   Repel. Attempts - To Re-Capture ~ Finschhafen.

Australians Repulse Jap Thrust:   Enemy Makes Some Gains* Near Finschhafen

FINSCHHAFEN IN ALLIED HANDS   Australians Break Up Recapture Try

——e————— rrr r—‘<; ma ee,  OPA TIGHTENS RUBBER REGULATIONS ON CARS

DEMANDS AS INFLATIONARY   Bowles; New Head of OPA Says He'll Resist All Pressure Groups.   PROMISES EXPOSURE   Farm Organization Calis For Lower Standard of Living and. Some Subsidies.

Grange Claims Rollback Would Cut Food Supply   Farm Group Challenges Demand Of Labor for Higher Prices

GOP, Goodland Agree State Legislature Should Recess Until Jan. 12

Plan Recess Of Legislature  Until Jan. 14   Gov. Goodland Agrees To Proposal Adopted At Caucus Held By Republican Members

U.S. MAY ENTER COAL IMPASSE   Scuthern Spokesman Sees Federal Intervention Soon

CONCILIATOR’S ENTRY. IN MINE PARLEY LOOM   Spokesmen for Southerr Coal Operators Expect ~ Government Expert's ‘Imminent Entrance   NOT UNUSUAL MOVE   Meanwhile, It Is Believed Agreement to Extend Present Contract Will Be Reached

SEEK AGREEMENT AN: MINE DISPUTE   FEDERAL EXPERTS MAY TAKE PART IN NEGOTIATIONS

CORN BILL PUT IN PIGEONHOLE   Task Of Remedving Big Shortage Is Left To Administration

nm DETAILS — “TOLD BY OW   GERMAN . ESPIONAGE. AGENT PERFECTED SYSTEM TO IN- ‘FORM JAPS OF PEARL  HARSOR STRENGTH

Allied Aerial Mine and Bombing Attack Against German Ships Take Heavy Toll

ALLIED AIR RAIDS (UT PRODUCTION   ‘Attacks on Enemy Ship:  ping Are Making Inroads

ALLIES SOWING MINES BY AIR   Campaign Against Foe Shipping Increases Nazi  Difficulties

‘Invisible’ Air Campaign Being Waged hy Allies  Uns math Arpad Tahes rific Toll of

Allies Cause Nazis Great Harm With Mines Sown by Air  Invisible Campaign Is Constant Hindrance To Enemy’s” Activities

Warren Becomes 30th Governor Today; Solons Tackle War Problems   Party Leaders Plead For Harmony, Minimum Of Delay; Garland Named Motor Vehicles Director

Warren Takes Over California Olfice   Simple Ceremony For New Governor

STREAMLINED RITES Earl Warren Takes Reins as California’s Governor   New Legislature Takes Office in Shift of State Political Picture

CLARK WAKES NEW GAINS ON WEST SECTOR   In East Eighth Army Troops Reported Only 8 Miles from Pescara.

OTH BATTLES ONLY o MILES FROM PESCARA   Holds New Bridgehead Ove ‘'r Moro Despite Nazi Attacks

CLARK GIVES LIE TO JONES ON SUBSIDIES   Asserts’ Commerce Secretary’: Statement Commitments Mad "Is Not True’

MAY REPEAL ” PAY CEILING   STRONG SUPPORT REPORTED FOR PROPOSAL TO KNOCK  " < OUT $25,000 BALARY LIMITATION

Ten Mi'lion Exempted In Pay Freeze   Series Of Articles To Explain Wage Program

Great Cost Ignored By Nazi Foe   SOVIETS ADMIT PLIGHT BE. COMING GRAVER HOUR BY HOUR.

SOVIETS ADMIT CITY'S PLIGHT S DESPERATE   Germans Disclose Fall of Vyazma, Last of Anchor Points In Offensive.

KHARKOV PERIL CRITICAL; NAZIS SMASH CLOSER   Germans Admit Losing Key City They Held 17 Months

Reds Admit Nazi Gain On Kharkov   Move on Soviet City is Made at ‘Enormous Cost’

AXIS ADMIT FALL OF VYAZMA WITH OTHER SUCCESSES   Russians Continue Victories Northeast of Key Stronghold of Smolensk, Take — Many Cities,   BRITISH, CERMANS STRIKE WITH PLANES   25,000 French Guerilla Army Is Reported In Coordinated Rebellion Against Nazi Forces.

Miners Approve Big War Show; Here On Monday   War Relics To Be Dis. played In "Steel For Victory’ Feature

“Germans Driven From Troina By American Forces   Axis Defense Line In Sicily " Is Now Reduced To 45Mile Front   HEAVY RESISTANCE FAILS TO HALT YANKS

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  tt GB saan Caren Daal tanokien of Vine Sd

U.S. Forces Seize Vital Road Junction   One of Greatest Allied Suc cesses of Campaign

ALLIED D PILOTS DOWN 212 JAPS   Take Big Toll Of Nippon Air Might In ThreeDay Battle

212 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN 3 DAYS BY ALLIES   HEAVY KILL COSTS ACARTHUR ONLY SEVEN AIRCRAFT

AIR OPERATIONS IN  NEW GUINEA SECTOR  GOST JAPS 212 CRAFI IN THREE DAYS ALLIED  AIR FORCES TAKE MCAVY ENEMV TOIT 4%

AIR OPERATIONS IN NEW GUINEA SECTOR COST JAPS 212 GRAF  IN THREE DAYS ALLIED

Japs Lose at Least 212 Planes in Three Days of Operations   Better Equipment is on Way to U. S. Airmen on All Fronts

JAP LOSSES IN AIR SHOW ALLIED POWER   Enemy Loses 212 Aircraft In Three Days

Yanks Destroy 112 Jap Planes In Three Day:   American Fighters And Bombers Rout Foe In South Pacific

STRIKE TOLL CUT 10 17,500 MINERS   1,600 Coal Mine Workers "Return to Work; Make New Pleas to Others

17,500 Miners _ Yet On Strike   1,600 Return To Work As Coal Supplies Dwindle * Throughout East .-

MORE.MINERS. BACK ON JOB   Another 1,600 Hard Coal Miners Join Back-ToWork Movement.

ENGLISH EDITOR DIES   Arthur: Mee Was 0 Originator o “Book of Knowle

ENGLISH EDITOR DIES   Arthur. Mee Was Originator of! “Book of Knowledge”

DIES SUDDENLY   Funeral Mass Here Monday; Burial at Ishpeming Tuesday.

POWER CO. MGR. DIES SUDDENLY   bad HEART ATTACK CAUSES DEATH OF J. B. O'NEILL LAST SATURDAY

COMBINED REUNION  TEXAS DIVISION, BEN seuss CAMP. AUGUST 11,12, B=

CONGRESS READY 10 WALK OUT ON U, S. RAIL STRIKE THREAT   Recess Plans Will Leave Problem Up To President

Congressional Plans For Recess Leaves RR Strike, Non-Operators Pay Boost Up To Administration

RAILWAY STRIKE PENDING   Administration Is Left To Avert Trouble Of Brotherhoods

Nazis Get Set For Outbreaks   Guerilla Activity Expected In France

MAW SIGNS CAR LICENSE — STICKER AC]   Solons Study Motor Bill Change in Marriage License Law

EXPECT PACIFIC WAR TO CONTINUE UNTIL YEAR “49   VICE ADMIRAL HORNE REVEALS NAVY BASING PLANS ON SEVERAL YEARS MORE WAR TO SUBDUE JAPS.   WAR COMPLACENCY SLOWS PRODUCTION   WPB Vice Chairman’ Reveals That 300,000 Tons of Steel Production Were Lost on Account of Mining Suspension.

Bingo Tonight—8 O'clock At HOPWOOD FIREMEN’S HALI   MATT WANTHT)

AMERICANS NEAR MUNDA   Troops Fight Way Forward Te Edge Of Japanese Airfield

ALLIES NARROW JAP BEACHHEAD IN MUNDA AREA      Stiffened Japanese Resistance Is Broken Up—179 Japs Killed

Believe Japs Trapped On Munda As Soldiers, Marines Push Through Junale

Roosevelt, Churchill In Quebec   Study Detailed War Plans Today   Today’s War Moves

FDR, CHURCHILL IN HUDDLE OVER NEW WAR PLANS Russians Skeptical O Qrerakar Meatina

Roosevelt, Churchill In Quebec Studying Plan Submitted By Experts

FDR, CHURCHILL STUDY DETAILED PLANS FOR WAR   May Be Blueprint For the Invasion of Europe

DECISION NEAR ON SUBSIDIES   Senate Group Plans Vote Today; Taft Seeks to Break Deadlock

laff Proposes Subsidy Slash   Would ‘Break Senate Deadlock an Program

Sen. Taft Offers Compromise Subsidy Bill   Would Eliminate Payments to Roll Back Some Prices

States to Have Control of Soldiers Votes   Senate Junks Idea of Supervision by the Government

Senators Want State Control   ‘Favor State Handling of Soldier’s Vote; Junk Federal Bill.

Senate Passes ~ Bill for State Voting Control   Federal Supervision of  Servicemen’s Votes : Is Junked

ABSENTEE VOTE BILL 1S KILLEL   Senate Coalition ‘Turns Servicemen’s Ballot Over To States

Senate Favors State Control Of Soldier Vote  Re jects Federal Hold On Ballots

SOLBIER BALLOT BILL SCRAPPED   SENATE PASSES SUBSTITUTE RETAINING STATE CONTROL OVER ELECTION.

States to Have Control of Soldiers’ Votes   Senate Junks Idea of Supervision Se a oa ON Fike Aina eam eS

I Ate Junks tt ‘icemen §  “ot Bill   38s Substitute » ling for State ‘atrol of Voting

Senate Votes State Control of Voting Of Servicemen by Absentee Ballots

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Senate Votes Substitute Wai Ballot Bill   New Measure Calls on States to Give Ballots To Servicemen at Home and Abroad

Coalition Kills Vet Vote Plans   But States May Send Out Ballots

Senate Passes Service Ballot Back To States   Plan For Federal. Supervision Given Death Blow 43-37

Service Vote  Up to States   Senale’s 42-37 Ballot Kills U. S. Contre]

SOVIETS BREAK  THROUGH NAZI DNIEPER LINE   Berlin Admits New Assaulf Aimed At Trapping Huge Force   GERMANS SUFFERING HEAVY CASUALTIES

Nazi Dniepe: Defenses  Axe Broken   Soviets Prepare To Snap Giant Trap On Germans

Russians Increase Major Threat To Large Nazi Force   Berlin Admits Reverses Inside Dnieper Loor Where Reds Capture 13 Villages; Battle Rages In Melitopol

Germans In South  Facing Vast Trap Melitopol Streets Seene Of Bitter Fichtine

German Radio Broadcasts  Admit Defeat   Soviet Army Increases Major Threat To Hundreds of Thousands Of Nazis Caught in Lower Russia

Red Army Smashes Ahead and Overruns 23 Villages   SEIZURE OF TRUNK RAILWAY EXPECTED   Effort Being Made to Cut Nazi Rail Lifeline to Poland

Sav =a7 Avion 3reax aroug 1 ~ never Sent _ ~ine; ?reyare ome 4ron--or _isma._ ews °

RED TROOPS THROUGH GAP IN NAZI LINE   Overrun 23 More Villages In. side Dnieper Loop; Nearing Trunk Railway Supplying Germans.   171 Tanks

SOVIETS PUSH AHEAD INSIDE DNIEPER LOOP   Reds Increase Threat to Trap Thousands of Nazi Troops

Soviets Are 20 Miles From Korosten; 500,000 Russians in Dnieper Bend Breakthrough, Berlin Reports

Reds Overrun 23 Villages in Dnieper Loop   Berlin Admits Axis Reverses Under Impac Of 300,000 Soviets:  Reds Near Kiev Line

300,000 Reds Smashing Nazis Into Dire Trap   Soviet Troops Near Trunk Railway Aiding Germans Protecting The Crimea

Russians Smash Nazi Lines on Dnieper Sector   23 More Villages Captured by Reds

AHEAD INSIDE DNIEPER LOOP   Reds lncrease Threat te Trap Thousands of ; Nazi Troops

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN DNIEPER LOOP   TRAP CLOSING ON HITLER’S MEN IN LOWER RUSSIA

Foe Prepares For New Red Onslaught   Russians Threaten Strategic Rail Site; Speed Ahead

Soviets Break Nazi Dnieper Bend Defenses   Berlin Admits Lines Cracked, but Moscow Is Silent

Drive Toward Old Polish Border Continues in Full Swing   RETREAT BY NAZIS IN SOUTH LIKELY   Berlin Reports the Soviets Have Smashed Dnieper Bend Defenses

Nazis Admit Lines Snapped By Russians   500,000 Red Troops Endeavor To Close Huge Trap in South  OTTER NRIVES CAIN

Russ Threaten To Cut Off Nazisin South   Red Forces Smash Ahead Deep Inside Dnieper Loop

Russians Score Dnieper Advance   Are Now Deep Inside River Loop Sector

Red Forces Ge' 60 Miles From Polish Border   Ukraine Army Within 20 Miles of Korosten As 50 Towns Token; Seek to Close Trap

500,000 Russians Closing Trap on Nazis in South   Germans Retreating in Dnieper Sector

Russ smash thru Dnieper defense line   Vatutin’s force nearing Poland

SOLONS PROBE - CAPITAL FEUD      Jesse Jones Invited to pear Before Committee

STALIN SPEECH BRINGS GLAMOR FOR INVASION   On African Front, Allies Check Rommel Attack, Inflict Losses

Second Front Demanded Now By Beaverbrook   Mass Expulsion of Foe Begun Despite Absence of Allies

Weight of War Now  On Russia   Stalin Protests and Lord Beaverbrook Demands  Action in West

DEMANDS FOR SECOND FRONT ARE DENEWED   Stalin Asserts Reds Bearing ‘Weight of War’

RUSSIANS FIGHT “GERMANS ALONE SAYS PREMIER   Tells Countrymen Nazis are Weakened But Not Yet Beaten.

Claims Time Ripe To Invade Europe   Rommel’s Drive Checked in Tunisia, But Nazis Still Fight Desperately

Inflation — Threat in . Sales Tax   Would Endanger Present Hold-the-Line Policy, Randolpk Paul Says   WOULD INCREASE PRICES OF FOOD   Treasury Counsel Defends Tax Program Proposed by Administration

Treasury Counsel Raps Sales Levy  Hold-The-Line P olic Would Be Threatened

PAUL DEFENDS  TAX PROGRAM   Treasury Counsel Warns Against Imposing Federal Sales Tax.   URGES A TAX INCREASE

MME. CHIANG SEES ALLIANCE   PLEDGES “NEW CHINA” TO BE FRIEND OF U. S.

Tire and. Gasoline Programs  Seen As Boon to Small Town Business

Scrap By Slavs Taking Aspect Of Major Front   - Many Divisions Of Nazis Tied Up In

FRONT OPENED BY YUGOSLAYS   Patriots Battle German Troops; Upheaval In Balkans Hinted

Scrap By Slavs Taking Aspect Of Major Front   Many Divisions Of Nazis Tied Up In Mountina Struagle

YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS FIGHTING GERMANS   Uprising Is Preliminary To Major Events In The Balkans, Lon don Paper Declares

Reich May Use 25 Full Division:   Germans Admit Serious Chvwspase vf Antini

Battles Assume Importance of A Major Front   War in Balkans Helping Allies

Mid Adriatic to Soon Become a Major War Front   Yugoslav Patriots Hack at Hitler's. Southern Lines —

Yugoslavs in  Major Battles’  With Germans Action May Be First  Part of Even Greater Balkan Development

THOUSANDS ARE RISING AGAINST GERMAN TROOPS   Fighting Along Adriatic Coast Is Approaching Seriousness Of Major Front

Yugoslavs Step Up Guerrilla Drive  Patriots Hack at   Patriots Hack at Southern Nazi Lines

Yugoslavs Fight Nazis Savagely  . Beitles Approach “a Major Front

Patriots Are Fighting With Fury   New Line Stretching From Mid-Adriatic To Northeastern Italy

Yugoslavs Hael At Southern German Lines   Heavy Fighting Rages At Split, Susak and Area of Gorizia

Yugoslays Turn Adriatic Coast ~ Into Big Front  Large Scale Battles mot tAleamenal De

Yugoslav Patriots Fight Savagely Against Germans   Approaches to City Mined

TOJ0: VICTORY  1Ss %       Says U. S., Britain Lack Vital Resources  I a a ng naa i

‘Foundation For Victory Laid:’ Tojo   Jap Premier Charges U. S., Britain With Ex ploitation Aims.

Drive Continued Toward Smolensk  Both Sides Lose Heavily ; In Donets Action

Germans Losing Heavily in Fierce Fighting in South After Threatening Counter Stopped

Drive to Knack Out Smo lensk Continues With Fury - ; BATTLE [S$ RAGING IN DONETS SECTOR New Thrusts of the In vader Reported Being * Held

RUSSIANS AIM AT SMOLENSK, CAPTURE BELY   BIG HOLES PUNCHED IN GERMAN ARMY POSITIONS

Soviets Check Nazis’ Push in  Kharkov Area   Russians Capture Scores of Places On Central Front, Smash Foe Lines in Lake Ilmen Region

REDS HOLDING NAZI TROOPS IN KHARKOV AREA   Bely And Scores Of Othe Towns On Central Front Taken By Soviets   RUSSIANS NEARING VITAL STARAYA RUSSA

Reds Take Scores: Of Towns In Drive Toward Smolensk   German smash Halted la Kharkay Area And. Nazi Lines Pierced-At Lake Iman

Russians Stiffen Resistance Below City After 100-Mile Retreat and Now Are Holding Firm.   CONTINUE ADVANCE ON CENTRAL FRONT   Reds Capture Bely and Other Towns as They Push to Within 80 Miles of Vital Smolensk.

NAZI ATTACKS . IN DONETS ARE HELD IN CHECK   Bely And Scores Of Other Towns Reported Seized By Soviet Army.

POSITIONS IN ILMEN SECTION ALSO CAPTURED   Fierce Enemy Assaults Repulsed As Attacks Are Renewed In Ukraine   Vyazma Imperiled

Bely One of Points Taken ‘By Russians   Timoshenko in North Also Successful; Staraya Russa Obiect

RUSSIAN TROOPS SWEEP INTO BELY   Scores of Towns Taken in Hard Drive on Smolensk   RUSSIANS PUNCH   New Holes in Nazi Positions Below Lake Iimen on the Northwest Front

Resistance On Central Front Holds   Attacks Collapse Against Red Lines Below Kharkov

IN THE SOUTH REDS: TEMPORARILY AT LEAST, HALT GERMAN DRIVES IN DONETS BASIN; LOSING 800 MEN

Russians Seize Bely in Drive Upon Smolensk   Soviets Punch New Holes in Positions of Nazis Below Lake  Ilmen in Northwest

U. S. To Stress Munitions, Says  Nelson Of WLB   Arsenal Nears Its Completion

HUGE ARSENAL IS COMPLETED      Nelson Says Construction Achievements Are ‘Remarkable’

War Plant Building 4-5 Done   American Arsenal Can Now Produce Weapons At a Speedier Rate

Speedier Production of Munitions is Seen as U.S. Arsenal Nears Completion

) ®  Construction Of War Plants Nears Climax      Gigantic American Arsenal Is Nearly Completed, WPB Report Shows

Most War Plants Are Now Finishec   Nelson Sees Greater Munition Production

Italian Declaration Seen As Bandwagon Movement Start   Proclamation of Badoglio Hailed in Washingtor. = Hastening Victory Over Nazis—Comments  _ Made by Members of Congress

Italian Action May Bring Other Nations in Line   Declaration of War : Termed Powerful Propaganda Weapon °

Officials Hail  Italian Action   Propaganda Use Is Held Immediate Benefit

U.S. Leaders Hail Italy’s War on Nazis   See Other Nations Following Lead; Blow at Germany

Senators Find  Be ES alsa OO ce  U.S: lagging Say British Policies  _ Already Functioning In Many Countries

WACS WILL PARADE :   Recruiting’ Gampaign To Start in Kansas City Tomorrow

Allied Lines Are Restored ~~ In New Blow   Montgomery Also - Betters ‘His Holdings. in Moves.” ~ “Squeezing Axis   PLANES ATTACK RETREATING. FORCES   Elaborate Mine Fields Slow: Americans Chasing.” Awis Columns:

Yanks Chase Foe Beyond Town In Gabes Direction   Allies Improve Positions In Northern Sector Of Mareth Line As Heavy Aerial Activity Reported Along Three Battlefronts ,

New Leader Sends Tanks And Forces Against Nazi-Held Tunisian Bottleneck

Gafsa in Western Tunisia Recaptured After 30 ae Mile Plunge   Eighth Army Is Developing Operations Against Mareth Line

VICTORS BEGIN NEW DRIVE 10 TRAP ROMMEL   Press Toward Gabes As New Commander Takes Charge

MOVE ONWA TOWARD GABES BOTTLENECK   Tunisian Rail City and Air Base Is Taken After a 30-Mile Advance— Troops Encounter Little Opposition.

OPPOSITION TO YANK ADVANCE CLAIMED LIGHT   Axis Forces Withdraw Before Oncoming Ameri-  cans Who Make Drive of Thirty-One Miles   PRISONERS TAKEN  BY AMERICAN FORCE   ‘Communique Reveals For First Time That British Eighth Army Is On Offensive

Drive Toward  Gabes After 30-Mile Stab   Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Takes Charge Of U. S. Armored F orces In Tunisia As AllOut Attack Believe d Underway

DRIVE ON GABES IN THRUST   ‘Encounter Little Opposition From Rommel’s Forces

LITTLE OPPOSITION ENCOUNTERED IN NEW DRIVE UN RAL ony  PrnAar Ar ral ATT)   ACTION OF GEN. PATTON’ FORCES AGAIN THREATEN ROMMEL’S REAR

Other Allied Positions Are ‘Improved’   Under New Command Americans Drive  After Germans

PATTON LEADS MEN IN DRIVE OF 30 MILES   Yanks Press Toward Bottleneck Of Gabes   On Report That 8th Army Has Launched Attack; Prisoners Taken

U.S. Forces Slash 30 Miles Into Key Tunisia Rail City   PLANES OF TOUGH AMERICAN TUNIS CHIEF LT.-GEN. PATTON RAKE RETREATING GERMAN ARMIES AS MONTGOMERY BOLSTERS POSITION

RESTORE THREAT 10. ~——-ROMMEL'S REAR   Allied Positions Improved in North. Part of Mareth * Line Front

British Improve Their Position At Mareth Line   General Patton Now Commands U. S. Forces

Gafsa in Western Tunisia Recaptured After 30ts. Mile Plunge   A THREAT TO ROMMEL   Eighth Army Is Developing Operations Against Mareth Line

EIGHTH ARMY IS STORMING MARETH LINE   Allied Positions Reported Much Improved in Northern Sector of Tunisia  ASSAULT INTENSIFIED

Patton Takes Command of U.S.Forces   Americans Head Toward Gabes, Kev Coast City

AMERICAN FORCES DRIVING TO CLOSE ~ THE BOTTLENECK   U. S. Troops Closing In On Rommel’s Rear At Gabes   THE GRAND PUSH STARTS IN AFRICA

Americans Now In Charge of General Patton  Allies Also Indicate That Montgomery is

Troops Meet ittle /\xis Resistance, Press on Toward Gabes Bottleneck

U. S. Troops Recapture Gafsa In Long Drive; British Storm Mareth

TOWARD GABES   Little Opposition Encountered During Reaccupation Of Town.   PATROLS CHASE NAZIS

Yanks Move ‘In Tunisia--Capture Gafsa   Germans Retreat Toward Gabes And Rear Positions Of Rommel’s Mareth Line

ALLIES IMPROVE POSITIONS ALONG MARETH LINE  AMERICANS DRIVE THIRTY MILES TO  RFA ARmFi inane A £ HAMS

U.S. TROOPS HAVE  TAKEN GAFSA AFTER  ASO MILE DRIVE   Pressed on Bevond That Rail City Toward the Gabes Bottleneck.   ‘TOOK ONLY FEW HOURS   A Communique Said Little Opposition Was Encountered on the Drive.

Advance Toward Gabes Following Capture Of Base   Victory Restores Allied Threat To Mareth Line’s Rear; Nazis In Retreat

Troops Press on Toward Gabes Bottleneck -— Infantry Covered By Planes — Elaborate Mine Fields Slow Pursuit

United States Soldiers, Led By Newly-Named Chief Of   Forces On Tunisian Front, Take Rail City And Air   Base After Thirty-Mile Drive—Little Opposition   Encountered—British Positions Improved In Northern Sector Of Mareth Line Front

Little Opposition Is Met; Yank Troops Drive After Retreating Germans   Troops Press on Toward Gabes Bottleneck — Infantry Covered By Planes — Elaborate Mine Fields Slow Pursuit

Americans Press on Toward Gabes to Threaten Rommel’s Rear—Allies Fail to Confirm Nazi Report of Mareth Battle

PATTON FORCES PRESS TOWARD GABES DISTRICT   Newly - Named Commander Leads Drive For Recapture OF Vital Rail City   ALLIES IMPROVE POSITIONS   Montgomery Begins Four-Division Push Against Rommel At Mareth Line

RECAPTURE KEY TUNISIAN TOWN AFTER ADVANGE   Allied Positions Improved, Official Statement Says

Armored Force Presses On Toward Bottleneck Of Gabes in Tunisia _

LITTLE OPPOSITION — ENCOUNTERED IN NEW DRIVE ON RAIL CITY  ACTION OF GEN. PATTON’S FORCES AGAIN THREAT Ch DOMMET °C DREAD

RAID VITERBO A) MILES NORTI OF CAPITAL   Push Through Two Holes in German Lines in Sicily

Rickenbacker Pilot Says “Divine Guidance” Saved Crew From Death On Ocean

Nips Caught In Perilous Fix   Are Surrounded On All Sides By Allied Troops   MUST SURRENDER SOON OR BE KILLED

DEATH TRAP If READY FOR JAPS   Allied Jungle Troops Pus! Closer To Big Enemy Air Base At Lae

Japanese Backed Into Death Trap   Allied Jungle Troops Forcing Enemy To Fiaht as They Advance on Lae Base

Japanese Pillbox Defenses Smashed  Allies Force Enemy Te Fight At Lae

JAP-DEFENDED PLANTATIONS ARE CAPTURED    Artillery and Planes Used to Drive Japs Out of Positions in Markham Valley   ALLIES CLOSING IN   Three Forces Converging on Lae Advance, One Force of Anzacs Only Two Miles Away

ALLIES ONLY 2 MILES FROM LAE AIRPORT   Japs Forced To Fight; Backed Into Death Trap

Japs Backed Into a Death Trap Near Lae   Australians Are About te Overrun Malahang Airdrome Nearby

Allies Smash Japs’ Pillbox Defense At Lae   U. S., Australian Troops Hunt Down Salamaua Remnants

Close In On Japs At Lae   Australian. and American Forces Pushing Steadily Forward from All Sides:-End Is Near

Australians Backing Japs Into A Trap   Jungle Troops Batter Thru Pillco::es and Trenches In Approach to Lae   SARRISON WIPED OUT

Allies Press Closer to Lae   Japanese Backed Into Death Trap By Advancing Troons

Jungle Troops Back Japanese Into Death Trap   Allies Advance Fall Of Lae, Big New Guinea Airbase, By Furious Battering

Japs Forced To Fight As Allies Advance Fast   Pillboxes, Trenches No Barrier In Push To Annihilate Nios

Allied Troops Back Japs Into Death Trap In Drive On Big Air Base AtLae

LAE'S FALL NEARS AS JAPANESE ARE BACKED INTO TRAF   Australians Are Only Two Miles From Center of the Town and About to Overrun Prized Malahang Airdrome.

END DRAWS NEAR FOR JAPS AT LAE   Yanks and Aussies Smash Through Nip Defenses In Surprise Attack

ALLIED TROOPS APPROACH LAE   Back Japs Into Death Trap at Big Air Base in New Guinea.

JAPS IN. TRAP: DEMISE OF LAE AIR BASE NEAR   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In South Pacific Air Operations   By OLEN CLEMENTS

Allies Breach Jap Defenses In Lae Battle   Aussies Only Two Miles From Town; Japs Flee Through Hills Instead Of Facing Fire

Japs Backing To Death Trap   Being Driven Into Small Area in and Around Lae

DEATH TRAP CLOSING ON JAPS AT: LAE   Yanks and Aussies Move in for Kill From Three Directions, With .the Nearest Forces Only Two Miles Away.

JAPS BACKED INTO DEATR TRAP BY U.S.   American Troops Edging Closer To Lae Area

Allies Pushing — Japs Into Trap   WacARTHUR’S STRATEGY OUTWITS ENEMY AT LAE

Allied Attackers  Close in on Japs   Australians Are About to Overrun Prized Malahang Airdrome   FEW MILES FROM LAE   Three Defended Plantations Captured After Hard  Fighting

JAPANESE BACKED INTO DEATH TRAP AT AIR BASE OF LAE  ALLIED JUNGLE TROOPS BATTER WAY CLOSE TO PRIZED OBJECTIVE

JAPANESE BACKED INTO DEATH TRAP Al AIR BASE OF LAE  ALLIED JUNGLE TROOPS   ALLIED JUNGLE TROOPS BATTER WAY CLOSE TO PRIZED OBJECTIVE

Allies Overwhelm Jap Lae Defenses,  Force Foe To Fight   Jungle Troops Hasten Fall Of Big Air Base

YANKS, AUSSIES BACK JAPS INTO LAE DEATH TRAP   DISASTER LOOMS FOR GUINEA NIPS HIDING IN TORTUOUS JUNGLE

Japs In Death Trap. Fall Of Lae Nearer   Allied Jungle Troops. Bat ter -Through Enem: Defenses to Convers Upon _ Base..  Aussie Only 2. Miles “Away Three Plantations Cap tured in Bitter ‘Fight  ing.

115 Nippon Planes Ruinec   October Bag Brings Total Enemy Losses In 4 Months to 2292

Japanese Are Giver Disastrous Blows in October  Toll of Planes Hits All-Time Peak; Ship Loss Is Huge

HURTING GERMANY,   General Eaker Says American Bombings Disrupting Germany.

Nillion Parents With Low Order Numbers Await Calls From Draft Boards

DRAFT MEASURE TQ BE SHELVED   Baruch Backs Calling Of Dads If Army Needs Them

Leaders Prepare To Shelve Wheeler Bill   Million Fathers Await Calls Beginning in October

Father Draft Bill Facing  Earlv Death   Smothering of Ban: On Tuesday Docket. Predicted by Foes

Administration Leaders in Senate Are Predicting Death of Wheeler Bill: To Block Drafting of Fathers Next Week

Draft Block Bill  Will Be Shelved,   Statement Of Arnry Heads Seen Death Blow To - Beferment Of. Fathers

WHEELER BILL NEARS SHELE   Montana Senator Offers  Last-ditch Protests

WHEELER BILL DEATH SEEN BY SENATORS   Baruch Tells Solons Marshall Should Have Men

Four Die as P-38s Crash at San Diego   ARMY FLIER, 3 CHILDREN KILLED AS PLANE PAIR HITS HOUSING PROJECT

SCHOOLS IN TOLEDO CLOSED BY STRIKE   Maintenance Workers Want Increase in Wages

STRIKE CLOSES TOLEDO SCHOOLS   Maintainance Employes Quit As Board Ignores Wage Boost Plea

TOLEDO SCHOOLS CLOSED BY STRIKE      Maintenance Workers De mand Pay Hike

GEN. RAMIREZ WILL ASSUME THE POSITION   Diplomatic Circles in Montevideo Say Four Ultra-Conservative Cabinet Members of New Government Quit.

Argentina  Policy Not Yet Clear   Revolt Leader Resigns in » Crisis Over Naming of New Cabinet   GENERAL RAMIREZ TAKES THE REINS   * Pour Ultra - Conservatives Also Said to Have Quit Ministerial Posts

REGISTRATION ON FOR RATION BOOKS   Many Persons Have Failed To Properly Fill Out No. 3 Book——Must Present Them To Get No. 4

WILL REGISTER FOR RATION BOOK NO. 4:   Registration In Hanover And York County Will Start Tomorrow—Began Yesterday In Adams County

Ardmore Man Is Decorated   Lieut. Harwood F. Means Awarded Air Medal for Five Sorties

Wallace Exempts “95 or Even 99 Percent” — Of U.S. Corporations from His Criticism

EXPLAINS HIS DENUNCIATION OF “BIG BUSINESS”   Vice President Wal lace, Criticized, Says Only Few Firms Guilty

START FALL TERM   Convocation H Held This Morning for New Uni-. versity Students’:

TO RECLASSIFY MEN WITHOUT CHILDREN   May Abolish 3-B, for Fathers in Work Essential to War

CHILDLESS DRAFT ELIGIBLES FACING RECLASSIFICATICN   Class 3-B, Workers Essential to War Effort, Expected to be Wiped Out in Change.

Will Reclassify Men Without Children   Manpower Commission To Issue New Regulation

DRAFT CHANGE “1G PREPARED   REGULATIONS WILL CAUSE RE" CLASSIFICATION OF ALL: MEN -WRO DO NOT : JHAVE CBILDREN

TO RE-CLASSIFY MEN 18 TO 38   War Manpower Commission to Issue Regulations Monday

WMC Orders 18-38 Group Reclassified   Draft Class 3B May Be Eliminated; All Single Men Face Change   HIT FEDERAL PAYROLL  1,000,000 Government Workers Expected To Be Placed In Army

NEW WMC DRAFT ‘RULE PREPARED   Reclassification Of All 18-38 Men Without Children Will Be Ordered

CLASS 3-B MAY BE ABANDONED   ‘New.Draft Rules For Non.  FathersBPue Monday

SENATOR EYES PACIFIC   ‘Chandler Says Insufficient Aid Given MacArthur

ARMY’S DEMAND FOR MEN LEVELLING OFF   175,000 Men Will Be Taken B; Army And 100,000 By Navy Each Month In 1944

NEEDS OF ARMY GROWING LESS   Strength Now 7,000,000 Men, Hershey Tells  Committee

EASING IS SEEN OF LABOR SHORTAGES   Hershey Says Army's De. mands on Manpower Levelling Off

NEW BLANKET. BOMBING OF GERMANY SEEN   Action May Be On Unendurable Scale

Blanket Bombing of Germany Hinted By Formation of New Air Command

Nazis May Get Whipsaw Raids      Spaatz Elevation ‘Likely To: Result. In. Greater ‘Aerial Attacks

Nazis Face ~ More Bombs From Spaatz   New Mediterranean Com mand Indicates Whipsawing of Hitler's Reich

CREATE NEW U.S. AIR COMMAND IN MEDITERRANEAN   SEEN AS FORERUNNER TO NEW OPERATIONS AGAINST GERMANY

New American Air Command Seen by Many  As Heraldine Whinshaw Bombing of Reich

AERIAL BLOWS ON REICH WILL BE STEPPED U]   Whipsaw Bombing Is Seen In Formation of U. S. Forse: Attacks On Arms Plants Due

NEW AIR CONIMAND “HINTS NEW BLOWS   Change Announced Sifter Big Scale Attack on German City.

15th Air Force May Blast Reich Out Of The War   American - Maditermanean fommand Is Placed Under General Spaatz

Spaatz Leads 2-Way Bomb Run On Reich   Announcement Made After Leaders Force Battered Messerschmitt.   REDUCE BOMBER LOSS

Nazi industry Faces New U. §. Bomber Force  Shipsaw Air Raids   Shipsaw Air Raids Forseen As Spaatz Gets New Command

New Bombing  For Germany   Creation of American Mediterranean Command Means Blanket Assault

Whipsaw Bombing Of Germany Heralded .. » Formation Of New Air  Command Under Spaatz  To Give Nazis Trouble

Plan New Blasts on Hitler Domain  Spaatz to Head New U. S. Air Force

PUNERAL BITEO POR CUI ARE HELD   Friends, Associates Pay Last Tribute

FUNERAL RITES FOR FDITGA ARE HELD   Friends, Associates Pay Last Tribute

NEW OPA MANAGER MAKES DEBUT TODA   Chester A. "Bowles Pledges Action to Make Price Control Simple as Possible

Traveler Reports Strong Reaction Mounts Against Nazi Yoke In Germany

Property Tax Up Next Year   Budgets Indicate Hike of from 1 to 1% Per Cent. 

1944 IOWA TAX BILL MAY BE HIGHER   Incrense of From 500,000 to a Million Wollars Amoug the Apparent Possibilities

Changteh F Held By:China Army   Rice Bowl City Retained ‘Despite. Jap: Drive’ “AS Situation: Clears —

U. 5. DESTROYERS BLAST EVACUATION BARGES OF ENEMY   WATERS OF CENTRAL SOLOMONS TURNED INTO SCENE OF CONFUSION

Slaughter Japs Fleeing From ~ Kolombangara   U. S. Destroyers Sink Over 40 Barges In Solomons

JAP EVACUATION FLEET WRECKED   Attempt To Rescue Kelom: bangara Force Frustrated

U. S. Destroyers Block Jap Moves At Kolombangara   Attempt’ To Evacuate Island Turned !nto Scene Of Confusion

TROOP BARGES CF JAPS SUNK ~ IN SCLOMON   U. S. Destroyers Sink ai Least 40 Crafts Laden ‘With Evacuees

SINK OR DAMAGE 12 ENEMY SHIPS IN THREE DAYS   U. S BOMBERS BLAST JAP CONCENTRATION IN SOUTH PACIFIC

JAPS’ NAVAL CONCENTRATION IS BROKEN UP   12 Enemy Ships Sunk or Dame aged In Kavieng Sector of New JIreland   ‘ALL ALLIED PLANES SAFE

US. Shatters Big Jap Fleet Sinks, Damages 12 Ships   Flying Fortresses Complete Rout With No Losses; Cruiser Believed Victim

U.S. Planes Disperse 12 Jap Vessels   Warships and Merchant Craft Sunk or Damaged At Kavieng, New Ireland

12 JAPANESE SHIPS HIT BY ALLIED PLANES   Three Day Bombing Attack Made At Kavieng

ALLIED PLANES OINK,. DlaPehot Id JAP OnIPO   Three Nights Of Bombing O01 New Ireland Force Brings Success

Allies Add 20 More Axis  Planes to Bag in Tunisie   Total for 48 Hours Now Placed at 112. 70 of Them Giant German Transports.

Heavy Blows At Harbor Or New Ireland Struck By MacArthur's Pianes

1) Enemy Ships Sunk In 3-Day Bombing Attack   Japs Given Severe Pounding In Kavieng Sector

AAA RATAT IDI   12 Japanese Ships Sunk or Damaged   Flying Fortresses Break Up Jap Fleet in 3-Day Bombing Attack   SEVEN WAR VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Not an Allied Warplane “Lost; Other. Pacific Points Are Raided

Concentration Of Jap Ships Is Dispersed   Fortresses Break Up Assembly Of 13 Ships Sinking Four

Four Japanese Warships Sunk   American Flying Fortresses Raid New Ireland Port

ALLIED AIRMEN SINK, DAMAGE 20 JAP SHIPS   Seven Enemy Warships Counted ir Toll of Long Distance Raids or New Ireland

4 JAP WARSHIPS . SUNK BY BOMBERS   Gen. MacArthur Reports Successful Blow at Enemy Concentration, )   SHIPS ATTACKED IN NEW IRELAND PORT

Jap Sea Force Broken Up By  Yankee Airmen   Flying Forts Sink A Least Four Warships. Damage Others.

DISPERSE JAPANESE NAVAL CONCENTRATION      Thirteen Warships and Merchant Men Reported In Concentration; Raids On Kavieng, New Ireland, Staged With Flying Fortresses.

Fliers Rip Nip Fleet in Pacific   SMALL GROUP OF FLYING FORTS BLASTS 13 NIPPO VESSELS AT KAVIENG

Jap Convoy at New Ireland Is Scattered hy Bomb:   Small Groups of Fortressse Sank Four Warships

Big Concentration of Jap Cargo, War Ships Is Attacked   12 Enemy Vessels Sunk or Damaged Without Loss of a Plane

10 Fortresses Chase Off Jap Naval Force   Two Cruisers, Two Destroyers Sunk; Others Damaged

Small Number Of Big Planes Scatter Jap Warships In Kavieng Harbor

U.S. Bombers Disperse Jap  Naval Force   Small Unit of Fortresses Destroy or Disperse  - Concentration of 13.Jap   Ships. Sink Two Cruis: iers, Two Destroyers:.’

ALLIES SMASH HUGE GROUP OF NIPPON SHIPS   Three-Day Bombing At  tack On Big Concentra tion Sinks or Damages   Twelve Vessels   7 WARSHIPS VICTIMS   Raids Involve Flights of 1,100 Miles Without Loss of Single Allied Plane

Fortresses _ Rip Enemy Warships   ‘Destroy Or Disperse 13 Jap Vessels In Three Successive Raids On ©  Kavieng, New Ireland

Allies Send 12 Jap Ships To Pacifie Bottom   Other Attacks Continue Tov Raise Score Of Sinkings; Kiska Gets Biggest Blow Of War

12 Nipponese Ships Victims Of Our Planes   Three-Day Atiack Has Sunk Or Dispersed  Concentration

FORTRESSES ARE POISON TO JAPS   Sink or Seatter A New Concentration Of Warships

Allies Claim 12 Ships in Kavieng Raids  Three-Day Bombin Attack Made on Bi   preeeeee r ys.  FT Te Oe ee

Seven Jap Warships, 5 Cargo Vessels Sunk Or Damaged In Three-Day Battle

CONCENTRATION   Thirteen Warships and Merchant Men Reported In Concentration; Raids On Kavieng, New Ireland, Staged With Flying Fortresses.

1 WARSHIPS INCLUDED IN ALLIED TOLL   Success Scored in ThreeDay Bombing Attack on Concentration at Kavieng Without the Loss  of a Sinole Plana.

ALLIED AIRMEN SINK, DAMAGE 7 JAP VESSELS.   Flying Fortresses Strike B; Moonlight Without Losing ‘A Single Plane

Sink Dozen Jap Ships in 3 Days   Allies Carry Out Destructive Raids in New Ireland Erea.

NEW JAP NAVAL MOVES HALTED   U. S. Bombers Break Up 1 3-Vessel Force

ALLIES BAG 41 PLANES IN AFRICA   More Prisoners Questioned in Darlan Incident

ALLIED FLYERS IN AFRICA BAG 31 AXIS PLANES   Flying Fortresses Play Big Part In Dealing Out Damage To

PACIFIC AIR WAR GROWING   Chict Of U. S. Force In Chin Confer At Washington

Marshall Confers With MacArthur   PLANS ARE MADE FOR NEW OFFENSIVES IN PACIFIC

VISIT OF U. S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF TO PACIFIC BATTLE AREA PRINCS THAT FRONT INTO LICHT

The War Today— Marshall Visit With MacArthur May Result In Greater Supplies

Marshall Visit to Paeilic Leaves ..  MacArthur Trip to U.S. Unlikely

Recent Plaints from Gen. MacArthur About ‘Insufficient Men and Materials for Big Push, May  Have Brought Marshall Visit, Direct from CairoTakharan

STRESSES JOBS   Ball Tells GOP How To Meet FDR’s Veterans’ Program

Jobs, Not Dole For Soldiers, Is GOP Plan   Young Senator Warns Party Must Act To Win Support Of World War II Vets

Republicans Advised To Advocate Broad “Jobs For Soldiers” Program

‘SOLDIER JOBS GOES NATIONAL   GOP Advised by Balle to Counter 6-Point Program of FDR

Would Have GOP Devise Soldier Plan   Sen. Ball Says Veterans Will Want Jobs—Not New Deal Dole

Ball Calls For Jobs for Soldiers   Urges Measures To Encourage Our Private Enterprise

Propose ‘Jobs  For Soldiers’   Senator Ball Says Republicans Should Counter FDR With Post War Plan.

FDR PLAN APPROVED AS FAR AS IT GOES   Republican Senator Wants Freedom of Enterprise

Second Front Is What Russia. Needs, Red Star Tells Quebec Conterees

Casualties of Allies 25,000; Troops Ready For New Task   Eisenhower Lauds Yank 7th. British 8th in  War Review   Allies Muffing Opportunity, Red Army Newspaper Says

Red Star Charges Allies Failing To Use Advantage In Not Opening New Front

‘Russia Claims Allies Failed To Take Advantage Of Soviet Offensive To Strike In West   Lauds Sicilian Campaign But Declares It Did Not Draw Any Nazis From East

Russia Issues New Call For  Second Front   Sicily Campaign Failed To Divert Any German Divisions From Russia, Asserts Army Paper

Bade fay Alliac Failed To Take Russian-Made Advantage To Open Second Front

Soviet Newspaper Asks Second Front   Lists Disposition Of Enemy Strength

RUSSIA CLAMORING FOR SECOND FRONT   Army Newspaper. Says Allies Have Overlooked An . _Advantage   WOULD’ SHORTEN WAR

FOR. CHURCHILL BEGIN PARLE’   Military Staffs Confer On New Allied  Moves

New Georgia Attack Caught Japs Flat-Footed, Newsman Reveals   Briton Tells of Desperate Aerial Attack on Squadron After Landing   Destrovers Land Troops

WELL EXECUTED PLANS CATCH JAPS NAPPING   Eve-Witness Story of London Newsman  on U.S. “Invasion”

Eye-Witness Gives Story Of Assault In Pacific      London Daily Express Corressondent Tells of Briiliantly Conceived and Executed Plan Which : Caught Japs Flat-footed

Yard To Yard Battle For — ’ Munda Airfield Finished   Sweatstained American Jungle Troops Pour Onto Strategic Airstrip After Fight Of 35 . Days — Battle. For New’. occ. 0. oma Gesrvin Not Ended   Rv GRORGE JONES

WRITER DESCRIBES CAPTURE OF MUNDA BY AMERICANS AFTER 35 DAY BATTLE

Capture of Munda Field Is Described  AIDCICIONMN DV VAAIVC   OCCUPATION OF VITAL AIRFIELD BY YANKS PICTURED BY WRITER

Gives detailed eye-witness account of all-out assault on New Georgia island

Witness Tells Of American Rendova Attack   Declares That Bold Yank Drive Caught Japs Flat-Footed

Eyewitness Report Of Yankee Move   Writer Aboard Warship Describes Assault On Rendova; Blow Daringly Executed

British Writer Reveals Landing of Americans on New Georgia Island Caught Nipponese by Surprise—Smokescreens Were Laid Down by Ships as Transports Moved Toward Shore—Enemy Batteries Silenced by Destroyers,

Japs Caught Flat-Footed By Perfectly Coordinated. Plan _Of Attack Against Rendova   British Correspondent Aboard Destroyer Says Men And Materials Were Landed Before Enemy Shore Batteries Opened Fire; Raid Brazenly Executed

CITY COSTS FOR LIVING ARE LESS   Meat and Groceries Declined Slightly During Past Two Months.

WONDER WHERE SHE PURCHASES:   Mme. Perkins Reports ’ Cheaper Meats and Groceries

LIVING COSTS ~ CUT JUNE-JULY   Two PC Decline in Pood Prices ~ Reported, More than Offsetting Increases in Other Items

Figures. Show Your Cost Of Living Dropped In Late June And Early July

MEAT, FOOD COSTS DOWN FOR 1ST TIME   Price of Clothing, Other Items Higher

LIVING COSTS DROP IN JULY   Purchase Price of Food - and Meat Go Down  Two Per Cent  

LIVING COSTS DOWN IN JULY   Food Prices Decline 2 Percent In Mid-July, Perkins Reports

Wartime Food Prices Decline For First Time   Two Per Cent Drop Noted For June-July Period

LIVING COSTS 60 DOWN SINCE JUNE    Retail Food Prices Decline 2 Per Cent, Labor Secretary Savs.

COST OF LIVING IN  SLIGHT DECLINE FOR  PAST TWO MONTHS FOOD PRICES DECLINED TWO PER CENT MID mac Th Min HIV

Sst. Lester McInnis Helps Fellow Fliers Escape from Bomber Lost In Storm.

Thousands of Germans Threatened With Trap Closing on Sea of Azov   Coast Cleared From Mouth of Don to Akhtari; Allies Raid Crete, Tunisia Bases, Causing Fires; Troops Massed for Major Offensive in Africa

VITAL RAILWAY CENTERS TAKEN   Red Forces Bound Towarc Prizes With Great Speed   FALL OF CHUGUYEV   Puts Into Red Hands Last City Blocking Southeastern Approaches to Kharkov

GREAT ARC THROWN AROUND KEY CITY BY RUSSIAN FORCES   Capture of Railroad Towns Announced as Russians Bound Toward Kharkov, Nezi Military Bostion—Artillery Softens Up Rostov.

Reds Forge Forward In Move To Encircle Ukrainian Capital  And Nazi Stronghold  BIG BATTLE RAGES   Germans Seek To Halt Reds from Driving Tow ard Sea ot Aone

Reds Converging From Two Sides.   Swift Advance Is Made On Big Base

ONRUSHING REDS SAID TO BE ONLY TEN MILES AWAY   Muscovites Close In on Communication Hub With Capture of Chuguyev and Volchansk.   PRESSURE INCREASED ON ROSTOV DEFENDERS   Rome Says More _ Soviet Troops Have Reached Black Sea Coast to Attack Germans From Rear.

Evacuation ol  Kharkov Is Reported   Berlin Says Russians Increasing Pressure There Severely; City Is Being Shelled Heavily

Reds Converging From Iwo Sides  Swift Advance Is  AhAanta CY. Qin Racca,

UARAINE CITY SOFTENED UP BY ARTILLERY   RUSSIANS CAPTURE CHUGUYEV AND VOLCHANSK

Russian Arc Of Assault Is Closing In   Chuguyev and Volchansk Taken; Shell Steel: City:

BERLIN BROADCAST INDICATES DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING TO GERMANS JUST WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HITLER'S ARMIES. 

OYES NEEDED AT POWDER PLANT   Supplemental Contract Is Awarded to Hercules  at Sunflower

EMPLOYES NEEDED AT POWDER PLANT   Supplemental Contract Is Awarded to Hercules  at Sunflower   IS INCREASING STAFF

Remnants o .e German Caucasus Army Huddled_ At Novorossisk in Trap

RUSSIAN FORCES TIGHTENING TRAF LAID FOR NAZIS   Remnants of Hitler’s Caucasian Troops Are Backed Against Kerch Strait

Nazi Caucasus Amy Is Trapped   Counter-Attacks Beaten by Soviets

RUSSIANS NEAR GERMAN BASE OF NOVOROSSISK   Red Units Closing Trap Around Nazis Stationed at Naval Port

Bloody Battle Threatens To Trap Germans   Russians Drive Wedge Against Kerch Straight

RED ARMY CLOSED TRAP ABOUT NAZIS IN CAUCASUS AREA   WAVE AFTER WAVE OF COUNTERATTACKING GERMANS WERE REPULSED

REDS TIGHTEN TRAP AROUND NOVOROSSISK   Capture Rail Town io Northeas: and Village Few Miles South tc Hem in Germans

SOVIETS SMASH RESISTANCE ON SOUTHERN FRONI   Furious German Counter Blows Are Repulsed By Germans

NAZIS SLAIN BY HUNDREDS IN NIGHT FRAY   Drive Nets Russians Two Towns Above Novorossisk, Where the Enemy is Huddled, Wedged Against Kerch Strait.

Nazi Caucasus Army Trapped In Novorossisk   Capture Of Angelinskaya, Staronizhe - Steblievskaya Encircles Port City   NAZIS SUCCESS DENIED   German Infantry Battalion Reported Destroyed North Of Stalino

Soviets Close Trap on Axis In Caucasus  Remnants of Nazi Army Wedged Against Kerch Strait  RAIL TOWN TAKEN  Hundreds of Dead Left  in Streets After Night Batile         RAIL TOWN TAKEN

Russians. Close Trap About Remnants Of Nazi Army In The Caucasus Arez

CAUCASUS ARE TRAPPED   Huddle Between Novorossisk ‘And Kerch Strait

REDS WIN BATTLE FOR RAIL TOWN      ‘Hundreds of Dead. Left in Streets Following AllNicht. Conflict   REDS CLOSING TRAP ON NOVOROSSISK   Wave After Wave of Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Turned Back

RED DRIVE. MOVES ON IN CAUCASUS   Closing of Escape Door Being Continued. Two More Towns Taken

Jam Nazi Armies  On Kerch. Strait   Russians Put Squeeze on Remnants From the  Caucasus   CONTINUE IN. UKRAINE   Waves of German Counter Attacks Repulsed in  Donets Basin

Soviets Driving  On Novorossisk  Trap Tightening Around Nazi Caucasus Army; New Gains Scored

Nazi Caucasus Fores Facing ~~ Annihilatior   Soviet: Drive: Within 33 Miles Of Great — “Naval Base

RUSSIANS TAKE: FORTIFIED TOWN   Soviet Forces Push Ahead West of Kharkov, Abave . Krasnodar

Russ Close in On Navy Base   Novorossisk Trap Tightened as Two More Towns Are Captured

REDS CLOSING TRAP AROUND NAVAL BASE   Remnants Of Axis Caucasus Army, Caught In City, Hemmed By Strait

TOWN RETAKEN ~ BY RED FORCES   Soviet Communique Reports Smashing Of Nazi Counterattaecks   ADVANCE ON OREL   Russian Column Within 33 Miles Of Novorossisk, Naval Base

RUSSIANS CLOSING TRAP ON REMNANT OF GERMAN ARMY   WEDGE NAZIS AGAINST KERCH STRAIT AFTER A BLOODY BATTLE

Reds Closing Trap On Nazis In Caucasus   Russians Driving Down A Railroad To Within 60 Miles Of Novorossisk

Reds Smash Closer to Black Sea   Tighten Noose Around German Army in the  Caucasus; Repel Axis Attacks in Donets Basin

TRAP AROUND NAZIS CLOSING IN CAUCASUS   Hundreds of Dead Left in Streets of Captured Town After an AllNight Battle

Reds Closing Trapon Army Of Caucasus   Drive Proceeds Down Railway Line to  Al aera init 2 L

Russians Closing Trap OnRemnants Of Germar Caucasus Army, Repori

Russians Close Trap on Nazis  Take Railroad Town In Bloody Battle

Red Army Smashes Into Important Railway Town And Nearby Community To Tighten Pincers On Remnants Of Nazi Forces In Novorossisk And Along Kerch Strait—Numerous Enemy Counter-Attacks Repulsed, Moscow War Bulletin Declares

TRAP CLOSED ON GERMANS IN CAUCASUS   Hundreds Of Dead Left After All-Night Battle   COUNTER-DRIVES   Repulsed In Donets Basin; Red Army Makes Gains On All Fronts

Reds Close Trar On Germany's Caucasus Army   Russians Drive for Novorossisk and Repulse Fierce Nazi Counter-Attacks

BLOODY BATTLE MARKS DRIVE SOVIET FORCES   Batter Way Into Railroad Town of Angelinskya and Then Take Staronizhe-Steblievskaya   HUNDREDS OF DEAD LEFT IN STREETS   Drive Apparently Progressing Down Railway From Timashevkskaya, to Novorossisk

Russ Seven Miles North Of Kharkov   Key Rail Cut; German Base of Aktyrka Captured: City Isolated on West

Aktyrka Taken; Drive To Within 7.5 Miles Of City   Powerful and Fast Columns Cut Another Railroad, Leaving Only Two Outlets For Defenders To Escape; Pass Last Winter’s Offensive Peak.

Governor Gets Welfare Bill   Hike In Tedchers: Pay le Annravo-rd

Axis Hears New Allied Forces Reach Tunisia   DNB Reports Powerful Reinforcements Brought Up By Americans, British: U. S. Gains In Surorise Drive

Americans Drive Closer to Major Axis Supply Port; Mareth Line Battle Rages

Spring Rains Slow Advaiice Of Red Troops   Montgomery Fails To Crack Mareth  Line in Tunisia

Mareth Line Struggle Rages on With Slight Edge to Eighth Army   Moscow Reports Germans Increase Pressure Along Donets But Reds Hold Initiative In All Other Phases of Russian Fighting

Mareth Wall Holds Against British Force   Surprise American Offensive Aimed At Splitting German Units,   RAINS CAUSE DELAY

OIG ENEMY Al Dhot (OBJECT UF OFFENSIVE   Battle Of Mareth Line Rages On In Southern Sector, No Decision Reached

More War Aid For China Will  Be Discussed   China’s Foreign Minister Soong Scheduled To Confer with FDR and Churchill Today.

Japs May Soon Feel Weight Of U.S. Bombs   Quebec Conference In Spotlight as Chinese Leader  Confers With Allies

REDS-WIPE OUT — GERMAN WEDGE   Soviets Foil Nazi Attack Against Northwest Caucasus

REDS CLEAR QUT WEDGE DRIVEN IN CAUCASIAN LINE   Germans Fighting Desperately to Retain Bridgehead Gver Sea of Azov.

WEDGE WIPED OUT BY SOVIET GUARDS   100 Nazi. Officers And Men Killed — Strong Tank Support

KHARKOV, KURSK ALSO FACE THREATS   Last Two Towns Just South of Rostov Taken by Reds.

Arnett Labels Economy Talk ‘Lip Service’   Charges Legislature Failed to Prove Word: on Recent ‘Test’

KOSQUITOS KEEP ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE GOING   Bomb Western Germany 3 Straight Nights; One Plane  JT nat

Jap Strength in Pacific Waning   July Report Shows Heavy Inroads

NAZI FORCE SURRENDERS 10 FRENCH   Gives Up Fight in Zag: houan Sector of Tunisia and Hands Over All Materiel. :   VICTORS DRIVE: — ON TOWARD SEA   Threaten to Encircle Troops Facing Fighth. Army—British Captur 20,000 During Day.

READY FOR DRIVE'B:   ‘/BACK TO CLASSES   Most of the Rural Schools in the County Opened This Week

A.& M. HEARING UNDERWAY   Senate Committee Hears President Of Board Testify

: Ousted Extension Director ‘Too Kind-Hearted "To Fire Anybody, AGM Board President Says

DOOLITTLE RAID AVIATION COUP   EXPERTS HAIL FEAT AS COMBAT TRIUMPH

1,032 JAPS ON ISLAND SLAIN   Yanks Press Operations ta Exterminate Foes on  Guadalcanal

MANY JAPS KILLED BY FORCES OF U.S.   American Troops Press Enemy Forces on Guadalcanal   Enemy Hold Reduced

ALLIES WIPE OUT JAPANESE GROUPS   1,032 Japs Killed in Five  Days in Relentless Campaign to Eliminate Enemy Forces on Guadalcanal

MANY JAPS KILLED. BY FORCES OF U.S   American Troops Piess Enemy Forces on Guadelcanal

Yanks Slay Thousand Japs In ‘Guadaleanal Offensive   Five Days of Fighting in Jungles Around Henderson Air Field Reduce Enemy Pockets. Says Navy

JAPANESE GROUPS ARE WIPED QUT   AMERICANS KILL 1,032 ENEMY TROOPS IN FIVE DAYS ON GUADALCANAL,

MEN IN 4-F GROUP BEING RECLASSIFIED   Series of Syste matic Check-ups Announced by Col. Stanwood

Hundreds of 4-F Men Being Checked For Full or Limited Army Service

E'ARE RECLAIMING 0/4-F SELECTEES   HOLSTEIN SALE:A TOTALS $16,480 /4   10 Percent Of Those Re. jected Once Have Been Inducted

Nazis Gloomy After Latest Berlin Raid   Britain Clearing Her Coastline for Offendive Operations

Nazis Think Invasion Has Started   Continued Allied Aerial Attacks Scare Axis Chiefs

BRITISH BOMB BERLIN AGAIN   Heavy and Successful Raid Made; Ruhr Also Blasted; 33 Planes Lost

English Clear Coasts For Action   Nazis Admit Illusions Of Sleeping Undisturbed Vanish

Berlin Staggeri 1g l nder Shock of Aerial Attacks   German Authorities Acknowledge Blow: May Be ‘Beginning of Invasion’ of Continent: British Coast Restricted

BERLIN REELS UNDER AIR BLOW   GERMANS BELIEVE AERIAL ASSAULTS MAY BE BEGINNING OF INVASION.

RAF Hammers Berlin. Ruhr In New Blows   Nazis See Attacks as Possibly Beginning of Invasion: British Set Up Coastal Belt

‘Berlin Staggered By NewRAL Blow      Germans Acknowledge Second Bombing In Three Nights May Mark Invasion; English To Clear Strip For Future Take-Off

Nazis Admit Invasion May Be Starting   RAF BombsRockBerlin; British Clear Coast  IN i EM crore eee: BN

WAY CLEARED FOR INVASION OF CONTINENT   SPRINGBOARDS ARE READY FOR HOP TO NAZILAND

GERMANS SEE BEGINNINGS OF INVASION   Berlin Staggers Under Shock Of Second Severe Bombing By RAF In Three Nichts.   Ruhr Also Hammered

Prisoner Flees From Logan Jail   Breaks for Freedom Wher Sheriff’s Wife Brings _ His Meal—Posse Out

Prisoner Flees From Logan Jail  Deankba fav Rraasadam Wher   Breaks for Freedom When Sheriff’s Wife Brings . His Meal—Posse Out

aceasta nesdniaibiaitaaeeel  FRENCH LABOR RECRUITER KILLED BY FRENCHMEN

Broadcasting Regulations Under Fire   Congressional Rule-Setting Urged After Session Reconvenes   TAFT DEFENDS THE A. P.

Into F.C.C. Radio Clamp   Congressional Inquiry Promised As Taft Sees Threat to Free Speech

FCC POLICIES TO GET THROUGH AIRING   Senators Want Congress To Write Specification For Restraints,‘ Not FC€

TO AIR GOVERNMENT AADIO REGULATION   Congress to Investigate Federal Communications Commission Early in Fall

PLAN PROBE OF FOC ACTIVITIES   Taft Hits ‘Reckless Disregard’ Of Press Freedom

PLAN TO AIR FCC ACTIONS   Wheelerfor Free Speech, But Against Chain Contro] of Radio.

Congress Might Control Radio   WHEELER BELIEVES FCC VIOLATES FREEDOM

Raid Made Just 1000 Miles From Japanese Mainland.   TASK RAID PLANNED KOR SEPTEMBER 1ST   Japs Worried About Conditions in the New Guinea Area.

Only 1,100 Miles from Jap Capital   May Usher in Heavy Fight ing in Pacific — Berlin  Gets Another Blasting

Base Only 1,000 Miles  FromJapan   Carrier Task Force Scheduled For Raid Sept.    TOKYO WARNS PEOPLE JAPAN MAY BE HIT   Raid Believed Maneuver to  Lure Jap Fleet Into  Showdown Battle

Japs Report — U.S. Assault On Key Island      Marcus Hit For Third Time By Ships And Planes, Tokyo Says

Air, Surface  Fleets Blast  M...-- El. Lidl CUB ISIC   Tokyo Jittery, Says Capital May Be Next; Bat-__  tla Naw ln

PLANES, SHIPS RAD CENTRAL PACIFIC ISLAND   "Range Far Past Known Bases

PLANES ALSO ATTACK NIPS ON MARCUS   Raid Seen As Prelude to BigScale Fighting

United Nations Pledge Recovery . of Property Confiscated by Axis

PLEDGE: RETURN: OF PROPERTIES   PROPERTIES SEIZED BY AXI6 1 OCCUPIED COUNTRIES . WILL BR‘ GIVEN BACK  , oe. SOF OWNERS i

HISTORIC MESSAGE Here Is Text of President's Message to U.S. Congress   Commander-in-Chief Stresses Importance of Russian Developments During 1942

Text of President Roosevelt's Annual Message to Congress; Says Americans Must Help Disarm Covetting Nations

Slavs Meeting ‘New Suiéersees      Reinforeed German Army Gaining In Dalamatia ; s Are Heavy’

Bribery Hearing Adjourned Today   Banker Will Appear Ir Lansing Court Oct. 18

HEARING OF BANKER HALTED 10 OCT. 18   Francis Slattery Hears Ferndale Republican Tell of Attempted Bribe on Bill

MAG ARTHUR'S TROOPS oMMAah JAP MARINES   Small Force Is Ambushed, Dispersed In Advance Of Allied Force

YANKEES HEAR FOR TELL OF VICTORY PLANS   President Advises Fighters America Is Proud Of World War Roles   VISITS WOUNDED MEN   Executive Rides To Camp In Jeep And Reviews Battle Divisions

Castaway 218 Days,He Fights Again   Saga of Lonely Survival  Told of Sailor

Glenwood Youth Lived 74 Months as Castaway--Was Rescued With Fortress Crew Who Wandered 66 Days   By Leif Erickson

SAGA OF UNITED STATES FLIER WHO SPENT 286 DAYS ON RAFTS 'ANT) TINY SOUTH SEAS ISLANDS

Teaches Natives ABC's — While Hiding From Japs   RY TERTF FRICRKRSON.

Japs Too Smart To Make Foolish: Promises That Cities Of Nation Will Not 2: Bombed

The War Today— Jap Leaders Discard Nazi Practice Of Soft-Pedaling Prospects Of Raids

MARINES TAKE JAPS’ AIRFIELD   Cape Gloucester in Yanks Hands After Four-Day Campaign

American Soldiers Join Throngs Of Pilgrims For Christmas Eve In Bethlehem

= Christmas Lve In Bethlehem--1943 °   Many American ‘Soldiers Join Throngs Of Pilarims

RAID ONE OF HEAVIEST EVER MADE ON REICH   More Planes Head for France This Afternoon

BRITISH TRAWLER IS VICTOR OVER U-BOAT   1,260-Ton lialian Craft Sent To Bot tom During Battle Off North  Africa

ITALIAN SUB SENT DOWN IN BATTLE   SOME MEMBERS OF CREW SURRENDER TO BRITISH —OTHERS JUMP INTO SEA,

21 Last Minute Olson Appointments Blocked By Warren: Precedent Cited

FAMOUS OLEO PAMPHLET CASE IS REVIEWED   Farmers’ Union Repeats Charge

Hitler Consults  German Leaders  Authorities Said ‘at Wits’ End’

Berlin Panicky In— Face of Threats of — Allied Bomb Raids   Hitler Consults German Political, Military Leaders in Series of Important Conferences in Face of Crisis

Hitler Calls War Chiefs   Troubles Double for Nazi Fuchrer. Aides

BUYERS TURN BIT HORE SELECTIVE   Scattered Favorites Regis ter New Highs; Holiday Leads to Cashing of Profit

Bulgaia Cabinet Shakeup Reported   Resignation Of Foreign Minister Tantamount To Vote Of Non-Confidence In Present Reaime

International Police Organization Is Asked  Se eee, Se ee   Request Of Senators Is Coincident With Arrival In U. S. Of Anthony Eden.

Four Senators Offer World Policing Plan   Program For Immediate Organization Of United Nations Is Proposed   BASED ON CHARTER   Group Will Discuss Idea With Roosevelt; Eden Begins Conferences :   Deluge Of Fan Mail Pours In On Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek

4 Senators Urge World Police Unit   Eden Asks Enduring Pact Aimed to Curb Fascism Forever

ALLIED POOL OF RESOURCES IS REQUESTED   Senators Offer Plan To Help Fight Against Foe

Biparty Bloe Backs World Police Set-Up   Move Launched At Outset of Eden Confab

Half of Sicily’s 10,000 Sq. Miles Now in Allies Hands.  FALL OF ENNA GIVES ALLIES HUB  Yanks Driving for Palermo to Cut Island in Two.

Vital Enna Falls To Allies As Yanks Drive for Palermo; Axis Rush Reinforcements

SPLIT ISLAND IN TWO   ONLY 28 MILES FROM NORTH COAST; ITALIANS AND GERMANS IN WEST HALF OF ISLAND ISOLATED

Gain Vital Hub to All Of Sicily   Cut Off Italian,  German Troops Into Segments

Thousand Tons of Bombs Fall On St. Nazaire  British, Canadians Again Plaster —  A. SI, RRR

Thunderbolt Armada Spreads Ruin On U-Boat Base of Invasion Coast

DUMPED 1000 TONS OF RUIN ON S. NAZAIRE   British And Canadian Bombers Blast German Submar. ine Base In Greatest Aerial Offensive Known.   Five Bombers Lost

Allied Bombers Give Continent Greatest Attack   Drop More Than 1,000 Tons of Explosives on St. Nazaire

TIRELESS RAF DUMPS BOMBS ON ST. NAZAIRE   OFFENSIVE SPREADS DESTRUCTION IN FRENCH PORT

AIRMEN CONTINUE GREAT. OFFENSIVE   St. Nazaire Roided ir Around-the-Clock Bombardment

Thousand Tons of Bombs Fall On St. Nazaire  British, Canadians Again Plaster CihkwWisctea CeAR

Food Head May  Get More Power   Believe President To Confer Greater Powers Upon Administrator Jones   SEEK TO INCREASE FOOD PRODUCTION

GREATER POWER MAY BE GIVEN MARVIN JONES   Official Circles Believe FDR Will Act Soon To Solve Food Problem   MAY RULE PRODUCTION   Czar Also May Receive Authority To Control U. S$. Consumption

JONES MAY BE GIVEN COM: PLETE CONTROL OVER FOOD PROBLEMS FROM PRODUCTION TO RATIONING

MARVIN JONES TO GET WIDER AUTHORITY   President to Seek More Simplicity in Iood Distribution

JAP BASE “OF MUNDA CLOSE BY   Only Five Miles Separate American Forces from Important Enemy Location.

Fla-Ga. Leaf Dr Ops: 3 Yo 6 ¢ ents A Pound   Slight Increase Noted On Carolina Markets, With Demand Continuing Cjood.

TOBACCO PRICES DROP ON GA.FLA. MARKETS   High Grade Flue-Cured Continued in Good :  Demand However

a a a a a a alt  “Skin Bank" Is Operating At Eastern State Penitentiary

"Skin Bank" formed in Pennsylvania Prison; Other Similar Banks Planned

CITY ENLISTS LARGE GROUP IN SERVICE   Three Altoona Selective Service Boards Provide Enlistment Quotas.

RED ARMY FACING INCREASING NUMBER ‘OF GERMAN TANKS   RUSSIANS DRIVE STEADIL} FORWARD IN SMOLENSK SECTOR

Russians Struggle To Hold Their Line Along Donets River   Continue To Slaughter Nazi Infantrymen and  Riflemen There

Axis Pours More Forces Into Battle   Reds Claim Advance In Smolensk Offensive Despite Weather

Russians Still Struggle To Hold Lines Along — Donets East of Kharkov

REDS BATTLE REINFORCED NAZI ARMIES      Continue Sanguiaary Struggle fo Donets Against Increased Men Planes and Tanks   ADVANCE IN NORTH      Clear Long Section East Bank of Dnieper but Mud Threatens to Bog Down Armies .

Reds Struggle To Hold Foe In Kharkov Sector       Germans Pouring Tanks, Men And Planes Into - Area; Russians, However, Claim They Are  Steadily Pressing Forward On Smolensk.

Reds Battle To Hold Big Nazi Smash   Spring Mud Bogs Down Fighting Machines; Soviets Still Making  A Jeamnae Fie. Ganalemek

GERMANS MOVE UP MORE TANKS   Spring Mud May Soon Bog Down Land Fighting in Russia

NAZIS KEEPING PRESSURE ON IN KHARKOV AREA   Russians Struggling To Defense Lines Along Twisting Northern Donets River   HUNS PUSHED BACK IN CENTRAL SECTORS   Enemy Cleared Out of Every Area Along Dnieper River Toward Vyazma Smolensk Railway

Red Armies Struggle to Hold Lines   German Tanks, Men and Planes Pour Into Donets River Battle Zone

GERMANS RUSH MORE TANKS INTO BATTLE   Soviets Take Town In Advance On Smolensk   Bogs Dnieper River Action: Nazi Death Toll Said To Be Mounting

RED ARMY I$ STILL FIGHTING TO HOLD ITS DEFENSE LINES   Battle Is Along the Northerr Donets River, East and Southeast of Kharkov.   AXIS FORCES INCREASE   Tanks, Men and Planes Are Being Poured Into the Area.

NAZI FORCES INCREASE IN DONETS AREA   Reds Struggle to Hold Defense. Lines as More and More Tanks, Men and Planes Are Poured Into the Fight.

REDS FIGHTING TO HOLL LINES NEAR KHARKOV   Russian Troops Drive Ahead Along Central Front On Way To Smolensk

Nazis Increase Tempo of Attack On Donets Front   Germans Continue to Bring Up Tanks and Planes Through Kharkov.   Soviet Drive Toward Smolensk Unchecked

Reds Battle To Hold Donets Line   Soviets Drive Steadily Ahead In Push for  Smolensk

RUSSIAN ARMY STRUGGLING TO HOLD DEFENSE LINE ALONG NORTHERN DONETS RIVER   Despite Unfavorable Weather Conditions Reds Drive Forward in Offensive For Smolensk. _ Enemy Cleared From Dneiper River Towards . VvazmaSmolensk Railway

Nazis Pound Hard At the Red Lines   Russians Struggle to Hold Against German Tanks and Planes   SOVIETS MAKE GAINS   Death Toll of Axis Soldiers Reported to Be Mounting Rapidly

German Pus! Threatens Russ Lines  Of Defense   Only In Smolensk Area Does Red Army Report Gains; Nazis Get Planes. Tanks

Tanks and Planes Pour Into Fight   Red Army Struggles To Hold ~ Lines at Khar rkov, While Driving Enemy Back in the North

Nazis Hurl Heavy Tanks Against Reds Near Kharkov   Russians in Desperate Battle Near Kharkov—Gain Towards Smolensk

10 Million-Man Army Defended   Patterson Lashes Military Crities

THOMAS JEFFERSON SHRINE DEDICATED QN HIS BIRTHDAY      President Roosevelt Delivers - Inspiring Dedication Address At Monument

Rededicates U.S. to Ideals Oi Jefferson   FDR Says Men Must Be Willing to Fight For Liberty

PRESIDENT WARNS THAT MEN MUST FIGHT FOR LIBERTY   F. R. REDEDICATES NATION TO IDEALS OF JEFFERSON AT NEWLY COMPLETED MEMORIAL   Tells Promise   Form Cross

President Rededicates Nation to Democratic Ideals of Jefferson At Newly Completed Memorial

PRESIDENT LAUDS JEFFERSON IDEALS   Chief Executive Dedicates White Marble Memoria in Washington.

Jefferson Memorial  Is Dedicated   President Speaks On 200th Anniversary Of Great American

Jefferson Memorial Is Dedicated By President; 200th Birth Anniversary

2,300 More Miners Quit Work Today   9,000 Men at Work Vote Being Taken at Four Big Mines

Miners Refuse ToEnd19-Da y Wildeat Strike   Work Stoppage Spreads: Two More  Collieries Forced To Close As 15.000 Are Idle

80 Vessels Are Taking * Out Troops   Record Umbrella of AntiAircraft Fire Protecting Evacuation Ships   GUN IS PASSPORT TO THE MAINLAND   Well Entrenched Forces Are Making Every Effort to Hold Up Allied Push

DOUGHBOYS LAND BACK OF GERMAN LINES IN SICILY   BOCHE LEGIONS FACE TRAP AS BATTLE FOR MESSINA NEARS PEAK

Naval Guns Support Amphibious Attack, Repulse Counters;  Axis Saves Weapens

MARKET PROFIT _ CASHING ON RISE   Fractions, to Point Clipped -Olf Many Leaders; Steel, Rails Give-Ground

Naples Occupied, “5th Army Sweeps On After Enemy   Airman Mow Down Germans Fleeing From Ruinec City. Not A German Left Alive As Allies Move In And Start Rebuilding Port Facilities.

Allies Capture Burning  City of Naples   Fifth Army Pursues German Troops Retreating North

Airman Mow Down Germans Fleeing From Ruinec City. Not A German Left Alive As Alhes Move In And Start Rebuilding Port Facilities.

Engineers Rushing Clearing Of City °   Important War Depots, Port Installations Are Destroyed By Germans Before Retrectina

FARM BOY flats 578,000 IN & YEARS   Started Out with Ewe Lamb from ‘Santa Claus’ and Named ‘Merry Christmas’

COUNTY RED CROSS QUOTA $19,800; COLLECTED, $13,304.40; BALANCE DUE $6,495.60

COUNTY RED CROSS QUOTA $19,800; COLLECTED, $9,718.73; BALANCE DUE $10,081.27

The War Today   Washington Strategy Parley ! Tanke Tike Tranhle for Tans

Blazing Plane Falls on Beach   Dozens Injured;  Three Children Die

EYE ON ELECTION    Second ‘District Vote for Congressman, Sept. 14, In Spotlight

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX DELAY HINDERING FIGHT. ONINELATION   Roosevelt Asks” * Congress For Higher Taxes And Reape: For More.  Saving

HIGHER: TAXES ARE CALLED FOR TODAY BY THE PRESIDEN]   Also Calls Upon the People for More Saving and less Spending in U. S.__

Asks Congress For Tax Raise   Calls For Siphoning  of Purchasing Power

Today’s War Commentary  Hitler’s Mistakes  f nesnane’a \% on te Pisa VW ae los Ase DD veers   Germany's Weakness Was In Air Power

Bridges Promises To Expose Jury That Freed Flynn   To Present Juror At Hearing of Senate Committee

BRIDGES SAYS HE WILL PRODUCE JUROR WHO WAS DISGUSTED WITH WAY PAVING BLOCK CASE WAS HANDLED   New Hampshire. ‘Senator to Present Evidence Against Edward J. Flynn to Foreign Relations Committee.

Labor To Be Rationed Soon MeNutt Says   Step must be taken to end the “hoarding” of skilled labor practice of some concerns,

AATIONING OF LABOR PLANNED BY MCNUT   Correction Of Unbalanced Conditions Necessary

TOWN AND FARM IN WAR TIME.   Weekly News Digest by Rural Press Section, OWI News Bureau.   VeVALL PECTURES FOR DADS

HIT TARGETS IN FRANCE, ITALIAN ISLES THURSDAY   Russian Bombers Blast Two Nazi Occupied Ports in Crimea

A STRONG FORCE OF BRITISH PLANES HEADED FOR FRANCE   Crossed the Southeast Coast Early Tonight, London Report Said.   8 ENEMY PLANES DOWN   Were Destroyed by Spitfires and Thunderbolts in Separate Sweeps.

Allies Destroy 8 German Planes   Britain Passes Night Without Attack

RAF Heads  For France   Strong Force Sighted Starting Over Channel To Attack Targets

AAO EAPEGT OATURDAY TC BEGIN ATTAGK   Broadcast Points to Moves by Americans, British Cabinet Members.   ALLIED PLANES ROAR OVER PALERMO PORT

TRIAL RESUMES   Dempsey’s Wife To Have Her Round In Divorce Suit

RAF BOMBERS ATTACK GERMAN RUBBER CENTER   British Lose 34 Airplanes, Americans Down 142 Nazi Fighters

Allies Blast Berlin, Hannover and Bremen   Raids Climax Day of Intense Aerial Activity; German Planes Retaliate Feebly over England.

HANNOVER CENTER OF RAF ATTACKS   Raids on Bremen, Ruhr and ‘Berlin Climax Day of Intense Activity for Allies

RAF Bombers Hit Hanover in Strength   Climaxes Day of Great Activity Over Continental Europe

NAZI FACTORIES ARE SMASHED IN MULTIPLE RAID   Berlin Gets Small Dose in Comparison To Devastation Dumped on Hannover

Hannover Hif By RA Planes   Nazi Rubber Center Blasted Last Night

Reich is Subjected to Another Terrific Pounding From Skie:   Berlin, Bremen, Hanover Blasted in Double DayNight Punches

HANNOVER IS AGAIN BOMBED BY BRITISH   Bremen Pounded In Night Raid  On Germany

142 German Fighters Downed Over Bremen   Germans Use Small Rocket Plane Agains Bombers; Thirty Bombers Lost In Raid On Stuka Dive-Bomber Plant.

American Forces, Supported by United States Warship Bombardments, Smash Six to Ten Bailes “jn South Sicily.

WARSHIPS MAKE FOR THE STRAITS, BATTLES RAGING   Tank Defenses Smashed, Catania Plains are Allicd Target Now.

Draft Tax Slash Bill   Republicans Prepare Measure For Legislature

DANISH TROOPS KILL 14 NAZIS IN ICLASH; "EMERGENCY’ CUTS OFF ISLAND

Russians’ ferocious fighting blocks nazi breakthru attempt   Grinding German assault halted after gaining ‘additional villages’

REDS BATTLE TO RESTORE THEIR POSTS   German Advance Made In Great Fury At Heavy Cost; Stopped ColdOn Other Parts Of Front   Hoarded Reserves

Thirty Thousand Reported Dead in Fierce Fighting  SLIGHT GAINS ARE MADE BY INVADERS  Enemy Has Failed to Achieve Major Break. throuach

30 Divisions Hurled Into Fresh Offensive   Russians Destroy 1.539 Tanks, 649 Planes In Flaming Battle On 200-Mile Front; Kursk Objective Frustrated

Nazis Suffer Staggering Losses in 3 Day Period: 30,000 Dead Reds Say   1,539 Tanks Destroyed, 649 Planes Shot Down in Terrific Struggle in Southern Sector; Only Gains by Germans Termed Insignificant

1,539 Tanks, 649 Planes, AreDestroyed. Reds Claim   Reds Resist Sternly, But Admit Few More Villages Fall to Foe In Reloorod Sector   BOTH USE RESERVES IN VIOLENT BATTLES

Thirty Thousand Reported Deadin Fierce Fighting SLIGHT GAINS ARE MADE BY INVADERS  Enemy Has Failed to

Over 1,500 German Tanks Knocked Out'as Reds Hold Avainst Terrific Assaults

NAZIS PAYING HIGH PRICE IN RUSSIAN DRIVE   1,539 Tanks Reported De.  stroyed And 649 Planes Ghat Tyawn      SMALL PENETRATION IN BELGOROD SECTOR

Russians Destroy 1,539 Tanks; 64 Planes as Gigantic Enemy Gamble on Break-Through Fails

Vain Assaults On Russ Cost Nazis Vast Tol  D1. Slaten 27 OOD   Reds Claim 30,000 Foes Slain, 1539 Tanks Destroyed

Reds Admit Small Sectors Are Lost   German Radio Finelly Admits Offensive Hos Been Started Alona Lona Section OF Eront

Repurt 30,000 Nazis Have Been Killed   Hitler's Losses Include 1,539 Tanks, 649 Planes

Terrific Assault Fails To Achieve Important Breach in Reds’ Lines   Soviets Counterattack After ‘a Few Villages’ Fall in Belgorod Area; Germans Attempting To Smash Kursk Defenses, Push for Moscow

NAZIS PRESSED TO SAVE BASES   Believe Smolensk and Kiev Doomed  New Thiust‘Surfprises Germans

NAZIS BATILE 10 HOLD LINE AT SMOLENSK   Russians announce serie of smashing new victories today

Gore Huggins Piloted General To Casablanca Conference, But  He Vas Flying ‘In the Dark’

State Defense Director Stone Says 19-County Blackout will Provide State Officials with First Test of Large Scale Rural Blackcuts.

INCREASE MAY BE SOUGHT IN MEAT RATIONS   CANNED VEGETABLES AND FRUITS SHORT FOR CIVILIANS

CANNED GOODS RATION SLASE {$ DECIDED ON   Increase in Meat for Civilian ConsumpBan je Likely

LESS CANNED. FRUIT AND ‘VEGETABLES  FOR HOME USE   Possible Increase. in the Meat Ra tion. Hinted—Armed Force. .Neoed Supplies.

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CANNED FOODS WILL BE CUT   War Food Office Thinks Meat Ration May Be Increased

PANNED GOODS RATION SLASH iS DECIDED ON   ncrease in Meat for Civilian Consumption is Likely

CANNED FOOD CUT FACES CIVILIANS      Farm Parity Held Artificial  Shaping;

INCREASE IN MEAT RATIONS EXPECTED   Civilians, However, ‘Moy Get Fewer Canned _ Veaetables

Civilians To Get Less Vegetables, Fruits in Cans   Possible Increase in Mea Ration Reported by D. C. Speaker

Chinese Launch Counterattacks   Defenders Heartened By Support in Air

CHINESE LASH BACK, STRIKE BY AIR, LAND   Growing Air Support Heartens Defenders Of Chungking

Chinese Launch Counter-Attacks  In Ilupeh Sector   Given More Support From Air Strength

Allied Bombers Strike Ambome   Jap Bases On Occupied Netherland East Indies Are Blasted   OTHER ISLANDS ALSO HAMMERED

STABILIZE JOBS IN MARION AREA   WMC Officials Adopt Plan To Control Labor Changes, Halt ‘Piracy.’

WMC ADOPTS PLAN FOR MARION AREA   To Promote Transfer, Move: ment of Workers

Underground /ealots Hit With New Fury   Wave of Anti-Axis Sabotage Brings New Restrictions ln Occupied Lands

SEVEN SOLDIERS WED BY WOMAN   And She Admits to FBI She Didn’t ‘Bother To Divorce Any of Them’

BETTY ROBERTS BACKS MARIGNY ON MURDER ALIBI   Says Defendant Was at Home When Oakes Was Killed at Villa

EX.WIFE BARED BY DEMARIGHY   Received Funds To Use As He Pleased, Oakes’ Defendant Says

WMS SUPPORTS DE MARIGNY CLAIM   Tells of Seeing Defendant Light Three Hurricane Lamps Which Might Have Burned Him

Shipping Falls Short Of Need   Million More Tons Of Merchant Ships Lost Than Constructed Last Year.

1942 Shipping Losses Exceeded Production By More Than Million Tons

NAVY POINTS QUT LOSS DISCREPANC   Figures on Shipping Losse: and Construction Somewhat Confusing.

BOARD SUSPENDS “CALLING FATHERS   Telegram Received by Union Coanty Board Stops Indaction Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers for Present

NO MORE PRE-PEARL HARSOR FATHERS TO BE SENT FROM  _COUNTY UNTIL FURTHER   ORDERS, FROM HEAD.     «QUARTERS

U.P. MEN AWARDED SILVER STAR MEDAL      Lieut. McClintock and Lieut. O'Neill on Navy’s Honor Roll.

SANANANDA POINT BATTLE SLOWLY DRAWING TO CLOSE   MacArthur Is Methodically Cleaning Japs Off New Gumea.

JAPS BIG BASE IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur's Specially  Trained Australian Jungle Troops Make Commando Raid.

Unions Protest Further Cut In Newsprint  Declare Free Press Threatened by  Se, eee

CONTRACT LET T0. FINISH BUILDING   Basil Green to Start Work Tuesday on K.U. Military, Structure   LOW BID WAS $50.000

CONTRACT LET TO FINISH BUILDING   Basil Green to Start Work Tuesday on K.U. Military Structure  nconmamansemennainame  LOW BID WAS $50,000

RED ARMIES’ Ant PREGaING UN KEY GIT)   Rostov Under Siege as German Forces Are Reported in Flight.   OFFENSIVE DRIVES ON   Gei'mans Going to Novorossisk and Kerch for Escape to Crimea.

HED) ARMIES S et PRESSE. POW KEY CIT   Rostov Under Siege  as Ger. manjForces Are Report ed in Flioht.   JTPENSTVE  DRIVES ON   ee Going to Novoros.   sisk and Kérch for Es: -. ” pape  ta Crimea. :

Russians Dig Deeper Into Ukraine Area   Allied Troops In Sicily Within Sight of Italian Mainland; Nuern- ~ berg Bombed

BAG 29 JAP PLANES   American Fliers ‘Repulse Enemy Attacks on U.S. Air Bases

29 JAP PLANES KNOCKED DOWN BYU.S. AIRMED   Only Nine of 46 Raiders In Burma Sighted Heading Back For Home Alfter Attack   NO U. S. LOSSES   American Fighters Refuelled After Tangles and Then Bombed Bases In Northern Burma

NAZIS MAY BE BEATEN BY SUMMER   One Official Sees Vic tory Four Months After Invasion

HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL  BELIEVES COMBINED: ALLIED  . ASSAULT WELL CRUSH ARMIES OF REICH   By KINGSBURY SBiTH Fnternational Neus Service

Ration Values Of Four Canned Fruits Boosted   Move To Slow Down De mands Of Shoppers Ef.  fective Sunday.

Butter To Cost » 10 Points Per Pound August    O. P. A. Announces 2Point Hike; No Major Changes In Meat Values.

FULL WEEK AHEAD OF OHIO SOLONS   Production Schedule Starts Tonight; Time Bills Await Action

‘BROWN APPOINTMENT AS OPA ADMINISTRATOR 1S 'EXPECTED IN FEW DAYS

Brown to Take OPA’s Top Job   Michigan -ExSenator Se To Tackle Ticklish Task Tan. 15

Would Succeed Leon Henderson In Vital Office   INS Says FDR To Announce Appointment Of Ex-Solon Early This Week And That Latter Has Accepted ‘Headache;

The War Today—  Week-End Crash Of Bombs On Reich Shows Allied Victory On The Wing

ALLIED AIR POWER PUTTING FINGER ON AXIS NOW   Aramament Plants That Hitler Had Thought  Out of Reach of Allies Raided Heavily Recently.

THOSE GREAT ALLIED BOMBING RAIDS ARE PUTTING FINGER ON HITLER’S SECLUDED STRENGTH

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Aerial Strength Likely Will Be Weapon That Ruins Hitler

UN Air-Power Puts Finger on - Hitler's Secluded Strength  Week-End Bombings Sensational

The War Today  Big Week End Bombings Of Distant Plants Are Sensational News,

UNIFIED COMMAND WILL BE NAMED   Allies Wil Select Staff For Africa.

Unified Allied Command in Africa Expected  Eisenhower Likely to Continue as  CO mnemmnamaAaarin Chiat

Unified Allied Command in Africa Expected  Eisenhower Likely to Continue as Commander-in-Chie:

Axis Version Of Struggle   “Fierce Fighting” Reported All Along Semi-Circular Front

RESERVES ARE BOLSTERING ALL ALLIED ARMIES   Report Parachute Troops Routed By Italian Forces

ALLIED TROOPS  PUSH FORWARD TO MOUNTAINS   Reserves Streaming intB Areas Seized by First Shock Troops, Engag ed In Fierce Fight   BERLIN CLAIMS U.S.  SKY TROOPS TAKEN   German Broadcasts Take On Less Confident Note and Admit Tempo of Battle Mounts

CONTINUOUS STREAM OF ALLIED RESERVES POURING INTO SICILY  OFFICIAL AXIS SOURCES SAY INVADERS BEING HEAVILY ENGAGED

Axis Reports Heavy Fight In Mountains   Big Tank Battle May Be Brewing; Admit Reinforcements

Fierce Fight Raging, Says Axis; Airborne Troops Giving Enemy Suff Opposition

Heavy Fighting ls Reported In Mountain Area   Axis Reports Battles Against Allied Parachute Troops

Axis Reports Admit Allies Make Progress   German Broadcasts Less Confident; Fierce Fighting Admitted

Big Battle Near. On Island Plains   Axis Reports Fierce Fighting in Sicily And Observers Anticipate Major Clash Soon

AKI REPORTS BATTLE FIERCE   German Propaganda Agency Says Fighting Develops in Mountains.   ADMIT ALLIED ADVANCES

Enemy Reports Fierce Fighting With ‘Chutists  In Mountains   Allies Reinforcing Heavy. ily, Italians Concede

Axis Sources Tell of Fierce Fighting Along Licata- Augusta Front

Soviets Smash Toward Old Polish Border   Russians Resume Offensive in North Sector

SOVIETS WITHIN STRIKING RANGE OF ZHIMOTIE   Two Thotisand. Nazis Killed in HardFought Offensive 3  North — ¥

Soviets Near Pole Border   Last Nazi Defense '‘In Sector Is Threatened

March Losses In Atlantic Under Average   U. S. Subs in Pacifie Have Sunk 125,000 Tons Of Japanese Shipping

Hitler May Nof Begin German Summer Offensive Against Russia Affer All

War Today= Hitler Delay on Red Front Hints  WT. nan ee pean wesc ae oa No Summer Drive

Sink 13 Jap vessels in two night battles in Kula gull sector   U.S. navy employing enemy tactics in Solomons fighting with success

U.S. Navy Takes Over Night Fighting Tactics Of Japanese   Sinks At Least 13 And Possibly More Than 17 Enemy Cruisers And Destroyers In Two Weeks

TO INCREASE FARM MACHINERY OUTPU}   War Production Board Au thorizes 30 Percent Raise

Take Care Of Farms   Order Boost In Production of Farm Machmery *

Increased Farm  ~ Machinery 0. Ked  Nelson Approves Boost Of 30 Per Cent To Meet Needs

FARM MACHINE BAN IS EASED   Nelson Orders 30 Per Ceni  Production Increase

NELSON ALLOWS 30 PERCENT HIKE IN FARM TOOLS   UPHOLDS O-FICE OF SUPPLY FO% NOT ACTING SOCNER

NELSON AUTHORIZES — FARM MACHINE HIKE   WPB Head Questions Fairness of Senate Committee’s Criticism Program

Third More Farm Tools Authorized   Steel Set Aside For Production Increase: Critics Criticized.

FARM EQUIPMENT INCREASE NOW ASSURED BY WPB   Production of Machinery To Be Boosted 30 Percent Under New Order   CRITICISM CALLED UNFAIR   Meanwhile Ohio’s Biggest Spring Pig Crop Expected On Basis of Survey

Boost Output Of Machinery By 30 Percen   Nelson Thinks Criticism Of Farm Program Before Senate Group Unfair.   REPAIR FIGURE STANDS

CRETE ATTACKED BY 70 BOMBERS 10 — TEST DEFENSES   German Broadcasts Speculate Anew on Balkan Drive Possibility, «

Allied Bombers Launch — Aerial Attach On Crete   tlanes Give Island Its Hardest Pounding Since German Capture —~ Nazis Say Invasion Is Test Of Axis Defensives .

RAF Makes Test of German Defenses on Island That Was Taken By Nazis In 1941.

ALLIES START AIR: OFFENSE. OVER CRETE   Large Scale Bombing Reported Yesterday

LARGE ALLIED RAID ON CRETE   17 Planes Lost in What Nazis Claim Was Test in Anticipation of Mediterranean Attack

17 Planes Lost During Raid On Axis Stronghold   Pounding Hardest Given Island Snce Capture By Germans In 194]

INDICATES MAJOR BLOW COMING NEAR GREECE   Allies Lose Seventeen Planes in Test of Ger man Defenses on Island; Ammunition Dump Blown Up

Nazi Troop, Air Bases on Island Raked  Ryttt.k and Want TWivse   British and Yank Fires Hit Factories. Power Sistions   17 PLANES MISSING   Three Large Cities Attacked in Hardest Pounding Since 1941

Allied  Bombers Blast Crete   Bntish and Greek Planes Hit Nazi Island Stronghold

ALLIES TEST CRETE DEFENSES WITH BICSCALE AERIAL BLOW   17 Bombers Lost In Heaviest Raid On German-Held Island; Air Bases, Three Large Cities Attacked

fy  War Teday-    y, Hitler Falls Back On Submarine as Last Hope of Win

(Reg. U. S. Pat. Office) BY LOUIS F, KEEMLE  Iinited Presse War Analvat

Liberators Drop 8 Tons on Monywa   No Planes Lost in Raids on Thailand, Jap-Held Myinavan

NAZIS BATTLE . DESPERATELY TO STOP REDS   Rush Reserves, Tanks and Artillery into Action Southwest of Neberdjayevskaya   Russians Reported Now on Three Sides of Novorossisk — Score) Gains on Other Fronts

Nazis Madly — Try to Stem _ Soviet Drive   Fresh Reserves Rushed to Novorossisk Battle as ‘Reds Apply Pressure

NAZIS TRYING TO HALT RED ADVANCE   Germans Rush Up  Reserves, Tanks, Ard Motorized Equipment In Effort to Stem Red  a poo

Extremely Violent Action Reported In Progress Southwest Of Neberdjayevskaya As Germans Rush Up Reserves—Russians Smash Hard From Three Sides In Offensivé Aimed At Novorossisk—Enemy Regroups Sagging Forces To Stage Counter‘Attacks

Extremely Violent Battle In Progress on Red Front   (Germans Rushing Up Reserves, Tanks and Motorized  Artillery in Effort to Halt Soviet Advance To  ward Black Sea; Russians Reported Nine  Miles From Novorossisk

Violent Struggle Near Novorossisk Nazis Send Reserves. Try  To Check Reds

Red Army Drives For Novorossisk   Violent Battle in Caucasus as Germans Rush Up. Reserves   MOVE FORCES BY NIGHT

EXTREMELY VIOLENT  BATTLE RAGING IN  NOVOROSSISK SECTO! GERMANS RUSH UP MO TORIZED RESERVES TO STOP RIJSSIAN DRIVE

AS NAZIS TRY TO HALT REDS   Major Struggle for Hill 9 Miles Southwest of Novorossisk Reported

SOVIETS STRIKE AT NOVOROSSISK FROM 3 SIDES   Nazis Hurl in Reserves  Attempt To Stop Red Advance

GERMANS BRING UP RESERVES 10 HALT RED DRIVE   SOVIET PRESS ON THREE SIDES OF NAZI STRONGHOLD

Germans Seek  To Halt Reds   Nazis Rush Reserves. Tanks. Motored Artillery Into Novorossisk Area.

Reds Crack German Defense Line Near Novorossisk Today   350 German Planes Are Reported Destroyed in Single Day

VIOLENT BATTLE NOW IN PROGRESS NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Germans Rush Up Reserves, Tanks and Motorized Artillery.   ATTEMPT TO HALT MOVE   In the Face of Growing Resistance Red Army Units Were Driving Hard.

Nazis Pour in Troons to Try To Halt Reds   Extremely Violent Battle Reported in Progress Southwest of Novorossisk

Reds Crush Nine Germar Onslauahts   New Enemy Defense Barrier Smashed Near Novorossisk

SEEK 10 HALT NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE   Battle Rages Nine Miles From Novorossisk   Drop Tons Of Explosives On Axis Infantry: Several Hills Captured

RAGING NEAR  GREAT BATTLE NOVOROSSISK   Violent Fighting Develops as Nazis Rush Up Reserves and Tanks to Check Red Drive Upon Black Sea Port.

Fierce Battle Now Raging on Russian Front   Nazis Attempting — To Halt Red March Toward Black Sea

VIOLENT FIGnTING AT NOVOROSSISK   Germans Rushing Up Reserves, Tanks and Motorized Artillery In Attempt To Halt Soviet Advance.

Continue Drive To Novorossisk  ~ Violent Battles 9 — Miles From City

VIOLENT BATTLE IS NOW UNDER WAY IN RUSSIA   Germans Rush Up Heavy Reserves In Effort To Stem Sov iet Advance Toward  Black Sea Port.

Germans Rush Reserves To Stem Russians   Red Army Nine Miles From Black Sea Port

Russ Drive On in 3-Prong Drive; Within Nine Miles of Novorossisk

NAZIS RUSH RESERVES TO FRONT   Main Russian Forces Only Nine Miles   From Sea Base

FIERCE BATTLE GRIPS CAUCASUS   German Reinforcements To Halt Russian Offense Have Little Success

Russians Battle  Only Nine Miles. ‘From Naval Base   Enemy Bring Up Reinforcements In Effort To Balt Advance.

ERUussiau Battle Wiolemt   At Tunis, Bizerte Allied Planes Swarm Like Bees

Extremely Heavy Battle In Progress Nine Miles Southwest Novorossisk

‘Violent Battle Near Novorossisk In Progress     Germans Rush Up Reserves To Halt Russian Advance Toward Sea Port

NEW ALLIED AIR BLOWS BLAST JAPS   Beachead on New Britain Expanded By U.S. Sixth Army

Air Fleets: Lash Japs at Rabaul   Americans Extend  Their Beachheads

ar AVY CAST ALTIFS   Ensign’s Life Is Saved After Surgery At Sea

RED FLIERS HIT GERMAN PLANES   20 Destroyed On Ground Ir Systematic Assault

REDS DESTROY 20 NAZI CRAFT   Soviets in Systematice Aerial Attacks All Along Battle Line. Ground Action Slight

Soviets Destroy 20 German Craft   " Part of Systematic  <Russian Bomb Assault

GROUNDED NAZI AIRPLANES HIT   Reds Raid Airdrome  in Leningrad Area

EYEWITNESS STORY OF GREAT U. S. VICTORY OVER JAPS IN GUADALCANAI AIR BATTLETOLD BY CORRESPONDENT   Anti-Aircraft Units Take First Heavy Toll of Japa nese; American AirmenHurtle Down on Zeroes, Sending 32 Crashing Into Waters in Flames.

Writer Tells of Jap AirDefeat; ‘17 More Planes Reported Smashed:

‘Targets That Weren't There Lure Jap Fliers ‘To Ill-Fated Mission On Skvlark Harbor

JAP FLIERS DOUBLE-CROSSED BY WEATHER  MASS ATTACK ON GUADALCANAL SMASHED) AS FEXPECTEFDN CIOINDY SKIFS CIFAR

Eye-Witness Says Japs Played Right Into Hands Of Americans In History-Making Solomons Raid

GRAPHIC ACCOUNT  OF GREAT VICTORY.  AMERICAN AIRMEN ENEMY ATTACKED  “GUADALCANAL IN FORCI AND IS SENT REFLING

Allies Smash )n Despite “ierce Fight   Nazis Admit Strength Of Armies Pitted Against Their Line

Drives Enemy From Important High Positions  Bet Pet.   5th Fights on Doggedly Defying Rain, Gunfire

Yanks Defy Rain, Nazis To Advance   Allied Soldiers On Offensive, Germans’ Report

OTH ARMY TAKES HIGH GROWND IN FIERCE FIGHTING   Tanks and Infantry Drive Germans From Heights on Both Sides of Upper Volturno.   PLUNGE TOWARD FOE’S NEW MOUNTAIN LINE   Montgomery’s Troops Force Crossings of Trigno River in Face of Heavy Artillery Fire.

Yanks Smash On Into Mountains   Nazis Pushed Back On Upper Volturno

ENEMY DRIVEN BACK IN ITALY BY AMERICANS   FIFTH ARMY MOVES TO HIGH GROUND IN STEADY RAIN

Fifth Army Drives Germans . From Positions Along River   Forces of General Clark, Defying Rain and Enemy Artillery, Make Progress—Bitter Fighting le Beanarted .

GENERAL CLARK’S TROOPS RAKED BY AR. TILLERY ALONG BOTH SIDES oF VOL.  TURNO RIVER; PROGRESS REPORTED SATISFACTORY.

American Troops Advance Upon New Nazi Line   Foe Masses Mortar, Artillery Along Mountain Defenses

‘Important High Ground Won  From Germans In Italy War  Clark's Troops Drive On Despite Barrage Of Heavy Artillery: Nazi Line Powerful

High Ground Of Importance Is Captured   Progress. fe Termed . Satisfactory Despite Rain and Resistance

Chilean Envoy Sees Germany  As War Loser   Another Front Cited As Necessary In ~ Darane

General. Cubbison Visits Tobacco Market And Buy Fancy Wrappers              Distinguished Ft. Bragi ‘Officer Accompanied bs Fayetteville Men Buys Some Tobacco :

General Cubbison Visits Tobaceo  Market And Buys Fancy Wrappers <*   Distinguished Ft. Brags Officer Accompanied be Fayetteville Men Buys Some Tobacco ;

Writer in First Boat of Invasion Force Tells of Battle tor Arawe   Japs Slay Many of Initial Wave Betore Big Naval Guns Aid New Britain Attack

Todav's Index   ‘Pitiless Fire irom Shore Was Lot of U.S. : Troops Spearheading New Britain Invasion

MISSISSIPPI IS TAKIAG BIG PART IN WAR BUILDING   Agricultural State Turns Out From Tents To Shin Succlies

Kharkov Falls To Russ Army   Crack SS Storm Troopérs Routed by Reds ir Street Fighting: Flee Westward

Victory Greatest Since Stalingrad   . Numerous Elite German Divisions Wiped Out In Fierce Fighting Within The City

Pearl Harbor commanders will stand trial after war   Kimmel, Short waive limitations that might have provided escape

WINE TO TAKE OUT Don's Grill) N Evie St—aAq_   NEW SHOP IY RBRFEWweTre

Soldiers Do Victory Gardening After Close Of Day’s Maneuvers   RY RALPH E. WALLIS

Watch Blood Pressure,  pike   Train Makes First Run In Chicago’s New Subway

Chicago Subway Opened Sunday  First Train Tested On Underground Rail

CONVICT CONFESSES. - SLOCAL ROBBERIES   Penitentiaty Prisoner Tells of Robbing Safes in

CONVICT CONFESSES 3 LOCAL ROBBERIES   Penitentiary Prisoner Tells of Robbing Safes in This City

BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR NAZT UNITS IN SUUTH AUSSI   Russians Seize Bolshayaorlovka And May Cut Off  Retreating Foe

INCREASE THREAT TO BOTTLE UP NALIS IN CAUCASUS   New Russian Drive Northward Along Black Sea  Coast Imminent.

COAL STRIKE NOT CONCLUSION   Failure for } New Contract Will Not Be Stop Signal

MINERS WON’T ~ STRIKE MARCH 31   if Agreement Not Reached Ther Miners To Work If Agreement Retroactive

COLUMBUS-BASED PLANE IN GRASt   Crew of Eight and One Soldier- Passenger Killed Near Springfield, Arizona.

SURGEONS USING METAL   Army poctors Replace Flesh and Bone bf Wounded Men

SURGEONS USING METAL   ‘Army Doctors Repla Replace remy and Bone of Wounded M

Boy Gets Letfer From Eisenhower   No Chance to Send Momento Yet, Too Much Fighting

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LIQUOR SUPPLY CUT INDICATED   WPB Refuses To Grant “Hoiiday” For Making Of Beverage Alcohol

LESS LIQUOR —-[$ FORECAST   WAR: FOOD ADMINISTRATION SAID TO HAVE BALKED ON PROPOSED ALCOHOL “HOLIDAY”

DOMMEL'S ABILITY TO HOLD BOIDGEPFAD DEPENDS ON THE MORALE OF HIS TROOPS

Morale Of Rommel’s Troops To Determine Axis Fate; Enemy Planning Battle To The Finish

NIMITZ SAYS JAPS WILL LOSE ISLANDS   Declares Americans Nbw Have Means to Drive Nipponese From Their Stronrholds.

Reds Halt Fresh Nazi Attempts To Cross Donets River}: Take Strategic Heights Near Bely

REDS MOW DOWN NAZI ATTACKERS   Germans Attempt to Crack Donets River Line Near  . Balakleya, 35 Miles Southwest of Kharkov

REDS REPULSE DONETS ATTACK   Long Front Holds Steady As Both Sides Await Spring Thaw End

300 NAZIS LOSE LIVES IN DRIVE   Russians Beat Off New Attack by Germans on Donets River Line

Reds Hurl Back Big Nazi Force; Foe ‘Takes Bad Beating.   Soviets Say Total Enemy Toll ts Now Million, Half

GERMANS LOSE 300 MEN IN FUTILE ATTACK   Russian Front Described As Stahilized

REDS BEAT BACK ATTACK IN DONETS   KILL 300 GERMANS STORMING THEIR POSITIONS SOUTHEAST OF KHARKOV,

NAZIS UNABLE TO DENT LINE OF RED ARM)   SOVIETS MOW DOWN ENEMY SOLDIERS BY HUNDREDS

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FORTRESSES BOMB GROSSETO AIRFIELD   Raid Follows Up Night Attacks On-Port Of Naples

U-BOAT PACKS SET FOR ACTION   ———o rc  Germany Believed 1] To Renew Raids; Fleet Lies In Hiding

Germany Is Believed To Be Preparing To Renew Big U-Boat Campaign As Fleet Hides In Northern Fjords

Nazis Believed Preparing New  ‘U-Boat Campaign   Days t Few  Y Know Events of was  a  hoe

Allies Expect New Trouble as Nazis Are Reported Ready to Strike Naval Blows From Bases in North

AMERICANS REPULSE ‘VICIOUS NAZI DRIVES   Terrific Fighting In Italy Described By Packard

Yanks Beat Back Five Nazi Drives   Eighth Army Is Advancing Ahead

CORN PRICE BOOST DEMANDED IN SENATE   Lucas Tells Chamber Situation Is Critical With Farmers Holding Grain.

CONGRESS SET ARMY LIMIT   Move To Delay Drafting “Of Married Men’ Also Intensified

Walla ce Wants To Deny Charges   Seeks To Correct Impression About Corporations

‘WALLACE SAYS SPEECH MISINTERPRETED   Vice President Denies Charge He Seeks To Abolish Corporate Form Of U S. Business

Rising Tide of Rebellion Sweeps In Wake of Allied Victory; Axis Admits Great Battle Ends

175,000 Axis Soldiers Counted as Cleanup Continues in Tunisia   German Citizens Angry at Lack of Word on Fate Of Men in Africa; U. S. Daylight Sweep Follows RAF Duisberg Smash; Reds Blast Warsaw

Allied Aircraft Resume Blasting Of Nazi Capital   Big Terror Attack, Description Says

oJ, Liberators Strike at Nazi * Air Depot at Osle   Climax 3 Days of Intensive Attacks With Hit at Capital

BIG NORWEGIAN REPAIR PLANT GIVEN POUNDING   Nine American Liberators Fail To Return From Raid Across North Sea   CHEMICAL WORKS AT LUDWIGSHAFEN HIT

Big Force Reported Over City for Second Successive Night  CITY 1% SMACHEN   CITY IS SMASHED IN MONDAY ATTACK   IN MUNDAY AVIACK  Fires Still Rog) Raging Front Greatest Aerial Blow .. im Hictary

Berlin Pounded By RAF Heavies   Liberators Blast Big Norway Plant

CITY BLASTED BY GREATEST AERIAL BLOW   1,000 Planes Hit With Over 2,300 Tons Of Bombs

Allied Planes Blast Berlin Again Monday Night; Nazi Radio Admits Much Damage in ‘Terror’ Raid

Capital Still Smoking From Record Attack   2,300 Tons of Bombs Dropped on City; U. 5 Planes Keep Up Raids On German Targets

German Broadcasts Admit Heavy Damage Caused  FLAMES RAGING IN CAPITAL OF REICH Attack Cartied Out ia  Spite of Dense Clouds

BOMBERS POUND BERLIN SECOND STRAIGHT Nii   Raid Made on Stricken City as It Smoulders From Heaviest Aerial Blow Ever Dealt.   NAZIS REPORT NUMBER OF PLANES SHOT DOWN   Admit New Destruction Wrought—10,000 Reported Dead or Injured in First Onslaught,

EXPLOSIVES ARE RAINED ON SUBURBS   Nazis Report Fighters Prevented Big R. A. F, Fleet From Reaching Heart of City.   DENSELY POPULATED SECTIONS ARE HIT   Night Assault Follows Smashing American Raid on Airplane Repair Plant in Norway.

Mosquitoes Of the RAF Strike Berlin   Mightiest Northern Italy Attack Starts Parades for Peace

Strike for Second Successive Night at Nazi Capital Blazing Still After Greatest Air Blow   Procession of Bombers Over Channel for 45 Minutes; Nazis Report Resistance; 10,000 Casualties; City in Ruins From First Raid

British Bombers Raid Berlin in Major Air Attack   Americans Assault Germans in Norway

Berlin Is Hit Again By Allied Aircraft   German Radio Admits ““Great Deal of Damage” Done: Fires Reported Left in Capital; Losses Among Civilians

BERLIN BOMBED IN NEW ATTACK   German Radio Admits Damage; Fires Are Left Burning

Germans Admit ‘Great Deal of Damage in Raid   British Bombers Strike Again; Set City Ablaze

Monday Night Destruction © Tremendous   Over 2,300 Long Tons Of Bombs Dropped By 1,000 RAF Bomber  RITAZES STITT RACE

Raid by 1,000 Bombers Leaves Berlin Smashed And Smoking   2,300 Tons of High Explosives and Incendiarie: Hurled on Nazi Capital 26 Bombers Lost

German Capital Is Again Under Attack  Stockholm ‘Phone Oper. ators Report Raid

§. Planes fake Second lorway Raid   RAF Blasts World's largest Chemical Works In Germany

Night Assault Follows Daylight Raid on Norwegian Depot   NINE PLANES LOST IN NORWAY ATTACK   Reich Capital Raid Cli. maxes Three Days of Massive Operations

German Radio Renorts Night: Attack by RAF   Great Deal of Damage To ‘Berlin Caused By Bombers

Planes Blast Berlin Again   Heavy Bombers Raid Heart Of Enemy Lend

Germans Report Berlin Bombed   Admit Great Deal Of Damage to City

Berlin Pounded By RAF Heavies   Liberators Blast  Big Norway Plant By GLADWIN WILL

Heavy Bombers Attack Berlin   R.A. F. Drops Fire, Explosives on City.

RAF’s Heavy Bombers Hit Berlin   Follows SmashingRaid By Americans On Depot in Norway

BERLIN. NORWAY HIT BY ALLIES   Largest Chemical Works In World Blasted At Ludwigshafen

Berlin Raided hy Heavy Brit Bombers   Americans Smash at Vital Tearcets in Norway

Big Force Reported Over City for Second Successive Night  CITY IS SMASHED IN MONDAY ATTACK  Fires Still Raging From Greatest Aerial Blow in History

RAF BOMBERS IN HEAVY RAID ON GERMAN CAPITAL      “Great Deal Of Damage” To Berlin Is Admitted By Nazi Broadcast   “BIG TERROR RAID” PROPAGANDISTS SAY

RADIO REPORTS TERROR RAID ON NAZI CAPITAL   German Broadcast Admits ‘Great Deal O Damage’ Attack Carried Out Despite Dense Clouds And Lack Of Visibility

NAZI SQUADS FIGHT FIRES DURING RAIL   Serious Damage and “Losses Among Civilian Population” Admit. ted by Enemy.   BLOCK-BUSTERS ARE RAINED DOWN   Onslaught Reported Carried Out Despite Dense Clouds and Complete Lack of Visibility.

Sharp Decline In Death Total   FEWER NEW YEAR DAY ACCIDENTS THAN 1942

WELLES URGES PEACE PLANS   Declares Collaboration Is Necessary To Avoid After-War Havoc

War Time Peace Plan Urged by Sumner Welles   Sees ‘Unmitigated Havoc if Nations Do Not Stick Together

“HOUSE INCREASES ofPPROPRIATI ON FOR HOSPITALS   ‘Economy Gets Another Blow Despite Warning; School Bloc In Victory  p That May Be Upset

Coal Shutdown Is General Over U.S.   Miners Lay Down Tools to  Await Developments in Dispute   Nearly All Coal Miners in Missouri and Kansas Idle   Bulletin

Most of Coal Miners Idle Over Nation   “Only Maintenance Men ot Northern Colorado Mines

Coal Shutdown Is General Over U.S.   Miners Lay Down Tools to Await Developments in Dispute   UNION  _ CHIEFS MEET   Nearly All Coal Miners in Missouri and Kansas e

Jeck Requests That Comfort Resign Office   Declares Comfort’s Legal  . Fee Is Unbecoming to  Democratic Dignity

Question Two in Triple Slaying  Farm Hand and Girl Companion Held

Quiz Farmhand,  Girl In Slayings Triple Murders Probed _ In Pennsylvania

Parolee Admits Murders   Farm Hand and Gir Companion, Both  20, Taken in Ohio

Youth Admits Killing 3, Police Say   Pair Returned To Mercer —  Forced Girl to Accompany Him  ,

MINING TRUCE IS DENOUNCED   Legion Commander Says Step Is Postponing Real Decision

Waring Opposes Truce with Miners: Had Enough of Armistices in '18

NEW PRESS HEADQUARTERS      AP Opens Office in Nameless Capital of Italy

A Monarchy For Spain?      Restoration Urged on Franco As Unity Step; May Have British OK

WANT KING   Morarchists Reported Ge tting British Ald in Pleas To Franca

Rommel’s Tank Force Seeking To Outflank . Allied Positions There

American Forces Fighting Hard To Head Off Rommel   British 8th Army Smashing Within 125 Miles of a Jutiction With Armored Forees Fighting Rommel’s Army

Navy Maintains Strict Silence Of Progress Of Fighting In Aleutian Islands

ROOSEVELT COMMUTES TRAIT  . ORS DEATH SENTENCE ON © GROUNDS IT WAS TOO  . oo.) REVERE ,

Commutation Is Given Stephar   President Saves Detroit Traitor From Execution Penalty Imposed

ce . 7 Ps ONLY SCATTERED. GROUPS OF GERMAN TROOPS RE MAIN OUT OF ORIGINAL ARMY OF -330,000 MEN AT STALINGRAD AND SIXTEEN GENERALS WERE AMONG PRISONERS TAKEN BY -, RUSSIAN ARMY YESTERDAY

WIPE OUT ARMY - AT STALINGRAD   Spviets Threaten to Close Trap on 300,023 More South of Rostov

Report Kiska Invasion On   Vichy Radio Says Island Being Invaded—Washington Is Silent   ATTACK HAS BEEN EXPECTED

STATE'S CROPS ARE CUT DOWN BY HARD RAINS   Weather Losses Analyzed By Crop Reporting Service   VICTORY GARDENS HIT   Vegetable Production To Be ‘Much Below  Average”

Jap Invasion  Bases Bombed   Series Of Bomber Attacks Made By MacArthur's Men In South Pacific

Harrying Attacks by Allied Bombers in  Southwest Pacific Go Along on Schedule

BOY DIES IN ACCIDENT   PDR «s Grandsen Atumbles Over f.un. His Chum Patalix “heat

President's 10-Year Grandson Trips Over Rifle, Kills Chum   Prominent Broker’s Son Victim Of Mishap In Col. Elliott Roosevelt’s Home

FOR’S GRANDSON KILLS BEST PAL   William Donner Roosevelt, 10, Trips Over .22 Calibre Rifle

FDR's Grandson Trips Over Rifle; Charge Kills His Best Friend, 11

Youth Killed By Accidental Gun Discharge   Philadelphia Boy Loses “Life When Grandson Of Roosevelt Trips Over Gun In Home

ARRIALBLOWS ARETRADED BY ALLIES, AXIS   Wellington Bombers Drop Gigantic Bombs On Naples, Gerbini and Reggio Calabria   ITALIANS STRIKE AT BIZERTE SHIPS   Allied Planes Roar Ove Ravaged Messina, to Reach Targets In Naples

Naples Docks And Industrial Areas Get Working Over   Allied Bombers Passed Over Ravaged Messina To Reach Naples

Allied Bombers Blast Factories At Naples Port  Tialian Wrarnckin  Italian Warships Reported Putting Out To Sea

Allied Airmen Continue Air Blows. Visiting Naples Area   AXIS PLANES FAIL IN RAID ON SHIPS   Grave Water Shortage On Sicily Reported After Repeated Attacks

Naples Given Another Dose  Of Explosives   Greek Airdromes Pounded By Planes Out Of Cairo

DOCK AND WAR PLANTS BOMBED IN NAPLES AREA   Wellington Bombers Raid Italian Port; Germany Taking Precautions In  Greek Islands.

BLAST VITAL ITALIAN PORT   Allied Bombs Leave Messina In Ruins; Supply Line Wrecked

NAPLES OBJECTIVE — OF AN AIR ATTACK SATURDAY NIGHT   Wellington Bombers of North — African Air Forces Dropped Bombs on Dock Area.   PLANTS WERE ALSO HIT   The Italian Sunday Communique Said Only Slight Damage Was Done.

Naples Is Target For Bombers Of ‘Allies   Dock Area And Industrial Plants Attacked; Six  Avie Dianac Wh sessed

Two Enemy Ships Sunk Ear « ly Today, Another Driven Blazing Onto A Beach and Three More Brought To Standstill.

NAPLES IS TARGET OF RAF RAID   Eight Axis Aircraft Shot Down Trying To Bomb Convoy

Nanles Bombed By British In Night Attack   Enemy Docks, Industrial Plants Hammered In Allied Foray

NAPLES DOCK AREA [5 AGAIN BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBERS   INDUSTRIAL PLANTS ALSO INCLUDED IN SATURDAY NIGHT RAID

American Bombers Blast Airfields In Greece for Second Time In Week;  Nanles Docks Target for RAF Planes

Naples Under Heavy Allied Bomb Attack   Industrial Plants and Dock Areas Struck By Wellington Bombers

NAPLES AGAIN ATTACKED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Wellingtons Bomb Dock Area and _ Industrial Plants, Today’s Communique Says of Saturday Night Raid.

NAPLES POUNDED BY RAF PLANES   Six Axis Craft Downed Aft ,er Attack on Allied Shipping Saturday

Nazis Losing Tank Every Two Minutes On Russian Front, Says Moscow Report

Po rtion of Advance  Wiped Out   No Territorial Gains 0 Consequence Made in  Hitler’s Offensive

Charge Attempt To Defraud U. S.   Company and Three Workers Named

=S- FFT eee UL UE SUE  Speed of Ameri ican Advance in Sicily Amazes Clark Lee

 Sere Today, 20 Miles Farther on 4  Tomorrou—That’s Our Yank Army 

@ WINGED WARFARE  Speed of American Advance in Sicily Amazes Clark Lee

Senate Come * vt Announced; Cr. .man Placed on Private Corporations

Legislature Starts War Time Session  Economy and Short Term Pledged By bd ws ve poe eae

Girl ‘Call Service’ For Diplomats, Businessmen In Capitol Charged

Woman Tried For Arranging Girls’ Dates   Alleged To Have Supplied Diplomats With Young Women

Eden Reports To Commons Moscow Meet   Gives Britain Most Optimisti Outlook for Full and Frank Postwar Cooperation Among Three Powers

Soviet Parley ‘Exceeds Hopes  Eden Gives Commons Most Optimistic Report Yet Received

Eden Hopeful For Postwar Co-operation   Commons Gets Optimistic Report on Moscow Conclave

A “ROSY” PICTURE   Anthony Eden Reports on Moscow Conference to Commons

Eden Optimistic On 3-Nation Pact   Briton Says Results of Moscow Conference Exceeds Expectations.

Cooperation Assured—Eden   Moscow Conference More Successful’ Than He Hoped

EDEN ENTHUSIASTIC OVER RESULTS OF MOSCOW MEETING   BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY GIVES COMMONS DETAILS OF CONFERENCE

Eden Lauds Results Of Moscow Parley As Good Will, Trust   Armistice Day Observance Abandoned For Tougher Jot

Eden s Repori ls Optimistic pote 5 rpemert  AAnwv fl" AAA ian an?

Eden Presents Moseow Report   Foreign Secretary Gives Optimistic Official Outlook For Cooperation.

EDEN HAIL MOSCOW PACT   COMMONS TOLD TREND TO POSTWAR CO-OPERATION

Eden Pleased With Moscow Meeting   Gave Commons Most Optimistic Outlook Ever Presented Britain.

EDEN ENTHUSIASTIC OVER RESULTS OF MOSCOW MEETING  BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY GIVES COMMONS

Postwar  Outlook Brisht   . «+ Hopes Exceeded By Moscow Agreement

MOSCOW MEETING EXCEEDED ALL HOPE   So Says Eden in Report on Post-war Outlook

EDEN’S REPORT “1S OPTIMISTIC   Frank Account of Post-wai . Cooperation Is Given ' Britain

Post-War  Outlook Hopetul   Eden Discloses Scope of Tri-Power Co-operation Accord.

EDEN REPORTS ON ~ MOSCOW PARLE}   Optimistic Outlook For Future -Given- By- pat  ish Official

EOEN REPORTS ON CONFERENCE   Gives Commons Optimistic  Outlook on Post-War Co-operation.

( ; a  PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWN RED _ ARMY STAFF INDICATE  , POWER OF ALLIED   BOMBER ARMADAS

Jubilant Cheers Mingled With Prayer: Greet News of Capitulation of ttaly

Cheers Echo As Nation Hears Of Capitulatio:   impromptu Parades Form, Many Enter Churches to Offer Prayers Of Thankfulness 

Reds Wipe Out Nazi Remnants At Stalingrad   Americans In Africa Drive Forward At Axis After Checking Thrust At Pass; British Eighth Army. Pushes To West Again.

Germany Now Thought Ripe  For Invasion   Continued Heavy Aerial War And Big Russian Attack Soften Foe   BERLIN HIT AGAIN   Airfields In Holland And France Blasted By Allied Fliers

ATMOSPHERE OF EXPECTANCY [6 RISING STEADILY   Allies Ready to Strike At More ‘Than Qne Point; Zero Hour Awaited.

Great Armies Stand Ready In North Afries   Allied Blows Expected To Land In Many Places

Expectant Air. In Evidence as Allies Prepare   Attack Likely — To Occur at’ — Several Points

Atmosphere of Expectancy In London Mounts   Allies Believed Set To Strike Out From More Than One Point

ATMOSPHERE OF EXPECTANCY IN EUROPEAN ZONE      Allies Expecting To Strike From More Than One Point On Mediterranean

MULTI-BLOW ATTACK TO MARK INVASION OF NAZI FLUROPE RELIEF   Russ :Attack Lhought.- Likely to Set. Off F ireworks on ‘7 Western ‘Front:

London on Its Toes as Invasion News is Awaited Momentaril      pedusa has been repulsed.

Drive Inland — From Salerno,  Flank Naples   Fifth Army Advances 15 Miles, Seizing  Heights Commanding Sorrento Area; ‘British Take Gioia As Italians Clear Nazis Out Of Sardinia.

Memories Of World Wa: One Are Biting Into ‘German Public Opinion

KRUPA GETS 1 10 6 YEARS   “Hot Licks” Drummer Sentenced To Prison on Nar' cotics Charge

Russians Set Steel Trap  For Germans   Some Vanguards Far Ahead of Main Red Forces

REDO ob T TRAP rOR THOUSAND OF NAZI TROOP   Three Point Drive On Orel Forebodes Life and Death Struggle for Nazis

Churchill Denies Plea for Gandhi Release   Prime Minister Supports Government's Policy

RULES AGAINST -EXCLUSION-ORDER   Judge Says Military Has Ne Right Under Circumstances

Armored Cossack Units Drive To Seal Million ‘Troops In Crimea Trap

TANK FORCES STARM AHEAD TO TRAP FOE   Threat of Annihilation Looms for Million German Troops

GUOOAGK UNITS PURE NAZI UVER STEPPES   Two-Pronged Drive To Seal Crimea, Encircle Enemy In Dnieper Bend Gains

Battered Germa)  Units Forced To Flee In Disorder   **Powerful Cossack - Armored Units Storm Over Nogaisk Steppes

GERMANS FLEE IN GREAT DISORDER   Gen. Mikhailovitch’s Jugoslav Guerillas Are Reported Making More Successes.

SOVIETS POU NAZIS FLEEING CRIMEAN TRAP   60-Mile Sweep May Seal Es. cape Route; Krivoi Rog Baitle Rages

Drive Aimed To Seal Off Crimea Foe  Threat of Annihilation  for 1,000,000 Axis Troops  Is Heightened IPLANES RIP ENEMY. (Russian Column Still Is  Battling in Streets of  ‘ Krivoi Ror

Nazi Face © Annihilation   Wild: Disorder Noted On 90-Mile Front

NAZIS ARE ROUTED ON WIDE FRONT   Breakthrough By ....... Cossacks Heightens Threat to Crimea

Germans In Wild Flight As Russians Wreck Axis Lines On 90-Mile Front

TO CUT OFF RETREAT   Over One Million Nazi Troops Face Annihilation

NAZIS FLEE TO ESCAPE PINCERS   Quit One Sector Of Orel Front As Reinforcements Are Rushed Up

Germans Retreat From One Sector Along Orel Fron   Retreat Is Made In Effort To Escape Encirclement, Says Moscow Report   RUSSIANS DRAW ) CLOSER TO OREL

Germans Withdraw Fron Part Of Orel Front In  Fear Of Encirclement

10 MINERS DIE IN EXPLOSION   17 Coal Diggers Survive West Virginia Blast

PRE-PEARL HARBOR  FATHERS BE LEFT  UNTIL OTHERS GONE GEN. J. WATT PAGE, STAT!  SELECTIVE SERVICE DIPECTND W CTATEMENT

PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS BE LEFT UNTIL OTHERS GONE  GEN. J. WATT PAGE, STATI - SELECTIVE SERVICE DI- RECTOR, IN STATEMENT

Page Gives Assurance That Pre-Pear! ‘Harbor Fathers Will Be Deferred Until ‘Other Eligibile Sources Are Exhausted

COURI—  AAA WHEAT PENALTY IS HELD VALID   --- Act Again Declared To Be Constitutional

NAZI LINES ARE BROKEN   Assaults on Kharkov in: crease after capture  of Belgorod

Bring Up Guns To Suburbs of The City   Also Intensiy Attack On Kharkov

NAZI CENTER DEFENSE LINE BHUKEN DOWN   Russians Are Batt) ng Furiously at Environs  of Key City.   BIG GUNS IN ACTION   Russian Artillery Shelling _ Germans in the Heart of Rostov.

Russians Battle _ Funously For Rostov Sector   Seeking To Turn German Southern Flank In Latest Attacks   HEAVY GUNS ARE SHELLING ROSTOV

Farmers Organize  For Drive   Rural Electrification Assn. Sponsors Move To Gather Rural Scrap.

Interpreting  The War   Sudden Attack by Nazis to Delay Nutcracker Crush

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   rom Advanced Posts  Retreat Of Axis Forces a Tunisia Probable

Son of Mrs. W. L. Reich Missing Over Bulgari   War Department Notifies Mrs. Reich Her Son, Lt. Charles E. Graham, Missing Since Raid Over Bulgaria November 24.

Stalin Says Nazi Summer  Drive Balked   Premier Devlares 70,000 Germans “Killed. in’ Offensive

Soviets hack thru Orel defenses as enemy repulsed   Stalin proclaims Germany's offensive has been liquidated

Naval Foree Hits at Jap  Plane Bases   Tarawa and Nauru Probably Attacked By Carrier Bombers   NO DETAILS REVEALED

Surprise Raids Staged By Navy On Jap Island:  U. S. Task Force Make: Daring Move In North Gilhert Graun

ASSAULT JAP ISLAND BASES   U. S. Naval Forces Batter Tarawa and Nauru in Gilberts Region

Pacific Ocean Forces Allack Gilbert Group   Raia "sereved” Mad « By Carrier-Based Dive Bombers

Tarawa, Nauru Islands Hit Heavily   Details of Raids Not Available Admiral Nimitz Says

Jap base atTarawa. Nauru hit   Operations follow planned schedule

Navy Hits Jap Bases In Gilbert Islands      Enemy Areas Believed net SS “ By Carrier-Based Torpedo Pianes and Dive Bombers; Details Not Available

U.S. Fliers Make Daring Attack ‘On Jap Air Base   Target in Gilberts Is Struck in Wave of Raids by Navy Planes

ARMY REVOLTS IN ARGENTINA, CASTILLO QUITS   Cannon And Machine Gun Fire Are Heard On Sireets Tn Rrenos Aires

Italy Remains A Dictatorship   Badoglio Puts Dowr Peace Movement

MILITARY GRIP IS TIGHTENING ON ITALIANS   Madrid Declares Prospects of Surrender Are Now Extremely Dim   JAIL DEMONSTRATORS

BADOGLIO PROVES  TOUGHER DICTATOR  THAN MUSSOLINI PROSPECTS OF ITALIAN SURRENDER NOW  rw AMS. Pas

Italians Leaving Rome Sunday Say Badoglio Has Imposed A Military Dictatorship of the Toughest Type.

Badoglio Imposes Tough Dictatorship  Italian Surrender Very Remote Fossibility Now

Prospects Of Italian Surrender Dimmed By  i   Military Dictatorship

REPORT ITALY UNDER ARMY DICTATORSHIP   Italians Abandoning Rome Say in Madrid That Prospects of Italian Surrender Are Now Ex: tremely Dim.

Badoglio Puts Down Rioting   Gets Tough. With People, Has Military Dictatorship

Tough Military Dictatorship Over Italians   Many Peace Demonstration Leaders Jailed; Prospects of a Surrender Are Dim   PEOPLE COOLED BY USE OF ‘BIG STICK’   Troops Under Orders to Shoot.and Axis Is Busy Promoting Own Interests

Surrender By Italy Is Not Likely Now   Badoglio Has Gained Upper Hand, Arrival Iu Madrid Report

Fleeing Italians Say Chance For Surrender Dim, Badoglio Rule Stern

Badoglio Regime  : Scorns Surrender   Military Dictatorship Holding Down Italian + Peace Pleas; Demonstrations Halted

Badoglio Rules With Iron Hand As His Regime Tries To Keep Italy In the War

TRAVELERS SAY ITALY UNLIKELY TO GIVE UP NOW   Report Badoglio Has Firmly Imposed Tough Military Dictatorship

DICTATORSHIP OF TOUGH TYPE CLAMPED DOW!   People Urging Peace, But Lack Leaders to Take Action, According to Madrid Reports

Badoglio Regime Turns Out To Be More Strict Military Dictatorship Than Ever

Peace Chances  Fade In Italy   Badoglio Ruling Country With Toughest Type Of Military Dictatorship.

Surrender _ Prospects Very Dim   Badoglio’s Military Rule Has Choked Possible Peace Moves

ITALIANS QUIET UNDER RULE OF BADOGLIO GUNG   Rigid Military Dictatorship Quells Peace Clamor; Leaders Jailed.   SURRENDER PROSPECTS ARE GROWING DIMMER

Martial Grip Tighten: Over Faltering Nation   Peace Demonstr rations in Cities  Put Down by ‘Bis Stick’? Methods

Prospects of Surrender By Italy Are Dim   Badoglio’s Regime Has Slowly But Firmly Imposed Upon Italy a Military Dictatorshin of Toughest Tvwne

Italy Tighter In Badoglio's Grip; Peace Is Remote   Madrid Arrivals Fail To See Leadership For Peo nle’s Desires.

BADOGLIO IMPOSES MILITARY =. ‘DICTATORSHIP   Prospects Of Itatian Surrender to Allies Growing Dimmer.

Badoglio Regime Dims Prospects Of Early Peace   Duce’s Successor

Military Grip On Italy Is Tiahtened   Travelers From Italy Say Efficiency Of War Machine Improved

Tough Badoglio Military Regime Chokes Off Peace Cries Of Italian People

OF TEACHERS 18 BEFORE STATE   Educators Ask Bricker  ‘For Special Session of rag To Consider Schools °

TEACHERS URGE SHORTAGE STUDY   Suggest Special Legislative Meet To Consider Needs

TEACHERS SEER AIDFROMSTATE   Demand Legislative Action To Help Shortage. Raise Salaries

31 Men Leave For Examination  For Armed Forces  217 Go for Active Dutv; 6 Into Naval Center

31 Men Leave For Examination For Armed Forces _ 27 Go.for: Active  Duty; 6: Into Naval Canksae ae

SENATOR PLANS TO ANSWER FOR   Georgia Democrat Angered By Criticism Hurled On Tour Report

“RICK” SAYS NAZIS WON'T CRACK SOON   Back From  55,000-Mile Trip, He Believes German. Morale Can Be Broken by Bombs, but Not Before Late ’44.

Germany Won't Crack Before Fall of ‘44 at [Best Says Rickenbacker

RICKENBACKER WARNS AGAINST WAR OPTIMISM   Germany May Resist, He Says, Until Late In 1944

Germany Will Not Even Crack Before Fall Of 1944 Says Rickenbacker

RICKENBACKER SAYS NAZIS CAN HOLD FOR YEAR   Believes Italy Can Be Bombed Out of War, Not Germany—Must Be Broken from Inside   CITES RESOURCES   Predicts ‘Something Coming Thi: Winter That Will Shock the World’

Rickenhacker -In Report On War Fronts   Says Italy Being Bombed Out of War; Germany Won't Crack Before 1944   BELIEVES BOMBERS WILL BRING VICTORY   ‘Something Coming That Will Shock the World,’ He Says; Talks on Russia

“HUCK” IN DOUBT AF EARLY PEACE   ‘Germany Will Not Cracl Before Fall of 1944’°— Rickenbacker.

Rickenbacker. Sees No Peace. _. Until Fall, 1944   Believes Gerniany Will Not - Even Crack Before Then. “At The Best’?

Rickenbacker: Nazis rack Before ’44 at FE   Declares Italy Being Bombed Out; Hints at “Shock” This Winter

Rickenbacker Sees Long War   Does Not Believe Germany Will Crack Before Fall of 1944

Germany Stl In Fight, Says Rickenbacker   Unlikely To Crack Before  Fall Of 1944, Asserts  * Famous Airman On His Return From Europe

Germany Won't Crack for Year, Rickenbacker Says   Churchill Doesn’‘t See Peace Soon

Germany Wont Crack Until ‘Hd, Says Ric  Nazis Must Be Broken From

REPORT IS MADE ON RUSSIAN TRIP   Convinced Germany Must Be Cracked from Within as Air Power Emphasized

RICK PREDICT LENGTHY WAR   SAYS GERMANS CAN HOLD OUT TILL FALL OF 1944

Germany Will Not Crack For ‘Another Year ‘At Best,’ Says Rickenbacker, Back From Tour   Declares Only A Miracle Can Bring Victory Sooner; Need Year To Lick Japs

Take ‘Miracle’ To Crack Germany Before Fall Of 1944, Says Eddie Rickenbacker   Take Year More To Get Japan; But ‘Miracle’ Can Happen, He Says

RICKENBACKER SEES LONG WAR   Present Allied Pace Won't  Crack Nazis Til Late in "44, Flier Declares.

Says Nazis Won‘ Crack For Year   Rickenbacker Back From Long Tour

Three German Generals Taken Says Moscow   Captures Made Along Vor. onezh Front As Nazis Are Defeated   RUSSIAN ARMIES KEEP UP ADVANCE

Smashing Raid Made on  Jap Airdromes   Contact Is Made With Enemy Force, MacArthur Reports

) AIRDROMES ARE BLASTED   Allied Bombers Start Big Fires In Rabaul Area.

NAZI LINES DISRUPTED   Three Important Railroad Lines Into Italy Badly Damaged

The Japanese And Jungle Fighting   Hy MAJ. GEN. DAVID PRESCOT! BARROWS

The World In Review   THE JAPANESE AND THE JUNGLE THE PRFSENT NEW GUINEA-

Houses Unable to Adjourn and  Clocks Stopped _   Major Appropriations Bills Still in “Log Jam;” Both Houses in : Recece Are ta Meet This Morning

TIGHTEN REINS ON MAN POWER   New Critical Occupations Order Seeks to Solve Labor Shortage

REGULATIONS ON-DRAFT DE: FERMENTS AND OTHER MANPOWER PROBLEMS HAVE FAR-REACHING EFFECT

FINLAND EXPECTED TO'SEER U.S, AIDIN PEACE:WITH RUSSIA   Moscow Likely To  Rebuft Feelers: Already Put‘ : ‘Out Through Sweden

Finns Expected fo Seek Peace   May Ask America to Contact Russia

Finns Expected To Seek Peace   May Ask U. S. to  Be Intermediarv

FINNS EXPECTED TO SEER U.S. AID AS WAY 10 PEACE      Separate Negotiations May Be Asked to Separate Hefsinki from Axis,

FINNS TO SEEK SEPARATE PEACE SOON, IS BELIEF   Finland Expected To Ask U. § Act As Intermediary With Russia

Expect Finland To Ask U. S. Soon To Act As Intermediary In Peace

FINLAND BELIEVED PREPARING 10 ASK SEPARATE PEACE   London Hears U. S. May Be Approached in Move To Bring About Negotiations With Russia.

Finland Expected To Ask United States To Make ' ‘Her Peace With Russia _—

16 ADDITIONAL BILLIONS NEW FINANCE GOAL   Legislators Hear Complaint About President’s Attitude

CONGRESS BUSY HUNTING MONEY   Separation of Good and Bad Japs Proposed—Vote on Flynn To Be Close

PAY-AS-YOU-60 TAXATION PLAN TO BE STUDIED   Congress Opens Search For New Income Sources

New Revenue Source Sought by Congress   Committee Starts Action: Seek to Free Loyal Japs; Form Liaison Committee

‘SEARCH FOR NEW REVENUE OPENS   House Committee Gives Consideration To Pay-As-YouEarn Tax Plan

PLANE CRASHES IN MOUNTAINS   Three. Passengers Unhurt When Pilot Is Caught  in Downdraft.

WLB Rejects Steelworker ‘Union Demand   Refuses To Direct Any New Work Contracts Be Made Retroactive

22 More Towns Are Captured By Advancing Reds   Holland Iron Works Bombed by British: Pressure Appliec On Japs

News Day And Ni ee,   OUVIETS DRUG ASIDE GERMANG IN NEW ATTAGK   Strong Red Armies Near Key City At Don Mouth; 22 More Towns Taken

HERBERT HOOVER WILL: _ ADDRESS JOINT SESSION OF IOWA HOUSE, SENATE

SYNTHETIC DUE IN ‘SHORT TIME   Rubber To Be Available for Hot thoatear Rotile«

KEY BRIDGE ALONG ZAGRED RAILROAD BLASTED BY SLAVS   Partisans’ Hold On Nazi ' Supply Line Inland  Strengthened By _ Maen

JUGOSLAV BANDS BLOW UP BRIDGE, SURROUND: TOWN   Allied Radio Reports Italian’ Naval. Raid of Dalmatian Coast

AIR RAIDERS — OVER EUROPE      INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AND NAZI . AIRFIELDS BLASTED AS. AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS.” .» CONTINUED —

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  CN ey   Heavy Assaults on W est Coast of Furone

CROWD HERE FRIDAY MAY TOP 15.000   Whistles to Herald Arrival of Troops About 11 A. M.

Stephan Must Die On April 27   Court Fixes Date For Exe cution Of Detroit Man Held As Traitor

—NEBRASKA REPORT—  Announce Corn Crop Estimate   At 216,632,000 Bushels; Slightly Below °42 Yield   (A national crop report story will be found on Page 10.)

Allies Move Up in Sea o Mud and Rain   Fifth Army Takes Important Transport Center of Caserta

PATROLS FORCE CROSSING OVER VOLTURNO RIVE   Rome Stil! 100 Miles Away Bul Residents There Able to Hear Roar of Cannon in Battle

Red Army Clamps New Pincers. :on Kiev; Nazis Evacuate Last Bit of Caucasus—.  Liberators Bomb Hanoi and Haipong . —Germans Plan Rule of F rance

Main Allied Forces Inch Forward in Torrential Rains   Russians Clamping Great Pinchers on Kiev, Ukraine Capita

Mud Slows Fighting In Italy   Nazis Throw in Heavy Reinforcements in Effort to Halt Steady © Advance of Allies’:

Allies Advance In Rain And Mud On  Germans In Italy   Smash Across Swollen Volturno To Hit Foe

STALIN PRAISES ARMY FOR FEAT AT STALINGRAD   ~—rs eQvicTe PLiNaing   Japs Trying Desperately To Regain Lost Strategy

PACIFIC FRONT FLAMES INTO TERRIBLE BATTLE  Warships and Warplanes in Action

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   (creat Battle In Pacifi¢ MHas Important Bearing On Outcome Of War

SEGRECY VEILS PACIFIC BATTLE   Outcome May Shorten War, or Add Many Bitter Months

PACIFIC WAR FRONT FLAMES INTO ACTION AGAIN AS JAPS SEEK RECAIN CONTROT. IS]. ANDS

The War Today   Great Pacific Sea-air Fight Is All-out Gambling by Japs

MONEY STATUS OF COUNT AIRED   Banker Called To Testify Revenge-Profit-Murder Trial At Nassau

Stop Nazis At Sbiba,  Kasserine   Alexander Takes Command of All  Ground Forces

WEATHER HALTS AVR ACTIVITIES   British And Americans Hold Line At Two Points Against Enemy

GERMAN PRISONERS WORK IN MICHIGAN   Hitler's Ex- soldiers Now Help Process Fruit Here

NAZI PRISONERS TO WORK IN MIGHIGAN   Germans Will Help in Grape Processing Plants

German Prisoners Used in Michigan For Work In Grape Processing Plants

Only 12,000 Nazis Remain In Action  In Stalinorad   _ Russians Announce  Virtual Liquidation Of Original 200,000 Caught in Huge Trap  WEATHER BRINGS LULL IN TUNISIA  But British 8th Army Continues To Chase Desperate Rommel

Soviet Troops In Continued Drives Against Germans   ‘Bad Weather On Tunisian End Of African Front Limits Fighting To Patrol Actions; No Major Developments In Pacific

Russians Liquicate  Stalingrad Survivors   50,000 German T, Escaped From Trap Substantially Reduced; Soviet Armies Being Merged

DRAFT EVADER SCHOOL HELD, FBI CHARGES   Impersonator Jailed On Charge of Teaching

LOGE SEVEN IN BIGGEST FIT DF SOLOMONS   Enemy Attacks U. $.. Shipping ‘with 98 Planes After Amers ican Raids.   NAVY REPORT GIVES NO‘DETAILS OF SHIP LOSSES

‘37 PLANES LOST By JAPS IN FIGHT OVER SOLOMONS   Stimson Discloses More  Fighter Craft Going to South Pacific

Navy Reports Sky Battle In Solomons   American Strength Has Been Increased

ALLIES START DRIVES IN ALL TUNISIAN AREAS   Nazi Stronghold East Of El Guettar Hit Hard By Yanks, British, French   ANDERSON OPENS PUSH   Enemy Legions In Flight Toward Sfax—1918 Vets Lead Americans

98 Plane Air Armada Smashec Over Guadalcana   War Secretary Tells Increased Attacks On Enemy In Aleutians

Omaha Airport Ts Flooded As  Missouri Rises   Crest Of Water Believed To Have Passed; Towns Below  Are Endangered

WLB Pay Control Restored   Byrnes Retains Authority To Review Adjustments That May Boost Costs.

Pleads — Cause   ‘Of China   Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Speaks Before House Of Representatives In Washington Today

CHINA'S FIRST LADY ASKS FOR  MIGHT   Mme. Chiang Says It Is Contrary to Allied Interests to Allow Nips to Continue   RESOURCES GREATER THAN ARE GERMANY’S   Disagrees With War Strategists That Hitler Is First Concern of United Nations

CHINA'SFIRST LADY PLEADS -FORMORE AID      Mme. Kai-shek Warns Tha! Japan Has Greater Resources Than Germany

MMME.CHIANG WARNS “ON JAP STRENGTH   Tells House It Is Contran to, Allied Interest to Allow Tokio to Continue

Says Japs _ Gain Strength  in Pacific.   Washington Battle Wages Between Congress and Administration over Food, Salaries

MME. CHIANG URGES ALLIES STOP JAP NOW   Wife of China’s Leader Tells Congressmen Japan Becomes Strongon Seized Resources

Mme. Chiang Warns Congress Against Waiting   Generalissimo’s Wife Compares Japs to Sword at Damocles

Mme. Chiang Warns of Japan’s Vast Resources:   Calls for Crushing of Nippon’s Armed Might In Spectacular Address  Before U. S. Congress. 

Congress Hears Wife Of Chiang   First Lady Warns That Jap Resources Exceed Germany's,   Asks Broad Peace   Voices Assurance, But Stresses Urgency Of Early Victory.

Mme. Chiang Says Japs Are Real Menace   Tells National House Japan Has More In Resources Than Germany   Asks Crushing Defeat Of Entire Jap System   Declares Common Principles Must Bind All Humanity

MME. CHIANG URES ALLIES TO GRUSH JAPS   Japan Not An Inferior Foe. She Warns Americans In House Speech

Says Japan Has Greater Resources At Her Command Than Germany; Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal Victories Called Steps In Right Direction

Japs Must Be Made Impotent, Mme. Chiang Tells Congress   Wife Of Chinese Generalissimo Calls For Crushing Of Her Might

Wife of Chinese Generalissimo Delivers Address Before Representatives at Washington.

House of Representatives Told Enemy Grows Stronger With Each Day Without Action

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Pleads Before Congres: For Quick Knockout Blows Against Jap Power

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Cites Japanese as Biggest Menace To United Nations’ Troops

China's First. Bad Speak   Mme, Chiang Kai-Shek Tells American Lawmakers Jap” anese Threat Must Be Ended

China’s First Lady Warns Congress Of Jap Danger In East   Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Tells Packed Galleries Japan's Conquests Have Engulfed More Resources Than Germany Can Exploit—U. S. Victories Praised but Are Called ‘Merely Steps’ in Right Direction

Mme. Chiang Warns Japanese: Have Greater Resources At Their Command Than Germans

SAYS MIGHT OF COUNTRY I$ GROWING   Chinese Leader's Wife Heard By  Coneress

Stop Japan Now, Urges Mme. Chiang Before House   Foe Likened To Sword Of Damocles, ‘Ready T Descend At A  Moament’s Notice’

Mme. Chiang Tells House We Should Defeat Japs Now   Asserts Nipponese Have Greater Resources At Hand Than Does Germany; Commends U. S. Navy’s Victories

Immediate Aid Sought For China   Generalissimo’s Wife Sees Vital Need Of Crushing Japs’ Military Might

HOME And FINAL EDITION   Mme. Chiang Warns House Of Double Jap Threat -

Mme. Chiang Addresses US Congress   Tells Crowded House It Is Contrary to Interests of United Nations to Allow Japan to Continue

Japan Is Present  Not Distant Threat,  Mme. Chiang Says “Nation Has Greater  memirpene than Almere   “Nation Has Greater Resources Than Nazis House !s Told 

NIPPONESE HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN GERMANY   Each Passing Day Takes Greater Toll in American, Chinese Lives

Quick Crushing Of Japan Vital: Madame Chiang   Greater Resources In Oc cupied Areas Than Ger. many, She Warns.

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Informs House Japan Is Sword Hanging Over Allies To Fall Swiftly

MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK CALLS FOR AN ALL-OUT WAR UPON JAPANESE  SAYS JAPAN IN HER OCCU. PIED AREAS HAS GREATER RESOURCES THAN NAZIS

TOKYO BECOMES STRONGER EACH DAY, SHE SAYS   Wife of Chinese Generalissimo Speaks in House

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM” BUREAU NEWS LETTEF   {By County Extension Director)   A-M (luh Members Eniov Party

4-H CLUB MEMBERS ENJOYED A PARTY   CInh Officers Were Elected at the Meeting Which Was Held In the Gymnaslum, Nov, 10

SMITH BIDS FOR SEAT   Pree’ ty Man Qualifies For *--eall Congress Post

COOLER WEATH™> HERE   Night to Be Chilly, But No Frost Is Forecast

DEFENSE DRILL ON DECEMBER 15   Citizens’ © Corps * to. Get “Two-Hour Test; Publie to Watch

STATE DEFENSE CORPS TO MOBILIZE DEC. 1   Incidents Will Be Staged Throughout Pennsylyvania—Public Will Not Participate

GIRL ACCUSES ACTOR OF RAPE   Betty Hansen Tells Jury That Errol Flynn Disrobed Her

Russians Push After Nazis on Way fo Poltava   German Reserves Fail to Halt Vigor Of Soviet Pursuit of Off-Balance Germans

Nazi Retreat From Kharkov Nearing Rout,  Reds Assert   Entire Soviet Line Ad vances in Drive on Poltava

PRED ARMY ADVANCES CONTINUE   ¢@German Retreat From Kharkov Rapidly  Becoming Rout

NO RUSSIAN STOPS   Germans Forced Out of ‘Kharkov Are Kept in Steady Retreat

RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVING TOWARD CITY OF POLTAVE   Poltava Is 75 Miles to Southwest and Little More than Halfway To Nazis’ Dnieper Rive Defense Line; Kiev Seen As Big Goal.

FRESH TROOP! FAIL TO HALT SOVIET DRIVE   Red Army Headed Toward Dneiper River Defense Line

Moscow Reports Retreat Nears Rout Proportions; Fierce Battles Raging

REDS GIVING NAZIS NO REST ONWIDEFRONT   New Successes Announced As Russians Try For Knockout and Rout

REDS LIST NEW SUCCESSES IN POLTAVA DRIVE   Continue Hammering At Off. Balance Germans Retreating From Kharkov   ENEMY RESERVES ROUTED   Kiev, Ukrainian Capital On Dnieper. Seen Big Goal Of Summer Push

SOVIET FORCES CHASING NAZIS FROM UKRAINE   Retreating Germans Are Abandoning Equipment, Moscow Reports; Reds Gain In Donets

REDS REPORT ADVANCES ALL ALONG FRONT   Pushing South and West of Kharkov After Fleeing Nazis, Soviets Kill 2,000 Hitlerites, War Bulletin Says.

REDS ADVANCE ALL ALONG LINE   Exhausted Germans Reported Rushing Reserves Into Lines; Retreat From Kharkov Developing Into Rout.

werman Retreat From Kharkov Is Reaching a Rout   Red Army Hammers Away With New Successes on Route to Dnieper.   Nazis Are Recklessly Expending Streneth

REDS PUSHON AGAINST NAZIS   Even German Reserves fail To Check Russians In Ukraine Battle

Red Army Still Hammering At Nazi Retreat   Russians Advance To South And West Of Kharkov Today

Soviets Hammer Nazis Retreating In Kharkov Area   Red Army Announces Continued Successes Alona Entire Front

RED ARMY CONTINUED TO HAMMER GERMANS RETREATING WEST  SOVIET COMMUNIQUE ANNOUNCES NEW SUCCESSES ALL ALONG LINE

Russia Reports New Successes ~All Along Line   Red. Army Continues To Pummel - Off- Balance Nazis Fleeing Kharkoy

"FLEEING GERMAN FORCES SLOWED   Reserves Are Rushed Into Action, But Reds Continue Sweeping Advance

Reds Confinue Blows at Nazis Fleeing Kharkov   Russian Forces Drive Toward Poltava, Near Dnieper Defense Line

REDS NEARING DNIEPER RIVER DEFENSE LINE   Nazis Reported Rushing Reserves Into Kharkov Front But Advance Continues

SOVIET TROOPS QUICKEN DRIVE NEAR KHARKOV   Successes Along Southern Front Are Announced

Reds Keep Up Forward Move   Drive Toward Poltava, Nazi Reserves Not Sufficient

REDS SCORE GAINS ALONG ENTIRE LINE   Nearly Half Way To Dnieper River; Nazi Retreat Near Rout

New Gains Are Scored By Reds   Continue To Pound Retreating Nazis

SOVIET POUNDS FLEEING NAZIS   Russian Army Advances Toward Poltava Scoring New Victories.   2.000 GERMANS KILLED

Hopes of Peace Overture Seen In Rome Move   German Envoy to Vatican Departs for Berlin; Ciano Delays Going to Holy See

Negotiations Appear To Be Wide In Seope   Ciano’s Presentation Of Credentials Delayed; Peace Moves Hinted With Spellman Present

ltaly May Be After Peace  Vatican City Silent Fo Se ee Pe ees eee ee ee

Nazi Envoy To Vatican City Leaves Hurriedly For Berlin.      ‘Count Galeazzo Ciano Delays Presentation of Credentials as Italian Ambassador; Believed Actions of German Connected With Address on Peace Hopes Ciano Planned

New Peace Move Seen In Swi  Vatican Shifts   Ciano Delays Meet With Pope: Nazi Envoy Dashes To Berlin

German Envoy Leaves Vatican   Count Ciano To Present Papers Monday

NAZI ENVOY LEAVES VATICAN HURRIEDLY   Ciano’s Presentation of Credentials Delayed—Believed Connected With Peace Hopes.

VATICAN ENVOY RUSHES TO BERLIN   German Ambassador Departs Unexpectedly; Ciano’s Presentation of Credentials Is Postponed Until Monday

RUSSIANS ACCUSE MIKHAILOVITCH OF DEALING WITH AXIS   Brings: ‘Delicate Inter-Allied Question” Into Open “C

Hitler Believed Sending More Ai Power to South   Possibility Is Seen in Wake of Violent Attacks on Italy

Expect Aerial Reinforcements   Violent U. S. Raids Arouse Italians

AIRFIELDS NEAR ROME BATTEREL   Axis Believed Sending Air Reinforcements To Mediterranean

GERMANS SEND PLANES SOUTH   Reinforce Mediterranean As Americans Lash Italian Bases in  Long Flight

FIERCE AIR RAIDS MADE ON ITAL)   ATTACKS STIR TALK OF POSSIBILITY SHIFT OF AXIS PLANES TO AREA.

Over 5,000 U. S. Prisoners Held   REPORT MADE ON FOOD GIVEN MEN BY JAPS

Flier Missing On Raid, Wife In Hospital! Gets His Roses, Note Daily

SOVIETS NEAR SMOLENSK ON CENTRAL FRONT   Both Soviet and German Offensives Slowed By Spring Thaws

Two Inhabited Points Are  Talzen In Smolensk Attack ! Spring Thaw Brings Floods Which Slow Dowr   Spring Thaw Brings Floods Which Siow Down Both Armies: Fighting Areas Under Water

Soviets Wipe Ou Nazi Spearhead On Donets Front   Capture Two Points In Slow Advance Toward Smolensk

SHIP SURVIVORS ~ FEED ON SHARKS   Torpedo Victims Tells of Struggle on Raft With Vicious Fish.

Reds Knock Dowr 1,538,600 Nazis   “Summer Offensive Rolls On With Russ Fighting for Stalino

Reds Renort Naz  Losses 1,538,600 In Summer Drive  420,000 Killed; Enemy Shaky on  Entire Frant

420,000 Germans Die in Russia's Summer Attack   Moscow Declares 5,129 Planes and 8,400 Tanks Destroyed

Texan Decries Colossus of Bureaucracy   Rep. Sumners Calls On N. E. To Take Lead in Ficht

Texas Congressman ,Calls On New England To Help Free  Nation From Bureau Clutches

Russ Announce Plan to Free  a Ut Wl  All Ukraine   Donets Basin Cleared of Nazis in 12 Mile Gain Today

Reds Smash GermansFrom Donets Heart   DP Nine To 12 Mile Gain: Clear Nazis From Rich In. dustrial Basin   i530 TOWNS FALL   Russian Advance Threat ens Main Important Base: Including Stalino

Today’s War Commentary  Italians War-Weary  Vost Of Them Would Favor Quitting

Labor Relations Board Imperiled  Senators Accept House Dreavician

BURNING CHALLENGE FOR REVENGE RIDES WITH U. 5. AIRMEN.  CALLED UPON BY. THEIR CHIEF, GEN, ARNOLD, TO DESTROY ENEMY

Announcement Electrifies And Shocks Capital   Termed Violation Of Every Rule Of Military Procedure, Human Decency By Arnold

“Destroy War Lords,’ Says Arnold; Reprisals Will Be ‘Only on Those Responsible

Arnold Calls On U.S. Fliers To Avenge Execution Of Tokio Raiders

U.S. AIRMEN WILT AVENGE EXECUTIONS   Of Comrades by Jap War Lords. Crime Wil Make America More Determined to Wipe Out Nippon Militarism.

US Fliers Called On To  * a *  Avenge The ‘Barbarous’  ” ” i * * * ” *  Execution Of Raiders

Uo. WILL MAKE NO REPRIOALG AGAINST JAPAN   Jap Officials Responsible For Americans’ Murder To Face Punishment

Nation Sounds Call To Bring Nipponese Leaders To Justice  For ‘Inhuman’ Acts

Jap Atrocity Shocks Nation U.S. Air Fighters May  Avenae Execution of Pals

US Fliers  Executed By Japanese   Arnold Calls on Air Fighters in Pacific to Avenge Their Comrades by Destroying Warlords .

Arnold Calls On American Fliers To Avenge Comrades Executed By Japs

General Arnold Asks The Destruction. Of Warlords.   JAPANESE ACT TERMED A VIOLATION OF “ENEMY! RULE OF MILITARY PROCEDURE AND EVERY CON- CEPT OF HUMAN DECENCY” 

Arnold Fires Yank Fighters “Get Revenge      Capitol Stunned by President Roosevelt’s Revelation; Brand act as Barbarious

America Will Avenge Execution of Heroic Fliers and Jap Warlords Will Be the Ones Who Will Pay

Air Fighters Vow Revenge For Comrades   Execution of Fliers Who Raided Tokyo Termed ‘Damnable’

Japan Admits Executionof Tokyo Raiders   Gen. Arnold ‘Tells Fliers To Even Score.

‘Some of Tokyo Raiders Slain By Japanese   F. R Promises Punishment For “Barbarous” Execution Capital Shocked at News

EXECUTIONS OF MEN STIR RAGE   Japan’s Punishment Called ‘Diabolical’; Air Forces Promise Revenge

Their Chief, Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Orders U. S. Air Force to Destroy Jap War Lords Who He Denounced in Bitter Terms .

Heathen War Lords To Pay For Atrocity   US. Won't Lower Itself To Level Of

YANKS ORDERED BY GEN. ARNOLD TO EVEN SCORE   Airmen Are Told To Destroy Jap War Dictators

PRESIDENT MAKES ~ THE ANNOUNCEMENT   New Challenge for Revenge Rides With U. S. Air Fighters in Pacific

VIOLATION OF COVENANT IS DENOUNCED   New and Burning Challenge For Revenge Rides America's Air Fighters

President Also Warns of Action For Any Other Violations of Geneva Convention —Torture Indicated in Deaths of American Airmen

JAP EXECUTION OF U. S. FLIERS STIRS NATION   Gen. Arnold Calls on Men to Destroy Jap War Lords Guilty of Barbarism as Crime Revealed

FR Reveals Tokyo Ordered Execution Of Yank Bombers   ‘Announcement Shocks €  International Law Violation Charged To Foe

Execution Of Fliers  Shocks U.S.   Steels Determination Of All Americans To Wipe Out Barbarous; Militarism of Japan

New Challenge. For Revenge Rides Today. With America’s Air Fighters In Pacific -As President Reveals Shocking News. Of  Wee awie we g

US Fliers — On To  Recsution Of Raiders  oe © ¢4 ©} @ 8&4 SF 8 FF Ff OP

AIR BLITZ!   16 Navy Officers Lose Lives in Crash Of Plane in Brazil

17 YANKEES DIE. IN CRASH NEAR RIG   16 Navy Men, Civilian i   Vietims Fridays Cause

TEACHER PAY HIKE STUDIED   Special Legislative Committee is at Work  On Problem

Special Group Studying Pay  For Teachers   Plan for Increases To Be Offered Next Week  Governor Martin Saye

Zeigler Wins over L.B. Reid for Road Post   Judge Reid Storms Supreme Court. Stronghold: in. Only Close Contest

ALLIES NOW OCCUPY  HALF OF ISLAND AS CATANIA FALL NEARS   Americans And Canadians Seize Control Of Heart Of Sicily After Taking Mid-Island  Awie Rees

Americar, Canadian Forces Ar Driving Ahead, Capture Mai Axis Communications Center Axis Troops Cut Off   ALLIES NOW OCCUPY MUCH OF SMCIL

Fall Of Enna Cuts Retreat Of Axis Army      Algiers Radio Reports Allied Troops Closing In On Catania With Fall Expected Soon; Vital Sicily Center Wor

Nazi Armies In Sicily Cut In Two And Roads To All Points Captured

Davis Clears Up Stories Of Cargo Crews   OWI Director Declares 70,000 Seamen Have "Delivered Goods"   LOYAL AND EFFICIENT

MERCHANT MARINE LOST 3,200 MEN IN FIRST YEAR OF WAR   Casualties Comparatively Greater Than U.S. Armed Services, Elmer Davis Re a

Merchant Marine Sailors Praised  Seamen Work Hard For Low Pay And Have Most Casualties

Merchant Marine Losses 3,200 In First War Year   Davis Says U.S  Delivers Goods

Elmer Davis Announces Heavy ‘Losses of Men Who Man Ships For  Hazardous Trips   DENIES RUMORS   Admiral Land Also Says ‘Sailors Are Loyal and Efficient; Points to Perilous Work

OWI ANNOUNCES U. S. MERCHANT MARINE LOSSES   3.8 Per Cent of Total Number of Merchant Sailors Lost Compared With 3-4ths of 1 Pct.  For Armed Service

3,200 Merchant Marine Men Lost  Total Much Higher  Than losses in   Total Much Higher Than Losses in  Armed Services

MARINE LOSSES PUT AT 3.200   Greater Percentage Killed Than in Armed Services— Sailors Held Loyal, Efficient

Slav Rebels Wreck Nazi Rail Center   King Peter of Yugoslavia Ex. pects Allied Troops to In. vade Balkans Soon

WATER REVENUE UP   City Plant Pumped 55,943,000 Gallongs in July; Made $5,708.98

United Relief Committees Will Include Soviet Representatives   lation of Russia from curopean Affairs Appears at End

INCLUDE RUSSIA IN RELIEF PLAN   Soviet Delegates Named To Committee For Post-War Aid

Allies Nearing Tunis; Step Up Bomber Raids  Biggest Force 4 Motored Air f™. £2 ™ . Aad..i.g. .. F Oe EC   Biggest Force 4 Motored Air Craft Ever Mustered Struck Germany; Jap Invaders Pounded

ALLIto KEEPING PALO UE UN FALTERING FOE   Britain Sends Biggest Force Of Bombers Over Germany It Has Ever Employed

ALLIES SMASH TWO GERMAN AXIS ATTACKS   ‘American Troops Take  Eddkhila, Six Miles From Tebourba .

Nazi Bases Soon to Be Under Siege   Heavy RAF Raid  Blasts German City of Dortmund

Allies Close in On Japs at  New Guinea Base  No Shortages Of Material, Patterson Says

Jap Position at Lae Is Desperate   Allied Siege Lines  Close on Garrison

ALLIED ARMY DRAWS NET ABOUT LAE   Trapped Japs In Desperate Straits; Aussies Cross River

cry PR cr arrears  AUSSIES CROSS LAST BARRIER 10 JAP BASE AT LAE   Enemy Situation Oescribec As Desperate As Allies Tiahten Lines.

JAPS TRAPPED AT LAE SHUT IN BY BIG ALLIED FORCE   _Australian Patrols Cross Busu River — Airborne: Troops Pour In Daily

Nippos Face Enc  at Lae   ALLIED STEEL RING CLOSING AS AUSSIES CROSS BUSU RIVER

GALL JAPANESE LAE POSITION AS DESPERATE   Allied Guns “Ringing” Lae Are Rapidly Closing In On Defenses

BUSU RIVER IS IS CROSSED BY AUSTRALIANS   Last Barrier to Japs’ New Guinea Coastai Base at Lae

ASSERTS LABOR RESENTS SLURS   President Green of AFL Speaks at Legion’s Convention

250,000 FORCE MOBILE ‘LAND’ ARMY'S QUOTA   New Food Administrator Granted Powers Denied Wickard

Davis Gets Broad  Power Over Food   Roosevelt Gives Him New Authority

WIDE POWERS ARE “GIVEN DAVIS IN CONTROL OF FOO!   New Administrator Will Or. qganize Land Army to Increase Supplies.

Strong Powers Giver: Davis in  U.S. Food Crist:   Agreement Seen With ¥. R..Over and Above Order

Indicate Davis Will Have Wide Authority In Dealing With U. S. Food Problems

FOOD ‘CZAR’ IS GIVEN POWERS   Davis Gets Authority Over Labor And Manpower

New Administrator, With More Authority, To Recruit Huge Farm Army.

LOND ON: Soviet Official Lunches With Eden, Winant; « e Plans Progressing For Tri-Partite Meeting’

SEE NEW HOPE FOR MEETING WITH STALIN   “Preliminary Meeting” of Ministers May Set Stage for F.D.R.Churchill-Stalin Conference

Sit at Table With Soviets   Ambassadors of U. S., Britain and Russia Meet at Conference

MEETING WITH STALIN NEAR, LONDON HINTS   Belief Bolstered By Parie) There of High Officials of Three Powers.

Germans Die In Droves;  Reds Gaining   Frantic Attempt to Stop Soviets Puts Enemy in Dire Plight; Reserves Fail in Attempt te Help Weak Troops

 Advance.Another Two and a Half to Four Miles in Drive Toward Orel, Despite Frantic German Attempts to Plug Defenses With Tired Reserves—Soviets Say Enemy Appears to Be Weakening.

Russians Kill 2,500 In Orel Onslaughts   Tried German Reserves Make Frantic Effort To Plug Crescent-Shaped Front; Reds Gain 2 1-2 Miles

SOVIETS PUSH TOWARD OREI      Capture Many Towns in Big Drive To Capture Bases Nazis Lose Heavily

Frantic Nazi Orel. Defense Moves Blocked  Many Signs Show Germans Are Waabaning

Russian Army Makes Steady Drive on Orel   Frantic Nazi Forces Rush Reserves in to Plug Weak Defenses

SOVIETS GREEP LITTLE NEARER NAZI-HELD OREL    2,500 Germans Fall In Futile Attempt To Stem Red Advance   ENEMY IS REPORTED GROWING WEAKER

Reds Advance Toward Orel   Nazi Effort To Plug Lines Ineffective

Jos. A. Brandi To Step Out as 0. U. Presiden   Will Become Director Of University of Chicago Press; Raps QO. U. Financial Policy

Joseph Brandt Resigns as O. U. Prexy, Revealing He Will Accept Post in Chicago Before Jan. 1

Says Cut in Appropriation Made Worthy Faculty, School Impossible

URGED TO RESUME WORK   Strikers in England and Have Been _  Ydle for Two Weeks

Win Bridgehead In Naples; Take Many Prisoners   Allies Are Advancing North With Guard Of  Italian Soldiers

PLANS READY FOR PRAYER SERVICES   Ceremonies to be Held Tonight at the City , Parl -

HIGH RIDGE oh ISLAND TAKEN IN HARD RIGHT   Uz S. Troops Forced to   Seale 60-Degree Fish i Hook Ridge in Face Strong Enemy Fire   MOVE CONFINED FOE  TO 4-SQUARE MILES   Conquest Described by OFficers as Contributing to Security of American Lines

IOWAN PLANTS 1ST AMERICAN FLAG ON ISLE   Main Body of Jap Forces Left on Aleutians Isle Bottled in Mountainous Area

BUSTING OUT HIDDEN: JAPRAPESE   Fox Holes Above the Fog Line on Attu Island Are Being Cleaned Out.   JAP AIRDROMES. HIT   U. S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators Dropped 19 Tons of Bombs.

Ridge Capture PensFoe Within Small Attu Area   Fish Hook: Stronghold Taken, Confin. ing Japanese To 3 Or 4 Square Miles  E hd ciiabetexiic Tabane

JAP FORCES SPLIT INTO SMALL UNITS   MacArthur’s Fliers Drop Many Bombs On Wewak   FIRES STARTED   By R. A. F. In Attacks On Mandalay: Australia Coast Attacked

LAST JAPS ON ATTU BEING BLASTED OUT   Remnants of Nippon Forces In Hidden Mountain FoxHoles Being Hunted Out

Japs Falling Apart   ,o+ Yank Infantry Deals Sledge-hammer Blows

U. S. Troops Scale 60 Degree   Ridges in Face cf Strong Enemy ' Fire, Batlle Above Clouds   FLANK JAPANESE   'Communiques Indicate Success in  Campaign to Isolate, Mop Up Jap  Groups

Army Scales 60-Degree Rid ges Above Cloud Line To Oust Japs   Important Enemy Stronghold On Fishhook Ridge Taken And Foe Caught In Small Pocket

No Prisoners Taken On Atfu By American:   Japs Abandon Their Equipment But Fight To The Death

Yanks Capture Attu Position   Flank Main Japanese Posi. tion With Seizure Of Fish. Hook Ridge.

Last Japs on Attu Being Blasted Out   MacArthur’s Fliers Drop 19 Tons of Bombs on 3 Jap Airdromes; RAF Bombs Man dalay

Attu Stronghold Reported Taken By U. §. Troopers   Enemy Positions Now are Placed Above Cloud Line

Jap Stronghold On Ativ Taken By U.S. Troops   Fall Of Fish- neat Ridge rorce Tn Area 4Milee Square

Yank Lines Made Stronge By Victory   Main Enemy Force Bottled In Area Of Four Square Miles

“anks Storm Cey Fishhook Peak on Attu  roops Scale 60-Degree  Ridge in Face of Heavy Fire  BOVE CLOUD LINE  apture Aids U. S. Ad yance, Rings Japs More Tightle

Key Jap Ridge. On Attu Taken   Remnant Of Enemy Confined Now To Small Mountain Area.

Desperate Resistanco Of Small Groups of Japs Marking Final Stage of Campaign

U, §. TROOPS TAKE FISH HOOK RIDGE 4 IN ATTU FIGHTING  BEATA! CRIPRSY FARM Brie   MAIN ENEMY FORCE NOW TRAPPED IN SMALL MOUNTAINOUS AREA

Yanks Take Fish Hook _. Ridge, Attu   Japs Now Crowded Into Mountainous Area Only 41 Miles Square

ATTU FORCES CAPTURE JAP STRONG POINT   Yanks Seize Fishhook Ridge and Enemy Now Is Concentrated in a Mountainous Area of 3 to 4 Square Miles. 

Americans Strengthen Hold on Attu   Another Ridge © Captured as Japs Fiak? Lesina Battie

Take Important Jap Stronghold On Attu Island   Main Enemy Force Is Now Boxed Up in Small  Mountainous Area.   Japanese Entrenched  Above the Cloud Lines

25 BOYS AND 3 GIRLS ARRESTED   4 Over 18 Charged With Disturbing Peace

House Aims 114 Billion Supply Budget At Axi   Record War Bill Set To Finance All-out Offensive

WHITE HOUSE GETS $27,637,000,000 NAVAL MEASURE   Bill Is Expected to Be Given Immediate Attention by Presideiit.   SENATE TACKS ON MORE

HUGE NAVAL APPROPRIATION   Money Will Be Used for Warships and Awuiliary Craft

Approves Funds To Keep Up Army Ot 7'> Millions   House Committee Recommends 71! Billions to  Maintain Armed Men.   Largest Appropriation Bill to Be Written

Appropriations of $71,510,423,873 for War Asked in Bill   Largest Money Bill in History Is Sent to Congress Today

For Posterity, Rome Records Valiant Stand Of" Brave Italian—Goats

Walkout Closes Nearly All Mines   Few of 530,000 Men Remain on Jobs

Wage Conference Again In Session   Believe Few Hf Any Members 0£ -UMW Would Report Today

STATE MINERS IDLE AS MEN PROTEST LACK OF CONTRACT   Work Stoeppage Will Result In Production Loss Of 800,000 Tons Dailv

Mines Idle Again For Second Time Within 31 Days   No Contract, No Work Policy of Union — Remains In Effect

Truce at End; Men Stay Home   ‘No Contract, No Work Policy of Miners’ Union  in Force Today

Much Colder Here Tonight   Rain Expected To Turn To Snow By Early Tomorrow

SNOW IS PREDICTED   Much Colder Weather Is Also Fore' cast for Kansas Tonight

Gulf Opened To  Commerce Fishing   But Fishermen Do So « At Own Risk

JEWS IN HULLAND BEING FORCED OUT CULTURAL PURSUITS   _ Nazi ‘Commissioner Says Mollanders Will Particijpate In Total War In Due Coinrean

Mother, Seven Children Perish As Home Burns   Half Of Netherlands Jews In Work Camps

Labor’s Draft  Is Considered      Expanded Military Force To Leave Vacancies In ~ Vital Armes Plants

PROSPECTS OF DRAFTING CIVILIAN ‘MANPOWER FOR WAR WORK IS SEEN BY FOES OF MILITARY EXPANSION

WAR DRAFT OF CIVILIANS NOW LIKELY   Program for Occupation Compulsion Seen Na' . tional Service Bill.   TUG CONTINUES OVER FARM LABOR   Austin - Wadsworth Bill Authorizes Drafting of Men and Women.

EXPECT DRAFT OF CIVILIANS FOR WAR JOBS   Solons, Convinced Army Manpower Budget Will Not Be Cut, See Mobilization as Only Answer tg Lahor Shortace.

ARMED FORGE 10,800,000 MEN IN’43 PROBABLE   Administration’s Determination for Expansion Increases Prospects Civil ian Manpower Draft   FARM BILL CHANGED   Senator Bankhead Offers New Measure to Meet Objections Administra tion to Deferment

ADM. ROBERT PROTESTS   Martinique Commissioner's Protests Turned Aside By ull

U.S, WARPLANES ATTACKNIPPONS IN BURMA AREA   Japanese River Shipping and Dock Area Raided by Mitchell Medium  Bombers Yesterday   FIRES ARE STARTED   Near Hits Scored on Five  Large Boats; Enemy  — Supply Center at Myingyan Assaulted

REV. H. J. CHASE GUEST SPEAKER HERE JULY 112   To Address Audience at Evangelical Free Church, : Concord

BRITISH SOFTEN MARETH LINE FROM THE AIR   Ground Fighting Quiet, But Allied Bombers Range Over Axis Territory

Pound Axis Positions Inside Line   Spitfire Squadrons Engage Nazi Planes Inflict Some Losses

TAKE UP ASSAULT AGAINST MARSHAI ROMMEL’S TROOPS  Aerial Activity Seems T:   Aerial Activity Seems To Be Only Action Any where In Tunisia.

FDR TO SPEAK 10 COUNTRY TONIGHT   Address Expected to Take in Whole Sweep of War Effort

F.D.R. Drafting Tonight’s Talk —   First War Report By President In Nearly Half A Year.

FDR Will Talk On Foreign And  Home Fronts      Will Broadcast At 9.30 Tonicht

Roosevelt On Air Wednesday   President To Deliver HalfHour Address; Subject Not Released.

F. D. Will Deliver 30-Minute Talk Tomorrow: Night   White House’ Deseribes Message" As’ One Of - ©¥-ajor. Importance”

Roosevelt Will Talk fo Nation Tonight at 9:30   Indicates He Will Talk about Whole Eweep of the War Effort

FDR WILL GIVE REVIEW OF WAR   His Talk Tonight Also Ex pected to Deal With Home Front ‘Topics

F.R. Will Give War Report at 8:30 Wednesday Night   Half Hour Broadcast Will Be Made; “Major” Importance Indicated

President Is Preparing Talk To The Nation   He Last Reviewed the Progress of the War February 12, During the Conflict in North Africa.

FDR Likely To Talk On Home and Wa)   Chief Executive Says It Is Impossible to Divide Two Problems

Nation’s Chiet Speaks to  U. S. Tonight President Asserts   President Asserts Talk Will Cover War, Home Fronts

BROAD SCOPE INDICATED FOR FDR’S ADDRESS   President's War Report to Nation  Likely to Cover Activities a  Home and Abroad

FDR TO ADDRESS U. $. WEDNESDAY EVENING AT 9:30   Speech of ‘Major Importance’ to Be Delivered from. White House—Will Last: 30  Minutae

Speech Of ‘Major Importance’ I's Slated For Tonight By President

President To Make Address Of “Major Importance” To U.S. Tomorrow Night

OAD FIREadt CHAT {a oLATED FOR TONIGHT   President Will Make First Report In Five Months To Entire Nation

President Drafts Broad Address For Radio Talk   Believe Tonight's Address Will Cover War Front And Domestic Situation

WILL BROADCAST TONIGHT OVER ALL NETWORKS   Gives Hints of Contents of Speech; First Since Feb. 12

FDR To Make Radio Speech Of Importance   No Hint Given As To Nature Of Address Tomorrow

President Will Report On Wat   Broadcast Scheduled At 9:30 (EWT) Tonight

President To Address Nation  Tomorrow Eve   Nature of His Thirty-minute Radio Address Not Disclosed, but Intimated of  » Major Importance.

MAJOR TALK IS PREPARED BY PRESIDENT   Address Tonight to Be First Report on War to Nation In Five and a Half Months

ROOSEVELT WILL SPEAK TO NATION   Address of ‘Major Importance’ Scheduled For Wednesday Night Beginning at 9:30; No Hint Given As To Subject Matter.

Roosevelt Radio Address Carded Wednesday  Talk Of ‘Major Importance’ Will Begin A#+k-277 DMA CWT

F.D.R. Speech  Ot Importance   Roosevelt Informs Press Radio Address To Nation To Be On War.

REPORT ON WAR WILL BE GIVEN BY PRESIDENT   ‘Address Qf “Major Impor  tance” Scheduled For 9:30 P. M. Wednesday  :   FIRST IN SEVERAL MONTHS    Talk Expected To Stress Equality Of Home And  Foreign Activities

FOR DELIVERS WAR SURVEY ON RADIO TONIGHT   [Speech To Report On All Activities In Last Six Months   TALKS AT 8:30 (CWT)   W ords of Caution On Home Front Happenings Are In Order

Nation Awaits Message Of President; Tonight’s Report First In Half Year

FDR Drafts ‘Important’  Talk to U. S.   President to Speak at 8°30 P. M. (CWT); Talk May Cover Home Front

FDR Prepares To Report on War Situation  Night Broadcast   Night Broadcast To Be First in Several Months

President On Air Wednesday Night   Will Deliver Address Of ‘Major Importance’

President To ‘Talk About the War’ In Important Radio Address Tonight

FDR. 10 SPEAK “ON WAR TONIGHT   RADIO ADDRESS OF “MAJOR IMPORTANCE” WiLL BE GIVEN BY PRESIDENT.

President to Review War in Falk Tonight   First Comprehensive Report in Near ly Half A Year to Be Made at 8:30

Roosevelt Topic te  Be War as Whole   President Will Broadcast Tonight

"TALK PLANNED   FDR Will Make ‘Important ® Radio Speech Tomorrow

PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS: NATION   Will Make Radio Talk At 9:30.P..M.  ie ee

Roosevelt Goes on Air for — Talk of ‘Major Importance’   Secretary Stephen Early Gives No Hint As to Primar:  Subject Matter to Be Dealt With Tomorrow Night, : Merely Stating “The Speeck Will Explain It self.’ May Deal With Home Frent Affairs

FDA FIREOIDE CHAT ATED TOMORROW   President To Address Nation At 8:30 P. M.

PRESIDENT TO MAKE ADDRESS OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE TONIGH]   Tells Press Conference He'll ° Speak on War; May Take in Home Front   TIME: 9:30 P. M., E. S. T

F.R. Makes A War Report To Nation Tonight   Broadcast Expected Tc Cover Home Front And Foreign Situations.

Roosevelt’s Report On War Eagerly Awaited By World; AllNetworks To Carry Talk

F. R. On Air Wednesday   To Deliver Address Of “Major Importance” At 8:30 P. M.

FOR TAGS TALK AS IMPORTANT   President’s Broadcast Tonight Will Touch Battle And Home Fronts

F.D.R. to Give First Report In Months   Will Deal With the War Situation In Radio Talk Tonight

ROOSEVELT TALK LISTED TONIGHT   Definite Clews Are Lacking To Topics Selected By FD :

ROOSEVELT T0 SPEAK TONIGHT   Indicates He Will Give Review Of War At  Home, On Fronts

PRESIDENT DRAFTS HIS WAR REPORT   Will Touch on All Phases of World Battle in Speech Tonight is General BeWat

War Effort Will Be Subject President's Address Tonight   Will Cover Conflict As A Whole Both At Home And Abroad

President Drafts Message To Be Delivered To U.S.   First Broadcast in More Than Five Months Comes Wednesday Night

Roosevelt Talks Tomorrow Night   Half-Hour Radio Speech Scheduled

FOR DRAFTS WAR REPORT FOR NATION   Expected to Review Both Home and Battle Fronts In 9:30 P. M. Talk.   CHEER, CAUTION MINGLE   President Hints Beforehane There’l! Be No Backdown  an Siurreandar Tarme

President To Deliver Report At 8:30 P. M.   War Activities At Home And Actual Theatre Of Combat To Be Subject Of Radio Address

Roosevelt fo Give Address To Americans   President to Go on Air + ‘To Give Speech of Majo Importance; KVSO to Carry the Address

0 Present  Pe elt Var Report   resident Will Broadcast  n All Major Networks  4t 9:30; Talk Termed Of Major Interest   180 SCHEDULED TO IR HOME PROBLEMS   ‘vst Address In More Thar Five Months May Inctude Views On Il Duce’s Downfall

Roosevelt Talk To Be War Report  Home Front Problems will Occupy Place  ai Bwuaal. ECw~nmbo

FOR WILL ADDRESS NATION WEDNESDAY   To Be President’s First Talk Since Downfall of Mussolini.

President Will Go On Air Tonight, Discuss War Work  Address Will Concern Activities Both At Hames and Ahrand

Roosevelt Drafts First Recent War Report to American People; Speech Will Be of Major Importance, White House Says

FOR DRAFTS FIRST WAR REPORT   Discusses Foreign and Home Front on Radio Tonight

FDR To Address Country Tonight On War Outlook   To Talk Half An Hour At 8:30

War Report To Nation   FDR Speech Tonight Of “Major Importance’ First in 514 Months’

FDR TO AIR HIS TROUBLES AGAIN   President Will Make 30-Minute Radio Address Tomorrow Night

F.0,R. TO SPEAK WEDNESDAY NIGH   Broadcast Will Be Of ‘Major Importance’, Says White House

General .Eisenhower’s Communique Says the New Offensive Took . Ring Of Hills.

British Start Their Third Drive Toward Tunis.  ALLIES SCORE GREAT AIR VICTORY      Axis Soldiers and Tons Supplies are Lost in Bay.

AMERICAN DIVES AT 780 MPH CLIP   Lt. Col. Cass S. Hough, Test Pilot, Makes Vertical Dive of Almost Five Miles, Believed Longest In Avia-

Pilot Dives Plane Five Miles at Speed Greater Than That Made by Sound

American Test Pilot Dives Plane Faster Than Sound During Five-Mile Power Dive

American Test Pilot Flies Faster Than Sound in Iwo Vertical Dives   Two U. S. Built Craft Reach Speeds 1, Excess of 780 Miles an Hour, Citation Says

Lodge Gives Wai Data fo Senate   Move for Uniting of Fighting Forces Seen

Stuttgart Is . Included In New Raids   Soviets Renert New Gains On That Frent

STUTTGART HIT BY RAF, FORTS BLAST BREMEN   Capital Attack Sixth in Nine Nights and Fourth Major Saturation Raid

B’SCARRE CITY HIT STR NIGHT IN ROW   British Also Raid Stuttgart; Yanks Pound Bremen

ARMY TROOPS TO AID HARVEST   Congress Told Plan Will Be Started Next Week In Southwest

TROOPS TO AID COTTON PICKING   First Use of Soldiers Comes Next Week in Fields of Southwest

ITISH FORCE ENCIRCLES ALL BON PENINSULS   Troops Now Turn M. P.’ ) to Herd Axis Into Prison Camps

BRITISH THROW RING AROUND CAPE BON   Allied Flyers Run Out of Targets on Peninsula

Axis Prisoners By Thousands Taken To Camps   British Army Rounding Up Nazis On Peninsula— Prisoners May Reach 150,000   RESISTANCE IN TUNISIA NEAR END

Move On Vorozhba, Poltava   Furious Counter Attack: Smashing Audacious Germans At Kasserine,

Soviets Seek to Cut Nazi Defense Line   Russians Drive Westward on Kharkov Front

TO COOPERATE WITH CONGRESS   Food Administrator Wil Present Program To  Legislators

Previews of 44 Food Production Shaping   _Food--Administrater—Joenes—Seeking Peace With Congress To Deal Openly With Lawmakers

Jones to Consult Congress on ~  Food Program   Administrator Believes Action Will Prevent Lawmakers From Overihrowing Subsidies

Jones Will Place Food Program Before Congress   Administrator Seeks To Profit by Receni Wickard Experience

WILL PRESENT FOOD PROGRAM   Jones to Seek Cooperation By Submitting Plans To Congress

Food Chief Asks Pre-Views of 44 From Concress   Administrator Will Strive To Avoid Repetition OME Gaseahhine

BOMB SOLOMONS   No Planes Lost By Allies In Wide Spread Attacks On Japs

BLASTING JAPANESE   Planes All Return Safely from Scene of Operations on Tuesday (Is land Time.)

ALLIED BOMBERS RAID JAP BASES   A Flareup Is Reported in Land Fighting in New Guinea.

DUNKERQUE IN AFRICA SEEN FOR ROMMEL   Nazi Order Also Includes Crews To Sail Vessels To Italian Ports.

Say Nazis Seek Fleet  To Evacuate Romme   Order French Ships be Refitted and Sent to Italian Ports

Nazis Prepare ‘Escape’ Fleet   Demand All Merchant Vessels From Harbors of France

Allied Forces Extend Holding Front in Tunisia   Attacks from Air Hit Axis Ships And Supply Ports

BRITISH ARMY ROLLS TOWARD MARETH LINE   Americans Extend Western tunisian Holding to Reheve French.   From Air Allies Straf  Troop Concentrations

British Driving Into Tunisia   U. S. AND FRENCH ARE HELPING IN BIG ADVANCE

British Roll Forward: U.S. Is Moving Uy   Eighth Army Is Nearing Rommel’s Mareth Line in Southern Tunisia   AMERICAN TROOPS RELIEVE FRENCH   They. Will Be Re-equipped for Big Push; Heavy Air Sweans Continue

BRITISH STH ARMY ALREADY 20 MILES INSIDE TUNISI   The Army Continues Rolling Toward the Fortified Mareth Line.   THE FRENCH RELIEVED   British Ist and American 5th Armies Extend Western Tunisian Holdings.

H ARMY NEARING LINE   American Troops Take Over Large Sections of French Lines.   FRONT $S STABILIZED

UNITED NATIONS ARMIES EXTEND TUNISIAN LINE   British In 20 Miles as Americans Move to Relieve Battle Weary French In Another Sector

British Lash Rommel Near Mareth Line   Allied Planes Bomb Two Vessels Off Tunisia, Hit Palermo Again

ROLL TOWARD FOE BEHIND - MARETH LINE   British and Yanks, Meanwhile Increase Thei1 Western Tunisian Hold: ing Front to Relieve  _ Weary French.

EIGHTH ARMY IS 20 MILES INSIDE SOUTH TUNISIA   American Fifth And British First Armies Extend Front To Relieve French; Allied Bombers Sink Axis Shins.

BRIT EIGHTH ARMY REPORTED. NEARING THE MARETH LINE   Montgemevy’s Forces Already 20 . Miles. Inside Southern Tunisia—Allied Planes Active In Air Warfare —

British Advancing On Mareth Line  In New Offensive   Eighth Army Already 20 Miles Inside of Southern Tunisia; American and First British Armies Extend Western Front to Help French

BRITISH 8TH RENEWS DRIVE INTO TUNISIA   Monigomery’s Forces Rolling To  ward Mareth Line, Battle Axis a!  Ben Gardane   AIRMEN ACTIVE      U. S. and British Troops Relieve Battle-Weary French on Wes!ern Tunisian Front

FRENCH GET RELIEF IN TUNISIA   Americans, British Extend Front; Montgomery Heads _ for Mareth Line

Reds Continue Retaking Towns ‘And Villages   Many-Germans Killed and Captured —

RAIL CENTER SURROUNDED; TOWNS TAKE!   Tank Led Drive ' Sweeps Through North Caucasus

Will Draft Boys For Mine Work   Britain’s Coal Produetion Said Lagging

BABSON’S WEEKLY PEPORT   FUNDAMENTALS OF PROSPERITY   Behean Fenlaina Real Wealth   Tane.Pull Protection

DEBT, INFLATION, NOT ONLY . TROUBLES BEING FACED NOW   Possibilities of Long War, Radical Changes In Social Order, Other Contingencies Considered More Serious.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PROSPERITY   If Times Become Difficult After the War, Babson Suggests Land and Skill In Some Line of Work Will Be Most Valuable Assets.

PLAN TO BREAK CORN SHORTAGE   Corn Subsidy With Hog — Price Control Under Study

Party Union On Foreign PolicyUrged   Kelland Says Political Pa ties Should Adopt Same Planks in 1944

Senate Gets Report on Gen. Patton   Three Incidents of Harshness Given By Stimson

Patton Spoke ‘Too Harshly’   To Soldier Without Leggings Because of Swollen Ankles

Third Incident Is Included In Patton Report   Lieutenant General Spoke  ’ Threateningly To.Man Not Wearing Leggings, Reports Stimson -

Patton Report Given Senate   Stimson Submits Inspector’s Findings

STIMSON TALKS ABOUT PATTON   Secretary of Wor Reports General ‘Spoke Threateningly’ to Soldier

Patfon Spoke With Harshness   Threatened Soldier Who Failed to Wear Leqginas in Combat

Stimson Gives Patton Report   (,eneral Speaks Harshly To Soldier Who Failed To  Hear Leggings.

PATTON SPOKE ‘HARSHLY’ 70 SOLDIER WHO WORE NO LEGGINGS. STIMSON SAYS

Patton Abused Combat Soldier Minus Leggings   Left Leggings Off Because Of Swollen Ankles And Is Harshly Threatened

NO JAP REPLY TO KISKA RAID   American Warships Pour Shells Into Main Enemy Camp

SILENT KISKA SHELLED AGAIN   Jap Guns Again Fail To Open Up When Attacked Sixth Time Of Month

KISKA ISLAND: AGAIN SHELLED   U. 5. Ships Blast ‘At Jap’: Main Camp and Gertrude Cove District

American Warships Again Shell Kiski  Japanese Defenders Fail To Return Fire

REDS EXTEND GAINS, MENACE RAIL CENTERS   GERMANS HAMMERED BACK IN CIRCLE AROUND KIEV

Reds Capture 100  Points Near Kiev   Soviet Troops Smash Onward To Within 75 Miles of Old Polish Borderline

SOVIET TROOPS 75 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER   Russians In Direct Assault On Rail Center Of Zhitomir   AXIS CONSOLIDATING POSITIONS ON KERCH

Red Army Drives  Toward Zhitomir   Soviets Push Westward Along Main Railway From Kiev — Are Only 75 Miles From Old Polish Border

Red Ukrainian Force Speeds Westward Drive in Effort To Cut Nazi Armies in Two

Red Army, Sweeping in Vast Semi-Circle From ‘Kiev, Captures More Than 100 Town s.  Progress Toward Korosten Also Renarted.

SOVIETS PUSH CLOSE 10 KEY RAILWAY CITY   ‘’atutin’s Army Only 15 Miles From Strategic Zhitomir

AFL Spurns Ci0 Plan for Unity Of Big Unions   Former Refuses To Consid er Green-Murray Visit to England

JAPS GETTING OIL SUPPLIES BY CONQUESTS   But U. 8. Submarines Are Pressing an Energetic Campaign Against Their Line of Supply.

Knox Says Japs Are Getting Oil From Indies But U.S. Subs Active in Drive Against Nip Supply Line

Conquered Ccuntries  Give Japs Oil   U.S. Submarines Are Pressing Energetic Drive

JAPANESE GETTING OIL   Conquered Territories Furnishing   Japs Asserts Secretary Knox

CAPTURED WELL SUPPLY JAPS OIL   Knox Says Enemy Exploiting Conquered Areas As Supply Lines Suffer

Warns Nation (Of Casualties   United Nations Offensive To Bring Heavy Casualties For Americans

Two District  Cases Before Federal Bar   Bentleyville Druggist Given Three Years Probation In : Dre Sales

Production Is Expected To Be In Full Blast By Tonight, Is Report

PRODUCTION TO BE NEAR NORMAL LATER TUESDAY      Philip Murray Requests Ful Compliance With WLB Directive

US Battles For Munda Air Field ©   ALLIES TURN CANNON ON JAP POSITIONS AT SALAMAUA

US Battles For Munda Air Field   ALLIES TURN CANNON ON JAP POSITIONS  AT CGAL AAAABIA

FIND THREE  “STILL ALIVE  IN TORNADO WRECK ACE   Parents and Brother of Three Little Girls Killed Near Stover, Mo.   CHILDREN FOUND 13 HOURS LATER   Nemi-Conscious, They Lay A Night in Ruins of Farm House

Barilla  sl = a acs Neh aha ele Er  Tests Show Bull Has Rabies Here

SKY BLACK WITH SWARM OF BOMBERS   Flying Fortresses, Liberators Hit + U-Boat Bases

Allies Keep Bombs Falling  Over Europe   Tndieations of-Night Attacks Against Continent Seen     Escape of Badoglio to Allied Lines Confirmed; Fact Causes Nazis Worry

Turkey Will Define Stand   Full Declaration of Understanding Reached at Parley Expected Soon

Next Statement Is Slated From Turkish Canital   Hitler's Allies In Balkans [Iotter; Turk Parliament To Meet

AWAIT ACTION AGAINST NAZIS ~APTER ACCORD   IThree-day Conference At  Cairo Concluded, Report Events to Follow In Middle East Area   ‘STATEMENTS VAGUE  IN FRIENDLY PACT   Diplomatic Setback For Axis In Parley Held By Churchill, Roosevelt, Turk President

Turkey's Word Expected Soon   Country to Clarify Status in War After Cairo Meeting

Action Will Reveal Exaci Role Of Turkey In Allied  Plans In Mediterranean

ANKARA RADIO SAYS DECISIVE BATTLES NEAR   Pledge May Set Balkans To Rocking Anew

AMERICANS SINK JAP TRANSPORT HIT THREE SHIPS   Gnemy’s Convoy Caught in Smashing Night Attack Off New Ireland

JAP.CONVOY TROOP SHIP SENT DOWN   BOMBERS STRIKE HARD HLOW NEAR RABAUL—MARINE RAIDERS SURPRISE ENEMY ON BOUGAINVILLE

INVASION NEAR?   Turks Claim U. $. 7th Army Ready To Hit Balkans

With Our Soldiers and  Sailors               Son and Sons-in-Law Of John Tigges Are Stationed at Camps

Soldiers and  Sailors \e@ @   Son and Sons-in-Law Of John Tigges Are Stationed at Camps

WANTS 10 PCT. TAX ON SALES   U. S. Chamber of Commerce Expert Says Levies Prohibitive

TAX OF SALES FOR REVENUE   CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PREBENTS ITS TAX SUGGESTIONS BEFORE COMMITTEE OF HOUSE.

: Reich Is Now Inferior in Air Power : : Although All Its Planes Are in Use.

 Reich Is Now Inferior in Air Power - 7 . -Although-All'lts Planes Are in: Use

BRITISH TAKE OVER KERKENNA ISLAND   Tunisian Battles Still Confined Chiefly To Air

Total Of 142 Axis Planes Have Been Destroyed In Last Three Das Of Fighting.

Total of 142 Axis Planes Downed in Past Three Days.  12 ALLIED PLANES MISSING IN ACTION  Believe American Ground Forces Have Been Withdrawn.

HIT GERMANY SECOND TIME IN TWO DAYS   Set New Month’s Record In Raid Large Nazi Base

FLYING FORTS ~-BOMB EMDEN   U. S. Raids In Sept. Equal August’s _

Flying Forts Bomb Emden In Day Raid   Nazi Ship Base Is Given Blast

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST BIG PORT OF EMDEN  BIG BOMBERS LASHED A NAZI BASE OF RHEIMS, IN FRANCE. SUNDAY

ake Second Stab In Two Days At Germany’s Shipbuilding Center; Operations of U. 5. Air Force In Britain Exceeds Record Established In July.

SHIPBUILDING CENTER REICH AGAIN-RAIDED   American Flying Fortresses Reach More Than 200 Miles Across North Sea to Hit Emden

Bombed Emden, the Great German Shipbuilding Center Early Today.   NEW MONTH’S RECORD   This Fortress Stab Hit the Nazis Nearest Submarine and Shipping Base.

FORTS’ ATTACK EMDEN, GERMAN U-BOAT CENTER   Second Raid in Two Days by Bombers Is Tenth for September

Flying Forts Plaster Emden   Bomb Great Shipping Base And Receiving Port For Ore.

Bombers Out To ~ Break Record   l‘ortresses Have Made Their 10th Raid Of Month   NO FIGHTERS ARE  SEEN OVER FRANCE

AIRBASE IN FRANCE I$ ASSAULTED   No Losses Reported In Series Of Attacks On Nazi Targets

NEW RECORD IS SET BY YANK AIR FORCE   Flying Fortresses Smash Nazi North Sea Base

FORTRESSES SET NEW RECORD FOR U). 5. OPERATIONS   Make Second Stab In Twa Days At Germany’s Shipbuilding Center; Operations of U. S. Air Force In Britain Exceeds Record Established In July.

Morgenthau Doubts Withholding Tax Is Possible This Year   ( Jeffers Displays First Tire From Synthetic Rubber to Senators

Rubber and. Taxes Share > Capital Stage   Postwar Currency” Stabiliza-~ tion, Tunisian Fighting, Beauty-and-Barber Shop Trade Also Gain Attention

Ree a we ee ee  Violating Articles of War,  Army Offiesr Cannvictod caf coe ese “ ov    Lieut, Col. Charles G. White Sentenced by Court Mar tial to Dismissal From Army for “Drunk to Prejudice of Service,” Gross Neglect, Attempted Perjury and Misappropriating Labor

Study Plan To Take Tax Out of Pay   Congressmen to Vote in Committee  On Pay-as-You-Go

CHANGE IN TIME NEAR SHOWDOWN   Farm _ Interests in Ohio Legislature Lay Fuss in Lap of Governor

Farmers Fear Production Threatened By Contiuation of Daylight Saving Time

FULL-SCALE WAR IS WAGED BY YUGOSLAVS   Reinforced With Tanks, Planes and Armored Trains, Unconquered  = Guerrillas ‘Are Fighting  in the Adriatic Region.

Guerrillas Wage War on Enemy In Yugoslavia   Patriots Battle Axis Troops in Contract Deadlock

Planes, Tanks Aid Yugoslav  Guerrilla:   Unbeaten Force Wage: Full Scale War On Axis From’ Fastnes: Of Mountains

Guerrilla Army of Yugoslavia Carries  on Full-Scale Wa   Engages Axis Troops in Bitter Conflict From Mountain Fastness

Men Of Forest Wage Modern War Upon Axis   1,659 Italians Killed Or Wounded; 1,862 Are Missing

GUERRILLAS GET AIRCRAFT, TANKS TO FIGHT ENEMY   Waging Full-Scale War Against The  German Invaders

RebelsStepUp War with Axis   Dispatch Says Slav Guerillas Have Modern Weapons. Wage Full-Scale Warfare

Pianes and  Tanks for - Yugoslavs   Big Guerilla Army Now Waging Full-Scale War Avcainst Axis   ITALIANS REPORT. HEAVY CASUALTIES   German Forces. Also Are Engaged in Bosnia and Western Serbia

Yugoslavs Wage Full Scale War   Guerilla Army Under Gen. Mihailovic Now Reinforced With Tanks. Airplanes and Trains

RED CROSS DRIVE HELD THIS MONTE   Palo Alte County People Asked Take Memberships and Also Donate to War Fund.

$8,000 Is Red Cross Quota in the County   Drive for Roll Call and war funds here during March.

NAZIS CALL RED ACTION VAST BLUFF   Connect It With Plans For Allied Invasion Attempt

Fundamental Soviet Policy Is Abandoned   Comintern, Formed To Spread Revolution, Is Liquidated

Executive Committee Notifies Branches   London Sees Growing Cooperation Of Russia And Allies; Berlin Radio Caught Napping

World Revolution Aim Dropped in Cooperative Move   Inability to Hold Internationale Given as Reason

PLAN T0 DISSOLVE AED ORGANIZATION   Growing Cooperation Between Allies and Russia Seen in ‘Move

ALLIES HAVE 100 ITALIAN SHIPS   Churchill: Position of Fleet fs Considered

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Maior Part of Italian Fleet Now In Allied Hands

ALLIES GET 100 ITALIAN SHIPS   Most Of Fleet Turned Over, Revealed

WIFE ATTEMPTS TO ‘MURDER HER HUSBAND   Mrs. Julia Burns Used Alcohol And Match In Effort To Kill Spouse, Police Say

13 Billion Dollars Will Be Objective Of Second War Loan Drive Scheduled To Get Under Way Throughout Land Soon

Decisive Battle Near, Say Japs   U. S. Bombers Hit  New Georgia Base

BY CHURCHILL   Improvement in Condition Is Reported; Keeps Up On War Dispatches

Churchill Will Direct From Bed   Mrs. Churchill Reaches Husband’s Bedside After A Hasty Flight.

WORK KEPT UP BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister’s Wife At His Bedside In Middle East

CHURCHILL DIRECTS WAR FROM SICKBED   Improvement Reported in Prime Minister’s Condition, but He Has Not Passed Crisis.

Churchill Directs War Effort From Sick Bed in Mid Eas   Several Days Before British Leader Passes Crisis in Illness

Churchill Will Stay In Saddle   Improving From Illness, He Insists On Directing War Effort. —

YANK BOMBERS BLAST EUROPE   50 Nazi Planes Downed In Raid On Amsterdam

RUSSIANS RETAKE GROUNDS HELD BY NAZIS SINCE 1941   Collapse Of Whole Axis. Position In South ‘Threatens —~ Reds © Smash Ahead

RED ARMIES SMASH DEEP INTO DONETZ   Free Territory Held By Nazis Since 1941

RED ARMIES DEEPER INTO BONETS BASIN   More Than Thirty Villages Retaken By Russians

Reds Smashing Past Kharkov In New Thrust   Heading For Dnieper In Nazi-Held Territory, And Beyond

Smash Deep into ‘Rich: Doriéts! Basin Against rierce. Resistance — Lib. erating. "Territory, Held by ‘Ger. mang Since 1941. -°. “fae 2s

RED ARMIES FREE TERRITORY HELD SINCE ‘4   Advances of Up to 1é Miles Sinee Saturday Reported Last  Nicht

TERRITORY HELD. ‘BY AXIS FORTWO YEARS LIBERATEL   Red Armies Smash into.Min-eral-Rich © Donets Basin ‘Against Very Stiff: Nazi Racistance. °   THREE ITALIAN-RAIL~ . ROAD HUBS CRIPPLED   Axis, After Losing 114 Planes In Feur Days Fail To Offer Resistance From North Africa.

REDS SMASH DEEP INTO DONETS BASIN   Liberate Russ Areas Held By Nazis Since 1941

Reds Driving Deeply Into  Donets Basin   Two-Pronged Offensive Gaining Momentum; ‘Nazi Line Threatened

$5,500,000,000 TIN LEND-LEASE SENT ENGLANE   Roosevelt Tells Congress to What Extent Britain Is Pooling Resources With America’s   MESSAGE IGNORES CONGRESS DEMANDS   Empire's Help Includes Corn-on-Cob and Socks, Plane Repair Shops,  Boxing Gloves. .

White Paper Says Britain Gives Raw Materials, Data   Most Of Aid Is In Hospitals, Bases For Americans In Europe And Abroad

FDR, British Report  On Reverse Lend-Leas   President Puts $1,174,900,000 Value on British Aid ‘To Defense of U. S.’, Says Raw Materials Now Included

PORT ON BRITISH AID GIVEN   Empire Gives $1,174,900,000 To ‘Defend U.S,’

LEND-LEASE FROM GREAT BRITAIN 10 US TOPS BILLION   President Makes Report on Reverse Aid Received from Our Aliv

3 SLAYERS OF WOMAN GOLFEE DIE IN CHAIR   Convicted murderers ex ecuted early today in Kentucky prison

MARION MILEY’S KILLERS DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR   Three Pay Supreme Penalty For Shooting Golf Star And Mother   ONE DIES PROTESTING   “ Am Not Guilty Of Crime” Night Club Operator Says In “Last Mile”

Execute Four In Kentucky   Trio In Slaying Of Woman Golf Star And Mother Pay Penalty   FOURTH MAN IS ALSO EXECUTED

SLAYERS OF MARION MILEY — DIED IN ELECTRIC CHAIR   THREE MEN EXECUTED THIS MORNING FOR BRUTAL MURDER OF FAMOUS WOMAN GOL® STAR

RAILWAY JUNCTION IN ITALY WRECKED BYU, S. FORTRESSES   Attacks Designed To Smash - Communications Of Rome With Rest. Of Nation

FORTS WRECK RAIL JUNCTION NORTH OF ROME   Orte Area Is Blasted By Hundreds Of Explosive And Fire Bombs   NAPLES YARDS SMASHED   Ships Join Planes in New Attacks Against Italian j Toe District

ORTE RAILROAD JUNCTION IN ITALY IS WRECKED   American 8-17’s Smashed It In Attack on Southern Toe of Boot.

WRECK RAIL: JUNCTION NEAR ROME   Flying Fortresses, Smashing Italy’s Railway System

RAIL JUNCTION NEAR ROME IS YANKS’ TARGE   Fortresses Wreck Orte While Others Strike Near Naples

FLYING FORTS WRECK JUNCTION   Orta Ripped by U. S. Bombs—Algiers Radio Warns of Offensive Against Italy.

ITALIAN RAILWAY CENTER WRECKED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Orte, Forty Milea North of Rome, Smashed in Third Straight Day of Heavy Attacke.

lialian Rail  Junctions Hit   Allied Planes Strike Key Communications

3 VITAL RAILROAD JUNCTIONS BOMBED BY ALLIED PLANES   Fifth Straight Day Of Two-Way Offensive Against Italy Is Great

Orte Rail Hub. Bombed By Forts   Continues Attacks To Break Communications

  Forts Wrecl Rail Center Near Rome   Capital City Links‘ With Rest of Italy Hammered 3rd Dav

RAIL JUNCTIONS IN ITALY ARE WRECKED BY BOMBER ATTACKS   Three Additional Communications Targets  ‘Blasted by Great Air EFlectc

WRECK ITALIAN RAIL JUNCTION   Fortresses Batter Orte as Ait Assault Goes into Third Straight Day.

FORTRESSES WRECK ITALY RAIL CENTER   Attack s Designed Te Smash Rail Lines Before Invasion

REACH TOP OF MOUNTAIN LINE ON MAIN ROAD   Red Armies Closing Trap On German Forces In Dnieper Bend

American Forces Gain In Italy As Soviets Crash Nazis’ Ukrainian Defenses

AIR AIR POWER IS NOT ENOUGH, = ~ MARSHALL TELLS GOVERNORS   CHIEF OF STAFY SAYS ALL WAR FACILITIES NECESSARY  4 BEFORE VICTORY CAN BE WON) ©

Bituminous Eligible In New Week   Districts 3, 4 and 5 First to Acquiesce to Ickes

Operators, UMW Reach Agreement On Six Day Pact   Similar In Effect To One Adopted Sometime Ago By "Captive" Mines

SIX - DAY MINE WEEK ADOPTED   Agreement Signed Giving 75,000 Pennsylvania Miners $10 To $20 Extra Pay

6 Day Week For Miners Agreed To   WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA OPEPATORS AGREE WITH UNITED VINE WORKERS ON MOSES YLAN OF AIDING AMERICA.   75.000 Men Affected

Swedish Press Reports Hitler Has Made Trip To Red Front   Enemy Frantically Sending Aid from Mhar Sactare

APPROACHES 10 GOMEL STORMEL BY RED TROOPS   Russians Seek Key Railroad Junction, Comrades To South Seize Island In Dnieper River Near .   HITLER MADE TRIP TO FRONT, REPORT

Reds Ring  Gomel,Take Dnieper Isle   Key White Russian Rail City Periled;  Germans Frantie

Swedish Press Gives Out Report   Soviet Troops Storm Approaches To Ratl Junction

,REDS SEIZE “ISLAND IN DNIEPER   Other Troops Storm Approaches To Gomel Junction

RED ARMY AT GATES OF GOMEL   Report Hitler Warns Dnieper River Line ‘Must Be Held’

GERMANS RUSH UP TROOPS TO HALT ADVANCE   Fall of Gomel Would Mean Big Loss to Nazi Army

Reds Battle for Gomel,  Seize Island in Dnieper   Kremenchug, Largest City on East Bank, Captured by Russian Forces

NAZIS TOLO 10 STOP AEDS AT DNIEPER AER   Sweden Reports Fuehrer at Front; Gives Orders to Generals.   RED ARMY STORMING APPROACH TO GOMEL

Germans Slaughtered As the Soviets Capture River Island; Assault On Kiev Is Ready   ‘Capture of Gomel Would Wreck Enemy’s Defense System in White  ' Russia — Death Toll Great.

Reds Shell Nazis at Kiev   Now in Possession of City's Eastern Suburhe

,REDS STORM APPROACHES ‘TO GOMEL; HITLER TELLS INAZIS TO HOLD DNIEPER

Hitler Visits Soviet Front Orders Nazis To Hold  Dnieper River —   At All Cost ~ CASUALTIES HEAVY  German Rush Fresh Troops To Halt Offensive Of Russians

SOVIETS GAIN IN CAUCASUS, HOLD DONETS   ANOTHER SMOLENSK AREA STRONGHOLD IS CAPTURED

REDS KEEP ON DRIVE TOWARD NOVOROSSISK   Capture Seven More Localities in Effort To Wipe Nazi Caucasian Bridgehead   Move on Smolensk

Nazi Caucasian Forces Facing Annihilation   Russians Take More Vil lages in Drive for Novorossisk   Reds Also Hold Firmly t Donets River Defense Line

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP GERMANS AT NOVOROSSISK   Russians Capture Several Towns in Drive to Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead at City.   SEIZE STRONGHOLD ON SMOLENSK FRONT   Soviet Defense Line on Donets River Is Holding Firm —One Enemy Company Destroyed.

Soviet Armies Gain Along Three Fronts   Steadily Force Axis Back in Caucasus Area

SOVIET TROOPS HAVE CAPTURED SEVERAL TOWNS   Drive Now Directed Toward Caucasian Bridgehead At Novorossisk   RED DEFENSE LINE HOLDING IN SOUTH

hveds capture several localities in drive against Novorossisk   Reduce another Smolensk stronghold, hold firmly on Donets defense line

Russians Gain In Smolensk, Caucasus Areas   Also Report Donets Sector Defenses Are Holding Firmly

TOWNS CAPTURED BY SOVIET FORCES   Troops Hold Firmly to Donets River Defense  Line

Several Localities Captured By Reds   Nazi Stronghold On Smolensk Front Is Reduced And Donets ‘Defense Holds Firr

Reds Take More Vital Towns  In Great Gain   Nazis Lose Generally, Suffering Many Deaths and Capture of Much Material: Seaport Is Under Threat

DONETS RIVE DEFENSE LINE IS UUNYIEL DING   Several Localities Are Captured In Continuing Move On Bridgehead.

Reds Continue ‘Drive Aimed At Novorossisk   Gain Before Smolensk And Retain Firm Hold On Donets River Line

Report Victories Near Smolensk: Hold j in Donets   Counterattack Succeeds in Area of Sevsk; Enemy Retreats

Soviets Make _ Progress In  The Caucasus   ‘Reds Capture Several Localities In Drive To Wipe Out Nazi Bridgehead At Novorossisk: Hold Donets Defense Line

Gain Also Made  Near Novorossisk  MoscowSays Donets Line Te Uanldine Firmly

SOVIETS GAIN IN CAUCASUS   Continue Drive Near Novorossisk, Advance on  Smolensk Front

Yugoslav Troops Break Nazi Ram   Germans Hard Hit In Mon-tenegro; Yugoslavs Count 270 German and Chetniks Dead.

National Safety Council Compares Casualties Of Battle and Home Front

Four Times.as-Many Accidentally Killed Since Péarl Harbor as Have Been Reported as Dead in Action

'5-Mile Long Line Extends from ‘State ‘Ferries at The Straits of Mackinac

MINES SHUT DOWN IN PROTEST  sie ainsi” ceil. ace lei ed all ciel dame” a talk ile A®

MINERS PROTEST WLB DECISION, WALK OUT   1,550 Men Quit Work Today At Two Eastern Ohio Mines

2 MINES CLOSED AS MEN PROTEST WLB PAY RULING   PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ISSUE RILES OHIO COAL PIT WORKERS

OPERATORS OF OPINION PITS WILL NOT OPEN   Expect Field to be “Shut Tight? When Truce Expires at Midnight Sunday   THOUSANDS IDLE  TODAY IN NATION   Mines Producing Fuel for  Alabama Steel Mills   Closed; Pennsylvania,   Ohio, Kentucky Hit

Strikers Close Two Ohio Mines   Make Protest On Portal-Pay Ruling

2 LARGE MINES ‘ARE SHUT DOWN   Mmers Dissatisfied  With WLB Decisjon

MINERS GO ON STRIKE   Two Large Mines In Ohie shut Down By Protest Walkout

OHIO MINERS AN WALKOUT   ‘THREE OF LARGEST MINES IN STATE IDLE AFTER WLB' RULES AGAINST POR‘TAL PAY

Jo Ann Kiger Freed on Bail In Murder Case   Continues To Deny She Killed Father

RAIN SPLAHED FAbco LIGHTED BY WIDE GRINS   Christmas Gandy from Home Shared with Waifs of Mignano.

YANKS EAT ‘K’ RATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS  prem PAs AAMaED MnO, ADLC TLREVi ST CET THILIR TIRE EYVY WITTIIN =A EW DnAys   UT COMMANDER DECLARES THEY’LL GET THEIR TURKEY WITHIN A FEW DAYS

NO TURKEY ON BATTLEFRONT   Men in Trenches Fight for Their Lives—But They'll Have Dinner

British Try To Overhaul Africa Corps   Battle of Libya Becoming Greatest Chase in History

$15,000,000,000 Goal  Set for New Loan Drive   Morgenthau Schedules Greatest Financing Move in World History To Start Early in September

$15 Billions Sought In 3rd War Loan Drive   Sum Well Above That Asked In Campaign Held Recently

Third War Loan Drive Is  For 15 Billions   Campaign For Huge Sum Gets Under Way September 9

Treasury Sets $15,000,000,000 Goal In Third War Bond Drive, Says Job Is Biggest Task Ever Attempted

War Loan Goal Set 15 Billion   Nonbanking Sources Only to Take Part

GOAL IN DRIVE IS $15 BILLION   Sales to Individuals to Be Stressed in Third War Loan Campaign

WAR LOAN GOAL IS 15 BILLIONS   New Drive To Be Opened By Treasury Sept. 9; Stamps Go Strong

- Treasury Reports Americans Are Responding With Alacrity to July War Stamp Drive; Plans Are Advanced for Third War Loan

45 Billions Is Goal For Third War Loan “va Toe call   Only Non-Banking Sourees Will Take Part In Campaian

(5 BILLION SET AS WAR LOAN GOAL   ONLY NON-BANKING SOURCES TO PARTICIPATE—DRIVE. TO START -SEPT. 9.

Goal Is Set For Third War - Loan Drive By The Treasury   Largest Financing Campaign in World History Mapped by Morgenthau—Non-Banking ; ‘Sources to Participate

15 Billion Goal For Third War Loan Campaign  Drive Opens Sept. 9; Exceeds Previous

LOAN CAMPAIGN OPENS SEPT. 9   Goal Of ‘18 Billions Is Set For Third Bond  Sales Drive

$15,000,000,000 IS BOND DRIVE GOAL      To Start Sept. 1 — Amount Sets All Time World Record

318,000,000, 000 BOND GOAL IS SEI   Only Non-banking Sources to Participate in Third War Loan; Largest Financing Program in History

Treasury Sets Record Figure  To Finance War  Two Billion More Than Was Sought  In Second Loan  NO BANKS  New Bond Campaign To Open Sept. 9, Morgenthau Says

ICKES RAPS DIES   Texan's Committee Is Charged With Irresponsibility

FOUR BASES IN SOLOMON ISLES HIT .   Two Jap Planes ‘ ‘Bomb Guadalcana Without Damare

U.S. Planes Raid Jan Pacific Bases  Strike In Solomons And Kiska Again

U.S. Hits Again at Jap Bases   Bombers Busy in Solomons and Aleutian Islands.

AMERICAN PLANES RAID JAP BASES   Four Enemy Bases in Solomons.and Jap-Held Kiska Raided.

U. 8, PLANES RAID A JAPANESE BASES   Enemy Craft Bombs United States Positions on Guadalcanal.

Yank Planes Raid Jap Bases   Japs Bomb U. S. Guadalcanal Positions  With No Damage

American Planes Raid Jap Bases In Solomon Islands   Also Attack Enemy Positions On Kiska In Aleutians; Nippon Airmen Drop Bombs On U. S. Positions On Guadalcanal Without Causing Damage, Navy Reporis

HIT AT JAPS IN THE SOLOMONS   U. S. Bombers Strike At Four Enemy Bases.

. ‘ks Hit Four uieMy Bases in Solomons Area:   Americans Also Bomb Japanese Positions At Kiska in Aleutian Islend, Announced

Jap Bases, Positions In Kiska, SolomonIsland Area Are Raided Again By American Warplanes

AMERICANPLANES HIT AT JAP BASES   RAID KEY ENEMY POSITIONS IN SOLOMONS AREA

BOMBERS SINK FOUR SHIPS IN AXIS CONVOY   Field Marshal Rommel Is Reported Intensifying Activity on Mareth Line Positions   NAZI INFANTRY HALTED

FOUR JAP BASES IN SOLOMONS HIT BY U.S. AIRCRAFT   Nipponese Positions on Kiska In the Aleutians Are Also Bombed by American Planes.

Your Jap Bases Raided; Convoy’s Cripples Sunk   U.S. Fliers Bomb Solomons, Kiska; Nip Plane Tol] Now 87 In Theae 2...

FIGHTER PLANES {MPERIL RABAUL AS MUNDAFALLS      Pivot of Japs’ S. W. Pacific " Actions Now in Path _ of Allied Power

VITAL PACIFIC AIRBASE IN U.S. HANDS   Will Put Fighter Planes in Range of Rabaul

Roosevelt Mum On Farm Prices   Food Boss’ Power Termed Inadequate

Warning Sounded To Hitler   ..Against New Thrust      Allied Backing For Turks Pledged

PLANS SHAPED TO BUILD UP TURKISH ARMS   That.Is the Officially Announced Purpose oi Churchill Conference With President Ismet Jnenu.

‘Churchill “Reaches™ Agreement- With  President lnonu   Plans Made to Bo'ster Defenses Of Neutral Nation; U. 5., Britain To Increase Flow of War Materials.

Churchill Lines Up  Turkey   Prime Minister Talks With Inonu on Defenss Plans; Gives Hint of Impending Offensive

Churchill Moves  To Very Edge Hitler Domain   Spring Offensive By Allies Hinted By Daring Parley With  Pres. Inonu

Churchill Meets Turk President  Agree on Plans For Bolster ibe Gubbase

Turkey And Allies Plan For Defense   Churchill Completes General Plan With Turkish President   Yon Papen Skis During Historic Conference   British Premier Visits Cyprus On His Return Flight

AGREEMENT ON AID FOR THE TURKS   Relations’ Most. Friendly. Churchill . Says, After Visiting Inonu .   CARRIES GREETINGS. FROM ROOSEVELT   Prime. Minister’s. Mission an Unmistakable Warnine to. Hitler

Allies Move To Safe guard Eastern Mediter ranean Flank.   Allied Help Promised.

VISIT TAKEN AS WARNING TOHITLER   Neutral Country Plans To Bolster Defenses   PRIME MINISTER   Also Goes To British Isle Of Cyprus: Says Turks Are Most Friendly

MORE EQUIPMENT FOR TURKEY. NEW PACT DISCLOSES   Churchill Meets With President On War Program

TURKISH DEFENSES TO BE BOLSTERED IT IS ANNOUNCED   Prime Minister Churchill and President Inonu i ~ Agreement. .   A WARNING TO HITLER      Against a Spring Offensive in the Direction of Turkey.

TALKS TURKEY AND IN TURKEY   Chur chill Gets” Broad Agreement in : Ankara

Delivers Roosevelt Message at Parley Taken as Warning to Hitler  ieee ca a   STALIN CONSULTED   Agreements Reached on Postwar as Well as Present Problems

PRIME MINISTER MSITS- TURKEY   Churchill Confers with Presi. dent Ismet Inonu, Negotiate Broad Agreement

CHURCHILL CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT OF TURKEY ON DEFENSE  GREETINGS OF PRESIDEN’  DANCLCULCIT CARPRICN TH

Churchill Flies from Afr: ‘ida fo Visit” Turkey, Stops At Cyprus.

BRIT on Guile VISITS TURKE)   Churchill Confers With Turkish President on Defense Plans.   INSPECT CYPRUS ISLAND

REPORT FULL AGREEMENT ON DEFENSES   All Available Help Pledged to Ankara Government.   MEETING SEEN AS WARNING TO HITLER   Discuss Situation as Regards' Nearby Balkan Countries. ,

Allied Turkey Trot Too Fast For Axis   -~Charchill’s Visit Another Diplomatic Blow To Hitler

Inonu Confers With Prime Minister In Two Day Talks Implementing Alliance

Churchill Confers With Inonu; Allies May Use Turkey For Balkan Drive

ALLIES REACH WITH TURKEY    Churchill, Visiting President In one After Casablanca Meeting, Pledges Aid   SPFAKS FOR FDR   Iniention io Arm Turkey Against Invasion Seen, but Other Developments Expected

TURKS LINED UP BY CHURCHILL   ‘Prime Minister Furthers Allied Plan for Conquest; Now in Full Accord

Allies Plan to Send Aid to Turkey      Churchill Flies to Meet Turkish President Following Casablanca Conferences

Allies Confer With Turkey   Prime Minister Churchill Goes From Casablanca To   Meeting With Inonu. 

Forge Ring of Steel Around Axis; U. 5S. and Britain to Supply Arms

> Bolstering Of  ' Turkish Defenses Agreed At Talks  © Between Staffs

U. S.. Britain To Send More War Materials  Prime Minister On Visit To Inonu; European  Situation Discussed By  ROSES: ane is

Churchill Flies To Parley With Inonu, Gives Hint Of Allied Offensive In Balkan Region

OUTLINE PLAN FOR WIDENING OF DEFENSES   Britain’s Premier Flies For Parley That Carries Out Casablanca Program

CHURCHILL GETS TURKEY LINED UF WITH ALLIES   SOLVES BIG PROBLEM WHILE NAZI BIG-WIG PLAYS IN THE SNOW

Turkey Will Get Supplies From Allies   Churchill Visits President Inonu, Military Leaders

Turkey And Allies Are In Accord   Churchill Meets President Inonu  Over Week-End

Churchill in Turkey for Meet   Negotiates Broad Agreement-——To Send More Arms

ALLIES WILL HELP TURKEY ~ INPREPARING   Churchill, Who Flew There, Negotiates Pact With Turkev’s Chief .

Turkey Is . Barred As Nazi Route   Churchill Returns From Meeting With -Inonu On Bolstering .Of Turkey’s Defenses

ALLIED FORM FOR CONQUEST CARRIED FORTH   Churchill Negotiates Broad Agreement With Turkey In Surprise Confer ence At Adana   TURKS TO GET AID   Possibility of Turkey's Entrance Into War Seen By Observers In london

Churchill Stops im ” Turkey on Way From _ Casablanca Meeting   Plans for Bolstering the Turkish Defense Are Agreed Upon

Allied Armada Said Menacing  Albania Shore   Warships, Fliers Guard Tonian Sea Convoy,

NEW INVASION STEP REPORTED   Unconfirmed Dispatch Says Fleet Moving Toward Albania

ALBANIAN PORTS OLIZED BY NAZIS   SWISS REPORTS say ALLIED INVASION ARMADA IS MOVING ON COUNTRY,

Allied Fleet In Adriatic   Swiss Reports Have Not Been Confirmed

Germans Hurriedly Replace Their Fallen Italian Allies All Along the Adriatic Coast as Swiss Reports Say a Huge Allied Invasion Armada Is Moving Through Sea to Albania

Allied Armada Moving Toward — Eastern Ports   Nozis Hurriedly Replace Fallen Italian Army — ‘Along Adriatic

New Blow Forecast  In Albania   Big Allied Fleet Reported In  Ionian Sea

Special Highway  Bond Issue  Killed by Court   Montana Tribunal in Unanimous Decision Grants Injunction Preventing Officials From Conducting the Election

Gasoline Tax Doubled Under Act   Officials Restrained From Expending Any State Funds

CUT IN TYPHOID DEATHS   Rate in 93 Cities Reduced 530 Per Cent in Two Years.

Hungarian . War Minister Resigns Post  Country Swerving  Out of War, Ts Report

Horthy Accepts Resignation of Colonel General Nary and Appoints General Von Csata To Succeed Him.

SAYS SIKORSKI DEATH IS GREAT LOSS TO ALLIES   Churchill Heard in House of Commons;  M. P. Member Also Dea:

POLISH PREMIER  DIES IN CRASH  OFF GIBRALTAR CHURCHILL TERMS TRAGEDY ne HEAVY  DI AU TAA

Churchill Mourns Loss Of Sikorski   Prime Minister Calls Premier’s Death Heavy Blow to United Nations

DEATH OF POLISH . PREMIER HEAVY . STROKE TO ALLIES   Prime Minister Churchill - Tells House of Commons  ‘oday

19 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH AT GIBRALTAR   Death of Polish Premier Hard Biow for Allies

General Wladyslaw Sikorski Was Killed In Crash of Liberator Near Gibraltar   DEATH IS TERMED “GRIEVOUS LOSS”   Churchill, At Same Time. Reveals to Commons, Death In Same Tragedy  of Parliament Member

Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of Polish Government-in Exile, and Daughter Among 16 Killed in Plunge Of Liberator at Gibaltar

SIKORSKI DEATH RAP: CHURCHILL   PARLIAMENT MEMBER KILLED IN AIR CRASH

GEN. SIKORSKI, AIDES KILLED IN  PLANE CRASH   Churchill Pays Tribute to Polish   Premier, Saying Death One of  Heaviest Strokes Sustained

Sirkoski Death Blow To Allies   Polish Premier Dies In Plane Crash

DIES IN CRASH   Polish Premier Killed When . Liberator Plunges Into Ocean.

Gen. Sikorski Meets Death In Air Crash   Death of Polish Premier Great Blow to  Allies, Says Churchill

MOURN DEATH Ot POLISH PREMIER   Viettm Of Air Crash In Which 14 Others Lose Lives’

iA BLOW TO THE ALLIES   ‘Polish Premier Was Killed in Abr Crash at Gibraltar

Spellman Hopes Italy Will Quit   Says Surrender  Would Shorten War

Hardened Young Soldiers Leaving Hills Of Scotland Ready To Invade Continent

7 Japanese Destroyers  Sunk By U.S.   American Airmen Hit Hard At Enemy Ships In Guadalcana!

United Press Reporter Gives First Report Of Engagements That Have Been In Progress In Solomons For Sev aral Waalea

AN AIGANG olNK L JAP WAROHIPS, DIOPATCH CLAIM   Possibly Five Others Sunk By U.S, Planes In Ac tion Off Solomons

U.S. Planes Sink 2 Jap Destroyers, Damage 5 Others Near Guadalcanal

Ul, S. PLANES SINK TWO JAP SHIPS AT GUADALCANAL   Airpower Scores First Blow I “Cat And Mouse” Battle

American Planes Blast Two Fleets Near Guadalcanal   Nipponese Vessels Leavi ing Buin’ . Caught by Yankee Ainenia Groups; 5 Damaged Craft Believed Sunk

DELAYED STORY OF JAP JHREAT TOLD BY U: P. REPORTER   U. 5. Bombers Cause “Heavy Damage To Enemy ’ Vessels In-Two he sei. Thrusts

Two More Jap Warships Sunk Off Guadaicanal   Five Other Ships Are ‘Probables.

JAP AIRCRAFT CARRIER FOUND   Nip Vessel Is Sighted Al Main Rabaul Base

JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ~~” REPORTED BASED AT RABAUL   ENEMY REPORTED TO HAVE STRENGTHENED AIR FORCES AT SOUTH PACIFIC STRONGHOLD

COURT RULING BLOW TO FBI   Income Taxpayers Given ‘Break’ in Decision on Felony

STALINGRAD DISASTER GREATER THAN FIRST SUPPOSED; GERMAN HICH COMMAND ADMITS TRACEDY

Interpretative   Nazis Menace Allies With Threat °  of Inexorable Submarine Warfare

Nazi Defeat at falingrad Greater Than Fir Believed   Berlin’s Accounts As Well As Bcow’s Emphasize End Is At Hand For “Army he Dead;” Hitler’s Command Shows Lb Desire to Gloss Over the Tédy

Stalingrad Loss fo Nazis Huge   Sixth Army Numbered 330,000 — Field Marshal Captured

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   yams Will Not Be Able ¥To Replace Tremendous Losses In Russia

STALINGRAD DIOAGTER 1 NAZIS WORST   Russians Disclose Trapped Force Was 330,000, ‘Instead of 220,000.     LAST REMNANT BEING WIPED OUT   BOING. a WEY Our  German ‘People Told They Now Must Fight for Survival. :

Nazi Warship  Loose In Arctic   Britain Reveals One Of Pocket Battleships Is Active In Northern Waters

O'Conor Names Committee To Make Plans for Two New State Hospitals

COMMITTEE T0 GONDUCT SURVEY   Location, Construction, Administration Of Chronic Hospitals Studied

COMMITTEE IS NAMED TO LAY _ PLANS FOR STATE HOSPITALS   Governor Names Group of Four to Study Matter of Location and Construction of Two Maryland Chronic Disease Institutions

U.S. AIRMEN IN RAID ON DUTCH COAST   Fliers Have “Sunday _ School Picnic” In Rotterdam Raid

SEES GREATER HELP FOR REDS   Stimson Says Defeat Is One Of Biggest For  German Arms

50,000 Rubber Employes Remain Off Jobs in Akron   War Labor Board Refuses to Consider Wage Plea Till Work Resumed; Baltimore Transit Strik

WORKERS CONTINUE STRIKE AT AKRON   Warning Given to Strikers et Rubber Plants by WLB

VITAL WAR PLANTS ARE IDLE DUE TO UNION LABOR STRIKES   50,000 Rubber Workers Quit In Akron; Toledo Jeep Parts Plant Closed; Southern Shipyard And Mine Employes Walkout

Akron Rubber Strike. Spreads. Despite Plea by W.L.B.; Baltimore Has Transit Walkout

Rubber Plant Walkouts Grow Wider   W LB Urges 50,000 Workers to Honor No-Strike Pledge

50,000 RUBBER WORKERS STILL IDLE   Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and - General Plants at Akron Af-fected by Walkout. -

Walkouts at Akron ‘Spreading ‘In Fourth Plant   CIO Leaders to Talk Over WLB Plea . To Return to Work

Rubber Plant Work Stoppage Spreads  Fourth Akron, Ohio, Concern !s Tied Up

50,000 Idle In Akron Hear WLB Warning   Board Will Not Act On Union Grievances  Until Work Resumes   MOBILE SHIPYARD HAS 7,000 STRIKERS  Other Thousands Out In Toledo, Cleveland, Utiea, N. Y.. Alabama

German and Italian Officials are Placed Under Military Guard  in Virginia

Captured German Consuls And Families in U. 8.  Officials Taken in Africa Will Be Held Until Americans in

AXIS GROUP FROM AFRICA NOW IN U.S.A   Captured Consuls General, Staffs, Families  Transterred Here.   CLOISTERED IN VIRGINIA HOTEL   May Be Exchanged For - Americans in France  Held by Nazis.

CAPTURED AXIS CONSULS INU. S   Diplomats from North Af Fican Zone Being Held :  Virginia.

OFFICIALS CAPTURED IN AFRICA IN U, S.   Held in Virginia Hotel Until They Can Be Traded

CAPTURED AXIS MEN UNDER GUARD IN U.S   Former German, Italian Consuls Near Staunton, Va.

Axis Consuls Now in U.S.  Envoys Captured At Algiers Now At Staunton. Va.

Miners Instructed To Return fo Jobs In Two States   Arkansas-Oklahoma District Leaders Give Order to About 8,000

MINE WORK ORDER GOES TO 8,000   DIGGERS IN OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS INSTRUCTED TO RETURN TO PITS, 

Newspapers To Be Slimmer During 1944.   WPB Restrictions Will Be Placed In Effect Even Though Newsprint Supply Increases

U5 NEWSPAPERS TO BE SLIMMEh AS GUT ORDERED   WPB Curtails Publication As Newsprint From Canada Reduced

Closing of Cairo Hotel To Public Seen as Hint Of Important Conference

Late News Bulletins   Tl. & and Britain in Arcord an TeRoat Warfare

Trading Confused On Ceiling Price   Some Choice Offerings in Chicago Bring Over the Federal Ceilings.

Stalemate in Calle Dealings   New Price Lid Causes Great Confusion in Major Livestock: Markets   WASHINGTON ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION   Stockers and. Feeders Are ‘Not Affected, Prices Steady in That Class

HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY  PASSES BILL AID  OLD AGE PENSIONS EFFECT OF MEASURE WOULD BE TO AVERT RE  ri TITRE CET FEAT OTe A URE

House Unanimously Approves Bill To Avert $3 Cut in State Pensions

Push Protest of WLB Delay to Pay Hikes   Boeing Aircraft Workers Union Council Holds ‘Round: the-Clock’ Meetinas

Plane Builder Council Meets   Plans. Continuotis’ .Parles Until Boeing Status Is Determined

PLANS DRAWN AT PARLEY 10 DEFEAT JAPS   Army and  Navy Officers From Pocific War Zones Canter

Strategy Of Pacific War ds Mapped At Conferences   Officials In Washington Disclose That The foriee OF Conferencec Losted Three Weeks

Allied Strategists Plan Destruction of Jap Military Power   High-Ranking Officers From Pacific War Zone Participate in Lengthy Conferences Announced in Washington

HIGH OFFICERS CONSIDER PLANS FOR PACIFIC WAR   Army and Navy Commanders Confer in Washington— Leaders From Fighting Zones Present.   M ARTHUR AND NIMITZ ARE REPRESENTED   Group Acquainted With Policies Decided On by Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca.

Drives Against  Japs Outlined   Officers From Pacific Area Confer With Army-Navy Command

Strategy to End Nippon Military Power Decided   High Ranking Officers of Pacific War Zone Meet in Washington

High Officers Discuss Plans To Defeat Japs   Commanders of Pacific Forces Hold Conferences in Washington

GHOST FLEET OF HUNDREDS OF SHIPS PLAGUING HITLER  NAVY REMNANTS OF COR GUERED NATIONS FORM

‘Ghost Fleet’ Of 400 Warships Aids Allies  Armada Mustered By Overrun Nations Plagues Hitler's Dreams

GHOST FLEET OF HUNDREDS OF SHIPS PLAGUING HITLER  NAVY REMNANTS OF CON GUERED NATIONS FORM FORMIDABLE ARMADA

GHOST FLEET FIGHTS HITLER   Overrun Nations of Europe Have Nearly 400 Warshins in Service.

Ghost Fleet of 400 Ships Now Added to United Nations Navy   Armada Mustered From Navies of Overrun  Nations of World

GHOST FLEET SAILS WORLD SEAS TODAY   Ships Of Overrun Nations Plague Nazi Regime

VEXES HITLER   Nearly 400 Fighting Ships Mustered By Over-Run  Nations

Ghost Fleet Of 400 Ships From Nazi Overrun Nations Plague The Germans

Drop Bombs on Industrial City   Germans Evacuating Key Rail Center Also

May Affect Italy’s New War Policy   Bid for Quick Victory Americans, Canadians in  New Gains

NO SHOWDOWN YET ON WATER, U.S. WINS AIR   Victorious Americans drive on to consolidate all new gains

Japanese Navy Fails To Appear   Allied Drive In Pacific Fails To Encounter Jap Navy As Yet   AIR POWER ALONE OFFERED BY JAPS

US. Bomber: Blast St, Nazaire   Tons of Explosives Poured on German Submarine Base

U, S. Air Force Scores Heavily In Daylight Raid Over Europe   War News At-a-Glance

Escorted By dundreds of Allied Fighters Carrying Out Diversionary Sweeps; RAF Sweeps Through Nolland, Belsium, and Northern lranen

WREATH PLACED ON TOMB OF " UNKNOWN SOLDIER ON ANNIVERSARY. OF ARMISTICE

TRIBUTES PAID SOLDIER DEAD   Roosevelt Places Wreath at Arlington Tomb in Solemn Rites

MARCELLA PLENDL MARRIED TODAY   United In Marriage To Edward Lampert at Struble Church

Plendl Lampert  Nuptials Monday Held At Struble   June’ Wedding Takes Place In St. Joseph’s Church

Hull Says Standley Hasn't Informed Him He Wants to Quit Moscow Post

Saturday Fixed For  Session   Northern-Southern Operat ors and Miners Summoned to Summarize Issues.

Qld Roosters Made Tender, Younger Ones Fattened by a New Discovery

Slip A Pill To That Old Rooster And He Will Taste Like Young Fry

VETERANS MEET AT CAMP GRUBER   “Battle-Scarred Rainbow Division To Be Revived Tonight

Legislation Is Passed. By Senate Without. a. Protest Being. Made   ACT TO RELIEVE CRISIS ON FARMS   Only Partial’ Relief, Say Some Senators; Alcohol Plants Need Corn.

SENATE VOTES TO SELL GRAIN   W ould Release 100,000,000 Bushels of Wheat

Surplus Wheat Sale Is Given  Senate's 0. K.   Livestock And Poultry Feed Crisis Spurs Favorable Action.

Women’ s Jury  Bill Up Today   Prolonged Debate  Snean At Annanolis

WOMEN JURY, (RABBING BILL CAUSE DEBATE   Senate Passes Work Or Fight Bill Including Anne Arundel County

EDEN IN QUEBEC; TO WEIGH ROME OPEN CITY PLEA   Secretary Makes Trip to Con. ference Scene by Plane— May Go to Moscow to See Staiin.   F.D.R. AND CHURCHILL OPEN CONFERENCES   President to Visit Canadian Capital Next Week, Some Think to Aid King Politically.

Parley Is Said Planning Direct Frontal Attacks   Briton Favored As Allied Commander For Miahtv Drive

Battle for Coo Still Rages   Nazis Claim Allied Resistance Broken

GERMANS REPORT DEFEAT OF ALLIES ON ISLE OF COO   Claim Capture of British Garrison of 600 Men and 2,000 Troops of Marshal Badoglio,   ENGLISH COMMAND SAYS FIGHT GOES OD}   Reuters Dispatch Suggests Nazi Occupation Is Complete—Believes Lero Also Fell to Foe.

Germans Clain Resistance on Island Broken   Allies Say Fight in Dodecanese Still Continuing

BERLIN CLAIMS C00 CONQUERED   Allied Airforce Strikes At Balkans; Fie:d Near Athens Blasted

Hitlerites Declare They Have Coo Fully Reoccupied  Air Power Employed To Jolt Germans ~ On Greek Territory

FATHER DRAFT BEFORE HOUSE   Representatives Finally Get Fling At Deferment Legislation

House Refuses to Put ee Distinction on Fathers  Under and Over 30

HANDLEMAN IS GIVEN 8 YEARS   Baltimorean Sentenced To   Term In State Peni tentiary

THIEF GETS EIGHT YEARS IN THE PEN      Harry Handleman, Who Escaped Westminster Jail. Sentenced

GRIPSHOLM BACK “WITH AMERICHNS   Exchanged U. S. and Canadian Nationals Weep, Cheer As Ship Docks

Gripsholm Back in US.   1,500 Americans, Canadians Return From Jap Prisons

HINTS WIFE OF HESS IS ALSO IN ENGLAND   Laborite Member of Parliament Makes Implication in Question Asked in Commons.

RAIN CONTINUES TO BLOCK MOVES IN TUNISIAN WAR   French Troops Relieved Near Pont Du Fahs

Rain Delaying African Campaign   Storms End Week of Fair Weather; German Radio Admits Allies Have Launched Attack

PARLEY REPORTS DISAGREEMENTS ON FOOD SUBSIDY   Senate Chairman Declares New Vote on Roll-Back J to Be Sought

DEADLOCK ON ~ PRICE POLICY 1S CONTINUED   CONGRESS CONFEREES STTL2,  WORKING TO REACH AGREE-: MENT IN SUBSIDY CONTROVERSY 

Remember   Opening Game Ragged; Cards Mutf Chance:   70,000 Fans Pack Yankee Stadium: Lanier, Chandle1 Pitching   SECOND INNING

Yankees Win First Game; Score, 4 to 2   Cardinals Go Down to Defeat in Weakly and Odd Ball Game

Sand Pit South Of Hull To Be Recreation Spot   And Fishing Grounds; Committee J. Asking For Funds To Make lnproyements On Place

NEW OFFICERS OF LIONS CLUB ARE INSTALLED TODAY      Rev. J. B. Dobbins Gives Challenging Talk, While  Inducting New Personnel

LIONS CLUB ARE INSTALLED TODAY   Rev. J. B. Dobbins Gives Challenging Talk, While Inducting New Personnel

LEWIS BATTLE BEFORE A.F.OF L MEETING TODAY   STRONG OPPOSITION EXPECT. ED TO COME FROM PRO.GRESSIVE MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA,   UAW CONVENTION ENDS AT BUFFALO   Senate Is Unfavorable Toward Post-War International Cooperation on Account of Report of Journeying Senators.

CONTROLLED BY NAZIS   German Party Publishes Most of the Newspapers

MANEUVERS UNDERWAY   Second Army Forces Begin Realistie Mock Warfare Today

BILL BELIEVED T0 BE LAW NOV   President Will Probably Make  A mmnuneamoant

Roundup of Food, Gas Rationing   By The ASsociated Press  Meats, CheeSe, Fats, Canned Fisk

Aerial Armadas Pound Naziland   Reds Lash Warsaw Yanks Hit France

WARSAW ABLAZE FOLLOWING RAID BY RED AIRMEN   American Bombers Stage Attack On Targets In  Occupied France   EIGHT PLANES LOST IN DAYLIGHT SWEEP

Aerial Armadas Pound Naziland   Reds Lash Warsaw,  WaphwnLe Ltt Cre. ee,”

American, Russian and British Warplanes Smash Heavily At Hitler's War Installations

AERIAL RAIDS HARRY HITLER ON 3 FRONTS   AMERICANS, BRITISH AND RUSSIANS HIT SMASHING BLOWS

Wide Area under Terrific Attack By Many Planes   Americans Make One of Their Greatest Daylight Raids   Lose Three Bombers, Five Fighters, but Do Great Damage

Aerial Armadas Smash at Hifler’s War Installation  Yanke RAE Redc Hit   Yanks, RAF, Reds Hit Heavily in 3 Major Bombing Assaults

1500 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON DUISBURG   Greatest Blockbuster Bomb Blow Of Fall On German Sources Of Supply And  Transnort   34 Aircraft Lost

AMERICANS RAIDFRENCH TOWNS, LOSE 8 PLANES   Strong Force of- Bombers Blasts Plane Factory at Meaulte and Airfields at St. Omer.   REDS POUND WARSAW, ~ RAF HITS DUISBURG   Stepped-Up Attacks Lead Goering to Order Construction of Slit Trenches for Civilians,

NO FREEZING REPORTED   Weather Man Admits That Spring Is Moving in Slowly

UNANIMOUS SENATE APPROVAL SENT ROAD BOND BILL TO HOUSE   RE-ENACTMENT OF ROAD BOND ASSUMPTION LAW “4S QUICKLY ADE” *

Pre-Invasion Landing Made  By Marines   Veterans Of Guadalcanal Had Situation In Hand When Full-Scale Allied  - Qperations Started

MARINES LANDED ON NEW GEORGIA T0 OPEN UP INVASION   Fanned. Out. Into. Jungles, Won Over Natives And Set Up Defensive ‘Beach-head

MARINES MADE JOB OF INVASION SIMPLE   Natives On New Georgia Lit Bonfires To Guide Yanks

STEUBENVILLE WITHOUT WATER   Supply Lines Washed Ont by Flash Flood.

STEUBENVILLE HIT BY WATER FAMINE   Supply Low After Rains Wash Out Pump Station Supply Lines

MOTHERS’ FIRST JOB AT HOME, IS BELIEF   Catholic Daughters Oppose War Jobs for Them

U.S. Sub Slips Up; Sinks Jap Sub So Quickly Enemy Never Knows What Hits Them;.Navy Says

Jap Submarine Sent to Bottom With One Torpedo   American Undersea Craf Makes Quick Work of Enemy Vessel

U.S. SUBS GET 200TH VICTIM   Jap Submarine Blasted By Underseas Boat Whose Toll Hits 50,000 Tons

QUAKE SHAKES CENTRAL CHILE   One of Heaviest of Year Recorded at Pasadena, Seattle

ft Mt 4entiago Is locked By; Quake   Buildings in Chilean Capi tal Shaken—One Town  ‘fin Ruins’’

Chile Suffers Severe Quake;  Cities Wrecked      Large Area Of Country I: Shaken By Two Strong Earthquakes

Quake Razes Chile Town   Salamanca With 1037 Persons in Ruins os Tremblor Shakes Nation

QUAKE IN CHILE REPORTED TODA)   Heavy Earth Tremors Cause Damage to Several Towns, Reports Say

British Press Indignant At Handling Of News Of Conference In Cairc

Fumbling of News Brings Flare-up   Bungling by Censors of Parley Details results in Criticism

BOND DRIVE OVER TOP AT $789,782   Quota of $788,2( 200 Passed, But Drive Will Go Right Along   MERCHANTS AID TODAY

SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE NEAR CLOSE   Douglas County Is Already $84,575.45 Above  - the Quota   CAMPAIGN ENDS TODAY

BOND DRIVE TOTAL REACHES $814,65¢   Workers Continuing With Efforts to Increase the  Grand Total      CAMPAIGN ENDS MAY 

Hitler Shakes Up Diplomats   Fuel Oil Ration Cut 10 Per Cent In East

FUEL OIL CUT IS ORDERED FOR EASTERN COAST   Aggravated Shortage Leads To 10 Per Cent Ration Slash   17 STATES HIT   ye oOLALES AIG     Extra Gas Allowances For Salesmen Are  Cancelled

PIN OIL IN 17 RATION STATES   Henderson Slashes Ten Per Cent From Fuel Oil Values

New Petroleum  Cuts Are Made On East Coast   Seventeen States Again Feel Pinch Of Aggravated Petroleum Shortage.

East Gets Another Cut in Oil   Henderson Orders I€ Per Cent Cut; Shortage Blamed

Fuel Oil Cut _ Is Announced   10 Per Cent Reduction Is . Applicable To Easter . Part Of Nation’

Extra Gasoline Rations For Traveling Salesmen Cancelled   Aggravated Fuel Shortage In East Causes 10 er Cent Cut In Oi! Heating Rations; Building Owners Warned

FUEL OWL RATIONS IN EAST GUT AGAIN   Ten Per Cent Decrease Goes In Effect Monday

East's Fuel Oil Ration Reduced   Extra Gasoline For Salesmen Is Cancelled

POST WAR JOBS ISSUE PUT UP TO CONGRESS   President Says Appropriations ” Won't Put Men to Work, Engineering, Plans Needed

Planning Up To Congress, FDR States   Any Post-Wa Delay On Jobs Up to Legislators

Congress Has _ - Planning Job   FDR Says Lawmakers ‘To - Decide Upon. Post-War. Program Of U. S.0°

CONGRESS MUST OUTLINE PLANS TO CREATE JOBS   President Avers Legislators Should Da Planning for Post-War Work

Jobs Burden On Congress —Roosevelt   Postwar Planning Rests Entirely on Its Shoulders, President Says

Says It’s Up To Congress   FDR Says Job of Post. ‘War Program in Hands Of Nation’s Law Makers

Responsibility Is With Congress on Post-War Jobs-FD   President Says It Must See That There Is No Delay

F. R. STRESSES POST-WAR PLAN   ‘States Responsibility Rests With Coneress

Providing of Postwar Jobs Up to - Congress—F. R.; Raps Ruml Plan

Up to Congress On Post-War Jobs   *vesident Throws Problem of Providing Jobs Squarely Up to Solons.

Porst War Job Issue Tagged   President Says That Matter Rests Entirely In Hands of Congress

Postwar Plan Put Squarely  To Congress   President Places Responsibility On Its Shoulders

Post-War Planning for Jobs Squarely Up To Conaress Asserts President Roosevelt

Post-War Jobs Up To Congress   President Says It’s Squarely Up To Solons If There Is No Delay.

CONGRESS GE GETS POST: -WAR BURDEN   Failure to Vote Funds te Planning Board Will Delav Reconstruction

FD Tosses Post-War Plan Into Lap Of Congress   Delay In Providing Jobs For Soldiers And War Workers Warned Against

Post-War Program ‘In Lap of Congress Roosevelt Declares   Burden of Continued Planning Fixed by FDR at Press Parley; _ Few Work Projects Said Approved.

Postwar Work Program Up To Congress: F.R.   President Puts Responsibility For Planning Or Lawmakers.

CONGRESS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY POSTWAR DELAY IN JOB-PROVIDING, SAYS EDR

‘Jobs after war up to  congress’   President puts issue squarely to lawmakers

PRESIDENT PUTS BURDEN ON CONGRESS   Post-War Job Provision He Says Is Now Their  Recnonathilitv.   NO DISCUSSION OF PLAN BOARD REPORT   House Members Urge Naming of Committee  To Do Their Planning.

POSTWAR BURDEN UP TO CONGRESS   ROOSEVELT PLACES RESPONSIBILITY OF NATION'S PLANNING

LEWIO-IGKES AGREE ON $0.50 MINE PAY   Administrator Wants To Return Coal To Operators

Nazis Flee In Disorder In Ukraine   Part of Russian Forces Ar Within 25 Miles of Polish Border

Take Strategic German Positions   Nazis Retreat Wildly Before Reds, Leaving Behind Arms, Equipment

: American Troops Are Moving Overseas at a Rate Faster Than   New Fighting Men, Women Are Being Inducted and Trained   Weapon Production Must Not Decline   Shifts Made in Output of Vital War Material Are Ordered by Department

Huge American Troop Movemen Ic Disclosed   Speeded Overseas Faster Than New Men Are Inducted

COURT STORY TOO GOOD   Five Years fcr Knife’s Slip and Explanation Thereof.

Enter Base © at Noon of St. Patrick's Day   War Reporter Gives Eyewitness Account of American Victory

MINERS, OWNERS MUST SHOW HANDS   Mine Operators of Illinois To Provide Board With Data on Travel Time.

LABOR INCREASING PRESSURE ON. WAGE PROGRAM STEADILY   Doubt That Administration Is Ready To Lift Or Revise Wage  ‘Ceiling ~

PLAGE CARDS ON TABLE, OWNERS, MINERS ASKEL   'WLB Chairman Asks Real Facts About IHinois Pact   UNION SAYS OUTPUT WILE BE INCREASED

CIVILIAN DEFENSE TO RECEIVE $25,000   Is a Fraction of the Amount Asked for; $500,000 for State Guard.

Smashing Drive Made By Forts   Nantes Laid Waste, Nazi Shins Lashed

NAZI DESTROYER SUNK BY BOMBS   Fortress Raid On French Ports Smashes Vital Enemy Facilities

Fortresses Hit Destroyer, Possibly Other Vessels At La Pallice, Mantes

PUPE URGES PEACE PLANS   HOLY FATHER PRAYS FOR LAST WAR CHRISTMAS

WAC MURDER ~~ 1$ MYSTERY   AUTHORITIES BAFFLED BY _ DEATH OF WAC CORPORAL IN INDIANAPOLIS ~*~ _ ROTEL. ROOM

NEUTRAL ARGENTINA SCORED BY BRITAIN   Silence on Policy Broken with Strong Statement

NEUTRAL POLICIES GET SHARP BLOW   British Note Asks Why Argentina Is Only One FailIng to Be With Allies.

TAKE DRUBBING   Axis Propagandists Hit By British Note To Argentina.

FINLAND READY 10 SIGN PEACE ON OWN TERMS   Nation Wants Voice In Negotiations

FINLAND READY TO MAKE PEACE OR SIGN TRUCE   Spokesman Says She Desires to Get Out of War but Is Unwilling to Surrender Unconditionally.   LEADERS MAY DECIDE ON STEPS THIS WEEK   Helsinki Diplomat Said to Be Planning Trip to Moscow, but Foreign Office Denies Report.

Finland Is Set to Sign Peace Pact   But Said That She Will Never Capitulate Unconditionally

Finland Is Prepared for Armistice If Permitted Voice in Negotiation -

Finns Seem Nearer Peace   Spokesman Still Says No Unconditional Surrender

FinlandReady To Make Peace With Russians   Not to Surrender Unconditionally, Nation’s Leaders At Helsinki Say

PEACE WITH HONOR   Finns Will Accept Honorable Peace Spokesman Declares

ALLIED FLIERS BAG 45 MORE AXIS PLANES   Pre-Invasion Teamwork Being Employed to Cripple Enemy Air Strength in Mediterranean

ICKES SEEKS SOLUTION 10 COAL STRIKE   Hunts Plan Acceptable to Both Lewis and WLB

OFFICIALS STILL MAKE NO ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACTION,   Into Second Day   Ickes Orders Transit Coal “Frozen” in Order to Spread Available Supply.

MEAT LINES IN ’FRISCO   ‘Supply Of Meat Today Expected  To Be Short Of Normal

Airmen Shatter Germany   HUGE AMERICAN FLEET HITS NORTHWEST REICH AFTER R. A. F. SMASH

24-Hour Raids Are Continued   Yanks Strike In Northwest While RAF At Frankfurt

AALS FOLLOW HARO ATTAGK ON FRANKEURT   Americans Hit Northwestern Part Of Reich In Daylight In ’Round-Clock Battle

Large Formation Goes Into Action  In Air Offensive   RAF Forces Pound Frankfurt, Strike   At Berlin Again

OMAGH BY DAY = FOLLOWS FAD ON FRANKFURT   Strong Force of U. $. Bomb. ers Over Northwest Ger... manv: Horror in Berlin, —

Nazi Opposition Light As Cities Crumbled: Flames, Smoke Pours From Taraets

Huge Formations Used In Daylight Attack On Single Target In Northwest Germany

U.S. Bombers Hitat Germany   Frankfurt, Berlin .. Also Are Raided

Hitler Gives Up Gomel to Russians   Evacuation Admitted bj Germans—British Make  Gains in Italy

NAVY NEEDS MAY FORCE DRAFTING OF MORE THAN 446.000 DADS SOLON SAYS

NAVY NEEDS IN DRAFT STRESSED   Hill Says Fathers  Essential for Service

Navy May Need More Men Soon   Its Requirements Probably Will Force Induction of More Fathers   FIGURES GIVEN IN SENATE DEBATE   Sen. Hill Makes Plea That Grand Strategy Not Be Disturbed .

DRAFT OF FATHERS 10 EXCEED 446 000 FIGURE, HILL DECLARES   DEMANDS OF NAVY MAY FORCE HEAVIER CONSCRIPTION OF DADS THAN EXPECTED

RAF Attacks Ruhr Region   Mosquito Planes In Quick Followup Of Big Yank Smash

12 Bombers, Five Fighters Lest Against 38 Nazi Fighiers—RAF Follows Up Today

Allied Airforce Blasts Germany  RAF Follows Up U. S. Daylight Raid

Bombers Keep Up Offensive Against Nazis   Mosquitos Follow Up American Attack on  Two Ruhr Cities

Night Raiders Hit Germany» After Fierce U.S. Day Blow   American Heavy Bombers Unloose One Of War's Heaviest Attacks On West Germany

CONTINUE TO BLAST GERMANS   Night Assaults Follow Big Daylight Attack

MOSQUITO BOMBERS FOLLOW U. 5. HEAVY BOMBERS ON RAIDS   BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS BORED THROUGH HEAV)

,000 Yank Planes Hit NaziPlants   Gelsenkirchen, Rub Ber, Center, Raided With Much Lower ” Loss of Craft

Mosquitos  Follow Big  U.S. Attack   Around 1000 Planes In Yesterday’s Daylight Raid on Germany

NAS uFAVY ‘AIR BLOW   British Mosquito Bombers Follow Up Attack Last Night on Unnamed Targets

Targets In Western Germany Attacked By British Bombers Following Raids On Ruhr Cities

ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS AGAINST REICH KEPT UP   British Mosquitos Follow Up Pounding Given Gelsenkirchen and Muen ster by Americans

RUHR BLASTED BY U.S. PLANES   700 Bombers Participate In Raid On Gelsenkirchen, Muenster

Allies Pile Up Devastation On Germany      RAF Night Raid Follows Record U.S, AUlack on Ruhr

1000 American Planes Pound  At Germany   Mosquito Bombers Follow Up. VW. Ss. Raid

RAF CONTINUES REIGH ATTAGK   Follows Up U. S. Raid on Two Targets in Ruhr

Thousand Yank Planes Hit Foe   700 “Bombers ~ in Fleet  Sweep ‘Nazi Targets

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACK TARGETS IN  WEST GERMANY   Follow Up Yank Daylight Raid; German Command Reports Enemy Aircraft Attacked Vatican.

Another Exploit Of Fortresses Told   Gets Home With Two Engines Out, Got Three

Crippled Fort Reaches Base   Fights Way Through Flak and Many German Planes to England

Inonu Calls War Cabinet Meet   NAZIS SAY “ALLIES EXERTING HEAVY PRESSURE TO FORCE TURKEY INTO CONFLICT”; ROOSEVELT WHEREABOUTS SECRET; CHURCHILL IN CAIRO

SEVENKILLED AS _ TRAIN HITS CAR   Two Courtney Adults, Five Children Grade Crossing Victims

SECRETARY HULL WILL GO ON AIR   Plans To Attempt To Make Department More Popular  With People

An Administration Demanding Unity Must Set Example, Says wh tied, A

Jap Air Base Threatened By Attacks From Rice An chorage And Zanana   9 ENEMY WARSHIPS SUNK IN KULA GULF

Jap Ship Toll at Kula Gulf Nine Destroyers   Landings Near Munda Near Allied Objective

NEW GEORGIA AT TWO POINTS   Nine Jap Cruisers and Destroyers Toll : Of Kula Battle 

Troops Land at Two Points Near Jap Air Base  NINE ENEMY SHIPS SUNK BY THE NAVY  Many Bombs Dropped on Positions Near Mubo

Troops Land at Two Points Near Jap Air - Base  NINE ENEMY SHIPS SUNK BY THE NAVY  Many Bombs Dropped on  Pacifiane blaan      Many Bombs Dropped on Positions Near Mubo

New Offensive Slowly Closing non Japanese   dain Objective on Nev Georgia Island May Be Taken Soon   aps Now Reported To have Lost Nine Ships in Gulf Battle

Light Cruiser Helena ls Battle Loss   Warships Pour Shells Into Nipponese Positions on Kiska

9 Nip Ships Were Sunk in Kula Gulf   U.S: Ground Forces Are Within Six Miles of Vital Base’

AMERICANS ON NEW GEORGIA AT TWO POINTS   Nine Jap Cruisers and Destroyers Toil, Of Kula Battle

GHEE NELLIS IN WARNING UN XMAS FIRES   Cautions Against Ignoring Fire Hazards During The Christmas Season

SHOULD NOT IGNORE THE FIRE HAZARDS   Acting Fire Chief Frank Conway Issues Warning for the Holidays.

Chief Martin Urges Co-Operation In Reducing Holiday Fire Hazards

C.D. A. Initiates New Members Here Sunday  ‘High Tribute Given Rev. Father Cooper At Banquet -

C.D. AInitiates New Members Here Sunday  High Tribute Given -Rey. Father. Cooper At Baweaat -

Tax Bill Studied By Senate Group   House Measure to  Be Little Changed

Harmony Marks Early Days of Assembly Session   Preliminary Work Completed, Both  Houses to Recess

PLEA MADE FOR AID IN PACIFIC   Japs Have Kiska Fields From Which To Bomb U. S.

CHANDLER ASKS FOR ACTION AGAINST JAPS IN PACIFIC   KENTUCKY ~ SENATOR ” URGES THAT MocARTHUR BE GIVEN MORE PLANES, HEN ‘AND MUNITIONS

LOBBY CHARGE ASSAILED BY  OU GARDNER   Points finger at those who tried to influence legislation

SINK BARGES FLEEING FROM GAP BON TRAP   Allies Get 75,000. Prisoners as Axis Collapses ih North Tunisia,   MASSED EVACUATION. . PREVENTED. BY. FLEET.

AXIS ON CAP BON UNDERGO “DUNKIRK” IN REVERSE AS ALLIES BLOCK PENINSULA

AFRICAN SKIES SWEPT CLEAR OF NAZI POWER   50,000 Prisoners Include Four German Generals; Many Yanks Freed

Canadian Troops Are Battling Way Un Adriatic Coas!   Drive Slowly Toward Port Of Pescara From Ortona Base   ROUTE IS HEAVILY MINED BY GERMANS

CANADIANS EASE THROUGH MINES BEYOND ORTONA   Berman Counter Attacks Against Fifth ArmySmothered —

NAZIS CLAIM NEW LANDING BEHIND LINE   UNCONFIRMED IREPORT SAYS ALLIED FORCE MAKES “LEAPFROG MOVE ON. © é TTALIAN FRONT

FEAR TWO COLLEGE STUDENTS DROWNEL   Search Fails to Find Couple on Maine Lake

BOMBS SINK U. §, DESTROYER   Loss of Beatty in Mediterranean Revealed

REPORTS LOSS OF DESTROYER   ‘Beatty’ Sunk by Planes in Mediterranean

American Destroyer Beatty Is Sunk In Mediterranean. by Aerial Attack —

NAVY REPORTS U. 5. DESTROYER SUNK   Beotty Lost in Mediterranear Saturday

DESTROYEK BEATTY LOST   Was Sank by Aerial Bombing in Mediterranean

DESTROYER BEATTY SUNK BY GERMANS   American Warship Hit By Enemy Aircrall; 2th Vessel Lost In Mediterranean

Germans Said To Have Gained Foothold at Some Points — Leros Is North of Kos Island.   ALLIED AIR FLEET CONTINUES ASSAULTS

Chandler Is Not Pleased  Aecawts Otisewnkes iW   Asserts Churchill Evaded Questions.

Claims Facts About Crude Are Distorted   Statement by Price Adviser ls Answered by Plymouth President

MERCANTILE JOBS TRANSFER         Indiaha County Is in. ‘cluded in Namings by Secretary

Cighth Air Force Discredits Story Of Navi Tip-Off  Officers Spike Report Germans Knew What   Officers S pike Report Germans Knew What Wae Comina

Air Force Discredits Neutral Report Of Tip-Off on Recent Schweinfurt Raid

German Reports Of Raid Doubled   Schweinfurt Story Called Propaganda

SCOFF AT TALE NAZIS HAD TIP   Airforce Heads Don’t Believe Foe Knew Schweinfurt Raid Planned

AIRMEN DISCOUNT AIR RAID TIP-OFF   Report ls Regarded as Wily German Propaganda

Reject Plea That It is Open City   United Nations Order Removal of War Plants, Nazi Communications

Can't accept radio report as conelusive   ‘Must remove all military centers’

Radio Open City Report Unacceptable; Military — Agencies Must Move Out

Italy’s Decision Meets With Doubting Attitude In United Nations Camp   Italy Bluntly Informed by Radio That ‘All Military Facilities and Communications Must Be Moved Before Bombings Cease

Get.Germans Out, Allies: Caution Italy   Must Convince United Nations; Rome Radio Report ‘Not Enough’

Hardest Fighting Lies Ahead for Allies, Says Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers

Devers Says Toughest War Lies Ahead   Land Battles Against Germans and Japs Stull To Come

JOB PLACEMENTS IN OHIO REACH NEW HIGH   Place 69,093 Workers; Applications Slump

SAYS FATE OF FASCISM WILL BE DECIDED   Nazis Preparing to Deliver Bad News To German People

Basic Plans Provide For Keeping China In War, Supplying Russia And Diverting Nazi Power

Grand Strategy Is to Help Reds, Keep China in War  Ae ee, Se Se ee, Ce ee, ee ee ee

ADMIRAL VIEWS GRAND STRATEGY)   Russia, China Are Keys, King Says

Aid to Russia, China Prime Points In Allied Strategy, Says Adm. King

GRAND oT RATELY: KING S ANALYSIS   Allied Moves Intended To Bolster Efforts Of Russia  and China ,

Grand Strategy To Keep China,  Russia In War   King Says Allies Must Exert Every. Effort To Divert Enemy .

Grand Strategy Is to Help Reds. Keep China in War  eo Soe [oe Ses Se: Se ee, See, ee eS,

Paramount Task Of America Is: To Keep Russia And China Fighting Enemy, Thus To Div- ert Attention Of Main Forces _   CHINA DETERMINING FACTOR AGAINST JAPAN

ADMIRAL REVEALS ALLIED STRATEGY   King Sees Aid for Russia and China Chief Objec tives Now.

Liscome Bay's Flaming End Is Tale Of Heroism by Officers and Men

Only One Railroad  For Nazis   Drive Into Prippet Marshes Narrows Escape Corridor  To 40 Miles.

Twelve Mile Drive Scored By Troops   Germans Rush Reserves To Front In Voin Attempt To Hold Off Growing Offensive

Murder Mystery Remains Unsolved   Ex-Tenant Sought For Questioning

Zoot Riots Prompt Navy to Declare L.A. ‘Out of Bounds’;  Policeman Seriously Injured

Drive Against “Zoot Suit” Hoodlums Intensified By Attempt To Murder Policeman; Sailors Barred From L. A.

ADMIRAL LAND OPTIMISTIC ON _ SH BULDIN  Ann Ann am Het Ex Wry   ‘Says 19,000,000 Tons Dry  “Cargo Vessels and Tankers Will Be Year's Output   Nation Has Capacity To Build At.Least 20,000,000. Deadweight Tons Annually 

U.S. To Break All Records   19,000,000 Deadweight Tons Of Shipping In ’4:

Boost Ship Output From 8 to 19 Million Tons in Year   Land Cites Great “Increase in Talk at U.S. Chamber Session

f q Phebe Ay SR et ha A eee LOTS LG: lee tor   Admital Land Disclosés Record-Breaking Progress to C. of C.

Feat Of Blasting 34 Nazi Planes Out Of Skies  By One P-40 Group Envy Of Every U. S. Outfit   By JAY VESSELS ( Associated Press >

MMAVY INDUCTION. OK YOUNGER MIEN RD TCIIED   Menace Semiber Sages a¢ Magy Nod Be Bad Ede fo Limi Size of Whe i, 5. Aray.

‘WESTBROOK PEGLER   Platitudes About Labor Hide Wagner Act Evils

FIRE SWEEPD 1000 AGRES   City of Oconto Is Threatened; Townspeople, Firemen Work Hard.

Public. School Rural Patrons. Party Friday   Five Hundred. People Enjoy Annual Event’ And Program.

BIG ASSEMBLY LINE IDLE AS WORKERS QUIT   Chrysler Spokesman Charges Intimidation By Union} WLB Official Believes Men Will Return To Jobs On Monday

‘SOVIETS SMASH TOWARD /KHERSON AS RETREAT OF IGERMANS BECOMES ROUT

REDS 18 MILES ~ FROM KHERSO}   Russians Enter Dnieper Delta as Fan-Shaped Drive Takes 80 Villages

Red Army Pushes  Teward Kherson,  Black Sea Harbor   Also Smashes To Within 20 Miles Of Dnieper River Mouth, Says Report   REPORT SOME NAZIS FLEEING IN PANIC

FRENCH SAY ITALIAN OFFICIALS FLEW 10 NORTH AFRICA 10 SEE GENERAL. 3 ISLANDS SURRENDER

Seeks Peace Negotiations, Reports Say   Delegation to N, Africa Has  Power to Surrender   Crown Prince Umberto May Take Father’s Place ..

ChILE BREAKS BONDS WITK AXIS POWERS   President Rios Tells People in Radio Address it is Step Towards Continental Solidaritv.   Ousts Diplomats

Chilean President. Orders Roundup Of All Axis Nationals   Break In-Relations Called Step Toward Solidarity And Defense Of Democracy.

CHILE CUTS OFF AXIS RELATIONS   Enemy Nationals Rounded Up As Nation Takes Side In War

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ARMY EMERGENCY FUND BENEFIT SHOW TONIGHT   Some Seats Remain For “This Is The Army” At State Theater Starting At 8:40 O'clock

SEEK SOLD OUT HOUSE FOR ARMY FUND SHOW   Number Of Good Seats Remain For “This Is The Army” At State Next Monday Evening

DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL UNIT   ‘Miss Edna. D. Price Honor ed at Meeting of National ” Association of Nurses:

CUTRAILROADS TO SOUTHERN ITALY   Traffi ic Reduced to Trickle Over Secondary Tuines

Rail Arteries In South Italy Have Been Cut   Aerial Photos Show Communications  Reduced to Trickle

LOOSENS GRIP OF NIPPONESE   ROAD LEADING TO PHILIPPINES IS BEING CLEARED

Lae Is Captured, Marks Beginning Of End In Area   Raids Bring Jap Air Losses To 2,000

Hitler and Mussolini Conference in Northern Italy Indicates _ Nazis Are Gravely Concerned Over Fate of Junior Partner

HITLER, DUCE HOLD PARLEY   Axis Leaders Discuss Mili tary Problems in North Italian City

Hitler, Duce Confer, Face New Disaster Dictators Strangel  Silent; More Nazi _ Help Unlikely -

Nazi Radio Says Mussolini and Hitler Confer   Conference Supposed Ta Have Been Held in North Italian City

Hitler and Duce Meet in Italian Town   Observers Think That Mussolini May Be Anxious for Peace

Il Duce And Hitler Meet   Commentotors Say War Problenis Are Talked

Nazi Dictator Flies to Italy For Conference   He and Mussolini Try To Whip-Up Morale Of Sagging Italians

Hitler Flies To Northern Italy   Concern Revealed  In Hurried Jaunt By GORDON TAIT

Hitler Flies To Northern Italy   Concern .Revealed In Hurried Jaunt

Der Fuehrer And Il Duce Meet as Axis  Faces Crisis   Military Questions Discussed at Confab In Northern Italy, German Radio Says  FIRST GET-TOGETHER SINCE LAST APRIL  Effect of Decisions Will Be Seen Soon,  Cammunigue Says

Jury Finds Barber Guilty of Murder   Chair Recommended For Altoona Man

RIVES MATTHEWS TO SEEK SENATORSHIF   Eastern Shere Editor Whe Kecently Attacked Tawes Says Me Will Ge After Tydings' Seat

EDITOR WILL SEEK PARTY NOMINATION      Rives Matthews Plans to Run as Republican for  U. S. Senate

EDITOR. WILL SEEK ° PARTY NOMINATION   Rives Matthews Plans to Run as Republican for LS. Senate

ADVANCING RED TROOPS STORM INTO BRYANSK   Germans throwing every. thing available into bitter struggle

New Warmth and Confidence Brought Into SovietAmerican Dealings He Tells House; Compliments Molotov and Hull for Parts In Memorable Talks.

Eden Praises Moscow Parley   Exceeded Hopes And Has Brought Confidence In Dealings.

British Foreign Secretary Declares Conference “Exceeded My Hopes” And Has “Brought New Warmth And Confidence” Into Dealings With Allies—Details Can Be Revealed Publicly Only As They Develop, Official Declares In Report To Commons

RUSSIA PARLEY EXCERDED HOPE COMMONS TOLD   Eden Says It Has ‘Brought ~ New Warmth and Confi dence Into Dealings   With Allies   Cordell Hull Finds Himself Hero onReturn from Moscow

Secy. Eden Says Moscow Talks Exceeded Hopes   Sees Warmth, Confidence Revived In Dealings With Americans, Reds

Parley Brings Confidence  to Allies: Eden   British Foreign Minister Re: ceives Loud Applause ir Report to Commons

EDEN DECLARES MOSCOW TALKS EXCEEDED HOPE   Gives Commons ‘Reasonable Hope’ Agreemeni Can be Reached on Even Mosi Stubborn Problems

Another Italian General Taken   Entire Staff Surrender: With Commander of An Axis Division

OIL FIELD BOMBING AROUSES NAZI IRE   Germans Want To Punish Those Caught Napping

Battle Raging For Italy's Biggest Port   American Operations Are “Proceeding Saticfactorilv”’

U.S. TROOPS ON CONTINENT FIRST TIME SINCE WAR I   Says “Operations Proceeding sfactorily”; Landing Forees Under “Mark Clark; Many Prisoners Taken

 Operations Proceeding Satisfactorily, General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. Anfounces, German Fiisoners Are Taken   LANDING FORCES UNDER GEN. CLARK

California Fire-Fighters Look To Weather For Aid In Controlling Fires

LIVING COST-WORKER INCOME RATIO   160 Homes, 16,660 Acres Destroyed By Brush Fires

OFFICER IS TRANSFERRED   Man Who Shot Colonel’s Wife Sent From Hospital to Camp

AMERIGAN GRINS ARE SATISEACTOR\   Stimson Reports Progress In Fighting With Ger mana   COMMAND SKIES   Allied Air Supremacy Has Been Important Factor, He Says

FACE STRONG NAZI ARMIE:   Stimson Reports Satisfactory Pro gress in Ttaly — Moral Signifi. cance In Surrender

Anglo-American Forces  Land Third Way Up Italy   American 5th Army,  Not Previously in Ac tion as Whole, Engaged with Clark ir Command—Airmen Wreck Nazi Hdars

AMERICANS, BRITISH SURGED ASHORE NEAR NAPLES ON THURSDAY  NEW INVASION FORCE IMMEDIATELY ENGAGED RY FIGHTING GERMANS

Powerful Group Under U. S. Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, Surged Ashore Near Naples Today.   A THIRD OF WAY UP THE ITALIAN BOOT   It Was Immediately Engaged By German Forces Fighting Fiercely in Midst of Italy’s Chaos.

MIGHTY SWEEP © NORTH STARTS   British And Americans Under General Clark Land Near Naples  NAZI QUARTERS WHIT

AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED IN FORGE ANT) ARE WINNIN   Germans In Italy Are Expected To Put Up Hard Fight

GERMANS DISARM ITALIANS IN VARIGUS POINTS AND PREPARE TO FIGHT FOR FALLEN KINGDOM   Fresh American Troops Striking Into Heart of Italy Today’ Against Strong German Opposition, After Landing In Naples Area During Night   PRESIDENT CALLS ON NATION TO PROVIDE PUNCHES NEEDED TO CRUSH GERMANS AND JAPS   “Bigger and Tougher” Problems: Now Lie Ahead, Even Though Italy Has Fallen He Declares In Ushering In $15.000,000 War Bond Campaign _

ALLIED TROOPS ARE ENGAGED IN FIERCE BATTLE   Flying Forts Wipe Out Nazi Headquarters in Attack on Frascati

Rumors Put Allied Landing Operations Farther Up Coast   Germans Dominate Northern Italy But From Confused Reports Italians Seem To Be Resisting At Many Places; British Flee+* Off Genoa; Gen. Clark Heads Yanks

Stalin. Reports Donets  Basin Cleared-ofFoe  Italy Surrenders U U Japs Need

Tnvasion Forces Prompt To Engage Germans; Eighth Army Still Gaining

New Front Opened As General Clark Lands With Big Army  And Enoange (Cyermang

AMERICANS, BRITISH SURGED ASHORE NEAR NAPLES ON THURSDAY  NEW INVASION FORCE IMMEDIATELY ENGAGED

Stimson Says U. S. Units in aly Make Satisfactory Gains   But Occupation of Peninsula to Take Violent Fighting

Clark Is Commander; — Hot Fighting. Between German, Italian Troops

ON eae ae eC  Major Clash With  (Germans Reported   Powerful American And British Force Under Command Of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark Sweeps Ashore Third Of Way Un Italian Boot

AMERICAN TROOPS STORM ASHORE IN VICINITY OF NAPLES   General Clark Leads A Powerful Foree Into Italy   ENGAGE NAZIS IN FIERCE FIGHTING

Yank, British Troops Strike In Naples Area   Strong Resistance Encountered By Invasion Forces: 300000 Germans Reported In Italy

STIMSON GIVES ITALY REPORT   CLARK’S U. S. TROOPS BATTLING GERMANS

American Forces Engage Germans in Italy; Allied Bombers Wipe Out Nazi Headquarters, Planes Land:on. Fields

Frascati, Population 12. 000. Razed In 30-Minute Bombin: Cy  Americans Swarmine Ashare e   Germans In Southern {taly Caught Between Two Forces: Nazi Propaganda Claims Control Of ‘Most Important’ Communication Lines

Big Allied Force Is Driving Inland   Neuiral Sources Report Other Landings On Western Coast Of Italian Peninsula.

datistactory Progress; Stimson Says   Units of Fifth Army in Action Around Naples, Secretary Says

Germans Resisting Invaders F. iercely  orn er op ify 9-H gt Pek Sat MO See   US. ‘F ifth’ Participates in Landing on: Hialian Mainland:

PLANES SMASH HEADQUARTERS QUTSIDE ROME   ‘Madrid Reports Numerous ” Landings All Along Western Coast Of italy   [FIFTH ARMY IN ACTION   Officials Say Operations Following Plan, Many Prisoners Seized

FIGHTING ON “BOOT”   Nothing Indicates Nazis. Japs Will Crack Soon: Plan To Restore Freedom To Italians

ENGAGE NAZI FORCES IN STRENGTH   Forts Wipe Out German Military Headquarters

Yankee-British Landing Force Commanded by General Clark   Flying Forts Wipe Out Nazi Headquarters In Ttalwv

Germans Rush Fresh Troops Into Italy   Hitler Believed Planning Attempt To Held Peninsula Despite Russian Pressure: New Landings Rumored

Operations Reported Going Satisfactorily   Troops emd Equipment Being Poured in, Racing  Against Nazis. as Italy Becomes a Great  Chaotic Battleground

American 5th Army Lands Near Naples   Powerful Invasion Force Under Gen. Clark Come: To Grips With Germans Third OF Way  ifs. featinn. Dantnenla

HUNS ALREADY PRISONERSOF ALLIED TROOPS   Operations Against Enemy Going According to Plan, Allied Headquarters Announce   GRIMMEST CAMPAIGN YET IS PREDICTED   German Military Headquarters Wiped Out by Flying Fortresses; Town of Frascati Levelled

>re-Dawn Landing in Naples Area Made by Strong Force of American and British Troops, Led by Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, With Gen. Sir Harold Alexander in Charge of All Ground Operations — Hitlerite Headquarters in Italy Wiped Out by Bombs.

Stimson Says American Forces Make 'Proaress In Encounter With Germans

China’s Capital SafeSaysCheng   Japs Can't Renew Upper Yangtze Attack

Japs Can't Open Offensive. Belief  Need Reinforcements In China, Says General

Says Japs Are Weak In China   Need Reinforcements, General Chen Says

Hundreds Of Teen-Age Polish Girls Sent Bu Germans Into Nazi Soldier Brothels

Abuse of Women By Axis Charged In Allied Repot   Information .- _Cominittee Reveals ‘Atrocities by - ' Germans: Jans —

Nazis Gain Wedge for Short Time West of Moscow, but Reds Counter-attack   in Rapid Order.   a3 MORE PLACES RETAKEN BY REDS

(German Wedge Beaten Back By Red Forces   Soviets Now Claim  Mastery of Air  As Well as Control Of Ground Fighting

‘New Revenue Act Cuts ‘Down Tax Exempt Part ‘Of income Given Away

German Attack in Belgorod Area Repulsed   Enormous Masses of Men Gather for Major Clash

Reds Smash Two New Nazi Counter blows   German Airdrome:; Trains, Bridge Are Bombed

Red Army Troops Smash New German Assault Near Orel   Russian Air Force Starts Fires And Blasts tn Intensified Attacks On Enemy Airdromes

Miller Denies Purchase of $1900 Ice Cream Freezer  Challenges Arnett to Produce Records:

PENAL HEAD DENIES CHARGES BY ARNETI   Says Statement that $1,900 Icé Cream Freezer Was Bought for Reformatory Is False.

Solons Acclaim Moscow Project   Both Senate Factions Claim Parallels

Congress Hails Moscow Decision, Sees Much Value in Allies’ Pledge Of World Organization, War Effort

Lend-Lease Pushing Ten Billion Mark   Republican Committee Decides to Work for Rum! Plan; Executive Control of Postwar Problems Opposed

UNITED STATES LEND LEASE PROGRAM BIDS FAIR LAST OUT WAR  ACTION OF HOUSE REPUB   ACTION OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS ADDS TO UNCERTAINITY OF TAX MATTERS

‘Two More Deer   Hunters Killed  ; Shawano And Eau Claire Men Victims

MORE WISCONSIN HUNTERS ARE SHOT   Death Toll in First Half of Split Season Increased . To Three.

Can't Match Industry’s Waaes   Sampson Oneskunk, Dakota Sioux Sat In Tree And Fooled Rangers

 Private Oneskunk—Man Of Few Words; He Showed Rangers How To Do It

U.S. TROOPS HOLD STRATEGIC HEIGHT NEAR GERMAN LINE   Smash Tank-Supported Naz Counter-Attack Below Enemy Held.  Rome

U.S. TROOPS BREAK UP NAZI ATTACK   Seize Ground Near New Axis Defense Line

BIH ARMY BREAKS COUNTER-ATTACK ON ITALY FRONT   Several Nazi Tanks Are Destroyed Neor Alife   AMERICANS SEIZE VITAL HIGH GROUND

STAR ACQUITTED IN ATTACK CASE   Flynn ‘Almost Leaps Out _ Of Seat; Feels Like Wheosine

Evrol Flynn Is Acquitted On Girls’ Charges   9 Women, 3 Men Take 24 Hours To Toss Out Stories By. Betty, Peggy   ACTOR 1S MOBBED   Two Elderly Members O} Jury Held Out; Case : One Of Longest In L. A.

Actor Freed on All Three Rape Charges   Jury of Nine Women and Three Men Deliberates 24 Hours for Verdict

‘Wonderfal’, Says Actor on Hearing Verdte   Acquittal Comes After 2: “"Hours; Courtroom Cheers

BULGARIA GIVES HITLER PROBLEM   Premier Philov Tries To Calm Nation Following Death Of King Boris; Trouble Likely.   —BY FRANK J. O'RRIFN.

Bulgaria's War Course In Doubt As Unrest Grows   Regency Divided On Swinging To Allies’ Side

BULGARIAN CRISIS THORNY PROBLEM FOR ADOLF HITLER   Death of King Boris Causes Unrest; New Regency Dominated by Anti-German Leaders.

Unsettled Bulgaria Hitler’s Problem; Cabinet Is. Reported as Anti-German

BULGARIA STILL IMPORTANT PAWE   Hitler Is Doing Everything Possible to Retain Control

Pro-Nazi Military Government Likely To Replace Relatively IWeak Regency of 5 in Bulgaria

PHILOV GROUP IS EXPECTED TO COLLAPSE   Fivee-Member Regency To Rule In Behalf Of Young King

Split Regeney Assumes Rule Over Bulgaria   Premier Philov Tries To Settle Conflict Caused By Boris’ Death.   LEADER PRO-ALLIED

BULGARIA PRESENTS  POTENTIAL PROBLEM FOR ADOLF HITLER  _ BALKAN SITUATION FURTHER UNSETTLED BY  — AIPA AL PENS BODIC

BULGARIA MAY BE NEW PROBLEM FOR THE NAZIS   Premier Bogdan Philov Striving to Reconcile Conflicting Elements

HITLER FACES CRISIS IN BULGARIA AFTER KING BORIS’S DEATE      Mystery Veils Cause; Premier Philfov Strives To Unify Conflicting Elements   REVOLT IS STILL POSSIBLE

Another Headache For Hitler —   Collapse Of Bulgarian Government Expected; Military Cabinet More Favorable To Nazis May Be Named

NEW BULGARIAN CANSIS LOOMING      Premier Attempts to Reconcile Conflicting Elements In Nation.

Crisis: Follows Death Of Boris   Bulgaria. In -Ferment; ‘Revolution Likely

BULGARIA'S HOUSE DIVIDED IN WAR AIMS   Regency Apparently Dominated by Anti-German Metropolitan, Army Leaders Support Hitler

HITLER FACES NEW PROBLEM IN BULGARIF   Cabinet May Be Forced Out Because of Conditions

Bulgars Pose New Problem ~ For Germans   Pro-Nazi Premier Trie: To Weather Crisi: Resulting From Deatl Of King Boris

Bulgaria Problem To Hitler   Premier Strives to Reconcile Conflicting Elements

Bulgaria’s Government Tottering   Regency Board Half Pro-Ally, Half ProAxis; May Be Replacec By a Military Cabinet

Anti-Germans Rule Regency   Unsettled Condition Of Bulgaria Gives Hitler New Problem

BULGARIA PROBLEM IS FACING HITLER   Premier Philov Strives To Reconcile Conflicting Elements; His Position None To Secure.

BULGARIA PRESENTS POTENTIAL PROBLEM FOR ADOLF HITLER   BALKAN SITUATION FURTHER UNSETTLED BY DEATH OF KING BORIS

CONDITIONS INBULGARIA UNSETTLED   Premier Strives To Reconcile Rival Groups

Bulgaria Another German Threat; Position Vague   Pro-Nazi Philov hh Control Still

Nazi Embassy Stoned By Crowds As Uprisings Against Hitlerites Face New Regime

Hitler Faces Big Problem  In Bulgaria   Regency Dominated by Anti-German and  Pro-British Leader

‘Anti-Axis Leader Dominates Five-Member Regency to Rule ‘For Young King of Bulgaria

14-year-old Husband To Quit School To Support His 16-year-old Bride

ROOSEVELT HEARS FROM STALIN TODAY   Joseph Davies Is Due Back In _ Washington

PRESIDENT TO HEAR FROM STALIN TODAY   Result May Have important Effect on Progress of the Wer, Is Belief.

FR WILL RECEIVE STALIN NOTE LATE THIS AFTERNOOR   Secret Message May Contain Arrangements for Meeting of Leaders.

FDR Awaits Message From Stalin   Note May Play Majo: Role in Progress Of the War

NAZIS SAY VON ARNIM "1S STILL IN TUNISIA   Captured German Officers Admit However, Rommel Left for Europe Two Months Ago.

10,000-Ton Jap Ship Bombed in Kavieng Harbor   Enemy Port in New Ireland Raided by Allied Fliers

Allies Seek ToKeep Japs Grounded   Enemy Ship, Five Planes Wrecked By Bombers

MOROCCO GOVERNOR REPORTED FIRED UPON   Four Would-Be Assassins Reported Executed for Attempt on Life of Auguste Norues.

Morocco Governor Escapes Assassins  Attempt on Life Occurred After  Caenhlanca Maotian

FORECAST LIGHT VOTE FOR Shid   Interest Less Than Usual on Special Issues

U. S. EMPLOYES IN SPOTLIGHT   PLAN INVESTIGATION OF DRAFT DEFERMENTS IN GOVT, BUREAUS

Make Check All Deferments By Local Boards   Five House Committees Plan Check On 3,000,O00 Fedaral Empicyes

FATHER EXEMPTION BILL INTRODUCED   Measure Would Cover Al With Children Under 18 Living With Family

Bill Proposes Exemption for _ Every Father   Wheeler Opposes Breaking Up Homes With Young Children

Would Exempt Every Father   Senator Wheeler Wants Every Single Man Drafted First

Wheeler Bill Would  Exempt Fathers  Covers Men Married Before Pearl Harbor

Draft Bill To Exempt All Fathers   Ask Transfer From Desks To Fields Of Action Of Able-Bodied Army Men

Deferred — U.S. Workers Face Probes   One Body to Look’ Into  ‘Local Board Deferments.

SPOTLIGHT TURNED ON THE CIVILIAN EMPLOYES OF U. S   Five House Committees Have Started an Investigation.   ‘TO DRAFT DEFERMENTS   Chairman Dies Has Pledged Full Support of His : Committee. 

Wheeler Introduces Bill Exempting Fathers   HOUSE COMMITTEES PROBE FEDERAL EMPLOYES' STATUS

9 GROUPS STUDY CAPITCL DRAFT   Hope To Learn Why 1,000.000 Desk Workers Are Not In Service

Bill To Exempt Fathers Drawn   Childless Men Ove 38 Face Induction

Father Draft Bill ls Put Into Shape   Wants Able Bodied Men In Army

INVESTIGATION ‘OF DEFERMENTS FOR EMPLOYEES   Federal Workers Under Probes By  Five Committees

Government Deferments Under Inquiry   Dies Investigates Why Million Not. In War Uniforms

Dratt Deferment To Government Workers Studied   Five Committees Seeking Reason For Many Workers

Call for Transfer from Desks to Action, Replacements  by Men of 38-45

DEFERMENTS 10 U.S. EMPLOY ES TO BE STUDIED   House Groups to Look Into Need For Services of Many of 3,000,000. Civilian Workers   DIES CITES AIMS   Plans to: Rid Government Payroll of All Persons’ Harboring Subversive Sentiments

Draft Probes in Spotlight   - 1,000,000 Goverument Etunlo¢es Uneasy

PUT FEDERAL WORKERS UNDER ~ INVESTIGATION  Five Groups To Probe  Draft-Deferred Workers TO LEARN STATUS Plan To Study AI Government Personnel         Plan To Study All Government Pearconne)

PUT FEDERAL WORKERS UNDER - INVESTIGATION  Five Groups yups To Probe ~ Draft-Deferred Workers  T O LEARN STATUS  Plan To Study All Government   Dara mr ws ¥ a       Plan To Study AL Government Personnel

Wheeler Would Exempt Dads   Introduces Bill Barring Draft of Fathers

PLAN TO EXEMPT  ANS FROM ARMY   Transfer of Able-Bodied Men From Army Desks to Battlefieid Pushed by Senator:

DRAFT-DEFERRED WORKERS FACE FEDERAL PROBE   Dies Charges Movement To: ward ‘Fascist Bureaucracy’

WLB EXPECTED TO GIVE MINERS CONCESSIONS   Portal-to-Portal Pay Demand Like ly fo be Thrown Back Into Col lective Bargaining

Drives For Soft Coal  Decisions   Portal-to-Portal Issue May Go Back to Bargaining

WLB Driving For Decision  In Coal Row   Ready To Grant Miners’ Demand

WLB AIMS AT QUICK ACTION IN MINERS’ PLEA   Portal-to-Portal Pay May Be Handled by Collective Bargaining

WLB In Favor Of Concessions o Coal Miners   Board Is Reported Aiming At Decision Late Today In Dispute Over Wages

Board Aims At Ruling on Coal Today   WLB May Throw Portal Issue Into

Coal Pane May Pass The Buck   Stumped by Portal-toPortal Pay Problem; May Refer It Back To Collective Bargaining

WLB SEEKS 10 OPEN COAL WAGE TALKS   Board Favors Sending Portal - to - Portal Dispute to Bargaining -Group.

AIMS AT COAL WAGE DECISION LATE TODAY   Board Believed To Favor Minor Concessions

WLB Seeks A Decision In Wage Dispute   Portal -to-Portal Demands May Be Sent Back To Bargaining  a. TF TITtirenrm h6ie ami 4) cen a

WLB Shies At Deciding Portal Pay   Concessions Seen In Mine Wage Plan Due Out Late Today

PATTON SEES — - LABOR ‘RAID’   FARMERS UNION HEAD DECLARES FARM LABOR AVAILABLE: IF GOVERNMENT MOBIL-  IZES IT

National Farmers Union Urges ‘Arministration Mobilize Farm Labor Before “Raiding” To Supply Industry

Food Concern Eased as Crop Report Hiked   Fut, Gains Held Unlikely To Ease. Consumer. .... Restrictions

Crop Report Lists Raise in Production   Survey Lightens Threatened Food Shortage byt Civilian Easements Unaffected

Report Shows Feed-Food Crop Hike Over ‘42   Prospective Acreage of Major Crops About 3.5 p. c. Larger

Optimistic Crop Report To Ease Fears   Consumer Restrictions Not to Be Eased; Survey Pleases Wickard

LIVESTOCK FEED IS CONSIDERED   Survey Lightens Concern Over Threats of Wartime Shortage of Food

CROP OUTLOOK LIGHTENS FEAR _ OF SHORTAGES   Prospeciive Acreage 3.5 PC Larger than Year Ago—Vegetables, Corn, Potatoes Under Goals

Food Acreage Below Quotas   Planting Of More Livestock Feed Crops Lightens Threat Of Shortage.

RIDE FOR FUN BAN EXTENDED   Boats May Not Be Utilized For Pleasure Purposes.

“Gas’ Delivery To East Coast By Tank Car  Is Prohibited  Action Taken To Make More Cars Available  Bnew Treancnnanriatinan   PLEASURE DRIVING RULES CLARIFIED

RAILROAD TANK CARS WILL NOT CARRY GASOLINE   Cars Will Be Used To Transport Fuel Oil To Eastern Seaboard   GAS-POWERED BOATS UNDER PLEASURE BAN

QUEBEC PLAN: MIGHTY BLOW AGAINST JAPS   FDR. Churchill Promise Air Sea. Land Attacks Will Be Executed Soon.   RED ABSENCE CLEARED   Hint Possible Meeting With Russians Later on and French Recoannitian

SEA, LAND, AIR FORCES SOON WILL STRIKE   Roosevelt and Church. ill Disclose Quebec Plans Largely Aimed at Tokyo.

TWO LEADERS PROMISE ACTION   Roosevelt and Charchill Announce: that Eight-Day Conference ‘had been Devoted Largely to Jap War

Quebec Talks Centered on  Action Against Japanese   FDR, Churchill Promise More Action Soon

ACTION SOON, 2 LEADERS PROMISE   President And Churchill Issue Joint Statement

PACIFIC WAR MAIN TOPIC, LEADERS SAY   Hint At Action On All Fronts

Talk At Quebec Largely Devoted To War on Japs   Given as Reason Why Russia Not Invited, in Statement on  Conterence Today

F.R., Churchill Pledge War Aoainst \ippons  Conclave With Russia Next

Quebec Parley Devoted To  War On Japs, Leaders State   Formal Statement Is Given By President’ And Prime Minister. Explaining Conference

Forward Thrust On Japan ‘Soon Is Quebec Topic   @. Declaration By Churchill, Roosevelt Reveals Possible Tripartite Confer. ence With Russia

POWERFUL ACHION' IS PROMISED   Tri-Partite Meet With Russia Is Discussed

Possibility of Tri-Partite Conference With ' Soviet Russia Announced in Statement By Allied Leaders ~~

JAPAN PRINGIPAL THEME AT QUEBEC WAR CONFERENCE   U. S. and British © Navies,  Armies and Air Forces  Will Participate in Power ful Forward Action.   ABSENCE OF STALIN tS FULLY EXPLAINED   ‘Announcement Later Thi: , Week on Recognition 0  French National Commit  tee For Liberation.

FORWARD ACTION PROMISED SOON BY BRITAIN, AMERICA    Roosevelt And Churchill Review Eight.  Day Conference For Press—  Air, Land, Sea Forces:  To Deliver Blows

(Note—During the temporary absence of Dewitt MacKenzie, this column is being conducted by William Frye of the Washington bureau.)

German Armies Face Disaster West of Kiev Red Drive Swings North and South

Today’s War Moves   Germans Face Possible Disaster on Ukraine Erant

LATEST RUSSIAN OFFENSIVES AND THEIR SUCCESS MAY IMPLY ‘CTACCERING NAZI DISASTER

POSSIBILITY OF A NAZI DISASTER   But It-Is Too. Early to Guage Full Importance of Brilliant. Red Sweep.

Editors Protest Roosevelt Policy Of Curb on Press   Object To Barring of Newspapermen from Food Conference     Se eae Pe FS Sey cee. aR   Declare President Chal lenges Rights of American People

Editors Are Protesting FDR Policy   PRESIDENT ROBERTS VOICES SENTIMENTS OF COLLEAGUES ANENT FORTHCOMING FOOW CONFERENCE.   Three Groups Meet

Allied Planes Smash Enemy  Convoy Moves   Two Axis Merchantmen And Two Enemy Destroyers Are Blasted

GREEN TO HOLD COAL CONFERENCE   CALLS OPERATORS, UNION OFFICIALS TO SPRINGFIELD

COAL OPERATORS IN SPRINGFIELD FOR CONFERENCE   To Meet With Governor And Union Leaders

The War Today— Do French Have Advance Notice Ot! Plans For Coming Allied Invasion?   By MAX HILL

Der Tag Has Passed with No Invasion of Europe France Warned To Be Ready

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   British Broacast Beamed ro France Indication Sond Front Near

Invasion Date Set by Nazi Has Passed   (While DeWitt MacKenzie is on vacation, this daily column Is being written by Max Hill, former chief of the Associated Press bureau in Tokyo.)

TIME ISSUE IS - SENT TO HOUSE   Senate Passes Legislation But Without Emergency Clause

HOUSE PRESSES FOR TIME SHIFT   Group Returns  Emergency Clause Killed By Senate

Sunday Closing Plans Attackec   FIGS ALGUACL  “Evil-Smelling Days o Prohibition, Feared hy Roard

SUNDAY CLOSING OF SALOONS OPPOSED   Baltimore Official Says Residents Of City Will Not Tolerate Prohibition

SWEDEN MOVES TO INSURE. DEFENSES AGAINST ATTACKS      Fear Russian Victories’ May ' Bring Nazi Lightning’ Invasion OF Country

SWEEPING ORDER MADE IN SWEDEN   Local Commanders May Aci In Event Germans Try An Invasion.

Berlin Hears Russian Front Bases Will Be Available to U. §. Bombers

Heavy Losses  _ Are Predicted   Unless ‘Hetier Weather. — Comes Soon 

‘Heavy Losses  Are Predicted   Unlesa_Better_Weather -. Comes Soon

Carroll Bond Sales Office Is Now Open   Located in Selzer Block On West Fifth Street; Hours 9:30 to 9 Daily

Bond Drive Office to Open Here   Voluntary Signup Expected to Meet Quota of $323,340 For Carroll

DETRAGTED FUL FROM OTH ARMY   American Teamwork Enabled British To Make ~ Dash Up East Coast

TAFT OPPOSES EXTENSION OF MONEY POWERS   Ohio Senator Believes Congress Should Retain Control of Right to Devaluate Dollar   CONGRESS DIVIDED   Opinions On Secretary Morgenthau’s Proposal For International Stabilization Poll Vary

Last-Ditch Fight Against Power to Cut Dollar Asked  TU enwscwe Mat tad   Congress Divided On Morgenthau’s Currency Plan

Turks Get Lead Role In Rumors   War Declarations Denied as German Jitters Increase

WHEREABOUTS OF sth ARMY MAJOR WORRY   ‘Battle of Nerves’ Marked By Wild  Rumors

Where Is The British 8th Army? ‘Germans ‘Worried About Next Move

‘Pebnasnii te: SHR RE RAN EY SGN, 3  Babies Don’t Wait For Proper Setting

PHOTOS SHOW HEAVY DAMAGE DONE IN ROME   ‘Fine Accuracy of Bombers Reveal. ed in Pictures as Italians Start “Squealing” Tactics,

Soldier Help Requested By Canning Plants   Sixty-five Car-loads of Lancaster Co. Tomatoes Sent to Chicago   SPOILAGE IS FEARED

Satellites of Hitler Warned   U. S. Sends Strong Statement to Three Balkan Nations

Secretary Tells Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania They Must Share “Consequences of Terrible Defeat” That Germany KFaces—Strong Statement Intended to Split Nations Away Krom Axis—Comes on Heels of Sofia Raid.

BALKANS URGED TO QUIT HITLER   Hull Warns Bulgaria, Hungary And Rumania of Severe Blows Just Ahead

Must Share : Penalty for  Aiding Hitler   Hull Statement Aimed at Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania   TWO YEARS IN WAR   Plea Implied That Balkan Satellites Break From Nazis at Once

J.5. Warns balkan Satellites Of Consequences Under; Nazi Yoke; Settlement Of Slay Ringlyy Said Paceihlo

3 Nations Warned They Must Suffer Along With Nazis   United States Moves To Split Bulgaria, Raumania, Hungary From Hitlerite Germany

JNITED STATES MOVES TO SPLIT BALKAN NATIONS AWAY FROM AXIS   Hull Tells Satellites They Must Share Consequences Of Defeat United Nations Bringing to Germany

Puppets ‘to share in defeat’   Hull warns three Balkan countries

Hull Says U.S. Cannot Spare Balkans States   Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary Cannot Count On Soft Treatment By Anti-Axis.   PEOPLE, MUST REVOLT

Ruin Ahead. Hull Tells : Puppets   Vassal Nations Also Warned by Moscow Radio

BALKANS TOLD TO QUIT AXIS OR FACE RUIN   NATIONS WARNED TO CAST OUT PUPPETS OF HITLER

Moves to Split Satellites From Hitler   Strong Statement Is Issued by Secretary Hull

ulgaria, Hungary and  umania Told They Must  Share Consequences of Germany's Defeat   \ERTHROW OF NAZI PUPPETS IS URCED   ecretary of State Hull  Catis on Peoples of. Three Nations To Take Hold of Governments

“Terrible Defeat’ Promised Bulgaria, Rumania And Hunaary By Secretary Hull

U. $. Warns Axis Balkan States 0 ‘Consequences  Moscow Cautions _- Satellites, Finns to

Must Share Results  Of Defeat   Hull implies Appeal to Peoples of Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania to Overthrow Hisler’s Pupnets, Take Over Governments

Must Share Defeat With The Germans   Small Nations Are Reminded That An Axis Defeat Looms

Warn Axis Pals of Ills Ahead  Must Share Nazi Punishment te Come

Must Share Consequence He Declares .   Invites Peoples to Overthrow Puppets OFf-Hitler-

U.S. Warns Axis Satellites of Germany's Fate   Hull’ Moves to Split Wavering Balkans Away From Hitler

U.S. Warns Balkan Satellites Of Consequences Under; Nazt Yoke: Settlement Of Slav Rivalry Said Possible   Somber Note Is Sounded By Hull

‘KANSAS RANKS SEVENTH   State Produced 76,624,000 Pounds of Butter Last Year ,

Akron Rubber Plant Strikers Return to Jobs   Goodrich Union Call: For WLB Action  ap... Fon... WM

ClO UNIONISTS IN  RUBBER PLANTS END  STRIKE THURSDAY WORKERS STRAGGLE INTC  PLANTS, HEEDING PRESIDENTIAL Tt TIMATIM

InlyGoodrich Strikers Hold Outin Akron   Big Three”? Workers Obeying Roposevelt’s Command   EADLINE IS NOON   xpect -Holdouts to Rewn; President Terms: Valkouts: “Inexcusable” 

CIO Ends Rubber Walkouts   Workers Straggle Back to Jobs Under Presidential Order.   Werkers Stagger In

Ruther Strikers Heed President  End Walkouts After FE. R.'s Ultimatum

ClO UNIONISTS END STRIKES IN THREE PLANTS   Employes Straggle Back to Work Throughout Mornin at Goodyear and Firestone

Unionists Go Back To Work   Rubber Plant Employes Heed FDR’s Ultimatum, Ending a Five-Day Production Stoppage

CIO Rubber Strikers Go Back to Jobs   President’s Order Meeting With Fulfillment in Akron Plants

STRIKERS WILL RESUME. WORK W ATH PLANT   Goodrich Plant Is Idle Despite Back-to-Work  Decision   HEED FRD’S ORDER   Roosevelt Terms Walkout Flagrant Violation of No-Strike Pledge

F.D.R. Order Obeyed, Rubber Strike Ended   Workers Return To Akron Plants, Complying With  Noon Deadline Set In Presidential Ultimatum;  EO GND Idle Five Davs

Ending Several Days Idleness For More Than 50,000 Workmen; Roosevelt Terms Strike ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of Pledge

STRIKE ENDED AT THREE OHIO RUBBER PLANTS   CIO Unionists Comply With Deadline Set By FDR’s Ultimatum.

Akron Rubber Workers March Back fo Jobs   C. I. O..Members Obey President Raosevelt Deadline Orders at Detroit, Reported

Rubber Workers Return to Jobs —   Three Plants Resume Production And Bitter Goodrich Union Votes To Go Back Also

Rubber Men Back on Job At 3 Plants.   Goodrich Workers Idle Despite FDR Deadline of Noon

NR FACTORIES REOPEN   Smaller Strikes in Toledo, Canton and Detroit Also End

Walkout, Caused by WLB To Grant Full Pay Boost Demands Halts Production of Equipment Needed by Men in Armed Forces Fighting for Lives   By CARTER L. DAVIDSON

ROOSEVELT DEADLINE SET TODAY   Men Straggle Back As FDR Says Stoppage ‘Inexcusable’

AKRON RUBBER STRIKE ENDED   Production Rises Toward  Normal as Men Heed FDR Ultimatum

Roosevelt Says Act ‘Shocking, Orders Returt   Almost All Men Back At Work: Union Chiefs Agree

WORKERS OF THREE. AKRON COMPANES RETURN TO WORK   Only Goodrich Workers Continue Defiance To President   IGNORE DEADLINE FOR STRIKE TO END

CIO Unionists Finally Comply With FDR Orde:   Men Are Slow Re ‘turning to Gates to Rubber Companies at Akron.   Full Shifts Expected At All Four Plants

Rubber Workers Return to Jobs   President's Demand Ends Wage Strike

UNIONISTS END STRIKE, RETURN TO VITAL JOBS   Workers Comply With Deadline Set By Gov’t

Comply With Presidential Order... .  Unionists End Strikes At Three Major Rubber Factories In Akron, O

Workers End Strike At 3 Rubber Plants   CIO Unionists Comply With Noon Deadline Set by President in Ultimatum Concerning 5-Day Stoppage That Made 50,000 Idle.

Akron’s Paralyzing Rubber Strike Ends as Workers Stream Back to Jobs   C. 1. O. Members, However, Fail to Report to B. F. Goodrich Plant

Union Orders Members Back To Their Jobs   5-Day Strike Is Called ‘Inexcusable’ By F. R.; Only One Akron Plant Working Full Force

CIO Strike Nears End AtAkron,O.   Employes Fail To Return At’ Only Qne Plant; FD Deadline At Noon

Rubber Workers Observe Ultimatum And Return To Jobs: 5-Day Strike Ended

Workers At Major Plants Answer FDR   Comply With Noon Deadline Set In Presidents Ultimatum

Akron Strikers Return To Jobs   Normal Operations Fynarcted Ry Today

Rubber Workers Heed  Roosevelt’s Ultimatum   Operations Resumed at Three Major Akron Plants, but Time Needed to Bring Production Again in Balance

Clo Unionists End Strikes In Rubber Plants   Heed Roosevelt Admo. nition and Return to. Work at Akron

Goodrich Employes Slow in Meeting FDR's Time Deadline   General lire Plant Officials Report Normal Production, Over 2,000 Return To Work at Goodyear Factories

STRAGGLE BACK 10 JOBS AFTER 5 DAY WALKOUT   Only One Firm Able To Resume Normal Production

C10 Unionists Return fo Jobs Today in Akron  President Calls Work Stoppage Inexcusable Act

Workers Close Rubber Strike   Union Considers Wanted Results Achieved As WLB  Reopens Case.

Unionists Obey Order By Roosevelt   Production Is Resumed Before Noon Deadline Set In Ultimatum.

All 3 Major Plants Back  in Production   Workers Straggle into Plants Few Hours Before FDR Decree Became Final

THE ULTIMATUM OF THE PRESIDENT IS OBSERVED TODA)   CIO Unionists Ended Strikes at Three Major Akron Rubber Plants.   MEN RETURN TO WORK.   Small Shift Returned to the B. F. Goodrich Plant as Deadline Neared.

Board Had Voted 6-2 To Continue Walkout Prior to Ultimatum From the President

Rubber Plant Strikers Go Back to Jobs   F. R. Orders Workers To Return; Only One  Concern Back to Normal

MEET DEADLINE SET UP BY F. R. IN ULTIMATUM   5 Day Production Stoppage Made 50,000 Workers Idle in Akron

RUBBER OUTPUT NEARS NORMAL   Strikers Stream Back Te Jebs In Four Big Akron Plants

Akron Strikers Return Io Jobs   Normal: Operations Expected By Today

End Strikes At3 Large Akron Plants   CIO Unionists Hee   C10 Unionists Heed Demands Of White House To Return

GIO UNIONISTS IN RUBBER PLANTS END OTRIKE THURSDAY   WORKERS STRAGGLE INT! PLANTS, HEEDING PRESI-

Rubber Workers Return to Jobs  Heed Ultimatum Issued by President

STRIKERS GO BACK IN 3 OF 4 PLANTS   Only One Concern Reports Normal Production   PRESIDENT SAYS   Stoppage Is Flagrant Violation Of Labor’s No-Strike Pledge

WALKOUTS END ON ULTIMATUM BY PRESIDENT   Full Production Schedules Ex« pected To Be Resumed During Afternoon   UNIONS BACK MOVEMENT,   WLB Promises Reconsidera« tion Of Demands For 8Cent Wage Increase

Idle Rubber Workers Resume Jobs   52,000 Men Return To Duty After Five-Day Strike

GOODRICH COMPANY REMAINS INACTIVE   Chief Executive Calls Stoppage Shocking and In yen aeces lie

Rubber Workers Return to Work In Akron Plants   Production Rapidly Approaching Normal, Officials Declare

Rubber Strike Costs 18 Millions; Workers Returning to Their Jobs

Crews Return to Work in Four Akron Rubber Plants; President Scores Unionists For Violating ‘No-Strike’ Pledge to U.S.

Rubber Plants Produce Again After Strike  Roanwenea Vt Meandiine   Roosevelt Deadline Is Observed By Striking CIO Men

Workers Meet  Deadline Set. By FDR Order   Trickle Back to Jobs Beginning at  _ 6 A.M. With Full Shifts Expected .. At Machines This Afternoon; - President Lashes Stoppase.

Only One Plant Resumes Normal Operations, Claim   Union Chiefs Urge Men To Return Te Factories; 5-Day Strike Nearly Ended

Unionists Complying With Noon Deadline Set by : President   ‘pRODUCTION STOP COVERS FIVE DAYS   Goodrich Local Asks Reconsideration of WLB Decision

Roosevelt’s Fdict Heeded By Unionists   ‘ive-Day Production Stoppage Thal Threw More Than 50,000 Men Into Idlencss Is Terminated at Akron

Rubber Strikers Straggling Back; One Plant Is Running   Another Idle As Some Of Workers Continue To Defy FDR‘s Ultimatum

AKRON RUBBER PLANTS RESUME AFTER WALKOUT   Loss In War Materials Due To Strike Estimated At $18,000,000   UNION HAS GAINED POINT, OFFICIAL SAYS

Full Shifts “Expected at-All 4 Companies Thursday; WLB: Wage Case to Be Reope

Production Near Normal  At Akron   AtAkron  CIO Strikers Respond To President’s Order After 5-Day Stoppage  PRODUCTION LOSS ABOUT $18,000,000  Goodrich Union Local Asks Reconsideration OF Decicitnn hy WIR

Akron Rubber Workers Straggle Back To Jobs On Roosevelt’s Order   President Calls For  Strike’s Termination

Walkout Ends in  Factories   THREE MAJOR PLANTS START PRODUCTION AT NOON STRIKE DEADLINE

ClO UNIONISTS ENDING STRIKE      Start Back to Work After President Issues Ultimatum.   3 PLANTS RESUME WORK

Roosevelt's Ultimatum Has Fffect ©   Noon Deadline , Finds Workers". BRaturnina ta lake

U.S. and British Airmen Blast Rocket Gun Area   Mysterious Targets Believed Sites of Nazi Sécret Weapon

ROCKET GUN COAST RAIDED   Allied Officials Think Secret Weapon Is No Bluff

Seek To Destroy Vaunted New Naz Secret Weapon   Continue Heavy . Raids For Fourth Conseculive Day .On- French Const. Raid Northern France By Daylight. Bnemy Convoy Shelled

Bombers Pound Rocket Gun Area   Territory ls Named For Secret Weanon

U.S. and British irmen Attack Rocket Gun Area   Blast French Coast for Fourth Day; Silent on Missions

Bombers Pound Rocket Gun Area   Territory Is Named  Far Soeerat VAs/esnnnn

“Rocket Gun Coast” Raided By British-U.S. Bombers   Mysterious Targets in the“Pas De Calais Area of France Blasted—aAllies Officially Silent  on Nature of Raids

Fleets of Allied Planes Blast ‘Rocket Gun Coast’ In Calais Area of France

French Coast Area Believed To Harbor  ‘Secret Gun’   Allied Leaders See Weapon as ‘No Bluff,’ Returning Writer Says   BIG BOMBERS USED FOR UNUSUAL TASK   German Projectile May Weigh 50 Tons,  Ten Tons Explosive

ATTACKS AIMED AT ROCKET GUN   American And_ British Bombers Hit Mystery Targets In France

“ROCKET GUN” TARGET FOR ALLIED BOMBS      French Coast Pounded For Fourth Consecutive Day After RAF Night At tacks   Leipzig Raided

Jobs Of 45,000 Area / Workers Stabilized   War Industry-Labor Unions Agree To Plan—Workmen May Not Quit Without Written Permit From Employer

War Jobs of Over 45,000 Texans Are Stabilized   Many Employers Sign Agreement

WAR BOARDS MUST MEET 1943 GOALS   Quotas To Be Announced at Farm Meetings

Invasion Craft Measures Pass   House, Senate Adopt Similar Bills

LABOR BOARD HEARS LEWIS STRIKE DATE   While Congress Asks for Action, WLB Attempts to Gain Peace.   SETTLEMENT OF CASE WOULD AVOID FORCE

END IS SOUGHT   Use Of Troops Looms Un less Mine Strike Is Settled

LAST MINUTE TALKS SET IN WASHINGTON   UMW Chief Troubled as He Reports Only 9.300 Out on Strike.   CONGRESS ANGERED   Ickes Warns That Government Could Take Over Mines,  } 6 Oy «fs

Iowa Miners. To Stop Work Next Tuesday   Give Operators Until 12 Midnight to Reach an Agreement

OWA MINERS THREATEN 10 CALL STRIKE   New ‘Agreement By May 18 Asked by Union Officials

School Parties Meet Tonight  Groups to Nominate   Groups to Nominate Their Trustees

School Parties Meet Tonight  - Groups to Nominate - Their Trustees

Point Values Of Cans Under System   Ration for March Is 48 Points Per Person; Families May Pool Their Points; Baby Foods Call for Fewer Points

AERIAL LOSSES OF JAPANESE ~ ARE REPORTED EIGHT-T0-ONE   TOTAL OF 211 ENEMY  PLANES DESTROYED THUS FAR IN TGE SOQLOMONS OF ’ FENSIVE

America Seeks 5¥  Billions   Man With Whiskers Tucks Rest of It in His Pockets

Shows War Bonds Are Not Sold People In The Axis   ty ELMER DAVIs,  Director, Office of War Information

ARE YOU DOING ALL YOU CAN?   Elmer Davis Says It Isn't a Question of Being Able To Afford Bonds.

Ickes Turns Mines Back To Owners   AFTER THEY HAD BEEN UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL SINCE LAST MAY; JOHN L. LEWIS DECLINES TO COMMENT.   No Decision

_cxes “ums Soa ‘ines 3ac< 0 - WETS; WIS Si en= on coke Vex- ‘fove Adnaren-.v 970 V3

Lewis Declines  Comment on Act  UMW’s Working ‘Truce’ Expires Oct. 31

All Mines Turned Back to Operators   Government Releases 1,700 Coal Pits Stil Under Control Of Federal Agency;  Lewis Declines To Comment

SEIZED MINES   Ickes Announces Liquidation of Federal Admin istration of Pits

Three Killed, Many In. jured on New York Cen. tral’s Twentieth Century T.imited.

3 OF TRAIN CREW PERISH TODAY: IN CRASH IN NEW YORK   Locomotive Explodes With Terrific Foree—3-Way Investigation .  Under Way

ONE MISHAP IN PENNSYLVANIA SECOND IN N.Y.   ‘Hot Box’ Blamed for Wreck of Famous  Capital Train

THREE KILLED IN-NEW YORK   ‘Twentieth Century  Limited’. New York Central Railroad Derailed— Dead All Members _ of Train > ‘Orew, .°

EXTRA FAIR TRAIN IS WRECKED TODAY; THREE ARE KILLEL   Twentieth Century Limited of New York Central Piles Up After Derailment,

Heavy Bombing Raids Staged By Yanks... .  a  Hits Scored On Japs   8  On Gilbert Islands

U. S. Heavy Bombers Blast Japs in Gilbert Islands   Liberators Score Hits On Enemy Positions At Tarawa Airfield and Seven Zero Fighters Above Field Refuse to Tangle With Gunners On American Planes

Heavy Raids Smash Jap Tarawa Field   Liherators Score Hits on Enemy Positions in Gilbert Islands

Hil JAP AYURPORT ON GILBERT ISLE   Also Report Other Raids on Nipponese Holds in Pacific

JAP AIRFIELD   In Heavy Bombing Raids U.S. Scores Hits in Gilbert Islands.

Heavy Raids On Japanese In Gilbert:   U.S. Offensive Action Follows Other Attacks on Enemy in New Britain   BRITISH DRIVE OFF JAPANESE ATTACK   48 Zeros Shot Down by Spitfires As Enemy. Makes Stab at Darwin

MORE LIQUOR!   Ohio Ration To Be Increased tin Next Paring Renart

OHIO LIQUOR RATION MAY BE INCREASED   Tip Comes from Reliable Source in Department

ABSENTEE VOTE BILL OPPOSED BY DEMOCRATS   Senator Connally Voices Direct Challenge of Constitutionality of the Whole Proposal

renerie says boys Wul Return From Warfronts Better Citizens Despite Present Task Of Killing Doctrautas 

General Says Boys Will Return From Warfronts Better Citizens Desnite Present Task Of Killing. Destroying -

Lieut. Gen. Lear Pr ‘edicts Soldiers Will Return Better Citizens

GEN, LEAR PREDICTS UL. S. SOLDIERS BETTER CITIZENS AFTER THE WAR

Rain Of Meteors Starts  Celestial Phenomenon Has Occurred for 1.112 Yeare Naw   By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE

Scientist Asks Public To Count Number Of Meteors This Year, Look For Perseids This Week

EASTMAN WANTS STATE BARRIERS REMOVED TO  HELP WAR TRANSPORTATION

Nazis Continue Counter Attacks Against Allies   ‘American Troops Stand Firm Against the Axis

Army To Take Fewer Into lts Service  Quarter of Those  Next Year Wey op. owe!

Increase In Army Personnel Set At 1,020,473 During Next 12 Months

Sharp Decrease In Induction Rate Appears Likely   Only 1,020,000 Will Be Added To Army In Next 12 Months

Army Plans Net Increase Of Only   1,020,473 Persons In Its Uni. formed Personnel During 12 Months Starting July 1   THIRD OF TOTAL WILL BE WAACS

SHARP CUT IS SEEN IN RATE OF INDUCTIONS   Small Net Increase Ir 1944 Fiscal Year  F xynectod

Order Grand Jury Probe Legislature      One-Man Jury Investigation to Review Affairs from Jan. 1, 1939

Grand Jury Sift Of Legislature Ordered Today   Rushton Files Petition With Ingham Circuit Court

JUDGE CARR TO PRESIDE OVER LANSING PROBE   ‘Probable Cause To Suspect’ Crimes, Says Rushton   EARLY START IS URGED   Ready To Begin Testimony This Week, At torney-General Says

Farm Labor, Supply. Oiitlook Held Improved  Available Workers Seen Sufficient

SNOW REPORTED IN STATE TODAY   Two Inches of Snow at Guymon—Cold Sweeps Into Northern Area

Snow, Rain Into Oklahoma   Temperatures to Drop _ Across State Thursday Night

RAIN, SNOW BREAK SPELL   Needed Moisture Fails in Oklahoma  Northwest

s10W anid Rain Move Info All Darts of Safe   Wet and Colder Weather Promised; Highways in Certain Areas Are in Bad Shape: Rain General

UMW HEAD GALLED NUMBER 3 ENEMY   State Commander of Legion Issues Statement

U8 FOSTERING. “THREE PARLEY’   Meetings ‘Arranged. to Dis. cuss Food, Finance and - Raw Materials. :

. $, FOSTERING THREE PARLEY!   Meetings Arranged to Dis cuss Food, Finance and Raw Materials.

Heavy Armored Unit Attacks Are Made On Yanks   American Forces Fall Back To Sbeilta In Southern Tunisia. It Is Admitted   GERMANS HAVE GAINED 35 MILES   “Very Heavy Casualties’’ Are Reported Suffered In Tank And Plane Battles

SID] BOU ZED FALLS TO AXIS TANK ATTAGK   Americans May Be Forced To Give Up Valley In Central Tunisia   HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED   Red Army Advances Around Orel—Allied Air Attacks Hit German Lines

U-Boat Failure  Aided Invasion   Enabled Convoys To  Cross Unmolested

Allied Invasion Aided by Failure Of Axis U-Boats   Churches Will Be Spared In Allied. ~ Invasion of Haly, FDR Tells Pope

FRENCH PRISONERS TO WORK FOR NAZIS   Laval Said to Have Placed 1,250,00 Men at Disposal of German Labor Chief.

U.S, BOMBERS — . STAGED. FIRST GERMAN RAID   DAYLIGHT BOMBING. ATTACK If ANNOUNCED—RUSSIANS WIPE OUT MORE.  NAZI TROOPS —

YOUTHFUL AIR AGE BACK HOME ON FARM   Band Blasts Welcome—29 Jap  Planes Downed

U. S. Takes Ellice Isles. 500 Miles From Jap Bases, Without Dispute   Reporter Tells How Marines Take Over Pacific Area Peacefully by Arriving First; Enemy Raid Brings Revelation of Occupation

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ‘Italy's War Declaration To Have Great Effect Upon Axis Morale

The War Today   guy Vea AVUCYy Italy Is Paying A Terrible Price For Her Sins  And Will Pay More.

The War Today— - ' Says Italy’s Sins Not Forgotten But People Not Entirely To Blame

WAR ANALYST MINIMIZES GUILT ‘OF ITALIANS AS THEY BECOME ICO-BELLICERENTS OF ALLIES

The War Today   Italian People Doomed to Pay Heavily for Fascists’ Sins

2% PSS SS SSS SSS SSS SSS SOO 0 00 2000S 8S Tee Te ST TTT rr “4 ai TODAY   —BY DeWITT MACKENZIE—  Deuenntoatad BDueasce Amaltweé

Today’s War Commentary  :  Coming Events  Cast Shadows In Death Of High Nazi

British Troops, Attacking 15 Miles West of Mateur, Drive Nazis From Strategic Hills; Capture New Points

British Take Djebel Azzag In Mateur Aree   Attack Is Supported By R. A. F. Hurricane Fighters and Bombers, Headquarters Says

British Gain Heights From Axis Forces   Single Land Battle Is Reported In All Of North Africa

British Capture Mrategic Hils In Tunisia Drive   Jebel Azzag Is Taken B Allies; Counterattack B: Germans Is Repulsed

EIGHTH ARMY CRACKS AXIS DEFENSE LINE   To Bypass Coast Peints For Straight Line To Objective   ROMMEL AVOIDS FIGHT   Fights Delaying Actions By Day And Retreats By Night

Race Riots  In Beaumont  During Night Attack On White Woman By. Negro Starts Trouble

Hundreds Scour Woods, Battles Injure 10 Men   Many Hotels, Cafes Closed As Workers Quit; Victims Aid Officers

Town Torn By Race Riot   Violence Flares in Texas City After Negro Attacks White Woman

Fights Flare After Woman  Is Attacked   Roving Bands Hunt Negroes; Guards men Called Out

STAGE RACE RIOTS   rouble at Beaumont, Tex., Follows An Attack on a  White Woman

West Virginia — Bond Sales Lead   Maryland Now In Second Place In Third War  Loan Cainpaign.

2,000 Tons Of Bombs On Essen   Battered Ruhr City Gets 57th Attack of War; Following Smash: ing Raid On Hamburg

Unexplained Blast Kills Farm Boy   Brother Critically Hurt: Cause of Explosion Is Not Discovered

BRITISH RELEASE NEWS BULLETINS   American Newsmen Resent 33-hour Premature Break.

OW! ANGERED AS BRITISH JUMP GUN - ON BIGGEST STORY   Davis Says Reuters Dispatch, Cleared By Censors, Was Violation of Agreement-

Promise To Protect American Press In Future After British Agency Breaks Conference Story Prematurely

Ships Freed To Hit Japs   Italien Fleet to Be Available for Any Use by Allies

Production Stops In All Fields as Contract Expires   Twenty Thousand Men on Night Shifts Join 100,000 Others   Showdown between Lewis and Roosevelt Set for This Morning   New Problem fer WOR

Both Bituminous and Anthracite Men Refuse to: Work After Contracts End: War Production Periled —

Crisis in Situation Due This Morning AtF.D.R. Deadline   Union Men in Both Hard, Soft Coal Fields Refuse To Continue Without Signal from Lewis

40,000 LAY DOWN TOOLS   Anthracite Diggers Join Unionists in Bituminous Fields in Tying Up  TIndnetry.   OUT IN DEFIANCE OF F.D.R. ORDER   President Had Called on Men to Stay on Job— Action He Will Take Remains in Doubt.

Kxpiration Of Contracts Last Night Followee By Walkouts   Stoppage If 100 Per Cent Complete Will Strike At Heart of War Production; FDR Give: Miners Until 10 A. M  Today to Get Back t te Ware

Coal mining in U.S. virtually at a standstill   Stoppage may strike at vitals of essential war material production

HALF MILLION MINERS OBEY JOHN L. LEWIS   VITAL WAR PLANTS THREATENED WITH SHUTDOWNS

REOPEN “a AT 10 TODAY   UMW-Operator Contracts Expire At Midnight — Friday; Lewis Stands Pat      FDR’s Action Awaited

Coal Miners Defy Orders Of President, Leave Job; War Effort Checked

Region East of Mississippi, Which Holds Majority of Nation’s Mines, Is Affected; Both Bituminous and Anthracite Fields Hit

Contract Expires Between Operators and Mine _ Workers NEGOTIATIONS FAIL ’ FO ‘BRING ACCORD No Official Stri Strike Is Call"ed by Lewis, Union President

Coal Production Virtually At Standstill tn Country   20,000 on-Night Shift Join Walkout:

LATE NIGHT MEN FAIL TO REPORT   Miners In Anthracite and Soft Coal Fields Affected   Lewis Has Until 10 a. m., Today to Get Men to Work Or Violate FDR's Order

President’s Order To Be At Work At 10 A. M. Today Is Defied   ‘WAR PRODUCTION IS AFFECTED BY TIEUP

Miners Stay Off Job as Work  Contracts Expire   Output Halt Carries Out Lewis’ Statement on Trespassing; Anthracite Case Goes to Board

Job Control Threatened By Labor ©      Unions Demand Return of 1942  Price Levels

Switching Car Hits Auto, 2 Hur   Watervliet Man, Wife Seriously Injured

JAP NEW GUINEA BASE IS BOMBED   Devastating Raid On Wewak is Made By American Liberators: Jap Ship Fired

Moscow Promises Greatest — Winter Offensive in Historv   SOVIET PARACHUTISTS SPEARHEAD ASSAULT

Decide To Establish ‘Diplomatic Relations;” Big Conference Praised

French Leaders Are Optimistic .   Further Talks Set; Censors To Relax

Gen. De Gaulle. Giraud Plan Diplomatic Tie      French. Chieftains Will Negotiate Further, Says Algiers

GIRAUD-DE GAULLE ‘WILL MEET AGAIN   Generals Decide to Establish “Diplomatic Relation<”

LIGHT SHOWERS FALL   Cool Temperatures Expected to Continue in Kansas

Air Assaults On Japs Broadened   Heavy Rains Slow Ground Advarices

Jap New Guinea Bases Pounded   Rains Slow Ground Action at Sanananda

Spring Stirs New Resistance Among People of N azi-Held Europe, Rebellion Nears Peak

SPRING ST  NEW RESISTANCE AGAINST NAZIS   People Throughout NaziHeld Europe Rising Against Iron-Spurred German Heel. .

ADRIATIC LINE ANCHOR TAKEN BY CANADIANS   ‘Nazi ‘Little Stalingrad’ Stand In Italian Town Ends

CANADIANS SCORE GAINS IN ORTONA   Yanks Complete Consolidation Of Mountain Positions

IMPROVE YANK POSITIONS — IN ITALY   Canadians’ ane Aled’     _ For Ortona

NAZIS REPORT URTONA GIVEN UPTO BRITISH   Yanks Consolidate Positions Commanding Approach to Rome Plains.

ry  OPTOMA, NAZ   Use Flame-Throwers in Vain Try to Halt Canadians: Yanks Command Plain Leading to Rome.

CONSLIDATE NEW POSITIONS   American Troops Command Approaches to Rome Plain — GerMan Trovops Evacuate Ortona,  ” According to Berlin Radio.

Allies in ltaly Slug Forward   Yanks Strengthen Mountain Hold As British Press on

Report Ortona Evacuated By German Troops   Yanks Overlooking San Vittore, Key To Plains of Rome

NAZIS EVACUATE ‘ORTONA, COASTAL ~ ANCHOR IN ITALY   Americans Complete Consolidation of Positions Along Mountain Range Commanding Rome Plain.   DESTROY SCHARNHORST WITH LITTLE DAMAGE   Germans Fall Back Before Attacks of Yugoslav Army, Fierce Fighting Occurs at One Place.

Allied Bombs Rip Enemy Front And Rear Lines, Pound Axis Airfields Outside Athens; Germans Gain In Kiev Salient.   CHINESE CAPTURE CHANGTEH SECTOR

Red Forces Cut Railroad   Germans’ Last Ukrainian Escape  Route Under Fire

REDS ISOLATE RAILHUBOF DNEEPER BEND      Advance 20 . Miles in Two Days To Cut Railway

RED ARTILLERY WITHIN RANGE UF ZNAMENKA   Launch’ Final Assault from Three Sides Against Dnieper Rail Hub.

Reds Isolate Railway Hub In Dnieper Bend      Big Guns Shelling Las! Line Of Retreat For Nazi Garrison   NAZIS ATTACKING   Force Soviets To Drop Back In Area West Of Kiev

Big Guns Moved Within Range  of Escape Line   Fate of Znamenka Sealed By Soviets  In 20-Mile Gain

IS ISOLATED BY RUSSIANS   Dnieper Bend Rail Hub, Znamenka, is Surrounded

REDS ISOLATE ZNAMENKA TODAY ASSAULT GOES Oh   Last Nazi Escape Railroad Under Gunfire—Soviets Yield West of Kiev.

Lewis And Ickes Confer On Ways To Reopen Mines   Conditions Diseussed, Is Belief; UMW Leader Ex. pected To Order Strikers Back To Pits Under Federal Management

POLICY GROUP IS EXPECTED 10 GET DETAILED REPORT   Leader of UMW Will Prob ably Order 530,000 Men to  Resume Productoion of Necessary Fuel.   DEFINITE ACTION DURING LATE AFTERNOON   Resumption of Operations !s Put Up to Miners Following Fourth Stoppage ef Work During Year.

ICKES, LEWIS CONFER ON NEW MINE PROGRAM   Work Resumption Expected Wednesday; Policy Group Decision Awaited

LEWIS EXPECTED TO ORDER MINERS BACK TO WORK UNDER AUSPICES OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WEDNESDAY

Expect John L. Lewis Wiil Order Miners Back Tonight   Ickes And Mine Union President Meeting Today; Reports This Afternoon

FUEL CZAR NAMED © TO CONTACT UMW. ABOUT WACEISSUE   President Orders Miners To Return To Pits Wednesday Under “Stars — _ And Stripes” Operation— _Union Group To Meet

Lewis Confers With Ickes on Negotiation (Of Contract   Mines Now Under Gov't. Jurisdiction; Miimarc G4ill Chesed

Expects Coal Miners to Resume Work by Presidential Order   Depends on Permission of Lewis Today, However,  As Nation Forced to  ! Await Dictates   TURNS TO POST-WAR PEACE NEGOTIATIONS   Having Won Home Front Battle, CIO Now Wants to Have Hand in Interna tional Negotiations

May Order Men Back To Mines   UMW Policy Commitiee Meets Today—Government Seizes Mines

Yank Bombers Atlack Monywa  Wreck Dock Area:   Wreck Dock Area: Hit Power Station

Japs Retreat Toward Lae  Give Up Salamaua; U.S. Bombers Agair Da! Dex og ee ook on.

Allied Units Press Onwart Toward Lae   Japs “Simply Ran” Out of Town Of Salamaua, Dispatches Say

Lae Doomed, Japs Offer  China Peace   Soong Declares Nipponese Offer to Get Clear Out Of China Now

JAP TROOPS FLEEING FALLEN SALAMIAU!   Allied Pursuit Moves Onward Against Lae Base

Junyle Fighters A Mile From Lae   Major Jap Airdrome Al most Within Gasp of AL lied Forces.

Garrison at Salamaua Is  Routed by Allied Forces   Chinese Minister Tells Growing Jap Offers t China for Peace

Jungle Fighters Within A Mile Of Lae ’Drome   MacArthur Headquarters Says Salamaua Japs Are “Completely Routed’’

Jap New Guinea Defense Weaker   Remiiants Of 20,000 Still Fighting

Small Enemy Force Battles to Stop Allies   Disentegrating Jap Remnants Seek to Keep Road to Lae Open in Face of Allied Drive

ALLIED TROOPS WITHIN. ONE MILE OF LAE.’   Few Scattered Remnants of Salamaca Garrison Escape to Nearby Jungle

Only “Disintegrating” Elements of Once Powerfu Japanese Force Survive. Enemy Discards  Old Death Stand Tactics In Evacuating Base

ALLIES A MILE “FROMLAE BASE   Jap Garrison At Salamaua ‘Completely Routed,’ MacArthur Says

ALLIED FORCE NEARING LAE   Aussies, Yanks Drive On After Routing Japs At Salamaua

YANKS CRUSH LAE NIPPOS   “DISINTEGRATING” JAP FORCE REMAINS AT BASE

Yankees Near Main Airdrome  On Lae Front   China Turns Down Peace Proposals Made By Japanese To Chungking.   FEW ESCAPE SALAMAUA

Chase Japs Toward Lae   Ragged Remnants of Salamaua Garrison Flee Before Aussies

Be Sure You Have Yoar Entire Edition. This Issue Contains Three Sections With A Total of 50 Pages   Americans and Anzacs Drive Toward Lae   Distintegrating Jap Remnants Offer Little Resistance to Allies  t’eCiLA s4BI YY BDIIAIALIAIM ArliTr't

AS DEATH. TRAP Ss BEING. TIGHTENED         Only ‘Disititegrating’ Farce Re. sisting American and Australian Advance

Allied Units Press Onwar Toward Lae   )Ran” Out of Town Of Salamaua, Dispatches Say

Allies Menace % * Japs’ Frantic  Drive To Lae   Enemy Remnants Battle American, Australian Troops Pushing To Base.   [ABANDON SALAMAI

FEDERAL OWNERSHIP’ OF LAND CRITICIZED'   : Byrd Committee Apprehensive  Over Millions Of Acres Pas.  ; sessed By Government

Byrd Committee Sees Grave Danger In U. $. Ownership of Fifth of Land

Senators View With Apprehension Large Government Holdings of Land

SOVIETS DRIVE ON UKRAINIAN STRONGHOLD   Russian Tank Forces Crash Back Toward Gates of Kharkov In Spite of Stiff Resistance   INFANTRY IS MOVING UP

SOVIETS MEET RESISTANCE IN KHARKOV AREA   Reserves Thrown Into Battles Raging Near Dolzhik, but Reds Say Further Reinforcements May Be Blocked.

REDS ENCOUNTER STIFF RESISTANCE FROM FRESH NAZIS   German Reserves Are Rushed Into Battles Raging Near Dolzhik; Russian Tank Forces Crash Back Toward Kharkov.

REDS CRASHING BACK TOWARDS KHARKOV   Russians Encounter Stub born Resistance from Fresh Nazi Reserves Thrown inte ‘Battle :

MEET RESISTANCE   Russians Hit Fresh German -Reserves Rushed to De_ fend Kharkov

NAZIS THROW RESERVES INTO BATTLE FRONT   Soviets Cut Another Railroad, Retake 60 More Towns :

—RUSSIA—   SOVIET INFANTRY FORGING AHEAT   Fierce Battle Raging 15 Miles Northwest Of Im. portant City   RAIL LINES cut   Russian Advance Block Germans’ ‘Reinforcement Attempts

RUSSIAN TIDAL WAVE ENGULFS UKRAINE AREAS   REINFORCED NAZIS REPORTED WAGING FIERCE RESISTANCE

REDS MEETING RESISTANGE IN KHARKOVDRIVE   Germany Throws Fresh Reserves Into Battles Raging Near Dolzhik; Soviet Infantry Advances

Heavy Loss  Encountered In Russia   Reserves Rushed Into the  Fray But Keds Crush' ing Forward

Nazis. Resist Reds Slashing Near Kharkov   Fresh German Reserves Giving Stiff Resistance But Soviet Infantry Reported Consolidating for Renewed Advances.

Reinforced Nazis Battle Red Tanks   Russian Infantry Mops Up Captured Area al Kharkov

FAEoH TROOPS ‘ADIN FIGHTING NAR DOLZHIR   Red Tank Forces Meet More Resistance 15 Miles from Capital,   RED INFANTRY BLOCKS . MORE REINFORCEMBATS

RUSSIANS CUT KHARKOV OFF ON THREE SIDES   Cut Second Railway Leading to Bryansk, Consolidate Gains De spite Nazi Reserves   ADVANCE NORTH   130 Villages Reported Taken by Columns Moving on Bryansk i - &to 9 Mile Advance

German Reserves Resist Advance  Of Russian Tanks   Red Infantry Presses On Through Wreckage

German Defense  Stiffens   German. Reserves Rushed Up, Soviets Continue Drive

Red Tanks Find  Heavy Resistance   Germans Throw Fresh Reserves Into Battles Rag ing Near Dolzhik.

Russian Tanks Encounter Stiff Resistance in  Kharkov Push   Nazi Reserves Hurled Into Path of Reds 15 Miles from City

Red Tank Forces Crashing Back Toward Gates of Kharkov; Capture Of Railway Town Reported

Nazis Offer Stiff Battle  To Russians   Reserves Thrown Into Fighting Near Dolzhik; Reds Cut Rail Line

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON IN SPITE OF STUBBORN NAZIS   Red Army Crashing Toward Gates Of Kharkov Meets Strong Resistance From Fresh German Reserves: New Towns Captured.

SOVIET TROOPS MEET STRONGER WAR RESISTANCE   Fresh Forces Are Thrown Into Fight By Reich Leaders

REDS WITHIN 15 MILES OF BIG CITY   Another Russian Column Captures Ukrain Center 80 Miles Northwest

RUSSIAN TANKS NEAR KHARKOV   Soviet Forces Meet Strong German Resistance from Nazi Reinforcements.

Russian Tanks Batter Strong German Front   Advance Against Fresh Ene my Reserves In Kharkov Bryansk Sector,   NAZI RETREAT COSTLY

Nazi Reserves Rushed To Halt  Russian Advance   Rail Links Betweer Kharkov - Bryansk Cut As Russian: Push On

Nazi Resistance } ‘Above Kharkov Reported Strong   Reds Sever Last Rail Link To Bryansk On Drive On- German Stronghold

Nazi Reserves Fight Russians Near Kharkov   Soviet Troops Encounter Stubborn Resistance In Their Drive To Regain   Big Industrial Center

SOVIET INFANTRY CONSOLIDATING GAINS   Three Towns, All Northwest  of Kharkov, Were Captur ed, Cutting Down Chances of More Aid.

FRESH TROOPS HALT RUSSIANS   Red Tank Force Encounter Stubborn Resistance From Nazi Army.

REDS BATTLE FRESH NAZI RESERVISTS   Capture Of More Towns Tightening Trap On Germans

Reds Resisted By Nazi Troops   Slow Progress Forward Reported on Russian Front Over Weekend

Soviets Run Into Stiffer Nazi Force:   Reds Continuing Rush Toward Borders Ot White Russia And Dnieper In Ukraine

Reds Advancing From Orel Aim At Bryansk Base  ns Spe Tin ine IY,   Russians Speed Up Offensive In Ukraine

RUSSIANS CRASHING TOWARD KHARKOV MEET FRESH TROOPS  GERMAN RESERVES RUSHED IN TO ATTEMPT SAVE STRONGPOINT

SOVIET TANKS ARE CRASHING TOWARD GATES OF KHARKIV   Meet Stubborn Resistance But Keep Driving Ahead   ROADS CLOGGED BY NAZI WRECKAGE

GERMAN LOSS OF MATERIALS, MEN IS HEAVY   Russian Forces Move Up Through Path of Nazi Armored Wreckage

Stiff German Resistance In  Red Tank Push   Russian Infantry Said To Be Mopping Up For  New Advances.

ESCAPADE ENDS FOR YOUNG CUM   10 Hours After Boy Holds Up Four, Police Get Confession

ALLIED ATTACK HT NEW PEAK UF FERGENESS   Massive Aerial Onslaught Batters Relentlessly At Trapped Enemy

Sales Tax Shows Gain in November   20.4 Per Cent Over Same Month in 1942

REPORT NAZIS SLEW RUSSIAN CIVILIANS UNDER 15, OVER 50   Committee Named To Report On Indignities In Four Captured Russian  Cities —

RUSSIANS FORCED INTO SLAVE LABOR: HOMES DESTROYED   Those Under 15 and Over 50 Slaughtered, Says Soviet Renort.

ALL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 10 BE REGISTERED SOOM   Others Leaving School Before Completion of Course To  - Fill Out Breaks For Use In Future.   RECORDS FOR USE OF ARMY AND EMPLOYERS   Draftees Required to Present Cards at Induction Centers as Means of Better Classification.

PPROPPLDAPPEPPPR DAD OP ADE S  High School Students To Fill Out Cards Soon

Army to Gather Pupils’ Records   Cards to Be Distributed Throueh Hich School«

High School Boys And Girls To Be Classified Soon  erences enema   Will Fill Out Cards Show ing Qualifications and Preferences

WORK TO SAVE FUTURE WORLD   International Cooperation After War Is Urged by Vice President Wallace

Says Reds And West Hold Key   Vice President Calls For Square Dealing With Soviet Republics   Speaks AtO.W.IT.

Wallace Sees World War 3 Seeds Sprout   Declar es Western Democracies and Russia Must Reach Understanding

Wallace Is Fearful Of War With Russi   Says Third World Conflict Seems Certain Unless Allies Reach Suitable Agreement With Reds Before Present One Ends.

Third War Danger Told by Wallace   Farmers Warned To Guard Triple A

WALLACE FEARS... NEW WORLD WAR   Inevitable Unless Democracies, Russia in Agreement

WALLACE SEES — NEED FOR PACT WITH RUSSIA   Couples Understanding with Nee of Full Employment, World Cc operation to Avert New War

Reach Accord With Reds or Face New War.  Wallace Warns   Vice-President Calls for ‘Close, Trusting Understanding’

Says Nations Must Agree Against War   Agreement With Russia Is Vital

WALLACE SEES THIRD WORLD WAR AS IMMINENT   Unless the United States and Russia Reached Understandin ' Before Present  Conflict Is Ended

Wallace Sees A Third World War Unless An Understanding Reached   Inevitable Unless Western Democracies And Russia Reach Agreement Before Present Conflict Ends. Says: Vice-President.

Act Now fo Avert 3rd War-Wallace  ‘Agreement Between Democrocies, Russia Mouct Ra Roarhad’

Democracies. Russia Must  Reach Terms   Germany, USSR May Join Forces Unless Satisfactory Peace Reached.   MUST CRUSH NAZIISM

Says Russia, Others, Must ~ Have Accord   Wallace Visions New World War With No Understanding

WALLACE FEARS THIRD CONFLICT   Vice-President Says Under. standing Must Be Reach. ed Soon With Russia

WALLACE WARNS OF WORLD WAR 3   Says Democracies, Russia Must Reach Agreement

jeld Inevitable If Demoe yacies and Russia Fail to   Reach Satisfactory   Inderstanding Now   USSIAN-GERMAN ‘ALLIANCE FEARED   ‘rave Possibility Of It, Vice President Says,. Should Reds Be Douhle-Crossed

PERIL OF 3RD WAR IS SEEN BY WALLACE   Says Democracies And Russia Must Reach Agreement

Wallace Views War Ill Probable   Understanding With Russia Is Necessary

ASKS AGREEMENT BETWEEN ALLIES   WALLACE PREDICTS THIRD WORLD WAR IF THEY FAIL

Wallace Sees Third World War Ahead Unless Satisfactory Peace Is Reached

Wallace Sees Grave Peril Of 3rd World War   Inevitable Unless Allies  Reach Full Accord With Russia, He Says.

HOGS ARE JAMMING LIVESTOCK MARKETS   Packers Confronted With Gigantic Slaughtering Problem; Convestian S#ia Reeord

Separate Peace  Aim Of Germany   Rumor Plan For Separate Peace With Russia, Then Start Allied Offensive

Soviet Magazine Sharply For Occupied Territories  Criticises Allied Government

Britons Cut To Single kgg Monthly By New Rationing   Razor Blade Shortage Expected to be Relieved Soon, and Algerian Briar May Ease Scarcity of Pipes, Say Headlines Reflecting Life in England; Coroner Flavs Government

Yanks, 8th Army Seek To Form Junction In Tunis   Soviets Triumphantly Publish Map Showing New Gains; Eisenhower ‘Satisfied’

EUROPE SEETHES ‘AS IL DUCE FIRES HIS CHIEF AIDES   Churchill Leaves Tripoli, Nazis Claim Conference Opens in Lisbon   Germans Prepare to Quit Rostov, Reds Only Ten Miles Away

ACT NOW 10 MAKE SURE OF FUEL Qll   Early ‘Deliveries Can Be Made if Forms Are — Mailed Sann

Twenty Die in _ Airliner Crash   Tragedy in Remote Area of Kentucky

Body of J. P. Morgan, Who Died in Florida, Resort,..on Way to New York for Burial

J. P. Morgan Succumbs to Heart Attack   Financier Unconscious For Three Days Before Death

MORGAN RITES LISTED TUESDAY   international Financier Dies Of Heart Trouble After Short Illness

The War Today  Food Shortage adie Critical Stage In India, ‘Arsenal Of Orient’

tie Wal 10Gay Allies Watch India's  Growing Food Shortage With Ceave Alarm.

INDIA, WHERE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY, FACES SERIOUS CRISIS AS FOOD SUPPLIES ARE AT LOWEST FRR

(SHORTAGE OF FOOD IN INDIA, / WHERE MAJORITY ARE ALWAYS (HUNGRY. TS SERIOUS MATTER

India’s Food Shortage Has Reached a Critical Stage Majority of People Always Hungry

Americans in Move to Cut Through to Sea   British 8th Army Gaining Ground Slowly in Mareth Rattle

Allied Planes Start Fires in  Jap Oil Field   Widespread Raids Are Made in Southwest Pacific

BOND CAMPAIGN AT HARD STAGE   Near $150,000,000 Bought By State And Local (;overnments

States Invest 150 Millions In War Bonds   Offices in Utah Pat Two Million  In Treasury Drive

STATES, CITIES - BUYING BONDS   Treasury Lists Purchases By 22 Governmental Agencies in Drive

GROUPS HELP - DRIVE TOTAL   Governments. Invest Heavily In U. S. Securities

Soviets Repel Nazi Attacks On Kharkov   Russians Swing Armies Around Smolensk Outnost

Red Armies  FightAgainst Heavy Odds  Huge Axis Force Facing New Central Front Trap  RUSS GAIN SPEED Soviet Press Again Points to Lack of Second Front  in Enrana

SOVIET PRESS 15 AGAIN EMPHASIZING LACK OFSECOND FRONT IN WESTERN EUROPE   Germans Claim Fighting Now Is Going on in Outskirts of City

Crucial Battle for Kharkov Raging; Nazis Cite Gain    Soviet Attack Toward Vyazma Gains; Reds Deplore Lack of Support

SIX LIMA MEN IN RAIL WRECK AT ALBANY, IND,   One Ohioan Dies, Others Hurt as Trains Hit Headon

TWO KILLED AS TRAINS CRASH   Engines of Crack Freights Collide Headon Near Albany, Indiana

Nebraska Governor Wagers a Fat Hog On New Bond Drive   Asks Other Solons to “Put Up” on Bet His State Will Sell Most Securities.

JOHN ROACH GIVEN ARMY COMMISSION   Beverage Tax Chief Will Leave for West Coast Tomorrow.

Roach In The Army   State Beverage Tax Chief Commissioned a Captain

vermans Aamit Forces Abandon Taman Sector   Believe Way Paved For Russian Drive Against the Crimea

Nazis Abandon  fF oothold In  ‘Caucasus Area  Are Evacuated  Across Kerch  - Peninsula

American Soldiers Gain Control of 3-Mile Peninsula in 5 Hours.  AMERICAN SUBS SINK 8 MORE JAP VESSELS  80 American Commandos Killed in First Attempt Landing.

YANK SOLDIERS GAIN CONTROL IN SHORT ORDER   MacArthur’s Communique Describes Initial Landings As Being Success ful.

CONQUER ARAWE PENINSULA IN 5 HOURS   Move Cuts Jap Supply Lines Along Island’s Southern Coast

Great Events To Follow From Quebec Sessions   Atmosphere Of Expectancy Beamed To The Axis Peoples As Psychological "Softening-Up”

CHANGES MADE IN 21 ITEMS ON LIST OF FOODS   Thirteen Listings Hoisted And Eight Decreased By OPA Order   BEANS LEAD REDUCTION   New Regulations On Oil, Fat, Meat To Be Released Thursday Night

Joins Navy Immortals Wounded Sub Skipper Gives  Life to Save Crew, Craft

Sub Skipper Gives Life To Save Men   Heroic Commander Refuses to Quit Position on Bride

LOWER INCOME TAX BILL SEEN BY NEW CHIEF   Reduction by Credits Instead of Lower Rate Suggested

TAKES OAT 29TH GOVERNOR TO SERVE IOWA   Sees No Necessity fer Additional Taxation for Next Biennium

Hickenlooper Asks Cut In State Income Tax in Message to Legislators

NEW GOVERNOR GALLS FOR GUT INCOMES LEW   Sees No Present Necessity of Any Additional Taxation Next Two Years.   CEDAR RAPIDS ATTORNEY 29TH IOWA EXECUTIVE

Substantial ‘42 And *43 Cut Proposed   New Governor Deplores National Trend Toward  Ru TePALICrTAC YV _

Hickenlooper, lowa’s New Governor,for Tax Cut. . No Additional for TwoYears

Chinese Encircle Large Jap Force  Nips Using Poison Cae In Drive

Chinese Trap Big Jap Force   Already 5,000 Wiped Out Including Four High Officers.

CHINESE TRAP ENEMY FORCE   5,000 Japs Already Reported Slair at Changieh — Japs Reporter Using Poison Gas

CHINESE TRAP JAPS   Strong Feree Facing Annihilatior With 5,000 Already Killed

TRAP ENEMY FORCE   Chinese Encircle Japanese in Northern Hunan Province

SHOE RATIONING DETAILS GIVEN   County Rationing Board Releases Details

Time to Cheek On Income Tax  Due on Dee. 15   Wednesday Is Deadline For Farmers—Others May Have to Amend Report Already Filed

DEADLINE NEAR FOR TAXPAYERS   Time To Determine What, If Anything Needs To Be Done By Time Limit Of December 15.

F sileead Income Tax Date  Turns Up Again Next Week   Taxpayers Must Determine Just What, If Anything, They Need To Do Before Dec. 15 Deadline

Amazing Tale of Fishing Tub  =z * *  Seines for Flounders and Feehan a (Guess)

One Story Not From Fresno Lake  Here Is The Tale Of Big One That Reallv Got Away

Japanese Fighter Planes Are Downed  Medium Bombers Battle with Foe

Rug-Chewing Fuehrer To Try Feeding Ersatz Wooden Food To German People

Allies Capture More Than 400 Prisoners Near City of Beja   Montgomery Plants Forward Elements South of Mareth Line, Allied Air Force Attacks Enemy Points

Press Through Pass To Reach  For Kasserine   Repulse Fresh Enemy Blows In No. Tunisia

Navy's Next Goal May Be Jap Plants   Nimitz Indicates Drive for Bases About to Begin

NAVY IS REPORTED READY FOR ATTACK   Drive for Positions in the Pacific May Soon be Launched

Admiral Nimitz Hints Drive on Japan s Near   Navy About Ready For Thrust to Obtain New Bases in Pacific

POISED FOR JAPAN DRIVE   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Readiness For Attack On Enemy Industrial Centers In Red Cross Broadcast.   Jap Transport Fired

Nimitz Hints Of New Drive In Pacific Area   Navy Goal Is Positions From Which To Blast At Japanese Homeland

Nimitz Predicts Shelling of Japs  Industrial Areas   Admiral Says Islands  Strongholds Will Be  Nentralized bv Navy

Navy. to.Hit Japan, Nimitz Says   Shelling, Bombing To Come Soon, Admiral Indicates

ALR CAMPAICN   Nimitz Hints at Drive on Japanese; Munda Area Bombed Once More

EARLY PACIFIC DRIVE IS SEEN   Nimitz Indicates American Naval Might is About Ready to Strike

Suggests Giving Property Rights ~— To U.S. Soldiers   Would Also Turn Over Airplanes And Landing Fields To Airmen

Observers In London Are Puzzled   Unable To Understand Why Command Failed To Reinforce Island  GERMANS REJOICE

Nazis Capture Island After 2-Day Battle   Enemy Subjects Area To Terrific Pounding By Air: Allies Put Up  Bitter Resistance

Probers Hit Congestion ir Coast Cities   Navy Sub-Committee Blames U.S. ‘Red Tape’ For Housing Deloys

Black Market’ Operator Jailed   Gas Dealer Given Year, Fined $2000

RATION VIOLATOR DRAWS SENTENCE   Gasoline Station Operator Gets Year’s Imprisonment And Fine of $2,000; Black Market Operators Warned

Black Marketers Receive Warning On Sale Of Fue   President And Federa Court Justice Differ In Number Of Cheaters

Warn Operators Of Black Market   Gas Firm Operator Draws Term, Fine

Flood Control Measures Nip  Trouble In NE   Dams Hold Back Rapid Runoffs

[Allies Down 2l1More Enemy Planes   Liberator Bomber Leaves Nip Vessel Sinking

Forces Marct Ahead to Lash at Foe   MacArthur Takes Field to Direct Fight 4s New Ground Falls to Allies; Japs Lose 21 More Planes—155 in All

Allied forces expand gains in southwest Pacific; seize Vura   Kill 300 Japs and disperse garrison; Gen. MacArthurin personal command

Lend Lease  Aid Totals 15% Billion   $1,261,000,000 Peak In Anonst

FIGURES GIVEN   Lend-Lease Aid For August Totals $1. 261,000,000

Foreign Help At 15 Billion   One And One Fourth Billion In Lend-Lease Supplies In August.

Lend-Lease Has Cost 15 Billion   Supplies During August Hit New Peak, President Reveals.

Policy of Thrift Is Urged For Montana  Many Association: Approve

Policy of Thrift Is Urged For Montana  Many Association: Approve  wri. m..._f gt

Paratroops Said In Baltic States   20 More Towns Captured Wednesday By Russ Troops: Vitebsk Fall Predicted In Reports

Capture 20 ‘Towns, Kill 1900   Reach Pomt Only  20 Miles From Polotsk As Winter Drive Moves Southward

Russians Pound Southward From Nevel Sector  20 More Towns Taken ,1,900 Nazis Killed

SON-IN-LAW HELD IN DEATH OF OAKES      Believe Multi-Millionaire Killed As Result Of  Quarrels

SOVIET AGREES . TO JAP-FISHING   Renewal of Pact Taken - to Indicate Continued - Peaceful Relations. —

Enemy May Try to Get Back Islands   Washington Officials Say Japanese Will Not. Attempt to Invade Australia

Enemy Plane Losses Heavy   Suicidal Losses Range 30) Percent Qn Japanese Armada Of 75-100 Planes.

‘SUICIDAL LOSSES INFLICTED ON A JAPANESE ARMADA   Was Attempting to Raid Milne Bay, MacArthur’s Headquarters Stated.   .UPWARDS OF 30 PERCENT   New Official Warnings Were  Sounded on the Need of  Greater Allied Strength.

Need More Power In Air In Pacific   General MacArthur Gives Warning of Need of More’ Strength   JAPS GATHER A FLEET   Foe Concentrates Ships Despite Heavy Loss in Airplanes

REPORTS BIG IAP FLEET IN TRUK SECTOR   + Spokesman for MacArthur Says Combat Concentration Is Within 3 Days’ Sailing Distance af Now Chinea.

Need More Power  In Air In. Pacific   General MacArthur Gives Warning of Need of More’ Strength     TADG CATTIITD: 4 rire,   ‘JAPS: GATHER A FLEET   Foe Concentrates Ships Despite Heavy Loss in Airplanes

MILNE BAY RAID SUICIDAL ONE FOR JAP FORCES   Enemy Armada Is Placed At From 75 To 100 Planes

MILNE BAY RAID SUICIDAL ONE FOR JAP FORCES      Enémy-: Armada.1s “Placed At From 15. Mo:100-Planes: :

FRESH WARNING POINTS TO JAP PACIFIC POWER   Allies Inflicted Suicidal Losses On Jap Air Armada At Milne Bay, But Increasing Enemy Power In South Pacific Is Stressed.

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Air Biow   But MacArthur’s Office Again Warns of Enemy Concentrations   BIG JAP FLEET -IN- TRUK ARBA

REPORT NIPPON COMBAT FLEET IN TRUK AREA   MacArthur Spokesman Stresses Need for More Allied Air Streneth

NIPPONS HANDED TERPIFIC LOSSES   Up to 30 Percent of Raiding Force Shot Down Over Milne Bay

Japs Suffer Heavy Loss In Airplanes   Thirty Percent of Raiders at Milne Bay Knocked Out

30) Jap Planes ‘Lost In Large Scale Attaek   ! e  (MacArthur Again Warns of Gravity of Pacific Situation.

Japs Hard Hit In Milne Raid   Big Combat Fleet in Truk Region, MacArthur Says

New Official Warnings Are Sounded On Need For Greater Allied Strength In South Pacific Skies; Great Jap Combat Fleet Concentrated In Truk Area.

JAPS PUNISHED ~ ATMILNEBAY   MacArthur Sa Says Losses : Inflicted, . Yes t erday Over 30 Pct.

BAKER CHAPEL IS HELD IN THEATER   Students and Faculty at Baldwin Settle Into Close  Quarters   (GYM WALLS STANDING

Confident Victory Is Near  Mother Keeps Christmas Tree Lighted Until Two Sons Returr

Supposedly Immovable Crucifix Turns, Bends Towards Honor Roll of Servicemer   Glen Cove, L. ., Catholi¢ Chureh Pastor Terms }t "Phanomenal"’

Miracle Seen in. Leaning Crucifix + =) + + + + + +  Cross Bends Toward Service Roll

New Oitensives Foreshadowed by Marshall Raids   Triple Aitack Hits Centra! Pacific in AssacliPreliminary

Urge Fait Postwar  Air Plan   Equitable Basis of Field Pacts Asked by U.S. Official

PLAN FAIR AND EQUITABLE USE OF AIR BASES   Discussion Of Postwar Aviation Comes Up In Congress

SOUTHERN DEMOS WONT ABANDON PARTY IN ’44   Sampling of Views of Governors at Governors Conference Reveals

DISSATISFACTION BUT SOUTH NOT TO BOLT DEMOCRATS   SPER SPEAR RP RSA RE BP  THAT IS CONCENSUS OF OPINION AMONG SOUTHERN COVERNORS

Southern. Gove ernor S Say. Support. -W ill Be Given Demoerati¢. Pax ty ~ Despite Objections To New Dea

South Loyal To Democrats  Leaders Say   Governors See No Chance of Area Breakine Away

Claims Of Revolt Far Fetched North Carolinian Claims in Interview Today

DISCLOSE NEW DEAL DISCORD   SOUTH DISSATISFIED BUT WILL PROBABLY VOTE DEMOCRATIC

Governors Say South Will Give Support to Democratic Ticket Fourth Term or No

South Will Not Reveli On Tickei   Some Opposition to 4th Term, Rut Soutiferners Will Go Along   SOME CONCESSIONS  TO BE DEMANDED   Freight Rates and Other   ‘Sore Spots’ to Come Up } in Party Councils

SOUTHERNERS  DENY REVOL   Dixie Governors Concede Sore Points But Look for Solution Within Democratic Party

Survey Shows Solid South  is Democratic   Governors Give  Views On 1944

EXPECT SOUTH TO STAY SOLID   Survey Discloses South Will Vote Democratic In 1944, Fourth Term Or Not.

Dixie Will Back F.D.R. If He Runs   Southern Governors Feel There Will Be Some Demands.

Solid South Will Stay Put in 1944   This Despite Considerable Dissatisfaction Over Certain Policies of New Dea!

Churchill, Roosevelt to Reply toitaly About Making Rome Open City

Expect Allies to Issue Reply Soon On Rome ‘Open City’ Declaration

BOMBERS SWEEP — WIDE IN PACIFIC   Most Widespread Attack on Jap Island Bases Reported by MacArthur.  NEW GUINEA POST

Most Wide-Spread Aerial Attacks in §. Pacific Launched   MacArthur Bombers on Damaging Raids Over Dozen Jap Points

Enemy Bases Hammered In Pacific Area   MacArthur Sends Bombers On Raids Against Dozen Points  See SS Oe SC lL ee

Allied Airmen Bomb 12 Jap Bases in Extended Sweep of South Pacific

Hit Spots Where Enemy Builds Concentrations In Pacific; Madang Is Hardest Hit

MacArthur Air Units Rake Big Invasion Arc   Widest Sweep Of Southwest Pacific Area Centers OnMadang, But Strikes Over Dozen Points In 2.000 Miles

AIR ARMADAS PLASTER JAPS —IN WIDE AREA   Tons Of Bombs Poured On Jay Positions At Madang, Leavine Place Afire

ALLIED AIRMEN IN WIDESPREAD ATTACKS ON JAP STRONG-POINTS IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   Big Bombers Range From Timor to Salamaua  _ New Guinea and Gasmata, New Britain, Hitting Everything in Sight. Fighters Thoroughly  Strafe Whole Area

Most Widespread Aerial Sweep Against Concentrations.   SEVERAL FIRES STARTED

AERIAL BLASTS AIMED AT JAP STRONGPOINTS   Bombers Sinash Nippon Concentrations Thruout Southwest Pacific  TOKYO FEARS OFFENSIVE British Report New Flare-Up Of Activity On Mayu Peninsula

MacArthur's Bombers Blast Jap Bases in Widest Sweep of Sector   DON’T UNDERRATE ENEMY, NAVAL OFFICER WARNS

Widespread Raids Strafe Dozen Points  MacArthur’s Fliers Concentrate on Madang in New Guinea  UNEARTH NEW BASE      UNEARTH NEW BASE

Frost Danger Appears Over   Warmer Weather on Way to Oklahoma, It Is Forecast

ALLRED FAILS GET  FAVORABLE REPORT  SENATE COMMITTEE MATTER STILL BEFORE  COMMITTEE FOR FUTIRE CONCINER ATION

Senate Committee Refuses By 9-9 Vote to Report Favorably FDR’s Nomination of Allred

Committee Ties On Allred Nomination   Senate Judiciary Group Declines By 9 To 9 Vote To Report Favorably On President’s Appointee

Tie Vote Kills Nomination of Texan For Judge of Court of Appeals

Allred Vote Is 9.9 Deadlock   Senate Group Declines to OK FDR Choice

ALLRED FAILS OF MAJORITY OF COMMITTEE   Senafe Judiciary Group Refuses by Tie Vote to Report Favorab}; Roosevelt Nomination

Nominees For Federal Bench  Unconfirmed   Senate Committee Ties On Allred And Rejects Chandler

Allred Nomination ‘Loses First Test  diet Declines To  Report Favorably

A TIE VOTE ON ALLRED FOR JUDGE   Senate Committee Refuses to Report Nomination Favorably   ANOTHER TIE ON POSTPONING ISSUE   Matter Is Dead Unless Some Member of Group Moves to Revive It

ALLRED GETS SETBACK   Tie Vote In Senate Committee Fails Te Approve Nomination

Allred Rejected By Tie Vote And Is Believed Ou   Appointment Actior May Be Revived ‘Pay--Off’ Charge Hurled

Senators Turn  Down Allred   Judiciary Committee In Tie Vote Kills Nomination by F. R.

COMMITTEE OF HOUSE VOTING ON SALES TAX   Tired Of Talking, Group Ready For Decision On Proposal

5 Men Perish In Blaze at Little Falls   Eighteen Others Escape as Flames Sweep Frame Hotel

KEY HILLTOP SEIZED FROM NAZI ARMIES   Some Reports Say Battle Still Raging in Full Fury, Others — Claim Tempo Slackens 

YANKS BEGIN A SURPRISE OFFENSIVE   Goal Is Fondouk in Central Area and ‘heir Initial Thrusts Meet With Success.   FIGHTING HEAVY ON MARETH LINE   British Proceeding “According to Plan”—First Army Active in the North.   BULLETIN.

British Win New Ground In Mareth Battle   Americans Hold Firmly To Mountain Positions In Face Of Nazi Attacks, But Are Unable To Advance

FRONTAL ASSAULT AGAINST MARETH LINE ADVANCES 81k ARMY DEEP INTO ENEMY LAND   Marecth Line Fighting Is Said To Be Fierce; Vets Take Part

FUND BILL HOLDS AGENCIES’ FUTURE      Congressional Action Bpon Appro atone Due in me .

STATE GUARD UNIT JO WEEK IN CAMP   Will Leave Lawrence by, Train Sunday Forenoon_/ _ for Hutchinson -#   [FULL DRILL SCHEDULE

STATE GUARD UNIT TO WEEK IN CAMP.   Will Leave Lawrence by Train Sunday Forenoon /  for Hutchinson #

 Jap Resistance In Arawe Area Said Smashed   16 More Nip Planes Lost In Heaviest Attack On Yanks In New Britain

Crush Land Resistance   But Jap Bombing Of Arawe Beachhead Still Very Heavy

Resistance On Arawe Is Now Ended   Americans Digging In On Coral Reefs—Only Jap Aerial Activity

‘a THER      Organized : 1 :-Ground Re. sistance of Japs Smashed   JAP STRAGGLERS ARE BEING KILLED

Japs Forces Smashed in .,- Arawe Area   All Organized Resistance ‘Broken, Says First Direct - Word From New Britain

RESISTANCE IN ARAWE SMASHED   Casualties Of Americans Said Licht In Area

Patrols Enlarge Their Holdings In New Britain   Jap Resistance In Arawe Sector Reported Broken

Opposition At Arawe Smashed   Americans Now Enlarging Beachheads

Organized Jap Resistance at Arawe Broken   American Patrols Enlarge Their Holding in 8-Day  Invasion of Island.   Jap Night Bombing Is  Worry to Americans   Little Activity

U. 5. Patrols — Enlarge Area On Beachhead   Mop Up Japs in Oral Caves Along Beaches; Jap Planes Come Over at Night on Bombing Raids

FOE DEFENDERS SCATTERED, FEW LEFT TO FIGHT   U. S$. Casualties Light—Main Beachhead Described by Writer With Invaders

RESISTANCE AT BEACHHEAD   Troops Now Enlarging Front Established With Landing in Arawe Sec« tors— American Losses Light to Date. X

Organized Ground Resistance Ended At Arawe Sector   American: Patrols “Enlarge Perimeter “OF Invasion’ Front

Organized Ground Resistance On Arawe Peninsula Smashed   American Patrol Enlarging Outer Perimeter Of Invasion Unmolested

ORGANIZED GROUND RESISTANCE OF JAPS AT ARAWE SMASHED  AMERICAN CASUALTIES REPORTED LIGHT TO DATE ON NEW BRITAIN

Smash Jap Resistance At Arawe   Ground Action. Now Confined to Enlarging Front; Down 16 Planes

Japanese-Lose 16 More Planes To U. §. Fliers   Steady Advance Made By Allies ln Southwest Pacific

RESISTANCE OF JAPS SMASHED   American Patrols Enlarging Outer Perimeter of Front Unmolested.   CASUALTIES ARE LIGHT

Government May Have To Take Over   Something Necessary In Rubber Program, Jeffers

New Threats ToPresident’s Fiscal Power   Senate Seeks to Prevent Measures Allowing Him To Transfer Funds

Philadelphian Named Dem Candidate For Superior Court; Campaigns Open

GOSPEL SERVICE - Sunday 6 P. M...   PA. DEMOCRATS -BACKING JUDGE BOK: OF PHILA

Election Campaign Gets Under Way With Democrats Naming Bok for Post

U.S. Planes Make Four Maior Raids   R. A. F. Drops 2,000 Tons of Bombs on German Targets

Yank Bombers Batter German Targets In Day  Aerial War At New Peak Over Europe

UNITED STATES AND BRITISH BOMBERS IN CONTINUING ATTACKS  NAZI AIRFIELDS AND INDUSTRIAL TARGETS IN

ALLIED WARPLANES BLAST NAZI BASES   Daylight Attacks Followed by Raid on Rhineland

UNITED STATES AND BRITISH BOMBERS IN CONTINUING ATTACKS  NAZI AIRFIELDS AND INDUSTRIAL TARGETS IN FRANCE BLASTED

SPEAKER RAYBURN  OF NATIONAL HOUSE  SPOKE LEGISLATURE TEXAN SAYS EXPERTS BELIEVE SUB MENACE  nom icin w kwh ie. we-ow doen

ee SAO e te MENA NEN GEE Ne Rin peter te terete Tre Mery aay eee eI Te. Generac Seen eee Re Vc ee  ™M, atte wk Rorli » Pobulace § hattered

MEN WITH COCOA-SMEARED FACES MA' BE IN FIRST ALLIED INVASION WAVE

U.S. Flying Forts strike at Solingen   Eighth air force ends busy month

Flying Forts Hit Ruhr City Of Solingen   Target Is Site of Steel Plating Mill: Raid Sets Record of 11 for November

BOMBS RAINED ON RUHR CITY OF SOLINGEN   FLYING FORTRESSES WIND UP BUSIEST MONTH OF WAR

U. §. Fortresses Make Attack Upon Ruhr City   Bomb Solingen, Site Of Steel Plating, Plane Parts Plants

Steel Plating Mill in  Germany Hit _ Daylight Attacks  _ Are Made by Flvina Fortresses

German City vat wee  : i Solingen. Hit First Time   Industrial Town Target As AAF Completes Best Operational Month

U. 5. Bombers Hit Solingen In Daylight   First Allied Attack on Ta: get Where High Grade Steel Is Made

Forts Hit Ruhr, End Big Month   11 Smashes Made By Heavies In Period

Solingen Is Bombed by Doylight for First  Time   SEVEN PLANES ARE LOST IN ‘ASSAULT   November Operations Show Strength of Allied  Alr Power

Aussies Take Important Base In New Guinea   Reel Reds Back ®F rom Korosten in Heavy Fighting

STEEL PLATING  MILL IN RUHR  CITY ATTACKED   First Attack On Solingen Is Carried Out By Ameri i,   SUB-ZERO WEATHER HANDICAPS AIRMEN

Forts Hit Ruhr, End Big Month   11 Smashes Made By Heavies In Period  We C*T BRUT AS Br t

AMERICAN AIRMEN BOMB RUHR CITY   DAYLIGHT ATTACK MADE ON SOLINGEN—SEVEN PLANES DOWNED, SEVEN LOST.

Flying Fortresses Blast Ruhr Vailey Steel Town In Big Daylight Assault

John Dillinger, Cousin Of Late Public Enemy, ‘Faces Prison Sentence

HAS BAD NAME   Second John Dillinger Sentenced To Pen For Rorclare

Two Killed In Fire, Explosion   Scores Burned, Hurt In New Mexico

MINERS MAKE NEWEST MOVE   Maneuver May Bring John L. Lewis ‘Before War Labor Board for First Time,

NEW TWIST IN MINERS’ WAGE CASE   Maneuver May Force Lewis to  Go Before WLB

JOHN L, GIVES MINE DISPUTE A NEW TWIS]   Reaches Agreement With Illinois Operators On Pay Hike

WLB MAY TAKE UP WAGE AGREEMENTS   Strategic Maneuver by UMW May Bring Lewis Up Before Government Group.

MINENS MOVE MAY BRING LEWIS UP BEFORE WLB SOON  reemen   Labor Leader’s Agreement With Illinois Men May Be Vital  “Point   STILL DEBATING ON PORTAL PAY

John L. Lewis Reaches Wage Agreement With  Operators In_ Illinois   United Mine Workers Believe That The; Have Plugged Wage Case Loopholes

NEW AGREEMENT REACHED BY UMW   linois Contract May Force Lewis’ Appearance Before War Labor Board

Move To Limit Presidents To Two Full Terms   Republicans In Senate Seeking Demo Support For : Resolution.

REPUBLICANS  _ STIR ISSUE OF ~ FOURTH TERM   Seek Democratic atic Support for ih troduction of Resolution for. Two Term Limit

Butler Leads Fight Against Fourth Tern   Republicans Seeking Demo. cratic Support For Two. Term Limitation.   IN AMENDMENT FORM

G.0.P, SEEKS BACKING ON TERM LIMITATION   Republicans Want: President's Tenure. Restricted.

Fourth Term Ban is Sought By Republicans   Support Sought For Limit to Two Four-Year Periods

E.0.P.SEEKING DEMO AID FOR BAN ON F.0:A   Butler to Propose Amendment Putting Two-Term Limit on - Presidency.   SEVERAL DEMOCRATS TO BACK MOVE, HE ASSERTS

Republicans. Seek Help Of Democrats To Halt Drive For Fourth Term

GOP Angles for Democratic Support In Move fo Block Fourth Term, State  Legislative Action Called Too Late —

Seek Demo Aid to Ban Fourth Term   Republicans Prepare To Offer Resolution  In Senate

HITLER LIKELY 10 PASS UP SPEECH   ‘Berlin Slates Goebbels and _ Goering for Anniversary i Addresses.

Hitler’s Chief Aides Speak  Tomorrow   Tenth Anniversary Of Nazi Seizure Of Power Noted

Hitler to Forego Anniversary Address fo People Tomorrow, Goebbels, Goering fo Speak:

Hitler Not To Speak On Nazi  Anniversary   Fuehrer Leaves All Oratory To Goebbels And Goering

German Leaders To Address Peonle Saturday   However Hitler Probably Will Not Make Speech

NAZI LEADERS. PLAN TO MAKE PUBLIC TALKS   Tomorrow Is Tenth Axniversary Of Nazi Accession Ts. Power

NAZIS TO’ OBSERVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF RISE TO POWER   Goebbels. And Goering To Give Addresses — Hitler May. Give Talk

Hitler Stooges To Sub for Him  On Anniversary   Customary Speech By Der Fuehrer Is ‘Out’. Belief

Goebbels and Goering speak Saturday;  Hitler not boasting on this anniversary

Hitler’s 10th Anniversary Rise to Power Brings Germans Fourth Winter of War

NAZI ANNIVERSARY . WILL BE FLAGLESS   Hitler Not Expected tc _ Speak on 10th Year of  Rice ta Power

Hitler May Skip Talk on Anniversary   Goebbels Scheduled tc  Read Proclamation From Fuehrer

Hitler To Speak Today On Occasion Of Tenth Anniversary Of Naziism

Nazis Observe Hitler's 10th Year of Power   Goebbels to Read Proclamation From ‘der Fuehrer’

Seven Consecutive Hours of Speeches Planned Today by Nazi Bigwigs

GOEBBELS WILL ADDRESS NAZIS   Usual Anniversary Speech By Hitler Is Believed Doubtful On Saturday

SPEECH OR STATEMENT JANUARY 30?   Adolf, However, Will Have Little to Celebrate on “Birthday” of His Ascending Throne

COEBBELS TO GIVE ADDRESS   Hitler Proclamation Set As Nazis Mark Rise To Power

NAZIS TOMARK ANNIVERSARY   No Announcement Made That Hitler Will Speak; to  Make Proclamation

x ier RK. KR iFOURUDUDUCUCUCUCRUDUDUOCUMR CUR  Flag Waving, Theatricals Cut On This Nazi Birthdav

Herr Hitler To Observe Tenth Year Of Power   Propaganda Minister Goebbels To Read Proc lamation From Fuehrer

HITLERISM 1S 10 YEARS OLD   Speech Awaited To See How Reverses Are Explained

RAF BOMBERS BLAST SUB BASE   Attack Naval Port at Wilhelm:  ghaven, Three Planes Lost 5 in Raid

Nazi U-Boat Base Bombed   Heavy Night Attack  Ix Made Rv The RAF

Nazi Naval Base Bombed   RAF Launches Heavy Attack on Wilhemshaven; Three Planes Lost

German Naval  Base Bombed   Wilhelmshaven Target Of Night Attack; Three Planes Missing.

Big German Navy Base Is Bombed by RAF   Wilhelmshaven Damaged and Britains Lose Three Planes

NAZI NAVY BASE RAIDED BY RAF   Wilhelmshaven Target Of Heavy British Attack.

JAMISON COMPANY EXPANDS PERSONNEL   J. V. Jamison, III Is Elect ed President to Succeed Father

JAMISON CO. 1S EXPANDED   J. V. Jamison, ison, ‘il, Elected President; Other Officere Named. _ ‘

M°CALL ACCEPTS JOB” AS BLOOMINGTON HIGH COACH; RESIGNS HERE   SCHOOL BOARD ANNOUNCES LOSS OF ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, COACH

AMERICAN- BRITISH STILL HAMMERING A} THE AX]S ARMY   Report That Allies Have Captured Town of Mezzouna.   KIGHTH ARMY NOW SWEEPING UP COAST   Rome and Berlin Say the Allies Attacks Are Increasing.

Ales Making Advances In All Tunisian Fronts; Battle Fury Increasing

Another American Column United With British, 20 To 25 Thousand Axis Troops Captured.

New Pacific Blows May Be Ordered   King Confers With Nimitz—. 19 Zeros Shat Down

BLOWS AGAINST JAPAN PLANNED   U. S. Fleet Chiefs Confe On New Strategy for Pacific

Battle Orders for Pacific Action May Be in Transit   Admirals King and Nimitz Have Been Conferring in West  i.n, Bnemawtaheat Gisann   Conference Reports

BATTLE ORDERS PUR NEW BLOM AT JAPO LOOM   Knox Reveals Conference of Admirals Nimitz and King on Coast.   JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

New Allied Plans to Crush Japs Indicated In Meetings  Of High Military Officials

BATTLE ORDERS FOR NEW BLOWS AGAINST JAPAN NEARLY READY   Admirals King and Nimitz Confer on West Coast: Chinese Report Rice Bowl No Longét Endangered After Great Victory

Blows Against Jans Planned   _ Admiral: King and Admiral Nimitz Meet On West Coast

Orders For New Blows Going West   Trouble Looms For Japs As King, Nimitz Confer On West Coast

BATTLE ORDERS FOR NEW ALLIED BLOWS AT JAPAN ON WAY  CONFERENCE OF ADMIRALS NIMITZ AND KIN

PACIFIC WAR CHIEFS HOLD C ON FERENCE   Battle Orders For New Allied Blows Against Japan Believed Discussed at Meeting   FLEET IS STRENGTHENED

Japan Faces New Allied Campaign   U. §. Commanders Given Instructions, Belief

Nimitz And King Confer On War  Plans In Pacific   New Allied Blows Upon Japan Are Seen Likely

Aim Blows At Japan  Something Cooking Fo   Something Cooking Fo Little Yellow Men

Jap Zeros. Beaten Off, 19 Downed   Six Others Are Damaged -ir Air Battle Near the Busselt Tslands   NEW BATTLE ORDERS GIVEN TO NIMITZ   Admiral King Goes to West Coast. to Report. Strategy Talis to Commander

Admirals King, Nimitz Ready fo Plaster Japs  Battle Orders For Nev   Battle Orders For New Blows Are In Transit To Washington

Battle Orders For Jap Attack * Appear Ready   Admiral King Anc Nimitz Confer; Churchill Also Gives Hint

Planes End Japs’ Threat to Rice Bow!   Sec. Knox Supports Theory Commanders Taking Battle Orders to Field Generals 

N ISCUSS. MOYES AGAINGT JAPAN   Top Naval Leaders Confer On Offensive Actions In Pacific Theatre

Battle Orders Given To The Pacific Fleet   Conference Between Admirals King And Nimits aa ee

ASKS $6,000 IN DAMAGE SUITS   Soldier Claims He Was Hurt Extinguishing Bus Fire

Soldier Seeks ‘$5,000 Damages   Claims He Was Hurt Helping To Extinguish Bus Fire

BELIEVES AXIS PLANS STAND ON NORTHERN SHORE   Allies Cut Enemy Lines at Enna, British Will Battle for Catania

AXIS BRINGING IN NEW TRO TO MAKE LAST DITCH STAND AROUND VOLCANIC MOUNT

Americans Take Enna; Cut Off — Rear Guard Units   Furious Battle Still Reported Raging In Catania Sector

M4 NATIONS JOIN “OUR SIDE IN WAR   Six Axis Foes, Nine Neutral Countries Listed at Annivereary

Military Analyst Predicts Allies Will Crush Hitler Next Year with Triangular Drive

America Can and Will Meet Budget   Program Translated to Production Terms

WAR PROGRAM'S “FINANCING, SEEN   Authorities Agree President’s Budget Request Can Be Met

America Can Finance Billion Dollar War Budget   Bankers, Financing  Authorities Say U. S. Will Raise Funds

HIGH WINDS HIT U.S. NORTHEAST   Accompanied by Cold Weather, Snow

Warships Of Italy Steam Into Malta   Most of Italian Fleet Reported Safe From Nazi Hands

ITALIAN FLEET FLEES NAZIS; IN ALLIED PORT   Battleships And Cruisers Steam Into Malta

Nazi Attack Made Soon After Flotilla Escaped German-Dominated Port In North Italy ° .

Japs Absorb Punishing Air  Raid Damages   Nipponese Also Admit China Waging Offensive War On Land Fronts

AIRMEN HIT 2 NIP SHIPS IN HARBOR   Allies Continue Air Attacks On Jap Bases

Americans Make Devastating Raids On Japanese In Burma   30 Tons Bombs Dropped On Rail Bridge; Several Sizeable River Vessels Damaged

Burma Bridge Is Attacked   80 Tons Of Bombs Dropped: Observation Impossible

NEW U-BOAT ATTACK BY NAZIS EXPECTED   Navy Secretary Knox Makes Statement in England «

NEW U-BOAT DRIVE LIKELY         AMERICAN INDUSTRY BUILDS UP MIGHTIEST SEA-AIR POWER IN WORLD; 14,072 VESSELS NOW

HOUSE TO STUDY PAY-AS-6O TAX   Treasury Promises Recommendationss For Review By Ways And Means Group

a EE Ene eee  Pay As You Go Tax PlanIls Studied By Treasury Experts

 Father-Draft Controversy ‘Occupational Deferment (Rules May Be Broadened

New Dads’ Draft .Regulations Designed To Induce More Men to Enter War Work

Plan Action ToSlow  Father Draft   Expected WMC Ruling Would Spur Shift of Draft-Eligible Men  To War-Vital- Work

WMC Slice in Father Draft Seen Sunday   RETARDING, MINIMIZING ACTION IN FAMILY HEAD INDUCTION EXPECTED

Drafting of Fathers May Be Delayed   Eligible Men Likely To Get Chance to Fnter War Industries

NEW RULING 0 DRAFT WILL BE ISSUED SUNDAY   Expect Call Of Fathers To Be  Minimized

WMG ACTION TO RETARD DRAFTING OF. FATHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SUNDAY

DRAFT OF DADa TO Gt DELAYLA BY NEW RULES   Joint WMC-Selective Service Announcement Of Action Eynected Sunday

Father Draft - May Be Cut By New Rule   Expect WMC_Announce“ment Providing For Chance to Change Jobs

Expect New Draft Edict for Fathers   Hint New Directive’ Will Induce Dads to’ Move into War Production

ANOTHER DRAsT PLAN PROPOSED   inducement To Shift To War Work Anticipated

Phe: Latest: Dope:  “OF Pappv - Is J   e On- Drafting .is “Expected Sunda:

New Dad-Draft Action To Be Announced Soon      War Manpower Commission And Selective Service Officials Drafting New Regulations Govern: ing Draftine Of Fathers

Action May Retard Draft Of Fathers   WMC and Selective Service Officials Believed Ready to Back Down

Draft Of Fathers May Be Slowed By Work. Offer   ‘Announcement Sunday To . Induce Group-To ‘Take. Vital Production Jobs:

BACKDOWN ON FATHER DRAFT APPEARS NEAR   \ction Which May Retarc and Minimize Induction of Parents Expect ~ ed Sunday

RULING DUE ON DRAFTING DADS   WAR-ESSENTIAL JOBS MAY BE ALTERNATIVE TO MILITARY SERVICE

MODIFICATION OF ORIGINAL PLAN SIGHTED   Congressional and Public Disapproval Of Recent Directive Causes Shift

Plan Action To Retard Dad Draftina   Would Give Draft-Eligible Men Inducement to Shift Into Vital Employment

Fathers’ Draft . ~ Plan Modified   WMC Heeds Protests, To Grant Deferment

Selective Service May Temper Order   Job Shift Inducemen ‘Might Be Increased

EXPECT WMC TO CLARIFY DRAFT ORDERS SUNDAY   May Offer Vital War Jobs To Persons Eligible For Army   URGE INDUCTION BAN’   Solon Urges Selective Service Be Cut From Manpower Agency

Hint Backdown On Broad Dad Draft  May Give Men Chance To Take War Jobs

ACTION PLANNED T0  RETARD INDUCTION  AMERICAN FATHERS AS WMC-SELECTIVE SERVICE PLANS NEW  CAMO DECO Ot er rear

MR. FINNEGAN’S FATHER DRAFI   MeNutt Seen Ready tc Say Backdown Unnecessary

EXPECT CURB ON FATHER-DRAFT   New Plan To Minimize Drafting Of Family Heads Will Probably Be Announced Sunday From  Wrachinoatan

Draft Heads To Announce New Selective Service Rules For Fathers Next Sunday

WMC MAY TAKE ACTION TO RETARD DRAFTING OF FATHERS   -Draft-Eligible Men May Be Given Inducement to  Shift to Vital War Work

Manpower Commission Officials Seem Ready fo Announce Backdown From Broad Father Draft Hit as Unnecessary

To Announce Action on Father Draft   Draft-Eligible Men Will Probably Be Given an Inducement to Shift Into Vital War Production Work

May Retard And Minimize Drafting Of Family Heads   Action Regarding Inductior Of Fathers Expected To Be Announced Sunday By Manpower Commission

New Policy On Draft Will Be Told By WMC   Pennsylvania Senator Raises Objection To Drafting Fathers

RAF SMASHES AT EUROPE   ¥ estern Germany and Beigium Target For Night Attacks

Wesfern Europe Hit By British   Nazi-Occupied Belgium Also Hit By RAF

Approve Bill On Mustering Out Payment   Pay Ranging From $200 To $500 Is Provided In Bill Endorsed By Senate Committee

What's Left Of Italian Navy Has Been Cut In Two By Allies   Part Of Fleet At Taranto Aud Other At La Snevia: Ts Imnortant Prize Worth Having

FALL OF SICILY GUTS BATTERED ITALIAN NAVY IN HALF: STILL PRIZE FOR ALLIES

Powerful Anglo-American Bombing Fleets Smash At French Railway Bottlenecks Feeding North ttair   GERMAN CIVILIANS TO LEAVE UKRAINE

Soviets Advance  10 Miles Daily   Campaign in Italy Slowed Down By Mud and Enemy Demolitions

REDS WITHIN $0 MILES OF OLD POLAND   Mud, Stiffer Resistance Slows  5th, 8th Armies

Allied Drive Below Rome Slowed Up   Bad Weather Hinders Pro. gress — Berlin Hit by Light Bombers

Marshall’s Preeminent Role In Mapping Of Global Strafeay Emohasized By Decisions.

Marshall's Preeminent Role In Mapping ) Global Strateay Emphasized By Decisions   ATMOSPHERE IN LONDON ANF OF FYDECTEN CRICTAa

JAP NEW BRITAIN BASE [5 POUNDED   ALLIED AIRMEN MAKE HEAVIEST RAID TO DATE ON CAPE GLOUCESTER.

Defenses On New Britain Bombarded   One of Most Sustained Air Attacks of Pacific War ls Reported   DESTROYERS ARE ACTIVE

Americans Bomb Cape Gloucester In Heavy Attack:   Aerial Offensive Is Stepped Up Against. Japanese Air Base

JAP AIRBASE ON NEW BRITAIN IS GIVEN POUNDING   Heavy Damage Reported Afte: Allied Planes Rip Cape Gloucester Targets

1,300 Tons Of Explosives Hit The Mark  Sustained Air Attacks Level Japs’ Defenses On New Britain Island  6 2: 4.8

BOMBS SHOWER ON NEW BRITAIN   Aussies And Americans  Extend Bridgeheads  For Invasion

RAIDS AGAINST  MIP IN PACIFIC  ARESTEPPED UE   ‘Cap Gloucester Area, Vul nerable to Invasion, Be lieved Target of Heavy  i Attack

PLANES BLAST JAP BASE IN NEW BRITAIN   Aussies Battle Enemy In  Jungles Near Wareo

Cape Gloucester Air Base Bombed   MacArthur’s Airmen Drop 179 Tons on Jap Position On New Britain; Spot Vulnerable  To Invasion From New Guinea

New Britain Is Being Prepared For Invasion   Jap Shore Defenses Being Levelled By Con-   tinuous Raids.

Aussies Pound Pacifie’s Isles   MacArthur Planes Level Jap Shore Defenses On New Britain

Jap Shor :Defenses On © New Brita: Being Cut — Down By Aerial Attacks   SECTIONS OF ISLAND WHERE IT IS OPEN TO INVASION UNDER ONE OF MOST SUSTAINED AERIAL ASSAULTS

Bombing Attacks On New Britain Cover Wide Area   Cape Gloucester’s Airdromes Smashed

NEW BRITAIN HIT AGAIN BY U. $. BOMBERS   Blows May Herald Allied Invasion

ARRIAL FORCE LEVELING JAPS QN NEW BRITAIN   More Than 1300 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nips - In Area Since No- : * vember 29

Allied Bombers Blas  Enemy Shore Defenses   Sustained Aerial Bombardments Level Japanese Bulwarks On New Britain Island: Japs Lose Six More Ships, 72 More Planes

Allied Planes Hit Heavily ‘ai New Britain   195 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Gloucester

Jap Defenses Shattered on New Guinea   Land Invasion Hinted as Japs Suffer Heavily

Planes Pound New Britain  Cope Gloucester ard Go rmate He ra Hit,

AREA LEFT ABLAZE BY HUGE RAID   — Drop 179 Tons xplosives On ae Gloucester

CAPE GLOUCESTER HEAVILY BOMBED   GROUND SUCCESSES SCORED BY ALLIES IN NEW GUINEA AND SOLOMONS.

New Britain Cape Rocked By Air Bomb:   Gasmata Base Shelled From Sea; Aussies in Drive for Wareo

NEW BRITAIN GETS SHOWER OF BOMBS   Jap Shore Defenses Being Leveled By - Airmen

Bombers Leave Enemy Air Base Area in Flames   New Britain’s South Central Coast Hit From Air and Sea and Other Areas Attacked

Raise Pacifte  Air Offensive   Liberators. Mitchells, Marauders Drop Explosives On Cape Gloucester.

MacArthur’s Fliers Keep Blasting at New Britain; Shore Defenses Levelled

William Burns Is Accused Of ~ Offering Bribe   Trip To California Turned Down By Rep. Hooper

Medical Society Head  Is Named in Warrant   Wm. Burns, Executive Secretary of Medical Society Charged with Offering Bribe

lool WARRANT IN GRAND JURY PROBE   Executive of Medical Group Charged With Attempted Bribery.

RUML TAX PLAN UNDER ATTACK BY DEMOCRATS   Majority Of House Ways And Means Committee Backs Proposal of Administration   OPPOSE SKIPPING   Assert War Time Is Not Proper Period To Try Experiments. In. Tax On Wage Earners

HOUSE PREFERS ADMINISTRATION PLAN ON TAXES   Ruml Plan, Committee Declares, ‘Like Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’

House Group Raps Ruml Plan; Sees Yea: Rebate Worth 6 Years Earnings To Rich

SAYS TAX PLAN MUST BE TRIED AND TRUE ONE   Says Ruml Bill Would Rob “Peter To Pay Paul”

Ruml Plan Is Frowned on By House Group   Committee Contends Tax Must Be Raised By Tried Methods

Majority Group Hits Ruml Plan   Like Robbing Peter To Pay Paul, Says Ways and Means Folk

A CLASS OF 14 MEN   Semi-Annual Scottish Rite Reunion Is Underway in Lawrence

Capital Attention . Generally on Fate  of Soldiers Abroad   gMain Developments in Washington Today are Summarized

Progress in Africa Highly Satisfactory   Stimson Call Tunisian Operations Signal Success; Lawmakers Work with Problems of Living Costs, Etc.

oe ee ee ere ep wriNth Nat Ne  OPA Announces Maximum Prices On Foods In 12-County Lubbock Area

dJurn 10 Frage O, section , For Complete Lists Ur rood Frices  OPA Announces Maximum Prices On Foods In 12-County Lubbock Area

MAY SEEK BIG FUND FOR 1944 FOOD PROGRAM   Administration Talks _ of Buying Crops, Reselling at Loss

Billion For  Groceries is Jones’ Plan   OPA VILLAINY INSPIRES ONE DEEPER DYED FOR PROMOTING DEGENERATION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL CHARACTER,   Give Away to Consumers

Program For Food Ouipul May Cost Billion Dollars .   Plans Being Made To Increase Farm Production -

May Ask Large War Food Fund   Billion Said Needed For 1944 Program

FOOD PROGRAM TO BE COSTLY   Congress May Be Asked For Billion To Back Farm Prices

FOOD PROGRAM 10 REQUIRE BILLION   Administration May Ask Congress for That Much Money To Finance the Nation’s 1944 War Food Program

‘Nutrition Experts Put New Twist in Spaghetti to Aid Liberated Peoples

CONGRESS HAS THREE ISSUES   FATHER DRAFT, GASOLINE RA. TIONING AND TAXES ARE MAJOR QUESTIONS COMING UP

Returning Congressmen Forecast Major   Battles on Rationing, Draf t and Taxes

i T @ e ° * ‘U.S. Casualties in Tunisia  T otal 2,242 From Feb. 14-20

U.S. CASUALTIES IN TUNISIA. ARE 2.949 IN WEEK   Stimson Says Losses on Both Sides Have Been ‘Substantial’

2,242 Casualties Suffered By U.S. in Tunisia During ‘Retreat and Counteraffack.

German Subs Again Emerge Second Best in Duel With Convoy   Joint Announcement of Engagement Made in Allied Capitals

NAZI U-BOATS LOSE DUEL IN ATLANTIC   Number of Submarines Sunk Unannounced by Allies

SALARY LIMIT VOTE EXPECTED   House Committee Takes Uy $25,000 Ceiling  On Net Incomes

Complete Extermination Of German Militarism Should be Allied Aims

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Prussian Military Ego Must Be Destroyed To Insure Peace

ALLIED STATESMEN MUST REMOVE CAUSE FOR ANOTHER WAR   From Germany and Japan. Italy’s Problem Not So Dangerous

PASSING OF HITLER ALONE NOT TO ELIMINATE GERMAN TROUBLE: WAR ANALYS HAS POINTED OUT

Must Sterilize  Says Hitler’ s Death Wouldn’t End Poussian Militarism

Lhe War I oday— Prussian Military Leadership Must Be Destroyed To Insure World Peace

Tour by President Climaxes in Visit at Monterrey; War Activities Viewed

Roosevelt --Camacho Speeches   Leaders Of U.S, And Mex: ico Appeal For Friendliness To Avoid Another War.

Bombing As Token  Failure   Ships, Targets For Invaders, Unhurt; Source Of Raid Undecided.

Bombers Try For U. S. Ships   [and Situatior On Island Is ‘Unchanged’ ~

Packer Charges "Diseased Meat'’ Is Sold Public Through Black Markets

DISEASED MEATS REACH MARKET   COMPLAINTS LAY BLAME TO BLACK MARKET SALES

BUREAUCRATIC  FRICTION CAUSE OF NEW THREAT   Unearth New Proof of ‘Black Market’ Activity

SENATE CHECKS BLACK MARKET   To Run Down Agencies Responsible for Sale of Diseased Meat

Town Pulverized By Artillery Fire   Vivid Account of U. S. Army Advance in Italy Given by a Wnter.

BITUMINGUS PARLEYS ARE BROKEN DOWN   Each side accuses the other of turning their conferenc« into a farce ——~ Go to  W.L.B. today.   Sullen and Morose

Negotiations Period  Ends Today   Operators and Miners Accuse Each Other of Turning Conference On Wage Differences Into Farce

GROUPS CHARGE MEETING FARCE  el   Lewis Says Attitude Insult to Coal Miners   BURKE DECLARES   No Attempt on Part of Miners To Discuss Issues; Con. ferees Far Apart

Coal Wage Negotiations  Break Down   Operators and Miner: Accuse Each Other of Turning Contract Parley Into * ‘Farce

Mine Dispute Deadlocked   Negotiations Fail To Bring Understandina

NegotiationsBreak Down In Disagreement; Latest Conference Termed Farce   Operators Plan to Report Failure fo WLB Today; Lewis Says Session Is Farcical Proceeding in Every Way” and ‘’Stultification of Collective Bargaining’; Burke Says Issues Not Discussed

Breakdown Reported In  Mine Pay Negotiations   Operators Plan to Report Failure to War Labor Board —Proceedings Called Farce by Union Leader and Operator

Wage Contract Parley Farce,’  Lewis Declares   Operators Will Report To WLB Today: No

MINE OPERATORS TO SADDLE WLB WITH COAL CASE   Lewis Calls Bargaining At tempt “Farcical Proceed ing In Every Way”   TODAY IS DEADLINE SET FOR AGREEMENT

Disagreement Breaks Down Coal Contract Negotiations   Miners and Operators Accuse Each Other  Of Turning Conference At Capital into Farce   NEW TALK PERIOD TO EXPIRE TODAY

» MINE OWNERS, LEWIS BITTER " ASTALKS FAIL   Operators to Report ' Parley Breakdown To WLB Today

SOFT COAL WAGE NEGOTIATIONS END “INDISAGREEMENT   Kach Side Accuses the Other “of ‘Turning Weshington Conference Into a “Raree,.”? —   LEWIS SAYS OPERATORS’ ATTITUDE IS INSULT   Owners Declare Miners Refused to Discuss Issues— To Report Failure to Labor Board.

Operators Expected To Report Wage Deadlock   Conference Members Accuse Each Side ( Turning Meeting Into Farce; Burke Says Issues Not Discussed

Conference Turned Into Farce, Operators  And Miners Charge   Mine Owners to File Report on Failure With War Labor Board; Lewis’ Action  In Latest Disagreement Is Awaited

PARLEYS FAL CRY FARCE      Operators and Miners _Accuse Each _. - Other

MINE DISPUTE PEACE TALKS GET NOWHERE   LEWIS WALKS OUT. CONDEMNS COAL OPERATORS

Negotiations of Mine Dispute ‘in Breakdown  Operators to Tell © WLB Parley Fails; ecomes a Farce

Mine Strike Negotiations  Break Down   Union And Operators Brand Meeting Ac Fayre

Wage Parley Breaks Down   Each Side Charges That Neaotiations Just Farce

Germans Move Strong Troop Units To Italy   Apparently Intend To Make Fight For North End At Least.

Nazis Moving Many Troops Into Italy   Apparently Plan to Defend at Least Northern Section—Germans Also Relieve Italians In France, Reports Indicate.

GERMAN  UNITS GO INTO ITALY   Believe Nazis Will Make Real Fight for North End of Country.   TALLIES PLAN INVASION

Nazis Move Troops Into Italy, Take Over French Coastal Stretch; Enslaved Peoples Told to Prepare for Invasion

GERMANS POUR TROOPS INTO NORTHERN ITALY AS INVASION THREAT SOUNDED

Nazi Troops Moving Into Italy; Real Fight Seen   Estimate Of German Strength There Not Possible; Divisions Arrivine From France

INVASION NEAR, ALGIERS HINTS IN BROADCAST   Allies Urge Conquered Peoples To Help   Liberators   ARMIES ARE READY   Two-Way Thrust Expected Upon Europe In Near Future

Nazis Believed Preparing To Make Defense Stand In Po River Section

GERMAN FORCES TAKE STAND ON FRENCH COAST   Patriots Ready To Help Allied Units When Time Arrives

OCCUPIED AREA PATRIOTS TOLD “TBE READY”   Germans Reported Moving Troops Into Northern ltaly Territory   ICOAST DISTRICT GUARDED   Observers Believe Allied Blows May Be Aimed From Two Directions

BRITON CLAIMS REICH SENDING MEN TO ITAL)   Military Informant Reports *Several Divisions’ Moved to Northern Section

Northern Italy  Defenses Grow ‘German Troops moving  In For Action

Germans Moving ' Troops in Italy In Great Force   It Is Pct Huns Intend to Make a Real Fight For Country.   Also Take the French  Coast From Italians

‘Allies Hint: European—Invasion-Near: Call On Patriots To Be Prepared

PATRIOTS URGED TO PREPARE FOR EARLY OFFENSIVE   ALGIERS BROADCASTS REPORT IN NAME OF HIGH ALLIED CHIEFS

Be On Alert, Europe Told   Invasion May Be Near, Allied Radio Says

Troops To Meet Allied Advance Rushed South   Axis Seen Ready To Fight Bitterly For At Least Northern End Of Italy

MAY MAKE REAL FIGHT FOR NORTH ITALY   Several Divisions Sent From France and Ger many in Last Week or ec

Nazis Prepare To Make Stand In North Ital   Allied Blows May Fall Elsewhere; Patriots Ready To Arise

More Germans Info N. Italy   Not Likely to Risk Many To Hold Southern Italy

GERMANS RUSH TROOPS TO ITALY   Expect Nazi Forces To Defend Land North of River Po

EUROPEAN PATRIOTS WARNED INVASION IS JUST AROUND CORNER  CEDARS MrRAN TORN wn

Eisenhower Says Yanks And British Are Ready To Go   Germans Reported Moving Many Troops Into Italy; Allied Broadcast Warns Conquered Europeans To Prepare For Zero Hour

NAVAL FORGE SHELLS ATALIAN MAINLAKB AS °      Land Invasion Of Europe Near

German Troops Rushed To Italy For North Stand   Large Number’ Moved Indicating Nazis May Try To Hold  Frontier

Nazis Move Into Italy In Strength   Attempting to Be Ready For Allied Blow When And Where It Falls      Burlington Liars’ Club Questions This Tall Tale

Patriots In Occupied Europe: Told By Radio That Hour Of Invasion May Be Near

Allied High Command Tells People of Occupied Europe To Get Ready for Invasion

EUROPEAN PATRIOTS WARNED INVASION IS JUST AROUND CORNER  GERMANS REPORTED MOV. ING TROOPS INTO ITALY ”" TO MAKE STAND THERE

THE GERMANS ARE STILL RUSHING TRANDS TH ITAL Y   Signs Indicate Nazis To Make Real Fight To Hold Italy      TAKE OVER SOUTH COAST OF FRANCE

Patriots of Nazi Occupied Countries Warned To Prepare for Allied Attack on Hitler's Fortress —But Points for Striking Not Revealed   Bv LEWIS HANKINS

Also Taking Over French Coastal Area   Allied Command Tells Patriots of Occupied Europe to Prepare for Allied Invasion Which Might be Near.”

May Make Real Fight For The Northern Parf   Nazis Also Reported Strengthening Forces Along French Coast  -_—. + err ea tere rar’

Germans Move  Strong Troops .  Into North Italy Allies Tell Patriots  In Occupied Europe To Meet Invasion

Nazis Move — Into Italy In Strength   Attempting to Be Ready ~ For Allied Blow When And Where It Falls

Warships Shell Italian Shores To Blast Bases   Little Respite Given Troops who Fled from Italy

REPORT NAZIS MOVING MEN INTO ITALY   “Other German Forces Said To Be Replacing Italians Guarding Coast Of Southern France

Allied Broadcast Indicates Early Invasion Thrust   Calls On Patriots To “Be Ready;” Germans Take Over French Coast

GERMANS MOVING TROOPS 10 :TALY, BRITON DECLARES   Nazis Expected to Make Real Fight for at Least Northern End of Junior Partner in Asis.

2 RED COL CONVERGING ON VYAZMA FRONT   Take 114 Settlements and Pour Through Gaps in Germans’ Lines

Vyazma Now Threatened by  Russ Advance   Red Army Pouring Through Gaps in German Line In That Sector

SOVIETS TEAR GERMAN LINE, NEAR VYAZME   114 More Settlements Won By Russians As Artillery Helps New Advance

Soviets Atm At  Vvazma   .. + Rapid Advance   Manv Germans Slain.

Second War Loan Drive In District Successful Revond All Expectations

Quebec Parley About Ready To Get Under Way   War Strategy In Europe Expected To Be Top Point Discussed   POLITICAL ISSUES   Fight Against Japan Is Likewise Sure To Be  Given Attention

Churchill Denies War Prediction   Christmas Forecast Not Made, He Says

WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON  By REY. T. M. LHMLY   BIBLE TEACHING ON: WINE'S DECFEITFULNESS

SLAY ARMIES SWEEPING ON   125,000 MEN ATTACK TOTTERING AXIS LINES

PATRIOT ARMY MAKES ATTACK       Jugoslav Men Attacking Axis from Albanian Frontier to Noith. eastern Italy.

JUGOSLAV ARMY OF 125,000 SMASHING NAZI FRONT LINES      Guerrilla Troops Now Hold 33,000 Square Miles Of Jugoslav

SLAV PATRIOTS CONTROL THIRD OF THEIR LAND   Report German, Puppet Croation Losses Are High

Yugoslav Ar my Of 125. O00  Makes Gains   Partisans Claim Contro! of Third Of Country

125,000 Slavs Attacking Nazis   Over One-Third of Country Liberated

Jugoslav Army: OFT2500Is Mecking Nazis  _” Now Control Over: ; * One: Third'of te Whole.Country . *-

PANTELLERIA CAPTURE BOOST FOR AIR POWER   Crushing Onslaught on Italian Island Called Landmark in History of Aviation

700 Soviet Planes Raid Nazis    With Pantetleria Victory,  ‘Air Power Wins Greater Respect

27 RAIDS IN 11 HOURS    Conquest of - Outpost Moved Air Power Up Another Notch

Importance Of Aw Power Is  Demonstrated   Aviation Moved Another Notch In Technic Of Modern Warfare After Pantelleria Attacks

SUFFERS BROKEN LEG   Iowan Was Hit by a Car on Massachusetts Street Last Night

IIPTON WOMA PAGED AWAY Al HOSPITAL   Mrs. Otto Trittschuh Died Saturday Morning in Indian polis.   FUNERAL IS MONDAY   One of This City’s Finest Mothers Has Beea Caled.

TIPTON WOMAN PASSED AWAY AT AUOPITAL   Mrs. Otto Trittscauh Died _ Saturday Morning ‘in: — Indianapolis.   FUNERAL IS MONDAY   One of This City’s ‘Finest. ‘Mothers ‘Has: Been ~ - Calied.

DEPUTY OPA ADMINISTRATOR IN RESIGNATION CRITICIZES “POLICIES AND PERSON-~ NEL OF THE AGENCY

MAXO': = UITS OPA:’ e ASTS ITS SEIUP   Charges Clique Trying to “Remake American Economy”

Oo OPA lo DANGER TO NATION   MAXON RESIGNS, SAYS RADICAL CLIQUE RUNS THE BUREAU.   Blast Is Heavy   ‘Deputy Administrator Says Not  Even Houdini Could Straighten Out Mess.

Railway Operating Unions Vote To Strike Unless Pay Demands Are Met:  House Com. Hears Vinson’s Protest

Workers. Set Dec. 30 As Deadline   Vincent Continues  Opposition to 8-Cent Pay Boost

Administration Fight Wage Increase  For Non-Operating Railroad Workers

Work Condition Changes Asked   ““BRT Union Members To Decide On Demand

Lower 13 Slayer Goes On Trial    Negro Cook Charged With Murder Of Bride Of Navy Ensign.

Reds Push Close Te  Dnieper Spires Of Kiev Visible From  Russ Line _

Nazi Forces Reported in Retreat Toward ! Dnieper  GAINS ARE SCORED ON OTHER FRONTS  One of Last Evacuation Ports in the Crimea

WATER LINE IS BROKEN BY FLOOD   Fort Smith, Ark., and Camp Chaffee Have About Six Days’ Supply in Storage   600 CITY BLOCKS ARE INUNDATED   Soldiers Rescue Persons Marooned in Oklahoma; Six Persons Drowned

LOCAT, ORSEPRVATIONA   Camp Water Line Broken by Flood   Fort Smith and Camp Chaffee Affected; Black  River on Ramnage.

Flooded River  Breaks Conduit   Thousands Homeless« as Arkansas Reaches  Record Heights

Water Conduit ToCamp Chaffee Broken by Flood   Six-Day Supply Remains For Camp and for City Of Fort Smith, Arkansas

F lood Cuts Off Fort Smith, Camp Chattee Water Suppl}   10 Persons Missing In Oklahoma Flood

Gunner's Story  Of 7 Victories   Had Promised to Get Dad ‘A Few Planes’

Gunner Kept His Promise To Father .   Ran Into Plenty Action Over Sicily, But Got His Planes

COAL MINERS GO BACK TO WORK IN U.S,   Unions Capitulate to F.R.’s Uitimatum Which Was Backed by Pennsylvania Governor

HARD COAL- MINERS ARE  RETURNING FQ. WORK AFTER A THREAT BY PRESIDENT

U.S. Fliers Dump Many Tons Of Bombs On Enemy In Burma   Airfield North Of Rangoon Heavily Blasted, Three Fighters Shot Down

10TH AIR FORCE BLASTS BURMA   Tons of Bombs - Poured On Enemy Airfield North Of Rangoon.

Heavy Bombers Hit Burma Japs   U. S. Airmen Continue De structive Assaults, Down Three Zeroes.

HITLER OFFERS. 10 QUIT ACTIVE ROLE IN RUSSIA BATTLE   Still “Wants. To To” Be .“Big Chief,” But. General? Refuse To Bear  Blame...

Generals Dernend He Become Mere Ornament   SEEKS SCRAPEGOATS FOR RUSSIA DEFEATS

WLB 10 DEAL WITH HINERS      Bituminous Coal Operators Drop Wage Dispute Back inte Lap of Government Agencies.

COAL DISPUTE RETURNS TO WLB   Lewis Blames “Suilen” Operators for Failure of Negotiations

OAL DISPUTE THROWN NTO LAP OF THE W.LB.   ituminous Operators Reach Deadlock .on Confer-‘ences and. Federal Board Again Is Confronted With Issue—Is Believed Prepared to Deal With Case Itself This Time. 7

Usual Excitement Missing in Most Of State as Campaigns Near Close

Usual Excitement Missing In Most of State as Political Campaigns Reach Climax

Navy Approves Battle Clasps   -Numerals On Uniforms For Campaigns—Stars Fos Battles ©

DRUNKEN GUARD HELD IN KILLING   Pendergast Foe Shot by Man Posing as Traffic Officer

YOUTH LEADER . FATALLY. SHOT   LOUIS G, LOWER CLAIN IN. KAN SAB CITY. BY MAN POSING. “AB A TRAFFIC OF. . FICER

Little Change On East Front; Mud Is Heavy   Berlin Claims Russian Thrusts Are Repulsed

Soviets Pushing Slowly On German Positions; Local Engagements Flare

Russians Beat Off Violent Attacks in Upper Donets Area   Spreading Spring Thaw Brings Worse Weather Along Front

Thaws Are Bringing Worse Weather to Long Russian Front; No Major Activity

SPREADING THAW SLOWS UP NAZIRUSSIAN BATTLE   “No Essential Changes Soviet Communique Reports; Germans Claim Red  Thrusts Repulsed.

Spreading Thaw Curbs Action On Russ Front   Few Changes Are Reported in Day's Communique

Armies Bog Down On Eastern Front   Sharp Clashes Continue; Little Change Has Been  Made! in Week:   IN WITH COLD. STEEL   Supplies From U. 5. Now Felt at Front, Says a Soviet General

THAW SLOWS RUSSIAN FRONT   150 Nazis Trying to Cross Donets Killed

Russian: Front: - Stymied By Muc   Major Fighting Stalled - By Spring Thaws

SOVIETS SLOWED DOWN BY SPRING THAW, DEEP MUD   No Big-Scale Battles A Weather Conditions Hamper Reds’ Drive

NO ESSENTIAL CHANGE IN RED FRONT   Spring Thaw Brings Worse Weather Conditions to Long Russian Battle Line

NO ESSENTIAL CHANGES ON SOVIET FRONT   Fighters Push Slowly Inte German Positions on Distant Approaches About Smolensk   SKIES CLEAR IN SOUTH

Weather Bogs Fighting On  Soviet Fronts   Action Limited To Scouting Sorties  In All Sectors

Bayonets win reds sround adie of Bely   Thick mud hold: most fighting to patrol operation

Mud Slows Up Russian Drive  Major Scale Action Halted by Weather; P feu  Po teen: Chen

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK BASE   Spring Thaw Bogs Whole Battlefront, But Reds Grind Forward In Central Sector   RUSSIANS: REPULSE FOE ALONG DONETS   Aerial Clashes Mounting In Southern Area As Weather Improves, Moscow Reports

Thaw Slows Russ Front Activity  Nazis Renew Assaults in  Donets Rive~  , BEARS. Trees

Push on Toward Smolensk and Prevent Germans From Crossing Donets River.

Spring Thaw Brings Lull on Red Front   ‘No. Essential Changes in Any Area, Says Russian 4 Communique   NO MAJOR ACTION FOR A WEEK NOW   Reds Win Some Trench Positions:in Battles Bast of: Kharkov

FIGHTING LAGS IN RUSSIA BUT DONLANDS DRY   "No Essential: Changes’ Again Re ported on Froais~American J Aid - Sent from: Tran

NAZI CAMPAIGN BOGS DOWN ON RUSSIAN FRONT  REDS BEAT BACK   REDS BEAT BACK FURIOUS ASSAULTS ON UPPER DONETS

Spring Thaw Slows Pace In Russ War   Only Scouting Operations Possible in Thick Mud and Slush

SPRING THAW BOGS ENTIRE BATTLEFRONT   Effects Of U.S. War Material And Food On Russia Front Making Itself Felt

SPRING THANS GHECK BATTLE   No Big- Scale A Activities in Last Week on Russian Front.

Bad Weather Halts Big-Scale Activity On Soviet Fronts  However, Vatious Sectors Still Hove - Shoro Clashes

HAW RETARDS SOVIET ARMIES   No Essential Changes On Russian Frents, Says Communique

Fight In Russia Slowed By Mud   No Essential Changes On Battlefronts

WEATHER SLOWS RUSSIAN ACTION ON TWO FRONTS   Scouting Units Engage Germans  In North Area

ADVANCING SPRING THAW SLOWING DOWN ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA  COMMUNIQUE SAYS NO ESSENTIAL CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED THERE

NO ESSENTIAL CHANGES MADE ON RED FRONT   Mud Limits Action To Patroling

Jans Expecting New Ally Blows   Rush Men, Planes To Pacific Area

APO EAPEGT NEW ATTACKS EA OM 2 AREAS   Nips Feverishly Preparing For Allied Offensive In Two Sectors

Japs Strengthen Bases in Fear  Of New Attacks   Enemy Continues Retreat on New Guinea Keeps Planes Down

Japs Strengthen Island Defenses   U.S. Bombers Lash New Britain Bases

INIpS Are sittery Japs Increase Patrols, Rush Defenses In Pacific

Porto Empedocle Seen As _ Major Factor In Victory   Provides Excellent Facilities For Landing Of Allied  Heavy Equipment And Guns

Interpreting he War   By HAMILTON W. FARON By The Associated Press

BRITISH REOPEN BORDER BETWEEN TURKEY SYRIA   Explanations of Halted Movements Have Wide Variations

Turk-Syrian Border Re-Opens; Movement Of Troops Shielded.   Correspondent Reports No Signs Of Tension As Result Of Closing

TURKISH-SYRIAN FRONTIER OPENED   British For 48 Hours Had Stopped All Traffic Except Allied Diplomatic and Military Personnel.

‘0 Peace Overtures      U.S. Doubles Merchant Fleet; Pre-War Total of Axis Topped

PROHIBITION DRIVE BY DRY LEAGUE ON   Congressmen Deluged with Petitions, ‘Tis Said

TREASURY OFFICIAL. OPPOSES -RUML PLAN OF “FORGIV- _ ING” TAXES IN "PAY AS GO" PLAN -

REDS CAPTURE SEVEN TOWNS ON DON RIVER   BERLIN ADMITS NAZI WITHDRAW ALIN CAUCASUS

Germans Pushed Back on Both Sides of Don River as Soviets Push Toward Key City.   RETREAT IN CAUCASUS ADMITTED BY NAZIS   Hitier’s Southern Forces Trying to Escape Encirclement—Violent Fight *, ine Reported.

Knox Tells of Loss off New Britain   identity of Warship and Casualties in Move Unrevealed

A U.S. Destroyer Has Been Sunk   4 Small Coastal Transport Ship Also Damaged by Japanese Bombs.

NAVYLOSES TWO SHIPS, SEC.KNOX   One Destroyer: and’ One ~ Transport, Casualties: Not.. Given -

Nh ARE ESI OF BOMBIRG   Gloucester’ Attack Of Enemy Aired . ' By Knox.”

TWO ALLIED SHIPS SUNK BY JAPANESE   Navy Destroyer And Transport Are Missing

VESSELS LOST INGLCUCESTER AREA SUNDAY   Later Navy Announcement Says Transport Was Only Damaged

U.S. Loses Destroyer in Isle Smash   TRANSPORT DAMAGED IN YANK LANDINGS AT CAPE GLOUCESTER

2 Ships Lost in Tnvasion   American Destroyer, Trans“port are Victims of ‘Jap Bombs’ at Cape Gloucester

Sent Down by Jap Bombs In Operation   Small Coastal Transport Damaged —No Figures Given On Casualties

Japs Sink Destroyer, Transport   U. S. Losses At  Cape Gloucester

Knox Reveals Destroyer And One Small Transport Lost At Cape Gloucester

Sinkings Occur in  Attack by Aircraft During Landings at Cape Gloucester

Destroyer Lost At New Britain   Also a Costal Transport Goes Down Under Jap  Bombs in Landings.

Destroyer Is Lost At  Gloucestex   Coastal Transport Ship Is Damaged By Bombs During Landings On New Britain Coast

Destroyer And Coastal Ship Sunk At  Gloucester   Knox Announces U.S. Losses; Admiral Hill Praises Tarawa And Makin Landings

Navy Secretary Knox Says Japanese Claims Of Bigger Loss Fantastic

DESTROYER  fh SUNK BY JAPS   Small Coastal Transport Ship Damaged in New Britain Bombings.   SHIPS NOT IDENTIFIED

ONE DESTROYER LOST IN NEW BRITAIN DRIVE   Transport Is Damaged: Marines Seize Target Hill, Push Inland

: {  Two Ships Only Losses in  New Landings; Casualties Undisclosed.

TRANSPORT HIT BY JAPANESE AS MARINES INVADE   Knox Unable To List Total of Men Lost, Withholds Ship’s Identity

Daily Temperatures   Knox Reveals Destroyer Was Sunk During Invasion of Cape Gloucester

Jap Bombs Sink U.S. Destroyer Transport Ship Aiso Damaged _  In Landings on New Britain

Destroyer Is Lost in New Landing   American Transpori Damaged; Jap Claims Are Denied

U. S. Destroyer Sunk, Small Transport Damaged in Pacific   Canadians Battling Nazi Flame-Throwers

A DESTROYER LOST IN NEW BRITAIN DRIVE   Small Coastal Transport Damaged in Cape Gloucester Landings, Knox Reveals—Loss of Life Not Given.

U. S. Losses In New Britain Invasion Included Destroyer, Small Transport   U. P. War Correspondent Describes  Marines’ Drive Into New Britain

U.S. Warship Sunk in Raid   3  Small Coastal Vessel Damaged; Knox Denies Jap Sinking Claims

Knox Admits Ship Sunk At Cape Landing   American Destroyer Lost, Coastal Transport Damaged Near New Britain,   IJAP CLAIM FANTASTIC

KNOX DENIE ALL CLAIMS OF JAPS   Ship’s Name, Number 0 Men Lost Withheld   ADMIRAL HILL   Says Every American Can. Be Proud Of Victories — At Makin, Tarawa

U.S, DESTROYE SUNK, COASTAL TRANSPORT HIT   Landings at Cape Gloucester Not Made Without Loss, Knox Reveals

U. S. Destroyer Sunk, Transport Damaged In Cape Gloucester Action

MARINES CLOSE ON N. BRITAIN JAP AIRFIELDS   Take Hill Overlooking East Coast Beaches On Cape

HIT BY NIPPON BOMBERS; ONLY LOSSES T0 U.S.   Secretary Knox, In An-nouncing Sinkings, Does Not Reveal Name of   Warship   DESCRIBES TOKYO’S CLAIM “FANTASTIC”   Japan’s Radio Had Reported Sinking of Two Allied Cruisers and Two  Transports

Two Vessels Lost In New Britain Push   Anox Reveals Destroyer And Coastal Transport Only Casualties

British Stab At Japanese Rear  South Of Akyab   Commando-Like R aic Wrecks Enemy-Held Vil.  lace In Burma.

JAPANESE OCCUPIED VILLAGE IN BURMA WRECKED BY BRITISH  _ WAVELL’S COMMANDO.

WAVELL WIPES OUT JAP HOLD   Chinese Claims Enemy Has Made No Gains in Big Drives

Raiders Hit JapaneseHeld Base in Burma   Hold Village, 60 Miles From Akyab, for Period of Five Hours, Wrecking it

Commandos Hit Japs In Burma   Wreck Japanese Village 60 Miles Below Akyab In Quick Attack.

Wavell Army Raiders Wreck Jap Village   ‘US Fighter ‘Planes Down Six Of Enemy In Air Battle

4  FACE LIMITED OPPOSITION   Other Allied Troops Move Toward Salamaua   DIREGT HiT   Made On Big Enemy Cargo Ship At Rabaul; Little Change On China Front

Take Village 60 Miles Below Akyab   Wavell’s Forces Attack and Wreck Jap-Occupied Town; Other Forces 25 Miles from Key Enemy Base

HEAVY DAMAGE BY FORCES OF WAVELL ARM)   Commandos Operate From Royal Indian Navy in Their Attack Below Aykab, Jap Center

BRITISH TROOPS SPEND 5 HOURS ASHORE IN RAID   Allied Planes Bomb Japanese; Continue Advance on Salamaua

Wavell’s Commandos Wreck  Jap Village Below Akyab   Troops Aboard:Royal Indian Navy Vessel Remain in Possession of Enemy-Occupied Town For Five Hours

BRITISH RUIN JAP VILLAGE BELOW AKYAB   Raid Is First From That Direction Since Wavell  , Re-entered Burma —  ._ MacArthur’s Men Push Toward Salamaua.

HOLD BRITISH COMMANDO HIT JAPANESE   Town 60 Miles Behind Lines In Burma Raided, Wrecked BySpecial Forces _

JAPS RAIDED IN BURMA BY ‘WAVELL UNI   Commando-Like Attack -On Key Nip Akyab Base Reported

British Stab At Japs Rear Near Akyab   MacArthur Drives Toward Jab Base On New Guinea

Commando Raid Made On Japs In  Key Burma Base   Wavell Makes Bolc Stab At Rear Ot! Enemy; Damage Is Heavy

ALLIED OFFENSE AGAINST JAPS BEING SET UP   At Least That Is Indication In Attack on Jap-occupied Village in Burma   COMMANDO TACTICS USED   Aerial Assault Intensified Over Wide Area in Pacific: Cargo Ship Blasted

Wavell Commandos Strike Terror to Japanese in Burma   ALLIED WARPLANES SUPPORT YANK DRIVE ON BIG ENEMY BASE AT SALAMAUA AS NIPS HIT OVER WIDE AREA IN PACIFIC

Village 60 Miles Below Akyab Has Commando Raid   Troops Landed by Indian Navy Held Town for Five Hours

JAPANESE OCCUPIED  VILLAGE IN BURMA  WRECKED BY BRITISH WAVELL’S COMMANDO  LIKE RAIDERS STRIKE  OMCVviIiVv NeCicivei Vv

HANCOCK NAMED HEAD OF F.S.A   Jones Announces Appointment of Oxford Man; To Begin Duties Nov. 15..

GERMANS MAY CLOSE DUTCH UNIVERSITIES   Move Considered as Students Re fuse to Pledge Obedience to Nazi Rule.

HOG PRICE CEILING CONFERENCE NOW ON   Program Expected To Have $14.50 Cwt. Basis

ROOSEVELTS PLAN HOLIDAY AT HOME   Two Sons to Join First Family Celebration at Hyde Park Estate

Roosevelts Will Spend Christmas At Their Family Home in Hyde Park

Roosevelts Have Family Christmas   Two of Their Four Sons To Be Home; To Celebrate Holiday At Hyde Park.

Roosevelts Plan Christmas Party At Family Home   Two Sons Will Join Them at Hyde Park

Miss Dora Weber Dies.in Tipton   Sister of G. T. Weber of This. City Succumbs Suddenly

Churehill And Turkey Reach  Agreement   Secret Pact Stirs Axis; Prime Minister Expresses Optimism

NAZIS WORRIED OVER TURKISH CONFERENCE   Attempt to Find Out What Agreement Churchill and Turkish Officials Reached at Meeting—-Reports Fail to Clear Up Exact Situation — Prime Minister Says Climax Is Rapidly  pa, oon

RINTENANCE-OF POST-WAR PEACE. RESTS WITH “BIG THREE” JUST = AS MUCHL AS WINNING OF WAR ©   Recurrerit t Threat of War Can Only Be Preventec By Close Alignment of Britain, Russia and Unites Staes, After Crushing of Enemy Forces

Recurrent Threat Of War Only Averted By Postwar Cooperation Of Nalions So Strong No Enemy Will Dare Challenge Their Rules

The War T oday—  (Only Big Three Powers Can Maintain ‘Peace Of World After War Is Over

The War Today   Big Three Must Shoulder Full Responsibitity for World Peace

Congressmen Set To Speed ‘Pay-as-Go’  Tax Svctem   House Committee Calls Public Hearings For Next Tuesday On Plans Offered   Doughton Feels Time Too Short To Pass Bills Before March 15   Defense Rests Case in Trial  Of Errol Flynn

oFLYNN DEFENSE RESTS ITS GAGE   P attorney May Request Visit By Jury to Actor’s Luxurous Yacht; Jury May Get  _ Case Wednesday

American Bomber Which Participated In Kurile Raid Lands In Russia

‘REPUBLICANS ‘ BACK PLAN FOR - ALLIED COUNCII    Support Senators’ y Plan As Rus‘ sia’s War Aims Are oy Reported.

By LYLE C, WILSON ‘United Press Stiff Correspondent   Hamlett Will Head Local Crippled Children’s Drive

6. 0. P. Backs  Move to Discuss Post-War Issues   _ Endorsement Is Signed by Rep. John Phillips

American Dash From Enna Cuts Off West Sicily   Island's Largest City Is Abandoned; Thousands Of Italians Trapped

PATTON'S 7TH ARMY PUSHES INTO PALERMO   Fall Causes Demoraliza< tion in Axis Camps and Cries for Peace Go Up in Italy. .   STRIKES REPORTED SWEEPING COUNTRY.   Reuters Says Enemy Has Begun Evacuation of Island as Americans Fan Out to Mop Up.   BILLETIN.

GOLDEN NEW WPB “VIE CHAIRMAN   Keenan Gets Other Labor Post as Officials Move . for Coordination

Weather in Helena  Be U.S. Weather Bureau  Warmer Weidlnesdas.   ‘Manpower, Production Co-ordination Placed in Hands of ClO \Union Official. Clinton S$. Golden

Weather in Helena   Manpower, Production Co-ordination Placed in Hands of ClO Union Official. Clinton S$. Golden

Germans On Defensive  Homefront Crackup Caused Hun Surrender In 1918

Enemy Gave Up After 52 Mon  ‘GERMANY AT THIS POINT IN ~ WORLD WAR 1: A COMPARISON

KISKA RAIDED ‘22 TIMES IN 4-DAY PERIOD   Latest Blows Announced by Navy Include Six Smashing Attacks Sunday, and Two Army Assaults on Monday.

Kiska Under More Raids   Six Aerial Assaults Made; Softening Up Defenses for Landing

Six More Smashing Assaults On hiska   Army Planes Follow Sunday Attacks With Another Yesterday, Navy Annowuness

KISKA SMASHED BY U. S. FLIERS   Damaging Assaults Staged On Jap Positions In Aleutians

AMERICAN BOMBS FALL FAST ON JAPS’ KISKA BASE   Attack, Monday Follows Six Shattering Aerial Assaults, Sunday—‘Little’ Kiska ia Hit in Monday Raid 

Kiska Smashed From Air Six Times Sunday   Aleutian Island Also Hi by Army Planes Agair Yesterday.

Pre-Invasion Raids on Kiska Island Increasec   Six. More Heavy “Blows Launched :Aqdainst Jap: Base

OMASHING ATTACKS AGAINST JAPANESE ON KISKA ISLAND   TWENTY-TWO AIR ACTIONS CARRIED OUT OVER ENEMY PACIFIC OUTPOST

U. S. FORCES SLAP JAPS AROUND IN PACIFIC THEATER   INCREASED ACTIVITY HINTS OF OFFENSIVE TO DRIVE ENEMY BAC}

ENEMY LOSES SIX SHIPS TOU. S. SUBS   Yank Airmen In 13 Raids On Nip Bases; Heaviest Attack In Weeks Made On Kiska Island

KOKA ISLAND RAIDED AGAIN   U. S..Smashes at Jap Land, Sea Forces From Alaska to Solomons.   JAP SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK

Six More Air Blows On Kiskz   Army Follows Up Navy Smashes in Possible Prelude to Invasion   HEAVY AIR ACTION ON OTHER FRONTS   Submarines Are Taking Heavy Toll of Jap Ships in Pacific Areas

KISKA RAIDED AGAIN   American Airmen Make Six Raids On Jap-Held Isiand

New Attacks Soften Kiska   “Pre-Invasion’ Raids Now Total 22; Jap Solomons Fleet Hit

Prisoner Bag  Now 64,000; Cape Blocked   25,000 Accept American Terms of Unconditional Surrender —

Air War Hits New Peak on Russian Front; 930 German Planes Destroyed in Week; Reds Advance in Kuban

ALLIES ANNOUNCED SURRENDER 25,000 AXIS NEAR BIZERTE   PLIGHT OF REMAINING ENEMY ON CAP BON PEN. INSULA DESPERATE

Algiers Reports Enemy Has Lost (4,000 Prisoners   Sub Shells Japanese Village and Allies lanes Raid Canton

80,000 Left On Peninsula  In ‘Desperate’ Condition   Unconditional Surrender Of Thousands Is Reported; Evacuation Boats Sunk   MINOR DUNKIRK ENDS DISASTROUSLY   64,000 Captured, 42,000 Lost In Africa; Red  Armies Enter Novorossisk

Tunisia Battle Near End; Prisoner Total Reaches 64,000; Invasion of Europe Evidently Near.

Six Generals Taken By American Forces   Terror Stricken Axis Troops Trying Te Escape By Boat Are Annihilated

Resistance Ends In North Pocket   Only Few of Estimated 200,000 Enemy Forces Will Escape — Many Small Boats Blasted to Bottom—Opening Of New Phase Believed to Be Near

Allies Capture 50 000 Men,  Six Generals   War in Tunisia Is All but Finished; Invasion of Europe Imminent; Reds Penetrate Outer Fortifications of Novorossisk

blockade Of CapBon Tightened   Enemy Prisoners Now 61,000; Wounded and Dead Placed at 42.000

64,000 Captured In Tunisia, Algiers Radio Announces   Allies Blast Small Boats Casting Off From North African Shores

Innumerable Small Boats Loaded With Terror Stricken German and Italian Fugifives Are Blasted   Hitler and Mussolini Prepare for Invasion as Last of Afrika Corps Is Annihilated: Franco Seeks Peace

BLOCKADE BY ALLIED UNITS BARS ESCAPE   25,000 Axis Soldiers Surrender as Allies  Control North

Their Escape From Tunisian Peninsula Is Held Impossible   Allies Count Total of 50,000 Prisoners as Yanks Bomb Italy

80,000in Cap Bon Pocket Doomed   Hitler Lashes Anti-Invasion Forces into -Action; Allied Airmen Rake Sicily; Estimate. ‘Few’ Axis Troops to Escape Tunisian, Trap Alive as Escape Boats Are Sunk

Remaining 80,000 Enemy Forces on Cap Bon Are Blockaded by Sea and Air

Surrender on Tip of Tunisia, Still Fight In Other Sectors   Allied Naval, Air Forces Encircle Cap Bon Peninsula, Sink Several Small Ships Trying To Escape

Sea and Air — ~ Blockade. Is. ~ Made. Tighter   Six Generals Fall. Into American: Hands; . British. Take 25,000' Prisoners.’   AXIS LEADERS wes - FLEE TUNISIA.   Planes’ Pound Ships. Trying To Escape; Axis Prepares: : Against: Allied: Invasion: -

Small Enemy Boats Carrying Fugitives Blasted To Bottom   Report 25,000 Captured In War's First Unconditional Surrender: Reds Dent Novorossisk Suburbs

BLOCKADE CLAMPED DOWN ON CAP BON PENINSULA WHERE $0,000 TROOPS HAVE FLED .   Innumerable Small Boats Have Been Blasted  to Bottom That Axis Soldiers Were Using to Try to Make Escape. Career. of Hitler’s Troops: Seem All But Ended In Africa.

Innumerable Troop-Laden Escape Boats Sunk By Airmen   INVASION HOUR NEAR   Russians Penetrate Outer Fortifications of Novorossisk

80,000 MORE IN DESPERATE PLIGHT TODA)   “Dunkirk Boats” Blasted, Dissipating Last Hope for Escape From Northern Africa

TO AMERICANS   Only 80,000 Of Original Axis Force Still Not Captured As Fighting Continues

British Drive Onto Cap Bon After Germans    * Innumerable Axis Boats i  - Sunk Attempting To Evaeuate Fugitives.   ‘TAKE MANY PRISONERS

Small Boats With Fleeing Fascists Sent to Bottom   Hitler ls Hastily Strengthening Forts Aaainst Invasion

Germans Suffer Bad Case Of Invasion Fever Jitters   By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Se'fish Ends A\: ributed By: pangler  Repub pe Chairman Says  Tr Se.  rr ._._ TES ee

JAPAN WARNED OF ANOTHER BOMBING   United States Submarine Sunk Eight Enemy Ships.

SMASHING OF JAPAN BY BOMBS FORESEEN   Adm. Nimitz Points Out Nik  Air Power Decreasing

Round-The-Clock Bombing Of Japs Seen By-Nimit   Declares Air Strength Of Nipponese Is Declining; Must Pull In Armies

Nimitz Sees Daily Bombing For Jap Islands  Nips To Get Taste Of What Germany Is Experiencing

ADMIRAL NIMITZ IN FORECAST OF MASS BOMBINGS OF JAPAN  COMMANDER OF UNITED PACIFIC FLEET DECLARE‘ VICTORY CERTAIN

Admits Treasury Hit   Adm. Nimitz Predicts Day and Night Attacks On Nippon Homeland

FOOD PROGRAM DIRECTOR QUITS   Interference Of State Department Blamed For Quarrel

Food Official Resigns Post In Capital Row   State Department Again Figures in Washington Dispute

FOOD QUARREL STIRS CAPITAL   Lecron Quits, Hurls Charges at State Department

OTATE DEPARTMENT TROUBLES INCREASE WITH RESIGNATION  OFFICIAL QUITS AND BLASTS DEPARTMENT  oO WITH CRITICISM

ROW GRIPS . ULS.STATE DEPARTMENT   Latin Food Chief Quits As Climax To Swirling Charges

OFICIAL QUITS AFTER PROTES]   Wallace Associate Levels Criticism Against State Denartment.

Fires Fanned In Department  Of State Row   LeCron Quits Rockefeller Committee Post Blaming Interference

CHARGES HURLEL AT GOVT DEPT, BY J.D. LECRON   Former Newspaper Man Resigns From Federal Position

Official Raps State Dept.   Lecron, ‘food Supply Head Under Rockefeller Quits

Another Feud Flares Into Open At Washington   Former Wallace Aide Quits Food Position, Hits State Department

Food Official Resigns in Capital Row  Leeron Quits Post   Leeron Quits Post After Criticising State Department

Lecron Quits Foreign — "Food Job; Words Fl   Explodes; Accuses of “Interference,

FIGHT FLARES UP OVER FOOD CONTROLS      Incompetence Charged by Resigning Official

STATE DEPARTMENT UNDER NEW ATTACK   Official Who Quits Cites Wall of Incompetence and Obstruction

‘Report Says Norway Now Russian Goal   CAPTURE OF FINN PORT, PHISAMO, IS TOLD IN BROADCASTS,

NEW. COLD WAVE ENTERS STATE”   Still Colder Weather Predicted for Sunday

LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL ee ee aaa  New Industries Spring Up On Beleaguered Malta Island

COAST ANCHOR TAKEN; ALLIES SET FOR DRIVE   Nazi Troops In Headlong Flight In Russia Get No Respite

Germans in Italy Retire From Base   Coastal Anchor of Rome De fense Line Given Up By the Nazis

Stage Set For Allies’ Main Thrust   Flight of Germans Continues in Southern Russia

HARD COAL WAGE PARLEY STARTED   Miners Seek $2 Per Day Increase and Extra Pay for Overtime.

Seek to End State’s Two Time System   Grand Rapids Senator in Washington to Arrange for Compromise on Time

REINFORCEMENTS FOR NAZI TROOPS ARRIVE   Several Divisions of Soldiers Bolster Axis Defenses in Greece After Allied Aerial Bombing of Southern Invasion Approaches — Street Fighting in Several Towns Reported As Greeks Cheer ti. S Arr Attacke.

AXIS. REINFORCING GREECE; INVASION FEARS . MOUNTING   Germans Taking Drastic Steps To Prevent ‘Sabotage Of Air Fields

GERMANS SEND NEW TROOPS 10 DEFEND GREECE  Nozis, Shoot Gre eks * Who Cheer as   AXIS SEES ‘INVASION DAY’ TOMORROW

Vemonstrations  By Rioting Greeks Reported in Many Cities; U. S. Troops Being Moved From Ireland to England

HEADS LOCAL BANKERS   E. B. Martin Elected President of ounty Association

'HEADS LOCAL BANKERS      KE B, Martin Elected President of County Association

RAYBURN WINS OVER MARTIN: MARGIN SLIM   DEMOCRATS RETAIN CONTROL OF HOUSE BY ONLY 11 VOTES

Democrats Barely In Control of House   Rayburn Returned As Speaker; Many Bills Introduced As Legislative Session Formally Gets Under Way.

[oh GING) COVEN TODAY RAYBURN SPEAKER   Sam Rayburn Again Named By Slimmest Margin In Decade To Give Democrats Control of House;  FDR Reports Thursday.

WarConger "ess Enters Upon New Duties At Noon Today   Both Houses Closely Divided On Political Lines; Test Air Raid Hala Rafarea Omaning

Rayburn Elected Speaker of House   Democrats Retain Control _ by Shimmest Margin in Decade   NEW SESSION OPENS   Speaker's Stand Against Bureaucratic Stretching of Laws

Bureaucracy Will Face Attacks   Joint Session To Hear  FD Thursday

RAYBURN BARELY GETS SPEAKERSHIE   House Gives Texan Six Margin Over Martin as Congress Opens

HEAR REPORT BY FDR. THURSDAY   Legislators Consecrated To Victory For Free Peoples Of World   RAYBURN BUSY   Yield No Longer To Bureaucrats, Democrat Tells Caucus

BILLS POURED INTO LEGISLATIVE HOPPER AS CONGRESS MEETS   Service Men, Fiscal Reform Poll Taxes And Lynching Major Subjects   CONGRESS SHARPLY SPLIT

Slimmest Margin in Decade;Rayburn Beats Martin By 217 to 206 Vote

RAYBURN REELECTED AS HOUSE SPEAKER   Democrat Reinstated by Slimmes! Margin in Decade as 78th Con: cress Convenes   VOTE 217 TO 206      Martin, Defeated.for Speaker, Be comes Minority Leader—Many Bills Introduced

PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK ON THURSDAY   Chief Executive Expected To Give Views On Peace   SHARP DIVISION   On Home Front Policy As Harmony In Democratic Party In Balance

RAYBURN DEFEATS REP. MARTIN FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP   Seventy-Eighth Congress Organized and Ready to Hear President’s Report Tomorrew On a Year of War

Rayburn fs Speaker by Slim Margin   Victory Keynote Of Session Full Of Newcomers

Rayburn Is Elected By Slim Margin   Democrats Retain Control of House In 78th Congress   President Reports On War Tomorrow   Galleries Are Packed For First Session As Congress Organizes

MAN PURPORTING TO BE LELAND © HARVEY TELEPHONES MRS. ARNALL AND THREATENS TO KIDNAP SON   If Governor Arnall Doesn’t Call Off Police And Give Him Chance to Flee to Another  State. Federal Bureau of Investigation  Notified of Threat.

GEORGIA GOVERNOR ¢ CHILD [5 THREATENED   Escaped Prisoner Threatens » To Kidnap Child

nein ec on Pa 2, Col. 1)  Goy. Arnall Tells FBI Of Kidnap Threat

OIL TRAIN WRECK NEAR ST. LOUIS   23 Cars Derailed Opposite Ordnance Plant: Flames a Hundred Feet High

Crude Oil Train  Crashes, Burns   Twenty-three Cars Lerailed and Ignited Near St. Louis by High Test. Gas.

Allies Menacing Two Strongholds On German Line   Clark's Big Tanks Sent into Action

Intense Assaulf Underway for Pivotal Cities   Yanks in Outskirts of San Vittore; 8th Fights in Ortona

ALLIES STORM TWO NAZT STRONGHOLDS IN PUSH ON ROME   Fifth Army Slashes Way Into Outskirts of San Vittore, Six Miles from Strategic Cassino,   CANADIANS BATTLE GERMANS AT ORTONA   Fail of Both Cities Expected Momentarily — Muggy Weather Keeps For- tresses Grounded.

Capture Of Two Key Nazi Bases Said Imminent   Opening Of Road To Cassino And To Open Country Near  eerpemas we ae FT & PEE Ee

SAN VITTORE, QRANTO UNDER INTENSE FIRE   Seizure Of Former Would Clear Way For Use Of Heavy Tanks With Infantry

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German Strongholds Under Intense Assault By Allies   Capture of San Vittore and Ortona Expected Momen. tarily—American Infantry Forces Reported in Outskirts of Italian City

Two Vital Nazi Strongholds Are Under Fire   Capture of Ortona, San Vittore Expected Shortly

DEFENSE LINE BELOW ROME IS TOTTERING   TWO MAIN GERMAN STRONGHOLDS DOOMED

Capture Of Two Key Nazi Bases Said Imminent   Opening Of Road To Cassino And To  Cyrees [1 kes Kiss

ALLIES POUND KEY TOWNS ON ROAD TO ROME   Nazi Defenses in Italy Under Yank and Canadian Assault

Assembly May Adjourn Tonight   Only Routine Business to Be  Transacted

Welcome to Newcomers to Joplin Marks Hospitality Days Observance

SMITH IS CHAIRMAN OF MINE COMMITTEE   Democratic Caucus Names Nominees On Standing House Groups

AIKEN URGES FARM CROPS PRICE SUPPORT   Says Government Program Used for Potatoes; Pork Can Be Applied io Other Produce

LAST RITES THRUSDAY   Services for Mrs. Alice Sophia Moore at Christian Church.

Military Service for W. C. Zirkle   Funeral Held From _ Baptis' Church Monday Afternoon at Two o’Clock.

DRAFT BILL 1S DELAYED   KENTUCKY ELECTION. HOLD“ING UP CONSIDERATION OF REVISED DRAFT "MEASURE -

Special Coach Bears Body of Morgan to N.Y.      Heart’Ailment’ Ends: “Career of World 7°" Financier at 75

J, P. MORGAN FUNERAL SET   Noted Financier Dies Of Heart Ailment

Special Railroad Car Bears Body Of J. P. Morgan to New Y ork City

Morgan Body Is En Route To New York   Funeral Tuesday For One of World's Wealthiest Men

Morgan’s Body On Special Car   Financier’s Remains  Bound for New York

JAP CONVOY IS HIT BY ALLIES   3} Ships and Destroyer Bombed Off Dutch New Guinea Coast

Jap Convoy Hit Off NewGuinea   Cargo Ships, Destroyer Bombed Twire

JAPANESE CONVOY BOMBED BY FLIERS   Two “Attacks. Made. on Vessels, Communique . Statec

Allies Attack Japanese Ships   Three-Ship Convoy Bombed, Destroyer Is Left Limping

U. S. bombs hit convoy, destroyer   Dutch tell of hit on big Japanese merchant ship

Allied Fliers Bomb Four Jap Vessels   Bombs Strike Convoy, Lone Destroyer In New Guinea Region

Allied Fliers Bomb Japanese Convoy Of Three Ships Off Dutch New Guinea

HOT SPELL STAYS ON   No immediate Relief is Seen by the Forecaster =

British Press New Offensive on Left Flank of Germans   Eighth Army Takes Vital Positions After 36 Hours Fighting

Penetrate German Defenses on East Italian Battlefront   American Troops Advance One Mile Through Heavy Fire To Capture Castelnuovo

REDS ADVANCING ON SIX FRONTS; GERMANS ON RUN   Japs Being Mopped Up in Pacific Islands While Air Power Dwind!es   By RICHARD MeMURRAY

Drive Ahead On Adriatic Coast Front   U. S. Fifth Army Wins Town Under Blistering Fire

Artillery Fire Crumbles Enemy Hold   American Forces Also Battle Forward Despite Heavy Gunfire; U. S. Planes Raid Sarajevo in Yugoslavia

Major Drive On In Italy Campaign   American Fifth Army Making Progress Against Heavy Odds

EIGHTH CRACKS NAZI WINTER LINE   Americans Fight Forward Mile To Take Castlenuove

British And Yanks Advance   Enemy Defenses Crumble Before Battering.   By RICHARD McMURRAY  he ST ce

Americans Take Town In Bitter One-Mile Drive   Enemy Routed From Mezzagrogna After 36 Hours Of Battle

BRITISH GAIN FOUR. MILES IN HEAVY THRUSI   Yanks Also Advance One Mile Through Intense Shellfire

Drive Four Miles Beyond Sangro   U. S. Units Take Town after Stiff German Opposition.

Fifth Army Gains North Of Venafro   American Units Capture Town In Heavy Fighting

Russ At Gates Of Dhiobin   Stalin’s Men Batter Ahead On 6 Fronts

Montgomery Is Making Big Drive Toward Rome   Red Army Continues Gains on Minsk In White Russia

PORTIONS OF VITAL GERMAN RIDGE SEIZED   Germans Routed From  Town of Mezzagrogna  By Eighth Army In  36 Hour Battle   YANKS TARE CASOVO IN FACE SHELL FIRE   American Units Fight Way Forward One Mile Despite Blistering Enemy Attacks

Eighth Army In Gain Of Four Miles   Americans Advance Also Through Heavy Fire

Brifish Crack Nazi Winter Defense Line On Adriatic Terminal Of Ifalian Fron!

BRITAIN’S EIGHTH ARMY WIDENS BREACK IN EASTERN ITALY   ADVANCE OF FOUR MILES BRINGS MONTGOMERY TO HIGH GROUND

Kighth gains four miles o1 Italian front   Part of Sangro ridge captured

EIGHTH ARMY WIDENS BREACH "IN GERMAN DEFENSES AT APPROACHES TO ROME   General Montgomery’s Forces Reported to Have Driven ‘inte High Ground Northwest of Sangro River After 36 Hours of ‘Violent Fighting

Eighth Army Cracks Main  Nazi Defenses   Fifth Army Captures Castelnuovo; Reds Drive Within Artillery Range of Zhlobin; Aussies Close in on Bonaa

Germans’ Chief Winter Line in Italy Cracked By Montgomery   &th Army Gains 4 Miles In 36 Continuous Hours of Battle

8th Army Four Miles Beyond Sangro River   Town Oceupied By Both Brits And American Forces

GERMAN FLANK THREATENED BY BRITISH SURGE   oth Army Edges Forward And May Soon Open New Drive

BRITISH EIGHTH CONTINUING ITS ADVANCE, ITALY   36 Hours of Continuous and Heavy Fighting Enables Montgomery's Men to Progress

Nazi Winter Line Cracked by 8th Army   Captures Portions of Vital Songro Ridge in Fierce Fiahting

MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE FALLS TODAY   Americans Fight Way Deeper In Enemy Lines

FOUR MILES ARE CANNED. TN ADVANGE   Yanks Also Move Forward: Take Prisoners

‘Montgomery's Forces Drive Four  Miles Forward from Sangro, Widen Bridgehead to 12 Miles   BLAST NAZI LINE   Heavy Ariillery Pounding Sulficient fo Crumble Defenses, Prisoners Shell-Shocked

Allies Crack Nazis Main ltalian Line   Britich Drive 4 Miles Americans Copture Town of Castelnuovo

British Soldiers In a 4 Mile Gain   The Eighth Army Ha: Cracked Main Defense  Line of Nazis   IN A 36 HOUR FIGHT   United States Units Are Moving Forward On Italian Front

Soviets Are In Range of Zhlobin         RAF Mosquitos Attack Western Germany, Targets — in France and::Holland

8th Army Achieves Four-Mile Advance  From Sangro River   Americans Fight Way Forward Through Blistering Shellfire To Occupy Town Of Castelnuovo

Eighth Drives Forward From Sangro River   Russian Armies Roll Steadily Westward On Six Seetors In Long Front.   SARAJEVA BOMBED

Kighth Army Cracks Main Winter Line Of Germans   Drives Forward Four Miles From Sangro River; Portions Of Vital Ridge Taken

Four-Mile Push Breaks Through Winter Barrier   Americans Battle Through Shellfire For Short Gain

EIGHTH ARMY’S SURGE BATTERS FOE DEFENDERS   Montgomery’s Men Crack German Defenses in Advonce of 4 Miles

Montgomery's Columns Make Five-Mile Gain   American Units Of Fifth Army Fight Way Forward Under Heavy Fire

ALLIES PIERCE GERMAN LINE   British Eighth Drives Four Miles Forward From Sangro River

Montgomery Units Capture Portions Of Sangro Ridge         Simultancously United States Units of Allied Fifth Army Fight Way Forward One Mile to Take Castelnuove   RRIDGEHEAD HAS BEEN WIDENED TO TWELVE MILES

Capture Part Of Vital Ridge   Prisoners ‘Bomb Happy’ From Terrific Shelling 

Gen. Montgomery’s Forces Smash at Gateway to Rome      Russians Within 12 Miles of Zhic bin on Road to Minsk; Bombers  me. Hit German Mainland Again

Eighth Army Cracks Nazi Winter Defense: Line On East End Of Italian Front

Main Defenses’ Pierced, Allied  Communique Says   Breakthrough Occurs On High Ground Northwest of Sangro

Nazi Defense Line Cracked in Italy   British 8th Army Advances On Adriatic End of German Front

EASTERN END NAZI ITALIAN DEFENSES 1$ BLASTED OPEN   FIFTH ARMY ON WESTER} END OF LINE ALSO MAKES ADVANCE

a DEFENSE LINE CRACKED   British Eighth Army Drives 4 Miles Forward From Sanqro.

PORTIONS OF SANGRO RIDGE CAPTURED   U. S. Fifth Army Troops Fight Way Forward and Capture Town of Castelnuovo

DRIVE AHEAD FOUR MILES FROM SANGRO   Troops Capture Portions of Vital River Ridge in 36 Hours of Continuous Fighting — Yanks Gain a Mile.

British Crack *Nazis Winter Line In Italy   Eighth Army Drives For. ward Four Miles From The Sangro River.

4-Mile Push * Frorn Sangro River Today   5th Army Moving Up in Fighting Around High Falconara Mountain —

THE MAIN WINTER DEFENSE LINE OF GERMANS CRACKED   British 8th Army Made Progress on Adriatic End of the Italian Front.   Montgomery's Forces Captured Portions of the Vital Sangro Ridge.

Army s Given Solomons Task   Takes Over Defense From Marine Corps

ARMY TAKES OVER ISLAND   Marines on Guadalcanal are Relieved After Months Of Hard Fighting

Army Troops _ Replace Marine: On Guadaleanal   Leathernecks Lauded For Five-Month Battle To Hold Strategic Spot

MARINES REPLACED ON GUADALCANAL      Army Troops. Take Ove After Epic Struggle With Jans

ARMY REPLACES MARINE TROOPS   Guadalcanal Is Turned Over To Soldiers, Officials Say

STRATTON’S HAT STILL IN RING   REMAINS STEADFAST IN CANDIDACY FOR SECRETARY OF STATE

Nazis Decree Death For Reluctant Dutch   Fresh News of Resistance to Axis Rulers Comes From France and Yugoslavia, W here Guerrillas Seized Important Mining Town

Germans Decree Death For Starting Slow-Downs “Or Strikes in Holland

Dutchmen Face Death For Any Serious  Strikes, Slowdowns French Underground Invasion Day”’  Plan Reported Made

Nazis Become More Severe In Occupied Countries as: Signs of Revolt Increase

DUTCH FACING HARSH DECREE   Nazis Set Death Penalty For “Severe Cases’’ of Strikes, Slow-Downs

PRICE CEILINGS PUI UPON 3 VEGETABLEE   Cabbage, Snap Beans, Peas In Southeast Stabilized

RAF Batters Coke Ovens At Zeebrugge      Nazi Fliers Retaliate By Bombing English Coast Town

19 DEAD ON FOUND PLANE   Naval Transport Vic tims Include Adm. . Enelish

WRECKED PLANE FINALLY FOUND   19 on Naval Transport Are Killed in Crash in Wild Section of California

Shattered and Burned Navy Plane, With 19 Dead, Found   Commander Of Pacific Fleet Sub Force, 3 Captains Among Victims

Lost Navy Plane Is Found; 19 Are Dead   U.S. Sub Chief Aboard Wrecked Transport Which Crashed at Ukiah

NAW DISCOVERS PLINE WRECKAEE   Transport Plane, with 19 Aboard, Crashed Jan. 21; Found after Spotter’s Tip

Navy Transport Plane Wreckage Is Discovered   19 Lives Lost In Crash in Mountain Area

FIND 19DEADIN WRECKED PLANE   Bodies Recovered Include .10 Navy. Officers, One ‘Admiral English,

19 FOUND DEAD IN NAVY PLANE   Admiral, Nurse Are Killed In Fatal Crash

WREGK OF NAVAL ‘TRANSPORT FOUN   Heavy Loss... for for Navy; 10 High Ranking Officers Were Aboard.

Wrecked Naval Plane Is Found  Crashed Jan. 21 With Loss of 19 Men

DISCOVER CRASHED TRANSPORT; 19 DEAD   eR ee ee  Rear Admiral! English Lost in Plane Tragedy

Missing Transport Found; All Dead   Top Ranking Officials Were Abcard

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Toll of German Transport Planes Put at 70

12 MORE HUGE JUNKERS - 62'S ARE SHOT DOWN   Total Of 131 Enemy Craft Destroyed By Allies In 2 Days Of Operations   FRENCH REPULSE ATTACK   Patrol Groups Active: Aerial Assaults Disrupt Axis Communication Lines .

DEMOCRATS SHY FROM TAX BLAME   Fear Impasse Responsibility Will Be Laid at Their Door

Democrats Seek Unity i in Ranks On Pay-GoPlan   Members Hope to Force  Compromise Through Lanferernea Creams,

Democrats Seek Way Out of Tax Conference Figh   Fear They Will Be Biamec lf Pay-Go Plan Is Nof Adopted

KAIROUAN ALSO TAKEN IN ROUT OF AXIS ARMY   Rommel Flees Northward With Stand Expected On Enfidaville Ridge   VITAL PASSES ARE SEIZED   Allied Fliers Smash Columns, Knock Down 21 More Transport Planes

ADVANCE OF 46 MILES IN ONE DAY REPORTED   Allied Forces Push Ahead in Mountains to Capture Kairouan

A] ENEMY AIRPLANES KNOCKED FROM SKY   Battlefield Littered With Wreckage of Enemy's Armor

ROMMEL'S MEN REELING BADLY   Slight Opposition Offezed  To Allied Air’ And — Ground Attacks   PRISONERS CAPTURED

Rommels Men Reeling Under Heavy Blows   Allied Airmen Destroy 41 Enemy Planes

S [EGE nr OF TUNIS BATILENERR   Enemy Being Forced Onto Narrow Square Behind Mountains of Tunis and Bizerte   ROADS STREWN WITH RUINED EQUIPMENT   United States and British Air Forces Strike Terrifically to Set Afire Enemy War Machines

First Army Men Destroy Tanks, Take Kairouan   British and American Airmen Strike Heavy Blows Leave Many  Vehicles in Flames

Enemy Reels Under Blows of Allied Forces   First Army Units Also Advance and Occupy Kairouan

“AXIS FORCES ENCIRCLED IN NARROW POCKET: BRITISH 1ST, 8TH ARMIES MEET

Air Forces Land  Terrific Blows   American Forces Take Faid Pass Without Opposition; Eighth Army, Gaining 125 Miles In Six Days,   Expected To Engage Rommel At Enfidaville

46 Miles Gained In 24 Hours By Montgomery Men      - Eighth Army Less Than 25 Miles From Strong Anchor At Enfidaville

BRITISH FORCES ENTERED SOUSSE ON NORTHWARD MARCH  OTHER ALLIED UNITS OC CUPIED KAIROUAN, KNOCI OUT ENEMY REMNANTS

‘ALLIES OCCUPY : TWO STRATEGIC AXIS ANCHORS   Seize Sousse and Kairouan A‘ Rommel Races for Bizerte

Allies Also Take Over Kairouan: —           ALLIES CONTINUE NORTHWARD: DRIVE ALONG COAST OF TUNISIA SPEED 46 MILES IN LAST 24 HOt

Allied Flyers Lash Rommel, Down 41 Planes   Rumor Air Transports Evacuating Forces As British And Americans Move Northward

Last axis supply port on east falls   Afrika korps flees to strong mountain positions for stand

British Capture Sousse, Kairouan   Enemy Reeling Under Ground, Air Blows

Nazis Reel Under  Heavy Blows fro        a  a? ¥ a : at fi mnt ae Uround, Air UTtti

Rommel’'s Men Reeling Under Terrific Blows   -Important Air Base At Kairouan Occupied By First Army; Aerial Onslaught Keeps Up

ROMMEL FORCES DRIVEN TO TUNIS, BIZARTE LINE   Covers 46 Miles in 24 Hours to Pass Through Sousse; Air Attacks Continue, 3t Enemy Craft Downed

Americans Open Up Another Avenue Through Mountains to Coastal Plain; Bombers Blast at Mediterranean Areas.

Armored Remnants of Axis Knocked Out by the First Army North of Kairouan

Only Tunis — And Bizerte Left To Axis   New Avenues Are Cut to Coastal Plain By Americans

The fall of Sousse leaves the enemy only two important ports in all Africa, Tu nis and Rizerte.

Rommel’s Troops Reel Under Terrific Attacks   Germans Now Hold Only Two Important Towns In Tunisia; Americans Advancing

Axis Army Reeling Under Heavy Blows From Ground, Skies   Montgomery’s Men Take  riseners— in ‘Tunisia Fighting

Yanks Bomb Fleeing Enemy Columns, Port of Tunis and Sicily Where Docks and Ships Set “Afire

North African War Enters Final Stage; Axis Retreats Fast   Africa Corps Reeling Under Heavy Ground, Air Blows Offer Light Opposition To Rapid Push Of Allied Forces

18. Avis Tanks Knocked Out; 41 Planes Shot Down Sunday; ‘Scores Of Enemv Vehicles Lost   Light Opposition Offered By Rommel; Allied Force 70 Miles From Tunis; More Prisoners Taken: Foo ls Target For Aerial Attark

Rommel’s Forces Reeling From Heavy Allied Blows 'As Retreat Is Continued

QTH ARMY RACES ON AS 79 AXIS PLANES TUMBLE   31 Enemy Transports Shot Down Over Week-end. Romme!] Seeks Hills.

Rommel Has Been ~ Routed 100 Miles Since Last Friday   First Army In Northwestern Tunisia Drives On Bizerte And Tunis; Renewed Aeiral Activity Costs Axis 31 Aircraft

ATH ARMY IN Hon TO PUSH ROMMEL OUT   Swift Advances ‘Up Coastal Road Given Help by Aerial Attacks.   GERMANS DRIVEN INTO MOUNTAIN POSITIONS

BRITISH OCCUPY SDUSSE, AN EAST COAST PORT emY   Kairouan Occupied Sunday By French, Defense Area Is Rugged, Mountains, Gorges and Wooded Hills.   ITALIAN SHIP SUNK, ANOTHER IS DAMAGED   German Radio Quoted on  Conference Between Hitier and Mussolini on Bombing New York,

31 Planes Destroyed Over Sicilian Straits   Many Enemy Vehicles Smashed: British Near Mountain Defenses

ALLIES QUICKEN PAGE IN SPEEDY TUNISIAN: DRIVE  First Army Gains  ainst tnermans

Fall of Sousse Leaves Rommel Only Tunis i- and Bizerte as Important Ports—Flying  t   Forts Sink Italian Cruiser

Sth Army Captures Sousse, British Subs Hit 15 Axis Vessels   Montgomery’s Forces Gain 125 Miles in Six Days, U.S. Units Gain in Tunisian Mountains

British Occupy Kairouan; Yanks Take Faid Pass   Report Afrika Korps Leaving Tunisia; Subs Hit 15 Axis Ships

ALL ARMIES IN AFRICAN DRIVE PARTICIPATING   Air Forces Are Active in Smashing Retreating Nazis; Report Italian Cruiser Sunk, One Damaged.

EIGHTH ARMY [5 DRIVING RAPIDLY TOWARD TUNIS         German Forces Now Are Offering Little Opposition

Took the City at 8:30 a. m. in Its Rapid Push Northward Along the Tunisian Coast.   ROMMEL’S MEN REEL - UNDER HEAVY BLOWS   British First Army Units Knocked Out Remnants of German Africa, Corps Near Kairouan.

BRITISH 8TH ARMY PROCEEDS 46 MILES IN LAST 24 HOURS   Allied Advances Along Coast And In Mountains Accompanied By Renewed Attacks On Enemy By Air

‘Air Attacks Prove Costly To Enemy   Bitter Last Ditch Battle Te Anticinated

NLB PLEA UNHEEDED BY CHIEF   ‘ails to Make Appearance Today As Requested and Situation fs Acute.

UMW PRESIDENT FAILS TO NAME DANE] MEMBERS   OW! Fears Strike Will Add Coal ta Ration List

Coal Strike Now ‘Appears Imminent   Lewis Snubs War Labor Board Again — Fails To Answer Plea 

STRIKE OF COAL MINERS APPEARS BECOMING ACUTE   Lewis Snubs War Labor Board Second Time “In Failing to Submit Nominees For Considering Wages.   MORE MINE STRIKES « _ ARE BEING REPORTED   Demands of Lewis for $2 Daily Increase Is Impossible Under “Little Steel” Wace Formula.

Showdown Near In Mine Dispute   UMW Chief Ignores Request of WLB,; Truce Expires Next Friday

JOHN LEWIS SNUBS WAR LABOR BOARD   Danger of Coal Miners’ Strike Becomes Acute

Lewis Again Snubs War Labor Boart Danger Of Soft Coal Strike Grows

J ohn L. Lewis Once More Snubs War Labor Board   United Mine Workers Head Ignores Request To Name Panel Membe:

John L. Lewis Snubs War Labor Board Again   Danger of Soft Coal Miners’ Strike Again Acute

GHIET REFUSES TO SELECT MAN FOR WLB PANEL  Work Stoppages Spread he Miners Show Resentment  Over Developments   UMW COMMITTEE TO MEET   Policy Group To Decide Action When Truce Expires Friday Night

WAR LABOR BOARD AGAIN SNUBBED BY JOHN L. LEWIS   Miners’ Union Leader Ig. -nores Request to Lis! Nominees for Coal Ne gahatinme

LEWIS SNUBS LABOR BOARD FEAR STRIKE   Labor Czar: Fails Te Comply With Order — of the Board

LEWIS SNUBS LABOR BOARD   —v— Reiuses to Appoint Panel Mcmber As Mine Strikes Grow

REQUEST Is IGNORED BY UMW LEADER   List of Nominees to  Serve on Panel for Miners Not Submitted.

LEWIS SNUBS WLB IGNORES OFFICIAL PANEL REQUEST   Meanwhile New Strikes Ap pear In Western Pa. Fields. -450.000 Others Ready.

Lewis Snubs Labor Board  Second Time   Danger Of Strike Of 450,000 Soft Coal Miners Is Becoming Acute

John L. Lewis Refuses. To Name Labor Member To Study UMW Demand:

Threat Of Coal Strike Acute As Lewis Snubs WLE   United Mine Workers President Ignores  Panel Name Request

LEWIS AGAIN SNUBS WAR LABOR BOARD   Makes Danzer Of Coal Strike More Acute '

Lewis Again Secorns WLB  Peace Panel   Danger Grows of -Coal Strike; 125,000 Already Out

‘ol. Roosevelt yets Air Medal   Award Made as Result Of Five Sorties Against Enemy

GETS NEW MENAT   Roosevelt's Son Elliott Wing American Air Menai

Russian People Are Told Of Standley’s Criticisms By Soviet News Agencies

Sergeant Ernest  L. Eady At Hondo   Son Of Mr. Anc Mrs ©. 1 Eady Of MelWinne) Gets Promotion At The Arm) Air Forces Navigatior School At Hondo, Texas.

TIOGA COUNTY POMONA GRANGE   ! yaa Met In Wellsboro Thurs* day And Friday.

TEBDER PLANNED ATTACK ON ROME   WEATHER WAS CLEAR AND AIRMEN HAD NO DIFFICULTY IN FINDING TARGETS,

GERMAN TROO SENT 10 SARDINIA TO MEET ALLIES   British and American Naval Units In Sicilian Narrows Now

REVEALED BY NAZIS   Showdown Struggle Looms in Southern Europe— Italy Reported Short of Arms

NAZI TROOPS SHIFTED TO SARDINIA   Allies Respond by Moving Naval Units To Sicilian Points

Allied Ships Roam Sicilian Narrows   Italian Crown Prince Warns Nation Te Shart af Arms as Invasion Neara

NAZI TROOPS ARE RUSHED TO SARDINIA   400 American Planes Blast at Italy and Nearby Island

NAZI TROOPS SHIFT TO SARDINIA FOR EXPECTED INVASION   Major Allied Naval Units -Move Into Sicilian Narrows, Axis Reports

Italy Appears Hopelessly _ Unprepared To Cope With Allied Air Raids, Bombings

MAJOR BATTLE ON MINE WAGES   Government Can’t Afford to Accede to Lewis Demand

Four Damaged By U.S. Planes In Evacuation  Of Guadalcanal   Believe Enemy Got 1000 Officers, Technicians Off Island

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Visits Alma Mater And Sets Fast Walking Pace

TULLY MARSHALL, FILM STAR, DEAD   Veteran Actor Won Fame  on Stage and Screen; Was 79 Years Old.

Ickes Says Miners’ Contract Must ‘Get WLB Approval   Lewis Refuses to See ! Any Authority  Vested in Board

Ickes Says Miners’ Contract Must Get WLB Approval  Lewis Refuses to See Any Authority Vested in Board  ) : 

Crack Troops Involved, Says Tokyo Report   Island Is Supply Base For Kiska; Large Air Base Being Built By Enemy. Belief

Americans Locked In Fierce Battle With Jap Troops   First Word Of Landing Came From Tokyo Radio Saying Landing Began Wednesday; Size Of Enemy Forces On Island Believed To Be Smaller Than On Kiska.

Long Expected Attack To Oust Japs Launched   U. S. Navy, Confirming Earlier Tokyo Broadcast ‘Crack American Forces’ Had Landed on Aleutian Island   DETAILS WAIT CLARIFICATION   ‘Attu Attack May Cut Off Larger Jap Force on Kiska—Island Points Aleutian  Arrow at Heart of Japan

Big Battle Under Way, Navy Says   Jap-Held Base In Aleutians Under Attack

Yanks Locked In Battle With Nips On Key Outpost; Aim At Ouster Of Foe From Kiska, Too.

Nazis Quote Tokyo Rad as Saying That Sup: ris           Island After Shelling and Bombing.

FIGHTING IN PROGRESS ON ATTU ISLAND   Only a Bare Navy Announcement of Americans Landing, Their Subsequent Progress

Landing On Attu Revealed By Navy As Attack Opens To Oust Foe In Aleutians

BATTLING JAPS ON ATTU ISLAND   Fierce Fighting Is Reported In Nipponese Broadcast  tLirrr, CASO A LIS em sa .ft oe

BATTLING “TAPS FOR ATU BASE   Situation . Not. Yet , Clear,’ But All-Out Bid for Ear-~ ly Decision Indicated   LANDING MADE ’ BY CRACK FORCES   Enemy Foothold Is Part of: Offensive Intended ‘to -' Reach U: §.: Mainland

Engage Jap Troops In Fierce Battle on Islands in Aleutians   American Forces Land on Nip-Occupiec Territory May 11th, To Announce Details Later

Long-Expected Attack to Drive rs Out of Aleu tians Is On      Kiska, Garrisoned by 10,000, By-Passed to Hit Distant Attu

UNITED STATES HAS LAUNCHED EXPECTED ALEUTIANS ATTACK  AMERICAN TROOPS NOW   AMERICAN TROOPS NOW LOCKED IN BATTLE WITH UNKNOWN JAP STRENGTH

Navy Announces Outcome Unknowr   Strength of Japanese Defenders Not Known, Says Communique; Landing Made Tuesday; American Planes Made New Raids Against Kiska

Troops Land On Attu, Fighting  ‘Is In Progress   Situation Declared Not Clear But Japan Reports Fierce Battle Raging

Fierce Battle s In Progress for Control of Base   Navy Says Details Of Attack Are Not Clear Now

Fierce Battle Rages On Aleutian: Island   Picked American Forces Open Campaign To Drive Enemy From North Pacific:And Open Route To Japanese Mainland And Tokyo

ATTU ISLE fil FIRST IN BLOW AGAINST ENEMY   Troops Landed Tuesday, Navy Announces

American Forces  Land On Attu Is.   Drive To Rid Islands Of Japs Comes 11 Months After Their Seizure; Resistance Of Unknown Strength Encountered; Battle Continues

Long-Expected Attack to Drive Japs Out of Aleu- ©   tians Js On FIERCE FIGHT RAGES Kiska, Garrisoned by 10, 000, By-Passed to Hit Distant Attu         FIERCE FIGHT . RAGES

Tokyo Reports Fierce Fighting   American Forces Land on Jap-Held Isle In Aleutians Tuesday— Details of Operation Will Be Given When Situation Clarifies, Navy Department Says

NAVY REPORTS TROOPS STRUCK ATTU TUESDAY   First Word of Attack Heard on Tokyo Radio Report

Encirclement Of Kiska Seen As”. U. S. Objective   Knox Says Army-Navy Drive Is ‘Going Very Satisfactorily’ .

United States Has Launched the Long Expected Attack to Drive the Japanese  Off Aleutian Islands,’ < ‘   MET BY JAPANESE OF UNKNOWN STRENGTH   The Situation Still Is Not Clear But U. S. Air and Sea Forces Presumably  Are Participating.

MOVE IS SEEN AS EFFORT 10 FLANK KISKA   Full Details of Operation Are Withheld by Navy Department te   ENEMY GARRISON’S STRENGTH UNKNOWN   Believed To Be Smaller Than 10,000 Troops Reported On Kiska

U.S. and Japan Locked in Battle to Drive Nippons  Out of Aleutian Islands

Fierce Fight © Rages Astride ~ ‘Kiska Route’   ‘Navy Reveals Yank Landing on: a Island In North Pacific, Used By Foe as Fueling Base on Japan-Aleutians Airway. -

ATTLING JAP GARRISON   Details of Operation to Be Released ‘When Situation Clarifies.’   ISLAND FLANKS KISKA

SOFIA RAIL TARGETS BOMBED FIRST TIME   Blow Disrupts Railway Traffie In Balkans; Long light Made By Large Force Of Medium Bombers

ITALY IN TOUGH SPOT   Badoglio Government Under Pressure Of Italians And Berlin

GOVERNMENT OF ITALY SQUEEZED BY TWO FORCES   Badoglio Faced By Increasing Pressure of Popular Demand For Peace On One Side, And By Nazi Demands On Other.

MINERS TAKE DAY OFF; OTHERS WORK   No Overtime For Holidays So Miners Stop Work On Armistice Day; Poor Production Expected Sat.

Everybody Works But the Miners Qn Armistice Day   And They Wont Work Tomorrow

Proposes Tax For  Postwar Program  10 Per Cent Corporate Levy Suggested

JUGGESTS TAX ON CORPORATE INCOMES   Would Raise Revenue for Post-War Building, Employment Proaram.

INSTIGATORS OF = RACE RIOT ARE TO BE PUNISHED   Twenty-Nine Persons Were ‘Killed and Hundreds Injured.   ARMY TROOPS PATROL   Maintain a Modified Form of Military Control as They Patroled Streets.

SPECIAL GRAND JURY MAY BE CALLED UPON   ‘Troops, Police Still on Guard in Battered Negro Section. Two Restrictions Raised

LAY PLAN TO FIND AND PUNISH RACE RIOT INSTIGATORS   Michigan and Detroit Authorities Seek Punishment for Those Leading Riots — 29 Now Dead

DETROIT RIOT INSTIGATORS T0 FACE CHARGES   City Remains Under Patrol of Armed U. S. Troops

Launch Probe Of Fatal Race Riots In Detroit   State And Local Authorities Seek Instigators Of Savage Battles Which Brought Death To 29 And Injured Hundreds

Some Fights Stull Occur In Detroit   Workers Urged to Return to War Plants And Raise Production

Detroit Hunts For Instigators Of Fatal Riots   Modified Form Of Army Control Maintained Today

Detroit Still Under Siege; Death Toll 29   Special Grand Jury May Be Asked to Discover Riot Inciters

DETROIT RIOT INSTIGATORS T0 BE SOUGHT   Michigan Governor Giving Serious Consideration to Asking for a Special Grand Jury— Death Toll to 29.

To Punish Race Riot Jéaders ~      Many of Both. Races Already Sentenced To:90 Days:in State House of Correction

RIOT-RAVAGED DETROIT STILL UNDER GUARD   Death Toll From Two Days of Racial Disorders Mounts To 29 With Over 700 Injured   PLANTS ARE RESUMING

INSTIGATORS OF RIOTS SOUGHT   Many Sentenced for Taking Part in Disorde:

Detroit Riot Instigators Sought Owl   Punishment Commensurate With Crimes Pledged  + by Governor

DETROIT NEGRO AREAS REMAIN UNDER SIEGE   SPORADIC OUTBURSTS OF VIOLENCE OCCUR; RESTRICTIONS EASED

Soldiers Continue Modified Military  Control of Detroit   City Is Quiet as Riots Subside; _Instigators  To Be Punished

KNOWN IN DETROW RIOTS   Negro Sections of City Re main Under Armed Siege; Authorities Appeal T « Workers to Resume Work.

DETROIT PLANT. OUTPUT IS CUT BYRAGERIOTS   Appeals to Workers Made By Civil and Military Authorities to' Get More Production   DEATH TOLL MOUNTS TO 29 IN BATTLES   Large Numbers of Negre Employes Afraid to Go Back to Work; Cur few Still Effective 

City Is Slowly Regaining Its _ Normal Tempo   Race Riots Upset War  Plant Schedules; Troops Remain

Officials Hunt  Instigators Of Detroit Riots   City Calm Today Under Troop Control; Deaths Mount To 29.

BEGIN SEARCH FOR LEADERS OF RACE RIOT   Gov. Kelly, Mayor Jeffries May Call Special Grand Jury   DEATH TOLL AT 29   Detroit Quiet After Night of Sporadic Street Fights

ROOSEVELT CALLS MEETING PRIOR TO MEETING CHURCH. ILL FOR DISCUSSION OF , GLOBAL STRATEGY 

Victory - This - Year’ Talk Stirring London   British Expect All-Out Assault Against Germany From Many Quarters After Meeting With FDR.

PRESIDENT TO MEET CHURCHILL   British Chief Now In Canada Kor Talks With Leaders

BRITISH LEADER ARRIVES IN CANADA   To Draw Up Plans for Allied Victory in Kurope

Calls Pacitic  War Counci   President Summons Mem. bers Of Council Prior To Meeting Churchill

Great Land Battles Will Be Fought In Russia— -—By Glenn Bab!   Allies Must Take War's. Weight Off Soviet

LIQUOR INQUIRY TO OPEN FRIDAY   Withdrawals From Bonded Warehouses To Be Aired

PUBLIC HEARINGS IN PROBE PLANNED   Senate Judiciary Subeommittee Is Investigating Liquor Shortage.

SENATORS SAY SUPPLIES OF LIQUOR AMPLE   Group Finds No Reason For Shortages

Soldier Who Acts as Alarm Clock Voices His Disgust When His ‘Sleepy-Headed Wife’ Answers Phone---It Cost His Last 30 Cents

Legislature Convenes at Noon Today   Party Caucuses Held to Nominate Leaders

Legislature _ Convenes — at Noon Today   Party Caucuses. — Held io .. Nominate Leaders

Mother of 5 Sailors Reported Lost Heeds Plea of Boys To Keep Chin Ur

Five Sailor Sons Missing At Sea   lowa Mother Clings To Hope ‘They'll Show Up’

Reds Capture Fortress City of Kiev  Vital Stroke Means Freeing of  Re het ang _ a

Allied Planes May Knock Ou lialian Fleet   Mussolini’s Warships Will Become “Sitting Ducks,” Observers In London Declare

Italian Fleet In Tough Spot   Must Come Out and Fight Or Take Beating By Planes

ltalian Fleet May Be “Sitting Duck” Target [For Allies When Big Campaign is Launched

MOST PLANTS TOCLOSE CHRISTMAS   ‘War Prodyction To Taken:  One-Day § joliday

War Plants Will Observe Holiday   Steel Plate Mills Alone to Operate

Canned Milk Still Ample   U.S. Promises Tiedt Infants Won't Lack Supply

‘vaporated Milk Supply — Ample, Parents Assured      Agticulture Department Officials Say Consumer Ra _ Honing of Evaporated Milk and Butter Will Likely Start Soon; Designed to Assure Infants and Essential Users of Adequate Supplies

Mud And Mountains Slow Advance Of Eighth Army On ‘North Of Rome’ Front   Gen. Montgomery's Troops Meeting Toughest Going Since Landing In Italy

STALIN LETTER _ (S‘DELIVERED   ROOSEVELT HANDED RUSSIAN PREMIER'S REPLY TO SE- CRET MESSAGE SENT BY ENVOY

HAMMER JAPS NEW BRITAIN STRONGHOLDS   Rabaul, Cape Gloucester Pounded; 3 Ships and 8 Barges Hit   Air Poerces Coallabarate.

Argentina Moves To Strengthen  Hemisphere Ties   New Government ry s ° Promises ‘Deeds  Of Friendship

RAMIREZ SEEKS U. $. APPROVAL   Promises “Deeds” Will Show Friendship in Bid for Recognition

ARGENTINA 1 ASKING U. S. RECOGNITION   Promise to Prove by Deeds Her Friendship for American Nations; Break With Axis is Probable.

ARGENTINA BIDS FOR  RECOGNITION OF U.S   New Revolutionary Government Announces It Will ‘Demonstrate With “Deeds Its Friendship With Other American Republics’ — American  Embassy Transmits Communication to Wachinatrnn

ARGENTINA BIDS FOR RECOGNITION BY U, § OF ITS FRIENDSHIF   Will Demonstrate With ‘Deeds,’ Government Promises

Argentina Bids for Recognition   Foreign Envoys Notified by  New Government

ARGENTINE ASKS FOR RECOGNITION   Pledges Demonstration With “Deeds” of Friendship to Other Lands.

AGED MARSHAL BADOGLIO DOING SOME MIGHTY RISKY JUGGLING WITH KING EMANUFT F’S TURONE

The War Today  eee Badoglio Juggling American Demands With German Thrests.

Badogliols Doing Some Risky  Juggling with Italian Throne King Will Be Blamed for His Acts

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Radoglio Juggling ‘With Italy's Throne; People Want Peace

GAINS SCORED iN SEDJENANE AREA BY U.S.   French forces complete occupation of town of Tozeur

GOP WAR COUNCIL MEETS AT MAGKINAC      Advance Guard Arrive for Conference Which Be. gins on Monday,

FINAL DRIVE T0 CRUSH NAZIS IS BELIEVED SET   DNB Reports Probable Allied Meet With  Turkey

‘SENATE BURIES “BILL TO DEFER ~ DRAFT OF DADS   Substitute Hits Dodging in U.S. Jobs, Hoarding by Industries

Adopts bill Relative To Draft Dodgers   Administration Measure Gets Senate Approval

DRAFT DELAY TS REJECTED BY SENATORS   WHEELER BILL VOTED DOWN AND SUBSTITUTE MEASURE AIMED AT “DODGING" AND “HOARDING" 18 PASSED ~*~

TO SUBSTITUTE LESS DRASTIC DRAFT CURBS   Bailey-Clark Measure Would Give Fathers ‘Priority’ Rights

Wheeler Bill Killed Today By Senators   Lawmakers adopt admin istration-sponsored substitute

—RETAILERS CAMPAIGN—  War Bond Drive Is Started   .- - Speeches, Sirens Usher in Campaign

Liberator RoutSolomon Surface Force   Destroyer, Two Carge Ships Are Believed Sunk In [1 Vessel Convoy   MISSION UNCERTAIN   Japanese May Have Been Evacuating Troops From Besieged Kolombangara

OnIPS OUFFER HEAVY (JANIAGE   Enemy Convoy Hit By Series Of Running Attacks By Bombers.

Civilian Supply Is Third Less Than It  Was Previous Year   Schedule For Food Rationing

 Guide For Flousewives  ‘Here’s What, You Should Do Today, ‘And Rest Of Week For Rationing

American Fifth Army Units Land and Engage Ger 4 man Forces   -MAKE OTHER LANDINGS   Day of Confused Struggle to Seize Ports and Air : Fields

Attack Made On Naples by U.S. Troop:   Arka of 1,006 Square Miles Around Great Italian Port Reported To Be Swarming with Allied Invasion Fleet

Italian Army  Seizes Vital ~- Faetory Areas   Soldiers Of Badoglio Reported Fighting Alongside Al lied Troops.   ‘BATTLE NEAR NAPLES

Strong American Forces Landed In Naples District   .-.ltaly Fast Becoming Grim, Bloody Battleground   Cliesh In Po Recion.

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION REHEARING ON L®-  CATION OF ROUTE U, LINN: COUNTY

LABOR SHORTAGE   Bankhead Would Limit Size Of Armed Forces; Army Stripping Farms

American Slang from Nazi Submarine Captain Disconcerting Says Sailor

OPA Gives Meat Ration Answers —   - Control. Into Effect March 29; Point Values Not Announced Yet; to Post Lists in Stores

WIEAT RATIONS ARE EXPLAINED   Questions, Answers on Purchases Offered on Point System

OPA ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON MEAT RATIONS   Stamps in War Ration Book 2 Also Will Be Used for Cheese, Butter, Margarine and Other Fats and Oils.

Questions and Answers as to  Meat Rationing  Office of Price Administration Issues Ouiz

Questions and Answers Are Issued By Price Office on Meat Rationing

DATA IS GIVEN ON MEAT RATIONING   Office Of Price Administration Issues Series Of Questions And Answers — Starts March 29

Gives Answers On Rationing   Questions Cleared Up in Answers Made by OPA

WORLD DESTINY SEEN DEPENDING ON REDS’ STAND   U. S., Britain and Russia Now May Be Able to Avoid Third World War

SEEDS OF THIRD WORLO WAn ott BY Ue. LEADER   Diplcma‘ic Ois r.er Says Alicd Conference Mus: Reach Accord.

Airport Work  To Be Resumed   Project at Mt. Alton One of Seven in LU, S. Given WPB Approval,

Airport Work To Be Resumed   Project at Mt. Alton Given WPB Approval

Green Raps Vinson For Wage Stand   Strike Threats Echo 5-Cent Award in L. A. Rail Case

FOURTH TERM?   Bricker Says He May Run Fo: ’ Ohio Governorshin Acain.

BRICKER MAY ~ AGAIN ENTER ~~ STATE-RACE   GOVERNOR, WILL PROBABLY BE CANDIDATE FOR FOURTH TERM NOMINATION AT — G. 0. P. PRIMARY:

BRICKER EYING ATH OHIO TERM   Governor Would Not Remove Self from Presidential Picture

Benito Mussolini Reported Freed By German Parachutists From Detention Place In Sicily

Court Enjoins  Defendant In Water Dispute  Directs Removal Of Artificial Ob structions and Dar

Court Enjoms _ Deteadant In Water Dispute  Directs Removal  Of Artificial Ob-

Pope Is Against Negotiated Peace  Stand Is Revealed by Vatican Radio

Pope Voices Peace Hope ToGermany   Hands of Churchill, FDR Strengthened In Dictating Terms

WLR SIMPLIFIES PAY HIKE RULES   Small Employers May Increase Wages Under Certain Conditions Without Ap , proval of Board

Admiral Says Japs’ Fleet _ Is Afraid to Tangle with Ours; ‘Don't Want Licking

Japanese Fleet Afraid To Come To Grips With U.S. Fleet Admiral Ramsey Claims

HUGHES MAY BE NAMED TO STATE SUPREME GQURT      Rumor That Governor May Name County Judge To Succeed Oil City Man

Capitol Rumor Mill Goes Into ‘High Gear, Turns Out Reports   Rumer That Former Governor James Will Seek Seat Ir U. S. Senate Next Year Gains Momentum

Senate Group Cuts Funds For Subsidies   Rejects Move Te Grant Wide Powers

Food Subsidy Limit Voted By Senate Group   Administration Oemends For Uncurbed Authority On Rollbacks ls Denied   LABELING. BAN EASED   Banking Committee Okeh: $350,000,000 Extra To Be Spent By RFC

Senate Banking Committee Puts Limit on Subsidies   Resolution Subs For CCC Measure Vetoed by FDR

COMMITTEE OK’S FUND TO JAN. 1   RFC And CCC Allowed To Borrow Total  » Of $525,000,000

SUBSIDY LIMIT SET BY GROUP      Committee Refuses Unlimited Power

Subsidy Pay Limit Voted   525 Million Allowed For Use Until Jan. 1

GERMAN AIR RAIDERS APPEAR NEAR LONDON   Large Force Drops Flares on Out skirts of City—Run Into Heavy Barrare.

riant New ;ombers in Way   Gen. Arnold Says Raids on Germany To Be Intensified

Bomb Drive  Soon to Be Intensified   Bigger Bombers Than the Fortresses Will Go to ‘Work on Germany

Arnold: Far Bigger Bombers to Aid in Daylight Campaign   : :Aat Drive.on Nazis Has No.” }*Priority on American Output  By GLADWIN TIT.

x kK Ke KS Heavier Bombers   Soon Will Blast Boches   Seize Weapons From Danes

GOOD PROPOSAL.   Bombing Base in Aleutians to Bomb Tokyo Every Day.

GOOD PROPOSAL. :   Bombing Base ‘In Aletitians tc ". Bomb Tokyo Every Day.

REFUSE TO GIVE HITLER LAND A BREATHING SPELL   MIGHTY BRITISH BOMBER FLEET ROARED OVER GERMANY LAST NIGHT AND HIT DUSSELDORF AND COLOGNE,   MOSQUITO FLEET HIT RUHR AREA   Some Thousand Bombers of U. 8. Slashed Naval Base of Wilhelmshaven Several Hours Karlier.

R. ALF Gives Crippled Germany Severe Pounding Last Night   Colonge and Dusseldorf, Germany’s Industrial Heartlands Hit.

Asylum Fire Frees Many Mentally Ill   Some Feared Dead In Smoking Ruins o:! Indiana Institution

Mental Patients Sought After Indiana Hospital Fire   None Dies in Conflagration But Many Wonder Away Or Escape During Contusior

HUNT. FOR SCORES  OF MISSING AFTER FIRE AT HOSPITAL   1,180. -Mental . Patients: “Ir . Tadiana Institution — “None Believed Ta : Have Died

News Behind The News  Conrrigcht MeClinra Newspaper   WASHINGTON Ry Pay Tucker

THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG  UNEWS RERIVNN TE AoouweR   Washington  es exces eR

State, County and City Police Will Check Holders of B and C€ Gas Cards

POLICE ASKED 10 AID IN CAMPAIGN   Drive Against Gasoline Ration Violations Is Opened

PREDICT RE DRIVE IN NORTH   Nazis Expect Action in Leningrad Sector

Chinese Village Taken by Japs  Nips Are Within 280 Miles of Chungking

U.S. Casualties To Be Heavier   Legion Head Tells OF Africa Losses

WARN HEAVY LOSSES FACED   Patterson, Waring Declare Much Fighting Ahead  In Tunisia

Casualties in Tunisia High, Nation Told   Patterson and Head of Legion Both Warn af Costs

U.S, Casualties To Be Heavier.   Legion Head Tells OF Africa  ncecane

Waring Reports Many Casualties in North Africa   American Losses More Than Announced, Legion Head Says   Cost in Lives To Be Much Higher, Patterson Declares

Governor Calls on Texans fo do Part In War Chest Drive  Chetan Pes Uy   State Quota of 5 Millions for Seventeen Different Agencies

United War Chest Drive To Raise $7,133 Here; To Open Monday Morning  Seventeen Agencies Including  USO, Merchant Marine Service, War Prisoners and Many  Foreian Relief Associations Get Fund

Gov. Stevenson Confident Texas Will Contribute Gen: erously to United Wat Chest

STATE WAR FUND WORKING   Will Seek to Raise $10, 883,165 Share of U. S. $125,000,000

Pay Increase Faces Slash   House Committee in Vote Pores Figures Approved by Sencté

HOUSE COMMITTEE CUTS ALLOWANCES SOLDIERS CHILDREN  SENATE PROPOSES RAISE   SENATE PROPOSES RAISES IN ALLOTMENTS FOR FAMILIES SERVICEMEN

House Military Group Votes To Cut Allotments   Would Slightly Pare Aid For Dependent Children Of Enlisted Men.

Committee Pares Down Dependency   Modifies Program Voted  By Senate Yesterday to Aid Service Men

House Group Less Liberal   Committee Would Pare Sen. ate Dependent Allowances

Family Aid. - Schedules  Increased   But House Trims. Liberal Advance for Children Voted in Senate   $75 FOR SOLDIER'S WIFE AND CHILI   Bill to Come Up Next Week and May. Add $650,000,000 to Allotments

PARES SENATE HGURE ON AID TO DEPENDENTS   House Committee Would Set Increases at $13 for First Child, $10 for Second.   DEPENDENT HUSBANDS ALSO MADE ELIGIBLE

House’ Group Acts to Pare Allowance for Service Famities.   PARE SENATE PROPOSAL

Dependency Pay Increase Pared By House Group   Liberal Senate Allowances Cut By Amendment

HOUSE COMMITTEE CUTS ALLOWANCES ‘SOLDIERS CHILDREN  _ SENATE PROPOSES RAISE IN ALLOTMEN7S FOR

Senate Allowances for Dependents of War Personnel Cut   House Committee Acts on Bill Approved by Senate Yesterday

HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES 10 PARE DEPENDENTS’ PAY.   Military Group Would. Cut Down Liberal Allowance to Servicemen’s Dependents Approved Heaterday by the  _

House Group Fails To Put Its Approval On Pay Boost   Dependents Would _ Get Less Than From Senate

COMMITTEE CUTS DOWN PROPOSED ALLOTMENT HIKE   House Committee Pares Senate Bill A Little, Favoring Smaller Dependency Pay Increases.

ALLOWANCES FOR DEPENDENTS CUT   ‘ilitary Committee  Pared Down Benefits for Enlisted Men.

House Lowers Senate Allowance  F or Dependents   Military Cominittee Approves Seale Beginning at $75. Per Month. For Wile And One Child:

SENATE ACTS ON INCREASE OF ALLOWANCES      Moves ‘To Ease’ Burdens Of Soldiers’ ’ Families   Two Bodies Differ Only On Size Of  Allotmente

Pares Increased Allowances For  Kin of Soldiers   House Committee Writes New Formula That Boosts Present Scale.   Senate Refuses to Halt Father Draft

SENATE APPROVES HIGHER PAY T0 SOLDIERS’ WIVES  MEASURE PASSED   MEASURE PASSED AFTER REJECTION OF WHEELER BILL

House Pares Senate Figure For Dependents   New Formula Is Written for Family Payments

IG INCREASE FOR SOLDIER’S FAMILY VOTED   Jouse Committee Makes Slight Cut In Liberal Senate Proposal

Increased Pay Bill Expected To Be Passed   Servicemen with Families  - May Soon Get Additional   Allowances To Aid Drafting of Fathers.

Group Seek To Cut Senate Service Aid   House Committee Favors Smaller Pay For Children Of Men In Ranks   SCOPE IS EXTENDED   All Enlisted Grades May Seek Allowance Under New Allotment Formula

House Body Cuts Raises to Kin  Committee Would Give $13 Increase For First Child

SOLDIER PAY GRANTS PARED BY COMMITTEE   Draft New Allowances For mula To Aid Servicemen’s Families

Dad-Draft Act Funds Pared By House Unit  New Formula to Inclue All Of Enlisted Men

POINT BLANK REFUSAL ON FATHER DRAFT   Senate Votes To Increase Pay To Families

House Committee To Cut Allotment Of Army Fathers   Liberal Allowances For Soldier Fathers To Be Pared Down

Family Aid Hike  Assured   ---House Reduces Senate AUlewance For Children

a EE EEE ooo  War Makes Geegraphy As Important As The Three R’s In Teaching Now

Eighth Army Veterans Assault Rommel’s New Defenses ; Nazi Counterattack Hurled Back

African Campaign Leaders Discover U. S. General’s Early Training DPartionlariy Suited to His New Duty

10,000 Vote To Reject Plea And Stay Out   Army May Assume Control if Appeal Is Refused Again

Miners Vote To Continue  Coal Strike   WLB Asks Pres. Roosevelt to Intervene in Dispute

COAL MUST BE SENT TO ITALY   INVASION CUTS OFF NAZI SUPPLIES T0 WAR-WEARY NATION

A Conquered Italy Will Need Much Coal.  Battle Of ltaly Hard» On Allied Coal Pile

Thousands Face Annihilation At Hands Of Allies   Americans Drive To Within 27 Miles Of Messin: Straits, Bringing Last Escape Of Axis Soldiers Under Artillery Fire.

Yank Advance Traps Enemy Near Messina   Last Escape Road Is Brought Under Artillery Fire

U. S. Builds More Ships Than Rest of World  Shinvards Turning Out Five Vessels.a Day

FIVE SHIPS DAILY ARE BEING BUILT   Head Of Maritime Commissio Says American Yards Are Outbuilding The World

Shipbuilding In U.S. Outstrips Rest Of World   Five Vessels Are Being Turned Out Fach 24 Flours

Roosevelt Act: FoSave Traitor’s Life  Cree Mella cecgnes   Stephan Collapses; Cries as Warden - Breaks Goud News .

FDR Commutes Death Sentence Of Max Stephan   Convicted Traitor Weeps, Kisses Hand 8 of Warden When Told

TRAITOR SAVED FROM GALLOWS BY ROOSEVELT   President Reduces Penalty Imposed on Max Stephan, Convicted of Treason, to Life Term.   HOLDS SENTENCE WAS TOO SEVERE   _ Defendant Was Found Guilty of Aiding German War - Prisoner Who Escaped From Canada Camp.

Bombers Rake Reich Targets   American Planes Deliver Large Scate Blow

NAZI AIRFIELD HIT BY YANKS   Large-Scale Raids Made On Shipping, ‘Drome Near Amsterdam

DeWitt Will Leave West Command For Eastern Post  Emmons Is Appointed Successor; Two Chieftains Confer

ISLAND CUT IN TWO BY AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY COLUMN WHICH OCCUPIED PALERMO, WESTERN SECTION ISOLATED BY PATTON'S MEN

Two More Big Ports on the West Coast Are Now Ours.  ‘LESS THAN 1 HOUR BY AIR FROM ROME  Catania Only Place Wher the Axis Are Showing Resistance.

BERLIN ( AIMS ALLIED FORCE REPULSED   Stockholm Reports indicate Nazis and Italians Quaking

Enemy Loses Three PLanes To Every One Lost by US  Fortresses Have Fighter Power

The War Teday .  Figures Secret, But U. S. Planes Get High Percentage Of Enemy Craft

Liquidation of WPA Will Save Neat Sum   Hundred Million Not Expended

Jury Frees Mrs. Howard   Fort Worth Divorcee Acquitted of Killing Of Tulsa Woman

JURY FREES WOMAN IN FATAL SHOOTING      Divorcee Plans Quiet Life With Children

Allies Forge On  Toward Salamaua Japanese Resistance Being Whittled Down Steadily In New Guinea

Allies Hammer Jap Defenses In New Guinea   Allies Ambush Jap Marine Detachment MacArthur’s Bombers Aaain Attack Rabaul

Allies Continue Slow Advances On New Guinea   -More Japs Slain At Wau As Planes Bound: Nip Bases.

Allies Slash At Foe on New Guinea   Another Big Bomber Attack on Rabaul Added to Harassing

MacArthur’s Men Mop Up InNewGuinee   Jap Marine Guard Is Trapped: Bombers Blast Rabaul on New Britain

ARE SLAIN IN GUINEA   Ground And Air Action Hits Enemy; Rabaul Again Raided

Japs Protecting Approaches To Salamaua And Lae Base Being Constantly Whittled To Pieces

Whittle Jap  Resistance in  New Guinea. Inflict Casualties  on Enemy's Gulf Racac in Iclande

Allies Slay More  On New Guinea   Japanese Patrol Caught in Ambush ALLIED HEADOUARTERS IS

Jap Loses In New Guinea Mounting   Latest Casualties Are Inflicted On Marine Patrol

‘AIR-MINDED SOLON! WANT COMMITTEE ON AVIATION   Move Started In Congress To Safcguard Nation's Supremacy in Sky

Wishes He Had Stayed In Kaw City   Grocer’s Venture Into Big Town Business Nipped

MOVIE INCOMES TOP EARNINGS   LOUIS B, MAYER DREW LARGEST PAY FOR YEAR OF 1941

MAYER’S PAY CHECK BIGGEST REPORTED   Movie Producer Reports $949,765 Income to Treasury

Teapot Dome  Deal Shaded   Navy-Standard Deal Went Beyond Harding Administration Seandal,  r'

Oil Contract Beyond Fall Pacts, Charge   So Broad as To Surpass Congress’ Intentions,  Littell Says

Navy Lease At Elk Hills IsRegarded As ‘Scandal   Teapot Dome Seen As Even Less  Offensive

Says Navy Oil Deal Beats Teapot Dome   A U. S. Attorney Declares Contract Witt Standard Goes Beyond Agreements Involved in Scandal of Harding Administration.

WILL INVESTIGATE ~ OIL DEAL CONTRACT   Justice Department's Request for Deferred Inauirv Refused.

Navy Contract Is Compared With ‘Teapot’   Agreements Beyond Those In Harding Scandal. Groun Told

"Went Beyend Teapot Dome’ In Oil Beal   Navy-Standard Contrac Again Assailed; Will Not Surrender, Knox Says   INOT YIELDING TO ‘PRESSURE, INTRIGUE’   May Seize Oil Land by Condemnation, He Says; ‘Diffieult Problem’

OW CONTRACT. PLAN-ASSAILED.      “Knox Cancels Agreement But. Won’ t'Be ‘Pressured’

Sees Greater Scandal Than ‘Teapot Dome   Solons Told Of Navy Deal With Oil Firm; Monopoly Given To Standard For 5 Years

HOUSE HEARS CONTRACT BETWEEN NAVY AND. STANDARD OIL GOES BEYOND TEAPOT DOME AGREEMENT   Present Elk Hills Contract Now Being Investigated Resulted in Forming of Three Partnerships. Is Asset of Giving Standard Oil Co. Monopoly

REFUSE INTHREFERENCE   Beyond Teapot Dome Agreement   WHY MYSTERY”

Eth Hills Oil Contract Worse than Tea Pot Dome   Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell Tells House Committee Agreement Between Standard Oi! and Navy Department Goes Beyond the Contract Seandal of Harding Administration

Teapot Dome Scandal Is  Revived   Committee Told Elks Hill Deal Worse In Some Respects

ELK HILL DEAL COMPARED TO. TEAPOT DOME   Contract Bétween Navy, Standard   of California, ‘Went Beyond’ Tea: pot Pact, Littell Says

Contract With Standard Oil Termed. Seandal   Assistant Attorney General Tells House Committee Contract Goes Beyond Those Involved In Teapot Dome Scandal.

Exeeeds  Teapot Oil Deal   ... U.S. Lands Conveyed To Standard—tLittell

POLICE, FRIENDS HUNT WEALTHY MARIETTA MAN   Retired Oilman, 82, Missing _Since Last ~ Thursday

Late Reports Show Allies Gaining Faster in Pacific  Battle Line Is Made Tighter as Vital Jap Field Weakens

Allies Advance Upon Salamaus   Batter at Airdrome With Artillery

Allied Guns Command Jap Airfield  On Salamaua   Jungle Troops Occupy Forward Slopes of Hill  Directly South Ort Naw Crninea Nerama   SUPPLY PROBLEM GREATEST FOR JAPS

Guns of Allies Cover Airdrome At Salamaua   Ground Troops Tighten Battle Lines in New Guinea   ALLIED HEADQUART. ERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Monday, Aug. 24

Allied Jungle Troops Win Hills South of Salamaua, Tighten Lines About Japs

TIGHTENING BATTLE. LINES AT SALAMAUA   Australian And American Jungle Troops Occupy, Forward Slopes Of Hill South Of Airstrip   309 Planes Down

Reds Rip Nazi Defenses in Orel Sectors   Germans Launch Big Attack In Donets Basin

WAR'S END NOI NEAR, WARN OBSERVERS   The most bitter fighting America has seen is yet to come

FINSCHHAFEN BASE IS SHELLED BY BIG GUNS   Allied Artillery Blasts Sector to Pave Woy for Capture of Enemy Stronghold—Australian Troops Within Four Miles of Objective—Enemy Opposition from New Britain Checked by Acric] Raid.

GUNS SOFTEN JAP BASE FOR LAND ASSAULT   Allies Destroy 40 To 50 Enemy Planes; Convoy Safe

Allied Guns Form Barrage  At Finsehhafer   Australians Make Gain Of Four Miles In Their Drive Against Strong Japanese Base

Finschhafen Pounded By Allied Guns   Capture of Japanese Stronghold Regarded _.... A\s-imminent

Artillery Blasts Finschafen Base   Allies Two Miles From Jap Stronghold

Allied Artillery Pounding Away — ‘Against Japanese Base at. Finschhafer

FINSCHHAFEN BASE POUNDED BY ARTILLERY   45 Jap Planes Are Shot Down In Attack On Allied Convoy

ALLIES POUND JAP BASE FINSCHHAFEN; TWO MILES “AWAY      Thrust Up New Guinea Coast Followed By 25-Minute Air Battle—40-45  Enemy Craft Hit

Allied Bomber: Blast Japs in Sio Region  Heavy Damage to Nip Base

Allied Raids Batter Japs   Enemy-Held. Villages Are Raided By Planes

Allied Bombers Blast Japs in Sio Region   Heavy Damage to Nip Base Results From Raid

HITLER CLOSER T0 END OF ROPE THAN AMERICANS BELIEVE  THIS 1S CLAIM OF FORME! MEMBER OF GERMAN

NAZI MILITARY POWER MAY BE BROKEN THIS YEAR   Dr. Gustav Stolper Former Member German Reichsbank - Rehleves

Says Hitler’s End Nearer Than Believed   Former Member Of Reichstag Sees Three  Daminant Powers

Hitler’s Doom Held Nearer  ThanAmerica DaresAssume   Dr. Gustave Stolper, Former Member of German Reichstag, Tells Bankers Nazi Military Power Might be Broken Within the Next Year; Warns of Political Constellation Unparalleled

Former Reichstag Member Says Hitler 'Near End of Rope'   Dr. Gustav Stopler Sees Serious Problems in Post-War World

Convoys to Russia: - Move on Schedulé   Royal Navy Reviews. Year,  Says Ships Go ‘Through,’ Nazis ‘He Damned’ _

AUGlA CONVOYS ON TIMETABLE   Run on Schedule Despite Al German Efforts, Roya Navy Report for 1942 Re: veals

LIKE CLOCKWORK   Navy Says Convoys to Russia on Regular Schedule.

Strike Issue Before FOR   Asked to Intervene By WLB in Strike At Newark

Limited Liquor Rationing On   Equalizing Sales In Stores, Gelder Declares

Red Army Is Approaching the Gates of Great City of Kiev.   NAZIS EVACUATIING UKRAINIAN CAPITAL  - wwre fs; .

PENETRATE OUTER DEFENSES AT KIEV   Capital of Ukraine Likely To Be Retaken From  Germans Rv Russians.

Kussians  Soviets Penetrate Nazi Defenses Around Kiev: Dnieper Fighting Heavy

Berlin Broadcast Hints Nazis May Launch New Offensive on Russian Front at Any Time

Heavy Battles In Kuban Delta   Germans Throw In Masses of Troops In Vain Attacks

ITALIAN ISLES QUAKE UNDER MIGHTY BLOWS   RAF Rains Death On Western Europe In Eighth Day Of Blitz   CLEAN-UP OF ATTU NEAR   South Pacific Jap Bases Blasted And Raids On New Guinea Balked

ATTU ratte LAST STAGE   Americans in Control of Entire Holtz Bav Area

Yanks Take  Attu Airbase,  PushFoeBack   Stimson Calls Battle’s Progress ‘Satisfactory,’ U.S. Casualties Light

PASS LEADING TO THE LAST BIG JAPANESE STRONGHOLD ON ISLAND NOW IN HANDS OF AMERICAN  TROOPS—EUROPE AND - MEDITERRANEAN AREA ROCKED BY MASSED AERIAL — ASSAULTS   By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

Italians Lost 1,400 In Roma Sinking   Survivors Say Battleship ‘Exploded Like a Bomb’

Roll-Back of Prices on Fresh Vegetables   Plans Disclosed by OPA Officials

SOVIETS CLOSING IN ON GERMANS   Russians Threaten Four Cities Of Enemy's Northern Line Today  e

re German Defense Line   Russians Threaten Capture of Four Cities in Thrust Into White Russia

Four Cities on Northern Line of Nazi Defenses in Path of Continuing Red Advance   REDS CONSOLIDATE   Great Baifle Rages at Kiev, Cap ture of Gomel Exnected Hourly Vitebsk Threatened

Red Threat At Gomel Grows   No Effort Yet to Cross Dnieper in Force At Kiev

JAMES CALLS FOR TAX CUTS. PROBE OF ROS!   Legislature Speedil y Organized, Promises Brief Session

State Assembly Organizes, Hears Governor James  Choice Of Officers A Formality, — ff 10

10 INVESTIGATE © -ARNEITS CHARGES      Governor Asks * McKittrick to Inquire About: Food and Residence Allowances

To Probe Charges At State Prison   Governor Directs Inquiry Concerning Food and Home Allowances.

Axis Cifadels Pulverized By. Allied Flyers   Churchill Bids Rome To Get Out Of War While There's Time

INVASION GATE IN ITALY FEELS ALLIED MIGHT   Latest Assault on German Industrial Center May Prove Heaviest Yet   TENSE CALM IN RUSSIA   Swarms of Refugees Fleeing From Southern Italy as Bombing Increases

Nazi Party Purge Hinted; Finns Say Invasion Certain      Rome Admits Considerable Damage Resulting In Raids On Several Port Cities

NEGRO ADMITS TRAIN MURDER   Makes Second Confession In Mystery Slaying

COOK ADMITS TRAIN SLAYING OF CIRL BRIDE   Repudiates First Story, Visits Wife, And Then Confesses Second Time   KNIFE FOUND IN LUGGAGE   Police Still Are Seeking Motive Back Of Lower Berth 13 Murder

Police Say Negro Cook Confesses Murde Of Navy Wife In Sleeping Car Berth

NEGRO CONFESSES TO SLAYING BRIDE   Gives Details Indicatin That He Is Slayer Of Mrs, James  5

DINING GAR GOOK TELLG OF KILLING GIRL IN PULLMAN   First Repudiates Confession of Train Murder and Then After Talking Witt Wife Admits Slaying

NEGRO TRAIN COOK ADMITS MURDER OF BRIDE IN PULLMAN   Second Confession Satisfies -Police That Robert Folkes Is Guilty.

Negro: Dining Car Cook Says He Cut. Throat of Woman Sleeping in Train. Berth — Charged with First Degree Murder.

COOK REPEATS CONFESSION IN TRAIN MURDEP   Describes Slaying O Officer’s Bride In Lower 13

Negro Train Cook Confesses. Slashing Young Bride’ s Throat In Lower 13 of Pullman Car.

SLAYING OF BRIDE IN PULLMAN BERTH ADMITTED BY COOK   Negro Member of Dining Car Crew Confesses Crime to Los Angeles Police.

Tractor Deaths Occur Often On lowa Farms   Machine Iy Involved Im Sixty Pet Cent Of The Power Acvident Deaths, Report Finds

~—Farms In Towa   Machine Is Involved In 60 Per Cent of Power Accident Deaths; Cornpicker Next

POPE IN FERVENT PLEA FOR PEACE   Bells of Christmas Revive Courage and Raise Hopes Says Pontiff

Coast Guard > Taking Out _- Many Persons   Some Levees Are Almost Certain to Go and All May. Be Broken   ad CREST REACHED ON THE OSAGE   Main Danger Shifts to. Mississippi and Lower Mis » sourl Bottoms

Many Levees fo Go Qut Along Both Streams   Engineers Disagree On Danger; RailRoads Threatened

uml Tax Plan oth Praised nd Condemned   jectives and Invective: Hy Thick and Fast in the House   ipression Growing That \dministration Bill Will Be Defeated

TAX PLAN BATTLE OPENS IN HOUSE   Skip-a-Year Proposal Alternately Praised and Condemned; Chairman Doughton Lambasts Rumi Plan

Pay-Go Tax  Battle Begins   Carlson Bill) Hel ld Fair Plan Kar Ri &

FIGHT ON RUML PLAN IS WAGED ON HOUSE FLOOR   Doughton Condemns Tax Proposal Which Is Defended By Knutson

BATTLE BEGINS ON RUML PLAN   Skip - A- Year Proposal Branded Immoral By Opponents

Hot Debate On Run Plan Is Started   Ways and Means Head Denounces Scheme; Compromise Rumored

Pay-as-Co Plan Cursed, Praised   Hoy ICS fo r Trea SUTY  Bill Admittedly Wane

Invectives fly in torrid Rumi debate   Hail and condemn plan on first day

Fight On Tax Plan Starts   Doughton Hits Rum!’ Plan As ‘Monstrosity’

HOUSE BEGINS SHARP BATTLE ON RUML PLAN   Skip-a-Year Proposal Praised, Assailed In Verbal Fight

Ruml Tax Plan Praised, Seored  On House Floor   Doughton Brands Ide: As ‘Immoral.’ While Knutson Calls It ‘Fair and Practical’

FOGGIA YARDS 80 MILES NE OF ROME SMASHED   Three Allied Air Fleets in 2-Way Offensive Cause Deelruetion

Three: Groat: Allied: Air: Fléets ‘Blast. Foggia; 80 Miles ‘Northeast of Naples in Mighty Two-Way. Offen"= sive Rounding. Out.a Week of Forays— ‘Wreckage, Fires Left in Wake: of _. Bombers ThrouchouFt Sectar,   ‘oggia i is Battered by Another Allied Attact

TWO-WAY OFFENSIVE YEST] ROUNDED OUT WEEK. OF H RAIDS ON SOUTHERN ITAL

FOGGIA HEAVILY BOMBED BY YANKS  IN GREAT RAIDS   Devastation Included Planes, Hangars, Locomotives and Vital Materials.

Fe oggia Raided. ByThreeAllied Airplane Fleets   Communications. In ‘Italiani: Boot Are Badly Disrupted”

AND AIRPLANE CENTERS HIT   Allies Lose 15 Raiders During Heavy Attack But Shoot Down 26 Enemy Craft, ,

Mighty: Two-Way. Offensive Round‘ing Out Week”: of Unparalleled Raids on Southern Italy. —Scores of Wrecked Planes and Blazing Hangars ‘Loft After Raid. t

ALLIES RAID RAIL CENTER OF FOGGIA .   Taranto And y Crotone Also Are Bombed

Hangars And Aircraft Wrecked; Railroad Yards Blasted   STRONG OPPOSITION   300 Axis Airmen And Ground Crews Died In Bombardment

join Forces On West Side Of Mt. Etna   Only A Small Portion Of Sicily Unconquered; Randazza Pass Is Next Big Objective Of Allied Forres   BRONTO OCCUPIED BY BRITISH ARMY

RESTRICTIONS EASED ON RUBBER BOOTS   Types Used For Hunting, Fishing, Work Shoes, Remove@ Fram Ration List

CEILING PRIGES PLACED ON BEEF   O.P.A. Puts Price Tag On Meat Under Rationing System.

ALLIES SHAPE OFFENSIVE   British On Both Ends Of Drive In Tunisia.

Pincer Push Shaping Up Against Axis   American Forces in African Area Seen Holding Center

Allies Plan Nutcracker Push in Africa   British Withdraw From Height Southwest of Tunis

Allied Offensive Ir Africa Is Looming In Tunisian Area   Indications Are That British Eighth Army Will Take The Lead In Attack On Bizerte

Big Push to Be Staged by Force There   Say  AMERICANS AND JAPAUIESE CFT READY FOR THER SIZKAGLE FIGHT.

NAZI COUNTER BLOW PUSHES BRITISH BACK   Eighth Army Believed Ready to Launch New Assault

SENATORS ENGAGE IN VERBAL GLASH   Bailey Voices Threat Southern Democrats May Form Own Party; Byrd Demands Guffey Quit Campaign Post

Southern Democrats Angry: Threaten To Bolt Party in Row  With Guffey over Soldier Votes

THREAT MADE      Bailey in Row With Guffey  Talks of Southern Dem ocrat Organization

Guffey Row Brings Threat Of Democrat Party Split    Voiced by Bailey Who Says Democrats Of South May Form Their Own Party  CLASH DEVELOPS OVER SOLDIER VOTE  Guffey’s Resignation As Committee Head Demanded by Byrd

Southern Democrats May Form Own Party, Says Senator Bailey   Bitter Words Fly in Dispute as Result Of Guffey’s Speech on Absentee Voting

SENATOR GUFFEY UNDER ATTACK BY COLLEAGUES   Senator Bailey Says Southern Democrats May Or ganize Own Party   PENNSYLVANIAN IS ASSAILED BY BYRD

REDISTRICTING PROPOSAL IS UNDER STUDY   Bill Would Re-Establish Almost Same Congressional Setup That Formerly Fxisted

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS IDLE FOR 3RD NIGH)   Light Raids On Germany Follow U. S. Blow At Bremen

SEARCH PRESSED FOR ARMY PLANE   Official Reveals Names Of Officers and Crew Members

WREST LEAD © FROM NAZIS ALONG DONETS   Smash to Within 50 Miles of Smolensk, Key Nazi Sase on Central Front,   RESISTANCE FIERCE   Stockholm Reports Germany Massing Entire Fleet In  yc  .  s

A BLOODY WAr 1) RAGING IN DONETS AREE   Russians Are Reported to Have Taken Initiative in This Region.   MANY FIERCE BATTLES   On Central Front Russians Are Within £9 Miles of Smolensk. : —

Russian Forces Only Fifty Miles  From Smolensk   Reds Reported Beginning To Wrest Initiative From Nazis In Donets  Areaa   FIERCE BATTLES BELOW KHARKOV

Jeffers Touring Synthetic Plants   Turns Back On Request of Donald M. Nelson

LYONS ENDORSED FOR U.S. SENATOR   BENSON SLATED AS GOP CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE

Goering Gets Vast Powers as German  \rmy Takes Over   Berlin Reports to Spanish Press Indicate Military Triumvirate Plans Long War; Hitler Said Reduced to Mere Figurehead

GOERING IS NOW REAL HEAD OF GERMANY, MADRID REPORTS   Reichmarshal Given ‘Powers of Enormous Magnitude’ but Hitler Will Continue To Rule Party

IRUSSI@N Gain Is Admitted By Nazi Heads   Berlin Says German Forces Retreat in Dorogobuzh Sector

Nazi Forces Retreating   New Defense Line Set Up After Russ Attack

Nazi Forces Retreat on Eastern Front   More Favorable Positions Sought by Germans

NEW PAYROLL TAX IS PLANNED SOON BY THE TREASURY   Levy of From 20 to 25 Per Cent Planned ta Discourage Buying NonEssentials.

Treasury Offers 25 Per Cent Pay  Tax Suggestion  Members of Congress Sounded Out on New Revenfie Proposal  UNFAVORABLE  Support of Federal Pay-As-You-Go Levy  Civen Bv Farm Group:

Last Nine Days Of Bond Drive To Honor Clark   Morgenthau Reveals October 2 as Date For End of Campaign

SPURS SALES OF WAR BONDS   Morgenthas Dedicates Las! Days of Drive to Gallant Fifth Army ,

Last Days Of Bond Drive Dedicated To Clark's Sth Army   Three Million Must Be Raised In The Remaining 9 Davs

San Marino — Tops Waste Fat Quota For June   Assen ad — Out ger of Drop in Quantity in Summe-,

Says Beef Threatens To’ Spoil For Lack Of Labor To Re-Ice Railroad Cars

Thousands Of Tons Of Beef  Spoiling On Railroad Lines  Federal War Agencies Said Doing Nothing Ta fihtain Labar Far Re-lcing Rail Care

2,000 TONS ~ OF NEW BEEF YS SPOILING      Railroads Lacking Labor to Perform Icing Work

RICKENBACKER ASKS BOOST IN WAR SUPPLIES   FLYING ACE VISITS DETROIT ARMS FACTORIES

BLOOD BANK DONORS WILL BE REGISTERED   Volunteers To Be Enrolled Starting Monday For Visit Of Mobile Unit Sept. 20

ANNE SHIRLEY, MATURE TO WED   Announcement of Coast Guardsman, Film Actress Comes as Surprise in Hollywood,

Jap Rabaul Plan Foiled By Airmen   Enemy Unable To Establish 1Formidable Base

American Fliers Shatter Enemy's Hope For South Pacific “Pearl Harbor,” Navy Reveals.

GALLANT FIFTH REINFORCED IN EPIC STRUGGLE   MONTGOMERY'S MEN _ SMASH BOCHE, RACE TO JOIN DOUGHBOYS

Yanks Served Turkey by Ton   Dinner ‘Done Up Brown’ for Men Fighting in Italy

MACARTHUR’ AIR FORCES POUNDING JAP HELD ISLANDS   New Britain and Marshall Islands Given Severe Pounding By Carrier and Land Based Planes.

RAID JAP-HELD ANDAMAN ISLANDS   NON-STOP ATTACKS ALSO CONTINUE ON THE NEW BRITAIN ISLANDS; OVER 1100 TONS OF BOMBS HAVE BEEN DROPPED SINCE NOV. 20

Rumors Indicate Enemy Envoys . In Casablanca   Mystery Prevails, But Evidence OF Finnish, Italian Delegates Seen

DEFINITE PLANS DRAWN FOR KILLING BLOWS AT AXIS POWERS THIS YEAR   Roosevelt: and. Churchill. Bare  Unprecedented Conference in North Africa

Conference Shows Full Unity of All Allies in World War on Aggressors; Offensives Planned   Total Destruction of Japan and Ger many Assured by Pledge to Use. . Total Resources of All. -

"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER* GOAL MAPPED BY ALLIES AT ROOSEVELT - CHURCHILL MEET   carly Action Expected In Global War: Rumors Heard That Ilaly, Spain, Finland And Other  Countries Sent Delegates

Big Things To Follow  Conference   Casablanca Observers Spec: ulate on Presence of Italians, Spaniards, Finns and Turks.

Leaders State Purpose Of Discussions Was To Plan For Utilization Of Every Last Resource Of World o Exterminate Axis Powers  RUSSIA, CHINA LEADERS NOT __ PRESENT BUT KEPT poneTra:

Full Story Not Yet Revealed of  Historic Parley   Casablanca Full of Rumors; Big Diplomatic Break  Expected Soon

Much Untold, Newsmen Say   Entire Conference” Swathed in Mystery

MANY FACTS “OF MEETING LEFT UNTOLD   Leaders Leave important Unrevealed ;

Leaders Chart Course to Bring About  ‘Unconditional Surrender’ of Axis Power:

GUNGRESS 10 ASK OFFICIAL INQUIRY   Patton Incident May Interfere With Pending Promotion,

STATE POLICE WILL ENFORCE OPA BAN   James Bans Sunday Driving * Except For Emergency Or Worship

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON KEY OIL, RAIL-CENTERS   Caucasion Cities Being Enveloped As Pincers Engulf Maikop Oil Field

REDS SPREADING PINCERS AROUND MAIKOP OIL AREA   33 MORE PLACES, 3 GERMAN GENERALS TAKEN AT VORONEZH

SEIZE RAIL CITY, CLOSE ON 2 OTHERS   Russian Armies Register Further Spectacular Gains

Crash Middle  Of Nazi Front AtKastornoye   Buckle German Defense In Gaining Dozen Miles

RUSSIANS GO AHEAD ALONG MANY FRONTS   Capture Important Railroad Center And Close In On Others in Caueacsus Area.

Kastornoye, Railway City. Is Captured By Russians   Other Troops Closing In On Vital Rail Junctions; Maikop Pincers Closing

BAR MAID AND WAITRESS At Beerner’s, First st, NE—Ad.   MILADY'S FALL WARDROBE Tt? prany a,T @GErmEric

STIMSON PRAISES MORALE OF ALLIES   Secretary of War, Reporting on Trip, Tells of Allied Unity.

FOOD PROGRAM HELD LACKING   Farm Union Head Says Nation Faces Hunger Due To Conflicts On Policies

Patton Predicts Acute Hunger if  Congress Fails Charges 4,000,000 Farm “ers are not Producing Efficiently   Upholds Wickard

Acute Fooa Shortage Said Likely   Farm Leader Says Conflicts Are Sabotaaging Program

Storming Of Mono “Brilliant”   Occupation of Small Islands Flanking Rabaul Comes Off Without Hitch: Losses Light

Allies Land On Treasury Islands   Planes, Ships Pound Jep-Held Liles Before Infantry Lands

Halsey’s Troops Execute Brilliant Landing On Treasury Islands; Planes Roamed Unchallenged; Mortar Fire Silenced,

JAP ISLANDS GET POUNDING      Yanks, Aussies “Establish Beachheads; Planes Unchallenged

Allies Stormed Japanese Bases   TREASURY ISLANDS ARE INVADED BY U. S. FORCES

Last Wedge In Solomons Now Driven   Allies Poised For Drive To Push Japanese Out Completely

Naval Forces Strike Japs On Treasury Islands   Attack Aimed to Pry Nipponese From Last Holdings In Solomons

Halsey’s Amphibious Forces Storm Tredsury Islands to Gain Foothold as Allied Campaign Grows in Solomons

ALLIES POISED TO HIT JAPS ON BOUGAINVILLE   Entering Wedge Driven With Seizure of Treasury Islands: Will Pave Wav to Rabaul

U.S. AMPHIBIOUS FORCES CAPTURE TREASURY ISLES   Report of New Action Report ' ed by the Japanese Yesterday Confirmed by the Navy a= ittle Gnposition Met

Allies Invade Treasury Isles In South Seas   Wedge Is Driven In New Campaign Against Rabaul

PACIFIC—  ALLIES GAIN IN SULOMONS DRIVE   Treasury Islands Attack May Open Doors To Jap Base At Rabaul   BRILLIANT MOVE   Warships, Planes And Troops Under Halsey Score Advance

American Troops Storm Treasury Islands, 30 Miles South Of Bougainville   Aim To Drive Wedge To. Pry Japanese From Last Of Solomon Bases

ALLIES LAND OF TREASURY ISLES IN SOLOMONS   Yanks, New Zealand Troops in on Invasion Under Air Umbrella

Allies Seize Treasury Isles   Brilliant Operation Inflicts Another Blow on Japanese

ALLIED FORCES CAND ON MONO. AND STIRLING   Japs Driven Into Hills After At - tack Covered by Guns of Ameri can Navy, Planes   CASUALTIES LIGHT   Two Coral Reefs, Comprising Treasury Isles, Stepping-Stone jo Rabaul

OWI Feels Wrath Of An Angered House F riday  Domestic Branch Of Agency Is ALAichan

Hectic Night In Los Angeles Area   Task Forces Cleaning Up Gangs of “Zoot Suiters”

ZOOT SUITERS ARE HUNTED   Servicemen claim that Zoot Suiters assaulted their Buddies

DESTROYER ROWAN IS REPORTED SUNK   Craft Was Lost hy Italian Waters     Last Saturday: Two U.     Tues Alsa Last

G. MASON OWLETT TO HEAD MANUFACTURERS   Former Senator Named As President of Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Ass’n   EXECUTIVE VICE-PRES’T

MANUFACTURERS spac OWLETT AS PRESIDENT      Wellsboro Man Given Highest Post in Penna. Manu faxtvienee! Aveneathne

Minor nor Damage Suffered  By Two British Ships In  Sinking of Scharnhorst

Nazis Damage 2 British Warships   Announce On ' y Damage Done In Sinking of the Scharnhorst.

? BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS DAMAGED IN NORWAY FIGHT?   London Believes 1,400 Officers and Men Perished as Nazi Battleship Scharnhorst Was Sunk.   FIERCE BATTLE RAGES MORE THAN 8 HOURS   Allied Convoy Escaped Unharmed—Chase of German Craft That Fled May Be Under Way.

Two British Batileships Suffer Some Damage in Batile That Ended Existence of Scharnhorst

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Nazi Battleship Sunk By British   Attackers Suffer Onlv Liaht Damaae

yss Of Scharnhorst Re duces German Naval  Striking Power   2 BRITISH WARSHIPS STRUCK DURING FIGHT

GIRL DESCRIBES RAPE BY ACTOR   Miss Satterlee Says She Was Seduced Twice On Flynn’s Yacht

FLYNN'S ACCUSER TELLS OF CRUISE   Peggy Satterlee Describes Incidents During Yacht Trip 2 Catalina Island Leading to Charges

MAY COMPROMISE ON TWO PROGRAMS   Fate of Subsidy - Rollback and Commodity Credit to Depend on Conference.

Subsidy, Rollback Act’s Fate Rests With Committee   “Conference Group Heavily Loaded With  Compromise Bloc

Fate Of Price Subsidy Program Now ~ Rests With Senate-House Committee

CONFERENCE ON SUBSIDY PLAN   Senate-House Committee Majority Favors Compromise

Compromise Expected on Food Subsidy   Fate of Rollback Program Now up tc Joint Committee

FATE OF PLAN IN BALANCE   Senate-House Conference Committes Attempting to Soften Another Senate Demand ‘that Subsidy Rollback Program be Killed.

FATE OF SUBSIDY PROGRAM RESTS WITH CONFERENC   Congress Committee Seeks Compromise After Senate Attempt to Outlaw Price Control Plans.

Subsidies Sent fo Conference   ‘No’ Says Senate, ‘Yes’ Says House

SENATE VOTES AGAIN TO BAN SUBSIDY PLAN   Price Rollback Program Fate Rests With Joint Group

SUBSIDIES’ FATE AGAIN IN BALANCE   Rollback, CCC Program Sent To Committee ‘Loaded’ In ‘Favor of Compromise.   HECTIC FIGHT STAGED   Senators Vote To Send Back To FOR Same Bill He Vetoed Last Week.

QUTER DEFENSES SOFTENED UP FOR OTH ARMY'S DRIVE   New Position Is Only Five Minutes Flying Time from Port af Gahes.

Djerba Island Seized   Eighth Army Is Now I Position To Flank  Defenses

BRITISH GUNS SOFTEN MARETH LINE DEFENSES   8th Army Reported to Have Captured Djerba Island

IMPORTANT ISLAND I$ CAPTURED   American Forces In Pont Du Fahs Area  Regroup Defenses

Russians Also Advance 45 Miles in Offensive Deep in Donets Basin  NAZI RETREAT AREA MAY BE SEALED OFF  _ Capture of Krasnograd And Pavlograd Carry Reds Well Past Kharkov

REDS HAMMER NAZIS LINES 16 GAIN 45 MILES      Russians Operating South Of Voroshilovgrad Takes 3 More Localities; Blow Up Train In Orel.   216 Nazis Planes Gone

Russian Forces Continue Gains  Advance AS Adilac   Advance 45 Miles In Donets Drive

Reds Hammering Germans on Dnieper Line   Union of Two Advancing Columns of Soviet Forces to Give Access To Corridor Where Enemvy Retreats

ALONG FRONT OF 500 MILES   Reds Storm Closer to Strategic Points West Of Kharkov

LAWMAKERS BUSY   House Holds Afternoon Session on Delinquent Children Bill

Home Up In Legislature   Receiving Center For Children Is  Under Discussion

RUML TAX BILL NEARING VOTE INTHE HOUSE   Republicans Expect: ed To Back Plan To The Man

SAYS G.0.P. MINORITY MAY GO DOWN LINE / FOR RUML TAX PLAY   House Enters Final Day of Debate On Cancellation of 1942 Obligations   TO OPPOSE COMPROMISE

Red Cross Centers a God-Send to U.S. Service Men in North Africa

German Rout In Caucasus  Is Claimed   Russians Advance At Fast Pace, Moscow Asserts

Reds Force Nazi Retreat In Caucasus  Germans Blowing U   Germans Blowing Up Bridges Behind Them in Withdrawal

Russ Chase Foes Out of Caucasus   Soviet Captures Vital Defense Spot at Stalingrad

FLEEING GERMANS BLOWING UP BRIDGES   Russians Drive Spearhead To Within: 15 Miles Of Stratecic Rostov

BLOW UP BRIDGES AND MINE ROADS TO SLOW SOVIETS   Russian Forces, After Retaking Five Important Towns, Continue Swift Advance Along a Wide Front

RUSSIANS-KEEP HARD AT HEELS OF FLERING FOE   London Estimates German Force of 500,000 ls Seeking to Escape From Caucasus   REDS REPORT TOWNS RETAKEN IN DRIVES   iSoviet Armies Advancing In Don Sector Are Within 100 Miles of Vital City of Rostov

BRIDGES AND ROADS MINED TO STOP REDS   Advance Toward Rostov Threatens Entire German Force In Caucasus

Russians Continue Sweeping Advance; Half Million Finest Nazi Troops Fall Back Rapidly   Enemy Blowing Up Bridges, Mining Roads In Final Effort Tu ali Advancing Red Army; Many More Towns Won Huck Hy Soviet

6 Vital New Cities, Towns Held By Reds   Flood-Tide Of Disaster In Caucasus, Middle Don Quickens; Blast Bridges, Mine Roads

Nazi Army In Full Retreat In Caueasus   Russians Win More Towns In Continu ing Sween March

Bridges Blown Up, Roads Mined In Effort to Check Red Advance   Red Star Reports That Sweeping Gains Being Made on Wide Front

Reds Win Back Province of  North Osetia   -Nalchik Captured After Terrific Street Battle

HITLER’S FORCES REPORTED FLEEING FROM OIL FIELD AREA   BRIDGES BEING BLOWN UP AND ROADS MINED TO CHECK PURSUIT

New Soviet Spearhead Within 125 Miles Of  Rostov   Crack Main Line

Soviets Continue Sweeping Advance   Large Number of Towns Won Back From Germans—Entirt Province of North Osetia Retaken—Retreating Nazis Seek to Impede Pursuit

Nazis In Full Refreat From Caucasus Front   Hitler Is Overtaken By Disaster; Army Flees ‘In Panic.

Russians Press Advances on Rostov After Capture of Nalchik in Caucasus, Tsimlyansk in MiddleDon .   ALLIES SCORE IN NORTH AFRICA   Commandos, Parachute Troops and Regu lar Soldiers Capture German Position.Gen. Clark Commands New U. S. Army

Large Number Of Towns Won Back By Advanceing Soviet Army; Drive Second Spearhead Within 125 Miles Of Rostov; Nazis Overwhelmed

Germans Blow Up Bridges and Mine Highways   Russians Continue Sweeping Advance on Wide Front Winning Back Many Towns

Nazis Are  Beaten In Caucasus   German Hordes Are Reported in Full Retreat There and On the Middle Don

SOVIET FORCES CONTINUE THEIR SURGE FORWARD   Retreating Nazis Blowing Up Bridges And Mining Roads In Desperate Effort To Check Russian Ad vance.

Second Russian Spearhead, Along Don River, Within 125 Miles of NaziHeld Rostov

In Full Retreat Before Surging Russian Armies   Destroy Bridges, Mine Roads In Frantic Effort To Check Great Red Steamroller

Sweeping Soviet Attacks Retake Important Points   Russians Drive Spearheac Within 125 Miles Of Ros. toy On Don

NAZI CAUCASUS ARMY BLOWING UP BRIDGES, MINING ROADS IN EFFORT TO CHECK RED ADVANCE   Russians Retake Important Towns of Mozdok and Nalchik As Well As Several Other Towns To Continue Sweep Alone Wide Front

THE GERMAN ARMY ISIN FULL Ae ‘neat IN THE CAUCASUS   Were Blowing Up Bridges and Mining Roads te Check Russians.   SOVIETS DRIVING HARD   Russians Continued Their Sweeping Advance Along a Wide Front.

SOVIET TROOPS SURGE ON; AXIS TROOPS ROUTED   Fleeing Forces Mine Roads To Check Russians

REDS ofY NAZIS ARE IN RETREAT   Axis Reported Blowing Up Bridges, Mining Roads In Caucasus.   SOVIETS TAKE PROVINCE

Russian Armies Continue Drive Info Caucasus   Desperate Enemy Blows Up Bridges As Reds Press On

Bridges Blown Up, Roads  . Mined In Effort To Check Surging Advance Of Soviet Troops

Reds Force Nazi Retreat In Caucasus   Germans Blowing Up Bridges Behind Them in Withdrawal

Fleeing Germans Blow Up Bridges, Mine Roads In Effort To Check Reds

Blow Up Highways, Bridges in Flight Before Red Onrust   Report Over 500,000 Nazis Fail to Stop Surging Russians __

REICH PLANE CITY. HEAVILY BOMBED, “ISFELT BY SWISS   Night Visit Followed By Another. During Day to- Resume Battering Cities: of Continental Europe.   AFRICAN OPERATIONS CARRIED INTO SICILY   Russians Claim Destruction of 3600 German-Planes as Part of Plans to Prevent Campaign.

YANK BOMBERS ATTAGK ITALIAN LANDING FIELDS   Northern Cities In Reich Hard Hit From Air

GREAT WAVES OF RAF ROAR TO EUROPE   France’s “Krupp” Works Demolished, Paris Radio Says

GERMAN BROADCASTS TELL OF ACTIVITIES IN MEDITERRANEAN  HEAVY NEW ATIICN   HEAVY NEW ALLIED AERIAL THRUSTS MADE AT ENEMY AIRFIELDS

Report Allied Forces Mass In Mediferranear   Meanwhile Air Blows Are Rained Upon ‘Italian Cities

Axis Report Asserts U. N. nee Assemble      Allies. In: New: Assaults On Sicily; - Italians Said: Ready. For. Peace; - Seek Safety. Tn: Rome’s: 7 Hills

German City Near Lake Constance Bombed So Heavily That Reverberating Destruction Shakes Houses In Switzerland.

Allies Gather  Invasion. Unit   Huge. United: States and British: Air; Armadas Pound Sicily, Italy.

‘Germans Declare Allies Get Ready  Tu Mediterranean   Meanwhile  leavy Alhec Aerial Thrusts Made on  Sicilian Points.   Report Naples Under Heavy Allied Bombing

RAF Planes [Raid Wide  \German Area      Berlin Reports Southwest And North Raids; Swiss Say Lake Constance Hit

German Radio Factory Raided   Bombers Smash FriedrichShafen Plant After Blasting Le Creusot Works

British Bombers Blast Germany; Swiss Report Heavy Damage Inflicted

Germans Say Reich Is Raided by RAF   Swiss Dispatches: Report One City Bombed So Heavily That Reverberations Shook Houses in Switzerland.

Great Assaults Last Night: And  Continuing Today      Great Zeppelin Works, Airplane lingines and Submarine Parts Fac. tories at) Freidrichshaven May Tlave Been 747 Varget.

ALLIES MASS FOR INVASION, REICH CLAIMS   Meanwhile Allied Alr Forces Strike Again Against Germany,, Points on Sicily

ltalians Declared Ready and Eager to Sue for Armistice   Seven Hills of Rome Are Jammed With People Seeking Safety

Invasion Fleet Reported off Syrian Coast   Allies Announce Heavy New Aerial Thrusts at Air Fields and Ports of Sicily; Italian Morale Is Reported Broken  

Heavy New Air Blows By Allies   Italian Morale Reported Ar Very Low; Germans Agaix Tell.of Allied Fleet   U-BOATS SMASHED -— . IN CONVOY BATTLE   Paris Also Reports Big Allied Raid on War Plant Near City

Nazis Say Allies Are Still Massing   Invasion Flects Reported in Mediterranean as Bombers Keep Up Attacks on Italy

BOMBS DUMPED ON REICH CITY   Big Waves of RAF Planes Carry Out Destructive Missions In Germany

Italian Island Targets Pounded   RAF At Work On The Huns   Fierce Raids On Jap Bases   Lieut. Gilliam Gets Two Nazi Fighters.

British Attacks On Nazis So Heavy They Reverberate All Way Into Switzerland

Axis Reports of Massing Off Syria is Unconfirmed by United Nations Officials  ITALIAN MORALE LOW

Reich Undergoes Intensive Raids  By RAF Bombers   Swiss Feel Reverberations Bombing Is So Intense on Reich City,   Center of Zeppelin Works Suffers Most

Yanks, British Plaster Knemy With Bombings   Eyewitness Reports Say Italian Morale Broken By Raids. War Reverses.   HARD BLOW AT FRANCE

PART OF FORCE IS MASSED OFF COAST OF SYRIA   U. S. and British Warships Concentrate at Gibraltar As Air Attack Roars On   NEAR PANIC GRIPS ITALY   War Pliants in Naziland Hit So Hard Bomb Blasts Felt in Switzerland

Landing Craft Being Moved Into Position in North Africa and British and American Naval Forces Concentrating at Gibraltar

Axis Tells of Big Invasion Activity In Mediterranean   Evidence Mounts That Italians Are Growing War Weary

BERLIN REPORTS ALLIES. MASSING ~ INVASION FORCE:   Landing Craft In Syria, In North Africa and At Gibraltar   ITALIAN MORALE ALREADY BROKEN

Reverberation So Great Houses In Switzer. Jand Shaken .   ATTACK RESUMED. AFTER DAYLIGHT

stoppage Form Fofces For Invasion  Axis Reports      Enemy Is Stirred By Land, Sea, Air Action

ABRIAL BLOWS SHAKE HOUSES IN SWISS TOWN   Attack Believed By Bern to Have Been Centered On Friedrichshafen During Night °   LA CRUESOT, FRANCE ALMOST DESTROYED   Sprawling Schneider Armament Works “Nothing But Mountain of Debris.”’ Paris Says -

Landing Craft In North Africa And Fleet Off Syria   Italian Morale Is Low Heavy Aijir Raid: Are Continued Or;  ' Sicily

Reiterate Allies Set  To Invade   Stockholm Reports Indicate Italian  Morale Fading.

Nazis Say Allies Massing  Forces In Mediterranean   Fleets and Landing Craft Reported Assembling at Many Points Including Syrian Coast, Gibraltar.

Germans Fish’ For News Of Invasion Fleet   Stockholm Says Italians Are Ready and Eager For Peace

RAF Ranges Into South Of Germany   ‘Radio Locator Factory Is Bombed; Other Reports Of Wide Damage

Indications Are That Northern Germany Is Main Target as Planes Sweep Over Channel.   BERLIN AND SWISS RADIOS ALSO SPEAK

WAVES OF RAF BOMBERS SWEEP OVER EUROPE  RESUME HEAVY  BATTERING OF  ee a ae Ure Ue 

ALLIED FORCES ARE ASSEMBLING BERLIN REPORTS   vanding Craft Reported Moving Into Position Off North Africa; New Aerial  Thrusts Made Against Sicily.

REPORT ALLIED FLEET MASSING OFF OF SYRIA   Landing Craft Being Moved Into Position, Berlin Asserts   HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS   Big British and American Naval Force Reported At Gibraltar

Unconfirmed Report Says Vessels Assemble Off Syrian Coast.   MESSINA BOMBED AGAIN

Bombers Keep Up  e Constant Raids © Over Southern © Italy, Sicily

INVASIONS OF EUROPENEAR. GERMANS FEAR   Broadcasts Declare Alliec Fleet Assembling In. Eastern Mediterranean, Off Svrian Coast   N.. AFRICA: ACTIVE   Large British and Ameri can Naval Force Held. By Berlin to Be At Gibraltar

RAF Smashes Factory Near Swiss Border   Friedrichshafen Radio Plant Is One British Target; Le Creusot Munitions Center Is Revorted In Ruins

‘British Bombs In Southwest German City Shakes Switzerland Houses

Germans Claim Allies Set To Invade Europe   Report Landing Craft Assembled At Various Spots

Say Invasion Forces Mass Off Africa   Axis Declares Allies  Assemble Ships at 3. * Points on Mediterran ean; Italian Morale Low

Tired and Hungry, Report Italians Ready for Peace   German Broadcasts Declare Allies . Massing Invasion Fleet in Mediterranean Area

BRITISH ATTACKS ON GERMANY LAST NIGHT REPORTBD   Swiss Dispatches Said Reich City Near Lake Constance Was Bombed.   HEARD IN SWITZERLAND   Great Waves of RAF Bombers Out at Daylight to Resume the Battering.

AXIS REPORTS: FORCES MASS BELOW ITALY   Americans, British» Maintain Heavy Aerial Attack on. Sicilian Airfielde.

ROYAL AIR FORGE HITS SEVERAL POINTS IN RAIDS   Assault Cities in Germany, Resume Attacks on Europe Today

Axis Declares Large Invasion Fleet Massing   Says Allied Sea Force Gathering From Gibral tar To Syria.

AXIS — WAITS BLOW   Germans Report Allied Invasion Fleet Massing  aoe tel — f= 2. oe. ee

Berlin Says Fleet Massed  For Invasion   Italians Reportedly Are Eager for Peace—Allies Deny Algiers Rumor

Radio Factory ‘Is Attacked By RAF Bombers   All Main Buildings A Important Plant = In Friedrichshafen Are Damaged By Raiders

GERMAN BROADCASTS TELL OF ACTIVITIES IN MEDITERRANEAN  HEAVY NEW ALLIED AERIAL THRUSTS MADE AT ENEMY AIRFIELDS

Southwest. North Germany Attacked  Friedrichshafen Target For RAF Planes

Report t Yugoslavs Seize Off ensive  Kiet. ‘To.   Nazis Try to Clear Flank in Balkans

YUGOSLAV FORCES BEAT OFF NAZIS   Partisans of Marshall Tito Again Take the Offensive

Well Known Local Citizen Becomes Centenarian  STILL ACTIVE  Celebrant Is Oldest Member Of Salem  T seal. OLecunk

HEROIC: Story Of C itizens Defense Of Leningrad Revealed   y HENRY SHAPRO

DECISION HELD NEAR IN BATTLE   Russians Mass Planes And Troops As Guns Open Up On City

QUARTER MILLION GERMAN TROOPS MAY BE TRAPPED   Eseape Corridor Behind Imperilled German Garrison Now Less Than a Mile Wide

RUMOR ITALIAN GROUP IS SENT TO EISENHOWER   Ciano, Mussolini’s SonIn-Law, Goes Into Retirement

Four-Point Bid by Badoglio is Seen   Count Ciano Retires; Strikes and Unrest Continue Thruout Italy

Badoglio’s Envoys Are Reported in Africa To Confer With Eisenhower

REPORTED WITH PLAN   Premier May Be Set To Resign If Proposal Rejected

U. S. Capital Keeps Silence on Italian Upheaval  Nation Is Gratified By Move; Official Word Is Kept Back

Trap Closing In Dnieper  River Bulge   Encirclement of Krivoi Rog Said Almost Completed

BIG NAZI FORCE IS ENCIRCLED   Red Army Prepares to Spring Trap on Nazis

Nazis Rush Men from Italy, France   Germans Tell of ‘‘Elastic Defense’’ of Krivoi Rog,  Mining Center

Biggest Battle In Italy Shaping Up As Germans Fall Back To New Defense Line And Allies Gain Five Miles   Ry UNITEN PRESS

Stockmen Oppose Land Purchases By Government   Decry Conservation’s Use to Impose New Social, Economic Ideas

Soviet Newspaper Indicales Parley Took Decisions on Second Front

Russ Newspaper Okehs   Second Front Decisions   Official Government Organ Indicates Plans Made at Tripartite Parley; Sees Action Accelerating Nazi Defeat

Soviet Newspaper Reports “Second Front” De~eided ded Upon i  SPEEDING OF DRIVE PLANNED IN TALKS  Necessity “for Hastening End of War Fully Recognized

Miners to Vote on Labor Board Order Saturday  Commission Wires Its Award of Pav Raise Is Final

Miners to Vote on Labor Board Order Saturday  Commission Wires   Commission Wires Its Award of Pay Raise Is Final

Partial Evacuation  Of Sofia Planned   Report Non-Essential Civilians To Be Moved Out Of Panicky Bulgarian Canital

SMES OD FRUIT FEU WVEICOVPVUIIVETTE 5 PSVICUUVA LL A TCL LLL LLL! CL A CLEC CER tN ACN TTR tet met  Santas Middle Man

ITALIANS ACT 10 PREVENT INVASION   Posters Tell of Warn. ing to Be Given in Event of Attack

TO PREVENT © INVASION   Posters Tell of Warning to Be Given in Event of Attack

HALY WORRIED: PEAR INVAGIOA MAY CONE oOOK   Urgent Precautions Taken Against an Allied Move to Mainland.   REPORT ROME BOMBED   German Radio Says Capital City Underwent New. Raid Last Night.

ITALY READY FOR LANDING ON OWN SOll   NAZIS EVEN ASSERT THAT “ONE ATTEMPT HAS BEEN BEATEN.”   Nerves Shake   Berlin Said to Realize That Continent’s “Period of Waiting” is Over.

GIRAUD INVITES DE GAULLE AID   Concrete Step Is Taken For French Unity In North Africa

Andrew Johnson And Berneice M. Reid Married  Bride Is Well  Known Teacher

Andrew Johnson And Berneice M. Reid Married   Bride Is Well Known Teacher In Akron Vicinity

Army Bombers Strike Large Enemy Outpost   Attack On Tarawa Island In Gilbert Group Labeled  “ spe * Oe ca eo ke ee   TOKYO FEARS ATTACK

One of Jap's Main Outposts in Pacific Attacked By U. 5.   Attu Island Also Is Target For Another Raid

U.S. Bombers Raid Tarawa   Heavy Blow Struck at Main Japanese Advance  Outpost in South Pacific

JAP ISLAND BASES IN NORTH, SOUTH PACIFIC HAMMERED   }  ‘Bombers Strike Heavily at  “Tarawa Island in the Gil bert Group and at Attu in  the Aleutians

U.S. Strikes Heavily At Japs’ Bases   Outpost Bombed And Naval Vessels Open Attu Bombardment

One Of Japan's Main Advance Outposts In Pacific Raided By Army Bombers; Attu Hit

Army Bombs Jap Outpost At Tarawa   Attu. Island Also Gets Shower of Bombs From Americans

ENEMY BASES IN PACIFIC ATTACKED BY U.S. PLANES    Surface Craft Bombards Jap Positions on Holtz Island.

Fighting on Russian Front Slows Down   German Attacks Near Leningrad And Kharkov Halted

Fighting Slowed On Russ Front   New German Attacks Repulsed By Reds

FIGHTING. ON~VAST. RUSSIAN FRONT HAS SIMMERED DOWN   New German Attacks Have Been Repulsed — Reds Count More Dead ' Enemy Troops

STATE ASSESSMENT BILL IS ADVANCED   Approval ‘of Continuous Assessment Play by Senate Indicated

STATE ASSESSMENT _ BILL 1S ADVANCED      Approval. ‘of ‘Continuous - Assessment: Play. by Senate Indicated .

CHINA SEES DOOM OF AXIS   Chungking Radio Announces Confidence In Victory For United Nations

A.F.L. Delays  Lewis Return   Committee Tells Convention That Terms Suggested Not Satisfactory.

R. A. F. Blasts Nazi Viaduct and Trains   U.S. Flyers Blast Japanese Phosphate Mine in Indo-China

Nazi Bases Feel Weight Of Raid  St. Nazaire Hard Hit, 30,000 Homeless In

Attack 14 Nazi  Freight Trains   British Also Damage lmnportant Viaduct

BRITISH PLANES RETURN SAFELY   Whirlwind Bom bers Damage Rail Viaduct in Brittany

30,000 Berliners Homeless in RAF Bombings; Aerial Attacks Continue

RAF Blasts Rail Viaduct In Brittany   British Continue to Smash Nazi Communications in France

Big RAF Whirlwind Bombers Raid Brittany As Attacks On Axis In France Continue

RAF CONTINUES RAIDS IN FRANCE   Nazi Communications Over  France Pounded in Raids

RAF RAIDS ON BERLIN LEAVE MANY HOMELESS   British Bombers Pound German Bases Again

Yanks Reported (raining 6 Miles In North Sicily   7th Army Strengthened; British And Canadians Said Pushing Forward

Veterans Of — — Tunisia Now  At The Front   New Allied Wedge Aimed At Western Face of Mt. Etna

OF ENEMY TREMBLING   Americans Gain Six Miles; U. S. Cruisers Reported In Raid; Tunisian Vets Back In Fight

Mt. Etna Line Shudders In Heavy Attacks   U. S. Heavy Cruisers Shell Foe’s Positions Along Northern Coast As Troops Gain

MT. ETNA LINE SEA OF FLAMES AS ALLIES GAIN   LETHAL LOADS SPRAY ENEMY MAKING LAST STAND NEAR MESSINA

War Veterans of African Campaign Hurled Into Action   Americans Advance Six Miles in Northern Sector, 8th Army Gains (round Near Catania

‘Allies Get Fresh Troops From Africa   Nazis Make Suicidal Resistance to Advance Into Mt. Etna Area

AXIS DEFENSES IN THE MT, ETNA LINE HAMMERED HARD   Crumbled Under One of the Greatest Concentrations of Fire.   AIR, SEA, LAND BATTLE   The German 7th Army I; Strengthened for the Big Push.

Yank Vets _ In ig Drive   Terrific Concentration Of Fire—From  Land, Air And Sea

Fresh Troops Lead Seventh Army’s Drive   Americans Advance Six -Miles*in North Sector; Canadians and:British Push Wedge in Axis Central Zone Defenses

Air,Sea And Lanc Bombardment Is Hurled At Axis   Full Fury Unleashed In Support Of Big Push Of Allied Land Troops

Air, Sea and Land Attack on Axis ‘in Sicily . ” Intensified   ‘TO SUPPORT BIG PUSH   Brogtes Is Reported in Central and West Sec tors of Attack

MT. ETNA LINE IS SHUDDERING UNDER ATTACKS   American 7th Army Is Strengthened for Final Punch on Island

Foe’s Line Trembles Under Fire   Allies Move To Wipe Out Sicilian Bridge: heads.

BLAST AXIS DEFENSES AT MOUNT ETNA   Their Line in Sicily Trembles Under Great Con centration of Fire.   In Big Push American Troops Drive 6 Miles

American Navy Bombards Axis Positions To Support Drive On Messina

Allies Throw  ‘Everything’  At Axis Front   Bombers, Ships, Artillery Hurl Huge Concentration of Firepower In ~ Support of Ground Troops as They Hit Sicilian Corner. ©”

‘Axis Defenses in Sicily Raked From Land, Sea and Air as Americans Advance 6 Miles

‘6-MILE ADVANCE BY YANKS ALONG SHORE REPORTED   Gains In Other Sectors Told In Front Dispatches

TROOPS ADVANCE SIX MILES, TAKE SEVERAL TAWNS   Yanks, British and Canadians Credited With Gains as Planes Pound Foe

SHELLS AXIS POSITIONS AS TROOPS GAIN   Heavy Cruisers Involved —Fresh U. S. Units Advance Up to Six Miles — Enemy Reinforcements Cease. ea

FURIOUS BLOWS LANDED BY BIG AIR, NAVY UNITS   Axis Line Shudders Under Terrific Bombardment Of Allied Forces In “Final Assault”

Bombers, Fighters Join Warships To Hammer Defenses   Bombardment By Air, Sea And Land Unleashed In Support Of Big Push

Allies Hammer Mt. Etna Line   Axis Line in Sicily Trembles Under Greatest Concentration of Fire in War — Is Bombed From Land, Sea And Air — Supports Big Push

Allies Smash Way Forward   Tighten Blockade Around Area; Naples Bombarded

Nazis’ Mount Etna Line Trembles Under Terrific ‘Allied Air, Land, Sea Fire   Re RELMAN MORIN

Yankees Advance 6 Miles; African Vets In Action   Naples Attacked For Second Successive Night; Warships Aid Drive

Mt. Efna Line Trembles Under Heavy Fire   Planes, Warship and Field Artillery Guns Join in Assault

MOUNT ETNA LINE  TREMBLING UNDER  CONCENTRATED FIRE AIR, SEA AND GROUND  _ FORCES HAMMER AT AXK CICILIAN DEFENSES

ARTILLERY, PLANES AND SHIPS BUSY.   Bombardment.In Support Of Big Land Troop Push

British And American Warships And Hundreds Of Batteries OF . Field Artillery Powud Foe   American Ground Forces Gain Six Miles Whil Very Satisfactory Progress By British Near Catania Is Reported By Gen. Bisenhower

Yanks Advance Six Miles on North Sector   Bombers Join Artillery in Pounding Nazis

Huge Formations of Bomber Join With Warships and Lanc Forces to Hit Axis Defenses   Americans Advance Six Miles On Northern Flank; U. $. Heavy “Mentcarc Gunnart Graund Action

Fresh Troops Keep Allied  Push Going   Rested Veterans of . North Africa. Campaign Added to American -Army   VERY SATISFACTORY...” PROGRESS MADE:   Concentration of Fire Power One of Greatest in the War.

Ground Forces Push Into Smoking Gaps   Warships, Planes, Guns Hammer Fiercely Resisting Germans Threatened on Flank

ALLIES CRACK MT. ETNA LINE   Anglo-American Land, Sea, Air Forces Concentrate On Line.   BLOCKADE AXIS BASES

Yanks Advance Six Miles in Drive In Northern Sector   Full Fury of Tremendous Air, Sea and Land Bombardment Is Unleashed In Support of Big Push Launched By Land Troops   MAINLAND RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS HIT

Yankees Gain Several Miles; End Seen Near For Sicily’s Defenders

"While Russia »Bases Nearer   Approaches To.Poland Are Being Threatened

Soviets Smas German Arm In Caucasus   Nazis in White Russia Driven Back on Bases By Russia n Arms

Soviets Smash Remnants Of Caucasus Foe   Teutons Retreat On Taman Peninsula, Also Toward Poland's Approaches   RENEW CRIMEA PUSH   Minefields, Heavy Coun: ter Attacks Fail To Hall Russian Armies

Japs Make New Advance Against British in Burma   Natural Obstacles Like,Monsoon Are Ignored by Enemy

BRITISH REPORT NEW JAP GAIN   Increase Threat Against  Wavell’s Positions

JAPS ADVANCE EAST OF MAKU RIDGE IN BURMA   Threaten Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell’s Monsoon Season  Pocitinn. :

Jap Drive Menaces India;  U.S. May Take Over Kiska   Second Jap Advance in 24 Hours Endangers Wavell Position

Position of ‘Wavell’s Men ‘Threatened   Japs Make New Advance in Burma; US Planes Step Up Assault on Attu Island; Blast Anew at Kiska

UKAY DELAY IN FATHER DRAFI   SENATE PASSES BILL FOR INDUCTION SHIFT

American Subs Sink  Six Japanese Sh ips   Navy Puts Enemy Force to Flight in Encounter in North Pacific: Russell Island Is Occupied by American Forces

Yanks Seize Russell Islands in South Pacific, Defeat Japs in Aleutians Naval Clas!

U5. SUBMARINES SINK 6 JAP SHIPS   SUPERIOR ENEMY EORCE PUT TO FLIGHT IN NORTH - PACIFIC,

U.S. navy forges link against Japs   Sink 6 vessels in sub forays

Russell Isles Occupied Near  Guadalcanal  Seizure of Islands Secures American Hold on Sotemons; ,

YANKS OCCUPY ISLANDS, SINK SIX JAP: SHIPS   Russells: are’. Seized; Foe Surface: Force Put to Flicht

Navy Occupies Isles Near Guadalcanal   Subs Sink Six Jap Vessels; Convoy Guard Dispersed

U.S. OCCUPIES RUSSELL BASE   Forge New Pacific Link Guarding Guadalcanal; 6 Jap Ships Sunk  By Submarines

Navy Forges Nev Link in Pacific; Routs Enemy —   Three U.S. Destroyer: Make Bold Torpedp Attack on Enemy

U. §. Submarines Sink Six More Japanese Ships   Two Destroyers Sent to Bottom during Operations in Pacific

NEW ADVANCE BASES CREEP UP ON JAPAN   SiA NIPPON SHIPS SUNK; SEA FORCE PUT TO ROUT

U. S. Gains New Bases On Guadalcanal Flank In February Thrust  2 JAP DESTROYERS SUNK BY U. S. SUBS  Superior Jap Force Chased in Encounter In Northern Pacific

U. S. Subs Sink Two Jap Destroyers, Four Ships   Navy Seizes More Island Bases, Tells of Routing Strong Force at Sea

U.S. Occupies Islands Step. Nearer Japs; Subs Send Six. Nip Ships Down Th Parisie -

US. HOLDS RUSSELL 13 NAVY REVEALS      Forge New Link in Chain of Bases Menacing Japan’: Pacific Empire; Sink Six   Planes Return

NavyLinks Are Menace to  Japanese Bases Six Enemy Ships Sunk by U. S. Submarines

NAVY REPORTS SIX JAP SHIPS SUNK   Russell Islands Occupied as Submarines Attack Vessels

BERLIN GETS ANOTHER 1 TONS OFF BS   8,000,000 Pounds of Explosives Dropped on City in 3 Raids

Smash Is Aimed At City’s Vital Installations   1,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped In 20-Minute Attack; American Bombers Concentrate On Plane Factories, Fields

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Bomb Weight Dropped on Berlin Raised to 8 ANG O00 Pounds

BERLIN RAIDERS MASSING BOMBS © ON SMALL AREA   Government Buildings Hit ®& ‘Glow of Fires Seen

Business Is Hurt By Drastic New Save-Gas System  Delivery Impaired  In East by ODT  Curb on Transpor®

NEW GAS CUT HITS LUXURY DELIVERIES   Truck, Bus and Toxi Troffic Curtailed by New  Restrictions

ODT to Curb Delivery of  Luxury Items   40 Per Cent Slash Attributed to  Gasoline Shortage

Ban On Gas To Curb * Luxuries   Beer, Ice Cream, Pop, Flowers To Disappear

Trucks, Buses, Taxis Must Make T Coupons Extend to July 26, ODT Order Stipulates  FLOWERS AND POP, OTHER LUXURIES HIT  Commercial Mileage Due for 40 Pet. Cut, Effective Thursday

Luxury Use Of Trucks In  East Doomec Beer, Liquor, Soft Drink Deliveries  OL... Misa

RESTRICTIONS ON GAS USE 10 HIT LUXURIES   Will Drastically Cut Deliveries of Beer,  Ice Cream, Flowers

“LUXURY” DELIVERIES DOOMED IN EAST BY CUT IN MILEAGE   Delivery Of Beverages, Ice Cream, Flowers, Etc. Be‘ing Curtailed Beginning Thursday; Some Businesses Hard Hit By Government Gas-Saving Order

Cut Gas For Trucks Taxis 40 Per Cent   DELIVERIES OF LUXURIES TO BE SHARPLY CUT BECAUSE OF FLOOD DAMAGE TO TRANSPORTATION.   Prepare Priority List

NAZIS FORTIFYING THE DUTCH COAST   THOUSANDS OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED — INHABITANTS MOVED INLAND.

Lock Swallowed 13 Days Ago Fished From Boy’s Stomach   Doctor Uses Magnet On End Of Tube To Extract Inch-Long Piece Of Metal

CONCERN INDICTED IN SABOTAGE CASE   Three Bohn Aluminum Firm Employees Also Accused of Damaging Motors.

BOHN CORP. CHARGED WITH SABOTAGE   Three Supervisory Employes Also Named In  Indictment

Anti-Jap Bills Introduced in Levislature   Would Bar Citizenship to U. S. Born; End Land Rirhts

Solons in Jap Slaps   Activities of Nip Aliens, Citizens Cut in Proposals

New Conquests in Russia: Allies in ltaly GainGround   New Chaos in Berlin; Campaign In Pacific Improves

Rayburn Answers Paper Criticism   Says Not Aware War Department Lettering Groduates’ Scrolls

secrer Froject  Report Federal Employes Letter Diplomas For  Towne Sahontles   RILLETIN

Miners Slow To Return To Work .   Many ety Lewis Ordey  And Ignore FDR Hint. Of Draft:Law “Club”; Ickes Cafls Ownera In

Miners Retuse To Work: FDR  Issues Threat   Congress Opposed To Presidential Plan Asking Draft Of Strikers.   ICKES TO RUN MINES

U. S. Operation May Continue . a Long Time   Ickes Calls In Major Mine Owners; He Doesn’t Want Anv Proxies   ANTI-STRIKE BILL MAY BE VETOES   President's Draft Club Proposal Meets. Criticism; Truman Against It

Ickes Assumes Active Charge Of Coal Mines   Will Confer Friday In Washington With 29 Major Owners

MINERS APPARENTLY UNAFRAID PRESIDENT AND REFUSE G0 WORK  SECRETARY ICKES SAYS MINES TO REMAIN UNDER

OF ANTISTRKE BILL IS INOW EXPECTED   F. R. Request to Draft Strikers Results in Congress Repercussions

MINERS APPARENTLY UNAFRAID PRESIDENT AND REFUSE GO WORK  SECRETARY ICKES SAYS MINES TO REMAIN UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL

" lekes Summons Operators; Expects  - Long Federal Control Of Coal Properties

Draft Club Sought; Thousands of Miners Ignore Lewis’ Edict   Ickes Sees Government Operating Mines for ‘Considerable’ Time

THOUSANDS Of MINERS SPURN UNION'S ORDER   -F DR Threatens to Ask Draft Club; Ickes to Take Active Charge

NEWPORT HAS COLDEST . WEATHER OF -YEAR     One Death: in Middletown Caused: by Exposure     Temperatures Lowest For Date tet Many Years}; Little Betlet Seen For Tonight 

NEWPORT HAS COLDEST WEATHER OF YEAR     One Death in Middletown Caused by Exposure  =a Lowest For Date i: Many Yearss; Littbe Reliet  Seen For Tonlght

Many Proposals Before Assembl)   Comptroller Urges Go Easy on Cash

Compulsory Flag Salute Held Hegal   Supreme Court Reverses Self in TImnoartant Deeteian

Forced Flag Salute Ruled Out of Court   Overrules Opinion on Dispute Delivered In June, 1940

oSalute. equired.  Ruling   8. Supreme Court everzes Ttself to phold ‘Witnesses’

Flag Salute ‘Ruling Reversed   Salute Not Required IF Religious Scruples are Held

RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES SUFFICIENT REASON NOT SALUTING FLAG  _ SUPREME COURT OVERRULED DECISION IT  DELIVERED IN 1940

Jverrules Decision Delivered In 1940 and Holds Children Can Not Constitutionally Be Required to Salute the American Flag If They Have Relizgious Scruples Against Such Action

Cannot Compel Children fo Salute Flag   The United States Supreme Court Overrules Former Decision

Court Overrules Flag Salute Law   ‘Witnesses’ Can‘t Be Forced to Respond

High Court Changes Flag Salute Rule   Decided School Children Do Not Have to Salute Under Religious Scruples

Salute To Flag Not Mandatory, Court Contends   Not Required If Religious Scruples Are Considered 

HIGH COURT RULES ON FLAG-SALUTING   Saya Chidren Can't Be Forced To Salute Colors.

Flag Salute Requirement Invalidated   Supreme Court Overrules a 1940 Decision in Case From West Virginia   JUSTICE JACKSON. WRITES OPINION   State Cannot Enforce the Salute Regulation in Schools, He Holds

CAN'T COMPEL FLAG SALUTE   . S, SUPREME COURT OVERRULES DECISION RENDERED IN 1940

Compulsory Flag Salute Is Illegal   U. S. Supreme Court Declares States Cannot Enforce Regulation Requiring Pupils in Public Schools to Give Pledge of Allegiance.

Can’tForce Schoo Children To Give Salute To Flag   Supreme Court Overrules Decision Delivered In 19040

Court Bans Compulsory Flag Salute   Supreme Tribunal Also Rules Out State Sedition Law

Flag Salute Ruling Reversed  Salute Not Required  ie = a ae   Salute Not Required  If Religious Scruples are Held

MANDATORY OALUTE TO FLAG (S BARRED   School Children Not Required To Salute, Court Holds

High Court Reverses Itself In Flae Case’   Hold Salute Cannot Be Required Where Religious Scruples Are Against It

Flag Salute Ruling Made by Supreme Court   School Children Can't be Required To Act Says Opinion

High Court Rules Out Flag Salute   Asserts School Children Cannot Be Required To Salute American Flag

No Forced Flag Salute  Court Holds   Highest Tribunal Reverses Self In “Witness” Case

Are Not Required To Salute Flag   Supreme Court Delivers  Opinion in Regard to School Children.

Religious Scruples Ara Proper Basis For Not Saluting, Court States In New Decision

SUPREME COURT OVERRULES FLAG SALUTE DECISION   Requirement Held To Transcend Constitutiona Limitations

Decision On Salute Law Is Overruled   Court Decides Children May Not Be Compelled To Repeat Pledge  TAC) HInGEC NIiccCAlT

Reverse Flag  Pledge Ruling   baal ~  Supreme Court Overrules Decision On Compulsory Salute In Schools.

- Witnesses’ Children Do Not Have To Salute Flag, Supreme Court Says, Overruling Itself

2 JAP LINERS ARE SENT DOWN   Chinese Report Only 4? Out of 1.000 Saved

US SUBS SINK 2 JAP LINERS OFF SHANGHAI   ‘ONLY 42 OUT OF 1,000 PER SONS ON BOARD ARE SAVED

‘Unity Through Diversity’ Might Work?   National Folk Festival Features Songs From All Countrie

Martin Withdraws Parker Nomination   Governor's Action Ends Controversy in State Senate Which Began on February 15

to\Parker Bids teGovernort il Recall Name   {    Bankhead to/P: Substitute G A New BillR   GOVERNOR COMPLIES WITH REQUEST OF EMINENT ECONOMIST NOMINATED FOR PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION POST.   Holland Refuted

Free Music Program Next Sunday Afternoon   Public Invited to Hear Band And Large Vocal Groups at Auditorium at 2 O'Clock

FREE MUSIC NIGHT AT HIGH SCHOOL NEXT WEDNESDAY   Program ty Concert Band and Large Vocal Groups

rT TTT FTF  Just A Slight Oversight   Man Foroets 2 Children. So Draft Gets Him

NOTED RUSSIAN MUSICIAN DIES   Sergei Rachmaninoff, One Of World’s Greatest Pianist’s, Passes In California

Chicago Voters Reelect Kelly   Democratic Mayor Defeat: Republican Challenger, George McKibbin

KELLY WINS IN CHICAGO VOTE   Elected to Third Full Term As Mayor by About 120,000 Margin

Kelly Re-Elected Mayor of Chicago: 120,000 Majority   Defeats Republican, Geo. B. McKibben After Torrid Campaign

CHICAGO VOTERS REELECT KELLY   Heavy Turnout Features Mayoral Election In Metropolis

Mayor Kelly Wins »Reelection as Chicago Mayor  i ai > 6h]   Defeats GOP Opponent Backed by ‘Statehouse Machine’

KELLY RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGO   REPORTS INDICATE MAJORITY OVER GOP OPPONENT WILL BE 120,000.

KELLY RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGO   Incumbent Chosen for a Third Term—Large Vote Cast

Offers Suggestion To Speed Production Which Eliminates His Own Job

Tokyo Says U. S. Cruiser, 11 Other Warships Sunk   Eighth Army Quick To Take Advantage Of Two Serious Mistakes By Rommel

Two Mistakes Cost Rommel Latest Battle   Montgomery’s Attack at Strongest Point in Nazi Line Was Surprise to German General’s Forces

BRITISH ARMY CAPITALIZED ON FOB'S ERROR   Rommel Made Two Mis takes Which May Go Long Way Toward Shortening War   MOVES DISASTROUS   Pulled Tanks Back to Meet American Attack Never Believing Montgomery Was Ready to Strike

TWO MISTAKES OF ROMMEL MAY SHORTEN FIGHT   l-Conceived Strate German Field Marshal May Go Long Way Toward Shortening Battle of Tunisia.

Say Rommel’s Errors May Cut Campaign   Tank Shift and Misjudgement in Akarit Attack Are Cited

FDR’S NOMINATION BY WALLACE HINTS POLITICAL ANGLE   Wallace Picks President For Permanent Post: : As Peace Head

BERRIEN ROAD CHIEF TO ARMY   DeHaven Made Captain In Engineers; Leaves Tomorrow

Position Of Japs At Lae Air Base Said Desperate   Fall Of Airport Imminent; Allied Pincers Close In Qn Beleaguered Foe

Jap Position at Lae Base Is Desperate   Fall Is Near as Allied Troops Mass for Assault on New Guinea Post

Close In On Lae   United Natiens Headquarters Says Enemy Position Is Desperate

Jap Position Is Desperate   Australians Report Nipponese Will Run

Capture of Lae Held Imminent   Japanese Position Called Desperate

S DESPERATE   Imminent Fall of Enemy’s Air Base of Lae Is Expected Soon.

Fall Of Lae Held Imminent   Allied Forces Close In. On Two Sides Of Big Jap Base.

JAPANESE AIR BASE SURE TC FALL 10 U.S,   Enemy’s Positions Desperate On Lae Front

Japan's Positions At Lae Declared To Be ‘Desperate’   Australians Who Fought Nazis Are Confident of Victory

FALL OF LAE AIR BASE NEAR   Nippon Position Is Declared Desperate

Allies Close In On Two Sides Of Lae,  Fall Seen Imminent   Position Of Enemy Is Described ‘‘Desperate”’

EARLY FALL OF LAE EXPECTED   Australian Troops Move To Within 10 Miles Of Base

Fall of Lae Believed Near   “Enemy's Position : Now Desperate” Communique Says

British 8th Army Goes ‘Across Tunisia Border  in Chase After Rommel

Fighth Army Moves Into Tunisia In  Central Area   Border Crossed Some Distance South Of Coast,  dt wecneminnwaot EXiet:

Bad Weather Hampers Aerial Activity. ....  British Front Troops — Over Tunisian Border

BRITISH ARMY UNIT CROSSES TUNISIA LINE   ‘Penetration Made in “Central Sector” of Front, Communique From  Cairo Says   NO GROUND ACTION   Rome Says Axis Troops in Tunisia Consolidating Captured Pasitions

Warren Sounds Draft Warning  Manpower Supply in State Nearly Used Up, Governor Tells Solons

Butter, Cheese, Bacon, Most of Better Cuts Of Beef-Cost 8 Points; And Pork Loins 10  SEEN SEVERE BLOW * TO BLACK MARKETS Week's Unused Stamps  May Be Carried Over Throuch Ath Week

To Pounds er " Week » Ov Less Available For  Each Ludividual If Bet. : ter Grades Are Wanled

Details Given ()n Quotas Of Meat, Fats   Over-All Total of Twe Pounds Per Person Allowed

2 lbs Weekly Meats’ Fats Allotment   UNLESS BETTER GRADE MEATS ARE PURCHASED WHEN QUANTITY WILL BE LESS, SAYS OPA,   Rations Begin Monday

Point Values Of Meats,  Cheese, Listed By OPA   Americans Will Have to Get Along on Two Pounds of Meat a Week—Full Details of Rationing Program Are Given

Meat Rationing Hits Best Cuts   Butter, Sliced Bacon Cheese Also High

2 POUNDS WEEKLY IS RATION TOTAL   Substitutes Offer More Return Under - New Limitations Effective Next Monday

2 Pounds a Week For Better Meats   But Ration Allows  More of Cheaper Stuff

Meat, Butter Ration Value Set by OPA   Cheese and High Grade Beef Cuts Are Top Deotesa Deu.)

OPA Releases  Point Values For Meats. Fats   Each Person Allowed 16 Ration Points a Week: Butter. Cheese Most Meats 8 Points

Meat Rationing Plans Announced By Government   Iwo Pounds a Week Pe Person for Present, OPA Asserts

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Sharp Allied Offensive In Southwest Pacific Believed Imminent

PRETTY WEDDING HELD AT MARGHS   Doris: Nelson, John Fry United in ‘Marriage’ Sunday

PRETTY WEDDING. ~ HELD AT MARCUS   Doris'' Nelson, John Fry United’ in: Marriage: - Sunday:

Brown Lashes Out at  i eye # Back-Biting OPA Head Pleads for Rebirth   of Unity in U.S.

TWO “HOSPITALS RAIDED   Brown Calls for No Compromise In Bituminous Coal Situation

OPA Chieftain Hits Disunity Among Leader:   Asks End of Back-Biting, Under-Table Talk  In Canaeace

BROWN PLEADS.FOR REBIRTH OF UNITY   Administrator Lashes Out ‘Loudly at “Bock ° Biting” ~-

PLEADS FOR MORE UNITY   Prentiss M. Brown. Wants  End To “Back-Biting” In : National Effort.

Wounded Soldiers Rap Labor Delays  Form Informal Panel In  WMC Action

SOVIET FLANKING COLUMN DRIVING  AREAD STEADIL'   Attackers Near Last Escape Railroad Which Germans  Can Use.

Germans Also Lose Dominating High Ground Before Their New Defense Line Across Italy To Fifth Army Forces   AIRCRAFT CENTER IN : GERMANY HIT BY RAF

RETREAT TO BUS: ANCIPER LOOMS   Fast - Breaking Russian Advance Makes Move Seem Inevitable

REDS CLOSING IN ON NAZIS FROM REAR   Dnepropetrovsk's Fall Appears Imminent

Reds Advanee On Huge City  From Rear   Forces in North Striking Directly  At oviarent Daw

SOVIETS DRIVE TO SEVER NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Russians Approach Last Railroad Left In German Hands

Attack Dnepropetrovsk From Rear; Gains Grow Against Hot Resistance

CHECKS FOOD, “OVERCHARGES   OPA _ District Office Finds “Flagrant” Violations, He Says.

LON G-AWAITED JUNCTION MADE IN WEST ITALY   Meeting Brings Rapidly Nearer Allied Victory At Salerno   SET TO CRUSH GERMANS

LINK CLIMAXES FAST DRIVE BY MONTGOMERY   Hastens Crushing Blow Against Germans at Salerno

UNION HASTENS ‘END OF GERMAN SALERNO STAND   Contact at Hamlet of Valia With Town of Sapri Captured

Large-Scale Raids on Europe Staged  Operations Extend Over 350 Miles  at Qnamaniad Caawot

AREAS IN FRANCE, BELGIUM BOMBED   DAYLIGHT SWEEPS COST ALLIES 10 PLANES—SEVEN GERMANS SHOT DOWN.

Allied Bombers Blast. Away At Nazi Europe   France, Belgium, Norway Waters Take New Pounding

Swarms of Allied Planes Bomb France, Belgium  Followup to Ninth Night Attack of Month on Arsenal

Bombers Pound Nazi Airfield   Raid France, Belgium In Daylight Attacks

Fliers Ravage 300-Mile Area   7 Nazi Defenders Downed. Allies Lose 10—Ruhr, Manupertus Raided

[Large-Scale Raids on Eurove Staged  Operations Extend Over 350 Miles

NORTHERN FRANCE RAIDED BY FLIERS   Allied Airmen Carry Ou Raids on Axis Positions

25,000 More  Prisoners Taken   Naval Forces Block Escape of Axis Fighting Forces From Africa

TENSION IS EASED IN MINING AREAS   Telegrams Arrive Telling Locals to Continue W ork

Tension Less In West Penn Coal Mines   ORDER NOT TO STRIKE WAS RECEIVED WITH GENERAL SATISFACTION IN SOFT COAL REGIONS,   Many Back Lewis

FIRE IN-PRESS BOX   Damage i in Saturday Night Blaze at Stadium Esti-.  ‘mated at $500 .

FIRE IN PRESS BOX   Damage in Saturday Night Blaze at Stadium Estimated at $500 

BOOST IN OIL — PRICE PASSES   House Votes: 247-71 for Parity Formula

Jugoslav Crisis Arises as King Wants to Marry   Tempest Includes To-Do over Lack of Post-War Policy

rming friendships to Last for Years,  Men of RadarWorked on Won Support of Navy   By TORW AT BICITTOWMER

Newspaper Man's Automobile Trip on Unration Gas Costs Him Year's Ration

Navy Oil Deal Is Termed ‘Illegal’   Elk Hills Project Plan Ruled‘ Invalid’

Navy-Standard Contract Hit   Justice Department Holds It Is Invalid And Illegal

Navy, Standard Oil Deal Ruled Invalid   Elks Hill Agreement Smacks Of “Teapot Dome,” Justice Depariment Official Savs

NAVY'S ELK HILLS GIL AGREEMENT Ii TERMED ‘ILLEGAL   Justice Department Offi:  cial Says Standard Oil Agreement Not Valid

Elk Hills Oil Pact ‘Illegal, Probers Told   Navy-Standard Oil Deal Resembles Teapot Dome  Scandal. Savs Solon.

Deal Has S6 ome of Earmarks of Teapot Dome Scandal   STANDARD WAS TO TAP OIL RESERVE

Justice Department Official Speaks  Navy Oil Agreement Is Termed “Illegal”

Navy Oil Deal With Standard Ruled Illegal   Representative Charges Negotiations Similar To ‘Tea Pot Dome Scandal.’   PRESIDENT TO DECIDE

Navy, Standard Oil Lease Held To Be Illegal   Report On Oil Land Lease Will Be Submitted To F. D. R.

TERMS NAVY, STANDARD OIL PACT ILLEGAL   Justice Department Official Declares Elk Hills, Calif., Contract Violates  ' the 1938 Petroleum Conservation Act.

NAVY'S AGREEMENT WITH STANDARD OIL DECLARED ILLEGAL  _ ASSISTANT ATTORNEY  GENERAL SAYS IT VI0 LATES ACT OF 1338

Hint Scandal In Navy Oil   Justice Department Official Says Agreement’ With Standard’ Oil Co, “Tileval and Invalid” ..

Oil Agreement Ruled Invalid  Inetice Denartment   Justice Department Official Speaks

OIL. DEVELOPMENT DEAL IS TERMED ILLEGAL, INVALID   Justice Department Official Scores Dicker Between the “Navy. and - Standard Oil ‘ Company of California —

Navy's Oil Pact Termed Illegal   Atttorney General Rules Elk Hills Oil Contract  Smells of Tea Pot Dome.

Agreement Between _ Navy and Standard Oil is Held Illegal   Justice Department Sub» mits Report to Byrnes for the President

Calls Navy’s Elk Hills Pact Illegal   Justice Dept. Official Says It Violates 1938 Oil Law

Navy-Standard Deal Assailed   Justice Department Official Calls Oil Trade Illegal

Oil Contract Is Under Fire   Agreement Between Navy and Standard Declared To Be “lHepal and Invalid’

Elk Hills Oil Contract Is  Held Mlegal   New “Teapot Dome’ Deal Referred To The President

PROTEST OF ~" BAS RATION   ACKES DECLARES STRICTER RA. TONING FOR MIDWEST NOT IN IMMEDIATE  PROSPECT ©.

Farmers Stay In Deferred Class   Hold Agricultural Workers Even If You Can’t Meet Quotas, Boards Advised By WMC: Must Meet Minimurn Requirements

FARMERS WILL G0 IN DEFERRED GLASS   New Instructions of War Manpower Commission Will Help Meet the Shortage of Labor.

WMC Orders Farm Workers Kept in Deferred Class   Draft Boards Told to Follow Rule Even lf Quotas For Armed Forces Can't Be Met

Farm Workers eln Deferred  Classifications ig Local Draft Boards   Local Draft Boards Instructions Supercede County Quofas

URAFTING OF FARM WORKERS HALTED   BOARDS TOLD NOT TO INDUCT GROWERS EVEN IF QUOTAS CANNOT BE MET,

Must Defer Farm Hands, Boards Told   Agricultural Needs Placed Ahead Of The Armed Forces

WMC Specifies Farm Worker Draft t Defermen   Tells Local Boards To Act Regardless Of Assigned Quotas

Farm Workers Ordered fo Be Kept Deferred   Experienced Farm Workers in Other Jobs May Return to Farm Work and Be Deferred

DRAFT BOARD TOLD 10 DErER FARM WORKERD   Steps To Meet Farm Labor Shortage Are Announced By Manpower Board   NEW INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ON DEFERMENTS   Farm Needs Get Preference Over Those Of Military Under Latest Order

DRAFT TO SKIP FARM WORKERS      Boards Told To Keep All Agricultural Labor In Deferred Classes

TD  IN DEFERRED CLASS   New Instructions of War Manpower Commission Will Help Meet the Shortage of Labor.

FARM WORKERS ARE DEFERRED   Local Draft Boards Told To Keep Them in Class 2-C or 38-C

WMC Orders Deferment Of Farm Workers   Instructions Issued Te Draft Boards To Hele Meet Labor Shortage   3,000,000 iS GOAL   Committees Named To Investigate Prices, Manpower, Machinery Needs

Farm Workers Not Subject To Draft Call  Boards Told To  Let Them Stay

All Farm Workers Will Be Deferred   New Order Issued By Manpower Board

BRICKER SUGGESTS AMERICAN  WAY OF LIFE AS WORLD CODE   Farm Workers Are Ordered Placed In Deterred Class by Draft Boards

DRAFT BOARDS TOLD 10 DEFER FARM WORKERS   Should Make Move Even If Quotas Are Not Filled

Vrait boards Get New Orders  On Farm Workers  Keep Them Deferred, Despite Quotas, WMC Instructs  eenmrmw Arecrfe’s? a ft

Farm Worker: Deferred hy the WMC   Local Boards Are Instructed Not to Draft Them

General Montgomery of British Eighth Army Tells the Newsmen the Formula Which Will Defeat Hitler in Near Future.

“MISS ISS. AMERICA” ~ TO SELL BONDS   California Girl, 19, Crowned lantic City

RUSSIANS AGMIL LHC 1.055 of a Key Road Center.  THOUSANDS OF NAZI TROOPS IN RESERVE  Germany Hopes to Retake Kiey by First of Year.

NAZI OFFENGIVE TOAETARE REV NOT YET HALTEL   Pick Of Mannstein’s Reserve Troops Surge Against Soviet Lines

NEW NAZI THRUST IN KIEV BULGE STILL ROLLING SLOWLY AHEAD   German Marshal Von Mannstein Still Has Plenty Of Reserve  Tronne _

BATTLE CK. MAN PILOTS ‘LUCKY CREW’         Have Bombed St. Nazaire, Lorient  And Brest

Corn Crop in lowa to Set New Record   State to Produce 21 Per Cent of Nation's Cern Crop

Coal Halt  Continues   TRAINMEN STUDY TRY FOR CONDITION CHANGE IN NEW VOTE ON STRIKE

LABOR FRONT SITUATION IS STILL GRAVE   Only One Alabama Mine Reopened In Reply to Ultimatum

Alabama Miners Ignore Ultimatum   Trainmen Debate Working Conditions

ALABAMA COAL MINERS FAIL 10 HEED U.S. EDICT   Sparanise, Transport Center, Captured By 5th Army   BRITISH CROSS TRIGNO RIVER ON EAST COAST

Legislature Overrides Governor Neely’s Veto By Decisive Majorities   James K. Thomas Directed To Name Man To Serv In Attorney General Post; House Favors Government Spending Inquiry

NEELY DEFEATED o IN FIRST GLAST   Thomas Permitted to Name _ Acting Attorney-General   HOLT COMMITTEE   To Make Inquiry of State @ Spending Is Approved by House by 64-28 Vote

AMERICANS GIVE WAY IN FACE OF HUN DRIVE   Germans Fight Desperately To Protect Vital Core Of Italian Line   RED MAULING CONTINUES   Russ Pouring Through Gap In Nazi Line—Airmen Pounding Japanese

Raise lowa Corn Crop Estimate   Fh ea cece a a 8 ial  All-Time High Production In State Possible

Drive Viewed ‘As Test By Hitler   .Factional ‘Trouble In Germany Cited

NATION IN GRIP OF A COLD WAVE   Predictions Are That Let-Up Will Arrive by Thursday

RUSSIA BELIEVES FOE IS GETTING SET FOR ATTACK   Red Star Warns That Nazis are Still Able to Drive In Great Force.

RED STAR PREDICTS BIG SCALE FIGHT ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Expects Tank And Air Ferca Attack By Germans —.Warns Axis Still Strong

RUSSIANS WARN OF NAZI ATTACK   Red Air Force Continues Offensive Against Supply Lines

Drive Imminent On Russ Front   Warns Nazis Can Still Attack In Great Force

ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY SCENTED   Germans Report Transports In Mediterranean

Secretary Hull To Hear Report About Russia   Ambassador Standley Is I Washington To Make Report

HEAR REPORT   High Officials Meet Standley On Return From Moscow.

Admits He Tied, W hipped, Gagged. Ducked Children   Gurl, 4, Dies, Boy, 3. Expected to Recover In Chicago Hospital

AUSSIES CLOSE IN ON MADANG   Japanese Coastal Base Menaced By Inland Valley Drive

AUSTRALIANS ONLY 50 MILES FROM MADANG   Madang’s Outpost of Bogad  jim, 20 Miles Away, Raid  ed By Four-Engined Allied Bombers.   MacArthur Praised

AUSTRALIANS REACH VILLAGE OF DUMPU   Seven-Mile Advance Made In Drive Directed Against Madang,  New Guinea

Aussies Reach Dumpu in Drive  Upon Madang   Big Bombers Attack Outpost of Bogadjim: P-40s Fire Air Base

AUSSIES MENAGE ANOTHER JAP BASE   REACH VILLAGE OF DUMPU IN NEW GUINEA AFTER SEVEN-MILE ADVANCE.

Australians Gain In Ramu Valley   Approach Madang In Island Drive

Australians at Dumpu, 50 Miles san of Malang  Continue Advance In Ramu Valley —-

Delay Is Seen In Patton Case   Committee Indicates Position in Affair

PATTON'S FATE UP 10 SENATE   Promotion Of General Hinges On Future Deportment

Patton Incident Blocks Promotion Senators Reveal  Action Awaits Proof  Of ‘Good Conduct, VU ay :  * 2 4“ oe at

Promotion OF Patton Delayed   Senate Military Group Says General Must Prove Good Conduet.

Russ Gather Forces for Dnieper Driv   Mopping Up Donets Basin Carries Red Army to Coal Country

RUSSIAN ARMIES CONTINUE GAINS   Soviet Columns Set for 34. Mile March to The Dnieper River

DRIVES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT ROLL FORWARD   Soviet Drive Has Carried 410 Miles From Stalingrad

RUSSIANS ENGAGED IN MOPPING UP GF BONETS BASIN AREA  VARIOUS RED ARMY - DRIVES. REPORTED: TO Bi ROLLING FORWARD;

BUUES & VESUU & UE  Drive To Dnieper  Russian” Columns Roll Ahead In Mop-Up Of  Donets Basin Region

OREL DRIVES ROLLING ON   Paviograd And Krasnograd Among Cities Taken   For 34-Mile March On Dnieper River; Kharkov Province Cleared Of Foe 

Russians Lash at Dnieper   Many Towns Taken, And Troops Roll On Toward Black Sea.

Reds Mopping Up In Donets Basin Area   Dnieper Valley Threat To Germans Is Omitted In Regular Russian Communique  _—

Far to the West Other Russian Columns Are Reported Poised for a 34-Mile Push to the Dnieper River. - ~

Russians Mopping Up In Donets Basin And Poise" F or Advance To Dnieper

REDS MOPPING UP IN DONETS BASIN, GO ON IN WEST  Roll Forward ‘West Of Rostov, Nort CVE Dicel

Reds Mop Up Nazi Nests In Donets Basin   Other Columns Are Massed For March Toward Dnieper

REDS PREPARE FAR FIGHTING   Mopping-Up Operations ir Donets Basin Carry Army Into Towns.   MOVE TOWARD DNEIPER

Russians Mop Up Towns; New Drive Planned   Offensive Expected To Drive 34 Miles  To Dnieper River   Coal Center And Railway Station Are Captured   Renewed Fighting In Donets Basin;  Axis Attack Fails

Reds Poised For March To Dnieper River   Mopping Up Operation: Carry Russians Ahead In Donets Basin

DNIEPER NEXT GOAL AS REDS ROLL ONWARI   Only 34 Miles From River As Russians Continue To Mop Up Donets Basin

Russians Mop Up In Donets Basin   Soviet Troops 410 Miles West of Stalingrad on  Anniversary   MANY TOWNS RETAKEN   Major Rail Junctions Fall Into Hands of Advanc ing Russians

Reds. Within 34 Miles Of Dnieper   Mop-Up in Donets BasinOther: Drives’ Roll Ahead ‘

Reds Within 34 Miles of DnieperRiver   Victorious Russians Continue Advance After Taking Pavlograd and Krasnograd   MOP UP IN DONETS   Germans Declare Soviet Winter Offensive ‘Has Presumably Passed iis Peak’

Russians Mop Up Germans in Donets Basin   Red Army Captures Many Towns; Anothe: Force Prepares to March to Dnieper

Russ Pincer Is Advancing On Stalino  Large Nazi Tank Force Repulsed in Drive to Regain Ground  NEW SOVIET MARCH  Army Reported Poised for Thrust to Dnieper River

Reds Poised For Drive To Dneiper   Russians Mop Up In Donets Basin; - Pavlograd Taken

SOVIETS POISE FOR MARCH TO THE DNIEPER   Russians Engaged in Mop_ ping Up Operations In The Donets Basin Area   MORE TOW!?/S RETAKEN

Reds MoppingUp In Donets Basin   Armies ‘Set ‘For Marck To Dnieper River

REDS PREPARE FOR MARCH 10 DNIEPER RIVER   Soviet Drives Toward Black Sea Coast Rolls Forward

MOPPING UP NAZI NESTS IN DONETS   Poised For Advance To Dnieper Valley; Many Towns Taken

RUSSIANS ARE MOPPING UP IN DONETS BASIN  _- ~~ OBti fer   ADVANCE 50 MILES SOUTH AND WEST OF VOROSHILOVGRAD

RUSSIAN COLUMNS POISED FOR MARCH TO DNEPER WER   Drives Toward Black Sea Coast Reported Rolling Forward   COAL CENTER IS CAPTURED

Russian Army  Set For Drive   Soviet Columns Ready For Sweep of 34 Miles ta Dnieper River.

Red Army Sweeps to Within 14 Miles of Dnieper River   breatening Series of Outposts After Capturing Pavolgrad and Krasnograd, Major Rail Junctions Southwest of Kharkov; Drives West of Rostov Rolling Along

New ‘Bazooka’ Gun Makes Lone Soldie Master of Any Tank He Faces in Battle

Deadly New Anti-Tank Gun Makes Lone Foot Soldier Master Of Any Nazi Tank

‘Bazooka,’ Deadly New Gun, Makes One U. S. Soldier Able To Dispose of Nazi. Tanks. -

New Anti-Tank Gun Effective   Weapon Makes Single Soldier Master of Tank Attacking Him

Lone Yank With New Type Gun Master Of Any Tank   ‘Bazooka,’ Fired From Shoulder, Is Able To Penetrate Armor Of Largest Tanks

Vew American Gun Performs Miracles;  With lt One Soldier Can Master Tank

“ MINERS IGNORE ORDER   ¥OUR THOUSAND IN EASTERN OHIO FAILED YO. REPORT. FOR WORK THIS  WORNING

IGNORE LEWIS ORDER, INSIST ON CONTRACT   Workers on Six Properties Refuse To End Strike Despite UMW Action.   MOST OTHERS ARE ON JOB

PLANE WRECKAGE FOUND IN OKLA.   13 of 19 Planes On Flight Fail To Reach Desti nation

5 German Divisions _ - Retreating In DefeatBritish Advance 20 MiJes Up Adriatic Coast; Reds Win Eastern Suburbs of Kiev ~

Allies Enter Outskirts Of Naples as Warships Pour Shells Into Port   Russians Take Kiev Suburbs, List Other Gains: Yugoslav Struggle Nears Stature of Major Front: Ruhr Valley Bombed Heavily be RAF

PRICE SUPPORT ON HOGS, WHEAT SUBSIDY’ AHEAD   New Programs Expected Soon

WFA Plans To Support Hog Prices   Hope to Hold Chicago Price at $13.75 Per Hundred

REGIME BACKS NEW TAX BILL      Recently Reported Measure Embodies 20 Per Cent Levy

ROMA’S LOSSES HEAVY   1,400 Crewmen Of Italian Battleship Lose Lives In Sinking

GERMANS SCORED DIRECT HIT ON AN ITALIAN SHIP   Fourteen Hundred Crewmen Killed When the Roma Was Struck.   500 OTHERS ARE BURNED   Italy's Newest and Largest Warship “Exploded Like a Bomb.”

RESUME WORK. AT CHRYSLER PLANTS TODAY    WORK HES UMED BY 25,000 STRIKING EMPLOYERS AT DETROIT PLANTS AFTER  BEING POLE FOUR DAYS ,

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING 70 WIN THE WAR   +. &. 6. @. 4.6. 2.4.6.4. 4.

Island Would Serve As Step for Invasion Locales  U- BOATS S SUNK More ‘Enemy _Subs  Te. np... ee a   More Enemy Subs Destroyed in Year, Than in War

‘Italian Gibraltar’ Would Be Stepping Stone to Sicily, Italy.   PLANES JOIN IN ATTACK

Allied Naval Units Atfack Pantelleria   Bombing of Italian “Gibraltar” May Be Prelude to Landing Attack

Prelude To An Invasion Seen In Fall Of Sky Fire   Italian Gibraltar Is Struck Twice In 48 Hours

ITALIAN GIBRALTAR i PANTELLERIA IS UNDER NEW ATTACK  ALL-OUT MOVE AGAINST. OUTPOST ISLAND GUARDING ITALY

Pantellerialsland  Shelled by Allies   Warships Have No Inter.ference From Shore Bound Italian Fleet   OTHER ISLANDS’ HIT   Mir Raids Continue on _Strongholds of Sicily and  and Sardinia

Navy Guns ” Turned On » Axis Island   Allied Warships and Bombers Blast Pantelleria, the » ‘Italian Outpost   BARRACKS AND BATTERIES AEE HIT   » Bombardment May Be the Prelude to an Allied Landing Attack

Allied Ships Join Attack On Island   Shell Pantelleria In What May Be The Prelude to Landing Assault There .

Prelude To Allied Landing?   Batteries and Barracks Hit in 2d British - Bombardment

Bombers Join Ships In Forays   Attack Seen As Prelude For Invasion By Land; Sardinia, Sicily Raided

BE PRELUDE TO INVASION   Allied Warships Attack. Pantelleria, Stepping: Stone to Sicily and It ian Mainland, Twi Within AR Haonre.

Pantelleria Island Shelled by -Allies   Warships Have No Inter. »ference From Shore Bound Italian Fleet .   B Raids Continue on Strongholds of Sicily-and  and Sardinia

May Be_ Invasion Prelude   In Allied Hands, It Would. Become Stepping-Stone.

ALLIED VESSELS AID FLYERS IN MEDITERRANEAN   Warships Shell Pantelleria; May Be Prelude to Invasion

WARBOATS ADD TO HAVOC OF AIR ATTACKS   “Jialian Gibraltar” Under Bombbardment as Allied Warplanes Heap on Fresh Destruction

Invasion Hints In Constant Forays In Mediterranean   Italv’s Rock Shelled.

PANTELLERIA HIT TWICE IN PAST 2 DAYS   Italian Outpost Under Constant Attack as Invasion Looms

Pantelleria Shelled By Allied Ships   Fresh Destruction Heaped on Naples and Other Italian Cities; Nazis Raid East Anglian Town; Heavy Fighting in Caucasus

PAN TELLERIA 5 BOMBARDED BY WARSHIPS   30-Called “Italian Gibraltar" is Shelled Twice Within 48 Hours by Allied Naval Forces

Warships Join Planes To Hit  Enemy ‘Rock   No Loss To Allies In Bomhardment Of Pantelleria Barracks, Artillery,   RAF PLANES GROUNDED

Warships Help In Affack on Italian Island   Pantelleria Bomb— wire   Pantelleria Bombbarded Twice Within 48 Hours

Warships, Bombers Join in Assault on  “Italian Gibraltar”   Pantelleria is Battered; News From War Fronts Summarized by AP

Join Planes In New Attacks   May Be Prelude To Landing Effort By United Nations.

ACTION SEEN AS PRELUDE TO INVASION   Island Is Stepping Stone To Sicily, Italy   R. A. F. BOMBERS   Are Grounded For Night; Report Heavy Fighting On Russian Front

Allied Warships Shell Pantelleria Twice in 48 Hours   Sea Power Adds Its Blows to Pounding By U. S. Bombers

Pantelleria Shelled By — Allied Ships   Non-Stop Aerial Pounding Of Italian Outposts Continues

Pantelleria *Bombarded ,By Warships   Naval Shelling Adds To Havoc On Key Mediter ranean leland.

Allied Warships Launch Attack   Qn Pantelleria   May ‘Best Month’ In Number Of U-Boats Sunk By Allies

Forts Extend Non-Stop Raic on Mainland   Allied Fleet Not Challenged ‘by Italian Warships; Reds, Nazis Locked in‘ Battle

May Prove Prelude to Landing   Allied Naval  Island Sunday And Tuesday

Allied Warships Rip Pantelleria   Italian ‘Gibraltar’ Pounded by Sea Salvos AS Bombers Return to Naples, . Sirily Sardinia.

INVASION GATES BLASTED WITH INCREASED FURY   Attack Centers on Island of Pantelleria - Stepping Stone To Axis Stronghold   JAPS SET BACK IN CHINA   Yank Bombers Smash at Enemy on New Guinea;  Zeros Shot Downs #

Join Aircraft eln Softening Pantelleria   Allied Control of Mediterranean Is Once More Manifest

Fantelleria Hit From Sea Well As Air   Twice Shelled By British Warships; Italian Points Hit

PANTELLERIA SHELLED TWICE, RAIDED BY AIF   U-boat Score Low For May British Admiralty Reports

Sweden, Although Neutral, Prepares for Invasion; Aims To Protect Vital Point:

Tojo Pictures U.S. And — Britain As “Have Nots,”’ Ignores Facts On War

TOU TELLS OF JAP GAING IN RESOURCES   Boasts’ That Now United Nations Are the HaveNots.   athe 0 Bes CV ere  Speech Made to Parliament Had Been Postponed a Week.

Tojo Tells People Of New Wealth Gained, Promises Ultimate Victory:

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Tojo Report To Japanese liet True Indication YOf Enemy’s Failure

‘JAPS POSSESS VAST *NEW WEALTH SAYS TOJO Says US, England Have Not

TOJO CONTRASTS POSITION OF JAPAN AS NEW HAVE NATION AND U.S. AND BRITAIN AS HAVE NOTS

aie IN ~ RAIL DISPUTE   SENATE MAY INTERVENE AND * ASK THAT EMPLOYES BE.” GRANTED WAGE INCREASE

WAR FACTORIES AND FACILITIES SABOTAGED         Most Pronounced Sudden Flareup in Denmark

UNREST BOILS THRU EUROPE: HAVOC GREAT   Trained Men Aid Activities of Saboteurs: Sweden Irked by Sinkings.   GREEKS SEIZE LINES OF COMMUNICATION

Reports Tell Of Unrest   Germans Trying To Learn  : Source of Trouble

INCREASING UNREST AND CLASHES DEVELOPING AND ALLIED AGENTS ARE JOINING IN MOVE WENT

JAPS CLAIM 73 ' ALLIED PLANES   Only Two of Own Losi in Battles Ending Feb.- 15, Tokyo Says— Feel New Allied Blows ~

Japs Try To. Knock China Out of War   New Offensive Launched in Middle Yangize “Valley as Tokyo Makes Unconfirmed Claim of Downing 73 Planes

Violent New Raids Staged Against Japs   Allied Planes Blast Mikado Armies on Rising Scale In South Seas  CLAIMS CONELICTING

Japs Set Out To Drop China   Tokyo Declares Forces Ti Take Every Means Ti Crush Chungking.

JAPS PLANNING NEW SINO DRIVE   Indication Nipponese Out to Knock China Out of War.—Claim Big Plane Toll.

Big Drive On China Planned   Attack Seen as First Step to Force China Out of War

JAPS CLAIM TO HAVE SHOT DOWN 73 PLANES      In Pacific Battle Area During 15-Day Period

AERIAL CLAIMS OF JAPS DIFFER FROM RECORD OF YANKS   Claim to Have Inflicted Huge Losses But U. 8. Records Show Otherwise

JAPS GIVE OUT SUCCESS TALE   Tokyo Claims 73 United Nations Planes Downed'‘in 15 Days.

JPS CLAIM HUGE AERIAL VICTORY   Heavy Allied Bombers Carry Out Raids While Tokyo Shouts Out Assertions

Japs Drive Anew To Beat China  Increase In Power Of Allied Air Force Worry To Japanese

NEW JAP DRIVE IN CHINA SEEN   Tokyo Claims 73 Allied Planes Shot Down

Italian prisoners at Scottsbluff seem happy   BY GAYLORD P. GODWIN.

IGKES ASKED SEND REPRESENTATIVE TO PRORATION HEARING  RAIL COMMISSION CHAIR MAN JESTER WANTS WES

STATE BUDGET LEGISLATION IS APPROVED:   Senate Passes Bill To Set Up Continuous Budget Survey

Utah Budget Unit Okehed By Senators   New State Primary Law To Be Considered After Recess

Grief-Stricken Coopers Lead Cards to Win Over Yanks to Square Series   St. Louis Triumph Is Tribute to Memory of Father

ST. LOUIS TEAM WINS 2ND GAME INWORLD SERIES   Cooper Boys’ Play Few _ Hours, After Death of Father

U.S. Submarine And 2 Chasers Reported Lost   Bring to 114 Total Of American Craft Lost To Enemy To Date

NAVY REPORTS ~ WARSHIPS LOS)   Submarines And 2 Chas: ers Go Down In Action Against Enemy

JAP CRUISER SUNK BY ARMY BOMBER   Ohioan on Flying Fortress That Makes Two Hits

PLAN ISDROPPED BY POLICE DEP'T   Photographs Will Not be Sent to Army  Tom recree:

PLAN 1S DROPPED BY POLICE DEP'T   Photographs Will Not be Sent to Army Camps

TWO SMALL VESSELS BOMBED AND GUNNED   Both Jap Ships Left In Stationar: Position After Attack In  Arafura Seq

BAN ON CHINESE MAY BE LIFTED   House Votes To Admit 105 Immigrants Each Year On Quota

EDUCATOR ‘T00 BiG’ FOR LAW   Ed Morrison, Panhandle Col. lege, Refuses to Go With 220-Pound Officer

Ed Morrison Refuses fo Go To Tulsa Court   President Panhandle ‘A. and M. College Seeks Writ of Habeas Corpus

Meat Packers See  More Shortage.  For Army, Others Organization States  Many Plants Are Compelled to Close

Further Curb on Meat Supplies Reported Necessary to Fill Armed Forces’ Needs

Parity Increase ‘Gets Okeh ‘Of House Body   Committee Seeks To Revise Farm Standards

Farm Bloc Drive For Higher Price Gaining Headway  House Committee Unani- mously Approves Bill : To Revise Formula

FARM BLOC DRIVE GAINING HEADWAY   Bill Gets Approval For Higher Parity Prices, Will Revise Formula.

Farm Bloc Drive  For Higher  Parity Gaining Committee Votes to  Revise Formula To Include Labor

Higher Parity Gains Headway   House Group Would Include AH Farm Labor

FIGHT OPENS FOR BOOSTIN PARITY PRICE   House Committee Ap.proves Measure to Revise Formula

ALLIES INVADE ANOTHER BASE   Attack On New Britain Isle Later Goal

Jap Base At Finschhafen Is  Under Attack   Australian Troops Land Six Miles North Of Base In Bid To Gain Control Of Peninsula

AUSTRALIANS LAND NEAR FINSCHAFEN   Capture Would Give Allies Control Of Huon Peninsula

ALLIES FIGHT TO CAPTURE JAPANESE BASE FINSCHHAFEN   Action Is Bid To’ Secure  _ Control, OF  Positions  "For Attacks On > New Britain .

Allied Troops Fight To Seize Finschhafen   Aussies Land On Huon Coast In Effart To Secure Control Of Peninsula   RABAUL IS RAIDED   United Nations Fighters Smash Japanese Patrol At Newly Taken Kaiapit

ALLIES FIGHT TO SEIZE FINSCHHAFEN   Positions For Possible Attack on New Britain Is. Won

ALLIES RESUME JAP OFFENSIVE AT FINSCHHAFEN   Cut Off More Than Sixty Additional Miles Of Coastline

Positions Taken For Attack or New Britain  60 Miles of . New Guinea Coast Aran Cut OFF

Allies Peril Finschhafen   Australian Troops E.and Near Jap Base

Allies Converge on New Jap Base   Aussies Attempt Finschhafen Seizure

AUSSIES INVADE ANOTHER POINT ON NEW GUINEA   Control Of Huon Peninsula, Capture Of Finschhaefen Allied Objectives

Three Children Burned To Death In Fire That Destroys 5-Room Home

OPA SLOWS UP LIQUOR PRICES   New Regulation Announced to Lower Costs Paid to The Retailers

Liquor Price Hike Halted   OPA Takes Action to Plug Leaks in Former Order

Weman Dies In Hospital Before Seeing Husband Rroucht To Next Door

Doom Of Halt Million Nazi Troops Sealed   Russian Troops Virtually Cut Off Last Corridor For Escape   RED DRIVE GOES AT FAST SPEED

RUSSIANS TRAP 300,009 TROOPS IN CRIMEA   Motorized Soviet Infantry Swarms Across Nogaisk Steppes

Labor Day Death Toll Is Far Down   Home-coming Vacationists May Boost Final Total

Holiday Toll To Be Reduced   Only 147 Violent Deaths Reported in Labor Day Weekend

Wreckage Of Transport Plane Found   10 Persons Aboard American Airliner  Believed Dead

FDR ORDERS DEFIED; MAY SEND TROOPS   530,000 Strikers Told To Return on Monday

Farm Group Wants Price Bill Alive   Dares Administration to  — Get As Tough With Labor’  

BANKHEAD BILL RECOMMITTED, SEEN AS CLUB   Farm Block, Unable to Overrid Velo, Challenges President Ge Tough With Labor

FDR Challenged to Get as Tough  with Labor as He Is with Farmers

SENATE VOTES TO RETURNFARM BILL T0 Ni. COMER TEE  ro eet iT rrraar   COMMITTEEMEN SAY MEASURE WILL NOT BE PRESSED

Farm Bill Back To Committee  Challenge F. D. R. To Get Tough With Labo:

Congressional Group, Beaten In Fight For Higher Price Ceiling, Keeps — Measure Alive   DEFY ROOSEVELT   Challenged to “Get As Tough With Labor As Administration Was With Agriculture”

REPEAL OF 20 N.M. ‘STATUTES, AGENTS NOW BEING SOUGHT      Legislation Review Shows Many Measures Seeking to Revoke Laws

UWI BATTLES FOR EXISTENCE   DAVIS TO HOLD PRESS MEET BEFORE SENATE

Bombers Had to Wait “=; Turns Before Dropping.: ! Bombs on Pantelleria

BULLITTTAX SUIT, POLITICAL   The Former Ambassa. _doi’s Attorney Said To‘day—He Is Democra tie Candidate for Office of Mayor   CITY TAX ROW

Leros Island and Balkan Fighting Continues to Rage at Bitter Pace

INDIAN BUREAU ~ TIRES NAVAJO   Aged: Chief Wants Army Officers Instead of Civilian Bureau to Reaulate Reservations

INDIAN WANTS ARN TO CONTROL TRIBES   Says Civilian Agents Hinder Relations; Army Officers Would Understand

ELKS HOLD MEMORIAL   Annual Service Will Be Held Tomorrow at 3 p. m.

BILL FOR A CIVIL SUPPLY BOARDS PASSED BY SENATE   Would Give Independent Civilian Supply Adiministration Claims Equal: to Armed Services for Home Front oo

Civilian Supply Measure Passed   Vote Is 44 To 29  On Leaislation

FOR HOME SUPPLY   Senate Votes to Establish New Agency to Handle Civilian Needs :

House Votes Separate Civil Supply Setup   House Takes Up Issue Of Extending Trade Agreements; GOP Is Aeainst it

Asks Civilian Supply Chief   Senate Passes Bill Setting Up Separate Home Front Agency

Crews Scuttle  Blockade Runners  British Warships Intercept Vessels

Two Axis Ships Sunk By Crews  Fail In Attempt To  Run Allied Blockade

CREWS SCUTTLE 2 AXIS CARGO SHIPS   HEAVILY LADEN VESSELS SENT TO BOTTOM WHILE TRYING TO RUN BLOCKADE.

AXIS SAILORS SCUTTLE TWO MERCHANTMEN   When Cornered by British Warships While Trying to Run Blockade.

2 Blockade Runner: Scuttled by Axis  British Intercept Vaseeale Landacd   British Intercept Vessels Loaded With Rubber, Tin

TWO SHIPS SCUTTLED   Axis Vessels Were Attempting to Break An Allied Blockade

Republicans Sweep Up In Kentucky   GOVERNOR, LIEU'TENANT GOVERNOR AND MOST STATE OFFICES  WON BY MINORITY PARTY. PARTY.

KENTUCKY GOP WINS IN UPSET   REPUBLICANS CAPTURE MOST OF STATE OFFICES, INCLUDING GOVERNOR.

1  ‘Election Apparently Is Favorable toa GOP, ‘Early Reports Show

REPUBLICANS WIN KENTUCKY OFFICES   G. O. PB. Elects Governor, Lieutenant Governer And Most Of State Officials

Republicans Win Kentucky Races   Unofficial Results Virtually Complete

WILLTS MARGIN IS NOW 8,067   Kentucky Upset Sweeps Republicans Into  Most Offices

REPUBLICAN SWEEP MADE IN KENTUCKY   Governor, Lieut. Governor and Other State Of-° ticers Elected

KENTUCKY GOES TO REPUBLICANS   Sweeping Upset Gives High State Offices To GOP Nominees

BIG PUSH: ON NAZIS   Smash Toward Poltava While Other Army Drives Closer to Orel in Northwest.

SOVIETS STILL RACE WESTWARD ~— TO POLTAVA GITY   Reds Scoff At Nazi Claims of 18 Million Russian Caspyaltiac.

BREAK SEEN IN HOLD-THE-L 1 NE PRICE POLICY   Consequent Boost In Wages, Increased Cost Of Living Looms   FDR UNDER PRESSURE   President Admits Change In Little Steel Formula Is Possibility

BELIEVE BREAK IN THE HOLDTHE-LINE POLICY WILL OC_ CUR IN THE VERY  NEAR FUTURE

10,000 Japanese On Kiska Doomec As Trap Closes   Munda Reinforcement  Is Foiled

Kiska Invasion May Be Near  Recent Sea ond Air Attocks Heaviest Yat on Japs’ Post

HOUR OF DOOM NEAR ON KISKA   Sea And Air Assault On Enemy Bastion Nearing Finale

Doom Near For Japs: On Kiska   ' Assaults Séen As - Invasion Preltide

LARGEST FORCE EVER SEN’ AGAINST A TARGET IN  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC BATTLE AREA -

MUNDA IN RUINS AS 100 BOMBERS BLAST JAP BASE   Largest Air Foree Ever Sent Against Tarret Area

Huge American Bomber Force . Batters Munda   MacArthurmen Move On Komiatum In Salamaua Drive: Yank Central Solo. mons Advance Slows

American Planes Unload 80 Tons Cf Explosives During One Day To Support Ground Troops

‘HEAVIEST’ ASSAULT IS DELIVERED   Jap Base In. Ruins As . Planes Give Aid To Ground Troops

Munda Fires Set in Raid by 108 Bombers   Land Advance Slowed by  Pillboxes; Alles Near Key to Salamana

Ground Forces Move In   Allied Troops Nearing Salamaua; Kiska  Defenses Hit

Jap Bases Hit As Ground Attack Grows   Munda And Salamaua May Fall In Short Time To: Allied Force

NEW AREAS OF JAP BASE MUNDA LEFT RUINS BY BOMBERS   American Planes Soften Up Goal Of Ground Force Now Advancing In Jungle

LARGEST YANK BOMBER FORCE BLASTS MUND!   100 Planes Pound Base; Ground Attack Is Slowed

YANKS, BRITISH TAKE 13 MORE SICILY TOWNS   German Lines Sag As Soviets Launch Big Drive

STRANGULATION GRIP TIGHTENED ON ITALY   Aerial Offensive Proves Overwhelming As Allies Slash Deeper Into Sicily and Blunt Demand Is Given That She Either Give Up or Die—Raiding Fleets Swarm From All Sides to Shower  : Deanth and Bactrurtian.

Malin, Chiang Meeting Urged   secret Letter To. Read] ender (ite-t

Stalin, Chiang Meeting Urged   Secret Letter To Red  eqader Cited

AMERICAN FLYERS ATTACK EUROPE FROM THE WEST AND SOUTH AGAIN   Hitler’s Fortress Suffers Another Severe Raid. Report Berlin To Be Evacuated.

Yanks Over Europe Again * Following Sunday Raids : On Augsburg, Innsbruck

Four Dead in Eastern Storm  ™   Property Damage High in Eastern Part of State

EXCESS PROFITS TAX ON RAILS IS HIT BY OFFICIAL   Vice President of National As sociation Asserts Levy Is ‘Foe of Thrift’

Pay-as-You-Go May Be Optional With Citizens   New Committee Plan May Throw Whole Issue Onto Floor of House

Pay as go tax plan  abolished   Ready approve percent levy on old system

PLAN SIMILAR TO ONE USEI   20° Withholding Tax -° To Be Added Proposed

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan Backing Fades  Favors 20 Per Cent virile x digs: NB RE

Withholding Tax Plus Old System Seems Probable   House Committee Ready to Vote to Continue Present  Set-Up.   No Abatement on ’42 Taxes to Be Provided

FEDERAL INCOME TAX SYSTEM VOTE MAY COME TODAY   A Number of House Ways and Means Committeemen Ready to Vote.   A Twenty Per Cent Deduction Against Pay Envelopes Recommended.

House Committee’s Deadlock Over Tax  Plan is Maintained   Fate of _ Pay-as-You-Go Proposal in Doubt as Result of Votes

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPEARS READY TO VOTE CONTINUATION  OF PRESENT INCOME TAX PLAN   Without Any Tax Abatement But With 20 Pe Cent Deductions From Pay Envelopes And Salary Checks. Other Income Tax Payers Would Pay on Previous Year’s Earnings as At Preacent

TAX SKIP PLANS ARE REJECTED   But House Committee May Return to Plan for Col“-dections a+ Source   RUML BACKERS ° NOT GIVING UF   Floor. Fight Indicated: Despite Stand Taken in Ways and Means Hearing

TAX PROBLEM MAY BE SENT TO HOUSE   Committee Abandons All Pay-As-You-Go Pro. posals

TAX DEADLOCK IS UNBROKEN   House Committee Puts Pay-As-You-Go Plans Before Chamber

House Committee Abandons All Pay As-You-Go Plans   Appears Ready loApprove Continuation of Present Federal Tax System

HOUSE REJECTS TAX PROPOSALS   Compromises for Ruml Plan Fail; Committee Is Deadlocked.   SEARCH FOR SOLUTION

You Won't Escape That Federal Tax   Year Late Payment Plan To Stay, With  Salary Deductions

PAY-AS-YOU-60 PLANS DEFEATED BY HOUSE GROUP   20 Percent Withholding Levy And Payment Of 1942 Tax Favored

Pay-as-You-Go Proposals Shelved by Committee   Issue May Be Fought Out on Floor Of House. Ruml Plan Backers Hint

Deadlock On Pay as You Go Plan in House  Committee Appears Ready to Approve Present Tax System

British Pounding Mareth Line Force   Heavy Aerial Barrage Loosed On Defenders In Attempt To Effect Break Through Front

YANKS MAKE NEW ATTACK AT FONDOUK   British Launch  Heavy Air Attack To Try Break Through

Eighth Army Slashing at  Positions   U.S. Infantry Launches New Attack Saturday

Italy Continues Resistance To Allied Demands   Only Course Left Open To The Allies; Must Act Before Nazis Consolidate

Italians Resist Surrender Demanc   Immediate All-out Invasion Only Course Remaining to Allies is Belief in London

Axis Soldiers Told U.S. Had Been Bombed - Prisoners Arriving From Africa Reveal

French Chiefs Reach Accord   Giraud and DeGaulle Pledge to Work-Together For France’s Liberation

Byrnes Tells of Great Atnerican Arms Production   Director of War Mobilization Warns of Critical Period

Allies Entering Critica Period   Building Records Of America Cited

Byrnes Reveal: Magnitude of  War Production   New Mobilization Chief Declares U.S, Can Hit on Many Fronts; Calls for Complete Cooperation

BYRNES GIVES HARD FIGURES BAD FOR AXIS   ECONOMIC DIRECTOR TELLS OF GROWING WAR PRODUCTION

Syrnes Tells Of War On Many New Fronts   Home Front Chief Cites Armament Figures In South Carolina Speech,

Says United Nations -. To Open Many Fronts   Byrnes Declares We Are Entering Critic Period Of War; Cites Gigantic War Production Results

Byrnes Demands Home Team Work  Just as at Front  New OWM Chief Sees Critical Period Of War at Hand

US.DRIVESON MANY FRONTS NEAR~BYRNES   Cites Production Fig: ures as He Warns QF Critical Days

CITES STATISTICS OF GROWING POWER   Tells Home Town Audience Coordi nation of Civilian Governments ' To Be Like Military Fronts

MANY ATTACKS FACED BY AXIS, BYRNES SAYS   Home Front Chief. Gives Fig. ures on U. S. Production

War Mobilization Director Cites Giganic War Production  CRITICAL PERIOD OF WAR IS HERE  Promise Made to Bring About Coordination in Civilian Gov't

OFFENSIVES TO BE LAUNCHED ON SEVERAL FRONTS   Byrnes Says War Production Of Allies Now Outstripping The Axis   STRIKES ISOLATED AUDIENCE IS TOLD

Director of War Mobilization  Says U. S. Is Girding  for Drives in Europe ‘and in Pacific.   CRITICAL PERIOD OF CONFLICT AT HANI   Reveals Nation Is Building Ships Four Times as Fast as They Are Sunk—Has Made 100,000th Plane.

U. S. Entering Critical  Phase of War   WMD Byrnes Cites Production Figures of Nation

Byrnes Says U.S. Is Setting Pace   Array of Figures Is Proof of Coming American Victory

BYRNES DECLARES ATTACKS ON MANY FRONTS LIE AHEAD   Own Chief Gives Hard Figures of Overwhelming Armament Production   ADDRESSES HOME TOWN GROUP AT SPARTANSBURG   Pledges Himself to Do All Possible to Bring About Same Coordination of Civillian Government That Exists on Military Front

BYRNES PLEDGES CO-OPERATION ON HOME FRONT   Cites Tremendous Production Figures in.“'Bad News for Hitler and Japanese"   100,000TH PLANE BUILT

Byrnes Cites Huge War Production   Says United Nations Will Open Drives on Many Fronts

Byrnes Sees Allies Hitting Many Fronts   We Are Just Entering Critical Period of War, Says New Director  Of War Mobilization  REVEALS FIGURES ON ARMS PRODUCTION  Says He Will Do Best To Get Co-operation Amoane 1). S. Officials

Captured Italians Wine, Dine Yanks  Four Amerieans Take Airport, 200 Men

Reduce Staff Of Defense Office  Cut Number Of Workers From 46 To 28: Make  Changes In Direction

Cites Factor in Oil Price View   Pike Says Some Producers Have Ended ‘Cut-Rate Contracts

General Eisenhower At Sicily Battle-Front   British 8th Army Veterans Under Montgomery Takes Syracuse, Threatens Catania

Fall Of Augusta, Submarine Base,  ‘Is Near At Hand   Gen. Eisenhower Pays Visit To Sicilian Front And Sees Invading Armies Making Steady Progress. Syracuse Taken.

Naval Battle Beng Fought In Kula Gulf   Details Of Naval Engagement In New Georgia ‘Area Are Not Revealed   BOMBERS KEEP UP sotlouinnaad ON JAPS  —_ «= ‘Senet tiem wii

ATLANTIC BATTLE 1S ENCOURAGING   New Methods of Fighting German Causing Reductions In Ship Losses.

U-BOAT MENACE ~ BEING SMASHED   ALLIES SENDING MORE RAIDERS TO BOTTOM—ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES DROP.

New Methods of Fighting Submarines Help Allies To Overcome Nazi Menace   Germany's Underseas Offensive Being Smashed,  Informed British Quarters Declare

Allies Winning U-Boat Battle   Record Low Loss In ShtIpnina Seen

New Method Curbs Subs   Britain Reports That Whole Picture In Atlantic Battle Changed

New Methods Help To Diminish Menace of U-Boat  Allied Losses Drop; German Threats Are Being Smashed

Axis Undersea Offensive Being Overcome by New Anti-Submarine Methods

Death of 69-Year-Old Baronet, Rich Gold Mining Engineer, Puzzles Police

HARRY OAKES’ BODY 1S FOUND   Was Reported One of Richest Men in World

PROBE OPENS INTO: DEATH OF BARONET   Wealthy Mining Engineer Is Found Dead in Nassau

U.S, TOHAVE ARMY OF 10 MILLION IN 1943   Senate Group To Probe Necessity For Large Army

R.A.F. Heavily  Raids Bremen   All Bombers Return From Night Plastering Of Big German Port.

All British Bombers Returned Safely; First Raid On the Second Largest German Port Since Last October 20.

Raid Believed Very Successful   All The Bombers Return From Raid In The U-Boat Yards   OVER 100 RAIDS

RAF Blasts Bremen in Heavy Raic   Announcement Says None of Aircraft Missing After Attack

GERMAN PORT OF BREMEN BOMBED   RAF RENEWS ATTACK ON IMPORTANT GERMAN CITY

RAF Bombers  Raid Bremen   Important German Port Heavily Attacked; All Bombers Return to Base

RAF BOMBERS POUND BREMEN   All Planes Return From Raid, British Say

BREMEN FEELS HEAVY ATTACK BY RAF PLANES   Manufacturing Center Has Undergone More Than 160 Raids

RAF BOMBERS ATTACK BREMEN   Renew Air Offensive on German Port, All Planes Return

Bremen Bombed By i AF Fliers   Heavy Attack Staced   Heavy Attack Staged On German City

German Port Of Bremen Hit Hard By RAF.   All Bombers Return; Axis Ship Blown Up in Sicilian Harbor of Pal mero.

BREMEN HIT BY BRITISH BOMBS   Sub Building Yards Believed Main Target During Heavy Attack

BREMEN HEAVILY ATTACKED BY RAF   All British Bombers Returned Safely; First Raid On the Second Largest German Port Since Last October 20.

ES BLAST  11S BASES IN MANY SECTOR  f   Big German ‘Port of, Bre men Heavily and Successfully Raided Last Night   \MERICAN BOMBERS. HIT JAPS AT MUNDA   ires Started At Enemy's Airbase On New Georgia Island; One U. S. Fighter Lost

BREMEN POUNDED BY RAF SUNDAY   Allied Bombers Also Hit Pa rmo tn

200,000 Retail Stores Resume Sale of Shoes   Customers Must Have No. 17 Stamp

SALE OF SH RESUMED UNDER RATIONING PLAN   OPA Officials Caution Public Against “Run” on Stocks; Coupon No. 17 Must Be Used.

WARN AGAINST RUN’ ON SHOE SUPPLIES NOW   lias 3 Order E,xpires: ormal Buying Is Urged

Yank Fliers Knock Out 3 Jap Zeros ‘At Timor Island   Second Smashing Air Vic tory Over Jap Fliers In As Many Days °   LONG ASSAULT MADE ON ENEMY BASE

ARMY IS WELL INTO TUNISIA   Action Starts As Air Force Intensifies Raids.

General Eisenhower Now Supreme Commander Of All Men In Mediterranean Theater Of War. -

INDUSTRIALIST’S BODY DISCOVERED   Charleston War Plant Executive Died in Plane 

WOODSMAN LOGATES PIERCE WRECKAGE   Police, Volunteers Climb Steep Mountain Slope

Rescuers. Seek ‘Pierce’s. Body   Plane. Of West Virginian _ 4s Found: Wrecked: In . Mountain: Area: =

BOMB IMPORTANT JAP BASES IN MARSHALLS   Allies Drop More Than 40 Tons of Explosives in Another Softening-Up Attack,

Two More Jap Bases Lashed   Pre-Invasion Softening-Up Blows Rock Pacific Atolls

FRENCH CAN’T AGREE   General DeGaulle Again Absenis self From Committee Meeting

N THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF LEBANON COUNTY OF Serres TERM, 1943,  168. ape re WARROW

IN THE: COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF LBBANON COUNTY OF SEPTEMBER TERM, 1345,  . o  ag ee ee ee ee ak Seale ena emuaEe:

Speaker at Urban Planning Conference Suggests American States Be Abolished

Sioux County’s Scrap  Drive Starts April 5   Organization Mecting Hell At Sioux Center Last Week: Each Town To Set Date For [ts Drive

Explosives and Steel Are Cast   AXIS TRIES FRANTICALLY TO STRAIGHTEN PTs LINES.

News From the County Agent   4-H CLUB MEMBERS HELP PREVENT ACCIDENTS ON WvOMING RANCHES

U.S. Must Find More Oil Wells   Improved Techniques, Removal of Restrictions Asked

U.d. MUST BOUST GAGULINE oUPPLY FOR THE FUTURE   House Subcommittee Urges New Oil Wells To  Meet Growing Demands

Little Hope Held for 72 In Mine Trap   Official of Montana Firm Dispels Report Men Are Reached

Victims Cut Off, All Feared Dead   Explosion, Cave-in Bring Tragedy; Tunnel is Filled With ‘Black Damp’

Rescue Crews Work to Free Trapped Men   Mine Official Denies 72 Men Have Been Heard

Many Forced to Flee Homes: Destruction to Run Into Millions  ne a TE HA ATE e 0 O& RRR Ee

1,000 boys ready for work on local farms  Farmers urged to register for help this week

FRENCH LEADERS COMMEND PETAIN   Former Deputies, Senators Attack DeGaulle

EX-FRENGH OFFICIALS WOULD ‘BAR’ SELVES   Praise Petain’s Democraite Move, Hit De Gaulle Unit

PLIGHT OF SMALL BUSINESS PROBED   Two Ohio State Senators Would Take Steps to Relieve Situation.

Gen. Eisenhower Reveals Capitulation ’ As Germans Say U. S. Troops on Move to New Goals; Axis Split Comes 5 Days After Invasion.

SURRENDER IS UNCONDITIONAL   AMERICANS FREE TO STRIKE ELSEWHERE ON EUROPEAN FRONT

Hostilities Against Allies To End At Once--Badoglio   U. S.. Britain. Russia Agree To Armistice Terms: Capitulation Comes Five Days After Invasion

COMPLIES WITH UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TERMS   General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Military Armistice Provides Hostilities Terminate At Once

Military Armistice Is _ Granted As Dispirited {talians Cease Fight   Only Few Hours Earlier New Allied Landings Made On Italy, Leading To Collapse

INCLUDED IN SETUP   Henderson OK’s Project As Anti-Inflation Weapon

‘Now of Consumer Durable Goods Like 'Autos, Refrigerators for Delivery After the War

Installment Buying Plan Is Approved   Henderson Endorses and Outlines Program at Press Conference

‘Installment Plan Favored   Leon Henderson Endorses System for Durable Goods

Henderson Okays an; Treasury Was Against It   Delivery Priorities Go To _ Soldiers; Plan Aimed At  le flatten

Henderson Offers Installment Buyine Plan to Use Now   Endorses Post-War Purchases of Consumer Goods

HENDERSON HAS NEW PROPOSAL   OPA Would Offer  Installment Buying Now For Cars After War

Henderson Endorses Plan for Installment Bu VINE Now of Consumer Durable Goods Like Autos. Refrigerators Jor Delivery After the War

YOUNG SOLDIER WANTS BACK IN   Army Discharges 16-Year-Olc Youth After Year's Combat Service

IL DUCE REPORTED DEAD IN GERMANY   Latest Rumor From Madrid Over Mussolini’s Death

SAY DUCE DIED TEN DAYS AGO   Stomach Ulcers and Mental Derangement Blamed

U.S. Planes Hit 2 Warships In South Pacific   Yanks Shoot Down ! Zeros, Also Blast Nines Cargo Vessel   KISKA IS HAMMERED   Toll Of Japanese ‘Ships Sunk In Solomon Area Reaches 190

Diary, Address Books Clues In  Woman’s Murder   Estranged Wiie Of RCAF Cadet

CADET FACES QUIZ ON MURDER OF WIFE   Police Told Flier Has Cuts, Scratches on Face

HOLD AIR CADET. TN WIFE'S DEAT   Detained In Toronto Af.ter Discovery Of Murder In New York

Canadian Airforce Cadet Is Held in Connection With Slaying of Estranged Wife

WIFE SLAIN, RCAF CADET IS HELD FOR QUI:   Woman Found Murdered in Lavish New York Apartment—Address Books May Furnish Clue

THOUSANDS IN UGG ARMY'S CAIMEA FINGE   Germans Caught Between Two Armies Losing Heavily in Men, Materiel.

MANY T NAZIS TO DIE OR IVE UP TO REDS   Gains Cut Off Crimea and Nearly Close Dnieper Bend Trap

T > SSANDS OF ve IS CAUGHT AS REDS GAIN   Germans Face Annihilation, Capture or Entrapment

Thousands Of Nazis Trapped By Red Forces   Cut Off In The Crimea And Nearly Encircled In The Dnieper Bend   MANY RUMANIANS IN TRAPPED UNITS

CIVILIAN BUTTER STOCK TO0 LOW   OPA. May: Reduce ‘Oleo Point 4 Value. ‘To ‘Increase Its. Use .  Ag Substitute. —

Japanese Say 10 Transports Sunk   Claim 27 Allied Planes Destroved

Tokyo Credits Air Force With Victory Over Alkies      _ Imperial Headquarter’s Communique Says Cruiser,  Destroyer and Ten Transports In Enemy Fleet Off Guadalcanal Sunk, Three Other Transports  i Damaged and 37 Allied Planes Bagged

12 U.S. SHIPS SUNK, JAPS SAY   Destroyer, Cruiser, 1 Transports Claimed

JAPS DRIVING ON - CHINA FROM BURMA   Attacking Chinese On Four Separate Fronts

Drive Is Pushed On New Guinea   Report Australians Are Using Tanks

NEW BRITAIN BASE BOMBED BY AIRMEN      Big Load of Bombs Drop ‘on Gasmata by Fliers

Australians Increasing Pressure Against Japs in New Guinea Drive

STEP UP DRIVE - AGAINST JAPS   Aussies on New Guinea and Yanks on Bougainville Strongly Resisted

Allies Press Sap Soldiers On New Guine:   Strong Resistance Offered by Enemy in Southwest Pacific

Aussies Press Against Japs At Sattelberg   Allied Fliers Drop 138 Tons of Bombs on  Gasmata, New Britain

Quebec Forms New Angle To A Second Front Attack   Allied Answer To Russian Criticism Of Lack Of A  Western Attack May Be Forthcoming

AMIE FE VM ESA SSO meope Pron Wueveoe, w—BY AIPKe Le GHNPSO  Nazis Must Watch For Invasion On All Sides

LONE JAP PLANE BOMBS ESPIRITU SANTO ISLAND   FIRST ENEMY AIR ACTION AGAINST _ NEW HEBRIDES POST

FLIERS ATTACK NEAR SHORTLAND   I. 8. Ground Forces ol Guadalcanal Mop Up Pockets of Resistance

U.S. BASE ON SANTO iSLE   NipPocket Liquidated in Sanananda Sector of New Guinea

Lone Jap Plane Bombs U. 5. Base   Action Against New Hebrides Center

Espiri itu Santo Base Is Bombed   Lone Jap Plane Attacks Americans

Japanese Bomb American Base  Lone Plane Makes   Lone Plane Makes Raid on Island of Espiritu Santo

Lone Nippo Plane Bombs Yank Base   Espiritu Santo Is Target of Single Axis Air Raider

First Enemy Action Against This Center; No Casualties. Installations undamaged

Bomb Yank Base On Espiritu Santo Lone Plane Attacks In  New Hebrides; Causes No Damage

Jap Drops Bombs on Hebrides   Lone Fliers’ Missiles Cause No Damage, Navy Report Savs.   Foe Harrassed   Alles Kill 150 Clearing Out One New Guinea Spot.

LONE JAP HITS AMERIGAN BASE   No Casualties, Installations Undamaged; U. S. Raids Ballale.

U. S. Troops Raid Axis Positions Only 33 Miles from the Coastal Road, Which Rommel Must Traverse.   BATTLE OF LIBYA : IS BELIEVED OVER

Threaten Axis Juncture by Swilt Attacks   Kighty Axis Prisoner Are Taken in American Raid—Germans Drop “Dare” Note

CLARK'S ARMY PUSHES AHEAD ABOVE NAPLES   Evacuation Of Corsica Complete, Berlin Radio Says

HOUSE GROUP OPPOSED 10 RUML PLAN      Drive Launched for Enactment of Its New Tax Bill

HOUSE GROUP OPENS DRIVE   Sizzling Attack On Ruml Tax Plan Is Opening Shot.

PLEASURE BAN MAY END ON WEDNESDAY   Tentative Order Has Been Sent To Field Offices Of OPA — Has No Official Status Yet

Pleasure Driving   Ban To Be Lifted  ‘Tentative Order Goes To OPA Offices

‘QPA Order Ready For Action Sept. 1   Little Hope Held Out Sor Any Increase In Gasoline Rations For Many Weeke

Pleasure Driving Ban Likely To Be Lifted On Wednesday   Tentative Order Sent To OPA Field Offices So They Can Be Ready For-Instant Action

Edict From OPA Sent Out Today To Field Office:   Order Is Only Tentative ; .... Officials. Said Working To Aid Eastern Drivers

Draft Order To End East Driving Ban   May Go Into Effect Sent. 1

To Lift Ban On Pleasure Drive  Tentative Order   Tentative Order Out In The East

Pleasure Driving Again   OR Next Week-end, Depending on Official Order

Naples Oil Tanks Blasted In Raids   Tealfar Prine Factory Wrecked, 14 More Enemy Aircraft Shot Down By American Bombers In Daylight Attacks

Twin Raids By Daylight Shake Italy   Wreck Many Craft © Grounded at Foggia; 14. of Foe Downed

THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG  “NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS”   Winning the War

Allied Troops Missed Duce By 12 Hours   Nearly Caught Him in Capture Of Ventotene

Mussolini, Comparing Himself To Napoleon, Misses Capture At Ventotene by 12 Hours

Allied Task Force Missed Capturing Mussolini by Only 12 Hours, Says John Steinbeck; Duce Believed Crazy

Spanish Officials Deny Recognition Of Filipino Rule   Franco Government in Long Explanation of Action to U.S.

SPAIN EXPLAINS PRILIPPINE NOTE   Message Sent To Tokyo Puppet Not Intended As Slap At U.S.

Devers Gets Andrews’ Army Post   Invasion Threat Increased When Officer Appointed

DeversNamedTo Succeed Andrews   Invasion Spectre Renewed For Avie

Invasion Spectre Raised Anew for Axis as Devers Gets Command in Europe

Lt. Gen. Devers Gets Command   Armored Foree Chie! Sgrereeeda An drawe

Devers Named To Sueceed  Gen. Andrews   Appointment of Expert In Armored Warfare Spurs Invasion Talk  ANDREWS PRAISED

‘'$ tf VOMmmang wy,  Tonk Expert T To Lead U. S. Invasion Troops

DeversNamedTo Succeed Andrews   Invasion Spectre-“Renewed Ear Ayic:

Lt.-Gen.J.L. Devers  Succeeds Andrews   Invasion Spectre Raised Anew for Nazis by. His Appointment:

GERMANY FEARS LAND INVASION BY TROOPS UNDER GEN. DEVERS   Successor to Gen. Andrews Known as Specialist in Armored Warfare and Ariillery Work

DEVERS QUGCEEDY GEN. ANDREWS   Specialist in Armored Warfare and Mobile Artillery to Command U. S. Troops in European Theatre

Specter of Invasion of Nazi Territory Raised as Devers Is Named to Succeed. Andrew:

Lt. Gen. Devers ToCommand U.$ Troops in Europe   Succeeds Gen. Andrews; Specialist in Armored Warfare

Armored Force Chief to Toke Command in  Europe—..INVASION SPECTRE  AGAIN IS RAISED  New Commander Peculiarly Fitted for the Position

7 CRIMINAL CASES ON MARCH DOCKET   14 Civil and 11 Chancery Cases Listed; All Jury Trials Asked for March Term

INCOME TAX RETURNS MUST BE MADE OUT   Congress Is Studying ‘Double Payment’ Proposals

TAXPAYER MUST FILE 4) INCOME RETURN   Pay-As-You-Go Plan Won't Shelve Obligation

Pay-As-You-Go Possible Action Has No Effect  At Least the First Quarter Payment ™  § fs. . *. eae

TAX RETURNS MUST BE FILED   Pay-As-You-Go Plans Will Not Interrupt Filing.

Taxpayers Get Warning to File as Usual   Pay-as-You-Go Talk Causes Sharp Slump in Returns

Both Belittle Fight on Floor   Representatives Cox And Will Rogers Are Calm After Exchange

ROGERS, COX COOL FEELINGS   CONGRESSMEN QUARREL ON FLOOR OF HOUSE

Russians Forced Back in North   1,700 Tanks Used By German Forces

Reds Converging On Key Junction In Dnieper Bend   Russians Fall Back Before Heavy Nazi Assault Near Kiev:

RED SPEARHEADS PLUNGE FORWARD IN ONIEPER BEND   Fall of Znamenka, important Rail Junction, Is Believed Imminent   COUNTER-BLOWS PUSH REDS BACK NEAR KIE\   Germans Hurl as Many. as 1,700 Tanks in Stiff At. tacks; Nazi Counter-Offen. sive, in Progress Thre« Weeks, Takes Strength

Red Army Pusiies, However, Close .to Impartant Rail Junelion In the Dnieper Bend. Znamenka’s Fall Is Expected Any Moment

RED SPEARHEAD SLAMS NEW GAINS IN DNIEPER BEND   Soviets Take 16 Heavily Fortified Nazi Strongholds Including Rail Station.   RETREAT IN KIEV BULGE IS ADMITTED   Fall of Pantayevka Narrows Escape Routes of Germans in Southern Okraine,

Reds Smash Ai Dnieper Rail Center   Fall Of Znamenke To Russians Believed Immirent

REDS ADVANCE ON ZNAMENKA RAIL JUNCTION   SOVIET DEFENDERS FALL BACK IN KIEV BULGE

FALL OF GERMAN STRONGHOLD NEAR   Red Army Within Four Miles of Dnieper Rail Junction

Germans Force Reds Back in Kiev Bulge   Red Army Spearhead Within Four Miles of Rail Junction

SOVIETS PERIL ATL JUNCTION   Three Red Columns Driving On Znamenka in Duiesae Berd Ares

RUSSIANS CRACK NAZI DEFENSES IN RIVER BEND   Fall Of Znamenka, Which Is Imminent, Would Be  Blow To Germans   SOVIET DEFENDERS FALL BACK IN NORTH

REDS DRIVE ON DNIEPER BASE FROM 3 WAYS   Fall Of Znamenka Would Be Serious Blow To Communications Of Nazi Army

RAIL JUNCTION   Three Red Columns Driving On Znamenka in Dnieper Bend Area

Follow Up  Up Heavy U. S. Raids On U-Boat Bases   Bremen and Kiel Flit hy Greatest Air Battle Yct Waged by U.S. 8th Air Force. 26 U. S. Bomb  as Lost, Greatest Tol  Sef

Yanks, RAF Keep Aerial War Rolling   British Hit Rhine; Americans Blast at Kiel]. Bremen Areas

RAF EXTENDS OPERATIONS   Americans Lose 26 Bomb: ers On German Raid Described as Successful

26 Fortresses Lost In Heavy Raid On Coast  RAF Follows Up With Attacks On Rhineland

RAIDS HIT RHINELAND   Small Attacks Follov Heavy U. S. Blows At Navy Bases

U.S, AIRMEN HIT GERMAN U-BOAT BASES SUNDAY   Sabbath Daylight Attacks Cost Americans 26 Flying Fortresses

Nonstop Air Offensive Extended. .  British And Yanks Pound At Germany

R. A. F. Strikes Rhineland Again   BRITISH CONTINUE U. S. FORCES ATTACK

Rhineland Is Hit: U.$. Loses 16 Fortresse:   Eighth Air Force In Largest Attack On German Bases

RHINELAND SECTOR BOMBED LAST NIGHT; MINES WERE LAID  RAF BOMBERS CONTINUE UNRELENTING BLASTING OF ORIECTIVES

Yanks Lose 26 Fortresses In Big Attack   High Command Says Results Was Worth Price Of U. S. Loss

RHINELAND HIT BY RAF BOMBS   Specific Targets Not Named, But Allies Press Roundthe-Clock Attacks

Non-Stop Drive Against German: Continues in Air  Amaricane Loce   Americans Lose 26 Fortresses  In Kiel Attack

U. S. Raid On Sub Bases Costs 26° Fortresses; RAF Picks Up Attacks

Rhineland Objectives Are Bombed   Targets In Other  Parts Of Germany hee At TE

2 SUPPLY SHIPS TORPEDOED; 4 SHIPS DAMAGED   German Raiders Strike Back Jn Reprisal Raids

Allied Airmen Again Raid Nazi Targets   Attacks Follow Big Assault on Bremen and Kiel

BRITISH BOMB OBJECTIVES IN RHINELAND      Raids Follow U. S. Daylight Bombing of Submarine Bases at Kiel and Bremen—Twentysix Fortresses Lost.

Night Attack Follows Day Raid by Forts   Torpedo Enemy Ships Off Dutch Coast; 26 Big Fortresses Lost

RAF FOLLOWS UP AMERICAN DAY ATTACKS   Loss Of 26 U. S, Bombers Declared “Worth The Price

OMBERD — HIT RHINELANE   26 Flying Fortresses Lost in Large Scate Attack On Kiel.   PREPARE FOR INVASION

NON-STOP ATTACKS: CONTINUE ON EUROPE: 26 FORTRESSES 108)   U. S. Pays Biggest Price Yet For Raids On Bremen And Kiel   BRITISH LOSE. 24 PLANES.

RHINELAND AND = AREASIN REICH TARGETS   Specific Sectors Attacked] Last Night Not Revealed by British Air —  Ministry    FIRES STARTED LAST WEEK STILL BURNING   U. S. Airforce Participates In Double-Barreled Assault Sunday; 26 Yank Planes Lost

‘BLAST AT SUBMARINE BERTHS *RHINELAND-AFTER U. 8. PLANES: BLAST AT SUBMRINE BERTHS

U. S. Fliers Blast Kiel And Bremen   British Follow Up With Aerial As saults on Rhineland, Other Part: ef Germany   26 ‘FORTS’ LOST      Price Not Too High for Results Achieved, Brig. Gen. Anderson Savs

RHINELAND AGAIN BOMBED BY RAF   Other Parts of Germany; Also Bombed and Mine: Laid In Enemy Waters: Only One British Plan Reported Lost.

ITISHTAKEUP WHERE AMERICAN FORTS LEFT OFF   German Sub Plants At Bremen and Kiel . Blasted   COST HEAVY BUT  RESULTS WORTH IT

Black-Bellied Bombers Follow Up U. 5. Blows       ‘One. British Plane. Lost; Béaufighters ree Tyna ShIn

Jowa G. 6. Pp. Race In 1944 Stats Ja Take Form   Burma Announces Self In Governor Contest

Navy Denies Charges of Oil Scandal   Declares ‘Good Deal’ Made With Standard Oil Company

PROBE REPORT ‘OF OIL SCANDAL   NAVY DENIES THAT A NEW “OIL  SCANDAL HAS DEVELOPED   FROM ITS CONTRACT.  : WITH OF COMPANY

German Planes Hit af Britain   Few Reach London, Do Slight Damage; Two Planes Shot Down

SECRET RADIO WARNS   Says Germans May ' _o Try to Seize Italian Navy

FDR Cancels Nomination  Of Flynn   Suffers First Appointive Defeat In Ten Years

OAYG HE AGTED RELUCTANTLY AT FLYNN'S REQUEDI   Political Defeat Greets President On Return Home From Conference

FR. PREDICTS BLOW AT JAPS   ely OES Oe ‘ Rejects Island By Island Cam paign

PRCOIDENT SAYS THE JAPS WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF WITH A TOTAL DEFEAT

JAPAN NOT TO BE NEGLECTED, PRESIDENT SAYS   Fighting Speech Ring S$ With Confidence In Ultimate Victory   DIRECT DRIVE ON TOKYO      Tunisian Campaign Said To Be Only Prelude To European Invasion

TUNISIAN CAMPAIN’ PRELUDE TO SMASHING ATTACKS ON JAPAN AND CONTINENT,  PRESIDENT BAYS *

Tunisia Assault Mapped   President Says War Will Be Waged Along All Fronts

OPA TO CHECK UP MOTORISTS   District Office Says Holiday Drivers to Be  Questioned

Florence Man Deser ibes Horror  Of ACL Tragedy   Expectant Mother Held Up Bravely With Both 2 Legs Mangled—Fran. tic Eifort Made to Halt Second Train—Heroic Rescue Work.

CRACK COASTAL TRAINS COLLIDE IN N. CAROLINA   Majority Of Victims Are Sols diers; Cold, Snow Hamper  Rescuers   Passenger Reveals Horrible Sights at Scene Of Wreck

GIVES EYEWITNESS STORY OF WRECK   Expectant Mother, Both Leg: Mangled, Held Up Bravely

HOUSE COMMITTEE WORKING ON NEW INCOME TAX BILL   GENERAL OUTLINE OF  BILL BEING CONSIDERE!  aA RYTBRT TS,

HOUSE CONTINUING PAY-Ao-60 TUDES   ‘Doughton Measure Taken Up Today By Committee

May Report Out Tax Bill Today   Measure May Set Off New Tax Battle May 3

TAX FRAMERS DUE TO REPORT NAY 3   Democrats, and Republicans Each Have Pet Bill Which Will Launch Battle Anew

TURN IN CORN, U. 8, ORDERS   ACTION TAKEN TO EVEN UP FEED SHORTAGE

French Sailors Who Deserted Ships ii in U. S. [Accuse Officers of Opposition fo Allies

House Wavers On Current Basis Tax Plan   Experts. Lean Toward Withholding Levy, Year-Late Collection

20 PER CENT WITHHOLDING TAX IMPENDS   House Ways, Means Group Sidesteps   ‘Forgiveness’

American Liberators Blast Dunkirk Docks And Shipping   RAF Raids Leave Cologne In Germany And Italian Cities Burning Fiercely.

CHURCHILL MAKES DEFENSE OF STAND TAKEN BY HIS SON  HAD DECLARED THAT MA. JORITY OF FRENCH IN NORTH AFRICA PATRIOTS

Churchill Defends His Son’s Upholding Of French Officials   Prime Minister In First Appearance Since Illness, Faces Questioners

Churchill in Commons Defends His ° Son’s Letter Praising Peyrouton

SON 1S BACKED BY CHURCHILL   BRITISH CHIEF DEFFNDS LETTER LAUDING ARMY

TIRE INSPECTION DUE   No Gasoline Or Tires Available If Inspection Not Made

SEWER GAS BLAST © SHATTERS WINDOWS   Only One Person Is Injured In Indianapolis.

Pleas Of Boston Policemen Are Denied  By Court   Indicted On Charge Allowing Gambling

Truckers Defy ODT Order To Use Lake Ferry Service Between Cleveland, Detroit

Mussolini's Fall is Beginning of End Of Dictatorships Whether Nazi or New Deal

BABSON CALLS IT “END OF AN ERA”   Discussing End Of Mussolini, He Declares “the Sands Are Running Out” For Dictators Here and Everywhere.

BABSON PLEADS FOR SMALL CITY   Advises People Go Back to Birthplaces During Post-War Era

BABSON’S WEEKLY REPORT   END OF AN AREA Babson Appeals For Small Com tet we 4c we eee

End Of Era In  Fall Of Duce   ROGER BABSON TELLS OF NEEDS FOR AMERICA

THREE UNIONS WON'T AGREE TO ARBITRATE   STEEL PRODUCTION CRIPPLED BY WALKOUTS

FDR Orders Seizure To  Halt Strike   Non-Operators Accept Arbitration Before Army Acts

Stimson Assumed Control Of Nation’s Carriers At 7 O’Clock Last Night   PRESIDENT ACTS TO  FORESTALL WALKOUT

Strike Threat. Brings Action   Smaller Unions Refuse To. Submit To His Arbitration

ROOSEVELT ACTS TO HALT TIe-UP OT FOR DEC. a   Major Gen. C. P. Gross Is Placed in Charge of Operating Railroad System   17 OF 20 UNIONS CALL OFF PLANS TO STRIKE   Stimson Asks Cooperation of Railroad Management, Employes; Action of WLB Sud. denly Dissolves Crisis in Steel Situation

Roosevelt Ads as Three Operating Brotherhoods Fail fo Accept Arbifration Offer; Warns Supply Lines to Fighting Men Must Not Be Interrupted

Army Jakes Possession of Vast System on Roosevelt's Order to Keep Transportation on the Move   Move Essential to Prosecution of War on Eve of Major Military Offensive, FDR Says; 170,000 Steel Workers Are Idle

President Acts As Three Unions Plan To Strike   15 Non-Operating Groups Support Him

Acts “To See that Supplies to Our Fighting Men are Not Interrupted”;  17 Unions Abandon Walkout Plan

Somervell Placed In Charge Of Lines   President Says He Cannot Wait, Orders The "Temporary Possession’ By War Secretary

Seizure Held Essential to Prosecution  Of the War   Gen. Somervell Acts For Secretary of War, Major General Gross To Onerate Lines

Gen. Cross Placed in Charge Of Operating Lines; 17 Groups Agree to Arbitrate

LINES SEIZED UPON ORDERS OF ROOSEVELT   President Acts in Face of. Strike Threat, Declaring Supplies to Armed Forces Must Move.   3 BROTHERHOODS PLANNED WALKOUT   Seventeen Others Had Canceled Strike Call— Major General Gross to Direct Operations.

Roosevelt Orders Move to Avoid Work Stoppage   Stimson Assigns His Transportation Chief to Keep. Lines. Operating; ‘Appoints Rail President as Adviser

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OPA TO CHEGK VACATIONERS IN MIDWEST AREA   ~as Checking Order Will Include Popular Fishing Places

Parents At Ringsted, Gruv’r Hear   Sgt. Bonnicksen and Pvt. Willis Pickell Both Casualties of North African Front in February.

Allied Planes Heavily And Increasingly Rombing Romimel's Position In Mareth Cine: Reports Indicate Major Drive Has Opened

Heavy Guns, ~ Planes Rout  Axis Troops   Captured Without Loss of Single Soldier; Patrols Spread Out

Berlin Admits Soviet Success At Stalingrad   Nazi Troops ‘Detach Themselves’ Under Russian Pressure

Severely Injured In Tumbling Rod Of Corn Sheller  _ Wm. Karley of Merr: Hurt In Accident

Severely Injured In Tumbling Rod Of Corn Sheller  _ Wm. Karley of Merril Hurt In Accident Now In Hosgnital

Two Members of Game: Commission To:Be Reappointed   Allied Invasion Armies Swelled by Arrival of  Convoy of Americans

More Yanks In England  For Invasion   Thousands Arrive  In Convoy; Europe Is More Jittery

THOUSANDS OF U.S TROOPS ARRIVE IN BRITISH CAPITAL   Reports Of New Killings And Executions Reach London From Shaky Europe

MORE TROOPS IN BRITAIN   Theusands Of Additional U.  Troops Keach British Isies  :

Many American Troops Join Invasion Army In England; Axis Jittery

Thousands Arrive Safely Overseas To Swell Allied Invasion Army; No Additicnal Details Are Given   NEW ASSASSINATIONS REPORTED IN EUROPE

NEW TROOPS ARE SENT TO BRITAIN   Invasion Forces Swelled As Anti-Nazi Activity Spreads in France

Will Set Up Community Committees   Frank Rathje, Guy Nelson. Bartholomew O’ Tools Will Serve on Advisory Committee for Treasury

Name Three Men Of South Side to Aid Bond Group   Community Chairmen Are Named to Work in New Campaign. .

Inient, Naples, Sicily, And Sardinia Included Among Objectives Of Allied Air Forces

HEAVYA ON LORIENT SUB BASE REPORTED   Italian Mainland, Sicily, Sardinia, Are Also Bombed

DAY-LONG BOMBS ~ BEING PROVIDEL   Americans, British Cover Big Arc To Blast German and italian Positions.

Heaviest Raid of War On Lerient   Shattering Attack Made on Naples By British Planes

Naples, Sardinia And Lorient Hit   Americans and British Pound Away in Steady Day and Night  Offensive on Nazi Bastion

U.S. Bombers Hit Ships in Naples Raid  U-Boat Base at Lorient,   U-Boat Base at Lorient, France, Shattered by ' RAF. Bombers   SARDINIA POUNDED   Double-Pronged Aerial] Smash May Pave Way for Land Offensive

AXIS FEELS LOSS OF SHIPPING 10 AFRICAN FORCES   ee caids On France, Italy, Called  ; “prologue Of Things To  t Come” *

‘How Jap Sub To Be Seen Here July 7 Was Snared   By CAPT. EUGENE E, WILSON)  PRS erp , FC” 2. Geer een

Eye-Witness Tells Story of Capture Of 2-Man Japanese Submarine Dec. 7   By CAPT. EUGENE E,. WILSON Army Air Corps

ARMY CAPTAIN TELLS STORY. OF CAPTURE OF SUICIDE SUB WHICH. iS TO VISIT LAS CR UCES FRIDAY

FLAYS STAND OF PRESIDENT   DIES CHARGES ROOSEVELT DEFENSE OF THREE FEDERAL  EMPLOYES “BMACKS OF DICTATORSHIP”

WEIRD HOLLYWOOD CHARACTERS HOLD ~ LIMELIGHT TODA)   Parade in Court to Com. plete the Story of Girl's Night With Errol Flynn.

WEIRD WITNESSES PARADE 10 STAND IN ERROL FLYNN TRIAL   Strip Dancer, Lady With Change-About-Hair Go To Court

AAR AAA DADA AASAARADAA SR,  Dionne Quints Are Nine Years of Age; Party Is Simplest

STIFF TEST AHEAD OF LEWIS AND His ILLINOIS LEADERS   Must Convince WLB Wage Agreement Is Settlement and Not Wage Increase.

LEWIS. AND ILLINOIS OPERATORS FACING SEVERE WLB TEST   Must Convince Board That ‘Their Wage Agreement ' Is Not Pay Raise For Miners

PLAN HEARINGS ON GOAL PACT   Operators And UMW Must Convince WLB Of Legality Of Agreement

COAL MINE AGREEMENT FACES TEST   May Be Deemed An Illegal Settlement

NEW COAL WAGE CONTRACT TO BE STUDIED BY WLB   "Lewis, Dtinois Coal Operators Ar Facing Stiff Test. Is Belief

WUPPERTAL tT BY HUGE BRITISH BOMBER FLEET   Ruhr City Believed Devastated by 2nd Raid

Thousand Tons of Bombs Fall Upon Wuppertal   Key Ruhr Industrial Center Blasted . By RAF Squadrons

U. S. Fliers Encounter Dirty Weather During Attack — RAF Raids Wuppertal In Ruhr

British Renew Air Attacks On Ruhr Valley Hitting Wuppertal Again

HENRY FORD 4S ELECTED   MOTOR MAGNATE CHOSEN AS “PRESIDENT OF COMPANY TO SUCCEED HIS SON

Henry Ford Returns To Leadership   Manufacturer Once More Chosen Head Of Great Motor Empire

J.J. ASTOR. 22RD nrvorren   Platoon of ‘German’ Soldiers  To Make Yankees Hate Nazis

Yank Trainees To Cope With “Nazi” Outfit   Dirty - Tricking “Germans” . Will Keep Fort Knox Men on Their Toes.

Say Japs Have Data on Dam   Received Technical Information on Colorado Aqueduct, Witness Says

Jap Engineers Said Furnished With Dam Plans   Dynamite Stolen Near Parker Dam Says Witness

Jap Engineers Supplied Data On Parker Dam   Disappearance Of 350 Pounds Of Dynamite Blamed On Japs

BELIEVE GENERAL MARSHALL WILL HEAD INVASION   Chief Of Staff Seems Destined For Greater Role In Present World Conflict  ea og aa eae eet

Allied Raids Wipe Out Nazi Cities Writer Presents  Vivid Picture fv TNisnctvsictnad

French Political Complications In Africa Unsolvec   Supporter Of DeGaulle Forecasts Revolution In Metropolitan France

FRENCH POLITICAL ASSUES UNSETTLED   Giraud Declares Unity Ex . ists in “Liaison - Only”

No Prospects of Single French Africa Movement  But De Gaulle ‘Agrees With Giraud on Many Necessary Matters _

FRENCH UNITY FAR FROM REAL   Faction Spokesmen See Little Prospect For Political Union At Present

Political Complications In French North Africa As Numerous as Ever  ONLY AGREEMENT CONCERNS LIAISON  Revolution in France When Nazi Hold Breaks Seen by de Gaulle Aide

FRENCH UNITY IS LAISON ONLY GIRAUD STATES   DeGaullist Conference Delegate Deplores Vichy Influence In Africa   GENERALS DID NOT DISCUSS POLITICS

POLITICS YET HOLDS AFRICA, FRENCH APART   Member Of De Gaulle’s Staff Predicts Revolution In France Over Ex-Vichy Men In Africa.   Giraud Popular

French Political Troubles  Still Numerous  De Gaulle, Giraud Fail to Agree

French Political Troubles  Still Numerous  De Gaulle, Giraud Fail to Agree  an TInitan Mavaman'!

COUNTY EMPLOYES STRIKE IN PROTESI   Ask Reinstatement of Dismissed Workers

PICKETS ENCIRCLE TOLEDO COURT HOUSE   Protest Dismissal of Eight County Sanitary Engineers

BEEF STOCKS NEXT VEAR THREATENED   Problem to Be Eased Somewhat Shortly but Another Shortage to Follow

Sees More Beef For Few Months   But Wilson Says Cattlemen Worried Over Future Prospects.

Increased Beef Supplies Seen   National Livestock Leader Gives Data

Increase In Beef Only Temporary, Is Tip From Livestock Producers

MORE BEEF 10 BE AVAILABLE DURING NEXT FEW MONTHS   WINTER SUPPLY AND NEXT YEAR, HOWEVER, WORRYING CATTLEMEN

OFFICIAL SEES MORE BEEF IN COMING MONTHS   Cattle Men Worried About Prospects In Year Or So

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Grant Lend-lease Aid to Russians  New Agreement Signe¢ in London Tuesday

Russia Will Reciprocate  Lend-Lease   New Agreement Extends The Assistance Tender: ed By the Soviet

Third Agreement For Lend-Lease Signed With Reds   Russia to Supply Raw Materials in Exchange For Armaments, Food

RUSSIA T0 DO MORE UNDER LEND-LEASE   New Agreement — Calls fo Soviet Raw Materials

Russia to Trade Raw Materials   NGW MGICIIAIS  To Furnish Critical Ores. j in Exchange for

OPTIMISM HIGH AT MEETING IN MOSCOW   New Agreement Gives Russia Vast Quantity of War Materials

NEW LEND-LEASE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN LONDON TODAY   ‘Under Terms Soviet Russiz  Is Going to Do More for  Western Allies:   AID IN RAW MATERIALS   in Return She Will Be Sent Armament and Food, It Is Announced.

Second Front’ Aired Today At Moscow Parley   First Discussions Hel Monday at Kremlin Peace To B Studied

U. S., BRITAIN PLEDGE MORE AID TO SOVIET   Agreement Announced a: Hull and Eden Arrive by Air in Moscow

WAR SUPPLIES “FOR RUSSIANS   THIRD AGREEMENT SIGNED FOR FURNISHING SOVIETS ; WITH ADDITIONAL MATE- ~ RIALS FOR WARFARE

LEND-LEASE PACT SIGNED WITH RUSSIA   Third Agreement on Reci -¢procal War Aid Execut‘ed in London by U. S., British and Canadian Representatives.

Russiato Send Ores fo Allies   New ‘Lease-Lend Agreement: Provides Trade -of More**: ‘ Raw Materials. 22.0 £2      ALLIED CONFERENCE  —""BRGINS TONIGHT:      Hull and Eden: in» Moscow ” for Talks on Second: Front”  » and Other Topics = °."

Third Pact Is Signed In Russia  ree  AID IS PROMISED  Participation First For Canada

NAVAL ACTION TIES UP WITH AIR OFFENSIVE   3 Damaging Raids Mada By Army Bombers On Kiska Base   2 SHIPS DAMAGED      Report Japs Are Speeding Work On Aleutians Aitield

garet ix to Be  1d Up   mpeey for Giving publicans Chance Reconsider Vote

WORKERS STRIKE IN THREE AKRON RUBBER PLANTS   Strikers Return To Work In Detroit Chrysler   Plants. Miners Return Ke Pits.

Strikes Shut Down Akron Rubber Plants   6,000 More Rubber Workers Walk Off Jobs, Bring Total Idle To 45,000.

Strike at Akron Rubber Plants Grows, 6,000 More Workers Now Out   Other Groups Return to Work In Akron, Detroit

F.R. Inspects U.S. Defenses On Trinidac   President Is Given Big Welcome By Soldiers, Natives, Officials: Met By Admiral Leahy

ROOSEVELT STOPS OFF IN TRINIDAD      4 PRESIDENT INSPECTS AMER-  ICAN DEFENSES -— THOU SANDS WELCOME HIM.

EFFORTS BEING MADE  COMPOSE DE GAULLE  AND GIRAUD FACTION PICTURES AND INSIGNIA OF BOTH REMOVED  TrTMRAw MIIDIIC PDIACre

EFFORTS BEING MADE COMPOSE DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD FACTION  PICTURES AND INSIGNIA OF BOTH REMOVED FROM PUBLIC PLACES

Demand For Whiskey Up 400 Per Cent.....  U.S. Drinkers Facing Acute Liquor Famine

Liquor Shortage Faces the Nation   Situation Progressively Getting Worse in Most of the States.

WHISKY STOCK SHORTAGE NOW AGUTEIN U.S.   More Than Half of States Report Liquor Scarce and Situation Getting Worse

Liquor Shortage Grows Acute As Holidays Near; Demand Quadruples, Supply Halved

U.S.A. Faces Liquor Crisis   Shortage Fast Enveloping the Entire Country

Nation Fast Going Dry, Reports Show   Bleak New Year in Prospect So Far As Easing Present Status

Liquor Demands Increase While Supplies Shrink   New England Feels Shortage

Poors Scarce _ Over ‘Country   Most. States Planning To "Start Rationing. With ~ Supply Dropping -.

LIQUOR SHORTAGE ENVELOPS NATION   WHISKEY DEMAND IS: GREATER; SUPPLIES DOWN 60 PER CENT

LIQUOR SUPPLY SHRINKING FAST   Shortage Is Widespread A; Demand Increases

US. Liquor Gets Scarcer   More Than Hal€ Stotes Report That Thirsts Are Exceeding Supply —

AMERICA’S DRINKING CITIZENS ARE FACING SHORTAGE OF LIQUOR  DEMAND FOUR TIMES AS GREAT; SUPPLY LESS THAN HALF LAST YEAR

57 INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK   Pennsy’s Crack ‘The Cavalier’ Rammed By Switch Engine Near Wilmington

Passenger Train Struck by Engine   Many Navy Men Injured in Crash

63 Hurt As Engine Rams  Crack Train   “Cavalier” Hit In Delaware

63 Injured in Train Wreck   Luxury Flier Hit By Shifter In East: Six Hurt Seriously.

57 PASSENGERS AND TRAINMEN HURT IN WRECK   Engine Plows Into Rear o! Crack P. R. R. Train Near Wilmington Early Today   SIX BADLY HURT   Most of Injured Were Navy Personnel Bound For Cape Charles, Va., Officials Report

57 Hurt When Crack Train  Is Rammed   Pennsy’s Main Line Blocked For Four Hours

ti ARE INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH   Speeding Switch Engine Rams Crack Pennsylvania Cavalier, Waiting Signal

CRACK SHORE VTRAIN RAMMED IN WILMINCTON   7 Injured, Mostly Navy Personnel, In Crash Into ‘Cavalier’

63 Are Hurt in Train Accident   Switch Engine Rams Coaches; Most of Injured in Navy

CRACK PASSENGER TRAIN [5 RAMMED: 5] PERSONS HURT   Heavily Crowded Passenger Train Rammed From Rear; Most of Injured Were Navy Enlisted Personnel; Six Seriously Hurt.

New Dealers Hit By Rep. Hoffman   Raps Bungling In Talk * Before Local Lions

USE. BUSINESS -NEN-HOFFMAN   Declares Trained Indus trialists Should Handle War Production

Was Dynamite Fake or Real!   Norman Police Are Worried Over Odd Discovery They Made

U.S. TROOPS TO REMAIN INS. PACIFIC TILL JAPS ARE BEATEN   Lieut, Col. James Roosévelt Declares at Auckland. New Zealand.

HOPEWELL MAN 10 FACE FBI CHARGES   Eugene Grace, 32, Said To Have Made Demand ‘For $1,000

ANOTHER: PY UNDER ARREST   German in New York Was _. Accomplice of. Con- . fessed Spy. 

Governor Returns To His Own Chair  Admits Sitting for vin  hAnmennk in

Airport Speakers On Radio Tonight   County Agent First Of Group Favoring Proposal

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM LOWER BEND OF DNIEPER RIVER   Fall of Cherkassy Paves Way For Control of Bend Ra:il Lines

Germans Make Official Announcement of Evacuation.   BATTLE FOR CHERKA SINCE LAST OCTOBER   Thousands of German Troops Trapped and Killed.

Thousands Of Nasi Troops Probably Have Been Trapped Or Wiped , Out With the Loss Of Cherkassy,

PRISON INMATES AID WOMAN LEFT HOMELESS   North Carolina Men Donate $100 to Her After Reading Story In Paper

Germans Thrust Ahead on ~ 156-Mile Front, But Russ Repel Foe With Big Loss

Sermens. Thrust Ahead 0 on yes oo “156- Mile Front, But. Russ»  ~ Repel: Foe With. Big Loss

GREAT AERIAL ONSLAUGHT AIDS TROOPS   Situation Is Somewhat Improved

SITUATION IMPROVED AT SALERNO   Reinforced Allied Army Consolidates New Position

HANDING OUT ITS SHARE OF PUNCHES IN SALERNO AREA   Gen. Clark Has No Thought of Withdrawing—Has Air Superiority.

Americans and _ Germans Locked In Bitter Fight ©   Situation South -Of Naples Is e amawhat Improvec

FIFTH ARMY GIVES -SOMEGROUND, BUT ~ GAINS NEW POINTS   American Invasion Forces, Supported _ By Record-Breaking Aerial Cover Along Salerno Bridgehead,  - Stave Off Enemy   ALLIED TROOPS MOVE INLAND TEN MILES

CONTINUOUS NAZI ATTACK IS STEMMED   Believe Next 24 Hours Will Be Decisive

Allies Unleash Big Air Attack   Situation in Italy Better; Still Critical

HEROIC EFFORTS STEM FIERCE NAZI ATTACKS   Allied Lines Hold on Beach

BRICKER SCORES ADMINISTRATION ON FOOD POLICY   Ohio Governor Speaking in New York, Says People Should Be Told Where It Goes

BRICKER RAPS FOR STATEMENT ON FOOD MEET   Ohio Governor Asserts Conference Should Be Open to Public at All Times  : 3

KILLER HUNTED; REWARD POSTED   Wide Search Begun for Man Who Murdered Texes Doctor and Wife

TAISE REWARD AFTER SLAVING   eee  Couple Murdered in Beds,  Citizens of Texas Town Seek $10,000 Reward Fund

‘Doctor And Wife Anaesthetized Before Murder, Belief; Daughter Saw Slayer

Mystery Shrouds Slaying Of Texas Doctor, Wife As Plans For Reward Made

Texas Couple . Slain; Child, 6,  Saw Murderer   Large Cash Reward Ta Be Offered For Solution Of Crime.

Littlefield Meeting Subs Reward For Solution To  Of Prominent Doctor And   Subscribes To Murder And Wife

Town Offers Big Reward   Texans Want Mystery Double-Slaying Cleared Up

REWARD FOR KILLER   Citizens Of Texas Town Raise Reward For Brutal Murderer

ANEW OBSTACLE IN LEWIS’ PATH   Effort to Enroll Chemical Workers Resented

NEW FACTOR DIMS CHANCE OF LEWIS’ UMW JOINING AFL   District 50 A Stumbling Block—50,000 Chemical Workers To Join Federation

‘Miles City Cleans Up— Police Officers Oust Skunk and Coyote Pup

Munda Battle In Last Stage   Yanks Advance 500 To 1,200 Yards: Storm Eastern Edge Of Field,

JAP STRONGHOLD SEEN TOTTERING IN NEW ASSAULT   Admiral Halsey’s Headquarters Also Report More Good News From New Guinea Area

Allies Gain 500 To 1,200 Yards on Munda Air Base   Jap Stronghold at Salamaua Receives Artillery Shelling

YANKS BATTER IAPS ON MUNDA   Close In On Eastern Edge Of Air Base; Shell’  Salamaua

YANKS THREATEN MUNDA AIRFIELD   Admiral Halsey Reports» Advance of 500 to 1,000 Yards on Nip Base

Yanks Move Closer toJaps onMundaBase   Enemy Resistance Shows Signs of Flagging; Salamaua Hit

Many Japanese Killed in New Yankee Drive   Allied Artillery  In New Guinea Rolls Close Enough to Bombard Salamaua

Good Advance Made in Area Near Munda   Allied Heavy Bombers Join* Americans in Starting Huge Fires

Flame-Throwers, Artillery And Tanks Used By Americans ‘In Advance On Munda Air Base   Storm Close To Eastern Edge Of Field In Climactic Assault On Jap Airdrome

Max Stephan To Hang On July 2   Detroit Man First To Die Under Treason Law

STEPAN DEATH DATE S FIXED   Detroit Man Convicted Of Treason To Hang July 2 At Milan

Preliminary Apes Achieved —   SEIZE SEVERAL ISLAND STEPPING STONES TO KEY JAP BASE AT RABAUL; FIGHTING ON NEW GEORGIA:

MAC ARTHUR LEADS DRIVE ON RABAUL   American Forces Gain ‘Initial Objectives In Offensive

DOUBLE DRILL CONFUSING IN MANY AREAS   Unannounced Dimouts Are Marked by at Least One Death and Attacks On Civilians

Worry! Worry! OwnsJail Not Allowed To Move In   Youth Becomes Owner Of Town Jail—Orders Police * Out

Youth Gives Police Just A Week To Move Out Of Jail Which He Purchased

HITLER UNHARMED IN RAID ON BERLIN   Goes to Air Raid Shelter When Sirens Sound—Leaves City After First Attack.

Army To Get Its Casoline—Ickes  Administrator Points To Obstacles

Rubber Vs. Gas Inquiry Begins  Ickes Says Army Will Get 100-Octane  Gane Nacnita Ohetacla.

ICKES SCORES GAS DILEMMA   OIL CHIEF CLAIMS LONG OFFICIAL LIST BAFFLED

Ickes Claims Gas Program Hampered   Says Increase Made ir Face of Continuing  Obstacles

ICKES DEFENDS GAS PROGRAM   Army to Get High Octane Fuel, Says Petroleum Administrator.   RUBBER STILL PROBLEM

ICKES GIVES HIS SIDE OF AVIATION GASOLINE DISPUTE  PRODUCTION INCREASE    PRODUCTION INCREASE . DESPITE CONTINUING DISCOURAGING OBSTACLE:

Gas Output Up Despite Many Big Obstac les  ita: eu   Baffling Misunderstanding Qn Part Of Officials Holds Up Program.   ATTACKS WPB ACTION

ICKES PUTS BLAME ON WLB, MILITARY   Rubber - Gas Controversy Gets More Heated Daily

MORE OHIO MINERS GO OUT; UNION HEADS AGT   Leaders Try To Get Men To Go Back To Pits

1,400 MORE MINERS STRIKE AT OHIO PITS   Refuse to Work Without Contract Renewal

BIG QUESTIONS TO CONFRONT CONGRESS  ON RECONVENING  Solons Go Home for Holi. days But Face Many Com t FF wT, fF  .. ... wei gg...

Congress Home To Celebrate Yule Holidays   Nation’s Problems Await Return On January 10th

Congress Hastens Home to Celebrate Christmas Holidays   Members. Will Recharge Political Batteries for Campaign Year

Legislators on Way Home for Holidays   Brings Brief Respite in Bitter Struggle Over Major Issues

78TH CONGRESS “MEMBERS GO HOME TODAY   Subsidies: s And: Tax .Problems Await Thejy Return   Plan To . Recharge Their Political Batteries

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS GO ONHOLIDAY      ‘Troop Home To “Recharge Their. : -Palitical Batteries:

CONGRESSMEN - G0 HOME TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY   To Recharge Political ‘Batteries For Opening of Presidential Campaign   WILL RECONVENE JAN. 10

78TH CONGRESS TROOPS HOME FOR CHRISTMAS   PUR UARTO TIA  VITAL DECISIONS AWAIT RETURN OF MEMRERS ON JAN. 10

Legislators Home For Yule Season   They'll Return Jan. 10 to Washington to Face Perplexing Problems.

math Congress Fads Session With A Prayer   » Rest Over Holidays and Recharge Batteries For Opening of Presidential  fammesen * ear.

Members of Congress Troop Back Home To Build Political Fences For Presidential Year

CONGRESS GOES HOME  FOR HOLIDAYS AND TO  CONSULT WITH PEOPLE BATCH OF WARTIME  ECONOMY QUESTIONS TO  oman rues TANITARYV 10

U.S. Losses On Attu Are Light, Claim   Foothold Is Gained On Ridge To South Of Chichagof Harbor In suff Bombardment

Knox Reports Shipping Damage To Nips; New Reports of Jap Losses Include 98 Ships Sunk.

War “Score” Of U.S. Subs 460 Jap Ships   Knox Report Discloses 1i8 More Craft Added to Toll in Pacific

460 Jap Ships Sunk, Damaged   Success of American Submarines Announced By Secretary Knox

U. S. Subs In Japan Waters Hit 460 Ships   319 Jap Ships Known To Have Been Sunk By U. 8, Subs

98 More Jap Ships Reported — Sunk By American Subs   Knox. Reports Number of Enemy Losses of Merchant  _° Vessels Sunk or Damaged Since the Start ’ of the War, at 460

U.S. Subs Take War To Japan   MANY NIPPON SHIPS ARE SUNK IN HOME _ WATERS

Knox Reveals Toll Taken By American Subs   Enemy's Losses Since Pearl Harbor Are Listed Today

460 Nip Vessels Sunk, Damaged Since War Began   Operations Carried Out In Enemy Waters On Many Occasions

in Landing   Attempts to Gain Back Finschhafen’ Are: Beaten Back by Allies

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 98 MORE JAPANESE SHIPS   Action Brings ‘To 460 Number Of Enemy Vessels i Or Damaged Since War Started; Sub Vic tims Tabulated

Knox Reveals New Sinking: In the Pacific   Nearly 100 Vessels Sunk Since Nevy’s Lost Reports

Reveal 460 Japanese Ships ‘Sunk or Damaged By U. S. ‘Subs Since Start of War

U. S. Subs Have Taken Big Toll   Have Sunk Or Damaged 460 Jap Vessels Since War RBRecan.

460 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS   Knox Announces 148 New  Sinkings In Survey Of Pacific War

American Sub Sink, Damage 460 Jap Ships   Navy Totals Show That 319 Enemy Vessels Sent To Bottom

U. 5. SUBMARINES CARRY WAR TO HOME WATERS OF JAPAN  SECRETARY OF NAVY

148 VESSELS NOT LISTED PREVIOUSLY   Navy’s Recapitulation Shows 319 Enemy Craft Have Been Sent to Bottom, 36 Probably Sunk and 105 Damaged.

KNOX DECLARES 460 HAVE BEEN STRUCK AT SEA   Report for Period Since Pearl Harbor Lists 319 Ships As Sunk

460 Japanese Ships Sunk or Damaged by Subs   U. S. Underseas Croft Carry War To Enemy Waters

American Subs Bag 98 More Jap Merchant Ships   [otal Sunk, Probably Sunk or Damaged since War Started Is 460

48 Additional Vessels Ad dded To Navy’ s Lists After Raids In Pacific

rings Total Enemy Losses  Since Pearl Harbor to— 319 Sunk, 36 Prob- ably. 105 Damaged    pare SINKINGS \EAR NIPPON WATER   ‘hree Carriers, 10 Cruis: ers. 33 Destroyers, 52 Tankers, 40 Transports, 270 Transports Bagged

American Subs Into Japan Home Waters   Have Sunk or Damaged 460 Japanese Vessels Since the War Began.

American Subs Take War Into Japanese Waters   Knox Lists Enemy Ships Destroyed By Submarines In The War

U. S. Has Sunk Or Damaged 36C Japanese Ships   Latest Figures Are Announced by Secretary Knox

TOTAL SOOSTED TO 460 SINCE PEARL HARBOR   Newest Report Of U. S. Ae: tivity Lists 98 Vessels Sunk, 45 Damaged

Sec. Knox Announces 460 Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged Since War Began; Bares New Blows   Figures Include 148 Nip Vessels Not Previously Listed As Hit By Torpedoes

450 JAP onlPa GUNK, DAMAGED BY SUB ATTACK   Navy Communique Adds 148 Not Before Listed as Torpedoed.

Nary’s Figures Include 148 Enemy Craft Not Previously Listed Hut By Torpedoes   American Undersea Forces Carrying War Into Nips’ Closest Home Waters, Navy Says In Statement Given By Secretary Knox

U.S. SUBS SINK 460 JAP SHIPS   Toll of Enemy Vessels Ris. es With Report of 98 More Destroyed   No Details on Attacks

U.S. Sinks 98 More Jap Ships   Subs’ Score Now Stands At460 Total

U.S. SUBS CARRY WAR INTO HOME WATERS OF JAPAN   NAVY DISCLOSES 319 JAP SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM SINCE 1941

American Submarines Carry War Into Home Waters of Japan By Sinking or Damaging 460 Ships

AMERICAN SUBS CARRYING WAR TO JAP WATERS   Have Sunk Or Damaged 460 Japanese ' Vessels

319 Enemy Vessels Sent To The Bottom Since Pearl Harbor   Knox  Discloses American Craft Operated In Pacific Area In Japan’s Closest Home Waters

Army Plane Hits Gas Tank   Chicago South Side Storage Tank Set Afire by Crash

This Week is the Last Lap Of The Gallup Daily Independent Poll — Ends Friday Night, March 5

The Gallup Daily Independent Poll Ends Friday Night, March 5; Awarde To Be Announced Next Week

Legislature Votes Approval Of Bill Relaxing (Ohio’s Labor Laws Involving Women And Minors

NEW OHIO MEASURE WILL RELAX RULES   Women, Minors May Work Lenger Hours; Law Also Opens New Jobs

FEMALE LABOR LAW GETS NOD   House Approves Relaxation of Legislation After 3-Hour Debate

IOWA, NEBRASKA LIVESTOCK MEN  APPEAL TO FDR --- In Regard To Rollback Plan

Broughton Asks  Consolidation Of Negro Schools   Recommends Long Time Program to. Eliminate Small And Toefficient Schools’ and: Provide Better Opportunities.

Allies To Give Back Property   Axis Told That ‘Seizures Would Be Restored To ~Richtful. Owners .

RESTORATION OF PROPERTY SEEN   Axis Will Be Ejected; ~ Rightful Owners to Get Lands

Axis-Seized Property To Be Restored   Allies Pledged To Status Quo In All  Occupied Places

ALLIES PROMISE 70 REDEEM LAND   Property Rights in Nations Conquered by Axis to Be Restored in Victory

Temperatures In Pamna   I7 Allied Nations Serve Notice To Axis On Restoration Qf Biahis

ALLIES WARN AXIS PROPERTY RIGHTS WILL BE RESTORED   Declaration Refers To Interests Which Changed Hands In Enemy Action

ALLIES DECLARE PROPERTY RIGH TO BE RESTORED   Axis Nations Warned That Loot and Terror Methods Will Not Be Recognized

PROPERTY RIGHTS TO BE RESTORED AT AXIS DEFEA   Heads. of 17. Allied Belliger:  “ent Nations Serve - Notice Relative to: Occupation: of Londs:   ALL ‘CHANGES DUE TO WAR ARE INCLUDED   No Mention Made. of Losses of Jews Who Sold Possessions at Panic Prices in Germany. §

oF RESTORATION “OF PROPERTY SEIZED IN AYIS HET D AREA   Allied Declaration: Includes All Lost: By Direct Action Or . Manipulation   INCLUDE “LEGAL” DEALS

Allies Vow To Restore Property In Axis-Seized Lands To Rightful Owners

Pledge Return  Of Loot   Allied Nations Will Not Allow Enemy Rights  To Any Property Seized Under Axis Occupation

Allies Declare Property In Axis-Occupied Countries Will Return To Owners After War

TO DISCARD AXIS PROPERTY RIGHTS    Alries Inform Foe That All - Property Will Be Restored  to Rightful Owners

Allies Declare All Property In Axis-Occupied Countries. Will Be Restered. To Owners After War

AXIS TOLD (To PLUNDER MUST BE GWEN BACK   Allies and French Committee Serve Notice Stealings Can’t Be Kept.   COVERS PROPERTY OF COUNTRIES, PERSONS

Allies Promise Restoration Of Property Right   United Nations Agree. Tc Return Confiscatea Homes, Businesses   JEWS ARE MENTIONED   Announcement Serves As Warning To Axis Protected Potential Purchasers

NAVY DAY OBSERVED THROUGHOUT NATION  Pride Expressed in Country’s Maritime

Growing U.S. Navy Acclaimed On 168th Anniversary Celebrafed Today

KING SPEAKS IN HONOR OF 160TH NAVY BIRTHDAY   Knox Orders Navy To “Seek Out Enemy and Destroy Him”; Walsh Predicts Smashing Blows In Pa cific.

Adds Glory To the Flag   Navy Is Mightiest In History on 138th Navy Day Anniversar}

MEAT ALSO WILL BE RATIONED   Even Things Like Kidney and Liver Will Cost at Least Few Stamps.

‘Castaways’ Rescued as Quota Met   SEVEN TAKEN FROM RIVER AS OREGON GOES OVER TOP IN BOND DRIVE

The text of President Roosevelt's address last night is on page 2.   Marines Seeking ‘Women Reserves

MARINES SEEKING WOMEN RECRUITS   Newest of Service: Auxiliaries to Train in Waves’ Schools.

TOJO'S FORCES CAUGHT   ..- Nips Trapped After - Airport Is Seized

10 Days of Fierce Fighting Have Put Enemy Into Cornet   Only Isolated Snipers Remain on Main Island Area

Trapped Jap Forces Driven Against Sea   Tokyo Admits Losses Up to 66 Per Cent Among Jap Garrison on Attu Island

Tokyo Admits Losses Up te 66 Percent   Big U S. Naval Guns Cover Landing of American Troops on Attu Island

U.S.Rakes Nips From North Base   YANKS SEIZE ENEMY AIR FIELD AS TRAP SNAPS SHUT IN ALEUTIANS STRONGHOLD; TOKYO ADMITS 66 PER CENT LOSSES

ALEUTAIN AIRFIELD CAPTURED   Japs Fighting With Backs to Sea and Sea Commanded by U. 8. Warshing. :

AMERICAN TROOPS AND WARSHIPS HAVE SNAPPED JAP TRAP  SURVIVORS OF ENEMY FORCE ON ATTU NOW

‘Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses  To Defenders   Run as High as 66 Percent Says Spokesman; Warships Bar Escape

YANKS SEIZE JAP AIRFIELD ON ATTUISLE   Remnants Of Nip Forces Trapped In Chicagof Harbor Area   ALL ESCAPE CUT OFF   Tokyo Bares Losses Running As High As 66 Per Cent

TOKYO ADMITS HEAVY LOSSES TO DEFENDERS   Nippon Forces Fight With Backs to Sea; U. 8: Warships Nearby

ENTIRE ENEMY FORCE CAUGHT IN YANK TRAP   Reports Indicate End Of Resistance on  Island Near

Enemy Encircled by U.S. Troops in Attu   Trap Snapped on Nipponese and Airfield Seized; Sustained Air Asault on Japanese Forecast After Aleutians Taken.

‘Blue Party’ Backs Prince of Italy   Calls Upon People  To Support Monarchy

New Party Enters Ring For Umberto  Monarchy Supported By Latest Italian Groups

German Troops Gettins Braced   ..« Nazis Expected To Fight For North Mtaty

lleatlegger’ Likened With Bootlegger of Bygone Days   ings Black Market to America In Big Way With Nearly 1,500 OPA Investigators Working Full Time Running Down Violations; Washington Hopes Rationing Will Stamp Out Practice

Meatleggers As Numerous As Bootleggers Of Yore   Black Markets In Meat Hard To Control: OPA Hopes Public Opinion Will Aid

Black Market  Is Spreading   Rationing Is Only Mean: For. Controlling Sale Of Meat Stocks

6. 0. P. Legislators Map State Economy  Appropriations to Be Within Revenue

18 Men From City And County Pass Physical Tests   Recent Graduates of High School Into Service

33 Jefferson City Men Accepted .  In Armed Services  19 to Army, 12 to Navy and 2 Go in Marines

‘US. Sales Tax  Seems Inevitable   Congressman Says  We Must Have It

NEEDED, SAYS BED EEN   Only Way To Meet President’s Request For 16 Billion In New Taxes.

Reed Cites Magnitude of FDR Budget Federal Sales Pay Held Inescanable:

Sicily To Have U. S. Director Of Activities   State Department Create: New Deal Agency To Aid Natives

Jap China-Sea Traffic Will Be Blasted Early   Tone Of Report From Quebec Strongly Hints Suct Action; Nothing Official, However

Fifteen Sicily Towns Fall to Yank, British in Speeding Invasion; Americans Halt Crack Nazi Unit

American Troops Beat Goering’s Own Division; [Important Ragusa Falls   British Land Forces at Catania and Push Toward Messina; Italian Air Arm Badly Crippled; Axis Says ‘Second Phase Will See Invaders Lose’

Crack Goering Division Collides With Patton's Yankees af Livorno   Rushed Into Interior to Attempt Halt of American Gains; Allies Take 5 More Towns; Supply Forces Bring in Food for Sicilians

Augusta, Ragusa, Palazzolo Taken By Invaders; British Forces Make New Landing Near Catania

FRESH BRITISH LANDING MADE NEAR CATANIA   AMERICAN ARMORED UNITS SWEEP 20 MILES INLAND

Vital Points Fall Before  Fierce Drive   Americans Disrupt Goering Division; More Than 6,000 Prisoners Taken; Russians Hold on Belgored Line

PORT OF AUGUSTA FALLS TO INVADERS   British Troops Swarm Ashore In New Landings   ARMIES JOIN LINES   Axis Captives Mount in Num« ber; High Ranking Officers Among Prisoners

Allies Take Five More Towns in Swift Invasion; Americans Stop Germans   Floridia and Palazzolo Fall to British and Canadians in Drive Inland from Captured Syracuse To Join United States Troops; Americans Knock Out Ten Tanks in Clash with Nazis

Port of Augusta Taken by British   Landing Made Near Catania, Midway Up Coast Toward Messina; Americans Triumph In  Clash With Goering’s Elite

15 Towns Taken By Allied Troops In Swift Invasion  Of Sicily   FOOD, SUPPLIES TO BE GIVEN CIVILIANS

Vaunted Goering division whipped  by Patton’s men   British land near Catania as Canadians make inland thrust

Negotiations Fail, Issue Is  Up To Ickes   Government Sponsorship May Resume Operations

INVOKE ‘NO CONTRACT, NO WORK’ POLICY IN SPURNING WLB OFFER   ‘Term Proposal Of War Labor Board ‘Infamous Yellow Dog _Contract:’. Up To Ickes Now

MINERS REJECT CONTRACT BY THE WAR LABOR BOARD   Lewis and His United Mine Workers Invoked “No Contract, No Work” Policy.   NEGOTIATIONS ARE OUT      By Mid-Morning There Were No Reports of Any U. M. W. Members Working.

300,000 QUIT PITS AS THIRD TRUCE EXPIRES   Leatiers Assert Men Willing To Return Under Government Direction   WLB ACTION IS ASSAILED]   Steel Offtcials Say Mills Wil} Show Stonpage Effects In 24 Hours is

No Immediate Break Seen In  UMW Walkout   Hlinois AF of L Miners Lay  Down Tools In Sympathy Gteska.   aaah atti  NO WORD FROM ICKES

HALE MILLION ~— WMINERS IDLE   John L. Lewis and UMW Reject Proposal Made By War Labor Board.   STEEL MILLS AFFECTED

Next Move Is Ickes’ In New Coal Strike  UMW Claim They A Willing To Work   UMW Claim They Are Willing To Work ‘Under Gov’t Control; “WLB Attacked Aaain

MNNERS LOOK TO GOVT FoR NEXT ORDERS   Thousands Idle Under “No Contract” Policy but Would Work.   OPERATIONS MIGHT BE RESUMED UNDER ICKES

Decisive Action From Government ls Again Awaited   Lewis Has Rejected WLB Proposal as Yellow Dog Contract

Tie-Up Complete In Coal Industry   Production Stalled Again as  500,000 Miners Quit Work   STEEL OUTPUT IS CUT   Work Stoppage Affect: Anthracite « as Well as

300,000 LEAVE PITS IN THIRD WAGE PROTEST   Issue Up To Sec’y Ickes After Collapse Of  Negotiations   SEEK GOV’T CONTROL   No Possibility of Agreement Exists, Operaators Say

STRIKING MINERS EXPECT GOVERNMENT TO GIVE WORK CUE  SECRETARY ICKES AS MINE BOSS LOOKED TO SETTLEMENT MATTER

THIRD WALKOUT WITHIN 60 DAYS, CAPITOL MUM   Hold Door Open for Speedy Resumption of Operations Under Ickes

COAL MINERS STALLED FOR THIRD TIME   Bituminous And Anthracite Pits Affacted

MINERS EXPECT GOVERNMENT 10 MAKE DECISION   Next Move Up to Ickes At Latest Negotiations Bog Down

COAL MINING STOPS; MINERS GO ON STRIKE   Half Million Miners Look to  Government as Their Contract Expires.   Next Move Appears Up To Sec’y Harold Ickes

y Away From Jobs As Truce Ends   Miners Await Cue m Government To Halt Walkout

Mines Idie, *No Comment — From Ickes   Next Move Appears to Be Up to the Federal Fuels Administrator   MAY SEE MINE COMMITTEE TODAY   Union Asserts Willingness y of Workers to Carry on for Goverument

HALF MILLION EN QUIT PITS FOR PAY BOOST   Reject What They: Ter m “Infamous Yellow Dog Contract” Proposed by  War Labor Board .   DOOR KEPT OPEN -TO END WALKOUT   Next Move Appears Up to Secretary of Interior Ickes, In Charge Fed-. eral-Operated Mines _

Next Move Seems To Be Up To Ickes   Miners Policy Committee Assails War Labor Board, But Assert Willingness To Work for Government—Term WLB Proposal “Yellow Dog Contract”’

COAL MINES ARE IDLE; MOVE BY ICKES AWAITED   Miners Quit Work, Rejecting “Yellow Dog Contract; Door Open For Speedy Resumption Of Work Under Gov ernment Direction.

Operators Stand Pat On Issue OF  ‘Underground Pay   Miners Reject ‘Yellow Dog Contract” Proposed by WI.B, Again Invohe No Contract, No Work Policy.

Miners Idle Again; Negotiations Fail: Government to Act   Next Move Up to Sec.  ___of Interior Ickes — in Washington

Miners Of Nation Again Quit Work   U.S. War Machine Stalled As Coal Miners Walk Out Third Time In Three Months

NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTRACE FALL THROUGH      Men Invoke “No Contract, No Work” Policy, but. Indicate They Will Return on Orders From. Ickes,

Willing To Work  For Government   Door Held Open For A Speedy Resumption ° Of Work   NEXT MOVE UP TO SECRETARY ICKES

Coal Miners To Refuse To Work   ANOTHER WALKOUT IN NATION’S MINES UNDERWAY

Reject Labor Board's Proposals, Calling Them ‘Infamous’   Workmen Walk Out Under Claing They’ve No Contract And Won't Work Without One; Negotiations With Operators Collapse Again; Third Recent Stoppage

500,000 Miners Out; Next Move Said Up To Ickes   Lewis Invokes “No Contract, No Work” Policy As Negotiations Collapse

Nation's Miner: Again Stop Work When Truce End:   Next Move In Dispute Put Up To Government By Union

New Coal Mine Truce Put In Ickes’ Lap   Miners Quit Work But Door Open For Speedy Resumption

Coal Mines Stalled, New Strike Opens   Next Move Up To Government: Resumption  Of Mining Is Expected Soon

NO CONTRACT NO WORK POLICY IS MINERS’ REASON   Workers Look To Government  To End Dispute

Next Move in Mine Controversy Said  To Be Up To Ickes   Interior Secretary Cancels Projected Trip to Columbus to Receive Union Representatives Durina Dav   WAR LABOR BOARD ASSAILED BY COMMITTEE

Contract Proposal Of WLB Rejected By Union Leaders   Conferences With Operators Foid; ‘No Possibility of Agreement? Under Demands. Say Pit Owners

MINERS AWAIT     aia CAPITOL   Lewis Rejects WLB Propesal as “Yellow Dog Contract”

Tie-Up Complete In Coal Industry   Production Stalled Again as 500,000 Miners Quit Work   STEEL OUTPUT IS CUT   Work Stoppage Affects Anthracite as Well as Soft Coal Mines

500,000 Miners  Idle   UMW Rejects WLB  Contract, But Offers to Continue Work Under Government Operation

UMW 1S WILLING TOGO T0 WORK FOR U.S. ITSELF   Lewis and Unionists Invoke “No Contract, No Work” Policy Again

LABOR BOARD PROPOSAL REJECTED   Lewis And Mine Workers Invoke “No Contract, No Work” Policy Third Time In Two Months

MW Offers 0 Work for overnment   Nation's Third Walkout Results As Truce Ends

Board Is Ordered To Defer Farm Workers   Anyone Now Employed In Agricultur. al Work Must Be Put In Class H.C, Says State Board

SUB MENACE ~ CHARGE MADE   LABORITE MEMBER OF PARLIA. MENT. SAYS “EXTENT OF ~ VOssEs NOT BEING RE- . - VEALED °<.

HIDE-OUT IN SWITZERLAND SOUGHT BY NAZI BIGGIES BRITISH PARLIAMENT TOLD

HUNTS WAY OUT   Von Ribbentrop Reported Seeking Villa in Switzerland.

JU-MINUTE LINE Ut GIG PLANES PASota UOAGT   Daylight Raiders Follow Up Crushing Night Assault On Freidrichshafen

Nazi War Plants In Belgium Will Be Bombed By U.S. And British Planes

‘Point’ Buvi ing Runs Smoothly   Purchases Light as Shoppers Experiment With Ration System

Point Rationing Opens Smoothly.  Buyers Cautious   Shoppers Experiment And Purchases Light, Many Merchants Report

POINT RATIONING GETS FIRST TEST   MERCHANTS OVER NATION REPORT NEW SYSTEM IS WORKING SMOOTHLY.

Housewives Find Point Rationing Works Smoothly   Initial Test Meets with Little Criticism in Nation

Governors Plan Lobby to Fight Federal Bureaus   Ohio Conference OF State Chiefs Comes to Close

Governors Seek to Strip Federal __ Bureaus of Administrative Powers

Governors Plan  To End Bureaus Move Said Aimed at   Move Said Aimed at Non-Political Ones Given Federal Aid

State Rights Held Periled   Governors’ Lobby To Fight Bureaucracy

Governors Will Lobby For Bill To Cut Down  Federal Bureaus’ Power

Report Nazi Armies Sent To Bolster Axis Defenses  In Greece; Reich Nervous

HITLER ot NO MORE TRONS INTO GREEGE   Invasion - Fearful Germany Vainly Attempts To Stop Gaps In Its Defenses

ATTACK AS  i REDS  ASION HITS   ir Offensive gainst Italy ontinues

VITAL CONTACT POINT OF AXIS BADLY LASHED   Italians Acknowledge Heavy Destruction In ‘Saturation’ Assault   Biggest U.S. Raid

Tunisian Coast Port Of Sfax Is Heavily Bombec  Greatly Damaged I Most Powerful Americar Bombings Yet Reported

PORT OF SFAX BLASTED HARD BY AMERICANS   Place Badly Damaged In Heaviest Yank Attack So Far

U.S. Bombers Blast Axis  Port of Sfax   Attack Reportedly Is Heaviest in North Africa

Allied Bombers Blast Axis Port   British Artillery . ’ Pounds At Rommel!

PORT IN TUNISIA BOMBED BY SWARM OF U.S, PLANES   American Airmen Make Heaviest Attack of War in North Africa Against Axis-Held Sfax.   DIRECT HITS START BIG FIRES ON DOCKS   Rommel’s Rearguard Under British Artillery Fire—Big Guns of Fleeing Army Replying.

Allies Ad To  Avert Merger  Of Axis Forces Heaviest Damage of   Heaviest Damage of African Campaign Results From Raid

U.S. Air Unit Hits Axis Port In Biqgest Raic   ‘Saturation’ Assault On Sfax Causes Heavy Damage; British Artillery Pounds Rommel’s Rear Guard; Big Guns Reply

Axis Port of Sfax Hard Hit by Yanks   Most Powerful Raid Yet Delivered by Americans in Area

Nazis Again Attack in Kuban Regior   Soviets Repulse German Force With Heavy Losses

OPERATORS AND MINERS IN STATE CONTINUE TALKS   Fear National Strike Again Over Fines

ILLINOIS MINERS NEGOTIATE FOR SEPARATE PACT   CONTINUE TALK ON BASIS OF DAILY $1.50 PORTAL RATE

LEWIS CLAIMS UNION FAVORED BY PAY DECREE   Miners’ Leader Holds Mine Workers Wages Come Under President's Sub Standard Term   OWNERS DISPUTE IT   Express Approval 01] Freeze Order; Conferences for Working Con tract Still Deadlocked

MINE WAGE PARLEY RECESS   Miners, ~ Operators Still Deadlocked After Month

NIMITZ SAYS US. WILL DRIVE WEST DIRECT 10 JAPAN   Predicts Pulverizing Day and Night Offensive Against Emnire.

No Blueprint For Landon         Uryes U.S. Make Only: General Statement Of — Broad Post-War Aims

303 Iowans Among Missing   ‘lowe List Largest In 797 Casual ties Reported.

FOUR MAJOR MONEY BILL   Criticizes Failure to Maintain Crop Insurance

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper Byndiczte   WASHINGTON  ey ee He tee

James Martin,  Coal Man, Dies   Former Mines Inspector Was Native af Seatlend

US. WARSHIPS AGAIN SHELL SOUTH ITALY   Planes Batter Rail Lines Near Naples

Vessels Hit Off Scalea   Bombers Blast Railway Yards In District Around Naples

Seven Enemy Landing Craft Sunk Off Scalea—Great Land Firas Raging.

WARSHIPS BLAST AXIS POSITIONS   Hit Posts in “™  Gulf of Gioio, Southern Italy

AMERICAN SHIPS ~ BOMB GIOIA FOR SECOND OCCASION   British Naval Force: Destroys Seven Enemy. Landing Vessels 110 Miles South‘east: of Naples.”   AXIS ESCAPE CORRIDOR GREATLY BOMBED   Danish Cabinet Makes Appeal to People To Refrair From Jeopardizing Admisistration.

Allied Planes, Ships Pounding Communications   Railroads Main Target With Some Barges Sunk Off Italy Coast

J. §. WARSHIPS START FIRES IN NEW ATTACK   British Sink Landing Craft as Allies Down 14 Enemy Fighters.

AXIS POSITIONS IN GIOIA GULF ARE HIT TWICE IN 36 HOURS   British Navy Sinks 7 Axis Landing Craft Off Scalea, South ~ Of Naples

U.S. MARINES PUSH INLAND 0 NEW BRITAIN   Situation Around Cape Gloucester  “Wellin Hand”

MARINE FORCES TAKE KEY POINT «ON NEW BRITAIN   Knox Reveals Destroyer @ and Transport Lost at Cape Glouster

Marines Battle Way Inland On  Cape Gloucester   Allied Campaign Aimed A Big Jap Base At Rabaul Progressing   RESISTANCE GREATER . IN ARAWE SECTOR

ALL MUST CONTRIBUTE   Chairman Calls for Contributions to Victory Scrap Bank

HEAVY ALLIED BOMBING RAIDS SPEEDS EXODUS   Nazi Gov't Seeks Homes For Residents Of  Western Cities   FLEE TO RURAL AREAS   Duesseldorf, Berlin Are Major Towns Being Evacuated

RAIDS DRIVE INHABITANTS FROM CITIES   Mass Evacuation Taking Place As Result Of Raids

Mass Evacuation Of Germans From Bombed Western C ities   Refugees Complain Of Treatment Accorded By More Wealthy: Not Like Hotel Guests

Evacuation Of West Germany Is Under Way   Measures Result From 180 Heavy Raids On Nazi Territory By Allied Airplanes

Newspapers Call Upon Rural Residents to Open Homes to Urban Refugees

Evacuation Of Cities In Western Germany Begun As Result Of Many Allied Air Raids, Papers Declare

Mass evacaution of west German cities under way as result of allied bombings

[Ruhr Blasted Again by RAF As Bomb-Weary Nazis Leave Cities in Western Germany   City-Dwellers Sent Into Country; Syrian-Turkish Border Mysteriously Closed as War Speculation Mount<

PAIN OF BOMBS “ORIVE PEOPLE TO SAFE AREAS   Berlin Papers Ask Residents of Rural Sections to Take Families:   DISCLOSE EVIDENCES OF TWO-SIDED DISCONTENT

OPENING RURAL HOMES TO WAR VICTINS URGED   Hitlers Own Newspaper Calls On Everyone to Crowd Refugees Into Available. Rooms   WARNS OF FURTHER ASSAULTS BY ALLIES   Much-Bombed Duesseldorf Being Emptied of Women and Children; Resentment Reported

DUESSELDORF AND OTHER CITIES ARE BEING EVACUATED   Mass Evacuation of Cities In Western Germany Reported Underway As Result of 180°Heavy Raids By Allied Planes.

RAIDS MAKE GERMANS QUIT “BOMB ALLEY”   Nazi Newspapers Report Mass Evacuation From Western Part of Reich —Dusseldorf a Chief City for Exodus.

Mass Evacuation From Western Germany Due To Raids, Bern Hears   Nazi Press Engaged In Campaign To Induce Rural Residents To Take In Evacuees, Fleeing Before Allied Aerial Pounding.

Mass Evacuation Of Nazi Cities Told  Rural Residents Said Compelled to Open  Homec to Refirqacc

Hoped to Keep Ceremony Secret a en lta Me te llr et A ent  Lana Turner and Stephen Crane Remarry in Ti juana, Vexico

County Ration Board Revised And Enlarged   Fourteen New  Members, Six Old

County Ration Board Revised And Enlarged   Fourteen New  Members, Six Old Ones On Panels’

‘Ht 'Second Front’ Should Explode, ‘Barly in 19442 Congress Expected. To ‘Tit The Lid And Drafl Manpower

MANY CHANGES ON HOMEFRONT APPEAR LIKELY   Military Men Warn Surplus Of Men and Materiel Would Be Used Up Quickly

CHINA DRIVES   Open Attacks in Seven Regions in Hope of Ending Resistance

Japs Attack Chinese In 7 Areas   Apparent Nipponese Hope Is to End Chiang Resistance

JAPS WAR ON CHINESE OVER SEVEN FRONTS   Apparently Hope to End Chinese Resistance by General Offensive to Dissipate Chinese Strength   Drive Began Friday

JAPANESE ATTACKS: OPEN ON 7 FRONTS   Assaults Are Launched in Widely Separated Areas in China

Ja pa nese Open Seve n Drives In Widely Separated Areas [To End. Chinese Resistance ©

Tananese Onen Widesnread Attacks in China  Apparently Seek to Crush Chinese Resistance

Japs Spring Attacks In Hopes of Ending Chinese Resistance   ADVANCE IN SEVEN SEPARATED AREAS   May Aim To Knock China Out of Action Before Allies Can Hel

Jananese Onen Widesnread Attacks in China  Apparently Seek to Crush ob ean

Japs Atfack China Areas   Seven Sectors Hit By Heavy Japanese Drive

JAPS HIT SEVEN AREAS IN CHINA   Drives Intended To Lower   Resistance Of Chinese     Forces

Robert Invites U.S. To Name Martinique Envoy   United States Air Corps Unit In China Celebrates First Year In Large Territory

TINY AIR FORCE WILL CELEBRATI   About To Finish Year Of Operations Against Japanese   EFFECT TREMENDOUC.

France Said On Verge  OF Civil War   Vichy Radio Sounds, Warning To Patriots

SAYS FRANCE IS ON VERGE OF CIVIL WAR      Warning Comes From Vichy Radio, as a Result of New Fliare-Up of Resistance by Thousands of Frenchmen.

Cadets At Western Union College Present Fine Program At Auditorium   Student Council Sponsors Well Balanced Show

O’Conor To Sign Bill Giving Two  Aids To Farmers   Penal Inmates May Be Released For Work Or Sent To Farms.

CAMP MEETING OPENS SUNDAY   Rev. James Gibson of Ft. Thomas Ky., Evangelist—Misses Serrott and Marshall, Song Leaders ..

THREE ENEMY SHIPS SUNK BY U. 5. BOMBERS   Flying Fortresses Send Down Two Jap Cruisers and Destrover

Fortresses Hit Japanese Ships From Low Level   Roar down to Masts o Pacific Cruisers and Destroyers

Home Front News Of Real  Local Interest   Points Of Interest For Shoppers

EMPLOYERS ON FARMS TO GET EXTRA RATION   But That Depends on  Classification.

STATE FLOOD TOLL FEACHES 4 PERSONS      Red Cross Provides Aid for Tornado-Struck Farmers in Shiawassee County

Jaimberton’ “Youth. “Has cen Service in’ Bomb: ing Raids Over. Ger*. many and Was Award. _ ed Air Medal Early This Month.

Lumberton Youth Ilas  secen Service in Bomb. ing Raids Over Germany and Was Awarded Air Medal Karly This Month.

SEES POSSIBLE QUICK VICTORY   Could Win in Less Than Year, Says Halsey

‘More Weight Would Smash Japs   ‘They'll Wish They Died as Babies,’ Admiral Halsey Declares

JAPS CAN BE BEATEN IN 43, SAYS HALSE'   Little More Weight Would Get Job Done Soon, Claim

HALSEY: JAPS” WILL RETREAT   Says Handwriting Is on Wall for Nigponesc

Halsey Sticks to Early Prediction. That Allies Will Win War This Year

JAPAN CLAIMED DOOMED IN YEAR   Japs Just Little Monkeys, Says Admiral, Seeing. Them Retreat

Handwriting On The Wall For Japs, Halsey Says      Admiral Believes If He Had More Weight In Pacific, It Wouldn’t Take A Year To Lick ’Em

Supplies Of Anti-toxin For Botulism Being Made Available To Physicians

Lend-Lease Extended By Congress For Year   President Roosevelt And Russian Ambassador Litvinov Laud Action.

Eighth Week ()f Session Is Concluded   Legislature Well Up With Program, Won't Hold Clock

TWO ON CUTTER TELL OF RESCUE   ‘BOTH CLUNG TO LOG UNTIL PICKED UP AFTER ESCANABA WAS BLOWN UP.

Sailors Tell Of Disaster   Describe Sinking Of Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba

Gillette Calls For Elimination Of Many Agencie:   Senate Leader Says “Hordes of Locusts Are Living Off People’

Gillette Denounces Extravagance on Unnecessary Government Agencies

Gillette Demands Party Clean-Up   lowa Democrat Would End ‘Useless Agencies’

MINE STRIKERS LOSE $2,000,000   PRODUCTION BACK TO 90 PERCENT OF NORMAL; 2400 OUT

COAL PRODUCTION IS ~ OPER CENT NORMAL   Only 2,400 Miners Still Out  On Strike

HARD COAL OUTPUT NEARS NORMAL AS STRIKERS RETURN   Miners Were Demanding Wage Bonus, Cut In Ilsinn Dues

Hard Coal Production Now 90P.C.   Only 2400 Sirikers Still Pledged To Stay Out in War’s Costliest Walkout

PRODUCTION 0} HARD COAL IS NEARLY NORMAL   Only 2,400 Miners Still Out On Strike Today

Coal Mining 90 Per Cent Of Normal   Only 2400 Out Of 23,000 Stmtkerc Seit Ont

Surging Allies [ake New — Bastions; Eternal City’s s ~ Shrines Spared By F. liers

General Movement of Retreat by the Enemy Noted  ITALIANS QUIT QUIT IN. ORGANIZED. GROUPS British Still Bat Battering at the Door of Ca:   Sanit:

General Movement of Retreat by the Enemy Noted  ITALIANS QUIT IN ORGANIZED GROUPS  British Still Battering at the Door of Ca. tania

U. S. and Canadian troops race for Enna after taking two other important towns   British Eighth army on east coast is batterine at doors of Catania

Enemy Said Retreating ito Messina   Vital Centers Are Under Fire of Invading Forces

UCES MEN SURRENDER IN LARGEGROUPS   Allies Push Deeper Into Sicily With Foe Report: ed Falling Back Toward Messina.   EXPECTED TO MAKE STAND AT PORT   Yanks and Canadians Threaten Communications Hub — Catania Battle Still Rages.

AXIS FORCES FALLING BACK UPON MESSINA   BRITISH = BATTERING CATANIA; ITALIANS QUIT IN DROVES

Axians Weaker As Alllies  Gain on Sicily   Communications Center, Big Port, Are Immediate Goals; Prisoner Toll Hits 35,000; Air Battle Is Fierce

Algiers Radio Says Axis Forces Are In General Retreat Toward Messina   BRITISH REPORTED 3 MILES FROM CATANIA

Ten-Mile Drive Gives Americans and Canadians Vital Communications Hub of Enna; Prisoner Toll Rises to 35,000;  Od, deans Nonraor ('ataeta

Enemy Retreating Over Wide Front, Report Indicates   Americans and Canadians Said To Have Reached Enna   Germans and Italians May Make Last Stand at Messina

AXIS TOTTERS IN SICILY AS ALLIES DRIVE   Eighth Army Battering at Catania’s Doors on Eastern  ‘Coast; Enemy Moves in spo Saeaneny   Germans Fight Hard

‘American - Canadian Forces Race ToEnna:Britishat Catania’s Doors   Communications Hub of Sicily Threatened by Allies; Enemy Movement of Retreat; 35,000 Prisoners Taken; Fight to Save Catania «

American and Canadian Troops Rush Towards Strategic Enna; British Batter at Defenses of Catania

Capture Will Cut Axis Supply Line   American And Canadian Traops Making Rapid  Proarece Ac Eighth Army Meete Recietance

Radio Franee Says Enemy F alling Back  On Messina   Americans, Canadians Reported near Enna, Take Caltanisetta  And Piazza Amerina   8TH ARMY BATTERS AT DOORS OF CATANIA

McGREGOR HITS OPA FOR MEAT SHORTAGE   Lists Experiments, Red Tape Reasons; Output Up

14 KNOWN DEAD IN MINE EXPLOSION   10 Bodies Reported Still Underground

CREW TRAPPED  IN MINE BLAST   Explosion 1,500 Feet In Ground Brings Tragedy To Pennsylvania Town

14 Killed In Explosion At Minersville   MOFFETT SHRADER MINE SCENE OF BLAST WHERE RESCUERS WORK FEVERISHLY TO REACH TRAPPED WORKMEN,   Identify Bodies

FOURTEEN DEAD IN COAL MINE BLAST   Four Bodies Brought t« Surface Late Last Night

 Fourteen Killed ‘Rescue Crews Work to Free ‘Miners Trapped After Blast

FOURTEEN DIE IN MINE BLAST   Nine Others Are Injured In Explosion at Minersville, Pa., Today

14 DEAD, NINE HURT IN BLAST AT COAL MINE   DEADLY BLACKDAMP GAS ENDANGERS LIVES OF RESCUE WORKERS

14 Men Killed In Mine Blast   Others Are Injured In Pennsylvania Shaft

FOURTEEN DIE IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION   Nine Other Miners Injured,. One Seriously   Rescue Work Halted Until Fan Is Installed’ -

14 Men Killed In Pennsylvania Mine Explosion   Others Trapped Far Underground

BLAST IN MINE. TAKES 14 LIVES   Nine Others Injured In Explosion In Pennsy]yania Shaft

BLACK DAMP BLAST KILLS AT LEAST 14   Rescue Operations Halted by Heavy Gas

FOURTEEN COAL MINERS KILLED IN EXPLOSION   Some Unidentified Cause Of Blast  Is Unknown

14 Men Killed In Explosion  In Coal Mine   Four Bodies Brought To Surface; Several Suffer from Burns

HOUSE VOTES BAN ON  DOMESTIC OPERATIONS OF ELMER DAVIS’ OW!   Also Votes to Bar Continuance of OPA’s Food Subsidy Program Beyond July ; Cuts Agency's Funds

HOUSE WOULD CURTAIL 0. W.1   Approved Bill Abolishes Domestic Operations As Unnecessary

Yankees Cature Great Naval Base As Capital Falls To British. Remnants of Afrikan Korps Are Being Squeezed Into 800 Square Mile Bon Peninsula.

New Group Of Men Sent To  F ort wbragg  .    °.  Selecteces From Robeson  ~ No. I] Distriet Called for Induction.

TRAIN’S DEATH RUN DESCRIBED   Engineer Makes Frantic Effort To Stop Doomed Penn Road Limited

etngineer Made Frantic Effort to eHalt Doomed Train  “{nquiry Into Wreck   “Inquiry Into Wreck of Congressional . Limited Underway

F.D.R. Reveals Plot Against Allied Leaders   Roosevelt to Make Address to Nation Next Friday

Russions Found Out Nazis Had Planned Assassination  In Firet Prese Conference After Return To   In First Press Conference After Return To Capital President Calls Conference Success

Nazis Planned To Wipe Out Big 3 At Teheran Meet   First Press Confab After Return From Conferences Is Packed With Disclosures  Concerning Hopes And Plans Of Allied Nations

Tunisia Battle Appears to Be  Nearing Climax   Britich Only 15 Miles From Closing Axis Escape Corridor Out of Big Mareth Line

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S TROOPS FIGHT THEIR WAY INTO OUTSKIRTS OF EL HAMMA, 20 MILES FROM GABES.

Jatton's Men Take Town In Surprise Push   ritish Column Outflanking Mareth Line Threatens to Trap Enemy; Offensive is Nearing Climax

Britons Speed Move to Close Trap on Romme   U.S. Ferces Advance Into Fondouk as Third Threat to Foe

Montgomery Unit  Outflanks Mareth  wD ....... .33_ Fk... Dnaskn   Rommel’s Escape Route Cit to 15 Miles

British Columns Knife Into Positions of the Axis  GREAT OFFENSIVE IS IN FULL MOTION  British Smash Back at Forces of Gen. Yon = Aenim

Allied Offensive Is Approaching Climax   Montgomery’s Troops Outflanking Mareth Line Reach Outskirts Of El Hamma;  Patton Surprises Enemy

Allies Gain On Every Main Front   Yankees Take Leading Part in Clamping Pincers on Germans

Rommel Faces Many Attacks  In Tunisia   Climax Believed Near as British and U. 8. ‘Ael Simultaneously.

Allies Roll Back Lines Of Axis. In North Africa   Mareth fortifications practically encircled; Yanks seize Fondouk ; British at El Hania.

ae  25 IN OREGON RACE RIOTS   United States Army In Control Of Wayne, Oaklatid And Macomb Counties; 10 P.M. Curfew   Most Victims Negroes

Army Troops Patrol Detroit Riot Areas, Now Calm  Death Toll Reaches 28, With at Least 700 Other Persons Injured

Detroit Rioting Toll Reaches 28  City Quiet Under [fo Abrprwnr, Daten!

Violence Is Halted In Detroit   Deaths Total 28 Property Loss I; Great

RACIAL VIOLENCE ENDS AS TROOPS PATROL DETROW   Twenty-Four Hours of Rioting Cosis Lives of 28— 1,300 Persons Under Arrest.   STREETS ARE CLEARED OF MOST OF DEBRIS   ‘Saloons Still Closed With Public Gatherings Banned —1,000 Soldiers On Duty.

Troops Keep Strict Order In Detroit      Patrol City’s Streets After Disorders Claim Lives of 29 Persons  74 OF 700 ENJURED STILL IN HOSPITALS

Rioting Subsides in Detroit Area Regular Troops   Regular Troops Patrol! Streets

Racial Strife Ends as Troops Patrol Detroit   Soldiers Will Stay indefinitely; Death Toll Reaches 29: 1.300 Under Arrest

CITY 1S QUIET AS SOLDIERS STAY ON DUTY      Calm Restored in Detroit After 24 Hours of Racial Conflict

Federal Troops Restore Calm In Arsenal City  Death Toll 28;   Death Toll 28; 700 Injured After Detroit Riots ™

DETROIT RIOT SQUELCHED BY TROOP PATROL   CALM IS RESTORED; 1,300 ARRESTED, 28 DEAD

Troops to Remain On Guard Against Detroit Riots   City Reported Quiet As Army Forces Patrol Streets

Detroit Rioting Toll Reaches 28   City Quiet. Under U.S. Army Patrol!

Calm Restored in Detroit With Soldiers in Streets: Death Toll in Rioting 28

Detroit Riots End as Dead Mounts to 29   U. S. Troops Patrol City Under Shooting Orders

Troops Patrol Detroit Area To End Rioting   29 Reported Killed, 700 Others Hurt In Racial Conflict

[roops Restore Calm in Detroit After 24 Hours  Of Race Rioting   Death Toll Mounts to 29 with 700 Injured; 1,300 Persons Are under Arrest, Police Report

RACIAL STRIFE SUBSIDES UNDER MILITARY RULE   Troops Will Be On Duty In  Detroit For An In definite Period   DEATH TOLL FROM RIOTING IS NOW 28

RAID TOUGH ONE, YANKS DISCLOSE   U. S. Bombers Reveal Unusually Stiff Opposition From Nazis In Raid On Hamm.

Gen. Von Arnim Is Among 150,000 -Axis Prisoners   Greatest Allied Victory Of War Is Complete With Vast Quantities Of Enemy War Material Captured, Including Serviceable Guns and Planes.

HUGE STORES OF WAR MATERIAL CAPTURED   400,000 Axis Soldiers Taken Since Fighting Began 3 Years Ago

AFRIKA KORPS CHIEF CAUGHT ON PENINSULA   German Veterans, Caught In Steel Ring, Unable To Evacuate Cap Bon -

Inland Stabs Crumble Nazis   GERMAN RESISTANCE NARROWS TO 9-MILE CIRCLE SOUTHWEST OF PENINSULA AS ALLIES CLOSE IN FOR KILL IN WANING AFRICA FIGHT

Von Arnim Is’ Captured; All  Resistance Ends   Axis Commander Is aken By Dritisn, y On Cap Bon; Headquarters Reports - Oraanized Fighting Has Halted

Nazi General Von Arnim Taken Prisoner   Total of 150,000 Enemy Troops Captured by Allies

Convoy’ ‘Escort Sinks'4 Subs, Probably Sinks 6 Others In Eight-Day Running Fight

FOUR U-BOATS SUNK IN CONVOY: BATTLE   Signal Success Against ’ Axis Submarines Announced

Convoy Guard Sinks Four Axis U-Boats   Fight Eight-Day Sea Battle With as Many as 25 Subs

Allies Sink Four, Probably 10, U-Boats in Wolf Pack   British Admiralty Tells of Fierce, Kight-Dav Running Battle With Foe

ENDORSES MOVE TO ABOLISH OPA   Senate Suggests Division of It Powers, Less of Rationing

Ferguson Moves.  To Abolish OPA   Would Give All Ration Work To Other Boards

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Terrific Striking Power yy Red Army Amazing ‘eature Of War

SOVIETS REVEAL STRIKING POWER   Reds Demonstrate Value Of Artillery, Infantry Mass Attacks

AUDITOR POSTPONES PATRONAGE MEE   Ferguson Will Wait to “Se What Happens”

FERGUSON DELAYS PATRONAGE MEETING   Postponement Not To Alter Charges Against Jones

Other Enemy Vessels Damaged Remainder Flee   Japs Giving Up S. Kolombangara; U.S. Troops on Island

Australians Hold Firm In Jungle Fight   Repeated Enemy Fronta Attacks Northwest © Finschhafen Fail   BATTER AT TRAP   Delaying Action Is Beinc Fought By Japanese On Huon Peninsula &

Aussies Hurl Back Japs in Guinea Attack   Trapped Nipponese Rattle Fiercely to Force Openings to Sea

JAPS ROUTED IN JUNGLES OF NEW GUINEA   Allied Airmen Raid Enemy Shipping on Whole Pacific  fran:

Aussies Stop Jap Attacks At Finschhafen Base   Believe Enemy Is Trying To Extricate Trapped Forces

AUSSIES HURL JAPS BACK IN THE JUNGLES   Heayy, Fighting, ages on Huon “Péninsula

Jap Attacks in. Pacific Repulsed By Australians   Fierce Fighting Jo Reported Raging On Upper Huon.

JAP ASSAULTS AIMED 10 SAVE TRAPPED FORCE   Nips Employ All Jungle Tricks, But Held To Small Gains

ATTACKS’ BY JAPS NEAR FINSCHHAFEN CURBED BY AUSSIES   Seasoned Troops’ Able Ta Hurl Back Enemy In New Guinea, Jungle !

IN GOMEL REGION   Russian Guns Shell! Narrow Escape. Corridor   NAZIS FLEE TOWARDS ZHLOBIN RAIL POINT

Soviet Guns Blast Nazi Escape Path   Gap From Gomel Brought Under Heavy Ariillery Fire

Russians Advance Twelve Miles In Single De; In Effort To Clon Trap On Nazis

RAIN DEATH ON TEMILE WIDE ESCAPE ROUT   Disorderly Rout from Gome! Marked by Abandoned German Arms.

GERMAN DEFENSES ARE, COLLAPSING WEST OF KIEV   Moscow Says Powerful Offensive Has Liberated 1300 Towns and Villages.

GERMANS RACE TO ESCAPE TRAP: NORTH OF COME!   Soviet Advances May Liberate Third of White Russia. Row.

SOVIET TROOPS SPEED TOWARD ZHLOBIN BASE   Nazis Abandon Arms, Blow Up Bridges in Panicky Retreat Move

Germans in Panicky Retreat Across the Ukrainian Flatlands.  13-HUNDRED TOWNS, 300,000 MEN TAKEN Nazis Abandoning City of  Zhitomir in Furious Battle.

Soviet Guns Span Slim Escape Gap   - Disorderly Flight Marked by Blasted Bridees,; Equipment

GERMANS SEEK TO FLEE TRAP IN GOMEL AREA   Reported Blowing Up Bridges, Sowing Thousands  . Of Mines

German Troops Flee From Gomel  Toward Zhoblin   Artillery Fire Spans 19-Mile Corridor Between Jaws of Trap

RED ARMIES ADVANCE ON RAT CENTER   Repulse Nazi Counter Attacks and Free Many More Villages: Closing White Russia Escape Cor rAAT.

Five Main Manpower  Sources Drawn Upor  Pre-War Fathers Also Be ing Taken By Boards

FIVE MAIN SOURCES FOR DRAFT QUOTAS   Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Are Being Called To Colors In Increasing Numbers — In Pennsylvania

Ruhr Virtually Military Zone   Nazis And Italians Show Much Concern  By THOMAS F. HAWKINS  Bo ee ws mba Dwacrn Gbahs Ul eitne

Ruhr Is Virtual Military Zone   Nazis Worried Over  _ Air Offensive

Ruhr Virtually Military Zone   Nazis And Italians ~ Show Much Concern

4 Russian Armies Pursue Germans   Drive Shattered Nazi Forces West From Dnieper Line   CLOSE TO DISASTER   Position of Germans Along 200 Mile Front Grows _  Worse

Italy Seems Likely to Stay in War   Peace Rumors Lack Sound Basis; Truce Is Distant

Separate Peace Rumors Appear To Be Unfounded   Believed Likely To Bob Up from Time to Time for Duration

DRE MINCRS DEMAND 40-HOUR WORK WEEK   Birmingham Mass Meeting Adopts Resolution

Sundown Pipeline Approved By WPB   Work To Start In October On 54,000-Bbt.  lL ine From Slauahter Field To Drumwright

Sundown Pipeline Approved By WPE   Work To Start In October On 54,000-Bbf.  line Fram ClaAriahtar Crelet oe Me ccc cet clog

.. © Was Diller Uver Pelplessticite.=  Bataan Revenge Means Long, Bloody Trail

Latin America “New Deal” Hit By Senator   Butler, After Survey, Calis Plan Waive, Badly Co-ordinated

BUTLER SCORES NEW DEAL POLICY ON LATIN AMERICA   Senator Charges Adminis. tration Program Backs DMictatarchine

SENATOR OPPOSES ROOSEVELT DEAS FORO, AMER!   Butler Declares Program {s Naively Conceived and Badly Coordinated, May Cause New War.   GIVES COMMITTEES REPORT ON LONG JOURNE)   Expenditures of Money As sisted In Preventing Coun tries From Becoming Cen ters For Axis.

LEGIONHEARS ADMIRAL KING   Get First-Hand News on Fleet; Elect New. * Commander

KING DISCUSSES OFFENSIVE PLAN   Admiral Tells Legionnaires Mighty Attacks to Be Aimed at Jeps

Shattering Blows Against Enemy Being Struck, Savs Admiral.   SPEAKER GIVEN MEDAL

Overwhelming Assault Is Aim Of Navy, Admiral King States   Tells Legion Convention Blows With Every Available Weapon Are Planned

Emphasis On Planes And Unity   Admiral King Declares Navy Is Air-Minded, But Team Work Is Essential   WILL STRIKE HARD WITH ALL WEAPONS   Attacks on Japs So Far Only the Shape of Bigger Blows To Come

Shattering Blows Against Enemy By All Possible Means Promised By:King

Shaffering Blows. Planned By Navy   King Tells Of Things To Come

King Promises. New Naval Blows Emphasizes Air: Arm:  In Report To Legion: On Navy's: Strateay

NAVY PROMISES STRONG BLOWS   Admiral King ‘Stresses Ai Arm In Legion Address

IMPORTANCE OF NAVY’S AIR ARM   Tells American Legion Convention Marcus, Gilbert Raids ‘Shape af Things to Come’

SHATTERING BLOWS  AGAINST ENEMY If  AIM OF U. 5. NAVY ADMIRAL KING TELLS  LEGIONNAIRES OVERWHEI MING ASSAULTS DU

ADM. KING TELLS,,LEGIONNAIRES OF THE NAVY’S AIM:   Declares Shattering B d ows Against the Enemy. Will Be Delivered With Ali Wesp: ous Available H

SAYS NAVY TO SHATTER JAPS   Fleet Chief King Tells Legion of Planned Assaults

AIRCRAFT WINNING WAR SAYS KING   Legion Men Hear Stirring Address on Aims of U. S. In World War   UNITY AND TEAMWORK

Navy Plans Heavy Blows, Lesion Told   Admiral king Points Tc Increased Might Of U. S. Sea And Air Forces In All Sectar<

PROGRAM OF NAVY SET FORTH BY KING   Admiral Tells Legion Convention Of Shattering Blows Against Enemy

Navy Aims At Heavy Blows   Adm. Kiag Emphasizes Growing Navy Air Arm

Price Fixing Charges Made Against American Refractories Institute

ALL 67 COUNTIES MEET BOND QUOTA  Chairman Praises Patriotic Citizens

Alabama Met Its Quota’ of $119,360,000 In The. Third War Loan Campaign _

‘Union of Machinist: Severs AFL Ties Following Dispute   30-Year Jurisdictional Row Ends For Unit With 565,000 Members; Sten Effective Monday. Save Chief

Machinists. Withdraw From AFL   More Than: Half Million Quit After 30 Year Row

MACHINISTS TO BREAK WITH AFI   565,000 Members of Union  - Will Withdraw Because of foriedieting Raw

BLACK MARKET [5 BLAMED FOR REBIRTH CATTLE RUSTLING   PRICE CEILINGS AND RATION BOOKS WOVEN INTO AFFAIR ALSO

Many Traffic Accidents, Bul Few Iniuries.   Highways Reported Dangerous in Many Sections; Moisture Hailed as Blessina

State Roads Blanketed By  "ee and Snow   Highway 66 From Miami to Bristow Coated With Inch or More of Ice, Patrol Reports.

ALLIED AERIAL SORTIES TOP 1000 IN DAY   Squadrons Attack All Over Tunisia, kastern Mediterranean

Allied Ground Forces Active  in All Sectors Against Nazis; _ No Major Clash Is Repcrted

More Than 1000 Separate Air Sorties   Intercent Axis Convoy of  Ships and Planes

Stimson Praises  Allied Air Power   Recent Conquests Prove Our Planes, Pilots Better

Allies Excel in Use NF ALOT fas am Cs aki Tat vith it mearatiiniii

‘Stimson Says Allies Have Proved Soe in Pilots, Planes And Knowledge of Proper Use

Stimson Says Allies Excel Axis In Knowledge Of How To Use Air Power

200 Red Bombers Hit Nazi Base   Isterburg Left In Flames By Air Raid

BELIEVE NAZIS HAVE ABANDONED DRIVE IN NORTHWEST CAUCASUS AFTER BIG LOSSES

200 SOVIET PLANES RAID EAST PRUSSIA   Heaviest Long-Range Attack Of War ‘Left Target Mass Of Flames

REPORT EARTHQUAKE NEAR PUERTO RICO   Quake, Recorded on Seismograph, Believed to Be ‘Destructive.’

Quick Action Is Predicted   Investigation Bill Of Governor Kerr Sent to Committee

Kerr Measures To Get Speedy Action Monday  House Studies Bill Assessing Penalties For Prostitution

Legislative Group Named to Formulate  Soldier-Aid Program   Illinois Assembly Shows It Wants to Provide Help for Veterans

Murderers at Penal Colony Aid Survivors of U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk in Indian Ocean

Nazi Troops Ordered to ‘Raze Kiev   Reds Move To Encircle Big Bastion

Russian Forces /Plinge Westward In White Russia   Report Says Red Troops Have Burst Into Suburbs Gf Gomel   BATTLE OF KIEV RAGES FURIOUSLY

World May Be Sure France Will Rise Again and Become Power---Churchill

Prime Minister in Address Delivered Tuesday After. moon at Quebec Says That Nation Will Again Be a Free and Independent Power—Unstinted Tribute Paid to Canada for Part  Taken in the Wap. .

CHURCHILL SAYS. - FRANCE T0 RISE IN WORLD AGAIN   Prime Minister Adds Reason tor Reds’ Absence At Contah_

WINTER LINE OF NAZIS 1S REACHEL   More \ll-Fates For Germans Discussed, Big Break !s Being Predicted.

ALLIES IN SIGHT OF NEW HITLER ‘WINTER’ LINE   Advance 25 Miles To Seize Towns Overlooking The Sanero

British Pound Ahead. On *  25-Mile’ “Front “To” Capture New Towns  8TH ARMY PUSHES ON Reports State One-Third Of Italy Cleared  - Of Germans

Howard Hughes Hurt As Flying Boat Falls One Dead, Four Hurt  In Nevada Accident

MORTON-MANSON ~ WEDDING TODAY   Ceremony Performed by Dr. . Zuehl at Union Church

B7 000 MILITARY AIRPLANES BULLI   United Nations May Reach Production of 160.000 During Year's Time.

Russia Representation   Chile Cabinet Resigns as Rios Takes Reins

Nazi Raiders Bomb Hostel   Five Killed and 12 Injured in Attack Before Dawn on British Town

FDR, Churchill, Stalin Meeting In Middle East, Connally Says   Senate Foreign Relations Chief Bares Parley in Radio Talk

London Star Says Ulti-matum Drawn Up At  _ Parley That Has Now Taken Place In Middle East. No Official Report Yet.

QUIT Oh Ole CALLED FINAL WORD TO Ft   Connally Says Meeting : Taking Place; May Be at Tabriz, Persia.

"GIVE IN OR DIE” CHOICE FOR GERMANY   That's Rumored Result of Big Parley Between F.R., Churchill, Russia's Joe Stalin.

Expect “Surrenderor Die’ Ultimatum  Will Go to Berlin   Europe Speculates on Conference of ‘Big Three’ in Persia

Ultimatum Is Planned For Germany  Ceiana Panmkbasamanm   Second Conference Telling Nazis Quit War or Die

LONDON SAYS “BIG THREE" IN SESSION   Sen. Connally Announces Meeting Of Great Significance Being Held: Location In Doubt

Nazis F: acing An Ultimatum   Tri- Power Chiefs Draft Demand For Surrender Or Be Destroyed

Conference May Draft Demand * For Surrender:       Total Destruction . ; By Bombing Would: Be Alternative

London Predicts Nazis Will Receive Ultimatum From "Big Three” Meet

Senator Connally Describes  Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchili Parley of “Para- mount Significance” .   CAPITAL, LONDON ~ -DISCRETELY SILENT   Turkey Dispatches Say Germany. Must. Surren-. der Or Be Bombed  to Destruction

ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY IS PREPARED   Big Three Conference Is Drawing Up a “Give in or Die” Edict.   Stalin Is at Parley me With FDR, Churchill

ALLIES READY 10 CRUSH REICH WITH SHUTTLE BOMBING   Roosevelt, Churchill one Stalin Reported at Tabriz, lran

Russia May Grant Bases   Promise of Freedom May. Speed Nazi Fall

Discreet Silence Is Maintained In Capitals of Allies   Report That Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Are In Iran  Drawing Up Demends for Hitier and Satellites Unconfirmed   "BIG THREE’ DECLARATION IS EXPECTED SOON

Itimatum Is lanned or Germany   Second Conference Telling Nazis Quit War or Die

FINAL, WARNING READY, LONDON PAPER REPORTS   Sen. Connally Claims Another Great Meet  Now in Session

ig 3 Ultimatum:  GIVE IN OR DIE   A German Surrender Ultimatum Reported Drawn Up In Iran   ‘Gen. Connally Quoted.

Iran Conference ‘Under Way Say London Reports   Officials Silent About Parley on War in Europe

Report Allied Chiefs Draw ‘Final Decree   London Star and ~ Tom Connally  Give News on Iran Conference

"GIVE IN OR DIE” ULTIMATUM CLAIMED READY FOR GERMANY  ROOSEVELT, STALIN.   ROOSEVELT, STALIN. CHURCHILL CONFERENCE REPORTED UNDER WAY

BIG 3 DRAWING UP ULTIMATUM FOR GERMANY      Washington, Landon Maintain Silence on Historic Meeting

London Hears Of 3 Way Conference   British Press Reports “Give h or Die" -Uutimatum to Nazis   “IN THE MIDDLE EAST”   Much Newspaper Speculation on the Important ~ Meeting of Group 

London Report Allied Chiefs In Historic Parley   Stalin Conferring With FDR And Churchill, >: Says British Press

Rumor Parley of Big Three Nearing Close   Continental Radios Busy; Allied Capitals Discreetly Quiet

EXPECT PEACE ULTIMATUM T0 NAZI RULERS   Conference Of Big Three May End Today

Big Three’ May Be Drafting Ultimatum  To Germany   Istanbul Claims Meeting Being Held At Tabriz, Iran

Nazis May Be Given Chance To End War   Terrific Bombings Likely to Be New Allied Threats

Give In Or Die Ultimatum For Nazi Leader:   Londo Star Says Stalin. Churchill. Roosevelt At War Parlev.   CONNALLY GIVES NEWS

Final Warning Drawn Up By Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill, British Capital Newspaper Declares— Middle East Conference Termed “Of Paramount Significance” By Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Connally—Officialdom Silent

‘GIVE IN OR DIE ULTIMATUM’ 10 BE GIVEN NAZIS   Senator Connally Says “Big 3” Conference of Paramount Importance

Give in or Die Terms Given Nazis   British Newspapers Print Axis ‘and Neutral Reports of Meeting Between’ FDR, Churchill and Stalin

Big Three In Historic Confab May Plan Nazi Squeeze From All Points

London Says “Give In Or Die” Order Drown For Nazis At Big Conference

Quit or Die, Nazis  ToBeTold   Rig Three’ Reported Drafting Final Warning in Iran

CONFERENCE IS HELD Al TABRIZ, IRAN   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Meeting Near Russian Caucasian Border,

ORDER DRAWN WP BY BlG-3   First Definite News of Great Conference Given By 2. S. Senator.    MEET IN MIDDLE EAST

Big Three Reported Drafting an ‘Ultimatum Demanding Nazis Give Up Or Be Totally Destroyed by Bombing

European Radios Say Big Three In  Confer “ence   Berlin, Via Lisbon, Reports Decision Will Be Announced Before Nichtfall

Draft Surrender - Or - Die DemandOnNaziGermany   Anglo - American Aerial Fleets In Russia Would Back Up Threat

Some U. 8. Observers Belie Three Statesmen May Enfot Threat By Basing Anglo-Am ican Air Fleets In Russia E Bombing   REPORT ULTIMATUM UNDER PREPARATI(

termany to Be Stripped of All War Gains, Say Turkish Advices   ‘EKOPLE TO BE FREE   to Enslavement of Popu. lation Contemplated, Is London Belief

Paper Says “Big 3” Complete “Give In or Die” Ultimatum   London Star Asserts Demand Upon Reich Agreed On by Churchill, Stalin and F. D. R. _--Connally Reports Parley in Progress.

Ultimatum ’To Germany Is Indicated   Yield - Or - Die Demand Declared To Have Been Drawn Up At Parley.

Surrender Or Die To Be Ultimatum For Nazis, Belief   Allies May Assure Ger. mon People Of Mercy To Come

Conference Being Held At Tabriz?   British News Agency Re port Received from Turk ish Source

RUSSIAN BASES SEEN AS TOPIC OF CONFERENCE   Chiefs Framing Ultimatum?

Reports Circulate Of Big Three Meet   London Paper Says ‘Give In Or Die’ Ultimatum Drawn

BRITISH PRESS SAYS ~ ALLIED ULTIMATUM TO NAZIS DRAWN UF   Paper Reports Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill Meeting Has Taken «Place   CONNALLY ‘REVEALS’ NEWS

FDR, STALIN AND CHURCHILL MEET   London Star Says ‘Give in 01 Die’ Ultimatum to Germany Prepared

Allies May Base Planes In Russia   Bombing of Reich To Destruction, Seid To Be ‘Big 3‘ Threat

“Do or Die” Ultimatum To Nazis   London Star Says Declaration Drawn: Up By Big Three in Conference in Tran

Conference Of Leaders Held   MANY REPORTS BEING CIRCULATED ON MEETING

ULTIMATUM TO GERMAN DRAWN UP   ‘Give In Or Die’ Decision At Big Conference

EXPECTED AT PARLEY   ‘Big Three’ Drafting 9 Ultimatum At Meet In Iran, Belief

WORLD HEARS BIG THREE IN IRAN OUTLINING AIMS   MAY CALL FOR NAZI SURRENDER UNDER PAIN OF DESTRUCTION

“Give In Or Die” Reported Backbone Of Big Three’s Text   Speculate On Scene Of Meeting; Silence Maintained By Officials; Connally Sees Parley Most Vital

WITH STALIN, ~ LONDONSAYS   Connally Declares ‘Another Great Conference Is On;’ Official Word Lacking

IS EXPECTED   Continental Reporis Say ‘Big Three’ Will Threaten to Bomb Reich io Destruction   DRAFT WAR AIMS   Jnited Nations Declaration of In tent to Strip Germany of Ail Wa: Gains Forecast

C= dOrDie prea Big Three fo Nazis   Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Draw Up Final Ultimatum to  Hitler's Germany

ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY EXPECTED FROM IC ONEERENCE OF “BIG THREE” ALLIED LEADERS   world by Connally in a radu address from Fort Worth.”

SURRENDER OR ~ BEDESTROVED S NAZI CHOICE   ‘Dispatch from tstanbu! on  dran Conference Carries Approval of British  1 Panenr.

Surrender or Die Ultimatum for Germany Is Seen   Connally Reported To Have Definitely Reported Conference

London Star Says Big Three Draft Nazis’ Ultimatum   Connally Quoted As First to Tell News of Conference

ULTIMATUM 10 NAZIS DRAFTED BY ALLIED TRIO   Possibility Arises Russia May Grant Bases For Shuttle Bombing Fleets

UNOFFICIAL REPORTS SAY THREE ALLIED LEADERS PLAN TO MAKE DEMAND FOR NAZI SURRENDER\      Ultimatum ‘Will ‘Provide for Stripping Germany © War Gains, But Will Give Pledge Against Slav erv. According to Unconfirmed Reports —   3 WAR WRITERS LOSTIN RAID OVER BERLIN   Lowell Bennett, Norman Stockton and A Third Whose Name Is Withheld Are Missing. .

ALLIED PARLEY VOWS TO WIPE OUT GERMANY   Drafts Final Ultimatum Threatening Extinction by Bombing

BIG THREE SAID TO BE DRAFTING. ULTIMATUM      Stalin Leaves Russiar Boundariés for First ‘Time to Confer

FOR, STALIN AND. CHURGHILL IN GONFERENGE   Middle East Site Of Meeting From Which Early Demand For Surrender Coming

May Base Bombers in Russia   ‘Shuttle-Bombing’ Threat Believed New Allied Ace

London Newspaper Reports Ultimatum Drawn Up At The Middle East Conference

Ouit or Die Ultimatum, Is Reported   Another Great Conference Under Way, Connally Says

Ultimatum to Germany Expected   London Star Says Final ‘Give In or Die’ Warning Has Been Drawn   FRAMED AT MEET. : OF TOP LEADERS      Various Sources. Predict Word Soon From Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin 

London Newspaper Says Allied Chiefs to Demand That Germany Surrender

A ‘GIVE IN OR DIE ULTIMATUM IS NOW READY FOR GERMANY   London Star Said RooseveltStalin-Churchill Conference Is Underway.   Some Reports Say at Teheran, Others Says Tabriz, in Russian Military Zone.

According To The London Newspapers  Ultimatum To “GivelIn Or Die” Reported Drawn Up For Nazis At Conference

POLITICAL ANGLE IN FRENCH NORTH AFRIGA PUZZLING   Situation That Confronts Allies Is Potentially One Of The Most

CONSIDER CHANGE IN RUML TAX PLAN   EXPERTS WOULD PUT LOWER BRACKET PAYERS ON A CURRENT BASIS.

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAXES STUDIED   Treasury Officials and Congres sional Tax Experts Discuss Mod ified Rum! Plan

HOURS OF WORK-WEEK,  AB_ SENTEEISM AND OTHER FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED . "AY BEARINGS .

Senate To Start Manpower Probe   Senate Committee To Launch Hearings Into Situation On Monday   SEE ARMED FORCE OF ELEVEN MILLION

Legislators Introduce 19 Measures   Both Houses Plan for Long Week-End Recess

Many Matters Up Before Legislature   Senate Approves All Appointments of Governor Sam Foard

pel fe Votes Approval of 20 Appointees   19 Bills Introduced In Both Branches Of State Legislature

TWO BILLIONS IN BONDS SOLD   Treasury Reports Flying Start in Second War Loan Campaign

REPORTS SHOW BIG RESPONSE IN BOND DRIVE   Treasury Officials. Credit Advertising for Results So Far Attained   MAINE TOWN CREDITED AS FIRST TO HIT QUOTA

Two Billions In Bonds Sold   Effort Put Forth By Nation's Press  Lauded by Treasury

Treasury Reports Fine Response in War Bond Drive   Estimate Returns on Opening Day Will Exceed Two Million Dollars

HEAVY SALES OF WAR BONDS ” REPORTED DURING FIRST 2 DAYS   Tremendous Response Held Traceable to Effort Put Forth by Press of Nation—Expert Advertisina Writerc Donating Servirec

Newspapers Lead Way In Campaign   ‘Eorly Returns Show $13 Billion Mark Easy to Hit

DAY OF BOND DRIVE BRINGS IN 2 BILLION   NEWSPAPERS GIVEN CREDIT FOR BIG RESPONSE

2 BILLIONS IN BONDS BOUGHT   Maine Town Reported To Be First Over Top In Huge Drive

STOCKS PLUNGE $1 T0 $3 A SHARE   HOLDINGS UNLOADED IN WAKE OF ROOSEVELT’S ANTI-INFLATION DRIVE.

Fails to Shake Miami Detective  De Marigny Counsel Fights Fingerprint

Fingerprints in Oakes Case Are Questioned   Defense Charges Detectives Used False Evidence

Defense Charges Detective Planned To Get Fingerprint Being Used In Marigny’s Trial

Attack Made On Marigny’s Fingerprint   Defense Charges Barker Did Not Get Imprint From Murder Screen

THREE BURNED ~ INBLAZING CAR   Bovard Party Trapped After Collision Near Greensburg

U-Boat Menace Solution Sought   U S.-Brazilian Air And Military Chiefs Study Shipping Worry

NATIONS DEBATE U-BOAT MENACE   Brazil and U.S. Discuss Plans to Expedite War Supplies

HELP PROMISED INU. S. HARVEST   Food Administrator Appeals To Farmers To Plant More For Wartime Needs

Promise Farmers Harvest Help :   Food Chief Appeals To Farmers To Plant To The Limit.

Help Promised To Farmers  Davis Urges Them To Plant Larger Crops

FARMERS PROMISED HELP FOR HARVESTS   Government Organizes Coun try’s Latent Labor Power

Davis Says Crops Will Be Harvested   Asks Farmers To Raise More Food

Early Blow On Naziland Seen.   U-Boat-A Day: Goes Down Past 2: Weéles

U-BOATS SENT DOWN AT ONE -A DAY RATE   Malcolm MacDonald Tells of Blows Against Axis Shins

Predicts Allied Assault on Axis In Near Future   ‘Commissioner To Canada Says Preparations Are Well Advanced: U-Boat Knocked Out Each Day For Two Weeks

( -Boats Sunk at Rate of One a Day  Briton Predicts Allied Assault  On Europe in Very Near Future

INVASION SOON 1S PREDICTED   British Official in Canade Declares Preparations  Well Advanced

British Commissioner To Canada Foresees Land Attack Soon  SAYS PREPARATIONS ‘WELL ADVANCED”  Defenses Increased In Italy and France, Switzerland Reports

Early Blow On Naziland Seen   U-Boat-A Day Goes Down Pact 72 Weeke

Assault of Enemy Territory ‘Predicted Soon   U-Boats Being Knocked   Out at Rate of One  Per Day for 2 Weeks

Defense Bill Vetoed, House May Gverride   Speaker Elliott Taking Poll on Reconvening the State Assembly   BELIEVES HOUSE IS FOR THE BILL   Donnell Dislikes Proposed New Civilian Setup; Security Funds Still in Doubt

Civilian Defense Measure Vetoed   Legislators Begin Talking of Passing Bill Over the  Protest.

BLASKOWITZ IN COMMAND   6 —_—_—_—_——— Is Believed to .Be Directing Nazi Land Forces in Italy

BLASKOWITZ IN COMMAND   Is Believed to .Be Directing Nazi Land Forces in Italy

— aoe oe  Repeal Of Anti- Jewish Laws Brings Union Of Free Frenchmen Closer

GUINEA MOP-U)P IS CONTINUING   ‘Solo Raids By U. S. Airmen  On Japs Reported

Jap Resistance Said Dissolving under New Blows   Cont‘nued Wins Reported from Aussies, Yanks

JAPANESE UNABLE TO RESIST FORCE OF ALLIED ATTACK   American And Australian Troops Are Moving Forward At A Rapid Pace

Savage Blows Struck At Japs  In New Guinea   Pockets Of Resistance In Sanananda Area Are Dissolving Under Continued Attacks

JAPS BEING WIPED QUT iN PAPUA   Uu_S., Aussie Eorces Gain in Sanananda Area

Japanese Amboina Base Bombed; Two Ships Hit; 5 Sunk By Submarines

BOMBERS BATTLE JAP INTERCEPTOR   Liberators Bomb Ambonia in East Indies Archipelago; Raiders Shoot Down Four Enemy Planes

Jap Fighters Shot Down In Air Battle   Allies Meet Strong Opposition In Amboina Raid

Four of 12 Jap Fighters Downed In East Indies.   Liberators Encounter Spirited Opposition In Raid on Navol Bas.

Four Of Dozen Japs Downed By Liberators.   Allies Blast Big Nip Base, Causing  Fires FExnlacian

U-Boats Sink 9 Jap Vessel:   American Bombers Raid Kiska Bases 13 Times In Single Day.

FOUR JAP PLANES DOWNED: BY YANKS   AMERICANS ENCOUNTER SPIRITED OPPOSITION IN RAID * ON AMBOINA,

Liberators Bomb Japs’ Amboina Base and Down Four Intercepting Planes   Thirteen Raids in Day on Kiska and New Toll of Enemy Ships by U. S. Submarines  Revealed in Reports From Pacific Area

FERGUSON 10 MEET LEADERS   Auditor Calls Second ‘Rump’ Convention Of Democrats

FERGUSON GALLS. OHIO DEMOCRATS   ‘Rejuvenation Of Demo" cratic Party In Ohio’ To Be Discussed

DEMOCRATS 10 HOLD MEETING SEPT. 13Th   Ferguson Invites All Party Leaders To Session

Now Has 14,072 Vessels, Including 613 Warships, More Than 18.000 Planes

U.S. Navy Fleet Most Powerful In All History  Carries Old Glory On Al Oceans; Fighting Cateaorv ls Listed

Inventory Discloses U. S. Naval Fleet Mightiest Sea Force in World History

Mightiest Fleet  In World History Carries American Flag on All Seas   Total of 14,072 Vessels, 613 of Them Warships in Powerful Armada o' 18.000

Phenomenal Expansion in Three Years Is Reported “Mightiest Fleet and Air Force in History’ Is Now Proud Boast of United States Nav V

Phenomenal Expansion In Last Three Years Reperted By Navy   MORE THAN 18,000 PLANES IN AIR FORCE

U. S. Has Mightiest Surface Fleet In History and World’s Greatest Naval Air Force, Navy Reveals

oD avy - ‘ow “fig ries in ‘Wor ~iscory” wili/éar /.rm Seeing  Dace: “Tas~ Srices in’”1: ‘ee “ears

"FORTRESSES" IN NEW RAID Oh AXIS-EUROPE   Milan Again Pounded; Badoglio Wants Rome Declared Open City

AMA Creates Council to Study Plans For Medical Care Throughout Nation and Will Suggest Policies

U. S. Medical Association Names Group fo Plan for Giving Nation Better Care

REPORT. 15:DEAD IN PLANE CRASH   2 Bombers Collide © Near Newberry, S. Car.

20 U.S. Fliers Reported Killed  In Two Crashes   Midair Bomber Collision In N. C. Is Fatal To 15: Winois Wreck Claims 35

BODY OF MISSING EXECUTIVE FOUND   Wrecked Plane Discovered in Isolated Mountain Section

PIERCE'S BODY FOUND IN HILLS   Mangled Body Of Barium Executive Located  Near Richwood

MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD IN AIRPLANE   James P. Pierce, Chemical Manufacturer, Killed on Flight From Washington.

Allied Planes Take Lead in Heavy Yugoslav Fighting  Partisan Forces Give Stern Resistance

Allied Planes Take Lead in Heavy  Yugoslav Fighting Partisan Forces Give  Stern Resistance To Nazis’ Onslaught

Important Stepping Stone Is Halfway Between Jap Mainland And  Wake Island

MARCUS ISLAND 'S BLASTED BY 1S, WARSHIPS   Only Four Hours Distant From Tokyo By Air And Sea, Japs Warned

Americans In Africa Forget; 3 ay - Other Grief and Boredom By  Mading Through Betiveen Deals   Sand; Mud, Loneliness, At * Less Depressing in. ~ Comparison

Bitter Cold Wave Grips Eastern.U. $  Chill May Cut Down Influenza Epidemic

-SHARP QUAKE IN WEST   Coastal Area Shaken South of Sar ‘Francisco

Quake Rocks Portion Of California   ‘Wiidows Shattered, Plaster Falls From Walls In San Jose

‘SHARP QUAKE IN WEST      Coastal Area SI Shaken South of San Francisco

GERMANS RAID SCOTTISH TOWN   Berlin Radio Names Aberdeen as Site, Expect Heavy Casualties

SCOTTISH TOWN JARRED BY NAZI BOMBING FORCE   Heavy Civilian Casualties Re. ported After Heavy Raid On Aberdeen

GERMAN BOMBERS BLAST ABERDEEN   Heavy Casualties Are Reported From Scotland

ABERDEEN LOSS FEARED HEAVY   German Raiders Strike In Scotland; Many Casualties Indicated.

German Bombers Attack Scottish Town Causing Heavy Civilian Casualties   Berlin Identifies Town As Aberdeen; Many Families Buried Under Debris

TOWN IS HIT HARD   German Bombers Carried ‘ Out a.Raid on Scottish ~ City .

NAZI BOMBS RIP SCOTTISH TOWN   Casualties Feared Heavy Ir Strong Air Raid

Berlin Radio Says A Aberdeen Raided—Many Civilian Casualties Feared in Heavy Attack

TOWN IS HIT HARD   German Bombers Carried Out a Raid on Scottish City

‘German Bombers In Raid On Scotland; British And Russian Planes In Action

Germans Bomb Scotch Town   It Is Feared Heavy Civilian Casualties Were Suffered

N o-Strike Pact Not Necessarily . . Binding, Lewis Says; Hopes No Work Stoppage Will Be Necessary

PLANE STRIKES HOUSE   Instructor Is Killed and Boy, 2, in Living Room Is Injured.

BRAZIL AND US. FAMILY UNITED NN WAR EFFORI   President Vargas Says He and President Roosevelt  Are in Accord.   REPORT CN PARLEY   Dakar and West African Coast Will Never Again Be a Threat.

DHACIL AND Wa. IRMLY UNITED.  i, WAR EFFOR  na... 7;   REPORT: GN PARLEY   Dakar and West African . Coast Will Never Again Be a Threat.

RUSH HOLT LOSES SPECS IN FISTICUFFS   State Senator “Snooks” Winters Takes Issue With Anti-Neely Delegate On House Floor

REDS POISED FOR BLOW ON KURSK NAZIS   After Killing Or Capturing 44,000 Encircled Axis Troops In Continuing Battle Of Annihilation.   63M. of Kharkov

REBELLION DISTRICT PITS ABOUT AT END   Normal Production Expected By Tomorrow—Return Aids Steel Industry

PRESIDENT BACK FROM VACATION ON LAKE HURON   dé Chief Executive Reveals Trip To Canada—His Party Included Hopkins

PRESIDENT ENDS SHORT VACATION TRIP IN CANADA   Navy Officials, Hopkins, Byrnes Along With Roosevelt

FAD.R. RETURNS FROM VACATION   Spent Short Time On North Shore Of Lake Huron

F.R. Back From   Canada Vacation President Accompanied Bw Army. Navy Aides

President Home From a Vacation   Roosevelt Does a Little  Fishing on the Shores of Lake Huron.

FOR Returns From Vacation   Did “Some F ishing” On North Shore of Lake Huron

INation’s Chief Executive Takes Brief Vacation  = On Lake Huron In   Canada           CON FERS WITH HULL \ND CHIEF OF STAFF       anqtives At Resort Interested In 10-Car Special Train For Party of Seven

FDR Is Back From Canada Vacation  President Was Accompanied By Qaveryal Officials

President ‘Home From Vacation   Trip Into Canada Revealed on His Return; Visited on Lake Huron   ACCOMPANIED BY SEVERAL AIDES   ‘Did Not See Anybody to My Knowledge,’ Says His Secretary

President Is Back From Trip To Huron Shore   Chief Of Staff Along On Short Vacation Spent In Canadian Area.

President Returns To White House After Visit To North Shore Of Lake Huron

F.D.R. Back From  Brief Vacation.   President Spent It In Canada On North Lake  Huron Shore.

High Civil, Military and Naval Officers With Him on Vacation Trip

FDR RETURNS FROM CANADA VACATION TRIP   Took Military Aides With Him; Did A Little Fishing

President Baek  From Vacation   Short Visit to Canadian Shores of Lake Huron

ORDER eT  LIQUOR PRICE   New OPA Regulation  Markups Effective August 29

FDR Returns  rom Vacation   President Spends Few Days On North Shore Of Lake Huron In Canada,

F.R. Returns  From Vacation   President and Several Military Aides Take Short Trip to Canad:

Roosevelt Back From Canada  ‘Vacation’ And Not Churchill Meeting

ROOSEVELT HOME FROM SHORT TRIE   Executive, Several Aids Ir Canada Few Days, Some Fishing Was Done.

FDR IN CANADA ON VACATION, HAS RETURNEL   Was Accompanied By Official Staff—tTrip Was Purely for Rest Purposes.

F. R. BACK FROM BRIEF VACATION TRIP TO CANADA   President Takes Short Rest On Shore Of Lake Huron; No Details Of Trip Available.

Roosevelt Returns From Brief Vacatior   President and Aides Fish, Consult on War At Canadian Lake

Roosevelt back from Canada trip   Visit ‘for rest and relaxation’

FDR BACK FROM TRIP TO CANADA   PRESIDENT ENJOYS ‘VACATION’ WITH MILITARY ADVISERS

F. R. Returns From Canada Vacation Stay   PRESIDENT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE AFTER SHORT LAKE TRIP

President Roosevelt Returns Safely From Vacation in Canada, Accompanied by Staff

PRESIDENT BACK FROM VACATION   ‘Chief Executive Spent Short Holiday in Canada, Early  Announces,

Nothing Official About The Trip?   But Personnel Along On “Vacation” Suggests  Different Story

F DR Takes Brief Trip   Snatches Few Days For Vacation On North Shore of Lake Huron

Roosevelt Back From Vacation   Did Fishing While On Canadian Shore of Huron

FOR HOME ~ FROM LAKE TRIP   “Did Not See Anybody to My Knowledge,” Says Secretary

FR Takes ~ Short Trip To Canada   Returns From Vacation  On Lake Huron — No  Official Visits

PRESIDENT BACK FROM VACATION   Accompanied By Staff to North Shore of Huron

FDR Returns From Vacation Trip To Canada   Jaunt Described As Recreation For President

FDR RETURNS - FROM VACATION  SPENT IN CANADA   Trip Apparently Only For Rest and Relaxation

A REST IN CANADA   President Back From Short ‘Vacation on North Shore of Lake Huron

FR. RETURNS FROM CANADA   ‘Trip Appears to Have Been for Relaxation

Pres. Roosev elt In Canada Week On Fishing Trir   Returns To Capital After Trip..To. Lake Huron Island: Catches 5 Bass

President Back From Vacation   White House Announces That President Made Short Trip To Canada

OTANDARD PRlCto FOR MEAT STUDIED   Elimination Of Confusion Objective Of OPA

LOOK FOR NEW MEAT PRICES   Standard: ‘Purchase” Rates _Andicated: To End Con‘fusion.

Fix Standard Meat Prices   OPA Rule Would Put Dollars And Cents Lid On Beef. Veal. Ete.

FINAL TOUCHES ON MEAT PRICES MAY ARON QUT KINKS   Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton Standardized Prices to Be Announced Are Similar to Pork.   APRIL 14 PROBABLE EFFECTIVE DATE   Plan Prevention of Confusion and Checks Any Spread In Further Operation of Black Markets.

Standard Meat Prices Statec   New Rules Expected To Halt Confusion

OPA WORKING OUT NEW MEAT PRICE SCHEDULES   Standardized Prices For Beef, Mutton, Veal, And Lamb Expected to Iron Out Kinks In Distribution

OPA Sets Up New Standard Meat Prices   Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton Included; Pork Prices Start Today

ROMMEL GIVEN FULL COMMAND: KESSELRING OUT   London Reports Southern Front Is Taken Over By Gen. Wittinahaftf.

Rommel Now Italy-Balkan Nazi Leader   Kesselring Sent to Russia, Report, Desert Fox to Face Allies

Axis Forces in ltaly, Balkans Headed by Romme   Change Made After Quarrel With Marshal Kessreling

STASSEN OUTLINES HIS PLAN FOR WORLD PEAGE COMBINI   MINNESOTA GOVERNOE ADYVOCATES SINGLE-CHAMBER PARLIAMENT OF UNITED NATION REPRESEN-.  TATIVES

ONLY $7,552.30 REPORTED IN RED CROSS WAR FUND CAMPAIGN HERE   Workers Urged To Make Reports as Month-Long Drive Nears Finish Line. 

CHURCHILL ON WAY TO NEW CONCLAVES WITH. ROOSEVELT   Expected To Devise Plans For Speeding Up A 3-Nation Meeting Of Ministers

Convictions Upheld by Higher Court   Sentences Affirmed for Three Out of Five Convicted of Distributing Jehovah Witness Literature

ae oe: ae Oe es  Nazis Are Expecting Worst     + » Ata AWA, sao. yore: ile A lal, a,   German Radios Tell People Of Raid Damag

German Radio Broadcasts Betray Panic; Admit War Growing “Hard and Difficult”

Nazi Radio Commentators Stress Intensity Of Raids   ‘Rail Facilities Deranged; Another ‘Reveals Populace Doesn’t Have Any Rest, Adding “We Tired People Have te Continue Work”; Admits Fight  { Against Allies Difficult

House Votes Reapportion Bill 124-68   Passage Ends Bitter Two Weeks of Debate in State Assembly; Governor Gets Act

Redistricting  Bill Sent To Gov. Martin   HOUSE PASSES MEASURE as FIRST BIG ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SESSION; TWO WEEKS’  DEBATE   Hot Talk On Floor

REDISTRICTING BILL IS PASSED   tiouse Sends First Big Measure of Administration Program to Martin

FDR Marks. Time as Rail Hopes Wane   “Government Seizuré ‘Likely.as. Unionists. Reject: U.S. Offers

QUESTION BELLBOY IN- GIRL’S SLAYING   Last Person In ‘WAC Corp. Riding’s Room Before ’ Body Was. Found

PROGRAMFOR FOOD MAPPED BY THE GOV'T   World-wide Mobilization of Production Resources Planned   ORDER TO EXPAND PROGRAM PREPARED   Roosevelt Expected to Sign Before the End of Week

U.S. to Spur  Foreign Food   Sharply Raised Quotas Await FDR Action

Corn Ceiling Hiked 9 Cents   Chicago Basis Price Is Set at $1.16

*) Cent Boost In Corn Ceilings ls Authorized   Prices on Oats, Barley, Sorghum Grains Frozen

NINE-CENT RAISE ON CORN PRICE   Government Grants New Ceiling From $1.07 to $1.16, Effective Monday

Corn Price Is Boosted Nine Cents   Freeze Figures For Sorghum Grains, Oats, Barley; Regulation To Be Issued

GRANTS 9-CENT INCREASE OVER PRICES TODATE   Oats, Barley and Sorghum Grains Frozen  For 60 Days

Many Bodies Still Not Identified; FBI Speeds Work   FULL INVESTIGATION  OF DISASTER STARTED

Rescue Squads Take 80 Bodies From Wreckage   Continue Search For  Six Servicemen Thought Still To Be Buried

TOLL IN WRECK MOUNTS T0 6   Believe Six More Bodies Buried in Wreckage

TOLL IN TRAIN WRECK REACHES SEVENTY TODAY   Fireman Of Stalled Champion Tried To Flag Down Other Train

DEATH 7OLL ik TRAIN WRECK HAS PEACHEDR RD   Six Service Men Still Believed Ruried in Wreckage

 WASHINGTON ROUNDUP ;  Allies Map New Operations For China ‘Eich On Jans: Coal’s Feet Dragging

Montgomery S Vien Fits City At Dawn Today   Pause Only to Hoist Lnion Jack Over Citadel, Then Strike Out Toward Tunisia

His North African Empire Falls at Dawn Today When Victorious British Take _ Possession.   AXIS POSITIONS IN TUNISIA NEXT GOAL

Ohio River Flood Crest Is Awaited    Workmen Forego New Year’s Celebration In Effort To  Resume War Production; 17,000 Are Homeless

me ee ee ae  Suffer Damage In High Waters   Thousands Homeless In W. Virginia Towns;  New York : State Suffers

Workers Labo. to Repair Flood Damage  mM HHH it. On AnH   17,000 to 20,000 Homeless in West Virginia

Workers Labo: to Repair Flood Damage   17,000 to 20,000 Homeless in West Virginia

To Put Flooded Plants to Work   West Virginia, Ohio Towns Still Await Crest of Torrent

FLOODS RECEDE IN STEEL AREA   Workers Skip New Year's Celebration In Haste Clear Up Damage

OHIO WATERS FORCE MANY FROM HOMES   Thousands go Back to War Jobs As Crest  Moves Down River

STATE TO HOLD RESORT CLINIC   Tourist Authorities Take Stock Of Postwar Impact On Industry

ONLY 35 CIVIL WAR VETS EXPECTED AT MILWAUKEE ENCAMPMENT THIS YEAR

aoe BOY WAR BON PD -—-—~  GAR Will Consider  Suspension of Reunions

Attlee Lists Casualties in Last 3 Weeks   Tunisian Campaign Cost 10,800, House of Commons Told

BRITISH ' TUNISIAN CASUALTIES LISTED   Total 10,800 In Last Three Weeks Of Campaign— 50,000 Prisoners

British lost  10,800 men  in 3 weeks   Attlee discloses Tunis casualties as ‘not excessive

British Casualty List In Tunisia Campaign 10,80(   Attlee Reveals Figures’ For Three-Week Period In North Africa Drive

RAF ATTACKS WILHELMSHAVEN NAVAL BASE.   Carry Out Unprecedented Mining Operations in Baltic Sea.

WILHELMSHAVEN SCARRED AGAIN   British Launch Another BigScale Attack on Nazi Naval Base

RAF Planes Sow Mines In Baltic Coastal Regions  German Naval Base At Wilhelmshaven Pounded Again

23 BOMBERS IN ATTACK   Planes Roar Across Channel To Resume Daylight Bombings

RAF Attacks  Naval Base   Wilhelmshaven Bombed  British Drop Mines In Baltic Waters

RAF Again Raids  Wilhelmshaven  Bombers Carry Out Mining Operations In Raltie Wartare

GERMAN NAVAL BASE ATTACKED   Wilhelmshaven Blasted By British; Baltic Waters Heavilv Mined.

Nazi Naval Base Again Bombed, This Time By RAF   Unprecedented Mining Operations In Baltic Waters; 23 Planes Are Lost

.A.F. HITS WILHELMSHAVEN   Bombers Also Sew Mines in Waters of the Baltic

R. A. F. Attacks Wilhelmshaven  Also Carries Out Mining Operations In Baltic Waters

Fascists’ Foe Murdered   Publisher. Assassinated on New York Street

FEL SEARCH FOR FSCISTS WH 8 KULED TALIM   Carlo Tresca, Radical and Enemy of Mussolini, Was Shot Down Last Nighi Near Anti-Fascist Newspaper

FASCISTS KILL ITALIAN EDITOR   Bitter Foe Of Mussolini Is Shot Down In Dimmed-Out N. Y. Street

Sweden Rejects Nazi Statement   New Note Is Sent In Student Issue

Swedes Rebuff Reich Regime   Deporting of Oslo Students Brings ‘Deterinrstiian’?

“Sweeping Political Change’ Hinted in Rome  pe TENnMAG FP WAtmearee

HIGHER LEVY IS APPROVED ON LUXURIES   TOBACCO, GUM, POP AND CANDY EXEMPT FROM NEW TAX

HOUSE. VOTES . POSTAGE AND LIQUOR TAX RISE   Local Postage Rates For Letters From. 2-:Cents to 3 Cents— Higquor Up Five-Cents a Drink.

Boost In Postal Rates And Liquor Taxes Given Approval   Proposals for Hike in Tobacco Taxes Rejected by the House Ways and Means Committee— Vote on Sales Tax Pressed

Additional Tay Increase Gets House Approva   Stiff Boosts On Luxuries Postal Rates And Other Items

ANOTHER TAX IS PUT ON LIQUOR BY HOUSE GROUP   Increases In Postal Rates Also Included As RevenueRaising Measure   HEAVY LEVIES MADE ON MANY LUXURIES

LIQUOR TAX HIKE AND POSTAL RATE BOOST APPROVED   House Committee Turns Down Proposals to Increase Levies on Gasoline and Tobacco,   5 CENTS A DRINK ADDED TO WHISKY COS]   Imposts on Toilet Preparations, Jewelry, Light Bulbs and Telephone Bills Raised.

POSTAL RATES BOOST VOTED   House Committee Also Fav ors Stiffer Excises on Socalled Luxuries

Committee Votes Higher Postal Rates   Also Favors Boost In Luxury Excises And Taxes on Liguor

GEN, BEIGHTLER IS — AWARDED DS MEDAL      Ex-Highway Chief Cited For Leadership

LONDON STIRRED T0 OPTIMISTIC TALKS OF EARLY VICTORY   CHURCHILL’ SIX WARTIME CONFERENCE WITH ROOSEVELT IS CAUSE

Allied ‘Victory-this-Year’ Assault On Europe — Scented In Roosevelt-Churchill Conference   Boy Gunner On ids Sent Home--Too Young

Churchill and Roosevelt Tc Lay Plans for Grand Of. fensive, British Sources Believe.

‘London: Sees Final. Plans For - Grand — Offensive “Mapped At- Conference

FOR-CHURCHILL PARLEY 10 MAP ASSAULT PLANS   See Early Storming of Europe From Many Directions   STALIN KEPT POSTED   Politics of Europe Also Due For Considerable : Consideration  .

5 PREDICTED   Agree Allied Chiefs Lay Final Plans for Grand Offensive.   STALIN KEPT (INFORMED

SENTIMENT IN LONDON OVER TRIP VARIES   Allied Chieftains Believed Mapping Final Plans For Grand Offensive In War Theatres   STALIN NOT PRESENT

Visit Stirs Talk Of Victory This  Year in Europe   London Expresses Opinion Allied Chieftains Are Laying Final Plans.   Are of Opinion Allies Will Storm Continent

“Victory-This-Year” Drive In Europe Hinted In Churchill’s Latest Visit

ENGLAND BASED INVASION SOON    Reports Circulate in London on ‘Victory in "43° Drive on Axis .

FINAL OFFENSIVE PLANS POSSIBLE   London Optimistic In Talk on “Victory-This-Year” Assault on Europe.

London Talks Of Assault On  Continent Soon   Churchill’s Trip Across Atlantic Stirs Talk That Grand Offensive Is In The Making

Hopes For Early End To War Soaring   Churchill’s Trip Brings New Optimism

Optimism In Londor   Viewed As Indication Allies Plan Early AllOut Assault Against Axis “Fortress Europe”

LONDON SOURCES HINT HOUR NEAR TO CRUSH NAZIS   INFORMED QUARTERS RECALL PREDICTION MADE BY CHURCHILL

London Stirred At Churchill’s Trip to Canada  Allied Chieftaine   Allied Chieftains Expected to Make Plans for Drive

WORLD LEADERS TO MAP GRAND WAR STRATEG)   Pians For Prime Minister's Session With Roosevelt Enshrouded in Deepest Secrecy. ;

Churchill Visit Stirs Victory This Year Talk   Believe He and Roosevelt Will Lay Final Plans

PLAN OF GRAND OFFENSIVE MAY SOON BE DRAWN   Continent Will Be Stormed From Many Ways, London Thinks

VICTORY DRIVE SEEN GOAL OF ALLIED CHIEFS   Roosevelt - Churchill Meeting ~ Expected To Design Assault On Europe:   AIM BLOWS AT GERMANY   Indications Point To Britain As Scene Of Major Military Operations

WARSTRATEGY WILLBE AIRED “AT CONFERENCE   Roosevelt to Meet With British Leader Later anid Map New Blows Against Axis   KNOCKOUT OF ITALY TO BE MAJOR TOPIC   London Observers Believe Possibility of Ending War This Year Will Be Discussed

‘VICTORY THIS YEAR’ BLOWS SEEN SHAPING   Britain Interprets Talks As Mapping Of Big Offensive

British Papers Call For Unity  In Military And Political Strateay

Churchill Trip Provokes Talk Of 1943 Victory   Storming Of Europe Predicted By Many Allied Observers

Londoners : Expect Big Drive Soon   Churchill's Trip to America Stirs Optimistic Talk of *Victory-This-Year’ Push   UNITY AFTER WAR: “ALSO IS STRESSEL   Present Problems Are More Than Military, But New Front Talk Tons Political

Optimistic Talk of Victory this Year Follows Churchill Visit to America and Military Developments in Europe

To Confer In French Fort At Quebec   Churchill, Wife And Daughter Arrive; F. R. To Meet Them Soon

London Sees Discussion For Final Assault From British Meeting Theme

IPilots Face Obstacles ‘And Danger to Save Life of Wounded Buddy

HUGE CHEMICAL WORKS STRUCK AT LEVERKUSEN   Allies Improve Positions la Italy: Reds Fight Setback

RAF Smashes At Rhineland  Industries   First Phase of Great Offensive in the Pacific Underway; Soviets Withdraw From Zhitomir: Petain Offers to Quit

Germany Given Third Pounding in As Many Nights   Russians Lose Zhitomir but Gain Elsewhere

JAP NAURU BASE RIPPED BY PLANES FROM CARRIER FORCE   Rv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

'Warplanes Hammer Reich   Smash at Rhineland Cities for Third  Time in New Allied Bombing Offensive

RAF Smashes at Nazi Rhineland   Russian Forces Suffer Setback; Lose Zhitomir to Counter-attacking  O\ naemance

RAF BOMBERS MAKE HEAVY ATTACKS UPON RHINELAND PLANTS   RUSSIANS SUFFERED FIRST MAJOR SETBACK IN MANY MONTHS

Russian Forces S ffer: Setback,. from Zhitomir, t Send. ‘New St] -head Over Dnie er—Contin nue Las ing. of Japanese. ‘Stronghold  , Cent: 1 Pacific: -’

RAF BLASTS RHINELAND TARGETS    Leverkusen, Important Chemical City One of Targets. Five Planes Failed to Return

Blast Targets In Rhineland   Jap Strongholds In Pacific ed By Air Power.

Allied Bombers Hit Two Jap Ships at Rabaul   Fighting Ends in Papuan Peninsula; Down 5 Zero Planes

Bombers Sink Two More Japanese Ships at Rabaul  Bene ba Shien ee: Direeatsece   Fighting on Papuan Peninsula Ceased; 117 of Foe Captured

Two Jap Ships Hit And Another Try By Nips Indicated   Bombing Of Convoy Approaching Harbor ” Hints Of Impending New Blow By Nips

‘Allies Drop Tons of Bombs on Jap Airdromes at Wewak, New Guinea

THREE JAP PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Two Spitfires Are Lost in Aerial Dog Fighting

TWO JAP SHIPS SUNK BY BOMBS IN NEW BRITAIN   Fighting on Papuan Peninsula Of New Guinea Has Ceased

Bombers Sink Two More Japanese Ships at Rabaul  Fighting on Papuan Peninsula Ceased; 117 of Foe Captured

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT JAP SHIPS, BAG FIVE ZEROS   Total of Six Vessels In New  Britain Area Sent To  Bottom By Huge American Planes   117 NIPS TAKEN   Fighting Ceases After Survivors Of Savage Jungle - Battie Give Up In Papua

Americans Hit Two More Ships   Jap Resistance on Papuan Peninsula Ends: 117 Japs Taken

Two Hit By Bombs; All Fighting On Papuan Peninsula Is Reported Over

Two More Jap Ships Are Hit at Rahaul   All Fighting on Papua Ceases: 117 Prisoners Taken

County 6.0.P. Meets On Sth   Republicans To Gather At Berrien Springs

LRB DENIES MOTION . OF KAISER COUNSEL   Will Not Disqualify Two o! Three Members From Taking Part-In Dispute

Shooting Aired But Magistrate Is Undecided   D. H. Benedict Charged As Result Of Wounding Three Creek Bathers.

Russians Smash Outer Defenses Of Novorossisk   Hard Fighting Rages From Marshes Of Sec Of Azov To The Black Sea; Red Air Fleet Wages Unprecedented Offensive

Postwar Relief Harmony Sough   Congressman Would Have Voice in Pacts

Congress Seeks Voice In Postwar Pacts   Senate Committee Reports Progress in Talks With Hull on Compromise to Provide Legislative Approval of Temporary Terms

U. S. Legislators To Have Voice In Agreements   Cougress Will Pass On International Paets  Made Before Final Peace

Strikers Halt Output Of 12,000 Tons a Day   Unrest Blamed as Union Leaders Rap Placing of Dispute Before WLB; General Strike Looming.

BY MINERS “PREDICTED   Some District Leaders Saj Stoppage Will Come If Agreement Is Delayed   2,000 LEAVE JOBS AT STEEL MINES   Leaders Report There Is Much Unrest; No Word From Lewis on Next Move

1,000 MORE JOIN MINE WALKOUTS   UMW Aid, Stressing Unrest, Fears General Strike

Coal Strike  Seems Certain   Walkout of 2,000 Men Recently Blamed To Great Unrest

CLAIM ‘UNREST WALKOUT CAUSE   Union Chief Says Stalling Tactics of Employers Responsible

UNREST IN COA FIELDS GROWS SOME MEN {   “inion Leaders See Trouble Ahead As Result Of Long Delay In Wage Fight

2,000 MINERS OUT   General Strike Predicted Unless Wage Deadlock  Is Broken

Prelude to General Coal Strike May 1 Seen as 2,000 Quit.  MINERS RESENT WLB

MINERS STRIKE IN STEEL PITS   Leaders Say Action Prompted --By Belief. Operators Are ~ Stalling

2,000 Soft Coal Miners On Strike   Said Dissatisfied With Wage Dispute

PITTSBURGH COAL MINERS WALKOUT   Wage Deadlock Reason; Factories Face Fuel Shortage

2,000 Coal Miners Supplying Mills, Go On A Strike   Union Official Blames Un: rest, Predicts General Cloal Strike.

Walkout Laid To “Unrest”   Predict General Coal Strike Unless Deadlock is Broken

2,000 MINERS STRIKE TODAY   Blame Unrest Among Workers for Walkout in. Pittsburgh Mine Area.

Miners Quit © When Police Units Appear   More Than 2,000 Walk Out at Three Pits in Pennsvivania   UNREST IS BLAMED   Men ‘Know Cards Are Stacked’ in WLB, Says Union Official

Already Plans Personally Future Campaign Designed To Defeat Nazi Germanv

‘Stalin Personally Directs Operations of Red Armies   Premier Planning Future Campaigns For Complete Defeat of Germany; Keen Student of Militarv Affairs

STALIN RUNS RUSSIAN ARMY SAYS CASSIDY   Associated Press Correspondent Home From Moscow On Leave Writes First Story ‘OF Series.   Himself A Soldier

Closer Co: ‘Opera tion Among Frenchmen in Fight Against Axis Forces Seen by Giraud

PETAIN STATUS STILL MYSTERY   No Confirmation of  Reports That He Ouit

SUPPORT GIVEN BANKHEAD BIL   Senator Proposes Government Pay for Advertising of Bonds. -

FEDERAL ADVERTISING    Majority Of Smaller Papers Favor Plan, Senators Told

French Youths _ Resist Nazi Labor Draft   Internal Situation in Oceupied Country Growing Hourly Worse

TROUBLE IN FRANCE   German Troops Are Hunt. ing for Heavily Armed French Youths

NAZI TROOPS SEARCH FOR FRENCH YOUTHS   As Situation Grows More Serious. Axis Issues Ultimatum to Armed Frenchmen

GERMANS SEEK FRENCH YOUTHS   Heavily Armed Bands of Guerilias Resist Labor Conscription.   SITUATION GETS WORSE

FIRE DESTROYS GRAIN STORAGE   Half Million Dollar Damage Listed In Blaze At Chicago Elevators

Huge Fire In Chicago Elevator   Estimated Loss Of At Least Half-Million Dollars

BLAST KINDLES ELEVATOR FIRE   Loss at Norris Grain Firm. Chicago, Will Exceed $509,300

Here s What Yanks Want and Do Not Want for Their Christmas Presents

SOLDIERS WANT TRIP HOME FOR CHRISTMAS      Believing That Unlikely, Most Doughboys Vote for Treats and Luxuries as Presents.

Churchill Promises RAF Will Fly — With Y anks On Future Tokyo Raids

LONG SAYS SLEEPING PILLS LED TO WIFE’S DEATH LEAP   DELAWARE MAN TELLS’ COLUMBUS AUTHORITIES WIFE JUMPED FROM WINDOW AFTER AN ARCyUiewr

Rommel hauls men hastily north thru Gabes bottleneck   Allies seize Sedjenane as Americans advance to junction

AFRIKA KORPS IS WEAKENED BY NEW BLOWS   Axis Driven Through Gabes Bottleneck— Sedjenane Captured In North.

LAND TITLE TO COUNTY   ‘Commissioners Wanted Tract Near  Vinland for Machine Shed

-— Guy War Bonds — SAYS MANY DEALERS ARE VIOLATING MEAT RULES IN N. E. OHIO

WELSH ACQUITTED OF KILLING SISTER   JURY FREES KANSAS CITIAN OF BRUTAL MURDER ON FIFTH BALLOT.

George Welsh Acquitted On Fifth Ballot   Ready To Enter Armed Forces, Says ‘Following Verdict

14-To-1 Ratio  Is Maintained   U.S. Air Force Far Superior To Japs

CLARK'S MEN SEAL VICTORY IN MOUNTAINS   British Cross Moro River

FINAL PHASE ATTU  CAMPAIGN I$ UNDER  WAY, NAVY REPORTS DRIVE TO RESTORE ISLAND TO AMERICAN  DCARETRAT PDAS DECCIAIG

Likely Foe To  Starve   ..- Food Cut Off, Attu A Bataan Reversed

‘American Troops Have Split _ the Last-Ditch Jap. Defenders  WIPE OUT A VILLAGE        ‘Enemy Troops Must Either __ Die or Surrender to the Invaders

KISKA LOGICALLY AMERICANS’ NEXT STOP ON SCHEDULE      Enemy Battling To Hold Last 15 Square Miles Still Under Its Contro]-

Final Move to Restore Attu To U.S. Control Underway   American Forces Have Slashed Remaining Japanese Troops on. Island Into Three Groups, Navy Department Reports; Village of Attu Completely Destroyed Except Church

FIGHT FOR ATTU IN FINAL PHASE   Allied Planes Sink Eight Jar Barges Loaded With Men and Munitions.

‘MOP-UP’ ONLY THING LEFT-KNOX   Evacuation Of Island By Sea Is Termed  ‘Impossible’

Tighten Control On Attu Island   ‘Kiska Next Stop On  American Schedule

AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE SPLIT ENEMY DEFENDERS OF ATTU  CAMPAIGN IN FINAL PHASE AND MEANS SURRENDER OR NIE FOR TAPS

ATTU BATTLE ENTERS ITS FINAL PHASE   Americans Slash Remaite ing Jap Troops There Into Three Sections and Destroy the Village From the Air. -

Kiska Next Aleutians  Objective         YANKS CONTROL ALL BUT ONE SMALL PATCH OF ATTU; LEAVE: JAPS WITHOUT SUPPLY BASE -

No Rescue is Possible Says Knox   }, S. Warships Patrol Area Surrounding. Island; Tokyo Boasts. Defenses

Attu Fight in ~~ “Final Phase   Foe Cut Into 3 Groups, Navy Reports

Doomed Nips Face Disaster   JAPANESE FORCES SPLIT INTO THREE GROUPS AS CAMPAIGN ENTERS FINAL PHASE; U. S. PLANES RAIN DEATH ON ENEMY AS GROUND MEN CLOSE IN

' Japs Claim Real Fight Just Be* ginning Derided, Knox Says Foe 1 Can’t Escape   VILLAGE ERASED   Kiska Raided by Airmen—Serious Cut of Japan's Fish Supply Forecast

FORCES ON ATTU ISLE   Navy Reports Final Phase of Drive to Restore It to  U.S. Under Way.   Attu Village Is Wiped Out by Army Planes

Jap Fish Line in Danger as Yanks Occupy Attu   (By JOHN HIGHTOWER)

JAPAN BOASTS REAL FIGHT IS NOW DEVELOPING   Tokyo Report Discounted; Indications Are That Remaining Japs On Attu Have No Choice But To Surrender Or Die

MOPPING-UP CONTINUING ON ATTU   Nips Depend On Fish From Northern Pacific   MATTER OF TIME   Until Enemy Annihilated Or Island, Knox Says: Ne Evacuation

Campaign  On Attu Nears End   No Choice Left For Enemy but to Serrender or Die

Nips in Rat Trap on Attu   U. S. Navy Controls All Avenues of Escape for Japs

FINAL PHASE OF CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY   Attu Village Wiped Ont Fxcent For Church And One «ther Building.

Attu Battle Enters Its Final Stage   Japs Split Into Three Groups; Attu Village Is Wiped Out.

JAPS SLASHED “INTO EROUES   Final Phase of Campaign By  Americans is Now Under Way.   ‘CHURCH NOT DESTROYED

JAPS. ARE. CUT INTO 3 GROUPS   Yankees ‘Press Mopping Up Operations-On Attu; Village. Destroved   LOCAL RESISTANCE STILL STUBBORN   But Outcome Is Not ‘in Doubt; Severe Blow to Jap Food Supply Expected

American Troops Have Split the Last-Ditch Jap Defenders   WIPE OUT A VILLAGE   Enemy Troops Must Either Die or Surrender to the Invaders

THE JAPANESE ON ATU ISLAND MUST SURRENDER OR DIE   \merican Troops Are Moving in Against Last Nests of Jap Resistance.   12-DAY-OLD CAMPAIGN   Only a Question of Time Before Enemy Remnants Are Overwhelmed.

Survivors to Either Die  Or Surrender   Secretary Knox Says Warships Prevent Any Escape by Sea

Enemy Troops Are Split Into Three Groups   Stiff Fighting Is Expected in Mopping Up Japs

Attu Village Wiped Out By Army Bombers   Kiska Next On U. S. Navy List; Reconquest Of Islands Seen

Village Virtually Wiped Off Map By Bombing, Strafing Planes; Main Base at Kiska Is Blasted

Lightnings Help Pound Japaneses Kiska Is Bombed   Tokio Says Americans Are Only Yq Mile From Lest Nipponese Position

REMAINING NIPPONESE NOW HAVE NO CHOICE BUT  _ TO SURRENDER OR DIE—AMERICAN PLANES ATTACK. REMNANTS OF FOE AS GROUND FORCES BOTTLE THEM UP AT CHICHAGOF

JAP RESISTANCE ON ATTU ISLAND SLOWLY WEAKEN:   KNOX SAYS ENEMY NOW TRAPPED ON PENINSULA TIP

BATTLE FOR TOLAND NOW NEAR CLOSE   Attu Village Virtually Wiped Off Map By Bombing And Stafinz Planes; Japs Sti Showing Plenty Of Fichr.   BREAK JAP FORCES INTO THREE PARTS

Campaign On Attu Is Near Close   American Forces Slash Remaining Jap Troops Into Three Groups Near Chichagof Harbor

ig Utness Fatal To Mis. (, Volkmar      Dies et: Home of Daughter Here; Rites te Be Teday

Long Illness Fatal To Mrs, C. Volkmar   Dies at Home of Daughter Here; Rites to Be Today

One Of Strongholds Guarding Road To Tokio Under Fire   Covered By Powerful Units Of U. S. Pacific Fleet Soldiers And Marines Land On Makin And Tarawa Atolls.

Offensive Open: Against Japs in Mid-Pacific   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Believed to Be Under Way as Americans Fight to Expand Beachheads. Established Saturday

SEE INCREASE OF BINGO GAMES   Police, Officials Puzzled Over Legal Angles Of f Law

PREDICT GREAT AERIAL FIGHTS   Sea, Land Fighters Te Clash For Pacific  Supremacy

Huge Air Battles Shaping Up   Shipborne and LandBased Planes Expected To Vie for Control Of Mid-Pacifie Isles

Carriers Versus Land Planes Viewed  As Next Big Air Battle in Pacific

Expect War's Bie Battles InPacificIn Few Months   Huge U.S. Carrier Forces To Combat Jap Land-Based Craft Challenge Nip Fleet

GREAT BATTLES AGAINST JAPS HELD CERTAIN   Ship- Borne, Land-Based  Planes Expected fo   Strike Close to Nip Mainland

MAJOR BATTLES LOOM IN PACIFIC   Big Scraps Seen for Jap-Held Islands in Next Few Months

PREDICT BATTLES IN SOUTH PACIFIC SOON   Believe U. S. Ready To Seize Advanced Bases

‘Visualization Of Great Battles ‘Between Planes Over Jap Islands

SENATE PASSES BONUS MEASURE BY 17-11 VOTE   Party Lines Set Aside In Favoring $200 A  Vear Roost   £0 AID COUNTIES IF MORE IS PAID

TEACHER BONUS IS - DASSED BY SENATE      Measure, Providing $200 Extra, Voted at Night

TEACHER BONUS IS PASSED BY SENATE   Measure, Providing $200 Extra, Voted at Night Session

BILLION SLASHED BY HOUSE FROM BUDGET ESTIMATE   APPROPRIATION REQUESTS $1,100,000,000 HAVE BEEN BEEN SHAVED BY HOUSE TO $167,000,000,   GREATEST CUT EVER MADE BY HOUSE COM.   Appropriations For Agriculture Departmesvt and Interior Bue reau of Reclamation Were Kliminated Entirely.

HOUSE COMMITTEE STARTS ECONOMY   Lops Almost Billion from Budget Estimates

Lewis Silent On Restoration   Awaits Decision In Illinois Ware Case

LEWIS AWAITS WLB DECISION   Verdict In Illinois Case May Rule Attitude Toward June Pledge

LEWIS Is AWAITING DECISION BY BOARD      Issue Is Expected to Be  pproval or Rejection on ‘Handed Down Soon.

GREAT DAMAGE ‘BY HURRICANE IN SOUTHWEST   [PROPERTY LOSS AT, HOUSTON, GALVESTON AND VICINITY 18 ESTIMATED AT 99 ons.009

Hurricane In Texas Areas   Houston, Galveston , And Surrounding Sections Struck By Storm

100 Persons Injured; OverTwo Million Dollar Damage From Hurricane Which Struck Galveston, Houston Tuesday   News From War Front

Crack Nazi Tank And Infantry Units Break And Flee   Great: Fi ires Stil Burning In BerlinzBad Weather Slows Reds... *

AXIS YIELDING AREAS IN AFRICA   Crack Infantry, Tank Units Break in Face of Heavy -. Battering

Big Guns of © - Allies. Force  Axis Retreat   Germans Fail to Pierce Any Point of Tunisian Battle Lines

Avis Forces Crack After Four Days Of Heavy Assault   British Writer Tells Of Reinforcements For Americans

ENGLISH ROUT PRIZE FORCES OF VON ARNIN   Americans, French, British Also Slowly Regain Lost Ground In Other Area

UNG WELDER ETS PEN TERM OR SABOTAGE   cor ge Arnold Steele Sentenced to Year and Half —   For Faulty Work  On Vessel   IRST CONVICTION OF KIND IN NATION   ne of Ten “Arrested On  Charges of Sabotaging Ships In Baltimore; judge Admonishes

War Worker Gets ~ Prison Sentence  Guilty Of Sabotaging Ship, Court Holds

14 Year Term In Prison. For  Faulty Welding   Judge Says Workers Must Realize Importance of Their Jobs

'Prison Term Penalty For Bad Welding   Former Franklin Furnace Resident Sentenced As _ ‘EXample To Others’

Sentences _ A Welder For Sabotage   Shipyard Worker Con victed Of/ Doing Defec tive Work, Must Serve 1% Years In Prison 

FORMER WELDER GETS 18 MONTHS FOR SABOTAGE   Sent To Penitentiary For Improperly Welding Ship Steel: Nine Others Await. ino Trial.

War Worker Gets 18 Months   Shipyard Saboteur In Baltimore Sentenced

Welder Is Given 1 1-2 Year Sentence For Faulty Work   War Employes Must Realize Importance Of Task. Judae Says

SENTENCE MAN FOR SABOTAGE   Defective Work at Shipyard Gets Welder 18 Months.

Welder Jailed For Sabotage   Shipyard Worker Gets Year and Half for Doing Faulty Work

WELDER GIVEN PRISON TERM   Baltimore Worker Gets 18 Months For Doing Shoddy Job

TERM IN PRISON GIVEN WELDER FOR SABOTAGE   Found Guilty of Defective Workmanship on Ships For Use in War   FORMER OHIOAN ‘EXAMPLE’   Only Explanation Offered Is That He Wanted To Increase Wages

‘Welder Given : Prison Term   Court Sentences First Of Acensed Sabateurs

SHIP WORKER IS SENTENCED FOR SABOTAGE   20-Year-Old Welder Gets 1 4 Years for Faulty Work — Nine  Others Wait Hearings

Greedy War Worker Gets  Prison Term   First Of Sabotage Cases Results In 11-2 Year Sentence

Welder Gets 18-Months Term   Improperly Welded Ship Steel in Shipyard

Worker Given a Term In Prison  Sentenced On Charge Of Sabotaging Ships

Jail Welder For Sabotage   20-Year-Old Ship Worker Sentenced To Year And  Half For Faulty Work.

GROCERS END WORRY OVER QUESTIONNAIRE   Tivo Close Store Founded by Their Father in Log Cabin in Pre-Civil War Davs.

WAR FOOD CHIEF ASKS SUPPORT OF 44 FARM POLICY   PROGRAM CALLS FOR MAXIMUM OUTPUT AND LOW CONSUMER PRICES

MARVIN JONES GOES TO CONGRESS AGAIN ABOUT FOOD PROGRAM  WAR FOOD ADMINISTER SEEKS TO GET LARGEST CROP ACREAGE

NID FOR FARM POLIGY ASKED BY FOOD B03:         Jones Seeking:-Support from Congress to Back Big Acreage Program.   REPUBLICANS CHARGE “BACK ROOM” RUNS SHOW

Asks Support Of Farm Policy   Marvin Jones Wants Congress to Aid in Preventing Food Price Increase.

WEA Asks Support of Farm Policy   Plan for Largest Crops in Nation’s History Next Year

Chief of WFA Asks Congress fo Suppor Administration Farm Price Policies

Jones Urges Farm Policies   War Food Head Asks Congress to Support Farm Price Program

Jones Asks Administration Support Of Farm and Farm Price Policies

Boys in Back Room’ Running Farm Show, ..: Wolcott Allegation   Michigan Representative Makes Charge in House Group Hearing

JONES ASKS PRICE BACKING   WEA CHIEF URGES SOLON SUPPORT OF FARM PLAN

Ask Support Of  Farm Policies   Kequest) Made By Marvin Jones In Connection With  WFA’s *44 Plan.

JONES ASKS FOR FARM SUPPORT   War Food Administrator Requests Congress To Back Up Farm And Farm Price Policies.

Jones to Ask Farm Plan Aid   Congressman Charges “Back Room Boys” Running Farm Show

Americans Kall Half of Japs On North Side   26 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Attempt to Halt Landings; 300 Japs Slain in Area

House Votes Measure For Army Supply   Carries Funds For 100,000  Planes

RECORD ARMY BILL 0.K.0 BY COMMITTEE   Calls for Expenditure of S71.8S00,000,000; 100,000 Planes

WAR WRITER VISITS LONELY AFRICAN POS)   Covers 6,000 Miles In Five Weeks, Daring Death To Cover Battlefront   TRIPS ARE WORTHWHILE

NO USE HAVING TANKS UNLESS PUT IN ACTION   'Sinuous, High Mountain Roads Dead Loss For  Modern Armor

STRATEGY OUTLINED TO WAR CORRESPONDENTS   Stuttering General Knows _ Way Around; Confusing Minus Maps However   SHOWS NO PESSIMISM

Soldiers Act Like Tes Is Holiday Excursion; British Grouse  KEEN WATCH: IC KEPT

WRITERS FLEE POLITICS FOR ‘CALM’ AT FRONT   Prefer the “Ordered Calm”’ of Battle to Political War   RATIONS EXCELLENT

QUEER   Freak Happenings in the News a3 the Day Gathered Hither and Yon by Associated Prese.

MASSILLON BLAZE HITS TWO FIRMS   Fire Destroys Cereal Co. Adjacent Factory: Damage $1,000,000

HUGE FIRE DESTROYS MASSILLON PLANT   Damages Another in Million Dollar Loss

WAR PLANT IN OHIO WIPED OUT BY FIRE   Million Dollar Blaze Is Threat To Massillon

MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE ‘DESTROYS CEREAL PLANT, “DAMAGES WAR INDUSTRY

MASS RESIGNATION   City Recreation Committee. Without Funds, Quits in Body

United Miners Push AFL Bid      Spirited Fight Is Seer At Boston Meetine

Allies Winning Atlantic Fight  Slowly But Surely  Phonemic: TT Bawdk

Batile of Affantic Declared Being Won   Admiral Reports Progress in War

Submarine War In New Phase   Nazis On Defensive: Japs Launch Drive

USE OF RED AERIAL BASES   Threaten ‘Heaviest Blows Russia Has Ever Known’

LONDON REGARDS T-DAY PERIOD AS DECISIVE IN WAR   Last Week’s Events Mark Turning Point In View of British Experts.

LONDON BELIEVES 3 EVENTS TURNING POINT OF STRUGCLE   Italian Crack-Up, Big Allied _.Aerial Offensive And ' Declining Luftwaffe Are Cited

‘London Thinks Climax Of War Approaches; Air Offensive Cited   Opinions Vary as to How Long Nazis Can  Hold Out, But Air Raids Seen as Equals Of Bia Land Battles

Vice President Proposes . ‘Steps to Prevent Post-War Unemployment Situation

Wallace Stresses Tnerease In Peacetime Goods   Vice President Says Jobs Will Hinge On Boost in Industria] Output; .Visiens Reconstructed Farm Proesrams

WALLACK FORESEES AUTPUT INCREASE   Sees Post-War Jobs, More Peace Time Goods

FIFTH ARMY COORDINATES WITH EIGHT   Americans in Three-mile Advance In Mountains.—Heavy Losses For Nazi Defenders.

Losses Inflicted On Enemy Units Reported Heavy   Fifth Army Front Lines Also Advanced In Sudden Maneuver

British Eighth Pushes Ahead on Drive fo Rome   “Very Heavy” Losses. Inflicted On Germans

EIGHTH ARMY CONTINUES OFFENSIVE   Indicate General Drive Toward Rome is Imminent

British Storm. Ahead in Rome Offensive  “Heavy Losses Inflicted On Germans

ADVANCE IS MADE BY BRITISE EIGHTH ARMY   Fifth Army Also Extends Line In Several Places

Eisenhower Lavish In Praise Of Work; Augusta Is Taken   Advance from Syracuse to Augusta so rapid that break-neck drive is now on to take entire east coast up to Messina

New Landings On Beaches Near Catania   British Forces One Third of Way To Messina

PRODUCTION CHECK IN OW SITUATION   Witnéss at Hearing Blames Washington for racial  ling S uppli les 

PRODUCTION CHECK IN OL. SITUATION   Witness at Hearing Blames Washington for Dwind ling Supplies CYVITT, REGCINEG MORT

DRIVE WIDE WEDGE IN NAZI DEFENSES NEAR WADI AKARIT      Allied Air Fleets Sink Many. Supply Ships — 31 Enemy Planes Shot Down

EIGHTH ARMY — WINS TOEHOLD IN NAZI LINES   U. S. Infaniry, Only Six Miles From Coast Plain, Face Strong Enemy Defenses

CHOOSE UP SIDES ON WORLD PEACE   SENATORS DISAGREE ON PROPOSAL FOR POST-WAR POLICE

Controversy On Capitol Hill Mounts Over World Police Force Proposal

Seek Pacific Area Council   Protest “Excessive U.S British Dominance In Conduct Of The War”

POLICY-MAKING WORLD COUNCIL SAID PROPOSED   Would Include China In Higher War Talks

Policy Making UN Council Is Proposed   Holland Says Protests Heard Against Excessive AngloAmerican Dominance in Conduct of War

Policy-Making United Nations Group Outlined   Institute Proposes Subsidiary Council for Pacific Area

NAZI SUPPLY LINE TO ITALY COT AT BRENNER PASS   American Airmen Carry Out Their Longest Raid  Just Before Invasion.

Senate Dems In Open Row   Southerners Threaten to Form Party After Byrd And Guffey Clash

A ROW IN SENATE   Bitter Dispute Among Democrats Breaks Out on the Floor ©

A Dispute Flares On Senate Floor   Guffey Is Asked to Resign From Democratic Campaign Committee.

Tobacco Growers Hold Back Offerings Pendin: Outcome of Conference to Increase Sale Price

Bright ‘Belt Awaits Outcome  Of Conference   Only Light Offerings On Floors Today. Average Hovers Near 41 Cent Ceiling. 

Patriots Push’. Germans Back   Offensiv: es. Being: Pressed - By Slavs; Fighting Is -- ‘Reported General

ALLIED TROOPS DRIVEN OUT OF TUNISIAN AREA   German Counterattack And Bad Weather Force Allies To Relinguish Hold On Djiebel Mansour,  Near Pont Du Fahs.

A Strategic Hill Taken by Germans      Counter-Attack Is “Made in Weather So Bad That Few “Planes Leave Ground   ACTION DESCRIBED: ~ AS “SMALL-SCALE   See-Saw Struggle  Part of Drive-for Mountain Passes Near Coast

Nazi Attack Drives Allies From Vital Tunisian Position   German ‘Courter Offensive Staged in Bad Weather

NAZI RETAKE KEY HEIGHT   Spring Surprise Attack British In Face Of Bad Weather.

Nazis Retake Hill After Small Battle.   U.S. Planes Shoot : Up Truck Column or Gabes-Gafsa Road

Eisenhower Mad. Commander Of African Forces   Announcement Made As Algiers Radio Announced British Eighth Army Had Reached  Point 60 Miles Inside Tunisian Border For Oe see CL..desrdawh   GERMANS FORCE ALLIES FROM STRATEGIC HEIGHT OF DJEBEL

ALLIES LOSE HEIGHT SOUTH POND-DU-FAH   j3erman Counter Attack Is Sprung In Bad Weather   LINES INFILTRATED   Aerial Activity Almos Suspended, Due To Weather

British Lose Hill 648 To Germans In  Foul Weather:   Only Four U. S. Plane: Lost Compared With 26 Of Axis, Revised Figures Show

FLIERS SHOOT UP AXIS TRUCK COLUNIN   8th Army Continues Patrol Moves; Bombers Disperse Enemy Vehicles

Axis Refakes Mansour Hill   Strategic Position Coptured From British After Sharp Attack

Block Rommel’s Path In Drive Toward Tunisia   Guard Mountain Passes Against 170,000 Axis

See-Saw Fight Underway For Important Hill   Bad Weather Virtually Suspended Aerial Activity Over Tunisian Front

Pacific Army Continues To Repulse Foe   Yank Paratroops Consoli-. date Choiseul Positions; Mono Forces Gain         FEND OFF BOMBERS   Allied Airmen Hit At Bigger Islands, Attack’ Japanese Cruiser

Japs Pushed Back On Isle   Choiseul, Treasury Battles Are Raging

ENEMY FORCED TO RETREAT; AIR WAR HOT   Nip Plane Raids On Treasure Isles  Beaten Off

ALLIES oHUVE JAPANEot BALK UN 2 LOLANDS   American Paratroops Fight As Infantry Against Foe On Choiseul Island

Steel and Railway Strikes Bring Dangerous Labor Crisis   Government. Seizure of Steel Plants Last Resort.

SUBSIDY SEEN. ~ ASINFLATIONARY   State Farm Bureau Head Tells Opposition to Plan; Also Assails FCA ©

ITALY NEARING STATE OF WAR WITH GERMANY   Bitter Clashes Are Reported Between Troops Of Former Axis Partners   INAZIS ATTACK WARSHIPS   Invasion Of Albania Imminent; Italians Oppose New Fascist Regime

Republican Ranks Split On Treaties   Reciprocal Trade Pact: Now Seem Assured 0! Passage

Republican ~ Ranks Split — On Treaties    :  Reciprocal Trade Pact: Now Seem Assured ol Passage

Limit Preposed On Trade Program   Republicans Seek Two-year Policy

Unified Direction With Eisenhower Predicted Today   British Forces Drive Ahead, Many Air Attacks

R.A. F. Blasts af Channel Ports  German Parie Radin   German, Paris Radios Forced Off Air

RAF BOMBERS “ATTACK: PORTS   Maké Raids’ Along: Channel Coast; Other German Targets Blasted

LIBERATORS BLAST JAP. WEWAK BASE   Touch Off Explosions And Damage Three Ships In Harbor

AIRMEN HIT 3 NIP SHIPS AT WEWAK   Fires Set At Jap Base In North New Guinea

AIM TO OUTLAW WAR   Davies Predicts Resolutions To End  All Conflicts

POUND AHEAD ON HEELS OF FLEEING FOE   Other American Forces Fan Out Southeast, 8 Miles South of Mateur   FERRYVILLE UNDER LONG RANGE FIRE   Yanks’ Approach on Tebourba Threatens to Outflank Axis Defense

U.S. Troops Keep On Heels — Of Germans   Swift-Driving American Troops Strike ‘Toward Ferryville As Others Threaten Tebourba

Other Allied Units Are Approaching Gateway to Tunis.   Americans Quick To Capitalize on’ Recent Advances:

U. S. Artillery Within Range Of Ferryville   [Tebourba Threatened By Swift- Movie E¢ “inks Who Press Retreat Of Germans; i Army Troops Take Two More Hill—* *

Push Germans Back Following Fall of Mateur   Big Guns Blast Ferryville, 10 Miles  _ From Key Naval Base, As Second  : Allied Force Strikes Toward Tebourba, Gateway To Tunis.

Ferryville In Path OF U.S. Forward Push   Other Forces Point In Direction Of Mateur; French Press Toward Bizerte From West

GUNS START T THROW SHELLS AT FERRYVILLE   Americans Swift to Capitalize on Capture of Mateur in Tunisia

Other Forces Push to Point Eight Miles South of Mateur Toward Line of Tine River, Only Six Miles From Tebourba

AMERICANS HARD ON THE HEELS OF FLEEING GERMANS   Enemy Retreating Toward Ferryville, It Was Announced.   Fanned Out Toward the Southeast; Within 10 Miles of Tebourba.

American Troops Push Ahead After Capture of Mateur; Big Naval Base Threatened —   Allied Troops Close in on Enemy Positions in-Tunisia as Axis Radio Betravs Fear of Imminent Invasion

AMERICANS, FRENCH, CAIN MANY MILES   Fleet Of 100 Barges at Bizerta Battered By Daolittle’s Bombers

New American Drive Only Six Miles From Tebourba; Artillery Shells Airfields

U.S, ARTILLERY BLAST ENEMY’S AFRICAN BASES   Allied Infantry, Armored Units On Road to Ferryville

Also Appreaching Dock Area OF Axis Naval Base At Bizerte; Ferryville Under Fire Of Guns   Shellfire Makes Enemy Airfields Untenable; Americans Reported To Have Met New Line Of Resistance In Ferrvville Sector

CITY 9 MILES FROM BIZERTE UNDER FIRE   Other Yank Units Fan Out To Strike At Enemy   FIRST ARMY   Makes Small Local Gains; Allied Airmen Smash Axis Strongholds

AMERICANS ARE ONLY 10 MILES OUT OF BIZERTE   Allies, on Heels of German Troops, Now Blasting at Ferrvville

Twin Columns Advancing  On Ferryville, Tebourba   Americans and French on Coast Drive into Defenses of Bizerte, Only 15 Miles Away, Threaten to Flank Lakes

Yankees Drive Ahead in North African Battle   Ferryville Under Heavy Fire from ~ American Artillery

AMERICANS CONTINUE PURSUIT OF GERMANS TOWARD FERRYVILLE   OTHER U. S. FORCES FAN: NING OUT SOUTHEAST TOWARD TEROURBA

British Report Artillery Shelling Ferryville, In Area Of Axis Naval Base

Yanks Pound Door: Ot Tunis, Bizerte   U. S. Forces Fan Out From Mateur, Driving Close to DockAreas of Great Axis Held Ports

Pound Retreating Axis Toward Ferryville   Long Range Allied Guns Blast Airfields French Troop Press Against Bizerte Western Hill Defenses.

CAPITALIZE ON POSITION AFTER MATEUR FALLS   Other Forces Advance To South Within 10 Miles Of Tunis Gateway   AXIS MAY BE OUTFLANKED   Squeeze in North May Force Von Arnim Back To Last Tunisian Base

Axis Forces Fall Back To New Positions   Allies Pass Mateur In Effort To Cut Axis Communications

Now Within 10 Miles Of Tebourba: French Forces Press Ahead   Ferryville Said Under Fire Of Heavy Artillery; Nazis May Be Outflanked

FRENCH PRESS ON BIZERTE   British Eighth Open New Attack North Of Takrouna

GERMAN FORCES IN FERRY VILLE BEING SHELLED   Several Enemy Airfields In Area Have Been Made Untenable by Allied Shellfire   ENEMY NAVAL BASE ~ WITHIN U.S. GRASP   Other Forces Smash to   Point Eight Miles South   of American-Captured Mateur

GUNG POUNDING AXIS AIRFIELDS   Other Allied Units Advance; Eighth Army Opens New Attack. a   ADVANCE ‘MANY MILES’

‘All Forward Posts Left By Enemy   Yanks Capture Mateur Without Fight; Artillery Shells Ferryville Airfield

U.S. Troops Divide, Long Range Guns Smash Axis Airport   One Branch Heads for Ferryville Northeast of Mateur, Other Southeast Toward Tebourba

Push Nazis Along Road To Bizerte   Nearing Ferryville, Tebourba Following Seizure of Mateur

‘ AmericansSpread Axis Units Apart   Attack Forces Fan Out in Direction of Bizerte and Tebourba   AIRFIELDS UNDER FIRE.   Defensive Positions Intervene Between Troops and Objectives

Move Swiftly After Key Point Of Mateur Taken: Close In On Naval Base

Pound Forward Hard On Heels Of Fleeing Nazis   American Troops Nearing Ferryville, Ten Miles Of Dock Area Of Naval Base Of Bizerte

Ferryville Under Big Allied Guns   Other Forces Fan Out to Southwest, Eight Miles South of Mateur — Ten Miles From Tebourba—May Flank Germans Facing British First Army

Part of the Enemy Force in Retreat Toward Last  ! Ditch Stand HICH RIDGE IS HELD      Enemy Is Forced to Put Up Battle With, Backs to  the Sea .

TnOOPS FORGED OACK IN ATT FIGHT   American Pincers § Closed Upon Japanese Forces, Navy Says Today

Nips Flee for Last Stand   YANK FORCES JOIN AS ENEMY FACES VISE; SOUTH PACIFIC RAKED

Japs Retreat For Last Ditch Stand On Attu Island   Navy Reports Two U. S. Forces. Have Now * Reen Toined,

American Trap Closes on Japs On Attu Island  Part of Enemy In Retreat Toward  Bh in ol

Americans Take New  Positions   Japs Retreating Toward Chichagof Harbor As U. S. Troops Maintain Strong Pressure

Part Of Enemy Force In Retreat To Last Ditch Stand, Report By Navy

U.S. Pincers Closing Trap On Attu Isle   Japanese Are Already in Retreat Toward Last Ditch Stand

Part Of Troops Are Retreating   Nipponese Are Fizhting With Backs To  Sea

KEEP VIGIL INPACIFIC   For Possible Japariese -“Face-Saving” ‘Move Elsewhere.

Enemy Said Attempting Last Stand   Chichagef Harbor Is Seen Site Of Final Struggle For Possession Of Attu

Yanks Brace for Counter Stroke by Japs in Pacific   Attempts to Reinforce Nips at Kiska Bring Naval Battle

REPORT PART OF JAPS ON ATTU FLEEING   Retreating Toward Last-Ditch Stand; Fear Enemy Move

American Pincers Close Tray Around Japanese Forces in Battle for Attu in Alentiang

AMERICAN PINCERS HAVE CLOSED TRAP AROUND JAPANESE   PART OF ENEMY TROOPS ON ATTU ISLAND REPORTED IN RETREAT

BELIEVE ENEMY TO LAUNCH NEW PACIFIC BLOW   Battle For Attu Nearing Climax, Navy Announces

U. S. Forces Brace For Jap Counter Stroke; Naval Battle Expected   Attempts By Enemy To Reinforce Kiska May Result In Naval Engagement; Tokyo Broadcasts Have Talked Of U. S. Strength.

‘Enemy Troops In Retreat For Last-Ditch Stand As Ground Forces Close Trap On Foe   Enemy Reported Being Pushed Toward Sea; Us. infanury Ciears Hass Of Enemy; Several Anti-Aircraft Guns Are Captured

Part of the Enemy Force in Retreat Toward Last Ditch Stand   HIGH RIDGE IS HELD   =nemy Is Forced to Put Ur Battle With Backs to the Sea 

Bomb-Released Waters Spread Rising Havoc   Allied Raiders Continue Air Attach  With Blows at Transport System As U.S. Prepares for Japanese _ Retaliation Over Attu.

PREPARE FOR JAP SAVE-FACE DRIVE   Expect Attempt to Offset Defeat at Attu

TRAP CLOSING, ROOP WITHDRAWING   Last Ditch Stand by Nipponese Indicated In Communique   UNION IS MADE BY TWO YANK FORCES   Foe Anti-Aircraft Guns Are Captured and Turned Against Them

Tokyo Failure to Aid Forces on Isle Cited   Arms of American Pincers Closing On Foe; U. S. on Guard for Surprise

FINAL VICTORY OF AMERICANS MOVES NEARER   Japs Retreat Toward Last Ditch Stand For Island

Yanks Glose ‘Attu Island _Trap On Japs   Enemy Troops Reported In Retreat Toward A Last-Ditch Stand.

Nips Being Forced to Sea Shore   Haye No Choice hut To Make Lasteditch Stand at Harhor

Americans To Expect Jap Move   RISING SUN FORCES MAY TRY ANOTHER _ SNEAK

YANKS CLOSE TRAP ON JAPS ON ATTU ISLE   At Least a Part of Enemy Troops Retreat For Last Ditch Stand.   Japanese Fight With Their Backs to Sea

Jap Forces Caught in Attu Trap   Enemy Falls -Back for Last. Stand

Foe Driven To. Chichagof For ‘Last Stand —   American Advance Patrols Join Forces, Clear Out All But Snipers; U.S. Braces For Pacific Counter Blow

YANK COLUMNS JOIN; SNIPERS SLOW ADVANCE   Vital Pass Cleared Of Enemy By Patrols Of American Soldiers   TRAP IS BEING CLOSED   Seaplane Base !n Pacific Bombed; Results Not Observed

Cascade Hits  54 Cities, :   Axis Losses in Tunisia Listed At 324,000, Captured, Dead, Wounded—U. S. Alert, for Jap Counter-Stroke—Reds Beat Off German Attacks

» Trap Closed Around Japanese Pesitions , on Attu, Navy Says   At Least Part of Enemy Force on Island is in Retreat Today

American Troops Closing Pincers OnRouted Enemy   U.S. Forees Brace Throughout Pacific For Counter-Blow

Holiz Bay Force Capiures High Ridge from Enemy, Advance Patrois Two Forces Meet      Foe With Back io Sea Mus! Make Stand al Holtz Bay or Chichagoi Harbor

JAPS FORCED T0 RETREAT BEFORE AMERCAN ARMY   Enemy Faces Rout on Attu. Backing Up For Last Ditch Stand

U.S. Pincers Close Trap on Japs on Attu   Part of Enemy Troops Are in Retreat for Last Ditch Stand,  U. S. Navy Reports

Part Retreat For Last Ditch Stand   Junction of American Forces in Heights Southeast of Holtz Bay Put Japs in Untenable Position:— Other Yanks On Guard Against Counter-Stroke

U. S. Forces in Pacific Brace For. Jap Blow to Offset Attu Losses

U. 8. PINCERS CLOSE, FORCING ENEMY RETREAI   Nips Push Back Toward Harbor Apparently For Last-Ditch Stand;  American Columns Make Contact

YANKS CLOSE TRAP ON ATT   Amevicans On Alert For Counter-Stroke By  Japanese

JAPANESE FEAR ATTU BASE LOSS T0 U. §, FORCES   Nips Reported Preparing Major Counter Attack To Offset Defeat In . Aleutian Area~   AERIAL BLOWS BY JAPS ARE MOUNTING   Naval Battle. Off Kiska May Follow If Tokyo Tries To Strengthen Garrison There

MINE HITS DAM   U.S. Forces Brace For Jap Counter Stroke In Pacific

CLOSE PINCERS ON ATT JAPS   American Troops Meet; Part of Enemy Forces In Retreat,

U. S. Pincers Closing on Attu Japs   Enemy in Retreat To Last-Ditch Stand

ALLIES BRACED FOR JAP THRUST   Nips May Attempt. Counte Stroke in Losing Battle of Attu Island

FINAL CLASH I LINED EM  Deenarmrx Dr   Enemy Reported Retreating Toward Last Ditch Stand   RIDGE CAPTURED   Yankee Forces Join After  Driving Japanese From Island Defenses

U.S. Braces For Blow By Jap Forces   Close Trap In Atte. Cantliat

Expect Japs May Strike  New Blow In Pacific Area   May Be Attempted To Offset Possibly Losing Battle In Aleutians Area

Pacific War Tempo Stepped Up As Nipponese Air Raiders Try To Bomb American Bases  Beit ze Arran rwTe mAIRErF..

American Pincers Close Around Japs   Enemy Troops in Retreat on Attu Island And May be Forced to Take.Last Ditch Stand

Enemy Retreating For Last-Ditch Stand On Island   Americans Take Virtual Control Of Blea Attu Island; U.S. Forces Effect Junction Southeast Of Holtz Bay

Towns Flooded By Breaking Of Two Major Dams   Battle Of Attu Is Near Climax: Japs Are Losing To Yanks

CLOSE TRAP ON JAPS AT ATTU ISLE   Part of Enemy Forces it Retreat Toward Last Ditch Stand   FIGHTING WITH BACKS TO SFA      7.8. On Alert for Any Face-Saving Moves; Heavy Air Action in Southwest

MEAT OUTLOOK BRIGHTER, U. S. TO BUY LESS   Purchases Curtailed  For Summer

WEA Reduces  Pork Purchase   Slaughter Of Hogs Expected To Decline During August, September.

REPORTS PLENTY OF AMMUNITION TO PASS   Field Director of U. S. Plants Assures America

HUNDREDS OF TONS OF ALLIED BOMBS HIT DUESSELDORF   Royal Air Force Launches Fourth Blow at German War Machine in Tw Nights and Day.

Big Fires Sef In RAF Raid on Duesseldorf   Allies Begin Series of Attacks to ‘Bust Germany Open’

Thunderous Air Attacks Against German Military Resources Are Continuing  By ALFRED E. WALL

AA BLASTS. AMINE AREA LAST NIGHT   Number Of Planes _* Participate In , New Drive: ¢

RAF. HITS NAZIS IN DUSSELDORF   Copenhagen Is Bombed By Yanks;.Out to Bust Germany Wide Open

DUSSELDORF HARD HIT BY RAF RAIDERS ON WEDNESDAY NIGH   FOURTH HEAVY ALLIED AERIAL BLOW IS PAST THIRTY-SIX HOURS

Raid Is Fourth In Last 36 Hours   Several Hundred Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Industrial Center;: First U. S. Attack Opens Drive To “Bust Germany Wide Open”

LANCASTERS CRIPPLE NAZI WAR FACTORY   British Warplanes Roar Into SouthernGermanyToAttack Friedrichshafen On Lake  Constance’s Shores   Devastating Raids

BRITISH PLANES RAID COPENHAGEN   Strike at War Factories Air Marshal Acclaims Drive to Blast Reich

Hundreds Of Tons Bombs Dropped On Duesseldorf   AN Unloaded On German Industrial Center In Twenty Minutes By RAF

RAF Pounds Nazi City Of Duesseldorf   Attack Is Fourth’ Allied Blow at Nazi War Ma* ‘chine In 36 Hours.

HUNDREDS OF TONS OF BOMBS RAINED ON DUESSELDOR   4th Blow In-2 Days And Night Struck At German War Machine   COPENHAGEN IS RAIDED

Many Incendiary Bombs Dropped   Wilhelmshaven and Emden Also Heavily Pounded   COPENHAGEN IS HIT FIRST TIME

Duesseldorf Under Heavy Raid by RAF During Last Night   Tons of High Explosives and Incendiary Bombs on Industrial Center

American Flyers And RAF Start Drive To Bust Na: Homeland Wide Open; Vit Points Bombed In Raid

DUESSELDORF IS BLASTED BY BRITISH BOMBS   Nazi Industrial Center Subjected To Stst Raid Lasting 20 Minutes   IWILHELMSHAVEN {SHIT      Mosquito Planes Strike At German War Factories In Copenhagen Area

RADIO FACTORY BOMBED BY RAF   Crippling Blow Given To Big Friedrichshafen Plant In 1.000 Mile Flight

RAF Raids Nazi industrial City   DUSSELDORF BLASTED WITH HEAVY BOMBS AGAIN

FIRST ALL-U. 6. ATTACK MARKS 4-DAY ASSAULT   Four Raids Made by RAF aid American Forces Within 24. Hours Be- . 2  fore Dawn Today   DUESSELDORF MAIN TARGET OF BRITISH   Thundering Attacks Acclaimed As Beginning of Campaign to “Bust Ger many.Wide Open”

British Hammer South Germany   Friedrichshafen Is Dealt Heavy Blow

RAID CRIPPLES VITAL GERMAN WAR INDUSTRY   SICILY HAMMERED; ITALIANS URGED TO ASK PEACE

RADIO LOCATION FACTORY STRUCK IN RAF ATTACK   Lancasters Stage First Raid Of War On Friedrichshaten Plants   RUHR FACTORIES ARE BEING DEVASTATED

Hit Enemy In 24-Hour Raid      Large British Bombers Follow Up. First ngstecrc Raid On Germany.

HEATY BOMBER ATTACKS G0 ON ‘DRY AND NIGHT   Duesseldorf Blasted in Raid on Rhineland, Following Up U. S. Flights.   GERMAN PLANES DROP BOMBS ON COAST TOWN

AERIAL ATTACK HITS FACTORIES   All-Yank Raid Inaugurates Intensified Assault as Preview of Future

RAF UNLOADS BIG BOMBS ON DUSSELDORF   Several Hundred Tons of High Explosives, Including Blockbusters, , Dropped in 20-Minute  Parind

DUESSELDORF WAS ATTACKED BY THE RAF LAST NIGHT   Hundreds of Tons of High Explosives and Incendiary Bombs Were Dropped.   IT LASTED 20 MINUTES   Fourth Allied Attack at German War Machines in Two Nights.

AERIAL BLOW CENTERS UPON D UESSELDORF   Industrial Objectives in the  Rhineland Damaged In Continued Cycle Of Raids  eahiretitnicmmminnaemiematt

HEAVY BLOW DEALT REICH RADIO PLANT   British Flyers Cause Much Damage at Friedrichshafen

New RAF  Blows at Germany   Dusseldorf Object Of Fourth Aerial Blast in Two Days

RAF ‘DOUBLES UP ON NAZI TARGETS   DUESSELDORF HIT IN FOURTH RAID IN TWO DAYS, NIGHTS

RAF Follows On Trail of U. S. Bombers   Dusseldorf Battered After American Raid On Naval Base

Take Turns At Blasting Hun Domain   ~ Yanks Strike By ~ Day With RAF Night Follow-Up

Main Buildings Of Nazi Radio Factory Bombed   Heavy Damage Reported in Terrific Raid on Friedrichshafen

RAF Delivers Smashing Blow At Duesseldorf   British, American Bombers Blast Germany Four Times  In Two And A Half Days

British Bombers Strike Anew at Nazi Industry   Devastation in —Andustrial Towns Greatest of War

DUESSELDORF IS BLASTED BY RAF ~ BOMBER FORCES   Explosives Dumped ort Reich’s Industrial City— Copenhagen Is Raided

BLOCK BUSTERS AGAIN FALL ON GERMAN BASES   Germans Retaliate Against Britian By Bombing East Coast Town

_— Stage F ourth Night pre Attack   Follows U. S. Smash Into Germany and First British Raid on Copenhagen

British Bombs Rain Again O1  Duesseldort   Aerial Blows Ave Being Stepped Up By Allied Fleets

Hundreds Of Tons Of Huge Bombs Strike   Raid Follows Yankees’ Initial Attack On Germany; U.S. Airmen Describe Fights

Duesseldort Bombed by RAF   Fourth Aerial Blow In Two Nights And a Day

DUESSELDORF:IS BLASTED BY TORS OF R. A. F. BOMBS   Is Fourth Allied «Aerial ..Blow At'German War Machine Ir Two Nights and a. Day--Sis Bombers Missing

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES BLAST GERMAN PLANTS   First U. S. Air Attack on Reich Features Cycle of Raids

BRITISH PLANES BLAST KEY AXIS MUNITIONS ARER   Several Hundred Tons Of Bombs Used In Attack

RAF Bombs Duesseldorf In New Raid   Fourth Allied Blow at  ermany in Past 36 Hours

Bombers Pound At Duesseldorf And Copenhagen   ’"Round-The-Clock Battering Of Hitler War  Foundries Continues.

RAF ASSAULTS ON RHINELAND _ KEEP UP SHOW   Copenhagen Also Has First Raid of War in New Campaign to ‘Bust Germany Wide Open’

RAID NAZI LAND FOR FIRST. TIME   Campaign to “Bust Germany Wide Open” Is Opened by Allies

TONS OF BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON BIG ENEMY CITY   Fourth Aerial Blow At German War Ma chine In Two Nights And One Day An.  nounced.

RAF Pounds Duesseldorf In New Raid   U. S. Fliers Bomb By Day and British Raid By. Night

Vital Plant Bomb Target As RAF Hits S. Germany   Friedrichshafen Hit Crippling Blow by RAF In 1,000-Mile Journey   ALL PLANES RETURN AFTER GREAT RAID

Two More Tax Consolidations Go To Senate   Most Republicans for and Most Democrats Against Measure

Two of Donnell’s  Tax Bills Passed   Last of Consolidation Measure Clear House and Go to Senate.

Democrats Plan All-Out Fight  On Tax Issue   Decide at Conference .To Oppose Ruml Plan Backed by Republicans

ALL-OUT FIGHT ON TAXES SEEN   Democratic Leaders Will Back System With No Abatement

DEMOS TO FIGHT TAX ABATEMENT   FIGHT ANTICIPATED AS RESULT OF GOP SUPPORT OF SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN,

BITTER FIGHT ISLOOMING ON TAX PROGRAM   Democrat Leaders to Back Plan With no Abatement

Democrats to Oppose Tax Abatement While GOP for Ruml Plan and So Battle Is Due in Lower House

OPPOSITION TO SKIPPING TAXES   House Democrats Oppose Ruml Plan; Fight With GOP Is Forecast

Bitter fight {OnTax Plan Seen.   Demos To Oppose - Abatement Methoc

FLOOR FIGHT ON TAX PLANS LOOM   Democratic Leaders to Go All-Out for Tax System With no Abatement; Ruml Plan Supporters to Battle

MORE NEWSPRINT CUT    Further Drastic Curtailment Seen By WPB Official

Farmer Is Run Over Two Times By Tractor He Cranked While in Gear

Farmer Lies Four Hours In Field After Tractor  Drives Over Him Twice

Planes Fly From China For Attack   Submarines Sink Nine Jay Cruisers—Gain Ground  on Bougainville

Today’s War Moves   India May Become Main Base for Operations  Aanaine? lane

INDIA GREAT ARSENAL FOR ALLIES, SEEN AS BASE FOR ULTIMATE DRIVE TO BRING ABOUT DEFEAT OF JAPS   Importance of This Great Area Stress by DeWit MacKenzie, Who Lauds Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, As Builder of Great Force to  Ty...) Theta) nw

INDIA, DEFENSELESS ONLY FEW MONTHS AGO, NOW STRONG DUE AIR ARM AND ITS COMMANDER

The War Today  Growing Air Power In India Will Be Used To Blast Japan Off Map

BRICKER CLAIMS FIRST DUTY IS TO HELP WIN WAR   WPB Recommends Dayligh Saving Time Be Retained for Duration

Warns Against Bureaucrats And Recommends End of Part of Sales Tax

(an Beat Japan Without Ground Attack On Island   Such Is Opinion Of High Ranking Members Of Gen. MacArthur's Staff

JAPS HARD HIT ON SEA, IN AIR   MacArthur’s Staff Officers Believe Isle Invasion May Not Be Needed

HIGH RANKING OFFICER OF _MacARTHUR STAFF SAYS AIR AND SEA POWER 18 KEY

KELLY BSKS CHANGE. FOR MEAT HUNTERS   Governor and Conservation Chief Say 100,000 Deer Can Be Killed. —

KELLY WOULD DRAW ON DEER FOR MEAT   Asks Conservation ‘Laws Be Revised to Enable State to Cut into Deer Supply

ALLIES STRIKE RIGHT AND LEF AGAINST JAPS   Heavy Damage Done to Enemy Supply Facilities and Air Bases; 14 Nip Planes Bagged

Japs Hard, bin Down 14 Aircraft      Shipping Blasted, Mas Areas Bombed; Nips. Make ARoid =  :=

Airmen Smash at Jap Bases   NIPS LOSE 14 PLANES AS FLIERS RIP SUPPLY CENTERS, AIR FIELDS

Allies Smash At Jap Bases   New Britain-Guinea Raids Dewn 14 Nip Planes; Ships Sunk

Girl and Soldier Are Killed in Tank  Vehicle Skids, Tree Smashes It

BARUCH SHIFTS FATHER STAND   BYRNES ADVISER SAYS “CONSIDER DEPENDENCY”

Says Draft Will Force Fathers  Into War Work   Senator Believes Move Will Bring Switch in Jobs

BRITISH FORCES BATTLE NIPPONS NORTH OF AKYAB   American Fliers, Joined bj RAF, Pound Objectives In Burma

Burma Japs Hit From Two Sides   U.5., China Bombers And India R.A.F. Planes Blast Bases

Wavell Renews Burma Fighting   Sky Dragons, RAF ‘Aleg Blast Japs

Skydragons, RAF  Throw One-Tw 0  Punch in Burma Fighting With Japs   Fighting With Japs In Lowlands Near Akvab ts Renewed

Wavell Forces Resume Battle With Japs In Burma; Dragons. And RAF Release Sky Blows

BRITISH PUSH DRIVE TOWARD BASE AT AKYAB   Two Important Nip Bases Ave Blasted In Aerial Assaults   ‘LAE UNDER FIRE   LAK UNDER FIRE     Two American Planes Lost In Raid On Rekata Bav Area

AMERICANS IN CHINA RAID THE JAPS IN BURMA.      General Wavell’s Army And Planes Form India Form Pincers On Burma

CRAG OVER-SUB. SCRIBES QUOTA   Better Than $6,000 Bonds ledged—Other News  Fvents

Marine Lieutenant  Kills 27 of Enemy   Seore of Tanambogo Island Fight, Americans 25. Jananese 348

JAPAN AND RUSSIA CGN AGREEMENT   Extends Fishing Privileges in Soviet Waters; Russian Refusal Would Have Been Blow to Jap Food Supply

Russia And Japs Sign Agreement  Nips To Pay More ~ On Fishing Right

JAPAN, SOVIET EXTEND PACT   Sign Agreement on Nippon. ese Fishing Privileges In Russian Waters

RUSSIA RENEWS JAPANESE PACT   Fishing Privileges Are Extended In Soviet Far East Waters

JAPAN AND RUSSIA SIGN AGREEMENT   ACCORD EXTENDS NIPPONESE FISHING PRIVILEGES IN FAR EAST WATERS.

Japs. Reds Sign  F ishing te   Privileges Extended But Nips Must Pay More Than Last Year

WHISKEY DIVIDEND IN NEW DIFFICULTY   ‘Stockholders _ Have To Get  Permission To Cash In

BACK TO WOODS ORDERED BY WIE   Pattern Seen for Other WMC Edicts in  Lumbermen’s Caen

Axis Armored Patrols Beaten Off in Africa   British First Army Ad vances in Sedjenane Area, Reports Say

GERMAN PATROLS HALTED IN TUNISIA   AXIS STAB FAILS IN GAFSA AREA—ENEMY AIRDROMES AND SHIPPING BOMBED.

Allies Push Nazis Back   American Guns Help French la One Sector

BRITISH FIRST >ARMY MOVING SLOWLY AHEAD   Widespread Aerial Assaults Against Axis Airdromes Are Reported.

ALLIES REPULOt STRONG ARMORED PATROL ATTACKS   Artillery Supports Troops in Pushing Back Foe in Gafsa Section   BRITISH FIRST ARMY ADVANCES IN NORTH   French Consolidate Positions Recently Won in Central Area; Allied Planes Pound Mezzouna Airdrome; Slight Activity in South Region

BIGU. . GUNS HALT AXIS IN NORTH AFRICE   BRITISH FIRST ARMY ADVANCES; FRENCH MOVING UP

Strong German Patrols. Beaten Back In Tunisia   Widespread ‘Aerial Action Reported; » British Advancing

Enemy K orces Overpowered  Near Gafsa   British Army Moves Forward in North; Lash Axis From Air

Enemy Patrols Driven Back In Gafsa Area’   Most of Action, However In Tunisian Theatre Pressed by Air Forces

Allies Drive Back Enemy In Gafsa Area   British Advance Neat Sédjenane; Wide Aerial Activity

Allies Repulse Foe Near Gafsa   British Make Slight Advance in Sedjenane Area of Tunisia

REPORT FDR GIVES UP ON SUBSIDY PLAN   Washington Sources Say New Proposal Would Guarantee Farm Prices Instead.   WAGE FORMULA STANDS   Program Would Raise Living Costs a Little Without Changing Workers’ Pay.

ROOSEVELT SAID TO ‘HAVE ABANDONED SUBSIDY PLAN OF CONTROLLING.COST OF FOODS

SUBSIDY PLAN ABANDONMENT BELIEVED NEAR   President Reported Favoring Guarantee Of Minimum Prices To Farmers   NEW PROGRAM’ READIED   Proposals Expected To Se Viewed As Victory For Congressional Bloc

FDR ABANDONS SUBSIDY PLANS   President May Ask Congress to Guarantee Prices on Basic Crops

KNOX SAYS SUB WAR NOT OVER   Secretary Asserts Submarine Menace Will Break Out Elsewhere

Yank Subs Sink More Jap Ships   Toll On Enemy Shipping Increased By Seven

Subs Sink Seven More Jap Ships   Brings To 184 Number Of Nipponese Ships Hit

U.S. Subs Bag 7 Jap Ships   Five Sunk and Two Others Damaged in Scattered Pacific Points

PLOW AHEAD ON 2 FRONTS; NEAR ROSTO\   Now Declared to Be But 60 Miles Away as Plight of German Invaders Grows Serious

3 Germans Battling Desperately : Against Destruction ~ Below Don Bend

POSITIONS DESPERATE   Soviet Dive Bombers Go Into Action In Don Fighting

REDS DRIVE CLOSER T0 ROSTOV   One Spearhead Within 60 Miles Of Caucasus Gateway

Nazis Facing Trap, Continue Fight to End   Two Prongs of Caucasus Attackers Nearing Gateway City

SOVIETS ONLY oD MM. FROM ADSTOV GOA   Second Line of Attack Is 56 Miles from Salsk Rail Junction,   NAZI GARRISONS ARE DESPERATE IN STAND

Drive in Two Directions inCaucasus Area   “ Two-Pronged Offensive Is Moving Forward

RUSSIANS DRIVE TWO SPEARHEADS   Allied Planes Harassing Axis Transport Columns East of Tripoli.

Nazis Menaced By — 2-Pronged Russian Drive In Caucasus   German Position Becomes Increasingly Desperate; Suffer Enormous Losses in  Men and Material On Lower Don

RUSSIANS. PUSH FORWARD ALL ALONE BIG FRONT   Spearheads Thrust Forward Nearer to Vital Nazi-held City.

Planes Roar Back Into Action After Three Nights On Ground Because Of Fog

BIGGEST GERMAN INLAND PORT HI BY ATON BOMBS   Fighters Sweep Over France; Others Raid Outskirts of Halian Capital.

RAF'S BOMBERS LASH DUISBURG IN RUHR AREA   4 Planes Are Lost in “Strong Force” Taking Part in Assaults

RAF Cascades Destruction  On Duisberg   Giant Bombs Drop; Nazis Taking Children Out of Ruhr

Allied Police Force Proposed to Guard Peace After War   Four U. S. Senators Will Submit Plan To White House; Eden May be Present

PROPOSAL ATTACHES NEW IMPORTANCE TO VISIT OF BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETAR'   Four Senators, with Connally and Wagner, to Meet Roosevelt Today

Bipartisan Group, of Senator: Asks Postwar Peace Setup As Eden Opens Talks in U. S.

Polio In Flareup At Oklahoma City   Two Deaths in 26 Cases, One Case in Tulsa

OUTBREAK OF PARALYSIS    Officials in Oklahoma Act to Check Spread of: Disease

TAX PROGRAM Ob OUTLINED BY TREASURY   MORGENTHAU PROPOSES TWO‘THIRDS OF NEW INCREASES ~ COME FHOM TAXES ON ‘ :RERSQNAL INCOME 

Ob’ OF LOAD ON PERSONAL INCOMES   Steep Excise and Corporate Boosts Also Sought

Volunteer ‘Land Army’ of 3,500,000 Sought "From City Workers To Hike US Food Output      Three Dimensional Attack Hurls Back Jap in Solomons’

YANKS GAIN ON GUADALCANAL   Take Village Seven Miles From Airfield; Success ful Air Raids Made

YANKS ADVANCE ON GUADALCANAL   CAPTURE VILLAGE WEST OF AIRFIELD—SEIZE STORES AND EQUIPMENT,

YANKS BY Aik, SEA, LAND GAIN iN SOLOMONS   Navy Discloses Capture Of Village West Of Guadalcanal Airfield With Jap  Stores, Equipment.   Push Japs West

Air, Land and Sea Blows Batter Japs Over Wide Area  Continued Progress In Guadalcanal Campaign Reported

Yanks Seore New Gains In Solomons   Village Captured On Guadalcanal; Wide Area Damaged

Airmen Rip Fleeing Foe   Allied Planes Rein Fire Over Messina Area and on Strait

Allied Airmen Giving Foe No Rest; Blast Messina Strait And Rail Lines, Harbors

GERMANS MESSINA BRIDGEHEAD HARD HIT FROM THE AIR   in, Addition to Pounding the Bridgehead Allied Planes Hammered Mainland Objectives Near Rome

ALLIED AIR ONSLAUGHT UNCEASING   Attack Messina Bridgehead And Mainland Targets

Master of Grange Says Food Subsidy » Will Bring Chaos   Testifies Against OPA Price Roll-Back Plan  Before Senators

FARM SUBSIDY HIT BY GRANGE MASTER   Inflation Inevitable Under Plan He Says

SUBSIDY PAYMENT TO CAUSE CHAOS, GRANGE HEAD SAYS   Inflation Will Result From Gov. ernment Plan to Roll Back Food Prices

Grange Leader Raps Subsidy   See Danger Of Food Shortage, Inflation, Political Control In Plan,

Master of Grange Says  Subsidy Payments to Roll ‘Back Prices 1s Dangerous

 Production Of Butter And   Milk Already Dropping,   Congressmen Are Told By Head Of Grange

An Inflation  Threat Seen  In Subsidies Grange Master Is For Poukibition Of Payments

HIT TARGETS “IN: SICILY   Three Axis Ships Are Damaged; 43 Planes Brought Down

Air Fleets: Lash Italian Bases, © Hit 42 Planes   Record Breaking Toll Of Axis Fighters ls Levied; Rome Denies Repert. Of Peace Mission In Algiers

U.S. FLIERS SWARM OVER IN HUNDREDS   Airfields, Harbors Rocked by Rain Of Bombs

Italian Troops Enter Battle in Fifth Army Area   Cobelligerent Move Fulfills Promise Made by Badoalio

ltalian Troops Battle Germans   Reported in Action Beside Americans

TTALIANS FIGHT ALONGSIDE YANKS   UNITS TAKE PLACE IN LINE WITH FIFTH ARMY UNDER GENERAL CLARK.

RACE RIOTING TOLL MOUNTS TO 29 DEAD   Armed Troops Now Patrol Streets of Negro Section

Casualty List Of 29 Recorded   Six Hundred Wound. ed, 34 In Jail For 90 Days, Result  Of Race Riots.

Army Is Ahead Of Its Schedule   General Somervell Tells of Progress

Counterattacks by Germans Slow Reds Lower Don Advance   However Russians Score New Gains in Caucasus; Near Salsk

RED ARMY PUSHES GERMAN INVADERS BACK TOWARD -ROSTOV   Only.In Lower Don River Valley Are Germans Able To Check :Reds   NAZI] TANK PUSH FAILS

PUGH INVADERS NEAR KEY CITY   German Resistance Stronger in Lower Don Valley, Slowing Drive.   RED PLANES ARE ACTIVE

RUSSIANS ARE PUSHING NAZIS NEARER ROSTOV   Soviet Drive Is Slowed Only In Lower Don  Valley

SAMUEL H. SQUIRE CALLED BY DEATH   Former Ohio Bank Head Dies In Tiffin

FORMER STATE BANK HEAD DIES   Samuel H. Squire, 69, 0 Tiffin Stricken Sunday Night

COMMANDER FRENCH ARMY FLEES NAZIS   Georges Free, Offers Services To Allied Cause

Introductior Of Tax Bill Is Delayed   Will Not Be Offered ir House Before Nov. 22, Speaker Rayburn Says

NEW TAX BILL 0 GET QUICK ACTION IN LOWER HOUSE   Clears Ways and Means Com: mittee—Debate Starts Monday.

HOUSE NOT TO GET TAX BILL UNTIL NOV. 22   Will Debate Food Subsidy Issue Instead: Ways And Means Committee Fin. ishes Revenue Proacram.

New Tax Bill Is Submitted  To Congress   Measure is Not Likely to Come Up Before Nov. 22

HANDLED 6,000 ~—NCOME BLANKS   Office of Internal Revenue Comparatively Was Quiet Today

RAF HAMMERS NAZI TARGETS   Boulogne, Cherbourg Are Blasted Without Opposition

RUHR VALLEY IS SWEPT BY FLOOD WATER   Mohne, Eder dams shattered; 363 million gal lons of water loosed

Bis Power Dams In Germany Are  Blasted By R. A. F.   New Tactics Are Developed -In War Against Hitler's Industries   MOHNE AND EDER DAMS ARE BREACHED

Actual “Invasion” of Europe by Air Power of the Allies. Is Taking Place at Present

TATTERS 2 OF BIGGEST DAMS IN GERMANY   Berlin Bombed Again as Air Offensive Enters 5th Day

Big Packing Plants Close  Can't Pav 27 Cents   Can't Pay 27 Cents And Sel] At 22

MEAT PACKERS CLOSE IN OHIO   Nine Firms Shut Down, Waiting For Subsidies--Loss . Of Profit Told

STALIN RECEIVES HULL IN MOSCOW   U. S. Secretary of State Has Secret Chat With Promier

PLEASURE DRIVING BAN TO BE LIFTED   That Is Assurance Given “A” Book Holders By Prentiss Brown—Declines To Say When It Will Occur

NUMEROUS RUMORS REGARDING PLANS COME FROM ITALY   Hints Circulating That Badoglio Seeks A Way Out Of  ~ Conflict a

Italy Seeks Way Out OF War, Report      Many Rumors, But No Definte Moves: As Yet, Indicated

MAY BE TRYING “TO MAKE PEACE. THROUGH POPE   Other Reports Say Badoglio Has Abolished Fascist Party to Convince Allies Leadership Has Been Changed 4

Badoglio Said Still Seeking — Way Out of War   Report From Spain Says Fascist Party Has Been Abandoned

TAFT EXPECTS CIVILIAN CZAR BILL WILL PASS   Byrnes Powers Would Grow Greatly; Lines Drawn In Trade Treaty Fight —

Supply Bill ‘Held Certain ~ OfSenate OK   Measure Would Give Byrnes Broad Powers Over All Supplies

More Power To Byrnes in Sunoly Plan   He Would Have Authority to Settle Dispute Between Military, Civilian Prosrams   SENATE EXPECTED - TO GIVE APPROVAL   Measure Strongly Opposed by Nelson May Come Up Later This Week

Early Senate Approval Seen InCwviltan Supply Agency Act   Taft Says Measure Would Help Make Byrnes Assistant President With Final Word In Allocation Battles

PREDICT APPROVAL OF SUPPLY MEASURE      Byrnes Will Become Assistant President Under Terms of New Civilian Bill

Early Approval of Supply Bill Seen  Measure Would Give Byrnes. Powers of Assistant Precidant

CIVILIAN SUPPLY AGENCY URGED   Byrnes Would Be Set Up as ‘Assistant President’ by Taft-backed Bill

Senators to Back Civilian Supply Unit   Early Approval Would Give Byrnes Powers Second to President

Early Senate Approval Predicted For Civilian Supply Agency Bill’

Senate Okay Seen For Giving Extra Power To Byrnes   Threat To WPR Seen

Civilian Bill Nears Action   Full Authority Is Given J. F. Byrnes By Senate Measure

Bill To Make Byrnes Second  Only To FDR   Nelson Objects To Delegation Of Power To Civilian Agency

CIVILIAN SUPPLY AEN 1S SEER   Senate Approval Of Plan  To Give Byrnes More   Power Is Seen

CIVIL SUPPLY BILL FAVORED BY SENATORS   Republican Taft, Favoring Measure, Says It Would Make Byrnes Assistant President

Motion to Unseat  Ross Fails, 76-14   Senate Geis Tax Repealer; Bailey Reveals State Losses in Taxes

MOVE 10 UNSEAT DELEGATE Aas DEFEATED ./0- 14   Hour of Debate Marks Virtually Only Legislative Action of Listless Day   SENATE GETS BILL REPEAL INCOME TAX   Sends House Approved Meas. ure to Finance Committee As Matter of Routine; Sen. ate Expected Poll Heavy Vote for Repealer

Senate Votes to Raise Corn Ceiling   Top of $1.40 in Chicago Proposed

APPROVES RAISING OF CORN CEILING   Senate  Committee Favors Boost ‘rom. $1.07 to $1.40

Approve Boost In Corn Price   Senators Vote To Increase Ceiling From $1.07 To $1.40 Chicago Basis.

AACHEN SHATTERED -BY RAF BOMB ATTACK   Reporter Says Streets Were Black With Smoke and Littered With Glass and Broken Wires.

JOB CHANCES SLIM FOR ‘HUSKY WOMAN’   Employers Too Particular, Ohio WMC Head Says

ALLIES ROAR ABOVE ROME, HIT NEAR-BY   Seaplane Base At Mouth 0 Tiber Given Hammering By British Bombers

Allies Rip Rome Seaplane Base   Plaster Lido Di Roma Aircraft Key, 15 Miles From Capital

Seaplane Airdrome West Of Italian Capital Battered; Opposition Light

Seaplanes Hit In Attack on RomeAir Base   Allied Bombers Hammer Field at Tiber’s Mouth - in Bright Moonlight

Axis Hangars, Planes Hit On Ground   Italian Source Claims British Bombed Rome Airport

ALLIES HIT AIR BASE NEAR ITALIAN CAPITAL   Attack Lido Di Roma, 15 Miles from Rome

ALLIED PLANES fT SEAPLANE BASE QUISIDE OF ROME   See No Enemy Fighters; No Bombs Dropped On Eternal City   HANGARS ARE. WRECKED

Allied Planes In ARaid Over Rome   Seaplane Base at Mouth of Tiber Was Blasted . Last Night   TWO HANGARS BLAZING   Attack Was Made With No . Interference From Enemy Fighters -

Seaplane Base At Mouth Of Tiber River Blasted In Bright Moonlight; Opposition Weak   Little Anti-Aircraft Fire Encountered; American Troops Took 70 Locomotives And “00 Freight Cars On African Expedition

SEAPLANE BASE NEAR ROME HIT   Raid Marks Closest Approach to Fascist Capital of War.   SICILY ALSO IS BOMBED

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK ITALIAN SEAPLANE BASE   Have No Interference From Enemy Fighters While Bombing and MachineGunning the Base’s Hangars, Moorings and Planes  At Will.

Allied Bombers Roar Over Rome And Attack Nearby Seaplane Base at Lido Roma

ALLIED PLANES POUND ITALIAN SEAPLANE BASE   Bombers Roar Over Rome: No Bombs Dropped

ALLIES PASS UP ROME IN ATTAGK ON VITAL PLANT   No Opposition Offered From  Axis Forces

Allied Planes Drop Bombs On Italian Seaplane Base   Blast Lido di Roma, At Mouth of Tiber, Marking Clo: est Approach to Eternal City Itself

Aircraft on Ground Hit in Raid Near Italy's Capital   Closest Approach Is Made By Planes to Eternal City

Rome’s Seaplane Base Blasted by British Airmen   RAF Wellingtons Bomb Hangars Without Interference From Enemy.   No Bombs Dropped on Italy’s Eternal City

ALLIED PLANES FLY OVER ROME TO PLANE BASE   Lido de Roma, Trapani, Palermo and Metaponto Among Targets of Airmen from Africa

AERIAL WAR [S TAKEN T0 ROME.AREA   Seaplane Base 15 Miles From Capital Bombed

Today’s War Map      Allied Bombers Roar Over Rome And Blast Seaplane Base: Tunisia Forces Continue Salvaging Supplies

Have No Interference From Enemy Fighters While Bombing and MachineGunning the Base’s Hangars, Moorings and Planes At Will.

Berlin And Environs Of Rome Are Blasted In Mighty Two-Way Allied Offensive; Italians Put Up No Interference To Sweeps

ALLIES BLAST PLANE BASE   BOMBERS SPRAY SEA-AIR HUB IN ROME SHADOW

Planes Fly Over Rome To Smash At Seaplane Base   Wellingtons Rip Hangars, Aircraft 15 Miles Away At Mouth Of Tiber

Italian Raid Meets Little Opposition   Bombs Dropped Only 15 Miles From The ‘Eternal City’

ROME’S SEAPLANE PORT BOMBED LAST NIGHT FROM AFRICA   ALLIED AIRFORCE KEEP _ MEDITERRANEAN OPEN BY  CONSTANT ACTIVITY

Nazis Streaming North From City   Allies Thru Their Attention To Rome

Fall of Naples Is Expected \Momentarily   Allies Now Set Eyes On Italian Capital, 135 Miles to North  ETICATH MOVES ALONG

Retreats Toward Rome as Allies Smash Route From Air; Fifth Rolls Steadily Northward

Yank Tanks Reach Outskirts of Naples   Americans Skirt Mt. Vesuvius to Get To Great Port as Nazis Stream North Out of City: British Bombard District

Germans Evacuating City As ——tS.-Armored Colunins  Sweep Forward

Yankee Tanks dnto Naples as Enemy Retreats   Nazis Into/Hills Near Rome; High Casualties Reported

Next Defense Line Is Near Rome   British Fleet Reported Shelling Port; American Tanks Fight Past Pompei; Italians Expected to Declare War Soon

BERLIN REPORT SAYS GERMANS EVACUATE CITY   Eisenhower, Badoglio In Conference On Use Of Italian Forces 1 In Future

NAPLES RUINS LEFT BERIND BY NAZI ARMY   AMERICAN ARMORED FORCES RACE INTO GREAT SEAPORT

Stream north from burning city to defense lines in hills near Rome; Fifth advances      Armored columns rumble beyond Pompei nine miles short of port

Yanks Batile Way Past Pompeii Ruins   Fifth Army Is in Clear View of First Objective

Nazis Streaming North From City   Allies Thru Their Aseentian Tra Bixnes

Germans Streaming North to Defense Line Near Rome; Americans Drive Past Ancient Pompei’s Ruins

Fall of Naples Hourly Expected, Nazis in Retreat   American Tanks On Edge of City

«lark’s Armored Troops Skit Vesuvius To Approach Gates of Balléred Naples

NAZIS FLEEING TOWARD ROME DEFENSE LINE   General Clark’s Army  Threatens to Trap Any  Rearguards Left Be‘hind by Enemy,   BERLIN REPORTS RETREAT FROM CITY   Non-Controlled Radio Says British Fleet Is Shelling the Ravaged Seaport. .

Flood Tide Ro:ling in From West      Most Serious Overflow In 25 Years: Dikes are Protecting Kansas City   WILL EXTEND TO MOUTH OF GRAND   Western Section of State Suffers Most In the Current Flood

BRITAIN’S BOMBERS DUMP OVER 7,000 TONS BOMBS ON NAZI FIVE GERMAN INDUSTRIAL   CENTERS GET TERRIFIC POUNDING

NEW RECORD FOR RAF   British Dump 17.600 Tens Of Bombs On Germany In Week

Furious Offensive Staged on Germany  Aerial Assaults Cause Heavy Loss

Germany Hit By 7000 Tons Bombs In Week   Allied Assault Centered On Five Industrial Cities

7,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Nazis   BRITISH AIRMEN IN NEW RAIDS ON GERMANY

Seven Thousand Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Germany In Single Week

awe Hurl  Ty ench Coast   Bombers Strike Toward Boulogne, Then Turn Toward Dunkerque

WORKERS AT DODGE PLANT ON STRIKE   Company Charges Four Demands Made By Union

Production Of War Goods Hit By ClO Strike   Union Demands Men Be Paid If Sent Home For Lack Of Materials

Russians smash on to Orel   Nazis hurling available men to Kramatorsk

REDS CLOSER 10 OREL, WEATHER ~— SLOWS ADVANCE      Losses of Germans Mount As Russians Push on.

REDS GAIN IN PUSH TOWARL THE DNIEPER   Draw Closer To German Anchor Base of Orel   U.S. Airmen Bomb Jap Ship, Airdromes At Wewak and Lae, on New Guinea Coast

Germans Make All-Out Attempt To Stop Russians   Reds Move Closer To Orel; Capture Another Village

RUSSIANS CAPTURE NEW CITIES   Soviet Offensive Ir Kramatorsk Area  Is Unchecked

GERMANS Fall 10 CHECK RUSSIANS, USE FULL FORCE   Reports Indicate Reds Continue With Success During Advance Toward Orel Anchor Base.   PACIFIC AIRBASES = TO BLOCKADE JAPS   Four More Jap Ships Are Sunk In New Guinea District For Total of 20 tn Four Days of Raiding.

SOVIETS: SMASHING CLOSER TO GERMAN ANCHOR'BASE OREL   Nazis Hurling More Men And Armor Into All. Out Drive To Halt Stalin's Forces

Reds Slashing Closer To Ore Despite Mud   Russians Capture Another Village As Germans Fight On

Only One Company Reports Workers Insufficient To Resume Operation   PRESIDENTIAL ORDER BEING COMPLIED WITH   Rubber Workers Not Opposed To FDR Order To Resume Work Today

Less Than Half Return To Plants   All Expected to Ultimately Obey New Directive

Roosevelt Ultimatum Gets Results   Four Big Akron Companies Say Work Resumed

MANY RUBBER WORKERS GO BACK TO JOBS   -7,000-Report-For Work By Noon  Deadline

Rubber Workers Return To Jobs In Akron Plants   Action Taken After _President Roosevelt Issues. Ultimatum

MASS RETURN BY WORKERS SEEN IN ALL MAJOR PLANTS   Rubber Industry Went On General Strike Against WLB Wage  Decision

MEN GING BACK TO JOBS AT FOUR RUBBER FACTORIES   Plants Without Adequate Men as Noon Deadline Ordered By Roosevelt Draws ta Close.   750 TONS OF SYNTHETIC LOST DURING SHUTDOWN   Lost In War Products Materials Probably Exceeded 14 Billion, 52,000 Men Are Affected.

BERLIN PLEASED WITH BREAK OF POLES AND REDS   Papers Point To Rupture As Sign Of Trouble In Offing For Allies

NAZIS REJOICE OVER POLISH-SOVIET SPLIT   Axis Wins Victory in Propaganda War

POLISH - SOVIET BREAK CHEERS AXIS NATIONS   Split Lauded As One Of Germany’s “Neatest Diplonfatic Successes”   ALLIED PRESTIGE HIT   U. S. And Britain Reported Starting Negotiations To Settle Dispute

Soviet Quarrel Pleases Nazis   POLISH INCIDENT IS GOOD NEWS FOR GERMANS

ALLIED BREACH PLEASES AXIS   Russo-Polish Diplomatic Break in Berlin Spotlight

AXIS REJOICES IN RED BREAK WITH POLAND   Berlin And Rome View Split As Indication That Allies Aren’t In Harmony

Push Red-Pole Negotiations as Nazis Sing over Break   Poles and Russians Term Rupture Suspension Rather Than Definite Break

MODIFIED RUML TAX BILL GIVEN NOD IN SENATE   Finance Committee Re. turns Favorable Re port By 14To7 ,   EARLY VOTE SEEN

Carlson Bill Wins Senate Group’s Vote   Finance Members Favor Forgiving Year’s Tax Except on Windfalls

President Refuses To Accept Resignation Of ‘Under Secretary Fortas

RECONSIDERATION — OF VOTE PLANNEL   Ohio Senate to Again Take Up Debated Measure on Districts in Stata.

Little Increase Of Oil-Jester   More Texas Oil Production Awaits Two New Pipe Lines

Special Venire Of 150 From Robeson For Harris Trial   Jury for Hoke County Trial to be Selected from List Drawn Here.

Special Venire Of 1350 From Robeson or Harris Trial   Jury “for ‘Hoke ‘ County - Trial ‘to. be Selected “e.  from Last-Dr

POLICE PROTECT MICKEY ROONEY   Receive Telephone Cal. Threatening Life of 21Year-Old Star

Police Guard Mickey Rooney Following Threat On His Life   Mother Blames Prankster; Nothing Happens As Midnight Deadline Passes

POLICE CALLED ‘TO GUARD STAR ARTER THREAT   Mickey Rooney Is. Taken ' to Secret Place For Pro- ‘teetion; Father Gets   .. BDhone Call   ‘CRANK’ BLAMED   Mother Not. Alarmed By Messages, Declares Prankster May Be . Mvstery Caller

Mickey Rooney Being Guarded   Phoned Threat Upon Life - Of Actor Is Revealed; © -« Prankster Blamed :

Move to Unroot Negroes’ Loyalty Purpose of Grouy   Black Dragon Is Indicted by Grand Jury in Iinois

COMMON HOUSEFLY  BLAMED INFANTILE  PARALYSIS VIRUS HEALTH OFFICER TELLS  CIVITANS CLEAN-UP CAMDAICN TlorenTr

COMMON HOUSEFLY BLAMED INFANTILE PARALYSIS VIRUS  HEALTH OFFICER TELLS CIVITANS CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN URGENT

President Says Blow Is Str uck for France   é  Roosevelt Indicates Other _ Attacks May Fall on Germans “From. British Isles

Americans, British And Canadians Join In Attack; Axis Says Parachutists Lead Drive; Island Is Most Heavily Defended Part Of Italy

Eisenhower Commands Attack   American, Canadian, And British Troops  Battling Axis Forces On Big Italian Island

See Little Hope To Slash Costs  Hope To Hold Prices  "og ppheg EP Rey See Ss ere ae a

CAN’T REDUCE LIVING COSTS    But Price Chief Hopes To Keep Prices From Rising More Than 14 Percent.

Casualties In U. S. Services  Reach 126,969   13,160 In Navy And 14,321 In Army Are Reported Deed, Stimson Reveals

Army Casualties Total 94,918   Includes Dead, , Wounded And Missing

126.969 Total Of Casualties   Army Casualties Krom. Besinning ‘Of War To Nov. 15 Were 94.918.

Army Casualties 94,918 fo Date   Totals Include Dead, Wounded, Prisoners, Missing

Casualties To 126,969   Total Since Dee. 7, "41; Stimson Outlines Progress of Pacific War 

U.S: War Casualties Now Total 126,969   Worley:Probes VEW Choracs

American War Casualties Now  Reach 126,969  Total For Army Set At 94.918

War Casualties Total 126;969 For U.S. Forces   Gilbert Losses Not Included in Latest Fiqures

U.S. Casualties Total 126,969   Army Reports 94,918; All Branches of Navy Reports 32,051

WAR CASUALTIES OF U.S. 126,969   More Than 27,000 Army And Navy Men Have Been Killed

U.S. Army Casualties Now  Total 94,918   Sustain 11,572 In Italy; All-Services Total Since War Began Is 126.969

STIMSON SETS CASUALTIES OF U8, AT 94518   Total Includes 14,321 Killed and 32,690 Wounded

ARMY CASUALTY LIST NOW 94,918   Stimson Announces 14,221 Killed, 24,490 Missing: Since Dec. 7, 1941

WAR CASUALTIES ARE ANNOUNCED FOR U.S, ARMY   Stimson Reports Total at 94,918 From Start of War fo Nov. 15

NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED, WOUNDED, PRISONERS OR MISSING IS: ANNOUNCED BY STIMSON.

American Army and Navy Casualties in  All Branches 126,969   Conquest of Tarawa in Gilberts Exceedingly Costly to U. S.

Time Near For Major Offensive   Germans Still Losing Ground On Soviet Fronts

FALL ON HITLER AT HOUR OF HiS DISASTER IN RUSSIA SEEMS TO BE PLAN; ROSTOV NEAR FALL.

Early Heavy Offensives Against Nazis Indicated By Churchill’s Report   Washington Lends Strength to Talk Of New Action; U. S. Planes in Africa Hammer Constantly at Communication Lines of Foe

NS VIRTUALLY OEAL FATE OF GOMEL, GERMAN STRONGHOLD   RED ARMIES PUSH FORWARD TOWARD OLD POLAND FRIDAY

TROOPS MOVE ON CITY FROM 2 DIRECTIONS       Soviets Also Have Brought German Counter-Attacks to a Standstill on Lower Flank of Great Kiey Bulge. .##4

Gomel Totters in Russ Smash   RUSSIANS PUSH TOWARD OLD POLAND FROM NEW BASES OF KOROSTEN, RECHITSA; NAZI ATTACKS AT STANDSTILL IN WEST UKRAINE

Soviets Push Ahead From 2 New Bases   Korosten and Rechiisa Captured in Bitter Fighting   GOMEL FALL NEAR   Red Army Advances ' Within 60 Miles of Old Polish Border

GERMAN ANCHOR STRONGHOLD OF RECHITSA FALLS   SOVIETS DEAL HEAVY BLOW TO HITLERITES BY TAKING KOROSTEN

RUSSIANS PUSH ONTOWARD OLD POLISH BORDER   Counter-Attacks on Lower Flank Brought to Standstill by Reds

Korosten, Rechitsa Fall To Red Force   Russians Pressing On Toward Old Polish  Border; Nazi Attempts To Widen Gains Near Zhitomir Broken Down   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

Reds Halt Nazi Counterattacks, Resume Their  Push on Poland   Gomel Tottering; Stalin Proclaims 2 More Victories

Russians Driving Ever Nearer to’ Old Polish Border   Soviet Troops Push On From Re-captured Korosten, Rechitsa

FATE OF GOMEL 15 NOW SEALED   Twin Victories Deal Heavy Blow-to German Communications.   STOP GERMAN ATTACKS

REDS PUSHING ON FROM TWO ENEMY BASES   ‘Driving Toward Old Poland, with Fall of Gomel Imminent, Nazi Attacks Repulsed

Reds Pinch Gomel; City’s Capture Near   Push Westward From 2 Newly Taken Bases; Nazi Counterattacks Halted.

Soviet Power Halts German Counter-Blow   Reds Capture Two Bases and Drive  On Poland; Fall  Of Gomel Is Near

RAIN DAMAGE IN “GEOLOGY OFFICE   Water Enters Thru Construction Openings in  Haworth Hall ;   FALL DROUTH BROKEN

RAIN. DAMAGE IN  ~ GEOLOGY OFFICE   Water Enters Thru Construction Openings in  Haworth Hall 4

FIRE KILLS 5       Canadian Fk  Town Jarred by Blast obkoawing Blaze.

Today’s War Commentary  Nazis Look North  ie#e«* «a  ’ ] pers : ! ee rere ve Deal a pune Seer ena fac get aetae

Death Ends Famed Partnership  Joseph C. Trees, 73, Wealthy Oil Wildcatter, Dies Suddenly

JOSEPH TREES, OIL MAN, DIES   One of World's Best-Known Wildcatters is Stricken By Heart Attack

RED SPEARHEAD REPORTED ONLY 30 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER   Soviet Army West Of Kiev Now Within Striking Distance Of Poland’s Borderline.

China Marks Time Aaainst lananese   Ready To Play Full Roll In Offensive

‘Chinese Armies Plan to Mark Time Until They Can Join Big Allied Effort

Ever-Widening U.S. Offensive Is Weakening Japs   Enemy Naval And Air Pow. er Being Spread Over Huge Area   PROBLEM GROWS FOR NIPPONESE

 Japan’s Sea Power. Being Spread Out  Over Large Area to Meet U.S. Threat

VICHY HAS LOST CONTROL OVER MARTINIQUE ISLAND   COMMISSIONER WHO HAS BEEN HOSTILE TO ALLIES IN: VITES THEM TO : EO

A RICH GIRL  BY MARGARETTA BRUCKER  ‘fitctr. by edie Pemtee Srediest: teen

Big Yank Air Blow  Looms   GIANT PLANE OFFENSIVE TO SMASH JAP BASES IN SOLOMONS IS PREDICTED

NEW U.S AIR DRIVE IN SOLOMONS SEEN      Reported Necessary Because Of Renewed Enemy Aggressiveness

Renewed Air Offensive in Pacifie Seen   Jap Aggressiveness Sure to Bring American _Retahiation __

MORE ITALIAN SHIPS AWAITED   Thirty-two Already Are in Allied Ports

Nelson Creates Gvilian Goods,  Service : Agency   Has Job of Protecting Homefront Economy

NEW CIVILIAN OFFICE FORMED   Agency Will Control Goods, Services Except Food, *s.*"" “Housing Transit

th lo GIVEN POWERS OVER CIVIL SUPPLY   New Agency Created to Form Ration Policies, Find Requirements.   SUPERCEDES OCS WITH INCLUSIVE CONTROL

U. S. Flying Forts, British Warships Join In Attacks On Italian Areas

YANKS SHOWER BOMBS ON PISA   British Warships Shell Coastal Forts

Cold Wave Is Predicted for Midwest Tonight; 5 Below Zero Is Expected

COLD WAVE IS ON WAY TODAY IN THIS AREA   Zero To 5 Above For Southern Illinois

NEW COLD WAVE HEADS THIS WAY   Sub-zero Temperatures Are Registered in Midwest

Mercury May Go To Zero Here   Six Midwest States In Winter's Grip

ANOTHER GOLD WAVE ON WAY   Mercury To Hit 15 Below in Minnesota, Wisconsin

MOUNTBATTEN NEW GHIEF IN SOUTHERN ASIA   MacArthur’s Troops Only One ‘Mile From Salamaua

Jungle Troops Within Mile of Salamaua   14th Air Force Bombers Rain “Destruction on Jap Airports in Hankow, Wushati

MOUNTBATTEN APPOINTED 10 FAR EAST POST   Famed Chief ‘of Britain's Commandos Will Direct Future Operations

BURMA CAMPAIGN SEEN WITH NAMING OF MOUNTBATTEN   Knockout Blows at Nippon Based on India or Ceylon Expected to Follow Push to Reopen Burma Road

New Commander Expected Today For ‘Discussions —   Appointment Is First Concrete Result Of Quebec Conference; Is Well Trained Leader

Mountbatten Place Indicates Coming Pressure on Japs   Sea-Air-Land Drive to Reopen Burma Road Expected From Allies

MOUNTBATTEN TO DIRECT DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE   Appointment Of British Combined Operations Chief As Allied Commander In Southeastern Asia Widely Interpreted As Foreshadowing All-Out Operations To Conquer Nipponese—Easing Of China’s Burden And Opening Of Burma Road Prime Objectives

Burma Attack Is Forecast   Lord Mountbatten Named Chief of Allies In Southeast Asia

Open BurmaRd., Fase China Load New Allied Goal:      “Mountbatten Appointment Seen .Heralding New Actions Against Japs

Burma Road Drive Believed Planned   Appointment of Montbatten as Chief Of War in Southeast Asia Announced

MOUNTBATTEN NAMED CHIEF IN FAR EAST   &irst Goal Likely To Be Opening Of Burma Road; Allies Only One Mile From Salamaua

Stepped Up Drive on Japan Expected With Mountbatten Appointment; New Southeast ‘Asia Leader Maps Plans in Washington

MOUNTBATTEN PUT IN CHARGE lt BURMA WAR   Chief Of British Commandos To Head Allied Attack Against Japanese

PACIFIC HAILS MOUNTBATTEN   MacARTHUR WILL AID NEW ASIATIC CHIEF

STEPPED-UP WAR AGAINST JAPAN IN FIRST PHASE   British Commando Chief s Placed in Command in Southeastern Asia   RESULT OF WAR COUNCIL   Meanwhile, Jungle Fighting On Pacific Island Has Nips On the Run

Pacific Battle About To Start With New Fury   PARATROOPER IS HELPING DANES

Burma Drive To Be Led By Mountbatten   Chief Of Commandos Is Placed In Charge Of Allied Forces Based In Southeast Asia

Burma Action Foreshadowed   Appointment of Mountbatten as Asia Chief Points to Attack

Lord Mountbatten Named . Supreme Allied Chieftain — Jn Southeast Asia Theatre

Stepped Up Drive Upon Japan Seen   Allies Will Bring More Aid to China; May Attack in Fall

Soviet Attendance  At Quebee Confab ‘Not Suggested’   Government Answers Criticism of Absence  Of Reds’ Delegates

Stalin Not Asked To Send Envoys To Conference   Russian Participation No Suggested’, Moscow Statement Asserts

MOSCOW NOT SUMMONED 10 QUEBEC TALKS   CHURCHILL VISITS NIAGARA FALLS WITH PARTY

Q'Conor Seeks Information on Supply of Fuel   Asks Ickes if It Is Neces sary To Close Md. Schools

FUEL DATA ASKED BY THE GOVERNOR   ©O'Conor Sends Telegram to Fuel Coordinator Ickes

FIVE SLAIN ON FARM; PROBE IS UNDER WAY      Families of Farmer and Tensnt Beaten and Shot to Death

5 VIRGINIANS ARE KILLED ON LOUDOUN FARN   Salesman Finds Bodies Of Morris Love, His Wife, Son And 2 Tenants   OFFICIALS BAFFLED BY MASS MURDERS

Five Slain On Farm In Virginia   Farmer, Wife, Son And Tenant Couple Shot, Bludgeoned

MAID IN OAKES HOME ON STAND   Describes Bedroom Where Murder Occurred

SMALL GIRL RAPED, KILLED IN CLEVELAND   Police Arrest Ex-Convict as Suspect

WLB Has Powers But They Don't Apply To Lewis  Those Opposed To   Those Opposed To Anti-Strike Law Aaree It Means Little

Board Will Continue To Depend On Authority From F. R. To Enforce Its Orders

Bill Gives New Powers to WLB   Has None to Force Lewis to Sign Contract With Owners

Gives Teeth ToWLB   Board Still Cannot Force Miners to Sign Contract; ‘Enforcement Up to the President

New Powers, But None to Force Lewis      WLB Must Rely Upon Pres. idential Authority to En- force Its Orders   MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT NEW LAW   Creates Tremendous Legal and Administrative Job for Labor Board

dew Law Gives 'abor Board No ‘ower Over Lewis   nder New Antistrike Law ‘Jt Cannot Force Mine Workers President to Sign Contract With Operators

Anti-Strike Bill ~ Becomes A Law   CONGRESS QUICKLY OVERRODE FDR VETO

Lewis Not Forced to Sign a Pact With Operators Under Strike Bill   Can't Cone With Walkeuts

WLB VESTED WITH NEW POWERS   Board Will Continue To Rely on FDR to Enforce Its Orders

Valley May Ge Friant Water Next Spring   Resumption Of Work O1 Giant Project Is Sched uled For September   BIDS ARE ASKEL   Transfer Of Needed Valves For Friant Dam From Boulder Ordered

Hail Solidarity Move of Allies   European War Still Has Top Priority

Believe War in Europe Still Has Top Priority   First Reaction Is That Bigger News Is Imminent

BIGGER NEWS IS EXPECTED   Naming of Marshall as Invasion Leader May Climax Another Parley

London Heartened By Allied Solidarity, But Ringer News Exnected From Europe

Believe War in Europe Still Has Top Priority  First Reaction Is      First Reaction Is That Bigger News Is Imminent

Londoners See Big News Soon In Europe Area   Cairo Meet Raises Hopes Stalin Might  Join in Conference

. A. F. Bombers mash af Reich   British Intruder Planes Hit German Targets in France

BRITISH AIRMEN ATTACK EUROPE   Blast Western Germany, Airfields in France

BOMBERS OVER GERMANY      R. A. F. Planes Made Their Sixth Mission in a Week

R.A. F. Bombs W.:-Germany:         Intruder Fighters: ”  Hit French Airfielde

MOSQUITOS HIT WEST GERMANY   “Bomb Reich Areas 6th Time In Week; French Fields Hit.

RAF MOSQUITOS : tires AU. cnt » DED  WESTERN GERMANY   Hit Objectives There While British Struck at Airfields in France and Belgium.   Damage Was Inflicted on the Field at Coxyde inBelgium.

Sixth British Raid In Week On Germany   Airdromes Damaged In Attacks By Fighters

Mosquitos Hit West Germany   Airfields Throughout France Pounded

Hitler Puts On Heavy Pressure  Army Of 5,000,000 Is Reported Asked

WORKER DRAFT ACTION LOOMS   Showdown In Congress May Come After Vacation

Bitter Battle Raging Today At Bridgehead   Germans Claim Anofher “Dunkirk” Is Now Unde way, But Evacuation Reports Not Confirmed In Allied Communique   Threefold Difficulties Face Allied Army In Salerno Area

Distance Aids Nazi Detense   Alhes Meet Stiff Resistance In Salerno Area; Tougher Than In Sicily.

HEAVY DIFFICULTIES FACE FIFTH ARMY AT SALERNO BEACHHEAD  THREE-FOLD, RELATED TROUBLES TOLD FROM WASHINGTON .

Allies Waging Their Stiffest Battle Of War   Fighters Must Fly Far To Aid Beachheads, Nazis Concentrating In  Small Area

ALLIES NOW IN HARDEST FIGHT   Three-Fold Difficulties Confront Anglo-Americans in Italy.

Present P ase T oughest   Test in Effort to Widridgehead Against Fierce Enemy Attacks  test Face Crucial

Three Major Difficulties   Principal Handicap Distance Allied Planes Must Fly

Troops Meeting Stiff Resistance In Salerno Area   Three Factors Playing Part in Gaining Foothold

RUSSIANS CAPTURED GATEWAY TO POLAND AND BALKINS AREAS  ALLIES THROWING GERMANS BACK IN MARCH TOWARD ROME

‘Allies Lead Toward Rome: Sea Battle Looms in Pacific For Bougainville and Rabaul

CAPTURE OF UKRANIAN CAPITOL. OPENS FLOODGATES FOR RED (ARMY CHARGE INTOPOLAND   Allied Patrols Force Garigliano: Americans Capture Venafro 80 Miles from Rome. Sessano Durania and Pietracupa Also Falk to Allies

Naval      Showdown’ Shapes Up.in Rabaul-So. mons-Area As Jaj Fleet of 53 Shi Steame to South

Soviet Troops Capture Key City of Kiev      Americans Capture Venafro; Nazi Oil Works and Rail Yards Bombed; Yugoslav Guerrillas Launch Offensive in Dalmatia

Venafro Falls To Yanks As  Nazis Retreat   Allied Patrols  Force Garigliano

Open Gateway For Soviet Drive Into Poland, Balkans   Americans Occupy Venafro, Chase Fleeing Nazis Now Within 80 Miles of Rome

KIEV CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS AS GERMANS ON RUN   Meanwhile, Allied Bombers Smash Vital Synthetic Oi Works in Germany   NAZIS ROUTED IN ITALY   Great Naval Battle Near in South Pacific as Jap Fleet Spotted Away from Truk

LESS CANNED STUFF FOR CIVILIANS   Rationing of Clothes May Not  Be Necessary

Clothing Will Not Be Rationed But Problem Will Be Solved With Mass Production of LowCost Clothes.

Strike Affects All of State’s Hard Coal Field   More Miners Walk Out And Government Appeals For Resumption of Work

END OF MINE STRIKE URGED   UMW Official Says ‘Door Is Open’ To Strikers In Pennsylvania

Pressure Put  On Coal Strikers   Government Protests  As Walkout Spreads

STRIKE OF COAL MINERS SPREADS   ENTIRE ANTHRACITE FIELD IN PENNSYLVANIA NOW AFFECTED BY WALKOUT.   RULLETIN.

COAL i.JNERS STRIKE GROWS   Trouble Spreads to Other Sections as 5,000 Go Back to Jobs

Coal Leaders Ask Miners To End Strike   Wildeat Walkout In East Extends To 15,000 Worker:

CLEVELAND HOTELS MENACED BY FIRE   Firemen Susp e ct Blazes Started by Arsonist

COLLETT’S WIFE TO VISIT SPOUSE   Slayer of McCoys Tired of Jai Food

Kansas Mothers Desert Families For War Work; Husbands Don't Like It

49 JAP PLANES RAID DARWIN   Chinese Frustrate Nips At Yanstse River

BADGER ACE ADDS 2 MORE 0 STRING   First Lieut. Bong Gets Twa More Jap Planes Over New Britain.

KING OF ENGLAND. TOURING FORMER ITALIAN EMPIRE   ER PRDAALY LEE AEA Malta Also Visited on  Tour, Only 15 Minutes  Away from Nearest Framvy Air Raca

Indian Sergeant Receives British Victoria Cross for Decapifating 57 Germans at Mareth

New Troubles Are Reported  From Rumania   Iraq Premier Tells Troops That Hour of Decision Near: Eight More Czechs Slain

Offensive Against Reds is Reported Abandoned After Generals Quarrel: Foe’s Balkan Troubles Grow

Infantile Paralysis Rise Expected Soon   Health Office Asks Full Report To Prevent Hysteria

EXPECTS VETO OF, FARM PRICE BILL   MEASURE GOES TO PRESIDENT FOR FINAL APPROVAL

Bill. Before F. D. R. Sets Aside an Earlier Presidential Directive.   CUTS PARITY OUT OF. PRICE CEILINGS

Roosevelt Veto Of Farm Price Boost Bill Due   Big Question Appears To Be Whether He Can Make It Stick.

WPB Checks Transfer Of Milk Tank Trucks   F, R. Expected To Veto Bill Calling For Farm Price Boost

Veto Expected Of Farm Price Bill   President to Act Soon Is Belief

FARM MEASURE. VETO EXPECTED   Senate Vote Sends Bill to Set  Aside Benefit Payments Ruling to President

President May Veto Farm Price Bill: ~ Question Is Can He Make Veto Stick

FARM BILL VETO IN HANDS OF FDR   Fate of Veto in House Uncertain; Fear General Price Raise

EXPECT FD. R TO VETO AGT 10 UP FARM PRICES   President Has Opportunity To _ Bolster Stand Against Blanket Wage Boosts; Can He Make The Veto Stick?

Expect FDR Veto Farm  Price Bill   Question Now Is Whether President Can Make a Veto Stick

FDR EXPECTED TO VETO WAGE BOOS] IN FARM “MEASURE   Doubt is Expressed, However, That He Will be, Able to

Expect FDR Will Veto Farm Bill   Some Question As to Whether Congress Will  Support Stand

Most Congressional Leaders Expect FDR To Veto Farm Price Increase Measure

Expect FDR To Veto Bill   Would Deduct Farm Benefit Payments In Parity Figures

PEAK OF FEROCITY _ BELIEVED NEAR IN SOVIET OFFENSIVE   Germans Seem Helpless for the Moment at Least As Russians Score Advances.

GERMANS FAIL TO CHECK PUSH BY RED ARMIES   Yield 300 Towns In Day; Smolensk, Bryansk, Kiev, Menaced

Germans Helpless to Cheek Drive   Soviet Armies Take 300 Towns In Past 24 Hours

STUDY PLANNED   eee  Over-Age Officers Protest Army Retirement Plan _

PRESSURE ON ~ ARMY POLICY   SYSTEM OF RETIRING OVERAGE OFFICERS MAY , GET ATTENTION FROM ~' CONGRESS

WERE MARRIED IN WHITMAN   Ensign. Joseph ‘M. Whalen - of Concord Weds Miss ‘ Margaret F. Burns

BOND PROGRAM AT: THE HIGH SCHOOL   Trying. Hill, County: Chair Tan, Is One of the akers

BOND PROGRAM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL   Irving Hill, County. Chairman, Is One of the Speakers  ieee  Bay ter yas F =e eens eS ea pees on

MOVIE STAR'S HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE   Joan Bennett, However, Loses Antiques

Occupants Forced To Leave In Scant Attire; Loss Exceeds $175,000

ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST ISLAND APPROACHES TO EUROPE SWEEPS ON: 307 PLANES BAGGED   In 96-Hour Period In Raids Over Italy, Pantelleria Island By U. N. Airmen Based In Africa, Malta And The Middle East Command.

FRENCH POLICY CRITICS SCORED   Roosevelt Alleges Spread of Propaganda

FDR DEFENDS FRENCH STAND   Says Critics Spreading Vicious Propaganda; Policy Stated

Roosevelt Says Critics of Nation's French Policy Spread Bad Propaganda

 F.D.R. Says Critics foward French Policy Spread Vicious Propaganda

F.D.R. Assails Crities of U.S. French Policy   Says They Have Spread Vicious Propaganda And Defends U. S. Action

Roosevelt Hits Critics of French Policy  Asserts U. S. Keeps’ ‘Aloof From

Japanese Bases In Marshalls Bombed Again   Enemy Strengthening Air Forces in Menaced Pacific Islands

39 Altonians Accepted For Armed Service   17 to Navy, 17 to Army, One Will Go to Marines

79 More Alton Men Accepted For Induetior   1 to Be Flying Cadets With 30 Going to Army

36 Altonians Accepted For Armed Service   25 White, 11 ColoredFive in Marines, 14 in Navy

48 Altonians Accepted For Armed Service   21 Select Navy and 26 Army—One Enters Air Corps

47 Alton Men Accepted F or Armed Service   21 Go to the Army, 20 to Navy, 3 Select Marine Corps

DEBATE IN SENATE. LIKELY NEXT WEEK   Flaws Seén Jn Provision To Let Supervisors Keep War Tima

Change Carries TTo 22: Senate Will Act Nex!   Bill Sets February 15 As Date For Turning Clocks Back

Senate Gets War Time Bill  from House   ‘Agriculture Bloc Pilots Bill Through Lower House with  71-22 Vote

Survey Shows Beans, Eggs,  Milk For “45   Data Comes From  Nationwide Survey By Agricul. ture Denvartment.   SOY BEANS HIGHER

: Adoption of Employment Stabilization Plan Here Is “Announced By Area War Manpower Commission

EMPLOYMENT STABILIZATION EFFECTED HERE   Adoption Of Plan For Lima Area Announced By War Manpower Official   FOUR COUNTIES INCLUDED   Program 1s Designed To End Piracy And Reduce Absentecism

PLANE OUTPUT — RECORD FALLS   PLANE COMPLETED EVERY FIVE MINUTES DURING LAST MONTHS, WPB (CHIEF. REVEALS

Widely Known Former Merchant  And Farmer Dies  Sam Uthe Had Been In Poor  ~ Health For Months

‘SAM UTHE SERV. TPES FRIDAY P.M   Well Known LeMars Res‘ident Succumbed .  Wednesday

Associated Press Writer and Wife In Armed Forces   James E. Hague Enters Marine Corps, Mrs. Hague Joins WAVES

DR. J. W. HERSHEY, CHEMIST, 1S DEAD   Native Of Gettysburg, Credited With Making Largest Synthetic Diamond, Dies At Age Of 67 Years

\Plans for New Era of Co-operation — Between U S. and Russia Probable

Act At Once To Avert Oil  Famine - Gavin   TERRIBLE CASTASTROPE THREATENS WAR MACHINE FROM OPA’S REFUSAL TO GRANT HIGHER PRICES.   Must Pay For Enough

GAVINFEARS SHORTAGE OF ' OIL FOR WAR   . Price Muat be Hiked, He Says at Grade Group Meeting

Penn Grade Crude Oil Men Stress Price Rise Need   Gavin Tells Group It Will Be a Terrible (atastrophe If Within Few Months We Find jurselves With Insufficient Oil to Man War Wochines — Sees No Inflation Danger

JULDIERS DANING WEST   Threaten Vast Encirclement Of Entire Lower Donets Region.   PUSHING INTO UKRAINE

Sweep West, South at Pace Exceeding Nazis’ Early Drive   Encircled Garrisons of Germans Mercilessly ~~~Destroyed

‘Report Reds In Suburbs Of Rostov   Vast Encirclement of Lower Donets Threatened; Hamper German Communications

ENCIRCLED UNITS DESTROYED IN SOVIET DRIVE   Germans Using Large Number Of Dive Bombers

TROOPS MOVE INTO UKRAINE, DONETS BASIN   Hammer At Fleeing Foe In Sector South Of  Rostov   INVADERS DESTROYED   Soviet Forces Continue  To Progress On All Fronts

Russians’ ‘Advance Is  Speeded Up   Present . Pace Exceed: That Of Hitler’s Panze: Divisions In Summer Campaign

Rostov and Kharkov Will Be Cut Off and Encircling Movement Appears Under Way.

RED ARMY TROOPS THREATEN ENCIRGLE ALL DONETS REGION  GERMAN GARRISONS BEING MERCILESSLY DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS

Russian Army Moving Fastet Than Panzers   South Of Rostov Russians Pound Retreating Germans; Garrisons Being Destroyed

Strategy That Put Stalingrad In Pincers Is Enyeloping All Lower Donets

Reds Push On After Nazi Army      Gain In Kursk,  Cancasian Areas

Army of Entire Lower  Donets. ‘Area Imperiled   Russians Within Suburbs of Rostov, — Stockholm Reports; London Telegraph Says Vanquard Five Miles From City

Soviets Sweep Through Nazis  Encircled Germans are Mercilessly Destroyed

Russ Shape Huge Trap in Donets Basin  Nazi Communications Routes Still Being Smashed  DRIVE EXPANDING  Soviets Destroy Garrt sons in Occupying Three Towns

‘London Hears Red Assault Troops  in Suburbs of Rostov, Army Only 5 Miles Away   CROSSING DONETS   Valiutin’s Troops, Striking Swittly Through German Treops fo North, Close Huge Trap

SPEED OF REDS’ DRIVE GREATER THAN PANZERS’   Stalin's Forces Advance Over SnowPacked Ground Of Ukraine and Donets Basin; Hammer Nazis Near Rostov.

SOVIET ARMY MOVES DEEPER IN UKRAINE   Gaining Faster Than Nazis Advanced In Summer   DIVE BOMBERS   Used By Foe In Trying To Halt Mass Crossings Of Frozen River

REDS SWEEP WEST AND SOUTE   Drives Threaten Vast En: circlement. of Entire Lower “Donets Region

ALSO MENACE WHOLE LOWER DONETS AREA   Forces Are Sweeping Over Snow-Packed Ground at Faster Pace Than Nazi Panzer Units Did in Summer Drive.

REDS SWEEP ON IN FAST. ADVANCE   ‘Threaten German “Communications . In Ukraine and: Donets

REDS KEEP UP FAST PACE IN UKRAINE AREA   Sweep Back Germans Even Faster Than Panzer Troops in Summer. ;   In a Vast Encircling Move in Lower Donets

SPEED RECORD IN SMASHING GAINS   QUICK DASHES CARRY UNITS BEHIND LINES OF KURSK DEFENSE

Living Costs Whipped As Farmers Sell Produce Direct To Consumers

Allied Planes Strafe Jap Base at Mubo   Numerous Fires in Kitchen Creek Area Are Started

AMERICANS TAKE OVER OPERATIONS OF THE TRANS-IRANIAN RAILROAD SUPPLYING REDS   Long, Tough Haul To Reach Russian Bases With Vital Supplies For War

American Railroad Men Work Toughest Line in World io Take _ War Supplies to Soviet Russia

Both German and Russian Armies Regrouping Their Strength.   R.A.F. OVER FRANCE AGAIN LAST NIGHT

REPUBLICAN POLICY DELEGATES GATHER AT SUMMER RESOR’   Platform Questions To Be Decided At Mackinac Island

MINERS TRICKLING BACK TQ WORK IN MINES OF STATE   Men Eager To Get Back As Soon As Mines Could — '- - Be Made Ready For:  Oneration

ONLY HANDFULS OF MINERS BACK ~ AT WORK TODAY   Most Fayette County Pits in Reduced Operations   NORMAL PRODUCTION EXPECTED TOMORROW

PLEDGE TO SICILY   Eisenhower Promises Liberties of Religion, Speech  and Press

EISENHOWER URGES SICILIANS TO TURN ‘ON FASCISTS, HELP LIBERATE ITALY

Declares Task ls Simple One  Soldier Voting Needs dust Two Thinas

SCHOOL TAX VOTE. TUESDAY   Increase In 15-Mill Tar Limit Up In Special Election

CALL SPECIAL “SCHOOL VOT   Tax Limit Increase From 15 to 20 Mills Is Requested

Yanks Setting Death Trap  lor Japanese   Doughboys and Leathernecks Press Enemy on Ground And From Air

Soldiers, Marines and Airmen Press Relentlessly Against Japs in the Jungleland.   NEW GUINEA BASES 7 HELD BY JAPS, HIT

‘Secretary Gives Press His Views  Sees ‘Axis Inspiration’  Ve Hart Allies

Hull Brands Peace Rumors  Move to Slow Allied Effort   Secretary Says Talks Put Out Most of Time to Create Overconfidence Among Allies: Reports Start iu Neutral Cities

Peace Talk Hit By Hull; Blames German Source   Secretary Asserts Rumors Have Their Origin In Axis Centers

Peace Rumors Branded by Hull! As Propaganda   Says They Are Put Out To Impair Prosecution  Of War by Allies

Hull Says Peace Rumors Endange! Cause of Allies   Sees Grave Peril From Nazi Reports   Hell Ousted NPirecti«

Unity In Peace Roosevelt Goal   Declares Allies ‘Must Stick Together

Selective Service Cracks Down On Delinquents, Outlaws Carelessness

Those Who Fail To Keep Draft Board Informed Will Be Called Quickly

Too Many Cases of Delinquency Being Reported to Selective Service  MAY BE. PROSECUTED  

New Crisis Brews In Coal Industry   Whether You Played Hookey in School Important to Draft Board

Big Naval Showdown Shaping Up   Five Jap Convoys Heading South Toward Rabaul Area; Pour Troops Into Burma

Japs Send Out Ships From Truk   Five Convoys Are Reported Steaming Toward Invaded Bougainville and Rabaul

SMALL GROCERS ARE QUITTING BUSINESS    Baltimore Wholesaler Says About 40 Percent Of 6,000 In State Forced Out By OPA

SOME VIOLATIONS BY RESTAURANTS   15 Pereent Of Those Cheeked By OPA Iy States Charging More  Than Maximum Price

BURMA WAS THE TARGET   American Air Force in Damaging Sweeps Yesterday

TWO CONTESTS IN CITY VOTE   Boone Voters Being Urged to Visit Polls Monday, March 29, in Their Respective Wards.

High Farm Price Advocate Thinks Food Too Costly   Reskhead 7 hink:  Costs Excessive

DANKHEAD AROUSED VCH FOOD PRICES   Food Costs Have Gone Too High, Senator Complains

FOOD 100 HIGH, BANKHEAD SAYS   Senator Charges Someone In Price Control Program Has Muffed The Ball.   ~BRY ROMNEY WHEELER

Bankhead Thinks Prices Too High   Blames Price Controllers For Increase

Threat That Jap Plane: Will Fly Head-on Into Our Bombers.   JAPS ON ATTU ARE STILL PREY FOR U5.  Jap Offensive Is Rolling Westward to China’s Wartime Capital.

Drum Relieved   As Eastern Head   Now Chief of Defense In West Hemisphere.

LOCAL MAN KILLED, TROOPER !§ HURT   Geo. Lee Loses Life in Crash—State Officer Basore in Hospital

LOCAL MAN KILLED, TROOPER IS HURT      Geo. Lee Loses Life in Crash—-State Officer. Basore in Hospital   TWO CARS NDawartn

NEED SKILLED MEN   Employment Office Has Calls for Workers in Es-  sential Jobs

HED FORGES Unick AHEAD IN ATTACK   They Are Fighting Bitter Lefensive Battles in the : Donets B>sin.   ‘MANY NAZIS KILLED   Additional Towns Are Repcrted Liberat-d by the Moscow Offic:als.

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COMMITTEE ENDS SUBSIDY HEARING   Farm Bloc Leaders Say Senate Will Vote to Knock Out Subsidy Phase of Administration’s Price Control

Anti-Subsidies Hearings Over Bankhead Asserts Bill  Baadw feu Vi...

Committee Ends Subsidy Hearing   Farm Bloc Leaders  Confident of Victory

Subsidy Hearings Have Been Closed   Senate Banking Committee Is Expected to Oppose the Rollback,

CLAIMS OIL CO. VIOLATED RULE   Sinclair Firm Accused Of Using Discrimination Among Dealers

Few Germans Remain In (Mountain Caves; American Soldiers Kall Strayglers

INTERNAL FIGHT BY DEMOCRATS FLARES IN OHIC   County Chairmen Demand State Boss Shake More Federal Jobs Down   DARRELL JONES ‘ON SPOT’   Meeting in Columbus Is Called Unexpectedly by State Auditor

GENERAL GIRAUD SAYS GERMANS ARE DEFEATED   All That Is Left For Her To Do Is Admit Defeat. Wants Strong French  Army ~~

HONG KONG SHIPPING HIT   American Planes ‘Attack Japanese : Craft At Big Enemy Base

10 TOWNS FACE CAS SHORTAGE   Strike Threatens Supply o Household Fuel

LAKE AREA HAS CAS SHORTAGE      1,700 Workers Quit, Shutting Down Coke Plant

Says Spain Has Undergone Change Of Heart With African Occupatior

Four Japanese Bases Bombed By Navy Men   Results ‘of Raid on Gilbert Islands Told- by Nimitz

4 JAPANESE BASES HEAVILY ATTACKED   Admiraf Nimitz Discloses Raid Late Saturday Nicht

FOUR JAP BASES HEAVILY BOMBEI   ENEMY INSTALLATIONS IN GILBERT ISLAND AREA BLASTED, NIMITZ ANNOUNCES,

Four Jap Bases , Reported. Bombed   Nimitz Tells About Raids on Gilberts

AXIS FORCES ON RUN WITH NO WAY OUT   te-Enactment of Cape Bon Fiasco Is Started   EVACUATION FLEET HIT   Grand Finale of Campaign Appears Developing

Court May Rule On Labor Law   Would Decide What Congress Meant By Law

Court May Rule On Labor Law  Wrasale Thanrina What   Would Decide What Congress Meant Rv Law

Shortage of Jap Shipping Noted   Returning Americans Reveal Situation

@ POINT SAVERS  Mattoon’s Newest Addition Is “Village’’ Inside City

All Land Exits Of Crimea Cut Off by Soviet   Germans Wandering Over Steppes Give Themselves  Up to Reds.   Only Hope of Escape Is by Boat and Plane

CRIMEA KNIFED BY RED FORCES TN KERCH AREA   Germans Dispute Reports From Moscow They Are Being Compressed   Into Death Trap   COUNTER-ATTACKS FRUITFUL, IS CLAIM   Russians, On Other Hand,  Say All Land Exits From Peninsula Cut Off With Seizure Perekop

REDS LAND IN  CRIMEA   Russian Trogps Compressing Nazi Troops into  Peninsular Death Trap

RED LANDINGS IN CRIMEA, NEAR KERCH, CLAIME!   Germans Being Rounded Up In Death Trap—Wide Gains Announced

Russians Seal Off Crimea   One Force Drives Into Peninsula, Other Goes West

Ali Land Exits Reported Cut   Counterattacks by Enemy Against Crimea Landings.

DEATH NOOSE IS TIGHTENED ON GERMANS   Hitler’s Troops In Headlong Flight

SOVIETS LAND NEARER KERCH   Germans Claim Many Rus: sians Killed During Counter Attack

Russian Landing In Eastern Crimea Is Reported in Berlin   Moscow Advices Say That Fourth Ukrainian Army of General Feodor Tolbukhin Has Moved Beyond Captured Armyansk   ENEMY RETREAT IN THE SOUTH IS QUICKENING

MANY GERMANS ARE GIVING UP   Russian Forces Reported Landed In Eastern Crimea oS   SEA ESCAPE BLOCKED

Reds Jump Kerch Strait   Close In On Trapped Nazis In Crimea From Two Sides

Reds Pressing Into Peninsula From Perekop, Moscow Says   Other Units Press West Toward Kherson on  Road to Odessa

Germans Trapped in Crimea by Surge of Reds Across Steppes   Nazis Being Pressed Into Peninsula Death Trap Says Moscow

Reds Land Troops In Eastern Crimea   Land Exits from Peninsula Cut By Capture of Kerekop Yesterday

Russians Land InKerch Area, Nazis Report   Moscow Says Soviets Compressing Germans Into Death Trap on Crimea Penincula

RED LANDINGS PERIL KERCH      Land North and South of Vital Crimean Citw

Nazis Say Reds Land In Eastern Crimea   Soviets Report Fresh Advance From Sealed Northern Entrance Which Is Compressing Enemy Into Peninsular Death Trap.

RUSSIANS LAND TROOPS AROUND KERCH, REPORT   Soviet Forces Cut Last Nazi Land Escape Route in Crimea

Reds Take Perekop to Close Trap   ‘Berlin Reports Red Landing Al fempl! from Black Sea, Russians   Surrounded   6,000 NAZIS TAKEN   Reds Exploit Coup, Repor! Dnieper Bend Trap Also Being Closed

Reds Rushing Over Crimea: Trap Closed   Thousands of Nazi Troops Trapped as Result of Victories

Reds Compress (rerman Troops Into Death Trap   Berlin Says Counter-Drive By Nazis Annihilates Part Of Soviet Forces

SOVIETS INVADE CRIMEA BY SEA   Landings Smashed, Nazi News Agency Says

GERMANS ARE IN TRAP SET BY RUSSIANS   Troops Wander About Aimlessly In East Crimea

The Weather   Germans Sealed In Crimea; Russ Move  To Halt Sea Escape

RUSSIAN FORCES  REPORTED LANDING  IN EASTERN CRIMEA MOSCOW DECLARES LARGE FORCE GERMANS  TRAPPER DY ANTANSE

Red. Force ‘Drives On In Crimea   Germans’ Say They Have » Smashed a: New Landing: » “o> Near Kerch :   REDS: TIGHTENING. SHE DEATH TRAP   Moscow Reports Gains’ “Are Being: Made‘ Against. Grow‘ing German Counter Blows:

Russians Close Peninsular Trap On Nazi Army   All Land Escape Lanes For German Forces Cut By Reds

Reds Land in Crimea, Berlin Says   Fresh Advance  Made From   Fresh Advance Made From Sealed North  Entrance

SOVIETS DRIVE ON CRIMEA BY LAND AND SEA   Main Army Moves Down Peninsula, Other Force Crosses Kerch Straits: Mop-Up Continues.

Reds Force Germans Intc  Death Trap   Seal Escape From Peninsula; Land More  Troops in Crimea

Russian Forces Land North And South Of Kerch — Others Seal  Northern Entrance

Retreat Pace Of Germans Stepped Up   Enemy Claims Soviet Forces Landed In Eastern Crimea

QUICK SOVIET VICTORY SEEN IN PENINSUL   Nazis Report Landings In Eastern Crimea  Near Kerch

YANKS ADVANCE IN ITALY WITH FIERCE FIGHTING   Yugoslav Guerrillas Smash German Attack as They Keep Balkans Boiling ,

Land Exits From Area Are Closed   Fleet, Airforce Guard Only Avenue Of Escape.

Germans Pushed Deeper Into. Peninsula Trap   “Land Exits Cut. Off; 6,000 Nazis Crp ay Sat at Perekon

Oiher Russian Troops Compressing Nazis Into Peninsular Death Trap After New Drive In Eastern Crimea   All Land Exits From Peninsula Cut Off By Capture Of Kerekop; Germans Launch Fierce Counterattacks To Escane Utter Annihilation

INTO GRIME   all Land Exits of ‘Florida of Russia’ Are Cut Off at Perekop.   NAZIS RETREAT FASTER

IRAN CONFAB ROCKS RUSSIA   PEOPLE SURPRISED AT NEW STALIN ACTIVITY

Heavy British Bombers Cross Alps Again Sunday Night; Points In Holland and France Also Bombed.

NORTHERN ITALY RAIDED BY RAE   Heavy British Bomber: Cross Alps Again Sunday Night; Points In Holland and France Also Bombed.

Nazis Promise Tougher Fight   Berlin Says Enemy To Be Annihilated

BERLIN PROMIata TO WIPE OUT FUE   Says Second Phase of Sicily  Battle Has Begun   TROOPS ENTRENCHED   Outside of Range of Allied Naval Artillery; Claim Advantage Is Held

Invaders Join Forces. and Push Onward   6,000 Prisoners Are Captured by Allied Units

UNAGK UUEKING DIVISION BEATEN BACK BY YANKS   Ten German Tanks Were Destroyed by Seventh Army in Clash Near Gela,  Qing.   BERLIN SAYS MAIN BATTLE IS TO COME   Nazi Broadcast Declares Axis Troops Now Are Entrenched Outside Range of Allied Warships.

Nazis Promise Tougher Fight   Berlin Says Enemy To Be Annihilated  By GORDON TAIT

Berlin Says Real Battle for Sicily Soon to Begin  Avie le Quit ta

Sicilian Battle In ‘Second Phase Axis Radio Says   Both Berlin and Rome Agree That Main Battle Is Coming

Axis Says Main Battle Is Near   See Annihilation of Allies on Sicily

sna eee eater ieee tie nameeemileiiela tannin inmate  Allies Massing Landing Craft At Pantelleria

Rome Reports Great Activity On Pantelleriz   Concentration Of Many Landing Craft Told In Radio Report From Invasion-Jittery Italy

MOKAN COAL MINERS JOIN STRIKE THREAT   Notify Operators They Will Not Work After May 18 Unless Eastarn TDisnute  s Settled.

Civil Service Bill Is Close To Final Vote   Freehoff Bill To Force Director Klode To Take Examination Engrossed By Senate

White Flag Is Raised Today After 20 Days of Daily Raids.  AMERICAN SOLDIERS LAND ASHORE TODAY  The Surrender Is An Important Allied Victory.

SURRENDERED’ WITHOUT INVASION   “irst Time In. History That Major Power Has Given Up Under An Attack Composed. Almost Exclusively of Air

Garrison Runs Up White Flag   Allies Laid Seige To Island for 20  Consecutive Days

American Bomber: Again Strike Hard at Rabaul  Other Allied Planes Wreck Jap Dobo Position in Pacific

U.S. Bombers Again Strike Ai Rabaul  Damaging Raid Leaves Base Mass af Flamac

AOUSEVELT AND CUMAGHO MEE   Presidents of the Two Re. publics Pledge Clos2 Co-cperation.

ROOSEVELT. AND  CAMACHO “YOINTLY LAUD GOOD NEFOH--BOR POLIOY IN WAR AND PEACE °

PRESIDENT ON GOOD WIL! TRIP TO MEXICO   He and Camacho in Joint Expression of Friendship

flEAD OF MEXICO JOINS F.D.R. TOUR oAND TALKS WAR   Conferences Follow Joint p Radio Broadcast From Below Border

U.S. Air Fleéts Wreck 186 Fire In Two Day Perioc   Allied Losses ~ Total Only Five. . ‘In Same Time

113 MORE AXIS PLANES DESTROYED   U.S. Airmen Bring Total For 2 Days To 186; Lose 5

AMERICAN FLIERS SMASH 113 ENEMY PLANES IN ITALY      186 Airships Downed In Two-Day Struggle For - Air Supremacy In South Europe

ALLIED 2-DAY SCORE 186 TC 5 OVER ITALY   Record Raids Continued Against Key Bases On Invasion Route

OF PARK BOARE   To Succeed Late Russell Bowman: Levy Ordinance Presented

U. S$. Warships Shell Nazi Flank   Axis Sees Sign of General Offensive In Italy Aimed Against Isernia

ALLIES SHOVE WEDGE DEEPER INTO NAZI LINE   American 5th, British 8th Armies Start Offensives Aaainst Rommel! Line

Fifth and Fie" Armies Strike At Center of Enemy Defenses   Minturno Is Put  Under Yankee A wiillawes Aédéanl-

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES MOVE INTO. ROMMEL DEFENSES   American Warships Blast West. Coast _ German Flank Fourteen Miles Back — Of New Defense Line—Nazis Say Rome Drive Started

U.S. Warships Join Advance On Battle Eve   Heavy Navy Ships Bombard West Coast German Flank As New Defense Of Rome Established Ry Navic   FORWARD DEFENSES OF © ROMMEL LINE BREAK

U.S. WARSHIPS SHELL NAZI POSITIONS   Fifth and Eighth Armies Continue To Drive Ahead

Nazi Flank Shelled by U.S. Ships   Ground Troops Drive Wedge Two Miles into Lines

YANKEE WARSHIPS BOMB NAZI FLANK   Jugoslav Partisans Wipe Out Second Enemy Forces on Adriatic Island.

SHORE FORCES EXTEND WEDGE IN ENEMY LINE   Allies Massing Men. Materials For Assault On Powertul Mountain Front

West Coast Flank Of Nazi Line Bombarded From Sea: Reds Pour Over Steppeland

ALLIED WEDGE DRIVEN DEEPER INTO DEFENSES   German Flank on West Coast Bombarded by American Vessels Back of Main Line.

U, S. WARSHIPS SHELL GERMAN COASTAL FLANK   Rains Hamper Ground Troops

Navy Pours Shells Into. Nazi Flank   Yank: Warships Join Fight South of Rome; Drive Slowed by Rain

LULL CONTINUES IN THE SOVIET   Some Activity On Ground And In The Air, But Situation Far Different From That Of Year Ago.

SOVIET PLANES RAID GERMAN TANK GATHERING   Small Scale Ground Activity Is Reported

Soviet Fliers Raid German Tank Forces   Sharp Action In Orel Area

Soviets Bomb NaziTanksin Orel Sector   Direct Hits Scored on Machines: Four Axis Planes Shot Down

LITTLE ACTIVITY REPORTED ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Only Scouting and Arrtillery Bombardment in Kharkov Area and Light Skirmishes

$110,100 Given To Marigny By Wife,Ruth   Present Admitted by De. fendant; He Lights 3 Lamps in Court

Former Wife Gave $110,006 To de Marigny   Judges Get New Idea of Defendant's Testimony

U, 8. WARPLANES BLAST AT JAPANESE FAR FLUNG FRONTS  ' DEAL HEAVY BLOWS AT  ENEMY FROM ALEUTIAN!

; peals To ‘Proper Quart ers’ To Drive Back Jan’s Far-flung Invasion ordes; Says Resources  Being Denied United Na tions In That Area. 

Curtin Appeals for More Help in Pacific Theater ‘As U. S. Planes Hit Japs

Yank pilots smash Japs in Kiska port   Hit Kokumbono and Munda areas

PRODUCTION FIGHT BITTER   Struggle Gri Grows in Civilian, Military War Battle

Nelson Pushes Own Plans For Output Of Arms   Army’s Opposition To Bottleneck-Cracking Proeram Ignored.

Nelson and Wilson Push Own Program   Armed Services Oppose War Board

Nelson Drafts Regulations For Industry   Struggle Between Civilian And Miliary Production Factions Increases   CHIEFS. ARE OVERRULED

NELSON CLEARS DECKS FOR ACTION   PUSHES PROGRAM T0 CRACK ARMAMENT BOTTLENECKS

NELSON AIMS T0 END ARMAMENT BOTTLENECKS   Moves In Face of “Bitter End” Opposition From Armed Service Policy-Makers   DELEGATES POWERS   Struggle Near Where Resignations of War Officials Or Chairman Are Expected

Nelson Heads  For Showdown With Services   WLB To Insist On Clearing All Deliveries To Armed  7 ce eerr ae   ARMY. NAVY TRY PLAN

NELSON PUSHES WP PROGRAM   Plans to Crack Bottlenecks In Face of Services’ Opposition.

Japanese Casualties in New Guinea Fighting Twice Those of Allied Army

Allied Papuan Losses Less Than Half of Jap Toll  OS. bat hcaw Ranarte   MacArthur Reports Widespread Plane Attacks on Enemy

JAPANESE FLOAT ALLIED VESSELS   Tokyo Acknowledges Its Shipyards Can't Meet Requirements.

Jap Transport Loaded With Troops Is Sunk   Large Tanker and Two Destroyers Suffer Bomb Hite

Loaded Jap Transport and Big Tanker Sunk   Two Destroyers Damaged by Alert Allied Planes

Big Jap Transport, Tanker Destroyed And 2 Warship: Damaged By Allied Airmen   Enemy Convoy Sighted Off New Ireland By Alert Reconnaissance Planes; Ten Enemy Interceptors  Are Shot Down During Attack On Wewak 

ALLIED FLIERS HIT _ JAPANESE VESSELS   Tratisport and Tanker Reported Destroyed in Attack

TRANSPORT AND TANKER DESTROYED   I'wo Destroyers Damaged In South Pacific By Alert Allied Planes; Spot Sudden Shipping Increase.   Blast Sio

Convoy Blasted By Liberators   Bombers Roam Big Pacific Territory

Attacked When Airmen Spot Japanese Vessels Off Kavieng, New Ireland

Convoy Blasted By Liberators   Bombers Roam Big Pacific Territory  me WiIrrrahd F&F RANY

BOMBS DEST ACY JAP TRANSPORT   Large Nip Tanker Also Falls Prey to Allied Planes   2 DESTROYERS HIT   American Troops Slay 200 Japs on Bougainville; Supplies Are Destroyed

JAP TRANSPORT SUNK BY AIRMEN   TANKER SENT DOWN, 2 DESTROYERS DAMAGED OFF KAVIENG, NEW IRELAND.

Yank Flyers Wiping Out  Jap Airmen   Nip Force Practically Destroyed In Fights Over New. Guinea; Mafang Smashed

Enemy Air Force Kayoed in Large New Guinea Area   No Resistance Is Offered to Allied Bombing Missions

JAP . AIRFORCE KNOCKED OUT AT SALAMAUA   Battered Airforce Falls Back 550 Miles to Dutch New Guiriea

JAP AIRMEN NO LONGER IN S. W. PACIFIC   Allied Drive Apparently Has Knocked Out Enemy Opposition for Moment From Salamaua to Dutch New Guinea.

AIR FORCE OF NIPS OUT FOR A LONG WAYS   From Salamau to Dutch New Guinea Border With Heaviest Raid Made on Base at Madang.

Jap Air Force Now Impotent In New Guinea   North Coast Cleared Of Nip Planes; Allied Raid Ruins Madang Base.

Japs Minus - Aerial Power  At Salamaue   No Opposition Appears as U S. Bombers Attack Objectives

JAPS REALLY HURT   Foe’s Air Force Seems to Be Knocked Out Near Sala maua Area

JAP AIRFORCE IN NEW GUINEA KNOCKED OUT   Few Enemy Planes Oppose Allies: Airfields Raided

Allies Cripple Jap Air Force In New Guinea   Nip Headquarters, Warehouses Blasted At Madang Base

Jap Air Power Being Brokel   Enemy Badly Crippled In South Pacific

ENEMY AIR FORCE SILENCED ON LONG FRONT IN PACIFIC   Japanese Airforce Appears Knocked Out For Moment At Least From Salamaua To Dutch New Guinea Border, Distance of 550 Miles.

Jap Air Force Is Forced From Salamaua Area   Enemy Driven To Dutch New Guinea Border

Allies Virtually Knock Out Jap Air  Force, New Guinea   Madang Raiders See One Grounded Enemy Plane

Jap Air Force Hit Severe Blow   U. S. Fliers Devastate Group in 550 Mile Area;  Salamaua Destroyed.

JAP AIRFORCE KNOCKED OUT INNEW GUINEA   ‘Liberators and Mitchells Find Only One Grounded ; Plane Among Their Targets   SALAMAUA ELIMINATED

550- Mile Area Believed Freed Of Jap Airforce   Enemy Knocked Out Of Action From Salamaua To Dutch New Guinea

Salamaua Jap Airforce Out   Headquarters of Jap Army Around Madang Wiped Out by Allies

MINE STRIKES REFERRED 10 WHITE HOUSE   GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE CONTROL; 60,000 IDLE

Evelyn Vondrak Weds Army Sergeant   Pretty Ceremony Held At Arm; Post Chapel At Indiapaolis,  Tg

Are Married At Army Post Chapel  Evelyn Vondrak Brid« Of Sgt. Hansen

Young Republicans of Illinois Ask Congress to Give Soldiers Vote

American Submarines Sink Nine More Ships; Gilbert ‘Clean Up’ Goes On

38 Nations Invited to Conference In U. S. on Post-War Food Problems

UNITED NATIONS 10 HOLD FOOD PARLEY   U. S. Issues Invitations To 38 Countries For April 27

38 NATIONS INVITED TO FOOD CONFERENCE   Post-War Feeding Problems Wil! Be Discussed At Session  April 27

Invite 38 Nations To Food Conference   Meeting Scheduled in U.S. April 27

U. 5. Invites Allied Nations To April Parley   Meeting Will Be Concernec with Long-range Postwar Food Problems

FOOD PROGRAM BE CONSIDERED   U. S. Invites 38 Nations To Send Representatives.

Rommel’s Mopping  Up Boomerangs.  5,668 Casualties Inflicted on Nazis In Eastern Bosnin

Germans Confirm Full Scale Balkan Warfare  Enemy Losses Mount As Battle Takes Major Proportions

Germans Claim. 3000 Slavs _ Die In Grim Battles   Casualties Total 5688 Tn ‘Moping Up Campaign’ In Bosnian Mountains

REVISED LABOR BILL PROPOSED   Redraft of Ross Measures Is Offered To Solons as « Compromise

DAIRYMEN ASK PROFS OUSTER   ‘Anti-Butter’ Pamphlet Causes Controversy

Creamerymen Irate About ISC Pamphlet   Demand Dismissal of the Author of Articles in - Favor of Oleo

FRENCH FORCE TAKES VITAL NAZI CENTER   ALLIES BUILD UP FORCE FOR BIG PUSH ON BIZERTE

FRENCH IN TUNISIA ATTACK   Storm German-Held Communications Center Wednesday

WAVELL RE-AFFIRMS BRITAIN’S PLEDGE (OF DOMINION STATUS   For India After War and Denies Intention of Setting Up Military Rule

Japanese Bases Blasted By Allies   Lone Plane Raids Port Moresby

Persistent Attacks  Continued on Enemy Jap Airdromes Again Battered

OHIO PLANTS. SURVEY MADE   STATE WMC DIRECTOR. SAYS THAT 16,000 WAR WORKERS. ARE ABSENT EACH. DAY

Pantelleria Surrendered on Personal. Order of Mussolini.After He Was Told Allied Bombings No Longer Endurable

Mussolini Ordered Surrender of Isle   Premier Replied to Report That Bombing No Longer. Endurable

Invasion Forces Now Occupy Three Of Duce’s Islands In Mediterranean

British Planes Bomb Heho Field   Bombs Fall On Port Of Akyab Again

U. S. SUBS SINK 7 ENEMY SHIPS   Plane Transport Among Japanese Vessels Sent To Bottom

SUBMARINES SINK  JAP CARGO SHIPS   Transport and Merchant Vessels Sent Down in Roids

BABSON BACKS ~ FARM DEMAND   Need Men and Machines to Avert Food Panic Higher Prices

Farmers Need More Men Now   ROGER BABSON TELLS OF GREAT NEED FOR LABORERS

Babson Discusses Farm Labor Crisis   Government Is Failing te Understand Equipment Also Vital Necessity

BABSON BELIEVES FARMERS NEED MORE HELP, MACHINERY   ‘Sees Possibilities of Food Shortages Unless Growers Are Given Assistance, Urges Longer Hours In Industries.

MUST FURNISH MORE MEN FOR FARM WORK   Babson Discusses Labor Situation On Farms; Says More Help Is Needed To Produce Food For War Needs.

NAPLES SUBJECTED TO HEAVIEST, MOST SUSTAINED ATTACK   African Air Corps Shifts Main Offensive To Big Port—Loss Is Huge

City of Naples: Is Subjected to Severe Attack   Big Italian Port Has Worst Bombing Given During War °

WEIGHT OF BOMB ATTACK SHIFTS 10 MAINLAND CITIES   Naples: Gets Heaviest and Most Sustained Assault of War.

RECAPTURE TEN ESCAPED NAZIS   Nineteen Flee Prison Came at Fort Henry, Canada, by Tunnel

Entire New Pack of Seven Dried Fruits Set Aside  Fer Government Purchase

Kimmel Said To Be Asking Early Trial   Col. Léonard, Ex-Co!orado G.0.P. Chairman, Will Defend Him

'ATTACK JAP HOMELAND. DOOLITTLE URGES ON ‘EVE OF FIRST YEAR AFTER TOKYO BOMBING

Doolittle, On Anniversary of  ‘Tokyo Raid, Says Attack On J apan Itself Only Wav to Win

Famed Flyer, On Anniversary 0! Tokyo Raid, Says U. 8. Precision Bombers Can Do Job

Doolittle Points Way   Must Bomb Japan,  Seys General; Supply Problem Pointed Out

Flyer Says Japan Must Be Bombed   Doolittle Declares Bases Are Problem

GIRAUD NAMED LEADER OF ALL FRENCH FORCES   DeGaulle Heads Council in Move to Unify All Factions

MOVE TO UNITE FRENCH FORCES   Gen, Giraud Named Commander And Gen. De Gaulle Head of Defense Council

GIRAUD WILL ~~ HEAD TROOP!   NEW SETUP OF FRENCH. FREE> DOM ORGANIZATION “18 7 ANNOUNCED IN NORTH. ° AFRICA

Slate Police May Become Bridae Guards   May Take Place Of Present Road Commis. sion Guards

STATE POLICE MAYSOONGUARD VITAL BRIDGES      ‘Prediction Made as Au  thority Is Given Gover gor to Use Maryland  Guardsmen for Task   BILL PASSES HOUSE   Permits Ordering Guards. men Into Special Mili. tary Police Sentry Detail

Committee Urges Fewer Deferments  For U.S. Employes   President’s Group Says Thousands of Men Available for Draft   FORMULATES POLICY

Federal Employes’ Release to Armed Forces Suggested  Group Recommends Deferment of Few In Key Positions

FEDERAL HELP CAN BE TAKEN FOR ARMY DUTY   Thousands of Able Men At Government Desks May Be Inducted

Special Presidential Committee Says Thousands of Federal Emnloves Are Elicible for Draft

VANGUARD OF STATE GROUP REACHES CAMP   State Guards To Have Drills; 1,000 Expected To Attend

FORCE NAZIS TO ABANDON ZNAMENKA   Soviets Sweep Around City in Widespread New Offensive

Dnieper Bend German Forces Hard Pressec   Moscow Says German Defenses In Area Are Beginning To Crumble   NAZI DRIVE FOR KIEV IS REPELLED  BULLETIN

INAMENKA, KEY “RAIL JUNCTION, ~ TAKEN BY REDS   Vital Dnieper Bend Cit} Falls in Drive Aimed to Trap Foe

OPAIN WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM SOVIET   Nazis Suffer Another Setback On Diplomatic Front

map 10 BE SPAIN   Arrival of Franco’s Representatives In London Touches Off New Rumors.

Spain Withdraws Blue Division From War Front   Two Spanish Diplomats Arrive In London

[Spain Is Reported to Have Withdrawn Division From Russian Front; Seen As 3rd Nazi Diplomatic Defeat in 3 Days

CONGRESS CHALLENGED   Congress Has No Right To Outlaw Poll Tax, Says Authority

Vital Brenner Pass Rail Supply Line Gets Triple Raid.   NOT ONE OF OUR PLANES WAS LOST   Hard Fighting Still Raging on the Eight Army Front.

Allied Land Forces In Italy Continue To Push Ahead. Hitler’s Europe Bombed Aenin.

With Our Soldiers and .  Sailors              Tony Simunaci, Former Carroll Boy, Is Killed

CADETS TO EMPORIA   First Group to Start Training at  ’ State School March 1

WALKER EXPECTED © TO SUCCEED FLYNN   Stage Is Set for Meeting of Democratic Committee

Starohelsk Is Captured in Donets Basin   Russians Smash 40 Miles in Two Days From Salsk

Capture Of Starobelsk Is Important Triumph For Sweeping Russ IANS.

Soviet Thrust Puts Troops  Nearer Rostov  Nazis Reel Under  New Red Blows - Tn Donets Basin

Elmore R. Torn Acting Director Civilian Defenses   Heads Regional Office For Southwest

Truth Is Told About Subsidies   ROGER BABSON GIVES BOTIL SIDES OF STORY

YES AND THE NO REGARDING SUBSIDIES   Babson Presents Arguments For and Against Proposed Subsidies On Foods As An   Inflation Control Scheme.

BABSON LEARNS THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO SUBSIDIES   Visits Washington to Learn Facts, Believe: Leaders of Both Factions Honest In Their Convictions.

No Loggerhead, Replies Eden   Says Postwar Economic Co-op Program is Planned

fapahese Prime WMiinister larabs Full Power  General Tojo Fills Cabinet With Yes Men

: A COLUMN ! ABOUT IOWA:   False Sugar Report Tead« tn SAHOO Wine

FARMER FINED ~ IN SUGAR CASE   Listed 400 Pounds as Two: Draft Evader Sentenced

JAPS LAUNCH NEW HEAVY ATTACK ON CHINESE SECTION   Series of Offensives Believed Designed to Weaken Resistance ‘of China

Two Officers Die  In Plane Crash  AT-18 Falls on , san Antonio Home, * Destroyed by Fire

UNION LEADERS TO DEAL WITH COAL STRIKE   Group Composed of Top-Ranking A. F. of L. and C. I. O. Chiefs.

TOP RANKING AFL, CIO WILL DISCUSS ISSUES OF STRIKE   Group ‘Summoned. After Pres: . ident Has Session ” With Ickes, Members of War - Labor Board.   DRASTIC ACTION. MAY. END 3-DAY SUSPENSION   30,000 Illinois . Progressives Reported Idle as Sympathy With Rival Organization of UMWA.

AFL AND CIO “LEADERS ARE AT MEETING   ROOSEVELT EXPECTED (TO TAKE ACTION AFTER CON “ PRRENCE: AT ‘rhe. WHITE HOUSE

PRESIDENT 10 DISCUSS COAL STRIKE ACTION   AFL And ClO Leaders Summoned To White House At Noon Thursday   DRASTIC MOVE EXPECTED   Roosevelt Is Believed Ready To Crack Down On Striking Miners

DRASTIC MOVE TO OPEN MINES APPEARS NEAR   Green and Murray Join White House Parley of ‘Labor Cabinet’

French Smash Assault By Axis   Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Axis Forces In Tunisia Clash   BAD WEATHER IS DELAYING ACTION

Nazis May Quit Northern Bases   Full Evacuation Of Far North Possible

Nazis May Quit. Northern Bases   Full Evacuation Of _ Far North Possible  Re FOWIN SHkNKeE

GRANTS DELAY      MeNutt Sets Aug. 1 for Start of 48 Honr Steel Week

Disquised Japanese Troops Exterminatec   infiltration Thrust Detected by Chinese

Many Bills Into Laws   Gov. Schoeppel Is Still Undecided About the Labor Control Measure

FUNDS VOTED .TO FINISH =BUILDING   Governor Signs Appropriation Bill for State Schools

Schoeppel Is Undecided On Labor Bill   Governor Signs Many Other Bills During The Day

FUNDS VOTED .T0 FINISH BUILDING   Governor Signs Appropriation Bill for State Schools   No Money for Heating

DISSENSION IN GREECE RISING   Cabinet Resigns Protesting Allied Action Over Italy

GREEKS HAVE CIVIL STRIFE   BOE PATRIOT HANDS. REPORTED FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES OVER ITALY'S NEW STATUS

POUND ITALIAN RAIL CENTERS   Allied Bombers Blast Im portant Areas Near Rome and Naples

Yards ai Orte Battered in Heavy Raid   Targets on Each Side of Rome Pounded From Air

Allies Hammer Italian Railways   Freight Yards, Cars, Engine Sheds Hit

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Allied Airmen Pouring Fire On Southern Italy   Remaining Railway Links Smashed In   Seer ne a j-

Italy Suffers Giant New Air Attacks   Rail Centers Get Stupendous Blows From U. S., British Fliers; Allies Shoot Down 20 Axis Planes

Southern Italy Subjected to Heavy Bombing   Fortresses, Fleet, Batter Coast Towns

Allied Airmen Pouring Fire On Southern Italy   Remaining Railway Links Smashed In Broadening Forays

Allied Air Forces Resume  Pounding Of Rail Systems   Flying Fortresses Batter Orte, 40 Miles North of Rome —Twenty Axis Planes Shot Down in Assaults Over léaly

20 AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN VTALY   RAILROADS NORTH OF ROME AND BELOW NAPLES BLAST-~ ED BY ALLIES,

Bombs Rained On Final Links Of ‘Boot’ Rails   Fiery ‘V" Beacon Aids British Navy Shell

ITALY’S TOE IS BLASTED BY BOMBS   While Flying Fortresses Batter Orte 40 Miles North Of Rome, Wrecking Railroad  ~ Yards And Supplies   Blast Many Towns

0.8. BOMBER SCORE VICTOR OVER 25 ZEROS   Twelve Jap Planes Plunge Into Sea In Air Battle Off New Guinea

Naples, German  War Plants Hit   Both Sides Girding in Africa For Mighty Showdown Battles

COMMENTATOR INSISTS ON OPINION   Cecil Brown Quits Because of Columbia Policy

BLUE STAMPS 6, H AND J NOW VALID   In War Ration Book No. 2 Will Become Valid Tomorrow.

Soviet Troops Again Advance North Of Orel   Nearly 100 German Tanks Smashed; 2,100 Nazis Reported Killed

Soviets Shatter German Attacks In Donets Area  German Blow Fails; Red Army Rolls On Toward Vital Orel

SOVIETS REPULSE GERMAN ASSAULT IN DONETS BASIN   Drive Near Voroshilovgrad Is Designed To Draw Off Reds From OCrel   RUSSIANS KEEP UP SLOW ADVANCE ON ENEMY BASE

Nazi Attempt At Diversion Fails.   Reds Continue To Gain’ In Ore! Area

RUSSIANS HALT GERMAN DRIVE IN DONETS BASIN   Reds Smash Almost ic Enemy Tanks in Fighting to Standstill Major  Axis Blow   MOVE NEARER OREL   Kill 1400 Nazis in Advance;  Germans Reeled Back at  Voroshiloygrad Undery Soviet Shelling

New German Attacks Are Repelled   Nazis Attempt To Divert Reds From Orel Pincers Move

In Orel Area Russians Continue Offensive To Take Several More Populated Places

Nazi Attempt At Diversion Fails   Reds Continue To Gain In Orel Area  By LYNN HEINZERLING

RUSSIANS SMASH 100 NAZI TANKS -IN-DONETS BASIN   Big Push of Armored Units, Planes and Shock Troops Reeled Back Under Heavy  Soviet Shelling.   2,100 GERMANS DIE IN THE OREL SECTOR   Beating Back Counter-Attacks, Reds Push On Toward Enemy Base, Tak ing More Places.

Soviets Halt ~ Nazi Push In Donets Basin   Major Attack Fought To Standstill; Fresh Gains Reported In Orel Sector

Soviets Keep Gaining on Orel Sector   Great Push Is Hurled Back; Germans Lose Men, Materiel

Russian Guns Smash 100  German Tanks   Several Populated Places Taken Over by Soviets

Reds Destroy 100 Tanks tn  Donets Drive   Soviets Roll On Slowly In Orel Sector Killing 1,400  (sermans.   ‘PREDICT DEFEAT SOON

Stalin's Big Guns Smash 100 Tanke   Russians Fend Off Donet Blow, Kill 1,400 In Nes Orel Advance   DIVERSION TRY FAILS   Soviets Slog Through Mud To Tighten Grip Around Central Base

New Row on Milk Subsidies Seen   Some Congressmen Opposed to Payments  To Farmers

Yank Captives Held Periled By Dies Probe  Separation Of Loyal From Disloyal Taps Ureed -

PROPOSE TAX TO HIKE PAY OF TEACHERS   ‘New Levies to Meet Sug _ gested Salary Increases  : Is an Issue in Legislature  BACT _WAD DPIAN alt

CONGRESS FACES STORMY CLASHES  ON’ OLD ISSUES   RENEWED DEMANDS MADE FOR SHOWDOWN ON RUBBER, PARITY

SUICIDE FAST IN 7TH WEEK   Saugatuck  Minister And Biblical Scholar Is Growing Weaker

Weather ls Biggest Factor In Cross-Channel Invasior   Winter, As A Rule, Is Not Looked Upon As Time For Gigantic Military Moves; Germany May Still Crack Up

azi Home Front Collapse May Force Action— —By Elton C. Fay  Winter Invasion May Come As Surprise Move

Giraud And De Gaulle Are Leaders   Generals Pledge Themselves To Fight Together.

French Set Up Governing Body   Giraud, DeGauile Form Unity Group

Form Governing Body for French   Giraud and De Gaulle Are Joint Presidents

[WO FRENCHMEN ~ NOW IN CONTROL OF FREED LANDS   Giraud, De Gaulle Establish Joint Presidency to Admin: ister and Lead People With Allies.   FIVE OTHERS SERVE ON EXECUTIVE BOD   Several French Officials May Be Eliminated, Leaders Greet Each Other Wher Plane Arrives.

FRENCH BODY ISCREATED AT AFRICA MEEI   Giraud and De Gaulle Form New Governing Organization

LEADERS FORM NEW ASSEMBLY   De Gaulle, Giraud Begin Joint Presidency Of French Cabinet

New Governing Body Formed By Frenchmen   Giraud, De Gaulle Jointly Hold  Preedan rv

To Administer Territory Liberated and To Lead French at Allies’ Side

GERMAN SUB FIRED ON BLIMP, KNOCKED IT DOWN   U. $. Airshia K-74 Loses Battle with U-Boat in Atlantic —(Qne Man Missing.

Non-Rigid Ship Forced To Land on Sea After U-Boat Shell Scores Hit.   FIRST TO BE LOST   Unique Battle Staged Between Air and Undersea Craft in Atlantic.

W alkouts Menace lo  ~WarWork   Miners Leaving Some Pits In District; Supply Reduced

Air Crews Mass Equipment For Non-Stop Drive   Smashing Attacks Carry Orders For Full Destruction

Axis Reserves.     Ukrainian Front:   -Move. Foreshadows ~ New Hostilities, . Russia Believes

NAZIS MOVE UP RESERVES ~ IN UKRAIN   Ukraine Area Teeming With Action: Nazis Regroup Forces:

NAZIS CROWD. FRESH FORCES INTO UKRAINE   “Immense Reserves” Moving Toward Front Where '4?2 Drive Began.   REDS CAPTURE THREE, - SPOTS IN CAUCASUS

N azis Mass Troops in Ukraine  New Offensive Indicated by  Cancentratiang

AXIS BRINGING UP MANY MORE MEN   Mubo, Jap Concentration Area, 1s Bombed as Part of Routine Operations.

PRAVDA SAYS ROADS TEEM ~ WITH ACTIVIT'   New Hostilities Along Donets Line Foreshadowed

NAZIS MOVE MORE TROOPS INTO UKRAINE   Movement Seen As indication of New Drive On Donets

GERMANS MOVE RESERVES 10 UKRAINE FRONT   Big Scale Movement Foreshadows New Hostilities Along Donets Line   REDS NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Soviets Push Wear Verenikovskaya Thru Capture Of Three Villages

Starting Point For Big 1942 Drive Again Is  Reinforced      TEEMS WITH ACTION   No Important Changes In Battle Fronts Are Reported

Germans Move Up Great Reserves in Ukraine  ‘New Spring Drive ‘By Nazis Seems  In Pranaration

GERMANS MOVING RESERVES iNTO UKRAINE FRONT   Meanwhile Russians Tighten Trap Around Caucasus Bridqehead.

NAZI RESERVES NEAR CAUCASUS   Ukraine Teems With Army Reinforcements  For Red Front

IMMENSE RESERVES’ OF TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT MOVE; CAMPAIGN I5 SEEN  ee eS   1942 Summer Drive That Carried To Stalingrad Started from Point

Dog Saves s Family of 4   Nazis Mass ] New Troops I   Big Scale Mavement Brewing m Caucasus

RUSSIANS AGAINST TOUGH RESISTANCE TAKE MORE TOWNS   Operations Over Most 0: Soviet Front Are Bogged Down In Mud

Nazis in Ukraine Defense   “IMMENSE RESERVES” MOVING INTO REGION OF INITIAL DRIVE

TRAIN STRIKES BUS   None Of 31 Passengers Are Injured Seriously In Accident

FRENCH CAMEL UNIT DEFEATS ITALIANS IN BORDER CLASH   Only 150 “Of 400 Italians '. Flee: .From_ Fierce, Short Desert Rattle

LITTLE LAND ACTIVITY FOR TUNIS FRONT   Bad Weather Slows Fighting in North Africa—Lull Persists in Libyan Battle

To Reveal Union Plan  On Strike   Seven Thousand Men Strike In Pennsylvania And Alabama Mine  Fields.

109 Billion Dollars Asked  By President   Amount Is More Than Expenditures of All Other Belligerents  Qin Both Sides

109 Billion  Budget Given To Congress   President Tells Congress That the Sum Represents the Maximum Program for Waging War.   MORE THAN ALLIES, ENEMIES, COMBINED

Bankhead Bill May Be Sent To Committee   Delay Possible In Showdown on Vetoed Measure

Senate Holds Bankhead Bill   SENATOR BAILEY RAISES OPPOSITION TO MOVE TO SEND FARM MEASURE BACK TO AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW

Oklahoma City Buys Cruiser  In Single Day  State’s Bond Quota Sold In Greatest Swat At Murderers

A New Bond Drive Mark      Oklahoma City Buys $40,000,000 Worth of War Bonds In One Day   Allen. County’s Standing  eam: a ei

Germans Fighting Back Hard   British Exghth Army Drives Wedge And Threatens To Outflank Catania.

Yanks Report Another Three Mile Advance   Five Towns Are Captured In New Advance

Floods Threaten Industrial Plants   Explosive Production Stopped By Stream

IVER LEVELS IN SOVI [IDWEST INUNDATE, WAN [ALF DOZEN TOWNS FOO)   Hlinois, Mississippi Still Are High Enough To Cause .  Damage — Plants a.) ie

FLOOD STOPS WORK IN POWDER PLANT   Martial Law Invoked at Wolf Lake, Illinois.

Many Commanities — Flooded; Two Major Plants Threatened   Flood Peaks Move Downstream on. I)linois, Mississippi, But Munition Plants, Sev. _ eral Towns Siill in Danger

FLOOD WATERS SPREAD TOWARD POWDER FACTOR   2000-acre Plant May Be Inundated; Danger Passes in North As Crests Move Downstream.

AlliedBombers Blast Java, New Georgia  Fliers Travel 2400 ° Miles to Hit Jap Base in Indies

SERBS CLOSING ON BIRTHPLACE OF WORLD WAR   Partisans Take Important Rail Town

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDY PLAN DUE IN HOUSE   Woman Solon Warns Of Higher Food Bills For Housewives

SUBSIDY PLA NEARER DEATH IN HOUSE VOTE   Rep. Norton Says Ban To ‘Sell Consumers Down the River’

Administration’s Subsidy Program Heads For Certain Defeat In House

SUBSIDY PLAN DOOMED   Showdewn Vote On Measure Expected In House Late Today

Seized Gagliano in the Steady Roll Back of the Germans West of Mt. Etna, It Was Announced Today.   FLYING FORTRESSES BLUDGEONED MESSINA   British and Canadian Troops Smashed Ahead Toward Adrona in “Steady Progress.

AERIAL TORNADO IS UNLOOSED ON RETREATING FOE   YANKS, BRITISH AND CANADIANS CLOSE IN ON BIG SICILY PORT

"ESCAPE PORT” NEXT ON LIST OF CONQUERORS   Yanks, British And Canadians Smashing Ahead As Nazi Resistance Grows “Fierce”

Americans Plun ge Forward On Road To Messina i But Bitter Battle Develops At Troina   Germans Stubbornly Defending Key Point; Flying Fortresses Batter Port Again While British Planes Bomb Beaches

Bombers Blast ‘Escape Port   BATTLE FOR TROINA LOOMS AS NEXT MAJOR FIGHT WITH RAPIDLY RETREATING GERMANS IN RELENTLESS ALLIED ROLLBACK IN SICILY

Yankees Plunge Ahead 2 Miles, Take Gasliane   Aerial Tornado Hit: Messina, Last O-; Axis Escape Port: On Sicily

Churchill Hails Pending Large Scale Attacks   Prime Minister Tells Commens Plans Are Complete For Coordinated Invasion   VOICES CONFIDENCE   ‘Amphibious Operations Of Peculiar Complexity’ Are Prepared By Allies

Churchill Says Allies to Bomb Ayis to Ruin   Commons Hears *. Cofifident Speech . ‘Of Prime Minister:

Commons Told Axis Will Be Bombed To Destruction— Report Made on Conferences

Premier Reports Huge Water-Borne Operations Ready   Axis Hopes For Negotiated Peace Blasted In Confident Speech Before Commons On War Talks Held In Washington

CHURCHILL ADDRESSES COMMONS =  AND IS OPTIMISTIC OVER WAR      Prime Minister Expresses Supreme Confidence—Allied Commanders In Complete Agreement.

Multiple Blows At Europe ‘Impending’ Churchill Hints   Thrusts From More Than One Direction Due, He Indicates

Allies Are Determined Ta Blast Foe To Destruction, Churchill Tells Commons _

PRIME MINISTER HINTS INVASION ‘ON MANY FRONTS   Chucchill Describes Allicd Prospecis As “Bright, Solid"

HINTS ALLIES 10 STRIKE AT MANY POINTS   Sees ‘Mellow Light of Victory Beginning To Fall

Will Bomb Axis To Destruction, Commons Told   Says “Mellow Light of Victory’ Already Playing On Allies

CHURCHILL GIVEN WILD CHEERS IN TALK ABOUT WAR   Destruction of Axis By Bombing Is Fully Determined By Allies, Minister Declares.   MAY BEST MONTH IN U-BOAT DESTRUCTION   Germany Lost 50,000 Killed  In Tunisia, 248,000 Cap tured, Only 635 Escaped / He Savs.

Large Scale Operations Re. ported as Italians Pro: claim Commando Raid on Island Fails.

Britain Told Attacks Set On 3 Sides .   Action Scheduled ‘In Most Intense And Violent Farm’?

4-H Clubs to Give Skits at Party June 5      rhose Attending Must Present 25¢e War Stamp

Annual Event . Will Be Held In ~ Four-H Building   Party Geared to War Effort; Adisission Will Be 25¢ War Stamp

Meeting Believed. Related To Italy’s Future ~. Role In War  PEACE HOPES RAISED  Gen. Eisenhower’ s Offer Of ~ ‘July 28 Included — - In Agenda’

NEW ITALIAN CABINET IS INSESSION   Meeting F ollows Two Conferences At Vatican City

BADOGLIO CALLS NEW CABINET IN SESSION TODAY   Matters Of Importance To Be Considered On Future War Role

CONFERENCES ARE HELD AT VATICAN CIT)   General Eisenhower’: Offer of “Honorable Peace” Likely Con. sidered.

ITALIAN CABINET IS SCHEDULED 10 CONVENE AT ROME      Ts to Examine “Matters of an Important Nature” Peace Hopes Raised.

1.5. REPATRIATES REGAIN STRENGTH   American Food Brings New Life To Passengers  ‘Aboard Gripsholm

County Road Aid Bill Goes  To Governor   Fund Of $17,500,000 Is Earmarked For Road Purposes Under Terms Of Bill Passed Today

Nazis Making Tough Fight For Every Foot Of Ground In Italy. Ore tona About To Fall Ta Allies.

Allies Still Gaining on Both Ends of Italy Lin  Furious Tank Battle Rag ing Near Ortona in , the East.   R.A.F. BOMBERS HIT SOUTHERN GREECI   2,500 Allied Planes Shool Kurope With 4,000 — Tons of Bombs. 

CHANGES IN FOOD POINT VALUES 10 GOIN EFFECT SUN   SHARP INCREASE IN POINT VALUE OF CANNED CHERRIES AND GRAPEFRUIT EFFECTIVE OCT, 83RD,   CANNED CORN POINT VALUE DECREASEI   Dried Peas and Lentils Taken Off Ration List. Asparagus the Only Vegetable on Which Point Value Is Increased,

BUTTER JUMPS 10 16 POINTS POUND   Other Items Also Raise; Dried Peas, Lentils : Un-rationed.

ENEMY REPLACING AIRCRAFT LOSSES   Admiral Says Allies Have Underestimated Japs’ Plane Production Capacity.

JAP NAVY STAYS.» “AWAY IN PARC   Ramsey Believes Enowy  Fears Licking if Sorap. Develops

Germans Forced Back in Africa In Major Battle   American Big Guns Pound Axis Lines in Kasserine Pass   Hundreds of Allied Planes Help in Defeat of Axis Forces

Allied craft inflict trail of fire, dead   Artillery hurling  tons steel at foc

Bombers Pound Fleeing Troops   Nazis Given First Defeat [n° Tunisia

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES SPLASH TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON RETREATING AXIS ARMIES WITH GREAT EFFEC TIVENESS.

British Units Reach 8th Army in South   German Tank Columns Given No Chance fo Rest or Re-form

 Enemy Leaves Rearguard To  Defend Kasserine Pass  Against Allies   AXIS TROOPS GIVEN POUNDING BY AIRMEN

Big Guns Pound Fleeing Troops   American and British Forces Inflict Heavy Losses; Axis Gets No Chance To Reform Battle Lines

Nazis Suffer Defeat in Tunisia   Big Guns, Planes Blast at Enemy Tank Foreas

Nazis Flee Under Heavy Allied Fire   Kasserine Pass Scene of Flight: Eighth Army Gains

Allies Throw  Rommel Into Retreat   American and British Artillery, Planes Pound Axis Troops Streaming Through Narrow Pass

British And American Forces Hand Axis Tank Columns Major Reverse   Allied Artillery Lobs ‘Luns of Shells file Narrow Kasserine Pass—Ifuudreds of Allied Planes Dea Devi     saline = Blows

Nazis Given   ,  No Chance to  Rennie   Prisoners and War Material Fall Into Hands of Pursuers

ARMY FLEEING UNDER HEAVY ALLIED FIRE   Planes, Tanks and Artillery Pound Axis Troops Streaming Through Narrow Kasserine Gap.   GIVEN NO CHANCE TO RE-FORM LINES   Wreckage and Bodies of Fallen Germans Strew Retreat Path — Hundreds Taken Prisoner.

NAZIS DELAY OFFENSIVE ON SOVIET FRONT   Germans on Orel Front Under Orders to Recapture Four Lost Towns at Any Cosst

GERMANS DELAY RUSSIAN RWI   Front Line Supply Short ages Cause, Says Lon don Report

SAYSNAZIS HAVE DELAYED DRIVE   Front Line Supply Shortages Blamed

SAYS NAZIS HAVE DELAYED RUSSIAN DRIVE      Source With Contacts Inside Germany Declares Front-Line Supply Shortage Ruled Out June 16 Zero Hour.

Nazi Russia Drive Delayed  Shortege of Supplies Said to Have Caused

Invasion Fears Said Delaying Russian Drive  Germans Hesitate _— ae es, % 2k   Germans Hesitate To Throw Strength On East Front

Nazis Said To Have Put Off  Russian Drive   United Nations: Double Assoult in Mediterranean Now Feared

Missouri Senate Wants Roosevelt To Sign Strike Bill   Hart Would Like To Have John Lewis Come to Ozarks

Allred Says He. » Made No ‘Deal’   ‘Biddle ‘Also: Says - Charaes Baselese

‘Allred Denies He Was Backed For Senator by President -. _ ‘Or That Any Promises: Made

Allred Says He » Made No ‘Deal   Biddle Also Says Charaes Baseless

GREW SAYS JAPS PLAN LONG WAR   Former Ambassador Holds Little Hope Of Crack-Up By Nipponese

GREW. DECLARES JAPANESE = WILL FIGHT TO THE END   FORMER AMBASSADOR TELLS . COLUMBUS AUDIENCE JAPS THINKS IN TERMS OF 100-YEAR WAR

R. A. F, BLASTS MUNICH, SETS LARGE FIRES   11 Planes Missing, Indicating 200 Were Used in Raid on Site of Plane Factories

 American Bond Buying Puts, Shadow On Hitler’s 54th Birthday Celebration

MINE STRIKE IN DEADLOCK;  FEW RETURN   NO GENERAL BACK-TO-WORK MOVE SY MINERS DESPITE ORDER OF WLE AND UNION LEADERS

Mine Strike Spreads To New Field   No Signs Of Back-To-Work Movement Despite WLB Order To Unions

Dachel-Carter Case ln Recess Until Tuesday   Suit Against Clark Tc Go Beyond Holidays, It Is Indicated

"Ma’ Bolton Tells Solons War Is First   Advises Colleagues To Evaluate All In Terms Of Victory.

SOLONS URGED TO FORGET BICKERING   Mrs. Bolton Says Winning War Is Most Important -

MARINES CALL COLLEGE MEN   Enlistees on inactive duty will be called July 1st;  ten at Parsons

SARONG GIRL MARRIED TO ARMY FLIER   Elaborate Hollywood Reception Held After Rites

Main Attack —  ‘To Come At. Right Time   Churchill Makes .Long Report to Commons; U-Boats Renew Assaults   CONFERENCE WITH. —RUSSIANS SOGN   War in Italy Is Fully Discussed With Details on- . - Allied Planning Told

Mediterranean Operations Only Preliminary Action   Prime Minister Reveals in Long Report to  ~ Commons That Americans Land ‘on Sar-” dinia to Aid Italians; Says U- Boat Warfare ‘Beanies Out :

Minister Declares Direct Attack on Germany Planned   Britain’s Leader Points to Allied Ain Strength, Destruction of Nazi. ea War Centers « * 

MEDITERRANEAN WAI OPERATIONS NEVER HELD AS SUBSTITUTE  LONG AND CONFIDENT SURVEY OF WAR MADE TO HOUSE OF COMMONS

\BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN LONG AND CONFIDENT SURVEY OF WAR BEFORE HOUSE OF COMMONS —   British Aircraft Supply Now Exceeds That of Germany by Four to One. — German U-Boats Have Renewed Assaults On North Aflantic  Chee .

SUSPECT BLOC IN ARGENTINA —-< BEHIND PLOTS   MILITARY: CLIQUE’S  ACTIVI TIES AMONG SOUTH AMERI-  CAN COUNTRIES BEING *  : WATCHED ws

U5. FEARS ANT AMERICAN BLOC IN SO. AMERICA   Guard Against Any Move by Argentine cr Bolivian Elements

»15 Jap Warships, 2 American Lost in » Recent Sea Battle   Navy Department Gives More Figures on Solomons Encounters

U.S. CRUISER AND DESTROYER LOST IN PACIFIC BATTLE   Two Jap Destroyers, 13 Other Vessels Sunk Or Hit   NAVY REPORTS ACTIONS BETWEEN JAN. 29-FEB. 4

Heavy Cruiser Lost By U. S. In Sea Action   Furious Sea-Air Fighting Sees Two American Warships Sunk by Jap Bombs

19 JAP SHIPS SENT DOWN IN WEEK'S TIME   12 Destroyers Were Among Those Blasted. Heavy Cruiser Chicago Lost by U. 8.

FIGHT GOES ONFOR WEEK, KNOX STATES   Cruiser Chicago, Destroye Lost By U.S   In Number Of Planes Shot Down, 61-22; Casualties Said To Be Few

U.S. Destroyer Also Lost: Story Of Battle Told   Week-Long Clashes Cost Japs 15 Ships Sunk or Damaged

Navy Reveals Score Of Action Which Began January 29   60 Enemy Planes Downed to 22 of America’s Own

NAVY REVEALS TOLL IN WEEK LONG BATTLE   Chicago, Heavy Cruiser Among Losses But Japanese Snffered Loss Of 15 Fighting Ships In Pacific Enearement   ENTIRE ACTION WAS AIR VERSUS SHIPS

Navy Bares New Losses In Solomons   Japs Lose Two Destroyers; 13  Others Damaged

Week of Engagements Confined to Air vs. Ship Actions, Spread Over 100,000 Square Miles

Nippon Loses 12 Destroyers In Seven Days   U.S. Heavy Cruiser Chicago Lost In Battle Of Guadalcanal Island.   NOWN 60 JAP PLANE!

Yankees Lose Heavy Cruiser, One Destrover   Reveal Japs gp ty To Halt U. S. Convoy, Siesudis. Own Men From Guadaleanal   Lose 3 Torpedo Boats

U. S. Cruiser. Destroyer Lost to Japs   Navy Reveals Results of Fights In Solomons Area

Among Vessels Sunk In Solomons Area Is Cruiser Chicago   Report Of Furious Air-Sea Battle Week Following Jan. 29 Given Out By Navy Department Today

U.S. Destroyer Also Lost in Solomons Area   Japs Lose Two Destroyers, 13 Other Vessels

NAVY REPORTS 1d JAP SHIPS SUNK DAMAGED   Week of Fighting as Nipponese Evacuated Guadalcanal Described

Navy Reports on Running Battle in Which Tokyo Claimed Heavy American T aceac.

Cruiser Chicago And One Other Lost, Says Navy   Three Motor Torpedo Boats Gone; Foe Air Toll 60-61 to 22 American.

15 Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged, 60 Planes Shot Down In Solomons. Knox Reports   U.S. Loses Two War Vessels & 22 Aircraft

American Losses Two Warships Knox Declares   Solomons Battie In Sea and Air Raged For Week

15 Jap Ships Sunk, Hit; 2 U.S. Warships Lost in Furious Solomon Battle

Cruiser ‘Chicago’ Sunk in 2 Attacks Of Torpedo Planes   U.S. Destroyer Also Destroyed, . , During Week-Long Solomon F ight; Yanks  Blast 60 ‘Aire eralt From Air

Week-Long Engagment Was Limited To Battles Between Planes and Warships; Japs Lost Two Destroyers Sunk, 13 Others Probably Sunk or Damaged

15 JAP SHIPS LOST, DAMAGED OFF SOLOMONS   U. S. Heavy Cruiser, Destroyer Sunk During © Action

U.S. Loses Two Warships While 15 Jap Ships Go Down  Principal American Loss Was Heavy Cruiser Chicago; Casualties Not Large

SULOMONS BATTLES GUST JAPS 15 SHIPS AND U. S. TWO, SAID   enemy Getting Oil From Conquered Areas, Knox Says; Statement On Solomons Air-Sea Actions Given

Destroyer also lost in Solomons; Japs suffer 2 sinkings, 13 ships hurt

Navy Announces Losses In Week's Solomons Battle   U.S. Heavy Cruiser Chicago Is Lost; 61 Japanese, 22 American Planes Downed

TWO AMERICAN WARSHIPS LOST IN SOLOMONS   NAVY LISTS HEAVY CRUISER ‘CHICAGO’ SUNK IN SEA BATTLE

Jap Attempt To Evacuate Guadalcanal Forces Brings Disaster   2 AMERICAN WARSHIPS ARE SUNK IN BATTLES   Enemy Loses 60 Airplanes To 22 Of Ours In WeekLong Engagement

15 Jap Ships Sunk Or Hit in Solomons   Navy, Announcing Results of Recent Sea-Ait Battle, Reports Loss of Two U. S. Vessels, Including the Heavy Cruiser Chicago.

U5. CRUISER CHICAGO SUNK      Enemy Loses 60 or Moré Planes to 22 Lost By Americans.   CASUALTIES ‘NOT LARGE?

U. 8. Lost the: Heavy: Cruiser Chicago and One Destroyer;Also 22 Planes ~   JAPANESE. LOST ~ 60 AIRPLANES   Navy Tells “of Actions in Solomons; Japs Declined Showdown Fight: © -

Enemy Lost 60 Planes While 22 Of Ours Were Shot Down In ‘Recent Solomons Fighting:   ULS.S. Chicago Sent Down By Air Attack; Personnel Loss Not Great; No Engagements Between Fleets

HEAVY CRUISER ONE DESTROYER LOST BY THEUS.   Japs Lose 2 Destroyers, 60 Planes; 13 Other Ships Probably Sunk:

American Loss In Solomons Battle: 2 Ships   Navy Reveals 2 Tokyo Destroyers Sunk, 13 Others Probably Lost; U.S. Loses Cruiser Chicago, Destroye

Heavy Cruiser Chicago Falls , Victim To Nips   1 Destroyer, 22 Planes Also Lost In Solomons Battles; Foe’s Casualties—2 Destroyers, 60 Planes, Possibly 4 Other Destroyers Sunk

ENEMY LOSSES IN PACIFIC FIGHTING REPORTED HEAVY   TWO AMERICAN WARSHIPS AND HEAVY CRUISER’ LOST IN SEA BATTLE

NAVY REVEALS LOSSES DURING RECENT BATTLE   U. S. S. Chicago Sunk But Enemy Loses Large Number of Sea-air Craft.

U. 5. Losses Include Cruiser, Destroyer   Japanese Refused to Wage Full Scale Battle; Tried To Remove All Troops From Guadalcanal

2 American Ships Lost In Solomons   Week of Fierce Fighting Detailed By Navy—cCruise: Chicago Down

Naval Losses In Pacific Reported   Heavy Cruiser Chicago and ~ One Destroyer Lost in Solomons   GET 12 JAP WARSHIPS   Enemy Loses  2 Destroyers and Three Other Ves sels in Action

Japs Losers [In Big SeaAir Fight.      Fifteen. Enemy Ships Lost in Week-Long Battle Off Solomons; Two 1). S. Ships Sunk

Americans Lose Cruiser Chicago   Unidentified U. S. Destroyer Also o Loss; PlaneCost to Enemy l¢é 60 to Yanks. 22

Second Warshi i Lost Is Unnamea                  Week’s Furious Fighting in Solomon Fires Results in Sinking or. Damag ing 15 Jap Ships, Including 12 Destroyers and 61 Planes; 22 Ameri Planes Downed. ;

Sea-Air Fight Lasts Week; Chicago Sunk  Action in Week of Jan. 29 Spreads Over 1,000 Miles in Solomons  US DESTROYER LOST  Fighting Incident to Jap Abandonment of Guadaleanal

12 Destroyers In List Sunk By U.S.; We Lest 2 Shins   Big Cruiser Chicago Lost By U. S.; Fight Outstanding Victory For America

Navy,. Reporting on Solomons Fighting, Reveals Heavy Cruiser Chicago Sent tc Bottom—Destroyer Lost Not Named   - CRUISER SUNK WHILE IN TOW   Loss of Life on Chicago ‘Not Large’—Twe Jap Destroyers Sunk, Four More Probably Destroved, Six Damaged

SINK, DAMAGE 15 JAP SHIPS NEAR SOLOMONS   Lose U. S. Cruiser Chicago, 60 Nipponese Planes Shot Down

13 JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   U. S. Lost 2 Warships In Battle, Naval Report Says

Two American Warships Are Sunk In Fight   Cruiser, Destroyer And Three Torpedo Boats Among Losses   No Major Sea Battle But Many Maneuvers   Jap Losses Include 60 Airplanes In The Seven Days Of Battle

RACLUBING LARGE CRUISER CHICAGO   Navy Reports on Sea-Air Fighting in Solomons Area; Two Air Attacks Spell Ceaiser's Doom

KNOX REVEALS DETAILS OF SEA ENGAGEMENT PRECEDING CAPTURE OF GUADALCANAL   Heavy Cruiscr Chicago And Unidentified Ship ‘Are Lost; 61 Nippon Planes Downed; Casualties Listed As “Not Large”

15 Jap Ships Sunk; U.S. Cruiser Chicago Lost In Pacific Fight   60 Jap Planes, 22 U.S. Planes Lost In Furious  Air Battles During Guadalcanal Evacuation

Japs ‘Lost.2 Destroyers And 13 Other Ships Probably Sunk Or Damaged  “CHICAGO” GOES DOWN 60 Jap And 2? American      60 Jap And 22 American Planes Destroyed In Week’s Wartare

2 American Warships Lost In Furious. Sea-Air Battle, U. S. Planes Best Enemies

JAPANESE LOST FIFTEEN SHIPS IN SOLOMONS CLASH   Sixty Nipponese Planes Also Shot Down; American Destroyer, Unidentified, Sant to Rottom.

HEAVY CRUISER CHICAGO «LOST IN SAME BATTLE   Furious Sea and Air Fight In South Pacific Three Weeks Ago Reported   JAPS ARE GIVEN BEATING   U. S$. Loses 22 Planes While Enemy Losses Are Three Times That Many

NIPPPONS LOSE FIFTEEN SHIPS IN SOLOMONS   American Losses in Week Are Two Warships, In cluding Cruiser Chicago.   Jap Plane Losses 3 to 1 to Americans

Furious Sea Battle Began Jan. 27; — Jans Lose 60 Planes To Alfies 22.

js Cruiser Chicago Is Lost As Result  of Two Air Attacks During Operations in Which Japs Attempt To Remove Some Of Their Forces From Guadalcanal

{2 DESTROYERS IN ENEMY UNIT AMONG VICTIMS   Yankee Airmen Score Victory In Week of Furious Fighting In Solomons In January   HEAVY U.S. CRUISER, DESTROYER SUNK   Japanese Also Lose Sixty Planes; Nips Decline to Accept Decisive Rattle

JAPS LOSE HEAVILY IN SHIPS PLANES      Heavy Cruiser Chicago. Destroyer Sunk . In the Solomons

SEA, AIR BATTLE STARTED JAN. 29   10 of. Foe’s Planes De stroyed in Fighting in Guadalcanal Area

WEEK OF FURIOUS FIGHTING ENDS. WITH LOSS OF PAIR OF ‘AN SHIPS IN SOLOMONS

2 AMERICAN SHIPS LOST   Including Heavy Cruise Chicago During Sea Battle Beginning January 29th

15 Japanese Ships Destroyed Or Damaged   American Destroyer Also Lost In Recent WeekLong Air-Sea Fighting; Threescore Jap Planes Downed. As Against 22 Yanks.

Sink, Damage 15 Japanese Ships In Solomons Area   Two American Warships, Including Heavy Cruiser Chicago, Lost in Week of Furious Sea-Air Fighting in Area of Solomon Islands

FIGHT GOES ONFOR WEEK, KNOX STATES   Cruiser Chicago, Destroyer Lost By U. S.  EDGE TO ALLIES   In Number Of Planes Shot Down, 61-22: Casualties Said To Be Few

TWO AMERICAN WARSHIPS AND 0 BOATS oUNK   Japs Lose 15 Ships !noluding 12 Destroyers Sunk or Damaged.   CRUISER CHICAGO LOST UNDER SECOND ATTACK

Navy Reports 60 Japanese and 22 American Planes Destroyed In Solomons Fighting.

THE HEAVY GRUISER CHICAGO, LOST IN SOLOMONS BATTLE   The Japanese, However, Lost 15 Ships, Including 12 Destrovers.   WERE SUNK OR DAMAGED   Japanse Also Lost 60 or 61 Planes to the Americans 22.

DETAILS OF AIR-NAVAL FIGHTS TOLD   Japs Lose Two Destroyers, 4 Probably Sunk

HEAVY CRUISER CHICAGU, ANOTHER AMERICAN SHIP LOST IN SEA-AIR BATTLE   Identity Of Second U. S. Vessel Secret, Knox Announces; Results of Week’s Bout In Solomon Islands Disclosed At Capital

19 JAP VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Chicago, Two Other U. §. Ships Are Lost In Naval Fight In Solomons.

BUS LINES 10 KEEP WAR TIME   Operators Seek To Avoid Confusion; Some Local Schedules May Be Altered

Peace Reports Seen As Nazi Propaganda   Think Nazi Leaders Seeking to Counter Expected Big News From Conference of Allied Leaders

Reich Expected to Use All Wiles to Offset Ex-  pected Big News  CRUCIAL TIME AHEAD

Believe Nazis Striving fo Confuse Foes   View Peace Rumors as Move to Counter Effect of "Big Three" Meeting

Nazis Launch Propaganda  Offensive Would Stave Off Defeat and Create Allied Confusion

Nazi Peace Overture Talk Seen as Propagantla To Counter News from Big Three Conference

PEACE HUMOR “TALK OEEN Aa BIG 3 BUFFER   Is Believed Nazi Propaganda Offensive to Offset Big News,

NAZIS WORRIED OVER REPORTED ALLIED MEETING   Peace Overtures of Germans May Be Propaganda

NAZI PEACE TALK SEEN AS PRELUDE 10 PROPAGANDA MOVE      Some Believe Meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, Chirchill ils Now On      VARIED OPINIONS. HELD

Some Senators Shy From Talk Of Early Peace   Victory Over Nazis By Summer Would Be “Surprising”

Senators in Know Expect Long War; Victory Before Next Summer  ‘Would Be Surprise

YANKEE NAVY VICTORIOUS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Signal Victory Over Japanese In Battle Of Kula Gulf Disclosed, Reduces Number Ot Enemy Ships   40 Ships Lost

Americans Inflict Heavy Damage As Sea Forces  Clash; U. S. Destroyer Lost

Action Planned By Commission To Meet Crisis   Present Ordinance  Qutmoded; Parents Must Co-operate

Hull and Stalin Hold Conference   Harmony Reported At Moscow Meet

Three-Power Parley  Ts in Accord Hull Meets With  Russic’s   Hull Meets With Russia's Premier Stelin

Flood Hits S. D. Section   Entire Sioux Indian Village of Little Eagle Near McIntosh Evacuated

PITTSBURGH COAL FIRM ‘POSTS PRICE INCREASE   OPA Informed Of Boost Of Nine Cents A Ton For Bituminoys To Meet Operational Cosis

SOFT COAL PRICE BOOST ANNOUNCED   Pittsburgh Coal Company Files Notice of NineCent Raise

Racing Red Troops Gain 27 Miles in Day   Swaying Battles Now Raging on Approaches to Latvian Frontier

NAZIS ADMIT NEW RETREAT BEYOND KIEV   Soviets Racing Across First Heavy Snows of Western Ukraine Toward the Polish and Rumanian Frontiers.

Germans Admit Plight  In Russia Growing ©   - Soviets Thunder Over Heavy Snows Toward Polish And Rumanian Borders, While Another Army Nears Latvia. 

HEAVY BATTLES IN FINAL EFFORT TAKE NGOWED GERMANS   SMALLER EDITIONS OF RUSSIAN BATTLES BEING FOUGHT ELSEWHERE

Combat Carries Victorious Soviet Forces Within 58 Miles of Rail City Of Korosten  MANY ENEMIES SLAIN

YANKS IN ITALY BEAT BACK NAZI COUNTERATT ACK   American Marines Battle Jap Force Landed on Bougainville Island

GERMANS ADMIT FRESH RETREATS   RUSSIANS POUND AT GERMAN LINES IN SMOLENSK AREA

EAGAN     “WEA   80 Tow ns, Villages ~ Claimed Taken   By Soviets’

New Retreats Are Admitted By Germans   Superior Red Forces Drive West of Kiev; Capture 80 Villages

80 TOWNS CAPTURED NEAR KIEV   New Russian Landings In Crimea Reported By Nazi Broadcast

BERLIN ADMITS NEW RETREATS INKIEY AREAS   Red Forces Thunder Ahead Over First Deep Snow In Drives North and Wesr of Citv   HUNDREDS SLAIN IN CRIMEA, KIEV ZONES   Trapped Nazis Must Flee to Rumania or Face Isolation, Soviet Reports Reveal

27 Mile Gain Recorded by Gen. Vatutin’s Force in Day   Berlin Reports Heavy Fighting in Perekop Isthmus

UKRAINE DRIVE   Germans Admit New Retreats North and West of Captured Kiev

Fresh Russian Landings Reported in Crimea, And Heavy Fighting on Perekon Isthmus   SNOW IN UKRAINE      Reds Make Heavy Aliacks Norihwest of Smolensk and in Nevel Area cf Frozen North

GERMANS IN FRESH RETREAT WEST AND NORTH KIEV TONAY   RUSSIAN FORCES THUNDERING TOWARD POLISHRUMANIAN BORDERS

Foe Admits New Retreat West Of Kiev   Russians Thunder Ahead Across First Big Snows Of The Ukraine.

Berlin Concedes Reverses   Sweeping Red Units Now Nearing Borders Of Three Countries

Germans Admit Continued Retreat In West Ukraine   Russians Reported In 27-Mile Drive  Wect From Kiev

Germans Admit New Defenses Crumble Before Russians Driving From Kiev

Russian Army Continues In Its Advance   Drives Ahead 27 Miles In ‘A Day From Kiev, And Captures 80 Villages And Towns

Nazis Retreat Before Red Attacks   Germans Threatened With Encirclement In Ukraine

Nazis Fall Back Before Red Power   First Heavy Snows Are Aiding Russians With Continuing Drive

. REDS SWEEP THROUGH SNOW Germans Admit Fresh Retreats   Vatutin Advances 27 Miles in Day: Berlin Reports New Soviet Crimea Landing

Nazis Admit. Reds Move for Two Frontiers   Russian Ukrainian Army Advances 27 Miles From Kiev in Day, Moscow Report:

Snow Covers Route of Red Victors   Russian Drive Toward Poland and Balkans Unimpeded

Yanks Halt 9 Counter Attacks Below Rome; Heavy Snows Fall In Ukraine; Bombers Hit Genoa

Soviets Pound Forward In Heavy Snow   German Lines at Smolensk Are Under Heavy Assault

Falling Back North and West of Kiev   Soviets Advance 27 Miles in Day — Lines Swaying North of Smolensk

FRESH RETREATS BY GERMANS WEST AND NORTH OF KIE\   The Superior Russian Forces Thundered Over First Heavy Snows.   TOWARD THE FRONTIERS   Russian Tank and Infantry Pounded Heavily at German Lines Near Smolensk.

Advance on Many Sectors of Long Front: Berlin Admits New Retreats in Violent Fighting.

Nazis Admif Retreats On West Of Kiev   Russians Smash On Through First Heavy Snows of Western Ukraing

Nazis Acknowledge New Retreat Before Superior  Red Forces West of Kiey

Russians Advance 27 Miles   Winter Strikes All Along The Front, And Ruesians Keep Coming

Russians Advance In Ukraine Area   GERMANS ADMIT NEW RETREAT ON EAST FRONT

In Fresh Retreat To West of Kiev   Germans Continue Retirement Before Superior Russian Forces   FIGHTING IN CRIMEA   Russians Operate in First Heavy Snow on Ukrainian Front

SOVIETS MAKE TT-MILE GAIN WEST OF KIEV   Drive Thru Heavy Snowfall to Within 58 Miles Of Korosten

STHEAVY SNOW FALLS AS REDS TAKE 80 TOWNS   Tank, Infantry Units Pound Enemy Lines Northwest of Smolensk

Russians Thunder Over First Heavy Snows in Ukraine   Reds Regain 80 Towns in Drive; Nazis Admit Fresh Retreats

Soviels Fanning Out From Kiev Take 8 Towns   Fighting Flares In Crimea, Across Perekop Isthmus

SNITE BETTER FROM SERIOUS HEART ATTACK   Iron lung patient makes  gallant seven-year fight for health

Russian Advance Menaces Poltava: Score New Gain   German Counter Attack South Of Kharkov Is_ Beaten Off   LOSSES IN MEN ARE TREMENDOUS

UKRAINE IS CONTINUING   German Counterattacks Repulsed; Russians Make Gains

KHARKOV-KIEV RAILS MENACED   Russians Continue Advance as Furious Ukraine Battle Rages

250 AIRPLANES ARE TRAPPED ON GROUND   Block-Busters Fall on Three Main Axis Airdromes

54 Tons Of Bornbs Land On Japanese Air Field   250 Nipponese Planes Trapped On Ground In Raid On Rabaul Fields.

HOUSE TO PROBE FERS BLAST N RUBBER WOE   Army and Navy ‘Experts’ ‘Charged With Delaying : Synthetic Plans

Jeffers Charges Will Be Probed   Rubber Administrato! Charges Synthetic Rubber Program Being Retarded

TWO OHIO COUNTIES TO STUDY RATIONING   Housewives To Conduct Food Survey Plan

FIRES CHECKED FOR POSSIBLE SABOTAGE   FBI Will Investigate All Forest Blazes Under  Suspicion

Draft Boards Crack Down On Dodgers   Local Board Lists Delinquents As Move Begins to Round-Up Missing Selectees

Registrants for aft Cautioned To Carry Card:  :   Steps Being Taken In Texas To Round Up All Draft Dodgers

Selective Service Passes New Rules  To Close In On “Draft Dodgers”

DELINQUENTS HAVE 10 DAYS TO AVOID DRAFT TROUBLE   Walter Jack Person. Andrew N. Jackson. On Local List Of Such

Move to Close In On Draft Dodgers   DELINQUENT REG IST RAN TS TO BE RE-CLASSIFIED AT ONCE. PAGE WARNS

BEEF PLENTIFUL IN SOME AREAS   But Civilian Shortage Wil Continue Because of Armed Forces’ Needs

Some Sections May Get More Beef Soon...  No General Let Up In Beef Shortage Seen By The Meat Packers

Army to Get First Helpings Of Meat Supplies of Nation   Little Hope Seen Except in Some Sections For Increased Quote for Civilian Consumption

More Beef Foreseen in Some Areas   General Civil Supply, However, Is Low: Ceilings Blamed.

BEEF SUPPLY IS EXPECTED TO BE MORE PLENTIFUL IN SOME AREAS OF COUNTRY -

Former Sow Belly Buyers Help Cause Beef Shortage   Armed Service Gets First Call; Some Areas Have Plenty

Ceiling on Prices Without Balancing Supply Is Given as Cause  ARMY TO COME FIRST

May Set More Beef in Some Areas, But No General Relief is Likely

Packers Say They Can’t Afford To Butcher Cattle for Civilian Needs Under Present Price Control System

Expect Beef Supply To Become More Plentiful In Some Areas   Fill Army Orders

Expect More Beef In Some  U. S. Sections   Army Will Get First Helpings

No Hope for Enough Beef Over Nation   (Associated Press) Some Places May Be Fully Supplied But Shortage Is General

Beef Supply To Be More Plentiful In Some Sections Of The Country But Army To Get First Helping:

Nazis Launch Tank Aitack AgainstF rench   peek to Protect *Rommel's Escape Corridor

Allies Try To Stop Aid To Rommel!   British Send More Soldiers Into Tunisia

Axis Force Hits Allied-Held Post   Fresh Burst Of Fighting Breaks Out On Tunisiar Front As Germans Try To Protect Rommel’s Escape Corridor

German Drive In Africa Is Stopped   As Messina Harbor Suffers Raid By Yankees Planes

Nazi Tank Force Smashes Tunisia Line of Defense   But Germans Pay Heavil\ for Short Advance against French

GERMANS BEGIN VIOLENT ATTACK AGAINST FRENCH   Some Progress Made Despite Heavy Losses In Faid Pass Area   ALLIES ATTEMPTING TO CUT OFF ROMMEL

TANK LED NAZI FORCE UNDER ALLIED FIRE   Gen. Montgomery’s Eighth Army Vigorously Pushing Rommel’s Africa Corps Out Of All Tripolitania.   2 Daylight Raids

S1X OFFICERS, 56 MEN DIEON CRUISER CHIGAGO   More Than 1100 Personnel on Warship, Sunk in 19  Minutes

Cruiser Chicago Never Had Chance Against Jap Planes      Crew of Crippled Ship Knew End Was Near When Eleven Nipponese Torpedo Planes Concentrated on Cruiser — Staunton Sailor Describes TilFated Action—Lost Only Six Officers, 56 Men

Nurses Cool When Nazis Bomb Hospital Ship Off Salerno Gulf   Many Burn Hands Sliding Down Ropes As They Escape in Scanty Garb

' “British Marvelous” ‘Nurses Describe Bombing Of Salerno Hespital Ship

SPAIN PUTS OUT “PEACE FEELER”   Mull Repeats “Unconditional Surrender” ‘Terms,

Governor Donnell Orders Out Guard To Preserve Order In Strike Area

ORDER OUT MILITIA T0 PRESERVE ORDER      Unionists Fighting over Qi Line Members Brings Cal from Missouri Governor

Miners Idle In Defiance  Of Roosevelt   Lewis and Ickes Meet Again But  Maintain Silence

Lewis Again Confers  With Ickes   United Mine Workers Continue to Defy  Dewsidant*a Tiaeeanda

Union Chieftain, Ickes Again Study Demands  Both Men Silent Following Parley;   Both Men Silent Following Parley; Contract Formula Beheved Subtect

VICHY SABOTAGE PLOT REVEALEL   Secret Papers Disclose Plans To Retard Allied Invasion

PLOT TO SABOTAGE INVASION CHARGE   Vichy Said to Have Laid Plans to Occupy All Strategic Points in France.

Dewey Urges Legislature Aid Taxpayers of State   Republican Governor Proposes Deductions for Insurance, Medical Expenses; Help for Farmers  In Making Possible Use of Students

DEWEY TAKES OFFICE   New York Republican Governor. Addresses the Legislature 

EDEN PLEDGES ROME BOMBING   Foreign Secretary Says England Has Moral Right To Blast Italian City

U.S. MARINES ‘GO PRIMITIVE ON GUADALCANAL   Will Bomb Rome ‘If Necessary. Eden Vows

British Discuss Bombing of Rome   Churchill's Pledge Repeated by Eden

Eden Repeats Churchill Pledge That Rome Will Be Bombed If Necessary

EDEN REITERATES PLEDGE 10 BOMB ITALIAN CAPITA   Rome Will Not Be Spared  Military Strategy Requires Attack.

COMMONS “DEMAND BOMBING OF ROME   Eden Says ‘City Will. Be Subject. To Raids When Helpful

2, 000 Nazi War Factories Wrecked By RAF Attacks   Bomb Sowing Rate Mounts to 12,000 Tons Monthly, According to Report Given: to the House of Commons by Air Minister

Germans Have Lost Much In Air Fight   British Chief Praises U. S. for Help in Devastating Attacks

BOMBINGS LEAVE 2,000 NAZI PLANTS WRECKED; MILLIONS ARE HOMELESS   Br’tish Push Monthly Bombing Rate To 12,000 Tons; Results Of Stepped-up Raids Told To House Of Commons

Pay-as-You-Go Compromise Tax Plan Expected in Congress in a Few Days

PAY-AS-GO TAX ~ SEEMS LIKELY   MEMBERS OF HOUSE COMMIT. TEE UNDER PRESSURE TO'OFFER A COMPROMISE * BILL SOON

SEEKING ‘DEAL’ ON PAY-GO PLAN   House Committee Works Overtime On Clatantanmise_

Pvt. F.O. Carter Wounded With  Army in Italy   Local Man Injured November LO. His Wife Is Informed

FORMER GARRIER ~ OF SUN WOUNDED   Sergt. John L. Lawrence, Irishtown, Among Casualties In North Africa, Mother Is Informed -

Government Gives Lewis Dual Rebufi   Coal Case Must Be Settled Like Any Other Dispute Says Roosevelt

Administratior Holds Firm To Wage Policy   FDR's Statement Puts Damper On Special Treatment For Lewis

GOVERNMENT 10 CONTINUE ITS WAGE FORMULA   War Labor Board Rejects  Labor Petition to Lift 15% Cost-of-Living ~ Allowance   ROOSEVELT BACKS IT   Notifies Lewis and Operators Mine Case Must Be Settled. Like: Any...  Other Disptite™

WLB WILL NOT SCRAP LITTLE STEEL FORMULA   ee  President Says Differences Must Be Settled At Once

ROOSEVELT BACKS - THE LABOR BOARD      Dual Notice Is Given. That No Retreat Is Planned on Wage. Stabilization

WLB STANDS FIRM ON 15 PER CENT  WAGE CEILING   REJECT PETITION TO LIFT COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE

WLB Rejects Plan to Lift Living Cost      President Backs Up Board; ‘Tells UMW to Settle Dispute Like .Anyvody Else

Rejects Labor’s Demand For Hike In Living Costs   Lewis Notified Government to Continue Stabilization of Wages.   FDR Asks Continued  Production of Coal

TELLS LEWIS ROW MUST BE SETTLED      WLB Rejects Petition to Lift 15 Per Cent Cost-of-Living Allowance

F.R. Calls On Coal Miners To Keep Working  WLB Rejects Petition To Lift 15 Per Cent

WLB Retains Little Steel Wage Formul:   Roosevelt Declares Coal Case Must Be Handled By Reg ular Board.   READY FOR SHOWDOWN

LEWIS INFORMED “ON METHODS FOR ~ ENDING DISPUTE   Roosevelt Backs Up Board In Rejection of Petition te Lift Cost-of-Living. . Allowance.   LABOR LEADER 1S 0PPOSED TO WLB HEARING   President Asks Continued Production of Coal When Present Contract Ends on March 31.

Lewis Gets U.S. Warning   No Retreat on Wage Stabilization Front Contemplated

GOVERNMENT SAYS T WONT. BACK... UPON WAGE FRONT   John L. Lewis of the U. M. W. Receives Dual Notice ia That Effect—W. L. B. Re- ject Labor Petition

NAZIS HAVE 211 DIVISIONS ON RED FRONT   Russian News Agency Says No German Divisions Have Been Shifted To Other Fronts

RUML PLAN APPROVED   Senate F inance Group - Votes 13 To 6 In ) Favor Of Bill

otesfor odified wml Plan   gale Would Skip er 1942 or i.  3 Tax Liability

Senate Committee Votes Modified Rum] Skip-A- Year Income Tax Plan

Ruml Plan To Be Presented To the Senate   13 to 6 Committee Vote Hailed as Victory For Tax Abatement

Committee Votes  For Carlson Bill   Solons to Debate Measure This Week; House Plan is Rejected

Modified Ruml Plan 0.K.'d By  Senate Group   Would Abate ’42 Or ’43 Income Taxes, Which.  ever Is Lower.

Senate Committee Votes to Abate  Full Year's Taxes  Rum! Plan Giver 13-6 Vote in Smashing Victory for Supporters  SHELVE HOUSE BILL

Approve Modified Version of Ruml Income Tax Plan   Senate Committee Would Abate 1942 or 1943 Tax, Whichever Is Lower   Senator Clark Votes To Adopt the Measure

Rum! Plan To Go To Senate  oe Ye   Committee Votes For Foraiveness Of Taxes

Senate Committee  Adopts Rum Plan   Hurry to Incorporate Nev . Collection Bill

Senators Ban Rich Windfalls In Ruml Plan   Fleor Debate Will Start Tuesday On Modified Skip A Year Tax Bill   REVISE CARLSON BILL   20 Per Cent Payroll De. duction Provision Matche: House's Terms

Senate Will  Get Measure  On Monday   Group Decides To Recommend Slightly Modified Version.

Ruml Tax Plan Wins Support Of Senate Unit   Finance Committee Votes 13 to 6 For 100 Per Ceut ‘F orgiveness’;  Five Democrats Join with G O P

"SKIP A YEAR” PLAN BACKED   Supporters of Rum! Pro gram Score Victory in Senate Committee

AMEND BILL T0 PLUG LOOPHOLES   Senate Committee Versicn of Ruml Plan Would Prevent Advantage te Rich

RUML PLAN APPROVED BY 13 10 7 VOTE   Plan Includes With holding Tax Of 20 Percent

Senators Vote Tax Program   Debate to Start on Modified Version of Ruml-Carlson Bill

Committee o. k.'s modified form of pay-as-go plan   Either 1942 or ‘43 tax, whichever lower, abated

WILL FORGIVE TAK FOR 1042 BY oklP PLAM   Modified Version of Carlson Bill Cuts Excessive Tax Windfalls.   PLAN TO START DEBATE TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY

SENATE AGREES ON PRINCIPLES OF RUML PLAN   ‘Begin Drafting Precautionary  Measures To Prevent Favor Or Penalty

Tax Abatement Plan Revised   Abatement for All or Basis of Either 1942 or 1943 Taxes

Ruml Plan Is Victorious in Senate Committee  Demo Plan Rejected. by Finance Group in Upper House

To Start Debate May 12 on Skip A Year Tax Bill   Senate Committee Completes Modified Version of Ruml Bill,   Alter Provisions of  ‘Windfall Sections’

VOTE 10 ABATE 1942 LEVIES FOR — ALL TAXPAYERS   Senate Finance Committee Adopts Principle of Ruml’s “Skip a Year” Plan,  13 to 6.   MOTION PRESENTED BY SENATOR CLARK   House-Approved Measure Is Laid ‘Aside—Action on New Bill May Be Completed Today.

SKIP - YEAR TAX PLAN APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   Senate Finance Group Tc Use Ruml Principle Of Abatement In Framing Bill

RUML PLAN APPROVED   Senate Committee “Acts Quickly on Big Tax Measure, Long Debated   PAY-AS-YOU-GO . TAX COLLECTIONS   Will Abate 1942-43 Liabilities of Taxpayer, Whichever Is Lower .

SENATE GROUP FOR MODIFIED RUML TAX PLAN   Finance Committee Votes 12 to 7 for Bill fo Abate Either 1942 or 1943 Tax Liability

Modified Rum! Tax Plan Adopted, 13-6,  in Senate Committee   Will Be Presented to Senate for Action in Coming Week

Senate Finance Committee Approves Ruml Plan With 20 Per Cent Withholding

Ruml Principle ‘Wins Support Of Senate Group   Committee Decides’ On ‘Skip-a-Year’ Plan As Basis for Taxation

SCORE VICTORY FOR RUML PLAN   SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES MODIFIED BILL, 13 TO 6 VOTE

Solons  Approve New Plar   MODIFIED VERSION OF LEVY SCHEME ADOPTED BY 12-TO-7 VOTE

Rum! Plan Grour Wins Victory In Senate Comm.   Favor Abatement of Full Year’s Tax in Income Tax Leaislation

SENATORS OK COMPROMISE ONRUMLPLAR   Solons Finish Work on Skip-a-Year Taxing Leaislation

Senate Group Gives Much Support To Ruml Tax Plan  Committee Would Let Year's Levy Ride, Start Pay-Go Scheme

New Plan Provides For Abatement Of Either 1942 Or 1943 Taxes, Whichever Is Lower

ALTERED RUMIL PLAN APPROVED      Senate ‘Committee Completes Work on Skip-aYear Legislation.   ‘MEASURE IS MODIFIED

MODIFIED PLAN OF RUML BILL OKERED BY SENATE GROUP   Finance Committee Approves Pay-As-You-Go System By 12 to 7 Vote—-Is Handled in Reccrd Time

SKIP-YEAR PLAN PETS BIE BOOST   Expect Pay-as-You-Go Modification to Face Rising Favor in Senate Next Week

MODIFIED RUML PLAN PREPARE   Senate Finance Group Completes Actions on Proposed Bill.

Solons in Ruml Approval   SENATE FINANCE GROUP ADOPTS PRINCIPLE WITH PROVISION ON BENEFITS

“SENATE RUSHES TAX MEASURE   Ruml Plan “Will Be in Time for House Action Next Week

BACKS RUML TAX PROPOSA!   Senate Finance Committee Adopts Principle of Skip-a-Year Plan

A Ruml Tax Plan Victory   Senate . Committee Approves Bill Abating All 1942 Tax Liabilities

Senate Group _  Okays Ruml Plan   Amended Version of Bill Gets Approval

Ruml Tax Plan Method Holds Senate's Favor   Abatement Faction Gains Victory In  Cammittern Ballat

SENATE COMMITTEE ACTS QUICKLY FOR MODIFIED RUMI BILL  NEW PAY-AS-YOU-GO BIL WOULD SKIP WHOLE VYEAR’S INCOME TAYES

Rum! Plan Wins Committee Vote In the Senate   Finance Group Approve Pay-as-You-Go Idea 13 to 6

Senate Group's Vote Supports Ruml Principle   Committee Favors Abating Year’s Tax, Vote ts 13-6

New Income Tax Bill Also Includes Withholding Levy Of 20 Per Cent; Report Slated Monday

aM SUPPORTERS   Adopts Principle of Abating Full Year’s Tax in Collection

Senators Approve Ruml Plan   Committee Votes ‘Skip-A- Year’  Feature

Senate Group Votes to Abate All 1942 Tay   Measure to Be Offered Will Provide, However, Asainst Windfalls

[DEBATE ON NEW TAX BILL MAY START WEDNESDAY   Finance Committee Completes Modified Version of Ruml-Carlsor “CLin.a-Year” Plan.

MODIFIED RUMI PLAN VOTED BY SENATE GROUP   Committee Rushes te “Write Victorious Program Into Bill for Action Next Week   OPPOSITION LOOMS   Senator Radcliffe, of Maryland, Back Skip-a-Year Proposal; Committee Vote Is 13 to 6

Revamped by Senate Group   Committee Votes to Abate ‘42 or 43 Tax, Whichever ls Lower

TAX SKIP BILE GOES. TO SENATE   Debate Scheduled Wedues. day and Passage of Plan. .. Is Generally Conceded ..   HOUSE APPROVAL  STILL IN DOUBT   Some Expéct Passage, But There Is Talk of Further Compromise

SENATE GROUP VOTES IN FAVOR OF RUML PLAN   Committee Of Upper Chamber Votes To Lay Aside  House Measure      WOULD FORGIVE ONE FULL YEAR’S TAXES

Favorable Vote Given Ruml Plan   Finance Committee Of Senate Blocks Wealthy Escapees.

SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES MODIFIED VERSION OF RUMLCARLSON PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAXES   New Version of Tax Bill Would Abate Either 1942 or 1943 Taxes, Whichever is the Lowest. Work Completed on Measure in Record-Breaking Time.

MAJOR REVISIONS IN DRAFT PROGRAM ANNOUNCED TODAY  BAN ON CALLING FATHER‘ EXPECTED BE LIFTED ABOUT JULY 1

Fathers Deferred Under New Order   New Classifications in Se"lective Service An- *  nounced Today   ARMY TO 10 MILLION   Over Three Million to Be Drafted in Next Nine  Months

Draft Changes to Provide for Heavy Army Requirements   Nearly All Between 18 and 38 Will Be Subject to Call

They May Get Call In July   Affects Those Becoming Fathers Before Sept. 15  sti iii, a aie a ii a i i

THOUSANDS ARE AFFECTED UNDER DRAFT DECISION   Deferment Status to ‘Dads’ Between Summer ‘41 and Last Sept. 15   (Related Story on Page 2)

Exclude Fathers In Non-Deferable Work From Status   (See editorial page today for supplementary information re garding the selective service reclaccificatian).

ARMY EXPECTS TO DRAFT ALL ELIGIBLE MEN   Goal Set at 10,800,000 Men in Service by Next January 1

‘Dads’ Are Given Deferment Rating Under New Ruling   Boards Told Not to Draft Men Whose Children Born Before Sept. 15.   Farmer Deferments  Emphasized by Board

Revise Draft Classification   Of Most Men   Major Revisions Of Draft’ Classifications Open Way To Lifting Of Ban Against Drafting Of Fathers About July 1—Few Grounds For Deferment Remain In Effect

Fathers Will Be Called In July, Hershey Says   Most Able-Bodied Men Between 18 And 37 Face Early Call

Dependency Wiped Out in ‘Draft Order   Hershey and McNutt Explain Latest Edict

Thousands of New Fathers Get Draft Deferment Standing   3-B Classification Is Eliminated in New Set Regulations

May Draft Most Men 18 to 37   Deferment Only For Essential Occupation; Three Million Men To Be Re-classified 

REVISED RULE SETSSPEGILG BIRTH PERIOD   Those Who Became Parents. Before Last Sept. 15. in New Status.   3-B CLASSIFICATION . IS NOW ELIMINATED

CHILDREN BORN UP TO SEPT. 15 JO COUNT NOW   3-8 Class To Be Dropped; New Arrangement For Calls To Be Started

ADDITIONAL STAYS      Inductees in Critical Occupation Benefited

Chinese Advance:  Kungan Retaken Regain Fourth-Fifths Of Jap-Captured Area

EIS REACH HUTU: RIVER BANKS   Push on From Kungan to Reach Vital Line, Mopping Onerations Continie

SUFFERED MINOR BURNS    Mrs. Arthur Davidson Injured Attempting to Put Out Blaze

SOVIETS REPEL NAZIS COUNTER-OFFENSIVE   Germans Attempt Drive at Novorossisk

REDS SINK NAZI TROOP BARGES   BOATS LOADED WITH TROOPS SUNK OFF CRIMEAN COAST

Nazi Troop Ships Sunk in Black Sea   Also, German Attack Near Novorossisk Smashed by Red Forces,

REDS TURN BACK MORE NAZI JABS   Sinking Of Barges Off Kerct Reported By Moscow

GERMAN BARGE MOVE SMASHED   Nazi Infantry Attack at No~ orossisk. Repulsed, .  Roads Claim.

RUSSIANS SMASH ~ NEW NAZI MOVES   Ships of Red Fleet and Planes Patrolling Black Sea Sink 6 Enemy Barges Filled With Troops.

RUSSIANS SINK ~ GERMAN BOATS   6 Barges Filled With Nazi Troops Destroyed

RussiansSink Troop Barges In Black Sea       Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses in Infantry Battle Near Neovorossisk

RUSSIANS SINK GERMAN BARGES   Troop-Laden Craft Sunk In North Sea; Nazi Infantry Drive Smashed.

REDS BEAT BACK NAZI FORCES   Six Enemy Barges Sunk Filled With Troops. Attack Northeast of Novorossisk Smashed.

Barges Smashed  By Red Attacks  Germans Try To Cross Sea, Meet Disaster

GERMAN BARGES BLASTED AT SEA   Reich’s Effort to Cireumvent Red Lines Crushed By Air Arm

NAZIS IN PLEDGE TO RESPEGT POPE   PROMISE INCLUDES PA PAL  FAMILY AND ALL ACTIVITES OF VATICAN.

Hitlerites To Respect Pope   Vatican City Quotes Announcement Made By German Ambassador,

Army Ils Running  Railroads   Troops Ready to Fill Manpower Shortages

Soldiers May Operate _ If Manpower Needed   Roosevelt Acts to Avert Strike Interfering with War Offensives—Wages, Working Conditions ‘Frozen’   Rail Wages Frozen

Uncle Sam Takes Over Rail Lines   Army Takes Charge to Prevent Tie-Up of Transportation

Nation’s Rail System Under Army Control   Troops Ready for Action if Needed; Wages and Labor Conditions Frozen

Use Troops To Run Railroads If Necessary   Army Takes Control, B; Presidential Order, Ti Avert Perilous Tieup.

Move Follows Roosevelt’s Seizure Last Night; Will Use Troops If Necessary

FDR Moves to Prevent Tieup on Railroads   Places Entire System of Nation Under the Contrel of the Army

Wages, Labor Conditions Frozen During U.S. Control; 7 Presidents Now Colonels

RAILROAD MEN NOW WORKING FOR U. 8, GOVT   ‘They Will Be Kept Operating,” Government Authorities Declare. Troops Are Ready

SOLDIERS WITH R. R. TRAINING READY TOWORK   Wages Are Frozen Until Lines Are Returned to Crvilian Manazement

Seven Railroad Presidents As Army Colonels   Martin Clement, Pennsylvania Railroad President Named General Advisor.   7TH COMMAND CALLED

ARMY IN CONTROL OF THE NATION’S RAILROADS TODAY   Prepared to Use Troops I  Necessary to Keep the Trains Moving.   STATEMENT IS ISSUED   Secretary Stimson and Lieut. Gen. Somervelle Announced Five Points.

EEP LINES IN OPERATION   Troops With Experience Will Fill Any Manpower Shortages.   PAY, CONDITIONS FROZEN

ARMY OFFICIALLY TAKES OVER DIRECTION OF RAILROADS AND THREAT OF STRIKE {S REMOVED   Seven Railroad Presidents, Appointed Colonels And Will Assist. in Direction. Troops with Rail road Experience to Supplement Possible Man noawer Shortages

Stimson Acts To Provide Men From Services   President Orders Seizure of Lines To Avert Strike

PREPARE TO USE TROOPS TO MOVE TRAINS IF NEEDEC   FDR ORDERS ARMY TO TAKE OVER IN A SURPRISE MOVE

SECRETARY OF WAR TAKES STEPS ASSURE RAIL OPERATIONS  ARMY CONCENTRATES   ARMY CONCENTRATES TROOPS WITH RAIL EXPERIENCE IN EMERCENCY

Army in Full Charge Of U. S. Railroads   [Is Prepared to Use Troops, if Necessary, to! Keep Trains Moving—Men Would Work in Uniforms, at Present Pay.

Army Ready To Take Over Operation   Action Taken to Prevent Any Stoppage Of Transportation

General Somervell Concentrates Troops With Railroad Experience At Various Points In Order To Operate Trains If Strike Order Goes Into Effect

Troops With Railroad Experience Concentrated to Sup: plement Manpower Shortages; Lieut.-Gen. Somer. vell Chief of Services.      Entire Railroad System Is Taken Over to Avert a Possible Strike

PREPARED FOR ANY SHORTAGE OF MANPOWER   Army Moves Swiftly In Taking Control Of Carriers

Army Prepares to Keep Railroads Functioning   Several Laws Act To Prevent Strike By Employees

Yanks Retake Pichon; Drive For Coast Seer   American Tanks, Infantry Reoccupy Central Tunisi: Town Without Fight   AIR ACTIVITY CURBED   British Shorten Line In North, Withdraw From Sedijenane After Battle

PICHON FALLS IN CAMPAIGN TO EASTWARE   Win Control Over Entrance te Pass. British First Army Abandons Town,. Falls Back

Reds  Close on Stalino   FINNS REPORT SOVIETS ATTEMPT COASTAL LANDING

URGES INTERNMENT OF JOHN L. LEWIS   Arkansas Junior Chamber of Com nierce Sends Request to Roosevelt by Telegraph,

Allies Preparing to Convert Sicily Into Powerful Base to Conquer Italy

To Boost Excess Profits Levy  Sales Tax Will Be Voted Upon Today

HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES INCREASE IN PROFITS TAX   Approves Levy of 95 Pct. on Excess Earnings—Yield Estimated at $616,000,000 Annually,   NORMAL AND SURTAX RATE HIKES BEATEN   Two Billion of $10,500,000,000 Asked by Administration All That Appears in Sight to Date.

House Grou Increases Profits Tax  Refuses to Hike Corporation Normal, Surtax

Boost in Wartime Corp. Excess Profit Tax Is Approved  House Committee. Rejects Proposals for Hikes on Surtax

EXCESS PROFITS TAX INCREASED   House Committee Favors Boost Of From 90 To 95 Percent

CORPORATION PROFITS TAX MADE HIGHER   Boost of 5 Per Cent in Excess Profits Levy Is Aareed Upon   NORMAL RATES TO’ REMAIN THE SAME   Committee Expected to Vote on Sales Tax Pro- posals Today

Hike in Profits Tax Is Approved   House Body Rejects Normal, Surtax Boos!

Coal Crisis Proving That Govt. Lacks Machinery to Deal With Labor Problem

Coal Crisis May Drive Administration fo Advocacy of Restrictive Labor Legislation

STRONG LABOR CONTROL LIKELY   FR Expected To Suggest Substitute If He Vetos Connelly Bill

Peak Is Passed In Flu Epidemic   Decrease In Outbreak Is ‘Now Expected

‘Beaucratic Decree’ Hit At GOP Meet   House Committee Studies Tax Bill to Raise 12 Billion Dollars

JU Towns, 2,500 Nazis Captured   Soviets Report ‘Complete Rout’ In Caucasus Arec

2,00 GERMAD TROOPS SLAIN OR CAPTURED   Key Rail Terminal On Of Four Localities Taken; New Gains In Stalingrad   Equipment Captured

SWEEPING GAINS ON ‘MANY FRONTS MADE BY RUSSIAN ARMIES      Approximately 30 Towns and Railway Points Are Captured and Many Nazis Are Killed  ar Cantured

German Army in Flight —   Hitler Forces Unable To Stem Advance of Soviet Columns .

Nazis’ Caucasus Army Is in Complete Rout, Moscow Announces   Storms Force 11 U. S. Airacobra Fighters Down in Portugal; Allied Planes Make New Heavy Attacks on Lorient, Cherbourg

sweeping Gains In Caucasus Are Claimed By Reds   More Than 2.500 Germans ¢ aptured Or Killed In Latest Advances.

Legislative Council Plan Is Approved   Senate Passes Measure, 244; House Recently Called Plan ‘Gravy Train’   NEW REQUIREMENT FOR SHERIFFS   Senate Also Unanimously Adopts Bill . Concerning Community Sales

BILL PROVIDING FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PASSEL   Senate Sends Measure te House Which Called  Gravy Train; A Sheriffs Qualification Biil

Daughter of British Duke Weds U.S. Naval Lieutenant   Historic Old St. Margaret’s Church Scene Of Nuptrals of Marlborough Family Member

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Terrific Aerial Assault On Nazi War Centers Will Strain Hitler

lhe War If oday—  Bomber Ratd On Renault Compared With Armed Force Of 100,000 Men

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MackKhNZIE  (Associated Press War Analyst)

Allied Air Raid on Renault War Works Rated as—  Maior Blow to Axis War Plants

BOMBING ATTACKS ON RENAULT AND ESSEN WAR PLANTS HAVING EFFECT THAT WILL SHOW LATER

BOMBERS SAVE LIVES, MONEY FOR ALLIES WITH DEVASTATING ATTACKS ON EUROPE  Air Raids On German-Controlled War Plants Paying Dividends To Allies   JAPANESE CONTINUING TO MASS SHIPS DESPITE HEAVY ATTACKS

FLIERS DO WORK OF 100,000 MEN   Great Renault War Units Destroyed by Planes In Three Hours

Terrific Loss to Nazis Caused by Renault Raid  Air Forces Save Lives and Time

Deny Further Gasoline Cut Due on Coast   HAMPTON, OPA DISTRICT CHIEF, DECLARES NO NEW SLICE PLANNED >

Tired Of Being ‘Pestered’, » Bomber Downs Zero Fighter   Big American Bomber Turns On Japanese And Has Dog-Fight In Pacific .

EARLY STUDY OF “POSTWAR VEN THREE SENATORS   Drastic Amendment to Pro: posal to Consider Curren and Other Problems Now  Anticipated.   EFFORT BEING MADE : TO PREVENT DEBATE   Four Senators Sponsoring Idea Believe Discussion: Are Means to Heip Unify Various Nations.

GOES BEFORE PANEL HEADED BY OPPONENT   Plan For Allied Council Faces Antagonism of Connally Who Fears Debate.   CAUTION FAVORED   Sub-Committee Wants To Go Slow: Sponsors Declare Pacsane Means Unity.

SOLONS CAUTIOUS: ON PROMISES FOR POSTWAR POLICY   Proposal for Immediate Allied _ Council Meets Its First.

Proposal For Immediate __ - Allied Council Will Go Before Senate Com. Today

IMMEDIATE ALLIED COUNCIL PROPOSED BY FOUR SENATORS      First Hurdle Offered te the Plan Is Faced Today —Opposition Is Looming,

Pee eT ese ee SORT a ae ay ee eet ee nee ee  WAR PRISONERS HERE   36, 688 Are Held in 21 Camps in the United States   

36,688 PRISONERS HELD IN U, S, CAMPS   Germans, ltallans and Japanese Brought Here.

PRISONERS IMPOUNDED AT AMERICAN CAMPS   22,110 Germans, 14,516 Italians And 62 Japanese Are Interned In  21 Camps

36,688 Enemy Prisoners Held  In U.S. Camps   Most of Captives In 21 Institutions In Nation Reported To Be Nazi Troops

WAR PRISONERS HERE   36,688 Are Held in 21 Camps in H the United States

36,688 Axis Prisoners Here.  Army Reveals   Captives Are Scattered In 21 U. S. Prison Camps: Only 62 lans

Nazi Resistance Reaches New Fury All Along Line.   EIGHT MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN ITALY

NAZI RESISTANCE REACHES NEW FUR} ALL ALONG LINE TEADING TO ROME   iermans Digging In For Long Stand Across Their “Little Rommel  T teva ??

Forts Collide,  : 22 Men Killed  No Trace Is Found Of (Crew Membhere

Forts Collide, Fall Into Gulf   All 22 of Two Crews Be. lieved Dead

Capital City Of Corsica In French Hand;   Germans Continue To Fall Back From Salerno Seetor Under Allied Strength.   (RAF LANDS ON KOS

French Commandos Capture Corsica’s Capital, Ajaccio   Germans Continue To Give Ground Around Salerno

French Forces Take Capital City of Corsica   Battle to Wrest Island Back from Germans Taking Favorable Turn; Fifth Army Captures Eboli; Reds Blast into Smolensk Defense Zone

Occupy Capital as Nazis Flee   Germans Continue to Fal Back Before Americans at Salerno; Allies Shell Naples:

Germans Falling  Back From the Salerno Sector   French Commandos Seize Ajaccio in Corsica

DE GAULLE PLEDGES UNION WITH GIRAUD   Will Confer With Him Soon in North Africa to Pave Way for a Unified French Fmpire.

German Pride Is Lost in Crushing Blows of Defeat   Axis Troops Start Fires to Destroy Their War Materie:

British Armor  Cuts Gateway Of Peninsula   Algiers Says TotalPrisoners 100,000; Nazis Burn Supplies

FATE CALLED WORSE THAN WAS DUNKIRK   Elite German Troops Run Like Rats as They're Cornered on Cape Bon Peninsula

Allied Thrust Traps Axis Army   BRITISH ARMORED DRIVE CUTS OFF DOOMED ENEMY FORCES ON AFRICA PENINSULA; FLOOD OF PRISONERS TAKEN IN CLEANUP

‘Axis Collapse Grows; Allies Close Death Trap   OFPToOsitmIO®w <LeGcu4¢r   Yanks Mass on Cyprus for Invasion, Report

BRITISH 1ST ARMY SLAMS DOOR ON GERMAN, ITALIAN SOLDIERS ON CAP BON PENINSULA   “A Fate Worse Than Dunkerque Has Overwhelmed Hitler’s Forces In Africa.’ Allied General Says “It’s All Over—There Won’t Be Anv Dunkeraue.”’

Ask For Larger Appropriation  Defense Coudeit Say: Neede Are Great

TO ANKARA IN CIINDEN MOVE   Gestapo Restrictions On  Turkish Embassy  Blamed   ‘ALL EYES ON BALKANS   Big Events Developing; Axis Satellites Are Hedging

Cologne Is Hit by RAF Planes 116th Time   Invasion Rumors Sweep Europe as Berlin Sees Political Fences Crumbling.

ODT Limits Deliveries of Milk to 4 Weekly,  Laundry-Cleaning to 2

JAPS PREDICT RABAUL FIGHT   Details Of Bougainville Battling Kept Secret  By MacArthur

Fleet Clash Draws Near   Japs Hint at Rabaul Naval. Air Struccle

Japanese Hint At Showdown For Rabaul   Niponnese Sea Force Is Intercepted and Forced To Turn Back

JAPS HINT AIR, SEA BATTLES TO TAKE PLACE   Allied Forces Advance On Choiseul, Treasury

Allies Repulse fea, Air Blows   Japanese Expected > To Renew Efforts to Regain Bougainville

Japs Slash Back At Allied Forces   Air Opposition Grows Stronger Despite Bombing of Bougainville

TURN BACK JAP NAVAL FORCE   Complete Reports on Battle Are Awaited

JAPAN HINTS OF BIG NAVAL BATTLE SOON   Planes Cause Minor Damage Tc Allied Ships

JAPANESE HINT AT SHOWDOWN BATTLE IN RABAUL SECTOR  ENEMY NAVAL FORCE  MET AND TURNED BACK EROM ROTICAINVILLE

Naval And Air - Action. Likely   Japs. Hint. That Solomons Invasion Will Be Met. Bv Hard Fishtinge

Battles Loom In Struccle Before Rabaul   Bougainville Bases Paralyzed By Allied Naval Guns, Bombs

ARTHUR SAYS SEA, AIR FIGHT AT RABAUL DUE   ‘Japanese Putting Up Hard Fight In Defense of   Vital Base, Last Held  : In Solomons Area

U. S. Warships Drive Back Enemy Fleet   Japs Unable To Relieve Troops On Bougainville

JAP MOVE HINT OF BATTLES 10 COME   Use Naval Forces, Planes in Attacks at Bougainville Island.

Japs Showing Sign of Future Retaliation   Hint At Naval and Ajir Battles To Come In Showdown Struggle Before Rabaul; Treasury Japs Driven Into Jungle.

Japanese Hint At.Naval And Air Battles To Come Ir Showdown Struggle In Allied Drive To Capture Rabaw

Murray Says Insufficient Supplies And Shipping -Delays Menace Allied, American, Troors’ Lives

Waste, Confusion And Absence Of Planning Are Endangering American Lives, Says Murray

Charge Delay In Transport  Of War Goods   Waste And Mismanagement Of Shipping, Space En -*  dangering Lives.   HEAR TRUMAN REPORT

OAYS OHLPPING AEING BUNGLET   ClO Chief Murray Charges Fighting Forces Are Endanuered.

{ KILLED, 7 INJURED AS FLYER DERAILS   Five Cars Jump Rails, Remain Upright in Virginia

Survive 84 Days Ina Life Boat   Three Men Picked Up By a Warship

FARM WORKERS NEEDED      Carlson are Recruited City Residents Will Not Solve Problems

Army Rushing Men Toward ‘Boot Toe’   Nation’s Military Leaders Admit Picture Is Dark if Allies Invade

COUNTRYMEN  BECOMING JITTERY   Whole Country Believed Turned Over to Old Guard

Defense May Ask Cont inuanee of Clenients Trial   Stok 2 Houston     Avior nosy, Reported WhintHos =pital ©   ap. Aer ial Gireus            Navy Undersecretary Admits Nation May Not Be Able To Prevent Landino

Killed on Crossing  At Moline   Washington Nurse One of Four Who Met Death Early Sunday

FRESH RETREAT OF NAZI FORCES MAY BE EXPECTED IN RUSSIA AS HITLER'S. POSITION GROWS INCREASINGLY GRAVE:

Dreaded Cold Lashes Nazis   Whirlwinds of Snow Ride Russian Front

Russ Blizzards Bring Horror, Death to Nazis   Harassed Germans Suffer as Winds Sweep Land

Nazis Drive Jews From Denmark   Sweden Offers Haver For Victims; Warns Nazi Oppressors

Launch Purge Of Denmark's Jews  Gestapo - Storm Troop Reign Opened

ANTI-SEMITIC PURGE STRIKES IN DENMARK   Nazi Reign of Terror Sces 1,600 Jews, Infants and Aged, Seized by Gestapo.

Big Bombers In Brilliant Sneak. Play  Mosquito Pilots Dart Over During Confusion to Pound Capital  RAIL HUB ABLAZE Airmen Report Fires in Leipzig Appear Out of Control

PLANES FAKE ~ AT BERLIN, HIT LEIPZI¢   Maneuver Draws Off Nazi Fighter Forces

Japs Open New Push On China‘Rice Bowl’   Enemy Is Thrown Back in Initial Thrust In Hunan and Hepeh Pravieges: Toje Says Japs Ready for Decisive Blow in East Asia

Today’s War Commentary  French Liberty  May Be Reborn In Reign Of Terror

RED SEIGE GUNG POUND 2 CITE   Early Capture Of Gome and Korosten Anticipated By Moscow

Korosten, Gomel May ~ Fall Soor   Would Cut Off Nazis In Dnieper Valley   Reds Still Slashing Thru Ger man Communications

SOVIET TROOPS   WITHIN SIX MILES OF RAIL JUNCTION AT KORESTEN   Another Russian Army Ié Closing In On Gomel. Both Cities Likely To  Kall Sann

mmeeeeesl etme haa a iain ate erent eee eee  Russians  Slashing Through Nazi Lines in Western Russia   Threatening to Take Korosten and Gomel at Any Hour.

ALLIES CONTINUE AERIAL OFFENSIVE   Bombing Of Ruhr Valley Followed By Raid On France.

Chennault Praises Americans in China On First Anniversary; Sees Great Improvement in Conditions

Rommel Holds Up Possible Invasion Of Europe This Year, Says Expert

1943 INVASION HELD POSSIBLE   By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst, (Rer. Tl & Pat ope:

Conferees Agiée™ on Legislation  Anti-Strike Measure Goes to House Today

House, Senate Units Agree On Strike Bill   Measure Provides. Harsh Penalties For Labor Disputes

DIKES ARE HOLDING   Kansas City Expects Ne Damage From Two  Flooded Rivers

Nazis Hurry To Occupy Hungary   Disauise Action As Movement of Troops  To Occupy Greece

NAZIS TAKE oTEPD TO OUGUPY HUNGARY   Threaten Premier Kallay bu’ are Refused Troops . to. Pa trol Balkans **

Experts Believe Hitler About To Announce His "Statute Of Europe’

-Poland May Even Gel Bone as Hitler Sald Ready fo Announce Nazi Design For Europe Under Fascist Auspices -

HITLER READY 10 SPRING PLAN FOR ~ FUROPEAN ORDER   Propaganda Department May Be Forced to Last Desnerate Proposal.

HITLER BELIEVED: READY TO REVEAL STATUTE OF EUROPE   Would Be Nazi Design Fox} Organization Of Europe Under Fascist  Ausnicee

HITLER READY ON STATUTE PLAN   —v Nazi Propaganda Building Up to Announcement of European Organization

‘Letters From Paradise’ Means Mail From Home to Men on-the Pacific Front

A Soldier From Guadalcanal Reads ‘About Tough Times on Home Front

UNREST. MOUNTS IN AUSTRIA; ‘AIMMLER TAKES PRECAUTION   Believe Allied ¢ Gains ‘Have “Caused: Austtians Te Lose Faith ‘In -Germany

STAGE IS SET FOR HUGE BOND DRIVE   Campaign to Meet County’s Quota Will Be Launched  onday . ‘ 4

STAGE IS SET FOR HUGE BOND DRIVE   Campaign to Meet County's Quota Will Be Launched  onday ‘  —  COUNTY IS ORGANIZED

692 Allied Prisoners Freed at Tunis Were on Axis Ship Bombed Repeatedly

Union, Railroads Reach Agreement   Believe Plan Will Be Accepted By Government

Understanding On Rail Pay Reached  Non-Operating ‘Unions, - Management Agree

REACH AGREEMENT IN RAIL DISPUTE    NON-OPERATING UNIONS AND  MANAGEMENT SETTLE  WAGE: DIFFERENCES.

RAILWAY WAGE SQUE (S SETTLED   Agreement To Prevent Strike Of Non-Operating Unions

Inquiry Ordered — Into Lend Lease . With Neighbors  Senate to Check Up On Aid to Latin

2-Pronged Probe Of Aid to Latins   Senators Ask Inquiry Into Butler Charges

SENATE PLANS TO INVESTIGATE   Senator Says Uncle Sam Is Being Played For Suck er By Latin Americans

CHECK PLANNED ON “DEALINGS OF U. 5.   Double Check on South American: Policies to Follow Charae

Latin American Checkup Planned  Two-Pronged Survey Reanorted in Maleinn

FIRE CHECKED   13 Companies Battie Blaze That Destrova ££ MPiasts.

REDS CONTINUE TO POUND NAZIS   Russian Airmen Blast At German Airdromes; Little Ground Activity.

WALLACE PAINTS A ROSY PICTURE   Vice President, 55 Today, Sees Jobs for ‘Common Man’ After War

Lewis Tells Men To Work Until October 31 Under Direction Of Ickes   PREVAILING WAGES - HAVE BEEN ASSURED

Union Leaders Teil Work: ers to Resume Jobs Until Oct. 31  CONTRACT SIGNING _iS STILL AT lecue   Workers Not Expected to Resume Work Before Thursday .

Miners Sent Back To Pits.  _ Order Effective To Oct. 31 lf Gaverameant Haolde Mina

Strike Will Resume If Government Drops Operation of Mines Prior to That Date  STATEMENT HINTS ACTION IN COURTS  Announcement Is Made After Strike Turned Over to President

~Government Must Operate Mines  Sets Oct. 31 as Deadline; Court Action Seen

Men Will Work For Same Pay as  U.S. Employees   Strike Ends Soon After WLB Refers Coa! Issue to Roosevelt: Union to Resort to Courts to Obtain Portal-to-Portal Pay

Miners Sent Back To Pits   Order Effective To Oct. 31 If Government Holds Mines

Lewis Orders Miners Back To Coal Mines   On-condition the government does not let  control revert to operators; may go to court.

Miners to Resume Work Under Existing Wages as Employes of ‘the Government,       DIRECTED TO STAY = ON JOB TILL OCT. 8%   Union Chief Hints at Court Action to Get Travel Pay—Acts After Row Goes to F.D.R.

BROADLY INDICATES THAT PORTAL TO PORTAL ISSUE WILL BE TAKEN INTO COURTS FOR DETERMINATION.

Miners Ordered To Pits   Leader Indicates Court Action.. Ie Planned -

UMW Committee Hints Court Action To Get Portal Pay  OLLOWS WLB MOVE  Back-to-Work Order Sets Oct. 31 Date; Ickes in Charge

May Resort To Courts For Action   Order Comes Shortly After Strike Referred to President

UMW Chief Hints Men May Try Courts in Effort To Adjust Portal Issue   Action, Calling for Men To Resume Work until October 31, Comes after WLB Had Referred Strike fo President with a Call To Use "All Power of Government’ To Force Contract

Lewis Orders Men Back On The Job   October 31 Deadline Set With Indications Of Court Battle Over Postal-To-Portal Poy

Leader United Mine Workers orders men 3  back until Oct. 31   Lewis says he will resort to courts for portal to portal pay settlement

OCT. 31 TOBE NEW DEADLINE IN COAL PITS   COURT ACTION MAY BE TAKEN TO GET PAY RAISE

 Happened This Week  anes Return To Work Until October 31   Nazi and Italian War Plants Smashed

Decision Applies Until October 31   Indication Given That UMW Will Resort To Courts To Obtain Portal-To-Portal Pay; Will Work For Ickes

Resumption Hinges on Retention Of Ickes as U. S. Operator; AJ] Pits Expected to Open Thursday

Union Leaders Stress Men Returning Only as Employes of Government; WLB Refers Strike to FDR

OIL SITUATION ALARMING, SAYS WIRT FRANKLIN   PAW OFFICIAL OPENS CAMPAIGN FOR MORE DRILLING EQUIPMENT

Wirl Franklin, Of The Office Of Deputy Petroleum Administrator, Calls On Oil Industry To Atlempt Discovery New Fields

County Almost At Halfway Mark Now   Sunshine Promises ‘One of Best’ Rallies Tuesday Night, Owl Creek Wednesday Night, Others Later

County To Last $100,000 Now   Huddleston Wants to Reach Quota By Saturday Night

County Passes Half Way Mark, Much Work To Be Done   Bond Sales of Third War Loan Being Pushed Without Letup As County Opens Throttle For Cleaning Up Last $500,000 of Quota; Many Sales Meetings Ahead

County Bond Sales Rising   Pushing Steadily Upward As Workers Stay on Job

County Over Half Way To War Loan Goal   Smaller Buyers Must Shoulder Load Now; Rural Districts, Towns Active

Bond Sales of Third War Loan Being Pushed Without Letup As County Opens Throttle For Cleaning Up Last $500,000 of Quota; Many Sales Meetings Ahead

Stonewall Can Put Us Over   Pontotoc County Crowds War Loan Bond Quota

EVERYBODY WILL _ EAT FISH ON FRI‘DAYS FROM 'NOW.ON   Restaurants Agree To One Meatless Day A Weel

Eating Places To Make Friday Meatless Days  Trying To Keep Within Allotment O! Meat Points

Eating Places  To Make Friday Meatless Days        Trying To Keep   Trying To Keep Within Allotment Of Meat Points

Lambert Sullivan, Assistant ~ Manager of Textiles at State Reformatory

LOWELL MAN ~ IS APPOINTED   Lambert Sullivan, Assistant Manager of Textiles at State Reformatory

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5,100 Men Have Lost Their Livesin — Savave Sub Warfare of West Atlantic

Six US Cargo Vessels Sunk Last Week   Ship Losses Expected to Increase During Months of Winter; At Least 4,000 Seamen Lost Since Start of War,

0100 KNOWN DEAD IN SUB SINKINGS   TOLL IN WESTERN ATLANTIC MAY REACH 8,000—644 SHIPS SENT DOWN.

Six Cargo Ships Sunk In Week   Casualties In Merchant Marine Are High

AXIS U-BOATS KILLED 5,100   Missing Placed at 2,720 In Latest Tabulation § of Losses in Atlantic

ATLANTIC: SINKING TOLL SET AT 6,100   May Be High as 8,000 as 2,720 Are Listed as Missing; 644 Ships Sunk

Seamen Toll on Atlantic  Nears 6,400   Merchant Marine Faces Greater Dangers of Survival During Winter

4000 Seamen Lost Since War Started   Maritime Crews Suffer Big Loss

MERCHANT SEAMAN CASUALTIES LISTED   Almost 6,000 Have Been Killed At Sea Since Pearl Harbor

MERCHANT MARINE LOSSES ARE HEAVY   At Least 4,000 Seamen and 587 Ships Claimed by Subs

Casualties in Cargo Shipping Loss Increase   Loss of Ships and Men Since Pearl Harbor Announced

Troops Called Atka ‘Siberia’ Of Aleutians   “Largest of the. Andreanof group, it is’ an extremely cold spot; needed base there.

American Troops Called Atka the “Siberia” of the Aleutian Islands

K. U. GETS GROUP OF ENLISTED MEN   Classes for Trainee Will Not Start Until .~ Thursday  ry 1 +   WILL ENROLL TUESDAY,

K. U. GETS GROUP OF ENLISTED MEN   Classes for Tiainees Will ~ Not Start Until .~   Thursday. +>   WILL ENROLL TUESDAY,

CIVILIAN DRAFT BILLS OFFERED   Selective Service Boards Would Assign Workers To War Plant Jobs

Would Establish Legal Obligation For Men Between 18-65, Women, 18-50 To Take Any Job Assigned By Government   LEGION ADVOCATES UNIVERSAL SERVICE

PASSAGE OF MEASURES SEEN LIKELY   Draft Boards Would Select War Workers

Universal War Service  - Bill Offered in Congress   Would Draft Civilians For War Work By Selective Service; Bill Receives Strong Support, Including Legion

WOULD MAKE ALL ADULTS SUBJECT TO LABOR DRAFT   Proposal Would Function Through Selective Service Board

MEN, WOMEN TO BE ASSIGNED ON HOME FRONT   Selection Under New Plan Would Be Through Existing Local Boards.

Drafting Of Men, Women For Wa Jobs Is Proposed   Wadsworth - Austin Bil Is Intraduced; Would Use Selective Service

BILLS IN CONGRESS TO DRAFT PERSONS FOR WAR ACTIVITY   Men, 18-65, Women, 18-50, Would Ke Forced.To Take Any Job Assigned  i A OS Gab

Plan Draft Of Civilians In War Work   Senators Offer. Bills for Calling  Out Men. Women

WAR SERVICE ACT IS SEEN   New Law Would Function Through Local Draft Boards

WAR WORK DRAFT BILL INTRODUCED   Men, Women Civilians Would Be Liable For Service

Both Men And Women Would Be Affected      Measure Introduced In Both Houses And Passage Seéms Sure

WOULD DRAFT PEOPLE FOR WAR WORK   Bills Introduced Today in Both Houses of Congress

PASSAGE SEEN FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE BASIS   Men, Women Civilians Would Be On Call For War Jobs

BOTH HOUSES RECEIVE WAR LABOR BILLS   Would Draft Men and Women to Work in War Plants

SENATE AND HOUSE RECENE BILLS 10 DRAFT CIVILIANS   Men 18 to 65, Women 18 te 50, May Be Required to Take Any Job Needed.

Civilian Work Draft Bills  Introduced   Gov't. Would Assign Persons to Jobs  limdae MManaenrac

Men Up to 65, Women to 50 To Be Affected   Revolutionary Measures Thought Certain :of Congress Okeh

Labor Draft Measure Up In Congress   BILL WOULD AFFECT BOTH MEN, WOMEN

Universal War Service Draft ut  Now Proposed   Bills Offered In Both Houses Would Take Men And Women   PROPOSED BY GOP   In Persons Between 18 And 65 Would Be Liable To Draft

Proposal for PostWar International Police Presented   Made in U.S. Senate by Minnesotan; Capital News Summarized

RATIO OF YANK TROOPS SECRET   No Disagreement Between  Allied Officers Seen

MAKEUP OF INVASION FORCES HELD SECRET   Allied Chiefs of Staff In Agreement On Ratio of U. S. to British Troops

Subsidies Futile  Hoover Declares   Urges Administrator With Supreme Powers

STEEL OPERATORS SEE CIS WI EXTENDED STRIK   (Pittsburgh Mill To Bank Half of 37 Blast. “Furnaces . If  ~ Coal! Strike Continues. After Thursday. .   ICKES, LEWIS CONFER OVER POSSIBLE TERMS   Neither Would Hint Details  . on Their . Talks Providing Government Operation of Coal Mines.

Coal Strike Hits Steel Industry   Spanish War Vets Meet At Waterloo

Planes Search For Transport   ‘Two British Diplomats Listed As Passengers

DRIVE TO CUT SOVIET TROOPS BY NAZIS FAILS   Entense Plane Battles Are Reported

CONTINUED NAZI ASSAULTS FAIL   Germans Keep Up Attacks In Kuban Area; Russians Inflict Heavv Losses.

Germans Keep Up Unceasing Assaults In Kuban Valley; Fail To Crack Soviet Lines   Throw Great Weight. Of Men, Fak ‘ And Planes Against Russian Defenders

GERMANS TRYING TO GRAGK THE RED ARMY POSITIONS   Lines From Southern Shores of Sea of Azov to Black Sea at Novorossisk.   ALL EFFORTS FAILED   In Some Instances Groups of Axis Troops Reached the First Lines.

Russians Beat Back Nazi Blows   Great Weight of Men, Tanks, Planes Thrown Back by Red Army

Nazi Assaults Fail to Crack Soviet Lines   1,700 Germans Die in One Sector in Last Two Days

NAZIS KEEP UP ASSAULTS ON KUBAN VALLEY   Attacks Failed Altho In Some Instances Enemy Reached Red’s  First Lines.

HITLER TRYING TO. GRACKREDLINES. IN KUBAN VALLEY   Some Nazis Reach Russian Line But — Are Killed   GERMAN LOSSES  IN MEN ARE HEAVY

NAZIS CONTINUE KUBAN ASSAULTS   Trying To Crack Red Army Lines From the Southern Shores of Azov Sea To Black Sea At Novorossisk.

Unending Nazi Attacks Hurled Back By Reds   Big Air Battles Developing Over Eastern War Front

NAZI BLOWS AT RED LINES ARE FAILURES   Great Weight of Men, Tanks and Guns Used by Germans in Unceasing Attacks in Kuban Valley of the Caucasus.

NAZI ASSAULTS IN KUBAN AREA “ARBUNCEASIN  ussian Lines   Some Axis Troops. Who Succeeded In Reaching First Lines of Soviets, Are Cut Down

NAZIS FOILED IN ATTEMPTS TO CRACK LINE   Great Weight of Men, Tanks and Planes Sent Against Russians In Caucasus

NAZIS CONTINUE HEAVY ASSAULTS   But Russians Again Refuse To Crack, Throwing Back Enemy Forces

GERMANS THROW IN HEAVY FORCES BUT FAIL TO BREAK SOVIET LINES IN KUBAN AREA

‘Reds Stem Furious Axis Onslaughts InCaucasus Area   Defenders Take Heavy Toll; Great Air Battles Rage.

Nazis Unable To Crack Red Lines   Attackers Are Cut Down in  Huge Numbers by Soviet Fire   'USE PLANES IN BATTLE   Score of Aerial: Attack I: 93 to 42 in Favor of  Russia

Nazis Hammer Ceaselessly At  Kuban Defense   But All Their Efforts Fail To Break Russian Lines And Lose Many Men

Fierce Pighting Continues on Kuban Front, Intensive Air Battles Fought

NAZI ATTACKS REPELLED BY SOVIET FORCES   Line Holds Firm Despite Strong German Blows

UNCEASING GERMAN ASSAULTS IN-KUBAN: VALLEY OF CAUCASUS  GREAT WEIGHT OF MEN, TANKS AND PLANES FAIL CRACK SOVIET LINE

NAZIS FAIL IN EFFORT T0 GAIN IN KUBAN AREA   Great Weight of Men, Tanks, Guns Unable to Crack Red Lines

FLU EPIDEMIC” SWEEPS NATION   Medical Authorities Say Epidemic is in Mild Form — Only. Few Deaths Reported. —

Guffey Coal Act Appears Doomed   Despite FDR Plea House Body Rejects Extension of Law

Former Playmates Enter Aviation: One For Germany, Other For U. §

Richard Bowers Weds Alice Rohm On January 9  Ceremony At Fort Smith, Arkansas,  Ww ee

1,032 Foe Die In Guadalcanal Five Day Fight   American Ground Troops Press Offensive Toward Main Nipponese Lines   BOMBERS ARE ACTIVE   Cargo Ship Hit Twice, Recent Reinforcement Of U, S. Forces Revealed

Thousand Japs Slain In 5 Days   Navy Reports Enemy Casualties In Guadalcanal Area Fighting  JAP CARGO SHIP

FIVE DAYS ARE HEAVY   Fortresses Set Fire T« ¢ Nip Cargo Ship In ; Shortlands

1In3 Tanks Sent To Allies  Same Ratio Of Planes Also Distributed

Lease-Lend. Takes: OneThird of: Output, . Stettinius Reveals. * og

One Of Every 3 U.S. Planes And Tanks To Allies   Cumulative Lend - Lease Value To January 1 Set At $8,.253.000.000.

EVERY THIRD TANK OR PLANE AIDS ALLIES   Stettinius Reports That Lend Lease Has Cost Nation More Than Eight Billions To Date

One Out of Every 3 Planes And Tanks Built by U. S.  Last Year Went to Allies

Stettinius Reveals 15 Pet. Lend-Lease   Eight Billions of Supplies ‘Not ‘Act of Charity,’ >. Bet U.S Cain

‘Lend-Lease Aid Vital   Planes, Tanks, Food And Steel from U. S. Help to Defeat Axis

REDS GET THIRD OF U.S. TANKS   LEND-LEASE VALUE $8,253,000,000 IN LESS THAN 2. YEARS.

PLANES, TANKS SENT INTO WAR ON LEASE-LEND   Report by Administrator Emphasizes Reciprocal Value of Program

One Of Three Tanks, Planes  Go To Allies   Stettinius Says Aid Under Lend-Lease To January 1, Over 8 Billions.   NOT ONE-WAY. FLO W

Send Third Of Production To  Allied Nation:   Lend-Lease Or Direct Purchase Takes One Of Every Three Tanks And Combat Planes

State Senate Holds Sunrise - Session; Democrats Filibuster   House In Session Until 2 A. M. Today — Congressiona Reapportionment Bill Is Considered

U. 3, UeOT sb heh AEENTER L..! LE FOR RGR: / AN   Shell Nazi Positions North of Germany’s Italian Winter Line

U8. DESTHOVER: REENTER TLE. FOR FORE (CAN   Shell Nazi Positions North of Germany’s Italian Winter Line

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ll Duce Has Every Right ‘0 Quake Under Fears ¥ Allied Invasion

aint = == Italians Uncomfortable, Fear Allied Invasion Soon After Fall Of Tunisia

MUSSOLINI AND HIS HENCHMEN GIVING REALISTIC EXHIBITION IOF MEN SAYING LAST FAREWELLS

——_— ver r OO  Il Duce Has Walked Last Mile Pouches Biever Under His Eyes

MUSSOLINI HAS REASON TO ‘SHIVER AS. HE SEES HIS EMPIRE IN DANGER: END OF ITALY IN WAR CAN BE, PREDICTED

Cayness Reappointed As State Auditor   Quickest Defeat of Hitler Subject of New Allied Talks

BRITISH ARMY IS NOW 60 MILES INSIDE TUNISIA   Jntried, Inexperienced American Forces Face Tough Test Against Hitler's Best Men And Guns.

“A” GAS BOOK RENEWALS START ON JUNE 22ND   Applicants Cautioned On Correct Procedure to Save Unnecessary Delay

“A” GAS RATION RENEWAL BLANKS NOW AVAILABLE   Applicants Cautioned Or Correct Procedure to Save Delay

OPA ENJOINS A FIRM IN VINITA   Craig Goodpaster Named Ir Injunction Ordered At Tulsa

19 More Planes OF Nazi Troops Are Shot Down   Allied Fighters Make New Sweep Against Transports Bringing Foe From Corsica

YANKS CONTROL MOUNTAIN AREA ABOVE NAPLES      5th Army Fights Way Into Hills In Furious Day, Night Attack

YANKS LOOKING DOWN ON PLAINS TO ITALY’S CITY   Gain Advantageous. Position After Furious Dayand-Night Offensive  Supported by Artillery   RESIST HUN TANKS, GUN EMPLACEMENTS   Meanwhile, Allied Fighters Shoot Down More German Transports Jam med With Forces

Look Down On Plains Of Naples   _ U.S. 5th Army Batters Way to Top of Hills In Furious Offensive;  Enemy Losses Heavy

oth Army Gains Heights Above City Of Naples   Allied Planes Down 19 Nazi Aerial Transports Leaving Corsica.

U.S. Troops Push Forward Joward Naple   19 Nazi Transport Planes Shot Down Evacuating Corsica

Clark’s Men  Fight Way on + To Hills Above  Naples Plain   By NOLAND NORGAARD

FIFTH ARMY IN MOUNTAIN AREA   Clark’s Men Take Hills From Mt. Vesuvius to Pompei In Drive.   OVERLOOK NAPLES PLAIN

19 MORE NAZI TRANSPORTS AT CORSICA DOWNED   General Clark's Fifth Army Gets Over Difficult Terrain to Look Down on Naples

5th Army Battles Way to Naples   Furious Day, Night Offensive Puts Allies Into Mountains

FIGHT WAY TO HILLTOPS NEAR NAPLES   Americans Advance Over Jagged Terrain in a Furious Offensive.   Transport Planes Out Of Corsica Riddled

FLAMING CITY BEING BLASTED BY BIG BOMBERS   Stubborn Resistance Put Up By Germans and Terrain Adds to Difficulties   CORSICA BEING MOPPED UP   American and_ British Losses Described as Comparatively Light

Artillery And Tank  Offensive   Corsica in Last Stage of Defense—Nazis Fleeing \y'By Airplane

Clarks Army Slashes Forward   YANK, BRITISH FIGHTERS DOWN 19 NAZI SKY TRANSPORTS IN TRAP AS ENEMY TRIES FOR EVACUATION FROM DOOMED ISLAND OF CORSICA

Furious Battle for Port Rages Night and Day, With Progress Slowed by Terrain

Yanks Gain A Foothold On Hills Above Naples   Germans Put Up Bitter Resistance; Allied Fighters Crush Attempt To Evacuate _ Troops By. Plane:-From Corsica.

GEN. CLARK'S SThi ARMY FOUGHT ITS WAY INTO HILLS   A Furious Day and Night Offensive Was Supported by Artillery Barrage.   NAZI TANK RESISTANCE   Meanwhile Allied Fighters Shot Down 19 Junker-52 Transports.

ALLIES REACH HILLS BEFORE NAPLES PLAIN   Furious Day and Night Offensive Supported by Heavy Barrages Is Resisted by Nazi Tanks and Bic Guns.

19Transport ‘Planes Fall. At Corsica.   Fifth Army Nears Key Seaport After Furious Fighting.

Escape Of Germans Is  Hampered   Tight Blockade Set Up Around Corsica As Fifth Army Strikes Toward Naples

Furious Attack Given Support Of Heavy Gun:   More Evacuation Planes Damaged In Air Fight Off Historic Elba Isle

YANKS. BATTER WAY TO HILLS ABOVE NAPLES   Sth Army, Nazis Locked In Heavy Artillrey  Duel   8TH ARMY ADVANCES   Down 19 Transports Seek ing to Evacuate Nazis From Corsica

ARTILLERY DUEL WAGED   19 More Nazi Transports Downed As Enemy Tries To Evacuate Corsica; Bombers In Action

Nazis Throw Armor Units Into Battle   Allied Airmen Lay Siege To GermanHeld Elba Island  By NOLAND NORGAART

Allies lake Hills Looking on Naples  . 7 wh »   Furious Day and Night Of- fensive Gains for  Fifth Army   HIT NAZI TRANSPORTS   19 Planes Evacuating Corsica Downed in ‘Allied Attacks

Clark’s Troops  In Fierce Fight Push Into Hills Above Naples   19 Nazi-Jammed Trans. port Planes Downed Fleeing Corsica

Ready For Push on City   Fifth Army Pushes Up Through Hills; Close In On Corsica

Fifth Army Fights Way Into ‘Mountains Surrounding Naples   Allied Air Fighters Shoot Down 19 Big German Transports Evacuating Men from Corsica.

Clark’s Fifth Secures Hills Above Naples   Eighth Army Gains Up Coast; Breakthru Held Likely

Furious Battle Rages   Americans Resisted By ‘Tanks, Strong Gun  Emplacements

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY:NOW:NEAR NAPLES PLAINS   Fight Their Way to Hilltops:and Look Down Into Citv Which Is Next Goal

Nazis Put Up Severe Battle In Mountains   British Advance, Fall  Of Corsica Imminent

Americans In Fight To Take Naples Heights  RAF Fighters Lay Siege To GermanMald lela OF Fla

FIGHTS WAY THRU HILLS   Pushing Germans Back; Capture Field Guns

Italy Sees New Allied Offensive      GEN. CLARK'S FORCES DRIVING ON TO NEW GAINS

Americans Gain Hills  Above Plain of Naples   Progress Slow, While British Eighth Army Advances 15 Miles Without Eneountering Nazi Resistance   BREAKTHROUGH MAY BE NEAR   Airmen Trap Nazi Transports Seeking to Evacuate Nazi Germans from Corsica, - Jsland’s Complete Conquest Near

Lash At Foe Attempting To  Flee Corsica Germans Entrenched Ir   Germans Entrenched In Mountains To North Of Salerno; British

Americans Take. More Hills Above Plain of Naples   19 Large Enemy Planes Evacuating Corsica Shot Down

Navy Depot Fraud ‘Charged by Jury   Nine Men Are -Indictec On Counts Including ‘Bethery. Extortion —

Anaconda Co. Again Indicted On Charges of Selling Defective Wire And Cable to Army For Combat Use

U.S. Grand Jury Indicts 12 if Mail Fraud   Charges Grow Out of ‘Army and Navy Munitions Contracts.

Second Wire Firm Indicted for Fraud   Poor Materials Sold to Armieas

9 INDICTED IN NAVY CONTRACT   Bribery, Theft Charged In Construction Of Supply Depot

Jury Indicts Anaconda  Cable Firm   Five Individuals Also Accused of Plot to Defraud Allies

ARE INDICTED ON FRAUD CHARGES   Another Branch of  Anaconda Is Involved

Anaconda Wire Firm Indicted   Charged Defective Wire Had Been Sent To Fighting Forces

Second Charge Hits Anaconda   Indict Wire And Cable Company Of Pawtucket, R. L. Five Individuals.

GOVERNOR AND OFFICERS COME TO GROP EVENT   Plans Complete For Open House At Big Green River Ordnance War Plant North Of Ohio.

Governor, Military Dignitaries, Public at GROP Sunday   Open House Day Plans at Big War Plant Here Completed

HOT FIRE DIRECTED ON ENEM\   Plaaes Rake Italian Road _ Transport, Ships, Airdromes Along the Coast.

Gas Rationing Is To Be Simplified   CONSUMERS TO HAVE FEWER COUPONS TO ENDORSE AFTER DEC. IST

New Gasoline Ration Plan To Be Simpler   Band © Books  Will Contain Fewer Coupons, Each Worth More. Effective Dee. 1

MODIFY LABOR UNION MEASURE   Abandon Plan To Establish State Beard To Regulate Unions

MODIFY BILL AIMED TO REGULATE UNIONS   ‘SubCommittee Eliminates  State Board Idea

UNION CONTROL BILL MODIFIED   Labor Leaders, However, Are Still Protesting - - Claim Measure ‘Repressive’

ISLAND FRINGE NOW EXPOSED   Pantelleria Gives New Advantage To Allies  For Invasion

New Victory Shows Possibility Of More Air War  Attack Was One Part  Of Experiment;  Continuation Is Seen

Fall of Pantelleria Spurs Allied Air Strategists _   London Observers See Suecess Of Bombing Axis Clear Out; Other Italian Bases Now Exposed

italian Island Chain Exposed To Big Assault  Experiment To Bom Axis Out Of War

Italy's Islands Now Exposed to Allied Attacks   Invasion of Mainland Seems Only Question of a Short Time   Surrender Declared Initial Crack of European Fortress

Exposes Other Islands To Intensified Assault From Invyasion-Bent Allies

48-Hour Week For Blast Furnaces And Steel Mills Decreed   July 1 Set As Date’ For Compliance  With WMC Order

PRESIDENT 10 TURN 10 HOME FRONT TALKS   Must Outline Program Before Congress Returns

Disaster Held ‘Major Catastrophe’ Damage in Last July's Flood  In Area Set at $10,000,000

Damage In Last July’s Flood Set At $20,000,00(   Termed “a Major Catastrophe;” Fifteen Lives Lost In Section

$ Motorists Lose Gasoline Books   Park Avenue Woman's Gas  Book Taken up

GERMANS OUST ADMIRAL RAEDER   Hitler Promotes Officer Who Made Sub Trip To Visit Jap

DOENITZ WILL HEAD NAZI UEBOAT FLEE   Succeeds Grand Admira Erich Raeder Who Becomes An Inspector.

U-Boat Chief Now Heads  German Navy   Adiniral Raeder Gives Way to Doenitz, Says DNB

Legislature Ends Session Today   Recess, With Clocks Stopped, Takes Session Over Time Limit

Lawmakers Of State Adjourn 10 A. M. Today   Indiana General Assembly Runs Ten Hours Oyertime to Give Clerks a Chance To Finish Task.

Congress OK’s  Ike Selection   Congressmen Welcome News Of Rention Of Marshall As Chief Of Staff.

Asks Showdown On Dads’ Draft      Solon Would Quiz McNutt, Hershey

REYNOLDS ASKS FOR STATEMENT      Solon Wants ‘One-For-All’ Position On Dad Draft

50 MINES T0 CLOSE DOWN   Possibility Of Virtual Shutdown In W. Va. Seen As Walkout Hits State

U.S. MARAUDERS BATTLE-AXIS IN BITTER COMBAT OVER ITALY   ENEMY LOSES 17 PLANES IN GIGANTIC AIR FIGHT; YANKS SHATTER RAIL YARDS, AIRFIELDS

Wholesale Looting and Shooting Frays Reported in Capital   BERLIN MOST BOMBED

Half Million Coal Miners  Leave Posts   UMW Committee Silent: Awaits Report. Tomorrow

ALLIES THREATEN AXIS LINE AT FAID PASS IN TUNISIA   Expected To Easily Recover All of Territory Recently Lost to Nazis

Observers Say Thev Have Good Chance To Regain Their Former Positions Without Major Fioht.

Mexico City Shaken by Severe Quake   Voleano Erupting In Region to The Santhwect

Mexico City Shaken by Earthquake   Temblor Is Accompanied by Erupting Volcano

EARTHQUAKE JARS MEXICO CITY ZONE   Center Believed in Michoa” gan State, Where Volcano  Is Erupting.

Mexico City Is Rocked by Severe Quake   Heaviest Shock Felt in Michoacan State, After Volcano Eruption

SKATING RINK TO BE — USED FOR STORAGE   Local Building Will Be Used By " Army For Conservation ‘And Reclamation Of Property

HAMBURG ol ORY NGARES BERLIN   Refugees From Devastatec City Tell Of Experiences;  _ Fear Spreads

PANICKY NAZIS FLEE BERLIN IN FEAR OF RAIDS   Fate Of Hamburg Paralyzes Nation With Disease Fright.

CIVILIANS BEING EVACUATED FROM GERMAN CAPITAL   WARNED BY LEAFLETS DROPPED FROM ALLIED PLANES PANICK-STRICKEN BERLINERS ARE FLEEING,   GOEBBELS SAYS NOTHING TO BE DONE   Admits That Children, Aged and Unemployed Women Are Being Evacuated But Says Allies Cannot Keep Up Air Attacks.

Berlin Warned Nazi Capital Faces Same Fate As Hambug   ROYAL AIR FORCE DROPS LEAFLETS OVER CITY; GERMANS ARE TAKING HINT

MAJOR CLASH IMPENDING IN SOUTH PACIFIC   NIPPONESE ATTEMPT TO SHELL VITAL RENDOVA BASE   RY JOHN MW. HIGHTOWER

Ground Forces Drive. Toward Munda Base; Air Action Continues   Yankee Naval Units Pounce On Seven Warships; Ring Tightened Around Base At Salamaua

Allies Drive On Munda Base; Tight Ring On New Guinea   Drain On Japanese Air Power Is Problem For Enemy; See Battle ‘First Brush’

Allied Forces Join Lines; Munda Trap Tightens On Japs   Heavy Fighting Rages in Jungle; Allied Forces Progress Within Sight of Jap Base on Salamaua; Air War Stepped Up

DRIVE AGAINST RENDOVA ISLE IS DRIVEN OFF   Major Sea Battle Seen If Nips Seek To Halt Allied Push   MOVE ON MUNDA      Ring Tightened ‘Around Strategic Arfield  At Satamaua

Foe Squadron Refreats in  Quick Time   Three'Enemty Cruisers, Four Destroyers Try To Shell Positions

HOLD SURVEY   Anti-Saloon League Starts Move Barring rinks Ry Glace.

MUST DECLARE ALL FOREIGN PROPERTY   Reports of Holdings in Other Nations Must Be Filed by December 1.

Must Report All Foreign Holdings   if You Own Any Property in Other Countries You Must Tell Postmaster About It

OWN PROPERTY  NOTINU.S.?   You're Supposed to File 2 Report, Batten Says.

Foreign Country Property Holders Must File Report Before December Ist

Reds Split Axis Forces in 1 Kuban, Name Poles in Espionage Charge

SOVIETS SPLIT RUMANIAN AND BERMANUNITS   Drive Wedge Between Forces Operating North and South of Kuban  / River, Tighten Net About Novorossisk.

Germans Throwing Heavy Reinforcements In to Try and Stop Red Army But So Far Have Failed.

Soviets Split Axis Forees  Along Kuban   Russian Attacks Grow Fierce —Germans  Lose 16.600

Wedge Driven In Axis Ranks By Red Troops   10,000 Germans Reported Dead In Violent Clash

NOVOROSSISK NET TIGHTENED BY RED FORCES   Soviets Drive Wedge Between Axis Armies In Violent Kuban Battles   PLANES ASSIST ADVANCE   Warships Ready To Block Nazi Evacuation Of Besieged Black Sea Port

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON NOVOROSSISK REPORTS INDICATE  VIOLENT BATTLES IN Kt _ BAN SECTOR HAVE COS}  CERMANS 10.900 DEAD

Reds Open New Smash On Axis Supply Lines   Bitter Fighting Drive: Wedge Between Enemy Forces

REDS SEVER AXIS SUPPLY LINES IN KUBAN VALLEY   DRIVE WEDGE BETWEEN GERMANS, RUMANIANS SOUTH OF KUBAN RIVER

RUSSIANS DRIVE WEDGE BETWEEN GERMAN AND RUMANIAN TROOPS IN NORTH AND SOUTH OF KUBAN   Violent Smashes Against Axis Have Cost Enemy Nearly 10,000 Dead. . Tightning of Net About Novorossisk Has Been Aided by Strong Red Air Force:.

REDS TIGHTENING NOVORSSISK NET   Smash Forward In Increasingly Violent Battles Which Have Cost Germans Nearly 10,000 Dead.

Soviets Smash German Forces  Drive Wedge Betweer — Nazis and Rumanians

VIOLENT BATTLES COST THE GERMANS NEARLY 10,000 DEAD   Red Army Has Driven Wedge Between Nazi and Rumanian Forces.   IN KUBAN RIVER AREA   The Russians Are Tightening Net About Novorossisk,. It Is Said.

viet. Drive Intensifies       10,000 Getinans: Killed In ‘Bloody Fighting.

RUSSIANS TAKING GREAT TOLL FROM HITLER'S FORCES   Smash Wedge Between Germans and Rumanians in Kuban Sector Fighting

NAZI LOSSES BIG AS RED FORCES CONTINUE DRIVE   Claim Soviets Push Wedge Between Enemies in Kuban Area

Reds Closing  On Novorossisk   Both Sides. Tell Qf Bitter Fighting

Soviet Noose — Tightens on ~ Novorossisk   Red Army my Severs Axis Supply Lines, Escape Routes

GERMANS BEING DRIVEN SLOWLY FROM CAUCASUS   Red Army, Smashing Forward In Increasingly Violent Battles, Have Killed 10,000 Foes   NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Wedge Driven Between Nazis and Rumanians Operatiag North and South Kuban River

DRIVEN BETWEEN NAZIS AND RUMANIANS      Russians Continue To Smash Forward In Increasingly Violent Battles: 10,000 Germans Slain; Villages Occupied.

Soviets Split Rumanian and German Forces   Russians Drive Wedge In Kuban River Area And Tighten Net About Novorossisk

Wedge Is Driven Between German, Rumanian Forces   Net About Novorossisk Tightens As Russians Cut Nazi Lines Of Escape

Russ Drive Wedge Into Rumanian, Nazi Forces   Net Also Being Tightened About Novorossisk; Reds Air Power Grows

Soviets Roll on Toward Novorossisk; Repulse German Counterattacks

Drive a Wedge In Kuban Front   Red Army Smashes _ Forward in Violent Battles That Cost Germans.

Reds Tighten Noose About Novorossisk   Wedge Driven Between Axis Forces In Caucasus

Russians Gaining Along Kuban River; Tighten Net About Novorossisk

Enemy Split by Russians   Wedge Driven in Forces Operating On Kuban River.

Soviets Hurl Back Germans   §U,UU KMeported Ried  In Violent Battles; Wedge Driven in Lines

RUSSIANS DRIVE WEDGE TO CUT AXIS ARMIES   Separate Germans and Rumanians ia Kuban Batiles Costing Axis 10.000 Dead    CUT SUPPLY LINES   Germans Rush in Reinforcements, - Order Officers Shoot Any Men Falling Back

RUSSIAN TROOPS BATTER GERMAN ~ FORCE IN KUBAN   Reds Drive Wedge Between ‘Nazi And Rumanian Armies, Kill 10,000

Sets Showdown  On Work Week   Senator Reed Says 18-Hour Bill To Be Brought Up In ‘Two \ eeks,

SHOWDOWN ON. 48 HOUR WORK WEEK IS SOUGHT   Senator Reed -To Try To-.Foree Senate Action

OFFERS BILL IN SENATE ON LONG WEEK   Overtime Would Siart After 48, Not 40 Hours Work   CONTRACT IS FACTOR   Kansas Legislator Wants Whole Nation On _ 48-Hour Week

WANTS ACTION ON WORK BILL   48-Hour Week Measure Wil Be Pushed By Solon

SENATE SHOWDOWN SOUGHT ON BILL FOR LONGER WORK WEEK   Reed's Measure ‘Would Add Eight Hours On Straight Time

BILL TO BOOST WORKING HOURS T0 BE PRESSED   Senator Redd of Kansas Seeks Showdown on Move to: Boost’ Work Week to-48 Hours   NOT ANTI-LABOR ACT   Holds it Only. Applies to Employes Without Contract Governing Overtime Pay

Seeks Showdown On 48 Hour Weel   To Bring Action “To Get Vole  44 Benale

Reed To Seek Early Vote On  48-Hour Week   His Bill Would Not Affect Labor Contracts, He Tells Press

Seeks Showdown On 48 Hour Week   To Bring Action To Get Vote In Senate

48-HOUR WEEK.   Senator Reed Says He Will Demand Action on His Bill.

UMW REVOLT IS SPREADING   Pennsylvania, Alabama Miners Renvain Idle

MANY MINERS STILL IDLE   More Pits Close in  Pennsylvania, Alabam

Miners’ Revolt Still Spreading  — Pennsylvania, — - Alabama Lead

SOLONS TO BEGIN LAST MONTH MONDAY   OFFICER FINDS ONLY ONE CLUE—BUT!

Berle Says Flynn Favored Own Company   Precedes District Attorney on Stand At Senate Hearine

Prosecutor Defends Flynn in Paving Block Discussior   Bronx District Attorney Foley Asserts Flynn Grand Jury Probing Complete

Today's Reports of War in Russia and Europe Summarized   RAF Bombs Leipzig as Allies Advance on Several Fronts

SOVIET ARMIES CLOSING IN ON ZHLOBIN BASE   British, Yanks Make New Advances In Speeded  Italian Drives

Pound Leipzig   Nazi Industrial City Blasted As Mosquito Planes Sting Berlin

Allies Close in On Soviet And  Italian Fronts   RAF Drops 1,500 Tons of Explosives and Incendiaries on Leipzig; 8th Army Reaches Outskirts of San Vito; 5th Takes Strategic Heights -

WORLD [3 AWAITING WORD FROM BIG THREE ON GERMAN FUTURE  _ GERMANS POUNDED ON  GROUND FRONTS AND

Jones Would Welcome Probe of Row Between Himself and Sec. Wallace .

RULES COMMITTEE INVESTIGATE FEUD . JONES AND WALLACE  BIG AND RUGGED COMMERCE SECRETARY INVIT EN TIP TH CAPITOL! BIT

JONES WELCOMES PROBE OF FEUD WITH WALLAGH   Commerce Secretary Invites Congressional Inquiry of Dispute Over War Mate oe

Jesse Jones Speaks On Capitol Hill   Secretary to Welcome Investigation of Feud With Wallace

JONES INVITES GROUP IN HOUSE TO PROBE FEUD   Makes Formal Request While’ Testifying At Investigation of Cana dian Power Loan   DENIES CHARGES   Says Probe Would “Disprove 99.9%. of Accusations and Innuendoes”   Regarding Loan

Inquiry to Be Welcomed,  Says Jones   Gives View of Feud With Wallace Before  Cancreccinnal Cammittee

JONES WELCOMES PROBE OF FEUD   Makes Statement Today Before House Rules Committee

Jones Would Welcome Probe  Asks For Investigation Of Dispute With Wallace Over Stacke

‘Jones Ready For Inquiry By Congress      * ‘Declare He Would Welcome An  Investidetion ©

Defense Crumbles In Central Sicily, But Nazis Put Up Stiff Catania Fight

38 MORE MEN 10 ENTER SERVICES   10 Are Called For Induction as Others Are Assigned to Three Branches.

30 TAKING TESTS TO ENTER SERVICE   26 Other Men From District Assigned to Three Divisions of Armed Forces.

BOY, 13, SENTENCED 40 YEARS 10 LIFE FOR SLAYING GIRL   Edwin Codarre Pleaded Guilty in Murder of Elizabeth Voiat

U. S. LIGHTNING PLANES STORM JAP LAE BASE   At Least 20 Enemy Craft Destroyed With Heavy Aerial Blow

20 JAPANESE PLANED LOST IN NEW GUINEA   Crushing Blows Dealt Lae By Allied Bombers

Four Men Ovelpower Captain of Guards at.Alcatraz and °. Plunge Into Water   ONE  ‘werd 5,

4 Felons Flee Alcatraz; 1 ls Recaptured   Two Companions Believed Killed In Icy Water Of San Francisco Bay   FOURTH [5 MISSING   Convicts Overpower Guards, Attempt Swim To Freedom From Island

Four Men Attempt To Flee Aleatraz  Pick One From Water, Hunt Three Others

FOUR CONVICTS TRY TO BREAK ALCATRAZ   Two Known Dead, One Is Captured, Fourth Man Missing

4 Desperadoes Flee Alcatraz: 1 Recaptured   2 Believed Killed And Other Unacceounted For After Break

One Nabbed as 4 Flee Rock   BANK ROBBER HAROLD MARTIN BREST IS RECAPTURED AFTER ALCATRAZ PRISON BREAK; TWO MEN KILLED: FOURTH IS MISSING

FOUR ESCAPE; LEAP INTO BAY FROM ALCATRAZ   Soldiers’ Uniforms Worn By Long-Termers Who Overpower Guard

BRITAIN SENDS SEA POWER 70 PAR BAST FLEET      Transfer of Heavier Units Seen As Forerunner For Pay-Off Drive Against lapanese

Moving Warships To The Far East... . .  British Navy Making Ready Jap Offensive

BRITAIN SENDS SHIPS TO ASIA   New Offensive Against Japanese Now in _ .Offing

(To keopen Rurma Road Britain Shifting Units Of Fleet To East Asia

Big British  Fleet Units Heading East Fall Payoff Drive On Japanese Expected;  EE ri es. 2? = _,

lank Out Mikado — Britain Benins Transferring Pari OF Her Fleet To The Far East

Britain Reported Sending Many Big Naval Units to Far Eastern Fleet

Britain Sending Powerful Naval Units To Orient   Ship Transfer Seen As Heralding Allied Offensive

BRITAIN MOVING PART OF FLEET   Naval Units Being Shifted To For East Under Admiral Somerville

BRITISH NAVAL UNITS WILL G0 TO FAR EAST    Opening of Allied Payoff Drive Against Japs In S’east Asia Now Seen

BRITISH ARE MOVING NAVY TO FAR EAST.   Recapturing Of Burma Road Is First Goal

Ickes Says West Gas May Be Cut   OIL CHIEF CALLS FOR CONSUMPTION SLASH OF 15,000 BARRELS DAILY

Pay-As-Go Tax Work Speeded By House Group  Committee To Hold Day And Night Sessions

HOT JOURNAL BOX BLAMED FOR TRAGEDY   106 Injured, 60 Of Them Critically, Near Philadelphia

Weather   ‘Hot Box’ Causes 66-Death Crash   Old-Type Coach Split Wide Open

Death Toll in Pennsy Wreck Mounts to 66   Congressional — Limited Derailed; 100 Injured

Worst Train  Disaster Since  1918 Kills 66   Crews Still Work Near Philadelphia  On Twisted Wreck

60 Others On Critically Injured List   Worst Train Wreck in 25 Years Caused by Hot Box on Old-Style Coach

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today,   Death Toll Raised.

100 MEET INJURIES IN CRASH   Fast Train Is Wrecked When a Journal Burns Out in Old-Type Day  Coach.

Frerich Gel Last Appeal   Rebelling Patriots Skirmish With Guards

RESISTANCE TO FORCED LABOR STILL GOES ON   Gardes Block Roads And Wait Behind Barricades

TEACHERS ARE GIVEN PRAISE   Price Czar Brown Gratified For Great Service Rendered In Ration Registration

FINE HARVEST WEATHER   Flora Predicts a. Mild Threat of . Showers for Kansas

ASSEMBLY ENDS BUSIEST WEEK   May Adjourn ~ Late Next Week; Senate Passes Beer-Wine Curfew Bill.

LEGISLATURE ENDS ITS BUSIEST WEEK: LOCAL BILLS TODAY   Members Are Looking Ahead To Probable Ad. journment Late Nex! Week; Senate Passe: Money Bill In Recorc Time.

PERISHES IN FIRE AFTER SAVING PUPILS   Jowa Teacher Trapped in Flames When She Goes Back to See That All Are Out.

RUSSIAN DRIVE SURGES ON IN CENTRAL SECTOR   Third Great Summer Offense By Germans Feared If Key to Ukraine Falls   WAR IN TUNISIA SLOWS UP   Allies Use Heavy Guns and Planes on Rommel’s Force; Germany Bombed Again

STEEL CITY MAY BE JUMPING Ort PLAGE FOR KEW  NAZI OFFENSIVE   Third Great Summer Drive Being Planned; Russians Say Battle Continues; Quiet In Tunisia...

ADMIT STRONE GERMAN FORCE MADE ADVANCE   Russians Claim to Be Continuing Gains on Route Toward Smolensk

London Expects Fall of Bastion Of Ukraine ©   Germans Might Use City to Begin Desperate Offensive

Yazis Claim Capture of the Strategic City While Red Dispatches Claim They Are Waging Battle Against Great Odds To Hold the Ukraine Bastion.

POSSESSION OF GREAT STEEL CITY 1S STILL IN DOUBT MONDAY   NAZIS ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF KHARKOV, NOT CONCEDED BY SOVIET

Battle Rages For Bastion  Of Ukraine   German Possession Might Mean Jumping-Off Spot For Another Big Attack

Nazi Gains Admitted  In London   Germans Say Offensive Results In Collapse Of Reds West Of Belgorod

REDS INDICATE FIGHT FOR CITY IS STILLRAGINC   Looks as Though City Has Fallen, British Sources Say

Soviets Face Growing Odds before City   London Military Experts Hint City Is Lost to Nazis, Othe er Fronts Quiet

Kharkov Lost ITo Hitlerites   Expect Germans To Use Russian “Pittsburgh” As Base For Desperate Drive

RUSSIANS ADMIT REVERSES NEAR BIG STEEL CITY   Bad Weather Checks Allied Air Offensive in North Africa

LOOKS LIKE  KHARKOV IS GONE’, SAY OBSERVERS   But Russians Have Not Conceded Loss of Vital Center in Ukraine   THEIR LINES FORCED BACK. HOWEVER   Nazis Making Incessant Attacks, But Reds Push Gains in Center

‘REVERSES’ ADMITTED BY SOVIETS   Russians Claim Drive ~ In North Continues To Gain Ground

POSSESSION OF GREAT STEEL CITY 1S STILL IN DOUBT MONDAY   NAZIS ANNOUNCE CAP  TURE OF KHARKOV,  WOT COACCHOK pv cHoVIicT

Loss of Kharkov Is Not Conceded Today by Soviet Command   Dispatches From Front Indicate Terrific Battle Is Raging

Reds Do Not — Admit Steel City’s Loss   Russians Drive Onware Toward Smolensk, Bis  Nazi Citadel

Reds Over-Ride Fortifications In Smolensk Push   British First Army :Advances In North ‘Africa.

Bad Weather Paralyzes War in Tunisia; Allies Blast Japanese Convoy

Russians Admit. Ukraine Reverses   Moscow Says Red Army, However, Continues Its Campaign Against Smolensk

GERMANS ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF CITY, REDS INDICATE THEY ARE HOLDING CITY   Russians Neither Concede Loss of Steel City or Admit Fighting Within Its Environs. Admit Lines Have Progressively Been Forced Back

REDS BATTLING AGAINST ODDS TO HOLD CITY   Status Of Possible Jumping-Off Place For Nazis Third Summer Offensive  In Doubt.

Possession of Kharkov Disputed By Nazis, Russians   Moscow Doesn't Say Whether Germans Regained City

FATE OF UKRAINE BASTION IN DOUBT; NAZI LOSSES HUGE   Russians Smash Through Enemy Defenses on Central Front; British Ad gees ee ON oe

Soviets Admit Army Retreat ‘In That Area’   Germans Need City As Jump-off Place For Next Offensive

Red Advances In Other Sectors Of Front Reported   British ‘Tankbusters' Plane Smashes To New Victories In  Africa

NAZIS CLAIM CITY TAKEN BUT REDS NA NOT ANMIT IT   Hitlerites Are Paying With Blood for Every Inch Gained   SOVIETS PUSHING ON IN THE NORTH

London Fears City Has. Been Take But Reds Have Made No Admissi Russians Continue Advance 2 Smolensk; Action in Tunisia Repo ed Limited with Little Changs it uation.

SOVIETS ADMIT LINES FORGED BAGK NEAR CITY   Red Army’s Offensive Aimed At Smolensk Progressing; Tunisian Front Quiet

KHARKOV   Russian Refuse To Concede Loss Of Steel City, London Holds No Hope.

New Russian Gains On Central Front; British Score Limited Advance In North Tunisia.

Possession Of Kharkov Ils In Doubt   British First Army Makes Limited Advance in Tunisia; Crack New German Units Appear in Northern Sector  

THIRD SPRING OFFENSIVEIN RUSSIA LOOMS   Kharkov’s Possession By Nazis, As Claimed, Would Be Jumping-off Place

Military Sources in London Fear Kharkov Has Been Taken by Germans — Russians Claim Continued Advance. on’ Central Front ~- Now 80 Miles East of Smolensk

Soviets Refuse To Admit Loss OF Steel Cit   Berlin Announcement Of ~- Capture Is Still’ ‘Unconfirmed -

Red Knife Cuts Into Ukraine   SIMULTANEOUS DRIVE TAKES COMMUNICATION CENTER OF YELNYA

Nazis Suffer Twin Reverses  On Red Front   Break Through Line In Ukraine And Capture Town Of Yelnya

Russians Capture Yelnya   Remaining Germans At Taganrog Are Being Annihilated

TWO MAJOR POLNTS ARE TAKEN TODAY   Ofttensive is Intensified Along Front

Reds Smash Info Ukraine; Seize Yelnya   Stalin Announces Important Gains In Smolensk And Sevsk Areas   SEVERAL TOWNS FALL   Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties In Russian A: nihilation Tactics

ALL RUSSIANS CELEBRATE BIG ARMY VICTORY   Cannon Salute Ordered By Stalin as Germans Move Back

Soviets Seize Yelnya, Cut Nazi Defenses   Stalin Orders  124-Gun  Victory Salute

REDS CAPTURE YELNYA, MARCH ON SMOLENSK   Stalin Announces Strong Nazi Line Is Broken   ‘GERMANS SEEN IN   GENERAL RETIREMENT

REDS BREAK THRU LINE AT TWO POINTS   important Gains Revealed By Soviet Leader

REDS — ANNIHILATE REMNANTS OF NAZI LINE AT TAGANROG   Soviets Pound Deeper Into Mineral, Grain-Rich  Ukraine—Drive n>) tao

Soldiers Should Decide Nation‘s Destiny by Ballots, Lucas Declares

RECKIVED WORD — .  SON.IS MISSING IN NORTH AFRICA   Pyd. Murel Hartley, 29, Who Landed In Africa November 8, Missing Since March 28

l 5, SUBS SINK FIVE JAP SHIPS   TWO OTHER ENEMY VESSELS, INCLUDING A CRUISER, PROBABLY SENT DOWN.

At least five vessels sunk  by U.S. subs   Cruiser probably down in Pacific, navy announees

U.S. Subs Sink 5 More Jans   As American Bombers Continue Raids In Solomons Area

Americans Inflic Heavy Sea Losses  Cruiser Reported to  Be Sunk; Planes Ranned Ats Desens

Believe Cruiser Sent to Bottom, Navy Reports  Seventh Vessel Damaged by U. S. Undersea Craft  TANKER LISTED  MacArthur Airmen Step Up Activity  . Giavwticwnt Bune

Heavy Warship Also Believed Sent To Bottom   Planes Continue To Blast At Nips  ley Salamoanc Arec

Heavy Warship Also Believed Sent To Bot tom.   Planes Continue To Blast At Nips lw Solomons Ansa

YANKEE SUBS SINK 5 MORE JAP VESSELS   Foe Cruiser Also May Have Been Sent To Bottom

SINK 5 MORE JAP VESSELS   Japanese Cruised Probably at Bottom; Transports Bore Troops to Solomon Islands, Navv Reports   Air Forces Active

UNION OF STATE -EMPLOYES SCORED   Schoeppel Calls It Treasury Raid on Eve of To . 1, peka Meeting   ITO “MULCT TAXPAYERS

UNION OF STATE   Schoeppel Calls It Treasury  Raid on Eve of To : ic peka Meeting

In Blast At Union   Schoeppel Denies State Employes Have Need or Right to Organize

CONCORD 0.6... INSTALLATION ~ JANUARY 1:   Mrs. Ruth E. Forbes To Be ~ Worthy Matron;. Mrs. _  *” Taylor, Associate

)PA Grants 14 ounties Extra Juotas of Meat  Shortage Areas Given Increase  For Rest of Month ‘ASE SITUATION  355,000 Pounds Of 400,000 Allotmen Distributed by Order

Farley Is Convinced War Will Be Won /n’43, He Tells Texas Solons

End of The War In 1943 Seen By Postmaster Farley  Says He Hopes '44 Election Issues to Be Domestic Only

BOY SOLDIER, 16 IS DISCHARGED   Marine at 15, Ousted, He Joined Army; Next to Marines. 2

CANT BLAME HIM FOR TRYING   Doug, 16, “Fired” from Two Services, Ready for Marines Again

NAZIS SUPPORT DUCE REGIME   VOW PUNISHMENT FOR BADOGLIO FOLLOWERS

Nazis Setting Up Mussciiii Regime   Decrees Issued for Puppet Government

ARE BACKING BENITO    Nazi Propagandists Moved to Start  New Regime for Mussolini  ’

New Regime For Duce   Broadcasts from Germany Say Organization Will Fight With Reich And Punish “Tfaitors”

TO DECIDE NEXT WEEK ONDATE OF TIME CHANGE   Will Hold Conference If Senate Refuses To Endorse House Change

OHIO TIME SLOWED BUT DATE NOT SET   Both Houses of Legislature Approve the Change

13 MISSING NURSES ARE REPORTED SAFE   They and Others Aboard Plane Which Overshot Mark En Route to Italy Are Found.

RED CROSS MAKES ANOTHER SHIP M T   435 Locally-Made Article: Ready For Distribution

Mobsters Indicted On Extortior   $2,500,000 Movie Industry Fraud Revealed by Jury

Gangsters and Union Boss Indicted As Follow Up of Willie Bioff Trial

FORMER CAPONE MOBSTERS CITED FOR CONSPIRACY   Racketeers Accused of Extorting $2,500,000 from Companies After Taking Over Union.

Union Leader And Gangsters Indicted  U.S. Charges Plot To - Extort $2,500,000

Capone Gang Kin Indicted   Old ‘Chicago Mob’ Held in $2,500,000 Movie Extortion Plot

SLAV PATRIOTS KILL MORE THAN 1,200 GERMANS   Major Battle For Strategic Bridge In Slovenia Reported; Guerrillas Storm Another Town.

Yugoslavs Gain In Major Battle. For Vital Bridge   Report ‘Patriots Capture Fortified - Nazi Posts, KillOver 1200 Germans

SLAVS TAKE BRIDGE BASES   1200 GERMANS DIE AS AS PATRIOTS GRAB TOWN

YUGOSLAVS SIEZE NAZI POSITIONS   ‘ KILL 2,000 GERMANS IN BATTLE TO SAVE. RIVER RAIL BRIDGE

21 Axis Divisions Fight Yugoslavs  Reinforcements Sent To Rattle Particans

MAJOR BATTLE FOR YUGOSLAV RAILWAY SPAN      Patriois Caplure of Monlenegrir Town of Andripevic—Batile ir Zenica Continues

To Act In Behalf Of Taxpayers  Bill To Ask Redistribution Of Sales Tax

Writer Describes Battle in Sicily   Fighting at Troina Hopeless for Nazis

Germans Resist Allied Attacks   FIERCE FIGHTING NOW UNDERWAY IN SICILY

FORCED SAVINGS OUT, SAYS.FOR   Declares He Won't Ask For Compulsory Plan in Any Tax Reouest.

FORCED SAVINGS OPPOSED BY FDR   President’s Statement Seeks to Remove Tax Policy Confusion

WAC LIEUTENANT IS MURDER VICTIM   25 Year Old Woman Found  Killed at Sioux Falls, en

“American And Jap Sea Forces Near Showdown   Report Skirmishes Over Wide Area Of Pacific In Guadalcanal Sector   ‘NO REPORTS YET OF LARGE CLASH

ORDER HAS TEETH   OPA Gives Sheriff the Right _to Take Coupons From  _ Speeders:

10 TOKYO RAIDERS DEAD OR MISSING   several of Group Killed in Action in Europe, Asia, Africa.

B.S. SUBS SINK NINE JAP SHIPS, TOTAL NOW 505   Allied Planes Hit Formosa; © 46 Foe Planes Destroyed to 4 for Yanks

7 FREIGHTERS, PLANE CARRIER, TANKER BAGGED   Action Raises Toll To 505 Sunk Or Damaged Since War's Outbreak

U. 5. FORCES IN HEAVY BLOW id PACIFIC   Latest Toll Includes 7 Freighters, Plane Transport, Tanker

BULLETIN.  Yank Subs Get Nine More Jap Merchant Ships in Pacific.

TURKEY AGREES TO HELP FROM UNITED NATIONS   Consolidation Of Defensive Security Promised By Churchill   FOR PLEASED BY PACT   Great Quantities Of Arms To Be Sent By U. S. And Britain

Retreating Axis Rear Guard Hammered   Collaboration Established Between Allies and Turkey

RUSSIAN ASSAULTS  ON GERMAN PROJECTS  BY AIR ARE GROWING RAIL JUNCTIONS, AIRDROMES, FUEL AND AM PBTIORSART FAPTTEsShe TE 4A Er

U, §. FORTRESSES MAKE COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL ATTACK  SICKEST MAN SQUADRON WAS PILOT WHO FOUND EVERYTHING SHOT UP

Victorious American Soldiers Engaged in Mopping Up Isolated Jap Pockets  6

YANKS MOP UP LAST POCKETS OF ATTY JAPS   Snipers Scattered Over Island in Groups

CEILINGS ON FARM SEED IS LATE RULING   Control Farm Produce and Retailers,

No. Plymouth County Girl Has Enlisted In Marines. So Far   it’s Not. Too Easy To-Ge! ' In, But You’re Gen“nine Marine

Patrols Penetrate Naz Defense Line In Italy; Enemy Is Reinforced

UNITS OF CLARK ARMY PROBING FOR DEFENSES   Allies Encounter Brisk  Small Arms and Light Artillery Fire in River Thrust   INEW NAZI DIVISION HURLED INTO BATTLE   Rail and Highway Center  of Vaserta Captured From  Germans; Adriatic Front Lull Reported

Foe Pours More Men Into Battle   Germans Seen Making Stand Along Volturne

ALLIED FORCES BATTER NAZIS BACK IN ITALY   Cross Volturno River  Face Of Stiffening Resistance

ALLIED PATROLS HAVE GROSSED ThE LOWER VOLTURNG   They Now Are Probing the Strong Enemy Defenses on the North Bank.   BATTLE FOR RIVER LINE   The Germans Have Flung Another Division Into the Fighting.

Fifth Army Pounds . at Germans Across Flooded Volturne   Eighth Army Runs_ Into Stiffened Opposition; Weather Turns Bad

Germans Throw Reserves Into River Battle   No Large Number Of Allied Troops Have Crossed the River

Road Center Of Caserta Is Captured   Montgomery’s Men Knock Out 15  Nazi Tanks— Fighting Abates

Germans Throw AnotherDivision Into Fierce Fray   Caserta, Strategic Rail And Road Center, Captured In Filth Army Mopup

Allied Patrols Fight Their Way Across Volturno   Strong Enemy Defenses Tested On Italian Front

VOLTURNO IS CROSSED: BY PATROLS   Nazi Resistance On South Side Now Being Mapped Up

Patrols Of Fifth Army Fight Way  Across Volturno   Germans In Desperate Defense To Hold Important Line.

Nazis Throw Reserves On River Line   Driving Fifth Army Takés Strategic Rail, Highway Center

GERMANS PUT NEW DIVISION ALONG RIVER   Allies Sweeping Way To Capture City Of Rome

Nazis Retreat   Fifth Army Patrols Fight Woy Across River; Caserta Taken

ALLIED PATROLS HAVE CROSSED VOLTURNO RIVER   German Resistance Against British Eighth Army Eases As Result of Failure

Germans Reinforce Troops m Attempt To Hold River Line   Americans Capture Railway, Highway Center 16 Miles Above Naples; Battle Dies Down Against Sth Army

FARM BLOC WANTS AAA STRIPPED . OF POWER   Administration Wants To Maintain AAA  - Control Even Tho Weakened

Fight Between Administration And Farm Bloc Will Decide AAA's Fate

Air Freight Trains Seen   _ To Switch Cargo in Sky Like Railroads Shift Boxcars

Aerial Freight Trains Are Predicted After The War   Will Switch Cargo In Air Like Trains es. Farmers Get New Market System

Aerial Freight Trains Are Forecast In Post-War Era   Will Create New Marketing System For Farmers, Chicavo Aireraft Man Declares

Aerial Freight Trains Switching Cargoes Without Stops Forecast When War Is Over

 Another Post-War Predicti on—  Glider Freight Trains On Cross-Country Kuns

WHITE HOUSE UNDER FIRE BY CONGRESS   Administration and Ag: encies Under Increasing Criticism.   UNIONS OPPOSE “HOLD-THE-LINE”   Sen. Taft Against Extending President’s Power to Devalue Dollar.

President’s Plan Against Inflation Resisted By Labor   Adminisiration And Agencies Under Fire—Today’s Washington Roundup

AGENCIES IN WASHINGTON UNDER FIRE   Administration and Its Bureaus Subjects of Controveries On Many Fronts   WPB HOLDS SPOTLIGHT

SCORES OF ClO UNIONS PROTEST TO PRESIDENT   Taft Leads Fight Against. Money Power Extension

LABOR FIGHTS “HOLD - LINE” ORDER ON PAY   Administration Agencies Are Under Fire On Several Capital Fronts   CEMENT WORKERS STRIKE   Taft Opposes Devaluation Power Extension; WPB Policy Is Assailed

ADMINISTRATION UNDER FIRE ON SEVERAL FRONTS   WPB Names Civilian Supply Boss While Senate Gets Ready To Pick One Too   TAFT HITS MONEY POLICY.   Labor Leaders Plan Fight Against Anti-inflation Orders of President

protests Begin To Roll In over Action; Taft Battles Nevaluation Power

In Washington Today: Administration and Its Agencies Under Fire On Numerous Capital Fronts

BE USED IF MEN QUIT   Army Moves To Carry Out Seizure Order Of President

TROOPS BEING ASSEMBLED AT KEY LOCATIONS   Three Holdout Unions Stand On Strike Call Despite Federal Seizure

Assemble Men To Work Lines If Strike Comes   ‘Anti-Strike Law To Apply To All Who Walk Out On Jobs

Rescinding Strike Call Is Expected   Three Railroad Unions Stil Standing by Call, As Army Takes Over Roads

DIERS TO OVE TRAINS TF NECESSARY   Strikers Will Face Leqal Penalties But Unions Expected to Yield: Steel Crisis Ends.

3 OF 20 UNIONS  HAVE NOT ACTED TO RESCIND MOVE   Soldiers Will Be Used If Required, Violators May Be Prosecuted Under New Labor Act.   GENERAL RESCINDING IS NOW ANTICIPATED   Lines to Be Kept In Operation to Prevent War interruption, Wages Frozen as of Monday.

STEEL WOR RETURN TO JOBS   WLB Promises Any Adjustment of Wages Would Be Retroactive

Stimson Warning Comes As 3 Unions  Stand On Strike   Engineers, Trainmen Get Pay Hike; Fifteen Non - Operating Unions  Agree To Sliding Scale On Increases

bovernment Seizes Railroads on Monday To Prevent Walkout   Wages, Conditions to Be Frozen For Duration of Army's Control

New Bombing Marks Set By Allied Forces   Yanks Account For 1000  Nazi Planes

Ohio AAA Head Points Out Farmer Guaranteed Only a Market If Public Needs Product While Industry Guaranteed Cost-Plus Return for Work

FARM LEADERS EYE AG ISSUES   Kruse Says Farmer Must Be Aseured of Adequate income

Three Former Pen Inmates To Texas   Will Face Trial For Burglary of Borger Postoffice

eee ee sea SY MORSE RRS SHE Re RRM aN  BUTTER TO COST MORE POINTS SOON

OPA Ban On Pleasure Driving Is Protested   Pittshurgh Chamber Of Com merce Sees No Fuel Shortage In District -

JAP OVERLORDS WARN PEOPLE   Diet In Session, ssion, Urge People To Bear Up

DIET NOT ALLOWED TO QUESTION 10J0   Meets To Approve Actions Planned by Premier

JAPS WARNED OF HARD TIMES   Complaints of ‘Enough War’ Given Antidote in Radio Broadcast to People

Committee Rules On Vacancy   Bailey’s Margin Over Murphree Only 453

Federal Groups Will Be Probed   CONGRESS COMMITTER TO INVESTIGATE U.S. AGENCIES

Probe Begins On Spending By U. S.   32 Corporations Face Congress Unit

ECONOMY KNIFE FALLS ON RFC   Senator Byrd Says Federal Agency Will Be. Asked To Detail Spending

Knockout of Russia Is  Germany’s Last Chance   No Likelihood of Negotiated Peace and Red Army Js Still Tough

AMERICAN UNITS GAIN IN NEW GUINEA AREA   Speed Up Attacks on Japs Near Salamaua

LEADERS ARGUE ON FUN DRIVING   Brown Says There’s Enough Gas, Ickes Says No

Ickes, Brown at Odds Over Ban on Driving; Crude Price Issue, Too

Fun’ Driving Gas Saving Is Fuel for Row   Brown Holds ‘4’ Cards Deserve More; Ickes Flatly Disagrees

ICKES, BROWN AT ODDS OVER GAS RATIONS   30,000 Barrels Daily Saved by Pleasure Driving Ban Nub ol Controversy

Ickes, Brown at Odds Over Necessity For Pleasure Driving Ban; Now Saving 30,000 Barrels of Gasoline Daily

30,000 Barrels Of Gas At Stake In Driving Ban  Brown And Ickes Still At Odds On Whether Ban May Be Lifted:

ICKED, BROWN ARE AY ODDS OVER GAS   Whether Pleasure Driving Ban Should Be Lifted Is Question Before Leaders

ICKES, BROWN  AT ODDS OVER GAS RATIONING   Dispute Necessity, of ‘Ban On Pleasure Thivine   30,000 Barrels Daily Is Topic of . Areument

ICKES AND BROWN Al ODDS OVER MATTER 30,000 BARRELS GAS  PLEASURE DRIVING BAN IW FACT DPDINCC NOW

ICKES, BROWN AT ODDS OVER DRIVING CURBS   OPA Chief Seeks Removal Of Pleasure Driving  Ban In East   OIL SUPPLIES ARE UP   Hint Cuts In Gas Rations For Mid-west As Pipelines Open

TWO OFFICIALS AT ODDS OVER PLEASURE BAN   OPA Chairman Browr Contends More Fuel Can be Spared Motorists in Eastern States   ICKES OPPOSES VIEW   Holds 30,000 Barrels Saved Daily by Restrictions Are Needed by Armed Forces

Ickes And Brown At Odds Over  Driving Ban   Price Administrator Favor: Lifting Of Ban On Pleasure Driving.-

Senate Slashes Fund for Guard $350,000 a Year   Allows State Aid for Col leges after First Refusing It

APPROPRIATION OF STATE GUARD IS CUT INHALF   Funds For Protecting Vital Installations Reduced  To $700,000   SCHOLARSHIPS TIE UP SENATE DEBATE

WAR MATERIALS PRODUCTION UP   New Peak Reached In December; Fourteen Percent Ahave Navembor   Conscientious Objectors Become "Guinea Pigs” For Government Tests

CHARGED WITH FRAUD IN- WORK FOR GOVERNMENT   “Defective” War Equipment Aileged to Have Been Penduced.

Wright Plane Officials Sued   Action Taken on Report Of Truman Committees; Jury Probe Looms

Wright Officials  Sued for Damages   Truman Report Brings Action

Pushes Probe Of Airplane  Engine Flaws   idJustice Department Goes Ahead; Army Silent On ‘Abetting’ Charge.

GOVERNMENT FILES SUIT AGAINST WRIGHT AIRCRAFT COMPANY   Production of Defective War Equip. ment Is Charged

CURTISS PROBE BY U.S, NOW INVOLVES OFFICERS OF ARM’   Airplane Firm Rejects » Truman Claim Of Faulty Output

SPECIAL CREWS OFFSET STRIKE   Los Angeles Area Hit As Trainmen Walk Out”

REID MONTFORT, STATE AP CHIEF DIES SUDDENLY   Head of Charlotte AP Bureau for Almost Ten Years Dies Suddenly Early Today After Some Two Hours Illness; Was 46 Years Old.

Errol Flynn on Cruise With New Girl   FLICKER STAR TRIAL FIGURE OFF MEXICO WITH NORA EDDINGTON

TWO DIVORCES ASKED IN SUITS   Only New Cases Filed Over Week-End; One Decree Granted

TWO DIVORCES ASKED IN SUITS   One Action Is Dismissed by Plaintiff; Husband Makes Accusations

GAINS AGAINST JAPS EXTENDED   American Troops Wider Their Beachhead On Bougainville

Marines, Army Occupy Village, Capture Supplies   Liberators in a Night Attack on Former Dutch Base

Beachhead On Bougainville  Is Extended   Yanks Kill 300 Japs, Capture Artillery. Supplies; Naval Base On lava Hit Again

400 ENEMY. TROOPS IE AN CONTEST   Former 1 Duite h Base  Of Soerabaja Attacked

YANKS EXTEND BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE   Enemy Sea And Air Forces Are Blasted At “Rabaul Base

GAINS ON JAP BASE WIDENED BY AMERICANS   NIPPONESE LEAVE 300 DEAD; DUTCH PORT BLASTED

Japanese Lose 300 Soldiers In Fighting   Allied Airforce in Southwest Pacific: Ts Active Meanwhile

Marines, Troops Extend Augusta Bay Beachheod, Occupying Piva Village; Japs Leave 700 Dead, Supplies Behind

Beachhead On Bougainville Is Fytended   300 Japs Reported Left Dead After Fights In Sector

Make New Gains on Bougainville  Beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay Extended

AMERICAN TROOPS SCORE NEW GAINS ON BOUGAINVILLE   Widen Beachhead on WestCentral Coast, Capture . Village and Enemy Supplies.   NIPPONESE LEAVE 800 DEAD ON FIELD   Foe’s Supply Sources in New Ireland-New Britain Sector Under Ceaseless Air Attack.

YANKS EXTE BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE   \larines Kill 300 Japs In Expanding Their Territory

Town Captured 300 Japs Slain”   _Geaséless Attacks” Crom Air Continue:

Town Captured 300 Japs Slain   Ceaseless Attacks From Air Continue

Yanks Extend Beachhead In Bougainville Push   Forces Fan Out in All Directions, Leave 200 lap Dead; Take Supplies

Liberators Pound  Japanese-Held Base On Java; Continue Attack On Shipping

VILLAGE IS “OCCUPIED -IN ADVANCE   300 Jap Soldiers Are Slain; 7000-Ton Vessel Bombed

YANKS PUSH BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLE; ENEMY LEAVES 300 DEAD   Marines And Army Troops Occupy Piva Village, Capturing Jap Artillery And Supplies; Air Activity Mounts

Americans Sink  3 Jap Warships   Jap Forces Leave 300 Dead; Piva Village Taken By Yanks

Marines, Troops Spread Out in All Directions, Capture Guns, Supplies

Augusta Bay Area Extended   Japanese Leave 300 Dead In Fighting In Bougainville Sector,

Yank Beachhead Extended On Bougainville, W’Arthur Reports 300 Japs Killed

PIVA CAPTURED FROM NIPS IN ISLAND BATTLE   Hanitings of Marines and Army at Empress Au gusta Bay Extended in  All Directions   NIPPONS LEAVE 300 © DEAD BEHIND THEM   Yanks Capture Artillery and Supplies; Soerabaja,  Former Dutch Naval  Bases Again Raided

Allies Extend Beachheads af Bougainville   Marines and Army Troops Occupy Piva Village and Capture Japanese Artillery

Nazis Scoff ‘Peace Talk  - Now Rumored   Declare Berlin Knockout - Won’t Stop Hitler in - His Campaign .

Peace Rumors Bring Denials   Some Hope For War End Seen. However; Parley Of Allies Rumored .

Berlin Newspaper, Meanwhile, Declares Editorially End of War Is “Not Far Away”   PREDICTS FINAL STAGES TO BE HARD   Nazis Still Fishing For News On Allied Conference: Give Teheran,  Persia. As Scene

Nazis Scoff At Peace Talk   It’s Ridiculous, Says Foreign Office, but Press Calls End Near

Peace Talk Branded A  * + * * * * * * + *  Ridiculous In Berlin  * ~ * * * *  More Bombs Expected  * 7 7.

RUSSIANS ROUT GERMANS FROM SEVERAL TOWNS   Soviets Gradually Regaining Up per Hand All Along 165 Mile Front

Reds Rout Nazis Near Belgorod   Importance Shown ty Hitler's Grder

REDSROUT GERMANS FROM MORE TOWNS   Russians Are Regaining the Upper Hand

RUSSIANS ROUTING GERMAN TROOPS IN SUMMER OFFENSIVE   Halted Between Belgorod And Orel—Hitler Says This Battle, Is  yl wet

ROUTED BY RED DRIVE   Fighting Continues At Violent Pitch On Belgorod Front

Russians Rout German Troop: On East Front   ‘Hitler's Order Of Day Fails To Bring Expected Victory

3 TRAINMEN KILLED IN RAILROAD CRASH   25 Soldiers Hurt in the Accident But None Are in Serious State on Thursday.

TRAINMEN KILLED IN HEAD-ON GRASH   25 Soldiers Are Reported Not Seriously Hurt,

Albert Howard Dies At Daughter's Home  Served as Caldwell mpnenqantatixe in 3

Investigate » Activities Of August Frey   Senators Vote To Get Full Information On Work Of Division Of  Departmental Research

Resume Produelion As Pennsylvanians  Lead The Way Back   Lewis Fails To Coniact F. D. Rs Iekes Cancels Shipments Freeze;  UMW To Map Action At Parley

Full Speed Production - Due Tuesday   Ickes, as Operator for U. S. to Direct New Wage Nerotiations   PLEA BY ROOSEVELT   President Says Deserting Mines Is Same as Deserting Army

Miners Start Back to Work as Crisis Is Averted Sunday   15-Day Truce Declared; President Says Coal Will Be Mined ©   Coal At-a-Glance

BRITISH BLAST ENEMY SHIPS   Three Vessels Set Afire And Mines Laid In Baltic

RAF AVIATORS SCORE AGAIN   British Planes Set Fire to At Least Two Large Supply Ships and Minesweeper in Northbound Enemy Convoy.

RAF Fighters Set Fire to Supply Ships   Other Vessels In Nazi Convoy Strafed. Gamaved

SEUURITIES CALE SLAGKENS   Tickets Still on Hand for Bond Premiere on Friday Night.

HAGE OF BONDS LESSENS   Ironwood ‘Gallants’ Listed; Bond Premiere Tomorrow Night.

460,000 Workers Remain Idle As Deadline Passes   Conference Between — Ickes And UMW Chief May Produce Action

MINERS IGNORE FOR DIRECT Vt IN ALL AREAS   Situation Growing Desperate As Coal Miners Decline To Return To Pits

LEWIS, ICKES SILENT AFTER BRIEF PARLEY   UMW Decision May Follow Policy Committee Session Later In Day

COAL MINERS SNUB PRESIDENT’S PLEA TO RESUME WORK   Lewis and Ickes Confer in Attempt to Reach Acreement

Union Chief And Mine Boss Have  Third Conference   Policy Committee To Hear Report This Afternoon; 460,000 Miners Idle Throughout Nation

Miners Fail to Go Back to Shafts on Pres’; os “s Order   , ao ay spreads as John L. Lewis, co” vw —s United ‘Mine Workers, and . >* 4 Ickes Confer on Contract

Awaiting Word Of Parley   Lewis, After Seeing Ickes, Meets Union Chiefs.

PRESIDENT IS IGNORED BY MINERS   Directive to Return to Work Goes Unheeded in Major Coal States.   Lewis in Conference  With Mine Boss Ickes

Miners Ignore Roosevelt’s ; Orders to Resume Work;  Ickes and Lewis Again, Hold Conference —   460,000 MEN IDLE, SMALL MINES OPEN   ndicates Miners Awaiting Word From UMWA Pol- icy Group; U.S. Flags Fly At Deserted Pits

460,000 Out As Solution Is Sought   Ickes And Lewis Te Hold Conference On Strike

COAL DIGGERS UNHEED PLEA OF PRESIDENT   Checkup Fails to Find Any Struck Mines Resuming Operations In Pennsylvania   WORKERS SKEPTICAL

Rooseveli’s Directive To Miners Is Ignored : As Unions Continue To Seek New Contrac

Miners Ignore Back To Work Order Today   No Violence Reported As Striking Union Men Remain Idle

ED. Directive Has No Effect On Idle Mines   Say Conferences ‘Looking To Some Settlement Go Forward At Washington

FEW APPEAR FOR WORK IN COAL FIELDS   An Estimated 460,000 Idle in Soft and Hard Coal Workings as Men Await Instructions of UMW Leaderé

F. 0, RS ORDER IS IGNORED BY MOST OF MINERS   Back-To-Work Directive Of President Generally Disregarded: Conferences To Continue In Effort To Effect Set tlement.

Lewis Is Conferring with Ickes   Forbid Dealers to Deliver Coal to Homes with More Than 10 Days Supply

MORE MINERS FAIL 70 DIG COAL TODAY   Roosevelt’s Orde Ignored; Few Miners Work

Coal Miners Not To Return Today   FDR ORDER IGNORED RY WORKERS IN U. S. MINES

MINERS IGNORE FDR'S ORDER 10 RETURN TO JOBS   Ickes, Lewis Meet for Thira Time in 48 Hours at Noon

460,000 Men Idle Despite FD Mine Directive   President's Appea! Does No Good As Lewis. And _ Ickes Plan Meet

Government-Held Mines Paralyzed   500.000 Wait To Obey Lewis, Seeking Government Contract Throush Secretary Ickes

Call New Parley In Coal Strike   Miners Ignore Back Te Work Order Of FDR

MINERS IGNORE FD.R-ORDER TO ~ RESUME: WORK   Estimate © 460,000 ‘Hard and Soft Coal Men‘ Are Out: -

MINERS IGNORE BACK-T0-WORK EDICT BY FOR   Deadline Expires With 460,000 Men Remaining Idle

Farm Leaders Blast Subsidies  As Inflationary   Let Prices Rise, Hike Production, Senators Are Told

Farmer Group Heads Attack Food Subsidies          Disguised ¥ For Labor, Fede  we Increase wy Grange, wien Lewis

FARM LEADERS RAP SUBSIDIES   Denounced As Disguised Wage Increase  For Labor

SUBSIDIES TO APPEASE LABOR   Farm Leaders Attack Administration’s Price Con trol Program

Farm Leaders Flay Subsidies   Bread Program Will Be Started Today

Farm Groups Denounce Food  Price Subsidies  O'Neal and Goss Present Demands for End of Progran

SUBSIDIES SCORED BY FARM LEADERS   Edward O'Neal Says That Roosevelt Seeks to ba Santa Clauc

EVIDENCE AGAINST COUNT SHATTERED   Crown’s Own Witness Aids Accussed

Eisenhower Seen as Allied Head in Mediterranean  Unified Command Plans Are Shaping Up

ADMIRAL SEES HIROHITO’S DOOM   Admiral Nimitz In U. S. For Military Conference On New Measures Against Japs

House Bars Incentive Pay For Farmers   Reaffirms. Opposition to Subsidies ‘to. Replace - Higher Crop Prices

House Rejects Farm Subsidies   Amendment Puts Ban on Use of Funds

PAYMENT BAN. ON FARMS IS HOUSE MOVE   Opposition to Subsidy Scheme Reaffirmed By New Measure

Bar Incentive  Plan Revival   Honse Bans Payments From Reeulae Fanuds

INCENTIVE PAY PLAN IS BARED   House Eliminates Funds For Frogram To Boost War Crops Output

ANOTHER SEA SAGA WRITTEN   Air Force General And 14 Companions Rescued From Ocean

MEN CROWDED FIVE DAYS IN BOAT FOR SIX   Brig. Genera! Twining, Five _ in His Party and Nine Crewmien Saved.   SHRIMPS IN BIRD’S CRAW HELPED KEEP. THEM ALIVE

Rome radio reports mass activity on Turkish border as Invasion jitters mount   Germans call off Russian offensive as bad news grows on several fronts

Reds Roll Back Nazi Armor On Lower Donets   Preparations For Major Campaign Relieved Starte-

REDS IN DRIVE ALONG DONETS   Russians Roll Back Nazi Armor Between Kharkov and Rostov

Russ Thrust Slaps Nazis   Lower Donets Front Js Scene Of Battles

RUSSIANS ROLL BACK GERMAN PANZER FORCE   Cn Lower Donets While Red Guns Thunder In Caucasus To Wreck Germar Defense Lines   1000 Killed

Reds Push Axis  Back on Donets      Drive Lines Nearer Novarnacick

Nazis Thrown Back in Lower  Donets Area   Meanwhile, Lust of German Defenses in Caucasus Battered

SOVIETS PUSH GERMANS BACK   New Nazi Defense Lines Are Wrecked Northeast Of Novorossisk By Heavy Guns

RUSSIANS THRUST. AREAD ON DONETS   NEW ATTACK ROLLS GERMANS BACK AS GUNS BLAST NAZI CAUUCASUS~ LINES.

Reds Gain On Lower Donets Rive:   Germans Forced Back Between Kharkov, Rostov

Soviets Push Back Donets Nazis   Heavy Russian Guns Wreck Defenses Before Novorossisk

GERMAN ARMOR IS ROLLED BACK ALONG DONETS   Nazi Defense Lines North east Of Novorossisk Pounded By Reds   AERIAL BATTLES ARE FAVORING RUSSIANS

Reds Roll Back Nazi Armor in Lower Donets   Heavy Guns Wreck More Defense Lines in Caucasus; Fliers Damage New Centers

‘Axis Propagandists Cover [Up Sicilian Defeats as 'Planned Army Movements

Germany Reports Loss of Trapani, Palermo, Marsala   “According to Plan’’ an “An Act of God’ Is Explanation

Axis Reports Withdrawal Of  Forces From Sicilian Cities   Triple Loss-of Palermo, Marsala and Fraponi Ad mitted but Claim That the Retreats Were ”“ Accordina to Plan”

Aris Propagandists Claim Events on Island Are “ According to Plan”

Axis Admits Loss Of Large  Sicilian Bases  _ast Stand Planne InNortheastern  Part OF Island

NEW RATION BOOK APPLICATIONS OUT   Applications Being Mailed Iowa People for Consumers to Fill Out Before June 10.

SUE APPLICATIONS WAR RATION BOOK ;   Applications To Be Mailed As Addressed To Chicago Not Before June 1 Nor Later Than June 10.

Council Passes: Ordinances To Control Traffic  Contract lat Ta   Contract Let To 7 Improve Acoustics in Armory Building . -

Council Passes: Ordinances To  Control Traffic  Contract Let To Improve Acoustics ir Armory Building

LONDON PEAGE HOPES ASCEND   Grand Offensive Against Hitler Foreseen Before End Of 1943

BRITONS AWAIT INVASION PLANS   Country Hopeful Italy Will Quit War*Soon And New Offensive  Is Forthcoming

London Expects Early Invasion Of Continent   Conferences in Canada Believed Likely To Produce Results

WAR ROPES IN BRITAIN. Wlbh   Hope War Councils Are Pre: lude to Italy’s Exit   FROM CONFLICT   Followed by a Grand Offen. sive Against Nazis Before End of 1943

American Casualties Total 87,304   Army Figure 63,958—Navy, Marines, Coast  Guard 23,346

‘Report Discloses 7,528 Have Been Killed In  Action or Died  16615 ARE PRISONERS

63,958 In’ Army And  23,346 For Our Navy   Will Become Heavier, Stimson Warns, Giving Breakdown On Various Fronts

CASUALTIES OF U.S. ARMY NOW TOTAL 63,958   Only 7,528 Listed As Killed In Action

tr mer ner —— ——  U.S. CASUALTIES IN WAR NOW TOTAL 87304: ARMY LOSSES AT TOP OF LIST

U- S. Casualty List 87,304; 15,132 Dead  Army and Navy Gives To. tals on All Losses to Present Time  PHILIPPINES THE MOST COSTLY  Most of the Casualties There Are Prisoners; Some Duplieations Probable   RESEIEPINES THE MOST COSTLY   Most of the Casualties There Are Prisoners; Some DupJications Probable

Army Casualties Since War Start Put At 63,958   Stimson Reports 7,528 Killed; Says Enemy Losses Heavier.

Army Casualties To Date 63.958  Total Includes Dead, Wounded. Missing

MAMY CASUALTIES NOW TOTAL G3.200   7,528 Known Dead Included in Latest Report

STIMSON COUNTS 63,958 ON ARMY CASUALTY LISTS   "War Secretary Points Out, However, Enemy's Losses Greater Than Ours

REPORT ON. LOSSES   Army. Casualties Since ‘Beginning oF of War ax Torsl ;

* Army's Casualties Since Beginning of  » War to Date 63,958   Stimson Says Future Operations Likely To Be Cestlier

U.S. War Casualties Total 87,304; 15,123 Killed Or Died Of Wound:

U.S. ‘CASUALS NUMBER 87,304   Army Losses Placed At 63,958; Navy Lists 23.346

Casualties For Armed Forces Total $7,304   15,132 Killed In Action Or Died Of Wounds Report Shows

87,304 War Casualties Reported   Total U. S. Losses ir War to, Date Listed ‘By Stimson

Army Reports 63,958: Navy Numbers 23,346   Secretary Stimson Tabulates Losses Of Men ta Date

87,304 CASUALTIES FOR ALL. S, FORCES   ‘Army Suffers Most—15,132 Have Met Death

Army Casualties Total 63,958   7528 Killed, Others Lost, Injured

15,132-Yanks Killed in War   Casualties Totaling 90,860 ‘in All Theaters Announced by Army and. Navy

\How "Round The Clock Bombing Hits Axi:   Casualties In U. S. Armed Forces 84,304

CASUALTY LIST FORU.S. FORCES PUT AT 87,304   Army and Navy Total Lists 15,132 Killed or Dead of Wounds

ARMY CASUALTIES PLAGED AT 63,958   Sec. Stimson Fears The Worst Is Yet To Come

TIMGON SAYS LOSSES HEAVY   Army Loses 7,528 Killed in Action; Other Services Have 7,604 Dead.   EXPECT GREATER LOSSES

REPORT ON LOSSES   Army Casualties Since Beginning of War Total — 87,304

ARMY TABULATES WAR CASUALTIES SINCE BEGINNING   LIST 7,528 MEN DEAD IN BATTLE; 22,687 MISSING

U.S. CASUALTIES FIXED AT 87,304   Stimson Reports Figures On U. S. Losses Thus Far In The War.

Army: Casualties Number 63,958      Stimson Warns Forth. coming Greater Troop Movements Will Bring Correspondingly Greater Losses.

.S. CASUALTY FIGURE 87,304 “STIMSON SAYS      includes Victims In All War Theaters Up to Present Time   ARMY'S TOLL 63,958; NAVY UNITS 23,346   Hints of Heavier Casualties As Offensive Opera® sions Are Expanded

ARMY, NAVY BATTLE TOLL SET AT 87,304   Lull in Fighting Enables Army to Tabulate Losses; Stimson Says Enemy’s Greater

American Casualties Army Lists 63,958  Total $4,304 eal Ls Bes 346  nore - acenae

7528 SOLDIERS IN. ARMY ARE KILLED STINSON REPORTS      17, 218 Wounded, 22, 687 Are Missing, 16,615 ‘Held  __ as Prisoners in Three Different Countries.   FIGHTING LULL PER‘MITS NEW TABULATION   More Men In. Next. Operations to Result In Correspondingly Greater Number of Casualties.

GASUALLLKS LN YANK FORCES TOTAL 87,304  , Number 15, 132 Are Kill   \ot Number 15,132 Are Kill > ed In Action Or Died of Wounds, War Department Says   99946 ON NAVY LIST   ‘Army Suffers 63,958 Victims, 17,128 of Whom Are Wounded, and 22,687  - Missing

Army Casualties Total 63,958,  Stimson Reports   Says Losses Of Enemy Heavier

U.S. Services List 87,304 As Casualties   Figure Is Announced for All War Theaters to Date

Expert Sees End to U.S. EatingOrgy   Government .to Halt Second Helpings by  Rthenstatad Aloesss

Americans Are On Eating Binge. Expert Declares   i es  Food Shortage Worry Largely Caused by Overappetites. He Save

Says Nation Is On Eating Spree   Must Leave Second Helping Alone

‘Food Binge’ Is Blamed For Shortage   i. 3. Over-Eating Is Due To End

HUOSIERS BOUGHT BILLION IN BONDS   Our Job Now Is to Start on Fourth Bond Drive.

WALLACE ON WAY BACK 70 FLORID!      ‘World Always Will Need Revolutionaries,’ He Savs in Speech.

Another Small Gain Is Made By Ayis In Tunisia   Panzer Forces Push Twin Thrusts Seeking To Isolate Hight

Outposts Of  Rabaul Smashed  In Air Attacks Huge Fires Are  Started In Nip Positions

Ruin Spread On Jap Bases   Raids Are Forerunner Of Attack On Raboul

Set. H. Stokes Is Reported as Lost in Action   Davis City Man Said Missing in European Area on September 27

MOTORISTS NAY GET EXTRA GAS   Supplementary Rations Pro vided for Those Wh Drive to Work.

POTTERY WORKERS END 5-DAY STRIKE   Vote To Return To Work Nex Monday

POTTERS VOTE TO END STRIKE   Kilnmen Will Return te Jobs Monday Pending. Grievance Parley

BIG AMPHIBIOUS FORCE ORGANIZED BY ARMY AND NAVY   Thousands in Units Probably Would Spearhead Any Invasion of Europe by Americans,   SOLDIERS TOUGHENED BY ARDUOUS TRAINING   Talk Is Special Corps Is Designed for Extensive Operations Once Land ing Is Made.

DIG AMPHIBIOUS FORGE 1S FORMEL   Powerful Army-Navy Unit Probably Will Spearhead Yanks in Any Major Invasion of Hitler Europe

Amphibious Force Formed   Joint Army and Navy Organization to  . Lead Invasion

JOINT INVASION FORCE FORMED   Army-Navy Amphibious Detail Numbers Thousands of Bluejackets, Sailors

Amphibious Force for Use In Invasion Being Formed By Army and Navy Jointly

Amphibious Force Is Organized by % Army, Navy Men   Unit Would Spearhead Troops in Any Major: : Invasion of Europe.

Thousands of Soldiers and Bluejackets Prepared To Carry Out With Speed, Precision and Perfect Co-ordination Most Difficult of Military Assign mante Gave Ninuuy Annaincamant

it'll Spearhead The Invasion  Army, Navy Join In Powerful Amphibious Force

‘Amphib’ Army, Navy Invasion Corps Revealed   Powerful, Coordinatec Force May Spearheac Attack On Europe

BREAD PRICE BOOST SEEN AS POSSIBLE   Subsidy for Millers May Be Alternative

Moscow Reports Capture of “Several’Key Eueniy Positions”; Soviet Aircraft Supporting Infantry

Germans Yield Before Big Soviet Drive   Aerial Activity Increases; Enemy’s Losses Are Heavy; Moscow Is Astir, Expecting Great New Gains

Russians Are on Move. in Caucasus   Big Developments Are Expected in Red Capital

Soviets Capture Key Posifions   Reds Lash Out In CIASRIAIAR DACA

REDS REPORI OFFENSIVE IN AWCAUCASUS   Red Aircraft Supports Operations Of Land; Inflicts Heavy Losses; Down 116 Nazi Planes   150,000 Men Attack

Soviets Capture Key Positions   Reds Lash Out In Unfolding Drive

CAUCASUS ACTION HINTS OFFENSIVE OPENED BY REDS   Several Key Nazi Positions Captured By Russians _In New Drive   MOSCOW REMAINS SILENT ON REPORTS OF ASSAULT

RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE LAUNCHED NEW OFFENSIVE   150,000 Soviets Reported Attacking In Northern  Case owe.   GERMAN TRANSPORT IS REPORTED SUNK

Berlin Reports Huge Red Force Attacks, Takes Key Bases   Soviet Capital Astir With Expectation of Momentous Events

GREAT SOVIET DRIVE OPENED FOR CAUCASUS   GERMANY REPORTS 150,000 REDS ARE ATTACKING

Reds Capture Key Positions   Nazis Report Another Big Soviet Action Involves 150,000 Men

Russians Capture German Positions In the Caucasus   Soviet Aircraft Aid i What Nazis Call Big Offensive

Reds Take More Key Positions Drive Portend:  Large - ‘Beale 8 A Atierlter

REDS CAPTURE KEY POSITIONS   Germans Report 150,000 Russians in Plane Supported Drive

AUSOIANS CAPTURE KEY NAZI POINTS   BIG CAUCASUS DRIVE, SUPPORTED BY PLANES, INFLICTS HEAVY LOSSES.

/Nurrent . somment   New Style Labor Day This Year: * Gadding First Lady

Capone Relatives, Henchmen Are Indicted In Million-Dollar Extortion Plot On Movies

Nine Indicted on Extortion Charges  Relatives, Former Henchmen of Capone Are Among Group

INDICT ON RACKET   Capone Relatives and Henchmen Named in Federal Charges

Indict Capones For Extortion:   Racketeer’s Henchmen Named In Charges

Capone Henchmen ~ Under Indictment  9 Named For Extortion From Film Companies

Capone Racket Gang Indicted   D‘Andrea Among Those Accused By U.S.

TRUCK EMPLOYES STRIKE   Atlanta AFL Workers Tie Up Transport System

CABINS RAIDED BY OFFICERS SUNDAY   Proprietor of Valley Inn Accused of Having Illegal Brew

HOME BREW TAKEN IN RAID ON TAVERN   Sheriff's Officers Accuse Man of Illegal Sale of Brew

Japanese Cities Said Prepared For Air Raids Following Tokyo Attack

ITALIANS MAY GET REPUBLIC   Badoglio Ready To Reveal Makeup Of Liberation And Action Government

BRIDGES HITS RED CRITICISM   Says Second Front Statement Is “Unfortunate And Unjustified”

BRIDGES RAPS RED CRITICISM OF ALLIES   Senator Says Russia Has Failed to Aid in War on Japan

BRIDGES HITS STATEMENT ON ~ SECOND FRON]   NEW RAMPSHIRE SENATOR CALLS RECENT RUSSIAN CRITICISM “UNFORTUNATE AND UNJUSTIFIED”

NINTH AAR. FORCE BLADTo Al {ALY   Foggia Rail Yards, 80 Mile: Northwest of Nap!es, Hit by Liberators.

NINTH AIR FORE: BLASTS AT TTAL'   Foggia Rail Yards, 80 Mile: : Northwest of Naples, Hit .+.° by Liberators. —

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   U.S. Air Force Carries Out Daviight Attack

Allies Hold  Middle Patt . Of Long Line   Axis Gain Regarded a& Slight; Face Bitter Of position — ;

ATTEMPTING T0 FLANK FORWARD BASE IN TUNISIA   In Central Sector Advantage Lies All With British, Americans as Result of Air Raid   Ry ASSOCTATED PRESS)

Allies Move On 2 Fronts,  Nazis on One   Germans Attempt to Flank Allied Forward Base; Air Assault Leaves Bloody Chaos in Axis Ranks

SMASH SHORT DISTANCEINTO ALLIED LINES   Success Reported in Medjez-el-Bab Area — Yanks and British Advance in Two Directions in Central Sector,

AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES MOVING FORWARD IN CENTRAL SECTOR ABOUT KASSERINE GAP   Nazis Batter Way Short Distance Into Allied ‘Lines Northwest of Medlez-E]-Bab in Effort To Flank Allied Base.

Nazis Batter Way Into Allies Lines  at Medjez-el-Bab   Terrific Allied Air Assault Leaves Axis  Ranks Bloody Chaos

Anglo-Americans Make Steady Gains In Central Sector   Nazis Halt Reds In Donets Basin; Flying Forts Raid Sicilian Port: Hint Italy Is Pressed By Reich

HLLIED GAIN IN CENTRAL AREA IS CONTINUING   Axis Advance Scored At Heavy Cost, Is Allied Report

Allies Hold Middle Part Of Long Line   Axis Gain Regarded as Slight; Face Bitter Opposition

Allies Push Past Gap; Reds Halt   Rommel Breaks In To Outflank Army At Medjez-el-Bah.   Nazis Recover   Strong Counteroffensive and Thaw Slows Russian Fighters,

Germans Pay Price  For Short Gains   Americans Push After Retreating Rommel, While British Sistas: Attacks in North

MINOR ADVANCE MADE BY NAZIS TO FLANK YANKS   Thaws Slow Red Offense in Russia’s Donets Basin But Not on Other Sectors   HITLER PRESSURES ITALY   HITLER PRESSURES ITALY  Allied Air Forces Continue To Hammer Germany’s Industrial Centers   By CARL C. CRANMER

Halt Reds In Donets Basin   . « Russ Still Driving Toward Dnieper

U.S. And British Forces Advance In Central Sectors      Serious German Counter: attacks -Halt Russians In-Donets Basin.

Germans Try Flank Attack on Allied Base   American and British Forces Move Forward on Southern Front: Thaw Halts Reds

But Allies Continue Drive From Kassarine Gap Area   Rommel Offensive Believed Shattered There; No Opposition To Allied Advance   RED ADVANCE SEEMS TO BE HALTED    Desperate German Stand Made In Donets  Area; Heavy Air Attacks Seen In Europe

‘NAZI INFANTRY AND TANKS BATTERED WAY INTO ALLIED LINES   IN OTHER SECTOR OF NORTH AFRICA ALLIES STILL MOVING FORWARD

Nazis Batter Way Into Allied Lines   Rommel in Effort to Hank Allied Forward Base in North African Fighting to Three Miles Beyond Sidi Nsir.   But in Central Sectors Americans Move Forward From Kasserine Gap

ALLIED FORCES MOVE AHEAD IN CENTRAL AREA   Axis Manages Slight Gain in Effort to Flank Medijez-el-Bab

Rommel Force  Withdrawing In Central Sector  Flyers Hit Axis Ports In Sicily, Hammer  Battlelines All Along Tunisian Front

Nazis Smash into Lines of Allies in Northern Tunisia   German Counter-Attacks Stop Russia: Drive in Donets Basin; Reds Push Ahead in Northwest

Germans Make Small Gain In North Afriea   Batter Short Distance Into Allied Lines Near Nedjez« el-Bah.   ALLIED PLANES ACTIVE

NAZI MARSHAL Tito 10 FLANK ALLIED FORGES   3-Mile Gain In One Sector Represents Lone Enemy — Advance in Tunisia

Nazis Check Russians In Donets Basin, But Reds Push Toward Dnieper From Kharkov.

ROMMEL'S — FORCES HIT AT BRITISH   Slight-Gain Is Made in One Thrust Northwest. of... Mediez-E):Bab: :       OTHER ATTACKS IN: > “NORTH: REPULSED   Allies Continue-¢ Gaining - in Central Sections: Germans Again. Heavily” Bombed

THWART NAZI USING FRENCH FLEET UNITS   Refloated Warships Sunk In Severe Blow At Naval Base Of Toulon By American Rambers.   Support 5th Army

TOULON ATTACK THWARTS NAZIS   Planes Sink 5 Refloatec French Warships; Turin Target Hit Again

NAZIS FOILED BY AIR ATTACK   Germans Were Attempting To Use Units Of Scuttled French Fleet

Ships Refloated By Nazis Sunk Again   Toulon Raid Thwarts Efforts To Salvage French Warships; Marseille Blasted Also  By WES GALLAGHER

U.S. Fliers Sink > French Ships In Toulon Port   German Attempt to Use Scuttled Units Stopped — Forts Attack Sub Pens at Marseille

AAA Leader Says Wouldn’t  Help, Solon Contends Would Bring Corn to Market 

Dodd Against  Corn Boost   Won't Cause Grain Sale, AAA Official Contends

Mustering-Out Pay Bill Ok'd  sie ng Scale Will ve $200 to $500  rT. Fate eobn.../3 bs

Muster-Out Pay Given Approval   Senate Committee Would Pay Each Serviceman  From $200 to $500.

Mustering-Out  Pay Bill Okayed  Provides $200 To $500 For Discharged Men

MUSTERING-OUT PAY APPROVED   Bill Providing for $200 # $500 Given Senate Committee’s Okay

Two Navy Airmen, Lost At Sea, _  _ Fry Fish On Plane’s Hot Wings, _ Lose 40 Pounds Each In 10 Days

Two Navy Fliers Tell Of 10 Days Adrift On Ocean   Fry Fish On Hot Wings Of Plane

25 Die in Crash Of Air Transport   Army Plane Wrecked At Maxton, N. C.

2d Are Killed In Army Plane Crash  Big Transport Was Making Routine Flight

20 Killed in Transport Plane Crash   Fire Breaks Out After Crash Trapping All Occupants

10 Officers and Men Die in Crash   Army Transport Plane Crashes at Lawson Field, Ga.

20 TROOPS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   FIRE TRAPS ALL OCCUPANTS OF TRANSPORT CRAFT AT FORT BENNING, G4.

Army Transport Crash Fatal To 25 Persons   Big Airplane Plunges During Routine Flight At Maxton, N. C., Air Base

War Brings Pressing Need For Fats Of Alt Kinds In Industry >   Household Salvage Helps. In Replacing Imported Products

Reds Take Poltava, Gateway To Ukraine   Storm Into White Russia; Soviet Armies Within Sight Of Kiev, Dnieper River; Thousands Of Germans Are Slain

Nazi Forces Quit Poltave Rail Center   Russian Armies Storm Into White Russia Near Gomel

Germans Admit Quitting Poltava   Break-Through at Gomel Only 15 Miles From Dnieper and 150 Miles of Old Polish Border — Red Army Charging Forward Unchecked on Whole 750 Mile Front

Germans Abandon Gateway To Heart Of Ukraine Area   Kiev Menaced From Three Sides By Reds

Keep Rolling From Victory To Victory   Reds Capture Poltava, Gateway to Heart of The Ukraine   ARE 150 MILES FROM OLD POLISH BORDER

SUMIET TROOPS NOW oTORMING WHITE RUSoIA   Red Armies Only 150 Miles Away From Polish Border With New Advances

Driving Within 150 Miles Of Old Polish Boundary   Nazis Abandon Poltava, Gateway To Heart Of Ukraine As Soviets Rol! On

Germans Leave Gate to Heart Of Ukraine Area   Triumphant Reds Enter Poltava, Force Back Enemy

Reeling Nazis Quit Poltava. Dnieper Fort   Ukraine Bastion of Kiev Now’ Menaced .From Three Diréctions.

REPORT BREAK IN NAZI LINE AROUND GOMEL   Only 150 Miles From Old Polish Border: Berlin Announces Abandonment Of Poltava

SOVIETS TARE UKRAINE GATE   Nazis Abandon Poltava As Russians Storm Into White Russia.

SOVIETS BREAK  THROUGH FOES’ IN GOMEL AREA   Comes On Heels of German Announcement Nazis Abandoned Poltava, Gateway to Ukraine   PLACES REDS MIDWAY KIEV AND SMOLENSK   Within Bare Fifteen Miles of the Dnieper River and  Within 150 Miles of Polish Border

Soviet Troops Storming Into  White Russia   German Forces Abandon Poltava, Gateway To Heart Of Ukraine, 80 Miles West Of Kharkov

Nazis Abandon Poltava, Vital Ukraine Anchor   Soviets Now Only 150 Miles From Original Polish Border

Russians Storming Into White Russia   Germans Are Forced to Abandon Poltava, Gateway to Heart of Ukraine, Which Is Control Center of Net work of Railways.   Center of Battle Shifts Southeast Of Smolensk, Nazi Central Bastion

Poltava Evacuated By Retreating Hitlerites   Gateway To Heart Of Ukraine Smashed Open By Russian Steamroller; Many Towns Taken

Soviel Advance Guards Within’ Five Miles of Dnieper al Some: Poinis—-Moscow Expectant   CAPTURE POLTAVA    Russian Nulcrackers Bear Down Steadily on Kiev and Smolensk, to South and North of Gemel

REDS STORM     WTO WHITE   Nazis Abandon ‘Poltava, Gate To -Uhkraine’s Heart

Poltava Falls in Russian Ukraine Drive   Nazi Retreat Is Rout as Soviets Knock on Door of Granary

Red Advances Carrying Into White Russia   Nazis Abandoning Rich Center Of Ukraine to Russians

Report Poltova_ Is Abandoned By Nazi Forees   Victorious Soviet Troops Said In Gomel Sector Near Old Polish Border

Germans Forced To Leave Ukrainian Railway Center   Three Red Armies Menace Kiev; Reds in 150 Miles Of Old Polish Border

Soviet Troops Storm Into “White Russia”   Strike Gomel Sector, After Germans Abandon Poltava, Gateway to Heart of Ukraine; Kiev Menaced.

-REDS-THREATEN - COMPLETE ROUT OF REICH ARMY   {> Soviets Streaming Into White Russia—Germans Abandon City in Ukraine

Stalin Armies Draw Nearer To Dnieper   Soviets Storming Into White Russia In Gomel Sector

NAS QUIT POLTAVA, UKRAINE GATE   New Soviet Break-Through Scored In Gomel Area; Dnieper Now In Sight

RUSSIAN DRIVE SURGES ON TO KIEV OUTSKIRTS   Soviet Forces Also Closinc In On Smolensk After Reaching Dnieper

Italy Comes to Aid  Of Yugosiavs,  Hits Balkan Cities Warships Shell Enemy  Forces in Towns On Dalmatian Coast

UNITS ITALIAN FLEET TURN GUNS ON NAZI OCCUPIED TOWNS  Yugoslavs Manning Sma Naval Units Turned Ove

Critical Points Breached   ltalian Warships Sheiling German Occupied Towns   Back Yugoslavs, Says Broadcast

ITALIAN WARSHIPS SHELL GERMANS   GUNS TURNED ON DALMATIAN COAST TOWNS IN SUPPORT OF YUGOSLAVIA.

Tialian Fleet Shells Ceast Of Yuvoslaviz   Partisans Take Three Towns. Blow Un Bridee

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ITALIAN FLEET FIRES ON NAZIS   Support Yugoslav. ‘Troops in Shelling German-Occupied Towns Along Coast

Italian. Warships Reported Firing On German Bases  Yugoslavs Turn Back German Attacks on Adriatic Islands

SCHOOL CHILDREN  INTO SUBSIDY FIGH’   Tell Congress They Fear Ice Crean and Candy Will Rise in Price if Prorram Js Abandoned.

NIP SHIP HIT IN MIDDLE BY U.S. BOMBER   One Yank Dodges Zeros So Speedily He Rips Off Elevators

House Likely To Revive Tax Collection Plan   Payroll Deduction Collection Method Expected To Be Revived In Congress   TWO COURSES ARE BEING CONSIDERED

Portugal May Br eak With Japan   Evacuation of Timor Reported Amone Demands

JAP-PORTUGUESE RELATIENS NEAR ~ BREAKING POINT   Lisbon Said to Be Ready ‘tc Declare War Over Timor teland.

ALLIED FLYERS BREAK BACK OF RABAUL BASE   Hundreds of Bombers Stage McArthur’s Biggest Air Raid

SURPRISE. ASSAULT BY BIG AIR FORCE. RESTROYED 177 FORCE DESTROYED 177 ENEMY VESSELS

177 NIP PLANES, 123 WARCRAFT, TOLL IN ATTACK   Mac Arthur Says Foe Defense Now in Peril Throughout Entire Area

Servicemen To  Get Food Ratior  Men On Furloughs Te Receive Certificates

PARADISE HAS ITS DRAWBACKS; ANYHOW HONOLULU ISN'T IOWA: THAT IS ATTITUDE OF SOFTIFS

ee oe a peacetime’  ‘ American Soldier Stationed In Hawaii Becomes Restless Despite Many Modern Conveniencess%

OPA CEILINGS ’ SET ON SOAP   (Typical prices for soaps as announced today by OPA are given on page 10).

OPA Orders Dollar-Cent Soap Ceilings   Scale Takes Effect on May 24; Prices Are About Same

CEILING PRICES SET FOR SOAP   New Ruling Takes Effect May 24—Little Change In Cost Results

Lampedusa Is Scouted By British   London Quarters. Predict Invasion. Of Isle Soon; U, So Planes Raid Sicily

London Predicts Landing by Troops   Eisenhower Announces Raid on Lampedusa by Commandos— Italy Says Pantelleria Is Ready

OHATTERING NEW ASSAULTS REPORTS UPON PANTELLERIA  AMERICAN HEAVY   AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS CONTINUE POUNDING OF _ SICILY

Reds Stress Violent Air Battles as Prelude to Summer Campiagn; AntiJap Drive Near

Allies Blast Island Under  Heavy Siege   Momentous Operations Are Believed Imminent

Pantelleria Kept Under Shattering Attack During Day   Italy Enters Its Fourth Year of War Threatened ___With Invasion —

London Believes Momentous Operations Due Any Hour   Italian Gibralter Pounded Heavily Today; Lampedusa Also Attacked From Air

Bombers Press Heavy Raid On  Italian Island   Possibility Direct Assault On Pantelleria To Be Passed Up.  HIT SICILIAN AIRPORT

Pantelleria Is”) Subjected fo 18th Day of Bombs   Eisenhower Gives Confirmation of Lampedusa Raid

London Looks For Big Move Soon —   American Heavy Bombers F: rom Middle East Keep Up Assault on Sicily ~ Violent Air Battles in Russia Seen  As Prelude to Summer Carmpaign

Dropped as Men Refuse To Give Up      Island Called “Italy's Gibraltat Subjected to 18th Successive , Aerial Onslaught )

Attacks On Pantelleria And Lampedusa Islands Reported By Gen. Eisenhower’s Headquarters—Belief Persists In British Capital That Unusual Operations Are Imminent—American Bombers Continue To Blast Sicilian Area

British Confirm Commando Attack on Lampedusa Isle  BY ROGER GREENE

MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND LANDING BELIEVED NEAR   Stepping Stones to Italy Are Pounded from Sea and Air in Rising Tempo   GARRISON STILL HOLDS ON   Reds Stop New Thrusts By Nazis as Fierce Summer Battles Expected

Official News Of Landing Expected In London Circles   Volcanic Little Island on Invasion Route To Sicily and Italian Mainland Undergoes 18th : Aerial Attack :   COMMANDO ATTACK IS MADE ON LAMPEDUSA

Island Fort Landing Near British Think ‘Stepping Stone’ Pounded 18 Days but Garrison Rejects Ultimatum AEGEAN SHIPS HIT  Eisenhower Announces Commando Attack an   AEGEAN SHIPS HIT

SHATTERING NEW ASSAULTS REPORTS UPON PANTELLERIA  AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS CONTINUE

OTHER PARTS. OF ITALY IN ATTACK ZONE   Commando Raid Revealed by Fis enhower. Rommel in Charge of Mediterranean Defense

DUCE'S ISLA RAIDED 18TH DAY IN ROW   Official News Of Landing Expected Momentarily   Garrison To Make Stand: Eisenhower Tells Of Raid On Lampedusa

Press Island Siege   «e+ Pantelleria Landing Is Expected Shortly

Solon Stresses Domestic Needs   Senator Wheeler Hit: At Bureaucrats

GermansRush Planes to Halt Routof Troops   Nazis Discontinue Reinforcement of Sicilian Defenders; Catania Fall Near 

Land, Sea and Air Forces Hif Axis Defenses   American Warships Add to Fury of Attack As British and American Land Forces Advance

FRESH U.S. TROOPS LEADING ATTACK FOR FINAL CRUSHING OF GERMANS AND ITALIANS   Great Concentrations of Fire From Land Artillery Aerial Forces and Warships off Coast Make _ Axis Positions Untenable

Reinforcement of Axis Troops Through Messina Ceases, Heralding End—Fall _ of German Stronghold at Orel Believed Near; Japs Stiffen at Munda

Allies Storm At Crumbling Axis Line In Sicily   x kK KK  Germans Shift Planes To Messina Sector

AXIS DEFENSES TREMBLEUNDER WASSED FIRE   Planes, Warships And Are tillery Unleash Withering Attack 4   RETREAT NEARS ROUT   Allied Advances On North and Central Fronts  Reported

MT. ETNA LINES TREMBLE UNDER FIERCE ASSAULT   Knockout of Axis on Sicily Draws Near as Fresh Yank Troops Pour In   ‘TRAFFIC JAM’ IN SKY   Nazi Warplanes Sent In But Aim Is Poor and They Are Soon Smothered

Germans Stop Reinforcing of Sicilian Lines   Troops Defending Enemy Pilots Prove Inferior To Those In Africa.   CAPTURE TWO TOWNS

FRESH AMERICAN TROOPS SPARK BIG FINAL ALLIED DRIVE  GERMANS RUSH IN AIR STRENGTH TO PREVENT AXIS ROUT

Allied Columns Push Final Drive   Axis Reinforcements Through Messina Reported Halted

GERMANS MAKE WILD MOVE TC STEM RETREAI   Reports Say Mt. Etna Line Shud-  dering Under Impact of Assault by Allies; End Nears

Fresh Yank Troops Aid Final Drive   German Bombers Being Rushed In From Other Fronts To Help Stave OFF Ratreat

MT. ETNA LINE WOBBLY AFTER NEW ATTACKS   American Heavy Cruisers In Coordinated Blows, Shell Coast Positions

Warships Blast At Axis Positions   ... Reinforcement of Foe's Troops Ceases

Allies Massing To Blast at Last Strongholds ot Axis Before Invasion of Ltaly

Yanks Advance Six Miles After Etna Line ls Shattered   Nazis Drain Air Forces From Other Fronts In Final But Useless Effort To Stem Advance; American Warships In Action; Italy’s Doom Sealed

Rush Planes To Bolster Ground Army      Yanks Lead Final Drive With Gain Of Six Miles

American Cruisers Bombarding Axis Northern Positions   War Correspondent Says German  Troops Inferior To Those  Encounted in N. Africa 

Fresh Troops Spark Allied  Sicilian Drive   Mt. Etna Line Shuddering Under Great Concentration of Naval, Aerial and Artillery Fire; Fall of German Stronghold at Orel Believed Near

wa Germans Rush *)  Fighter-Bombers — From Other Fronts   U. S. Heavy Cruisers Are Pumping Shells Into Shore Targets

14 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down   Allied Fliers Smash A Enemy's Big Base Or South Bougainville   GARRISON IS DOOMED   Hundreds Of Nipponese Die In Atiempt To Sneak Fram Saitroko

Ceiling Sef On Potatoes   Retailers Will Name Prices To Consumers

PRICE SET ON EARLY ONIONS   OPA Says Farmers Will Receive 100 Per Cent Of Parity

Frustrate Escape  Of War Prisoners   Electrically Lighted Tunnel Found at Trinidad, Colo.,  Camp.

Secret Tunnel From Camp Found   Discovery Believed To Have Balked German Prisoners Escape.

SENATE WORKS ON ANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATION   Objectives to House Pro. vision on “Cooling Off”  Period Before Strike

ANTI-STRIKE LEGISLATION OVERHAULED   Senatorial Qpposifion Likely to Force Junking of Secret Ballot, 30-Day Cosling Off

SENATE. FAVORS BAN ON STRIKES   Conferees Seeking Removal Qf Any Loopholes Allow. ing Walkouts

Conaress lroning Out Strike Bill  Senate May Junk House Plans for Cnnlinga aft Pariad

STRIKE BILL CHANGES SEEN   Plan For Cooling Period May Be Dropnad  a

SENATE OPPOSED TO SECRET BALLOT AND COOLING-OFF PERIOD  SENATE CONFEREES OBJECT TO ANY SANCTION. INC OF WAR STRIKES

SECTIONS OF STRIKE BILL MAY BE JUNKED   Senate Sharpens Penalty Clause To Measure

Quebec War Plans Mean More Trouble For Axis   Not Surprising If Berlin-Reported Commando Raids On Italian Mainland Had Occurred

Armies Await Go Signal From Quebec— ~—By Kirke L. Simpson  Deadline For Italy To Seek Peace Has Passed

DENIES HITLER ~ WILL STEP ASID      BERLIN’ RADIO SAYS FUEHR: ER WILL CONTINUE TO COMMAND ARMED FORCES.

RUMORS OF HITLER YIELDING COMMAND DENIED BY BERLIN   Competent Military Quarters Quoted As Declaring Reports Of Von Mannstein Taking Supreme Command Are Without Foundation

BERLIN DENIES FUEHRER RUMOR   High Command Not Giv. en Up By Hitler, Radio  Propaganda Savs

Command Shakeup Denied By Nazis   Report Circulated Hitler Will Yield Supreme Leadership

Compromise On Subsidies Sought   Taft Seeks Solution To Bitter Fight

STATE RELEASES FOREIGN WHISKE}   ‘Frozen’ Merchandise Is Returned to Pool

It’s Cold, Clammy In Foxhole, But— Thoughts Of Christmas Set \lohn Doughbou Dreamina

Here It Is Another Christmas, and Johnny Is Still Totine His Gun

Allied Strategy Accord Reached   Staff Conferences Come to Close

Roosevelt Says ‘Complete’ ‘Agreements Were Reached   Two Allied Leaders Are Believed To Have Planned War Strateay For Pacific Sector

Allied Chiefs Agree on  War Strategy   Roosevelt, Churchill Plan Action on Japs, Observers. Hint

Judge Pat Kent Refuses To Recommend Aid For Road Work In Midcounty

Plea Of Pct. 2 Citizens For Road Cash Is Rejected By County Cour'

Now Rated One of HardestHitting Outfits in Army; Germans Fear Indians Because Believe Latter Cannibalistic

Colorful ‘Fighting 45th’ Infantry Division Joins, Turns Tide of Battle at Salerno

Colorful U.S.’Fighting 45th’ Turned the Tide at Salerno   Division Contains a Thousand Indians Whom Germons Believe Are Cannibalistic, So Indians Conduct War of Nerves”, Too

Tough 45th Turned Tide At Salerno   Rated One of HardestHitting Outfits in Army; Earned Spurs In Sicilian Campaign

Fighting 45th” Rough and Ready  Germans Dread Indians j in Outfit

NEWSPRINT CUT IS SEEN AGAIN   Chandler Tells Circulatior Chiefs Restrictions Forthcoming .

High Anglo-American of. _-ficers Map Strategy ot  ference AXIS REPORTS OF OFFENSIVE HEARD  British Eighth J Army Reported in Contact With Rommel’s Forces

Tunisian Leaders Confer 48 Hours   FDR Praises Americans In Special Message To Eisenhower   Axis Radios Battle On, Allies Report Patrols   Silt Army Moving Faster; U.S. Advance Pnits Near Makansav

Anglo-American Officers Confer   Long Conference Held At Eisenhower's North African Headquarters Perhaps On Allied Offensive Rumored By Axis

High Anglo-American Officers Map Strategy at Conference  AXIS REPORTS OF OFFENSIVE HEARD  British Eighth Army Re ported i in Contact With

Council of War Completed by Military Chiefs   All-Out Attack Is Expected by German Leaders

SUPPLY OFFICE GETS APPROVAL   Senate Group Would Set Up New Agency For Civilian Needs

Maloney Bill Meets Approval of Senate Banking Committee   Measure Would Transfer WPB and WMC Powers fo Civilian Agency

Senate Approves Measure to Create Civilian Supply Administration

CIVILIAN SUPPLY BUREAU 1S URGED   Senate Committee Approves Bill to Set Up Unit With Authority Over Manpower, Rationing and Production

Two Men Burned To Death In Billings Fire  Stockman Bar, Cafe Destroyed, Two

Two Die in Billings Conflagration   Fire Destroys Stockman Bar and  SOMOS” «MRR re Sree eeed

A A gh A TL —_ natin.  ‘Ride Over Car Ties Is Costly to Moforist

War Prisoners For Farming  May Be Brought Here To Help Raise Foods

‘is War Prisoners May be ed to Help Produce Food   mment Considering Using Captives From Africa id Europe On Farms to Fill Agricultural Labor Shortages, Chief of Labor Branch of Food Production Administration Says

MAY USE AXIS WAR PRISONERS TO HELP PRODUCE THE FOOD   ‘Such a Movement Is Now Be  .ing Considered, J. A. Walker Said.   FILL LABOR SHORTAGE   Would Have to Be Used Where They Could Work in Large Groups.

CAPTIVES MAY BE USED ON U. S. FARMS   Government Considers Working Axis Troops Taken in Africa, Europe —Ozarks Families Also th Re Called.

May Use Prisoners  On Farms   Walker Making Plans To Use Axis Captives In Food Production; Also City Residents

AXIS PRISONERS MAY BE WORKED OW U. S. FARMS   ‘Would Be Used In Groups And ‘Well Cuarded

Prisoners On U. S. Farms?   Labor Chief Says Axis May Be Used To Relieve Shortage

MAY USE PRISONERS 70 HARVEST CROPS   Government Agents Seek  Means to Provide Farm Labor 

Captives May Help Produce Needed Foods   Plan Considered to Bring Axis Prisoners Here as Harvesters   RECRUITING PROPOSED

Axis. War Prisoners Likely To Provide U.S. Farm Labor - This Year Under New Plan

HAMBURG AGAIN BOMBARDED BYR AF.   600 Planes Believed to Have Participated in Latest Raid

HAMBURG GIVEN NINTH BLASTING   RAF Pursues Relentless Plan to Wipe Great City Off Map

HAMBURG GIVEN NEW POUNDING   Big RAF Force Blasts Great German Port Now City Of Desolation

HAMBURG DEBRIS HEAVILY BOMBEM   RAF Pilots Returning From  Another Raid Report That  “fhe City Isn't There.”

Big Binge To Be Thrown By New Yorkers   Estimate $30,000,000 Will Be Spent In Broadway District — ‘Other Cities All Set

SMALLER NUMBER PLYMOUTH COUNTY INDUCTEES IN JULY   Return For Three Weeks After Reporting At Port Crook For Examination

Another Contingent Left Sunday For Induction Into The Armed Services   Will Have Three Weeks Furlough Aftar Tnduction

Big News Expected As Allies Map Plans For Blow at Hitler   Quick Settlement Of North African Muddle Seen As Prelude To Forthcoming Offensive Action

Bill to Make Theft of Tires Felony, Sponsored By Stone, Passes at Austin

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Radio Indicates New Air Blow  RAF Believed Following  Lien Mucnetautaserae EPerted

RAF SPILLS 1,500 TONS BOMBS ON NUERNBERG   Berlin Radio Abruptly Quits The Air Just Af ter Midnight Wednesday To Indicate RAF Again Over Germany

RAF Continues To Blast Nazis   Heavies Out Again, Nluernbera Smashed

Bombers Raid Nazi Shrine Of Nuernberg   Berlin Radio Stops, Indicating Third Night Raid in Row

Nuernberg Plants Blasted As British Shift Assault - To Manufacturing Center

RAF Continues To Blast Nazis.   Heavies Out Again, Nioermberc Sasechetl

Nuernberg Is Heavily Hit By RAF Bomb:   Indications Point to Another Raid on Nazi-Held Europe

Shrine City OF -Nuernberg Hard Ait By Bombers  A as 1 EDN aw Tans tS   Over ,500 Long Tons Of Explosives Dropped; Target Blazing

British Smash Great Nazi Industry City   - Nuernberg Is Crumpled by Heavy Raid; Further Blows Are Expected; Enemy Production Is Nearly All Ruined

FLYNA TRIAL IS NEARING JURY   Prosecution Opens Final Arguments After Both Sides Finish Testimony

OFFICES GO TO PLAUEN   Nazis Stop Move to Austria When - Wiener Neustadt Is Bombed

ENEMY VESOELS BOMBER TARGETS   Two Jap Ships Bombed by Allied Planes Off New Ireland; Same “Area Enemy Destroyers Forced to Flee

Allies Hit Two Japanese Ships   Main Coastal Road Above Madang on New Guinea Raided

Large Merchant Vessel Included   Other Areds Feel Lash Of Bombere

2 JAP SHIPS BOMBED OFF NEW IRELAND   Road Above Madang Also Bombed In New Guinea Where Military Activities Have Been Stalemated.   Fresh Conflicts

Two Cruisers and Destroyers Sent to Bottom of Pacific i in Kabieng   TWO OTHERS HIT ANL ARE BADLY DAMAGEL   Aerial Triumph Follows Quickly Announcement Reconnaissance Planes  Spotted Vessels

Allies Bomb Enemy ‘Vessels in Southern Pacific  Attackers Score One Direct Hit and Some Near Misses

Two Jap War Vessels Sunk  By U.S. Bombs   Aerial Triumph Follow: Discovery of Enemy Force at Kavieng

New Strike Threatened In Protest   WLB Indicates Disapproval of Tentative Pact

NEW OTRINE I THREATENED ‘AS Alp J i  esentment in  fYanmt Ezealde   UNION STILL HOPES FOR PORTAL PAYMENT

UMW Stil Hopeful Of Settlement      Threaten Strike In Protest To $1 A Day Fine, But Hope To Negotiate Settlement On Bases Of Central Pa. Pact   STORM OF PROTEST RAISED EY FINE

Strike Threatened Over Ickes’ Fines   Miners Still. Hope ‘For Settlement

MINERS STILL HOPEFUL FOR SETTLEMEN]   May Walk Out in Protest Against $l-aDay Fine

Russian Shock Troops Storm  City’s Suburbs   Freshly Arrived Enemy  Battalions Making Telasme Gime

Russians Battle Nazi Troops in Kharkov Suburbs   Soviet Shock Forces Doom German Base to Early Capture   Germans Hurl Fresh Men into Action without Success

Soviet Forces Storm Through Kharkov Suburbs   Desperate Germans Hurl Technical Men {nto Front Lines

Shock Troops Storm Thru "Suburbs of the City < NAZI INFANTRY IS REPORTED FLEEING  Escope Corridor From Kharkoy Reduced to 37 Miles

KHARKOV'S FALL TO SOVIET ARMY HELD IMMINENT   Red Shock Troops Penetrate Suburbs Of Ukraine  Metropolis   RUSSIAN GUERILLAS KILL 155,000 NAZIS

GERMANS FALL BACK AS DRIVE SMASHES AHEAD   Successes Indicate City May Fall Soon; Fight To Finish Expected By Russians   Enemy Losses Heavy

Key City Is About to . Surrender   Reds Make Big Gains On All Fronts; Kharkov Is Weaker

NAZIS CONTINUE STEADY RETREAT   Reds Within Five Miles of Ukraine Metropolis   OTHER COLUMNS   Smash Into the Strongpoint Of Chuguev Where Ger. mans in Full Retreat

KHARKOV MAY FALL SOON 10 SOVIET ARMY   HiTLER’S INFANTRY RETREATING IN DISORDER

Red Troops In Suburbs OfSteel City   Strongpoint of Chuguevy Falls in Seviet Drive And Germans Retreat  DEFENSE IS BITTER

KHARKOV FALL S IMMINENT: NAZIS RETREAT   tussian Offensive In Eighth Day Appears On Verge of Success; Chuguev’s Capture Indicates Early Fall.   Guerillas Busy

Reds storm within 2 miles of Kharkov  as enemy retreats   Nazis withdraw in disorder leaving prisoners and war materials behind

Soviet Shock Troops Storm Through Suburb Of Kharkov  Russian Offensive Against City Appears To Roe On Varae Of Succece Ae Germans Retrec

GERMANS HURLED BACK IN DISORDER IN KHARKOV FIGHT   Russians Storm Through Sub urbs of City to Within Five Miles of Ukraine Metropolis,   STRATEGIC CHUGUEV FALLS TO SOVIETS   Technical Troops and Engineering Detachments Rushed Up by Nazis for Last Ditch Stand.

Reds Storm To Suburbs Of Kharkov   Troops Within Five Miles of Ukraine City; Other Cotumne Capture Chuguey

Russ Penetrate Suburbs Near Kharkov   Fall Appears Certain With Reds Only Five Miles Away

CHARGE COUNTY MAN WITH OPA LAW VIGLATION   Alege 729 Offenses Against Meat Packer In Slovan District

NO EASING OF CIVILIAN GOODS CUT-OFF IN “43   Can't Restore Production Before Late 1944, Says WPB Official   MILITARY NEEDS CUT   Curtailments To Stand Despite Pressure From Business

LITTLE HOPE SEEN FOR NON WAR GOODS   WPB Official Says Civilian Goods Can’t Be Restored

Civilian Goods Not Expected To Be Restored Soon   Pressure Strong,, But Army Needs More

CIVILIAN SHORTAGE TO CONTINUE YEAR   Lawmakers Disturbed by Businessmen’s Protests

OPA SEES LITTLE CHANCE TO RESTORE CIVILIAN PRODUCTION UNTIL LATE ’44

NOT TO RESTORE CIVILIAN NEEDS UNTIL 1944-WPB   Would Hamper Vital War Production If Attempted This Year

LITTLE HOPE FOR CIVILIAN GOODS   WPB OFFICIAL SAYS PRODUCTION CAN'T BF RESUMED BEFORE

CIVILIANS MUST WAIT, HIGH WPB OFFICIAL SAYS   Military Needs Already Cut To Danger Point

Counterattack in North by Nazis Fails   500 Elite German Troops Captured; 27 Tanks Destroyed

FIRST ARMY WITHSTANDS TERRIFIC COUNTER ATTACKS: DESTROYS 27 TANKS: HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING ALL DAY. wR 7 See ee ee   (By WILLIAM B. KING)

EIGHTH ARMY IN STEADY ADVANCE SOUTH OF TUNIS   27 Enemy Tanks And 500 Elite German Troops  Are Captured   TAKROUNA FALLS TO ALLIES, REPORT SAYS

Bayonets, Hand Grenades Used   First Army Checks  Diversionary Blow. By WILLIAM B. KING...

Eighth Army Reported to Have Gained Three Miles   VIOLENT FIGHTING REPORTED ALL DAY   German Counter-Attacks in the North Are Re. pulsed

Battle Rages  Over Wide Africa Front   Britons Use Bayonets, Grenades; Germans Dig Deeply Into Necte in Hille: Nazi Blows Fail

Advanée Unhalted Into Tunis Corner   Diversionary Blow West Of Capital Crushed As First Army Destroys 27 Tanks In Fight

British Smash Ahead With Bayonets And Grenades; Takrouna is Taken; First Army Repels Nazi Attack

EIGHTH ARMY GRINDS AHEAD TOWARD TUNIS   AXIS THRUST WEST OF CAPITAL IS REPULSED

Bayonels, Hand Grenades Used   First Army, Checks Diversionary: Blow:

AXIS MOUNTAIN NESTS STORMED; FIGHTING BLOODY   Montgomery’s Troops Seize Stronghold of Takrouna andPush Into Area North of Enfidaville,   FIRST ARMY BREAKS UP COUNTER-ATTACK   Knocks Out 27 Tanks and . Captures 500 Prisoners in _ Night Struggle West of Capital.

BRITIOH INFANTRY PUSHES INTO NAZI MOUNTAIN NESTS   Gains Three Miles North of Enfidaville in Bayonet, Grenade Attacks   FIRST ARMY CRASHES DIVERSIONARY BLOW   Withstands Powerful Nazi Attack in North Aimed at Easing Pressure on Rommel's Southern Forces; Casualties Reported Heavy

Axis Attempt To Divert Allies Is Not Successtul   500 Elite German Troops Captured And 27 Tanks Destroved In Foray.

27 Out of 70 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out   500 Nazis Captured As Counter-Attack In North Is Halted  FIGHTING VIOLENT

Make Unhalted Advance: Take 500 Elite Nazi Troops; Destroy Tanks   Hand to Hand Fighting Rages Near Enfidaville; Anderson’s Army Takes Toll of Crack Goering Regiments; British Rain Fire on Axis

Allies in North Repel Attack by Troops, Tanks   27 Tanks Destroyed, 500 Prisoners Taken By Anderson’s Men;  14 Planes Bagged

Four-H Fair  Are Nanied   Annualcounty event at Emmetsburg on Atgust 23, 24 and 25.

Walt Heimgartner Well Known Farmes  Dies At Rochester  Failed To Rally Beam A ae nee”

Walt Heimgartner Well KnownFarme Dies At Rochester  Failed To Rally From A Serious  Operation

SIX DEAD IN ~ CHICAGO FIRE ~ AT WAREHOUSE   Dead, Injured Buried Under Tons of Debris. Three Saved Because Beam Fell Right Way

7 FIMEMEN DEAD IN PLANT BLAZE   Nine Trapped by Collapse of Burning Factory.

SEVEN DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE; TWO RESCUED   Nine Firemen Buriec By Debris After Stairway Falls

MADANG BASE IS SMACKED BY ALLIED PLANES   Raiders Cause “Widespread Havoc And Destruction” Without Opposition   YANK GUNS SHELL VILA      Word Of New Blows By U. S. Carrier Task Force Is Being Awaited

Heoviest Raid Ever Staged in New Guinea Brings Disaster to the Enemy.

Yank Bombers Plaster France   FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK AIRCRAFT PLANT NEAR PARIS, PLANE ASSEMBLY PLANT AT MEULAN LES MUREAUX AS ALLIES RIP ITALY   Ally Planes Rock Nip Base at Madang; Guns Hit Vila

HEAVY RAID ON JAP BASE AT MADANG   Termed Heaviest Raid Yet Staged  In New Guinea

Jap Base At Madang Gets Record Raid   No Enemy Fighter Planes At Site To Oppose Largest Allied Daylight Raid

‘Raid Made On Jap Base Of Madang   American Guns Are Shelling Vila  Ohn New Ceargia

ALLIED PLANES HIT MADANG, JAP BASE IN. SOUTH PACIFIC   ‘American Guns  Shelling ) Last Stronghold In ~  New Georgia  Islands

Allied Planes Hit Japanese Base at Madang   Raid Is Heaviest Ever Staged‘in ' Naw Cuinen:

Record Raid Stings Japs   Foes’ Base at Madang Left in Flaming Ruin

Final Examinations  — Civilian Protection   This Week Is Last Chance To Complete Work In Review Saccinna

‘Shooting Gallery’ Weapon Used To Train Doughboys   Machine Gun Proves Lois Of Fun And Prevents Waste of Valuable Ammunition; Makes Noise Like A Real One, While Amplifier Provides Typical Battle Sounds in Background

BUS, TAXI AND TRUCK USE TO BE CURTAILED   Restrictions Due To Gas Shortage Cut Down Delivery Of Some Non-Essential Products

Fast Faces More Gas Curtailment   40 Percent Slash _ I: Again Ordered

BUS AND TAXI SERVICES ARE CURTAILED   Luxuries Curtailed As ‘Gas Supplies Reach New Low

JELIVERY OF  OMMODITIES ESTRICTED          urty Per Cent Slash in Allotment of Motor Fuel To Holders of "'T'' Cards is Ordered   /PA AGENTS ARE BUSY

GAS SHORTAGE BEING FELT ON EAST COAST   Many Taxis Disappear From Streets

NEW GAG oL AGH TN EASTERN AREE   Bus And Delivery Service And Taxis Hit By New ODT Order

40P.C. Cut In T Allotments  However, Size Of Decrease Depends On Use OFf Buses

GAS SHORTAGE ACUTE IN EAST STIRS CAPITAL   Labor and Tax Squabbles Continue To Plague Nation’s Lawmakers

GAS RESTRICTION ORDER ENFORCED   Taxis Curtailed, Deliveries Of Non-essentials Are Reduced

GUT GAS RATIONS AD PERCENT IN EAST      Non-Essential Travel is Out Under New ODT-OPA Gas Saving Order

Supply R ep 0 rte d Critical; WLB Studies Coal Case; Tax Fight Rolls On

NEW GASOLINE SHORTAGE IS CLAIMED BY ODT   ee  Motor Fuel Allotments ir East Slashed 40 Percent By New Order

T GAS RATIONS SLASHED 40 PC IN 12 STATES   ‘ODT Acts to Curtail Bus, Taxi Set  vice, Delivery of Non-Essentia Commodities

Eastern Highways Virtually Bare of Private Cars as Result of New Order

FURTHER RESTRICTIONS IN USE OF GASOLINE ARE ORDERED IN EAST   All Non-Essential Driving Is Eliminated In 12 Northeastern States   REDUCTION IS 40 PER CENT

Watch New Fuel Curbs  40% Gasoline Ration Cut Curtails Bus Service, Garages Cabs      Unessential Truck Delivyery Ruled Out; Traffic Drops Sharply

Submarines Still Taking Heavy Toll   625 United Nations, Neutral Ships Lost

House Group Approves Plan To Let.Individual Decide ‘How Income Tax To Be Paid

Deduction Tax Wins Approval   House Group Drops Current Pay Plans.

HOUSE REVOLT LOOMING OVER PAY-GO TAXES   Group Voting On Plan To Drop Forgiveness Proposals

House Group Votes Down Tax Skipping   Present’ System Favored With 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy

New Tax Setup Gets Approval   20. Per Cent Deductions Voted ;. Option: Given On Past Levies

Committee Compromises On Tax Plan  Withholding Levy Of 20 Percent To Be Imposed

COMPROMISE TAX PROGRAM IS GIVEN 0. K.   “Pay-As-You-Go” Would be Optional Under Plan

Pay-As-You-Le Plans Rejected By Committee   Option Provided To Some On  Current Basis

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP   Wculd Impose 20 Per. Cent Levy and Let Each Person. Stay, Year Behind or Double  : Up on Payments

COMPROMISE TAX BILL READY FOR COMMITTEE: VOTE   Champions of Rum Skip-AYear. Pian Assaif Idea as Being Burdensome “Doubling Un.”   OFFER TAXPAYERS TWO PLANS TO PA’   Renewed Fight For Abatement of Full Tax Year to Facilitate Transfer to New Basis Seen.

TAX COMMITTEE IN HOUSE PUTS 0, K, ON SYSTEM   Compromise Plan Gets Approval By 16-9 Vote

Compromise Tax Plan Is Approved   Fight for Ruml Proposal Now Goes To House Floor

COMPROMISE TAX PROPOSAL OPPOSED BY RUMIL PLAN BACKERS   Committee Would Continue Present System With Some Modifications   MAY VOTE ON IT TODAY

Pay-As-Go Tax Plan Advances In Compromise   Permits Taxpayers To Lag Year Behind Under With holding Program.   REPUBLICANS OBJECI

Ruml Supporter Blast Rejection Of Tax Skipping   “Doubling Up” Of Liabilities Termed Too Burdensome

Optional Tax Plan F avored  Qe tsi Tr nm.   Fight Is Forecast on House Floor

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN IS AGREED UPON   Proposal Imposing 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy Approved by House Committee   EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN WINS FAVOR   COMMITTEE DECIDES AGAINST ABATING ANY INCOME TAXES

SEE HOUSE REVOLT — ON PROPOSED PLAN FOR INCOME TAYES   Threatened “Revolution” Gathering Strength Today on Pay-As-YouGo Proaram.

COMPROMISE IN COLLECTION OF TAXES IS VOTED   Assue of Canceling One Year’s Taxes Is Transferred to House

ApproveTa> Pay Plan   Allow No Abatement; Persons Have Choice . Of Two Ways to Pay

RUML TAX BACKERS ASSAIL COMPROMIS!   May Only Modify Present In. come Payment Plan

Pay-as-You Go Tax Plan Is Rejected   Program Will Not Change Filing Of Mar. 15 Returns

House Group Votes Tax Plan Making Pay-as-You-Go Optional but Without Any Income Levy Abatement

20 PER CENT WITHHOLDING TAX PLANNED   Computing and Collecting Would Remain Same However

WITHHOLDING TAXADOPTEL BY COMMITTEE   No Abatement Of 1942 Levy Provided In Legislation Sent To House Floor

an PAYROLL LEVY   House Group Votes 16-9 Against Pay-es-Earn Tax Laws

New Tax Plan Opptional On 1942 Portion   New Bill Approved By Ways and Means Committee Today   Sends Controversial Measure To Floor   Republicans Say Mountains Labored, Brought Forth Mouse

TAX SKIP IS LEFT T0 THE HOUSE   Compromise Plan Approved by Committee, Leaving Big Issue to Concress   A WITHHOLDING PLAN PROPOSED   ‘Mountain Has Labored, Brought Forth a Mouse,’ Republicans Sav

House Group Approves 20 Percent Paycheck Tax Beginning July 1   Committee Votes To Drop All Pay-As-You Go Legislation; To Collect At Source For Taxes Due On 1942 Income

To change Payment  Schedule   Twenty Percent Withhold ing Tax on Pay Checks Is Planned

OPTIONAL PAY-GO TAX PLAN SHAPES   Committee Votes Withholding Levy; Rum! Plan Supporters to Take Fight to Floor of the House

~—-COMPROMISE-—  Income Tax Plan Okaved   ees Committee Votes Holdout Levy Only

“SKIP-TAX-YEAR® FIGHT THROWN TC FLOOR OF HOUSE   Committee Approves 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy to Become Effective on  July 1,   Americans Urged to Pay Taxes Promptly

N Per: Cent Tay On Pay Approved   House. ‘Body: “Also: Votes Aaainst’ Abatement.

HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE APPROVES TAX BILL  COMPROMISE PLAN GIVE! BACKING BUT NO TAX ABATEMENT INCLUDED

Compromise Tax Plan Approved By Committee   Ne Abatement Of Previous Year's Charges

HOUSE COMMITTE APPROVES COMPROMISE INCOME TAX COLLECTION PLAN   Taxpayers Given Option of Remaining Year Behind With Taxes or Doubling Up in One Year and Going on Pay-As-You-Go Basis

House Committee Approves Plan To Let Taxpayer Use Pay - As - You-Go System Or Pay Yearly As He Wishes

Committee Sidetracks  Pay-as-Go Tax Proposal   Votes to Apply Withholding Tax on Pay Checks to Collect on 1942 Income

GO TAX PLAN VOTED DOWN   House Committee Votes For 20 Pct. Withholding Tax

 Compromise Plan May Allow Individual Option To Remain wpe Behind; On Cancellation

RUMLTAX PLAN BACKERS FIGHT ‘DOUBLING UP      Pay-As-You-Go Proposal: Appear Doomed In House sroup; May Retain Present System   VOTE DUE TODAY   Withholding Levy On Wages Favored, Along ‘ With Discount For Prompt Paying

Optional Pay As You Go Plar ls Approved   Previously Considered Proposals Shelved* Rumi Bill fo Floor

Compromise Plan On Taxes Okayed, No Abatement Set   20 Percent Withholding Levy on Taxable Portions of Wages, Salaries Would Be* gin July 1. House Committee Rules.

DOUBLE TAXING PLAN ASSAILED   House Group Compromise Continues Current System With Slight Changes

Pay-Go Plan Made Optional   Original Rum] Proposal Shelved Completely

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN APROVED BY HOUSE GROUP   20 Per Cent Withholding Tax Is — Approved   President Will Chat With New Members Of Congress

Withholding Levy Given Approval   Issue Of Current Payments Must Go Refore Honee

COMPROMISE TAX . PLAN BACKED   Provides No Abatement, Offers Option Of Lagging — Year Or Doubling Up

Compromise on Income Tax Provides All Must Be Paid   Rumlites Attack Complications Of Committee-Approved Scheme.

RUML GROUP ASSAILS TAX COMPROMISE   Calt It ; “Double Up’ Burden; Will Continue Fight

House Committee’s Bill Calls for All of Last Year’s Tay   Question of Any Relief for Taxpayers To Go to Floor of House

House Group Puts O. K. On New Tax Plan   Withholding Levy Of 20 Per Cent Approved With No Abatement On 1942 Fivsure

20 Per Cent Plan  _ Of House Group   Compromise Would Leave ---Option Of-Being- 1 Year Behind In Tax Payments

Compromise Plan Provides 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy on Taxable Pay

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN ISSUE GOES TO HOUS!   Committee Unable to Agree, Approves Compromise Providing Option -for. Taxpayer -

House Committee Leaves Full Pay-as-you-go Up to Taxpayer In Approving Tax Compromise

Approve Tax Compromise   Individual to Have Option of Doubling Up of Taxes

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Governor Declares Montana: Has  Only Begun to Fight   Public Hearing on Proposal to Raise Level of Flathead Lake Ends; Residents Ask for ‘an “Early Decision’

Governor Ends Hearing With Sharp Protest   Death by Inches Seen As Army Studies Kerr Dam Project

Governor Says State Fights For Resources   Ford Summarizes Protest to Raising Flathead Lake Level

Russians Wild With Jov as News Is Announced   Moscow Jubilant;  Emotional, Reaction ‘Is Greatest of War

REDS SMASH GERMAN RING AROUND CITY   Russians Blast Way Through Nine Miles of Huge Fortifications to End Long Blockade.   KILL 13,000 NAZIS, TAKE STRONG FORT   Other Soviet Armies Drive Ahead Toward Strategic Cities of Rostov and Kharkov.

Neff Defeats Fred C. Parks   Veteran From Abingdon Ousts Republican In Close Contest

Victory Of Neff, Demo, Over (GOP Senator In Southwestern iVirginia Highlights Election   Most Of Democratic Nominees For 140 Legislative Seats, Local Posts Win

BELIEVE GERMANS POISONING MONKEYS AT GIBRALTAR   Reason: Legend Says When Mon keys Leave So Will British

Troops Sent To Halt Disorders   False Rumors Blamed Fo Racial Riots At Alsama Shipyard.

Fifth Army Into Port of Salerno   Americans Enlarge Holdings In Naples Area in  Bitter Fight   Convoys Moving Northward Are Dive-Bombed by Allied Airmen :

BRITAIN BLOCKS FOOD FOR DYING   Blockade Keeps Quakers From Sending Supplies To Europe's Children

LOW YANK DEATH RATE   Slightly More Than 2 Per Cent, McIntire Reports,

Axis Sabotage  At Low Point   FBI Director Hoover Says Local Offieers Curb Enemy Spy Agents.

BIG NAVAL BASE I) ALAPT RCL BY REO ARMIES   Nazi Bridgehead In Caucasus Doomed As Novorossisk Falls To Russians

CRIMEA NOW OPEN T0 RED ARMY ATTACK   Last Nazi Base In Kuban Taken By Soviet Forces

Reds Capture Novorossisk, Black Sea Base   German.‘ Bridgehead In Northwest Caucasus Is Now Doomed

Lieut. Col. Greening Is  Said Missing   Failed to Return From a Mission Over Italy on Julv 17

FB! PROBES JULE FLARES   BIDDLE ASKS REPORT ON FEDERAL VIOLATIONS

Conference Sidelights—  Roosevelt Personally Gives Medal Of Honor To Wilbur For Heroic Allied Service

GASOLINE COUPONS SHOULD BE SIGNED   Motorists Urged by the War Price and Rationing Board to Endorse Them.

SECOND CHILD BLAST VICTIM   Two dead following stove explosion; others seriously burned

AAA DADAAABARAAABAARAAL    Lone Jap Soldier Still on Loose on American-“eld Attu

U.S. Plane Output Held Unable To Meet Demands Of Shifting Warfare

Still Cannot Meet  World Air Needs   Tydings Says Effort Being Made To Overcome Delay

WEATHER MODERATES   ‘Light Freeze Is Forecast for Kansas Tonight

Methods Of Attainment Of Social Security Bring Differences Of Opinions In Congress

Youthful Chicken Thieves Take Huge Doses of Castor Oil Unprotestingly

Six Boys Make Ne Protest At Large Castor Oil Doses   Ate Flesh Of Half Dozen Hens Inoculated With Deadivy Poison

War Production Virtually a Halted In Akron Rubber Plants, 49,000 On Strike

HOUSE LEADERS OK BOOSTING OF ~ PAY ALLOTMENT?   ‘Allowances to Service Men's Dependents May Be Nom* inally Increased, -

No Subsidy For Farmers As Incentive   HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE REJECTS PRESIDENI s REQUEST FOR $100,000,00; HIGHER FARM PRICES.   Only One Favorabie Vote

FARM SUBSIDY IS REJECTED   House Committee Turns Down FDR’s Request For $100 Million Appropriation

Yank Bomber: Deal Heavy  Blows at Nazis   & Preinvasion Raids Rock Rotterdam, Rail Center of Hamm

Yankees Hit Nazi Rail Center Hard   Flying Fortresses Strike at Hamm Rotterdam in Daylight Raids; RAF Pounds Hamburg

I lying Forts Assault Hamm And Rotterdan   Americans Carry Out Raid After RAF  Subjects Hamburg to Fire, Explosive Bath

YANKS BOMB KEY NAZI RAIL POINT   WEAVY ATTACK MADE ON HAMM—FIVE FORTRESSES  ARE LOST IN RAID.

Americans Strike Two Heavy Blows At German Cities   Blast Hamm and Rotter dam in Powerful Daylight Offensive   Five Fortresses Lost in Raid; 14 German Fighters Destroyed

FORTRESSES STRIKE HARD   Pound Key Nazi Rail Centers and Rotterdam in Pre-Invasion Blows

Fortresses Smash Twice at Germany   Rotterdam, Hamm  Heavily Bombed

HIT BY FLIERS IN DAY RAIDS   Flying Fortresses Strike at Hamm and Rotterdam

U.S. Forts Hit ‘Two Powerful Blows. At Nazis   Rail Networks For Troop Movements Severely Pounded

KEY INVASION CENTERS ARE RAID TARGETS   Nazis Counter With Two Weak Passes At London During Night.

U.S. Fortresses Land  5  Pre-Invasion Blows   On Naziland Targets

FORTRESoES all POWERFUL BLOWs   Heavily Bomb Hamm, Key Of Nazi Rail Network   RAF IS ACTIVE   Subjects Hamburg to Devasting Fire, Bomb Bath; Eighth Night Raid

HEAVY BLOWS HIT BY FLIERS IN DAY RAIDS   ore  Flying Fortresses Strike at Hamm and Rotterdam

U. S. Bombers Pound Vital  Nazi Centers   Key Position of Two Targets Seen as Hint of Invasion Plans

U. 5. Fortresses Blast Hamm, Rotterdam Areas   Heavy Pre-Invasion Blows Are Struck In Daylight Attacks

FCC IS UNDER TWO ATTACKS   Durr Is Accused Of At. tempt To ‘Smear’ Congressman Cox

Only Thing Clear In Befuddled  Tax Issue Is You'll Have To Pay   Will Cost You Just As Much This Year As If No One Ever Made ‘Forgiveness’ Pronosal

HEAVY DAMAGE BY TORNADO IN OHIO   Iwo Dead, Hundreds Hurt As Wind Storm Hits Suddenly

Roaring Tornado Hits North Ohio   Two Killed as Huge Damage to Property Is Reported

REVOLUTION IN KOREA 10 COME SOON, PREDICTS   Korean Leader in Washington Predicts Cairo Statement to Start Fifth Column

NEAR ZITHOMIR ON LAST NAZI HELD RAILROAL   Russian Armies Halfway From Stalingrad To Berlin, Drive 700 Miles In Nine Months

Red Army Drives To Point 10 Miles Northeast Of Rail City Of Zhitomir; Nazi Line In Gomel Sector Broken   Russians Now Within 70 Miles Of Old Polish Frontier After Rapid Advances; Enemy Apparently Ready To Leave Kerch

—RUSSIA—*  SOVIET ADVANCE NEARS ZHITOMIR   Western Ukrainian Rail Center May Be Cap* .tured By Russians   KERCH IN FLAMES   Moscow Report Says Nazis Apply Torch Teo Cremean Port

70 Miles From Polish Boundary   Russians Report Nazis Put Torch To Kerch, Prepare To Pull Out

VITAL UKRAINE RAIL CITY NEXT FOR RUSSIANS   Nazis Applying Torch Teo Kerch as Final Red Win Nears

Moscow Reports Germany’s Gomel Defenses Broken   Kerch Reported In Flames; Great Rail Center Of Zhitomir Now Under Direct Threat

REDS NEAR NAZIHELD RAIL CITY, REUTERS AVERS   Germans Reported to Have Begun Destruction of Port of Kerch

RED ARMY WITHIN 10  MILES OF ZHITOMIR   The Rail Center Is Located on the Last North-South Railroad Held by the Germans.

Vatutin’s Swiit Advance on Zhilomir Puis Russians Within 7C Miles Oid Polish Border   SPLIT GOMEL LINE   Capture of Last Rail Line in Ukraine Would Divide German Forces—Baitle in Nevel Sector

Russians Close in on Vital KorostenZhitomir Railroad   Score Gains in White Russia; Are 70 Miles From Polish Line

RUSSIANS CRACK GERMAN DEFENSE IN GOMEL SECTOR   RED ARMY DRIVES TO POINT WITH 10 MILES OF ZHITOMIR

Reds Nearer Railroad Link   Within 10 Miles of Zhitomir; Kerch Aflame Now

SOVIETS NEAR ZHITOMIR RAIL CENTER, CLAIM      Eighteen Mile Overmght Advance Brings Russians to Halfway Mark From Stalingrad to Berlin   GERMAN LINES ARE BROKEN NEAR GOMEL   Confirms Berlin Broadcast Reds Were Attacking Heavily In Famed Pripet Marshes

Report Nazis Apply Torch toKerch   Gen. Vatutin in Sensational Gains Within 24 Hours

Red Amries Now Close To Zhitomi   “ermans Reportedly Hav Put City of Kerch t The Torch

SOVIET ARMY NEARS POLISH BORDER TODAY   Battle Near Kiev Reported To Be Very Fierce ©

Russians Report Nazi Line Broken   Red Army Moves to a Point 10 Miles Northeast of Zhitomir   GERMANS USE TORCH      Soviet Troops Are Within 70 Miles of Old Polish  Frontier

Reds Reach Approaches Of Zhitomir   Push 18 Miles Ahead Overnight; Kerch Set Afire; Nazi Lines In Gomel Area Broken

FORCE WITHIN 10 MILES OF ZHITOMIR   Report Enemy Puts Torch To Kerch; German Line At Gomel Is Smashed; 4,500 Nazis Killed

RED ARMY NOW TO MILES FROM RAIL JUNCTION   Face Zhitomir from Northeast; Kerch Port Reported Fired by Nazis

RUSSIA STATES LINE IN GOMEL SECTOR BROKEN   Muscovites 10 Miles From Last North-South R.R. Route in Ukraine

Nazis Tell of Retreat ~ in North   Reports Withdrawal. of Forces in Vitelisk Area;Reds Push On in: Other Drives   KERCH IS FIRED... .. BY THE CERMANS.   Italian . Front Is. Bogged Down; New Pacific Actions Are Indicated: ..-..

Reds 10 Miles From Zhitomir Railway Center   Within 70 Miles Of Old Polish Border; Kerch Re ported In Flames.

Blast, Fire AtGas Works Fatal to Two, 39 Injured   Easton-Phillipsburg War Industry Area  Leses Gas Service, WE os errr QD we wees DW ee ee 2]   FBI INVESTIGATION BEGUN IMMEDIATELY   BEGUN IMMEDIATELY Explosion Occurs In Apxiliary Tank, Larcoer Tank I< Saved

Gas Works Lets Go; 2 Killed, 35 Others. Injurec   Blast And Fire Cripple War Industries; Thou sands Evacuate

Cas Blast, Fire Kill 2, Cripple  War Industries   Homes and Business Structures Damaged Within Wide Radius af Easton Gas Works

Two Killed, 30 Injured In Gas Blast  i es ee ee   Explosion, Fire Spread Ruin In Easton, Pa.

TWO FATALLY HURT IN EASTON BLAST      Large Portion of the Gos Works Wrecked by  Explosicen

Board Investigates Crash of Glider  Senate and House Also to Hold Probe

Only Ground. Opposition Met [n Invasion   British Move-~ East From Key Town on ''Toe”

Second Front Opened By British Eighth Army; Resistance Is Light   Royal Navy, British and American Air Forces and Artillery on Messina Support Mainland Landing

Living Cost Bonus Plan (Ot Canada   Subsidies Might Prov Easier, Cheaper, Is Belief

 Hannover Handed Stiffest Bombing  70 Tons A Minute Fall On Industrial City

OPA, GONGRESS FEUD 1S NEAR   Legislators Crack Bown on OPA in New Appropriation Bill.   OPA CHIEF tS GRITICIZED

Congress And OPA Spar On Food Policie:   OWI! Domestic Bureau Office Given Death Count In House By Refusal Of Monev

CONGRESS AND OPA HEAD TOWARD OPEN FEUD OVER POLICIES  NUMEROUS DEVELOPMENTS INDICATE THAT SITUATION IS CRITICAL

OPA’S FUNDS 20 PER CENT      Republican Amendments Aimed ai Price Control Bar Subsidy Use, Restric! Grade Labeling

Congress Feud With 0. P. A. Comes To Head   House Cuts Funds For Agency, Outlaws Plans For Food Subsidies.

Congr ess, OP. AY “Head For Feud “On Food Policy   Packing: Plants “Suapend: Administration Is Flayed ‘In:Price Control Setup

OPA Food Policies. Under Fire   Full Scale Revolt Develops in Congress As House Outlaws Pian To Use Subsidies

CONGRESS, OPA FEUD STARTED: BLOCK SUBSIDIES   14 Senators Act To Protect Interest of Livestock Producers

CONGRESS FEUDS  WITH OPA OVER  FOOD POLICIES SEEKS TO OUTLAW SUBSIDY PROGRAM  TA oOeniinrge oODpIrce

HOUSE SLASHES NEW OPA FUND   Senate Demands Showdown On Food Subsidy Program

OPA Nicked Heavily In House Bill   20 Per Cent Cut From Its Funds; Subsidy Program Outlawed

Congress and OPA Clash Over U. S. Policy on Food   House Votes to Outlaw Subsidies, Cut Funds by 20%

CONGRESS: AND OPA CLASH ON FOOD POLICIES   Full-Blown Feud Is ~ Seen As Develop shoe   FUNDS SLASHED   House And Senate Both Take Cracks At Agency

FOOD SUBSIDIES ARE BLOCKED BY IRATE CONGRESS   Fight Against OPA Breaks Into Open in Capital And Funds Cut   CHIEF’S POLICIES BLASTED   Price Roll-back Attempts Bring Showdown—Food Czar Recommended

OPA Feud Breaks Into Open War   House Hits Agency  Fund—OWI Domes = tie Bureau Out

REPUBLICANS ARE N-OPPOSITICN 10 POLICIES OF OPA   Congress, Price Office Are Headed Toward Feud In Differences On Methods of Operation.   FOUR PRINCIPAL REASONS BEING ADVANCEL   Attack Is Launched as Rep resentatives Make Mov: to Eliminate Sum For Expenses.

FEUD ‘DEVELOPNG. ~ OVER FOOD POLICIES   Charge: -Meat~ Rollbacks: Me Demoralizing Livestock” ae Interests

Congress Cuts OPA Program      FEUD BETWEEN LOWER HOUSES AND AGENCIES REPORTED

d JAP WARSHIPS BELIEVED SUNK AT BASE INSGLOMIONS   Light Cruiser, Two Destroyers Blasted to Bottom With Other Vessels Damaged In Battle.   JAPS ATTEMPTING INCREASE OF VILA FORCE   Munda Virtually Surrounded and Capture Is Now Believed As Only Matter of Time.

BOMBERS SINK 3, PROBABLY 4 JAP WARSHIPS   Smash New Attempt Tc Bolster Vila Base In Solomons

THREE MORE JAP WARSHIPS SUNK BY AMERICAN BOMBERS; ATTEMPT TOREINFORCE ENEMY BASE FRUSTRATED    One Light Cruiser, Two and Probably Three Destroyers in Convoy Headed -for Vila Sent to Bottom.

‘PLANES SINK CRUISER, TWO AND POSSIBLY THREE DESTROYERS   Surviving Vessels of 11-Ship Convoy Flee Northward After U. S. Bombing

ENEMY ATTEMPT TO STRENGHTEN BASE AT.:VILA. SMASHED   Bombers ‘Take Toll Of Three _ ~ Ships — Capture _  .: Of Munda.  ! o"  Neae..

Three, Probably Four Jap Ships Sunk by Yanks   ee  "Smash Atte ppt To, Reinforce’ ® Base at Vila

Thwart Attempt To Bolster Base On Kolombangara   Munda Said Virtually Surrounded, Says _ MacArthur Communique

Yank Bombers Sink 3 Jap Warships Taking Troops to Vila Base   Cruiser and Two Destroyers Blasted, Fourth Probably Sunk in Rout of Supply Convoy; Munda’s Fall Near

BOMBERS SINK THREE SHIPS IN SOLOMONS   Smash Attempt To Reinforce Jap:  At Their Vila Base Tn Solamons

3 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK; CONVOY DRIVEN OF!   Smash Largest Scale Jap Attempt to Reinforce Base

THREE MORE JAP WARSHIPS        Yank Bombers May Also Have Sunk A Fourth One

U.S. BOMBERS SINK FOUR. JAP SHIPS   Biggest Jap Attempt To Reinforce Base Smashed Hard

RAILROAD MEN STRIKE AT MINE   Shutdown Threatened At Utah Copper Pits Due To Walkout

Strike Threatens To Shut Down Big Copper Industry  100 Conductors On Mine Railway Stage Walkout  BIGGEST OPEN CUT  Dispute Involves Retirement Benefits;  I! S te Take Hand

DE MARIGNY FREED   Jury $ to 3 for Acquittal, Recommends Deportation of Count.

\De Marigny, Acquitted, Says ‘He'll Leave Nassau Without Beine Denorted by British

De Marigny Is Freed By Jury On 9-3 Vote   Deportation Is Proposed After Less Than Two Hours Of Deliberation On Defendant's Fate

De Marigny Acquitted at Murder Trial   Jury Recommends His Deportation From Bahamas

OF GOVERNMENT ASK, NG COURT 10 FNINI AU ASSOCIATED PRES:   MARIGNY, FREED OF MURDER. WILLING IO LEAVE NASSAU:   Jury Acquitted Nobleman o Killing Oakes but Ad viced Denoriahoan

DE MARIGNY FREE IN MURDER CASt   Jury Recommends Frenchman Be Deported Frem Bahamas, Action Not Legal.

COUNT FREED BY 9-3 VOTE, ORDERED OUT   Jury Asks Deportation Of DeMarigny After Acquittal Verdict

METHODIST CAMP AT LAKE OKOBOJI   Annual Methodist Camp Meetings Held at Lake Okoboji Next Week.

18 MEN INDUCTED INTO U.S. SERVICE   Thirteen from County Taken by Army and Five Are Taken by the Navy.      Methodist Bible Conference Closes at Okoboji Sunday

Azov Port s Captured By Soviet Army   German Desno River Line Has Been Broken In Latest Red Attack

ENEMY LINES ARE CRACKED BY RED ARM)   MARIUPOL ON SEA OF AZOV FALLS TO SOVIETS

Soviet Troops Take Chaplino And Mariupol   Reds Regain Control  Of Sea of Azov, Crash To Rear of Germans: Manv Towns Taken

Unsurging Reds Take Chaplin   Crimea Ganrrisor Escape Route Is Periled

Pe Take City To Threaten Germans’ Rear   Chaplino, 60 Miles From Dnieper, Falls to Russians

Russian Armies Continue Sweep ~~ Toward Dnieper   Advance on Two Fronts _ And Gain Control of _ * Sea of Azvov

Miners Again Refuse to Heed WLB   Policy Committeemen To Return to Their  Homes, Report

Miners Reject _ Labor Board   Reject Ultimatum To Present  Case To WLB

ITALY'S MISERY BROUGHT ABOUT BY DUGE HITLER    Eden Says Aerig Aerial. War “Wil Grow Worse Until Axis Cracks —

Ttalians Will Have No Rest  From Bombings   Eden. Says Hitler And Mussolini Started Air War

“BITER BEING BIT’ IN RAIDS, EDEN ASSERTS   » To ‘Italian People’ When Air War Will End

Hitler More Likely Ill Than Dead. Says Writer   Unwise to Deny Possibility of Fuehrer's Demise But Indications Point More to Illness

Record Blows  Rock France Over 3.000 Planes Aid In   Over 3,000 Planes Aid In Mighty Assault On Coast

Record Blows Rock France   Over.3,000 Planes Aid In Mighty Assault On Coast

Allies Strike War’s Greatest Air Blow   ‘Over 3,000 Planes Smash At France   U.S. and British Team up in Day— Long Assault on ‘Rocket Gun Coact

GREAT AERIAL BLOWS DEALT FRENCH COAST   MORE THAN 3,000 PLANES USED ON SECRET TARGET

GERMAN INVASION DEFENSES BOMBED BY 3,000 PLANES   Greatest Aerial Assault Force in History Blasts French Coast Throughout  Nav.   NOT A SINGLE SHIP LOST IN ONSLAUGHT   Target Area, Only 25 Miles From England, Left a Mass of Twisted, Smoking Ruins.

Greatest Raid In History On  French Coast   Airmen Returned Were Astounded By Ease Of Highly Secret Mission.   S11 PLANES SAFE

ALLIED OFFENSIVE PLANS PUT TO TEST IN SHAM MANEUVERS   Operations Were So Realistic That Germans Mistook Them For Beginning Of European Invasion; Commanders Enthusiastic Over Results

New and Secret Weapons And Technique Tested In Ten-Day Operation

Nazis Alarmed Over Maneuver: Of the British   Trial Offensive’ So Real istic Germans Think lt Is Real

Adolf Believed “Real Thing” Starting — British Practice Invasion Stirs Reports In Naziland

AAA Director Resigns, Raps Farm Leaders   Schooler Declares Organizations“ Tufinenced Davis

Schooler  Quits AAA   Director for Farm Belt Resigns Under  Pressure of Enemies

TWO 4-H GIRLS’ CLUBS ORGANIZED ISWEA - LUVERNE   Seventeen Join at LuVerne; Sixteen at Swea; Officers For Year Elected; Program Outlined 

Report Heavy Ploesti Damage   Main Pump Station, Refineries Blasted

Six Great Refineries  Left Afire   Twenty Bomber: Lost By U.S.  At Ploesti

U.S. ‘Mixup’ Laid to FDR   ‘Loathe to Disburse Power. Says Willkie

Willkie Charges Roosevelt With  Mismanagement   Points to Many Federal Agenies Overlapping Jobs

Axis Forces Handed Theis First Defeat in Tunisia os  ALLIES ATTACK BY « GROUND UND AND. AIR German ‘Tonk Columns  Given no Chance to __ '  “"Reform_

Axis Forces Handed Their First Defeat in Tunisia  ALLIES ATTACK BY GROUND AND AIR  a neat ee  German Tank Columns Given no Chance to Reform

Submarines Fail to Bother Convoy  At Least One Nazi U-Boat Is Sunk

Umbrella Of Planes Land-Based And Carrier-Borne Aircraft Cover  Important Convoy Without Loss Of One Ship

Plane Cover Given Convoy   Aircraft Guarded Ships All the Wey Across the Atlantic

iShore-to-Shore Air Cover Beats Off JU-Boats Attacking Valuable Convoy

PARACHUTISTS SHOWER DOWN BEHIND NAZIS   Unconfirmed Reports Say Germans Evacuating Vital City

45th Division Now In Sicily  In Thick of Fightin   In Thick of Fighting As Part of General. Patton’s Forces

45th Division With Patton or Sicilian Front   “Oklahoma’s Own” One Of Five Divisions Included in U. S. Army Fighting on Island

TEAR UP OLD RAILWAY LINE   Baroda-South Bend Link To Provide 3,500 Tons of Scrap

Pioneer Rail ~ Line Vanishe:   So, Bend-Baroda Tracks Being Torn Up

Nazis Try To Rally   But Red Army Claims Gains Made; Counter. attacks Are Crushed

Germans Attempt Rally In Donets With New Troops   Reds Hold Off Hitler Attack, Losses Heavy

Nazis Rally In Donets - .Basin Area   Soviets Tell Important ‘New Gains in Ukraine, - Orel Sectors

~~ hatin ve = ww ll taal =~ hasta  Hitler's Forces in Donets Valley Are Trying to Rally   Nazi Command Is Reported Rushing Up Reinforcements

Nazis Trying to Rally in  Donets Area   Russia Makes. Note of Ger. man Effort But Says All Attacks. Fail :   NEW. RED GAINS’ ‘ IN THE UKRAINE   Soviets Also Are Pushing Closer to Orel, Germans Admitting Broad Attack

Reds Report Nazis Trying To Form Lines   Bringing Up Troops To Stop Advance; Soviets Move On Kiev

Tardy for Hearing on  Pace Bill   Finally Appears as Sena tors Consider Serving  Subpoena on Him

BROWN NEARLY GETo SLAPPED WITH SUBPENA   Price Administrator Subject of Denunciation When: ~ Late at ‘Hearing.   WHEN HE DOES APPEAR _. TESTIMONY POSTPONED

BROWN ALMOST GETS SUBPENA FROM SENATE   1  Arrives at Hearing Just In  Time. Wickard Gets a  Tongue-Lashing.   SMITH HITS REFUSAL   — eM ae eee eae Leaders For Failure To Annear at Sescinn.

Yugoslavs Repulse Nazi Attacks On Strategic Port   Enemy Loss Increases Steadily; Unrest — Continues Spreading

Greek Guerrillas Join in Uprisings   Slovene Partisans Rou Nazi Tank Column

Slav Patriot Forees Halt Nazi Attacks   Seaport Still Held; Berlin Concerned Ry Ralkan Situation

PATRIOTS BEAT NAZIS AY SPLIT   German Attacks Hurlec  Back, With Hundreds  Slain and Armored  Train Wrecked

Will Name Ship For Sullivans   To Honor Five Brothers Killed In Action

DESTROYER 10. BE NAMED Fn SULLIVAN   Mother Invited to Sponsor Vessel Being Built in San Francisco.   PARENTS MEET DOCTOR WHO TREATED ONE SON

U.S. NAVY HONORS SULLIVAN BOYS   Destroyer To Be Named for  Five Brothers Lost in Pa cifie Battle.

CROWDER SERGEANT IS ELECTROCUTED   Dies When Radio Aerial Contacts Live Electric Wire at Pineville.

SOLDIER IS KILLED BY A “LIVE WIRE”   Crowder Sergeant on Field Radio Trip When Aerial Contacts Hich-Voltare Line.

New Weapon Is Found For Flu   -Inhalant Promises Manne Of Control

Chauncey P. Biffle of Helena Named State Commander of Legion; Mrs. W. lohn Fouse Heads Auxiliary

Helena Man Named Legion Commander   Belfry Woman Is Auxiliary President

Biffle Named Head of Mont. Dept. of Legion   George A. Wright Of Havre Elected  Viee Cammander

Allies Holding To Coo Island   Turks Claim Acgean Vast Awrial Rattlefield

Allies Deny Coo Taken by Nazis   Turks Say Vast Air Battle Is Raging

Coo Defenders Hold Out Against Nazis   Unofficial Reports Indicate That British Have Occupied All Dodecanese Islands Except Coo, Rhodes; Enemy Airfields Hit

DEFENDERS OF C00 HOLDING ONTO ISLAND   British Unofficially Reported As Occupying All Dodecanese Islands Except Coo and Rhodes.   Nazi Offensive

Otto War Fund Oversubscribed By 50 Per Cent   Cash, Pledges Amount To $4,099; Goal Set For Township $2,800

Fight in Suburbs of City   Nazi Troops Flee by Sea From Flaming Bastion

Axis Tanks Dig ] Miles Into Tunisian Lines   Seek to Keep Open Road Corridor for Retreating Rommel

Axis smashes into French positions; paratroops dropped by allies, Germans

Axis Forces Flee by Sea; City in-Ruins   Parachutists Seck-to Cut Off Retreating Land Army

CHINESE HALT. JAPS AT RIVER   Third Attempt To Cross Sal‘ween To Burma Road Beaten Back.

Chinese Repel Japanese Troops   Heavy Fighting Reported Around Burma Road

RED FORCES REACH DNIEPER ABOVE AXIS-HELD VYAZMA   City Now Surrounded On  Two Sides By Pressling Russians

Russians Reach Dnieper River   Now Northwest Of Impor tant German Base And Driving Hard.

Russians Report Advances in Sector Below Orel Despite Furious Counter-Aitacks   t  - BATTLE IN DONETS   Reds Siill on Defensive Southwest of Voroshilovgred Against Heavy Attacks

SOVIET TROOPS SPEED ADVANCE AGAINST ENEMY   Russians Forming Ring Around Key Axis-Held Town

SOVIETS PRESS GERMANS ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Reds Recapture Sychevka, City 35 Miles South of Rzhev

Reds Advance  To Dnieper At One Point   Menacing Arc Being Built Around Base Of Vyazma

REDS PRESS NEW DRIVES FOR VAZMI   Shock Troops Get More Villages Of Nazis

Reds Building Ring Around  Vyazma Base   Germans Claim Success In Blows Aiming To Recapture Kharkov From Soviets

FIGHTING SOVIET LEGIONS BATTER WAY TO DNEIPER   Reaching Stream Above Vya zma, Russians Appear Set : for Another Conquest

Reds Reach Dnieper in Vyazma Area   Driving West Of Recaptured Sychevka On Central Front

SOVIET TROOPS REACH DNIEPER ABOVE BIG CITY   Reds Kill 8,000 Nazis At Sychevka

No Confirmation To German Claim Of Comeback West Of Kharkov; Sychevka And 20 Other Popu lated Places Fall To Soviet Troops

Russians Reach Dnieper River Near Moscow  Drive Threatens To Engulf Vyazma,

PASS SYCHEVKA IN PUSH THRU DNIEPER AREA   Important German Base Is Menaced In Double-Pronged Soviet Assault   20 VILLAGES ARE OCCUPIED   Nazis Show Small Gains tn Offensive Southwest Of Voroshilovgrad

REDS REACH DNIEPER NEAR VYAZMA BASE      Pressing Hard Upon Heels  of Germans, Soviets Are _ Now Northwest of Bas¢ tion, With Others East ond Northeact.

Russian Forces Closingin On Vyazama Reach Dneiper; More Settlements Captured

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE AGAINST HOE AT VYAZMA   Expand Wedge In Two Ditections From Sychevka _ to Batter Germans   Into Retreat   GARRISON WIPED OUT   viore Than Score of Towns Captured;.Part of Offensive Aimed At Smolensk

Red Army Storms To Dnieper River   Push to Position: Northwest of Vyazma, Important Nazi Base   GERMANS CLAIM GAINS   Russians Still on Defensive in One Sector of Donets  Basin

Russian Army at Dnieper   Reach River Near Vyazma Base; More Settlements Taken.

Reds, Driving West Of Recaptured Sychevka, Reach River Northwest Of Important German Base— Russians Rapidly Building Arc About Last Of Enemy Bastions In Vital Triangle—Still On Defensive Southwest Of Voroshilovgrad

RedArmyReache: Dnieper River   Russians Nearing Vyazma, Major German Base, Pressing Hard on Heels of Enemy

Soviets Recapture Sychevka,‘ West of Cayital, on the Cen-' “tral Front—Nazis Given No  Be tse    Ry EDDY GILMORE

RAIL TOWN CAPTURED BY SOVIETS   20 Villages Fall Tx Russian Offensive In Northern Area

REDS REACH DNEIPER RIVER»   In Drive West to Recapture Sychevka. Russian Troops Pressing  Hard on German Heels

SOVIETS HARD ON HEELS OF NAZI. FORCES   Dnieper River, Northwest _ Of Vyazma is Reached By Hard-Driving Russians

Russians Building Huge Arc Around Vyazma, Last Of German Bastions

IMPORTANT NAZI BASE THREATENER   Russians Reach Dnieper River Northwest Of Vyazma, Says Moscow   SYCHEVKA FALLS   German Counterattacks Are Reported In Area Soyth Of Orel

SOVIETS REACH ONEIPER RIVER   Advance to Area Northwest Of Important German Base of Vyazma.   NAZIS CLAIM PROGRESS

Soviets Form Arc Around Big  Nazi Bastion   Russians Take Sychevka and Push Their Forces Around Vyazma.   Germans Say They Advance on Kharkov

Russians Reach Dnieper River Near Nazi Base  Soviet Troops Wela Ring Around Vyazma lact Vital Ractian

REDS REACH DNIEPER IN HARD DEIVE   Russians Are Building: Ring Around: Vyazma:in Cop * tinuine: Push”   NAZIS.CLAIM GAIN IN KHARKOV AREA   But: Their: Assertions ‘Are Not Confirmed; Germans’ Given-No Resnite

Moscow Front Scene of Hard Drive on Nazis   Continued Recapture Of Villages Reported In Official Soviet

Russ Nearer To Nazi Base At Vyazma  Russian Troops Pressing Hard

Dnieper River Is Reached By  Russian lorce   Steady Progress Is Made By Soviet Troops In Their Drive Against Important Vyazma Base

State's Epidemic Of Polio Was Bad   Equalled Worst Previous Spread, That of 1937

519 CEZCH PATRIOTS CONDEMNED T0 DEATH   Germans Sentence Residents of Moravian Town for “Acts of Tertor and Sabotage.”

Legislature Attends to Financial Matters: Time Change Sidetracked

OHIO TIME PUZZLE GETTING INTRICATE; PARTS SCATTEREL   Nelson Has No Objection To Turning Clocks Back An Hour

Hold County Pair For Threatening Federal Witness   Serve Stern Warning  That Body Will ''Toler ate No Interference"

Miner and Wife Are Indicted At Pittsburgh   Charged with Attlempting To Intimidate Witness In Mine Strike Inquiry

H COAL PROBE   Gand Jary Issues Indictment; Others Are Warned   (COUPLE THREATENED TO SHOOT WITNESS

Miner and Wife Accused of Attempt  To Intimidate Witness in Inquiry

DE GAULLE MAY KEEP OUT OF AFRICA NOW   Reported More Useful For Allied Cause In France

Funeral Rites For Mrs. Bichel Friday .  Mother of Mrs. Otto C. Botz Had Been Ill for Long Period

Benson’ s Bill Asks Change in : Primary Date:   Wants Election Held in September Instead of in June

Report Italian  Front Active,  Weather Better Counter-Attacks  reba t bat ea * %

Nazi Counter-Attacks On Italian Front Repulsed With Heavy Losses To Huns

Trial Blackout — Thursday Night  Decided Success  Response Was Promp' And Effective ._ In All Quarters

Trial Blackout — Thursday Night  Decided Success  Response Was Promp And Effective  Fw. ATT Shee wk

BOULDER JUNCTION BOARD 1S UPHELD      Tavern Limitation Statute Upheld in Court Decision Today.

Meat Outlook  Is Encouraging   Civilians Can't Expect Last Year's Amounts

MEAT OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING   But Civilians Won't Get as Much as Last Year

Nar Labor Board Does Not Intend to Scrap Little Steel Wage Formula, Labor Adviser

Pay Hike Ban Price Control Prop Mapped   Roosevelt Hints Fresh Subsidy Program; WLB Sticks By Formula   CHALLENGES LABOR   President Answers Unions Complaint Against Rising Cost Of Living

PRICE-FIX. PLAN TOMEET PROTEST   AFL and CiO Make Strong Complaint Of Living Costs   OUTBREAK OF WAGE DEMANDS LIKELY

President Comments On Prices   New Plans Seeking Price Control Are Being Considered, But No   Agreement Reached

New Plans For  Price Control Under Review   President Declares No Agreement Made On Change In Stabilization Setup.   LABOR PREDICAMENT

‘Little Steel’ Wage Formula to Stand   War Labor Board Served Notice Today That It Does Not Intend to Scrap It.

STUDY NEW PRICE CONTROL PLANS   No Stabilization Ideas Yet Agreed On, Says Roosevelt

Consider New Price Controls   Will Have to Be Presented to Congress For Approval

Lewis Is Ready To Give Evidence   He Backs Down From Previous Attitude of Retusing to Testify.

LABOR BOARD SERVES NOTICE ON MINERS   Davis Sass Body Will Not Entertain Arguments Violating  Wace Polictes

LB Sticks By ittle Steel age Formula   oosevelt Seeks ew Price Control, Stabilization Plan  LL COST MONEY  atch Says Subsidy uestion Coming ack to Congress

EAST OPERATORS OPPOSE SCHEME FOR MINE WAGE   Want Portal-ToPortal Pay Plan Killed Ey WLB

PRICE CONTROL IDEAS SOUGHT   Administration Open To Suggestions, President Tells Reporters

FOR FACES WIDE SPREAD REVOLT BY TWO UNIONS   A. F. of L. and C. LO. Demand Prices Be Rolled Back

Lewis Ready ‘to Go Before Labor Board   He Offers to Appear m Support of the Illinois Mine Agreement   NEW LEGISLATION CHANGES SITUATION      Operators in Largest Areas > Are Cool Toward ‘Model’ Agreement ©

NEW. STABILIZATION PROGRAM PLANNED ¢   New Plans Will Be Placed Before Congress

Labor is Cautioned Against Seeking Inflationary Wage:   War Labor Board Issues Warning as Roosevelt Tells of Seeking New Plans to Hold Down : Living Costs

‘Little Stee! Formula to Stay: WLB   Board ‘to Hold Lins‘ Despite F. R. Hint of New Wege, Price Plan

Cut Prices Now, AFE, CIO Demand   Labor Leaders Serve Ultimatum  On White House

War Labor Board Warns: Against. Any “Inflationary Wage Increases’   GOP Meeting At Mackinac

Labor Board Not to Scrap Wage Basis   Will Retain “Little Steel”? Formula; F. R. Hints New Price Plan

FDR Says New Price Control Plan Studied  Labor Demanding Roliback Or End

New Plans For Price Control Are Considered   General Economic Stabilization’ Comes In For Discussion

WLB Cautions Labor on Seekine Inflationary Pay   Administration Seeks Reorganization of Price System

PRICE CONTROL BEING REVISED   Labor Warned By WLB To Avoid Inflating Wage Demands

Labor Board Announces Plans To Keep Pay Formula   Labor Is Cautioned Against Seeking ‘Inflationary’ Increases in Wages  —— ot oo a me Rie oe oe ee Ge. Ga es   PRESIDENT PLANS NEW PRICE CONTROLS   Plans Announced After Labor Demands Rollback of Prices

BEFORE BOARD   Labor Chief Offers to Support New Illinois Coal Contract.

NEW INFLATION CHECK PLANNED   New Program To Preserve Levels Contemplated; Warning Issued On Wage Increases

Price Control Program Up for Future Changes   President Says Administration Will Welcome Ideas  : el . . From Citizens.   In a Predicament as Prices Not Decreased

Labor Board  Cautions Union Leader:   Warns Wage Hikes Would Disrupt Inflation Barriers

Government Models New Cost Cudgel   Roosevelt Answers Labor's Demands For Price Rollback

PRICE CONTROL PLANS STUDIED   No Agreement Reachéd  on Program—F R_

WILL RETAIN PAY FORMULA   WLB Says It Does Not intend to Abandon ‘Little Steel’ Pay Plan.   FOLLOWS FR STATEMENT

WORKING ON NEW PRICE CONTROLS   Roosevelt Discloses New Plans Are Developing -

WLBFirn On Wage Stand    Does not Intend to Scrap Little Steel Formula Even if Other Stabilizing Plans Fail

MINE OWNERS ASK WLB ORDER UNION TO SIGN   Spokesmen for Soft-Coal Operators Show Little Enthusiasm for Illinois Contract.

NEW PLANS FOR PRICE CONTROL ARE CONSIDERED   No Ideas Have Yet Been Agreed on, President Roosevelt Said.   NO LABOR ULTIMATUM   Whatever Plan Agreed Upon Will Have to Go Before Congress.

FDR SEEKING NEW PLAN FOR PRICE CONTROL    President Reveals Quest, Says No Ideas on Economic Stabilization Yet Agreed Upon   LABOR DEMANDS   Threatened Revolt Againsi Wage Stebilization Followed by Hint WMC May Alter Policy

Studying Plans For New Price  Controls---FDR   President Discloses Economic Stabilization Considered.

NEW SYSTEM FOR PRICES POSSIBLE   Labor Insists on Prices September 1942 President Reveals.

FDR Prepares New System for Stabilization   President Hints at Plan to Extend Rollback by Subsidies

[Roosevelt Considering New Plans For Price Controls: Stabilization

New Plans . for Price Controls   " None. Agreed. Upon,. But They Are Being Considered, President Says   “LABOR AND OTHERS IN A PREDICAMENT   Welcomes Any Suggestions and Comments on Egg J and Potate News

 ,  Inflationary Wave Increases Rapped by WLE   Roosevelt Asserts New Price Plan ls Being Sought

WLB Tells Unions Wage Increases Mean Inflation   Statement Says Admini stration Plans New Stabilization Program

Union Demands Labor Shortage  Pose Problems   Work Policy Shifts Seen Outcome Of Ultimatum To Price Chief Brown

‘FDR Hunts Plan To Hold /Living Costs   STABILIZE ECONOMY; TELLS PRESS CONRPERNCE CONGRES* WILL HAVE FINAL WORD; WIL! COSr MONEY.   Not Ultimatum

ROLLBACK PLAN CHANGE HINTED BY ROOSEVELT   But Congressional Approval Is Needed

NEW ROLLBACK PLANS ARE IN MAKING — FDR   Declares, However, They Will Have To Wait  On Congress   ICETS LABOR DEMANDS   Lower Food Prices Or Pay Increases Included In Ultimatum

WARNS LABOR  AGAINST WAGE "HIKE DEMANDS   WLB in Statement As FDR Seeks Defense Against Inflation

WAR LABOR BOARD IS STANDING PAT   Agency Cautions Labor Againsi Seeking “Inflationary Wage Increases.”

Working on New Federal Plans to Stabilize Prices   resident Roosevelt Tells’ of Project Considered for Action by Congress

BOARD PUTS BAN ON INFLATIONARY WAGE. INGREASES   Warns Against Excessive De. mands as Roosevelt Hunts New Plan to Keep Down Living Costs.   LITTLE STEEL FORMULA TO CONTINUE AS GUIDE   President Says Congress Will Have Last Word on Any Price Control Program Agreed Upon.

Price Controls   Will Have to Be Presented to Congress For Approval

ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS NEW PRICE CONTROLS   FDR Says No Ideas © Agreed On; Would Welcome Suggestions

PRICE CONTROL CHANGES UNDER CONSIDERATION  FDR Discloses Wilk a ae 

PRESIDENT FACES REVOLT OF LABOR ACAINST PROGRAN   Little Steel Formula Threatened If Prices are Not “Rolled Back.

W.L.B. TO STICK BY ITS “LITTLE STEEL” FORMULA   [Board Says It Won’t Scrap Wage Plan Even Though Other Anti-Inflation Groups  > Weaken

Price Control Plans Studied   General Economic Stabilization Is Taken Un, F. D. R. Says

Administration Is Seeking New Inflation Bond   Labor Solemnly Cautioned Against Demands For “Inflationary Wage Increases”

NEW PLANS FOR PRIGE CONTROL ARE CONSIDERED   President Reveals New Systems For General Stabilization Are Under Study, But No Agreements  Reached.

Price Control Plan Mapped, Says Roosevelt   General Economic Stabilization Program Studied

HINTS NS MAY GO CONGRESS   swers Labor's reat To Scrap ge Formula

ROOSEVELT FACES WAGES AND PRICE REVOLT BY LABOR      Workers Want Costs Rolled Back To Fall Levels — Or Increased  Paw

WLB Hearing  Suits Lewis   Labor Leader Offers To Support Mine Workers’ Contract Before Board.

Government Plans New Price Control   President Says War Economics  Being Studied

CONSIDER NEW PRICE PROGRAM FOR REPORTS   Capital Has Not Received Any Word from Pope on Bombing of Rome

New Price Control Plans Considered. By Administration  President Warns Against Generalities In Shortage Matters

President Says Prfoposals Must Go To Congress   FR Answers Labor's Strong Complaint Against Rising Costs

Labor Board Won t Scrap ‘Little Steel’   Takes Stand for Inflation Control

Considering New Plans for Price Control   General Economic Stabilization Being Studied But Ne  Ideas Yet Agreed Upon, President Savs

EH PLANS FOR RICE CONTROL FING STUDIED   oosevelt Announces Gen.  eral Economic Stabiliza ‘tion Problem Also Under Scrutiny   i. COST MONEY HE TELLS NEWSMEN   nvites Suggestions; Denies Labor Issued Ultimatum In Demanding Rollback of Costs

WLB STANDS FIRM ON ‘LITTLE STEEL   Serves Notice That It-Does Not Intend to Scrap : Formula   A WARNING TO LABOR

PRESIDENT SAYS ADMINISTRATION 18 WORKING ON PRICES  ECONOMIC STABILIZATION PLAN NOT YET AGREED UPON, HOWEVER

FDR REVEALS NEW DRIVE 10 CURTAIL COSTS   Answers Demands of Labor With Account of New Effort To Stabilize Prices.   UNION NOTICE ANSWERED   Agrees Food Prices Haven't Been Rolled Back, Asks For Method To Do It.

Seeks New Name For  Rollback   New Price Stabiliz: ing Program Developing; Needs Congress O. K.

157 MERCHANT SHIPS BUILT   Yards Set New Record Of 1,606,600 Tons During April

American Merchant Shipyards Turn Ou 157 Vessels in April fo Set Record

WLB STEPS BACK INTO... ~ THE MINE WAGE ISSUE   Situation Is Now Complicated by Major Break -in Appalachian Coal ‘Operators’ United. Front’. Against John L. Lewis-—-UMW Not to Be  '- Represented at Scheduled Hearing  > nt Wachinntnn "

JAPS PUNISH 25 U.S, OFFICERS   GROUP ACCUSED OF POSING AS ORDINARY CITIZENS IN PHILIPPINES.

JAPS ‘PUNISH SOLDIERS ON PHILIPPINES   Thirty-Two American, British Prisoners Are Involved

Japs ‘Punish’ 32 Officers, Men ‘for Posing as Civilians   Americans, Britons In Philippines Said Sent to Prison Camp

Japanese Reveal Torture Of Americans And British Taken In Civilian Garb

Japs Report ‘Punishment’ of 25 U.S. Officers, Seven Britons For Discarding Their Military Garb

Japs Punish 25 Captured US Militarists   Men Reported To Have Posed As Civilians In Manila

SOVIETS GET US. APPEAL   TRONG APPEAL MADE BY ' STATE DEPARTMENT FOR END OF RUSSIAN‘POLISH DIPLOMATIC DISPUTE

U.S, APPEAL TO SOVIETS HINTED   Red Ambassador And Davies Both Going To Moscow

GUADALCANAL BEACH TAKEN   293 Japs Slain By U. § Troops In Closing Up Positions

FOE PUSHED BACK ON GUADALCANAL   American Forces Consolidate Positions in Kokumbona, Former Jap Headquarters; Get Use of Beach Base

U.S. Forces Meet on Guadalcanal   Consolidate Positions In Kokumbona and Kill 293 More of Foe

U.S. Troops Wipe Out 293 Japanese On Guadalcanal   Occupy Kokumbona anc Capture Much Enemy Equipment

Another Seized In Bank Holdup   F.B.L. Chief Says Mt. Ranier, Md., Man Was Finger Man In Holdup.

IL DUCE SERIOUSLY ILL   Swedish Newspaper Reports Fascist Leader At Hitler's Home

RUSSIANS CLOSE ARC ON KHARKOV TAKING 2 TOWNS   Chuguyev And Volchansk, Railroad Centers, Are Latest Captured      OBJECTIVE 1S NOW   WITHIN GUN RANGE

TWO RAILROAD TOWNS SEIZED BY RUSSIANS   Long-Range Russian Cannon Moving Up With Infantry, Ski Troops And Tanks.

Landing Landing Foiled  Japanese Say  Tokyo Claims U. 8S.  ' Force Repulsed

Says Japs Prevent American Landing  Tokyo Claims Americans Driven Rack At

Selective Service Is Still Seeking Way To GetAround Calling Fathers’ To Colors

DRAFT LOOKS FOR MANPOWER   Seek Mon. in’ Sufficient Num: bers. To. Avold Calling. : Fathers:

HOPES 10 DEFER FATHER DRAFTING   Selective Service Looking To New Sources For Manpower

Draft Boards To Round Up Syphilis Rejects. .  To Re-Draft As Many 4-F Men As Possible

HOPING 10 DELAY SNERAL DRAFTING   No Official Will Say That Permanent General Deferment For Fathers Of Children Born Before Last September 15 Is Very Likely.

COMBING FILES TO DELAY DADS   Selective Service Seeks to Avert, Forever, Summoning Fathers!

President Leslie O. : Anderson: Presides for First Time ; at Wright Tavern

CEDRIC I OSTER         President Leslie 0. : . -Anderson Presides for First Time at Wright Tavern

Strike at Traffic to Brenner Pass and Rome; Yanks, British Cross Rivers; Nazis Make Stand   Bombers Strike in Four Waves and Attack Is Reported Successful; Enemy Motor Convoys Are Struck; New Reserves Pour in for 5th

Yank Aces Bomb Big Objectives In Record Raids  Flying Forts Wreck Rail Yards; Great Ac-

BOLOUNA RAILWAY YARDS WRECKED   BRENNER PASS HUB, USED TO  SUPPLY NAZIS IN ITALY, SIEAViLY BOMBED.

Bologna Blasted  By Fortresses   Rail Yards Wrecked, Great Fires Set

BOLOGNA RAIL YARDS RUINED   Fortresses in Devastating Attack on Strategic North Italy Center

CRIMEAN GATE RETREAT GUT BY RED ARMY   TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NAZIS TRAPPED IN PENINSULA

Soviets Trap Germans in the Crimea   Perekop Isthmus Is Cut Off; 2,000 Nazis Die

Soviets trap large forces of Germans   Perekop isthmus cut by Russians

Nazis Trapped As Reds Seal Crimea   Germans Facing Greatest Disaster Since Stalinarad As Soviets Close In For Kill

Red Army Traps German Hordes In the Crimea   Enemy Group Is Surrounded as Isthmus Is Cut

NAZI FORCES IN CRIMEA   Soviets Seal Off Peninsula by Taking Perekop— Foe Faces Greatest Disaster Since Stalingrad.

Nazis Trapped As iReds Seal Crimea   Germans Facing Greatest Disaster Since Chaltmarad Ac Soviate Clace In Enr Kij]]

Russians Cut Enemy’s Fscane Path   Soviets Hold Perekop; Nazis Report Loss Of 8,000 Fighting Men

PEREKOP CAPTURE BLOCKS ESCAPE   Germans Face Greatest Disaster Since Stalingrad   OTHER GAINS MADE   Reds Make Fresh Advances " Inside The Dnieper Bend; Casualties High

Perekop Is Captured in! Smash of Red Armies  DISASTER IS FACED BY GERMAN TROOPS   Rapid Investment of Crimea Great Soviet Accomplishment

Tens Of Thousands Caught With Capture Of Pere_ kop By Soviets   GREATEST DISASTER SINCE STALINGRAD

Nazi Thousands Trapped by Reds   Russians Cut Off Escape of Germans

Cottonseed Meal Prices Go Higher   New Order Announced by Southern Senator Expected to Boost Milk Output   TO RELEASE MORE FOOD TO DAIRIES   Meal Price in Missouri Goes to $46 Per Ton Under New Ceiline

Jap Destroyer  Believed Sunk By Lone Fortress   3 Others Are Put To Flight By Single U: S. Plane In Night Raid

Lone Flying Fortress Sinks Jap Destroyer And Puts Three Others To Flight In Pacitic

Fortress Sinks Jap Destroyer  " Altied Airmen Keep Up Constant Blows On Jap Pacific Base

‘Lone Flying Fort Believed  To Have Sunk Big Japanese Destroyer; 3 Others Flee

ONE FORTRESS VICTOR OVER 4 JAP SHIPS      Attacking in Pitch-Black Night, U.S. Plane Probably Sank One Destroyer and Put Three Others to Flight.

Lone Fortress Sinks Large Jap Destroyer  Another Yank Plane Downs Four Jap Zeros In Fight

BOMBER SINKS - JAP DESTROYER   3 Other Ships Flee From Lone Attacking Plane

FLYING FORTRESS CREDITED: WITH. :: ‘SINKING BIG JAPANESE DESTROYER

Shot In Dark Probably Sank Jap Destroyer   Lone Fortress Is Credited With Balking Flotilla

Lone U. S. Plane Credited With Scattering Of Jap Destroyers, Sinking One

Fortress Hits Jap Destroyer   Believe Enemy Warship Sunk In Raid Off North ern New Guinea.

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESS ATTACKS ENEMY DESTROYERS   ONE BELIEVED SUNK AND THREE OTHERS WERE PUT TO FLIGHT

Fortress Bombs Jap Destroyer   Single Plane Downed 4 of 9 Enemy Craft ..

ONE DESTROYER BELIEVED SUNK; THREE FLEEING   ingle American Bomber Believed To Have Thwarted Japanese Attempt To Deliver Supplies To New Guinea.

SINGLE PLANE SINKS NIP SHIP   JAP DESTROYER RUINED BY LONE FLYING FORT

JAP DESTROYER SENT 10 BOTTOM   U. S. Flying Fortress Puts:  Three Others to Flight in Pacific.

Probably Sinks One Off Coast Of New Guinea   Allies Rain 1,000-Pound Bombs On Gasmata Base

Flying Fort Routs Japs   Lone U. 8. Bomber Sinks Destroyer and Scatters Three Others

Jap Ships Thought Sunk By Lone Plane  Three Others Put To Flight OfF New Guinea

One Ship Believed Sunk, Three Others Flee Near New Guinea.   KISKA IS BOMBED AGAIN

LONE FORTRESS BLASTS VESSEL   Attacking at Night, U. S. Air Giant Is Believed to Save Sunk Destroyer

U.S. FORTRESS ATTACKS JAP ‘WARSHIPS   Gen. Douglas MacArthur Thinks Any Attempt to Deliver Supplies Failed

Lone Fortress Scatters Japs   Probably Sunk Large Destroyer in Pitch Dark; Allied Bombers Smash at Enemy Bases on Both Ends of Pacific War Front

Lone Flyer Routes Jap  Convoy     Flying Fortress Hits... Destroyer In Action .: Off New Guinea Coast

Lone Fortress Sinks Destroyer   American Plane Routs Japanese Convoy

CONVOY ROUTED BY LONE PLANE   Jap Destroyer Sunk, 3 Others Flee In Attack Off New Guinea

State Senate Name: Solon From Powell  Keeley Is President Pro Tern ad Interim

Pleas Entered By Operators Of Tire Ring   Thirty - Five Arrested in Black Market Probe Admit Guilt   INDICTED FEBRUARY 10

35 Enter Pleas hh Tite Case   MM Picea Innocent L132 No Defensé:in Sila hackers.

35 Enter Pleas ln Tire Case  34 Plead Innocent  32 No Defense in Ri..L Adecbot Ceca

CURTIN SAYS AUSTRALIA NOW IS ARMED BASTION; INVASION FEARS ENDED

AUSTRALIA NOW TTACK BASTION SURTIN ASSERTS   Aussie Prime Minister Says Danger of Invasion Surmounted

Italian Cities Are Blasted By Allied Planes   Greek Guareltles Taken Under Alfied Middle East Commend

Air Fields Get Heavy Blasting   Hitler Shifts His Ai Forces, in Preparation for  Allied Invasion

Greeks Brought Under Command   ‘Large Operation Shifts Bombing Emphasis From Islands to Heel of Italian “DR agt?

100 American Bombers Rake Three -Airdromes On Heel Of Italy’s Boot

Bombs Rock Three Italian Air Centers   Greek Guennlla Army Placed Under  Organized Command

Uepoats Are MUers First Line Uf Vetense-— ——bBy Gienn ba  Atlantic Will Be Scene Of Deadly Siruqgle

CORNELL PREXY TAKEN BY DEATH   Heart Disease Proves Fatal  To Dr. John Magee

DR. MAGEE, CORNELL PRESIDENT, IS DEAD   Passed Away From Heart Attack at Exeelsior Springs, Mo,, at the Awe of 65 Years

AFL DECISION BLOW TO LEWIS   ANNUAL CONVENTION, DELEGATES TO PASS — ON MERGER PROPOSA!

AFL Council Hands Lewis Sharp Rebuff   Application for Reinstatement of UMW Referred to Boston Convention   OFFERS LITTLE SOLACE

LEWIS SUFFERS REBUFE; BID T0 JOIN ARL PENDS   Application Referred to  Open Convention With-   out Recommendation; Action Unusual

LNW DECISION   Lewis’ Surprise Offer to Lead UMW Back into AFL Is Rebuffed.

AFL SENDS UMW'S Bi TO CONVENTION   Consider Action by Council as Rebuff to John L. Lewis and His. Miners

A. F.L. Slaps  John L. Lewis   Council Refers Application For Membership To Convention In October,

AFL CONVENTION TO DECIDE FATE OF LEWIS’ PLAN   Offer To Rejoin Union Referred  To Conference

AF'L Cools  To Lewis   Politics From White House Seen By Aides In Peculiar Action

NAZIS CLAIM BRITISHNAVY LOSES BATTLE   SAY CRUISERS DAMAGED, ONE DESTROYER SUNK, FOUR CARGOES HIT

MINERS STILL ON STRIKE AS LEWIS SEES ICKES AGAIN   No Announcement Is Made on Latest Conference   U.S. FLAG FLIES OVER NATION'S 300 MINES

Mines Of Nation Still Idle Despite U. S. Conitroi   Lewis Fails To Send Miners Back And No Explanation * Ys Given

Nazi Forces Set Greek Armies to ~~ tnler ilar Sti fe  Troops of Zervas Now Fighting Elas and gf 4

TLE ALALAAAAAARAAAAAADAAL Berlin Radio Says American Cities ‘May Not Be Safe’

New York Not Safe -- Berlin   Nazis Warn Of Air Raids On America

SPECTACULAR ATTACK 1S MADE BY THE RAF   Two-Day Lull Imposed by Impossible Flying Weather Is Ended and Air Offensive Against the Enemy © Is Resumed in Startling Fashion—Tabulation of January Operations Is , Revealed Tadau z

Good Neighbor Policy Seen As Basis For Post-War World   Roosevelt’s Precedent-Shattering Visit To Mexico And Words He Spoke Give Emphasis To U. S. Plans For Unity And Peace.

PAN-AMERICAN COLLABORATION IS HIGHLIGHTED      Both Wallace And FDR Out Of Nation At Same Time

Hemisphere Points Path To Peace   Roosevelt’s Visit To Mexico May Indicate Stand

Enormous Task Lies Ahead To Equip Coming All-Out Assault   Materiel Shipped For Africa And Italy Wnsionificant’ In Comparison, Wilson Says

FRENCH STATE OF SIEGE FOR LEBANESE CITY   Armed Revolution In Beirut With British Expected To Take Action In Short Time

State Of Siege In Beirut With  Revolt Growing   Armed Revolution Reported With Lebanese, French Casualties Heavy

BEIRUT UNDER ‘SIEGE ORDER   ‘Armed Revolution’ Has Broken Out, Is Claim

LEBANON IS IN ARMED REVOLT   Clashes With French Troops Using Tanks Reporied

DECLARE STATE OF SIEGE IN ARAB REVOL]   Cordon of Troops Thrown Around Lebanon Capital. Britain Watchiul.

State of Siege Proclaimed In Lebanon Capital   “Armed Revolution” Reported Raging As Catroux Leaves

Revolt Flares in Beirut   FRENCH OFFICIALS DECLARE SIEGE STATE IN LEBANON CAPITAL

FOURTEEN KILLED IN.COAL MINE BLAST; NINE HURT   All Victims Identified’ But Bodies Of 10 Remain Un-: derground As Rescuers Fear Second Explosion

‘Explosion Rips Through ' Pennsylvania Operation  Near Forrestville;  Bodies Shattered

14 Dead In Blast At Mine   Nine Others Injured, One Seriously in Explosion at Minersville Working

Deadly Gas Halts Rescue of Victims   All Dead Identified but 1€ Bodies Remain in Pits as Gas Fills Mine

14 DIEINPA. COAL MINE BLAST   Ten of Bodies Still Remain in Underground Ruims of Mine

14 Killed in Mine Explosion  Blast Rips Through   Blast Rips Through Level of Mine at Forrestville, Pa.

14 BLAST VICTIMS IN MINE ARE KNOWN   Inspectors Search Shattered Workings of Coal Mine For Fires.

Britain's Part in Lease-Lend Aid is Revealed in Paper   Over _ Billion Dollars Worth of Assistancein-Reverse to U. S.

British Return Lend-Lease Aid   - Furnish More Than Billion Dollars Worth Of Goods to America

It's Working More Than One Way Now Britain Has Furnished U.S. With Over Billion  In Reverse Lend-Lease

BRITISH CLAIM THEY FURNISHED US. LEND AID   Hospitals, Barracks, Base Facilities Included In Billion” Dollar Figure .

Britain Supplies Over Billion In Lend-Lease Aid.   ‘ White Paper Reveals _ Scope Of Help To U. 5S.  Reing Rroadaned.

DATA ARES ISS8 ii i      Barracks, Hospitals and Air ports Are Included —

ASSISTANCE TO. BE BROADENED, COMMONS TOLD   To Include Raw Materials and Bulk Foodstuffs From England and Her:Colonies   BASE FACILITIES - ARE LISTED ITEMS   Others In Reverse LendLease Are Barracks, Hospitals for Yanks Based On British Isles

British Place Aid To U. S. at Billion   “White Paper” on Reverse Lend-Lease Says Greatest Help Has Been in Providing Facilities for Yanks in England.

British Report Aid In Reverse On Lend-Lease   White Paper Emphasizes Knowledge, Experience In Battle And Research

)/ Point Ration Buyers Can Take Heari— \M any Foods Yet Unrationed \Are Listed By District Offirc

Point Ration Buyers Can Take Heart—  Many Foods Yet Unrationed Are Listed Bu District Office

YANKS TAKE AIR STRIP ON ARAWE   AMERICANS ADVANCE THREE MILES—AUSTRALIANS GAIN ON NEW GUINEA.

Capture Aids Air Raids Againsi Jans   Allied Bombers Sink 25 Barges Near New Britain

VICTORIES REPORTED IN COMMUNIQUE FROM GENERAL MACARTHUR; AMERICANS ADVANCE THREE MILES TO SEIZE AIRSTRIP.

Aussies Advance In Huon Atfack   414-Ton Blasting Given Gloucester

YANKS ADVANCE 3 MILES PAST ENEMY FIELDS   Record Load Of 414 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Cape Gloucester: Stronghold

fe to Enter 3 State Contest - At Oskalooss   Davenport Only School: with 3 Contestants.

‘Rommel Races Toward Tunisia;  ‘May Make Stand On Border   German Field Marshal Believed to Have Army of 110,000

UTAH COAL MEN TO STAY ON JOB   Will Work Regardless of Whether Strike Is Called by Lewis

LOCAL MINES TO CONTINUE IN OPERATION   Miners In Wyoming and Utah Notified By Mine Officials

MUSSOLINI NOT TO ESCAPE PUNISHMENT FOR HIS ACTS   DUCE. TO BE HELD. ACCOUNT. ABLE FOR HIS PART IN PLUNGING WORLD INTO WAR        i   By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON Internatlonal News Service ©

Mussolini Will be Punished for War Guilt: Ifely’s Position Is Troubled

PLANS GANCELLED   OPA Won't Force Canners to Print Grade On Can 1 ahale

Grade Labeling Plans Are Abandoned Tuesday By OPA  Price Maximums To Be Based On Grades And Meane OF Accertaininga Grades Being Planned

Grade Labelling Program is Abandoned by OPA; ‘Another Plan. Favored

40 GERMAN BATTERIES  SILENCED   New Leningrad Drive Is Unverified By Soviet Report

Russians Blast AO Batteries; Bag 24 Planes   Red Army Artillery, Air Forces Bolster Caucasian Attacks

Nazi Men And Equipment Being Exhausted— —By Kirke L. Simpson ¢  Russians Awaif Freeze For Big Campaign

LANESECO, TRIKERS BOW OULTINATUN   hreatened.. by Roosevelt  ‘ith Federal Action Un less Walkout Ended Monday   ) RETURN TO JOBS BEFORE DEADLINE   keting Stopped Last Night; United Mine Workers Struck in Defiance of WLB

LABOR RESPONDS TO FDR'S PLEA   Union Terminates N. J. Strike After President Orders Workers to Return

Miners Heed President’s  Work Order   Unanimous Vote Te Return To Jobs On Monday

Strikers Vote Back-To-Jobs  For Celanes   Accept F. R.°’s Request: WLB Goes Ahead With  Arbitration Plans In Caal Mine Dispute

Celanese Workers Yield To Roosevelt’s Order;  Strike to End Monday   Union Votes Unanimously to Go Back to Work After President Teleeraphs Demand to Lewijs

UNION AGREES TO END TIEUP AS FDR ASKED   Unanimous Vote Cast For Return to War Plant Monday

CELANESE UNION STRIKE SETTLED   Picketing “Stops; Crews Will Return To Jobs Monday

ROOSEVELT ORDER ENDS A WALKOUT   STRIKERS VOTE TO. RETURN TO JOBS MONDAY IN CELANESE. PLANT. -

Roosevelt Order Causes Workers To End Walkout   Will Return Monday Extension of Coal Contract Is Directed

BVVIVVVVVT VV VT TV Te ae Share-the-Riage  Plan Turning Into Share-Wife Plan

REGENTS BOARD MEMBER EXPIRES   Dr. Grant C. Madill, Dean of North Country Physicians, Dead at 78.

ESCAPE SHIPS GATHERED FOR TUNISIA ARMY   BERLIN AND ROME FACE DEFEAT IN AFRICA

 Italians Reported Preparing For ‘Eventual Embarkation Of Defeated Axis Forces From Shores Of Tunisia

J. Paul Jones President of Oil Producers   Name John W. Bryner And David Scott, Jr., As Vice Presidents - G. H. Daggett Secretar

Named President Of Oil Producers   J. Paul Jones of Bradford , Heads Association

TEXAS FIRM UNDER INDICTMENT   Justice Department Charges Bribery And Conspiracy

Officer and Texas Firm Indicted   Held on Conspiracy Charge to Defraud  Government

CHARGE WAR FRAUD   Federal Grand Jury Indicts Texas Ammunition -Company

Troops Capture Second Pass and  Vital Air Strip   Yanks Poised For Knockout Blow Do Climax First North Pacific Offensive With Victory. Air Strip Springboard For Big Operations.

Dikes Fail To Hold Missouri Flood Waters   FAIRFIELD MEDICS AID IN FIGHT TO PROTECT THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS IN STRICKEN AREA

Wilbur Receives Medal Of Honor From Presiden’  Let Bwaews Raum Ales   Chief Executive Also Praises General's Chauffeur For Bravery

Large Munition Plant In Berlin Is Destroyed   Blown Up By Delayed Action Bomb After RAF Attack Thursday

AAF Lashes Northwest Germany; Lighter Bombers Batter France   For Vitebsk

Big Bombers Head Again For Reich   Toward Targets in Northwest Germany; Red Army Surges Closer to Vitebsk

Planes Stream Across Channel  Reveal 3,000 Planes In  Attacks Of Two Days

AMERICAN BOMBERS RANGED OVER GERMAN OBJECTIVES TODAY  CONSTANT STREAM OF   CONSTANT STREAM OF OTHER BOMBERS POURED ACROSS CHANNEL

Fifth Assault - By . Americans In Two   Weeks ©     eg i a   ATTACK F K FRANCE  Mysterious ~ . ” ‘Targets - Are Blasted By

Wave After Wave of Allied Planes Keep in Air Over Enemy   ee eee  Appears ~ Intention c Allies to Neutralize Factories

Yankee Bombers Range Over Reich   For 5th Time in Two Weeks They Strike at Shipbuild ing Center,

Air Fleets Pour Across Channel  Great Stream of - Bombers Indicates Massive Assaults

Allied Planes In New Raids On Nazi Areas   Yank Bombers Roar Over Northwestern Germany ; French Coast Area Blasted

4. $. Bomber Hit Targets In Germany   - Hint Bremen Being Used as Test of Precision  ' Bombing

Allied Planes Cross Channel To Hit France   Seventh Heavy Operation Of Month For Americans; Day, Night Attacks.   NO BOMBERS LOS T

Yank Bombers Back Over Reich Again   Mysterious Targets In Northern France Attacked

U.S. Bombers Return to Reich Today   Fifth Attack Made In Two Weeks; Offensive Grows

U.S. TESTS AIM IN BREMEN RAIDS   500 YANK BOMBERS PARTICIPATED IN PRECISION ATTACK

YANKS BLAST GERMAN HUBS   STREAMS OF BOMBERS POUR ACROSS CHANNEL

Constant ‘Stream of Air Blows   American: Heavies Go Over ‘Germany Again as Other Planes Attack France   WAVE AFTER WAVE “CROSSES CHANNEI      Today's Increasing Raids Follow Series of Night” Raids. by Mosquitos~

Wave Alter Wave of Bombers Stream Across Channel to Germany and France in Great Day and Night Offensive. Targets May Include Rocket Gun Emplacements.

U.S. Bombers Return to Reich Today  Fifth Attack Made   Fifth Attack Made In Two Weeks; Offensive Grows

ymerican Planes Raic Northwest Germany For Fifth Time In - Last Two Weeks

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST BREMEN SECTOR AGAIN   ‘Series of Attacks Pictured as Di. rected af U-Boat Base’s Scat  taorad Induetriac   FRENCH COAST HIT   Neutral Reports Suggest Extensive Rocket Gun Emplacements May Be Targets

Planes Also Hit French Coastline   Believed To Be Hunting Out Nazi Rocket Gun Emplacements

Heavy Yankee Bombers Hit Reich:Again —   Daylight Assault Maintains Steady Pounding of Nazis.

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS FLY OVER GERMANY TODAY   ‘onstant Stream of Medium and Light Bombers Headed for Mysterious Targets.   OVER NORTH FRANCE   Big Bombers Headed for the Same Section Where Monday Bremen Was Hit.

NORTHWEST GERMANY POUNDED BY GREAT FLEETS OF BOMBERS FOR FIFTH TIME IN TWO WEEKS    Mysterious Targets in France Also Come in for Attention of Heavy and Medium Bombers. Bremen Being Tested for Precision Bombing

FIGHTERS AlD U. 5. BOMBERS   Northwestern Germany Target of Attack; Northern France Hit Too.   /RAF MOSQUITOS ACTIVE

Cross Channel Assaults May Be Hitting Sites Of Rocket Guns   Heavy U.S. Raiders Again Range Into Northwest Reich

Americans Develop One of Best  Inventions of War  New, Fast Engine Aids Greatly in Battle, Ovtranks All Others

American Ships Use Less Fuel  Warships Travel   Warships Travel Farther, Hit Harder

Secret Weapon Of Navy Revealed As ’ Lighter Fuel Use  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER  MAeenerintad Deaee Cinff Writer

Navy Reveals U. 5. Warships Have Greatest Cruising Range of Any   High Pressure, High Temperature Steam Equipment Cuts Amount of Fuel Consumed

American Ships Use Less Fuel   Warships Travel Farther, Hit Harder

America’s Battleships Run On 35 Per Cent Less Fuel   Warships Go Farther And Hit Harder With ‘Secret Weapon’ Revealed By Navy Leaders

Range, Power of U.S. Warship: llacreased Greatly: by” Navy's. © [Revolutionary Steam. System:

Navy Reveals Newest Secret Weapon  Wosshene Thsa.25- nor Cait Loess Reipl Thin Vocenle Af dec 1H sie Naa.

FLEET FUEL NEED IS CUT   New Secret Weapon of Navy Revealed To Be Engines,

It You Think Rationing’s T ough Here, Look At England  a a a a a a a a a a, Se ae, Sf

If You Think Kationing’s Tough Here, Look At England   Even British Provost Marshal Is Hailed Into Court To Give Accountina

All Available Information Given On Missing Men, Officer Declares

1 Regret To Inform You « « -"  This Is Why Details Of Deaths Can’t Be Given  ]

War Department Tells All It Knows. . Explains Difficulties Of Getting More Data On Missing Soldiers

WAR DEPARTMENT IS GENERALLY WITHOUT NEWS OF CASUALTIES  ENEMY MOSTLY HOLDS   ENEMY MOSTLY HOLDS KEY TO INFORMATION AND NOTHING CAN BE DONE

Scant Information in Dread Telegram All Government Has   Head of Casualty Office Gives Summary of Situation

No Delay On Messages—   Casualty Notices Speeded, Bring All Information - Available

OHIO IS TO BOTTLE OWN WHISKEY NOW   New Brands Soon To Appear In State Stores

OHIO TO GET NEW LIQUOR NEXT WEEK      Kentucky Bottles 38,000 Cases For State

Dire Finish For Axis Leaders Is  Foreseen By Navy Secretary Knox

BINGO TONIGHT $715 P. M. ADMISSION. 55¢ MASONTOWN FIREMEN   NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS OF FAIRCHANCE BORO  SATO) SPRATT

Today’s War Commentary  Roads To Rome  Diffieult Terrain Slows Allies

Coldest Weather Of Season Strikes Panhandle, Plains   Snow Falling in Four Areas; Pampa Has Low of 2 Degrees

RADIO TOKYO AMUSES TROOPS   Gary Cooper R s Morale of Pacific ers _ Very Good

‘Second Front In Western Europe  Expected To Be Of Secondary   Importance; Leaders To Frame   Ultimatum To Germany, Claim   }INVASION THROUGH BALKANS Ig SEEN

‘Big Three’ Draft Plans At Meeting In Teheran, Claim   Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Reported Conferring In Iran; Cairo Parley Terms  Will Strip Japan Of All Conquests

Ultimatum by ‘Big 3° Believed Taking Form   ‘Japan Slated.to Lose All Territory Won by Conquest in Past 50 Years

‘BIG THREE’ REPORTED IN CONFERENCE   F. R., Churchill, “Stalin Believed” In Tehran, Iran

London Believes Allies Favor Putting Burden of European Reconstruction on Germany

GERMANS IN DEFENSE LINE MOVE, AFRICA   Trying Desperately to Provide Lane of Escape for Retreating Forces of Rommel

GENERAL MACARTHUR IS GIVING JAPANESE NO REST OR TIME TO STRENGTHEN ISLAND POSITIONS

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   , Japanese Badly Worried Over MacArthur Drive Across New Guinea

MacArthur fo Hit Japs Again   American Commander Opens New Phase of New Guinea Campaign

New Phase Ope! In New Guinea   MacArthur Speedily Moves Against Japs In Northern Area

NO REST FOR JAPANESE IN NEW. GUINEE   MacArthur Moves With Speed To Make the Most of Brilliant Conquest of Papua

The War Today   MacArthur Pushes Air-land . Drive in Lae-Salamaua Area

INO REST FOR JAPS IN NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN  MacArthur Has Enemy Worried

Twilight Flyer Delayed When Train Hits Tracks On Tracks Near Galien

JONES-WALLACE DISPUTE WIDENS; INQUIRY FEARED   Administration Leaders Oetermined to Avoid Investigation of Feud:

Democrats Would Hush Family Row   Further Airing of Wallace-Jones Dispute Opposed

Wallace Lies, Jones Reforts   Washington Wrangle Grows More Bitter

Perkins Gets Into It ‘Congress Determined Not to ‘Probe Wallace-Jones Dispute

Leaders Seem Determined To Avoid Brawl Investigation   Wallace-Jones Fuss Reflects Other Major Disputes Within Democratic Party

JONES AND WALLACE CONTROVERSY FACES LIKELY “SIDE TRACK”         Administration's Congressional Leaders May Avoid Any Investigation.

Outdistance British And French   Sweep Toward Inner Defenses of Both Major African Cities

Americans Sweeping Inner Defenses of Two Cities.  NOW WITHIN SIX MILES OF TEBOURBA  Allied Air Operations Are Limited by Bad Weather.

Other American Troops Are Driving Southeastward From Mateur In Attempt To Outflank Main Axis Defense

Lawless Lad  Confuses Cops   Menacing Moppet Slashes Sheriff’s Shirt

GENERAL GAIN Nt MARKED UP AT MAIN POINTS   Berlin Reports Soviet Armies Beginning New Offensive In North Caucasus

Offensive Develops Favorably   British Driven from Crest of Hill Near Tunis—Reds  Active in Caucasus

NEW SUPREMACY IN KUBAN VALLEY TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Violent Mass Aerial Combat Over Axis Western Caucasus Bridgehead.   A LULL IN FIGHTING   German Troops Have Been Punished by Stormovick Bombers Since May.

RUSSIANS GAIN AIRSUPREMACY   PUNISH GERMAN TROOPS AT WILL IN CAUCASUS WAR

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE HOLDS SUPREMACY IN KUBAN VALLEY AREA  - GERMANS MAKE GAIN ON  ROSTOV FRONT BUT

Reds Establish Aerial Supremacy  In Kuban Valley   Comes After Two Months of Violent Mass Aerial Combat With Axis.   Is Reason For a Lull In Ground Fighting

Russians Claim Air Supremacy Hitler’s Armies Ready For Offensive, Hint

KUBAN VALLEY INAED HANDS   Establish Supremacy After Two ‘Months of Violent Air Attacks.

Soviets Gain Kuban Valley Air Mastery   Cited as Reason for Lull -in Land Fighting in Areq

Reds Rule Air In Kuban Area   ‘Bonibers Punish Foe at Will,” Moscow Says

RED AIRCRAFT CONTROLS THE KUBAN VALLEY   Soviet Claim of Supremacy Follows Two Months of Violent Mass Aerial Combat, Reports From Front Say.

Red -Air F orce Has Supremacy  Now In Kuban   German Troops Said Not Anxious to do Batlle Without Strong Air Support.

‘Legislation to Check Strikes in War Industries and Outlaw Them in Government Plants Goes to Senate      Russian Air Force Claims Supremacy. Over Kuban

Red Air Force Wins Supremacy  In Kuban Area   Explains Reluctance Of German Land Forces To Attack.

REDS HOLD AIR SUPREMACY ON KUBAN FRONT   7 re  Germans Concentrate Bombers fot  Altacks on Gorki, Elsewhere  Russians Believe

Red Air Forces Win Supremacy   Victory Comes After Two months of Violent Fighting in Kuban Area

Soviets Establish Kuban Supremacy   RUUSIAN CONTROL CAUSES LULL IN FIGHTING

RUSSIANS HOLD SUPERIORITY IN THE SKIES   Commentator Hints German Drive Imminent

RED AIR FORCE HAS UPPER HAND   Russians Establish Supremacy In Air In Kuban Area.

REDS ESTABLISH SUPREMACY IN KUBAN VALLEY   Follows Two Months of Violent Mass Aerial Combat Over Axis’ Western Caucasus Bridgehead; Lull Reported Now In That Area.

RUSSIAN FLIERS SEIZE CONTROL OF ‘KUBAN AIR   Reds’ Victory Follows Two Months of Violent Fighting Over Caucasus

Soviets Beat Off New Nazi Feeler Thrusts   Berlin Report Says Axis Invasion Armies Ready For Big Push

City Aid For Local Plants   Legislator Submits Measure Permitting  Post-War Tax Levy

Conference Leak Riles American Newspapers   They Knew Of Meeting And Kept Promise But Censorship Rules  Bring Renercussions

Carlson Irked  Over News Ban   Scores OWT. Handling Of Conference ;° European Press. Favored -

TT  LATE RELEASE OF NEWS IN U. 3, STIRS CONGRESS      Conference Reports First Flashed From Europe

News Leaked Somehow—Congress Points At Davis; Davis Accuses Bracken; Bracken Talks

British And Am  WAR CONFERENCE STORY CAUSES BIG STIR OVER NEWS - HANDLING

Congress Aroused By ‘Scoop’   Reuters ‘Jumps Gun‘ on Release of Cairo Talks

CONGRESS STIRRED BY AMERICA’S WAIT FOR MEETING NEWS   Withholding Incident Is Likened by Rep. Carlson to The  _ Tokyo Raid and Patton Soldier-Slappine Case

LATE RELEASE OF NEWS IN U. S STIRS CONGRESS   Conference  Reports First Flashed Fr om. Burove

SCORE OW! ON PARLEY NEWS   Fumbling of Conference News Brings Flareup In Congress

OWI, British Censorship Blamed For Bungling News of Conference   BRACKEN QUESTIONED ON NEWS LEAK IN COMMONS Rv FRNEST AGNEW

Rap Delav Of  News Release   Congressmen Protest Lag In Publication Of Cairo Conference Story.

News Delay Under Fire   OWP’s. Parley Policy Called Child’s: Play

CRITICIZE OWL ABOUT MEETING   Congress Aroused Because American Public Had to Wait for News.   ‘OTHER COUNTRIES HEARD

Ford Outlines Stand on Water Topic   Governor Reviews Montana’s Position Regarding Use of Resources To Irriaate Wide Territory in West

Governor Presents State's Position at Water Hearing   Ford Declares Upstream Development Should Come First in Any Program to Utilize Columbia Resources

NAVY GAINS 25% IN 4 MONTHS, SAYS KNOX   Construction Program Now at Peak, Secretary Adds

Fleet Strength Is Expanding Knox Reports   Many New Vessels Being Added, Secretary Of Navy Announces   OVER 1,000 COMBAT PLANES IN MONTH

Frosts Of Winter Help Reds To Speed Up New Offensives   Return To Blitzkrieg Tactics Expected Shortly From brilliant Russian Army Staff

RUSSIAN BLITZ IN THE MAKING      Faster Action Forecast As Soon As Freezing Hardens Ground

Won’t Withdraw Parker's Name  Will Withdraw it If Senate Asks Him To, Martin Says

Japanese Open Skirmishes  To Feel Out U.S. Strength; Knox Predicts Big Battle

Japanese Trying to Reé gain Control Of Sélomon Islands. Battle Growing In Fury Each:

Resolution Tossed Info Senate Hands   House Collaboration Move Seen As ‘Hot Potato’

SENATORS WARY OF ‘POLICE’ PLAN   House Votes 360 To 29 For Post-War Collaboration

Senate Reaction On World Police Bill   AEL Chief Denounce: Critics of Labor

Fulbright Plan Goes To Senate   Some Members Not So Keen For Action Now

17 Bodies Found In Plane Wreck   Craft From Ft. Benning Falls in N. Carolina

8th Army Moves 12 Miles Beyond Gabes   First Army in North Reported on Move; Africa Corps Being Punished by Allied Air Forces

Patton Gains on Flank,. Finds Mostly Italians   British First Army Recaptures Sedjenane Advancing to Within 40 Miles of Bizert * _-Navy Reported Pounding Rommel

Americans Take Sedjenone; British , Now Threoten Flank of  Enemy Before Patton

EIGHTH ARMY NOW 12 MILES PAST GABES   British Forces In North Capture Sedjenane   Inch Forward Through Minefields East Of Guetar: More Captives Taken

“Nhes 4 ‘In Air inal Ground rN Attioke Take Toll of - the Retreat   PRITISH HIT IN-NORTH   Take Sedjenane, West of  Bizerte; ‘Patton Makes ‘An Advance:

Eighth Army Continues in” Hot Pursuit   First Army Starting Major ‘Offensive.and Yanks Hit: at Axis’ Flanks:    MINEFIELDS SLOW "PATTON'S FORCES.   Non-Stop-Air. Raids Being: Made-on Axis’ Columns;. ~ More: Towns to Allies:

British ForcesAdvance, AmericansDriveAhead   Rumor Axis Orders Destruction of Sfax Harbor As Headong Flight Continues, Pounded Relentlessly From Air.

British Eighth Army Gains Ground; Americans Move In; Sedjeanane Taken In North

Allied Troops Press. On In All Tunisian Sectors; Rommel Continues Flight

SQUEEZE NAZIS TOWARD COAST      Eighth Army Drives North As Patton’s Men Advance to East.   ‘FOE HEADING FOR SFAX

Montgomery Continues Pursuit North Of Gabes: Other Yankee, British Forces Push From West   Number OF Prisoners Taken Since Mareth Line Was Cracked Totals 13,000; U.S. Army Fighting Way Through Mine Fields

Yanks Hammer Eseape Lane In 3 Sectors   British Ist Army Opens Offensive, Scores Gain; Montgomery's Troops Take Oudref

U.S. BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST JAPANESE RUNWAYS, INSTALLATIONS AT KISKA

Oudref Falls; Sedjenane ls Captured By Ist Army   Patton's Forces Move Up In Center Of Operations

Axis Driven Into Funnel Above Gabes   British Take 2 Coastal Towns as Desert Fox Rares Taward “far   YANKS HIT FLANK   Army in North Captures Sedjenane in Assault Aimed at Bizerte

ALLIES PURSUE UNDER FIERY AERIAL ATTACK   BRITISH NAVY PUTS FORCE ASHORE TO CUT OFF RETREAT

Allies Closing Trap On Enemy From 3 Sides   Eighth Army Takes Oudref, First Army Seizes Sedjenane, Americans Advance

Eighth Army Seizes Oudref~Air Farce Pounds Fleeing Troops — Americans Pick Way Through Dense Mine Fields— Navy Pounds Coastal Road to the North

Allies in Air and Ground ‘i Attacks Take Toll of \ the Retreat   BRITISH HIT IN NORTH   Take Sedjenane, West o' Bizerte; Patton Makes _An Advance

Axis Forces Continue Their Desperate Flight   Oudref Seized By British while Yanks Move Ahead

British Pursuit of Rommel’s Defeated Army Is Relentless   Axis Commander Fights Desperately to Avoid African Bottleneck

REMNANTS OF AFRICA CORPS RETREATING UNDER AIR ATTACKS  VETERANS OF BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IN CLOSE

COAST ROAD SHELLED BY BRITISH NAVY   Axis’ Position in Front of Pate ton Appears Wholly Untenable

YANKS PUSH 0 IN DRIVE THRU CENTRAL FRONT   Fleeing German Troops Shelled By Allied Pianes

BRITISH 8TH ARMY HAS TAKEN OUDRES IN THE GABES GAF   Pushed the Defeated Forces of Marshal Rommel Across the Barren Plains.   A FIERY AIR ATTACK   British First Army in the North Has Captured Sed jenane.

Montgomery Presses After Rommel; Yanks Move Ahead; Anderson Takes Sedjenane   Eighth Army Seizes Oudref—Air Force Pounds Fleeing Troops — Americans Pick Way Through Dense Mine Fields— Navy Pounds Coastal Road to the North

AERIAL FORCES SLASH AT FOE'S FLEEING TROOPS   American And_ British Armies Gain New Ground— Two Towns Captured

ROMMEL CONTINUES RETREAT   Air Action Is Heavy As Allies Report Further Gains

Allies Moving Up To Smash Rommel Forces   German Commander Making Desperate Bid To Escape

Nothing Stands in Way of Rush of Gen. Montgomery’s Forces Except Hostily Erected Defenses, Gen. Eisenhawer Says

Claim Made Motorists Paying Low Rates Are Not  Benefited  RELIEF REPORT READY

WPB Reported Ready To Aid Fuel Output   Senator Reed Says Priorities Will Be Granted to Boost Production for Midwest—Calls Oil-Heating Situation Critical.

READY TQ EASE UP   Fuel Production Priorities Will Be Granted to This  Area

‘BIG INCH’ PIPE LINE NEAR COMPLETION   U. S. Steel Mill Turns Out Six Miles of Pipe a Day

GUERRILLAS CUT RAILWAY: KILL GERMAN TROOPS   French Patriots, Nazis Forees Battle

‘SLIGHT HEAT RELIEF   'No Major Break in Heat Wave Seen by Forecaster’.

Rope-sole Shoes Free of Ration  March 24 Is Date _ _ For Sales Start

OPA-LIFTS BAN ON SOME SHOES   New Rulings Go Into Effect March 24 on Non-Strategic Materials

Missionary Tells Of Jap Brutality   Describes What Happened To Thousands of Chinese

 ARMY: DEVELOPES PORTABLE PIPE LINES TO CARRY GAS   New Line Comes in Self-Contained HalfMile Units.

Army Develops New Portable Pipelines To Carry Gasoline  To Motorized highting Units

Portable Pipes Carry Gasoline   Can Deliver Fuel At 200 Gallons Per Minute

Army Develops Portable Pipelines To Carry Gas to Motorized Units

Halsey Predicts Complete Allied Victory in 1943   ‘Hirohito, Your Time Is Short,’ Warns Fighting Admiral

FDR rejectsagency to aid  lumber output   Wickard, Nelson  soucht creation

War Spending Hits High Of $253,400,000 Per Day In February, WPB Reports

ACTRESS JAILED DURING SPREE   Film Star Uses Fists on Officers, Matron,  Hairdresser

Some AFL Mines In Illinois Freed  First Such Incident Since Government

Government Agrees To Release Illinois Mines With A.F. of L. Contracts

To Free Mines With Contracts   Government Releasing Al Mines With Union Contracts.

American Planes Drop Bombs On  Italian Airdrome   250,000 Pounds of High Explosives Fall On Important Target

BOMBERS HIT TARANTO BASE   Strike Naval Base as Others Return to Pantelleria

State Draft Boards Will Call  Men In Wrong Jobs By April I   Basis Of Deferment Has Now Shifted To Occupation, Mer Urged To Take War Jobs -

'State’s Draft Boards Prepare /To Call Non-Essential Workers   1,000,600 3-A Men To Be Checked Immediately So Draft Of Fathers May Be Started April 1

OF AXIS LINE REELS BACK   Believe Nazis Are Withdrawing From The Donets Basin

EVACUATION ON RUSSIAN FRONT BEGUN   Nazi Garrison Aims at Shortening Line By Giving Up Anchor Point.   BULLETIN

May Force Withdrawal Of Germans   Donets Basin May Have to Be Given Up—Trouble  in Denmark

Russians Take  Taganrog on Qaa af Ag  47 OW UE fahOYV   Retreat to Dnieper Seen; Move Made to Es “ er Came § r#is

NAZIS REPORTED FLEEING WEST ‘ALONG COAST   Victory May Clear Donets

LEWIS ASKED TO OUTLINE HIS STAND   Government Suggests He Speak and Submit Issue to WLB

LEWIS URGED TO STATE CASE TO RADIO PUBLIC   Ickes Asks That UMW Chief Then Submit Demands To Labor Board   PANEL CALLS WITNESSES   Board Hearing May Not Be Completed Before End Of Strike Truce

EXPLAIN SALES ON RATION BOOK NO. 2   Mose Than 200 Items Will Be Covered by Ration Book 2 After March 1.

‘SAVE THIS PAGE ~ OF INFORMATION ABOUT RATIONINE   Canned Goods “F rozen” At “Midnight Saturday— - Apply For Points

Details Of How You May Secure Your No. 2 Ration Book In Oxford Next Week’

Patterson Calls War Situation Encouraging.  Nelson Reports: Good:  Trimmed. Down Fine; Resume Hearings .

NATION'S CAPITAL CHEERED BY MINE OTRIKE END; WAR  , SITUATION ENCOURAGING "AND CIVILIAN ECONOMY

WPB Releases Cheery News For Civilians   "Not Much More Trimming Of Consumer Goods'' Nelson Declares  SITUATION REVIEWED

Trimming Civilian Economy Nearing End   Further Consumer Goods Restrictions Would Aid War Little; World Situation Encouraging, Officials Say.

ALLIES WILL HOLD OUT FOR COMPLETE CESSION OF ITALY   Gen. Eisenhower May Be He With Whom [Italians Must Deal — No Relaxation

Allies To Reject Peace Proposals  Made By Italians   Eisenhower Believed Designated To Deal With Badoglio Regime

EISENHOWER TOBE NAMED T0 HANDLE ITALY?   His Terms Will Be Flat Unconditional Surrender

Escape From Jail; Steal A Plane   Two Soldiers Flee at Bakersfield California

PAIR BREAKS JAIL; ESCAPES IN AIRPLANE   Soldiers make get-away after dash from military guard house

5th Army Continues Progress   Bombers Leave African Bases to Splinter Sections of Aircraft Plant

TURKEY MAY OPEN DARDANELLES 10 ALLIED POWERS   Believe Neutral Nation Will Go Along With U. S., Britain, Mosrow.

Turkey May Be Ready To Open Up Dardanelles   Eden’s Talks With Turkish

Cairo Talks May Open Dardanelles   AIR BASE GRANT SEEN IN EDEN CONFABS WITH TURKEY FOREIGN CHIEF

‘ALLIES MAY GET  BASES IN TURKEY   Eden’s Mission to Cairc Viewed Sianificant

“Over 300 Arrested As Wild Disorders “Sweep District Dispute Pleas Of Mayer -LaGuardia; New Outbreaks Feared 

RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON CENTRAL FRONT; HOLD FIRM ON DONETS BASIN FRONT

Red Army Drive Against Smolensk Also Reported To Be Gaining Ground. 

NAZIS SUFFERING HEAVY LOSSES IN DONETS BATTLE   Red Army Regains Initiative In Section Of Kharkov Area

Turn Back Japs On Vella Lavella   Attempt To Retake Island Repulsed

JAPS REPULSED BY = U.S. SURFACE FORCE, GENTRAL SOLOMONS   First Attempt to Retake Vella : Lavella Island, Occupied  by Americans.  ~   300 JAPS WERE LANDED   Landing Attempt Was Res pelled by a Light U. Ss. Task Force.

JAPS REPULSED IN EFFORT TO RETAKE VELLA.LAVELLA ISLAND IN SOLOMONS   Hundreds of Barge Born Troops Killed or Captured. One Enemy Destroyer Probably Sunk Another Severely Damaged and A Third Hit

Frustrate Jap Effort To Recapture Island   Flundreds of Barge-borne Enemy Troops Killed or Captured in Landing Attempt At Vella Lavella In Solomons,

Japanese Repulsed In Attemptto Retake Vella Lavella Island   Hundreds of Barge-Borne Troops Killed or Captured in Frustrated Landings Attempt m New Georsia

Jap Attempt to Recapture Vella Lavella Island Is _. Turned Into Bloody Defeat

Hundreds of Japs on Barges Are Killed of Captured in Frustrated Landing Attempt; One Enemy Destroyer Probobly Sunk 

JAPS TRY TO RETAKE (SLE   U. S. Surface Force Repulses Attempt to Recapture Vella Lavella.   JAP LANDING REPELLED

JAPANESE BLOODILY REPULSED IN EFFORT TO RETAKE ISLAND  ANOTHER STAGGERING AIR BLOW DEALT ENEMY AQ PIANEC NECTROVED.

Jap Attempt To Retake Vella Lavella Repelled   Nips Lose Heavily In Try; American Light Task Force Sends Destroyers Running

Japs Repulsed In Effort To Retake Island   Only 300 Of Estimated 2.200 Japanese Troops Land On Vella Lavella.   NIP DESTROYER SUNK

Foe Repulsed Ir Push To Retake  Vella Lavella   U. S. Surface Forces Kill, Capture B Hundreds: On Barges; Wewak Plane Toll Soars To 2/5

HUNDREDS OF BARGE - BORNE TROOPS SLAIN   Nipponese Thrust Comes Bare 48 Hours After Amphibious Units are  Landed on Island   LITTLE GROUND ACTION

JAP ATTEMPT TQ AeiNrOntt TAUOPS FOILED   American Navy  Bloodil\ Repulses Enemy Convoy Off Vella Lavella

Japanese Forces Suffer a Repulse   Attempt to Take Vella Lavella Island Is Beaten Off  street waar ean @ ei ta rsxror Tr’      HIT BY TASK FORCE   Hundreds of Barge-Borne Enemy Troops Killed or Captured

JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO RETAKE PACIFIC ISLE REPULSED BY AMERICAN LAND AND SEA CRAFT  i pees Pe eg ee eee   Hundreds Of Enemy Soldiers Killed In Attempt To Land On Vella LaVella

Jap Attempt To Recapture Island Is Frustrated   Hundreds Of Enemy Troops Killed Or Captured As Barges Are Nearly Wiped Out

JAPANESE THRUST AT VELLA LAVELLA BLOODILY BLOCKED   More Than 1,200 Killed or Captured as United States Forces Open Attack on Rarces

Jap Forces” In Barges Sinashed   1,500 Or More . Enemy Trops Killed or Captured in U. S. Navy Attack   FOUR DESTROYERS  ARE TURNED BACK   Expedition Was On Way to Attempt Recapture of Vella Lavella Island

Japanese Forces Suffer a Repulse   ‘Attempt to Take Vella LaWella. Island Is .. . Beaten Off   HIT BY TASK FORCE   Hundreds of Barge Easy Troops Kileder or i Captured

Yanks Repulse Jap Troops In Landing Attempt   360 Gut of an Estimated Force of 1,500 to 2,200 in Jap Invasion Force Succeed in Landing on Vella Lavella

Halt Jap Attempt To Retake Isle Of Vella Lavella   Allied Quarters Report Hundreds Of Nipponese Are Killed Or Captured

U8. SURFACE FORCE TURNS ENEMY BACK      One Jap Destroyer Probably  Sunk, Second Damaged, Third Hit

Smash Jap Landing Attempt   Landing Barges Blasted; . Hundreds of Troops Killed in Attempt ito — Retake Vella Lavella -

Jap Attack At Vella Lavella Is Repulsed   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Attempt Re-Take Island

Yanks Repulse Jap Thrust At Vella Lavella   U. S. Sea Force Smashes Attempt At Landing; Heavy Enemy Losses.

JAP LANDING BOATS SUNK AT “VELLA LAVELLA   Three Enemy Destroyers Hil, One Probably Sunk as Navy ‘Repuls we: Paawwoen   WEWAK HIT AGAIN   Second Allied Bombing Raid Leaves Only Ten Planes of Force Once Numbering 225

Landing By Jap Forces Is Bloeked   Barge-Borne Troops Are Repulsed When They Attempt To Land On Vella Lavella Island

JAPS REPULSED IN EFFORT 10 RETAKE ISLAND   Hundreds of BargeBorne Troops Lost Off Vella Lavella

ENEMY TRIES TO RECAPTURE ISLE   But Landing Effort on Vella Lavella Is Thwarted by U. S. Forces

U.S. Air Blows Hit Jap Hold  On New Guinea Nips Repulsed By   Surface Force At Vella Lavella

Only 10 Of 225 Jap Airplanes Left After Raid   1500 Fliers, Ground Workers Killed; Air Base Town ls Blasted

Japs Repulsed In First Stab At Lost Island   Attempt To Recapture Vella Lavella Is Quickly Beaten   JAP LOSS IS HEAVY   Foe Casualties Thought To Run Close To 2.000 Troops

Japs Are Repulsec In Attack on Isle   Enemy Seeks to Retake Vella Lavella And Loses Hundreds of Men to Yankees

Navy Stops Jap Attempt To Take Back Vella Lavella   Hundreds of Barge- Borne Nipponese Troops Killed.or Captured in Thrust Against Newly-Occupied ‘tsland

SUFFER BLOODY DEFEAT CLOSE (ELLA LAVELLA   Hundreds 6f -Barge-Borne  Nip Troops Killed or  Captured During Frustrated Landing   WARSHIP SCREENING MOVE IS DESTROYED   Another Severely Damaged and Third Hit; Approximately 1,200 Nipponese Drowned

Hundreds Drowned As Barges Wrecked By Naval Gunnery   Efforts To Retake Vella Lavella Island Smashed, Jap Destroyers Driven Off And One Probably Sunk in Sweeping Defeat

Japs Smeared As They Try To Retake Key Island   Hundreds Of Barge-Borne Enemy Troops Killed Or Captured During Frustrated— ~Landing Attempt Early Tuesday.

LANDING BARGES ARE BLASTED BY U.S. WARSHIPS   ONLY FEW HUNDRED NIPS ESCAPE DEATH IN SOLOMONS FIGHT

Russians Capture - Novorossisk, Black ~~ Sea Naval Center   ” Entire Nazi Position in the Caucasus in Jeopardy; Big Force May Be Lost; Hitler's Hopes for 01] Are Blasted

Russians Capture Bryansk: Fall of Krasnograd Near   Three Soviet Armies Are Closing in on Vital Nazi Bastion and Rail Junction

6 Vital Railways Captured By Reds   Russians Score a Major Victory in Driving to Northeast   BRYANSK IS CAPTURED   Soviet Troops Plunge Ahead on Sectors of 600 Mile  Front

Russians Take Big Naval Base Qf Novorossisk   Vital Black Sea Port Is Captured By Storm After Five-Day Battle.

Reds and Nazis Now Agree Bryansk Has Been Captured by Russian Army

Bridgehead To Caucasus  Taken, Claim   German Defenses East Of Dnieper River Are Reported Smashed In  Russian Drives

ROUT 4 NAZI DIVISIONS IN 8-DAY BATTLE      Port Was Last Strongly Defended Bastion in the Kuban Delta — Soviets Also Seize City of Novgorod-Seversky.

NOVOROSSISK IS TAKEN BY REDS, STALIN REPORTS   Black Sea Naval Base Falls Under Pounding by Land, Sea Units

REDS CAPTURE GERMAN BASE ON BLACK SEA   Novorossisk Is Taken in Special Message Issued by Joe Stalin.   Taken by Storm After Five Days of Fighting

GREAT VICTORY ANNOUNCED BY STALIN TODAY   Vital Port Taken by Storm After Five Days of Furious Battline

Russians Take Brvansk After Swilt Advance   Three Soviet Armies Closing On Krasnograd, Important Rail Town,   REDS GO UNCHECKED

Red Drive Threatens Nazi Escape   Russians Push Toward German's Dnieper Defense Wall

Russians Drive Toward Vital Kiev Railway  Nezhin, Main Nazi Defense Bastion, Tr... ©Mm. Te. 2.

Novorossisk Taken After Hard Battle   Ground and Sea Forces Rout Nazi Troops

Dryansk Falls To Advancing Russian Army  Seizure Is Announced   Seizure Is Announced By Stalin; Krasnograd Threatened; One Red Column Nears Kiev

Capture Of Novorossisk Clears The Caucasus — Russians Push Rapidly Toward Dnieper River

Soviet Troops In Novorossisk  On Quick Stab   Five Day Battle Nets Last Strongly Defended Port On Kuban Delta.   PUSH ACROSS UKRAINE

Nazis Evacuate Bryansk as Soviets Advance   Russians Closing in   Russians Closing in On Rail City Of Krasnoerad

RAIL CENTER OBJECTIVE OF RED ADVANCE   Soviet Columns Apparently Aiming Main Thrust aft Kiev-Poltava-Lozavaya Junction   IMFORTANT LINES CUT

Novorossisk,'Black Sea Base, and Caucasus Oil Hope Lost by Nazis

REDS CAPTURE NOVOROSSISK   Fall Of Black Sea Naval Base Announced By Moscow

Russians Take Novorossisk   Hitler’s Last Hope Of Caucasus Oil Is Gone

Three Red Armies  Drive Into Ukraine   Gérman High Command Admits Bryansk Evacuation as Russians Press Ahead

TROOPS, ‘FLEET, SCORE VICTORY   Hitler's Faded Hope of Caucasus Oil Toppled

GERMANS ARE ROUTED AFTER 5-DAY BATTLE   Russian Troops Anc Naval Units Score Big Victory

Russians Take Bryansk In Major Victory   Stalin Announces Triumph At Junction OF Six Yital Railways   ROUT SIX DIVISIONS   Capture Paves Way For Thrust Toward White Rus: sia, 70 Miles Off

Reds Converge On Strategic Krasnograd   Three . Soviet Armies _ Closing In On Nazi Bastion -and Rail Junction on Last Main Rail Link Between North & South German Forces:

REDS DRIVING BEYOND NEWLY SEIZED NEZHIN   Aims Thrust Against KievPoltava-Lozovaya Railway to Isolate German Forces

Russians Thrust To Cut Railway, Isolate Enemy   Kiev-Poltava-Lozovaya RR Is The Last Remaining Line Linking Germans

Fall of Nazi Bridgehead Likely to Force German Retreat Across Kerch fo Crimea   WAY TO KIEV OPEN   German Defenses Eas! of Dnieper Ripped Apart in Capture of Nezhin, Gulai Pole, Pokrovskoye

Reds Close In On Krasnograd   Soviet Columns Eat Up German-Held Positions in Hurry

Russ Capture Novorossisk, Naval Base   Nevgoced-Zavershy On Contral Front Also Is Token

2 Important Ukraine Rail Centers Taken   Soviets Push Westward from Nehzin On Kiey Railroad

IMPORTANT BLACK SEA PORT TAKEN IN 5-DAY BATTLE   Gther Soviet Forces in Northern Ukraine Seize NovgorodSeversky, 80 Miles From White Russian Border

Reds Close In On Krasnograd  From 3 Sides   Other Russian Columns Plunge Ahead All Along 600-Mile Front.

3 RED ARMIES PUSH FORWARD   New Successes Reported in South Ukraine

Russians Doom Nazi Defenses East Ot Dniepel   Three Soviet Armies Advancing Through Southern Ukraine

CAPTURE OF BIG JUNCTION MAJOR SOVIET VICTORY   Three Soviet Forces Surging Westward Through Ukraine, Closing In On Nazi Bastion And Rail  Tunction.

Hitler’s Hope For Caucasus  Oil Is Erased   Only Limited Withdrawals Possible From Tiny Neck of Kuban Delta

Novorossisk Is Captured by RussianForces   Vital Port Taken by Storm After Five  ~ Days of Fierce Fighting; Red Army Troops Rip Apart German Defenses Facet of Dniener River

Reds Hail Capture. Of Bryansk      City Had Been Vital Link in German Defense Line Since Its Capture in QOct., 1941

6 Vital Railways Captured By Reds   Russians Score a Major Victory in Driving to Northeast   BRYANSK IS CAPTURED   Soviet Troops on Sectors o Front  Ahead Mile

CAPTURED ALLIE FLYER BEHEADED BY BARBARIAN JAPS AT SALAMAU/   Unknown Aijirman’s Execution Recorded In Diary Found On Dead Japanese Soldier.

KELLY SIGNS BISHOP BILL   State to Set Up Post War Reserve Fund for Soldiers’ Bonus, Employment Fund

TWEEDIE FIRM WINS U.S. AWARE   One of Thirty-Three In the Nation Cited For Production Efficiency

TOKYO REPORTS A QUAKE   Many Persons Reported to Have Been Killed in Japan

Tokyo Reports ‘Quake Kills Host Of Japs   Feel Shock In  Several Cities

U.S. Export: To Spain Stir Capital Envoy Discloses  Shipments of Osx} B.n.] ona...

U6, SHIPS FOOD, COTTON 10 SPAIN   Spaniards Praised for Effecting Vigorous Economic Comeback.

U. S. DISCLOSED TO BE SENDING SPAIN SUPPLIES   Oil, Cotton, Food And Other Produce © Sent to Help Restore Economy There

U.S. Helping Hitler Friend   Vast Stores Shipped To The Spanish '

FATE OF TRAIN COOK IN HANDS OF JURY   Deliberated Over 13 Hours Wednesday

SPARK CONFERRING WITH COMMITTEES   Two Calhoun Representatives Are Given Positions

Hoover Tells How ToFeed U.S. & World   FORMER PRESIDENT SAYS AMERICANS WILL NOT STARVE BU WILL HAVE NOTHING FOR EUROPE.

Hoover Maps Steps to Clear Food “Muddle”   Former President asks authority for agriculture secretary over all wroductioii.

Russian Attitude Major Problem   Soviet Views Toward Europe Must Be Met

Error In Intelligence, Faulty Troop: Movement Cause Of U.S. Defeat

Why U.S. Lost First Battle  Faulty Intelligence Princinal Reason

Error in Intelligence Loses Battle   Faulty Disposition of Troeps Also Blamed for Less of First American Major Battle with Germans

U.S. Defeat In Tunisia. Due To Poor Staff Work   Truth About’ February ‘Setback ‘Is Officially Revealed; Errors By © Headquarters Caused" ‘Very . Heavy’ Losses .

INTELLIGENCE ERROR BLAMED FOR YANK SET-BACK IN AFRICE   Axis Struck at Faid When Expected at Pichon

Wrong Guess on: Rommel’s Plans Caused Yanks to Lose First Big Battle in Tunisia

Intelligence Fault in First Loss To Nazis   Poor Distribution Of Troops Contributed To Tunisian Defeat   American Losses Were Very Heavy Says Army   Rommel’s Tanks Met Little Opposition At Some Points

Intelligence Error Cost U.S. First Major Battle With Nazi Army In Tunisian Fighting

Report Given On First Major Battle Lost To Nazis By U. S. Forces

Yanks Drive Into 2 Cities   Transport Junctions Captured by Raiders

AMERICAN 1h ARMY oTURN ) MORE TOWNS   Hard-Pressed Nazis Counter Attack, But Fail To Budge American Holdings

CAPTURE TWO TRANSPORT “TOWNS, THEN HOLD THEM AGAINST COUNTER-ATTAC

Transport Towns Along Road To Rome Captured   Hhard-Pressed German Forces Strike Heavily — At British Troops

SHOCK UNITS HIT GERMAN DEFENSES   Jugoslav Partisans Wrect An Important Ore Mine In Fight With Nazi.

Yanks Storm Two Townson Rome Road   American Shock Troops Press 4 Miles Closer

Germans Strike for Time to Fix New Italy Line   U. S. Shock Troops, British Beat Off Vicious Assaults

CAPTURE 3 MORE TOWNS   Advance Four Miles Closer To Nazi Defense Line

NAZ COUNTERATTACKS FAIL IN HILLY AREA   Allies Inch Forward On Ruined Roads To Dama

MR gat i PREDICT CrViedaN’”. SUPPLIES: NO LARGER IN 1944 THAN IN 1948

STALIN'S ANSWER TO BE READY SOON   Soviet Premier to Write IPresident Reply © Shortly,  Davies: Reports

Davies Waits Sfalin Reply   Roosevelt Answer Expected in Few Days ot Second Talk

STALIN RECEIVES FDR MESSENGER   INDICATES REPLY T0 PRESIDENT’S LETTER IN A DAY OR TWO

STALIN WEIGHS F.D.R'S LETTER   Will Give Davies Answer. Within Next Few Days.

STALIN'S ANSWER TO ROOSEVELT MAY BE GIVEN QUICKLY  ENVOY DAVIES SAYS  CHVICT DOLCMICD CHIT BI

RACING GOOSE ALWAYS LOSES   Picks Bus for Competitior In Dajly Workout

Civilian Supply Group Blasted By Senate Body   Committee Savs Officers ‘Gambled’ With Supply Of Foods

MAY NOT REAGH '43 FOOD GOALS, CLAIM   Committee Charges OCS Has ‘Gambled’ With Food Supply

PRODUCTION OF FOOD GOALS MAY NOTBEREACHED   Senate Group Holds Office of Civilian Supply Has “Gambled Unwisely With Supply”   CRITICIZE OCS VIEWS   Rejection of Recommendation For New Farm Machinery Held “ShortSighted Policy”

FARM EQUIPMENT LIMIT IS THREAT 10 ‘FOOD SUPPLY, IS CRY   Senate Committee Condemns OCS For “Gambline’ With Farm Production

MUST MEET GOALS   Senate. Committee Fears 1943 Crop Production May Fall Short

\Chinese War Mission Plans ‘Return Home      Chairman Makes Final Call On  Roosevelt

CHINA MILITARY MISSION LEAVES   Generalissimo Not Satisfied With Results.

RAF Bombers Join Fight for Italy By Blasting German Supply Routes

R.A.F. Hits Nazi Transport Lines  Help Allied Armies Invading Italy

Allied Planes Batter Enemy  Supply Line: Railroad Tunnel Hit From Bases

Allies Keep Fight Alive With Widespread Raids  Europe Is Hammered By Continual Waves of Aircraft

NAZI RAIL LINES TO ITALY BOMBED   BRITISH-BASED PLANES AID INVASION ARMY BY POUNDING SUPPLY ROUTES.

Raids Support  AGW JUypUll  ltalian Campaigr   Britain-Based Planes Are Active

LONG-RANGE AID GIVEN TO YANKS   Transport Channels Into Italy For Germans Blasted By RAF

6000 Joir Rubber Walkout   AUTO WORKERS BACK ON JOB AT DETROIT IN LATEST MOVE

36,000 STRIKE ~ RUBBER PLANTS; ’WLB IS BLAMED  CHRYSLER WORKERS IN

MARY DETROI WORKERS GO BACK TQ JOB   Rubber Workers Still on Strike; Laws Demanded

Rubber Workers Stage Walkout, Cripple Plants   Striking Chrysler Workers Returns To Jobs Following Vote

FORD PLANTS CLOSE DOWN.IN CANADA AS RESULT OF DISPUTE   War Production Ceases as  15,000 Workers in  ‘Three Shifts “SitDown,”

 Miss ‘ippians Charged With Drinking Arkansas Dry: Comes In Over Bridge

HALIFAX HITS PEACE RUMORS   Envoy Says Allies Will Not Fall Into Trap of Compromise Peace

HALIFAX HITS PEACE RUMORS   Envoy Says Allies Will Not Fall Into Trap of \  Pare ted Peace

Destruction of Hitler's Armies Before Eliminating Japs Remains Biggest Ambition of Allied Strategists

Senate Outcry Disregarded  U.S. Sticks to Its Strategy Plan to ‘Beat Hitler First’

BEAT AXIS FIRST PLAN UNCHANGED   SENATE OUTCRY WILL CAUSE NO SHIFT OF ALLIED PUOWER TO PACIFIC.

‘ Destruction Of European Axis Still No. 1 Allied Job .  With No Plan To Shift From Present Drive Indicated

Hitler First’ Still Allied Strategy Despite Clamor   rar Against Japan Expected to Be Stepped U DP, : However, as Additional Supgtiee Allatte<d

Destruction of Axis Still First Aim of Allies  No Shift of Plans   No Shift of Plans After Criticism of Sen. Chandler

MERCURY WILL TAKE NOSEDIVE   Zero or Below Forecas for lowa on Tuesday

CHRISTMAS SEASON FAST APPROACHING   Organizations Begin To Make Plans To Care  for the Needy

ACT T0 TAKE OFF LIMITS FOR SALAR}   Legislation to Nullify F. R.’s Limitations Okayed by House Committee on Ways, Means

HOUSE MOVES TO WIPE OUT SALARY LIMIT   Action Is First Challenge To President's War Powers     FAVORED 15-10     More Liberal Ceiling Is Proposed Under New  ~Measure

House Group Votes Down Salary Curb   President's Limit Of $25,000 Yearly Faces Repeal

MOVE GAINS 10 UPSET $25,000 SALARY LIMITS   House Group -Approves Measure to Upéet: Roosevelt Plan

Showdown on $25,000 Due   Committee to Vote On Rider Erasing F.D.R. Directive

Vote to Repeal FR.’s $25,000 Salary Ceiling   House Group Moves To Challenge Executive Order

Would Cut Out Salary Limit   Committee Moves To Override President °

Vote To Stop FDR Order On $25,000 Limit   House Committee Votes Nullification To First. Presidential Order,   DEMOS JOIN MINORITY

SALARY CEILING REPEAL SOUGHT   Measure To Wipe Out Roosevelt Decree Is Approved

LIMITATION ON SALARIES MOVE   Showdown Vote Was Expected in House Ways and Means Com. Today.

Committee Okays Pay Limit Plan Measure Would Nullify  F. R.’s Order Pegging 25.000 As Ton

House Ways and Means Committee Votes to Wipe Out Order of President on Pegging Salaries

BILL TO END SALARY LIMIT IS APPROVED   Committee Will Submit to House Measure Pegging Incomes at Their  ‘ Level When the Country Went to War.

May Set New Salary Limit      More Liberal Ceiling Being Considered

SOLONS RUB OUT ~ SALARY LIMITS   Disney’s Proposal to Peg Salaries at Pre-War Levels Approved

AMENDMENT TO REPEALSALARY CURBAPPROVED   House Ways and Means Committee Action Provides for More Liberal Ceiling   VOTE IS 15 TO 10   Action Held Step Toward “Recapture of Preroga-— tives Belonging to — Legislative Branch”

Committee Moves To Nallify Roosevelt $25,000 Pay Limit   Favor Freezing of Upper Bracket Salaries As of Dec. 7, 1941; Committee Votes 15 to 10 For Disney’s Amendment

Strike at FDR’s  Limit on Salary   House Committee Votes to Nullify Order in Bill to Raise National Debt.

Committee Upsets FDR Salary Limit   5 Democrats Join All Republicans In 15-to-10 Split

FDR DECREE DEFIED   More Liberal Ceilings on Earnings   Aim Of House Measure

Vote to Lift $25,000 Limit On Salaries   House Committee . Ballo’s 15-to-10 for Nullifying Roosevelt Order   PRE-PEARL HARBOR TOP APPROVED   Action Marks First Step Against Executive Order in Congressional Action

House Group Votes to Kill $25,000 Limit   First Move to Challenge Roosevelt Under War Powers Act

Showdown Vote Sought in House On Salary Limit   Roosevelt's Intervention Delays Action

GROUP MOVES TO NULLIFY FDR'S $95 000 SALARY PEG   Ways And Means Committee Tacks Rider To Deht Limit Bill

CHIEFS CONFER NIGHT AND DAY   Political Issues Of War Covered By Churchill And Roosevelt

President and Churchill Relurn io Night and Day War Conference Schedule

BOB HOPE WINS TOP RADIO HONOR   Picked As ‘Champion’ ‘For Third Year; Other Leaders  Are Announced

M’ARTHUR CLUB BOOMS GENERAL   Army Officer's Name Would Appear on GOP Primary Ballot in Illinois

NINE KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES   Five Army Fliers. Four Farm Workers Are ¥ictims In Maine Accident

TRAINING PLANE CRASHES IN HOUSE   Two George Field Men. Farmer and Wife Killed Today.

9 or More Persons  Are Killed   Maine Farm Scene of Un usual Accident — Farm  Workers Dead

WEATHER   Milan Newspapers Describe British Bombing As’Most Violent OfWar' ~

Whole Block: Repor ted As LeveledIn Milan Raid   Victims Believed Great In British Attack; One Railway Station Hit Heavily

Japs Lose 23 Planes In Attack   Japanese Suffer Heavy Loses In Attempt To Renew Offensive

RIMKE AGAIN UNDER GUARD   CLEVELANDER UNDER LIFE .SENTENCE AFTER COURT ~ MARTIAL SURRENDERS TO AUTHORITIES

SIDELIGHTS ON MEATS AND FATS RATIONING   Foods Will be Rationed b; Synole Set af Stamps.

Meat Rationing Starts March 29   Coupon Plan Is Discussed By Head of Board—Will Include All Kinds Meats

RATIONING OF - MEATS AND FATS STARTS MAR. 29   Eighty Points per Person The Allotment For April

OLAS ete pean oomeumnen ———  Simplicity Is Keynote Of New Rationing Program Which Opens On Mon., Mar. 29

SET FOR START OF MEAT RATIONING   Method Of Distribution Of. Meats And Fats Is On Simple Basis

Simplicity To Keynote  Rationing  Local Board ( oe? Lag & ae ha   Local Board Gives Details On Meat Plans

Rationing Of Meats And Fats Starts March 29  Chairman Explains Procedure Of Ratio  Tal _ ar

Meats, Ftc., Will Be Rationed With A Single Sef Stamps   Beginning March 29 First Set Stamps Marked A Are Valid

Rationing Set For March 29  Red Stamps In War Book Il Geod For Meat. Butter

CHINA FACES HER DARKEST HOUR, TODAY   Gen. Chiang Kai-shek says this is crisis of six-year war

CHINA FACING CRITICAL TIME   Chiang Kai-Shek Says Nation Is In Its Darkest Hour.

BIGGEST U. S. BUDGET GOES TO PRESS   Hundred Billion Dollar Program Ready Monday

Budget Over 100 Billion   Is $30 Billion More Than Spent This Fiscal Year

100 BILLIONS “GOES TO PRESS”   ee  Yew Millions for Such As Forestry and —Beetles!

MOST EXPENSIVELY WORDED BOOK IN HISTORY, THE U. S. BUDGET, ON PRESS

ae  United States ‘Budget Goes to Press Today   RY IRVING PERLMETER

MOST EXPENSIVELY WORDED BOOK IN HISTORY GOES TO PRESS-U.S. BUDGET FOR $100,000,000 000 FOR YEAR   Because of Size and Complications Book Will Not Be Ready For Public Reading Until Monday, When Clerks Will Read to Both House

10 BILLION IN ANNUAL BUDGET   Big and Complicated Bock Goes to Press; to Be Ready Monday.

Mars To Submit His Bill  ‘America To Spend More Than All Allies and Foes In Coming Y ear

CONGRESS 10 BE AOKED FOR (00 BILLIONS   Budget Message to Be Given Both Houses Next Monday.   SUM DESIRED FOR DIRECT WAR COSTS   Increase by About 30 Billions in Amount Spent _in Current Year.

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New Oil Ration Cut, Ickes Hints   Civilian Supply Rests On Military Demands

PRESIDENT CROSSES DESERT BATTLEFIELDS   thief Executive Impressed B) Fortitude Of Allied Warriors In Winning Desolate Terrain

PRESIDENT SEES BATTLE FIELDS   Transport Flies Loy -~ Over Bomb-Pocked African Sands

President. Roosevelt flies over historic battlefields   Receives graphic description of fishing on return from conference

ROOSEVELT FLIES OVER BATTLEFIELD IN NORTH AFRICA   Plane Dips Low at Time on El Alamein-to-Tunis Journey to Give Him CloseUp View.   GE.APHIC IMPRESSION GAINED OF STRUGGLE   Travels in Huge Army Transport Which Is Protected by ‘Fighters on 1,500 Mile Trip.

F.D.R. Flies Over Historic ~ Battlefields Enroute Home   President Impressed With Fortitude of Allied Fighters Who Conquered Desolate North African Area

Allies Complete Encirclement of  Jap-Held Base   Trapped Garrison At Finschhafen Being Driven Back To Sea

Encirclement Completed At Finsehhafen   Ring Being Drawn Tight As Allies Advance On Doomed Bastion

JAP GARRISON ENCIRCLED AT FINSCHHAFE}   Aussies Drive Trapped Enemy Troops Back To Sea

Trapped Enemy Being Driven Back To Sea But Puts Up Some Stubborn  . Resistance,

AUSSIES COMPLETE ENCIRCLEMENT OF FINSCHHAFEN BASE   Trapped Jap ,Garrison Is Being Driven — ~ -$lowly Back — ‘Te Sea

Austkalian Soldiers-.-Complete En. “ Girelement of Japanese-Held , Fin.  schaffen—Slowly Driving Trapped . Enemy Garrison Back .to Sea.

Encirclement Of Finschhafen ls Completed   Trapped Enemy Being Driven ‘Back to Sea

Security Levy Hike Is Urged By Roosevelt  Congress Is Slatec To! Get Series Of  nreantne

White House Asks Hike in Security Tax   Plans Way to Lick Inflation, Widen Social Programs

RAF Hammer: Sub Base   ‘Raids Wilhelmshaven And Attacks French Coast » as

MARKS 71ST RAID ON BASE   Day Air Operations Made Against Continent

RAF Bombers Heavily Blast Wilhelmshaven   Attack is Part Of New Anti U Daas M‘amnatan

MADE ON NAZI BASE   3 Bombers Reported Lost; Action Over Channel Area

Wilthelmshaven ls Battered by RAF 71st Time   Planes Cross for New Raids Today

Will Not Be Safe To Get More Than 90 Miles From Home In Your Auto; OPA Will Check On Vacation Spots

ALLIED AIRMEN ACCOUNT FOR {1 JAP PLANES   Five Nipponese Attempts To Bomb Allied Airdrome  At Wau Frustrated.

ALLIED PLANES DOWN 41 JARS IN NEW GUINEA   Attempts To Bomb Airport At Wau Disastrous For Jap Airmen

Air Activity Is Intensified   ‘Atacks Heaviest Since Java’s Fall

AT JAP PLANES SNOT DOWN IN FIGHT AT WAU   American Fliers Break Up Five Jap Attempts to Bomb Airdrome.   DUTCH AIRMEN HELP TO DESTROY ENEMY SHIPS

Allied fliers shoot down 26 Japanese   15 more hobbled over New Guinea

4\ Jap Planes Hit by Allies In Wau Fight   Dutch Fliers Biast Foe in Fierce Attacks in East Indies Area

Last Large Jap Unit Destroyed In Dawn Battle   Nipponese Troops Wiped Out In Attempting Counterattack; Tokwvo Leaders Admit Defeat

Battle For Attu Is Won   Japs Admit it And Navy Tells Of Annihilation

Attu Regained By American Troops In 20 Days Of Bitter Fighting In Snow And Fog   Navy Announces Annihilation Of Japanese Force Except For Snipers; Tokyo Admits Loss Of Aleutians Base; Enemy Casualties Are High

Enemy Admits Loss of All Fighters   Few Snipers Remain But Americans Hold Complete Rule

Headquarters Of Japanese Admit Defeat   Annihilation of Last Large Enemy Force Announced by Navy  ONLY SNIPERS LEFT

J. S$. Triumph Comes After 20 Days of Bitter Fighting: Foe Casualties Are Believed to Be Large

VU. >. Flag Flies Triumphant On the , Island  DEFEAT ADMITTED BY JAP OFFICIALS Island Taken After 20  Days of Bitter 2 Fiahtina

Japanese Admit Loss of Island To U. S. Forces   Tokyo Says Nips Fought Hard, Committed Suicide To Avoid Capture   Only a Few Isolated Snipers Remain Hidden on Island

Tokyo Idealizes Final Suicide Attack On Yanks; Wounded Men Kill Themselves

Tokyo Admits Defeat in Radio Communique ; Only Isolated Snipers Left, Washington Renorts in Announcing Northern Victory

Japs Acknowledge Aleutians Defeat      inemy Force Annihilated Except for Snipers; Hand-to-hand Struggle Ends

20 Days Bitter Fighting Gives Island to U: S.   Victorious Flag Waves After Final Battle, Wandeto-Hond

R. A. F, Attacks Ruhr and Warns Berlin to Expect Aerial Knockout   Nazis Order Mass Evacuation of Berlin and Other Cities.

Berlin Seen Bomb Target   Devastating Raids On Nazi Capita! Hinted

Il Duce Faces Test of Power   _ Anti-Fascists May Rise in Revolt

BLASTING OF KORPS   Ceaseless Attacks on Nazi Army May Be Prelude to Decisive, Final Battle.   Soviets Continue Push Toward Smolensk Area

JAPANESE ROAD GIVEN POUNDING   Newly Built Bridge In New Guinea Blasted; Air Bases Given  Daily Raiding

HIGHWAY ATTACKED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Japanese Bridge Reported Hit in Aerial As soult

U.S. fliers raid highway  New Guinea   Japanese bridge  takes direct hit

DOZEN JAPANESE BARGES STRAFED      Other Enemy Bases In Pacifie Attacked By Allied  Planes

Jap Barges Off New Guinea Strafed By Allied Plane   Medium Bomber Raid: Coastal Ships Off Aroe Islands

TRAILER PUMPS 10 GET ALL-DAY TEST   Demonstration to be Held  at the. City Park lake

FRUIT PRICES UP 13 PER CENT IN ONE MONTE   Survey Shows Same Rise Ir Cost of Fresh Vegetables; AFL Raps ‘Fumbling’

Amount of Victory Tax. Deductibie from W. eekly Wages of Selected Amounts 2nd Amount of ‘Net Victory Tax After Deduction of Credite

KEY TOWNS ARE CAPTURED BY BRITISH ARMY   Americans and French Driving Ahead—8,000 Prisoners Taken.

MONTGOMERY IS. PUSHING ROMMEL FURTHER NORTH   Americans Rush to Close Last Possible Escape Corridor.

ROMMEL FORCE BEING PUSHED FARTHER NORTH   Other Allied Forces Edge Forward in North, Central Tunisia; 8,000 Prisoners Taken in Ten Days

ALLIES PUSH ROMMEL BACK TOWARD SEA      Eisenhower Says Yanks Take Over 8000 Axis Prisoners

OTHER ARMIES TO. ‘NORTH CONTINUE TOFDGE FORWARD   Axis Rearguard Puts.Up-Stiff Resistance With ~ Mortar Fire in “Hot Corner’ at Diebel Berda. :   ROMMEL APPARENTLY HAS SEVERE LOSSE!   Aviators Have Their Part in Bombing and Strafing Re-treating Enemy Troops Unmercifully.

8th Army Also Occupies E] Hamma, Keeping Hot On Heels Of Fleeing Rommel; Yanks Press Ahead, Too

Yanks Crack German Line, Close Trap   Flying Fortresses Conduct Night and Day Attack or Italian Airfields

Axis Has Set Up Deadly Defenses, Says Eisenhower   aaa  YF azsdbUVEEAEY TT Ve  Mussolini Shakes Up His Fascist Party Leadership Again  RED ACTION LIMITED  Soviets Continue Stubborn Effort  To Clear Caucusus

Eisenhower Warns Victory Won't Be Quick, Easily-Won   Minefields So Thick They Are ‘Offensive  Weapon; Advance Becomes Slow   EUROPEAN AIR RAIDS INTENSIFIED   Rvssian Activity Limited, No Charige Seen; 5 Jap Ships Sunk, Kiska Bombed )

Kennamer Calls Testimony Of Johnson ‘Lie,’ Brands It ‘Dirty Frameup By Phillips’

Kennamer To Get Chance To Testify  Father Of Convict Wants To Tell La: Pa ene

House Group Plans Hike In Postal Rates   Work on New Revenue Bill Believed Virtually Completed  Ts BEPC PAALICIAE SD VW rN TS TS

House Group Reconsiders Liquor Taxes   May Cut Increase $2; Postal Raises Also to Be Resurveyed

Ask Change On Liquor Tax   Whiskey Tex May Be Cut to $8 to Check Bootle gging

Review Begun’  - Of Two Taxes   House Committee Taking Up Liquor And Postal.  Rate Increases

SALES TAX IS OUT AS REVENUE RAISER   Postal Rates and Liquor Levy Undecided

Democrats Sound Warning Of Lengthy Session Of Assembly   Congressional Reapportionment And Tax Bills Are Certair To Drag Session Beyond April 29 Deadline

Farmer Stricken By Heat Expire   John M. Freeman Of New Troy Dies Suddenly

NEW TROYITE ~ HEAT VICTIM   J. M. Freeman Overcome While Working In Field; Dies

Rail Strike “Up To FDR   Miners Trouble Also _ Given To President

Meat Dealers To Close Shops   Shortages Blamed On Price Ceilings

AXIS ATTACK IN TUNGIA THROWN BY BRITISH ARMY   Snow, Rain Reported As Favoring Enemy With Steps   To Broaden Korps Escape Corridor.   GEN. PATCH GIVES DETAILS ON GUADALCANAL   Americans Make Three Raids On Solomons Bases For 63 Air Attacks Since November 23.

Nazis Launch Tanks Against Allied Lines:   Weather Hampers British an Amewnaneg te Afetas

NAZI THRUST  HALTED IN TUNISIA   Rain and Snow Prevent Extensive Land, Air Action

SOVIETS REGAIN INITIATIVE, FOE STRENGTH EBBS   Mighty Russian Artillery Smashes Tank Assault in Fighting Near Kiev

Russians Gain Initiative In  Kiev Bulge   Nazis No-Longer Hold Upper Hand Anywhere In That Sector

Tide of Battle Turns at Kiev.  _.Russians Attack Over a Large ‘Area in Bulee

REDS REGAIN INITIATIVE TO WEST OF KIEV   Russian - Artillery Turns Tide: of Great Battle of Tanks Despite Nazi Reinforcements

—hUSSTA—  RUSSIANS REGAIN KIEV INITIATIVE   Soviet Artillery Turns Tide Of Battle In Bitter Struggle

IN AREA AGAIN   Recapture Initiative in Kiev Sector; Nazis Are on Defensive.

Red Artillery Turned Tide   Bled Nazi Tank Divisions In Mighty ‘Bulge Battle’

Mussolini In Fear Of Allies Makes Sicily And Sardinia Military Area

LDUCE ORDERS ISLAND DEFENSE   Italian Police Shakeup Hinted to Avoid Saboteurs

ltaly Moves For Defense   Mussolini Declares Islands to South Area of Operations

DUCE HINTED BUSY ~ ON DEFENSE WORKS   Southern Coast Reported As Military Area Now

Italy Prepares Isles Defenses   Sicily, Sardinia Actiyn Follows Police Shakeun

IL DUCE DECLARES SICILY, SARDINIA AND OTHER ISLANDS MILITARY AREAS

Axis Moving - Civilians To — Safer Areas   Italy Clears Islands in Mediterranean Danger Area

ITALY PUTTING UP DEFENSES AGAINST ALLIED ATTACKS   Mussolini Declares Sicily and Sardenia an Area of Military Operations.   SHAKE-UP IN POLICE   Believed an Attempt to Deal With Potential Slackers and Saboteurs.

IL DUCE JITTERY AS DRIVE NEARS   Mussolini, Indicating He Ex: pects Tunisian Rout, Pushes His Italian Defenses

TURKISH QUAKE TOL IS SET AT 1d   Workers Continue to Search Ruins for Victims of Sunday Tremor

OWI Chief, E'mer Davis, Says He Didn't : Attend Quebec Conference With FDR and "Churchill Because he Wasn't Needed

Nearly 50,000 Dropped From State Payroll   Cut in Personnel of 54 Per Cent Claimed By Ad ministration  SAVING IS ENORMOUS

CONGRESS WILL APPROVE BROWN   Flynn Appointment Expected To Draw Fire of GOP Senators

slate dhleetlbalialirinnlnanentiieeliadiatiel ———  SENATE TO ACT.ON NOMINATION OF NEW PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES

OPEN 3RD WEEK OF CONGRESS. HEAVY PROGRAM   First Order on Schedule is To Approve New OPA Head Nomination

TROINA FALLS AS AMERICANS GAIN 12 MILES   Artillery Barrages Soften Up Axis  Defenses

Take Centuripe Bear Down Upon Catania Center   Regalbuto and Torina Taken, American 7th Army Captures Dozens Of Smaller Centers And and Moves To Less Than 20 Miles of Randazzo.

Says Women’s Clothing Too Light For Cold   Differences in heat needed by human beings dependent on age and vitality. .

37-Day Pheasant Season Set for 65 — Counties in State   Pocahontas Is Among the 6 Counties Where Pheasants ' May Be Hunted 37 Days

HUNTERS MAY KLLA7 ONS FROM 9 TD   But There’re Few Shells to Go with Longest Shooting in State’s History.   27 COUNTIES, SIX NEW. GET ONLY 10-DAY SEASON

PHEASANT SEASON OPEN OCTOBER 28   Longest Period Yet Granted, 37 Days, But Shells are Short.

Troops Have Captured Jap - Defense Positions on   Attu Island    ‘ASSAULT WAKE ISLAND   Progress Is Made in Face of “Strong Counter Attacks by Enemy

STIFF JAPANESE RESISTANCE FOR ISLE ANNOUNCED   Navy Discloses Details Of New U. S. Offensive

Pincers Success Hints Yanks Car Begin ‘Mop Up’   American Casualties Are Light, Despite Stubborn Resistance By Foe

YANKS NEARING MOP UP STAGE OF THEIR DRIVE   Japs Holding Ridge Eithe: Killed Or Have Retreat  ed to Less Favorable  Positions   MACHINEGUN NESTS» HANDICAP BEATEN   American Forces Moving Across Island From Two Points; Warships Covering Advances

May Be Main Jay Defense Position   American Troops Advancing North and South Across Eastern Neck of Island Are Brought Close Together, If Not Joined — Casualties Lighter Than Expected   Hold Ridge

Important Height Taken by Yanks   American Casuaities Lighter Than First Expected; First Phase Of Fight Said Ended

Main Defenses Of Japs Fall. fo Yankee Soldiers   Casualties Lighter Than Expected in Spite of Resistance

Principal Defenses Of Enemy Smashed In 2-Prong Assault   First Phase of Campaign Climaxed  As Units Near Junction, Says Knox; Casualties ‘Lighter Than Expected?

TROOPS NEARLY JOIN IN. SOUTH; NORTH ACTIONS   Knox Report Indicates Campaign May Be Over, Except for Mopping Up

: United States Troops Close In From Two Directions And   Are Believed To Have Joined   Our Casualties ‘Much Lighter Than Expected,” Despite Stubborn Resistance; Warships, Planes  Aiding Land Action When Possible

Two-Pronged Drive  Nearing Completion   Japanese Resistance Stiff, Knox Says—Warships and Planes Aid as Weather Permits

Japs Putting Up Stubborn Resistance To Attacks, Sec. Knox Reveals

Americans also attack Wake and Santa Isabel in South Pacific area

AMERICAN FORCES GAINING GROUND ON THE ISLAND OF ATTU   Captured a Ridge Which Apparently Is the Main Japanese Defense Spot.   ARMY FORMING PINCER   Army Troops Have Full Support of Warships and Planes.

Americans Take Main Japanese Defense Point   Advancing Troops Near Junction On Island

NAVY GIVES ALL DETAILS OF LANDING   Casualties Lighter Than  Expected, Knox Says   TWIN FORGES   From Opposing Points Or Island Are Closing In Resistance Stiff

Take Jap Position On Attu   Two American Forces On Islan Approach Contact.

Americans Close in Pincer Drive   NEW ALLIED AIR BLOWS SHATTER NIPPO OUTPOSTS IN CENTRAL, SOUTH PACIFIC; U.S. AMY BOMBERS HAMMER WAKE ISLAND

Japs’ Main Defense Point On Island Is Reported Captured By U. S. Troops

Americans Capture Attu Ridge Defense  Position of Enemy   Operation is Apparent Climax of Initial  Phase of Drive

Main Defense Of Japanese FallstoW. §.   Operation Apparently Climaxes First Phase of Campaian

U.S. Captures Key Ridge On  Aleutian Isles   Navy Issues Its First Detailed Report Of Offensive In North Pacific Sector

MAIN RIDGE OF DEFENSE IS CAPTURED   Success Follows Bitter Fighting, Including Strong Enemy CounterAttacks — Yanks Blast Wake Island.

SUDDEN ATTACK GIVEN SUPPORT OF WARSHIPS   Only Mopping Up Believed To Be Left; Secrecy Veiling Operations Explained

Yanks Take Vital Ridge OnIsland   Enemy Facing . Defeat; Battle  At Mos-Up Stade

U.S. Troops Advancing Across Neck Of Island; Casualties Are Light

AMERICANS CAPTURE MAIN JAP DEFENSE POSITION ON ATTU  OPERATION AGAINST ROCKY RIDGE CLIMAXES

U. S. Forces Take Strategic Height In Apparent Climax Of First Phase Of Campaign For Island In Aleutians, Navy Secretary Knox Reports—“Our Casualties Much Lighter Than Expected” Despite Stubborn  Resistance, Official Tells Press Conference

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U.S. Forces Push 2-Prong Advance On Attu Island   Japs Driven From Rocky Ridge; Casualties Lighter Than Expected

‘American Forces Gain Foothold, Score Advances   Ridge, Believed Nips’ Main Defense Position, Taken In Fierce Fighting

PINCERS BEING SHUT ON ENEMY IN ALEUTIANS   Sec. Knox Reveals Advances Made By U. S. Soldiers In Stubborn Fight   LOSSES REPORTED LIGHT,   Two Columns Converging On Foe; Warships, Planes Aid Troops

American Advance Establishes New Island Positions   Gain Apparently Cl imaxes First Phase O1 Campaign; Enemy Resisting Stubbornly With Rifle, Machin e Gun Fire

Army Pincers Takes Ridge That Commands Jap Positions; Invaders Believed Crushed

ATTU FIGHT NEARS END SAYS KNOX   U. S. Troops Capture Ridge Dominating !s!and and Japs Are Dislodged   NOW MOPPING UP

Capture Of Vital Ridge Apparently Pockets Foe On East End Of Island.

Believed to Be Main Jap  ‘Defense Line   Secretary Knox Makes First Full Report After Week of Fighting

RIDGE IS TAKEN ~BVULS, FORCES   ‘Americans Score Victory In First Phase Of Aleutians Battle   TWO-WAY DRIVE   ‘Knox Believes Army Columns May Have Joined Forces

Main Japanese Defense Ridge Taken In Drive   Casualties In Two-Pronged Offensive Held Lighter Than Expected; Enemy Report~ ed Putting Up Fierce Resistance) _..

( ne CASUALTIES LIGHT   ~ Mictory. Has Brought Two-Pronged U. S. __ Forces. Very Close Together if They . Haven't Already Reen lomed.

May Be Main Jap Defense Position   American Troops Advancirig North and ‘ South Across Eastern Neck of Island Are Brought Close Together, If Not Joined ~~ Casualties Lighter Than Expected

MAIN DEFENSE POSITION FALLS TO AMERICANS   Two-Pronged Drive Is Revealed in First Detailed Report

(Attu Campaign Believed Past Hardest Stage   Two US. Forces Expected To Form An Early Union

Main Japanese Defense Position Won; Separate Forces Believed United

Yanks Capture Main Japanese “Attu Position   Ridge Taken After Bitter Fight Navy Announces; New Air Blows Against Enemy at Wake Island

CLOSING FROM ? DIRECTIONS   Capture of >f Important Hill May Be Climax of Operation   NO MORE DETAILS MADE AVAILABLE   Warships and Planes Giving Full Support to Land Fighting  ~—

YANK INVADERS crue KEY JAP INCE ON ATTU   \Two Landing Forces Close Together, If Not  Joined   IEND OF BATTLE NEAR   Little Left Except To Mop Up Isolated Pockets, Knox Reports

D1aSt Japs From Ridge At Holtz Bay,  Troops Storm Height in Face of Jap Machinegun Nests     CLOSING PINCERS   Landing at Massacre Bay by Main U. S. Force Smashes Defense

Operation Apparently Ciimaxes First Phase of Campaign.   MOPPING UP REMAINS?

OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR U. S. UNITS INALEUTIANS   Our Troops Trying To Close Gap Between Two Invading Forces

PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL MAY MEET AGAIN   Momentous Political Events Expected in Near Future

NEW MEETING * ISIN PROSPECT   FDR, Churchill Expected To ' Hold Session Soon

NEARLY HALF WILL BE IN WAR EFFORT   Civilian Regimentation Dis. . cussed as Means to Help Win Conflict.

MANPOWER RECORD SAID. OVERDRAWN   Senate Unit Says Nearly Halt of Population on Personnel Account

Regimentation of All Civilians Necessary if McNutt to: Get 62,500,000 Workers, Fighters

BIG MANPOWER NEEDS DISPUTED   Estimate of 62,500,000 By End of 1943 To Be Checked By Senate

62,500,000 In Nation Must Fight or Work   Half Population of : All Ages Estimate Given fo Senate

McNutt, Nelson Are Questioned  Solons Declare   Solons Declare Figures Conflict

Japs Must Be Rendered Impotent to Make War Again Nip Militarism ls Great Menace

The War T oday— Whites Must End Grievances That Prejudice Asiatics Against West

' WAR ANALYST WARNS OF THREAT OF NEW RACE WAR AND GIVES HIS IDEA OF BEST KIND PREVENTION

U. 0. FLIERS FOIL AVTEMPT 10 RUN KISKA BLOCKADE   Four-Ship Jap Convoy Is Smashed: Zero Hour  For Munda Assault Near

One Jap Ship Sunk, One  Sinking and Two Damaged.  58 JAP SHIPS SUNK : IN ALEUTIAN AREA.  RAR. Fighters Hit at  Some Japanese Steamers.

G.O.P. Leader Mart in Says Ruml Plan Will Be Adpoted by House: Is Disputed

MARTIN PREDICTS. VICTORY _ FOR “SEIP A YEAR" PRO‘POSAL, BUT DOUGHTON DISAGREES

CITIZENS OPEN REGISTRATION FOR WAR BOOK   First Of Group Apply At Nine This Morning

COLD WAVE ~ JO HANG OK   Weather Man Says Colder Tonight and Tomorrow Marning

War Prisoners Reach Britain Despite Axis   Germans Try To Sink Ships Carrying Their Own Soldiers

Allies Accomplish Greatest Mass Prisoner Movement  rr“ wequacean ae 6 a tik ees ak ks.

WAR PRISONERS TRANSFERRED TO BRITISH CAMPS   Axis Attempted To Sink Troopships Carrying  Former Comrades   GERMAN CAPTIVES ARE TOUGH AND MEAN

CAREFUL PLANNING FEATURE OF FIRST BOMBING OF ROME   Daring Daylight Raid Or Eternal City Climax Of Over 700 Mile Round Trip

AVOID VATICAN IN WARS FIRST ATTACK ON ROME   Allied Airmen Heavily Bomb Military Objectives. Railroad Yards and Transport Cen- ters With Tons of Explosives

Military. Ob} ectiv e S               VATICAN AND SIMILAR © ~~ STRUCTURES AVOIDED; AXis HAD MADE CITY A MILITFA: CENTER. ALLIES LEADERS

ITALIANS HOLD ~ PEACE CONFAB   King, Badoglio Meet With Officials

AMERICANS RAIN BOMBS ON MUNDA IN HEAVIEST RAID   Eighty-Two Tons of Explo-. sives Dropped on Jap Base —More Than 100 Planes  } in Assault,   LULL IN GROUND FIGHTING CONTINUES   Heavy Rains Believed to Have Slowed Allied Troops Moving on City Through duneles.

Munda Air Base Defense Blasted In Heavy Raids  High Explosive And Frag   High Explosive And Fragmentation Bombs Rained On Enemy Positions

Airfield Is Main Target; Rains May Have Slowed Yank Progress in Tunele

Over 100 American Planes Raid Munda; Drive By Land Believed Slowed By Rains

‘Soviet Columns Threaten To Trap Thousands Of Nazis Fleeing Westward From Fallen Gomel; Americans Edge Forward         GERMANS MINING if HIGHWAY TO ROME

American Fifth Army Takes _ Castelnuovo; Heavy Fighting In Progress

BORN WITH RAID WOUND   Shell Splinter Removed From Hip of Baby in Leningrad.

Germans Try’ Vainly To Form New Government Over Rebellious Danes

NAZIS TRY IN VAIN FOR NF" GOVERNMEN    Members of Resigned Scavenius Cabinet Take No Part

Trying To Form Puppet Government   Would Take Place of Resigned Cabinet In Denmark

FORMING NEW GOVERNMENT IN DENMARK   Nazi occupation forces try in vain to replace old cabinet

PUPPET REGIME BEING PLANNED   Germans Seek Government Tc Take Place Of Resigned Danish Cabinet

NAVY PREPARINC TO FIGHT JAPAN UNTIL YEAR °49   Production Falls Off, Secretary Knox Discloses

~ ADMIRAL HORNE—  War Is To Be Long   Navy Plans To Fight Japanese Until 1949

Navy Plans For Jap War Until 1949   Our Victory March In Pacific Will Stop Only With Surrender

Navy Plans for War on Japs Running at Least Until 1949   Statement Comes From Vice Admiral Horne of Naval Operations, Who Also Says Nazi Army Morale Will Not Collapse.

Navy Planning War on Japs Until 1949; Early Victory’ Over Nazis Is Not Expected

-VICE-ADMIRAL HORNE SAYS NAVY ' EXPECTS WAR TO LAST UNTIL 49   ‘WISHEFUL THINKING’

Says Navy Plans for War Against ~~ Taos to Last ‘at Teast Until. 46

NAVY PREPARING TO CARRY WAR ON JAPS UNTIL 194°   Knox Deplores Optimist Over Winning War in Hurry On Account of Distances In Pacific Ocean.   MORALE COLLAPSES IN GERMANY NOT EXPECTED   Fall of Japanese Fleet Will Not Be Sufficient, Trip to Tokyo Needed to Prevent New War.

SEES JAPANESE WAR TILL 1949   Vice Adm. Horne Says “Wishful Thinking” on Hun Collapse

Naval Chief Finds War With Japan Until 1949   Knox Also Warns Struggle Will Be Long

PLAN FOR LONG WAR WITH JAPS   Navy Heads Expect Battle Against Nips to Last Until 1949

Plan 6 Year War Against Japs   Tremendous Distances To Go in Pacific, Horne Declares

May War With Japs ‘Until ‘49   Admiral Horne and Kuox Caution Against New  Wishful Thinking   SICILY ONLY AN OUTPOST OF EUROPE   Production Falling Short Because of Complacency; No Nazi Collapse in View

NAVY PLANS LENGTHY WAR   Naval Vice-Chief Deeries Optimistic Estimates of Speedy Victory

AAV 1S PLANNING OW AHP WR TO ‘4   Secretary ; Knox  Deplores Current Optimism over Winning the War in a Hurry

Horne Sees War With Japanese Lasting to ‘49   Vice Admiral Does Not Expect Morale Collapse of Nazis  —_ eum aoe 4 eeeemem,

“Still a Long Way to Go’      Belief War Will End Soon Deplored by Navy Chief: May End in ’49

NAVY PLANNING ON LONG WAR; NEW OPTIMISM OF PUBLIC RAPPED BY KNOX

Navy Planning War Against Japan To Last Until 1949. Horne Reveals

Vice Admiral Frederick J. Horne Reveals Government Program At Press Interview   KNOX DEPLORES CURRENT OPTIMISM   Both Agree, However, Pacific War Will Never Stop Short of Complete Surrender

Navy Planning For A War On Japs Until 49   Adm. Horne And Knox Deplore Optimism Over A Quick Victory.

Navy Plans War Mains Japan To Last To 49   Vice-Admiral F. J. Horne ‘. Deplores Optimism. On oS Vipning ny--A-Hurry-.

Planning — For Long War Against Japs   Knox Strongly Deplores Current Optimism Over Winning War in Hurry; Causes Letup in Production

NAVY PLANNING FOR WAR ON JAP TO LAST 10 ‘49   Knox Deplores Current Optimism Over Winning Conflict in Hurry

Navy Planning To War on Japs At Least to ‘49   Vice Chief of Naval Operations Deplores Current Optimism.   ‘Collapse of Germany  Is Wishful Thinking’

CURRENT OPTIMISM DEPLORED   B Knox Says U. S. Has Great Distances To Go Before V-Day: Report Production Is Slipping

iN avy Plans Call For War With Japan Until 1949   Vice-Admiral Horne Deplores Current Optimism; Long Way To Go. Knox Says

NAVY PLANS WAR UNTIL 198, Hh OFFICIAL REVEALS   Vice-admiral Horne Declare: Time Needed to Builc Bases for Long Pacific  fo Peer

NAVY PLANNING FOR A WAR AGAINST JAPAN TO LAST UNTIL 1949 AT LEAST.

Navy Is Planning For Long Jap War   Talk of Early End of Conflict ‘Wishful Thinking’ Says Knox

NAVY SET FOR SIX YEAR WAR   Admiral Horne Says Fight Against Japan Will Last Until 1949

VICE - ADMIRAL HORNE EXPECTS A LENGTHY WAR   Reveals Navy Planning For Six More Years Of War Against Japan; Still Long Road Ahead In Eu rone.

SEES JAP WAR ENDING IN 1949   Admiral Declares U, $. Navy Preparing far Long Conflict in Pacific.

See Long War  Against Japs   Navy Planning On Hard I ighting In Pacific Up To 1949,

COMPLACENCY OF NATION SEEN AS BOON TO ENEMY   VICTORY FAR FROM ASSURED, U.S. IS CAUTIONED BY KNOX

KNOX DEPLORES OVER-OPTIMISN      Vice-Admiral Horne Points To ‘Tremendous’ Pacific Distances.   LETUP IN PRODUCTION

Admiral Horne Says Navy Plans Jap War "Til 1949  Vice Chief Warns Against Optimism Of Winnina In Burr

Americans Move Forward After Three Axis Pushes   Russian Press Is Hinting of Major Activity In May

Beat Off  Assaults   Allies Edge Forward on Both Wings,  Eisenhbawer Rekkce

American Troops Drive Germans Back In North  Gain After Holding Off Three Violent

YANKS SMASH DEEPER INTO GERMAN LINES   Eisenhower Says Allies Edge Forward on Both Wings of Front.   Germans Put Up Grim Defense in Tunisia

FURTHER ADVANCES TOWARD BIZERTE 15 MADE BY AMERICANS  BOTH BRITISH ARMIES MEETING MORE BITTER

Push Nazis Back Deep Into Hills   Eisenhower Saye Allies Edge Forward On Both Wings Of Tunisia Front

AXIS DEFENSES CTIFFENING ON TW)NISIAN FRONT   Soviet Promises Grea Events in Offing; Nazis Reinforce

U.S. Infantry Breaks Three Axis Assaults   Smashes Nazis Deepe Into Hills of Tunisia; Allies Gain on Both Wings of Front

Allies Edging Forward Along Tunisian Front  U. 5. Making Local Advances; Counter Attacks Blocked

Crush Three Attacks By  New Troops   Allies Advance On Tunis Against Stiff Resistance

Allies Close On Both Wings Of Axis Front   Americans Advance After Stopping Three Strong Nazi Counterattacks.   ENEMY DEFENSE STIFF

Resistance of Nazis in Africa ls Stiffening   US Infantry Withstands Three Violent Assaults, Smashes Nazis Deeper into Hills; British Ist Army Beats Off Series of Counterattacks

YANKS ADVA AFTER FACING 3 HEAVY ATTACKS   British Beat Off Series of Counter Drives on Center of Frontier

First Army Beats Off Axis Attacks   Eighth Army Surges Ahead Reds See “Big Events” Ahead

Allies Edge Forward In Tunisia   Yanks Smash Ahead In Central Sector After Beating Off Violent Axis Counterattacks

American Infantry Withstands Series Violent Assaults   Then Forces Nazis Back Further Into Hills of —  Northern. Tunisia

GERMAN DEFENSES. STIFFENING   ‘British Firet Army Beats Off Enemy Counter- . ‘Attacks Along Western  an eat ae

1st Army Fights" Off Strong Nazi Counter Attacks   Hold All But One Small Section Of _ Positions; Allies Gain On Flanks.

AXIS DEFENSES STIFFENING AS COFFIN SHRINKS   British First Army Beats Off Counterattacks While Eighth Army Advances   REDS PLAN BiG NEW DRIVE   Allied Warplanes Break Through Zeros To Blast More Jap Bases

U.S. INFANTRY TAKES HILL IN SHARP FIGHT   Germans Report Major Soviet Offensive Under Way In Caucasus.   RAF BLASTS CONVOY   Allied Bombers Drive Through  Swarms of Jap Planes To Atdttaal Amakaninn

Yank Infantry Smashes Three Nazi Assaults   Drives Foe Back Deeper Into N. Tunisian Hills; British Hold Firm.

‘Hurl Enemy Deeper Into Tunisia Hills   German Defenses Stiffenedy British First Army Check Counterattacks

Allies Push. Axis Troops into Hills   German Defenses Stiffening but Allied Pressure on Ends of Front Bear Fruit

ASSAULTS BEATEN OFF BY YANKS   Nazis. Are. Smashed Back Deeper Into Hills . After ~: The Counter-Attack   ALLIES FORWARD : ON: BOTH WINGS:      German. Defenses. Stiffening, Bloody Battles Con-.. ' tinue: Before Tunis Plain’ °

YANKS WITHSTAND GERMAN ATTACKS   Halt Three Hard Assaults And Then Drive Nazis Backward

THREE FIERCE NAZI DRIVES ARE REPULSED   German Defenses  Stiffen On All Fronts   FIRST ARMY   Also Beats Off Counter-Attacks: Hill Taken By U. S. Forces

AMERICANS MOVE AHEAD ON RIZERTE   “Local Advances” Tell Story of Bitter Fighting in North Tunisia.    BRITISH BEAT OFF — STRONG ATTACKS   Allied Forces Nearer to Breaking Through Hills _ To Tunis Plain. 

Enemy Fights Desperately To Avert Disaste   Bloody. Battle Raging Along. Entire North - African Front

Gen. Eisenhower Has Talk With Badoglio   Purpose of Parley, Held Aboard Warship at Malta, Was to Plan Most Effective Italian Military Effort Against Nazis.

Eisenhower Confers With Badoglio Aboard Ship   Discuss Military Cooperation Of Italians; British Present .

EISENHOWER AND BADOGLIO MEET ABOARD VESSEL   Conference at Malta Held to Outline Italian E* fort Against Nazis

MEET WITH BADOGLIO   Allied Command Confers in Using Italian Forces

SEIZE POMPEI, OTHER TOWNS FROM NAZIS   Fall of Italy's Great Seaport Imminent, Dispatches Indicate

Allied Leaders Confer ’ With Italian Marshal Aboard Warship In Harbor At Malta

Allied Military Chief Confers With Badoglio  ss Alb ganged Warehin

BADOGLIO PAYS VISIT AT MALTA TO EISENHOWER   Italian Units Now in Action Against Germans, Says Report

Seek Monument to Negro Scientist   Bill Was Introduced in the U. - §. Senate Today by Sen. Harry Truman.

POST-WAR AVIATION   UL. & Sheuld Secure Rights For Commercial Flying

QUESTION OF RESIGNATION UP TO KING   Nation Would Form Representative Government   Germans Open Offensive Against Greek Patriots

Germans Open Full-Fledged Offensive ‘Against Disputing Greek Guerrillas

GREEK DISPUTE HELPS GERMANS   Bie Offensive Opened Avainst 50,000 Men In Two Camps

Austrians Fraternize With Italian Troops   Hitlerites Hurl Armies Against Divided Greeks

PROSPECTS OF AXIS “BLEAK” COMMONS TOLD   British. Parliament Cheers First ene, Froin Depe.  E uty Prime Minster. “On African Triumph      CASUALTIES CITED   Britain’s First Army Suf fers 1200 In Final Stage   of Tunisia Battle; 8th _ :: Losses 2:400 

Commons Cheers Report On Victory   British First Army Casualties Light; Enormous Losses Suffered By Enemy

Robeson’s March War Bond Quota Set At $163,342   Quota. f for Entire State i is  $9,500

NEW GERMAN THREATS FOR CAPTIVE FLIERS   Radio Berlin Talks of Trial of British, American “War Criminals” in Retaliation

BERLIN REVEALS PLANS FOR TRIALS (OF- AIR RAIDERS   Announcer Cooly Says Alliec Bombers May Tell Orders With German Mothers Appearing Jn Court.   THREATS BEING MADE AFTER KHARKOV TRIAL   New Morale Maneuvers Are Indicated By Soldier Who Expressed Amazement On Berlin Damage.

Committee Cuts Nearly Billion From Fund Bill   Fears Big Surpluses Will Be Left on Hand At End of War

Sub War Won, Moreto Come,  Says Churchill   Heavy Fighiing Due in Mediterranean, Prime Minister Avere in Confident Speech

EXPECT RATION OF OHIO LIQUOR BY MONTH END   ill Goes to Bricker, Wh¢ Indicates Immediate Signature

SWEDEN MAKES IRATE PROTEST   Submarine Incident Is Brought To Nazi’s Attention.

Swedish Sub Is Attacked by Nazi Sub  Protest Is Filed By  C.overnmenk

IRE AROUSED BY ACTION NEAR SHORE   Sister of Underseas Craft Lost in Accident

Police Defy City Manager   Fraternal Order Makes Public Its Membership Rolls

FIERCE DRIVE ON CRIMEA BY RUSSIANS   Puts Germans in Bad Plight; Nazis Announce Evacua-’ tion of Melitopol; Retreat From Other Points.   15 Weeks Fight

Soviet Forces Within 6 Miles Of Krivoi Rog   Paris Radio Declares Reds Fighting Inside  Rail Center; Capture Of 50 Towns Reporte:

Russians Lash at  Dnieper   Seek Toehold Across River As Germans Reel Backward.

Nazi Radio’ Reports Fighting Inside Krivoi. Rog; Germans Try. Vainly To Halt Surge of Russians

(Northern Arm Drives Near Krivoi Rog   Seeks To-Join Column That Takes Melitopol And Trap Thousands  90 VILLAGES TAKEN

REDS MENACE OTHER POINTS ALONG DNIEPE!   Soviets Using Paratroops Against Nazis. Hitler Warned Russians Head for Old Border

Reds Battling For Bridgeheads Across Dnieper River   Germans Evacuating Last Narrow Foothold on Taman Peninsula in South

Russian Artillery Open Up On Kiev; Germans Concede Crossings Of River

Russians Push on From Captured Smolensk, Driving Deeper Into White Russia With the Aid of Favorable Waather   Germans Use Many Tanks to Halt Reds in Swampy, Forest Terrain

German Plight Bad As Soviets Continue Drive   Nazis Evacuate Melito. pol; Enemy In Precarious Straits

REDS FIGHT FOR DNIEPER BRIDGEHEADS   Nazis Admit Evacuation of Temryuk, Foreshadowing Abandonment of Last Foothold on Taman Peninsula.

Kiev Under Fire Of Red Siege Guns   Half A Dozen Other Key Towns Along Dnieper Also Near Capture.

SOVIETS PUSH SOUTH TO JOIN OTHER FORCES   50 Villages Captured In Steamroller Advance Toward Crimea, Reds Report

BOND BUYING: FOR "TOUGHER’ WAR STARTS   Air Raid Sirens and Airplanes Sound Opening of Big Drive In County. °   5,000 TO BE ON JOB   City, County Set Out to Raise $6,060,000 Toward Nation’s Gonal nf 15 Billinne .

New Bond Drive Gets Off To Fiying Start In Nation      Swrender Of Italy Is Spur Tc Efforts — War-To Be Tourher

WARNING NOTE SOUNDED, BOND APPEAL BEGINS   News Great But No Time To Celebrate Now, k. D. Cautions

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE SPURRED BY FR’S ADDRES!   Roosevelt Warns That War ts Really Getting Bigger and Tousher.

Name Kalispell Mar Kiwanis Governor  Mearl Fagg, Billings, Is Chosen as Aide

INQUIRY CONTINUES   Petrillo on Stand in’ Investigation ‘of Union Ban on Proceedings

Wants Music Industry Examined   Petrillo Says a Few Giant Corporations Have Become Rich at the Expense of the Live Musician

PETRILLO URGES SENATE PROBE OF MUSIC INDUSTRI   Union President Charges Few Corporations Have Become Rich at Expense  nf Pte Mipeiriane.

CONGRESS ASKED TO INVESTIGATE MOORE ELECTION   State Senator Reveals Resolution Ready, Urges Cam. paign Expense Airing

Senafor Moore Faces Attack  Resolution Asking   Resolution Asking Investigation of Election Offered

Reds Capture Rzhev Atter Storming City   Soviets Close Pincers On Bastion, May Push Foe Back To Smolensk Line   EVACUATING OREL?   Timoshenko s Expected To Aim Offensive Drive At Staraya Russa

Girl Mail Carrier Rescues Old Man   Starvation Near For New Yorker

Nazis Collapse Is Forecast By Senator Downey   Says High-Ranking Germans Try To Open Negotiations

Downey Reports New Nazi Attemot To Arrange Peace   Some Expect Reich Collapse by Christmas, Senator Declares

DOWNEY SEES NAZI COLLAPSE NEARING   Member of Military Affairs Committee Says Some Germans Seek to Negotiate Surrender.

Reich Collapse By Christmas Is Predicted   Influential Germans Now Secking Peace, Senator Is Informed

SALVAGE OF CANS STARTS NEXT WEEK  Il   Bins to Be Placed in Grocery Stores Throughout City

SPEEDY ACTION ON PAY AS YOU GO TAX   20 Per Cent Would Go Into Effect July First.

PAY AS YOU GO TAX PLAN SQUARELY UP TO U. S. SENATE  Honea Finalle Daceae R:)!   House Finally Passes Bill Yesterday » After Months of Bitter and Wearving Dehate

British. Resident: Minister ‘In North Africa Hurt ‘In Aircraft Accident

GOP Sees Good Chance For Bill Rewarding Employers For Stabilizng Emloyment

3 DIE AS LIGHTNING TOPPLES SMOKESTACK   Three Others Hurt as Brick Chimney Tumbles Into Winfield, Kan., Light Plant.

Three Killed, As Many Hurt By Lightning   Smokestack Sent Toppling Into Winfield Plant

Congressman Predicts Gen. DeWitt Will Be Relieved of Fourth Army Command, Succeeded by Gen. Emmons

New Deal Blamec In AFL-UMW Row   “They Delay Peace, Journal Declares

Three White Youths Confess They ‘Murdered Negro in Detroit Riots

3 YOUTHS HELD IN RIOT SLAYING   ‘Detroit Prosecutor Claims Confession to Killing Negro at Corner

YOUTHS ADMIT KILLING NEGRO   Key Figure In Detroit Race Riots Held For Questioning

MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK GREAT PLEADER FOR HER NATION AND ISUE HAD SYMPATHETIC HEARING

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Despite Urgent Appeals Of Mme. Chiang, Nazis Remain Main Problem

Majority Believe European Enemy Must Be Licked First, Then Japan

Petroleum Stocks  At New Low   Products Available For Civilian Use At 25.5 Pet. Normal

OPA Regulations To Be Changed      Recent Actions Cited by Brown

FORESEE ERA OF PROSPERITY   Industrial And Labor Leaders Optimistic

CAPITAL ATTAGK FOLLOWS BLOWS AT U-BOAT BASE   Yanks Carry Out Important Raid On Nazi Ports

Other Axis Objectives Attacked; U. S. Fortresses Hit Submarine Bases

BERLIN GETS 3RD STRAIGH NIGHT RAID   Attack Follows U. S. Bombing Of 2 U-Boat Bases

OAD SUCCESSIVE NIGHT BOMBING   Britain’s New and Speedy Mosquito Bombers Return to Bertin.

RAF Bombers Again Pound Nazi Capital   British In 67th Raid On Berlin As U. S.. Fliers Continue Attacks On German U-Boat Centers

Berlin Raided For Third Time In Three Nights   British Bombers Continue Steady Bombing Raids On Nazi Homeland   BLAST CONVOY IN ENGLISH CHANNEL

American Fliers Pound U-boat Base At Wilhelmshaven      Whirlwinds Sink 2Ships in Nazi Convoy Off Coast Of France

NAZI CAPITAL IS HIT SIX TIMES IN LAST NINE NIGHTS   U-boat Yards At Wilhelmshaven and Emden Attacked By Flying Forts.

BRITISH AGAIN BLAST TARGETS IN NAZI CAPITA   Third Successive Night Ber lin Has Undergone Ter rific Bombardment; Rail way Targets I. Franc  Also Attacked.

Reich Capital Hit for Third Night in Row  Other Planes Sink Two      Other Planes Sink Two Ships in Axis Convoy Off French Coast   U. S. Fortresses Pound Sub Bases at Emden, Wilhelmshaven

BLAST BERLIN 3 TIMES IN ROW   German Capital Raided By RAF For Third Successive Night.

European Aerial Jabs Hit Berlin, Two UBoat Yards   Yanks Lose 12 Fortress, Shoot Down Many Of Strong Fighter Force

ALLIED PLANES “BLAST BERLIN, DUCE’S ISLANDS   U. §. Bombers Concentrate on Submarine Yards

Mosquito Bombers Blast Berlin; Two Ships in Axis Convoy Are Sunk

Berlin Blasted Three Nights In Succession   Current Attacks Are Merely Preliminary To All-Out Bombing

BRITISH AIRPLANES SINK TWO SHIPS OF GERMAN CONVOY      Intruder. Planes “Of RAF ~ Destroy Number Of Supply Trains In France

Berlin Again Under Raid By RAF Bomber:   Mosquitoes Over Nazi Capital For Third Successive Night; Lay Mines In Enemy Water

RAF Returns To Berlin For Third Time In This Week   New And Speedy Mosquite Bombers Over Nazi Capital; 6 Planes Missing

RAF ‘STRAFES BERLIN THIRD © NIGHT IN ROW   Axis Conyoy and French Railways Shot Up, Mines Laid in Enemy Waters During Night   ‘FORTS’ IN BATTLE   U. S. Bombers Raid U-Boat Bases of Wilhelmshaven, Emden; 12 Fail to Return

HEAVY AIDS QVER EUROPE. ARE KEPT UF   Berlin Visited for the Third Ccnsecutive Night by Mosquitos.   CHANNEL CONVOY HIT   Lines of Communication in France Also Smashed by. the RAF.

Two Ships Sunk in Enemy Convoy off French Coast; American Bombers Are Active.   hese SF as NEW NAZI ASSAULT ON RED ARMY SEEN

BOMBED AGAIN      Reich Capital Is Pounded By British Third Suc: cessive Night   FORTRESSES MAKE  DAYLIGHT RAIDS   Wilhelmshaven and Emden Are Blasted by Big American Ships

BERLIN AGAIN ATTACKED BY RAF BOMBERS   Mosquito Bombers Blast Railway Targets in France and Whirlwinds Sink Two Vessels Out of Five-Ship Convoy.

Berlin Avain   Signs Indicate Smashing Air Offensive”  ewabask Earovs

RAF MOSQUITOS  BLAST. BERLIN FOR THIRD TIME   Other British Planes Lay Mines in Enemy Waters Overnight and Raid Railway Targets   BERLIN SAYS YANK ATTACKS DAMAGING   Sub Bases at Emden and Wilhelmshaven Targets of American Flying Fortresses

BATTLE SWARM OI NAZI FIGHTERS ON RETURN TRIP   LOSE 12 PLANES; GERMANS REPORT MAJOR DAMAGE

President See: Labor Draft  As Premature   Secretary, Knox Also Questions Need at Present

LABOR DRAFT NOW OPPOSED BY PRESIDEN]   Speeding  Up of U. S. War Effort Urged By Rickenbacker

EDR Modifies. Manpower Plea   “ Knox Hints Needs Are Set Too High

F.D. R. Would Delay All-Out Draft Move   Rickenbacker Sees Surplus of Manpower

Hints Manpower  Needs Set Too High   Roosevelt Opposes Compulsion Now

President Wants to Avert Drafting Civilians for Work   Suggestion Is Made That Needs Have Been Overestimated

FDR Sees No N eed Now for Labor Draft   Knox Also Suggests Manpower Needs May Be Overestimated

F.D.R. Sees No Need for Labor Draft At Present   Makes Known Views As Committee Hears Captain Rickenbacker Plead for More Sneed   FAMOUS AIRMAN HITS COMPLACENCY   BARRY NAV ATR R Ae ANB TNS SE  Manpower Needs Are Overestimated, Sec. Knox Suggests

BOMBS FOR TOKYO   Australian Airmen To Raid Japan in 1943, Is Prediction

Von Arnim and Messe Reach London As Britain Celebrates Africa Victory

Gen. J, Von Arnim and Marshal Messe Arrive In London as Prisoners

COSHOCTON WAR CHEST   (There are many good reasons why everyone  should help to fill it.)

COSHOCTON WAR CHEST  (There are many good reasons why everyone  should help to fill it.)  kee & * Hospital Auxiliary Works to Better City Institution

3 Killed In Massillon Rail Crash   FIRST DEGREE MURDER CHARGE WILL BE FILED

Three Die in Ohio Crossing Crash; Train Wreck Follows, Injuring 25

Congressmen Praise Talk by Churchill   CHANDLER SAYS ADDRESS LEFT UNANSWERED SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

Washington Reports That Fathers  of Children Born Before Pearl Harbor Will Not Be Called for Military Duty. 

PRESIDENT GRDERS OFFICIALS 10 AVOID FEUDS OR RESION   Peace for the War’s Sake Imposed on Official Family,   END WALLACE JONES DISPUTE   PNFANEMD AFSEWOE CU) EAU  Civilians Will Have Food Cut Ten Per Cent This Year.

FDR SPANKS JONES AND WALLACE FOR AIRING SQUABBLES   Takes Powers From Both tc Prove Power On Home Front

Germans Report Russians Launch  Heavy Attacks   Soviet Bombers Continue  Pound Nazis

Russ Units Drive Through Nazi Line   Main.Nazi Front Southwest Of Velikie Luki Is Broken; Enemy Claims Raid -Is Beaten °

STRIKERS BOC WORK APPEAL   ‘Halt Of Plane Engine Output in Second Day

Yanks Blast Plane Plant At Frankfur   Fortresses Carry Fight Far Tn Reich Areas

Americans Lash German Plants In Shuttle Raid   Attack Fits Into Pattern Of Vastly  Stanned.lI]n Tamno

Fortresses Strike Deep In Southwest Germany. Fly on to North Africa

Heavy Bombers Strike Deeper  Into Germany   Widespread Cities Hit As Allies Expand Intense Air Offensive

Americans Lash German Plants In Shuttle Raid   Attack Fits Into Pattern Of Vastly  [os Oe oe a,

U).5. BOMBERS PUSH DEEPER INTO GERMANY   INDUSTRIAL TARGETS ATTACKED; REICH NOW WIDE OPEN

Hit At Italian Transportation  RAF Bombers Raid Power Facilities

RAF Again Spans Alps ToRaidltaly   Power Plants Pounded in ‘Niahs Attack

RAF HOPS ALPS TO HIT TARGETS INITALY AGAIN   Blast Power Facilities, Rails; Lose Only One Bomber in Round-Trip Flight

Across-Alps Raid Hits Italy’s Rails   Britain-Based Bombers Blast Italian Power Facilities To Cripple Transportation

Italian Electric System Is Blasted   Transportation Lines, Power Stations Target: Of Britain-Based RAF And American Planes

RAF Across Alps For Second Night   Power for Italy's Railroads Bombed

Yank Bombers Raid Amsterdam   R.A.F. Bombers Smash At Italy’s Rail System

RAF Planes Cross Alps To Hit Axis   Power Facilities Blasted in Italy; Yanks Raid Fi     add

RAF AGAIN BLASTS ITALIAN RAHROAD POWER FACILITIES   Home-Based Bombers Cross Alps to Pound Transportation Centers—-Munich Hit By RAF’s Mosquito Bomb ees

ITALIAN, NAZI "AREAS BOMBEL   RAF Smashes at Italian Transportation System; Munich Attacked

Planes Strike Both ‘Ends of Italian Boot   Power Lines and Arteries’ BombedFrench Coast Hit

BRITISH - BASED PLANES GROSS ALPSTO ATTACK   Transformers and Switching Stations Carrying Current to Mussolini’s War Carriers Blasted   MUNICH ALSO HIT BY MOSQUITO FLIERS   American Liberators, Meanwhile, Attack Bari Airdrome, Destroying  Grounded Pianes, Hangars

Britain-Based Bombers Blast Duce’s Electric Nerve Centers   Seck to Cripple Fascist Railway Supply Centers

RAF Crosses Alps to Italy   Transportation System Smashed With Second Straight Night Assault

Allies Pound  Italian Base   Big Airdrome Raided, 20 Planes Destroyed

ITALIAN MAINLAND AIRFIELDS TARGETS   Allied Bombers Blast A Fields And Planes In Italy

Huge Chunks Cut Out Of  Nazi Lines   Allied Forces Continue To Advance On All Sectors Of Line

Ickes Versus Big Business: Vote Talk:   Blast At Industrialists May Be Political Speech Only

Berlin, London Are Bombed In New Raids.   Germans Get Hot Reception Over Enaland

AFTER TWOVISITS: BRITISH EDITORS URCE ROME NEXT   Great Fires Aré Reported In Campaign of Destruction With Loss of 22  Airplanes.   MAJ. GEN. DOOLITTLE MAINTAINS HIS LEAD   Eighth British Army Is Only 90 Miles Southwest of Tripoli, Advance of 40 Miles {In Day.

GREAT FIRES STARTED IN NAZI CAPITAL   London Papers Call For Similar Assault On Rome

NAZI REPRISAL WEAK: 22 PLANES LOST IN SECOND RAF ATTACK   London Ack-Ack Brings Down 10 German Planes; Block-Busters Start Big Fires In German Capital

During N i. Attack  ad            - London Press  ilar Attack On Rome

One Bomber Lost Saturday, 22 on Sunday   Great Fires Started, Papers Ask Blow At Rome Also

ASSAULT ON ROME URGED BY LONDON   Germans Strike Back, Making Two Raids on London

Big Fires Rage in Nazi City   German “Revenge” Raid Stopped by Curtain of Death

GREAT FIRES BREAK OUT IN NAZI CAPITAL   RAF Rains Down Big ~ Block Busters for  Second Straight Night.

Press in London Calls for Similar Attacks on Rome   Great Bombs Rock Nazi Capital. “In Second Night Attack by RAF; Retaliation Raid on London Mild

SIMILAR RAID ON ROME 15 DEMANDED BY LONDON PAPERS   Germany Stages Two: Raids On London—22 British Planes Fail To Return. -

BRITISH ADMIT 22 AIRSHIPS LOST IN RAID   Germans Launch Weak Attacks Against Londo in Retaliatory Move   HEAVY DAMAGE REPORTED   English Newspapers Are Asking For Similar Assault ° On Rome

Senate Recesses Over Tax Snarl   Outright Repeal Voted Down, 34-15

SENATE KILLS WATSON PLAN TO OnOP LEW   Elimination of Taxes for 1943-44 Was Sought; Vote Is 34-15.   HUNT ARGUES STATE FUNDS ARE ADEQUATE

IOWA SENATE TURNS DOWN TAX REPEAL   Evidently in Frame of Mind Not to “Forgive” All of Tax Levied On Income of 1942.

SENATE REFUSES TO REMOVE TAX   Proposed Elimination of Income Tax Defeated

Veto Fails To Dismay Farm Bloe   Congressmen Plan To Override Move  By Roosevelt Soon

Senate Farm Bloc Chiefs Make Plans To Override FDR Veto Of Parity Measure

SENATE FARM BLOC LEADERS PLANNING TO OVERRIDE VETO   Meeting To Be Held In Sen. Bankhead’s Office —Showdown Fight Nears   BILL WOULD OMIT . FARM BENEFIT PAY

FARM LEADERS PLAN DRIVE T0 OVERRIDE VETE   Expect Nevessary Two- ‘nirds Voet In Senate; See Possibility of Defeat In House

FARM BLOC MEETS 0 MAP STRATEGY ON BANKHEAD BILI   Believe Presidential Veto Can Be Overridden In Upper ° Hatica.

Farm Bloc Acts To Cancel Vete   Bankhead Bill Leaders Goe FDR Failed

FARM BLOC 10 PUSH FIGHT ON BANKHEAD VETO   Senate Leaders Map Strategy For Action On Tuesday   VICTORY VIEWED   House Attitude Uncertain But Support Is Expected

Farm Bloc Plans Strategy To Beat Veto of Measure   ‘Leaders Prepared For Showdown Fight With. President Roosevelt

UNWED MOTHER KILLS 3 BABIES   Bodies Found Hidden In Apartment; She Tells Story Calmly

Fells of Killing Her Three Babies   Tiny Baby Caskets and Sonnets Seized By Police

PRES, CASTILLO QUITS CAPITAL, GOES ON SHIF   Minister of War in Govt. Cabinet Identified as Leader of Revolutionary Movement

Housewives Doing Home-Canning With Wartime Jar Caps Are Cautioned To Follow Directions Cr Spoilage Will Result:

15 DAWN-DUSK RAIDS ON KISKA   Base Hit Numerous Times; Two Jap Ships Blasted in Solomons

NAZI DEFENSE SAGS BEFORE EIGHTH ARMY   Bitter Counter Attacks Launched By Afrika Korps Repuised   ‘DEATH RAINS ON EUROPE   RAF Has Busy Night Of Attack, Striking Berlin, Stettin, Rostock

COUNTY 4-H GIRLS’ CLUBS RALLY DAY   Good Attendanca Marks Annual Event Thursday, June 17, At LeMars

4-H Girls Clubs Elect Their County Officers For Year At Rally Day   Edith Barker State Worker Gives Address

6 BILLION TAX ACTION BELIEVED UNDER WAY   Congress Scheduled To Get Treasury Plan in Week

TREASURY TO ASK CONGRESS FOR 8 BILLION IN TAXES   Additional Sum Would Bring Government Revenue Coltections to $46,000,000,000 a Year.   POST-WAR REFUNDS PROVIDED BY PROGRAM   increases in Individual . and Corporate Income Rates Are Expected to Be Proposed.

TREASURY'S TAX PROGRAM SECRET   Understood to Embrace Principie of British, Cana, , dan Pian   s  vapad

COUNTY DEBT TAXPROPOSED   Scheduled for Debate This Afternoon By Board  Of Supervisors

Deficit Is County Solons Headache   Special Tax Proposed At Session Today

WPA Expires In Oklahoma   Only 387 Remain onPayrolls and They Are Service Employes

They Did It—  Let’s Do Our Part Old Orchard, Me. First to Reach Local Rond Onoata

GRANBJURY TO HEAR SENATOR   Homer Paul One of Legislators Subpoenaed by Dixie Gilmer

Paul and Wilson Check in af Tulsa County Grand Jury   Mountcastle Due Later, Rinehart Excused As Textbook Inquiry Goes On

“Not Interested In Propaganda’   visors to OWI Just Want to Get War News to People

NEW OW! DOMESTIC GROUP HAS MEETING   Committee {Interested Only In Getting More War News to Public.

Soldier Bonus Drive Hinted By Vet Leaders   Endorse Principle Of Mustering-Out Pay, Sav It Isn’t Enough

BROWN TO ANSWER MAXON CHARGES AT PRESS-CONFERENCE   Former Deputy Denounces Grade Labeling And Inside Weakness ‘Of OPA

(Maxon Rips OPA Policy As Dangerous   Slaps at ‘Slide Rule The. orists, Red Tape and Confusion’

BROWN GETS CHANCE TO ANSWER CHARGES MADE BY LOU MAXON   Press Conference Is An nounced When Explana - tion May Be Forthcomina,

Brown Aide Quits, Warns Of Collapse   OPA Indecision, Internal Weakness Cited by Lou Maxon

ALLIED AIRPLANES HIT AT SOUTHERN ITALY AND NAPLES      British Repel Big Axia Counter - Attack At Catania—100,000 ©  Prisoners

YANKS CAPTURE SAN. STAFONA, SICILY PORT   Last Axis Link to Cen tral Sicily Has Been Broken

Raids Not Only Hitting Target In Axis Nations Rut Are Havin Effect On Nerves Of People   $000,000 Italians Leaving   AMERICANS ADVANCE TOWARD MESSINA TL

American Victory Proves Power of Land-Based Air Force Against Navy

BERLIN CLAIMS EVACUATION Of SIGILY SUCCESS   All-German and [taliar Troops Together With Materiel Withdrawn to  Italy, Nazis Say

14,000 Tons Bombs On City In Year   Industrial Center Of Stuttgart Hit; U. S. Raid On Bremen Terrific

HUNDREDS OF RAF BOMBERS MAKE ATTACK   Fifth Raid In As Many Night With Diversionary Attack Being Made At Stuttgart

MURDER OF HITLER IN REVOLT, FORESEEN   German Exile Also Predicts Invasion by Allies

Use reserves  iw slow pace of red drive  i i '    Foe threatened at Kremenchug

RUSSIANS MAKE THREE TO SIX MILE GAINS   Street Fighting For 4th Day in City of Melitopol

Use reserves to slow pace of red: drive   Foe threatened at Kremenchug

New Unidentified Disease Kills 8  In Louisiana   Most Of Deaths Among Nurses Who Cared For First Cases.

ARMY DOCTORS SEEK CURE FOR DISEASE   Eight Die from New Sickness in Louisiana

New Disease’s Mortality Higl  Was Fatal In Eight Of Seventeen Cases

NEW DISEASE HAS HIGH DEATH TOLL   Discovery of Malady Iz Louisiana Reported by U. S. Health Service

NEW DISEASE WITH HIGH DEATH RATE HAS MOVED IN. U.S. PHYSICIANS REVEAI

GREEN RESENTS SLAP AT LABOR   Bitter Protest Stirred Up By Statements From WLB

-Green Protests Suggestion WLB “Needs Power   Charges Three Have ‘Rendered Labor Great Disservice

SUGGESTION IS HIT ~ BY WILLIAM GREEN   Proposal of More Power for WLB Assailed by Labor Leader

Denies That Government Needs More Powers To Force Union Compliance   ANOTHER COMMITTEE NAMED BY ROOSEVELT

Green Protests WLB Suggestion   Hits Proposal Asking Greater Powers

PROTESTS ACTION OF TRIO IN WLB   Union Labor Spokesman Says Statement Makes It Increasingly Difficult to-Cooperate

Green Protests Davis’ Suggestion   Statement That WLB May Need More Power Is Called Disservice

Green Angered By Statement Of WLB Group   Denies Government Needs More Powers

New Threats By Labor Board Are Scored By Green   Three Members of WLB  - Come Out for More Authority Over Unions in Enforcing Orders.

British Troops Suffer More  Casualties In Salerno Area  American Casualties Less Than Expected; British Face Larae Nazi Armored Forces

U.S. Casualties To Date Are Set At 111,704   Include 10,682 Killed; British Losses Heavier Than Yanks’ at Salerno

Yugoslavs Gain -at Port of Split   Admit Being Forced to Quit Zencia

KRUPP FACTORY IS DESTROYED BY YUGOS LAYS   Rommel’s F erces Thrown Back At Split But Par tisans Yield Zenica

Yugoslays Make Further Gains   Repulse Nazis Near Adriatic Port City -

BACK DOOR TO GERMANY IS MENACED   By Yugoslav Troops Throwing Back Marshal Rommel’s Troops; Relinquish Hold On Zenica.   Pushed In Bosnia

Krupp Plant Damaged Before Partisans Leave; Troop Train Destroyed

NAZIS PUSHED BACK BY SLAVS IN SPLIT AREA   Partisans Are Forced Tc Yield To Rommel At Zenica; Menace To Enemy Grows

NAZIS DRIVEN BACK AT SPLIT   Yugoslavs Gain Along Ad: riatic, But Are Forced To Give Up Zenica   Mines. Plants Destroved

Rommel Units Lose Ground In Yugoslavia   Fierce Baules Rage At Many Points;  Nazis Take Zeniea

Yugoslavs and Nazis Fight Big Battles:   Allied “Naval -Craft Active in- Waters Touching Balkans

NAZI FORCES HURLED BACK, REPORT SAYS   Yugoslav Partisans, However, Relinquish Hold on Zenica   NAVY ACTIVITY IN AREA IS REPORTED   Bitter Street Fighting : Described in Com munique

State Acre Goal For 1944 Crop To Be Increased  Food Conference at Bozeman Considers Naw Yeor’se Outlook

1944 Food Goal Tentatively Set  Three-Day Planning Conference Opens

SAYS PATTON ‘DISCIPLINED   Gen. Eisenhower's Report Given to Senate

AL SAYS PATTON RAPPED   “APPLICABLE” DISCIPLINE WAS USED: EISENHOWER

REPORT ON PATTON   Eisenhower Says He Imposed Discipline He Thought Proper

Eisenhower Disciplined Gen. Patton   SECRETARY STIMSON SENDS TO SENATE’S MILITARY COMMITikE REPORT ON PATTON’S MISTREATMENT OF SOLDIERS.   “-imson Backs Eisenhower

House Retuses Crop Insurance   Measure Killed By Body Fourth Time

CRASH HURTS 30 WAR PLANT MEN   Train Hits Street Car and Bus Latter Loaded With War Workers

SIX BILLION CUT MADE IN ARMY'S COSTS   Reduction Will Permit Greater Emphasis On Sea Warfare   SUM UNCHANGED     Casualties And Equipment Losses Are Less  Than Expected

Army Finance Estimates Cut By $6 Billion   But Nation’s War Bill For Year Remains At $100 Billion; Navy To Need More

: ARMY SPENDING CUT BY NEW © WAR STRATGEY   Most Of Reduction Expected To Go To Navy

War Expenditure Figures Revised   Army Costs Cut, Those of Navy Uppec

SEA WARFARE GIVEN BIGGER BUDGET SLICE   ARMY ESTIMATES REDUCED; TOTAL UNCHANGED

FDR Discloses Big Drop in Cost of Army   Six Billions Are Cut From Budget Estimate Figures

Budget Table Bares Stress On Sea War   Army Cut 6 Billion Ir President's Summation O} Fiscal Needs   MOST GOES TO NAVY   Roosevelt Sees No Change In January Estimate If Prices Hold

Fk. D. R. Demands  New Revenue tor Government   Six-Billion Reduction in Army Estimates Forecast by President, but Cut Will Place Greater Emphasis on Sea Warfare

Roosevelt Trim: Six Billions  Off Army Fund   Navy Benefits From Transfer As War Bill Holds Steady;  Warns Against Higher Taxes

“Reduce Army * Estimates By - Six Billions   President Revives Summation of Budget Estimates

Strategy Changes Due to Cut Army Costs Six Billion   Four Billion Dollars Of Estimated Saving  Shifted to Navy  ROOSEVELT REPORTS War Takes Fewer  Lives, Less Material Than Wac Fxnected

R RY FYPENDITURES   $6,000,000,000 Cut From Estimates Given to Navy To Permit Greater Sen Power   WILL NOT AFFECT MANPOWER NEEDS   Nation’s War Bill for Fiseal Year Stands at 3100,-  000,000,000 Unless In-  Hlation Strikes 

SOLONS SLASH COUNTY LOAD   ASSEMBLY APPROVES $5 PENSION PAYMENT CUT

Hint Full Story Yet To Be Told   Missing Chapters Will Be Filled in Later, Whitehouse Officials Say.

JOINT NOTE IS SENT TO JOSEF STALIN   Cordell Hull Blasts Critics of U.S.  Policies

BIGGER THINGS ARE INFERRED   Full Magnitude Of Casablanca Meeting Not Yet Revealed.

Three Years and Three Months of War Leave Italy Broken, Bleeding

FARM INCOME INCREASE   Cash in Kansas for § Months of 1913 Totals $448,971,000

FARM INCOME INCREASE   Cash in Kansas for 8 - Months of - 19143 Totals ey 000

‘Supreme Court Rules Unconstitutional City Laws Taxing Sale Of Religious Tracts

COURT REVERSES FORMER POSITION   Supreme Court Rules License Tax on Sale of Tracts Silegal.

‘SUPREME COURT IN EFFECT OVER-RULES ‘FORMER DECISION   Declare Municipal Ordinance Imposing Licenses on Sale Religious Literature Unconstitutional.

High Court Vacates Own Decision On Taxing Sale ‘Of Religious Literature

Supreme Court Overrules Self on Ordinance Issue      Declares Unconstitutional Municipal Laws Imposing License Tax On Sale of Religious Literature; Tribunal Votes 5 to 4 On Ruling; Reed, Roberts, Frankfurter, Jackson Dissent

Supreme Court Declares Religious Literature Tax Unconstitutional

DECISION IS CHANGED   Court Rules on Licensing Sale of  Religious Literature

High Court  Reverses Case   Declare City Ordnance Licensing Tax on Religious Literature Sale Invalid

“Witnesses” Win Suit Over  License Fee   Supreme Court In Reversal Of  Previous Decision

Supreme Court Reverses Self  Tax On Religious Literature Illegal

Royce Replaces Brereton As Middle East Heac   Former Commander Leaves For Undisclosed Important Assignment

SECRET BALLOT BILL FINALLY PASSED BY SENATE ON MONDAY   HOUSE SID’™RACKED ADJOURNMENT PLAN BY SENDING IT TO COMMITTEE

Secret Ballot Bill Passed by Senate  Amendment to Alter Method of Marking Bollots Defeated

SECRET BALLOT BILL FINALLY PASSED BY SENATE ON MONDAY  HOUSE SID"™RACKED AD JOURNMENT PLAN BY

RUSSIANS MAKE GAINS AT ENDS OF LONG FRONT   Repulse Nazi Attack at Leningrad and Land Forces At Novorossisk

\First nazi thrust in red summer campaign lis thwarted; Gomel, Orel heavily battered

aT RONG ENEMY BRoto HIT BY BOMBER RAID   Report Desiruction of Dumps and Supoly Trains at Gome!l and Orel.   BREAKS UP NAZI ATTACK ‘ON LENINGRAD FRONT

Rome And Berlin Are Again Bombed By Strong Force   Russians Drive Within A Mile: Of Kharkov; Announce New Offensive 85 Miles Southeast Of Smolensk; Nazis Reel

New Smolensk Drive Opens; Kharkov Totters   Salamaua Bombed; Americans Ad: vance Mile On Bairoko Harbor In Salernoans oo

U.S. BOMBERS CARRY GRAND CAMPAIGN INTO SECOND DAY   Allied Air Power in Africa Released For Mighty Pre-Invasion Bombardment

U.S. SHIPPING OVER DOUBLED   Merchant Marine Grows To 26,000,000 Tons Since Start Of The War

MERCHANT MARINE GROWTH REPORTED   Fleet Increases 250 Per Cent Since Pearl Harbor, -Land Says

Changes Are Made in the County Quota and Up to Farmers Locate Machinery

ALLIED WAR COUNCIL'S PLANS TO SPEED AID TO CHINA TO BE 'COD-SEND TO THAT COUNTRY

Today’s War Moves   Allied War Council’s Goal Life-Saver for China

SPEEDING OF WAR MATERIAL TO CHINA IS A GOD-SEND   America’s Job of Transporting Extended: by Decision to Increase Aid ta Chinege.

the W ar T oday— Swift Movement Of War Materials To China Dangerous But Urgent Job

Situation i in China as To Supplies Is Terrible  Economic Structure Also Bad

THE WAR TODAY   ~ By DeWitt Mackenzie fAssociated Press War Analyst)

The War Today   Speeding of U. S. War SuppHes To Re Godsend to Chinese

The War Today   Determination to Speed Movement Of Supplies To China Is God-send.

FLASH FLOOD LIST OF DEAD JUMPS 10 14   Nine Still Missing With Property Damage High   VICTIMS OF FLOOD TRAPPED IN SLEEP   High Waters Rage Thru West Virginia Counties

14 Dead, 9 Missing In Flash Flood In West Virginia   Prorperty Damage Will Exceed $2,000,000;  Fear Heavier Toll

14 Dead. 9 Others Missing in Wake Of Flash Flood   Damage Estimated at $2.000,000 in Two West Virginia Areas

FLASH FLOOD LIST OF DEAD JUMPS 10 14  VICTIMS i FLOOD TR APPED JN aneer  Pe to fn +?

Texas Breaks Up Black Marketers   Seven. Arraigned For Illegal Coupon Sale

ALLIED FLIERS HELP PATRIOTS   Hammer Railway Yards In Yugoslavia

ALLIED AIR FORCE AIDS IN SPREADING WAR IN JUGOSLAVIA   Partisan + Forces Report New Successes In Fight With  Navi

FLYNN HEARING IS CONCLUDED   Senate Committee Votes Wednesday On Nomination.

Ohio Governor G.O.P.Candidate ‘For President    Announcement Expected To Touch off Hot Battle For Delegate Control

Bricker To Run As GOP Candidate   Delegate Battle Expected To Cente: In Southern States

Bricker's Entry Starts GOP Race   Willkie, Stassen Booms  Are Expected Soon

BRICKER PLANS TOENTER OHIO PARTY PRIMARY   Decision Intensifies Battle For Control Of G. 0. P.  Delegates

Bricker Seeking GOP Nomination   Becomes Candidate In Ohio Primaries

BRICKER TO SEEK PRIMARY CHOICE   Announcement Expected to Touch Off Intensified Battle for Control of GOP Convention Delegates

Now in the Suburbs of Korosten in the Kiev Bulge.  ONLY 55 MILES OF OLD POLISH BORDER  2.500 German Men and Officers Kiiled in Advance.

d RED COLUMNS PUSH WESTWARL   Russians Apparently Hope To Crack German Lines To Rumania

RUSSIAN ATTACK [IS ALL OUT DRIVE TO REACH RUMANIA   Irresistable Red Troops Only Few Miles 'From Old Polish Border

STANDS PACKED FOR FIRST GAME OF WORLD SERIES   Bright, Crisp Weather Greets Fans at Yankee Stadium

Chandler And Lanier Starting Pitchers   Huge Yankee Stadium About Sold Out As Time For Game Neared Fans Stand In Line

World Series Opens Under Bright Skies   Chandler. Lanier On Mound for Opening Game

Ideal Weather Greets First Game of Series: Bleachers Fill Early.

Lt. Gen, McNarney Mountbatten Aid?   Reliable Reports Name Em. porium Man As Deputy Chief In Southeast Asia

YOUTH ADMITS RAPE- SLAYING OF CHILD, 4   Body Found Buried in Cellar of Pittsburgh Home

TL-YEAR-OLD y oer ie i ORDERS  4-YEAR-OLD GIRL.      In Cellar of His Home In Pittsburg and Buries Her There in Shallow  Crave

Youth Admits Killing FourYear-Old Girl   Discovery of Body Buried In Cellar Reveals Hor rible Crime

SLEW GIRL, 4, BURIED BODY   Pittsburgh Boy Had Coddled Victim As Baby

Boy Admits Killing Child   Buried Body of 4-Year Old Girl He Used To Coddle in Cellar

MISSING LASS FOUND SLAIN      Neighbor Boy, 19, Is Held in Death of Girl, 4

FIND BURIED BODY OF CHILD   Police Say Youth Admits He Ravished Little Girl and Killed Her.

17-Year-Old Youth Rapes and Murders  Child He Coddled   Parents of Slayer of _ Four-Year-Old Girl in Protective Custody

Youth Held In Death of Tot, 4   Admits Assaulting, Killing Neighbor's Child, Police Say

Youth Confesses Rape and Killing  Of 4-Year-Old Girl--Body in Cellar

Youth Confesses Brutal Murder   Choked, Raped And Buried In Cellar FourYear-Old Girl.

Youth Admits Choking And Raping Baby   Body of 4-Year-Old Taken From Shallow Grave In Cellar —

Youth, 17, Charged With Slaying Child  Rady «nf Gil A   Body of Girl, 4, Found Buried in Cellar of His Home

STORY OF EVENTS Ot  NEW BRITAIN AFTER  FIRST U. §. ASSAULT ASSOCIATED PRESS  EYEWITNESS SAYS ORIECTIVE ACHIEVED

NEW OPPOSITION TO KILDAY BILL   WAR DEPARTMENT OPPOSES EFFORT TO DEFER FATHERS

Steel Ring Closes on Bryansk   FIVE RUSS COLUMNS CONVERGING ON BIG GERMAN ARMY BASE

Cost of Living Shows Increase   California Cities In Greatest Gain

Cost Of Living Is Higher In District  U.S., As A Whole, Show: 3.9 Percent Gain

Japs In Wild Flight — Up New Guinesa Coast After Salamaua Falls:

Salamaua Is Occupied By Allied Treons   “Fleéing Japanese — Chased Toward Lae After Evacuation

Allies Occtipy Salamaua,. Chase Jans Up Coast   ‘Final Assault On Lae Imminent As Big Trap Closes

SALAMAUA IS CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Japs Being Chased Into Death Trap At Lae, New Guinea

Salamaua Falls To Allies; Japs Face Death Trap at Lae   American, Australian Forces Occupy Sala maua, Once Strong. Enemy Naval and Air Base, With Japs in Flight

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE SALAMAUA CHASE JAPANESE   American, Australian Troops Have Occuvied Salamauva In Major Triumph

Allies Chasing Jans After Fal Of Salamaua  Enemy Driven Towards Death  Pe a pee

Disorganized Japs Pursued Toward Lae   Major Triumph Scored By Gen. MacArthur's Forces In Capture Of Salamaua Base

SALAMAUA IN HANDS OF ALLIES   ‘Troops Are Chasing _Jap-Remnants, Up * New. Guinea Coast

Salamaua Taker As Japs Flee To Trap at Lae  U.S. Loses Sub  And Two U-Boat Chasers

Allies Chasing Japanese Toward Death Trap AtLae      “Allied” Ainerafe Bégan Whe: Silantdte ‘Alrdroime ‘At Once —_ Enemy Left Behind’ Big ~ ‘Quantities Of Equipment: — Slight Opposition Met At Lae

May Tragic Month For German Subs   Topped Already Increasin; Story of Losses

MORE NAZI SUBS SUNK IN MAY THAN ANY OTHER MONTH OF THE WAR, CLAIM

ALLIES REPORT GAINS: AGAINST NAZI U-BOATS   May One of Best Months, British Admiralty  Reveals   GERMAN LOSSES UP   Convoy Escort Vessels Take Big Toll of Wolf Packs

Toll of Nazi Subs Shows Big Increase   More Sunk in May Than in Any Other Month of War

MAY SUB SINKINGS EXCEED NAZI OUTPUT   British Official Issues Report on U-Boat War

Sub Sinkings In May at Highest Mark   Number Operating In Atlantic in Last Two Months

Fewer Subs in Atlantic With Convoys Eseorted   Total U-Boats Sunk in Twelve Months Exceeds Number Bagged in All  Previous War Period, Toll Mounts

SUB SINKINGS SET RECORD IN MONTH OF MAY   U-boats In Atlantic Show Decided Increase In Last Two Months   CONVOY SUPPORT SHOWING RESULTS   Sharp Reduction In Shipping Losses Revealed By Admiralty

Allies Blast Nazi Substo Record Toll   Deadly Escort Assaults By Planes and Warships Score Victories In Ocean Battles   MAY TOLL MOUNTS TO RECORD FIGURE   Rate of Destruction Is _ Growing, Commons Is Told; U.S. and RAF  Men Get Credit —

SUB SINKINGS IN MAY SET RECORD   Number Of Operating U-Boats In Atlantic Drops, Britisher Says

May Top Month In Destruction  Of Enemy Subs   Convoy Escorts Proving Increasingly Deadly To Atlantic U-Boats.

Allied Ship  Losses Down; Fewer U-Boats   Alexander Says Protection Methods Improving

IN SINKINGS DURING MAY   Number Of Subs In Atlantic Said Now Decreasing

SUBS SUNK IN MAY SET HIGH MARK OF WAR   Fewer German U-Boats Seen In Atlantic

Sub Sinkings In May at Highest Mark   Number Operating In Atlantic in  Last Two Months Seems Smaller

DUISBURG Io GIVEN. BOMBS FROM ENGLAND   British Planes in ‘‘Great Strength” Blasted Industrial City.   SEVENTEEN ARE LOST   Described as One of the Heaviest Raids Against the Reich.

Top Steer At Chicago Show Brings $4 Lb.  iS ar ..dlw.,.lww.wrmlClCGS LDU lw

Naval Forces Beat Off German Raid On Russian-bound Convoy      British Slash Out In Arctic Darkness Against Raiders, Lured From Norwegian Hideouts; Destroyer Sunk Cruiser Hit

British Reveal Details of Naval Battle  Convoy Is Taken   Convoy Is Taken to Russia Without Damage

GERMAN WARSHIPS ROUTED IN BATTLE IN ARCTIC GLOOM   Destroyer Sunk, Cruiser Crip pled by British Craft That   Go to Aid of RussiaBound Convoy.   FULL STORY TOLD OF SHARP ENGAGEMENT   Hitler’s Vessels Pounced Upon After Leaving Hideouts in Vain Effort to Halt Supply Ships.

Nazi Attack On Convoy  Beaten Off By British   Naval Force Slashes Out to Aid Russian-bound Convo; Under Attack—One German Destroyer Sunk and Cruiser Damaged

POCKET BATTLESHIP ATTACK REPULSED BY BRITISH NAVY   Destroyers Fended Off German Naval Assault On Con voy Until Arrival Of Main Forces; First Salve Scored Direct Hit On Large Nazi Warship

Nazis Are Reported Slipping; War Leaders Take Over   Indications Suggest Military Heads Direct Reich Affairs

Reich Generals Reported ‘Seizing Power From Nazi Party To Keep War Going

MOISTURE IS NEEDED   Flora Predicts Light Rains for Eastern Part of Kansas

 ALLIES HEM JAPS IN ONE SMALL SECTOR   Enemy Troops On New Guinea Wipned Out

Attacking Sanananda,  Bomb Lae   M’Arthur’s Men Dispose O Main Force; Kall 650; Break Axis Back.

Allies Plan Attacks  on Sanananda   650 Nips Reported Killed in the Mission Sector

German Food Situation Deteriorates But Nation Is Not Yet on Verge of Collapse

GERMANS’ FOOD SUPPLIES HOLD   Bombs May Wreck System of Distribution, Break Morale

Stimson Says Order Barring Men (On Active Duty From Running For Public Office Not Aimed at M’Arthur

STIMSON EXPLAINS ARMY REGULATION   Tells Press Conference About Order on Men In Service and Politics.

Stimson Denies No-Office Rule For MacArthur   Not Directed At Him Or Anyone Else In Particular

BAN NOT AIMED AT INDIVIDUALS   Stimson: Anti-Politics Move Js for Efficiency

DEMOCRATS TO BATTLE OVER. MARCANTONIO   Choice of ALP Member for Judi ciary Committee Ires Members of Majority Parly

Democrats of House Promise Battle Over Marcantonio   Choice of American Labor Party Member for Committee Opposed

SEE FIGHT OVER ~ LABOR MEMBER   Demos to Oppose Appointment of Marcantonio

Senate Group To Vote Today On Rumi Plan  WLB Appeal To Byr   WLB Appeal To Byrne: To Raise Wages Gets  Nowhere; AFL Officia Atstaele  ahar RBanrd

WMC CONSIDERS 48-HOUR WEEK, PRICE CHANGES   Leon Henderson Back 0 Washington Scene in Civilian Job

ANTI - INFLATION PROBLEMS KEEP CAPITAL BUSY   Modified Ruml Plan for Skipping Year of Taxes Due for Decision   WAGE DISPUTES CONTINUE   Labor Board Whip-sawed by Mine Quarrel While WMC Has Other Headaches

May De at apped In The Crimea   Nazi Troops In Area Are Gravely Threatened By Russian Advance   CASUALTIES HIGH IN FIERCE ATTACKS

More Than Three Billion Pounds of Meat Missing From Expected Civilian Supply, 1 3-4 Pound Ration Reports Go Undenied

Proposed 13, ‘Ibs. ‘Allow. ~ “ance Leaves’ Much Un. ‘accounted For.  WHERE'S THE RECT?)

U.S. TROOPS TAKE ENTIRE NAZIPATRO!   Every Member Of Strong Force ls Captured

German Patrol Captured Complete By U.S. Infantry In North Africa

Capture Nazi Patrol Unit:      U. S. Troops in Tunisia  Round Up Entire Group Without a Single Less 

U. S. Infantry, in Race With British, Bag German Patrol   American Outfit, Sweeping Up Like a Giant Arm Scooping Up a Poker Pot, Captures Enemy Outfit to a Man Southwest of Tunis;  Only One Yankee Casualty

Americans Bring "Em Back Aliv  German Patrol Force Captured In Tunisia

ANTI-STRIKE MEASURE   House Approves Bill to Punish Strike Leaders in Plants

Anti-Strike Bill Passed By House   Stiff Penalties Are Voted For Persons Causing Strikes In Plants Run By Government

House Passes Labor Measure   Provides Fine And Im prisonment For Instigators Of Strikes.

'Prison Sentences And Fines. . . . . House Passes Stiff — Strike Penalty Law

Anti-Strike Bill Revised and Passed   House Measure Carries Pen alty of Prison Terms and Fines .   ALSO REQUIRES VOTE BY WORKERS   Contributions From Unions to Political Campaigns Are Banned

Anti-Strike Bill Passed By The House  a a or a   Aimed At Leaders And Will Prevent Political Gifts

HOUSE VOTES FOR DRASTIC PENALTIES STRIKE INSTIGATORS  POWER OF WAR LABOR BOARD ALSO STRENGTH. ENED. RY. BRILL -- ”

PRISON TERMS, STIFF FINES TO CHECK STRIKES   Anti-Strike Bill Passed, Im posing Penalties for Non-Compliance

 House Approves Prison Terms and Fines for Strike Leaders in Plants Run by Government: Vote 231 to 141

HOUSE APPROVES BILL TO PUNISH STRIKE FOMENTORS   Weuld Require a Vote of Workers in GovernmentOperated Plants Before a Strike Could Be Called

Houe Passes Stiff Anti Strike Bill   On Instigating, Leading Strikes in GovernmentOwned Plants

SUPPLY OF WATER IN STATE DWINDLES   Real Trouble Ahead Unless Rain Falls Soon, Health Department Engineer Moses Makes Known

CHURCHILL'S TALK HINTS ATTACK SOON   British Losses in Tunisia Were 35,000

Axis Reports Attempt Made To “Occupy Island   Premier Tells Parliament Allied Plans Are Complete For Peculiarly Complex Amphibian Action; Commandos Visit Lampedusa.

Invasion Made 2 Years,  4 Months After British Lost European Toehold

Floods Delay Allied Drive At Vollurno   Aerial Forces Continue Raids Despite Weather

Gen. Clark Hints Big Offensive Is Imminent  Mud Delays 5th Army Movement:   Mud Delays 5th Army Movement; Planes Blast Nazis

PASS BILL T0 PROTECT JOBS OF SERVICEMEN   Measure provides that veterans shall be restored to positions

Act To Safeguard Former Jobs   Lower House Takes Action For Men In Service

OLD AGK PENSION. INCREASED TO $40 BY THE HOUSE   Action. Ready Vor Senate Would ‘Add Million Dollars a Year to Pension Costs. -

HOUSE APPROVES S40 PENSION TOP   VOTE ON PROPOSAL IS 124 TO 1—BILL NOW GOES TO STATE SENATE.

House Passes OAP Measure Raising Level   Maximum of $40 and $60 Set; Bill Passes by 124-4

Five Alabama Mines Closed  Government ReSt .~=—— mB ee eee oe eld

—WORLD SERIES—  BOROWY, BRAZLE FAS AN NAAIINT   Bombers Hope To Gain Lead In Final New York Game   TRAVEL TONIGHT   Series Will Be Resumed In St. Louis Sunday Afternoon

U.S.; Britain and Russia Acting j in Close Harmony On the Italian Problem .

All Allied Nations In Close Working Harmony On Italian Peace Bids

UNITED NATIONS ACTING IN CLOSE HARMONY ON ITALIAN SITUATION; DELAY IRKS BRITISH   Vatican Activity Grows

DEVELOPMENTS OVER WEEKEND ARE FORESEEN   British Cabinet Meetings Cause Flurry of Excitement In London

THREE NATIONS ACTING IN CLOSE UNITY ON ITALY   Any Armistice Terms Laid Down Would Carry approval of the Three Countries.   ARE NOW STANDING BY   Ready For Any Possible Developments Over the Week End.

U.S, BRITAIN AND RUSSIA ARE ACTING IN FULL HARMONY  ANY ITALIAN ARMISTICE TERMS EXPECTED BE APPROVED BY TRIO

U.S., Britain And Russia Are Agreed Upon Terms   Brtiish Cabinet Is Standing Ready For Summons.

Allies Acting On ~ [talian Problem   U. S. GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA WORKING TOGETHER

ALLIED POWERS) IN AGREEMENT ONPRACETERMS   'U. S., Britain and Russia Acting in Close Harmony in Dealing With Italian Situation   NEW INVASION BLOW RELIEVED IMMINENT   Indicated by Churchill's Order to Cabinet and Military Commanders to Stand By

ANY ARMISTICE TO. “HAVE-THE PNA ‘OF ALL THREE POWERS   British ‘Cabinet “Ordered To: “Stand by -for.: ‘Any. -Week- . ‘End Davelooments..

CABINET READY IN BRITAIN FOR BREAK IN ITALY   Americans, British, Russians Working In Close Harmony

New Invasion Blow May Be Near, Belief   U. S., Britain And Russia In Close Harmony On Any Armistice With  Italians

> Smaller Nations Kept Informed  _ Of Moves In  Italian Relations

Allies United In Dealing With Italy   Any Peace Agreement Reached Would Have Approval of All;  CGov’ts In Cloce Touch

British Leaders  Ordered To Stand By For Emergency   Diplomatic Proceedings Intensified At Vatican; Other United Nations Governments Kept Informed; Nazi, Italian Clashes Reported

Allies Deal With Italians .In Harmony   U. S., Britain, Reds Will Jointly Write  Terms of Armistice

Soviets, British Supporting U.S. In Handling of Italian Problem   Churchill Orders Cabinet To Stand by for De velopments

POWERS TOGETHER   J. S., Britain and Russia ‘i in Harmony on Italian  Moves

URDER FREEZES OALE OF GANNEL FISH AND MEATS   Buying Rush Drains Civil/ ian Supplies; Ban May  Last Until April

Invade, Conquer U. 3. Said Jap Aim  EE ee, ed   Grew, Former Envoy, Tells Ambition of Enemy Militarists

Japan’s Big Ambition Is To Conquer U.S.  Our Country, Cities And Homes In Dire Peril, Grew Warns

JAPS" AMBITION T0 INVADE, BEAT W, §.      Former Ambassador Grew Warns of Militarists’ Great Desire.

Grew Asserts Jap Warlords Have ‘Overweening Ambition’ To Invade and Sates .

Japs Plan To Overrun US.,  Grew Declares   Nippon Is Called Potentially World’s Strongest Nation

Japs Yearn To Invade   Says Dream of Nip Militarists Is To Invade And Conquer U. S.

Militarists Of Japan Have An Overwhelming ‘Ambition To Invade, Conquer U. S.—Grew

JAP MILITARISTS NURSE AMBITION TO INVADE U. S.   Joseph C. Grew, Forme: Ambassador to Japan Tells College Hearers.

Japs Nursing “‘Overweening Ambition” to Invade U. S.   Joseph C. Grew, Former Ambassador to Tokyo, Tells College Graduates They Must be Crushed, Not  Only to Save America, But to Free  i Japanese People From Bondage

Moscow Dissolves World Comintern InEffortto Help End Labor Strife

Leaders Request Masses To Unite Against Hitler   Group That Fomented Revolution Cuts Ties  With Foreign Members

MOVE SEEN AS AID TO SOVIETALLY RELATIONS   End of World - Revolutionary Group Severs Communists’ Connection With Moscow.

TANK CAR GAS DELIVERIES CUI   East Coast States Mus Depend On Pipelines, Barges, Trucks

BAN ORDERED ON TANK CARS HAULING GAS   Equipment to be Made Available for Fuel Oil Deliveries

Gasoline Tank Hauls Banned   Cars Ordered Put to Use To Replenish East's * Fuel Ou

Charges ‘Against 1B. Amold Dropped:        Uniows [voles 2         Major - ‘General. Of Marines Held For Hit- and- Run

CIVIL SERVICE JOBS OPEN, SAYS MSR. BERRYMAN   Positions Available In Nation's " * Gapital, Declares U. 8. Office Chief

RUSSIANS ARE IN SUBURBS OF KHARKOV   Axis Radio Admits Red Army Advance and Fall of City is Expected Very Shortly.

3 spearheads Pushed Into  Donets Basin  Furious Fighting Marks Struggle to Take Kharkov  RAIL CENTERS FALL  Soviets Closing in on Last Nazi-Held Line

HULL AND STALIN. TALK 55 MINUTES   HARRIMAN AND MOLOTOV PRESENT AT THEIR HISTORIC CONFERENCE,

Hull and Stalin Hold Conferences; Harriman and Molotov Participate

Britain Hails Russia’s  Political Act  London Sees Closer Allied Relations As Result of Move

Magnitude ls Admitted By Germans   Allied Ties Strengthened By Unexpected Russian Action

(Germans Admit Importance of Russian Move   Effect on‘ Neutrals and Wavering Axis Satellites -Foreseen

RED DECISION ACCLAIMED IN HIGH QUARTERS   Taaniitude of Action Is Acknowledged in Many Foreign Lapitals

Derelict Plane Flies 2000 Mi.   Pilotless Craft Ends Flight in Crach After Reversing Her Course

PLANE FLIES 2,000 MILES WITHOUT PILOT   Two of Crewmen That Bailed Out Over Gulf Are Still Missing

Pilotless Plane Flies 2000 Miles From Southern Florida to Mexico

GOP Moves To Throttle  Isolationists   Aims at Post-War  Cooperation Among Nations

COMPLETED TERM.   Prot. Luther A. Richman Prominent in Music Circles,

oy ae a COMPLETED TERM.   Prot. Lather: va Richman PromInent ‘in Musie Cireles. -

Bees Swarm Into R, R. Switch Box, Causing Short Circuit in Wires

Just Look What You Are Going To ~ Miss If You Die Within 100 Years

Base Smashed. Japs Say   U. S. Hears Tokyo Claim Victory tn Guinea

Allied Forces Striking Along Italian Coast   Yank and Canadian Troops Reported To Be Trying to Cut Off Nazis; Land North and South of Rome

Badoglio Accepts ‘Unconditional’ Terms, Is Granted Armistice; Face Fight to Drive Out Germans

New Landings Reported at Several Spots   Announced by Radio From Tunis, Swedish Newspaper Dispatches   SARDINIA LANDING ALSO MENTIONED   Pizzo, Genoa, Other Places in ‘Heart’ Of Italy Are Named

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Gigantic Battle Still To Come   Kisenhower Grants Armistice; ‘Troops Land Up Coast To Cut Off Nazis; People To Help Oust Huns

Surrender  Leads To Action   Landings Made Third of Way Up Italian Boot Believed to Put Invaders in Back of Germans Retreating Northward

Germans Expected to Fight Desperately to Hold Positions in the Country, Observers Say . &

Military Truce Granted Country By Eisenhower   Reports Indicate Troops Landed at Naples, Genoa, Other Points; War Between Italy And Allies Ends; Resisting of Nazis Ordered

Eisenhower’s Forces Trying To Trap German Units In The South   MULTIPLE LANDINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED

PT Boats Halt Enemy Fleet Off Solomons   Three Nippon Warships Hit By Torpedoes As Force Turns Back   MARINES ADVANCE   Guadalcanal Foe Has Been Unable To Contact Base For Twa Months

TORPEDO BOATS SCATTER JAPS' WARSHIP FORCE   wavy Says Foe Destroyers Hit Trying to supply Guadalcanal   U. S. and Nippon Apparent! Jockey for Another Maior Clash

TORPEDO BOATS HIT JAP SHIPS   Attempt To Land Troops On Guadalcanal Repulsed

U. 5. Torpedo Boats Attack Jap Warships   Two Are Hit And Third Also Believed Hit In Guadalcanal Area   ENEMY RETIRES AFTER ‘SEA CLASH

Report Destraction of 6,000 Axis Aircraft In  Mediterranean Campaign

HAGERSTOWN MURDER CASE IS UNCOVERED:   Bodies Of Estranged Couple Are Found In Apartment After Shooting Last Night

Thinks Miners  Not To Strike   Fuel Administrator Declares Next Move Up In Dispute To Government.

TS LD ALLIS: CALC ca  Mine Dispute Up To Government,  View of Ickes

Ickes to Ask no Coal Extension   Says Next Step In Controversy up To Government

GOVT. MUST TAKE NEXT STEP TO SETTLE MINE DISPUTE   Ickes Has No Plan For Setlement But Don’t Believe Miners Will Stor Again.

Coal Strike Left to U.S.   Next Settlement Step Up to Government, Says Administrator Ickes

‘12. Per Cent ‘Of War Bond Quota Is in   Total of $160,236.15 Reported tc The Cole County War Finance Committee at Noon Today

Women Start Bond Drive In Capital City   Booths In Public Places; $10,000 . Purchase By Factory

Retail Ceilings Asked by Labor   Delegation Also Requests Top Representation on Govern mental Avencies

IOWA'S SPRING PIG CROP WILL SET NEW MARK   Considerable of an Increase Also  Indicated for Fall Pigs on  United States Farms

Spring Pig Crop 15% Over Record   lowa Sows Farrow 15 Million Head

Death Claims Bert Gray At Houston   Head of Local © Electric Company “Well Known Here .

BULGARIAN PORT TO BE ISOLATED   Germans Apparently Hope lo Run Gantlet Of Red Navy In Black Sea

RUBBER STOCKS HOLD UP WELL   Stockpile In Better Condition Than Predicted By Baruch Committee.

Stockpile of rubber holds  up so far   Doihg better than estimates

Rubber Stoek At Good Mark   Supply Holding Up Better Than Predieted By Baruch (Clommittee.

INTERNED FRENCH FLEET TO ALLIES   Nine Axis Ships Held at Alexan. ‘dria Since Armistice Voluntcer to Fight Against Axis.

MORE WARSHIPS TO JOIN ALLIES   French Naval Fleet At Alexandria Includes Nine Vessels

Five Money Bills  hn Air on Eve Of Fiscal Year   President Technically   President Technically Left Without Emergency Funds

MONEY BILLS STILL AWAIT FINAL ACTION   Five Measures Left “in the Air” on Eve of Fiscal Year

Five Money Bills In Air on Eve Of Fiscal Year  President Technically Left Without  Emergency Funds

Deadline Catches Big Money Bills   Fiscal Year Ends . Without Renewals

FIVE MONEY BILLS CAUGHT IN JAM   ONE CARRIED EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR PRESIDENT FOR FISCAL YEAR.

Money Bills Are Delayed   Major Appropriations Are Yet To Be Passed

Congress Fails To Pass Five Big  Money Measures   Unable to Reach Agreement to Terms Of Appropriations

Five Fund Bills Left Up in Air  Senate Passes War RKoencies Meosure

Five Big Bills In Air at End Of Fiscal Year   Army Fund Sent to White House; FDR’s Emergency Funids and Farm Act Unfinished

NAZIS BEGGING — FOR HINT ON PLAN OF ALLIED THRUST   Initiative Has Passed to Uni. ted Nations—Enemy Still: Powerful.

Turning Point in European War Finds _ Strategic Initiative In Allied Hands

TURNING POINT IN EUROPEAN WAR HAS NOW BEEN REACHED   World Wondering Where Allies Will Strike — Hitler’s Striking - _ Days Past

ALLIES HOLDING WHIP HAND NOW    Initiative Goes From Axis Grasp Without Fanfare. World War I Pattern Repeated

LITTLE MOISTURE FELL      Light Showers Are Predicted for Eastern Part of Kansas

Vichy Confesses Disaffection  Becomes Serious  But Says Reds and DeGoullists Are Behind Play

BERLIN ADMITS DRAFT UPRISING   Blames Rebellion O French Youths On  Communists

Vichy Acknowledges French Are Resisting German Labor Roundup in Haute Savoie

 Vichy Admits Resistance to Germans in Labor Roundup; Terms Fighters ‘Misguided’

Georgia Democrat Opens Attack on OPA Authority  to Sue for Violations

ROOSEVELT CALLS CONFERENCE . ON HIS RETURN FROM CANADA   PRESIDENT'S ACTION INDICATES DEVELOPMENT OF IM~ “* PORTANCE, MAY BE AN NOUNCED SOON

Kaiser to Build On East Coast   He Receives Contracts - To Build 32 Liberty Ships, Announced

SouthernGroup Snubs Proposal  Sides With Northerners On 6-Day Week Stand

SOUTHERNERS REJECT SIX - DAY MINING WEEK   Turn Down Proposal Of Guarantee As Basis For Negctiating UMW Contract   Burke States Views

RUSS-FINLAND PEACE HINTED   U. S. Diplomats Scout Rumors of Axis Negotiations

PEACE FRONT NOT ACCEPTED IN U.S.   DIPLOMATS BELIEVE GERMAN EFFORTS SPIKED AT MEETING

'US Skeptical Of Nazi Peace Offensive   Negotiation of Separate British and Russian Peace with Finland Regarded as a Possibility

Expect Finns Will Seek  Peace Formula   Little Chance of Overtures From Germany and Italy

Any Axis Peace Offensive Now  Believed Spiked   Separate Finnish Armistice Seen As Possibility, However.

Negotiated Armistice Between Britain And Finland Possible; U.S.  Not Involved

Finns Explain Situation to President.   Germans Might Permit Release of Finland to Free Troop Fighting in North

Armistice  With Finns Pos sibility   Alied Stand At Casablanca Seen Halt To Plans For Negotiated Settlement

Scout Rumors Of New Axis  Peace Drive   Finnish-Russo Armistice Seen

SCOUT RUMORS ~~ AXIS PEACE TRY   me: _  But Diplomats See Possibility of Finnish Armistice

Lt. H. L. Campbell Awarded Oak Leaf Cluster In Pacific   Decoration In Lieu Of Second Award Of The DEC

Lose 586 Tanks And 203 Planes   Powerful Russian Army Kalls 3,000, Blocking German Offensive.

Germans Launch Offensive On  Russian Front   Russians Claim Heavy Losses  Infflicted On Nazis

OREL-BELCOROD FRONT SCENE OF HEAVY ATTACKS   Hitlerites Sustain Heavy Losses in Men, Materiel

Mateur Captured By Allies; 1414 Mi.  From Bizerte Now   Week of Heaviest Fighting in North Africz Campaign Takes Heavy Toll; Yanks Reoccupy Two Small Hills

“Nazis Relinquish Posts In Face of Strong Drive   Push Presents Sudden Threat To Great  Naval Base At Bizerte

BIZERTE BUT 1) MILES OFF, NAZIS RETREAT   Americans Among Allied Troops Which Have Reportedly Fought Their Way Into Mateur

‘Channel Crossed By Allied Fighters   French Targets Reported Bombed

Planes Blast North France   Allies In Continuous Attack On Calais District; Ruhr Valley Bombed.

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Ickes Reports Big Increase in Gas Production   Secretary Heard At Inquiry into Rubber Situation

Fuel Output  On Increase  Ickes Reveals Steady Monthly Gain Since

Ickes Reveals Increase In Gas Productive Capacity, Predicts Greater Increase By July

High Octane Ditfieulties Outlined   Ickes Says Production Has Gained Des pite ‘Wallops’

ICKES DEFENDS OCTANE OUTPUT   Interior Chief Declares Productive Capacity Increased ‘Despite Obstacles’

Ickes Gives Lis of Woes   Tells of Trouble Had By 100-Octane Gasoline Productive Capacity

Gasoline Flow Is Up Despite Difficulties Ickes Tells Of      Ickes Tells OF . Rubber Vs. High Octane Battle

AVIATION GASOLINE PLANS PROGRESS   Ickes, However, Takes Rap at WPB Chief Nelson

ICKES ASSERTS BUNA PROGRAM ‘LAST WALLOP   Predicts More Aviation Gas by July than Best Estimate of Need —Works With Jeffers

Ickes Says Production Of 100-Octane Gas Has Shown Steady Increase

CITES INCREASE IN AVIATION GAS   Ickes Lists Obstacles  Overcome by ladustry

A GERMAN OFFENSIVE STOPPED COLD FOR FIRST TIME SINCE START OF THE WAR   Russians Have Forced German Juggernaut to a Standstill; Destroyed 147 Tanks, 47 Planes, 10 Trucks Yesterday

SEVEN TEXANS RAIN DESTRUCTION JAPS NEW GENRGIA AREA   FIFTH AIR FORCE POUND. ED FOUR IMPORTANT EN. EMY CONCENTRATIONS

HELP IN LABOR SHORTAGE   Oklahoma Is Sending Workers Where They Are Needed

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Are Surrounded  From All Sides   Allied Forces C Closing In From Left. Right And Rear   THE AUSSIES ARE © ALMOST ON THEM

JAP FORCES IMPERILED AT FINSCHHAFEN   Aussies at Their Very Doorstep, With Two Other Columns of Allied Troops Bearing Down Upon the Base.

Australians But Two Miles Away And Meeting Heavy Resistance; Other  Troops On Flanks.

FROM 3 SIDES ON FINSCHHAFEN   Jap Defenders of Northeast _New Guinea Stand . Riske of Being Swept Up ‘From: “All Sides

Forces Close On Finschhafen   Japs Being Surrounded By Land, Sea

JAP BASE AT FINSCHHAFEN IS TOTTERING   Defenders Stand Imminent And Additional Risk of Being Swept Up From All Sides   PINCERS IS CLOSING

JAP DEFENSES ON NEW GUINEA ARRENCIRCLED   Nipponese At Finschhafen Daw « Stand.in Immi  “ent: Risk of Berne Swept Up by Allies

JAPS FORCED INTO FOURSIDED TRAP   Australians Are Enemy’s Big Threat Now

ALLY PINCERS CLOSE ON JAPS   NEW FORCE HEADS EAST TOWARD FINSCHHAFEN

JAPANESE FACE MULTIPLE BLOWS INNEW GUINEA   With Hands Already Full Fighting Aussies At Finschhafen, Japs Face Threat Of Being Swept Up From All Sides.

ALLIED TROOPS SURROUND JAP‘   Close In On Finschhafen From Three Sides

Japs Faced With Tripple   Offensives   Finschhafen Threatened By Allied Blows From New Directions

Surround Japs At Finschhafer   Australians Close An “On’ Enémy Garrison’

Jap Defenders Of Finschhafen  Face Pressure From All Sides   Fortresses Fly 200 Miles To Bomb Emden

 oe ENEMY   Allied “Ground: Troops ~Spring / so > Trap on Japs At a Finschhafen

Say Jap Defense At Finschhafen In Allied Pincer   Aussies ‘At Door’ As Other Forces. Clamp Grip. On Foe Despite Opposition

THREATEN JAPS FROM 3 SIDES   Enemy at Finschhafen Already Has Hands Full With Australians

THREE FORCES CONVERGE UPON FINSCHHAFEN   Aussies, Three-Feurths Mile from Center, Wail Reinforcements— Jap Bases Sirated

Menace Japs From All Sides   Alhed Pincers Sweeping in on Finschhafen

FINSCHAFEN JAPS IN IMMINENT DANGEE BEING SURROUNDED  MAIN WORRY FOR EN. EMY, HOWEVER, IS AUSSIES NEAR BASE

Siege Is Tightened On Finschhafen   Allies Pushing Up By Land From Lae

Other Japs in New Guinea Given No Rest, Kept Under Heavy Air Attack

FINSCHHAFEN IS NEAR COLLAPSE   Jap Base Virtually Surround. ed by Allied Forces, M’‘Arthur Reports

dap Defenders Put To Rout   ALLIED FORCES SMASH ON TO NEXT BIG BASE

Japs Virtually Cut Off On All Sides; Seaborne Aussies Storm Nip Defenses

ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCING ON FINSCHHAFEN   Troops Rushing On: - Jap-Held Base From All Sides

ALLIES PUSH 3-WAY DRIVE AGAINST JAPS   Finschhafen Threatened From Rear; Progress Slow

Finschhafen  Attacked From Three Sides   Australians’ Main Unit Only Three Quarters Of A Mile From Heart Of Japanese Town

Allies Close Upon Japs Ai Finschhafen   May Be Swept Up Upon All Sides

FINOGHHATEN FACING THREAT ON ALL SIDES   Allied Armies Converging On Japanese Bastion In New Guinea

Jap Defenders Facing Sweeps AtFinsehhafen   Allied Force Is. Pushing Steadily Eastward On Huon Gulf; Aussies Also Moving Up

Japs Facing New Threat In Pacific   Allies Closing In or Finschhafen From  All Sides

JAPS CORNERED ATFINSCHHAFEN   STAND IN IMMINENT RISK OF BEING HIT FROM THREE SIDES

American War Interest May Be Re-Focused   Atlantic Front Receiving Bulk Of Men. Sunnpnlies

ACTION MAY BE DEMANDED AGAINST JAPS   American Anger: Now Is Greater Than Since Pearl Harbor

FLIERS’. EXECUTION MAY FOCUS WAR ON PACIFIC + THEATRE   U. S. Anger May Possibly Change Stragetic Decision Of Casablanca

JAP PROBLEM MAY DELAY SECOND FRONT      Equipment Meant For Europe May Go to Pacific

HOUSE FIGHT AN. THIRD DAN   SQUABBLE OVER ABOLISHING OF FSA THROUGH LACK OF _APPEOPRIATIONS IS CONTINUED:

U.S. Drive for Coast Aimed to Catch Rommel   Montgomery Hammers al  Tail of Fleeing Tan

TOP MILITARY’ MEN OF BRITAIN, U. §, PRESENT   Plan Execution of Moves Mapped at Casablanea _

Assaulton Europe Said Coming Soon      “Roosevelt Sends* Message to Yanks in North Africa .

Military Leaders Confer in Africa   Strategic Plans Being Drawn— Planes Over Mediterranean— Americans Attackine

Red Cross War Fund Campaign Drawing To Close  Expect To Meet Quota When All Returns Are Made

TURKEY SUPPLIES 10 BE VERY LON   Family Circles Using Substi: tutes Will Know Armed Forces Have Plenty.

NORTHWEST GERMANY Ih HIT AGAIN   Berlin Escapes Raids for Second Straight Night

Military Targets Get Blasting By Heavy Bombers   Berlin Gets Second Night of Respite, Cleans Up Wreckage

Americans Resume Air Offensive   Mediums Make Diversionary Attack on France

U.S. Bombers Resume Nazi Air Pounding   Heavyweights Raid Mili. tary Targets in Northwest Germany   BELGIUM ALSO HIT   Aulacks Follow Night Thrust by British Machines

MYSTERY OF THE AIR!   Man Plunges from Plane and Neither Identified

am IDENTITY OF DEAO PILOT   V.an.. Who. Fell. from High-Flying Plane Had" Two Naine Tags.

OPA Is Soundly Rapped   Smith Committee Is Critical of Its Regulations

Congress Committee Charges Agency Trying To Be Own Court and Sentence US Citizens Lo Statvation

House Group Blasts OPA; Asks Changes   Charge Agency Has Exceeded Authority Granted by Congress

Blistering Attack On OPA Is Made By House Investigating Committee

URGE CURB OF OPA’S POWERS   House Group Charges Illegal Practices

USURPATION OF POWER BY OPA T0 BE INVESTIGATEL   Special. House Committee Probes Alleged lilegal Practices of Agency.

OPA Attacked By House Group; Promise Expose Of Other Agencies   _ Recommends Changes In Existing Law To Retain . And Strengthen Inflation Control, Eliminate  Abuses And Intustices.

Usurpation of Power by Executive Agencies is Severely Criticized  ‘DOCUMENTS ARE CITED

ponares Groups Differ Over OPA   Committees Attack, Defend Policies

REPORT SCORES OPA FOR ABUSE OF ITS POWERS   Congressional Committee Accuses It Of Issuing “‘Illegal, Absurd, Useless, Conflicting’ Regulations.

OPA Assailed For Illegal, Useless Rules   Power Usurped By Agency Says Report to House

ASSAILS OPA   Congressional Committee Claims Rules Illegal, Powers Misused

OPA’s Rulings Assailed by  Committee   Congressional Probers Charge Toc Much Power Taken

SPECIAL HOUSE COMMITTEE RAPS OPA REGULATIONS   Declares Price-Fixing-Rationing Qffice Has Issued ‘“Wllegal and Useless” Rules.   ANOTHER GROUP GOES TO DEFENSE OF AGENCY   Attacks Report Which Charges Unconstitutional Penalties Have Been Im posed on Citizens.

OPA ASSAILED, - DEFENDED IN DAY   New Row Bared On Capitol Hill As Solons Air Views

OPA ACCUSED OF USURPING LEG.. JUD. POWERS   House Committee Urges Congress to End Agency Abuses

OPARAPPED,. DEFENDED IN CAPITOLROW      House Committee Charges Agency With Illegal Rulings   CHANGES PROPOSED IN EXISTING LAWS   Another Congressional Group Lauds Fight for Price Control]

‘Committee Brands OPA As Usurping Powers in Scathing House Report

OPA Rules Branded Illegal and Absurd   Congressional Committee Charges “Assumption of Powers Not Granted” and Calls for an Immediate Change.

QPA IS SHARPLY ASSAILED IN SOME RULINGS IN WORK   Congressional Committee Says Regulations Were Illegal, Absurd, Useless and Conflicting.   CHANGES IN LAW ARE BEING RECOMMENDED   Documents Found In Files Are Cited, 3196 Regulstions Were Ordered tn Period of 19 Months.

Agency Accused of Using Its Powers To Sentence U. S. Citizens “To Starvation”

Smith Committee Report Attacked By House Consumers’ Group. =   ‘ILLEGALITIES CHARGED

OPA Is Target Of Committee   Congressional Group Charges OPA With  Starving Americans

OPA HIT FOR ISSUING ILLEGAL RULES   Congressional Group Assails Miegol Asaumption Of Power 

Sentencing Of Citizens To Starvation Claimed In Report Issued By House Investigators

HOUSE GROUP BLISTERS OPA.   Attack Expected to Be Lead of Expose of Other Agencies

HOUSE COMM. 5 j INCHARGES * AGAINST OPA.   Accuses It Of Illegal  Practices

OPA Assailed in Report Written by House Committee   Charged With Usurpation of Executive Powers  Not Given by Law

HOUSE COMMITTEE ROUNDLY ASSAILS OPA REGULATIONS  BODY ACCUSED OF   BODY ACCUSED OF MAKING “ILLEGAL, ABSURED, USELESS” RULES

SOLON GROUP BLASTS OPA   AGENCY POWER TERMED “STARVATION SENTENCE”

HOUSE GROUP ASKS CURB ON. RAD PRACTICES   Alleges Attempts to Contra} Profits and Set Up Own Criminal Code, -

OPA ACCUSED OF ABUSING PRICE CONTROL POWERS   PROMULGATION OF ILLEGAL, ABSURD RULINGS CHARGED

Blistering OPA Attack Charges Too Much Power   Other Exposes Are Promised: Abuse: By OPA Roundly Criticized

CLAIM OPA HAS EXCEEDED. ITS LEGAL POWERS   Accused Of Twisting Law To ‘Sentence Citizeng To Starvation’ ~

OPA ATTACKED, DEFENDED BY CONGRESSMEN   Charged With Assuming Unauthorized Power, Issuing Useless Regulations

OPA IS ASSAILED FOR UNLAWFUL USE OF POWERS   Congressional Committee Also Makes Criticism of Confusing Orders

HOUSE GROUP SAYS OPA IS LAW-BREAKER   Sees Danger to ” Constitution

House Group Attacks OPA  For Rulings   Commiitee Headed By Rep. Smith In Order To Keep Check On Activities.   ‘CHANGE SITUATION

USURPATION OF POWER IS SEEN BY COMMITTEE   Asks Congress to End ‘Apparent Abuses And Injustices’

OPA-TARGET OF FITER ATTACK BY HOUSE UNIT   Accused of. Promulgating “Tilegal, Absurd, Use~ Jess and Conflicting”  Regulations   CHANGES IN LAW TO END ABUSES, AIM   Committee Says Agenc; Constructed Powers to Authorize It to Sentence  Citizens to Starvation

HOUSE COMMITTEE ROUNDLY ASSAILS OPA REGULATIONS  BODY ACCUSED OF MAKING “ILLEGAL, ABSURED. USELESS” RULES

Congressional Cimmittee Says OPA Construed Power In Authorization to Sentence U. S. Citizens To Starvation; Situation Must Chance.

OPA Again Under Fire   Committee Charges Abuse of Powers Granted By Congress

0). P. A. Charged With Flagrant Abuse Of Power   Agency Target For Blistering Attack By House Checkup Committee.

Says OPA Usurps Power and Makes Illegal Rulings   Congressional Committee Urges Changes Be Made Immediately.   Other Agencies to Be Exposed by Committee

Congress Committee  Points Out Abuses   Bureacratic Usurpation Of Power, Violation Of Constitution Charged; Documents Reveal Dictatorship Ambitions

Blistering Attack Is. Made On OPA For Useless Reguiations   Congressional Group Declares. Agency Is Sentencing People To Starvation 

House Committee Alleges OPA Usurps Power ‘Confuses Public with ‘Illegal’ Regulations

Italian Fascism, House Of Savoy Doomed By War   Allies Urged To Tell People True  Aim Of [Invasion

Gives Reasons For Objections To Measure   Declares Some Provisions Are  Not Understandable

QUINTS’ FIRST PHYSICIAN DIES   Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe Wa Credited With Saving  Quints’ Lives

Japanese Troops Cross Yangtze River At Six Points In New Offensive

Britons Cheer Strategy Meet   U.S. Confab Seen as Grand Attack Prelude

Britons See. Big Moves In Stora   ™~ ConciavesUsualiy= Followed By Acting’

Britons See Big Moves In Store   Conclaves Usually Followed By Action

Britons Believe Churchill-Roosevelt Conference Is Prelude te Invasion—-Expect Two Leaders: to Discuss Plans for CoOrdination of Allied and, Russian. Offensives—Politica  Problems May Come Up for Consideration. °

CIVIL WAR VETERANS OPEN CONVENTION   Religious Programs Replace Annual Parade

U.S. Troops Forced to Yield Ground  Near Venafro   Enemy Attaches Importance to Mi Croace Arena

American Troops Forced To Yield In Small Sector   German Counterdrives Attempt To Stall Winter Line Threat

Two Nazi Thrusts Force 5th Army To Yield Small Area Near Venafro; Weather Limits Allied Air, Ground Action

AMERICANS YIELD SMALL AREA NEAR VENAFRO. REPORT   German Counter-Attacks Aimed at Western, End of Nazi Trans-Italy Defense Line Cause Slicht Lacs *

RESENTMENT STILL DISPLAYED BY THE MINERS ON FRIDAY   Confusion and Indecision Also Add fo the Situation Confronting Industrv.

No Family Rift Over Anderson, Mate Tells Jury   Mrs. Rogers Sobs When Girls Testify Of Her Beatings

FINSCHHAVEN HARD PRESSED   Allies Only 2 Miles From Jap Base  Nips Lose 40 Planes in Dogfight

Japanese Lose At Least Forty Planes In Fight   Allied Forces Continue Advance In Northeast New Guinea Area   JAPS BADLY BEATEN IN CLASH IN AIR

ALLIES WITHIN TWO MILES OF FINSCHHAFEN   Ground Forces Gain in New Guinea With Aerial Protection

YANKS SCORE NEW ADVANCE AGAINST JAPS   Enemy Bases in Pacifie Area Pounded in Air Attacks

Attack Last Jap Munda Defense:   U. 8. Forces Near Final Assault On Jap Base In New Georgia

i ER DRAFT ) BE PRESSED)   iScnator Wheeler to Oppose Administration Attempts to Delay Senate Action   - “INDEFINITE” BAN ON INDUCTION   Administration Leaders Propose Delayed Action Pending Views of Army and Navy

WASHINGTON, Sept 14— (’—Loss of the submarine Grenadier and two submarine chasers was reported by the Navy today

Barkley Expresses Desire for Few Days’ Delay In Consideration of Wheeler Bill To Get Statement of Manpower Needs From Marshall and King.

Senate Opposes Father's Draft   Induction 1 Prohibited In Bill’s Clause

Father Draft Is Basis For Fight In Both Houses  Wheeler Will Push For Vote At Once; Favors Postponing Draft Indefinitely

BARKLEY CALLS FOR STATEMENT OF ARMY NEEDS   Seek Few Days Delay Before Considering Wheeler Bill

Wheeler Seeks Vote On Father Draft Bill   Will Oppose ‘Efforts To Delay Senote Action

Sen. Wheeler Won't Consent To Delaying Bill Until Hearings Completed   FOOD PRICE PROBLEM BACK   OPA Expected To Come In For Share of Attention By Returning Solons

CONGRESS IN SESSION; TO STUDY DRAFT   Food Subsidies First On List Of New Bills

Will Buck Plan To Delay Action On Fathers’ Bill   Early Senate Consideration  Of Wheeler Measure

Senate Asked To Act At Once On Father Draft   Administration Seeks Information From Military Leaders

Dad Draft Issue Sidetracked By Congress Today   Action To Be Delayed Pending Opinion Of High Command

Leaders Shift Father Draft To High Command As Congress Meets   Seek Definite Stand On Any Needs Before Disposing Of Legislation Which Would Delay Induction Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers.

TO CALL VOTE ON DAD DRAFT   Senator Wheeler Declares He Will Demand Senate Action on Issue.

Wheeler Hits Move ToDelay DraftVote   Would Prohibit Calling Fathers; Conaress Returns

FATHER DRAFT REFERRED 10 HIGHER UPS   Explosive Issue Gingerly   Laid on Administration  Doorstep as Congress Prepares to Meet   TO SURVEY MANPOWER

Wheeler To Fight Delay On Draft Bill   Wants Senate Vote Right Away On Measure to Halt Drafting of Fathers

Delay in Dad Draft Action Is Attacked   Wheeler Scorns Administration Plan-to Seek More Information

FATHER DRAFT ISSUE FACED   Sen. Leader Barkley Asks Army-Navy Statement of Manpower Needs

Wheeler to Resist Delay, Calls for Action At Once On His Father Draft Bill

SENATE OK 0,010,027 04 TO RUN STATE   Passes Apprepriation Bill by  Vote of 44-0; Refuses Salary Boost.   COMMERCE COMMISSION LONG TERM BILL KILLEL

BIG LABOR TURNOVER   Communities Requested to Aid in Avoiding Job Changing

(GERMANS PREPARE TANK OFFENSIVE ON EASTERN FRONT   Lightning Offensive Feared In Hopes To Cripple Red Army.

8 FROM CAPONE GANG INDICTED FOR EXTORTION   Charged With Racket + in Getting $2,500,000 From Movies, Labor

Indict 7 For Conspiracy; Nazi Spies   NATURALIZED AMERICAN CITI. ZENS CHARGED WITH DELIVER. ING TO GERMANY DOCUMENTS MAPS, ETC.   For Trans-Shipment

OPPONENTS TO FEDERAL PAY ‘MENTS IN FOOD CONTZOL  “PREDICT THEY WHE — SCORE VICTORY . .

SUBSIDY BAPTLE.   Senate Opponent. to Gitts Claim Plenty of Votes,

Peace By Force Talk Discounted   Trend Now Is Toward Ample Strength in Big Nations

Capital Veers Away From Discussion  IM World Police Force After War

Talk Of Joint World Police Force Is Fading   Large, Separate Armies And Navies Proposed As  A lisonnation Mian

TALK OF WORLD POLICE VIEWED AS IMPRACTICAL   POLICY MAKERS IN CAPITAL CONSIDER COUNTER PROPOSAL

WORLD POLICE PLAN CARRIES LITTLE SUPPORT   Peace-enforcing Organization  _ Seen as Un—* Wieldy   ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED      Post-war Standing Army in Allied Countries Likely

WORLD POLICE FORCE UNLIKELY   Policy-Making Officials Believe Plan Would Be Unwieldly And Impractical.

WORLD POLICE PLAN DWINDLES   United Nations Favor Capable Armed Forces

World Police Force That Would Hold Peace After Conflict Is Losing Support

Capital Talk Veers Away From Forming World Police After War; Separate Armies Offered

World Police Force Idea Losing Support   U. S. Swinging to Idea of Having Major Allied Powers Stay Strong Enough to Squelch Aggression

POLICE FORCE TOKEEP PEACE LOSING WEIGHT   Diplomatic and Military Quarters Hold PeaceEnforcing Organization Wroaild Re Imnractices)   FOR MAINTAINING SEPARATE ARMIES   Washington Reported Giving Serious Consideration to CounterProposal

Police Force For  World Discounted  Unwieldy, Impracticable Say Policy-Makers

World Police Talk Subsiding In Washinaton   Instead May Advocate That United Nations Keep Large Forces

Capital Talk Veers Away From Forming United Nations Polke Force After War; Big, Separate Armes Suggested

World Police Force Plan Is  Frowned On   Policy Making Officials More Interested in a Large Standing Army

View Expressed That Peace Enforcing Organization From United Nations Would Be Unwieldly   ‘OFFER COUNTER PLAN

Bombers Again Hit Jap Positions On New Britain  One Plane Attacks Enemy Warship,  Daertlhtr Alad Caan

Bombers Again Hit Jap Positions On New Britain  One Plane Attacks Enemy Warship, Results Not Seen

PLANES R AID NEW BRITAIN   Allied Planes Attack Jap Base of Rabaul; Bombs Dropped on Warship

MacArthur Air Force Hits Bases, Attacks Warship  Buck Bad Weather Po Aid Americans In Solomons

, a NO COMMENT MADE ON FLOOD OF REPORTS FROM PARIS ~ STATIO N—GERMAN RADIO SILENT

LONDON ABUZZ OVER PARLEY   Main Conversation Topic Deals With Meet Of Allied Leaders

LONDON PONDERS, PROPOSED TALK BETWEEN LEADERS   Possible Meeting Is Main Topic in NonCiplomatic Quarters

Reverses Itself Ona Free Press   Supreme Court Holds License Tax on Sale of Literature Invalid.

COURT UPSETS OWN DECISION   Justices Reverse Stand to Invalidate Taxes on Religious Literature

Ferocious Offensive  In Kuban   Ten Divisions In Smash To Split Defenders Of  Novorossisk Base.

Germans Speed Reinforcements   Troops From ltaly Rushed to Russia

POLISH LINES ARE BOLSTERED   Germans Rush More Men To Russian Front,  Build Forts

Nazis Rush Help to Eastern Front in Frantic Effort to Stop Soviets

mans Rushing ‘sinforcements ‘lo Soviet Fron iss Reports Revea  roops Taken From — ~ Htaly, Norway

Germans Rushing Troops to Russia   Many Divisions Taken from Hlaly

ith iN: PACIFIC,   Rut Relieved Delay Is Really Advantageous To U.S.

OMINOUS LULL OREVAILS IN PACIFIC   U.S. Forces Await Orders for Moves Against Japan

To Turn Pressure On Japs   Drive From East And Against Burma Road in Prospect.

BURMA ROAD IS BELIEVED ALLIED GOAL   Sea-Air-Land Drive to Reopen Supply Line Considered Likely Outcome of Commando Chief’s New Assignment.

COMMANDO CHIEF TO LEAD ALLIED DRIVE IN BURMA LORD MOUNTBATTEN  GIVEN COMMAND IN SOUTHEASTERN ASIA

PRESSURE ON JAPAN MAY BE INCREASED BY MOUNTBATTEN  "CHIEF OF BRITAIN’S _ COMMANDOS NAMED SOUTHEAST ASIA LEADE!

HUGE POSTWAR FLEET HINTED   Naval Spending Chairman Demands Maintenance Of Big Navy

Favors Huge  [Post-War Navy   Congressman Won't Vote To Serap It

Big Fleet After War   House Naval Spending Chairman Takes Issue With Economy Seekers

Congressman Says U. S. Must Continue Spending  Navy Needs Will Be High Long After Peace Is Achieved

DEMANDS HUGE POST-WAR FLEET   U. S. To Have Big Areas To Police After War

Aegean Base Garrison of  8 000 Taken   A. T. T. Declares Its Usual Dividend

HEAVY ATTACKS ARE UNLEASHED ON ALL FRONTS   Hitler’s European Fortress Hit From Every Direction — By Giant Bomb Loads

Softening Nazis for Invasion   Daylight Raids Today Fol low Heavy Program of the Weekend

‘Old Blood And Guts’ Patton Is In Sicily   LONDON, July 12 (?)— A Reuters dispatch from Valletta. Malta. said today

Churchill Says Allies Have Won Total Victory Over Subs in Atlantic   Nazis Lost 30 Subs in the Month of May Alone.  ALLIES CONTROL ATLANTIC OCEAN  Our Shipping Losses for June Was Smallest of Any Month.

CHURCHILL ANNOUNCES COMPLETE DEFEAT OF SUB MENACE. 30 SUNK IN MAY

BRITISH CIVILIANS SUFFER IN WAR TOC   Two Are Killed in Raids for Every Five in Battle

BRITISH SUBS DESTROY FOUR ENEMY SHIPS   Three Others Probably Sunk—lItalian Coast Shelled In Daring Raid.   BULLETIN

Fighting 27 Miles From Tunis Reported By Axis Sources   Claim 2,000 Allied Troops Killed; Enemy Nervousness, Softening Up Attacks Hint Puch Near

Enemy Bases, Supply Lines Are Battered   Violent Fighting On Land Also Reported; _ Yank Fliers Active

ENEMY BASES, SUPPLY LINES STRUCK HARD   Axis Sources Say Land Fighting Flares Up © Near Tunis

BLAST AT AXIS PORTS   Heavy Offensive F rom Libya Is Believed  To Be Imminent 

ALLIES HIT HARD AT AXIS BASES   Nazis Say Land Fighting Flared Near Tunis

Supply Lines Cut by Subs And Planes as Drive Held Imminent  VESSELS TORPEDOED     Transport, Troops, Ports Of Nazis Suffer In Attacks

ALLIES STRIKE AXIS HARD ON LAND AND SEA   Berlin® Radio Reports Violent Fighting Near Sig Gere man Stronghold =   SUBS GET SUPPLY SHIPS   Montgomery And French Forces Are Closing In On Rommel's Corps

Mediterranean: Move Prelude lo African Drive   Allied Aerial” ‘And Submariite * Forces Active

AX USED ON TAX SCHEME   Committee in House Delivers “No” For Pian to Increase Levies On Gifts, Estates.

Down Repeal Of Rewriting Of Contracts   House Committee Begins Study Of Taxes for  New Revenue Law

NO RENEGOTIATION REPEAL   House Committee Votes Not To Re peal Law Against “Excess Profits”

Solons Veto Tax   SENATE COMMITTEE BLOCKS ADMINISTRATION TRY FOR HUGE LEVIES

HOUSE SPEEDS REVENUE STUDY   Ways and Means Committee Rejects Repeal of Renegotiation Law

ECONOMY TREND IS EVIDENCED IN CONGRESS AGAIN   House Committee Votes Down Increases in Gift and Estate Taxes

Frown on Gift Tax Hike Ways and Means Committee Sheers Another 400 Million

Renegotiation Law fo Stand For Present   House Committee Turns to Effort To Draft Revenue Law

House Group Begins Work on New Taxes   Hopes to Have Measure Completed by January 1—Votes Against Repeal of Contract Renegotiation Law to Recover Excess Profits.

HOUSE GROUP VETOES REPEAL QF EXCESS PROFITS LAW   NEW GENERAL TAX BY JANUARY 1 LOOMS AS LAWMAKERS SPEED CONSIDERATION OF LEVY

HOUSE GROUP OPPOSES HIKED ESTATE TAXES   Action Would Trim $400,000,00( More from Administration's Re quest for War Funds

Renegotiation Turned Down By House Group   — eee”  PReturn Wheeler Bill?

Estate, Gift Tax Increase Rejected   Treasury May Get 2 of 10.5 Billion

Higher Income  Taxes Rejected  House Committee Turns Down Proposal

Refuses To Hike Taxes ~ On Estates   Treasury Program Trimmed Again. by House Ways and Means Committee   FEW BIG ITEMS LEFT IN PROGRAM   .Bill Now Being Framed May Not Provide More Than Two Billions

Renegotiation Repeal Beaten   House Group Steps Up Work on Taxes

BOX SCORE  UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE   Turn Down Tax Boost   House Committee Against Increase In Estate Taxes

Excess Profits  Rule To Stand   House Group Votes Against Repeal Of Renegotiation Law.

RENEGOTIATION LAW IS UPHELD BY COMMITTEE   Ways & Means Sub-Committee However, to Consider Amendments—Tax Problem Atlacked

OPPOSE RAISE IN ESTATE, GIFT TAXES   House Ways and Means Voted Today Against any Increase in This Bracket.

To Push Ahead On Tax Bill   House Committee in Show of Speed Moves to Have Plan Ready November 1   HEARINGS. WILL BEGIN MONDAY   Repeal of Renegotiation Law for Recovering of Excess War Profits Rejected

Oil Requests Ickes as Czar   Wants Congress to Shift Control From Prentiss Brown

Not To Reconsider Denial Of Election  Applicable To District 50 Of UMWA

NLRBContinuesBar On Bargaining Poll  Stands By Decision   Stands By Decision In Mlinois Case

Reds Attack in Nevel Area   PIWC VOTES TO ASK HIGHER CRUDE PRICE

Asks Congress to Raise Oil Price   PIWC Says Crude Must Be Increased to Meet Needs of War

MODIFIED RIVER AUTHORITIES BILL PASSED BY HOUSE   OPPONENTS DECLARE BIL! IS WEDGED TO KILL WATER CONSERVATION

Wooden Guns, Dummy Soldier: Stand Guard over Building   Congressman Insists that Decoys Would Attract Enemy Airplanes

‘Congress Astounded To Learn It's Guarded By Wooden Guns   Disclosure Of Decoy Soldiers Manning Dummy Guns Brings Mixed Reaction

CONGRESS EXCITED BY WOODEN GUNS   Army Says Dummy Guns on Roof Js Common Practice

a  Astounded Solans Find Wood Guns, Dummy Soldiers Protect Congress

Dummies Man Wooden Guns  Atop House Office Building   Astounded Congress Hears What Member Found When He Went Unchallenged In Civilian Clothes To Roof

WORLD TRADE BANK POLICY IS PROPOSED   America to Pledge Gold, Other Countries Materials

OFFERS PLAN TO OPEN UP WORLD TRADE   Congressman Dewey’s Proposal, Made at Session With Morgenthau, Designed to Eliminate International Cartels.

Capital Lays Plan For Open  Trade Program   Offer Suggestion For Breaking Cartels’ Control Of Production.   NEW MONETARY SETUP

PROGRAM TO STABILIZE CURRENCIES   Morgenthau Ready to Give Out Plans for Post-War Gold Standard Setup   MORE LONDON "LEAKS"

Seeks to Open Up World Trade   Dewey Has Plan to End International Cartels

Monetary Control Plan ‘Advocated   Rep. Dewey Suggests World Bank; Morgenthau Outlines Another Program

ON CARTELS PROPOSED   Control Plan Suggested as Part of Monetary Stabilization Plan   MAY TIE WORLD'S MONEY TO GOLD   Morgenthau Outlines the Program to Congressmen; Would Open Up Trade

House Hears Stable Money Program from  Morgenthat   Secretary of Treasury Says Details Will be Made Public

MORGENTHAU EXPLAINS PLAN OF WORLD BANK   Brings Suggestion from Illinois - Congressman of Plan to Break Un Cartels

TUESDAY EVENING   Program Conferring ArnyNavy “E”’ to Be in Community Building   MUSIC BY H. S. BAND

WILL MAKE AWARD ~ TUESDAY EVENING   Program Conferring AmyNavy “E” to Be in Community Building   MUSIC BY H. S. BAND

NEAR ANARCHY BLAMED UPON Z00T -SUITERS   Situation Said Worse After 6 Nights _     at Riahne

Grand Jury Probe Of Zoot Suiter Riots Ordered  Investigate Report Of Marijuana Use; See ‘Near Anarchy’  MORE VIOLENCE  Police, Sheriff's Reserves Mobilized To Check Fights

Los Angeles Tries to End Loot Rioting   Angry Crowds Break Into Homes in Quest For Zooters: District Attorney Asks Probe

ZOOT SUITERS STILL FIGHTING SERVICE MEN   Near State Of Anarchy Exists In Los Angcles After Series Of * Riots And Brawls

Officers Move Against Gangs In Los Angeles   District Attorney Charges Zoot-Suiters Are ‘Near Anarchy’

‘State of Near Anarchy’ Exists In Los Angeles, Official Says IAS Zoot Suit War Goes On _

Near- Anarchy Exists In Los Angeles Area, District Attorney Says

Drastic Action. Planned In Effort To Suppress Zoot-Suit Mob Riots

SAYS ZOOT-SUIT RIOTS HAVE LED ‘TO NEAR ANARCHY   Los Angeles Prosecutor Asks Grand Jury Investigation of Bloody Battles Last Six Nirhts.   WAR WORKER KNIFED, 15-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT   Police and Sheriff’s Reserves Go Into City’s Environs: in Effort to Stem Antagonism.

‘Zoot-Suiters Compel Investigation; ‘State of “Near Anarchy” Is Seen As Riots Spread to Several Areas

looters Keeping Police Worried   “Sate of Near Anarchy’  Said To Exist in Los Anaeles

VETERAN CARE If WORLD WAR 2 [3 LEGION PROBLEM   Service Officer at Devers Says Work Has Many Phases

Legion Efforts Now Directed to Men of This War   Family Allowance Rates for Men in Service Listed by Duke

DEFIANCE OF NAZIS ASKED   Dutch Soldiers Told To Ignore German Orders.

Request FDR Tells OF Acts   Congressmen Criticize President For Not Keeping Body Informed.

Attitude Of FDR Toward Solons Draws Criticism   Complain President Fails To Place Confidence In Congress Often Enough

REDS PLUNGE FORWARD ON ALL FRONTS   Germans Announce Retreat West Of Voronezh To New Shortened Line; More Nazis Cantives.   Take Gumrak

SOVIETS PLUNGE FORWARD ON ALL EASTERN FRONTS   Important Refining Center In Maikop Oil Field Is Captured   GERMAN STALINGRAD ARMY ANNIHILATED

IMPORTANT OIL CENTER 15 TAKEN   Reds Further Reduced Nazi Food for War Effort   NAZIS ADMIT RETREAT   Enemy Counter - Attacks in North Caucasus in Vain Effort Stem Tide

Reds Seize Refining Center as Caucasus  Offensive Rolls On   Aviation Fuel Refining City Is Recaptured; Germans Retreat on Voronezh Front Losing Many Men

Stimson Sees Nazi  Debacle in Russia   War Secretary Forecasts German Withdrawal Past Rostov   Slav Army Advancing 70 Miles From Kursk   Enemy Admits New Retreat, Says Voronezh Fight “Most Serious’

Russians Capture Rail Junction In Voronezh Section   German General, Three Colonels And Four Lieuten ant-Colonels Are Listed Among Captives Taken At Stalingrad

BRICKER URGED TOMAKESTAND   Ohio Congressmen Want Governor to Announce Candidacy Now

Bombers Batt ter Nazi Airfields.   [RAF Continues To “Rlact BE Codgrennibes

Bombs Rair  Ruin on Axis Ports   Fortresses Punctuate End of Fourth Year of War by Blasting German Airfields and Industrial Targets

Axis Airport in France Battered By US Fortresses   Allies Round Off 24 Hours Attack on Nazi Targets

Coal Mine Wage Dispute Sent To White House   15,000 More Worker: Idle, Lewis Rejects WLB Compromise

May Lead to Seizure Of Some Idle Mines, Possibly Penalties  Against Lewis Union  er wAWerrormmnyryyrernaTm Tress tw ml   LEWIS TURNS DOWN WLB PROPOSAL   Board Spokesman Contradicts Figures;  More Men Walk Out

WHITE HOUSE IS HANDED MINERS WAGE DISPUTE   War Laber Board Acts As ‘Lewis Rejects Plan For Settlement      60,000 MEN IDLE “ IN NINE STATES

Strikes Referred to White House  WLB Takes Action in Coal Dispute

WLB Refers Coal Strikes To Roosevelt for Action; Seizure of Mines Likel

More Than 60,000 Coal Miners Quit; }wLB Puts Dispute in Hands of ‘Government: Lewis Rejects Terms

Will Refer Coal Strike to F. D.R   More Than 60,000 Miners Are Idle

WLB Refers Coal Strikes To Roosevelt   Step May Lead to Seizure of Some Pits: Over 60,000 Miners Are Idle

Second Seizure Of Bituminous Mines Probable   Penalties agains! Lewis Considered

WLB Refers Coal Strike — To Roosevelt   Board and Lewis Fail to Agree; Over 60,000 Miners Are Now Idle

Walkouts Mount to 60,000 Men As Lewis Rejects Board Plan; Unions, Workers Face Penalties

MINE STRIKES REFERRED 10 WHITE HOUSE:   More Than 60,000 Miners Idle; Seizure of Mines and Union Dues Collected Likely.   Lewis Rejects Offer

SPREADING COAL STRIKES REFERRED TO WHITE HOUSE   WLB Acts as 60,000 Refuse ‘to Work—Step May Lead to U. S. Seizure of Some of Properties.   LEWIS TURNS DOWN WLB WAGE PROPOSAL   Declares Formula Would Reduce Pay Rates—-Statement Promptly Disputed bv Board.

Mine Situation Xs Turned Over ToWhite House   Step May Lead to Gov rnment Seizure of Some Mine: —Over 60,000 Miners Now Idle—Lewis Rejects Pratiosed Settlement _

elon bats Aco Errol Flynn Will Tell. Allin Denying. Thee Charaes. of  Rape, Trial Recesses for Week-End

FLYNN TO DENY GIRLS’ CHARGES   ‘Actor Expected To Take Stand Wednesday !n Defense Against Assault Counts

ERROL FLYNN TO TAKE THE STAND   Hollywood Trial In WeekEnd Recess As Defense Lines Up Its Witnesses.

Errol Flynn — Defense Open Caseloday   Actor Net Expected _to Take Stand Until Tomorrow

Flynn Ready To Prove His 2 Accusers Liars   Sweeping Denial Of All Charges In Line As Defense Opens

FILM ACTOR TO STATE HIS STORY   Defense Indicates Flynn Wil Tell All in Rape Case

MORE MEN IN CLASS 1-A   Group Subject et To Call For Service Soon

COUNTY MEN IN CLASS 1-A   Some Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Included

ys ES seal 2  Universal Six-Day Mine Week aMavy Be Basis for Coal Peace

6-Day Mine Week May .  Be Compromise Basis   Full-Scale Production Expected To Resume Today With Fields Flying American Flag; Policy Group Meets

Tanks, Guns And Planes In Strugele   Both Sides Throw In Heavy Reinforcements, Climax Not in Sight

Fierce Battles In Progress In Salerno Sector   Bitterest Fighting Of Italian Invasion; Crotone Is Captured

Germans Rush Men From North and South To Area Below Naples   At Least 39 Italian Men o’ War Now Ride Waters Off Malta; Nazis Hammer AHied Forces With Powerful Tank and Plane Teams

39 Italie hips Now In Allied Hands   Reds Storm to Edge of Great German:

Yank Planes Machine-Gun 10 Jap Planes   Further Word Lacking Concerning Land Fight Near Vital Salamaua ~  TAP ATTACK HATTEN

Allied air activity is widespread   Range over many Jap held islands

NAZI ASSAULTS STEPPED UP IN UKRAINE ARE!   Germans Score: Success In : aking Korosten, Vital . Rail Junction; Reds Hold In South

NACIO OGRE FURTHER GAING AGAINST AEDS   Germans Battling Fiercely To Restore Dnieper Line In Ukraine Sector

STRATEGIC RAIL JUNCTION TAKEN RY GERMAN ARMY   ELSEWHERE RED ARMY FORCES CONTINUE TO SURGE AHEAD

INCREASING RESISTANCE   Suffer Reversals In Ukraine; Gain: In- White Russia

GERMANS SCORE NEW ADVANCES   Nozis Seize Korosten After Launching Counter-Stabs In Likraine

Nazis Step Up Counter Blows   Capture Korosten, Stiffen Resistance In White Russia

PEANANS TIFF HUSIAN DEFENG   Nazis Occupy Korosten To Gain Second Success In Ukraine

GERMANS MAKE STIFF FIGHT IN COUNTER ATTACK   ‘Capture Korosten in Ukraine Battle But Reds Say Heavy Losses  7 Teal? nda

Nazis Infensify Massed Attacks In White Russia  Second Big Success

Nazis Stiffen In Ukraine,  White Russia    Capture Korosten and In tensify Ukraine Count erattacks In Effort -T Restore Shattere  - Dnieper Line. 2

Germans Battle  ~ To Restore Line  Counter- Attacks Are Bolstered In Ukraine

Soviets Face Tough Going   Germans Giving Stiff Resistance and Capture Korosten; Reds Retreat

Nazi Gains  In Ukraine Announced By Moseow   Stiffened Resistance In White Russia Also Announced; Enemy Captures Korosten

NAZIS RETARE BIG RAIL BASE. AT KOROSTEN   Germans Intensify Assault: In Ukraine And Bolster White Russian Lines

Germans Stifien Resistance to Russ Offensive  Nazis Capture   Nazis Capture Korasten in Drive on Kiev

NAZI STEP UP UKRAINE RESISTANCE   Fierce Fighting On Both Banks Of Dnieper River

NAZI DEFENSE STIFFENING IN WHITE RUSSIA   Red Army Evacuates Korosten Under Orders to Adopt More Favorable Line   HOLDING IN DNIEPER

Mud Helps ‘Nazi Army ~ Slow Reds   Weather Cuts Down Aix Support as Germans'Make Strong Counter Attacks   GREATEST BATTLES. . OF WAR ROARING   Russians Continue ‘Making Gradual. Progress. Except - im Toro: Sectors. -

REDS FALL BACK FROM KOROSTEN   GERMANS SCORE MAJOR SUCCESS IN THE UKRAINE

NAZI FORGES STIFFEN LINE AGAINST REDS   Korosten Taken By Germans In New Offensive

Nazis Intensify Counter-Drives  In The Ukraine   Fall Gf Korosten Enemy’s Second Major Success Sinee Early November

GERMAN FORCES FIGHT FIERCELY IN THE UKRAINE   Nazis Struggling To Restore Their Shattered Dnieper Lines; Capture Strategic Rail Junction Of  Korosten.

PUTTING UP FIGHT   Nazis Are Making Strong Counter Attacks in the Ukraine

GERMANS SPEED COUNTERBLOWS   Soviets Give Up Korosten: Advance At All Other  Points

Nazis Capture Koresten To Score Major Success;  Reds Advance Elsewhere

Nazis Intensify Counferattacks In Ukraine   Recapture of Korosten, Zhitomir Two Major Successes

NAZIS STIFFEN RUSSIA LINES   GERMANS TRY TO RESTORE SHATTERED DNIEPER HOLD

NAZI BLOWS IN UKRAINE INTENSIFIED   Also Have Stiffened Resistance in White Russia, in Struggle te Restore Their Dnieper River Defenses. -

Germans Score Major Success   They Stiffen Resistance and Win Back Korosten From Red Army.

4 Killed in Plane Crash  63 Injured When An   63 Injured When An Experimental Ship Fails To Clear Ground

‘Dead, 63 Hurt In Plane Mishap  Experimental Craft Crashes on Takeoff

(ST FLIGHT ENDS IN TAKEOFF CRASH   Four Men Killed, 63 Injured When Plane Crashes into Marine Barracks

DIRKSEN FLAYS DEFERMENTS GRANTED FEDERAL EMPLOYES   ILLINOIS REPRESENTATIVE SAYS 22 HAVE OBTAINED DEFERMENT ON CON- * SCIOUS OBJECTOR PLEAS -

WAR OBJECTORS ON U.S. PAYROLL   Solon Reveals 22 = Gain Deferments And Cling To Federal Jobs

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Hearings Concluded.

Allied Initiative of Global Proportions Is Intensifying Axis Forced to Stand on the Alert

The War Today ~— Observers In Tunisia Believe Blow  On Europe Will Start From Sicily

ALLIES HAVE AXIS ON DEFENSIVE IN THE DARK   Growing Allied Initiative Forcing Axis Nations To Be on Alert At All  Painte

WAR OF NERVES BEING CONDUCTED ON AXIS BY UNITED NATIONS; NEXT BLOW ‘MAY FALL ON ANY OF SEVERAL PLACES

Today’s War Moves   Allies May Be Ready To Strike from All Points

~The War Today   Allied Initiative of Glob al Proportions Is Intensitvine,

3 Inches Of Rain Falls In One Hour   VIOLENT ELECTRIC STORM DAM.  AGES Hot SES, TREES, POWER PLANT; 3 COUNTIES IN COM. PLETE DARKNESS,   Pittsburgh Area Flooded

Miss Cobb Quits Her Budget Job   Regrets Failure of Governor Donnell to Set Up  Policy of Economy.

Miss Margaret Cobb Quits, Regretting Donnell’s Lack  Ot “a Policy of Economy’

BUDGET DIRECTOR MARGARET M, COBB RESIGNED TODAY   Sent Paper to Gov. Forrest C Donnell Effective Last of the Month.   BEEN A STORM CENTER   Had Frequent Clashes With the Government Departmental Heads.

LE ST OT Ne ED  CHRISTMAS PACKAGES REACH SOLDIER BACK FROM WAR YEAR LATE

HUSBAND HELD FOR SHOOTING   Detectives Say He Shot fnvalid Wie for Aidinz Son.

Reds Plan       Statement Gives Hint -Of Boundary Snarls. ‘To Be Unraveled After The Axis is Defeated

RUSSIA ADAMANT AGAINST ANY RESTORATION OF PART UKRAINE. TO POLAND EMBASSY INDICATES

Reds Outline Polish Stand  Western Ukraine Wi   Western Ukraine Will Not Be Given Back

The War Today   Soviet Refuses to Return Seized Lands. to Poland

POSTWAR SNARLS ARE EXEMPLIFIED BY POLAND  Boundaries Troublesome Issue

Plans Complete For Large Milifary Parade Saturday Att.   WAACs, Legionnaires, Red Cross Workers Ane! Band To March

GERMANS HASTILY ERECT BARRIERS ON SOUTH COAST   Defenses Being Shored Up te Meet’ Attack Expected  Aftar’ Tunisia.

INVASION © CREATING NEW FEAR   Allied Mediterranean Blitz Stares at Germans. Who Expect General - Attack.

FAR DEFENSES   European Invasion by Allies From Many Fronts Seems Possible and Hitler Speeding New Bases.

GERMANS SUFFER NEW ATTACK OF INVASION JITTERS   Nazis Reported Feverishly Bolstering Up European Defenses from Black Sea to Mediterranean.

AXIS FEARS ALLIED MEDITERRANEAN BLITZ   - Multiplying Indications United Nations May Strike in Balkans

NAZIS BUILDING UP EUROPEAN DEFENSE AS ROMMEL RUNS   Afrika Korps Hag Orders To Hang On As Long Ags Possible—Germans Shaky

GENERAL ATTACK IN MEDITERRANEAN IS FEAR OF GERMANS   Nazis Rushing Defenses From Black Sea To French Coast

STRUGGLE FOR SUBSIDY PLAN   Organize Fight Against Any Increase in  Food Prices

a EEE EEE EE eee  WOMEN rloht HOA oUBalbita IN COMMITTEE   Congressional Hearings On Food Payments Draw Crowds

Capitol Is invaded by Delegation   Oppose Position of Farm Bloc Against Subsidy  Plan of Administration 

MIPS ARE BOMBED IN MUNDA SECTOR   ATTACK HEAVY AND CONCENTRATED—14 JAP BARGES SUNK OFF NEW GUINEA,

Picked Nazi Troops in Athens: Prepare to Defend South Europe   Ankara, Turkey, Apr. 20. (Delayed) (—Death’s head SS battalions have arrived in Athens, Greece, according to a late reliable report from

Hitler Sends Picked Men Into Greece   Obviously In Fear Allies Will Hit Through Balkans

Death’s Head Battalions In Greece   Hitler’s Crack SS _ Troops Uusually Sent To Hot Spots Where Germans Fear Attack

Campaign Against Subs Successful  Dim-Out Regulations Will End November  Alone U.S. Coasts

DIM-OUTS ABOLISHED IN COASTAL REGIONS   Successful Anti-Submarine Campaign Given as Reason for Lifting Lichtine Restrictions.

ABOLISH COASTAL DIM-OUT RULES   »- EGective on No peste Now Voluntary

Rush Baby To Boston Doctor   Chartered Plane In Race To  Save Baby’s Life

PLANE SPEEDS TO SAVE LIFE OF IOWA BABY   Thirteen-day old child rushed to Boston  for operation

HUGE CUT MADE IN SUPPLY BILL    $6,448,206 Under Esti ‘mates In President’s Bud  get Proposals

Appropriations Bill Is Filed  Independent Office Supply Funds Cut

Jap Sub Almost Stalled In Berrien-Too Much Water On County Highways!

Non-Deferred  Draft Registers. “Most Effected      New Federal Legislation Slows Up Induction in Many Cases—All to Be Reclassified in Sequence of Their Order No.

PRE-WAR DADS CALLED AFTER NON-FATHERS   Non-Deferrable Men Most Affected By New Law

New Regulation Mostly Affect Non-Deferables  Pré-Pearl Harbor . Fathers Taken In Pa. Only In Numbers

Attorney General's Office Behind Move To Curb Gambling.   Three Bills Drawn   Labor Loses Plea For Champion At Rickenbacker Show.

PRISON TE FACE NUMBERS GROUP IN OHIO   Attorney General Backs Anti-Gambling Legislation

NUMBER RACKET MAY GET TOUGH   Legislation To Put Teeth in Law Considered in Ohio; Piayers Made Liable

Smolensk Fall Is  Imminent   REDS SQUEEZE CITY AS SOVIET ARMIES MASS ON DNIEPER BANK

Germans Fleeing Dnieper   THOUSANDS KILLED AS RUSS SHELLS, BOMBS SHRED HITLER LINES

(TALY ADM  TUNIS DEFEAT   Germans Talk About Secret _ Weapons and !nvasion  Ot England.

Nazis ‘Sugar’ African Loss   German Radio Talks Of Britain's Peril, Invasion, New Secret Weapons.

BLOW NUMBS AXIS   Nazi Spokesmen ‘Take Ref. uge in Hints of Invasion of England

ROME RADIOCURTLY ANNOUNCES FALL OF BIZERTE AND TUNIS, SAY AXIS WAS OUTNUMBERED   French Troops Have Captured Pont Du Fahs, British, Americans and French Press Axis Remnant in Tunis and Bizerte Areas.

Opposes Deferrmg Fathers   Dealt Director ; Hershey Declares Congress’ Plan Cuwise

HERSHEY OPPOSES LAW 70 DEFER ALL FATHeRS   OVER ONE MILLION NOW CLASSIFIED AS ESSENTIAL IN WORK

PLANE FOUND   Located Under 58 Feet of Water in Nurravansett Rac

'U. S. RANGERS HAVE LANDED ON CORSICA   Guerillas Are Making Advances In Balkans:

1943 AGREAGES TO BE INCREASED OVER LAST YEAR   Acreage of Corn Will Show the Largest In, crease.   A SURVEY COMPLETED   The Agriculture Department Made Public Its Findings.

LOCAL ORBRSERVATIONE   Planting of Corn Hiked 7 Per Cent   Ag Department Estimates 96,827,000 Acres Will Be Planted.

‘Giraud Is Made Supreme Leader In French Africa   Appointment Is Made Despite Serious Undercurrent Of Opposition To General.

Jap Bombers Hit at U.S. Ships  Unsuccessful Raid Is Made Off Attu

ENEMY ATTACK ON U, S. NAVAL UNITS BEATEN   Jap Planes, Apparently From Paramushiro Base,  Driven Off Near Attu   ‘MOPPING UP” STILL PROCEEDS ON ISLAND

Japs Make Air Thrust at Navy  15 Bombers Attack In Attu Territory

Unsuccessful Jap Aerial Attack Indicates: What American Planes May Do

Jap Bombers Hit al U.S. Ships  Unsuccessful Raid 7.  awed ONL Mal.

Jap Bombers Fail in Raid On U.S. Navy Units Off Atti   Unsuccessful Attack Proves Americans Can Fly Out of Aleutians to Batter Enem Bases; Ground Situation Is Unchanged

ENEMY HELPS PROVE VALUE OF ATTU BASE   Navy Reports Jap Raid on Aleutians; Planes Use Base Near Home

U.S. CAN NOW RAID JAP AIR BASES   Proof Provided In Reverse By Unsuccessful ful Raid By Jap Bombers Off Attu  Unit Cut Off

- But Proves Enemy Bases Near Homeland Are Open To Future Air Blastine

Enemy Proves Weakness As Raid Fails   Nipponese Turn Back After Futile Thrust in Aleutians

FIRE BLAME FIXED   Ten Men Indicted in Connection With Cocoanut Grove Blaze

Ten Indicted by Grand Jury  For Cocoanut Grove Disaster   Owners, Police, Fire and Public Officials Charged With Criminal Laxity

Indict 10 Men In Night Club  Fire Disaster   Grand Jury Condemns Laxity, Incompetence Of Boston Officials.

TEN INDICTED FOR BOSTON FIRE   Laxity and Incompetence Among Boston Officials Is Condemned

INDICT YEN IN THE BOSON DISASTER   Incompetence and Laxity Is  Cherged To City Officials  -In Boston’s Cocoanut Grove Holocaust-

POST-WAR PLAN FOR RESORTS WILL BE LAID   Tourist Industry Is Given Seat On Planning Commission

Two Marines Killed And 77  Seriously Burned In Blaze  Forest Fire Traps Large Number In Creek Bed: 14 Reported In Criticol Conditions

Drastic Plan Offered in Constitutional Convention Provides for Selection of Governor by Vote of People and 12 Department Heads That He Would Appoint—All Employes Would Be Put Under Civil Service.

Proposes Cabine Government For Missouri  S+ Louie Co GOP   St. Louis Co. GOP Delegate Sponsors Drastic Change

Today In Washington: Lewis “Homecoming” Into  A.F.O.L., Gas and Lig Shortages. T’.es Are Tanies

1,660 New Local  Taxpayers Seen   Estimate 13,950 Individ-. uals In County To Pay $15.600.000.

MANY NEW TAXPAYERS   Pay-as-You-Go Law to Affect Estimated Tota] of 5,900 Here

British Announce Fall of Samos   ‘Say Troops Finished Task, Evacuated Without Loss

British Stop Nazi Attacks after 2 Hours      Rain Lessens but Battle Front Is Still Covered with Mud, Halting Operations

London Reports Samos Evacuated   Harassing Operations Y Continue

Allied Bombers Slash Naziland   11 Nazis Downed Ac Brect le Raided

RAIDS GO DEEP INTO NAZILAND   Marauder Bombers Hit Nazi Airfield West Of Paris

U.S. BOMBERS POUND EUROPE   German Airfield Struck By Marauder Force Without Loss

Germans Admit Soviet Thrust   Claim Reds Advance In Kuban Sector

Renewed Effort Made By Russians to Smash Axis Caucasian Bridgehead; Big Aerial Fights Reported

Demand More Coal Output   Mid-Western Senators Fear Serious Fuel Shortage:

Senators to Press for Increased Production and Distribution in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

YANKS SINK 4 TROOP - LADEN NIPPON SHIPS   Friday Night’s Naval Actior in Mella Gulf Costs Japs Cruiser and Three Destoy.  yo.) 7.0   Few Aboard Escape

Three Japanese Warships Sunk By Task Force   Third Destroyer Hit Off Koelombangara Isle: All Laden with Troops

Task Force Sinks 4 Troop-Laden Jap Warshipsan,50 Minutes   Naval Unit Intercepts Enemy Force in Mella Gulf and Annihilates It Without Single American Loss; Jap Toll Heavy

THREE ENEMY VESSELS SUNK   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sent Down When Caught In Vella Gulf; Another Hit

COLD WAVE Io: SWEEPING OHIO   Mercury Tumbles Rapid. ly As Frigid Winds Grip State

TORNADO HITS TEXAS TOWN   Two Persons Killed and Five Injured in Southern Storm

TWO KILLED IN EAST TEXAS TORNADO   Eighty Per Cent of Business Houses at San Augustine, Tex. Damaged

TWO KILLED IN TEXAS TORNADO   Sweeps Narrow ‘Path, Does Million Damage in San Augustine.

CARRIER TASK FORCE OPENS NEW OFFENSIVE   Scene of action only 1,100 miles southeast . of Tokio gh

RAIDS MARCUS, 1 100 MILES FROM TOKIG   Carrier Force Goes Into Action; First Reported by Japs

BETTY GRABLE BACK IN BEVERLY HILLS   }Actress Worn From Hours of Desert Travel and Excitement of Marriare.

Bankhead in Plea For His Farm Bill   Appeals to Senate to Override President’s Veto—Barkley Says He Is Confident Administration Forees Will Win.

Senate Urged To, Override. White House  Bankhead Appeals For Re-Passave OF

BUT BANKHEAD CONFIDENT F. R. TO BE BACKED   Bill Would Not Include Benefit Payments in Establishine Ceilings

Vacation Traveling Permitted This Yeat   ODT Says Transit Rationing Unlikely

VACATION TRAVEL ~ O.K'DBY EASTMAN   Journeys Approved Al though Mileage May be Curtailed

VACATION TRIPS TO BE SHORTER   John Citizen Can Take Time Off, But It'll Be Rationed

KERR DECLARES LAW VIOLATIONS WILL BE AIRED   Inquiry Necessary in Certain Cases, Governor Says In Inaugural Speech

“Important Measures’ Before Italian Government Meeting   Peace Negotiations Rumored: Ciano And Othe Fascist Leaders To Lose Ul-Acquired Loot

BADOGLIO CALLS IN CABINET   “Important Measures’ To Be Examined; Peace Talks Heard

OFFICIALS MEET   1 Meets Today fo! of “Important Meas: Vatican Busy.

Italian Government Called In Session  Expecting Important Development In Rome

Hear Italians ArePondering Peace Moves   Italian Cabinet to Weigh Demands of People for Peace and Nazi Insistance for War

Italian Cabinet Meeting Called   “Important Measures” To Be Considered

Italian People’s Hope For Peace Is Renewed   Badoglio Calls Meeting Of Cabinet; Reports Say “Important Measures” To Be Discussed

Discussions For  ~ Peace Under Was   Meeting Expected T: Bring Answer To Peace Cries   CATHOLIC CHURCH IS TAKING PART

CRISIS IS NEAR INSIDE ITALY, IS GENERAL BELIEF   Badoglio Calls Cabinet on ‘Important Measures;’ Armistice Hopes Raised   ACTIVITY AT VATICAN, TOO   Meanwhile, Investigation of Riches Accumulated by Fascist Leaders Looms

Badoglio Tightens Grip . On Italy, Refuting New Hopes For Peace Steps

BADOGLIO CALLS ITALIAN HEADS TO NEW SESSION   British Expect Final Peace or War Decision To Be Made

PEACE HINT SUGGESTED IN BERN STORY   Meeting of Italian Governent to Examine “Iimportand Measures” Stirs  Hope of Nation   ‘AIR OF DESPERATION

Meet Stirs Hope Of Italian Peac   Nation ‘Desperate’  Says Radio

Stream Of Envoy: At Rome Foreign Office Observed; Disorders Lessen

Badoglio Calls _ ‘Vital Meeting Of Government   Move Again Stirs Hopes Of Italians For Action To Take Them Out Of War

PEACE HOPES OF ITALIANS RISE AGAIN   Speculation Stems From Announcement Badoglio Government Will Discuss “Important Measures” Today.

Italian Government To Take Action Today On  “Important Measures”

HOPES OF ITALIAN PEOPLE RAISED BY CABINET MEETING   Expect Steps Will Be Taken to Remove Italy From the War.   IS TO BE HELD TODAY   Peace Proposals Have Been Drafted to Be Presented to Cabinet.

Italian Cabinet Meets As People Clamor For Peace; Nation Becoming Desperate

Meeting Expected to Produce Answer to Italian Peace Cries and Ger: man Demand = That Italy Stay In, The War. Ilopes of People Stir: red,

ITALIAN PEACE TALKS REVIVED   Badoglio Summons Cabi net for Important  Meeting

Badoglio Calls Cabinet To Meeting; Italian People Still Hope For Peace

ITALIANS STUDY PEACE. PROGRAM   Special Cabinet Session Examines Plans For Taking Nation Out Of War

Hopes Stirred Anew in Italy For End: of War   Cabinet Meets For Consideration Of Allied Demands

AIR OF DESPERATION HAS SETTLED OVER ITALIAN PEOPLES  NEW BADOGLIO GOVERN. MENT MEETS TODAY PLAN FUTURE ACTION

Armistice Talk Revives —   Hopes That Italy May Seek Peace ~Surge-As Badoglio Calls Cabinet. To Consider ‘Important Measures’

Badoglio Calls Cabinet, Stirring Hopes Italy May Soon Sue For Peace   Extraordinary Session Of 16 Cardinals Now In Rome Convoked; Italian People Scribble On Walls “We Want Peace And Work.”

Understood Considered  Pact Would Bar Allied Troops Frem Italian Mainland ~   {ATMOSPHERE ONE OF DESPERATION          rcople Plaster Walls of  2 Cilies With Demand For  Death of Badoglio and King Emmanuele 

WOUNDED YANKS REACH ENGLAND   AMERICANS TELL OF BITTER FIGHTING WITH GERMANS IN NORTH AFRICA.

REDS BREAK UP LENINGRAD RAID   [Destroy 27 of Nazi Air Fleet Swarming Against Cily

Reds destroy 27 aircraft, beat off raid   Nazis flee from Leningrad; Gork atinek also fails

Russians Break Up Attempt To Bomb Leningrad   Antiaircraft Gunners, Planes Combine To Disperse Large Force

R. A. F. RAIDS RUHR VALLEY   Enemy tanker torpedoed and sunk off Dutch coast by British

DISMISS DEADLOCKED GREENVILLE JURY   Not Ready To Announce } Case Wii Be Retried

JURY CAN'T AGREE IN BRIBERY TRIAL   Future Remains Uncertain for T. A. Billingsley

PRINDOG. WRECKAGE THREATENS SHIPS   Open Investigation into Collision; Other Vessels Reach Port Safely

TOKYO GETTING JIMMY JITTERS   Japs Fearful As _ First Anniversary Of Raid Nears

Viereck Found Guilty; Faces Sulf Penalty:   Motion For New Trial Denied After Jury Brings Verdict

VIERECK CONVICTED AS GERMAN AGENT AFTER LONG EFFORT   Writer Who Had Tricked Senators Guilty On Six Counts

Nazi Agent Faces Jail Term, Fine      Viereck Found Guilty by Jury On Six Counts

VIERECK, NAZI AGENT, GUILTY, JURY DECIDES   Faces Maximum of 12 Years in Jail, Fine of $6,000 for Failing Proper Registration

OWI Will Not Send Any Material About Elections To Soldiers Overseas

PATTON'S TROOPS SIEZE 3 MORE SICILY TOWNS   American Seventh Army Moves Forward Al Along, 40-Mile Front in Fierce Fighting:

Yanks Take Three More Sicily Towns   Patton’s Seventh Army Moves Up; Reds Also Advance

Allies Press Forward In Sicily, Take Four Towns   Todays War Moves

Russians Advance Only One Mile From Kharkov   Plans Outlined For Entries From City In Victory Garden Exhibits

Americans Under General Patton Consolidate Beachheads<-  TEN TOWNS TAKEN— IN ALLIED MARCH   Gen‘l Montgomery Directs Veterans in Lightnina Move

British Smash Ahead to Messina   Gen. Eisenhower Confers With Field Generals

Southeastern Bridgehead _ Is Extended To 150 Miles   British Push North As Newly Organized American 7th Army Protect Their Flank   GENERAL EISENHOWER PAYS VISIT TO SICILY  Lf” ferro LL. «© wea

British Push Along Coast Toward Messina as Yanks  Menace Axis Island Flank   Historic City of  Syracuse is Among  Major Places Taken; Bridgehead Of Invaders Now 150 Miles  ]

Montgomery Trying to Seal Up Cream of Axis Armies on Island and Bring Quick End to 3-Day-Old Campaign—6,000 Prisoners Taken to Date—Yanks Pin Down Large Enemy Forces.

Eisenhower visits front; British Eighth in lightning  move to capture Messina   Newly-formed U. S. Seventh army threatening flanks of axis forces

Key Axis Defense Being Threatened   More Serious Resistance Is Expected As The Allied Trooos Advance Toward Maior Bases

Syracuse And Nine Other Sicilian Towns Fall; Eisenhower Visits Island   AMERICAN 7TH ARMY UNDER GEN. PATTON

Gen. Eisenhower Visits Sicily; Says Progress  Is Satisfactory   American Troops Bear  Brunt of Counteratiacks on Gen. Montgomery's Left Flank

Patton Fights  Axis Off 8th - Army’s Flank   Catania’s Fall Reported; Sth Army Heading  wy,

General George Patton’s Americans Bearing Brunt Of German And Italian Counterattacks

Allies Threaten Messina in  Lightning Move   Syracuse Falls to British, Axis Force Faces Encircling Drive; Patton Wards Off Counterattacks

‘Armies Rush Forward  To KeyPoint   U. S., British Collaboration Adds Impetus to Great Campaign; 150-Mile Front Is Being Expanded

Tremendous Allied Amphibious Forces Hold 150 Mile Front   Gen. Eisenhower Visits Battle Front to Hold Conference With Leaders; Agrigento Reported Under Attack; 6000 Axis Prisoners Taken

MESSINA, AXIS DEFENSE KEY, NEXT TARGET   HISTORIC SYRACUSE FALLS; PATTON’S MEN IN ACTION

Allies Surge On In Sicily   Historic Syracuse And Nine Other Major Towns Captured

U.S. Troops Bear Brunt of Sicily Counterattacks   Strategy Appears Aimed at Quick Sweep of Isle; Syracuse and Nine Other Major Towns Fall;  Eisenhower Visits Scene of Action, Is Pleased

PUSH NORTHWARD ALONG THE COAST   Montgomery Heads for Mesgina, Key Isle Defense  4   LIGHTNING MOVE   Designed to Seal up Cream of Axis Armies; Yanks Bear Brunt of Attack

Progress Made Toward Messina By Veterans      More Serious Resistance Expected Hourly On All Fronts; lialian Garrisons Give  Up And Help Unload Supplies

GEN. MONTGOMERY COMMANDS BRITISH, GEN. PATTON AMERICANS IN CAMPAIGN FOR CONQUEST OF SICILY.

Germans Report Yanks Using  Super Bombers   Nazis Say Planes Do Not Carry Bombs But Heavily Armed

Berlin Says Super Fortresses Used  Claim Huge Planes Spearhead Attacle

ACCUSED OF BAD FAITH   Hunter Apparent ‘Squeezed to ‘Death by Bear

Dissension Among French Reported   Newspaper Closed By Searching Party

PAY BOOST VOTED 140,00 AIRCRAFT WORKERS IN WES]   War Labor Board Refuses, 7 to 5, to Put Men’s Wages Up to. Shipbuilders’ Ratac.   MINORITY RESENTS PART BYRNES PLAYED   Boeing Company’s 30,000 Em. ployes Given 414-Cent-anHour Increase and  * Others 714 Cents.

General Raise  Denied Workers   WLB Allows Some Coast Aircraft Men Move Pay

LITTLE STEEL PLAN UPHELD   WLB Rejects Petition Ot} Aircraft Workers To Raise Pay To 95 Cents Hour

PLANE WORKERS’ PAY INCREASED      WLB Rejects Plan to Bring te de to Hi of

MENY GENERAL INCREASE in AIRCRAFT PAY   But Give Slight Increase to 30,000 Boeing Workers and 230,000 Sos. Califernia Workers   Labor Resents Byrnes

Bank Robber Recaptured   Ted H. Walters Is Nabbed on Edge of Alcatraz Island

Senators to lay proposal  before FDR   More allied unity stressed in long range objectives

Weather To Be Milder   Tonight's Freeze Will Be Tempered —No Moisture

FLOODS DAMAGE 6-STATE AREA   Deaths Reported Few But Farmland Losses Run Into High Figures

FLOODS SWEEP SIX STATES      Hundreds of Persons Voreed to Flee Homes—Motor Boats Being Used ‘to Rescue Families from Farms.

MIDWEST IS SWEPT BY FLOOD WATERS      Crops Destroyed By Surging Waters—6 Dead In Oklahoma

Say Absence of Roosevelt and ‘Wallace Does Not Create an Acting President

State Praised By Morgenthau   Secretary of The Treasury Congratulates Organization

AXIS ROUT IN SOUTH CONTINUES   British Eighth Army. Believed Ready For  Powerful Drive

German Forces.  Still Withdraw   New Nazi Thrusts Against British Near Tunis Line Repulsed ©

Nazi Tanks Make Slight Headway Against Allies   Anglo-American Forces Still Rolling Back Rommel’s Panzer Troops As Town of Kasserine Falls te the Allies

German Tanks Make Slight Headway In Thrust At Line   Nazis Removing Bulk Of Battered Forces To Remote Bases Near Mediterranean Codst Now

GERMAN TANKS  MAKE GAINS   Nazi Forces In Kasserine Area  Are Rolled Back.

Nazi Tanks Make Gain. Near Tunis   Allics Continuing To Roll Foe. Back In Kasserine Area

SET BACK INVADERS   Powerful Force of Germans Is Defeated by Soviet Fighters Southeast of Kharkov.

Want Ickes To Boss Oil, Coal Prices   Congress Bloc Forms To Try to Shift Control From OPA to Interior Secretary

Moscow Says Offensive Is Biggest Ever   Germans Thrown Back Along Entire Front

SOVIET FORCES LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE   Hurl Back German Invaders Along 1,800-Mile Front

BIG RED DRIVES CROSS DNIEPER   Germans Hurled Back Alonc Front from Leningrad to Caucasus

RUSSIAN ARMY SURGING AHEAD IN NEW DRIVE   Establish three new bridgeheads across Dnieper river

JOSEPH FOSTER PASSED. AWAY IN MAYNARD         Service Wednesday Noon for Local Building — Contractor

Tht, TBS RATIONED 10 LARGE GROUP   Thirty-five Petitioners .Giv. en Approval at Weekly Board Session.   MEETING HELD THURS.   Several Drivers Are Now Receiving Permission for Recaps.  ry

Tints, TWBES ATED 0. LARGE GROUF   Thirty-five Petitioners Giv~" en Approval at Weekly Board Session.   MEETING HELD THURS   Several Drivers..Are Now Receiving Permission for Recaps.

COUNTY SOLDIER 1S SLIGHTLY WOUNDED   Glen S, Randolph, McAlevys Fort, Victim In Africa Area April 24

Woman, Anxious to Back Husband and Son in Service, Reports for Work at War Plant Few Hours After Childbirth

Mother Opposes War Plant Ruling   Protests Furlough After Birth of Child

Woman Reports to Work Eight Hours After Child Is Born: Is Sent Home -

eee  Reports For W ork Five Hours After Childbirth   Eighth Child Born, Eight Hours After Mother Completed Shift With War Production Plant

BRICK, CLAY WORKERS DENIED WAGE RAISE   Have Already Received Due Increases—WLB

Senate Circles. Buzz with Talk Of Candidates   Willkie Expected To Fire Warm Counter-Charges  If Allowed To Testify

RICKENBACKER IN MOSCOW   In Russia On Mission As Representative Of  Stimson

FLYING CAPTAIN VISITS MOSCOW   Rickenbacker On Official Mission, Makes Tour Of Battlefields

RICKENBACKER NOW IN MOSCOW REPRESENTING WAR DEPARTMENT   Famed U. S. Flyer Meeting With Russian Min: ister Molotov. Nature Of His Business Not Revealed.

Rickenbacker on Russian Mission   -Famed Flier Arrives In Moscow on Trip

Rickenbacker ls in Moscow  War Ace on Mission To Russia on Behalf

Rickenbacker On Mission To Moscow   Flier Arrives in Russia on Errand For Stimson

Rickenbacker Now Visiting Russia   US Ace On Missior To Moscow /

RICKENBACKER IS IN MOSCOW   Flier Is On Mission For War Secretary

~Plyer:Is Continiting ~ Tour: of Battlefronts to See High Officials

RICKENBACKER IS IN MOSCOW   Noted Flyer In Russia On Mission For Stimson, Revealed.

RICKENBACKER IN MOSCOW AS SEC. STIMSON’S ENVOY.   Famed Flier Arrived in Red Capital City Sunday Aboard  Liberator Bopiben—Muy See Ganlin

Rick in Moscow, Said on Mission For Sec. Stimson   Sees Presentation Of American Awards To Russian Soldiers

Rickenbacker Tn Moscow On New Mission  American Hero In   American Hero In Soviet Capital Since Sunday

Rickenbacker In Mescow On Missiol  Famed Aviator Flies  To Russian Capital

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker  In Moscow   As Representative Of American War Department

Famed Flier May See Stalin  Rickenbacker Goes to Moscow Qn Mission for War Secretary

Rickenbacker In Moscow On Mission As Stimson’s Agent   Expected To See High-Ranking Soviet Officials, Possibly Premier Stalin

Rail Chiets Seek Strike   Action. Near Crisis Over- Wage Dispute

War Department And Sportsmen Are Sending Fishing Kits To Our The Waltane In Sornico

House Grou Approves Pay-Go Plan   Ways, Means Group Sends  Measure Along

20 PER CENT WITHHOLDING TAX APPROVEL   But Rejects Proposal To Forgive Past Tax

Work Halt Affecting Vital Steel Industry   Some Furnaces Nearing Shutdown; WLB Certification of Case Possible

LEWIS, WLB UNYIELDING IN MINE TIE-UP   UMW Leader Again Confers with Ickes Whie Coal in Transit ‘Frozen’ by Fuel Chief   WAIT ACTION FDR   Ceal in, Transit Barred Those Having 10 Days Supply Under Ickes’ Order

COAL BOSS AND ICKES CONTINUE THEIR PARLEYS   But Over 500,000 Miners Are Still Idle—Maybe FDR Will Act

Direct White House Action May End Strike   Stoppage of Cool Mining Already Affects War-Vital Steel Industry

Coal Shorfage Begins To Hit War Industry   Some Blost Furnaces Prepare To Shut Down

Lewis Resumes Talks With Ickes; War-Vital Steel is Being Choked   Coke Production Affected; Any Agreement Must Be Okayed By War Labor Board

Direct Action by President Is Expected.      John L. Lewis Confers: with ickes over: Dispute While ~ Presidential Move: Is Hinted

DEEL PLANT BEGIN TO FEEL COAL SHORTAGE   Presidential Action To End Mine Strike Imminent, Capital Believes

Lewis and Ickes Contferring Again   Nation Looks to President To Take Action To Order Miner Back Into the Pits

LEWIS AND ICKES HOLD CONFERENCE   Direct Action By FDR Looms Unless Strikers Return,

REPORT $8,935 INWAR STAMP SALES   Douglas County Hopes to Reach Goal of $15 000. This Month —   4 BOOTHS IN ACTION

REPORT $8,935 IN _ WAR STAMP SALES   Douglas County Hopes to ~ Reach Goal of $15,000 This Month

All Russia Celebrates Fall of Taganrog,  Gateway ta Caucasian Oil Fields; Cannon Of Moscow Boom Salute to Red Army

7.  7 SB 8  Fraara   Capture Of Yelnya Is Another Big Victory For Russians Over Nazis

Soviets Smash Through German Defense Set-Up Russians Half-Way  ‘om Taganrog To Mariupol

BOND DRIVE TOTAL TO $2,369,000,000   Treasury Announces More Than $500,000,000 In Sales Reported Since Saturday.

Marshall Resents Criticism Coming From Legislators  General Says Altauck On Command Affect  famman Cause

[Marshall Tells House Leaders Congressional Criticism of Top Command Hampers War Effort

Big Bend Park Becomes Reality At Ceremonies  fla, C€Clacanena   Goy. Stevenson Hands Over Title to Federal Government

ESTABLISHMENT OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK NOW REALITY   ONLY FEW LEGAL FORMALITIES REMAIN AS DEED PRESENTED SUNDAY

Ban On Pleasure Driving Will Be Strictly Enforced   Co-Operation Of State And Municipal Police Sought By Harrisburg OPA Office

NEW FIGHTING FLARES GLEAR ~AGROSS ITALY   Allies Resume Offensive with Capture of Ortona and Castel di Sangro.

Ortona Is Captured By British   10-Day Struggle Ends in Defeat For Defenders

Adriatie Port Taken By 8th Army   Canadian Troops Win 10-Day Fight for Ortona

CANADIAN TROOPS CAPTURE ORTONA WW HEAVY FIGHTING   Castel Di Sangro, Keystone of Nazi Defenses in Italy, Also Falls

ORTONA FALLS TO BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY   eis i Mae ee oy  ai for MARES! age. “een Battle Bt ‘ Lasted 10 Days:

ORTONA IS CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Violent Fighting Flares Along Entire Front

ORTONA FINALLY WRESTED FROM GERMAN FORCES   Another Keystone in Nazi Defense Line Across Italy Captured by British Eighth.

Drive Toward Pescara, Start  of Road To Rome   Allied Troops Advance All Along Italian  Peninsular Line

British Take Ortona After Bloody Battle   Castel Di Sangro Also Falls To Advancing Eighth Army   AIR FORCE ACTIVE   Allies Slowly Gaining Control Of Main Roads To Rome

BRITISH EIGHTH CAPTURES ORTONA  FROM THE NAZIS   Heavy Fighting Breaks Oui Anew Ail Across Staly. Yanks Push on.

ADRIATIC PORT OF ORTONA IS LOST BY ENEMY   Canadian Assault  Units Attain Victory In Fierce Tenday Struggle.

Fastest Dive Bomber. Batters Japs   VictoriousA lliesSurge Past Fallen Ortona

Warning issued On Car Service '   New Station Hours Effective Friday

FBI BEGINS SEARCH FOR GIRL REPORTER   Clueless Hunt Spreads. Over Nine Eastern States

Furloughs For Workers Urged   Says Health of Worker Must Be Safequarded

Furloughs For Workers Urged   Illness Is Cause OF Most Ahcontesism

REDS’ LONG RANGE GUNS ATTACKING KHARKOV DEFENSE   Military Experts Believe Germans Will Be Forced Back to Onieper.

NAZI RETREAT TO -DNIEPER NO ALMOST CERTAIN   Russian Spekesman Promises Smashing Drives In Sprhic

STORES WILL CLOSE ON CHRISTMAS DAY   Saturday of This Week Observ. ed by Business Places Cilosing for Christmas.

Japanese Base Is Heavily Bombed  Nips Concentrate at Three Points

ALLIES ISSUE WAR CURRENCY IN SICILY   Give Captured Areas Money in Familiar Terms

Allied Military  Currency Used   Special Money Issued For Use of Invasion Troops in Sicily

First Money Of Its Kind  Allied Military Currency Used In Sicily

YANKS IN SICILY GET SPECIAL MONEY   lita ceralcatina  Printed in U. S., tt Is Marked ‘Issued in Italy’

Strike Protests Roosevelt Order  Anti-Inflation Rule Brinas Dissension

“Hold Line” Order Faces Crucial Test   Cement Co. ‘Employees Strike Over Refusal of WLB To Allow. Wage Increase of 514 Cents

Strike Begun In Protest To FDR's Order   Administration Has New Labor Problem To Solve Now

Administration Is Faced With First Strike Due To Hold-The-Line Order

LABOR REVOLT DEVELOPING   Universal Cement Co Strike First Reaction to FDR Rule

Administration Face Protest of Wage Order   Atlas Cement Workers Strike Over AntiInflation Move

LABOR PROTESTS FDR’S ORDER TO HOLu-THE-LINE   EMPLOYES OF CEMENT CO. WALK OUT WHEN DEMANDS ARE DENIED

LABOR REVOLT GROWS INU, S.   ER. Anti-Inflation Plan Blamed for First Strike

STRIKE GROWS OUT OF NEW WAGE POLICY   Employes of Atlas Cement Company, First to Feel Effects of Hold-theLine Order, Quit Work for More Pay.

Cement Workers Strike in Protest To Order of FDR   Administ ration Confronted With First Strike on New Order.   WLB Loses Power to Approve Wage Hikes

Administration Is Confronted With First Strike Growing Out of the President’s Anti-Inflation Order

ADMINISTRATION CONFRONTED NOW WITH STRIKE AS PROTESTS MOUNT FROM LABOR ON FDR’S WAGE PLANS

Administration Faces First Strike Since New “Hold-The-Line’ Order

Labor Revolt Developing Against F.D.R. Order: Strik   Atlas Cement Company Workers Strike When W.L.B. Cut Referee’s Recommendation Of 514, Cent Hourly Raise To Two Cents.

TRIKE RESULT OF PAY RULING   Cement Plant Workers, First  Affected, Leave Their * Inhe.   UNION LEADERS PROTEST

First Strike Follows ‘Hold Line’ Ruling   Order Called Violation of No Strike, No LockOut Agreement

LABOR REVOLT SEEN NEAR ON PAY FREEZING   Administration Confronted With First Strike Growing Out of Its “HoldLine” Order   PROTESTS MOUNT   Cement Workers Strike; Labor Says Decree Causing Loss Confidence In New Deal

PAY ORDER PROTESTS MOUNTING   First Strike Growing Out of Inflation Control : Move Occurs in Pennsvivania   A.F.L. MEN ON WLB DENOUNCE ORDER   Loss of Power to Correct ‘Inequalities’ Is Hub of , Controversy

Inequality Clause Is  Hit by Labor   Board Can Still Grant Increases Under Little Steel Formula

STARTED BY PRISONERS   Erich Weinert Tells of Free Ger man Nafional Committee

1S PIANES SOON WILL FLY CIRCLES AROUND ENEMY WITH NEW SUPER GASOLINE

NEW GAS BOOSTS AIRPLANE POWER   PRODUCT GIVES YANK FIGHTERS ADVANTAGE OVER ENEMY AIRMEN

NEW PLANE FUEL IS ‘SUPER GAS'   Engines Must Be Made Over Before They Can Use It To Increase Power

SUPER-GASOLINE BEING PRODUCED   First Gallon Cost $3000, Chemists Have Known Secret For Seven Years.

America Producing Super-Gas To Add 50 Per Cent to Power of Airplanes; Due to Be Big War Aid

Super Gas Gives Yank Planes Edge   Can Fly Circles  Around Enemy

1,8 SUPER-GAS NS DEVELOPED   Will Boost Plane Power 50 Per Cent  By WALTER WARREX<.

NEW TYPE GAS TO BOOST ENGINE POWER   Will Increase Strength of Plane Motors 50 Percent

New Super Gas For Engines Of U.S. Planes   Craft Will Climb And Fly Faster And Carry Much Heavier Loads

Develop a New Super-Gasoline   Boosts Airplane Power 50 Per Lent

U.S. DEVELOPS NEW SUPER-GAS   Peppy Petrol Boosts Airplane Engine Power 50 Percent

5 MORE SHIPS ARE TORPEDOED   Allied And Neutral Losses In West+  ern Atlantic Since Pear! Harbor Now 593 Ships

ALLIES AND AXIS EXCHANGE BLOWS   Allies Yield In Center, But Advance in North and South

AMERICANS IX TUNE GAN: H HOLD      Desperate Counter Attacks of Nazis Make Some Gains But Attacks Are Stopped jie Renort. .-

Nazis Check Assault Near Medjez-el-Bab   British Fall Back Near Tunis Plain: American. French Forces Advance

Service Station Managers: Flay Overtime Operation “Chisclers”   Call Attention To Government Rule Against . Leng Hours

Yank Troopships In Mediterranean, savs Nervous Foe      Goal Unknown, Speculation Rife; Italian Fleet Said Seeking Reluge At Lower Tip of Istrian Peninsula

American Blow Is Awaited As Rome Navy Flee:   Naples Or Balkan Port: May Be Objectives; Nazis Clear French Area

ROME REPORTS U.S 7TH ARMY ON MOVE      Italians Speculate Army May Be Headed For Naples .

PEACE NOT LIKELY TO END RATIONING   Will Take ‘Time To Recover From Waste ‘Of War

Cold Wave And Storms Sweep Southwes!   .1 Degrees At Pampa. Storms Kill Seven In Louisiana Area  On Week-End

U.S. Trained, Equipped Chinese . Drive 30: Miles Deeper in Burma

Chinese Troops © - Penetrate Into Northern Burm   American - Trained and Equipped Forces in 30-Mile Thrust

FARM SENATORS 0 ORGANIZE FOR HIGHER PRICES   Seck Public Pressure; ‘Will Investigate U. S. Farm ‘Dalieiac

SENATORS FEAR FOOD SHORTAGE   Seek To Enlist Public Opinior for Higher Farm Prices

FARM SENATORS ORGANIZE 10 GIVE AID TO FARMERS   Enlist Public Pressure for Higher Farm Prices, It Is Said.   COMMITTEE IS NAMED   fo Formulate Strategy for Inquiry Into Policies of Administration.

Group Checks Farm Policies   Wickard To Be First Witness Before Committee Examin ing All Angles.

FARM BLOC TO TURN ON ~ PRESSURE   Public Support Will Be Sought for Price Boosts, Probe of Policies   ‘TO BLOW LID OFF,’ SAYS SEN. SMITH   ‘People Fed Up With Poli. cles that Won’t Feed Them’ the Southerner Declares

Higher Farm Price To Be Sought to  Get More Labor ‘..   Farm State Senators Also Organize To Investigate Administration Policies—Contention Is That Farm Hands Are Drawn to Industrial Jobs by Higher Wages

AUSUIAN ARMY NEARS AOOTU WITH 2 DRIVES   Double Pronged Offensive Direct Threat To Nazi Caucasus Stronghold

Japanese Ships Are Gathering   Enemy Concentrating Warships in Sclomons—New  Guinea Area

Soviets Pushing Two-Way Offensive Against Nazis In Caucasus; U. S. Fliers Blast Japs In Solomons And Eleutians

 ONE COLUMN WITHIN 60  MILES OF CITY   Heavy Fighting Developes In Pacific Sector

Davis Says Increase for Illinois Miners Is Without Justification

OPERATORS RAP UMW - ILLINOIS WAGE PROPOSAL   Boost Of $1.75 Opposed Before WLB; Control Policies Under Labor Fire

PROPOSES CUT IN EXPENSES      Chairman of Senate Finance Con mittee Protests Unnecessary Mili. tary Expenditures,

Limit Asked For Military Expenditure   George Would Put 75-Billion Ceiling  Qn Yearly Snending

Senator Would Limit Army _ And Navy Expenditures To 75 Billion Dollars Per Year

WOULD SET LIMIT ON EXPENDITURES QF ARMY, NAVY   Sen. George Says Otherwise Home Front Minimum _ Poonomy Will Be Up ant

WOULD LIMIT MILITARY: SPENDING   Sen. George Favors Restricting Army and Navy

CUT ARMY AND NAVY EXPENSES GEORGE URGES   Claims Waste Costs That Threaten Economy On Home Front 

T5-BILLION LIMIT IS SUGGESTED FOR SERVICE EXPENSES   Recommendation Made by Chairman af Senate Finance Committee Todav.

OIL PRODUCTION INCREASE ASKED   Petroleum Administrator Ickes Calls for Hike of 127,500 Barrels Daily Next Month

State’s Production Is Increased Jenene oe ee ee ee eee  Ickes Calls for Boost in Oil Output in Nation Next Month

Axis Marshal Now 40 Miles North of Sfax; All Armies of Allies Take Prisoners

Battle of Changteh Is a Pivotal Success For United Nations Plans

Senator (Cotton Ed) Smith Contends They Are Out of Line With What Farmer Receives   CITES HIGH PRICES PAID BY HIS WIFE   Half a Head of Cabbage Cost 25c and “Little Bitty” Fish $1.50;  To Press Probe

im . wT im EO rices Paruute  Of Proportion To Farmer Pay   Senator Smith Says Food Is So High Poor Man Will Starve

To Subpoena Groceries To Show Prices Are ~ Out Of Line With What Farmer Gets

Eight Japanese Bases Bombed   Two-Hour Blasting Of Buin Is Included In Day’s Attacks   FLAMES RISE 500 FEET ABOVE BASE

AERIAL RAIDS SMASH BASES OF JAPANESE   EIGHT STRONGHOLDS OF ENEMY BLASTED BY ALIJED EOMBERS. FROM MacARTHUR'S AIRFIELDS

AERIAL FORCES HIT JAP BASES   Attacks Carried Out Over Wide Area From Solomons To Timor

NEW ATTACKS ON JAPANESE   Heavy damage caused at Bougainville and Timor Island

Ghastly Nazi Crimes Bared   Hostages Murdered, Slaves Kidnaped By Naples Germans

\Atrocities Practiced: By ‘Germans In Naples Told’ By Doctor and Newsman

SACKING OF NAPLES REVEALED BY TWO CORRESPONDENTS   BY REYNOLDS PACKARD and HENRY T. GORRRELL  T%H6Hm0 ees oe... _

BRUTALITY OF GERMANS AT NAPLES TOLD   70,000 Italian Men Kidnaped for Forced Labor. Sewage Hooked Up to Water System

Story of German Reign of Terror Over Naples Told   Devastation in Italy’s Third City Described

ATROCITIES AT NAPLES REVEALED   Germans Forced  Condemned Patriots To Dig Own Graves

NAZI SUB BASES HIT IN ATTACKS   Allies Smash At Enemy Positions For 11th Successive Day

U.S. Bombers Pound Lorient, Brest in { {th Day of Raids by Allies

Destroy 96 Axis Planes In Attacks   String Reaches 285 In Three Days As Allies Blast Italy, Sicily And  Sardinia

S-DAY TOTAL NOW 285 I                    Yesterday’s Toll .of Axis Craft Taken in Sw - ing Combats and D aging Raids on Sar ia, Sicily and Italy. 

12 Allied Planes Los! in Sweeps on Invasion Approaches to "  Veater Z   3-DAY TOTAL 285   Forts and Lightnings Made Target of Aerial Bombs by Defending Nazi Airmen

Allies Hoist 3 Day Air Toll To 385Planes   American Bombers, Fighters Destroy 96 More In Italy Invasion Theater   LEAVE LARGE FIRES   Only 12 Attacking Craft Lost In Smashes At-Mainland, Sicily, Sardinia

Intense Attacks Spread New Ruin In Enemy Areas   Heavy Attacks On Sicily, Sardinia; Large Fires Are Left Burning

U. S. Airmen Bag 96 More Enemy Planes in Damaging Raids on Sicily, Sardinia

Americans Continue To Carry Out Devastating Attacks On Invasion Approaches To Italy

Yanks Blast 285 Aircraft In Three Days   96 More Destroyed in New Raids on Sardinia and Sicily

Yanks Bag 96 Planes   «+ Bloody Fight Said to Be Raging in Balkans

NEW RUINS LEFT SMOULDERING IN ENEMY SECTIONS   Drive to Smash Opponent's Airpower Pressed in Talay, Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria   218 AXIS PLANES WRECKED IN 3 DAYS   Additional Victories Won at Loss of Seven Allied Planes—-Better Than 12 to 1 Margin

96 More Enemy Airplanes Destroyed In U.S. Raids On Italy, Island Fields

ALLIES BAG MORE PLANES   BLASTING AMERICANS RUIN 96 MORE AXIS MEDITERRANEAN PLANES.

U.S. Airmen Bag 96 Enemy Planes In Wide Sweeps   italy, Sicily, Sardinia Blasted In Drive To Smash Axis Air Power; Victories Won At Los: Of Seven Allied Planes.

3-Day Total Of Northwest Africa Air Foree 285   Punishing Attacks On Axis Airdromes In Sardinia And Sicily Repurted

1 Freighters And Tanker Sent Down   Brings to 505 Number of Jap  Or Damaged

Yankee Subs Sink 9 Ships   Total of Japanese Boats Bagged By Americans Reaches 505

2nd Navy Battle Of Solomons [s Costly To Japs   Sub Activity Brings To 505 Total Of  Jap Vessels Sunk By Submarines

American Subs Sink Nine More Jap Ships  U.S. Expands Fleet of Undersea Craft

9 MORE JAP SHIPS CINK BY U.S, SUBS   Forays Against Enemy Shiping Lines Continue

SUBMARINES HIT SUPPLY LINESHARD   Seven. Freighters ‘And Tanker’ Among “Craft Sent Down’

‘SUBS SINK 9 MORE JAP SHIPS   Strike Hard at Nippon Supply Lines in Pacific

9 JAP SHIPS ARE VICTIMS OF SUBS   — sw  Brings Total of 505 Japanese Vessels Sunk Since War by U. S. Submarines

Total Destroyed By Submersibles Now Set At 505   Enemy Losses At Hands Of All Types Of U.S. Craft Boosted To 745 Vessels

Nine More Jap Merchant Ships Sunk By U.S. Subs   American Undersea Craft Have Now Accounted Kor 505 Enemy Vessels In Pacitne's Weitere

U.S. Undersea Craft Hit Jap Supply Lines   Army and navy Bombers Shoot Down 46 Japanese Planes as Land Troops. Mop Up. on Gilberts 

U.S. Subs Sink 9 More Jap Supply Ships   Brings Total to 505; 5th Nip Warship Reported Sunk

Undersea  Nip Toll at 505   DEADLY CRAFT BAG 7 FREIGHTERS,  TANKER, 1 AIR TRANSPORT

9 More knemy  Vessels Sunk   Total Of Japanese Ships Destroyed Amounts To 505 Navy Savas.

American Subs Hit Jap Supply Lines   Have Sunk 9 More Enemy Ships, for a Total of 505 Vessels.

SUBS SINK NINE SHIPS OF JAPS   Total Bag Of U. S. Craft Now Set At 505

U.S. SUBS SINK — NINE JAP SHIPS   Destroyed, Probable and  Damaged Now at Pp 505 Total ©

SUES SINK NINE MORE NIP SHIPS   Brings Total of Jap Vessels Sunk to 745

U.S. Submarines Sink Nine More Japanese Vessels   New Sinkings Boost Nip Sea Losses In Pacific War To 745

9 More Jap Vessels Sunk Dy U.S. Subs   Attacks Bring Total of Enemy Ships Blasted by *Pighoats’ to 505.   ONE PLANE CARRIER   Navy Asks Volunteers in Great Expansion of Underwater Fleet

AMERICAN ‘SUBS’ SINK NINE MORE JAPANESE SHIPS   Seven Medium Freighters, a Tanker, Plane Transport Vessel Are Listed

Jap Losses Put At 745 By Sinkinas   Enemy Ships Sunk Include 7 Freighters, 1 Tanker, Transport

Undersea Toll Raised to 505   Latest Score Against Enemy Brings To 745 Total Vessels Sent to Bottom By All Weapons Since Beginning of War

Second Sea Battle of North Solomons Disastrous to Nips   Lose Four Warships in Engagement, Fifth Probably is Sunk

U.S. Subs Run String Up to 505   Score Now 745 for Sinkings by All Types Of U. S. Craft

WORLD FOOD COMMISSION SUGGESTION   --- Proposal Made At Nations’ Conclave

Plans Developed fo Draft Labor  McNutt Prepared for Eventuailities

Asks Nations Organize for World Peace   Catholic Bishops of America Declare Such Action Is Necessary

Catholics Ask . For Good Peace   Imperative to Set Institution to Keep Peace, Bishops Say

War Council Fer Algeria Appointed   People Will Be Represented in Government Now

HELENA'S SKIPPER TELLS STORY: OF {TS FINAL ACTION   Capt.. Charles Cecil of..Louis. ville, Describes Fast FirIng Before Torpedo Rtriink 

U. S. S. HELENA, SUNK BY JAPS, BLASTED 3 OF THE ENEMY SHIPS BEFORE BEING SUNK

ARMY AND NAVY CLAIM SAVINGS   Report     500,000 Lopped From War Contracts.

US NAVY PUTS PACIFIC ENEMY ON DEFENSIVE   General Mac Arthur Makes Statement With Regard To Situation In South  Pacific:   Blast Shigs

Nipponese on Defensive After Exhausting Resources of Attack. General Declares

Pacific Picture Now Brighter   GEN. MacARTHUR SAYS JAP STRENGTH IS WANING

Nippon Has Used “Fullest Resources And Failed” Pacific Chief Avers

Japanese Forced On Defensive By Allies   Gen, MacArthur Sees Vital Turn Toward Victory Over Japanese

MacArthur Says War in Turn Toward Victory   Japan Forced On Defensive’ General States

MACARTHUR SAYS GLAMOR IS LACKING   But His Forces Have Widened The Margin Between Japs And Allies

Enemy Yields Offensive Over Pacific   MacArthur Reports Outcome of Fight Is Certain

MACARTHUR SAYS JAPS HAVE USED FULLEST RESOURCES IN ATTACKS IN PACIFIC AND HAVE FAILED:   Commander of Pacific Forces Say The Japanese Are Now on The Defensive and Tink Final Victory Will Re Ours ~

Allied Victory Certain —   General MacArthur Declares Japan Has Failed In Concentrated Attack In Pacific And Now Is On Defensive

Japanese Now On Defensive, Savs General   MacArthur Declares Foe Has Failed After Use Of Fullest Resources To Press Offensive

Japs On Defensive’   General MacArthur Issues Optimistic Communique

Allied Victories In Pacific “Hailed By Gen’'l MacArthur      Japan Now on the Defensive, General Declares in an Optimistic Statement—Vila Is Again Hit by Bamberce

PACIFIC WINS ARE DECISIVE   ‘So, Declares MacArthur Who Says Japanese Now  On Defensive

Japanese Now On ‘Defensive’  Says M’Arthm   Margin Narrow, Result: Certain, He Avows

JAP ATTACKS FAIL, NIPS ON DEFENSIVE   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk By Halsey’s Men: Heavy Attack Is Made On Kolombangara

Claim Japan Has Used Her  Fullest Resources of Con centrated Attack in Pacific  cand Has Failed

JAP ARMY SEEN ON DEFENSIVE   MacArthur Says Nips’ Bes! Has Been Defeated  In Pacific

U.S. VICTORIES IN PACIFIC ARE - HELD DECISIVE   MacArthur Declares Japar Used Fullest Resources, Failed and Is Now  On Defensive _

MacArthur Says Japan Is Now on  The Defensive   Nippons Have Used Their  Fullest Resource of Concentrated Attack.

Japs In Pacific On the Defensive   Resources of Foe Fail to Carry Through Concentrated Attack Asserts War Chieftai

(ENERAL MACARTHUR DECLARES JAPAN 15 _ ON DEFENSIVE  ENEMY HAS USED FULLES1 RESOURCES AND HAS FAILED HE REPORTS

Japan on Defensi ve  Now, Says M’Arthur   Allied Victories Decisive of Final Results in Pacific, General Declares; New Heavy Attack Made on Vila Airport

MacArthur Says Japs Failed Offensively On All the Pacific Fronts

S, W. VICTORIES DECISIVE, GEN, M’ARTHUR SAYS   Refuses To Make Prediction On Final Victory

_Japs Now on Defensive, Gen. MacArthur Asserts   Vital Turn-Toward Victory Taken Ry Pacific War. Savs Commander

JAPS FIGHTING ON DEFENSIVE, GENERAL SAYS   MacArthur Declares That Final Outcome Of Pacific War Is Now Clear   THREE ENEMY CRAFT DESTROYED BY NAVY

U. §. Victories Show War Trend General Asserts   Declares Enemy Can Ne Longer Take Offensive Action   Optimistic Statement Reveals Commander s Sure of Success

Vital Victory Turn Has Come In Pacifie War   Confident Statement _ Made Today By. : General MacArthur’:

GENERAL MACARTHUR DECLARES JAPAN 1S NOW ON DEFENSIVE  ENEMY HAS USED FULLEST   RESOURCES AND HAS EAITEN UL DEPNPTc

MACARTHUR CLAIMS JAPS ON DEFENSIVE   Commander - in - Chief ir Pacific Expresses Supreme Confidence of  Final Victory   SUMS UP SITUATION

MACARTHUR SAYS PACIFIC: TIDE TURNED   Recent Successes Have Definitely Put Japs On Defensive

Enemy Placed on Defensive As U.S. Decisively Repels All-Out Attack, Says Chief

MacArthur Says Japs Have Failec  Says Her Resources Exhausted By Many  Reattlac in Santhwact

Japanese Have Failed, Is View Of MacArthur   Margin Was Close Bu Conclusive, Genera States In Review 0: Pacific Situation

U, S. VICTORIES IN PACIFIC HAVE BEEN DECISIVE   General Declares Pm an, Using Her mf est Resources In Concentrated Attacks, Has Failed; Final Outcome Now  Clear:

Allied Victories Are Decisive   Japs on Defensive in Pacific Zone

MacArthur Is Confident Of Victory Road   Pacific Area Chief Say: Japan Drive Has Failed Is Now On Defensive   CITES ALLIED BLOWS   General Reveals Margin Was Close, But Success Now Is Certain

Enemy Has Used Fullest Affack And ‘Failed’   General Declares That Margin Was ‘Close But Conclusive’

MacArthur Says Japanese Now On Defensive.   Pacific. Victories Have Been Decisive, Says Allied Chief:

Japs Declared On Defensive   MacArthur Says Foe’s Resources Fading

MARTHUR SAYS IAPS’ PACIFIC POWER BROKEN   “Nips Now On Defensive And War Has Taken Vital Turn Toward Victory”   NAVAL TRIUMPH CITED   Vila Next Objective Of Amer- ican Forces Cleaning Out Solomons Area

CONFIDENT STATEMENT IS ISSUED   Declares That Japan Has Been Forced on the Defensive and Outlook  fe Clear.

CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED BY M ARTHUR   Japanese Now On Defensive, Allies On Way to Victory

Margin ‘Close’ But Allies Have  Cracked Japan   Fullest Resources O} Japs Used In War. But Fail; Victory Is Assured

NIPPONESE FACE CERTAIN DEFEAT, SAYS MACARTHUR   THOUGH LACKING IN ‘GLAMOR’, AMERICAN VICTORIES DECISIVE

M’ARTHUR REPORTS JAPAN HAS TAKEN DEFENSIVE ' STAND   Ensiny’s Ability To. Attack _ Has Been Smashed In. . ’ Pacific  War Th ates   ALLIED OFFENSIVE — "lg GROWING DAILY

M’ Arthur Says Japs Have Made Supreme Effort   Came Close To Victory But Are Now On Way To Final Defeat

MacArthur Says Japan Is Now  On Defensive   Fullest Resources of Con. centrated Jap Attack Has Failed: on Pacific Front and American Action Now Decisive of Final Result.

FOES ATTACKS  HAVE FAILED   Margin Was Close But Conclusive, Says Allied Commander.    DEFEAT CALLED CERTAIN

JAPAN IS NOW ON DEFENSIVE, M’ ARTHUR SAYS   Allied Margin of Victory ‘Close but ‘Conclusive, in Pacific, Com mander-in-Chief Says

PACIFIC WAR TAKES TURN TOWARD ALLIED VICTORY SAYS MACARTHUR   Japan Has Been Forced to Fight On The Defensive

Pacific War Taking Vital Victory Turn Allied Successes Have  Forced Japan Onto Defensive   GAINS ARE DECISIVE   MacArthur’s Statement Is Optimistic; Sees Certain Victory

Expects Record Tn Farm Output   Labor Situation Improving: Wickard Defends Opposition To Pace Bill.

Allied Planes Striking All Over Hitlerdom   Paris And Calias Radio Stations Go Off Air, Indicating More Attacks

DUNKEROUE AND BREST TARGETS   Bases From North Sea to Bay of Biscay Hit   COLOGNE SUFFERS   Sustained Allied Air Offen. sive Aimed at Weakening Nazi U-Boat Fleet

GERMAN BASES BOMBED TWICE AROUND CLOCK   Daylight Raids Follow Heavy Night Assault On Cologne   FEW PLANES LOS1,      Attacks ‘Are Aimed At Weakening Nazi UBoat Nests

U. 8. Bombers Return Safely From Latest in _ Series of Air Assaults on Enemy   DUNKERQUE HIT BY - RAF AT SAME TIME   Great Areas in Reich Laid Waste by Constant Atstacks; End. Not Yet  " in Sight

Bombers Bash Brest U-Boat Base   Americans and British Continue Sustained Air Assault on Nazis

U.S., British Planes Strike Many Points   48-Hour Mark Passed . With Indications Raids Continuing

Allied Bombers Bash German Base at Brest   Great Areas Left Blazing In Germany’s Greatest Cities

Allied Aerial Attacks Going Around Clock   Yankees Pound Brest As RAF Carries Out Dunkerque Raid; More Night Blasts Indicated

American Planes Blast Germans Brest Naval Base   Dunkerque Is R. A. F Target in Great Sustained Air Drive

MASS FIGHTER FLIGHT HELP NEW ATTACK’   Fortresses and — Liberators Smash Naval Base to Cripple Subs.   RAF HITS DUNKERQUE AS ASSAULTS CONTINUE

” ATTACKS GAIN o IN INTENSITY OVER EUROPE   European Citadel Of Brest Bombed Heavily For Second Straight Day.

ROUND- CLOCK AID OUnEDULE 1S MAINTAINED   RAF Striking During Night, Americans In Daylight With Bomb Cargoes

Allied Planes Hit Enemy By Day And Night    Crippling Of Axis: . Submarine Warfare Ts Main Goal

Daylight Assaults Follow Up Severe British Attacks; Sub Pens Blasted

AMERICANS BOMB BREST AS BRITISH BLAST DUNKERQUE   U. S. Fliers Hammer German Naval Base on French Coast Without Loss of Single Plane.   HEAVY NIGHT ATTACK MADE ON COLOGNE   Enemy Installations Over Wide Area Pounded in Greatest Sustained Air Assault of War. -

Deadly Bombers Continue Round The Clock Raids   Brest, Dunkerque Blasted ‘In Great ‘Sustained Attack

U, S, WARPLANES HIT NAZIS’ SUB BASE AT BREST   All Yank Bombers Return Safely From Smashing Raid on Foe Targets

a aE  FLYING. FORTS: ~ STRIKE AGAIN      Brest Takes Brunt of ttacks -

German Naval Base at Brest Bombed   Great Air Asseult Against Enemy Continues Unabated

U. 5. BOMBERS BASH GERMAN NAVAL BASES   SAVAGE RAIDS MADE ON BREST AND DUNKERQUE

Gigantic Allied Aerial Offensive  Into Third Day  Americans Attack Brest U-Boat Base In Daylight Raid  ALL RETURN SAFE  British Again Hit Dunkerque; Cologne Is Pounded Again

Allied Planes Continue Witl Mass Attaek   Nazi Bases Along The French Coast Are Battered

Round-Clock Aerial Blitz Intensilied   — ALU. S. Bombers Home Safe After Attack on Brest

Planes tour Hitler zones without stop   ‘Brest, Dunkirk Cologne given major attention

GOVERNOR MARTINS DESK PILED HIGH WITH MORE THAN 375 BILLS TO BE ACTED UPON

PRODUCTS AND WAGE CONTROL NECESSARY   lowa manufacturers declare this is only way  to halt inflation

30-Day Leave With Grable! April Fool!   EDITORIAL IN ARMY NEWSPAPER TURNS OUT TO BE FAIRY TALE

Income Tax To Be Given Boost   $540,000,00C6 Added To Individual Burden

U.S. Announces Liberator Raid On Paramushire   “Yanks Smash Enemy Outpost In 1,600 Mile Flight; Gertrude Cove Area On Kieka leland Also Blasted 

Northern Jap isle Target For Raiders   Precedent - Setting Air Thrust From Aleutians Uncomfortably Close To Nippon Proper.

IS MADE BY U.S. FLIERS   Enemy Stronghold At Kiska Also Hit By  American Bombers

‘Pearl Harbor of North’ Set Afire, Shipping Hit in Daring Raid by U.S. Liberators

Americans Hit At\sland Near Jap Homeland   Liberators Blast Paramushiro, Start Fires and Score Near, Hits on Shipping

Yank Bombers Hit Close to Japan Proper   Navy Announces Bombing Enemy Base of Paramushiro, Starting Fires.   Fly From American Base in the Aleutians

Bombers Hit Closer To Japan   Liberators Attack Paramushiro Base   Yanks Edce Closer.

Americans Believed To Have Operated From West Aleutians Base: Targets Are Hit Hard   Clear Weather For Attack Only 1,260 Miles From Tokyo; Heavy Bombers Again Attack Enemv Positions On Kiska

U. 5. PLANES HIT NIPS ON KURILES’ TIP   Closest Point To Japan Proper Yanks Have Yet Attacked

Yanks Bomb Jap Base at Paramushire   First Blow of North Pacific Force So Close To Japan Proper

Strike Across North Pacifie At Upper End Of Kurile Isles   Foree Made Up of Army Liberators Starts Fires

TWO-FRONT WAR AGAINST JAPS IS DEVELOPING NOW   Long-range U. S. Bombers Hit Outposts in Both North And South Pacific   SQUEEZE IS PUT ON JAPAN   Meanwhile, Yank Troops Tighten Circle Around Bases in Islands

Liberators On Daring 2,000-Mile Trip To Attac Harbor City; 179 Nips Killed As MacArthur's Men Advance On Munda

Think DozenPlanes Based At Amchitka Active In: ‘Assault   Enemy Positions On" Kiska’ tsland* - . And Big Base At Macassar Also! Targets Of Attacks  By Yanks;

Warplanes Bomb  Paramushiro Base   Liberators Cross Pacific From Aleutians To Strike Blow at Kurile Islands

‘North Jap Island Hit By Bombs   Opens Assault on  North Doorway To  Mainland of Japan; - Cariton Bombed

PARAMUSHIRO ATTACKED BY U.S. BOMBERS      Wing Way Over North Pa cific to Strike Close To Japan Proper

Paramusniro 1s Heavily Bombed By Yank Planes   Enemy Base Located In North End Of Jap Empire Chain Of Islands

THE ENEMY BASE OF PARAMUSHIRO BOMBED MONDAY   Apparently Operated From the American Base of Amechita.

Jap Base In North Hit, Toa   American Bombers Blast Exemy at Paramushiro for First Time   SHOWS ABILITY TO - HIT BOTH SIDES   Raid Is First by. Northern Force Striking So Close to Japan Proper

HIT JAPANESE BASE IN KURILE CHAIN ARES   Raiding U. S. Airmen Basec in Western Aleutians

Jap Base At Paramushiro, © 1,200 Miles From Tokyo,  ~ Bombed By U.S. Planes

AMERICANS BOMB JAPANESE BASE OF PARAMUSHIRO   Liberator Heavy Bombers Start Many Fires and Score Hits On Shipping; First Raid In Which Bombers of North Pacific Force Has Struck So Close To Japan Proper.

Paramushiro Set Afire by Liberators  =a   Army Fliers Strike Heayily at Jap Outpost in North: Pacific   IMACASSAR RAIDED   Allied Bombers . Trave 2,000 Miles to Smash Celebes

Army Liberators Bomb Jap Base of Paramushiro in Far North Pacific, Navy Announces   Fires Started, Near Hits Scored on _ Shipping as U..S. Forces Operating ‘From Aleutians Staae Lona Raid

Pressure Put On Japanese North Of Tokyo   Dozen Or So Planes Start Fires, Score On Shipping

U.S. Airmen Strike Closer To Japan   Bombers Operating from Amchitka Strike a! Paramus hiro 1,200 Miles From Jap Main. land. Other Forces Make Damaging 2000 Mile Round Trip To Attack Macassar.

Base Near Jap Islands Bombed   Paramushiro Raided By U.S. Airmen

/.0. BOMBS JAPS ON PARAMUSHIRE   Island Is On North Pa cific Route To Japar Proper   FIRES STARTED   American Fliers Get Break In Daring Raid On Base

U. 5. LIBERATOR BOMBERS RAID NEAR JAPANESE HOMELAND  ENEMY BASE AT PARAMUSHIRO, IN KURILE IST ANDS ATTACKED

START FIRES IN A RAID ON PARAMUSHIRO   Also Score Near Hits on Shipping—Island Is at Northern End of Kurile Chain on Nips’ Side of Pacific.

Army Bombers Strike Heavy Blow At Kurile Island Base Nof Far From Japan Proper   First Raid From Northern Pacifie Forces Close To Japan Itself; Probably Made From Amchitka Base

Paramushiro Island Shore Installations And Ships Battered   Naval Air Formation. Wings W. ay ‘Across North Atlantic in Bold Thrust at Enemy’s Kurjle Chain

Army Liberators Bomb Jap Base At Paramushiro  Air Assault First On Kuriles Chain;  a 8 =6hrdrrlhlUmrlti‘—

Jap Base of Paramushiro is Bombed   Fires Started, Near Hits Scored on Shipping by Formation of Liberators; Japs Bomb Canton

ENEMYS BASE 5 IN KURILES   Attack Puts Pressure on Japan’s Northern Defense Positions.   ATTACK FROM ALASKA

Liberator Heavy Bombers Wing Over Enemy Side of North Pacific to Hit Paramushiro   FIRES ARE STARTED AND SHIPPING HI   Point of Attack Only 1200 Miles From Tokyo; Puts Pressure On Nip North ern Defense Positions

ARMY BOMBERS BLAST JAPS AT PARAMUSHIRC   ‘Formation’ Apparently Operating from Aleutians Flies 861 Miles, 1,209 Miles from Tekyo

OW! FLABBERGASTED AT RUSSIAN ‘‘SCOOP”   Elmer Davis Surprised That Report on Big-3 Parley Was Not Available Elsewhere.

Announce New Regulation on Gas Rationing   Coupons May Be Used Beyond The Base Period

Change Gasoline Ration Regulation  Eliminate Urgency In Use Of Coupons

ALLIES FEELING OUT NAZITINES: BEFORE BIG PUSH   Eisenhower's Men As Well As Eighth Army Seen As Nearly Set.

Allied Fliers Attack Motor Transport North Of Toujane   British Eighth Army Expected to Take Off Again After Afrika Korps

Eighth Army May Soon Be On Go Again   Allied Pilots Attack Transport Back of Mareth

JGNS INDICATE “BATS ARNAY 10 ADVANCE SOON   Planes Make Slashing Raid on Enemy Transport :   ALLIES TESTING AXIS STRENGTH ON FRONTS

Allies Slash — Axis Positions   Tunisian Front Calm Before The Storm

Wheeler Renews Draft Opposition  Cace Ick. peek ad eis,   Sees No Further Need Of Taking Fathers

BUILDING OF FREE GERMANY GROUP IN LONDON 1S SLOW   Depends On Outcome fe) Tripartite ene ; OF: Allied: .  "Nations

Germans Evacuate Most Important Stronghold on the Russian Front   Red Army Now Within 75 Miles of White Russian Border.

Russians Capture Bryansk   Berlin Reports Fall Of Axis Strongholc  In Central Russia

CITY WAS NAZI STRONGHOLD FOR CENTRAL FRONT   Fall Leaves German Southern Flank Unpro.- tected.

North African ‘Gooks’ Are Shrewd Business Mer   Small and Scrawny, They're Short or  Raiment But Experts at Bartering

REDS STRIKE QUICK BLOWS AT GERMANS   No Mention Is Made of Fighting In Kuban Area

OF VITEBSK *PUMMELED   Supply Centers And ® Enemy Shipping Are Targets

SENATE COMMITTEE WILL INVESTIGATE MANPOWER STATE   Sen. Bankhead Proposes Statutory Limit On © Size Of Armed  Forces

NAVY 1S PRESSING U-BOAT CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPANESE   JAPS ARE GETTING OIL FROM CONQUERED TERRITORY, KNOX DECLARES —

SUB CAMPAIGN: IN PACIFIC SECTION IS BEING PRESSED   American Drive Against Enemy} Shipping Kept Up to Divert Supplies

JAPS GETTING OIL FROM SEIZED LAND   uo Navy / Pressing War With Submarines

Knox Reports U.S. Pressing Sub Campaign Energetically Against Japs In The Pacific   _ Admits Nips Are Getting Oil, May Issue Communique Today On Battles

U.S. Subs Press Attacks On Jap Supply Routes   Secretary Knox Says Ener. getic Campaign Waged On Supply Lines   ENEMY PROBABLY GETS EAST INDIES OIL

KNOX STATES SUBS RAID JAP SHIPPING      Sore tan y Says Navy Pressing Submarine Campaign “Very Energetically”

U.S. PRESSES SUB CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPS   Knox Says U-Boats Are ‘*Very Energetically” Pursuing Attacks Upon Shipping in the Southwest Pacific.

Navy Pressing Campaign At Sea   SUBMARINES ES T AKING HEAVY TOW! OF JAP SHIPS

Knox Declares Navy Pushing Sub Campaign Energetically In the Southwest Pacific Awea

Knox Asserts U.S. Pressing Own Sub War   Constant ‘Prowl Made in Pacific in Search of Jap Ships

Navy Presses U-Boat Drive   Americans Attack Japanese Shipping In South Pacific

Sub Campaign Against Japs in Pacific Pressed  Enemy Exploiting Southwest Area To Get Oi}

JAP SHELL DIDN'T STOP SGT. JOHNSON   Maynard Man Carried On the Fight In Spite of A Severe Shrapnel Wonnd Dartag Combat

SECOND BRITISH BLOW SHACKS REICH CAPITAL   Blazes Set Off In Monday Night Assault Guide Bombers To Their Target

ANOTHER Bic FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS HITS BERLIN AGAIN   Offensive Dwarfs Most Devastating Blows London Suffered in Battle of  Beirain   89TH RAID ON BERLIN

German Capital Staggers Under Heavy Blows; Big Areas of City Wrecked

Large Fires Guide Pilots To Targets; Lose 20 Bomber:   Small Plane Loss Indicates Defenses of Nazi Capital Smashed in Previous British Attack

REPORT 29,000 CASUALTIES IN FIRST ATTACK   Paralyzing Raid On Capital Held Severe Blow To German Morale

Second Raid In Two Nights Hits Capital: Fires From First Assault Guide Fliers —   ' Swedish Reports Say City’. In State of Chaos Following  Miahty Allied Air Blows

REPORT RAID AS HEAVY AS MONDAY'S   Twenty Big Bombers Lost; Homes Of Nazi Leaders Destroyed; Capital Is Isolated From World

BLAKE GETS FOUR YEARS IN PRISON   Former Labor Organizer Pleads Guilty in Mont" gomery County

BLAKE GETS FOUR YEARS IN PRISON   OAL TS:  Former Labor Organizer Pleads Guilty in Montgomery County

Enters Guilty Plea  To Charge Of Assault And Battery When Case Is Called

Texas Slave Trial Starts   Witnesses Say Man Is Harnessed And Beaten

Eighth Army Is Commended By Churchill   Troops Highly Praised During Surprise Visit   Of Prime Minister To  Tripoli This Week

CHURCHILL PAYS CALL ON TRIPOLI   Prime Minister Eulogizes British and American Armies, Air Forces

jour PREPARING TO CURTAIL  TAXICAB BERVICE AND‘ . OWNER STEPS. ARE  CONTEMPLATED , ~

REDS PUSHING ALONG RAILS TO BLACK SEA   Press Offensives West of Rostov and in Donets While Tightening - Grip on Taman   25th Army Anniversary Marked by New Order to Battle Germans 'To the Death’

Russians Press Offensive On Novorossisk   Soviets Step Up Drives Through Donets Basin

Soviets Make Push Toward Novorssish   Drive From Krasnodar Car. ries to Within 23. Miles of Sea,   ALSO GAINING  IN DONETS BASIN   Fighting in Dnieper Valley Approaches Is Not Mentioned.

Reds Push Within 25 Miles Of Black Sea, Also Score Gains In Other Offensives   Capture Two Mile Towns In Advance Toward Novorossisk; Advance At Kursk

RUSSIANS PUSHING RAPIDLY TOWARD BLACK SEA PORT   RED ARMY ALSO PRESSING OFFENSIVES IN SEVERAL OTHER SECTORS

Back Germans Against Sea In Caucasus.  Russians Within 25 Miles Of Coast   Masenw Claims

Push Toward Norovossisk  Russians Only 25 Miles From Sea. Thev Report

Soviet Force Pushes Toward Novorossisk   For Third Day, Russian Communique Does Not Mention Drive At Dnieper River

RED OFFENSIVE STILL ROLLING TOWARD GOALS   One Drive Carries Russians Through Kholmskaya  Into Akhtyrskaya, Near Black Sea      ENEMY HURLED BACK   Aiso Advancing West of Rostov, Southwest of  Voroshilovgrad and West of Kursk

SOVIETS DRIVE IN DIRECTION OF BLACK SEA   Troops Pushing Down Railroad from Krasnodar Toward Important Naval Base   OTHER ADVANCES MADE

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON TOWARD SEA   Advance To Point Only 25 Miles From Black Sea; No Mention Of Dnieper Offensive.

Red Troops Push Toward Black Sea   Russians Also Pressing Offensive to Southwest of Rostov.

RUSSIANS WIDEN LONG ADVANCES   Red Forces Roll Toward Black Sea Port —Successes West of Rostov

Reds Within 25 Miles Of Novorossisk  Northern And Southern Forces Press Forward

SOVIETS NEAR BLACK SEA IN NEW ADVANCE   Thrusting Down Railroad From Captured Krasnodar, Troops Are Only 25 Miles From the Port  - of Novorossisk.

REDS THRUST AT BLACK SEA PORT   RUSSIAN TROOPS ENTER VILLAGE OF AKHTYRSKAYA

AEDS ADVANGE TO BLACK SEA   Soviets Push Down Railroac Toward Port City of Novorossisk.

Clearing) Enemy Out of Caucasus   Russian Forces Are Pushing "Nearer to Coast of  Black Sea   PUSH TOWARD KERCH   Offensive West of Rostov Also Pressed by. Ad vancing Reds

RUSSIANS TAKE POINT ON RAILWAY   Stalin Hails Soviet Forces Scores Absence of  Second Front

Russ Narrow Coast Path Open to Axis   Russ Forces Also Press Advances in Three Other Sectors

KIDNAP. BABY FROM: HOSPITAL      State Police Seeking Person. Who Took. Two-Day Old Baby — Authorities Believe Abductor was Woman.

Love Starved Woman Longing For Baby Scen As Kidnaper of 3-Day Old Infani

POLICE HUNT SUSPECT IN BABY KIDAPING   TWO-DAY-OLD JUDITH GURNEY TAKEN FROM OREGON HOSPITAL MATERNITY WARD

Lonely Woman Is Sought as Baby Kidnaper   Police Without Clues as to Hospital Thief

WIDE SEARCH BEING MADE FOR ABDUCTOR OF INFANT   Kidnaper Familiar With Interior Of Hosnital

Infant Kidnaped From Hospital   Two-day-pld Baby Stolen From Crib

TWO-DAY OLD BABY GIRL KIDNAPPED   Taken from _Hospital‘at Albany, Oregon

KIDNAPING SEEN AS INSIDE JOB   Two-Day-Old Baby Snatched From Crib At Oregon Hospital

BABY, 2 DAYS OLD, STOLEN FROM. CRIB   Police Believe Someone In Hospital Opened Door For Kidnaper

AIR ACE WILL BE CALLED ON WORK ISSUE   Rickenbacker to be Asked About Program to Curb Absenteeism

RICKENBACKER TO BE CALLED BY COMMITYEE   Famed Flier Will Present Views On Labor Ab a Toe   KNOX AND PERKINS . ARE ALSO SUMMONED

Called as Committee Approaches Vote Stage  Ou Work-or-Fight Bill

Rickenbacker to Be Called hy Committee   Will Testify on Bill to Curb Absenteeism

Ace to Testify  On Absenteeism  S rE 2 een ena  eat b    House Committee Wil Onuiz, Rickenhacker

RICKENBACKER TO TESTIFY ON ABSENTEEISM   Work or Fight Proposal Near Decision In Senate

FOR PROBE ON ABSENTEEISM   Rickenbacker Called To Testify; Vote Approaches

AVASTREION MOUNGUE  FDR Says Peace For This Generation May Resulf From The Cairo- Teheran Contab: House Extends Life GF CCC to February 17

‘PRESIDENT “10 TELL NATION OF }OURNE’ ON GHRISTMAS EVE      Says He Hopes Allied Plans ‘Will Result In Peace For This _ . Generation, At Least   COAL SETTLEMENT IS NEAR,

AMERICANS CHEERED BY PROMISE OF PEACE FOR THIS GENERATION  RAIL BROTHERHOOD OFFICIAL SAYS VINSON ACTION HURTS DEMOCRATS

TO TELL SATION i CONFERENCES   Disturbed over Domestic Situation, to Confer with Economic Director Vinson

Generation Of Peace Is Called Likely   President Promises Nothing Further On Return

FDR Reports Conferences Successful   Settlement of Soft Coal Wage Dispute Near; Senate Unanimously Approves Musterine Out Pay for Veterans

Delinquency Of Juveniles Will Be Investigated  ee meme mm  Senate Hearings Start Tomorrow

Churchill Tells U.S. Its Place In World System   Prime Minister Gets Honorary Degree At Harvard University   What Kind of aWorldAre You Preparing for Us? Ask Fighting Americans

Harvard Honors Churchill   Bestows Honorary Doctorate of Law on Prime Minister; Speech of Acceptance Broadcast

U. 5. Cannot Say Aloof--Says Churchill   Leadership in World Unavoidable, So Are Responsibilities

Churchill Sees U.S. in World Puzzle   BRITISH PREMIER GETS HONORARY DEGREE FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Churehill Is Given Degree [By Harvard   British Prime Minister Jionored At Cambridge Today

CHURCHILL GIVEN DEGREE MONDAY BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY  " SAYS PRICE OF GREATNES: IS RESPONSIBILITY IN SsVIint Or 1 ¢

‘Churchill Receives Honorary Degree, Cites  Responsibility Of U. S.

CHURCHILL GIVEN DEGREE MONDAY BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY  SAYS PRICE OF GREATNESS IS RESPONSIBILITY IN  SPEAKING OF U. S.

SWEDEN WOULD END AZT TROOP RIGHTS   Press Attacks Clause Giving Germans Right to Cross --Swedcn ty Get -to’ Morwev

Tho It May Mean Wat, Swedish Press Would Cancel Nazi Troop Transit If: Allies Invade Norway

SEE MOVE TO KEEP TTALY IN CONFLICT   CHANGE OF ENVOYS MAY BLOCK SEPARATE PEACE OVERTURES IN TURKEY.

VAST PLOESTI OIL FIELDS IN FLAMES AFTER HEAVY RAID      10% Of Allied Planes Lost In Bombing Of Axis ‘Fuel Supply In Rumania

COLLISION VICTIMS ARE BURIED AT SEA   Impressive Services Held on Warship in Atlantic

USE ORE FROM RUSSIA   Supply of Big German Arms Plant May Be Cut Off

Draft Act Loophole Will Be Closed  CVU -iale CKunlein   Officials Explain Freak Situation

Mine Operators Would Certify Dispute to WLB   Contend Negotiations for ~ Wage Boost Have Reached Deadlock

Uperators Veto Six-Day Week  Compromise   Lewis Okays Proposal; Coalmen Ask Dispute Carttfods.. WI

DRAFT PLAN WILL . FACE OPPOSITION   Proposal of President to Prove Sharp Controversy

‘Pensions  « Released, Assemhly  ” ‘Recalled   Donnell Signs Security Bill But Requests Action on Disputed Fund   LAWMAKERS JUST ec RETURNED HOME   Longest, Most Expensive Session in History Not Formally Adjourned

Old-Age Pension Fund Released   Governor Signs 69 Million Dollar Social Security Rall.

Russians Admit Reverses In Nazi Drive In Kiev Section  Elsewhere Soviets Score Successes As Nazi Lendecn. Abbanck Inc Snita ff Haaey Lb nccoe

FOOD AND MANPO*ER ~ SHOWDOWN   White House Conference Under Way Regarding Big Home Front Problems   STRATEGY MAY BE DECIDED TODAY   ‘No Change in Goal for Army, Roosevelt Indicates at Press Conference

FOOD PARLEY IS CALLED AT WHITE HOUSE   Economic High Command  ., to Discuss Strategy for  / Meeting Military, Civilian and Lend-Lease Reauirements.

Parley Studies Vital Issue Of Food Productio1   Stabilization Board In Huddle; Showdown Or Farm Labor Near.

White House  Parley on Food Picture   Must Produce Enough For Military, LendLease and Civilians

EDR_ Moves. To. Settle Hot Farm Controvers}   White House Conference Called to Consider Price and Labor Issues Threatening to Halt Food Production. .

Food Production Conference  Takes Up Serious U.S, Problem   Members Of Economic Stabilization Board Summoned For Discussion At White House

Recess Over Week - End Alter Few Bills Offered; Would  Tax Juke Boxes

De Marigny Trial Opens In Nassau   AFTER ‘SEVERAL WITNESSES ARE HEARD HEARING ADJOUKNS UNTIL NEXT MONDAY; WIFE ENKOUTE TO JOIN DEteNDan:.,   Bed Smouldering

Witnesses Heard In Slaying Case   Preliminary Hearing Opens in Oakes Death

Hearing Continued In Nassau Slaying  Action Indicates Possible New Evidence

TWAY'S WAR MOVES   oo ae ines. U. 3. Pat. Officay wy LOUt F. KEEMLE

AMERICAN LEGION SAYS FISH ABUSED FRANK PRIVILEGES   Advocates Continuation Of Dies. Committee, Rigid ' Discipline For Objectors

MANAGER DIES   In Charge of Wholesale House 27 Years; Funeral Friday

WH SIMMONS LOCAL HULMAN MANAGER, DieS   In Charge of W holesale House 27 Years: F uneral I ites

ey en eS ee  ITALIAN WARSHIPS CAPABLE BEING USED IN PACIFIG WARFARE

4 IMPORTANT BASES ARE PULVERIZED   Attack Against Mussolini’s Town Intensified

RAIDERS FRO NORTH AFRICA BLAST SICILY   AIRFIELDS IN) ITALY PULVERIZED BY LIBERATORS

U.S. Fliers Give  Italy, Sicily Heavy Blows   RAF Follows to Deal Crushing Blows To Axis Targets; Four Great Airfields Are Strafed Relentlessly

Air Smashes On Italy Hit A New Peak   Bases On Island And On Mainland Are Hit Heavilw

Allied Assault On Italy Rises To Fury Peak   Four Large Bases In Sicily Smashed By Bombing Attacks

‘Assault’ Redehes "New? Peak =   American Bombers Pulverize Fou Important Italian Bases In Raids On Sicily And Against Mainland

BRAZILIANS HAPPY OVER AGREEMENTS REACHED WITH U. §   Might Send Troops To African Battlefront; Roosevelt Has Birthday

Brazil happy about accord  with U. S.   Hints soldiers may aid allies

U. S,; BRAZIL, AIM 10 tl THE ATLANTIC OPEAN: SAFE FOR ALL:      Roosevelt. And Vargas Reach - Complete Accord On War ‘Policies At Meetings   ROOSEVELT JS OPTIMISTIC

Brazilians Applaud Accord   Papers Speak of Sending Brazilian Troops to Europe

WLB  Vetoes Pay Raise   RUBBER PLANT STRIKE TOTAL REACHES 49,000 AS PRODUCTION HALTS

OF $2 FOR UMW DENIED   Board Indicates Approval of Portal-toPortal Pay :

WLB Denies UMW Demand  For Pay Raise   However, Portal-toPortal Pay Demands Aiea ha Aloéd

Injunction Granted By Dewey   Iowa Farmer Accused oi Violating O. P. A. Order Against Slaughtering

Santa Arrives on New Georgia Early Thanks to Postal Employes and Navy

Believe Japan About Ready To Admit Loss Of Attu As U.S. Forces Push Campaigr

U.S. Forces Ruin Nip Guinea Try   KISKA OPEN TO SHATTERING ATTACK AS YANKS SEIZE KEY ALEUTIAN BASE; 16 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN SOUTH PACIFIC VICTORY

Dictatorship (5; Badoglio Freeo Political Control   Announcement of Cabinet Reveals No Politicians

Nonfascis? Military Dictatorship Revealed by Makeup of New Cabinet

ENEMY LOSES 2 DESTROYERS IN SOLOMONS   NAVY FORCE STABS SOUTH PACIFIC DEFENSE ZONE

2 JAP VESSELS SUNK IN PACIFIC   Destroyers Sent to Bottom  : a #  As Navy Force Shells   Foe Bases

Task Force Batters Jap Posts   Two Large Nipponese Destroyers Sunk in Action

U. S. SHIPS SINK “2 JAP WARSHIPS   Enemy Attempted to Drive Off Bombing Unit

Jap Bases In Solomons  Bombarded   Destroyers Trying To Halt Attack Quickly Sunk

U. 5. TASK FORCE ATTACKS JAP ISLAND BASES   Two Large Destroyers Sunk By American Ships—

U.S. Navy Blasts Japanese Bases And Sinks Two Large Enemy Destrovers

2 JAP DESTROYERS SUNK IN BATTLE   ENEMY WARSHIPS BLASTED TO BOTTOM BY U.S. TASK FORCE OFF SOLOMONS.

2 DESTROYERS ARE SUNK IN SOLOMONS AREA   Munda And Vila Are Objectives In Bombardment Action 2   CONVOY DOCKS   Single American Sub Credited With 13 Nip _ ponese Ships

SC. ITALY RAIL SYSTEM GETS FRESH BLAST   Meet No Opposition In ThreePly Attacks On Naples Area; Warhawks Range Over Suirdinia   Liberators Bomb Bari

Italian Railway ‘i fem Blasted   Three-Ply Attacks Hit Southern Area

BLAST ITALY’S RAIL SYSTEM   Liberators Strike Naples Without Opposition From Enemy

STALTAN RAILWAY LINES HAMMERED   Allies Launch Three-Ply Attacks Against System   NAPLES HARD HIT   Germans Face Serious Problem in Prying to Move Army, Supplies South

Wreeked Italian Rail Lines Blasted   Southern System Out Of Use for Military — 14 Axis Planes Downed

COLD MISSES STATE   Warmer Weather Is Forecast for Kansas; No Rain in Sight

Three Burn To Death In Home  Fire In Maine   Flames Destroy New Racidence

Flying Crews Of RAF, U.S. Cripple Burma Transport   American Bombers Raid Mandalay Rail Yards, Hit 15,000 Ton Vessel

United States Bombers Make Mandalay Raid   Start Large Fires In Railrnad Yards

JAP TRANSPORT IN. BURMA HIT   U.S. Airmen Bomb Rail Yards in Mandalay, Ship, RAF Engaged in Wide Aitacks

Navy Surface Force Shells Japs in Munda   Airplanes Damage 10 Ships in Jap Harbor of Rabaul   Allied Planes Blast Supply Of Burma Japs

Fliers Cripple Jap’s Shipping   Mandalay, Rangoon Area Blasted By U. S., British Planes

John Hickey of Philipsburg Named President of — Montana Mining Association   dtate Administration Is Urged to Earmark Funds to Support Bureau,  and Aid in Construction of Roads   The text of Mr, Trauerman’s report to the assoclation is on page nine.

John Hickey of Philipsburg Named President of Montana Mining Association   State Administration Is Urged to Earmark Funds to Support Bureau, and Aid in Construction of Roads

British General Says the Final Push Will Be Bitter, Fierce and Long.

Hint Farm Price Truce   ‘Passage of Bankhead Bill Paves Way to Further Compromise

)IFFERENCES ON PRCE POLICES MAY BE SETTLEL   Administration, Farm Bloc Appear. Nearing An Agreement After Senate Acts on Legislation.   COMPANION BILL IN HOUSE IS EXPECTED   Bankhead Bill Prevents OPA From Establishing Ceiling on Products At Less Than Parity.

SEE SETTLEMENT OF FARM PROBLEM   Farm Bloc Clips Bill from Administration to Pave Way for New Parity Schedule ©

FARM PRICES - COMPROMISE 1S PREDICTED   Senate Passes Bankhead Bill Nullifying Stabilization Order Deduction of Benefit Pay   IHOUSE ACTS TODAY   Dairy Costs Predicted to Rise as Bill Permits Increases in Corn —Flour Due for Hike

MAY SETTLE TRUCE OVER PRICE POLICIES   Pass Bill Supported by Farm: State Lawmakers

FARM PRICE COMPROMISE S FORECAST   Bill Passed in Senate Would Sustain Farm  Priced. ,   ADMINISTRATION FORCES JOIN VOTE   Benefit and_ Incentive Payment Programs May Proceed.

SENATE APPROVES FARM PRICE BILL   TENDS TO NULLIFY PART OF PRESIDENT’S STABILIZATION ORDER

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ALLIED FORCES ATTACK CAPUA   Enemy Positions In South. ern Battle Area Are Bombed

NORTHWEST AFRICAN AIR FORCE BLASTS ENEMY OBJECTIVES  RAILROADS AND HIGHWAYS AND AIR FIELDS UNDER ATTACK -

U, $. BOMBERS ATTACK CAPUA   Enemy Positions In Southern Italian Battle Area Bombed And Strafed.

Wells, Fugitive Convict, Taken  Police Inspectors Nab Ookland Felon

GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON SLAUGHTERING   OPA announced higher point value for most processed fruit ‘

CANNED FRUITS 60 UP, REFLEGT crliMP IN CROE   Reductions in Scme Vegetables; Value. of Frozen . Foods Advanced. -

POINT VALUES WILL CHANGE: THIS SUNDAY   FEWER POINTS WILL © BE NEEDED FOR SOME MEATS— CANNED FRUIT POINTS Go UP

SLUMP IN FRUIT CROP BOOSTS POINT VALUES   OPA Able to Reduce “Coupon Crest” of Veretables

POINTS REDUCED ON BACON, RIBS, LAMB AND STEAK   O.P.A. Passes on Benefits é of Improved Supply f of Meat

Meat Points Cut; Butter and Fruits Up   Sirloin Steaks and Bacon ‘Cost’ Fewer Points

BD PERF IENVWR MN FEES CF tlw tere  Tells Story of Japs’ Espionage in Hawaii Before Pearl Harbor

@ STRANGER THAN FICTION  7  Tells Story of Japs’ Espionage in Hawaii Before Pearl Harbor !

iii iii ee: “nen  JAPANESE ESPIONAGE ACTIVITY REVEALED BY U, S, COUNTERSPY   AMERICAN UNDERCOVER AGENT SAYS HE WARNED IN 194t JAPS MIGHT ATTACK PEARL HARBORS

Americans Take Munda; Berliners Leaving City   Russian Forces Hold War Spotlight; Troops In Sicily Make “Steady Progress”

Munda Falls After 3 2-Day Siege; Violent Fighting Rages in Sicily

Reds Sweep 150 Villages After Breaking German Lines in Belgorod Area   Both Sides Agree Battle in Russia Is Greatest Melee of Attrition in This War as Cost Mounts ; Americans Push 3 Miles on Coast Toward Messina

Also Move Into Ukraine; Allies  Press Messina   Series Of Victories By Allies Crumble Outer Defenses Of The Axis

POINT VALUE ON NEW FOOD LIST GIVEN   Jams, Jellies And Spreads To Be Rationed Sun.

SIX POINTS; JELLIES, 4   Ration Values Effective Sunday—Certain Proc ‘.eessed Fruits Raised ' Two to Five Points; Other Foods Down.

4-6 Point Values Given Jams pellies and Fruit Spreads  Point Values of Berries, Apples, Fruit  Cocktail, Pears Increase

Jams, Jellies Require Four to Six Points   Rationing of Those - Fruit Items’ Begins Sunday; Other Changes   POINT CUT MADE. _ON PORK ITEMS   Margarine.‘to. Six. Points; Values Boosted on Some Fruit Products

POINT VALUES OF NEW RATIONED FOODLISTED   Five Canned Fruits Raisea by OPA, Effective Sunday

naan ee ad  JAMS, JELLIES NOW VALUED 4. 6 POINTS   Rationing To Start Sunday; Some Fruits Raised To Five Points; Grapefruit Juice, Squash Lowered.   SICAR

FRUIT SPREADS ARE GIVEN POINT VALUE   Jams and Jellies to Be 4, 6 Points Jar; Other Processed Food Value Revised

Rises Ordered On A Number Of Processed Foods   Pickled, Spiced And Brandied Fruits Elimin ated From Rationing  ALL CHANGES ARE EFFECTIVE SUINRAY

POINT VALUE ot ON JAMS, JELLIES   Rationing of Items Will Start Sunday; Higher Values Put On Pineapple Juice, Three Tomato Products

Jams, Jellies 4-6 Points Per Pound... . . Ration Point Values Of Numbers Of Processed Foods Ordered Raised

Point Value Set On Jam, Jellies; Pork, Lamb Cut   ~Veal and Mutton Points Reduced; Beef Unchanged

Values Assigned to Jellies, Jams and Fruit Spreads Which Will Be Rationed Next Week

Jams And Jellies Assigned Values Of 4-6 Points .   ‘Point Values Of Of Canned Fruits Also Given — A Boost. 

Jams and Jellies on Ration List   SPREADS VALUED AT FOUR, SIX POINTS IN LISTING SLATED FOR ENFORCEMENT ON SUNDAY; BERRIES, APPLES BOOSTED

Jam, Jelly And Fruit Rationing Values Reported   Other Changes Seer Effective Sunday Pork, Veal Point: Are Cut   Tomto Catsup Up

Jams, Jellies, Fruit Spreads Given Values of 4 to 6 Points Per Pound

Set Point Values  For Jams, Jellies  Numerous Items Go Up; Butter Unchanged

POINT VALUES ARE FIXED FOR JAMS. JELLIES   Pork, Veal, Lamb, Mutton  Reduced; Butter Is  Unchanged

Points Boosted On Jams, Jellies   OPA Announces Reduction on Pork and Veal While Beef Is Unchanged.

Points Assigned To Jams, Jellies   Some Increases Made In Processed Fruits

Point Values On Jam, Other Foods, AreSet   Fruit Spreads Rationed, Worth 4 to 6 Points Per Pound   Point Chart on Page 22

«Ration Points. Fixed for Jams, Jellies  Values Cut on Pork, Veal, ~“ Lamb, Mutton

Changes In Ration Values Of Canned Foods Become Effective Sunday; OPA Announces Values Of Jams. Jellies

—NhAligin—  NEW PINTS FOR RATIONED FOODS   Jams, Jellies And Fruit Spreads On List Beginning Monday   MEATS REDUCED °   OPA Announces Drop In  42 Pork, Veal, Lamb And Mutton Cuts

Jams and Jellies Four to Six Points   Many Processed Foads Are Higher

fruit Spreads Included: In New Chart Announced Today by OPA to Be Effective Monday   PROCESSED FOOD POINTS INCREASED   cets, Pumpkin, Squash Points Reduced; Pickled, Spiced and Brandied Fruits Ration Free

Jams 6 Points And Jellies 4 Per Pound Jar   Ration Values Of Some Meats Reduced; Canned Fruits Are Up.

Some Canned Goods Are Lowered in Point Values,  While Others Will Go Up.

Changes In Ration Point  Schedules   Jams, Jellies and Fruit Spreads Assigned Ration Point Values

Rationing Valu Of Jams, Jellie: Disclosed Toda   Cost 4 And 6 Points A Pound; Other Changes Made By OPA

Jam Six Points “And Jelly Four - Starting Sunday   Fruit Cocktail, Juice; Some Vegetables Are Also Changed On OPA Liat

Fix Jelly, Jam Point Values   Set At 4 and 6 Per Pound; Most Fruits — Higher; a Two Point Hike on Margarine

Point Values Fixed for Preserves, Etc. Effective on Sunday   Ration Costs Cut on 42 Cuts of Pork, Lamb, Veal and Mutton

Point Values of Many Foods Are Changed   Changes Made by OPA in Meat Schedules as Well as Canned Goods

r.D.R. BARES GERMAN PLOT   RUSSIANS DISCOVER TEHERAN NAZI SCHEME

Trap Jap Force As Aussies Hit InNearby Area   U. S. Re-Inforcements Are Being Flown To Battle Scene

TURKEY MAY HELP ALLIES IN COMING INVASION EUROPE   Nazi Rulers Of Europe Using Reign Of ‘Terror  ' Against Approaching Allied Drive.”

TURKEY MAY JOIN ALLIES   Would Provide Ideal Route  For European Invasion

NEUTRAL TURKEY MAY SOON JOIN TRIUMPHANT MARCH OF ALLIED ARMS AGAINST AXIS   Affected by Allied Victories in Africa. May Give Aid in Coming Europe Invasion

NO RAIN IS IN SIGHT   Weather to Give Farmers Chante To Catch Up on Planting

WPB OFFICIAL DASHES HOPES OF PLANT HERE   Senators Told Alcoho. Supply Adequate At Present

FIVE ALCOHOL PLANTS WON'T BE BUILT NOW  Senate Rubber Progran Deak ore T Barry at    Senate Rubber Program Probers Learn of Decision to Defer Construction   JEFFERS IN CLASH   Rubber Director and OW] Chief Battle Over Reports of Program’s Progress

DEFER BUILDING OF ALKY PLANTS   Reductions tn Estimated Requirement Given Senate Investigators.

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAXING PROPOSAL TO GET EARLY ATTENTION OF CONGRESS.

Charges Voters In Armed Forces Have Been Misled   Commonwealth Secretary Morrison Accuses Washington Officials Of ‘“‘Interfering With And Confusing’ Persons In War Service

Claims Action of Washington Head: Confuse State Soldiers on Voting

State Protests “Confusing” Washington Vote Action In Misinforming Soldiers

Flier Bleeding to Death Who Took 1,000 to One Chance in Jump Over Germany, . Alive

Sequel to ‘Headless Pilot? Story Fortress Gunner Safe in Nazi Prisor

Yankees Race Toward City as Germans Flee   British Fleet in Gulf of City to Assist Forces

Allies Hold Castellammare Naval Base, Peninsula Flanking Bay; May Reach Goal at Any Moment

Germans’ Mountain Defenses North of Salerno Collapse Suddenly; Foe In Swift, Orderly Retreat

American Fifth Army on Verge Of Taking City   Sirong Mountain Defenses Seized

Fall of City Any Moment Is Expected   Nazis in Full Flight Over Coastal Plains . As Allies Push Ahead

BERMAN FORGES IN FULL FLIGHT   Allies Take Important Naval Base Near Naples   DEFENSES SHATTERED   ‘Mountain Line North of Sa. _ lerno Sags, Vanishes; Allies Enter Pompei

GERMANS IN FULL FLIGHT TO NORTH; RETREAT ORDERLY   Broadcast Says Allies May Enter Port Today-—Seize Naval Base 15 Miles Away.   DECISIVE DRIVE OPENS IN HEAVY RAINSTORM.   Enemy Begins Retreat After Mountain Defenses Are Cracked—Fight Lasts Several Hours.

NAVAL BASE OF CASTELLA)  TURED WITH WHOLE INSULA IN ALLIED H ARMY VICTORIOUS.

Americans nearing Naples as Germans crack under attack   Entire allied line makes sharp gains followmg enemy. collapse

Germans Flee From  FifthArmy   Mountain Lines Disintegrate  Suddenly

TRAP EVADED BY ENEMY IN RAVAGED CITY   ENTIRE SORRENTO PENINSULA HELD BY ALLIES

Troops Expected to Enter Ravaged City at Any Moment  LARGE NAVAL BASE SEIZED BY ALLIES  Germans Reported to be in Swift, Orderly ~ Retreat

FALL OF NAPLES TO ALLIED ARMS EXPECTED TODAY   American Fifth Army Within Few Miles Of Ravaged Italian City   GERMANS ABANDONING MOUNTAIN DEFENSES

Germans Flee Across the Coastal Plains   Whole of Sorrento Peninsula Is in Allied Hands

‘ADMIT GERMANS FLEEING NORWAY   Nazi General Says Men Deserting, Hiding In Sweden

GERMAN SOLDIERS, OFFICERS LEAVING NAZI ARMY RAPIDLY   Leaders Admit Men Are Deserting In Large Numbers—~Much: Concern

Many Reich Soldiers Deserting in Norway   Officers as Well as Men F leeing Into Sweden in Growins Numbers

RATION PLANS “ARE STUDIEL   BUTTER, CHEESE AND COOKING FATS AND OILS MAY JOIN RATION LIST ABOUT APRIL 1ST

CHAIRMAN JESTER OF RAIL COMMISSION OFFERS OL PROGRAM  MORE PIPELINES, PRICE INCREASE AND PRO-

HITLER'S WEST WALL COULD BE BROKEN   That’s Conviction of Escaped British Prisoner

Southerners Flee as Floods Appear In Several Areas: Streams Swell

Floodwater S ‘Thr ‘eaten Parts of Four States   More Than 2.500 Persons Evacuated by Red Cross Near Hattiesburg, Miss.

Floods Feared In Gulf State:   Camp Shelby Soldiers Fisht Rising Water

Southern Floods  Threaten Homes   2500 Given Shelter At Hattiesburg, Miss.

Floods Send Thousands From Homes   Rains and Snow Make First Day Of Spring Dull

FAMILIES FLEE IN SOUTHERN STATES      Rain-Swollen Rivers ir Mississippi Reach Dan. gerous Crests

Southeast Section Menaced by Flood   Fear Heavy Damage In Four States

EXPECT 300 FOR ~ SUMMER SESSION   Indian School Employes Are Attending School at  askell

EXPECT 300 FOR _ SUMMER SESSION   Indian School Employes Are Attending School at  Haskell   IHAVE GUEST TEACHERS

Planes Roar Over Seat Of Faseism   Seaplane Base At Lido di Roma Bombed Heavily.

Seaplane Base Near Rome Blasted By Allied Planes In Drive Against Italians

Allied Air Force Gives Italy Stern and Spectacular Warning That Rome Is Within Easy Reach of Bombers

SEAPLANE BASE IN - STALY 1S ATTACKED   Fascist Nation Is Given Stern Warning by Airmen

ALLIED AIRMEN WARN ITALY OF HER DOOW   Droned Over Rome Flooded In Bright Moonlight Encountered No Fighter Opposition, Little Flak   North Africa Near

Bomber Flight Over, Rome Gives Italy Warning —  RAF-Planes Go Over Capital After Hitting Base Close by -..

BOMBERS GIVE ROME WARNING   Allied Airmen Leisurely Fly Over City After Blasting Near-By Seaplane Base

ITALY WARNED THAT ROME 1 EASY TARGET   SEAPLANE BASE AT LIDO DI ROMA DEMOLISHED

ALLIES OBTAIN AIR SUPREMACY OVER JAPANESE   Three Main Airfields Knocked Out In N. Solomons

Drive Jap Planes From Island Area   Allied Flyers Blast  Solomons Airfields

Jap Airpower ls Driven From North Solomons   Three ‘Leading Fields Blasted’ Out of Action

Japanese Airpower Is Driven From Northern Solomons by Allied Fliers

3 MAIN AIRFIELDS ON BOUGAINVILLE USELESS TO. ENEMY   Allied Planes Now. Staging _ Raids ‘In Area Meet No ;-Opposition ' From Japs

JAP AIR POWER IS DRIVEN FROW NORTH SOLOMONS      Blast Three Main Airfields On Bougainville Out Action.

ALLIES D1AaSt Airfields in Rabaul Drive  Tons of Bombs Set Fires  at Kahili, Kara and Ballale Bases  JAP BARGES SUNK  Et anne Cynaund Wareac in      ‘JAP BARGES SUNK

WER IS SWEPT FROM NORTH SOLOMONS   Three Main Landing Fields on Bougainville Blasted Out of Action.

Senate Finance Group Ready to Present Measure  -Over Two Billion _ eousithors Prépurcd:— =:

HULL 3 ARRIVAL IN QUEBEG oct AD FINAL oTtF   Believe Conference Between Rocsevelt and Churchill Is About Over.

PLAN TC SMASH AXIS COMPLETE   Quebec Parley Awaits Hull to Conclude Political Decisions

PLANS MAPPED TO BOMB, BURI DESTROY PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THIS WAR

HULL'S ARRIVAL TN QUEBEG SEEN AS FINAL STEF   Believe Conference Between Rocsevelt. and Churchill . Is About Over. -

SPEAKER FORESEES LESS FLUID MILK   Nation Must Choose Now Betweer Guns And Butter, He  Rawe

NEW MEAT PRICES NEXT MONDAY   Beef, Veal, Mutton and Lamb Join Up with Pork Products

New Ceiling Meat Price List Lower  PA Announces Scale for for Beef, Veal, Mutton and Lamb  PRICED BY GRADES  Present ReductionsSlight but Further Cuts Promised

Prices Of Meat Cut For May   Announce Reductions lo Prevail Until Roll-Back Comes  June .

OPA Halts Trucks Enable Army Requisition Poultry   Marks First Step In Dri ve Against Black Market Operations In Poultry And To Obtain Necessary Supplies For Army

Poultry Seized  For Armed Forces   OPA Hits Black Market in East

TROOPERS HALT CHICKEN TRUCKS   Action Taken At Request Of OPA To Get Food From Black Market

WAR” VBL OAN.   FOURTEEN DIE IN MINE BLAST   Rescue Squads Search 1500 Feet Below Ground For Remains Of Miners

Guerrillas In Control. Of Thessaly   Rome Reports British Massing Near Turkey

Fighters Ignore Nazi Order To Lay Down Arms; Interrupt Operations 

Guerrillas Gain Power - In Greece   Nazis Center Attentior In Eastern Part Or Mediterranean In Hun For Invasion Clues

Ultimatum . Of Germans Is Ignored ©   TOLD TO LAY DOWN ARMS BUT INSTEAD THEY SEIZE MOST OF PROVINCE IN EASTERN GREECE

Greek Guerillas Ignore Ultimatum Issued By Nazis   German Propagandists Still Seeking Clues.  of Plans For Invasion

Ignore Nazi Demand To Lay Down ‘Weapons   GERMANS EXPECTING ATTACK FROM EAST

Organize for Aiding the Farm Labor Shortage   Committees Appointed for Each  Town in County

FOUR JAP BASES HEAVILY RAIDED   Nimitz Reveals U. S. Planes Based on Carriers and Land

Red Air Power Pounds Nazi Supply Column   Report Repulse Of New Nazi Flare-Up Near Leningrad

RED AIRMEN POUND GERMAN - SUPPLY LINES   German Fliers Also Active but N Major-Scale Ground Action Re ported Along Front ~

Red Aviation Pounds Nazi Supply Lines   No Major-Scale Action by Either Side on Muddy, Slushy Front   HALT SHARP THRUSTS

RED FLIERS KEEP POUNDING ENEM\   No Major-Scale Action By Either Side Along Mud- dv Fronts.

RUSSIAN FLIERS STRIKE AT NAZIS   While Heavy Mud Prevents Major Land Action, Red Airmen Rip Foe

Soviet Planes Continue To Hit Supply Columns ‘Along Muddy Russ Front

Soviet Fliers Pound Germans   Attack Nazi Supply Columns Along Muddy Slushy Front

AERIAL ATTACKS   Russians Pound German Supply Columns As Ground Activity Bogs  Nawn

SUPPLY COLUMNS OF GERMANS ARE POUNDED BY REDS   Muddy Fronts Prevent Action on Both Sides; Red Airmen  Continue Activity

Red Fliers Blast Nazi Supply Columns; Land Front Inactive   Series Of German Attacks By Nazis Along Leningrad Front Fully Stopped

SOVIET AIRME POUND NAZI SUPPLY LINES   No Major Scale Action Along Muddy, Slushy Front

With Remme! On [he Run In Tuni  Wa y Is Sicieeekenes For Casablanca Program

Slav Partisans Push Germans Into Port Cities   Tito’s Army Report6 Large Sections On Adriatic Wrested From Nazis

CANADA PROPOSES CURRENCY SET-UP   Own Pot War Verd Version im Bat To "Wits Veto P

NEW CURRENCY PLAN PROPOSED   Canada Outlines System Of Post-War Trade For All Nations

0'Daniel Flays Allred Choice   Sélection Called Political Trading

Three War Plants Closed by Strikes  Chrysler Corporatior   Chrysler Corporatior Hit by Walkouts

Strikes Spread To Three Plants ar Chrysler Corp,   Union Men Charge Bargaining Has  Broken Down

4500 Affected By Walkouts In Detroit Plants   Production Is Halted; CIO Picket Lines Are = Established 2

3 CHRYSLER WA PLANTS ARE IDLE   21,000 Employes Walk Ou Yesterday in Serious Stopnages

THREE CHRYSLER PLANTS CLOSED DUE TO STRIKE   85,000 Employes Are Likely To Be Thrown Out Of Work   6,000 COAL MINERS WALK OUT OF SHAFT:

Three Chrysler War Plants Shut In New Walk Out   21,000 Employees Leave Jobs; Others May Be Affected

3 CHRYSLER WAR. PLANTS CLOSED BY - STRIKE OF 21,000   Production of Medium Bomb.er Planes, Anti-Aircraft Guns and Tank Engines . . Affected.   WALKOUT MAY FORCE  OTHERS TO LAY OFF   Stoppage Most Serious in De‘troit Since Pearl Harbor —Union Reports Bargaining Failed.

CHRYSLER HIT BY NEW STRIKE   Three Plants Close; May Effect 85,000 Work- .  ers In Nation

4 CHRYSLER WAR PLANTS TIED Ut   Wave ‘of Strike Sweeps Plants: Leaders Claim Collective Bargaining Has  @ Broken Down

11,000 Employes Quit; 85,000 May Join in Walkout   Production of Bomber Planes Threatened by Labor Dispute   Stoppage Is Most Serious in Plants Since Pear! Harbor

3 GHRYSLER PLANTS GLOSED BY STRIKES   Collective “Bargaining Row At Bottom of Trouble

Wholesale Ege Prices Fixed   Ceilings Based on Highest Prices in Sept. 28-Oct. 3 Period

Wholesale Ege Prices Are Set By OPA Order   Greater Uniformity Will Result From Program —Consumers To Get Slight Decrease

OPA Fixes Egg Price   Slight Decrease in Cost to Consumers Will Be Immediate

WHOLESALE EGG PRICES FIXED   Local Dealers Expect Little Change Here

Fix Top For Eggs  Higher Yenr-Around   Higher Year-Around Cost To Result

Wholesale ~ Egg Prices Established   Fixed Mark-Up Ordered --to Control Price the Consumer Pays   CEILINGS ON - FRESH VEGETABLES   Almost 25.Per Cent of All Food Now Under Federal  Price Controls. +7: 

American Troops in Italy Have Captured Another Mountain Peek   Germans Have Stepped Up Their Air War Activity.

ULARK CAPTURES MOUNTAIN: PEAK NEAR ROME ROAL   lowering Mt. Spinuccio Falls To Allied Forces On Italian Front

‘Port. ‘Arthur Seaman. “Gets Meda! for Saving Fireman From Tornedoed Tanker -

FDR Discusses Marshall, But Tells Nothing   Status Of American General Swill Remains Precisely Where It Was

 President Leaves Gate  Wide Open For Marshall ‘To Move To New Post

No News On Gen. Marshall Says Executive   President Makes No Effor: To Deny Reports About World Command   LEAKS TOO NUMEROUS

FDR REFUSES STATUS DENIAL OF MARSHAL   Lends New Credence in Shift to World Field Command

F. D. R. DOESN'T DENY MARSHALL NAMED BIG CHIEF   Leaves Gate Open For Army Chief of Staff to Move to Any New or Enlarged Com-' mand Over Allied Arms

Marshall ‘Leak’ Irks President   Makes No Denial Cf Press Reports

FDR SILENT ON GEN. MARSHALL'S NEW COMMAND   President Says There Is No News Now On Marshall’s Status

FDR. Silent On Marshall   Neither Confirms Or Denfes Reporis Army Chief To Be Transferred,

Gen. Marshall Mystery Gets New Impetus   Roosevelt Is Significantls Silent Over Rumors of Advancement

-DR’s Refusal to Deny Reports Lends Credence in Shift of General Marshall

[Officials Leak Badly: R Roosevelt Doesn’t Deny  ee ee ee  ‘Marshall to be Leade:

F. D.R. Silent Upon Status Of Marshall   Raps Leaks In  Hioh Positions

To Organize Volunteer Fire Guard Teams   Answers to Most Frequently Asked Questions on Pay-Ga

RED ARMY MOVING TOWARD KEY NAZI BASTION OF OREL      Soviet Artillery Helping Air Forces In Sending Shower Of Steel Into City

SOVIETS SMASH CLOSE TO ORE!   ' mee -Planes, Guns Blast Nazi Bastian

KEY NAZ iM  Important Villaae Is   Important Village Is Taken in Hard Red Attack    GERMAN OFFENSIVE ENTIRELY ABANDONED

NAZIS ADMIT DANGER FROM BREAKTHROUGI   Hitlerites Frantically Rallying Hu. man, Mechanical Resources Against Onrushing Reds

Russian Armies Cutting Way into Core of Axis Defenses — German Bastion cf Orel Object of Offensive.

SOVIETS STORM CLOSER 10 KEY BASTION OF ORE,   Capture Tactically Important Village and Cut Railway in Three -sided Attack on Vital German Buse

Russians Near Key Base On Three Sides      City Under Steady Stream Of Shells; Was Axis Hinge

Badoglio Shows No Sign Of Withdrawing From War  But Peace Rumors Persist:   Rome Broadcast Says War to Continue; Allies Say Heavy Bombings of Traly Will Recume Beeanse Radaclhoa Delavs

PLANS OF UNRRA TOUGH FOR AXIS   PROPOSE BURDEN OF RELIEF COSTS TO FALL UPON ENEMY

MUST TIGHTEN BELTS, STATES SEC. WICKARD   Food Czar Says There’s Not Going To Be Enough To Satisfy All Demands

NOT SUFFICIENT FOOD TO SATISFY ALL THE DEMANDS   This Is Statement Made by the Secretary of Agriculture Wickard.   A PRIVATE STATEMENT

Nation Faces ~ Food Shortage   Not Enough To Satisfy Demands—Wickard °°

AMERICANS MUS} TIGHTEN BELTS   WICKARD WARNS OF PROBABLE FOOD SHORTAGE IN 1943

Get Ready To Tighten Up The Old Belt  American Food Outlook Is Lean

Senate Committee Told There Will Not Be Food Enough To Sunnly All Demande

U. §. Food Supply Falls Far Under Demands Of War   Americans To Tighten Belts—Wickard

American Forces Closing In On Enna As Resistance Crumbles Rapidly

JAP NAVAL BASE POUNDED BY LIBERATORS   Allies Continue Advances In Sicilian Invasion

WIFE. SHOOTS THE WRONG MAN   Husbind. Won't Quit Poker Game fo. +c. fo Rhee Fi hatriun_

GARRISON PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE OF POST-WAR AMERICA  SAYS MILLIONS INDIVIDUALS MUST AID IN CRIME SIIPPRESSION

Nation Gone Wild Gloomy Forecast  For Post-War US   H. Garrison Warn: Stern Measure: Needed To Curt  Crime

Col. Homer Garrison Warns America Of: Postwar Crime Wave And ‘Nation Gone Wild’ Unless Public Awakens.

Public Safety Director Sees Gloomy Post-War Picture for America Unless Effort to Combat Crime Is Inaugurated

AR CORRESPONDENT § HIGHLY PRAISED   ohn Moroso Ill of A. P. May Get Bravery Medal

1,044 NAVY MEN  LISTED PRISONERS   First Release Partly Lifts Mystery of 3 Warships Which Vanished In Battle of Java Sea

SOME LIGHT SHED ON NAVY MYSTERY   NOT ALL HANDS LOST WHEN 3 U. S. SHIPS WERE SUNK IN JAVA SEA.

MUST DOUBLE QUOTA IN WAR BOND BUYIN(      lowa Expected to Increase Orieina Amoonts Out of Larger Farm Incomes

Committee Met at Fayette   Dist. Chairman Kneeland Present; Makes Suggestions

9 DROWN FROM PANIC ON BOAT   Scow, Drawn by Launch  Ships Water.on Lake

Lake Boat Panic Costs Nine Lives   Children Taking ‘One Last Ride’ Leap Overboard When Pleasure Craft Suddenly Ships Water

Nine Die As Panic Sweeps Camp Party   Boys And Girls Leap From. Boat When It Ships Some Water

NINE MISSING AY TRAGEDY”   Leaped Into’ Lake When Scow Began To Ship Water

Five Girls, Four Boys Drowned In Lake Huron  While On Pleasure Ride

NINE DROWN — WHEN PANIC SWEEPS BOAT   Rushing Water Sends Youngsters Leaping Into Lake

NINE YOUTHS LOST IN BOATING MISHAP      Five Girls, Four Boys Leap Inte Lake Huron In Panic

BERLIN GIVEN ITS HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR   May Be Given. Bombing. ‘Similar .. To that of Harare

Huge Bombs Ravage Key. GermanCity   Smoke Over Capital. Visible 250 Miles;;  58 Raiders Missing.

Nazi Capital Receives Greatest Attack Yet; 58 Bombers Are Lost   Officials Say Losses to Aircraft Not Too High in View of Defenses and Damage Done — City May Be on ““Meat-grinder”” List.

JB PLANES ARE MISSING AFTER HEAVIEST BLOW   2,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped In Opening Of “Hamburg” Offensive   HUGE FIRES ARE SET OFF   Observers See Raid As Hint German Capital Will Be Destroyed

Vast Areas Of German Capital Aflame; RAF Loses 58 Bombers In Biggest Raid

OFFENSIVE CONTINUES BY ALLIES   Four- Ton Block - Busters Blast Areas—Attackers Lose Fifty - Eight Bombers.

Greatest Raid of War Staged on City of Berlin.   2000 Tons of — © Bombs Dropped; ‘58 Planes Lost

Devastating Cargo Of Bombs Dropped On Nazi Capital By British Bombers

British Start Making Berlin — Second Hamburg   RAF Loses 58 Planes In Heaviest Raid Ever Made On Capital

58 British Planes Lost in Heaviest Attack on Capital   Fires Rage All Over City as Big British Bombers Dump Explosives

GREAT FIRES ARE VISIBLE FOR 250 MILES   Four Square Miles of Reich Capital Are Covered by Destruction.

2000 TONS BOMBS DROPPED. SHOWS FUTURE PATTERN   Air War on Berlin May Resemble Hamburg Raids; Four Square Miles of City Suffers Destruction

»MAY BE GIVEN HAMBURG’ TREATMENT   58 Bombers Lost In Raid; Vast Areas Wrecked

2,000 Tons of Bombs Dumned On Dortmund   Other Targets Along Water Logged Ruhr Are Visited

Over Two Thousand Tons of Bombs Are Loosed on Dortmund   Morale - Shattering Assaults on Germany, ~~ Ttaly Continue

2,000 Tons of Explosives Rained On German City   Attack Was Eight Times Greater Than Coventry's Bombing

Greatest Air Raid in History Made by RAF   2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Dortmund; Pantelleria Bombed 3 Times in 5 Hours; English Coast Towns Raided

2 Thousand Tons Bombs Dropped At Dortmound   Morale - Shattering Raids Also Made On Italy; Japanese Attack ; a

Dortmund Is  Blasted In Record Raid   38 Big Bombers Fail To Return, Italy Is Hit Too

R. A. F. Drops More Thar 2,000 Tons of Bombs on Dortmund     i a a i (me wwe £2’ ere vere   CHURCHILL GAVE HINT   New Raid May Mean Start to End War by Great Air Attacks

DORTMUND, GERMAN RAIL AND CANAL HUB, BLASTED TERRIBLY  ALLIED BOMBERS ALSO CONTINUED MEDITER.RANFAN ATTACKS

Allies May Attempt To Knock Germany Out Of War From Air   38 RAF Bombers Missing In Raid; Blast Reich City Twice In Week; Ttaly And Islands Again Bombed

SETS NEW HIGH FOR ANY SINGLE BLOW AT NAZIS   Italy Also Pounded in New Attacks From Allies in Africa

RAF Drops 2000 Tons Of Bombs   Smoke Clouds Boil Up 15,000 Feet Over But. tereil German City

Destruction In Dortmund Tremendous  RAF Loss Is 38 Planes; Continue Attack On Tialy

MORE THAN 2,000 TONS BOMBS DROPPEL   Other Targets Up And Down Water-Logged Ruhr Valley Bombed

RAF Bombers Release 2.009 Tons On City   Thirty-Fight Bombers Missing After Raid On Rail, Canal Center.   BIG AXIS PLANE TOLL

Resume Raids on Several European Centers of War   Attu-Japs Make First Counter Stabs In Aleutians; Prepare Offensive Along Yangtze in China

Thirty-Eight Planes Fail to Return—-Attacks Continue in Mediterranean Region — Dortmund Attack Gives Point te Statement  Of Deen tee be Tes Bormcptesark

R. A. F. Drops More Than 2,000 Tons of Bombs  on Dortmund   CHURCHILL GAVE HINT   New Raid May Mean Start to End War by Great Air Attacks

1 000 Tons of Bombs Fall On Dortmund   History-Making Raid Follows Churchill's Speech By Week

2,000 Tons of Big Bombs Hit Dortmund   Allies Blast at Italian Islands  As Nazis Pounded.

GERMAN FALL HUB BLASTED   Planes Drop Over 2,000  Tons of Bombs on Im portant Point.   FOLLOWS DAYLIGHT RAID

38 Of RAF Raiders Missing After Massive Assault Upon Rail Center

RAF Batters Germany  Anew :   Other Morale-Shattering Assaults on Italy and Stepping-Stone Islands— = Awaiting Reply to Roosevelt Letter, .  Davies Tendered Kremlin Dinner ™'

Lend-Lease Aid to Allies Reaches New Peak lOf $1.261.000,000 in August, Roosevelt Says

LEND-LEASE PEAK HIT IN AUGUST   Munitions. Industrie! lems, Foodstuffs All Show Gain Over July

Lease-Lend Aid Hits New Peak   F. D. R. Tells About Great Expansion

LEND - LEASE HITS HIGH IN PAST MONTH      Peak of $1,261,000,000 Reported in August by Roosevelt   MUNITIONS HELP VASTLY INCREASED   Sharp Boosts in. Transfers of Aircraft and Parts

United States Has Granted 15 Billion In Lend-Lease Aid in Two Years Since It Started, President Reports

U.S. Surveys AluminumIin Northwest   Research Sets Example For Every Industry To Follow

‘Hobbs Bill Gets House Committee  0. K.: Would Make Labor Unions Subject to Anti-Racketeer Laws

Bill Introduced fo Curb Unions   Measure Would Apply Anti:Racket Laws:

HOBBS LABOR UNION BILL 15 APPROVED   ‘House Committee Favorable To Alabamian’s Plan

Believe Motions May Delay Trial Of Boston Police   No Departmental Shakeup Planned At Present By Acting Commissioner

U, §., BRITISH BOMBERS FILL BERMAN SKIES   Bremen Target Of Day Attack

Bremen haided By Huge Fleet Of Yank Forts  Rasvle Tea 7th Flak.   Battle Terrific Flak, Fighter Opposition To Reach Goal   MAZE OF DOGFIGHTS   all Follows Up Heavy AF Attacks Upon Three Targets

 Poll Indicates Willkie, Dewey Or Bricker To Face Roosevelt In ‘44

GOP CHIEFTAINS PICK THREE MEN FOR NOMINATION   Willkie, Dewey, Bricker Favored Now; Roosevelt Certain To Run

AP Survey Shows GOP Choice Lies Among Three Mer   Willkie Holds Lead 'n Nafional Poll

A.P. Survey of 1944 Campaign Favors Roosevelt to Win;  Three Republican Potentials Are Willkie, Dewey and Bricker

Food Stabilized. President Says   Subsidy Message Expected Monday

Price of Food Holds Stable, President Says   Announces New Anglo-American Set-Up, Personnel

PRICES STABLE ON FOODSTUFFS   Long - Awaited Message To Congress Goes Out Monday

Food Prices Held Stable, FDR Says   Jones Appointed To Allied Board

FOOD PRICES HAVE BEEN HELD STABLE   Roosevelt Says We Will Send Hi: Message To Congress On Monday: Jones Given Berth

Jones Replaces Wickard On Anglo-American _ Food Board; Roosevelt Claims Prices Stable

Hitler said demanding  inereased aid   Occupied zones cet new quotas

INCREASE IN GRIME HOME FRONT THREAT   A A CITES OAR NNER A  Chief of FBI Says Situation ‘Truly Alarming’

U. §. APRROVES USE OF AZORES   Portugal and British Pact Okayed   Neutral Nations See Allied Victory

FACILITIES OF AZORES AID IN WAR ON SUBS   Cause of Democracy Scores Another Great Triumph

AXISREACTION T0 BOMBING MAY BE FAR DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAS BEEN EXPECTED   Observer Remembers How British Reacted to Heavy Rain of Bombs, and Recalls Stiffening of Resistance Among Spanish Republicans Under Air Attacks

AXIS FINALLY FEELING FORCE OF TREMENDOUS PLANE OUTPUT OF AMERICA IN HEAVY BLASTING

HARD FIGHTING IS REPORTED ©         ,Consideraite Enemy. Losses in‘ Gas ualties. and Prisoners — Tr Italy Line Remains Practically Unchanged for . Third. Straight Day. *

ATTACKS : ARE REPULSED   Battle Line in Italy Unchanged For Three Days

YANKS SMASH 3 NAZI ATTACKS IN ISERNIA SECTOR   German Regiment, Hastily Thrown inte Battle, Fails to Get Obiective.

Counterattacks Of Germans in. Italy Smashed  Action Occurs Northwest of —  learnia

THREE GERMAN ATTACKS NEAR ISERNIA ARE REPULSED   Over 3,000 Nazis Take Part In Futile Movement

Things Are Looking Up Today for Harry Tansey, Soul of Persistence

INDUCTION OF FEW FATHERS IS SEE!   Only One in Six Physically Able, Hershey Says

U.S. RETURN 10 STANDARD TIME   lowan Solons adopt resolution to petition congress for change

OPA ISSUES GAS EDICT TO AUTOISTS   Misuse of Fuel on Holiday To Bring Supervision.

MacArthur’s Fliers Again  Blast Rabaul   Other Jap Targets Battered In Great Raids In The Pacific

MacArthur’s Fliers Stage Heavy Raids   Bombers Batter Rabaul for Second Straight Night

Jap Bases in South Pacific Are Battered   Rabaul Hit With More Than 38 Tons of Explosives

Jap Bases Are Hammered in Southwest Area   Rabaul Attacked ‘For Second Straight Night .

ALLIES BLAST LAE, RABAUL, DILLI AND AMBOU AIR BASES   Heaviest And’ Mast WideSpread Raids Of War Carried Out On Monday

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Bases in Heavy Raids; Rabaul, Lae Are Hit

JAP BASES HARD HIT IN BIGGEST. RAIDS BY ALLIES   Rabaul Pounded for Seconc Straight Night In Widespread Attacks.

Youth Confesses Pushing Two Boys From Cliff After Taking Their Shoes And Wateh

More Details on the New Indtarac  _ Motor Vehicle Law Given bu Stiver 

U.S. MARINE FLIER GETS 2 MORE JAPS   Ohioan in Unit Which Has Downed 31 Planes

TAKE VILLAGE OD MILES FROM ENEMY BASE   Quick Advance of 140 Miles From Finschhafen Indicated

ol MILES FROW ENEMY BASE .   Quick Advance of 140 Miles From Finschhafen Indicated

ALLIES SCORE NEW GAINS IN NEW GUINEA   Capture Japanese-held village within 60 miles  of Madang

Solons Hai Russ Change   General Capital Comment Favorable; New Era Foreseen

Story of Buna Mission Victory Told by Reporte   Yanks, Aussies Riddle Japanese In Short Order

Newsman Describes Biggest American Victory in Southwest Pacific, The Capture of Buna Gov't. Station

CAPTURE OF BUNA IS DESCRIBED BY UP. NEWS WRITER   Result Called’ Biggest. Amer. ican Victory In Southwest Pacific Zone.

OPA Accused Of Going Over Congress Head   Imposes Laws On Nation Under Guise Of War Necessity

REPORT CHARGES OPA “NULLIFIED” ACT OF CONGRESS   Price Control Provisions Ig nored, House Committee Declares

HOUSE CHARGES OPA MISUSE OF ’ SUBSIDY PLAN   Committee Says Using Subsidy, Lend-Lease as Subterfurce

Claim Executive Branch Usurps_ Conaress Power   ‘House Committee Condemns OPA. And Others =“

THREE AGENCIES OF GOVERNMENT ARE ATTACKED   HOUSE COMMITTEE DENOUNCES ACTION OF OPA, FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND SURPLUS COM. CORP,   ARE CHARGED WITH EXCEEDING POWERS   Committee Asserts Federal Surplus Commodities Corp Attempted to Amend Provisions 0! Fair Labor Act.

CHARGE OPA WITH EXCESSIVE USE OF AUTHORITY   Committee Accuses Agengy Of Setting Unfair Meat Ceilings.

[OPA ACCUSED OF USING SUBTERFUGE TO IGNORE  DICTATES OF CONGRESS

HOUSE GROUP ACCUSES OPA OF ILLEGAL ACTS   Says Rulings  By-Pass Laws

Executive Agencies Criticized By Special — Cong. House Committee

OPA EXCEEDED AUTHORITY, 1S ‘PROBE REPORT   Other Agencies Alsc Used Subterfuges,  Committee Says

OPA Power Grab Chargec   Legislation Composed By Subterfuge, Says House Committee

Solons Attack  Agencies   HOUSE GROUP CHARGES OFFICES USE WARTIME NEEDS AS SUBTERFUGE

CHURCHILL ILL OF PNEUMONIA, COMMONS TOLD   Whereabouts of Ill Leader Not Revealed, But it is Presumed to Be Mediterranean.

W. C’s Condition Improved, Report  British Cabinet May Name Acting Leader

Churchill Shows  Improvement   Pneumonia Patch On Lung Not Spreading

CHURCHILL ILL DF PNEUMONIA   Prime Minister Strick“en “Somewhere in ’ Mediteranean”

Gain Reported In Condition of Prime Minister   Acting Leader May Be Named For Churchill

CHURCHILL'S CONDITION IS IMPROVED   If Illness Lone Eden May Become Interim Premier

Churchill May Be Long Time Recuperating   Heart Specialist Among 3 Physicians Now In Attendance

Condition Is Regarded as Not Serious   Believed To Be Sxill In Med iterranean Area, After Conferences

Britain Prays For Churchil   His Condition Called Somewhat Better

PRIME MINISTER IS PNEUMONIA VIGTINI   General Condition Is As Satisfactory As Can Be Expected.

COMMONS TOLD THAT CHURCHILL HAS PNEUMONIA   Stricken British Leader Be lieved Still In Mediter  ranean Area

CHURCHILL “OVER THE HUMP TOWARD FULL RECOVER)   Danger Point Passed; Re: _sumes Direction of Brie. tich War Affairs. —

British May Ease Duties Of Churchill      ming of Deputy Sug: gested as Leader's Condition Shows Gains

Lenden, Dec. 18—())— Prime Minister Churchill’s pulse was reported irregular but his temperature subsiding in a bulletin issued from Ne. 1@ Downing street, his official residence, today.

Churchill Said To Be Improved   Dispatches From Bedside Indicate Improvement Holds

Churchill Stricken by Pneumonia;Condition Called ‘Satisfactory’   ‘British Prime Minister Believed Somewhere in Middle East; Commons Told Every Medical Facility Available

Churchill Has Pneumonia In Left Lung   Second Attack Suffered in Less Than Year; Condition As Satisfactory as Can Be Expected.

PRIME MINISTER'S CONDITION 1S NOT INDULY SERIOUS   ‘Believed Somewhere In Medi' terranean Area—Famed Physicians in Attendanea

Churchill Down With ‘neumonia   Being Attended by Specialists Somewhere in the  Middle-East

Churchill Gains in Battle   HALT PNEUMONIA SPREAD; NEW ACTING LEADER SEEN IN LONG RECUPERATION

BRITAIN'S CHIEF BELIEVED STILL IN WAR SECTOR   Cold Takes Serious Turn Stricken 2nd Time This Year

 Churchill Is Reported  'Better by Doctors; Continues His Duties

aAYa CHURCHILL (O (MPROVED   Expect War Cabinet to Name Another While Prime Minister Recuperates

CHURCHILL'S CONDITION IS IMPROVING   Three Physicians, Including Heart Specialist, in Altendance — Nafion’s Prayers Rise

CHURCHILL S SAID 10 BE IMPROVE   Assistants May Be Neces sary to Handle Some Details When He Recovers.

WINSTON CHURCHILL ILL WITH PNEUMONIA IN MIDDLE FAST ARE;   BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER HAS “PATCH IN LEFT LUNG”

CHURCHILLIS HOLDING GAIN OVER DISEAS]   Bulletin. ‘Issued By :Physi- cians: Reveals No Spread : In Pneumonia, With Jin -. provement. Maintained.

Churchill Better; Needs Long Rest   War Cabinet May Name Acting Leader to Serve in His Absence.

Churchill Is Stricken Il With Pneumonia   ae # & Premier Believed -In.Mediterranean . Area Somewhere

Churchill Runs War from Bed   Pulse is Irregular; Temperature Down

CHURCHILL {5 ~ HOLDING GAIN   Pulse Irregular, But Tem perature Down, Says Latest Bulletin

Churchill Down with Pneumonia   ‘Prime Minister Under Care of Specialists in The Middle Fast

—CHURCHILL—  BRITISH LEADER BETTER REPORT   Bulletin Says Churchill's General Improvement Continues   SECOND ATTACK   Britain’s Prime Minister Fighting Pneumonia In Middle East

Churchill Gains In New Battle With Pneumonia   Acting Leader Expectes To Be Named To Serv In Hie Aheence.

ON CHURCHILL   General Improvement Noted Condition of British Prime Minister.

Churchill’s Pulse Reported TIrrecular   ‘Temperature Is Subsiding, Pneumonia Resolving,’ Report

CHURCHILL SAID TO BE HOLDING HISOWNTODAY   Pneumonia Is Not Spreading and General Condition Of Prime Minister Believed Favorable

May Name Acting Leader To Assist Churchill   Prime Minister’s Condition Improving, But Long Rest Will Be Needed

Official’s Whereabouts Not Disclosed;  Believed to Be in Medterranean Area

War Cabinet May Name Acting Leader During Iliness Of British Prime Minister; Churchill's Condition Said Improved

Churchill Tl. Condition Is ‘As Expected   British Prime Minister Has Pneumonia; Daily Bulletins Planned On Pracres«

Churchill Is Stricken With  ‘Pneuminia   Condition Not Alarming, Attlee Tells Stunned  House of Parliament

Churchill Is Victim of Pneumonia   Condition Not Unduly Serious, Report to Commons Says

CHURCHILL SICK WITH PNEUMONIE   General Condition Satisfac: tory But Place of Confinement Unknown.

CHURCHILL IS HOLDING OWN   Latest Bulletin Reports Pneumonia Has Not Spread

Churchill I Stricker on Trip.   BRITISH PREMIER SUFFERS PNEUMONIA IN MIDDLE EAST

Churchill ill with pneumonia in eas   Attlee makes report on condition to commons

Winston Churchill  Improved   Cabinet May Name An Acting British Leader

IMacARTHUR MEN LAND ON NEW BRITAIN ISLAND;  Sens ‘NOT UNDULY’ FIERCE BEACH FIGHTING  SERIOUS, LONDON TOLD; SPECIALISTS ON HAND

CHURCHILL'S IMPROVEMEN' MAINTAINED   To Need Long Period To Recover; Acting Chief May Be Named

CHURCHILL IS ILL WITH PNEUMONIA   Announcement Is Made In House By Aitiee, His Deputy

Dectors Call Crisis Passed For Churchill   Pneumonia Is Clearing Up and Temperature Subsiding

Britain May Name an Acting Leade  Believed Churchill : Will Need Lona Rest

CONDITION Is REPORTED AS SATISFACTORY   British Prime Minister Is Bedfast Following the Historic Conference.   BULLETIN

CHURCHILL ILL WITH PNEUMONIA   His Present  Whereabouts Undisclosed

Doctors Report Minister Better   Churchill Keeps In Touch With War Cabinet In London From Sickbed.

Pneumonia Clearing Up;  Fever Down British Premier’s  BDalea Te Neradcnilae

Acting Chief May Fill Job Of Churchill   Premier Improving, But Convalescence May Be Long Affair

Churchill Improved   Spread of Pneumonia Halted; Long Period of Convalescence Seen

Churchill Battles On in Illness   PULSE IRREGULAR AS FEVER SUBSIDES; CHIEF CONTINUES LEADERSHIP

Acting Leader May Take Over Churchill Role   Prime Minister May Neec Long Period Of  - Recupneration.

improvement In Condition Of Churchill Today   Say Pneumonia Does Not Spread

CONDITION REPORTED TO BE GOOD   British And Allied War Leader Taken Down In Middle East

CONDITION OF GAURGHILL I$ REPORTED GEOD      Assistants Wil! Take Over Part Cf His Work

Churchill  Will Need Long Res!   An Acting Leader, Probably Anthony Eden, May Take Over in His Absence   PRIME MINISTER IS: HOLDING GAIN   But He Is-in 70th Year and Second Tlness in 10 Months Sans Streneth

Churchill Shows Improvement :  Suggest War Cabinet Take Over Some Of His Arduous Duties

CHURCHILL DOWN WITH PREUMONIE   British Prime Minister Is Stricken In Mediterranean  Area

Reds Push Ahead On All Fronts   Speed Of Soviet Drive Picks Up: Rail Line Broken

RUSSIANS KNIFE LAST OF GERMAN RAILWAY ROUTES   Last Escape Avenue Is Cut  In Matveev-Kurgan ee bn eee   ADVANCES REPORTED ALL AROUND KHARKOV

Russian Armies Pursue Beaten Germa Troops  ESCAPE RAIL LINE OF NAZIS IS CUT  Heavy Losses Reported Inflicted on Infantry Division

FINAL NAZI "ESCAPE LINE 1S CUT OFF   Observers Believe Large Force Of  Germans May Be Trapped By Reds.

SOVIETS MAY TRAP NAZIS IN ROSTOV AREA   Reds Cut Rail Escape Route by Taking Strategic Town

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP NAZIS WEST OF ROSTOV   Only Escape Railway From Front Cut With Capture of Town 25 Miles North of Taganrog.   RUSSIANS PUSH CLOSER TO BIG BASE AT OREL   Make Gains in Ukraine and Capture Towns in Caucasus-——-Reach Point 218 Miles From Kiev.

Russians Move  Closer To Orel, Hitler Bastion   Reds Cut Only Escape Railway West of Rostov, Large Forces of Germans Are Believed Trapped By Stroke

Russians Sever Escape Railway West of Rostov   Advance on AH Fronts And Also Report Orel To North Is Menaced :

Soviets 25 miles north Taganrog   Snap rail line west Rostov in pursuit of broken nazis

Russion Armies Pursue ~~ Beaten Germany, * + Troops   ESCAPE RAIL LINE OF NAZIS IS CUT   Heavy Losses Reported In. ‘Hicted on Infantry Division

Large Forces Of Enemy Entrapped   Reds Victorious in Areas North and Northwest of Rostov

REDS PURSUE NAZIS, CUT OFF RAIL ESCAPE   Little Opposition West of Rostov, Midnight Communique Says; Red Advance in Caucasus Continues   Move Closer to Orel

Reds Go on With Little  Opposition   Russians Cut Railway and Only Escape Route in Rostov Area for Beaten Nazi Troops

ESCAPE ROUTE FROM ROSTOV CUT BY REDS   BIG GERMAN FORCE BELIEVED CAUGHT AT TAGANROG

les. Dannininn  Only Remaining  Railway Is Cut   “Rostov Area Holds -Spotliaht Of Dav

PRESIDENT RAPS CRITICS OF HIS FOREIGN POLICY   ‘HOLD YOUR TONGUES UNTIL FACTS KNOWN,, FOR SAYS IN EFFECT

Russians Drive Through Mud to Nazi Dnieper, Capture Another Village

STORMS STILL HINDER SOVIETS   A Powerful Drive Toward Dnieper Continues, However

Steel for Farm Machinery Increase to Nearly Double Normal Year's Production

FOR FARM MACHINERY   WPB Issues Regulations for Expanded Production -

Expand Output Of Farm Tools   WPB Allocation Permits Boost In Equipment Nearly Double Normal Year.

State Department Denies Former Hitler, Associate Ever Employed by ULES.

German Envoys Reported on Way to Neutral Capitals With Peace Feelers

HOUSE PASSED TO FINAL READING JUNIOR COLLEGE BILL   BILL APPROVED BY SENATE WOULD PERMIT DIVI. SION PROPERTY

HOUSE PASSED 10 FINAL READING. JUNIOR COLLEGE BILL  ~ BILL APPROVED BY SENATE WOULD PERMIT DIV!

GERMAN PLANES BOMBED ROME THIS MORNING   Also Sink An Italian BattleShip and Cruiser   KING AND BADOGLIO IN ABDICATION, SAYS A SWISS AUTHORITY   Anti-Fascist and Anti-German Crown Prince Umberto Now Italian King

Germans Claim to Have Sunk Italian Cruiser and Battleship.  ROME DENIES KING’S ABDICATION  Large American Convoy Headed Through Ionia Sea Toward Albania.

TEXAS PRODUCERS OFFER NOMINATIONS HIGHER O1L DEMAND  INCREASE OF 40,000 BARRELS SUGGESTED BY ICKES NOT ENOUGH

MORE MEN ARE LEAVING FOR THE SERVICE   Group From This County Will Take Examinaticns Thursday.   NUMBER NOT GIVEN   Several Married Men in Class 1-A Are Now Filing Appeals. .

MORE MEN ARE. LEANING FOR” ' THE SERVICE   Group ‘From’ This. County Will Take Examinaticns : Thursday. 2   NUMBER NOT GIVEN   Several’ Married Men ix Class 1-A Are Now Fil. © ing Appeals. . -

Mopping Up Attulsie © Continues   Jap Planes in Frantic Try to © Ralleve-Garrison

FIVE PLANES BROUGHT DOWN   Japanese Making Frantic Attempt to Relieve Trapped Garrison — “Mop UP” of Remaining Japs on Atiu Continues,

SEE INVASION OF EUROPE IN FOUR MONTHS      Allies Expected To Hurl Not Less Than 5,000,000 Men Against Europe

Vital Blow Expected  Within Next 4 Month: Weather to Delay Great Offensive;  Pacific War Mav Last 2 More Years

OBSERVERS HINT ALLIES TO INVADE EUROPE BY MARCH   Military Experts Believe Five Million Men Will Smash at Axis

3-Way Attack Before Spring Seen    Predict Allies Will Use Five Million Troops For Climactic Blows

‘SSIDED PUSH MAY START IN  NEXT 4 MONTHS   Western Phase Would Require Six Million Tons of Shioping.

Flies Plan Use of 5,000,000 Men in Gr eat Eur onean Offencivac   y Liberation Is laranteed France

Climactic Drive May Get Start . Farly Next Year   60 To 70 Divisions Believed Needed For  Successful Invasion

Patriots Battling in Jugoslavia Tensely Wait for Allied Help   Await Allied Aid

Churchill Promises Invasior   Amphibious Operations of Cireat Magnitude Are in The Offing

SET TO SMASH AXIS BY PLANES, OTHERMEANS   Announce More Successes in Drive Against U-Boat Menace

European Invasion Declared Imminent   Prime Minister Churchill Says It Is Evident That Amphibious Operation on Large Scale Approaching on Continent.   Voices Confidence That Submarine Menace Swiftly Being Overcome

A Report On Recent Conference   Prime Minister Says Allied Strategy and Policy Focused by  Talks in Washington

Rome Says Attack B, British Forces On Lampedusa Fails   Prime Minister In Commons Report Says Intense And Violent Force Now Being Directed At Enemy

Allies On Way To Overcoming U-Boat Menace   Seeretary Of Navy Knox Lahels Attack Warning *Conservative Statement.’   LISTS BATTLE LOSSES

Air War On Germony To Be Intensified; ‘Intense And Violent Attack U pon Axis   America Offering Japan Supreme Challenge Of Sea Power; Hazardous Amphibious Operations Approaching: Enemy Lost 300,000 In Tunisia

WILL CONTINUE FURIOUS BLOWS FROM BOMBERS   Declares Submarine Menace Swiftly Being Overcome by Allies

Prime Minister Tells Commons Of His Visits   Force In Its Most Violent Form Impends for Hitler

To Destroy . Axis By Air, Other Means   -Confident That U-Boat Men: ace Is Being Overcome by V.L.R. Forces   ‘BIG AMPHIBIOUS ° -. OPERATIONS SOON   Actions Impending Fitted Into. Proper. Place in Their: Relation: to’ Global War:

Confident U-Boat Menace Being Met   Evident Amphibious Operations on Large Scale Approaching, Churchill States — . Allies Determined to Destroy the  Axis by Air and Other Means

Churchill In Bold Hint Of Invasion Soon   Again Voices Determination of Allies To Destroy the Axis

ZERO HOUR FOR INVASION NEAR, COMMONS TOLD   Big Scale Operation Eve dent, Asserts Prime  Minister   OVERCOMING U-BOATS   Long Range Air Power Being Used Effectively On Submarines

Global Allied Blitz Under Plans Laid in Washing. ton May Come at Karly Moment Churchill Indicates to TJouse Of Commons. Says U-Boat Menace Being Over: come,

Amphibious Operations Are Foreseen   Declares Allies Determined to De. stroy Axis by Air \nd Other Means

Prime Minister Promises ‘Violent At tack’ On Hitler’s European Fortress

BLUNT WARNING IS GIVEN AXIS BY CHURCHILL   Greater Aerial! Assault on Germany Promised as Basis ‘Amphibious Operations’   FIRST ATTACK OFF ITALY   Eruption of Great Battles In Russia Impending; Allies in Accord

British Fail To Gain isle,  Lose Vessels   Churchill Foreshadows  Invasion Of Continent

Tells Commons of Impending Allied Efforts in Europe   Says Plans Call for “Most Intense and Violent Attack”

Reports Complete Agreement on ‘Forward Steps’ in Prosecution of War, Operations Fitted into Place  WAR ON [J_.ROATS Sliccrenc   Prime Minister Declares Axis Defeats at Stalingrad, in Tunisia, Significant, But Catitions Hard Ficht . Ahead

Invasion And Bombing Will  Destroy Axis   - - Sub Menace Being Overcome, Commons Told

‘Large Scale Action by ‘Allies Approaching, Is Report Given to Commons

Multiple Attacks Indicated   Gives Confident Review of War Plans —- Commandos  on Italian Island

Submarine Menace At Last Being Overcome   Churchill Tell. Commons  Today

Declares Allies Determined Axis Will Be Crushed   Sub Menace Being Overcome; Reveals Axis Lost 248,000 Prisoners In Africa

Secretary Knox Enlivens Speculation   Rome Claims That Allied Landing On Lampedusa Repulsed

AIR OFFENSIVE CALLED INITIAL BLOW AT AXIS   Determination To Destroy Foe Told To Commons By Minister   ENEMY SUFFERS LOSSES   German Submarine Menace Is Being Overcome; May Sinkings Lower

Promises Intensification of Air War Against Germany; Says UBoat Menace Being Overcome

‘Allies Will  Fulfill Plans ‘To Crush Foes   Overcoming Menace of U-Boats; Amphibious Operations at Hand

BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER BLUNTLY FORESHADOWS ACTION  CHURCHILL’S STATEMENT BRISTLED WITH ACTION REFERENCES

CHURCHILL REPORTS ON WAR CONFERENCE AND HINTS AT MOVES   SARWHAROCTER niin nr   OPTIMISTIC BUT RESTRAINED, HIS STATEMENT CONFIRMS PLANS

Prime Minister Reports Prisonets Taken In Tunisia Numbered 248.000

Parliament Hears  Churchill Report   Prime Minister Says Large Scale Invasion of Europe Is Near   ALLIES BEAT U-BOATS   First Week in June Reported Best Ever in Sub marine Kills

Imminent Invasion Of Europe Is  In Making   Zero Hour Swiftly Drawing Near, . Knox zs

Home Edition   BG AMPHIBIOUS ACTION PREDICTED BY PREMIER   Destruction Of Axis By Violent And Intense Attacks Is Pledged

OPERATIONS ON A LARGE SCALE NEAR, PROCLAIMS   Addressing Commons, Prime Minister Speaks of Applying “Force” to Enemy

Amphibious Operations’ on Peculiar, Hoxardous and Large Scale Are Rapidly Approaching, Prime Minister Declares

‘Hazardous’ Sea Operations Stressed   Churchill ‘Makes No Predictions” in Report to Commons, But Declares Allied Plans Brought to Full Focus in Parleys.

ALLIES IN. COMPLETE AGREEMENT   Operations Of Hazard- And Large Scale Approaching

OVESIN WAR ARE AHEAD      Plans Prepared at Conference Embrace All Aspects of War.   WARNS OF HARD FIGHT

Churchill Reveals Completion of Plan For Attack In Axis   Britain, America in Complete Agreement On  Forward Steps in the War, Says Prime Minster Speaking With Confidence

Allies Are Determined to Destroy Axis by Air and Other Means SUB MENACE EASED ‘May Called Best Month  of War in Battle  at Sea

SAY ITALIANS WANT HONORABLE PEACE   Rome Radio Acknowledges More Allied Landings  Imminent

Prime Minister Pledges Allies To Destroy Axis   Deadly Submarine Menace Swiftly Being Overcome

SAYS AERIAL WAR ALSO TC BE CONTINUED              Prime Minister Tells Com: mons Sub Menace Is Swiftly Being Over:  come Through “Very Long-Range Air Power.”

British Repulsed, Says Rome Report   Attempted British Landing On Lampedusa Thrown Back, Axis Reports; Claim Several Warships Sunk In Action

Sees Intense And Violent Attacks On Axis Nations   Air War To Be Intensified; Reports On War Conferences With Allied Leaders

Major ‘Amphibious Operations Are + Reported Imminent   No Confirmation of Attempt to Land On Lampedusa Isle

"Enemy Captured Total 248,000; Only 638 in Africa Escaped Allies

ALLIES DETERMINED TO DESTROY AXIS   It Is Evident That Amphibious Operations of a Peculiar Complexity on a Large  Scale Are Approaching.

Allies Prepared To Destroy Axis   Submarine Menace Being Overcome, Prime Minister Tells Commons; Much Hard Fighting Is Ahead Before Final Victory, He Adds

Believe Zero Hour _ At Hand; Hint Of _ AmphibiousAttack   Huge Allied Shipping ‘Movements In Mediterranean Reported; British Attack on Italian Island of Lampedusa Said to Have Been Repulsed

Rome Claims Isle Attack Repulsed   Reported Attemp' On Lampedusa Not Confirmed Elsewhere

Rome Says British Stabs at Island Were Repulsed   Churchill Warns Against Over-confidence Saying Hard Bitter Fighting Lies Ahead

U-Boat Warfare Will Not Save Germany, Says Prime Minister In His Address At London

Optimistic Report Pledges Action Soon   Says U-Boat Menace Less, And Air Raids On Nazis Intensified; Plans Prepared

Complete Destruction Of Axis Goal; Great Progress In Battling Subs

~ NEARER SAYS ——— CHURSHILL   Tells Commons of Determination to Destroy Axis

Italians Meanwhile Assert That British Foe. Have Made Initial Seaborne Attack on Mediic: ranean Isle of Lampdusa; Air Assaults Coutinire

BIG OFFENSIVE MOVE IN MAKING PREMIER SAYS   Statement Before Commons Serves to Confirm British Public’s Sum mer Hopes of Action   WARNS AGAINST OVER-CONFIDENCE   Promises Intensified Acrial! Warfare: Voices Confidence Sub Menace Is Being Overcome

British Raid Italian Isle of Lampeduss   Germans Claim: Commarido Assault Shattered; Pritte Minister Bares Allied Record

Intensification Of Air War Against Germany Pledgec   Statement to The House of Commons By Prime Minister Churchill Bristles With References to United Nations "Forward Steps"   OTHER WAR DEVELOPMENTS SEEN AT-A-GLANCE

BLOWS AGAINST GERMANY 10 BE MUCH HEAVIER   U-Boat Menace Slacking, Prime Minister Asserts

Axians Yield Strategic Hill Regions   Many Prisoners Taken, Planes Downed in Relentless Fighting

Allied Airmen Destroy 21  More Planes   600 Prisoners Taken Boost Toll of Enemy Captives to 30,000;  Eighth Army Held Up

STRATEGIC HIGH GROUND OCCUPIED   30,000 Captives Taken fr Less Than Four Weeks   ALLIED AIRMEN   Punch Holes in Enemy's Sky Armor; Stage Hard Raids On Airfields

British, French Troops Capture 600 Prisoners   Seize Two Valuable Posi. tions in Tunisian Fighting   Allied Airmen Destroy Twenty-One Planes at Cost of Eight

21 AXIS PLANES ARE DESTROYED; ALLIES LOSE §   Montgomery Moving Up Artillery for Flank Attack— Advance Slowed by Enemy’s Big Guns.   FOE’S REAR BASES AT SARDINIA BLASTED   Airdromes There and at Other Points Raked—MaltaBased Fighters Strike at Sicily.

Valuable Land Is  Seized By Allies In Close Fighting   Airmen Also Busy To Punch Holes In Knemy's Skv Armor In Tunisia.

ALLIED AIRMEN ALSO PUNCH MORE HOLES IN MARSHAL ROMMEL’S: SKY ARMOR DESTROYINK 21 PLANES.

Axis Captives Reach Total. Of 30.000   Airman Hit Against Sky ‘Armor of Rommet’s Farces

ALLIED FLIERS RULE SKIES IN NORTH AFRICA   OVER $0.060 AXIS CAPTIVES TAKEN IN FOUR WEEKS

British, French Advance Along Axis Siege Line   Russian Troops ‘Kill 600 Nazis

Allies Take Two Siege Line Areas In Bitter Fighting.   600 More Prisoners Captured And Airmen Destroy 21 Planes At Cost Of Only Eight

Sky Offensive In Africa Takes Toll   British First Army Has Stormed Forward In Northern Sector To Approach Nearer Tunis

British, French Seize Valuable Ground Areas   600 Prisoners Boost Allied Toll to 30,000 in North Africa

Allies Seize Vital Areas From the Axis   21 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed in Aerial Combat

VALUABLE HILLS ARE TAKEN BY ALLIED FORCES   600 Additional Prisoner: Boost Total To Over 30,000 In Campaign   21 AXIS AIRCRAFT REPORTED BAGGED

‘More Prisoners Captured  ~— by the Allies in  —_ _ Tunisia  PLANES DESTROYED BY ALLIED AIRMEN  Toll of Enemy Captives Boosted to More  Than 30,000

600 Axis Prisoners Increase to 30,000 Total for Four Weeks  NEW HOLES PUNCHED IN NAZI AIR ARMOR  Allies Point Attacks At Airfield Network In Tunisian Theatre 

LOCAL BUSINESS TO GET RFC AID   Jones Says Industries Should Be Spread After War

Representatives Agree To ‘All Belts For Tied and Graded Tobacco.

State Teachers Assr Would Replace ert of Education   To Urge Changes by Constitutional Convention

Jap Supply Lines Suffer Staggering  Blow by U.S. Subs   Twelve Enemy Ships, Including Enemy Destroyer, Are Sunk by Submarines Operating in Far-Flung Pacific Area

Biggest Catch Of War Recorded  By Submarines   Spearheads Of Attrition War Raise Kill To 181, Over Half Total Toll Taken From Japs; Four More Ships Reported Damaged.

DESTROYER BAGGED BY TORPEDOES   Big Nip Transport, Cargo Craft Sent To Bottom

WLB Plan» a Wage Cut ~ Lewis Says   ‘Union ‘Head in Effect . Rejects-Compromise Plan “in Wage Dispute   WORK STOPPAGES STILL SPREADING   » New Crisis in Industry May ~ Pass, Without: an Extended General:.. Shutdown

SLUMP IN COAL PRODUCTION MAY END NEXT WEEK   Government, Labor Circles _ Radiate Optimism

LEWIS REJECTS WAR LABOR BOARD'S COMPROMISE PLAN   Work Stoppages Continued to Spread in the Coal Mine Fields.   57,000 MINERS ARE OUT   Walkout Blamed on Continued Lack of a Working Contract.

Lewis Turns Down Plan   WLB-Approved Deal Rejected; Work Stoppages Spread

LIKELIHOOD OF GENERAL COAL STRIKE GROWS   Possible Government Seizure Of Mines Hinted As Walkouts Spread

rtually Rejects Com  omise For Settling Dis pute As Work Stopvages Continue   RMULA HELD OUT IX BASIC PAY RATE            Acceptance Would  ive Miners Only 95%  ‘ents Hour Instead of Present $1 Rate

Lewis Turns ~ Down WLB's Pay Proposa   Compromise Really A Basic Wage Cut, He Believes; Telegrams Sent To Union Heads

“A Basic Wage Rate Reduction”   Lewis Tacitly Rejects WLB Compromise Plan For Settling Coal Miners Wage Dispute

Stoppages of Work in Coal Areas Spread   Allowing Travel Time Ignored; More Mines Closed Down

WEATHER   Lewis Calis Proposal Cut in Pay   Wildcat Strikes Spread as Soft Coal Deadline Passes   60,000 MEN ARE IDLE)   UMW Chief Wires District Heads Illinois Seale Is Too Low

SOME MINERS REPORT TODAY IN ILLINOIS   John L. Lewis Is Making Attempt To Halt Strike

97,000 COAL MINERS STILL REMAIN IDLE   New Government Seizure Looms As WLB “Deadline’ Passes

SAYS WLB PLAN IS WAGE CUT      UMW Leader in Effect Rejecis Proposal of Federal Board on Wage Compromise   STRIKES SPREADING   WLB Expected to Certify Wildcat  Strikes to President Late Today  or Tomorrow

LEWIS REJECTS COAL PAY OFFER   Says WLB Proposal Would Be Same As_ Reducing Basic Wage Rate; 57,000 Miners Idle As Strike  Snreads.

LEWIS EJECTS WLO PROPOSAL AS WAGE GUT   South’s Biggest Steel Producer Prepares To Shut Down One Of Main Plants

Coal Production Job May Be Given Army   700 Men Return To Work At Kopperston; Decline In Coal Output Virtually Certain

W.L.B. COAL WAGE PLAN REJECTED BY JOHN L. LEWIS   U. M. W. Czar in Effect Turns Down Compromise Plan: to Settle Miners’ Wage Dispute — Work Stoppaces Continue

T auwer a Ratante  mee 1 cad  ween  WLB Offer  Stoppages Of Work Continue To Spread

SAYS FORMULA OF WLB MEANS PAY REDUCTION   Telegrams to Miuners Indicate Rejection Of Compromise

LEWIS REJECTS TERMS BY WLB   Work Stoppages Continue To Spread In Coal Fields

LEWIS TENTATIVELY REJECTS WLB PLAN SETTLE MINE WAGES  . WORK STOPPAGES CONTINUE TO SPREAD IN VARIOUS AREAS

COAL STRIKES SPREAD, OVER DT, O00 1DLE   Claims Compromise Terms Would Lower Miners’ Pay Rate

JOHN LEWIS REJECTS COAL WAGE OFFER   Says Acceptance of WLB Plan for Miners Would Impose a Reduction in Hourly Pay Now Being  Pacraivead.

WLB'S PLANTOSETTLE COAL STRIKE REFUSED   Lewis Regards WLB’s Plan As. Equivalent to Wage Reduction

WLB Wage Plan Rejected by Lewis   Informs Labor Heads of His Disapproval in Coal Miners Pay Dispute.

Lewis Turns Down WLB’s Coal Scheme   QMW Boss Declares Plan Would Mean Reduction in Pay for Miners — Strikes Spread.

UMW Chief Says Proposal Reduces Hourly Pay Scale For Coal Miners

2 Sr? . Se ot  Texans’ Rout idup In 1 Africa Sends Unique Program Home

Liberation Committee Ts Given Recognition   Joint Action of England and United States Recognizes Authority Until French Can Choose Own Government

French Liberation Group iGiven Limited Recognition ‘By Four Allied Governments   ‘United States, Great Britain, Russia And Canada Recognize The Right Of Body To Administer The Empire Of France Un der Present Conditions

U.S., Britain Grant Limited Recognition to French Committee's Rule of Empire

FRENCH GROUP RECOGNIZED BY THREE NATIONS   J. S, BRITAIN AND RUSSIA ACCEPT COMMITTEE

“Give Limited Recognition to French C of NL   U.S., Britain and Canada in Statements

Washington Concedes Group Right to Administer to Empire of Fallen France, but Stops Short at Calling It a Governmient—Holds People Must Choose Kegime After War— Britain and Canada Take Similar Stand.

LIMITED RECOGNITION FOR FRENCH COMMITTEE IN EXIF   committer a government.

U.S., Britain Recognize French Group   People of France Must Choose Own Government

J. $. and Britain Recognize French Liberation Group   Take Step in Aid Of Fallen France

U.S., Britain Back French Liberty Body   Join in Partial Recognition Of New Committee

FIRST TO GO IN OCTOBER, FOLEY STATES   Local Board Busy Past Few Weeks Reclassifying Men   MOST STATES READY   Many of Them to Call Ur Dads In Contingents Tomorrow

October Draft Of Pre-War Dads Now Scheduled   B. H. Selective Service Officials Prepare Revised Lists

Red Push Close To Smolensk Is Reported   Berlin Radio Announces Soviet Lunge On Voronezh Front, Admits Tanks Have Cut Main Caucasus Line

SOVIETS MAY PLAN SWEEP “INTO UKRAINE   Voronezh Is Anchor of the Entire Red Line Running Southward to Stalingrad and the Caucasus Region.

BITTER NIGHT BATTLE OVER CITY STREETS   Advancing Reds on Another Front Now 25 Miles From Smolensk, German Defense Pivot

REDS SWEEPING FORWARD ALONG 100-MILE FRONT   NAZIS RESISTANCE ADMITTED STRONG IN DON VALLEY

Soviet Armies Extend Gains  On Long Front   Repel Strong German Counte er Attack Which Threatens ed Communications,   RED AIR FORCE HITS

Key of Naz Defenses Near Fall   Sudden Thrust in North Brings New Russ Victory

Hint of New — ~ Major Drive. Ry Ruserane   Berlin: Reports: Violent Fighting Has Spread to Leninerad ‘Area,          HEAVY ACTION... y.IN LAKE SECTORS   But It Reports Ali the At. tacks. Frustrated; New Black Sea Action

Russians Gain In Stalingrad Siege   Drive Invaders to Western Edge of City in Fierce Fighting _   OFFENSIVE IN NORTH   Drive 1 in Caucasus Is Foreing Germans Back Toward Rostov

GERMANS MADE 4 STIFFENING v. aND IN THE CAUCASUS   Attempted t= Cover Their Forces He .ung the Maikop Oil Fields.   MAKE FURTHER GAINS   Red Star Said the Baitle Was Becoming More Violent.

Yugoslavs Claim Great Advances   Say They Now Hold One Third of Country

Bombers Smash At Sarcinia And Sicily   Mussolini Decrees Martial Law In  Southern Provinces

War One Allies Together Again   French Fiery, But Italians Imnoten+

Troops of Four Great Al. lies in First World War Together Again   OUTSTANDING GAINS SCORED BY FRENCH   “Give Us Chance on Equal Terms," Correspond.ent Is Told

FIGHT IN ITALY   Join American, British and Italian Allies in Push  For Capital City

French Tr oops CompleteLineuy Of Old Allies   Revealed To Be Fighting Beside Yanks, Italians And British in Italy

French force fights foe on Italian front   * Trained units drive forward

FRENCH FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT   OUTSTANDING SUCCESSES SCORED BY UNITS EQUIPPED WITH VU. 5S. WEAPONS,

Four Allied Nations Fight Germans on Italian Front  French Troops, Splendidly Armed With Modern U.S. Weapons, _ Batile at Side of Other Forces

French Uniis Join Allies In Italy   Rugged Troops Trained In Africa Fight Nazis Again

To Check Violation Of Isolation Rules   Yowa Board of Health Reporis Complaints Received

Stalin, F.D.R. And Churchill Map Axis Doom   Teheran Parley Plans Next Move   By JOHN CHESTER AND WILLIAM MCGAFFIN

ALLIES MASS STRENGTH 10 CRUSH HITLER   LEADERS AGREED ON PACT TO BANISH WAR SCOURGE   BY JOHN F. CHESTER AND WILLIAM MeGAFFIN

Three Leaders Declare Plans Hasten Victory   Talks’ Friendly Teno: Reflected in Social BPvcnass Crasslhictod

FDLR, OTALIN, © CHURGHILE REACH _ FULL AGREEMENT   Three Allied Leaders Make Plans at Conference to Banish Scourge of War for Many Generations.   RELENTLESS ATTACKS TO BE MADE ON REICH   Co-Operation of All Nations, Both Large and Small, to Be Sought to Assure Enduring Peace.

TEHERAN PARLEY DECISIONS UNFOLD   Plans Laid For World Family Of Democratic Nations   ‘BIG THREE’ MEETS   Declare No Power on Earth Can Prevent Destruction — Of Nazi War Machine

‘Big Three’ Announce Decisions Reached At  Persian Conierences   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Agree To Strike Concerted Blows From East, West, South To Banish Scourge Of War

World Family Of Democracies Urged by Three   Conference Tips Scales Against Nazis by Unity

Concerted Blows From the East, West and South. Are Mapped  WHEREABOUTS OF FDR STILL SECRET  Will Seek ‘Cooperation of

3 Conferred For 4 Days AtTeheran   Concerted ‘Our Plans For the Destruction Of the German Forces:

Agree upon triple-blows  at Germany   Plan to ‘banish scource of war’

Allies Massing Strength  in lwo Sectors   President Roosevelt and Premiers Stalin and Churchill Lay Foundation for World Family of Nations

“Big Three” at Teheran Make Plans To Crush Foe By 3-Way Assaults; Peace Groundwork is Laid

Concerted Blows From the East, West and South Are Mapped   WHEREABOUTS OF FOR STILL SECRET   Will Seek Cooperation of All Nations to Keep Peace

Eject Reporter From Governor's Press Conference For Story That Boston Jews Are Being Terrorized

Persistent Raids Click   Germany Has Suffered Greatly From R. A. F.’s Continued Assaults

British Bombs Fall On Nazis   HEAVY DAMAGE DEALT TO INDUSTRIAL SECTOR’S

2000 Of Hitlers Factories Razed   .. Allied Air Offensive Taking Huge Tol

e 1,000,000 Nazis Homeles  2. ‘000 GERMAN FACTORIES ARE DESTROYED BY RAF BOMBINGS

Smash 2,000 Factories  * * % * * * *  1,000,000 Nazis Made Homeless  ; * *% + * * * *  British Push Big Raids

RAF SHOWERING HEAVY WEIGHT BOMBS GN NAZIS   More Than 10,000 Tons of Explosives Being Dropped on Naziland a Month Now

Creat Havoc Wrought By Allied Bombs   German Production Sharply Curtailed Commons Is Told

RAF Raids Said to’ Have Wrecked Over 7,000 Nazi Plants  1,000,000 Germans Left Homeless, Sincloir Reports

CEASELESS BOMBING ACTIVITIES OF RAF BRINGING RESULTS  MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND GERMAN FACTORIE

2,000 NAZI WAR PLANTS DESTROYED   Million Germans Homeless In Wake Of Aerial Blows

Terrible Havoc  Caused in Reich   Ceaseless Bombing of — the RAF Already Has Wrecked 2,000 Factories.

RAF Wrecks 2,000 Nazi  Factories   Raid on Essen Was Heaviest Blow Struck; More Than 1,000,000 Germans Left Homeless by Bombings

RAF Showers 10,000 Tons Month on Axis   2,000 Factories Wrecked, Million Nazis Homeless as Result of Aerial Offensive

Air Scourge Ruins 2,000 Nazi Factories   10,000 Tens Of Bombs A Month Leave Estimated Million Homeless   SINCLAIR REPORTS   Devastation At Essen Is Called ‘Heaviest Blow’ In Bomber Offensive

RAF Wrecks 2,000 Nazi  Factories   Million Made Homeless Under Shower of Over 10,000 Bombs Per Month

2000 Nazi Factories Ruined, 1,000,000 Germans Homeless   Ceaseless Allied Bombing Wrecks Havoc With Germany, Britain Now Reports

Two Thousand War Plants In Germany Wrecked By Allied Aerial Offensive

Over Million Persons Made Homeless by Raids During First of Year On  Reich  ATTACK ON ESSENS  ATTACK ON ESSENS BIGGEST OF BLOWS   Devastation Comparable .Only to That Caused At Cologne, House of Commons Told

1,000 Nazi War Plants Wreckec   Million Germans Are Made Homeless

Million People Left Homeless by Constant RAF and American Bombings Over Europe.

RAF Bombings Cause Great Devastation   Report Made on Air Offensive to British House Of Commons   FACTORIES DAMAGED

D. H. I. A’S HOLD ANNUAL MEETING   Officers Were Elected for Associatlony One and Three Monday Evening

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU  NEWS LETTER  De, Chin eeecde, The Om kee   Fayette County D.H.U.A’s Hold  Annialh Maatine.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   *DR-Churchill Report ells Little, Keeps Enemy Guessing

TROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL PRESS (CONFERENCE RATHER BARE OF NEWS BRITT TITTIE EXPECTED

ihe War i oday \Roosevelt, Churchill Stay Silent, But \“Something Big” Imminent In Europe

MARINES LAND QN JAP HELD BOUGAINVILLE   U. S. Fleet ready to meet Jap navy anywhere, says Knox

Challenge Is Given To Japanese Fleet  By U. S. General   ‘Come Out And Fight’’ Is Challenge To Jap Fleet In Pacific   U. 8. TROOPS LAND ON BOUGAINVILLE

Russians Pust Nazis Fleeing From Rzhev   German Radio Admits Breeches Made In Axis Positions Around Orel

GERMAN FORCES ARE STILL BEING PURSUED BY REDS   Fled Their Defense Citadel at Rzhev; Soviet Troops Plow Forward.   ARE A MENACE TO OREL   Konotop, German Stronghold on the Pass to Kiev, Is Threatened.

REDS BREACH NAZI DEFENSES. _ AROUND OREI   Advance Increases Threat to Bry ansk as Well—Dmitriev-Lgov sky Cantnred =   NAZIS CLAIM GAIN   Report Recapture of Slavyansk, in Donets Basin Offensive, Soviet Unit Isolated

Pursue Fleeing Nazis From Their  Citadel at Rzhev   Under Bad Weather Conditions Reds Push on to Menace Orel,   Axis Admits Breaches In Lines Around Orel

Rrhev Capture Reveals Reds Still Strona   Adverse Weather Conditions Fail To Check Russians

Germans Driven From Strong Base   Russians Drive Despite Weather

Reds Continue Nazi Pursuit   Soviets Heighten Menace to Orel Despite Bad Weather

REDS PURSUE GERMAN ARMY   Troops Plough Forward West and Northwest of Kursk to Menace Orel

REDS THREATEN "AXIS-HELD CITY IN NEW ADVANCE   Plow Thru Snow, Bad Weather In  New Offensive

Reds Pursuing ‘Rzhev’s Force In Drive West   Defy Bitter Weather In Sustained: Attack On “ite. "Bryansk “Area

RUSSIANS REPORT  RED ARMY 15 STILL  PURSUING GERMANS SOVIET TROOPS PLOW FORWARD IN KURSK ARE.  hl TED DIDI LN Wea TUCD

SOVIETS CHASE FLEEING NAZIS   Reds Continue to Pursue Axis Forces Withdraw. ing From Rzhev.

SOVIETS PURSUE GERMAN FORCES   CAPTURE RZHEV AND THREATEN OREL IN MAJOR OFFENSIVE

BASE AT OREL ENDANGERED BY SOVIET THRUST   German Attempts To Stop Drive Are Smashed

DRIVE PAST RZHEY   Russians Pursue Fleeing  German Forces;. Height-  en Menace to Orel

Soviet Troops Plow Forward. In  SnowNorthwest Of Kursk Neor Orel

SPEAR AIMED TOWARD NAZI SUPPLY BASE   Soviets Reported Advancing Rapidly West and Northwest of City Of Kursk   HALT COUNTER-ATTACK

Germans Are Threatened In Orel Sector   Bastion Between Central And Southern Fronts Endangered As Result Of Russian Advances

RED MENACE TO OREL IS ‘HEIGHTENED   Russians Also Point a Spear at Bryansk, _ Which Has Been Nazis’ *Main Supply Base for Central Front.

REDS DRIVE AT NAZI BASTION ON SOUTH FRONT   Rzhev Capture Shows Soviet Offensive Still Potent As Spring Nears

Russians Pursuing Nazi F orces West Of Rzhev; Advance West Of Kursk

RUSSIANS REPORT RED ARMY 1S STILL PURSUING GERMANS   SOVIET TROOPS PLOW FORWARD IN KURSK AREA IN TERRIBLE WEATHER

RED ARMY'S ADVANCE AT R7HEV RAPID   Reports Indicate They Are Threatening Orel; Weather Conditions Are Very Bad.

Declares U. S. Farmers, With Good Weather, to Produce Record Output

CUAL OPERATORS ASK PRICE DECISION   Complain Their Money Has Been Used Without Consent To Pay For Federal Operation.

“SAY MONEY USED   Askinn Federal Agsuranod-¢¢: Higher Prices to.Cowe..::  er Coste

Coal Men Ask Cost Redress   Operators Claim Need Of Hieher Prices

Operators Face Financial Crisis In Mine Seizure   Stabilization Chief Vinson Advised Higher * Prices Must Be Provided To Keep Many Going Beyond Next Week

SHELLS POURED INTO GERMAN REAR LINES: SNOW SLOWS DRIVE   ‘ussian Troops, Trying To Complete Conquest Of Crimea, Battle Way Into Burning Town Of Kerch   (RULELETIN)

RAID DESIGNED TO TERRIFY ITALY INTO SURRENDER      Berlin Target for First Time in Many Weeks

Milan, Turin and Berlin Blasted by Mighty Force of RAF Ramher      Grim Warnings Handed lo Enemy in Air Raids

ITALY BLASTED DURING NIGHT   Greatcs. Force of British Bombers Ever to Raid Haly Attacks «Ar. senal Cities of Milan and Turin — Rome Attacked in Daylight.

GRANGE HONOR FOR OR. DIMIT   Local College Teacher’ to Head, Education Committee

A. Limited ‘Supply. Will Be Avatteble; blardw ate: se “Men Leatn ‘9

A Limited ‘Supply Will Be ‘sity paltablé; Aardware: ’° Men Leatn 

Three Main Cities On Dnieper Totter   Nazi Reports Indicate Some Russian Forces Have Crossed Dnieper River North Of Kiev

Summer Offensive Nears Climax At River's Three Great Cities As Reds Crumble Best Natural Defense Line In All Of Eastern Europe.

New Rulings On Rationing   Victory Gardeners May Get Beans and Dry Peas Without Coupons

NO COUPONS NEEDED FOR GARDEN SEEDS   Peas and Beans Are Available Without, Stamps.

Garden Seed NotRationed   May Buy Dry Peas. and Beans Without Stamp Other Orders Clai ad

Gardeners May Buy Peas, Beans   O. P. A. Announces No Ration Coupons Needed For Planting Seed.

Can Buy Dry Peas, Beans For Your Victory Garden Without Ration Coupons

NO COUPONS FOR DRY PEAS, BEANS   That Is, of Course, ] They’re for Seeds in Victory Gardens

CERTIFICATES NEEDED FOR SEED PEAS, BEANS   Must Be Obtained From Ration Boards, OPA Says—Other Points Of Question Cleared

NoCoupons For Bean, Pea Seed   OPA Also Clears Up  Other Ration Points

Oakes Trial Given Added  Interest In Anticipation  Of Bold Defense Move

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Present Fight In Pacific One Of Most Important Campaigns Of War

RAIDERS REPORT PARTS OF BERLIN STILL IN FLAMES   American Flying Fortresses Deal Daylight Blow at Nazi Air Production in

British Light Bombers Hit af Berlin Again   Raiders Find Fires Still Burning; U. S. Fliers Smash at Nazi Plants in France

Berlin Lashed Again   MOSQUITO SQUADRONS STAB CAPITAL AS U. S. PILOTS RAID FRANCE

GREAT FIRES STILL BURNING IN BERLIN   ~ Fortresses Make Shuttle-Type Attack Against Nazis

Mosquitoes Stage Berlin Raid Follow Ur   Yank Fortresses Deal Day. p. light Blow To Nazi Plane Plant At Bordeaux   FIRST U. §. SHUTTLE   British Marauders Find No Defenders Of Nazi Capital, Lose No Planes

Planes Punch Berlin. Rails Near Naple:   Fires In German Capital: U. S. Air Foree Returns From Shuttle Raid.  Wy 4 TOUTE Tr os gee Set wee oe Gee. Gy Cc vr 1it

RAF Bombers Again Strike At Berlin   Mosquito Squadrons In Quick Follow-Up On Last Night’s Raid

Flying Fortresses Blast French Areas On “Shuttle” Trip From African Bases

BOMB BERLIN AGAIN   Mosquito Squadrens Hit Capital, Return Without Loss

F Mosquitos Follow Up Monday Night’s Saturation Assault—73,000 Residents Of German Capital Reported Homeless—U. S. Flying Fortresses Blast Aircraft Plant In Bordeaux In Completing First American Shuttle Operation Via Africa

Berlin Fires Still Burning   Mosquitoes Stab At German Capital in Raid Follow-up

RAF Squadrons Again! Hit Berlin; U. S.-Flying Forts. Blast France; Naples Target Of Block-Buster:

[Fast British Bombers Raid Berlin Again   Mosquito Planes Stab At Targets; Forts Hit Nazi Airdromes in France

ALL PLANES RETURN FROM BERLIN RAID   Fires Still Burning; Stab Follows Forts’ Attack On Bordeaux

BERLIN RAIDED SECOND NIGHT IN ROW BY RAF      Mosquito Bombers Harrass Capita! Where 73,000 Reported Romeless from Mondav Attack      ‘FORTS’ FLY BACK      Bomb Bordeaux on Return from North Africa, Anderson Says Sbuttle ‘Magnificent’

RAF Mosquito Planes Strike Berlin Again   Find Fires Still Ablaze And Smoke Columns Over Capital   BORDEAUX BLASTED   Yanks Bomb French City On Way Back From North Africa

BERLIN JOLTED ANEW BY RAF’S LIGHT BOMBERS   Nazi Capital Pounded by Mos. quito Squadrons—73,000 Germans Homeless

RAID RESULTS REPORTED BY UNDERGROUND   Monday Night’s Devastating Attack Is Followed Up, Meanwhile, With Assault by Mosquite  Dawshnwes xs (Nawtdal

REICH CAPITAL AGAIN RAIDED BY RAF PLANES      Speedy Wooden Bombers Stab At Berlin;s None Lost; U.S. Airmen Pound Bordeaux

THE RAF MOSQUITO SQUADRONS STRUCK AGAIN AT BERLIN   A Quick Follow-Up of the Devastating Raid by Big British Bombers.   FIRES STILL BURNING   City Was Half Obscured by Smoke Columns; the Searchlights Busy.

Invaders Seize Firm Control Of New Areas   18,000 Prisoners Taken; British Ad- © vance Upon Catania

Issue Ultimatum With Invaders Swarming Sicily   Military Experts See Evacuation Of Island

Jungle Warfare   Guadaleanal_ Is Modern Version Of French And Indian War.

Modernized Version Of Indian Warfare Is Solution To Fighting On Guadalcanal

REDS CLOSE IN ON AXIS REMNANTS   Gains Made On Four Fronts By Soviet Armies

REDS BOMBARD NAZI REMNANTS AT STALINGRAD   Bring in More Prisoners in Mopping-Up Operations

CONTINUE BLASTING   Hundreds Are Killed and  Many Starving, Shiver ing Germans Are. Captured.

REDS BEGIN CLEAN-UP Of STALINGRAD      Merciless Bombardment Opened By Reds Aaainst Nazis

BRITISH EXPECT SE RIES OF AL LIED A PrACKS  Serres 6M ACT ATED OAPI A OVI TARY   SIMMER ASSALLTS FROVM NORWAY TO GREECE FORECAST AFTER AFRICA VICTORY

Series of Blows Is Expected To Be Dealt Axis: Summer Fighting May Decide Victory

New Assaults on Europe Are Expected  Next Few Months to See Series of Invasion Moves

London Sees Allies Seizing Crete, Sicily, Sardinia During Summer

Allies Form Immense Battle Ring   Europe Faces Threats From Arctic Zone To Mediterranean Sea

Series of Assaults Loom  On Exposed Rim of Europe As Sequel to Tunis Victory

STABS AT STRONG HITLER FORTRESS IN SUMMER SEEN   London Believes Series of Attacks Extending From Norway to Greece Are Near at Hand.   STRATEGY PARLEYS BELIEVED UNDER WAY   Allied Triumph in- Tunisia Leads to Speculation on Where Next Blows Will . Fall on Axis,

Axis Faces Many Allied Attacks During Summer   Blows From Norwa To Greece Hinted By British

Europe Invasion  May Come Soon ‘At Many Points   British Expect Quick Action As Tunisia Falls; All Signs  Encouraging

Britain Expects. Early Blows On Hitler's Europe   Conferences For Strategy Believed To Be Under Wav

Blows All Around Hitler's Europe Fortress Expected  Sariae af ei ae   Series of Summer Assaults Predicted By The British.

Allies Poise Blows Around Hitler's Fortified Europe For Coming Summer Invasions

Germans Flee Toward Rome   Every Device Is Used To Delay The Allies

Panicky Movement In Italy   Huns Shoot Civilians And Cows As  Fifth Army Drives  7 More Miles.

Routed Germans Pillage Farms, Slay Protesting Peasants; Seek New Stand 33 Miles From Rom:

Murder, Ine. Convictions  Are Upheld   Supremes Court Contends Trio Had Fair Trial

Conviction Of Three Gangsters  Is Upheld   Buchalter, Weiss And Capone Must Die For Murder Of Brooklyn Storekeeper

CONVICTION OF TRIO BROOKLYN THUGS UPHELD   Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone ta Die In Sing Sing   KILLED SHOPKEEPER.   Supreme Court Refuses to Review Conviction Max Stephan, Convicted of Treason

Death Sentence Of Three Upheld   wh Pee UII  Alleged Members of  “Murder, Inc.,”” to Pita at Sina Claw

Tomato Juice Points Lower   OPA Announces Point Values To Be Changed Only Once Each Month,

TOMATO JUICE POINTS HALVED   All Other Current Blue Coupon Values Expected to Stand

POINTS DOWN ON JUICE   A Cut on Tomato and Other Vege table Juices

TOMATO JUICE POINTS CUT   Other Blue Coupon Values Are Unchanged  eR a ft Uma gees

Tomato Juice Points Cut  All Other Current Blue Coupon Value   Point values of popular sise processed foods, effective dune 6, will be found on Page &

TOMATO JUICE IS CUT IN HALF   Other Blue Coupon Values Remain Unchanged

Churchill Invites Italians To Disown Leaders, Quit War   British Prime Minister Talks to Newsmen And Suggests that Russie Move Against Jap:

GET QUT OF WAR, TALY IS WARNE   Prime Minister Churchill  Gives Bit Of Advice To Italians

Churchill Asks Halian People To Abandon War   Indirect Appeal Made For Russia To Fight Japan

NO INVASION CHIEF NAMED, HE REVEALS   Says Conditions Are Considerably Brighter   WAR ON JAPAN   Must Be Prosecuted With Greatest Vigor, Prime Minister States

Suggest Italy Down Leaders. ~— Quit Struggle   Churchill Extends Indireet  Bid To Russia For Aid  Again&t Japs.   PRAISES REDS’ STAND

Makes Indirect Bid for Cooperation of Russia Against Japan; Prime Minister Sees No Quick Establishment of Second War Front

NDIRECT BIDS RE EXTENDED Y CHURCHILL   lians Given Informal Invitation to Disown Lead-  ers and Get Out of The War   MUIZZED BY NEWSMEN

Churchill Advises Italians to Seek Peace: Offers Feeler to Reds For Aid Against Japs

DISOWN HITLER [TALIANS TOLD  Churchill Invites Mussolini To Get OCrr0oee CYL Cann f'l int

Italy Advised By Churchill To Quit War   Briton Is “Star Witness’ at President’s Press Conference

Italians Are Told To Disown Leaders, Drop Out of War   Indirect Bid for Aid OF Reds Against Japs Made By Churchill!

Italians Invited To Get Out Of War; Reds Get Bid To Help Against Japan

CHURCHILL CALLS ON ITALIANS TO QUIT WAR AND BIDS FOR CLOSER AID FROM REDS AGAINST JAPS   British Prime Minister Gives Italians Invitation tc Make Peace By Disowninfi Their Own Leaders Russian Aid Against Japs Sought

Churchill In Hint To Italy   PRIME MINISTER SAYS ’ ITALIANS SHOULD ’ QUIT WAR

ITALY ASKED TO QUIT NAZIS   Informal Invitation Is Ex—_ By Premier Churchill —

BIDS FOR RUSSIAN AID AGAINST JAPS   Yields No Clue as to When New Land, Sea, Offensives Will Start

ITALY GOT INFORMAL  INVITATION TO MAKE  PEACE WITH ALLIES RUSSIA ALSO GIVEN INDIRECT BID TO AID IN  NHOCTDOIMTIONN AP FADAR

REDS IN FIERCE COUNTER ATTACK   Enemy Pays With Big Losses as Result of New ThreeDay Campaign.

ALL FAIL ~ INAREAS   Germans Methodically Torn Apart by Red Forces Who Employ Strategy in Battle.

Nazi Legions Stopped Cold Near Belgorod   German Losses for  Three Day Attempt Inelndoa 1971 Tanke

FRESH FORCES HIT RED LINES   Russians Regain Some Ground, Cut Up Armor

NAZI GAINS ARE PARTLY WIPED OUT   Germans Pay Big Price In Capturing 2 Villages

AUSS COUNTER DRIES REGAIN SOME GROUND   Smash Enemy Armor. After Letting Panzer Units Thru “Lines.   GERMAN LOSSES MOUNT: AS BIG BATTLE RAGES

- REGAIN GROUNE   Ola Nazi Blitz Tactics Fail As Russians Counter Attack

GERMANS PAI TERRIBLE TOLL LITTLE GAIN   Russians Sey Summer Offensive Has Cost Them 13,000 Men, 1,200 Tanks and 334 Planes.

NAZIS HURL “NEW POWER AT RUSSIANS   Powerful Panzer Units Forced Back After Initial Gains

Toll Also — Includes 8 13,000 Men   GERMANS VAINLY THROW SE! AT RUSSIAN LINES, USING. SAME METHODS AS LAST YEA LOSE 314 PLANES -  2 esew

RUSSIA'S FOOD STATUS ALTERS RED STRATEG)   Plan Holding Warfare To Preserve Land In Cultivation

Tawes Is Facing Loss Of Personal  Gasoline Ration   O.P.A. Attorney Recommends After He Admits Misuse Of C Coupons.

Tawes Faces Loss Of His Personal Gas Rations   Partial Suspension < Of Official Quota  Also Recommended To State OPA Panel

ASSOCIATED PRESS ASKS OPEN TRIAL   No Evidence to Back Monopoly Charges, Attorneys Contend

HP CONTENDING > “PROOF -LAGKING   Claims Government Fails to Back Up Its Monopoly . Charge

CHEST PLEDGES KEEP COMING   Industrial Plants And Employes Hang Up Fine Records

Chest Campaign Beyond Its Goa   Final Figures Expected - To Swell Excess

Announce Services  For Mrs. F. Smith   ‘Jan Service Friday Afternoon at Jones Funeral Home — Burial at New Haven   Allers’ Infant Son Dies

7.500 ARE ANNOUNCED FOR SICILY   American Troops Capture 121,000 Prisoners of War

Casualties In Sicily Low —   ” Many Prisoners Taken By. American Force

_ Americans Take About 121,000  . Axis Prisoners   Acting Secretary of War Says Large Stores of Supplies Captured

Sicily Battle Cost America 7,000 Troops   Total American Casualties Of War Reach 105,658; Many Are Prisoners

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RUSSIANS BITE INTO NETWORK OF RAIL LINES   Soviets Beat Off CounterAttacks At Cherkasy And Gain On Dnieper   HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY NAZIS

RUSSIANS BITE INTO GERMAN RAIL NETWORK      GAINS EXTENDED AT GOMEL AND ALONG DNIEPER LOOP

Nazi Rail Line Broken by Reds   Russians Advancing Northwest of Gomel

Reds Bite Into Vital Rail Centers   Russian Troops Stand Firm Against Heavy Nazi Thrusts

Reds Slash Into Railway Network   - Nazis Recoil, Over ‘100 Villages Freed

Reds Sweep Uy 100 Localities  In Gomel Area   Repeated Nazi Raids Beaten Off in Vital Cherkasy Sector: Dnieper Hold Gains

Reds Slash Into Railway Network   Nazis Recoil, Over 100 Villages Freed  By JAMES M. LONG  ® __peatuwba th Themen MAa kk Ch atdmur

RUSSIANS GAIN IN GOMEL ARE:   BATTLE RAGES IN BLIZZARD— REDS OCCUPY MORE THAN 100 VILLAGES.

REDS HAMMER RAILS NETWORK   Troops Bite Into Lines Northwest Of Gomel,  Gain Elsewhere

Sverjen And Dovsk Fall To Russians   _New Gains Reported eas. Reds Stand-Firm-. Against Attack

Soviets Bite Into Vital Rail Network   Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses in Area Northwest of Gomel

ROYALARSENAL AT NAPLES HIT BY U.S. FLIERS   Flying Fortress Assaul Destroyed 40‘Percent Of Italian Plants, Photos Reveal   SALERNO BLASTED   British. Bombers Attack Mainland City South of Naples; Huge Fires Started by RAF

Retail Grocers Given ~ Markup on Grapes and Apples; Price to Drop

Everyone To Receive Ration Blanks Soon   Book No. 3 Due, And Mailmen This Week Distributing New Application Forms

OPA Ration-Books-by-Mail Plan Is Providing Headaches   Citizens Return Blanks Too Soon; Many Fill Out Sample Applications; Army Men Annoyed

OPA Seen Facing Great Headache .   Colossal Mailing Project Coming Up

Five Men Indicted in Lynching   US Government Takes Southern Negro Lynching to Court; Deputy Sheriff-Jailer Among Those Indicted

WARRANTS ISSUED FOR FIVE INDICTED iN LAUREL LYNCHING   Grand Jury Charges Men With Leading Mob Which Hanged Negro

STAGE DARING NEW LANDING OPERATION   Feat “Extremely Successful;” All Allied Units Advancing

NEW LANDING OPERATION   Feat “Extremely Suecessful:” All Allied Units Advancing

Allege Service Refused in Gas Ration Trouble   Indicted; Conviction May ~ Mean Imprisonment o1  A Fine

Phone Manager Accused Of Stopping Service When Denied Extra Gasoline By Rationing Board

INDICTED FOR SLOWING UP PHONE CALLS   Jefferson Man Allegedly Said “No Gas, No Telephone Service,” to His Subscribers

‘Strike’ Over Gas Ration Is Alleged   Jefferson Telephone Manager Is Indicted

RUSSIANS REPEL NAZI NITE ATTACK   Entire Attacking Force Is Beaten Back With Loss of 400,

AEDS BEAT OFF NIGHT ASSAULTS   Hand - To - Hand Fighting  Marks Efforts To Break  ~ Caucasus Line

FLEEING AXIS HAMMERED BY U, $, PLANES   Last Stronghold of Axis in Libya Bows to Superior Might of Attacking British 8th Army

ALLIES BOMB AXIS TRANSPORT TRYING TO EVACUATE CITY   Rommel's”-Korps. Fails -In Delayed Action Move —Enemy Forces Scattered

Part Of Plane. --CrewIsFound   Two Survivors Of Crash “In Alaska Safe; Hunt: ’ For ‘Three Others:

Two Of Six On Alaskan-Bound Plane  Survive Four Weeks In Wildernes:   Plane Crashed Against Ridge On January 5; Hope Revived For Others Aboard Plane; Lone Woman Passenver Died From Loss Of Blood.

MILITARY COURT TO TRY RIMKE   Soldier Held For Assault And Robbery Of Film And Stage Star

MORE BELGIANS KILLED   News Agency Says Twelve Had Been Shot by Germans.

CHURCHILL SAYS EUROPE WAR WILL BE WON NEXT YEAR   Allies Can Win If Neo Grave Mistakes Are Made, Declares British  Prime Minister.

CHURCHILL PREDICTS VICTORY IN 1944   Barring “Grave Mistakes’, Premier’s Prediction Is Positive

Moderate Losses States Sec. Kno»   Major Engagement May BB Near, He Reports

Secretary Says Major Battle In Pacific Looming     Losses In & Solomon Area Encounte#s So Far Are ‘‘Modf¢rate,’’ He Announces   AIRMEN EXCHANGE BLOWS IN ALEUTIANS

Jap Resistance. On Guadalcanal Apparently Ends   Most of Enemy Believed to. Have Withdrawn

Integrated Bar Bill Is Held Valid   Measure Providing For State Organization Of Attorneys Was Enacted Legally, Court Decides

: Integrated Bar : Bill Held Legal  Enacted Validly, High Court Holds

MATERNITY CARE FUND DEPLETED   Ohio Needs $222,930 For Proccessing Of 2,477 Applications

SEE DEPLETION OF FED, MATERNITY All      Congress Expected To Grant More Funds

FORECAST FROST IN MASON CITY   Continued Cool Js Predicted for State

12 ENEMY DIVISIONS REPORTED IN SICILY   Allied Officials Claim Only Two Nazis Units on Isle

12 AXIS DIVISIONS ON SICILY, BELIEF   Allied Sources Estimate 144,000 Enemy Faced

Americans Losein Air Blows Swap   Submarine Lost, Paramuchiru Raid ls Costly One

KNOX AGREES RAID (N PARAMUSHIRU COST U. 5. HEAVILY      Kurile’ Raid Gives Point To Patterson’s ‘Appeal , For More Plane Production

U. o., JAP AMR BLOWS THADED: WE LOSE MOoT   American Raid On Kuriles Costs Ten Big Bombers, Navy Announces

RAIN WAS.WELCOME   Garden City Receive Received 2,55. Inches ef Moisture

jpMEPENCSE VAM TE MSPIAle WUPpPIng Lista a la  Amorican Subs Carry War To Enemy Harbors

PRIVATE CARS MAY BE TAKEN OVER TO - MOVE U. S, TROOPS   Plan Is to Relieve De. mands on Railroads —. May Be Nationwide - in Scope.

VIOLENCE FLARES IN DENMARK; NAZI TROOPS ATTACKED   Danish Army, Navy Are Resisting Germans 2—Fighting In ' Copenhagen

SERMANS HAVE FULL CONTROL, THEY DECLARE      ' But They “Lost” More Than 30 Danish Vessels. Many Danes Are Fleeing Into Sweden

BIG NAZI BASE MAY COLLAPSE   Decisive Stage of Battle Is At Hond — Neer: Approaches Are ° Ruptured. .   1wo Great Battles Rage with the Signs Favoring Allied Victories

REDS ADVANCE ON OREL; 8TH ARMY MOVES UP      Tokyo Pessimistic Over Air Warfare In Pacific Area aa

Two Cigantic : Battles Rage; United Nation: Winning Both.   Russian And Sicilian Fronts Aflame As Big Allied. Armies Smash Through Opposition

“MISS VARGA” ON TRIAL FOR LIFE   Postofice Examiners to Submit tc “Shock” Tests Today

Dehydrated Soups Off Ration List. Fruit Juice Points Cut   A table of vew point values will be found on Pree &

Council Of Asia Meets At Tokyo   Japs See New Order Strengthened

Jap Puppet Leaders Meet Tokyo Chiefs   Discuss Own Peace as Allies Sink 15 Jap Warships During Fight

Tokvo Cirele Plans Peace   Japan Calls Puppet Govern ments For Conterence  While Allies Act.

HIGH OFFICIALS OF ©” JAPAN PLAN PEACE WITH PUPPET HEADS  - ALLIED NAVAL FORCES - SANK OR. DAMAGE FOUR TEEN JAP WARSHIPS

JAPS, PUPPETS  MEET INTORYE   Allied Naval Forces Count 14 Jap Ships Sunk During Week.   FOE IN CHINA ADVANCES

Jap Officials Gather For Peace Meet   Allies Respond With Tabulations Of 14 Nip Warships Hit

JAPS MAKING . STEPS TOWARD “WORLD PEACE   High Japanese Officials  And Representatives From Puppet Govern“ments Meeting in Tokyc

JAP OFFICIALS MEET IN TOKYO   Nips Claim Successes De spite 14 Ships Sunk By Allies

PUPPET CHIEFS MEET IN TOKYO   Jops Will Boast of Successes, Talk About Permanent Peace’

Fifteen Jap Warships Claimed Suiik In Continuing Bitter Sea Battles —

Nip Puppets to Take Step Toward Peace   Marines Advance on Bougainville; Treasury Island Cleared of Enemy; Chinese Ranort lan Advanra

JAPANESE  HOLD ‘PEACE CONFERENCE      Representatives Of Five Puppet States Meet Masters

‘We Are Winning Asserts Tydings   Predicts a Long War in Pacific

Former Marine To Face Firing Squad in Utah   Walter R. Perry Will B Shot at Sunrise af Salt Lake City

MORGENTHAU PLANS HD WAR LOAN DRIVE   Doubled Purchases Of Bonds Urged By Official

Third War Loan Set For Sept. 9   . People Must Pur‘chase More Bonds

TO START THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE SEPT. ¢   Morgenthau Says Citizens May; Have to Double Their Investments.

Gandhi Condition Reported Worse  Completes Second  Week of His last

GANDHI GROWS STILL WEAKER   All India Watches Fate of 73-Year-Old Fasting Leader

Picked Up Some of Scharnhorst Crew   Battleship Duke of York and Group of Cruisers Credited With Sinking.

DUKE OF YORK » HIT NAZI SHIP   Scharnhorst Sunk by Big British Battleship and , Cruisers

‘STORY OF NAVY VICTORY TOLD BY ADMIRALTY   How Warships Pursued Battleship Scharnhorst Described in Detail

BIVE ACCOUNT OF SEA BATTLE      Admiralty Places Credit for Sinking of German Ship Scharnhorst.   GERMANS ARE PRISONERS

‘Duke of York’ Gets Credit   British Flagship Heads Naval Unit Which Sank Big Nazi Battleship 

SEVERAL HITS MADE ON THE SCHARNHORST   British Battleship Duke of York Among Craft Which Sank Capital Vessel After a Running Fight.

Battleship Duke Of York Took Part In Battle Off Norwegian Coast, Admiralty Reveals

Admiralty Gives Story Of Naval Engagement; Torpedoes Send Nazi Ship To Bottom

British Close Behind, Yanks Pressing Flank   Americans Hammer Rommel on 100-Mile Front as First Army Opens Major Offensive Against Enemy In Tunis-Bizerte Zone.

Twin Drives Puts ‘Fox’ in Bad Position   British First Army Launches \ Synchronized Drive’: with Montgomery’s Offensive

Allies Pursue Fleeing Nazis   Americans Hammer Escape Corridor On 100-Mile Front; British Stream Into Bottleneck

8th Army North of Gabes, British First Army Retakes Town   Lieut. Gen. Patton, Jr., Forces Strike at Rommel from Three Directions on Central Front

British. Eighth Army ‘Streams. Deeper ° Into: mt Gabes Bottleneck As Nazi Forces Con- tinue To Fall Back-—British Open Ofioe Against Germans In Tunis-Bizerte  rea ~

Tribal Warriors Now 34 Miles From Bizerte  Eighth Army Pushes   Eighth Army Pushes Close on Axis Heels In Gabes Bottleneck

British First Army In Major Attack On Von Arnim’s Forces In The Tunis-Bizerte Area.

Americans Press Toward Coast. Against Desperate Defense, While First Army in North Opens Majo Offensive, Recapture Sedjeni Reported Landing at Sfax. Not Confirmed. as

British Push  Deep in Gabes “Bottleneck”’   Take Oudref, Attack In  Tunis-Bizerte Sector

British Eighth Army Captures Vital Town In Gabes Bottleneck   Sedjenane Retaken By Anderson In North Tunisian Offensive As  Yanks Blast At Escape Corridor

U. S. TROOPS BATTERING ESCAPE AREA   London Hears British First Army Has Opened Major Offensive Against Von Arnim   SEDJENANE RECAPTURED

BRITISH FIRST ARMY ALSO ON AN OFFENSIVE   American Forces Reported in Thick of Fighting as Axis Continues to Offer Resistance

Yanks Pound * At Rommel’s _ Escape Road   British Open Offensive Against Von Arnim in Bizerte Zone

Subsidy Plan Inflationary  _ Asserts Reed   Kansas Senator Charges Government Misrepresented BRacts<

SUBSIDY PLAN UNDER ATTACK OF SENATORS   Reed Charges ‘Administration Misrepresents Facts on Wages, Cost of Living

Rollback Held Inflation Spur  Need Misrepresented By Administration, ee Co Bad

Kansan Labels Subsidy Plans  Inflation Aid   Senator Reed Declares Wages Still Outrun Increased Living Cost.   ATTACK TAFT MEASURE

Subsidy Plan - Hit in Senate   Kansas Solon Charges Administration with “Complete Misrepresentation of Fact?’

tnflati onary Threat Seen In Subsidies      Rise Of Living Costs Fails To Keep Pace With Salary Gains

COLUMBUS PLANT BEHIND SCHEDULE   So Say Senators After Visit To Curtiss-Wright

PLANE FACTORY DELAYS STUDIED   Senate Group Blames Manpower Turnover And Shortages Of Materials

Upping of Mail Rate Called Off  s Also Decide ve " : "Upen Other Anaolec for Reve

Marigny Unmover By Prosecution   Insists He Did Not Murder Sir Harry

PRIVATE LIFE OF MARIGNY IS BARED TO COUR   Defendant Admits Living With His Second Wife After Divorce ~~

Seek. “Free Germany”   German Officers from Soviet ‘Prison  Camps Form Union Calling fo:  Overthrow of Hitler

Anti-Hitler Organization Formed by Captive German Officers in Russia

Hitler's Downfall Is Group's Aim  Union Of German Officers Formed

WOULD CRUSH THE: HITLER MACHINE AND END THE WA   NT me cay arta  Victims Of Stalingra Declare Germany . Has Lost War    CONDITIONS NOW _ WORSE THAN 191

Bulk of Italian Fleet Reaches Malta Safely, One Battleship Sunk by Nazis: Some Interned   ’ Roma, Newest, Is Likely Sunk; Spain Interns Another

Four Battleships Reach Malta; Roma in Neutral Port Of Palma.   GERMANS ATTACK FLEET

IMPORTANT PART OF ITALIAN FLEET NOW REPORTED AT MALTA   OTHER UNITS OF FLEET REPORTED TO HAVE ESCAPED GERMANS

Four of Italy's Battleships In Hands of Allie:   35,000 Ton Roma Reported In Neutral Sanctuary In Balearics; One Sunk By German Bombers, Leaving One Unaccounted For.

{ Battleships, Cruisers Safe At Malta Port   Bulk Of Navy Now Safe In Allied Or Neutral Hands After Fight

4 BATTLESHIPS, OTHER WARSHIPS STEAM TO MALTA   ONE VESSEL SUNK BY GERMANS IN AIR-SEA BATTLE OFF CORSICA

4 Battleships Reach Malta: Nazis Sink 1   Nine Cruisers, Six Destroyers, Many Smaller  Units Also Run German epee ¢ per ee oe Ee

Report Allies Hold 4 Big Warships;  Germans Sink One   Former Allies Engage In Fierce Battle Off Island Of Corsica; See Vessels Doing Patrol Work

MOST OF DUCE'S NAVAL STRENGTH ESCAPES NAZIS   four Battleships And Seven Cruisers Steam Into Malta Harbor; Others In Other Allied Ports.

Four Other Battleships Safe In Allied Hands At Malta; Nine Cruisers, 22 Other Units Nov In Allied Seaports

One Sunk by Germans, Sixth in Neutra! Port   Four Battleships, Several Cruisers, Destroyers Reach Malta, With Many Smaller Boats, After Running Gantlet   ALLIED FLIER TELLS OF BATTLE   ltalian Warships Attacked by Germar Bombers When Too Far Away for Alliec Fighter Protection, Ship Split Open

SIX ITALIAN BATTLESHIPS ~ ESCAPE NAZIS      Four Are Safe At Malta. While Fifth Reaches  : Neutral Spain

Italian Navy In Hands of Allies   Four of Seven Battleships Have Reached Safety at Malta   ONE SUNK BY GERMANS   [The Roma Is Reported tc Have Arrived at a Spanish Island

One Sunk By German Bombers   Four Battleships, 11 Cruisers, Eight  Destroyers and Many Smaller Units Safely  Run German Gauntlet—One Battleship Reaches Spanish Island

Four Battleships, Nine Cruisers  Arrive At Malta   ~ Six Destroyers, Numerous Smaller Units Also Among Ships To Run Nazi Gantlet

Allies Push Qn in Sicily; End Is Near   Undersecretary _ Patterson Predicts Conquest Will Be Completed Soon   SIX MORE TOWNS  FALL TO ALLIES   Americans and Canadians in Co-ordinated Push Move Close to Messina

End OF Sicily  Conquest Neat   Military Significance Of Mussolini Resignation Not Clear——Patterson,

Conquest of Sicily Probably May Be Complete in Few Days, Patterson

eT  END OF SICILIAN CAMPAIGN 15 NEAR   Patterson Says Fighting Has €ntered Final Stage; Conguest a Matter of Days

Sees Sicily CampaignOver  In A Few Days   Patterson Says It  Has Now Entered Its Final Phase

Heavy Fighting In Sicily Predicted By R. P. Patterson   ‘Period Of > laine Quiet’ Over Says Acting Secretary Of War

No Sign of Diminishing Resistance   Despite Violence of Fighting Early Conquest of Sicily Is Predicted  OVERTURES NOT MADE

Acting Seeretary of War Patterson Makes Prediction At Washington Press Conference   YANKS THREATEN TO OUTFLANK GERMANS   Move Exnected In Vicinity  nf AA, . . of Missina As Battle Far  lialian Ouipost fnters Final Phase

ALL PLA COMPIF i: ra         Bishop Lee to Speak at Noon Services Beginning Monday

Reds Press: New Offensive In Orel Sector; Beat Off Nazi Attacks Near Belgorod   Swift Soviet Thrusts Near Orel Result In 25-Mile Advance; 110 Towns Taken

RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVES ON OREL   Stubborn Soviets Beat Of Nazi Offensive: 10 Divisions Are Routed

Russians Press New Offensive  In Orel Sector   German Attacks Are Reaten (Off

HITLER'S DRIVE IS SMASHED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Reds Send Germans Reeling Back With Counterattack On Strongest Salient

NEWS CUT OFF IN WASHINGTON   Four Dailies Unable Teo Publish Because Of Typo Strike

AT AT EOSS FARM      Over 100 Entries Listed by New England Setter _ Club

Knox Want: Air Bases  In Pacific   Advocates using Lendlease to keep Japanese disarmed

WOTICE. LOCKER PATRONS.   FRRNITITRE FOR SALE.   DO VYOr NEED MONEY?

SOLDIERS SCORE MINERS’ ACTION   Stars And Stripes, in N. Af. rican Edition, Assails Walkout in U.S.

Troops Criticize Strike In Mines  Urge Drastic Action Against Leaders

Railway Service Is Near Normal   Crews Are Repairing Washout Darriage

Allied Flyers — _BusyIn Burma   Jap Bases Are Rendered Untenable By Bombers In Weekend. Raids

ALLIES SCORE IN JAP-HELD BURMA   SHARP BLOWS ALSO STRUCK IN CHINA OVER WEEK-END

Sharp! Blows Dealt Th Jap-Held Burma   Bhamo, Advanced Storage Base, Made Untenable; 4. Zeros Downed *

ALLIED FLIERS SHARPLY RAID JAPS AT BURMA   Also. Score. Heavy ‘Blow  Against Nipponese In : Southwest China In  Weekend Operations   BURMA HARD HIT   Enemy Storage Base Ir Burma Rendered Practically Unienable; Fires  Envelope Installations

Report Japs Pampered In Camps In US   Dies Committee  Conducts Probe

Casualties for U. S. at 105,205 Total   OW! REVEALS 20,104 AMERICAN DEAD IN SECOND WORLD WAR

CASUALTY LIST REACHES 65,380   Total of 10,150 Killed In All Branches of U.S. Armed Forces

Rides Available For. Resple’ Who ‘Work. es           The U. 'S. Casualties, 7°. _ Now Reported Total  405.205—Ddad 20:104

U. S. War Casualties So Far Include 20,104 Killed, 28226 Wounded

Report Allied Edge in Tunisia During Past Week   Comparative Lull Prevails in Southern Sector after Rommel Defeat.   Mueh Air Activity   And British and French Are in Action in Northern and Central Tunisia.

Bankhead Urges His Bill Upheld   Asks Senate To Override F. D. R.’s Veto

Bankhead Bill Veto Conceded ‘Chance To Win      Even Farm Bloc Leaders Say Issue Is In Doubt With , President Gaining

Bankhead Concedes Issue “In Doubt” On Bill To Boost Agriculture Prices

VILLAGE BOARD ASKS INCREASE IN MILK PRICE   Warsaw Fathers Joined by Town, County War Council Otficials— Milk Drought Ended

Almost Cut In Two, U.S. Plane Lands   ‘Ship Like That Can't Fly’ Says Expert —

Messerschmitt Hits Fortress   German Plane Goes Down While Fortress Returns to Base

Asks Extension Of Coal Contract   Says Public Fears Shortage Of Fuel

Smolensk Area Drive Is Pushed By Soviet Forces   Progress Reported On Central Front—-Germans Seek To Retake Kharkov   BITTER BATTLES IN UPPER DONETS ZONE

FIGHTING Al AHARKUY 3 VERY FIERCE   Russians Are Making Valiant Stand Against Superior Odds.   LOCKED IN’ BATTLE   But Elsewhere Along the Russian Front the Reds: . Move Ahead. .

CITIES OF BRYANSK & SMOLENSK FACE INCREASING PERIL   Momentum of Big Soviet Summer Offensive Continues At High Speed As Reds Smash At Strong German Fortifications.

UNUSUAL RUBING.   Judge Frees Man Who Took Parts of Radar Equipment.

HITLER DEFEAT KEY OBJECTIVE   Allied strategy remains same after war council meeting

Railroad Unions Prepared to Strike  Congress Urged to Take Action  To Salve Prahloam af Pav Inerancea

LABOR WIDENS ITS ATTACK ON PAY CEILINGS   Main Assault Comes From CIO and AFL Railroad Unions, Independent Rail Brotherhoods

Labor Widens Its Attack On Wage Ceilings   Steel And Rail Unions Lead Fight Against Con. trol System.

Rail Unions Await Signal   Harrison Urges Congress To Step Into Picture To Solve Problem.

House-Senate In Last Minute Scrap Over Appropriations As Year Ends

SENATE WOULD INCREASE OPA, OW! ALLOWANCE   Fiscal Year Nears End; Agencies Needing Money

SENATE FIGHT ‘OVER OPA, OW BRINGS TANGLE   Last-Minute Tie-ups Seen In Appropriations For Federal Agencies Be. ‘fore Midnight   STOP-GAPS NEEDED   No- Attempts Being Made to Cut Army’s Budget, - But Byrd Protests. - Against Waste

PREDICTS HIKE IN CORN CEILING   National Master of Grange Says Price Structure Out of Balance

DARING RAID ON BERLIN IS. CARRIED OUT   Small Force of Mosquito Planes Take : Part: All Return —

GOERING URGES SACRIFICE, EVEN DEATH, 10 NAZIS   Germans Observe 10th Anniversary of Hitler’s Rise   FUEHRER IN SECLUSION IN BAVARIAN RETREAT

Tells World That Germany Is Only Bulwark Against Onrushine Bolshevism

WEATHER   GUERING'S PEP TALK DELAYED BY DARING RAII   ‘Dark Decade’ Speech Alibis For Disaster In Russia

Interrupt Goehring Address   All of Small Force of Ligh Bombers Return Safely from Daring Raid

TOTH BIRTHDAY OF NAZIS OBSERVED; NO PEACE FEELER   Fuehrer No. 2, However, Lev- els Entire. Tirade At Eas--. tern Enemy.:   Berlin. Bombed!

Hitler Extends One-Man Reich Rule by Four Years; Goering’s Speech Gloomy   Daring British Raid Delays Anniversary Talk by One Hour; Fuehrer Believed in Mountain Retreat With His Astrologer

COAL MINERS REMAIN IDLE   SHIP BUILDING AT GULF PORTS WILL BE HARD HIT, UNLESS . >. SPRIKE CALLED OFF

MINERS’ STRIKE MAY SHUT DOWN GULF SHIPYARDS   All Coal Mines Except Two in Birmingham Area Remain Idle

2100 MINERS REMAIN OUT ON STRIKE   Idleness in Alabama May Curtail Work in Shipyards

Bible Conference At Lake Okoboji Sunday   Headline Speakers Include Bishop Magee, Des Moines

Okobo} Bible ~ Confer, Opens Sun, July 25      ’ . ‘METHODIST CAMP JULY  25 AUGUST 1, COME, SHARE A GREAT WEEK

THREE PERSONS DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR IN SOUTH CAROLIN:      Woman Was One to Dic After U. S. Supreme Court Refused Stay  of Sentence.

OPA BLASTS HOPES FOR EASED GAS BAN   Officials Say New. Control: Would Replace Relaxed Restrictions

Patton Takes Sened, His Patrols Within Sight of Maknassy; British Attack Flank

TAKE FIRST OBJECTIVES IN ADVANCE   Americans Pressing Down From Northwest Capture 1,400 Italians in 20-Mile Sweep.   PINCERS THREATEN ROMMEL’S FORCES   Desert Fox’s Position in Tunisia Grows Critical —Drive Opens With Mighty Air Assault.

Americans Grab 1,400 Enemy Troops in Push   British Get Through First Objectives in Mareth Line; Aerial Operations Heavy

Progress Made by Eight in Pushing Past Mareth Line   In North ,However, Von Arnim Threatens Vital Allied Base   By Associated Press

Mareth Line Jat Wins Objectives On 6 Mile Front   U. 5S. Strikes For Make nassy After Sened Falls; 1,400 Italians Captured

Allies Clamp  Pincer on  Nazi Army   Yanks Take 1,400 Prisoners While British Slug at Nazi Defense Line; Severe Resistance Nets Foe Little

All-Out Battle  Looms; Mareth Line Attacked  Yanks Within Sight Of Maknassy; Canopy Of Bombers Covers Big Offensive Operations

American Column Advances Within 50 Miles Of Medi terranean Coast   AERIAL OPERATIONS _ON WIDESPREAD SCALE

Patton Forces Drive Rapidly Toward Gabe:   See Signs Rommel Retreat Already Begun; British Wiest Army Loses.   YANKS TAKE ITALIANS

TWIN SQUEEZE MADE AGAINST ENEMY FORCES   U. S. Tanks Sweep Across Tunisia Toward Gulf Of Gabes; British Break Resistance   Airmen Pound Rommel

American Forces Capture 1400 Axis Prisoners in Tunisia’ FORCES OF PATTON. CONTINUE TO MOVE Crushing Advance Toward  the Coast Not Slow. ed Dawn

Patton's Men Peril Rommel Escape Route   Montgomery’s Forces Smash Way to First Objectives as Yankees Drive to Coastal Plain

MARETH LINE IS PIERCED BY BRITISH FORCE   AMERICANS NEARING GULF, TAKE 1,400 PRISONERS

Yanks Capture 1,400 Germans  as Prisoners   Severe Opposition Is Overcome by Allied Forces

AMERICAN ARMORED FORCES CAPTURE 1400 AXIS PRISONERS IN SWEEP ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL TUNISIA  TOWARDS GABES.

Americans Take {400 Prisoners In North Africa   sin. Drive against Axis Forces Reported Making Gains   ation’s Troops Advan. cing foward Coast According to Schedule

British Eighth Battles To First Objectives In Southern Tunisia  PATTON ADVANCES STEADILY EASTWARD  Rommel’s Army Takes Unmerciful Pounding From Allje;) Air Arm

ARMORED UNITS FORGING WEDGE   Allied Ground, Air Offensive Threatens Germans In South.   JBRITISH LEAVE NEFSA

* General Patton’‘s Forces Continue Drive To The Sea   Italians Flee Before Onrushing Americans Or Surrender Without Struaale In Tunisia

AMERICAN ARMOR  DRIVES WEDGE IN  GERMAN DEFENSE ALLIES THREATEN TO  ENCIRCLE ROMMEL IN RATTI FE COR TIINICIA

Kighth Army Plunges Into Mareth Line   Americans Sweep on Toward Gulf of Gabes, Take 1400 Captives

Montgomery sArmy Slams Giant Forces Into Mareth Line   1400 DAZED DUCE FOLLOWERS ARE TAKEN PRISONERS AS U. S. GENERAL PATTON HITS FROM WEST IN SHATTERING THRUST

British Eighth  Army Slugs Way To Objectives   Favorable Weather Permits Big Seale Aerial Operations In Tunisia.

Americans Take 1400 Prisoners   Yanks Sweep Across §.-Central Tunisia Toward Gulf of Gabes

a Army Within 52 Miles of Coast; British  Penetrating Mareth Line   Strike In Unison Under Canopy of Planes; Believe Germans Have Withdrawn Many Divisions and Left Defense to the Italians

AMERICANS PUSH TOWARD COAST   Yank Armored Forces Cape ture 1,400 Prisoners   EIGHTH ARMY   Slugs its Way Through First Objectives in Mareth Line On Six-Mile Front

in Newest Attack on Axis Forces in Mareth Line; Americans Also Advancing

British Slash Mareth Line   Gain First Objective As. Yanks. Advance in Center:

“American Armor Drives * Wedge From the West Toward Gabes  TAKE 1,400 ITALIANS      British Eighth Army, Attacking From South,  Has Hard Going ©

Near Maknassy; British Dent Mareth Line; Reds Admit Belgorod Lost, Report Gain In North.

Lehman Proposes U.S. Make Gifts Of Relief Supplies  Urges Action to Save Credit of Nations For Reconstruction  CITES LAST WAR Says Americans Can't Live in World Half Rich. Half Pauperized   Urges Action to Save Credit of Nations For Reconstruction

Lehman Sees NeedOtHelp For Hungry   DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN RELIEF CALLS FOR ORGANIZED EFFORT BY UNITED NATIONS A¥TER WAR.   URGES OUTRIGHT GIFTS

Girl Gangster Auxiliaries Join Zoot-Suited Hoodlums as Street Fighting With Service Men Continues .

ITALIAN AND SICILIAN AIR FIELDS AGAIN FEEL WEIGHT OF ALLIED AIR FORCES, LOSE 17 MORE PLANES,

17 Units Destroyed in Series of Forays From Africa, Malta,  Middle EF aet

ALLIES DOWN bb MORE AXIS WARPLANES   Three-Day Bag of Ait War in Mediterranean Raised to 272

305 Axis Planes Destroyed In Four Days’ Raiding; Attack from Malta Spreads Ruin

305 Blasted In 4 Bays By Allies   Italian Air Fields Hit Hard By Big Bombers

BERLIN GIVEN SIXTH ATTACK IN NINE NIGHTS   Trains Burned, Ships Sunk in Growing Aerial Offensive

Non-Stop Offensive Against Italy, Sicily Continued by Allies  17 PLANES SMASHED  IN SATURDAY EFFORTS  American Fortresses Pound at Airfield At Borizzo in Sicilv

Allies Keep Pounding Wide Area   Italian, Sicilian Airfields Suffer Heavily; Latest Raids Destroy 17 Enemy Craft, Strike Buildings

ALLIED BOMBERS CONTINUE ATTACKS ON ITALIAN BASES   Non-Stop Forays Cost Enemy 17 More Planes; Four Day Bag Totals 305

Huge Plane Loss Intlicted On Axis By Allied Fliers   Previous Two-Day Total Is Boosted By 8-6 In Past Few Hours   MANY AXIS PLANES BLASTED ON GROUND   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA.

More Than 300-Aircraft Destroyed in Four Days by Allied Flyers in Mediterranean War Zone

Four - Day Allied Air Toll Is 305   Fierce Pounding OF Italy Is  Continued

ENEMY BASES HAMMERED IN HEAVY RAIDS   Aerial offensive takes heavy toll of Italian, German planes

FOUR-DAY AXIS PLANE LOSSES PLACED AT 30!   Allied Airmen Stage Serie: Of Heavy Raids On Siciliar Air Fields   MINES ARE CLEARED FROM MEDITERRANEAN

17 More Planes Smashed in Air And on Ground   Non-Stop Onslaught Continues without Sign of Letup   American Flying Fortresses Participate in Sunday Attacks

Allied Fliers Hit — Axis Air Fields, Wreck 17 Planes   Non-stop Attacks on Bases in Italy and Sicily Con tinue—305 Enemy Planes Reported Destroyed in Four Davs

Four day assault in French North Africa has accounted for over 300 axis aircraft   American Fortresses bemb airdrome at Borizzo: score many direct hits

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   86 Planes Destroyed i in Allied Aerial Offense

Many Fires Set At Airfields by Flying Forts   Middle East, Malta Fliers Aid Those in French North Africa: More Nazis Seized

Army-Navy V-12 Tests To Be Given AT FHS On Nov. 9   Successful Candidates Will Have Opportunity Of Taking College Courses

GERMANS RETAKE IMPORTANT AREA WEST OF MATEUR   YANKS AND BRITISH RETIRE FROM HILL AFTER 24 HOURS

Heights Near Mateur Taken Back by Nazis   Daylight Counter-Attack Drives British, Yanks from Hills

Allies Lose Key Height: At Mateur   Crossroads Area Retaken by Foe Iu Port Stese:-

Nazis Retake Heights West Of Mateur  From British   U. S. Rangers Also Reported In Defense Foree Forced Back Ry Counter-attack

British Raid Gains Lost to Germans   Counterattacks Drive British Commandos and American Rangers from Important Hill

NAZIS CAPTURE CROSSROAD IN MATEUR SECTION   Germans Announce U. S. Paratroops Wiped Out Behind African Lines

Nazis Take Tunis Hill  Positions   U. S. Paratroops Come To Grief

‘Germans Recapture Positions Taken By British Day Before In Strategic Mateur Sector   Enemy Regains Tactically !mportant Heights In Daylight Counter-Attack

Recapture Positions   Germans Force British Out of Area Near Mateur

NAZIS RETAKE POSITIONS ON MATEUR ROAL   Germans Regain Importan’ Hili Positions In Daylight Counter-attack

NAZIS RETAKE HILL POSITIONS FROM BRITISH   Counter-Attacks Push Troops Back  To Original Lines

Predicts End Of Pleasure Driving Ban By August 1   Motor Federation Head Sees Increase In Value Of “A” Coupons

Maritime Union Opposes Lifting Of Dimout Ban  N. E. Group Would Halt Move Nov. ]

JAP CONVOYS ARE HEADING FOR RABAUL   May Mean - Showdown: Battle ‘of South Pacific

BIG JAP CONVOYS HEAD FOR RABAUL FOR FINAL FIGHI   Separate Groups. Escorted By Fitteen Warships Rushing Dewn from Truk.

HG JAP CONVOYS MOVE TO RABAUL FOR SHOWDOWN   Believe Enemy Seeking To Reinforce Big Sea. Air Base   THREE CONVOYS SEEN BETWEEN TRUK, RABAUL

BiG JAP CONVOYS REPORTED HEADED TOWARD SOLOMONS   Enemy Massing Forces To Strike Rabaul — May . Develop “Into ‘Showdown

WEATHER   » Warships ‘o Challenge Allied Gains      1 Fight Believed Nea + Jap Forces Steam South From Truk   LANES HIT CONVOY   3. Marines Continue te Hammer Foe in Bougainville Jungle

Axis Propaganda Experts Come Up With Queer Stories of Conference

Distraught Nazis Say FDR Wants ‘Sop’ For Pacific Defeats: Said Political Maneuver

ALLIES AND JAPS EXCHANGE BLOW!   Two Enemy Planes Are Destroyed, Two Damaged in Raid on Dutch Timor; Japs Attack Oro Bay

RAID IS STAGED ON DUTCH TIMOR   Two Japanese Planes Are Destroyed; Bombers Start Fires

Allied Bombers Get. Seven Japs  Mr. 7... .... Fy...   Big Koepang Base Of Nips Pounded

Bomber Attack on Reich in Last PreInvasion Periods?   Air Officer Tells of Damage Done to German Industries

Air War OnReich Is Now In Final - Knockout Stage   Army School Study Report Discloses Damage To Major German Cities

AIR ATTACKS AGAINST GERMANY NOW IN FINAL KNOCKOUT STAGE   Land Invasion Expected To Follow Softening Process—Naz Cities in Ruins and War Production Cut—Fliers Converted Into Foot Soldiers Because of Plane Shortage

PREPARED FOR GROUND FIGHT   Forming of Nazi tnfantry Combat Units Reported By Air Force Colonel.

BOMBER RAID ONGERMANY HEAR GLIMAX   Air ‘Attacks Enter Knockout Stage’ Against Nazis

BLN BRB BLYSRRS E£ RESO RS ARMY EXPERT SAYS GERMANY READY TO FIGHT ON GROUND.

Bomber Assault On Germany Is In Final Pre-Invasion Stage   - Even Before Raids On Berlin Germany’s Manu- facturing Capacity Cut 35 Percent, Savs Air Force Officer.

Bomber Attack On Germany Is In Final Pre-Invasion Stage, Officer Reveals

‘Air War On Germany Is Now In Its  Final Stage   Last Blows Being Delivered Prior To LandInvasion, Says. Army Officer

PRE-INVASION STAGE REACHED IN AERIAL WAR   Air Officer Summarizes Destruetion of German Industrial Cities in Three Phases of Attack   PULVERIZING NEXT      Col. Clifton Reveals Five Divisions of Infantry Formed from Lullwaffe Personnel

Indications Now That Germany Is Preparing To  Fight on Ground As Means for Combatting Allied  Invasion. Nazi War Production Cut 35 Per Cent . By Raids _ ; ,

Final Stages Of Air Attacks Under Way   Classic ''Four Phases" o1 Strategic Bombings Are Outlined   1,800,000 ARE HOMELESS

Aerial War  Nears Final   K. O. Stage   American Military Writer  Says We Are Now in  ' Third Phase

Making Ready For Land Invasion. ... .  Air Offensive Against  Germany Is Now In The Final Knockout Stage

Indicates Air Offensive Against’. Germany Is In. Knockout Stace.

Ait Offensive Against Germany Last Preliminary Stage, Report Indicates

Aiir Blitz on Reich Near Invasion Stage ls Official Hint in Army Report

Nazis, Believed Short of Planes, Usina Fliers For Ground Fighting.

AIR ATTACKS IN KNOCKOUT STEP   Luftwaffe Personnel Reported Transferred To Infantry

KNOCKOUT BLOW COMING BEHIND AIR OFFENSIVE   Germany, Already Staggering Under Impact of Raids, To ‘Get the Works’

‘AIR ATTACKS ON GERMANY IN FINAL PRE-INVASION  “STAGE, AIR FORCE OFFICER SAYS: LIST DAMAGE DONE

Aerial Offensive On Germany Enters Final Pre-Invasion Stage; Attacks Cut Production 35 Per Cent, Damage Civilian Morale

Air Offensive Against Nazis Now Entering Its Final Stages   Preliminary Phases Out Of Way, Says U. S. Air Officer, Who Declares Attacks Entering Knockout Stage Preparatory To Invasion

Air Offensive In Knockout Stage   Army Reveals Air Attack On Germany In Final Knockout Stage Preparatory To A Land Invasion;

May Force Nazis Back Into Poland   Fall of Dnepropetrousk, Key City in German De. fense, Seems Near

Activity on Italian Front  At Low Ebb   Allied Armies Believed Massing For New Assault

NEW BATTLE OPENS ON THE RUML PLAN   Treasury Official Appears _ Before Senate Com- Ae

Ruml Tax Plat Condemned by  Treasury Man  Randolph Paul Says Gehame Wanld Re   Randolph Paul Says Scheme Would Be Partial to Wealthy

Pay-as-You-Go Bill Studied Treasury Opens Another Fight Against Ruml Plan in Senate

BY TREASURY ‘ON RUML PLAN   Views are Presented At Senate Finance Group Hearing

TREASURY NOT FOR RUML PLAN   Larger Abatement Asked For Middle And Lower Income Taxpayers

Rum! Plan Is ‘Target of New , Treasury Fight   Aids Income Tax Payers in High Brackets Paul Says

Treasury Hits At Rumi Plan   Senate Body Opens Tax Bill Hearings

LYEW Dattie  Against Ruml Plan Started By Treasury  Official Says Citizens In Middle and Lower Brackets To Pay Most Of Any New War Taxes  LARCER ARATENIENT   LARGER ABATEMENT FOR THEM URGED

Treasury Aid Fights Runil,  Carlson Plan  Asserts Wealthy Would Benefit More From Levy

TREASURY MAKES A NEW ATTACK ON RUML TAX SCHEME   Declares Small Taxpayers Are Entitled to Larger Abatements Than Those in Higher Brackets.   VIEWS PRESENTED BY GENERAL COUNSEL   Indorsement Given Measure Rejected by House Which Carried Rates Prevailing in 1941,

New Fight Opens on Tax Bill  Treasury Official   QHigac Tactimanw

TREASURY AIDE ARGUES AGAINST RUML TAX PLAN   Says Middle, Lower Income Taxpayers Must Shoulder Most of New Taxes   ENTITLED TO LARGER .. ’42 TAX ABATEMENT   Senate Finance Committee Conducts Hearing on PayGo Legislation; Treasury Prefers '42 Income at Low. er ‘41 Rates

Allies Knock Rommel’s Door   Defense Lines Fixed to Halt Eighth Army

Tripoli Is Hit from Two Sides   French f‘orces Take Part in Movement—Reds Take  Railrozd Town

French, British Peril Tripoli From All Sides   Allied Planes Smash At Gates in Tunisia; Airports Are Target:

AXIS PLANS BATTLE EAST OF TRIPOLI   Rommel's Forces Forming Two Defense Lines

HOME IS DESTROYED   Two Persons Were Injured in Explosion at Goodland

FUEL CURBS HIT BY INDEPENDENTS   OIL RATIONING PLAN DECLARED CRIPPLING SMALLER COMPANIES

INDEPENDENT OIL  COMPANY EXECUTIVE  URGES COMPETITION PAW PANEL TOLD COMPE  TITION IN PETROLEUM IN NICTRY REING DESTROVEL

Tojo Would Give. Much to Hear FDR-Churchill Talks  Hitler Too Is Deeply Interested

JAP PREMIER TOJO UNDOUBTEDLY WOULD GIVE MUCH TO KNOW WHAT 'CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT DOING

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   “hurchill And Roosevelt ‘onference Of Great Concern To Japan

CAPITAL PARLEY PROBLEM FOR T0JO   FDR - Churchill Talks Far From Reassuring For Tokyo Gang

'T0JO MUST BE VERY INTERESTED IN FDR: CHURCHILL, MEETING   MacKenzie Thinks He’d Probably Give a Slice of Jap Plunder For This  Information.

LOCAL PEOPLE TAKE MARRIAGE VOWS IN EARLY AUGUST   Elizabeth Baker And Earl Westadt; Myrtie _Ekren And Set. Buum

TO BE LESS MONEY FOR KANSAS ROADS   Method of DistributingState  Highway Revenue Will -Be Changed   ON PERCENTAGE BASIS

TO BE LESS MONEY FOR KANSAS ROADS   Method of ae  Highway Revenue  Be Changed   ON PERCENTAGE BASIS

Russian Troops Break Through Nazi Lines in Kremenchug Area   Russian Victory Poses as New Threat to Thousands of Nazis.

Unidentified Plane Bombs Rome Area.   Assume Raider Seeks Revenge for Germany

Ray Donahue Succumbs Here  C. And O. Machinist Victim Of Heart  Ailment

Ray Donahue Succumbs Here  Cl And fl VUlankiuta:   C. And O. Machinist Victim Of Heart Ailment

Capitol Hill Sets Holiday   Congressmen Vote : To “Adjourn Thesiav

Congressmen Eager for Yule Vacation, Extend Subsidies; Delay Other Action

HOLIDAY DATES SET BY SOLONS   Congress Plans To Adjourr Tuesday Until Jan. 10

—-By Elton C, Fay   The Pattern Of War Is Cut And Ready— —By  Allies Plan To Take Offensive In Burma

‘New Burma Campaign  Will Open Vast Areas   Huge Stocks Of War Supplies Could Be Sent To : China Where Planes Need Gasoline

British Gain On One Sector, Lose on Other   Rommel in Grave Danger in Spite of Terrific Counter-Attacks   Terrific Battle Raging on Long Front; Yanks Shell Mezzouna

U. 5. TROOPS DROP SHELLS ON MEZZOUNA   While Main Force Repels Axis Attacks, Jne Column of Eighth Army Gains Two Miles

U.S. Troops At Mezzova Above Mareth  Yanks Beat Off Axis   Yanks Beat Off Axis Counterattacks East of El Guetar Theatre

Second 8th Army Force Advances Two Miles in Treat To Encircle Enemy

PREMIER CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS AXIS HAD LARGELY ERASED BRITISH BREACH IN MARETH LINE IN  TUNISIA.

One British Column Gains in Flank Movement; Americans Shelling Town Near Coastal Road

Germans Brunt Frontal Attack On Mareth Line   Allied Airmen Drop Tons of Bombs on Foe Around Zarat; 2.000  Prisoners Captured

British Stubbornly. Hold Mareth Line, Says Communique ; MARSHAL ROMMEL  REMAINS IN PERIL  Wing of British Army  Gains in Threat to En- :  circle Nazis

Jabs by Axis Blunt British Push   One Eighth Army Column Gains in Threat to Encircle Rommel; U. S. Troops Shelling Key Point

Eighth army forces gain 2 miles, threat to encircle Germans   Americans shell Mezzouna, 22 miles ‘ from coast road above Mareth pocket

Americans Push On Toward Sea   British Pincer In North Shows Gain

ENEMY TRIES 10 LAND GOODS ON GUADALCANAL   Knox Believes Only Insignificant Amount May Have Been Floated Ashore   FLEET MOVES WATCHED   Torpedo Boats Led Attack; Final Assault Planned On Papua Territory

Destroyers Landed Very Little Food   Driven Off Before They Could Give Japs Assistance

Roosevelt,  Churchill and ‘Stalin Make the  Announcement   JS A CO-BELLIGERENT   Extent of. Served by Italy Mil Influence Final  Terms

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Make the  Announcement     re A CO.REITIICERENT   IS A CO-BELLIGERENT   Extent of Service by Italy _ Will Influence Final  Terms

Guard Goes on Duty At Hotel Where Planners Will Meet  Food Conference Is To Open Tuesday; Many Will Be There

Military Police Assigned To Keep Reporters From Food  Danforancnca

Helmeted Soldiers Stand Guard as Resort Hotel Prepares for Food Meet

Soldiers Stand Guard as Delegates Of 43 Nations Open Food Conference

Soldiers Will Guard Delegates at Food Conference Which Ts Scheduled to Open Tuesday

FOOD PARLEY WILL START ON TUESDAY      Military Police Thrown Around Hot Springs Hotel .

So.ciers § Guarc Scené 0. al ni-ec z “a ions . F00C - ar ey 0  jen” are

Indiana In 56 Asking ‘More Gas’   Increased Ration Request Made in Resolution

Statements of Petroleum Administration, _ Delegates Vary Widely.   PROTEST TO GO TO WASHINGTON

Resolution Adopted At Pittsburgh Urges Action By Administration   REMARKS BY STEBER

Nazi Agents. Seize Dutch ~ Army Group   Wholesale Arrests Indi‘cate Increasing Tension of Invaders

Germany Moves Swiftly To Secure All Axis Europe Against Invasion

NAZIS PREPARE FOR INVASION   Meve to Reinforce Defenses, Eliminate Possible Uprisings

Wave Of Strikes: May Tie Up Coa!   War Labor Policies  Nearing Crisis

Naples Gets Food, Drugs   Reconstruction of City Begun by U.S., British Engineers

OHIO SURVEYED FOR WAR WORK   Dayton and Akron Areas To Get No More Contracts Due To Labor Shortage

Eighth Army Takes Zuara, Keeps Going   Main Force Now Within 35 Miles Of Tunisian Line

Interoreting  The War   Triple Bomb Fire Possible With Capture of Tripoli

7. Scae us A gains: se-man: Ae jevec at —anc   cay ure 0° Aircie cs in Trio i *oos’s A. ies Siances ir —ur ‘sia

Tripoli’s Fall To British Changes Air Battle Aspect   Repairs To Airdromes Will Give Allies Three-Way  Aerial Offensive On Northern Tunisia

Smashing Raid Made On Jap Rabaul Base   Tojo Warns Follower: That “Situation Is Serious”

Fojo Not So Cocky After Late Events   Situation Serious, Jap Premier Tells’ People Over Radio

Flyers Blast ap Base ‘AL Rabaul      Tojo Warns Japan That War is Getting Serious; Knox Declares That the Initiative Now is Ours

Great Japanese Base Atfacked; Tojo Alarmec   Tokyo Premier Admit: Serious Situation In . .. Pacific War:: °°

Allied Airmen Smash Enemy Rabaul Base   Allies Discover Elaborate Jap Encampment, Intended for Bismarck Sea Victims

Tojo Says War [Situation Is More Serious   Knox Says Japan Has Lest 1,857,000 Tons of Shipping; Allies Drop 382 Bombs on Airdeame at Rahan!l

SMASHING RAID POUNDS RABAUL   Jap Premier Warns Nation War Becoming ‘Serious’

Tojo Calls War More Serious   And Knox Says Japan Has Lost Third of Shipping

Allied Bombs Maul Rabaul   392 Bombs Dropped On Airdrome; Other Jap Bases Assaulted

LOSE HEAVILY   J. S. Airmen Cripple Nippon’s Striking Power: Allies Take  Over Initiative.

Bombers ‘Make Heavy Assault On Jap Rabaul   Allied Flyers in Smashing Assault on Big Jap Base: Tojo. Warns Ja+ pan “War Situation Becoming More Sericus:”

ALLIED FLIERS START FIRES IN RAID ON RABAUL   Blast Enemy Outpost in Kai Is Jands—Tokyo Reveals Concert Over War's Trend

SMASHING ASSAULT MADE ON JAPANESE BASE AT RABAL   Many Fires, Explosions Touched Off By Bombs   TOJO WARNS JAPS. SITUATION SERIOUS

JAP BASE AT RABAUL HARD HIT BY BOMBS   392 Explosives Used In New Guinea Attack. Tojo Warns Japan of War's Seriousness

ALLIES BLAST NEW BRITAIN ENEMY BASE   Over 390 Bombs are Dropped on Rabaul During Smashing Assauit on Airdrome   MANY FIRES STARTED

392 Bombs Pelt Japs at Rabaul   British Forced to Withdraw in Burma

JAPANESE ARE BLASTED FROM AIR BY ALLIES      Smashing Assault Is Made at Rabaul, New Britain   United Nations Alirmen Also Hit Kai Islands

JAPS BLASTED AT RABAUL BY ~ ALUIED FLIERS   Tojo Warns War Becom‘ing Serious; New  Guinea Gains Made

HEAVY ASSAULT MADE ON JAF BASE IN RABAUL   Other Airmen Attack Outpost of Enemy in Kai Islands

Allied Airmen Hit Jap Bases   Heavy Raid On Airfield At Rabaul. Discover New Base On New Guinea.

40 Enemy Warships Sunk or Severely Damaqed by Mines in Tunisian Drive

Property Sales Continue At High Levels In County   Forty-five Pieces of Property, “Including Many in Rushville Changed Hands  ‘ During Month

Realty Sales Over $133,000 In Last Month   County Records Reveal 51 Pieces of Property Have Changed Ownership During the Period.

ASSEMBLY SEES MAY 1 CLOSING   Slow Action On fmportant Measure Will Extend Annual Session

OHIO LEGISLATORS — WANT TO GET HOME   Spring Fever Touches As. sembly Members Who Seek to End Their Work.

Reds Advance Ten Miles In White Russia   Are Within Two Miles Of Nazi . Base At Gomel

Reds Occupy River Sector   Nazis Say Temporary Gains Made By Soviet

Louis Christian Injured in Fire At Fairgrounds  Blaze Destroys One Double Barn; Cause Undetermined

Louis Christian Injured in Fire At Fairgrounds  Blaze Destroys One Double Barn:

ROANE WARNING AT CONVENTION   Daily Globe Publisher Addresses Wisconsin Legion Convention.

Protest Over Falangist Vandalism May Gear France's Status; Move Toward Allies

Falangist Vandals Invade U. S. Consulate In Madrid; Representations Made To Franco

A Warning To Spain      Gov't Takes Serious View of Vandalism In the U..S. Consulate

U.S. Protests Falange Acts   Expect Further Clarification Qn Vandalism In Consulate At Valencia,

MAY GET A LINE ON FRANCO VIEW   Spanish Leader's Position May Be Further Clarified As Result Of U. S. Representations Over Falangist Vandalism.

REPORT OPANIARDS DEFACE CONSULATE   Falangist Vandolism in U. S. Eililding Brings Apologies from Foreiaqn Minister

U.S. PROTEST MAY CLEAR UP STATUS OF FRANCO SOON.   American Anger Over Falangist Acts OF Vandalism At U. S. “Consulate May Make Franco Pasition Clear

Strike to within 15 miles of line; nazi blows in Kharkov sector fail

KNOX SAYS PUBLIC OPTIMISM IS SILLY   Waves Of Complacency Are Causing Slow-Downs In War Production

Knox Terms Public Optimism Over-“Minor Successes” As “Just Silly’

Diseuss Plans For Completing Mt. Alton Por   Airport Committee Will Meet With Govern. ment Officials

City Airport Group to See US. Officials   Council Authorizes Parlevs: J. Deibler Named Sergeant of Police Department

See Little Drop In Traffic Deaths  Expect 15 Per Cent Decline This Year

Probe Demanded of Conditions at Jap Camp at Tule Lake; WRA Admits Its Chief Was Held Prisoner by Nips

Home Front Morale Makes Hitler Cautious— —By Kirke L, Simpso!  Nazi Professionals Direct New Offensive

Too Early To Appraise New German Drive At Belgorod   Not More Than Twelve Weeks Of Certain Good Fighting Weather For Nazis In That Area

WHITE COLLAR MEN IN CAPITAL REVOLT   Bonfire Ceremony Planned as Grand Finale

BLANKS OUT FOR ~ GASOLINE BOOKS   Few Simple Steps Required to Secure New. Rations Beginning July 21.

Oct. 31. Sugar: Stamps Nos. 15 and 16, for 1ome canning use, expire. Shoes: Stamp No. 18 expires.

FILE APPLICATIONS FOR A’ GAS BOOKS   Make Application by Mail Before July 2\st.

APPLICATIONS FOR NEW “A GAG BOOK RECEIVED HERE   Motorists Urged To Obtain Blanks And File Promptly

STREAMLINED PLAN FOR “A” GAS BOOKS TO BE USED HERE   Application Blanks Have Been Delayed But Expected Soon

TO RENEW ‘A BOOKS BY MAIL   Motorists Can Begin To  File Applications  June 22

Renewal Of Basic Gas Books By Mail Is Underway Here   Fill in and Return Blanks az Soon as Possible Boards ~ Urge Motorists

PLANS MADE TO RENEW BASIC ‘N’ GASOLINE BOOKS   Applicants Must Mail Back  of Present Coupon Card to OPA Office

German Forces Spring Surprise: Gain In Tunisia   foe Ihrows 30 Tanks Into Action Against Yanks At Vital Faid Pass.

Nazis Attacking In Force In  Surprise Thrust   On Russian Front Rostov Has Fallen and Kharkov is Endangered.

American Forces Reported  Driven Back 20 Miles in Faid Pass Area by Enemy Soldiers.   HEAVY DAMAGE LEFT  BY RAF ON COLOGNE

Nazis Gain 20 Miles in Surprise Attack; Russian Troops Closing in on Whecknw  °« Tlleetun.

Axis Thrust Puts Tunisian Front Info War Spotlight   With Rostov Taken Back, Russians Put Attention on Kharkov

GAIN TWENTY MILES IN HEAVY FIGHTING IN NORTH AFRIGA   RED ARMY, HOWEVER, CONTINUES PILES UP SUC. CESSES EASTERN FRONT

Nazi Forces Gain 20 Miles  In Tunisia —   Germans Smash Through American Lines in Heavy Fighting in Faid Pass Area; Red Army Continues to Reap  Crerraceae

ENEMY COUNTS OO-MILE GAIN i FTER ASSAULT   Part Of Rommel’s Forces Take Part In Attack Against Americans

FIERCE FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ON TUNISIA FRONT   Germany and Italy Blasted By RAF—Heavy Attacks on Cologne and Milan   RUSSIANS SQUEEZE NAZIS   Hitler Also Plagued by Growing Trouble with Conquered Peoples

American Lines At Faid Smashed By Germans; Reds Chase Nazis From Rostov

SURPRISE AXIo THRUST PUSHES AMERICANS BACK   Germans Gain 20 Miles When Tanks Overrun Artillery In Tunisian Faid Pass District

‘Enemy in 20Mile Gain in Faid Pass Area   Tanks Overrun U. S. Artillery; Dive Bombers Inflict Heavy Losses

Gain 20 Miles In Sur. prise Thrust; Russians Capture Rostov; Khar. kov Fall Looms.

Allies Report Nazis Make 20-Mile Gain; Reds Near Kharkov   Heavy Fighting Rages At Faid Pass With Axis Forces Using Tanks, Infantry, Artillery And Bombers

MAY HAVE FLOOD LOANS   Farmers Who ‘Suffered Damage in This County Eligible

Three Men Shot In Drunken Brawl!   HI.G. Green of East Lumberton Under Bond for Shotgun Affair.

Three Men Shot  Ava   H.G. Green of East-Laimberton Under Bond-for Shotgun Affair:

Two Services Join to Tackle Farm Labor Problem   Selecting Committees Tt All Parts of County to Secure Farm Labor

WOUNDED SOLDIER GETS PURPLE HEART AWARD   Set. John L. Lawrence, New Oxford R. D. No, 2, Decorated For His Service In North Africa

Germans Claim Americans  Falling Back   Outcome of Fight Near Salerno Hangs in Balance

Battle To Death Against 3 Nazi Panzer Divisions   Navies Pour Reinforcements Ashore And Briti Race Up Coasts To Help As Tremendous Battle Rages Around Beachheads.

GRAVE PROBLEM FOR. HITLER IS LOOMING AT SEVERAL POINTS   Russian Front, Sicilian In— Yasion, Trouble in the Balkans Indicates  . "'Beadache.”

Tax Hike Urged With Estate And Gift Levies  U.S. May Refund  Some of Levy  QwTy020.lti‘wWer.lU.UCUmdmTlUr Sk.

PROGRAM FOR 19 BILLIONS OF U, S. TAX   ‘Much of it Would Come Through Increased Individual and Corporation Income Levies.

TREASURY LAYS STIFE PROGRAM BEFORE HOUSE   ‘Little Fellow’ May Get Rebate

1) BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES ARE SOUGHT   Morgenthau Proposes Jump In Income Taxes

NEW TAX PROGRAM AWVELED TODAY BEFORE CONGRES'   Bill. Reportedly Calls for 10 Billions In New Revenue from ‘the People.

Higher Income Aad Corporation Taxes Proposed   Social Security Law Changes and Boost In Levies Suggested

Unveil Largest’ Tax Program InHistory   New Revenue of Ten Billions “To Be Sought 

BIGGEST GOAL IN HISTORY PLANNED BY U.S, TREASURY   $15,860,000,000 Is Sought  Through Increase In ~ Income Taxes, Excises, Etc.

GOVT ASKING FOR INGREASE UF ATO BILLION   Morgenthau Puts Proposal Up to Congress with OK from Roosevelt.   SOME REFUNDS WOULD BE MADE AFTER-WAR

Six Billion To Be Raised By  ‘Income Tax Hike   Plan To Get Third of Money By Increase In Social Security Levy

New Levies Would Raise 15 Billions   Greatly Increased Taxes on Income  Included in Plan

New 19 Billion Dollar Tax Program Propose   Pian Calls for Increased Individual  And Carn Ine Taxes

Soviet Troops Cut Last Railroad Line   German Forces Gain Few More Places West Of Kiev Ac Nazic Continue Powerful Drive

‘00T' GANG IS SAILOR TARGE]   Navy Men Out To Clean On Coast Attackers

80 Nazi Planes Destroyed in Raid on Renault  , DERI OL. see Regetmene = Lge 4 ate Sy Seem,   Running Dogfights Go - Heavily against Hitler's Forces

Eighty Nazi Planes Destroyed In U.S. Sweeps  70 Downed by Gun Crews of American Bamhers on Attacks

80 German Fighter Planes Destroyed By U. S. in Attack On Renault Works

AMERICANS BAG 80 NAZI PLANES   ee  Running Dogfight Takes Place During Raid On Renault Works

BO NAZI PLANES BAGGED IN2 RAIDS   AMERICAN GUNNERS SHOT DOWN 70 OF TOTAL AT PARIS AND ANTWERP.

80 German Planes Downed By Yanks In Two Big Raids   4/ shot From Sky At Renault And 23 Over _ Antwerp: U.S. Loses 8 Bombers. 8 Elahtere .

Yanks Make Good Score At Cost of Only 16 In Paris, Antwerp Raids

DOUNET THEORY OF AERIAL WAR IS UNDER TEST NOW   Offensive Against Ruhr: In Crescendo. Resembling . Great Land Baitle.

COAL PRODUCTION DROPPING STEADILY   Approximately 37,000 Men Are Involved In State Walkouts

Red. Army Plunges Six Miles Beyond Fallen Melitopol  NEAR KRIVOI ROG. IN NEW ASSAULTS.  Gains of the Russians Are Acknowledged — by  Berlin Radia

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Soviet army rolls thru Dnieper loop toward Krivoi Rog   Batter beyond Melitopol,  im smash toward Crimea

Russians Kill 2,000 Nazis in New Advance   Soviets Drive Six Miles Beyond Captured Melitopol

Red Army Storms Ahead Six Miles On Dnieper Loop   Kills 2,000 Nazis, Wrecks Many Tanks

KRIVO THREATENED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Red Steamroller Speeds Six Miles Past Melitopol In Steady Drive   THOUSANDS OF NAZIS FACE ENTRAPMENT

Soviets Drive Relentlessly Past Melitopol   Germans Lose Throngs Of Men, Great Stores of Equipment

ALL-OUT EFFORT URGED BY RICK   Ace Declares Absenteeism ‘Cuts Production By Ten Percent  i

WAR WORKERS © APPEAL MADE   RICKENBACKER DECLARES THAT ABSENCE FROM WAR “PRODUCTION 18 CRIPPI.ING ARMED FORCES’

United States CROP CORPS   NAME IS CHOSEN FOR AMERICA’S LAND ARMY

Congressman to Resign And Go on Active Duty With Navy in Pacific

VAN ZANDT TO. ~ QUITCONGRESS   Resigning to Go in Active Duty. with Navy in Pacific Area

Cold Wind Howls In on Oklahoma   Severe Cold to Remain For Present, Weather Man Predicts

STATE SHIVERS AS WINDS BLOV   That Fresh North Breeze Brings Sub-Freezing Figures to Oklahoma

ELEVEN-TO-ONE VOTE AN ’ NOUNCED ON FLAN AGREED ‘UPON BY ICKES  AND LEWIS 

WLB APPROVES MINE WAGE PACT   Agreement Expected To Speed Return Of 540,000 Workers To Pits

WLB APPROVES MINE PAY HIKE   Agreement ‘Is Expected Te Speed End Of Strike

Nazi Drive is Chastly Flop. Stalin Claims   German Losses in 19-Day Battle Are Set at 70,000 Men

Nazi Resistance Strong; Northern Tunisia Front Shows Signs of Action   Lull Settles Over Areas Occupied by Americans; Week-end Developments May Determine Outcome of Battle

Great African battle rages to climax as Mareth line wavers   British Eighth army inches deeper into axis defenses

US. SENDS OVE 1,100 BOMBERS AGAINST REICH   72 Hours of Devastating Raids

Aerial Attacks On Nazi Europe Are Continuing   American And British Fliers In Devastating Cycle Of Assaults   MAMMOTH ATTACK . * MADE BY AMERICANS

REICH GIVEN NO AIR RAID RELIEF   RAF Carries Devastating Cycle Beyond 72 Hours Without Let-up

EXPERT LOOKS FOR POSTWN VALUES JUNE   State. Association Chooses Waterloo Man as Its "43-4 President.

Hospital Rationing Is Believed Around Corner   Action Said to Be Necessary Unless 50,000 Pupil Nurses Trained in ‘43

Hospital Rationing Just Around The Corner  ‘Scarcity Of Nurses May Mean Cj viliane Must Take Care Of Selves

May Ration: Hospitals In Near Future   Help And Supplies Run Low As Space Deinnand Increases:

HOSPITALS MAY RATION SERVICE   Shortage Of Nursing Help May Mean Restriction On Hospital Service To Civilians, Experts Say.

Partisan scrap Over OWI Enlivens ‘Token’ Economy Campaign In House

House Republicans Will “Go After” Labor Department Appropriation And The $50,000,000 U. S. Housing “Racket”

Nazi General Surrenders  Three Colonels Also Prisoners Of Russians

NAZI GENERAL. GIVES UP FORCE “AT STALINGRAD   Others Giving Up Struggle As Soviet Forces Begin New Drive From the, — Black Sea Sector   FINLAND'S PETSAMO REPORTED INVADED   Germans Reported With drawing to New Lines:  Below Voronezh In . Face Assaults

JAP BOMBERS ROUTED   “Fighter Planes Shoot Down Two Enemy Craft Over Guadalcanal

DRIVE OFF JAPS AERIAL ATTACKS AT GUADALCANAL   Enemy Raiding Group Largest Seen Over Solomons Islands For Considerable Time.

Jap Air Raid On Guadalcanal Beaten Off By U. S. Fighters   Bombers Repulsed; Navy Announces Another Raid In Which Hits Made

Airmen  Ruin Jap Attack   ENEMY LOSES 2 BOMBERS AS YANK FIGHTERS BLOCK RAID ON GUADALCANAL

JAPANESE DRIVEN OFF IN GUADALCANAL RAID   Two Enemy Planes Downed By American Fighters

ENEMY BOMBING FORCE ROUTED   Two Jap Bombers Shot Down In Fighting Over Guadalcanal

JAPS LOSE 2 BOMBERS AT GUADALCANAL   Craft Are Shot Down by U. S. Fighter Pilots Who Drive Off a Formation of 12 or 16 Enemv Raiders.

Kerr Backs Head Of Girls School   Recalls Adage Saying ‘Spare The Rod, Spoil the Child’

ADDITIONAL RATIONS FOR SOME MOTORISTS   But “A” Book Holders Will Have To Form Ride-Sharing Clubs Whenever Possible

GAS RATIONS INEAST CUT INHALE   ‘A’ Card Holders Will Be Unable to Get Supplemental Gas Except  In Rare Cases

Some Vichyites in Africa May Be Removed   Fighting French Receive Note From Gen, Giraud

Some Vichyites in Africa May Be Removed  Fighting French - Receive Note

King to Africa In Pre-Zero Hour Inspection   British and U. S-. Convoys All Along Bediterranean

Peace Overtures Sent By Rumania   Antonescu Would Quit For Bessarabia, Others.

Heavy Damage Hifected At Rabaul   New Britain Point Bombed by Allied Air Force

ALLIES NOW HAVE GAINED INITIATIVE      Deputy Prime Minister Lauds Achievements OF Army

Attlee Says Allies Hold Initiative   Deputy Premier Places Great Trust In Gen. Fisenhow er

FEDERAL PAYROLL GROWS   Uncle Sam Will Have 3,300,000 Employes by July 1.

Legislator And Banker Named In Bribe Probe   Grand Jury Obtains Warrants For William Green OF Hiliman And Francis J. Slattery, Grond Rapids Bank Vice-President

5-Day Battle SavesBagnell Power Plant   Five Hundred Men Work Night and Day to Keep Flood Waters From Equipment

Win Battle — With Flood at Bagnell   Dramatic Five-Day Fight to Save Power Producing Equipment Disclosed   500 WORKERS ON JOB, DAY AND NIGHT:   Army, State and Citizens in Area Joined Effort to Keen Power Going

SPRINGER PLANS A RECESS VISIT   To Come to Greensburg on . Wednesday, July - 28-—-Will “Interview Constituents.

DIVERGENT VIEWS PLACE MYSTERY ANGLE AROUND DEATHS OF CO-ED, COOK

ALLIES PLAN TO DESTROY ISLAND BASES   Pantelleria to be pattern for other Italian outposts

ALLIED BLOWS GONTINUE ON ANS. BASES   Ports in Sicily and Sardinia Will Be Reduc:d to Ashes.   FERRY TERMINAL HIT   United States Fliers Bagged 39 Axis Planes and Lost Eight.

Sardinia And Sicily Sutter Heavy Damage   Allies Resume Aid Attacks In Large Force Upon Italian Island Bases   ee -NINE AXIS “PLANES DESTROYED

SICILY, SARDINIA AGAIN HIT HARD BY YANK PILOTS   RAF Also Delivers Heavy Blows on Bases Off Italian Maintand

AMERICANS WENT ASHORE ON ATTU LIKE FOOTBALL PLAYERS   Wounded Soldier Says Fighting Japs Wouldn’t Be So Bad If You Could See Them Through The Fog;  Use Smokeless Powder; Weather Atrocious

ATU CASUALTIES BACK IN COUNTR\   Men Agree Fighting Wouldn’ Be So Bad If They Could See Japanese

Attu: Island's First Wounded Reach Seattle  Veteran Genera “Pitted Against:

ATTU CASUALTIES DESCRIBE LANDING   WOUNDED COMPLAIN THEY COULDN'T SEE JAPS AT TIMES BECAUSE OF FOG,

Yanks Describe Attu Fighting   Wouldnt Be Bad if You Could See the Japs, Wounded Men Say

PLANE OUTPUT BREAKS RECORD   Production of American Tanks Up 25 Percent In December

U.S. Arms Output Up 14 Per Cent During December  Dararel_Shatterina   Record-Shattering Gain in Planes, Tanks, Artillery

Record - Shattering Increase in U. S. Arms  Production in December Te Renanrted

Arms Output Increased 14 Per Cent in December 5489 Planes Delivered

U.S. Arms Output Up 14 Per Cent During December  Record-Shattering Gain in Planes, Tanks, Artillery

AUTOS FOR PLEASURE   OPA Cracks Down on All Drivers in East Because of Failure to Comply   FUEL OIL CUT ; ALSO PLANNED   Ever More Drastic New Orders Planned If the Need. Arises

Washington Forbids Use Of Gasoline  For Other Than Essential Purposes

All Pleasure Driving sanned in the East      Order, Effective Tomorrow, Applies to Holders of A, B and C Ration Cards in 17 States, District of Columbia.

BAN DRIVING FOR PLEASURE   East’s Motorists Are Warned More Drastic Steps Mav Follow

OPA Bans All Pleasure Driving in East States   Announces Fuel. Oil Heating Rations for All Buildings Except Residences to be Cut Substantially’ Within 24 Hours

OPA Outlaws Pleasure Driving East With Penalty Loss of Ration Book

J oy Driving Out i in East   Cancellation of Gas Ration Cards Penalty For Violation of Order

PPA OUTLANS AL PLEASURE RIDING   Holders of A, B and C Ra tion Cards On East Coas Ordered To Eliminate Al Pleasure Driving, Penal  ties Threatened.

Pleasure Driving In  East Ended   Presence Of Automobiles At Sports Or Other Amusement Events To Result In Lass Of Gas Counens:

No pleasure drives for easterners   Under flat ban: new fuel oil cuts promised

New Ban on Motorists   Pleasure Driving in East for A. B and C Card Holders Outlawed

BAN PLEASURE SPIN   Cars at Sport or Amusement Places Show. Wrong  Use, SaysOPA 7 

in Applies A, Band C rd Holders   cellation of Rations rescribed Penalty for iolations.

Ban Applies To A, B and C Card Holders   Cancellation of. Rations Prescribed Penalty for Violations.

GAS RATIONS TC BE CANCELLED IF VIOLATED   No Pleasure Riding to Be Allowed on A, B. or C. Cards in 17 Eastern States

All Pleasure Driving Ruled Out For East   Fuel Oil For Heating Purposes In All Except Resi dential Buildings Cut.   SUPPLIES VERY SCANT

PLEASURE DRIVING RULED OUT BY OPA   Cancellation Of Gasoline Rations Prescribed As Penalty For Failure To Comply With New Reoulation

Pleasure Driving In East Is Out   To Cancel Gas Ration Cards For Failure to Comply  With Rule,

All Pleasure Driving Halted In 17 States   Drivers In East Face Cancellation Of Thei: Gas Rations If They Fail To Comply

PLEASURE DRIVING S BANNED IN Eko]   Non-Essential Drivers Face Loss Of Ration Cards

No Joyrides, Folks, or You  Lose Rations   Cards Will Be Taken Up As Penalty, Warns OPA Chiefs

OPA OUTLAWS PLEASURE DRIVING   Cancellation of Ration Faces A. B.C. Motorists Failing to Comply

Dutlaw All Pleasure Driving   Cancellation Of Gasoline Rations to  Be Penalty

BOY AND ADOG RAISE HOB WITH /fARCUS ELEPHANTS   He Telis Pup to "Sic 'Em!’ Pachyderms Bolt and Leave.

ARMY CADET NURSE KILLED BY MANIAC   New York Officials Fear More Acts by Killer

Unions Reject White House Plan For Arbitration   Two Big Unions Accept But Seizure Machinery Is Ordered Set Up When Other Unions Reiect Offer And Prepare To Strike Dec. 30.

F.D.R. Orders Preparations for Such Move   Action Comes After Three Unions Refuse Arbitration

FOOD SHORTAGE IS PREDICTED   Sen. Bankhead Declares Million Men Must Be  Let Out Of Army

BANKHEAD SOUNDS A FOOD WARNING   SAYS ARMED FORCES MUST RELEASE 1,000,000 TO AVERT ACUTE SHORTAGE.

Bankhead Suggests Million Men  Return to Farms  Army and Navy Could Avert Serious Shortage of Food

Committee Cuts Money Bill 82%   Hoover Advocates Sending Food to Europe Now; Ickes  . Says Coal Contract May Wean Higher Prices

RUHR’S OUTPUT CUT ONE-THIRD BY AIR ATTACK   British Spokesman Assert: ' Invasion Awaits More Heavy Bombing

Urges Rome Be Declared ‘Open City To Save    British Authority Makes Suggestion—Promises Invasion Of Germany

Stuttgart Blasted by British   Raid on Rail Center Called ‘Heavy’ Attack

Sf. Louis Needs 45,000 More   Mayor Becker Says 125,000 Have Come for War Jobs

MAYOR BECKER OF. ST. LOUIS FAVORS _ RETURN TO FARMS   Contends 45,000 Working  in War . Area Could Be Rationed . Back to Farms,

ALLIES SMASH NEW DENTS IN GERMAN LINES   Fifth Army battles toward Naples through mountainous terrain

Pith Anny Is Battering Way Toward Naples   Advance Is Being Made Through Difficult Mountain Terrain Above  - Salerno   “DEMOLITIONS BY NAZIS HANDICAP

TANKS SMASH NEW DENTS I GERMAN LINES   Continue Advance on Naples  erence core  GUNS LIGHT SKY     German Luftwaffe Hamstrung

U.S, 5TH DENTS GERMANS’ LINE IN NAPLES PUSH   Rugged Terrain, Demolitions Make Yank and British Advance Slow

Opa Would Use "Coin" Stamps   Would Be Less Trouble For Merchants

Jap Cargo Vessel Sunk, Another Is Lashed By Allies   MacArthur Warns Anew On Big Movement Of Jap Reinforcements Above Australia

Allied bombers  Blast 6000-Ton Jap Cargo Ship  Smaller Boat Hit In Raid on Wewak  New Guinea Island WARNINGS RENEWED  Allied Spokesmen Tell _ Of Forces Imperilling Burma, Australia  ALLIED HEADQUAI

Jap Cargo Vessel Sunk, Another Is Lashed By Allies   MacArthur Warns Anew On Big Movement  Of Jap Reinforcements Above Australia Rw VERN HAUGLAND

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST AT WEWAK   DESPITE JAPANESE SHIPPING LOSSES, PACIFIC SITUATION IS MORE MENACING,

JAP SHIP SUNK BY FORTRESSES   American Bombers Raid Wewak; Enemy Is Reinforcing

AUTHORIZE USE OF SOLDIERS ON ARIZONA FARMS   To Use Entire Army Units To Help Harvest Vital Long Staple Cotton Crop: Has President's OK.

Troops Called To Pick Cotton   Units Stationed in Arizona to Harvest Stople in Two Counties

Troops Will Be Used To Help Arizona Farms   Long Staple Cotton Crop Deemed As Indispensable War Material In Army Orders

Some To Be In Army And Behind Plow   Old Song Revised As First Troops Are Sent To Fields

ARMY GIVES FIRST FORGE TO SAVE CROP   Units of Troops to Be Used in Arizona to Larveat Cotton Crop, *   NUMBER OF MEN NOT REVEALED   Senators Assured of Army Help to! Meet Farm Emergency.

Army Orders Soldiers to Aid In Harvest of Arizona Cotton   Marks First Use of Military Units as Farm Labor

QULDIERS HELP IN HARVESTING   First Use of Military Units As Emergency Labor In Arizona.

Troops Help Pick Cotton   Military Units. Units in Arizona First to Act As Farm Labor Help

AUTHORIZES ARMY TO HELP FARMERS   MAY USE MILITARY UNITS IN FARM EMERGENCIES

Soldiers To Help With Cotton Crop  Troops Are Ordered To Aid In Arizona For Valuable Product

Authorize Use Of Army Units As Farm Labor   Troops To: Help Harvest Cotton: in Arizona To . Ease Labor Shortage. . 

Troops fo Help Harvest Cotton   Army Issues Order  To Soldiers in Arizona To Gather Long Staple

White and Negro Troops From Nearby Army Posts To Help In Harvesting Long Staple Cotton Crop To Relieve Emergency

MILITARY UNITS TO GO IN COTTON ‘FIELDS OF ARIZONA   First Use Of Soldiers As Emergency Farm Labor Is Made Known

MILITARY UNITS GET ORDERS TO REAP COTTON   Army Announces Firs! Authoriza tion for Use of Personnel in Har vesting Crops

Army Orders Troops Pick Cotton Crop   First Use of Soldiers As Emergency Farm Labor in U. S.

Soldiers Used To Harvest Cotton   Army Pledges Aid Tc Solve Shortage

ARIZONA TROOP UNITS TO HELP HARVEST CROPS   Soldiers Ordered To Aid Farmers  With Cotton

BERLIN IS IN DARK ON AIMS OF BIG THREE   Nazis Attempt To Predict Outcome Of Conference

Berlin In Dark On fran Talks   Germans Still Guess Today On Contents Of Churchill. FDR Stalin Conference,

U.S. Takes  Over Islands   Occupation of Ellice Group Revealed in Enemy Bombing Raid

U.S, TAKES OVER ELLICE ISLANDS   Yank Occupation of Group In South Pacifie Disclosed by Navy

:  Occupation Of Isles Revealed  Yanks In Ellice Group Bombed By Japs

Foe Raids New U.S. Pos In S. Pacific   Funefuti Oceupetion Is Revealed; More Jap Bases Bombed

-—ALLIES BRANCH OUT—  Ellice Islands  Taken   ..- Occupation Disclosed In Neary Communique

Occupation Of: Island _ Near... Japanese - Held _ Gilberts Is Revealed In  Navy Communique.

Americans Seize Isles In Ellice Group   Enemy Attacks Funafuti, Largest Of Occupied Atolls Near Gilberts   CASUALTIES SMALI   Biggest Island is 150 Yards Wide, 6.8 Miles Long; Yanks Raid Fee

Occupy Elhee  Pacific Isles   Communique Discloses Small ,Bases On Supply  Route Held By LU. S.

ELLICE ISLE OCCUPIED BY U.S. FORCES   Seizure Revealed In Communique Of Navy

NAVY REPORTS JAPS HAVE LOST STRATEGIC SPOT   Gives No Date for Occupation of Island Within Striking Distance of Gilberts.

Americans Occupy New Pacific Isles   Ellice Group, East Of Solomons, Taken Over By U.S. Forces

YANKS TAKE ELLIGE ISLANDS FROM IAPS   They Are Within Easy Reach of Enemy ~ Held Islands.

Largest Isle  Of Ellices Is Seized By U. S.   Group Originally Taken By Japs Early In War; No Opposition

U. 5. TROOPS SEIZE GROUP OF ATOLLS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Islands Located on Supply Lines To Australia; Navy Reports Occupation Un-

Islands In Ellice Group Occupied By U.S. Forces   In South Pacific Area; Japs’ Attack Reported By Navy Department

U. S. Furces Take Island In the Ellice Group to The East of the Solomon

IMPORTANT ISLAND ISNOW OCCUPIE!   Recaptured From Japs, Enemy Brings In Planes, Reds Beat Off Attacks.

REVEAL ISLAND BASE.   U, S. Installations in Ellice Group Bombed by Enemy

Yankees seize isle in Pacific   Base on largest of Ellice group raided by Japan

America Holds Small Islands   Japs Reported Bombing Installations.

NAVY REVEALS ISLANDS SEIZED   Group In South Pacific It Control Of Americans

Jap Dominated Island Occupied By U.S. Forces   Japs Driven From Invasion Bases In Ellice Island Group  {RITT Y wrmrar:

U. S. OCCUPIES ELLICE ISLANDS   American Installations, 1,100 Miles East of Solomons, Hit

U.S. Occupies Pacific Island Seized by Japs Early in War, No Opposition Encountered

REVEALS ISLES IN U.S, HANDS   First Word Of Occupation Of Island Group In South Pacific By American Forces; 1,100 Miles East Of  Solomons:

New Base Seized in §. Pacific   Occupation — Not Opposed, Navy Man Savs

U. S. Takes Isle In Ellice Group   Had Been Seized By Japs Early In War

Yanks Occupy Ellice Islands   Little Isles on Supply Line to Australia Taken

OCCUPY ISLANDS IN ELLICE GROUP   U, S. FORCES MOVE IN ON ATOLLS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Japs Strike U.S. In Ellice Islands  Navy Announces New American Position

Many Sections Are Visited By Violent Storms   Thiee lnches of Raia Fells ln Short Time In the Pittsburgh Area  'UNION CITY MAN KILLED

RAF Swarms Over Nazis   British Lose Only One Plane:  Inflict Casualties

RAF Swarming Over Channel to Blast Germany   Raids Apparently On Larae Scale

Solons Urge U. 5 Retain Bases   Make Good Neighbor Policy Suggestions

WRIGHT FIELD FRAUD CHARGED BY GRAND JURY   Kansas City Firm Indicted for Conspiracy to Gyp Government

HITLER MASSES RUSSIAN UNITS   Believes Conflict in West Will ‘Continue for Some Time’

Transfer Of Troops To Eastern Front Indicates Hitler Confident In West, Says Russian Radio

Report Hitler Feels ‘Safe’ In Withdrawing Troops From ‘West.To Use Against Russia   Moscow Radio Says Nazi Manpower Crisis Severe; Veiled Appeal For New Front

IN TUNISIA   American Anchor Position at Gafsa Menaced By Ger“man Attack

Nazi Armored Force Plunges Deep into American Lines in . Battle for Faid Pass Control

TMREATENS US FR   Forces Of Rommel Thought Aiding © Enemy: Drive

ROMMEL VETERANS: PUNISH UNTRIED AMERICAN FORCES .   U. S. Anchor Forca At tat sa May Be Forced To Retreat

Yanks Driven Back 20 Miles In North Afric:   American Anchor Position At Gafsa In Tunisic _ Menaced By Axis Thrust; Heavy Fighting _ In Proaress. London Dispatch Says

German Drive Inflicts Loss On U.S. Units   American Forces Suffer Heavily As Germans Pene trate 20 Miles In U. S.  Positions

Rommel Sends Veterans Against American Force   Storms Delay Movement of British Army

SIDI BOUZID IS REPORTED IN HANDS OF AXIS   Allied Position At Gafsa In Danger Of Being Cut Off

Predict Acute Fuel Shortage   Estimates Show Need For 15 Milhon Tons More Than Production.

Coal Situation Is Described As Bad   Officials See Shortage Of Fuel

Coal Situation To Be Worse   New England Short, Fears Suffering i in Winter wits

“Critical” Beef Shortage Likely  Livestock Leader Sounds Warning Note

CRITICAL BEEF FAMINE LIKELY   Livestock Leader Declares Shortage ‘More Acute Than That of Last Spring” Is Threatened.

Large Attendance At 4-H Club Banquet   Ed Gabel, Chief Speaker; Wm. KoolStra Toastmaster; Awards Are Presented Club Winners

HELP FROM AMERICA PRAISED BY STALIN   Red Premier Makes Plea for War Loan Drive

Sialin urges  backing Us bond drive   Premier admits ‘creat supporv’.

KUBE ASSASSINATED   Stalin Calls for Success of US War Loan Drive

Stalin Supports U.S. Bond Drive   Acknowledges Great Aid From America

DRIVE SUCCESS STALIN'S WISH   Personal Message Sent to Americans. Stettinius Plans to Expedite Aid to Soviet

Stalin Hopes for Success of Bond Drive   Acknowledges the Great Support From U.S. in Special Message to Americans

Stalin Urges Purchase of War Bonds   Russian Premier Says U. S. Supplies Have Helped Greatly —

SENATE 5 FIRM IN PROBE QUEST   Confirmation of Land Is Held Up as Senators Seek Maritime Investigation

WEALTHY SPORTSMAN IS KILLED IN CRASH   E. F. Woodward's Sensational Career Ends Tragically

E. F. WOODWARD INJURIES FATAL   Co- Founder ~ Of Yount-Lee  Oil Firm Succumbs

'NEELY, BRIDGES DEBATE 4TH TERN   4,000 Spectators Heat “Town Meeting of the Air”

SENATORS LEFT IN QUANDRY BY LEWIS’ VIEWS   Many Wondering Whether Miners Will Resort to Strike to Enforce Wace Demands   OPINIONS DIFFER   weseuws  Lewis Showed Determination to Get Advantage Out of War

Lewis Lets Solons All A-Wonder   Strike Opinions Dif: fer After Red Hot  Hearing

SENATORS FLAY UMW LABOR POLICY   Ferguson Critical of Lewis’ Scrapping of Peace Agreements

Lewis’ Stand Puzzles Senate   Inquirers Wonder If Strike Is Near

Sigg saa scree prec pA  LEWIS LEAVES WAR ~-PROBERS GUESSING   Senator Ferguson ‘Greatly Disturbed’ By Lewis’ Views.

Lewis Kicks Props >From 1941 Accord In Senate Struggle   Anti-Strike Pact Not Necessarily Binding, UMW Head Tells Group;  Ball Hurls Charee of ‘Demacocuery

Senators Left Guessing on  Mine Strike   John L. Lewis and Senator Ball Clash During Heated Session

LEWIS LEAVES WAR COMMITTEE GUESSING   UMW Leader Appears Bofore Group on Strike Issue

LEWIS DECLARES ANTI-STRIKE PACT IS NOT BINDING   LEAVES IMPRESSION MINERS MAY STRIKE IF PARLEYS FAIL

No Decision in : Lewis Wage Case   Left Senate War Investigating Committee Guessing Regarding a Strike.

LEWIS EAVES  ‘THEM GUESSING   Senate Investigators Are Not Sure of Mine Leader’s Course in Pay Dispute      LEWIS SAYS HE  FACES A DILEMMA

LEWIS REPEATS ‘NO TRESPASS’   Has Senators Guessing Whether UMW Will Strike After Long War Investigation Quiz :

Guessing Game Is Directed By John L. Lewis   Senate Committee Is Unable To Discover Whether Union Head Will Call Strike

Lewis Leaves Senate Guessing  - Question OF Strike _ If Demands Aren't KMAor Still In Air

HUGE ANNUAL INCOME CITED   Banker Testifies On Pay-As-YouGo Plan.

HIGH INCOMES FOR AMERICANS ARE PREDICTED   ‘Pay-as-You-Go’ Plan Defended by Ruml  In Committee

‘WESTBROOK PEGLER   Stalin “Misdirects Pleas For Further U. S. Help

REGENTS IN SESSION   State Board Will Act on Several  Important Matters

RAIL EMPLOYES REJECT 4 T0 10 CENT INCREASE   Board’s Proposals Ar: Flatly Turned Down; Other Groups Show  Dissatisfaction

Rail Workers Turn Down 4-to-10-Cent Wage Boost   Decision Adds Fuel To Growing Argument Threatening To Halt  Rail Trancnnartatinan   STEEL WORKERS PLAN ‘NEW WAGE DEMANDS

Rail Union Heads Reject New Offer Of Wage Boosts   Not Satisfactory, Jewell Declares

RAIL UNION SPOKESMEN REJECT PAY PROPOSAL; DISPUTE NEARS CRISIS   Special Board Recommends 4 To 10 Cents Hike For Non-Operating Employes; Other Labor Groups Dissatisfied

Rail Union Heads  Spurn Pay Increase   Award of 4 to 10 Cent Raise for Million Non-Operating Employes Rejected; Most Of Nation’s Miners Return to Coal Pits

Railway Unions Reject Proposal   Refuse 4 to 10-Cent Increase in Wages

WAGE INCREASE IS TURNED DOWN BY RAILROADERS   Spokesmen Will Not Accept Boost Of Four To ~ Ten Cents An Hour   STEEL WORKERS ARE NOW MAKING DEMANDS

RAIL UNION HEADS REJECT WAGE PLAN   Proposal for Settling De mands Turned Down by Spokesmen

SECRET HOARDS OF FOOD FOUND IN JAP CAMPS   Witness Tells Of Actions In Wyoming Centers   MADE. SURVEY   Some Food Traded For Whiskey, Chickens

Dies Committee Told of Secret Hoards of Food Stocks Traded By Japs for Whisky in Wyoming

Reports: Huge Stores Of Food ~ z Hidden By Japanese Inmates - At-Wvyomine Relocation Center

‘Dunkerque Vet Tells Of Finding Vast ‘Secret Hoards Of Food Stored By Japs Or Traded For Whiskey At Their Camps

Tell of Secret Hoards of Food On West Coast   Dies Committee Told Of Vast Supplies Hidden In Attics

Japs Hoard Food Stocks At Centers   Frade Surplus For Booze, Ex-Emplaye To Dies Crain

Vast Food Hoards in Jap Center; Some Traded for Whisky, Best Says

JAP PRISONERS HOARDING FOOD  FARING WELL IN. CAMPS WHILE AMERICANS ARE RATIONED

Secret Hoards Of Food Found   Witness Says Japs Traded Food for Whisky, He Believes

JAP COOKS IN ARMY CAMPS HOARD FOOD   Caches of Stocks Sent to  Camp Traded for Whiskey  And Chickens for  Yellow Prisoners   HAD SECRET STORES

Tells of Huge Food Waste   Says Hoarding and Stealing of Foodstuffs Common. in Jap Camp

FOOD CACHES   Dies Committee Hears Testimony of Former Relocation Center Aid

C10 Condemns Jotin L. Lewis   Asserts Coal Strike Jeopardized Union

CHECK-UP STARTED ON MOTOR STAMPS   One of Every Five Stopped Today Lacked Govern- _  _ ment Sticker —   IHAD TO:BUY ON SPOT

CHECK-UP STARTED ON MOTOR STAMPS   One of Every Five Stopped Today Lacked Govern- ©  ment Sticker —

NoU.S. Vessels Lost in Fight Lasting 2 Hours   Enemy Resistance Ends 30 Miles South of Bougainville; Rabaul Area Hit Bth Time

Four Ships Tn Jap Convoy Sunk   Allied Bombers Destroy Vessels Olt New Guinea

U. §. Bombers Blast Four Japanese Ships  Bomb Enemy Convoy Off New Guinea

Cruiser and Four Destroyers Sent Down Near Bougainville  TWO HOUR BATTLE FIERCEILY COLIGHT

Japs Lose Cruiser, Four Destroyers In Bougainville Battle   Two Others Hit, But No: Allied Vessels . Lost; 17 OF  67. Planes Also Shot Down  Re ee eT ed

Four Jap Ships In Fleet Sunk or Hit   MacArthur's Bombers Pound Convoy Of 14 Off New Guinea, Shoot Down 13 Planes Escorting Enemy Ships

Four Jap Ships Sunk by Direct Hits off Papua   Thirteen Japanese Planes Protecting Big Convoy Downed by Allies

Cruiser and Four Destrayers Sent Down Near Bougainville   TWO HOUR BATTLE  FIERCELY FOUGHT   No Allied Vessels Lost in the Naval Engage mant

U. 5. WARSHIPS SINK CRUISER, A DESTROYERS   JAPANESE WHIPPED AT BOUGAINVILLE BEACHHEAD

Four Vessels  Are Sunk Or Damaged   Allied Planes Shoot Down 13 Jap Escort Airships; Battle Continues Off New Guinea Coast

FOUR DESTREYERS, CRUISER GO DOWN, TWO VESSELS HIT   Nipponese Attacked as They Move Toward Beachhead on Which Marines Had Landed.   U. S. NAVAL UNITS EMERGE WITHOUT LOSS   Enemy Force Split by Brilliant Maneuvering and Brought Under Direct Fire.

BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF SOUTH PACIFIC   Seems to Be Looming On Horizon; Japanese Cruiser And Four Destroyers Sunk Near Bougainville.   Air Losses Heavy

MacArthur’s Bombers Sink Or Damage Four Enemy Ships; 13 Planes Are Downed   COMMUNIQUE STATES BATTLE CONTINUES

Japs Lose Cruiser, Four Destroyers In Bougainville Battle   Two Others Hit, But No Allied Vessels Lost; 17 Of 67 Planes Also Shot Down

U. S. Fighters Sink Five Enemy Ships in Battle   Long Fight Results in Severe Losses For Japs; Four Destroyers and Cruiser Go Down; Others Are Struck

U. §, Navy Sinks Jap Cruiser, Four Destroyers   Enemy Naval Units Intercepted on Way To Bougainville Arec

Other Vessels Also Hit Off Bougainville   No Allied Warships — Lost in Tuesday Fight, MacArthur Reveals  FOUGHT IN DARKNESS

American Warships Defeat Enemy Fleet Units In 2-Hour Engagement   AIRFIELD ON RABAUL ATTACKED BY ALLIES

IGKES. OPENS NEW CAPITAL ROUGH HOUSE   ATTACKS PRESIDENT’S PET “DOLLAR A YESR” EXECUTIVES.   And Perhaps F. D. R.   Capital Watches to See If F.D.R. Will Match Threat to Lop Off Heads.

ICKES FLAYS      GAPELAL , AWAITS ROOSEVELT  IREACHIQN,T0 ATTACK MADE JKNEIQSEN, NELSON   “AND OTHERS :

ICKES STIRS UP LATEST FEUD IN CAPITAL   Attacks Dollar-a-Year Men in Federal Government

ICKES STARTS CAPITAL FEUD   Attack On ‘Dollar-A-Year’ Men Being Watched

BETTY GRABLE PLANS TO WED HARRY JAMES   [Wife of Band Leader Intends to Obtain Mexican -Di- 1 yoree This Week

GROUND SINKS BENEATH GIT)   Cave-in Menaces Pennsylvania Community of 18,000

(MINE CAVE-IN IS SWALLOWING NEW SECTION OF PITTSTON, PA.   Rumbling Collapse Declared Worst In Years For Eastern Hard Coal Fields; New High School, - Church And Homes Are Sinking.

MINE GAVE THREATENS CITY IN PENNSYLVANIE   Crevices In Lawns and Pavements, Water Mains Snap; New $400,000 School Threatened

Worst Mine Cavein Hits Coal Town.   No Indication When Sinking Will Cease; Schoot Building Threatened

Mining Town Has Ground Cave-In   $400,000 School Building Ruined

LARGE MINE CAVEIN CRACKS 150 HOUSES   Ground Still Sinking at Pittston, Pennsylvania

Mine Cave-In Does Damage In Pa. Town   Evacuate Wide Pittston Area

CITY BUILT ON MINE SINKING IN GROUND   Buildings Crack and Trees Tilt and Sway

Democrats May Replace Guffey  O'Mahoney or Hatct  Sugaested for Post

Replacement af Guifey Expected   Senator Resigns Post As Chairman Of Campaign Grour

Hatch May Head  Democratic  Campaign Group Talked as Successor  To Guffey as Party Split Is Widened

Guffey on Way Out: Head of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Group Forced To Quit

Guffey Offers To Resign Party Job   May Be Replaced Nex Week To Placate Indig. nant Southerners.

Reds claim 313 nazi planes are downed in  past weeks’ fighting   Soviet land army maneuvers for positions in prelude to battles

Crushed All German Efforts to Hold Back the Tide.   MORE POCKETS STILL TO BE MOPPED UP  British Recaptured Mon-

Mountain Heights Cleared Of Axis Resistance, Allies Pouring Into Broad Open Valley.

Head of U.S. Returns to  White House   Party Arrives In Capitol] Sunday Night

FDR Back In Washington  After Parleys   Arrives White House Early Sunday Night

Nazis Issue Stern Edict Not to Seek a Separate Peace   Russia Sends New Military Attache to Sofia   GERMANS ABANDONING THEIR WINTER LINE IN SOUTHERN ITALY   Apparently Are Preparing to Retreat to a New Line Before Rome

Generals Again in Authority   General Staff Takes Con troll After Fuehrer’s In tuition Proves Failure

PFD) VICTORIES FORCED ACTION, DEPORTS CLAIM   Soldiers Attempting to Save Something from Disaster in Russia >

Hitler Gives Up Directing Army «  Gives Command. . Back to Generals: .

AMERICANS AND RAF PLANES TAKE TURNS AT HAMMERING AXIS   Britain's Bombers Follow Up First U. 8. Day Sweep Over Germany With Night Attack On Rhineland Area

Fuehrer Reported Giving Up Intuition   German Generals Back in Saddle, French Say, and Long Retreat From Russia Ordered

Grapevine from French Frontier: ; Hitler Fires Himself, Army Own BossAgain

Hitler Abandons His Intuition as  Reliable Counsel   Gives War Back to Genera] Staff for Management

General Staff Said in Charge Of Army Again   “Russian Disaster Believed To Be Reason for Change

Corsica Firmly  In Allied Hands   Germans Admit That They Are Driven Out of Strategic Island.

CORSICA FREED BY FRENCH TROOPS IN 20 DAYS’ BATTLING   Gen. Giraud Announces Com * plete Liberation of Strategic Island—Allies Now Hold  Potential Invasion Base

FRENCH TROOPS LIBERATE CORSICA   Strategic French Island Completely Occupied After 20 Days Fighting

Island Free, Says Giraud   Commander Pays Tribute to Patriots, Commandas in Victory

Corsica Cleared Of Nazis   Giraud Orders Empire To Display Flags in Celebration; Gives Allies Good Air Base

Corsica Liberated, Giraud ‘In Special Communique Says   French Have Made ‘First Step Toward Europe’ And Given Allies New Potential Base For Invasion

SMUTS SAYS ALLIES WILL INVADE BALKANS BEFORE WINTER   South African Prime Minister Says United States Will Play a Leading Role

DEPENDENCY D EFERMENTS RECLASSIFIED   Drastic New Order For Workers is Issued By War Manpower Com mission Today   EFFECTIVE APRIL 1ST

‘ Thousands To Lose  ‘Draft Rate   Deferments Cut; Non-Essential  Jobs Listed  »   7,500 Thousand Men Called Enough Says FDR

“Non-Deferrable’ List of Jobs Given, Designed to Put Men in War Plants   New Order in Effect April 1 -— Dependency Deferment to Be Wiped Out for Men in Those Jobs— List to Be Expanded—-May Lift 38 Age Limit

Thousands Of Men.To Lose Dependency Deferments _ Under New W.M.C. Ruling

Draft Deferment List Cut For Men With Children   New List of ‘Non-Deferrable’ Jobs Changed _ Completely, Thousands Must Go Now

FATHERS ARE INCLUDED IN BROAD ORDER   Dependency Draft DeferMent in Many Lines to Be Ended April 1 Unless Men Get Into Es: sential Work. ,

NEW DRAFT RULES ~ ARE ESTABLISHED   Dependency _Deferments Will Be Wiped Out for  Many Men   TAKES EFFECT APRIL 1]

Married Men Face Draft Or War Work   New Order Puts Men With Children In 1-A April 1   Publish New List Of Non-Essentials   Men Will Be Given 30 Days To Get Into Essential Occupations

Nonessential. Jobs Listed In WMC Orde:   - Action Taken. ~ tor Shift-Labor--~ to War Industry

McNutt Issues  Order   New Ruling Radically Alters Deferments; Job More Important Than Dependencies

DEFERMENT IN DRAFT VNARROWEL   Advise Persons In) Number Of Occupations To Find War Work Or Be Drafted.   MORE ACTION LATER

Family Men To Be Taken Unless They Shift Into War Work; Non essential Jobs Listed.

New WMC rule kills deferments for many thousand workers   Move designed to force labor into essential wartime industrial work

DRAFT DEFERMENT TOEND FOR MANY   New Order, Effective Apri 1, Would Transfer Eligible: "to Essential Work

NON-ESSENTIAL DRAFT REGISTRANTS WARNED   Given 60 Days To Find Employment In Jobs Vital To The Nation’s War Plans

Non-Essential Workers Must Aid War Effort   List Of Jobs Set Up That Are “Non-Deferrable” Regardless Of Dependents  Ry CHARLES VIOLONE'

ACTION BRINGS CALL NEAR FOR MANY FATHERS   Order Designed To Ilimpel Transfer To Essential Work Before April 1   LIST “JUST BEGINNING”   Occupation Rather Than Number Of Dependents To Be Determining Factor

Workers Get 60 Days to Find War Jobs   Those Not in Vital Employment Must Expect Service in Armed Forces

Draft Deferments for Men With Children Are Wiped out in Non-Essential Industry

DEPENDENCY DRAFT DEFERMENT  FOR MANY THOUSANDS WILL BE ELIMINATED AFTER APRIL HIRST

Get War Job In60 Days Or Fight, Is WMC Edict   First List Of Non-Deferrable Occupations Given; Dependency Wiped Out

Thousands Ordered To Enter War Plants   McNutt Sets Up Non-Deferable Occupations as He Orders Draft To Tonore Married Status

Order Wipes Out Dependency Draft Deferment  New Order Wil! Take Effect On April 1

Thousands of Fathers Are Effected with Dependency Deferrment Wiped Out   ARMY DUTY ALTERNATIVE   Non-essential Classes Listed From Which Registrants Will Be Drawn

‘Draft Boards Instructed to Begin Reclassification of Men April 1—Gives 90 Days  to Get Jobs in Essential Industry

Dependency Not lot To Win Deferment For Thousands April 1   Many Men With Children Must Go To War  Industries Or Face Induction

NON-DEFERRABLE LIST OF JOBS { ISSUED BY WNC   Men Working. on “Non-Essential” Jobs Are Giver 60 Days to Change Work, Escape Entering Service.   MANUFACTURERS, SER— VICES ARE AFFECTED   Draft Boards to Begin Con: sidering Cases on April 1 Men to Have Help Mak ing Changes.

“Non-Deferrable”’ Jobs And Occupations Listed   Order Is Designed To Impel Transfer Of Draft Eligibles From Non-Essential To Essential Work

List of J obs Non: Non -Deferra. * ble Regardless. of De- pendenits Set Up.

NAZIS ARE IN FLIGHT IN SECTOR   Russians Smosh Through Crumbling Defenses to Trap Frantic Troops.      MUNDA DRIVE REACHES CLIMAX, REPORTS SAY   Indications Are That Americain Jungle Troops Will Entrap Entire Body of Enemy Garrison of About 3,000 Men—" Major Japanese Element is Finished,” Spokesman States.      wo More Axis Bastions Crash; Catania and Orel Fall to Allies

Nippon Forces Ousted   Navy Says No Japs Were Found After Aug. 15 Landings

American Forces Are Unopposed in Landing Aug. 15   Heavy Bombardment Presumed to Have Brought Removal

ISLE OF KISKA IS OCCUPIED BY ALLIED FORCES   Landings Made fade On Narrow Beaches of Island On August 15 But No Japanese Were Found; Believed To Have Filed Only Recently.

Kiska Without Opposition —   The Toe of Italian Boot Gets Second Second Pounding. in Two Days; Russians Continue Advance; Capture of Lebedin Threatens Whole Nazi Ukraine Line

Japs Fail To Put Up Opposition    Only. Recently Fled Island; Believed Heavy Bombardments By Warships And Planes Made. Enemy Positions Untenable.   How Japs Escaped Unexplained

AMERICANS CANADIANS IN LANDING   No Japs To Be Found On Once Strong Air, Sub Base; Details Of Escape lindiceloced

Landing Made Aug. 15 Without Any Opposition   Navy Announces “No Japanese Were Found” on Once-Strong Japanese Base in the Aleutians

Landing Made ue 15 Without ‘Any Opposition   Wavy Aunewsces “Se Japanese Wore  Found” on Ouce-Sireng Jopanese face in tee Slantionc

Landings At Once-Strong Jap. Base Made On August 15, Navy Announces: Find No Nipponese   Indications Are That Enemy Recently Fled After Heavy Bombardments; May Have Made Escape During Heavy Fogs Of North Pacific

‘NO JAPS FOUND’ NAVY REVEALS: TAKEN AUG. 15   Indications Nipponese Only  Recently Fled From Po sitions Laboriously Built in Rocky Terrain   BECAME UNTENABLE BY RAIDS, BELIEF   Bombardments, Unreported for Three Weeks, Heaviest in Pacific:  Fled in Fog, Believed

ALLIES ON KISKA WITHOUT BATLE WIT ORENTALS   “No Japanese Were Found” - According, to.Navy Report _ Wher Landing Was Made “at Jap Base.   ENEMY BELIEVED TO HAVE FLED: RECENTLY   Japs Take Refuge Behind Main Defenses of. Salamaua as Allies Prepare For Final Assaut. °

Nazi Rocket Guns Believed Targets   Ortona Battle in Italy Approaches Climax; Reds Buck Counter-Attacks

Target May Be German RocketGuns   Sustained Air Attacks or Europe Come as Ortona,  Italy Falls

SLOAN MADE CHIEF JUDGE   Judge Rowland Adams Named To Court Of Anpeals

SLOANNAMED CHIEF JUDG   Allegany County Jurist, Who Sits Here, Succeeds Late Judge Bond

CHETNIKS FIGHT SLAV PARTISANS   King In Exile Denounces Provisional Government

MINAILOVICH SAYS CHETNIKS BATTLE ENEMIES OF KING   Partisan Forces Called Foes of Yugoslav Exile Gavearnmant

FOOD PARLEY READY TO OPEN   Jones Nominated to  Serve as Chairman

Judge Jones chairman of  food confab   Conference will start Tuesday

Jones Nominated Permanent Head  For Food Parley —   English ls Selected 2 As Language; Meet.” Opens Tuesday Nicks

JONES HEADS FOOD CONFAB   U. S. JUDGE ELECTED TO LEAD CONFERENCE

MARVIN JONES WAS NOMINATED TODAY FOOD CHAIRMAN  UNITED NATIONS FOOD CONFERENCE WILL BE OPENED TONIGHT

Jones Name Chairman of Food Parley   U.S. Delegation Heed Nomineted; First Session Due Tonight

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE  Accanpiaipa Peace Woe Analyst

GOOD NEWS COMES OUT OF CHINA THAT INTERNAL TROUBLES WILL RE SETTLED WITHOUT CIVIL WAR.

Chinese Peace With Communists Good News   By DEWITT MACKENZIE  Roanantnétnsel Deace Ulan Awalect

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Settlement Of Internal Strife In China Great Break For Allies

The War Today   Best News From China Is Assurance Of End Or Old Ouarrel.   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Acennintasl Preece Ular Analyst

Settlement China’s Political  Troubles Would Be Godsend Civil War Has Been Impending

The War Today—  Hails Assurance By Chiang Kai-shek Of No Civil War With Communists

Vella Lavella Falls To > Alllies In Surprise Raid; 350 Japanese Captured

ANOTHER JAPANESE ~ BASE IN CENTRAL — SOLOMONS TAKEN   American Troops Land On Vella Lavella Island

3 BLOWN TO BITS IN OXYGEN BLAST   20 Foot Hole Ripped i Ground By Explosion

THREE MEN ON TRUCK ARE BLOWN TO BITS WHEN LIQUID OXYGEN EXPLODES IN UPSET

LIQUID OXYGEN EXPLODES, 3 DIE   Rips Large Hole in Ground Four Miles West of Cadiz

TO PROBE REA   ‘Czarist’ Control On Rura Electric Groups Claimed

Cut Delivery Services   Wide Restrictions on Retail Truck Deliv- ’ eries Now Nation-Wide

Restrict Truck Delivery Setup   Extend Restrictions  To Whole Country

RESTRICT DELIVERIES   Regulations Extended Over Entire Nation on October 11

DELIVERY CUT “TO GO DEEPER      Extension of Northeastern Curtailment Comes In October

Sailor Goes To Congress To See What Makes Country Click,-'I's Disgusted

Heckled House Kills Poll Tax   Sailor In Gallery ‘Helps Fight Alana

House, Heckled By Sailor, Passes Poll Tax Bill   Gob, in Impromptu Speech, Says You Don't ~ Have To Pay To Fight’

POLL TAX MEASURE IS SENT TO SENATE   House Takes Action After Heckling by Sailor

Congress Should Stop Fighting Civil War and Fight This One, Says Sailor

HOUSE VOTES OUT SOUTHS POLL TAX   Ban, As Adopted, Will Apply to Primaries As Well As Elections

House Votes to Let South Ballot Without Poll Tax  Heckling Sailor Says Congress Still Fighting Civil War

POLL TAX MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE   BILL, SENT TO SENATE, WOULD KILL LEVY AS PREREQUISITE TO. “VOTING. .

House Votes fo Kill Poll Taxes   Seven. Southern sates Involved t™ Tax Measure

HOUSE PASSES ~ POLL TAX BILL   Heckling Sailor Shouts Congress Is Fighting Civil War

House Votes AntiPoll  Tax Measure   Sailor Heckles Members From Gallery

Heckled House Kills Poll Tax   Sailor In Gallery Helps Fight Along  By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

OBSERVERS TO. ~ CET DIPLOMAS   Two Hundred SeventyFive Complete Aircraft Recognition Course.

Eisenhower Sees Victory   Says Flatly Europe To Be Taken In 1944

HORTON MAN COMMENDED   Yeoman Assisted in Rescue of Shipmates in Sinking

‘Over 40 Towns Captured As Soviets Rell On   Big Armies Converging On German Stronghold On The Centra! Front   The War:

FIERCE BATTLE REPORTED FOR KEY JAP BASE   Yank Bombers Devastate Jap Supply Base Of Arawe

Yanks Splinter Arawe Harbor   KEY ISLAND PLASTERED IN PRE-INVASION SOFTENING-UP PATTERN; MacARTHUR SAYS DAMAGE HEAVY AS AIR ATTACK TEMPO QUICKENS

Tokyo Claims Fierce Fight” On Beaches   Probable Assault Point Gets: Heavy Bombing Attac!

Tempo of Air War Against Japanese  Reaches New Hist   Devastation of Enemy Bases in Islands of Pacific Increased

INVASION OF NEW  BRITAIN ISLAND BY  U. §. NOW IMMINENT ALLIED BOMBERS MAKE  DEVASTATING RAIDS OW TWH HARRORS

TOKYO REPORTS INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN   Phoenix Radio 2 Amateur Hears Report as Raid on Arawe Makes Attack Seem Imminent   NO INTERCEPTION”   Marshalls Raided Again—Chinese Reported in Suburbs of Lihs ien

Hears of Landing On New Britain   Radio Receiver Gets Report of Americans Fighting Jap Forces.

Tokio Radio Claims Hard Fighting On   No Word From Allies; Heavy Bombing Hints Invasion In Wind

Phoenix Radio Amateur Hears Tokyo Broadcast Telling of Fierce Fight

JAPS DECLARE YANKS LANDING IN NEW BRITAIN   Desperate Fighting on Beaches Reported in Tokyo Broadcasts

Arizona Radio Bug Hears Tokyo Tell OF Yank Invasian Of New BritainIsle

incessant Hammering Of Japanese Bases Set Stage For Allied Landing Overations

Mighty Baffle In Progress, Jap Radio State:   War Tempo Increases In Southwest Pacific, © China, Burma

Battle Rages On Beaches, Says Tokyo   Americans Sweep Ashore in New Blow At Jap Life Line, Cloim

Slashing Allied Bomb Attaek on Arawe Hints at Landings Soon   Key to Jap South Pacific Conquest Softened by M’Arthur’s Planes

Arawe Harbot Pounded By Airmen   Crushing Aerial Blow Softens Up Key Jap’s Pacific Base

ete riven naan anes ete ence amount poemnamanees  “uropean War Will End in ’44 Eisenhower Assorte

U. S. General Who Has Been Selected To Direct the Second Front  Makes Flat Prediction.

Injured Sailors Reported Better  Men Were Hurt In   Men Were Hurt In Tanker Collision

TANKER COLLISION SURVIVORS IMPROVE   Ship Loaded With Aviation Gasoline Still Burning

TANKERS CRASH; 88 LOSE LIVES   Condition of 4 of 28 Survivors Reported Good

TANKER CRASH IS. FATAL TO 8   Fow of 28 Survivors of ‘Collision Still Hospitalized

4 RECOVER FROM SHIP CRASH HURTS   Tanker Towed To Port; 28 Bodies Aboard

TANKER COLLISION CLAIMS 88 LIVES   Four of 28 Survivors Still in Hospital

PRODUCTION OF ICE _ CREAM IS CUT AGAIN   January Output Is Reduced To 50 Percent Of The Amount Manwflactured Last October

ICE CREAM OUTPUT AGAIN 1S SLASHED   Action Taken by the WPB in Order to Preserve Butter

ICE CREAM OUTPUT CUT. AIDS: BUTTER      WPB Order Limit Half Each Manufacturer Made Last October

Ice Cream Output Is Slashed Again   Total Set at 50 Percent; Action Set to Relieve Butter Shortage

OUTPUT SLICED ON ICE CREAM   Reduced Production Is Designed To Help Out Butter Shortage

Capture Lentini And Ker Road Junction; Bloody Battle Is Still Raging

Catanian Plain Is Reached By Fighth Army   Continent Blasted By Pre-Invasion Scale Assaults From The Air

Montgomery Crushes Goering Division as U.S., Canadians ‘Take Passes, Pour Onto Plamn

79 MEN SENT TO HUNTINGTON   Group Poses’ Lace! Draft Board Given Final  Examination

NAZIS EXECUTE &t FRENCH CITIZENS   GROUP PUT TO DEATH FOR SLAYING OF GERMAN ARMY LIEUTENANT.

Larger Allotment  Of Range Stock Favored by Ickes  Secretary Says Lands Under Taylor Act Can Feed 10 Per Cent More  MUST CO-OPERATE  Owners Are Required To Avoid Overloading  Anv Area’s Canacity

U.S. Office Says 18,000 Indians Join Services Since Pearl Harbor Raid

HITLER STALKED BY U.S, INDIANS   Tribes Furnish 18,000 Men For Armed Forces Of Country

“Vanishing” American Presents Self Often Enough to Make Hitler, Hirohito, and Company Take Notice

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Lodge Siberian Base Criticism Stirs Senators   Plea on Saving ‘Million  LU. 8. Lives’ Called  Tnouppursate

Lodge Criticized For Charge Made Against Russia   Colleagues Take Senator To Task

LODGE TAKEN TO TASK FOR TALK ON WAR   Statement on Siberian Bases Stirs Bitter Senate Debate

Fellow War Zone Visitors Take Issue With Massachusetts Senato   Statement About Siberian Bases Opens Acrimonious Debate on Foreian Policy

Lodge’s Remark on Soviet Bases Draws Rebukes in Stormy Session   Senate Holds Second Secret Gathering T~ Hear Reports From U. S. Battle Fronts

Senators Quarrel On Reports of Wear-Zone Journey   Bitter Foreign Policy Debate Follows Statements Made After Secret Meeting; New Findings Are Revealed

Senate Stormily Aus War Views   Lodge Publicity On-Soviet Bases Flayed; One Charoes Lend-Lease Is Mismanaaned

Brewster Flays Lodge’s Remarks On Russia Bases   Argument Stirs Senate Members

Senate Hears New Outpouring of Criticism of Military, Economic and Diplomatic Conduct of the War in a Barred-Door Session °

Lodge Draw: Rebuke on War Report  Rrewster Ranc   Brewster Raps Statement.on Siberian Bases

SENATOR CRITICIZED. "AT SECRET SESSION   Lodge Taken for Remarks Concerning Siberian - . Bacec

Globe-Girdling Senators Take Lodge To Task For Suggestion Russia Should Open Air Bases

Showdown in Rail Strike Is imminent   Government Intervention Sole Hope To End, the Sirike

Rail Strike \s Continued  ' War Freight Tied Up dn Ca lifornia Affoir

SCATTERING. ELECTIONS TOMORROW   Chief Interest Centers in N. Y. State Voting

New-Deal Wil  Get Test in  Tuesday's Voting Demos Depend  On Labor * Backing in N.Y.

Assembly OKs Welfare Shift   House Reverses Self:  Vote is 78-45

»Gov. Green Winner in House Fight on , Consolidation Bill   Members Break Parties in Tense Voting on Relief Measure

HOUSE APPROVES MERGER OF STATE RELIEF AGENCIES  a LS LL =e <<    MEASURE PASSES BY VOTE OF 78 TO 45; GOES TO GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR WINS BOUT ON JOINT BUREAUS PLAN   Measure Sent To Green Following House Approval

Women May Have Most To Say In Actor’s Trial On Morals Charges By Holding 9-3 Majority On Jury

BOY'S MURDER IS CONFESSED   Mercer-co Farm Hand Says He Killed 6-Year-Old Who “Razzed” Him

FARM HAND, 17 CONFESSES 10 CHILD'S MURDER   Slayer Says Employer’s Son ‘Razzed’ Him Into Rage

YOUTH, 17, ADMITS KILLING BOY, SIX   Farm Hand Attacks Child With Hammer Because Boy "Razzed” Him

Here Is Budget Message to Congress by F.D.R.   President ‘Asks Over 100 Billion in “Maximum Program for Waging War”   a my Ye Seeeer eee CF os Sev ower s  ESTIMATES OF “TOT. AL EXPENDITURES FOR WAR

Oconomowoe Fire Razes  6Buildings   Flames Sweep Through Business District; Records Of Ration Board Destroved

JONES TAKES OVER AS CHIEF OF FOOL   Enough Food for a “Heol: thy. Diet” Promised for Duration

JONES TAKES UP FOOD PROBLEMS   New Administrator Says Shortages ‘Relative’ In Well-Fed  America

Jones Pledges Enough to Eat  New WarFoodCzarTakes  Dieale «ff EL...

AXIS ON HOURLY ALERTROR MOVE BY ALLIED ARMY   Berlin Dispatch Says Germany Depending On Sub Packs to Wreck Landing Operations   NAZIS ADMIT FOES GROWING STRONGER   Said to Be Watching Five Points of Possible Attack; Expect “Clever Invasion Plan”

German Officers On Hour-To-Hour Alert   Nazis Depend On Pack of U-Boats to Break Up Landing Operations of Invading Allied Forces

Nazis Count  Un U-Boats  In Invasion Pack Ready For  Instant Service  When Allies Hit

NAZIS WATCH FOR INVASION HOUR BY HOUR   Have Completed Plans For Hurling Back Attack

NAZIS PREPARE FOR INVASION   Report German Forces Are On Alert At Five  Points

German Officers Count Hour To Hour On An Attack; Nazis Eyeing Lowlands, Italy

Germans Reveal Plans To Use U-Boa' Pack To Foil Landing Of Invaders   Expect First Attack From Mediterranean, With Allied Blows Against Belgium, Northern And Southern French Coasts.

AXIS GETS SET FOR INVASION ON ALL SIDES   Nazi Masterminds Reveal Forces To Be Pulled Back From Coastal Areas

NAZIS LOOK FOR BLOW ANYTIME   Figure Altids Will Throw 50, 000 Into Attack

ICKES SENDS . WARNING TO JOHN LEWIS   Mine Workers Chief: MUST Deal  With WLB

WLB Must Be Final Arbiter   Ickes Notifies  Union Leader Board Cannot Be  Further Ignored.

ARREST MOTHER WHO HID BABE IN A DRAWER   Unwanted Child Is Taken From 24 Year Old =‘ Parent

MOTHER HIDES BABY, GETS JAIL SENTENCE   Did Not Want Father Tc Know of Infant’s Birth

Heavy Damage To Crops and To Property   Estimate Million Acres Covered In Illinois

NEAR-REBORD HIGH WATERS CAUSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN: DAMAGE IN “SIX STATES

ae AREA  _ HITBY FLOODS   20,000 Driven from Homes in Indiana; Crop Loss Runs to Millions

AWAITED OFFENSIVE ‘MAY BE NEAR   Nimitz Hints U. S. Likely To Start New Attack   ALLIED DRIVE   Continues In New Guinea: British And American Planes In Action

Jap Cargo Is Blown Up By Allied Fliers   MacArthur Discloses Nips Concentrate On Australia Frinee.

Lewis Tells Them To Go Back For A 15-Day Period   Glad To Go Back To Work  Miners Appreciate FD’s Talk

If That's How It Is We'll Be Back Diaqgin' Coal Soon   Congress Planning Anti-Strike Legislation With Teeth In It

Miners End Strike, Slowly Return to Jobs   MEN WHO DIG NATION'S COAL STIRRED BY PRESIDENTS APPEAL

Miners Receive Orders to Return to Work Anc President’s Address With Desire To Produce

GOP Leaders Ask Cooperation   But They Would Keep Nation Independent

ENTIRE CAUCASUS ARMY THREATENED WITH ANNIHILATION   Nazi Divisions Before Stalingrad Apparently Abandoned.

First Reports State 15,000 Persons Dead   Temes Felt In Istanbul During Storm

TOWN RAZED   German Radio Tells of Earthquake . Disaster in Turkey.

POLICE SEARCH FOR MURDER SUSPECI   Find Three Slain, Pair Missing in Pennsylvania

THREE KILLED ON MERCER, PA., FARM   Police Seek Parolee and Pretty Blonde After Shotgun Slaying

REDS BELIEVE SECOND FRONT PLAN SETTLED   Stalin Returns To Desk At Moscow

MARKET TAKES ‘BREATHING SPELL   Favorites Make Small Ad vances; Minor Declines Distributed Near Close

Senate Passes. {0 Million Flood Control Bill   Provides 25 -Million ‘for. Rail Repairs

GOVERNMENT TO LOAN $25,000,000 TO DAMAGED RAILROADS   As the Result of Recent Fleods—The Rate Will Be at 3 Per Cent.

Many Millions InDamage Is Stressed   Start of Work in 30 Days Reported As Federal] Desire

PROPOSALS REJECTED   House Committee Votes Down Plan For 10 Pct. Levy

HOUSE COMMITTEE REJECTS NATIONAL RETAIL SALES TAX   Long- Fought Issue Providing 10 Per Cent Modified Levy For Duration of War Is Voted Dowh.   wAY BE REPLACED BY EXCISE, EXCESS BILL   ‘House Committee Considers Sales Tax Plan After Dis cussing Rooseveli’s Re quest For Funds. -

LOOK FOR VOTE ON: TAX PROPOSALS BY COMMITTEE TODAY   House Ways, Means Group “Talked Out”—Ready To Act.When Few Points  ' Are Cleared Up

Sales Tax Plan Killed   House Committee Votes to Reject Proposals

NINE DECORATED    Get Silver Stars For Feats 0:  Valor in Sonthtvest Pacific.

Strong Postwar Resolution Urged of U. S. Senate   Truman Says Present War Caused By 1919-20 Isolationist Attitude

WANTS SENATE FOLLOW-UP 10 MOSCOW PACT   Truman Warns “Smail Group of Willful Men” Could Bungle Peace

WAR CONFERENCE RESUMED TODAY IN WASHINGTON   CHURCHILL ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON AS HEATED DISPUTE ARISES OVER HULL'S RUSSIAN ATTITUDE,   PRESIDENT ATTACKS COLUMNIST PEARSON   United Mine Workers Enter Suit in Alabama Court to Force Payment of the Demand for Portal to Portal Pay.

CHURCHILL IS FISHING — WHILE STALIN IS FIGHTING   Current Wiseerack Now Going Around in  London.

FDR-CHURCHILL TALKS WILL BE RESUMED TODAY   British Public EXpresses Concern Over Anglo-American Policy Toward Russia

--SLAYINGS—  LATE LMS ~ MUCOY SLAYINE   Declares Mind Went Blank After Shooting, Following Quarrel

CLINTON COUNTY MAN BREAKS AT TOLEDO PROBE   Prosecutor May Charge Collet With Murder of All Three

60-Year-Old Brother-In-Law Says He Shot McCoy After Argument, Then Had Memory Lapse

ALLIED OFFENSE STEPPED UP 10 BALK JAP PLANS   Concentrations of Men and Materials Are Blasted in Aerial Assaults   AUSTRALIA IS OBJECTIVE   Allied Victories Have Only Made Nips More Desperate And Determined, Belief

INVASION FEAR STILL HAUNTS AUSTRALIANS   Japs Determined To Attack Continent, Is Report Of Army Minister

SEES AUSTRALIA ~ STILLIN DANGER   Forde Says Japan Determined to Attack; Enemy Vessels Bombed.

‘AUSTRALIA SURE JAPS WILL RAID CONTINENT SOON   Army Minister Declares Nips More Determined Than Ever to Try Invasion

JAPS PLAN 10 HIT AUSTRALIA   Allied Victories Strengthen Japan’s Determination is Claim

Australian Sees Jap Move   Expresses Belief Japs Determined to Invade Australia

Defeats Make Nips. More Determined   Forde Predicts Japs To Attack With Greater Ferocity   BUT W’ARTHUR HAS THEIR NUMBER

Australia Fearing Invasion   Minister Believes Enemy Determined  To Attack Nation.

AUSSIES EXPECT JAPS TO ATTACK   Enemy More - Determined Than Ever, Declares Army Minister Forde

Japs Determined Because of SetBacks, Forde Says   Increasing Scope Of Air Raids Show Enemy Concentratior

Australia Warns of New Attacks   Forde Says Japs Preparing Great Invasion Alttempl

BELIEVES JAPS PLAN INVASION   AUSTRALIAN CHIEF DECLARES ALL-OUT ATTACK S IMMINENT

EXPECT JAP ALL-OUT BLOW AT AUSTRALIA   Army Minister Sa¥s Enemy Is More Determined Dhan Ever to Try In™ yvasion — Predicts Unprecedented Fierceness.

Forde Warn: Jap Invasion  Of Australia   Enemy Massés Ir Nearby Islands

SEES THREAT TO AUSTRALIA   Japs More Determined to Attack, Says Forde

Australia Raid Major Jap Hope   MacArthur's Airmen  Forcing Issue

U.S. Dive Bombers Hit Japanese In  Raid Upon Munda   Vila, Kahila Are Also Attacked, Navy Reports

AUSTRALIA, TO BE ATTACKED, OFFICER SAYS   Claim Intense Bombings of Jap  Positions Increased Determi=_  == Ation to Attack         ENEMY POWER ON ISLE FRINGE IS MOUNTING

TOKYO fo NOW DETERMINED 10 TAKE CONTINENT   Army Minister Says Ameriean Victories Have Intensified Tojo’s FaceSaving Operation There

Japs Sticking To Idea of Attack   Determined To Invade Australia, Report

EXPECTS A NEW — ATTACK BY JAPS   Australian Army Minister Predicts Another Onslaughi

_ To Make Drive On Australia   Nippon’s Determination Is Intersified By Allied Successes, Says Forde

Jap Thrust At  Australia Seen As A Certainty   Massing Of Power Indicated By Wide Range Of Allied Bombings.

FORD THINKS JAPS WILL ATTEMPT TO   Allied Victories in Solomons Have Merely Intensified Japanese  Determination Minister Thinke

M’ Arthur Increases Bombings As Japs Concentrate Forces For Possible Attack On Aussies

CONCENTRATION OF POWER SEEN RISING THREAT   Official Expects an Attack “More Ferocious Than Any Yet Experienced in Pacific”

Japs Planning New Offensives   AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL IN DEMAND FOR MORE AID

JAP ATTACK ON AUSTRALIA IS SEEN CERTAIN   Believe Nipponese More Determined Than Ever

FORDE SAYS JAPAN MORE DETERMINED ~ TOHIT AUSTRALIA   Range of MacArthur's Attacks Emphasizes Growing   Size of Enemy Power. 7   ARE MASSING ON ISLAND   Allied Victories Merely Intensified Japan’s Determination to Invade.

AUSSIE WARNS JAPS MASSED FOR ASSAULT   Nips More Determined tc Invade Us, Minister ‘Declares

Japs Plan For Attack On Australia   Allied Victories and MacArthur’s Bombings  Intensify Determination

Warns Of Attack  Against Australia Forde Reports Growing  lan fancentratinne

AUSTRALIA IN MORE DANGER OF ATTACK SECLARES OFFICIAL   GROWING CONCENTRATION OF ENEMY POWER ON FRINGE OF CONTINENT

FORDE WARNS Of NIPPON PLANS   Says Japan Decision to Invade Is Intensified

Dive Bombers Hit af Munda   Strike Jop Supply Area and Gun Position, U. S. Navy Reports

FEAR JAPANESE PLAN TO INVADE AUSTRALIA   Nipponese Need Victory it Order to ‘Save Face’

Invasion of Australia ‘Is Predicted   MacArthur’s Bombing Attacks Grow More Numerous; Allies Continue Destruction from Air m Burma 

Surging Soviet -Offensives May Reach Dnieper  Undersecretary Of War Finds Allied Outlook Is "Decidedly Bright"

Soviet Army Surge To Dnieper Likely   Patierson Gives Decidedly Bright Picture of War On Every Front

U. 8. PREPARATIONS POST-WAR AVIATION RECEIVE ATTENTION   TAXATION AND DRAFT DEFERMENTS STILL BEFORE COMMITTEES

Aviation Is , ‘Studied By  'Conaressmen   Effect of Lend-Lease on Afterthe-War Deliberations, Especially on Aviation, Claims Attention of Leaders

Post-War Aviation Draws Attention in Congress  en ee Catll Mon. Jo tk OMe ea   Committees Still Considering Draft Deferments, Poy-as-you-go tax. plan

 Washington Roundup:  Congress Debates Income Tax Draft of Fathers, Lend Lease

Conaress Thinks Of Air Future  - Committee Weighs fee jaraseg) Gee

R DOWNED, SAYS NAZI REPORI    ‘Port of Duisburg Now Takes Pounding During Night

Waves of RAF Raiders. Str ike at Reich Capital; Nazis Say Many Downed.   American Troops Launch Surprise Attack Against Nazis in Tunisia; German Air Base Tarzet af Drive -

AAT BOMBERS AGAIN ON RAID OVER BERLIN   German Broadcast Claims Attack On Nazi Capital Is Unsuccessful

Sour Cherries Under Ceiling   OPA Sets Up New Price Schedule Monday

CHERRY PRICES DERCED BY OPA   But Most of Berrien County’s Crop Is Already Harvested

Hundreds of Men, Including Soldiers Fight Rising Missouri Flood Waters

Use 600 Troops  Against Missouri   Crest Scaled Down By Omaha Meteorologist

GHOST SHIP’ SAILS 700 MILES TO HAVEN   Given Up For Lost, Vesse Rights Self In Water

Lieut. 1. H. Lair Reported Missing   Randall County Pilot of Flying Fortress Was Shot Down Over Germany Oct. 14

Federal Agents in Toiedo Seeking Reason for Blowout of Oil Switch —Power Fails Throughout City— One Man Injured,

Reds Take Znamenka   Hammer Nazi CounterOffensive To a Stop   Germans Lose 234 Tanks in Three Days

MORE DONORS NEEDED   ‘Red Cross Mobile Unit Will Return Here on July 19 and 20

Jap Destroyer Is Left Aflame   U. S. Fliers Fly Low To Strafe Japanese Crew Aboard Ship

U. a. BOMBER RENEW ATTACK AGAINST KISKA   Aerial Attacks Bellevec Prelude To Final Drive To Crush Japanese

Resume Attacks Against Kiska   Name of Destroyer  Lost April 7 Revealed

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END OF MEAT SHORTAGE ISINSIGHT ©   Relief from Current Crisis - Is Imminent

APPEAL MADE TO TAXPAYERS   Income Tax Returns Must Be In By Midnight Monday.

86 INJURED AS TRAINS COLLIDE   Electric Limited Smashes Into Stalled Coach Near Kenosha, Wis.

Overtures to Russia Via Bulgaria Hinted  I) Bsoahper Anare Onn Ac Wr

PEACE RUMORS FLOOD EUROPE   No Authority Can Be Found For Stories.

Three Japanese Transport Ships Are Bombed .   Score Direct: Hit on Two; Troonc Killed

MacArthur's Men Deal Woe To Jap Ships   TRANSPORTS BLASTED BY ALLIES WARPLANES OFF DOBRO,

BOMB TWO MORE JAP TRANSPORTS   As ‘Air Activity Stepped Up In Aus] tralian Area

TWO JAPANESE TROOP - LADEN SHIPS BOMBEI   Planes Strafe Enemy  Vessels; Darwin Raided

SLIDE KEEPING CITY ON ALERT   Section Of Land Sinks 80 Feet In New Series Of Mine Subsidences At Pittston, Pa.

YOUNG BOMBER 1) AEPORTED 10 BE MlooING   Set. Walter Clevenger, Near - Nevada, Missing Since January 3.   IN BOMBING MISSION   He Is Youngest of Three Scns of Mr..and Mrs. “George Clevenzer

YOUNG: BOMBER 1S REPORTED TOBE MISSING   Sgt. Walter Clevenger, Near ‘ Nema Missing Since * January; 3.   IN- BOMBING - MISSION   He Is. Youngest of Three Scns of Mr...and Mrs. ’ “George Clevenger.

ECONOMY DRIVE IN CONGRESS ‘IS DEVELOPING NOW   Lawmakers Growing Generous Over Allowance Planned for Servicemen’s Dependents

New Federal Economies Demanded   Postwar Collaboration Gains Support; Senate Approves Changing Law Concerning Officers

CAMPAIGH NEW. ECONE         Federal Public’ Schools , Sub. Senators

NEW ECONOMY DEMANDS ARISE   Senate Group Swings Support To Post-War Measure

CIO BIGSHOT CRITICIZES BILL   _Aute Unien Chief Says Measure Promulgated By Employers

OPERATORS HIT ATPORTALPAY   Southern Group Asserts Court Decision Has No Bearing On Coal Case

WLO PANEL HEARS COAL OPERATORS   Owners Contend Court Decision on Iron Ore Miners Pay Has no Bearing on Soft Coal Dispute

U.S. AIRMEN POUND JAPAN'S BASES IN “SOLOMONS AREA   Enemy’s Attempt to Build Up Power May Have Been Proogaired.

PLANS BY © ENEMY IN REVERSAL   Offensive Program is Be lieved Impaired So New Tactics Are Adopted. 

Intensified Air War Is Keeping Japs Grounded   American Fliers Punishing Foe With Concentrated Aerial Attacks

U. S. General Addresses Plea To The People   Negotiations May Already Be Under Way, He Implies

[HINTS PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS   Assures Nation Just, Honorable Peace Terms

Believe Fate Of Japs Decided In Pyramid Shadow   Indications Point To Heavy Air Blows From China And Burmese Campaign Having Been Planned To Sink Rising Sun Empire.

First Of Meetings Finished At Cairo   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin And Chiang Kai-Shek Reported In Meeting On War Plans

PARITY SOUGHT IN FARM PRICES   Cost of All Labor To Be Included In New Formula

RETURN OF MINERS IS NOT- COMPLETE   Plan Meet To Iron Ou Differences

Ration Book No. 3 Is Coming Up--Also 4,5 And 6 Are Now In The Desian Stage

Marshall’s Future Still Not Settled   Washington Hears Range of Power In Hands of FDR, Churchill.

AUTHORITY OF MARSHALL I UNSETTLED   Issue Reopened; Announcement of Command Delayed

Plan Counter Assault On Dad Draft Deferment Bill   Believe Bailey-Clark Compromise Is Not Likely To Survive

COUNTER - ASSAULT ON WHEELER ‘BILL BEGUN IN SENATE   Author Of Deferment Plan Resigned To Defeat If Draft Dodgers Are Elimimated

Clerk Draft, “Wheeler Act, Up in Senate   Bill Gains as Fight on, Fathers Nears Vote

WHEELER OPPONENTS GET ‘DAY IN COURT   Ouster Of Draft Eligibles From Federal Jobs May Succeed

BUDGET INQUIRY T0 START ON TUESDAY      Senator Funk,” of. Freder. ick Co., to Direct In-. _waectiontian 

BUDGET INQUIRY 10 START ON TUESDAY   Senator Funk, of Frederick Co., to Direct Investigation

FUNK LAUNCHES SENATE'S PROBE OF NEW BUDGETS   Frederick County Senator, Named Chairman, To Start Tuesday   WILL HEAR LIQUOR INDUSTRY LEADERS

if (ont usion During Long  ! Blackout   Baltimore Wardens Not Notified Of Ending Of Test

 Mismanagement By Army Charged Th Long Blackout   Baltimore Wardens Un.aware Of All Clear Sienals Civen_

DOMBROWSK! “ADMITS PERIURED TESTIMONY: GETS 3 1-2-15 YEARS   Repudiates Statement That Hemans Bought His Vote in.1941 for $350   JUDGE “LECTURES” HIN

DETRONT DEMO PLEADS GUILTY   Dombrowski Repudiates His Swern Grand Jury Testimony About Bribery.

LAWMAKER JAILED FOR REPUDIATION      ‘Detroiter Tells Judge Carr ‘I  Lied on the Witness Stand  to the Grand Jury’

SOLON JAILED FOR PERJURY   Detroit Demo Repudiates His Testimony In Graft Probe

KING GEORGE VISITS MUCH-BOMBED MALTA   British Monarch Arrives At Island Aboard Cruiser; ~Varmly  Greeted By Populace

KING GEORGE GETS OVATION IN MALTA   Unprecedented Wartime Visit By British Monarch Stirs Populace

MALTA VISITED ~ BY KING GEORGE   Trip Shows How Allie: Rule Mediterranean Shipping Lanes

Proposal to Guarantee Fixed Prices for Farm Crops Gains Momentum

MOVE TO FIX FARM PRICES GAINING   IMMEDIATE ACTION TO GUARANTEE FAIR PRICES PROPOSED

Propose Farm Prices Floor  As Food Help   Senator George Suggests Guaranteed Higher Return As Incentive.   LABOR DRAFT ARGUED

Guaranteed Fixed Farm Price Gains   Movement in Congress Gains Speed; Manpower Program Being Tackled

Move To Guarantee Farmers Fixed Prices Gains Ground In Washington; Manpower Big Problem

MOVE FOR FIXED FARM PRICES IS GAINING FAVOR   Ship Is Sunk During Heavy Raid .on Jap-Held, Short land Island Area-—-Munda Again. Bombed :

FIXED FARM PRICES SOUGHT IN CONGRESS   Legislation Is Offered To Offset Labor Costs

Urge Fixed Prices for Farm Crops   Move to Guarantee Prices Gains Momentum

FARM PRICE GUARANTEE PROPOSED      Fixed-Price Plan Gains Mo: mentum as Congress Wrestles Farm Problem   DRAFT DEFERMENT VOTE IS DELAYED   But. Bankhead Declares He Warts Action This Week; Others Defend Army-Plans

Senate Proposes to Guarantee ‘Fair Price’ an Food Products.   INDUCTION HALT ASKED

BANNED   Movement Gains to Get Fixed Prices on Nation’s Farm Crops

Move To Fix Farm Prices   CONGRESS IS STUDYING PLAN TO AID FARMERS

CONGRESS SEEKS TO FIX FARM PRICES   Senators Would Abandon All Thoughts of Incentive Payments to Hike Production

WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION NAMES COUNCIL   Management-Labor Committee te Work for Co-Ordination in WMC Policies.

Name War Manpower Committee For Area      anagement Committce Is Announced By U. S Office Here

WAR MANPOWER COMMITTEE IS NAMED IN GITY   Labor - Management Group Will Serve As Advisory to Employment Head.

DRAFT BOARD'S FILES DISAPPEAR      Only Part of Files stolen, Gas Coupons Vanish, Too.

Expect Omaha Crest In State In Few Days   But Unless There are Heavy Rains Missouri Will Not Suffer

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE 2 TOWNS   Advance Three to Six Miles Below Trigno River in Italy.

Lull in Fighting In Italy as Foe Withdraws Into Mountain Line   Air Battles Intensify; New Blows Rained on Greece

Allies Roar On   TWO MORE TOWNS TAKEN AS AIRMEN RIP GREEK AIRFIELDS, BLAST SHIPS

ALLIES PUSH WAY THROUGH ROAD TO ROME   Fighting Subsides As Germans Guard Mountain Pass

2 TOWNS TAKEN BY ALLIES IN G-MILE DRIVE   Observers Believe Enemy Pre paring For Terrific Counter-Offensive

ITALIAN FIGHTING SUBSIDIES AS NAZIS TAKE UP NEW LINE  GERMANS HAVE PREPARED MASSIVE MOUNTAIN LINE GUARD ROME

Allies Smash At Targets in Italy, Greece   American Troops Occupy High Grounc Facing Anchor of New German Line

Fighting Lulls As Nazis Reach Mountain Lines   Enemy Airfields In Greece Smashed By American RBombherc

Fighting Nears Lull; Nazis Map Defense Lines  Aerial Warfare  - Mounts; Greek Airfielde Wit

NAZIS WITHDRAW TO NEW DEFENSES GUARDING ROME   AERIAL WARFARE INTENSIFIES IN ITALY AND GREECE

Nazis Pull Last Of Rear Guard Into Mountains   Germans Now Behind Massive Defense Line To Battle Allied Advance To Rome.

Germans Pull Rearguards Back To New Line After Two More Towns Are Lost

Allied Armies Gain Slowly In  Central Italy   Some Nazis Forced To Retreat; Hold Key Positions Before Line Guarding Rome

Push In Italy Below Trigno Nets Six Miles   Report Fighting Subsides As German Rearguards - Fall-Back-To- New. Line.

NAZIS MASS FOR STAND ON NEW POSITION   Air Warfare Intensified With Smashes at Greek Airfields and Enemy Supply Lines   ‘YANKS SLICE AHEAD

ALLIED TROOPS EXTEND GAINS   Advance of Three to Six Miles Reported in Italian Campoign

German Rearguards Are Pulled Back to Massive Line Guarding Capital   Nazis Say Pope Will Broadcast

Allied Units Move Ahead An Italy   Germans Pull  , Rearguards Back Into Massive Mountain Line

BERMAN REAR GUARD FORGE FALLING BAG   American Troops in West Set Up New Positions on Mad Dog Hill.

2 MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN 3 TO 6 MILE GAIN   Allied Airmen Smash at Greek Airfields, Supply Lines in Italy

Italian Front Less Active Today   Allies Make Some Gains; Germans Bracing New Mountain Line

llied Troops apture Two talian Towns   Aggressive Allied Airmen Pound Airfields And Supplies

Struggle in Italy Subsides as Nazis Rearguards Retreat   Germans Pull Back Inte Massive Mountain Defense Positions

Nazis Pull Troops Back Into Mountain Line Guarding Rome   Invading Forces Take Two Italian ‘Towns in Six Mile Advance; Airmen Hammer Greek Airfields

Battle Slows. Yanks Advance   Two More Towns Taken As German Rearguards Pull.  ed Back In Italy.

BATTLE EASES AS NAZIS PULL BACK IN ITAL\   War in Air Increases _With Raids in Italy And Greece

‘Mighty Battle Faces Allies In Italy As Nazis Mass For Stand   May Try To Lift Siege Of Fortress Europe By Terrific Counter-Offensive; Need Victory . To Boost Home Morale.

Last Of German Rear Guards Pull Back Into Massive Mountain Defenses On Road To Rome—aAllied Troops Advance Three To Six Miles, Taking Two More Towns—U. S. Mitchell Bombers Again Penetrate Balkans To Blast Axis Air Fields

Allied Troops Continue Their Italian Advance   Nazis Puil Back But May Stage Counter-Offensive

ITALIAN FRONT RATHER QUIET   German Rear Guards Pull Beck to Mountain Defense Line

Nazi Forces Withdrawing To Mountains   Air Warfare Intensified With Smashes At Greek Airfields And Enemy Supply Lines

Germans Withdraw Rear Guards Closer To Rome; Americans Occupy High Ground Facing Massico Ridge.

TWO MORE TOWNS FALL 70 ALLIES   Bombers Hammer Airfields In Greece And German Shipping: Nazi RearGuards Pull Back

New German Line Holding: in Italy   Fighting Subsides as Nazi _-.Rear Guards Are  Pulled In   AIR ‘WAR INTENSIFIED   Planes Smash at Rear Lines _ in Italy and Airfields in Greece

Germans Withdraw To New Line in Italy   Take Position in Mountains And May  Be Planning Heavy Counter Blow;  Air Warfare Intensified.

British Take Two Towns In ltalian Drive   Battle Lags As Germans Retreat To Mountain Line To Make Stand   CANADIANS IMPRESS   Attempted Counter Of fensive On Central Front Is Foreseen

Allies Make New Advance Of Three To Six Miles   But Fighting Generally Subsides As Germans Are Pulled Back Into Strons Mountain Line

ENEMY PULLS BACK T0 NEW DEFENSE LINE   Two Towns Taken Below Trigno River

TWO MORE TOWNS TAKEN BY ALLIES BELOW THE TRIGNG   ‘Fighting Generally Subsided as the Last German Rear ; Guards Pulled Back.   ‘TO NEW MOUNTAIN LINE   Air War Intensified With Smashes at Air Fields and Enemy Supplies in Italy.

Nazis In Italy “Pushed Back Te  Mountain Line   Lull May Presage Great Battle As Teutons Mass For New Fffort.

Germans May . Strike Back — al 5th Army   Withdrawal Into _Mountaix Hole May: Mean. Long .Defense or Big Counter Blow   HITLER, ROMMEL  IN NEED OF VICTORY   Air War Is Intensified and Allied. Ground. Forces: Advance a Few Miles

Germans Behind New Defense Line   Allies Have Moved Up 3 to 6 Miles

Allies Capture Two More ltalian Towns   Troops Gain Three to Six Miles, but Battle Subsides as Nazis Withdraw to New Mountain Line Before Rome.

Possible Nazi Offensive in ltaly Is Seen   Various Reasons Given Why Such a Move May Be Deemed Necessary

Allies Score Advances of Three fo Six Miles With Americans Facing Anchor of New Line   FLIERS HIT GREECE   Air War Intensified with Smashes af Airfields Near Salonika, HeraKian

Battle Slows As Nazis Into New Lines   Germans, Needing a Victory, May Lash Out With Heavy Counter-Offensive

INCREASE SEEN IN OIL DEMANDS   NEW BOOK BY ICKES WARNS OF SHORTAGES

CKES SAYS CAR DRIVING BANS WILL GONTINUE   Warns Autoists They Mus  Choose Between “Driv ing As Usual” and More: “Freezing Than Usual”   DEMANDS INCREASE   Secretary Says ft Will Continue During War and Afterwards, Prabably Into 1945

Ickes Sees Big Demand for Oil   Predicts Shortage Of Crude in Certain Areas in Near Future

ACTUAL SHORTAGES CRUDE PETROLEUM PREDICTED BY ICKES   SEES DISTURBING PRODUC TION PROBLEM WITHIN NEXT TWO YEARS

: Too Much Water and Too Much Work Dangerous Lowering of Farm ‘Morale As Result of Floods

CHARLES CONNER RITES SATURDAY   Well Known Lincoln. Twp. Farmer Suffered Heart  Attack 

G. 0. P. OPPOSING WORLD BANK PLAN   Taft Dislikes Foreian Loans Made in Guise of Investments

Salonika May Play Role A gain in Nazi Defeat   Nazis Reported Massing  Troops at Brenner Pass

Saichika vras invasion Base 25 Years Ago— —By Glenn Ba  'Allies Are Knocking On Hitler’s Back Door

Allies Begin Knocking on Back Door of Hitler's Fortress’  With Heavy Attack on Air Base Near Salonika, Greek Port

Largest Mass Flight Revealed   Planes Made Trip From U. S. To India

P-38's Put 50 Japs to Flight   Americans Shoot Down Two and Probably Six Enemy Planes

United Nations. Forces Land On Inside Of ‘Heel’   Taranto Naval Base © Completely Occupied

ALLIED FORCES SEIZE TARANTO AFTER LANDING   British Navy Aids Troops in New Offensive Southeast of Rome

Allied Force. Occupies Taranto Base  Fifth Army Beats Back Germans

British Navy Paves Way For Seizure   Troopé-Go Ashore “To Take Vaunted Case Behind Heel.

Taranto, Naval Base, Occupied By The Allies   New Landing Probab! Encountered Little Enemy Opposition

Giraud Holds Up Resignation For Next Two Weeks   Well Satisfied With Conference

Gen. Giraud Withdraws Resignation   DeGaullist Opposed To French General's Terms

Had Planned to Quit A:  Commander-in-Chief   of French Armed Forces

GIRAUD AGREES TO RETAIN POST   ‘Satisfactory’ Conference Is  Held With Committee

Giraud Drops Resignation as Chieftain   ARMED FORCES HEAD WITHDRAWS NEW STEP FOR TWO-WEEK PERIOD

Giraud Decides — ToStay Awhile  Withdraws Resignatior For Two Weeks

GIRAUD DECIDES TO RETAIN POST   After Resigning, He Decides to Remain at Head of French Troops

April Canned Goods Point Values Mav Be Lowered   Coupons Now Good But Housewives Are Expected To Wait On Coming Change

RATIONS MAY EASE FOR CANNED GOODS   Point Value Increase Is Hinted by OPA

OPA Hints Point Cuts Due Soon   Reduction In Point Values Of Many Canned Foods Expected After April 1

APRIL RATION POINTS VALID   Top Officials Hint Strongly Of Reduction in Values Of Foods.

April Stamps May Be Hiked Within Month   Coupons Made Available Today to Help Persons Who May be Short   NEW TABLE IS COMING

OPA HINTS OF VALUE BOOST   April Ration Stamps Valid ’ Today But May Be Worth More Later

List 10 Dead  In Explosion   Heavy Blast At Seven Million Dollar Government Ordnance Depot.

Report OPA May Cut - Canned Food Values   April Stamps May Now Be Used But Housewives Are Told Their Value May Increase Next Week; Plans Set For Meat Rationing

May Reduce Point Value   Housewives To Hold April Stamps Until OPA Makes Decision

APRIL RATION STAMPS VALID   Officials Hint Many Point Values May Be Reduced Next Month

Can Good Stamps For April Valu: Change Is Hinted   Many Vegetables And Fruits Expected To Be Reduced In Point Total

lousewives Expected To Hold Canned Goods Stamps as OPA Hints af Increased Value for April -

APRIL CANNED GOODS OTAMPS VALID TODAY   Many Housewives Holding For Increased Values

HINT STAMP VALUE TO BE INCREASED   April Stamps Are Valid Today but OPA May Raise April Values

OPA Hints Point Values for Canned Goods May Be Increased in April

APRIL RATION STAMPS BECOME VALID TODAY   Bul OPA Hints Value May Be Increased.

Hint At Higher Canned Goods  Coupon Values   April Stamps Now Valid But Probably Worth More Next Month.

APRIL COUPONS NOW VALID OPA GHIEF REPORTS   Hint Points May Be Lowered On  Some Items

April Canned Goods Stamps Good Today, Buf Housewives Hoard Coupons Because Of Hints by OPA of Increased Value 

RATION STAMP VALUE MAY RISE   Officials Imply: Some Cu for Many Processed Fruits, Vegetables

Housewives Hoarding Them Because Of Strona Hints From Washinaton

OPA Hints Stamp Values May Be Raised April 1   New Canned Goods Rations On Todav

April Canned Goods Stamps Valid Today; Hint Raise in Values Later

Allied Troops Plunge 30 Miles Into Interior   Invaders Tighten Grip On Vast Area Of Sicily Reports Indicate   HEAVY RESISTANCE NOT YET ENCOUNTERED

VITAL SICILIAN RAIL POINT AND HARBOR SEIZED   All Bridgeheads of Allies Expanded in Southeast and East   Smashing New Air Attacks Made on Mainland of Italy   BULLETIN

British Forces Make New. Landings Near Catanina;  500 Square Miles Tzken

ALLIED FORCES TAKE AUGUSTA AND RAGUSA   Penetrate 20 to 30 Miles; Still Expect Counter-Attack

FOOD CONTROL  Hoover Outlines Nine-Point Program to Eliminate Muddle Canced hv Overlannine New Deal Failures.

FOOD CONTROL CHANGES URGED   Hoover Advances 9-Point Program To Avert Problems Now Arising

OUD CONTROL OYOIEM NEDO UME CHANGED   Reorganization at Once Is Needs to Prevent Real Food C isis.   HOOVER MADE SPEECH   Offered a Nine-Point Proeram to Eliminate Serious ‘‘Muddle.”’

EX-PRESIDENT OUTLINES NINE POINT PROGRAM—OFPOBES . ‘SUBSIDY SYSTEM TO .  LIMIT PRICES

GIVEN PRISON TERM   ‘William S, Love ‘Pleaded Guilty Before Judge  Means Yesterday ~

GREEN SCORES STATEMENT BY LEGION HEAD   AFL convention in uproar after Commander Atherton’s speech

=  Treason To — Strike, AFL Meeting Told   Legion Commander Makes Charge; Convention In Uproar

Brown Denies  (OPA “Cracking”   Wishes Less Front — ‘Page Publicity

Great Crowd Turns Out to Greet Quints   Dionnes Speechless at First Experience on  U.S; Soa

OUINS IN WLS, TO LAUNCH FIVE SHIPS CREETED BY BIC WISCONSIN CROWD

UNION WARNS MEN SWOT TO STOP WORK   No Strike In Airplane Plant Planned, Says Leader

Strike Threatens Fortress Factory if WLB Fails to Act on Wage Controversy

AFL Men Want No Strike Nor Work Stoppage       Plan ‘Round The Clock’ Meeting To Settle Boeing Pay Eocres se Question,   LEADERS ASK SUPPORT

AIRSHIP WORKERS RETURN TO POSTS IN BOEING PLANTS   Tense Atmosphere Exists as Union Leaders Threaten General Work Stoppave

THREATEN STRIKE AT BOEING PLANTS   AIRCRAFT WORKERS SEEK IMMEDIATE WAGE INCREASE

Boeing Plant Workers Back At Their Jobs   General Work Stoppages Threatened Unless WLB Speeds Decision On Wage Dispute

UNION-CHIEF ~~ WARNS WORKERS   Declares Plane Plants Must Not Stan Wark

Warning to workers at  Boeing plant   Union’s leader says there is to be no strike

MEN OF MANY TYPES FLY THE TRANSPORTS   Represent Cross - Section From Band Leaders To  Ranchers  A YvT? wrermar sr ET rwe sn OOO   ALL KEEN ON TASK

SERVICEMEN HAVE MINGLED FEELINGS   Wonder if Folks Back Home Realize There is A War On

FIGHTER PILOTS ARE ANXIOUS FOR ACTION   Quiet, Impressive Enthusi. asm is Displayed by Young Men  a. en eS — ss, —_~, >, “sii wr

ALLIES’ BRAZIL BASE VITAL TO WAR EFFORT   Fleets of Planes Bearing Men and Equipment Always on Move   RUNWAYS GIGANTIC

WAR WRITER FINDS WORLD VERY SMALL   He Meets Just About The Same Men Wherever  He Goes   'RELATES EXPERIENCES

“YANKS” SIZZLE IN WEST AFRICAN HEAT   Don’t Complain About Heat is Message To the Home Folks   BATTLE THE SAHARA

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER WAS IN THICK OF FRAY   Chicago Lad Sets Terrific  Pace for Fellow News Men in Mediterranean   IS NOW ON LEAVE

ESTIMATE TAX BY SEPTEMBER 15.   Collector Sets Out List Of Those To File

Names Groups Required to File Tax Statement   Must Be Made by September 15 Says Collector

Must Declare Estimated Tax   Collector’s Office Prepares To Help

NEW BRITAIN “COAST POUNDED   Air Activity May Presag New Invasion Attempt

Marshalls Are Hit 7th Day in ARow   Jap Position on Bougainville Reported ‘Deteriorating’ as. Pressure Grows

AIR WARFARE IN THE PACIFIC IS INCREASING   New High Reached In Point by Point Devastation of Bases on Enemy-Held New Britain Island   356 TONS ARE DROPPED

Tempo of Air Warfare Upor Japs Increase   Hard Blows Struck in China, Burma and South Pacific

Tempo of Air Warfare Against Japs In China, Burma, Pacific Increases

Allies Smash At New Britain   Dump 356 Tons of Explosives on Arawe, On Southeastern Coast

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE URGED   Ohio Legislature Considers New Plan for Convening

[AX BOOST IS NDER STUDY BY OFFICIALS   ‘oosevelt Gives Qualified Approval of the Ruml Plan

Treasury May Ask Large Tax Boost  Increase for Higher Rn «late EvRaetad

Heavy Taxes Talked on Budget Eve   Compulsory Loans in Gossip as F.D.R. Plans for Finances

FDR PREPARES TO SUBMIT TAX PLANS MONDAY   Increased Taxes, Loans Or Both Discussed To Raise Record 100 Billions   Ruml Plan Discussed

TREASURY MAY DEMAND BOOST IN TAX SCALE   Increases Ranging High As 50 Per Cent Said To Be Considered By Officials   Sales Levy Studied

STIFF INCREASE IN INCOME TAXES FAVORED BY TREASURY   This Year’s Income Not Likely To Be Affected; Congress Looks For Boosts From 50 Percent In Lower Brackets To 15 Percent In Higher Groups

TAX BOOST TO. BE SOUGHT, IT IS REPORTED   Treasury May Seek Stiff Raises in Income Toaxex

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Is Partially OkayedbyFDR   Objects to Rum! Proposal , Beeause of One Vear’s: Loss in Revenue.  —Té Treasury   Says Effects Would _..Be Felt Eventually   Compuleory " Loans Still _ Disenssed' to Augment Federal Levies

‘New Revenue Of 15 Billion May Be Asked By President   Increase in Taxes And Compulsory Loans Under Discussion In Canital Circles   BUDGET MESSAGE IS DUE MONDAY   President Approves Pay-as-You-Go Plan With Reservations

Roosevelt Backs Pay-as-Go Plan   F. R. Said Favoring Heavy New Taxes

Increase In Income Tax Is Expected      rROBABLY RANGING 50 PER  CENT. IN SOME BRACKETS WHEN CONGRESS CONSIDERS NEW REQUEST.   Not For 1943

F. R. Prepares to Submit Record Budget  Increased Taxes Again Are Under Discussion

Stiff Increases In Income Taxes Being Considered   Rate May Be as High a: 50 per Cent, Experts Declare

F. BR. Prepares to Submit Record Budget  Increased Taxes Again Are

ROOSEVELT SAID TO FAVOR SHARP BOOST IN TAXES   Message to Congress May Recommend 15 Billion-Dollar Increase in Treasury Receipts.   COMPULSORY LOANS UNDER DISCUSSION   Indications Are Lacking, However, That President Will Support Enforced Advances,

15 Billion Dollar Boost in U. S. Tax Bill Forecast   Increased Levies, Compulsory Savings May Be Requested  MESSAGE MONDAY  Roosevelt Gives Qualified Approval - To Pay-as-You-Go

MAY BE URGED BY ROOSEVELI   President Prepares to Submit Record Budget Monday

Increased Taxes. Forced Loans Get U.S. Serutiny   President Roosevelt Gives. Approva To Plan for Pay-as-You-Go Tax Collection From Individual Income:

FDR Said Liking Heavy New Taxe:   ‘His Record-Shattering Budget For Next Fiscal Year Due To Reach Congress On Monday . 22%: &

Second Argentine Shakeup Places  Ramirez at Helm  Neutrality Proclaimed By New Provisional Government Chiet  FRIENDLY TO ALLIES Will Co-Operate With  Americas and Live Up To Existing Pacts

ARGENTINA'S NEW PRESIDENT GALLS ~-FOR NEUTRALITY   General Ramirez Says Existing Policy of Standing on - Sidelines Will Be Followed “for Present.”   SUCCEEDS RAWSON, WHO LED UPRISING   Prdémises Country Will Remain on Friendly Terms With Americas — Fill 4 Cabinet Vacancies.

Noday’s War Commentary  Italian Shakeup  Allien Want Refare liudoing Res

NAZIS FLEEING NEAR ZHLOBIN   Army Routed from Gome Streams Over 15-Miie Bridgehead

REDS CRACK - RIVER LINES. “AT THLOBIN   MAIN BODY OF GERMAN ARMY DEFEATED NEAR GOMEL AGAIN. IN RETREAT -FROM DNIEPER

Hitler’s White Russian Army Is In Retreat   Reported Fleeing Across Dnieper River Near Zhlobin After Rout   NAZI WHITE RUSSIA LINE MAY COLLAPSE

NAZI ARMY FLEES IN WHITE RUSSIA   Germans Crossing Dneiper Near Zhichin

FLEES ACROSS DNIEPER   Puts Up Strong RearGuard Resistance North of Zhlobin

Guffey Charge Denied   No Alliance, Byrd Says: Demands Senator Quit

Senators Quarrel Hotly Over  Voting, Finance  Guffey Is Entangled In Disputes on Ballots and Travel

Bowles Desires _. Business Men~  For OPA Posts   Former Advertising Chief Easy On Professors; Wants Decentralization

Chester Bowles Takes Over As OPA Manager   Meets Press For First Conference

17-Year-Old Reform Schoo! Parolee Admits Killing Cleveland Twins

Admits Killing Two “Just For Heck Of It”   Murder Charge Is Filed Against Reform School Parolee After Slaying Of 13-Year-Old Twins

CHARGE AWAITS TWINS’ SLAYER   Cieveland Youth Who Admit. ted Killing “For the Heck of It" Accused of Murder,

Twins Found Slain After Another Boy He Attacked Escaped With Life

Governors Score Ceiling on Corn   State Rights Also Closely Studied

PROBLEMS OF FOOD’ AND PRICE “STEAL” OHIO CONFERENCES      Governors at Columbus Take Up Two Issues as ’- Paramount and Give: : . Opinions.-

DOMESTIC ECONOMY STOLE SHOW DURING GOVERNORS’ PARLE’   Food And Price Worries Give Postwar Plans Back Seat

CUSTOMERS CLAIM FOOD PRICES HIGHER   Suggest Labor Department Recheck Figures

Housewives Fail To Note Drop in Prices of Food  Labor Department   Labor Department Report Received With Some Doubt

LOTS OF FOLKS HAVENT FELT PRICE DECLINE   People in Many Parts of Country Say They Have  Not been Ab*: to Discert “ Any Drop in Prices

Consumers Don’t Agree With Labor Dept. That Food Prices Are Down

Can't Find Decline in Food Prices   Many Consumers Suggest That Labor Department  -:- Check Its Statistics   ‘SOME SEE TREND TOWARD INCREASE   Comments From Various Sections Cast Doubt On Official Renort

WILL EXPLAIN   “Churchitt Expected To Discuss Russo-Polish Break.

Definite Times, Places Decided For New Blows He Reports To Congress

Roosevelt Reports To Congress; Axis To Feel New Blows   ‘Allies Still a Long Way From Ultimate Victory, Declares President in Sweeping Review of Allied War Efforts

We Are Still Long, Long Way From Ultimate Victory, He Warns in 5500-Word Talk

Roosevelt Tells Congress New Blows Ready for Axis   Says He and Churchill Have Made Plans for More Landings in Europe

NO EARLY END Of WAR SEEN BY PRESIDENT   Tells Congress Peace To Depend on Full Defeat of Enemy

French Naval Squadron Reaches U. S.   ‘Richelieu’ Heads Vessels in New York for Repairs

RICHLEAU, BIG FRENCH SHIP, REACHES U. S   35-Ton Battleship Will . Join Allied Navies In Campaign Against Hitlew’e Submarines. 

NAZIS RE-CAPTURE SPLIT, SEIZE CORFU SAYS DNB AGENCY   Strike Swiftly To Deprive . Allies Of Points For Invasion Of.  ‘ Balkans

Nazi troops retake Split  from Slavs   Strategic Corfu also recaptured

NAZIS RETAKE SPLIT, CORFU   GERMANS TRY TO BLOCK ALLIED BALKAN ATTACK

a nd as Ntalians and Patriot Armies ‘Take Reverses in Balkan Coast Warfare

RAILWAY CITY IS CAPTURED IN NEW DRIVE   Offensive Continues West Of Rostov On Don   For One Day Of Fighting Counted In Hundreds; Much Materiel Taken

RED THRUST PERILS FLEEING GERMANS — NORTH OF TAGANROG   Russian Offensive West. of Rostov On the Don River Continues   ENEMY’S LOSSES HEAVY:

REDO 28 MILES FROM TAGANALE   Cut Only Railroad Lead. ing Out Of Taganrog Rostov Area   ADVANCE ON ORET      More Towns Are Recaptured As Victorious Russians Extend Gains

Russ Confinye To Speed Flight Of Nazi Troop:   Punishing Blows Dealt Germans On Various Sectors

RED ARMIES SLASH NEARER TQ TAGANROG   New Menace To Routed Nazis Is Seen: Push Ahead In Other Theaters Of War.

REDS CONTINUE DRIVE ON NAZIS WEST OF ROSTOV   Capture Several Populatec Places, Extend Arc North of Kursk

SOVIETS SHAPE NEW PERIL TO NAZI RETREA}   Reds Capture Railroad Town 25 Miles From Taganrog

Naming of Civilian Boss Inspires Congress to Untangle ‘Confusion’

MOVES 10 AID HOME. FRONT'S EFFORT URCED   Congress Proposes Additional Ways to Put End te “Confusion’

Manpower Act May be First Official Step   To Create Separate Civilian Supply Branch With Power Equal te Army-Navy

SELECTION Of BYRNES LAUDED   ‘New War Czar Promise To Cut Red Tape; Will Relieve FDR

President Roosevelt’s Appointment of Former Aiken Man to Control the Domestic War Effort Has Favorable Repercussions in Washington and Throughout the Nation.

APPOINTMENT OF BYRNES PEPPERS CONGRESS   Additional Moves Proposed To Cut Through Domestic “Confusion’ By Lawwwakware.

CONGRESS PEPPED UP BY CREATION OF NEW AGENCY   Hasten To Propose Additional Moves To Cut Through “Confusion” Many Congressmen Claim has Marked Domestic War Effort.

Congress Asks  Added Changes   Suggest Creation Of Separate Civilian Supply Agency In New Setup.

EXPECT BYRNES TO BEGIN WAR ON ‘CONFUSION’   Congressmen Suggest Many Plans to Aid War Effort

Congress Plans New Legislation To Help Byrnes   Forceful Manpower Law. Civilian Supply ‘Agency  Suggested By Leaders

COMPULSORY CONTROL OF MANPOWER URGED   Byrnes Appointment Generally 1s Approved By Members  me On.

Move to Cut Out Domestic Strife   Congressmen Propose Legislation to Make War Run Smoothly.

SHORTCUTS 10 SPEED UP WAR EFFORT SOUGHT   Congress Cheered by Choice of Byrnes To Head Home Front Activities.

CONGRESS PLEASED  WITH APPOINTMENT  OF JAMES F. BYRNES ADDITIONAL MOVES PRO.  POSED TO ELIMINATE CON. TTICIAN AN WOMr FRONT

Congress Moves to Cut Through the ‘Confusion Marking Home War Effort

Solons Hasten To Propose Plans for Speeding Victory   Byrnes To Have Full Responsibility Over Home Front; Will Formulate Policies

Former Head Of Economic Stabilization Holds Full Responsibility For Home Front; Plans To Get Most Out Of Natural, Industrial Resources

SEEK AN END TO CONFUSION   Congress Pepped Up By Naming of Byrnes Home Front Chief.   NEW MOVES SUGGESTED

Solons Strike ” At ‘Confusion’ , On Home Front   Urge Additional Moves To Clear And Speed Domestic War Effort.

J, P. Morgan Is Taken By Death   Noted Financier Dies In Florida After Heart Attack

, p MORGAN, FAMOUS BANKER, ~ DIED AT HIS FLORIDA HOME   HEART ‘ATTACK FATAL To . WORLD-FAMOUS FINAN‘CIER ACTIVE IN MANY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS

MAN FOUND SLAIN AT WINGOSKI, VI.   Unidentified Victim’s Fingerprints Sent to Washington.

TAX CHARTS DRAWN BY TREASURY HEAD   Morgenthau B Backs Us Roosevelt's Demand for Boosts

Allies Pay More Taxes Than We   Morgenthau Compares Levies on Incomes

Hitler Costs Brownsville 21 Millions   That Means $850 For  Each Person Here

EIGHTH ARMY THROWS BACK NAZI FORCES   Enemy Is Pounded by Airplanes of Allies

PREPARE AXIS FOR SHOCK OF “STALINGRAD”   But Propagandists Have Not Yet Gone So Far as to Tell of Fall of Axis Twin Cities

Axis People Still in Dark   Radio Readies Nazis, lialians for Shock

DITTER’S DEATK DELAYS HOUSE SUBSIDIES VOTE   Pennsylvania Solon Dies Sunday In Plane Accident

SUBSIDY VOTE IS POSTPONED TILL TOMORROM   Death of Congress man -Adjourns House}; “No” Vote x pected

Delay Vote  In Congress  On Subsidies   House Postpones  Action’ Following Death of Ditter

FARM BLOC CERTAIN OF VICTORY IN ANTIFOOD SUBSIDY FIGHT   Charge Women’s Groups Victims Of ‘Scare Campaign’

Farm Bloc Is Confident Of Winning Battle Against Subsidies; Assert Protests Caused By “Scare Campaign”

Subsidies On Way Out  Foes Assert      Farm Bloc Says Housewives’ Fears Groundless

Committee Expected to Recommend Passage of Bill Despite Protests of Army Leaders, Who Declare It Would Put ‘““Undesirables” in Uniform—Legislation Would Create Four Groups for Draft Delay.

Army Oppose: Bill To Defer Family Men   But House Committee Expected To Approve Kilday Measure Today   BILL WOULD CREATE 4. PRIORITY GROUPS

House Group Will Vote on Draft Deferment Today  Kilday Bill to Give Family Men Last Call to Army

KILDAY DRAFT BILL OPPOSED   Army Heads Object to Deferment Priorities Proposed in Measure

Committee to Vote on Draft Bill Today   Is Expected to Urge Passage of the Measure

Draft Deferment Bill Faces a Showdown   OPA Suspends Sales on Canned Fish and Meats

Seek Deferment For Family Men  House Group Votes On Measure Today

House Group Votes Today On Draft Bill   Favorable Action Due Despite Army Objections

New Draft Plan Approval Seen   House Group to Vote Today on Kilday Bill

DEFERMENT OF FAMILY MEN BEFORE COMMITTEE TODAY   Kilday Proposal, Opposed By Army, Scheduled For Ballot Of House Military Affairs Group; Gen. White Voices Objections   Farm And Prison Official Urge State To Make Help Available

House Military  Group to Vote On Kilday Bill   Army Opposes Passage, Says ‘Undesirables’ Would Be Called

RAF BOMBERS GIVE GERMANY ANOTHER HEAVY POUNDING   Twin Towns of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen At the Junction of Rhine and Neckar Rivers Attacked; Sites Important War iIndustries,

Twin German  Cities Bombed   Mannheim And Ludwigshafen Hit Last Night; Fartz Romb Paris. ,

HITS MAGAZINES   : Postmaster General Suspends Mail Righis of Judge, Close-Un.

Knox Sees No End Of War During 1943   Warns Against Over Ontimism

Knox Scores Foolish Optimism   Secretary Sees A Long, Hard Contest

WAR'S END THIS YEAR ‘FOOLISH OPTIMISM’   So Says Navy Secretary at Training Base

Stronger Tendencies Seen This Year Inflation Said Less Pronounced

REPORT GITEo ALSING TREND TO INFLATION   Part Two of Planning Board Survey Says Vigorous Curbs Needed.   LISTS GOODS DECREASE AND BOOST IN MONEY

Locomotive Sideswiped By Limited   Train Speeding to Make up Lost Time Runs Into Freight

Twenty-Seven Die in N.Y. Rail Wreck   Many Scalded When Live Steam Shoots Through Limited’s Coach

27 ARE KILLED IN RAIL WRECK   Limited Reported Trying Tc Make Up Lost Time

BUFFALO LIMITED © IS WRECKED WITH DEATH TOLL HIG   At Least 27 Perish Wher Speeding Train Crashes Into a Freight Engine.

HOUSE PASSES RACKETEERING BILL OF HOBB:   Labor’s Fight Against Measure Transferred to Senate—Cellar Amendment Defeated ~

Hobbs Bill Fight Now In Senate  Controversial Measure ) ee i; = ~~ _@ en

Anti-Racketeering Bill Passes House; Opposed by Unions   Labor Leaders Look to Senate in Effort to Have Bill Killed

Curb On Unions Voted By House: Causes Storm   Anti - Racketeering Bill  Passes, 270-To-107 Late Friday

House Sends Controversial Hobbs Bill to Senate By 270 to 207 Vote.   AMENDMENT REJECTED

HOUSE VOTES FOR ANTLRACKET BILL   Union Advocates Beaten in Fight to Kill Hobbs Measure.  SPONSORS SEEK NEW LABOR CURBS

LABOR LEADERS  LOSE HOUSE FIGHT ‘ON HOBBS BILL   Ton to Senate With Campaign Against Anti-Racketeering Bill

House Votes Hobbs Labor Bill, 270-107   Champions of Labor Turn to Senate to Stop Anti- aaah eteering Bill

HOUSE APPROVES BILL ASSAILED AS ANTI-LABOR   HOBBS BILL NOW GOES TO SENATE FOR CONSIDERATION

RAF Bombers Blast Cologne In Nicht Raid   American Bombers Score< In Daylight Sweep Against Wilhelmshaven   NO LETUP ALLOWED   PRS RN SRR Eade  Dunkerque, Cherbourg Rennes, Rhineland Are Hit During Day

Daylight Assaults Follow Another Heavy Blow at CoIcgne; British Planes Alone Carry Out Over 2,000  qt. yt

STRIKE STAGED OVER TOILETS   Half of 8,000 -Workers In Five Maryland Plants Idle

eee meee aia  FORECAST CROP INSURANCE — WILL BE OFFERED FARMER   FARMERS UNION HEAD 8A¥ES - BENATE MAJORITY AND ‘ ROOSEVELT WILL SUP d PORT ACTION THIS . aT

Allies May Be Probing Defenses   Germans Report of  Commando Landings

GERMANS SEE ALLY INVASION   NAZIS BELIEVE LANDINGS HINT THRUST AT EUROPE

Pre-Invasion Channel Raid ‘BaredbyNazis   May Mean Commandos Launch New Reconnaissanee for Landings

AMERICANS  TAKE 2 MOR KFY CITIES   Report Penetration of Port’s Defenses  “tra ene nn  NAZIS WITHDRAW  Enemy Offers No Aerial Opposition

YANKEES SCORE SMASHING GAINS IN PORT BATTLE   Fall of City Awaited After Fifth Army Occupies Pompeii

TOP GRADE PEACHES SELLING NEAR $6.50   Highest Price Ever Paid for Elberta’s in Illinois

‘Palmyra   MEWS CORRESPONDENT 423083 Rarding Aveave “Dinne: Hershvy 6803

Louisiana Muskrats, Dressed Up for Table as “Marsh Hares,” Put on Sale

Reports Say Danes Battled Germans   Use of Bare Hands Against Arms Noted

MANY UNARMED PERSONS HURT IN COPENHAGEN   Trouble Starts As Children Wear * RAF Colors   15,000 Gather

Danes Battle Nazis In Four Days Of Riots  Patriots Use Fist: Against Germans,

LAST NAZI OUTPOST ON ROAD TO BRYANSK TAKEN BY RUSSIANS  SOVIET TROOPS AVANC. ING YARD-BY-YARD IN STEEL CENTER KHARKO\

Last Outpost Of Nazis Taken On Bryansk Sector   Bitter 3-Day Battle Won By Russians Kharkov Is_ Stil Undecided

Karachev Falls, After 3 Days Of Battle   Reds In South Advance On Kharkov, 3,000 Nazis Perish

ROMMEL HAS RETURNED. TO GERMANY      Was Withdrawn. From Tunisia  About March 19

No Agreement, Lowe Testifies  No Understanding With Fitzgerald or Phillinec, He Save

No Agreement Avers Lowe   Had No Deal With Fitzgerald, Witness Says

Russians Push Ahead On Road to Rostov As Germans Retreat   OTHER TOWNS FALL

SIX CITIES ARE LIBERATED BY SOVIET ARMIES   Georgievsk, Mineralnye Vody And Pyatigorsk  Vitally Important   HIGH PRAISE BEING GIVEN MASLENNIKOV

Capture Six Cities On Road to Rostov in Biggest. Bag of Winter Offensive; Army On Lower Don 60 Miles of Rostov

Badly Mauled Axis Forces Fall Back Below Rostov; Admit Situation Serious.

ADVANCES MADE ALONG RAILWAY NEAR ROSTOV   Encircling Moves Force Germans To Retreat Toward Northwest;  Spas Deserted   New General Emerges

Biggest Bag Of Offensive Soviets Say   Advance 112 Miles: Armies Push Closer fo Vital Rostov

SOVIETS MAKE BIGGEST BAG OF CAMPAIGN   Encircling Movement   Forces Hasty Nazi Retreat From Towns Along - Road to Rostov.   ARMAVIR MENACED BY SWIFT ADVANCE   With Offensive Only 18 Days Old, Muscovites Have Gained 112 Miles in Vital Area.

Biggest Winter Victory Scored on Baku Route From Grozny to Rostov   Lower Don Armies Drive Ahead Despite Greater German Resistance ; Fighting Continues In Stalincrad, Where Soviets Are Mopping Up

Lieut. Gen. Maslennikov New Russian Hero, Recaptured Kalinin And Saved Moscow Year Ago.

IMPORTANT CENTERS TAKEN AS BIG SOVIET OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON   Biggest Bag of Winter Fighting is Claimed By Moscow; Nazis Retreat In Haste Toward Rostov

Triumph Declared Biggest of Winter   Swift Encircling Tactics Of Gen. Maslennikov Gain 112 Miles   Key Armavir Menaced By Push Over Steppes   Slavie Army. of Lower Dont 60 Miles From Rostov, Threatening Rout

Reds Continue Drive Against Enemy Forces   New Successes in North Caucasus Reported by Sovieis

W. F. A. CZAR ASKS CONGRESS FOR SUBSIDY DECISION   Wants to Know Outcome of Food Subsidies Question So Agencies and Farmers Can Make ’44 Provrams Soon

60-DAY DELAY ON SUBSIDY BILL IS NOW SOUGHT   Administration Leaders Call Food Administrato: Marvin: Jones for =: Conference  fe ee

Jones Asks Decision on U.S. Subsidy   FOOD CHIEF URGES ACTION TO PREPARE FOR 1944 PROGRAM

Jones Seeks Subsidy Ruling Now   Food Chief Objects To Proposed Sixty-Day Delay

pnes Seeks ubsidy ‘uling Now  Food Chiat Obiects   Food Chief Objects To Proposed Sixty-Day Delay

Wants a Decision  On Food Subsidies   Marvin Jones Says Farmers Should Know So They  Can Plan Crops.

WAR DEPARTMENT BANS CLARE LUCE’S SOLDIER COLUMN   Army Newspaper’s Popular Feature Clipped Short After 11 Weeks

Appropriation BillsAre Nearly Ready   All to Be Offered Before 30th Day of the Legislature

Early Action on Appropriations Bills Ils Promised   Dougherty Says Major Ones to Be Ready Before 30th Day; Many Measures Go Before Houses of State Leaislature

Nazis Expect New Invasion Thrust Soon   Western France Viewed -as Most Likely Point for Allied Landing

Germans Fear Major Blows In New Areas   Mititary Leaders See Western France As Most Likely Spot

Nazis Expect Allies To Pull Bigger “Offfensives Than Italian Invasion

Germans Expect Greater Allied Invasions Soon   Western France, Softened By Allied Bombings, Rated Likeliest Point

— ee ee  GERMANS VIEW WESTERN FRANCE AS MOST LIKELY INVASION SPOT

Nazis Expect New Drives By ‘Allied Forces   Dispatches From Berlin Indicate Germans Are Awaiting Invasion Of France By Allies

GERMAN MILITARY  EXPERTS EXPECTING  NEW ALLIED DRIVE   BERLIN SAYS FRANCE MA BE INVADED, BUT GER BFAIc ADE PDEDADER

Nazis Looking For Heavy New  Invasion Blow   Believe France Is Most Likely Spot, But Say Defenses Are Ready In

Nazis Wait New Larger Invasior   Believe Heavy Attacks To Be Launched Soon

NAZIS EXPECT ~NEW SMASHES   German Officials See France As Most Likely Invasion Spot.

German Military Experts Hold Offensives Will Overshadow Italian Invasion

Germans Expect Big, New Allied Offensive Soon   Western France Seen As Target Along With Balkans

BERLIN EXPECTS GREATER ALLIED INVASION BLOWS   German Military Experts Looking For New Allied Offensives That Will Overshadow Invasion Of Italy.

NAZIS EXPECT MUCH BIGGER ALLIED BLOW   Military Experts of Reich Believe Western France Will Be Invaded, Al. though They Eye Balkans as Well.

NEW OFFENSIVES BY ALLIES LOOKED FOR BY GERMANS   Are Expected to Be Launched Soon by German Military Experts.   ‘SEE FRANCE AS TARGET    Western Part Most Likely  Point for Allied Aerial , Softening Up Blows.

(LIGHT LOCAL SHOWERS   Moderate Temperatures Forecast Over Week End

FLEET OF AUXILIARY CARRIERS IN ACTION   Converted Merchant Ships Carry Plans to Ferret Out U-Boats and Raiders

Committee Asks All Produc. ers of Steel Plate to Report Any Reduction in Output Caused by Strict Govern. ment Specifications

New Charges Are Hurled In Probe of Steel Plates   Carnegie-Illinois Plant Tried To Obstruct  Its Investigation, Troman Group Savs   NELSON CONCURS, CALLS FOR HONESTY

CLAIMS STEEL FIRM TRIED T0 BLOCK INQUIRY   Truman Group Accuses Carnegie-lIllinois In Tests Probe

Railway Workers Vonsider Strike ‘or Pay Raise   Non-Operating Men » Angered When Vinson Voids Eight-Cent Aware  GO TO ROOSEVELT : Unien Heads Plead  For Intervention On Overtime Issue

Rail Worker Union Leaders Appeal to F.D.R.   Want Vinson Overruled In Opinion That Blocks Substantial Pay Boosts

TURN OF WAR IN PACIFIC NOW FAVORS ALLIES   Prime Minister Curtin Of Australia Says Japs Have Definitely Been Stopped In Tracks.

CURTIN SIGNALS TURN OF WAR IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC   Australian Prime Minister Says Jap Invasion of Northern Area Stopped

No Let-Down  For Heinies   Around Clock Bombing Playing Big Role

SNOWPLOWS INTO ACTION IN SOME SECTIONS   Estherville Reports Nearly Foot of Snow; Coal Shortage Feared

oT ORM HALTS. TRAFIC; NEAR BLIZZARD FURY   ‘Snowplows in Use to Clear Roads; Icy Pavements Being Sanded,

State Feels First Blow Of Winter   Proportions Near That of Armistice Day in 1940 But Damage Less

Nearly A Foot Of Snow Falls In N. W. lowa   Blizzard Conditions Prevail; State Fears Possi ble Coal Shortage.

Storm Hits North Iowa   Near Blizzard, Heavy Snow In Northern Areas; Colder Predicted

Offers Tax " Centering « on Luxury   House Committee Approves New Bill, Giving It a "aT New Slogan   ‘BUT POSTAL RATES WOULD. BE BOOSTED   glaxes on Individual’ Income Altered. But Little, Rate Hike on Excess Profits

Tax Bill Is Ready   House Soon To Receive 2» 142.900.0000 Measure

Tax Program Headed Toward Floor of House   Committee Ends Work on Measure To Provide Revenue

NEW TAX BILL IS COMPLETED   Administration Requests Are Slashed - - Other Problems

House Gets Two Billion  Tax Measure   President Asks For 10 Billion

EXPECTS HOUSE TO ACCEPT NEW TAY BILL NAW   Bill Would Raise In-Town Postal Rates One Cent

$2 Billions  New Taxes ~ Upio House   Ways and Means Body “Sends Whittled Down Program for Ballot   Income Levies Little Altered: Postal Rates, Excess Profits Pay More

HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE COMPLETES TAX BILL  MEASURE CALLS FOR. APPROXIMATELY ONEFIFTH TREASURY DEMANE

Committee Brings Out Revenue Measure  Tax Bill, Eight Billions Short, Goes To House

$2,142,900,000-Tax Bill Is On Its Way To  House For Action   Committee Approves Measure After Chairman Doughton Says ‘You Can Sheer A Sheep Every Year But Can Skin Him Only Once’

2 Billion Dollar Tax Bill Headed  For Lower House   It Is Only One-Fifth as Large as Sought by the Administration.   Calls For Increase on Luxuries, Amusements

Two Billion Dollar Tax Bill Reported to Congress Today   Provides for About OneFifth of Amount Asked by Morgenthau

LOGAN GIVEN TO TAX GROUP   *You Can Shear a Sheep Every Year, But Skin Him Only Once,’   BILL HEADS FOR HOUSE

COMMITTEE ENDS WORK ON TAX BILL   Changes In Income Tax Are Only Minor Ones

MEASURE HEADED FOR HOUSE FLOOR   CALLS FOR OVER 2 BILLION NEW TAXES; HIGHER POSTAL RATES

New Tax Bill Is Sent to Congress   Shearing but Not Skinning Is Proposec By Measure

House Studies New Tax   COMMITTEE PRESENTS $2,142,900,000 BILL; ACCEPTANCE PREDICTED

NEW WARTIME TAX READY FOR HOUSE ACTION   Calls: For $2,142,000,000 In. Revenue; Few Major Changes for Individ . ual Taxpayers

NEW TAX BILL IS APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   Prediction Made That ‘The House and Country” Will Accept Second Wartime  Revenue Measure   THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

New Tax Measure Moves To House From Committee   Increases In Postal Rates, Higher Taxes On Luxuries Included

TAXBILE = HEADS TOWARDS IHOUSE FLOOR   Chm. Daughton Gives New Slogan, “You Can Shear A Sheep Every 12 Months But You Can’t Skin Him But Once”

New Tax Bill Heading For House Floor   Calls For Some Increases, Little Change in Individual! Income Taxes

House Given Two-Billion  Tax Measure   Few Major Changes For Individuals Under New Committee Plan

NEW TAX BILL BEFORE HOUSE   Measure Calls For Adding 2 Billion To Present Levies

NEW TAX BILL SENT TO HOUSE BY COMMITTEE   Would Raise About Fifth of Total Asked for by Administration

Committee Tax Bill Approved  Two-Billion Measure Goes Before House With Higher Excises

Second Wartime Tax Bill Taken  To House Floor   Provides Only About A Fifth Of Revenue Asked By Administration.

GUT TAX BILL ON WAY TO HOUSE   Calis for Higher Luxuries, Postal Rates

USING NEW SLOGAN TO PASS TAX BILL FOR TWO BILLION   House Committee Chairman  i, Says Sheep Are Shorn } Every Year But $kinned 1 Only Once.      SILL WILL PROVIDE FIFTH OF SUM ASKED   Little Alteration on Incomes _ But Provides Boosts In k Postal Rates, Luxuries, \ Entertainment.

House Croup Decides On _ Tax Program   Provide But A Fifth 01 Amount Requested B; Treasury; Hike Beer. Liquor, Postal Rates

Tax Bill On Way To House   Acceptance Is Seen By Rep. Carlson Of Kansas

Tax Bill To House   Measure Would Provide Only Fifth of What Administration Asked 

Tax Bill Placed In  Final Form   Measures To Provide $2,142,900,000 Is Only One-Fifth Of Requested  Amount

Two Billion Tax  Bill On The Way   House Committee Approves One-Fifth of Treasury  - .Demand    VICTORY TAX IS OUT   But Income Tax Rate Is Raised to Make Up the  ' Difference

NEW TAX BILL GOES BEFORE HOUSE TODAY      Passage of $2,142,900,000 Measure Predicted by Committee

New Tax Bill on Its Way to House Floor   Provides About Fifth of Amount Asked by the Administration

New Tax Bill Sent To House By Committee   Measure Provides Fifth Of Amount Asked By Treasury

Committee Approved Bill Merges Victory, Income Levies; No Sales Tax Plan

TAXES SET FOR HOUSE DEBATE   Few Major Changes Ap pear for Individual Taxpayers

Pay-Go Deadline  Nears   .« « Conference Group In Race Against Time

Compromise Tax Plan Must Be Passed Quickly   ~George Warns Speed Is Needed After Ruml Plan Rejected.

Speed Sought In Drafting Tax Measure   Conference Committee to Start Sessions To_ morrow

Push For Action On Tax Measure  Face Deadline For Passage of Bill

ATTEMPT TO WRITE COMPROMISE TAX   Conference Committee Faces Job of Writing Acceptable Bill to Both Houses

TAX CONFERENCE NEARS DEADLINI   Agreeable Measure “May Bi Delayed Until Too Late For July 1.

GROUP MUST HAMMER OUT NEW TAX BILL   Must Be Acceptable To All Concerned

Committee Must Rush  Tax Measure   George Says Deadline To Fall in About Two Weeks

Some Sort of Bill Must Be Whipped Into Shape To Be Effective July Ist   RUML BILL IS KILLED

COMMITTEE FACING DEADLINE FOR TAX BILL LEGISLATION  _ ACTION IMPERITIVE TO  GET MEASURE WORKING BY JULY FIRST

Tax Compromise Being Sought   Leaders Hope to Get Bill to Put Plan into Effect on July 1

DEADLINE PUT ON PAY-GO TAX   George Tells Conference Committee Action On Measure Must Be Completed By Next Week.

PAY-Ao-GO PLAN BEFORE COMMITTEE   Conference Body Faces Deadline Today

FACE DEADLINE ON NEW TAX BILL   MUST BE PASSED SOON TO BECOME EFFECTIVE JULY 1

HOUSE GROUP FACES DEADLINE ON TAX SETUP   Must Shape Compro. mise As Ruml Plan Te Tyefestod   BEATEN IN HOUSE   Kunkel One Of 9 G. O. P. Members Opposing Plan.

Conference on Pay-as-You-Go Income Tax Measure Will Convene Tomorrow

ITALY AND FRANCE RR KNOCKED OUT   British Raid Berlin, Hanover, the Ruhr Again Last Night.

British Mosquitoes Struck at Berlin, Hanover and Industrial Cen. ters in the Rubr Area Again Last Night,

ACTRESS SLUGGED, SKULL FRACTURED   Zina Provendie Struck on Head in Downtown New York—Dramatic Critic Also Attacked.

GOVERNOR T0 CHANGE TIME FOR FARMERS   Proclamation will ask rural communities to readjust time schedules

INCREASINGLY HEAVY AIR BATTLE ALONG SOVIET WAR FRONT  MANY GERMAN PLANES REPORTED DESTROYED IN RECENT ACTIONS

RUSS-NAZI AIR FLEETS BATTLE   VIGOR OF AERIAL WAR CONTINUES TO GROW OVER RUSSIA

Air Battles Over Russia Grow in Fury   Plane Warfare Believed Preceding Offensive

Violent Air Battle Upon Soviet Front   Action On Land Has Minor Role

AERIAL BATTLES . INCREASING ON THE SOVIET FRONT   Russian and German Air Fleets Continue to ‘Fight It i Prelude to Land OF-

AIR SKIRMISHES INCREASE OVER RUSSIAN FRONT   Action Seen As Prelude To Great Land Fighting

Russ, Nazis Trade Heavy Blows in Aix   Soviets Report 160 Axis Planes Destroyed in One Night

Air Battles Stepped Up In Russia   Action In Air Believed To Be Prelude To Land Offensive

Russia Land Offensive Is  Foreshadowed   Weavy Air Battles Con tinue Between Russian And German Plane Fleets.

REPORT VIGOROUS AIR BATTLES ON RUSSIAN FRONT   German Air Force and Soviet Plane Fleet Continue To Fight It Out In Prelude To Land Offensive. Air Fighting Flares Up In Don Valley.

SOVIET, REICH IN BATTLE FOR AIR   Fierce Aerial Warfare Ex. tends Over Many Key Sections of Russia

RENEW AIR WAR  IN DON BASIN   Vicinity Has Become Cemetery for Downed Junkers And Heinkels.

BATTLES RAGE OVER RUSSIA  ‘Sov iets Fighting It Ou  ith Germans In Pre lude to 1943 Land Offensive  BATTLES AiR     FLARES IN DON AREA        Sector Has Become Ceme tery For ‘Bowned“Jin kers and Heinkel   FLARES IN DON AREA   Sector Has Become Cemetery For ‘Downed <Jinkers and Heinkel Planes of Bosch

* tal Battles ray in Russia   German and Russian Airmen Clash Again In Don River Valley

BF PELDETOA. LAND OFFENSIVE   tery for Downed Heinies   OTHER NAZI PLANES CAUGHT ON GROUND

Air War Rages Over Red Front   Prelude to 1943 Land OFffensive Flares Up Over Don River Valley.

Tempo Of Air Combat Rises On Red Front   Nazis, Reds Grapple For Advantage; Don River Basin Active

ALGIERS, Jone 8$—-Pi— The French Executive Com. mittee was formally brought Into existence?’ today and given the name of the National Committee of Libera oo

FRENCH LEADERS STILL JEALOUS   Unable to Agree on a Division of the Honors

FRENCH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS HIN ALGIERS   Meeting Broke Two-Day Deadlock During Which  Time No Meetings Were LUI.

Goodland’s Veto of 17 Measures Taken For ‘Ride’   Legislators Defy Governor; Pass ©  Bills Over Him

Override 17 Of 20 Vetoes By Goodland   Legislature To Take Another Recess After Defying Governor On Numerous Issues

MOVING OUT OF ITALY      German Concerns Are Selling Shares in Italian Firms

Yankees, Japs Trade Blows  ‘in Pacific War   U.S. Emerges With 1§-to-8 Margin Over Enemy Planes

AMERICAN _ PLANES RAID CAMP MANGIN   Hits Scored On On . Airdrome At Gabes — 2 Nazi Planes Downed

ENEMY TRYING HARD TO FLEE JUNGLE DEATH   U. 8. Army Troops Replace Ma rines in Solomon Islands. Warplane Attacks Spreading

ATTACK BASE IN TUNISIA   French Retire To New Positions In Kebir River Valley

U.S. AIRMEN ATTACK BASE IN TUNISIA   French Retire To New Positions In Kebir River Valley

JAPANESE SHIP SUNK OFF NEW GUINEA   Vessel Sent Down by Allied Bombers—Three Enemy Planes Barred in Mast Indiec«.

ALLIED AIRMEN ~ HIT NIP VESSEL   5000-Ton Ship Left Sink. ing By Heavy Bombers

Allied Fliers Leff Japanese Ship Sinking   Big Allied Bomber Shoots Down Three Of Eight Planes Which Attacked

Bombers Attack Jap Ship, Bases   Big Plane Downs Three of hight Attacker:

Allied Fliers Hit Big Jap Ship And Three Planes   Raiders Leave Vessel In Sinking Shape; Aircraft Destroyed

5,000 Ton Jap Vessel Bombed   Three Nipponese Fighters Shot Down

Bombed Jap Cargo Vessel Left Sinking   3 Enemy Fighters Are Shot Down in Another Air Battle

Congress In A Quick Retreat Following Veto   Only A_ Limitation Of Subsidies Now Sought  In Senate.

~SEEK COMPROMISE—  Solons Back  Down   «House Won't Override FDR's No-Subsidy Veto

‘GANGRESS APPEARED 7 ULL RETREAT AFTER “PRESIDENTIAL VETO   REVERSES POSITION ON STRONG STAND AGAINST ‘GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES

Delay Action On Subsidies   Senate Puts Off Vote On Bill Approved By House Friday.

Pam HP ‘Stand Fades In Congress   House Votes to Uphold F.R. Veto; Seek Only Limitation

MOST CONCENTRATED BOMBING IN HISTORY BLASTS PANTELLERIA   WAVES OF PLANES ‘FOLLOW EACH OTHER CLOSELY ON THURSDAY

Climactic Pantelleria Raid Most Concentrated Bombing In History Of Air Warfare   Island Covered With Smoke And Dust From Dawn To Dusk, Say Fliers

Pipe Lines Needed For Gas Fields  Plenty Of Fuel But No Gonvevor

NEED PIPE LINES   Distribution Is Main Problem of Gas Fuel Shortage

N ot One Lost By Eighth Army In Definitely Halting Axis, ‘Allied Headquarters Reports   Two Ships Sunk, One Sinking, Five Others Fired In Attack By Allied Bombers On Enemy  Coiivos Hi The Medilerranean

Nazi Troops Give Up Stronghold To Escape Encirclement By Seviets. Big Victory For Russians.

QUVIET VIGTORY MAKES PODOIBLE DRWE TOPOLANE   Newest Russian Triumph On Eve Of 26th Anni  versary Of Revolution

STRATEMEYER’S ARRIVAL IN INDIA MAY PRESAGE NEW FAR EAST CAMPAIGN

Maj. Gen. Stratemeyer Reported In India   Former Chief Of Air Staff Of U. S. Army Arrives In Far Eastern Zone eo. tracEPH A. BORS

-SNOW OR RAIN COMING   Bad Weather Is Predicted for West and South Central Kansas

Defense Challenges Lifted.Fingerprint In De Marigny Trial  Confusion Results After Testimony of

Nassau Murder Trial Thrown  Into Confusion   Ruling Is Awaited As Defense Challenges Lifted Fingerprint

DEFENSE SCORES IN MURDER CASE   De Marigny’s Attorne: Challenges Fingerprint  Taken From Screen

FINGERPRINT RULING AWAITED AT TRIAL   ‘Defense Challenges as  “Improper” Evidence Exhibit of Detective

Raise Question On Fingerprint In Oakes Death   Bombshell Is Tossed Into de Marigny Trial By Defense

lais Week ==  tN Ap ik  Hopes Rise For Quick Knockout Of Axis Powers

Senate May Ballot On Labor Bill   Debate Continued On Measure To Require Financial Reports

SENATE PLANS TAKE FINAL ACTION UPON LABOR UNION BILL  ATTEMPTS TO ADJOURN BEATEN DOWN AND DEBATE TO BE CONTINUED

TO PROP COAL PRICES   “Floor” of Last Two Years to Be Withdrawn Monday

Office Price Administration fo Bolster Coa Price Ceilings in Preparation for Death Of Bituminous Coal Commission Monday

Prepare Coal Price Props   OPA Amends Regulations To Stabilize Bituminious Ceilings.

Preparations Being Made to Bolster Price Ceilings Over Bituminous Coal

PRICE CEILING ON BITUMINOUS COAL PROPPED   OPA to Act in Preparation for Death of Coal Commission at Midnight  Monday...

COAL PRICE CEILING TO BE RAISED   ‘Ceiling That Has Been in Effect for Last Two Years  Will Be Withdrawn Monday Night

Move To Keep Price Ceilings  Over Soft Coal   O. P. A. Plans Action To Avert Upset Of Regulatorv System.

ROMMEL IN GREECE: DISORDER REPORTE IN AXIS BALKANS   British Radio _ Says Nazi And. Italian Troops Have Fired On Each Other

ALLIES GIVE RABAUL ITS BIGGEST ATTACK      Nineteen Liberators Take Part in Fourth Raid in Six Days— Y All Return Safely.

PRICES STEADY   Ohio Farmers Get Same General Retorn as Previous Month.

Butter Supply. -ToBeReduced   Armed Forces And Allies “To Get 30 ‘Per Cent Of Production

FIGHTERS WILL SHARE BUTTER   Wickard Earmarks 30 Percent of Production; Also Canned Citrus Juice

BUTTER, CITRUS FRUITS FOR VETS   30 7. C. of All Creamery, Virtually All Juices to Forces

ARMY REQUIRES MORE BUTTER   To Receive 30 Percent of Nation’s Monthly Creamery Production

Anny Gets Much Citrus, Butter   30 Percent Will e To Armed Forces

BUTTER CONSUMPTION 5 CUT 30 PER CENT   Armed: Forces, Allies.Yo- Get Virtually All’ Carined  * >’ Citrus Juices

Civilian Supply Of Butter Cui From 16 To 13 Pounds, According To Government Order Becoming Effective February {st

MOST CANNED FRUIT JUICE, MUCH BUTTER GOING TO ARMY —   Order, Effective Feb. 1, Digs Deep Into Civiljian Supply

U.S. BUTTER ORDER   Armed Forces Will Get 30 _ Per Cent ot Output During 1943

THIRTY PER CENT OF BUTTER AND MOST CANNED CITRUS JUICES GOING TO WAR

BUTTER GIRS FRITS ARE GU   Drastic Cuts Ordered In Civilian Supplies of Butter and Canned Citrus Fruits To Assure Adequate Stocks For Armed Forces,

SOLDIERS GET « BUTTER, JUICES   Dealers See Rationing of Butter for Civilians; Allies — To Share '

END OF TUNISIA CAMPAIGN NEAR   GERMAN, ITALIAN TROOPS FACE  “DUNKIRK”, CAP BON PENINSULA, AFTER LOSING TUNIS, BIZERTE   BULLETIN

SEE ATTEMPT TO REOCCUPY KISKA, ATTL   Stepped-Up Offensive, Seizure of Amchitka, Viewed As Prelude to Attack

U. S. Prepares To Drive Japs From Aleutians   Islands of Kiska, Attu Subjected To Much Bombing

U.S. Presses Softening Up In Aleutians   Kiska Hit 5 More Times, Attu 7 Times in One Day’s Raids

AIRMEN CONTINUE SOFTENING JAPS   Red Air Forces Smash Ger. man Airdromes, 350 Planes Destroyed,

HINT ATTEMPT TO TAKE KISKA NEXT STRATEGY   Newly-Acquired U, S. Air Base Near Jap-Held Isle Revealed

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE   Army-Navy Tests for Chiidente ta he Given Nov. 4

ARMY-NAVY QUALIFYING TESTS SET FOR NOVEMBER §   ENTERTAINED FOR DAUGHTER’S BIRTHDAYS

£00 DUG tUr Cte AMY  So Towering Slim Sackel, Six-Feet-Ten, Is Back Homie

Strike Hits War Plants   Ford Factories Halted By Strike; Hundreds Quit

United Nations Taking Advantage Of Gains As RAF Hits U-Boat Base

BIGGEST RAID CARRIED OUT. ON LORIENT   U.S. Bombers Believed to Have’Made* Ttaly Attack

LIBYA - BASED PLANES SMASH NAPLES HARBOR   Attack Believed Hint Of What ts In Store For Southern Italy Area   SUPPLY ROUTES BLASTED   Axis Forces Feel Lack Of Materials; British Near Mareth Line

Ted E. Collins to Head County Salvage Group   Succeeds SamGoza, J1 In Directing Scrap Campaians

Ted E. Collins to Head County Salvage Group  a  ae   SS  oe eee Succeeds SamGoza, Jr In Directing  Scrap Campaians

VINSON REVERSES PLAN ON SUBSIDIES   SYNTHETIC OUTPUT ASSURES UU. S. OF AMPLE BASE RUBBER--JEFFERS

CASUALTY TOLL ' SET AT 131,098   Stimson Reports Figures on  U. S. Losses

U.S: Casualty ‘Total Stands at 131,098   STIMSON REVEALS ARMY TOTAL SINCE START OF WAR REACHES 98,594

U.S. Casualty Total Stands At 131,098   Fifth Army Casualties in Italy Now Total 13.419, Stimson Says

U. 5. Casualty Tofal Now 131,098   Nearly 30,000 Killed In Action

STRIKES IN SOFT COAL FIELDS NEAR GENERAL WALKOUT   Present Ever-Increasing Threat To Nation’s War Effort—More Go Out Daily

Raspberry Crop About Harvested   County Yield Expected Tc Total Around 12,000 Crates; Prices Good.

KRRRR ARR Hustisford Honor Rolf   List of local men in service f the armed forces of the United Besenas:

Yank Planes Pound Jap Pacific Posts   Marshall Islands Hit; Airfield At Bonis Ripped

FATHERS WILL BE DRAFTED, IS ‘THOR LAST REPORT NOW   Paul MeNutt in ean Address & Governor’s Conference— This Is Official.

DRAFT OF FATHERS WILL COME LAST   McNutt Talks at Governor’s Conference, Possible Is Now Uncertain.

DNIEPER BEND, CRIMEAN AREAS   Nazis Admit Russian Attacks Boiling Over to Additional Sectors

REDS WITHIN 18 MILES KRIVOL ROG, ORECITY   ‘Tested Veterans of Bartle , of Stalingrad Thrown Into Move to isolate Mithon Germans   FOE ACKNOWLEDGES ASSAULTS GROWING   Reds Gain More Ground At Melitopol to Command Three-Quarters Desper ately Defended City

German Positions North Of Krivoi Are Jumbled Now   No Line Left Organized: Germans Admit Growing Danger to Forces

Nazi Line At Krivoi Rog Crumbles As Soviet Army Rolls On In Massed Drive

MUST FIGHT VETERANS OF STALINGRAD   Tested Troops Thrown Into Battle as Soviets Near Vital Point in Drive to Isolate Crimea and Dnieper Bend.

Red Vanguards Within 18 Miles Of Dnieper Bent   All Semblance Of Line Lost By Enemy Before Massed Russian Drive

Soviets Take Center Of Melitopol   Russians Throw Veterans Into Drive To Cut Off Nazi Force

Soviet May Trap Nazis In Crimea   Stalingrad Veterans Are _ Thrown Into Drive in  Ukraine   GAINS AT.. MELITOPOL   Germans Fight Improvised Actions to Halt Russian ‘Advance

Soviets Move To Slam Shut  Crimea Gates   Half Million German Troops Threatened By New Attacks In Area.   MELITOPOL SLIPPING

Germans Acknowledge Russian Gains. .. . .  Stalingrad Veterans Drive Toward Crimea

RUSSIANS ONLY 18 MILES OUT OF KRIVO! ROG   Germans Admit Soviets Gain Additional  Sectors

GERMANS HAVE LOST ENTIRE LINE TA RERS   Half Million Nazi Troops Entrapped Alongs Dniepe:

Half Million Nazi Troops Caught in Nef   Russians Gain Large Areas in City of Metitopol

Soviet Veterans Thrown Into Strona Attack   Half Million Germans May Be Trapped In Crimea, Dnieper Bend

VETERAN RED TROOPS JOIN CRIMEA FIGHT   Russian Vanguards Only 18 Miles From Krivoi Rog On Dnieper

GERMANS BATTLE FURIOUSLY 10 EVADE RED TRAP   FIGHT IMPROVISED ACTIONS FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER

Veterans Of Stalingrad Join Russian Drive To Cut Off Germans In The Crimea

Stalingrad Vets Hurled Into Fray; Most Of Melitopo! Held By Russians

Russians Throw Veterans of Sialingrad Into Offensive to Trap 500,000 Nazi Troons   HOLD AIR CONTROL   Soviels Hold Three-Quariers of Melitopol, Nazis Showing Sigas of Giving Way

Vanguards 18 iles From  Krivoi Rog   ‘Germans No Longer Have Enough Fighter Planes   To Contest in Air

DNIEPER BEND IS ENCIRCLED BY RUSSIANS   Tested Veterans of Battle of Stalingrad Stage Drive to Isolate Half Million Germans   LOSSES ARE ENORMOUS

HALF MILLION NAZIS BATTLE TO FLEE TRA   Stalingrad Veterans Throwr Into Fight by Reds Nearing Krivoi Roa.

MOST BITTER DATTLt Ot WAR NOW RAGING   Germans Fighting To Finish Against Crushing Drive Of Russian Forces

~_ Pushes to Within 18 Miles of We Iron Ore City in Bend of coe ‘and Key to German Defenses  ¥

$00,000 NAZIS _ ENDANGERED BY RUSSIAN DRIVE   } Soviet Veterans of Stalingrad Battle 18 Miles From Their Objective

Veteran Red Force Thrown Asainst Foe   Stalingrad Fighters In Action; Nazis Battling To Save Half Million Facing Entrapment

NEAR ORE CITY   Germans Acknowledge Soviet Attack Entering New Sectors.   FIGHT ON IN MELITOPOL

RED ARMY IN BOLD DRIVE TO ISOLATE NAZIS IN GRIMEA   Reuters Dispatch Placed the Russian Vanguards 18 Miles From Krivoi Rog.   NAZI AIR FORCE WEAK   No Longer Have’ Enough Fighter Planes to Prevent an Attack.

Half Million Nazis Face Entrapment in Crimea, River Bend   Russians Now Within 18 Miles of Great Iron and Rail Center

RED ARMY THROWS VETERAN FIGHTERS INTO BOLD DRIVE   DESPERATE EFFORTS BEING MADE ISOLATE HALF MILLION GERMANS

Would Trap Half Million Nazi Troops   Breakthrough North Of Dnepropetrovsk Driving South To Crimea

DEVALUATION POWER KILLED   Congress Fails To Heed President's Plea For Authority

ALLIED PATROLS CROSS VOLTURNO AHEAD OF ARMY   Nazis Abandon Attempt te Halt Eighth Army At Toarmali_

CLARK'S ARMY SET TO FORCE RIVER BARRIER   Small Gains Recorded Across Italian  Peninsula

Allies Cross Volturno River. Nazis’ First Defense Line, As British Advance on Rome      ‘Our Hats Are Off in Pride,’ Admiral Messages Yank Navy

STH ARMY PATROLS CROSS _VOLTURNO: 8TH MOVES AHEAD   African Airmen Extend Offensive To Greece _ =- Drive To Halt 8th Fails

PATROLS CROSS NAZIS LAST LINE DEFENDING ROME   east of Naples on’ Volturno Near Capua . Captured by U. S. Fifth Army  Caestra, Highway: Junction 15 Miles North

ALLIED PATROLS OVER VOLTURNO, BIG DRIVE SEEK   Caserta Captured by Sth Army; 8th Army Advancing   [NAZIS LOSE TANKS IN NEW COUNTER-ATTACK

Families Producing Rationed Foods Asked to Cooperate   Farm Families to Be Given Full Quota of Points,’ Smyth.

Farmers Urged - Not To Parchase. Rationed Foods   Farms families. will not be re  quired to declare meats on hand  or In lockers but dre asked to. ase reserve. cupply firet

Farmers Are Asked To Withhold Stamps For Rationed Foods      Board Chairman Asks Cooperation of Families Producing Food at Home

MEATS-FATS PROGRAM EFFECTIVE MARCH 28   Families Urged to Cononarate Bully

COOPERATION ASKED FROM FARM FAMILIES DURING RATIONING   People with Lockers Will Not Have to  tharlare Ttema

Conference Is Called At Chicago By National Mediation Board Ir  Move To Avert Strike

SUPPORT FOR PRICES OF FOOD PROMISED   Assurance Given Farms That Risks Will Be Covered

Farmers Pledged Supported Prices   WEA Head Says Prices to Be at Level to Cover  Risks and Hazards.

Food Prices Will  Cover Added Risks   Fulmer Wants Jones To Outline Policy

Production Hazards To  Be Secured   War Food Administrator Promises Adequate Price Support

FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR FOOD PRICES   Marvin Jones in Pledge to ' Farmers; Rep. Fulmer Commennds Idea

FDR’s Confidence In U. S.. Victory  Renewed In Africa   President Sends Message to American Armed Forces in North Africa.

President Sends Message of Praise And Encouragement to U.S. Troops

FDR ‘Confident Of African Win   Eisenhower Receives Encouraging Note

Declares’ Brief Visit T« North Africa Gave Hin Increased Assurance anc Deeper Feeling of Pride in Leaders and Men of U S. Armed Forces.

Roosevelt's Visit to North Africa Gives Him Renewed Pride n Troops

American Soldiers Shall Be Victorious, Says President  Sends Message To Officers And Men Telling Of Hic Pride In Their Accamnlichmentc

Africa Visit Renews His Confidence in Victory, Says FDR   President Has Deeper Feeling of Pride In Lenders. Men

F.D.R. SAYS YANKS WILL BE VICTORS   Message of Renewed Con fidence in Armed Forces _ Delivered to Eisenhow: er Following Casablanca Parley.

Visit To Troops Renews Confidence In U. S. Victory, President States

THE PRESIDENT SEES VICTORY AS HE RETURNS 10 U.S,   Mr. Roosevelt Has a Deeper Feeling of Pride in the Armed Forces.   HE COMMENDS THE MEN   Sends Message to American Soldiers in North Africa En Route Home.

PRESIDENT IS SURE AMERICA WILL WIN   Chief Executive Addressed Message to Soldiers in Africa

ROOSEVELT IS READY FOR HOME   Commends U. S. Men and Officers in North Africa

Senate Nears Vote Today On Subsidy Plan   Sen. Taft Has Amendment Which Calls for RFC TO Pay Half Billions Dollars in Subsidies. :

Food Subsidy Proposal up in Senate Today   Leaders Hope Controversial Bill Will Be Disposed of Before Nightfall

Finnish Polifical Lines Are Tangled   First Premier Not to Serve

STRIKES MAY BE CERTIFIED TO PRESIDENT   Government and Labor Circles Optimistic New Crisis Will Pass Without Extended Stop   DEADLINE IS REACHED

MINERS IGNORE THE STRIKE DEADLINE   More Join Walkout As Industry Feels Pinch

Oil to Be Hikec If Necessary, . ‘Asserts Brown   Price Administrator Says It Will Be Done Only for Successful Prosecution of War: Must Be Shown

Snow Blankets Part of Stafe   However, Weatherman Says Worst Over and Summer on Way Back

Folkes Confession Read fo Jury By State Prosecutor   ‘Voices’ Goaded Negro On to Slay Girl Sleeping _ In Lower Berth, He Says

Third Confession In Berth Slaving   ‘Voices’ Told Negro To Kil, He Sevs

Voices Impelled Folkes to Kill He Confessed  New Version Told at  Trial of Negro in Pullman Slaying

DEBATE OVER TRADE PACTS IS CONTINUED   COMPROMISES' EXPECTED 5 RESULT OF PRESSURE FOR MORE POWER FOR CONGRESS

TRADE TREATY BATTLE LOOMS   Administration may make concessions to opponents of act

Texas and Southwest Area See: By Jeffers as One of Greatest Sources of Synthetic Rubber

Texas May Be Rubber Mart   Rubber Director Says State May Be Leader

TEMPERATURES:   Allies At Edge Of Lae: Chinese Spurn Peace Bid   Defeated Japs Facing Sure Annihilation In New Guinea   ‘More Planes!’ Plea Ot Gen. MacArthur

ITALIAN PEACE TALK PERSISTS ON AXIS RADIO   Many Rumors Apparently Inspired By Berlin; Both Sides Play  Guessing Game

Reports of Italian Peace Movement Believed To Have Come from Berlin

iNew Crop of Rumors Abou! Italian Peace Move Seen As Having Sianificance

Illinois House To Vote on Anti-Third Resolution Today   Approval of Memorial to Congress Expected to Come Quickly

OPPOSE 4TH TERM FOR ROOSEVELT   RESOLUTION GETS TOP BILLING IN STATE LEGISLATURE

STIMSON SAID AGAINST BILL BY REP. KILDAY   Asserts Bill Would Break Down Selective Service

STIMSON OPPOSED TO KILDAY DRAFT BILL   Would Break Down Selective Service Program

STIMSON RAPS KILDAY’S PLAN   War Secretary Asserts Defer. ment Bill Would ‘Break Down’ Draft System

STINSON OPPOSES AILDAY DRAFT BILL   War Secretary Says Act Wil  Undermine Selective Ser vice Set-Up

KILDAY DRAFT BILL OPPOSED   Stimson Says Deferment Clause Not Compatible

ALLIED LOSSES IN NEW GUINEA HIT RECORD LOW   Lowest Expenditure of Life, Resources in History of Nation

70/0 BOASTS JAPS WIASSED FOR VICTOR)   Island Bases Defended, He Tells Diet; Nips Bomb U, S. Ships

IICTORY CERTAIN, TOO TELLS Japs   Ignores Fact Mikado’s Armies On Defensive On Three Fronts   ADDRESSES DIET   MacArthur Praises Ability Of Allied Troops In New Guinea

Jap Premier Is Positive Of Victory   Tells Parliament Armed Forces Have Laid Foundation   Enemy Bombers Attack Ships Near Aleutians   Fail To Inflict Damage; Australia  Pam ye Aw Tt itaden cn

atid liad al bated bl ~ bated taal bed  Tojo Ignores Jap Reverses, Talks of ‘Certain Victory’   Yanks Continue to Advance in Solomons Despite Resistance

Japs On Defensive, Yet  Togo Promises Victory   “temier Admits It'll ‘Take Time’ For Nips To Cash In On Pacific Loot.

T0J0 BOASTS — OF CONQUESTS   Tells Diet -Foundations . Are Laid For Certain Victory Over the Allies.

Tojo Boasts Of Certain Jap Victory   Ignores Defeats— U.S. Troops Progress On Guadalcanal

PREMIER TOJ0 FAILS  MENTION DEFENSIVE  SITUATION OF JAPS BOASTS THAT JAPAN’S  POSITION HAS MADE VICTORY CERTAIN

Tojo Boasts Japs  Have Made Sure Big Axis Victory   Premier's Address Is Given Parliament Calls For Greater Effort

T0JO BOASTS OF CONQUESTS OF NIPPONESE   Jap Premier, in Address to Parliament, Cooly Ignores Fact Armies Are on Defensive   PACIFIC DEVELOPMENTS

TOU0 BOASTS OF JAP WAR GAINS   Disregards Fact That. Nipponese Are on Defensive on All Pacific Fronts

Jap Premier Boasts of Victory   Invasion Armies Are on Defensive

TOJO TRIES TO CHEER UP NIPS   Jap Leader Claims Founda tion Laid for Victory— But Japs Yield Ground

Tojo Ignores - Fact Japs Now   On Defensive   Tells Parliament Nation Laid Foundations For Victory

OPA Agents Plan Stringent Enforcement Of Reinstituted Rule Against Pleasure Motoring

Nazis Shelter Dattlewagons   Tirpitz, Scharnhorst Anchored On Norway Coast Above Arctie Circle.

RAID AIRDROME IN PARIS AREF   Oth ey Bombers Head  For North France

U. S. Chamber Ends Session   Urges Continuation of Trade Pact Act

Japs Maintain Higt Quality in Planes  Officer Denies Any Production Letdown

Russians Cross North of Kiev; Surprise Nazis  Commanders . Carry  Supplies Over Dniepe:

BATTLE OF KIEV  WAS MORE OR LESS  BATTLE OF BRIDGES A; P, CORRESPONDENT  ONE OF GROUP WRITER: TO VISIT CITY

Planes And Warships Still  Pound Pantelleria Island  British Warships Shell Island Third Time

Italian Base Subjected fo Hard Bombing   Pantelleria Attacked b: Both Warships and Planes for Many Hours

Italian Island Blasted by Planes, Ships   Growing Allied Superiority Is Demonstrated

British Drop Blockbusters Over Naples   RAF Raids Coordinated  With American Blows

BLOCKBUSTERS ROCK NAPLES   Day-Long Assault Made On Pantelleria By Americans, RAF With No Loss

ITALIAN OUTPOST UNDER DAY-LONG BOMBING ATTACK   Americans Blast Isle of Pantelleria, Climaxing Week’s Attack Without an Allied Loss.   NAPLES HAMMERED ~ BY BRITISH AIRMEN   English Drop 4,000 and 2,000Pound Explosives on Docks and Industrial Area of City.

Climax Week In Which Allied Warships Shelled The Italian Island Outpost and Air Units Pound. ed If Ceaselessly

‘Americans Give Pantelleria  Day-Long Raid   Warships Assist in Relentless Blow; Allies Emerge Without Casualty After Four Days; Naples Is Attacked

Italian Outpost Pounded Again   Raid Is Climaxed To Week-Long Barrage

Pantelleria Gets Daylong Assault   U.S. Flyers Rain Bombs on Island

Italian Island Blasted by Planes, Ships  Growing Allied Superiority

PANTELLERIA HIT FROM AIR, SEA BY ALLIES   Week of Continuous Drubbing Carried on By U. S., British

American Bombers  Follow Up Royal Navy’:  Shelling of Island NOT ONE ALLIED PEANE IS LOST  British Reveai Their  Planes Dropped Huge  Bombs on Naples

PANTELLERIA GETS NEW NAVAL BLOWS AND AIR ATTACK   American Bombers Keep Italian Outpost Island Under Day-long Assault   NAPLES PLASTERED BY BLOCK-BUSTERS   ® British Wellingtons Drop Big Loads of Bombs on Docks And Industrial Areas; Heaviest Battering Ever Dealt in ® Mediterranean

American Bombers Rain Destruction on Isle! Of Pantelleria as Climax to Week of Assault!

Italian Areas Heavily Raidec   Allies Pour In Shells Without Losses

Attempt To Break RedStranélehold On Vital Lines   Say Terrible Tank Battles Churn Indecisively In Ukraine Mud And Slush

Soviet, Nazi Tanks Clash In Big Test   Fierce Battles Rage in Mud o Western Ukraine—as Nazis Try to Break Soviet Grip   NAZIS REINFORCED   Russians Reporl Germans Have Brought In Reinforcements from Htaly, Greece, Norway

TANKS SEE ACTION (N RUSSIAN FRONT      Nazis in Counterattacks to Break Thru the Soviet Lines

FIGHT IS RAGING IN UKRAINE MUD   Germans Coll on Reinforcements in Fierce Battle With Soviets

FIERCE TANK BATTLES ARE IN PROGRESS   Germans Seek To Break Russian  Stronghold

NAZI LEGIONS, REENFORCER, FIGHT HARD   Invaders Seeking to Loose Soviet Noose Around Formidable Numbers of Their Army

Big Tank Battle Churns Indecisivel In Ukraine Mud   Nazi Concentration Of Men and Materiel Is Locally Superior

Tank Battles Race i in Russia   Germans Seek to Break Russian Hold On Communications

Indecisive Battles Of Tanks In Mud, Slush   Weapons Of War Stand Tread To Tread In Fighting In Kiev Bulge, Moscow Hears

Nazis Hurl Great Tank Unit at Reds   Enemy Struggling. To Break: Strangle, On: Cormmiunications

TERRIBLE TANK BATTLES RAGING IN WESTERN UKRAINE   Germans Sought to Break Russian Stranglehold on Their Communications.   IS IN THE KIEV BULGE   Huge Mobile Guns, Larger Than Tanks, Appearing in Increasing Numbers.

EIGHT NEW DIVISIONS IN RUSSIA      Forces From: Ataly, . Norway and Greece In Fierce Battles .

Nazis Battle to Break Red's Grip  Terrible Tank Battles Raging on Muddy Fields

Tank Battle On Russian Front   MUD AND SLUSH FAIL TO HOLD BIG ' CONFLICT

Terrible Tank Battles Churn in Mud of Western Ukraine; Fight Indecisive

Tank Battles Churn Mud of West Ukraine   Eight New Mechanized — Units Rushed Into Fray  By Nazis

DESPERATE TANK BATTLES RAGE IN WEST UKRAINE   NAZI TRY TO BREAK RED STRANGLEHOLD ON COMMUNICATIONS

Tank Battles Raging Today In Ukraine Mud  ermans Seek   Germans Seek To Break Hold On Communications

B:z Tank Battles  Rew~ing In Russia   Reds Holding Big German Attacks; Germans Trying To Stop Russo Drive On Poland

Reds, Nazis In Tank Battles   Germans Seek To Break Russian Stranglehold On Communications.

Great Tank Battles Rage In Ukraine   Reinforced Nazis ‘Strive to Break Stranglehold on ‘ Communijeatione

FEED SUPPLY 70 BE SHORT   ANDRESEN ESTIMATES LIVESTOCK FEED WILL BE 25 _ PER CENT BELOW  ’ Nene

PRINTING PRESS NOW WAR TOOL   Make Steel Patterns for Pro duction of Essential Airplane Parts

nITLEH HEADS AUDUS FROM DEAD CAPITAL   Warplanes Roar Over France After Light Bombers Hit Berlin Aqain,

Hitler in Capital © During First Raid, Stockholm Reports   . Half Million Persons Lack Shelter; Haggard Refugees Picture Bombed City as Vast-Expanse of Desolatio;

Ministries Removed to Safer Place   Huge Fires Started by Bombings Cause Exodus.  of Government

Patton, Montgomery Troops Effect Junction To Push Axis Deeper In Trap

SENATE VOTES DEFERMENT FOR FARMERS   Draft Boards Directed to Exempt Fuil Time Crop Growers

Approve Farm  Delerment Bill   Would Prohibit Drafting Of Men Engaged Full-Time Raising War Crops,

Senate Defers Farmers; No Leaves Now   ~Army Follows Quickly Stringent Policy On Manpower Basis

Votes to Defer Farm Workers   Ayplies lo SubstantialJy Full-time Employes

SENATE APPROVES A DEFERMENT BILL   / Measure Directs Draft Boards to Defer Full Time Farmers

Senate Votes To Defer Full Time Farmers   Measure Would “Freeze” Workers In Agriculture

Senate Votes for Farmer Deferment   Johnson Proposal Gets 51-24 Tally

Senate. Approves Bill To Defer. All Men: Em ployed in Full Timé  Essential Farm Work.

Fall-Time Farm. Workers Affected   x * *&k ¥* Bill To Curb Absenteeism Okd   Post-War Policy Program Draws Potent Opposition

SENATE VOTES TO DEFER FARMERS   Legislation Directing Draft Boards to Defer Full Time Farm Workers Acted On

FARMERD WILL GET DEFERRELD   Bill Affects Practically All Full Time Workers Raising War Crops.   TO BE FROZEN IN JOBS

Expect Farmer Deferment To Pass Senate   All Amendments Are Up For Final Vote Thie Afternaan   Would Make Blanket Exemptions Possible   Pepper Substitute Also Confronts Senators Today

Farm Deferment Vote Likely   Sponsors Predict Bankhead Measure Will Pass

Johnson Plan Is Adopted By 51-24 Ballot   Agricultural Workers ‘Frozen On Farms’ By Action; Broad Powers Given Secretary

Anti-Absentee Bill Approved by House Navy Committee Vote   Post-War Planning and Anti-Sabotage Action Appears Uncertain

NEW MESSINA RAIDS BRING HEAVY DAMAGE   hard; German cities meanwhile suffer

Don't Drive, Is Warning   Patrol Pleads for Care As Ice, Snow Spread in State

V.F.W. OPPOSES WORLD STATE   Against “Dilution ofNational Sovereignty”

COUNTY REDUCES ~ TTS INDEBTEDNESS   During 1942 a Total of $254 000 n Bonds were Paid O

COUNTY REDUCES ITS INDEBTEDNESS   During 1942 a Total of $26,000 in Bonds were Paid Off

French Patriots Report Success  Send 250 Germans Hurtling to Death

GERMAN TROOP TRAIN BLASTED   French Patriots Continuing Their Violence Campaign

Senator Calls°For Paying: Levy On Bonded Liquor , Months Ahead of  Schedule 

SENATOR WANTS TO COLLECT MORE LIQUOR TAX   Says Billion Dollars Can Be Obtained

BEAMANS ARE  ~ IN FEAR OF AN INVASION   Definite: Signs ‘hey: Sense Early Allied Movement  Against Europe. dst   f . een a TENSION IS GROWING   ‘Nazi Garrisons Are Put on  the Alert and All Leaves *. : Are Canceled.  .

3 NATIONS WILL FIGHT U-BOATS   Agreement Reached On Best Wav To Smash Them

JHREE NATIONS JOIN TO SMASH e NAZI SUB PERII   U. S., Britain and Canada Agree on Measures in Atlantic

Agree on Battle Against U-Boats   Officials Agreed On Policy Te Smash Subs

GERMANS ARE IN FEAR OF AN INVASION   Definite Signs They Sense Early Allied Movement Against Europe.   TFNSION IS GROWING   Nazi Garrisons Are Put on the Alert and All Leaves Are Canceled.

FIGHTING BAND HURLS DEFI AT ITALIAN TROOPS   Vichy Mobile Guards Refuse To Join In Attack On Countrymen   NAZI JITTERS INCREASE   Martial Law Declared In Haute Savoie Region * Near Swiss Border

Allies Agree On New Program To  Smash U-Boats   American, British And Canadian Officials Agree On Moves To Hit Menace   ADMIRAL KING HEADS PARLEYS

U. §. Admiral Directs Allied U Boat Drive   UL S$. Canada, Britain Agree On Battle Policy In Washington Sessions   REPLIES TO AXIS   Coordinating Of Escort Vessels, Anti Submarine Craft, Planes Included

SMOLENSK IS SOVIET GOAL IN NEW PUSH   More than 100 localities captured in 24 hours of fighting

Russian Advance Surges Forward On 70-Mile Fron   Driving In Direction Of Nazi-Held Fortress Of Vyazma   ‘PUSH AHEAD ON ROAD TO SMOLENSK

TWO COLUMN UF AEDS ARE MAKING oPEED   One Is Moving Forward Toward Dnieper River and Other on Vyazma,   MORE TOWNS TAKEN   Enemy Counter Attacks All Have Been Smashed, Moscow Says.

SOCIAL ACTION   LABOR LEADER CALLS ON CONGRESS TO BROADEN FEDERAL SOCIAL SECUR-. ITY SYSTEM *

Tentative Induction List Includes Number Of Married Men.   BOARD MEETS TONIGHT

Induction List Includes Seven Volunteers,  Married Men.   BOARD CONTINUES WORK

‘CAPTAIN CLARENCE HOKE GIVEN  : TWO CITATIONS BY U. S. AIR FORCE

SENATE PASSES - WAR BILL BUDGET   Disagreements Betweer Houses Leave High Hur-

Senate A pproves Huge War Measure  On Voice Vote   Bill Provides Sum Of 71 Billions for Use by Army. Navy

MILK QUOTA MAY AVERT RATIONING   WFA to Use Recent Sales as Means of Determining Allowances.

Reds Make Gains Toward Smolensk   Important Spur ' Of Railroad Cut

RUSSIANS CUT RAILROAD SPUR   Red Armies Gain New Ground in Drives Toward Key Axis. Bastion  on Central Front—Way for Teus‘sian’ Advance Being Prepared.

Solons’ Revolt ls Pondered   G. O. P, Leader Sees F, D. R, Weakness

LEADERS STUDY CONGRESS REVOLT   interpreted as _ Reflecting Roosevelt’s Growing Weakness in Country; No Bearing on Fourth Term, Claim

Republican Sees FDR's Weakness   PAP EN 2 TP UI  President's Power Defended by Whip  In Damarenti~n Deuks

MIRRORS MAJORITY PARTY LEADERS AGREE THAT MOST PrOPTLE FAVOR PASSAGE OF BILL.

MANEUVERING KEPT  PROPOSAL TO REVISE  SPEED LAWS ALIVE CONSIDERATION OF RESO  LUTION TO CONFORM OPA RIIITES PNCTPONEN

Hoover   1 ae   A COLUMN } ABOUT IOWA!   Farmers Increase Their Food Raising Pledge

Nearly 1,000 RAF Heavy Bombers Ravage Ger man Citiac   NO ENEMY FIGHTERS PUT IN APPEARANCE

RECORD BOMB ATTACK MADE AGAINST REICH   F ortresses Follow Up Great RAF Assault On Berlin

Fliers Return  Without Loss in Raid   Enemy Capital Flares After Planes Drop Huge Load; Defenses Are Weak; Attack Helps to Paralyze Production

Nearly 1,000 RAF Heavy Bombers Ravage Ger. man Cities   NO ENEMY FIGHTERS PUT IN APPEARANCE   Berlin Rumbles Under Full Weight of Allied Air Miqht

American Flying Forts hit objectives following big  raids on two main cities   Offensive into third straight day; believe British again over continent

2,000 Tons Rain Upon Dusseldorf; New Raids Start   Giant RAF Night Raider: Again Siahbing Nazis

Farben Chemical  Works Wrecked Enemy Air Fighters Fail  To Attack Fortresses

Allied Bombers Believed on New Raid on Germany   Attack on Berlin Causes Big Fires

RAF Roars Out ord Night; Berlin Left in Flames   Newest Raid Follows Daylight Assault By Flying Fortresses on Unspecified Targets in Western Germany; Thousands  Of Workers Left Homeless in Capital

Forts Blast Reich in Daylight Raid   R.A.F. Hits Berlin, Ludwigshafen in Heavy Attack

Germany Rocked By Record Air Blows   Forts Pound Western Area After Mighty RAE Armada Smashes Berlin At Nicht

All-Out Air Attack Seems In Progress   Record Set by RAF When, 2500 Tons of Bombs Hit Capital

OVER 350 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES LOOSED BY RAF   All-Out Attack Launched On Nazi War Sinews; Americans Pound Reich Targets

RAF Drops 2 500 Tons Of Bombs    Ludwigshaven, Berlin Principal Targets Of Thousand Planes

BOMBS RAINED ON BERLIN IN NIGHT ATTACK   FLYING FORTRESSES SMASH TARGETS WITHOUT LOSS

_. 8. for's fee: ive Fig.a‘er esis-ance in ~av Swee Ds; ~eavv terin amaze 2e or-ec.

, Berlin Rocks Under Mighty Air Assault By The RAF  Fortresses Follow Up Attack With Large ' Scale Raid On Western Germany's Taraets

New Commando  Chief’s Career  Is Fiction-Like Laycock Led  Rommel Foray

British Major Returns From Battle Wearing Clothes Taken From Enemy

M AELLAR BILL OPPOSED BY F.U.A   Not Practical, President Says Of Proposal Concerning Federal Jobs

Warns Congress Against Meddlinc   Says American Forces At Peak Of Training

MARSHALL SAYS CONGRESS CAN HURT PROGRAM   Stand-By Troops Must Be Added In Set-Up

MARSHALL HITS DRAFT CHANGE   Says Induction Lag Would 8e Worse Blow Than Japs or Nazis Can Strike.

Steady Flow Of Men Needed In Army--Marshal   Warne Of Losses If  Draft Delayed

MARSHALL TELLS NEED OF MEN   Chief of Staff Says: Congresional Intervention Would Be Worse Than Defeat

SEES DISASTER F U. 8. MOVES 10 ALTER PLAN   Chief of Staff Puzzled Over Reaction at  This Time

FLOOD WATERS BREAK LEVEES   Mississippi River Swelting With No Definite Crest in Sight — Num-ber of Homeless in Six States Nearing 115,000.

Mississippi is At 40-Year Peak ‘And Still Rising   Red Cross Reports 115,000 Homeless In Six-State Area

FLOOD WATERS IN MIDWEST NOW AT FORTY.YEAR MARK   Homeless Now Nearing 115,000 — Red Cross Aided By Army In Work ~-

DE ee  Mississippi River Reaches 40- Year Peak, No Definite Crest In Si ight  i Th rcmrirtT

40 -Year Record Peaks Reached In Flood Areas   No Definite Crest In Sight Yet As  - Thousands Evacuate

SWOLLEN RIVER SETS 40-YEAR RECORD PEAKS   "Homeless Total Rises To Nearly 115,000 In Six States

Mississippi at Highest Point In 40 Years   . Nearly 115,000 Are Homeless - In Six States:

MISSISSIPPI IS NOW STARTING 10 RISE RAPIDL'   Rivers. in Arkansas, Illinois Begin to Recede—Crest Rises farther. South.

Or Man River  Still Rising  No Definite  Sight of Crest  In Swelling Stream

MISSISSIPPI'S CREST CLIMBING   Tributaries Pour Mighty Figod Tide Into Great River; 115.000 Homeless.

2 WOMEN, 2 MEN HELD FOR TRIAL AS NAZI SPIES   Four Rounded Up by Federal Agents on Charges of . Giving War Information to Germany.   ONE A DESCENDANT OF FRENCH NOBILITY   Another a Prominent Detroit Obstetrician — Arrests Ciimax Investigation Begun in 1939,

Four Arrested by FBI on Charges of Being Spies For German Government

[F. B. 1. Disecloses Nazi Spy Ring Headed By Woman   ‘wo Men and ‘Gwe Wo men . Arrested By Agents In Detroit Under Espionage Act

FBI Arrest: Four on  Spy Counts Detroit Woman, 34. Held To Be Leader

FOUR HELD ON SPY CHARGES   Two Women Among Those Arrested in Detroit And New York

FBI APPRENENDS 4 SPY SUSPECTS   Two Men and Two Women Charged With Giving War Information to Nazis Face Espionage Charges

Four Persons Are Arrested by FBI For Aiding Nazis   Doctor, Two Women Held in Detroit, Merchant Mariner in New York

rour Unargea With Giving Information  To Germany  Four Women, 4 Men First To Be Arrested Under Espionage Act, Face Possible Death   DETROIT ‘COUNTESS,’ DOCTOR INCLUDED   ‘Bonds of $50,000 Set: Two German Aliens Also Held in Detroit

Arrest 6 For Espionage for Germany   ee Ue  INE MAN AND TWO WOMEN AR. RESTED IN DETROIT; MAY HAVE TO SUFFER DEATH PEN. ALTY.   Under Act of 1939

FOUR BEING HELD BY FBI AS SPIES   Two Men and Two Women Under Arrest in Detroit

Alleged Espionage Agents Being Held - By FBI In Detroit   in "Attractive Well-Educated Descendant O French Nobility'’ And Three Others Are Arrested: Face Possible Death

FBI Breaks Detroit Spy Ring; Charge 4 Under Espionage Act   Two Escape From lonia Reformatory

Shocking Germar Atrocities on Naples Revealed  Morgenthau Given Document to Deliver to F. D. R.

Japs Admit Yank Attacks Continue  Tell People Offensive Cannot Re RBelittled

JAPANESE CITE. YANK STRENGTH   Tokyo Claims U. S. Forces Have Lost Heavily At Munda ._

TOKYO ADMITS HEAVY STRUGGLE   Broadcast Reports American Offensive In Solomons. on Big Seale.

Decisive Blows Handed Japs By American Fleet  Thanksgiving Day Brings Good News From

Americans Ready for New Attacks  Wins Bring Cause for Thanksgiving

AGREE ON PLAN TO AID FARMING IN MIDDLEWEST   Delegates of 12 States Adopt Recommendations at Des Moines Parley

Food. Production Crisis: Stressed   Governors. OF: Corn: ‘Belt Draw. Up Proaram .

Recognition Of Farmers’  Needs Urged  » Governors Demane .. a. oe: oe a   - Governors Demand More Machinery And Manpower

Parley Offers Program To End Farming Perils   Governors Hear Hoover Plead For A _ Stronger Home Food Sector.

Urge Action To Avoid Shortage   Governors Want More Farm Labor, Machinery; Hear Former President

Governors Agree on Farm Plan   Proper Recognition of Farming as Needed Industry Asked

Corn Belt Meet Backs  Agriculture   Recommendations Approved By Governors From the Midwest

AGREE ON HOME FRONT PROGRAM   CORNBELT LEADERS ADOPT PLAN TO AID FORM PRODUCTION

Middle West Farm Meeting Adopts Plan   Demands Agriculture Be Held Essential And Labor Deferred

Cornbelt States Are in Agreement  On Agricultural Program Outline

Meyer Levin Released Bombs Which Sank Jap anese Battleship Haruna.

Another Group Of Young Men Leave For Army  Board Advised Larger Group Will Be Called Next Month 

Fathers Are Now  Being Called For Military Service  Eleven Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers In First November Call

Seventeen Plymouth Men Report This Week For Military Service   ‘Another Call Coming Later This Month

Another Group. Of Young Men ©  Leave For Army   Board Advised Larger Group Will Be . Called Next Menth_-

MORE MEN LEAVE COUNTY FOR SERVICE           “Report At Fort Crook, braska, Thursday. Of Week For Induction

Allies Eye Nazi Food Hoards   Reserve Stocks Under Consideration for Use In Plundered Nations

KAISER FACES WPB CHARGES   SHIPBUILDER ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL BUYING

31 PRIORITY VIOLATIONS FACE KAISER   “Miracle Shipbuilder’ Made Unauthorized © Purchases, Charge

Nation’s Top Producing Shipyards Charged With Priority Violations

Youth Changes Plea to Guilty   Perry Reverses Plea After Hearing Recording: Of Confession

LOWER RATIONS ON MEAT SEEN   Allowance Of Less Than Two Pounds Per Person Each Week Indicated

MEAT RATION MAY BE CUT   POUND AND THRES-QUARTERS PER PERSON’ WEEKLY Of LESS NOW APPEARS * PROBABLE 

THEPER CAPITA ALLOWANCE FOR CIVILIANS MAY BE SET AT 13; POUNDS OR EVEN LESS

SEE REDUCED MEAT RATION   Per capita allowance fo civilians will be 11/4, pounds or less

Maps Aid for Returning Vets   Dedicates Term to Winning the War —Takes Oath at Hurriedly Asranged Indoor Ceremony—Pledges First @Guwpitasstinc bes Sel dtace

Maps Aid for Returning Vets   Dedicates Term to Winning the War —Takes Oath at Hurriedly Arranged Indoor Ceremony—Pledges First Consideration to Soldiers

State Hails  Solon   Soldier Martin Takes Office As Pennsy 1 vania’s 35th Governor

Inauguration Ceremony At Capital Moved Indoors Due To Unfavorable Weather

MONTGOMERY’S TROOPS ATTACKING “TOWARDS TARHUNA”   GEN. MARTIN ASSUMES GOVERNORSHIP

Berlin Admits Reverses  - On Lower Don  River Front  RED CONVOY IS SAFE Sea Fight Costs England  And Germany Each One Destroyer ”

Red Army Shatters Nazi Line   Drive Carries Russians To Within 65 Miles of ‘Rostov in Sharp Threat To Axis in Caucasus

Germans Ai Last Admit That They Are Being Handled Roughly In Red Attempt To Bottle Up And Canture 500,000 To Million Men

Announcement of Military Gives No Inkling of R Disaster; Reds Say Nazi Army Is in Hierrie ; treat; Heavy Fighting About Stalingrad; Toward Rostov Moves 10 Miles.

Russians Only 65 Miles From Rostov Today   Berlin Admits Reverses For The First Time   Fall Would Cut Off Thousands Of Nazis   Red Army Makes Gain of 10 Miles Since Yesterday

Fall of Base Endangers Nazi Army   Germans Give First Hint to People of Reverses in Russia; Africa Quiet

‘Nazis Admit Retreat in Caucasus   Soviets Break Through German Lines; 65  Miles From Rostov

Rzhev Is Also in Greater Danger of Recapture Today   German Command Admits Reverses in’ Bitter Winter Battles

Victorious Red Armies Storm Rostov Gates   ee SERS SOS Iwona  Rostov Gates  Fall of Caucasus Gateway Would Cut Off Big Nazi Force  RZHEV EVACUATED  Reports of Conflict in Tunisia Differ; Lull in  yiaihva

Berlin Admits Nazi Retreat To New Lines; Civilians Quit Rzhev Reds Only 65 Miles From Rostov; U. S. Planes Sink. Jap Transports

Nazis Fight Desperatels To Keep Escape Corrido Open; Face Loss Of Rvzhev Also.

SOVIETS WITHIN 69 MILES OF THE VITAL CITY NOW   Germans For First Time Admit Nazi Reverses In Bitter Struggle; Civilian Population Of Rzhev Evacuated.

British Report German Evacuation  Of Rzhev, Key Point In Defenses

NAZIS BATTLE D ESPERATELY TO STEM TIDE   For First Time Berlin Admits Reverses in Bitter Struggle on the Russian Front   40 MORE TOWNS TAKEN

Rzhev Abandoned As Nazi Fall Back, Bombers Attack Western Germany, Sicily

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO AVOID TRAE   Burn ‘And Blast Villages In Effort To Stop Soviet Drive On Key City

Fall Of Rostov Would Cut Off 500,000 Nazi Troops   American Fliers Batter Remnants Of Jap Convoy Off New Guinea Coast ©

Berlin Admits Nazi Reverses   Fall of Rostov Would Threaten  Army in Caucasus.

Jap Convoy Smashed Off New Guinea; Camel Corps Capture An Axis Outpost

Berlin A d mit ™ Losses   Soviet Troops Advance To Within 65 Miles Of Ger. man Base At Rostov,    GERMANS LEAVE RZHEV

Advance In  Don Valley  And Caucasus   Soviets 65 Miles From Rostov, Threaten Nazis

Soviets Press Nearer Rostov; Africa Quiet    Allied Forces Close To Last Chapter Of Papuan Campaign While U.S. Bombers Hit Large Japanese Transport Convoy Hard

HITLER'S HORDE IN CAUCASUS IS IN DEATH TRAP   Million Germans Are Facing Annihilation If Rostov Reached by Russians   INVADERS IN FULL FLIGHT   Allied Forces in Africa Still Sparring To Find Spot For Attack

Germans Admit Battle Reverses For First Time   .. Rostov Fall Would Cut Off Half Million   Drive Towerd Rostov

Advance Continues on Five Fronts Despite Artillery Fire, Counter-Attacks—Berlin Admits ‘Withdrawals’

Red Armies Are 10 Miles  Nearer Rostov   Berlin Admits Nazi Reverses for First Time; Germans Evacuate Civilian Rzhev Population; Allied Bombers Attack Western Germany

Nazis Quit Citadel At Key Rzhev   Germans Battling Desperately to Keep Open Corridor into Caucasus—Major Action in Tunisia; Lull in Libya— RAF Bombers Hit Burma arid  Western Germany

Reds; Driving On Rostov and Rzhey   Tanks and Planes Rip Thru Hastily Formed Nazi Defense Lines   RETIRE IN CAUCASUS   German Public Is Given First News of Eastern. Armies’ Retreat

Victorious Red Armies Storm  Rostov Gates   ‘Fall of Caucasus Gateway Would Cut Off Big Nazi Force  RZHEV EVACUATED Reports of Conflict in  Tunisia Differ; Lull in Libya

RUSSIANS RIP THROUGH NAZI LINES TODAY  Continue .To Press - Forward Toward , Rostov

Red Armies Are Closer   Russian Forces- -Smash  Attempt By Germans To  Form New Defense Line

Germans Remove Civilian Population Of Axis-Held Rshev   Bitter Struggle Raging Along Lower Don River as Berlin Admits Nazi Reverses for Ist Time

VICTORIOUS SOVIET TROOPS RIP NAZIS’ LOWER DON LINES   FALL OF ROSTOV WOULD CUT OFF GREAT GERMAN FORCE

Nazis Admit Reverses As Soviets Gain   Russians Now Within 65 Miles Of Rostov; Loss Would Threaten  Millian Germang

RED TANKS AND AIRPLANES RIP THROUGH NAZIS   Germans Make First Admission of Reverses  in Fight With Reds

Caucasus Gate Sweeping Shut On Million Naz;   Germans Admit Rostov Reverse And Order Rzhey Fvacuated

Gremlins Hit Civilians Now! They Get In Nervous System  1h? a niencwmn 1 en Amal “TD Riwer fmm s elect Waase Di.) st. £9. Buc. Pina t® eb. . WS.   Recognize Them, And They Can’t Hurt You; Psychiatrists Go Into Detail, Name Them

GREMLINS APPEAR IN OTHER PLACES THAN WAR PLANES   WHEN YOU ARE TOUCHY AND HARD TO GET ALONG WITH THEY’RE THERE

Air Industry Hunts Gremlin; Discovers Bijits, Grimglums, Bloogies, Twarps

Gremlins Worry Civilians Who Have War-Taut Nerves   Research Workers For TWA Discover That Little Fussbudgets Who Prey On Military Fliers Also Work On Some In Civilian Life; Just Check Up On Yourself and See

Adapt tactics used in low level skip bombing at sea to attack cave entrances      All types bombers in North Africa force used acainst midget base

New Tactics Used Bombing Italians   Skip Bombing Technique Used To Hammer Ai Fortifications On Stepping Stone islands

Allied Bombers Continue Attacks On Pantelleria   American Planes Blast Ital ian Island for Sixteenth Consecutive Day

Allied Fliers Hit Pantelleria for l6th Straight Day   New Mode of Attack Used by American Bombers on Island

DAWN-T0- DARK RAIDERS BLAST PANTELLERI A   Yank Flyers Trying to Drive Defenders From Caverns

NEW BOMBING TACTICS USED   ‘Skip’ Technique Is Used To Blast Underground Hangars In Island  Of Pantelleria

AMERICANS Ust NOVEL TACTICS TO BLAST ENEMY   Low-level ‘Skip Bombing’ Hits Underground Hangars On Pentelleria   16TH SUCCESSIVE DAY OF AERIAL ATTACKS   Flying Fortresses Turn on The Heat in Raids Lasting From Dawn to Dark; Every Type of Plane Takes Crack At Enemy Base

BLAST AXIS UNDERGROUND HANGARDOORS   Pantelleria volcanic caverns entrances undergo new form of assault 16th successive day from every type bomber   New Techinque

Mediferranean Graveyard For Enemy Convo)   Mightiest Blow Is Dealt By Anglo-American Navy. Air Forces”

U.5., BRITISH TROOPS GAIN, LOSE GROUND   Fighting In Tunisia Exceptionally Heavy   Made On Two Destroyers, Cruiser, Other Ships; 200 Captives Taken 

Gen. Patton’s Army Takes Three Points, With 200 Prisoners   British First Army Yields a Little Ground: British Eighth Gains; Doolittle’s Bombers Score Hits On Eight Vessels

HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES ARE REPORTED   Germans Launch Attacks:  and Force First Army i  Back on- Northern  Tunisian Front   MAJOR ACTION IN SEA WARFARE SEEN   Yanks Make Gains, Push Axis Forces Back and Take Strategic Hill in dard Fighting

HINTS MARTIN TO BE GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT   CONGRESSMAN SABATH SAYS REPUBLICANS COULD DO WORSE

Allied Kaids Resumed With Wewak Blow  Fliers Drop 18 Tons   Fliers Drop 18 Tons Of Bombs On Jap  ae Rasa

Allied Fliers Start New Raids Over Wide Pacific Area  New Attacks Bring Destruction to Much Jap Aircraft

RAIDS RESUMED IN NEW GUINES   Allied Air Offensive Picks Up As Weather Gets Better

Germans Retreat  Toward Vital Pass   Russians Press Forward Against Orel, Capturing Seven Towns

British, American Troops Batter German Tank Units In Karserine Pass Area, Rommel Forced To Retreat

Allies Drive Wedges Into Little Rommel Defenses.   Key Junction Of Téano Wrested From Famous Hermat Goering Division In Stiff Battle — 8th Army: ‘Captures Cantalupo

ALLIES CUT INTO LITTLE ROMMEL LINE   Seize 5 Towns For Possible Flanking Move

Allies Seize Five Towns it Lith Rommel Line Battle   Fifth, Eighth Armies Drive Spearheads Inta Nazi Positions

Five Towns:in ltaly Seized by Allied Troops   Key Junction of  Teano Taken in: T SHff Battle

General Clark Cats Hole in Nazi Defenses   Key City in West Taker As Sth Army Batters ERast Front

ALLIES SLICE INTO ROMMEL BATTLE LINE      Seized Five More Towns in Italy Sunday

ASKED TO “SPREAD OUT” USE OF RED STAMPS   OPA Makes This Request O1 Housewives To Avoid Last Minute Rush

SPREAD OUT ~ RED STAMPS   OPA Advises. Stamp Use Before Deadline Next Wednesday

ASK HOUSEWIVES SPREAD STAMPS   OPA Offictals Suggest Buying Meat Before Rush.

Would: Compel:Communities Within 15 Miles of State House to Take Supply From Metropolitan System

FIGHTER PLANES SLAP JAPS BACK   One Enemy Bomber And Three Zeros Downed By U. S. Planes

Allied Planes Hit Hard At  Supply Lines   RAF Strafes Invasion Forces On Burma Front

SLAP BACK AT JAP FIGHTERS   U. S, FLYERS DOWN THREE ZEROS; SINK ENEMY CARGO SHIP

JAP Al RAID ON SOLOMON OMASHED BACK   Enemy Loses Four Planes Out Of 22 Attempting Guadalcanal Attack

American Fighter Planes Slay Back 22 Jap Attackers   Intercept Nip Raiders Enroute to Bombard  Henderson Field

AMERICANS BOMB BRIDGE IN BURMA   ther Planes Carry Ow Attacks On Five Nippon Merchant “Ships

Jap Supply Lines Struck From Air   Fighting Continues On Chinese Front

Chinese Recapture Important Point In Central China  Defenders Blunt Othe: Enemy Drives Fanning From Ichang

Three Enemy Drives Blunted Chinese Recapture Important  Strategic Point, Kill 600 Japs

Fresh Ham Will Cost One More Point a Pound   Ration Value of Other Meat ltems in General Left Unchanged

POINT IS ADDED ON FRESH HAM   Other Meat Ration Values Are Left Unchanged  For January

Fresh Ham Boosted One Ration Point   Few Changes Made In Meat Point Values Despite Glut of Pork   SUGAR UNCHANGED AT LEAST TO APRIL  More Canned Peaches Drv Reane and Peaac

FRESH HAM POINT ~ VALUE INCREASED      Other Meat Items in Gen. eral Left Unchanged by OPA

anuary %acion 2u7.o00x—-feaenicu, “res. am 29a 2oin; rocessec. 700C on Cale _A<e_V

POINT VALUE UP ON FRESH HAMS   Move Begun In Congress To Take Pork Off Ration List

Fresh Ham Points To Rise In Jan.      Boosted One Point: Per Pound In Ration Value; Cheeses Unchanged.

Increase Ham Ration Points   Solon Asks Removal Of Pork From List

Few Changes Expected in Meat Ration Point Values in January   Decreases Expes ted in Processed Foods: No Change in Gas Allowance Yet

BLAST STARTS ‘NAVY BASE FIRE   Explosion Rocks Norfolk, Casualties Expected

FSA ADVOCATES SCORE VICTORY IN THE SENATE   Opponents Of Increased Appropriation, Headed By Byrd, To Continue Fight

FSA BACKERS WIN INITIAL - SENATE TEST   Byrd Amendment _ Fails After 3 Hours of Debate

FSA Supporters Win Victory in Senate  Amendment Tacked On Funds Measure

Supporters of FSA Score Initial  Victory in Senate   Attempting to Include  Agency Funds in Agriculture Measure

surgeons Examine Infant   Fear Upside-down Stomach Girl Cannot Survive Delicate Operation

SEEK ESPIONAGE . ~ BILLS AGAINST 4   Death Penalty Possible tor Quartet Held in Alleoed Plot

Fifth Army : Continues Expansion; Berlin Admits: Retreating   Big Allied Fleet Reported Near:  Dodecanese Isle

Report Allied Flee In Dodecanese Area  Italian Refugees rT. ! otiTf

City And Pass Reoccupied As ‘Foe Falls Back   Vanguard Nears Airfield In - Tunisia; - British "Repulse Rommel —

IKASSERINE RETAKEN; ALLIES  PRESS ON TOWARD AIRFIELD   Rommel Demolishing Field’s Installation Preparatory To Evacuation; British Artillery Beats Off yy Heavy German Tank Attacks.

Kasserine Falls to Allied Forces After Hard Fight   British and Americans Pound Rommel’s_ Retreating Columns ~~

NAZI DRIVE IN NORTH I$ BROKEN   Allied Planes Hammer German Withdrawal; Raid Sardinia

Von Arnim Attempts to Create Diversion, Seize Initiative Smashed by Britsh Army

TOWN OF KASSERINE BEEN RECAPTURED BY ADVANGING ALLIES   RETREATING NAZIS REPORTED DEMOLISHING INSTALLATIONS AND STORES

\ Allies Reoccupy Kasserine, . Repel Attacks in the North   BRITISH NEAR MARETH   Montgomery Forces Move Up in Contact With  Defense Line

British Forces Hurl Back \Nazi Tanks   British and Yank Forces Advance on Vital Airfield

NEAR LANDING FIELD CLOSE TO FERIANA   Town Of Kasserine Retaken By Alexander’s Men   INSTALLATIONS   Are Destroyed By Germans; Eighth Army Advances On Mareth Line

ALLIED TROOPS REOCCUPY TOWN OF KASSERINE   American and British Vanguards Approach  Airfield Fifteen Miles to Southwest   AIRPORTS BLOWN UP BY FLEEING GERMANS   Strongly Entrenched British Units Hurl Back Enemy Tank Attacks With Heavy Loses

Enemy Drives Halted   Pressure Put On Axi: Forces Along Entire  Tunisia Line

Vanguards Approach Air‘ Field 15 Miles to Southwest —British Hurl Back Nazi! Attacks in ‘Northern Tu-; nisia !

LULL IS BROKEN BY A SERIES OF ENEMY ATTACKS   MORE THAN 400 AXIS PRISONERS BY U. S. AND BRITISH FORCES

Pound Rommel’ Forces; Occupy Kasserine Pass  Allies Approach Air Field 15 Miles Southwest of Town

Tank Attack Costs Enemy Heavy Losses  In Tunisia   Von Arnim Foiled  In Attempt To  Seize Initiative _In Fighting

 British Artillery And Tonks Beat Off i Avis Stab At Line Near Bouroda

ALLIED TROOPS REOCCUPY TOWN OF KASSERINE   Vanguards Approach an Air Field 15 Miles to the Southwest.   Are Demolishing Installations Preparatory to Leaving Town, It Is Reported.

Fifteen Miles Away, Nazis Flee Airport   Desperate Effort To Dislodge British Units In Northern Tunisia Is Frustrated

Kasserine In Allied Hands;  Near Air Base   Nazis Burning Stores, Blowing Up Airports; Series Of Attacks By Enemv Repulsed

Town of Kasserine Taken; British Hurl Back Nazi Attacks in Northern: Area’   Von’ Arnim Seeks to Seize Initiative In, 15-Mile Section of Lite—Germans Destroying Stores it in étreat — Montgomery Neat Mareth Line -

BRITISH UNITS REPULSE TANKS   German Battalions Move Forward in two-Pronged Attack,   MARETH OFFENSIVE NEAR

Axis Attack In North Is Beaten Off   Withdrawal Continued By Rommel’s Troops While Axis Forces In North Attack

Axis Tank Attacks Hurled Back Under Rain of Shells   TOWN OF KASSERINE IS RETAKEN AS ALLIES PRESS ON TOWARD AIR FIELD; FOUR HUNDRED ENEMY PRISONERS CAPTURED IN DRIVE

38 TRANSPORTS DESTROYED OFF TUNISIAN COAST   74 Ships Are Downed In Aerial Convoy Flying Toward Sicily   GROUND PATROLS ACTIVE   French Advance West Of Tunis; First Army Fights For Vital Hills

American And British Airmen Destroy 98 Big Transports, 16 Fighter:

SUNDAY’S ATTACK  SETS RECORD FOR ONE ENGAGEMENT   58 Big Junkers Air Transports Included Jn Planes Shot Down—Aggressive ; Patrol Operations Carried   Out By Land Forces

Allies Lost Only Nine In Battle _      58 OF DOWNED PLANES WERE oie JUNKERS AIR TRANSPORTS; © FRENCH GROUND TROOPS  -_EDGE AHEAD .

Total of 85 Enemy Planes Blasted on Sunday Alone in Record-Breaking Air Rout   American P-40-F’s Handle Loaded Junker Ships While British Spitfires Engage Protecting Messerschmitts.

Democrats Hit Aviation Move   Attack Republican Proposal for Standing Committee on Aviation

LANE FIRW'S DENDITURES   inquiry Into Production  F ailures of Brewster: Aeronautical Corpora  tion May Be Extended   3LAME LABOR AND MANAGEMENT ACTS   iouse Committee Serves Notice Navy Would Be Held to Accounting  For Situation

FURTHER EVIDENCE  CONGRESS WANTS AN  ACCOUNTING FUNDS INDICATED INQUIRY INTO  PRODUCTION FAILURES TO BE BROADENED

Inquiries To Be Extended  Congress Wants   Congress Wants Accounting Of Expenditures

Brewster Plant To Be Probed  Navy Must Account For Failure; Kaiser Cheered By Emolavec

VINSON APPOINTED STABILIZATION HEAL   Federal Judge Is Named Tc Take Place of Byrnes

Fisher Drafts Plans For Liquor Rationing   Official Believes Legislation Ordering Such Action Will Be Approved By General Assembly; Plans Conference With Distillers

Parents Urged to Keep Children _ Away From-Large Gatherings Here

‘Two Measures Approved ‘hy Legislature   Action Is Nearly Completed on Third Bill

First Measures  Are Signed By Gov. Ford   Usual Early Bills Are Carried Through As Legislature Holds Long Session; Interim Appointments Sent to Members

JAPS BATTERED ON GROUND, AlR   Aussies in Flank Movement Capture New Guinea’s Peak Hill

MARTHUR NEN STEP UP LAND FIGHTING   Strong Air Campaign Also Continues in Southwest Pacific

U.d, oP LAREAL 0 MILES FRUN AXIS NAVAL BADE   Americans Driving Wedge Between Bizerte and lunis Strongholds

Two Cruisers Are Sunk; Nine Other Warships Bombed      56 Enemy Planes Destroyed Or Damaged In Attacks On Rabaul And Other Targets; Only 10 American Aircraft Lost

SHORTAGE OF GAS CHARGED   Priorities Given Synthetic Rubber Program Blamed.

REDISTRICTING BILL VOTED BY STATE SENATE   FYemocratic Minority Refuses to End Filibuster Tactics

Republicans :. Jam Through  ‘Two Measures   Senate Approves Bill Ou Reapportionment, Merit Rationing Svstem

GOP SUCCESSES MAY SPEED 4TH TERM DECISION   Results Last Tuesday Seen by Some as Heiping Roosevelt To Decide About Running Again

BRITISH ~~ REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS IN QUSSELTIA” VALLEY   Enemy ~.Gun Positions. In Sened Area Attacked—~ ~ Patrols Active On ALL Fronts

British Troops In Tunisia Halt German Attack   Enemy Tank-Supported Thrust In Ousseltia Valley Held As Major Attempt; Patrol Activity Hiked; Many Prisoners Taken

Allies Hurl Back Tunis Tank Thrust   British Troops Hold Lines Under Major Nazi Drive

British Beat Back German Tank Sallies  Allied Troops Take Many Nazi Prisoners; Gun   Duel On  SP. AHIS IN E BATTLE  Crack French Colonials Used Allied Guns. Can     PAHIS IN BATTLE   Crack French Colonials Used Allied Guns, Capture 53 Italians

NAZI ATTACK IN TUNISIA THROWN BACK   Enemy Thrust Made In Ousseltia Valley Stopped — Prisoners Captured.

BRITISH THROW BACK BIG NAZI TANK ATTACK   Germans Launch Push from Ousseltia Hill Area. Renulsed.

—STHROWN BACK   ‘Unsuccessful Thrust Made Against British In Ous seltia Valley

SPEED UP WORK ON EASTON GAS PLANT   Residents Face Problems In Preparation Of Meals

LT. HAROLD PORT A GERMAN PRISONER   Was Reported Missing In Action May 23, 1943, In U.S. Air Service

LIEUT. H. PORT A GERMAN PRISONER   Was Reported Missing Ir Action May 23 By War  Department

Rome Declared Open City hy Badoglio   Decision Reached Some Time Ago, Italians Report

‘Take Steps to ‘Comply With ‘World Law   First Action Taken on July 30; Announcement to  Public MadeToday

Allies Want Assurance of  Good Faith   Demiliizrization of Capital Must Be Achieved First

Action Taken To Save City  From Blasting   Badoglio’s Government Announces Decision, But Allies Have Yet To Decide On Offer

Declare Rome  An Open City   Italy Acts To Take Necessary Steps To Prevent Further Allied Bombings

Allied Sources Say Military Targets Must Go   Decision Sent Through Vatican Two Weeks Ago

Use Of Rails For War Must Be Eliminated   American Bombers Hit Austria In Force; RAF Cracks Northern Italv Again

Eternal City Knocked Out By Air Power   Allies Wait For Proof That Military Facilities Not Used

Assaults Put Rome at Allies’ Mercy   Military Sites Remain In Status of Targets for Bombers

Badoglio Makes Decision After Allies Make Air Raid No. Two On Capital

Italy Asks Rome Be  Open City   Desperate Moye Is Made By Italians; All Troop, Supply Traffic Must End

Otherwise City Not ToEscape, Axis Is Warned   Complete Demilitarization Of Capital Will Be Necessary Before It Is Spared; Badoglio Says ‘Required Steps’ Being Taken

[TALIAN CAPITAL AN OPEN CITY IF TROOPS DEPART   Badoglio Acts to Spare City More Bombings— British Eye Move

ALLIES TO SPARE ROME ONLY IF IT [3 DEMILITARIZED      Mere Declaration by Italy That Capital Is Open City Will Not Stop Bombings.   NO OVERTURES ON SUBJECT UNDER WAY   British Assert Statement of Intention Does Not Affect “Full Liberty” of Eisenhower.

ACTION TAKEN AFTER SECOND AERIAL ATTACK   Demilitarization Steps Must Meet Allied  Specifications   AWAIT DETAILS      Capital Must Be Taken Entirely Out Of War To Escape Raids

Italians Take Steps to Halt Bombing Raids   Troop Withdrawal From Area to be Result of Action

SECOND RAID ON CAPITAL CAUSES MOVE      Necessary Steps Being Taken According to International Law, Radio Says—“Feeler” Put Out Two Weeks Ago.

Necessary Steps Now Under Way   Badoglio Seeks Immediate Action in Order to Avoid. Further Bomb Damage   MUST SATISFY ALLIED DEMANDS   Would Have to Stop All Military Traffic Through City, Meet Other Terms

Vatican Carries Appeal To Allies   Decision Made Two Weeks Ago Is Speeded Up by New Attack

ACTION RESULT OF CONTINUED ALLIED RAIDS   Bombings May Be Kept Up as Long as City Is Used for Military Purposes.   WASHINGTON SILENT ON ROME ANNOUNCEMENT

ITALY TAKING: NEEDED STEPS   American Bombers Attack Austrian City 30 Miles South of Vienna. 2   SOUTHERN ITALY IS HIT

Open City Declaration Is , Announced After Second Bombardment by Yanks

Badoglio Asks Rome Be Saved As ‘Open City’   Would Deny Axis Troops From Sicily Right To Use Canital’s Rails.   NAZIS SAVING TROOPS

U. §. Air Raids Knock Italian City Out of War   Approval of _ Arrangement by Allies Necessary

Allied Reaction Awaitec As Marshal Badoglio Makes Rome Open City

ITALY DECLARES ROME “OPEN CHT” TOEND BOMBINGS   Capital Twice Attacked by American Warplanes; Civilian Demands for Peace Renewed.

Allies Indicate Capital Must Be Demilitarized Before It Will Be Taken Off List Of Aerial Targets

MUST COMPLY WITH CONDITION SET BY ALLIES   U. S., Britain Must Be Convinced Military Installations Moved

GOVERNMENT ITALY TAKING IMMEDIATE STEPS PROTECT ROME WILL ASK THAT CAPITAL  BE DECLARED OPEN CITY SOON AS POSSIBLE

Italy: to Declare Rome Open City   Second ‘American Bombing - Leads to Action by Badoglio Regime   MUST QUIT WAR USES   Broadcast Says Action Taken Thru Intermediary of Vatican

Italy Calls © Rome ‘Open’   Allies Demand Evidence Of Complete Demilitarization

ROME DECLARED OPEN CITY BY BADOGLIO GOVERNMENT   ALLIED FORCES DRAW RING OF FIRE AROUND MESSINA STRAIT   Great Battle Raging Inside Kharkov   ‘Eisenhower Not Restricted By Italian Decision

15-Day Postpone of Strike Agreed’ On Yesterday By Secretary Ickes and Mine Leader Lewis.

MINERS START RETURN   Hard Coal Workers Waiting Until 15Day Truce Begins

PackérsSpeed Ten Millon Pounds OF Thanksgiving Turkef to Serpind

Court Release: Formula for  Super Gasoline  40-Mile-a-Gallon Fuel Freed for

NEXT DRAFT GROUP LEAVES THURSDAY   Selective Service Office Releases Names of 40 Men in First. February Quota

26 DRAFTEES WILL LEAVE ON MONDAY   Comprise County’s Second Quota for February--Seven Others Inducted Directly

45 COUNTY MEN PASS ARMY TESTS   Scheduled to Leave from VFW Hall at 8 A. M. Friday to Begin Armed Service —

Speculate: Over Navy Raids on Marcus Island   Diversionary or Open Blow in Full Scale Offensive

World Reaction To Bismarck Sea Victory Too Optimistic And Enthusiastic, Is Fear

REACTION TO BISMARCK FIGHT TOO OPTIMISTIC Allied Marain of Safety Narrow

World Reaction Not Optimistic   REPORTER SAYS NATION MUST NOT FEEL TOO GOOD

Jap Sea Loss Little Basis ForOptimism   Newsman Tells of Big Enemy Naval Forces in New Guinea Area

Jap Threat Exists In Spite Of Victory   Writer Warns Against Over-Optimism From Sinking Of 22-Ship Convoy In Bismarck Sea: Heavy Concentrations Reported

Correspondent Says:      Japan Won’t Abandon Bases Because Of Big Convoy Loss   60-Ship Concentration At Rabaul Revealed In Warning That Bismarck Sea Triumph Should Not Result In Too Much Optimism Among Allied Countries

Too Much Enthusiasm Feared In World’s Reaction Over Allied Victories In The Bismarck Sea

Allies Operating on Narrow ‘Margin of Safety, Correspondent Says

Reporter Ends 10,000 Mile Trip Over Southwest Pacific  Allied Margin Of Safety in Pacific Narrow One

Newsman Finds Allied Situation — Still ‘Precarious in.Pacific Area

‘DOUBLE-BARRELED [WAR FINANCING ‘PROGRAM OUTLINED   Influential Lawmaker Estimates Program Bring In $40,000,000,000  Annually

AIDING HORSES ~ PROBLEM HER   So Much Damage Reported City Officials May Have to Act.

RIDING HORSES ~ PROBLEM. HER   So ‘Much “Damage Reportec _ City Officials’ May » 4 Have to Act. Pa

Nelson Said On Side of Rubber Czar  .WPB Chief to Give ‘Testimony Tuesday Pa Tecan bene:

Beef Scarce Over Nation   Major Markets Report Supplies Running Low

Beet On Hoot Is Scarcer At Major-Markets  Government Meat  Handling Setup _ Je Criticized

Granddaughter to Sponsor } essel Liberty Ship Lewis Emery, Jr., Will Be Launched in Baltimore

Allied Capture Of Italian Fleet Likely If Fascists Finally Yield

ITALIAN FLEET IS BELIEVED DOOMED BY ALLIED FORCES  CAPTURE OR DESTRUC TION MAJOR PART OF

U. S. Naval Men Think Allies Can Ruin Or Seize Most of Italian Fleet Soon

Allied Control Of Rome's Fleet Seen Imminent   Military, Naval Authorities Greatly Interested In Fate Of -lhalian -Vessels:

Would Be A Major Blow To Japan.... Allies May Destroy Or Capture Italian Fleet Soon, Experts Believe

Capture Or Destruction Of Most Of Italian Fleet Likely   Some Of Its Units Would Aid Allies Greatly In Opening Burma Road In Pacific Campaign

Naval Circles in Washington Believe Italy's Hapless Fleet Will Soon Be Captured or Destroyed —

Italy's Fleet Expected to Be Taken by Allies   Capture to Free Battleships for Pacific Action

Italy’ s Fleet May Possibly Be Taken Soon   This Would Be Bad For Tokyo, as U. S. Ships Could Go to Burma

Predict Karly Action Against Italian Fleet   Capture Or Destruction Believed Near; Would Free Allied Warships For War On Japan

Allies Hope To Get Italy’s Fleet  And That Would Be Bad For Japan

*«* s%*%) * ¥* Italian Fleet: Definitely Doomed   xe AR KR UN Italian Troops Pull ~ Out of Balkans

Allied Capture Of Italy Fleet Believed Near   Seizure Or Sinking Of Fascist Navy To Be Blow To Japs

Count on Italian Fleet    Destroyed or Cap! ured, Would Allow Shift of Allied Ships to Burma Area for Fight on Jans

May Release Warships for Burma Drive   Capture or Destruction . of Italian, Fleet Would Be Bad News for Japan   ALLIES EXPECTED TO TAKE SHIPS SOON   Thus, Many Allied Battle Wagons Would Be Freed to Carry War to Japs

[TALIAN FLEET 5 OUT OF WAR   Allies Count on Capturing Or Destroying Most of Italy’s Fleet.   BAD NEWS FOR JAPANESE

ITALIAN FLEET ~ WORRIES JAPS   Loss of Units, Which Appears Imminent, Would Be Blow to Tokyo

Elimination of This Menace in the Mediterranean Would Aid Allies in Making War on Japanese.

ltalian Fleet May Soon Fall To Allied Power   Would Release Fresh Strength For Campaign Against Burma.

Allied Control Of Italian Navy Opens New Route   Italians Still Have 12 Battleships, 1: Cruisers And _ 10  Destroyers

AIAN FLEE CRITUIRE SEEN  48 ALLIED AND   Observers Believe Capture Or Destruction of Ships Certain; Expect Either io Happen Soon   JAPAN WILL SUFFER  MOST, EXPERTS SA’   Most of Allied Strength In ¢ Mediterranean Could Be Sent to Pacific For War Against Japs

See Italy’s Fleet Taken Or Destroyed   Fall of Italian Fleet Would Be Blow to Tokyo's Admirals

Allies Covet Htaly’s Flee   Ships Will Be Usec _ Against Japanese

Allies Can Count on Eliminating Italian Fleet, Thus Adding to Power Available Against Japs

 Allied Acquisition Of Italian Fleet Would Mean Power To Throw At Japs

ITALIAN FLEET T0 BE CAPTURED OR DESTROYED   Allies Look Forward to Utilization of Units or Destruction

ITALY’S HAPLESS FLEET DOOMEL   Growing Opinion ir Naval Circles Climax to Be Soon

Begins State Farm Tour   At Colby, Schoeppel Outlines Program To Meet Farm Labor Needs

Farmer Must Provide Own Help Supply  His Part In War  Production, Says Cov. Schoenpvel

ANOTHER BIG CRAFT LOST, - 25 ABOARD      Twin Tragedies Are Costly to U. S., England

Lewis Silent Before WPB   Wildcot Strike Is Branded Mistake By Fellow Unionist

Union Officer Calls Coal Strike ‘Terrible’ Error   Kennedy Raps Wildcat Action; Local Chief Blames Dues Boost

Coal Strike Is Declared ~ Bie Mistake   ‘Mine Union Secretary Says ‘ It-Is Not: the Way to Redress Grievances   UNION OFFICERS -OPPOSED-MOVE   Not the Way. to, Get- Pay ‘Hike Although ‘They May — Be. Pntitled ta. Tt

GOP Pushes Key Legislation As Filibustering Continue:   Senate Group Approves Unchanged Martin’s Tax Program — Session May End Late This Month

RUSSIAN INFANTRY CRASHES AXIS LINES NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Soviet Big Guns -Begin Systematic Blasting Of Pill Boxes In Nazi Lines

SOVIETS PIERCE NAZI DEFENSES   Seize important Hill Near Novorossisk In Final Major Drive

HILL NEAR NAVAL BASE   Soviet Army Brings Up Big Guns and Opens Attack on Axis Rear Lines.

Russians Canture Important Hil At Novorossisk   Soviet Artillery Begins Pounding  Nazi Emplacement:

REDS TAKE HILL NEAR NAVAL BASE AT NOVOROSSISK   ‘Germans Have Thrown {In Summer Reserves to Save Kuban Bridgehead.

SOVIET STARTS LAST BIG DRIVE ON NAVAL BAS!   Crack German Defense Line Northeast Of Novorossisk

NOVOROSSISK  Capture  Hill Near   Capture Hill Near Black Sea Naval Base   280 KILLED DURING ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACK

REDS LAUNCH FINAL DRIVE FOR SEA BASE   Take Another Important Hill Toward Novorossicl

RUSSIANS ADVANCE AT NOVOROSSISK   Flying Boats Are Believed to Have Destroyed 23 Jap Planes at Babo.

Russ Infantry Breaks Through  Nazi Defenses   Final Major Drive Toward Novorossisk  Thought Under Way

RUSS ADVANCE AT NOVOROSSISK   Soviet Air Force Blasts Nazi Supply Lines In Caucasus

ADVANGE THRU bAPO BLASTED BY ARTILLER}   Soviet. Making Final Major Drive for Capture ‘of Black Sea Port.   RED$ HOLD SUPERIORITY IN AIR, ARTILLERY FIRE

BUNA MISSION IS (CLEARED OF JAPS   Allied Forces Continue Task of Exterminating Enemy Forces

650 JAPS SLAIN TO CLEAR BUNA MISSION AREA   Situation of Remaining Enemy or Papua Hopeless, MacArthur Reports—Shipping Hit

Uullook For Enemy ‘Hopeless’   Foe Has Only Few Soldiers Left On Island

MACARTHUR DESTROYS JAP IN BUNA AREA   Situation Of The Few Remaining At Sanananda Point Described As “Hopeless” In  Communique.   Rabaul Raided

Victory Over Japs Is Complete   MacArthur Says Caus Of New Guinea Enemy Is Hopeless

Buna Mission Falls to Men Of MacArthw   Leader Announces. . Destruction of: : Defeated Jap Foe

JAPANESE FACE HOPELESS FATE ON NEW GUINEA   Allies Have Completed De‘struction Of Enemy At  es Buna Miecian   650 NIPPONESE ARE KILLED IN ONE DAY

Situation of Enemy Now Is ‘Hopeless,’ MacArthur Reports  TWO DESTROYERS BLASTED AT MUNDA  Japanese Airfield In Guadalcanal Area  Twice Bambed Heavilk

All Buna Area Jap Forces Are Destroved   MacArthur Reports Sanenanda Point Is Next Objective

Enemy Situation At Sanananda ‘Now Hopeless’  Sunday Is Devoted To Killing Snipers On New Guinea  BLAST 2 DESTROYERS  Planes in Solomons Also Smash Enemy Base at Munda Again

Lend-Lease Continuance Tobe Voted  fo Re eee eed   Reaction in  Congress Mixed "To Standiey  Statement

House Approval -4){Lend-—Lease.  Expected Today   Russian Paper And Radio Reveal “Facts Of ~-Aid To Reds By America

House to Continue Lend Lease to Russia Despite International Uproar

Red Coldness Will Not Halt American Aid      Bill May Be Passed Unanimously Despite Assertions; Soviets Silence U. S. Heln

House Votes On LeaseLend Today      tive Opposes” epresen Bill Z

FORECAST LEND LEASE 0. K FOR ANOTHER YEAR   Moscow Broadeasts Text Of  Lend-Lease Report As Answer ToU.8. Envoy’ —~

Despite Uproar Caused By Standley  Lend-Lease Act To Be Extended

‘Charges of Envoy Spur Allied Talks; Soviets Admit Aid   Ohio Congressman Says America Is ‘Giving Away Wealth of 3 Centuries’; Lend-Lease Continuance Expected

To Renew Lend-Lease For Russia   Ambassador's Blast Brings Mixed Reaction  Powe “tare atase

Lend-Lease Continuance To be Voted   Reaction in Congress Mixed To Standley  Statement

Congressional 0. K. of Continued LendLease Seen as Sure   Vote for Extension of Program One Year May Be Nearly Unanimous

AID T0 RUSSIA BY LEND-LEASE TO BEEXTENDED   Passage of Measure to Continue Act For At Least One Year Assured ~ Todav   CAPITAL STIRRED BY STANDLEY SLAP   Moscow Radio. Broadcasts Complete Reports-On Aid Given Russia By the United States

Approval Of Lend-Lease Is Anticipated   Reaction in Congress Over Standley Address is Somewhat Mixed   TEXT STILL AWAITED

0. FLEE! (IN REVENGE PROWL   Marshall Islands Hit In Big Bin Bbbiaatls

Carrier Fleet Blasts Jap Isles   Invade Sea Lanes Leading to Tokvo

AIRCRAFT ‘BLAST JAP POSITIONS   Navy Merely Reports Assault Is Made; Ships Silent —

‘Carrier Fleet Launches Raid on Marshall Isles In New Pacific Assault

NORTH ISLANDS BEING HIT HARD BY CARRIER FORGE   Tokyo Admits Aaid—Details Withheld for Security Reaenns

CARRIER FLEET JOINS BATTLE ON MARSHALIS      Disclosure Made On Second Anni versary Of Pearl Harbor

YANK CARRIER FLEET BLASTS MARSHALLS   Big Naval Force Joins Attacks On Jap Island Strongholds

SUPREME COURT -# IN UNUSUAL ACTION   Agrees to Review Convic tions of Three Alleged Members of “Murder, Inc.”

Migration In Labor Ranks New Puzzle   Many War Workers Pull Up Stakes, Move To Greener Pastures

MUSTERING-OUT PAY   Legislation On Discharged Men's Pay Bogs Down

Mustering-Out Pay Bill Delayed   Legislation Bogs Down in Committee

NO TRACE OF DE MARIGNY’S MISSING SHIRT   Blood Stains In Bedrooms Described At Oakes’ Trial 

De Marigny’s Lost Shirt Is Crown Point   Search Failed to Uncover Garment Accused Wore on Night of Murder

Four of Eight United States Generals 7 -* in Sicily Are. Graduates of .West Point

Four of Fight United States Generals in Sicily Are Graduates of West Point

CHANGES IN STAFF OF CITY SCHOOLS   17 Resignations Accepted, Seven New Appoint- . ments Made   BOOST SENIORS ALONG

ADD 14 TEACHERS TO SCHOOL STAFF   Fifteen Custodians Aleo Hired by School Board Last Night   iSIX TEACHERS RESIGN

Motions Argued Before Judge In. Pending Suits  Appointment of Guardians In Two Cases Is Sought

Motions Argued  Before Judge In.  Pending Suits Appointment of Clniavealiawe Te evn

Planes Blast Nazi Convoys   Motor Columns Out OF Salerno District Pounded by Bombs

NAZI MOTOR LINES UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   Aerial Raiders. Leave Train Of Smoking Wreckage

U.S. Invaders Bomb and Strafe Retreating Nazis In Italian Battle

Farin Blot Dealt Selhack, Subsidy ~ Syston Fxtended  Ben khea aa Je ft Meusur ures  B Senate , ae ‘in * Ys roup

COMMITTEE VOTES SUBSIDY EXTENSION   Sixty-day Extension Voted Pending Efforts on Coampromice

SIX OF SEVEN BATTLESHIPS ARE INCLUDED   Five of Them at Malta, One in Neutral Haven and Seventh Sunk—11 Cruisers, Eight Destroyers Also Safe.

ITALY’S BIG WARSHIPS TO SAFE PORTS   Hitler's Hopes of Seizing Fleet Frustated But One Is Blown Up.   Hailed as a Major Coup for the Allies

FORCE Is ON MARCI          \xis: ‘Forces Evacuate Sec or As Bloodless Con ‘avast Is Won by U. S. Troops.

Make 44-Mile  Gain in Two Days   Two Columns Move Toward Gabes, Sened; Rain Hampers Operations

3U. S. Divisions Now in Action In Gafsa Area  Troops Drive Ahead   Troops Drive Ahead On Way to Gabes, Seize Another Town

F eeling Out Process Is Still Going on as British, Yanks Close In

EL GUETTAR TAKEN; PUSH: ON IN RAIN   British Give Ground at Tamera in North Tunisia

AA NILE ADVANCE IN 2 DAYS MADE -WATHQUT BATTLE   Mud and Rain Contribute in - Bad Weather on Entire  Front, Airplanes ~ Blast - Maroth Line. _   BIG AMERICAN BOMBER FORCE RAIDS. BY DAY   British Subs Sink Four Axis  ‘> Supply: Ships; .. Germans ‘Roundup “Frenchmen as “War Workers. '

tL GUETTAR IS IN POSSESSION OF AMERICANS   Two Columns Move Nearer Coast Bottleneck In Southe Central Tunisia   GAIN 44 MILES IN 2 DAYS   British Planes Pound Mareth Line As Heavy Rainfall Drenches Front

AMERICANS ARE RACING T0 COAST   El Guettar Is Captured as U.S. Forces Move Up

AMERICANS HAVE GONE 44 MILES, TAKE EL GUETTAR   Bad Weather Fails to Deter U.S. Soldiers—Eighth Army Is Set.

GAIN 14 MORE MILES ON SOUTH TUNISIA FRONT   § _ /Rain Slows Twin Drive Toward Sfax, Gabes

ATTEMPT IS MADE TO TRAP ENEMY TROOPS   American Forces Occupy Town of El  _Guettar—T wo Cols umns Push Ahead.

TWO COLUMNS THRUST AHEAD, CAPTURE TOWN   Push Through Rain, Mud; Now Only 72 Miles From Gabes

JAP SUPPLY LINES CUT      La Eee 7 Allied Aeriat Blockade Leaves Cape Gloucester Garrison with Growing  Food Shortage. -

FLIERS BATTER JAPANESE BASE   155 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Cape Gloucester Area

BOMBS ISOLATE JAPANESE BASE   ‘CAPE GLOUCESTER. SUPPLY LINES CUT

J Japs’ Supply ae  New Britain   155 3 More Tons of Bombs * Dropped by Allies on’ Cane Gloucester

MERC DROPS T FREEZING MARK   Cleveland, Akron Coldest Spots in State as Cold Wave Arrives

Meeting of Dealers in Livestock Schedule For Nov. 4 at Soda Snring:

TURIN IS ATTACKED BY BRITISH FLIERS   Heavy Bombs Rained on Italian Industrial City   London, Wednesday July 14 (P) — RAF bombers attacked targets in Germany last night, the British announced today.

British Bombers Smash af Turin InHeavy Atfack   Called Heaviest Made o1 ltaly by Planes Based in England

RAF a wa i   Heaviest Aerial Attack On ftaly So Far Made By British Planes

Turin lashed by British in heavy attack   Also hit Sicily and peninsula

CITY OF TURIN BOMBED BY RAF   War-Ridden Italy Under Aerial Siege From Three Sides

ITALY BOMBED FROM 3 WAYS   RAF Sweeps Over Alps In Raid On Turin; Fliers Attack  From East

RAF BOMBERS BLAST TURIN   Heaviest Aerial Attack On Italy So Far Made By British Planes

TURIN BLASTED BY RAF RAIDER:   Strong Force of Planes Battle  Vile Weather to Attack City; Italy Menaced From Three Sides

RAF Strikesin.  Force Against Italian City Indications of More  Aerial Blowa Agaius  Evtone.Develan

KILLED IN ACTION   General Kozeltz Was Commander of French Nineteenth Corps

\Wets To Get Hearing Early ‘This Week      Scheduled for Tuesday © Wednesday: La Measure Introduced. tc  Outlaw Fees For Per mit-toa Warl--

IWets To Get © Hearing Early This Week   Scheduled for Tuesday o1 Wednesday. Labo: Measure Introduced tc — Outlaw Fees For Per ~~ mit to Work.

Fire Destroys Furnifure Plant At Grand Rapids   Half Million Loss At Berkey & Gay Co.; Hotel Threatened

Grand d Rapids - Has Big Fire   Berkey. and Gay Property Gutted, With Damage Over. $500,000

Big Furniture Factory Burns   One Fireman Dies In Fire That Sweeps Berkey  And Gav Plant.

ALLIES ARE EXPECTED TO REVISE _ STRATEGY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPENING OFFERED. BY ITALY

ALLTES ARE REVISING . STRATEGY   Believed to Be Planning Quicker Drive on Germany

Spectacular Drive T  _fome.To Grips With,  “Germany This =~ Fall Looms

Allies Drive  To End War  By Christmas Exploitation of Collapse in Italy Is Stressed   First Blimp Lost in Sea Fight With Surfaced Enemy U-Boat

Strive to End European War By Christmas   Allies Plah to  -Come to Grips With Nazis This Fall]. —

Allies Revise Strategy in Hope of. Ending European War by Christinas

Turkey Will Be Missing from Many U.S. Dining Tables on Thanksgiving

Turkey Will Be Missing from Many of Nation's Tables on Thanksgiving

EE, Pi  Haan Campaign, Although Slow, Mapped Out to Save Lives of Allied Fichter

Question of Terrain, Cutting Cost in Lives And Military Priorities

Correspondent Explains _ ‘Slow Progress In Italy   Veteran AP Man Says Campaign Has Been Worth the Cost for Tremendous Air Bases on Mainland Alone—Rome Still Far Away

Capture of Rome Still Far Away   Gallagher Writes On Slow Progress

Advance onRome Is Moving Slower Than Was Expected   BY WES GALLAGHER

WRITER TELLS WHY INVADERS LAGINITALY   FOGGIA AIRFIELDS RICHEST PRIZE OF CAMPAIGN

Why Is Advance So Slow In Italy? Veteran AP Writer Gives His Views After Tour Of Sector

Writer Explains Lag in Allied Drive in Italy   Weather and Terrain Are Blamed for Slowing of Campaign

REDS CRUSH RELENTLESSLY TO THE WEST   Germans React Strongly In Donets Basin In Effort To  Save Their Armies, Ir nF gee. Aan   3 Drives On Orel

Reds Envelop Many Towns in Advance   Germans React Strongly in Donets Basin

Soviet Drive Takes Cities   Nazi Counterattack Is Smashed By Reds

Russian Armies Crush Forward On Long Front   Smash Counter-Attacks By Nazis Trying To Save Forees Menaced in South

REDS ADVANCE ON 500-MILE BATTLE FRON]   POCKETS TIGHTENING ON NAZI REMNANTS IN CAUCASUS

Allies Bomb Five Jap Airdromes In New Guinea Area   15-Minute Blasting Of Finschhafen Starts Fires It Base And Town; Hollandia Is Also Given Pounding

Five Japanese Airdromes Hit   Supply Ship Struck In Pacific Forays

Stabilization Necessary   Claim New Dealers Planning Fourth Term For. Roosevelt

New Deal Sets Up Machinery For Fourth Term   Rep. Bradley Charges Ultimate Goal Is Dietatorship -

DEMOCRATS ASK QUICK CAMPAIGN   G. 0. P. BELIEVES 4TH TERM CAMPAIGN ALREADY UNDER WAY

Contention Is Republican Answer to Demo Chairman Frank Walker's Suggestion F or Short °44 Campaign

GOP Charges FD Already Drafted   4th Term Campaign ‘Now Under Way’

Views of Party leaders Clash   Republican Infers F. D, R, ts Candidate

G.0.P. LEADERS SAYS NEW. DEAL HAS PICKED FDR   For Short 1944 Campaign

DEMOCRATS WANT ‘SHORT CAMPAIGN   Republicans Charge That Rival Party Already Has Selected Its Candidate

Walker Makes Plea for Short ‘44 Campaien   Suggestion Brings GOP Reply Demos Have Already Picked  Candidate for Post

FDR ALREADY SELECTED FOR FOURTH TERM BY NEW DEAL LEADERS   Republicans Says It Is Matter of Regret That New Dealers Selected Candidate Before Pro ‘posing Late Convening

CUT POLITICS SHORT IN 1944 SAYS WALKER   DEMOCRAT NOMINEE ALREADY PICKED, GOP CHARGES

DEMOCRATS URGE SHORT CAMPAIGN   Would Hold Convention in August; GOP Chief Says New Deal Party Has Already Selected Candidate

Short “44 Campaign Advocated   Republican Says Demoerats to Run Roosevelt Again

G.0.P. HEADS SAY F.D.R. OUT FOR NEW TERN   Democratic Chief Favors Quickie Political Campaign

Roosevelt Already Named as Candidate Republicans State   National Chairman Says New Deal Convention  Was in White House

Capital Tilt Marks °44: Voting Talk  Walker Urges Brief, Clean Ballot Battle

SHORT CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT IS ADVOCATED   Democratic Party Chairman Would Limit Vote Drive To Two Months   NEW DEAL CANDIDATE ALREADY PICKED—GOP

FDR Already Is Candidate, GOP Charges   Claim Democrats Have Chosen President For Nomination To Fourth Term

Chairman Declares Democrats Already Have Chosen Candidate   AGREEMENT PROPOSED

Short Campaign Proposal Given Chilly Reception   FDR Selected For Anather Term Assert Republicans

FDR WILL RUN A FOURTH TIME?   Republicans Claim New Deal. ers Already Have Chosen Him for 1944

Claim FDR Selected for Fourth Term   Republicans Accuse Democrats of Waiting Until They Had Selected Candidate. to Propose Late Conventions

PROPOSAL OF WALKER GETS QUICK REPLY   Democratic Candidate Al. ready Selected, Spangler Acaerte

MOUNTING AERIAL BLOWS INDICATE ALL-OUT DRIVE   Big Scale Blitz Ig on to Drive Germans and Ufalians into the Sea; More Towns Captured

AIR BLOWS MOUNT IN FURY; PREPARE FOR ALL-OUT DRIVE    Americans "Move Forward At Several Places— - Opposition Is Weaker

Yanks, British Preparing To Drive Enemy  Into The Sea   Mounting Air Assaults Pace Smashing Drive In Northern Section; Mainland Raided

Death Sentence Upheld by Court   Detroit Traitor Loses his Appeal

TREASON SENTENCE GETS CONFIRMATION   Detroit Man Scheduled To Die On Gallows.

DECISION UPHELD IN STEPHAN GAGE   Detroit Man Who Aided Escaped Nazi Must Be Hanged For Treason

Helena Community Chest Fund Reaches $30,562 as Workers Plan to Go After Remaining Part of Budget Goal

$15,000 Needed to Reach Combined Community Chest and War Fund Quotas in Campaign Here ’

GOEBBELS SEES NO END OF WAR   Grimmer Than Usual In Talk On Eve Of  Celebration

HITLER TO FETE 4TH BIRTHDAY   Goering and Goebbels Proclaim Germany’s Faith in Dictator; Add That End of War Nowhere in Sight

Hitler’s Aids Proclaim Faith In Success   Goering, Goebbels Broadcast on Lve Of Anniversary

TWO VOICE FAITH HITLER WILL LEAD NAZIS TO VICTORY   Goering and Goebbels Issue Statements on Eve of German Dictator’s 54th Birthday.   LATTER ASSERTS WAR IS AT HARDEST STAGE   Declares End of Struggle Is Not in Sight—Fuehrer Said to Be at His Headquarters.

GOEBBELS GRIM IN SALUTE TO HITLER   End of War Nowhere in Sight, Minister Says in Birthday Address

SICILIAN CIVILIANS CHEER AMERICANS ARRIVE AGRIGENTO  MANY WANT TO GO TO UNITED STATES; HAVE

SICILIAN CIVILIANS CHEER AMERICANS ARRIVE AGRIGENTO  MANY WANT TO GO TO UNITED STATES; HAVE RELATIVES HERE

Yanks Greeted With Cheers By Sicilians   Many Had Relatives In America, Wanted To Join Them; Resistance Was Slight

Allied Bombers Raid Messina,  Sicilian Port   Copenhagen Is Attacked Again

HOIST WHITE FLAG, THEN SHOOT YANKS   Hidden Germans in Tunisia Wound Four Americans After Surrender Offer by Comrades,

Last Reserves Fail To Check March On Tunis   Two German Companies Annihilated As They Try To Hold Hill

'Two Heavyweight Raids Spear  headed The Two-Frent Air War In Europe, American, British Fliers Strike At Axis Foes   RUSSIANS IN STRONG ATTACK ON EAST FRONT

Americans In New Zealand  For Traning   New Contingent Is Being Drilled With Veterans Of Guadaleanal

Large Group Undergoing In, tensive Training Along: Side Veterans From Guad: alcanal Preparatory Going To Combat Zone.

Nipponese Are Outproduced In Planes, Ships   Big Body of Troops Arrived In New Zealand Recently

U.S. Training Big Force in ~ New Zealane   Guadalcanal: Vets - Placed With Large Contingent Recently Landed,   ALL TO CCHBAT —  “ZONE LATER   Announcement. Comes as New Activity Flares in Pacific Zone

GIGANTIC BLOW AT JAPS SOON   Large Body of Troops in New Zealand, Training With Veterans.   NIMITZ HERE FOR TALKS

LARGE BODY OF AMERICAN TROOPS TRAINING IN NEW ZEALAND ALONG SIDE U. S, VETERANS  Admiral Nimitz Arrives In U. S. For   Admiral Nimitz Arrives In U. S. For War Conferences With Gov’t Leaders

Yankees Training  In New Zealand   Large Body of Americans Being Prepared For Duty in Combat Zone.

Prepare for New Blows At Javanese   Training With Guadalcanal Vets; Admiral Nimitz in U. S. for Conferences

Yanks Prepare For Drive In Pacific Area   Large Body Of Troops Arrives In New Zealand, Prepares For Combat.   PACIFIC BOSS IN U.S.

Large Body Of Americans In New Zealand  Nimitz Arrives To Join Series Of Att*+. J & 1. Lec  - = =-— = + F

‘We're Turning Out Ships, Guns Faster As Japs Slow Down   Pacific Arena Getting Its Share of Men and Materials, Says Admiral

New Blows Against Japan on Several Fronts Impendin:   Large Force of Yankees in New Zealand Training for Combat

Many Troops Now In New Zealand   NEW ATTACK ON JAPS MAY BE PLANNED SOON

AC AVY GLOW AGAINGT JAPG ARE READIED   Another Large Force Of U. S. Troops In New Zealand After Long Journey

U. 5. Troops Arrive In New Zealand, Now Being Trained   Disclosure Hints That Japanese Soon To Get New Blows

PACIFIC FLEET COMMANDER IS OPTIMISTIC NOW   Pacific Arena Getting Its Share Of Men And Materials; New Outbursts Of Action Against Japanese;  Pacific War Review.

Many U.S. Troops Arrive In New Zealane   New Arrivals to Train With Guadalcanal Veterans for New Blows Against Japs

More U.S. Troops © To Pacific   Large Group Just Arrived in New: Zealand; Admiral Nimitz in: —  U. S. for Conference ;

LARGE FORCE OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN NEW ZEALAND   BELIEVE NEW BLOWS AGAINST JAPANESE ARE NOW PENDING

AMERICANS TRAINING IN NEW ZEALAND   Large Force Believed Being Prepared to be Sent To Combat Zone In Pacific   NIMITZ IS IN THE STATES

More U.S. Troops In South Pacific   Train in New Zealand _ Alongside Veterans for Combat Service   ENEMY SHIPS DOWNED   Resumption of Intensive Air Attacks on Kiska Reported .

AMERICAN FORCE IN NEW ZEALAND TO BEGIN DRILLS   Troops Will Train With Vet. erans of Guadalcanal For Combat Duty

Large Body of US Troops in New Zealand   * Recently-Arrived Contingent Training for Dispatch to Combat Zone; Admiral Nimitz in US

Admiral Nimitz, In United States For Allied Strategy Conferences, Hints Offensives Against Japs In The Making

Yankees Are Prepping For Pacific Flight   Large Contingent Tutored By Vets In New Zealand

U.S. Troops Land In New Zealand  Big American Force  Reaches Island .

WAR ON JAPAN TO BE STEPPED UP, INDICATION   Large Body of Troops Has Reached New Zealand Direct from America   AID TO CHINA PROMISED   Meanwhile, Action Flares ir Aleutians and in Islands Of South Pacific

Heavy Blow In Pacific Anticipated AtAnyHour   Nimitz Is In U.S To Map Next Drive Plan

Waverly Slaying !s Solved by Capture Of Man at Ventura   Stanley Kaster, 36, Ex-Convict, Hid in Trunk of Automobile

Seize Slayer  Of lowa Man   Former Convict Captured As He Huddled In Trunk Of  Car; Pleads Guilty.

Cx-convict {s Captured in Big Man Hunt   Stanley Karsten Confesses Slaying Waverly Man

Shot Waverly Guard For Gun And Holster, Officer Told By Former Convict

Slayer of Plant Guard Captured   Fx-Convict Confesses Killing, lowa Chief  Declares

Found Huddled In Car Trunk Near Clear Lake; Gun Battle Last Night

CAPTURED IN AUTO TRUNK AT VENTURA   Offered No Resistance When Nab. bed Although Previous'y He Had Been in Gun Battle

Slayer of Plant Guard Captured At Ventura, Ia.   Ex-Convict Shot In Heel During Chase   Discovered Hiding Inside Automobile Trunk Or Lake Shore

Sec. Morgenthau Denounces Congress Over New Tax Bill   Charges Lawmakers Open the Door to Extortionate Profits by Contractors of War Goods; Prospects of a Veto Loom

Hits Congress   Denounces Body For Batting Down His New Revenue  Bill .

Morgenthau Raps  Congress Action Flays Reduction  at Rawaniie Rill

Slashing of Tax Hotly Resented By Moreenthau   Request for Veto Looming; Seeds of Scandal Seen  Vee: Rissiscnce trick

U.$. TROOPS SENT TO NORTH FROM SOUTH   Allied Advances Extended To Practically All Axis’s West Flank

President Leads In Tributes On  Armistice Day   Wreath Laid On Tomb Of Un known Soldier At Arlington National Cemetery He. FARITR MARCKRRES

F,R, LEADING U.S. IN WORLD WAR  TRIBUTE   American Faith In Just And Last. ing Peace Reaffirmed on Armistice Day Of 1943

MAY PLAN T0 CUT JAP SUPPLY LINE   Nips Take Beatings In Other Pacific Areas

SIXTH ARMY PLANS TO SPLIT JAPS ON NEW BRITAIN ISLAND IN TWO   Reports Say American Patrols Already Are Cutting Into Jungle North Of Arawe. 

ASKS REMOVAL  OF SCHEUFLEE   McKittrick Preparing Letter to Governor Regarding Insurance Superintendent

Yugoslavs Launch Drive   Guerriiias Storm Trieste and Fiume; Fierce Fights Rage

'YUGOSLAYS AND NAZIS REPORTED IN BIG BATTLE   Martial Law Ordered In Hungaria By Carmans

BALKANS UNDER AERIAL ASSAULT   Yugoslavs Fight Germans In South Suburbs Of Italian Trieste

Tojo Assumes Added Powers   Jap Premier Ousts  Three : a ides, Takes:

Raids Sap Nazi intercep. tor Strength; cans Seize New lolande OFF Iealy.

Heaviest Pummeling Yet Given Italians by Africa-based Planes.  44 NAZI PLANES OUT OF 50 SHOT DOWN  Jugoslay Guerrillas Raid - Nazi Airport; Damage 34 Planes.

AFRICA-BASED PLANES RAKE RAIL HUB   Railroad Lines To Rome, Bari, Manfredonia, Cut

Bootleg Meat Seen Inevitable in Lowell   People Want More Than Two Pounds Weekly, Marketman Avers

Building Industry Facing Disaster   Skilled Labor Shortage Ties  Down Contractors, Plumbers. Paintere

Fuel Dealers Uncertain About Future Supplies .   Oil, Coal Distributors Divided on Next . Winter's Prospects: Spring Brings Relief

NO. 26 IN A_ SERIES rr  School Children Go All-Out in War Drive   "A Little Child Shall Lead Them" Tells Local Story

Restaurant Manpower Situation “Terrible”   Enough Food—But Help Almost Nil;  No Eauinment for Duratian

NO. 35 IN A SERIES  War Has Shaped Local Destiny Since 1826   Conflict With British in 1812 Responsible for Lowell's Founding—Leadina Fiaures Military

City De Departments  Geared for Wartime   Police, Fire, Streets, Building Services Hit Hard by Manpoower Shortaae

Local Production Army Goes All-Out   Workers 100 Per Cent Behind U. S, Drive to Speed Supplies to Warfronts

NO. 28 IN AW 'SERIES Corer Variety Store Feels War's Inmmact.   Everything From Soup to Nuts  No Lonaer Their Slogan

Local Salvation Army In Active Wartime Role   Co-ordinates Activities Here With Work Done by Group in Battlefrante

NO. 31 IN A SERIES —  No Dearth of Drugs For Greater-Lowell      Apothecaries Have Sufficient Supplies for Duration of War

Landing Craft — ‘Crew Gels Another   First One Sunk Off Sicily, Crew Ready to Go Again

SWEDISH ACTION PLEASES HULL   Declares Nazi Troop Ban {s Significant

NO. 2 FURNACE AT IRONTON ‘BLOWN IN’   New Blast Furnace At Columbia Plant Goes Inte Production

NEWSPRINT IS REDUCED AGAIN   Second 10 Per Cent Cut Set For April 1 By WPB Order

REDS EXTEND BRIDGE HEADS OVER DNIEPER   Germans Fail to Break Peril to Entire Eastern Defense Line

DNIEPER RIVER CROSSED AT THREE POINTS   German position inside Kiev becomes more dangerous hourly

IN NORTHERN SECTOR OF BATTLE LINE RUSSIANS RE-. ' PORTED ONLY TEN MILES FROM LATVIA

SOVIET FORCES PUSH STEADILY FORWARD   Repel Nazi CounterAttacks and Widen Own Bridgeheads

Aussies Hurl New Guinea Foe Back Six Miles   MacArthur Communique Hits Japanese Claims Of Buna Evacuation

JAPS HURLED BACK AT WAU NEW GUINEA   Aussies’ Charge Forces Retreat Of Six Miles

Aussies Hurl Back Japanese In New Guinea   Heavy Artillery Barrage Is Used

COVERNER SIGNS LEGISLATION TO AID OLD FOLKS   Representative Allison Helped to Bring About New Arrangement

Governor Signs Pensions Plan   Unexpended Fund ‘Available For Uses:

LEVEES BREAK. 2.000 PERILED   Floods Drive Hundreds Out Of Indiana Homes; Crops, Bridges are Damaged

Hundreds Flee Indiana Floods   Worst in 30 Years: At Least Four Dead

WABASH RIVER BREAKS LEVEL   Thousands Imperiled As Flood Waters Wash Out Crops

2,000 Lives Endangered By Flood   Wabash River Levee West of Terre Haute Break:

Flood Waters Pour ‘Over Scattered  Indiana Sections  Crest Equal to 1913 Deluge Highs Pradirted tn Places

Floods Break  Indiana Levee   Hundreds Driven from Homes as Property and Crops Damaged

Boards To Reclassity Non-Deferable Employes   Continuing Need For Men In Armed Forces Cited As Reason For Greater Demande Now

Measures “To Shorten The War” in Europe To Be Taken; Declarations Historv Making: China Takes Part

Reds Acree To Complete Nazi Defeat   Allies in Accord At Moscow; China Is Represented

CONFERENCE RESULTS ARE ANNOUNCED   China Joins U.S England, Russia In Discussions

United Ctates,. Great Britain and  . Russia Proclaim. They ‘have De. cided on Measures to: Shorten --China Also Joined with  Othe Powers. . :

‘Powers Agree No Separate Peace Terms   Post- war- Union Pledged To Keep Peace if By Force

MOSCOW PLANS ON WAR MADE PUBLIC AT THREE PLACES   Russia “Will Stick With the Allies In Forcing Nazis, te Unconditional Surrender’ Is Report.   SIX PRIME FACTORS OUT SIMULTANEOUSLY’   China Joins Other Thre With Pledge That Countr’ Will Not Enter In Separ ate Peace Pact.

Measures To Shorten War In Europe Agreed On In Moscow Confab   Need For International Organization To Maintain Postwar Peace Stressed By Conferees; Territorial Lines Not Mentioned

Reveal Moscow Parley Decisions   Russia And. China Pledge No Separate Peace; Four Allied Powers Will Keep Postwar Peace By World Organization

4 NATIONS AGREE TO ACT TOGETHER ~ ON VITALMATTERS   Plan General International Group To Which All Peace-Loving Nations May Be Admitted For Security’s Sake

Prosecution Of Germans Is Pledged .   China Joins Three © Major Allied Powers In New ‘Declaration

Results Of Moscow Meeting Announced   Britain And Russia Decide On Measures MPa aihcton’ Wer tn Europe; Soviets Will Stick To Finish; China Also Joins In New Allied Statement Reiterating Unconditional Surrender.

THREE POWERS PLAN MEASURES TO SHORTEN WAR      Russia Will Stick With Allies I Porcing “Unconditional Surrender”

Joint Declarations Of 3 Allied Powers Announced Today   U. S., Britain, Russia Agree On Measures To Shorten War, Force Unconditional Surrender of Germany

Entire Policy Is Approved By Russia Who Agrees '~ To Unconditional Surrender   Atrocities Carried Out by Nazis in Con:  quered Nations Will Be Avenged - to Limit, Say Allied Leaders.

SUPERMAN — SOUGHT FOR TAX   New Efforts to End Deadlock—Some Are Ready to Quit

Demos Determined  To Get a Tax Bill      Bring Some Hope in Muddled Pay-as-You-Go Compromise Parlevs.

GROUP WORKING ON TAXES SEE RAYS OF HOPE   Senator Thinks Compromise Can Be Worked Out

Differences Over Tax Bill Not Adjusted   Democrats Call for Superhuman Effort to Break Deadlock   COMPROMISE IS REVISED

ATTEMPT 10 WRITE COMPROMISE BIL   Dems Bend Every Effort to Uncover ‘Legislation Acceptable to Al

Conferees — Hope for Tax - Compromise   Still Deadlocked, © Sen. Byrd Says “People Want Something Done”

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK   Soviet Forces on Centra Front Wipe Out Riflemen in Forest ~

Soviets Hurl Nazis Back Across Donets   Tewn On East Bank  Cleared; Reds Plunge O Toward Smolensk   FOE LOSES HEAVILY’   Germans Reveal Fierce Defensive Battle South O Lake Ladoga

Reds Throw Germans Back Across River   Invaders Unable To Make Progress In Donets Basin

Soviets Cling To Lines in Donets Area   Nazis Beaten Back From Town After Crossing River

RUSSIANS CLING TENACIOUSLY ALONG DONETS   Germans Thrown Back Across River After Capturing Town— Reds Drive Nearer Smolensk

Nazi Efforts To Establish Positions ‘AreThwarted   Russians Beat Back Enemy Thrusts And Cling To Positions; Foe Crosses Donets

RED ARMY CLINGS TO ITS POSITIONS ON DONETS RIVE   The Soviets Beat Back Every Effort of the Germans.   ON TOWARD SMOLENSK   More Settlements Were Taken by the Russians in Their March.

Soviets Hang On to Donets River Line   Drive Toward Smolensk  On Central Area Front

Reds Hold Firm As Nazis Drive On Donets River   Germans Cross Stream But Are Again Beaten Back

SOVIETS CLING TO RIVER LINE   Beat Back- Efforts of Germans to Establish Forces On Donets,

SOVIETS HOLD TO POSITIONS ALONG DONETS   Russian Troops Continue Plunge Toward Smolensk

Beat Back Nazis On Donets River   Red Army Holds It Positions Despite Furious German Attempts.

Reds Beat Back  Nazis In Donets   On Central Front, Reds Near Smolensk

RUSSIAN UNITS HOLDLINESIN DONETS VALLEY   Reds Continue Their Advance Toward Smolensk, Take Additional Cities

Hold Germans In The South   Furious Counter Blows Keep Nazis West Of Donets

SOVIETS ARE SMASHING ON TO SMOLENSK   Forces Said to Have Advanced to Area Some — 40 Miles From Great Nazi Citadel

Russians Hold To Their Positions On The Donets, Push Toward Smolensk

SOVIETS HOLD POSITIONS ON DONETS RIVER   Beat Back Every Attempt of Nazis to Establish Themselves on East Bank—Reds Push Farther Toward Smolensk.

RED ARMY CLINGS TENACIOUSLY TO NORTHERN DONETS   Repeated German Attacks Thrown Back; Fighting is Bitter

RUSSIANS RETAIN RIVER POSITIONS   Along Central Front Red Forces Extend Gains In Drive to Smolensk

Soviets On Central Front Plunge Ahead In Smolensk Drive, Take More Towns

NEW NAZI ONSLAUGHTS BEATEN BACK   Russians Continue To Plunge Forward In Smolensk Sector

Red Army Holds To Key Sections   RUSSIANS © BE SAT BACK NEW GERMAN ATTACKS

RED ARMY CLINGS TO NORTHERN DONETS RIVER POSITIONS  ON CENTRAL FRONT SOVIET ADVANCE TOWARD  BEF. ATOR mf!

SOVIET FORCES REPEL GERMANS ALONG DONETS      Efforts of Nazis to Establish Themselves On the Eastern Bank of River Beaten Back   RUSSIANS ADVANCE TOWARD SMOLENSK   More Settlements Fall to ~ Red Army On Central Front; Enemy Truck Column Smashed

Russians Hold Their Lines On  Donets River   Beat Back Every Effort Of Germans To Gain Eastern Bank — Push Toward Smolensk

Soviets Cling To Their Positions  Beat Back Nazi Ef forts To Cross Donets

Naizs Fait  To Cross Donets   Halted by Soviets;  Russians Gain in Drive to Smolensk.

SOVIET TROOPS HOLD LINES IN SOUTHERN AREA   Beat Bazk Nazi Attempts Along Donets River’

Gernians Crossed Donets In Force Last, Night But Were Beaten Back Today

Nazis Unable To Get a Firm Hold   Reds Beat Back Efforts of Germans to Strengthen ‘Positions      HEAVY AXIS LOSSES   German Radio Reports a Heavy Battle in Leningrad Area

Russians Beat Back Germans   Hold to Positions On Northern Donets River, Moscow Says

RUSSIANS CLING TO POSITIONS ON DONETS RIVER   PLUNGE FORWARD TOWARD SMOLENSK ON CENTRAL FRONT

REDS FIRM ON DONETS FRONT   Nazis Driven Back After  Crossing Donets River

Russ Cling To Positions   Donets Kept Clear Of Nazis; Reds Drive Closer to Smolensk

Russians Hane On To Hold On Donets River   Drive On Smolensk Continues With Capture of Towns

SOVIETS HOLD POSITIONS AT DONETS RIVER   Beat Off Heavy Attacks Of Nazis To Cross River; Push On To Smolensk

Hurl Masses of Tanks on Small Areas   Germans Concentrate Pow-. erin Attempt to: Break ~ Red Line in Donets   ) BUT DEFENDERS ..° HURL THEM BACK   Fierce ‘Battles Continue as Ohter Red Troops Plunge ~on Toward Smolensk

A,B. C Gas Rations Are Cut in  Value from Four to Three Gallons   Far Western States Including Mont. Affected

Gas Coupon Value ls Cut To 3 Gallons   OPA Reduction Become: Effective In 10 Wester States Today   WAR NEEDS CITED   Ickes Sets‘Quota Of 189, 000 Barrels Daily For Fa Western Area

basoline Is Cut In Utah, Idaho, All of Far West  A-B-C Coupons @® Worth Only 3 Gallons Each

MOTORISTS IN FAR WEST GET CASOLINE GUT   A, B. © Gssoline Conpons Are Reduced From Four To Three Gallons

GAS COUPON VALUE CUT TO 3 GALLONS   OPA Order Is Made Effective Last Midnight

STRONG SOVIET FORCES RACE FOR MINSK   Engulf 150-Towns and Villages in White Russia

DIVISIONS FACE TRAP   Russian Forces Race Toward Minsk And Polish Border

Americans, British in Vichy France Reported Taken to Germany. _-

AMERICANS ARE HELD BY NAZIS      All British And American Men, Women And Children Remaining In Vichy Removed To Germany.

Allied Men in Vichy  Taken fo Germany  U. S. Told Citizens There at Time of Occupation Arrected

AMERICAN AND BRITISH MEN ARE TAKEN TO GERMANY   Those Remaining in Former Vichy-Controlled Part of France, Removed.   REPORT NOT CONFIRMED   Approximately 3600 Men, Women and Children Had Best Arrested.

Report British And Americans Taken To Reich   Legation Ait Bern Unable ‘To Confirm Claim’ 3600 Have Been Arrested

American And British Men In Vichy Are Sent To Germany —   All Subjects In France Reported Arrested; Nazis Fear Invasion

GERMANS TRANSFER PRISONERS OF WAR   Moved from Vichy-Controlled France to Germany

Take US Mer In Vichy To Reich Points   Arrest British In French Area

Rains Shift To South   Flooding Streams In Northeast Recede A Little: Neosho Full

KAW FLOOD RECEDING      But. Several Tributaries Remain Above Flood Level’

Expulsion Of Axis Forces From Africa 1st Objective In FDR, Churchill Strategy

EXPULSION OF ALL AXIS FORCES FROM AFRICA IS LIKELY   May Be the First Major Objective Planned at Conference at Casablanca.

SEEK EXPULSION OF AXIS FORCES FROM N. AFRICA      Believed To Be First Objective Of Conference Held In Cascahlance

AATIONNG BOARD WIL HOVE SOON   Office Will Be Located in Egan Room of the Ma. : -sonié Building, 

RATIONING BUARD WILL MOVE oUOh   Office Will Be Located in Egan Room of the Masonic Building.

ALLIES DESTROY NINE VESSELS IN RABAUL HARBOR   Squadrons Team Up for Smashing Low-Level Daylight Raid

Gleeful Crews Return from Raid Acting Like Bunch of Kids or Picnic Shouting ‘Boy We Surprised Those So-and-sos’

IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK   Allied Planes Make Low-Level Bombing Raid on Jap Shipping

Home Edition   ‘Frail’ Ernie Pyle Calmly Survives Hectic Homecoming

FARM GROUP WILL BE NAMED MONDAY   ee ——————EEEEE  Committee to Aid in Plan. ning Local Farm Home Program

FARM GROUP WILL BE NAMED MONDAY      Committee to Aid in Plan. ning Local Farm Home Program

Tells Airmen’s Heroism Over Tunisia Are:   Yank, Shot and With Crew Wounded, Crash Lands His Plane

STORY OUT OF NORTH AFRICA TELLS WHY AMERICAN PILOTS . AND FICHTERS REST IN WORTD

YANK FLIER WOUNDED BUT LANDS BOMBER   ‘Great Flying Feat’ Says Bombardier and Friend

Wounded Fortress Pilot Brings In Plane And Crev   Heroic Flying Feat Over Tunisia Is Told By Bombardier; Crippled Plane Drives Off Swarm Of Messerschmitts

Flying Fortress Pilot, Ignoring Wounds, Stays at Controls to Land Crippled Ship

Tells Airmen’s Heroism Over Tunisia Area  = 7° . CWE _ £2 ee es W724hbR   Yank, Shot and With Crew Wounded, Crash Tands His Plane

Railroad Strike Vote Considered   Brotherhoods Plan Membership Ballot

Remsen Soldier Reported Killed In Sicily July 12  Had Been In Service For More

Remsen Soldier Reported Killed In Sicily July 12   Had Been In Service For More  Than Two Years

Final Chambless Witness Heard  Jury to Be Chargec Tuesday Afternoon

SLIDE AT FALL LEAF    Kaw River Causes the U. P. Railroad Plenty of Trouble

Loggers Warned to Expect Attacks      Attacks Likely To Center On Heavy Timber Areas

EXPECT OREGON ~ FOREST FIRES   BALLOCN-BORNE INCENDIARY ROMBS RELEASED FROM SUBMARINES FEARED  “IN NORTHWEST ~>>

Cannes Hit By American Air Raiders   RAF Mosquito Planes Pound Germany in  Renewed Attack

Mosquito Bombers Smash Sicily, Italian Positions   Railway Sidings and Docks Bombed at North Sicilian ; Port-——Many Planes Grounded by ‘ Weather

Southern Italy And Sicily Get Severe Bombing   Planes from Malta Force Give Italian Ports New Going Over

LIGHT BOMBERS AGAIN HIT ITALIAN CENTERS   Mosquito Planes Smash at Communications in Sicily and Southern Italy.

MEAT DEALERS TO HEAR RATIONING EXPLAINED   Farmers Who Have Stands In Market House And Deal In Meat Products Included

YANKS PUSHING HARD ON FLANK OF FOE’S LINES   Italian General and Staff Among Prisoners Taken by Allies

ROMMEL FACES NEW DRIVE BY ALLIED UNITS   General Montgomery tells men to “drive the enemy into the sea”

‘Drive Enemy Into Sea’ Is Battle Crv   British and Americans In New Drive

Stassen Ready — To Leave For Active Navy Duty   Governor Turns Over Post To Ed Thye In Simple Ceremony

F ly! 1,399 1399 Sorties Against Rommel      Delivered By American Planes In One Day 

AMERICAN PLANES IN. 1,399 SORTIES   Day-Long Aerial Assault Staged Against Axis Last Tuesday

‘Red Armies Gain  In Smolensk Push  CW Civece fees Wacttensenf Ria

Line Falls Gain On Smolensk   Roll up Axis Lines in New 45 Mile Wide Spurt

Red Armies Cut Key Rail Line, Roll Back Nazis in Great Drive for Smolensk   100 Germans Killed

Slashing Soviet Lashes Forward   ‘otrategic Railway Points Ara Spice

FIVE RED ARMIES SURGE WESTWARD   Smash Nazis in Six-Mile Galr On Smolensk   ROLL BACK LINES   Ukraine Citadel of Sumy, Northwest of Kharkov, Falls to Soviets

BRYANSK -KIEV RAIL LINE IS CUT BY SOVIETS      Sumy, 90 Miles Northwest Of Kharkov, Falls  Te Bicctane   NAZIS ENGAGED IN LARGE SCALE RETREAT

Armies Take Prizes in Huge Spurt   Strategic Rail Centers, Other Cities Fall To Reds as Troops Rush Ahead 45 Miles; Germans Are Fleeing

Ukraine Rail Hub Captured by Reds   More Than 9,000 Germans Killed In Battle Netting Russians 250 Villages;  Reinforcements Smashed

Ukraine City Of Sumy Falls  To Russians   Large-Seale Retreat Toward Dnieper River By Nazis Indicated  OMI MHIWarc Taw’ Car

RUSSIANS CRUMPLE GERMAN LINES IN THE DONETS BASIN   Cut Bryansk-Kiey Railway Linking Two Fronts and Make Six-Mile Advance on Smolensk,   CAPTURE UKRAINE CITADEL OF SUMY   Swift March Indicates LargeScale Retreat by German Forces Toward Dniener River.

Russia Reports Six Mile Gain On Long Front   Germans in Retreat On Smolensk Sector

Red Armies Cut Key Rail Line, Roll Back Nazis in Great Drive for Smolens

SMASH GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS IN SIX - MILE GAIN ON SMOLENSK; CAPTURE RAILWAY POINTS.

Five Russ Armies Chasing Germans   Nazi Reinforcements Smashed In Six-Mile Gain On Smolenck- Danete Racin Attacked

U.S, British Ship Losses Less  Than Two Percent   ‘ aa Cunningham Reveals Losses In Ships to Afri  oa Since November.

Allied Shipping Losses Less Than Two Per Cent In Sending 780 Vessels To North Africa   Cunningham Hopes Axis Will Try ‘Dunkerque,’ Draw Italy's Fleet Out

Fleet Hopes Axis  Tries Evacuation   Foe Has Ships, But Would Suffer Terfic Pounding, Declares Admiral; British Want To Bring Italian Warships Into Battle

SHIPPING LOSS ONLY 2 PER CENT   Cunningham Reveals_ A\llied Shipping Losses Very Low In North African Theater.

Admiral Wants Axis Dunkerque   Says Allied Shipping Losses Declining

“ONE WORLD” TO FILMS      ; ae) Rights to Willkie’s Book Sold to 20th ) Century-Fox

Peery Granted Time for Plea   School Head of Minco First to Apnear in Court

German Targets Blasted By RAF Bombers; Berlin Hit by Mosquito Planes

James A. Farrel Dies In. Gotham   Ex-President Of U.S -.. Steel 11.2 Months

James A. Farrell Dies; Was Leading Figure in Industry, Had Long Been Chief of U.S. Steel Company

FORMER STEEL HEAD DIES IN NEW YORK   Rose from $2.50-a-Week. Job to Presidency

FORMER HEAD U.S. STEEL DIES      City of Farrell Was Nam.ed for Great Corpora:  tion Chief.

Began Career as Laborer  James A. Farrell, 80, Former President of U.S. Steel, Dies

JAMES 4. FARRELL r U.S. STEEL DIES   Two Month Illness Takes Life of Man Who Started as ‘$2.50 a Week Worker

Savage Onslaught Seen as Start Of Possible Tunisia Showdown; Yanks Seize Pichon in Comeback

Americans Capture Pichon; In Comeback Raid In Tunis   Rommel Lashes Out From Mareth L'ne Early Saturday In First Raid On British      REDS TAKE IMPORTANT NAZI BASE   'Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Against Nazis Continues In Ra:ds On Germany

Essen Is Pounded Again Bv RAF as Allies Hammer  At German Line in Africa

NAC] MARSHAL STRIKING OUI TO EVADE TRAP   British Expected Offensive, And Will Repulse Nazis, . Experts Indicate

Reds Retake 145 Towns in 2-Day Central Front Push  POUND EUROPE AGAIN  American Planes Hit Brest and Lorient; RAF Raids Essen

American Navy In Bold Stab At Jap Bases   U. S. Warships Sink Two Enemy Destroyers Seeking  To Break Their Attack.   BOMBARD MUNDA, VILA

HOUSE DEBATE DUEMONDAY ON HUGE TAX BILL   com mittee Struggling te Complete Work On New Revenue Act to Raise Over Two Billions

PLAN TO REVISE WAR CONTRACT RENEGOTIATION   “ar-Reaching Changes To Recover “Excessive Profits’ Studied; To Be Em. bodied In General Revenue Bill.

Allied Air Offensive Blast  Jap Defenses in South Pacific   Strike Major Enemy Base in the Marshall Islands.

SOFTEN JAPS FOR ASSAULT ON NEW BRITAIN   Momentary Invasion Leading to Rabaul Expected

RABAUL PATHWAY BEING SOFTENED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Many Japanese Defenses On Invasion Coast Of  New Britain Have Been Bleetacl

Potato Prices Pegged By OPA   Maximum Prices Set On Sliding Scale

Cut in Gasoline Rationing Brings Protest in Midwest   Congressman Opposed; Rubber Situation ‘Tight’

IOKES GASOLINE PLAN PROTESTED   MIDWEST CONGRESSMEN OBJECT TO TRANSFER OF MOTOR FUEL TO EAST.

WESTERNERS PROTEST GAS EQUALIZATION   Little Indica’ion That Tire Siitation Will Improve Any In Near Future

Dislike Gas Ration Plan In The West   MIDWEST CONGRESSMEN OBJECT TO RATIONS FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS BEING CUT AS PROPOSED.   Tire Situation Tight

NO NEW TIRES FOR SPARE RIM   Situation Still Tight; Sales Ban Stays On For Few Months

CLUB URGED ETHICS, OFFICERS FACE JAll   Jury Returns Verdict in. Mail Fraud Charges

‘ETHICS’ PROMOTER GUILTY OF FRAUD   Victims of Scheme Defend Him at Trial

GERMANS DRIVE AGAINST LINES OF AMERICANS   Most Savage Battle Seen In North Africa Rages Near Faid Pass   HUNS LEAVING KHARKOV   Russians Push On Throughi Rostov Toward Key Port On Azov Sea

YANKS IN HEAVY TUNISIAN FIGHT   Land and Air Battle Rage: After Rommel Launches Big-Scale Attack

Rome Ard Berlin Jittery, Try To Whip Up Flagging Spirits Of The People   RUHR TARGETS ARE HIT BY AIR ROUT

ALLIES HIT RHUR AGAIN IN NEW RAID   Rome, Berlin Concerned Over Where Next Blow Will Fall

hmmeaniiee). “Suaataiabataie, re. 2 503)  ige Steel Works Begins Production

 ° . a Nazis Driven From ‘Dominant Position On Tunisian Front   Axis Pounded With Relentless Energy From Both Ends Of The Mediterranean

MOPPING UP OPERATIONS UNDER WA)   Drive Opened to Push Nazis From Ground Dominating Allied Fones.   COUNTER-ATTACK OF NAZIS BEATEN   Clashes Mark First Real Fighting in Two Weeks in North Tunisia—Air Force Active.

NAZIS OUSTED FROM HEIGHTS   Points Dominating Road West Of Mateur Are Taken In Renewal  Of Land Battle

British Take 3 Points in New Attack  First Fighting in 2 Weeks Costs Nazi Litak Raecifiane

Britons Capture  . Hills in Tunisia   Positions Near Mateur Taken in Flare-Up Of Fightine   Subs Bombard Greece, Crete, Sink Big Ship   Fortresaes Score Near-Hit Or Hit on Enemy Cruiser Leaving Sfax Harhor

British Troops Capture Vital Points   Allies Pound Axis -From Both Ends of Mediterranean

British Score Tunisian Gains   Fortress Bombers Blast Sfax Harbor

Allies Capture Fresh Ground th_N. Tunisia   Axis Loses High Points. -Including Jebel_Azzag 15 Miles from Mateur

LEADERS PLAN ALLIED ACTION -TOKERP PEACE   Roosevelt and Churchil: Agree Treaties Must Be Written Slowly; Will Be Enforced

FA, CHURCHILL AGREE ON PLAN   Leaders Believe in Joint Action of Both-Nations_to — Keep Peace.

New Move On Parley With Stalin Expected Soon; Additional News Within 24-48 Hours

Peace Must Be Written After War Slowly, Allies Agree    Headway Made For Meeting Between Stalin, FD And Churchill; Peace Is Planned

AlliedChiefs Ban ‘Hasty’ Peace Pact :   FDR, Churchill Plan “Loug Breathing Spell After Close of War:

LEADERS AGREE ON JOINT PLAN TO KEEP PEACE   FDR Savs Progress Made Toward Meetin; With Stalin

MUCH TIME WILL BE REQUIRED 10 WRITE UP PEACE   Organizations Must Be Maintained to Enforce Terms of Pact After They Are Compiled.   ANOTHER PARLEY JS LIKELY BEFORE LONG   Transition Period Appears as Possible After Firing of Last Shot to Permit Recovery From Shock.

Roosevelt And Churchill Agree That Peace Must Be Written Deliberately

POST-WAR MATTERS UNDER DISCUSSION BY TOP STATESMEN  TREATY MUST BE WRITTEN CAREFULLY AND PROVISIONS ENFORCED

Progress On Meeting With Stalin Made   Top Statesmen of America And Britain Agree on Outline of Peace   MUST BE PERMANENT

PLANS ARE MADE TO MEET STALIN   Roosevelt and Churchill Agree Peace Treaty Must Be Written Slowly

REPORT GIRAU AND DE GAULLE TO AGREE SOON   New Gavernor Genera  Of Algeria Expected In First Action

GIRAUD, DE GAULLE READY TO MEET ON NEW ‘GOVERNMENT   Purge Of Vichyites Likely After Agreement. On De Facto Rule In North Africa   MEETING PLACE ” MAY BE ALGIERS

French Rush to Aid Youth  in Mountains      Some Give in When Hunger Strikes; Boys Are Led by Tough Leader

French Youths Wait For Fight   Swiss Report Some Are Surrendering

French Youths  Await Showdown   Thousands, Fighting Tc Avoid Work In Germany, Remain In Mountains.

British Believe Germans Will Meet Disaster if. They Try to Hold Po Line

Wilmington Bomber Pilot Dies When B-26 Fails On Take Off For Australia From New Guinea

VETERAN COMBA’ PILOT KILLED   SURVIVED 20 DAYS IN JUNGLE; DIES ON ROUTINE FLIGHT

JAP-HELD ToLEa THROUGH PACIEIG GIVEN AIR BLITZ   Sixth Day Of Attacks On Marshalls and Gilberts; Nauru Also Hit

FIERCE FIRE * BRINGS DEATH ~ 7635 GIRLS   Orphanage Swept by lames; Many ’ 2. Enjured.

36 GIRLS ARE KILLED IN FIRE  “ Ld  AT ORPHANAGE   Blaze Breaks At 2 A. M.. While 82 Are Sleeping In Home Near Dublin   HEAT BALKS RESCUERS   Children On Second Floor Are Trapped When Roof Collapses

AT LEAST 35 YOUNG. GIRLS ARE VICTIMS OF ORPHANAGE BLAZE      Building Near Dublin, !reland is Gutted — Thirteen Are Hospitalized.

35 or More Girls Are Burned To Death When Orphanage Is Destroyed

BLAZE SWEEPS ORPHANAGE; 35 CHILDREN DEAD   Girls 4 To 18 Years Old Victims In Dublin; Roof Falls

35 Girls Die —  In Orphanage Near Dubliz   Fire Breaks Out At Early  ” Hour While 82 Inmates Are Asleep—Burned In Debris Of Roof

Fire Kills 35 Girl Orphans In Ireland   Flames Sweep Institution at Cavan, Near Dublin, in Night

blaze Sweeps Orphanage At Cavan   Children on Second Floor Die When Roof Collanses

30 YOUNG GIRLS  DIE IN BLAZE OF IRISH ORPHANAGE   Other Bodies May Be I Wreckage of Institution Near Dublin.

ICKES WARNS OF NEW COAL STRIKE   Pessimistic Over Outlook for Waae Acreement

RAIL PAY FIGHT BEFORE CONGRESS   SENATORS TOLD MEN ARE PREPARED TO STRIKE FOR RAISE, IF NECESSARY.

Rail Workers Push Vote — On Walkout   1,100,000 Men Wait Congress’ Action In Wage Argument

STRIKE VOTE GOING AHEAD, LEADER SAYS    Railway Union Spokesman - Says Workers Prepared  tq Ouit   DEMANDS MADE FOR INCREASE IN WAGES   George Harrison Testifies ‘Before Committee of Senate

Union Spokesman Asserts Congress Will Be Given "Time To Ad”   Harrison Agrees That Government Would Probably Take Over Roads in Event of Walkout

Rail Workers : May Strike for  Wave Increase   Union Spokesman . Admits Government Would Take Qver

Rail Workers Ready to Quit,  Leader Warns   Harrison Tells Senators  Denial of Pay Boost Weil Carica Ctetbn

RAILWAY WAGE STRIKE LOOMS   Government Operation Of Carriers May Be Net Result

RAIL WALKOUT HELD POSSIBLE   Spokesman Says Federal Control May Result From Strike

Vast Sections of the Capital And Ludwigshaven Are Laid Qpen By 4-Ton Aerial Bombs   American Forts Follow Up at Dawn Only 32 Planes Lost in All Operations—Industries Are Wreckd.

Nazi Air Force Said Defeated At Every Turn   Eighth Air Commander Says Enemy Can No Longer Build Planes

» 15 OHIO COLLEGES NAMED WAR SITES   Ohio State Selected For Training Program -

11,000 JAPS ARE BEING EMPLOYED   War Relocation Director Re - ports None Have Shown Least Disloyalty.

President Announces Drive on Japs; Wilson Mediterranean Chief   CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS WAR NOW REACHING STAGE OF LARGE CASUALTY LISTS; PROMISES FURTHER DETAILS ON CONFERENCES AND CONDITIONS AT HOME IN COMING ADDRESS TO NEW CONGRESS; REVEALS PEACE VOW

Expect Coal Prices To Be Boosted Soot  Eight-Cent Increase  Appalachian Field

Bituminous Coal Price Raise Eyed   OPA Considers General Increase Affecting Apnalachian Arca

FLYING FORTRESSES AGAIN RAIDRABAUL   Blast 10,000 Ton Cargo Ship And Score Near-Misses On 2 Warships

Bombs Drop In Oklahoma      Fall on Boise, Okla., From an Unidentified Plane: Little Damage

PRACTICE BOMBS HIT OKLAHOMA TOWN   Garage and Church DamagedMissiles Fall Until Lights Are Switched Off.

PRACTICE BOMBS FALL ON TOMA   Dklahomans Douse Lights Before Piane. Returns to Army Base _.. ...

OKLAHOMA TOWN IS BOMBED BY A MYSTERY PLANE   Six Bombs Dropped at Nighi Damage Church and Garage

STEEL OUTPUT WILL HAVE 10 BE CURTAILEL   To Meet Demands, Coal Will Have  To Be Mined At Full Capacity, O.W.L. Declares

DICTATORSHIP BELIEVED AIM   DeGaulle Ouster Of Girauc Viewed With Concern

ATTEMPT SEEN BY DEGAULLE TO ESTABLISH POLITICAL DICTATORSHIP OVER FRENCH EMPIRE

DE GAULLE BID FOR POWER SEEN   Allies May Intervene To Halt Move Against Giraud

HINT Ue GAULLE WANT 10 E_CORE PEN GH 2!" TOR   Resignation cf Cen. Giraud Bothsis U. §. and Allied Diplomats

Washington Believes Gen. DeGaulle Seeks Political Dictatorship Over France

19 FEARED BURNED TO DEATH AT SEA   MEN JUMP INTO FLAMING WaATERS AS TANKERS CRASH —39 PERSONS SAVED.

Compromise Tax Measure Studied  Group Deadlocked ( On —_$—BinnaA  zalamananm tat

Compromise Tax. Measure Studied   Group Deadlocked On ‘Fundamental Tssues

TAX ABATEMENT STILL SNAGGED   Compromise Proposal Is Studied By Congressional Group

Hitler's Gestapo Chief Rushes to Sofia to Help Keep Bulgarians in Line While German Military Experts Strengthen Defenses Against Allied Blow

GESTAPO CHIEF RUSHES TO SOF   Answers Urgent Call of King Boris to Help Keep Bulgarians in Line; Strengthen Invasion Defenses

Nazi Actions Hint Fear That Turkey Will Join Allies   Gestapo Chief Himmler Rushes To Balkans At Urgent Cal! Of Boris; France Seething

Nazi Actions Hint Fear That Turkey Will Join Allies   Gestapo Chief Himmler Rushes To Balkans At Urgent Call Of Boris; France Seething  Rye TAMFA M. LONG

Call from Boris Sends Himmler To Bulgaria   European Unrest Grows And Close Watch Kept On Turkey by Germans

NAZIS MOVING TO SUPPRESS NEW UNREST   Gestapo Chief Himmler En Route to Bulgaria and Tur. key is Being Watched; £abotage in Low Countries   Call Italians

BORIS CALLS GERMAN HELP   Head of Gestapo Rushes to Sofia to Keep Bulgar ians in Line

CLOSE WATCH BEING KEPT ON TURKE)   Nazi Officialdom Reported - Keeping an Eye on the Friend of Allies.

GESTAPO BOSS IS SUMMONED BY KING BORIS   GERMAN DEFENSES STRENGTHENED IN BALKANS

Hitler Sends Himmler to Quiet Bulgaria   King Boris Reported To Have Called for Aid - - Close Watch Is Kept on Turkey

Balkans Seethe As Nazis Watch Moves by Turks   Himmler Sent to Sofia on Urgent Call from King Boris

Gestapo Chief Hurries to Soothe Bulgaria; Turkey. Mav Enter War on Side of Allies:

Hitler Rushes Himmler Into Balkans to Quell Revolt Threat in Bulgaria

HEARINGS ON FOOD SETUF   REFUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN PLAN TO STAGE MEETINGS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF NATION

AXIS POWERS SIGH ECONOMIC PACT   Agreement Runs Concurrently With 10-Year Military Pledge of 1940

KIDNAPED NURSE 1S FREED BY CONVICT AFTER DARING RIDE   Former Industrial School Inmate Turns Girl > Loose, Unharmed;~="> At Camden, N. J.

Non-Operating Rail Employes Threaten Strike   Leaders May Act In a Few Hours

ODT CHIEF WARNS OF STRIKE DANGER   Eastman Says Rail Walk. out Would Harm War Effort

Rail Men Warned Strike Would Aid  Nation's Enemies   Eastman Speaks, While Roosevelt Confers  With Union Leaders

Railroaders May Set Date For Strike   WHILE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO SEEK SETTLEMENT AND HOUSE COMMITTEE DELAYS ACTION ON ISSUE.

Railway Strike Threatens U. §.   Leaders May Set Date At Session Today

NEW RAIL GROUP MAY SET WALKOUT DATE THIS WEEK   Action by Non-Operating Workers Threatened as ¥. D. R. Weighs Onerating Union’s Grievances.   EASTMAN COUNSELS AGAINST A TYE-UP   Declares Strike “Could Do More Harm to War Effort” Than Anything Enemy Might Do.

Rail Leaders Plan Strike   Non-Operating Union Is Considering Move

Bail Leaders to Sef Strike Date fo Enforce Demand   Eastman in Warning ‘SFDR, House Group Seek a Solution

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NON-OPERATING RAIL WORKERS MAY SET STRIKE   15 Chiefs Meet Today To Consider Walkout As Operators’ Threat Is Pondered

RAIL UNIONS SET MEETING TODAY   15 Chiefs Called to Consider Settina of Strike Date

Rail Strike _ Threat Grows More Serious   Leaders of Million Non-Operating Workers  May Set Walkout Date

Leaders of a Million Non-Operating Railway Employes May Set Date Tuesday or Wednesday for Nation-Wide Tieup to Enforce Wage Demands

URGE EARLY EARLY ~ GOAL ORDER   TRANSPORT . DIRECTOR. ways _ CONSUMERS SHOULD Ger  “NEXT WINTER'S: COAT,” WITHOUT DELAY “*

Liberator Bombers,of U. S. Ninth Crush Bari Airdrome; Round-Clock Raids on Messina Ferry—Turks Concentrafe —lMunda Being Bombed to De struction—Reds Repulse

Germans’ Flank Threatened On Sicilian Coast   Americans Continue Their Push Through Hill Country

Allied Units Strike Inland To Threaten Seaport Defenders    Report Canadians Take Caltagirone Endangering Nazis’ Right Flank; _ Americans Fight In Hilly Region

Advance Continues, Allied Communique: De:  . clares, As British Close In On Seaport  And Other Allied Troops Strike Inland: From Southern Coast of Sicily Today:

Allies Threaten  Axis Right Flank   British Eighth Army Smashes German Tank Attack to Converge on Key City; Bombers » Deliver Heavy Blows in Round-the-. Clock Raids on Messina-San Giovanni . "  Ferry Port

BRITISH TROOPS FROM EAST HAVE STRUCK LENINT!   Scordia, at the Gateway te Strategic Catania Plain, Also Hit.   CALTAGIRONE IS TAKEN

FIERCE BATTLE FOR CATANIA IS NOW SHAPING UP   British Eighth “Army Drives Up Coast as Americans Push from West Side   YANKS GET MOST CAPTIVES   Incessant “Aerial Pounding Softens Up Resistances And Wrecks Industry

Yanks Threaten German Flank   British Storm at Gateway Into Strategic Catania Plain — Beat Off Second Nazi Tank Attack— Bombers Batter Italian Bases

Lentini, Scordia And Caltagirone Are Captured   Great Tank Battle On East Coast May Now Be in Progress

LENTINI, SCORDIA AND CALTAGIRONE TAKEN BY ALLIES   Americans Drive Deeper Inland in South; Crack Ger. man Divis'ons Routed in Big Battle.

More Towns Fall To Allied Forces  In Sicilian Sweep   Flank Of Nazi Seaport Defenders Is Threatened

ALLIED FORCES IN CONTINUED SUCCESS "ON SICILIAN FRONTS  BRITISH DRIVE FOR CANTANTA. AMEDICANG

BRITISH TROOPS STORM INTO TWO MORE TOWNS AT GATEWAY TO CATANIA PLAINS   British Smash Onto Plains 13 Miles Above Lentin’ After, Beating Off Second Nazi Tank Attack Launched in Vain Effort To Stem Advance

British Take Two Towns in Eastern Sicily   Other Allied Troops Have Captured  Caltagirone to Threaten Right Flank,  of Germans Deferndina Catania 

Gov. Donnell dsks Legislature To Reconvene   Urges Immediate Action to Vote on Social Security Funds

Federal Threat to Withdraw Financial Support From State’s Program Causes Governor to Urge Legislators to Reconvene Immediately and Appropriate an Additional $750,000—Releases Pension Checks.

Federal School Aid Bill Is Up Today  Barkley Sees Success Fo New Measure

SOLOMON BASES ~ OF JAPS BOMBED   RAIDS MADE AS U. S. GROUND TROOPS MOP UP POCKETS OF RESISTANCE,

Yanks Blast Jap Solomon Bases;  MopUponLand   Army and Navy Bombers Leave Big Fires on Island of Ballale; 150 of Enemy Killed on Guadalcanal

HEAVY RAIDS MADE ON JAPS   Jap Positions in Southern Solomons Blasted; Big Fires are Started

NAVY BLASTS JAP BASES ON BALLALE IS.   Total Of 150 Japanese Killed Last Saturday; A Number Taken Prisoner; Kahili Airport Bombed.   Start Big Fires

Fires Started at Jap Base Seen 50 Miles  Heavy Attacks in Northwestern Solomons by Navy

FOUR JAP SHIPS SUNK IN BATTL BY UJ. 0. GRAFT   New Humiliating Losses Heaped Upon Japanese By American Navy

Lnemy Put to Flight In Battle i, in n Darkness  Nin Mh. ee ee   Nipponese Thwarted ti Attempt to Remove Key Personnel From Ieles.

Yank Sea Force Pursues Fleeing Japs To Within Some 90 Miles Of Rabaul

BLAZING BATTLE RAGES AT SEA OFF NEW GUINEA   Indications Are Japs Trying To Pull Out of Islands in South Pacific Area

Mark Up New Sea Vicory   Four of Six Jap Destroyers Sunk in Running Fight

Jap: Destroyers Sent to Bottom  Four Out of Six Sunk by Americans

Japs Are Engaged In Running Fight   Swift U.S. Warships All But  Wipe Out 6 Enemy Destroyers   DECISIVE WIN SCORED   Allied Vessels Move Boldly _ To Within 90 Miles of Rabaul

American Ships Unhit In Battle   Fifth Jap Destroyer Damaged And Sixth Chased Away By Smaller Yank Sea Force Between Rabaul And Bougainville

U.S. General Named Aide tc Mountbatten   MAJ.-GEN. WEDEMEYER APPOINTED DEPUTY TO SOUTHEAST ASIA CHIEF

A Boost: To Troop Morale   Smiles, Cheers, And Shouts Greet The Appearance Of U. S. Commander-in-chief

FIRING IS FORBIDDEN   Extension Of Directive To Other Areas Is @ Predicted By WMC

WILL CLARIFY 48-HOUR WEEK   Manpower Commission Prepares Order To Clear Up Conditions Imposed  By Order

MANY AWAIT DETAILS ON A8-0UR WEEK   Clarification of President's Crder Is Expected in a Few Days.   ALL IN THE DARK NOW   Thousands of Questions Are Flooding to Washingtcn on This Ruling.

Petit Jurars Drawn For April Court      JUDGE F. C,.. DAVIDSON WILL PRESIDE—TERM TO OPEN APRIL 19

January Term District Court To Open Monday   GRAND JURY TO BE EMPANELED; NO PETIT JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK

District Court ;           Grand Jurors ced; Petit Jurors Called for Four Weeks

MAP CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPS   Leaders from Pacific War Zones Hold Conference In Washington   Woman Slain, One Hurt In Holdup in Philadelphia   Spring Fashions Number

OPA MAY CUT MEAT PRICES, REPORTS SAY      Price Ceilings on Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton Delayed

OPA Hints Meat Prices Are to Be Loweredin Order   Suspends Dollar and Cents Ceiling on Beef Veal, Lamb, Mutton

OPA Hints  Tt Will Order Lower Retail Meat Prices   Suspends to May 17 Specific Ceilings . On Beef, Lamb, Veal Rehednied far Tadayv   MOST. STRIKING ACT SINCE F. D. R. ORDER

CHEAPER MEAT HINTED BY OPA   Original Ceilings Suspended . Until Mav if

On HINTS GUT IN MEAT PRICES   Suspends for Month New Dollar-and-Cents Ceilings; Order Establishes Top Price On Horse Meat

OPA Studies  Reductions In Meat Price   Suspends Order On Ceilings For Thirty Days

OPA Hints Lower Retail Meat Prices as Ceilings Order Is Postponed for Month

HINTS CUT IN MEAT PRICES   OPA Suspends Till May 17 Ceilings on Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton

Dollars-Cents Meats Ceiling Delayed Montt   OPA Hints Beef, Veal,  Mutton, Lamb Prices Welt Ro T necen,)

City Plant Makes Machines That Make Machines for War   By WILLARD R. SMITH

PROGRAM  TEXAS THEATRE  — SEALY —   Thur-Fri. March 11 12  A Hunting We Will Go.  with Laure) Hardy,   Coming Soon:—  Here We Go Again

Air Transport Crashes In Jungle; Chutes Save 19 Far From Civilizatior   Life and Death Drama Continues in Northern  Burma With Rescue Party En Route To Group Stranded in Wilds Last Monday

SEVERAL BILLS IN   Kansas Legislators Ready ~ for Work After Hearing  Schoeppel

Bills And Dry Petitions Are Before Senate   Committees Named And Upper House  Launches Business

it HPON STRIKERS   New Law Will Be Invoked Against Coal Miners In Pennsylvania

Grand Jury Convened In Pittsburgh —   Officials Indicate Anti-Strike Law Will Be Invoked

Grand Jury To Consider Coal Strikes   President Will Not Push -Miners To Sien Contract

HIVING PIGKETS MUT 25 MINES; THOUSANDS {DLE   Mey Invoke ConnallySmith Law; FBI Investigates   PRICEDALE MINE IS SHUT BY 6 FICKETS

CONVENED  AND JURY IS PITTSBURGH   oving Pickets eep 12,000  iners Idle

FUNERAL SATURDAY   Services for Charles A. Gibbons Held at Two o’Clock.

Funeral Services Held on Saturday   Last Rites for Mrs. Laura Boyle Held at 2:30 o’Clock; Burial in Edgewood.

Thought Attack on Pear! Harbor ‘War Maneuvers’   By TOM YARBROUGH

U. S. naval  forces blast Japs at Attu   Farthest west of Aleutian islands

Naval Vessels Attack Japanese in Aleutians   Hammer Positions ‘at Two Points; Foes’ Foray Fails

Bombard . Japanese — On Island   First Attack Made Bs Surface Vessels Since  - Raid On Kiska By Tash Force Aug. 8

BLAST JAPS IN  THE ALEUTIANS   Bomb Positions On Attu Is land For First Tame  Since August

SHELL ATTU ISLE BASES   Nip Retaliatory Raid Fails; Two Zeros Downed

Ships Pound Jap Positions In Aleutians   Bombers Also Cripple Four Enemy  In Salamnang

Surface Forces Hammer at Fnemv Bases   Nips Retaliate With Air Attacks on U.S. Posi dinne in Alentians ~

BOMBARD JAP POSITIONS ON ATTU ISLAND   Enemy Bases Blasted in First Surface Attack Since Aug.

Navy Reports New Air Raids In Georgia Isles   Attack in Aleutians First Surface Blow Since Aug. 8

Rail Center Taken, Tunis Is Battered   American Columns Driving Forward On Afrika Korps   The War:

NITROGEN SHORTAGE MAY BE RELIEVED   Munition Plans To Release Fertilized Ingredient

NEW RED DRIVE REPORTED ON THE LENINGRAD FRONT   Marshal Timoshenko Report. ed Leading Attempt to Free Leningrad Area.

Reds Rout , Nazis On  Central Front   Stockholm Rumors ew Russian Drive Toward Leningrad

‘RUSSL ADVANCE AGAIN ON CENTRAL FRONT   Marshal Timoshenko Said To Be Leading Soviet  Drive On Nazis.

SEE NEW CZAR AS BUFFER FOR F: D.R.   Some View Appointment of _ Byrnes as a Move to  Still Critics

Appointment of Super-Boss Seen as Move to Quiet Critics   Byrnes Selection Calculated to Cut Halt To Increasing Attacks Made on New Deal

SEE NEW CZAR AS BUFFER FOR F:D.R.   Some View Appointment of Byrnes as a Move to :  Still Critics   HAD TWO OBJECTIVES

BYRNES POSITION BELIEVED DUE 10 TWO-FOLD REASON   Ereates “Executive Assistant President” In Answer to Critics About Activities of Executive.   MEANS TO PREVENT EMBARRASSING ROWS   Differences May Be Nippec in Bud Before Coming Public For Use of Politica Onvonents.

Byrne’s Elevation May Still Some of  Critics of New Dea   Creation of New Agency _in_ Government Hailed  by Congressmen

ALLIED FLIERS IN DAY RAIDS OVER EUROPE   Continue Great Offensive Which Has Been Under  _ Way 48 Hours—Blows Follow Night Attack on Turin. Italv.

Air Forts Rip Vital Nazi City   FRIEDRICHSHAFEN TAKES HAMMERING IN NEW U. S. STAB AT HITLER EUROPE

Burke Awaits Reply on Coal  Ws. Conciliation Move * Bleld *Paccthilte<:?

U. S. Expected To Sit In on Coal Dispute.   Producer Predicts Appcarance of  Federal Conciliator

CONCILIATOR MAY. TAKE PART IN MINE WAGE CONFERENCES   Federal Official Expected to Enter Southern Negotis tions Today—Proposal to Submit Dis. . pute Flatly Rejected

WAR CHIEFS BACK MOVE BY ‘HAWAII OFFICER      Martial Law Dispute May Backfire on Federal Judge

President's Social Security Plan May Be Sidetracked by Problem of Raising New Taxes

CONGRESS PUTS TAX PLAN FIRST ON WORK SHEET   Delay In FDR’S Proposa! For Social Measure

TAX PROBLEMS ARE AT TOP OF CONGRESS SLATE   Social Security Legislation Likely To Be Sidetracked For Several Months   VARIETY OF QUESTIONS UP   Pay-as-you-earn Tax Plan To Raise War Funds To Get Consideration

CONGRESS FACES ACTION ON TAXES   Social Security Expan. sion Plan Likely To Be  Sidetracked   BUSY SCHEDULE   Many Taxation Proposals To Receive Legislative Attention

No Security Action Looms   More Pressing Matters Before Congress

Social Security Legislation May iBe Side-Tracked   Immediate Need for Con. gressional. Action On Taxes.

Plan to Expand Social Security Svstem Seems Headed for Sidetrack

Need For Immediate Action On Tax Bills May Sidefrack Président Roosevelt’s Proposal For Sociai Security Expansion

NEW SOCIAL SECURITY T0 BE MAPPED   Pay-as-You-Earn Tax Tc Be Sidetracked for Months

New Tax Need May Sidetrack Social Security   Pay-As-You-Earn Legislation Also May Be Delayed

Stepping Stone To Italy Hard Hit by Bombers   Fortified Island Of Pantelleria Is Target Once More

ALLIED WARPLANES  BLAST AND STRAFE  SOUTHERN EUROPE AIR POWER BEING CEN. TERED ON MEDITERRAN  at ATARART wf A

9 IMPORTANT TARGETS ARE HIT BY BOMB:   Americans Lose Only Three Craft in the Assault, Heaviest Yet Dealt the Stepping-Stone to Italian Mainland.

NINE TARGETS aWAGHED ON OUUTH FRONT   Enemy’s Six-Day Losses of Aircraft Shoved to Official. 329.   STEPPING STONES TO ITALY FEEL BLUDGEON

PANTELLERIA. BLASTED AGAIN:  MESSINA HIT    12 Enemy Aircralt Destroyed Orly Three U.S. Planes Lost in FarFlung Raids   SHIPS DESTROYED   Italians Minimize Damage but Admit Serious Consequences at Reggio Calabria

12 Foe Planes Shot Down In Heavy Attack   Merciless Storm Of Bombs Unloosed On Vital Axim Base

NINE IMPORTANT DEFENSE TARGETS IN SARDENIA HIT   Three Hundred American _ Planes in Disastrous Attacks.   PANTELLERIA RAIDED   Twelve Enemy Aircraft Were Destroyed in the Past 24 Hours.

TARGETS ON ISLAND ARE BLASTED.   More Than 300. American Planes Stave Attacks 

300 U.S. Planes In Raid on Enemy   A STEADY AIR ATTACK   Planes Dropped Man\ Bombs on Vital Axis Base West of Italy

9 CENTERS OF AXIS DEFENSES HIT IN ATTACKS   12 Enemy Aircraft Are Destroyed in Combat as Yanks Lose But 3

AttackNine — Key Targets on talian Isle   U, S. Bombers Hit Sardinia in Wide Sweep

300 U.S. PLANES ATTACK ISLAND QF SARDINIA   Bomb-Pited Pantelleria Raided Again Monday By Americans.

Waves Of Bombers Go Into Action Against Island Where German Troops Have Landed

American Planes Carry Attack To Sardinia As _ Germans Said Landing

Americans Blast Nine Targets On ‘Stepping Stone’   Fliers ‘Sow Bombs Like Wheat’; Thousands Are Reported Fleeing North

ALLIES BLUDGEON ITALIAN ISLAND WITH AIR POWER   ATTACK IMPORTANT DEFENSE TARGET ON SOUTHERN FRONT

Merciless Storm Of Bombs Dropped On Italian Island   Docks, Shipping, Airfields Suffer: Bomb-Dazed Refugees Fleeing North; Cagliari, Sardinian Capital. Reported Abandoned

Strike Nine Vital Points Of Defense   Pantelleria Again Hit; 12 Enemy Planes Destroyed By Attackers

Sardinia Hit By Swarms Of Allied Plane:   Pantelleria Again Under Attack; Bomb - Dazed Refugees Flee North From Battered Areas

300 American Planes Raid  Nine Targets   Pantelleria Also Ts Hit As Air Offen sive Continues

NINE DEFENSE TARGETS HIT ON AXIS FORTRESS   12 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed, Bringing Six-Day Total To 329 Ships   DOCKS, AIRFIELDS BOMBED   Cairo Bombers Smash At Messina And Harbors In Southern Htaly

Allied Planes Raid Sardinia, Pantelleria and Important  Seaports in Southern Italy   Capital of Sardinia May Be Abandoned as Result of Raids; Béanw Bacidont« Fleeing iclands

ALLIED BOMBERS AID THE AUSSIES AT FINSCHHAFEN   Banish Jap Threat to Important Port, at Least Temporarily

Peanon Clans - Paton Berated ly Eisenhower   Radiojarimentotor Says épirmand Follows  Altercation

Patton Reprimanded, Commentator Says Out Of Combat Action  Pearson Declares

GUFFEY LOTTERY AN HL         ‘Commients Range’ ‘from Perfectly 0. K.” to “Tn=) sult to Nation”?

Enemy Loses 37 Planes In Attempt To Raid Arawe; Barge Load Of Nip Troops, Small Cargo Ship Destroyed By Halsey’s Airmen

MARINES REPEL FOUR JAPANESt COUNTER-DRIVES   Within Mile and Half of Ni Airdrome on New Britain Isle

BEAT OFF JAP COUNTER BLOW   Marines Repulse Japs and Push Ahead In Cape Gloucester Sector

MARINES DRAW NEAR AIR STRIP   Four Enemy Attacks Hurled Back In Gloucester War

Nazis Flee Over Strait Under Big Umbrella Of Flak   80 Ships Ferry Germans, Equipment To Mainland In Night, Day Rush

ST DEFEAT IN HISTORY ON AFRICAN SOIL   Six Generals, 75,000 Men in Unconditional Surrender

YANKEE BOMBERS: ANTACK ISLANDS IN JAP SEA LANES   Marshalls ‘Hit By Heavy: Concentration—Liberator Works North of Rabaul.

PLENTY OF FOOD FOR SERVICE MEN   Picnic Was Held Last Evening at the Haskell Stadium '  encaeteeceemmemammensmm!

PLENTY OF FOOD  FOR SERVICE MEN   1     Picnic Was Held Last Evening at the Haskell - ‘  Stadium aan _f   [FUND STILL GROWING

Bill to Boost Governor's Pay Is Introduced   Proposal for Executive Mansion Is Also Given State Senate

THE RED ARMY AT KHARKOV I FIGHTING. HAR   Moscow Still Insists City I: in Russian Hands But Losing.   UNITS FALLING BACK   Berlin Maintains Kharkov  Is Captured After Bitter Struggle.

THE HED ARMY AT ARRON 5 FIGHTING HARL   ‘Moscow Still Insists City Is  in Russian: Hands  But Losing.    UNITS FALLING BACK   Berlin’: Maintains Kharkov ds Captured After Bit- « ” ter. Struggle.

Soviets Capture Vyazma   Germans Make Desperate Effort To Push Back Into Ukraine

SEE LITTLE HOPE OF SOFTENING UP M’NUTT’S ORDER   Job-Wage Control Order Apparently Can Be Attacked Only By Change In President's Hold - The Line Decree.

War Job Freeze Hard fo Thaw  WMC Orders Affects 7 00D N00 Warkere

See Little Hope of Easing Rule  Job-Wage Control Controversy Rages

CHANGING WAGE JOB FREEZE UP TO PRESIDENT   Can Be Softened Only On Orders Of Roosevelt

McNutt Job Order Hard To Modify   Changes Would Conflict With President’s Hold The Line Order

M'NUTT ORDER STANDS FIRM   “Merely Carries Out F. R. Job Shift Ruling

Job-Pay Freeze Difficult to Soften Without Change By President.   DRAWS AFL, CIO FIRE

Difficult to Change Job-Wage Order Without Changing Edict, Heads Say

JOB-WAGE ORDER DRAWS FIRE FROM LABOR LEADERS   UNION HEADS ASK MODIFICATION OF CONTROL ORDER

Little Hope For Easing  Wage Order   Manpower Officials O} Opinion Nothing Car Be Done Without F. R. Edict Being Violated

Restrictions on Milk Coming   Steps Taken to  Prevent Butter Shortage Reaching Danger Point

MACHINERY IS SET UP TO CURB MILK SALES  Government Hopes to Prevent Increase

Government To Control Milk Sales   Impending Butter Shortage Inspires Setting Up Of New Machinery

WFA CURBS EXPANSION IN - MILK SALES      Restrictions Imposed on Dealers Without Point Rationing as Result of Butter Shortage

BUTTER SHORTAGE IS NOW FORESEEN   Restriction on Milk Sale in Prospect

Plan Milk Sale Clamp   Dangerous Shortage of Butter Forces Action; No Rationing Planned

CHECK MILK SALES   Government Is Setting Ur Machinery to Hold Pres ent Levels

HOLD MILK SALES AT GUBRENT LEVELS   Government Fearful Butter Shortage May Reach Danger Point.

Restrictions on Milk Promised   Sales To Be Held At Present Levels

STATE 1 SEEN   Feature Michigan Contest Is For High Commissioner Office.   REPORT GOP IS FAVORED

Michigan Vote May Not Exceed 600,000 Tota   Public's Apathy Toward Monday Election Has Leaders Worried

GERMAN FORCES STILL STALLED IN OREL-KURSK AREA   Russians Regain Lost Ground in Unnamed Sector, Killing About 2,000 Nazis.   FIGHT AT BELGOROD IS WITHOUT QUARTER   Moscow Reports Destruction of 100 Enemy Tanks and 47 Airplanes) on Front.

2,000 nazis: killed in red  counter-blow   Germans retreat ‘ at several points

SOVIETS ASSUME OFFENSIVE IN CENTRAL RUSSIA   Germans Picture Battle As Defense Of Russian. Counter-Attacks   40,000 ENEMY TROOPS ARE REPORTED KILLED

Russian Counterattack Breaches Nazi Lines East and North of Orel

Nazi Attack In Russia Stalled   Nazi Soldiers Driven From Several Populated Places: Reds Say Fields Strewn With German Dead

Nazi Offensive in Central Russia Remains Stalled   MANY NAZIS KILLED IN RECENT BATTLES   More Than 100 Tanks and 47 Planes Lost Wednesday

CENTRAL RUSSIA DRIVE STALLED   Germans Are Driven Out Of Villages: Corpses Strew Fields

Nazis Remain Stalledin  Russian. Drive   Germans Driven From Several Towns, Red Commiunique. Asserls

Soviet Battle Kills 2,000 Nazi Soldiers   Bodies Strewn on Field When Hitler Forces Are Forced to Retreat

Russia Halts Nazi Attack   Orel-Kursk Area Is Scene Of Heavy Fight

Nazis Driven Back By Reds   Berlin Pictures Battle As_ Defense Of Soviet Attacke

Nazi Offensive in Central Russia Remains Stalled  MANY NAZIS KILLED      More Than 100 Tanks and 47 Planes Lost Wednesday

German Drive _ in Russia Sfill Stalled Reds Say   Nazis Driven Off in One Sector by Counter-Attack

Federal Agents Investigating U. S.‘Strikes.   Justice Dept. Is Still Uncertain Ac tea Procedure

Federal Agents Believed Probing Coal Strikes, Walkouts in Planta

SAY FEDERAL MEN ON JOB    Officinis of Justice Department GM Uncertain How They Will Proceed in Enforcing New Anti‘ Sirike Law.

‘STRIKES WILL BE PROBED BY FEDERAL AGENTS      Centinuing Coal Strikes: Are Believed To Be Under Probe Now

FEDERAL AGENTS INVESTIGATING COAL STRIKES   Justice Department Forbids Discussion OF Probe   TO LIST VIOLATIONS OF ANTI-STRIKE BILL

PROBE OF STRIKES BELIEVED STARTED _~ BY-FBLIN NATION   Agents May Be Investigating Coal Situation and Two New Walkouts Todav.

L. S. Hamilton, 67 Taken by Death  Long Illness Is   Long Illness Is Fatal to Sportsman

L. S. Hamilton, 67 Taken by Death   Long Illness Is Fatal to Snortsman

2,225,000 Men Are Said Overseas   Patterson Declares Total to Be Boosted To 5 Million By ‘44

Ray Peacock, Circus Press Representative, Dies In Toledo Hospital

TUMOIAN FRONT QUIET FOR DAY   Unconfirmed Re Raport From Algiers Says Junction Effected,   SLOWED BY MINE FIELDS

BRITISH FIRST ARMY REPORTED EDGING ‘NORTH OF NEWLY-WGN SEDJENANE

PATROLS . ACTIVE ON ALL FRONTS   Algiers Radio Reports Americans Meet Eighth Army

Report Yanks Have Reaehed Enelish Force   Forward Elements Of! Sth Testing Rommel’: Newest Defenses North Of Gabes

PREPARING FOR ALL-OUT DRIVE AGAINST ENEMY   Patrols Active On All African Battle Fronts

Americans in Contact With Foe in Center   General Montgomery Maintains Pressure Upon New Axis Lines North of Gabes

A:rmen Soften Axis Forces in N. Africa for Knockout Drive   Tunisian Front Generally Quieter; Lull in Allied  Preparations

Allies Tighten Pressure On Axis Armies   Minor Skirmishes Mark Day’s Activities On Tunisian Battlefront

Pressure Kept On Nazis From Three Sides   Despite Poor Weather, Air Forces Rake Enemy Positions

TUNISIA FRONT 15 GENERALLY QUIETER COMMUNIQUE STATES   DESPITE BAD WEATHER ALLIED AIR ACTIVITY WAS CONTINUED

Front Generally Quieter; Patton’s Troops i in Center Region Again in Action   Montgomery Maintains Pressure on Axis Lines North of Gabes — Yanks And British Reported to Have Met — Airmen Press Destructive Blows

PATROLS ACTIVE OVER WIDE AREA IN TUNISIAN WAR   British First Army Advances As Yank, Other Forces Harass Enemy

Lull Reported In Activity On Tunisian Front   American, British Armies Meet Says Unconfirmed Report

Lull Shows 8th  Army Getting Set For Second Rounc   Algiers Broadcast Says British Near Mateur; Patton’s Men Again In Action

ACTION IS REPORTED   British And American Junction In South  Claimed By Radio

ALLIED AIRFORCE ~ PRESSESITS ATTACK   Terrific Raid Is Unleashed On El Maou Airfield at Sfax

Continue Mop-Up In Gabes Area   British And American: Are Edging Forwarc In North And Centra! Tunisian Sectors

Tunisian Front Declared To  Be Quieter   Montgomery's Men Mopping Up Pockets Of Resistance

Allied Forees Keep. Weight On Rommel   First “Army in. North Edges Toward “Mouth. of  Sack

BRITISH 1ST ARMY REPORTED EDGING EAST OF SEDJENANE   Americans in the Central Sec. tor Also Is Engaged in Some Fighting.   Maintained Pressure Upon the New German-Italian Line Near Gabes.

Schools Named Training Sites   281 Selected For Initial Army, ‘Navy’ Drilling Of Men, Women

WMC APPROVES OHIO COLLEGES   Group Will Be Used By Army And Navy For Special Training Program

WIC APPROVES OF 981 COLLEGES   Schools for Training Men and Women Needed in Armed Forces Are Selected

THREE MEN HELD IN RATION CASES   Two Freed of Charges Growing Out of Theft of Gas Books

COMMISSIONER HOLDS — THREE UNDER BOND   Hagerstown Men Are Chargec With Receiving And Selling Stolen Gas Ration Books

Germans Battle Furiously for Rome Defenses   Engage Americans In Heavy Action

Nazis Lash Back Savagely; Heavy Pressure Holds   Yanks And British Advance Slowly In Unrelenting Drive

Nazis Have Their Backs to Upper Garigliano River  DESPERATE GERMANS BATTLE TO HOLD ON  Units of Italian Army Are Helping U. S., Broadcast Says

Germans Figh: Fifth Army Desperately   Equally Desperate Battle Rages . on Adriatic End

Sth Drives Nazi Hordes Down Mountain Ridges   Wage Desperate Battle to Halt Line Guarding Port

Fifth Army Presses Attack ‘Against Desperate German Forces on Garigliano River

Savage Battle Also Waged on Adriatic Line   Fifth Army Keeps Up Unrelenting Pressure; Units:of Badoglio’s “Troops Said at Front

STIFF BATTLE BEING WAGED BY STH ARMY   DESPERATE GERMAN FORCES BACK UP TO RIVER LINE

Germans Fight Fiercely on Italian Front   Allies Speak About ‘Inconsiusive’ Nazi Counterattacks

NAZIS BACK UP 10 GARIGLIANG RIVER   Face Unrelenting Pressure of Clark’s Army   BRITISH TROOPS   Storm and Take Ridge of Mt, Croce; Italians Said Joining Fifth Army

GERMANS OPPOSE FIFTH ARMY WITH » BACKS TO RIVER   Nazis Put Up Savage Fight in Effort to Halt Clark’s Advance Down Mountain Slopes.   DRIVE TOWARD CASSINO EXPECTED TO BE SLOW   Enemy Throws Tanks Into Battle Along Adriatic as Montgomery’s Men Move on Port.

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Nazis Have Their Backs to Upper Garigliano = River an.   DESPERATE GERMANS. BATTLE TO HOLD on   Units of ltalian Army Are Helping U, S., Broad-: cast Save .

Germans Throw Tanks Against British Eighth On Other End of Frant

NAZIS BATTLE FURIOUSLY 10 CHECK YANKS   Counterattacks Made Against Fifth Army Along Garigliano

Half Million Reds Massed At Krivoi Rog   Soviets in Artillery Range of OdessaLeningrad Railroad; Halsey’s Carrier Forces in Pacific Sink Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers

Reds Sweep Forward on ‘All Fronts   Conflicts on Other Fronts Dwarfed by Victories of Soviets

Jap Sub Pack Raids Pacific Ship Lanes   Two Tankers, Freighter Attecked but Escepe Torpedoes, Reach Port 

ojo Undersee Fleets Attack Fast Of Hawaii   Tankers Report Torpedo Assaults; Navy !s Silent On Defenders’ Results   FIRST SINCE 1942   Crews Returning To Mainland Reveal New Japan. ese Submarine Raids

GETS NEW JOB   Byrnes Also Made Liaison Officer For Emerrency Init.

PRESIDENT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE AFTER SECOND INSPECTION  HAS IDEA OF eli OF vr  WATION CIVIAL

PRESIDENT BACK IN WASHINGTON   Goes Into Conference With Military Advisers

FDR BACK TO THE CAPITAL   -onfers With Military and Diplomatic Leaders

Finds Armed Services “Tn Stride”      Notes Great Improvement In Troops And In Training Since His First Inspection Trip

FDR BACK IN CAPITAL   President Returns To Washington Alter Brief Rest Period

FR Returns To Nation’s Capital   Goes Into Conference  With Four Advisers

F.R. Back From Big U.S. Tour   PRESIDENT CALLS FOR PRESS TO RELATE HIS CROSS COUNTRY JOURNEY

German Planes Attack London   Raid Is Heaviest Since Last February

German Planes Bomb London in Heavy Night Raid   Break through Barrage but Do Only a Little Damage

LONDON IS RAIDED BY GERMAN PLANES   Heaviest Attack Since February Poor Imitation Of Nazi Blows Of 1940-41

LONDON IS RAIDED BY GERMAN PLANES   High Explosives Dropped Over One London  Areca

Welles Break Said Complete   No Special Mission To Moscow. Latir America Planned

No New Diplomatic Post Planned For Sumner Welles   Norman Armour, Ambossodor to Argentina, Men‘tioned as Successor to Welles in State: Department Post

Welles Not Likely To Get New Post  Report of Official’s Exit Is Confirmed

WELLES GETS NO NEW POST   His Quitting As Undersecretary of State Now Appears Certain

WELLES BREAK COMPLETE ONE   Mention Norman Armour As Prospective New Undersecretary

DANISH SABOTEURS ~ BLOW UP FACTORIES   Death Threats and Pleas of King To No Avail

Sabotage Has Nazis Worried   Two More Denmark Fac tories Blown Up Over Week-End.

Danes Destroy Two Factories  Over Week-End   Blast Splits German Vessel

BLOW UP 2 DANISH PLANTS   Sabotage Continues Despite King’s Plea

Factories Are Blown Up  Stackhoalm Nawenan,   Stockholm Newspaper Reveals News

Jap Broadcast Officially Warns Of Possibility of Executing Any \Bombers of Japanese-held Area:

Is Broadest Jap Warning Yet Reported, Exceeding Points Covered in Warning Reported Today by Tokyo Radio Itself -

Jap Broadcasts Still ‘Justifying’ Execution Of American Air Raiders

U. S. Informed By Japan of Raid Penalty   Berlin Radio Reports Tokyo Dispatch Dealing With Execution of Fliers

Japanese Warnings Broadened   Doolittle Declares Tokvo Will Be Attacked Again And Bombs "Won't Mise’

Japs Say U.S. Warned of Intent To Punish Air °  Prisoners of War

JAPANESE THREATEN  DIRE PUNISHMENT  FOR JAPAN BOMBERS BROADEST WARNING  TO UNITED STATES VET REPORTED

Japs Broaden Scope Of Threats To Captured American Fliers   BROADCASTS RECORDED

JAPAN ACCUSES U.S. FLIERS OF ‘INHUMAN ACTS   Promises Punishment Of Other Airmen Found Guilty

Tokyo Denies Captive Fliers Mistreated   Charges ‘Inhuman’ Action on Part of Air Raiders

Broader Jap Threat Now Reported   Include A}! “Guilty” of “Inhuman Acls’ In Jap Zone

Nazi Radio Relays Nip Warning That Captured Soldiers  Will Be “Punished”

Japan warned U. S. Feb. 17, Berlin says  Hari denjes American fliers mistreated

Turk Riddle   Claim Nation Has No Desire to Declare War on Germany.

Asserts Turkey Not Joming War   Will Fight Only If Forced To Do So By Nazi  Germany   SUCH IS LATEST IDEA OF ATTITUDE

HOUSE INCLINED TO COMPROMISE ON TAX MEASURE   Proposal Would Freeze Present Rates For Duration Of War   WITHHOLDING LEVY FEATURE OF PLAN

Tax Compromise Agreed Upon by House Leaders   Pay-as-You-Go Bill Now Seems Likely To Be Adopted

House Drafts Set-Up for Pay- -Go Plan   Committee Studies Proposal to Adopt 194.1 Rates

Compromise Nearer By Congressmen  Present Income   Present Income Levy Rates May Be Frozen

House Gets Filan To Reduce Rates On 1942 Income  Pay-as-You-Go Deadloc ~ Crumbling as Parties  Seek Comnromice

Soviets, Czechs Sign Agreement  Will Erect Barrier Against Aggression

: A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Telephone Man Given Ninety Days in Jail

VETERAN CONFESSES HE STRANGLED GIRL   Discharged After Battle of Midway for Nervousness

‘Ambitious’ Plan Proposed By Treasury Department Appears Doomed; Solons Rebel At Increases

RAISE HOPES FOR TAX COMPROMISE   OPPOSING FORCES GET TOGETHER T0 WORK OUT PLAN

OPPOSING TAX FORCES T0 FIGHT FOR SAME GOAL   —A Pay-As-You-Go Plan For Nation’s 44,000,000 Taxpayers

HOUSE MEMBERS UNITE OVER TAX   Dems, GOP Join Forces to Write Some Kind of Payas-You-Go Bill

MORE ATTACKS MADE ON KISKA   Aerial Assault on Enemy's Paramushiro Stronghold Is Reported

BASE AT KISKA BLASTED AGAIN   Paramushiro Stronghold Believed Included In U.S. Air Raid

US Navy Reports New Air Attacks On Kiska Island  Strongly Hinted Enemy gt sane Peete oe ew eee! . enamine   Strongly Hinted Enemy Stronghold On Para mushiro Island Hit

THE ‘ROCKET GUN COAST’ OF FRANCE BEING ATTACKED   ey and American Bomb. r Forces Thrown Into the Raid.   ONE ATTACK LAST NIGHT   Targets of Importance Have Been Spotted and Marked for Destruction.

Smash French Coast   Rocket-Gun Emplacements May Be Target Of 4-Day Assault By Heavy Allied Bombers

RAF Raids Area for 96 Hours   Heaviest Assault Since 1940 Made On French Coast

R.A.F.’s Heavy Raider Fleet Diverted for the First Time From Berlin, Now Smashing French Targets.

PRIME TARGETS ARE SPOTTED I HEAVY ATTACKS   American and British Plane Fleets Thrown Against Nazi Points

RAF Diverts Its Raids to ‘Rocket  Coast’ in France   Both British and Americans Are Spotting Targets of Great Importance.   Batter Incessantly In Four-Day Attack

BRITISH POUND NAZI SECRET WEAPON’ AREA   Aerial Assault Soars To New High With Daylight Raids

ALLIED BOMBERS CONCENTRATE ON FRENCH TARGETS   BLOWS AIMED AT GERMAN ROCKET GUN EMPLACEMENTS

Blasting The Area Nearest England   Evidently Targets of Great Importance Snotted   FLEETS DIVERTED FROM BERLIN AREA

BRITISH, U. 5. PLANES BOMB ‘ROCKET COAST’   RAF Lifts Attack On Reich To Hit France

Allied Bombers Assault German Rocket Gun Coast   Both British And Ameri can Aircraft Hurl Heavy Attacks at Import: ant Targets on French Coast +

BLITZ ATTACK IS MADE ON ROCKET COAST   Heaviest Assault Since 1940 On Northwest France

Both British And American Planes In Gigantic Attacks   R. A. F. Strike at Coast Points Make it Evident Vital Bases Have Been Spotted and Marked For Destruction   BATTERED INCESSANTLY SINCE FIRST OF WEEK

French Seacoast Nearest England Hit Incessantly Since Monday by Bombers

BOTH BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST ROCKET GUNS  FRENCH COAST OBJECT OF NUMEROUS RECENT RAIDS NIGHT AND DAY

“Rocket Gun Coast” Of France Is Raided   Blows by Both British and American Bomber Forces in Northern Part of Country Revealed—Planes on Mission Today.

Batteries of Rocket Guns Are Believed Bombed   British Planes Keep Up Great Bombardment

Allied Heavy Bombers Rock French Coast   WF Hurls Its Large Night Craft Agains' Rocket Gun” Area: U. 8. Forces Busy

Allied Bombers Blast French ‘Rocket Coast   Secret Gun Emplacemients Tar get ‘Of Assault by: Nicht Raider Force

Allies Attack French Rocket Gun Shoreline  Divert Planes From Germany

HUGE FLEETS BOM SECRET WEAPON BASE   Raiders Smash Pas De Calais Area Day and Night for 96 Hours.

Important Targets Spotted and Marked for RAF Destruction   American Bombers Join British in Attacks on French Coast

BOMBERS AAI FRENGH GOAST   RAF Fleets. Diverted From Such Targets As Berlin For First Time.   OBJECTIVES NOT NAMED

FRANCE BLASTED BY AIR ARMADAS   ‘Rocket Gun Coest’ Being Pounded Heavily by U. S., British Forces

Rocket Gun Positions Believed To Be Targets For Sustained Bombing

‘Allies Smash At Rocket Guns   R. A. F. Diverted From Berlin to Hammer Targets in France

Ceaseless Attack On Nazi Bases, Channel Gun Positions   British Aren’t Alarmed By Nazi Rocket Bombs   ~ Reds Crash © Toward Vitebsk

POUND CALAI AREA NEAR ENGLAND   Believe Targets Of Great Importance Spotted   Bomb Northwest Germany: 4,000 Planes Batter Reich In 3 Days

Continued Aerial Assaults Indicate Important Targets Marked For Attack

U.S., BRITISH BOMBERS RAID FRENCHCOAST      Heavy Ships Attack ‘Rocket Gun Front’ In Latest Allied Forays

Allied Air Fleet Bombs French Coast   Powerful Blows Shifted From Germany to Shore Closest Tk. Enoland Acrass Strait

BOMBING CARRIED ON CONTINUOUSLY DURING 96 HOURS   Reports of Setting Up Secret Weapons to Bombard England Causes Raids On French Places.      CANADIANS, GERMANS IN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS   American Troops Battling & Open Road to Rome Slot Through Rain Soaked District at Cassino.

AIRMEN BLAST ROCKET COAST   SKY FORCES DIVERTED TO NORTHERN FRANCE

{AF’s Heavy Raider Fleets Diverted io Northern France for Firsi Time   DAY-NIGHT FORAYS   Officials Silent; Public Speculates Targets of Imporlance Marked for Destruction

‘Rocket Gun’ Coast Is Hit  By U.S. And RAF Bombs   Attacks Switched From Targets In Germany To Launch Heavy Assaults On Northern France

Center Air Offensive  on France   Both British and Yankee _ Forces: Concentrate on ‘Rocket. Gun Coast’   PRIME TARGETS ~ BELIEVED SPOTTED   ‘RAF, Joins the Attack in That Area For First Time; Other Areas Bombed

Blast Positions Of Possible German Secret Weapon   Continue Raids Today on France; Evident Site of Great Importance Spotted

VITAL GERMAN GUN POSITIONS FOUND, BELIE   Big Force of High-Flying  - Bombers Cross Channel  Again Today For Fur' ther Attacks At Targets   WESTERN GERMANY AGAIN UNDER RAID   ‘British Armadas Also Hit  Northern France Withi - out Suffering  _ Anv Loss

American and British Bombers Assault iGermans’ “Rocket Gun Coast” of France

RAF BOMBERS HIT ROGKET PUN TAPETS   Secret Weapon Is No Threat Airmen Say

“Roeket Gun” French Coast ts Tar vel   Main Nazi Defenses Before Vitebsk Are Cracked by Reds  In Massive Drive

Nazi Rocket Guns Believed Targets Of Heavy Attacks   Non-Stop Assault Is Continued Into Fourth Day; 21 U.S. Heavy Bombers Are Lost In Raid On Northwest Germany Yesterday

RAE PLANES a hl      French And Nazi Targets Blasted Without Loss

Attack On Coast Is In Fourth Day   Operations In France Are Described By British Papers As “Blitz On Rocket Const”

Bombers, Fighters In Channel Flight  To Soften Defenses   Emplacements Menacing Britain  Seen Objective As RAF Foregoes City Attacks To Join U.S. Airmen

Targets of Importance Found, Beliel   RAF Heavy Pm ‘or Fleets w.verted From + City Targets

Meat Slaughtering Quota Suspended Next Two Months  More Available for Civilian Needs, Points Still Apply

Meat Supplies Due to Rise   All Quota Limitations On Slaughtering of Livestock Suspended

'WFA Suspends All  Quotas On Meat  Killing 2 Months ; Step Taken To   Increase Meat Supplies

ACTION TAKEN TO INCREASE MEAT SUPPLY   Quota Limitations on ‘ Slaughtering Suspended by WFA

Meat Quotas Suspended for 2 Months   MOVE DESIGNED TO INCREASE CIVILIAN MEAT SUPPLIES; RATION POINTS STILL IN EFFECT.   Meat Must Be Stamped

All Quota Limitations On Slaughter Of Livestock Are Lifted For Tino Months

More Meat In Prospect; Slaughter Quotas Lifted   Near-Record Market In Steers  TT uo awk

LIMITATIONS ARE SUSPENDED BY WFA   Slaughtering Permitted to increase Civilian Meat Supplies

Meat Supplies For Civilians To Be Higher   Quota Limitations Suspended by WFA

WEA Suspends Quota: Limiting Slaughter   Order Allows Two-Month Free Period To Increase Civilian Meat Supply; Move Does Not Affect Ration System

New WFA Order Assures More Meat for Civilians   All Quota Limits Suspended for a 2 Month Period

QUOTA LIMITS ~ ARE SUSPENDED   Livestock May Be Slaughtered To Increase Civilian  Supplies

Livestock Slaughter Quotas Suspended »60 Days To Boost Civilian Meat Supply

Aid to Civilian, Civilians Suspension of Quotas  Boosts Supply of Meat

Agency Litts Slaughtering ' Quota Limit:   WEA Acts to Help Meat  Supply, Relieve Drain Oe Tiocmstnnle Band

Durr Seeks To Bar Congressman Cox From Committee To Probe the FCC

Rep. Cox Accused Of Taking Money By FCC Official   Congressman Probing FCC Counterattacked for Radio Deal

Nazis Withdray To Avoid Being Trapped By Re   Debacle As Great As.At Stalingrad Appears Possible   Third ‘Crisis Conference’ In Litt More Than Two Weeks Held By Naz

A CRISIS CONFERENCE   Meeting Is Held to Build Up Ger. man Morale on Home Front

Nazi Leaders In Conference  Meeting is Third VAs *st *.. *... VAs. .f.e.

NAZIS HOLD THIRD CRISIS CONFERENCE   Meeting of Chief Agents Of Nazi “Justice” Announced Last Night

German Chieftains Hold Thire ‘Crisis’ Conference Of Month   Strive To Boost Morale; Believe Hitler Has Yielded Strategy Role To Generals

ora Nazi “Crisis”   Leaders Call Third Conference In Two Weeks Over Situation

WPB Issues Warning Against Using Illegal Bieatesen BRaatae I latte

UTAHNS STRIKE AT PRICE MINE   Union Chief Turns Back 170 Men Reporting At Roya! Mine

ACTIITY LOW IN MAKNASSY, GAFSA SECTORS   Eighth Army Captures Important Position Near Vil lage Of El Hamma   MARETH BATTLE RAGES   Allied Forces Massed For FourFront Attack Closing Axis Trap

Army Bomber Crashes Into Huge Gas Tank in Chicago, Destroyed by Fire

Japanese Deny Beheading Of Allied Airman   Say American Leaders Lie

JAPANESE DENY BEHEADING FLIER   Send Propaganda Message To Latin America, Mum on Home Front

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   A eclaration Of Moscow First Step Upon Road To World State   (DeWitt MacKenzie, regular conductor of this column, is away on a brief trip.)

‘SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS IN MOSCOW AGREEMENT THAT MAY MAKE HISTORY OF FUTURE

The War Voday— Woman Writer Scans Significance Of Four-Power Moscow Agreements

Big Things May Develop From Pact   (Dewitt MacKenzie, regular conductor of this column, is away on a brief trip.)

Moscow Conference May Be Beginning Of World State   RY GVOCREPD ARNE

Air Activity Over Guadalcanal Is Increased   Details of Sea Engagement Are Withheld

Japanese Increasing Air Activities At Guadalcanal, _ Solomons Fight Continues

JAP AIR FORCE BOLDER OVER GUADALCANAL   Naval Skirmishing Goes Ahead In Area Of Solomons

JAPANESE STEP-UP AIR ACTIVITY IN SOLOMONS - BATTLE   Navy. Still Withholds Details Of Battle At Sea — Say: Skirmishing Continues

JAPS INCREASE ACTIVITY IN AIR AT GUADALCANAI   Naval And Air Forces Continue Skirmishing In Area Of Solomons

Japs Step Up Air Pace at Guadalcana!   Navy Still Withholding Details of Skirmishes at Sea

JAP AIR ACTIVITY AT GUADALCANAL IS INCREASING   Navy Stil! Withhalds ‘Details of “Skirmishes” In Ad'. jacant Waters.

JAPS STEP UP GUADALCANAL AIR ACTIVITY      Navy Withholds Details Of Sea Battle In alamons Area

FLEETS CONTINUE SKIRMISHING IN SOLOMONS ZONE   Navy Withholds Details of Sea Engagements; Allied Flyers Pound Enemy a

HUNDREDS OF NAT PLANTS KNOCKED OUT   BRITIBE AIR BECRETARY DE“ GLAREB 2,000 GERMAN FAC-. > TORIES HIT—WARNS OF RAIDS ON ENGLAND

RAF ATTACKS BLAST 2,000 NAZI PLANTS   1,000,000 Germans Are Made Homeless By Raids, Says Air Secretary.

No Ceiling On Peaches, Pears   Status Is Clarified. By - OPA And WFA ©

NO CEILING ON PEACHES PEARS   OPA Announces Two Va: rieties Free From Restrictions

REDS PUSHING TO WEST FROM ZHITOMIR AGAIN   Soviet Defenders Mount New Of fensive in Attempt to Ease Pressurs From Nazis.

Poles Say Russians Must Enter as Allies or Face Fierce Resistance

POLES TO FIGHT FOR BOUNDARY      Sources Say Reds Must Ente Country As An Ally

POLES SAY REDS MUST ENTER. AS ALLIES —   —Not As Conquerors, or Face Stiff Opposition fron Polish People

POLES WILL ASK FOR OLD BORDER   Want Russians to Come As Allies and Not As Conquerors.   ARE PREPARED TO RESIST

POLES BRISTLE WITH REDS NEAR   Must Come as Allies Wher Nazis Chased Over Border

“SOVIET ATTITUDE   Must Enter As Ally, Not As Conqueror,’ Leader Declares

POLAND SAYS RUSSIA MUST BE AN ALLY   Polish Frontier Is Cause Of New Debates

Poles Say Russians Must [enter Poland As An Ally Or ace Strong Resistance

Poles Themselves May Battle  Russian Invasion  Soviet Army Told Not to Enter Land as Conqueror

‘Russians Must Enter Poland As Allies Or Face  : ane From People, Polish Source Reports

Russians Must Enter Poland Only As Ally   Otherwise Poles Will Fight Back: 4-Point Program Given

REDS MUST ENTER POLAND AS ALLY POLES DECLARE   Soviets Must Enter Polish Lands as Friends, Not Conquerors, or Face Resistance, Sources State

DANISH POLICE ‘DISARMED BY NAZI OFFICERS   Danes refuse to coope. rate in German mass arrests of Jews

Municipal Opera a to Present Straus’ Immortal “Chocolate ‘Soldier’

Reds Withir 73 Miles Of Kiev   Ukraine Capital, Middle Dnieper Are Threatened

Reds Capture Nazi Center   Nezhin Falls, 6,000 Said Killed. 200 Towns Freed

KIEV BASTION CAPTURED BY SOVIET FORCE   CRACK RED TROOPS MENACE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE

Outer Bastion Of Kiev Falls " ToRed Armies   ®Stalin Announces Capture Of Nezhin, Called Most Important Center Of Defense Road To Kiev

Russians Crack Nazi Strongpoint On Road to Kiev  Allied Flyers Pound France: MacArthur Closes In on Lae

RUSSIAN ARMY NOW 50 MILES FROM DNIEPER   Reds Capture Nezhin On Kiev Road; Drive North of Bryansk

Many Killed In Offensive   More Than 200 Towns Are Taken In Drive

NEZHIN FALLS TO RUSSIANS NEARING KIEV   Stalin Announces Capture in Another of Series of Triumphant Broadcast Orders.   Gate To Crimea

Russian Army Continues With Advance   Ukrainian Campaign Forces Enemy to Give Up Positions

Russians Capture Nezhin, Seventy Miles from Kiev   Flanking Drive May Force Germans To Yield All Southern Russia

Jap Deienses Are Widely Dispersed   Record Bombing Carried on in Salamaua Area

Americans Push Slowly Through  Munda Defenses   Yard-By-Yard Drive Made On Scattered  Japanese Positions

Yanks Advance Yard by Yard Nearer Munda   Approach Major Enemy Base on New Georgia

JUNGLE TROOPS IN SLOW STEADY GAIN APPROACH MUNDA   Jap Defenses Tougher Than Those Met At Buna— New Record Set By Bombing

YARD-BY-YARD YANK ADVANCE NEARS MUNDI   Attack Is Slow Work; Must Wipe Out Each Jap Strong Point

Slow Advance Is Continuing  Belore Munda   American Jungle. Troops Fighting Way Toward Enemy Base

JUNGLE TROOPS GN ADVANCE   Strong Defenses Around Munda Being Worn Down —- Exact Details of Fight Line Not Clear.

American Jungle Troops Advance Yard by Yard Through Strong Jepanese Defenses on New Georgia Island—Exact Details of Fighting Not Revealed — Yankees Use Light Tanks and Air Force Lends Aid in Offensive Action.

JUNGLE TROOPS EDGE ON MUNDA   Aerial Blaws Support Ground Forces In Assault Qn Jap Base

SWARMS OF PLANES POUND TARGETS IN WESTERN GERMANY   *6,000 Tons Of Explosive; Dropped On Vital Spots—Damage Heavy

HEAVIEST U.S, DAYLIGHT RAID HITS GERMAN   1,000 Planes Take Part: Losses Drop, Owing To Escort

4,000 Allied Planes Drop 6,000 Tons Of Bombs Over Nazi Europe In 60 Hours

AIRMEN POUND WEST GERMANY   MOSQUITOES RIP NAZIS AFTER NEW YANK SMASH

RAF Bombers Attack Towns In Germany   Mosquito Planes Drop Additional Loads Of Explosives In Night Raids Over Reich

BOMBS WEIGHING 6,000 TONS HI ~-FOEIN GO HOURS   Mosquitoes Follow Up Heavy Raids of Fortresses and British RAF.

Mosquitoes Hit Germany In Wake of Record Raids   Attacks Follow U. S. Raid of 1,000 Craft On Gelsenkirchen

190,000 NAZIS CN GENERAL RETREAT AT ORE   German Defenses Are Crumbling, Soviet Sources Say

Nazis Battle To Save 250,000 Men Caught A Soviet Trap Is Closing

SEMLCIRCLE OF 3# LINESCRUMBLING IN REDS ATTACK   Railroads and Main Highways of City Are Undei Direct Fire, Vast Min: Fields Have Been Laid.   JAP RESISTANCE AT MUNDA I$ STIFFENEt   9 More Troop Carrying Barges Sunk, Total Is Nearly 200 During ! ess Than Two Weeks.

Soviet Armies Only Five Miles From City; Hitlerites Battle To Prevent ‘2nd Stalingrad’

FALL OF OR SEEMS CERTAIN,  NAZIS RETREAT   Infantry, Tanks, Vehicles Ar Clogging Secondary Roads. Report

Germans ree Crumbling Orel Bulge.   Frantic Escape Effort Is Reported; Only 13 Mile Corridor Remains   ABANDON EQUIPMENT   Tanks Aid Red Advance As Mud Dries; Repeated Counter Attacks Fail

DEFENSES OF GERMAN ARMY ARE GRUMBLING   Heavy Equipment Being Abandoned te  ~ Avoid Another Stalingrad Trap.

Germans Make Frantic Effort To Avoid Red  Encirclement      General Retreat From ‘Bulge’ Starts As The German Defenses Fall Under Soviet Pounding

NAZI FORCES. LEAVE OREL, ESCAPE TRAF   250,000 Germans Begin  Frantic Eiort io Avoid f Encirclement

NAZIS IN FRANTIC WITHDRAWAL FROM OREL; REDS PURSUE      Converging Russian Lines Already Within Sight Of City - From 3 Points

NAZIS BEGIN RETREAT FROM OREL BULGE   Seek to Escape Encirclement By Russians

GERMANS MAKE FRANTIC EFFORTS TO MOVE OUT   German Defenses Reported Crumbling All Around Semi-Cireular Orel Front as Eseape Corridor Narrows

250,000 GERMANS ARE . “DEPARTING FROM ORE!   General Retreat Is Started to Escape Entrapment by Russian Pincers Now Slashing Across Their Last Roads of Withdrawal to the West—Nazis Battle to Hold Open Escape. Corridor With Russians Closing In.   250,000 GERMANS IN ®ETBEAT

AXIS ARMY RETREATING FROM OREL   250,000 Trying To Escape From Russian Trap

200,000 NAZIS ARE RETREATING TO ESCAPE DEATH   Onrushing Soviets Narrow Escape Corridor to 13 -  Battpe

250,000 Commence Dangerous Retreat   Roads Through 13-Mile Gap Clogged With Russians Close On Heels of Fleeing Armv

Nazis Retreat From Orel To Escape Trap  Encirclement of Armies Cuts Axis Corridor

Nazis Trapped at Orel   250,000 GERMANS SEEK FRANTIC BACK PATH FROM PERIL

Attempting to Escape Entrapment by, Soviet Pincers Slashing Across Last:;Roads of Withdrawal to West.”

ENEMN BACKS HUT OF BULGE TO AVOID TRAP   General Retreat Begun with Russians Battering at Their’ Heels.   RAILROADS, HIGHWAYS UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE

Select State Bond Leaders   Harry L. Dempster Heads Industrial Division For September Campaign,

‘This. May. Be Headline Editorielizing Bu Gas Rationing Panel Gets Fired Because

McKeesport Ration Board Removed: Charge Violation of Regulations

Gas Rationing Panel Fired By Director   First Action of Kind in Area Follows Probe At McKeesport   CHAIRMAN S PLEASED

BIDDLE SUPPORTS NOMINATION OF JAMES V. ALLRED   ATTORNEY GENERAL ASSERTS HE RECOMMENDEL TEXAN FOR JUDGESHIP

Allred Named For Ability, Biddle Says   Attorney General De nies Any Political Ilnderatanding

Allred. Recommended by Biddle Who  Denies Rumors of Political Deal

Navy Discloses Sinking of Six Ships; Subs Bag  Five Japanese Vessels

Allies Sink German U-Boats One A Day   Hitler Losing Them Twice As Fast As He Can Build Them, Say Naval. Experts:

NAZI SUB. LOSSES TWICE PRODUCTION EXPERTS BELIEVE   124 U. 3. Warships Lost To Date — 90 Axis Subs Lest In 3 Months

Allies Sinking Submarines Twice __As Fast As Germany Can Build Them

News Behind The News  Copyright MoClure Nawapaper   WASHINGTON Me Rav Tucker

Americans, Freed From Jap Custody, Ea Hearty Meals, Prenare for Trip Home

AMERICANS BOARD LINER GRIPSHOLM   Repatriates From Far East Cheer, Joke and Cry for Joy at Rebirth of Liberty,

¥  _ MAKES SECRET WAR REPORT   British Foreign Minister  Speaks To House Of  Commons Behind  Clesed Doors.

CUEN GIVES SECREI WAR REPORT TODAY   Closed Session of the British House of Commons.

MINERS IGNORE FOR ORDER 10 RESUME WORK   Government Intervention Invited As Strikers Stage Open Revolt   INVESTIGATION SOUGHT   Leaders Hope Conditions Within. Own Union Will Be Aired

MINERS ‘WILL FORGE ACTION. BY ROOSEVELT   MORE THAN 7,009 STRIKERS TO IGNORE DEADLINE AND CONTINUE THEIR   WALKourT ™

Attack Jap Posts ~ On New Britain  And New Ireland   Bomb Gasmata Airdrome For Twelfth Consecutive Day; Cuts Raids On New  Guinea

Parleys Expected to Take Place in Secrecy Atmosphere   ALLIED ENVOYS AND — STALIN HAVE TALK   Conference Believed Con. nected With Canadian © Meetinas

STALIN RECEIVES TWO AMBASSADORS   British, U. S. Officials Confer With Premier  In Moscow

Stalin Confers With U.S., Britain’s Aids   Meeting Coincides With Roosevelt, Churchill Parley

Stalin Confers With Envoys   Talks With British, U.S. Ambassadors

MCVE DUTCH FROM COAST   Nazis, Fearing Invasion, Evacuate 800, », 000. Report

NAZIS FORTIFY HOLLAND COAST. MOVE RESIDENTS   ‘aval Clamps Down on French. As Unrest Grows Across Western Europe.

NAZIS EVACUATE 800,000 PLOPLE FROM DUTCH COAST   Germans Fortify Entire Area, Preparing for Early Alfied Invasion.

Germans, Fearing Invasion, Move. 800,000 Dutch From Coastal Areas

Germans Clear 800.000 Dutchmen From Coast —   Huge Migration Ordered and Entire Area Cleared of Homes For Fortifications

HUSBAND QUIZZED TN WIFE'S MURDER   Uniform .of RCAF Cadet “Being Sought in Slay- o- Ing Probe -

HUSBAND QUIZZED IN WIFE'S MURDER   Uniform of RCAF Cadet Being Sought in Slaying Probe

Eight Jap Ships Attacked by  American Subs  While Kiska Island Enemy Bases Draw Heavy Fire

JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. U-BOATS   Submarines Get Enemy Destroyer, Transport And 2 Freighters

Eight Nip Ships Fall Prey to Subs, Planes   American Attacks On Kiska Continue To Harass Enemy

Yankee Bombs Fall On Main Camp At Kiska   Allied Warplanes Scatter Concentration Of Ships Near Australia.   \JAPS HINT AT ATTACK

U.S. Sub Sinks Jap Destroyer Transport, 2 Freighter: Also Sent To Bottom

American Subs Sink Jap Destroyer, Large Transport and Two Freighters

B-24 Assault Wipes Out Supply Lines of Nazis Blocking British Eighth

‘American Seizure of the Gilbert Islands From Japs Is Blueprint of Road to Tokyo

TOKYO ROAD TO BE LONG AND GOSTLE   Most Direct Route To Japan Is Thr u Central Pacific 

ROAD TO TOKYO TO BE A LONG, HARD AND COSTLY ONE   Chungking Hails Measure’s Repeal   China’s Faith In America Strengthened

Seizure of Gilberts Called Blueprint Of Route to Tokyo   Fierce Battle for Betio Is Indication How Long, Hard and Costly Road To Nippon Will Be, Avers Eyewitness

Sinking Of 1 U. S. Transport Could Have Meant Galling Defeat, Says Chief

Gilbert island conquest by greatest air-naval force in history discloses pattern of victory

“ye eor.e’s Wer” > as “acen DES me .  “ver 22... °°...) Siviian ives

Horrors of Total War:  22,000,000 CIVILIANS ESTIMATED CASUALTIES OF TITANIC CONFLICT   Unarmed Old Men, Women and Children Victims Of Terrific Bombings Far from Battlefronts

Ri ie ane Fcople ¢ War wT Jurviva: wy Giton &. ray  ‘More Than 22,000,000 Civilian War Dead

22,000,000 Civilians Dead In This War For Survival   Check Of World Battle Zones Produces Shocking Totals; Metropolitan Areas A Target

AIR DRIVE IN PACIFIC GROWS   OU. S. Sub Sinks 27.000 Tons Of Jap Shipping On One Patrol

NELSON AIRS MINERAL PLAN   PROPOSAL TO PREVENT SHORTAGES REVEALED

BOMBERS Hil - RAIL ARTERIES   ‘RAF Planes Strike Heavy  Blow At French Rail  Link With Italy

BRITISH FLIERS FOLLOW UP U. S. RAID IN FRANCE   RAF Attacks Rails at Cannes. Light Bombers Blast Berlin

RAF’S BOMBERS "RIP ENEMY RAIL LINES TO ITALY   Cannes Pounded as Allies Intensify Attacks on Supply Routes

A TWO WAY ATTACK   Planes from Different Bases Blast Nazi Army in  Italy

Blasting of French Riviera Railroad Climaxes Communications Assaults; Another Bearing Plant Hit.

Mediterranean, Britain - Based Bombers Blast Feeder to Italy   Other Heavy Planes Rip Nazi Bearing Plant at Annecy

RIVIERA RAL LINK BLASTED   RAF Bombers Follow Up Attack By American Flying Fortresses.

BRITAIN-BASED RAF BOMBERS HIT FRENCH RIVIERA   Same Area Blasted a Few Hours Earlier by Liberators and Flying Fortress.   SEAL RAIL ARTERIES   The RAF Blow Was “Heavy and Well Concentrated” at Cannes.

—ITALY—  FRENCH RIVIERA TARGETS BOMBE(   Bombers From Britain And Mediterranean Attack Rail Links   HEAVY ASSAULT   Other American Planes Fly Across Alps To Smash Nazi Plant

A TWO WAY ATTACK   Planes from Different Bases  Blast Nazi Army in

Allied Bombers Strike Riveria      RAF BLASTED NAZI BASE ON FRENCH COAST

HEAVY BLOW T0 FRENCH RAILS   Two-Way Assault Made To Seal Feeder. Arteries To Nazi Armies in Italy

Feeder Arteries to German Armies Are Seriously Crippled   Nazi Bearing Factory at Annecy is Pounded by Allied Rambere

RAF Bombers From Britain Blast French Riviera Rail Link With Italy After Mediterranean-Based Liberators And Flying Fortresses Hammer Same Area-—— Important Enemy Bearing Factory At Annecy Raided—Limited Gains Made Aground

AIM ATTACK AT GERMAN TRAFFIC   RAF AND AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE AT RAILWAYS IN FRANCE

BRITISH-BASED RAF BOMBERS ATTACKED FRENCH RAIL LINK  — ae ee Te eee   FOLLOWED U. S. BOMBER ATTACK ON GERMAN TRANSPORTATION

ait Link With Italy Js Target Of Raid By British =~ Plant At Annecy Also Hit

ABRIAL ATTACK! HARD AND WELL CONCENTRATED      Return Blow At Riviera:  Railway Emphasizes Importance Allies View Link. .   HUN BEARING PLANT AT ANNECY BLASTED   Mediterranean-Based For- mations Surmount Alps to Reach Vital Enemy Target

German Feeder Railways Into  Italy Hard Hit   New Heavy Blows Struck Today; Many -Trains Stalled. *

RAF And Yank Heavies Bomb Enemy Links  British-Based Planes   British - Based Planes Follow Fort Attacks; Others Again Rock Raaring Plant

Airmen Stepping Up Blows On German Communications Now   Heavy Blows Blasting Rail Connections Into Italy

MOUNTAIN PEOPLE  OF SICILY MAY AID  AMERICAN INVADERS INHABITANTS OF ISLAND  NEVER DID TAKE WELL Tr FACCICM

498 GERMAN PLANES BAGGED BY RED UNITS LAST WEEK BOOSTING TOTAL T0 3319 CRAFT

Soviet Patrols Capture Four Settlements   Red Army Air Force Begins Seventh Week Of Fierce Air War

Aloo AIR ASOAULT IN SEVENTH WEEK   Soviets Report Offensive Gains in Orel ‘Hinge’ Sector of Front.

Reds Begin  7th Week Of  Air Offensive   Soviet Ground: Patrols Report Offensive Gains in Orel “Hinge” Sector. Germans Said to Have ‘Lost’ 3,319 Planes In Fierce Air Battles. 1, 250 Shot Down in June and 498 Last Week.

Soviet Pilots Press Fierce War on Axis   Russians Claim 2-Weel Battles Have Cost Nazis 23319 Planes

Nazi Losses In Planes In Russia  Placed At 3,319   Russian Air Force Hits German Communications. Supplies.

RUSSIANS CLAIM OFFENSIVE GAINS   Soviet Forces Seize Four Communities—Air Bat tles Still Raging

Great Aerial Battles Rage  Over Russia   Reds Claim To Have Knocked Out 3319 Enemy Plane

RUSSANS STRIKE FIRST AT OREL   Reds Make Offensive Gains Against Germans

RED ARMY AIR FORGE  OPENS SEVENTH WEEK  FIERCE AIR BATTLES RUSSIANS CLAIM DESTRUCTION 3,319 GERMAN  Dri abitc IND TIC TINGE

REDS TAKE 4 SETTLEMENTS IN OREL AREA   Soviet Air Force Begins Seventh Week of Battles Which Russians Say Have Cost the Nazis 3.319 Planes.

Nazi Losses In Air Are Heavy   Battles Over Russia Cost 3,319 Planes

AIR FORCES CONTINUE TO HIT GERMANS   Claim 2,319 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Six Weeks

GERMANS HAVE LOST 3319 PLANES DURING 7 WEEKS BATTLE   Soviets Report Gains in the Orel “Hinge” Sector of the Long Front.   TAKE 4 SETTLEMENTS   A Special Communique Indicated Ferocity and Scope of the Assaults.

RED ARMY AIR FORCE  OPENS SEVENTH WEEK  FIERCE AIR BATTLES RUSSIANS CLAIM DE STRUCTION 3,319 GERMAN PI ANESC IN THIC True

SON-IN-LAW OF IL DUCE SHOT IN BACK   He Was The “Ass” Whom Hitler Never  Laraont

Count Ciano Rumored Slain   Reported Executed By Fascists; Split With Duce

REUTERS SAYS COUNT CIANO IS EXECUTED      Dispatch From Swiss-Italian Frontier Declares Ex-Duce’s Son-in-Law Dies Before a Firing Squad.

FIRING SQUA CLOSES OEE OF COUNT CIANO   Remnants of Mussolini’s Smashed Government Order Execution

‘Count Ciano Reported Shot Early Today by Firing Squad   “Muscolini’s Son-in-Law Said To Have Died at Order of Duce’ : Puppet Government.

Firing Squad Shoots Ciano In The Back   Son-In-Law Of Mussolini Executed In Northern Italy, Report

Report Ciano. Fascist Chief,  Is Executed   Mussolini Kin  Ousted Il Duce

Son-In-Law of Benito Mus: solini Ig Shot In Back By Firing Squad In Northern Italy   DOOMED ‘BY FORMER ’ DUCE’S NEW REGIME   Broke With Father-In-Law  When His Fascist Gov- ' - ernment Tottered; Hit- . Jer Distrusted Him“ 

Ciano Reported Shot by.Firing Squad in Italy   Duce’s ‘Son-in-law. Accused of Treason By Fascist Puppets

Report Ciano Shot by Squad   Execution Probably Under Direction of German Authorities.

SON-IN-LAW OF MUSSOLINI SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD   EXECUTION SAID TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN NORTHERN ITALY

Ciano Slain By ‘Duce's Firing Squad   Mussolini Tribunal Finds His Son-in-Lew Guilty of ‘Treason’

Ciano Put To Death   ... Faces Firing Squad, Frontier Reports Say

Count Ciano Is Executed, Swiss Say      Mussolini’s Son-in- Law Shot by Firing Squad,  London Hears   HELD AS TRAITOR   ormer Malian Foreisn Minister Gained Wealth Under Fascist Rule

SWISS REPORTS SAY FORMER FASCIST SHOT   Former Italian Foreign .Minister and Son-In-Law Of Mussolini Victim of  Nazis

CANO EXECUTED AS TRAITOR, SWISS REPORTS DECLARE   Fascist Leader Shot for “Betraying” Mussolini, His Enthorein-law

EXTRA!   Swiss Report Fascists Slew Count Ciano   Muasolini’s Son -In- Law Shot By Firing Squad For Turning Against Ex-Premier, Is Claim

 Mussolini’s - Son-in -law ' Executed by Nazi Puppet Government.

Report Ciano Executed By Mussolini’s  Firing Squad   Reuters Says Rumor Of Trial And Shooting, Heard At Frontier,  Te Tlneaonfirmed

Count Ciano Slain   Mussolini’s Son-inLaw Meets Death at Hands of Nazi Firing Squad for ‘War Crimes

Report SonIn-Law Of Il Duce Killed   Count Ciano Said to Have Been Executed By the Germans

TRAITOR LABEL PUT ON FORMER ITALIAN CHIEF   Swiss Say Firing Squae Order Issued By Father. In-Law’s Government

Ciano Reported Shot fo Death  Benito Mussolini’s   Benito Mussolini’s Son-in-Law Killed By Firing Squad

REPORT  CIANO IS EXECUTED   Italian Count, Mussolini's Son-In-Law, Dies Before Firing Squad

Count Ciano  Executed   Mussolini’s Son-In-Law Shot in Back for Treason by Firing Squad

Count Ciano Is Believed Killed By Firing Squad   Mussolini’s Fascist Government Said To Have Ordered Death

(raleazzo Ciano Said Shot Today By Firing Squad   Mussolini’s Son-In-Law  Thought Sentenced By; German Puppet Group

OWISo RUMOR oAYo CANO IS EXECUTED   Mussolini's Son-In-Law Is Reported Shot

COUNT CIANO EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD   Mussolini's Son-in-Law, Who Turned Against Duce in Deieat, Dies Traitor’s Death   IS SHOT IN BACK   Execution Reporied Carried Qui by Mussolini's New Fascisi-Republican Government

Ciano Reported Killed Today By Nazi Orders   Ex-Fascist Foreign Minister Put To Death By Orders Of Duce’s Puppet Regime

REPORT COUNT CIANO EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD   Mussolini’s Son-in-Law Shot in Northern Italy Claim

Report Ciano Killed by Firing Squad   CLAIM SON-IN-LAW OF MUSSOLINI SENTENCED FOR HIGH TREASON

COUNT GALEAZZO CIANO WAS BEFORE A FIRING SQUAD   Son-in-Law of Benito Mussolini Put to Death This Morning.   : ‘SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD   Was Sentenced to Death by a Special Court of Mussolini’s Government.

Former Italian Minister Is Shot By Fascist Squad   Count Ciano, Son-in-Law of Mussolini, Sentenced by Special Court.   Shot in Back, Says Swiss Border Report

CIANO KILLED BY FASCISTS:   Mussolini's Son- In-Law Reported Executed As Traitor

Execution of Ciano Claimed Unofficially   Son-in-Law of Mussolini Said to Have Been Killed By Firing Squad   TRIED AS A "TRAITOR™

REPORT COUNT CIANO EXECUTED   Son-In-Law Of Mussolini Reported Shot In Back By Firing Squad.

Ciano Executed By Nazis in Italy   Mussolini’s Son-in-law Reported Slain After Trial as Traitor

COUNT FALLS OUT WITH MUSSOLINI   Two New Agencies Claim Duce’s Son-In-Law Sentenced By Court Of High Fascists

TKILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Army bombers wrecked near Sioux City base; three hurt

Three Are Injured in  Plane Fall   Public Relations Official at Air Base Announces  Crash Today

U.S. Bombers Hit Taranto   Italian Naval Base Damaged; Planes Also Raid Reggio Calabria

LIBERATORS HIT TARANTO NAVAL BASE   All American Planes Return From Attack

. 5, BOMBERS STAGE DAYLIGHT ATTACKS   dberators Bomb Italian Nava Base and Halian Town of Reegio Calabria

U. S. Bombs  Taranto Base  Attacks Also Made  On Reggio Calabria

Japs Admit Setbacks on New Britain   American Invasion Forces Wipe ut EnemyO Pockets On Peninsula 

NEW BRITAIN COAST CLEAR, YANKS PUSH ON   Cross-Country Advance Starts

Gain Full Control Of  Peninsula   American Forces Are Continuing To Expand ‘Their Positions In  ’ New Britain: Jungles

Japs Wiped Out At Arawe in Push on Rabaul  Nippon Planes Blocked By © Yank Fighters

Patrols Thrusting Into Jungle to Cut Rabaul Supply Line   Tokyo Acknowledges Invasion; Gen. MacArthur Repor ts 3-Mile Section Now in Allies’? Hands

YANKS GAIN 3 MILES ON NEW BRITAIN   Last Jap Pockets Cleaned Up On Arawe Peninsula

Peninsula of — Arawe Now in .  U.S. Possession Patrols Already in Jungle   Patrols Already in Jungle Thrusting Toward North Coast

TO CUT ROUTE   Japs Finalty Break Down and Admit Bridgehead Is - Secured.

YANKEES WIPE OUT JAPANESE ON NEW BRITAIN   Peninsula Cleared Of Enemy; Sixth Army Has Cheap Victory

U. &. Forces Sending Patrols Into Jungles Of New Britain To North; Aussie Forces Cross The Sanora River   FIGHTERS PROVIDE PROTECTIVE COVER

Americans Clean Up Last Jap Resistance On Arawe Peninsula In New Britain

INVASION FORCES CLEAR OUT JAPS   Snow, Freezing Weather May See Opening of Russian Winter Campaign.

Arawe Peninsula ‘All in Our Hands’: MacArthur; Cape Gloucester Blasted

Last Japs Wiped Out “At Arawe   Yanks Gain Three Miles, Try to Cut Rabaul Supply Line

‘FDR’ FORTRESS LOST NEAR KIEI   Ten Men "Were Aboard; Other Fliers Saw Seven Parachutes Open

The Bomber ‘F.D.R. — Failed to Return   Was One of Eleven Planes ' Lost on Roosevelt’s. Last Birthday.

Flying Fortress Named for F. D.R. Fails to Return  Potato Peeler’s Kid BS sdk ® = ee  ead  Beata   Potato Peeler’s Kid Participated In Raid On Kiel May 14

Oleomargarine Tax Killed   State Legislature In Recess Until Next Mondav

Topanetion Ends Work Stoppage  At Hub Market   Long Lines Of N. E. Trucks Pull In To Be Loaded With Vegetables, Fruits

SALES TAX PLAN BEFORE SOLONS   Manes Committee To Decide On Program; Treasury : Plan Sidetracked

Ration Dividend On Pork Is Authorized   Stamp 1 In Book 4 Good For Five Lbs. For Few Days: Price Support Extended

EXTRA 5 POINTS ISSUED ON PORK   OPA ACTS TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON HOG MARKETS AND STORAGE SPACE.

PORK CHOP DIVIDEND FOR RATION COUPON   Spare Stamp In Ration Book 4 Ma) Be Used Until January 2 For Extra Purchase Of Pork

OPA Declares Pork Dividend To Meet Pressure on Market   Stamp 1, Book Four Good for Five Extra Points Until January 2; WFA Extends Hog Price Support Program Effective Dec. 23

PORK DIVIDEND ISSUED BY OPA   Spare Ration Stamp In Book 4 Good For 5 Extra Points

Pork ‘Dividend Declared by OPA   Spare Ration Stamp Good for Five Pounds

Ration Dividend On Pork Is Authorized   Stamp  In Book 4 Good For Five Lbs, “For Few. Davs: Price Stuipnanrt Extenda

Spare Ration Stamp Good For 5-Poini’: Pork Purchase =   Temporary Order To Relieve Pressure As Hogs Flood Market

LAW'S LOWG ARM NABO 4 WORE, 2 MEN IN GASE   Virtual ‘‘Mati Hari” Ring Smashed; Doctor Among Those Arrested.

German Spy Ring - In Detroit Smashed   Five Persons Accused of Sending Information to Germany

TWO AMERICANS ARE AMONG SIX SEIZED BY FBI   Group Organized By Womar Studied Vulnerability Of War Factories   ‘OHIO CITIES INCLUDED   Leader Later Aided Officials In Tracking Down Espionage Activities

WOMAN . TRAINED IN. BUBAe PEST FOR ESPIONAGE WORK HEADED GROUF FURNISHING INFORMATION

2 MEN AL ARRESTED IN FBI NET   Surgeon Among Thres Americans Taken In Roundup

Fake Tests On War Steel Are Reported   Truman Committee Told Tensile Strength Examination Results  Were Falsified

CAR-GARAGE BURNS   Costly . Blaze at Wilham ~ Bodin Home Early This Morning. 

New Blackout Rules Receive First Test Here   Officials Find Results Satisfactory; Public Is Commended.   Baby Born During B. H. Test Blackout

To Probe Part Of Middleman In Food Costs   ’ Fulmer Believes. Most Of Food Dollars Go To — Middleman.

HOUSE VOTES INVESTIGATION FOOD MARKETS   Chairman Fulmer Sets Qut to At‘tack Middlemen’s Profits, Streamline Marketing

Middlemen By Congress  Mest of Feed Relies   Most of Food Dollar Goes: to! Dealers, Coneressman: Save:

Manpower Shortage Pictured Major Obstacle to Production of Planes

Two Nazi Bombers Attacking Convoy in Atlantic Are Destroyed by USAAF

PLANES BATTLE OVER ATLANTIC   TWO NAZI BOMBERS DOWNED IN ATTACK ON ALLIED CONVOY

INCENTIVE PAY PLAN PROPOSEL   Program Will Be Tried Out In Few Plants To Speed Production

Allied Fliers Blast Bases At Buin-Fais:   58 More Enemy Warplanes Destroyed at Rabaul; Kavieng Pounded

Installations Destroyed Around  Southern End of Bougainville Talund.

AERIAL RAIDERS SMASH RABAUL   Jap Plane Losses Mount Under Steady Bombing

38 Enemy Planes Destroyed i in Raid On Jap Rabaul   - Buin-Faisi Sector in North Solomons Pounded in Forays

ENEMY SEA AND AIR BASES IN NORTHERN SOLOMONS BLASTED   58 More Planes At Rabaul -Destroyed—Raids Also Made On Celebes, New Ireland

ALLIES DESTROY 58 MORE JAP PLANES IN RABAUL ATTACK   Dump 500 Tons Of Bombs On N. Solomons Nip Bases   By UNITED PRESS

TEACHERS STRIKE FOR SALARY BOOST   Agree To Report for Classes But Won’t Teach

PITTSBURGH SCHOOL TEACHERS STRIKE   Fifty Demand, Increase Of Salary Or Bonus To Meet Increased Living Costs

School Teachers Stage Sit-Down Strike in Pittsburgh Suburb Today

TEACHERS USE SITDOWN PLAN   50 Instructors at Rankin _, Attend School ° Bui

Teachers Strike For Higher Pay   Pupils Fake Holiday As Sit-Down Starts

Sigler Swaps Sides In Probe   Named Prosecutor For State Grand Jury

QUIZ JOB GOES ~ TO KIM SIGLER   Battle - Creek Attorney Takes Over Rushton’s  Grand Jury Work

SIGLER NAMED TO PROBE POST   Ex-Barry Prosecutor Tt Aid Judge Carr In Bribe Cases

Carr Names New Grand Jury Chief   Kim Sigler, Battle Creek Attorney, Had Defended Rep. Hillman Earlier in Trials

Four Priests Join  In Jubilee Mass   Unprecedented Rites In Santa Fe Nov. 23

RUSSIAN BALTIC ‘ARMY ADVANCES   Glass Packed Foods ‘Will Cost More

BOY ADMITS SLAYING OF STEPFATHER   Notorious Racketeer Shot Five Times With Rifle

DPA SLASHES. SUPPLIES OF - [USTED FOODS   New Point System May Mean Reductions of from 40-50 Per Cent.   REGISTRATION REQUIRED FIRST 10: DAYS IN MARCH

Japs Are Crushed In Search for Route of Escape  Allies Throw Forces Back in Attacks By Air and Ground

JAPS ROUTED IN ESCAPE EFFORT   Thrown Back Near Katika Under Air Attack

Jap Forces Thrown Back   Leave 510 Dead Behind In New Guinea Reverse

Japs Thrown Back Near Finschhafen   First Reversal Since Nips Began Escape To Sea

Allies Block Japs Seeking Line of Escape   Enemy Abandons Katika in Region Of Finschhafen,  Leavina 510 Dead

American, British Experts Meet With: Lt. Gen. Eisenhower   Conference Foreshadows Way When Allies Make  Jump Into Europe

MAY LEAD T0 AGREEMENT ON BORDERS   Inter-Allied Group May Spring From Moscow ‘Conference

Willkie Sees New Unity For Party   Says Democratic Party Torn Apart

CALLS LEADERS IN MINE STRIKE   Labor Board Seeks to Break Nine-Day Alabama Walkout

WLB SEEKS 10 BREAK STRIKE OF MINERS   Leaders Summoned to Hearing on “Wildcat” Walkout

Japs Pay Dearly in Sinking of U.S. S. Hornet   Heroic Account of Battle Is Made Public

Japs Pay Dearly in Sinking of U.S. §. Hornet  Heroic Account of Battle

OHIP MAKES FOE PAY FOR SINKING   Navy Tells of Exploits of Carrier Hornet in Battles of Midway and Santa Cruz; Heroism of Crew Shown

Von Arnim Turns Down Anderson’s Surrender Terms   Captured without Struggle Despite Refusal to Sign:

VON ARNIM. IS FURIOUS OVER Thi SURRENDER TERMS   Once Haughty Prussian Militarist Flatly Refuses the Order. .

ARNIM REFUSED ALLIED DEMAND   Angrily Beat Fist When Notified of Terms

Seabee Prospects To Be Interviewed   Construction Engineer Officer Will Be Here On Monday, August 2.

Nazis Give Up Mountains To Americans   U.S. Troops Advance Despite German Counter-Blows

Italian Ports Demolished By Germans   Eighth Army Gains 5 Miles, Captures Mighwoy Center

killed American Forces Knife Through German Positions, Near Line Which Enemy Has Been Ordered to Hold Until New Year's — Reich's Forces Destroy Ports.

Height Overlooks j Principal Inland § Road to Rome « ®   British Advance « Five Miles More  Through Snowstorms

Germans Scuttle Ships, Smash Docks At Leghorn, Pescara   Berlin Broadeasts Report Soviet Forces Advance Along Entire Front Despite Weather Hazards

Foe Blasts Ships, Docks At Leghorn   Plans to Leave Or Fears Allied Thrust—Eighth Gains 5 Miles

Germans Demolish Northern Harbors   Bad Weather Fails To Stop Stubborn Advance of Allied Armies IJn Italian Boot

Germans Wreck Ships and Ports of Leghorn, Pascara: Yanks Block Brenner Pass

Germans Sink Ships, Blast Docks at Leghorn and Pescara on Both Coasts of Italv. :

Nazis Reported Destroying Two Italian Ports   Eighth: Army Takes Rionero In Drive Through Snowstorm _

U.S. Nabs New Hills  in Italy   CLARK GRABS ROTONDO MOUNTAIN; NAZIS WRECK LEGHORN, PESCARA PORTS

Yank Mountain Fighters Storm Heights; Drive On To Italian ‘Winter Line’ Peaks   Americans Smash Forward Against German Counter Thrusts; Report Germans Already Wrecking Ships and Port Facilities At Leghorn and Pescara For Evacuation.

Foe Wrecks Ports At 2 Italian Cities   Scuttle Vessels To Block Harbors At Leghorn And  At Daecara

Nazis Wreck 2 Italian Harbors   Enemy Moves To Block Invasion From The Sea

Yankees Storm Mountains fo Drive Out Nazis   Americans Smash Forward to Check Counterattacks

BLAST SHIPS AT LEGHORN AND PESCARA   Kither Are Preparing to Give Up West and East Harbors or Fear a Landing —- Yanks Capture Two Heichts.

Sth Army Occupies Two Key Mountain Positions As 8th.  Takes Road Center

Fifth Army Takes Mountain Heights   Important Points Seized on Main Inland Road  to Rome   BOMB BRENNER PASS   Main Supply Routes of Enemy's Army in Italy Are Hit

‘iftth Army Drives Enemy From Important Heights;  British 8th Gains 5 Miles

Poth Allied Armies Advance in Italy Despite Bad Weather—Cassino Reported Excircled   BIG VILLA PEROSA PLANT HIT AGAIN   ridge on Brenner Pass Railway Bombed, Merchani Vessel Sunk at Split, Yugoslavia

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM MOUNTAIN * TINES IN ITALY   Allies Reach Main Inland Road To Rome   NAZIS WRECKING SHIPS AND PORTS

ALLIED FIFTH ARRIY GAINS IN ITALY BATTLE      Enemy Reported Carrying Out Demolitions At Leghorn, Pescara

2, Mountain Tops Taken By Americans   Rail Tunnels Under Alps Supplying Italy Are Heavily Bombed

WRECK SHIPS AT LEGHORN, PESCARA   Fifth Army Pushes Ahead; British Take Rionero; Other Points Believed Set For Evacuation

Nazis Battle Desperately  To Hold Italy   Heavy Allied Pressure Applied; Enemy Prepares To Fall to New Line

‘Two Heights Are Taken By U. S. Troops   Mount Rotonde, Which Overlooks Broad Valley Leading To Cassino, Is Held By Fifth Army

Scared Germans Scuttle Port Facilities On Both East. West Coasts Of Italy

GERMAN FORCES DRIVEN OUT OF TWO MOUNTAINS   Americans Smash Onward Against Enemy Counterattacks; Germans Wrecking Port Facilities; Eighth Army  ‘akes Rionero.

SKILLED AMERICAN MOUNTAIN FIGHTERS DRIVING ENEMY OUT  GERMANS BLASTING EAS’ AND WEST PORTS IN FEAR NEW INVASION

Sth Army Drives 5 Miles Through Appenine Snows   Yanks Take Mt: Rotondo Against‘ German Counter-Thrusty. Enemy Destroying Harbor and Ships at Leghorn ‘ind  Pescara.

ENEMY {5 DRIVEN FROM MOUNTAINS BY THE AMERICANS   Smashed Forward Against German Counterthrusts to Peak of Mt. Rotondo.   OVERLOOKS A VALLEY   Germans Reported to Be Blasting and Wrecking Ships and Port Facilities.

Nazis Driven From Peaks   Yanks Seize Mount Rotonda Against Counterattacks

Fear Flanking  Invasion, May Seek New Line   Brenner Pass Railway ‘Line Blasted As RAF Hits Mt. Cenis Alpine Tunnel At Modane

GERMANS BLOCK OFF SEAPORTS   Nazis Scuttle Ships At Leghorn; Raze Pescara Docks

YANKS TAKE 2 MOUNTAINS IN FIERCE FIGHT   British Gain Despite Snowstorm; Rionero Is Captured

Ports Of Leghorn,  Pescara Wrecked   Skilled American Mountain Fighters Of Fifth Army Drive Germans From Two Mountains In Advanee On Rome . pa ae

YANK FIGHTERD STORM HEIGHT   Fifth Army’s Mountain Men Drive Enemy From Two Positions.   SMASH COUNTERATTACKS

Allied Troops Crack Winter Line of Nazis   Sth Army Captures Mountain Positions; Sth Army Advances

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO HOLD LINE   Americans Smash Forward Against German CounterThrusts to Storm Two Mountain Bases

BOLIVIA JOINS ALLIED RANKS   XWELFTH LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY “HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE AXIS

Allies Face Difficult Situation In North Africa. With Adolf Hitler  Determined to Maintain His Hold

ALL-OUT EFFORT TO KEEP WATER ROUTES BLOCKED   Writer Visits African Front In Jeep, Plane

All-Out Axis Bid to Hold Tunisia;  No Letup in Rain Due for Week:

GERMAN FIRST LINE AIRFORCE LOSING PUNCH   Rain May Prevent Major Offensive From Either Side Until Late February

Hitler Making Major Effort In Africa To Block Mediterranean  Writer, On Purely Personal Conclusions, Says German Air Force Losing Punch. Saving Planes

When Rains Quit There Will Be Some Major Fighting in Tunisia, War Reporter Says

MAKES GREAT. PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE   Luftwaffe, However, Is Losing Its Punch, Writ “er Finds on Tour—Enemy Hopes to Block Allied Shipping.

Hitler Stakes All In Tunisia: Air Force Weal   Weather, Short Lines Of Communication Are Benefit To Enemy

Seasoned Nazi Troops, Fliers Sent To Alrica   Hitler Striving To Hold Control Of Mediterranean

ALLIED DRIVE IMPOSSIBLE FOR WEEKS   Germany Is Making Great Preparations To Save Tunisia

Nazis Losing Hitting Power in African War   German Planes Flee Air Engagements; Axis Armies Have Many Advantages

Lack Of Airfields Handicaps Allies, Flying Fortresses Dealing Punishment

Important Sea Lanes  At Stake      - Battle for North Africa Is Mainly One for the Control of Shipping  In the Mediterranean

Turn Tunisian War  To a Major Effort   Hitler Sends Part of First Line Strength of German Air Force to Block Allied Shipping in the Mediterranean.   Weather and Terrain of North Africa Are Hindrance to Allies

Axis Ring of Steel Ready to Smash Allied Attack on Tunis and Bizerte

Hitler Shows He Will Fight  For Tunisia   First Line Planes And Troops Ready for Batile

THIRD OF TANKS LOST IN SALLIES FROM MARETH LINE   Balked At Every Turn, Ger. mans Believed Only Hanging On To Delay European Invasion

STATESVILLE OFFICER CITED FOR NAVAL WORK   AMERICAN FLYERS WRECK JAPANESE BASE AT WEWAK   Australians Gaining Yard By Yard In Bitter Fight To Crush Japs At Finachhafaen.

WEWAK DESTROYED   Third Air Blow Blew Up Ammunition Dump That Rocked Peninsula

CONCORD Mi MAN : ARD      Raymond Lawson Serious wy Hurt Right Leg While on Duty

WEST PENN MINERS QUITTING STRIKES      Back-To-Work Sentiment Slices Ranks Of Strikers

Disposal Squads Out 40 Times Every Day  40,000 Per Week Die In Bengal

U. P. Writer Describes Famine ~ And Desolation In Calcutta      By WALTER L. BRIGGS United Presw Correcnondant

FARM “BLOC” FIGHTS CHARGE OF INFLATION   Bankhead Denies His Bill Would Aid Labor in Wage Demands

FAR BLOGS “ARTERIES  TOLL VEN   Seeking to Pass ‘Bankhead Bill Despite Presiden. . tial laleti on.         LIES. UNDER ' A! CLOUD   Roosevelt. Says Bill. Is Move ‘to Help Scrap. “‘Little Ei : Steel? Formula. oS

FARM BLOG IS AFTER VOTES 10 KILL VETO   Seeking to Pass Bankhead Bill Despite Presidential Act-on.   LIES UNDER A CLOUD   Roosevelt Says Bill Is Move to Help Scrap ‘‘Little Steel” Formula.

FIGHTS CHARGE OF INFLATION   Bankhead Denies His Bill Would \id Labor in Wave Demands

Senate To Vote Qn Veto Tuesday   Attempt To Be Made Tc Override Presidents Veto Of Bankhead Bill  be. TA'yyre+pra*®* ar ~~ «af

LEADERS DECLARE BANKHEAD BILL WOULD NOT. ENCOURAGE BREAKING OF “LIT. “TLE STEEL’ FORMULA...

Britain Sends Vore Bombers Over Berlin   Hitler Headaches Include AntiGerman Demonstrations in Denmark

WAR PRODUCTION “DURING 1944 70 BE MUCH LOWER   Eight Billion Reduction Appears Possible, Million Workers May Return to Civilian Jobs.   NEEDS MAY NOT BE SO GREAT IN FEW MONTHS   Landing .Crafts Now Have Priority, Plane Building Is About Same, Fewer Ships Possible.

3 BILLION DOLLAR GUT IN 1944 ARMS PRODUCTION SEEN   Slash Would Free Million War Workers for Civilian Production or Other Service.   TRIMMING LIKELY TO START IN SPRING   Leaders Point Out That While Reduction Seems Certain, Military Upsets Could Change Picture.

New Scrutiny Of Federal Payrolls Urged   Senator Wheeler Charges Administration Has Failed to Draft ‘Slackers’   HEARING IS RESUMED

WHEELER HITS DRAFT DUCKERS ON U.S, PAYROLL   Fight to Prevent Draft O} Fathers Reported to Be Futile; Ask Probe Of Deferments

Congress Bloc Demands New Weeding Out Government Workers For Army Service

Federal Payroll Scrutiny Wanted By Congressmen   Senate Debate On Father Draft Brings. Demands

Study of U. S$. Workers Sought  Wheeler Carries On Effort to Head Off Drafting of Dads

WEEDING OUT" OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS ASKED   Congressional Bloc Would Draft Some Of  Tt @ Whisstd nena

Move To Study Federal Payrolls In Draft Probe Gains Impetus; _ Hearings On Allowances Opened

U.S, PROTESTS GERMAN ACTION   Nazi Storm Troops Guard Diplomats.

ALLIED CONVOY AT RUSSIA.   Arrives Without Loss, , Damage After Hot Action

Ships Fight Their Way  To Russia   One British Destroyer Is Sunk During Battle With German Vessels Off Norway

Convoy Reaches  Russia Intact  After Sea Fight   British Say Superior Foe Force Beaten Off And Flees

ALLIED SHIPS REACH SOVIET PORTS SAFELY   SUFFER NO LOSS, DAMAGE AFTER HOT NAVAL BATTLE

Allied Convoy Safe ; After Naval Battle   All Ships Reach Russian Ports Following Previously Reported Running Engagement— Attacking Units Driven From Scene.

Allied Convoy Escapes Foe   Reach Northern Russian Ports Without Loss Despite Superior Force

ALLIED CONVOY REACHES RUSSIA AFTER HOT FIGHT   HEAVY ENEMY FORCE ATTACKS BUT FAILS TO STOP SUPPLIES

Convoy Sate In Russ Ports After Battle   Hot Naval Action Forces Enemy to Flee-Says London

Allied Convoy Reaches Russia Without Loss   Escorting Destroyers Drive Off Enemy In Two-Hour Battle

Allied Convoy  Reaches Base   Powerful British Forees Come To Aid Of RussianBound Cargo Fleet.

No. Loss or Damage to MerChant Vessels, British Admiralty. Says:  GIVES REPORT : _ ON DEC. 31 BATTLE  Geinans “Had Reported   Germans Had Reported ” Heavy Loss; British Say Enemy Driven Off

ALLIED CONVOY REACHES NORTH RUSSIAN PORT   No Losses Suffered by Convoy But Hot Naval Action Engaged In

ALLIED GONVOY REACHES PORTS   Safe in Russia After Beat ing Off Attacks By = Sunerior Farcec_

ALLIED CONVOY IN SOVIET PORTS   British Report No Losses to Ships Despite Attacks By Enemy Force

Proponents Of Racial Bill   100. Negroes: Appear to Urge Passage Giving Them Greaterliberties

Proponents Of Racial Bill Are Heard   100 Negroes Appear to Urge Passage Giving Them Greater Liberties

Tito Move Is Believed Certain to Force Showdown, Resignation of King’s Provisional Government

Russians Cut Wide Swath  In- Donets: Aree   Scythe-Like Drive Knifes Westward Through Ukraine

FORTRESSES POUND BEARING WORKS AT INDUSTRIAL TURIN   Plant Knocked. Completely Out Of Business For _ Some Time—Planes Return Safely

‘Forts’ Jolt Turin Work:   Bombs Shatter Giant Ball Bearine Center

YANKS BLAST FIAT FACTORY   Destroy or Damage All of Plants at Turin

Turin Ball Bearing Plant Is Crippled in Fortress ‘Raid: No Planes Lost

FORTS WRECK FIAT FACTORY IN TURIN RAIL   Bombs Hit Each Building At Great Ball Bearing Plant

End Donora Strike;  Canonsburg Is Ou  450 Open Hearth Work ers Re-Enter Plant

Difficulty In Finding Tank Truck Drivers Moy Result In Cold Homes

Pope Pius Offers  Prayer for Peace   May Deliver Address  Day Before Christrnas

Pius XI Prays For World Peace   Asks Hate, Neopaganism Be Laid Aside

MUSTER PAY. ~- 1$ DELAYED   LITTLE .CHANCE DISCHARGED MEN WILL GET BONUS PAYMENT BEFORE CBRISTMAS

RICHWOOD BOY REPORTED MISSING   Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stratton Re. ceive Telegram From Chief of Navy Personell, Friday

MAPLETON SAILOR MISSING IN ACTION   Parents Of Ward L. Bailey, 19, Informed By Navy Telegram ‘

SIMPLE FUNERAL FOR J.P.MORGAN   Last Rites Held In New York Today For Retired  Financial Figure

PRODUCTION 0} COAL RESUMED BY MINERS   Union Leaders and Mine Owners Seek to End Dispute

; Miners Return To Work ‘As Leaders Seek To ‘Settle Coal Dispute

Resume Coal Production In Nation s Mines   Miners Again Return To Work After Latest Strike Of One Week   NEGOTIATIONS ON WAGES RESUMED   Anti-Strike Legislation

Coal Operators And Mine ~ Union Heads Will Seek To Find Quick Peace

MINE WAGES ACTION SEEN IN FEW DAYS   QUICK SETTLEMENT. OF PAY DISPUTE PREDICTED AS MINERS RETURN TO “JOBS

Fourth War Loan Drive  ar or “= Will Begin Januar. 18   Plymouth  County’s Quota Will Be © $1,088; 000:‘Says

Fourth War Loan Bond Drive Starts Tuesday, Jan. 18  Plan Now To Do Your Full Share

Fourth Bond Drive Starts January 1§   DICKINSON COUNTY'S QUOTA FOR THE MONTH IS SET AT $433,000

Fourth War Loan Campaign Will Open January 18, Closes February 15   Plymouth County’s Quota Is Fixed At More Than $1,000,000

4TH WAR LOAN OPENS JAN. 18   County Quota Announced As $868,000.

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS THAT CAN LAUNCH TARCEST BOMBERS BEING CONSTRUCTED

U.S. Navy Plans Huge Carriers  Giant Vessels Will Ferry Bomber Planes, Saeuw Knax Raveole

Knox Reveals Giant U. S. Air Carriers   HUGE SHIPS TO LAUNCH BIG LAND BOMBERS; PLAN HEAVY .saRMOR

NORTH CAROLINA AIR CRASH FATAL TO 12      Bodies Found at Scene of Accident Near Pope Field After Ship Ran Into Bad Weather.

12 KNOWN KILLED IN PLANE CRASH NEAR LAURINBURC   Army Transport Crashes Between Fort Bragg and Laurinburg Monday Morning; Fear For Safety of At Least Eight Others.

INSPECTION HELD MONDAY EVENING   County Deputy Grand Master Present for the Affair—Will Entertain School Faculty Sept. 27

le ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eh hc hr Oe Om  SHOOT DOWN 2 AXIS PLANES

GET REFUND PAYMENT   County Receives $16,102.49 From the State Highway Department

Plane Will Make Experimental Hop   To Use Gasoline Made From Coal

‘APPOINTMENT MADE OF PRICE PANEL   RB. J. M.-Long, Geo. Pew And Roman Kovaleske Named As Committee

OPA Price Panel — Appointed For Plymouth County  Will Hear Complaint: Of Administration Of Law

RURAL SCHOOL AID  BILL 15 FINALLY  PASSED BY SENATE... “MEASURE WILL NOW GO  TO CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ENP ACTION

Rural Aid Bill s Passed By Senate After Great Cut   Aikin Amendment to Increase Teachers’ Salaries Dropped

MARKET LIMPS - INTO NEW MONTH   Prices Shrink Alter Pair) Active Start; Small De~ Clines Near Close

WARSHIPS HIT NAURU   Jap-Held Island 400 Miles West Of Gilberts Is Pounded

Americans Blast New Jap Island   Task Force Races 400 Miles West Of Gilbert Isles

U.S. Naval Unit Hits Nauru Island   Called Japs’ Chief Phosphate Source

Japan Given Thunderous Demonstration Of U.S. Navy Supremacy In Mid-Pacific

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation  Administration Has Big Task Ahead of ft

HUGE SHIFT IN POPULATION SEEN AFTER CLOSE OF WAR   MORE -YHAN HUNDRED MiILLION PERSONS NOW REPORTED TO BE’ HOME- — LESS, IN WORLD

More Civilian Goods to Be Made in 1944   Pots and Pans, Textile Products, Pins On Priority Lists

Civilian Goods Output Planned Part Of ‘Gripe List’ To - Be Eliminated

1944 to Bring Expanded Production Of Most-Wanted Civilian Goods   Elastic Tape, Hose, Bobbie Pins Are High On List of Items to Be Manufactured

T0 EXPAND "44 PRODUGTION OF CERTAIN GOODS   Program. Aimed - at " Sillene_ing: ‘Squawks. oyer Shortages. ‘of “Tittle ee  eee ome es 7 td

Senator Byrd Assails WLB ‘Surrender’ to  John L. Lewis   Contends Board Move Breaks Down Barrier Against Uncontrolled Inflation in Nation  ORGANIZED LABOR SEEKS HIGHER PAY  Million Rail Workers Appeal to Citizens -To Rack Demands

BYRD SCORES LABOR BOARD WAGEROOSTS   Senator Says Mine Increases to Jump Living Costs   RAILWAY WORKERS APPEAL TO PUBLIC   Spokesmen Ask Support of Legislation to Raise Pay

BYRD SCORES LABOR BOARD WAGEBOOSTS   Senator Says Mine !ncreases to Jump Liying Costs   RAILWAY WORKERS APPEAL TO PUBLIC

LABOR UNIONS FIGHT TO HIKE “WAGE CEILING   “Surrender” to Lewis ” Boosts Living Cost, Byrd Declares

"W_3 Surrence- <0 Lewis Caargec. As Vavor 2resses -0- Vage %éistses

Cost of Living Boost Seen in Grant fo Miners   Sen. Byrd Raps War Labor Board

Labor Pounds Harder at Door to Wage Boosts. Solon Says WLB ‘Surrendered’

INCREASE IN LIVING COSTS IS PREDICTED   Sen. Byrd Accuses WLB Of Surrendering To Lewis, Railroad  Boost Pushed

BYRD SAYS WL FAILED TO USE LEGAL POWERS   “Surrender” To Lewis Makes Higher Living Costs Inevitable   RAILROAD EMPLOYES ASK PUBLIC SUPPORT

Battle Rages Over Wage Boost Issue  Senators Rail At WLB for Yielding to Lewi

Byrd Says WLE ‘Surrendered’  To John Lewis   Rail Workers Plead Their Case: Scrapping Of Formula Sought

OFFENSIVESIN BUROPE AND IN PACIFIGNEAR   Drives to Be Unprecedented, According to Military and Naval Officials In Washington   SEE 1943 LAST YEAR .OF MOBILIZATION   Cairo and Iran ‘Conferen ces Have Perfected Overall Pattern of Vic- . -tory Strategies -

Health Of American People’Kept High Despifé Minor Ills   --Mortality Record Of Several Diseases Show Steady Decline

BRIT. PLANES RAIN BOMBS ‘ON HAMBURG:   300 Planes in Attack On  Submarine Center

British Bombers Strike At Hamburg   ‘Sixteen Planes Missing After Thunderbolt Raid Carried Out in New Air . Offensive

THUNDERBOLT ATTACK © IS MADE ON HAMBURG   Germany's Great Port !s Raided for the 95th Time by R.A.F. and Estimates Are That Approximately 300 Planes Participated — Broadcast by Geebbels Cancelled as Result.

More than ot Planes Take Part in Raid   RAF Drops Huge Demolition Bombs Om Craat Paré

300 Planes. Deal Havoc At Hamburg   16 Bombers Missing I Devastating Raid On Submarine Port

Horrbure Ge Bomber Attack      300 or More re Planes May Have. Been Engaged

THIRD DAUGHTER ‘BORN TO JULIANE   Last Ma'e Heir In Dutch Reval Family Was In 1851: Canada Birthplace

Daughter Born To Dutch Princess   No Change 1 in Succession  To Neth vehi Throne

PRINCESS BORN IN OTTAWA, CAN   Netherlands House of Orange All Females Since 1851

Daughter Is Born To Crown Princess   Juliana and Child Said ‘Doing Well’

StopOPA Or Suffer Rout In Elections   TWO WESTERN DEMOCRATIC SENATORS WARN THAT DEFEAT OF 1944 MAY REACH REVOLUTIONARY PROPORTIONS.

Western Democrats Predict Defeat of Party Unless the OPA Can Be Forced, by Legislation, to ‘Stop Persecution of Honest Citizens’

From Out of the West: Two Senate Democrats See Defeat In 1944 Because of OPA Attitude   Thomas and Johnson Predict Political Revolt If 'Persecutions of Honest People’ Continue

Democrats Predict 1944 Party Defeai  2 Westerners Say OPA All To Blame

HUNGARY, RUMANIA BULGARIA WANT 10 GET OUT OF WAR   Spectacular Developments May Soon Come From Three Balkan States

Balkan Satellites Anxious To Quit   Terms of Unconditional  Surrender Would Apply

BALKANS ARE ANXIOUS TO QUIT WAR   Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria ‘Becking A Way Out,

TROUBLE BELIEVED NEAR IN BALKANS   Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria Reported Desperately Anxious for Peace.

Allies Aavance, Seize Four More Strategic Cities      Gains Straighten Lines Of Battle On Big Front

Gain Six Miles In Taking Four Major. Towns  HEAD FOR. FOR. ROME   German Lines Are Showing Signs of Breaking

CAPTURE FOUR KEY POSITIONS FROM GERMANS   Fifth Army Moves On De spite Desperate Naw Counter Attacks ‘4 °

Nazi Defense Line Crumbles at Volturno   ‘Rear - Guard + Counterattacks Hint of New German Re ‘  treat Toward Rome ©

Surge on Toward Rome      Allies Beat Back  Nazi Counterattacks To Push Forward Another 5 or 6 Miles

FOUR GERMAN DEFENSE KEYS WRESTED AWA!   Battle of Volturno Has Turned Definitely in Favor of Our Side on Italian Ground

Straighten Line Across Italy   Germans Indicate Move to Break Away from River.

Allies Capture Four Major Towns in Italy   Reds Slowly Battering Through Outer Defenses of Kiev and Gomel; Jap Bases in Pacific Bombed

ALLIED ARMIES HAVE. CAPTURED FOUR MORE IMPORTANT POINTS  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY  Tarr TWA MATIOAD Dt

Take 4 More Towns In So. Italy   Allied Forces Driving Ahead, Through Vol turno Defense Line

Navy Liberators Bomb Makin, Northernmost Gilbert Island; New Britian Base: Bombed—Ten Thousand Japs Driving Uf Burma Road & :

Four More Major Defense Towns Are.  ‘Seized In Advance.   By RICHARD McMURRAY ‘ AD War Tt Aid nw

€ British Capture 2 Road Centers; » Nazis Showing * Sians Of Crackina

4 Major Defenses Towns Captured   Nazi Lines Crumbling North of Volturne ' And Calore Rivers — Central Gains Beat Battle Lines Almost Straight — Clark's  fM-n Smagh Many Counter-Attacks

Captured in Southern Italy in Advance Up to 6 Miles, and Surged on Toward Rome Thru German Lines.   AMERICAN 5TH ARMY HAS SEIZED CAIZZO   British Sth Army Captured Two Major Highway Hubs, Campobasso and Vinchicturo, It Is Announced.

Allied Armies Take Four Major Towns From Nazis   German Defenses In Southern Italy Continue to Crack

Food Conference Set For May 18   Delegates Will Meet In Virginia

Texan Heads U.S. Delegation To World Food Parley Set At Hot Snringae Va..On Mau 78

United Nations Conference On Food Set for May   To Be Held at Hot Springs, Va.; Post War Problems a Topic

FOOD PARLEY iS SET FOR MAY 18   Judge Marvin Jones Named Chairman Of American Delegation

food Parley Meets May 18   American Delegation Named for Conference At Hot Springs, Vo.

Marvin Jones to Head U.S. Group To Food Parley   Another Texan, Clayton, Also To Toke Part

FOOD TALKS 10 Bt HELD IN. VIRGINIA   United Nations Conference Scheduled to Open at Hot Springs May 18: Judge Marvin Jones, Chairman

PLANS AVIATION SESSION IN IOWA   . Hickenlooper Calls ~ Meeting for Nov. 26°

Calls Iowa Air Confab   Postwar Air Traffic To Be Subject Of Hickenlooper Meeting

BERLIN BLASTED SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT BY BRITISH   Large Force of Bombers Attacks German Capital, Explosives Starting Huge Fires.   22 ENGLISH PLANES FAIL TO RETURN   Berlin Says 82 Persons Were Killed—Brief Alert Sounded in London as Nazis Cross Channel.

PRESIDENT MARKS OTCADE IN OFFICE AT WHITE HOUSE   Simple Religious Services Held With Cabinet Members and Other Govern - ment’ Officials Present.

FOURTH TERM ~~ 1S DISCUSSED   SPECULATION .OVER ROOSEVELYTS FUTURE PLANS HEARD ON TENTH AN“NIVERSARY OF IN-’  AUGURATION 

Roosevelt Observes Inaugural Anniversary at Divine Rites   Begins Eleventh Year in White House By Aitending Simple Services; Minister Offers Prayer for Allied Victory

FDR SMILES AT ATH TERM TALK   Walker Reports President Brushes Off 44 Comment on 1Oth Anniversary.

NEW DEAL ENDS FIRST DECADE   President To Mark Anniver. sary: Appears Cool To Fourth Term Talk

F. R. Completes His 10th Year In White House   Prayer For Strength Against Evil Marks An niversarvy.

Services at  White House   F. R. Offers Prayers On Anniversary of Tenth Year in Office

Peace Prayer Is Voiced by Roosevelt   Special Services Mark - Tenth Anniversary as President .

ROOSEVELT ON ELEVENTH YEAR   Religious Service Held At White House For His Anniversary

ENDS FIRST TEN YEARS      Starts His 11th Year in White “House Today

FDR BEGINS 11TH YEAR AS LEADER   Religious Services in White House Highlight of Observance

FOR AT HIS 10TH ANNIVERSARY   ‘Too Busy to Think of  Any Fourth Term Conversation

FDR OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY AS PRESIDENT   Prays That “God Grant. Us Grace Fearlessly to  Contend Against Evi! . And to Make No Peace With Oppression”

ef DR OBSERVES 10TH ~ YEAR AS PRESIDENT      @ ourth Term Talk Is Broached Again

Roosevelt Reaches 10th Anniversary In White House Amid Fourth Term Talk, Too Busy With War fo Think About 1944

PRAYERS ARE SAID AT WHITE HOUSE   SUPPLICATIONS FOR PEACE AND STRENGTH AS F.D.R. STARTS 11TH YEAR.

Anniversary Services Held In White House   High Government Officials Are Invited to Worship With President  EOURTH TERM TALK

Roosevelt, on Tenth Anniversary;. Too Busy to Think About 4th Term:

Prayer Service  In White House   Roosevelt Observes Custom on 10th Anniversary as Preaciclant

FDR Ignores Kh Term Talk   Religious. “Service. Held “On 10th: Anniversary

Mawhe It’s Larson   FDR President Ten Years; Observes Date With Prayer

F.D.R, PRAYS ON ANNIVERSARY OF PRESIDENCY   Peace and Social Justice Asked for All in U. S. Service

FDR OBSERVES 10TH ANNIVERSARY TODA}   Religious Services Mart End of Decade in White House.

ROOSEVELT AT PRAYER SERVICE   Prayer Offered For Strength To Combat Enemies.

FD Observes Tenth Anniversary Of Inavguration With Prayers Today

FOURTH TERM TALK GN ANNIVERSARY   President Celebrates Tei:th Anniversary in White House with Special Services ~~

FDR Observes Tenth Year in White House   : Prays for Divine Help Toward  Peace and Victory; Talk of Fourth Term Among Dem ocrats 

COLD WILL HOLD ON   Penetrating North Wind To Keep the Temperatures Down

Down To Five Or 10 Tonicht   Cold Wind Expected To Hold Mercury  Down Over Kansas

38-44 Men Must Hurry Actions.   ‘May 1 Deadline For Essential Industry .

DEWEY BLAMES GOVERNMENT FOR FEED SHORTAGE   Governor Warns People of State May Face “Grave Hardchin”

Grapefruit Juice Now Ration-Free   U. S.-Owned Juice To Go To Civilians

Beds Punch flew Hole in Jozi Lines   German Reserves Fail to Halt Counteroffensive

Soviets Punch 4-Mile Hole  in Nazi Lines   5,000 Enemy Troops Are Wiped Out in Sunday Attacks

Soviets Make Great New Gain on Foe   Troops Surge On, Hit Enemy Crushing Blows on Vital Frant

Russians Again Make Advance Against Orel   Have Scored Gains of 20 to 50 Miles During Week’s Drive

Red Forces Push Ahead Four Miles Toward City   Capture More Towns And Kill 5,000 Nazis As German Reserves  Fail To Check Drive  CONVERGE ON CITY FROM 3 DIRECTIONS  Russians Have Gainec From 26 to 50 Miles  In Counter-Offensive

4-MILE ADVANCE MADE BY REDS IN OREL SECTOR   5,000 Enemy Troops Wip‘ed Out In First Summer  Counter-Offensive   RUSSIANS THREATEN VITAL RAILWAY LINK

NEW GAINS BY RUSS MADE IN OREL SECTOR   Shock Troops* Batter German Defenses Before City

Red Army Punches Another Hole In Defenses Before Orel; 5000 More Nazi Troops Wiped Out

hed army advances near Orel; wipe out 2,000 enemy troops   Soviet gains in past week total nearly 50 miles as counter-attacks are halted

Russian Armies Punch New Holes In German Lines  Enemy Reserves Fail Tc Stop Red Avalanche Converging On Orel

Soviet Thrust Against Orel Staggers Nazis   Russ Take Villages, Wipe Out 5000 Men Ja Summer Prive

Speculation On Allied. Air Plans Stirred; Eisenhower Welcomed Bu British Press

Mighty Offensive Sweeps to Within 35 Miles of Old Folish Border’ Taking 40 More Towns On the Way. Germans Admit Ga

ESCAPE ROUTE FOR GERMANS IN GOMEL CU   UKRAINE ARMIES ONLY 35 MILES FROM POLAND

SOVIET ARMIES 35 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER   Next To Last Escape Line For Germans Is Cut By Russians   COUNTER-ATTACKS OF ENEMY ARE REPULSED

Blast Rocks War Plant   Two Known Killed and 13 Seriously Injured At Charleston, W. Va.

BLAST IN WAR PLANT   Two Men Were Killed and 13 Others Were Injured

Mussolini Calls Cabinet into Session and Germans Are Staggered upon Receiving News.   NO ARMED GERMAN IN AFRICA IS TO BE GOAL

VET OF CIVIL WAR, NONAGENARIAN EX  P ECTS 10 LIVE TO SEE HITLER HANGED

Corpus Man 90, Working Seven Days ¥ X wk Mh MH KX w& & A Week, Expects To Outlive Hitler

RED ARMY IN NORTH CONTINUES ATTACK IN.LENINGRAD AREA      Continue Major “‘Otiinilve To Free Second City Of Soviet From Germans

Major Drive Is Announced By Stockholm   ‘Dispatches Indicate Assault Designed to _Free City of Nazis

‘Schlusselburg Fortifications  Are Bombed   Importance of New Battle is Potentiallv Great

Major Offensive  Designed To Free Reds’ Second City   Bombardment .of Schlusselburg Wednesday Opens Drive Reported From Neutral Ouartere

Soviets Attack on New Front   Freeing Leningrad Aim of Gampaian:

TWO GO INTO SERVICE   Notices Have Been Received by : Local Draft Board   TInduetad Yate thea Serwias

TWO GO INTO SERVICE   Notices Have Been Been Received by Lecal Draft Board

‘Model Prison’ Packed With Stills, Gambling   Men And Women Prisoners Get Together; Situation Leads To Revolt

VICE RAMPANT IN GEORGIA PRISON   Liquor Stills, Vice, Gambling and Revolt Common In ‘Model’ Penitentiary; Also Intimacies Between Men and Women Prisoners.

Kasy Life While It Lasted  Georgia Penitentiary Inmates Had Liquor, Gambling, Vice and Food Supplies Whenever Desired

Reports Says Liquor Stills, Vice, Gambling, Revolt Was Rampant In Georgia Prison

Convicts Operated Stills, Gambling Vice Rampant Before Prison Break   Twenty-Five Prisoners Finally Took Control Of Georgia “Model” Pen, Gorged Selves With Food And Departed Hilariously, Governor Told.

Prison Vice and Whoopy Reigned Before Escape. Georgia Governor Told

Me ee Se eA Se See: Se Gee a SO  21 Demands Presented By Lewis at Meeting

Lewis Demands Pay Boost for Hard Coal Men   Presents New Contrac Similar to Bituminous Proposals

BRITISH ENTER LEBANON ROW   Ready to Take ‘Action If French Fail to End  Crisis

British May Step In   Threaten to Take Over Control of Lebanon Unless Disorders Stop

Britain May Take Over Lebanon   French Given Chance to Put End to Disorders

British. Viewed. Ruling ¢ Lebanon “To 0. Solve Crisis   French “Authorities. Deny _ Any. Serious’ Disorders "Jar . Mediterranean - Area

Britain Said Ready To Seize Control Of Lebanon Unless French Put.Down Disorders   Uncertainty Whether Armed Forces To Be Used; French Deny Disturbances

GREAT BRITAIN READY T0 TAKE OVER LEBANON   Might Assume Control Unless Disorders End; Determined to Maintain Far East Peace

British May Take Control Of Lebanon   Area Vital In Allied Military Activities: French Deny Seriou: Disorder

BRITISH INDICATE  READINESS T0 SOLVE  CRISIS IN LEBANON MILITARY CONSIDERA TIONS STRESSED IN ’ PROTEST TO FRENCH

British May Take Over in Lebanor   Ready to Act Unless French End Disorders and Solve Crisis   NO SERIOUS TROUBLE, DE GAULLE CLAIMS   Violence in Strategic Area Is Not Serious Is Claim; Enemy Propaganda Blamed

British Stand Ready To Take  Over Lebanon   French Given Chance To End Disorders Themselves 

British May Take Control of Lebanor   Officials Indicate Their Readiness to Act, as Military Necessity, Unless French End Disorders and Solve Crisis.

British May Take Control Of Lebanon   Advise French That This Is Strategic Area and Thev Are Responsible

BRITISH READY TO INTERVENE IN LEBANON AFFAIR   FRENCH DENY SERIOUS DISORDERS AND CLAIM PROPAGANDA BY ENEMY

Britain Ready To Intervene In Lebanon   French Authorities Deny Serious Disorders Had Oceurred: Catroux To Try To Settle Crisis

BRITIoH ALY TO END CRISIS   French Deny Reports of Serious Disorders in Lebanon Area.   IS IN. STRATEGIG ZONE

MINERS WILL HAVE 25° DAILY INCREASE      Bituminous Miners Produce " 12,000,G00 Tons Of Soft. Coal A Week

GERMANY IS TRYING TO KEEP FOREIGN NEWS FROM PEOPLE      Starts New Radio-Jamming War To Keep Nazis From Listening To  Programs: ,

RED JAUNT ENDED BY RICKENBACKER   Captain Reports Immediately to Stimson As He Reaches Capital

RICKENBACKER TOUR FOR STIMSON ENDS   Flier Back in Washington Fron Trip Abroad During Which He Visited Moscow,

PREDICT SHORTAGE OF MILK IN MANY AREAS OF NATION      AREAS IN EAST, SOUTH AND WEST WILL PROBABLY BE PUT ON RATION .  BABIS

MILK, CHEESE SHORTAGE SEEN   Hard-Hit Eastern Seaboard Expects Tightest Pinch

Taft Proposes New Restrictions  Says Farm Subsidy Would ‘Cost U.S. 5 Billion A Year

Food Price Cut Seen As OPA Ain In Subsidy Plan  Rolthacl Benactad   Rollback Expected Soon On Fresh Vegetables

General Food Price Slash Seen OPA Aim   Cut on Vegetables Expected Soon Under Subsidy Program

FRANCO FACES LOYALIST FIGHT   Report Spain’s Influential Leaders Demand Restoration of Spanish Monarchy.

Spanish Groups Demand End of Franco Regime   Seek Restoration Of Old Monarchy

Spanish Chiefs Seek Monarchy   Franco Faces Clash With His Generals

Spanish Dictator’s Position Totters As Showdown Nears on Question Of Restoring King; Franco Silent

Weather in Helena   Spanish Dictator’s Position Totters As Showdown Nears on Question Of Restoring King; Franco Silent

48-Hour Week Plan Extended   Takes In Lumber, Metal Industries To Release Needed Workers

WOODSMEN GET 48-HOUR WEEK   Metal Mining Other Than Iron Also Affected By Manpower Order

U. S. Decrees 48-Hour Week To Lumbermen   M’Nutt Eases Transition To Longer Hourage To ALD T tne

Lumber Industry, Metal Mines Put On 48-hour Week   lron Mines Omitted F rom Manpower Order; WMC. Regional Directors Given Wide. ' Powers In Critical Areas

48-Hr. Week Rules Issued By MeNutt      Entire Lumber and Some fining Indusiries Come Under Order

Longer Work Week In Two Industries   -Lumber And Metal Mining Are Ordered ‘To 48-Hour Basis

ETAL MINING, LUMBER FIRMS 0 ON 48 HOURS   Iron Operations Are ‘Not Affected by War Manpower: Commissioner's: : Decree   OTHER INDUSTRIES UNDER AREA HEADS   Broad Discretionary Au thority Granted Region-.  al Directors to Deal — With Longer Hours.

New 48-Hour Rule Affects Mine Lumber Workers   All Non- Ferrous Metal “ee ee, eee Roe ie   All Non-Ferrous Metal Producers Included In National Order

1 LUMBER INDUSTRI N PUT ON 48 HOURS      Work Week Also Extended For Metal Mining

Order Industries  ~ On 48-Hour Week  Lumbering And Critical Metal Mining Included In Program

Don't Worry About That Christmas Package You Sent To The Boy Overseas, He'll Get It

Two Million More Face Early Draft   Million Fathers Face Call, And Others To Be Re-Classified To Meet Demands   Packages Reaching Troops Quicklu And In Fine Shape

JAN; (6 LAST DAY.   [mpossible to Obtair ‘Book Two: Without duone -Raak - ds

Jan. 15 Is Ration Book 1 Deadline   Next Friday Last Day to Register; Must Have First One to Get Book No. 2

FINAL DATE FOR RATIONS NEARING   Persons Without First Sugar Book Are Warned to Apply Before Jan. 15.

FIVE YOUTHS HELD ~ FOR-11 ROBBERIES   Boys, Ranging From 12 to U7 Yedrs, Admit Crimes - - Here

FIVE YOUTHS HELD FOR 11 ROBBERIES   Boys, Ranging From 12 tc 17 Years, Admit Crimes Here

MINE STRIKERS INDICTED   30 UMW Officials And Members inlicted Fer Wildeat Strike

Moforists Here Line Up To Beat 3-Gallon Limit   Gas Stations Swamped Over Week-End; Halt All Book Renewals

4 Arrested On Charges Of Espionage   Attractive Woman Said Center of Nazi Spy  Activities

Four Charged With Espionage   Attractive Woman Head of Spy Ring, Hoover Asserts

THREE TAKEN ~ IN ESPIONAGE      carci  Detroit "Men and. Womar Said Given Nazis Information

WOMAN AND TWO MEN HELD BY FBI FOR ESPIONAGE   Arrests in Detroit on Charges of Giving War Information to German:

ARREST FOUR, INVESTIGATION STARTED IN °39   Charged Group With Sending Information to Nazi Germany

NAZI SPY RING ROUNDED UP BY FBI IN DETRON   Pwo Women and Mar Arrested by G-Men On Charges of Wartime Espionage

FBI Accuses Four Persons  Of Espionage   Three Are Arrested At Detroit And One At New York In Probe Of Alleged Spy Ring

4 Arrested On Charges Of Espionage   Attractive Detroit Woman Named Aa Leader of Ableged Ring

—SPY RING—  TWONAZ ALIENS ALS IN CUSTOD   Suspects First To Be Caught Under Wartime Espionage Act   NABBED IN DETROIT   Attractive Woman Of} French Descent Is Call ed Ringleader

A ARE ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE   Spy Ring Which Furnished information to Germans Is Nabbed bv FBI

Four Nazi Spies  _ Nabbed By FBI   Sent War Information To Germany

OUR HELD BY FBI FOR ESPIONAGE   Offenders Include Woman Leader Of Alleged Spy Ring

GERMAN AGENTS ARE NABBED IN DETROIT BY FBI   Accused of Sending to Nazis Information on War Plants In Great Lakes Area   TWO WOMEN AND TWO MEN   Arrest of Trio Is Climax Of Investigation Begun Four Years Ago

Spy Ring Leader in. G-Man Nei   Attractive Woman of French Nobility Among Four Held for Esvionare   i'LONG UNDER WATCH BY FEDERAL MEN   Some Missourians Said t0 Be Among Her Possible Contacts

Three Persons Arrested As Spies In Detoit  Two Women And A  QZ averse

Two Women, Man Seized As Spies  For Germany ©      Charged With Gathering Information-For-.-~ Navi Germany.

FBI Arrests Three On Spy Charges For Nazi Germany  Attractive Woman Nomed es Leader Pur FF... 2 6 rms!

Allege Woman Leader Of Ring ~ Held In Detroit   Declare War Information. Given Nazi Germany By Two Men, Two Women

BI ARRESTS 2 WOMEN, 2 MEN AS SPIES   Beautiful Counter-Espionage Agent Aids in Foiling Ring Which Gathered Data on Ohio Plants.

Woman Held As Leader of An Espionage Ring   Charge She and 3 Men Furnished Data To Germany

ARREST 4 ON SPY CHARGES   Accused of Giving Germany Information On War Plants

FBI Arrests Detroit Trio, One In New York Charged  With Being German Spies

Group Is First To Be Arraigned Under War Act   Two,Aliens Taken On Presidential Warrant

ARREST OF FOUR ALLEGED SPIES IN DETROIT ANNOUNCED   ATTRACTIVE, WELL EDU  ' As TEN POMP ARL CT AIMEN

Two Women. Men Charged By FBI With Being Spies   One Of Group Later Supplied U.S. With All Information Being Sond To Niuzis

Iwo Men, Two Women Seized By FBI Agent   Prisoners Accused Ot Getting Information On War Plants

6-MEN ARREST SPY SUSPECTS   34-year-cld Woman Believed Member of Espionage Ring

FBI ACCUSES 4 OF BEING GERMAN SPIES   One Is Attractive Woman Named Leader of an Espionage Ring—Conviction Carries Maximum Penalty of Death.

IWOWOMEN, MAN ARRESTED BY FBI   Trio Face Possible Deaths in Gathering Information On War Industries.

o4 ARE CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE   ttractive Woman, 34, and Two Alleged Accomplices Named by Justice Dept.

TROOPS LEARN LESSON . BY CAPTURE OF TARAWA  Concentrated Shelling Necessary To Reduce Cost of Such Assaults

U.S. FORCES ADVANCING ON BIZERTE   Americans Take Last Hills Before Axis Naval Base

American, French And British Armies Gain In Driving Nazis To Coast

Dl i i i hi i hi i i i tt  Noted Sub Commander  Is Missing in Action

Fuel Oil Users Urged To Submit Application At Once   Must Act Now To Insure . _ Enough. Fuel For  - LD setived

Fuel Oil Users Urged To. Submit Application’ At Once   Must Act Now To Insure _ Enough. Fuel For

Should Apply Now For Oil Rations   Will Insure Supply For Next Winter

NEW FLOOD THREATS   Marais des Cygnes and Neosho to Go Out of -Banks ;

WIDOWER HELD IN CAPITAL MURDER   Father of 5 Charged In Divorcee Slaying

Third of Doctors Now in Service  May Remain, Chief McIntyre Says

Asserts Many Doctors Not to Return to Their Practice After the War

‘Army, navy to keep thire U.S. doctors’   Needs of military will require most medical students

Many Physicians To Stay in Army, McIntyre Asserts   One Third Will Not Return to Private Practice, He Declares

PARLEY LOOMING ON ALLIED MOVES   Latest Report Hints An other Meeting Between FDR and Churchill

Churchill, FDR May Meet Soon   Twin American-British And Russian Attacks Thought Likely By London.

AMERICAN-BRITISH LEADERS MAY MEET   Conference Expected To Come  After Allied Success

Hitler Boasts Ability to Defeat Allies   Warns of Drastic Measures to Hold Home Front

HITS BOASTFUL ATTITUDE AMID PARTY BIGWIGS   ‘Challenges Allies To Open Second Front; Hints Of Great  Reserves  ‘

Hitler Delivers Boastful  _ Talk At Nazi Party Meet   Warns He Will Resort To Mass Executions To Prevent Home Front Collapse; Aims Threats In Many Directions

Hitler fo Fight Allies to End   Germans May Face Mass Executions

New Beer Parlor Putsch: Hitler Promises Mass Executions And Fanatical Fight To the End

Hitler Vows Frantic Fight To End In Munich Speech   Warns German People He Will Resort to Moss Executions to Prevent Home Front Collapse—Aims “ "Threats in Many Directions

NAZI BIGTATOR HURLS THREATS AT HOME FRONT   Declares He Will Resort to Mass Executions, if Necessary, to Prevent Its Collanse.   SAYS PARTY HOLDS NATION TOGETHER   Speech in Munich Carries Defensive Note—Vows Germany Will Fight to the End,

Mass Executions Promised If Home Front Collapses   Says. Many Wish for an Allied Victory; Demands Loyalty

Hitler Vows Battle To End, Warns Of Mass Executions To Avoid Collapse At Hame

Jap Warship Is Believed Sunk   Another Enemy Ship Es corting New Guinea Convoy Is Air Attack Victim

Fire Destroys Butte House  Family Escanes   Family Escapes Serious Injury

General State Rain Soaks Soil   More Precipitation is Being Forecast By Weather Man

Rationing Of Meat To Start After March 28   Individual Consumers Will Be Allotted 16 Points Per Week.

Cheese, Butter Also Included In New Order   Details Given; 2 To 2'4 Pounds Of Meat Week’s Average; Oils, Canned Fish Included; 16 Points Weekly Permitted

16 Points Weekly To Be Allowance   Two Pounds of Meat Per Person Planned; Cheese » Reduced: Dried Beans Inereased

16 Points a Person, Wee ly, Includes Entire Class  of Foods  'CHANGE IN COUPONS Order Docs Not Include  { Home Killed Meat and  Restaurants

DATE FIXED FOR MARCH 2   Details of Program Are Announced By OPA

Butter, Fats, Cheese, Edfble Oils, Canned Products Are Included   16 POINTS A WEEK   2/4 Pounds Of Meat, 4!/. Ounces Of Butter Are Expected Portions

BUTTER, FATS CHEESE, DILS ARE INCLUDED   Point System Designated, With 16 Points Weekly Allowed

Meat and Butter Cheese Rations Start March 29   Point Values for Products Affected To Be Listed Week of March 22; Canned Fish, Edible Fats Included

Butter And Cheese Included In New Program; Point Values Will Be Announced During Week Of March 22

MEAT RATION PLAN BEGINS ON MARCH 28   Point Values _ Will: Be Announced During Week of March 22 .

Meat, Butter ‘And Cheese Deadline Set   New. Rationing Due March 29, But No Point Values Fixed.

Point System Will Govern Butter, Cheese   Red Stamps to Be Used In Program Set Up By OPA: Each Consumer Gets 16 Points Weekly for Purchase , Of Newly Limited Foods.

‘Rationing Of Meat, Cheese, Other Foods, Starts Mar. 28   Americans To Get Twice The Allotment. Of Meat Given British

Ration Of Two Pounds Of Meat Each Week Expected To Be Set For Each Person

OPA SLASHES POINT VALUE OF DRIED AND DEHYDRATED FRUITS. DRIED BEANS. PEAS   New Meat-Fats-Cheese Rationing Program Leaves Only Few Items

POINT VALUES MAY PROVIDE TWO POUNDS   Canned Fish, Butter. Cheese, Edible Fats and Oils Embraced In Schedule.

WLB Will Seek Reason For Alabama Miners Defying Back-To-Work Edict

WLB. SCHEDULES SUNDAY SESSION TO PROBE STRIKE   Alabama . Miners . Re. fuse to Heed Lewis’ Plea for Work Resumption

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY PROGRAM IS BEATEN   Congress Orders Meat And Butter Price “Roll Back” Ended By August 1

CONGRESS FORBIDS USE OF SUBSIDIES   Roosevelt — ls Again Re. buffed by Action of Legislators

Congress Forbids Use of Subsidies  Orders Meat-Butter Rollback Ended

Meat, butter rollback mus‘  end by Aug. 1   Subsidies cannot push prices down

BOTH HOUSES DEFEAT FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN   Order Suspension of OPA's Price Roll Back Program

Sends Measure To White House By Big Ma jorities   Meat-Butter Price Roll Back Ordered Ended by Aug. 1  (OMPROMISE BILL  Some Predict Veto But Votes Indicate It Can Be Overridden

Congress Forbids Food Subsidies; Meat-Butter Rollback To End Aug. 

‘Congress Bans Subsidies for Price Rollback   Orders Meat, Butter Programs to Be Halted August 1

GONGRESS STOPS SUBSIDIES’ USE   Orders Meat-Butter Rollback  y Aug. 1 By Action

Congress Hands Out  Another Setback  To Administration Bans Use of Subsidies  To Push Down Retail Food Prices

Food Price Subsidies Voted Out By Congress   Orders Butter-Meat Price Rollback Ended by August 1 In Face of Warnings   ANOTHER SETBACK FOR ADMINISTRATION   President May Veto, But Margin in Votes Enough for Override

CONGRESS BANS FOOD SUBSIDIES   BOTH BRANCHES VOTE TO END MEAT-BUTTER PRICE ROLLBACK BY AUG. 1.

Another Rebuff ls Handed FDR  Cingnl Annroval fe .   Final Approval Is . Given Subsidv Ban

Failure of Senate and House to Agree Leaves 18 Government Agencies Without Funds as New Fiscal Year Starts,

CONGRESS ENDS SUBSIDY PLAN FOR ROLLBACK   Administration Handed Another Setback By Killing Price Cut Measures   Veto Anticipated

SUBSIDIES’ USE TO CUT PRICES IS FORBIDDEN   Congress Acts in Face Of Opposition of FDR and Aides

Naples, Tunis and Bizerte Given Bombing  Forces of Rommel Withdrawing Under Pressure

§ Enemy Transport Planes. Shot Down by Allies Over Sietly: Strait

Allied Airmen ‘Bomb Naples; ‘Down 6 Planes   Strike at Crotone on ‘Sole’ of ‘the Italian’ Boot

NAPLES IS BOMBED. BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Other Axis Points on Both  Shores of Mediterran ean Raided

BLAST 6 AXIS TRANSPORTS OUT OF SKIES   ‘Allied Airmen Also Bomb Naples And Crotone, Tunis And Bizerte In Saturdav Raid.   Allied Planes Safe

Americar Bombers: Hit Italy By Day   Naples and Crotone Blasted, Six Nazi Air Transports  : Are Shot Down

NAPLES BOMBED, GROTONE IS HIT   Tunis And Bizerte Again Hit By U. S. Airmen In North Africa

U.S. Airmen  Bomb Naples And Crotone   Also Pound Bizerte And Tunis in Africa, Down Four Transports  TANTN ACTION OVITCT

ALLIES BLAST NAPLES, OTHER ENEMY BASE   Shoot Down Six Nazi Transport Planes Off Tunisia

U.S. Airmen Blast Naples, Axis Ports   American Force Strikes Across Sea To Pounc «, Crotone Airdrome; 6 German Planes r D From Big F ob owned From Big Formation

FIRST JAPS ARRIVE FOR ARMY TRAINING   Some from Hawaii Come te Camp Shelby, Miss.

PRESS BAN AT TALKS RAPPED   Fight For News Coverage 01 Food Conference Opened   Loyal Japanese Train In Army

SMALL STREAMLINED ARMY   Jap-American Soldiers ‘Are’ in : Training at Camp Shelby

Loyal Jap-American Soldiers Reach U. 5.  2,500 Will Join Others Here to

orther  March Hits This Section   KRATURE IN WAXA AGS TO 29 EBARLY TUESDAY.

Navigator Says “Goodbye” To Life As He Falls From Speeding Bomber

CHAPLIN BABY CASE FIREWORKS OFF 10 PREMATURE STAR]   Accused Comic Scents Trouble Ahead; Could Be!

SAM'L HARDEN CHURCH DEAD   Tech President . Offered Million for Capture  of Hitler

Dr. Samuel Harden Church Offered $1,000,000 Reward In 1940 For the Capture of Hitler

Seek Teeth For Rationing Law   Would Take Violators Into State Courts

So Declares War Analyst DeWitt MacKenzie Wha Says Fuehrer Knows He Is Beaten and Now =  Wants to-Divide Allies and Save What He Can   ae y ip ern

‘BALKANS SEETHING WITH REPORT OF GERMAN AND RUSSIAN PEACE PLANS: HITLER’S “BLOOD WALL”

The War Today  Rumors of Separate  Nazi-Red Peace Inspired By Berlin.

Rumors Current Nazis Ask Peace With Russians   These Feelers Beg Considered by Soviet, Balkan Reports State.

hte War Today—  ‘Reports Russia Considering Peace Bids By Germany Seen As Feelers

Germany Reported Seeking Separate Peace With Russia Would Soviet Make Such a Move?

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ‘Allied Tri-Party Meeting ‘Will Iron Out Troubles, Thinks MacKenzie

Ww ith Rumors of Separate Peace  ‘Germans Trying to Stir Up Discord

The War Teday   Nazis Circulate Separate Peace With Ruesia Renorts

CAT IS LIFE-SAVER FOR 6 MEN ON RAFT   Kept Spirits Up During 56 Hours of Drifting

CAT AIDES SEAMEN IN LIFE RAFT ON SE   Only Ashore 10 Days Since Start of War

Cat Proves Life-Saver   Survivor of Torpedoed Ship Says Feline’ Kept Morale High.

NO CHANGE IN MIDWEST GAS ICKES STATES   At the present, such ac tion would not assist the East coast

GAS BLOG’ IN MIDWEST HAS BATTLE AHEAD   Farm State Senatzrs Go Into Meeting With Gasoline Czar Ickes.  * Sin   EAST IS AGAINST US   If Fight Is Lost Pleasure Driving in Midwest Will Be Banred.

GUFFEY PLANNING TO FORCE. ~ HEARING ON LOTTERY PLAN      SENATOR PREPARING TO PUSH niS PROPOSAL FOR RAISING REVENUE BY NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sen. Guffey Urges Consideration Of Proposal For National Lottery

BOWLES HINTS BAS, TIRE CUT   Gloomy Prospects Pictured for Motorists During New Year

PRIOE ADMINISTRATOR IN YEAR-END STATEMENT ALSO. BEES “TOUGH SLEDDING" TO ' CONTROL LIVING COSTS

INCOME TAX MAN 10 BE IN JEWELL TUES   Everybody Must Make Sept. 15 Report Who Has $500. Gross Income If Single, $1200 If Married; Except Farmers and Wage Earners

POLICE CRACKING DOWN ON SPEEDERS   Chief of Police Tells Officers to Intensify Their — fforts   [PEDESTRIANS WARNED

DOWN ON SPEEDERS   Chief of Police Tells Officers to Intensify Their ~ Efforts

DEFER PERSONS   Rebellious Congresymen Seeking to  _ Overhaul Selective Service Act — Want to Put Farmers and Fath‘ors at Bottom of Draft List.

Barge Canal Proposal Is _ Stricken Out   General Flood Control Work Also . Eliminated - From. War Office: Bill   HARBOR PROJECTS WILL CONTINUE   Florida Project Would Not Relieve oH Shortage,

Florida Canal FundKilledby House Group   Committee Says Other Ways Will Provide Oil for East Seaboard.

Florida Barge Canal Dropped  From Measure  House Committee Cuts   House Committee Cuts $44 Million Item From Supply Bill; Won't Help On Oil. Claim

Big Florida Canal Dropped From Bill   House Decides Against Proposal

Florida Canal Fund Eliminated   Committee Votes 21-19 ‘To Strike Out Funds

Plan For Barge Canal Is Killed   Funds For Project Stricken From Bill

FLORIDA BARGE GANAL CANCELLED   House Appropriations Com. mitte Eliminated $44,000,000 item.

COMMITTEE KNOCKS OUT APPROPRIATION FOR BARGE CANAL  FLORIDA WATERWAY PRO twreem nt aharnm TH AIM IT)

- KILL FLORIDA CANAL   Money for Praject Is Removed by House Appropriations Group

Florida Canal Bill Defeated   House Appropriations Committee Strikes Out $44000,000 Fund

JAPANESE TOLL HIGH IN PAPUA   Allied Losses Reverse Usual Figure For Attackers

Jap Papua Losses Are Double Allies   MacArthur Says Campaign One of Most Unusual In History

HITS THE NEW DEAL   Oklahoma Junior Senators Speaks Before Tulsa C. of C.

Sen. E. H. Moore Scores New Deal Palace Guard   Oklahoman .Terms Hopkins, Frankfurter Un-American Advisers

Canned Milk Put « on Rationing. List by..O.P. A. To Conserve Diminishing Supply for Babies ..

CANNED MILKS NOW RATIONED   One Point Per Pound Of Red Stamps Required

EVAPORATED AND CONDENSED MILK NOW RATIONED   Action Comes Without Warning from OPA; Seek To Conserve Deminishing Supplies For Small Children; Takes One Red Point Per Pound.

WILL RATION CANNED MILK   OPA Secks to Conserve Di minishing Supplies For Babies

CANNED MILK   OPA Seeks to Conserve Diminishing Supplies For Babies

Ration Ordered On Canned Milk   One Red Point For larne Can Neaade-

" OPA Aets To » Save Supply For Babies   No Restrictions Are Placed Upon Evaporated Milk.

Rationing Of Canned Milk Ordered Office Price: Administration   No Actual Restrictions But Will Take Red Stamps To Purchase

OPA Orders Canned Milk Rationing  Tall Cans to Take One Red Coupon

Canned Milk On Rationing List   To Conserve Diminishing Sup plies For Babies

OPA Puts Canned Milk on Ration Effective Today  No Restrictions Se, =   No Restrictions Put on Purchases; Red Stamp Required

ORDER RATIONING OF CANNED MILK   PRICE OFFICE ACTS TO CONSERVE DIMINISHING SUPPLY FOR BABIES.

Wickard Plans Crop Report  eg ermpetiogwee: Eleva FIs   Secretary Says He Is on ‘Hot Sect’

WICKARD oOCN TU ANOW Id4i FUDD OUTLOOK   Shorter Rations Anticipated For American Citizens For Rest Of Year

Liquor Ceiling Cutting Capers  OPA To Stabilize Them If Possible

OPA PLANS CEILING / ON LIQUOR PRICES   Government Decides to Minimize Strange Fluctuations of Liquor Prices

_ ‘New, Lower Meat Ceilings Effective Monday)   Rations, Prices And Wages   GAROLINE FOR FURLOUGH

ROMMEL FORMS DEFENSE LINES EAST OF TRIPOL   U.S. Bombers From Tunisia, Open Raids on Base

Rommel Forming Two New Defense Lines   Allied Bombers ‘Continue to Hammer Nazi Bases

Maj. Tomes Participated In Daring Kahili Flight  bs ~~. si .s—ds . OO eee

1943 Finance Act Passes House  State Civil Service Bill Is Killed

Finance Act Passes House as Senate Defeats Civil Service   Primary Election Measures Beaten; Highway Bond Issues Favored By Committee; Many Bills Handled

SOVIET SLOW DRIVE   Russians Advance After Careful Preparation i in  Kuban Delta

RED ARMY OPENING DRIVE IN CAUCASUS   Germans Stil  Have FootHold in Former Red Na val Baca.

Soviet Army Starts New Offensive On  German Lines   Ry E0DDIF GILMORE

RED ARMY OPENS NEW DRIVE   In Kuban Delta of Caucasus With Strong Artillery and Bomber Preparations

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN CAUCASUS AREA   Slow-Going But Thorough Push Advances Into German Positions in Kuban Delta   RESISTANCE STIFF   Gains Being Consolidated  and New Operations Prepared; Nazis Still Hold Novorossisk Strip

RUSSIANS START NEW DRIVE IN THE KUBAN DELTA   New Soviet Push Is Slow But Thorough With Strong Bomber and Artillery Action Preceding the Infantry

RUSSIANS TAKE NAZI POSITIONS IN KUBAN DELTA   Bombers and Ariillery Pave Way for Advance, Germans Thrown Out Affer Counter-Drive

SOVIETS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN KUBAN DELTA   Use Strong Artillery and Bomber Preparation, but Are Slowed Momentarily to Consolidate Their Gains.

Russians Launch A New Offensive In Kuban Delta .   Strong Artillery And Bombing Raids Preceded Drive.

SOVIETS START NEW DRIVE IN THE CAUCASUS   Kuban Delta Scene Of New Red Offensive While Nazis Pour In Thousands Of Men

Slow-going But Thorough Drive Opened In Kuban Delta With Strong Arrtillery and Bomber Preparation Preceding Infantry.

Australia Urges No More ‘Let Up In Pacific War   in Facitic War  Minister Evatt Says Japs Given Time for Recovery After Losses  DANGER ADMITTED  Strong Enemy Forces Near Allied Bases;  Stimson Promises Aid

ACK IN  KS SUFFER TH SECTOR   All Key  ances Scored tors Of Front

STATE HEADS OF DRAFT 10 MEET IN WASHINGTON   May Create New Classification For Fathers

"Father Draft’ Conference Set   Directors " To Meet In Washington

State Draft Bosses Meet Next Week  Reclassification Of Fathers To Be

FATHER DRAFT SEEN NECESSARY   State: “Selective: Seriice Heads to Meet in  Washing. ton Next Week

Clear Way For Dratting Dads   Directors To Confer On Selective Service

STATE SELECTIVE SERVICE HEADS TO MEET IN WASHINGTON  . Meeting Described As Annual Affair by Natinnal Of ficare

Draft Meeting Next Week In Capital May Decide On When Dads Will Be Called   Broad Changes In Regulations Must Be Made To Star Indu ion; State Directors To Take Part In Session; ~ Many Boards Scrape Bottom On Men

DRAFT RULE CHANGE IN THE WIND   Fathers. May Be Lumped Into a New Class Under Porthcoming Plans   STATE DIRECTORS  . WILL MEET SOON   May Clear “Way for Call of Fathers When Other Groups Are Exhausted

State Draft Heads Called For Parley  Drafting of Fathers Seen When Other

DRAFT CHANGES ARE HINTED AS LEADERS CALLED   Non-Deferable Group Dads May Be Lumped Into New Class

FATHER DRAFT SEEN NEARER   Selective Service Directors Called to Conference

DRAFT HEADS 10 HOLD MEETING AT WASHINGTON   May Clear Way for Drafting of Fathers, Report Major Changes

DRAFTING OF FATHERS 15 CONSIDERED   ‘State Draft Directors to old Conference Next Week.   RUMORS HEARD OF NEW GROUPINGS   Boards Faced: With Ne. cessity of Keeping Flow of Men.

DRAFT DIRECTORS TO MEET NEXT WEEK   Changes in Regulations Are Hinted

See Draft Heads Planning Move -To Take Fathers   To fo Attend Conference At Capital Next Week

MAY REGROUP ~~ AULFATHERS   Conference Of Draft Officials Leads To Report Of New Class For Fathers

DRAFT OFFICIALS SLATED TO MEET IN WASHINGTON  MAY CLEAN WAY FOR DRAFTING OF

WELLES OFFERS PLAN TO INSURE ‘A FREE WORLD   ‘Solid Cornerstone’ Would Be Western Hemisphere Collaboration, He Declares

WellesLauds Solidarity — Of Americas   Calls It “Solid Cornerstone” Already Laid for A Free Postwar World

Journals from England  \ first-hand account of the British Isles at war. By Raymond A. McConne li, jr.

A Revealing Glimpse Into The Future... . . Individual Taxes For 1943 Will Be Doubled In 1944, Set-Up Shows

U. 5. Viewing Big Tax Yet To Appear   Present Rates May Be Doubled for 1944

HUGE INCREASE IN TAXES SEEN   Present Payments May Have To Be Doubled In 1944

Draws Wrath of Legionnaires Charge Isolationist  Misused Frank in Raecaliutian

PERKINS NOT FOR NEWLABORLAWS   Secretary of Labor Hits Anti-Strike Bill ”

SMITH-CONNALLY — BILL OPPOSED   Secretary ~- Perkins" ‘Favors Going Along on Basis ‘of Present Labor: Code-

 ne val cr benito oo [fl Duce Faded From the Italian Picture as a Comical’ F igure  Riding to Prison in an Ambulance. Manned bv 4 Policemen ~ -

Story of Overthrow of Mussolini; _ Duce Taken to Prison in Motor Ca:   By DON WHITEHEAD

SALAMAUA AND LAE HAMMERED   Jap-Held Bases Afford No Opposition to Aerial Pasting

Allies Bomb Jap Position Without Loss   Huon Gulf Area OF New Guinea Blasted

Bombers Paste. Bases Without Jap Opposition:   Ground Troops In : Wau Area Advance ‘Killing More Nips -

Allied Bombers Rain Fire on  Jap-Held Bases   Lae, Salamaua Hit By Raiders With No Opposition

YANKS SQUEEZE LAST JAPS ON NEW GEORGIA   Noose Tightened by Marines at Rear on North Coast

 Doomed Japs on New Georgia Pushed  -Back by Yank Forces Toward the Sea

Tighten Noose Around Bairoko   Last Pocket Of Jap Resist. ance In New Georgia Island Near Fall   HEAVY BLOWS ON ENEMY SHIPPING

GERMAN CREW SCUTTLES SHIP   Capture By American Navy In Encounter In South Atlantic

ROAD EQUIPMENT BECOMES PROBLEM   Highway Officials Suggest Surplus Be Sold

Distribution of Road Building Machinery is Urged by Highway Assn.

Japanese Units Are Cut Off   Chinese Intensify Mop-Up Operations

SF. ARTIST. KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE NFAR BURMA BORDER: 11 OTHERS DIE

PENCIL SKETCH OF MAN TRACES VICTIM   Artist Draws Picture of As: sailant from Memory

FR. to Defy Legislators   Appropriction Bill Rider Firing Three Aides to Be Ignored

Roosevelt Hits Rider On Bill   Says Clause Encroach mont On Authority

FOR QUESTIONS SOLONS’ POWER   Chief Executive Claims Con. gressional Rider to Bill Is Unconstitutional

PRESIDENT TELLS CONGRESS ACTION 1S NOT BINDING   ROOSEVELT DECLARES RIDER PENALIZING. THREE MEN ENCROACHMENT

ROOSEVELT 10 IGNORE ACTION OF CONGRES:   Holds Directive Against Three Federal Employes Encroachment Upun Authority

Protests Bill To Bar Three   President Declares Rider Against Officials Encroachment By Congress. 

Rider fo Bill Irks President   Not Binding on Him Says Executive

MONEY ‘BILL RIDER ENCROACHMENT ON TW.0 AUTHORITIES   FDR Takes Slap at Congress Fo Action Penalizing Federa} Employecs

BILL OF ATTAINDER HIT BY ROOSEVELT   Rider Is Unconstitutional, Congress Is Told

BRITISH STAND WITH US TO END, GONGRESS TOLD  Knockout of Axis by Air Ils “Worth Trying’, He Says   PRIME MINISTER GETS STIRRING WELCOME

CHURCHILL IN PLEDGE OF WAR AGAINST JAPAN   Will Fisht Side By Side With U. S.-While Breath Is In Our Bodies”

CHURCHILL SAYS BRITISH WILL AlL   Prime Minister Says Nation Will Wage War to Help Defeat Japanese.

'Nipponese Cities Will Be Bombed,  Leader Assures   Prime Minister Says British Equally: Concerned With Japs

BRITAIN IS EQUALLY  CONCERNED WITH WAR AGAINST JAP HORDES   Prime Minister Says That His Country Is As Much Interested in the Far-Off Pacific Area Outcome As With the War in Europe—Calls Attention to Presence of His Indien, Far East Commandoere in Weck'n an.

Prime Minister Says British Equally Concerned with War Against Ja-. pan — Greeted by Rousing Ova-, tion As He Enters House Chamber Wednesday Afternoon.

Churchill Tells Congress Japan “Must Lie in Ashes’   Britain Will Fight Side by Side With U.S. to Victory in Pacific, He Says

Luitwatte Bases Are  Hard Hit   Bombs Shatter Plants, Nazi Planee I net

Ri Batters French Bases   German Installations Hard Hit In Attacks

FRENCH SKIES DARKENED BY l!. 5. BOMBERS   ALLIED RAID BAGS 51 NAZI PLANES; AIRPORTS HIT

Aircraft Darken Skies Of France   51 German Planes. Downed During Day

BOMBERS BATTER POINTS IN FRANGE   American and British Planes Darken Skies Over France; Le Bourget Airport in Paris Suburbs Attacked

Aircraft Darken Skies Of France   51 German Planes. Downed During Day  By ©. D. BALL

Allied Planes Hit Hard at  German Areas Dav Raids Follow   Day Raids Follow R. A. F. Attack at Aachen, Germany

Paris Airport  Is Target of  Allied Planes’ Many Nazi Planes Ar Shot Down by U. S.  and BReitich Airmen

Allies Raiding France Smash  51 Nazi Planes   Triqueville, Abbeville, Le Bourget, Amiens Rocked be Rams

Targets In France Hit. By Allies In Daylight   Flying Fortresses and Other Planes Darken French Skies—Total of 51 German Planes shot ; _ Down During the Day

U. S. BOMBERS RAID FRANCE   Fortresses Shoot Down 45 German Aircraft; Plane Factory Blasted   Pirst Attack in 4 Dave

Allies Strike Axis Airports, Installations  Heavy Raids on _ Nazi Occupied. Canttrant

U 3 BOMBERS HIT 3 POINTS IN FRANCE   On Bastile Day Blasting Famous Air Field And Damaging Repair Plants;   Heavy RAF Raid   Target Stands Out

Bombers Blast Nazi Planes  In Paris Zone   Americans and British Shoot Down 51 Enemy Craft in Daylight Assaults on Airplane Factory and Other German War Installations

dl PLANES SHOT DOWN IN FRANCE: ALLIES LOSE 16   Swarms of Allied Craft Take Part in Raid on Le Bourget Airport and Other Points.   ATTACK IS CARRIED OUT IN DAYLIGHT   Onslaught Follows Heavy Night Assault by RAF on German Railroad Center of Aachen.

Allied Planes Hit Hard at German Areas   Day Raids Follow BR. A. F. Attack at Aachen, Germany

Report 51 Nazi Planes Downed In Allied Raid   Fortresses and Other Smaller Craft Blast Enemy Installations

Aircraft Factory Near Paris Is Pounded Heavily   Fifty-one German Planes Are Shot Down; Allied Losses Are Twelve

Axis Airfields In France Get Hard Pounding   Attacks Follow Assault By RAF Tuesday Night  On Aachen in Germany

31 AXIS PLANES ARE ShOT DOWN   Swarms Of Allied Fliers Hit 3 French Points; Aircraft Plant ls Bombed

RAID SIGNALS DESCRIBED BY 0.C.D. HEAD   But Audible Signals, Color Designations Air Raid Sig. mal, Ehbminated __.._

GRAND JURY TO DEVELOP ‘STEEL “FAKE”   Called Monday in Pittsburgh to Study Truman Committee Testimony.   INQUIRY ASKED BY JUSTICE DEPT.   Thorough Probe Promised to Determine Who ‘Is Involved. . -

)-PLY PROGRAM OUTLINED FOR SMALL BUSINESS   Senate Committee Report Hits Administration ‘By Directives’

HURRICANES WIN TILT WITH JAPS   Five Japanese Planes Destroyed,.Others Damaged In Ficht Over Jndia.

BRITISH HURRICANES DOWN JAP BOMBERS   Air Fight Takes Place ir Southeast Bengal

‘SUSIE’ NEEDS _ EXTRA PEACHES   Gorilln’s Keeper Sends Out Appeal For Kationed Ration.

HOUSE RECEIVED CONNALLY BILL FOR OUTLAWING STRIKES  REP, PATMAN URGES  PUNISHMENT AS CRIMINALS FOR CONSPORATORS

Plant Seizure Bill Passed On For House Vote  (eka «) Dp... sriclaa fon aft   Measure Provides Stifi Penalties For Those Instigating Stoppage In Industrv

SENATE APPROVES ANTESTRIKE BILL   PROVIDES PENALTIES FOR WORK STOPPAGE IN DEFENSE PLANTS

Says Strikers  Are Criminal:   Maximum Punishment Urged by Paiman for Those Who Delay War Production

OFFICIAL BLESSING GIVEN TO SEIZURE ‘OF COAL MINES   weeeiere: to Make  sane: Reg nsible aig t Delay i in Production Pur.ishable as Criminal  Urged. .

PATMAN ASKS DELAY SLAP   CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT FOR PLANT DELAY URGED

Anti-Strike Bill Passed By Senate   Government Seizure Of Plants Approved; House Fate Unknown

-PATMAN URGES PUNISHMENT FSR THOSE ‘SLOWING PRODUCTION IN WAR PLANTS

/REPORT WASHER THEFT   Machine ‘Was Stolen Yesterday From Robert McFarland Farm

REYNOLDS PLANS TO QUIT SENATE   SENATOR FROM NORTH CAROLINA WILL NOT SEEK RENOMINATION

BREYNGLDS 10 FTIRE FROM 44 CSENATE RAGE   i] Not Retire From Public ‘fe, However; Says Pa riotic Duty Due To Other apital Work; Race vown Wide Open.

Court Dismisses Number Of Long Pending Cases  Actions Are: Droppec D.. Dll. To

Court Dismisses Number Of Long Pending Cases  Actions Are: Droppec By Plaintiffs For

JAPS HAMMER AT CHUNGTER   Strong Drive Launched Against Chinese In Hunan Province

Bryansk Comes Under Fire Of Red Artillery   Encirclement Threatens Toughest Nazi Base In Central Russia.

Bryansk In Gun Range   Russians Continue To Push Ahead, Sweeping Across Ukraine

Bryansk, Nazi Base, Periled   Red Army Advance  Threatens to Circle   Carman Bactina

Soviet Guns Bearing on Bryansk Today   Russian Columns Advance Generally Toward Dnieper River   Rail Line Cut

BRYANSK, KEY NAZI POSITION, IS UNDER FIRE   Russians Advancing Steadily Along Entire 600-Mile Front

Red Encirclement Threatens Strong German Bastion; New Gains Told

OUVIET ARMIES BRING BRYANOK WITHIN RANGE   Encirclement Of Giant Nazi Base Is Now Threatened By Rampaging Reds

Soviet Guns Bearing on Bryansk Today   Russian Columns Advance Generally Toward Dnieper River

RUSSIANS BRING BRYANSK UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE   Red Troops Within 12 Miles of City in Atlempted Encirclement af Nazi Base   CROSS PSEL RIVER   Drive to Dnieper Continues—Nazis Say Red Landing Force at Novorossisk Winsd Qut

BRYANSK WITHIN GUN RANGE OF THE RED ARMY ADVANCE   Soviet Forces Threatened to Encircle Roslavl in Central Russia.   SWEPT ACROSS UKRAINE   . Russians Further Increased Peril of Germans in Povtav-Puluki Sector.

ENCIRCLEMEN' OF KEY BASE THREATENED   Soviets Continue Ukraine Sweep, Gain In Other Sectors

BRYANSK FACES SOVIET ATTACK   Nazi Base Is Now Within Gun Range After New Red Gains

BRYANSK IN RANGE   Russians Nearly .Encircle Toughest German Bastion in Center

Bryansk In Gun Range Of Soviet Army   Nazis Backed Off Ukraine Territory By Red Drive

REDS WITHIN GUN RANGE OF BRYANSK   Columns Converge Upon Big Nazi Base From Three Directions, One Force Taking a Town Only 12 Miles Away.

Bryansk Now fa Range of Soviet Guns   Reds Threaten To Encircle “Tough German Stronghold

BRYANSK NOW WITHIN RANGE OF Uo GUNS   Drive Threatens to Encircle Toughest Nazi Base in Central Russia.   NAZI COUNTERATTACKS FAIL TO HALT RED PUSH

> ANTI-PORK BARREL BILL IS PROPOSED   Clark (D-Mo.) Says He Will Introduce Bill

FLOOD CONTROL BILL CUTS PORK BARREL   Senator Clark Would Have Long Range Program. to Combat Floods

FLOOD CONTROL PLAN BY GLARK   Missourian Would Eliminate ‘Pork Barrel’ Tactics in Locating Dams

New Type Flood Control Urged   ‘Senator Clark Would Do Away With “Pork Barrel” Tactics

Wide Flood Control Plan      Would Base Program On Entire River Basins, Not Isolated Projects

WESTERN GERMANY RAIDED BY FLIERS   Hitler's People Get no Rest From Screaming Sirens in Reich

RAF. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Saturday’s Attack On Reich Followed Up Without Loss

Night Raids Indicated by Radio Silence  Mosquitos Fly Over  Western Germany per earceemes oS . eae oe

Final Rites For H. Vonnahme To ~ Be on Saturday   Services To Be at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church

Final Rites For H. Vonnahme To Be on Saturday Services To Be at Our  Lady of Mt. Carmel ye eee   TO PRAY ROSARY

WOMAN'S EQUAL PAY BILL WINS HOUSE APPROVAL  PASSES BY VOTE OF 92 TO 42; GREEN  ML Ee hm he hihi, Hine At ee ee

Hickenlooper To Ask Probe Ot Milk Ration Tax Reports   Taxation Without Repres niation 2ays  lowa Governor

Governor Attacks Milk Tax   Taxation Without Representation,  ~ He Tells Press

Senate Weigh: Nominations °  In Meet Today   Attention Focuses On OF A Choice, Justice and Flynn

BE APPOINTED   lowan Expected to Get Supreme Court Place in Nominations Today

Rutledge in Line for High Court  Brown Is to Assume  Henderson’s Bleen tA7°3sk MOA

RUTLEDGE T0. BE JUSTICE, IT ‘ 1S REPORTED   Roosevelt. 1s Expected to Submit Name of lowa ’ Demoerat Today _

NOMINATIONS ARE EXPECTED   Justice Blount May Be Named For Supreme Court, Brown To  Direct OPA

RUTLEDGE 10 BE JUSTICE, IT IS REPORTED   Roosevelt Is Expected to Submit Name of lowa Democrat Today

Senate Scrutiny For Appointees   President Expected To Name Choices Today

F.R. to Submit ‘Several [Nominations  RR? DD. Dastlanen Mee   W. B. Rutledge-May Be Elevated to Supreme Court

Court Nominee ExpectedToday   Wiley B.. Rutledge, U. 5S. . Greuit Judge, Predicted Byrnes’ Successor

Rutledge in Line for High Court   Brown Is to Assume Henderson's Place With OPA

F.R. te Submit Several Nominations   W. B. Rutledge May Be Elevated to Supreme Court

Americans Sent Into Final Drive                  Noose Around Rommel’s Forces Tig ens With Combined Pressure of B ish and U. S. Ground Forces; Se Deep Gains Along 22-Mile Front clude Mountain Strongholds. —

Noose Tightens About Rommel's Besieged Force   Nazi Drive Slacks in Caucasus; Few Raids on England

BRITISH FIRST ARMY CAPTURED GERMAN HILL STRONGHOLD  ALIC Cn   AMERICANS ADVANCED SIX MILES AND CAPTURED SOME PRISONERS

SIX-MILE DRIVE MADE - BRITISH TAKE KEY POINT   ‘Big Push’ Against Axig Pocket Believed To Be Gaining Momentum   MEDJEZ-EL-BAB CAPTURED   Hitler’s First 1943 Spring Offense in Caucasus Sags--Punch Gone 

Nazi ‘Verdun’ Seized, Key To Coastal Plain   U. S. Troops Return To Battle After Being Transferred From Southern To Northern Area In Tunisian War; First Army Presents New Menace To Rommel

AMERICANS IN ON FINAL DRIVE AGAINST ROMME   British First Army Captures “Verdun” of Tunisian Campaign, Scores Deep New Gains

Hill Commanding Strategic Area Taken From Nazis   Victories Scored Over Ground That Favored Enemy

Also Scored Deep Gains Along a 22-Mile Front While the  Americans Advanced in Tunisia.   TOOK 100 PRISONERS, IS WAS ANNOUNCED   Another U. S. Column Smashed Seven Miles to AxisHill Defenses Under Heavy Fire.

Nazi Anchor Stronghold Falls to 8th      First Army Threaten to Split, Center of FOO Mile Long Axis Corridor

Ban on Pleasure Driving May Soon Strike Midwest  New Jersey Congress man Would End OPA Set-up

MAY BE SPREAD 10 15 STATES   Action ‘Can Be Expected Soon’; Hartley Plans Bill To Put End To O. P. A.   Incompetence Charged

Driving Ban May Be Sihieded Soon   15 Midwest States to Have Restrictions

HINTS AT MIDWEST GASOLINE DROUTH   CONGRESSMEN ‘TOLD BAN ON PLEASURE-DRIVING IS UNDER CONSIDERATION.

EAST'S GAS BAN ~ EXTENSION SEEN   Proposed Legislation Liqut: dates OPA; “T’ Coupon _» Revision Due

CAR RESTRICTIONS MAY BE EXTENDEL   15 Midwestern States Unde Consideration To Lower Pleasure Driving.

Driving For Pleasure Ban forMid- West   IS: PROPOSED FOLLOWING PROTEST OF EASTERN STATES BEVRESENTATIVES; CONGKESSMAN HARTLEY OP?USzS Urs, —   70c Barrel Increase

Rutledge Urges Post-War Plan   Military: Victory Onky Halt Of Ciaghs

U. S. Forces Drive Toward Messina To Seal Escape Of Enemy; Allies Take Trapani   Allied Troops Trap 110,000 Enemy Soldiers; Converge Shattering Land, Sea, Air Attack On Last Enemy Fort

Americans Reported to Have Captured — Termini ond If Yanks Reach Messina Axis Hopes of Evacuation Will Be Smashed

Yanks Seize New Area, Crush Axtans   British Follow, Assist In Cutting Foe Off Into Small Corner

Marsala And Trapani Taken  Prisoner Total To 110.000: Remainince

FINAL THRUST CLOSES IN ON MT. ETNA LINE   AMERICANS PLUNGE ALONG ISLAND'S NORTH COAST

AXIS FORCES THREATENED BY PATTON   Americans Move Swiftly, on Messina, Capture of Which Would Cut Off Germans From Behind.   CANADIANS ENTER BITTER STRUGGLE   Chance of Enemy Saving Any Considerable Number From Besieged Area Seems Remote.

Nazis Driven Into Corner   50,000 More Trapped And Yank Army Turns Eastward

Vital Aluminum Works Pounded by Bombers On Long Hop to Norway   Stalin Reports Nazi Summer Offensive Fully Smashed; Axis Loses More Than 110,000 Men in Sicilian Drive; Major Airfields to Allies

Trapani Naval Base Captured   Termini-lmerese, Sicilian Port on North Coast Falls; New Troop Landings Above Catania Reported; Axis Face Crushing Bloy

Tells Saga Of Dogfight   U. S. Flyer Unconscious Of Burns When Shot Down in Tilt With Zeros

NEW YORK PILOT GETS TWO ZEROS ON EVE 23RD-BIRTHOAY   HE CHUTED DOWN RIGHT THROUGH MIDDLE OF BIG DOC FICHT

ALLIES SEIZE AFRICAN TOWN NEAR MATEUR   Russians Drive Remnants Of Nazi Army From Stalingrac

TROOPS NOW ENGAGED IN MOPPING UP   ‘Fliers Aid Attack and  ~ Down Five Axis Planes —-Raid Sfax and Score Hits on or Near Cruiser Leaving Harbor.

British Take Vital Hills  Near Mateur   Enemy Forces Driven Ou In First Action in Tunisia for Some Time

Vital Heights Taken by Allies   Ground, Air Forces Join in Attack

MOVE REVIVES NEW RUMOR OF INVASION   Conviction Grips London That Hour is Near For Powerful Blow at Hitler's Fortress   SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS

Great Britain Clears Decks  For Action   Feeling of Big Events To Come Grips Nation As Non-Residents Are Moved from Coast Area

British Clear — Coastal Areas   Invasion Talk Spreads Across Isle

Invasion’ Talk Spreads As Britain Clears‘Coast Areas Of Non-Residents

Second Front Talk Flaring Indicate Allied Moves Afaot: Nazis Nervons

England Hears invasion Talks  Non-Residents Are   Non-Residents Are Being Cleared From Barricaded Areas

NON-RESIDENTS CLEARED FROM COASTAL AREAS   Britishers Cry For Opening Of  Second Front

NON-RESIDENTS REMOVED FROM ENGLISH COAST   Allied Bomb Attacks On French Bases May Be Landing Prelude   NAZI HEADS JITTERY   British War Cabinet In _ All-Day Session At Whitehall

INDICATIONS POINT TO NEW VITAL DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR: INVASION SPECULATION GROWS

British Point io Indications of New Blows   Coastal Areas Are Being Cleared of Non-Residents; Invasion Talk Persists   RUSH OF ACTIVITY IN WAR OFFICE   Second Front Is Being Talked Everywhere; Feeling of Urgency Apparent

BRITISH VIEW NEW MOVES AS INVASION HINT   Coastal Areas Cleared of All Non Residents, War Council in Constant Session   SHIFT IN AIR WAR   Telephone, Telegraph Communi cation with Italy Cut, State o Siege Declared in Norway

Invasion Tremor Sweeps England   British, Coastal Areas Cleared of Uninecessary Civilians; Feeling That Frontal Assault on Europe Is Near Grips Nation

English Coast Cleared, Hinting Continent Blow   Non Residents Removed Amid Talk Of Imminence Of Invasion Of Europe

BRITAIN CLEARING NON-RESIDENTS . FROM:COAST AREAS   Nation, Is. Convincea. That  ‘Time la Near For Powerful   New Allied. Blow. at Europe —Invasion Talk Heard —

All Britain Is Seething With  Invasion Talk   Coastal Areas Cleared Of Nonresidents, Hinting New Allied Move.

CLEAR BRITISH COASTAL AREAS   All Non-Residents Forced Out Of Many Districts

BRITISH BEGIN CLEARING NON-RESIDENTS FROM COASTAL AREAS   From Every Angle New Moves Appear To Be Aiming At Invasion. British War Cabinet Report ed To Be In Constant Session

Coastal Area Evacuated Amid Invasion Talk   Speculation Mounts As Nation is Gripped With Expectancy of Great New Blow at Fortress Furope

New Moves From All Angles Show Blows Imminent    Britain Clearing Non-Residents From Coastal Areas; Nazis Show Nervousness

SECOND FRONT REPORTS FLARE ANEW IN EUROPE   British Move WNon-Residents Out from Coast, Hint invasion Hour Near

INVASION TALK STIRS ENGLAND   Non-Combatants Are Removed From Barricaded Coastal Areas.   ‘AXIS AIRFIELDS RAIDED

Great Brifain Clears Coast   Air Raids, Cabinet Meetings Spur Feeling Invasion Near

BritainClears Certain Towns on Southern Coast   - Barricades and Armed Guards Bleck Approaches and All Persans Seeking to Enter Certain Areas Must Prove Identity

Second Front Talk Flares: Anew Amid Indications Big Moves Afoot   Great Britain Begins Clearing All Non-Residents From Barricaded Coastal Areas; Point To Repeated Heavy Air Raids.

NEW BLOW POISED   Britain Clears Coastal Areas Amid Expectations of Big Move.

Britain Sees Invasion of Europe Near  . Heavy Bombings Of French Coast

SIGNS POINT TO EARLY STAB AT NAZI FORTRESS   Britain Removes Non-Residents from Coastal Areas; Invasion Near?

Non - Residents On Coast Moved:  Zero Hous Nears   Conviction Is Growing That New Drive On Nazis; Norway In State Of Seige

Britain Clearing All Non-Residents From Coast Areas   Second Front Pleas Flare Anew Amid Indications Big Allied War Moves Are Reins Planned

All Coastal Areas’ Jig. Being- Cleared “Of Non-Resident:   American Air. Raids Over France, ~-State Of Siege In-Norway-Give Rise To Talk Of Second Front

eh I RB NR  bor New Blow At Hitler’s Furene Groaiwe   Significant Developments Indicate Major Allied’ Campaign Planned ©

Britain Clears Coastal Areas Along Channel   Nation Expects New Blows at European Coast

INVASION TALK IS REVIVED BY ACTION BRITISH OFFICIALS  FROM EVERY ANGLE ALLIED ACTION AT EARL} DAY IS FORECAST

New Invasion Reports Grip Britain; Some  Areas Cleared   Non-Residents Ordered From South Coast In Latest Indications Of Coming Second Front

Clear British Coastal Areas   Second Front Invasion Talk Heard Everywhere In Britain. Russia,

ONE-HALF LEIPZIG REPORTED IN RUINS AFTER RAID FRIDAY   Air War Lull Follows U. S. Bomber Attack On France

Yanks, British Make Gains On Italian Front  Rommel Plans Winter Line

STATE DEMANDS TERM FOR FLYNN   Prosecutor Says Girl Was Violated By The Champ Glamor Man

Elk Hills Pact Attacked Again By Justice Dept.   Terms Go ‘Far Beyond’ Those of Teapot Dome, Official Tells Probers

Elk Hills Oi! Contract Termed ‘Worse than Teapot Dome Leases   Navy Representative In sists Agreement Legal and “Excellent”

Charges Elk Fils Deal ‘Far Beyond Fall Oil Scandal  lInsetice Denartment   Justice Department Official Makes Teapot  Dome Comparison >-ROBE UNDER WAY  Navy Spokesman Insists Contract Was ‘Excellent’

ELK HILLS OIL CONTRACT HIT   Justice Department Official Says Terms “Far Beyond” Teapot Dome Leases

Texas Resources, Leadership, Freedom Lure Major Tire Firm To Open Plan

ALLIED INVASION OF EUROPE BY FALL-CHURCHILL   30 Nazi Underseas Raiders Destroyed in Month of May

‘Heavy Fighting Before Fall’ {s Briton's Forecast   Aerial Pounding of Ruhr Will Spread Over All Germany

Churchill Warns Italians   Says Heavy Fighting In Mediterranean Is Very Probable “Before Leaves cf Autumn Fall’

Eden in Call for Ttalians to Surrender   And Prime Minister Says Aerial Offensive Has Only Just Begun   GREAT BOOMERANG UPON THE AXIS   War in Ruhr to Spread to ‘All Germany; Japs, Too, Will Be Crushed

Eden Uroes Duce To Surrender Ang Save His People   40 U-Boats Sunk Ip ¢ May And Losses ‘In Convoys Shrink ‘'To*New Low

HEAVY FIGHTING IN MEDITERRANEAN SAll TOBE COMING SOON  ITALIANS ARE ALREADY SPECULATING WHERE BLOW WILL STRIKE

BRITISH CHIEF PREDICTS NEW BLOWS AT AXIS   Forecasts Heavy Fighting In Mediterranean and Other Areas.   FOES SPEED DEFENSE   Sicily Mobilizes All Able Bodied Residents, Fortresses Daiund la Mane.

Invasion Of Europe Due Before Fall   Air Assaults On Ruhr ‘To Spread Over All Of Reich;’ Hitler Rushes Traane Ta Sonth.

PRIME MINISTER SEES INVASION BEFORE AUTUMN   Reports Ship ‘Loases Are

CHURCHILL FORECASTS INVASION   Battle of Ruhr Will Soon Spread Over All of Germany

MOUNTING TOLL OF NAZI SUBS BEING COUNTEL   Eden Calls on Mussolini for Unconditional Surrender for “Interests of Humanity”

Allies Poised For Mightiest Invasion Blows   Germany Warned. Battle Of Ruhr Only Sample Of What's Coming

Invasion Is Set by Fall by Churchill   ‘Heavy Fighting Before Autumn Leaves Fall’ Is Prime Minister’s Prediction

HINTS ATTACKS AT MANY SPOTS AT EARLY DATE   ‘Allies To Hit In ‘Mediterranean and Elsewhere,’ Commons Told   DEFEATING U-BOATS   Thirty Subs Destroyed In May, Prime Minister Announces

Churchill Predicts Invasion, Probably Before Leaves Fall   Tells Commons Battie Ruhr Will Spread AJ}  Over Germany Soon

HEAVY FIGHTING PREDICTED FOR MEDITERRANEAN   Unconditional Surrender Is Still Demanded of Axis, Prime Minister Says   AIR WAR IS TO INCREASE   U-boat Menace Whipped, He Declares - - Italy Smashed Again by Yank Bombers

Action Anticipated In Mediterranean And Elsewhere “Before The Leaves Of Autumn Fall” — Italians Speculating Where Blow Will Strike, Prime Minister Declares — No Industry Or Military Target In Reich To Escape Attack In Forthcoming Longer Nights

ROMMEL ARMY DIGS IN FOR HARD BATTLE   American troops continue march toward eastern seacoast

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ALLIED DRIVE WOULD DIVIDE NAZI FORGED   Capture of Gabes Would Cut Off Escape of Rcmmel by the Sea.   CERMANS FIGHT BACK   Allies Have Air Superiority and May Exterminate Rommel] Men.

Former Kansas (Governor Dies   Acquitted in Trial On Bribery Charges

Nazis Sustain Heavy Losses tn  Kuban Valley   Soviet High Command Says Losses Have Halted Furious German Assaults   RUSSIAN AIRMEN SCORE SUCCESSES

FAT COLLECTION PLANS ANNOUNCED   Housewives Will be Re. warded With Red Ration Points

s erbabae  RIG CRITICIZES JOB ABSENTEES   Slowdown at War Plants Costing Lives, He Tells Ad Club

Put Workers in ‘Hell Holes’ of War  To End Slow Down, Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker Would Send Workers To Front In Attempt To Stop ‘Perpetual Slow-Downs’

Today's War Commentary  Turks Near War  Allied Bandwavon Becekons Nation

37 OF THEIR PLANES SHOT DOWN, REPORT   Command in Australia Fears Attack Soon. Japs Building Plane Bases Across Pacific

TOUVDAT 39 WAR MUVES  The World at War This Week  Hy LOUIS F. KEEMLE

STEEL MILLS BEGIN TO CUT OPERATIONS      Swike Of Lewis’ Unio Imperils War — Effort; Threatens To Close All Steel Mills   Nearing Danger Line

Steel Mills Slowed By Coal Lack   Siike Continued By Lewis a he ee

Bteel Mills Begin orang Operation ecause Of Strike   Lock Of Coal Because Of Third Major Strike In Nation Since Late April Causes Largest Ceol Mills To Cultail Production For Wor

Coal Strike Curtails Work in Steel Mills   Ickes and Lewis Fail to Agree After Conference; Will Meet Again Today

FDR REBUFFED BY ~ HOUSE COMMITTEE   Funds for Planning Board _ Again Refused by Con-

FDR REBUFFED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Funds for Planning Board Again Refused by Con aressmen

House Committee Refuses Funds  Action Is Rebuff to Administration

FDR Planning Board Rebuffed By House Group   Committee Denies Requested Funds for Curbing Absenteeism

Germans fall back on line west of Kiev   15,000 die in three day push

'German Front in Kiev Salient Broken   150,000 Enemy Are Routed by Hed Forces

‘Allied Forces Drive Axis Into Smaller Area   Fichting Of Unabated Ferocity Rages In Tunisia As Allies Advance   YANKS NEARING VITAL TUNIS ROAD

WINFREY AND McKNIGHT NUPTIALS SOLEMNIZED  Sister is Attendant of Buckley Street Miss at Her Wedding  TAKE TRIP TO NEW YORK  At #@ marring: oti 7 rector tot ist lag ft ‘ Chureh yesterday on four o'rloek  Continous dOn Page Pour  .   LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Ferocious Fighting Rages in Tunisia

STEADILY GAIN IN DRIVE 10 TAKE TUNIS   First Army Now in Striking Distance of Vital Road

SPEARHEAD OF BRITISH ARMY SCORES GAINS   American troops support Alexander in Lake  Kourzian battle region

YANKS AT FRONT HELP ALEXANDER RAM SPEARHEAD   Fierce Fighting Marks Fifth Day of Grand Assault on Trapped Axis

CAR CRASHES INTO ABUTMENT ONUS 5   Chanute Field Soldier Is Slightly  Iniured

DIRECT ACTION BY GOV'T SEEN IN MINE ROW   FDR Expected to Give Men But 48 More Hours to End Strike   LEWIS MEETS ICKES   ~ PLANTS CLOSING

Coal Strike Is Closing UpHeating At Plants   First Are Closed In Pittsburgh Area Today

Blast Furnaces Begin To Close, Railroads Worry About Coal Supply

FIRST BLAST FURNACES CLOSED TODAY BY STRIKE   Culmulative Results of Recent Strikes Begins to Hit Steel Industry

Pittsburgh Blast  Furnaces Closed  Coal Miners’ Strike Hits Industry Low

FURNACES IN NATION ARE SUSPENDING   U. S. Steel Company Planning to Shut Down 19 Of 37 Plants By Thursday

WLB Balks at "Hold the Line’   EXECUTIVE ORDER SEEN AS “UNWORKABLE WITHOUT FURTHER CLARIFICATION” UNDER NEW STATEMENTS BY GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE

INVASION OF ITALY IS. NEAR   Arrival Of Huge Reinforcements At Mediterranean Bases Announced; Montgomery Predicts   Eighth Army To Strike Soon   ALLIED ARMADAS SOFTEN UP ITALY

Signs Point ToFarly  Invasion   Zero Hour Near; More British Ships In Mediterranean

Early Invasion Of Italy Seen   Huge Reinforcement: Reported Arriving

The Carthage Citizen   Local Woman’s Brother Is Killed By Tinte Bomb

Americans Hit Fleeing Foe On ~{00-Mile. Front   British © Eighth, First “Armies Closing Trap In: North -Africa -

lfaly Emphasizes Her Home Defenses   Fear of Invasion Again Reported

BREEZES ARE COOLER:   Near Normal Temperatures Forecast for Kansas

U.S. Submarines And Planes Score In Raids On Foe   Seven Japanese Ship: Sunk, Bases In Aleutian: and Solomons Bombed

] MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U. 5. SUBS   Enemy Dealt Heavy Blows On Pacific Front

SUBMARINES SINK: SEVEN JAP SHIPS   112 Enemy Vessels Sunk to Date, Says Navy

U.S. Subs Sink Seven Additional Jap Ships   Planes Are Carrying Out Destructive Raids Upon Enemy Bases In Pacific.

PLANES HIT AT KISKA IN ALEUTIANS   Americans Intensify Offensives In  Pacific War

U.S. Submarines Sink Seven Japanese Ships  American Planes Carry Out

U. S. Submarine: Sink Seven Japanese Ships  American Planes Carry Out Destructive Raids

Submarines Sink Seven Jap Ships   Destructive Raids Are Carried Out By Bombers Aqainst Bases of Foe

All Axis Resistance ir Tunisia Reported Ended   LAST MINUTE FLASHES

Eight More -Washington Persons Suffering From  Dog Bites: Rabies Feared

Yank Airmen Down 14 Enemy Planes   New Guinea Area Also Feels Allied Airpower

EXPLOSION AT RAVENNA PLANT KILLS WORKERS   Number Undetermined, Blast Felt at Youngstown, Recover 2 Bodies

ANGLO ARMIES PUT “SQUEEZE” ON AXIS FORGE   Americans Now in Strong Defense Positions as Rommel Advance Of 60 Miles Ends,

American Troeps Dig In;. British _ Test Mareth Line   Rommel Halts to Stiffen Southern Defenses Against British 8th Army Deploying — Before Untested Mareth Line   Rulletin:

Suit Filed By Ex-Governor  Of Oklahoma   Charges Plan To Profit From Text Book Adoptions

Five Millions Damages Asked For Oklahoma   School Text Row Taken To Court By Ex-Gov. Phillips

REDS HAMMER AT AXIS BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS AZOV SEA   Nazis Slowly Driven Back to Shore, Evacuation Ber woe lieved Near.

AXIS STRONGHOLD IN CAUCASUS NOW HELD BY SOVIETS   Red Army Hammers Bridgehead in Sector and Toke Strategic Point.

REDS OCCUPY KEY AXIS STRONGHOLD   Strong Nazi Attacks Ix Northwest. Caucasus ":  Hurled Back.

UMW Accepts WLB Directive   Will Appear With Anthracite Operators

FCC MEMBERS — ARE ASSAILED   HOUSE. COMMITTEE DECLARES  , WATSON AND BODD ARE “UN.   FIT". FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT

Strike Looms As Leader Refuses “To Meet Owners   Insists On Negotiating With Agenis Of Federal Government ‘Now In Charge Of Coal Mines.”’ Rejects Meeting With Operators Under WLB.

New Offensive Opens In South As Big City Falls   Russians Break Out Fourth Offensive Of Summer In Donets Basin As Fourth Largest City Oj  Soviet Union Is Recovered From Nazis.

Fortresses Strike Far Above Rome   British Warships Bombard Italian Mainland

H.C. WELLS DIED IN SIOUX GHTY   Brother of Nellie Chenhal . To ‘Be:Buried in LeMars °  Friday

Death Claims.  Harry Wells Manager of f Bunny  , ee ——  Tan nan a

H.C. WELLSDIED IN SIOUX CITY   Brother of Nellie) Chenhall rate ‘Be‘Buriedin: ‘LeMars”  Friday

French Move Toward Russia   DeGoulle Suddenly Moves to More Close Soviet ‘Friendship

The War Today—  French Pledge Of Friendship To Russia Spins Allied Wheel Of Fortune

SUDDEN MOVE BY GEN, DEGAULLE FOR CLOSER FRIENDSHIP WITH — RUSSIA IS HEARTENING TO ALLIES

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   pire artite Conference ‘Are Most Important In World History

BRICKER MEETS GOP HEADS 10 VIEW PROBLEMS   Proposes School Appropriation Should Not Exceed Biennium Budget

DETRUIT IS QUIET AFTER RAGE RIOT   The Final Total of Thirty People Were Killed.

Bigger Paychecks for Servicemen’s Families  Assured by House Act

FAMILY ALLOWANCES FOR SERVICEMEN UP   Increase in Payments Only Routine Matter, Belief

AGREEMENT IS REACHED   Senate and. House Agree on Increase for Soldiers’ Families

Families To Get Larger Benefits   Congress O. K.’s Biggel Service Allowances’

SERVICEMEN’S FAMILIES GET BIGGER CHECKS   House Passes Bill in Virtual Agree ment with Senate's, Quick Rati fication Expected

CONGRESS APPROVES HIKED ALLOWANCES   Wife, 2 Children To Get $100 Per Month

Feed Supplies Allocation Plan  Under Advisement WFA Considers  Scheme to Assure  Balanced Production  DECISION BY JONES.   Some Livestock Leaders for Price st a o ee

May allocate reduced feed  supply-WFA   Plan to assure even production

All Iss Confusion in Der Embassy!  Pe eet OS PRR nye Peg epee rece © ao Mr aE Sarcan BD Ec nu

All Iss Confusion in Der Embassy   American Newspaperman Seeks Interview With Nazi  Envoy in Madrid; Upsets Whole Secretarial Corps

Better Figure Again, Folks! Ration Points For Meats And Cheese And Butter Are LOW   Major Changes In American Diet Hinted;  New Era For Housewives Looms

Your Butcher Advises You Better Figure Your Meat Budget Again   By JAMES MARLOW and GPORGE ZIFLKE

Figure YourM eat-Buying Needs  To. See How Hard Yow re Hit   How Little People Can Get Under Program . Beginning Monday Has Not Dawned Upon Them

Meat Rationing Will Bring Sharp Adjustments in Diet   Market Men Declare Changes Resulting From Program Starting Monday Haven't Begun to Dawn _- On Average Person; Nation Rapidly Approaching British Rationing Levels

FRANK L. POLK TAKEN BY DEATH   Was Undersecretary O; State Under Wilson, Noted Lawyer And Diplomat

Headed American Delegation to Paris Peace Con-  ference After Wilson Rettirned   WAS GREAT NEPHEW OF PRESIDENT POLK   Was Active In His Profession As Lawyer Until Stricken Few Days Before Demise

Hitler Loses First Battle to Keep Allies Out of Europe in Pantelleria; Airfield Will Bridge Gap to Italy

‘Surveying War Scene—  Loss Of Malta Provec First Blow To Hitler

An Important Gain in Fight for Air Bases   Pantelleria’s Value Rests Entirely on Its Airfield and Hanrers   TO. SICILY. TPALY   Alhes Out To Beat Hitler To His Knees; Violent, Action Coming This Summer 

Pantelleria Base Provides Allied Stepping Stone for An Invasion of Italy

HITLER LOST FIRST BATTLE KEEP ALLIES AWAY FROM EUROPE  PANTELLERIA IS AIR GATEWAY TO SICILY, - SARDINIA AND ITALY

Good Crowds Witness Hopi Snake. Dances Despite Travel Restriction

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Announces italian Surrender Effective At Once: Order Italian Troops To Resist Nazis

Home Edition   ALL RESISTANCE ENDS; AGREES TO FIGHT NAZIS   Badoglio Government Accepts ‘Unconditional’ Terms of Allies

RECENT ENEMY 10 RESIST GERMANS IF THEY PROTEST   Commander Granted Mili. tary Armistice Sept. 3, Radio to World Gives Order at 11:30 A. M., CWT.   TERMS OF SUSPENSION PREVIOUSLY APPROVED   Representatives of Eisenhower and Badaglio Put Signatures to Pact, Invasion Lasts Five Days.

Surrender Terms Signed Last Kriday When British Troops Invaded Mainland

Italians Are Grdered To  Resist Nazis   Military Armistice Granted to Italians, Etssenhower Announces

Gen. Eisenhower Reveals 1 neonditional Surrender      LONDON-—{UP}—Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham appealed to the Italian fleet by radio today to prevent the Germans from seizing its ships.

ACTION SEEN ay CONGRESS ON TAX PLAR      REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRA TIC .CONFEREES REACH  ‘AOREEMENT ON PAYAS-GO PROGHAM

Compromise T'ax Program Drawn      Democrats and Republicans Ir Accord

TAX AGREEMENT REPORTED NEAR   Compromise Will Cancel 41 Pct. Of "42 Levy, Provide Withholding Plan

Knifings Among Perils At Munda   Japs Try Many Tricks Attempting Ty, Tran Yankee

’Knives, Nerves On Edge During Munda Battle; Yanks Often Nick Each Other

TO TRANSPA STUDENTS TO LAKE CLASSES   School to Give Vocational Training in Former NYA Camp

ADMINISTRATION FEARS DEFEAT GN POLICY OF FED. . ERAL PAYMENTS IN FRICE CONTROL

BIG ARSENAL TARGET FOR ~ RAF FLIERS   Pre-invasion Aerial Offensive Goes Through 10th Consecutive Night.

SUSTNED AIR ATTALKS PASS TENTH NIGH]   i4 Bombers Missing on Trip te Krupp Works Site

Heavy Force of RAF Bombers Blasts German Arms Works AtEssen, 14 Planes Missina

Bombardment Of Reich Carried Into Tenth Day And Said “Very Heavy”

Essen Area Is Blasted   14 Planes Missing In Raid Over Industrial Ruhr Valley

ESSEN VICTIM OF BOMBING LAST NIGHT      300 Bombers Take Part in Latest Raid

Are Lost In Attack   Over 300 Big Bomber Used in Blasting of Krupp Arms Works

BRITISH BLAST BIG ARMS WORKS   Heart of Ruhr Valley Hit By Upwards of 300 Bombers

Block-Buster Bombs Again Rainon Essen   Hundreds of Bombers Make Saturation Raid on Nazi Arsenal

14 PLANES ARE LOST IN ATTACK   Manufacturing City Is Hit For 52nd Time Since War Began

ESSEN TAKES THE LATEST TERRIFIC BOMBING ATTAGK    Round-the-clock Pounding Goes on — Nazis Admit  Great Damage All Over.   Ey WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

Nazis Impose Martial Law Upon Holland   Nazi labor corps pushing construction jobs along © French » coast; brag of barriers.

Axis Fears of Invasion. Appear At High Pitch  Martial Law Declared in Holland; Nazi Radio ‘Admits’ Danger

SWEDISH GUNNERS HIT GERMAN PLANE   Neutral Country Again Aroused By Nazis’ Flight in Skane Area

German Plane Hit By Swede Gunner   lllegal Flight over Southern Sweden Brings Prompt Attack

NEW PASTOR AT GRAGE LUTHERAN   Rev. H. H. Meyer of Lester -Takes Over Duties  Here

New Pastor Is  Installed At Grace Church  Rev. H. H. Meyer _ Of Lester Installed  Sunday Evening

STEAMLINED HOGS SOON WILL REPLACE ROLY-POLY PORKERS   Prospective Corn Shortage May Change Marketing

Tax Framers Still Apart in Compromise   Democrats Favor Original Ways and Means Plan, GOP Holds Out for Abatement

STILL FAR APART ON TAX WATYER   Little Progress Made De- spite Optimistic Talk By Congressional Leaders.

GOP, DEMOCRATS AT LOGGERHEADS ON TAXING PLAN   Bcth Groups Still Far Apart in Friendly Search For a Pay. As-You-Go Faxing Compro witeR

‘Democrats And Republicans Still Far Apart In Search For Tax Plan Compromise   GOP’s Want Modified Rum! Plan To Skip An Income Tax Year

Two Parties Far Apart On Tax Changes  Middle Ground Is . Being Sought By  Faction Leaders

CHIEFSUNABLE TO AGREE ON PAY-GO PLAN   Attempts to Work Out Acceptable Tax Proposal Over Weekend Meet With Failure   COMMITTEE TO MEET

NO AGREEMENT IS YET REACHED ON TAXING BILL   Republicans Continue to Support Modified Ruml Plan to Skip: Income Levy Year   DEMOCRATS OPPOSE   Understood to Favor Plan of Applying Softer 1941 Rates and Exemptions to 1942 Incomes

‘Democrats, GOP Still Divided On Tax Measure  gm   Compremise Group Arranges Talks With Leaders

Still Far Apart on Tax Plans   Compromise Committee Seeking  Middle Ground

Hope Continues For Compromise On Tax Proposal   Democrats, GOP At Loggerheads On Income Levies

Two Parties Deadlock on Pay-Go Plan   Agreed on 20 Percent Withholding Tax But Can’t Devise Method

No Accord Is Reached Yet On Tax Plan   Republicans And Democrats Of House Split Despite Compromise Meetings

HELD INVALID   Mexican Divorces Don’t Count In Ohio, Court Roles.

Weather Puts Check on Soviet Drive   Fight Is at Standstill As Rain impedes Movement on Rouds

BASED ON PARITY   OPA Official Engages in Discussion on Wheat Ceilings

‘NEW CEILING SYSTEM FIXED ON VEGETABLES   Passes Along Transport Savings To Consumers

OPA PLACES NEW PRICE CEILINGS ON VEGETABLES   Transportation Expenses Te Figure in Costs; Aids Consumer r

WHOLESALE CEILINGS PUT ON VEGETABLES   Cost Fixed on Shipping Point Plus Freight Basis.

Allies Destroy Survivor s of Raid on Convoy   Message Declares 200 Japanese in * Lifeboats Bombed

PPAPPPLPEPPPPPEPPAPP OPES Last 200 Survivors Of Battle Wined Ont

Airmen Sight Last 200 Japs;  “No Survivors” Thus Ends BrilliantAerial Strike By Allied Fliers

MacArthur Airmen  Comb Bismarck Sea,  Mop Up Stragglers ‘Scarcely a Survivor, Communique Says;  Lae Bombed Again

ALLIED FLIERS SHOOT WORKS AGAINST JAPS   ONLY WRECKAGE OF SHIPS LEFT IN BISMARCK SEA

Airmen Sight Last 200 Japs; “No Survivors”  Thus Ends Brilliant Aerial Strike   pm., Alit..! fic.

SINK LIFEBOATS WITH 200 JAPS      ALLIED AIRMEN MOP UP STRAGGLERS FROM DESTROYED CONVOY.

Jap Stragglers Bobbing On Sea In Lifeboats Mopped Up With “Searcelu A Survivor”

Greatest Air Pounding in History is Being Administered to Axis Nations.

RAF Plasters Nazi Naval  Base at Kiel  U.S. Bombers Strike  War Factories In Antwerp Raid

GREAT FLEET OF BOMBERS IN RAID ON KIEL   Americans Follow  Up With Precision Bombing Attack On Antwerp Factories.

British Planes ~~ Bomb Western Par of Germany   Industrial Rhineland Area ‘Is Attacked —

‘New Allied Offensive is Opened: Section of Germany Under Attack

West Germany Again Pounded By Bombers   Rhineland Attacked; All West Coast Given Blasting

ALLIES KEEP UP AIR BLITZ ON GERMANY   British Attack Western Germany During the Night

CAPITAL SEERS CAN'T BE FOOLED   Washington “Insiders” Had Dope About F. D. R.--But All Wrong.  EVEN GOEBBELS MADE MISTAKE

Roosevelt Fools Experts By Aerial Dash To North Africa To Meet Confreres

Food Administrator Says Reliance On Broad Subsidy Payments Dangerous

SOLONS 10 HEAR CHURCHILL   Prime Minister’s Address At 12:30 P. MW. Wed nesday

Churchill to Talk  To U. 5. Congress  Speech Scheduled For Tomorrow

Col. Scott Would Destroy John Lewis with 50 Calibre Machineaun Bulle:

Attack Made On Japanese Supply Lines   Rail Installations and River Transports in Burma Are Bombed  MAANIY EIRES STARTED

Japanese Threat To Kill Raiders Fails To Impress   ‘One-Way Ticket fo Hell’ Broadcast Brings Only Contempt

1 Threaten ath to More itured Flyers   okyo Broadcast Says ‘iture Raiders Have  : Ticket to Hell’ “RICANS AROUSED  ‘volittle’s Group ants to Go Back,  = s ee sce lel. A waee

SEEK TO PREVENT FUTURE ATTACKS   Say Yank Raiders Have OneWay Ticket to Hell’   GENERAL DOOLITTLE   © peclares He and Companion Fliers Want To Be on Next Raid Over Japan

DAVIS NAMED TO FOREIGN RELATION JOR   Appointments Made By Republicans Of Senate

Greece, Aegans  In Air Attacks   Allies Blast German Bases There

AIR OFFENSIVE OF ALLIES CONTINUED IN AEGEAN DISTRICT  FLYING FORTRESSES MAK!   FLYING FORTRESSES MAKE LONG TRIP TO BLAST AIRFIELDS IN GREECE

AIR OFFENSIVE OF ALLIES CONTINUED IN AEGEAN DISTRICT   FLYING FORTRESSES MAKE LONG TRIP TO BLAST AIRFIELDS IN GREECE

GERMAN AIR STRENGTH IN BALKANS HIT   Two-Way Raiders Blast Greece, ’ Aegean Island Area

Greece, Aegeans Further Blasted By Allied Fliers   4 Continue Aerial Offensive  Against German Bases; U. S. Forts In Long Trip

Prelude To Invasion?—  Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Bases In Greece, Aegean Reaches New Peak: Take Heavy Toll Of Foe

ALLIES HAMMER GREECE, AEGEAN   1,500 - Mile Round- Trip Is Made By Fortresses

Inereased Air Assaults Made In Balkan Area   Allies Stepping Up Action Against Nazis In Greece

8on Capsized Tug Are Still Missing  Search Continues For Crewmen And Shipyard Workers

Greatest Air Nald of War  Follows Humiliating Axis Defeat;  Nearly 1,000 Planes Are Used   34 Bombers Are Lost But Experts Be lieve Great Industrial City in Germanv Now Lies in Utter Ruin.

BRITISH DROP 2000 TONS OF BOMBS IN RUHF   Duisburg in West Ger‘many !s Target of Big R.A.F. Raids

Nearly 2,000. Tons OfBombs Hit Duisburg   Weight Of Explosives Dropped By British Exceeds Cologne Total   34 PLANES MISSING   Nazis Admit ‘Considerable Damage’ To Europe's Laraest Inland Port .

Duisburg Given Terrific Bombing Drop Most Bombs Of. Any One Raid

DUISBERG HIT IN 2000-T0N BOMBING RAIL   Heaviest Tonnage On Record Dropped On Munitions Center

BRITISH IN RECORD RAID ON DUISBURG   About 2000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped: 34 Planes Lost

Two Cruisers, Destroyer Are Sent Down   Two Other Vessels Are Badly Hit in Aerial Action

MacArthur's Airmen Pounce On Enemy Warships Before Dawn; Four Others Damaged

Two Japanese Cruisers And Three Destroyers Blasted In Allied Raid

Destroyer Left Helpless After Mast-High Raid      Two Other Enemy Ships Damaged In LowLevel Attack Near New Ireland; N af  American Planes Are Lost

Allied Fliers Sink, Damage 7 EnemyWarships   Two Cruisers, Destroyer Sunk; Four Others Bombed By MacArthur's Planes In Surprise New Ireland Raid

TWO CRUISERS, 2 DESTROYERS REPORTEDSUNK   Two Freighters, and Transport Destroyed: Others Damaged

2 JAP CRUISERS SUNK BY ALLIES   ONE DESTROYER SENT DOWN AND TWO OTHERS BADLY DAMAGED BY AIRMEN.

Big Raid Made Without Loss Of Any Planes   Large Destroyer Mortally Wounded, Others Damaged

) JAP GAVE AND DeoTRUYEA SUNK BY BOMBS   MacArthur’s Bombers Hit At Enemy’s Shipping In New Ireland

MacArthur’s Men Surprise Jap Flotilla   Skip Bombers Strike From Masthead Level at Kavieng, New Ireland

Two Are Badly Damaged; Subs Get Four More   Two Cruisers And Destroyer Sent Down By Bombere

Two Cruisers Blown Up In South Pacifie   Destroyer Left Sinking And Two Others Are Damaged

HOUSE OFFICIALS TO TOUR WEST   Members~ of Anpropriation Subcommittee To Study Projects

MAJOR CLASH IS STILL IN MAKING   American Ground Forces Are Tightening Their Grip On Guadalcanal.

Ukraine Link With White Russia Periled  Soviete Pouring   Soviets Pouring Across Dnieper Bridgeheads

AEDS (N OUTSKIRTS OF SOMEL RAIL BASE   Threaten to Rip Open Corri dor and Endanger Germat Ukraine Position

Nazi Crimea Troops.Face New Threat  Garrisons Menaced by   Garrisons Menaced by Russians From North and East   SOVIETS FAN OUT   Red Army Is Reported in Outer Defenses of Kiev

Opening of Corridor West Of Gomel to Cut German Lines Threatened by Reds

Soviets Menace White Russia —  Defense Line   Red Army, Opposite Rail Hub, Poses Flanking Threat.

NAZIS FACING NEWTHREAT IN WHITE RUSSIA   ‘Reds. in Suburbs of Gomel, Poised to Severe Enemy In That Sector From Ukraine Armies

REDS THREATEN TO SEVER GERMAN LINES BETWEEN * WHITE.RUSSIA AND UKRAINE   - Soviet Juggernaut F unctioning Smoothly All ‘Along 1,200-Mile Front. Nazis Battling Desperately to Stem Red Advances on Dnieper Bridgeheads

Red Forces In Suburbs Of Gomel   Flanking Threat Faces 200-Mile Nazi Defense Line in White Russia

RED DRIVES MAY ONDE ~HAZT FORE   Reach Sezh River ‘Opposite. Gomel._ In Push © -

'Gomel Suburbs Fall To Soviets  Russians Fan Out From Dnieper Bridgeheads

NAZI LINE IN WHITE RUSSIA IS MENACED   Soviet Troops, Firmly Es. tablished on Left Bank Of Sozh, Threaten West Corridor   5,300 GERMAN DEAD

SOVIETS POSE THREAT ALONG 200-MILE LINE   Russians’ Battling In Suburbs Of Gomel; 5,300 Nazis Dead

SOVIET ARMIES RUN SMOOTHLY IN ALL SECTORS   Threatening To Completely Divide German Forces In White Russia And HardPressed Nazis In  Ukraine.

RUSSIANS IN DRIVE TO RIP GERMAN LINE  Nazis Leave 530   Nazis Leave 5300 Dead On Battle Field Monday

Soviets Carve ; ~ Corridor Wes   Action Is Splitting Main Nazi Armies

SOVIETS MENACE NAZI POSITIONS IN WHITE RUSSIA  THREATEN TO SEVER GERMAN LINK WITH

Red Wedge Splitting Foe   Germans Menaced To North and South   Soviets Fan From 3 Br idgéheads On West Bank of Duiener Near Kiev

REDS THREATEN GERMAN LINES   May Open Corridor to West Splitting Nazi Forces In South,

Poland, Vitebsk, Minsk In Line Of  Red Juggernaut   sermans SlaughteredLp Desperate Effort. Vo Stem . Red Advance From :Dneiper “Bridgeheads. Crimea Menaced With. Imminent. {nvasion and: Quter Kiev Defenses Penetrated:

Reds Threaten — To Slash Open West Corridor   Troops Firmly Established On Left Bank Of Sozh Near Rail Hub Of Gomel

NAZIS KILLED IN ONE DAY   Attempt To Sever German Lines In White Russia From Ukraine Armies; Transport Sunk

Meeting of Three Big Powers Being Arranged for Soon   Russia to Be Present In Mediterranean Commission Activities

US., Russia, Britain, To Hold Tri-Partite Meetine'   Ssoviel Union Also Lo Be Represented on Newly-Established Mediterranean Comics an, / pres 4   RAF Planes Dump 1,1 20 Tons Of High Explosives on Berlin

Early Meeting Of Powers Seen   Reds To Have Part  In Naw Cammission

Tri-Partite Conference Of. American, British And Russian Representatives Reported Arranged For Near Future

UPON COMMISOION UN NE WCOMMISSION   Mediterranean Group Sel Up To Decide Program

Reds To Join In Conterence At Early Date   Few Details On Tri-Partite Meeting; Russia On Mediterranean Board.   NO STALIN MEETING

Allied Tri-Partite Meeting Planned   Russia Will Participate In New Conference; Mediterranean Commission Being Formed

Conference Planned In Near Future; Britain, U. S. To Participate With Soviets

Soviets, British And Americans Plan Conference   Russians Also Get Place in Council On Mediterranean

Three-Way Conference  Is Arranged   Russia to Be Represented At War Parley

Jobs For Vets Planned by New U.S. Committee  ern cme en   Government Group Hope: To Care for All; Opposes Bonus

Committee Urges Government-Sponsored ‘Dynamic Expansionary Economy to Provide Full Employment When Peace Comes

Proposal Given FDR's Approval   Lump Sum Bonus Tx Vets Not Included  By D. HAROLD OLIVER Ascociated Press Staff Writer

Government Traces Plan to Absorb Vets in Industry  Dynamic Expansionary Economy Would   Dynamic Expansionary Economy Woul Offer Orderly Demebilization, But No Lump Sum Bonus Envisioned

Three-Month Furlough Pay After War  Tc Pranaced   Government-Sponsored Expansionary Econom Is Urged in Report  by F.D.R. Committee  APPROVAL GIVEN BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE  Committee Opposes Any Lump Sum Bonus  Kar Men In Service

COMMITTEE URGES  - SOLDIER BENEFITS   Furlough Pay Proposed: in Report of Presidential Groun

MUSTERING OUT TASK STUDIED   Committee Suggests 3 Months Pay For Men  In Service

Government T race: Plan to Absorb Vets in Industry   Dynamic Expansionary Economy Would Offer Orderly Demobilization, But No Lump Sum Bonus Envisioned

Proposal Given FDR's Approval   Lump Sum Bonus T¢ Vets Not Included

Committee Maps Jobs for All   In Postwar Era   Plan Gives Armed Services Discharge Pay, Benelits; Aids War Worker Adjustment

BACK TO OWN STARTING BASE   Wedges in Defenses Restored, Lines Cleared

Reds Wrest Offensive From Nazis   Force Germans To Retreat, and Regain Ground

Reds Take Helm After Tank Battle   Nazis Driven Back From Ground Won At Frightful Cost

Sees Production Peak in Food For Nation in 1943   Indications for Hogs Disclosed. by. Davis; Feed Supplies Decline

Republicans Aim Big Guns Af OWI   Would Block $5,000,000 Allotment

NAZI MARSHAL HUNTING oll OR BIG ATTAGK   On Eastern Front, Russians Continue Rapid Pursuit Of Retreating Nazis

Seeking to Improve Positions   Bombings from Base at Malta Reported — Russians Capture Kharkov

Tank Units Jockeying For Position   Russian Army Moves Westward From Kharkov

Ruml Emphasize: His Tax Plan Fo House Group  Urges Withholding ev Taxes Be Started By April 1; Other Tax Proposals Offered

Ruml Explains His Tax Plan Before Committee of House   ‘Pay-as-You-Go’ Proposal System Is Necessary Banker Declares

Argues Government * Would Lose Nothing in Long Run.   TREASURY MUCH OPPOSED TO PLAN

1942Tax Slash Bid By Ruml   Senator Clark Defends Plan of Cancellation   PAY-AS-GO BASIS   Treasury Said Plan Would Lead Only  to Inflation

»Today In Washington:  House Seeks Acceptable Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan; Little ’43 Civilian Steel

Axis Lost 75,000 Men   30,000 Were Germans Commons Told in Report On El Alamein Battle

Whisky Gangsters Face Prosecution   Move To Increase Supply under Way

DRIVE PLANNED ON LIQUOR GANGSTERS   OPA Says Criminals Complicating Supply and Price Problems

——— ALODLUZES Two Pronged Liquor Offensive  ‘Hits Thu es and Warehouses

WOULD TAX LIQUOR HELD IN STORAGE   Congress Moving To Ease Current Shortage Ry Forcing Distillers  To Release stocks

WOMAN ADMITS CHILD IS HERS   Mother Who Pressed Baby Into Arms of Mrs. Dode McIntosh Found

70 IN LIFEBOATS FROM TORPEDOED VESSEL RESCUEL   Entire Personnel of United States Merchant Ship Saved by Motorboat Far Out at Sea.   SIGHTED BY PLANES AFTER DRIFTING 8 DAYS   Food, Water and Flares Supplied by Parachute Before They Were Picked Up.

Little U. S. Crash Boat Saves Lives Of 70 Men Adrift From Sunken American Merchant Ship in Pacific

NEW STATE TEST INVASION STARTED   To Be Climaxed By. January Daylight Drill Or Blackout

NEW TEST WILL SIMULATE REAL ENEMY INVASION      Every Protective Agency To Be Utilized — Time To Be Secret

Japan Is Enemy No. One, Madame Chiang Kai-shek's Talk Stresses to Conaress

Ickes Would Ban Pleasure Drives Extension Of Program  To All But Oil Field  Country Favored

For Wider  Driving B   Way to Build Up Oil  Ickes Says Its the th - Stocks for Next Win:

Ban Driving For Pleasure,  Urges Ickes   Accumulation Of Supplies Needed For Essential Purposes Is Advocated By Oil Administrator

Pleasure Driving Ban Is Favored   Include All Nation Ickes Declares

Ickes Asks New Ban On Driving   Urges. Restrictions: Fo Whole Nation

ICKES IN FAVOR OF BANNING ALL PLEASURE RIDES   OIL COUNCIL ASKS INCREASE IN PRICE TO BOOST DRILLING

ICKES FOR WIDER CURBING OF AUTOS   Secretary Would Extend Ban on Pleasure Driving to Entire Country.

Put  Ceiling On Size Of  ArmedForce      SPEAKER BANKHEAD PROPOSES FURTLER FIGHTING MEN* B: FURNISHED By ALLIES; THE’ NEED SUPPLIES.   W heeler Agrees In Principle

Ceiling on Size of Armed Forces Proposed   Solon Says Nation Should Produce More Foods; Arms

SITE OF ARMY   Bankhead Would Have U.S. Devote Effort Primarily to Production

Limit on Size Of Army Aim Of Bankhead   Says Food, Weapons Best Contribution U.S. Can Make in War  FARM SENATORS GIVE SUPPORT  Congress Requested To Make Reappraisal Of Manpower Problem   Says Food, Weapons Best Contribution U.S. Can Make in War

POWERFUL BLOWS AT JAPS COMING      Conference in Washington by Stilwell, Chennault, Marshall, Is Important.

Offensive Taken  By Russian Army On Eastern Front   Counterattacks Made Along Vast Section Of Battle Lines; Belgorod Bulge Is Also Hit In Spreading Fight

RED ASSAULTS PIERCE ENEMY DEFENSE LINES   Berlin Admits Russian Successes in Orel Battle Zone

Nazis Admit Penetrations By Russians Cyclops Cop   But Claim Soviets Later Are Repulsed And Breaches Sealed  FRONT TCO QVYVYTOCAHRCYNH

REDS COUNTER ATTACK OVER VAST SECTION   German Broadcast From Ber lin Admits Russians Had Made Breaks In Nazi  NMiafanene   Twin Battles

. ~ i ‘Aussia1 cour ~er-A.--ac< en-s Pazi _ines, *er.in ¢<acio ¢.Cmics

Boost in Farm Land Reported   OWI Warns Against Disastrous Collapse

Charge Butler As ‘Cat’s Paw   Senator (Guffey  Ridicules Nebraska Senator's  Report On South Amertea.

Guffey flays Butler repor on relations   ‘Good neighbor’ policy is lauded

President Castillo Takes To Ship; Soldiers Demand Allied Collaboration

Rebel Army Invades Capital of Argentina   President Takes Refuge on Gunboat As Fighting Breaks Out In Edge of Buenos Aires

Allies Swap Aerial Blows  With Nazis   Much Activity Over Channel

BRITISH, NAZIS TRADE BOMBS   R.A. F. Hits Rail Lines: German Fliers Bomb School

R. A. F. TRADES PUNCHES WITH NAZI AIRMEN ACROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL   Allied Fliers Strike at German Targets in Northern France. As Foe Makes. HitRun  BDetde .

ALLIES TRADE AIR PUNCHES WITH GERMANS   North ern France Attacked By Airmen

Air Attacks Exchanged  RAF Stages Night   RAF Stages Night Raid While Germans Strike This Morning

DAYLIGHT RAIDS FOLLOW RAPS NIGHT ATTACKS   Heavy Explosions Heard in Vicinity of Boulogne—British School Hit by Nazi Raider

ALLIED AND GERIVIAN AIR BLOWS TRADED   Luftwaffe Attacks Britain While RAF In France

AIR WAR RENEWED ACROSS CHANNEI   English Coast Town Bombed  As Allies Smash Enemy

TRADE AIR BLOWS   Allied Planes Raid Enemy Targets; Nazis Over Over Britain

Allies, Germans Trade Air Punches  Enemy Targets in Northern France Are Attacked

ALLIES STRIKE AT TARGETS IN NORTH FRANCE   Heavy Explosions West of Boulogne Rock Houses In the Folkstone Area

Shuttle Raids In Aerial War   Both Nazis And RAF Dump Bombs On Coastal Cities

German Fields In France Hit By RAF, U.S   Day Raids Follow Night Blasting of Remscheid, Thal Making Town

HIT AIR FIELDS IN NORTH FRANCE   U. S. Crewmen Report Good Results: and Slight Opposition

Allies Turn Bombers On _ French Areas   Enemy Airfields Heavily  Blasted Following Raid  On Nazi Steel Center   REMSCHEID HiT FOR FIRST AIME

Not Interested In Oil Cartel.  Declares Ickes   Declares Most Rumors About His International Oil Plans Are Based On Inaccuracy

IES 1GNORES WORLD OIL POO!   Claims Reports of His Plans Internationally Are Inaccurate

Chuguyov Taken In Hot Fight   Smash Across Donets And Advance 15 Miles On South Front.

Anchor Point of Nazi Line Captured   Envelopment of Kharkov Gets Under Way

ONE COLUMN IS FIVE MILES FROM CITY   Chuguyev, Vital Point Guarding Area, Is Taken

DEFENSE LOSES FIRST ROUND IN PAYOFF HEARING   Court Blocks Line of Ques: tioning Phillips’ Counsel Tries on Lowe

Reduce Size Of Jap Hold  At Sanananda   Only Remaining Enemy Position In Papua Is Steadily Being Wiped Out

Allies Moving On Sanananda From Two Sides   Patrols Remain Active In Sieged Area Of Muba

Pinching In  Jap Tr langle To Sanananda   In Air Activity Heavy Raid Is Made On Lae

ALLIED TROOPS ON NEW GUINEA USING PINCERS   American and _ Australian Ground Forces Moving on Jap-Held Sanananda From Two Directions,   ENEMY TRIANGLE IS BEING REDUCED   Air Force Supports Advance Aimed at Driving Foe From Last Sector Held on Papuan Peninsula.

ENEMY DNOMED AT SANANANDA   Allied Ground Troops Closing In On Last Nipponese Camp

Allied Troops Move In on Sanananda   Advance Slowly in Rain-Soaked Jungle

AMERICANS, AUSSIES E CLOSING IN ON JAPS E   Enemy Hold On Sanananda Steadily Reduced

Allies Close In on Japanese At Sanananda   Capture of Last Point Held by Japs on Papuan Peninsula, New Guinea, Appears Imminent

Italian Secret Police Arrest 11,000 Persons in’ Search of Possible Fifth Columnists

Won't Stand  For Fines   UMW Official Says: Means Another Miner Walkout

GERMAN RETREAT INKHARKGY AREA - BORDERS ON ROUT   Nazis Abandon Arms and Material as Pursuing Russians Plunge Ahead Toward Poltava.   REDS ON DONETS FRONT MAKE NEW ADVANCES   Line of Fortified Points Smashed by Soviets— Captured Ukraine City  a Smoking Ruin,

ussians Face est as Drive   Unchecked   Polatav Drive Said Nearly Nazi Rout— Gains Made Along Nonets. Bryansk Line:

REDS REPORT NAII RETREAT “TS NEAR ROUI   Heavy Blows Inflicted On Reeling German Army at Kharkov

RUSSIAN TROOPS PUSH AHEAD FROM KHARKOV: PINCER MOVE MENACES   Reds Inflict Heavy Blows On Reeling Ger. mans; Enemy Forces Thrown Into Retreat Bordering On Rout.

Russian Troops Continue Advanc Toward Poltova   Slash Ahead from Khar kov; Soviet Pincers Threaten Nazi Salient

Reds Inf lict Heavy B lows  On Germans   Nazis Abandon Material During Hasty Retreat

RUSSIANS DRIVE FROM KHARKOV UPON POLTOVA   Heavy Blows Are Inflicted On Retreating Ger man Army   NEW FRONT OPENS ‘AT VOROSHILOVGRAD

REDS THROW NAZIS INTO BIG RETREAT   Arms And Material Abandoned By Germans On Battlefield As Russians Lunge Toward Poltava   Drop Bombs

Reds Almos' Force Nazis Into Rout   Paralyzing Blows Dealt Germans In Kharkov Area

NAZIS IN NEAR ROUT AS REDS DRIVE ONWARD   SOVIET FORCES RACE AFTER GERMANS AT KHARKOV

German Retreat In Russia Near Rout; Reds Say   Kiev Believed To Be Eventual Goal OF Soviet Plunae

Russian Drive Unchecked In Offensive Aimed At Poltava  Red Forces Continuing Gains On All Fronts he Gasman Canetar Attacbe Ava Rastan Oh

Nazis Abandon War Material In Kharkov Retreal   Russians Race Westward In Unchecked Offensive Aimed At Poltova

Red Forces Race Toward Poltova: Nazis in a Rout   Soviet Pincers Threaten Enemy in Donets Basin

Heavy Blows Rained on Reeling German Army  ARMS ABANDONED -INRETREAT OF NAZIS Gains Are Scored on All!  Fronts by Soviet — Troops

Reds Make Gains on Long Line   Moscow Says Soviets Unchecked as They Drive Southwestward

[Reds Infliet Heavy Blows  On Germans   Poltova Goal of Push, But Kiev Regarded As Possible Objective  GAIN ON ALT. FRONTS

Reds Lunge Ahead Toward Poltova, Reel Nazis Back   Germans Thrown Into Retreat Bordering on Rout: Gains Continue In Donets Area  After Breakthrough

LOVETT PLANS TO KEEP JOR   Ickes Scolds Congressional Committee; Tired of Investigations.

STRIKE THREATENED BY MEAT RETAILERS   Profits Cut, ’Tis Said, Due To Shortage of Beef

DEALERS SAY THEY'LL QUIT   Declare They Are About At “End of String”

Neutral Rule In Argentina Is Overthrown   Military Revolt; President and Cabinet Flee

Renort Revolt In Argentine   Troops Of First Army Divi sion In Revolt Against President  (RITY.YTERTIN)

Should Volunteer To Help Farmers   Governor Urges Assistance; at Farm Bureau Office

SUBMARINE SKIPPER SEALS OWN DEATH SENTENCE WITH GALLANT ORDER TO CREW ‘TAKE HER DOWN

Skipper Orders Dive To Save Submarine, Crew;  Sacrifices Self On Deck

Gallant Sub Skipper Died To Save Ship  Lying on Deck He Gave Order

Final Order of Sub Commander Sealed His Death Sentencé   Told Crew to “Take Her Down” as He Lay Shot oe on Bridge of Ship

Skipper of Sub Gives Own Life, Saves His Crew   Wounded, Tells Men To Subrherge, Leaving Him on Deck

“Take Her Down.”’.....  Story Told Of Gallant  Sub Skipper Who Gave His Own Life For Men

SUB COMMANDER SEALS DOOM WITH. 'HIS LAST COMMANI   Sub Was Credited With Three Successful Attacks Against Jap Shins.

~ Commander Gil Gilmore, . 40, Sacrifices Own Life to Save. His Crew  *® DRAMATIC CLIMAX - TO SEA BATTLE  Ccneresional Medal of _ Honor Awarded Posthum® - ously; Navy Tells Story

‘TAKE HER Down SEN :      Commander Sacrificed Life by Giving Order to Protect Sub From Fire

Wounded Officer, On the Conning Tower, Ordered U.S. *Sub’ to Dive, Taking His Life But Saving Others

Commander Orders Submarine Submerged To Save It From Torpedo At Cost Of His Life   Credited With Successful Attacks On Three Jap Ships, Rams One

SUB SKIPPER DIES T0 SAVE CREW. CRAFT   ‘Saga of Distant Pacific Is  Revealed In Navy Announcement   MEDAL OF HONOR IS GIVEN BY FDR   Preferred to Die Rather Than Expose Men or Ship To Fire

Sub Skipper Gives Life to ‘Save His Boat   ‘Take Her rer Down!” Says Yank, Lying Wounded on ~ Deck of Submersible

LEFT BEHIND AS SUB TOOK DIVE   But American Skipper Gallantly Gave Order for Boat to Submerge

Captain's Order Seals Doom Of Himself But Saves His Sub   "Take Her Down” Orders Gallant Skipper As He Lies Wounded on Tower of his Craft

' Skipper of U.S. Sub Sacrifices Own Life To Save Crew in Sea Battle With Japs

Russia To Be Focal Point For Parleys   Moscow To Be Main Topic of Discussions Berween  Allied Leaders   CHURCHILL IS AWAITED

New FDR-Churchill Parleys Heading Toward Tie-Up With Russia On Post-War Problems   * First Rumblings Of Allied Storm Over German-Fettered Europe Seen

CHURCHILL-FDR TALKS SEEN AS VERY ‘URGENT’.   Three Big Allied Leaders Headed Toward Conference

FR. Churchill Talks Turn to Russ, Post-War   Three-Power Mee Progress Made, President Avers

IFDR-CHURCHILL HEADED TOWARDS NEW SERIES TALKS   How to Bring Rugsia into Allied Councils to‘Be  Among Discussions

Allied Storm Gathers Over Continent... . .  Shaky Europe Backdrop For New Roosevelt And Churchill Conferences

‘Turn Eyes On Russia      Churchill-FDR Talks Expected to Center on Relations With Soviet

CHURCHILL SAYS TWO AGAIN READY 10 MEET STALIN   Prime Minister Talks In Quebec, Roosevelt Makes Mention of Conference During Press Meeting.   WAR-WITH GERMANY. MAY GO INTO 1944   Three Methods Are Suggested For ‘Russians to Enter Discussion With Officials of Allies.

New Talks May Tie In Post-War Plans With Reds   Role Of Russia In Peace Likely Discussion Topic

OFFER RUSSIA PLANS TO AID   Churchill - Outlines Three Methods for Stalin to Meet With Allies

NEW SERIES OF TALKS APPROACK   Indications Are Focal Point Will Be Question of How To Bring Russia Into Allied Councils.

Show Signs Of —3-Power Talks   Churchill In Speech From Quebec Says Russian Participation Urgent.

New Talks Head For Red Tieup  President, Churchill To  Discuss Issues  Ee. waar ag ws aT ee

FDR-Churchill To Talk Again   Upheavals in Nazi-Held Europe Altering Situation

Chief Of Army Warns Against Losing Power   Gen. Marshall Sees Need For Drafting Fathers; Delay  Would Be Costly .   MUST ENLARGE ARMY)   BACK YOUR BUDDY

CHARLEVON AR CRASH TOLL 1S 7      Army Trainer Plane Oumps Attempting Takeoff Monday Night

CRASH KILLS 7 AT CHARLEVOIX   Routine Testing Flight Ends In Tragedy At City Airport

COWL PRODUCTION BESTS LAST YEAR   Output First Six Months of 1943 Exceeds Same Period Last Year Despite Walkouts and Absenteeism

Eaker Defene eat, Raid Plans      Scores Critics: 7 OF Present Taetic

Fortresses Team With Liberators On Mass Flight   Asheville Man Is Squadron Leader For Successful Attack On Targets.

Yank Fliers Say Raid Is Picnic-Little Resistance   Fortresses-Liberartor: in All American Act At Submarine Base

HITLER-DUCE CONFERENCE   Confer on War Plans in Shadow of Invasion Threat

HOLD PARLEY OF FOUR DAYS   Plans for Meeting Invasion of Italy  Made, Belief

DEDICATED 10 PEOPLE, AXIS LEADERS SAY   Believe Meeting Staged At Brenner Pass   DRASTIC ACTION   Usually Follows Confabs; Italians Say Bombing Of New York Studied

Mussolini, Hitler End: Conference   Admit Meeting Held Against Background of Stern Military Events, Especially ie Italian Bealm

Hitler. Duce Hold Four-Day Parley on War   Mussolini Believed to Have Sought Meet: Complete Agreement Reached by Leaders

Hitler And Mussolini Confer  On New War Plans In Shadow Of Allied Invasion Threat   Meeting Held Amid Alarming Axis ' Prospects Of Stern Military Events

In Shadow of Prospects of Being Thrown Out Of Africa and Imminent Invasion of Europe. Meeting Admittedly Held Against Background Of Stern Military Events

LOCATION OF AXIS MEETING UNREVEALED   Hitler and Mussolini Conclude Parley in Shadow Of Allied Invasion Threat  "CRISIS" ~ CONFERENCE

Hitler, Duce Hold ‘Crisis  Conference’   ltaly’s Fear of Invasion Thought Cause of Meeting

FUHRER, DUCE MEET 10 PLOT AXIS STRATEGY   War Horizon Gloomy Witt Allies Rolling In Africa, Invasion Threatened

AXIS LEADERS END FOUR-D A Y WAR MEETING   12th Conference of German, Italian Heads, Issue Familiar Statement

Axis Chieftains Confer As Allied Invasion Nears   Hitler, Mussolini Hold Four-Day Military Session

Hitler Conference With Mussolini Draws fo Close   Meeting Held in Shadow of Alarming Axis War Prospects

FURIOUS AERIAL BATTLE FOUGHT OVER ORO BAY   AXIS DICTATORS IN GONFERENCE OVER INVASION   23 Jap Planes Shot Down: Allied Merchant Ship Hit   Hitler And Mussolini Met From Wednesday Through  Saturday   COMPLETE AGREEMENT RUS REPORTED REACHED .RAID   NT RUSSIAN AIRMEN I ED RAID ON KOENIGSBERC

Bombing Of New York Proposed As Hitler, Duce Conclude Conference

HITLER, DUCE HOLD PARLEY OF FOUR DAYS   Plans for Meeting In. vasion of Italy Made, Belief

HITLER-MUSSOLINI CRISIS CONFERENCE JUST CONCLUDED   FOUR-DAY MEETING OF AXIS LEADERS COMES AT THEIR DARKEST HOUR

MUSSOLINI AND HITLER CONFER ON WAR PLANS   STUDY DEFENSES IN PREPARATION FOR EXPECTED INVASION

REDS BOMBED KQENIGSBURG: RAF. GERMAN)   MUSSCLIN & HITLER IN 3 DAYS. PARLEY   Berlin Announces That It Was hg “Working Conference,” Free Of Red Tape; Dev elopments In 6 Weeks.   No Mention Of Japan

Hitler, Mussolini Confer on War Plan as Allied Invasion Threatens

Fuehrer, Duce Close Crisis War Meeting   Italians Say Pair Discussed ‘Whether And When’ New York To Bomb.   JAPANESE NOT CALLED

Axis Chiefs _ In Twelfth War Parley   British Call Meeting ‘Crisis Conference’ on Reverses

London Calls Contab ‘Crisis  Conference’   Axis Leaders’ Meeting Believed Staged At Request of Duce  REPORT ‘AGREEMENT?

Alarming Prospects Face the Axis as Hitler and Il Duce Conclude 4-Day Conference

Hitler And Duce In 4-Day Parley  To Map Defenses   Leaders Admit Events Are ‘Stern; Major Developments Are Hinted Soon “

Axis Bigwigs Discuss War’s Dark Future   Brenner Pass Scene Of Hitler-I] Duce  Conference

Hifler And Duce Confer On Plans To Bar Invasion   Axis Chiefs Meet Amid Threat Of More Reverses

AXIS DICTATORS CONCLUDE FOURDAY CONFERENCE   Meeting Held At Headquarters Of German Chief

Axis Chiefs End 4-Day  Conference   Showndown of Invasion  Hangs over Meeting; Jap Envoys Missing

OFFICERS HUNT ~ PICHER YOUTHS   Robert Manson And Edmond Floot, Both 22, Escape Kansas Army Camp

KHARKOV IN GREAT PERIL FROM ATTACK   Joseph Stalin Goes te Front; Maps City Defense

Russians Take Tiomkino, Near Vyazma as Axis Threatens Khar kov Line.

Soviet Forces Thrown Back ‘in Bitter Fight   Eight Key Cities Taken Over by Enemy Troops

TAKE GOOD CARE OF THOSE AUTO CASINGS   Tire Makers Say There 1s Little Chante Of Synthetic Tires For Civilians Next Year

DRIVERS WARNED TO SAVE TIRES   MANUFACTURERS PREDICT LAY-UP OF CARS UNLESS RUBBER IS CONSERVED

Fortress Crews Plant Bombs  On Jap Warship   Strafing Causes Foe  To Retire Nearer Mubo on New Guinea

Fortress men stab  Jap ship   Score bomb hits; air attacks force enemy to retreat

Fortress Crews Plant Bombs On Jap Warship  Strafing Causes Foe  To Retire Nearer BA... ] _— Bio weas fmm

Allies Damage Jap Warship, Set Dock Afire   Bombers Altack Enemy Ships In Rabaul Arex

BOMB HITS SCORED ON JAP WARSHIP      ALLIED AIRMEN ATTACK ENE MY SHIPPING IN PRE-DAWN  RAID ON RABAUL.

SELECTIVE, SERVICE RULING: “ASSUED ON: FARM WORKERS   RYATE DIRECTOR GIVES POL: ICY IN REGARD ‘TO NON. _-FARM WORK DURING  HE OFF SEASON

WILL DETERMINE DRAFT STATUS   Granting Of Releases To Farm Registrants For War , Work Es Classified

STALIN: TAKES 70 VILLAGES FROM NAZIS   Red Armies Gain 6 Miles And Kill 5000 Enemy Troops In  Semi - Encirclement Of R....1   Furious Fighting

Reds capture 70 villages, destroy 5,000 nazi troops as encirclement continues   Soviet forces within 8 miles of city gates; say Germans preparein Poland

VILLAGES TAKEN !N RUSSIAN ASSAULTS   Red Armies, Under Direct Charge of Stalin, Advance

STALIN LEADING SOVIET ARMIES AGAINST OREL   Bryansk, Second Keystone To Nazi Defense Plans, Also Red Obiective

Reds Capture 70 Villages i in Drive To Encircle Orel   - Stalin Directs Men  . seer 6 Miles,

SOVIET ARMY WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF OREL   W heeling Movement By Reds Threatens To Cut Nazi Supply

SOVIETS RETAKE ZO TOWNS, KILL 0,000 OF ENEM)   Thousands of Germans Faced With Entrapment as Russians Continue Semi-Cir clement of Orel.   BIG WHEELING ACTION THREATENS SUPPLIES   Sunday’s Fighting Saw 57 German Planes and 52 Tanks Destroyed—Arms Dumps Are Taken.

Red Armies, Under Stalin's Personal Direction, Make Steady Advance Against Ore

Onrushing Reds Closing On Orel   Thousands Of Axis - Risking Entrapment

Axis Strength In Russia Cut 40 Percent   Arctic Sea Supply Line Delivery Greatly Increased

Russian Army Officers Claim That Hitler Lost 102 Divisions Since Soviets Started Winter Drive.

1943-Christmas Far From “Merry”   For Thousands of Young Americans  This Will be Last Holiday Season

ARCHBISHOP SPELLMAN SEEN2 POSSIBLE GO-BETWEEN; A ss INDICATIONS ARE THAT ITA WANTS TO QUIT WAR 

Archbishop Spellman Leaves South Africa, Starts North   Sudden Departure Coincides With Growing Reports That Peace Talks Have Begun At Vatican City

Archbishop Speliman Leaves South Africa; May Be On Way To Vatican

Would Ration Footwear On  Point Basis   N. E. Shoe Men Snovest To OPA

DRIVE OPENED INATTEMPT T0 RAISE $40,660   Campaign Workers Given Instructions at Meeting Monday Night

WAR CHEST DRIVE OPENS NEXT WEEK   Team Workers to Gather Monday Night; Combined Goal is $40,660

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Call for Enactment of Universal Service Rill

FORGED LABOR IN WAR WORK URGED   Stimson and Patterson Call for Enactment of Universal Service Bill.

STIMSON AND PATTERSON IN FAVOR OF ACI   Revision of Manpowe1 Measure Expected In Congress

ONES AMONG SIX CONGRESSMEN WHO ~ OPPOSED MEASURE         ‘ourth District Represen‘tative Against Exten sion of Lend-Lease  : Act.

HOUSE VOTES EXTENSION OF LEND-LEASE   Bill Wins 407-6 Edge In Ballot; Goes to Senate Next

U.S. Virtually Has Completed ts Mobilization   Further Expansion Not Necessary, Marshall States

Victory Certain, Axis Doomed, Says Gen. Marshall in Biennial Report

Gen. Marshall, Commanter of U. S. Forces, in Annual Report Reveals New Facts About Service.

Victory Assured, Marshall Says      U. S. Mobilization Virtually Complete

DOOM OF AXIS NOW SEALED GENERAL MARSHALL SAYS —   U.S. Army Nearing End of Expansion, Chief of Staff Tells in Biennial Report

Mobilization Complete, Vietory Is Now Certain, Gen. Marshall Reports   [Army Chief Promises No Undue Sacrifice of Life, Praises Rolfe of Allied Air Power

Marshall Says Final Vietory  Is Now Certain   Mobilization Nearly Complete And Heavy Blows Are Impending

MOBILIZATION OF U. 5. 1S COMPLETE MARSHALL SAYS   Allied Power Rises “Bul There Will Be No Undue Sacrifice of Men.”

MOBILIZATION 1S ABOUT COMPLETE GENERAL REVEALS   Marshall Says Military Might and Devastating Power In Air Witl Ultimately Smash AXis.   END NOT IN SIGHT, VICTORY IS CERTAIN   Promises Stimson No Undue Sacrifice of Lives, Praises Americans In All Theaters, Branches.

SUMMER TRIPS BANNED BY OD1   No Train, Bus Space   For Vacationists

American Doughboys Take Naval Base as First Army Enters Capital of Tunisiz   Roads From Both  Both Cities Are Choked  With Foe Troops, Tanks, Trucks After Losing Fierce Battle

LUMIS AND BIZERTT TAKEN BY ALLIES   Overwhelming American, British Anc french Forces Crush Knemy Armes In Two Main Bases

German Positions Crumble Against Mightiest Offensive of African War   Large Numbers of Prisoners Taken; Axis Toll ‘Heavy; Enemy Position in Hills Menaced by British Eighth; Allied Airpower Sky Masters

NAVAL BASE IN NORTH FALLS TO AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS AT 4:15; CAPITAL FALLS FIVE MINUTES LATER TO THE  BRITISH.

Triumphant British And American Troops Enter Two Key Points After Smashing Drives

Beaten Enemy  Chokes Roads in Retreat to Hills  BATTLE IN STREETS  Many Enemy Troops Captured; Planes Blast Evacuation Vessels

Yanks Capture Yea Base, British Overrun Capital   Blazing Coordinated Drive On Land And By Air Forces Capitulation; Axis Troops Flee Toward Coastal Hills

Strongholds Of Axis Collapse At Same Time   German And Italian Forces Pounded As They Flee Stricken Citadels.

Reeling defenders have little chance of Dunkirk escape   Yanks, British crack lines wide  open under great aerial assault

Enemy Crushed In Two Main African Bases Six Months After Invasion   RETREATING COLUMNS HAMMERED BY PLANES   BY EDWARD KENNEDY

German and italian Soldiers Fleeing to Cap Bon Peninsula and to Coastal Hills Under Fierce Aerial Attack —Large Number of Enemy Prisoners Taken.

Two Cities Fall At The Same Time   Unexpected Advances Made By Americans; Britich First Army To Capture Lost Ports.

Two Great Bases Seized’ After Crushing Assaults   Fleeing Enemy Troops Smashed by Allied Aerial Arm; Some Still Resist

8th Army Slices Deeper Into Nazi River Defenses   Intensive Bomb Barrage Covers . Advancing: Troops

Bomb Barrage Aids Infantry   Eighth Army Moves , Ahead Under Cover Of Aerial Armada

BRITISH MAKE NEW GAINS ON SANGRO   FIFTH ARMY SMASHES TWO COUNTER-ATTACKS IN MOUNTAINS NEAR VENAFRO.

8th Army Carves Deeper Into Nazi Defense System   Terrific “Bomb Barrage” Precedes Advances Fifth Renels Two Counterattacks

EIGHTH ARMY SHAKES NAZI LINE IN ITALY   AMERICANS SMASH COUNTER DRIVES AT VENAFRO

British Slice Deeper Into Ital  Americans Repulse  Two Counterattacks

British Force Way Forward   ‘Bomb Barrage’ Covers Moves Into Nazi Defenses

Eighth Army Cuts Deeper Into Nazi Defense System   Gains Made Under Cover Of Intensive Barrage Of Bombs

NAZI DEFENSE LINE IN ITALY SLIGED DEEPER   British . Eighth Army Ad vances Under Cover of ‘One of War's Most In tensive Raids

Eighth Army Strikes Into  Nazi Defenses   Bomb Barrage Still Aiding Allies in Ttaliin Fighting

Soldiers Want Furloughs Home   Editorial in Stars And Stripes Stirs Storm of Protest

‘American Soldiers in Italy Stirred : Up by Editorial in Stars & Stripes

Let's Rotate, Say Soldiers   Do Want to See Home Towns Before They See Berlin

LEAVES 10 VISHT HOMES FAVORED BY TROOPS IN ITALY   Doughboys See _ Discrimination in Keeping Them at Front With Millions Training in U. S.   ROTATION DECLARED THE ONLY FAIR WAY   Army Paper’s Statement Men Want to See Berlin Before Leaving Europe Brings Storm of Protest.

Do Yanks Want Furloughs? They Do and Those in Italy Tell Stars and Stripes in Plain Words

Soldiers Are Ready To Fill In Ac Rail Workers   Seven Railroad Presidents Named Colonel: As Government Takes Physical Poceaccion of U. S. Transport System

Seizure Ordered By FDR   Can't Wait Until Last Moment,’ President Says

Colonel Rank Given 7 Rai Presidents   President, Seizing Lines, Says Trains Must Keep Running

ARMY TAKES POSSESSION OF ALL RAILROADS   Concentrating Rail Train Troops To Meet Emergencies

Tt roops Stand. Ready To ‘Operate Railroad:   ‘Officials Move Swiftly to Curh “Tieup, Strikers Face: Penalties

TROOPS BEING: ‘MOBILIZED FOR RAILROADSJOBS   Soldiers With Railroad Experience Being Concentrated to: ‘Suppleiment  Manpower Shortage -

Men Having Actual Rail Experience to  Fill In If Needed   seven Company Officials, Named Colonels, Ready to Take Over Operation—Wages And Labor Conditions to Be ‘Status Quo’ Until Government Management Ceases,

bUVT ACTS TO AVCHT OTRIKE ON RAILROADS   Seven Rail Presidents Made Colonels; Troops Held in Reserve.

President Acts to Assure No Slump in Rail  Transportation During Wage Dispute; Army Men With Railroad Experience to Be Used

TO PREVENT STOPPAGE   General Somervell Carries : Out Seizure Order   As Colonels Given Presidents: Trainmen In Service Called

ARMY HOLDING TROOPS READY 70 MAN RAILS      Soldiers To Supplement Any Shortage Of  Manpower

Troops Are Made Ready To Fill   President Makes Move To Safeguard Action In War; Heads Of Lines Made Colonels

NATION’S RAIL SYSTEM TAKEN OVER BY ARMY   FDR Says Offensives Would Be Hurt By Strike

New Wage Hikes Are in Effect   President Orders Entire Railroad System Taken Over to Avert Strike Threat

Army Using Troops To Operate Railroads   Wages In ‘Status Quo’; Lines To Be Kept Running, Say Stimson. Somervell

Soldiers Used For R. R. Work Where Needed   News Of Action Disclosed By Secretary Stimson At Special Conference

SOLONS BID UP SCHEDULE FOR FAMILY GRANTS   House, Senate Proposals Assure Increases Over Earlier Requests   MAY COST $3,500,000.000   Upper House Approves $80 For Soldier’s Wife With One Child

HIGHER RATE OF ALLOWANCES ~ 1$ ASSURED FOR DEPENDENTS   SENATE VOTES $80 PER MONTH FOR WIFE WITH ONE CHILD HOUSE PREPARING  -7O VOTE ¢

Ceiling on Corn  Hiked Nine Cents   Prices on Other Grains Frozen

DANES REFUSE TO COLLABORATE © WITH GERMANS BUT CONTINUE SABOTAGE-REVOLTS DIMINISHING   Eric Scavenius, Only Political Leader in Country Not Arrested. Declines To Form New Government Under Nazi Military Dictatorship

—DENMARK—  GERMAN CABINET OFFER DECLINES   Danish Prime Minister Refuses To Form New Government   ESCAPES ARREST   No German Soldiers On Copenhagen Streets, Refugees Report

Eric Scavenius Refuses To Accept Job ‘Of Reoraanizing New Danish Government

GERMAN ATTEMPTS ORGANIZE DANISH GOVERNMENT FAIL   PREMIER AND CABINET WHICH RESIGNED REFUSE INVADERS’ OFFERS

Danes Refusing To Compromise  With Germans   Prime Minister Declines Offer To Form New Regime.

Report Danish Prime Minister Refuses _ Nazi Offer to Form New Government:

GERMANS FAIL IN COMPROMISE WITH DENMARK   Danish Prime Minister Declines Offer to Farm New Government

OFFER IS DECLINED   Danish Prime Minister Re. fuses to Form a New Government -

Premier Rejects Plea To Reform Danish Cabinet   Refngees In Sweden Say Scavenius Defies Nazis; Disorders Diminished

Danes Have Not Formed Cabinet  Nazis Maintain Iron Rule In Denmark

Danish Prime Minister Refuses To Form New Govt   Declines. German Reguest to Head New Cabinet. Other Resigned Danish: Officials Also Refuse to Serve.

Danish Sabotage Goes On as Former Prime Minister Refuses Nazi Offer '

DANES PREMMEH AEJEGTO FFE FROM GERMANS   Request To Form Regime Under Nazis Declined By Prime Minister

‘Scavenius Scorns Nazi ‘Compromise, Refuses Tc ‘Form Danish Government

Scavenius Declines Nazi Offer To Form Government  Dane Leader Bucks Nazis  e 6-8 8 @

Danish Prime Minister Will Not Aid Nazis      Scavenius Declines Offer Te Head New Danish Cabinet Under German Control

DANE REFUSES NAZI-OFFERED CABINET POS’   Scavenius, Resigned Prime Minister, Will Not Be “Pawn” for Germans;  Disorders Lessen

GERMAN OFFER T0 FORM GOVERNMENT REFUSED BY DANE   Former Prime Minister Scavenius Balks on. Nazi Plan— Other Cabinet Members Re «fuse to Talk to Nazis

Dane Spurns German Bid to Rule Nation   Prime Minister Refuses to' Form New Government Under Nazi Occupation Law

DANISH MINISTER DECLINES TO FORM NEW NAZI GOVT   Other Members of Danish Cabinet. Refused to Even Meet The Nazis

DANISH LEADER SNUBS GERMANS   Eric Scavenius Refuses tc Form New Government Asked by Nazis

Scavenius  Won’t Work ~~ With Nazis   Resigned Prime Minister Of Denmark Declines to Form Cabinet

Danes Refuse  To Help Nazis   Prime Minister Who Resigned Rejects Request To Form Cabinet.

Danish Premier Rejects Request  Refuses To Form New Government For Nazis  We Terese’ BE coy wip «ar

$100,000.00 Gift To Athens College Methodists To Raise $250,000,000-More

$100,000.00 Gift To Athens College   Methodists To Raise Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand More

Harbor-Industry Ruined In Naples   Writer Says Harbor And Industries Wiped Out By Heavy Bombings By STEN HEDMAN

Farm Bloc May Oppose Father Drafting Plan   Falmer Favors Poliey of Manpower and Limiting Size of Army; Fears Food 7 * Shortage

SEEK FARM BLOC AID TO PREVENT FATHERS DRAFT   Plan Calls For Pooling Of Mar power Interests To Stop Draft

FARM BLOC MIGHT EXEMPT PRE-PEARL HARBOR “DADDIES”   Plan Calls For Pooling Manpower Interests To Prevent Family Split

Plan to Exempt Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Is Disclosed   Congressional Farm Bloc May Be Behind  Newest Mavemant

NEW STRAT TEGY TO OPPOSE FATHER DRAFT   Powerful Farm Bloc May Back Legislation

PRE-WAR DADS MAY GET HELP OF FARM BLOE   October Draft Call Will Be About 312,000, WMC Says

FARM BLOC BACKS — PLANS TO PREVENT DRAFTING FATHERS   Powerful Congressional Group Discloses Program to Avoid Family Disruption.

Farm Bloc May Aid Fight Agains' Draft of Fathers      Furlough of Farm Workers in Army To Be Proposed

Farm Bloc May Push Plan To Stop Dad Draft   Certain Now That Some Fathers Will Go In October Call

Farm Bloc May Fight Dad Draft   NEW PLAN AIMS AT POOL OF MANPOWER INTERESTS, BLOCK TO FAMILY BLOWS

NEW PLAN TO EXEMPT DADS FROM DRAFT   Pooling Manpower Interests Planned By Farm Leaders

Farm Bloc Maps Move to Halt Drafting Dads   Manpower Pooling Hailed to Aid Homes and Farms

Today’s War Commentary  Counter-Weapon Souoht Ry Nagic Ta Curh Air Raid

What Would You Do With Adolf, Musso? Badoglio’s Suggestion Of — Caae Brings Other ‘Cures’

HEAVY DAMAGI IS DONE OVER  ARGE REGION   River moves toward all time high of 23 to 24 feet at Omaha

Japs Building New Runway  At Kiska Base   MacArthur Reports Wide  _Air Sween_of Foe

A CHANCE OF SHOWERS   Extreme Heat Still Holding Off From Kansas

Refundable Tax Proposal  Considered   Would Take Another 10 Per Cent Now—Turn Back 13 After War

\Per Cent x Hike ow Talked   ut Would Provide A } Per Cent Refund fter The War

Plan Would Hike Withholding Tax To 30 Per Cen   New Program Presented F.D.R. For His Opinion By Seey. Morgenthau

DIME MORE OF EVERY DOLLAR TAX PROPOSED   like of Withholding Levy To 39 Per Cent Is Included In Plan   REFUNDS AFTER WAR   Treasury Hands Proposal To President For  Opinion

10 PCT. INCOME TAX HIKE URGED      Treasury Plan ‘Would Offer Partial Post-War Refund

FR. STUDIES NEW INCOME TAX   TREASURY PLANS ADDED LEVY OF 10 PER CENT

It Would Withhold 30 Per Cent Instead of 20 But Provide For Post-War Refund.

10 Per Cent. Tax Increase  Is Proposed   Withholding Tax Would Be Raised Under New Plan To 30 Per Cent.

INCOME TAX BOOST IN PROSPECT IN U.S.   Pay-as-you-go System To Be Kept for Wage Earners

Present New Tax Program To Roosevelt   Treasury's Plan Would Take At Least Ten Cents Out Of FEverv Dollar.   RETURN 13 CENTS

Jump In Income Taxes Proposed   Would Total 30 Pct,  Part To Be Refunded

PROPOSES TAX OF 30 PER CENT   Treasury Wants To Take Another Dime Out Of Each Dollar

10 Per Cent Additional Tax  Is Considered   ‘Newest Proposal Calls for - Refund After War of 13 _ Cents on Each Dime Paid  in Taxes.

HIKE IN TAXES ON PAY ASKED BY TREASURY   Boost to 30 Percent May Be Asked In Proposals Given to Roosevelt; Refund Included

Treasury Has Plan For More  Taxes For War   Takes Another  Dime From Dolla

Treasury's New Tax Plan Would Take a Time On The Dollar And Pay Back 13c

NEW TAX PROGRAM PRESENTED TO FDR:BY TREASURY DEPT:   ; Proposed New Program: Would Take Another 16c Out of Each Dollar Tax ahla Incrama

MEAT, COFFEE, BUTTER COSTS LOWERED BY OPA   Will Become Effective June  Study Plan to Cut High Prices

FOOD PROGRAM PLAN LAUNCHED   Meat, Coffee, Butter Subsidies To Become Operative June 1

COST OF LIVING SUBSIDY PLAN NOW PROPOSED   First Step Likely To Lead To Reduction in Prices Of Civilian Foods   CONGRESS HAS BEEN COOL   Wages Have Not Kept Pace With Commodity Prices; New Tax Plan Nearer

Two-Billion-Dollar Yearly Food Subsidy Under Study: Meat and Butter Prices Cut

Pian To Subsidize Living Costs Takes Capital Spot Light   To Trim Prices

SUBSIDIZATION FOR COST OF LIVING 15 TOPS IN WASHINGTON MEAT, COFFEE AND BUT  TER COST REDUCTION DNCDEN PY RPRNWN

MEAT AND COFFEE CUT IS PROMISED   Butter Also Listed In Government Drive Against Living Costs

Subsidy Program Studied as Means Of Halting Rising Costs of Livng

PICKET LINES ARE BROKEN BY MINERS   ‘We Will Work’ Group Vies with ‘Won’t Workers’ in Unique Union Situation

Miners Pass Through Pickets  17,000 Idle—Federal Grand Jury Ordered Ta Canvene July 14

UNION MINERS GO THROUGH PICKET LINES 10 WORK   Scene in Pennsylvanis Fields Unprecedented Strikes Tie Up Score ol Caal Pits. ~

Miners Crash Picket Lines lo Enter Pits   Turbulent Scenes Are Enacted in Pennsylvania Area

INSURGENT GROUP KEEPS SOME COAL MINES IDLE TODAY   Sew Miners Go Through Picket Lines to Work in Pennsylvania Pits

MINERS PASS ~ PICKET LINES   Bul 17,000 Still Idle in Penna Captive Mines—U. 8. Altorney Preparing Report

IGNORING PICKETS, MINERS G0 10 WORK   First Open Opposition to ‘No Contract, No Work’ Movement.

MANY COAL MINES KEPT IDLE BY INSURGENT GROUP   One ‘Group, However, Goes Through Picket Lines to Re* turn to Work at One Fayette ) County Mine a

Democrats Name Amos, Paull For Legislative Posts   Uharleston Attorney, Known As Opponent O Neely Administration, Wins Over Ross 25 To 24 For Speaker Of House

Amos Named For Speaker   Defeats Ross By Single Vote; Paull Nominated for Senate President; Republicans Choose Moore and Young

TIPTON BLACKOUT TERMED oUGCEo:   ‘*Over Alertness” Only Pos sible Criticism Vciced in the City.

TIPTON BLACKOUT TERMED SUCCESS   “Over Alertness” Only Pos ‘sible Criticism Voiced ’ In the City..

FAIR IS REAPPOINTED   Sterling. Man Will Continue as State Highway Director

No Promises in Sight on Dad’s Place in Draft   D. C. Speaker’ —Unofficial But Reliable News Source — Says There'll Be No Definite “Word Soon As to When PrePearl Harbor Fathers Would Be Called.

rushers’ Draft Up fo Military   Army and Navy Slow To Announce Changes In Draft Policy

No Certainty On Dad Draft   Definite Statement Of Status ‘Impossible Since Changed Conditions Alter Needs

FATHER STATUS STILL UNCERTAIN   D.C. Speaker Says Ne Official Cards on Table Soon

DRAFT CARDS NOT OPEN TO FATHERS   Capital Observer Predicts Continued Postponement Of Call

DC Speaker Says Fathers Doomed To Be Uncertain  No Word About Draft Status

FATHERS DOOMED T0 REMAIN UNCERTAIN ON DRAFT STATUS, NEWS SOURCES SAY

D. C. Speaker Predicts Fathers Doomed To Remain Uncertain About Induction

Girl Technician Forced To Accompany Escaped Hospital Inmate Safe

Girl Escapes — From Convict  Fairview Technician Freed In Camden From Insane Criming

Technician Is Abducted By Lunatic   MISS CLARA MURRAY RUNS INTO TAPROOM GASPING TO BARTENDER “CALL POLICE”; SEARCH FOR’ CONVICT.   Burglary Charge

Inmate Frees Nurse Abducted From Hospital   Girl Found on Street In Camden Unharmed, Abducted at Farview

Woman Escapes From Captor After Being Held 29 Hours   Makes Getaway After-Being Driven Over Two States By Insane Asylum Eugitive

Girl Hospital Technician Escapes From Asylun Inmate Who Held Her Prisoner For 29 Hours

complex and contradictory as 11 is to get along.  Tadia and War .. on:

iWheeler Opposes Collaboration Now iin Postwar Planning Until All Major Allies Disclose Intentions

COUNTRY BANKS FACE UNCERTAIN POST-WAR FATE   Rural Bankers Warn 0: Competition From Federal Lending Agencies   FIGHT ON NEW DEAL VOICED AT MEETING

POPULAR COUPLE. MARRIED TUESDAY   ‘Dolores. Bauerly and Floyd Funk Exchange Nup-—  tial Vows = -«

POPULAR COUPLE MARRIED TUESDAY   ‘Dolores Bauerly and Floyd Funk Exchange Nuptial Vows

GOEBBELS AGAIN CALLS   ON GERMAN PEOPLE NOT TT} 1OCk THEID NEPVE

BUILDING IN 1942 HIGHEST IN YEARS   Local Construction Has  Estimated Value of ) $842,623

BUILDING IN 1942 HIGHEST IN YEARS   Local Construction Has Rant ey Value af. $849 673

CONFUSION AT TOP CHARGED   Senate Committee Hears Lack Of Planning Is War Handicap

Louisiana Victory Concert Program To Take Place In April   To Stimulate The Sale Ot War Bonds And Stamps In State

DELIVERED DEFENDERS   Tommies Are Thrown Back Slightly By Coun ter-Attack But Yanks: frat

Try To Iron Gut Rows Of Poles-Russ   (eS AND BRIT AMBASSADORS TRY TO GET THEM TOGETHER.

NAZI PROPAGANDA HAS DIFER THAN   Commentator Speaks of “Ditching Extremists” as First _Bid For Peace

Nazi Broadcast Frankly Hints  Revolution Neat   Propaganda C om mentator Refers To Overthrow Of * ‘*Extremists’’

1000 Allied Planes Lash  Axis Nations   Pressure Steadily Growing Heavier Prior to Invasion

Over 1.000 Planes Take Part In Devastating Attacks On Both Ends   U. S$. BOMBERS SMASH AT ITALY FROM AFRICA   Dusseldorf Is RAF Target With “Saturation” Raid Tactics Being Used

Both Ends Hit Hard By Allies Now   TREMENDOUS PRESSURE IS BEING APPLIED TO ITALIANS,

Say State Can Raise Salaries   Democrats Say Mone; Is Available for Teachers’ Salaries

President May Take Large Personal Hand — in Shaping of the Nation’s Draft Policies

WHEELER WANTS SHOWDOWN VOTE   To Call For Senate Vote On Proposal To Defer All Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers For Remainder Of Year.

WHEELER TO PRESS FOR A SHOWDOWN   Would Force Action to Halt Drafting of Fathers

FATHER DRAFT “© IN SHOW-DOWA   Wheeler : Will Call foi Vote in Senate Sometime Today

Seeks To Exemp! Dads Until Jan. {   Sen. Wheeler Plans To Force Vote On Bill

WHEELER 10 FORGE ACTION ON DRAFT   Will Attempt to Have Kilday Bill Approved by Forcing Senate Legislation

Eden Says Talks Prove Beneficial Assurance Given  China That Britain Will Aid In Ficht.

CALL FOR A REPUBLIC   Abdication ot King Emmanuele Demanded at Political Meeting

ALLIES LAUNCH PUSH IN ITALY   BRITISH SLASH AHEAD FROM SANGRO RIVER

ABDICAT  KING DEMANDED      British Reverse on Leros Blamed on Politics

Demand Heard For Abdieation   Emanuele Must Give His Throne’Up In Favor Of Republic

Abdication Of Italian King Demanded At Naples Meet   _Ex-Foreign Minister Blames Loss Of Leros  On King; Republic Of Italy Sought

“King Must Go Now”   Abdication of Italy’s Monarch Bemanded At Mass Meefing in Naples

ABDICATION OF KING  VITTORIO EMANUELE  PUBLICLY DEMANDED MEETING IN NAPLES DEM ONSTRATED VIGOROUSLY  - LAD DrpDIiipDiit

TALIAN THRONG CALLS ON KING 10 ABDICATE THRONE   Naples Meeting Stages Dem onstration for Republic

Abdication Of King Is Demanded  By Italians   Large Crowd Backs Count Sforza And “Howls Down Venerable Benedetto Croce

Italians Blast King Emanuelle   Abdication Demanded at Public Meeting

NOTHING SIGNIFICANT   Mrs, Litvinoff surprised By Furore  Over Husband's Recall

May Choose Another Jury To Try Flynn   Housewifely  rio Charges 2 Women Were Prejudiced

Two Women on Flynn Jury Accused of Perjury   Judge Adjourns Court to Investigate Charges; May Have to Start Anew

OHIO CADET KILLED    [Flynn Trial Adjourns as Three Women,     ‘Females on Jury With Deceil, Perjury

Three Women Ejected From The Flynn Jury   They’re Removed After Charging Others With Perjury; Trial Halted

THREE EJECTED ON FLYNN JURY   Two Others Are Charged With Deceit, Perjury At Trial

3 WOMEN JURORS TOO TALKATIVE, SO FLYNN TRIAL UPSE]   Actor Hopes For ‘Silent’ Type Rooters In Jury Box

Meeting Of The Alabama Chambers Of Commerce   Gala Week for the Chamber of Commerce

More Axis Tunisian Bases Are Threatened As Retreat Continues   Russians Still Advance in Dnieper Drive Despite Rising Counterattacks Made by Nazis Forces; New Drive in Leningrad Region Is Indicated

ROMMEL DRIVEN ~ BACK IN TUNISIA   Axis Retreat Unbroken With High _ Command Acknowledging . Offensive Is Ended

SEEK 3 BODIES IN * TRAINS’ WRECKAGE   Lima Men Missing As Freight a Cars Collide

Troops Patrol Bomb-Twisted Cities of Northern Italy to Quell Wildfire of ' Sivikes Spurred by War-Weariness. _  and Underground Propaganda

Reds Within Twelve Miles  Of Kharkov   Allied Troops Make Slow and Steady Progress All Along Messina Bridgehead; RAF Blasts German Munitions  Factories

Enemy s Desperate Resistance Holds Up Allied Drive   Surprise Landing _. By Americans Aids Taking San Agata

Make Steady Progress Over  Tip OF Steily   Desperate Enemy Resistance. Lack Of Roads Slow Allied Advances.   BOMBERS HIT MESSINA

SLOW AND STEADY PROGRESS REPORTED TOWARD MESSINA  RUSSIANS MAY MAKE KHARKOV ANOTHER STALINGRAD FOR NAZIS

Strew Route with Debris   Slow and ‘Steady Progress all Along ‘Messina Bridgehead Is Reported

DESPERATE RESISTANCE AND « LACK OF ROADS AND MINE FIELDS IMPEDE PROGRESS ~   British Troops Within Seven Miles of Axis — ‘ Communications Junction. RAF Delivers New Blows on German Munitions Factories

SLOWER ALLIED PROGRESS MADE ALONG MESSINE   Hard-Pressed Nazis Being Ham. mered by Air, L&nd, Sea as Climatic Battle Nears

British, Americans Strike at Randazzo From 2-Way Attack   Nazis Face Soviet Trap at Kharkov, Russian Forces Within Heavy  Gun Range of City

Germans Fall Back foward Messina   Russians Threaten Nazis At Kharkov; RAF Again Active

YANKS ADVANCE ON ESCAPE PORT IN FIERCE FIGHT   British Forces Drive for Union With Americans To Encircle Enemy Force   MORE PRISONERS CAUGHT   Surging Reds Threaten To Entrap German Force at Kharkov Base

ALLIES REPORT GAINS ON ALL SICILY FRONTS   Russians Bring Kharkov Within Range of Heavy Guns   RHINELAND IS BLASTED   Troops Patrol Northern Italy Cities To Nip Strikes

Desperate Enemy Resistance Slows Allied Initiative   Red Army, Pushing  Relentlessly Against Germans, Threaten To  Entrap Forces at Nazi Base

NOTARY PUBLIC Elizabeth M, Culler 401-406 Fallowfield Ave.      WY GINCERE THAN

Seek to Curb U.S  Powers   ASSEMBLY ASKS FEDERAL DEFINITION OF STATE RIGHTS UNDER ACT

PROPAGANDA OVER BOMBING OF ROME WON'T HELP AXIS   Confidence Expressed ‘That Enemy Plan to Capitalize Attack Will Fail.

U.S. CERTAIN AXIS PROPAGANDA DRIVE ON RAID WILL FAIL   Warning Of Rome Bembing Made Beforehand — — No Warnings Given By Enemy

Axis Capitalizes On Rome Attack   Washington Sees Little Headway

DOG SENT TO WAR BY GOVERNOR'S SON   Retriever Pup Left Behind To Play With Jack

JOURNAL EDITOR DIES FROM HEART ATTACKS FRIDAY      F. B. Russell Prominent In Civic and Social Life, Outstanding Archeologist

ADD TO KELLOGG FUND   Kansas: University Receives $5,000 More. for Medical Students __.,

ADD TO KELLOGG FUND   Kansas University Re Receives $5,000 More for Medical Students

NEAR AXIS CATANIA BASE   Montgomery's Men Have Occupied Town of Lentini

BRIT ott OUGUPY KEY Akto TOWN IN BITTER FIGH   German and Italian Lines ~ Cracked At Lentim; Allies Surge Forward

Food Problem Getting Serious and the — Public Mau Have to Tighten Its Belt

MAY REVISE — DRAFT LAWS   PROBLEMS OF FOOD PRODUC.  ‘TION AND SIZE OF ARMY  “HOLDING INTEREST «~   - OF CONGRESS .-

‘Bob Reynolds ‘Flattered’ As Gerald Smith's Choice ‘In 1944; America First Opposition Amuses Willkie

REGENT OVERLOAD?   Fred Harris Opposes Plan to  Enlarge Powers and Duties

URGES ACT  ION ON TAX PLAN   Budget Director Wants Congress, Treasury to Get Toaether.

Ask Rush Work Qn Tax Change   Budget Director Smith Urges Completion So Program Can Start April 1.

BUDGET DIRECTOR WANTS SPEED ON PAY-AS-CO PLAN   Appeals To Treasury and Congress to “Get Together” So Plan Can Start By April 1.

PEED ON TAX BILL IS URGED BY SMITE   White House Intervention Hinted By Spokesman

SMITH APPEALS FOR. “UNITY ON LAWS FOR COLLECTION OF TAXE      White: House Intervention Or Details of Legislation Hinted —  MAY CANCEL SOME TAXES

‘Intervention By FDR Hinted On Tax Bills   Congressmen Urged To Speed Passage Of Pay-As-Go

Budget Chief In Tax Law Appeal   REQUEST MADE FOR NEW MEASURE BEFORE APRIL 1

BUDGET PIRECTOR APPEALS TO. CONGRESS FOR TAX QUESTION SETTLEMENT

Budget Director Demands Immediate Legislation on  A Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan

FDR’s Adviser Asks Tax Action   Hints Intervention By White House To End Arguments

HAROLD D. SMITH, FISCAL ADVISER, ASKS EARLY ACTION   Apneals To Congress To Pas: Pay-as-You-Go Legislatior  To Have It Operative B Anril   MORE HEARINGS OPEN OVER RUML TAX PLAN   Cancellation of Up to ThreeQuarters of 1942 Tax Fot Immediate Operation Considered.

SMITH APPEALS FOR ACTIONON PAY-AS-YOU-G0   Budget. Director Asks Treasury, Congress to Get Together “Immediately” on Legislation   SETS DEADLINE   Roosevelt's Fiscal Adviser Hints of Intervention by White House to End  . Arouments

APPEAL MADE FOR PROMPT ACTION   White House Apparently Back of Pay-As° You-Go Plan

Budget Head Wants Ruml  Plan By April   Smith Appeals to Treasury and Congress to Get Together Now

Speed Is Asked On Tax Plan   Indirect Intervention From White House Hinted By Smith

Forgive Part Of Tax: F. R.   Speed Action, Start Poy-as-You-Go by April 1, Plea Made

Speed Urged On Pay-As-You-Go  Tax Legislation   White House Intervention To End Disputes Is Hinted.

FDR'S ADVISOR. URGES FOR ACTION ON PAY-AS-GO PLAI   Hints Of White House Intervention To End Arouments

Budget Director Wants Speedy Action.....  Treasury Is Urged To Speed Up Tax Measure

MICHIGAN LEADS US. IK BOND PURCHASES   State Contributes Five Billion of Nation’s Eight Billion Excess in February

AXIS PREDICTS MAJOR U. S.JAP SEA BATTLE   Vichy Radio Says Nipponese Will Never Yield Rabaul Without a Hard Ficht.

ake Ee  NEW FASHIONS-BY WPB ORDER   Cut in Material Allowance Requires Slimmer, Simpler Women's Clothes

Curb Put on Women’s Clothes— WPB Clamos Down on Frill:   ni  Seen as Arrempt To Svall Ov Rearionine)

NEW STYLE TOGS LIMIT TRIMMING   Double-Breasted Suits, Jackets for Women Banned

DRESS STYLES SLASHED BY WPB   Double-Breasted Suits Banned; Many Frills To Be Eliminaled

48-Hour Week for Women. Minors Gains Favor; Debate  Nears on Two Other Bills

THREE EXPLOSIVE MEASURES BEFORE ‘STATE LAWMAKERS   Labor Bill, Liquor Rationing and Welfare Program Are Ready for Debate.

TARGET IN ITALY HIT   Other Italian Outposts on Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria Take Punishment.

Over 500 © Hit City of Dusseldorf.          MORE THAN 400 HUNDRED:OT] STRIKE AT ITALIAN OUTPOST SICILY, SARNDINIA, PANTELLE

Hammer Outposts Of Italy   Sardinia Blasted, and West Coast of Greece — Planes  Over Holland, Belgium

1000 MORE BIG BOMBERS SMASH AT CONTINENT   Dusseldorf Catches Loads of 600 Block-buster Bombers——italy Sees 400 Overhead.

Dusseldorf Smashed by 500 RAF Raiders with BlockBusters in Night Assault; on “Under-belly,” Af rica-Based Craft Hammer at Invasion Outposts with 400 Planes.

1,000 Airplanes Blast Axis-Held  European Sites   500 Block-Buster Bombs Dropped On City of Dusseldorf

500 RAF BOMBERS HIT DUSSELDORF; 400 PLANES STRIKE ITALIAN ISLANDS   Sicily, Sardinia, Pantelleria Hammered by Allied Aircraft

Over 500 Planes Strike At Nazi Arms City In Daylight  27 PLANES LOST

O00 BOMBERS IN DUESSELDORF TRIP 400 POUND ITALY   German City.Producing Arm Blasted, African Base Reports Damage Done on {talian Places.   MOVES BEING MADE TO SUBDUE ITALIANS   Soviets Seize Four Cities In Moscow Area, Report Planes Destroy Six Axis Landing Vessels.

BLOCKBUSTER RAIDS AGAIN HIT GERMANY   1000-Plane Fleet oo: Dusseldorf; Others Raid Sardenia

AEGEAN ISLAND DRIVE FEARED BY FASCISTS   Italy Denies Umberto In Algiers With Peace Feelers

Rome Denies Extending Peace Feelers   Mounting Invasion Fears Reported Sweéping Europe

Reports : Massing of ‘Troop Ships   Moscow Claims Duce Requested tc Relinquish Powers

Troopships and Invasion Craft Massed for Action; Sicily and Sardinia Raidec   Axis Also Fears Aegean Islands May Be Scene of Allied Landings;  Italian Peace Mission Rumor Denied

FRENCH UNITS NEARER PEACE   DeGaullist Named By Giraud To Head Council

Sandwich Salesman Saves Lives Of 9 As Tugboat Capsizes at Portland

Fach Father's Contribution to War tier Must Re Measured  So ar ae a ee

446,000 DADS DUE FOR CALL BY YEAR'S END   Fathers Least Valuable To War Effort Go First

Jobs Will Guide Draft of Fathers      Boards to Consider Work of Each Man

Gen. Hershey Says 446,000 Fathers To Be Drafted Before End of Year

SOME FATHERS TQ BE DRAFTED BY YEAR'S END   446,000 Will Be Needed, Those Contributing Least To Be Taken

SOVIET ARMY NOW 15 MILES ~ FROM ROSTON   Important Railroad Junctions Fall In Drive

Russians Retake Sixty Towns in  Don River Valley   Nazis Burn Villages Behind Then In Peli Mell Retreat From Reds on Caucasus Front

OPA Representative Addresses Transportation Com. mittees of County Industres Om Situation,

RATION BOARD STATEMENT   About Gasoline Shortage And Bicycle Permits.

Border Belt Leaf Prices Holding Firm Or Improved   Offerings Continue Light ‘As Farmers Hope For OPA Action on Raising Ceiling Price.

Hitler’s New Pack of Spies is Ready To go on Prowl---But FBI Ready too

Plane Crew ‘Witnessed Sea Battle   First Sighted Japanese Fleet. Called American Fleet and Then Cruised Overhead as Battle Raged

NAVY PATROL BOMBER HAS AIRSIDE SEAT FOR NAVAL BATTLE  SPOTS JAP FLOTILLA AND CALLS U. S. TASK FORCE INTO ACTION

Navy Patrol Bomber Sights Japs Then Stands By to Watch Sea Fight

Bomber’s View of  2nd Kula Battle   Naval Shells Whizzed by Cruising Plane

Valley Highway Changes Proposed   Toll-Free Bridge Fo: Laredo Planned

AXIS .REPORT:  Claim 11 Allied Warships Sunk      Germans Say Losses Include Air Carrier  Weer Wherrtde.d When,

Laval Sets Up New Regiment   Army. Force Created In Occupied France

THAILAND URGED TO REVOLT FROM JAPS   Generalissime Chiang Asks Thais To Rise Up And Join China

Flathead Bristles  With Opposition  To Federal Project 3,000 Are Expected  To Attend Kalispell Meeting

Kalispell Waits Lake Hearing:   Town Bristles With Opposition to Plan

Hearing Opens Today on Flathead Plan   Army Engineers, Bonneville Dam and State Officials Gather to . Discuss Pronosal to Raise Lake Level

War Targets In Seven Italian Cities Raided By Waves Of American Planes

Yank Flyers Blast Italian Rail Yards    Centers Near Rome And Naples Pounded 20 Planes Downed

GERMAN DEFENSE LINES SHATTERED IN RED SMASH   PINCERS CLOSE AROUND RAILROAD NETWORK IN HEART OF RICH DNIEPER, DONETS SECTOR

ATTEMPT 10 SMASH MYSTERIOUS GERMAN ROCKET GUNS, BELIEF   Night Attack Along Cross-Channel Invasion Area Called Heaviest Since 1940; Day Raids Also Made

Tell Why Quota Of War Bonds Was. Increased   Increased Farm Income, Higher Workers’ Pay, : Among Reasons Given

MUST INCREASE SALE OF BONDS   County Committee Presents The Facts

Eighth Army Captures Ta krouna, First Army Moves to Within 24 Miles of Tunis.

FISTS REPLACE BAYONETS AS FOES STRUGGLE   Eighth Army Beats Off Powerful  Counters

NAZI CHIEF IN. HOLLAND KILLED   Seyffardt Was Head of Dutch Lesion

MORALE DIPS FOR GERMANY AS BOMBS HI]   OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE CHASED FROM HOMES

. Fenth OF Population Routed From Homes=— —By Kirke L. Sin  ‘Germans At Home Know Defeat Is Coming

BERLIN STILL SEEKING PEACE   Efforts Are Continuing Declares Stockholm

Report Germany Ready To Talk Peace With Allies   Claim Army Unable To Get Sufficient Suoplies For Defense

RUSSIA WON'T BITE SO NAZIS TRY U. S., BRITAIN FOR PEACE   Stockholm Reports German Move Cracked When Reds Demanded Hitler, — Olid Boundaries

PRICE LEVELS ARE ASSAILED   MASTER OF NATIONAL - GRANGE, BLAMES PRICE   CRIANGS .FOR THE:  ' SHORTAGE IN FOOD

NAZI SUB PACK PAILS IN RAID ON TWO CONVOYS   British and American Planes and Warships Sink Five U-Boats in  ‘Two-Day Battle

CONVOY WHIPS ~——-U-BOAT FORCE   More Than 99 Per Cent  Of Ships Safe; Five  Submarines Sunk

Allied Planes, Ships Sink Fie U-Boats in Beating Off Pack of 20   Two Aircraft Are Crippled by Shelling  From Submarines: Convovs Are Saved

Allies Overrun  Creat Sub Raid   Furious 48-Hour Day. Night Battle Started In North Atlantic.

Convoys Saved As Planes Beat Off U-Boat Pack   Aerial Umbrella Sinks Five Subs, Damages Three

_«w@ German U-Boats Sunk; 3 Damaged   Two Valuable Convoy: Taken Through to England Virtually Without Loss

Planes and Ships Save Big Como  Sink Five Naz Usboats in Atlantic

ALLIES WIN FIGHT WITH 20 U-BOATS, SEND DOWN FIVE   Raiders Attack Two Convoys in Atlantic and Are Beaten Off by Warships , and Planes.   FURIOUS STRUGGLE ; LASTS FOR 48 HOURS   sSubmarines Large and Power' fully Armed—99 Per Cent of Escorted Vessels Escane Damage.

Attack on Convo Ends in Rout Of U-Boat Pack  Planes, Ships Sink Five Pig Boats In Two-Day Battle

FORD CO, PLANT HIT BY STRIKE   Walkout Idles Many At tiver Rouge

A, F. Darts Southland, is Leipzig   t Attack At Berlin  Smash At Trading [Railway Center

‘Mosquitos Hit Berlin  In Diversion   Bulk of 1500 Long-Ton _ Attack Poured on Great. Rail Center

NAZIS TRICKED IN AIR ATTACK — ON LEIPZIG WAR INDUSTRIES   Battered Berlin Gets Another Dose of Explosives But Main Attack Is at Other Factories and Rail. Lines—Food Supplies in Nazi Capital Depleted

1,500 Tons of Bombs Unloosed on Leipzig   Feinting at Capital, Heavy R. A. F. Planes Trick Nazis to Deliver Devastating Blow at the Great Rail Center.

MOSQUITO CRAFT ASSAULT BERLIN   Deception Draws Off Most of Nazi Fighters

Berlin Cowers Under Air Blow: Blast Leipzig   RAF Continues Great Aerial Attack On Nazi Homeland

Nazis Are Tricked In ~ New Raids   R.A.F. Bombers Heading tor Berlin Make Quick Turn 3 and Blast Leipzig   GERMAN DEFENSES... CAUGHT FLATFOOTED   ® Devastating Blow Falls (On Rail-Center Supplying Germans.in Russia

Mosquito Bombers Keep Nazi Cagital gUnder Fire After Ruse Tricks German Fighiers   23 BOMBERS LOST   Leipzig, Bearing Bruni of Trensport Since Berlin Laid in Ruins, Hit by 1500 Tons Bombs

Rail Center Gets Big Bomb Load   Last-Minute Shift Sends Mosquito Planes Over Berlin While Main Armada Draws Off Defenders, Attacks Leipzig

RAT Bombers Blast Leipzig Friday Night   At Same Time Fleet of Mosquitos Again Hit German Capital

1500 Tons Dropped   Tricked Nazis Into Thinking Berlin Goal. __- 

Leipzig Is Bombed By RAF Planes   Large Formation Makes Feint At Capital Of Reich, Then Suddenly Strikes Railway Center

Nazis Tricked As RAF Fliers Bomb Liepzig   Big Bombers Make Feint At Berlin And Then Strike South

GERMAN RAILWAY CITY DEVASTATED BY HEAVY BOMBS   Raid on Capital lures Nazi Fighters Away From Main Taraet

Great Nazi Industrial And Rail Center Blasted With 1,500 Tons Of Ex niaewtrac

(;ermans tricked by R. A. F. feint   Strafe Lepzig  instead of Berlin

RAF DECEPTION BAPRLES ENEMY FIGHTER FORGE   Fifteen Hundred Tons of Explosives Unloaded On City That Had Been Succoring Berlin    NEW DESTRUCTION VISITED ON CAPITAL   Raids Cut Five Hours Off Berliners’ Day; Transportation Systems Paralyzed

RAF TRICKS GERMANS IN BOMB RAIDS   Light Planes Roar Over Berlin While Big Ships Strike at Leipzig.   23 British Planes Lost in the Attacks

RAF Switch Tricks Nazi Air Forces   1,500 Tons Of Bombs Unloaded On Enemy  Trade Center

Shift in Targets Catches German Defense Off Guard   Railway and Trade Center Is Key to Relief of Capital

MOSQUITOES HAND BERLIN ANOTHER BLOW   Attacks Cost 23 Bombers: Shift Of Targets Keeps German Fighters From Main Action

FEINT ASSAULT ON BERLIN HAD NAZIS GUESSING   Quick Stab At Berlin Drew German Fighter Strength Out Of Way For Concentrated Air Attack On Big Industrial Center Of Leipzig.

RAF Command Shilts Targets To Trick Nazis   Blast Reich Railway City After Scorching Berlin In Feigning Big Attack   Ry ROBERT STURDEVANT

RAF BOMBER COMMAND TRICKS GERMANS AND MAKES SHIFT OF TARGETS TO GREAT RAIL CENTER    1,500 Long Tons of Explosives Cause Great Devastation in German Trading Center As Part. _ Of : Ever-Increasing ‘Tempo of Aerial Bombing

LIEPSIG ROCKED WITH 1500 TONS OF BOMBS BY RAt   GERMANS TRICKED BY WELL-TIMED SHIFT OF TARGETS

GERMANS TRICKED BY RAF BOMBERS WHEN LEIPZIG IS BLASTED  BERLIN GETS ONLY LIGHT ATTACK AFTER NAZI

RAF Tricks Germans With Berlin Feint. Rips Leipzig   Armada Heads for Reich Capital, Switches Targets

Leipzig Is Target of RAF Planes   1,500 Tons of Heavy Explosives Hits Nazi Rail City

RAF Heaps Devastation On Leipzig   ‘Big Bomber Fleet Feints at Berlin, Then Pummels Railway Center

THE RAF BOMBERS SHIFT OF TARGETS FOOLS THE GERMANS   Feinted at Berlin Then Struck Heavy Blow at Trading Center of Leipzig.   HIT BY EXPLOSIVES   Deception Drew Off the Nazi Night Fighters, It Is Announced.

PORT AREA BURNED AND BLASTED; ALL DOCKS DESTROYED   U. S. Fifth Army Engaged In Bitter _ Fighting North Of Salerno— Three More Towns Fall Into °Allied Hands

Eastern Coast of Corsica Blockaded To Prevent Germans From Escaping

Indict 30 For Mine Strikes   Charge Conspiracy In First Prosecution Under Connally-Smith Law.

Indict 30 For Strikes   Grand Jury Acts In Unauthorized Strikes In Pennsylvania Coal Fields

Indict 30 Strikers   Grand Jury Charges -30 Men with Conspiracy In Soft Coal Strike

'30 Indicted in Probe of © Coal Strilze   Conspiracy to Prevent the Production of Coal Charged: Act Under New Law   19 UNION OFFICERS, 11 MEMBERS NAMED   Federal Grand Jury Votes Charges in Inquiry of Recent Pennsylvania Walkouts

Attempt To Interfere With Operation Of Mines Is Charged By Federal Grand Jury

Thirty Indicted In Coal Field on Strike Charges   Indictments Are First Since Enactment of the AntiStrike Law.   Claimed Interference With Mine Operations

INDICT 30 UNDER ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Action Is Taken by Federal  Grand Jury After Investigation

INDICT 30 UNDER -ANTL-STRIKE: BILL   Action Is Taken by Federal Grand Jury After  ‘Investigation   OFFICIALS IN GROUP

30 INDICTED _ IN SOFT COAL STRIKE PROBE   19 Officers and 11 Members of UMW Locals Face Charge Under SmithConal!y Bill Act 

30 INDICTED AFTER “SOFT COAL STRIKE   True Bills First Since Enactment of Connally-Smith Anti-ctniice  aw,

30 Indicted On _ Conspiracy Count  Actions Are First Under Anti-Strike Bill

30 INDICTED IN COAL STRIKE BY FEDERAL JURY      Prosecutions Are: First Since AntiStrike Bill Passed

SPELLMAN RESTS   Archbishop Home Afier Six-Month Visit te War Fronts.

DEPENDENTS: PAY HEARINGS CLOSE   Committee to Vote Tuesday On Proposed Revisions   ARMY OBJECTS   Deciding Allowances for Unfaithful Wives; Other Capital Developments

Unfaithful Wives Of Service Men   Committee Scores “Immoral Women

House Realy to Vote on fevised Depencency Bill  Army Not Gncerned Over Infilelity

House Committee Will Vote Tuesday On Pronosed Increases in Benefits

DRAFT REVISION ACTION DELAYED   Increase In Allowances To Service Men’s Families Studied

Soviet Army Units Seek To Wine Out  Minor Nazi Gains   Report Drive On Red Front Costs Nazis 30,000 Dead In Three Days   NAZIS ALSO LOSE 1,539 TANKS, CLAIM

Claim Nazis Have Lost 30,000 Men   Russians In Series of Counter Attacks

30,000 KILLED IN 3-DAY PUSK TO TAKE KURSK   Soviets Claim 1,681 German Tanks, 649 Planes Destroyed

(75,000 CAPTIVES TAKEN IN TUNISIA 17 ARE GENERALS   Booty Includes 1,000 Guns 250 Tanks and a Mass of ' Trucks—Weeks May Be  » Required to Count It.   ITALIAN COMMANDER > _ - LAST TO SURRENDER   Alexander Calls Victory: “One of Most Decisive in History”—Rome and Berlin Admit Defeat.

LAST MEANS OF ESCAPE IS GUT OFF BY REDS   Russians Proceeding With Grim Task of Wiping Out Broken Units.   War Summary

Over 50,000: Germans Are Surrounded —            RUSSIANS CUTTING ENEMY INTO SMALL GROUPS AND THEN «© 2: LIQUIDATE EACH GROUP

Russians Near Sea Of Azov Coast   Closing Trap On 50,000 More Germans At Rostov

‘American Plane Plane Sinks 3 Subs Damages Fourth j in “Atlantic

THREE GERMAN SUBS BAGGED BY NAVAL FLIEF   Fourth Damaged by Air. man From Escort Carrier On Atlantic Convoy ;* 60 Nazi Prisoners

3 U-BOATS ARE SUNK BY PLANE   Fourth Is Damaged by Fighter On Atlantic Convoy Duty, Navy Says

 Plane from Yankee Escort Carrier ‘Sinks:3 Submarines, Hits Fourth

Single U.S. Plane on Convoy Duty Sinks Three Subs, Damages Fourth

Two Sentenced to 30 Yearsas Spies   Carrier-Based U.S. Bomber Sinks 3 U-Boats in Atlantic

One PlaneThree Subs   Bomber For Escort Carrier Probably Got Fourth

Single US, Plane Sinks 3 Subs, Cripples Fourth   Spots German Craft While Flying From Escort Ship On Atlantic Convoy Duty

Single American Plane Sinks 3 German Sub:   Yankee Pilot From Aijircraft Carrier O1 Convov Duty Sets Atlantic Record

SINGLE AMERICAN PLANE DESTROYED 3 GERMAN U-BOATS   GRUMAN AVENGER BOMB ER BASED ON CARRIER VERY EFFECTIVE

Three U-Boats Sunk By U. S. Plane From Escort Carrier  ‘On Convoy Duty In Atlantic   Fourth Is Damaged By Single Plane; 33 Survivors Of Sunken Craft Rescued

SPURT IN WAR AIRCRAFT   Delivery of 5'4 Million Dollars Werth Daily Reported.

Switt U.S. Move Traps Nazi Force   EISENHOWER’S ARMIES SLASH HUGE CHUNKS FROM GERMAN DEFENSE LINES AS ALLIED RIGHT WING IS POISED WITHIN 42 MILES OF MESSINA

ENEMY STRUGGLES TO FORMLINEAS PINCERS CLOSE UP   Gen. Patton Adds Sensation: To Methodical Crushing By Sending’ Unit Around End of Axis Line.   3 ITALIAN CITIES IN HEAVY BOMBING   35 Major Raids Are Estimated as Sufficient For Destruction of Berlin For Military Uses. .

Sensational New Move Panics Foe And Wreck:  Axis Defense Positions

SPECTACULAR LANDING MADE BEHIND NAZIS   Allied Armies Seize Four Towns In Final Sicily Drive

4 More Towns Fall As Yanks Push Forward   _ Allied Armies Advance In All Directions ;. : Axis Defense Totterins

Bold Patton Move Brings Near-Panic   Germans Chased In Flight From Closing Pincers

ALLIES CAPTURE 4 TOWNS; NAZIS IN ~ HEADLONG FLIGHT   Lieut. Gen. Patton Sends Unit Of 7th Army Wheeling Around End Of German Line—Fliers Add To Havoc With Bombing, Strafing

NAZI DEFENSE COLLAPSES AT MOUNT ETNA   Yankees Swarm Within 30 Miles Of Messina

ALLIES GAIN ALL AROUND DEFENSE ARC   Axis Armies Try To Establish New Defense Line

ENEMY SENT ROCKING BACK UPON MESSINA   Spectacular American Landing In Rear of Germans Unhinges Line.  1

Yank Soldiers ‘: Stage Landing Behind German   Ehemy Thrown Into Panic in Northern Sicily

RUSSIANS ONLY 25 MILES FROM NAZI FORTIFIED CENTER   Soviet Offensive. Picks Up ‘Momentum Ta. Drivs Enemy Out Of Stalingrad

Start Offensive In Ruins Of Stalingrad; On Don Front Russians Capture Several Inhabited Points, Advance In Caucasus   TWO BATTLES UNDER WAY IN TUNISIA

FBI CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN BELLVILLE JUNE 16   Peace Officers From This Section To Have Good Program

WLB COAL DISPUTE _ DECISION SOON DUE   Strikes Spread as Board Aims for Clean-up Ruling

Strikes Spread in Coal Fields  WLB Seeks Cleanur  TDariagian Sanan

SPREAD; WLB SEEKS PEACE   Wage Wrangle Is Put In Spotlight By New Actions 

New Strikes Halt Output In 14 Coal Mines   Six Thousand Ignore Lewis Truce For Neoathatioan

rk Stoppages eeping Ohio d Pennsylvanic   y in Kentucky Alse i: To Work Without Contract   r Labor Board In‘ates Decision Will Be - Made Tuesday

DELAY BOOK 3 FOR SOLDIERS   Service Men Are Excluded From Application Until Time of Use

Food Conference Opens Tuesday   200 Foreign Delegates To Attend Sessions

REFUSE REQUEST FOR FULL NEWS OF FOOD TALKS   Conference Chairman, Plans Daily Talk With Press

CANADA ASKS ‘MURRAY'S HELP   Labor Minister ‘Seeks. In- tervention in. Threaten ed Steel Strike. .

Sioux Falls Will Honor Joe Foss,  America's Leading Ace Tomorrow

Moscow Charges Hostile Campaigt By Exile Regime   Relations Severed Over Nazi Story Of Murdered Officers

Russia Breaks With Poland   Claims Exiles Sided With Nazi Leaders

Russia Breaks Off Relations With Polane   Moscow Accuses Government In Exile With Being In League With Foe.   FOLLOWS EXECUTIONS

Reds Charge Polish Government-in-Exile Falling In with Nazis  CONTEND GERMANS MURDERED POLES  - Territorial Question Also Is Involved  In Allies’? Runtnure

Russia. Bitter At Poles   Breaks Diplomatic Relations With Exiled Gov’t Over Charge Of Murdering Officers

Russia Breaks Off Relations With Poland   Charges Poles Are Co-Or erating with Germany in the War

REDS ACCUSE POLISH GOVT. OF HOSTILE ACT   Severs Relations, Charging Poles Falsely Accuse Russians of Murdering Polish Officers

Russia Breaks Off Diplomatic Link to Poles   Splitting of Allies Laid To Effort to Regain  ee Ce a, a, ie

Russ Break Relations With Poles   Exile Government Accused of Heatile Anti-Seviet Compeion

Russia Breaks  With Poland   Exiled Regime Said in League with Nazis on Murder Charges

Stirring Up Of False Nazi Propaganda Is Given As Reason For Severing Relations

Reds Break Off © Ties With Poles   Charge Polish Regime In League With Nazis

RUSS BREAK WITH POLISH GOVERNMENT   Exiled Gov't Accused o Being in League With Nazis

Reds Break ° With Exiled Polish Govt.   Moscow Says Poles In Exile Are Playing German Game

RUSSIANS SEVER RELATIONS WITH POLES IN EXILE   Soviet Union Assails Accusa tions Army Killed 10,000 Polish Officers

RUSSIANS IN BREAK WITH POLES   Government in Exile Accused of Being in League With Germans   FELL IN WITH NAZI PROPAGANDA   Result of “Berlin’s Charge That Reds Killed 10,000 Polish Officers

Russia Breaks Relations  With ‘Poles In Exile’   Charge Poles In League With Germans Ir Hostile Campaign Against Soviet

RUSSIA BREAKS WITH EXILED POLISH GOV'T   CHARGE POLES ARE IN LEAGUE WITH, HITLER’S MINIONS

CHARGES PLOT WITH NAZIS TO SET TERRITORY   Accuses Polish Exiled Gov't with Supporting Berlin Massacre Story.   REDS QECLARE GERMANS - SLEW POLISH OFFICERS

RUSS-POLE RELATIONS  SEVERED   . «+ Nazis Charge 10,000 Polish Officers Slain

RELATIONS SEVERED POLISH GOVERNMENT BY SOVIET RUSSIA  MOSCOW ACCUSES POLISt GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE

riaymg Axis Game.  Say Reds   Charge Germans Killed Polish Officers, Not Russians

Reds In Break With Polish  Government    Treachery Charged In Note Severing Relations

REDSINBREAK WITH POLISH  EXILE REGIME   Russians , Make Charge Of Cooperation With Germans

Russia Breaks Relations With Poles in Exile   Mass Murder Charges Result in Drastic Action by Soviet

CLAIMS POLES ARE IN CONTACT WITH FASCISTS   Ne Argument Over Murder of “oops Cause of Break; BoutiGary Dispute in Background.

Poles Accused Of Joining Nazi Campaign   - * Soviels Renew Charge Germans Were Slayers of Prisoners

CHARGE EXILE RULERS PLOT WITH HITLER   Bitter Note Is Given Pole Ambassador By Molotov

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REDS, POLES SEVERED   Russians Report Gov’t In League With Germans

Red Government  Denounces Poles   Russia Breaks Relations With Polish Government  in Exile   VICTORY FOR GERMANS   United States State Department Regrets Action  Was Taken

USSR Severs Relations  With Poland   Accuses Polish Government in Exile of Being in League with the Germans in Carrying Out “Hostile Campaign”

RUSSIA BREAKS WITH POLES AS DEATHS PROBEL   Regime Denounced for Hostile Campaign Against Soviets

SOVIET RUSSIA ENDS RELATIONS WITH POLAND   Sends Bitter. ‘itter. Note. To Polish Government - Tn Bvile   Claims Poles Are In League. With Nazi Propaganda —

SOVIET BREAK WITH POLAND IS ANNOUNCED   EXILE GOVERNMENT IS ACCUSED OF AIDING NAZIS

RUSSIA SPLITS, WITH POLAND; POLES SILENT   Polish Accusation That Russia Caused Death Of 10, 000 Polish Officers Brings Allied Crisis   Hailed As Nazi Victory

RUSSIA BREAKS WITH POLAND OVER SLAYINGS   Accuses Government In Exile Of Cooperating With Nazi Line Of Propaganda   Territory Involved

WITH POLISH GOVERNMENI   Exiled Gov't Accused of Being in League With Nazis

Reds Break With Polish Government   ACCUSE POLES IN “HOSTILE CAMPAIGN” ALLEGATIONS

SOVIET-POLGH RELATIONS END   Reds Accuse Poles of Being in League With the Germans.

RUSSIA BREAKS WITH “POLAND”   Soviets — Says’ Poles. : in Exile in League With  Nazis.’   “REGRETS” BY U.S. "DEPT. OF STATE

RUSSIA ENDS ITS RELATIONS WITH POLAND   Government in Exile Accused of Being in League With Nazis to Carry Out Hostile Campaign Against U.S.S. R.

Russia Severs Diplomatic Relations With Exiled Polish Government   Action Is Seen as Temporary Success For Enemy Propaganda; Situation Is Not Considered Hopeless However

SOVIETS SEVER ALL RELATIONS WITH POLAND   Accuse Exiled Government of Cooperation in Nazi Propaganda Drive   RUSSIANS ALSO MAKE “TERRITORIAL CHANGES

Soviet Breaks Relations  With Poland   Moscow Denounces Charges in Officers’ Slayings

RUSSIA BREAKS RELATIONS WITH POLISH REGIME   Moscow Charges Government in Exile Is Aiding Germany in Hostile Cam paign Against Reds.   PUTS BLAME ON NAZIS FOR MASS MURDERS   Britain Blames Hitler Propaganda for Rupture—Eden Will Try to Mediate Controversv.

POLISH-RUSSIAN RELATIONS CI   Polish Government In Exile Accused of Being In League With Germans In Carrying Out “Hostile Campaign.”’

Poles ‘Hostile’, Soviets Charge   Soviet Claims Treacherous Blow Dealt To Them In Order To Exert Pressure For  Territorial Concessions In Ukraine   Charge Accord With Nazis

BLOCK PASSAGE OF NEW DRAFT   Conferees Break Up in Tilt Over Selective Service Control

BLOCK QUICK PASSAGE OF DRAFT BILL   House members differ as to who should boss  selective service

STRIKE CALLED IN LOS ANGELES   Interurban Line Tieuy To Hamper Work In War Plants

TRANSIT STRIKE SEEMS CERTAIN   LITTLE HOPE HELD OF AVERTING LOS ANGELES IN7~2URBAN LINE TIEUP.

Electric Company Officials Fear Strike Will Tie Up Pacific Lines

RAIL LINE IS HIT BY STRIKE   Walkout Occurs Because Vinson Rejected 13 Cent Pay Boost

Strike Threatens West Coast Lines  Transportation In Danger: In Southern California

LOS ANGELES TRAM. PEACE HOPE WANES   Sunday Strike Developing Despite Appeal to Washhe inaton

HOPE OF AVERTING STRIKE IS FADING   Los Angeles Faced With  Interurban Railway ° Walkout

Failure To Save Funds  Is Charged   Lack Of Judgment Shown By Legislature, Says Goodland After Vetoes  ‘ Are Over-ridden

REPORT FARM BLOG MAY COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDY ISSUE   Jones Asks Congress For Early Decision On Payments

PLEADS FOR EARLY ACTION ‘ON SUBSIDIES    Compromise Is Now Seen As Possibility

CONTROL BILL DRAWS FIRE   Rep. Wolcott, Michigan assails proposal as “subterfuge”’

FOOD ‘SUPPORT’ “PLAN ASSAILED   RANKING REPUBLICAN ON ~ SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE OPPOSES LATEST PRICE CONTROL PROPOSAL

Negotiations On Miners’  Wages Open   Lewis Warns ‘Little Steel’ Formula  Won't Be Acceptec

WASTE PAPER DRIVE PLANNED IN STATE   Six Pounds For Each Individual Being Sought In nang To Keep Paper Mills In Operation 

BOARD CLERKS BLAMED IN GAS RATION ABUSES   Issued Books Based On Month Fuel Requirement Instead of ThrecMonth Quota   TAWES ASKS COUPON   Comptroller Has Been Recommended For Rations to Permit 1,600-Miles. Driving Monthly -

OPA Blamed For Issuing Extra Gas For State   Miles Finds Ration Board Clerks Issuing Too Much Gas.

Soviet Troops Batter Way Westward; \Face Heavy Attacks, Deep Snows, Mud

DEEP SKOWS, MUO FOUGHT BY SOVIETS   Air Forces Active As Nazis Boost - Tank Use

Progress in Spite of Counterattacks And Mud: Aerial Activity Increased

Soviets Pusti Ahead Along Entire Frott   Counter-Atiacks, Deep Sitows  Fail to Check Red Advance

Soviet Troops Advance Along Entire Front   Air Activity Stepped Up As Weather Improves—  * Operations In Ukraine Hampered By Mud

Russ, Nazis Trade Heavy Blows in Ant Clear ‘Weather Permit: _ Both Sides to Increase Activity TROOPS SLOWEL  Land Action Hamperec by Snow. and Thick Mic .

RESISTANCE BY ENEMY FAILS TO HALT RUSSIANS   Overcoming Counter. Blows and Thick, Sticky Weather In Ukraine and Caucasus   AIR ATTACK ON BOTH SIDES STEPPED UP   Most Spectacular Land Fighting Reported West of Kharkov; Two Large Large Towns Taken

Reds Sweeping Ahead Despite Counter-Blows   Deep Snows In Orel and Kursk Provinces Slow Drive; Aviation Increases

SOVIET TROOPS ARE SWEEPING FORWARD ALONG FULL FRONT   MAKING PROGRESS DESPITE INCREASED ENEMY OPPOSITION, WEATHER

Nazis Throw Planes Into Support Of Ground Force: — West Of Rostov; Spectacular Battles Reported Near Kharkov In Dnieper River Offensive

TROOPS PUSH AHEAD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Smash Increasing Counter Attacks By Desperate Germans

-HEAVY AIR ACTION IS REPORTED   Nazi Efforts To Halt Russian Offensive  Are Beaten Off

SOVIETS SWEEP FORWARD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   German _ Counterattacks Increasing As Thaws Set In; Much Activity In Air Reported On Wednesday.

RUSSIANS FACE FIERCE TG AND DEEP SNOWS   Aviation On Both Sides Shows Increased Activity   A BIG OFFENSIVE WEST OF KHARKOV

REDS PRESS DRIVE WEST OF KHARKOV   Offensive Is Aimed at Entire Dnieper River Valley—German Counter-Attacks Heavy in the Rostov Sector.

Soviets Sweeping Ahead In Ukraine   NAZI DEFENSES AND SNOW FAIL TO HALT REDS

LOCAT, ORSERVATIONS   Reds Push Ahead Along All Fronts   Weather Now Permits Aerial Warfare to Be Re sumed in South.

Soviet Sweep. Is Continued.         “oii “*  Weather’ And Greater Resistance Hinder

Reds Sweeping On Along All Fronts In Russia Today   Ukraine Mud _ Halts Advances, But Ain Activity Becomes Intense

SOVIET T PUSH AHEAD ON ALL OF FRONT   German Planes Reported Supporting Attempts for Counter-Attacks

Air Activity Stepped Up Ot  Russian Front   Reds Sweeping Onward In Face Of Counterattacks

Soviets Keep Up Advances   Move Ahead on Entire Front in Face of Fierce German Attacks

SOVIET UNITS ADVANCE ALL ALONG FRONT   Mud, Snow and Enemy Fail to Hold Up  Russian Gains

ON THROUGH — SNOW, MUD   German “Resistance Also Stiffening, But Soviets Maintain Advance   MORE. GERMAN. “< PLANES “IN USE   Strongest Counter - Attacks Made in Donets; Drive on Dnieper Progresses’

SOVIET TROOPS SWEEPING ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Moving Forward Despite Increasing Enemy Counterattacks.   SNOW SLOWS PROGRESS   Weather Has Shifted Sufficiently for Increased Aircraft Activity.

Nazis Still. Retreat on ‘Long Front   Counter-Attacks More Frequent, Russians Admit

Reds Continue To Push Ahead  Air Activity Increase: On Both Sides

NAZIS INCREASE COUNTER-BLOWS GN RED FRONTS   Soviet Troops Drive On, Take  New Positions

Nazi Counter Blows Fail fo Slow Russians   Red Army Hurls Back German Infantry, Tank And Air Attacks With Heavy Loss on Enemy

Soviets Crush Strong German Counterdrive:   Weather Clears To Permit Increased Aerial Activity In South.   CAPTURE LARGE TOWNS

PLANES BATTLE OVER RUSSIA   Germany Throws Air Force Toto Support of Tanks, Infantry

SOUMIET TROOPS ~ PUSH FORWARD   Germans Use Planes to Support Tank, Infantry Counterattacks. -

CONTINUE TO ROLL   Snow and Sticky Mud Fails ~ to Check Russian Advances

NAZI AIRFORCE IS ACTIVE ON ROSTOV FRONT   Furious Land Fighting Rages West Of Kharkov

NET CLOSING — AROUND JAPS  AT LAE BASE   ENEMY POSITION AT MAJOR RABE ON NEW GUINEA DE‘SCRIBED BY MscARTRUR  AS DESPERATE .

JAP DEFENDERS OF LAE DOOMED   American and Australian Troops Close on Base in New Guinea

Need of Supreme Allied Commander In Africa Urged  Early Union of Libyan, Tunisian Fronts Makes  Such Action Likely POLITICAL SORENESS  Peyrouton Appointmen As Algeria Governor Arouses Free French   Early Union of Libyan, Tunisian Fronts Makes  Such Action Likely

POLITICAL RULE DECISION NEARS   Peyrouton ‘Appointment Due te orce Hands. of jae

EASE RATIONING WOMEN’S SHOES   15% OF STOCKS TO BE RATION-FREE, JAN, 17 TO JAN, 29°

Errol Flynn To Face Charges   Los Angeles Girl Says Actor Father of Child

ERROL FLYNN IS IN-COURT AGAIN   Blonde Housewife Charges Actor is. Father of Daughter, 2

Claims Actor Is ’ Father Of Child   Film Star Denies. New Misconduct Charae

ERROL FLYNN FACES COURT TRIAL AGAIN   Los Angeles Housewife Claims Actor Father of Child

White House Says Full Story Not Yet Tole   Further Momentous An nouncements Of North Africa Conference Coming

Complete Story of Conference Not Told   Reveal Only What Can Be Told At Present

Air Bill Has Passed Tests   Control Measure Has Gone To Third Readine

TARE LAUNCHED IN EAST SUNDAY   5 Cargo Ships, Destroyer, Sub Join U. $. Merchant Marine. Navy

NEXT LIQUOR RATION ALLOTMENT SAME   Department Plans ‘Dividend’ in Near Future

OHIO LIQUOR QUOTA WON'T BE CHANGED   ‘Dividend’ May Be Given al Later Date, However

REPORT ADVANGE IN GUADALCANAL   Several Enemy Positions Isolated, Is Claim

Jap Positions on Guadalcanal Have Been Isolated, Communique Reveals

SMALL GAINS IN PACIFIC AREAS   Jap Positions on Guadalcanal Isolated; New Guinea Forces Advance -

BUSES NOW ROLL INTO FAIRBANKS   Extension of Alaska Route Completed Buring the Laet Week

CHEROKEEAN SHOOTS TWO   Kills Mother, Wounds Fath. er and Attempts To — Kill Himself

KAISER SHIPYARDS TO HAVE NURSERY      Like Other Kaiser Projects, its Keynote Is Speed

Airlines Will Develop Fast   First Year of Peace To Double Business, Branch   By JAMES J. STREBIG Associated Press Aviation Editor

AIRLINES WILL ENJOY GROWTH   CAB Official Says They'll De Tremendous Business After War

‘PHREE-MONTHS.. TASK AHEAD "OF ELEVEN JUDGES AQ'RE  SULT OF OUTBREAK.  IN DETROIT

400 ARE FACING RIOT CHARGES   Detroit Quiet As Courts Start Three- Month Job “OF Hearing Cases

PRESIDENT'S SON ANSWERS WAR CRITICS   Declares ‘For God’s Sake, Let Us Fight Without Being Stabbed  ‘In Back For Politics ba?

“Let Us Fight Without Being Stabbed In The Back!”’....  Elhott Roosevelt Hits At Brothers’ Attacker

‘Don't Stab Us in Back’ Says President's Son to Congressman’s Charges

A ROOSEVELT REPLIES   Elliott Reosevelt Urges Critics Te Lay Off Back Stabbing

Lambertson Is Asked To Lay 0 ff Roosevelts   Lt. Colonel! Elliott Roosevelt Writes To His Congressmatr   "Let Us Fight Witout Being Stabbed In Back”   Republicans Join In Applause When Letter Is Read

Young Roosevelt  Answers Crities ‘For God’s Sake Let Us  Fight,’ Elliott Pleads

Let’s Get Together To Win This War, Appeal Sent From Africa By Elliott Roosevelt

COL. ROOSEVELT ANSWERS CRITICS   ASSAILS ATTACKS ON BROTHERS IN LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN «

ELLIOTT CITES LAMBERTSON'S “STAB IN BACK”   Answers Attacks on Brothers’ War Records in Letter to Congress

‘Lay Off,” Son Of F. R. Asks   ‘Don’t Stab Us in Back for Politics’: Elliott Roosevelt

COL. ELLIOTT ~ SCORES CRITIC   Republicans Join in Approving Letter Read in House.

Forget Politics Let’s Win War, Urges FDR’s Son   Let Us Fight Without Being Stabbed for Politics, Says Elliott Roosevelt

Col. Roosevelt Answers Attacks On His Brothers   Elhott Says ‘Let Us Fight Without Being Stabbed in the Back.’   Is Directed at Letter By Kansas Republican

Elliott Roosevelt Raps Critic Of War Record Of Brothers; Urges Congressmen To ‘Get Together

ATTACK ON SONS OF FARR, CALLED A STAB IN BACK   Elliott Roosevelt Demands Crititcs of His. Brothers’ War Records Let Them  Ficht.   DECLARES POLITICS IS BACK OF JABS   Republicans and Democrats Applaud as His Letter Is Read Before Members — of House.

‘Let. Us Fight Without Be. ‘ing ‘Stabbed in: Back,’ El.. liott Roosevelt Asks   ETTER.TO HOUSE ~ “PROM NORTH AFRICA      Answers a Republican’s At. tack: on His ‘Brother’s “lS War Record

Col. Roosevelt Raps Criticism Of His Brothers   Letter Written In North Africa  Read to House

NO LONGER NEWS      fanville Weds, Newspaper Uses Smanlest Tyne.

Believe Russians Retain Foothold In Outskirts Kharkov Possible Springboard For New German Offensive   Ry HARRISON SALISRI RY

Soviet Press Issues Stirring Call For Last Ditch Stand Similor To That At Stalingrad — War Over Europe Falls Into Lull   GEBMANY MAY TRY ATTACK ON BRITAIN

Reds Still Have Foothold in City   Germans Believed Striving to Avert Second Front This Year

Kharkov Reoccupied By Nazis   RED ARMY REPORTED — TO STIL. HAVE FOOTING iN OUTSKIRTS.

Soviet War Reaches Another Crisis As ‘Nazis Take Kharkov      ALLIED PLANES DROPPING ARMS, SHELLS TO FRENCH PATRIOTS

~ CONFESSES KILLING WIFE   Murder “After Row Over -Baby, RCAF Gadet . Held on Homicide

Cadet To Face Murder Count   Lonergan Admits Slaying Of Heiress Wife After * Spat Over Baby

HEIRESS’ MATE CONFESSES HE MURDERED HER   Wayne Lonergan Says He Beat Wife In Bedroom ' During Quarrel Over Child

RCAF AIR CADET IS ACCUSED OF SLAYING WIFE   Admits Making Statement to DA After Confession Reporied—Uniform Sought in River

CADET ADMITS BRUTAL SLAYING   Killed Heiress Wife In Argument Over Seeing Baby

RCAF STUDENT ADMITS MURDER OF RICH WIFE   Wayne Lonergan Siew Mate In Quarrel Over Son, — Officials Say _.

STATE PREPARES CASE AGAINST LONERGAN   RCAF Cadet Admits Killing Wife

Cadet Confesses Strangling Wife   Refused To Let Him Sec Son, Slayer Claims

Lonergan Admits Slaying Wife In Row Over Baby   Breaks Down After 24 Hours Of Questioning; Hunt Uniform.

Killing Of Heiress Wife Confessec By ‘Stubborn And Depraved’ Husbanc

Cadet Admits Slaying Of Heiress Wife   Pages Turn to New Chapter In Storybook Beekman Hill Murder   IS GRILLED 24 HOURS

CONFESSES 10 SLAYING WIFE   Air Cadet I.onergan Says He Slew Wife In Argument Over Baby

LUNENGAN SATS HE SLEW WIFE. IN NEW YORK  Admits Killing After Lengthy Grilling   Tells Of Throwing Service Uniform Into River

Board Orders Miners To Go Back On Jobs   Lewis Also Tells Members of Union To Return To Work

MINERS ORDERED TO RESUME WORK   War Eaisor Board Directs 25,000 Coal Men To Return lo Ptis

FIRE AT BRICK’S CAFE   Small Amount of Damage Reported in Early Morning Blaze

ESTIMATES ON FOOD SLASHED   Amounts of Many Items to Be Avaliable to Civilians Reduced

Estimate Cut — On Civilians’ Food Supph   Meats, Fish, Fats, Fruit. Milk, Poultry Scarcer Tee tz3®.. Sse Bias pee

LOWER ESTIMATES: - ON FOOD SUPPLIES   Agriculture De Department Makes Revision in Fiaures

Civilian Food Estimates Cut   Supplies of Meats, Fish, Milk, Fats and  Fruits to Be Less

Department Estimates of Foods Lower   CANNED FRUITS, VEGETABLE: AND SUGAR SLIGHTLY HIGH ER; OTHER COMMODITIE: SCARCE.   Demand Exceeds Supply

SUPPLIES OF FOOD. EREATLY LOWERED  IN NEW ESTIMATE   List Includes Meats, Poultry, Fish, Milk, Products, Fats and Fruits For Civilian  Biirnncac   PER CAPITA MAY BE EIGHT POUNDS LESS   Early Estimates Based on Production Goals, Assumption of Favorable Growing Weather.

USDA Lower: Estimates of Food Supplies   Labor, Machinery Shortages Peril Production Goals

Estimate of Food  Supplies Lowered  Meats, Fish, Poultry, Milk, Fats Drop

GOVERNMENT CUTS ESTIMATE OF CIVILIAN FOOD SUPPLIES   Less Meat, Fish, Poultry, Milk, Fats And Fruits Will Be Available; Per Capita Supply Of Meats Reduced From 13 8 Pounds To 124

Several Categories Down; Meat One Of Lines With  l awer Deadiuastian

Goebbels Sees No End To War; Peace Feelers Expected To Be Made Soon

HITLER SILENT ON BIRTHDAY   Goebbels And Goering Tel People Nation Faces Critical Period

‘Grim Theme Sounded in Germany (As Herr Hitler Celebrates Birthday

Hitler Celebrates 34th Birthday In Grim Atmosphere   Goebbels And Goering Warn End Of War Nowhere In Sich?

NAZI ARMIES ON DEFENSIVE EVERYWHERE   Fuehrer Celebrates Day Listening To Radio   GOEBBELS TALKS   Says War Has Reached Its Hardest Stage: Goering Makes Proclamation

~ AAS  Hitler's 54th Birthday Observed With Nazi Armies On Defensive

HITLER HAS A BIRTHDAY, BUT. A GLOOMY ONE   Picture’s Far Different as Fuehrer Reaches 54 From Outlook a Year Ago.   STOOGES ARE PESSIMISTIC   Goering and Goebbels Reveal Dire Situation of Nazi Leaders In Speeches.

Ghost Voice Interrupts Broadcast On Hitler's Birthday To Warn Nazis

GOEBBELS GIVES CRIM WARNING TO THE NAZIS   Tells Germans If Doubt Felt ‘It Is Beginning Of The End’

NAZILAND GRIM ON ANNIVERSARY   Hitler Reaches 54; Goebbels Warns Of Hardships

Hitler Has Little To Tell Reich   Birthday Observance May Pass Without A Speech

HITLER 54 TODAY, PEAK OF SUCCESS BEHIND HIM NOV   Henchmen Sound Somber Note [n Telling Contrast of Year Ago.

GERMANS SERIOUS FOR CELEBRATION   Hitler’s 54th Anniversary : Observed, Goebbels !s Principal Speaker.

{Der Fuehrer Is 55 Today  Hitler Fails To Deliver Usual  'Screeching [nvective, Promises

Hitler Silent on Eve of Birthday  soe, 2 tee ay SS ee ee ee   Goebbels Admits Grim War Year Ahead

Grim Theme Sounded by Nazi Radio on Hitler’s Birthday   Goebbels Declares War Reached Hardest Stage; End Not Sighted

Grim Event for Adolf Hitler   His 54th Birthday Finds His Armies on Defensive in Europe

HITLER BIRTHDAY A GRIM OCCASION   ‘Ghost’ Voice Interrupts Berlin Broadcast to Curse Fuehrer,

HITLER OBSERVES 547TH BIRTHDAY IN GRIM ATMOSPHERE   Will Have Little to Say to Ger. man People to Relieve Grimness of Situation If He  Makes Address

Hitler Celebrates Grimmest  Birthday Since Gaining Power   No Parades Or Demonstrations On Fifty-Fourth Birthday Of One-Time Austrian House Painter -

Der Fuehrer ‘Has Nothing To Offer The German People But Death And Defeal On His 54th Birthday   Large-Scale German Attacks In Kuban Area

HITLER CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY TODAY   Fuehrer 54 Years Old, Outlook Grim

Hitler’s 54th Birthday   Grim Note Creeps Into Addresses by Henchmen Goering and Goebbels

Usual Hitler Birthday Talk Is Uncertain   Has Nothing to Boast Of on Any Front in World War Il

Goebels and Goering  Sound Theme For the Nation  PROCLAMATION ISSUED

Hitler ‘At Front’--Silent On Birthday   Henchmen Tell People Little To Ease Grim War Situation 

QUIET BIRTHDAY FOR NAZI CHIEF   With Armies Taking Defeats On Several Fronts, Hitler Can't Be Happy

Nazi Henchmen Sound Somber Not es:-For Fuehrer  Hitler Marks Grimmest Birthday

Ghost Voice Says Germans Curse Day Hitler Was Born   Interrupts Berlin Radio’s Birthday Tribute to “Our Beloved Fuehrer;" Nazis Unable to Stifle Veice Shouting “This Henchman Has Been In Power Much Too Long”

Hitler Celebrates Grimmest Birthday; Henchmen Issue Gloomy Statements

HITLER GLOOMY ; NO PARADES ON HIS BIRTHDAY   Outlook Different at 54, Than + Was One Year Ago

HITLER CELEBRATED HIS d4TH BIRTHDAY GRIM SURROUNDINGS  GOEBBELS ADMITS HARD EST WAR STAGE, REACHEL AND END NOT IN SIGHT

Grim Birthday For Head Nazi   Hitler Observes Anniversary At Headquarters: Goebbels, Goering Speak.

SILENT ON BIRTHDAY   No Parades in Berlin; Goebbels Talk Is Gloomy

ALLIES HIT ITALIAN SEA LANES   Pantelleria Bombarded By Naval Units

Allies Shatter Four Axis Ships   Strategic: Pantelleria ’ Bombed For 26th Time

II Duce s Navy Defied in Raid At Toe of Boot       At Heart of Sea  Cab oe aaa

‘Allies Sink Three Enemy Ships In Convoy Attack   Bombers Continue Merciless Air Offensive Against Mussolini's Fortified Rock; Pantelleria. Sardinia Raided

‘Three Axis Ships Sunk, ‘One Fired And Beachec   Enemy Attack On Canvey Repulsed; No Losses By Allied Forees

Allies Send to Bottom Three Axis Vessels   Sink Two Merchant Ships, Torpedo Boot and Drive Destroyer Ashore Burnina

Axis Vessels Sunk In Daring  Naval Attaek   Allies Strike At Heart Of Italy’s  Seq Cammuainication

ALLIED DESTROYERS  ATTACKED CONVOY OF  AXIS SHIPS TUESDAY TWO MERCHANT VESSELS.  TORPEDO BOAT AND NECTROVER NECTROVEN

Allied Destroyers Sink 3 Axis Ships, Fourth Left Afire   Daring: Naval: Attack Strikes at Heart of Italy Communications

WARSHIPS DEFY ITALIAN FLEET WITH SINKINGS   Two Merchant Vessels, Torpede Boat Sent Down Off Haly’s Coast, Destroyer Grounded   HIT PANTELLERIA   Warplanes Also Continue Blasting of Italian Island, Other Mediterranean Targels

Warships Strike Boldly At Heart Of Duce's Lanes   Defy Italian Fleet, Sink 3 Vessels, Drive Destroyer Ashore In Flames

Allies Crush Axis Convoy At Italy Toe   Cutting Italian Sea Traffic Between East And West Coasts

TWO AXIS VESSELS SUNK TUESDAY BY ALLIED SHIPS   An Enemy Destroyer Was Driven Ashore and Burned.   OFF THE TOE OF ITALY   Daring Allied Naval Attack Struck at Heart of Italy’s Sea Communications.

Allied Warships Control Waters South Of Italy   Two Cargo Ships. Torpedo Boat In Convoy Sunk

Allies Smash Axis Convoy; Fire Warship   Sink 2 Cargo Ships and Torpedo Boat; New Air Blow at Pantelleria

3 AXIS SHIPS SUNK OFF SARDINIA   Destroyer Is Driven Ashore In: Flames

Daring Attack Under Nose ‘Of Italian Fleet   Attack Strikes at- Hear of Italy’s Sea Communications; Indicates Allies Now Have Naval Supremacy as. Well as Air . Supremacy — in Mediterranean. Are4.

IS CONVOY IS RAIDED BY ALLIED SHIPS   Two Merchant Vessels and Escorting Torpedo Boat Sunk   ENEMY DESTROYER IS DRIVEN ASHORE   Pantelleria Bombed Again: Radio Installations Are Shot Up

Destroyers Sink 2 Axis Merchant Ships   Also Bag a Torpedo Boat and Set Fire to Warship in Daring Raid at Toe of Italian Boot in Defiance of the Fascist Navy.

ATALIANS’ WARSHIPS “ARE DEFIED   EE  Daring Naval Attack » Successful; Pantelleria Hammered

DESTROYER ALSO HI IN ATTACK   Americans Raid Pantelleria Almost At Will   NAZIS BOAST   A. E. F. Has No Chance Of Defeating Continental Armies Of Axis

Alhes Fighting Convoy on Way to New Guinea  a  Estimate Two Transports Al ready Sunk; Another  g Daron are   Opened by Big Planes

Aled Bombers Keep Up Attack Upon Jap Convoy   Repeated Assaults Made On Remainder Of Convoy Off New Guinea   TWO OF TRANSPORTS DEFINITELY SUNK   Third Is Badly Damaged And Others Under Attack—Manv Jap Planes Lost   BULLETIN

JAP CONVOY. ATTACKED OFF NEW GUINE   Allies Making Bold Attempt to Stop Aid From Rzeach. ino Island.   TWO MORE SHIPS SUNK   Fighting Still in Progress and the Outcome Is Not Yet Decided. —

ONE OF GREATEST “SEA-AIR, BATTLES OF. SOUTH. : WEST. PACIFIC RAGING AS JAPANESE: ATTEMPT TO REINFORCE TROOPS ON NEW GUINEA— TWO ENEMY: TROOP. TRANSPORTS SUNK AND THIRD SERIOUSLY DAMAGED

CIVILIAN SUPPLY CHIEFTAN SOUGHT   Brynes in Favor but Other Administrators Fear Loss Power

CIVILIAN BOSS”  FOR SUPPLIES WAY BEFOUGH'   Sen. Maloney’s Bill Would Provide Authority For Determining Man-  ~ _- power Needs   WOULD CURB WMC   Wins Support From Direc.  tor of Office of Civilian -» Supply In First Com : mittee Test

Fleeing Axis Forces Are:  Torn By Bombs   Montgomery Calls. On Men To Drive Enemy Into Mediterranean

BOMBERS AIP AND TEAR HS, BEATEN ARMY   Eighth Army Charges Thru Sfax in Pursuit ‘of Africa Corps.   NOW IN FINAL P PHASE, GEN, MONTGOMERY SAYS

U.S., British, French Open New Attacks   Allied Bombers Rip, Tear At Rommel’s Retreating Columns

FOR -PRESSURE ON JAPAN   Separate Attacks on All Islands _. Will Be Unnecessary °

17 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Night Attack Staged On U. S. Task Force Week Ago

Japs Lose at Least 17 Planes In Attack on U.S. Task Force   American Fighters Pursue Enemy Even Through Own Anti-Aircraft Fire

17 JAP TORPEDO PLANES DOWNED   Spectacular Night Battle Oc) curs in Pacific   NEW TACTICS USED   e Bombers Destroy Three Enemy Merchantmen; Oontine Blast Isle Bases

17 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN NIGHT ATTACK ON TASK FORCE    Action Took Place Last Week 35 Miles Off Guadalcanal When Enemy Dropped Flares And Fired Torpedoes At American Warships

Jap Night Attack  In Solomons Costs 17 Planes   Allied Bombers Destroy or Badly Damage Three Jao Merchantmen

At Least 17 Torpedo  Planes Downer   Attack Takes Place 35 Miles South of Guadaleanal

I? Jap Torpedo Planes Downed Near Solomons   Night, Afternoon Atiacks Made on American Task Force Patroling Seuth Of Guadaleanal   ‘Tin Fish’ Dropped Far From Ships   11 of One Wave of Enemy Aireraft Are Destroyed By Fighters, Ack-Ack

JAPS LOSE 17 © TORPEDO SHIPS   Report Tells of Midnight Raid by U. S. Task Force

I? Jap Torpedo Planes Lost In Attack on U. S. Task Force   Attacked in Two Waves On Night of Jan- 29° > South of Guadalcanal

Nips Take Hard Beating In New ‘Attack Tactics.   17 Torpedo Planes Lost-in Fight On . U.S. Naval Force

THE WEATHER  Temperature Reading By The Bee’s Radial Thermometer

‘FORTIFY AREA   Military Reported to Have Blocked vet Part af Pari«_

Japanese Suppl) Convoy Blasted By Allied Fliers   Freighter Transports Sunk; Japs Quit Santa Siabel

JAPS ABANDON SEAPLANE BASE AT REKATA BAY: ALLIES BLAST HARD AT ENEMY CARGO SHIPS

JAPS ABANDON SEAPLANE BASE -ONREKATABAY   Though! Given Up No Word Ye of American Occupation

JAPS ABANDON SEAPLANE BASE   Once Important Base At Rekata Bay, 145 Miles Northwest Of Guadalcanal, Evacuated.

Germans Fleeing From Kiev. “Like Rats,”  Mosraw Asserts   Pacific Electric Transport Strike Is Called Off.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Time Fast Running Out For Marshal Rommel’s Forces In Tunisia

Aged Client Shoots Lawyer, Kills Sel  Sought Legal Represent ation On A Legacy

BERLIN RETAINS HOLD ON ITALY   Military Pact Signed By Mussolini Continues In Effect

GERMANS HOLE ITALY TO PALT   Nazi Broadcast Says There’s No Change in the Germar Point of View in Regards To Treaty

COX RESIGNS CHAIRMANSHIP IN FCC PROBE   Denies Wrongdoing, Says Pay for Representing Radio Station Turned Over to Charity

REP. COX RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN OF FCC COMMITTEE   Will Continue As Member of the Inquiry Group

DE GAULLE'S TRIP TO NORTH AFRICA CAUSES COMMENT   Gen. Elsenhower’s Request On Delay Is Reported Complete Surprise to Fighting Frenchman.   ARURTHER DETAILS ON REQUEST TO BE ASKED   Observers Believe American General Seeks Status Quo Ln Present Political Conditions.

FRENCH PUZZLED (VER TRIP DELAY   Degaulle Is Asked by Eisenhower to Postpone Meeting. with Giraud

l4From Area Pass Tests as  lying Cadets   tive Bradford Young Men Among Group tc Qualify for Training

14 From Area  Pass Tests as  Flying Cadets   Robert L. Wolfe of Smethport Among Those Passing Tests

Nazi Army Reported In Retreat   Germans Driven from Posi. tions—British Advancing  from South

ENEMY SHOWING SIGNS OF LIMITED  RETREATIN1 AREA   British 8th Army Advances Another 15 Miles Up West Coast To Seize. - Scalia—Only Three Days From Junction With 5th Army

Fifth Army Attacks, Drives Nazis Back   Foe Yields at Sele, Colore Rivers; Clark Predicts Liberation of Italy

REINFORCED ALLIES TAKE OFFENSIVE   German Wedge Between Rivers Is Pushed Back

Clark’s Troops Take Offensive In Salerno Area   American Fifth Army Drives Germans From Their Positions Between Sele And Colore Rivers After Bridgehead Is Made Secure With Aid Of Naval Guns And Air Fleet

Planes And Ships Help In Terrific Battle As Relief Columns Race Up

NAVAL GUNS, PLANES AID GROUND TROOPS   Bridgehead Now 8 Miles Deep

Nazis Are Driven From Positions   Beachhead Secure, Says Clark; 8th Army Approaching

Second Front To Come Only At Proper Time  U. S. And Britain Must Be Satisfied Of Continu.   U. S. And Britain Must Be Satisfied Of Continu  ing Success, Churchill Declares  

Pilot and Co-Pilot Injured--- Fortress  Makes Home Field   lowa City Youth, Navigator, Tells Story Of Fighting in Solomon Islands

U.S. Flyers Shooi Down 3§ Nazi Fighters  7 Uaaws Dambkap   7 Heavy Bombers — Lost in Raids Over German-Held France

Seven U.S. Heavy Bombers and 70 Crack Pilots Said by London Daily Express to Have Been Lost in Raid on St. Nazaire, France—Nazis Reported to Have Adopted Suicide Tactics, Attacking Yanks Head-On.

YANKEE RAIDERS DOWN 38 PLANES   Flying Fortresses Bomt French Town; Loss Bigcest Over Europe

38: ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN BATILE   Seven U, S. Heavy Bomb. ers Lost in St. Nazaire Enoaosement

38 Nazis Downed On St. Nazaire Raid  Paper Reports on Foray  That Cost 7 Bombers

Yanks in Japan   Thousands of Letters Delivered t« American Prisoners in Far East 

EM IN JAPANESE PRISON   Thousands of Letters Now Being Delivered to Americans in Far East. _

JAPS GO NORTH ON BURMA ROAD   Three - Pronged Attack Calls For Help Of American Airmen

Japanese Open Three-Pronged Offensive iNorthward at Southwest China Entrance

Japan Thrusts At Burma Road   U.S. Airmen Aid China  Bisats 2 Asaaiag

Japanese Open Three-Pronged Drive ‘Alona Burma’ Road; U.S. Aids Chinese

Flynn Hearing Nears Close   New Economies in Food Distribution Is Sought

HEARINGS ON: THE FITNESS OF FLYNN NEAR END   LaGuardia To Testify -- Before Committee Today   SEE EARLY -VOTE   Government Plans Revision Of Food -“Markeatine: —

Today In Washington:  Public Hearings On Flynn’s Fitness For Diplomatic Post Near End; Food Revisions

LA GUARDIA TC TAKE STAND IN SENATE PROBE   Other Capito! Developments ‘ Center in War Agencies

CONTINUE FLYNN “HEARING TODAY   Mayor LaGuardia Of New York Scheduled To Appear In Inquiry

LaGuardia fo Testify af Flynn Hearing   Farmer Sales of Hogs for Slawghter Far Below Expectations

EXPECT TEST VOTE MONDAY ON FLYNN’S ABILITY   New York’s Mayor To Testify Today  Before Committee

LaGuardia Next ‘Witness On  Flynn Fitness — ~ Wickard Eliminates  Deliveries Of Pints © Of Milk; Other Food

NEW YORK MAYOR TESTIFIES AT FLYNN HEARING   EXPECT VOTE EARLY NEXT WEEK ON FDR NOMINATION

Lawmakers, in Weekend Recess, Hunt Ways and Means To Boost Farm Prices While Senate Committee Nears End of Investigation of Flynn’s Fitness To Be Minister to Australia

Collision Causes Terrific Explosion In Colorado City; Shrapnel From Ammunition Creates Havoc

hells Shatter louses, Injure fany Citizens   v0 Freight Cars Loadec with Ammunition Blow Up in Street   ieces of Shrapnel anc Live Shells Found over Wide Area

2 MUNITIONS CARS EXPLODE   Shrapnel Showered Over Part Of Colorado  Town

TOWN ROCKED BY EXPLOSION AFTER CRASH   Cars, Laden With Muni. tions, Crash and Catch Fire

Freight Cars Of Munitions Explode, Showering Shells  Into Colorado Community   Shrapnel Bursts Around Residents For Several Hours, Injuring Four Persons; FBI Is Making In vestigation Into Cause Of Fire

Munitions Car Blasts Shower Colorado Town   Shrapnel Is Rained On Grand Junction; Four Reported Hurt

Two Blazing: Ammunition Cars Give Grand Juniction Shelling, Damagmg Buildings and Badly Injuring Four

BRITISH PRESS BACKS WALLACE   Influential English Papers Urging Satisfactory Understanding With Soviet.

TRANSFER OF FOOD CONTROL IS URGED   Congressman Warns of Danger of Shortage of Canned Goods

FOOD SHORTAGE IS PREDICTED   Rep. Landis Says Canned Goods Will Be Scarce Due To Bungling Of Program

Jap Held Gilbert and Marshall Islands Raided by Liberators   Land Based Planes Strike Three Times in Past Week.

U. S. WARPLANES HIT JAP TARGETS ON MARSHALLS   Land-Based Planes Make Raid On Marehall Islands For First Time.

342 AMERICANS KILLED ON ATTU   1,135 Wounded, 58 Missing Compiete Casualty List of Invasion

1,535 Yank Casualties On Attu   342 Americans Killec In Drive for Island, Navy Reports

JAPS MAY USE SUBS 10 AID KISKA FORCE   Constant Flow of Supplies Needed to Insure Resistance

Attu Casualty List For U, §, 1,535   Navy Announces Cost Of Invasion Of Aleutian Island Jap Base  WREW YAPaS @GTTIT T.

INVASION FEAR HITS NEW HIGH IN AXIS CAMPS   Further Air Attacks On Pantelleria And Naples Add To Worries   DUCE WORKS FEVERISHLY   Ghost Voice On Rome Radio Tells People Hour Of Liberation Coming

TWO SLAIN IN CHICAGO CAFE   Former Capone Hoodlum Anc Bodyguard Die; Police Seek Clues

TWO HELD JAP PRISONERC   Grew Warns of Attack on U.S. lf Nation Relaxes War Effort

Grew Warns Of False Peace By Japs Or Nazis   Former U. S. Envoy to Japan Calls for Military Defeat of All of Our Implacable Foes.

Reds Threatening Nazis At Mogiles German Counterattack:  Are Thrown Back

SOVIETS HIT NAZI RAIL HUB   Threaten Mogilev, Last Ger man Rail Center in White Russian Area.

REDSTHREATEN MOGILEV, VITAL HUN RAIL AREA   German Defense Lines  Near Zhlobin and Rogachev Being Squeezed By Russians

Reds Threaten Nazi Rail Center   Other Russian Units Rush German Defense in Gomel

LAST GERMAN RAIL BASE IS THREATENED   Russians Nearing ~ Mogilev In New Squeeze Drive

Report Mogilev Faces Capture By Red Troop:   ‘Hurl Back Counter-Drives  Nazi-Held” Rail Center Near Last Important

Reds Nearing Mogiley Now   Worst Snowstorms of Season Sweep White Russia

Deep Russian Penetrations Reported  Reds Hurl Back Counter Attacks; Rail Center Mogilev Is Threatened

Soviets Continue Slashing on, Beat Nazis Back  Rail Center Falls; Enemy Defense

Russians Move On Mogilev In White Russia   Other Red Units Drive Through Storms To Men: ace Zhlobin, Rogachev.

SOVIET ARMY ADVANCES IN WHITE RUSSIA   Smashing Ahead Northwest of Pronoisk, Reds Threaten One of Last Enemy Rail Centers   DEEP PENETRATIONS

Red Army Threatens Mogilev After Surging Thru Northwest Of Propoisk

STRONGHOLDS CAPTURED BY DED ARMIES      ‘Sweep.In White Russia Threatens. ‘Railroad Center 

Using Engineers  In The Front Line   Russians Are Pressin gz Steadily Toward Mogilev   HURL BACK NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS

RED ARMY SMASHES AHEAD TOWARD LAST NAZI RAIL CENTER  GERMANS BEGINNING TO SHOW SIGNS OF LACK

Reds Gain In White Russia  Now Threaten Mogiley   Now Threaten Mogilev Nazi-Held Rail Center

SOVIETS MENACE NAZI-HELD CITY   Propoisk, Big Rail Center, New Prize Sought by Advancing Reds

Reds Repulse Nazi Attacks  PRE sion ope Co 8   Russians Smash Toward Mogilev

Red Army Advances 01 White Russia Threaten ...-Vital- Rail Center.

Reds Menace Rail Key in White Russia   Other Soviet Units Put Squeeze on German Forces In the Gomel Area

Reds Threaten Mogilev Rail Center North   Other Soviet Columns Squcezing Nazi Lines In Zhlobin and Rogachev Areas. Germans Show Lack of Reserves As Reds Launch New Attacks *

Reds Threaten Railroad City   Other Russian Units Attack Germans in Gome] District

Reds Take 3 Cities, Menace LikeNumber   Seize Varodol, Bahki and Zabluka, All Heavily Fortified—Threaten Mogilev, Last Nazi Rail Center in White Russia.

REDS PRESS NEW DRIVES ON MOGILEN   Last Rail Center In ~ White Area Is. ~~ Goal

Nazi Power in White Russia Crumbles Fast   Soviets Threaten Mogilev, Last Nazi -Meld Rail Center

Hurl Back Nazi Counter Attack and Sweep Towards - $trongholds of Varodol, - Bahki, Zabluka. —

REDS THREATEN MOGILEV, NAZI RAIL CENTER   Russians Sweep Forward Noribwest of Propoisk to Capture Three Strongholds   SNOW OVER FRONT   Launch New Alfacks in Crimea, Drive Germans Off Timburg to Close Dnieper’s Mouth

Soviets Cut Deeper Into Nazi Defense   Red Army Advances on Mogilev, Vital Rail Hub in White Russia

REDS THREATEN NAZI HELD RAIL HUB OF MOGILEV   OTHER SOVIET UNITS SQUEEZE ENEMY LINES IN THE GOMEL SECTOR

MOGILEV, A GERMAN HELD RAIL CENTER, IS THREATENED   The Red Army Is Smashing Ahead Northwest of Propoisk.   IS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Other Russian Units Squeezed Nazi Defense Line Near Zhlobin.

Soviets Continue Slashing on, Beat Nazis Back  Rail Center Falls; Enemy Defense Diminishes in Front

Soviet Army Advancing on  ‘White Russia   Threaten Mogilev and Zhiobin; Germans Show Lack of Reserves

RED ARMY SMASHES AHEAD TOWARD LAST NAZI RAIL CENTER   GERMANS BEGINNING TO SHOW SIGNS OF LACK OF RESERVES

Mogilev Is _ Threatened  By Russians   One of Last Great German Rail Centers in White Russia Near Attack

75 Non-Coms Will Visit Detroit To Learn How ‘War Materials are Made

RUNNING FIGHT OFF COAST OF LAE CONTINUES   Fourth Transport Is Damaged And 42 Enemy Planes Downed Friday.

SEND JAPANESE FLEET FLEEING   Another Transport Reported Sunk By Fliers

Nip Convoy Is Pounded Relentlessly   42 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed or Badly Damaced

ORDER HALT In DEFERMENT OF CHILDLESS. MEN   No Exceptions Will Be : Granted, Pearson Reports   Order To Draft Fathers Is Expected In Next Two Months

TEMPERATURES:   40,000 Michigan Men In Deferred Jobs Face Draft   Single Men And Married Men Without Children To Be Called

SEEK RELEASE OF AMMUNITION   Reasonable > Supply. of Shells for Hunters Ask ed of Government.

Lend-Lease Faces Quiz   Congress Hears Report Britain Sells LendLease Food For Cash

POSS OSHS SSS SSSSESOSSSSSESHOS SSO SS SSOHESSOSOODSESOSS  ROUND-UP OF CAPITAL NEWS

TRUCE SCENTED IN BITTER FIGHT ON FARM PRICES   Washington Whirligig of Wartime Worries Spins In Dizzy Cycle   CONTROVERSIES IN VARIETY   Lease-lend, Size of Army and Manpower All Come in For Investigations

“Freshmen” Congressmen Invited To White House: Predict Truce In Administration-Farm Bloc Row

Today In Washington:  ‘Higher Draft Age Likely Soon; Key War Officials Called In Quiz On Food

Washington Front Faces Many Varied Problems.   OPA and Wickard Are Blamed For Causing “Black Market’

FDR Invites ‘Freshmen’ To White House Confab   Capital Sees Flurry of Action on Dozen Phases of Foreign and Domestic Fronts

Roosevelt Signs Postal Pay Bil!   Inc rease Averages  $300 a Year

President Signs Bill Granting Pay Increase To All Postal Employes

Beef Cuts to” Cost 1 to 4 Points More   Steaks of All Kinds. to Go Up 3; Pork, Lamb, Veal Cuts Lower.

OPA Boosts Point Costs of Beef, Hoping To Increase Purchases of Lamb and Pork

RATION POINTS FOR BEEF 10 BE INCREASED   OPA Seeks to Shift Demand to Lamb, Pork and Veal

patie ry OPA TAKES ACTION TO. SHIFT _ MORE BUYING TO. LAME, “FORK AND VEAL ° :

OPA INCREASES VALUE OF STEAK   Action Expected to Causé Switch to Lamb, Pork — — and Veal

POINT VALUES RAISED ON BEEF   New Regulations To Take Effect At Midnight Next Sunday

RAF IN HEAVIEST RAID ON LORIENT   Drop Largest Bombs Trying to Wipe Out Vital U-Boat Nest

Fourth Battle For Control of Key City Rages   Russians Report German 1942 Line Below  _ Kharkov Cracked; American Bombers   Smash Naples Harbor In Heavy Daylight Air Attack.

LEGAL POINT [8 RAISED OVER PAY   Spokesman For Operators Has Raised Question Over Travel Wage.

Legal Action In Portal-To-Portal Demand Studied   Policy Committee Meeting Scheduled To Be Thursday

COURTS MAY DECIDE PORTAL PAY ISSIJE   Operators May Carry Miners’ Claims To Court

Hull Gets Bid To Visit England   Eden Comments  On Talks in U. S.

Secretary of State Hull — Invited To England For  Post-War Discussions

SECRETARY HULL MAY MAKE TRIP OVERSEAS   Foreign Secretary Eden Reveals That U. S. Secretary of State Has Been Given Bid to Visit in England — English Leader Diseusses Recent  Conferences Held in This Country With President. Roosevelt, Othore.

Britain, U.S. Agree on   Vital Issues, Eden Says   Tells Commons He Has Invited Hull To Visit Enaland This Summer

Plan Investigation of Deferments   Would Determine If ‘Slackers’ Are Emploved

MIROROME NOW I iS pyseesciqy   Japan Gets Grim Preview Of Forthcoming Allied Operations   700 JAPS KILLED   Survivors Of Japanese Force Face Entrapment On New Britain

U.S. Fighters Take Airstrips At Gloucester  Japs Given Previe. Of Blows to Come

Gloucester Air Strips To Allies   Fall After Swift Four Day Offensive; Fighting Speeds Up Along Whole) Pacific Front

Yanks Suffer Light Losses in 4-Day Win   Fliers and 'Paratroops Assault Enemy Positions in Bougainville

700 JAPANESE ARE SLAIN ON NEW BRITAIN   At Least 500 Die in De fending Cape Glouces. ter and Its Airdrome Taken by Marines Wit Light Losses.

+ Japanese Get Preview of ' War to Come   Quick Occupation of Cape Gloucester Airfield Indica-. tion Forthcoming Allied Of-. fensive: Aussies Advance

Gain Another Air Base to Attack Japs      Cape Gloucester Captured in Four Days; Grim Preview of Drives Ahead   OTHER ROPERATIONS GAIN MOMENTUM

Jap Forces Yield Cape Gloucester   Decisive Victory By U.S. Marines Gives Foe a Grim Preview of Future

U. S. FORCES CAPTURE CAPE GLOUCESTER   Airdrome Falls in Four Days’ Coordinated Attacks, Surviving Japs Face Entrapment   U. S. LOSSES LIGHT   ‘American Paratroops, Airmen anc  Destroyer Assault Japs on Bou: qainville

AIRFIELDS FALL BLOW TO NIPPON   Marines. Take Cape Gloucester in Daring Action.

CAPE GLOUCESTER AND ITS AIRDROME FALL TO AMERICANS   QUICK ALLIED DRIVE IN NEW BRITAIN REMINDS JAPS OF WHAT TO COME

New Britain Cape Now in ~ Allied Hands   Quick and Decisive Fight Offers Japs Preview of Future

Quick Success in New Brifain Is Warning to Japs   Americans Have Captured Two of Enemy’s Airports

YANK CAMPAIGN IS. PRELUDE            Japs: Get Taste of of Allied At tack at Cape  Gloucester

Cape and Airstrip Taken  In Four Days; Allies Move Up Elsewhere  By MORRIE LANDSBERG

Capture Cape Gloucester fo Aid Offensive   Japs’ New Britain Stronghold Falls to Americans Following Four-Day Assault

Former French Command Of Bizerte Praises Allied Tunisian Strategy

French Officer Says African Triumph Has Great Implications, Praises System Used by Allies in Maneuver

Sands Blof Out Marks of Batfle   Desert Is Peaceful Again and Traces of Camps Wiped Out

SHIFTING SANDS WIPE OUT ALL TRACES OF WAR HORRORS IN AFRICAN DESERT

Shifting Sands Of African Desert Slowly But Surely Erasing Traces Of Troops Who Fought, Died There

CITY EXPECTS TO REPAIR PAVEMENT   First Carload of Asphalt in ~ 20 Months Is Received  Here   WILL START MONDAY

CITY EXPECTS T0 REPAIR PAVEMENT   First Carload of Asphalt in ~ 20 Months Is Received  Here

Brown Holds Subsidy Pian Is Necessary   Can’t Live Up to Price In. structions Without It, He Declares   MAKES INDIRECT REPLY TO HOOVER   ‘Much Better Job of Con. trolling Food Prices’ Than in First World War

SUBSIDIES A “MUST”   _ - ee ri No Other Way to Live Up to Price Control, Says Brown

Subsidies Only Path,  Says Brown   Congressmen Are Shown Inconsistent  In Their Opposition

Brown Says Must Have Subsidies   Administration Cannot Live Up to Congressional Instructions Without Them.

Cites Law For Paying Subsidies   Price Control Statutes Are Qupted By OPA Head To Justify Payments By Government

Says Congress Made Subsidy Use Necessary   OPA Head Brown Says Instructions Left No Other Method Open

Brown Tells Food Retailers Congress-Se? Aims Cannot Be Me! Without Subsidies

President Again  Breaks Precedent Greeting Leaders Of Foreian States

TER VISIT OLIBERI/   rander of U. S. Forces fr ath Atlantic Reported at Conference.   YEVIEWS TROOPS   ident inspects Negro orces After Leaving Morocco Meeting.

Allies AnttSub Drive Is Expected   Roosevelt Talks With Brazilian President Vargas

Pres. Roosevelt Visited Brazil;  Also to Liberia   Huge army transports used by Roosevelt and. party after short motor trip.

ROOSEVELT STOPS IN LIBERIA, BRAZIL   1 GREETS PRESIDENTS OF TWO COUNTRIES — REVIEWS AMERICAN SOLDIERS.   RBULLETIN.,

Roosevelt Visits Brazil and Liberia   -Reviews American Negro Troops.in Africa, Inspects Rubber Plantation   ALSO VISITS SOME AFRICAN VILLAGES   In Brazil He Confers’ With President Vargas on Defense Matters

Is Feted By Negro Republic   Hemisphere Defense Relieved Talked With Vargas in Natal.   Reviews Troops

Reviews Defense Troops, Talks with President Of Brazil During Trip

RE-HOPS THE ATLANTIC FROM AFRICA BASE   Two Presidents Confer On Anniversary Of Brazil’s Severing Axis Relations

PRESIDENT STOPS © FOR VISIT IN RIO   Has Conference With President Varga of  Baws   REPORT OF TALKS TO COME FROM BRAZIL

FDR Visits Presidents Of Liberia and Brazi   Overnight Stop at Berber Town in French Morocco, Inspection of Rubber Plantation in Liberia Highlights of Trip

NATION LEAN FDR VISITING SOUTH AME RIGS   Chief Executive Cementing War Efforts Of Southern Neighbors To Our Own

F.R. in Brazil for Conference   Brazil Head Vargas Talks to Roosevelt

MEETS VARGAS INNATAL AFTER TRIP TO AFRICA   Precedent on Precedent Is Piled by Roosevelt With Long Journey

Roosevelt Confers With President of . Brazil on Thursday   He Flies Atlantic After Review of Negro Soldiers in Liberia

dt at Tiny Negro ‘public Is Made ter War Parley  if . > merican Executive ai al et ayrhUwétéi‘y   “merican Executive then Goes to Natal, tonfers With Vargas  ,MONROVIA  inspects Large  nubber Plantation s fh ow Mila... i

Hemispheric Defense Is Discussed   President Stops in Liberia After Leaving Churchill following Conferences

Roosevelt Sees Pres. Of Brazil   Views Troops ‘And Plant In Liberia Before Hop To Airplane Terminus

PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL VISITED BY ROOSEVELT   FD. R. Seeing Heads Of Allied Nations In Two Hemispheres   PAUSES IN LIBERIA   Chief Executive Continues To Pile Precedent On Precedent

FDR Meets With Brazilian Head   Brief Official Announcement  Of Cowmherence

FLYING HOME  FE DR Visits Brazil And Liberia Points   Greets President Vargas Yesterday In Natal, After Earlier Reviewing Nearo Troops In Western Africa

President of U. S. Confers with Heads of Allied Nations in Both Hemispheres on Historic Plane Trip to and from Casablanca—Brazil’s ‘Bulge’ of Strategic Importance in War

President Visited In Brazil, Liberia   Reviewed American Negro Troops, Saw Firestone Rubber Flowing

FDR. IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE ‘AFTER JAUNT 10: CONFERENCE: TALKS TO PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL

SEVERAL STOPS ONRETURN TRIP ARE. REPORTED   Talked With Vargas of Brazil Thursday in Latest Meeting

NATAL SCENE OF MEETINGS. ON WAY HOME   President, Party .Pause at South American Hub to Man: Attack.   CASABLANCA DETAILS REPORTEDLY EXPLAINED

Roosevelt Piles More Precedents by Stopping Enroute Home to Visit Allied Heads in Two Hemispheres

STOPS IN BRAZIL EN ROUTE HOME ON HISTORIC TRIP   Greets President of Liberia Reviews Negro Troops, Rubber Plantation

FDR Visils President Of Liberia   American Troops Statione-l There Are Reviewed

ALSO REVIEWS NEGRO TROOPS IN LIBERIA   Hemispheric Defense Discussed In Natal   On Homeward Trip Is Not Identified; One More Precedent Broken

F.D.R. Visits Liberia, Brazil On Return Trip   Confers With Vargas On Anniversary of Break With Axis

Brazil, Liberia Visited   FDR Continues to Surprise Folks Back Home

Negro Troops And Rubber Plantation Inspected On Trip       President Confers With Brazil’s Chief. : Thursday Enroute Home From Conference

PRESIDENT AND BRAZILIAN CHIEF HOLD PARLEY   America’s Chief Executive Visits Liberia Enroute Home

ROOSEVELT DOES A LIVTLE VISITING ON TRIP HOME   Liberia And Brazil See President And He Isn't Home. Yet

Stops Off At Natal On Way Home   Roosevelt Confers With President Vargas Of Brazil Upon Return From African Visit

ANTT-OUBMARINE DRIVE BELIEVED TOPIC AT NATAI   Roosevelt Back In Western Hemsiphere May Be Mapping War On U-Boats

President Makes Visits To Other Allied Heads   By DOUGLAS &. CORNEIT

President in Liberia A\nd Brazil   Roosevelt Reviews Troops in Liberte And Visits Plantation; Has Conference With Vargas of Brazil

President Breaks Some More Precedents  F.D.R. Visits Brazil And Liberia En Route

[Roosevelt Visits Liberia To Inspect Troops And See Crude Rubber Plantation   President, Traveling In 4-Motored Transport, Is Greeted At Tiny Negro R epublic By Civilian And Military Officials; Spent Night In Small Town

ROOSEVELT CONFERS WITH PRESIDENTS OF LIBERIA AND BRAZIL   Dispatches From Rio Fail To Make Clear Whether Conference In Brazil Held Before Or After Meet In Africa

Roosevelt Visits Other Leaders   He’s Making Stops En Route Home

FDR Pays Visit To President Of Negro Liberians   Also Pauses To Review American Negro Troops Stationed Nearby

SEES GETULIO VARGAS, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT   Chief Executive Reviews American Negro Troops In Liberia

Negro Troops. And            President Confers With Brazil's: Chis Thursday Enroute Home:From Conference

ROOSEVELT AND PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL CONFER   Nation’s Chief Stops Off  At Natal, Enroute From  “ Casablanca for Unpre-  cedented Meeting   SEES NEGRO TROOPS   Also inspects Plantation Turning Out War-Vital Rubber In Liberia

Breaks Precedent In Parleys With  Two Presidents   Pauses In Liberia To Review Troops And Check Rubber  . Plantations

FDR, President Brazil Confer in South America   Roosevelt Visits Two Countries While Returning from Conference in North Africa; Sees Rubber Plantation, Reviews American Troops

Rocsevelt in Brazil On Homeward Trip From African Meet   No United French Movement Possible Declares Giraud   Terms of Agreement with DeGaulle Limited in Scope General Says

ROOSEVELT PAYS. VISIT TO LIBERIA      President Pauses to Pay Respects to President Barclay

VISITS NEGRO YANKEE TROOPS IN LIBERIA   President’s Party Flies In Two Four-Motored Army Transport Planes

Nations’ Importance in Hemispheric Defense Believed Under Discussion

_ N tf   “Roosevelt Reviews U. S. Negro. Troops There; Chats With President

PRESIDENT IN BRAZIL FOR CONFERENCES   Important Meetings Are Held With Officials In Largest South American State

South America  Visited ByF DR   President Also Has Stop In Liberia Returning From -Casablanea

CHIEF EXFCHITIVE AND VARGAS MEET AT PORT OF NATAL   Subject of Conference Not Revealed; Reviewed American Negro Troops  tn Liberia.

Visits Enroute In President’s Trip Back Home   Stops in Liberia and a! Brazil For Conference: With Heads

BRAZIL VISIT FOLLOWS STOP AT PLANTATION   President Takes. Full Opportunity to Visit Far Points While en Jaunt   HISTORIC CONFERENCE !S FOLLOWED BY NEW MEETS

NEGRO TROOPS INSPECTED IN FREE COLONY   PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH VARGAS AT NATAL

President In Visit Yesterday At Natal, Brazil   FDR, Homeward Bound from Africa, Visits Brazilian President — Congress Is Studying Taxation.

/EDR Takes Advantage of Historic Trip to Africa, Talks With Brazil’s Chief

Presidents of Two Republics Talk at Natal   First Anniversary  Of Brazil's Break With Axis Celebrated as Conference Goes On

PRESIDENT SEES VARGAS IN NATAL   U8, Braal Heads Thought to Have Discussed U-boat ~ Campaign

President Confers With Heads of Allied Nations En Route to U. S.

Roosevelt Visits Brazil And Liberia   Confers With Other Presidents Qn Allied Aims

F.D.R. Confers With Brazilian Chief At Natal   Stops Off On His Way Home, After Visit To  Tropical Liberia

President Roosevelt Stopping In South American Nations To Confer On Hemisphere Plans   No United French Move ment Now, Says Giraud Liaison On Military Matters With De Gaulle

F DR, Reviews Negre Troops In Liber; ‘1a   Goes Through Villages To Rubber  Plantation

GREETS LEADERS DF TWO NATIONS   Has Conference With President Vargas At Natal, Thursday   DETAILS SECRET   Announcement Reveals President Is Back In Western Hemisphere

FDR Pauses To Talk With Brazil Chief   Meets Vargas AL Natal En Route  From Casablanca

RUSSIAN FRONT REPORTED QUIET   Sharp Thrusts In Some Sectors, But Situation Generaliv Calm.

RUSSIAN-GERMAN BATTLEFRONT IS GENERALLY QUIET   Sharp Thrusts Made by Both   Sides, However, Along Some  - Sectors — Say Nazis Lose 200 in Night Attack

REICH’S ASSAULT 1d BEATE™ BACK   Russians Repulse Drive, Killing 200 Troops Along The Donets River

RED-NAZI FRONT GENERALLY QUIET   Sharp Thrusts Reported In Some Sectors Along Front by Both Sides

RED-NAZI FRONT REPORTED QUIET   Some Sharp Thrusts Bs Both Sides On Donets

New Nazi Atfack On River Fails   Russian-German Front Quiet Except For Few Sectors

Russian Front  Is Quiet On Most Seetors   Few Sharp Thrusts Reported By Both Sides In Local Engagements

RUSSIAN FRONT QUIET EXCEPT SHARP THRUSTS   German Attempts to Assault Red Positions Between Chuguev and Izyum Repulsed   200 NAZIS KILLED   Berlin Radio Broadcast Claims Two Russian Battalions “Annihilated” In  Mopping-L!p Operations

Eastern Front Mostly Quiet; Light Action   Germans Fail In Assault South of Balakleya

German Attacks On Russian Donets Spearhead Repulsed   500 Nazis Killed In Sector In Two Days; Mud-Bogged Front Is Generally Quiet

RUSSTAN-GERMAN FIGHTING CALMS DOWN SOMEWHAT  ALONG SOME SECTORS,   ALONG SOME SECTORS, HOWEVER, THERE WERE SHARP THRUSTS MADE

QUIET ON RED FRONT   Russia and Germany Both Report Thrusts im Some Sections

SENATOR FLAYS TREASURY PLAN   Chief Playing Politics With Sales Tax, Is Claim

National Rail Strike Averted   15 Unions, Carriers Reach Settlement

§chool Aid Bill ls Pigeon-Holed   Southerners Join In Opposing It

Number Of Re jections Under Selective Service Runs H igh  Now Greater Than 40 Per Cent Of Those EFyamincrd: Vane Athletes Thirned Dawn

Manpower Pinch Result : Of Number of Rejections   ejections Running High Despite Army’s Lowering of Eyesight and Dental Standards; Rehabilitation of Rejectees At Standstill Because of Shortage of Doctors

JAP SHIPMENT TOSHORTLAND BASES HALTED   U. S. FLIERS SCORE HITS ON SEVERAL CARGO VESSELS

U. §. Flyers Strike At Jap Cargo Ships  Cripple Movements Of Enemy Supplies

JAP VESSELS ATTACKED BY U.S. BOMBERS      Movement of Supplies to Enemy Garrisons Crippled

U.S. Fliers Strike Japs Severely In Island Region  One Vessel May Be Sunk, Another le Bodily Damaaed

SUPPLY SHIPS ARE BLASTED   Concentration Of Jap Vessels Halted In Solomons Area By Bombers

Movement of Supplies Crippled American Fliers Strike at Jap Cargo Vessels in Solomon Isles

RUSSIA TO SEND DELEGATES 10 FOOD PARLFEYS   8 Other Countries Have Also Accepted Invitation to Session

Russia will attend allied food parley   Nine countries  accept U.S. bids

RUSSIA TO JOIN INFOOD PARLEY   Hull Discloses Nine Other Nations Accept U.S. Invitation

CHR. SCIENCE ANNUAL MEET ATBOSTON —   Places Prayer At Head of Allied-Weapons

6 Hurt as Two. Cars Sideswipe   Clermont Couple in Kane Hospital; Others Receive Treatment

Six Injured In Car Wreck On Bush Hill Road   Colegrove Couple in Kane Hospital Suffering Severe Injuries

Japanese Deall Hard New Blows   Meanwhile Australia _ Asks More Action:

ALLIED WARPLANES INFLICT NEW HAVOG ON JAP INVADERS   VICTORIOUS PAPUAN CAM -» PAIGN-FIRST> PUSHING- ~ AROUND FOR ENEMY

Curtin Pleads For Strength In The Pacific   Australian Prime Minister Says Time is Fighting On Side of Japs   TRIUMPH EMPHASIZED

“FLIGHT OVER WAKE ISLAND   Allied Warplanes Pound Jap Invaders in Burma, 8. Seas as Our Strength Gains.

Time Fights On Japanese Side, Curtin Warns   Aussie Leader Appeals For Stronger Allied  Forces In Pacific.

12,000 GERMAN TROOPS CAUGHT IN TWO POCKETS   Trapped in Front of Stalin: grad, Once Numbered 220,000 Men

ALLIED PLANES. LASH JAPANESE   Australian Official Says Time Fights With Enemy

New Havoc On Japan’: Invaders   Curtin Says Time Is Fighting On Side  of Ninpon

Says Time Is Fighting Against US   Curtin Appeals for Greater Strength in the Southwest Pacific to Avenge the Men   of Corregidor

Allied Bombers Rain New Blows On Jap Forces   Curtin Says Time Is Fighting on Side of Enemy

Curtin Asks _ Larger Allied  Pacific Force   Allied Planes Credited With New South Seas,  Riurma Rlawe

Curtin Asks Larger Allied Pacific Force   Allied Planes Credited With New South Seas. Burma Blows

JAPS BLASTED IN BURMA AND SOUTH PACIFIC   Allied Planes Down Zeros And Make Flight Over Wake Isle

MINERS, BACK AT WORK IN ALABAMA   New Strike Had Followed On Heels of Ickes Fining Order

‘BAMA MINERS WILL GO BACK TO THEIR JOR   Administrotor Ickes Points Out Miners May Avoid Fines Imposed for Miner Walkout

‘Says Authorities At ‘Fond du Lac Acted With “Full Legal Authority’

DESCRIBES RIOT AT JAP CENTER   Former Camp Official Says Whiles Feared Death In Disturbance

Crisis Believed Near In Finland  Nazi Pressure May   Nazi Pressure May Bring Bin Shaken

NAZI PRESSURE PUT ON FINLAND   Political Shakeup Seen In Government At Helsinki

Crisis Believed Near In Finland   Nazi Pressure May Bring Bia Shaketin

DEMAND CLARK GIVE UP STOCK   Never Paid for It, Claims Dachel-Carter In New Suit

Clark Sued For. Boat Co. Stock   Ex-Dachel-Carter Head Named Defendant .

‘Battle Enters Fifth Week At Kiev Bulge   Nazi Thrusts Show Importance of Area In Fight for Europe

Turin One Of Objectives Of Bombers   Important Production City In North Italy

Allies Continue Savage Bombing Of Italian Cities   Turin Feels Wrath Of Bombers As Airfields And Railway Yards Are Hit   REPORT RIOTING BY MILAN CITIZENS   Seven German Airdromes In France Including Le Bourget At Paris Are Bombed

HEAVY AERIAL ASSAULTS HIT ALL EUROPE   Important development: in Italian situation appear imminent

ITALIANS ASSERTED AXIS SICILY FORCES COUNTERATT ACKING  ROME COMMUNIQUE RE.PORTS LAND SUCCESSES AND ALLIED SHIPS SUNK

ITALIANS ASSERT AXIS SUCCEED IN COUNTER-ATTACK   Boastful Report, Heard From Rome Radio, Claimed Allies -Vainly Tried to Enlarge Size of Coastal Areas

FIERCE BATTLE REPORTED; AIR WAR STARTED   Enemy Admits Loss Of Planes; Says Ships Torpedoed

Italians Claim That Axis Army Has Successfully [Repulsed Sicilian Drive

SICILY 19 FIRM [TALIANS GLAIN   Assert That Axis Forces on Island Have CounterAitacked.   BITTER FIGHT CONTINUES

Axis Claims Counter Push Is Suecesstul   Enemy Declares Four Cruisers Torpedoed; Violent Fighting In  DPengrece Near Cela

AXIS CLAIM SUCCESSES IN SICILY.   Report Fighting Continues Fierce And Uninterrupted

Axis Attacking. Italians Claim   Rome Reports Four Allied Cruisers Torpedoed

Italians Claim Counter-Attacks  Fighting Spirit Very High, Says  Rome Cammuniaque

Some Point Values Cut  Farmers Ordered to Collect Ration Coupons for All Sales

FARMERS DIRECTED TO COLLECT COUPONS   All Farm Sales Whether To Con sumers Or Retailers Must Be Made At Current Values

Farmers Must Get Points for Butter   OPA Issues Ruling On Rural Sales

COLLECT COUPONS, FARMERS “WARNED   OPA Reduces Point Values of Certain Sausage Products, Cuts

INCREASE SOAP FOR CIVILIANS   Larger Supplies Should Reach Consumers Soon,  WFA Says

Piece Work Provision  Is Moditied   Lewis Expected To Accept Labor Board’s Verdict

eRe APR               Botan, tose Fields. Ate te " : - story ide aby! War: boi Réara’

LEWIS EXPECTED TO ACCEPT DEAL OFFERED BY WILE   Reservations Only Minor on Contract Negotiated By lekee and UMW.

Return To Mines Now Up To Lewis   WLB Approves Wage Contract By 11-1

WLB Approves Coal Contract; Lewis Weighs Minor Reservations   Piece Rate Workers Will Be Limited in Raise; Men Slowly Returning to Pits

AWAIT LEWIS ACCEPTANCE OF WLB CONTRACT   One Dissenting Vote as WLB Puts Okay on Agreement Made With Coal Boss Ickes.

WAGE CONTRACT OF LEWIS, ICKES GETS APPROVAL OF WLB   Board Accepts Terms: After  2 Days Of Debate — 2 Reservations  “Included

LEWIS HOLDS KEY 10 PEACE IN COAL FIELDS   WLB Okays Ickes - Lewis Contract, With Reservations

WAR LABOR BOARD APPROVES WAGE BOOST FOR MINERS   Finel Settlement Hinges on Lewis’ Acceptance of  Bite cosbeccinn

Pave Way For French Accord   Second Viehyite Out Of Giraud Regime

MAKES BID FOR OUSTING OF FASCISTS   Declares: War’ Tide’ Has Turned and ‘Rome- Can Expect More Bombings If She Fights On.   TOUCHES-ON ALL  PHASES OF WAR   Confident Russia Will Be Able to Stop Any New Attack—-Favors Harder Blows at Japs.

Expel Leaders, Sue For Peace,  Italy Advised   Churchill, in Interview Invites Weary Foe TR. gh..*. ty...

Churchill Invites Italian People to Throw Out Nazis, Sue for Separate Peace; Tide Turns to Allies He Says Discussing War-

Churchill Asks Italy To Throw Nazis Overboard   Trend Definitely Has Turned; Fight On Jarwe Pramiced

Churchill Asks ltaly To Throw Nazis Overbearc   Trend Definitely ‘Has Turned; Fight  CVn Leake Dene...

Berlin Pounded in > Heaviest Attack of War Saturday Nigh   @Over 900 Tons of Great Bombs Dropped on Cap ital of Germany

Berlin Given Worst Pounding of the War   900 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi Capital by RAF—Other British Fliers Raid St. Na- — zaire and Yanks Blast Rouen, France.

A CONCENTRATED ATTACK ON THE ST. NAZAIRE SUB BASE   RAF Bombers Resumed Their Assaults, the Air Ministry Said.   New Damage Was Done to U-Boat Pens, It Was Announced Today.

BRITISH BOMBERS  RESUME RAIDS ON  NAZI U-BOAT BASES GREATEST RAID OF WAR  _ STAGED ON BERLIN ON  SATIPNAY NICHT

U-Boat Haven At St. Nazaire Pounded Anev   Blasting Is Followup To R. A. F.’s Greatest Raid On Berlin.

Huge Axis Sub Base Blasted   ST. NAZAIRE RUINED IN SWEEPING THRUST BY BOMBERS OF R. A. F.

BERLIN SUFFERS GREATEST ATTACK OF WAR SATURDAY   RAF Bombers Blast Base At St. Nazaire With ‘Concentrated’ Attack’; Two Bombers Did Not Return From Raid.

RAF Hits U-Boat Bases Following Big Berlin Raid   Bombing Of German Capital Heaviest Of War; St. Nazaire Raided In Force

RAF Blasts St. Nazaire In New Sub Base Raids   Squadrons of Bombers Cross Southeast Coast Monday As Intensive Blows ot Enemy Continued on Continent

MORE BOMBERS. CROSS CHANNEL   indicate Continuation of “Blows Directed at Reich aud Satellites

RAF Hits France After Smashing Raid On Berlin   Powerful Attack Blasts U-Boat Pens At St Nazaire

BERLIN TARGET OF 900 TONS OF BRITISH BOMBS   St. Nazaire Blasted Again in Wake of War's Record Assault on Ger. man Caniial   ROTTERDAM HIT   Duisberg and Axis Communicafions In Holland and Germany Strafed Qver Weekend .

RAF Bombs U-Boat Base it St. Nazaire   Assault Follows Smashing Raid On Berlin

\Greatest One Yet Made On  Berlin Followed by At-   tacks On German  i - - Sub Bases    Flames Visible For 120 Miles. As Result of 900 Tons of Bombs Dropped.On Metropolis .

St. Nazaire Is Again Blasted By The R. A. F.   "Concentrated Attack" Follows Extensive Raid On Berlin   ITWO FAIL TO RETURN

British Keep up Bombings   Sub Bases Blasted After Devastating Raid on Berlin.

ULBOAT BASE IS BLASTED   900 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On German Capital   ATTACK IS 59TH   Of War And Sixth Of Year On City: Nine Planes Lost By British   Dig In Wreckage

Damage U-Boat Haven      ‘RAF Blasts Sub Pens At St. Nazaire Following Terrific Attack on Berlin Saturday

United States Air Force Makes Daylight Attack in France and RAF Continues Attacks on Continent.

BIG AIR BLOWS FALL ON NAZIS IN MANY RAIDS   900 Tons of Bombs Hit Berlin and Start “Brew of Solid Flame”

RAF CONTINUE RAIDS ONNAZE U-BOATBASES   Attacks Berlin Saturday Night, Drops 900 Tons o* Bombs

RAF Hammer: Away at Nazi U-Boat Bases  Great Berlin Raid   Great Berlin Raid Followed Up— Germans Retaliate

PERL AND RAIDS ~— CONTINUE   Concentrated Attack On St. Nazaire Follows .Blow at Germany   AMERICAN PLANES STRIKE AT ROUEN   900 Tons of Bombs Are Loosed On German Capital In Great Attack

HEAVY ATTACKS CARRIED OUT ON GERMAN TARGET   Bombers Cross Channel Today In Large Units

RAF Blasts St. Nazaire U-Boat Base   Two Planes Fail To Return Raid Made In Strength

BRITISH POUND U-BOATBASES INBIG ATTACK   Germans Raid English Town; RAF Loses Two Planes

R. A.F. BOMBS BERLIN AND ST. NAZAIRE      British Resume Assaults On German Sub Bases

GERMAN CITY TAKES 900 TONS OF BOMB:   Concentrated British Attack Launched On Sub Base ant C+ Alaooaire

Nazi Capital Treated To 900 Tons Of Bombs   New Damage Added To Important Submarine Base

HIT SUB BASES   American Flying Fortresses Attack Rouen in Daylight.   BERLIN IS PLASTERED

Heavy Bomber Raids Loosed On Continent   Berlin Subjected  To Vicious Attack  By R. A. F.; Warfare Continues Apace

RAF Bombers Resume Attack On Reich Bases   Returning Pilots Report Fires Visible 120 Miles After Assault On Berlin

RAF - Continues Intensive Blow:   Blasts St. Nazaire After --Biq Raid On Berlin.

Sub Nests Again Hit At Nazaire   Yanks In Daylight Raid On Rouen

*Sub’ Lair Lashed After Berlin Gets Heaviest Pounding   Nazi Capital Said ‘Brew of Flame’; Bombs Pour at 30 Tons a Minute; Americans Smash at Rouen Yards

SUBMARINE BASES HEAVILY BOMBED   Attack Follows Greatest Raid of War on Berlin With Varied Damage.

BRITISH BOMBERS RESUME RAIDS ON NAZI U-BOAT BASES  GREATEST RAID OF WAR STAGED ON BERLIN ON SATURDAY NIGHT

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House Votes 244 to 108 And Senate 56 to 25 in Rebuking the President   Turn Deaf Ear to Plan To Give Him Power To Draff Men Up to 65 for Non-Combat Military Service; Velo Message Says Law Will Provide Strikes Instead of Preventing Them as Intended

SUCH IN WARTIME   Fastest Overriding of Veto Also Thought By Sources

U.S, AIRMEN ARE ON ALERT IN. PACIFIC   Watch For Jap Shipping Concentrations To Stop Reinforcements

Watch For More Nippon Shipping   Airmen Set To Block  Reinforcement Tries

U. S. Airmen Hit 12 Jap Ships In Three Days   Enemy Attempts To Reinforce  Outposts Blocked

FASCISTS AGAIN APPEAR IN ITALY   Reappear Under Cover Of German Guns, But Seen In Public Only In Groups.

FASCISTS AGAIN SEEN IN ROME   But They Appear Only in Groups in Public

Fascists Emerge In Group Under Protection Of Nazi Guns Covering Rome Street

FASCISTS MAKE APPBARANGEIN ROME STREETS   ‘Dare to Appear In Public  ‘ Only In Groups: Retali ‘ating for Destruction Party Insignias

FASCISTS AGAIN ON STREETS ROME   Report To Berne Newspaper Says Fascists Have Emerg: ed On Streets Italian Capital Under Cover German Guns; Destroying Em. blems of House of Savoy

ltalian Fascists In Sight Again, But Only In Groups   German Guns Protect Them; They Tear Down Emblems of House of Savoy

Alles Continue Heavy Attacks On Jap Bases in New Guinea Area   Lae, Gasmata and Sanananda Point Subiected to Rambine

U.S. Air Force Raids New Guinea Bases   Noon Attacks On Lae, Gasmata Smash Enemy Planes, Anti Aircraft   FIGHTER SHIPS HELP   MacArthur Reports Ne Changes In Ground Positions At Sanananda Point

AFL, CIO Unity Move Predicted   ‘Approaching Speedily,” Soderstrom Says

Continue Advance In Sicily   Americans Take Important Towns—Third of Island in Allied Hands

Railroad Yards Plastered In Central Part Of City; Sicily Defenders Cracking

BIG OFFENOWE BY MACARTHUR NOT POSSIBLE   Spokesman Claims General Getting Insufficient Supplies From U. S.

More Pacific Help Needed, Diller Says   MacArthur Getting Only 5 PC. of US, Power, Colonel Explains   ADVANCES PRAISED      20 Jap Planes Downed in Raid on Allies in Ramu River Valley

southwest Pacific Getting 5 Per Cent Of War Ship. ments; Area ‘Doing All It Can With What It Has’; Bag 20 Planes, Sink Transport

LITTLE AMER. WAR POWER IN $0, PACIFIC   Turning Japs Back With Less Than 5% of Total Force

FORMER ALL-AMERICA GRID STAR MISSING   Tom Harmon, Who Starred A! Michigan. Reported Lost In  South America

RUMORS OF A SHAKE UP   orted That Yon Ribbentrop Has ~ Been Asked to Resign

Lansing Board Lists 41 For Induction Into Armed Forces   Thoroughnesas of Medical Tests at Induction Centers Proved

F. D.R. SIGNS TEN: MILLION» -_ FLOOD. BILL   Money Will Be Used to Strengthen Broken Levees in the ; Midwest.

KY. SENATOR SAYS CHURCHILL OPPOSES CHIN!   Letter Follows Alleg: edly Anti- British Remarks After World Tour

Charges Churchill Is Against Giving China Equal Voice At Peace Table

DOOLITTLE’S FLIERS DOWN 23 JAP SHIPS   12th Air Force Gets Big Bag In North Africa While British Add Five to Growing Toll.

Move To Boost  Protein Feeds   Commodity Credit Organization Purchases To Replace Incentive Pay.

PRICES RAISED ON FOOD CROPS AS ‘INCENTIVE’   Soybeans (One of Big Crops in Fayette County) on List; Level Above Ceiling   FUTURE STATUS DOUBTFUL   Food Administrator Warns Against Pace Bill Danger of Leading To Inflation

HIGHER PRICES GUARANTEED FOF D VITAL CROPS  Ye. aes. Sl a   DAVIS MOVES TO ENCOURAGE GREATER FOOD PRODUCTION

Higher Grower Prices Pledged   Five Food Crops Are Included In Order

Roosevelt May Meet Congres:   History -Making : Journey Renoart Te Fikoaly

Conaress May Hear Report   Leaders Are Hopeful President Will Talk

FDR MAY APPEAR BEFORE CONGRESS   President Expected to Report on History-Making _ Journey

F.D. R. Expected to Make Report  Congress May Hear of Conferences

May Peg Prices Of Hogs to Hold Off Market Glut   Food Administration — Is Ready to Support Prices at $1 Per Cwt.   Will Ask OPA to Cut  Point Values on Pork

Rabaul Smashed   YANKS, NEW ZEALANDERS BATTLE JAPS FOR KEY ISLAND OF CHOISEUL

NEW NEW ‘BOSS’ OF RAILROADS = LONG IN TRANSPORT WORK   ARMY ENGINEER CORrs OFFICER IN DIRECT CONTROL OF RAW. OPERATIONS IN NATION

x kK *k& * Fascist Editors, Party Leaders Purged   xK K«k KO Dud--And Buried!

PROBE IN FOOD POLICY COMING   Chairman Smith Promises He Will “Blow Off Lid.”’

AUTHORITIES STILL SEEKING "CAUSE OF MILLION DOLLAR “RESORT CITY FIRE

BRITISH POUND JAPS IN BURMA   Punishing Bombardment  Starts Fires In Nip — Jungle Strongholds

Indian Army Said Holding In Burma   Has Ahbsorhed Power Of Jan Drive

Others With Him On Raid Join In  Similar Comment Be WEG CAT Y ASHER

Bombers Again Will Strike. At Heart of Tokyo   General Doolittle and raiders who flew with him vow vengeance on Japanese.  -

JOHN CUDAHY DIES IN RIDING TRAGEDY   Ex-Ambassador To Belgium, Poland, Ireland Was Riding Alone

Veteran Diplomat ohn Cudahy Suffers Fatal Injuries In Fall From Horse

Lewis Move To ek To AFL  olsters Hand   Questions Arise About Jurisdiction  ‘And Union Power

LEWIS SCORES MASTER STROKE IN WAGE WAR   Move To. Affiliate With A. F. of L. Seen As Help To Miners’ Cause   DEVELOPMENTS AWAITED   Some Observers Fear Move Is Only Camouflage In Strife With U. S.

Mine Boss’ Move Held - ‘Master Stroke’ To Strengthen Demand ~ For Wage Boost

Call Lewis’ Action A Master Stroke   Move To Go Back Into A F of L Strengthens Hand

MOVE MAY AID MINE HEAD IN COAL DISPUTE   Surprise action will strengthen miner’s hand in wage battle

TRD NATIONAL LABOR GROUP, MINERS’ WAGE NE/MANDS, AND OTHER  ANGLES’ ARE 0. STUDIED

Lewis Seeks To Rejoin A.F.OFL   New Move Made By Lewis Would Take Mine Workers Back To A. F. Of L.   STEP IN BATTLE FOR MINERS‘ RAISE

IRKS SHERWOOD   Says State Institutions Won’ Pay U. S. ‘Assessment

Yanks Consolidate Guadalcanal Gains   Get Control of Village and Beach at Kokumbona, Enemy Headquarters, After Killing 293 Nipponese Troops, Navy Reports.

YANKS BATTER JAP DEFENSES   U.S. Forces Win 7 Important Positions from Enemy On Guadalcanal

JAP ATTAGK ON ISLANDS IS FAILURE   Ni ip: Headquarters Are Occupied _ By Yanks 

POSITIONS IN GUADALCANAL CONSOLIDATED   American Troops Control Village; Kill 293 Japanese

U 3. FORCES IN: SOLOMONS SECTOR ARE ON OFFENSIVE  SEVEN IMPORTANT POS TIANG WRECTEN EROAM

Consolidate Positions On Guadaleanal   Americans Gain Control Of Kokumbona, Jap Headquarters, After Killing 293 Troops

Seven Important Positions Taken   {wo Hundred Japanese Soldiers Killed and 40 Captured   ENEMY BASE JUST ABOUT WIPED OUT

Yankees Take Over Jap City   Americans Consolidate Positions At Enemy Headquarters On Guadalcanal.

Positions on Guadaleanal Consolidated by U. S. Forces      N avy Reports Two Units of American Ground Forces _ Join At Kokumbona, Jap Headquarters On Island, to Control Village and Beach After Killing 293 of Enemy Troops

Yanks Seize 7 Points On Pacific Isle   Six Important Elevations, Japanese-Held Town On (;uadaleanal Taken,   ‘CONTINUE AIR RAIDS

1d MORE JAPS lt WN BATTLE ON SULOMONS   U. S. Consolidates Positions As Fighter Planes Break Up Enemy Air Raid

Yanks Capture Jap Territory   7. Positions. Taken’ From Enemy In Actions: On Guadalcanal Isle.

American Army Begins Pinch On Tunisian Coast   Victory Marks Solomons Offensive: U.S. Bombers Raid Rangoon. Hit Ship.

Yanks Capture Jap Positions At Kokumbona   Japanese Airplanes Met And Turned Back Frow Island Raid

Allied Planes Rain Havoc On Japanese   Bomb Shipping, Airdromes and Motor Transports; US Troops Consolidate Posi . tions in Kokumbona

Americans Capture Village and Beach After Killing 293  Japs, Navy Reports

Rout Japs From Headquarters   293 Enemy Troops Killed by American Forces

Allied Planes Batter Japs By Day And Night   Munitions Ship Blasted In Rabaul Harbor; Big  Firece Sat

SAYS STALIN HAS BEEN INFORMED OF ALLIED TALKS   London Press Implied He Had Not Attended the Consultations.   STATEMENT EXPECTED   Papers. Attributed Their Reports to United States Sources.

Seven Positions — Won From Japs _At Guadaleanal   One Enemy Island Base Reported To Have Been Virtually Wiped Out

Forge Ahead In Solomons   Advance to New Positions On Guadalcanal; Drive Off Jap Bombers

Seven Important Japanese Positions on Guadalcanal Captured by U. S. Forces

GUADALCANAL HEADQUARTERS OF JAPS TAKEN   293 of Enemy Troops Slain, Navy - Reports—Jap Planes Driven Off Before Atlack

Yanks Win  Jap Positions   200 Nipponese Killed, 40 Ceptured os U.S. Gains on Guadalcanal

AMERICAN .  FORCES WIN - TPOSITIONS ~ FROM JAPS   Victories in -Solomons- Include Destruction of a Good Sized Base:   GREATEST. CONQUEST IN AREA TO DATE   All Out Drive to Rid -Guadalcanal of Enemy May Be Under Way

ENEMY BASE WIPED OUT BY YANK FORCES   United States Troops Said To Have Won Seven Important Positions On Guadalcanal   EQUIPMENT IS_ SEIZED

7 Important Points Taken From Japs   American Forces Wipe Out Invaders’ Base on Kolombangara Island with Combined Sea and Air Attack

SEIZE SEVEN KEY POSITION’ IN SOLOMONS   Important Points On Guadalcanal Are Captured

GUADALCANAL POSITIONS OF JAPS CAPTURED   Warships and Planes Burn Out Jay Island Base in New Georgia, Na vy Reporis

U. S. Forces Are Joined At Jap Base   Americans Take Control Of Guadalcanal Village After Killing 293 Troops

WARSHIPS STRIKE "AT JAP BASE   Airplanes Help Blast Fuel, Munition Dumps‘in New Georgia Area

AMERICANS SLAY 293 JAP TROOPS ON PACIFIC ISLE   Control of Kokumbona, o Guadalcanal, Changes Hands After Victory

New Tactics Successful In Jap Fighting   MacArthur Sees Way To Drive Enemy From Pacific Isles

U. S. Makes More Guadalcanal Gains   Strike Out in General Offensive to Bottle Up Enemy; New Tactics Developed by General MacArthur.

American Forces Stage General Offensive to Win Seven Important Positions      NIP ISLAND BASE ALSO IS WIPED OUT   Attack Against Area, 190  - Miles Northwest Guadal- ;  canal, Made By Air   and Sea 

GENERAL DANE EXTENDS. LINE SEVERAL MILES   201 Enemy Troops Killed, 40 Captured In Attack By American Forces

YANKS STAGE ADVANCE ON GUADALCANAL   ill 201, Seize 40 Japs In Advance; Blast New Isle Base

Seven Positions Seized By U.S. On Guadalcanal   201 Jap Soldiers Slain, 40 Captured In Offensive

AMERICAN FORCES WON 7 IMPORTANT ENEMY POSITIONS   Reported They Killed 201 Jap Soldiers and Captured 40.   WIPED OUT ENEMP BASE   Places Captured Were Six Important Elevations Near Henderson Field.

PLANES POUND NIPPON SHIPPING   Allies Attack Airdromes Motor Transports in Burj-ma, South Seas

Solomons Points Said Captured   Aircraft Smashes At Japanese Bases

AMERICANS WIN New POSITIONS (ON GUADALCANAL   201 faps Killed, 40 Captured In 2-3 Mile  Advanra

U5. CAPTURES ISLAND HEIGHTS   Forces Take 6 Important Elevations, Wipe Out Coastal Village.   KILL 207 JAP SOLDIERS

Kokumbona Positions Are Held By U.S. Forces  Two American Forces Consolidate And Kill   Two American Forces Consolidate And Kill  293 Japangse; Enemy Planes Driven OF

YANKS HOLDING NEW POSITIONS   U.S. Troops Consolidate Lines in Solomons; Kill 293 Nips.   INTERCEPT JAP PLANES

Seven Points Captured on Guadalcanal   Important Elevation West Of Airfield and Costal Village Taken From Japs

Americans Take Jap Position   Solomon Force Capture Seven Places

U. S. Troops Wipe Out Jap Headquarters   Guadaleanal Beach Seized-——Allied  Planss Pound Enems

U. S. Front Lines Ad- vanced Two to Three ' Miles; 201 Japs Killed.

U. S. Soldiers Are Advancing At Guadalcanal   201 Japs Killed And 40 Captured In General Offensive Move

U. S. Starts An Offensive In Solomons   Seven Important Jap Positions On Guadalcanal Captured Over Weekend   Sea and Air Power Now Believed Key   MacArthur Issues Statement Announcing Change In Strategy

SEE NEW GAINS IN GUADALCANAL   Navy Says Six Important Positions Taken

Capture Jap Strong Point In Solomons   293 Enemy Soldiers Killed As Americans Consolidate Positions   Yank Fighters Drive Bomber Force Away   Allied Warplanes Continue Day And Night Air Attacks

Guadalcanal Heights Captured   Widespread Losses inflicted Upon Japanese

M'ARTHUR VISIONS BiG AIR OFFENSIVE   Allied Air Powe Continues Daily Assaults; Australian ‘Warns of Jap Attack ‘   WIN 7 IMPORTANT SPOTS WaASHINC TON (AP) —

EXTRA!   Gain Seven: Positions On Guadaleanal   Killing Of 201 Japanese Soldiers And Capture Of 40 Is Announced By Navy Department

American Forces Consolidate Gain:  On Guadalcanal   Kill 293 Japs: Japs; Dive Bomber Force Turned Back From Island.

U.S. Forces Contro Jap Headquarters’ On Guadalcanal   293 Enemy Troops Killed, Divebombers Are Turned Back

U 3. FORCES IN SOLOMONS SECTOR ARE ON OFFENSIVE  _ SEVEN IMPORTANT POSi - TIONS WRESTED FROM - JAPS ON GUADALCANAL

U.S. Troops In Africa _ 233 Miles From Coastal Road Needed By Rommel

YANKS TAKE OVER JAPANESE GHQ ON GUADALCANAL   CONTROL VILLAGE AND BEACH AFTER KILLING 293

Yankees Win Seven Important Posts on Guadalcanal Island   Kill 201 Jap Soldiers and Capture 40; Wipe Out Enemy Base

Jap Shipping Hard Hit By Allied Fliers   Attack Airdromes, Motor Transports

Yanks Control Kokumbona   Ground Forces Pinch OFf Jap Occupants of Village, Take Beach

SOLOMON ISLE UNITS TAKE 7. KEY POSITIONS   Capture 40, Kill   Capture 40, Kill 201 Japanese In New Campaign

Raiders Driven off In Pacific   Intercept Force of Dive Bombers; New Gains Consolidated.

JAP HEADQUARTERS ON GUADALCANAL ARE IN AMERICAN HANDS U. S. FIGHTER PLANES IN. TERCEPT AND TURN BACK  ICDA Nive Dpnprpe

Americans Win Seven Posts on Guadalcanal   Kill 20 Japs, Capture  40 and Virtually Wipe Out Enemy Island Base By Sea and Air Attack

WARTHUR LAUDS NEW WAR TACTICS   Air Strength To Play Im. portant Role In South: west Pacific

Yanks Consolidate New Positions on Guadalcanal Isle   Kill 293 Japs and Take Six Other Important Positions There

Jap Base Blasted By Navy   Americans Take Seven Enemy Positions on Guadalcanal As Airmen Attack Over Wide Area

Seven Important Position: Won On Guadalcanal; 201 Jap Soldiers Killed

Yanks Consolidate New Positions on Guadalcanal Island   Six Important New Heights West of Airport Are Captured

POSITIONS WON BY AMERICANS   General Offensive Is Pushed by Forces in : Solomon Islands

201 JAPS SLAIN, BASE WIPED OUT IN SOLOMONS  6 VITAL POSITIONS  TAKEN NEAR FIELD ON GUADALCANAL

Big Jap Air Force kouted By U.S. Sky Fighters  set teens x ments   Guadalcanal Gains

7 Positions on Guadalcanal Won by Yanks   201 Japs Killed,’ 40 Captured in U. S. Offensive

AMERICANS KILL 293 MORE JAPS ON GUADALCANAL   Six Important Position: Captured; U. S. Fighter   Planes Turn Back Enemy Aerial Armada.

Army Priority To Cut Civiltan Supply of Beet   Slaughterers Must Set Aside 45 Per Cent  For Armed Services

‘Just Throw A Little Dirt In My Face’ Pilot Of Crippled U.S. Bomber Says

Lite Raft Jams; Close Call For Army Fliers   Lieut. Jack W. Snyder, Of Brewster, Safely Land: Bomber After Raft Nearly Tears Off Stabil izer

Six American Fliers Return to Base From First Mission, a Modern Epic

Time Stands Still Today In Capitol   Clocks Stopped As Lawmakers Seck To Wind Up Affairs

Former M Marcus  sh Resident Dies   Mrs, Stephen Londergan Succumbs At Los Angeles—Funeral Last Friday

Former fella : “Resident -Dies   Mrs, Stephen Londergan Succumbs ‘At Los Angeles—Funeral Last. Friday

SALUTE TO FLAG NOT COMPELLED   Supreme Court Rules States Cannot Compel School Children To Salute

Court Alters Ruling on Flag Salutes   Highest Tribunal Bars States From ‘Coercion’

‘Supreme Court Strikes Down Former Ruling That States ‘Can Compel Salute To Flaa

20 Per Cent iin State Are Hit by Flu   Schools, War Plants Effected; Warn Against Too Much Use of Sulfa Druas

INCIDENCE OF FLU HIGHER IN STATE   Increase in I!iness in Upper Peninsula Area Reported.

FLU EPIDEMIC ~{S UNCHECKED   25 Per Cent of Upper Pen  insula Is Stricken   By Disease

Heavy Snow Over State   Measures from Five To Eight Inches in Depth: Fair Tomorrow

Refutes Popular Belief That Lincoln Was Poor ‘Man Most Of His Life

M-: nacing Fluods in Midwest   SSUIUMOIG JUST Isvary yy Reported—Indiana, Illin ois Rivers Swollen

INVASION DRIVE "PLANS ARE MADE   BY LOUIS M. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst {Rer ¥J. S. Pat: NHFire) .

RANGE OVER BURMA   Allied Bombers Attack Many Jap Installations —

RANGE OVER BURMA   Allied Bombers Atta Attack Many Jap Installations

JAP AIR RAIDERS ARE TURNED BACK   ENEMY LOSES BETWEEN 16 AND 22 PLANES IN ATTACK ON ALLIED BASE,

Japs Stage Costly  Raid on Oro  Bay Allied Base  22 to 45 Nipponese   Planes Downed;  _ Enemy Areas Bombed

NIPPONESE LOSE HEAVILY IN RAID   Allied Airmen Bag If To 22 Planes Over Oro Bay Base

Legislature Votes Pay Raise to State Employe:   In Closing Session Approves Bill Permitting Wider Choice in Mental Hygiene Chief, Votes $2,500,000 for Child Care

Unable to Grant Boost to Miners   Anthracite Operators Make Final Effort to Ne gotiate Contract.

ANTHRACITE OWNERS MAKE ‘FINAL’ OFFER   Concede ‘In Substance’ Four of _ Miners 21 Proposals, Rule Out Wage Increase Demands ~—-—

Draft Soon To Tap State Industries   Werren Says Deferred Men Will Be Called Ahead of Fathers

Announce Changes In 4-H  Dairy Production Progam   It Will Be a Project Not A Contest Next Year

BRITISH WARSHIPS LEAVE GIBRALTAR   Presumed That Destination Is Mediterranean.

Europe Expected To Remain Hungry   French Will Produce Even Less. Is Beliel

2 FACTORS CHANGE FARM PRODUCTION   Weather and Transportatior Make Decided Changes In °44 Picture.

WALKOUT IS AVERTED BY AGREEMENT   17 Other Unions Previously Agreed Not to Strike

Education Official Says Schools To Stay Open Despite Teacher Shortage

Shortage Of Teachers In State Serious   State Department Official Says Schools Will Not Have to Close  VACANICIEN COHOADINC

Famous Financier Fights Death In Florida Cottage  J. P. Morgan Improves: Attended By Three  iDoctors, Six Nurses

‘WESTBROOK PEGLER   Pledge Of Unions Not To Strike In War Plants Is Worthless

.U. P. Executives Back From War Theaters Compare Notes On Allied War Outlook And Prospects For Victory  ~]

OBSERVERS TELL HOW WE STAND ON MAJOR WAR FRONTS      Accent on Speed   Allied Victory Certain But May Take Long Time, Is Conclusion After Survey

MacArthur's Planes Are Ready To Greet 14-Ship Jap Convoy Enroute To New Guinea Bases

Liein Wai For Jap Convoy   Allied Airmen Await Lifting of Clouds to Sweep to Attack on Fourteen Enemy Ship:

U.S, PILOTS WAIT FOR CHANGE T0 HIT JAP CONVOY   14-Ship Fleet En Route To ward New Guinea Bases

ALLIED AIRMEN AWAIT CHANCE TO OPEN FIRE   Nippon Fleet Moves Along “Under Cover Of Advancing Weather Front”   HEAVY BATTLE LOOMING   Strategic Viaduct In Burma Destroyed By American Air Force

Allies Gird to Halt Try to Land Men   Prospect of Another Convo Approaching Is  Hinted First Attempt Failed

Wait To Blast  Enemy Convoy   MacArthur's Airmen Watch 14-Ship Group En Route To New Guinea.

Jap Convoy Enroute to New Guinea   Bad Weather Protects Enemy Vessels From  Allied Bombers

AIRMEN BALKED BY BAD WEATHER   Voyage of Armada: Through South Pacific Kept Under Constant Watch

Enemy Fleet Moves South Under Storm   Allied Airmen Wait Chance To: Attack Convoy

Allied Warplanes Poised To Strike At Jap Convoy   14 Nipponese Ships Reported Enroute To Lae Or Other New Guinea Bases In Southwest Pacific; Weather Helps Protect Vessels From Aerial Attacks

U.S. Planes Preparing For Attack On 14-Ship Jap Convoy In Pacific

Await Chance To Attack Jap Convoy   14 Ships Keported Moving Under Cover of Weather Toward Lae or Other New Guinea Bases

ALLIED FLYERS GET READY 10 HIT JAP CONVOY   14 Ships Reported to * Be Moving to Nippon Base in New Guinea

ALLIED PRESSURE IS INCREASING ON - ENEMY’S FLANKS   Germans Must Either Stand and Fight or Pull Out and Flee Mow.

Naples Bathe Rages Toward Crisis Today:   Fifth Army Chops Two Miles. North of Salerno By Richard D. McMillan

AT NAPLES IS BITTER   Important Airfields Fall To Allies As 8th Army Gains

CRISIS NEARS IN CRITICAL NAPLES BATTLE   ath Army 20 Miles From Big Port; Airfields To Aid Allies

EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES FOGGIA   Battle of Naples Nears Crisis As 5th Army Gains

Crisis Due Soon in Naples Battle   British Take Foggia, Air, Transport Hub

British Take Foggia; Continue Advance To Naples   Hand To Hand Fighting On Road North Of Salerno

British Gain y Fight Miles ‘in New Drive      Bitter Fighting Still In Progress Along Naples Front

ALL OF ITALY NOW IN RANGE UF QUA PLANES   American Army Inches On: ward After British 8th Takes Foggia

“SHORTY HART SEEKS PARDON      LeMars- Man Serving In Nebraska To Appear Before Board

'Tex Bryan, With Briefcase Full Of Medals For Daring Aw Exploits, Says He’ll Not Fly Again Due To Nerves

“ex Oryan, Wilh brietcase Full Of Medals For Daring Air Exploits, Says Heil Not Flu Aagin Due Ta Novice

LOCKER PLANT BURNS   Large Supply of Fresh Meat and Vegetables Destroyed

Nazi Troops Comb City For Workers   Labor Impressment Is Intensive; Revolt Is Still Continuing

Germans Search Homes of French To Seize Workers   Many From Lyons Shipped to Factories; More Flee to Hills

NAZIS ROUND UP FRENCHMEN   Forced Workers Seized In House To House ‘Raids; Partisane-——  Holding Out

MEN SHIPPED INTO GERMANY BY CARLOADS   WOMEN BELIEVED NEXT; YOUTHS RESIST

PROPOSE CIVIL DEFENSE SHIFT   CHANGE IN SYSTEM IS PLANNED BY WAR GROUF

SALISBURY STUDIES PLAN FOR CURFEW   Young Girls Of Town “Are Just  Eating These Uniforms Up”     One Official Sarvs

Curfew May Keep Salisbury Girls Off the Streets   Youngsters and Their Sol. dier Boy Friends Create Problem

Big Plant Idle In Wage Scrap  LdJ~{f£ Chile 1 2   Half Shift Lost In Workers’ Meeting

STRIKE SLOWS  BOEING PLANE PLANT OUTPUT   Wage Boost Request Action Cause   of Trouble 

Workers Halt Output at Boeing Plant   Hint Wide Tie-Up If WLB Fails To Act on Wage

Big Plant Idle  In Wage Scrap   ’ Half Shift Lost In Workers’ Meeting

Shutdown At Boeing Plants  For Few Hours   Workers Attend Meeting To Talk  On Wage Increase

Strike Halls Building Oi Planes   Unionists Seek Wage Increase At Boeing Plants

BLIMP BURNS AT SEA; CREW OF EIGHT LOST   Navy Says Destruction of Airshiy K-94 Was Not Due to Enemy Action.

Salamaua, Japanese Base In New Guinea, Shattered, [May Mean U.S. Offensive

AMERICANS HIT SALAMAUA HARE AIRCRAFT BLOW   Japanese-Held Area Is Left  In Ruinc

SALAMAUA AREA MASS OF RUINS   YANK RAID SEEN AS PRELUDE TO ALL-OUT ALLIED LAND ATTACK

YANKS LEAVE JAP BASE SMOKING RUIN   Attack on Salamaua May Indicate Final Land Drive for Base.

Hail of 177 » Tons Fallsin 45 Minutes   Possibly Indicates Final Drive to Seize Japanese  New Guinea Base :

OBLITERATING AIR RAID INDICTES FINAL LAND DRIVE   177 Tons of Bombs Rain Down From American Bombers In: 45 Minutes On Jap-Held New Cuinea Base 

Salamaua Left In   Smoking Ruins Tons Of Bombs Hurled  On Jap Base

SALAMAUA A SMOKY RUIN FROM BOMBS   177 Tons Dumped on Jap Base in New Guinea in 45 Minutes. Final Drive May Be Near

Salamaua Gets 177 Tons of Bombs   Final Drive May Be Near at Hand

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST SALAMAUL   Japanese New Guinea Base Smoking Ruin Afte: Heavy Raid.

BOMBERS RAZE KEY JAP BASE   Salamaua Is Wiped Out By 177 Tons of Explosives

Bombs Leave Salamaua in Smoking Ruin   US Troops Within 34 Miles of Bairoko Harbor; Allied ‘Bombs Wreck or Damage 32 Planes at Kahili Airdrome

SALAMIAUA 1S LEFT IN SMOKING RUINS   Tons’ of Bombs Dropped on Jap Base Hints of Land Action Soon

10 Missing In Airliner   Long Overdue Plane Sought i in Tennessee

START SEARCH FOR. MISSING. AIRLINER   Big Transport Overdue _ Memphis, Tenn. —Te Persons Aboard

AIRLINES PLANE WITH 10 ABOARD IS LONG OVERDUE   Wide Area of Western-Tennes: see Being Searched By Army, Civil Pilots.

BIG AIRLINER CRASHES, TEN BELIEVED DEAD   Wreckage Can Be Seen From Ait But No Sign Of Life Present

Youth Confessed Strangling Girl   Son Of University Professor Admits Slaying Girl In Car.

Admits Killing Girl, Is Claim   New Orleans Boy Held For Questioning

Veterans Give Up In Disgust   Crack Troops Bow at Least Temporarily to Determination of Rus <c<prarne

Nazis Suffer Heavily on Donets Front   Activity Subsides After Axis Is Forced to Give Up

wNazis Give Up Attempts To Take Red Izyum Positions   Russians Capture Two Villages In Drive % Taward Vita! German Defenses At Smolensk

Fingerprint Figures in Welsh Death Case   Marks Compare With Brother's

Fingerprint of Accused On Window Sill   Testimony of Police Investigator . In Welsh Case Disputed

LIST NAMES OF MEN KILLED IN AIR GRASE   Army Board to Investigate Crash

OHIOANS SPLIT ON CHINESE LAW   Praise China’s Fight But Disagree on Repeal of Exclusion Act

REP, BREHM BACKS ~ IMMIGRATION BILL  yo -: kee      Ohio Solons Praise China’s Fight Against Enemy —

FLASHES   Leased’ Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   T.aaees Atound €@ Per (Cent.

500 Bombers In Newest Attack   Bochum-Gelsenkirchen Left In Flame: U. S. Fliers Shoot Down 100 Foe Craft In Two Battles.

James Roosevelt." Is Medal Winner   Red Jacket Soldier, Listed Missing in Action, Also Makin Raid Hero

Senate Provide: For Post-War Works Projects  Senators Convene Envla Thic Marnina   Senators Convene Early This Morning As Democrats Cantinue Filihucter

UPPER HOUSE IS CONVENED AT SIX A. M.   Hot Exchanges of Personalities Feature Debate Between Embattled Forces   OLD RULE IS INVOKED

Jeffers Charges Army, Navy Interfere With Production   Views Exchanged

Army, Navy Said To Cut  Production   Jefiers Also Takes Shot At Curbs On Rubber:

Jeffers Assails Military for Production Snags   Raps ‘Army and Navy Expediters’ and ‘Capital Experts’

Jeffers Fiays Experts’ lof Army, Navy   ‘Let Men Run the Plants Who Know How,’ He Challences

JEFFERS LASHES OUT AT EXPERTS IN WASHINGTON   Charges Army and Navy Officers Are Interfering With ‘Production in War Plants.   WOULD KEEP ‘LOAFERS’ OUT OF FACTORIES   Declares He Will Oppose Further Rubber Restrictions on Civilian Population.

Jeffers Opposes Further Bans On Civilian Rubber  Would’ 'Keep The Army And Navy And Loafers  Y ee ‘any 4 \A/ .+ Ol. wba’!

JEFFERS CLAIMS ARMY, NAVY OFFICERS INTERFERE WITH PLANT PRODUCTION   Against Any Further ubber Restriction On Civilians

JEFFERS ATTACKS ARMY-NAVY GROUP   Rubber Chief Says Expedi. ters Are Curtailing Production

OFFICERS HALT WAR PRODUCTION   Rubber Czar Says “Loafers” Must Be Taken Out Of PlanéS   ABSENTEEISM BANE NELSON DECLARES

Jeffers Charges Army, Navy Officers Interfere With Plant Production   Plan to Mobilize Huge “Land Army” for Farms

Military Rapped — By Rubber Chief   Keep Army, Navy ‘Loafers Out of War Plants, He Tells Conferenre

Jeffers Attacks Military For Interference  * Voices Opposition fo  Army-Navy 'laafarc':

Jeffers Attacks Military For Interference > Voices Opposition fo Army-Navy ‘Loafers’  bi MM

CAPITOL LOAFERS HIT BY JEFFERS   Rubber Czar Cites Harm Done Production By Service “Expediters”

UIXUN WONT SEEK e!llY FURTHER OFFICE   Governor To Quit Politics, He Tells Reporters

Bomb Raids Made On Fiume By Yank Fliers   Northern Italian City Is Blasted By Liberators For First Time   OTHER NAZI-HELD POINTS ARE TARGETS

Russ Capture Smolensk Front Town  Kill 600 Germans, Hald flatne   Kill 600 Germans, Hold Gains Against Attacks _

Nazis Struck  By Russians  In Two Areas Red Army Move: Forward Near Velikie Lukt

Russ Attack German Line  Velikie Luki Area Is Active As Reds Move

Belgorod Is Evacuated By Russians   Drive on Smolensk, However, Proceeding Without Faltering

Soviets Score Advances on Central Front   ‘Russians Are on Defensive in Southern Areas

Russia Admits Belgorod Falls to Nazis   Germans Declare Donets “Advnace On 200-Mile Front

SOVIET DRIVE INTO VITEBSK IS UNCHECKED   WINTER OFFENSIVE ROARS THROUGH ELEVENTH DAY

RED FORCES GAIN IN VITEBSK DRIVE      New Breach in Nazi Lines Admitted by Ger- 

BERLIN ADMITS SETBACK WHILE M COW DISPATCHES STATE BALT ARMY BATTERS TO WITHIN 12 MIL OF FORTRESS.

SOVIETS CRACK GERMAN LINES NEAR VITEBSK   Moscow Reports Baltic Army 12 Miles From City

Belgorod Taken By Germans, Red Statement Says   Rail City North of Kha kov Captured by the Nazis

Reds Withdraw  From Belgorod   Soviets Win Vadino In Smolensk Drive: Fresh Nazis in Action

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BELGOROD WAS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS FEB. 9 IN POWERFUL WINTER DRIVE; EVACUATED SUNDAY BY RED  TROOPS.

Soviets Force. New Breach in German Lines  es V\AJ i aL °c   Advance Within 12 Miles of Nazi Held Fortress

Russians Admit Belgorod Lost   Fo Germans   Nazis Claim Upper Donets Reached on Broad Front; Russians Take Vadino

REDS FORGE NEW BREAK IN LINES   Russians Breach Nazi Defenses Before Vitebsk   PLACES CAPTURED   Moscow Tells of Exceedingly Bitter Fighting in South- — ern White Russia 

Russians F orce Nazi Lines  Before Vitebsk   Soviets Say Many Populated Places Captured

Russians Admit Belgorod Loss   Report Moré Progress Toward Smolensk

RUSSIA ADMITS EVACUATION OF IMPORTANT CITY   Belgorod Was Reported Captured By German Army Last Friday      REDS CONTINUE TO DRIVE ON SMOLENSK

heds Force New Breach  In Nazi Lines   Baltic Army Batters To Within 12 Miles Of German Fortress  ENEMY ATTACKING IN ZHLOBIN AREA  Also Mounts Offensive In Korosten Sector An] T wrewe O77 OD oy ay Lovee

Russians Admit Capture of City by German = Forces < GAINS ARE SCORED  ON CENTRAL FRONT  More Than a Dozen Vil- lages Fail to Russian Army

NEW GAP RIPPED IN GERMAN LINES BEFORE VITEBSK   Russians Slash Way to Within 12 Miles of Fortress—800 Nazis Killed in Day’s Fichtineg.   FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN ZHLOBIN AREA   Invaders Lose 56 Tanks in . Counter-Attack—Fail to Make Gains in Strugole Near Kiev.

‘Russians Evacuate  Rail City Belgorod      Germans Claim Reaching Unper Donets River And Securing Communications On  Kharkov-Orel Front

Russians Force New Breach in Line af Vitebsk   Greal Offensive Making Progress

Russians Yield  Rail City, Keep Fighting   Loss of Strategic Center Fails to Daunt Reds; Germans Continue Gaining Although Defenders Report Some Success

Nazis Make Gains Over  Wide Area  Soviets Advance On Northern End Of Long Front_

SOVIETS FORCE NEW BREACH IN GERMAN LINES   Russian Baltic Army Drives Within 12 Miles Of Vitebsk Fortress   COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED BY REDS

Nazis reach upper Donets as Russia loses Belgorod   Juggernaut rolls ahead against German held Smolensk and Brvansk

Russians Stab Nazi Lines Near Vitebsk  Baltic Army Within 12 Miles of Great Fortress

NON-FORGIVENESS PLAN BEING URGE   Majority of Committee Fav: ors Income Tax Bill, Minority Wil Report.

Committee Brings In Own Bill   Proposal To Skip Year Of Taxes Would Be Robbing Peter To Pay Paul, Report States

Committee Recommends Passage Of “Non-Forgiveness” Income Tax Bak

"NON-FORGIVE” INCOME LEVY PLAN OKAYEL   Rum! Plan Called Like “Robbing: Peter to Pay Bonus to Paul”. — Minority Report Coming 

New Tax Plan Is Reported Out   House Ways and Means Commit. tee Urges Passage of Bill— Ruml Plan Opposed

Ruml Scored On Skip-Y ear  Tax Program   It's Like Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Bonus, Say Solons

House Gets Unforgiving  Tax Program   Committee Sticks to Discount for Those With Cash on Hand

Tax Bill Report Includes Rap At Rum Plan   Described as ‘Robbing Peter to Paya Bonus to Paul’

FRILLS TO 60, WPB INDICATES   Elimination of Fancy Designs Aimed at Buth Civilian, Army Goods

WOULD TRIM FRILLS FROM GOODS TO AID MANPOWER CAMPAIGN  STANDARDIZATION OF IN ADUSTRY WOULD RELEASE MILLIONS OF WORKERS

Standardizing Most Items In US Mapped   Move Planned To Aid  Manpower Snarl

HALLANAN RAPS OIL MONOPOLY   Says OPA Regulations Force Small Men  Out Of Field

OPA OIL POLICY HIT BY HEAD OF COMPANY   Policies Of Fedsral Agency Forcing Out Small Operaters And Fosicring Monopoly

Price of Crude \ust Increase.  Producers Told   Industry Has Met Its Full Responsibilities, Pittsburgher Avers:  Flect 40 Directors

OP A Heads Oil Industry to Monopoly   HALLANAN TELLS BRADFORD OIL MEN SMALL OPERATORS ARE BEING FORCED TO SELL INTERESTS.   Production Decreases

PRIGES ROCKET   Black Market Wt Whiskey Is Of fered To Clubs, Hotels

Detroit Has ‘Black Market In Whiskies   Large Quantities There Bring 825 Ahave OPA Prive

Black Market . Dealers Offer Choice Whiskey   Senator Urges Action ‘to Stop Increased Prices

Black Market: Holds Whisky   Offers: Choice Brands At — Above-Ceilitig Prices To Night Clubs’

ORDERS WINCHELL PROBE   Stalingrad Like Hideous Dream; of Every 20 Buildings, 19 Razed.

NAZIS FAIL TO STEM ADVANCE   One wing of Russ army reported within ten miles of Salsk

Drives Against Kharkov-Rostov Push On Steadily   Nazis Fail To Halt Gigantic “ Offensive By Russian Forces In Southern Area   RED ARMY NEAR SALSK JUNCTION

British Forces In Possession of Tripoh   Gains Reported By Allied  Nations

RED ARMY Io STILL DRIVING rOW PRIZED   Moving Steadily Ahead Toward Nazi-Held Rostcv and Kharkov..   MORE TOWNS TAKEN   in One Scrap. 70) Germans Slain, Many Captured, ‘With Much Booty.

MEXICANS SEND GREETINGS TO CONGRESS   BERLIN AIRPORT BELIEVED OUT OF USE

NAZIS CLAMP ON STRICT CENSORSHIP REGARDING BOMB DAMAGE IN ‘GERMAN CAPITAL

STOP FLIGHTS   British End Berlin Air Service; Airport Blasting Seen.

AMERICANS HIT NAPLES HARBOR   33 Enemy Boats Hit or Damaged— Forces Drive Germans Back

DROP MANY BOMBS FROM HIGH LEVELS IN FEWAINUTES   American-Ground Forces Are Successful-in Driving Ger - mans From Two Places In Tunisia.   THREE SUBMARINES IN.. CLUDED IN DAMAGES   Bombers Flying at, 20,000 Feet Participate In Another Daylight ‘Raid on Various Taraets.

  Yanks Drop 200 Tons Of Bombs On Italian City: No Planes Lost   Americans Capture Two Positions In Tunisian Fighting

100 FORTRESSES DROP BOMBS ON NAPLES HARBOR   Dock Installations Hammered in Onslaught Led By Gen. Doolittle

Big Fleets of U. S. Bombers Hit Italian Port   Ground Forces Drive Nazis From Two More  Hills In Tunisia

Patton seizes 2 hills in push for junction   200 tons of explosives cascaded on port by American aerial fleet

Ships Are Damaged   ATTACKING FORCE INCLUDE] : NEARLY 100 FLYING FORTRESSES) YANKS SEIZE TWO TUNISIAN Hibs

3d. Ships in Big Italian. Harbor  Get Bomb Hits   ‘Patton Advances in Tunisia As British Prepare to Renew Battle

Italy Admits 221 Killed, 387 Hurt   100 ‘Flying Forts’ Make Largest Raid Of War on Seaport

Jo VESSELS IN NAPLES HARBOR HIT IN ASSAULT   Nearly 100 Flying  Fortresses Take Part  in Aerial Assaults Riscctes Peck a

39 Ships Sunk Or  Damaged In Attack 21 Airplanes Hit   Soviet Press Warns That Big Axis Summer Offensive May Be Brewing

American Planes Damage Italian Ships While U. S. Land Forces in Africa Take Hill Positions.

AMERICAN PLANES DAMAGE ABOUT 35 SHIPS IN HARBOR   Nearly 100 Fortresses Take Part In Heavy Attack— 27 Enemy Planes Hit On Ground

Nine Jap Ships Sunk in Air Raid   Enemy's Anchorage Was Filled With Flaming, Smoking Wrecks.   U.S. Bombers Batter With a Heavy Assault

Correspondent Tells Story Of U.S. Action In Sinking 9 Japanese Ships In Solomons   Rv LIEF ERICKSON

KARILI AT TAGK DETAILS TOLD   In Sinking of Nine Jap Ships.   ANCHORAGE JS SMASHED

REAL PICTURES OF WAR TG BE GIVE   Blood, Sweat. Tears of Con flict Provided In New News Policy.

REALISTIC NEWS POLICY GAINS PRESIDENT’S O.K,   Camouflage To Be Ripped Away To Show Blood, Sweat, Tears Of War   GLORY SIDE PASSING OUT   Public Will Get Graphic View Of Strife Raging Throughout World

[Russians Within Eight Miles Of Last Rail Exit From Crimea; 200 More Villages Recaptured

Crimean Trap Closes On Nazis   Russians Only Eight Miles From Closing Last Escape Route

‘Russ Attacking Last Rail Exi   Escape ‘Corridor Under Artillery Fire

Reds Tighten Noose About Crimean Foe   Tens Of Thousands Of Nazi Troops Face Capture.

Crimea Trap Daily Draws In Tighter   Russians Now Within 8 Miles of Last Railway Escape Route

Soviets Out To Sever Flight Route   500,000 Germans Are Facing Trap-Tf. Railway Falls

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FACE RUSSIAN TR AE   Soviets’ Fourth Ukraine ’ Army Plunges to Within Eight Miles of Crimea Rail Exit

Soviets Near Last Rail Line From Crimea   Entrapment of Vast German Force Seen as Strona Possibility

Russians Move Toward Last Railway Exit For Nazi Forces In Crimea   One Other Rail Line Cut.

Reds About To Slam Crimean Door On Nazis   Russians Surge Toward Last Railway Exit From Peninsula Trap.

Holaltaa WN DERNILMIENT   Engineer, Fireman Die After Fast ‘Pennsylvania Train Leaves Rails at Howard City

Movement of Soldiers Into Arizona to Pick Cotton Postponed by Army

 Stimson Says Reported Emergency May Not Be Sufficient.  WORK ORDER HELD BACK FOR PRESENT

SOLDIERS NOT USED   Troops Not Needed To Harvest Cetton In Arizona, Claim

U. S. Bombers Strike  at Jap Base  Munda Airfield  on New Georgia TelanA Riwctan

VJ. §. Bombers . Strike at Jap Base  ES, GORE ES eR Sie   Munda Airfield on New Georgia Island Blasted

WALLACE HITS  JONES’  POLICY’  OF RFC LOANS   NEW FEUD BREAKS OUT IN Ab.  MINISTRATION AS  VICE. PRESIDENT MARES BLIG, TERING ATTACK

Jones Accused By Wallaee   Sensational Charges Made By Vice-President

SENATE PASSES REFERENDUM ON COUNTY TERMS   Want To Extend Officials’ Legal Term In Office

Statewide Poll on Amendment to Basic Law Gets Approval   Senate Votes Bill to Submit Question at 1944 General Election

PLAN FOR PAY FOR UNDERGROUND TRAVEL REJECTED —ANTI-STRIKE AGREEMENT DEMANDED

AULING URGED UNION-OWNER OTAIKE BANE   Portal- to-Portal Allowance Nipped by Board in Case Decision.   CURRENT TRUCE WILL EXPIRE SUNDAY NIGHT

Shatter Last  Hope of Lewis For Pav Raise   ‘Order Miners and Operators  To Outlaw Strikes

60 Hun Subs Wiped Out In 90 Days   New German Weapons And Tactics Fail To Produce Results For Hitler

ENEMY SUBS _ ARE FAILING IN BLOCKADE   AVERAGE OF ABOUT 2 U-BOATS, PER MONTH ARE NOW BEING DESTROYED t BY ALLIES.

SPECIAL PICTURES FOR THE CHILDREN   Pound of Copper or Brass Needed to Pay for Admission to Show at Local Theatre.

Tentative Mine Pact Collapses   Coal ‘Headache’ Again Given To WLB

Settlement in Wage Dispute Broken Down  New Crisis Arises   New Crisis Arises as Matter Is Left in WLB Hands

Coal Dispute Conference Breaks Down   Settlement of Mine Wage Controversy  Left Again to WLB

PACT FAILS; STRIKE TRUCE NEARLY OVER   Settlement Is Left Again to War Labor Board

Seiflement in Wage Dispute Broken Down   New Crisis Arises as Matter Is Left in WLB Hands

O'Neill Notifies Board He Is Unable To Agree With Lewis  On Details.

Federal Aid Given Nursing Program  St. Vincent Unit To Shore Ranefi+

Nursing School Gets U.S. Aid  State Examination Requirements Cut

NILES PILOT TELLS OF HECTIC FLIGHT   Bombs Enemy Base, Then Fights Fire Threatening Own Ship

SEER BRIGHTER PICTURRP   Fden Promises-Shorter — War And Lasting Peace In Addressing Contnions

House Of Commons Is Told Allied Leaders Mapped Plan   Full Agreement Between All United Nations Makes Earlier Victory Over Axis Possible

COMMONS HEARS EDEN REPORT ON CONFERENCES   Foreign Secretary Says Mid: die East Meetings Will Shorten the War   SHOWS ENCOURAGEMENT AMONG ALLIED LEADERS   Cites Prospects of Enduring Big - Power Collaboration Says British Will Fight Ja. pan to Bitter End, What. ever the Cost

Eden Cheers English On War's End   House Of Commons Holds Tri-Power Mee To Hasten Victory

Eden Praises Middle East  Conferences   Foreign Secretary  Promises Commons War Will Re Shartenedc   ALOV UVLLADURA LEVIN FOR ENDURING PEACE  But Sees Great Effort Necessary for Allies Before Axis Is Beaten

Eden Says Parleys Will Shorten War   Prospects For Lasting Peace Also Are. Enhanced, Report To.Commons Sets Out

EDEN ASSERTS PARLEYS WILL SHORTEN WAR   Cautions Cheering Par. liament Against Easy Optimism

FOOD OUTPUT TO REACH NEW HIGH   WICKARD, TOURING FLOOD AREAS, SAYS FARM PRODUCTION UP

FOOD OUTPUT IN U.S. THIS YEAR TO SET RECORD   Secretary Teils Estimates After Midwestern Survey

JUNE WAS WET MONTH   Rainfall for Eastern Third of the State Was 9.18 Inches

Jehovah's Witnesses Can Distribute Handbills, Supreme Court Declares

RULE AGAINST HANDBILL ACT   Justices Give Decisions in Cases Involving Jehovah's Witnesses

Shake Output Slump—Nelson   War Isn't in the Bag. WPB Chief Savs

WPB Ask Support O!  Advertiser:   Business Men Called Or By Nelson To Hel;   Shake Off Slump h War Production

W.P.B. Chief Urges “War Message” Advertising to Speed Up Production

Atchison Man In Trouble?   Eugene H. Brading Held In Florida Gas Coupon Case

War Games Being » Held In Pacifi ic   U.S. Forees Are Brushing Up For Next Attacks

Roosevelt Asks Home Rule In Puerto Rico   Advocates. Amendment Of Law to Permit  Election of Governor

PLAN HOWE RULE FOR PUERTO RiCt   Roosevelt Asks Congress te Take Action on Island at Early Date.

Puerto Rico Home Rule Advocated   BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHC REQUESTED CONGRESS TO AMEND ORGANIC LAW OF ty ANG).   Governors Appointed

More Liberty for Caribbean Isle Advocated  Would Let People of Puerto Rico Elect Governors

2.000.000 Crowded on Island Chief Executive Advocates Home Rule for Puerto Rico

Further Data  Is Sought In  Monroe Case   Investigators To . Spend Week In Search For More Information On R Street Activities

CONTRACT PROBE 1S UNFRUITFUL   House Investigators Fail te Unearth Additional — Information After Grilling

SIFT GOES ON   Investigators Seek More  On Social Activities There

Nazi Defenses  Around Steel City Crumble   Hard Driving Russian Forces Threaten Kharkov, Ros tov, Orel.   STIFF COUNTERATTACK

German Defense Crumbling Before Another Big Base; Two Vital Points: Taken   FIERCE. RESISTANCE IN. ROSTOV.. BATTLE   Nazis Strongly Entrenched and Battling Furiously to Keep Escape Path Open

JAPS ARE IN PROCESS OF WITHDRAWAL   Forced to Shorten Lines of Supply. And  ft... lg

JAPS APPEAR 10 BE SHORTENING PACIFIC LINES   Carry Out Withdrawals From Forward Defense Pests, Is Revort

JAPS IN PROCESS OF WITHDRAWING TO SHORTER LINES   New Policy indicated By Re cent Evacuations By Enemy.

U. S. Offensive Policies, Heavy Jap Shipping ° Losses Believed Responsible

SEEK FIELDS AS SITE FOR TERRACE TEST   Plan County Contest. Davie Reports.

BEGIN GIRDING SCHEDULES 10 4B-HOUR WEEK   Have Until Jan. 1 to Make Change; 2,000 Workers Needed Here

2,000 Workers Are Needed In Local Labor Area   North Berrien, Western -Van Buren Affected By New Ruling

Americans Fight Tanks With Everything But Bare Hands   Weary Yanks Battle F or Ten Hours To Beat Off Enemy Drive In Sicily; Artillery Fires Point Blank

AMERICAN HEROES  REFUSED T0 YIELD  TO GERMAN PANZERS OUTNUMBERED YANKS  HELD WHEN LOSS WOULI HAVE RININEN INVACION

US Troops Battle Tanks with Everything But Bare Hands After 10 Hours Fight They Attack

Outnumbered Yanks Smash Attack — With Backs To Wall To Save Beachhead

Yank Bravery Proven By Sicily Fight   Battle Tanks With Everything But Hands

Yanks Fight Viciously To Smash Axis Attack In Sicily--Then Go On

Attacked on Three Sides With Backs  To Beach Americans Defeat Panzers

Eyewitness Account-- Americans Stage Terrific Battle In Central Arez

Man, Now Working, Repays County $82   Yanks Battle 10 Hours, Save Their Beachhead

Rollback End Voted By House   Labor Ultimaturr On Subsidy  lenored

House Votes  Subsidy Curh   Rules No Agency May  OTe de ce Wee ween be

House Votes End Of Food Subsidy  Program Again  Action Comes After Two Labor Leaders Demand Roll Back  SECOND REJECTION  Roosevelt Declares Congress Must Shoulde Blame for Inflation

House Orders No Payments To Cut Prices   Labor Warns Move’ Will Call for Wage Increases; Presiden’ Opposes Food Czar

HOUSE ACTS 10 KILL SUBSIDY   Union Leaders Warn Higher Wages Will Be Sought 3

Acts After Labor Leaders Call for Price Rollbacks To Avert Raise Demands

Iouse Votes To End Administrator ‘ood Subsidy Price Rollback Plan

HOUSE VOTES END OF FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN   Act After Labor Heads Make Demand for Price Slashes

HOUSE BANISHES FOOD SUBSIDIES   Labor Leaders Insist Rollback Must Come By July 15

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN DEFEATED IN THE HOUSE   Action Taken In Face Of Higher Wage Threats By  Union Leaders   JULY 15 DEADLINE IS SET BY MURRAY

House Would Kill Subsidies   Won't Approve Funds for Rolling Back Food Prices

Rollback Plan May Also Fail To Pass Senate   Decisive Vote Taken in Spite of Opposition of Labor Heads   Roosevelt Places Respon: sibility Entirely Up to Congress

‘House Votes Subsidy Out; FDR Critical      LABOR LEADERS INSIST ON PRICE ROLLBACK BY JULY 15, UNDER PENALTY OF WAGE DEMANDS,   “Congress To Blame”

HOUSE VOTES END 10 FOOD SUBSIDIES      Action Comes While Sen ate Debates Similar Meacure

HOUSE VOTES SUBSIDY END   Action Comes After Two Labor Leaders Ask Price Roilback By July 15

Lower Branch of Congress Strikes at Administration’s Price Rollback Program as Senate Debates Restrictions—Labor Leaders Warn That Workers Will Demand Higher Pay if Cost of Living Soars.

House Votes To End Program Of Food Subsidies   ‘Chief Warns That Responsibility Is Colley On Connresc

ACCUSEDKILLER SURRENDERS IX KENTUCKYHOME   Farmer-Preacher Had Barricaded Himself With Wife-and Four Chil dren All Nicht   SHOT CONTRACTOR   Taken to Hospital for Treatment for Gunshot “Wounds Suffered During Duel

GOES TO THE HOSPITAL      Farmer-Preacher Gives Himself Up After 24-Hour Gun Duel

PREACHER-FARMER DEFIES GUARDSMEN   Then Gives Self Up After Gun Duel

Barricades Self And Family In Shanty Following Killing   Police Reluctant To Fire Or Use Gas For Fear Of Injurying Children

Killer Gives Up to Posse   Preacher Kills Contractor Then Barricades Himself And Family In Shack

Allies Press After Rommel   German Master of Retreat. Retires In Good Order

YANKS- BRITISH ARE DOGGEDLY! PURSUING FOES   Units of Master of Retreat Rommel Giving Ground Only Foorby Foot Against Ageressors   NAZIS BEING BACKED INTO AVELLINO HILL   Military Spokesman Says Chances Are Many Germans Would Be Talzen  Prisoners in Sector

FLEEING FOE GIVING YANKS PLENTY ACTION   British Eighth Army Captures Entire Gargena Promotory

Yank Fifth Army Stays on Heels Of Fleeing Nazis   Rommel Fiercely Contests Every Foot Of Road in Retreat Toward Rome; British Seize Towns in Foggia Sector

Fierce Fightit Raging As Na Continue Retre   Marshal Rormmel 3 Command Of Gerr

Going Toe In Northern Italy   Germans Contesting Foot By Foot Avellino Gai ns  Reported

NAZIS RETIRE FROM NAPLES FOOT BY FOO]   ROMMEL PURSUED, PUTS UP STIFF BATTLE

tnemy Troops Stubbornly Give Ground Foot By Foot North Of Noaonles

BEATEN NAZIS gVE. GROUND FOOT BY FOOT   Brisk Battles Rage North of Naples and Avelline with Rearguards.   BIG NAPLES HOSPITAL STOREHOUSE OF. DEAD

FIERCE FIGHTING REPORTED AFTER ENEMY RETREAT   Germans’ Rearguard Putting Up Stiff Resistance North of Naples

Fighting Rages North Of Naples   Rommel Rearguard Raclete Fierrealy

Brisk Fighting Raging On The Road To Rome   Marshal Rommel In Charge Of Fleeing Germans; Airpewer Hanunering Nazi Ferces

ROMMEL DIRECTS ROUT NORTHWARD   Allies Battle Fiercely Resisting Rearguards   HITLER ORDERS   ‘Blood Wall’ Set Up in North. ern Italy; No Hint of Next Stand Made

Americans And British Face Bitter Rear-Guard Fight North Of Naples

Drive on Rome Faces Stiff Nazi Resistance   Rommel Directs Masterly Retreat From Naples Area

BRISK BATTLES RAGE AS DRIVE PUSHES NORTH   German Retreat Is Orders ly With Resistance Stiff

Brisk Fighting Rages North of Naples Area   Enemy Troops Give Ground Slowly: Resist Vicorously

Brisk Battles Refard Advance North Of Naples   Stiff Resistance Offered By Romme Rearguard Units

Promontory Captured By Eighth Army   Hard Fighting Rages As Allies Pursue ‘Rommel’s Germans

Germans Retreat   On Road to Rome   Pursuing 5th Army Said Woll Narth af NentIng

BRISK FIGHTING: : RAGES; ROMMEL DIRECTS RETREAT   Allied Spokesmen Predict Few Prisoners Will Be Taken in March Up Italian Peninsula.   BRIDGES ARE BOMBED © TO BLOCK FLIGHT   Meantime Montgomery’s Troops Plunge Forward 30 Miles, Seizing Two Island Towns.

Germans Beat Slow Retreat Toward Rome   Stiff Fighting in Progress as 5th Army Meves Forward

hry Compares Camp uito With The B-17 Variety   idier Working In e Records Unit ewport News

Nazis Fleeing Destroying Key City As Russians Keen Driving ‘Forward 

OPA Official Says 125,000,000 Ration Books Issued: Canned Goods Freeze to End Monday

FOOD RATIONING COES SMOOTHLY   About 125,000,000 Books Issued; Canned Poultry Order Amended

CANNED GOODS G0 ON SALE MONDAY   OPA OFFICIAL ESTIMATES 125 MILLION FOOD RATION BOOKS WERE ISSUED.

125 Millions Obtain Beoks   OPA Relents On Canned Turkey, Chicken; Urges Food -Budvetines:

POINT ATION DALEO oT ART MONDAY MORK   125 Million Food Ration Books Already Issued For U. S. Citizens   HOUSEWIVES ADVISED TO “BUDGET POINTS”   Careful Buying Necessary To Stretch Allotment Economists Declare

OPA SATISFIED WITH SIGN-UP ON RATIONING   125,000,000 Said to Be Processed; Certain Food Released

Lightning Drive Divides Island  Into Iwo Parts   Organized Resistance Is Shattered On Four-Fifths Of Island: Two Divisions Caught Between Allied Armies.

FOUR-FIFTHS OF ISLAND IS CHOPPED OFF      Fierce Fighting Still Rages in Front Of Catania

Seetyiahiihietehn te Aine. 2 cts SHERIDAN RESTAURANT  men. in ialimicihie tama dha

STREAM OF OIL IS GOING TO EAST VIA LONGEST PIPELINE   Final Link of $35,000,000 Line is Completed Six Months After It Was Started

JAP AIRFIELDS BOMBED AGAIN   ‘Possible Hit’ Scored on Transport, Navy Says

Yanks Attaek Jap Transport   Flying Fortresses Score *Possible Hit On Ship Off. Shortland Islands.

ae aa er a a OO  Jap Supply Lines Dealt New Blows By U. §. Bombers   Roosevelt Says Our Planes Will Attack Nips’ Home Islands

NEW BLOWS AGAINST JAP SUPPLY LINES DEALT BY AMERICA   MASSING OF JAPANESE SHIPPING AT RABAUL REPORTED GROWING

U. 5. Hits Jap Supply Lines   Americans to Strike At Jap Home Islands Constantly From Air

Yanks in More Blows to Jap Supply Lines   Attacks From Aleutians To Solomons Reported By Navy

Yank Fliers Rip Airfields In Solomons   Life Lines of Nip Forces Hit in Pacific

New American Blows Against Japs Revealer   Attacks Range From Solomons To the Aleutians.

New Blows Are Struck At Jap Supply Lines   President Promises Constant Bombing of Japanese Home Islands. °

Reds Improve Their Position  West of Kiev   Nazis Claim Capture Of Two Places: Soviet Lines Stiffened

Russian Lines Stiffen To Check German Drive  Aimed at City of Kiev

ESCANABA MAN ON TAX BOARD   C. L. LaChance Appoint. ed To Succeed Richards On Commission

LA CHANCE 15 NEW TAX COMMISSIONER   Succeeds Richards; Dr. D. C. Eisele Named to State Board.

Allies Continuing Attacks To Keep Japs Off Balance   Pound Japanese Base Closest Australia And Other Targets.

R. A. F. Plasters South Germany   Torpedo-Carrying Planes Attack Enemy Convoy Off Dutch Coast

OKLA. FLOODS, TEXAS TORNADO TAKING TOLI   Children Scattered Like Leaves as School Blown Away

MAJOR BATTLE LOOMS OVER SUBSIDIES   House Group Votes t Outlaw Payments After Dec. 31

NEW FIGHT ON SUBSIDIES PLAN SEEN BREWING   House Committee Favors Bar Alter Dec. 31; Economy Drive Progresses

NEW DEAL AND FARM BLOC SQUARE AWAY AGAIN IN HOUSE.   F. D. R. Is “Pro”   Plans to Send Food Message to House—Bloc Says Wrong  People Get Money. -

NEW DEAL AND FARMERS GIRD FOR SHOWDOWN   Ag Bloc Wins First Round As House Committee Bans Food Subsidies   MARVIN JONES SHOCKED   Passage Of Bill Seen With Likely Overriding Of Veto By FDR

"ON SUBSIDIES   BANKING COMMITTEE AR PROVES BILL PROHIB em ANY FOOD SUBSIDY AFTER JANUARY 187°

CONFERENCE OF ‘BIG THREE’ 10 AID RELATIONS      Military Intelligence Expected To Be Clarified By Meeting

3RD DELUGE IN SEVEN WEEKS WITS BERRIEN   Thousands of Dollars Dam-  age Reported Thru Fruit Belt   ROADS WASHED OUT   RAINFALL DOUBLE NORMAL FIGURE

SALVAGE ENEMY PLANES   999 prong  Aireraft Recevered From Fields in Sicily

TAKE 999 AXIS PLANES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS  eae: pe eee OFS a. burn TI

Shipyards At Naples Under Naval Attack   British Advance Along East Coast Of Sicily; Americans Consolidate Their Pascitian.

SALVAGE ENEMY PLANES   999 Enemy Aircraft Recovered From Fields in Sicily

House Okays Oi  Increase   SOLONS REFUSE TO SHIFT PRICE REINS FROM OPA TO PAW

MOUNTAIN TOP -TROINA TAKEN ~ BY AMERICANS   Peak Now In U. S. Hands Dominates Last Escape Corridor for Axis Troops,

PEAK STRONGHOLD DOMINATES ‘ESCAPE EXIT AT MT. ETNA   Adrano Expected Soon To Fall To 8th Army — U. S. Forces Mave On Btonte

Skip-a-Year Tax Pian Lambasted By LaFollette   Plan Would Raise Tay Levies on Lower Income Groups in 1943, He Says

TAX PLAN HIT BY LAFOLLETTE   Minority Report eas Little Fellow Will Squeezed

SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN HIT BY LA FOLLETTE   Committee Program Lom basted in Minority + Report -

Senator Sees Tax Hike in Skip- Year Plar   La Folleue Warns Rum! Backers Need for Funds

BLOCK-BUSTER ASSAULT MADE ON DORTMUND   Thirty Royal Air Force Rombers Lost

DORTMUND IS SHATTERED BY BLOCK-BUSTERS   RAF Follows Up Devastating Raid Made on Antwerp by Americans.

NAZI LINE GRUMBLING IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Threat to Kharkov Grows as Soviets Press Forward— Hitler’s Transportation Tied Up.   RUSSIANS GAIN ON 500-MILE FRONT   ve Still Face Strategic Rostov Across Don—Continue Sweep Toward Kerch Straits.

Smashing Blows Stagger Nazis   Reds Near Kharkov, Chief German Base

German Defense Center: Are Toppling Swiftly As Reds Roll On      AXIS LOSING MILES OF RAILWAY TRUNKS

Reds Capture Belgorod In Heavy Blow   Kharkov Trembles After Huge German Base Is Taken

SOVIET BLOWS SHAKE ENTIRE GERMAN LINE   BELGOROD, RAILWAY CENTER, LATEST BASE TO FALL

Second Nazi Base To Fall In 24. Hours   Capture of Belgorod Further Threatens Kharkov to Southwest   CITY MENACED FROM THREE SIDES

German Line'in Southern Russia fs Caying in CHIEF NAZI BASE IN FURTHER PERIL  Second Big Base Taken by the Soviets.in 48.“ _.  Houre

BELGOROD GAP       Russians Pouring Forces  Through Corridor To North   ASOUT 40 MILES AWAY   German Counter Attacks At Rostov Reported Repulsed

Entire Nazi Line In Southern Soviet Caving   Reds Capture Belgorod, Among Strongest Karkov Outer Defenses: Rostov Fight Bitter

SECOND LARGE BASE CAPTURED WITHIN 2 DAYS   Kharkov Imperiled Still Further By Victory; Nazi Lines Are Tied In Knots   3-Way Drive Begins

BELGOROD IS ONCE AGAIN IN SOVIET HANDS   Fall Of City Is Further Imperilling Chief German Base Of Kharkov.

CAPTURE OF BELGOROD IMPERILS KHAKOV, CHIEF NAZI BASE EAST OF THE DNIEPER RIVER.

‘President Declares United Nations Now Have Supreme Advantage ‘of Initiative and Are Producing ‘Important Events of War’

United Nations Hold Initiative, Says Roosevelt   Must Keep Advantage President Declares

WAR INITIATIVE HELD BY ALLIES   So Says President. Whe Warns United Nations Never to Lose Hold

PRESIDENT URGES ALLIES TO HANG ~ ON TO ‘ADVANTAGE’   Claims United’ Nations 3 Have Supreme Advantage ‘of the Initiative” and Must : Never  Beco: ‘We.

F.R. Says Allies Are Near Win   UNITED NATIONS HOLD SUPREME ADVANTAGE OF INITIATIVE: PRESIDENT

ADVANTAGE OF WAR INITIATIVE HELD BY ALLIES   ‘Roosev elt Says, In Message - to Radio Forum, United Nations Must Never Lage It

FDR Says United Nations Must Not Lose Big Advantage of Initiative

United Nations Hold Initiative, President Says in Message to Forum

United Nations Hold Advantage In Initiative, Must Keep It After War, President Declares

FOR SAYS © N. HOLD ADVANTAGE INTHEWAR   President Tells N. Y. Her ald-Tribune Forum Initiative Now Held by Allies And Mustn’t Be Lost

President Says Allies Hold Big Advantage   N. Y. Forum Hears Messages From Leaders of World

ROOSEVELT SAYS ALLIES MUST HOLD INITIATIVE IN WAR   Attributes Advances in Past Year to Keeping Enemies in Struggte on De fonsive.   “LONG STEPS FORWARD” MADE AT MOSCOW   President Asserts in Message to Forum Advances Also ' Have Been Made in Field of Relief.

Must Keep Initiative in  War Says FDR   Wallace and Willkie Speak at Final Session of New York Herald Tribune's Forum on Current Problems

Allies To Control Destiny Of World   Roosevelt, Churchill, Wallace, Eden And Willkie Give Same Opinion On Tribune Forun

Now Have Initiative   FDR Says Allies. Must Never Lose This - Supreme Advantage

Sees Initiative in United Nation  President Speaks an Current Prablems

Initiative Held By Allies Says Mr. Roosevelt   Must Keep Top Hand, President Asserts In Message

Allies Now Hold Initiative in War, Says FR.  Willkie Assails   Willkie Assails Policy of Anneasing Spain

Initiative to the  Allies, FDR Says President Gauges  War Trend in Forum Messave

FDR SENT PAPER FOR FORUM MEET   President Unable to Attend on Account of Swift Moving Events of War.

UNITED STATES HAS ADVANTAGE NOW. FDR SAYS   Message Read To New York Group Last Evening

President Says Allies Must Retain The Initiative in War and Peace

ALLIES FIRMLY HOLD INITIATIVE ROOSEVELT SAYS   Willkie and Wallace Join th Sessions of Current Problem Forum.

UNITED NATIONS HAVE THE EDGE NOW, FDR SAYS   We Must Never Lose Initia tive’, President Tells Forum

Long Steps Forward Taken At Moscow, FDR Asserts   Must Not Lose Initiative, President Says in Message to Forum; Willkie Urges Scope of Pact be Broadened

FDR SAYS ALLIES HOLD INITIATIVE   DECLARES TURNING POINT OF WAR WAS REACHED YEAR AGO

NEW TAX LAW DUE THiS = ALL   No Additional Burden Planned On Incomes, Congressmen Say

HIGHER TAXES BEING STUDIED   Leaders Say No Heavier Burdens Will Apply During This Year

Congress Will Consider Big New Tax Bill   Levies Will Not Take Ef fect until Next Year, Leaders Assert

TAX INCREASE 1S INDICATED   Congress Heads Assure No New Burden to be Put On Payers This Year

CONGRESS TO TAKE UP NEW TAX BILI      Levies Won't Take Effect This Year, Leaders  Sav

WAYS 10 BOOST WARTIME TAXES ARE CONSIDEREL   Sec. Morgenthau Confers With Congressional Leaders—New Bill May Be Written in Fall.   ADDITIONAL BURDEN THIS YEAR UNLIKELY   Roosevelt Has Asked 16 Bil. lion More Revenue, but Some Doubt This Sum Can Be Raised.

House, Senate Units Sean New Tax Pian   Initiate Study’ Of How to Raise 16 Billions

Additional Taxes Unlikely in 1943   Democratic Leaders See Raise Next Year

Solons Oppose Retroactive Tax   Doubt Congress Can Raise 16 Billion

First Full Week Of New Year Ends Under Circumstances Lending Realism To FDR’s Predictions

Interoreting The War   Japs Have Lost in Battle of Attrition in East

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   First Week Of 1943 Finds wyilies Carrying Out oosevelt Pledge

FEED SHORTAGE SERIOUS; GREEN TELLS REASON   Governor Says Condition Will  Become Worse

State’s Livestock Producers Facing Shortage of Feed   Governor Says Situation Is Serious and Will  Become Worse

Curb Written Into Vote Bill   Chavez. Seven Other Democrats Join GOP

Luftwaffe Hits Towns on. Britain’s Coast   Nazis Machine Gun,  Bomb Two Areas; RAF Blasts Europe

GERMANS RAID BRITISH TOWNS   Cause Damages, Casualties In Southeast and South Coast Districts

(iurn to page 6G, story No, 7) Workers Volunteer Work Extra Hour  ‘Labor Day Gratis —

Honors Awardec Tech Students   Convocation Held  In Homecoming _By VIRGIL MIERS

American Ace s Victim of Crash   Young Squadron Leader Killed In China

Japs Change Their Tune To  Plead For More Airplanes  Enemy Admits Allied Strength Proving Too Much Far Them in Battle For Pacific Isles

FAST ACTIO  ON TAX PLAN IS PROMISE   COMPROMISE “PAY-AS-G0O" BYSTEM AGREED UPON AT. JOINT CONFERENCE 4  TO BE APPROVED Ee

NEW PAY-GO TAX TO PASS QUICKLY   Leaders Expect FDR to Sign Compromise to Cancel 75 Pct. of One Year

SUGGEST PRIVATE BUSINESS, NOT. S, DO POSTWAR JOE   ‘Ohio, Maryland Senators Would Have President  Get Leaders Together Im ae rr

Want Private Enterprise To Find Jobs   Senators Suggest Detailed Plans Be Made for Postwar Conversion of War Industrv to Peacetime Pursuits

SENATORS SUGGEST PRIVATE BUSINESS BEAR JOBS BURDEN  SUGGEST THAT PRESIDEN

Declare Business Not Government Should Provide Jobs for Veterans

Solons OK FDR Plan   But Insist Private Business Should Do Most Toward Finding Jobs: for Returned Vets

WANT. INDUSTRY TO FING JOBS   Urge F. D. R. ‘Confer With Business On Post- War Program

Postwar Job Program Meets With Opposition   Private Enterprise Should Carry Load Believe Senators

Solons Urge Business, Not Government Find Post-War Jobs For Servicemen

Ask Businessmen ~ Handle Job Needs  Say Private Enterprise Should Have Hand

iebainiseninatianemeatiaed ieee  Jobs In Private Enterprise  Urged When Boys Come Home

Responsibility Of Private Industry In  Post-War Era Readjustment Is Stresse:

SAY INDUSTRY SHOULD. CARRY MAJOR BURDEN   Burton Radcliffe Urge FDR Confer With

URGE FDR MEET WITH BUSINESS   Solons Believe Private Concerns Should Give  Jobs To Servicemen

Uo. WILL SURPAdo SHIPBUILDING GOAL   Materials Only Bottleneck Of Program, Claim

COMPULSORY CHECK » OF SPEED URGED   Traffic Chief Wants Car Gov: ernors\Installed

 MAA AAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAL American Soldier Captures Cousin In North Africa

U.S. Private Captures His First Cousin; In German Army In Africa

THREE TRAGEDIES FATAL TO {10 ON LABOR DAY   51 DIE IN PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD WRECK, THRE! IN WRECK NEAR SYRACUSE, AND 46 PERISH IN A HOUSTON, TEXAS, HOTEL FIRE

THREE TRAGEDIES  STALK CLOSE OF ATION’S LABOR  DAY WEEK END   Two Train Wrecks and Hotel Fire Blot Record.

YORKVILLE AT TOP FOR FOREIGN BORN   Yet High School Boys Win Basketball Crown

CITY OF YORKVILLE HOLDS TWO CROWNS   Almost Half of Inhabitants Born Overseas

END OF FIGHT FOR SICILY IS IN SIGHT NOW   Dead-End for Axis Becomes Region of Slaughter

End Of Battle Of Sicily In Sight, Say Officials   Yankees By-Pass Milazzo, Reach Within 15 Mile Of Dead End. British Shove Up Coast To Point 20 Miles South Of Beleaguered City.

F. D. R., Family Exchange Yule Gifts at Hyde Park   Family Present

“AT WORK NOU "IN WRECKED ARE   Loss of. Anti-Aircraft Crews ‘Causes’ Difficult Renlarament Prohlem. -

Suggestions on Timely Topic by the County Agent  By TRAVIS B., HICKS

Gage County  Men To Army   Selective Service Office Announees List Of Inductees. Volunteers,

Issue List OF Drattee \      Announce Group Of Men To Leave Gage County In May Service Call.

ASKS REVISION   Greater Authority Is Urged For Local Draft Boards

WOULD CUT RED TAPE ON DRAFT   Gurney Favors Giving Local Boards Full Authority On Selections

De Gaulle, Giraud Name Governing Committee As  More Of Fleet Joins Allies

Fighting French Leader In North Africa To Confer With Gen. Giraud   EXPECT FORMATION OF NATIONAL GROUP

Thunderous Ovation Welcome. Gen. De Gaulle on Arrival in [Algiers for Unity Talks

DE GAULLE IN ALGIERS FOR UNITY TALKS   French Leader Is Given Ovation on His Arrival

French Leaders Meet Tomorrow   DeGaulle in Algiers For Conferences With Gen. Giraud

To Meet Gen. Giraud Today In Unity Talk   Executive Committee Named To Govern French People

Algiers Cheers For De Gaulle   Arrives for Unity Confab With Giraud

Gen. Georges Also Comes  ‘Birect from France’  And Offers His Services:

GIRAUD MEETS DEGAULLE FOR UNITY PARLEY   Union of French Fore es in War Against Nazis is Sought

DeGaulle, Giraud confer in Algiers to plan unification   Announce new executive commiltee to govern France will meet Monday

HITLER ATTEMPTS TO STIR NAZIS   Beer. Cellar ls. Scene of - Speech, Weaklings to Be Eliminated. Fuehrer Warns)

Hitler Speech  Morale Raiser   Yesterday’s Talk: Aimed At Péople; Wants’ No “. Lettine Down’

Hitler's Address Seen As Attempt To Stir People For Final Effort

HITLER TALKS IN. FERVENT TONE TO. STIR LOW MORALE        Voices His Own Usual Confit dence in Victory But Threat ens Those Who Weaken-— —Adopts Defensive Toné _..

A LAST HITLER TRY   Speech Interpreted as Boost to Sagging Morale in ~ Germany .

HITLER BLASTS TO KEEP MORALE   Attempts t to Stir U; People to Offset Bad Reverses

Speech Aimed At Home Front   Hitler’s Address Designed to Bolster Sagging Nazi Morale

NEW GAINS SCORED BY SOVIET ARMIES. IN SMASHING DRIVE   Strongly Held City Close to Latvian Border Seized by Red Forces—Elista Also Reported Cantured

SOVIET ARMY STORMS INTO VELIKIE LUKI   Germans Refuse to Lay Down Arms and Entire Garrison Is Said to Have Been Wiped Out,   BLOW TO HITLER DEFENSE SYSTEM   Capital of Kalmyck Also Falls to Russians— Threat to Enemy Grows in Caucasus.

SOVIET FORCES TAKE — -WELIKI LUKI, SMASH AHEAD IN CAUCASUS   Special Communique Announces Great Victories for Red Army; Garrison Of Nazi Strong Point Wiped Out

Red Tide Overwhelms Velikie Luki: Soviets to South Capture Elista; Sweep Eneulfs Other Key Centers

ELISTA ALSO CAPTURED IN RUSSIAN DRIVE   Refusal Of German Garrison To Lay Down Arms Results In Their Deaths.

Entire Nazi Garrison Wiped Out; Elista Also Falls To Soviets   SCORES OF VILLAGES» - REOCCUPIED BY REDS

Strong Hitler, Position  Knocked Out   Velikie Luki, 90, Miles From Latvian Border, Captured

REDS CONTINUE TO ROLL AHEAD IN OF FENSIVES   Entire German Garrison Wiped Out In Central Section; Caucasus Gateway Is Aim   Stronghold Captured

Entire German Garrison Wiped Out For Having Refused To Lay Down Their Arms.

German Invaders Falling Back Before Heavy Russian Blows In Caucasus.

ELIGTA, CAPITAL OF KALMYGK, TAKEN   New Victories Reported in Northwest, South Russia   RUSSIAN WEIGHT   Seems Directed at Salsk, Vi. tal Rail Point 100 Miles From Oity of Rostov

ANOTHER CITY TAKEN BY BIG RUSS OFFENS!   Chernyshkovsky Is in Soviet Hands; Great Booty

Elista Falls to Soviets In Drive to Rout All  Nazis From Caucasus   Two Other Offensives, in Middle Don And Southwest of Stalingrad, Stil] Are Rolling Forward, Jubilant Moscow Says

Velikie Luki Garrison Entirely Wiped Out When Germans Refuse To Lay Down Arms   MANY OTHER TOWNS FALL IN BIG DRIVES

Kalmyck Capital, Elista, Captured   Further Soviet Advance Over Frozen Steppes Menaces Salsk   Jubilant Slav Press Hails War Victories   Gen. G. Zhukov Proclaimed _ As Supreme Red Hero For Military Feata

Entire Nazi Garrison  Is Wined Out   Red Offensives on Other Fronts Continue Advances

First Witness Takes Stand In Trial Of Flynn   Movie Actor Is  Accused Of Rape

FIRST WITNESS CALLED IN TRIAL   17-Year-Old Schoolgirl And Sister Will Testify Against Screen Star

SUMMON STATE WITNESSES IN ACTOR'S TRIAL   17-year-old Betty Hansen To Tell Own Story

Calif. Calls Witnesses In Attempt To Convict Hollywood's Errol Flynn

TESTIMONY IN TRIAL BEGINS   State Calls First Witness In Flynn Morals Case

GERMANS WREST POSITIONS FROM BRITISH TROOPS   Heights West of Mateur, Won Two Days Ago, Lost to Nazis   BULLETIN

KHARKOV ALSO FACES DISASTER AS REDS ADVANCE   Glorious Day for Soviets. Rostov May Se Captured Shortly.

Kursk Fall Perils Nazi  Anchor Line  Soviets Rout or Kill Upwards of 3,000 Axis Troops — RAPID GAINS MADE  Important Advances Also Reported East of  TR nactaw   RAPID GAINS MADE   Important Advances Also Reported East of Rostov

MORE GERMAN POSITIONS AT ROSTOV TAKEN   Kursk Fall ™M arks Yesterday as Big Day for Soviet °

Flash Flood Strikes Sutton, W. Va.; 5 Deac   Seotes Of Homes In Several Comminitie: Swept Away By Cloudburst; State Highway Under Six Feet Of Water.

Allies Push Deeper In Naples Defenses   Nazi Dynamite Crews Systematically Smast Great Port; Scuttle 30 Ships In Harbor To Block Berths Along Docks

{0 To 15 Miles Taken: Corsica Battle Pressed   Docks Of Important Italian Port Set Afire By Nazis

Allies Trap Nazi Units On Corsica   Meanwhile, Soviet Forces Sweep Back ‘Into  White Russia And Germans Dynamite : Great Port Of Naples As Allies Continue To Put Pressure On Navicz

Giraud Expects All ‘German Forces on Island To Be Kifled Or Captured Shortly

Trap Nazis At Corsica: Allies Gain   German Destruction Of City Of Naples Continues

Nazi Units Wrecking Naples Port   Allied Forces Advance 10 to 15 Miles in Italv

Allies Throw Circle Around Corsica Isle   Cut Off German Troops Fleeing From French, Am.erican Troops.   CLOSE. ON Last PORT

Are Retreating From French and American Soldiers Closing in on Bastia, Last Enemy Seaport.   ALLIED WARSHIPS AIDED IN ASSAULT   Gen. Henri Giraud Predicts That All Germans Would Be Ousted or Killed on Is land in 10 to 15 Days.

Advancing Allies Observe Further Naples Wreckage   10 To 15 Mile Gains Are Made; Foe Scuttles 30 Ships In Harbor

Allied Armies  Advance On Flaming Port   Yankees, French Round Up Nazis On Corsica

Naples Toftters as Ring Closes   FRENCH, AMERICAN RANGERS PRESS GERMANS BACK FARTHER INTO NORTHEASTERN CORSICA; AIRMEN SHATTER SHIPS OF ESCAPING NAZIS

ESCAPE ROUTE OF NAZIS CUT OFF IN CORSICA   Air, Land and Sea Pressure Placed on Germans in Island

Combined © Assaults On Islands   Germans Are Driven Into Corner, Roads of Retreat Being Blasted

Nazis Continue Wholesale Wrecking of Naples as Americans, Brilish Force Outposts   SCUTTLE 30 SHIPS   Block Practically Every Berth in Harbor in Effort to Make It Unusable to Allies

FORCE NAZIS INTO CORNER IN CORSICA   Blockade on Italian Island Made Effective by Combined Attacks.   Allies Are Advancing Closer Toward Naples

Escape Port ~ On Island Is Closed Off   Germans Aiming to Destroy Naples Completely Before Retreating 

Escape Of Nazis Is Cut Off: Ruin In Naples Grows   Germans Scuttle 30 Ships, Block Docks; Allies Score Gains Of 10 To 15 Miles

ENEMY FORGES CUT OFF FROM ESCAPE ROUTE   Yank Army, Meanwhile, Ad vances 10 to 15 Miles To Menace Naples

Allies Nearer to Shattered Naples   Gains 1 in Central Italy Force  e Nazi Lines   Northward   SMOKE PALL ON CITY   The Enemy Is Engaged in Wrecking the Great West Coast Port

Blockade Of Corsica Cuts Off Germans   Fleeing Foe Pinned At Bastia By Allied Sea, Land. Air Forces.

THEIR ESCAPE IS CUT OFF BY BLOCKADE   French and Yanks Press Troops Toward Bastia, Their Last Seaport, Now Commanded by Allied Sea and Air Power.

Mediterranean Island _ Surrounded and Report Says Germans Will Not Hold Out Long.   AXIS POSITIONS IN FRANCE BOMBED HARD

NAZIS: ESCAPE ROAD BLOCKED   Advances Are Being Made Against Enemy on ftatian Mainland.   GERMANS FIGHTING HARD

AIR-SEA BLOCKADE TRAPS NAZI TROOPS FLEEING CORSICA  ~ FRENCH AND AMERICANS CLOSING IN ON BASTIA, GERMAN’S LAST SEAPORT

Sea andAir Blockade Is Clamped   Allied Troops Advance 10 to 15 Miles in Italy.

Pacific Battle Shaping Up  as Stalemate  United States and Japs Facing Powerful Obstacles

JOHN H. WINTERS  NAMED AS DIRECTOR  PUBLIC WELFARE AMARILLO BUSINESSMAN  WILL SUCCEED J, S, MURCHISON MONDAY

CTheDAIY uit WASHINGTON MERRY - Wd ROUND ./ ‘Ad en:  By DREW PEARSON

D. A. Gordon, 40. Dies In Hospital Was Prominent In State  Republican Politics

Donald Gordon, La Crosse, Dies   Prominent GOP Leader Was Active in Party

1.5. FIFTH ARMY; GAINING GROUND AROUND HAPLES   Beats Down Strong Germar Resistance to Establish Bridgehead,

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY AND OTHER ALLIED FORCES BEAT DOWN GERMAN RESISTANCE   Russians Advance Toward Kiev

5. FFT ARMY, GAMING GROUND AROUND NAPLES   Beats Down Strong Germar Resistance to Establish Bridgehead. .

THREE OF TEN ENEMY TROOP CARIERS HIT   Allied Bombing Planes Rain Loads on Warships Off. New Guinea Coast,   KISKA, NEW GEORGIA — ASSAULTS DISCLOSED

Enemy Papuan  Stand Closed   Two Big Japanese Transports Sunk. 18 Fighter Planes Destroyed.

Buna Area Campaign Completed   MacArthur Says Jap Army: of 15,000 Has Been ‘Annihilated; Enemy Convoy Sunk

CLAIM VIRTUAL COMPLETION OF PAPUAN ACTION   Planes Smash Convoy; Pound Jap Bases on Pacific Fronts

[ALLIED WARPLANES BLAST REMNANTS OF ENEMY CORVOY   U. S. Air Force Pounds Nipponese Bases At Kiska, Munda

TWO LARGE SHIPS ARE SENT DOWR   Allied Planes Continue Attacks In New Guinea Area

L TRANSPORT ALREADY. OUNK,  THIRD OAVAGED   Papuan Campaign Virtually Completed With Japan’s — Forces Annihilated

Annihilate Jap Army In Papua   Bitter Campaign im New Guinea. Is Virtually Cemplete; Allied Planes Smash at Remnants of Jap Convey

Kiska In North, Munda In South Again Targets For Army Bomber Raids

MacArthur Winds Up Biter Papuan Battle With Losses To The Japs Of 15,000 Mea, Closing With Great Naval Fight Lact Niekt

Allies Exact Heavy Toll  in Jap Armour   Enemy Lose Planes, Ships, Men as MacArthur Continues Pounding

Enveloped Foe Face ‘Certain’ Defeat In Papua   Annihilation Is Near For Remnant Of 15,000 Japanese; New Guine: Allies Sink 2 Transports, Hit 

FACE CERTAIN DEFEAT IN TRAP   Warplanes Blast at Remnants of Convoy Off New Guinea North Coast

Campaign on New Guinea Peninsula Nearly Completed   Two Heavily Loaded Jap Troop Transports Are Sunk Near Lae

Jap Army in New Guinea Annihilated   __ 15,000 Troops Smashed; Allied Warplanes Blast at Remnants of Nipponese Reinforcements Off North Coast.

MacArthur Says Jap Ouster at Papuan Finished   fapual Pilisiicu  Wipe Out Army That Once Had 15,000 Men; Convoy Smashed  FOE TROOPS DROWN  Allied Airmen Continue  Assault on Jap Akyab  Lae Bases

Allied Planes Batter Nips Pacific Bases   Third Transport From Convoy Damaged; 18 Plane: Also Lost By Japs

Allies Blast The  Japanese Forces   General MacArthur Reports , Annihilation of Enemy Army   SMASH A JAP CONVOY   Two Big Transports Are Sunk and a Third One + Was Damaged

MacArthur Says Jap Ouster at Papuan Finished   Wipe Out Army That Once Had 15,000 Men; Convoy Smashed  FOE TROOPS DROWN  Allied Airmen Continue Assault on Jap Akyab Lae Bases

PAPUAN CAMPAIGN IN NEW GUINEA BRINGS ANNIHILATION JAPS  REMNANTS OF TEN-SHIP ENEMY CONVOY STILL BEING ATTACKED

Finish Off  Japanese In New Guinea   Army Once 15,000 Strong Completely Annihilated And Jap Convoy Damaged

Papuan Victory Complete, Says Gen. MacArthur   Meanwhile, Allied Airmen Batter Remnant:  Of Jan Convov.

ALLIES CAPTURE MORE POSITIONS AROUND BIZERTE   Battle for Key Naval Base Expected to Develop Swiftiy

ALLIES SWEEP NEW AREAS NEAR PORT   British First Army Takes Last Hill Before Tunis’ Plains

Allied Forces Lay Foundation ForBizerte Siege   American And British Troops Advance Closer To Great Tunisian Port   GAINS ALSO MADE IN TUNIS SECTOR  Fay ee si,

AMERICANS AND BRITISH SCORE NEW ADVANCES   First Army Storms Last Hill Barrier Before City Of Tunis   YANKS NEAR FERRYVILLE   Tojo Predicts Hard Blows Against Allies, Answered By Bombs

Designed To Crush Two  Axis Centers   American and British Join in Drive

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   German Decision To Try Lower Dnieper Stand Proved Undoing

HIGH MASS — ci Rene at            Mrs. Theresia Kleuber, Na' tive of Germany, Lived ' Here Ten Years -

Mrs. Theresia sia Kleuber,. Na“tive of Germany, Lived Here Ten Years

EDGING TO SMOLENSK   German Dive-Bombers Fill Skies To Strike ® At Stubborn Foe

RUSSIANS BEAT BACK ASSAULTS ON TRUNK LINE   7,000 Germans Killed In Attempts To Take Railroad North Of Zhizdra   Advance On Smolensk

NAZIS BEATEN BACK IN FOUR DAYS BATTLE   Red Armies Advance To   Within 32 Miles Cf Smolensk; Report Successes Above Kharkov.   Reds Advance In Caucasus

Reds Beal Back Strong Nazi Force in North  Cawial Curccraceae an   Soviet Successes on Bloody Belgorod Front Above Kharkov

erman Forces In hizdra Area Are Defeated By Reds   Moscow Communique Admits Germans Cross Northern Donets River, But Were Defeated @ And Much War Material Destroyed Or Taken

Nazis Lose 7,000 Men In 4 Days   Germans Attacking Moscow-Bryansk Rail Line Stopped

7,000 GERMANS ARE KILLED IN FUTILE ATTACK   Many Prisoners And Much Equipment Captured By  Russian Farces   FIGHTING HEAVY IN SOUTHERN SECTOR

GERMANS LOSE 1,000 MEN IN FIERCE BATTLE   Reds Report More Towns Captured In Their Offensive  Toward Smolensk.

NAZIS ATTACK RED RAILWAY, 7,000 KILLED   RUSSIANS CONTINUE VICTORIOUS PUSH TO SMOLENSK

Nazis Beaten Back Bv Reds   7,000 Claimed Killed In Violent Four-Day Battle

REDS KILL 7,000 NAZIS IN BATTLE IN BRYANSK AREA   Large Quantity of Equipment Falls to Russians in Four Days of Savage Fighting.   SMOLENSK OFFENSIVE CONTINUES TO ROLL ON   Stalin’s Troops Seize Additional Towns and Threaten to Flank Enemy at Yartsevo.

Report 7.000 Germans Killed in 4-Day Battle; Nazis Tell Different Story

. Yes, We Have No Frijoles California Senoras Perplexed By Order Banning Frijoles   Idea Of ‘Freezing’ Beans Sounds Odd Te Them; With Meat Gone, Eating Is Bad

Subsidies Debate Opens Thursday   No Compromise See: ' On Controversy

SOLONS BATTLE OVER SUBSIDIES   No Compromise Sighted; House Debate Will Start Thursday

TOKYO RADIO BELITTLES U, S. PLANE VICTORY   Diagnose Jap Attack At Guadalcanal As Attempt To Forestall Thrust By Allies

Arms Blast Fatal to 24   Pavlograd Rail Junction Captured by Red Army   Surging Russian Forces. Are-Now Within 34. Miles of German Lines-Along Dnieper.

Russians Grah Ukrainian Rail Junction   Other Units Smash Germans Past Recaptured Bryansk

Pavlograd Is Captured By Russians      Soviets Move to Within 34 Miles Of River Center

Driver, Assistant Give First Attention To Tires On Burning Truck

MEAT COSTS DROP MONDAY   Reductions, Averaging Ter Per Cent, Will Conform To OPA Roll Back

MEAT PRIGES IN —QHIOTO BE Gl   Ten Per Cent Reduction To Become Effective Next Monday

CUT IN MEAT PRICES TO START JUNE 21   Cured, Processed Pork Not Included Until July 5

REDUCED MEAT PRICES MONDAY   IPA Schedule Averages 10 Pct. Lower Than Retail Now

PRIORITY EXPERT WILL VISIT CITY   Roger P.. Meyers of WPB ill Be in Lawrence, December 9     AT C. OF C. OFFICE

PRIORITY EXPERT WILL VISIT CITY   Roger P.. Meyers of WPB  Will Be in Lawrence,  December 9

MATCH TOSSED IN PAIL OF GASOLINE CAUSES TRAGEDY   Seven Aluminum Workers Among Victims of Explosion Near Massena Late  Last Night.

EIGHT DEAD WHEN MATCH [S TOSSED INTO FUEL PAL   Seven War Workers and One Other Trapped Jn Biazing Store.”

Record Air Sweeps Made In South Seas   Japanese Government Warns People U. S. Has Launched Mighty Counter-Offensiye; ~ Americans Drive On In Africa.

Capture Of  Velikie Luki Seen Threat To Smolensk   German Positions At Leningrad May Also Be Affected; Nazis

~ CAPTURE OF CITY SIGNALS IMPORTANT RED VICTORY — & ON: CENTRAL BATTLE FRONT   Invaders Eastern Front From Baltic to Caucasus Endangered by Red Successes. Germans Show No Signs of Decisive Counter Action

Elista Also Taken As Russians Mark Up Major Victory Of Winter Struggle

Russians Take Velikie Luki In Major Victory   Main Nazi Central Front Periled As Berlin Admits Loss Of Elista, Soviets Push On South Toward Caucasus

AUSOIANG WIN MAJOR BATTLE   Main German Line of Defenses in Central Area Endangered.   'SRONG RED OFFENSIVE

‘VELIKIE LUKI LOOKS UP AGAIN TO RUSSIAN FLAG.   Reds Control Approaches South © OF Stalingrad

Main Nazi Defense Lines Endangered   Recapture of German Strong Point Is Made After a Bitter Siege in Which Fortifications Reduced.   Germans Show No Sign of Offensive Against Russia in Central Area

Garrison Resists to Last Man Seizure of Rail Junction Dominates Bie Area

‘Velikie Luki And Elista in Hands of Russ   Entire Garrison Wiped Out Moscow Reports; Germans  Deny Velikie’s Fall

RUSSIANS TAKE 2 MAJOR POINTS, DRIVE CONTINUES   GERMAN GARRISON AT VELIKIE LUKI ‘WIPED OUT’

CAPTURE OF MAJOR  SOVIET OBJECTIVES —  ANNOUNCED TODAY  _ VELIKIE LUKI AND ELIST/ 900 MILES APART,  “Warr TA DEnAC

Dispute Over Who HoldsStrongpoint   Russians Announce Capture of Velikie Luki, Nazis ‘Deny It   DETAILS OF: CAPTURE   South of Stalingrad, Red - Army Gains ‘in the ' Caucasus

Red Flag Flies Over Rail City   Fall of Velikie Luki Breaches Center Of Axis Line, Menaces Armies From Baltic To Caucasus; Kalmyck City Coptured

Red Flag Of Soviets Flies Over Ancient Town To Signal Triumph On Central Front—Possession Of Strategic Area Gained After Bitter Siege—Main Axis Defenses In Central Sector And Possibly Entire Eastern Front Reported Placed In Danger

Nazis Lose Velikie Luki Stronghold After Bitter Siege  GAIN AT STALINGRAD Large Quantities Arms,  Materials Seized By Soviets

Over60,000 German Troops Check Allied Drive Against Rome   Allied Air Forces Bomb Noszi Airfield in Greece From Bases in Italy for The First Time

LABOR SHORTAGE IN WAR PLANTS   West Coast Plane Factories Losing Employes Faster  Than They Are Hired

Airplane Plants Short Of Help, Says WPB Report   Army Cancels War Contracts

AIR PLANTS ON WEST COAST SHORT OF HELP   Workers Leaving Jobs Total Over Number Hired

Heavy Air Raid Made (n Nazis In Athens Area   More Than 300 Bombers In Airfieid And Shipping Attacks In Greece

‘Western Penna. Pleasure Driving Ban May Be Lifted  Senator Davis Announces

HOPE FOR RELIEF ~ FROM GAS RULING   Senator Davis This. Area May Removed from Restricted Area.   POLICY VIEWED “SHORT SIGHTED’

Will Lift Ban Davis Thinks  Expects Section to Be Moved Out of  Bus. Al

PLANS ARE ‘UNDER WAY   ovements Are Executed to Force Japs Back Toword Tokyo at Proper  . Time.

Wallace To Speak On Postwar Plan   Probably Will Talk From The Midwest

B FIGHTING SHIPS LAUNCHED INU.   ix. Come Off West Coast Yard Ways; Destroyers Included

Three Officials, Pro- Vichy, Are Discharged   New Moves in Africa Benefit Allies; All French May Unite

At Point Of Death   (zen. Giraud May Oust Three Pro-Vichy French Leaders in North Africa

French Fleet Units Sought   3 North .Africa- Leaders May Be Ousted To Get Collaboration

Pro- Vichy Offidals in North Africa re Expected to Be Ousted by Giraud

Three Officials, Pro-Vichy, Are Discharged  New Moves in Africa Benefit Allies;  All Seen BA wus iles:éa

GIRAUD EXPECTED TO QUST VIGHYITES   Important French African Leaders Slated to Go; Aged Marshal Petain Ill, Reported to Be Dying

REDS CAPTURE ESCAPE ROUTE   Germans Fight Desperately With Kharkov Nearly Encircled

Stab Deeper Into Mount Etna Line   Americans and Canadiens Push From the West in.  Sicily:   MAIN STRUGGLE IS ON   U. S. Forces Carry Out Or: ders to. Keep “Striking”  . at Weak Points

With Canadians, Drive Deeper into’ Central and Right Flanks of Toltering Mt. Etna Line :   AGIRA CAPTURED   U.S. Troops Reporied Battering a! Main Defenses of San Stafano— Raids on Italy Renewed

Battle For Sicily Nearing Clima;   Hard Hitting Allied Forces Threaten Wavering  Nazi Defenses By Driving Through On Cen tral And Risht Flanks

ALLIES DRIVE DEEPER INTO NAZI FLANK   German Lines Are Wavering in Intense Fights in  Mt. Etna Area.   Whirlwind Assault Carries for 20 Miles

lies Make g Dent in xis Line   H-Out Assault nder Way To ‘epture island

Yanks, Canadians Both Dig Deeper Into Axis Flanks   ’ Threaten To Trap Enemy At Catania Or Force General Retreat To Messina

AIR ATTACKS MORE FURIOUS ON MAINLANI   Nazis Faced With Being Trapped Or With General Rout in Direction of Messina Port,

Yanks Threaten To Trap Nazis Around Catania   Storm Through Breach In Enemy’s Flank; Canadians Push On.

Drive Deeper Into German Fina Lines   Climactic Struggle Under Way in Sicily; Americans Scale High Ridges   CANADIANS FACE BITTER STRUGGLE   Both Armies Are Exploiting Gains, Advancing Despite Desperate Opposition

Germans BackUp 20Miles In Two Days Before U. S. Whirlwind AttackOnLine

YANK, CANADIAN » ARMIES BATTER NAZI ETNA LINE   American Drive Pushes Germans Back 20 Miles In Sicilian Fight

ALLIED FORCES IN DEEPER DRIVE INTO NAZI MT, ETNA LINE  AMERICAN ARMY DRIVE

Allied Planes Renew Blows Against Italy   Yanks Storm Breach In ‘Coffin Corner’ Of Sicily; Threaten To Trap Nazis At Catania

‘American and Canadian Troops Drive Into German Flank, Bombing Of Italian Mainland Is Resumed

DIVE DEEPER INTO ~ THE CENTRAL AND RIGHT NAZI FLANK   Germans Are Driving Desperately to Rapair Their Line It Is Announced.   STRONG OPPOSITION   The United States Army Front Has Been Advanced In Several Places.

Allies Drive Toward Messina Thru Breach   Flying Forts Lead Allied Airforces In Blast Of Southern Italian Airfields In Conjunction With Concerted Land Drive.

ALLIES DRIVING DEEP IN NAZIS MT. ETNA LINE   Planes Strike Heavily at Axis in Messina and Points in Italy

Whirlwind U.S. Assault DrivesEnemy  Back 20 Mis.   . yank Seventh Army Exploits Breakthrough. Southern Italian Bases Pounded From Air

ALLIES BREACH AXIS WAVERING MT. ETNA LINE   Whirlwind American Assault Drives Germans Back 20 Miles In Two Days   CATANIA BASE THREATENED   Enemy Forces Face Trap Or Hasty Retreat Northward To Messina

Allies Drive Deep Into Sicily Lines:   Whirlwind Assault by American Troops Threatens to Trap Germans Around Catanic

Germans Driven Back 20 Miles In Last 2 Days   Face Entrapment At Catania or Retreat to Entrapment at Messina. Bitter Struggle Marks Drive.

Nazis Facing Trap Threat   Whirlwind American Attack Drives Germans 20 Miles in Two Days

Allies Cut Deeper Into  Nazi Flank   Mt. Etna Line Menaced By Onrushing Yanks And Canadians

Mt. Etna Line Is Breached; Nazis Face Catania Tray   Bombers Pound Airport: Near Rome And Naples Ships Shell Mainland

WAVERING NAZI NT, BTNA LINE KNIFED DEEPER   American and Canadian Troops Drive into Central and Right Fianks of Sicity Enemies   HUNS DRIVEN BACK ABOUT 20 MILES   British Broadcast Says U.  S. Troops Already “Battering Main Enemy Defenses At San Stefano

MT. ETNA LINE WAVERS BEFORE ALLIED ATTACK   GERMANS AT CATANIA FACE TRAP AS YANKS AND CANADIANS GAIN

ALLIES DRIVE DEEPER 7 AXIS FLANKS        American, Canadian Troops  Make Breach In German's —  Wavering Mt. Etna — Line   NICOSIA IS CAPTURED.

Germans Battle To Repair Breach In Mt. Etna Line   Nazis in Danger of Being Trapped at Besieged Catania

Americans Threaten To Trap Axis Forces Fighting At Catania   Defenders Strive to Plug Breach In Line; Battle For Island Seen Entering Final Stage

ALLIES SMASH INTO ETNA LINE   American Assault Drive: Germans Back’ 20 Miles In Two Days.   ‘CANADIANS ADVANCING

ALLIES ORWE. DEEP WEDGES WV NAZI LIN   Enemy’s Mt. Etna Front Wavers Under New Pincer Attack.   PATTON COLUMNS ARE NOW BEYOND NICOSIA

AXIS ARE THREATENEL BY ALLIED PHISH   Reich Desperately Trying To Repair Breach In Lines

Point Rationing Goes into Effect In U.S. Monday   Black Markets of Meat to Be Hit

BLACK MARKET CRACKDOWN SET   Point Ration System Effective Monday

CRACKDOWN ON BLACK MARKET   Brown Pians To Open Crusade With Rationing.

“RATIONING: PLAN BEGINS   Authorities to Crack Down on’ Black Blea: : ket int Meat.

Black Markets in Meat Under Fire   New Crackdown is  Pledged by Brown

The War Today  se Giraud’s Prediction On Tunisian Campaign Appears Reasonable.

GIRAUD PREDICTS END OF BOSCH IN AFRICA IN MAY   Allied Forces Have Been Doing Workman Like Job in Driving Wedges Into Enemy Defenses.

Allies Must Invade Soon if Advantage Is Taken * Favorable Weather

The War Today— Mackenzie Says Outcome Of African War No Longer In Doubt For Allies

NAZIS FIGHTING DELAYING BATTLE   Gen. Giraud Sees End of Tunisian War In May, Hitler In 1944

RECOGNITION 1d BAUOGLIS WONT PULL BY Uo   United Nations Likely tc Withhold Diplomatic Recognition.

NO DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION ~BIVEN BADOGLIO GOVERNMEN’   ITALIANS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO AID ALLIED CAUSE —DIPLOMATIC STATUS NOT CHANGED

Italy's Declaration Of War Against Germany Will Not Lead To American Recognition Of Badoglio’s Government

Kharkov In Ruins, Population Starved After 16 Months of German Nazi Rule

Liberated Kharkov, Once City of Million, Now Has 300,000 Starving Residents

KHARKOV FOUND IN STARVATION, CITY IN RUINS   Mass Murders, Hangings Reported; 110,000 Made Slaves

Nazis Leave Kharkov Devastated, People Starving, Thousands Slain

161 BILLION MARK PASSED IN TOTAL OF U.S. PUBLIC DEBT   First Quarter of New Fiscal  Year Shows Boest In } War Cost

Alumni Research Unit Charged as ‘Vicious Trust’   Vitamin D Price ‘Extortionate,’ Senators Told

Monopolistic Control of Vitami-. Products Charged by Government to Wis onsin Group -

CHAPLIN FACES QUIZ BY OPA   Wedding Trip Stir: Several Questions

IN. C. Joins In Appeal To Get   eo Ceiling On Tobacco Increased   S. C. Leaf Interests Take Fight To OPA And To President Roosevelt

S. C. TOBACCO GROWERS WANT (CEILING LIFTED   North and South Carolina Governors Wire  Protests to CCC  \

BRITISH BOMBERS  OVER BERLIN AND MILAN FOR THIRD RAID IN 72 HOURS   Italian Industrial City Becoming Second Hamburg; Populace. Bitter Toward Badoglio Re-

SUBTERFUGE SEEN IN DRAFT THREAT   SENATOR SAYS F.D.R. OFFERED IT AS REASON FOR VETOING STRIKE BILL,

Allied Planes Batter Jap Held Bases   Raids Continued on Gasmata, MacArthur Reveal:

Army, Navy May  Return Surplus  Of Canned Goods 30,000,000 Cases  Excess Supplies

BRICKE  R WILL BE CANDIDATE   Admits ‘Chance’ Tc Run Only Obstacle

Bricker Will Run ‘If Given Chance’   Ohio Governor Speaks in Dakota

HURL JAPANESE BACK IN CHINA   Nipponese Started up Yangtze March 8, Now in Full Retreat

Repatriates Change Ships  Tomor row   Americans on Gripsholm Expected Home by Christmas

1,200 PRISONERS AWAITUS.STEAMER      Wait On Portuguese ‘India Docks For Transfer To Exchange Steamer

Liberator Crews Gave Lives for Country in Raid   Dived Big Planes Into Axis Targets

Vinson Rejects — Proposed Boost In Price of Oi   Increase of 35 Cents Requested by Ickes _ Turned Down

Vinson Rejects Increase in Price of Crude   Declares 35-Cent Rise Would Be Half Billion Annually, Tells Ickes To Map Other Plan

rhea Killed 14 Injured in Three-Way Crash   INCREASE IN PRICE OF OIL IS DENIED

Vinson Rejects  35-Cent Oil Hike   Plan for Assisting Wildcatters Sought

Vinson Rejects Proposal For 39-Cent Crude Price Boost as Urged By Ickes

Vinson Rejects  Crude Oil Hike   ickes Directed to Plan Other Meacurec

Invasion Craft Given Priority   Gel Right of Way In War Programs

INVASION GRAFT GIVEN PRIORITY   FOUR THOUSAND CONTRAC.TORS TO TURN OVER LANDING SHIPS FOR U. 8S.

RUGUIANG GIVEN bOO0 AIRPLANES   Three Billion Dollars In Lend-Lease Shipments  Sent To Our Ally

THREE BILLIONS IN LEND-LEASE GOODS 10 RUSS   ALMOST TWO BILLION DOL LARS OF THIS WAS IN MILE TARY SUPPLIES FOR THE RED ARMY.   HALF-BILLION WAS IN FOOD PRODUCTS   Russia Has Received 6,500 Planes, 125,000 Machine Guns, 3,000 Tanks, 146,000 Trucks, and 25,000 Jeeps from U. 8.

RUSSIA'S MATERIAL LEND-LEASE TOLD   Soviet Union Has Mors Than Three Billion Dollars’ Worth.

War Plant Town Hit by Floods   1000 Left Homeless  By Swollen Stream

FLOOD HAMPERS 2 WAR PLANTS   Crest Of Highwater In Ohio Reaches Point Pleasant; 1,000 Homeless

Flood Losses In East ToBeHigh   But Worst May Be Over Soon; Many Homeless

Point Pleasant Flood Waters Fight Feet Deep   Damage of $1,500,000 Foreseen in Low Areas Along Rampaging Ohio

Pt. Pleasant Inundated; SFt.of Water   CYS  SOUTHERN WEST VIRGIINITA TOWN FEELS BRUNT OF FLOOD WATERS SWELPIING DOWN OHIO WIIVER.   One Man Injured

BOUM TOWN BEARS BRUNT OF FLOOD   HALF OF POINT PLEASANT, W. VA, IS UNDER EIGHT FEET OF WATER.

Factory Town Takes Full Shock oi Flood  Ohio Starts Falling in Northern  Wrast Vircinie

WAR FACTORY TOWN HIT BY HIGH WATERS   Point Pleasant Takes Full Shock of Ohio River Fland

WAR FACTORY TOWN HIT BY HIGH WATERS   Point Pleasant Takes Full Shock of Ohio River Eland   MANY HOMELESS IN THE FLOODED AREA   River at Wheeling Dropping After Crest of 515 Feet

Point Pleasant Half Inundated, Awaiting Crest   Ohio Expected to Start Falling There Today; Flood Drives 1,000 . From Homes   Northern West Virginia Towns Start ‘Mop Up’   River Rising at Huntington But Wall Meeting First Test Successfully

Flood Losses Mount Into Millions      War Factories Forced To Close By Water, No Workers

CANNED MILK TO RATION LIST   Tall Can to Require 1 Point; OPA Acts to Conserve Supply

OPA Rations Canned Milk   Acts Suddenly to Conserve Supply for Babies; Points Set

Oopnese Price Rel!i-Back   More Gas for Parmers   OPA Rations Canned Milk; One Red Coupon Per Pound

Rationing Of Canned Milk Begins Today   No Additional Points Allowed

Canned Milk Now Under Rationing  Product ts Added to Meat Program, But No New Points Given

CANN OH me   OPA to Conserve Limited Supplies for Infant Feeding

CANNED MILK IS ON RATION LISI   OPA Makes Move to Save Supply For Babies, Persons On Special Diets.

How Will Army Take Over Mines?   War Department Has Nothing to Say on Matter

Red Retreat West of Kiey  Continues   Fifth Army in Italy Pierces ‘Winter Line? In Steady Advance  CANADIANS STRIKE

Enemy Winter Line in Italy Smashed   Russians Capture Ukrainian City of Znamenka

HARD ROAD AHEAD  ALLIED LEADER SAYS DEFEAT OF JAPAN MEANS SOLVING OF MANY PROBLEMS.

WHAT TO DO WITH DEFEATED JAPAN MAY BE ONE. BIG THINGS POSTWAR WORLD CALLED ON FACE

 The War Today— Gatch’ s Demand For Complete Ruin ‘Of Tokyo Raises Public Qestion

‘SCAB REDUCES _ GRAIN YIELDS THROUGHOUT OHIC   Farmers Warned Not To_ Feed Scabby Grain “To Hogs And Horses

SCAB WILL REDUCE GRAIN YIELDS   Ohio Farmers Warned Not to Feed Scabby Barley To Stock But Can Feed Infected Wheat

F lood Waters Receding In Eestern States  Property Damag Heavy; Workmer  whe —i_ ae =e

MAJOR FLOOD THREAT EASED IN SOME AREAS   Floodwaters From Upper Ohio River Receding In Ohio And Kentucky.

CHIEFS PLAN FINAL DEFEAT OF GERMANY   Washington Reports Say FDR Churchhill Weigh Post-War Treatment of Foe.   NORWAY INVASION DUE   Far East Discussions Look to Offensive Against Burma. Belief.

"PASSED AY, AWAY ~— TN NEW YORK      Former Concord Resident Buried in Sleepy Hol: low Cemetery

DEFECTIVE STEEL DELIVERIES MAY GET INTO COURTS   Truman to Turn Records af - Carnegie-Iilinois Deal Over - to Justice Dent.

STEEL PROBE UNDERWAY AS OUTPUT DOWN   Records Will Be Turned Over to Justice Department

MAY PROSECUTE STEEL OFFICIALS   fruman Turns Evidence of False Stitements Over To Justice Department

1 FIRMS CITED FOR AID IN WAR ~ BOND CAMPAIGN   Ten Per Cent Certificates _ Awarded by the Treas-  ury Department.   LOCAL DRIVE SUCCESS   Merle DeF ord, Ten Per Cent _Chairman, Distributing . Certificates. .

aI FIRMS CITED FOR AUD IN WAR BOND GANIPAIGK   Ten Per Cent Certificates Awarded by the Treasury Department.   LOCAL DRIVE SUCCESS   Merle DeFord, Ten Per Cent Chairman, Distributing Certificates.

NAZI COLU RAKED ONLY 35 MILES TO EAS)   American Air Pressure Increases On Foe’s Tunisia Bases

AIRMEN HiT AXIS ARMIES INN. AFRICA   Rommel Forces Machine Gunned Near Tripoli

Yank Airmen Raid Bizerte Three Times   Axis Forces Retreat Within 35 Miles East of Tripoli

PORT OF KHERSON WITHIN GRASP FIGHTING RED COSSACK TROOPS   Soviets Advance 25 Mile: Yesterday. Germar Communique Hint: Russians Cross Lowe Dnieper.

Hard fighting Horsemen Reported Only 12 Miles From Kherson.  BIG MASS OF TANKS AND MEN TRAILING  Germany Admits Russians Have Crossed the Lowcr Dnieper.

‘Mountain’ Boys In Africa Make Every Bullet Count   Kentuckian Gets 2 Nazis on Motorcycle in a single Shot

Kentucky Hillman Knocks 2 Germans Off Motorcycle With One Bullet

FINN PRESIDENT TS RE-ELECTED   Ballots Are Cast While Helsinki Is Under Air Bombardment

BOVLES ADVANCES (VER CHANDLER   Election ‘Counts Trickle in Reid in First Place by 7,000 Votes

BOYLES LEADING IN JUDICIARY CONTEST   Holds Slight M Margin Over Justice Bert 0. Chandler in Race.

LAST DEFENSES ON ISTHMUS ARE NOW NO MORE   Russians Establish Bridge. head—Cossacks Rounding Uno Stragalers.

REDSSMASH THRU DEFENSE ON PERIKOP   Signs: ‘Point to “ Quick” ‘Conquest Of Peninsula

Russians Smash Nazis Or Perekop Isthmus And Drive Into Area  Of Crimea. 2 ENEMY CUT OFF  Speedy Conquest Of Black Sea Peninsula Seen

Reds Smash Through Nazi Defense Lines. Surge On Into Crimea   Soviet Landings On Peninsula In Kerch Vicinity Re. ported By German Agency As Battle Tide Flows Steadily Against Invaders

CORNERED NAZI TROOPS THERE FACE DISASTER   Huge German Armies In Full Flight In South Russia

KERCH TIP LANDINGS ACHIEVED   Fleeing Nazis Unable To Destroy Towns They Abandon

RED ARMORED FORCES PUSH INTO CRIMEA   Nazis Trapped As Soviets Smash Last Defenses On Perekop Isthmus

0,000 GERMANS BELIEVED CAUGHT IN RUSSIAN TRAP   Speedy Soviet Conquest of Black Sea Peninsula Exnectad

Russians Enter the Crimea Last German Defenses on Perekop Isthmus  Are Smashed

Perekop Isthmus Defenses Broken IBy Savage Blows   Signs Point To Speedy Soviet Conquest of Black Sea Peninsula

Nazis Admit Russians Now Sweeping Across Kerch Strait   Soviet Spearhead Smashes Last Enemy Perekop Defenses, Drive Into Peninsula

REDS CLOSING PINCERS UPON SEALED NAZIS   Black Sea Peninsula Area Expected to Be Fully in Russian Hands in Short Time

RED SPEARHEAD DRIVEN INTO CRIMEA TODAY   Germun Garrison Reduced to 90,000 Fails to Halt Soviets Ten porarily

RUSS TROOPS DRIVE INTO THE CRIMEA   Signs Point To Speedy Conquest Of Peninsula

90,000 Nazis Caught in Tight Trap   Quick Conquest Of Peninsula Expected

INCREASE IN BRITISH LUXURY TAXES URGED BY CHANCELLOR   Britain's Budget Calls for Raising Over Twenty Billion Dollars—Tobacco, Beer, Whisky and Movies Would be Heavily Taxed

Over 20 Billions Budgeted by Britain for War  56 Per Cent to Be Raised Through Taxes Under Plan

Britain Orders Record New ° Levies On Luxury Items To Carry On Nation’s War Plan

BRITAIN SUBMITS BiG WAR BUDGET   Calls for $20,624,000,000 To Carry Nation Into Fifth Year of War; Record Levy On Luxury Items

Cigarettes Go to 48 Cents In England Under New Tax   Oltensive Action Sends Costs of Way Soaring and New Levies Are Announced

PLEASURE GAS BAN EXTENSION EXPECTED SOON   Ohio. Carolinas Are Considered Next States For Gas Ban

PLEASURE TRIP BAN HEADS FOR OHIO DRIVERS   Move Waits Only Final ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ Answer as New Gas Problerns Arise.   RENEWALS COMING UP   Mansfield Ration Board Asks Volunteers To Help Issue  New ‘A’ Books June 22>

Extension of Pleasure Ban To Other States Prophesied   Stocks of Gasoline in East Steadily Declining— OPA Maps Drastic Action

Ohio in Line For Further Gasoline Cut   Extension of Pleasure Driving  Ban Considered

Carolinas, Ohio Facing Gasoline Ban   Pleasure Driying Edict May Be Extended in t Next Few Days   ‘ACTION NECESSARY   Illinois, Michigan and Other Midwest States : Likely to Be Hit

Minnesota May Be Hit By Ban 01 Pleasure Driving   Carolinas, Ohio First” Likely To Be Affected By New Restrictions

FURTHER DRIVING CURB EXPECTED   Extension Of Pleasure Ban. Lowering Of Coupon Values, May Come Soon

BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING SEEN IN OHIO, CAROLINAS   Drastic Step May Be Taken Within Next Few Days, lt Is Believed Taday.

TROOPS ONLY 3 MILES FROM ENEMY CENTER   This distance being constantly reduced; Jap patrols repulsed =

Pincers Closing Tighter On Jap Base At Munda   Preparations Being Made For All-Out Assault On New Georgia Base

U5. PINCERS CLOSING ON MUNDA BASE   American Submarines Sink Ten More Jap Supply Vessels

Allied Troops In Tunisia  Gain in Skill  Do... ALT AL.   Raw AEF Army Faces Veteran German Forces

2 Are Named in Warrants   Rep. ‘William Greén, Hitman Republican and Francis Slatterv. Banker’ Are Listed

GHPERIOR TO ZERL   Fighting in South Pacific Proves New Navy Plane’s Quality.

Hell's Angels Going Strona   Flying Fortress Needs Patch Here and There After Seven Months

FLYING FORTRESS SETS NEW RECORD   Has Been in Active Service for Seven Months

AIR FORCE CHOPS ARMY RED TAPE   Headquarters Office Reduced As Are Staff's Major

Much Red Tape Eliminated By Army Air Forces in  Changing Administration ,

ARMY AIR FORCES SPEED PRODUCTION   Administrative Procedure 1s Reduced, Fewer Offices Are Operating.

Weasure to _ Outlaw Labor  Interruptions   War Labor Board’s Powers Strengthened in Settling Disputes

Anti-Strike Bill Passes House  Quick Approval in Senate Expected

HOUSE ADOPTS NO-STRIKE BILL   Walkouts Are Outlawed By Measure; Powers Of WLB Bolstered

HOUSE PASSES BILL DESIGNED TO END STRIKES   Measure Goes To Senate After Approval By Vote Of 219 To 129   Quick Vote Expected

ANTI-STRIKE BILL PASSED BY HOUSE:   DRASTIC MEASURE NOW GOES TO SENATE FOR EXPECTED QUICK APPROVAL,

House Approves Strike Measure By 219-129 Vote   Compromise Bill's Quick Passage By Senate Expected

BILL 10 CURB STRIKES GETS OK BY HOUSE   Compromise: Legislation Quickly Passed and Sent to House

Anti-Strike Law Passed by House, Sent fo Senate   Sweeping Legislation Wins Approval by Vote of 219 to 129

BILL TO CHECK STRIKES PASSED   House Adopts Measure Designed To Put End To Wartime Walkouts

) HOUSE APPROVES 5 ANTISSTRIKE Bll   Compromise Measure Goes to Senate for Expected Quick Approval; Strengthens the Power of WLB

Sweden Getting Ready for War, Writer Asserts   Armed Forces Preparing for Any Eventuality; Army ls Strong

~Sweden’s Armed Forces Ready for Fight ‘Anytime War Swirls Around Her Borders

Sweden Works Feverishly To Prepare for Possible Attack From Germany

SWEDISH ARMY PREPARES FOR QUICK ACTION   War Threats Swirl Around Neutral Scandinavian Nation; Forces Are  Well Trained

Africa Victory !s Spur to Swedes’ Defense Activities   Threat to Europe Puts Stimulus to Army Wark in Scandinavia

Sweden's Armed Forces Ready For Eventualities   Every Man in the Army, Navy and Air Force Found Energetically Concentrating on the Job of — Being Prepared

Housewives Go Shopping With “Points   Freeze on More Than 200 Canned Bande lifted

HOUSEWIVES. MARKETING WITH POINTS   Bottled Fruits, Vege tables Go On Sale On New Plan

Point Rationing In Effect Today   Canned Meat and ‘Fish Still Frozen

POINT? RATION BUYING oTARTs THIS MORNING   Eight-Day Freezing Of Sales Lifted Throughout Nation And Marketing Resumed »   OPA OFFICIAL CHARTS POSTED IN GROCERIES   Housewives Urged To Budget All Food Purchases Over Entire Month

Point System e Rationing Is  In Operation   Use 12 Points For Each Member Of Family Each Week, Suggest Officials OF OPA

FIFTH ARMY POUNDS WAY TO WITHIN 11 MILES OF BROKEN CITY OF NAPLES   Clark’s Forces Sweep Past Pompeii—Eighth Continues To Make Important Progress In- East

Reports Say Yanks In Suburbs; Take Pompei And Vesuvius Is Passec

Allied Planes Operating 'Unmolested   Retreating Nazis Plant Numerous  Land Mines

ALLIES ADVANCE WITHIN ELEVEN MILES OF CITY   Big Guns Shell Rail Junction

FINNISH PEACE TALK 1S HEARD   Denial, Fait to Dispel Rumors of Efforts to Get Out of War

TALK IS HEARD   Denials Fail to Dispel Rumors of Efforts to Get Out of War

NAZIS DRIVEN BACKINKUBAN   Berlin, Admits dmits: Withdrawal Tn. Caucasus; Air Fight- ° ing on Vast Scale

NAZIS DRIVEN BACK INKUBAN   Berlin Admits Withdrawsl In Caucasus; Air Fighting on Vast Scale

Heavy Action Opens Up  in Caucasus  Vital Stronghold Is Occupied

Heavy Action Opens Up in Caucasus   Vital Stronghold Is Occupied by Red Troops

FURIOUS BATTLE ONIN CAUCASUS   TROOPS FIGHT HAND-TO-HAND — RUSSIANS DOWN 65 PLANES, LOSE 11,

Russians Claim Caucasus Gain   Nazis Admit 20-Mile Kuban Withdrawal

GERMANS FALL BACK IN KUBAN   Novorossisk Bridgehead Believed Endangered By Red Advance

CANNED GOODS ARE RELEASED   CANNERS PERMITTED TO SELL  {RESERVES OF BEANS AND  aA FOMATOES—MORE., SERVICES ORDERED

PROMISE MORE CIVILIAN GOODS   WFA Plans to Release Stock of Canned Food

ROCSEVELT MEETS ALLNEW MEMBERS   117 Congressmen and Sena: tors Attend “Purely Social” Gathering.

PLANS RETURN OF COAL MINES   Roosevelt May Bring Show down With Lewis When Owners Get Pits

Coal Mines To Be Returned To Private Owners   - Showdown Is Seen "With Lewis On His.  Ctetba 1 bltlanatiim

Coal Mines Will Be Returned To Owners, FDR Says   Decision Heralds Possible Showdown With UMW President Lewis; Truce Stipulated Men Would Work For Ickes

COAL MINES WILL BE RETURNED TO OWNERS SOON AS PRACTICABLE   Roosevelt’s Decision Heralds Another Showdown With Lewis; Truce Is Limited To Time Mines Operated By Government

Return Of Coal Mines To Owners !s Promised   Decision Heralds Showdown Between President and John L. Lewis—No Indication of Date When Private Owners Will Take Over

RETURN OF ALL MINES QROEREL   Roosevelt Edict Heralds New Showdown In Coal Dispute With Lewis

ROOSEVELT SAYS COAL MINES WILL BE RETURNED 10 PRIVATE OWNERS   Ickes Orders Coal Divertec fo Four Major Steel Producers

F.D.B. and Lewis Showdown Seen  To Return Mines to Private Owners

Coal Mines to Be Returned to Owners  Pavteiaw levis Lo.   Decision ts Given by President Roosevelt

Mines Are To Go To Owners   Action To Be Token In Spite Of Threats

GOVERNMENT 10 RETURN MINES TO OPERATORS   Roosevelt Serves Notice On _ Union Despite Lewis’  Strike Threat   ICKES DIVERTS COAL TO STEEL COMPANIES

Roosevelt Poses New Challenge To Coal Miners  Says Government Will Return Mines To Their Owners  UMW SHOWDOWN?  Lewis Ordered Truc: Only as Long as U. S Onerated Mine<

Coal Mines to Be Refurned fo Private Owners   Ignores Lewis Ultimatum on Strike-Truce

Coal Mines To Be Returned To Private Owners   Showdown Is Seen With Lewis On His Strike Ultimatum

Roosevelt Says Anti-Strike Law To Be Enforced   Heralds Possible Showdown Between Him And UMW President Lewis

MINES TO RETURN ~ TO PRIVATE FIRMS   Roosevelt Serves   Notice Of Acti Although Lewis’ Strike Truce Jeovardized

U. S. Diseloses Intention to  Return Mines   Strike Law Governs Act to Restore Seized Coal Plants

2 SOUGHT AFTER WOMAN IS SLAIN   Negro And White Man Seen Running From Scene In Columbus Shooting

WOMAN SLAIN ~— IN COLUMBUS   POLICE SEARCHING FOR TWO MEN FOLLOWING. FATAL SHOOTING OF CURTISSWRIGHT EMPLOYE

Merchant Vessel Blown Ashore in ~ Storm Destroyer   Novy. Admits Total Loss OF 7,916- Ton Ship Caucht in Gale

Four Vessels Go Aground In Great Gale   One Is Complete Loss, But No Lives Are Lost; Damage Alone Coast High

Navy Reports Loss of One Of Four Grounded Vessels   Storm Causes Million-Dollar Damage Along New Jersey's Atlantic Seaboard; Two of Ships Freed; Salvaging Third

A CARGO SHIPS ARE GROUNDED   Navy Seve One of Vessels In Distress Off New Jersey Total Loss

Fix guns on illegal slaughter   To file 100 suits against violators meat, price rules

OPA Seeks fo Halt illegal Meat Sales  Plans Prosecutions Against Black Mart

TWO HELD FOR JURY ACTION   Evelyn Young Arraigned On Charge Of Grand  Larceny

FR, CHURCHILL “AWAITING MAIOR WAR DEVELOPMENT   Prime Minister Delays Returr Home—lis Just Marking Time.

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL TC RESUME TALKS   Signs Multiplying They Are   Awaiting Some Momen _ tous Development; Perhaps [talv Peace Bid

Big Events Seen as FDR, Churchill Resume Talks; Vatican Agent May Be Bringing Definite Italian Peace Bid

Mark Time In Parleys   Observers Hint That F, D. R..and Churchill May Be Awaiting Some Momentous Event

Big Events Expected As FR, Churchill Resume Talks; Italy Peace Bid Hinted

Churchill anc FDR Renew  Discussions   May Be Awaiting Definite Peace Bid from Italy; Mar. shall To Be Commander in European Theater

~ FDR-Churchill Talks Continue;  oDefinite Italian Peace Bid Hinted

SOME MOMENTOUS DEVELOPMENT DUE OBSERVERS BELIEVE.  ROOSEVELT AND CHURCH ~ ILL-CONTINUE THEIR

Hint Leaders Await Italian  Bid For Peaes   Vatiean Official On Way To UL. S.. Believed Not On Church Business.   NAME INVASION. CHIEF

FDR-Churchill Renew War Talks   PLACE BID FROM ITALY MAY BE EXPECTED SOON

WAITING PEACE BID BY ITALY 1S INTIMATION   Vatican Agent May B. Bringing Offer To Washington

FDR-Churchill Renew Discussions; May Be Awaiting Italian Peace Bid

Churchill and FDR May Be Waiting Definite Peace Offer From Italy .

Churchill And FDR Believed Awaiting Peace Bid From Badoglio Government

Vatican Agent Is Awaited In W ashingtor   Signs Multiply Statesmen Are Awaiting Momentous Developments   (MISSION IS UNREVEALED

Churchill and — FDR Mark Time   Big Development . May Need Decision

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL IN NEW WAR TALKS   Meeting Today In Washington; New Postwar Plans

FDR, Churchill Resume Talks Todav   Saueeze On Hitler From West Beine Readied

Flyers Stranded in Arctic Discover They Are Hemmed in by Crevasses on Ice Shee

TINY INFANT  1S KIDNAPEL   AUTHORITIES ATTEMPTING TO FIND CLUE IN. ABDUCTION OF TWO-DAY-OLD BABY “FROM HOSPITAL

Escape Paths Being Sealed   American Fifth Army Takes Heights in South-Central Italy and Exploits Position; ” Allies Strike at German Transporta- — tion Svstem =   (Rv RICHARD MceMIIRRAY. Acsociated Prece War Fditor)

Essen Continues to Be Most Heavily Bombed City   IN. 000 Tons of Bombs Hurled at Krupp Works in 55 Raids by RAF During War

RAF Smacks  Essen in ° Fierce Attack  Krupp Works Site   Krapp Works Site Becomes World's. Most Bombed City

RAF Bombs  Essen Again  City Is Now Most   City Is Now Most Heavily Bombed.

OHIO GOVERNOR COMES OUT FOR GOP NOMINATION   DECLARES INTENTION TO ENTER CANDIDACY IN THE OHIO PRIMARY

Bricker Throws His Hat in Ring  Announces Candidacy for Presidency

BRICKER WILL RUN   His Name Will Go on Ohio Republican Primary Ballots Next May —

Bricker to Enter Ohio  Primaries   Will Enter Campaign. to: Republican Nomination in Home State   DEFINITE TREND TO G.0.P. HE DECLARES   Present Post-War Planning Not Feasible, He Argues in Discussing Issues

BRICKER SAYS HE’S CANDIDATE   States Postwar Plans Now Are Not Feasible

GIVES DECISION AT REQUEST OF PARTY LEADERS   Governor Does Not Reveal Other Future Political Aspirations

OH WELL, THAT’S JUST SOME MORE OF THAT CAMPAIGN  “#03 FE? AWW 90

READY TO EXACT THE FULL PRICE   Allies In Position To Make Enemy Pay Through The Nose In Tunisia, Says Eis enhower.

FOE TO PAY IN FULL, EISENHOWER SAYS   General Congratulates His Deputy for Achievements {n Tunisian Land Fichtine.

WARSHIPS SHELL SHORE AS BOMBS RAIN OVER ITALY   British Men-of-War Backec @ by Allied Vessels Fire 16-Inch Guns

ITALY POUNDED BY AIR AND NAVAL UNITS   Double attack aimed at key points along battered mainland

RUSSIA ATTACKS ON THREE FRONTS AGAINST NAZIS   Moscow Radio Says Red Army Preparing To Deal the Enemy “Crushing Blows.”

RUSSIAN ARMY PREPARING CRUSHING BLOW AT NAZIS   Big Drive Is Expected at Moment’s Notice by Germans.

MEN ENTERTAIN LADIES MONDAY   Interesting Program Prepared and Men Prove Excellent Hosts. Next Meeting, August 9

43 MORE TAKEN FROM COUNTY FOR SERVICE IN ARMY   Accepted At Fort Hayes — Will Leave Here Thursday : Another Group Scheduled

24 ARE ACCEPTED FOR ARMY SERVICE   New Group Will Leave For Active Duty Thursday

JAPS RESIST ~ BURMA DRIVE   British Attempt Thrust On Mayu Peninsula

Air And Submarine Drive Threatened; Tunisia In Lull   MATEUR CAPTURED

ILROY RESIDENT DIES IN CAPITAL   Mrs. Flora A. Hillis, 72, Survived By Relatives Here— Burial In South Park.

Yanks Within 3 Miles Of Vital Jap-Held Base; Nippons Land Troops

Our Troops Advancing on Munda From Three Directions.  ENEMY SHOWS NO SIGNS OF GIVING UP  Yanks Still Ravaging the Japs in New Guinea.

Yanks Hit Tough Troina Defense   Coast Wings In 50 Miles Of -Mescina

‘F ortresses Blast Hard At Messina   But Germans Put Up Stern Resistance To Yankees in Center  BRITISH ADVANCE

Americans Gain In Sharpest of Sicily Battles   Capture Gagliano On Northern Coast

Enemy Route Of Retreat Is Attacked   Most Savage Fighting Of Campaign as Axis Tried to Hold

E See 7 To Block  Enemy’s Escape   Germans Put Up ‘Desperate Defense bi Savage Eighting. 5 es Blast M.

Savage Fighting Reported at Troina _ In Central Sicily as Nazis Make Effort to Screen Withdrawal

YANKS ATTEMPT TO BLOCK ROAD FROM MI. ETNA   Americans Push Forward 2 To 3 Miles In North Sicily As Canadians, British Advance   Gagliano Captured

Desperate German De. fense Delays VU. S. Forces at Troina  GAGLIANO IS HELD BY ALLIED TROOPS  Messina Bombed to Disrupt Evacuation of Nazis

Desperate German De: fense Delays U. 5. _ Forces at Troina  GAGLIANO IS HELD —. BY ALLIED TROOPS Messina Bombed to Dis  rupt Evacuation of  c - Nazis

FIGHTING DESCRIBED AS “MOST DESPER.  ATE IN CAMPAIGN RAGES AT TROINA; TRY TO DISRUPT EVACUATION.

SENATE PROBE “OP MANPOWER BRING PUSHET   Lend-Lease Officials Call. ed In to Explain Where Workers Can Be  ' Found   SEEK ARMIES’ SIZE   Committee Told Military Expansion Will Require Bands of Women Workers

Russians Moving Troops On ‘Both Ends Of Battle Lines  Repulse Of German Counter Attacks Called  @ Nececeary Undertaking By Soviet Army Panar

Red Army Takes 46 More Towns in Vitebsk Sector   Push within 30 Miles o' Nazi Stronghold, 110 Miles from Frontier

Mud, Nazis Fail To Stop Red Advance   Russians Move Men To Both Ends Of Line

RESISTANCE OF GERMANS IS STIFFENING   On Eastern Front As Heavy Fighting Is Reported in Caucasus Bridgehead: Heavy Rains Hampering.   Major Drive

AUSOIAN DRIVE LOSES 175 PUSh   Reds Keep Initiative Alive Despite Mud, Germans   TOWNS CAPTURED   Berlin Nervously Indicates Reds Are Moving Troops At Both Ends Of Front

White Russia  Advantages © Are Retained   Red Troops Within 30 Miles of Nazi Vitebsk Stronghold But Mud Slows Tempo of Battle Operations

New. Red Drive May Start Soon   Significant Movements Te Rarih Soanth Nated

Reds Continuing Advance Despite Mud And Nazis   Soviet Troops Push To Within 30 Miles Of Nazi Stronahold

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD VITEBSK   REACH POINT 30 MILES FROM STRONGHOLD — OVERRUN 46 MORE VILLAGES,

Warships Turn Their Guns On Jap-Held Island   Aussies Drive Nips From Strong Point Type th we. Caninenit-

Naura Bombed: Wareo Taken By Australians   ‘Yankee Ships, Carrier Borne Planes Strike ~ Island 500 Miles to © West of the Gilberts

Nauru Island Heavily Hit   Joponese Wareo Base Taken By Australians

Warships Turn Their Guns On Jap-Held Island   Aussies Drive Nips From Strong Point On Huon Penineuile

8 KILLED WHEN BOMBER FALLS   Three Officers Among Victims of Crash ar Tonebasn

FIGHT ARE DEAD.   Killed [mn Crash of Army Plane Near Topeka, Kans. be  

LAE GETS NEW BOMB ASSAULT   Allied Airmen Make. Third Attack On Jap Base

Six Killed, Hundreds — Bloody Rioting In Harlem Injured And Arested In

6 Killed, 543... Are Injured in Harlem Rioting  44 Policemen Hurt;   44 Policemen Hurt; 500 Under Arrest; Damage in Millions

SIX KILLED IN HARLEMRIOT: 543 INJURED   Over Five Hundred Arrest. ed Result. of Wild . Disordér   NOT A RACE RIOT, OFFICIALS ASSERT   Curfew Clamped on' the Area by Mayor LeGuardia

HARLEM RIOT TOLL 6 DEAD 543 INJURED   Negro Section of New York  Quiet After Outbreak of  esentment Against Jim Crow in Armed -Forces   Hoodlum Activity

6 Negroes Dead, h43 Persons Are Hurt In Riotinc  Smashing Of Shop Win dows And Looting Of Stores Mark Disorders

Harlem Riots Kill Five, Injure 543  6000 N.Y. Policemen   6000 N, Y. Policemen Patrol Streets as Thugs Loot Stores

SIX KILLED HARLEMRIOT; 543 INJURED  Over Five Hundred Arrest. ed Res ult of Wild   Over Five Hundred Arrest. ed Result of Wild Disorder   NOT A RACE RIOT, OFFICIALS ASSERT   Curfew Clamped on’ the Area by Mayor LeGuardia

STATE BONUS FOR OHIOANS INU. S, SERVICE PLANNED   Measure to Provide 50 Millions for Payments Is Before Assembly.’ 

INCOME OF NATION MADE NEW RECORD   Receipts of $113,824,000,000 In 1942 Are 23 Per Cent Above Previous Year

NOTED OHIO STATE ATHLETE © KILLED IN PLANE ACCIDENT   DON SCOTT, LETTERMAN IN THREE SPORTS, DEAD AS REBULT OF CRASH WHILE IN ENGLAND

Party Fight Looms Over Pay-as-Go Income Tax Plans   GOP Favors Ruml Bill; Democrats  Back Robertson

Soviets Pound Rostov Gates; Fall Imminent   Southern Hinge Of Nazi Defense Line Is Now Threatened

Capture of City Is Believed Near   Fighting Under Way at Mouth of Don; RAF Hits Lorient Sub Base

AMERICAN Al BLOWS RAINED UPON JAPANESE   Bombing Attacks Continued In Other Solomons Areas As Guadalcanal Taken   ENEMY ALEUTIAN BASE ALSO GIVEN POUNDING   Much Equipment Captured By Infantry’s Advance On Guadalcanal

IN GROUND, IMB JAP BASES   ks Take Equipment In Guajalcanal; Enemy Losses Reported Staggering

GOEBBELS:-SPEEGH FRANK ADMISSION OF. WAR’ REVERSES   Observers Think He. Ma; Be Offering Peace Feelers To United ~ Nations

German Spirit Flagging’ As Nation Faces Defeat:   Goebbel’s Speech Taken As Frank Admission Of Possible Defeat

GOEBBELS IN “ADMISSION”   Tells Germans They Face Potential Defeat and That Spirit of Nazis on Downgrade

Goebbels’ Talk Seen As Frank Confession German Spirit Lags   Usual Abuse Of Britain, United States fs Omitted As Threat Of Russian Advance is Emphasized

Soviets Peril Kirovograd, Krivoi Rog   KONEV’S ARMY HAMMERS ACROSS STEPPES OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA

HELICOPTER USE FROM SHIPS SEEN   New Anti : Sub Weapon Shapes As Ability Tests Are Successful

THREE CITIES ARE CAPTURED BY RED ARMIES   Six Other Towns In Same General Region Are Also Reported Taken.

Troops Continue Forward Sweep   Three Big Cities  In Caucasus Taken

FRENCH UNITS TAKE CORSICA   Commandos Put Naze is To Flight Island Patriots Aid Invaders

FRENCH UNITS QUT TO oNAP © AAC GHAIN:   Landing on Corsica Called “Symbol” of Hopes by De Gauile Forces.   ALGIERS HEARS ENEMY IS PLANNING FLIGHT

CONGRESS TO ~ MAKE DRIVE ON BUREAUS   EFFORTS TO TRIM BUDGETS AND CUT FOWERS OF FEDERAL BUREAUS TO CONTINUE

CONGRESS BACK ON JOB AFTER VACATIGN   Conservatives Still Hold Upper Hand on Domestic Issues

CONSERVATIVES RULE CONGRESS   Administration, However, May Rule On Military, Foreign Policy

Cars Roll as P.E. Halt Ends   STRIKE STOPS SUNDAY AT 2 A. M. AS WORKERS VOTE TO RESUME JOBS

BURTNER HOME IS WRECKED BY FIRE   Property in the Tilghmanton District Destroved

BURTNER HOME iS WRECKED BY FIRE   Property in the Tilghman“. . ton District Des: . _ ‘troyed °

Disorders Increase As Italians Dodge Nazi Draft   Death, Damage Resul From Conscription Of Soldiers, Workers

AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIANS JOIN FORCES IN BLOWS ON THE SOLOMON ISLANDS

ALLIED PLANES SMASH RABAUL FOR THIRD TIME   Japs Make Feeble Air Raid as Advance Continues on New Guinea

HOUSE AGREES TO SOIL FUND   Approves  $100,000,000 For Improvement Program

49 NIP PLANES ATTACK DARWIN   Ailies Lose Four Craft in Furious Fighting During Raids.   CAUSE SLIGHT DAMAGE

Allied Airmen Smash At New Jap Concentrations, Blast Two Troop-Laden Transports   New Menace Driven Home [n Nipponese Raids On Darwin And On Oro Bay Area

Japanese Raid Darwin, Lose 2 Troop Ships   49 Plane Assault On Australia City Costs 14 Te 19 Enemy Planes   1§ ATTACK ORO BAY   Bombers Score Hits, Nea Hits On 3 Nippon Craft Bound For Dobo

ALLIES BLAST TWO JAP SHIPS, TROOP BEARERS   Allied Airmen Active In Battling Enemy Convoy; Jap Threat In Pacific Growing.

ALLIES LASH OUT AGAINST ENEMY BASES   Jap Aerial Activity Empha sizes Threat Implied in New Concentrations   TRANSPORTS BLASTED

Pacific Front Reports Action   ‘MacARTHUR’S BOMBERS ATTACK JAPANESE CONVOY

PLANES LOCATE CONVOY NORTH OF AUSTRALIA   Enemy Raiders Make Stabs At Darwin And Oro Bay Area In New Guinea   OTHER VESSELS HUNTED   British Beat Off Fierce Nipponese Attacks In Burma Territory

Jap Bombers In Attack on Port Darwir   49-Plane Assault the Heavlest in Months; 14 Planes Shot Down   ALLIES ALSO HIT A TROOP. CONVOY   Both Actions Emphasize the New Enemy Threat to: Australia

49JAP PLANES RAID DARWIN AUSTRALIA   Four: Allied Planes Lo ‘st And “Only Slight ' Damage And Casualti es” Caused by Raid

ALLIES SMASH AT NEW CONCENTRATION (F JAPANESE TROOPS   Bomb Troop - Laden Ships Bound for Dabo in Aroe Islands   JAPANESE RAID DARWIN

Allied Airmen Suddenly Lash Out At Japs And Blast Two Troop-Laden Ships In Convoy

THREE-SHIP CONVOY IS SMASHED   14 Nip Planes Lost In Darwin Raid; Enemy Bases Hammered

Two Troop-Laden Trans. ports Bound for Dobo, ‘In Aroe Islands,  . Are Blasted   Forty-Nine Enemy Planes OverAustralian City; Oro Bay, New Guinea, ‘Also Attacked

Allied: Airmen Blast Convoy; Darwin Bombed   49 Nipponese. Planes Attack Australian City: Monday”:

Two Japanese Troop Vessels Hit By Bomb:   Enemy Strikes At North Coast Of Australia With 49-Plane Assault On Port Darwin

Allies Blast af Jap Transports   Enemy Fliers Raid Darwin, Australia, MocArthur Announces

ALLIED AIRMEN IN ATTACK ON JAPANESE ISLANDS CONVOY   FORTY-NINE PLANE ENEM) ATTACK ON DARWIN, AUSTRALIA REPORTED

DARWIN BOMBED BY JAPS; ALLIES SCORE ON SHIPS   49-Plane Attack On Australia Is Carried Out

1 TROOP-LADEN TRANSPORTS HIT BY AMERICANS   Japs Send 49° Bombers Against Darwin Area

NIP CASUALTIES CROW AS FLIERS STRAFE VESSELS   MacArthur Indicates Newest Enemy Threat Dwindles After Smashing Raid

JAP TRANSPORTS ~ SUNK BY BOMBERS   Two of Three Troop-Filled Ships Bound for Dobo Sent Down.      HEAVY ATTACK MADE ON DARWIN

ALLIED PLANES BLAST 2 ENEMY TROOP VESSELS   Claim Japs Are Massing Men, Ships on Northwest Australia

TROOP SHIPS ARE RIDDLED   Nips Make 49-Plane Raid On Darwin, Australia   DAMAGE SLIGHT   In Attack On U. S. Base In New Guinea: Wavell’s Men Regain Offense

ENEMY PLANES BLAST ORO BAY, DARWIN MONDAY   United Airmen Score Tw Direct Hits on Nipponese Vessels

AIR WARFARE No, PAGIEIL HITS NEW PEAK   Japanese Raids On Darwin And New Guinea Costly For Enemy’s Forces

MACKENZIE’'S WAR FRONT-TOUR TAKES HIM TO ELBURA RANGE   U. S. Soldiers Have Assumed Responsibility For Another Major Supply Job He Finds On Visit

IMPORTANT TASK ASSIGNED YANKS   CRACK 7TH ARMY IS BELIEVED GROOMING FOR NEW INVASIONS

YANKS POISED FOR VITAL TASK   Patton’s Men Expected to Strike Soon At  Some Point

See Big Job For U.S. 7th Army   London Papers Look For New Landing

Americans Said Given Crucial Job   London Speculation Sees New Landings In. Italy ‘Very Soon’

Yanks Held in Sicily for ‘Very Important Task’ Later      ALLIED FORCES INVADE ITALY   ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL TRACE PROGRESS OF PLANS THEY MADE FOR INVASION

Think Yanks Assigned Bie Task   Lotdon Papers Speculate on U, S. Seventh  Army

Three Tankers And Fou Merchantmen In NewlyArrived Convoy Blasted   SMOKE FROM AIR BASE FIRES RISE 2,000 FEET

ALLIES DESTROY 60 JAP PLANES, 7 SHIPS IN RAID   Three Tankers and Four Mer chantmen Set Afire in Heavy Blasting of Wewak, New Guinea.   AUSTRALIANS SLOWED IN FINSCHHAFEN DRIVE   Heavy Fighting Takes Place on High Ground—Artillery Pounding All Parts of Base.

Surprise Raid Wreaks Havoc on Japs at Wewak   Newly Arrived Convoy Struck by Allied Airmen

Seven Japanese Ships Sunk  In Surprise Aerial Assault   Approximately 50 Planes Destroyed by Allied Heavy end Medium Bombers on Monday—Airdromes at Wewak Bombed

Allies Sink Seven Jap Ships, Destroy 60 Planes in Surprise Raid on Wewak

60 Planes, 29 Barges Wrecked   Convoy Caught On Arrival In Harbor _

   60 Japanese Planes Destroyed in Surprise  Aerial Raid on Wewak      Flyers Sink 29 Barges, Smash Vital Enemy Base; Australians Inflict Heavy Losses on Defenders of Finschhafen

LABOR UNION BILL DOOMED   State Senatzy Returns tc Committee Propasal For Regulation

BILL DOOMED   State Senate Returns to Committee Proposal For Regulation

Civilian Goods Slash Forecast   Further Decline In Output Reported

FDR PLEDGES MME. CHIANG — GREATER AID   Promises to Speed Assistance at Joint Press Conference With China’s First Lady.   GIVE US ARMS, PLEA   Generalissimo’s Wife Says Chinese Soldiers Can’t Fight With Rare Hands.

TELEPHONE OFFICE   Joseph G. Quigley Will Suc: ceed Lyle Gibbon on — August 

Invasion            CALLS ITALY A THIRD FRONT SAYS RUSS-ANGLO.U. S, TO:BE: HELD SOON; ; DENIES ALLI

Tells Commons Allies - Hammering Way To Air Domination Of Germany  SPEECH 1S LENGTHY  Strikes Back At Critics Who Complained Of Fumbling

Backs Allied Strategy in Italy; Parley With Reds to Be Held Soon

DEFENDS ACTS OF ALLIES IN ITALIAN COUF   Says Mussolini Got Away Only Because Guards Failed To Kill Him.   REPORTS NEW SU8 WAR   Prime Minister Asserts Allied Planes Nearing Domination of Air Over Germany.

ITALIAN DRIVE NO SUBSTITUTE, SAYS PREMIER   Churchill Explains How Mussolini Got Away

Che. chill Pro:..ises 2nd Front   Reports on War Progres: to House of Commons—  Work With Russia

Tri - Partite Conference te Be Held Soo   Prime Minister Hits Back At Critics In Commens

Churchill Tells Commons — Time Is Coming; 3-Power Conference Is Due Shortly   Prime Minister Defends Allies’ Political Operations in Italy: Says Duce Es-  caped Only Because of Guards’ Failure.

Churchill Says United Nations Are Hammering Their Way Toward Complete Domination Of Germany — Italian Surrender A Windfall   GUARDS FAILED To SHOOT MUSSOLIN?

L  SHARP FORAYS: ON MARETH LINE      Montgomery’ s Patrols May Be Preparing Way for Big Allied Offensive

UNITED NATIONS OUTPUT GROWS   WPB Reports Allies To Outproduce Axis Nearly Three To One In °43

U. S., Allies To Out Produce Axis Foes In Arms In 43 By Ratio Of Better Than 22 To 1 Says WPB

‘US. Asked f Keep Army ot Tule Lake   Resolution Adopted To Send to F. R. as Solons End Hearing

Allies, By Taking Sicily, Accomplish Impossible By Axis Own Admissions

AXIS SAW SICILY GREAT FORTRESS   Mussolini and Germans Predicted It Would Never Be Captured.

Foreign Minister Of Argentina Quits   Action Follows  Rebuke From LU. S.

STORM! GIVES UP MINISTERS OFFICE   Disclosure of Sensational Exchange of Letters With Hull Is Cause.

Storni Resigns Argentine Post   Act Follows U. S. Lend-Lease Refusal

Argentine Minister Resigns as Hull Refuses U. S. Aid to His Nation On Grounds of Failure to Help Allies

ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER QUITS AFTER HULL’S REBUKE   ting Nation In A Position To Receive Public Ad monition From United States Government

FOREIGN MINISTER OF BRAZIL RESIGNS   Step Follows Rejection of Bid For.U. S. Lend- "Lease Aid

INCENTIVE ~ PAYMENT FOR WER GROPS   Dopartment of Agriculture Announces Payment Plan op Seven Crops Considered Hssential,    VEGETABLE GOAL   Government, Will Pay 350 An Acre on Vegetables ‘But They Aire Not Considered War Grop.- .-°

To Pay Benetits On Seven Crops   Government Offers Incen. tive Payments to Boost Farm Production.

At 80 He Returns To Teaching Work   Long Retired, He’s Helping Out With Rural School

ECONOMIES HIT BY MORGENTHAU   Predicts Dire Results Unless Huge Taxes Are Levied

Morgenthau Fights For  Tax Program   Lashes Congress For Big Slash in  Revenue Request

‘TREASURY OPENS SENATE FIGHT FOR TAX BILL   Morgenthau Denounces Arguments Against Revenue Program

HIGHER TAX ONLY INFLATION CURB, MORGENTHAU SAYS   Treasury Chief Charges Fed eral Economies Not Sufticians

MORGENTHAU GOES 10 BAT FOR TAX HIKE   Opens Hopeless Fight To Save Treasury’s Program

DEATH CLAIMS GEO. BARNARD   ‘Rites Wednesday for Twin City Business And  Political Leader

Long Road Stretches Ahead Of Forces Invading Sicily   Island, Strategically, Is Of First-Rank Importance In Over-All Mediterranean Picture

Other Villages Are Overrun In Attack   Field Guns.And Other Munitions Coptured When Japanese Troops Flee To The North

Last New Guinea  Base Won   Aussies Capture Satelburg And Sweep On Through Four More Villages.

Aussies Capture Jap Base of Sattelberg    Two Nipponese Cruisers Are Damaged by Allied Planes in Attacks on Shipping in Many Other Sectors

CLAIMS FOR'S ws PLAY FOR SOLDIER VOTE   Declares Everything Else President Said Was  Already Known   ISAYS NO ONE FOOLED   Sees Stronger Congress When Solons Return To Washington    FDR Answers Critics

Capitol Hill Reverberates With Pros and Cons Concerning Talk  DEFENDED BY GUFFEY

Charge FDR In Bid for  Service Vote   GOP Leaders Claim That President Opened 1th Term Drive In Talk.

Foes Say’ President’s: Speech Was — “Bid: for Soldiers’: Votes: in 1944

COP CHARGES FDR OPENED. 4TH TERM BID IN WAR REPORT   President Has Laugh For Accusation Made By GOP National  Chairman

Political Echoes Heard From President’s Speech; Called Fourth Term Bid

President Laughs at Charge of Politics in Report on War   Critics See Proposal for Post-War Period as Bid for Service Man's Votes.

FDR CASTS OFF QUESTION ON POLITICAL PORTENT OF HIS LAST RADIO SPEECH

President Scoffs At GOP Charge Of Politics in Speech  Brushes Aside Request for His -

SIX OFF TODAY ~~ -FORULS. ARMY   Next Call Will Be Less Than Present One, Board States

~-FORU.S. ARMY      Next Call Will Be Less Than Present One, Board States

SYNTHETIC TIRES WEAR 15,000 MILES   Tests Show That Casings Need Not Be Babied Along At 25Mile-An-Hour Speed

Two COMPROMISE PROPOSALS TO THE  RUML PLAN DOWNED   Deadlock On Pay- As-You-Go Taxation Remains Unbroken By House Group’s Repection Of the Two Proposals

Two Compromise Proposals ToRumlPlanRejecedby — Ways and Means Committee

NEW TAX PLANS ARE REIEGTE!   Two Compromise Pro-posals Voted Down By House Committee

RUML TAX PLAN COMPROMISES FAIL   Committee Leaves Pay-As YouGo In Daubt; Other "Proposals to Be Studied

Ruml Backers To Carry On   Will Take Fight on Tax Plan to Floor Of House, They Say

Whole House To Diseuss  Rum! Plan   Country Demands It, Proponents Declare

Compromise Tax Plans Rejected  House Committee Hasn't Reached Any

Compromise 7  tax proposals  turned down   Fail to break pay-as-you-go levy deadlocks

REJECT PROPOSAL TO ABATE 1942 INCOME TAXES   COMMITTEE FAILS TO BREAK DEADLOCK ONPAY AS YOU GO PLAN

Thumbs Down On Modified  Rumi Proposal   House Ways and Means Comittee Remaing Deadlocked

Ruml Backers Keep Up Fight   2 Setbacks Fail To Stop Group; Year’s Skip Is: Rejected, 16-9

GUMP A OMlota UN UML PLAN ARE REJECTED   Pay-As-You-Go Tax Measure Remains In Deadlock Before Committee

Runl Supporters Plan For Battle 'On House Floor   Pay-As-You-Go Proponents Reporied Undismayed Despite Two Sethacks

Compromise Tax Proposals Are Rejected   House Ways and Means Committee Unable to Break Deadlock   FUTURE IS IN DOUBT

PAY-AS-EARN TAX HIT BY HOUSE GROUP   Future Policy in Doubt Due to Action of Committee

HOPE FADES FOR RUML TAX PLAN; EADLOCK HOLDS   Ways, Means Group Bows t Administration Pressure, Kills Two Proposals

TAX COMPROMISE PROPOSALS FAIL   Rum] Plan Voted Down in Committee, Repub  licans Hold To It.   FUTURE PLANS LEFT IN DOUBT

TWO MORE TAX PLANS FAIL TO ‘WIN APPROVAL   Robertson and Doughton Compromises of Rum! Plan Rectal. by House Committee

RUML LOSES ON 2 COMPROMISES   Deadlock on Pay-as-Go  Income Taxes Unbroken

CHRISTMAS TREES TO BURN   Chicken Dealer Gets Too Big Sideline This Year

ee scaameeethaideeaeieueiataaiataemaatiiaaaiamenaaet te te A A MN ry  Christmas Trees To Burn in Connecticut

MAY BOOST QUOTA IN BOND CAMPAIGN   With Total Here $752,326 Leaders Considering  Aiming at Million ©     T"rrTasn eo rTrscTN6hUACUTT! "TT TTr. At?

MAY BOOST QUOTA “INBOND CAMPAICN   With Total Here $752,326 Leaders Considering Aiming at Million ~   FIRMS TO: AID TUESDAY

It’s Still A Small World— -Tony’s Grampa Finds Heir Liberating Him In Sicily

OER IS UNITED I GRANDDAD NORTH AF RIGA   ican-born Italian Sol. ier Looked Up by Grand. the In North Africa.

Yank Called As Interpreter - Finds Granddad   “Gramp” Just Knew Tony Would Be Along When Boys Took Palermo.

Chine-Vichy Break!   Why, Fancy Seeing You Here So Far From My Home in S.F.

Reunion In Palermo   Grey-Haired Italian In Sicily Finds One He Is Looking For

Henry Wallace Returns to U. 5.   ~ He Found Considerable Post-War Program Talk in Latin America

Wallace Comes Home Vice-President Finds Latin American Nations Help In War

Tell About Plans on  The Radio   Propaganda Broadcast: Claim Attempts Are Certain to Be Thwarted

Tioga County Over Top In The Red Cross Drive   Campaign, Continued Near; Six Weeks Past Closing Date Finally Suecreccful -

Today’s War Moves   (Reg. U. S, Pat. Office) By LOUIS F, KEEMLE  -  6g Wh, Taw A welact

MARINES ATTACK CAPE GLOUCESTER'S TWIN AIRSTRIPS   Believe Main Defenses Under Fire trom Land As Well As Air.

Main Defenses of Airfields Being Attacked   Main Body of Jap Troops In Tight Knot Around Strips

SHOWDOWN BATTLEON (NEW BRITAIN   Merines' Attack — Cape Gloucester Airdrome Defenses

U.S. Marines Believed Atfacking Main Defenses of Cape Gloucester Airfield

Marines Battling Japanese With Fire, Tanks, Artillery  In Cape Gloucester Drive

THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT!   OPA Abandons Price Control Over Bric-a-brac, Ete

BOND QUOTA ISRAISE INCOUNTY .   Chairman Reports $1,880,000 In Bonds Sald

GOAL PRODUCTION WINGS BACK 10 NORMAL IN STATE   Indications Many of 130,000 Miners Will Work Through 2 July 4 Holiday   BACK-TO-WORK MOVE SLOW IN FEW FIELDS   “An Estimated 139,000 Miners Continue Unauthorized Walkout, However; Repub @ lio Steel Forced Close Blast Furnace in Alabama

MINING SWINGS SLOWLY AHEAD   Many Men Expected To Work On July 4th Holiday

0. C. NATIONAL PAYMENT SET FOR JUNE 7TH   $143,220 to be Paid ' Qn Participation Certificates

0, C. NATIONAL WILL REDEEM CERTIFICATES   Payment in Full Will Be Available Next Wednesday

0). C. NATIONAL WILL PAY ON CERTIFICATE!   Liquidating Trustees Announce Payment  Of 10 Per Cent.

Semi-Official Statements Add To Uncertainty   Newspapers Take Role As Participants With Nation in Allied War of  Nerves Against Nazis

Turkey Keeps Nazis. Guessing After Meet   Allies Destroy More Than 300 Subs in Eight Months

Turkey Keeping Hitler Guessing On Aid to Allies   Milifary Plans Not Announced

REAL LOWDOWN   OPA Uses Cabhbare     00 Words te Cui eed Price.,

OPA Cuts Prices of Cabbage Seed   2500 WORDS DESCRIBE CABBAGE SEED AS SEED USED TO GROW CABBAGE

FIRING SCHOOL   Rockwood ‘High Dainaged $50,000—Two in Confession

GREAT BRITAIN APPOINTS WAVELL INDIA VICEROY   AUCHINLECK HEADS ASIA COMMAND

HailChoice Of Wavell For India   New Stiff-Backbone  Strategy Seen  Motive in Shift

Offensive Against: Japenese Planned Shortly  ANCHINLECK ° WiLL SUCCEED WAVELL British to Prosecute War  Against Japs With Full Vieory

WAVELL 1S NAMED VICEROY OF INDIA BY GREAT BRITAIN   London Announces Intention of Creating East Asia Command to Direct Drive Against Japan.   AN AIR OFFICER SUGGESTED FOR POST   Changes Ascribed to Roosevelt-Churchill Conferences ~—Auchinleck Back to Old Post.

WAVELL 10 NAMED WIGEROY OF INDIA   Britain to Create Separate East Asia Military Command to Wage Offensive Against the Japanese

(EN. WAVELL NAMED VICEROY OF INDIA BY GREAT BRITAIN   FORMATION OF NEW EAST ASIA COMMAND AGAINST JAPAN ANNOUNCED

Auchinlec!- Is Named Army Chief in India; Britain Plans Separate Kast Asia Command  3I1G SQUEEZE PLAY AGAINST JAPS SEEN  Action Presages Aggressive Campaign In Burma This Fal}

Name Marshal Wavell New India Viceroy  . Move See as  ay eee gee

Final Death Blow For Japs Is In Making With Wavell Taking Over Post In India

WAVELL NAMED VIGEROY OF INDIA   Assures U. S. Aid in Drive To Deal Japanese Death Blow

British Hail Wavell, New  India Viceroy   Asia Command  To Sharpen War

Great Britain Appoints Wavell India Viceroy   Forthcoming Formation of New East Asia Command to Direct Final Death Blow Against Japan Announced

WAVELL NEW INDIA VICEROY   Disclose Intention of Setting Up East  Asia Command

Auchinleck To Command  War Theater   Intention to Create Separate East Asia Command RevealedLeader Undisclosed

WAVELL NAMED VIGEROY IN INDIA   Separate Command Takes Task of Offensive on Japs

Wavell Is Named Viceroy of India   East Asia Command Formed With Auchinleck at Head

Wavell Chosen As Viceroy Of Seething India   East Asia Command To Be Formed For All-Out Blow At Japan.

British Name Wavell India Vicerov   ‘Separate Fast Asia ‘Command Will Be ‘Formed AgainatJaps

ree NDIA VICEROY   Auchinleck Named Military Chief In India To Succeec Wavell; Separate Eas’ Asia Military Commanc Planned.

British Set Up New Strategy For East Asia   Warell as Viceroy of India, Auchinleck as General, Hailed by Press

GEN, WAVEL NAMED VICEROY OF INDIA   New Military Command To Be Set Up, Is Report

Laud Wavell’s Appointment  Seen As Good Man   Seen As Good Man To Head India

Gen. Wavell To Take Vital Post In India   Field Marshal Becomes Viceroy In Shakeup Which Provides For East Asia Command

Wavell Elevated Under New Plans To Aid America   ‘ommander - in- Chief o India Becomes Viceroy for Duration   Separate East Asia Mili fary Command Will Be Created

Auchinleck Named Army Commander; Reveal Forming Of East Asia Military Setup

WAVELL MADE VICEROY OVER INDIAN STATE   SEPARATE COMMAND SET UP TO FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN

Wavell Chosen India Viceroy   Separate Command Leader Not Named  Re Ff HAWES.

Wavell Named Viceroy, Auchinleck Commander-in-Chief of In dian Farres   NO CHANGE POLICY   India Expected fo be Made Base for Operafions Against Japan. Recapture of Burma

Britain Sets Up New  India Regime   Wavell New Viceroy As Plans Made For Drive Against Japs

Wavell Chosen India Viceroy.   Separate Command Leader Not Named

Wavell Is Named Viceroy of India: Auchinleck Will Resume Post \Of Chief Commander of Military

NEW PACIFIC POLICY WILL FOLLOW ‘SHIFT   India Is Spotlight for: Developments As Wavell Becomes Viceroy

Pennsylvania Legislature Marking Time   Lawmakers Awaiting Governor Martin's Budget Message

Assembly Waits Martin Budget   { May! Be Given Wednesday or. Held Up to'Next Week

Montgomery Has Enemy Baffled   British Leader Before Mareth Line Is Shrewd Tactician In Warfare By GEORGE I alrrTr

NAZIS JITTERY ‘ALONG MARETE   THREAT OF MOMENTARY AT. ' TACK BY EIGHTH ARMY ON FORTIFIED LINE - 18. HAVING EFFECT

Texas Schoolmen Favor End of NYA   Authorize Sending Wire of Decision to Connally. O’ Daniel

AKRON BUS STRIKE ENDS UNEXPECTEDLY   Share-ride Clubs Formed Now Reduce Traffic

VILLAGE WIPED OUT BY TORNADO   \\ STORM STRIKES NEAR PURDY . HOMES, CANNERY AND SCHOOL LEVELED,

’ KELLER ACCEPTS TERMS   ‘New York Yankee Outfielder Will - Report Tomorrow

‘Hopes of Food Subsidy Bloc  ‘Hang on Truce   Barker Calls for Public Airing Of Controversy in Order To Give People Full Details

Food Subsidy . ~ Plan Is Aired      Farm Bloe Leaders Hope For Ban to Keep: Down” * Retail. Prices. 

Farm Bloc Presses For Defeat of Subsidy Program  Small Democratic Group Works for

Subsidies Hope Said Depending  On Compromise   Farm Bloc Opposition May Be Countered Bee Piatliccc tices,

SUMMER ENTERS IOWA OFFICIALLY   Waterloo Reports 99 for Highest in State

JAPS PREPARE FOR LAG T-MAN BATTLE STANL   AP Man Captured in Manila Says Tokyo Mobilizing Asian Resources.

Will Battle For Control Of Indies   Solomons and Chinese Campaigns Considered Minor

GOP CLAIMS FDR HIT BY ARMY ORDER   Stimson Denies Rule Is Directed at MacArthur

 Interpreting the War News—     Collapse of Nazi Hedgehog Threat to Moscow Impends

Russ Pineers Drive Perils Nazi Forces  Reich Generals Expect Red Blow at Center

Wife Of 27th President Of U.S. To Be Buried At Arlington Tuesday

PRESIDENT'S WIDOW DIES IN CINCINNATI   Mrs. William Howard Taft To Be Buried Tuesday  :

House Military Commillee Says Law Is Misused  Accusation. Ex pre ssed Annine Salartiva   Accusation..E x pre ssed Against Selective Service Heads

Draft Statute Held ‘Twisted   House Group Criticizes Coercine Fathers

House Group Hits At Draft Officials   Law Perverted  To Other Ends, He Says

DRAFT SYSTEM GETS CRITICISM   Officials Charged With Twisting Laws To Suit Themselves

GROUP FLAYS DRAFT HEADS   House Committee Says Law Twisted to Suit Ends Of Officials

‘RAINS COME CLOSER      Forecaster Sees Nothing Better Than Scattered Showers

CORNER JAPS ON ATTU ISLE   Secretary Knox says U. S. forces closing in on trapped Nipponese

Knox Reports Jans Corraled On Peninsula   Also Reveals That Fighting Is Being Continued In Aleutian Island Out not.   DISMISSES CLAIMS JAPS SINK SHIPS

Police Chief Urges Care With Checks   Cites Secret Service Advice On Handling Government Checks

SECRET SERVICE ISSUES WARNING   Allotment Checks Going Astray and Some Are Forged Department Reports.

The Weather   Kansas—Litile change in temperature Sunday and early Sunday night.

Dhio’s Liquor Monopoly on Spot as Thirst Increases, Supply Diminishes   Director Admits He Has No Immediate Solution to State Problem.

HUNTING SEASON OPENS SATURDAY   Duck Season Opens at 6:40 on Sept. 25 With Few Changes in Regulations.

Mareth Line Again Yields To Attackers  British Press On   British Press On And Americans Are Edging Toward Sea

British Drive Deeper Info Mareth Line   Yanks Holding Stronc Mountain Areas in Push Toward Gabes

ath Army Reported Lunging inMarethLine   Other English Troops Indicated Seizing Hilltop Near E] Hamma; Americans Hold  Strong Mountain Positions.

BRITISH RENEW OFFENSIVE IN MARETH AREA   Drive Deeper Into Line As Other Forces Near E] Hamma

Key Hilltop Near El Hamma Also Reported Seized; Yankees Hold Gains Farther North.

SEIZE KEY HILL TOP NEAR» EL HAMMA   American Forces Holding Strong Mountains Positions  After 10-Mile Advance

YanksGain 10 Miles   British Flanking Force Seizes Hill Near El Haoninia

Yanks Occupy MountainBase after Advance   Rommel Slackens Tank Attacks After Losses; Patten Reaches Escane Corridor

Reds Battering Nazi Defenses — Near Smolensk   Bloody Battle; Hand.-toHand Fighting Raging on Mareth Line. Fresh Nazi Reserves: Enter Donets Struggle.

Heights To North Held By Yankees   One British Column Is Reported To Be Near El Hamma; Americans Repulse Nazi Thrust

Vital Mountain Passes Are - Held By American Forces   British Forces Seize Key Hilltop Near El Hamma, 20 Miles West Of Gabes   REDS TAKE 2 TOWNS NEAR KHARKOV   Allied Heavy Bombers Pound Messina And Sicily; Russian Picture Brighter

British 8th Army Rallies, Lunges At Mareth Line   Americans Improve Their Positions On Central Front

Key Hilltop Seized Near  EI Hamma   Americans Holding in Northwest; German High Command Claims Brief

BRITISH REPORTED MAKING IMPORTANT GAINS IN TUNISIA   EIGHTH ARMY ASSAULT TROOPS RALLY AND LUNGE DEEPER INTO LINE

British Lunge Deeper Into  Mareth Line   English Forces Seize Key Hilltop near El Hamma; US Troops Hold Strong Positions after 10-Mile Advance

BRITISH FORCES LUNGE THROUGH ROMMEL’S LINES   Yanks, Simultaneously Drive Toward Coast To Narrow Nazi Escape Corridor   SOME FIGHTING IS BITTER   Reds Storming on Toward Smolensk and Recover on Kharkov Sector

Report Eighth Army Is Again Moving Ahead   After Setbacks, British Near El Hamma Air Base   American Progress Is Slowed In Central Area   Russians Say New Nazi Divisions In Donets Struggle

Allies Hold Key Hilltop  Positions   Rommel Tank Losses Said Heavy But Mareth Line Battle Rages Fiercely

Fierce Resistance Slows Allied Drives; Weather Threatens Air Activity—Reds Smash New Donets Attacks, Ad vance in Smolensk Area

Allies Repulse Every Attempt To Cut Front   American Troops Advance Ten Miles From El Guetas On Road Toa Gahes.   PLANES COVER ATTACK

HILL SEIZED 0 VERLOOKING GABES PLAINS   With Eighth Army Reporting Gains Americans Take Possession of  Mountain Position   GERMANS ARE REPULSED

IO-MILE ORI 1) MADE: BY Uo, FORGE IN NORTH   Frontline Reports Indicate Terrific Battle Raging — Inside Mareth Line ~

BRITONS PUSH FARTHER INTO MARETH LINE   Also Seize Key Hilltop West of Gabes in Battle With Germane   Yankees Hold Strong  Mountain Positions

First District Scoufer Meetine   All men Interested In Boy Scouting Invited to Session March 21

First District ©. Scouter Meeting   All men Interested In: Boy “Scouting Invited to Session. ATarnonh @i

No Approval — For Big Show  U.S. Agencies Frown On Furniture Display

242 15 U.§. GASUALTY TOLL IN TUNTSIA   Allied Forces Have Much The Better Of Battle, Declares Stimson

DECLARES ALLIES HAD MUCH BEST OF FIGHT IN TUNISIA   REVIEWS PROGRESS OF WAR ON VARIOUS BATTLE FRONTS

Allied Forces Had Better Of Tunisian Fighting Past Week  American Losses Were Heaviest During  Bar _ gg Wake 8d ORR ae ee i eee Ra Bare

SAYS ALLIES DOING OKAY IN TUNISIA   Losses On Both Sides Reported Heavy

Stimson Tells Of Fighting  Allies Had Best of   Allies Had Best of It on African Front From Feb. 14-20

Major Engagement Is Shaping Up on Front in Tunisia   Allies Had Much Better of Fighting Last Week Stimson Declares

Losses On Both Sides In Tunisian Struggle Have Been “Substantial,” Stimson Reveals

Stimson Reviews African Fighting   Says Allies Had Better of Fighting During Week

Stimson War Review Reveals Optimistic Note  Allies Had Better  Of Fighting Last Week, He Says

ALLIES, NAZIS SUFFER LOSSES   Stimson Reports on Fighting in Tunisia, Other War Fronts.

AF FLEA OUT UF Gko LANDS FIRST ON (SLE   Refuels and Carries News of Surrender to His Home Base.   ALLIED TROOPS OCCUPY BASE AFTER BOMBING

REDS DESTROY GERMAN PLANES   Russian Fliers Make Raid On Nazi Airdrome  Near Leningrad

RUSSIAN FLIERS BATTER ENEMY   Danzig Is Blasted As Red Air Arm Speaks With Greater Authority

Reds Bomb Two Major Nazi Cities      Koeuigsburg, Danzig Liberally Plastered Iu Long Range Raid

REDS BOMBING NAZI MILITARY OBJECTIVES   America Has Raised More Than One Third of $13,000,000,000 War Fund So Far  In Drive

Red Bombing Of Objectives Is Increasing   Russian Fliers Stage Raid On Leingrad Airdrome   BUILDINGS ARE FIRED

SOVIET AIRMEN BLAST ENEMY   Bomb German Military Objectives And Cities, And Raid Big Airdrome

SOVIETS SPREAD AERIAL ATTACKS   Raid Nazi Airdrome On Leningrad Front, Drop Bombs On Danzig

RUSSIANS BLAST NAZI AIRDROMES   ATTACK KOENIGSBERG AND DANZIG IN LONG RANGE ASSAULTS

Mounting Force of Reds Is Bombing Nazi Objectives   Russian Fliers Raid Enemy Airdrome:on Leningrad Front ©

Red Army Air Assaults Grow  Tn Intensity      Gernian “Militar v Objec:  _tives and ‘Cities Heavily “- Bombed. 13:Planes: De: af oyed at Nazi’ Leninrad Airdromé:

Mounting Russian Aerial Offensive Is Sapping Germany's Air Man Power

Soviet'Bombs Koenigsberg And Danzig   Reds Using More Air Power for Cracking Bases near Front -

AIR BATTLES GET HOT- OVER RUSSIA   Reports Skimpy On Major Campaigns On Ground

Russ Destroy 13 Nazi Planes  Grounded Craft Near Leningrad Wreekead

Red Bombers Step Activity   Germans Hit At Home And At The Front

REDS STBPPING UP AIR ATTACKS   Latest Feat of Russian Fliers Is Raid On German Airdrome On Leningrad Front   13 PLANES SMASHED   Buildings Set Afire; At tacks Follow Assault On _ Koenigsberg and '  Danzig

RELIEF POLICY. TAKING SHAPE   ‘UNITED NATIONS PLANNING  . REALISTIC APPROACH TO   POSTWAR’ PROBLEMS ~~ IN ‘WAR ZONES

ALLIES 10 BE HARD ON HUNS   UNRRA May Take Food Out Of Reich Rather Than Send In Relief

Man Shoots Wife, Self In Front of Christmas  ree  As Daughter, 2, Looks On

MAN 6 DEAD, 200 INJURE AM IN HARLEM BIOTIN   “DRMER LOCAL MAN t JES IN BIRMINGHAM IK   Quiet Restored To District After 12 Hours

SIX NEGROES “SLAIN AS RIOTS   LaGuardia Announces Disorders Under Control, Denies Racial Basis for Disorders   TRAFFIC LIMITED   Hundreds Arrested as Stores Looted—Trouble Started When Policeman Shot Negro

SIA NEGRUES ARE SLAIN IN N.Y. DISORDERS  LaGuardia Says Harlem Outbreaks Not Race Riots 380 ARRESTED 195 Persons. Includ     380 ARRESTED   195 Persons, Ineluding 40 Policeman, Bait

OU ARE KILLED N HARLEM RIOT   Mayor La Guardia Blames Disorders on irresponsible Hoodlums.

HARLEM SCENE OF WILD DISORDER. FOUR KNOWN DEAE   Cop and Colored Man Tangle Near Hotel—Others Soin In and Fight Started.

6,000 POLICE ON GUARD IN TROUBLE AREA   Hundreds Injured Before Order Is Restored In New York City District   LAGUARDIA MAKES APPEALS   Incident Between Policeman And Negro Military Officer fs Starter

SIX KILLED IN NEGRO OUTBREAK ATNEW YORK   Jails Full at Harlem, Use Armory To House Prisoners

Harlem Disorders  Take Six Lives   Mayor Declares Outbreaks in Negro Sections Are Brought Under Control.

Harlem Negroes Riot; Six Killed; 201 More Injured   Mayor LaGuardia Proclaims Early Curfew To Cope With Situation; Most Serious . Harlem Riots Since 1936

Mayor Says Outbreaks are Under Control After Night of Terror: 380 Held as Looters

195 ARE INJURED IN NEW YORK’S NEGRO SECTION   “orty Policemen Are Among Injured; Negroes Looting Grocery Stores; Mayor Appeals To People To Restore Order.

Six Negroes Are Killed in Harlem Riots   201 Persons, Including 40 Policemen. Injured; 380 Arrested; Disorders Now Under Control

NOT A RAGE RIOT, ~ LA RUARDIA ASSERTS   Blames Hoodlums And Irresponsible People for Out. Break of Disorder

Disorders in Harlem Break Out Afresh   Four Killed In Last Night’s Trouble After Mayor Pleaded Peace

Hoodlums, Not Race Rioting, Blamed By LaGuardia, Who Makes Radio Appeal To Peopl«   Stores Looted By Negroes, Who Throw Canned Fruits And Vegetables Into Streets; More Police, Firemen Called; Gatherings Banned

Harlem Hoodlums Riot, Loot  Six Dead, Many Are Hurt in Outbreaks

Harlem Disorders Said Under Control After Deaths of Six   195 Hurt, Including 40 Policemen; More Than 380 Persons Arrested; JLaotne Cantinnes in Tranhle Area

FOUR KNOWN DEAD, SCORES IN HOSPITAL   Riots Start When Policeman Shoots Soldier Interfering With Arrest

POLICE FIGHT NEGRO BANDS DURING NIGHT   40 Officers Among Injured as They Attempt to Quell Wave of Disorders.   MAYOR MAKES APPEAL   Hospitals Filled With Injured: Wounding of Colored Soldier Starte ft

Six Negroes Killed in N. Y. Street Rioting   No Whites Invoived; 40 Police Hospitalized ; 96° Tajled

six Die n Harlen Rioting   LA GUARDIA IMPOSES 10:30 P. M. CURFEW ON NEGRO DISTRICT

Disorders in Harlem Said Now Under Control; Six Negroes Killed, 201 Persons Injured

La Guardia Criticizes ‘Criminal Acts’ Of Hoodlums; Stores Are Looted In Outbreak

6000 Police Stand Guard  Over Sector   LaGuardia Thrice Appeals to Mobs To End Brawls

6 Killed And “8 201 Injured In Harlem Area   Mayor LaGuardia Orders Curfew Following Disorders: ‘‘Not a Race      NEGROES TO. HELP . PATROL SECTION   Hoodiums Are Blamed for Trouble; Interference With An Arrest Starts Trouble

6 Dead; 195 injured in. ‘Harlem Riots   _ Disorders Under Control—380°  Persona Held By Police

HARLEM RIOTS FATAL TO FOUR   Forty Policemen Among 155 Injuréd In New York Disorders

Harlem Rioters Kall Six   190 Persons Injured As Hoodlums Battle New York Policemen: Stores Are Looted

Disorders in Harlem Termed Under Contro!   Mayor LaGuardia De: clares That Trouble ‘Is Not a Race Riot’

DISTURBANCES ACCOMPANIED BY LOOTING   Almost 200 Persons, Including Fort: Policemen, Injured in Demonstration in N. Y.   ‘MAYOR'S PLEA IGNORED

NEGROES LOOT STORES AFTER  ONE TS KILLED   Hne Hundred and Ninety sive, Including 40 Police ¢ men, Injured During Tyrisine      80 UNDER ARREST;   RACE RIOT DENIED

ix Slain, 201 When Riots re In Harlem  380 Are Arrested As Looting Sweeps  Dear Neaorm Aras

FOUR ARE DEAD AND 155 HURT IN HARLEM FIGHTS   Mayor La Guardia Declares ‘This Is No Race Riot’ in Appeal for Peace   DETROIT IS TENSE AGAIN   Military Police Called Out in Savannah .and Shipyard Gripped by Race Row

Harlem Rioting Fatal to Six, With 195 Injured  380 Arrested as Looting of Stores Checked

6 Killed in N.Y. Riots   201 Hurt as Mobs Break Windows and Loot Harlem Stores

Six Killed, 195 — Are Hurt During ‘Violent Outbreak   La Guardia Reports Situation Under Control After Hours Of Wild Disorders’

HELP CURB VIOLENCE   Stores Looted When Blacks Run Amuck As Soldier Shot

Street Brawls, Stabbings And Shootings Bring Out 6,000 New York  Policemen IGNORE MAYOR’S PLEAS  40 Policemen en Among Those ~  Injured—Many Arrested   IGNORE MAYOR’S PLEAS

SIX KILLED, 201 \NJURED AS RIOT SWEEPS HARLEM   OUTBREAK BLAMED TO HOODLUMS AS POLICE PATROL NEGRO AREAS

HARLEM DISORDERS ARE UNDER CONTROL SAYS LA GUARDIA   Six Negroes Were Killed in a Night of Outbreaks; 195 Injured.   Six Thousand Officers Rushed to Scene to Handle the Situation.

Harlem Under Control’ After Six Neqroes Killed   195 Persons, Including. 40 Policemen; Injured and More Than 380 Arrested As Looting of Stores Continues

195 Injured in Harlem Disorders   ‘Mayor LaGuardia Says Hoodlums Responsible; Denies it Is Race Riot

Six Negroes Killed In Harlem Rioting   Estimated 195 Persons, Mostly Negroes but Including 40 Policemen, Are Hurt— No Racial Troubles Involved.

NEW YORK’S HARLEM DISTRICT SCENE OF BLOODY RIOTING   SIX NEGROES DEAD; MANY PERSONS INJURED BATTLING POLICE

LaGuardia Says Harlem Outbreaks Not Race Riots   195 Persons, Including 40 Policeman, Hurt

Thousands of Negroes Riot In Harlem Area   Four Are Dead And 195 Wounded. In Street Fighting

- 40 Policemen Among Injured   * Not Race Trouble, Says Mayor   Three Dead After Drowning Accidents

—HARLEM—  POLICE BATTLE. NEGRO RIQTERS   Lawlessness Under Control Teday After Night Of Outbreaks   380 ARE ARRESTED   Hoodlums Smash Windows Of Stores, Throw Food Into Streets

6 Killed, 201 Hurt In Harlem Hoodlum Riot   La Guardia Imposes Curfew; 40 Policemen Are Injured   ‘NOT RACE UPRISING'   6,000 Called To Duty During Siege Of Looting, Fighting, Wrecking

6 Killed, 201 Are Injured In Harlem Rioting   Curfew Is Clamped Or Negro District To Halt Disorders

Curfew Imposed:on Harlem as Six Are Killed, 201 Including 40 Policemen Hurt in Rioting

HARLEM COUNTS SIX DEAD, 193 BADLY INJURED   Shooting of Negro Soldier By Policeman Starts  Rioting   MOBS LOOT STORES   LaGuardia Calls Out 6,000 Officers To Maintain Order

Mayor La Guardia Reports Disorders Now Under Control   Outbreak Starts When Policeman Shoots Negro Who Attempts To - Interfere With Woman’s Arrest

FOUR KILLED, 200 HURT IN HARLEM RIOT   363 Arrested; Fight Starts At Hotel

Seize 380 On Charges Of Looting   Disorders Are Started When Officer Shoots Negro Interfering With Woman’s Arrest

Curfew Imposed On Harlem After Disorders Bring Death To 6 And Injaries To 201

6 Negroes Die in Harlem Disorders   Forty Police in Group -of 195 Who Were Injured  in Rioting   ‘NOT A RACE. CONFLICT   Mayor LaGuardia Reports Situation Is Under Control Today .

Outbreaks in Harlem Placed Under Control   Six Negroes Killed, 195 Persons, Mostly Negroes, and 40 Policemen Injured

Crop Prospects Less Promising   - Winter Wheat Yield   27 Per Cent Under 1942

DROP FOR CROP PROSPECTS IS LISTED BY U.S.   , Outlook Poorest in 3 Years, Agricultural Department Reports

FATE OF INCOME TAX MEASURE IN FDR'S HANDS   Predict Roosevelt Will Sign Bill; Taft, Burton Vote For It

A table showing tax deductions from weekly: pay checks under the newly-passed bill will be found on Page 3.

ADDITIONAL CASES OF CANNED GOODS   New Methods Of Plating Cans Wiil Enable Increased Quotas  For Civilians

Fighting i in Africa On Small Scale   RAF Blasts Stuttgart Factories Turning Out Sub, Airplane Motors

But Lose © Ground At Kharkov    NAZIS MAY RE-TAKE KHARKO' WHICH WOULD LEAVE THEM 1 POSITION FOR SPRING OFFENS

RUSSIAN FIGHTING MOVING TO SPRING ~-GLIMAX ON FRIDAY   Air War in Westerr Europe Is Also Mounting in Tempo—Great  Battles Rage.

OHATCHEE YOUTH MISSING   Private Bill Rogers Reported Lest In Italy

Former Local Worker Missing   Sgt Max Flook, A.A.F. Radioman, Missing In Seattle Since Julw 24.

REPORT XENIA MAN ‘MISSING’   Pfe. Charles F. Wilson Is Unaccounted For

Dubuque Pilot Is Missing   Lieut. Frank Saunders Active on European  War Front

Lt.C. A. Guinn Fails To Get Back In- Raid   S. P. Agent Receives .Word Son Missing In ‘Attack On Germany

PVT, DEWEY M’NALLY MISSING IN AGTION   Telegram Was Received by His Father, Dewey McNally From War Department.

Sgt. H.R. Hecker, Twice Decorated, Missing In Action   Top Gunner In Flying Fort Completed 15 Missions In European Theater

Clyde Walker Is Now Missing   Former Ardmore Boy Fails to Return From Mission Over Germany

WAUPETON MAN LOST IN ACTION   ‘Parents Are Advised Cletus Link Is Missing

LT, R. P, SHERRER MISSING IN ACTION   Internal Revenue Collector's Son Missing Since July 29. °

COUNTY SOLDIER MISSING FROM BOMBER FLIGHT   Staff Sergt. Max K. Flook, Myersville, Unheard From For Month   REPORTED LOST IN SICILIAN CAMPAIGN

Sgt. Chambers, Bomber Gunner Listed Missing   Veteran Of Three Raids Missing In Action Over Germany On Oct. 14

US Can Now Dictate Place Of Fighting   Secretary Knox Tells Audience at Indianapolis of Great Strides of Enlarging Fleet; Tonnage to Increase 66%,

KNOX DISCUSSES IMPROVEMENTS Al NEWS CONFERENCE   Tells Writers United States !s Now In Position To Dictate Where Fighting Will Take Place. .   INCREASES IN NAVAL FORCES ARE REVEALEL   Warns That Worst of War Lies Ahead of Us, German Undersea Power An EverIncreasing Evil.

U.S. AT START OF VICTORY, KNOX SAYS      Huge Production of Ships Planned for 1944

U, §, POWER UP, OFFICIAL SAYS   We Are Now in Position To Dictate War Zone, Knox Reports

Knox Says Ships Will Bring Victory   Production Now On Heroic Scale

SIZE OF U.S. NAVY - TO BE DOUBLED BY END OF NEXT YEAR   Knox Says Allies Now al Beginning of Victory and Can Dictate Fighting

Nation’s Navy To Dictate Next Fighting Scene   Secretary Knox. Reports Big Start On Way to Victory

United States Is at Beginning of Ultimate Victory Says Frank Knox

NAV TO INCREASE BD PERCENT IN 43   More New Fighting Ships Will Be Completed Than Were in Service Dec., 1942

KNOX SAYS U, S. READY TO STRIKE   In Position To Launch Offensive, Build Ships on Heroic Scale

To Victory, Says Knox   Our Nevy in Position To Pick Site for Fighting, He Asserts

Sovieis Break Six-Day . Nazi Attack   7,000 Germans Are Killed; 25 Tanks Knocked Out

September BondQuot: $2,675,400   Bank Purchases Not Included in Next  Month Campaign

Chinese Troops Enter Owchikow  Severe Casualties yw fae f,f.ig fr ep   Severe Casualties Inflicted On Japs

Chinese Move Into ‘Lotus Pond Inlet’  Owchihkow Entered After Japs Suffer ‘Severe Losses’

Italians Claim Drives Cost  Allies Heavily   Says Invaders Have Yet to Meet Main Axis Strength

Axis Hoots Of Fierce Fighting   Tune Closely Akin  To Africa Retreat By GORDON TAIT

Berlin, Rome Try to Bolster People With ‘Assurances Axis Still Fights

Axis Propaganda Machines Play Familiar Tune   Broadcasts Report Sicily’ Defenders Resisting Stubbornly

Induction Call Faced _ By Fathers   Drafting Of Some Will Begin In October As Boards Scrape Bottom Of Manpower Barrel

STREAMLINED CAMPAIGN HITS GOP SNAG   Plan Falls Into No-Fourth-Term Ambush

Demos Still Nurse Plan To Maké Presidential Campaign Short and Sweet

Restaurant Meals to Be Restricted  Limitation Plans Being Studied

EE Re  OPA Studies Limiting Of Restaurant.Courses And Size of Portions      Council of Volunteer Housewives  Being Organized To Advise OPA

Restaurants May Be Required To limit Portions   Government Considering Restrictions on Public Eating Places

Rationing for Diner-Out  Order to Limit. Cafe Courses. Portions.

RESTAURANT COURSES MAY BE LIMITED UNDER NEW PLAN   Size of Portions May be Reduced, Federal Official Says——Order Not to be Whipped Into Shape for Several Weeks

STUDY RATIONING OF CAFE PATRONS   OFFICIALS MAY LIMIT SIZE OF PORTIONS AND NUMBER OF COURSES.

Soviets Enter Cherkassy,  AOI yg theme mew  ‘Also Approach Kirovograd

China Yanks Blast Hainan Isle Slins   FBI Probes Photos Of Nazi _ U.S. Prisoners, Nippon Womer

Death, Terror And Destruction. ... .  Detroit Quiet After U.S.  Troops Arrive; 23 Dead, 700 Hurt In Race Riots

Federal Troops Ordered In By President Roosevelt To Halt Disorders   RIOTS COST 23 LIVES. THOUSANDS ARE JAILED   White. Negro Civic Leaders Charge 5th Column Work, But FBI Disagrees

VIOLENCE ENDS AS U.S. TROOPS GUARD STREETS   1,300 Arrested During Riots; 700, Treated  For Injuries

Soldiers Arrive in Michigan Metropolis Tn Enforce the President’s Proclamation Ordering All to Stop Rioting Activities

Detroit Quiet; U.S. Soldiers Patrol Cily   Troops Given Orders tc Lead Guns, ‘Don't Take Anything Off Anybody’   CAUSE OF RIOTING Is UNDETERMINED   But White and Negro Leaders Blame ‘National FifthColumn Conspiracy’

23 Persons Are Killed In Detroit   President Calls For End Of Trouble; 700 Hurt,  1,300 Arrested During Thicarder«

White and Negro Opponents Skulk Into Hiding   23 Killed, 700. . Injured ond 1 300 :Hetd in Jats

Bayonets and Gun Enforce Calm in Big Motor Capital   FBI Has Found ‘No Indication’ of Enemy Influence

TROOPS THWART RACE RIOTS IN DETROIT TODA)   Industrial City Counts 2: Dead, 700 Injured As Army Takes Over

Army Restores Peace In Riot Torn Detroit   Roosevelt Order Follows Killing Of 23; 700 Hurt, 1,300 Arrested   WAR JOBS SUFFER   Troops Told To 'Fix Bayonets, Don't Take Anything From Anybedy'

Peace Restored In Detroit Today   FEDERAL TROOPS NOW CONTROL RACE RIOTING

Fifth Column Blamed for Race Battle   Civie Leaders Suspect — Conspiracy to Break National Unity   TROOPS IN CONTROL   Nearly 700 Injued and Approximatels 1.300 Ariested

THE ARMY GOES INTO RIOT-TORN DETROIT   White and Negro Antagen. ists Skulked Into Hiding Following 23 Deaths.

Army: Rule Halts Riots In Detroit   President Issues Demand > Negroes, Whites Desist: Death Toll Reported 23

TROOPS GUARD DETROIT UNDER ORDERS OF FOR   President Calls for End Of Race Riots In Metropolis   23 DEAD ARE LISTED   Sports Contests Halted;  Hunt Cause of Violent Outbreak

RACE FIGHTS CAUSE DEATHS OF 23 PEOPLE   At Least Seven Hundred  Injured and Approximately 1,300 Are Being Held by Police  LOOT IS EXTENSIVE

23 Dead, 700 Injured, 1,300 Arrested; Cause of Quibreak Unknown.

Detroit racial rioting wanes as federal troops take over   Casualty toll is 23 dead, 700 hurt, violence not organized, FBI says

Troops Take Over Detroit; Rioting Ends   Army Investigating Its Effect in Production of War Materials

23 Are Killed, 700:   Presidential Proclamation Sends. Troops..into City.to Back Un Gov. Kelly’s Ban. on. As- . sembly; Rioters Return.to Peace.as. Police Arrest 1,300

Bloody Fighting Ends With Arrival Of Federal Troops   Twenty-three Die, Scores Injured In Battles Between Whites And Negroes

Race Riot Dead 23: Injured 760   Attempt by Camp Custer Negroes To Seize Guns and March on Citv Is Frustrated

U.S. SOLDIERS RESTORE ORDER AT DETROIT   After 23 Persons Were Killed and More © Than 700 Injured

FIGHTING RAGES FOR TWO DAYS   Auto City’s Hospitals Are Crowded With More Than 700 Wounded

23 DEAD AS  RACE RIOT QUIETS DOWN   Federal Troops Sent Into Detroit by President Roosevelt; 760 Iniured,

RACE RIOTS IN DETROIT ENDED BYU,S. TROOPS   \Steel-Helmeted ‘Soldiers Move In to Enforce Roosevelt Plea Dis i _orders Be Quelled   23 DEAD; 700 HURT   Approximately 1300 Arrest - ed As Blood:of Both Negroand White Runs in Streets

TROOPS PATROL STREETS OF CITY TODAY; 23 DIE   100 Injured, 1,300 Arrested: Cancel Tribe-Tiger Baseball Game

23 Dead, 700 Hurt And 600 Arrested In Disorders; FDR Asks Cooperation

PEACE SETTLED OVER RIOT-TORN DETROIT WHEN ARMY ARRIVES   TWENTY-THREE DEATHS CAUSED BY RACIAL _ FLAREUP MONDAY

Army Restores Detroit Order After 23 Dead   Troops Move In Under Presidential Order; Amusements Cancelled,   700 PERSONS INJURED

Rioting Ends In Detroit After 23 Deaths   Army-Enforced Peace Effective; President Issues Proclamation

‘Race Riot Is Quieted by Army Troops   Rioters Ordered by FDR to Desist; Racial Fights Cause Death of 23, Injury to 700 and Arrests of 1,300

KEEP ORDER IN DETRON   Arrival to Back Up Presidential Demand for Quiet Follows Race Riots in Which 23 Die and 700 Are Hurt.

Troops Bring Quiet To Riot-torn Detroit   23 Persons, Including 20 Negroes, Dead, 700 Injured; Find No Evidence Disturbance Was Organized Move.

Machine Guns, Armored Cars Roll Thru City   Gen. Guthner, ExDenverite, Heads U. 5. Army Units

U. S. Troops  Bring Quiet To Detroit   Semblance of Peace Restored After Day Of Race Riots Brings. Death to 23 Persons...

Stores. Pillaged As Street Battles Rage; Hos: . pitals Jammed With Wounded; é 5th Column Blamed" *   10. O’CLOCK. CURFEW IS ORDERED

Army Restores Peace To Riot-Torn Detroit   20 Negroes And 3 Whites Dead After Fights; 700 Persons Injured And 600 Arrested

Rioting In Detroit Ends As Military Takes Over   President Calls For End Of Race Rioting As Army Moves In; Twenty-Three Dead, 700-Injured In Racial Disorders.

‘Detroit Peaceful As Troops ‘Quel Calamitous Race Riot  ‘In Which 23 Died, 700 Hurt   Soldiers Patro{ City; 1,300 In Jail; President Takes Hand; Calm Restored

Soldiers Restore  Peace In Violent Detroit Race Riots   President Calls For End Of Strife, 23 Die

WITH 2d DEAD DETRON fACE ALOT QUELLEL   Army Detachments Take Over City with Light Tanks, Arrnored Cars.   700 INJURED IN DAY’S BATTLES; 1,300 ARRESTED

AFTER 23 DI   Seace Settles Upon RiotTorn Detroit After Troops Arrive   Injury Toll Mounts to 600; More Troops Reported 6 On Way

23 Killed, 700 Injured in Race Rioting   President Calls for End of Fighting; Cause Of Disturbance Unknown

ARMY BRINGS END OF DETROIT  RACE RIOTING      20 Negroes, Three Whites Slain, At Least 700 Injured Before Soldiers Enforced Peace ,   1,300 ARRESTED   Situation Much Improved Within 30 Minuies of Troops’ Arriva! Under Sontro] Within Hour

Army Called To End Rioting fn ‘Detroit Today   Peace Settles Upon  \ City; 23 Are Killed: 700 ~=Hurt, 1,300 Arrested

Troops Bring Detroit Quiet After Riots   City Quickly Calmed After Arrival Of Rerular Army Forces

‘ZOPERSONS DEAD IN DETROIT RICT, GREAT MANY HURT   Conditions {prove Greatly Short Time After 1100 Soldiers Take Command of Situation.   “DDITIONAL SOLDIERS ” ARE ORDERED 70 CITY   Transport Employes Who Quit Work Owing to Fights on Street Cars Are Ordered Back to Work.

Troops Restore Calm in Detroit   Soldiers Bring Back Order After Race Rioting in Which 23 Killed.

Federal Troops Enforce Calm In Riofing Detroit  Still Uncertain On   Still Uncertain On What Provoked the Violent Outburst

Federal Troops” Sent to Detroit As Riots Spread   23 Reported Dead; . Roosevelt Commands End of Race Fights

U. 5. Soldiers Take Charge of Riof-Torn City   23 Meet Death, 700 Injured in Monday Clashes

Detroit Under Strict Rule Of Federal Troops   Enforced Calm Follows Racial Battles; Death Toll Set At 23.

Detroit Settling Down UnderRule Of Federal Army   Twenty-three Are Killed In Rioting While Hundreds More Are Injured And Still Others In Jail

Detroit Riots Quiet When  Army Comes   Day and Night of Fighting Cost 23 Lives, Injuries to 700

Riots End as Troops Arrive  Helmeted Federal   Helmeted Federal Soldiers in Detroit — 23 Slain in Riots

Warships Again Shell Catania   Thirteen New Towns And Villages In Sicily Fall Into Allied Hands

SENATORS ADVISE SIMPLER METHODS IN OIL RATIONING   Would Centralize Control in Petroleum Chief to End “Intolerable Division of Authority.”

EASE FUEL OIL RULES   New Ruling Aimed at Eliminating  Divided Authority

Urge Simpler Oil Rationing  Little Improvement   Little Improvement In Oil Supply Next  Winter Seen

Urge Change In Oil Rationing Senate Committee  Proposes Ickes Be Placed In:Full Charae

Their Chance To Hit Axis Coming   Mass Attack Against . The Enemy Close At Hand   FIGURES GIVEN FOR NORTH AFRICA

Grigg Hints Mass Attack On Foe Near  Canadians Soon Mav See Action

PATIENCE OF OLDIERS SOON WILL BE ENDED   ; James Grigg Indicates  o Commons: of Forth coming New Venture For Allies   EW FIELDS OPEN TO PARATROOPERS   emarks Highlighted By  lord Beaverbrook’s De mand for Two Attacks Upon Continent

EUROPEAN INVASION NOT FAR OFF, CLAIM   British War Minister Pledges Action To Be Soon

2nd Front Near Briton Hints   War Minister Tells Commons Invasion of Europe Looms Soon

CommonsGetsHint  Of New Ventures   Griggs Says Canadians Won't Have to Wait Much Longer For Mass Attack Against Enemy

SAYS AMERICAN SOLDIERS MAY NOT HAVE LONG TO WAIT FOR  MASS ATTACK AGAINST ENEMY

British War Minister Hints New Allied Blows In Offing   “Trusts” Impatient Canadians Won't Have To Wait Long For Mass Attack

New Europe Front Soon   British Minister Of War Reveals  Plan In Commons

HOPES INVASION WAIT NEAR END   British War Minister Says Canadian Troops Irked

Britain's War Minister Hints New Offensive   Indicates Canadians In England Will See Ac: Han Saon.

Urges That Marshall Be Renominated By Roosevelt as U. §. Chief of Staff

‘DINERS OUT’ ~- JO GET LESS   FOOD ALLOWANCES IN PUBLIC EATING PLACES TO BE. ABOUT. SAME AS IN ~ HOMES .

Lush Steaks  ' Disappear in ~ Restaurants OPA Edict Slashes Meat  Canenmntian Tin ta   SMALLER PORTIONS   Proposal Is Studied to Limit Diners to Three or Four Ounces

No-Tax Texas Legislature Session Seen   Members of House Committee Vote Down Eight Bills

Goktiek Viaduct Blasted In Burma   Direct Hits Reported On 2,200. Foot Span On Road To Lashio

One Killed, 2 Wounded In Gun Fight on Main Street of Albuquerque

President Worships Palm Sunday With'3,400 Men at Camp Joe T: Robinson

MINERS MAKE WAGE DEMAND   Hard Coal Workers Seek $2 A Day Hike, Denounce  Critics of Lewis

MINERS ASK $2 A DAY INCREASE   Leaders Of 90,000 Hard Coal Unions Denounce Lewis Critics

‘MASTER MIND" IN TIRE DEAL SOUGHT   Senator Fails to Find Out About Shipments to * South America.

INFLATION'S GAP NOTIN U, §, YET   Economist Says Predictions ‘May Soon Be Realized’ At Present Rate

NFLATIONARY AP FORECAST Y ECONOMIST   ne of Major Size “May  soon Be Realized,” A. W.  Zelomex, Noted Statistician, Claims   OPLE FAILING TO s PPRECIATE DANGER   olds Gap, Greatly Over‘stimated In Past, Now Becoming Real; Two Reasons Cited

TRAINS SHOT UP BY RAF RAIDERS   New Air Assault Upon Continent Continues For Fourth Day

NewU. S. Bombers To Hit Germany  Super-Forts, Liberators To Go To Pacific

PLAN TO USE NEW BOMBER AGAINST AXIS   German Targets On Continent Bomhed Round-The-Clock

U.S, AIRFORCE PLANNING NEW BOMB-CARRIER   Will Be Capable of Toting Greater Weight of Explosives To Hasten Germany's Defeat

New Bombers Being Built   Short-Range Planes To Carry Great Bomb Weight

NEW BOMBERS TO POUND FOE   Short-Range Aircraft Designed To Hasten Defeat Of Germany

AAF Is Developing New, Efficient Heavy-Load Plane  Fliers Will Employ Short-Range Craft Over Europe

Less Gasoline In Prospect —   Military. Demands Darken. The Picture

Increased Military Demands To Cut Civilian Gas Supply   Ickes Says East Coast Motorists Have Overdrawn Gag Allotments

Californian Convicted OF Slaying Rockford Man Sentenced to Prison

COLUMBUS SOLDIER. - SURVIVES ACCIDENT   Sergeant Escapes Crash That Killed General, Bishop.

CITY POPULATION HAS INCREASED   St. Lonis and Kansas City Show Gain, St, Joseph and Springfield Show Less

Governor Offers Slashed Wartime State Budget    Chief Executive’s 2-Year Recommended Fund Shows Reduction of $88,000,000 Under the Allotments of 2 Years Ago

Warren Cives State Budget (OF 463 Million   Assumes War Likely Continue Through Thea Voor Ferm

MARRIED. GROUP “FACING EARLY -INDUCTIGN GALL   ‘Tipton. County Family Men . May Receive Calls by May. ,   NO -MORE SINGLE MEN   Exhaustion of. 18-Year-O1d Group Seen by ‘End of  the Month. .

MARRICD GROUP FAGING EARLY INDUCT CALL   Tipton Couniy Family Men May Receive Calls by May.   NO MORE SINGLE MEN   Exhaustion of , 18-Year-Old Group Seen by End of the Month.

Farmer Shoots Up His Family, Fires His Home  Boy Killed, Mother And Two Other Children Wounded

Green Bay Man Is Held On Murder Charge Pending Hearing On Question Of Sanity

New Catch-All Supply Bill Is Sliced By 82%   Economy Wave Sweeps Congress; Bill Now Mere Skeleton

APPROPRIATIONS CUT 82 PER CENT BY HOUSE GROUE   Over Billion Catch-All Bill Slashed In Congressional Economy Campaign’ to 200 Million.   SMME REQUESTS ARE ENTIRELY OUT OF BILL   OWI Granted Request For An Additional Fund as Navy Plea For Vast Sum May Be Transferred.

pron Bill Is Slashed $2-Percent By House Committee   Congressional Economy Drive Slices Figure From Near Two Billions To ‘Around Two Hundred Millions.

REVISED TAX BILL GOES 10 HOUSE FLOOR   Committee Slashes Catchall Appropriations By 82 Per Cent

OD PER GENT GUT IN FUND MEASURE   House Deficiency Subcommittee Slashes Ap propriation Requests

Over All Bill  Is Slashed by Committee   OWI Gets Allotment After Military Leaders Tells of Worth in Italian Campaign

Appropriations Bill Slashed   ‘ House Committee Cuts It Down by 82 Per cenf In Economy Move ~

Appropriations Cut To Bone  Requests By Gov't Agencies Cut 82 P.C By Harwuca Clpnun

Money Bill  To House   Remnants of Appropriation Measure Gut of Committee

$1,196,428,749 Appropriations Bill Cut 82 Per Cent to $215 368 444

GROUP SLASHES U. $. AGENCIES’ FUND REQUESTS   Oft-Embattled OWI Escapes “Bone Removing Operation” in Bill

82 PER CENT ~TRINMED OFF BUDGET BILL   Appropriation Is Cut From $1,196,000,000 To $215,000,000

ECONOMY DRIVE HAS CUT APPROPRIATION: BILL T0 SKELETON  _ MEASURE CALLING FOR OVER BILLION DOLLARS

EY BILL IS TRIMMED §2 PER CENT         Billion - Dollar Catch- All Appropriations Measure Emerges From House Committee Reduced to $915 26R ddd.

ECONOMY DRIVE HAS CUT APPROPRIATIONS BILL TO SKELETON  MEASURE CALLING FOR OVER BILLION DOLLARS CUT 82 PER CENT

House Committee Slashes Appropriations Bill 82 Per Cent In Congress Economy Drive

Deeply Slashed Appropriations  Bill Submitted   Budget Askings Cut By 82 Per Cent In Congressional Economy Drive.

Condress Saving Drive Is Begun   House Group Cuts $215,368 444 From Bill

Measure Slashed  By 82 Per Cent In Economy Move   Navy Refused $750,000,000 Request; ' OWI Only Agency to Escape Action  Farm Borrowins: Reauest Denied

ECONOMY KNIFE KEEN, WHITTLES BIG FUNDS BILL   Appropriations Measure : Trimmed 82 Percent to $215,368,444

$1,196,428,749 Catch-Al Appropriations Cur By 82 In Congressional! Economy Drive

SOLONS SLASH 82 PER CENT FROM APPROPRIATIONS BILL   BILLION DOLLAR MEASURE DROPS TO TOTAL OF $215.368.444 IN CONGRESS ECONOMY DRIVE

Budgets Cut 82% Tn. House   Committee Measure Launches Eeonomy Drive by House

Fund Measure Renorted After Heavy Slash   Committee Reduces Deficiency Requests By 82 Percent

DEFICIENCY BILL SLASHED BY 82%   MEASURE NOW GOES TO FLOOR OF HOUSE IN ECONOMY DRIVE

Economy Drive Cuts Catch-All Bill 82%   FSA Turned Down But OWI Escaped

House Slashes Appropriation By 82 Percent   Biggest vie Cul Was In Refusing Navy's Request For &750.000.000,   RAISE HOUSE ACCOUNT

British Streak Ahead “Like a Scalded Cat”   we «* KK © C>~adians Call Show Piece of Cake” —

BRITISH DRIVE IS FAR AHEAD OF TIME TABLE   Italians Surrendered In Droves, Canadians Take Objectives On Toe Of Italy’s Boot   ‘LONG TOMS’ BLAST AMMUNITION DUMP   Coastal Defense Reported Negligible and Beaches. Not Mined; GermansTake to Hills

No Germans Are Found In Invasion And Italians Surrendering In Droves

REPORTS INDICATE CANADIANS, BRITISH AHEAD OF SCHEDULE  VAST ARRAY OF SHIPPIN IN MESSINA STRAIT

Invasion Forces Streaking Ahead   British And Canadians Far Above Schedule   Italians Welcome British; ~ NoGerman Troops Sighted

FOR GOOD WINES Don’s Grill, 517 Erie st. N.—Ad.   FAMILY WFEERLY AWART

REQUEST IS MADE FOR MORE AID   Concentration Of Nip Troops In Adjacent Islands Cited

AUSSIES STILL FEAR ATTACK   Bismarck Sea Victory Fails To Quiet Apprehension Over Jap Strength In South  Wa nth

Australia Worries Over Need of Aid   FEARFUL VICTORY IN PACIF. Ic MAY LEAD TO LIGHTENING HELP

Concentration of Ships and Men Brings Appeal for More Aid From United  Qtatac Farcas.

GERMANS SAY ALLIES UPON PANTELLERIA   Lack Confirmation; Planes Hammer  At Island

Intensify Offensive On Outpost   American Bombers Hammer Pantelerria; Destroy 39  Planes, Lose .

BLACK MARKETS TO BE ATTACKED   Patriotic Cooperation Sought In Ohio by War Board Head

New blow At Nippon Is Hinted   Halsey Predicts Long Jump In Pacific

Halsey Hints Bigger Action  To Come Soon  Bougainville Said by Admirai To Be Allied Springboard

HEAVIER SMASHES AT JAPS HINTED   HALSEY REVEALS BOUGAINVILLE RAID COST U. S. 50 DEAD AND 200 WOUNDED.

Heads of Rail  Unions Order. Strike Vote ®   Ballots Returnable Nov. 25 for 15 Nou-Operating Groups

BRIDGEHEAD 1S ESTABLISHED ON ROAD 10 ROME   Eighth Army Consolidates Hold On Adriatic Port Of Termoli

YANKS GET FIRM NEW BRIDGEHEAD IN TOUGH BATTLE   Montgomery Also Advances; Crack Nazi Units Fail to Halt Allies

OFFERS POINTS FOR WASTE FAT   OPA Considers Incentive Plan In Sulhace Prive.

Allies Pour’7,000,000 Pounds of Bombs” On Mussolini's [sland Fortress Pantelleria

HITS CONDUCT OF U.S. TROOPS   New Caledonia Gevernac in Blast; American Soldiers Are Defended °

French Governor Raps U.S. Troops   War Correspondent Defends Our Forces

Nrter Savs — any ~£008 “Ticcims ‘souging ""accics” in <e9.v —0 ~ aims Negroes A--ac <ec. “Nomen

LIQUOR ZONE PLAN TO BE DISCARDED   folicy Regarded as Only Temporary Expedient

Sicilian Campaign Grinds to Close   Yank Guns Hurl Shells Across Straits Onto Italian Mainland

Begin to Stir Political Pot   Governors’ — Conference And G. O. P. Pow-wow -Plave Eyes on 1944

GRAPE TRADERS STILL IN DARK   Mark Time On Mart Pending OPA’s Decision On Ceiling Price

Pontiff Sends rR. Message   Vaticen Intimates It ts Personal end Will Met Be Made Public

' MUSSOLINI ATTEMPTED TO: CONCEAL FROM FASCIST COUNCIL THAT HITLER HAD REFUSED AID

Mussolini Fired When Doublecross  Backfires On Him   Dino Grandi Produces Transcript Of Duce-Hitler Conference   HITLER AGAINST BALKAN FIGHTS

HOUSE MAY EASE EXCISE TAXES CN SOME LUXURIES   Ways and Means Members Expect to Adjust Whiskey Levies. "Phone Calis.

More Enemy Planes, Tanks Are Wrecked   Tunis‘and Bizerte the. Only: Ports Left.to Ger- .. man: Forces      20 ,000 PRISONERS s --.. JN ALLIED HANDE:      Allies Racing Fast in Attempt: to Prevent: Rommel From Digging In

Eighth Army Grabs Key City   MONTGOMERY RACES 40 MILES IN 24 HOURS; ROMMEL IN HEADLONG FLIGHT UNDER ALLIED POUNDING AS ALL CENTRAL TUNISIA WAVERS

First Army Takes Kairouan As Americans Capture Faid Pass.   AIR FGRCES ARE ACTIVE

Forces of Rommel Reel  Under Blows   Enemy Offering Light Opposition; 41 Axis Planes Knocked Down

OTHER ALLIES OCCUPY BASE AT KAIROUAN   Knock Out 10 Nazi Tanks Beyond Town — Rommel’s Men Reel Under Ground, Air Blows—41 Enemy Planes Downed,

Southern Defenses Collapse   Allies Reach Sfax and Push on Into Mountain De fense Lines

Allies Capture Sfax, Mahares, Push Onward   Axis Defenses Crumble; Yanks Hit Rommel’s Flank

‘SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN CONVENTION   Meet At Sharpsburg Wednesday, May 26

U.S. SINKS JAP CRUISER AND 2 DESTROYERS   Two Other Ships of Each Class Damaged in Battle

Reveal Latest Naval Clash Is - Costly To Japs   Five Warships Of Japanese Unit Sunk In Battle Off Bougainville   FOUR OTHER SHIPS BADLY DAMAGED

STRIKE PERILS MOTOR OUTPUT   About 29,000 Wright Corp. Workers in Wildcat Walkout

Two Army Privates Break Post Jail To Escape In Stolen Training Plane

2NAVY PATROL PLANES SINK ENEMY U-BOAT   With 30 Or 40 Survivors Afloat; Rafts Were Low ered But No Word Of Landing Received   Commend Crew

Enemy Submarine Sunk _ By Navy Patrol Planes   Craft Disappears, Leaving 30 or 40 Survivors Afloat —Heavy Bomber Dives on-U-boat and  Cripples It Badly

Two Navy Planes Sink Sub In South Atlantic Action   Officer Dives with PBY Craft to Cripple Fos Boat and Another Finishes Off Enemy; Survivors Left Floating Unreported

Leaves Crew Afloat ; PBY Dive Bombs U-Boat, Sinks It While Guns Blaze

AXIS U-BOAT DESTROYEDE lS. PLANES      Rafts Dropped to 30 or 40 Survivors, but Whether Men Reached Shore i in Donht. vt   NAVY DESCRIBES : FIGHT IN ATLANTIC   One Pilot Cripples Raider With Depth Bombs and. Second Finishes Job in Face of Gunfire. ~e

2 NAVY PATROL PLANES SINK AXIS SUB IN SOUTH ATLANTIC      Enemy Craft Went Down With Its Deck Guns Firing And 30 Or 40 Survivors Afloat; PBY Crippled Vessel By Unorth odox Power Dive

Joe Citizen to Decide Future Role of Patton   Public Reaction to Be Studied: General Still Heads Seventh Army   Berlin Being ‘Hamburgered   Yanks Secure Island Victory

GEN, PATTON'S FUTURE ROLE UP TO PEOPLE.   Public Opinion Will Determine His Position 

PUBLIG REACTION IN U,$, MAY DETERMINE PATTON'S WAR ROLI   General Who Slapped Soldier Still 7th Army Leader

BIG INCREASE IN AIR FORCE   AMERICAN BEAVY BOMBER . BTRENGTR IN BRITAIN HAS DOUSLED SINCE MARCH

Find 2 Girls Guilty of Check Fraud   Nine Others, Also Accused of Operating Confidence Game, Go to Trial Friday in Criminal Court.

R.S. Bright Dies Of Hear Ailment In Richmond   Frederick Resident Was Former Philadelphia Lawyer And Banker ; Purchased Rau Place

ARMY FLIERS STEAL PLANE, MAKE ESCAPE   Fly Over “Shooting Territory” After Making Getaway From Guardhouse in California

2 SOLDIERS — FLEE IN PLANE   Escape Guardhouse for Hazardous Flight

BUTTER POINT VALUE RAISED TO 16 PER LB   Point Values Of Most Meats To Remain Unchanged

Butter Boosted To 16 Points   Meat Ration Values Virtually Unchangec

Increase In Ration Cost Of Butter Is Ordered Effective Sunday By OPA

Increase Ration Cost of Butter   Points Go Up From 12 te 16, Reflecting Dwindling Production.

Butter Ration Values To Go Higher Stil   Most Meat Values Are Unchanged

Butter Will Take 16 Points Sunday   Smaller Production Brings Sharp Jump

Raise Butter Points To 16 Next Sunday   Canned Friut Values Also Raised by OPA: Meat About Same

Ration Values For Scarce Butter Leaps Four Points: Most Meats Are Unchanged

Ration Cost of Butter Up to 16 Points      Point Values of Most Meat Unchanged in’ New Schedules Sunday.

Butter Boosted To 16 Poinfs By New OPAOrdel   Canned Fruit And Prime Pork Cuts Also Will ‘Cost’ More

RATION COST OF BUTTER HIGHER   INCREASE OF FOUR POINTS ANNOUNCED, BEGINNING SUNDAY

Increase Made In Ration Cost Of All Butter   Creamery Butter Starting Oct. 3 Takes 16 Points

Bievy   Ration Point Value Of Butter Given Sharp Increase From 12 To 16 Points; Values Of Other Foods Are Changed

 FOOD RATIONING-- Butter Up 4 Points   .« + Mest Meat Stamp Values Will Be Unchanged

DRASTIC. JUMP TAKES EFFECT NEXT SUNDAY   Meat Values Will Remain Virtually Unchanged, OPA Announces   UP CANNED FRUITS   Small Reduction in Point  Costs of Important  Vegetables

Sharp Increase To Be Effective Starting Sunday   Few Upward Adjustments In Values Of Meat In List Announced Today

RATION COST OF BUTTER JUMPS   Advance From 12 to 16 Points Is Effective Sunday, OPA Announces

Scarce Butter — Will Take Four  More Points ©   Meat Largely Unchanged But Canned Fruit To Take More Points.

Butter Ration Cost Jumps   Most Meat Values Same, Canned Fruit Points Up

RATION COST OF BUTTER IS UP 4 POINTS   Beginning Sunday, Each Pound Will Require 16 Points, Twice the Original Rating—Most Meat Unchanged.

BUTTER HIKED  0 16 POINTS PER POUND   Stiff Point Increases Made In Canned Fruits; Meat Inechanged

Butter To Be 16 pot   New Ration Point Values, Effective Sunday, Oct. 3,

INCREASE IN RATION  COST OF BUTTER TO  ADVANCE ON SUNDAY SOME OTHER INCREASES  IN POINT VALUES AND CcamMC DENIICTIONCG

RATION COST FOR BUTTER BOOSTED   Starting Sunday 16 Points Are Required For One Pound—Dried Peas And Lentils Off Ration List

BUTTER RATION VALUE RAISED, PORK HIGHER   ‘Most Meats Remain Unchanged, Stiff Increases Ordered on Canned Fruits

OPA Boosts Point Cost Of Butter   Production Lag Puts 16-Point Value on Pound

Butter Goes Up in Ration Point Costs   16 Points Now Required For Pound of Butter: Other Changes

Point Cost Of Butter Up Again   Dwindling Supply Causes 4-Point Increas{;  Many Variety Meats Ration Free: Fruit Higher

Ration Cost of Butter To Increase From 12 to 16 Points Starting Sunday

‘Butter Jumps From 12 To 16 Points On Sunday: Meats Slightly Upward

Butter Points Boosted to 16   Meat Mainly Unchanged; Canned Fruit Up

EW INCREASE IN POINTS ON UTTER SUNDAY   Processed Foods Increased When Supply Drops

Butter Ration Value Increased By Four Points   Coupon Costs On Most Meats Left Unchanged

a SS  Saves Wife, Children But Is Fatally Hurt Trying To Save Dog

Boys’ School May Come Here   Confederate Home. May House State’s ‘Training Schoo!

Germans’ In Retaliation Give London Heaviest Raid In Recent Months  BREMEN HIT TODAY 3-Hour Allied Raids Cover  Area From Munich To Stuttgart

Flying Fort: lash German  Bremen base   Nazis hit London  in retaliation blow

Bremen Hit Hard by U.S. Flying Forts   30 Tons of Bombs Dropped on London In Reprisal Raid

UNION PREDICTS END OF STRIKE   Six Big Coal Mines Star Production in Alabama

Nazi Airbase At Le Bourget, Near Paris, s Bombed  ©*., (idles  nema Geel   Six Other Large Fields In France ‘Beat Up’ With High Explosives

Allied Planes Strike At Paris Airfield In Nonstop Assault  Six Other Airports And Steel Plant Absorb Pounding

Le Bourget Airdrome and Six Other Foe Fields Blasted; Enemy Loses 39 Planes and Americans 20

Allied Bombers Pound  Five Jap Bases in the — Islands Above Australia

POUND JAP BASES   Allied Fliers Carried Out Successful Attack Above  Australia =~

Pound Enemy Bases   Allied Warplanes Hit  Jap Islands in. Pacific: Strafe Nips in Guinea And Sink a Supply Shir

Allied Planes Pound at Japs In Pacific  RAF Looks Forward to Tokyo Raids, Says Churchill

5 Jap Bases Pounded By Allied Fliers   Patrol Comes Within Six Miles of Salamaua to Fight Skirmish

FIVE JAPANESE BASES BOMBED IN S. PACIFIC   Jap Troops Strafed And 8,000-Ton Ship  Sunk in Bismarck Sea.

8 000-Ton Vessel Went Down From Only One Bomb   Enemy Bayoneting Of Prisoners Is Told in New Delhi

Planes Poune Five Jap Island Bases   Sink 8,000 Ton Ship With Single Bull’s Eye Hit

ALLIED PLANES PRESS ATTACK   Raid Five Jap Bases; Sink  8,000-Ton Vessel

ALLIED WARPLANES BLAST 8 JAP BASES   Churchill Tells Arnold, RAF Fliers Itching to Join Yanks in Tokyo Attack

Allied Warplanes Pound Five Jap Bases, Strafe ~ Ground Units, Sink Ship

BULL'S-EYE HIT SINKS A "JAP VESSEL   Single 500-Pound Bomb Disposes of 8,000-Ton Ship in Bismarck Sea— Other Airmen n Raid Five  Enemy Rase

PPPPPPEPPREPE PPP EPP OPAPP SD  Regional OPA Officials See No Milk Increase

German Industrial City Blasted by ‘American Bombers: RAF Hits Cherboure

FORTS” STAGE SMASHING RAID ON FRANKFORT   Escorted by Thunder. bolts; R. A. F. Ate tacks Kassel

FRANKFORT AND KASSEL HIT BY ALLIED RAIDERS   24 Bombers Lost In Twin Blows At Nazi Industrial Centers

PINCKNEY SCHOOL BOUGHT 88 BONDS   Teachers and Pupils Have Purchased $6,866 in Campaign  SE one nae TE  TOTAL NEAR $50,000

PINCKNEY SCHOOL BOUGHT 88 BONDS   Teachers and Pupils Have Purchased $6,866 in  Campaign

1,032 JAPS ON ISLAND SLAIN   Yanks On Guadalcanal Take Toll Again

MEAT OHORTAGE BRINGS AEM TotD POINT SCHEDULE   More Points Will Be Need. ed To Buy Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton

RATION POINT MEAT VALUES _ ARE GOING UP   Nation’s Food Platter To Be Skimpier With New Regulations Starting Sunday.

Ration Point Values On Ail Meat Except Pork Going Up   OPA Officials Say Meat Shortage Has Grown Worse.

Yanks Pour © Across River  Above Naples   British Turning German . -Flankin Advance Up  Adriatic

BENEVENTO FALLS. TO U.S. ARMY; 8TH DRIVES UP COAST   Germans, Caught Flatfooted, Hurled _ Across Calore _River—British _ Make Surprise Landing At Port Of Termioli

Germans In Danger of Being — Flanked by 8th if They Halt for Stand Against Yankees   Americans Push Beyond Naples—British Take Termoli in Spectacular Dash. Leapfrog Tactics Being Used.

Natural German Defense Barrier  Falls To Allies   British Eighth Army Turns Nazi Flank For Gain of 16 Miles

EIGHTH ARMY TURNS FLANK AT TERMOLI   First Natural  Defense Line Cracked by Allies

- Americans Breach ‘Nazi Defense Line, “Menace Left Wing   German Forces Caught Flaifooted As Yanks Dash Over Calore River, Peril Troops Facing Fifth Army

MOVE. CATCHES FOE “UNAWARE, UNHINGES LINE   British Eighth Army Also Turns Germans’ Flank By Surprise Move

YANKS BREAK NAZI LINE IN HIER THAUal   Force Crossing of Calore at Captured Benevento by Surprise’ Dash.   EIGHTH TURNS GERMAN FLANK ON EAST COAST

YANKEE TROOPS THRUST ACROSS CALORE RIVER   British Turn German Flank On Adriatic By Landing At Termoli

British 8th Makes a 16 Mile Gain >   AMERICANS CAPTURE TOWN. OF BENEVENTO WHILE ENGLISH TROOPS MAKE LANDING . AT TERMOLI

LeapFrog. Drive Gains 16 Miles For 8th Army   ‘Americans Burst First River Defense Above Naples

Compromise Seer On Tax Measure   George Proposal ‘4 May Be Adopted

Censor Trims Dispatch.   PSC CHAIRMAN BECOMES BUCK PRIVATE IN ARM}

Fred Stueck, Head Of PSC, Inducted Into Army as Private   Former Secretary of Gov. Donnell Has Not Resigned

WAR PLANTS NEED WORKERS   NYA Offers Training in Arc Welding, Sheet Metal and Machine Shop.

STATE CASE OVER SEE EABLY GLOSE   Jones: Fights for. .Jury’s. Sympathy -

OTATE CASE OVER, OEE EARLY CLOSE   Jones Fights for Jury’s Sympathy

Poll Tax Fight Is Threatened   Administration Is Seeking Fo Prevent Filibuster -By Compromise

Weather Forecast   STEEL PRODUC TION IM OTATE SLASHED   20 Per Cent Reduction Due To Coal Strike Revealed

THE PRODUCTION OF STEEL WAY OFF   Critical ‘Shortage Of Coal Given As Reason

ALA. STEEL PRODUCTION CUT 20 PCT.   By Critical Shortage of Fuel Resulting From Coal Strike

Home Edition   ROMMEL FLEES NORTHWARD IN HAIL OF FIRE   American And British Armies Take Thousands Of Prisoners; Allied Planes Lash At Retreat

Rommel Pulls Out Of Port Below Sfax   Axis Forces Abandon Mahares, Mezzouna As New Junction Looms   NUTCRACKER CLOSES   Prisoners Taken By 8¢1 Army, Americans Pas 11,000 Mark

LITTLE PROFIT CASHING IN STOCKS   Maiiy Favorites Contest Of ferings, Register New _. Tops for Over Year ©

5th Army Drives Nazis Back From Their Positions   “Our Beach-head Is Szcure,” -- Gen. Mark Clark; Praises American, British Forces for Valiant Fighting __

Clark Clinches Foothole in New Italy Offensive; British 39 Miles Away   U. S. GENERAL SAYS “BRIDGEHEAD SECURE, NEW TROOPS LANDING, WE ARE HERE TO STAY;” MONTGOMERY BLAZES UP COAST AS GUNS, PLANES POUR DEATH ON AXIS ARMIES

Enemy Driven Back Sharply By Our Forces   Reinforced Americans And British Smash Forward As Planes And Warships Rain Destruction On Germans Entrenched Inland

SINGLE PLANE BY FAIRCHILD COSTS MILLIONS   Waste, Extravagance And Inefficiency Cited  Before Congress

Over $13,000,000 Spent At Plant--Only One Plane Built   House Committee Hears Tha‘ Waste And _ Inefficiency Marked Two Years At  Factory At Burlington, N. C.

EXTRAVAGANCE AT PLANT IS CHARGED   ee  Military Affairs Committee Investigates Burlington Plant

FRAUD IS SCENTED IN NAVAL BUILDING   Nine Indicted on Charges of Bribery and Theft

9CHARGED WITH FRAUD, BRIBERY   GRAND JURY RESUMES INVESTIGATION OF NAVY SUPPLY DEPOT

ial Communique From Moscow Tells Of iant Strides Being Made In Orel Sector   More German Troops Rushed To Front To ” Stem Russian Tide Do Not Halt Advances

250,000 Troops In Jeopardy   Major Retreat From Sector Only Hope As Reds lake  City Suburbs.

Russians Smash To Within Few Miles OF Orel   German Defense Lines Are Shattered

Russ Crush  Nazis on Orel Front   Steamroller Offers Enemy Choice of Retreat or Death

Soviets Crush Line After Line of Nazis   German Commanc Must Retreat or Face Disaster

BLOODY TARAWA BATTLE DESCRIBED BY MARINE  Graphic Eye-Witness Account Gives Story of Costly Victory

Tells of Terrible  Battle on Tarawa   Marine Correspondent Says Something Went Wrong at Invasion Time.

Three Days Of Horrible Fighting On Tarawa Island Described By Marine Who Saw Hundreds Die In Action   Something Wrong

Graphic Eye - Witness Account. Of Bloody Conquest Of ‘Tarawa Written By Marine

Reactions from Tarawa:  ono AN PSR ORME bat RRC eter  Sec. Knox Replies to ‘Criticism’; Marine Says Something Went Wrong      Graphic Eye-Witness Story of Battle of Tarawa

Combat Correspondent Gives Graphic Eye-Witness Account Of Bloody Conquest of Tarawa   Great Bombing, Shelling Failed To Soften Up Japs. Marines Mowed Down  As They Tried To Land

GRAPHIC EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF BLOODY LANDING, FIGHTING ON TARAWA BY MARINE COMBAT MAN

JAPS OVERCOME AT SATTELBERG   Village Stronghold In New Guinea Falls  To Aussies

Ground Strewn With Jap Dead: Seize Equipment   Survivors Beat Retreat After Loss of Major Point

Jap Dead Strew Guinea Heights   Few Survivors Flee To Safety In North  By MURLIN SPENCER

AUSSIES TAKE SATTELBERG IN TOUGH BATTLES   MacArthur Is Now In A Position To Launch Attack On New Britain   AMERICAN WARSHIPS SOMEWHAT DAMAGED

AUSSIES TAKE STRONG POINT OF NIPPONESE   JAPS DRIVEN OUT OF SATTELBERG, NEW GUINEA

Jap Sattelberg Base Captured Ry Australians   Enemy Yields Major Defense Point in Finschhafen Sector

SATTELBERG TAKEN BY ALLIED TROOPS   Australians Storm Village Overlooking Huon Gulf

Jap Dead Strew Guinea Heights   Few Survivors Flee To Safety In North

JAPANESE DRIVEN FROM SATTELBERG BY AUSTRALIANS   Much Equipment Seized as Village Is Captured—Field Left Strewn With Nipponese Dead.   TANKS PLAY MAJOR PART IN VICTORY   Town QOverlooks Huon Gulf and Puts MacArthur’s Forces in Position to Invade New Britain.

Omission of Nazi Orators Conspicuous And Important   No Mention of Africa or Growing Allied

NAZI LEADERS IGNORE AFRICA   Italian Press Affected By The Gloom Pervading Berlin, Observers Report

Chaplin Settles Paternity Suit  a Banas Clai n Pos’ Netel ante Oe of Child

CHAPLIN SUIT IS SETTLED   Provides for Blood Test, Court Reveals

CONVOY SHIPS SUNK BY AXIS   Possibly 8 Sent Down In Battle Near French Guiana

Germans Claim: 23 Ships Sunk  _ Battle With Nazi Convoy Reported

DUTGH-COAST SEA BATTLE REPORTED      Germans Claim Subs: Sink 23 Allied Vessels in Atlantic

Germans Claim 23 Shins Sunk In Last Five Days  British Warships Batter Convoy  Off Dutch Coast

Germans Claim 23 Ships Sunk  Battle With Nazi  fm... ........ nw ected

Germans Report Sinking 23 Allied Vessels in New Submarine Atfacks

HARVARD HONORS PRIME MINISTER   Churchill Receives Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at Cambridge

WILLKIEHIT SOUTH POWER   ATTACK MADE ON‘ VOTING SYSTEM IN SOUTH AND ITS RELATION TO FED-

House Votes Ban On Sunday Beer Sales In Texas   Amendment Adopte« To State Liquor Regulation Bill

RESISTANCE TO RAIDS IS HEAVY   Anti-Aircratt Fire Aimed At Americans Rises  34,000 Feet

Anthony Eden Meets Roosevelt to Talk On Allied Problems   British Foreign. Secretary Calls On United Nations ; For Cleser Collaboration To Win War and Stable Peace

Closer Collaboration Urged by Eden For War Effort and Stabilizing Peace

Conferences Are Held With Eden Centex   BIG MUTUAL PROBLEMS TO BE THOROUGHLY ATRED AT MEETINGS.

$646,433 IS STILL OWED BY TAXPAYER:   State Comptroller Says Amount Is Unpaid As December 15 Filing Deadline Nears

ALLIES TURN FULL PUWER TOWARD LAE   Following Capture of Salamaua; Closing In From Three Sides; Australians Fighting Jap Rear Guards.   Liberator Lost

FARGERPRT ID TOPIC OF TRIAL   Crown Attaches Importance of Print Found on Screen in Room of Qakes

SERVICE CONTINUES FOR 4-F AMERICANS   Veterans of Early Fighting Carry on in Burma

HOPES FOR EARLY FRENCH UNITY LOW; MEETING DEFERRED   DeGuaulle Makes Imposible ‘ Demarids — Eisenhower — Requests Postponing - Conference

O'Mahoney Seeks Complete Price Control  Top w enn ee Combe Deel   Wyoming Solon Backs Byrnes’ Stand On Subsidy Program

O’Mahoney Backs Byrnes ~ On Subsidies   Declares Taxes or Inflation Will Get Us If Price Control Is Delayed

All-Out Control Of Prices Urged To Stop Inflation   O'Mahoney Urges Establishing New Line and Holding It

‘Taxes Or Inflation Will Get Us All” ....  ‘All-Out’ Price Control Urged By O’Mahoney As Way To Beat Inflation

ALL OUT PRICE CONTROL URGED IBY WYO. SENATOR   O’Mahoney Says “Either Taxes or Inflation in The End Will Get Us All’”’

BYRNES WARNS SUBSIDY BAN ENDS CONTROI   Forecasis 7? PC Increase in Food Prices, More than 3 PC in Cost of Living If Line Not Held   APPEAL TO NATION   O'Mahoney Urges ‘All Out Pric Control Measure, New Line kt Correct Injustices

ALL-OUTPRICE - CONTROL URGED   Senator _ Says. Taxes or Inflation in: the End. Will Get Us All

Senator Urges ‘All-out Price Control Measure         Says it Is One Hope of Averting Inflation Crisis

Asks All-Out Price Control As a Remedy   Wyoming Sencter Would Establish and Hold New Line

(Mahoney Urges Price Control   ‘Says One Hope of Averting — Cost of Living Crisis On Home Front.

O'MAHONEY IN PLEA FOR FULL PRICE CONTRO!   Wyoming Democrat Sees That Step as Only One for Averting Crisis on Home Front

Urge New Hold The Line Order Following Byrnes Anti-Inflation Address

New Hold-the-Line Order Urged in Wake of Byrnes’ Appeal on Prices

Senator Urges. Price Control   Measure Seen As Means Of Averting Cost Of  Livine Crisis

CONGRESS URGED  10 SET UP NEW  PRICE CONTROLS BYRNES APPEALS TO  NATION TO GUARD AGAINST INFLATION

(Q’Mahoney Seeks Complete  Price Control  Wyoming Solon Back _ Byrnes’ Stand

ALL-OUT PRICE CONTROL URGED TO SHUN CRISIS   Congress Appears Ready To Ignore Byrnes’ Fears Of Inflation Moves

Living Cost Crisis Seen;  Ask Control   Senator O’Mahoney Urges New “Hold -the- Line” Program. ‘to Prevent Home Front Chaos _   BYRNES DECLARES © SUBSIDIES NEEDED   Inflation Feared Unless Government Control Of. Prices Is Set Up, . Director Asserts

SENATOR URGES PRICE CONTROL      O’Mahoney Calls for All-ou' Measure to Curb Inflation

Taxes or Inflation Will Get Us All, Is Senator’s Prophecy   O’Mahoney Urges New All-Out Price Control Legislation

0)'Mahoney Uraes All-Out Price Control   Claims It Is One Hope Of Averting Home Front Crisis

GIVES VALUE OF PRIGE CONTROL   O’Mahoney Says Only Way To Prevent Crisis

0’Mahoney Urges All-Out Price Curk   Seeks to Avert Crisis Over Cost of Living

Cost-Of-Living Crisis Alarms Capital Chiefs   Price Control Measure Urged As Prime Hope

HE'S WORRIED   Fisher Fears Liquor Thefts Will Boost Insurance Rates.

REDS MAKE STRONG DRIVE IN CAUCASUS   Soviets ‘Aim To. Break Last Foothold Before Aid  Arrives

Demos to Open Campaign Jan. 22   National Committee To Select Time, Place of Convention

RATION BANKING OPENS TODAY: RELIEVES RATION BOARDS OF RECEIVING COUPONS AND ISSUING CERTIFICATES

STATES BANKS WILL CLEAR ALL  RATION STAMPS  < Poe   Deposit, Exchange ol Coupons to Cut “Red Tape”   More Time, Patience for Problems, of , Individuals

IT’S TIME TO RENEW GASOLINE RATIONS   Application Forms Should Be Filed Out and Malled to Local Ra tloning Boards

‘ALLIES BATTLING ON SICILY!   Assault Troops Storm Italian Island, Win Foothelds

Axis Defenders Reported Putting Up Stiff Fight Against Massed Forces

[7a Gas S57 = ay aa fF a >> => &  ©  ow  bd  Av ‘/:an Bombers And Wa.ships Form Screen For Invading Land Forces

SMOKE, FLAME ON ISLE COVERS TO-MILE STRETCH   Indications are That Defend. ers are Putting Up Stiff Fight—More Troops Land.

Americans Improve Their Positions On Makin and Tarawa; Encounter Considerable Ground Resistance

DRIER MESSAGE AEPORTS LANDING   Atoll Is Believed To Be Light. ly Defended by Japs   INVADERS IMPROVE   Positions on Both Tarawa And Makin; Encounter Heavy Opposition

Positions in Gilberts  Are Improved   Vice Admiral John H. Hoover of Great Falls Is Directing Combined Army and Navy Ground Based Air Attacks

U.S. marines have landed  on Abemama   Improve Tarawa, Makin positions

NIMITZ DRIVE AGAINST JAPS PUSIESNORTH   Marines Land on Abemama Atoll Improve Positions on Both Tarawa and Makin.   STRONG NAVY UNITS IN NEW THEATER   Fighting Presumably,’ Heavy on Tarawa—No Mention of Opposition in Latest Thrust. e

Abemama Hit  As Japs Battle To Hold Atolls   Ground Resistance Still Heavy on 3d Day, Niniity Gave

IN ew Landing Is 30 Miles  ‘From Tarawa   Strong Resistance On Tarawa and Maki: Admitted by Nimitz  DETAILS WITHHELD

MARINES LAND ON ABEMAMA, SAYS NIMITZ   Improved Positions on \lakin and Tarawa Also Reported

CONSOLIDATING POSITIONS IN GILBERT GROUP   JAPS FIGHT BITTERLY AGAINST LANDINGS ON TWO ATOLLS

Yank Positions Improved in North Gilberts   News on Progress of Forces Brief but Encouraging

Marines Improve Their Positions In the Gilberts   Tarawa Fighting Reported Severe

Russian Forces Driving Forward On Central Front   Battles Against Strong Ger. man Counter-Attacks In South However   HEAVY ASSAULTS MADE BY NAZIS

8,000 T0 9,000 BALLOTS 10 BE CAST TUESDAY   Mayoralty Race And Special Issues Hoid Interest Here

HALF OF VOTERS T0 VISIT POLLS   ‘Mayoralty Race Holds Election Spotlight Tuesday

Spanish May Be Required In Schools  Bill Introduced In Legislature;  Week-End Reepss

Pacific Fleet Is Growing Steadily, Nimitz Reports   Not Neglected

U. 5. PACIFIC FLEET IS GROWING DAILY   Will reach Formidable Proportions by Year’s End Nimitz Says

NIMITZ PLANS NEW OFFENSIVE   Pacific Fleet Chief, On Surprise Visit, Says Japs Facing Trouble

NIMITZ SAYSU,S. READY IN PACIFIC   Declares Supplies Flow To Area Regularly

-acifie Fleet Will Reach ‘ormidable Strength Soon   dmiral Chester W. Nimitz Makes Prediction On Sur prise Arrival Qn West Coast For Conferences On New Offensive Moves Against Japs; Equipment Reaching Pacific Areas

Grand Jury Goes To Look At Books   At Jenks to Inspect Old Unused Texts

Allied Forces Take Point South of Tunis   American Bombers, Fighters Strike Heavy Blows

Position South Of Tunis Falls   Three-pronged Offensive Is Making Important Gains For Allied  Forces.

ENEMY POST IN TUNISI:   Three-Way Offensive Against Coastal Points Begun

Advances By Allied Troops Are Reported   Seek To Prevent Junction Of Enemy Units

SOME AXIS PLAN IN THE MAKING?   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst tRey. Bc Pat Meieo

MORGENTHAU RENEWS PLEA FOR HIGHER TAX   ‘Tells Senators Paying Less Now Than Can Afford Saddles Unjus! Burden on Future   INFLATION THREAT   Chairman George of Senale-Commitlee Says House Bill Can. not Be Greaily Altered

CUT TAX BILL HIT BY MORGENTHAU   Renews Plea: In Senate For $10,500,000,000 Plan

RENEWS APPEAL FOR NEW TAXES   Morgenthau» Says House Revenue Measure Falls Short of Requirements

Morgenthau Is Renewing Plea For More Taxes   Treasury Secretary Tells Senate Committee Two Billion Tax Bill Is Not Suffi  cient.

Says Tax Bill. Piles Up Deb   Morgenthau Makes Plea To Pay Heavily Now

Seeretary of Treasury Asks Greater Taxes   Morgenthau Warns Of Postwar Debt Servicemen Will  llave to Pay

Morgenthau Runs Up Against Wall in Senate  Secretary Renews His Plea for Higher Tax Bill for Nation

MORGENTHAU “STILL SEEKS: S1OBILLION.   New: “Tax Demand Runs Against Stone Wall. te sen atin :

Treasury Demands 10 Billion   Morgenthau Says ~ Honse Revenue Meas ure Falls Far Short

MORGENTHAU UP AGAINST A WALL   Senate Warns Treasury Secretary He Can Expect Little More than $2,140,000,000 Voted By House In New Taxes.

Dilemma of Parents of Adolf Hitler .Mittel Solved by Bob Holliway

 Dilemma. of. Parents e sof Adolf Hitler: ‘Mitte! ‘Selved. by Bob Holliway

Pay- As-You-Go Tax Hearing To Begin Tuesday   Ways and Means To Consider Doughton Bill To ‘Raise Debt Limit.

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Hearings Begin Tuesday Returns Will Have To Be Filed By  a \ ee a ee es

P ay-As-G o Tax  Hearing Fixed   House Committees To Open Consideration Of Measure  Early Next Week.

Pay-As-You-Go Plan fo Be Up   Committee Hearings To Start on Tuesday, It Is Announced

Hearing on Ruml Plan Is Scheduled   House Committee Will Commence Study of  Plan Tuesday

Today In Washington:  Tax Bill Framers Get Ready For Job To Raise .16 Additional Billions   RY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PAY-AS-EARN TAK HEARING SET TUESDAY   Hike in Debt Limit Will Be Considered on Friday

To Start Hearing On Pay-as-You-Go  Taxes on Tuesday   By New Plan Income Tax Payers May Be Put on  Current Collection Basis.   To Consider Bill to Hike National Debt

Solens Initiate —Forsome thmt For New Funds   Offieial Consideration Of Pay-As-Yor-Earn Plan Tackled In Congress

Hearings On Pay-Now Tax Plan Tuesday   Modified Version Of Rum! Plan Suggested by Congressman

Congress Attention To Taxes   Discuss Ways For Pay-As-You Go Measure

HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARINGS START TUESDAY TAX PLAN THIS SUBJECT BE SEPAR ATED FROM GENERAL  ! racer dase tame’ eoase

Tax Plans Up Soon    Fear It May Be Summer Before a Pay-As-You-Go Plan Bill Is Passed

Consider New Tax Proposal   House Committee to Open Hearings Tuesday On Pay-As-You-Go Plan

HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARINGS START TUESDAY TAX PLAN   THIS SUBJECT BE SEPAR_ ATED. FROM GENERAL TAX PROBLEM . -

yo seeemenanreeeesaneieste sees  Hold 15- Year-Old for Grandmother’s Death

Boy Held In Death Of Step-Grandmother, 75, Who Is Found Stranaled

BERLIN ROCKS UNDER RECORD RAF ASSAULT   Reich Capital . Left in Flames

Fliers Vade to Feel at Home Big Contingent of American Airmen Arrives at British Port

Big Contingent Of Yank Fliers Reaches Britain   Men Irained and Ready  Jump into Great Air Offensive

More American Airmen Arrive In Great Britain   Latest Group Includes Operational Units; Met by Army Band

AMERICAN AVIATORS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN   Large Contingent Arrived Recently To Join Great AUied Air Offensive

YANKS NEARER CAPE ORLANDO IN BITTER FIGHT   Catania Battle in New Fury as British Move Forward   Americans and Japanese in Hand-to-Hand Fight at Munda

Advance of Six Miles in North Sicily   Supported By Units of The Navy

Yanks Thwart Nip Attempts to Quit Isle   Secrecy Shields Wake: Island Operations as Tokio Reveals Attack on Second Day

ROUT NIPPON RESCUE FLEET   Five Jap Ships Sunk By Inferior U. S. Force   Off Solomons

5 Jap Ships Blasted   Jap Fleet Suffers Heavy Toll In Solomons Battle

'U. S. NAVAL FORCES FRUSTRATE JAP EFFORT TO EVACUATE. TROOPS ‘AND SINK OR DAMAGE FIVE SHIPS.   United States Losses Termed -““Moderate”’ in Engagement. Nips Say They Have Evacuated Kolombangara and Vella Lavella Islands

Five Japanese Ships Sunk Or Damaged   Enemy Frustrated im Appareat Attempt to Evacuate Remnants of Defeated Soldiers from Vella Lavella

Japanese Lose Five Warships In Solomons   U. S. Naval Forces Foi Jap Evacuation From Central Solomons

Japs Licked in Sea Battle Admit Kelombangara Defeat   Outnumbered U. S. Fleet Sinks One Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers, Sinks or Damages Two to Five Others—Jap Ships Flee

FIVE JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK IN A NAVAL BATTLE   Light UL. S. Surface Forces Frustrated Evacuation of Points in the Solomons.   THE ATTEMPT DEFEATED   Naval Action Took Place Off Vella Lavella Wednesday, It Was Announced.

£ Other Destroyers Are Damaged, Limp Away From Battle  By THE ASSOCTA'ITED prre:<

Smash Jap Escape _ Attempt   U. S:; Task fask Force Routs Superior Enemy Naval Units Attempting to  Flee Central Solomons

Japan Loses 5 Warships  In Solomons   Vella Lavella Admittedly Evacuated But U. S. Says Escape Frustrated

3 Japanese Ships Struck By Allies   Action Happened Whilé Enemy Was Evacuating - Islands   VESSELS FROM RABAUL   Americans Remain Silent About the Raid on ‘Wake Island

UISERS AND 11 SMALLER VESSELS HIT   No Confirmation of Nippon’s Extravagant Victory Claims

Annual Convention Of N. M. Cattle Growers Assn. March 12-13th   Alhuaueraue Is The Scene Of The Meeting

IU. S. Urged fo [Use Bie Stick : fr. « oe sors  ano we A Atherton 85 vor ivers Address at  Tomb of America’s f DW De Beun mescen Canrl dome

URGES A “BIG STICK”   Legion’s National Commander Has a Thought for Future

Nippons Shelled By Aussies At Base in Lae  Allies Nearing Main Base In New Guinea

Big Field Guns Hit Japs On Lae   Australians Wait Word For Final Assault

Stockholm Reports That American Battleships Are In Mediterranean

Pledges Europe To Be Invaded Under New Plan   Prime Minister Reports Half Million Allied Troops In North Africa To Follow Eisenhower, Cites .. Progress Against U-Boats.

EISENHOWER IN COMMAND ALL ALLIEN FARRES   Announcement Made by Prime Minister Churchill  of American Chief in A fespnn

LEADERS PUBLICLY, ANNOUNCING MOVES WILL BS MADE "O RECAPTURE SOME : “BLANK CHECR?. . POWERS = 

Stassen to Enter Race   Former Governor Of Minnesota to Seek Presidency

Back Stassen lor President   Former Minnesota Governor To Enter Nebraska Preference Primary.

Compromise Subsidy Bill Before Senate   Stepgep Mesure Te $25 Millieas

Compromise Seen On FDR's Subsidy Plan   Approval Forecast On Price Roll-Back For Six Months

ush iViateriais Lo Neds from India Over Iran Koute  1 000 Trucks Hauling Supplies Into Russia Over New Highway

New Aviation Students Here For Training  College Registratio: Shows Decline

WAR TAKES TOLL: SCHOOL STUDENTS   Enrollment’ At Western Union College Cut ~~ About 9507,

British Take Higher Ground   Nazis Hurry New Forces To East Side of Italy

Eighth Army Looks Down ‘On Nazi Key   British Capture Ground Above Defense Anchor; A Lull in West

New Crack In Adriatic Coast Line  8th Army Captures Ly: ~L Oeardwar OVe   8th Army Captures High Ground On Nazi Anchor

8th Army Troops Seize Elevated Ground Above  Important Coast Town

Nazis Throw Three Crack Divisions Into Fierce Resistance  HEAVY FIGHTING RAGING ON FRONT Eighth Army Punches Way  Into German’s Adriatic Defense Line

Fighth Punches Out New Gains   Nazis Lunge Back Despite Big Losses

Take Heights of Ortona; 6,000 Nazi Prisoners   Germans Throw in Crack Divisions; Launch Counter Blows

Eighth Army Extends Two Bridgeheads   Canadians Best Three Nazi Divisions and Crack Adriatic Line

British Make Gain Against Firm  Nazi Italian Line  Allies Capture High Ground Near Key Seacoast Town

CUT THROUGH SECTION ON THE ADRIATIC   Facing Three Divisions, Tommies Are on Heights Overlooking Ortona, Guardian of Roads to Pescara and Chiat?

EIGHTH ARMY JOLTS ENEMY LINE IN ITALY   HEIGHTS ARE TAKEN OVERLOOKING CITY ON ADRIATIC

STH ARMY STABS AT GERMANS’ NEW . LINE ON ADBRIATIC   Seizes Heights Overlooking Ortona in Furious Struggle Along 15-Mile Front.   3 CRACK DIVISIONS OPPOSE MONTGOMERY   Mud Slows Pace of Clark’s Men—G,000 Prisoners Taken by Allies Since Invading Italy.

HGH AREAS ARE SEED AN ATTACKS   Fiercer Fighting Is / Reported Along New Front

Fierce Fighting is ~ Raging on British 8th Army's Front   Part of Germans’ Line in Adriatic Area is Reported Broken

Eighth Army Makes Dent in  German Line   British Crack Latest Defense; Capture High Ground Around Ortona

Crack Portion Of New German Adriatic Line   &h Army Now Overlook“ang Seacoast Town of “Ortona, Nazi Defense  Anchor Guarding Roads To Pescara and . Chieti.

8th Army Takes New Heights Despite Desperate Resistance   Nazis Counter-Attack Despite 6,000 Prisoners  Lost During Campaign

Eighth Army fains Point Near Ortona   Montgomery’s Men Punch At Nazi Adriatic Defenses

BRITISH TAKE HIGH GROUND NEAR ORTONA   Clark’s 5th Army is Slowed by Mud of Italian Winter

Part Of Nazi  Adriatic Line Is Broken By Eighth Army   Germans Throw In New Divisions In Effort To Halt Gains By British

Eighth Army Takes Hills  Over Ortona   Fierce Fighting Rages Along Sector, Bridgeheads Across More Rivar Widened   LULL OVER WEST   Headquarters Announces 6,000 German Prisoners Taken Since Firs! Landings in Haly

New Crack In Adriatic Coast Line   8th Army Captures High Ground On Nazi Anchor

Eighth Army Punches into Adriatic Line   Drive of American Ferce Loses Impetus in Italian Mud

Wedge Driven Info Defenses Along Adriatic   Two Bridgeheads Widened; Americans Face Battle Lull

British Win Hiah Ground   Eighth Army Cracks. Part of New German Adriatic Line

ELEVATED GROUND NEAR ORTONA TAKEN BY THE BRITISH   City Is Anchor of Enemy De. fenses Guarding Roads to Pescara and Chieti.   IN FIERCE FIGHTING   Two More River Bridgeheads Widened by Montgomery’s Troops.

8th Army in Gain On Italian Front   British Troops Take Elevated Ground Overlooking  Seacoast   FIGHTING JS _ FIERCE   Six Thousand Nazi Prison: ers Laken Since Landings in Italy

BRITISH SEIZE ELEVATED AREA ABOVE ORTONA   Sector Is Anchor of Ger. man Defenses Guarding Roads Both to Pecara and Chieti   HUNS THROWN BACK IN FIERCE COMBAT   Allies Take 6,000 Germans Prisoners; Fifth Army Activity Confined to Patrolling

British Capture  Italian Heights Above Ortona   Crack Part Of Adriatic Line On Which Nazis Mass Three Divisions

British Eighth Smashes Naz: Counterattacks And Captures: Hejiohte In Fierce Fiohtine:

gighth Army Captures Elevated Ground Overlooking Ortona, Anchor Of Enemy Protection For Roads To Pescara And Chieti—Fierce Fighting Reported Along Entire Sector—Lull Prevails On Fifth Army Front—6,000 Nazis Now Prisoners

Ortona Height Seized by 8th; Foe Attackins   Mud Slows Up Americana; Rain Curbs Allies’

British Eighth Cracks Nazi Defense Line   Gains Made Despite Counter-Blows by German Forces

Capture Hills Overlooking Ortona, Anchor Of German Defenses Guarding Highways

FIERCE BATTLE TN MOUNTAINS   New Limited Gains Made By British Along’ Adriatic Sector.   5TH ARMY FRONT QUIET

Into Nazi Lines, Captures Heights   Crack German Troops Launch Counter-Blows As Fou Weather Slows Up Allied Advance; Aircraft Grounded

15-MILE NAZI LINE PIERCED BY ATTACKERS   Yanks Consolidating Gains as Lull on Front Prevails

Nazis’ Adriatic Defense Line In  Italy Cracked      Three German Divisions Had Been Massed To Stop Eighth. _

- hE AE  British Crack New Nazi Adriatic Line’   Elevated Ground Overlooking Seacoast Town Of Ortona, Anchor Of Enemy Defenses, Captured By Eighth Army

BRITISH CRACKED PORTION OF NAZI LINE ON ADRIATIC   FIERCE FIGHTING ALONG ENTIRE EASTERN SECTOR IS REPORTED

British Capture Heights in Hard Battle in Italy   Heavy Fighting Along Adriatic

RIDGEHEADS  ba OF § REPORTED   ritish Capture Elevated  Ground Overlooking Seacoast Town, Used as Anchor For Defenses  IGHTING IS FIERCE

1S FIERCE ON COAST   Eighth Army Captures 7 High Ground Overlooking Ortona

Germans Pushed Farther Back In Italian War   British Eighth Cracks Part Of Adriatic Line

THE EIGHTH ARMY MAKES GAIN NORTE } OFTHE MORO RIVER   Capture High Ground Overlooking Sea  Coast Town   6,000 PRISONERS ‘TAKEN IN ITALY

BRITISH FORCES "KNIFE THROUGH _ GERMANY’S LINE   Eighth Army Seizes High Ground Overlooking An Adriatic Seacoast Town

Adriatic Line Punctured by Eighth Army   Tommies Seize Heights Over Ortona, Anchor of Nazi Defenses

sth Army Cracks Into Nazi Lines  Allies Bloodily Repulse Enemy Counterattacks

British Forces Crack Nazi Line   8TH ARMY CAPTURED STRATEGIC GROUND IN ITALY

British Smash  Portion Of New  Adriatic Line Little ‘Activity On Fifth Front

8thArmy Cracks New Line   Germans Mass Three Divisions To Halt Offensive

BRITISH PUNCH HOLES IN NAZIS ADRIATIC LINE   CAPTURE HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING THE TOWN OF ORTONA

Wants To Use Nazi Prisoners On Job   Oklahoma City Needs Help On Bluff Creek Dam

Nine Allied Ships Lost From Convoy  Last Week   Three Warships Sunk; U-Beats Again Attach In Pack Formation:  Witt) Gaevicnwe Tawi

GERMAN U-BOATS IN  NORTH ATLANTIC IN  DANGEROUS NUNBER: AT LEAST NINE VESSELS  FROM RECENT CONVOY WERE SIINY

¥ Allied Vessels Sunk By U-Boats   All Lost From Conyoy In New Nazi Drive

U-BOATS AGAIN SINKING SHIPS   At Least Nine Allied Vessels Lost From Convoys Last Week.

'U-BOAT TOLL OF CONVOY NOW REPORTED NINE   Three Warships Officially Announced as Lost by Canada, Brifain—Brazilian Ship Sunk

9. Ships Lost in Atlantic   Three Warships Among Vessels Sunk by Sub Packs Alona Convoy Route

Nine Allied Vessels Lost From Convoys   Lurking Submarine Packs Keep Running Attacks On Convoys

Nine Ships Victims of Nazi Submarines in Atlantic in Week   Survivors Teil of Fight Between Convoys and Submarine Pack

NAZI U-BOATS TORPEDO NINE ALLIED SHIPS   Raiders Return to Atlantic Shipping Lanes After FourMonth Absence; Three Warships Are Lost

Wolf Packs Of U-Boats Active   At Least Nine Allied Vessels Lost From Convoy Last Week.

Atlantic Shipping Again Menaced By German Subs   At Least 9 Allied Vessels Said Lost In Past Week: Brazil Urges Redress

U-Boats Prowling Atlantic   .. At Least 9 Ships Lost From Convoy Last Week

Japs Lose 23 Dive Bomber:  In Attack —   Allied Command Says Major Increases in Enemy Effort Due

Allied Fighters Rout 45 Aircraft In Enemy Raid  Nipponese Strengthen Bases Above Australia.  Take Offensive BLOWS RETURNED MacArthur's Flyers  Pound Enemy Positions  In Dutch New Guinea  ATtHT?T tre nN LIne a MATTIAS   Nipponese Strengthen Bases Above Australia  Take Offensive   BLOWS RETURNED

Northerners in Georgia Speaking Mockingly of "Sunny South" Today

Southerners Have Fun as Freak Storm Deposits First Snow in South in Years

SNOW BLANKETS PENSACOLA, FLA,   First Heavy Snowfall in City Since 1898

Both Americans And British Make Advance In Italy   Believe German Defense Line In Mountains Is Crumbling   MARCH ON ROME IS BEING SPEEDED  RULLETIN 

ISSUE OF SECOND  FRONT MAIN TOPIC FOR DELIBERATION   American-British Ministers Arrive Yesterday—Warm Welcome Given Diplomats By Russian  ~ Representatives   NEW AGREEMENT FOR _ . 5 SUPPLIES IS SIGNED

Hall And Eder Start Talks In Kremlin Today   Second Front Regarded As Main Issue In Parleys   URGED BY MOLOTOV   Wll Emphasize Results . 4s neficial To All In Proposed Attack

HULL. EDEN, MOLOTOV IN FIRST TALKS   Second Front May Be One Of Main  cee, ee

Hull, Eden Warmly Met - At Kremlin   Russia Expected To Ask for Quick  European Invasion

1 ¥  T MAIN ISSUE OF ALLIED PARLEY   Hull, Eden, Molotov Ready to Begin Conference   FIRST MEETINGS ARE DESCRIBED AS CORDIAL

Hull, Eden Welcomed By Soviets   Second Front Issue Expected To Get Precedence

Hull, Eden Welcomed By. Moscow Officials  ‘Molotov Believed Ready With: Good  ake eee Pea Ree aT Ee eee

Molotov Expected to Present Strong Russian Demand for an Immediate Second Front   Observers Feel Russians Believe Allied Attack in West Would End War With Nazis This Year. .   Late News Bulletins

Alhed Foreign Ministers Meet in Moscow   Formal Conferences Open Today; Red Weleome Warm

Moscow Conference Opens Teday, Second Front Leading Issue   U. S., Canada, Britain Sign Agreement To Give Food, War Supplies To USSR

Session cf County Organiza _ ticn at Baptist Church Here Friday., ./}

FANNUAL MEETING LGOUNTY WoO. 1.   Session cf County Organiza ticn at Baptist Church : Here Friday.,

VOTES TO OUTLAW FOOD SUBSIDIES   HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE STRIKES AT PLAN TO ROLL BACK PRICES.

Subsidies Ban By Committee Lines Up Fish   16-10 Vote ‘Constitutes Initial Blow to Plan OS Adm     Se oe im aly ee

SUBSIDIES OUT, GROUP DECREES   Banking Committee Votes 16 To 10 To Ban Rollback Payments

House Banking Committee Votes Ban on Subsidies   Broad Restriction Written Into Bill In Renewal of Fight

Stiff Ban’ Against Subsidies Written Into Measure to Extend Life of CCC

Subsidy Battle Gets Under Way  House Group Write: Bean Into Measure

U.S. FORCES PUSH CLOSER TO BIZERTE   Stubborn Axis counterattacks beaten back by advancing Yanks

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Americans Move To Hasten Encirclement of Axis Troops

US. Troops Are Edging Closer To Bizerte Base   Steady Gains Being Made By Allies In Offensive In Northern Tunisia   . COUNTER-ATTACKS  BY NAZIS ROUTED

Fortress Crew Bails Out of Battered Plane, Sheboygan Ace Sends It Back To Nazis

Krimskaya Is Said Bombed   Aerial Superiority Is Claimed By Germans

Nazis Claim Big Air Blow In Kuban Area  Relentless Barrage By Russians . “Continues .

Air Squadrons Baiter ‘Red Position   Air Superiority in One Sector Is Held by Germans

CORN INDUSTRY PLANTS CLOSED   Processors Are Forced To Shut Down By Grain Shortage

G. 6, WICKLINE DIES ON TRAIN   Builder Of Orange Bridge Heart Attack Victim

WITHHOLDING TAX IN HOUSE   Bill Lo Collect 26% OF Salary At  Source Introduced By ; Committee

Test Program Of Distribution Of Milk Planned   Will Determine If Rationing _Is Necessary

War Funds Drive Slows   More Thar $6,000 Yet Yo Be Raised in County

NAZIS DAZED AND CRUSHED BY ASSAULT   Famed Winter Fortifications May Have to Be Abandoned Very Quickly by Enemy.

GAIN HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING ROMAN PLAIN   Shell Barrage Stuns Germans

Allies Seize Key Ridgeson Road to Rome   Nazis Dazed and Crushed as Winter Line Fails to Siem Tank Drive

Nazis C rack Mentally Under Heavy Barrage,  ' Awesome Allied Gunnery, Bombing, = — —s +. OE eee t

STH JOINS 8T ARMY IN FULL SCALE ATTACK   Heaviest Artillery Fire Of Italian Campaign Precedes Assault

Fifth Army Gains 2-6 Miles As Record Shell,  Air Barrages Daze Foe

Lady Marines Get Scarlef   Major Ruth Streeter Turns Up With Full Uniform for Corps

UNIFORMS GET TOUCH OF REL   Forest Green Outfits Provided for Women of Marine Corps

Reds Drive Wedge  In German Forces   Soviet Troops Aided by Air _ Forces Cut Axis Supply Lines   10,000 NAZIS KILLED   Axis Army Reports 155 Russian Planes Shot Down Yesterday

Reds Drive Wedge  In German Forces   Soviet Troops Aided by Air Forces Cut Axis Sup-  ply Lines     TAAnNH NAWIC VITIen   10,000 NAZIS KILLED   Axis Army Reports 155 Russian Planes Shot Down Yesterday

BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING — TO BE RIGIDLY ENFORCE!   OPA STARTS NATIONWIDE CHECKUP TO STOP, NONESSENTIAL USE OF MOTOB VEHICLES

AND “C” CARDS   OPA, Again Getting Tough, Cracks Down on 10,000,000 Motorists

Plan New Drive Against Pleasure Driving In Nation   Will Check Upon Motorists Holding ‘B’ And ‘C’ Cards O. P. A. An nrMAwnHnPa¢?   NATION-WIDE CRACK-DOWN NEAR

NO PLEASURE DRIVING FOR B,C HOLDERS   OPA clamps down on 10,000 motorists with extra gas allotments

Allied Convoy Reaches Africa   Some Ships Are Loaded With Food for Civilian Population of Algiers

Soviet Forces dammering Way  Toward Polanc   Red Troops Approaching More Important NaziHeld Rail Centers   N. W OFFENSIVE IN DNIEPER BEND

RUSSIANS DRIVE WEDGE NEARER POLISH BORDER   fossacks Sweep Across Plains to Outflank Korosten

NEW ADVANCES THREATEN CUT, GERMAN LINE   Bryansk-Orel railroad lin now has almost  been reached

GERMAN SUPPLY LINE MENACED   Soviets Score Gains In Triple-Pronged Offensive Against Orel

Russians Make New Offensives:  Gain Near Orel   Advances Threaten To Sever Main Supply Route To Orel   NAZI LOSSES HEAVY MOSCOW REPORTS

GERMAN SUPPLY OF OREL PERILED BY SOVIET GAINS   Reds Reported Only 10 Miles y from Vital Briansk-Orel Railroad

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Russians Threaten Two Important Rail Centers Qtill in German Handc

THREATEN TW IMPORTANT RAIL CITIES   Press Attacks on Rechitsa and Korosten

RUSSIANS MAKE FURTHER GAINS ON OREL FRONT   Break Through May Be Near After Soviets Advance Four Miles.   NAZIS ADMIT LOS3ES   New Russ Summer Offensive * Rages Along an 1,80)Mile Front.

REDS MAY CUT NAZI ROUTE 10 OREL   Timoshenko Units Now Only 12 1615 Miles From City

Allies Mop Up In Preparation For Next Phase   Giraud Predicts Nazi litter Rout In Month

U. S. Bombers . ‘Smashing Foe   Second ‘Stiecessive Night Assault. Is Delivered... Avainst Rabaul

IRES SEN, prReE   Predicts Its Adoption Would Effectively Destroy Agreements Act

FEDERAL TRADE BILL REVAMPED   Amendment To “Emasculate’ Act Adopted By Senate Group

LIGHTNINGS BOMB DAM IN SARDINIA   Two-Day Total Of 186 Planes Downed by Yanks

186 AXIS GRAFT KNOCKED OUT IN FIERCE BATTLES  fortresses Range Far Into Italy for Big KMikianwcten   BASE 80 MILES FROM ROME 1S ATTACKED

DESTROY 113 AXIS PLANES ON INVASION ROUTE   Speculation Grows On Condition ‘Of Luftwaffe As Allies Dominate Mediterranean

YANKS ATTAGK BELGIAN CITY?   Reich Reports Bombing Force Hits Antwerp — No Confirmation of Raid

Air Attack On Antwerp   Vil FALLUWOCTE  Berlin Reports Raid By VU. S. Bombers;  BE awe ff asene ae

Ask War Plants  In No. Missouri   Eleven Senators in Plea That Senate Call on Washington.

This Area Left Out of War Plans; Entire State Less Favored Than Others   “MOBERLY AIRPORT STILL UNTOUCHED   Sen. Briggs and Others Ask #State Senate to Place Matter Before Washington

Rural Missouri Protests Disposition of War Plants   Many Communities Faced With Dire Economic Distress and Virtual Abandonment, Resolution In the Senate Recites; Everything to the Big Cities

First Yankee  ‘Landing North of Equator   Offensive Opened Saturday Must Be Decided Swiftly; Fighting: Reported Heavy   INVASION A PART OF WIDENING BLOWS   U.S. Apparently Seeking Additional Bases to. Push Drive; May Hit Truk

Nimitz Drive Adds to Offensive ¢ of '         Rainy Gains in Italy New! Battle Shaving Up in China. oe

WARSHIPS LEAD AMERICAN PUSH IN PACIFIC ARE!   Yonks Slash at Jap Positions On Mokin, Tarawa in Gilbert Islands

Air Attack, Sea Barrage Soften Foe   MacArthur’s Men (Enlarge Bougainville  Beachheatd; Australians Advance

Tiny Gilbert Isles — Under Yank Attack   Battleships, Carriers and Sky Fleets Combine Assault on Chain of Islands in the Central Pacific Chain,   Offense Must Be Swift Because Islands Don’t Provide Any Cover

BATTLESHIPS, CARRIERS AND SKY FLEETS SUPPORT AMERICAR INVASION OF PACIFIC ISLANDS   Tokyo Describes Fighting ‘As Heavy for Makin And Tarawa Islands. Red Army Opposing  Serious German Assaults Against Their Kiev n.1.

Jans Putting Up Hard Battle to Hold Gilberts   Island Geography Dictates an Early Invasion Decision

Enemy Defenses in Strong Stand as Allies Close in   Red Armies Oppose Serious Naz Attacks Against Kiev Bulge

Hot Fight For Jap-Held Islands   78th Gains Despite “Terrific Rains

TWO FORGES ARE LANDED AY NIMITL   Heavy Resistance I. Being Faced By vi anks

OUTCOME MUST BE DECIDED IN A SHORT TIMI   Two Main Objectives as U.S. Forces Open Offensive on the Highway to Tokyo

BATTLESHIPS, CARRIERS ARE PROTECTING   Enemy’s Great Base At Truk Is Flanked 1,600 Miles Away

AMERICANS INVADING  TWO GILBERT ISLANDS  GET SEA AND AIR AID GROUND, AIR AND NAVAL  UNITS COOPERATING IN NEW CAMPAIGN }

Strike From Land, Sea, Air   Invade Makin and Tarawa to Batter Dug-in Japanese,

Troops, Ships Planes Batter Jap Defenses   Fighting Heavy at Makin and Tarawa; Reds Start New Offensive Against Krivoi Rog; Allied Forces Advance in Italy

Planes, Ships Support Yank Shore Forces   Invading U. S. Troops Blast Enemy Defenses

Draft Bill Headed for  Conference   House Approval Does Not Get It Completely Out Of Controversy

Delayed Draft Of Dads Still Is Not Assured   Senate To Send House. Approved Bill To Con:  ference Committee.

LEGISLATION 10 ‘SAVE’ PRE-WAR DADS UNCERTAIN   Proposal to Take Childles: Men First Not Out of Debate Stage Yet

Measure To Halt Draft Of Fathers Remains Vague   Legislation Heads Toward Senate-House Parley; Ask Higher Allowances

ae ana  FATHER DRAFT BILL  PASSED BY HOUSE IS  UNDER CONTROVERSY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT  SIGNS MEASURE BOOSTINC NEPENDENTS PAYMENTS

Dependents Pay Boost Made Lav   Bill Signed As Father Draft Is Bebated

Legislation For Delay In Father Draft Still Controversial Subject

Bill To Delay   Controversy Sure When Legislation Reaches Senate

Draft Ruling - Is Undecided   Conference Will Study Deferment. Of. Father. Group. Proposals: -

Would Delay Father Draft   “N on-Deferrable” Fathers Get’ Break Under New Measure

Solons Split On Terms of Father Draft  F.R. Signs Bill ) Boosting Pay

Head Dad Bill  To Conference   Controversy Not Over Al though Legislation Passed On Pre-War Fathers.

Japan Obliged To War on U. §. Grew Declares   ‘ormer Ambassador Warn: ed by Jap Minister in Spring of 1941

GREW WARNED OF JAP INTENT   Matsuoka Said Japanese Would Join Nazi-U. S. Conflict

Jap Foreign Minister Warned Grew That United States Envolveinent With Nazis Would Bring Nippon War

WILLKIE CHARGED 6.00? ko GREAT 944 OPPORTUNITY   Says Election Is Greatest ‘‘Crallenge” Since 1860 Campaign

WILLKIE GHARGES 6 0. P. AG GREA 1944 OPPORTUNITY   Says. Election Is  -Greatest ‘‘Cnallenge” : Since 1860 Campaign

Churchill Flies Back To London   immediately  Calls Meeting .,Of Cabinet, : _ War Chiefs

PRIME MINISTER BACK IN LONDON, CALLS MEETING   Jittery Italians Claim Invasion is Coming, Returned via North Africa

Prime Minister Returns To London By Air; Talk Of Invasion Increases

INVASION DECISIONS DELIVERED   Flies To London Afte Report Nazis Gunning For Him

BELIEVED PLANNED   Prime Minister And Chiefs Of Staff Visit Tunisia -

Nearly Quarter Million Pounds Of Bombs Eock Grottaglie Airdrome, Biggest Naval Air Base In South Italy   RUSSIAN BOMBERS HIT FOE AT OREL

Britain's Leader Visited Eisenhowe En Route Home   Italy’s Plight Is Intensified; Great Damage Described

‘Zero Hour’ Facing Axis Draws Near   Churchill Back in England from U. S. With Invasion Plans After Eluding Sky Trap—Axis Grows More Jittery—litalians Defy Mussolini To Flee from Invasion Path

WINSTON CHURCHILL ELUDES NAZI TRAP AND RETURNS HOME  BRITISH CABINET AND WAR CHIEFS CALLED TO NO. 10 DOWNING STREET

Zero Hour For Invasion  Approaches   Air Forces Keep Hammering at  Axis Defenses

Delivers Plans For Invasion?   Returns to England from North Africa—Reds Use 520 Planes in Raid

Churchill Back In London; Calls Council Of War   ltalian Cities Laid. In Ruins By New Allied Attacks

Churchill Back In London Calls Cabinet Meeting   Invasion Talk In London and Rome Reaches A New High

Immediately Calls Session Of War Cabinet ELUDES TRAP  Invasion Talk Now At New High Preh

Many Italian Cities Now Heaps of Ruins Switzerland Learns   Bulgarian Papers Say 20 Added  s Are Massed Nearby

Prime Minister Goes into Conference after Arriving Home and Invasion Talk Is Renewed.   ITALIAN RADIO IS REPORTED AS JITTERY

EISENHOWER GIVEN ATTACK PLANS, BELIE   Prime Minister Returns to London as Bomb ers Continue Softening Southern Europe Approaches

SS Se ee Mee ee ee a Se ee ee et ee eae eet ea ee A ee ee ee i Zc: 2 ie: es ae  aR  “Attack Coming’ Italians Report   Thousands of Refugees Pour into Italian Capital; Believe Churchill to Name Zero Hour in Conferences Called Immediaiely Upon Return from Air Trip

Prime Minister Likely to Chart Details for Invasion ‘Zero Hour’   STOPOFF IN AFRICA   Met by Eden for Talks With Eisenhower; Has Lunch With French

Invasion Talk AtHigh Pitch In Capitals   Allied Warplanes Again Blast Pantelleriz —Bulgars Say 20 Allied Divisions Ready —- Red Armies Crush  Nazis on Donets

Churchill Calls Cabinet to Lay Invasion Plans   Millions of Refugees Flee From Southern Points  oa Italy.   Air Assaults Renewed On Italian Airdromes

Churchill Home.Again   Invasion Talk To High . Pitch; Axis Says 20  Allied Divisions Ready To Attack Thru Balkans

British Leader Back In Londor ‘After Meeting   Allies Await Orders  To Launch European  Attack In-Short Time

Churchill Foils Nazi Sky Trap   Premier In Bondon Afler Tuuistan Visit With Gen, Marshall

CHURCHILL 1S BACK IN ENGLAND   Visited North Africa After Leaving U. S.

ASION TALK IN LONDON AT HIGHEST PITCH   Spurred By Immediate Call  By Churchill for His  Military Chiefs   “ATTACK NEAR’—ITALY   Allied Planes Continue Incessant Bombing of Italian Bases

Managed To Escape Nazi Trap   Invasion Talk Heightened As Minister Returns From Crucial Parleys

‘CHURCHILL HOME TO MAP NEW WAR MOVES; GOEBBELS ASSERTS GERMANS PLAN NEW OFFENSIVE

CHURCHILL BACK IN LONDON AGAIN, SFES U.S. GENERA!   Believed He Delivered Orders to Eisenhower from: Rooscevelt.«

INVASION TALK ATNEW PEAK IN LONDON PRESS   Rome Radio Nervously Broadcasts That “The Attack Is Coming”

Tightening-Up-the-Belt Period at Hand for Civilians Warn Officials

Vital Points Seized   Allied Planes Hit Axi: Ships; Drive Of Ist Army Slowed

AMERICANS BREAK THROUGH FIRE TO. CAPTURE POSITION   Long-Range Artillery Shells Mateur After Surprise Attack Short Distance From Key Center.   SGT. DOWNING BRINGS — FOWN FIVE TRANSPORT:   Ruhr Valley Pounded By Bombs With Concentration Upon Great Krupp Arms Works at Essen.

Yankee breakthru captures three German positions   Allied airplanes sink 2 destrovers, 3 vessels

Yanks Capture 3 Vital Points Tn Mateur Drive   US. Artillery Pours Shells Into Key Communications Center

Tahent Hill Taken in  Surprise Push   British First Army Forced Into Slight Withdrawal

ANERIUAND TARE VITAL POSITIONS ~INMIATEUR ARE  Allie s Si nk Two Axis Des oyers, Bag   THREE OTHER VESSELS  SEVERELY DAMAGED

U.S. FORCES ARE CLOSING IN ON MATEUR   Three Important German Positions Taken In Fierce Battle of Tunisia.

U. S. Infantry Breaks Through Artillery. Fire    ‘Take Three- Important. German Positions On Tunisian Front

Yank Drive Roll: Over Tunis Hills   INFANTRY SWEEPS THROUGH AXIS ARTILLERY ON ROAD TO MATEUR: ALLIED PILOTS SINK FIVE ENEMY SHIPS, RUIN FIVE AIR TRANSPORTS

; U.S. Troops Break Through ‘Heavy Artillery Fire to ( Take 3 Important Positions   British Fighter Pilot. Brings Down 5 Junker Transports by Himself

AMERICANS TAKE 3 KEY GERMAN HILLS ON WAY TO MATEUR   yagi bs fA SR as aR RE ay ae  ‘Allied “Planes. Sink Fi ive Enemy Ships; Destroy 5 More Axis Air ’ Transports

‘SHIPS SUNK ‘BY AIRMEN   U. S. Artillery Shells 8 Mateur As Troops Capture Hill

Americans Take Strategic Hill In North Tunisia   ‘Allied Planes Sink - Two Destroyers, Down  Five Air Transports

Consider Unified  ‘Command   U. 8. Commander Says All Solutions Have Been Ap proved by All

GEN. EISENHOWER DENIES DISCORD   Says American and British Officers Are Solving All Problems.

Government Seeks Cut in  Consumption   Effort Made To Convert Taste To More Plentiful Meats

Point Values Of Beef Increased   Some Soft Cheeses Are Rationed; Little Change in Other Meat

Ration Point Values of Most ‘Types  lof Beef Increased   OPA Order Which Becomes Effective Sunday Will Make Most Popular  Steaks Cost 11 or 12 Points Per Pound

OPA INCREASES POINT VALUES ON CHOICE BEEF   U. S. Tries to Switch Consumers to More  Plentiful Meats

Scarcity Of Beef Sends Point Value Up 1 To 3 Points   Army Buying Heavy; Cattle Slaughter Sho-:t

hei boosts Point Values  On Beef Cuts  Move Made in Effort To Switch Buying

OPA INCREASES. POINT VALUES OF SCARCE BEEF CUTS   Action Taken in Effort to Switch Civilian Tastes ’. to Pork, Veal. and  - Lamb. .   STEAK COST IS UP. 33. TO 37 PER CENT   Shortage Due to Military Needs and Failure of Growers to Sell in Anticipated Quantities.

0 P A Boosts  Point Value On Beef Cuts   Program Looks To Create Use Of Other Meats

POINT VALUE OF BEEF IS HIKED   Most Steaks Raised To 11 Or 12 To Push Cheaper Cuts

Beef Rationing Points Boosted By OPA Order   Most Popular Steaks Hiked One to Three Points Per Pound

OPA Raises Point Values Sharply On ‘Scarce Meat Cuts   New Scale Effective Sunday As Switch To More Plentiful Pork, Veal, Lamb Sought

OPA boosts point values of beef, effective on Sunday   Will mean 33 to 37 percent increase in point values most popular types

Poms Value Of Popular Meat Soars   Pork, Lamb and Som Other Cuts Are Made More Available

SOVIET STARTS DISSOLUTION OF INTERNATIONALE   Such A Move Would Take Wind Out Of Goebbel Arouments

Act May Cement U. S., Russian —  Understanding .   Move Interpreted As Smashing of Anti-Comintern Pact

RUSSIANS CONTINUE BIG PUSH      Stubborn Counter Attacks Overridden; ‘11 Towns on © Central Front: Freed   HEAVY PRESSURE: ~ APPLIED ON: OREL   Germans. Are Admitting ‘Locat Breaches’ in the Orel ‘Defense. Lines.--

REDS 10 REMOVE MOSCOW THREAT   Drive Forward From Rzhev _ After City’s Capture

Reds Drive Ahead In Move To Erase ‘Threat At Moscow   Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Being Thrown Back

YANK SHIPPING LOSSES LIGHT IN GILBERTS   Secretary Knox Reveals ‘That Americans Lost Very Little Material.

Two Jap Zeros Shot Down, One Spiffire Lost   Australia Reports Aeria — Battle Over Convoy in Darwin Area

MILLINGIMBI IS RAIDED BY JAP BOMBING PLANES   Slight Damage Is Reported After Raid On Base East Of Darwin .   12 ENEMY POINTS ARE ATTACKED BY ALLIES

BATTLESHIPS MOVE AGAINST RED CONVOYS   German naval units reported leaving bases at Trondheim

Evacuation Of Key Solomons Island And Buna Area Of New Guinea First Jap Land Defeats In Pacific

Japs Indirectly Admit First Land Defeat, Say Troops Evacuated From Guadalcanal and Buna in New Guinea

Tokyo Admits Guadalcanal, Buna Defeats   Japs Endeavor To Explain Why Allies Knocked Them Out

Indirectly Proclaim First Land Defeat In New Guinea But Call It Strategic Move

JAPS CAUGHT IN. TIGHTENING TRAP   Enemy Forces In Bairoko Area of New Georgia Island Are Confronted with ‘Bataan In Reverse’.

Nips Face Doom at Bairoko   U. S. ARMY, MARINES TIGHTEN STEEL JAWS ON NEW GEORGIA ISLE

A Bataan in Reverse for Japanese   Nips Facing Annihilation in Bairoko Area of New Georgia Island   YANKEE FORCES ' ARE CLOSING TRAE   At the Other End of Long Battle Arc Salamaua Is Made Parific ‘Hamburg’

NIPS TRAPPED IN BAIROKO AREA OF S PACIFIC ISLE; ENEMY SUPPLY LINE CUT   Yank Army, Marine Forces Perfect Encirclement of Opposing Units on New Georgia; Tulsan Reports Foe Running Short of Food and Ammunition.

LAST JAP FORCES ON NEW GEORGIA BEEN SURROUNDED   ENEMY EPORTED CONFRONTED WITH “BATAAN IN REVERSE”

It's Bafaan In Reverse   Japs Trapped At Harbor; Salamaua Becoming “Hamburg” vf South Pacific Un-  der Repeated Hammerings

Bairoko Foe Faces Bataan In Reverse   Americans Encircle Japanese, Tighten Steel Trap On Solomons Area   ANNIHILATION IS SEEN   Salamaua, ‘Hamburg Of Pacific’, Is Raided By 85 Tons Of Bombs

Japs Face Big — Yankee Attack   ENEMY GIVEN A TASTE OF “BATAAN” ON. ISLAND

AMERICANS CLOSE TRAP ON JAPANESE FORCE AT BAIROKO   Nipponese Are Facing “Bataan in Reverse,” Dis. patches from Pacific  Front Indicate. *

Japs Fight With Backs To the Sea   ‘Americans Closing 'In on New Georgia Remnants

YANKS CLOSING VISE ON JAPS   New Georgia Plight Like  ‘Bataan in Reverse’

ENEMY FACES OWN ‘BATAAN’   American Army, Marine Forces Complete Encirclement of. Foe.   JAP SUPPLIES RUN SHORT

Japanese Trappec In Bairoko Area   Enemy Confronted with Bataan in Reverse In Bitter Fighting Raging in New Guinea

Americans Choke Off Enemy At Bairoko Harbor   Army And Marine Troops Tightening Semi-Circular Trap

Japs At Bairoko On New Georgia Are ‘Confronted With “Bataan In Reverse”

New Georgia Jap Forces Are Now Completely Encircled   U.S. Army and Marine Forces Close Gap In Lines; Foe Faces Bataan in Reverse

Yanks Encircle Enemy ‘Troops. On New Georgia   ‘Nipponese Faced With “Bataan In. Reverse” In South Pacific Area

New Guinea Air Base a ‘Hamburg   Salamaua, Jap Stronghold in South Pacific Blasted Again.

Americans Call Jap  Pacific Situation  ‘Bataan in Reverse Troops Complete  rP._.* .§..2.., ¢ EF...   Troops Complete Encirclement of Enemy In Last Resistance

U. S. FORCES TIGHTEN TRAP ON JAPANESE   American Army and Marine Units Complete Encirclement of Last Point of Resistance  om Awe A A sae mrRasre me rit

Americans Tighten Steel head On Six Mile Front  ‘Trapped Japanese Rectan “Bataan” On New Georgia

Army, Marine Forces Encircle Japs At Bairoko   New Georgia Base On 6-Mile Front Is “Bataan In Reverse”

FORCE JAPS INTO “BATAAN IN REVERSE”   American Troops Complete Encirclement of Last Remaining Point of Organized Resistance on New Georgia.

Smolensk Attack Reported   YANKS ENCIRCLE FOE AT BAIROKO   BATAAN IN REVERSE FACING NIPPONS AT NEW GEORGIA BASE

JAPANESE FAGE QWN BATAAN ON SOLOMONS ISLE   ‘Trapped by Americans On New Georgia, Enemy Has No Means of Getting Reinforcements

Encirclement Of Jap Force Is Completed   Resistance In Bairoko Area Of New Georgia Island Is Approaching An End Today

SALAMAUA IS 'HAMBURG’ OF SOUTH PACIFIC   Allied Forces Make New Gains Toward Bairoko Harbor Japs

Yanks Tighten Trap on Japs  ‘Bataan in Reverse’ Confronts Japanese On New Georgia

Japs Face New Bataan In Bairoko Area; Yanks Encircle Enemy Forces   New Georgia Island May Soon Fall Into Allied Hands as Steady Forward March Progresse:

President Of United Press Witnesses Battle Of Catania   Paints Graphic Picture Of Scene Of Current Action On Island Of Sicily

LEADER OF GOP OUTLINES PLAN   Kelland Gives Party Proposal for Post-War Foreion Policy.

Kelland Offers Post-War Foreign Policy To GOP   Says U. S. Needs  Strong Defenses

Proposed 6. 0. P. Policy Is Militant   Kelland Calls for U. S. Collaboration

AYU. 3, MUST REMAIN ARMES   Kelland Presents Post. War Foreign Policy Te Republicans

G.0.P. Presented Post-War: Foreign Policy: Today By Author Kelland

Wants A United States So Strong That No Nation Or. Coalition Could Ever Attack Us. Again

Must Give U. S. " An Impregnable , Future Defense   —CLARENCE B. KELLANI Republican Leader Of fers 5-Point Postwa Foreign Policy.

REPUBLICAN PARTY URGED 0 DEMAND AN ARMED NATION  FOREIGN POLICY BASED ON UNITED NATIONS COL LABORATION SOUCHT

KELLAND OUTLINES’ POST-WAR POLICY   Famed Author Declares U.S. Must be Made impregnable

KELLAND ASKS DEFENSE RING AROUND U.S.   GOP Executive Urges Policy of Collaboration Backed By Preparedness.   WANTS BIG AIR FORCE   Also Calls For Permanent  Alliance Between: This Cointey Britain

GOP CHIEFTAIN OFFERS POLIC\   Kelland Calls For Impregnable U. S. Defense

Kelland Has 5-Point Plan  For America   Plan Calls For Post War Preparedness By United States

POST-WAR FOREIGN PLAR   Kelland Outlines FivePoint Foreign Policy

FOREIGN POLICY PLANK OUTLINED BY GOP LEADER  ALLIED UNITY, PLUS ARMAMENT SAID KEY

Author Presents Fire-Point  Post-War Policy To The 6.0. P   Clarence Buddington Kelland Wants U. 8. kept Armed To Teeth For Own Protection

Gives Poliey  Plan To GOP   Kelland Assert That United States Must Be Impregnable After War.

Kelland Presents A Post-War Policy   He Gives to Republican Party a Plan Thai Will Keep Nation Defended.

Must Build and Maintain . Strongest Fleet on Seas, In Air, SaysG. O. P. Leader   Clarence Budington' Kelland Offers “Five Zones of Safety” Foreign Policy Plan, Including Allied Collaboration

Kelland Offers Postwar Plans To Republicans   Says We Must Have Five-Ocean Fleet

KELLA NATION MUST STAY ARMED   Author and GOP Leade1 Favors Post-War Allied Collaboration, but Insists U. S. Must Be Able to Stand Alone.

Kelland Offer: ‘Safety Zones  Plan For Peace   Republican Leader Has Proposal To Solve Postwar Ills

KEY OF POLICY OFFERED TO GOP   Impregnable United States After War Proposed by Clarence B. Kelland   FIVE-OCEAN NAVY URGED   Party’s Executive Chairman Concedes Collaboration Program Might Fail

Score Goodland For Attempt To "Wreck Defense   Kingsley Blames Governor For State Upheaval

KINGSLEY EXPLAINS DEFENSE UPHEAVAL   Declares Goodland May Have Wrecked Civilian Defense Set-Up.

Kingsley Lays Defense Mix-Up On Goodland   Governor Is Blamed By Ousted Chairman In Personal Letter

Ousted Civilian Defense Chairman Sends Letter Accusing Governor Of Plaving Politics

State Defense Plight Blamed On Goodland   Kingsley, Ousted Head, Answers Governor On Charges; Methods Of Executive Assailed   Can't Fire Them All

Private’s Claim As Father Of Unborn Baby Blows Up When He Identifies Wrong Girl As Joan Barry

PRESIDENT HOLDS OUT HOPE FOR RELIEF FROM VEXING QUESTIONNAIRES. FORMS

EVEN FR, 100 HATES 70 FILL QUESTIONNAIRES   But Says Forms Repre“sent Honest, Sincere  Move to Help All

ALLIED PLANES STRIKE WIDELY AT JAP BASES   Arourd Fringe of Australia in Developing  Batle In That Area

U. 5. Planes Hit Jap Transports   Bombers Pound Jap Island Bases

NIPPONESE NEW GUINEA BASES RAIDED   Activities in Developing Battle of Island Fringes Of Australia Intensified   TWO SHIPS DAMAGED

ALLIED BOMBERS BUSY IN ISLANDS      Jap Concentrations North of Australia Attacked and Beaten Off.  en   THREE-SHIP TROOP CONVOY MISSING

Battle Developing In Aroe Islands; Armada Remnants Sought By Fliers

Allied Fliers Strike Widely At Enemy Around Australia   Jap Convoy Vanishes Following Raids; Did Not Reach New Guinea Destination

MAC ARTHUR'S  FLIERS VAINLY SEEK SIGNS OF JAPANESE. CONVOY   Allied Medium Bombers Press Home Attacks On’ En~ emy at Dabo    3 LUGGERS HIT AND SUNK

House Puts Teacher Pay Hike Across   GRANTS FROM $106 TO $300 MORE PER YEAR FOR TWO YEAR PERiOD; THERE WAs NO OPPOSTION.   No New Taxation

TEACHER PAY BOOST VOTED   House at Harrisburg Also Approves Post - War Planning Measure

LAD, 17, HELD IN GIRL'S DEATH      Companion Sits Beside Lifeless Body All Day Sunday

‘Little Inch,” Transcontinental Oil Line, _ Nearly Complete—Ready for Final Tests

Americans Join With Their Heaviest Raid Of War, 29 Bombers Lost. Yanks Shot Down ue  Carman Plana.

New Tactics Employed By British Who Resume Job  of Leveling Reich Capital   Still-burning Metropolis Guides Bombers to Old Target —— Fourth Big Smash in 9 Days.

1,000 Bombers in New Raid Last Night   CITY OF STUTT~—— GART ALSO HIT   32 Planes Lost; ‘Forts’ Also Raided Bremen Yesterday

Stuttgart Shakes ir Air Blow   BRITISH ARMADA LEVELS CAPITAL AREA AFTER BIG YANK SMASH AT BREMEN

One-Third of City  Believed in Ruins; 32 Bombers. Missing   Record Raids. Seen Intended To Soften Reich for Invasion; Capital Termed “Sea of Flames’

THIRD OF CITY DESTROYED BY FOUR ASSAULTS   Death Toll Set At 30,000 

ON BERLIN CONTINUES   1,000 Bombers Level Another Part Of Nazi Capital

BLOCK-BUSTER RAID FOURTH ON GERMAN CAPITAL IN 9 DAYS   Only 82 RAF Planes Lost In Double Blow, Including Stuttgart; 7,000 Tons Of Explosives Rained On Berlin In Night Attack

AVIATORS UNLOAD ABOUT 7000 TONS, MAKE TWO TRIPS   Fires From Previous Attacks Still Burning, Weather Was Good For Effective Results.   TWIN RAIDS FOLLOW TRIP BY AMERICANS   Five Assaults During 24 Hours Sends Allies Aerial Offensive to Highest Peak Since War Opened.

Assault In Nine Days   ESTIMATE A THIRD OF CITY VIRTUALLY DESTROYED; Al STRIKE BLOW AT STUTTGAR'

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN WHITE RUSSIA   GERMANY CLAIMS MAJOR VICTORY IN UKRAINE

Score Greatest Air Victory, Destroy, Damage 52 Planes   Russian Forces Smash Westward in Drive Through Caucasus, Split German Units

WIN AN AIR BATTLE   American Planes Score Heavily in a Sweep Over abes .

U.S. AIRMEN — DESTROY 26 AXIS PLANES   Fortresses and Lightning Fighters Damage 26 Others in Atfack on Gabes, Other Axis Fields

U, S, PLANES GET 02 NAZIS, LOSE BUT 10 OF OWN   Flying Fortresses And Lightning Fighters Score Great Air Victory In Tunisia; Americans Fall  Back At Sened.

Crucial Battle For Tunisia Is Taking Shape   Allies Massing Forces For Final Blow At ~ Axis In Africa -

American Flying Fortresses And Lightnings Damage 26 Others With Loss Of Only Ten Of Their Own— Allied Forces Withdraw From Sened—Speculation Develops On Eighth Army’s Next Move As Lack Of  Information Continues

American Unit Is Forced Back From Sened   Twenty-Six Enemy Planes Shot Down And Another 26 Damaged In Tunisian Raid

‘Twenty-six Axis Planes Ruined in U.S. Air Smash   Allies Withdraw Forces From Rail Hub Sened “After Accomplishing Purpose”

~—AFRIC A—  ARMORED FORCES GIVE UP SENEL   Twenty-Six Axis Planes Destroyed, 26 Others A Damaged   U.S. LOSES 10   Withdrawal At Sened Ordered After Mission Is “Accomplished

Yankees Win Inv Air; Back Up Aer ound .   Land Fighting In Tunisia Continues Extremely Light

EIGHTH ARMY GETS READY FOR BIG PUSH   American Forces Withdraw From Sened; Bombers Hammer Gabes Port

WITHDRAWAL IN TUNISIA IS DISCLOSED   News of Victories on Other Fronts Tempered By Repurt from North Africa   "MISSION CONCLUDED'

Score Smashing Aerial Victory In Tunisian War   But U. S. Forces Withdraw From Sened Railway Station There.   Yankee Fliers Shoot Down 26 Axis Planes

U.8. SUCCESS IN AFRICAN SKIES IS TEMPERED   Disclosed That American Armored Forces Have Withdra wn From Sened Station   PURPOSE OF MISSION HELD ACCOMPLISHED   Montgomery Believed Pla   Montgomery Believed Planning Flanking Movement Around Maret  Line Shielding Rommel

Little Activity On African Front   American Airmen Claim Victory

REDS CANNONADE NAZI POSITIONS INSIDE OF KIEV   ‘East Bank Suburb of Ukraine Capital in Russian Hands, Located Under City’s Walls

Reds Sheil Germans In  Kiev Citadel   Fire From Close Range in Suburbs

Russians Shelling Heights of Kiev   Kremenchug Victory Called Important  st (‘Ree de a  e Bii na

KAW VALLEY SPUD HARVEST NEAR END   Government Will Continue to Purchase Thru Next  -Wednesday rd      DATN LATTE Nhircnw

KAW VALLEY SPUD HARVEST NEAR END   Government Will Continue to Purchase Thru Next Wednesday  a  RAIN HALTS DIGGING

JAP ATTACK AT MUNDA REPULSED   AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND MARINES MAKE FURTHER ADVANCES ON AIRBASE.

Yankees Capture Maknassy As British Crack Rommel Line      Bridgehead Established Through Mareth Line}  Rommel’s Escape Corridor Is Cut

"LAST DITCH” FIGHT ORDERED BY NAZI CHIEF   British Eighth Army Near Junction With Yanks; R.A.F. Raids U.-Boat “Hog Pens” Again.

RIGHTH ARMY NEAR JUNCTION WITHU.S. FORGE   Dispatches From Allied Headquarters Indicate Rommel's “Escape Corridor” Nearly Closed   BRITISH FRONTAL BLOW HELD MIGHTY   Operations Continuing In . Face Stiff Axis Resistance; 1700 of Enemy Captured

German Counter-Attack Impending in Desperate Attempt to Avoid Trap on Coast

Capture Maknassy; Montgomery's Men Breach Mareth Line   Patton’s Forces Advance to Within 34 Miles of North African Sea

PARTS OF BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY FLANK ROMMEL’S FORTRESS  AMERICANS UNDER GEN. PATTON STAB TO WITHI 34 MILES OF GABES

Patton's Forces Within 34 Miles of Gabes Gulf: 8th Army Flanks Mareth Line

Parts of Eighth Army Sweep In Wide Arc Around Mareth Line; Many Miles Inside   Yanks Within Less Than 34 Miles of Gulf of Gabes —- Montgomery Also Launching Mighty Frontal Blow at Rommel’s Mareth Line Positions

Bridgehead Is Established In Main Defense   Yankees Smash Through Maknassy; Corridor For Rommel’s Escape Closing Rapidly

Flanking Sweep Puts Axis Force in Peril   Breakthrough Made At Coastal Anchor After Fierce Assault Near Zarat; Patton Only 34 Miles From Gabes

 Americans Hold Hill to East of Maknassy  i} Narrowing Rommel’s Escape Corridor to Score of Miles   BRITISH THREATEN EL HAMMA   Rommel Masses Tanks, Troops to Protect Vital Airfield at Rear of Mareth Line as British Execute Flanking Movement

BRITISH ARMY DRIVES GAP IN MARETH LINE   Hitler Orders Troops To Resist to the Last Man

Americans but 31 miles from Tunisian sea; nazis try to smash thru trap

Allied Air Offensive  Is Intensified; Hitler Reminds Rommel of ‘Lost Stalingrad Army

Mareth Line Is Outtlanked   .. + British Aim For Axis Airfield At El Hamma

British Skirt Mareth Line In Fast Drive   Allied Armies Only 60 Miles Apart In South

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ESTABLISHES BRIDGEHEAD THRU MAIN ENEMY POSITION OF MARETH LINE   German Tank Forces Counter-Attacking Americans in E] Guetar Area Southwest of Maknassy. Rommel’s Situation Growing © More Serious

Rommel’s Escape Corri: dor Along Seacoast I: Narrowed Sharply By Al  lied ‘Squeeze.’

MONTGOMERY'S TROOPS HIT MARETH LINE; YANKS WITHIN 34 MILES OF GULF   Allied Units Continue Steady Advance Despite Heavy German Counter-Attack In Fight For Control Of North Africa

Rommel's Entire Position Periled  By Double-Barrelled Allied Thrust

Yankees Push Ahead to Trap Nazi Forces   Axis Leaders Are Ordered to ‘Hold Firm or Die’

Maknassy Is Captured By Yank Troops   Americans Reported 34 Miles From Gabes - Gulf As British Eighth Army Sweeps : Around End Of Mareth Line ._

Eighth Army Units Behind Mareth Line   Montgomery Unleashes Mighty Front Blov At Rommel’s Positions; Americans Continuing East Past Maknassy

PATTON) MEN 34 MILES FROM GULF OF GABES  Slash Toward Sea In Drive To Cut Off Axis     tere coer erence ne iretirar eet   MARETH LINE SPLIT

British Make Progress By Flanking   8th Army Near Nazi’s El Hamma Airfield; Activity in Air

British Break His Mareth Line On Coast, Flank Him on South; U.S. Troops Get Behind Him

PATTON'S MEN SWEEP ON EAST   British Strike In Are Around Mareth Line

City Was Taken in a Slash Toward the Sea to Cut Axis Communications, It Was Announced.   STH ARMY MANY MILES INSIDE MARETH LINE   Americans Stabbed to Within  Less Than 34 Miles of the  Gulf of Gabes, Continu ing Eastward.

8th Army Swings Around Flank Of Mareth Defenses   Montgomery Sweeps Deep Into Line; Americans Only 34 Miles From Sea

U.S. Troops Only 34 Miles From Gulf Of Gabes; 8th Army Hits Rommel Mighty Frontal Blow   ‘Most Concentrated Assault Ever Witnessed’ Delivered Against Axis; 1,700 Prisoners Taken By Montgomery; Enemy Outflanked

British Bash Through Mareth Line   American Troops at Same Time Push Beyond Recaptured Maknassy To Move to Close Trap on Rommel

EIGHTH ARMY NOW BACK OF ARETH LINE   British Sweep: Around Flank of: Axis Defénises to Pen Rommel.   AMERICANS WITHIN 34 MILES OF GULF OF GABES

U.S, TROOPS ARE ONLY 34 MILES FROM OBJECTIVE   Driving Toward Sea, Allies Nearer to Final Showdown With Rommel

AXIS TROOPS PUT UP BITTER RESISTANCE   32 Enemy Tanks Are Hit, at Least 9 of Them Are Destroved

SWIFT MMCVING AMERICAN TANK CORPO NOW ONLY 4 Ml, FROM SEA   Meanwhile Montgomery Striking Around Mareth Line Is Within Short Distance of Junction

A Desperate Effort Soon ~— fo Halt U. S.   All Signs Are Pointing to Big: Counterattack Against Yankees   SQUEEZE TIGHTENED, ROMMEL MUST ACT   Allied Forces Only 60 Miles From Junction; 8th Army. Gains in Hard Battle -

Yanks Moving Toward Port of Gabes, Chief Feeder for Axis; Montgomery Dashes 100 Miles Around Mareth Line and Nears E] Hamma

Eighth Army Moves Into Big -Mareth Line Gap; Maknassy Taken   Axis Forces Fighting Bitterly; May Make Stand Against Gen. Patton’s Onrushng Men

Germans Are Expected to . Strike at Patton's Ad N vancing Forces   DRIVE NEARER GABES      Allied Armies Put Squeeze on Rommel From West  and South

Yank Armored Forces Slash Toward Coast   British Eighth Army Sweeps in Wide Arc Around Mareth Line And Penetrates It

Allies Prepare Three-Way Assault On Japs; Secure Bougainville Beachhead

See Fateful Days Ahead For Japan   Signs in Pacific Point Toward Early Three-Pronged Assault on Nipponese -

NEW ASSAULTS AIMED AT JAPS   Attack May Be Launched From Three Sides in Southwest Pacific

OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH PACIFIC BELIEVEDNEAR   Assault Against Japan from Three Quarters, All Aimed at Tokyo, Said to Be Impending   MAY START ANY TIME

Assault On Japanese Neared Ft rom 3 Quarters With Allies. Having Planes, Ships, Men

Beachhead Secured On Bougainville   Americans In Final Stages For Coordinat. ed Pacific Drive

TRIPLE DRIVE AGAINST JAPS TAKING SHAPE   Stirrings From Admiral Nimitz and Lord Mount-. batten Indicate Offen eica Imminoant   ALL PRONGS AIMED AT EMPIRE’S HEART   Nimitz Hints At Smash A\ Central Jap: Mandated Islands In Marshall, . Gilbert Groups -

SOUTH PACIFIC SIGNS POINT TOWARDS ‘IMMINENT ASSAULT ON JAPS FROM THREE QUARTERS   American Forces in Final Stages of Preparations For Coordinated. Drive to Slash Off Richest Half Of Enemy’s Conquered Empire —

Tokyo Is Goal’ Of 3-Way Drive About To Star   ‘Our Time Has Come To Attack!’ Declares Admiral Nimitz

Allies Mass Air, Sea Ane Land Power   Nimitz And Mountbatten Believed Mapping Drives In Co-ordination With Gen. MacArthur.

SIENS POINT TO 3-WAY DRIVE IN SOUTH PACIEIC   Nimitz, Mountbatten Forces Prepare To Start on Way To Tokyo

Reports From South Pacific Indicate Drive on Japanese From Three Sides

Signs From South Pacific Indicate Assaults Against Japs From 3 Points

U.S. Forces Prepare for Big Assault   Nimitz’ Powerful Sea Unit and Mountbatten Will Strike Together

Three Way Attack Is Shaping Up   Allies Have Built Up Overwhelming Strencth in Pacific

Pacific Signs Point To All Out Allied Attack   American Forces In Final Preparation For Coordinated Slash At Japs’ Rich Empire.

3-Line Attack Against Japan Nearly Ready   Indications Point to Early Start on March Upon Tokye

E ALLIED DRIVES AGAINST JAPS LOOM   Nips In For Rough Treatment, Writer Believes

Lie Is Given To Japanese Claims  Signs Pointing Toward Early Attack On Japs From Three Directions

Not One Allied Warship Sunk in Current Drive in Pacific.   MANY JAP SHIPS SUNK

Three-Direcfion Assault On Jap Islands Hinted   Allied Forces Seen As Readying Drive From Pacific Area

Imminent Assault on Japanese From Three Fronts Seen   Reports from So. Pacific Hint All-Out Slam at Tokyo is Planned

Three-Pronged Drive Against Japs Forecast   South Pacific Area Expected To Provide Action

—PACIFIC—  ALLIES DRAFTING NEW OFFENSWES   Japs Face Assault In South Pacifie From Three Quarters   AIMED AT TOKYO °   MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten Believed Shaping Big Campaign

Tokyo Seen Goal Of 3-Way Drive In South Pacific   Yanks Completing Plans For Assault On Japs From Three Quarters

On To Tokyo! Yanks Preparing For Three-Way Attack On Jap Capital

BOOM INDICATED FOR MACARTHUF   Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Named Running Mate By GOP Group

GOP To Back Gen. M’ Arthur   Senator Cabot Lodee Also Is Favorite Of Party ' -For Viee President. --.

Nazis Advance Seventy Miles; Near Algeria    Americas Troops Fall Back  In Enemy Drive

SUTNUMBERED YANKS GIVE UP * THREE TOWNS   Stimson Says Casualties ". Severe in Personnel, Equipment

AMERICAN UNITS ABANDON THREE TOWNS IN FACE OF CONTINUED ADVANCE BY ‘\XI8 SPEARHEADS IN TUNISIA~ENEMY DRIVE HAS NOW _ GAINED 76 MILES SINCE ATTACK -*  LAST SUNDAY >

LITTLE DELAY SEEN FOR DADS      Only 5,000 Non-Dads Left In State to Fill Much  Larger Calls

FATHERS GIVEN LITTLE RESPITE   Inductions Not Greatly Delaved By Changes In Draft Rules

Father Draft to Show Little Delay in State   Michigan Director Expects 5,000 Fathers to Be Inducted in December

Puzzle of Nazi Air Force May. Be Answered :      Has Shown Little _Striking Power. 8 For Months 

PUZZLE OF GERMAN AIR FORCE MAY. BE ANSWERED BY RAID   Nazi Air Army Has Shown Little Sustained Striking Force Lately

preteen nan enieeata soodieieememinimaneie neem ee caranreneareate-nte  Year’s Wages Doubled By Christmas Bonus

Review Nursery Pian for Mothers in War Plants   Review of Program Given at Meeting of  Community Council

Islands Off Italy Are Blasted   Five More Ships in Mediterranean Wrecked —  Italy to Resist Invasion

ALLICO AL RIAL 3 MASH ANEW AT ITALY   Italians’ Island Stepping Stones Pounded Heavily By Continuous Raids

London Says — Italy To Give Resistance   ALLIES CONTINUE TO KNOCK OUT AXIS SHIPS IN : MEDITERRANEAN

Italy Will Strongly Resist  Invasion, London Warns   Aerial Activity Over Mediterranean Continues; Stepping Stones Bombed

OUTLAW STRIKE OF MINERS CREATES } SHORTAGE OF COAL   Shortage Created Even As Eastern Seaboard Feels Pinch of Slash In Fuel Oil Rations:

STRIKE CREATES COAL SHORTAGE   FOLLOWS SLASH IN FUEL OIL RATIONS AND PRICE INCREASE

OUTLAW STRIKE CURTAILS COAL   Miners Disregard Pleas of Union Leaders To Return To Work

COAL PILES SHRINK AS MINERS STRIKE   Situation in East Acute in Outlaw Walkout

COAT SHORTAGE RESULTS FROM PENNA. STRIKE   Miners Refuse To Head Opinions Of Union Leaders Of Anthracite Field

Strike Causes — Goal Shoriage   UMW W alkout- Continues In Pennsylvania; Adds * “P¢ Fuel Oil Woe

STRIKE CREATES OAL SHORTAGE   12,000 Miners in Outlaw Strike over Dues; OPA Hikes Coal Ceiling

OUTLAW STRIKE GURTAILS COAL   Shortage Comes Just As Eastern Seaboard Oil Rations Are Slashed

‘Coal Shortage Develops As Miners Disregard Union  Plea To Go Back To Work

Strike Causes voal Shortage   Local Unions Vote to Remain  On Strike

12,000 Coal Miners Go On Strike   ‘Anthracite Stoppage Comes on Top Of Oil Shortace

Coal Shortage Develops Amid Mine Strikes  "12,000 In Fields   12,000 In Fields In Pennsylvania Ignore Work Pleas

Hard Coal Shortage   Outlaw Strike By Miners Hits Eastern Seaboard

OUTLAW STRIKE OF MINERS CREATES COAL SHORTAGE   Deliveries Limited As Fuel Oil Rations Are Slasha tm Back

STRIKE CURTAILS COAL PRODUCTION   Report Shortage After OPA Slashes Fuel Oil Rations in East.

ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE CREATES SHORTAGE IN EAST   Leaders of 3 Unions Disregard Plea to Return to Work. Continue Strike

Ask Ban on Bay  Plants   HOUSE NAVAL GROUP URGES THAT NO MORE INDUSTRIES BE SET UP

Committee Recommends No Further Var Industries Be Established in San Francisco Area; Too Congested

AUSTRALIA AGAIN THREATENED BY JAPANESE FORCES   Enemy Gathers New Armies Ir All Islands North ‘of Continent. .

JAPANESE STRENGTH IN ARG OF ISLANDS REINFORCED MONDAY   Observers Believe That Enemy is Preparing for ‘Major Military Effort.

Drive By Japanese Expected   MAJOR EFFORT LOOKED VOR BY GENERAL MacARTHUR.

JAP STRENGTH INCREASED IN §. W. PACIFIC   Major Military Effort Is Looked For

JAPS MOVING MORE FORCES INTO ISLANDS   Major Military Effort Is Seen By Many Observers

Believe Japan Prepares for Major Attack   Australia Still Is in Danger . Of Assault

Preparations for Attack on Australia or Anticipating Allied Drive Under Way, MacArthur Reports.

Foe Reinforces Arc of Islands; Expect Action   ‘Readiness Positions Indicate Offensive Or Defensive Move

Japanese Are Reinforcing  Their Strength   Australia Still  Remains in Danger Ve Thiraet Atiaclk

Penalty Provision In Anti-Strike Bill Crucial Point In Conference

JAIL PROVISION POSES PROBLEM   Penalty Section Expected To Be Retained In AntiStrike Bill

LABOR. LEADERS ARE SEEKING — ANTI-STRIKE BILL GHANGES   JAIL, SENTENCE FOR STRIKE IN GOVERNMENT-OPERATED PLANT GB MINE 38 ASSAILED

FIVE KILLED IN AUTO CRASHES   Violent Deaths Within 16-Hour Period in Blair County

BAN ON GAMBLING DEVICES I$ UPHELL   Ruling of Court Restores State Liquor Board Dictum

REPLY TO POPE.   British Claim 4,100 Churches Tn Empire Hit By Germans.

REPLY. TO POPE.   British Claim 4.400 Churches’ In Einpire Tit By Germans.

NO DRIVING CURB IN MIDDLE WEST   AGENCIES SAY THEY WILL NOT EXTEND BAN AGAINST PLEASURE TRIPS.

German Forces From Caucasus   20,000 Nazis Killed And 3000 Are Taken Prisoner, Marshal Stalin Announces

Soviet Troops Clear Way For Crimea Drive   Foscow Says Germans Are Driven: From Cauca. sus With Heavy Losses   REDS NEAR LATYIA   Bridgeheads Are Extended Across Dnieper; One : 10 Miles From Kiev

Claim'io Have Killed 20,000 Huns and Captured 3,000 Prisoners, Red Army .Dashes_ to Wiihin 62 Miles of Lat vwign Rorder”

Caucasus Now Clear Of Nazi Foree—Stalin  awh rss) 6 6Z ll...   20.000 Germans Slain In Struggle: Crimea Soon To Feel Soviet Smash. Savs Premier

Farther North Reds Drive to Within 62 Miles of Old Border   Thousands of Germans Slain, Tremendous Stores of Material Captured as Taman Peninsula Rewon; Russians Battle to Ex. tend Dnieper Bridqeheads

20,000 KILLED BY RED ARMY, MOSCOWSAYS   Dead and Great Stocks _ of Abandoned Material   Said to Cover Foe’s  Kuban Bridgehead.   SOVIETS EXPECTED TO INVADE CRIMEA   Russians Gain Additional Ground North and South of Kiev as Battle Rages Along Dnieper.

Soviets Drive Nazis From  the Caucasus  Stalin Hints That  Crimea Soon UR7211 Daw TeermwAan

Germans Wipec From Caucasus By Red Charges   Moscow Announce: 20,000 Killed And 3,000 Prisoners

20,000 Germans Killed, 3000  Captured in Taman Mop-Up;  Red Army Encircling Kiev

-Caucasus Said Free Of Nazis   Reds Say 20,000 Slain In Clearing Oil-Rich Sector

GERMAN DEAD © COVERS BEACHES   Great Stocks of Abandoned Material Captured   REDS GAIN INNORTH   ash to Within 62 Miles of Latvian Border; Extend Dnieper Bridgeheads

Premier Stalin Claims 20,000  Germans Slain   Crimea Invasion Is Next; Oil - Rich Caucasus Cleared Of Enemy

Soviets Drive Nazis From the Caucasus   Stalin Hints That Crimea Soon Will Be Invaded

Soviets Clear Caucasus of Enemy Forces   Stalin Hints Invasion Of Crimea May Be Begun at Early Date

CLAIM 20,000 KILLED; 3000 ARE CAPTURED   Hard Driving Russians Broaden Bridgeheads West of Dnieper

Enemy Driven From Caucasus By Red Forces   Soviets Dash To Within 62 Miles Of Latvian Border

20,000 NAZIS AILLED, 3,000 ARE CAPTURED   Moscow Announces Clearing  of Foe from Taman Paninenlts   STALIN HINTS INVASION OF CRIMEA NEXT MOVE

Germans Swept From Caueasus   Soviet Divisions Kall 20.000 Nazi Troops. Capture 3,OOO Prisoners.

STEEL FURNACES CLOSING AS MINE BEVOLT MOUNTS   FDR Still Considering Strike Ban Bill; Disorders Feared

ROOSEVELT IS IGNORING THE OCT. 31 DATE   Rumblings of impending violence are heard throughout, Penngvivania

GASOLINE TO BE POORER, SCARCE   OWI Says Domestic Shortage To Be Intensified

Seven Persons Burn to Death   Three Others Injured In Rooming House Fire in Arkansas

§. Ray Emerson ls Appointed fo Highway Board   Gilbert, Chairman of lowa G.O.P., Ziegler Are Also Selected

SCATTERED POCKETS AXIS RESISTANCE ARE BEING HAMMERED  TOOK ALLIES SIX MONTHS TO DAY TO OVERRUN ’ WORTH AFRICA

Disorganized Foe Seeks Haven Along Peninsula   Advance Continues Says Headquarters Of Allies in Africa

“pine of Bizerte and unis Divides Forces of  the Enemy      PRISONERS ARE MANY   Remaining Nazi Forces Apparently Are Headed for Cap Bon   Rulletin

Capture of . Bizerte. and Tunis Divides Forces of the Enemy      PRISONERS ARE MANY   Remaining Nazi Forces Ap_ parently Are Headed  for Cap Bon

Valuable Equipment Is Obtained As Troops Continue..Mopping Up At Tunis And Bizerte

HINT RUMANIA MAY SEEK PEACE TERMS   Neutral Diplomat Consults Allied Heads in Turkey

Allies Thought To Be Ready With ‘Invasion’ Army in Syria   Berlin Savs Britain ‘Is Trying to Bring Turkey In’   Rumanian Peace

PEACE FEELERS FROM RUMANIA      Axis Satellite Seeks to Learn Allied Attitude on Her Withdrawal

RUMANIA SEEKS SOME WAY OUT   Peace Feelers Extended t Determine How Allies Would Receive Action

Genichesk Captured By Reds   Russians Storm Through 150 More Towns

TO MAKE SURVEY OF WATER PLANT   Entire System Will Be Studied by Black and.  Veatc   TO PLAN :-FOR FUTURE

TO MAKE SURVEY OF WATER PLANT   Entire System Will Be Studied by Black and_ Veatch

Smith Names Newsmen on WAC Board   Quota of eight for county is goal set for lady army.

CAPPER IS 78 TODAY   Kansas Senator Expects Republicans to Win in 1944

CAPPER SEES A G.0.P, CONGRESS   Veteran Senator Predicts Home Front Alarm To Show In Vote<

River and Harbors Bill Is Approved  Postwar Program  Makes First Hurdle

SOVIETS DRIVING LAST TEN MILES TO KEY RAIL CITY   Three Other Important Rail Points Reported Under Shell Fire

Patriotic’ Foreign Policy Called for by Col. McCormick   Chicago Publisher and Editor Gives Creed of  ‘‘Americanism’”’

U. $. FOREIGN POLICY IS HIT BY MCORMICK   ‘Asks Realistic, Patriotic Program for Future

Editor Calls For Realistic Foreign Policy   Col. McCormick Assails Schemes For World Rule

Real: Foreign - Policy Urged   Col. McCormick Stresses ‘ Need. For Safety. When War Is’) Over

Farmer Wins Suit When Birds Turn Out To Be Chickens, Not Pheasants

They Don’t Know Much About Americans Captured Nazi Officers Say U.S. Will Tire And Fold Up

‘He'll Come Back’   ‘AFRICAN OPERATION DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING,’ NAZI OFFICERS TELL REDS AND ALMOST GIVE GERMAN SALUTE

German Losses Are 1,200 Tanks, 314 Planes and 13,000 Men.  FOR THIS PRICE NAZIS GAIN TWO VILLAGES  Hitler Is Determined to Achieve Break-through at Any Cost.

W. P. B. Curtails Paper Operations   Use of Paper for Printin Purposes. ’

DEEP CUTS FOR 1944 NEWSPAPER   WPB Order to Affect Newspapers, Magazines, Books

MAGAZINES GET SLIMMER IN *44   Drastic Cuts In Use OI All Print Paper Ordered By WPB

WPB ORDERS DELP NEWSPRINT CUTS FOR COMING YEAR   Papers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Commercial Printers Affected

DEEPER PAPER CUTS ORDERED BY NELSON   WPB Further Pestricts Newsprint For 1944

ALLIES. OPEN ALLOUT. AIR ATTACKS AGAINST. SARDINIA   Direct Hits Scored ‘On Three Vessels” in Raid’ On Naples —_ Allies  ‘Reinforeerd 

2 Daylight Raids Made On Island   First Action on Sardinia by U. S. Army Air Forces

BLAST (SLAND AIRFIELD ANG AXI5 SHIPPING   U. S. Fliers Hit by Day, British Bomb by’ Night Tarcets Set Ablaze,   AMERICAN BOMBERS IN DAY RAID ON NAPLES

—"Today’s War Commentary  Sicilian Campaign  * . May Be Lone Way From Completion

12 FEARED DEAD IN MINE BLAST   Nine Still Entombed In Kentucky Pit After Six Are Found Alive

Nine Miners Entombed After Explosior In Three Point Coal Co. Mine, Harlan

Hurricane Texas-Bound   Expected to Hit” Freeport-Galveston Area

WARNING OF ~~ HURRIGANE   TEXAS COAST. PREPARING FOR SEVERE STORM WITH WINDS AS HIGH AS 100 MILES: ~ PER HOUR -

STORM WARNING   Hurricane Believed Heading Toward Galveston, Texas.

SYRACUSE ALUMNI HONORS MACKENZIE   Awarded Medal for Outstanding Achievements

DEWITT MACKENZIE GIVEN RECOGNITION — AS ANALYST OF WAR   Medal Awarded Writer of Record-Herald Column

SEVEN PLEAD TO ABDUCTION   Soldiers, Evangelist Kidnapers, Sentenced September 10

Losses Which May Prove Fatal to Tokyo Navy Told in New Issue of “Jane’s. Fighthing Ships”

Today’s War Moves   By THOMAS J. DONOHUE  timiten PMnwnace Analiwesd

THE WAR TODAY bY THOMAS) DONOHUE LJP. WAR REPORTER   Germany Assaulted With Heaviest Aerial Attacks in History.   GESTAPO DRIVES ~PEOPE TO FACTORIES   PEOPE TO FACTORIES  Reports Show Tremendous Destruction of Factory Areas in Berlin.

Today’s War Commentary  Blitz Of Berlin  Reich Capital Faces Greatest Test

Forest Fire Is  Out Of Control   Over 5,000 Service Men And Farmers Battling Raging Blaze.

Japs Retreat As Pincers Close On Attu Island   Navy Announces Advance Patrols of American Columns Join Forces; Confirm Ridges Taken

DIO TRIGT RAISES 1,402 TOTAL FUR AED CROSS   Campaign Closes But Addhtional Donations Will Be Accepted Later

SPEECH KEVED TO NEW TECHNIQUE   AED GhUdo FUND APPROAGHES GOAL   North Mississippi County Needs But $1025 To Reach War Fund Quota

 Pent-Up Hatred For Nazis Brings Action—- —By Hamilton W. Fare   Hitler Having Trouble With Adopted Lands

Rommel’s Axis Forces Lash Out Savagely At British Army In OffensiveAgainstMontgomery

LASHES OUT AT BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY   Sends Infantry and Tanks Against Montgomery’s Forces in Front of Mareth Line,   LOSES 21 VEHICLES IN BITTER FIGHTING   Marshal Strikes in Big Gamble as Allies Draw Tighter Around His Tunisian Positions.

FARLY REPORTS HINT FURIOUS BATTLE. RACES   Axis Forces Press Attacks On British After 21 Tanks Had Been Lost.   DRIVEN INTO DESERT IN FRONT OF MARETH LINE

Furious Battle Raging On Mareth Line Front   British Knock Out 21 German Tanks; Africa Corps Being Led By New Panzer Division Equipment

lwo Leaders  In Pitched Battle Again   After Loss of 21 Tanks in Early Stages of Fierce Fighting Rommel Strikes Back at Eighth

Report Fierce Fighting Near Mareth Line   Nazi General Strikes Out fo Forestall Defeat and Gain Time

Nazis Aifack In Force After Loss 21 Tanks   Rommel Attempts to Hurl Montgomery Bact Before First Army Closes Pincers

BITTER FIGHT FOR TUNISIA IS UNDERWAY   Attack Construed as Desperate Move to Escape Nutcracker

AXIS TROOPS LASH OUT AT EIGHTH ARMY   Bitter Fighting Takes Place In Wastelands Before Mareth Line.

Germans Press Drive To Smash Eighth Army   U.S. Takes Pichon: Axis Seeks To Gain Time In Tunisia

Rommel Turns On British 8th Army In Surprise Move   21 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out In Early Stages Of Attack As Nazi Marshal Makes First Stand Since Retreat From E] Alamein

British Wipe Out 21 Tanks In First Push  Savaae Thrusts   Savage Thrusts Renewed By Axis Southern Army

Nazis Launch Strong Attack On Pursuers   Germans Return to Batlle After 21 of Their Tanks Are Lost

Nazi Chief Gambling Quick Thrust Will Upset Montgomery   ‘Nazi Marshal Sets His Forces in Action Across Waste Lands in Front of Mareth Line; Enemy Commander, Slowly Being Caged Up Into Bridgehead. Takes Chance to Forestall Defeat -

FIERCE BATTLE BEING WAGED IN MARETH AREAS   Rommel’s Army Loses Twenty-One Tanks in First Offensive Blow Against Montgomery   STRIKES BACK AND PRESSES ATTACK   British Knock Out Tanks Without Loss; Enemy Blows Described as “in Considerable Strength”

Germans Lash Out at Brit 8th Army   Heavy Fighting Is in Progress Necr Mereth Line

Rationing Of Clothing Not Likely At Present   But Will Be Ordered If WMC Estimate  On Manpower Needs Correct, Nelson Says   SEES REDUCTION. IN CLOTHING STOCKS

CLOTHES RATION NOT NECESSARY   Nelson Disputes Figure For Men Needed By War Plants

NO PLAN NOW 10 RATION CLOTHES   No Need at Present for Program, WPB Chairman Says

NO CLOTHING RATION SOON   Clothing ‘Ration Not Anticipated Says Donald Nelson

NO CLOTH RATION ON PRESENT PLAN   Nelson Emphasizes  Need Lacking in U S. Now; Runs Are Worry

NO PLAN.NOW TO: - RATION CLOTHES   No Need at Present ‘for Progrom, WPB Chairman Says;

No Plans Made to Ration Clothing in U.S   Nelson Says There Is No Need for Action at Present

Cloth Ration Unforeseen   WPB Chief Says Wearing Apparel Quotas Unlikely

RAF Pounds Hannover With Bombs   Series of Raids Directed at Reich And Central France

R. A. F. LANDS HEAVY BLOWS ON HANNOVER   Then Flying Forts Strike Nantes; Two More Raids By ‘Americans In France; 26 Bombers Lost

Flying Fort Raid On Nantes Follows Mass RAF Nicht Assault At Hannover

ALLIED AIRFORCES THREW QUADRUPLE PUNCH INTO ENEMY  IMPORTANT RAIL AND FACTORY CITY OF HANOVER ATTACKED

Doubleheader U.S. Raid Hits French Areas   Fortresses. Bomb Nantes Twice; Marauders Make 2 Forays At Airfields   HANNOVER ATTACKED   RAF Mass Assault Is Fourth Against German Rubber Resources

4-Pronged Air Assault Made On Naziland   Hannover and Néntes Heavily Hit. By RAF and Yanks

Four-Way.  * Air Punch  : Dealt in 18 Hour:   glass Raid on Hanover by R.AF. Starts Big Blows on Enemy Furope   YANKEE BOMBERS . CARRY IT OD   Rubber Plant, Naval Center and; Airfields Among Big Installations Hit

ALLIED PLANES IN FOUR RAIDS   RAF Makes Mass Attack on Factories in Hannover, Germany.   PORT OF EMDEN BOMBED

Allied Planes Pound Europe   Important Factory City Of Hannover Main Target

Four Raids In 18 Hours  On Germany   RAF and U. S. Bombers In Quadruple Blow at Nazi Home Front

Airforces Throw Quadruple Punch Into Nazi Occupied Cities of Europe     RAIDS CONTINUE TODAY

Nazi seegets — In « nce Hit By’ Americans   First Doubleheader Staged by U. S. Air Force on Nantes Docks and Shipyards and German Airfields

Highly Concentrated RAF Raid On Hannover Leaves Very Large Fires In Wake; Fortresses Attack Nantes and Marauders Blast French Aijrfield; Two Smaller Raids.

4-WAY ATTACK THROUGH AIR HITS AT NAZIS   Daylight Raids On Europe Follow RAF Night Blast At City Of Hannover

ALLIED BOMBS BLAST NANTES AND HANNOVER   U.S. Planes Also Lash Deep Into France In Four-Way Blow At Axis Europe

4 Targets Hit in Air Assault   Hannover Victim of RAF Forts Attack Nantes in 4. Pronged Raids

Heavy Air Blows ~ Landed In Europe  RAF Rocks Hannover. Yanks Hit Nantes

RAF In a Mass Raid on Hannover, Flying Fortress Attack on Nantes and Ma rauder Attack on France.   ALL. WERE CARRIED OUT WITHIN 18-HOUR PERIOD   A Strong Force of Britain’s Big Bombers Roared Into North Central Germany Last Night.

Hanover Target Of Mass Attack: France Bombed   RAF Blasts Important German Railway City; Forts Assault Nantes

Heavy Air Blows On Reich Resumed   Hannover and French Targets Are Poundec

Hannover, Nantes  Raided In Four Major Attacks   Yanks Attack Deep  Into France

AERIAL ATFACK ON NAZILAND IS BEING RENEWED   Mass Raid by RAF Smashes Rail Center and Factories Located at Hanover   NANTES U-BOAT BASE HIT   German Attack on England Three Years Ago Revealed As Invasion Prelude

HANNOVER GIVEN HARD POUNDING BY RAF PLANES   Yonk Forces Attack Neantes, Other Points in France; 26 Bombers Lost

‘ied Air Forces Follow Up Mass Attack On Hannover, Germany, With Flying Fortress Blasting Of Nantes And Two Marauder Assaults Deep Into France—26 Planes Lost By RAF In Trip Over Railway And Factory City—Some Nazi Craft Above England

A-WAY PUNCH INTO. EUROPE   RAF Mass Raid on Han: -over—Fortresses Today

Flying Fortresses Raid Nantes After RAF Hits Hanover   U.S. Marauders Attack  Deep In French Terrain

AIRMEN BLAST NAZI HANNOVER, FRENCH NANTES   Emden and Oldenburg Also Raider With Daylight Attacks by Fort: on Axis Airfields

Four- Way Air Attack Smashes Nazi Points   Hannover Wrecked In Mass Raid By The RAF

ALLIED PLANES RAID HANNOVER, EMDEN, FRANCE   Four Attacks Against Enemy Territory Carried Out In 18 Hours; Rubber Factory Objective Of One Assault.

Quadruple Aerial Blow at Europe   Among Various Places Hit, Rubber Factory at Hannover Is Raided.

Allies Make Four © Air Raids on Europe   Fortresses Heavily Pound Hannover, For‘tresses Attack Nantes by Day and Marauders Bomb Two French Airfields.

Hanover, Big German [Rail Center, Battered   American Flying Fortresses Follow Uf Night Raid With Heavy Attack On Nantes And Marauder Assaults.

ALLIED BOMBERS SPRAY DEATH ON GERMAN CENTERS   INDUSTRIAL. CITY OF HANNOVER HIT HARD IN FAR-FLUNG RAIDS

Quadruple Hit On Europe By Allied Planes   RAF Attack Hannover: Fortresses. On Nantes Marauders In France.   ATTACK CONCHES

HANNOVER IN FLAMES; 26 PLANES LOST   Quadruple Blows Struck By U. S. And RAF Planes

MASS AIR RAID IS MADE ON GERMAN CITY OF HANOVER   Nantes and d Other Points   VERY LARGE FIRES ARE LEFT BURNING

Four-Way Punch Given Nazis By Allied Airforce   Many Points Bombed In a Period of 18 Hours

GIRGUIT COURT NEWo AND NOTES   Three Estate Actions Were Before Judge Russe 1 Wednesday.

CIRCUIT ‘COURT “NEWS: AND-NOTES   Three Estat ‘Actions Were Before a dge Russel We inesday. Se

2 Injured in P.R.R. Wreck   Mail Clerks Hurt Slightly in Derailment Near Clarendon

P.R.R. FAST TRAIN © GOES OFF TRACK   Engine and Seven Passenger Cars Derailled Near Clarendon.   ONLY INJURED TWO MAIL CLERKS

PENNSY EXPRESS TRAIN DERAILED   Two Mail Clerks Slightly Hurt When Locomotive And Seven Cars Derailed

Two Slightly Hur (n Train Wreck  Mail Clerks Bruised: As Train To Buffalo Is Derailed At Clarendon

Future of Joint Body in Doubt  Martin Omits Budget Recommendation for Research Agency

Suggest Talks  By War Bosses   Truman Committee Thinks Conferences With Nelson Could Settle Troubles.

REDS DESTROY 102 PLANES IN ONE WEEK   Report Their Own Loss at 212. During Same Period —Claim Toll of 2,821 German Craft in Last Five Weeks. .

RUSSIANS TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF NAZI AIR FORGE   Moscow Newspapers Re veal 752 German Planes Knocked Down Within Month   SOVIET LQSS 212   Russian Bombers Again Active Last Night, Hammering Airdromes Behind Enemy Lines

REDS DESTROY 752 PLANES; LOSE 212   GERMANS GET WORST OF AERIAL BATTLES ON RUSSIAN FRONT

REDS WIN HUGE PLANE VICTOR)   Knock Out 752 Nazi Craft In Week, Lose Only 212

REDS DOWN 752 GERMAN PLANES   Heavy Nazi Air Losses Reported In Six-Day Period.

RUSSIANS LOOK FORWARD 10 NEW AIR FIGHTS   Germans Lose 792 Planes In Week’s Action

Soviets Destroy  752 Nazi Planes During Past Week   Report Fierce Aerial Wartare

GERMAN PLANE LOSSES LISTED   752 Shot Down From May 30 To June 5, Soviets Report

RUSSIANS REPORT  DOWNING 752 NAZI  PLANES PAST WEEK SOVIET LOSSES IN AIR  DURING SAME PERIOD PTACEND AT 919

REDS REPORT GROWING SCORE IN AIR BATTLE   Claim 752 German Planes Sho: Down to 212 Russian From May 30 Through June 5

Russia Looks To Another Big Weel iOf Aerial War   Baribers Continue Active  After Record Week. In  Which Red Air Force  Reportedly Knocked  Down 752. German  Planes.

LOOK FOR ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT WEEK IN AERIAL WARFARE   The Knocking Down of 752 German Planes Is Good News to Moscow.   SOVIET LOSS WAS 212   Week’s Air Battle Brought German Losses to 2,821 Planes in 5 Weeks.

Soviets Claim Big Air Score   Report 752 German Planes Knocked Down In Week of Fighting

GERMAN AIR LOSSES HEAVY ON RED FRONT   Nazis Lose 752 Planes in Las Week

REDS WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE AIR   Nazi Losses During Last Five Weeks Stands at 2.891 Planes.

‘Let Corn Go Up,’ Midwest Senators Say   La¥Follette and Lucas in Call for Action; Situation ‘‘A Mess’’, Clark Says   OTHERS JOIN THEM IN WARM PROTESTS   Raising Price Now Would Not Be Inflationary, Say the Lawmakers

Start Action ~ On Corn Price   Midwest Senators Suggest Increase In Ceiling Price To Move Grain.

HIGHER WAGES FAIL TO ATTRACT HELP   Ohio Farmers Pay Average of! $61 Per Month

SUBSIDY MOVE I$ PROTESTEL   Sentiment Turning Against Rollback, Says Byrd

AP WRITER GIVES ACCOUNT FIGHTING WITHDRAWAL   Of U. S. Forces Before German Advance Against Center of Allied Lines

Tunisian Observer Finds.      Yanks’ Withdrawal 0 Orderly But Boys Eager for Revenge

DRAFT CUT ORDERED, WHEELER DECLARES   Senator Hits Confusing Statements on Proposed Calls

INDECISION ON DRAFT RAPPED   Wheeler Declares Men 18 To 45 Can’t Tell Where They Stand

IRON, VILAS MAY BE IN BLACKOUT   Wisconsin Council Asks Army to Approve lune 25 Plans.

Increased Food Prices Loom. Congress Told   Brown Opposes Passage of Pace,  Bankhead Bills

MUST HAVE CERTIFICATES   OPA Makes Ruling in Regard t Issuing “T”’ Ration Books

BOND QUOTA SET FOR CARBONDALE BY LOGAL STAFF   Township Quotas Are Announced  For War Drive

COUNTY'S QUOT: FOR BOND DRIVE TOLD BY BEYER   New Request Far Greater Than 2nd War Loan Figure

AMERICANS BAG — 30 MORE JAPANESE AIR CRAFT IN NORTH SOLOMONS   Detailed Information - Still Lacking About Yank Week-End Raid On Jap-Held Gilbert Ielands

D0 JAP AIRCRAFT — THREE-DAY TOLL   U. S. Bombers Deal Heavy Blows Against Jap Bases In North Solomons

RED ARMIES TIGHTENING NAZI TRAP   Nogaisk Steppes Carpeted With German Dead

RETREAT IS ALMOST ROUT SOME POINTS    Jaws Of Pincers Narrowed To Less Than 80 Miles

Russians*¢ Drawing Noose Around Germans in South Killing Many and Gathering Much Booty.

RUSSIANS POUR AGROSS STEPPES; NAZIS ROUTED   Swift Mobile Forces Slamming Door On Crimea   THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FLEEING FROM TRAP

AMET aOVET UNITS CLOSING JAWS OF TRAP   Swarm Across Steppes Thru Gap in Corridor; Nazi Retreat Nears Rout.

RESISTANCE WEAKENS AGAINS RED’§ ATTEMPT TO TRAP. 35 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NAZI

GERMANS ROUTED BY RUSSIAN ARM “AT VARIED POINTS   Battlefield ts Carpeted With Enemy Dead as Mobile Units Slam Crimean Door to Trap Thousands.   ALLIES MASS FORCES ~ TO KNOCK OUT JAPS   MacArthur Announces Occupancy of Bath Mono, Sterling Islands Following < Hard Bombing.

RUSSTANS TURN GERMAN RETREAT INTO FULL ROUT   Slamming Door On The Crimea; Shrink Dnieper Foe Outlet

Cossacks Slam Door of Crimea and Tighten Drawstrings on Neck of Valley Entrapping Foe   Axis Reports Alliesin General Offensive Designed to Clear Out Last Defensive Line Before City of Rome.

Nazi Retreat Turning Into Rout On Dnieper. Soviet Organ Reports   Badly-Disorganized Germans Fleeing For Lives With Russian Mobile Units Splitting Foes, Slamming Shut Door To Crimea

REDS POUR ACROSS NOGAISK ON HEELS OF FLEEING NAZIS      Russian Units Slamming  Door On Crimea And Tighten Hold In ‘ Dnieper

Soviets Pour  Over Carpet Of Nazi Dead   Mobile Units Slamming Door on Crimea; Thousands Are Trapped

TANKS ENGAGED IN KRIVO! ROG BATTLE SECTOR   Retreat Degenerates Into Rout at Points Below Lower Dnieper

TIGHTEN NOOSE ON ENEMY IN DNIEPER VALLEY   German Dead Carpet Plains

NAZI RETREAT WAS ROUT AT MANY POINTS   Red Advance to Slam Door on Enemy in Crimean Area

GERMANS EDGE AHEAD IN NEW DRIVE FOR KIEV   Nazis Send Reinforceinents as Fierce Tank-Infantry Battle Rages

TAN, [VEANTRY BATTLES RAGE OW TWO FRONTS   Soviets Score Against the Germans in White Russia Sector

Germans Hurl Fresh Troops {n ~— Attack On Reds   Fierce Tank And Infantry Battles Kage In Area West Of Kiev   RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN OTHER SECTORS

MAY BROADCAST    Charehill Considers Telling World Of Casablanca Canference

United States Severs Relations With Admiral Robert at Martinique

U. S. AND VICHY NEARING CRISIS IN CARIBBEAN   French Admiral Robert at Martinique Tabbed Nazi Tool As U. S. Consul Recalled

U. S. Recalls Consul From Martinique; Admiral Robert Called Tool Of Hitler

BREAKS WITH MARTINIQUE   U. S. Recalls Consul Gen eral, Abrogates Caribbean Agreements

U. 5. Recalls Its Consul General From Martinique   Admiral Robert Is-. Said Tool Of Hitler In Note From HuJ

JS. RECALLS 113 CONSUL GENERAL FROM MARTINIQUE   Also Abrogates All Agreements With Admiral Robert, French High Commissioner In the Caribbean. 

FAWOY RECALLED FROM MARTINIOUE   U. S. Abrogates All Agreements With French Commissioner

RECALL CONSUL AT MARTINIQUE   U.S. Breaks Relations With Admiral Robert, Branded As Nazi Tool.

RECALL CONSUL AT MARTINIQUE   United States Calls Consul General Home From Martinique; Abrogates. All Agreements With Admiral Rohert.

American Note to Commis: sioner Robert Charges Frenchman With Being a Tool of the Hitler Regime

U.S. Recalls Consul From Martinique    Abrogate All Agreements With French in Caribbean

U.S. Recalls Consul From Martinique, Abrogates All Agreements With French Chiet

U.S. RECALLS CARIBBEAN CONSUL.   ‘Attitude Of High Commissioner @awses Move:

U. S. cancels agreements made with Admiral Roberts.  recalls Martinique consul

U.S. Breaks Relations With Martinique   DEPARTMENT OF STATE ABROGATES AGREEMENTS WITH COMMISSIONER

U.S. Recalls Consul From Martinique   Abrogates All Agreements * With Robert On Island

Consilt General Al Martinique Recalled By U.S.   Abrogates All Agreements With Admiral Robert. French Commissioner

U.S. ENDS ALL. MARTINIQUE AGREEMENT:   Consul General Recalled, Roberts  Told Bluntly He Is Considered  «Tool of Hitler

U. S. Breaks With Martinique Heac   Calls Robert Hitler Tool;  Consul Home   Hull Declares Contact: With Vichy Against Al lied Welfare

U.S, CALLS COUNCIL FROM MARTINIQUE   Charge French Official with Favoring Hitler

Reeall Consul  In Martinique   United States Breaks Off Relations With Government  Of Antilles.

U.S. RECALLS CONSUL GENERAL FROM MARTINIQUE   WAAAY All Agreements With Admiral George Robert.  French Commissioner A henge ta

U.S. Breaks With French Antilles   Recalls Consul Genera! “From Martinique

Martinique Tie Severed   U. S. Recalls Consul Since Colony Refuses To Break With Vichy

U.S, CONSUL TC MARTINIQUE IS ORDERED HOME   All Agreements With Adm. Robert Are Abrogated

U. S. Consul At Martinique Is Recalled   Washington Abrogates All Agreements With French High Commissioner   CALLED "HITLER TOOL"

Abrogates All Agreements  With Robert   French Commissioner O! Caribbean Is Called ‘Tool Of Hitler’ Who Has Enslaved France

MARTINIQUE BREAK   U. S. Abrogates All Agreements With French Ad miral Robert

FLAMING PLANE WRECKS TRAIN   Rails Spread By Heat: Small Boys Try To Prevent Crash

TRAIN IS DERAILED BY FLAMING PLANE   Two Planes Crash at High Altitude—One Pilot Dies

Flaming Wreckage of Army Planes Derails, Fires Train   Youngsters Try to Halt Passenger With Red Shirt But Engineer Unable to Stop

Burning Planes Cause Wreck on B. & A. Railroad   Collide in Air and Com Down on Tracks; One Pilot Dead

FLAMING PLANE FALLS INTO PATH OF TRAIN   aad Engine And Five Coaches Derailed Near Southville, Mass., After Two Craft Collide

COAL DIVERTED TO STEEL USE   Ickes Takes Action Ti Relieve Shortage In Stockpiles

Ickes Orders Coal Diverted   Second Such Action Within Past Week

Believe Major “ Invasion. Moves To Be 4 Res q srveyer      Circumstances of »Churchill-Roosevelt Meet Point to Object

Crises Mark Meetings Of Two Leaders  Invasion Campaigr * Expected To Be

Germans Writing Off All Of Italian Boot Below Leghorn, Despite Hitler Boastine

Balance Of War In Mediterranean Turns Sharply Against Nazi Forces

Balance of Power in Mediterranean  Turning Sharply Against Adolf Hitler

NazisFinding Italy Moves Checkmated   Balance in Mediterrane an Turns Against Hitler;  Rome ‘Victory’ Empty

- Balance Of War In Mediterranean Theatre ‘Definitely Turned Sharply Against Hitler   Extravagant Claims Of Nazis Failing To Alter Picture Of Impending Disaster

Hundreds Of Planes in New Attack   Stuttgart Factories Target After Bremen Given Bashing.

U.S. Heavies ‘Blast Bremen   29 Big Bombers Lost, And 56 Enemy Fighters Downed

NAZI CITIES   Hannover, Rubber Center, Due For Same Punches  That Leveled Hamburg.   Naval Base of Emden Another RAF Target

FIFTH ASSAULT REKINDLES FIRE IN CITY'S RUINS   Opposition by Nazi Fighters Dwindles—Other German Ceniers Smashed Too

RAF Pounds 3 German Cities   Concentrate on Hannover—Emden, Brunswick Hit

German Capital Dealt Third Great Blow Of Week With Heavy Loads Of Explosives And Incendiaries— Stuttgart Also Raided—26 British Bombers Lost— Record U. S. Force Pours Many Tons Of Missiles On Naval Base At Cost Of 39 Planes

29 Heavy U. S. Bomber: And 10 Fighters Lost; 56 Nazi Craft Bagged   NEARLY 1,000 PLANES PARTICIPATED IN RAID

NIGHT RAIDERS BLAST THREE NAZI CITIES   Hannover, Hamburg and  Emden Targets of Heavy Bomber Armadas From RAF Bases    DESTRUCTIVE PUNCHES

HANNOVER IS RAIDED IN FORCE   Attack Costs RAF 38 Bombers; Emden Also Blasted Anew

Three Targets Hit By British Armada:  Concentrate On Hitler’s Rubber Centers

RAF Bombers Hit War Plants in Three Reich Cities in Night Attack

STUTTGART ALSO HIT IN ATTACK   Night Assault Follows Record U. S. Smash At Emden Port

Naval Base At Emden Also Raided   Night Assault Follows Big Davliaht Raid

German Capital Blasted For Fifth Consecutive Night; Two Nazi Planes Get Through To Drop A Few Bombs On England.

RAF Bombers In New Heavy Raids   THREE GERMAN CITIES ARE BLASTED BY BRITISH PILOTS

Berlin battered for fifth night in row   Great U.S. armada strikes Bremen and other targets in north France

RAF POUNDS BERLIN IN NEW AIR ATTACKS   Allied Campaign to Destroy City Moves Forward

Bremen, Berlin Hit In Bomber Attacks   ~ Record Flight Of American Craft Loses 34 Planes To 56 Of Enemy Downed; , Fifth Raid Made On Capital

GERMAN CITIES BOMBED   Indications Are That Rubber City of Hannover liv For “Hamburging”

German Capital. Blasted By 3rd. Attack In Week   Campaign To Blot Out Reich Lifeline Is Continued

Bremen Hit By Huge Force Of Heavy Planes   German North Sea Port Blasted by Americans—Ber. lin Bombed for Fifth Night in a Raw—Operations Also Carried Out Over France

GREAT ARMADAS OF RAF BOMBERS BLAST TRIO GERMAN CITIES  NIGHT OFFENSIVE ALSO STRUCK AT GERMAN NAVAL BASE OF EMDEN

Third Great Attack of Week Delivered There Last Night   Stuttgart, Major Industrial Center, Battered in Twin Blows

RAF LASHES OUT AT BERLIN AGAIN; BLAST STUTTGART   U. S. LOSES 39 PLANES IN GREAT ASSAULT ON BREMEN

Rubber City Apparently To Receive Hamburg Treatment; Action Costs 38 Bombers; Other Raids Made On Emden, Brunswick

Berlin Bombed Hard Again; Bremen Hit   Losses to Americans And British Mount As Raids Continue

Hannover Hit Again To Be Hamburged   Two Other German Cities Are Targets OF Heavy RAF Raids

RAF BOMBERS HIT BERLIN AGAIN TODAY   Nazi Capital is Inferno After Mass Attack

GERMAN RUBBER CENTER BLASTED   HANNOVER TARGET OF NEW ATTACK; BRUNSWICK BOMBED

Tleavy Armada Struck berlin  a Third Great Blow and an   Attack Was Made on Stuttgart.     ENE MY FIGHTERS MORE EFFECTIVE The Air Ministry Announced 32 Bombers Had Failed to Return From the Devastating Raid.

R. ALF. ALSO BLASTS CITY OF STUTTGART   Assault on Capital Is Fifth in Row, and Third Mass Bombing This Week— Previous Fires = Still Burn.

29 Bombers Lost in Raid  Over Bremen   RAF Blasts Frankfurt And Mosquito Planes Hit Berlin Fifth Time

Grealest Armada of U. 5. Heavies Ever fo Take Air Smash al Bremen by Daylight; Canadians, R. A. F. Heap Explosives on Nazi Capital Fifth Straight Night

RAF MAKES ANOTHER HEAVY RAID ON REICH CAPITOL WITH EXPLOSIVE AND INCENDARIES.   German Fighters Put Up More Effective Resistance To British, 32 Bombers Failing To Return fron!’ Raid. Stutteart Also Bombed

Two Ply Raid Also Hits Stuttgart: Enemy Fighter Opposition More Potent

BREMEN AREA HAMMERED BY U.S. BOMBERS   BERLIN ONE-FOURTH DESTROYED; FIRES SWEEP CAPITAL

GREAT ARMADAS OF RAF HEAVY BOMBERS HIT GERMAN CITIES   Concentrated on the Rubber Center of Hannover, It Is Announced.   SECOND BLOW IN WEEK   The Night Offensive Also Hit Emden and Brunswick.

Three Reich Cities Blasted by the RAF   Three-Ply Offensive Hits Rubber Center of Hannover, Naval Base at Emden and at Brunswick—38 British Bombers Lost.

3 Nazi Cities Hit in Raids   Hannover May ‘Be Ground:Up Like. Hamburg;. 38. Bombers Lost in Operations

Diversionary Attack Is Made On _ Stuttgart After Bremen Raid By American Bombers

Bremen Hit _ By Force Of ~ 1,000 Planes   39 American Planes Are Lost. in Attack; 29 Are Big Bombers

Bombs on Berlin; Third Great Blow   Simultaneous Attacks Made on the Capital and Stuttgart   LOSS OF 32 BOMBERS   Z German -Reprisal Planes Bomb London} Caus ing Casualties

GERMAN CAPITAL I$ BOMBED FIFTH STRAIGHT NIGHT   New Fires Started in Stricken City—British Joined by Canadians in Onslaught.   GREAT U. S. ARMADA HAMMERS SEA PORT   Almost 1,000 Planes Take Part in Assault — Frankfurt and Parts of France Pounded.

STUTTGART HIT ALSO WITH 22 BOMBERS 107   Nearly 1,000 U. S. Pianes Pound Bremen With 39 Craft Missing

Bombs on Berlin;  Third Great Blow   Simultaneous Attacks Made on the Capital and Stuttgart   LOSS OF 32 BOMBERS   2 German oy ayer _ Bomb London, Ca ing eee

STUTTGART AND BREMEN HIT IN HARD RAIDS   32 RAF and 39 American Planes Lost; Bag 56 * Nazi Aircraft

THREE CITIES IN GERMANY HIT BY BOMBS   Hannover Rubber Works Is Big Objective

Heavy Blow Is Dealt   Stuttgart Also Hit By Planes In Diversionary Attack

STUTTGART IS. BOMB TARGE]   Two-Ply Blow with Berlin Attacks Industrial ” City

RAF Planes Also Smash At Stuttgart   Two-Ply Assault Follows Record Blow on Bremen By U. S. Bombers

THREE GERMAN CITIES BOMBED   Large Force Concentrates on Major Industrial Center of Hannover.

Drop Incendiaries, © Explosives in Drive To Wipe Out City   British Also Attack Stutigart in Night’s Operations, Lose 32 Bombers In Duel Assault

Third Great Blow Struck at Berlin  RAF Armada Again Blasts Capital

RAF HEAVY ARMADA STRIKES THIRD BIG BLOW AT NAZIDOM  STUTTGART ALSO ATTACKED IN FOLLOWUP  OF BREMEN RLASTING

Raid On Stuttgart Splits Defenders; 32 U.N. Craft Lost   Attacks Set New 24-Hour Record In Bombing Of Enemy Centers; Find Fires Still Raging In Capital

RAF Raids Berlin For Fifth Night In Succession   29 U. §. Bombers Lost in Battles

Defenses Are Split When RAF Also Hits At Stutigar t   32 British Bombers Lost; Nearly 1,000 American Planes Struck Ship Center In Daylight

Berlin, Stuttgart Feel Fury of New Night Raids   Fifth Successive Assault Is Made on Capital; 32 RAF and 39 LU. S. Planes Lost in New Forays

RAF Blasts Three Nazi  Industries   Hannover, Rubber Center. Subjected to Biggest Bombing

RAF Concentrating Heavy Bombings On Nazi Rubber Plants   Nayal Base At Emden Given Another Working Over; Americans Using New ‘Pathfinder’ Technique

39 American Planes Are Missing   56 Enemy Fighters Are Shot Down in Heavy Attack

RAF In Long — Raid On Berlin      FIFTH SUCCESSIVE AIR ATTACK TO BLAST NAZIS

RAF Bombers Hammer Three German Town:   Hannover. Emden. Brunswick Hit In Heavy Raids; 38 Bombers Lost.   RUBBER TOWN TARGET

Fifth Successive Raid on Reich Capital Finds German Defenses More Effective   32 BOMBERS LOST   700 Forts and Liberafors Reported  Taking Part in American Smash  at Port City

14,000 Tons of Bombs Fall on Nazis First City; 32 Bombers are Downed

HANNOVER AND EMDEN HIT BY RAF AT NIGHT   Attack Said Aimed at German Rubber Supply: Emden Is U-Boat Base

Triple Ply RAF Offensive Hits Teuton Cities   Hannover May Face Hamburg Fate; Emden, Brunswick Are Raided By Night   38 BOMBERS LOS]   Fortresses Also Attack Emden By Employing New Pathtinder Tactics

Heavy Blow At Hannover   Second Raid of “Hamburg” Type on Rubber Center in a Week; Hit  Emden and Brunswick

RAF Also Smashes Stuttgart After AAF Batters Bremen   EAT ZEBRA AND ELEPHANT   x «k& Kk Ke Marines’ Bloody Victory Described

Great Fires Also Started At Stuttgart   R. A. F.’s 2-Ply Attack Follows Record Yankee Battering Of Bremen.

3 NAZI CITIES BOMB TARGETS    Hanover, Emden, Brunswick Attack With Cost Being 38 Bombers, One Fighter Plane

39 American Planes Lost; Berlin Hil   Heaviest Daylight Raid of War Made By JU. S.

RAF Bombers Strike New Blow at Berlin   Third Great Air Attack in Five Consecutive Nights

HANNOVER HIT SECOND TIME WITHIN WEEK   RAF Concentrates on Rubber Cenler, Follows Up Fortress Raid on Emden, Sirafes Brunswick

2-PLY BRITISH ATTACK SPLITS NAZI DEFENSES   Nevertheless, Enemy Fighiers More Effective in Stemming Waves of Assaulting Aircraft   FIRES IN BERLIN GUIDE FOR TOMMIES   Thirty-Two Planes Lost; U.S. Attack on Bremen in Daylight Yesterday Destructive

Raid Brings New 2.4-Hour Mark In Deluge Of Bombs   Diversionary. Attack on Stuttgart Splits ‘German Defenses But 32 Planes Are Lost

Might Attack Follows Big Bremen Raid   Greatest American Armada Ever Formed Moalcoe Tiaviaht Trin

Third Great Air Blow On Berlin   Mighty RAF Armada Smashes Reeling City Again; Industrial City Of Stuttgart Hit Too

NAZI CAPITAL RAIDED FIFTH NIGHT IN ROW   Bremen ‘Raid Follows Heavy RAF Smash At Frankfurt

Campaign to Rub Capital Off Hitler’s Reich Is Accompanied by Simultaneous Attack on Industrial Center of Stuttgart.   32 Bombers Fail to Return From The Twin Operation Over Germany

Attack Northwest Germany As RAF Again Raids Berlin   A Thousand Planes Escort U.S. Air Force In Greatest Raid Yet Made, Americans Losi 39 Planes of Ther _ _ a

Hannover Rattles inRaids   R.A.F. ARMADAS SPLINTER THREE GERMAN CITIES IN NIGHT BOMBINGS

Greatest U. S. Armade Blasts North Sea Port; 29 Big Bombers Lost   Reds Take Gomel and Make Other Advances To Menace 300,000 Germans; Allies Widen Bridgehead Across Sangro River in Italy

CONTINUE STEADILY   Radio Moscow Broadcast Reports That Zmievka Near Orel Has Been Captured.

REDS CONSOLIDATE GAINS BELOW LAKE ILMEN -AS NAZI FORCES ARE ROUTED

Red Armies Firmly  Entrenched Deep in’ German Defense Zone — Gain New Ground in Advances at Four Koy. Points Along 500-Mile Southern Front.

Badoglio V ows to Quit On Taking of Rome   Premier Promises to Step Aside So King Can Form New Cabinet; Admits Failure of Coalition Efforts

Quarrels Compose Melody in Nation’s Capital City Today   Ship Construction, Post War Plans, Farm Funds Taxes Are Argued

WAR BOND DRIVE ROLLING ON PAST $4 000.000 000   Trio of Quarrels Continue On Post-War Plans, Taxes and Farm Funds; New Assurances America Will Continue To Champion Rights of Little Countries.

Hull Says US S. Will Champion Rights of LitUe Nations. Hiram Johnson Objects to Con - sidering it Now,

FOUR-PLY FUSS STIRS CAPITAL   Squabbles Develop on Farm Funds, Post-war Plans, Taxes and Ships

Schoeppel Calls. for Cheaper State Government in Message To Legislature

Schoeppel Is For Economy   Legislative Message Suggests But Makes No Effort To Dictate

ITALIANS URGED TO FIGHT HUNS   “Battle Orders” Issued By Radio And Leaflets Dropped By Planes

NEXT WEEK IN ITALY WILL BE DECISIVE   Allies call wpon Italian population to resist Germans

Missing Maiden Returns To New  York City . Home   Went To Ohio With A Sailor

Missing Girl Returns Home   14-Year-Old Margaret Moore With Sailor        In Ohio.

ENEMY CONVOY FLEES RAIDERS   No Trace Can Be Found Of Ships By Allied Plane<

PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY ISSUE 10 GO TO FEDERAL COURT   Southern Operators Hit At Lewis’ Bargaining — Strategy —UMW "Chief Silent .

SOUTHERN COAL OPERATORS ASK RULING ON PAY      Carry Controversial Portal Tt Portal Issue To District Court

Coal Dispute _ Goes To Court   Operators Ask Ruling On Underground Pay

Leaders Told Extension Of Rationing To Midwest Is Under Consideration

TIGHTENING OF DRIVING BAN IS FORECAST   Eastern Congressmen Are Given Adverse Answer   IHEARING”’“HELD   “May” Extend Ban To “Some Midwestern States”

EXTENSION OF BAS BAN SEEN   Congress Group Hears Rations May Go to Midwest Too

Congressmen Seeking Relief From Ban Receive Little Encouragement  LEADERS QUESTIONED

Nazis Bring Balkan Area  Under Control  Some Italian Troop: Aid Germans To Get Rations

SAY NAZIS HOLD BALKAN CONTRO   GERMANS REPORTED RETAIN. ING GRIP DESPITE SURRENDER OF ITALIANS,

FARM LEADERS IN OPPOSITION TO SUBSIDIES   Federal Bureaucracy Also Hit At Meeting Of  Coanerative

WAR OF NERVES HARD ON JAPAN   U. §. Hints at Big Action Soon Gives Enemy Jitters

JAPS JITTERY OVER PROSPECT OF U, $, THRUST   Offensive In Making Is Well Advertised To The Japanese

OF IITTERS   Show Worry Over ‘Possible ‘Amer, .  Thrust.in® ‘Pacific

JOINT LAND, SEA AND AIR OF’ FENSIVE PLANS REPORTED BEING STUDIED BY “BIG THREE”

Framing Joint Strategy Plan To Defeat Germany   Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Believed Personally At Work On Plan   GEN. MARSHALL MAY BE SUPREME HEAD

Roosevelt Returns to White House   $33,750,000 Fund to Kecruit Farm Labor Recommended; Food Subsidies Scheduled  for Temporary Continuance

Allies Stir Up Trouble In Balkans   Partisans Get AidItalian Fighting Tavers Of

Nazi Positions Ir ’ Greece Blasted . .. By Allies STEP UP ASSAULT Air Support Alsc Given Yugoslavia Civwarritloas

NAZI TARGETS IN GREECE HIT BY BIG FORC      More Than 300 American Bombers, Fighters Raid Port of Piraeus, Athens Airfields   AID TITO VICTORIES   Yugoslavs Defeat German Forces Near Zara, Force Evacuation of Island of Uljan

300 U.S. Planes Raid Nazi Airports At Athens, Greece   Others Aid Partisans Battling Germans Car YWiinqaclavia

Fresh Nazi Troops Enter Figiit in Drive To Recapture Kiev   British in Italy Advance Against Heavy Fire, Action Light on Fifth Army Front

Allied Airmen Play Major Role in Defeat of German Forees by Tito’s Partisans

FIGHT RAGING IN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ITALY   Major Drive Against Japs By Americans Brought Nearer by Air Attacks

'RECORD AIR SMASH AT GERMAN TARGETS GREECE, YUGOSLAVIA  MORE THAN 300 AMERI CAN PLANES IN HEAVIES} RAITLKANS RAID

Allied Planes Aid Tito’s Partisans Defeat Germans in Yugoslavia; Germans Fight Desperately in Effort to Retake Kiev

Russian Front Is Aflame   Nazis Battle Fiercely In Bid to Retake Kiev

Allies Step up Warfare on Balkan Front   300 US Planes Raid Nazi Airdromes Near Athens; Allied Air Assaults  Support Yugoslav Guerrillas

Yanks Help Slav Rebels Trip Nazis   Germans Throw in Fresh Troops in Bid to Recapture Kiev, Halian Front Quiet

Record Air Smash on German Targets in Greece Reported   News of War in Italy, Balkans and Russia is Summarized

300 U.S. Planes Batter Balkans In Heavy Raids   Allied Land Forces Go Ahead On Italian Front

‘OVER 300 AMERICAN PLANES IN  ATTACKS IN GREECE AND NAZI STRONG POINTS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Bombers ‘and Fighters Take Part in Air War Over Balkans, Airfields Near Athens and Piraeus Being Blasted. Planes Partisans Win Victory

No Letup In. Fighting On. Land Fronts   Russians Pose New Threst Along Dnieper — Fight: ing in Italy Still Brisk. +

Nazi Airfields a Greek Mainland   Allied Air Strength Aids Yugosla Partisans; Land Action Flames  on Russian Front 

Smash _ Tar gets In Greece   Allies Step ‘tep Up Alt Assault in Bal  Area; Titanic Battle Rares in Kiev Sector

120,000 Germans Perish in Month  Nazi Summer Operation ‘Fiasco,’ - Says

KHARKOV NEXT OBJECTIVE OF SOVIET ARMIES   Zolochev, 25 Miles Tc Northwest, Is Recaptur ed From Germans _   120,000 AXIS TROOPS ARE REPORTED KILLED

Belgorod Line Broken Along  43-Mile Front   Kharkov Faces Pince: Threat—Orel Push Continues—Offensive In Donets Surging

Soviets Drive Past Belgorod Into Ukraine   Whole German Front May Be Threatened With Early Collapse  INAZI LOSSES HUGE

REDS DRIVING FOR KHARKOV: GET ZOLOCHEV   Enemy Lines Broken on 43Mile Front Considered Great Summer, Triumph; Nazis Face Retreat   30,000 Nazis Die

SURGING DRIVE QUTFLANKS BIG UKRANIAN CITY   Summer Offensive Breaks 43-Mile Front, Yields 120,000 Toli Of  Nazi Forces   Whole Line May Crack

Soviet Drive Surges With Great Power   Kharkov Outflanked As Zolochev Falls To Russian Assault

NAZIS FACING COLLAPSE OF RUSSIAN LINE   Soviets Claim 120,000 Germans Killed in Past Month

Russian Army Outflanks Vital Kharkov   German Lines Are Broken on 43-Mile Front

Oops!   Tramp Breaks Into Jail  Burns Roof, Lands in Another Jail!

Americans Take Faid Pass; Nazis  Destroy Store:   Allies Race For Tunis,  Only 70 Miles Away; . Final Test Near   New. York Bombing Plans Made, Rome Newspaper Asserts

FRENCH ESCAPE NAZI TRAP: TUNIS ; SET.FOR BIG DRIVE   Order of the Day Indicates Allies are Ready for Final Test.

GREEN SPEAKS AT CONVENTION OF LEGION   Wants Soldiers Kept on Payroll Until They Find Jobs

LEGION MOVE IS LAUNCHED ‘TO HELP EX-SERVICE MEN   RESOLUTION PREPARED FO! CONVENTION WOULD KEEP VETERANS ON PAYROLL UNTIL THEY.  * GET JOBS

 Pwo fears Ago Lhe Nazis Took War To Kussia— —bBy Glenn  Hitler Hasn't Been Able To Deliver Goods

BRITISH RAID CITY NEAR COLOGNE   Resume Aftacks Despite Bad Weather

Rhineland Hit In Renewal of   Fighters ‘Active After Big Planes Go Into Action Again

FIRST RAIDS IN ) WEEKS MADE NBAD WEATHER   Chemical Works Near Cologne Object of Big Planes

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACK RHINELAND AGAIN LAST NIGHT   Center Block Busters On War Gas, Chemical Works Near Cologne

Heavy Bombers Resume Attack On Nazi Cities   Chemical Factory Near Cologne Blasted By Big Raid

RHINELAND ATTACKS ARE PESLIMED   Chemical Works At Leverkusen Hit by British

British Blast Axis Tar ‘els In Rhineland   Chemical Works At Leverkusen Battered With Block-Busters’

BRIT. BOMBERS HIT RHINE AREA AGAIN      Weather Obscures Effect of the Bombing

BRITISH RESUME ‘BLOWS AT RUHR   Bombers Center Attack On Chemical Works In Cologne District

RAF Big Bombers Attack Rhineland   Raid Is Centered on Leverkusen   Weather is Stormy: British Lose Four Planes in Flight

PLANES ATTACK RHINELAND FIRST TIME IN 2 WEEKS   After Being WeatherGrounded, Offensive Begun Last Night Continues Today

Keep Door Open As You Start Car Motor, And Let Some Fresh Air In As You Drive   You'll Breathe Better and Longer Avoiding Carbon ‘Monoxide.

Urge Complete Restriction of “Gas” Sources   Bat Do Not Be Too Greatly Alarmed; It’s To Prevent Deaths From The Carbon Monoxide

HOUSE WRITING NEW TAX BILL   May Provide Only Fifth Of 10 Billions Sought

Treasury Proposal Rejected   House Committee Hits Another Administration Tax  Increase Plan

House Committee Votes to Freeze  Gift Tax Levels   New Tax Bill Will Fall Short of Treasury Request

Urge Freeze of Estate, Gift Tax   Committee Rejects Proposed Increases.

RAIL COMMISSION SEEKS PERMISSION GASOLINE INCREASE  EMERGENCY HEARINGS FOR REFINERS TO BE ADNEREN AT ONCE

Berlin Suffers: Light Airraid __. For Second Night  Other German Cities Also Bombed by RAF Mosaiito Planes

NAZI MAY QUIT ONEIPER REGION   With Soviets Holding Railheads, Position Is Becoming Difficult

NAZI POSITION IN DNIEPER AREA GROWS DIFFICULT   Germans May Start LargeScale Withdrawal From Section. Russians Tem porarily Halt Enemy rho. Fr. Rea

Russ Capture Big Nazi  Base at Sumy — Two Other Cities  Northwest of  Se Fay Oe oe ee

ARC CLOSING AT OREL ON _ THREE SIDES   Poltava, Nazis’ Key Anchor Point, Totters

ADVICE ON SWEARING      A Cook’s “Heil Hitler” Might Be Misunderstood

House Group Plans to Kill Salary Order   President’s "$25, COD Salary Limit May Be Nullified by Ways and Means Vote

Propose To Nullify Salary  Limitation   House Committee to Vote on Proposal to Attach Rider to Bill Raising National Debt Limit

Services to Call 2 Million More by July   Half of the Group Will Be Drawn From Pre-Pear) Harbor Dads

HALF OF TOTAL REQUIRED WILL BE FAMILY MEN   New Selectees, Largely PreWar Dads, Will Be in Service by July

MILLION TO BE TAKEN OUT OF FATHERS POOL   Draft Will include Those in Class 3-A But Subject. . to Reclassification. --:

MILLION FATHERS MUST BE CALLED   SELECTIVE SERVICE SAYS : MILLION MEN NEEDED JULY 1.

TWO MILLION MEN WANTED IN 6 MONTHS   Deferment of Fathers Rapidly Exhausting This Source

Father Draft Will Be Large   Half Of 2.000.000 Men Needed By July \ il] Come From List Of Dads.

Two Million More Men Must Be Drafted by July  Half of Number Will Be Taken From Draftable Fathers

2,000,000 More Men In Draft by Next July.  Half of Them Father:   Selective Service Says Present Rate of Deferment of Reclassified Men May Exhaust Father-Barre] by Then

Draft to Take About Million Pre-War Dads   Fathers Will Be Needed  To Fill Quota Asked Re Nict 17 71.

Plan great slep-up in draft calls   Inducting million fathers by July 

Million Fathers To Be Taken From Draftable Dads Before July of 1944

Two Million Mor Face Early Draft   Million Fathers Face Coll, And Others To Be Re-Classified Ta Meet Demande

9 Million Men Facing Draft In Six Month:   Half Of Number Will B  q rs: Bottom ©: ‘Dad Barrel May Be Neared By July 1

One Million Will Be Taken From 5,000,000 Draftable Fathers Still With Families As of Dec. 1

DRAFT 10 NEED 2 MILLION MORE   Half Of Quota To Be Fathers, Officials Predict

Dads to Comprise Half of 2,000,000 Called Up by July   Fewer Than 5,000,000 Draftable Fathers Left as of Dec 7.

Two Million en  Face Dralt  By July 1,’ Half of Number  To Be Dads, Service Says

CONGRESSMEN DEMAND ACTION      War Department A sked Te Explain Need for More Men

AIRFIELDS IN ITALY TARGETS OF U.S, FLIERS   Italy, Getting Over Jitters, Talks Boldly of Preparing for “30 Years of War”

Fortresses Raid Genoa And Turin   Steel Works And Second Ball Bearing Plant  Blasted In Twin Blows By Yank Fliers

Reinforced Nigpon Troops Engage Yanks: Bombers Hit Nazi-Held Armament Plants

FORTRESSES LOOSE SMASHING BLOWS ON NAZI FACTORIES   Ansaldo Steel Works, Genoa, ' And Another Bearing ‘Plant At -Turin  . Heavily Hit —

African Planes Hit Italy Plants   Genoa, Turin Targets of Flying Fortresses

U.S. AIRMEN RAID TURIN AND GENOA.   British Bombers Attack Targets In Western Germany

FOURTH TERM ON THE OPO   Republican Offer Made for Short Campaign if No Fourth Term.

Democratic Chief Spurns Challenge To Have FDR Renounce Fourth Term

RUSSIANS SCORE BREAKTHROUGH IN CAUCASUS BATTLE FRONT   Communique Says 131 German Planes Have Been Shot Down North Of Novorossisk.

Russians Shoot Down  BI German Airplanes; Ground Fighting Severe

REDS HOLD LAND AND AIR INITIATIVE   131 German Planes Lost in Two Days; Russ

GERMANS LOSE 131 PLANES IN RED OFFENSIVE BATTLE   GERMANS TRAPPED IN CAUCASUS LOSE GROUND TO 150,000-MAN SOVIET DRIVE AIDED BY 170 TANKS. MANY PLANES

NORTHER HITS IN PANHANDLE      Snow Falling; No Freeze Bu Colder Weather Due Here

TEXAS PANHANDLE TRAFFIC BLOCKED BY SNOW AND ICE  REMAINDER OF TEXAS GETS RAIN AND AWAITS COLD WAVE

Germans Trapped By Reds   Germans Lose Many Troops in Fierce Counterattacks

Reds Encircle Cherkasi, Huge Nazi Stronghold   Many Germans  Killed in Futile Attacks

NAZI FORCE ENCIRCLED AT CHERKAS!   Capture Would Enlarge Russian Bridgehead

HARMON IS SAFE; OTHERS MISSING   Former All-American’ Gric Star Only Member of Crew Known Alive

HARMON RESCUED BY GUIANA NATIVES      Crew Bails Out in Southern Jungle

OTHERS MISSING.   ‘ompanions With Tom Harmon Are Still Not Found.

Harmon Rescue Ends Wandering  Football Hero Lost  Pisa: oa Renee  Se eRe

Natives Got Harmon Out i y ’ Jung! es      Reported Found After Four Days’ Wandering; Rest — Of Crew Missing

After Plane Mishap, Tom Harmon Wandered Four Days in Jungles;: New Guinea Natives Rescue Him

Wandered Four Days In Jungle   Michigan Coach Learns Of Harmon’s Experience After Crash

Harmon Roamed 4 Days In Jungle Following Crash   Found By Natives; Other Members Of Crew Still Unreported.

Guiana Natives Rescue Harmon   Former Football Star in Hospital Followina Crash

larmon Wandered Alone In Jungles for Four Days   tced to Jump With Other Members of His Crew Over Dutch Guiana When Army Plane Falters; Become Separated From Colleague, Still Missing; Suffering From Exposure

Yankees Extend  Solomons Bases   Move Closer to Japanese Posts   FOWLER RITES

Fourth War Loan Will Be Launched January 18; Quota Over A Million.   Bond E Purchase Stressed As Best Type Of Security

BONDS WILL EASE SLUMP AFTER WAR   Plymouth. County Asked To Invest Anothes  . “ST ‘ORR. one

Extension Of Coal Parley To May 1 Is Proposed   Lewis Would Have Any Agreement Retroactive To Apri] 1

COAL OPERATORS SEND TELEGRAM T0 WHITE HOUSE   Spokesman Declines to Say Whether They Have Reauested Presidential Intervention

Contents Of Telegram Sent To Roosevelt Withheld By Owners   Of Coal Mines

I) PACT TO MAY 1   Move Made With Proviso Any Agreement Reached — Would Be Retroactive To April 1   WOULD AVERT STRIKE IN SOFT COAL FIELD   Operators Outside Appal. achian Region Would Be Permitted to Work  In Event Walkout

Miners Offer Extra Month For Debate   Negotiations Would Be Extended Until May 1 Provided Agreement Is Made Retroactive

Coal Heads AppealtoF.R.   Operators May Have Asked Intervention in Miner Wage Dispute

Hrilish Gain Near Catania   Policemen On Guard As Work Is Resumed

Tojo Warns Japs War Increasingly  Tense, Drive Due   Ignores Recent Losses  In Talk To Diet

Tojo Admits To Rubber-Stamp Diet  War Situation Increasingly Tense   Jap Premier Says There Are Increasing Signs Of Impending United Nations Offensive On Large Scale.

Tojo Warns Of Big Seale Allied Drive   War Situation Growing More Tense. Premier Telis Jap Diet

SEES MAJOR OFFENSIVE IN MAKING   War Is Becoming Increasing Tense He Tells Diet

Signs of Large Scale Offensive Seen in Pacific   Jap Premier Tells Diet War Situation “Increasingly Tense ”’   He Says Battles With Allies Grim, Terrific

Tojo Admits Losses, Says Pacific Tense   Jap Admiral in High Exaggerated Claim of Sinkings

’ Tojo Sees Allied Thrust. , Calls War Stage ‘Tense’   Report on War Progress Makes No Mention of Attu and China Defeats

Jap Premier Tells Diet Of Allied Plans   Says Great Activity Indicates New Blows Are Not Far Off

Tojo Warns Japanese  Of Allied Offensive   War Becoming Tense, He Says— Chinese Charge Gas Used— Americans Down 69 Planes

Tojo Says War Situation Is More Tense    Declares There Are Increasing Signs of Impending British-American Offensive on a Large Scale

Situation Tense  Says Tojo Of War   Increasing Signs of Allied Invasion Noted by Jap Premier in Diet Address

War Situation Becomes Tenser  Tojo Tells Japs   Predicts Great Allied Attack

Tojo Tells Diet Japan s meady  For Hard Battle       hid pverem Pan: Offensiv e Next Move. He Clabia: ‘Calle Situation “Tense”

Tojo Reports To Diet Japs _ Are Preparec   Notes Increasing Signs of LBritish-American Move On Large Seale

Montgomery's. Army in Front Of Mareth Line   Rommel’s Forces Retreating from Kasserine Pass

Germans Suffer Heavy L In Baltic For Tunisia;  Prisoners Captured By A

Much Colder Here Tuesday   Abnormally Warm Weather Will Be Chased Out Tonight

BRIDGEHEAD AT BOUGAINVILLE {S SECURED BY U.S.      Japs Fail In Attempt To Oust Americans—Report Jap Admiral Killed

Bougainville Yanks Gain Secure Grip:   No Swift Advance Expected in View Of Japs’. Strencth

Beachhead on Bougainville IsMade Secure.   Seek to Drive Yanks From Last  - Solomons Stronghold

U. $. TROOPS SECURE INVASION BRIDGEHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE   Gen. MacArthur Say: Claims of Enemy Without Basis

YANKS SECURE BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE   Drive Toward Air Bases From  ‘Which Te Bomb Jans  At Rabaul

APS DEFEATED WN BOUGANVILLE EOUNTER ATTACK   Beachhead Secure as Army Joins the Marines

GET BEACHHEAD IN BOUGAINVILLE   Jap Attempt to. Drive U.S. From SolomonsStronghold De-:. feated *

DRIVE ON ENEMY IS ADVANCED   Onrush of Russians is _ Speeded Against Nazis

SAFE CRACKER IS TAKEN BY FBI   “Phantom Safe Cracker,’”’ Prison Fugitive, Is Captured In Ohio

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Copyright,: 1943, by the Associated Press )

U.S. Drive in Fog-Wrapped Aleutians Impossible Without Miracle of Rada   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER  (Copyright, 1943, by The Associated Press}

Radar, Secret Super-Weapon, Is Now In Use  Makes Possible   Makes Possible  Aleutian Action

Immigration Quota Battle Expected  Exclusion Act Repea Move Onens Fiaht

Red Press Hits Sweden   Neutrality Violation in Axis Favor Charced

Russians Stiffen Resistance Below Kharkov, Forge Toward  Smolensk and Starava Russa

Germans Paying Heavily For Vic tory On This Front   Soviets Now Only 60 Miles From Smolensk In Drive On Big Nazi Base

Goy. Donnell Suggests Merit System Proposal Modification   Would Have It Set-Up On Temporary Basis Until After War to Avoid Discriminating Against Missourians In the Armed Service

Donnell Suggests Merit System Be Made Temporary Until War Is Over

Martin May Favor Sales Tax To Relieve Burden On Real Estate   Ever-Increasing Cost Of Government Assailed In Speech To County Commissioners

moe ree ee EE EE ea ae ae ae  Gandhi More Cheerful, But Strength Wanes

HOUSE INFORMED FDR, OPA EXCEED CRANTS OF LAW   Report Hits Food Power Transfer from Secretary of Agriculture

Char ges Made In Handling of Food      Say President, OPA And SCC Exceeded Authority

NOVO COMMITTEE HOLOS GUROGHATS EXCEEDED POWERS   Hits OPA, SCC and President in Handling of Food Situation

FDR ACCUSED OF EXCEEDING HIS. AUTHORITY   Special House Committee Also Aims Charges At OPA And SCC   INSTANCES ARE LISTED   Accusations Grow Out Of Handling Of War-Time Food Problems

HOUBE COMMITTEE SAYS  ROOSEVELT OPA AND BCC: HAVE EXOEEDED-PHEIR. - GRANTS OF POWER           By ROBERT HUMPHREYS Internatlonal News Service

RULED SUICIDE AT INQUEST   Conflict in Testimony Has No Bearing on Verdict

DAVEAU DEATH RULED SUICIDE AT INQUEST   Conflict in Testimony Has No Bearing on Verdict

RETAIL PRICES OF LAMB, BEEF TO BE LOWERED   Reduction. to be One. te Three Cents Pound, OPA  Administrator Prentiss  MM. Brown Announces’   EFFECTIVE MAY 17   Compared With Prices Charged in February Reduction Will Average One Tenth of 1%

New Retail Ceiling Prices On Beet, Lamb Will Be 1 To 3 Cents Lower Than Schedules

OPA ANNOUNCES CUTS IN PRICES   New Retail Price Ceiling on Meats Established

More Ration News     New Low Ceiling Prices On Meats Go Into Effect May 17

BEEF AND LAMB CEILINGS DROP   New OPA Schedules Go Into Effect May 17, Brown Announces

MURRAY RAPS LIVING COSTS   C. . 0. CHIEFTAIN WANTS GOVERNMENT TO ACT

Reduce Ceilings On Beef, Lamk  Cut Effective May 1% Lnder OPA Decision

NEW CEILINGS ON MEAT   New Retail Ceiling Prices On Beef, Mutton Scheduled May 17

Meat Price To Be Cut Sharply   Weekly Ration Basis Will Continue

Meat Ceilings To Be Reduced   Revised Beef And Lamb Prices May 17

McCormick Not Candidate: Chicago Tribune Publisher Asks Withdrawal of Name in Illinois

HUGE NATIONAL DEBT PREDICTED      Evatt Says Figure May Top 350 Billion . Dollars

The War Today   Hoosier’s Letter Asks Santa To Sneed Peacetime Reunions

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIP Aesociated Preeas Var Anais ot

The War Today—  “Dear Santa” Letter Is Prayer Of 'Hope For Every Parent Of Soldier

This Is What Many Want, Dear Santa— More Than ‘Anything Else in the World

The War Today  Kindly Indiana Editor Expresses Thoughts For Christmas.

WAR ANALYST, STARTING LEAVE, LEAVES MESSAGE FROM FRIEND THAT MAY AID YULETIDE SPIRIT!

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE WORTH YOUR READING   DeWitt MacKenzie Passes On to Public Message from Editor Tom Keene of Elk. hart, Ind.

SONKISKA RGET OF U.S. BAVY RAIDS   nda On New Georgiz }d Enemy Positions On Chiseful Island In   Solomons Hit   N EMPLACEMENTS iF NIPS SILENCED   as Bases Attacked By llied Air and Naval Forces; RAF Over Channel Points

Flying Fortresses Bomb Emden Germany; France Riso Severely Blasted

FORTS BLAST EMDEN   Tons of Explosives Dropped in Raid This Mornmng

COMBINED ALLIED ARMIES SMASH FORWARD ON ALL SIDES OF TRAPPED NAZIS

AIM AT BIZERTE AND TUNIS   Victorious Forces Closing in on  Axis in Africa

British First Army Edgigigs: ‘Toward Tunis Frog . West, While Eight Army Is Blasting In South.

MILAN BATTERED BY RAF RAIDERS —N REAWY RAIL   Biegest Attack of the Wai Blas's Bura'ng City; Residents Flee.

Milan Battered Berlin Bombed In Air Attack:   Blazing Italian Industrial City Again Plastered With Savage Raid    “GRAVE DAMAGE’’ ADMITTED BY ROME   Allied Air Armadas Rake Five French Ajirfields And Many Towns

MILAN SUFFERS HEAVIEST RAID; BERLIN AND NAZI AIRFIELDS ARE ATTACKED

WOMAN MARINES PICKED WITH CARE FOR THEIR JOBS      Each Is Handled Individual. ly and Is Asked About.  Preferences ‘

WOMAN MARINES PICKED WITH CARE FOR THEIR J0RS   Each Is Handled Individually and Is Asked About  references

Berlin Is Set Ablaze by Concentrated RAF Attack ~ to Soften Up for Invasion

ATTACK BY 2a U-BOATS SMASHED   SUBS ON CONVOY’S COURSE DISPERSED BY PLANES AND SHIPS--TWO SUNK.

U-S, Britain Have U-Boats on Run, Recount Victories   America Furnishes Many Vessels To Push Success

Planes, Ships Ward Off U-Boat Assaults   U. S. Convoy Steams Sofely Through the Atlontic— U. S. to Transfer 150- 200 Merchantment  , to Great Britain

lL. S. Transfers Merchantmen to Britain  Planes, Ships Ward Off U-Boat Pack by Sinking Two of Craft

Convoy Fights Off Wolf Pack   Warships and Planes Defeat Major Attack in North Atlantic; U. $. Merchant Ships Transferred to Britain

German Wolf Pack Routed by British In Atlantic Battle  Transfer 150 U.S. Merchant Ships to England

U-BOAT PACK [S DISPERSED   Two Are Sunk in Beating Off Major Attack; British Getting U. S. Vessels

Major U-Boat Assault Beaten   Evidence Of Allied Superiority Shown

Big U-Boat . Pack Defeated   Bombers, Escorts Smash Attacks on Convoy

ALLIES ROUT U-BOAT PACK   Sink 2 Underseas Craft In Battle; U. S. Ships Sent to England

Major U-Boat Assault Beaten   Evidence Of Allied  Sunerinrityv.. ShnweA

British Force Defeats German Sub Wolf Pack   Warships and Planes Sink Two U-Boats in ThreeDay Battle

PATTON INGIDEN] REVEALED TQDAY   Curses and Strikes Shell shocked Soldier in Sicily.

STORY OF HOW GEN. PATTON STRUCK A - SOLDIER LEAKS OUT   Only Value As Leader Pre~ vented Court Martial; Is Report

New Orleans Cotton   Patton Struck Soldier, Staff Officer Reveals

Patton Not Relieved In Soldier-Slapping Case; Makes A Full Apology

Lt. Gen. Patton Twice Struck Shell Shocked Seldier in Hospital Tent in Sicily Was Revealed by Staff Officer

Americans Pay Income Taxes   Give Proof of Loyalty And Unity, Declares John L. Sullivan

FIGHT TO HALT RETREAT MAY BE IN MAKING   Americans Bag 19 Enemy Planes In Big Raid — On Bizerte; French  Yield Ground   Yanks Score Success

EIGHTH ARMY IS HOTLY PURSUING ROMMEL’S MEN   Allied Vessels Are Already  Using Harbor Facilities At Teinnli   INDICATIONS POINT TO DECISIVE BATTLE

(Loeniunuta Vn Lage rour)  POPE CONDEMNS NAZI TRY TO KILL RELIGION

POPE CONDENINS “WRETCHED NAZIS WHO BEGAN WAR   Vatican. Broadcasts, Beamed to Germany, Promise Better Times.

PONTIFF GIVES HOPE TO GERMAN BISHOP   ‘Better Times’ Ahead, He Writes Churchmen

Three Killed, Two Hurt At  Presque Isle   Army Craft On Routine Mission Out Of Base

a ‘Army Fliers — Killed In Crash *. At Presque Isle   Accident . Sécond At Base Tn One-Week-As' Plaric ~Fplls-On- Routine Flight

Russ: Tighten Kharkov Grig   Drive Against Bryansk Also Speeded Up

RECAPTURE OF KHARKOV NEAR   Red Army Batters Way To Within Five Miles of Nazi Base

NAZI DEFENSES ARE GRUMBLING   Battles Around Kharkov Approach Fina! Stage As Reds Hit Anew.

NAZI DEFENSES ARE CRUMBLING NEAR KHARKOV   Russians Reported ta Be Gathering for Final Assault on Bastion

FINAL STAGE OF KHARKOV BATTLE NEARS   Russian Forces Are Said to Be Gathering for Coup de Grace as German Defenses About  - the City Crumble.

Kharkov Battle Approaches End  Nazi Defenses About City Crumbles; Reds 5 Miles From City

New Forces Into Battle of Kharkov   Both Sides Bringing Ir Fresh Troops And Special Units for Final Struggle   REDS ARE CLOSING IN ON ENEMY   Only Five Miles From City at One Point; Gains Made Wear Rrvansie

REDS PREPARE FINAL ASSAULT ON KHARKOV   Capiure Chuguev, Main Nazi Bas. tion 22 Miles Southeast, to Clear Way for Encirclement   BATTLE TO DEATH   Germans Push Specialists into Front Line—Red Advance on Bryansk Continues

Final Blow On Kharkov Sea:   Fresh Axis Reserves Unable To Stop Soviet Army On North, East.

German. Defenses. At: “Kharkov.” oo) ‘Crumble Under Red “Attucks: “Battle. Nearineo. Final “Sia

German Counterattacks Fail To Hold As Reds ‘Move Nearer To Big City

Russian Troops Tighten Clutch Upon Kharkov   Fresh German Forces Fail To Stem-Soviet Onward Drive

Final Drive on Kharkov Is Due   City Encircled By Russian Troops

Kharkov Battle Near Final Stage   German Defenses Around Ukrainian City Crumble Before Onslaught of Russian Army

Kharkov Battle In Final Stages   Reds Gather Strength for Last Push

Nazi Kharkov Defense Fades Under Blows   Russians Gathering For Final Assault; Reds In 25 Miles of Bryansk

German Defenses About City Reported Crumbling. Nazi Radio Says Fighting on Whole Eastern Front Increasing, in Violence

Battles Around Kharkov Reach The Final Stage   German Defenses About Russian City Crumble Under Red Blows.   Fighting on Eastern Front More Violent

Reds Battle Within 5 Miles of City   German Counterattacks Fail to Halt. Soviets, Gathering for Final Push

KHARKOV'S FALL NEAR AS SOVIET UNITS PUSH ON   Red Gains Along Ukraine Sector Are Announced

KHARKOV UNDER SIEGE AS RUSS FORCES ADVANCE  CAPTURING CHUGUEV. SOVIETS CLEAR PATH

BEET GROWERS PRICES BOOSTED   $1.50 A Ton Increase Ordered In Effort To Assure Generous Crop

Japanese Fear Another Attack On Main Island   Warned By American Air Chief Of ‘Greater Blows To Come’

Warn Japanese Air Blows Due   Kurile Islands Are Hit By Liberators

GREATER AERIAL BLOWS IN PACIFIC FORECAST BY AIR COMMANDER: KURILE ISLANDS HIT

Warn Japs Bigger Air Blows Due   No Letup, Says U). S. Commander

JAPAN AWAITS BLOW   Fears Kuriles Raids ‘Presage At_ tacks on. Main Islands’

Kurile Raid Is Warning to Nips   Japan Perturbed by _ New Assault Only’ 1200 Miles From’Tokyo

NEW AIR BLOWS PROMISED JAPAN   NIPPONS JITTERY AS YANK BOMBERS WING WAY NEAR MAINLAND

Japan Fears  Air Attacks   Second Attack Upon Kurile Island Chain Means Mainland Assault

JAPS WARNED GREATER AERIAL BLOWS IN PACIFIC   Pacific Offensive Has Reached Second Quarter Of Game and American Forces Have the Ball

KURILE ATTACK SURPRISED FOE   Japan Warned Even Greater Aerial Blow to Come in Pacific.   TWO U.S. PLANES LOST

WARN JAPS OF NEW AIR RAIDS   VJ. §. Solomons Air Chief Predicts Continued Pacific Blows

Warn Japanese  Of More Raids   Commander Of Air Activity In Solomons Says No Letup From Now On.

Most Of Those Quaint Old April 1 ; Tricks Classed As Sabotage Today

Be Careful With Your Old Pranks This Fool’s Day   Writer Thinks You Might Start Fight By Putting Salt in Sugar Bowl, Letting Air Out of Neighbor’s Tires, ete.

‘Society for Preservation of All  —_—_  : Practical Jokers Issued Warnings

‘Tis Day Of Alll Fools!  tee a  Tricks Of Other Years May Result In Homicide

Go Slow on Stunts, So Casualties Will Not Result From ‘Sabotage By KENNETH IT preaw

Do You Know? Today Is April 1  Today Is The Day  You Must: Proceed With Caution! !!

This Is All Fool’s Day-but the War Rationing Does Away With Fooling

ROUND CLOCK RAIDS CONTINUE   Mosquitas Stab in Nighi At tack and Planes Cross Channel Today.

RAF Maintains Round-the-clock Offensive by Air   Western Germany, Occupied France Get Alternate Bombinas

New Blows From Air Are Dealt Nazis By Allies .   Eighth U.S. Force May Be Using Bremen As Test Of Precision  Weave bateace

Mosquito Planes Hit Western Germany To Keep Up Round-the-Clock Raids

Western Area Again Bombed By RAF Plane:   Hint Bremen Is Being Used For Bombing Test In - Wiping Out Entire City

Allies Step — Up Bombing Intensity   Day Attacks Follow on Heels Of Night Blows

Third Day of Heavy Raids On Nazis   Allied Planes Head Over Channel For New Attack

LIGHT BRITISK BOMBERS RAID WESTERN REICH   Allied Airmen Continue Ail ‘Round-the-Clock’ Offensive Today

Using Bremen As Test Of Precision Bombing   Swift Mosquito Bombers Maintain RoundClock Offensive, And Streams Of Allied  Planes Continue Blasting Today. 

British Blast Nazi Taraels   New Stream of Allied Planes Cross Channel For Third Straight Day

French Raids Follow Blast At Germany   Bremen Is Test  For U.S. Bombers

MOSQUITOES ARE POUNDING NAZIS ROUND THE CLOCK   Bremen To Furnish Test Of Effectiveness. Of Total Raids

Bremen lest For Air Force  Precision Bombing Contrasts With RA hAathad At Hambhar

U. S. Heavies Blast Targets In West Reich   New Attack Follows Lighter Blows By R.A.F. During the Night   BREMEN TEST POINT

HAR: UP BUMBING “OF GERMAN      Series Of Attacks Ts Being Tested  By Allies

Guests Are Limited to One Face and Bath Towel Daily   39 SIGN AGREEMENT

‘SUPER CZAR Th URGED FOR ALL WAR ECONOMY   Senate Bloc Demands New Setup with New Powerful Board

Czar of Czars Said Necessary  Kilgore Sub- Committee Te....¥....w. ff? ..F.

Senate Military Subcommittee Urges Creation of War Mobilization Board to Be Headed by ‘Super Czar’

WARBOARDIS SOUGHT WITH "SUPER - CZAR’      Senate Group Demands Unified, Over-Alf Production

WHO'S CONSERVING PAPER”?   Committee Demands Super-Czar  Over War Mobilization Board

SUPER CZAR IS DEMANDED BY SENATE GROUP   New Official Would Head Mobilization Board, Outrank Byrnes And Nelson   Production Lag Charged

SUPER CZAR IS SUGGESTED FOR STABILIZATION   Senate Group Blames Mud died Situation For War Production Drop   WPB AND WMC CALLED “SERVICE STATIONS”

Big Pacific Bout Looms   Sea and Air Forces”  Gather Near Rabaul

Amendment To Trade Bill Is Defeated _   Aetion on Propesed. Antistrike Law Demanded; Attack on Gasoline Black Markets To Be Undertaken

HILLSBORO MAN ADMITS KILLING LOUDOUN FAMILY   Thomas W. Clatterbuck, 33, Restages Murder Of  ” Bro Dareane      MOTIVE ATTRIBUTED TO NOTE FOR $2,500

VIRGINIAN IS HELD FOR SLAYING FIVE   Thomas Clatterbuck, 33, Confesses Loudon County Murders

VIAGINIA SLAYE CONFESSES CRIME   Thomas William Clatterbuck Said to Have Admitted Killing Five Loudoun County Persons; Reenacts Crime

FRENCH COMMISSIONER DISSOLVES LEBANESE PARLIAMENT   Mounting Storm of Protes: Arises on Dismissal and  Arrest of High Officials

FRENCH ACTION 5 PROTESTED   British Declare They Wifi Permit No Disorders in Lebanon.

CURB APPLIED TO DEGAULLE   British Warn Disorders ii Lebanon Must End

Senate, House Storm Breaks Over Beer Bill   Budget Bill May Force Same Action

Budget Bill Conference Threatened   Senate Angered by Restrictions Placed On House Members

Admiral King Sees Heavy Blows at Japs  Says Key to Victory Lies in Keeping China Effective

Adm. King Calls Russia, China  Victory Keys   All Aid Must Be Given  Allies, Says Commander Ovrtll @ Ble

CHINA'S PLAGE IN WAR STRESSED   Admiral King Indicates Key to Final Victory Over Japan Lies in China; Urges More Aid for Russia

Powerful, Crippling Stabs at Japs Forecast by Admiral   Key to Final Victory Lies in China Which Must Be Kept in War as It Occupies Vital Place Against Enemy

China Holds Victory Key   ‘Position Strategic’ ta Pacific Advence, Seys Admiral King

CHIEF OF NAVY SAYS TAPS DUE FOR MORE HELL   Admirat King Asserts China Must-Be Kept In War To Assure Victory, In Pacifie Theater   MORE AID FOR REDS is ALSO ADVOCATED   Attuck On Guadalcanal By U.S. Averted “Trouble” Piling Up, Thretigh Sneedy Action

Powerful Blows Due Japs Soon   Admiral Syas Chinc Is Key To Victory ©  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Ascenciated Presa Staff Writer

Admiral King Forecasts Powerful And Crippling Stabs At Jap Positions

(China Key to Victory ‘Over Japan, Adm. King Asserts in Interview

KING INDICATES KEY TO CRUSHING JAPS 15 IN CHINA   Commander of U. S. Fleet Says Ally’s Geographical Position Makes Her Help  Paramount.   PLACE ANALOGOUS TO THAT OF RUSSIA   Both Near Enemy Countries and Each Has Vast Manpower, . Admiral Points Out in Strategy Talk.

Powerful Blows Due Japs Soon   Admiral Syas China Is Key To Victory :

RUGOEVELT TALK AKS RUSSIANS   President Prefers To Give Americans Truth Concerning War Effort

KNOX SEES AIR FREEDOM GOAL   Reminds Naval Graduates Of Fallacy In Scrapping Fighting Ships

Blast Dnieper Dam To Halt Attack Of Onrushing Soviet:   Retreating Nazis Blow Up Structure And Flood Bat: tlefield: Remnants Cleared From East Bank Of River; Russians Claim Heavy Toll

Germans Blow Up GreatDnieperDam   SL I LOO  Part Of Battlefield Reported Flooded To Stall Russians; 7-Mile Gain Made In Push For Crimean Breakthrough

‘ fo Hand rattle Fought t Melitopo!  Fallot City Near; Nazis Lose All Alona Red Front

REDS KILL 4,500 IN MAJOR BATTLE INSOUTH UKRAINE   Germans Driven From Wreck.ed Buildings at Melitopol in Fierce Hand-toHand Fighting.   SOVIETS GAIN 7 MILES IN DRIVE ON CRIMEA   Nazis Said to Have  Destroyed Re-Built Dnieper Dam in Effort to Check Advance.

NAZIS DRIVE FROM BUILDINGS IN MELITOPOL   Pant Of Battlefield Flooded  By Dam Destroyed  By Germans   RUSSIANS IMPROVE POSITIONS AT GOMEL

NAZIS BLOW UP REBUILT UNIEPER DAM   In Retreat From River Bend: Russian Soldiers Battle Germans in Hand-to-Hand Fight at Melitopol   Bomb Airdromes

Soviets Blast Germans From Melitopo!   Break Through at Northern Door to Crimea

Soviets Blast Germans Out  Ot Melitopol   Rebuilt Dnieper Dam Dynamited Again, Germans Announce  NIANY NAZIS KITTEN

Reds Crack North Door To Crimea   Soviets Advance Below Zaperozhe: Nazis Wreck Dam

Large Area Flooded as Germans Destroy Dnieper Dam   RAILWAY STATIONS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Soviet Positions South of Gomel Are Improved

NAZIS BLAST REBUILT DNIEPER DAM IN TRY TO HALT RED ATTACKS   Reds Rout Hard- fighting Germans From Wrecked Buildings of Melitopol; Fight For Breakthro ugh to Crimea

Reds Batter  Savage Nazis Seven-Mile Advance Made in Plan To Seal Up Crimea

SAVAGE FIGHT BEING WAGED IN MELITOPOL   Nazis Lose 4,500 Men In Furious Battles  In South Russia

Russian Soldiers Blast Germans In Melitopol   Hand-to-Hand Fightin Reported; Troops Make Seven Mile Advance

Germans Claim Creat Dnieper Dam Destroyed   Soviets Advance Seven Miles South of Big Citadel of Zaporozhe; 4.500 Germans Slain

TEXANS HAD BIG PART IN CAPTURE OF SAN PIETRO   ONE OF BLOODIEST AND TOUGHEST BATTLES OF WAR FOUGHT FOR TOWN

TEXANS HAD BIG PART IN CAPTURE: OF SAN PIETRO  ONE OF BLOODIEST AND  TOUGHEST BATTLES OF WAP EQcUT raR TOW!

May Abandon Wheat Control   Tightening of Food Situation Is Factor

AMARILLO IS HOST Fat Stock  Show Dates March 8-]ll   Quotas and Penalties on Wheat Expected To Be Removed Soon

Expect U. 5. will abandon wheat quotas   ‘Wickard is soon lo order rigid program lifted’

WHEAT PLANTING EXPANSION SEEN      Wickard Probably to Issue Order Suspending Quotas

Wheat Penalties To Be Abandoned   Larger Plantings May Be Permitted

Tax Increase Said 310% Since 1928  Texans to Shell Out $823,000,000 For Year. Morris Cites

Recluse Leaves $32,000 Hidden In Owosso Barr   Additional Forfune Ir Securities And Bank Deposits

Inhabited Places Are Captured   Reds Ciaim 7,000 Germans Killed In Kuban Battles.

Russians Break Nazi Lines Along 15-Mile-Wide Front  In Drive Toward Novorossis

10 Inhabited Places Are Captured   Heavily Fortified Defense Base of Krimskaya Is Taken

1.5, TO EXPECT BOMBING RAINS   Public Warned Axis May Attempt Attack Coastal Cities This Summer in Effort to Cripple Allied Offensives

Effort To Break Morale Is Seen   -Populace Must Be Ready To ‘Take It’

FOUR ARRESTED OVER WEEK END   Three Defendants Arraigned Before Squire Bowden, One at Paulding

Held for Violation Of Motor Fuel Law   First Case of Kind in This Coun. ty—Graber Bound Over To District Court

ALLIED. AIRMEN BLAST FORMOSA   DESTROY 47 JAPANESE PLANES, 12 OF WHICH ARE DOWNED IN DOGFIGHTS.

Detroit. Restaurant Owner Looks to President Roosevelt to Save Him From Doom   BOASTED HE NEVER WOULD BE EXECUTEE   Contended Axis Victory Would Save Him; Aided Escaped Nazi Flier; Quaking With Fright

Traitor To Hang For Aiding Nazi Flier In Escape   Stephan Dies At Dawn Unless FDR Intervenes

Stephan Looks To FDR For Reprieve   To Be Hanged Tomorrow For Treason

GALLOW AWAITING DETROIT TRAITOR   Max Stephan To Die Fri day Unless President Intervenes

Stephan Puts Last Hope In President   Tirst Execution for Treason To Tahe  Place Tomorrow

QUAKING TRAITOR LOOKS TO FDR   Stephan Slated for Gallows. Friday

LOOKS TO FDR   Traitor Quakes With Fear as He Waits (Unlikely) Pardon.

MAX STEPHAN HANGS FRIDAY   Commutation By FDR :  Convicted Traitor’s Last Hope

Stephan Looks To Roosevelt  Seeks Order Sparins   Seeks Order Sparing Him From Gallows

MAX STEPHAN STILL HOPES FOR REPRIEVE   Execution Chamber Now Under 24-Hour Patrol

Axis Forces In Tunisia Make ~ Counter Attacks   Make Desperate Attempts To Hold Foothold In Tunisia — Hot Fighting   MAKE ATTACKS IN AMERICAN SECTOR   ALLIED HEADQUAR. TERS IN NORTH AFRICA

Yanks Stand FirmDespite Counter-Drive   _Heavy: Fighting Rages in Area West of :Mateur

U.S. Airmen Strike Hard Along Front   Intensive Assault Made On Kairouan; Strafe Axis Forces

ANKS OMAGH FORWARD FR MILE SAN   Germans Unable to Withstand Constant Hammering of ~ U.S. Artillery,      BOMBERS SOFTEN AXIS _;. POSITIONS FOR ATTACKS

U.S. Forces Gain Four Miles in Tunisia, Now 12 Miles from Mateur

FIGHTING MAD, YANKS SAI INTO RETREATING NAZI   Accurate and Punishing Artillery Barrage Too Much for Axis.

Infantry Pushes Forward; Planes, Artillery Assist   _ Four Key Hills Taken ’ In Four-Mile Advance Along Road To Mateur

Allies Hit Foe In Africa Via Land. Sea. Air   Heavy Fighting Reported in  Tunisian Sector

BLOWS RAINED AGAINST NAZI SUPPLY LINES   Axis Radios Jittery Over Impending Battles

German Radio Says B rifish Are Ready To launch A Big Attack Starting Saturday

Slovak and Italian band: take Gorizia   Germans admit  serious. uprising

Northeastern Italy Seized by “Rebels”   Germany Admits Loss of Northwest Yugoslavia

GERMANS CONFIRM UPRISING STIRRED BY REBEL TROOPS   Jugoslav” Patroits “Thrust 22 Miles Into Italy , To Capture Gorizia

Germans Admit Slav Uprisings.   Reports Say uerillas ‘Now Inside Italy 

Shoes of Wood Still Unrationed   Wisconsin Shoemaker Finds Business Good

HANNOVER TARGET OF BIG RAID LAST NIGHT BY BRITISH   Nazi U-Base At Nantes And Air Centers In France Hit By U. 5. Planes

NANTES, U-BOAT BASE, BOMBED BY UL S. FORTS   British Make Heavy Raid Last Night On Hanover   BOMBING RESUMED OF EUROPE TARGETS

IS AGAIN ATTACKED   Fires from This City. Visi ble 150 Miles Away— Other Targets Heavily  Bombed by Allies.

Hannover Raid” May Be Heavies Of Whole War   133,000 Pounds Of Bonibs Per Minute Dropped

FORTS’ ATTACK NANTES U-BOAT BASE IN FRANCE   Night And Day Blows End 17-Day Lull In Air War

F lying Forts Blast Nazi U-Boat Base,  _ RAF Hits Hanover, Loses 26 Bombers

ATTACKS RESUME, WEATHER CLEARS DEFENSES FOILED   Belleve Big Rubber Plait Again Hit—Anti-aircratt Fire Feahla

Concentrated Bombing On Hannover Sets A Kew High Record For Aerial Warfare

Nantes and Hannover  Heavily Bombed   Raid on German City Believed to Have  Set Record for Concentrated Bombing

SAME SKY ALL OVER TRANSPORT ACE SAYS   ARATESS WERE SRESES VY BAAD BBO awe OAR 2  Flichts D etlial

YANKS, JAPS BATTLE NEAR GUADALCANAI   First Action Said to Be Sparring for Postions

Yank-Jap Pounding  Each Other   Major Sea Clash By ws As — Scattered Forces Jockey For Tactical Ad vantages,

Battle Trend ls Uncertain   oth Japs And Americans Have Sulfered  fome Losses In Latest Push By Japanese  Action Is Termed Not A ‘Pitched Battle’ But Both Sides Are Sparring For Position

SUBS GET FIRST U, $. CARGO SHIP SINCE SUMMER   Enemy Submarine Sinks First American Ship Off East Coast In Many Manthe.

Vessel Is Torpedoed  Near Coast   Sinking Of First  Ship Close To U. S. Shore Since Last Summer Announced By Navy

U-BOAT SINKS SHIP OFF EAST COAST   FIRST SINKING IN AMERICAN WATERS SINCE LAST SUMMER

NOTE OF DESPERATION   Enemy Sub Sinks Merchant Vessel Off East Coast

First Such Sinking In American Coastal Waters Since August, 1942, Navy Reveals   SURVIVORS LANDED   Officials Decline Comment on Whether Attack Represents New Phase in Sub Campaign

U.S. Merchantman Sunk Off East Coast: Navy Mum on Possible New Sub Campaigr

U-BOAT SCORES ON EAST COAST   Navy Reports First Sinking of:U. S. Merchantman Since Iast Summer in Home Waters

SHIP OFF COAST   First Close Attack Since August Revives Fears Of Off-Shore Menace

VESSEL SUNK — ON FAST COAST   By oto,Gimilar Action By Enemy Sub Since * Last Summer

SHIP IS SUNK OFF EAST COAST   Is First Sub Attack in  Area Since Last Summer

U-Boat Sinks U.S. Vessel Off Coast  40 Men Perish, 18 Are Saved In Atlantic

U. S. SHIP SUNK OFF EAST COAST   First One Lost Since Last Summer

Sub Strikes Near Coast   Marks First Sinking In Home Waters Since August of Last Year

FRENCH PATRIOT ARMY FACES NAZI TROOPS IN ALP:   French and English Officers  Command Guerilla Band

NIPPON NAVY IS EVADING BATTLE   No Reports. Of Any Sinkings Made Since Aug. 7

Jap Navy Pulls In Horns As Yanks Deliver Punches In South Pacific

PULLS IN HORNS   Enemy Warships Now Extremely Scarce In Southwest Pacific

Japanese Fleet  Pulls In Horns  No Enemy Vessels Sunk In More Than Month

RED ARMIES NEAR KHARKOV, CUT MORE PB. R, LINES   Germans Fall Back ‘From City Toward ‘ Dnieper River

Kharkov in Bag, Say Soviets As Railway Cut  Nazis Abandoning Rich Booty In Flight West

REDS DRIVE TO OUTSKIRTS OF KHARKO\   Next To Last Escape Railroad Cut In Latest Push-

TO nitO ARM BELIEVED NEAR   Russians Almost In Outskirts Of Fourth Largest City Of Soviet Union

ON OUTSKIRTS OF KHARKOV   Ned Armies Drive Almost to Out. skirts of City—Cut Next to Last Escape Railroad.

KHARKOV CAPTURE IS DUE ANY TIME   Jungle Troops “Ready To Close on Japs Making Stand at Bairoko Harbor.

Russians Drive Near Outskirts Of Kharkov   Next to Last _Escape Railroad  Is: Severed

CAPTURE OF KHAROV IS IMMINENT   Mext to Last Escape Railroad Cut By Russians

Russians Push Closer To Kharkov   Cut Railroad Line, Narrowing Nazis Chances of Escape

RUSSIANS CUT MAIN KHARKOV ESCAPE LINES      German Evacuation Of City I Now Believed Matter Of Short Time

Red Armies Drive  to Edge of Town   One Escape Route ' Left for Retreat

Cut Next To Last Escape Railroad, Narrow Corridor   Germans Falling Back Toward Dnieper River  Along 80-Mile Front

ENEMY IS IN TIGHT SPOT NOW   Lose Next to Last Escape Railroad and Corridor is Narrowed to Thirty  Miles.

Soviets Cut Next To Last Escape Railroad— — Push Gaining Momentum  NAZIS FALLING BACK  Fresh German Panzers Hurled Into Battle

JUDGE SCOTT WILL RETIRE   Served Northern Iowa Federal Court District

FARM PROGRAM PRESENTED TODAY 10 REGIONAL MEETING OF GOP LEADERS -

G.0.P. Hears Of Farm Program   Governor Griswold Presents Farm Points To Republican Conference.

(:. 0..P. Offers Yew Aims in Farm Program   Abundance Best   Not Scarcity; Cc VT Weaat Tald

GANDHI PEACE MOVE REJECTED   Compromise Offered By Intermediary Turned Down By Viceroy

Scheme to End “Fast Reject   Viceroy Rejects Gandhi Friends’ Compromise

PLAN TO CUT ~~ ARMY FUNDS   UNEXPENDED BALANCE OF THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLARS “WILL BE CHECKED  .& OFF CREDITS

Red Planes Rain Deatl As Fleeing Germans Clo; Dneiper River Crossing:

STEPPELAND YIELDED 10 RED VICTORS   Germans Making Strong Defense of Krivoi Rog in Order to Keep Jaws of Trap Open

GERMANS FLEE HEADLONG BEFORE SOVIET ADVANGE   Struggle to Escape From Gigantic Red Trap   GERMANS REPORT BIG BATTLE UNDIMINISHED

RED AIRPLANES POUND FLEEING HITLER FORCES   Soviet Armored Columns Within 40 Miles of Last Crimea Land Exit

NAZI TROOPS RUN RAPIDLY FROM REDS   Russian Planes Remain Convincing

NAZIS FLEE STEPPELAND IN PANIC   Reported Trying To Escape Across Lower Dnieper

‘Clogged River Crossings Under Constant Attack From Air   NO PEACE AGROUND   Soviets Within 10 Miles of Last Land Exit From Crimea

Germans Flee Charging Reds   Nazi Troops Rereat 15 Miles in a Day

REDS BOMB NAZIS ON GENERAL RUN   Fifth Army Seizes Anchor 0 “Little Rommel” Defense South of Rome.

“EIGHT: STATE ALARM FOR KILLER   Veteran Pittsburgh Detective Shot With Own Gun

Kerr Charges Morgan Playec GOP Politics   Minority Leader Resigns From Joint Committee

TEXTBOOK GRAB WHITEWASHED,’ SOLON CHARCES   G,. O. P. Floor Leader Quit: and Governor Raises Cry of Politics

THOMAS COUNTY  FARMERS FACE FEDERAL CHARGES   Five Farmers of Pavo Area Charged With Violations of Federal Price Control Act. Under $1,000 Bond Eac

NEW TAX PLAN     BE DOOMED   Congress Would Rather Have A Sales Tax

Administration Tax Plan Gets Cool Reception   Appears Doomed 24 Hours After Introduction

NEW REVENUE PROGRAM GETS COLD RECEPTION   Congress Hostile To Treasury’s Tax Proposals;  House Leader Brands Plan Too  Hard On Taxpavers

RICK ATTACKS RULES OF UNION   Asserts Labor Racketeers Are Chief Drawback to War Effort

FAMOUS “FLIER DE ARES UNION RULES AND ION  _» RACKETEERS CHIEF DRAWBACK, TO WAR

CHINESE ELATED” AT PROSPECT OF BURMA OPENING   Selection of Mountbatten With Aid for China Planned, Creates  Ontimiem

OFFENSIVE INTO BURMA BELIEVED NEXT WAR PHISH   Chinese Happy Over Allied Appointment

Taday’s War Moves   Allied Forces Getting Set To Invade Burma Erom India

The War Today   Wide Approval of Meuntbatten’s Appointment _ Is Tribute to Him.

NAMING OF LORD: MOUNTBATTEN TO BRING ACTION IN SOUTHEAST ‘ASTA AROUSES MUCH ENTHUSIASM

The War today : Allies Likely Preparing To Invade Burma Under Mountbatten Command

Refuses Increase for Railway Workers   Vinson Denies Wage Increase To 1,100,000

RAIL WORKER ~ WAGE RAISE ' . 1§ REJECTET   VINSON BLOCKS EIGHT-CENTS PER MOUR INCREASE FOR MORE THAN MILLION  °. " EMPLOTES

CHIANG PROPOSES RECONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR CHINA   Generalissimo Sees His Nation at Crossroads; Destiny Rests Upon Shoulders of People.

Gen. Chiang Offers China 10-Year Plan   Generalissimo's Book Calls For Army Of Reconstruction Aids.

BEHEAD U. S. AVIATOR   Action of Japanese Is Disclosed in oo ’ Captured Diary

JAPS TO PAY FOR BEHEADING FLIER   State Department Says Ac: tion To Be Taken

Jap’s Diary Reports Yank Is Beheaded   State Dept. Insists. Guilty Officers Must Be Brought To Justice

NEW AIR MAIL PICK-UP TIMES   ¥  Hour Later in Evening Is Appreciated by Mailers Here

Plane Goes Down in Flames at Ponca City, OkJa., Apparently After Being Struck by Lightning—Victims Found With Parachutes On as if Preparing to Juamp—Woman Eyewitness Gives Graphic Account of Accident.

Ten Airmen Die On Routine Bomber Flight  Plane Crashes Near Ponea City After Leaving Galveston

J. om yng c- Sot ia, <in-s Team a Or< Wi:1 _ussians f in la cans

BOMB JAP-HELD PORTS      Allied Attacks Made on Installation in Burma

LIQUIDATION ~  CLOUDS MARKET   Many Leaders Display Slip * ping Tendencies Near . Closing How

CHEST DRIVE IN FULL SWING   500 Workers Begin Their Solicitation; First Report Today

Noose Tightens; Town After Town Falls; ‘Many Thousand’ Prisoners Taken

Deeds To Be Signal Of Turk Action   Bulgaria Said To Be Ready To Leave Axis If Allies Invade Balkans

Bulgarian Break  With Nazis Seer  Would Join Allies I  Jnvaded. Belief

Invasion Fears Grow; People Favor Allies   Balkan Nation Expected To Follow Example Of Italy, According To Ankara Dispatch; Turkey Cast For Major Role In War

Germany Nervous   FDR And Churchill Conclude A ThreeDay Meeting With President Inonu

ENEMY CAUGHT BETWEEN TANK AND AIR RAIDS   Allied. Troops Swarming Into Kasserine Pass; British Hit from Rear.   STIMSON CLAIMS CLEAN CUT REPULSE OF AXIS

Yanks, Brifish, French Squeeze Fleeing Enemy   Three-Way Attack In North; Alexander Threatens Rear

Hundreds of Italians Captured As Rommel Falls Back Through Pass Hotly Pursued by Allies

German Grip On Vital Pass  ls Threatened   Gen. Alexander, British Commander, In Charge Of Assault; Italians Left To Fight Rearguard Action; Warplanes Give Axis Forces Pounding

Eight-Mile Axis Salient Crushed By Allied Forces   U.S. And British Swarm Into Kasserine Pass; Eighth Army Advances On Mareth

Blows in North Match Advance On Mareth Line   Troops Sweep Into Vital Pass Blasted By Waves of Planes

Also Menacing Two Other. Strong Points At Sbeitla and Ousseltia in 3- Prongéd ° ‘Attacks—Montgomery Advancing Into  -* Outpost Area of Mareth Line

Romme! Driven From Strategic Kasserine Pass   RAF and American Bombers Smash at German Columns

AXIS RETREAT CONTINUES TO KASSERINE   Rommel Menaced At Ousseltia And Sbeitla   U.S, PLANES   Prevent Nazis From Transporting Supplies; 8th Army Is On Move

British Join Attack With  Double Drive   Hit Rommel From North and South as Yanks, Allies Shake Loose Foe’s Grip on Kasserine Pass With Bombs, Machine-Gun Fire.

Crippled Axis Army Stumbles Out of Three Strong Bases   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SWINGS TOWARD MARETH LINE IN ARMORED CARS AS THREE-PRONGED ATTACK STRIKES IN NORTH

ALLIED DRIVE INCREASES. IN TEMPO, SCOPE   Three-Pronged Attack Is Made in North Sector, as British Eighth Army Puts Pressure on the Mareth Line.

AN FQ °&S UNABLE TS 1D TUNISIAN? =   Allied Air: Block Flow  Reinforcem

Axis Lashed In Assault On Sbeitla   Gen. Alexander Directs 3-Pronged Smash at Battered Panzers   GAIN AT OUSSELTIA   Fleeing Germans Strafed and Roads Blasted by Allied Warplanes

Allied Airmen Strike Deep in Rear of Romme   Axis Salient of About Eight Miles Long Wiped Out; Two Other Strong Points Threatened

Eighth Army “Also Adds te Avs Trouble      German. Grip. on Strategic - -Kasserine “Pass * Being: Broken by: ‘Allies o      SITALIANS AGAIN] 0 >. fo. ARE LEFT. ‘BEHIND        ‘Allies... Continue.” Mopping’ -Up:as: Rommel: Forces: &: Pounded: in Retreat

Nazis Pushed Further Back In New Battle   Italians Left Behind To Face Fury Of  Drive Extending Into Kasserine Pass

Allies Blast Nazi Troops In Tunisia   Rommel. in: Flight. Before Crippling Counter-Aftack

UNITS MENACE NAZI COLUMNS   Retreating Rommel Leaves Italian Infantry Behind As Rearguard.   BOMB AIRFIELDS. ROADS

Fierce Counter-Offensive Is Launched By American, Frencl  And British Land, Air Forces   Rommel In Trouble Now On Two Fronts; Last Grip On Strategic Pass Shaken; Italian Infantry Abandoned By Nazis

Rommel Losing Last Grip on Vital Gorge   Italian Troops Being Left Behind: American And British Fighter and Bomber Planes Pound Retreating German Forces

Stimson Says Much  American Equipment Lost Has Already Béen Replaced

Two Other Enemy Strong Points in.  Tunisia Menaced Fight-1 Mile Leng

ROMMEL FORCE CHASED OUT OF KASSERINE GAP   American, French And British Troops Stage Fierce Counteroffensive   PLANES BLAST REAR LINES   Stimson Says Operations Are “Clean Cut Repulse” For Axis Armies

(7ENERAL ALEXANDER OWINGS HIS TROOPS AGAINST NAZI FORCE   LAST GRIP OF ROMMEL ON KASSERINE PASS BEING SHAKEN LOOSE

ROMMEL’S GRIP ON KASSERINE PASS LOOSENED   American, British, French Armies Also Menacing Two Other Strong Enemy Points   AIR FORCES SPREAD DESTRUCTION ON FOE   A irdromes, Roads, Railwavs Blasted; Troops, Vehicles, Gunposts Strafed

ROMMEL IN DANGER OF LOSING GROUND ~ SEIZED IN TUNISIE   Leaving Italian Troops To Guard His Retreat   THESE ARE BEING ® TAKEN PRISONER

ATTACK IS ADVANCING   U.S. Airmen Turn Pass Into Inferno With Heavy Bombing

NAZI COLUMNS DRIVEN BACK AT KASSERINE PASS   ITALIANS FIGHT REAR GUARD ACTION AS ROMMEL RETREATS

MUNITIONS DUMP HiT AT WEWAK   Huge Explosion Wrecks Jap Base On New Guineu

Huge Munitions Dump at Wewak Blown Up by  Liberators   Explosion is Biggest Ever Seen by Airmen In Southwest Pacific

B-24’s Strike In Devastating  Raid On Wewak   Huge Munitions Dump Touched Off In Great Explosion

BIG MUNITIONS DUMP GOES UP IN WEWAK RAID   Allied Bombs ‘Hit The Jackpot’ At Jap Storage Depot

LIBERATORS BLAST GREAT MUNITIONS DEPOT AT WEWAK      One ‘Of Most Devastating Raids Of Southwest Pacific Wrecks —  Jap Supply

Munitions Dump  at Wewak Blown  up by Americans   Entire Area Seen in Blazing Ruins After Big Raid

Jap Munitions Dump Goes Up During Attack   Entire Wewak Area  Turned Into Blazin: Ruins During Raid B:  Liberators

WEWAK STORAGE DEPOT BLASTED   American Planes Turn Jap Base Into Blazing Ruins

Yanks Blow Up Jap Arms Dump   Biggest Explosion ‘Blots Out’ Wewak

Huge Japanese. Munitions Dump Fired by Yanks   Enemy: Base at Wewak ‘Temporarily ' Blotted Out

Enemy Munitions Dum At Wewak is Destrovec   WEWAK WRECKED By United Press

JAPANESE LOSE 20 MORE. Ghat] IN AIR BATTLES   Enemy Rushing In New Forces Attempting To Stave Off Drive

Allied Forces . Capture Lae, . Japanese Base      MacArthur Sees Hope O Ultimate Reconquest: ‘or ‘Philippines

Japan Planes Hit In Raids   Buin-Faisi Area Hit By Allied Bombers

Reds Roll On Over Germans   More Towns Captured As One Column Nears Salsk

Rail Junction in  Range of Reds’ Arrtillery   Moscow Announces Capture of Ten More Caucasian Settlements and Killing Of 2,000 Nazis Along Lower Don River

SOVIETS CAPTURE [0 MORE VILLAGES IN THE CAUCASUS   Big Guns Now Within Range of Salsk, Railway Junction 110 Miles From Reds’ Goal.   GERMAN RESERVES THROWN INTO FIGHT   Hitlerites Counter-Attack Day and Night in Effort to Stem Advance at All Costs.

CAUCASUS DRIVE ADVANCES REDS NEARTOSALSK   Important Railway Junetion Now Within Artillery Range   7 MORE VILLAGES FALL TO RUSSIANS

RUSSIANS ROLL AHEAD DESPITE FIERCE STANDS   Nazis Counterattack In Lower Don Area; Cossacks Advance  In Caucasus   Nazi Reserves Used

TEN VILLAGES ARE CAPTURED BY RED ARMY   GERMAN RESISTANCE STIFFENING IN ROSTOV AREA

NAZIS GOLOTER DON RESISTANCE   Germans Thow in Reserves in Effort Halt Reds   DAY, NIGHT ATTACKS   Hard-riding Cossacks Lead Advance Along South Ap. proaches to Rostov

About 60 Miles East Of Rostov; Russians Wearing Out Enemy By Their Defense.

Japs Get Worst Pasting In July   Land Fronts Quiet At Munda, Salamaua

RECORD LWaata ARE INFLIGTED UPON JAPANE St   28 Warships Sunk. Damaged With 436 Planes Destroyed During Single Month

Allied South Pacific Offensive Cost Japs 28 Warships, 436 Planes ‘In First Month; Battle in Lull

Allies Set New High for Bombings in  $-West Pacitic   Twenty-Eight Jap Warships Sunk or Damaved in July

Jap Ship Losses at  New High   U. S. DRiVE CLAIMS 28 WARSHIPS, 436 PLANES IN MONTH

ON MUNDA BASE   Southern Pacific. Offensive Cost Japanese Record Losses in First Month — Communigie Does Net Refer to Ground Action.

ALLIED BOMBINGS IN SOUTH PACIFIC COSTLY TO ENEMY   Japs ‘Lose 28 Warships  And 436 Planes During First Month Of al Attacks

South Pacific Drive Costs Japs Heavily   Enemy Losses Counted As First Month Of ‘Campaign Ends

RAIL LINE SEVERED BY SURGING REDS   German Armies in the Donets Basin Threatened With Enci: clement.   ELITE GUARD ROUTED   Russian Commando Units at Novcross.sk Took Toll of Nazi Lives.

SOVIETS CUT VITAL GERMAN RAILWAY LINE   Cossack cavalry men support steadily advancing assault

Kharkov Fal] To Red Forces  Seems Nearing   Important German-Held Rail Line In Area Is Taken By Russians   ROSTOV DRIVE MAKES PROGRESS

SOVIETS BOOST DRIVE AGAINST STEEL CENTER   German Forces At Kharkov Cut Off From Armies Circled In Donets Basin   “SS” REGIMENT ROUTED   Piliboxes And Blockhouses Seized In Russian Assaults On Rostov

DEMO CHAIRMAN HINTS NEW JOB   Personal Ambassador to Australia Position Expected

Foe Unlikely To Get View Of The Canal   Smoke Screen Can Blot Out Works In Quick Order

Panama Canal Protected  By Dense Smoke Clouds     Blinding Curtain of Vapor Blots Strategic Waterway  From View Far More Quickly Than One Could Imagine; Also Protected by “Killer” Nets and Barrage Balloons Denser Than London's

Billowing Curtain of Dense Smoke Primary Defense for Panama Canal

FOOD CUT HITS ~ ENTIRE NATION   Families Must Get Along On Less Than Half Former Purchases

Average OF 3 Cans A Month To Be Allotted   Consumption Of’ Many Fruits And Vegetables Will Be Cut By More Than One-Half

RATION POINTS ARE SET HIGHER THAN EXPECTED   “Scant Ration” Program For March Announced; Average Of Three Cans Of Food Per Person For The Month.

EXPECT DROP IN CANNED GOODS CONSUMPTION   OPA Announces New Point Schedule for Housewives

Ration Point Scale Drastic   OPA Reveals 48 Points Assigned for Each Individual for March Quota; Values Prove Big Jolt to Users of Canned Foods

Supply Of Canned Goods Is Less Than Half a  DRASTIC CUT  Allow About 3 Cans  Per Person For  March

Food Ration To Cut Canned Goods To Less Than Half   Only 3 Cans Per Person A Month Allowed You Have 48 Points To Spend In March

Program Provides Only AboutThree Cans Per Month   Each Person Allowed 48 Points Month Under “Scant Ration” Announced By OPA

Food Point Values “Will Cut Nation’s .Consumption in Half   March OPA Allowance. Announced: Averages Three Cans:Per Person; Families May Pool Book Coupons -

Scant Canned Goods Allowed in Ration   Americans Will Get Less Than Half of Amount They've Been in Habit of Eating

March Allowance Given Each Person About 3 Cans; Worse Than Expected

VEGETABLE, CANNED FRUIT. RATION SHORT   Supply Less: Than.Half of Normal _ Brown Reveals in Announcing Value of Points

HOUSEHOLDERS TO BE ALLOWED LESS THAN HALF CANNED GOODS   March Allotments Allows For About  ‘Three Cans Per Direc mcwe Cin ler

 Canned - Goods. Allowance  Cut. to Less Than Half  the Normal. Usage  POINT VALUES ARE ANNOUNCED      Each Person Has 48 Points for Month; Can of Green Beans Takes 16

Point Values of Tinned Goods Announced by OPA Director   13 Million Cases Monthly For Civilians Instead  Of 30 Millions

Housewives Must Learn To Cook   Canned Goods Cut Down to Les: Than Half Previous Average  By New Point Rationine

Amount So Small That Many Families Will Have To Change Their Eating Habits—March Allowance Announced

“Scant Ration” Is Allowed In Foods On Shortage List   Point Values Surprise Housewives, Who Expecte: Large Supply

Ince CANS NAVE FOR MARC   OPA Ilead States Ration Program Is Scant

Can Rations Will Be Less Than Half Of Usual Amount   Civilian Supply To September 1944 To Be 13 Million Cans Monthly Compared To Normal 30 Million In 1941-42

High Value Is Set For Fruit And Vegetables   Average Of Three Cans Per Person During Month Of March Is Provided For In “Scant Ration” Placed In Effect By Office Of Price Administration

AVERAGE THREE CANS A PERSON   March Allowance Announced By OPA; 48 Points For Each Person. »   'POINTS MAY BE POOLED

Food Point Charts Available Here      USE OF CANNED VEGETABLES. FRUITS TO BE REDUCED MORE THAN HALF UNDER RATIONING

Ration Plan Cuts Allowance in Half   Average of Three Cans Per Person Per Month Is Provided by OPA; Rationing Starts Next Monday; Brown Calls Allot ment. ‘Seant?

Consumers Supply Is Cut In Half   ‘Scant? Program Goes Into Effect Next Monday; Ration Point Value Up

FOOD QUOTAS FOR NEXT MONTH UNDER RATIONING SYSTEM ARE ANNOUNCED   Consumption of Canned Foods Cut; Each Person To Be Allowed Approximately 3 Cans of Rationed Items During Month

POINT SYSTEM COMES MARCH 1   Less Than Half as Much of Rationed Foods To Be Available Next Month

POINT VALUES FOR CANNED FOODS FIXED BY OPA   ALLOW THREE CANS PER PERSON FOR MONTH OF MARCH

“Scant Ration” Program  To Go into Effect in U.S. _  American Householders to Be Allowed Less Than Half Usual Supply

Rationing Cuts Canned Foods to Half of Normal   March Allowance Provides on An Average of About 3 Cans a Month.   Everybody Will Have 48 Points to Spend

Rationing Rule Plone Announced   AMERICANS MUST DO WITHOUT MANY THINGS

Americans To Get Less Than Half Of Usual Canned Goods ‘Under New “Scant’’ Program

“Scout Ration” to Give About Three Cans Per  Person on Average.   NO SALES AT ALL OVER THIS WEEK

HOUSEHOLDERS  CET "FSS THAN HALF OF SOME CANNED GOODS  SALES FROZEN THIS WEE!       SALES FROZEN THIS WEEK AND POINT RATIONING TO START MARCH IST.

OPA Announces Point Values Under New Rationing Program; Adult Mauset Regiater.

Will Get Less Than Half . of Former Am ountof Canned Goods Under Rationing

Scant 1t Ration Program For U.S.   To Have Less Than Half The Amount of Canned Fruits. and Vegetables Consumed Last Year

SCANT RATION CANNED GOODS BEGINS MARCH 4   American Householders te   Be Allowed Less Than   Half Canned Fruits and Vegetables   NEW RATION BOOK   Provides, On Average, For Only About Three Cans Per Person Per Month

Ration Point Values Given For March   To Be Less Than Half of That Formerly  Consumed

ABDUCTOR-IN NAVY CUSTOD'   SAILOR WHO LEFT NEW YORI WITH YOUNG .GIRL-SUR- _ RENDERED IN ST. LOUIS

SAILOR HELD FOR ABDUCTING GIRI   Wanted Youth Surrenders to Naval Officials

IOWA MAY REACH WAR BOND GOAL   State Has Fighting _ "Chatee for’ Ousta

AUSSIES CLOSE IN ON JAPANESE   Stronghold Of Wareo Is Doomed; Bombers Hit Invasion Areas

AUSSIES CLOSING IN ON JAP BASE ON NEW GUINEA   Wareo, Strategic Enemy Stronghold on Huon Peninsula, Threatened by Jungle  Fighters and Artillery.   M’ARTHUR’S BOMBERS BLAST VITAL ISLAND   Munitions Dumps and Supply Barges in Borgen Bay Targets for Aerial Attack Second Straight Day.

AUSSIE FORCES PUSH ON WAREC   Press Up New Guinea Coast With Heavy Artillery Support

JUNGLE TROOPS MENACE WAREO   Australians Close In On Huon Peninsula  Stronghold

New Advances By Australians   Aussies Drive Steadily Up Northeastern Coast Of New Guinea   BOMBERS HAMMER JAP BASES AGAIN

Wareo Menaced By Australians   Bombers Blast at New Britain Targets

WAREO MENACED BY AUSTRALIAN JUNGLE TROOPS   Artillery Support Is Accorded Diggers In Advance On Rase   BORGEN BAY DUMPS: UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

AUSSIE TROOPS  PRESS FORWARD TOWARD WAREC         STEADY PROGRESS: BEING MADE: IN CLEANUP OF NORTHEASTERN NEW QUINEA AREA

Allied Troops Close in on Jap Base of Wareo   Australian Forces ‘Mopping Up’ Foe On New Guinea   SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

Aussies Close In On Wareo   Allies Pound Big Area And Not A Nin Fiahter Ic Seen

Aussies Near Wareo Base   Allied Bombers Keep Jap Planes From Air

LULL REPORTED IN AFRICAN FIGHTING   Allied Fliers and Sofdiers Ease Up Over the Week-end

MALTA, MIDDLE EAST AIRMEN HIT AT ITALY   Supply Bases Blasted As Lull Settles Over Tunisia; Yanks  Rake Palermo   Prisoners Evacuated   Taranto Gull Raided

Mediterranean Aerial War Is  Caught-In Lull Belated’ Report Tell Of Palermo Raid  Made Friday  aap Hing

@ull in Fighting In Mediterranean Theater of War   Both Allied Fliers and Soldiers Getting a Rest After Battle

Mediterranean Theater of War Is Less Active   Belated Announcement of Raid on Palermo Made by Eisenhower

Mediterranean Gets Lull; Allied Patrols Are Active  Sicily Is Subjected To Big Bombing; Other Spots Are Hit

ALLIES AGAIN RAID PALERMO   Minor Air Activity Reported as Lull Settles on Mediterranean Area

Malta’s Intruder Patrols Act ive Over Sicily And South: ern Italy Shooting Trains And Stations   No Land Fighting

OFFICERS FOR UR TWO BANKS   Col. C. W. Meunt and R. S. Merey Continue as , Presidents. -

DFFIGERS FOR QUR TWO BANKS   Col. C. W. Mcunt and R. S. Martin Continue as Presidents.

Woman Falls to Death From Des Moines Building  : :   Investigators Think 17 Story Fall Today Was An Accident

IOWA WOMAN KILLED IN FALL   Dropped From 17th Floor of Des Moines Building

Chinese Encircle Jap Forces Attacking Changteh; Allied Airmen Destroy 31 Nip Planes in Raid on Formosa

JAPS ATTACKING CHANGTEH HAVE BEEN ENCIRCLED      Chinese Troops, Aided By U. S. Airmen. In Raid On Formosa

RUSSIANS MOVE BIG HEAVY GUNS UP ALONG DON   Large-Scale Movements by British Motorized Forces in Africa

Capture Of Kursk Imperils Entire Nazi Moscow Line   Russian Gunners Shell Axis Rostov Fortress

KURSK TAKEN, BREAKS HAZ DEFENSE LINE   Whole German System In Peril After Capture of Key Point.   ‘AXIS CITADEL OF  ROSTOV UNDER FIRE   Germans Prepare to Make + Strong Defense of Don City. :

Reds Batter Roskov After Taking Kursk   Whole Nazi Line Below Moscow Is  Now Imperilled   Offensive Believed Brewing In Tunisia   British Are Said To Be Moving Large  Army Into Position

VITAL CITY IN NAZI DEFENSE SYSTEM LOSI   Red Guns Continue tc Pour Destruction on Foe in Rostov

KURSK FALLS INTO HANDS OF THE. RUSSIANS  Imperils Whole Nazi Line Below Moscow. -- °  Is Mi AJOR LINK Soviets. Continue Tc  Advance Against Germans

Russians Take Nazi Stronghold   Kursk Falls Under Red Offensive—Soviets Turn Seige Guns on Rostov; ‘Big Battle Brewing’ Vichy Reports

Reds Take Kursk; Shell Rostov   Life Creeps Back Into City Of The Dead

VITAL BASTION OF HITLER'S DEFENSE LINE COLLAPSES   Red Army Overcomes All Resistance in Savage Battle; Fleeing Nazis Kill Own Wounded.

KURSK FALLS IN SMASH OF SOVIET ARMY   Red Army Siege Guns Thunder Destruction Up on Enemy Citadel At Rostov-on-the-Don   WOUNDED ABANDONED

Entire German Line In Danger   . . Fleeing Nazis Abandon Wounded

INVADING ARMY THREATENED BY NEW DISASTERS   Kursk Destroyed by Russian Attack — Big Guns Now Battering Rostov   HITLER HIT BEHIND TOO   Allied Aerial Assault Is Intensified Significantly In North African Area

Whole Nazi Defense Line imperilled   Taking One of Germans ‘Big Six Bastions,’ Reds Now Bombarding Another   SOVIETS IN DRIVE TOWARD ROSTOV   Nazis Making Stubborn Counterattacks; Lid May Soon Blow, Off in. Tunisia

Kursk Taken In Coup of Red Armies   Indicate Lid About to Blow Off in North African Area

Soviet Coup Imperils Nazis Below Moscow   Kursk, One of ‘Big Six’ Bastions of German Defense System, Captured as Siege Guns Blast Axis at Rostov-on-Don.

Reds imperil German Line Below Moscow   Russian Siege Guns Thunder Destruction Upon Rostov

City Captured By Soviets Formed Major Nazi Link; Rostov Shelling Continues   Russian Dispatches Report Occupied Base Is ‘An Enormous Cemetery’; Reds Seize Other Towns

Capture Of Nazi Bastion Endangers German Lines;  Wounded Are Abandoned

Kursk Falls To Reds In Sudden Coup   Whole Nazi Line Below Moscow Is imperilled; Red Armies Thunder Destruction on Axis Citadel at Rostov Where Germans Are Stubbornly Counterattacking

Reds Tighten Squeeze On Rostov; ‘Something Big’ Appears Brewing In North Africa.

Soviet Siege Guns Shelling Another Of Six Bastions   Axis Reports Indicate Major Actian Soon In Battle of Tunisia

 Duke of Windsor Is 49 Years old, and  Too Close to 50 fer Comfort, He Says

! Duke of Windsor Is 49 Years Old, and . -- foo Clese to 50 for Comfort, He Says

Assault On Axis Keys Continues   Surrender Demand Rejected, Allies Keep Whittling Away on Island Outposts   LONDON EXPECTS BIG OPERATIONS      Italian Radio Maintains Broadcasts Intended to Bolster Morale

Italian Island  Swept By New Air Assaults   Rome Admiral Declares Fleet Is Ready For Action; Berlin Reports Landing On Pantelleria

NEW AIR ASSAULTS ON PANTELLERIA BY THE ALLIES   This Was in Connection With a Scouting Raid by British Commandos.   STRUCK IN DARKNESS   Tested the Defenses of f.ampedusa and Retired “‘W.ih Light Casualties.

BIG MILITARY SHOW COMING   Army Day To Be Celebrat: ed In Twin Cities On August 31

Plans Are Made For Army Show   800 Soldiers, Including Band, here Aug. 31

FDR ACTS TO HALT STRIKE OF WORKERS   Three Operating Unions Are Expected to Withdraw Threat of Walkouts,   BULLETIN

‘A BOON TO PASTURES   Rains Last Evening Were Welcome in Eastern Half of State

Even After War It May Be Hard To Obtain Ga:   Petroleum Experts Pessimistic

Gas Rationing In Peacetime Is Predicted   Producers Hold Emergency Meeting to Push DeMands For Increase   SUPPLIES SHRINKING

Gas Rationing M ay Continue After The War   Producers Ask Price Raise To Enable Them To Drill New Reserve Wells

PAY INCREASE ~  1$ PREDICTED   LEGISLATURE, EXPECTED TO “YABB BILL RAISING BTATE, EMPLOYES’ WAGES EFFECTIVE JAN, 1ST

NAZIS HAPPY ~ YEAR ENDINE   GERMAN-CONTROLLED FABCIST RADIO DECLARES, HOW: EVEE, “GERMANY ‘CANNOT BE BEATEN”

Promises — Brit. Will  Fight Japs   ANSWERS SUGGESTIONS THA BRITAIN IS INTEREST D ONL IN EUROPE; GIVEN OVATION

Britain, Side By Side With U. S., Will Win; Talks Of Air Warfare

American Planes Hit Key Airfields In Athens Area   Eleusis, Hassani Are - Objects of Bombers  ' From African. Base

BATTLE OF RUHR MORE THAN HALE WON BY ALLIES   Luftwaffe Reported Asking Hitler to Fire Goering

US. Bombers Hit Invasion Route Into Balkans:  _ Key Aidromes Near Athens 7 ee

Hleusis and Massani Are Targets   Naples Given Roughing Up with Rlock Ruetere

AMERICANS BLAST TARGETS ~ NEAR ATHENS   More Block Busters Hurled on Naples Port

Duo-Offensive On Jap Empire Urged in Londor   British Observers Defend Appointment Of Lord Mountbatten

PARPPPPPPPPPPPAPIPAPP AAAS  No More Hand-Holding In Theatre at Clones

WELCOME McFADDEN AT SEAT OF DIOCESE   Becomes Spiritual Leader of Industrial Valley

Rommel Shitts Forces to South   Allied Forces Recover Part of Area Lost in February, Occupy Sidi Bouzid; Reds Move Southwest fr om Rzhev; R. A. F. Heavily Attacks Hamburg. 

RUSSIAN DRIVE ROLLS ON AFTER FALL OF RZHEV   Germans Make Light Aijr Raid on London—Revenge For Blasting Berlin

Rommel Is To Fight On Mareth Line   Shifts Part Of  Armored Forces

BRITISH SUBS SINK 6, DAMAGE 9 AXIS VESSELS   Two Red Offensives  Gain Momentum; Nazis Claim Further Success In Likraine Battle Area  HAMBURG BOMBED

ROMMEL EDGES TOWARD SOUTH   Seeks to Meet British Move At Mareth Line; LargeScale Air War Seen

Nazis Push Allies Back      Seven Axis Ships Hit in Mediterranean; Reds Smash Southward from Rzhev

Americans Back  On Old Ground   Allies Qceupy Approaches to Faid Pass as Germans Shift Strenoth Into Mareth Line

Huge Tr raffic Death Toll In U.S. Since Pearl Harbor Evidence . Wartime Bans Are No Cur e-All

Traffic Toll Is Declining   Thousands Annually Still Die, However

TRAFFIC DEATHS SINCE PEARL HARBOR 38,306   Wartime Clamps Proving No Cure- All cients Figures Indicate,

OO G00 DEATHS IN TRAFFIC IN PERLOL   22,500 of Victims Since Pearl Harbor Were Work- ers. Savs Report.

LABOR UNION LOOKS TOWARD NEXT ELECTION   Group To Fix On Policy And Candidate

Rationing Of Milk May Not Be Orderec  OPA Working Out Plan: For Babies

OPA Devises Program For  Milk Rations   New System May Not Be Necessarv

RATIONING OF MILK MAY NOT BE NEEDED   Government 1s Developing Plan That Can Be Used If Necessary.

Milk Rationing Planned But May  Be aN j  To Be. Used Only Chartane Ara

‘Ik Rationing ‘an Worked Out   * wut Government  Youbts It Will Be Needed

Pacific Drive Gaining; Naval Victory Grow:   Nine And Possibly 11 Jap Warships Sunk; Our Losses Light

Admiral Halsey's Headquarters Quoted-. as Saying No 'U. S. Ships Even Daimaged in Nay al’ Engagement °° and Most of -800-. Men Aboard Cruiser Helena Saved. :

Troops Now 6 Miles From Jap Air Base   Foe Pushed Back on Pacific Fronts; 9 Shins Revealed Sunk in Kula Gulf

At Least Nine, Possitty Eleven, Jap Ships Suck in Kula Gulf Batile, New Count Shows   1 U. S. SHIP LOST   Kula Battle Over in 20 Minutes, Enemy Ships on Fire, MacArthur's Report Says

YANKS PUSH 10 ISOLATE PRIZE JAP AIR BASE   American Jungle Fighters Swarm Ashore From New Landings   SEA VICTORY GROWS   ‘Navy Reports 9, Perhaps 11 Jap Warships Sunk In Kula Gulf

U.S. Troops Now Within 6 Miles Of Jap Air Base   Russians Claim To Have Halted FourDay German Drive

New Landings Are Made at  Two Points   MacArthur Reveals Action: Jap Sea Battle Toll May Reach 11 Ships

New Landings Place Troops Outside Mubo   Raise Figures On Japanese Losses In Battle Of Kula Gulf.

AMERICAN JUNGLE FIGHTERS BATTLING TWO SIDES OF MUNDA  _._ JAPANESE HOLD IN SOLO . MONS WEAKENED RY CRUSHING NAVAL DEFEA’

NEW LANDINGS MADE BY YANKS IN PACIFIG WAR   Nipponese Hold On Island In Solomons Weakened By Crushing Naval Defeat   ALLIED OFFENSIVE PUSHED ELSEWHERE   Growing Weight of Offensive Beginning to Tell Against Japs At Salamaua, New Guinea

JUNGLE FORCES 6 MILES FROM JAPANESE BASE   Troops Add Two Positions To Allied Holdings On New Georgia Island   lt NIP VESSELS SUNK   MacArthur Reveals One U. S$. Cruiser Lost in Kula Gulf Naval Battle

U.S. Troops Land At Two Points On New Georgia Isle   Japs Lose At Least Nine And Probably 11 Ships In Naval Battle; Airmen Drop 106 Tons Of Bombs On Nip Base

AT LEAST NINE JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK. U.S. SAYS   Enemy Losses Include Cruisers And Destroyers

VI TUVPS Within Six Miles Munda   Make Two New Landings on New _ Georgia Island; Red Armies Check Hitler’s Summer Offensive 

KulaGulf Victory Growing   At Least 9 Jap Ships Sunk In 20 Minutes

Main Enemy Base in Area Is Threatened By New Attack; Nearly All on Helena Saved

Soldiers Close In on New Georgia Airfield and Drive  Close to New Guinea Harbor

Jungle Fighters Battle Japanese For Vital Base   Toll Of Destroyed Enemy Warships Raised To Nine

American Troops \Vear Japanese Munda Base After 2 New Landings   Hardened Jungle Fighters Only 6 Miles From Japs’ Strategic Air Base

Jap Shin Losses In Kula Bay Now Jumped To Nine   Jungle War Carried Close To Munda As Yanks Swarm In  At Two Points

MOVE WITHIN SIX MILES OF BIG JAP BASE   Extent of Victory by Navy Increased in Latest Report

AMERICANS STORM WITHIN SIX MILES MUNDA AIR FIELD   JAPS LOST NINE AND MAYBE ELEVEN WARSHIPS IN KULA GULF FIGHT

Japs Badly Mauled In Naval Battle   Reds Check Nazi Summer Offensive, Report 30,000 Enemy Invaders ©  Slain

New Landings ¢ ome In Wake Of Sea Ficht   Allies Also Making Progress Against Foe In N. Guinea

Two Landings Made on New Georgia Island   All Japanese Ships Contacted-in Kula Gulf Bottle Sunk or Damaged; Review Discloses: Salamaua Threatened

2 New Landings Made On New Georgia Isle; Jap’s Hold Weakened   Toll Of Nip Ships Lost In Naval Battle Revised Upward To 11; Only 1 U.S. Ship Lost

Close In on Munda fn Jungle Battles   American Troops Attack From New Landing Points  on New Georgia   MINE JAP SHIPS SUNK   Australian Troops Win Ground in New Guinea Operations

Cruiser Helena Only Loss In Kula Gulf Naval Victory  By MURLIN SPENCER ALLIED HEADOLARTERS

Two New Landings On Island   Possibly 11 Jap Warships Sunk in Kula Gulf Battle.

Etfect 2 New Landings In Georgia Area   Japanese Naval Losses Now Put at Nine and Possibly 11 Warships Sunk, According to MacArthur Communique;: Most of 800 Crewmen of Helena Safe

New Landings Threaten Japs   Kula Gulf Battle Known To Have Cost Japs Nine Ships

JUNGLE TROOPS CLOSE ON MUNDA IN NEW DRIVE   Nip Grip on Solomons Is Weakened by Defeat of Navy in Kula Guif   ‘ALLIED OFFENSE GROWING   U. S. Loses Cruiser Helena But Few of Crew and Sinks 9 Jap Ships

Dit JAP AIR BASE IS OBJECTIVE (OF TWO NEW LANDING FORCES: ENEMY’S HOLD NOW IS WEAKER

"GROWING WEIGHT OF BIG - OFFENSIVE HITS NIPS ON APPROACHES TO SALAMAUL   Forces Storm Ashore at Zanana, Six Miles East of Vital Jap Base—American Fliers Range Skies.

WITHIN SIX MILES OF JAP MUNDA BASE   U. S. Jungle Fighters Advance From Two New Landing Points.   Possibly 11 Japanese Cruisers Sunk by U. S.

TWO NEW LANDINGS MADE ON NEW GEORGIA ISLAND, COUNT NAVAL VICTORY RISES   Nine And Possibly Eleven Enemy Warships St In Pre-Dawn Battle. One U. S. Cruiser Lost  Most of Crew Saved aC 7 on ce 4

ARE WIA  GEORGIA [SLANT   Jap Hold Weakened By, Crushing 11 To 1 Naval Defeat   MOST OF 800 MEN ON HELENA SAVED

New Landings Put Yanks Six Miles From Munda Base   Jap Naval Losses In Kula Bay Are Raised to Nine Ship:

11 Jap Warships Believed Sunk In Gulf Of Kula        U. §. Gunners Tal e More Than 20 Minutes To Annihilate Squadron

9, Possibly 11 Warships Of Enemy  Sent Down   Ne American Ship Except Helena Was Even Damaged When Foe Was Trapped

2 Additional Landings On .  New Georgia   Japs Lost at Least Nine Warships in Spectacular, 90-Minute Battle   HITLER SUFFERING TREMENDOUS LOSS   But Moscow Gives Word of Caution Against Any Over-Ovtimism

Troops Battle Close to Jap Base of Munda   Pacific Offensive Beginning to Tell On Enemy Defenses

Jungle Fighters Land From Two New Points On Georgia Island. M’Arthur Renorts

Jungle Troops Establish Two ‘Bridgeheads, Battle to Within ‘Six Miles of Vital Jap Base

Enemy Handed Crushing Loss In Kula Gulf   9 Ships Definitely Sunk As U. S. Loses Light Cruiser; No Others Ewan Damaged

FIGHTING SIX MILES FROM STRONGHOLD   Two New Landings on New Georgia Island Imperil Japs, Weakened by Loss of Nine to 11 Shing in Kula Gulf. —

City Is Isolated By 2 New U. S. Landings   Kula Naval Victory Grows; Russians Check Hitler’s Summer Offensive With. Greatest Losses  Ever Inflicted On Nazi War Machine.

U.S: Jungle. Fighters” ‘Smash. ° Toward Jap Base At Munda From 2 New: Landing Points

Most Of Crew Of Helena Saved   At Least Nine and Possibly 11 Jap Ships Sunk in Kula Gulf Night Action — Aussies Capture Hill Between Salamaua And Mubo After Air Bombardment

UNITED STATES JUNGLE FIGHTERS ARE NEAR MUNDI   Battled Within Six Miles ot Japanese Air Base From Two New Points.   ENEMY’S HOLD WEAKENS   Nine and Possibly 11 Japanese Cruisers and Destroyers Sunk in Kula Gulf.

Make Landings At Two Points On New Georgia   Enemy Naval Losses In Kula Gulf Battle Rise

NEW LANDINGS ARE REPORTED IN SOLOMONS   MacArthur Reveals Total Of Nip Warships Lost In Kula Battle Is Nine; Bombers In Action

Close Inon Munda In Jungle Battles   American! Troops Attack F rom New Landing Points “on. New Georgia   NINE JAP SHIPS SUNK   !     Rk ib yupe Australian Troops , Win * Ground in NewGuinea —  ~ . Qperations 

Jap Air Base Weakens As Yanks Battle Within Six Miles After New Landings

Major Part of Kula Naval Battle Lasts Only 20 Minutes   Australian Troops Take Hill, Japs Blasted by U.S. Airmen in Sector of New Guinea

Fighters Pressing Ahead In Pacific   Within Six Mile: Of Jap Base On Munda

Jungle Troops Closing In On Big Jap Base   2 New Landings Staged On Monday Revealed By Gen. MacArthur

Two Georgia Gains, Jap Base Next   Naval Victory in Kula Gulf Rises to At Least Nine, Possible 11 Enemy Ships: Sunk with U.S. Cruiser Helena— " Good News from All Sectors

Enemy's Hold on the Central Solomons Greatly Weakened ‘By Crushing Naval Defeat   Count of Spectacular United States Sea Victory ai Kula Guif Reaches at Least Nine and Possibly 11 Ships      MOST OF OFFICERS AND CREW OF HELENA SAVED

Jap Losses” Rise in Kula Sea Battle   MacArthur — Report ‘Sheds Light on Spectacular U. * Naval Victory .

ADVANCE MADE BY NEW GUINEA JUNGLE TROOPS   Disclose 9 and Perhaps 11 Jap Warships Sunk in Kula Gulf Battle

TROOPS LAND AT 2 POINTS   MacArthur’s Men Also Make New Advance in New Guinea Fighting.   AIR FORCES ARE ACTIVE

Report 1,500 Japs Killed on Attu  Navy Reveals Only  Four Prisanerce Taker

LARGE FORCE OF RAF  BOMBERS IN CRUSHING  BLOW TO FRANKFURT AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST  GERMANY REACHES NEW INTENSITY

2000 TONS ARE OOSED ABOUT ClTY   Secondary Attacks Noted; 90 Plane. ‘Loss Aired 

GERMANY GETS HEAVY ATTACK IN BAY RAID   Bombs Dropped On Important Nazi Cities

(Chemical Center Given War’s Hardest Bombing; British Lose 42 Bombers

RAF Bombers Hit Frankfurt Mighty Blow   Raid Monday Night Follows Series of Bombinas on Monday

Allies Lose 90 Planesas War In Air Mounts To New Peak   Yanks Plaster Bremen, Sofia, Elevsis  ‘Airfield

ALLIED AERIAL ATTACKS REACH NEW INTENSITY   Four Raids Carried Out Against Enemy by British and American Flying Squadrons   90 PLANES LOST  IN ALL ATTACKS   Frankfurst Destruction Is Widespread; Bremen Target of Yankees; Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Hit

Hundreds of Planes Attack Arms Center   2,000 Long Tons of Explosives Dropped; Big Air Offensive Starts

2,000 Tons  Dropped on Frankfurt   42 Bombers Lost in Attack And Subsidiary  Missions

Frankfurt Hit Hard In Blow By R. A. F.   Bremen Assaulted By U. S. Heavies; Sofia Given Pounding

Hundreds Of RAF Bombers Hit Frankfort   Possibly 800 Bombers Take Part In Attack— Other Air Blows Rained On Flitler’s Europe.

CITY SUFFERS HEAVIEST RAID DURING NIGHT   2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped; 42 Planes Reported Missing

90 Warplanes Lost in Huge  Offensive   RAF Follaws Americans To Blast Factories of Reich

‘Hundreds Of British Planes Give German Chemical And Armament Center Its Most Crushing Blow Of War— Liberators And Fortresses Strike Heavily At Nazi  : U-Boat Campaign With Hammering Of Port City—   Americans Based In Mediterranean Blast Sofia

German Chemical, Armament Center Scour ged With 2,000   Tons Ine ondiaries, Explosives   Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, Bremen, Sofia, In Bulgaria And Targets In Northern France Alse Smashed In Terrific Allied Aerial Blows

Brifish Lose Q Bombers In Raid On Arms Center   15th Air Force Bombers Rake Sofia Again

MOST CRUSHING BLOW ON SITY   2,000 Tons Incendiaries, Explosives Dropped on Arms Center.   42 RAF PLANES ARE LOST

Offensive In Sky Reaches  New Intensity   rf 12 Bombers Lost in Nights Operations Over  Hitler’s Fortresses

2,000 Long Tons of Incendiaries, Explosives Dumped by RAF on Hifler's Chemica! Town   OTHER TOWNS HIT   Americans Blast U-Boat Base, Sofia’s Rail Yards —- 90 Allied Planes Missing :

42 BOMBERS LOST BY RAF IN THE RAID   Air Offensive Against Germany Reached a New Intensity With Additional Attacks in Last 24 Hours.

HUGE FIRES LEFT RAGING IN THE CITY   Loss of 42 Bombers in, That and Other R A. F. Sweeps Brings Allied Plane Casualties to 90 in 24-Hour Period.

2000 -Ton Raid Climaxes Terrific Allied Offensive   Another Invasion... of New Britain Looms

ROCK GERMANY FROM EVERY DIRECTION   90 Planes Lost By Allies In Last 24 Hours   U. $, BOMBERS   Raid Bremen With Loss Of 33 Aircraft: London Given Brief Alert

Crushing Air Blow Made on Frankfurt   ‘Hundreds of RAF Bombers Drop 2,000 Long Tons of Incendiaries and Explosives on the German Chemical  and Armament Center.   Great Aerial Offensive Against The Axis Reaches New Intensity

Sofia’s Rail Yards Given A Battering   .. Great Fires Left Burning In Nazi Chemical City

German Chemical Center- Is Battered In One Of The Most Massive Air Assaults Of Wart

SMASHING BLOW AIMED AT NAZI MUNITIONS CITY   Great Assault There and Subsidiary Raids Cost British 42 Planes

Other Centers in German-Held Territory Bombed, Bulgarian Capital Raided Again

HIT FRANKFURT MOST CRUSHING BLOW OF WAR   2,000 Tons of Bombs Are Rained On Arms and  Chemical Center

Lose 42 Bombers   Now Added To List As One of Germany's Most Bombed Cities; Ram 2,000 Tons of Inmcendiaries and Explosives On Frankfurt.

2,000 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Industrial City   Air Offensive On Germany Reaching New Heights

Chemical And Armament Center Is Target Of Attack By Hundreds Of RAF Bombers

NAZI INDUSTRIAL CENTER SMASHED BY RAF BOMBERS  HEAVY U. S. FORCE  DAHA OOrasarai. CA

Air Assaults Intensified On Germany   Allies Lose More Than 90 Planes In 24 Hours

Air Offensive  Reaches New Height   Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Are Other Targets Of British in Night Raids as Allies Pound Reich in Continuous Waves

R. A. F. Loses 42 Bombers in Mighty Attacks on Reich   incendiaries and Explosives Start Huge Fires In German Chemical and Armament Center and Western Belgium   a aeeemes  AMERICAN LIBERATORS RS AND D FORTRESSES ACTIVE

2, 000 Tons of Bombs Rained on Factories   Sofia, Bremen,’ MannheimLudwigshafen and France : ” “Among. Ohter Targets.   YANKS. AND BRITISH CONTINUE ASSAULT   90 Allied Planes Lost * in ‘Last 24 Hours; Americans Knock Down 40 Nazis —

2,000 Tons Of Bombs On City   Allies Carry Out FourProlonged Aerial Assaults In 24 Hours

RAF Rains Tons Of Bombs On City   Frankfurt Hard Hit By British Air Armanda

British Also Stage Raid On Mannheim And Ludwigshafen   Air Assaults Cost RAF 42 Planes; 90 Allied Craft Downed In Day; Bremen, Sofia Targets Of Bombs

Aerial Offensives on Reich Industry at New Intensity   Frankfurt, MannheimLudwigshafen, Sofia and Bremen Bombed

Offensive In Sky Reaches  New Intensity   r }2 Bombers Lost in Nights Operations Over  Hitler’s Fortresses   Ceaseless Attack

,/00 YANKEE BIRDMEN LOST IN SIX MONTHS   More Than 146 Million Dollars Worth of Planes Lost by Air Force Based in Britain

5,700 Yanks Lost In Europe Skies   533 Heavy Bombers Downed Since May

Air Force Based In Britain Has Lost 5/00 Men   553 -Four Motored Flying Fortresses Are Destroyed

'U. S. Losses In Air Offensive Over Europe Past Six Months Include 5, 700 Men, $146,200,000 In Planes

8th Air Force Losses in 6 Months Put af 5700 Fliers, 553 Bombers

PHONE FIRM CUTS OVERTIME RATES   Reduction Becomes Effect: ive February Fifteenth iEnr Lone Lines

Overlime Phone Rates Reduced   New Rates Effective Feh. 15 For Long Lines

Yankee Planes  Improve Seore   Down Over 500 Nazi Fighters During July; Raid  Airfields Today.

U.S. Aets As Lewis Defies F.R. And WLB   Coal-Eating War Plants Low On Supplies; Only Month’s Needs Are Now Above Ground

Ickes Told To Operate Collieries; Miners Are Called On To ‘Work For  Their. Cavernment ”

Army Protection Wi!l Be Provided If Necessary   ‘National Interest ls in Grave Peril,’ Roosevelt Says

More Than 500,000 Coal Miners Defy Back-toWork Ultimatum:  ICKES JIS IN CHARGE        wn Stumson Ready to Provide   Stimson Ready to Provide Troops for Any Needed  Protection

Troops Are Directed To Give Protection   OPA Strives To Cut Prices

Army May Protect  Workers   President Takes Step After John L. Lewis And Miners Disregard Ten o’Clock Deadline 

RADIO TALK ON EMERGENCY SET FOR TOMORROW   Roosevelt Plans To Broadcast At 9 O’clock (CWT)

Miners called on to go back to jobs and work for their government

Interior Secretary Ickes Told to Take Action Immediately   Army to Furnish Such _ Assistance as Fuel Coordinator Asks

ICKES ORDERED 10 TAKE IMMEDIATE POSSESSION MINES WHERE WORK HAS STOPPED   Secretary Stimson Designated to Take Action He Deems Necessary to Provide Protection For Persons and Mincs.

WHOLESALE WALKOUTS STARTED LAST NIGHT   85 Per Cent Of Bituminous and Most Pennsylvania Anthracite Mines Down

War Secretary  Stimson Will ActIf Needed   Governmental Operation of Mines Ordered by Presi dent As John L. Lewis Permits 10 A. M. Deadline To Pass Without Action   Mine Workers Ianore Deadline Hour

BE USED IF NEEDED--F.R   President Asks Striking Miners to “Return to Work for Govt.” Goes On Radio Sunday

Secretary Of Interior Ickes Assumes Control;  FDR To Be On Air Sunday   Renort Less Than 25.000 Miners Still On Job   Ohio Mines Are Idle With 20.000 Men Out

President Answers: Lewis’ Challenge; Mines Closed   Chief Executive to Make Appeal To Workers to Return to Pits -

FEDERAL OPERATION STRUCK COAL MINES HAS BEEN ORDERED   PRERCINENT arte AICHE '   PRESIDENT ACTS QUICKLY AS COAL MINERS REFUSE TO WORK

President Acts Promptly As Lewis Ignores Appeal: Ickes Gets Wide Powers

‘Roosevelt Orders Seizure After’ Lewis Snubs Back-To-Work Ultimatum; President Will — _ Address Miners Sunday Night   x KK Kk Reaction

Ickes Named to Act; Troops. Tf Necessary   White House Action Fol. lows Soon After Expira-” tion of 10 A.M. Deadline   ROOSEVELT WILL SPEAK TO MINERS   No Comment From: Lewis; Wilson’s Action Recalled;. Half Million Idle: -

Roosevell Appeals fo Workers ’ To Resume Production, fo Make Nationwide Radio Talk Tomorrow

FDR. ORDERS OPERATION OF MINES BY U.S.   Directs War Dep't to Take Any Action Needed to Protect Workers   TO ADDRESS NATION   To Deal Bluntly With Mine Strike In Radio Talk Sunday Eve

503,700 Miners Said To Be Idle   War Department Directed to Take Any Action Needed To Provide Protection Incident To Federal Operation of Pits; Lewis Refuses To Make Comment On President’s Order.

Roosevelt Orders Troops To Protect Men Who Go To Work for Government   President Will Take to Radio Sunday Night for Blunt Talk With Miners; Will Ask Them to Repnudiate Lewis

Ickes to Operate Colleries   Given Authority to Use Army to Protect Workers

FDR Tells Miners Submit Case to WLB and ‘It Will be Determined Promptly, Fairly, and in Accordance with Procedure and Law’—Cites Interference With War

Stimson May Use Such Measures As Necessary To Provide Protection

F.R.Orders Ickes, Stimson to Act;  To Speak Sunday   Roosevelt Plans to ‘Deal Blunily’ With Need for Continuing Coal Production to Aid War

Calls On Miners To Take Up Jobs  For Government   Secretary Ickes Placed in Charge of Operation; Troops Ready to Provide Protection for Workers; Coal Production Virtually Halted

Asks Miners Return to Job Immediately   President Takes Case Di rectly to Workers in Ordering Work Proceed   NATIONAL INTEREST IN GRAVE PERIL   Reviews the Situation Leadiug to Seizure Order; Tells U. S. Plan

TROOPS WILL ‘GUARD MINES AND WORKERS   PRESIDENT TAKES PROMPT ACTION AFTER ‘LEWIS REFUSES TO TAKE ACTION TO. STOP WALKOUTS BEFORE THE 16 O'CLOCK. DEADLINE. SET BY ROOSEVELT—ICKES TO DIRECT. FEDERAL OPERATION

War Department Told To Stand By   Roosevelt To Address People Sunday Night At 10} Striking Coal Miners Told By Chief Executive To Return To Work Immediately

‘More Than 500,000 Coal Miners Defy Back-toWork Ultimatum: —   ICKES IS IN CHARGE   Stimson Ready to Provide Troops for Any Needed  Protection

Seizure Ordered By President   Orders Go to Ickes and Stimson — President to Broadcast Statement on Situation Sunday at 10 p. m.—Army To Provide Protection, If Needed

USE TROOPS IF NEEDED, ORDER   Secretary Ickes Told to Take Over Operation of Struck Mines,   STATEMENT IS IS ISSUED

The President Also Directed War Depariment to Take Any Action Needed for  Protection of Miners.   ORDERS TO SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ICKES   This Action Fellowed UMW - President John L. Lewis’s Defiance of the President.

PRESIDENT ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ‘OVER CLOSED MINES   STRIKING MINERS ASKED TO RETURN WORK FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT

STRUCK MINES TAKEN OVER IN FEDERAL MOVE   ‘Interior Secretary Told To Seize Property in Which Stoppage Has  Been Reported   STIMSON ALSO GETS WHITE HOUSE ORDER   Decrees by Roosevelt Are Answers to Defiance of Lewis to Appeals in National Crisis

ORDER ISSUE TO ICKES BY  PRESIDENT   Army Directed to Protect Mines and Men Wanting to Work

MR. Directs Sec, [ekes To Take Charge   Troop Protection Directed by President Also

Troops Stand Ready In Case Of Outbreaks   FDR Declares Seizure Neeessary After Lewis Ignores Deadline.   LEWIS REMAINS OULET

MINERS DEFY FDR'S ORDER; ABANDON PITS   Deadline Passes With 450,000 Bituminous and 80,000 Hard Coal Men Out.

To Protect Those Not On Strike   Roosevelt Order Includes Use of Army for Men Wishing to Work

Miners Remain Out As Deadline Passes For End of Strike   President Moves Swiftly, Directing Ickes to Use Army if Necessary; Men Now Out of Pits Placed at 550,000

‘TROOPS ARE READY TO PROVIDE ANY NEEDED PRO  TECTION—-CHIEF EXECUTIVE CALLS UPON ALL   MINERS TO “RETURN IMMEDIATELY TO THE MINES AND WORK FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT

War Plants in Need Of Fuel But General Supply Over Nation May Last Gne Month

Ickes Ordered by FDR to Take Over; Army Standing by   Lewis Mum; President Calls’) On Miners to Return to Pits; Cites Grave National Peril--Mine Managers Told to Resume <e As U. S. Agents

President takes action after United Mine Workers fail to meet deadline; Army will! protect laborers

FDR Asks Miners To Return to Jobs   Issues Order For Coal Mines to Be Operated With Mil tary Protection If Necessary and Places Harold Icke in Possession and Operation.   Lewis and UMW Defy Government And Allow Deadline to Elapse

President Plans to Address Nation At 10 P.M. Sunday   Wholesale Walkouts Begin at Mid night; Stoppage Defies WLB Order

[ekes Told To Take Possession And Start Work: President To Wake Appeal Sunday AtlO P.M.   Chief Executive Says He Will Talk To Miners Of The Nation, Apparently Ending Appeals ‘To Lewis; Nation Endangered

‘Action Follows iLewis’ Refusal — To Heed Order   Troops Ready To Provide Protection If Needed; FDR Appeals To Workers

ARMY WILL BE CALLED IF NEEDED   Roosevelt Calls On Miners To Return To Their Jobs Immediately As Deadline Passes; Will Go On Air Sunday Night

Protection Is Pledged; 503,700 Out   President Appeals to Miners to return to Pits to ‘Work for Their Government’

TROOPS ORDERED OUT IF NEEDED TO KEEP PEACE   Shafts, And Men Wishing To Work Guaranteed Full Protection   ‘HARD BLOW AT LEWIS   FDR To “Speak Bluntly” On Situation In Radio Talk Sunday

President on Radio Tomorrow Night to “Deal Bluntly” with Situation—War _ Department Enters.Case Only  If Interior Requests

Roosevelt Will Speak Sunday On Coal Crisis  FDR Orders eizure 0 Idle Minec

Ickes Authorized To Call on Army   Roosevelt Will Go on Air Tomorrow Evening at 10— 515.000 Men Iencre Deadline

Ickes Directed to Operate Mines as Deems Necessary   Secretary Stimson Told to Take Any Action Needed to Provide Protection Incident to Federal Operation of Muinec

RETURN TO WORK ORDER IGNORED   President To Go on Air at 10 P. M. Sunday - - No Hint Of Plan is Given

Secretary Ickes Is Directed To Take Over Coal Mine:   Secretary Of War Also Directed To Provide Troop Protection To Mines And Miners Who Want To Work— Action Comes Soon After 10 O’clock Deadline On Strike

10 A.M. Deadline Passes with 530,000 Soft and Hard Coal Miners on Complete Strike   Orders Ickes to Take Immediate Possessession of Mines, Real and Personal Pronerty. Franchises. Etc...

ON MINERS TO WORK ©   Ickes Told To Do All Necessary To Insure Production

Orders Go to Ickes and Stimson President to Broadcast Staternent on Situation Sunday at 10 p.m Army To Provide Protection, If Needed

President Roosevelt to Broadeast Appeal to Miners Sunday Night to Disregard Lewts

Miners Are To GetChanceTo Return To Job   President’s Action Comes 2 Hours After Deadline Passes; Secretary To Move Immediately, Using Soldiers If Necessary

Backs Attack on Many Programs   Kate Smith Appeals For Bond Purchases

Portal-To-Portal  System Attacked  Appalachian Operators  Fight Agreement

OPERATORS ABREEMENT 18 SCOREI   Appalachian Coal Group Is Heard At Capital

OPERATORS SAY PORTAL-PAY IS WAGE INCREASE   John Lewis Il As WLB Opens Hearing

ILLINOIS MINE PACT OPPOSE   Applachiani Operators Attack Portal-Toe- Portal Wage Asreement

Appalachian Soft Coal Op erators Also Term Portal-to- Portal Agree ment “Subterfuge” .   OOSEVELT TALKS WITH LABOR UNITS   Lewis, Dl With Seriou: Case of Influenza, Unable to Attend Hearing Before WLB

PAY FOR fi x WORKERS.   Which, Has ‘Been Agreed on by Miners and Illinois: Operators. Claims It in Direct ‘Violatior Of America’s Stabilization: Program -

Operators Hit Portal Pay In lll. Agreement  Labor Board Hears Soft Coal Disputes; President Calls In  Radi Unian  andere

How Family of Four Fats Under Ration  Canned Soup [wice,  Beans Once a Month

Here’s Good Idea For F amily of 4   Family Would Have 192 Ration Points

Germans Admit Its Loss. To Russians; 200,000 More Germans May Be Trapped   Stalin Announcement Is Order of Day. Hitler Suffers Grave Reverse.  Soviets Head for Polish Ra«deae

City Keyto  Dnieper Defense Line   Stalin Announces _ Victory—Opens the Road to Poland

KIEV FALLS TO SOVIET ARMY: STAGE SET FOR POLAND DRIVE         The War This Week

PATH FOR DASH INTO POLAND IS OPEN TO REDS   Russian Victory Splits Nazis Into 2 Sections Separated by Marshes

RUSSIAN FORCES STORM INTO CITY, UKRAINE CAPITAL   Premier Statin Makes Announcement of Fall in Special Ofder, Soon After Berlin Acknowledgement.   WESTERN GERMANY IS BOMBED BY MOSQUITOES   Raids Follow Previous Heavy Plastering of 60 Hours, Specific Targets Not Annotinced,

RUSSIANS TAKE CITY OF KIEV IN BIG BATTLE   Berlin Admits Victors’ Triumph

Stalin Hails Victory As Greatest Of War: Allies  Cut Into Italian Defense

Victory Opens Way For Spurt Toward Poland   Triumph Comes On Eve of 26th Anniversary of Soviet Revolution

ONE OF WAR'S GREATST RUSS VICTORIES WO}   Nazi Forces Split in Two, Open. ing Way for Soviet “Quick Kick" Clear Into Poland

‘Today’s Military Secret: Tnvasion of Europe By [Allies an Imminent Fact

me: =. =e ee Balad ee = oF hela 2.  Allies Almost Certain to Strike From South in Attack on Europe

Vote Monday May Upset WLB's Salary Formula   Board Will Consider And Possibly Vote On Demands Of AFL, Members.

NAZI MANPOWER HIT BY RAIDERS   Internal Breakdown Seen Speeding Collapse Of Armies

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   “Breakdown Of Nazi War Machine Is Nightmare Haunting Hitler

More Wheat Acres Sought For New Year  Higher Loan Rate To Spur Farmers To  Tapoar Plantines

Eastern Front Stirs With More Activity   Russian and German Plane Fleets Battle Fiercely

PLANE FLEETS BATTLE OVER KUBAN AREA   Increased Artillery And Reconnaissance Activity Is Also Noted In Russia.

Red and Nazi Air Fleets Battle   Report Fierce Clash Over Kuban Frort

AMAZING HED DATTLA tNEMY UN ALL FRONTS   In Africa, Marshal Rommel Reported To Have Left His Fleeing Troops

Reds May Drive Into E. Prussia   Liberate Leningrad, Pre paring Way for Possible Entry Into Germany

SOVIETS SMASH ‘WAY THROUGH NAZI DEFENSES   Rommel] Reported To Be Already  In Trmnicia

Liberators Bomb  Salonika Drome   Major Nazi Airfield In Greece Pounded by 150 Tons of Bombs

Americans Pound Nazi Airdomes  Around Saloniki   Scene Of Great Turn In Last War Is Heavily Blasted By Liberators; Surprisingly Little Resistance Found

Yanks Smash Foe’s Big Grecian Field   Vital Nazi Airdrome Near Salonika Is Prime Target; Destruction Ils Great: All Planes Return Safe

Greece Base Of Nazis Hit   Major Airdrome Given Good Aerial Peunding

Surprisingly Litile Anti-Aireraft Opposition Found, On First Raid On Greece Si : German Gccupation

BOMB NAZI AIR ~_ BASE IN GREECE   AMERICANS START FIRES AND DAMAGE HANGARS AT SEDES NEAR SALGNIKA. 

U.S. Bombers Smash at  Base in Greece  Three Hangars Are Destroyed at Airdrome of Sedes

YANKS ATTACK NEAR SALONIKA   Three Hangars Believed te Have Been Destroyed  In Raid on Greece

AXIS AIRDROME IN GREECE ATTACKED   U. §S. Liberators Smash Target Near Sal. onika

AXIS. AIRDROMEIN GREECE ATTACKED   U.S. ‘Liberators Smash '  Target Near Sal anika

Late News Bulletins   - Chinese Kill 1,500 Japs Mopping Up at Nanchang

FIX WAR LOAN © COUNTY QUOTA   Dubuquers Asked to Invest In Federal Securities

100 MILLION DOLLAR BOND DRIVE, IOWA   Quota of $740,000 For Boone County In Second War Loan Drive Starting April 12.   Boone county's war bond quotat in the drive in April will be $740,000,

SELECTIVE SERVICE CHECKS AG FIGURES   Twice As Many Leave Forms As Were Inducted

Jobs In War. Industry  Lures Ohio’ Ss Farmers   Twice As Many Men Left Farms To Enter Wan Plants As Were Inducted Into Military Service. Survey In 10 Counties. Reveals

Farms Losing More Men To Industry Than Army Survey in Ohio Reveals   Factual Survey of Records in 10 Ohio Agricultural Counties Discloses That Twice as Many Left Fields for Factories As Went Into the Armed Forces

AMERICANS FACE STIFF RESISTANCE   Japs Fighting Desperately On Guadalcanal

Tell of Heavy Jap Resistance   Americans In Tough Fight on Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal Japs Fight Strongly   Heaviest Resistance Encountered By U. S.; Enemy Planes Downed

Troops Encounter Strong Resistance   Artillery Pounds Japanese In Solomon Area

NEW STABILIZATION CRISIS 15 FACING WAR LABOR BOARD   Three-Man Panel Continues Hearings In Coal Wage Dispute; UMW Makes No Pretense of Seeking Either Representation Or Participation.

New Stabilization Crisis Facing War  Labor Board Today   AFL Spokesman Says It Is “Tottering On Its Last Leg’; Hit Hard

Plea to Ease Inequality Clause Hit   Board Members Get Little Help from Byrnes in Allowing New Stabilization Plan

WLB Getting Little Help   From Byrnes     Seeking Added Powers to Iron Out Unequalities Of Inflation Order

WAR LABOR BOARD TOTTERS IN FACE OF NEW CRISIS   BOARD MEMBERS FAIL TO INCREASE POWERS IN WAGE DISPUTES

NEW CRISIS MAY BE NEARING FOR ACTION BY BOARL   Three-Man Panel-Continues Deliberation on Coal Production, Miners Union Not Reported,   ROOSEVELT DISCUSSES STRIKE QUESTIONS   President Says Men Are Now Working For Government And He Does Not Expect Them to Strike.

WLB Totters As Strikes Looming   “HOLD-THE-LINE” ORDER DEATH BLOW TO BOARD

WLB PROPELLED TO NEW GRISIS   United Mine Workers Take No Part in Labor Dispute Hearing.   BOARD POWER iS SAME

WLB PROPELLED TOWARDS NEW CRISIS   Labor Spokesmen Say Board is Tottering on Its Last Legs.

Board Totfering, Says AFL Official   Asserts Lewis Outmaneuvered Administration

Sign Of Storm Involving WLB   American Federation Of Lahor States Board “Tottering On Last Legs.’

Crisis Nearing  For Labor Board  ‘Miners Not At Confab, WLB Criticized

S ta bilization Crisis Facing Labor Board   As Fk. Spokesman Says Group is “Tottering On Last Legs”  DROTECT Wal KO MTS

WAR LABOR BOARD APPROACHING NEW DECISIVE STEPS   Failing in Coal Dispute and Apparently Lacks Power For Existence

LABOR BOARD NEARS CRISIS   Stabilization Power Seen Tottering By Union Spokesman

WLB Prestige Is Slipping   Coal Hearings Go On, lenored By Miners

WLB REFUSED  RIGHT TO ERASE ‘INEQUALITIES   Stabilization Crisis Mounts as Labor Councils Meet, Pressure Put on Labor Representatives

War Labor Board Battles i For Life In New Crisis   Pleas For Power To Deal With Inequalities Turned Aside By Byrnes; Tottering On Last Leas. Says AFL Leader ~

Hidden Nazis  Give Americar Forces Battle   Writer Watches U. S. Troops Take Gabes Road Area

Yanks Bomb Airdromes in Athens Area      British Drop More Block-Busters On Naples

Liberators Raid Two Airdromes  In Athens Area      British Bombers Hur! Block-busters On Naples, Also Continue Pace Against Nazi Targets in Occupied France

Two Key  _Airdromes Hit Hard   NAZI-CONTROLLED BUREAU SAYS ALLIES PREPARE FOR INVASION.

Two Nazi Ships In Convoy Sunk Off Dutch Coast   U.S. Heavy Bombers Blast Targets. In ; ‘Occupied France Again

U. 8. Ninth Air Force Sends Liberators From Middle Bast To Hammer Athens Area; British Planes Over Germany   FIGHTING ON TWO SECTORS IN RUSSIA

NAZI OBJECTIVES IN FRANCE SUBJECTED TO HEAVY BOMBING   RAF Attacks German Convoy Off Dutch Coast: Two Ships Are Sent to Bottom

Americans Hit Targets In France   Great Aerial Offensive Now In Ninth Day

“GET RECRUITS OR -LOSED COMPANY”   Vollinar Urges Total Mobil. ization . of ‘Men Not In Clase 1-A

“GET RECRUITS OR LOSE D COMPANY”   Vollmar Urges Total Mobilization of Men Not In ~ Class 1-A

Cap Bon Peninsula : Only Spot Left Foes   Invasion of Europe Looms With Tune

Major Victory Seen as Prelude To an Invasion   Many Germans Escape fo Hills during Fighting within City   Large Numbers of Prisoners Taken in Cities and Outside

Retreating Enemy Finds Only Refuge On Hilly Peninsula   Americans, French and British Gain War’s Greatest Victory Under Allied Plane Umbrella

OUTLOOK FOR COAL 1S BRIGHTER HERE   Output Ahead of Last Year, Association Told

OUTPUT OF COAL TOPS ‘42 MARKS   Officials Say Miners To Meet Nation’s Wartime Demands

FRENCH LEADERS DISCUSS GIRAUD — AS ARMY CHIEF   Whether He Will Be Retained Is Newest Question Befora Committee:

HIGH COMMAND WORRIES FRENCK   ‘De Gaulle Objects to Giraud As Army Chief

SOLONS REFUSE APPOINTMENTS   Stevenson Suffers First Setback In Senate

GOV. STEVENSON HAS NAMED FRED KNETSCH TO HIWAY COMMISSION   HAS SECRETARY OF STATE AND ADJUTANT GENERAL UNDER STUDY

3,300 More "Japs Slain - by Chinese   Spearhead ‘of 100,000 Jap Troops Reported Encircled } in’ Rice Bowl Battle   ENEMY REPORTED USING POISON GAS   @ Allies Forge Ahead in Other Pacific Areas; Marines Win Gilberts at Heavy Cost

Capture Of Strategic Position From Japanese In New Guinea And Washington’ Announcement Indicating Navy Now Has Fighting Tools For Offensive Help Offset News Of Severe Casualties Among U. S. Forces In Successful Gilberts Campaign

Aussies Blast Nippons Fron Strong Point   Victory Offsets Heavy Loss in Gilbert Campaian

New activity under way in Pacific   Strategic post of Japs seized

Americans In New Landings On Bougainville   Japs Lose Sattelberg In New Guinea; Chinese Trap 100,000 Foes.

Take Strategic Nippon Positions In New Guinea   Heavy U. S. —- Reported in Campaign For Gilbert Islands.   Chinese Encircle Big Force in Rice Bowl

Aussies Seize  Key Sector  In New Guinea Losses Heavy  For U. 8. in Gilbert Fight

YANK LOSSES Arik HEAVY ik ISLAND FIGHTS   U.S. Has Gilberts Won. However, With Other New Guinea Successes

Pay High Price for Tarawa   News of Heavy Casualties There Counter- _ Balanced By Victory  On New Guinea Front

HEAVY AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN GILBERTS BALANCED BY TAKING NEW GUINEA POSITION

Gilbert Campaign Costly to Allies   American Casualties Were Heavy; Strategic Jap Post Taken   HAVE OFFENSIVE TOOLS   Colonel Reports Action “One of the Toughest Ever Fought” =i

HEAVY AMERICAN CASUALTIES WERE SUFFERED ON TARAWA   STRATEGIC NEW GUINEA POSITIONS CAPTURED; JAPS ENCIRCLED IN CHINA

ALLIES FORGE AHEAD ON ALL PACIFIC ISLES   Reveal Heavy “Americar Casuals In Gilbert Isle Campaign

New Victories in Pacific Were Costh But Are Decisive   Knox Reveals Navy Now Well Supplied With Fighting Tools   49 Carriers Now

Yanks Suffer «Very Heavy’ Casualties ©  — Pyat T ncane Amc   » But Losses Are  _ Balanced by Victories on.  Other Fronts

Yanks Pay High Price for Gilberts   Chinese Surround 100,000 in Hunan Rice Bowl; Fleet Double in Last 11 Months

MARINES FOUGHT TOUGHEST BATTLE LN CORPS HISTORY   More Americans Land on Bougainville; Aussies Canture Sattelbera

New Allied Gains Made  In Pacific   Reports of Heavy Losses Issue From Landings on Gilberts

ALLIED GOALS ARE DISCUSSED   War And Peacetime Aims Of United Nations  Conference Topic

RED ARMY ‘ADVANCES IN NORTH   6 Nazi Attempts Tc » Recapture Town  Are Repulsed

KALININ FRONT ACTION FLARES   Nazi Attacks Driven Off; Soviets Hit Germans Southwest Of Velikyi Luki

SOVIET FRONT  LAND BATTLES: _ ARE REPORTEI   ACTIVITY INCREASING IN KA LININ AND VELIKYA LUBI REGIONS OF EASTERN BATTLE LINE

Correspondent Tells — Of Flight To Sicily ~ On Paratroop Plane   By IVAN H. PETERMAN

American Newsman Describes Paratroop’ Attack On Sicily; Scores Of Gliders Used In Transporting Allied Troops

viet Drive. Orel Slowed y Heavy Rains   ighting Continues s Germans Battle ‘o Keep Lines Open

Rains Slowing Russian Army   Heavy Forces Of German Infantry, Tanks Manage To Delay Soviet Troops.

NAZIS HELPED TO SLOW RED DRIVE BY RAIN   Intensive Battles Continue Before Orel, Russians Capturing Important Rail Junctions   NAZI LOSSES HIGH   Germans Continue Desperate Counter-Allacks bul Fail to Halt Red Advances

Soviet Advance Slowed By Rain   Intensive Battles Continue, However

Rain Helps Nazi Troops Slow Drive  About Orel   However, Severe Battles Raging Again Today.

Reds Slowed Down in Orel  Area by Rain      Intensive Battles’ Waged, However, as Reds Fight te Consolidate Positions

Claim Advance: Of Red Forces Slowed By Rair   Report Nazis Throwing In Infantry. And Tanks To Keep Vital. Line Open.

Rain Slows. Soviet Drive In Orel Area      Nazis Throw in Big  Forces of Infantry and Tanks

RAIN SLOWS SOVIET DRIVE AGAINST OREL   Intensive Battles for Now All-but-Surrounded Bastion Continue, However —Nazis Counter-Attack  Often.

RAIN SLOWS DOWN RUSSIAN ADVANCE   Germans Throw in Big Forces in Attempt to Keep Orel Line Open.

Weather Slows Russian Drive   Soviet Forces Turn To Consolidating Positions Near Orel

Rains Hindering Powerful Russian  Offense on Orel   Nazis Throw in Big Forces of Infantry, Tanks to Keep Line Open.   Russian Strategy Is To Consolidate Gains

REDS TIGHTEN RING AROUND OREL BASTION   Rain Comes to Aid of Desperately Resisting Germans, Slowing Down Russian Advance   70 TOWNS CAPTURED

BAIN SLOWS UP. RUSSIAN DRIVE   Nazis Throw in Big Forces Of Infantry, Tanks in Grim Effort.

Rain Aids Nazis Resisting Russian Advance On Orel  Reds Capture 70 More Towns Despite Bitter Resistance

Weather Quiets Russian Front  “Rain Cames ta Aid   Rain Comes to Aid Of German Troops

Rains Slow Down: Soviet Advance   DESPERATE GERMANS AIDED ON OREL’ BY WEATHER

RAIN SLOWS RED DRIVE FOR OREL   NAZIS FACING TRAP AS RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON STRONGHOLD

RAIN AIDS AXIS TROOPS FACING SOVIET FORCES   German Counter: Blows Peaten  Off By Reds

Rain Slows Red Gains in ‘Orel Sector   Intensive Battles Continue In Section

Rain Slows ‘Down Russ  In Orel Area   Elsewhere They Kept Up Advances After Capturing 70 Towns

RAINS SLACKEN RUSSIAN DRIVE AGAINST ORE   Desperate Germans Given ‘Respite From Powerful Soviet Advance But Battle Continues   NAZIS USE TANKS   Throw 30 to 70 Armorec Units Into Fight to Keep Line Open to Besieged Orel

RAIN SLOWS UP RED OFFENSIVE   Showers Come To Aid Of Germans, But Intensive Battles Continue.

RAINS COME RELIEF HARD PRESSED NAZIS DEFENDING OREL  GERMANS THROW IN BIG INFANTRY AND TANK

Ban on Fathers’ Draft Sought   House Military Body Head Plans Measure

Draft Limitation Bill Proposed  Problem of Fathers Discussed by May

Regulations, Signals Go Into Effect February 17   THREE ALARMS   Audible ‘Warnings Arranged for All Coast States

us Dive Bombers Carry Out Heavy Attack on Munda   Large Fires Set Among Dumps

U.S. Fliers Hammer Munda in Solomons   Carrier Program Hints at Bia Attack

Yanks Battle Off 50 Jap Interceptors To Blast Airfield in Buin-Faisi Area

RAIN. TONS OF DeaT AUCTION ON AIRFIELDS   Attack Next Possible Goal as Troops Begin Mopping. Up at Lae.   ARE MAKING GUR WAY BACK, MAC ARTHUR SAYS

NAZIS SENDING MORE TROOPS INTO NORWAY   Germans Aroused by Reports of Many British Parachutists Being Landed There

NAZIS RUSH ‘NEW TROOPS TO NORWAY   British -‘Parachutists ’ Reported Landing In Norway

Repulse Germans At Kiev Bulge And Korostyshev   Two Other Strong Nazi Onslaughts ‘Also Turned Back: New Advanees Made in’ Dnieper  - Bend and White Russia.

NAZIS FLEEING INGOMEL ARES   Soviets Claim They Have Halted Germans At Lhitomir

Claim Russians Regain Strength Jn Kiev Sector:   Pound Gut New Advances In Dnieper River Bend Aud White Russia Area

Reds Hammer  Out Advance   German Counter Attacks Halted; Enemy Pounded Along Kiev Front

German Drive in Kiev Area Slowing Down   Buttressed With Tanks Russians Halt Attacks Near Korostyshev

Red Army Regains Initiative in NineDay Furious Fight   ‘Nazis’ Bloody Drive in ~ Russia Futile; News of Battle of Italy

Reds Break Up Strong Nazi Attacks   Regain Initiative In Bulge West of Kiev, Gain Elsewhere

Red Army Troops Regain Initiative In Kiev Bulge Area After Nine Days Of Ferocious Battling With Germans

Soviets Regain Initiative In Bitter Fighting   Possible Collapse Of Latest Nazi Counter Drive Seen.

INITIATIVEIN SOME SECTORS INRED HANDS   Regain Its Bulge West of Kiev After Nine Days of Fighting That Equalled Fury of Stalingrad

REPORT SOVIETS STOP NAZI DRIVE WEST OF KIEV   Reds Score New Gains in Dnieper Bend, White Russia

RED ARMY TROOPS REGAIN INITIATIVE ALONG PART LINE  NEW ADVANCES MADE AS DESPERATE FIGHT.

Reds Regain Initiative Near Kiev; Drive Nazis Back in Dnieper Bend

Reds Regain Initiative in Fierce Battle   New Advances Hammered Out in Dnieper Bend And White Russia

RED TROOPS: AGAN HOLD “UPPER HAND   Initiative Regained In Bulge West : Of Kiev ©

Battlefield Filled With Dead Nazis Russian Army Regains Initiative After Nine Days Of Hard Fighting

Soviets Make New Gains In Dnieper Bend; Fierce  Nazi Attacks Smashed

REDS REGAIN INITIATIVE IN KIEV SECTOR   New Advances Are Hammered Out in Dnieper Bend and in White Russia   TRRUSTS ARE REPULSED

NAZI ATTACKS CRUSHED BY TANK FORCES   New Gains Chalked Up In White Russia

Reds Regain Initiative in Kiev Bulge   New Advances Hammered Out in Dnieper Bend and In White Russia   GERMANS WIDEN COUNTER. BLOWS   Frozen Rarth Now Allows “Greater Mobility and Win>. ter Test.Lies Ahead ~-

RED CAPTURE OF GOMEL IS BELIEVED NEAR   Capitulation Expected in Matter of Hours—Soviets Regain Initiative in Some Sectors of the Kiev Rulee.

Nazis Halted After Furious  9-Day Battle   Reds Seize Initiative After Clash Ranking With Stalingrad; Tanks Thrown Into Fight

[Reds Regain Initiative In [Some Sectors West Of Kiev, Score Gains In Other Areas   Fighting Equals Ferocity Of That At Stalingrad; Smash String Nazi Attacks

RUSSIANS SMASH NAZI ASSAULTS AT KOROSTYSHEV   REGAIN INITIATIVE IN DNIEPER BEND AND WHITE RUSSIA

REDS REPORTED TC HAVE GAINED WAR INITIATIVE   Russians Smash Powerful Tanks In Kiev Area

Authoress Indicted   Charged With Undermining Loyalty of Armed Forces

South Carolina Demos Unanimously Refuse To ‘Aid National Campaign

Deny Southern Demos Revolt   Newspaper Reports Funds Denied For 1944 National Campaign,

S. Carolinans AndNewDeal Break Denied   State Committee Refusal ito Contribute to National Paity Funds Reported

South Carolina Democrats Spurr Aid To Party   Paper Says National Committee Trying to “Woo Negro Vote’

Dixie Democrats Refuse Request For Party Funds   South Carolina Committee Acts

South Carolina  Quits Democrats?   State Group Refuses National Aid

Earl Larson Taking Pre-Aviation Cadet Training At Keesler Field, Mississippi

HUGE BRITISH AIR FLEET ROARS QUT TO STRIKE ENEM)   Mundreds of Bombers Jump Off From Widely Scattered Fields Along - English Coast.   GIANT OPERATION BELIEVED UNDER WAY   Main Radio Station in Berlin Area Silenced ~— Warnings Sounded in Switzeriand.

Fliers Bomb French Targets; New Berlin Raid Indicated   Hundreds of Planes Streak Over the Continent Dur. ing Day and Night—Nazi Long-Wave ° - Station Silent .

Daylight Raids May Also Have Been Made on War Plants; Heavy Night Assaults Resumed By RAF

Berlin Sees Peril of  New Blow   Huge Waves of British Planes Head For Continent as Yanks Swarm Back After Delivering Big Assault

Both American And RAF Plane: Blast Continent   Attack upon Berlin Indicated by Radio

Giant Bomners Leave Britain For Continent   Streak Across Strait for 2 Hours Toward Targets

Hundreds of Giant Night Bombers Follow Up U. S. Heavy Blows; Two-Hour ‘Parade’ Crosses Channel

Vast Operations Are Under Way   Berlin Is Believed’ Under Allied Lash

Vast Operations Are Under Way   Berlin Is Believed Under Allied Lash  me YRaasere FC Ware

GREATEST AIR ARMADA HITS AXIS CENTERS   HUNDREDS OF GIANT BOMBERS JOIN IN RAID

‘President Designates Week Starting Oct. 3 ‘Fire Prevention Week

Make Thrust Toward Vital  Road Junction   Planes Smash Nazi Communications In Fierce Attacks

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Second Attack On Sofia Indicates Big Events Pending In Balkans

MENENCIOGLU IS HURRYING 10 CAIRO TO GONSULT EDEN   A Strong Staff Is Accompany. ing the Turkish Foreign Minister.   SPEEDY ACTION TAKEN   Came Within 24 Hours Afte President Inonu Defined His Country’s Stand.

Grocery Boy Crowley Of New O.E.W   Rockefellers, Morgan: Pikers Compared With Him

CENSOR GETS CANDY FROM SOLDIER'S GIRL   Note Says It Is for Holes Cut In Letters

RUSSIAN BASES TOO DANGEROUS   That’s War Department View Of Jap Bombing Theory

= Ready. To Involve  Select brerteeaP gM,  Re iS In War With Japs      Narrator In ‘Official War Department Film Says Use Of Siberian Bases Would Shove Russia Into War Against.J aps, Endanger U. S. Plans

Army Film For War Plant Workers Cites Dangers In Use of Siberian Air Bases

Americans Start Bairoka Battle   Move In on Japanese From Three Points

‘NEWS 2 By Paut MALLON es   (Distributed py King Features Syn dicate, Inc., Reproduction ip Full o in Part Strictly Prohibited.)   WASHINGTON — MR. WILLKIE

(Outbreaks Cause International Reper cussions   Mexican Embassy Hits Los Angeles Disturbances Involving Zoot-Suiters

Government To Take Hand In Zoot Suit, Gob Battles  Mexican Embassy In Washington Protesting Over Banting OF Meyicane: State Ta Ack

Mexican Embassy Deplores Attacks On Zoot Suiters  Los Angeles Mayor Promises to Stop Sailor-Gangster Riots  POLICEMAN HURT  Officials Say Youths On East Side Always

Mexico Angered By Zoot Battle   State Department Advised Of Caose

Loot Suiters And Soldiers In New Riots   ‘alifornia and Federa Governments Investigate Attacks

Airborne Troops Seize Jap Base  Beyond Lae  " Atistraligns Landed   Australians Landed -at Enemy .Oietpost ‘in Daring Raid «©

Enemy Attacks Beaten Off by Australians   Kaiapit Taken in New Move, MacArthur Reports

AIRBORNE TROOPS SEIZE ISLAND 60 MILES ABOVE LAE   Australians, Landed by U. S. Transport Planes, Take Kaiapit After Re- — pulsing Japs.   ENEMY’S FINSCHHAFEN ' BASE IS OUTFLANKED   Air Battles Increase in Solomons Area-—20 Nip Planes Downed in Raid on Vella Lavella.

Australians Seize Point Closer To Japanese Base   Troops Landed by American Transport Planes Bite New Chunk Out of Enemy Defensive Posts and Increase Threat

AUSTRALIANS SEIZE KAIAPITT NEAR MADANG   Transport Planes Land on Grassy Field Disgorging Troops Who Repulsed En ‘SyoeyV Jojun0g Awa   Sink Barges

Aussies Seize Kaiapit, Above Captured Lae   Big U. S. Transports Land Troops f in Area; Jap Supply Lines Hit

Allied Thrust Outflanks Japs   Base 60 Miles Above Lae Is Captured

Aussies Take Lae Outpost   Paratroops.Land naltway ‘Between Lae And Madana

KAIAPIT SEIZED BY AUSTRALIANS LANDED BY AIR   Daring Move Outflanks Jap Base At Finschhafen  On Huon Peninsula   20 ENEMY PLANES ARE BAGGED IN ONE RAID

JAPANESE BASE ~ 1S OUTFLANKEL   Australians Landed B Air Transport Seize Kaiapit

Allies Seize Isle Point Beyond Lae   Yank Planes Land Aussies for Assault at Night

KAIAPIT SEIZED BY AUSTRALIAN FORCE   Base 70 Miles South of Madang Is Captured

Swift Tactics Win  New Guinea Sector  U. S. Transport Planes Land Australians

AUSSIES PUSH NORTH OF LAE   American Transport Planes Land Troops at Kaiapit on New Guinea

American Transport Planes Seize Island Held By Jan Ferces 60 Miles Above Lae

Kaiapit Seized By Australians 60 Miles above Captured Lae   Troops Are Landed by Big American Transports; Japanese Counteratfacks Are Repulsed

35,000 FOOT JUMP WITH A PARACHUTE SAVES U, S. PILOT   Leap Follows Stratos phere Battle With Ger -man Plane, Which Aviator Destroyed.

GROUP BLOCKS PROBE OF ROW   House Committee Decides Against Wallace-Jones Dispute Inquiry

WALLACE-JONES INQUIRY SHELVED   J HOUSE COMMITTEE PIGEONHOLES PROBE — SENATE ACTION PENDING.

52-HOUR WEEK MINIMUM IN OCDEN HINTED   War Manpower Aides Seek to Relieve Labor In 32 Areas

Churchill and F.D.R. Will Meet in Canad   Time of Meeting Not Disclosed for the Present

TO BE DRAFTED   United Nations Leaders to Hold Confab at Quebec   WINSTON CHURCHILL   Continues His Talks With MacKenzie King and His Canadian Aides

Leaders to Draft Victory Blueprint  Joint Press Conference STI Denne BPrarmleoewc

importance Is Seen in Gathering of  Roosevelt, Churchil  New War Plans May Result; Other Leadere Will Confer

Nation’s Chief. Churchill Set War Talk Site   Leaders Pick Quebec To Map Future Allied Offensives

Roosevelt Will Meet Charchill In Quebec Soon   Time of Conference to Draft New Offensive Plan: To Be Revealed Later; U. S., British Staffs To Attend

FDR Plans_ Quebec Trip   War Strategy Conference Date Not Yet Announced

Roosevelt to Go to Quebec for Conference With Churchill; Stalin Receives Allied Envoys

Roosevelt Plans Canada Meeting   Blueprints For Continuing Wor Against The Axis Will Be Drafted in Historic Meetinas

QUEBEC SITE PICKED FOR NEXT CONFAE      Roosevelt - Churchill Meeting to Be In  Canada:

Momentous Decisions  Are Expected   British and Canadian War Cabinets Confer In Historic Quebec  UNIOUE OCCASION

War Conference In Quebec May Change Strategy   Meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt Will Be Held Soon   Blueprints for Continuing War on Axis Will Be Drafted

Roosevelt will meet Churchill in Canada for strategy parley   Leaders will draft plans for future onslausht of allies against enemies

Roosevelt and Churchill Will Hold Conference on  War Strategy at Quebec   Allied Military Chiefs to Take Part in Talks To Be Held at Date to Be Announced Later; Prime Minister, Canadian Leaders Confer

Date for Meet To Be Divulgec At Later Time   Combined Cabinet War Groups of Britain, Canada Confer for First Time in Any War

‘War Strategy Conferences ‘Will Be Held In Quebec By  ‘President, Prime Minister   Date For Parleys Will Be Divulged Later; Utmost ‘Secrecy To Surround Meetings With Joint Press Conference Scheduled After Decisions Are Reached

8-Year-Old Boy With Fractured Pelvis Drags Self Mile to House, Goes to Bed

CANADIAN AND U, $. SOLDIERS MEET AT RAGUSA   _—V— Cut Off Southeast Port of Island, Trapping Many, Axis Forces

REBSTATIN FOR RATIONS   Franklin ‘and: Clark. School Auditors Being ‘Used

A 7 THAT *FOR RATIONS   Franktin ‘arid::Clark:' School yAuditetinnis! Being’ \ Atsed : a

RUBBER OUTPUT ~VISIONED IN JULY   Nelson Expects 43° of Syn~ thetic Program Under . Way By-Then

Buna-S Directives  Speed Rubber Plan   13 Pet. of Entire Program Expected to Be Underway By Mid-Jaly

Seer iw, £ One OF  6, 000 Idle hicenily. Pennsylvania Strikes Grow

6,000 State Miners Idle   Protest Turning Over Wage Dispute To War Labor Board

UNREST GROWS AMONG MINERS: 7500 ON STRIKE   Pennsylvania and Ken ticky Workers Disgruntled Over Certifying Demands to WLB   OUTPUT SLOWDOWNS HELD DELIBERATE      Operators Announce Miners in Pits Not Producing as Usual; Walkouts May Spread

Murray Promises No ClO Stoppages   Will Not Strike Against President

ALLIED NOOSE ISTIGHTENING RAPIDLY ON FOE   Capture of Floridia, Palazzolo and Ragusa Announced In RapidFire Succession   BRIDGEHEADS NOW 20 MILES INLAND   American Forces Form Junction With Canadian  and British With Cap  ture of Ragusa

BIG CITIES FALLING; SOLDIERS LANDING   Contact Is Made As Americans Join British ,

Capture of Three Towns Isolates Southeastern Edge of Sicily; American Troops Continue.  to Advance and Axis Troops Roll ina All Units of Invaders Go into’ : Action on All Fronts Poy

Allies Seal Southeastern Sicily Area   Floridia, Palazzola And Ragusa Taken; Italian General Captured; Use  3,000 Ships In Action

ALLIED ARMIES SWEEP ON FOR NEW VICTORIE:   Augusta, Ragusa, Palazzolo and Flotidia Taken-in Big Drive,   BOMBERS BLASTING AT ENEMY TROOP COLUMNS

‘Troops Land On Beaches in Catania Area   Communications Centers o Ragusa and Palazzolo Have Been Entered

Allied Forces Take. Posi*. tions on Beach Near ~~» Port of Catania   YANKS TO A JUNCTION   Patton’ s Troops Meet: Can adians at Inland Town    ; -of Ragusa:

British Land to Attack Catania; Ragusa Seized   American Troops Advance in  Heavy Fighting Near Gela in South

ALLIED INVASION i@PORCES IN RAPID “SWEEP UP EAST COAST      - CAPTURE PORT OF AUGUSTA AND LAND ON GEACHES NEAR CATANIA:

3 TOWNS FALL TO AMERICANS, ALLIED FORCES   Entire Southern Corner Of Island Cut Off By Invasion   TROOPS PUSH UP COAST   Harbor Blasted By British Warships; Enemy Supply Boats Sunk

Allied Troops Pile Ashore On Catania Beach   British And Canadian Forces Make Junction With Yanks As Ragusa And Palazzola Are Taken; Drive Up East Coast Gains

Town After Town F alls to Onrushing Invaders—3000  Ships Rush in Troops

INVASION FORCE GOES UP COAST TO GIRCLE AXIS   Advance at Unexpected Pace Drawing Nearer Key Point Nearest to Italy   ‘MORE CITIES ARE SEIZED   Americans Smash _ Violent Counter Attack To Make Contact With British

Augusta, Floridia, Palazzolo, Ragusa Tumble Before Allies   YANKS ADVANCING IN THE WEST   Americans Form Junction With Canadians  And British; Resistance Slight

Yankee Troops Extend Gains  In West, South   Encounter Some Resistance Along Coast; Good Progress Inland.   BEAT COUNTERATTACK

Augusta, Ragusa, Palazzola Taken   New Landings Made At Catania, Nearly Halfway Te Messina; U.S. And British Forces Joined; Casualties Are Reported Light

Ragusa Falls To Invaders   Americans, Canadians Consolidate Lines There

British Take Augusta And Seek Catania   Capture Other Towns, Tighten Noose On Isle

NEAR CATANIA      Augusta Captured in Coast Drive; Americans Stop Counter Attack.   OPPOSITION STRONGER

British Sweep Up Eastern Coast   American and Other Allied Troops Seal Off Southeastern Corner of Island — Yanks Advance in West Form Junction with British Units

Southeast Corner Of Sicily Being Mopped Up Now   Axis Tanks Break Through American Lines Yesterday

AUGUSTA TAKEN  * WITH PALAZZOLO, RECUSA. FLORIDIA   Allies Plunge Inland 25 Miles. British Land on Catania Beaches.

Catania Is The Next Objective   Troops Land on Beaches— U. 8. Force Fighting on  Southern Coast

SouthernSicily Is Cut Off By Allied Forces   ‘Augusta and Ragusa Among New  . Towns Taken in Allied Advance;  Italian General Captured; Other Prisoners Seized _

Sweep Up Sicily's East CoastToCaptureAugusta; Pile Ashore Near Catania

TROOPS MOVE 25 MILES INLAND 10 CAPTURE CENTERS   Allies Complete Line Across Southeastern Tip of Sicily, Prabably Traps Many Prisoners.   NAZI UNCERTAIN ON WHERE TQ USE ARMOF   Halian Industrial Center Is Bombed, 1000 Prisoners In Rags Transferred To Africa.

British, Canadians Fight Into Strategic Centers of Ragusa and Palazzola, Joining Gen. Patton’s U. S. Troops—Furious Attack on Reds Front; Japs Lose Three Ships in Kula Gulf

Counter Attacks Thrown Back By Yanks; Augusta Falls, Ragusa Captured

Palazzola and Ragusa Seized, US UnitsRepel  Counterattack   East Coast Port Falls After Bombardment By Warships

Bomber Blows On Italian Big Cities Accompany Two Great Drives On Island

Most of Southwestern Corner of Sicily Sealed Off, While Allies  Continue Advance in Two Sectors

Americans Repel Fierce Axis CounterAttack, Destroying Tanks and Taking Prisoners; Allies Land Near Catania

Allied Forces Take Positions on Beach Near Port of Catania   YANKS TO A JUNCTION      Patton’s Troops Meet Canadians at’ Inland Town of Ragusa

‘Capture Augusta North of ‘Syracuse And Disembark ‘On Beaches Near Catania

Points Of Great Strategic Value Held By Allies; Axis Counter-Attacks Beaten Off   New Landings Made Near Catania; Invasion Forces 19 Miles North Of Syracuse, Which Was Captured Monday: Few Germans Met

Men Piling Ashore Near Catania Port: ‘Yanks, British Meet   Forces United at Inland Cities; Invasion Proceeds at Rapid Pace; Americans Repulse Fierce Attack

BRITISH TROOPS IN CONTINUED ADVANGE TOWARD MESSINA  SUCCESSION OF VICTORIE!

RATION STAMP EXPIRATION DATES   Augusta Naval Base Falls To Invaders

Yanks, Canadians And British Form Junction; Catania Landing Made   Augusta Taken By Victorious Allies; American Repel Fierce Counter-Attacks By Axis

Invaders Drive 30 Miles Inland; Catania Menaced; Allies Head for Messina.   ” Troops Advance Nerth Toward Messina Heavy Fighting Reported In Some Areas; General Eisenhower Praises His Armies

British And Canadian Units Form Junction With Americans Under General Patton

ALLIES SEAL OFF SOUTH EAST PART   Americans Advance In“West Of Island Capture Prisoners

Forces Take Augusta, Land Near Catania   British, Canadian, American Fighters Form Junction at Ragusa; U. S. Troops Repel Fierce Counter-attacks by Enemy.

Invasion Armies Drive Inland 25 Miles, Take Rai Town; Yanks And Canadians Merged At Ramisa

Port Of Augusta Taken; Troops Land At Catania   Communications Centers Of Ragusa And Palazzola Fall To Allied Forces

Yankees Beat Ol Attacks, — Join British   Junction of Allied Forces Is Made at Ragnso, Main Rail Center   BRITISH LANDING IN CATANIA AREA   Resistance Has Not. Bees Great In Most Instances; Planes Give Great Aid

Anglo Forces Take Port of Augusta, Units Near Catania   American Troops Advance from Gela, Airmen Continue to Attack Enemy Supply Lines

Ragusa, Augusta, Floridia Captured; Landing at Catania   British and Canadians Effect Juncture  With Americans at Ragusa and Allied Front Drives Inland 20 Miles

British Go Ashore 30 Miles North of  Syracuse in Force   Effort Being Made to Cut Off Supplies of Axis Forces On Sicily as Allies-Race Forward Along Eastern Coast of Island   MORE TOWNS OCCUPIED BY EISENHOWER’'S MEN

3 RAILROAD TOWNS SEIZED; CATANIA BEACHES OCCUPIED   Expected Major Enemy Counter-Blows Fail To Develop—CanadianBritish Forces Unite At Racusa   PUSH 25 MILES AHEAD ON  ISLAND; PROGRESS IS STEADY

Capture Strategic Italian Sea Base   (Resistance Stiffens, Altho Axis Fails To Counter-Attack on Large Scale

Troops Land Near Catania; Strategic Rail Center Falls   Slight Losses Reported By Allies; Eisenhower, Back In Africa, Says Attack Couldn't Have Been Better; Yanks Gain In Western Sector

British, Canadians Reported Entering Ragusa, Palazzola   Inv aders Half- “Way To ‘Messina; Patton’s Yanks’ Forge Ahead; 3000 Ships Active In -Campator:

Lewis Faces WEB Session Today   See Cool Reception To Illinois Contract

Soviets Take Four Towns  In Big Push   Continue Drive Toward Smolensk

talian-Yugoslav Frontier Closed By Gertan Ordes   Peace Demonstrations Said ‘To Be Flaring Up in Bulgaria

Repor! Germans Close Frontier  Seek to Prevent . Guerrilla Mercer

POMONA GRANGE MEETS AT TIOGA   With Tioga Grange, Next Week Thursday And Friday.

TIOGA COUNTY POMONA GRANGE   Will Meet At Pomona - Hall, Wellaboro, Next a Te .

‘Sub Operations Said Increasing   Allied Defense Record Reported Improving

Wo  COSTS HIGHEST IN WASHINGTON   Living in Capital Reported Most Expensive in  Countv.

NASSAU JUDGE CHARGES JURY   PROSECUTION BITTERLY BERATES DE MARIGNY

Bolivian President Sees Allied Victory   Soldier Hero Arrives in U.S.

Reds Broadcast Lend-Lease Aid  Full Statement Of Help !s Outlined

KREMLIN ACTS FAST TO CHECK COMPLAINT   Kussian Radio Broadcasts Recent Lend-Lease Report Alter Standley Attack

Washington Makes Denial Of Charges By Standley   Welles Says U. S. Envoy To Russia Spoke Without Consulting  ° rye. , eee ay wr #   MAJOR SENSATION CAUSED BY BLAST   Standley Says Stalin Keeps Aid Figures From Russian People

STANDLEY'S TALK STIRS UP WASHINGTON   Administration Leaders Express Shock and Surprise Disputing §Ambassador’s Charge Stalin Conceals Aid   White House Silent

Steftinius Statement on Russian Aid s Broadcast by Red Radio   Reading Follows by 24Hours Obiection Voiced by Admiral Standley

MOSCOW GIVES LEASE FIGURES   Broadcasts Report Made By Stettinius On Aid To Soviet, England

Ambassador's Charge Challenged   White House Silent On Standley’s Remarke in Mascaow

CHAIRMAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PEFIITES STANDLEY   RUSSIAN SITUATION TAKES PLAY AWAY FROM OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS

Welles Says Remarks Were  Unauthorized   State Departinent Cables Standley for Explanation

Standley’s Dig at Stalin Stirs Capital Leaders   Ambassador’s Remarks on Lend-Lease Aid To Russia Create .Furore Among Nation’s Top Diplomats and Lawmakers

Solons Rap Adm. Standley  State Department Asks Toys af His Remarks’

Leaders Dispute Standley Charge   Welles Says Envoy Talked on Aid to Russia Without Authority; White House Is Silent

UJ. §. Ambassador To Russia ‘Shock:  Administration  Welles Repudiates Standley’s Charges On Lend-Lease Aid  DEMANDS REPORT  Moscow Radio Broadcasts Report On U. S. Supplies

Lend-Lease Aid Report Broadcast   Standley's Charge Disputed in U.S.

BROADCAST GIVES NEWS OF U.S. AID   Russia acts swiftly . fol lowing complaint by American envoy

STANDLEY CHARGE SHOCKS CAPITAL; CLAIM DISPUTED   Leaders Deny Ambassador’s Statement That Stalin Conceals Lease-Lend Aid From Russians.   ENVOY.SPOKE WITHOUT CONSULTING SUPERIORS   Some Believe 70-Year-Old Admiral Will Be Rebuked for His Remarks in Moscow.

Soviet Radio Broadcasts Official American Account of Supplies Sent to Country, Thus Meeting Ambassador Standley’s Complaint That People Had Been Kept in Dark— Material Includes 3,200 Tanks and 2,600 Planes.

Dispute Claim By Standley On Red Policy  White House Silent; State Depariment ~~ Ache far Tranccrini

WHEELING SIGHTS CREST OF FLOOD: RIVER STATIONARY   About 10,000 Persons Cared For Outside of Homes in Semi-Paralyzed City   PROPERTY DAMAGE T0 RUN INTO THOUSANDS   Relief Units Operate Efficiently in Every Flood-Hit Community; No Lives Reported Lost in State and no Serious Accidents Known

17,000 DRIVEN TO SAFETY IN 290-MILE AREA   Hundreds Of Thousands Dollars Loss Seen; Wheeling Mills Are Closed   Refugees Are Fed

TO FACE TOUGH JUB ON RETURN id SEPTEMBER   In Session Continuously 3 Years With Exception of 20 Days

MANY BIG JOBS FACE CONGRESS ~ AFTER RECESS   Near Three-Year Session Suspends Until Sept. 14   Taxes, Post-War Position, Subsidy and Manpower Draft Top Slate

Big Problems Ahead For 78th Congress      Tax Bill Will Be Considered After Recess

CONGRESS FACED ‘WITH WEALTH OF MAJOR PROBLEMS   Solons Take Recess, . Bet the War Job for Them Grows. Bigger.   MUST PASS TAX BILL   Treasury Is Demanding $16,000, 000.000 i in Added Revenue.

Congress Starts Recess Period   Will Resume September 14 —Facing Many Big Problems   DISMANTLES SOME NEW DEAL AGENCIES

anes aa “eo . a TwO-MON?H. LRECESS VOTED LATE - YESTERDAY AFTER- . NOON—PRESIDENT WON IN SUBSIDY WRANGLE —

Pork Rationing Reduced Today   Point-a-Pound Lower  For Ready To Eat Meat

STATE MILK COMMISSION UNDER FIRE   General Assembly May Be Asked to Transfer Its Duties to Department Of Agriculture   PLAN INAUGURATION

FEDERAL LOTTERY PLANS REVIVED   Midwestern Solons Sponsor “Gamble With Uncle Sam” Move

RUHR INDUSTRIES ATTACKED BY RAF IN FIRST “43 RAID   RAF Activity Follows Ameri: can Bombing of St. Nazaire Submarine Base.

RUHR AREA IS BOMB TARGET   Raid By British Follows Amer. ican Attack On Sub Base At St. Nazaire

RAF Follows Up American Air Sweep   Ruhr Battered— 7U.S. Planes Lost Over St. Nazaire

RAF Attacks . German Ruhr, 3 Planes Lost   Assault’ Follows _ Devastating Raid -on St::‘Nazaire’ 

a RAIDS _ OVER. EUROPE   A. A: F. BOMBS SUSE AND AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST ST. NAZAIRE SUBMA- . °° RINE BASE’

RAF ATTACKS RUHR DISTRICT   Nazis Say Residential Districts Damaged

Three Planes Are Lost In Attack   American Aircraft Smash at Nazi Sub ‘Rase at St. Nazaire

RAF ATTACKS RUHR PLANTS   American Bombers Pound St. Nazaire Base

RAF ATTACKS RUHR IN FIRST BIG RAID ON REICH IN 1943   Three Planes Lost — Attack Foll6ws Raid. On “Nazi Submarine Base At  -: St. Nazaire

R.A.F. RAIDS RUHR, LOSES 3 PLANES   Follows Attack On St. Nazaire By U. S. Bombers

Governors To Testify On Gasoline Rationing Equalization Hearings

Lions af Large Cause Panic   Shopping District Terrorized for Time

Body Discovered Through Dog's Act   ‘Woman, Daughter Sought as Killers

No Shortage Of Wheat In U.S.   SEC. WICKARD TELLS OF PLENTIFUL SUPPLY NOW

PLENTY WHEAT ~ WICKARD SAYS   Secretary Says Enough or  and Jan. 1 to Las Tarn Years.

WAR NERVES’ ANSE DEATHS   INCREASED NUMBER .OF DEATHS FROM HEART DIs EASE ATTRIBUTED. . . .TO.WAR,. —

Allied, Yugoslav Officers Confer  Nazis Attempt to Seize Islands

BALKAN ATTACK EXPECTED SOON   Germans Flung Back In Attempts To Storm Adriatic Islands

NAZIS ATTEMPT T0 STORM 2 ISLANDS      Story of German Assaults Revealed in Cairo Dispatch

Allied Officers Meet With Slavs  Talks Held at Partisan Headquarters

Also 311 Enemy Planes Shot Down in the Last 19 Days.   JAPS TRY TO REACH MUNDA WITH HELP   Yank Troops Are Inching Through Jungle to Munda Base.

Americans Surround Munda; Japs Lose Four Ships In New Attempts To Reinforce

AELGH OF TERROR mM TO HITLER   German Storm Troop Commander Says Orders to Kill Freely Given

Puts Blame for Killinas Upon Hitler   Men on Trial in Moscow Testify They Were Forced to Ac?

STORM TROOPER BLAMES HITLER FOR MURDERS   On Trial in Soviet Court, Officer Gives Horrible Details of Crimes

INTERNATIONAL LAW IS FARCE TO HITLERITES   Storm Trooper Savs Hitler Is At Fault

Hitler Blamed For Cruelty By Commander   Gestapo Chief Doomed Foes, Trooper Avers

Nazi Commander Tells Atrocity Trial Hitler Responsible For All Cruelties

RUSSIANS TRY GERMANS FOR WAR CRIMES   Storm Trooper and Gestapo Offices Admit Atrocitites on Stand, Blame Hitler, Himmler

Nazis, On Trial In Russia For Murder Of Civilians,  Blame Hitler, Himmler

Says: ‘Hitler Was. ‘Responsible For Reion of Cruelty In U:S.S.R.

Nazi Officer Who Helped Murder [Russian-.Civilians Blames Hitier

Reds Quote Nazi As Admitting Part In Mass Killing, Under Hitler Order

Leaving Money In Trust Fund   BABSON GIVES ADVICE ON INVESTING CASH

LEAVING ESTATES IN TRUST FUNDS   Babson Discusses Legislation Regarding Control of Trust Funds; Claims That Some Change In Laws Is Needed.

SIZEABLE INCREASE BELIEVED DUE FOR TEXAS AUGUST OIL  ALL SIGNS POINT TO HIGHER PRADUCTION

SIZEABLE INCREASE  BELIEVED DUE FOR  TEXAS AUGUST OIL ALL SIGNS POINT TO ~  HIGHER PRADUCTION ORDERS RY COVERNMEN’

NAZIS LOSE DESTROYERS IK BAY OF BISCAY   Several Other Craft Damaged In Battle With British Warships

Destroyers Sent Down Off France By British Fleet      Other German Ships Damaged In Bay Of Bis: cay Fighting; Planes Sink Blockade Runner; Battle May Still Be On

Three German Destroyers Sunk  By British Ships   Several Others Damaged In Naval Encounter In Bay Of Biscay   SECOND DISASTER IN WEEK FOR NAZIS

REICHS SECOND SEA DISASTER IN THREE DAYS   Other Destroyers Hit: Blockade Runner Sent to Bottom

American Japs. To Be Inducted For Army Duty   Combat Unit To Be Formed In Hawaii From Volunteers _

To Indueét 1500 Of Jap Descent   Would Be Taken In As Volunteers  In U. S. Arm}

JAP-AMERICANS T0 SOON BE INDUCTED      General Emmons Directed to Recruit Force of 1.500 Men

AMERICAN JAPS TO FORM ARMY   Loyal Hawaiian Citizens Get Chance for Active Duty In Service

JAP-AMERICANG WILL VOLUNTEER   1.500 Americans of Japanese Ancestry To Be Inducted Into U. $. Army; To Form Combat Units

LETTER OF CONGRATULATION SENT TO CHAIRMAN OF WAR LOAN DRIVE FOR COUNTY

Nimitz Hails Gilberts Victor As Yanks Capture Makin   Coast Army Officer Reprimanded

Nimitz Reports Road To Tokyo Is ‘‘Not Rosy” But Faced With Confidence: Makin  Captured; Tarawa and Abemama Under Control

NAZIS’ SECRET WEAPON   Goebbels Promises German Peaple End To Allied Air Attacks

What, Again?   Goebbels Says New Secret Weapon Will Beat Allied Raids

W. Va. Miners Still in Pits   Leader Blizzard ‘Hopes  NG os Hee fae Tes

STATE COALS NEAR CAPACITY   Miners Believed Ready To Walk Out When  Truce Expires

NAME VESSEL AFTER OHIGAN   Massillon Youth Lost Life a’ Pear! Harbor, Launch Ship Saturday

Governor’s Inauguration Is Slated Tuesday As Legislature Recesses

Germans Strongel Now Than in 1938, Gen. Strong Says   Warns Nations Hard Battles Lie Ahead

General Fires Figures at Optimism   Says We Can Lose War by Taking Thincs Too Easy

NATION WARNED NAZIS AND JAPS ARE STILL STRONG   Army Intelligence Says Opportunity for Victory May Escape if U. 8. Takes Things Too Easy.   4,500,000 TRAINED MEN IN GERMAN ARMY   Enemy More Powerful Than in 1939 — Tokyo Has Suf. ficient Supplies for Long War.

Germany, Japan ‘Still Strong   Army Intelligence Reviews Situation

ARMY WARNS OVER-  OPTIMISM WRONG   Army Figures Say Japan Still Too Strong and Well Stocked; Germans Stronger Then In 1939.

Army Group Warns Of Enemy’s Strength   Intelligence Division’s Report-Declares Overoptimism and Production Lag May Cost U. 8, Opportunity for Victory

German Reich Is Pictured Stronger Now  Than in 1939   Army Intelligence Fires Set of Figures At Public Optimism Concerning Conflict  WARNING ISSUED BY GENERAL STRONG  Contends Real Fight Against Japanese Onley Naw Starting

General Fires Figures at Optimism  Says We Can Lose UAT we aee Teaeleine   Says We Can Lose War by Taking Things Too Easy

YANKS ATTACK JAP SQUADRON   Six American Planes Lost in Dogfight Costing Nippon 16

U. S. Bombers Battle Solomons Supply Fleet   Yanks Down 16 Planes, Lose 6 In Furious Air Clash Northwest Of Guadalcanal: Kiska Bombed Aaain

Yanks Bom Jap Destroyers On Way To Munda  tA Nig Plane Chat   16 Nip Planes Shot Down In Battle; 6 U.S. Craft Lost

HEAVY PRESSURE MAINTAINED ON ENEMY FORCES   Patton Reported To Have Effected Junction With Eighth Army   ALLIED BOMBERS ACTIVE   Red Units Advancing In Kuban Area—Japs Feel Airmen’s Fury

American Planes Intercept Five Jap Destroyers   Frustrate Attempt Of Jap. anese To Get Reinforcements To Solomons   ‘SIXTEEN JAPANESE ‘PLANES SHOT DOWN

Planes Intercept Jap Squadron   “Shoot Down Sixteen Nipponese Planes

WELLES SILENT ON REPORT HE HAS RESIGNED   State Department’s No, 2 Official Does Not Deny It

Washington Thinks Welles Is Through   Undersecretary And Hull at Odds  For Some Time

Resignation Is Confirmed But Observers Point To Disagreement With Hull To Back Claims

WELLES SAID TO HAVE. QUIT STATE DEPT...   Report of Resignation  Is Not Denied

SUMNER WELLES S BELIEVED THROUGH      Career Diplomat for 28 Years May Soon End as Undersecretary of State.

SUMNER WELLES IS BELIEVED THROUGH AS U. §. DIPLOMAT   Reported Resignation As - Undersecretary Of State Is Climax To Many Differences

Simmer Welle Believed Out: Hull Winner ©   Bad Health Story _ May Only Partly -Explain Retirement

WELLES TO QUIT AS HULL'S AID   Reported Resignation Based On Policy Differences And Poor Health

Hull’s Aide Steps Down   State Department Policy Differences Seen as Reason

Capital Sure Sumner Welles Has Resigned   Diplomatic .: Career of 28. Vaare to Ene

DIPLOMATS SEE WELLES OUT   HULL CONTROVERSY 1S BELIEVED TO BE CAUSE

REPORT WELLES OUT OF OFFICE   But There Is Still No Offi  cial Confirmation

Eleanor And Maori ‘Kiss’ Just A Gag   No Use Getting Excited About Nose-Rubbing Picture

144 TownsAre Recaptured By Russians   Vast New German Retreat Appears To Be Developing; Nazis Suffer Fresh Setbacks in Tunisia; RAF Bombs

Reds Recapfure Vast New Area   Have Nazis On The Run ‘On Central Front

NEW RETREAT BY NAZIS ON MIDDLE LINE   More Than 144 Towns Villages Enveloping in Two Days by Enveloping Red Offensive

YANKS ADVANCE ON GATEWAY 10 CENTRAL TUNISIA   British Forces Fall Back To Higher Ground After Abandoning Sedjenane   NAZIS ON RUN IN RUSSIA   Jap Convoy Disaster Is Followed by Blasting Of Bases on Islands

“Essen, Naples Are Bomb Targets; 8th Army Inflicts  Heavy Losses

RAF Batters Essen in 10th Straight Raid   First Army Withdraws from Sedjenane While -U.. S. Troops Occupy Pichon

Capture 80 Settlements  In 24 Hours   Battles Fought on Route Of Napoleon’s Defeat In 1812

Russ Hit On Old Napoleon Route   ... Slash South From Fallen Rzhev

144 Towns Fall As Soviet Drive Swells Retreat   Americans Capture Pichon, Tunisia; Essen, Arms Hub, Heavily Bombed.

Russians Recover 144 Villages in Two-Day Advance   Red Army Strikes Toward Smolensk From Fallen Rzhev

NEW GERMAN RETREAT MAY BE DEVELOPING   On Central Front as Russians Strike at Napoleonic Escape Corridor

Reds Menace Gzhatsk In Smolensk Drive; Allies Take Pichon, Lose  Sedienane In Tunisia.

144 Towns and Villages Taken   Setback in Tunisia Area, As Bombers  Blast Nazi-land.

Reds Capture 144 Towns In Last 2 Days   Vast New German Retreat Seems Tu Be Developing   Axis Suffers New Setbacks In Africa   Americans Take Part In Drive On Pichan Faid Pa«e

Abandon 144. Towns To Advancing Reds In 2 Days’ Fighting   British Lose 7 Miles In.N. Tunisia As Ist Ar my Vacates Sedjenane; Us. Gains Oi Central Front

SNOW-BALLING DRIVE OF SOVIET FORCES IS STILL ROLLING AHEAD  MORE THAN 144 TOWNS AND VILLAGES RECAPTUR. ED DURING TWO DAYS

GERMAN RETREAT IN RUSSIA FOLLOWS PATH OF NAPOLEON   Soviet Offensive Credited With Recapture Of More Than 144 Towns In Two Days As Vast New Axis Retreat Develops.

Germans Making New Retreat on Central Front  Alliae Grah Pickan   Allies Grab Pichon in Tunisia but Abandon Sediencne

Expect Burton Case To Go To Jury Today   Smithton Negro Charged With Waylaying And Killing Victim

RAIL STRIKERS TIE UP VITAL WAR MATERIAL   President Roosevelt Appoints New Committee To Consider Demands.

cro President Precipitates Test of  Texas’ New Union Regulation   Law By Purposely Violating Its Provisions. 

SCORES SUBSIDY   Resolution at Convention __Holds Payments’ Word: —__-.- inq-Werong—--———

TOJO WARNS OF GROWING WAR TENSITY   Premier Hints Japs Have Already Been Forced on Defensive But Predicts Victory

Tojo Speech Has  Defensive Tone   Jap Premier Suggest: ‘Mutual Aid’ Among Axis Allies

Tojo Shows Signs of Apprehension   Jap Premier Hints That Emperor's Arm) Now on Defensive

TOJO TELLS PEOPLE JAPS ON DEFENSIVE QN ALL ITS FRONTS   Renews, However, His Prediction of “Sure Victory’ But Hints at Trouble,

PREMIER TOJ0 MAKES ADDRESS   Tells Japanese People That Signs Point Toward All-Out Alised Counter-Offensive — Hints Japan is Now on Defensive.

Tojo Reveals Jap Fears Of Allied Counter-Offensive   Ties Fate Of Nippor To Axis Success Or  Failure Jn Europe

SHIP LOSSES LOW DURING THE MONTH      Optimistic Report Given on Battle Against U-Boats

Ship Losses By Allies In June Lowest Of War   U-Boats Routed As Many Convoys Go  a, ne i. Sn a

June Ship Losses To U-Boats Lowes In 19 Months   Submarine Sinkings ‘Substantial,’ U. S. And Britain Report

Ship Losses By (Allies In June. Lowest Of War   U-Boats Routed As Many Convoys Go  Aernce  lramnlacted

Battle Against Axis U-Boat Is Favoring Allie:   Allied Ship Losses In June Reported Lowest In Nineteen Months

JUNE SHIPPING TOLL OF U-BOATS — DROPS SHARPL}   Allied Losses Lowest in 19 Months—Atlantic Convoy Routes Virtually Free of Raiders.   SUBMERSIBLES HUNTED IN THEIR HOME WATERS   Flow of Weapons From North American Continent to Invasion Armies Shows Increase.

ATLANTIC WAR LOSSES LIGHT   Sinkings Are Lowest In 19 Months As Subs Are Steadily  Sent Down

ALLIED SHIP LOSS IN JUNE WAS LOW   Reported the Lowest in 19 Months; Scarce on Convoy Routes.

Willkie to Choose Between Historical Or Comfortable Beds at State Mansion

ee  —  JAP PLANES Al *NEWAK WRECKED   Enemy Plane Losses During  » Month in New Guinea and Solomons Brought to Approximately 600

Yanks Boost Toll of Japanese Planes And Repulse Enemy Thrust at Salamaua

JAP LOSSES IN PLANES MOUNT   About 600 Enemy Craft Destroyed in Southwest Pacific in Month

Japs Lose 600 Planes to U.S   Americans in N. Guinea Pour Bombs on Wewak

ENEMY PLANE LOSS NOW 600   About 46 More Japanese Craft Destroyed In New Guinea and Solomon Raids

Jap Plane Losses In August Reach Total of 600   MacArthur's Communique Tells of Recent Raid on Wewak

JAP WARPLANE LOSSES MOUNT   Assaults On Airdromes Destroy Between 16 And 58 Ships

50 REPORTED HURTIN BLAST   New York Explosion Rocks Lower Manhattan

Explosion Rends New York Plant   Numerous Casualties Feared by Officers  weroreoreoee#nbf#»#»#e»«le

SUMMER TERM FOR HASKELL STUDENTS   Courses in Vocational Subjects Will Be Offered at Session     CLI“ WV COD CAADI ONvVCe

SUMMER TERM FOR HASKELL STUDENTS   Courses in Vocational Subjects Will Be Offered  at Session   [SCHOOL FOR EMPLOYES

FRENCH WARSHIP INN. Y. HARBOR   Cruiser and 2 Destroyers Also Fitted; Others Expected

Mighty French Warships Arrive In United States   Battleship Richelieu And Other French Ships Here To Be Refitted   WILL JOIN NAVIES OF UNITED NATIONS  (BULLETIN)

RICHELIEU 10 BE REFITTED, "JOIN U.S, FLEET   Heavy Cruiser, Destroyers Also Make Port—Others To Come Later  ,   GIRAUD ORDERS TRANSFER   Sea Battlers All Modern And Of High Value To America

PAENGH oil? Ih NEW YORK HARBOE   Battleship Richelieu Has Ar rived Here From Dakar for Refitting.

FRENCH SHIPS ~ATNEW YORK   BATTLESHIP, “HEAVY CRUISER AND. TWO DESTROYERS AR' RIVES FROM DAKAR FOR REFTTTING 

tse Machine Guns   Truck Kills Seven At Camp Hood   15 Hurt as Dust Blinds Driver

Seven Soldiers Die When Hit by Truck  15 Others Hurt at Camp Hood; Driver  los be eee ee

UMW DEMANDS AIRED FURTHER   Contract Conference Is Adjourned For Day; Old Pact Ends At Midnight

Oo nL ay sd  Sate Crossings of Allied Ships Set New Victory Record

War's Heaviest Raids Leave 2 Cities in Flame:   Terrific Assault on Nazi Cities; 43 Bombers Jactin Attack

MOBILIZATION BILL GOES TO COMMITTEE   Fear Senate Military Group Will Kill War Contract Legislation

Sponsors of Mobilization Bill Worried   Aid of Public Opinion : Sought in Effort to Save Measure

SEABEE RECRUITER COMING TO VAN WERT   Lieut. M. R. Norton To Be at Post Office Saturday

Bomber Output Gains 20 Pet.   Production Now 5 Times Owear Pearl Harhar

ITALIAN CABINET MEETING CALLED   WAR-WEARY PEOPLE HOPE BADOGLIO WILL BRING NATION PEACE

Crucial Move Due In Italy; May Be Peace   Important Measures To Be Studied Today By Badoglio Cabinet

14-SHIP JAP CONVOY  SPOTTED BY AIRMEN   Allies Are Preparing To Atiack I Weather Permits; Heading Toward New Guinea’

Jap Convoy Heading for  New Guinea   Fleet One of Biggest Yet Sighted in That Area of South Pacific

FLIERS SIGHT -JAP VESSELS   Ships Reported - Heading Toward New Guinea, ‘Dispatch Save.

Large Convoy Of Warships, Cargo Vessels Sighted:   Advancing Weather Front Covers Ships; Allies To Attack When Weather Permits

Large Japanese Convoy  In Pacific Reported Heading      Reported Heading In Direction Of New Guinea

Large Japanese Convoy  In Pacific  _ Reported Heading  In Direction Of New Guinea

Big Jap Convoy Seen by Allies   14 Ships Reported Headed Toward New Cuinea Under Cover

PLANES AWAIT ENEMY CONVOY   Fourteen Jap Ships Are Sighted Heading For New Guinea

Fourteen Vessels Sighted Off Talasea, New Britain, Heading Toward Island Under Cover of Advancing Weather Front —Warships Said to Be Included in Group—Allied Force Preparing to Attack as Soon as Weather Permits.

Large Japanese Convoy Sighted In South Pacific   Ship Concentration Believed Somewhere In New Britain Area

BIG JAPANESE CONVOY SEEN   14 Enemy Ships are Sighted Off New Guinea; Weath er Favors Nipponese

Slight Axis Tunisia Gain Made at High Cost After Rebuffs  STILL CHASE ROMMEL Foe Makes Slight  Advance in China, Faces Counterblows

Chinese Take Shishmen, Rice Bowl Town; Japs Retreat Steadily to North

Report Shihmen Again Occupied By China Army   Seene Of Major Fighting In “Rice Bowl” Area Shifting To New Front

Chinese Retake Shihmen, Close In Upon Linli   Japanese Suffer Heavy Casualties

Fire Destroys Dallas Plant   Incendiary Bomb Casing Factory Wiped Out by Fire

Fire Destroys. Bomb Factory   Texas Casing Plant‘ Has _ Costly’ Blaze; Flames Seen 200. Miles

esium Blast Invasion O} ws Fire at New Britaiz s War Plant Jsland Seen

AGE CLASSES “ARE PROPOSED   SUPPORT GROWING IN CONGRESS FOR DRAFTING FATHERS BY AGE — GROUPS

DAD DRAFT BY AGES FAVORED   Senator Bridges Says Strong Support For Proposal Seen In Capital

FATHER DRAFT BY AGE URGED   Younger Dads Would Be First Ones Called

NBC CHIEF HITS BUREAUCRATS   Government Infiltration Tactics Revealed To Senate Committee

British Might To Join Yanks In War on Japs   To Bomb and Destroy People Responsible For Creating War, Britisher Asserts

ENGLAND VOWS WAR T0 DEATH ON NIPPONESE   BRITISH OFFICIAL AT QUEBEC SAYS ALLIES MAP DOOM FOR TO0JO

Sec. Hull To Quebec Parley   Arrival Stresses Po-  litical Import of ‘Conference; May Be Sent AS Emissary to Moscow.

Hull Has Role In War Conference   Anthony Eden May Carrv Message to Stalin on Quebec Talks

Quebec Talks On Political  Aspects Seen   British Minister Of Informa tion Promises Ruthless Destruction.   (HULL, EDEN TO CONFER

Plans For Tremendous Operations Against Japanese Under Discussion At Conference Of Allied Leaders

Quebec Meet Has A Political Angle   Conference Emissary May Be Sent to Moscow, Is Suggestion   HULL ARRIVES TODAY   ‘New Operations in Europe - and Against Japan Are ~ Planned

Bracken Hints New Blows at Japanese Are Being Forged   Promises ‘Whole Might of British Empire’ for Task

‘War To Finish Against Japs - After Hitler Is Knocked Out ~ [Is Planned At Allied Council

EDEN MAY GO TO SEE STALIN   Tremendous New War Operations Against Enemy Are Indicated.   WILL’ DESTROY ENEMY?

HULL AND EDEN JOIN QUEBEC CONFERENCE   Dine Tonight with FDR, Church. ill Amid Indications Political Situations Considered

HULL REACHES QUEBEC FOR ALLIED TALKS   Appearance Points Up Political Angles of Conference and Speculation That Emissary May Go to Moscow.

Quebec Parley May Send Envoy To Visit Stalin   Political Angles of War Conference Concern Occupied Territories.   Future of Post-War — Europe About Sealed

Conference Emissary May Go to Moscow   Eden Mentioned as Likely Messenger; Quebec War Council Concerned with Politieal Aspects of War

QUEBEC ENVOY FOR THE REDS?   Eden Mentioned as Most Likely Messenger to Moscow From Roosevelt and Churchill,

Plans Are to Ruthlessly Destroy People Responsible for War--Bracken

Hull Reaches Quebec; Parley May Send: Emissary to Russia   kremendous Operations Against Nazis, Japs Indicated by Allies -

Quebec Meet Emissary May GoTo Moscow   Secretary Hull Arrives To Confer With Eden; Strategy Being Mapped On Global Scale

Bracken Hints New Strategy Against Japan   Hull’s Arrival Points tc Sending of Emissary to Moscow

War Parley Takes Up Political Angles   Hull ls Latest Arrival at Quebec

War Council Mapping New Blows At Japs   Tremendous New Operations In Pacific In Making, One Of Conferees At ‘Quebec  Contesanwe Indicates.

Ruthless War On Axis Is Planned   Secretary Hull Arrives At Council For Political Angles

HINTS TERRIFIC BLOWS AGAINST JAPS IN MAKINE   British Minister Gives Indi cation of Vital Decisions Being Made at Quebec  Parley.

United Nations Will Bomb, Burn And Destroy   Bracken Says We Will Destroy People Who Created the War

British Renewing Pledge To Support U. S. In Destroying  Japanese Empire

To Report On Results Of Meeting   Political Aspects Of Wa In Europe Are Nex On Schedule At Wa:  Conference

HULL IN QUEBEC POR POLITICAL ANGLES OF WAR   Conference Emissary May  Carry Report to Stalin;  Roosevelt Conipietes Participation This Week

—CONFERENCK_..   TREMENDOUS NEW DAIVES PLANNEN   Expected Arrival Of Hull Stirs Interest In Political Angles   ALL ONE WAR   British. Official Discloses Trend Discussions Are Taking

Allied Council Maps Blows On A Global Scale   Vast New Operations In Pacific As Well As  In Furane Indicated.

PLAN TO BOMB AND DESTROY WAR STARTERS   Conflict Goes Very Well, Bracken Says: Japan Is Included In Offensive Plans, Report

ARRIVAL OF HULL POINTS UP POLITICAL ANGLES CONFERENCE  ANTHONY EDEN EXPECTEL TO CARRY RESULTS MEETING TO STALIN

Japs To Feel Blows Of Allies   QUEBEC CONFERENCE DEALS WITH PACIFIC WAR FRONT

WAR CONFERENCE EMISSARY MAY BE SENT TO RUSSIA   Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, Mentioned Frequently.   Arrived This Afternoon to Participate in the War Parley.

‘Allied War Council Mapping Strategy On Global Scale; May Include Pacific Area

Quebec Parleys May Usher In Blows At Jans   Briton Gives Inkling Of Nature Of Allied Plans In Making

Indications Come From Quebec That New Blows Against Japs In Making

HINT LEADERS OUTLINE:PLANS TO DEFEAT JAPS   Allies To Destroy People Responsible for Causing War—Bracken

Zero Hour Nears In Europe: Jap Attacks Mapped   Quebec Chiefs Hint Quick Action

Moscow High On Quebec Calendar   Hull’s Arrival Points Up Issue; Invasion Some Place In Air

Allied War Council Mapping Strategy on Global Scale  Vast Operations

New Operations Against Japs Near   Quebec War Conference Advances Hour For Invasion of European Continent

Hull to Take Part In War Conference  May Be Sent to  Moscow as an   May Be Sent to Moscow as an  Emissary; War Talks Continue

“Bomb, Burn” Program for Japan, Toa   Brenden Bracken Indicates Big New Operations Are in the Making   TPS ALL ONE WAR,’ ONE MASTER PLAN   But Little Will Be Told, Allied Planners Are Not Goins to Show Hand

Allies Plan To Bomb And Destroy People Responsible For War   Britisher Gives First News From ChurchillFDR Conference On War Plans In Canada

Parley Leaders May Send Envoy To Soviet Capital   Imminent Arrival: Of Hull : At Quebee Toda “Up Political’ “Angles

Hull to Join with Eden  in Parleys   British Information Minister Pledges (England’s Might Incrushing Yellow Foe

Sees New Moves In The Making Against Japan   Strong Official Indication That Tremendous New Operations Against Japs Are In the Making At Quebec Conference.

GIGANTIC NEW BLOWS AGAINST IAPS FORECAST   Quebec Parley Striving To _ Advance Zero Hour For  Europe Invasion   HULL JOINS CONFAB   Increases Speculation An Emissary Will Be Sent  To Moscow

imminent Arrival Of Cordell Hull Points Up Speculation In Canadian City—Anthony Eden Believed Likely To Convey Decisions To Moscow—Brendan Bracken Declares Allies Plan To “Bomb, Burn And Ruthlessly Destroy” Those Who Created War

SECRETARY HULL TO ARRIVE AT QUEBEC TODAY   Anthony Eden Mentioned As Likely Messenger to Carry Word of Meeting  To Russia

Conference Concerned  With Polities   Hull Arrives: Eden May Go To Moscow

‘ABSENTEEISM’ BILL HIF BY CIO   Union Aid Says Work-Fight Plan Won’t End Problem

Hearing On Coal Wage Dispute Is Open To Public   Unusual Procedure Is An nounced By War Labor Board Today  =e easrr\eteer * 2a’ es ‘arr

HEARINGS IN COAL DISPUTE TO BE OPENEL   LEWIS AGAIN DEFTES WAR LABOR BOARD BY IGNGRING ‘MEETING CALLED  TODAY -

EADY TOEND ‘LITTLE STEEL’ PAY FORMULA   :  WLB Appeals to Byrnes as Lewis Prepares New Strike

CH T OF j "SPORTSMEN      Committees Named; Club Has 75 Menibers: 40 on Waitine List

8TH ARMY DRIVES AHEAD FOR TUNIS: ~ COSTLY TO ENEMY   First Army Hurls Back 5 Axis Infantry Battalions 30 Miles West Of Tunis — / 29 Tanks Seized, 500  Prisoners Taken.

GERMAN TANKS DESTROYED IN FIERCE BATTLE   New Ground Is Gained Despite Bitter Opposition of Enemy.

25 TANKS ARE LOST BY NAZIS   500 Prisoners Taken in Medjez Et Bab Sector Eighth Army Gains  New Ground,

FRANCE BOMBED BY THE RITIOH   Railroad Viaduct at Marlain in France Is Visited Again.

Railway Viaduct Target Of Bombers   British Bombers Make Second Consecutive Night Attack On Morlaix, France

KrivoiRos Periled in  Red Push   NEW THRUST DESIGNED TO DIVERT GERMANS IN KOROSTYSHEV SECTOR

Senators Demand British Pay Bill   Truman Committee Saves bngland Can Pay Lend-Lease Bill in Oil

New Demands From England May Be Made   Truman Committee Wants Petroleum Reserves after War, in Payment of LendLease Goods.

Remnants of Adolf Hitler's Best Legions Jammed Into Tunisia’s Barbed Wire Prison Pens, Forced to Give Up

Hitler’s Finest Fighting Men Jam Prison Pens In Tunisia   30,000 In One Group Fill 6,000 Square Yards Of Trampled Wheat In Three Huge Pens

MINING STRIKE THREAT VOICED   April 1 Deadline Demanded In Negotiations For Wage Increase

Advancing Russian Armies Have Major Problem of Supply   Carve Out 26-Mile Gain __in Caucasus; Nazis Counterattack

Up’ Four-Tenths“of One Per. Cent ‘ from. August to. September — Largest. ‘Increase _ in: Clothing Prices for Fall Linés.  8%

HCOL Spirals   CLOTHING, FOOD PRICE INCREASES NOTED   Us 1 Per Cent

RAF. PLANES VERY AGTIVE UVER EUROPE   Berlin, Stettin and Rostock in Germany ‘Blasted by Bombs.   PLANES MISSINC   Also Many Sections Occupied hy the Nazis Were Raid Objectives.

HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST ROSTOCK, BERLIN, STETTIN   RAF Carries Its Non-Stop Offensive Into Ninth Consecutive Day

Berlin, Stettin And Rostock Bomb Targets   Baltic Sea Port Of Stettin Is Heavily Blasted By R. A. F. Bombers   * SIX HUNDRED PLANES IN RAIDS

RAF. STAGES BiG “BIRTHDAY RAID ON REICH   Berlin, Stettin and Rostock Are Main Targets

Allied Bombers Have Busy Night   .. Approximately 600 Planes Join In Attacks

President May Decide New Issue      RUBBER DIRECTOR STEPS ON MANY TOES IN TALK

Army And Navy Are Blamed For Synthetic Lac   Controversy May Be Put Squarely Up To President

FDR MUST ACT AS REFEREE IN PRIORITY WAR   Jeffers Wants Go Ahead Order  On New Program

YANKS SCORE FIVE IN STH TO WIN; 6-2   New York Grabs 2-1] Lead Before Record  Series Crowd   Box Score

COOPER BEATS YANKEES WITH B-HITTER, 4-3   Wins for Father, Who Died Before Game;  Bonham Loses   Box Score

F inns Hinting At Peace Terms   Speaker Says That Country Won't Give Up

3 SOLDIERS, LOST 18 DAYS, ARE SAFE   Trio in Bomber Crash in Idaho Wilderness Repérted at Ranrer Station.

NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   American British troops continue pursuit of Rommel north of Pass

ROMMEL FAILS ~ INNEW BLOWS ON NORTH LINE   ‘Flying = Fortresses Harass : Continued German Retreat

Rommel s Army Tries Attacks In North Tunisia   All Attacks Are Repulsed— Axis Retreat In South Continues   ALLIED FORCES KEEP UP PURSUIT

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Rommel Carries Out Fruitless Counter Attacks

Bills of Governor Will Appear Before Lawmakers  Committees Labor on

Reorganization Bills Prenared   Are Scheduled for House Next Week

Bills of Governo: Will Appear Before Lawmakers  Committees Labor on Week-End to Make Ready for Sessions

Reorganization Bills Prepared  Are Scheduled for  een: AY. wud UXT. 1.

CAIRO RADIOS RAF HAS LANDED ON COS   Opposition From Germar Troops Not Reported

Donnell Suggests Higher Taxes to Pay State Budget   He Makes Recommendations Before An Economy-Minded Legislature.   Says War Activities Need Larger Revenue

HOUSE DEMOCRATS — SNUBBED DONNELL’S BUDGET TODAY   This Occurred Two Hours After It Had Been Submitted.   IT WAS FOR $270,500,000

DONNELL ASKS LEGISLATORS TO UP TAXES   Appears Personally Before Thrift-Pledged Group to Propose Increase as No. 1 Means otf Meeting Budeget.

MLAUGHRY IN MARINE CORPS   Dartmouth ‘Coach, Ex. County ‘Man, Is Com: missioned a Maior

Yugoslavs Force  Germans Back  Toward Trieste Allied Air Activity  -Reflecis Importance of Balkan Front

7  Yugoslavs Now Control ‘Hundreds of Miles  On Move Toward Part

Errol Fiynn Trial Goes to Jury Today   Judge Cautions Jury of One Point In Noted Case

ERROL FLYNN CASE TO JURY   Nine Women, Three Men Hold Fate of Actor

DHAFT-SETUP MAY CHANGE   STRONG SUPPORT . REPORTED OF PROPOSAL THAT ALL SINGLE .MEN BE - TAREN FIRST

Yanks May Play Decisive Part, Declares Smuts  British Count Heavily On U.S. For Invasior

Predicts a Grand Assault Next Year   Marshal Smuts Says Americans to Play Decisive Part in Invasion.

Will America Do It All?  Marshal Smuts Sens Yanks Routing Germans in West

i  ‘Prime Minister of Union  of South Africa Says ' Americans Will Play   Decisive Role - -

Predicts  * ‘ a Big Drive  - Next Year   American Troops May Have to Play the Decisive Part, “a Smuts Says   HITLER FIGHTING ONLY FOR TIME   ginited Nations Have Chang. ed Fi: Defensive to Offensive, Veteran Says

Smuts Predicts Grand Assault ‘With Americans Playing Decisive Part

YANKS COUNTED ON FOR ALLIED ATTACK   Fresh Troops for Invasion Is Idea of Gen. Smuts

Smuts Cites U.S. Destiny   Décisive. Role Seen When Front: Opens.

Smuts Says U. S. Soldiers Play Decisive Part In War   To Bear Brunt Of Invasion Of Europe; Says U. S. Must Live Up To Destiny

SECOND FRONT IN 1944, SAYS FIELD MARSHAL   Expects Americans To Lead Way To Hitler’s Fall

Americans to Give Decisive Action in Vietory Says Smuts   Prime Minister of South Africa Sees Smash on Hitler in ’44

Americans To Play Decisive  Role In Climax   Field Marshal Smuts Prediets Grand Assault) On Hitler Next Year.    RES HELP A LOT

Smuts Sees Grand Assault Next Year   Expects American Troops To Play Decisive Part

GEN. SMUTS ADMITS AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO SMASH GERMANY  ALL ALLIES TO HAVE PART BUT UNITED STATE

Grand Assault On Europe Set For Next Year   American Troops Will Play Decisive Role In Smashing Hitler, , Says Marshal Smutz

Sees America Giving Final War Punch   Smuts Predicts Hitler's European Fortress Will Crumble in 1944

Conflicting Reports On Eighth Army   Churchill Declares: Nazis Have Practically Wiped Out British Gain   ALGIERS SAYS THE BRITISH ADVANCE   Montgomery’s Flank  Attack Going Well; Yankees Smash Enemy Tanks

SAVAGE ATTACK BY AXISFORCE ROUTS BRITISH   Pp rime Minister Churchill Admits English Forced to Give Up Greater Part of Gains   ‘RED’ WOLFORD BAGS FIFTH AXIS PLANE   Americans In Northern  ~ Sector Holding Own In Face of Blows By   German Units

Axis Forces Meet Decided Reverse In El Guetar Area   Enemy Fails to. 2 Dislodge British : At Moreth Village

COUNTER SMASHES BY AXIS CONFUSED BRITISH 8TH ARMY   Prime Minister Churchill Says 8th Army Lost Most of Its Breadhead.   AXIS LINES RESTORED   East of El Guetar Americans Poured Artillery Fire on Axis Tank Forces.

Fierce Counterattacks By Axis Armor Create  sas  “Confused Situation’

German Lifeline ‘Threatened Now  By US Advance   Situation Is Confused By Swift - Moving Action; Churchill Warns Anew

Nazis Holding Ir Today’s Attacks   ‘British Plunge Thru Mareth Line Checked by  Counterattack   AMERICANS NEAR SEA   Patton’s Forces Administer Reverse to Rommel Néar  El Guetar.

U.S. FORCES BEAT BACK AXIS BLOWS   Americans Pouring Heavy Artillery Fire into Nazis

British Lose Hold Inside Mareth Line   Confusing Picture Of Violent Fighting In Nortk Africa Painted Today As Rommel Lashes Back; U.S. Spearhead Within Hour Of Coast .

AMERICAN UNITS REFUSE TO FOLD IN FIERCE FIGHT   Rommel Counts Staggering Losses in Tanks After Drive Near El Guetar

Rommel Fails  To Smash 8th Army Position   American Forces In El Guetar Sector Drive Germans Back And Increase Threat To Axis Lifeline From North

Rommel! Fights for Life, Pushes Units Of Sth Army Back   American Tanks, Troops Continue Ad. vance Toward Sea, Within Hour’s Drive of Coast

NAZIS REPULSE BRITISH UNITS   U. S. Holds Positions in El Guetar Sector, Threaten Lifeline.   SITUATION IS CONFUSED

Patton’s Tank Forces Meet Stiff Resistance   Africa Corps Retakes Large Part of Bridgehead; American Troops are 28 Miles From Coast

Germans Regain Greater Part Of Bridgehead Established By Kighth Army Inside MarethLine   Cen. Pation’s Troops Within Hour's Drive Of Sea; 10 To 30 Attacking German Tanks Are Destroyed: Battle Not Yet At Its Climax

Situation Very Confused; British Cling to Village; Sth Army in Terrific Fight   Americans from Positions in Hills Pour Artillery Fire Into 100 Nazi Tanks, Destroying 10 to 30 — Save Forces in Northern Area

Rommel Attacks Strongly To Regain Section Of Mareth Line — Yanks Hold At El Guetar

American Artillery Line Up in Hills Along Narrow Pass, Destroy 10 to 30 of Rom-mel’s Tanks—Within Hour of Sea 

Pattons Army Stops German Counterattack  Confused Situation Makes   Confused Situation Makes Mareth Line Issue Doubtful As Eighth Army Loses Ground

Gen. Montgomery Forces Continue to Hold Mareth Village Area Despite Desperate Counter-Attacks by Marshal Rommel

Fierce Fight Rages as British Try to Hold Bridgehead; Yanks Within an Hour’s Drive of Sea

COUNTERSMASHES BY AXIS FORGES BRINGS CONFUSED SITUATION  GERMANS MET REVERSES - IN ATTACKING AMERICAN LINES

SITUATION IN TUNISIA S CONFUSEL   Churchill Says British Pushed Back, Axis Defense Lines  Piiakccuc   PATTON DRIVES FORWARD

Churchill Tells Commons Hard Fighting Lies Ahead— Allies Make Painful Gains

BRIDGEHEAD STILL HELD BY STH ARMY   Patton’s Forces Advance East Of El Guetar   Knocked Out By Americans; 2,000 Enemy Prisoners Have Been Taken

Prices Help Hog Growers   Highest February Level In Past 24 Years $15.80 Top Figure

Want Check On Spending   Bi-Partisan Group of Law-Makers Seek Ser vices of Specialists to Check Fund Demands

WLB Order Is Ignored; 7500 Strike   Allows Deadline To Expire; Believes. Contract No Longer Are In Effect

Lewis Ignores Effort fo End Mine Dispute   Strike Reports Come from More Coal Districts

WLB Again: Snubbed by Mine Leader   Lewis Fails To Nominate Panei Member

LEWIS IGNORES WLB BID   9500 Miners Out in Protest Ageinat Certification of Row to Federal Agency

Two More Strikes in Coal Flare   LEWIS CONTINUES TO IGNORE WLB EFFORT TO SETTLE DISPUTE

LEWIS TILL IGNORES WHA   Strike Reports ‘Come From Two More Sectors of Coa! Fields.   SOME MINERS RETURN

John L. Lewis Ignores WLB's Efforts to Halt All Contract Disputes

MORE oThlkta FLARE IN GOAL FIELDS TODAY   John L. Lewis Still Ignores WLB Efforts To Select Fact-Finding Panel   TWO MORE WALKOUTS ARE REPORTED TODAY   Work Stoppage May Spread Into Other Areas, Union Officials Declare

STRIKE REPORTS COME FROM TWO MORE COAL AREAS   W.L.B.’s Attempts to Settle Contract Disputes Affecting 450,000 Miners Ignored By John L, Lewis

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM VITAL PEAKS BY GENERAL CLARK   Fifth Army Seizes Four Strongly Fortified Towns and Pushes Toward Garigliano Valley.   THRUSTS SAVAGELY  OPPOSED BY NAZIS   lamericans Slowly Closing In on Mignano—Limited Advances Made by Montgvomery’s Men.

CLARK'S ARMY GAINS VALLEY OF GARIGLIANO   Yanks Sweep Into Re. gion Opening Way  Toward Rome

Yanks Lash Into Valley To Take Three Villaqes :   Important Heights Cleared Of Nazis  ba Drive Car Rama

Clears Nazis From Last Vital Heights   British Advance to Mile and Half of Garicliano

Yanks Lash Info Valley To Take Three Villages   Important Heights Cleared Of Nazis In Drive For Rome

Several Strongly Fortified Villages Are Captured  CLARK'S GUNS NOW  “COMMAND VALLEY  Allied Advance Is Slowed Down by Rain and   Resistance

Clark's Forces Score Gains in Drive for Rome  mm ty? € 7 . y   British Also Make Progress in llaly

Allied Troops Win Three Staly Towns  Fifth Army Clears Slopes With

GAIN IS MADE DOWN VALLEY TOWARD ROME   GERMANS CLEARED FROM HEIGHTS FIGHT HARD

Fifth Crashes Down Slopes ‘Of Mountains   Enters Strategic Valley Of Upper Garigliano; 2Qith’s Advances Limited

Strongly Fortified Villages on Winter Line Occupied After Stiff Fight

Ribbentrop Successor To  Be Von Papen   Resignation Of Nazi Foreign Minister Is Not Yet Confirmed

CONFESSION IN TRAIN MURDER   IINING:, OAR cook’ ADMITS - RYAANG- WEE. OF NAVY ”: <) OFFICER IN BERTH ° o ‘owe ye Ea

Dining Car Cook Admits Train Killing   Signs Full Confession I “Lower 13” Murder

NEGRO COOK 0 DINER ADMITS BERTH SLAYING   ‘No Doubt That He's the Killer,” Deciares Detective in Mystery Train Murder,

COLORED COOK CONFESSES 10 TRAIN MURDER   Robert F olkes admits slaying of navy bride in pullman berth

Patrols of Second Yank and Eighth British Armies Make Historic Meeting.

Defenses At Wadi Akarit Are Broken   Many Axis Troops Thought Trapped As Large Armies Combine Power To Go After Rommel

British Contact Rommel, Action In Libya; Gains In Russia Claimed’ By Reds

Reds in Semi-Circle Around RostovBase   Russia’s Triumphant Armies Advance on 25-Mile Front   Allies Score in Air Over Tunisia, Raid Lorient Again and British Gain in Libya

TRIUMPHANT SOVIET ARMIES HAVE SWEPT INTO DONETS VALLEY   INDICATIONS POINT TO RE: SUMPTION OF DRIVE IN NORTH AFRICA

German High Command Admits Stalingrad Armies Are Trapped  NEW DESERT ACTION      ’ Air and Land Operations . _ Stepped Up in Tunisia , and Libya

German. High Command : Admits Stalingrad Armies  a _ Are Trapped  NEW DESERT ACTION

RUSSIANS TAKE 30 MORE TOWNS AROUND ROSTOV   Close Semi-Circle Cutting Off Important City; British Start New Campaign Against Rommel

British Launch Drive to Oust Rommel Forces in Libya; Hitler Admits 22  - Divisions in Soviet Trap ~

Battle For Rostov Itself Apparently About To Begin As Reds Reach Last Natural Barrier To Nazi Base   German People Finally Given The Bad News

Violent Clashes Reported In Desert; Russians Score New Gains Against Nazis

Reds Sweep Back Into Donets Area   Tighten A _ Semicircle Around Rostov; British Launching New Drive Against Rommel.

Reds Close Semicircle About Rostov   British 8th Army May Have Launched a Final Drive Against Rommel’s Forces in Libya; Reds Engulf 30 More Towns

Synchronized Attacks by Soviets Bring » Widening Gains on Three Fronts; Livelier = Action in Tunisia Promised.

SENATORS ANGRY OVER MISUSE-OF RFC FUNDS FOR SUBSIDIES.   Call It Subterfure   Sen. Smith Fears New Deal Is Are Being Perpetuated Under One Man.

Allied Forces Drive Against Rommel In Two Tunisia Sectors   Yanks Driving Toward Coast As British Advance On Mareth Line; Fourteen Hundred Axis Prisoners Already Taken By Americans—  Heavy Aerial Offensive Aids Allies

LARGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED   American forces surge toward seacoast; Eighth army attacks

AMERICAN DRIVE AIMS TO CUT OFF RETREAT OF AXIS   U.S. Forces Surge Toward Sea as Montgomery Hits Mareth Line

Nazis Trying To Escape From Pincers    Aimericame Take 1400 Pris : oners In Attack

Jugoslavs — Battle Nazis.   Partisans-Claim to. ‘Have Routed Tanks

JUGOSLAVS REPEL NAZIS NEAR: SPLIT   300 Germans Killed, 2 Tanks Destroyed Says Broadcast

STEEL STOCKS MAKE COMEBACK   Share Division Leans High er, Point Gains Rule . Near Close

OFFERS BILL   Wheeler Would Let Registrants Take Draft Exams Early.

SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH DOUBLE SLAYING  PAROLED CONVICT CONVICTED AT LUBBOCK WAS ARRESTED IN GALVESTON

SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH DOUBLE SLAYING  PAROLED CONVICT CON. VICTED AT LUBBOCK WA‘

Rosy News Of War Attacked: Hurts Troops      Sen. Lodge Finds Soldiers At Front Angered By Overdue Oplimism

Tell More Of The Truth, Says Lodge. .... Greater Frankness In War News Vital Need

False Optimism of War News Angers Troops on Battle Lines, Lodge Says

LODGE ASSERTS WAR NEWS TOO OPTIMISTIC   Ssnator, Back From Inspection of : Fronts, Says Fighting. Mea Maddened by False Reports

War News Makes Our Men Mad   Present ~ Censorship Makes Stories Toa Rosy, Enrages . Soldiers, Says Sen. Lodge   MEN HEAR REPORTS - OF BATTLE ON RADIO   'Greater Frankness Urged, Both: for Sake of Troops and Home Front

SENATOR SAYS WAR REPORTS MISREPRESENT   States That Our Troops Should Get News

LODGE CRITICIZES NEWS CENSORSHIP FROM WAR ZONES   Senator Charges In Exclusive Interview Fighting Men Are “Mad Because of False Optimism of Our News’:

Senator Lodge Rebukes Over-Optimism In War  News, Hits At Censorship

ASSERTS WAR NEWS IS 100 OPTIMISTIC   Fighting Men Mad Because of “Rosy Censorship”—Will Make a Renort to Concress.

' Massachusetts Legislator Raps Censorship, ° Says Our Fighting Men Mad Over False Views

LODGE ASSERTS FRANKER NEWS ON WAR NEEDEL   Senator Declares Troops Are Incensed Because Of False Optimism By Press, Radio

'Pilot Tells Amazing Story Of Being Shof ‘Down By Whale, But It's For Liars’ Club

WHALE DOWNS RAF AIRMAN IN OCEAN   Head of Liars’ Club Tells Story; Afraid {t Might . Be True.

NEW MEMBERS ADDED BY V. F. W. AUXILIARY   Reports Of Session Held At York Also Received At Meeting Of Organization

LEHMAN CHOSEN TO DIRECT RELIEF FOR WORLD'S NEEDY MILLIONS; TASK GIVES HIM HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY   This Nation Expected To Contribute As Much As A Billion Dollars To UNRRA And Its Humanitarian  Projects For Suffering Peoples   1¥Y JOHN A. REICHMANN

Britons Offer Food Expansion Program   Seek to Avoid Future Destruction Plans

Gross Profit Margins to Be Set  OPA Maps Plans for Fight Against Whisky Black Market

IPA OPENS DRIVE AGAINST WHISKE’ ‘BLACK MARKETS   Criminal Actions Planned; Gross Profit Margins and Flat Prices For New Brands May Be Established.

WHISKY PROFITS TO BE CHECKED   Drive On Black Market Made By OPA; Criminal Actions Promised

Shuttle Service for Big Bombers With Axis Destruction.  NOT A PLANE LOST ON 2,400 MILE TRIP  Italian Fleet Believed to Be Bottled Up in Spezia Harbor.

RUSSIA STARTS THIRD YEAR OF ITS WAR TODAY   No Definite Signs Of German Offensive Seen This Summer

aiHITLER HANGING ONTO TAIL OF RUSSIAN BEAR AS HE BEGINS THIRD YEAR OF WAR

Axis Moves Into France   Duce Pleads in Vain For More Nazi Aid      « Uutloor Unanged Radically as Hitler Ends 2 Years of Russian Wr:

'U.S. Boys Penetrate Deep Into Axis Held Tunisian Territory and Re turn With Prisoners.

Americans Reply to Challenge   Show Africa Corps They Can ‘Come Out, Fight’

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEARSON  (Tea damark.)

Toy Railroad Used in War On “War Correspondent” TONIGHT, 6:30, WOAI

TEXAS POLITICS BE * FREE FROM NATIONAL PARTY MEDDLING  GOV. STEVENSON SAYS

COMMISSIONERS HOLD MEETING   County Board Holds Regular Routine Meeting Today; Hear Report On Farm La:bor Problem By Farm Agent; Other Routine Matters.

oer  ‘County Board Holds Regular - Routine Meeting Today; Hear Report On Farm Labor Problem By Farm Agent; Other Routine Matters.

DEADLINE IS NEAR   Election Front Appears to Be Quiet After Flurry

DEADLINE IS NEAR   Election Front Appear a Somers to Be Quiet After Flurry

CARR WARNS PLAN OF DICTATORSHIP. FOR U.S. COMING:   Retiring ‘Colorado - Governor Declares Exposition. of the Scheme - Proves: Its. Hostility to Americanism .

Carr Warns of Dictatorship in U.S., Advocates Salary Boost; Urges Small Loan Legislation

DEATH TOLL OF TRAIN WRECK PLACED AT 73   52 Serviee Men And 2t Civilians Died In North Carolina Mishap Last Thursday

U. S. Bombers Start Fires At Tunisia Port Of Sfax In  Four-Wave Attack

Yankee Bombers In Devastating African Raid   Axis Base at Sfax Attacked For Half Hour 

Armed Forces to Release  546,000 for War Work   Byrnes, Heads Committee to Investigate Nation’s Manpower Situation

Army to: Release 546,000 for Industry, Farms:   FD. R. Takes ‘Hand i in U.S. Manpower Crisis

Ten Per Cent U. S. Sales Levy Draws Fire As Leading Toward Inflation

Vinson Supports New Tax Measure  Indorses Move for Inflation Control

ECONOMICS CHIEF SUPPORTS NEW GOVT. TAX. PLAN   Declares a Stronger Fiscal Policy Needed ta Control Inflation — Calls’ _ $10,500, Anh tha

Soviets Prepare To Clear Russia  Of Nazi Invaders   Reorganize Supply Lines For New Thrust On Middle Dnieper.

SOVIET OFFENSIVE UN DNIEPER RIVER REMAINING QUIE]   New Russian Drives May Be _ Developing Along the - Quiet Leningrad Sector.

Russians Ready Vast Offensive For The Winter   Attempt To Clear Russia Of German Invaders; New Drives Develop

FIERCE BATTLES ARE RAGING IN WHITE RUSSIA   Red Forces on Mid-Dniepe Front Settle Down to Reorganizing Facilities

Brown, Wickard in Ration Agreement   Understanding to Clear Food Allotment Problems

CIRCUIT COURT. “NEWS-AND NOTE!   ‘Divorce Day in Judge. Rus  'sell’s Court Saw Sev: : eral Actions. .

AGUIT COURT NeW AND NOTEC   Divorce Day in Judge Russell’s Court Saw Several Actions.

Utah Airman Gets Medal Of Gallantry   Salt Laker Draws Praise for Deeds in England

Severance Of U.S. Relations With Finns Con Be Expected Soon, Officials Think

FINNS, U, $, 10 CUT RELATIONS  a inger: 4 Al Det E Aled  rosecution

Allies Nearer Conquest of Salamaua   Liberators Dump 112 Tons of  Ti nesetice we Ge) eee ie

WEWAK IS BOMBED HEAVILY AS ALLIES CONTINUE ADVANCE   Australian ‘Ground Forces _ Make Important Gains Against Salamaua Airdrome

BOMB-TORN CITY ~ IS RADED ACAI   American Bombers Blow Stern From Enemy Cruiser Off Italian Coast.

RECORD RAID IS MADE ON WEWAK. NG.   Allied Forces Moving Closer To Salamaua

Liberators Give Wewak Pounding   Aussies Advance On Salamaua Line

sonra cr oman  Colorful Ceremony Marks Awarding Of “E’ To Plant   Army Officer Presents Coveted Flag to Fairchild Plants—President J. Carlton Ward, Jr., Tells of Growth of Corporation Here

Colorful Ceremony Marks Awarding Of "E” To Plant   Army Officer Presents Coveted Flog to Fairchitd “ ~ Plants —President J. Carlton Ward, Jr., Tells of Growth of Corporation Here

Jap Vesstiis AreBlasted   Loaded Transport Hit By Bombers And Sunk

TWO CARS IN WRECK   Accident Happened on South Mase -sachusetts Saturday Night

Work of Bomber Engineer in Pacific  Secures Recognition For Master Sergeant   Army Officers, Troops and Group of Marfa Citizens See Joseph P. Ott Given High Honors by His Country

AFS Sergeant Is Awarded the DFS   HERO OF MIDWAY, SOLOMONS BATTLES HONORED AT EXERCISES FRIDAY

70-MILE FLIGHT WITHOUT PILOT   Burned Plane Landed on Farm Near Odebolt

lowa Grid Star With  Air Force   Word Received by Parents Today—Served on Air craft Carrier

Subsidy Proposed To Cut Living Costs   President Endorses Principle of Plan

OPA'S RESTRICTIVE  REGULATIONS BUILD  UP CATTLE SURPLUS TEXAS CATTLEMEN DE CLARE SURPLUS TO REACH OVER 15 MILLION

Renorts Place British Troops Inside Tripoli   Official Announcement Merely Says British Near Libyan Seaport   PART OF CITY IS REPORTED AFLAME

EIGHTH ARMY ENTERS CITY, HITS HARBOR   Curtain Going Down on Mussolin’'s Empire as Rommel Yields.   FRENCH LINES CHECK TWO AXIS ASSAULTS

MONTGOMERY'S FORCES CHASE GERMAN UNITS   American and British planes spread fire and destruction over city

TROOPS INSIDE SUBURBS RADIO MOROCCO SAYS   Allied Command Merely Reports Forces Engaging , Axis South Of City   AIRPORT, HARBOR BOMBED   Enemy Shipping In Mediterranean And Island Of Sicily Under Attack :

UNITED PRESS WRITER TELLS FLIGHT SOURCE   Spikes Theory That Planes Left via Aleutians

IDENTITY OF SHANGRI-LA DISCLOSED   Tokyo Was Bombec . By Planes from Aircraft Carriers

SAYS CARRIERS WERE BASES IN RAID ON TOKIO   Dispatch From Africa Reveals Meth~" Used by American Flyers

Censors Admit Brief Story In Press Dispatch; Details Still Miss ing.

Story of Historic Raid on Tokyo Released in Dispatch from Africa   Jap Navy Had Fairly Accurate Concept of Attack

Shangri-La’ Found  Base for Doolittle’s Famous Tokyo Raid Revealed Carrier

"Shangri-la" Bases Used To Bomb Tokyo Were U.S. Aircraft Carriers

Tokyo Raid Shangri-La Is Revealed   Mitchell Bombers Flown From Carriers, Says African Writer

“Shangri-La Was Aircraft Carrier   NORTH AFRICAN PILOTS CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC RAID AS DISPATCH DISCLOSES MYSTERY ORIGIN

Raid on Tokye Was Staged  From Carriers   U. S. Airmen Reveal Shangri-La Site On Day of Attack

Aircraft Carriers Were Bases For U.S. Planes Raiding Japan   ‘Allied Sources Reveal First Time Place Historic Flight  - . One Year Ago Began

- Tokyo Raiders Took Off From Carriers  ““Shang-Ri La’’ Bases Revealed

Dispatch Permitted ~ To Pass Through Censor In North Africa Tells Of Doolittle’s Flight

RAIDERS OVER TOKYO STARTED FROM CARRIERS   “Shangri-La” Bases Were Really Aircraft Carriers, Is Report Today

The Secret Is Out, Shangri-La Plane Bases Were Navy Aircraft Vessels

‘Shangri-La’ Base For Bombing Of Tokyo Said To Have Been Carriers

Parachutes Save Pilots When Bombers Collide Near Great Falls Base

Excitement Galore Provided For Glamorous Opera Star In Picturesque Old Mexico By Murder And War Spies

SUICIDE RATE IN ILLINOIS DROPS   INCREASED EARNINGS GIVEN AS REASON ° FOR MARKED DECLINE

SEEK WLB SERVICES   Southern Mine Operators To Ask Intervention In Dispute

Fnemy Ports Bombed   Zero Hour Nears For Bix Allied Offensive In North Africa

CROSS BORDE ON CONTRACTING AFRICAN FRONT   Some of Axis Forces Presuzaed Stil! in Tripolitania.

Forward Elements Cross Border In Central Sector While Planes Blast Axis Lines

U. S. BOMBERS STAGING RAIDS   Retreating Afrika Korps 150 Miles or Less from American Forces on  “Western Side of Rapidly Contracting African Front,

ADVANCE GUARD OF EIGHTH ARMY INSIDE TUNISIA   American Bombers Engaged In Systematic Devastadion of Ports.

GAP BETWEEN ALLIED ARMIES BUT 150 MILES   Nearly All Axis Forces Chased From Italy’s Empire

BRITISH ARE NOW INSIDE TUNISIA”   Battle Retreating Afrika Korps After Crossing Border

Escape Path For Rommel Is Narrowed   Ailied Planes’ Continue To Batter Axis Supplies

Yanks, British 150 Miles Apart   U.S. Bombers in Drive to Wipe Out Axis-Held Ports in Tunisia

American Forces Only 150 Miles Away Drive To Coast To Trap Nazis

‘Allied Plan Is to Cut Off  All Retreat, Then Close  In For Knockout

First Lady Christens Second Yorktown, Naval Carrier Renlacing First

Jury Reports Glider Defects   Blame War Department For  *“Looseness Of Inspections. }

War Department Blamed in Part for _ Fatal Crash of Glider in St. Louis

EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES AHEAD THREE MILES   Hundreds of Nazis Killed, Over 1,000 Taken Prisoner

1,000 Captured, Hun‘dreds Die as 8th Army Advances   BRITISH PRESS AHEAD IN DRIVE ON ROME

NAZIS-RETREAT ON ADRIATIC END OF ITALIAN FRONT   Pacing of Fifth Army Fight: ing Increases As Monty Rolls Forward.

ENEMY FALLS BACK BEFORE ALLIED PUSE   Pace of Fighting Alsc Is Increased on American End of Battlefield.

Nazis Fall Back Hurriedly Before Allied Assault   Pace of Fighting On Fifth Army Front  Reported Increasing

German Troops Beaten in Bitter Four-Day: Battle n Italy — Nazis Lose More Than 1,000 Prisoners and Hundreds of Dead.

Nazis Retreat Before British Army in Italy   Germans Lose . Hundreds of Dead And Many Prisoners

Germans Fall Back Before Brit. Eighth Army Onslaught   Several Counterattacks Are Repulsed by  American "Tranane

WPB Investigators Arrested by F. B.   Two Men Are Held On Briberv Charges

2 WPB PROBERS HELD IN BRIBERY   FB! Makes Arrest In New ‘York Following “Btaner?

BAKER CO. OFFICERS DRAW 3-YEAR SENTENCE $1,000 FINE EACH  Sheriff, His Deputy and. Former Newton. Ga. Police

NEW ‘MARKETS’ » ARE REPORTED   Serious Shortage In Staple Foods Revealed

SHORTAGE OF SOME FOODS   NEW YORK AMONG CITIES RE. PORTED LACKING POTA- TOES AND DRIED VEGETABLES

Ration Board Demands Action  On Gas By OPA   Refuses To Impose Driving Ban Penalties Until Policy Is Designated

May Tire Quotas Slashed In lowa   Bor © Ration Card Holders Eligible for Grade 1

17 DIE WHEN 2 PLANES COLLIDE   Mountams Searched for Man Believed Surviving

Flee From Great Base, Anchor of Winter Line; Blow Up Volga Bridges

NAZI REARGUARD BLUWo BRIDGES CROSSING VOLGA   Fall Of Great German Bastion Also Brings New Danger To Smolensk

HULL AND EDEN CALLED 10 ATTEND ~ ALLIED PARLEYS   AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE AND BRITISH SECRETARY WILL SET IN ON WAR CONFERENCE AT QUEBEC,   POLITICAL QUESTIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED   Many Prominent Canadians Will Also Be on Hand and Quebec Reports Say Gen, Eisenhower May Also Be Present,

HULL TO ATTEND QUEBEC MEETING OF WAR LEADERD   Political As Well As Mili tary Questions — Likely For Discussion

BIBLES RATIONED; PAPER 1S LACKINE   For First Time in 100 Years, The Demand Exceeds ‘ Supply.

DEATH TOLL AT DETROIT HEALHED 29   White Womar Shot by a Negro Is the Latest Riot Victim.   SOLDIERS IN CONTROL   Negro Workers Generally Hiding Out and War Pro- duction Is Cut,

RACE RIOTING TOLL NOW 23   WHITE WOMAN . STRUCK BY @NIFER'S BULLET LATEST VICTIM: OF DETROIT ‘OUTBREAK

CLARK PUTS RESERVES IN BATTLE   Capture Towns Of Aversa, Maddaloni North Of Naples

Allies Advance In Face Of Increasing Opposition;  Bitter Fighting In Dodecanese;  Russions Drive On

STATE LEGISLATURES  TAKE UP LABOR PLAN   Manpower Problems Are Being Worked Qut by Assemblies Across the Nation Without Waiting for Federal Agencies to Act—lIndependent Measures to Insure Sufficient Rural Help Are Beina Taken

States Plan To Aid Farms   Legislatures Across Nation Take Steps To Furnish Workmen

Solons Act on Farming   STATE GROUPS TAKE ACTION ON LABOR IN FEDERAL LULL

STATES ACT 10 ASSIST FARMERS   Plans Considered To Relieve Shortage Despite Possible Federal Moves

Manpower Crisis Being Discussed By Legislatures’   States Are Not ‘Waiting for  Federal Action:

TAKE INITIATIVE ON FARM PROBLEN   ‘States are Not Waiting for  Congress, Adopt Many  Measures to Get Labor.

Turke y Swings  Toward Allies   Attitude of Neutrality Said To Be Changing To Axis Hostility

NO PROPAGANDA ON WAR FRONTS   Senate Puts Ban On Paid Political Material Sent Armed Forces

Rein on Political  Spending by U.S.   Senate Bans Propagande In Soldier Vote Bill

W. A. WHITE IMPROVES   Eniporia Editor Is in Rochester, Minn., Hospital

GERMAN HOPES IN CAUCASUS SHATTERED   Russian Army Pushes Hitler Back from Gateway to Fuel Reserves.

Reds Push Westward from Mozdok Toward Red Base of Prokhadnaya   Thrust Threatens To Split Enemy  Tee tha fareonane

INVASION CAUSES QUERIES OF “WILL FRANCE BE NEXT?”   Complete Understanding Between Giraud And FDR Reported—To  Tour U. S. ‘

Opening Left For Avoiding Payment Of Miners’ Fines   Ickes Says Levies For Striking May Be Taker Up Through Collective Bargaining; Courts May Get Wage Question

‘ckes Qualifies His Plan To Levy Fines on Miners For Strike of Last Week   BVorkers May Escape Payments Through Collective Bargaining with Government Manavers of Pits, Secretary Announces

Ickes Modifies. Order Fining  Coal Striker:   Miners to Be Permitted To Bargain With Local  << «+ poe et

MINERS MAY ESCAPE FINE, ’ WCKES: STATE   Secretary Qualifies Plan to Make Workers ty Pay

Ickes Modifies Order Fining Miners; Workmen May Now Bargain With Operators. Mav Escape Assessment

F.R. Proclaims June 14 for Flag Day   President Asks That All. Allied Flags Fly Together

FOR PROCLAIMS JUNE 14 AS FLAG DAY   Urges U. S. Citizens to Fly Stars and Stripes

NEW PEACE RUMORS HEARD IN SWEDEN      Name of Franz von Papen Crops Up in Circuit of Reports .

‘Nazi Envoy Said  In Vatican Talks  ‘Church Cireles’ Quoted On Negotiations

PEACE RUMORS ARE SPREADING AROUND EUROPE   Swiss Newspaper Say Pope Is Trying To Mediate Conflict

‘Goering Pleads Final Victory To Naziland ‘On 10th Anniversary   New Offensive In Spring Is Offered; Hitler On Front With Soldiers; R.A.F. Gets Recognized

Goering Predicts Victory to Nazis   Spring Offensive His Prediction

Mistrial Declared  In Somerset Case  Jury Fails To Reach Ver dict In Damage Suit

CANADA FORCE QUICKLY GAINS SICILY TOEHOLD   Slice. Through Italian Defenses to Overrun and Establish Bridgehead  At Panchino ~~   BRITISH FLANK THEM IN OPENING DRIVE   Have Now Advanced Into Hilly Country; Major En* gagements Loom; Cas ualties Are Light

Nimitz Hints At Carrying Trouble To Japan Forces   Says Pacific Area Gets Share Of Men, Supplies

Nimitz Predicts Bigger Attacks Against Nippon   ' Says U, S. Planes. Vessels.  : Jap Destroyer Sunk

‘Trouble’ Promised For Japs   U. S, Has Formidable Air und Sea Force In Pacifie Now

Adm. Nimitz Here To Plar Jap Trouble   Planes and Ships In Pacific Being Increased

KATE SCORES   Songstress Collects 30 Million In War Bond Pledzee«.

PROSPECT. OF SHOWERS   Near Normal Temperatures to Continue in’ Kansas

ClO Asks For « "Democratic Ration System”   Would Eliminate: Black Market. And: Stabilize Wages:

MAJ. GEN, KEY IN CHARGE IN EUROPE   Named. Temporary Commander After Death of General Andrews.

KEY SUCCEEDS GEN, ANDREWS   Oklahoman Given Tempor. ary Command of U. 8. Troops In European Area

Force New Wedge  Into German Line   Fifth Army Drives Two Miles Along the High _ way to Rome   ‘BACK DOOR’ APPROACH   British and Americans in Full Scale Assault on  Positions

Fifth and Eighth Armies : Assault Mountain Forts   Ceaseless Bombing Demoralizes Enemy Holding Lines Before Rome; Allies Advance Slowly _

ADVANCE TWO MILES ON ROAD TOWARD ROME   Dent Nazi Lines in Heaviest Land, Air Bombardment of Italian Drive

CLARK’S FORCE DRIVES 2. MILES! AGAINST NAZIS   Artillery and Aerial Bombardments Pulverizing Many Strongpoints of Enemy   BLOWS TERRIFYING; GERMANS GO INSANE   Most Prisoners Taker Shaken and Exhauste _ by Relentless Bombings; British Near San Vito

Heaviest Bombardment of Campaign Has Pulverized Strongpoints.   2 MILES NEARER ROME

Yanks Drive Wedge Into  Nazi Line:   British 8th Army Takes 3 Towns In Rush Teo Rome’s ‘Back Door’; Sth Seizes Heights

ra ROME   Wedge Driven Into German Defenses Following Heaviest Artillery and Aerial Bombardment of Campaign.

‘Algiers Radio Reports ‘Fall Of Calabritto; 8th ‘Knife Way Toward Rome

Fifth Army Drives Wedge Into German Lines After Air and Artillery Blasting

CLARK'S STH ARMY DROVE WEDGE INTO GERMAN DEFENSES   Came After Heaviest Artillery and Aerial Bombardment of Italian Drive.   ADVANCED TWO MILES   Many Strong Points Were Pulverized in Drive Toward Rome.

Gunfire In Drive On Cassino Is Heaviest Since Nazis Were Beaten At El Alamein

Americans Push Wedge Into Nazis’ Italian Defenses   British Gaining in Their Drive Toward Rome’s Back Door

Two-Mile Advance Along Via Casilina Toward Rome Follows Heaviest Artillery And Aerial Bombardment Of Italian Campaign—aAlgiers Radio Says Calabritto Has Been Captured—British Drive To Outskirts Of San Vito, 16 Miles From Pescara

5th Army Cuts Into Nazi Line   Artillery Pounds the Enemy Just Like E] Alamein

German Lines Reported Demoral  ized by Heavy Pounding, Many   Prisoners Go Insane   BRITISH ADVANCE   Eighth Army Approaches Sar Vito While Clark Drives Germans from Heights

Wedge Driven Into Nazi Line  By Fifth Army   Two-Mile Gain Toward Rome; 8th Army Drives To San Vito.

WEDGE SMASHED INTO GERMAN DEFENSES BY CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY ©   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ALSO ADVANCES ON ADRIATIC FRONT

U.S. Troops Drive Wedge In Nazi Line   Steady Bombing Dazes Germans On Italian Front

CLARK'S FORCES DRIVE FORWARD   Fifth Army Gains Two Miles After Heaviest Aerial And Artillery Bombardment Of Italian Campaign,

Drive On Rome Gathers Speed   Fifth Army Breaks Main Defense Line

WEDGE. DRIVEN BY STH ARMY IN GERMAN LINES   Record Bombardment Pulverizes Nazi Strong Points; 8th Army Gains

Fifth: Army Smash Hurls Nazis Back   Yanks Advance Two Miles After Mighty Artillery, Air Bombardment

Clark's Army Forces Wedge in Nazi Line   At Same Time 8th Army Makes New Gain on Back Door to Rome

HEAVY SHELLING PAVES WAY FOR ALLIED ADVANCE   Both Americans and British Make Gains in Their All-Out Offen- — sive on Road to Rome 

American, British Guns Roar in Heaviest Attack  General Clark’s Men _ Smash Wedge Into Nazi Defense

YANKS SMASH A WEDGE IN NAZI DEFENSE   Heaviest Artillery Bombardment Pulverizes Strong Pointe in Italy.   British Knife Ahead At Rome’s Back Door

Clark Hammers  Wedge   FIFTH ARMY SLASHES AHEAD TWO MILES ON ROAD TOWARD ROME

Clark smashes wedge into nazi Italian defenses   Heaviest artillery and air bombardment of campaign

Fifth Army Forges Ahead Two Miles; Eighth Gains Ground on Road to Rome

TURN TABLES WEST OF KIEV   REDS AGAIN ON OFFENSIVE AFTER RETREAT

LEBANESE IS NEARING END   French Move T o Halt Dispute; To Free Leaders

French Promise Lebanon Peace  Conflicting Views Expressed in Cairc

SURPLUS, CASH HELP INVADED   UNRRA Unit Thinks Germany Should Assist

NAZI RUSSIAN FRONT LOSSES NEAR MILLION   Soviets Report 300,000 Dead, Huge Equipment Booty Seized   ATTACKS SPREAD:   Reds Improve Offensive Positions Before Kharkov, Bryansk

MOSCOW SAYS LOT INGLUDLS 200,000 DEAL   Nazis Lose Additional 25,600 Prisoners, Thousands of Tanks, Planes.   REDS ATTACKING FROM ARCTIC TO BLACK SEA

U-BOAT YARDS FIRED IN ALLAMERICAN RAID   RAF Weather-Bound Fo) Sixth Straight Evening

U.S. BOMBERS DAMAGE NAZI U-BOAT BASE   Submarine Building and Repair Yard Near BremenlIs American Target.

Attack Described As Being Vost Successful   Bad Weather Holds Up RAF Night  , a? ee

é  U. S. Bombers In Daylight  Over Bremen      Heaviest Attack Made—Bombardier Dies at Bombsicht

TREMENDOUS DAMAGE’ 15 WROUGHT ON SUBMARINE REPAIR YARD AT BREMEN   Daylight Raid Described Most Successful of War by Air Force

Yank Raiders Blast Nazi — U-Boat Yards by Daylight; Dying Bombardier 1s Hero

U-BOAT BASE. ‘DAMAGED IN HEAVY RAID   Fortresses, Liberators Wreck Nazi Submarine’ Base In Raid

Largest Force . OFU. S. Planes  Attacks Germany   Submarine Yard Near Bremen Is Bombed

FORTRESSES HIT BREMEN'S U-BOAT YARDS WITH BOMBS   RAF Is Held Back for Sixth Night By Bad Waother.

"Tremendous Damage" Reported on Untersee Base. Near Bremen, Germany   Laval Promises Hitler 1,000,000 French Slaves   German Strongarm Squads Start House-to-Houce Search for Workers

‘Severe Damage Seen  After Greatest t J. S. Raid   "PERFECT BOMBING’ IS OFFICIAL’S COMMENT

HEAVIEST YANK ~ RAID ON NAZIS   American Bombers Fly 600 Miles Qver Getmany To Smash Sub Ease

Miracle if Gandhi  Lives, Says Doctor   India Leader Grows Weaker as He Fasts

FASTING GANDHI GROWS WEAKER   Physician Declares It Will Be Miracle If Leader Survives

DRIVING FOR PLEASURE AT END IN EAST   Government, H oweve r Acts to Keep Home Fires Burnina

U.S. HOPEFUL HOME FIRES TO BURN Of   Civilian Life Pattern In 17 Eastern States Hit

Government  Starts Check  On Driving Pleasure Motoring  Banned in Effort To Provide Fuel Oil  ESSENTIAL USE OF CAR DEFINED  Driving to Church And Stores OK’d, Rint Nat Ta Veiett O21   Pleasure Motoring Banned in Effort To Provide Fuel Gil

Nogues Quits Governorship  Of Morocco   Alleged Axis Supporter Resigns To Aid French Unity

Gen. Nogues Gives Resignation \As Resident General of French ‘Morocco to Gen. Henri Giraud

NOGUES RESIGNS, EXPRESSES HOPE OF FRENCH UNIT)   Resignation Submitted . tc Gen. Giraud Presumably on Request Axis Sympath: _izer Step Aside. -   RUSSIANS CARRY ON GREATEST AIR RAID   Italy’s Most Important Naval Base Raided By Americans Who Dropped 250 Tons of Bombs.

MINERS ARE ASKED TO RETURN TO JOBS   Official of United Mine _ Workers Makes Radio Appeal

Hopeful Ala. Miners’ll Go Back Today      JOHN HANRATTY MAKES RADIO APPEAL .TO 22,000 STRIKERS IN ALABAMA; HOPEFUL AS TO THE RESPONSE

ESCAMBIA REMAINS WET   Seuthern Alabama County Vetes To Retain state Liquer >tores

Coldest Morning In Seven Weeks   Forecast: Continued cool Tues. ‘day forenoon, Tuesday night anc Wednesday forenoon.

lowa’s Cool Weather Low  For 7 Weeks   Carroll’s 42 Is Next To Lowest Reading For the Entire State

Reduction in Basic Food Supply Seen   Cut in Meat, Poultry And Fish Stores Is  Forecast in '43

Civilians Face Food Shortages   Estimates of 1943 Supply Dwindle

1943 Food to Be Less Plentiful  Agriculture Dept., in Survey, Finds Smal!

Smaller Supplies of Basic Foods Now In Prospect   January Estimates Lowered By Bureau In Report For April

eae +! — J.. Driscoll, U. S. Navy, Receives Word ae is Recovering _

Mother of Charles J. Driscoll, U. S. Navy, Receives Word He is Recovering

RELAXES ORDER   WPEB Allows Extension of Civilian Leather Manufacture.

Yanks and Japs In Land Batile Near Salamaua   Engagement in New Guinea Is Described as Important

JUNGLE BATTLE BEING FOUGHT   Americans And Aussies Locked With Japs 5 Miles From  Salamaua

Allies Are Locked In Bitter Fight Near Vital Island  Control of Region Is At Stake; Heavy Jap Attack Is Futile

Yanks and Australians Push New Guinea Drive   Head of Burma Road Bombed   U.S. Heavy Bombers Hammer at Japs

CALL IS MAILED TO LEGISLATORS   Special Session Opens At Lansing Jan. 51 For Three Weeks

KELLY ORDERS STUDY OF 1944 STATE. BUDGET   Legislators Will Begin ‘Short’ Session On  January 31

LEGISLATURE T0 MEET IN: SPECIAL. SESSION   Budget Committees to Meet Before Jan. 31 Opening:

Land Fighting Believed Needed To Oust Japs From Aleutians; Three Enemy Cruisers Blasted

INVASION SEEN TO CLEAR KISKA   Called Only Way To Eject Japs From Base

Japs Must Be Routed From Kiska By Troops, U. §. Authorities Agree

LAND ARMY WILL BE USED IN ALENITIANS      Japs Are Hiding in Caves and Must Be Driven Out By U. S. When Time Comes to Use Islands.

Japs Won't Be There Always  When Yanks Need Kiska For New Operations They'll Run Foe Out

U. S. BIDES TIME IN ALEUTIANS   Fight To Dislodge Japs May Come This Summer

NEW TIRE RULINGS   sins of B and C Books ’ Are Eligible for Grade  1 Casings

Many To Get  Top Grade  Tires May 1 Manufacture Of  Others From Old Rubber Halted

Eligible for Top Grade Tires May 1   Manufacture of “Victory Tires” From Reclaimed Rubber Is Stopped.

Manufacture Of ‘‘Victory Tires”? Stopped. ...«  Millions Soon Can Get Best New Tires

TOP GRADE TIRES AVAILABLE MAY  TO NEW MILLIONS   All Holders of B Gas Ration Books, Except Those in ’ East, Eligible for Best  Casings.   GRADE 2 SUPPLIES FOUND INADEQUATE   Motorists Who Drive Less Than 240 Miles a Month Must Remain Content With Retreads, Recaps.

More Tires For B Cards   OPA Changes Rules To Make TopGradeRubber Available To Millions:

Grade 1 Tires Released For B Card Drivers   ‘Victory’ Synthetic Rubber Tire Production Was Halted March 31st   240 MILES A MONTH   Nation's Grade 2 Supply Is Inadequate For Eligible Motorists Demands

Stop Making Victory Tires   Lower Mileage Groups Eligible For Best

Release Top Grade Tires.  to B-Holders   More Grade 1 Tires Available _ Than Grade 2s; Stop Making Victory Tires

Grade I Tires For Millions On May First   OPA Reveals That Making of ‘Victory Tires’ Was Halted March 1

Millions Of Motorists Become Eligible For Top Grade Tires Under New Regulation Of O.P.A

(rade  Tires  To ‘B’ Holders   Reclaimed Rubber Used In (;rade Il Tires Put Into Recap Supply.

TY  MANY AUTOISTS ELIGIBLE FOR GRADE I TIRES   ‘Every Motorist With Gas  Rations for More Than 240 Miles Monthly  i Affected   AVAILABLE MAY 1   All B-Bookholders Except Those in Eastern Seaboard Area Come Under New Law

Millions of Motorists Will Become Eligible for ‘Top Grade’ Tires Soon

TOP GRADE TIRES MADE AVAILABLE   Every Motorist Driving - Over 240 Miles Month Is Eligible.   HALT PRODUCTION OF “VICTORY TIRES’

240 Miles Per Month Only New  Requirement   K ¥K*—* OK ON Gas And Rubber Conflict Rages

Millions Tc Get New  Tires   OPA Changes Heart —Halts Victory Tire Production

OPA TO RELEASE GRADE 1 TIRES   Production of ‘Victory Tires’ Was Halted March 3]

B-BOOKHOLDERS CAN GET TIRES   Eligible for Grade  Tires Starting First of Next Month

MORE ELIGIBLE FOR TOP GRADE BY NEW RULING   Manufacture of Tires from Reclaimed Rubber Halted; Retreads for Everyone

Stop Making Victory Tires  Millions of Motorist:   Millions of Motorists to Get Grade 1 May 1

Higher grade tires granted  after ‘May I]   For driver going 240 miles month

GRADE I TIRES AVAILABLE TO MILLIONS MORE   Mileage Rule Discriminates Against Eastern Seaboard ‘B’ Book Holders Where Rations Cut

‘Victory Tires’ Are No Lonner Made   ‘B’ Motorists May Get Grade One

Some Motorists to Get New Tires; Stop “Victory Tire” Manufacture

AUTOISTS 10 GET ~ NECESSARY TIRES   OPA Issues New Regulation: on Purchases, Become Effective on May 1.

MORE DRIVERS 10 GET FIRST. GRADE TIRES   Pre-War Casings Can Be Purchased May 1 by All With Gasoline Rations for More Than 240  - Miles'a Month.

OPA Announces Millions Of Motorists Become Eligible For New A-I Tires May ]

Millions Will Be Eligible For Grade  Rubbe   Every Motorist Who Has _ Ration For 240 Miles  A Month Qualified ©

TO HOLDERS OF B CARD   OPA Order to Become Ef. fective May 1 Allows Best Grade Tires   TO ALL WHO DRIVE OVER 240 MILES   ‘Victory Tires’ No Longer Being Made, It Also-Is Disclosed Today.

Yugoslavs Fall Back At Zenica   But Hold Own Elsewhere Over Wide Front; Bitter Fighting.

New Successes Against German Communication Lines Reported By Guerrilla Army

GERMANS FORCE GUERRILLA UNIT BACK IN BOSNIA   Destroy Rail, Communication Line in Yugoslavia Retreat

BITTER FIGHTING  CONTINUED MONDAY  ON YUGOSLAV FRONT RETREATING YUGOSLAV  FORCES INFLICT HEAVY THAMACE ON ENEMY

Nazis Win Zenica In Bosnia; Bitter Fighting Continues In Yugoslavia

Slav Patriots Harass Nazis  Guerrillas Lose Tow: But Tear Up Railway      HULL REPORTED IN TEHERAN ON WAY TO ‘TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW

Two Yugoslav Groups Resist   Mihailovic’s Guerrillas Again Battle Germans

YUGOSLAVS BLOW UP RAIL BRIDGE   DERAIL NAZI TRAIN IN NORTHERN ITALY; 400 GERMANS KILLED

NAZI FORCES REPELLED BY YUGOSLAVIA   Rommel’s Troops Thrown Back At Split

Yugoslavs Push Germans Back In Split Sector  Admit Loss Of City Of Zenica

“Political Chicanery’’ Is Accepted Policy of Democrats, Says Willkie

Churchill Praises Work of Eisenhower   Lauds Side-by-Side Advance of British, U. S. Forces

Churchill Lauds American ‘General on Africa Victory   Prime M inister Says “Simultaneous Advance of British and U.S. Armies Side by Side Into Tunis and Bizerte Js Augury Full of Hope For Future of World"

Victory Augurs Well For Future   Churchill Praises Simul. taneous Advance Of Armies.

Churchill Congr atulates Eisenhower   Victory Of American Aad British Armies  ‘Augury Full Of Hope’

Churchill Sends “Congratilations To U.S. Forces   Says Joint British-Yank Success Augurs Weill For Future Of World

EISENHOWER IS CONRATULATED BY CHURCHILL   Leadership Of Allied Armies Draws Praise

Madrid says ‘peace march  is pending   Anti-Badoglio forees revolt

Cities May Be Seized by Eager People   Germans Claim to Be Ready for Action; Situation Intensifies

TALK OF MARCH ON ROME HEARD   MADRID BELIEVES. ITALIANS MAY TAKE DEMANDS FOR

TALK OF ROME PEACE MARCH   Leftists Plan to Organize Peoples’ March if Peace Is Long Delayed

‘Peace March’ Said Possible   Italians Restive Over Badoglio Delay

Stalians Discuss ‘Peace March’ on Rome. Other Citie:   Nazi Occupation of Trieste Closes One Door to Balkans

STOCKS FOLLOW IRREGULAR PATH   Prices Slanting Downward at Start Sitffen . Near Close

FRENCH COMMITTEE IN MEETING TODAY IN ALGIERS  Will Consider New Proposals to Settle Issu  rl BATS: . .. PD...

TRENCH SEEKING TO SETTLE ISSUE   United Stafes, Britain Want Giraud to Remain Commander-[n-Chief. 

AMERICANS BOMB FRENCH SHIPYARD   HITS MADE ON POWER HOUSE AND OTHER INSTALLA-   TIONS AT LETRAIT. :

ALLIES OCCUPY GABES, EL HAMMA ON ROAD TO SFAX   New Zealand Forces ~~ Credited With Breaking Mareth Ling Defenses

‘Very Much In Our Favor” ~ Churchill   That Is ‘His Report to House of Commons on Tunisian Situation   BUT HE WARNS OF TASK AHBAD   Axis Has Been Dealth Another Severe Defeat; Fine American Advance

Churchill Pleased at Turn Of Conflict Raging in Desert   Prime Minister Warns, However, of Task Which Still Confronts Allies in Tunisia

Churchill Tells House Of Victory  ‘In Tunisia   But Prime Minister Warns Commons Against Underrating Task That Lies Ahead

Junction of Americans,  - British Seems Imminent   New Zealanders Who Took EI] Hamma Hot on Trail of Retreating Axis Forces as They Pass Through Gabes   PORT SHELLED BY WARSHIPS   Rommel’s Headquarters Reported Forty Miles North of Sfax While His Forces Face Peril of Gabes Gap

WARNS AGAINST UNDERRATING TUNISIAN TASK   Churchill Pleased With Progress Of Drive

VICTORIOUS EIGHTH  ARMY CHASES AFRICA  CORPS FROM GABES BRITISH FIRST ARMY IN NORTH AND AMERICAN  ronprreae Arcen AroTIVG

Churchill Warns Of Underrating Task in Tunisia  Prime Minister Satisfied With Progress Made

cCabes’ in Allied. Hands; Rorrimel's'Column Heads 8 for Sfax ls   MAULED FROM THE AIR   Junction’ of Montgomery and Patton Forces Is   ‘Expected Soon .

Prime Minister Tells News To Brifish People  Pane a ane. 2   Taunts Nazis For Leaving Italians Behind

Americans, British Closing InonRommel,EighthArmy Takes Gabes, El Hamma

Sea, Air Blows Pound Rommel During Flight   8,000 Axis Prisoners Taken As French And American Columns Converge On Vital Airbase At Kairouan;  Red Armies Advance Again.   DISPATCH: Daring Story Of El Hamma Flank Attack Bared

GABES AND EL HAMM, OCCUPIED BY ALLIES   Germans Forced to Withdraw Under Terrific Allied Aerial Rambhardment.

CHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS OF 8TH ARMY’S ADVANCES   But Prime Minister Warns Against Underratng “The Task Which Faces Allied Ferees in Tunisia’

Churchill Tells of Successes In Tunisia but Warns Against Under-Rating Task Ahead —

Churchill Reports on New Success   Warns Against Underrating Task Ahead  In Tunisia

COMMONS TCLD BY CHURCHILL OF VIGTORIES   British Prime Ministe Warns, However, Against Underrating “Task Confronting Troops”   ITALY ADMITS FEAR OF ENCIRCLEMENT   Tells Parliament Enemy Losses Have Been High; . Air Power Plays Big Role In Battles

ARRIAL ATTACK FORCES ENEMY 10 QUIT GABES   E] Hamma on Opposite Side of Gabes Bottleneck Between Sea and Salt Lakes Also Occupied   U.S. AND BRITISH __ JUNCTION HELD NEAR   Onrushing Allied Soldiers Capture 8,000 Enemy Troops, While Yank ees Seize 200 More

Allied Armies  Near Junction   Rommell Expected To Set Up New Headquarters 40 Miles North of Sfax Port

FLEEING TROOPS BEING BLASTED IN AIR ATTACK   Yanks and British Drive Toward Junction To Block ‘Escape Corridor’   EIGHTH ARMY TAKES GABES   Reds Batter Wedge in Nazi Lines Before Smolensk: Japs Hit in Burma

Gabes And El Hamma Fall To Eighth Army As They  Pursue Fleeing Axis Units

British Nearing Junction With Patton’s Army      Rommel Continues Retreat To North As New Zealand Troops Press Close On Heels Of Routed Axis; Air Action Heavy

Churchill Lauds Strategy That Routed Rommel, Warns Tunisia Still Tough Military Problem

Rear Junction With Troops Of Gen. Patton; Punishing Blows Struck By Air Forces

ROMMEL’S ARMY IS RUNNING FOR ITS LIFE TODAY   Troops of Montgomery, Patton 40 Miles Apari—Gabes, El Hamma Fall

Pursuit Of Axis Forces Continues: Junction Of ‘Allied Forces Imminent

E] Hamma Also In Hands Of Allied Army; British Nearing Junction With U. S. Troops Under General Patton

EI Hamma Also Falls As — Onrushing Allies Pursue ~ Desperately Fleeing Axis

ALLIED TROOPS JUNGTION SEEN   Germans Withdraw From Gabes, Americans Smash Toward Sea.   NAZI CORPS DESPERATE

Churchill Cautions Against Underrating Task In Tunisiz   British Leader Claims, However, That “We Have Every Reason To Be Satisfied” With Progress Made

Continue Pursuit of Rommel: Junction of Yank. British Units Seems Near   Germans Withdraw From Gabes Under Terrific Bombardment and Shells by Allied Ships-- New Zealanders Made Up Flanking Force

Churchill Tells of Big Victory “An North Afric   Prime. Minister: Warns _ Heavy Fighting. . Is Still Certain

Afrika Korps Has Lost 8.000 Prisoners; U.S. Units Driving To Coast

Junction of British And American Forces Now Seems Imminent   EI] Hamma and Gabes Occupied by British;  Gabes Gap Closed To Germans Trapped In Sonth

TIDE TURNS IN FAVOR OF ALLIES ON MARETH FRONT   CHURCHILL SAYS ENEMY LOSSES HAVE BEEN HIGH

Yanks Ready To Close Trap On Rommel  Patton’s Men Eager to Contact British Units Surging North  PLANES LASH AXIS  Enemy Vehicles Blasted  in Attack Between Oudvef and Sfax

Points On Opposite Sides Of Gabes Bottleneck Occupied By  Allied Forces: 8.000 Prisoners   Axis Transport Columns Reel Under Crushing Air Attack; New Zealanders Continue Chase Of Fleeing Foe Along Coastal Road

Atrica Corps — Fleeing Nor th   Hotly Pursued as Americans Narrow  _ Escape Corridor; U. S. and French Forces Converge on Kairouan, Move. Toward Sousse; First i Gains j in North.

AFRIKA KORPS FACES TRAP BY ALLIED FORCES   Port City And Ei Hamma Ene tered After Naval, Aerial Bombardments   ROMMEL’S PLIGHT GRAVE   American Columns Are Driving Toward Coast To Cut Escape Corridor

Junction of British and  American Forces Imminent as Rommel Flees North

Pursue Rommel Men in Headiong Flight To North   Junction With American Forces Seems imminent

American - British Junction Appears Imminent As Yankees Drive East ward Toward Sea.

8th Army Occupie: Gabes, El Hamma   German Army Withdraws From Gabes Under Terrific Allied Air Bombardment and Shells of Warships; Rommel’s Forces Desperately Trying to Escape   Vaneuards Contact Fnemyv

[Allies Hot In Pursuit.  Of Rommel   Italian Headquarters ir Communique Tells 0! Axis Plight

Churchill Is Pleased With Army’s Gains   Prime Minister Tells Of Success In Tunisia But Warns That Much Fighting Lies Ahead

Churchill Warns Of Gigantic Task In Africa, Lauds Army Cooperation

EL A GONER IF ALLIES CAN CRACK FLANK      Battered Axis Forces Flee Faster North Along Coast

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY CLOSE ON HEELS OF AXIS   ROTH EL HAMMA AND GABES OCCUPIED BY BRITISH IN NORTHWARD DRIVE

Yankees Smash Against Last Mountainous Wall Between El Guetor and Coast on Road From Gafsa, Allied Headquarters Says

Eighth Army Takes Gabes AndElHamma   British Ist Army Takes 700 Prisoners in Fresh Advances .Against Axis; Reds Batter New Wedge in Drive Toward Smolensk

British Near Junction with Yank Armour   8,000 Nazis “Are  Prisoners of Montgomery After . Break Through Mareth Line. ~-

U.S. Troops Drive To Cut Off Retreat Of Fleeing Nazis   Onrushing Allies Take 8,000 Prisoners From Rommel’s Desert Army; Heavy Aerial Pelts Nazis in Headlong N orthward Flight

PRIME MINISTER WARNS OF TOUGH SLEDDING AHEAD   British War Chief Sees “Every Reason To Be Satisfied’ With Progress In North Africa; Mustn’t Underrate Remaining  Tasks.

CHURCHILL SATISFIED WITHGAINS   Warns That Task Ahead js Still Difficult One

Junction near of British Eighth and Patton’s forces   ‘German panzer columns mauled and weakened by dual attack

BRITISH 8TH ARMY AND AMERIGANS EXPECTED T0 MEET   Junction Between the Two   Forces Appeared tmmi nent Today.  j   BRITISH STORM GABES   Are in Pursuit of the Fleeing Africa Corps, It Is Announced.

8th Army Storms Through Gabes In Pursuit Of Axis   El Hamma Also Captured As Rommel Continues Flight Up Tunisian Coast

ALLIED VANGUARDS CONTINUE PURSUIT OF ROMMEL’S ARMY   This Announcement Made by Prime Minister Churchhill Today.   PASSED THROUGH GABES   Warned Against Underrating Task Which Confronts Allied Forces in Tunisia.

Junction Between Yankees, British Believed Imminent   Churchill Warns Against Underrating Size of Job Left

Yanks Near Junction With Eighth Army   Allied Planes Keep Pounding Rommel’s Men

“Sabes in Allied Hands; Rommel’s'Column Heads  for Sfax      MAULED FROM THE AIR   Junction of Montgomery and Patton Forces Is  Expected Soon

English Take Gabes, El Hamma, Pursue Retreating Rommel   Only 40 Miles Separate Allied Forces in Central Sector, First Army Gains Also

Allied Pincers Are Closing On -Retreating Foe   Junction Of American And British Forces « «Is Imminent: -

GENERAL EISENHOWER REPORTS CAPTURE OF GABES AND EL — -HAMMA FROM FLEEING NAZIS   American Forces Under Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Beat Off Counter-Attack and Advance Eastward From El Guetar Towards Sea

BRITISH TROOPS NEAR JUNCTION WITH YANKEES   English Army Storms Ahead in Pursuit of Fleeing Afrika Korps

british Sweep Through Gahes  Pursuing Foe   Victorious Eighth Army In. Contact With F leeing Units Of African Corps.   YANKEES ADVANCING

NEW ZEALANDERS DRIVE IN TUNISI:   Commons Hears of Flani Turning, American, French Ist Army Activities

EXPECT BRITISH FORCES AND U.S, IINITS TO MEET   Allies Pursue Fleeing Forces  Of Nazi Army

Prime Minister Churchill Warns Against Underrating Tasks Of Allies In Tunisia

Junction of 8th Army, PattonForcelmminent   British Chase Foe Beyond Gabes; 40 Miles Separate Allied Troons

NAZI ARMY IN FULL RETREAT TOWARD NORTH   Allied Headquarters Reports E] Hamma Also Captured

Rommel Reported In Headlong Flighi  To Northern Tunisia   Anglo-American Junction Is Near; 8th Army Also Seizes Ei Hamma; First Army Gains In North

8th Army Nears Junction With Americans; Gap Is Closed To Retreat

Gabes and El Hamma Occupied by English   Juncture of British and American Armies Believed Imminent; Rommel Pounded By Terrific Aerial Bombardment.

CHURCHILL IS ‘SATISFIED’ WITH PROGRESS   Prime Minister, However, Cautions Commons Against Underrating Task Ahead   LAUDS AMERICANS   Alexander Tells Guildhall Audi. ence Extinction of Axis in Twnisia Foreshadowed

ROMMEL ARMY IN HEADLONG FLIGHT TO NORTH TUNISIA   Junction of British and  American Forces Near; Allies Now Have Taken Rennn Avie Pricnnere

8,000 Prisoners Taken As Allies Close Trap   Churchill Warns That Hard Fighting Still Lies Ahead; U. S. Troops Are Praised      ITALY ADMITS SITUATION IS GRAVE   New Plane Known As ‘Can Opener’ Used To Wreck Tanks; Russians Advancing

Churchill In Doubt On Rea Guard Armies   Doesn’t Know How Many Italians Are Covering Withdrawal   Warns Against Over Optimism On Victory   Says Whole Tunisian Operation Difficult For Allied Generals

New: Zealand Troops Chase ‘Axis’ Forces    Americans: Push Toward the Enemy Flank as ‘Desert  Fox’ Heads North   ALLIED FORCES ARE 40 MILES APART   German Units Badly Mauled as They Flee Under Great ‘Bombardment

Churchill Warns Against Under-Rating Task Facing Allied Forces In Tunisia

Progress Is Satisfying To Churchill   Prime Minister Warns Against Underrating Task Ahead   ENEMY'S LOSS HIGH

Gabes, El Hamma Fall To 8th Army   About 40 Miles Separate Patton’s Americans From Montgomery’s Troops; Continue Chase Of Rommel On Coastal Road Toward Sfax.

Tough Fight Ahead, Belief Of Churchill   Gabes’ Capture Praised But Premier Warns Axis Has Power Left

Replacement Of Several 0. P. A. Key Men Looms   Reorganization To Pu More Businessmen I: Policy Posts.

Predict OPA Shake-Up   Impending Changes In Personnel Would Not Mean Change In Policy

OPAUpheaval Is Expected   ‘Brown Orders Investigation; ‘Professors’ to Lost Jobs to ‘Businessmen’

Shakeup In OPA Indicated Soon   “Professora’’ Will Be RePlaced By “Businessmen” Ia Forecast.

MAIL-QRDER HOUSE ATTACKS MEASURE   Constitutionality of SmithConnally Act May Be Tested in Court.

Young Roosevelt Kills Companion   Elhott’s Son Fires  Gun Accidentally

PLAYMATE SHOT BY GRANDSON OF FDR   William Roosevelt, 10, Accidentally Knocks Over Gun

FDR’s Grandson Upsets Rifle, Kills Playmate   Accident Happens At Home of Ex-Wife Of Col. Elliott Roosevelt

FOR’S GRANDSON KILLS PLAYMATE   Youth Accidentally Shot While Playing With Rifle Sunday

Playmate Is Killed By Roosevelt      SON OF COL. ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT TRIPPED OVER 22 CALIBER RIFLE AT HiS MOTHER'S HOME,   Visitor At White House

Grandson of FDR Kills Playmate Accidentally   YOUTH SLAYS GIRL AND SELF   Bodies of Port Allegany Couple Found in Auto By Two Boys

Grandson of F. D. Accidentally Kills Chum With Rifle   Bovs Playing With Gun When It Goes Off: No Other Details

Teacher Placement Has Backfired: It's New Headache to School Men

A SEEN NI PMC tired  PLANTING IN CALIFORNIA LATE - - LABOR SHORTAGI

FSA CREDIT DIVISION CLOSING ON SATURDAY   Director Says Organiaztion Hasn’ Any Funds For Current  Fiseal Year

Report Mussolini ls War Casualty   Drowned Like Trapped Rat, New York Paper s Informed

1 DUE DROWNED NEW YORKERS TOLD   Post Dispatch Says Benito Mussolini Trapped asSub Sinks

MUSSOLINI REPORTED DROWNED   Said to Have Been Aboarc Italian Sub Trying to Escape Country When Rombed bv Allied Plane

HINTS EXTENSION AGENTS   Suggests Conserving Gasoline by Increasing Horse Power With Horses and Mules   LOTS OF SHOE LEATHER

HEAVY RAID ON JAPANESE NAVAL BASE   Amboina Island in Dutch East Indies devas tated by bombs

BABSON MAKES SHOP NOW PLEA   Those Who Don’t Get Busy Early to Find Empty Shelves

THE BUYING OUTLOOK FOR XMAS SHOPPERS   Roger Babson Urges Buying Christmas Gifts Prior To Dec. 1st. Says Gift Goods Are Scarce This Year.

Holiday Outlook - Good For Year   YEAR END BUSINESS TO ’ BE AT RECORD LEVEL

BABSON JOINS OTHERS WITH REQUEST FOR EARLY BUYINC   Christmas Trade In Dollars Will Equal That of Last Year, Customers Who Are Late May Find Empty Shelves.

ITALIANS MAKE INDIRECT PLEA TO LEAVE WAR   Early ‘Honorable Peace Urged By Controlled Rome Radio; Fleet  Leaves Taranto   Play For Sympathy

Rome Continues Peace Appeals   Indirect Pleas Heard From Gloomy Capital

Rome Renews Feelers for Basis of. Peace   Algiers Claims Laly Withdraws Fleet  - From Invasion Path

ltalians Make Pathetic Move For Early Peace   Radio Broadcasts Direcied fo Foes

Cry For Peace Grows Louder Within Italy  Radio Attempt Mad To Arouse Allied Sympathies

Big Four Wage Hike Refused —   ‘War Labor Board Rules Wages May Not Exceed Level Of Sept. 15, 1942

WLB Refuses Wage Boost For Packing Workers   Decision !s Thought To Presage Firm Federal Stabilization Policy

Packing Company Wage Hike Denied   Labor Board Appear: Taking Firm Stand

INCREASE: DENIED PACKING WOR   Prelude to Inflation Order i Finds WLB Holding ~ to Formula

DENY 180,000 AN INCREASE IN WAGE   WLB Refuses Modification o1 “little Steel” Formula For Packing Workers.

Pay Raise Denied Packing Workers   Case has Elements Of Soft Coal Case

Reject Pay Boost In Packing Plants Must Stabilize Wages At  Sept. 15 Levels WLB Savs In Decision

WLB STANDS BY STEEL FORMULA   Refuses To Grant Wage Boosts To 180,000 Packing House Employes

Packing Folk Refused Hike   War Labor Board Sticks To Guns to Hold Wages To Sept. 15, 1942, Level

Paper May Sue Union, Misses Daily Edition   Strike Ends In  Providence. R_ 

Allied air forces swing © into softening campaign upon Italian mainland

Allied Airmen Blast Many Italian Bases   Penetrate Farther North, Bombing Port 37 ' Miles Northwest of Rome—Score Direct Hits on Several Ships in Harbor.

Allies Blast Airport near City of Rome   Both Ends of Italian: Sardinian: Transport Route Heavily Bombed

TALIAN PORTS ARE BATTERED BY AIR RAIDS      Nllted Popes Range Deep Into ah hy Route— “Do ag OL)   COME CLOSE TO ROME - ¥N ATTACKING BASES

Alllies Carry W ar to Italian Mainland, Sicily, Sardinia In 48- Hour RecordAssualt

U.S. BOMBERS HEAVILY RAID ITALIAN PORT   40 Miles From Rome. Direct Hits Scored on Several Ships. Ammu nition Dump Exploded.

Flying Forts Score Direct Hits On Ships   Air Forces Swing Into Stride Of “SofteningUp’ Campaian

CIVITAVECCHIA TARGET OF BIG FORTRESS RAID   Ships Sunk, Fuel Stores Hit, Ammunition Dump Destroyed In Raid On Italy; Islands Also Bombed.

Widespread Attacks On Axis Bases      Flying Fortresses Hit Clos er to. Rome Than Ever Before in Big Raids   ISLAND STEPPING STONES BLASTED   ‘Allies Now Dominate Long Passage Through the Mediterranean

Flying Forts Smash Ships, Fuel Storage Depots - «   Other Vessels Sunk Off Sardinia; Air Field On Pantelleria Is Knocked Out

AIR WAR 15 BEING  CARRIED TO ITALIAN  POINTS BY BOMBERS ITALIAN PORT NEAR  ROME AND SARDINIAN PORT ARE ATTACKED

Planes Blast Bases, Ports in Htaly   ” Allied Air Forces Reach ¢.Farther North In Sweeps °

Axis See Routes  Slashed   SOFTENING-UP CRUSHES SARDINIA, SICILY PORTS; ITALY ROCKED

Allied Bombers Hit At Europe's South Ramparts   Flying Forts In Heavy Attack On Italian Port Near Rome.

Allied Airmen Extend Blows Far Into Italy   Flying Fortresses Attack Port 37 Miles from Rome

CIVITAVECCHIA NEW TARGET OF YANKER PLANES   Direct Hits Scored on Sev eral Ships in Harbor and Fuel Storages by Flying Fortresses   AMMUNITION DUMP SENT UP IN SMOKE   Flames Visible for 60 Miles; Sardinia, Steping Stone to Europe Also Blasted

Weakening of Enemy Under Heavy Battering Indicated in Waning  Of GCounter-Attacks,  MOST OF DETAILS CUT BY CENSORSHIP  Little Activity Noted In Territory Held By American Forces

Rommel Troops Wilting, Counter- Attacks Infer   American Divisions Ready to Fall Up: on Enemy’s Flanks If He Quits < Deen Fortifications .

“Door Is Still Open” For Tax Discussior  Astronomical Figures Be. ing Broited About

HANNOVER'S PLANTS HIT WY ASSAULT   Berlin Is Tar. get Of Fast Mosquitos At Night

RAF Bombers Strike A Blow At Hannover   Lighter Planes Hit Berlin Again; 17 Ships Are Lost

RAF Batters Hannover in Great Force   Enemy Presses Its’ Retdliatory Raid As Far as London

British Airmen Batter Hannover In Heavy Attack   ‘Seventeen Bombers Lost In RAF Raids ‘Against Germany

FAST BOMBERS STRIKE BERLIN; HANNOVER HIT   Germans Smash At London For Third Straight Night

Hannover Is Attacked Again In Great Force   Berlin Pounded By Mosquito Bombers; Targets In Western Germany Also Hit

HANNOVER AND BERLIN RAIDED BY THE BRITISH   Seventeen Bombers Lost In Operations Ten - Day Lull In Large Scale Air As  saults Broken.

RAF HITS GERMANY IK STRENGTH   Hanover Gets Main . Blow; Mosquito Bombers Busy

RAF Bombers Pound Hannover  17 Bombers Missing — Mosquitos Blast

RAF BLAST TARGETS IN BERLIN, HANNOVER   2nd Attack in Row on Nazi Capital, 17 Planes Lost

REICH CAPITAL ANDINDUSTRIAL CITY POUNDED   ‘Royal Air Force, In Great   Strength, Also Attacks   Military TargetsIn — Western Germany   SEVENTEEN BOMBERS "ARE LOST IN RAIDS   Nazi Fliers Drop Bombs On London; U. S. Airmen Attack Huns In Yugoslavia

RAF Directs Heavy Attack At Hannover   Blast Targets In Western Germany, Berlin After Ten-Dayv Lull   7 BUMBERS LOSE

Hannover Again Is Target For — Heavy RAF Raid   Mosquito Bombers Blast Berlin And Western  Cermanyv.

FOE INDUSTRIAL TARGETS RIPPED   RAF Bombers Raid Berlin and Western Germany—Hannover Is Hit

RAF Again Hits German Targets  Hannover And Berlin Blasted By Raiders

Bombs Rain New Havoc On Hannover   R. A. F. Also Blasts Targets In Berlin And In Western Germany.

HANNOVER BLASTED  HEAVILY LAST NIGHT  BY RAF BOMBERS MOSQUITO BOMBERS  ALSO ATTACKED BERLIN «AND OTHER POINTS

RAF Raids Germany In Great Strength   Main Blow Struck at Hannover, With Mosquito Bombers Attacking Berlin for Second Straight Night—17 Aircraft Lost.

RAF Strikes At  German Centers   17 Bombers Lost in Blasts ' At Hannover, Berlin and Other Centers.

Army Selects 103 Colleges For Training .   Specialized Program: ) Will Be Stepped Up 8; War Department   LIST STAR SCHOOLS   California Will Get Large  Share Of Assignees By End Of July

Boy Starts for Movies Without Money; Gets ‘Home With 10c¢ Surplu

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS IN OTTAWA TODAY   PRESIDENT WILL BE ACCOMPANIED TO CANADIAN CAPITAL BY CHURCHILL.

rina TRIAL ~ 1$ DELAYED   TWO WOMEN JURORS CHARGED BY PROSECUTION OF HAYING EXPRESSED OPINIONS ON_GUILT

MISTRIAL ASKED IN ATTACK TRIAL OF ERROL FLYNM   Prosecution Submits Affida vits Charging Two Women Jurors Prejudiced in Favor of Actor.

HARD RAIN HITS THIS AFTERNOON   More Than Inch ] Fell Here in Less Than 30 Minutes

HARD RAIN HITS THIS AFTERNOON      Mine Than Inch Fell. Here Jn Less Than 30 Minutes

AUOIANG ARE MOVING ALONG   Desperate German Attempt at Kramatorsk Ends in in a Defeat.

1,000 GERMANS DIE IN BLOODY TWO-DAY FIGHT   Desperate Nazi attempt to recapture Kramatorsk ends in disaster

RSIS ARE, MOWING aL   Desperate ' German A tempt i . at Kramatorsk Ends in “in. a Defeat. ji  & ve

Germans Lose - In Attempt To Retake Town   Moscow Reports Desperate Effort To Recapture Kramatorsk Is Repulsed   RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVE WESTWARD

Italians Surrender Isle To Lone RAF Sergeant  Forced Down in Plane   More Daylight Sweeps Over Europe Follow Devastating Bomber Assaults; Nazis Admit Losses; Heavy Land Action Reported in Russia

U.S. Food  Prospects to Be Set   SECRETARY WICKARD TO REVEAL PLANTING PLANS OF AMERICAN FARMERS

KHARKOV LOST, SOVIETS DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   Strategic City Is Yielded To Germans After “Tense, Fierce Battle”   WINTER BASE MENACED   Capture By Reds Would OutFlank Whole Enemy Push South Of Moscow

Germans Flee Before Soviet Rush, Destroying All Towns; Kharkov Fight Rages Bitterly

Nazis Leave Blazing Towns and Villages   Bitter Fighting East of City of Kharkov

Results of Offensive  Reviewed   Kill or Capture 315,066 Axis Troops — Trap 22  German Divisions

315,065 AXIS TROOPS TAKEN IN OFFENSIVE _   Allied Planes, Naval Units Strike Hard

REDS RETAKE 1,989 TOWNS; FIGHTING IN N. AFRICA STAGNANT   Soviet, Detailing Suecesses Of Winter Drives, Reports 38-Way Push On Rostov; Naval Battle Rumored   Ry I NITED PRESS

TELEGRAM MADE PUBLIC   Five Towns To Get More Gas   Bluefield, Va.. Removed From Zone

FOUR TOWNS GET MORE-GAS ORDER   Beginning Monday Fuel Rations Will Be Higher For Shorter Time.   REMOVED FROM EASTERN SEABOARD

Progress In Tri-Partite Meeting Told   Facts Won't Be Given Out Until Later; One Session Is Planned Each Day In Moscow

Hull and Eden Confer Before Meeting With Molotov; No Military Leaders Present At First Meeting; Session Is Satisfactory.

Allied Leaders At Moscow Begin Daily Conference   Vital War- Time and Post War Problems Will b Aired by Three Diplo mats. Lend - -Léas Agreement _ Indicate: Closer Coopcration 0  ‘wo Countries.

Conferees Satisfied with Moscow Talks: One Meeting Daily Planned

Daily Parleys Held in Moscow   First Formal Talk Produces Results

THREE-POWER TALKS 10 BE HELD DAILY   U. S., British and Soviet Foreign Secretaries Will Gather Each Afternoon Until Parley Is Conelided.

TRI-PARTITE MEMBERS IN DAILY TALKS   No Announcements To Be Given On  Its Prosress

ic Announcement Of P s Ils Exp  MOSCOW CONFERENCE ‘SEEMS TO BE GOING WELL SO FAR

Envoys Down To Real Talk   Anglo-American and Russian Delegates Discuss Problems

Daily Talks Aid 3-Power Discussions   New. Lend-Lease Accord Seen Sign of Closer U.S.-Soviet Ties

Three Men To Taik Frankly   Signing of New Lend-Lease Deal Favorable Background:

Talks Go On At Moscow   All Seem Satisfied With Early. Progress Of the Conference

Moscow Parley Moves Smoothly  Friendly Feelings Prevall at Sessions

Daily Conferences Slated; Foundation For Future Parleys  Being Prepared

Envoys Start . Moscow Talks   Frank: Daily Gatherings Planned ‘With Nothing _Beine Given Out

HULL CONTINUES MOSCOW TALKS   No Reports to Be Made on Prog.oss White Parley Is Under Way

Daily Conferences Start In Moscow Meeting Of Secretary Hull, Anthony Eden, Red Commissar

Satisfactory Progress Is Reported In Tri-Partite Conference At Moscow

Daily Meetings Planned In Moscow Parley  Talks Expected To La   Talks Expected To Lay Groundwork For Later Meetings Among FDR, Churchill Stalia

Plan Regular  Conterences   Hull. Eden. Molotow Commence Talks On Military. Post-War Matters.

Initial Meeting In Moscow  Lasts Over Two Hours  and Is Reported As SQaticfactory”   NO MILITARY MEN At FIRST MEETING   No Formal Announcement Of Program Will Be Issued; Meetings Are Planned Daily

NO CONFERENCE NEWS   Progress Of Moscow Talks Unrevealed But Believed Satisfactory

FIRST TRI-PARTITE MEETING IN MOSCOW HELD LAST NIGHT   U.S. Secretary of State Hull, Anthony Eden and Vyacheslay Molotov Met.   CONFERENCES DAILY   First Session, Lasting More Than Two Hours, Seemed Satisfactory:

TRIPARTITE ~ _ PARLEY GOES ON NICELY   Good Progress in First Session; _ But One Meeting Daily

Satisfactory Progress Reported From First Session of Moscow Conference

FlnoT PARLEY 6 A SUCCESS   Hull, Eden, Molotov Settle Down to Daily Conferences.   HO SNAGS ARE EXPECTED

Moscow Talks Said Gratifying To 3 Principals   Hull, Eden And Molotov Settle Down To. Daily Parleys On War Plans

Moscow Talks Progressing Satisfactorily   First Formal Talk Was Held Last Night—Others Will Follow Steadily

Dally Meets In ~ Moscow Started   First Formal Talk ‘Satisfactory’

Satisfactory Progress Made At Tri-Partite Conference   Program Calls For One Meeting Daily On War Issues By Hull, Eden. Molotoy

FIRST RESULTS AT MOSCOW ARE SATISFACTORY   Hull, Eden And Molotov Settle Down To Daily Conferences

Nazis Battling to Check Allied Advance Toward Rome.   ENEMY RESISTANCE ON CORSICA ENDED   Germans Win Several Important Positions on Menaced Island.

ALLIES SEIZE ANOTHER HIGHWAY JUNCTION   Montgomery Strengthens Hold On German Flank

Numerous Enemy Troops Attempt To Block Allied Advance Toward Rome   British 8th Reinforced At Termoll; Yanks Capture Vital Junction; Nazi-Corsican Resistance Ends

U.S. Fliers Strike Europe in One Of Heaviest Raids  Port Facilities Are Main Objectives;

FRENGH TARGETS HEAVILY BLASTEL   AMERICANS DESTROY 35 PLANES AND LOSE 16 IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS.

Nazi War Plants From France to Berlin Air Targets   New Twilight Raid Technique-Tried_ Out; Radios Off Air

U.S. Fliers Strike Europe in One Of Heaviest Raids  Port Facilities Are Main Objectives; Enemy Loses Planes

NAZIS SLOW UP: ADVANGE DE VATU   Loss Of Two Lar we Regions Is Not Verified

Nazis Able To Slow Reds In  Donets Basin   Strong Counterattacks Bring ReCapture Of Towns

OFFENSIVE IN DONETS IS STALLED   Russians Claim New Advances In Area  West Of Kharkov

REDS STILL DRIVE AHEAD INTHENORTH   Russians Still Driving Ahead Toward Dnieper Region and Western Ilkraine

GERMANS MAKING. STAND 10 STAVE: OFF DISASTER      But Russia Does Not Admit Reversesin _ Donets Basin   REPORTS SERIOUS COUNTER ATTACKS

Nazis Check The  Russian Advance   Red Army Continues to Grind Forward West of Kharkov   500 GERMANS KILLED   German Resistance is Stiffened Both on Ground  and in Air

NAZIS USING FRESH TROOPS IN THE SOUTH      Red Army Continues To Grind Forward Around Kharkov

GERMANS BRING REINFORCEMENTS TO DONETS BASIN   APPARENTLY SEEK TO STAVE OF FURTHER DISASTERS IN RUSSIA

Reds Push Forward West of Kharkov   Desperate Nazi Effort Checks Progress Of Russian Forces in Donets Basin

NAZIS CHECK RED ADVANCE   Germans Make Desperate Stand To Halt Russians in Donets Basin.

GERMANS SAY TWO. KEY POINTS CAPTURED   [But Russian Communiqué Says Nazi Counter Attacks © Are Repulsed

REDS CHECKED IN DONETS BASIN   Russians Continue to Gain West of Kharkov, Germans Use Fresh Troops

BERLIN CLAIMS 2 RAIL TOWNS   Moscow Reports Repelling Serious Counter Blows By Tanks, Infantry

FIERCE GERMAN ATTACKS CHECK RED GENERAL   Russians, However, Repori Advances West of Kharkov and Toward Daieper   REPEL ATTACKS   Russian Communiques Do Not Concede German Claims Kramatorsk, Lozovaya Recaptured

Reds Pushing West Toward Dnieper River   Germans Claim Kramatorsk and Lozovaya Recaptured; Soviet Admits Stiff Fighting

Soviet Troops Held Back In Donets Basin   Strong Counter - Attack Made By Germans In Effort To Prevent Further Advances

Nazi Counterattacks Stop Donets Basin Offensive;  Axis Claim Not Confirmed

SOVIETS GRIND AHEAD TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER   Fierce Nazi Counterattacks Slow Drive Thru Donets District   FRESH TROOPS IN BATTLE   Germans Claim Recapture Of Kramatorsk And Losovaya Near Kharkov

DESPERATE GFR MAN STAND APPARENTLY CHECKING RUSSIANS   BONETS BASIN HELD UP BUT RED ARMY PUSHED AHEAD ELSEWHERE

Nazis Battle Furiously to Check .Russ   Axis Claims Two Towns Recaptured South of Kharkov

Nazis Hurl  More Troops Into Battle   Violent . Attacks Made To Stop Russian Drive

Nazis Claim 2 Towns Retaken  Fight Desperately To — $tap Red Advance

Russian Columns Stopped In Donets Basin, But New Gains Recorded Elsewhere

Donets Basin Drive Halted By The Nazis   Counter-Attacks Successful, Says Berlin Report

Reds Checked By Desperate Nazi Defense   Donets Basin Advance Slowed Drive Ahead West of Kharkov

Chiang Back From Cairo Conference, At) Which Agreement Reached To Strip Japan Of All  War-Won Gains And ‘Thefts’ 

Miners Vote More Strikes In Deflanee   Hold Up War Production In Stee] Plants

Miners In Pennsylvania Continue Defiance Of Both Union And Country

COAL SITUATION GROWS WORSE AS MORE MINERS QUI   WALKOUT IN PENNSYLVANIA AND ALABAMA MINING DISFRICTS NOW REPORTED 125,000 MINERS.   ICKES APPEALS TO MINERS TO WORK   War Labor Board Official Asserts Military Leaders May Have to Curtail Certain Operations Because of Steel Shortage.

PAPER GIVES NAZI PRISONERS TRUTE   PUBLICATION TELLS CAPTIVES ABOUT HITLER AND THE  NAZL PARTY.

JUGOSLAVS ERASE STRONG NAZI FORCE   Enemy Attack On Island Of Brac In Adriatic Frustrated

Wages, Salaries Rules Clarified  Regional Boards Can Make Adiustmentits

‘Wages, Salaries Rules Clarified  Reoional Boards (Cad   Regional Boards Can Make Adijustmenis

CONTROL OF CROPS URGED BY SENATOR   Bankhead Sees Disaster Without Production Control

Suspension of Basic Crop Quotas Poses Big Problem  Post War Plan for Agriculture an Essential

Allies Resume Aerial Raids: Following Lull   Hear Italian Soldiers Mutiny / When Ordered to Fire. an — PDamonetratore

Britain s War Cabinet Meets As Rome Stalls   Bombings Resumed As ' Troops Revolt At Milan: New Riots

REPORT HEAVY PACIFIC RAIDS   Alfacks on Istand: Presage Offensive by Ficet, Belief

Yanks Bomb Munda Base   20 Tons of Munitions Dropped, All Ships Safe

Today’s War Commentary  Italy’s Plight  Orphan Cnowanted By Friend Or Foe

Public Hearings To Be Held Wednesday on Bills To Create 2nd University

INTERESTCENTERS ON U. OF S. 1. BILLS   HEARINGS INSTATE SENATE ARE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY —

Chief Interest in State Capital This Week Centers in Bills for US!

HEARING ON USt PROPOSALS SET FOR WEDNESDAY   Interest In Plan Growing, Capital Reports Show

YANKS BEAT OFF JAP FORCE, SINK SEVERAL VESSEL‘   Second Naval Engagement in Eight Days Has Probably Cost Six Ships, Battle May Not Be Over.   GERMANS SLACKEN ATATACKS ON RED FRONT   Loss of 45,000 Men and 2622 Tanks In Week Causing Belief That Summer Campaign Has Failed.

JAPANESE LOSE FOUR WARSHIPS IN KULA FIGHT   Battle Continuing — Japs Maj Have Lost Even More : Veceale

MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY NAVY IN PACIFIC   New 1. 8S. Naval Triumph in Central Solomons

NEW VICTORY IN KULA GULF   _Ve Four to Six Jap Ships Sunk in Batile Which May Be Continuing

Japan Loses 6Ships   U. S. Hopes Enemy Will Win Many More At This Rate

ATO 6 JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK IN NEW SOLOMONS FIGHT  Japs Again Attempt 0 Reinforce  T  U. S. CRUISERS SUNK

U.S. Warships Beat Off Jap’ Ships Attempting To Land! Reinforcements In Solomons.

New U. 8. Naval Triumph Being Reported — Desperate Japanese Attempts Being Madeto Keinforce Centra] Solomons Garrisons.

Americans Fight Off Units Trying To Assist Munda   ' Early Reports From Solomons Indicate New Naval Triumph

New Kula Gulf Naval Triumph IsToldBy U.S.   4 To 6 Japanese Vessel: Believed Sunk In Returr Engagement   NO LOSSES TOLD   Americans Block Foe In Attempt To Reinforce Solomons Garrisons

Enemy Sustains ’ Major Defeat In Kula Gulf Battle   Japanese Attempt To Land Reinforcements in Central Solomons Frustrated By Decisive American Naval Victory

Jap Task  Force Is Defeated   rour to Six Enemy Vessels Believed Sunk In Kula Area   Munda Garrison Hurling Fierce Counterattacks

Fighting Rages Along 140 ile Fron orth _  Africa  SEIZURE OF DJEBEL MANSOUR REPORTED  Further Advance Eastward Continued, Com.” munique nique Says

8th Army Makes  Fresh Advances   Dijebel Mansour Evacuated By Germans After Pressure Is Intensified; Anderson  Drives Wedges Into Axis

Fighting Rages Along 140 ___ Mile Front in North Africa  SEIZURE OF DJEBEL MANSOUR REPORTED  Further Advance Eastward Continued, Communique Says

British First Army Is Pound. ing Axis With Heavy Force Of Armor   NAZIS ACKNOWLEDGE WEDGES INTO LINES

GEN. ALEXANDER HURLS WEIGHT OF BRITISH ARMOR INTO BATTLE AGAINST TWO GERMAN TANK DIVISIONS. se gree PESRER

French Join In Allied Move Ahead   Strategic Hill Falls As Three Armies Converge Upon Enemy

Germans Taking Fierce Pounding In North Africa   ‘rench, British and Amer ican Troops Advance on 140-Mile Front   sritish Launch Savage At. tack on Two Axis Tank Divisions

French Claim Capture Of Djebel Mansour, 14 Nazi Tanks Halted Below Medjez-el-Bab  ENEMY RESISTANCE CONTINUES STRONG  U.S. Second Army  Now in North Sector, Haltc Cauintar Attn nl.

Allies Storm Axis Positions All Along 140-Mile Front —   British Advonce, Great Tank Battles Foug French and Americans Take Objectives.

French Seize Strong Point; Yanks Advance   Djebel Mansour Falls; Bou Ficha Threatened; Tank Battle Races

Other Allies Press Nazis Along Front   Djebel Mansour Taken hy Frenchmen After Prolonged Fieht

Troops Make Gains Toward Tunis, Bizerte   Djebel Mansour Is Evacuated by Nazis; Sth Army Reported Making New Advance

Allies Chip at Axis Positions  On Long Front   French troops take hill position near Pon du Fan; Allied artnies “active on front... °°

French Troops Take Djebel Mansour; Tank Fight Rages Near Goubellat; Americans Repulse Attacks

Germans Reported Evacuating Their Southern, Positions, Fourteen Nazi Tanks Destroyed: Bloody Fighting Is Reported

Savage Tank Battle Is Reported   Eighth Army Forces New Advance on Coastal Plain

Vegetable Price Ceiling Is Set   Permanent System  Announced By OPA

Retail Ceiling Prices Are Set For Vegetables   Seven Fresh Vegetables Are Affected Items In Latest Ruling Announced By OPA.

OPA Announces System For Determining Ceiling Prices For 7 Vegetables

OPA Places Ceilings on Vegetables   Fresh Cabbage, Peas, Lettuce, Beans, Tomatoes, Spinach Affected

PERMANENT PRICES ON 7 VEGETABLES   Ceiling Prices On Beef, Lamb. And Mutten . Postponed

Control Of Vitiaz Strait Not Allied   Forces On New Guinea Can Now Press Their Northward Operations Near Huon Peninsula

Beachheads Are  Secured on  Jap Stronghold   General MacArthur Reports Losses Are Extremely Light, Although One Commando Unit Is Almost Wiped Out

Overrun Arawe Peninsula In  Five Quick Hours   Beachheads Est ’.shed After Terrific Naval-Air Bombing In MacArthur’s Greatest Offensive Thrust Catches Japs Napping.

JAP TOLL NOW OVER 100,000   New Guinea and Solomons Actions Cost Foe Over 109 Ships

Red Cross War Activities Are Still Expanding To Include New Services   Several New Cominittees « Named. Recent By a  Chairman.

ij, S, AIR FORCES JOIN BATTLE ON BURMA FRONT   Javanese Base at Fengchung in Yunnan Province Ham mered

JAP SUBMARINE SUNK BY ALLIES   Surprise Attack Finds Enemy Unloading Cargo At Lae; Timor Hit

RETIRED RAILROAD OFFICIAL SUCCUMBS   Albert Stimson, 69, Dies at Hot Springs, Va.

U.S. Carrier Fore: Bags 72 Planes, Sinks Six Ships  Bougainville Hold ; Tokyo Brags Again

Crack Nazis Fight  In Mountain Area   Eighth Army Still Faces Hard Battle To Mop Up Isolated Enemy Forces

Peninsula Cut Off; Organized Fighting By Foe Nears End   _ Entire Companies Yield to Allies; Resistance Said ‘Especially Fierce’ On Eishth Army’s Southern Front

THOSE ON CAP BON AND IN THE HILLS ARE SURRENDERING   Whole Companies of Nazis Lay Down Arms—Plight Is Honeless.

Foe Isolated Completely On Peninsula   uerman Troops Trapped In Mountain Sector Fight On Against Hopeless Odds; Swift British Drive Cuts Off Enemy On Cap Don

MEN IN ZAGHOUAN ‘MOUNTAINS STILL FIGHT HOPELESSLY   Knox Says Tunisian Victory Will Operr Use of Mediterranean Sea For United Nations Shipping.   TRAVEL DISTANCE TO BE 5000 MILES LESS   Churchill Congratulates Eisenhower and Alexander For Their Victories tn Tunisia.

PRISONERS NOW NEAR 100,000   Entire Companies Ot Germans and Italians Give Up

Home Edition   LAST OF RESISTANCE IN AFRICA COLLAPSING  Allied General Says ‘It's Over;  Swift British Drive Seals Peninsul:

British First Army Reaches Hammamet   Naval Forces . Smash Futile Escape Attempts

To Allies - S      ONLY ORGANIZED RESISTANC AFRICA IS NOW BY AXIS. . REMNANTS IN HILLS ON THE SOUTH FRONT...

King Tntr oduces Veteran: Loan Bill      sLend: Servicemén SL. 000 To Settle: Dehien: :

TIME PERIOD LESS _QN-COFFEE STAME   Pound Is for Five, Not Six Weeks Provided for Next

552 Arrested In 20 Cities in ~ Draft Cases   Many Failed to Report for Tests or Left No Change of Address -

DRAFT CHARGES   FBI Looking for 3,000 Other Delinquents, Hoover Reports.   CHECK. 200,000 CASES

Nab552 On Draft Charges   FBI Makes Greatest Day’s Roundup in Bureay History

EG ARRESTED ON  DRAFT LAW CHARGE   Arrests Made In 19 Cities Are Results of Painstaking Investigations; 15 Persons Arrested In Charlotte.

Draft Dodgers Rounded Up In 19 Big Cities   F.B.I. Discloses 552 Are Caught In Net On Draft Law Charges.-

552 ARRESTED ON DRAFT LAW COUNTS   Special Agents Cover 19 Cities In Round-Up for Government

DRAFT DODGER “ROUNDUP MADE   'FBLAGENTS PickED UP 382 MEN . YESTERDAY IN LARGEST ROUNDUP. OF THE WAR

FBI TAKES 392 DRAFTDODGERS   Arrested In 20 Cities; Agents Seek 3,000 More

adyeds Apprehended j in Drive Penducted by FBI in 19  Laree Cities

F BI Rounds Up 552 Delinquents in Draft   Federal Burcan Has Busiest Day in History With Arrests In All Parte of Country

FBI Seizes 552 Draft Dodgers   Greatest Roundup Made fn 19 Big Cities

552 ARRESTED BY FBI OVER DRAFT CHARGES   Round-Up Made In 20 Cities As G-Men Have Busy Day

G-MEN ARREST 552 ONDRAFTCHARGES   HOOVER DISCLOSES ARRESTS WERE MADE IN TWENTY CITIES

FBI Cracks Down’on Draft Evaders Arresting 552 Men in 20 Bio Cities

552 Draft Evaders Arrested by FBI   Intensive Drive Made in Nation

FBI Agents Nab 552 Draft  Violators   Director Hoover Urges All Registrants to Consider Obligations

FBI Men Arrest 552 In 20 Cities On Draft Law Charges; On Lookout For 3,000 More

FBI Gets Busy On Draft Registrants. ....  Arrest 552 Men On Draft Law Charges

502 Face Draft Law Charges  Nationwide Roundup “Is Made By The FBI-

Arrest 552 on Draft Charges  Jaken in 20 Cities By FBI Agents, ei eee

EVADE DRAFT, 552 ARRESTED   FBI Hoover Urges Se lectees to Carry Registration Cards

902 Arrested In Draft Roundup   FBI Chief Reveals  Nationwide Drive

FBI Nabs 552 On Draft Act Counts  Hunt 3,000 Others In  Nation. Savs Hoover

Blasts Jap Submarine      Destroyer Does Job After Navy Flyer Spots Torpedo Wake

The End Of A  Jap Submarine  Seen By Patrol Plane, Sunk Bv Destrover

WAY FOR SINKING OF U-BOAT   Alertness Of Navy Catalina Patrol Boat Leads To Eventual Destruction Of Japanese Underseas Craft After Attack On Battleship Off Attu -

Advancing Russians Forced To Beat Down Big Counter-Attacks  CAUCASUS COLUMNS rAKE MORE TOWNS  Town of Zimoyniki One of Rail Points Falling to Russians

Russians Are Believed To Be Within 60 Miles Of Rostov; Reds Harry Retreating Caucasus Army.

‘More Villages. Rail Centers Back To Reds   Germans Harried By Soviet Soldiers In Their Retreat

Reds Relentlessly Drive Nazis Back   Score Of Villages Taken In Stalingrad Area, With Rostov Only 60 Miles Away

SOVIETS TAKE SCORE OF VILLAGES IN DOR, CAUCASIAN REGIONS   Red Troops Are Believed to Be Less Than 60 Miles From Rostov; Foe Puts Off Stiff Resistance

SOVIET TROOPS STILL ROLLING AGAINST NAZIS   Number Of Key Railway Towns Are Recaptured ©  By Russian Armies   GERMAN DON ‘ARMY PUTTING UP FIGHT

Reds Shatter Nazi Line in 10-Mile Push  Beascotan: Gimach    Russians.Smash “To Within 65 Miles of Rostov

STRATEGIC CITY ONLY 60 MILES FROM NEW LINE   Berlin Chided For Claim Of ‘Shortening’ Front In Caucasus; Violent  Attacks Beaten   Sal River Crossed

TANKS, INFANTRY HARASS GERMANS FLEEING CAUCASUS   Russians Seize Score of Villages and Railway Towns as They Roll Forward on Two Fronts.   ZIMOVNIKI FALLS TO STALIN’S TROOPS   “Hedgehog” Positions of Enemy Blasted by Artillery— Great Areas Overrun in Offensive.

More Than Score  Of Villages Are Seized By Reds   Advancing Forces Reported Lees Than 60 Miles From Strategic City.

Soldiers Will Be Used To Operate Railroads in Event Of Strike, Stimson States

PLANS READY ‘FOR: MEETING ANY WALKOUT   wat: DEPARTMENT WILL USE HOLDIERS AND INVOKE \ANTL-STRIKE LAW PEN1] ALTIES AGAINST   ih STAIKERS

Army Takes Roads Under FDR Orders   Hold-out by Conductors, Firemen and Switchmen Brings U. S. Seizure

OHIO LIQUOR STORES MAY ALL BE CLOSED   Doors Would Me Shut Only Temporarily, However

FAVORS CLOSING   Fisher Wants ‘Breather’ For State Liquor Stores.

GHIO STREAMS NEAR-CRESTS   Threats of Serivus Flood Damage Ending — Several War Plants Forced to Shut Down ovr Curtail Operations in Cincinnati.

—~ Duy War Bonds —  Flood Waters Abate Ending Threats Of Serious Damage

18th Congress, Torn by Bitter Home Front Strife Most of Year, Relaxes for Holiday Season

Time Out’ For Yule :   78th Congress Wiil Relax for Three Weeks; Back to Work Jan. 10

CONGRESS TO ADJOURN FOR YULE SEASON   Many Discussions Face Members Next Year 

INT AFTER HOIDAY'   inflation, Subsidies and Other Problems To Wait Until .  ~ Jenuarea tt

CONGRESS 1) QUIT TUESDAY   Groups Relax Today With All Major Issues on Shelf For Yule Season.   RECONVENES ON JAN. 10

Congress Puts Issues Aside   Subsidies, Rail Pay, Oil Prices to Greet Return

Congr ess Goes a i uesday lor Vacation   Legislators Will Deal With Problems Of Inflation on Return January 10

Congress To Shelve Work For Holidays   Pians to Return January 10 With Three Major Issues Confronting It

BILLS, REGED   78th Congress Ready T Take Holiday Until January 10th

Congress Will Quit Tuesday for Holidays   Major Issues to Come Up Again When Recess "Ende on Jan. 10

Congress, Relaxing For Holidays, Faces 3-Way Battle On Inflation After January 1

CONGRESS TO QUT FOR CHRISTMAS   Major Issues Go on Shelf as Solons Plan to Leave Tuesday for Holiday Vacation

CONGRESS WILL QUIT TUESDAY  FOR CHRISTMAS   Major Issues Shelved For Brief Recess; Suddenly Fight Up

Congress To Take Vacation Until Jan. 10   Major Issues Are Shelved As Lawmakers Make Plans To Go Home For  “Vile ‘Seaean:

Congress Relaxing For Yule Holiday; Inflation Battle Due After New Year

RECESS SHELVES MAJOR ISSUES   Congress To Face Inflation Problem After Vacation

Congress Will Take Vacation   House and Senate to Close Shop Tomorrow

Congress to Quit Work Tomorrow for  Three-Week Recess   Controversial Issues Will Be Taken Up_ on  Reconvening

CONGRESS WILL TAKE HOLIDAY TILL JANUARY   Members Relax Today and Get Ready to Spend Yulefide Season with ‘Home-

Orn by wpitter rio obiems  Solons Lay Al Major Matters Aside; Turn Faces Homeward

MINISTER SAYS BOLIVIA WANTS TO CO-OPERATE   EXPRESSES DESIRE FOR SETTLEMENT WITH U. S. GOV'T

I aa cr ea a  Bolivia Hopes For Settlement  Wants hg me Along With T

Says Bolivia Desires "Effective Co-operation” With United States

SHOULD EXIST   That Is Desire of Bolivian Minister in Regards To U.S...

Bolivian Minister Seeks Cooperation Between U. S. And Bolivia; Would Sellle Necoliations Concerning Tin And Quinine

Bolivia Asks For U.S. Tin and Quinine Trade   The New Government Expresses the Desire For Cooperation With the

TANKER VICTIMS CET SEA BURIAL   Military Honors Will Be Paid 56 Unidentified Dead Of SS

Purpose Of Hess Flight Is Revealed   Six Peace Terms Set By Hitler Two Years Ago, Official Account By British Discloses

Account of Hess Flight Is Given   Hitler’s One-Time Deputy Presented a Feace Plan oa His Arrival mm England m May, 1841

Eden Says Hess Was Peace Envo\   ‘Hitler Was Seeking To Call Off Fight

sky OF HSS MISSION TODAY   Duke of Hamilton Told Hitler Didn’t Want to Defeat England

Hess Carried Peace Feeler  Said Hitler Wanted To Call Of Fight —-. 

Full Story Of Hess Flight Is Revealed   Told British Hitler Wanted To End War  - With No ‘Oppressive Demands’; Offered Qe oo TL aenhe

Full Story on Flight of Hess To Britain Reveals Hitler Wanted Peace 2 Years Ago

Full Story Of Hess Flight To England Bared   Fugitive Quoted As Saying In 1941 Hitler Wanted To Call Off War.

Hess Brought Message Hitler  Did Not Want To Beat Britain And Presented Peace Proposal   Eden Discloses Lowdown On Mystery Flight Of No. 2 Nazi To England

Hess Peace _ Proposal Revealed   Terms Offered England by Third Highest Nazi Are Told by Eden   GERMANY WANTED TO CALL OFF WAR   Full Story of Fantastic Flight Given Officially After Lone Silence

Hess Asked Peace With ‘Britain In Return For ‘Free Hand On Continent

With Her Back to Wall, Britain Did Not Listen fo Terms   All Fuehrer Wanted, No 3 Nazi Said, Was Free Hand in Europe

At Last: The Story Of Rudolf Hess   AT Last: ihe otory WI muaoir ress  Nazis Offered Peace To British When War Looked Blackest, Showing Hitler Feared Long Conflict; Terms ‘Harsh   Hitler Refused Pact With Churchill  Hess Claims

Story of Hess’ Flight: Nazi Wanted to Call Off War Without Making Any “Oppressive Demands” on Bnitar

Hess ‘Peace’ Terms Revealec   But Fuehrer Wouldn't Deal With Churchill, Eden’s Report Shows

Official Story of Hess   Britain Breaks Two Years of Silence To Give Facts of German Peace Offer

REICH WANTE FREE HAND ON THE MAINLANI   Hitler's Representative Declare Adolf Had “Soft Pedal” in Mind For British Dealing.

Facts Behind Hess’ Flight Bared  British Reveal No. 3 Nazi Flew to ,ocotland With 6-Point Peace Plan

Story Of Hess Flight Revealed  Official Statement Says Little More Than Has Leoked Out

Says Hess Brought Word Hitler Was Ready tor Pease With Britain in’4]

Hitler Wanted to Call Off Fight. With Britain, Story Of Hess’ Flight Discloses

EDEN RELATES STORY OF HESS   Hitler Didn’t Want Britain Defeated, Hess Told Enatish Duke.

EDEN REVEALS HESS’ PURPOSE   Duke Told ‘Hitler Does Not Wish To Defeat England’

The Full Story Of Hess’ Flight Is Told by Eden   No. 3 Nazi Says Hitler Wanted to Call Off the Fight With Britain.   Six Points For Peace  Were Listed by Hess

 Rudolf Hess ‘Peace Plan’ Revealed by Anthony Eden in House of Commane

Eden Reveals Hess Mission On 1941 Flight   Hitler Assistant Urged Peace With Great Britain

Hess Flight No Longer A Mystery   Nazi Leader Brought ‘Six-Point Peace Plan Based on German Control of Europe, Russia

Hess Sought to Bring About Cessation of Hostilities, Declaring Hitler Did Not Want to Destroy Britain Empire

EDEN TELLS HESS STORY IN COMMONS   Rudolph Hess Claims He Flew to England Without Knowledge of Hitler

ANCIENT PORT AND 9 OTHER. TOWNS TAKEN   Allies Beat Back Seven Axis Counterattacks, Capture 2.000 Prisoners,   MORE TROOPS LANDING  AS PUSH HEADS INLAND

American Bombers Pound Jap Bases Striking Most Heavily At Munda— Reds Claim Huns Halted from En larging Wedge Gained 5 Days Ago

U.S. Planes.Smash 400 Vehicles; Seven Enemy Counter-Drives Repelled

Allies Mop Up In Sicilian Ports, Cities   Americans Beat Off Counterattacks By Italian Division

Americans Throw Back Heaviest CounterAttack in Which Enemy Used 45 Tanks; 2000 Axis Prisoners Taken in Operations ©

Allied Navies Continue To Roll Reinforcements Of Men And Supplies Onto Beaches Seized Along 100-Mile Stretch Of Coast.   Fierce Battles Being Fought.

TWO SCIENTISTS START WORK ON RADAR WITH WEALTH DETAIL ALREADY AT THEIR DISPOSAL .

Jap Prisoners Are Happy, Cheerful — After They Learn Of U. 5. Treatment

ACCUSER OF FLYNN ADMITS OPERATION   Defense Draws Admis sions From Hollywood Showgirl —

Flynn Witness Admits Operation   Tells of Living At Police Expense

Fall Of Orel Is Drawing Closer Moscow Reports   Red Army Units Widen Bridgeheads North And South Of Nazi Bastion   STIFF FIGHTING IN DONETS BASIN

OREL BATTLE IS REACHING ATS CLIMAX   FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES FOR STRONG NAZI STRONG- . HOLD ON RUSSIAN FRONT

‘Administration Would Not Sanction MacArthur's Retirement Before Election. Says Service Publication

deaiiaiesiia Would Not Sanction MacArthur’s Retirement Before Election, Says Service Publication

Russ Drive ls Aimed At City Of Orel   Last defense bastion of  German winter line is imperiled

FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS AGREE ON WELFARE PROGRAM   BELIEVED DIFFERENCES ON OLD AGE ASSISTANCE TO BE SETTLED

State’s Old Age Assistance Program May Not Lose Federal Matching Fund

New Draft Bill Of Little Effect On Missouri Dads   Col. Earp Says Missour: Has Been Sending Call te Non-Fathers.   Hershey Orders Delay Of Fathers to Army

AATCC TIC ait a@itth PePitioni Troops on Sicily Join Near Randazzo.  NAZIS DEFENDING PASS ARE TRAPPED  Allies Are Now Within 5 Miles of Cape Orlando.

British Eighth and American Seventh Armies Join Forces la Sicily At  Narrow Pass.

DEMOLITION SLOWS DOWN ADVANCE   Yankee, British _ Forces Join SouthWest of Randazzo

AMENDMENTS - P-R O POSED IN COMPENSATION: PLAN FOR STATE UNEMPLOYED

FLOOD REPAIR — BEING RUSHED   CREWS OF MEN AT WORK RESTORING. WATER SUPPLY TO STEUBENVILLE AFTER FLASH FLOOD

STALIN MAPS _ ANSWERS TO FDR LETTER   Russ Premier Holds Conference With Davies

Valin Gets DR Letter   indicates Reply Will Y Be Sent In Few Days

Move Quickly To Ease Regulations   Stabilization Pact To Be Drawn By WMC

WMC STRENGTHENS, EASES JOB RULES   All Essential Workers: To Come Under Board’s Control

KEY RAILROA CENTER ALSO BOMB TARGET   Foggia Focal Point for Attack by Three Allied Air Fleets Converging Over S. Italy.

American Heavy Bombers Deluae Foggia in Italy   Mountbatten Is Top Commander for Southeast Asia

Surprise Raid By Americans Is Successful   Fogaia Blasted by Yanks as Berlin Suffers Another Attack and Great Offensive  Besinek Sensei l acca:

Italians Report “Grave” Damage At Foggia, Rail Key to South—U.S. Bomb- — ers Hit Hard Again at Jap Airdromes  in Hankow, Wushan

RAIL YARDS AT FOGGIASTRUGK   U. S. Fliers Pound Italy, While RAF Makes Third Raid On Berlin

Berlin Gets 3rd Air Raid In A  Row Wednesday   Red Anmies Crush Nazis In  Uppe Dnieper; Italy Is Raided

FOGGIA, RAIL KEY, HIT IN SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE ATTACK  MOUNTBATTEN APPOINT MENT MAV TEAR TO New   MOUNTBATTEN APPOINTMENT MAY LEAD TO NEW. DRIVE ON JAPAN ©

Rail Lines and Airdromes at FoaqiaBlasted   Berlin Raided for Third Successive Night; Red Armies Crush Germans Back on Dnieper River Bend

GERMAN LINES IN RUSSIA SAG UNDER ATTACKS   Soviet Forces Plunge Deep Into Donets Basin and Beyond Kharkov   ITALY HIT BY SURPRISE   be tern ater rnaaiy  British Mosquito Raiders Keep Berlin Jittery by Third Raid in Row

Germans Crushed YRack By Soviets   Three Waves of Big Planes Pound Airfields And Rail Targets After Lightnings Sweep In Low—RAF Mosquito Raid Puts Berlin Under Third Successive Night Attack

Russian Drive Unabated; Nazis Yield Zenkov   Soviet Units Plunge Deep into Donets Basin; Berlin Suffers Another Night Raid

BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN; 12.000 DEAD REPORTED   Russians Plunge Third Oi Way From Kharkov  To Kiel   NEW JAP BLOW LOOMS   German Guns Rule Copenhagen In Wave of Sabotage

RAF Extends Berlin Attack in New Raids   Reds Push Nazis Back .on Dnieper River Bend, -Advance into Donets Basin

BERLIN LIFE LOSS HEAVY = FROM AIR RAIDS; RUSSIANS — CONTINUE PRESSURE ON NAZIS

Foggia Hammered From Air By Amerie can Planes  RUSSIANS GAIN  Crush Germans Back On Several © Fronts

NEWSPRINT PRICE TO JUMP SEP'T 15ST   Increase of $44 Ton Announced by the OPA

NEWSPRINT PRICE TO JUMP SEP'T.15   Increase of $44 Ton An. nounced by the : OPA e 3

Newsprint Ceiling Increased $4 a Ton Effective Tomorrow  Brown Explains Why Hike Was Necessary in U S$ and Canada

NEWOPRINT PAPER PRICE INCREASED   Canadian and American Governments Announce $4 Ton Boost; OPA Cites Increased Production Cost

NEWSPRINT PRICE CEILINGS RAISED   Standard Paper Will Go Up $4 A Ton After September 1

Standard Newsprint  Price Raised Agair  Announced By OPA Anc Canadian Price Board

BIG ADVANCE ANNOUNCED IN ~ CEILING PRICE OF NEWSPRINT; NEWSPAPERS TO BE HIT HARD

COMMUNIST UNITS TO BE DISBANDED   All Branches Throughout World Today Are Asked To Be Dissolved

PAY AS GO’ ~ TAX MUDDLE NOT SOLVED   HOUSE COMMITTEE TOSSES OVER RUML AND OTHER   PROPOSALS AND S'FARTS  ' -" . AR OVER AGAIN

Commandos Drive knemy Toward Sea   Yanks, British Battle Toward Plains of Naples

(ce aptures Eboli In Drive Toward Naples Plain French And Italians On Corsiea Push Germans Toward Sea   Ry RICHARD ID. VeMILILAN

GERMANS IN CORSICA FALL BACK TO COAST   French and Italian Troops Drive Nazis Toward the Sea As Allied Fifth Army en Italian Mainland Takes Eboli and Advances Toward the Naples Plain.

Point Ration Plan Sel-Up  ls Completed Scruggs Names Group fo Take Charge of New Food Program

Point Ration Plan Sef-Up Is Completed   Scruggs: Names Group - fo Take Charge’ of New Food: Proaram

Cecil Crawford Fatally Woundec This Morning   Former Inmate of State Hospital Is Hunted in Woods

Report U.S. Casualties Now 84, 304   Secretary . Stimson  Says - Philippine Defense Took Heaviest Toll On U.. S.

BIDDLE ASKING. ACTION IN SUIT      Wants Early Hearing in Case Against Associated Press.   ACTION JS ‘SIGNIFICANT

BIDDLE SEEKS 10 EXPEDITE AP SUIT   Attorney General Wants Case Heard by ThreeJudge Tribunal.

BIDDLE ASKS EXPEDITING OF TRIAL OF AP   Requesis At Least One Circuil Court of Appeals Judge, Two Other Federal Judges Hear Case

U.S. to Push Case of A. P.   Attorney General Biddle Asks Quick Hearing Before Three U. S. Judges

Davis Program te Balance Prices ls Announced   Move to Assure High Meat, Dairy, Poultry Production in U. S.

Five-cent boost in corn ceiling made ‘py Davis and Brown   New price control, production program announced Saturday

Ceiling for Corn Raised   Administrator Davis Announces 5 Cents Per Bushel Increase

SCENT RAISE IS ORDERED ON CORN CEILINGS   Fails to Order Price Limit on Live Hogs As Predicted

Seek Supply, Price Balance  In New Move   Program Aims To Bring Feed And Livestock  Into Line: Importation Of Grain Planned

Ceilings On Hogs Certain If Prices Not Brought Down, Administrator Says

DAVIS ANNOUNCES PLANS ON ITEMS WW LIVING COSTS   Equitablé Relationship Program Between Various Ar ticles Without Increase to: Duka   CEILING PRICE FOR © HOGS [S DUE LATEF   Poultry, Eggs, Fresh Vegetables Are Hinted For First to Hold or Cut Living Cost.

Change in Price Of Live Hogs Held in Reserve   Increase Designed To Stimulate Grain Sale, Says Davis

PRICE BOOSTED TORING CORN INTO NARKETS   Davis Announces Program to Balance Supply of Food with Livestock.   WILL IMPORT GRAINS TO INCREASE RESERVES

Davis Moves To Stamp Out Black Market   Program Announced to Equalize Meat and Feed Prices

Ceiling on Corn Moved ~— Up 5 Cents   Food Administrator ‘Announces Plan to Make Grain Available to Feeders .   TO SUPPORT PRICE OF HOGS AT $13.75   Predicted Ceilings on Live Hogs Not Included in Order Today

Boost Ceiling Price On Corn By Five Cents   Program Aimed At Releas. ing Feed To Assure Heavy Livestock Production.   NO OTHER CHANGES

—Ner Price Control-Production Program—  Ceiling On Corn Boosted 5 Cents In Surplus Areas

KEL HIKE CORN PRICE NNOUNCED   vernment Boosts pport Price r Hogs

FOOD CHIEF RAISES PRICE OF HOGS, CORN   ea eee Announce Program To Bring Fairer Relation Without Raising Consumers’ Costs.

Move To Ease Squeeze On Stock Feeds   To Import Some Grains; Corn Price Up In Midwest

REVISED ROOF   Hog Prices Left Outside 01 Reguiations; Davis Hopes * For Better Balance

Davis Levels Off U. S. Prices   FOOD ADMINISTRATOR DESIGNS PROGRAM TO BRING MORE “EQUITABLE RELATIONSHIP” AMONG LIVESTOCK, MEAT, FEED LEVIES

EXPECT SLASH OF PRODUCE PRICES UNDER FDR ORDER   SEEN AS FIRST MOVE TO HOLD DOWN THE COST OF LIVING

Better Balance Between Livestock, Meat And ’ Feed Prices Is . Aim Of Davis Program

Davis Moves To Balance Farm. Prices :   Feed and Livestock Prices Will Be Equalized

Organization Leaders Say Inflation Doesn’t Come From Farm.   EGGS, VEGETABLES ‘MAY GET FIRST CUT   BULLETIN

Corn Ceiling ‘Up Nickel In surplus Zone   Live Hog Ceiling Price Is Held In Reserve For  Time Being.

Davis Plans Importation Of Feed Grair   Food Administrator to Get Supplies From Canada and Australia

Food Administrator Davis Announces Program to Remedy Meat Situation

DAVIS BOOSTS CORN CEILING BY FIVE CENTS   ‘Announces New Price Control and  Production Program to Equalize Relationships

Davis Boosts om Price As Livestock Aid   Assurance Of Heavy Pro: duction Seen; Hog Sup: port Price Raised   THREATENS SEIZURES   Live Pork Ceiling Held In Reserve; Poultry, Egg, Vegetable Cuts Due

Food Director Launches Effort To Balance Feed, Stock Prices   Program ls Designed to Hike Production Of Meat, Dairy and Poultry Products

Com Ceiling Price Increased 5 Cents   No Change Made In Hog Quotations

DAVIS DRAWS © UP NEW FARM PRICE PROGRAM   Would Not Increase Cost Of Living

Food Food Chief Davis Announces a New Price Control. and Production Plan

 Davis’ Plans To Balance U.S. Food Program Includes  heed Grain Imnortatian From Canada And Australig

Hint Fresh Vegetable, Poultry, Egg Prices Will Receive First Slashes

SOVIETS MENAGE OREL RAIL LINE   German Forces Defending Pivot Base In Danger OF Being Cut Off

Russian Gains Peril Nazis In Defense Of Ore   Vital Orel-Bryansk Railroad Near Besieged Town, Now Menaced   MAY CUT OFF BIG FORCE OF GERMANS

RUSSIANS FIGHTING TO TRAP = -__ NAZL-TROOPSS HOLDING OREL   SOVIET FORCES REPORTED TC *HAVE NARROWED NECK OF “SACK" TO THIRTY MILES

FOR PREPARES PLAN TO SOLVE FOOD SITUATION   eBarkley  Declares Congress to. Get Special Message ay Soon

ROOSEVELT AT ~ MALTA ISLAND   Spends Three Hours At Mediterranean Base, Together With Staff

MALTA VISITED BY ROOSEVELT   President Presents Scroll In Tribute to Heroic  Island Defenders

PRESIDENT VISITS BOMBED ISLAND, PRESENTS SCROLI   Residents of Malta Told U S. Will Stand By British Other Allies, For Worth: while Victory.   ROOSEVELT RIDES IN TRANSPORT, ESCORTED   After Three Hour Visit Executive Departs For Unannounced Place. Made Short Talk.

ROOSEVELT PAYS SURPRISE VISIT TO MALTA ISLAND   President Delivers Scroll To People Who Defended Allied Stronghold In  Mediterranean.

President Roosevelt Pays Visit to Malta   Trip Made by Plane Wednesday, in Company With General Eisenhower and Others— Expected Also te Be in London.

Eisenhower, Leahy With Roosevelt: Scroll Given To Defenders of Island

Roosevelt Pays Flying Visit fe ‘Most Bomhed’ Island   President Visits Malta to Pay Tribute to It’s Gallant Defenders

PRESIDENT VISITED MALTA WEDNESDAY T0 PRAISE DEFENDERS  PRESENT CITATION TO PEOPLE OF MALTA FROM DrARTE AT sabMrbDift sé

ROOSEVELT PAID A “VISIT TO MALTA, THE BOMB MARKED BASE   He Presented Its People an IIluminated Scroll on Behalf of the American People.   WAS THERE WEDNESDAY   The Chief Executive Spent Three Hours in the Mediteranean Base.

Presents Gilt To Maltese On U.S.’s Behalf   Promises Public That Allies, U.S. Would Make Victory Worthwhile.   EISENHOWER PRESENT

MAKES TRIP IN BIG TRANSPORT TO FAMED ISLE   Says U. S., Allies to Stand Staunchly to Make Peace Worthwhile

American Tribute  Paid Gallant Isle   President, Traveling By Plane, Pauses At Bomb-Marked Mediterranean Base

TH ISLANDERS   Presents Serol! Honoring Defenders for Valorous Service.   ON ISLAND THREE HOURS

Scroll Is _ Presentéd To People   High Tribute Paid To Residents Of Island Who Remained Firm During Air Attacks

FLYING VISIT IS PAID MALTA BY ROOSEVELT   Most Bombed Island In World Presented With Illuminated Scroll.

Presents a Tribute in Scroll  to People of Sea Stronghold   HIS JOURNEY BY PLANE

Presents a Tribute in Scroll  to People of Sea Stronghold   HIS JOURNEY BY PLANE   Leaves by Air for Unannounced Destination on Wednesday

President Honors Most Bombed Isle   Presents A “Citation” To Island On Behalf Of American People

ROOSEVELT GIVES SCROLL TO MALTA   Visits Much Bombed Island In Mediterraneat

Island Saluted For Its Defense   President Might Visit Yanks In England

Troop Plane  Used by U. S. Party   Chief Executive Pays Tribute to People Of Bomb-Pocked British Isle; Dianitaries Attend Scrol] Ceremonv

Presents Scroll as Tribute to Great Defense   SaYS HE, CHURCHILL, ‘STRUCK STRONG BLOWS’

Executive Flies To Famous Island On Huge C-54 Douglas   illuminated Scroll Is Presented on Behalf of American People With Promise That U. S. Will Stand Staunchly With British   HAS ESCORT OF LIGHTNINGS AND SPITFIRES

GIVES SCROLL ON BEHALF OF AMERICANS   Salutes People Of Island For Historic Defense; Says Victory Must Be Made Worthwhile

BOMB-SCARRED MALTA VISITED BY ROOSEVELT  President of United States _

President’ Present: Scroll to People Of Island; Trip Made by Plana

President Visits Malta 3 Hours; Lauds Islanders  a Cesalle   Presents dcroil;  London Newspaper Says He May Visit Troops In Enaland

Roosevelt Visits Island of Malta   Presents Scroll To Courageous People Of Battered British Base

Chief Executive Lauds Citizens of Bomb-Marked Island for Their Courage

PRESENT SCROLL WITH CITATION FOR BRAVERY   linpressive Array of ‘High Army and Navy Offivers Accompany Chief to: World’s Heaviest Bombed Airfield

Roosevelt Stops At Malta, Lauds Heroic People   Present Scroll In Appreciation

ROOSEVELT PAID VISIT TO MALTA   Presents Citation To People of  Much-Bombed Island

ROOSEVELT PAYS U. S. RESPECTS 10 PEOPLE OF MALTA   PRESENTS SCROLL AS SALUTE TO VALOR OF ISLAND DEFENDERS

MALTA'S MOSTBOMBED ISLAND VISITED BY F. D,   Feels He And Churchill Struck ‘Strong Blows’ “we For Human Race

FDR Presents Little Malta With Scroll   President Pays Visit to Much Bombed Isle En Route From Cairo

Roosevelt Stops at Malta to Give MuchBombed City Scroll   Spends Three Hours on . Island and Makes Pre sentation Address

President Roosevelt Visits Malta   Makes Talk to People of Most Bombed Island — . Event Revealed Today

COURAGEOUS MALTESE PEOPLE TOLD NT ROOSEVELT AMERICA STANDS SQUARELY Wit! ENGLAND      Valletta, Most Bombed. Place in All The World, Visited by FDR While in The Middle East and — He la Met by Military and Civilian Dignitaries *

FDR Visits Malta; Declares U.S. Will Stand With Allies To Make Victory Worth While   Makes Journey In Troop Transport  Escorted By Twenty Fighter Planes

POPULACE OF BOMB-MARKED ISLAND LAUDED   President - Promises U. S. Will Stand Staunchly With British Empire After. :‘War   PRESENTS SCROLL FROM ALL AMERICA   Tells Inhabitants Allies to Make Victory Worthwhile; Travels to Base by Air

Presents Scroll To Lorc Gort, Praises Defense;  Mav Visit London ~

F.D.R. STOPS AT MALTA ISEAND   President On Way From Historic Parleys On Conduct Of War

Bomb Pitted Island Told Of Gratitude   ‘Scroll Presented in Honor  Of Its Valiant Stand for  Freedom

Citation     OfU.S.A.   President Roosevelt Spends Three Hours -On Much-Bombed Isle Following Caire Parley

F. R. Lands at Malta in Army Plane; Presents Scroll of Valor From U S.

Roosevelt Arrives ;  At Malta ©   Leaves Historic Tsland for Unreyealed Destination

Chief Executive Presents People of Malta With Scroll On. Behalf_of American People—Declares U.S. Will Stand  . With Other Allies At  -, Close of War and Work “To Make It A Victory  Worthwhile.

FDR Pays Visit To Malta, Lauds Heroic Defense  President Leaves   President Leaves Scroll As Gift Of Americans

OFFERS SCROLL ~ ONU. S, BEHALF   Many Other High Offi. cials On Much-Bombed. British Island

FD. R. VISITS MALTA ISLAND ON WAR TOURS   Reads Declaration From Americans To Natives 

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, EN ROUTE FROM SERIES OF CONFERENCES IN MIDDLE EAST, ARRIVES IN HUGE TRANSPORT; CITATION SALUTES FORTRESS, DEFENDERS FOR “VALOROUS SERVICE ABOVE CALL OF DUTY”

MALTA VISITED BY ROOSEVEL   Presents Award of Valor to Bombed Island

Honor Scroll Presented Ta Heroic Isle   President Pledges U. S. And Allies To Make A ‘Worthwhile Victory.’

ROOSEVELT VISITS MALTA ~ ON WAY HOME   Presents Seroll, Tells of Victory Worthwhile After War

Presents Island's People With Scroll For America; Accompanied By Leaders

Landed On World’s Most Bombed Airport   President Presents Scroll of Citation to People of the Valorous Island

Pledges U.S. And Allies To Make Victory Worthiehile After War: Flew lu Huge Transport   Visit Unprecedented; Eisenhower, Leahy And Spaatz With Him; Rides In Jeep; Pays Tribute On Behalf Of Americans To Valor Of Islanders

PRESIDENT MAY BE ENROUTE 10 BRITISH CAPITAL   Gen. Eisenhower, Other High Officials Accompany FDR

Roosevelt Salutes Malta With Scroll Fo» Valorous Service Far Above Duty

U, 5, PRESIDENT VISITS BRITISH BASE AT MALTA   Presents Scroll, Says America To Stand by Allies To Make Victory Worthwhile

PRESIDENT PAYS VISIT TO MALTA   Illuminated Scroll Presented to People Of Oft-hombed Island

Roosevelt At Malta Pledges Postwar Unity   Presents Scroll That Lauds Heroic Stand Of Maltese Arms   FLIES TO ISLAND   Lord Gort, Commander Of Malta, First To Greet President

ROOSEVELT VISITS MALTA, LAUDS PEOPLE   Presents Citation to Tiny Island Most Bombed Spot on Earth, or Behalf of American People.   MAY VISIT LONDON   Daily Herald Reports ‘Strong Feeling’ There President to Take Part in Final Checkup

Roosevelt Pays Malta’ Tribute   Presents Scroll on Visit to Island

President Lauds Island Defense   U.S. to Stand With Allies After War to Make Victory Worth While, Executive Tells Group as He Presents IMluminated Scroll

PRESIDENT SEES MALTA, PRAISES PEOPLE'S COURAGE   Presents Illuminated Scroll to Lord Gort As Chief of Heroic Defense.

ROOSEVELT VISITS MALTA   Presents Scroll to Heroic Folks of Bombed Island

Roosevelt in Salute to People of Malta   Pays Tribute to Brave Little Island in’ Unprecedented Wisit, Traveling by Air   SCROLL PRESENTED IN BEHALF.OF JU. S.   Fortitude and Courage -ot Terribly Bombed. Base . Praise at Ceremony

FDR Presents Isle’s Citizens With Citation   Heroic Defenders Of British Mediterranean Base Praised; Postwar Co-operation To Make Victory Worthwhile Is Promised

Chief Executive Presents Scroll From America   American Leader Is Visitor On Island After Conferences

Roosevelt Gives ‘Town Of Valletta Memorial Scroll   E.D.R. Visits Bomb-Marked Base In Mediterranean After Series Of Parleys

Roosevelt Stops Off for Malta Visit   Presents Seroll as Trib ute to Bomb-Marked Isle From America   2ECEIVED BY GORT        London Expects Presi dent There Before Yanks Leave Britain 

Roosevelt Stops At Malta to Pay Honor to Island   With Gen. Eisenhower He Spends Three Hours on ‘Most-Bombed Spot.’   Presents a Scroll on Behalf of Americans

News From The Boneroy Churches   MISSION COVENANT CHURCH Edmund V. Carlson, Pastor.

‘NEWSPAPERS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO SALVAGE 2,000,000 ADDITIONAL TONS OF WASTE PAPER NEEDED IN WAR EFFORT

INTENSIVE DRIVE FOR WASTE PAPER   Nation’s Newspapers Launch Campaign To Salvage Material Urgently Needed Fo: War Production

Newspapers Launch Intensive Drive To  Salvage Waste Paper   Demand For Paper Far Ahead OF  ee ae

Says Husband Wouldn’t Let Her Use Electricity,  Gas; Receives Divorce

HEAVY ATTACK MADE ONKISKA   Damaging Hits Are Scored By Americans in New  Series of Raids

U. S. Fliers Batter Kiska in Series Of Nine Big Raids  - Campaign Continues Against Japs; ' Many Hits Are Noted

KISKA POUNDED IN NINE RAIDS   Heavy Attacks Soften Up Jap Foothold For Invasion; Many  Hits Scored

Kiska’s Japs Are Battered In Nine Raid:  Softening Proces Seen As Prelude  To Invasion

PATTON DRIVES TOWARD UNION WITH BRITISH   Montgomery’s Tunisian Troops Continue to Push Forward   CAPE NEAR BIZERTE FALLS TO FIRST ARMY

Patton's Forces Nearing Junctior With the British   Yankee Troops Score One of Most Notable Gains of the War   Fourteen German Bombers _ Brought Down in Furious Battle

Americans Drive Against Axis  042 ..% Tien Meese   British First Army Moves Forward

HAVE 40 TO 45 DIFFICULT MILES TO COVER FOR JUNCTION WITH GENERAL MONTGOMERY'S VETERANS.

Gains Made By Patton’s Forces in Push to Join Eighth Army in Tunisia

Between 14 And 20 German Dive-Bombers Shot Down By U.S. Airmen   CAPE SERRAT TAKEN BY MOROCCAN GOUMS

Yankees Make Big Gain East Of El Guetar   First Army Occupies Cape Serrat as Eighth Army Probes Defense of Marshal Rommel

PATTON SWEEPS THROUGH HILLS AROUND GUETAR   14 Enemy Bombers Shot Down By Americans; Cape Serrat Is Occupied   Many Prisoners Taken

K, W. UOD HEAD OF ENGINEERS’ CLUB   To Give 16 Weeks Course In Industrial Safety Enqaineering.

RICK’ TO GET BIG WELCOME   Aik HERO OF TWO WARS TO RE“CEIVE WARM RECEPTION. WHEN HE. VISITS HOME TOWN

TAKE ENEMY TOWNS AND RAILROADS   Little Opposition During First Battle Of Invasion

tinemy Demolition Squads Are Slowing Down Our Troops.   PACE OF INVADERS SLOWED TO WALK   Seventh Army Said to Be Crossing Mediterranean Somewhere.

Blasted Hopes Get New Life   Nation Dedicates. ‘lee -y ]] Eeetna. 

U.S.Entered War 26 Years Ago  Second March Into Germoanyv in Makinc

Tuesday {s Twenty-Sixth Anniversary Of U. §. Entry Into First World War

American Entry into First World War Recalled on 26th Anniversary

/UNITEDSTATESDECLARED WAR  ON GERMANY 26 YEARS AGO   Anniversary Of Wilson’s Declaration Finds Nation Planning Vast Offensives To Win World War No. 2; Many Problems Are Still Ahead

Today Is Anniversary Of Start Of World War No. !   American Forces on the Offensive as 26th Anniversary of starting of War ts Marked—Second . March Inte Germany in the Making

Attention, Republicans!  CALL 1917   KURILES AGAIN   Jap Shipping, Installations Battered in Fourth Raid  On Paramushiro Area

HOME GROUNDS OF JAPS RAIDED   American Bombers Blas’ Paramushiro: Ten Fail To Return

JAP HOMELAND HIT BY YANKS   Fourth Attack Made On Paramushiro Islands By Army Bombers

Jap Home Island; Hit Enemy Ships   North End Of Chain Making Up Nippon Is Scene Of Fourth Raid By Yanks; Japanese Try To Minimize Fury Of The Attack

North End of Isles Forming Nippon Hit *   ‘Enemy Planes Downed as Bombs Are Dropped on, Paramushira

Paramus 10 on .a) ome STOUNC. Aaic ec 4 “Time y7 U.S. 2 anes;  Pon S Cra, Ten Jas Le 0st   on? oun orew 0- ‘ive Save Zeac ry eat “rom 3. azi .an «Ss

Japs Own Islands Again Hi   P ara mushiros Jolted In Big " Aw Rattle 

JAPS’ PARAMUSHIRO BASE IS HIT BY AMERICAN BOMBERS   Numerous Hits Scored On Ground Installations; Trans. port Left In Sinking Condition; Ten Enemy Fighters Downed; Six U. S. Craft Missing

Paramushire Islands Again  Bombed By American Fliers   Enemy Shipping and Ground Installations Attacked During 50-Minute Engagement—Ten Enemy Fighters Shot Down

U.S. Bombers A gain  Attack Paramushire   Shipping and Ground Installations Hit; At Least 10 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Air Battle; Anti-Aircraft Fire Heavy

AMERICANS RAID JAP HOMEGROUND   BLAST PARAMUSHIRO IsLANDS AREA—SHOOT DOWN 10 PLANES, LOSE 4,

U. S. Smashes  At Japs on Home Ground   Fliers Pound Paramushiro Islands, Get Many Hits at Ground Objectives, Strike Several Vessels, Down Planes

Homeland Of Japanese Hif   Paramushiro Islands Blasted By Sembers 

Attention, Republicans!  For Transportation  CALL 1917   Y ak AGAIN   Jap Shipping, Installations Battered in Fourth Raid On Paramushire Area

ESTIMATES ON ALL PRINCIPAL  FOODS REVISED DOWNWARD  BY THE AGRICULTURE   DPEPARTMENT:.

FOOD PICTURE GROWS DARKER   New Estimates Reveal Supplies Of Many Items Are Less Than Expected

SLAY PATRIOTS SMASH GERMAN TANK ASSAULI   Liberation Army Holds Its Own In Montenegro Against Nazis; Macedonians Join Patriots

SLAV PATRIOTS HOLD THEIR OWN   rerman Tank Attack Smashed; Tito’s Forces Report New Gains.

Slav Patriots Hold Own In Montenegro   Nazi Forces Attempt Big Scale Offensive Operation Across Country   VILLAGE IS CAPTURED

TANK ATTACK THROWN BACK BY PATRIOTS   Part Of Important Railway Line Destroved

SEEKS FARM OPINION   North Lawrence Resident Asks : Farmers to Vote on Meters  '

STUB WILL BE NEEDED   OPA Issues’ Warning to Users of Fuel Oil for Next Year

PUBLIC HEARINGS TO BE ASKED FOR FLYNN IS REPORT   Senator Bridges to Make Request Following Nomination of New York Man.

ROME RADIO SAYS ITALY WILL FIGHT   DECLARES OVERTHROW oF FASCISM IS A HOME AFFAIR—RAPS BRITISH,

Soviet Artillery "Threatens Nazi ' Smolensk Base   "Objective Brought Within Range of Big Guns; Reds Further Flank Kiev, Capture Poltava

DEFEAT OF JAPS NOW CERTAINTY. THREATEN VILE   Commander in Chief Lists Blows to Com2 in Futuie as Yanks Push On.

JAP AIRDROME HEAVILY BOMBED   Attack On Nipponese Base 150 Miles North of Rangoon Is Announced

WILL HOLD CIVILIAN PROTECTION SCHOOLS   Meetings To Be Held in Sip Ohio Cities

Mrs. T. Cusack, Charlotte Rackow are village war housing chairmen

Ditlerences Belween Hindus And Moslem: till Does Not Make it Impossible To Find }olution To Indian Problem; Expert Thinks

‘DeWitt Mackenzie Says’  Federal: Government In India Might Draw Hindus ‘And Moslems Together

GREAT MOSLEM MINORITY LEADER MAY BE WILLING TO COOPERATE IN PLANS TO ADJUST MUDDLED INDIAN AFFAIRS

VARIED INDIAN ELEMENTS ARE APPARENTLY DESIROUS OF WAR EFFORT AID ABOVE ALL ELSE

Highlights of Peggy’s Conduct Conclude Flynn Prosecution   Romp in Morgue and Outings With Dapper RCAF Flyer Revealed Before Week-End Recess

Malleable Men Refurn To Work   Company-Union Parley Schéduled Today

END STRIKE AT MALLEABLE   Seek to Iron Out Dispute Over Foreman This Afternoon

HERBERT SEEKS GOVERNORSHIP   Attorney General Announ. ces Candidacy, Pledges Bricker Support

ATTY, GEN. HERBERT ASKS GOVERNORSHIF   Second Publicly-Announcec Candidate For Ohio Post

HERBERT ENTERS GOVERNOR RACE   Ohio Attorney General Is Second To Announce

ARMED FORCES NEED MORE MEN   Additional 2,700,000 Wanted This Year

DRAFT OF 2,700,000 MORE MEN NEEDED THIS YEAR-M'NUT)   Job Deferment Of Only 1,500,000 Possible, He Declares

Uncle Sam Says ‘Take Your Hands Out Of Your Pockets’.   Another War Bond Drive Coming In August; Financial Mobilization Of Nation Lagging

Give Us Gas or Hell Will Pop, Rep. Hartley Says   New Jersey Congressman Proposes To Call in His leaques

59 Persons Are Injured In Collision of Two Buses   Greyhound and Riekmond Cily Public Conveyance Crash With Such Force Tubular Steel Stiiits, Used by Standees, Are Bert Double, and Seats Are Torn Loose

59 Injured When Two  Big Busses ‘Collide   Midnight Accident At Richmond, Va., Puts Many Victims In Hospitals

59 Persons Hurt In Midnight Bus Collision In -Richmond   Greyhound And Crowded Urban Vehicles Crash At Intersection; Doors Jammed

at DRYING UP THE ‘DRY COUNTIES   Revenue Commissioner Cook Sets Up Organiza: tion for Co-ordinated Bffave

FDR’s Grandson Suffers From Hysteria After Accidentally Shooting Playmate

Axis Territory Is Blasted From Two Directions   Attacks On Heavy Scale Directed At Industrial Regions ~

Allies Start 1-Way Squeeze  R. A. F. Hits From  Britain, Americans

Nazis Hint Two-Way Air War Has Begun   Berlin Radio Announces Attacks on Southern - Germany, Austria and Hungary by U. S. Bombers Based in Italy.

RAF MOSQUITOS RAID GERMANY   Rhineland and Ruhr Targets Bombed by British In Night Attacks

Nazis Bombed From Italy For First Time   ‘Aerial Squeeze Put on By Yanks and British

A Two-Way Air Attack Reported   Berlin Reports Heavy Raids on Germany by U. 8..Planes Based in Italy      RAF. BOMBS. RUHR . AND RHINELAND   American: Plaves Also. Hit Paris Airfields; P-38's “". Into Wider Use

Aerial Squeeze Hitting Germany   R. A. F. Hits From West as American Bomber: Strike at Southern Portion of Occupied Territory

TWO-WAY RAID ON   Shuttle Bombing Is Indicated by Attack on South:  Germany

Two-Way Air Blows Against Reich Hinted   Devastating Raid Based On Italy Strikes Into Austria, Hungary

American Bombers Hit At Germany And Austriz From Italian Airfields

—AIR WAR—  ALLIES STEP UP BOMBER ATTACK   Berlin Radio Reports Raids By Italian-Based U.S. Fliers

TWO-WAY AIR ATTACH AGAINST GERMANY 15 BELIEVED STARTED  RAF BLASTS RUHR AND RHINELAND: U. §, BOMB-

Reich Jolted From South   300 Bombers. Pound Austria and Hungary

Allies Launch Two-Way Play On Nazi Zone   British Bombers Hit The Ruhr Valley; Americans Attack Again   CAUSE BIG DAMAGE

RAF STRIKES AT GERMANY FROM SOUTH   Berlin Radio Hints at Start Of Crunching Two-Way Allied Aerial Squeeze On the Reich   DVEASTATE LARGE AREA

RUHR BOMBED BY RAF: MUCH DAMARE DONE   Allied Bombers Hit Germany From Italy

ALLIED FLIERS GIVE EUROPE 2-WAY ATTAGK   Bombers Based in. England, Italy Hit Target on Continent

BEGIN 2-WAY AIR SQUEEZE   Hit ‘Fortress Europe’ From The North And South

Ruhr, Rhineland  Targets As Heavy Bombers Use New Routes Of Attack

Raids On Ruhr  Hurting Germany   TWO WAY SQUEEZE IS BEING PUT ON NAZIS

U.S. BOMBERS ATTACK SOUTHERN GERMANY   A Brief Air Ministry Com. munique Gave No Details of the Overnight Opera tions; No Planes Lost.

Mosquitoes Smash Hubs in Germany   GERMANY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY ROCKED BY ITALY-BASED BOMBERS

Nazis Claim Raids Made From South      Report Fliers Based in Italy In Heavy Bombing Attacks

Berlin Reveals Allies Putting Two-Way Aerial Squeeze on Reich   GENERAL IKE SEES FALL OF KEY ROAD JUNCTION

U.S. Planes Strike At Hitler From Italy  Crunching TwoWay Air Blow Aimed At Nazis

Italian-Based . Planes Strike   Allied Forces Make Large Raid. On Germany and Her Neighbors

TWO-WAY AIR ATTACK  AGAINST GERMANY Id  BELIEVED STARTED RAF BLASTS RUHR AND  RHINELAND; U. S. BOMBERS HIT SOUTH CERMANY

Modified Rumi Plan Offered   Kansas Republican Presents Measure ‘.

NEW TAX PLAN IS SUBMITTED   Representative Carlson Introduces Modified Pay-As-You-Go.

New State Body to Do Speedy Job   Next Legislature Expected to End Business Quickly

TEN ARE KILLED IN ARMY PLANE   Crash Occurs At Municipal Airport In Evansville, Indiana.

10 Die in Army Plane Crash  Ship Fells and Burns As Attempt Is Made

CRABS FLOURISHING IN MARYLAND WATERS   Supply Is Larger Than A Year Ago As Result Of Conservation Measures

BLAST NAPLES   American, British Planes Somb Harbor Over Week-End._

AIRMEN SMASH NAPLES HARBOR   RAF Raid Sunday Follows Heavy U. S. Attack

ALLIED PLANES BLAST NAPLES   Yanks, British Take Turns Pounding City

FEBRUARY 5 IS SALVAGE MATINEE DATE   One Pound of Brass, Copper or Bronze  for Each Child

BALKANS TRY 10 GET OUT OF WAR   Hitler's Satellites Reported Now In Axis Camp Only Under Pressure

HITLER'S BALKAN ALLIES TRYING T0 ~ GET OUT OF WAR    Nazi Satellite Nations Show Evidence of Fear Allied Blitz Will Hit Southern  ; 1:

Coming Allied Blitz Worries Balkan States   Belief Rampant That History May Reneat Ticelf

SOME OF BALKANS WANT FREE OF WAR BEFORE INVASION   Strength Of Central Powers , Crumbled First In . Mediterranean  “Fy 79TRS:

VESSELS BRAVE INCREASE It SUB ACTIVITY   Thousands Of Prisoners Are Taken As Augusta, Ragusa and Naro Fall   ITALIAN UNIT ELIMINATED   Ground Forces, Spearheaded By Tanks, Push Advances Into Interior

SOFT-PEDALING POLITICS URGED   Vandenberg Agreeable If Vice President Will “Pipe Down”

U, $, BOMBERS FLY NORTH T0 RAID AUSTRIA   Enemy Admits Heavy Damage

YANKEE HEAVIES RAID OBJECTIVES SOUTH OF VIENNE   Long Range Fighters Accompany Big Fleet. of Bombers from Foggia.

German Targets In Austria Hit By U.S. Planes   Germans Admit Major Objective South of Vienna Badly Damaged

Mediterranean - Based Planes Strike Heavy Blow Near Vienna; RAF Hits Ruhr And Rhineland

FOE GIVEN HARD JOLT BY ALLIES   Targets in Austria Hit By American Bombers

HEAVY DAMAGE TO EAST VEGETABLE SUPPLY NOTED   -Government Planning To Freeze Grocers Supplies Pending  - Rationing

Enemy i in Flight at One Point; Allies Push 700-Mile Are   yn European Front, Rome pricy. _As “Der Tag” Fails To Come, ... Predict 30-Years War

MIKADO'S NAVY STILL AFRAID TO TRY U.S. FORCE   Biggest Air Assault Yet on Italy May Be Invasion Softening Up Finale   NAZILAND IS HIT LIGHTLY   Sharper Fighting Reported In Russia — Flare-up Comes in Caucasus

Americans And Australians Are On March   U. S. Troops Maintain Pressure Against Munda, Jap Base

Allies Threaten Salamaua   Yanks and Aussies Press in on 3 Sides ‘After Joining Forces;, - Pour Shells on Munda

Salamaua Is Threatened On 3 Sides   US and Australian Troops in Sight of Enemy Stronghold; American Planes Renew Assault on Italian Iclands

Close In On  Salamaua In  3-Way Drive   U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit Southern Italy Points

‘ADVANCE UNITS WITHIN SIGHT OF STRONGHOLD   Australians Rout Japanese Forces In Jungle Bout

MOSCOW PICKED FOR BIG PARLEY   _ondon Opposed By Soviets: Hull Will Attend

Moscow Gets 3-Way Talks; Hull Will Fh   a Seeds of World War IIT Feared if Parleys @hyess 2) W.21

Aleutians No Sideshow, Writer Says, Setting Out That I ishadeinad OF tans To Be Tauaher Than Cundalconal

Says Aleutians Are No Side-Show: Will Take American Blood To Expel Japanese

RUSSIANS SURROUND SEVERAL GARRISONS ON VITEBSK FRONT   Nazis Being Wiped Out ix Furious Battles

MANY GERMAN TROOPS TRAPPED IN WHITE RUSSIA   Veteran Russian Troops Smash Ahead and Surround Nazis In Marshlands.

Theusands of Nazi Troops Are Trapped in Marshlands.   PUSH DEEP WEDGES IN GERMAN LINES   Soviet Cavalry Plays Big Part in the New Drive.

RELAXATION OF FEMALE LABOR LAW IS SCORED   CIO Chief Calls Proposal For Longer Hours ‘Brutal’

EARLY RETURN TU MINES PREDICTED   Sprinkling of Coal Flows Over State’s Tipples   THREE LOGAN LOCALS   Reported Unofficially to Have Voted Not to Take up Their Tools

W. Va. Miners Resume Labors  - In Coal Banks   Union Leaders Predict Full Seale Output

SENATOR O'DANIEL  DECLARES PEOPLE  LOSE GOVERNMENT WOULD ABOLISH RE-ELEC TIONS TO GET POLITI 2hTA AOE Pk AER re

People Have Lost Control, Senator Says   Small Minority Group’ of Professionals Running Government, O’Daniel Says   WOULD LIMIT ALL TERMS TO 6 YEARS   Not Criticizing President or Present Congress, the Texan Declares

ABOLISH RE-ELECTIONS URGES TEXAS SENATOR  O'Daniel Says American People Have Lost Government Control

oft GOVERNMENT CONTROL 1 LOST   Q’Daniel Declares Profes sional Politicians Are in Control.

Invasion-Route Island Hard Hit by 3 Waves   Axis Bases Blasted as Yanks in North Pound  WNoarwav Targreta

Urges Trapped Germar Divisions In Crimea To Surrender To Russians

CAPTURED GERMAN ASSERTS NAZIS ‘BOTTLED’ IN CRIMEA  ~ Yee eee iis alt tiie iceman ie ii

British-Yanks Capture Hills   Russian Ships Ready to Smash Any Attempt to Evacuate Axis Troops From Caucasus to Crimea—Soviet Forces Are  Within Nine Miles of Novorossisk

Axis Routed From Heights Near Bizerte   British Pound At Barrier Before The Plains Of Tunis

U.S. Troops In Another Victory   YANKS CAPTURED KEY SECTOR IN LATEST DRIVE

Americans’ Drive Is Accompanied By Allied Air Action   Strategic Heights Both North and South of Lake Achkel Taken; Biggest Remaining Barrier Before Axis Port Removed

STRATEGIC HEIGHTS  CAPTURED THURSHAY NORTH AFRICA DRIVE  _ HEAVY ARTILLERY AND _ AIR ATTACKS PRECEDE INFANTRY ACTION

ROLLING ALLIED FORCES RECEIVE AERIAL SUPPORT   Djebel Bou Aoukaz Falls To First Army—Heavy Air  Actions Searea

British First Army Opens Door To Plain Of Tunis; Part Of Lake Area Taken

ACCEPT 22 CARROLL MEN IN ARMY: NINE ASSIGNED TO NAVY   MEN ARE GIVEN 7-DAY FURLOUGHS BEFORE LEAVING FOR TRAINING

TWENTY-EIGHT MEN © PASS ARMY PHYSICAL   UNOFFICIAL REPORT STATES FOUR ASSIGNED TO NAVY, ONE TO MARINES

RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON RADEMISL   Reds Regaining Lost Ground On The Kiev Front

REDS ADVANCE ONTO RADOMISL, NAZIS RETREATING   Seek to Recapture Lost City Recently Taken- By + Kermans.

UNION VICTORY WILL SIGNAL NEW AG DRIVE   “We'll Wait And See What Happens,” Bankhead Says As Bill Fails   COAL MINERS WATCHED   Barkley Sees Measure As Club Behind Door Of Upper House

OVER WAGES   If Coal Miners Get Boost, the Farm Bloc Will Renew Its Fight.   NOTICE IS GIVEN   A New Move for Higher Farm Prices Will Come if Costs Go Up.

SENDS BANKHEAD BILL TO COMMITTEE   Saves Life of Measure as “Club” Over Wage Demands

THREAT HELD BY FARM BLOG - OVER WAGES   If Coal Miners Get Boost, ‘the Farm Bloc Will Re- new Its Fight.   A New Move for Higher Farm Prices Will Come . if Costs Go Up.

Showdown Battle For Rome Is Fast  Approaching Climax   Nazis Fighting Bitterly but Are Slowly Giving  Ground

Battle For Rome Rising In Fury; Allies Gain Despite Nazi Resistance

American Offensives Gain Ground Despite Nazi Resistance.  } MORE HEIGHTS TAKEN ON ROME RD. Advance Continues on  Both Ends of Front Line.

NORMANDIE JOB ABONT FINISHED   Naval Officials Prepare To Watch Righting Of French Liner

EIGHTH IN FAMILY VICTIM OF TRAGEDY   Only Orphan Boy Left When Brother Meets Death

AKRON RESIDENT — BQLYEARS DIES   William J. Bennett To Be . Laid To Rest Friday  Afternoon

Will J. Bennett Akron Pioneer  Taken By Death  Wae Widely Known Resident For Past Fifty Years

‘Nine Humboldt County Youths Registered With Draft Board Durine Ano

‘WORK HARDER, DONALD NELSON URGES MILLMEN   Visit To Monessea Plant 0: Pittsburgh Steel Due At 3:15 Today

WPB Chief to Visit Pittsburgh Steel Co. Plant Here Today   Speaks at Homestead, Urging Steel Workers Te Bear Down, Boost Output 2 Million Tons in Ouarter

TO STUDY TRAFFIC CONTROL METHODS   To Eliminate Unnecessary Stop Lights

TO RE-EQUIP FRENCH   U. S. Forces Take Over Large Secetion of Tunisian Front

French Are  Withdrawn   Wanks And British   Yanks And British Yaking Places

French Withdraw To Re-Equip, Train With U. 5. Arms  U. §. Forces Take

F rench Army In Afriesn Toa Get New Arms  American Forces   American Forces Take Over Large Section Of Lines

DR. R: A. KENT DIES   Noted Educator Was Fo ormer Member of City School and K. U. Staff

Yanks Get 52  Axis Planes - Over Tunisia Flying Forts Alone Shoot  Down 24 in Raids on Gabes Area  LULL ON GROUND  British and Yank Forces Reported in Touch in South Tunisia

US  3. FLIERS LED IN BIG BATTLE OVER TUNISIA   Flying Forts and P-38’s Cul Axis Pitots to Rib hnne

AXIS LOSES 92 PLANES IN TUNISIA   Allies Lose Only 10 Aircraft In Day's Fighting

CLIMAX NEARS  IN SEARCH FOR CONVICT TRIO   Thugs Kidnap Woman But Release Her Unharmed After Her Auto Runs Out of Gas   FLED STATE PRISON   Seven Still At Large Fol‘lowing Spectacular 19Man Break; Three Others Trapped

State Guards Called Out For Aid In Search For 3 Escaped Convicts In North Mississippi

HOT ON TRAIL OF FUGITIVES   Woman Kidnaped By Three Escaped Convicts But Freed When Gas Ran Out

Farm Union Head Asks Help Of CIO:   Stemming Reactionary Wave By Getting People To Polle le-Gaid Iniong Dewklo

Farm Union Head Asks Help Of CIO   stemming Reactionary Wave By Getting People To Polls Is Said Joint Problem

SALAMAUA AND LAE NEAR END   Capture Of Vital Jap Air Bases Expected In Short Time

CAPTURE OF JAP BASES IN NEW GUINEA NEAR  Crushing Bombing of Salamaua Expected Te Reing Abnas CI! «ff Uianl ACL

‘Alles Advance Slowly Toward - Tunisian Bases   Beat Off Desperate Counterattacks Of Nazi And Hold Strategic Heights   AXIS AIRFIELDS ARE HAMMERED STEADILY

NAZI ATTAGKO ARE BEATEN OF   Allies Are Continuing to Press Campaing on Tunis and Bizerte.

Hand-to-Hand Fightme In One Area   Some of Pitterect Fighting of Campaign

It's All Right With Us--  Service Men Get First 10,000,000 Pounds Turkey

GARRISONS ALERT FOR INVASION   Two Bombardments In 48 Hours Blast Island

Italian Pantelleria Troops Ordered to Action to Meet Expected invasion by Allies

Troops To Action Stations On Isle   Expected Imminent A llied Invasion Attempt Causes Alarm Followi na Shelling Of Harbor

Stalin Announces the Capture of Poltava, Important Junction.   SMOLENSK BATTLE GAINS IN INTENSITY   Struggle for Dnieper River Line Is Also Beginning.

laly’s Chamber Of Fasci Ended  Badoglio Abolishes Ye oe a. ef   Badoglio Abolishes Camera Dei Fasci, Formed by Mussolini

ITALY'S FASCI CHAMBER IS DISSOLVED   Organization Took the Place of 90-Year-Old Chamber of Deputies When It Ended in December, 1938,

Presence Of Nazis Is Only Deterrent, -- Eisenhower Says   Report Italian Troops Wage Battle With Germans North Of Milan: U.S. Units Forge Ahead In Sicily

FASICST BODY 5 DISSOLVED   Badoglio Bans Formation of Any Political Party During War,

;  NO POLITICAL PARTIES WILL BE PERMITTED   Political Prisoners Jailed Under Mussolini Regime Being Freed From Italy's Jails.

Eisenhower Says German Troops Must Quit Italy   _-—Chamber Of Fasci Dissolved By Badoglio;  Italy Torn By Growing Disorders  ITALIAN AND NAZI TROOPS CLASH  Italians Seek To Block Nazi Reinforcements; Croats: Slovenes Reported Rioting   ITALIAN AND NAZI TROOPS CLASH

Premier Marshal Pietro Badogtio Bans Formation of Any Politica! Party For Duration   MIGHT BE COMPELLED TO SUE FOR PEACE   May Be Stalling For Time to Get Germans Off Soil and Troops In Balkans Home

Hits Again At Fascists   Badoglio Dissolves  Lawmaking Body; Nul  lifies Fascist Laws

CHAMBER OF FASCI DISSOLVED TODAY   The Action Was By Order of Premier Marshal Badoglio, It Was Said.

OUTBREAKS MAY FORCE PREMIER TO MAKE PEACE   Report Fighting Between Germans And Italians

MUSSOLINI’S LEGISLATURE IS DISSOLVEL   Badoglio Reported Freeing Polit ical Prisoners bul Position Seer as Critical

HOUSE DEBATES PAY-AS-YOU-G60   Representatives Expected To Write Own Bill, Forgiving Part of Year's Taxes.

Middle Ground Measure Expected From House As Tax Debate Is Begun   Plan Finally Adopted Will Be Somewhere Between Ruml Plan and That Favored By Ways and Means Committee, Belief

HOUSE DEBATE UNDER WAY ON PAY-GO TAXES   Partial Tax Forgiveness « Seen; Rum! Proposal Faces Defeat

HOUSE MAY WRITE ITS  OWN INCOME TAX BILL   Predictions Are That Rum! "Skip-a-Year" Program Wilt Be Rejected But Indications Are That Part of Year’s Taxes Wil! Be Forgiven—Debate on Issue Begins Today.

INVASION OF ITALY REMINDS WRITER OF HUGE TRAFFIG JAM  EMBARKATION POINT LOOKED LIKE MOTOR CAR PARKING LOT

Feature Finder   Under Cover of Moonless Night, Allied Fleet Puts Out for Italy

= ch Ee me  C alm Sea Without Moon Aids Lene-Planned Allied Attack

Reports Extraordinary Scenes  ‘Leading Up To Allies’ First Move Of Invasion Expedition To Italy

Traffie Jam   Invasion Ports Resemble Auto Park Just Before lump-Off.

Allies Have Starlight fo Guide fo Italy   Attacking Forces  Have Continuous Air: Cover as They Spread Over Italian Beaches

Starlight Invasion   Is Related   Eyewitness Tells - Of Sights When Second Front Opened

New Road Signs Spring Up In Italy As Allies Emerge From Traffic Jan

Hundreds of allied vessels’ guided to Italy by starlight   Invasion ports fed for 10 days by vast numbers of men. vehicles

Vast Stores Were Broug if fo the Beaches: Then, On a Moonless Night, We Attacked

Tense On Eve Of Attack      But Troops Are Confident As They Mass At Sicilian Ports For Big Adventure

Sicilian Ports Are Jammed With Men, Ships, Vehicles And Stores For Big Drive

Moonless Sky Shields Big Attack Force   Men ‘Talk About Other Things’ As Zero Hour Nears.

MIDGET SUB DAMAGES. THE TIRPITZ   German Super Battleship Out. Of Commission

(VER TR BILLIONS   Week Remains for Late Reports of Individual Sales, Under Goal

43 Nations To Take Part In Food Talks   All Those Invited Have Accepted Hot Springs Invitations -

BATTLE OFKURSK IS AT CRISIS   ‘Russians Appear ‘To Have Turned ‘Tide Against Nazis

REDS NARROW GERMAN WEDGE   Mounting Counterattacks Indicate Initlative Is Passing To Russians

RED ARMY 1S TAKING ANITIATIVE   Soviets Clipping Off Nazi Wedges Driven In Belgorod Area

Reds Turn Tide In Kursk Battle.   Germans Repulsed as Russians Pave  Way for Full-Scale Counter-Drive .

Aloo TURNING POINT OF NAZI DRIVE ARDUNC   Counterattacks Clipping Off German Wedges on Kursk Sector. &.   NAZI “NOVELTY” CALLS FOR RED “FORTITUDE”

BATTLE OF KURSK REACHES TURNING POINT IN RUSSIA      Reds May Launch Powerful Blows Against Nazis —Enemy Almost Exhausted   WREST INITIATIVE FROM ENEMY TROOPS

Soviets Take Initiative In Kursk Sector   Counter Offensive May Be Launched By Russian Forces

REDS CLP OFF NAZI WEDGES IN BITTER FIGHTS   Possible Full Scale Counter-Offensive Indicated in Reports

BATTLE OF KURSK AT TURNING. POINT ~ AS REDS ATTACK   Russians Reported Clipping Off Wedges Formed. By Nazi Advances.

RUSSIAN ARMY CLIPPING OFF GERMAN WEDGES   Ten-Day-Old Battle Seems T Have Reached Turning Point

REDS CLIP OFF GERMAN WEDGES ON KURSK FRONT   Russian Suecesges Point to Early Coun-  ter-Offensive 

RUSSIAN TROOPS TAKE INITIATIVE IN KURSK BATTLE   Mounting Attacks Hint Counter Offensive by Red Armys German  Doeten Tinlesnetiank

Turning Point In Battle of Kursk Thought Reached   Mounting Russian Counterdrives Point  To Full-Scale Attack

KURSK BATTLE TURNING POINT FAVORS RUSSIA   Soviets Now Attacking All Along 165-Mile Front

RUSSIANS. MAY TURN — ON ENEMY   Crisis Is Near in Sector With Indications Soviets May Reverse the  Action.

NAZI TOPPED, AUGaIANS OPEN UWA ATTACKS   Ten-Day Battle Of Kursk Reaches Turning Point, Reds Take Offensive

NOMINATION HALL CONFIRMED STATE INSURANCE BODY  STATE BOARD CONTROL GIVEN POWER FIRE INSTITUTION HEADS

GENERAL UNION TO END STRIKE   2,000 Workers At Akron Plant Vote To Go Back To Jobs At Once

President Says Walkout Inexcusable In Sending Message After WLB Certifies Dispute to Him

Strikers To Resume Work   New Walkouts Storted tn Other War Plants

Reds in Caucasus Buck Stiffening Resistance Today   Slush Fails to Stop New Russo Advance on Restov

Russian advance continues   Concentration camp retaken from Germans

Russian Warplanes Pound Krasnodar   _ Soviet Spearhead Frees Countrymen in Concentration Camn Far Behind Line<

AXIS FORCES FAIL T0 SLOW RED ADVANCES   Soviets Meet With More Resistance by Germans In CauCcasus.

ADVANCE THROUGH RAN, SNOW, ICE ~ ONBATTLEFIEDS   French Infantrymen Supported By American Planes With French Pilots Blast Axis Positions.   SHOWER RUHR, ESSEN IN HEAVY BOMBINGS   Germany Admits Attacks Are Becoming Increasing increasingly Heavy on Threa Sectors on Tunisian Front.

LEGISLATURE RECONVENES TO STUDY BUDGET   ACCUMULATION OF 600 BILLS FACES STATE LAWMAKERS

ASSEMBLY BACK IN SESSION AT STATE GAPITAL ©   Hard Work Ahead For Legislators Next Few Weeks

Illinois Assembly Returns to Labor; Faces Heavy Work   Accumulation of About 600 Bills Awaiting Action of Solons

MIGHTY ALLIED AIR FLEET IN ACTION   Ceaselessly Raids Axis-Ruled Western Europe

ALLIED BOMBERS AND   FIGHTER PLANES IN OF  PENSIVE TO CRIPPLE _GERMAN TRANSPORT  ’ TO SOUTH

Woman Laterally  aS ¥en wchlees Holds Pursestring * Ke dati alee  Of Texas ROTC Unit

PRISONERS DRIVEN QUT 70 DIE, CLAIN,   Australian Says He Saw Russians Were Driven Out Inte Snow.

DAD-DRAFT VOTE DELAYED TODAY   Debate on Post-War Policy Prevents Action on Burning Issue

DRAFT ISSUE DELAYED   Postwar Policy Debate In Senate Delays Draft Action

CONGRESSIONAL ~ ACTION ON FATHER DRAFT POSTPONED   Post-War Policy Debate Pre vents Meeting of House  and Senate Conferees.   NO DEFINITE DATE SET   Senate Probably Will Be Debating on Post-War Resolution All Next Week.

FINAL ACTION ON FATHER DRAFT BILL HELD UP IN SENATE  SENATORS TIED UP IN POST-WAR DEBATE AND UNABLE TO CONFER

FATHER: DRAFT ACTION HELE UP IN SENATE   Post-War Debate Delays Parley to Adjust Differences With House Over Policy to Be Followed in Inductions.

Delay On Dad Draft Issue   Postwar Debate Ties Up Progress of Bill

Post-War Policy Debate Delays Action On Father Draft Issue In Senate

DELAY DAD ACTION   Senate Is Too Busy for Conference on Drafting Fathers

FINAL ACTION DELAYED ON ‘FATHER DRAFT   Get-Together of Senate  House Committees Postponed Until Next Weel

ACTION DELAYED ON DADS’ DRAFT ISSUE   Debate on Post-War Policy Postpones Work

Solons Delay Action on Father Drait   Labor Hoarding In Aircraft Plants Charged

WITHHOLDING TAY IN EFFECT TODAY   Employers, To Deduct 20% In Biggest Innovation In System

Pay-As-You-Go Now In Effect   Income Tax Placed On Current Basis

MOORE TO GUIDE BRICKER’S FIGHT   Canton Man Named To Lead Presidential Campaign

MOORE NAMED BRICKER AIDE   Canion Publisher Will Dir ect Governor's Presidential Campaign

FDR'S NEW TAX PROPOSAL FACES FIGHT IN HOUSE   Committee Meets To Study Notes On Super Tax

CONGRESS SHOWS, DISUKE OF FDRS ~ SUPERTAX PLANS   Members Considering Limi of $25,000, Other Idea On Limitations, Presiden May Take Action.   EXECUTIVE INSISTS UPON NEW LEVIES   Estimated One Billion Dollars Possible. With Tax Upon Securities Now, Exempt From Taxation.

FDR’s New Tax Plan Called  Communistic   Bi-Partizan Opposition Springs Up Agatust Super-Rate

‘“*Super-Tax’’ Plan Draws Considerable Fire... “Communistic” Label Put On F.R. Tax Plan

TAX RECEIPTS PILE HIGHER   Record of March 16 Is Double That of 15th

DECLARES ALLIES WILL DEFEAT INTERNATIONAL "GANGSTERISM’ IN WAR   WARNS AXIS THEY WILL LEARN “SECRETS” OF QUEBEC PARLEY IN “ONLY LANGUAGE THEIR — TWISTED MINDS CAN UNDERSTAND”

BATTLEFRONTS WILL DIVULGE SECRETS OF  Saleem es ee  QUEBEC CONFERENCE

Warns Axis Nations Thai Secret Decisions At Quebec Will Be  “Revealed” PRAISES CANADIANS  Avoids Details Of Plan: For Carrying War To Enemy

PLEDGES ALLIES WILL RID WORLD OF ‘OUTLAWS’   Pleased With Pacific Picture

ENEMIES SOON TO “LEARN” OF WAR DECISIONS   International Gangs sterism to Be Broken Up, Roosevelt Says at Ottawa,

To End rs “Gangsterism’   25,000 Hear’  President Talk. At Ottawa

FIRST PRESIDENT TO VISIT OTTAWA GREETED BY MANY   Warns Germany, Italy and Japan They Will Learn Secrets Reached at Quepec Conference.   200 PARLIAMENT MEMBERS ARE IN AUDIENCE   Mentioning “Real and Last ing Peace” He Says Pastwar World Was Discussed  In Deliberations.

Warns Decisions’ Will Be Delivered. In ‘Axis Language’   Nazis and Japan Are Condemned For Brutal Qualities; Absolute. Victory Promised fom: Alling.

ALLIES WILL BE SURE LESSON 1S “DRIVEN, HOME”   Declares Decisions at Quebec to Be Revealed in Military Language

World Gangsterism Will  Be Eliminated For All * Time, President Pledges

BLASTS AXIS NATIONS FOR BRUTALITY   Tells Nazis, ftalians and Japs They'll Learn Secrets of Quebec In Own Language.   TALKS AT OTTAWA   President Optimistic Over War Developments In Panific Area.

International pangs dents To      Axis Nations Told They'll Soon Learn Of “Seeret” Decisions In Only Language Their Twisted Minds’ Are Able To Understand

Warns Axis Of Decisions At Quebec   President Sees End of Want After Victory

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS 10 PARLIAMENT   Warns Axis of Action to Tell Quebec Decisions

President Tells Canadian Parliament ’Absolute Victory’ Will Aid World Freedom From Want.

WAR TO END ‘GANGSTERISM’ ROOSEVELT SAYS IN CANADA   President Addresses Crowd at Ottawa  Following Conferences at Quebec

ROOSEVELT TELLS OTTAWA PEOPLE VICTORY CERTAIN   Warns Germany. Italy and Japan Allies Are Deter. mined to Rid World of  Onsttlewse Faraver

VOW T0-BREAK: OUTLAWS MADE BY AOOSEVELI   Asserts United Nations Will Move on Road to Free-: dom from Want.   SAYS AXIS WILL LEARN. DECISIONS THE HARD. WAY

Warns Axis of Dire Things In Ottawa Speech   President Stresses Moral Principles © of Atlantic Charter

FDR SPEAKS AT OTTAWA, PRAISES CANADA'S EFORI  First U. S._ President To Visit Capital Of Can  ada ‘

SEES LASTING PEACE AFTER PRESENT WAR   Millions Hear President's Talk From Ottawa

TELLS AXIS NATIONS: THE LEARN QUEBEC DECISt iN MANNER THEY WOULD. :  LNDERSTAND :

U. S. President ‘Gives Address  On Ottawa Visit   'President Says Absolute Victory By the Allies Wil! Bring World Well Along the Road To Freedom From Want

GANGOTERIGM TO BE BROKE UP BY ALLIES   Speaks In Ottawa On First Occasion Of American President To Visit City; Axis To Learn Of Quebec Decisions By Action   WILL DRIVE LESSON HOME FOR ALL TIME

ALLIES WILL BREAK UP GANGSTERISM’ IN WORLD, F.D.'S PLEDGE   Promises ‘Absolute Victory’ In Ottawa Talk; View Optimistic Over Pacific War Prooress -

PRESIDENT HAS A WARNING FOR AXIS LEADERS   Absolute Victory’ Is Promised in Speech At Ottawa

“Absolute Victory” Pledged For Allies By President In Ottawa Speech

Roosevelt ir Address to Canadians   Heard by Audience of 25,000 at Ottawa—Promises ‘‘Absolute Victory” 7

FORTRESSES BOMB BREMEN BY DAYLIGHT   U-Boat Center Hard Hit After RAF Attack On Three Other Cities by Night Bombers.   15th Raid On Stuttgart

U-BOAT CENTER HEAVILY LASHED BY FORTRESSES   Raid Follows Up Night Attack By RAF On Stuttgart; New Stab On Way

YANK 'CHUTISTS TAKE CHOISEUL   Allies Begin Pincer Move Against Jap Bases on Bougainville

SPEED ALLIES’ DRIVE AGAINST ROUGAINVILLE   Begin Pincers Move to Close in on Main Japanese Bases

MAYORS FAVOR FOOD SUBSIDIES   Urban Areas Threatened With Collapse, Says La Guardia

L’GUARDIA IS FOR SUBSIDIES   Without Control Program Urban Ceniers Face Fi nancial Collapse

LaGuardia Defends Subsidy Program  Threat of Inflation And Collapse Seen

CORREGIDOR IS POSED AS WAR'S “HOLY GRAIL”   Most Lift Flag Again So Tha United States Will Stand Redeemed

Corregidor Is America’s Holy Grail, MacArthur Says One Year After Fall

Corregidor Held War’s ‘Holy Grail’   M'Arthur Hopes Bataar Redemption Will Be Speedy

Corregidor Symbol, Says MacArthur   Calls Fallen Fortres: ‘Holy Grail’ of War Against Japs

Allied Planes Push Offensive Acainst Europe   Mosquito-Plane Raid On Berlin Followed By Daylight Sweeps

25 Ship Sinkings Indicate Axis Is Trying Dunkerque   Tunisian Straits Fleet [: Smashed; Spirit Of Nazi Troops Declared ‘Broken’

Pressure Grows For Speeding Up Of War on Japs   Australia Demands Substantial Reinforcements al Once   Congressmen Call for Prompt Retaliation by Armed Forces

Demand for Quick Blow at the Nipponese Strengthened  JAPS BROADCAST — DEFIANCE TO UV. S. General Doolittle Promises New Attacks on Tokyo

Controversy Over Pacific Given Fuel   Pleas of, MacArthur and Australia Will: .

Japs Add Fuel to Controversy  Tieawsnwnaa face Batla:   Demands for Action Against Nips Seen

‘Murder in Cold. Blood’ of Airmen Adds to Strategy Controversy; Warnings of Nip Power Stir Nation

‘Murder’ of American Flyers By Japs Adds Fuel to Dispute Over Strategy in Pacific War

Jap Atrocities May Alter‘Aliied Strategy   Execution of American Fliers Strengthens Demands for Quick Blows Against Japan

Murder of War Prisoners Sharpens Public  Demands For Quick Blow At Barbaraus Foe

‘Australia Seeks More U.S. Aid   “Murder In Cold Blood’ of Fliers Riles Citizens

Flier Execution May Influence ‘Pacific Strategy   Army Observers See Rising Tide of Anger Against Oriental Enemy

Will Attempt To Raise Tax Bill   Walsh Asks Greater Levy On War Profits

NAB AINGLEADER UF PRISON BREAK   Georgia Escape Artist Back ‘Behind Bars; Police Seek Two Others

Prison Escape Artist Captured in Georgia   Leader of Break Back Behind Bars

Notorious Georgia Escape Artist Back Behind Bars   Forrest Turner, Who With Two Other Men Led Wholesale Break Over Week Ago, Captured by Motorcycle Patrolman After Shooting Out Tires; Two Others With Him Flee

Wheeler Against Europe Invasion   Says Too Many U. S. Live To Be At Stake

RUSSIANS CLOSING TRAP ON GERMANS IN DNIEPER BEND   Red Army Within Six Miles  of Last Escape Deitleacsel

Soviets Drive On Twin Rail  Junctions   Move in Ukraine Made To Cut Enemy’s  Rail Ferane

REDS CLOSING TRAP ON HUGI NAZI FORCES   Soviets Six Miles From Last Escape Gap for Germans

Soviets Closing Trap on Nazis in Dnieper Bend  Main German   Main German Escape Route Ys Already Cut

Dnieper Bend Trap Tightened By Reds   Main German Escape And Supply Line Cut As Russians Capture Tsibulevo And Khirovka Near Znamenka

TRAP BEING CLOSED ON NAZI FORCE   Big German Force In Dnieper Bend Faces Red Pincers

Red Armies Closing Trap In Ukraine    Main Nazi Escape Line Cut by Advancing  Soviets Monday

Reds Closing Trap On Nazis In River Bend   Within Six Miles Of Twin Junctions Controlling Escape Railways

Reds Close Trap In Dnieper Bend   Last Escape Railways Reported Threatened

DNIEPER BEND NAZIS TRAPPED. BY RUSSIANS   Main Supply’ Lire Cut _ Yesterday Fellow“ing Powerful Ardiflery Fire

DENMARK UNDER NAZI ARMY RULE   Munitions Sabotage Brings Crisis: Fatal Clashes Reported

MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED IN DENMARK   Large scale sabotage destroys German munitions stores

Danes Sabotage Nazi Munitions    ‘Martial Declared As Danish Situation Becomes Ser ious; Convene Parliament

FRENCH TOLD TO BE READY ON “I” DAY   Guerrillas Strike in Greece, Unrest Grows in Denmark, Hungary

Allies Closing In On Mubo Japs   Decisive Action Seen As Plan To Take Munda Unfolds. -

JAP AIR FORCE GIVEN BEATING IN PACIFIC WAR   U. §S. Marine Anti-aircraft Gunners Shoot Down Twelve Of Sixteen Nip Bombers   YANK FLIERS GET 8 TO 1   Squeeze Put on Enemy at New Guinea Base by Americans and Aussies

~—SOLOMONS-~~  NEW OFFENSIVE IN-NEW GUINEE   ‘Decisive Action’ Stage Near In Solomons Drive   HIEL CAPTURED   Hope To Pin Japs Back To Lines Around Salamaua

CLOSING ON JAPS IN MUBO AREA   Allies Capture Green Hill, Strong Enemy Foothold

Allies Drive Toward Mubo   General MacArthur's Troops Start New Offensive In New Guinea.

Closing In On the Japs in Nubo Area   Have Already Gained a Preliminary Success   ONE STRONG POINT HAS BEEN TAKEN

Mubo Next On Allied Time- Table   American and Australiar Forces Closing In Or New Guinea Base

ALLIES TAKE JAP KEY POINT IN NEW GUINEA   Capture Green Hill and Move Up on Mubo Defenses Near Salamaua.

U. S.-AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CLOSING INON-MUBO   Offensive Designed to Clear Mubo Zone of Enemy Activity

NEW OFFENSIVE      Drive Is Designed to Clear Mubo Sector of Ail Enemy Troops.   KEY POINT IS CAPTURED

Offensive Is Set to Clear Battle Zone      All-American Drive on Munda Hinges on Success of Action Against Foe

Yanks Closing In On Jap Positions In Mubo Area   New Offensive Slated For Decisive Action In Salamaua Region

ALLIES LAUNCH DRIVE ON MUBO   MacArthur’s Troops Seek To Drive Japs Back  To Salamaua

YANKS, AUSSIES NEARING KUBO   Close In For Decisive Action To Clear Jap Base In Salamaua Area. °

ALLIED TROOPS CLOSING IN ON JAPS AT MUBO   Offensive Designed to Pin Nipponese Back to Salamaua in New ‘Guinea

OFFENSIVE IN PACIFIC MAY BE DECISIVE   Campaign Said To Be Designed to Clear Mubo Zone of All Enemy Troops   KEY POSITION IS TAKEN

U. S. Forces. Closing In On: Japs In Mubo Area”  For “Decisive Action”.

Closing in On Jap Base ct Mubo Ares   Seeking to Pin Japs Back to Lines Around Salamaua

New Offensive To Clear Zone Of Enemy Troop:   Coastal Barges Sneak In Men, Supplies To Japanese Defenders Of Munda Airbase

ALUICD TROOPS URW UN MMUBD IN NEW GUINEA   Enemy's Base Of Salamaua Is Final Objective Of New Offensive

U. S$. Troopers ~ ’ Nearing Munda   YANKS CLOSING IN ON JAP POSITIONS AT MUBO

Decisive Action Looms —   American And Australian Troops Closing In On Strategic Enemy Positions At Mubo In New Guinea

> Mubo Next For Allied Guinea Unit   Yanks, Australians Hammer at Munda; Defense Post Taken

ALLIED FORCES IN S. W. PACIFIC KEYING ATTACK   Decisive Action Seen In Drive  Towards Munda

ae TROOPS LOSING TRAP IN HUBO DRIVE   aw Offensive Launched  y MacArthur's Men to  Oust Japanese From New Guinea Area   JREEN HILL TAKEN  BY JUNGLE FORCES   ime Growing Short For American Assault On Kiska; Weather Is Deciding Factor

Allies Ready To Drive Japs Out of Mubo     New Offensive Designed To Pin Enemy Forces To Salamaua Lines

Yanks And Aussies In New Offen  U.S. Troops Cloana In For A Decision At Mubo

ALLIES START  ANOTHER DRIVE IN NEW GUINEA   Attack Japs in Kubo Sector, U. S. Offensive Against Munda Continues

Allies Closing In On Mubo Base Cut Off Enem}   Dive Is Keyed To Push ’ Toward Munda Base: Bombers Sink Barges

Yanks, Australians Closing In Upon Japanese At Mubo   Sink Supply Ships, Blast Foxholes In Munda Area

Decisive Action Near in Pacific  Mubo and Munda Areas Under Fire

Allied Forces Close on Jans   And Pin Japanese Back To Thelr Lines. Around   Salamaua Base

Yanks, Aussies Move On Mubo  In New Guinea   Offensive Designed To Clear Way For Capture Of Salamaua And Lae. ©

ALLIED FORCES IN PACIFIC OPEN DRIVE ON NEW GUINEA   AMERICAN AND AUSTRA.  LIAN FORCES CLOSING IN ON JAPS AT MIRO

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON MUBO, NEW GUINEA   New Offensive, Keyed with Drive on Munda, Well on Way to Success with Garrison Isolated   VITAL HILL SEIZED   Two Barges Bringing Aid Destroyed, Cargo Ship Sunk, No In. dication Jap Navy to Move

One Dropped His Belly Tank on Jap Plane When He Run-Out of Ammunition Over Rabaul

Treasury Hopeful O! New Tax Plan   Withholding Levy May be Delayed

Morgenthau Seeks Tax Act   Hope Plan for More Revenue and Withholding Tax Will Be Passed

MORGENTHAU HOPES FOR NEW TAXES  BY FALL   Secretary of Treasury Expresses Doubt With: holding Measure Can Be Put Into Effect Refore Jan. ist

Withholding Tax Delayed   Morgenthau Doubts Levy Could Be Put Into Operation Before Jan. J.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   y Invasion Threat  a Badly Worried )f United Nations

Recieve Churchill and Stalin Draw Up Epoch- Accord at Teheran Meeting in Which Fine ‘ bare of Cordiality Prevailed. Was First Meeting y OF Stalin and Roosevelt.

Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Also Chart Peace Eva In Which All Nations To Be Invited To Join World Family ;   Four Day Meeting In Teheran, Iran

ALLIED LEADERS CHART AIMS FOR WAR AND PEACE   PLEDGE SECURITY FOR ALL NATIONS AT IRAN MEETING

BASED ON PRINCIPLES OF ATLANTIC CHARTER   The Combined British and American Genera! Staff Held Concentrated Planning Sessions From Last Friday Through Today.

Teheran Meeting Charts Peace Era  Other Disclosures Believed On Way  Following Historv-Makine

All Countries Asked To Join World Family   FDR, Churchill And Stalin Decide To Strike From East, West, South To Guarantee Victory; ‘Democracy League’ Set

Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt Session at Teheran Lasts for Four Days, Ends December First

World Family Sighted After War   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Agree On Scope, Timing of Operations to Crush Germany From East, West, South

All Nations to Be Invited to Join Peace Era Charted By Leaders.   FORM A WORLD FAMILY.

German Armies to Be Destroyed by Land, Their U-Boats by Sea and Their Factories By Air, the Statement Promises

Germany To Be Attacked from 3  Sides, Leaders Say   Conference at Teheran Closed December 1, News Bulletins Reveal;  Results Announced ne

FDR, Churchill, Stalin Agree On Three-Way Drive   _ Declatation Contains. No Ultimatum; Plang For: Winning Peace. Charted:-

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin  qe «  Agree on Scope, Timing of Three-Pronged Operations

In Accord Oh Peace, Strategy   Full Séale War. Planned In: , Historic Meeting of Allied ~ Chiefs:in Iran ~               POST-WAR PLANS: ©" ° -ALSO: DISCUSSED   Confederation of Nations: A ‘Possibility; Military..Heads ‘With: FDR;: Churchill. Stalin’

Will Smash Nazis From Three Sides; Peace Era Charted   Further Discloures Of Paramount International Importance Seen Emanating From Cairo Meeting.

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Agree At Teheran on Moves to Crush Germany, Create Lasting Peace

Victory Will Be Ours’ Asserts Big 3 in Statement Issued at Cairo on Teheran Parley   Leaders, Flanked by Staffs, Agree on Full Scale Offensive From the East, the West and South Until Foe Yields

Leaders Agreed On  Smashing Germans From Three Fronts   Allied Chiefs Also Plan World Peace Era Based On Principles Of Atlantic Charter

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill Agree on-Timing of ‘Massive Offensives to Crush Nazis

Three-Way lnvasion Of Europe Provided In Military Plan   By JOHN F, CHESTER and : WILLIAM fAcGAFFIN

Scope, Timing Of Actions Settled   Blow At Germany From Three Sides O.K.'d By Leaders; Peace Era Also Charted At Fonur-Dav Teheran Conference

Roosevelt, Churchili and Stalin Make Plans _At Teheran Conference For Operations To Smash German Army From Three Sides-— Chart Fra Of Pearce :

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin ‘Guarantee’ Victory; ‘Family Of Democratic Nations’ Planned

Iran Conference Comes to End With Agreement   Three-Pronged Drive Outlined Against Germany

Allied Leaders Draft Plans To Smash Germany   Statement at the Conclusionof Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin Conference in Iran Also Says ‘We Are Sure Our Concord Will make Enduring Peace’— Principles of Atlantic Charter Reaffirmed

By Ihree Powers  AGREEMENT REACHED FOR SMASHING NAZI ARMIES IN THREE-WAY OPERATIONS

FDR, Churchill And Stalin Agree To Crush Nazis From Three Sides And Air

Allied Leaders Also Charter  Future Peace   Conference Atmosphere Extremely Cordial

Chart Plans to Smash Germany From the West, South and East   Welcome Peace - Loving Nations Into ‘World Family’

To Strike Germany From  ‘East, South and West’— Plan Of Iran Conference   Report Of History Meeting of “Big Three” Is Announced; Foundations For  Permanent World Peace Are Laid.

'U.S., Britains Top Military Men Present; Stalin Had Only Two Aides

ALLIED ARMIES 70 ATTACK FROM EAST WEST AND SOUTH   “Big Three” Agreed On Scope and Timing  of Operations   CHART PEACE ERA FOR ALL NATIONS

Scope, Timing of Operation Decided at Teheran Meetina   By JOHN F, CHESTER and WILLIAM McGAFFIN

FDR, Churchill And Stalin Agreed On Three-Sided Drive   Conference of ‘Big Three’ at Teheran, Iran, Has Been Concluded — German Forces Will Be Smashed — Nations Invited to Join ‘a World Family’ With Peace.

BIG THREE IN AGREEMENT ON WAR OUTCOME   Conference Comes To End; Reveals  War Program

RESULTS TOLD IN CARO STATEMENT, SICNED BY THRE   “World Family of Democratic Nations’ Chartered In Connection With Peace Era at End of War.   MILITARY LEADERS IN GENERAL DISCUSSIONS   Three Pledge Co-operation of All Nations Where Residents Seek Elimination of Onvression.

Three Allied Chiefs Agree On Operations to Hit Foe — From Three Sides; Plan a ‘ “World Family of Nations’

Common Understanding Is ‘Guarantee Of Victory, Says Statement Stoned By Trio   ‘No Power On Earth Can Prevent Our Destroying German Armies By Land, U-Boats By Sea And War Plants From Air’: Look To Enduring Peace

FDR, Churchill And Sfalin Map Vast Operations  Sides Prepared  At Conference

Charter Peace Era For ‘World Family’   No Power Can Prevent Allies From Destroying German Armed Forces, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Declare at Conference.   Scope and Timing of An Invasion  Of Western Eurone Are Decided

Final Assault On GermansIs Mapped   Statement Says No Power On Earth Can Prevent Destruction Of German Armies

TRIO OUTLINES PEACE ERA FOR ENTIRE WORLD   Urgency of Military Phase of Program Is Underscored

Details of Iranian Conference Made Public at Cairo   Besides Adopting Program to Crush Armies of Reich From Three Sides, "Big Three’ Also Charts Era of Enduring Peace   FAMILY OF "DEMOCRATIC NATIONS" PROPOSED

LEADERS CHART PEACE ERA FOR WORLD FAMILY   Atlantic Charter Principles Reatfirmed at Teheran Conference

Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Announce All Nations Will Be Invited Into A “World Family” After Axis War Makers Are Crushed

Plans For Peace  Also Are Drafted   All Nations Will Be Invited to Join Program For Peace! Scope and Timing of Military Blows Drafted by Top Military Chiefs

Teheran Meeting — Charts Peace Era   ‘Other Disclosures Believed On Way  Following pastry: Making  

‘VICTORY WILL BE OURS,” SAY ®. D. R., CHURCHILL AND STALIN   fran And All Other Peace-Loving Nations To Help Establish Security And Prosperity For Post War Period.

Anglo-U. S. Invasion Time Fixed At Parley   ‘Big 3’ Pledges Co-ordinated Assaults From East, West And South; World Peace Era Based On Atlantic Charter Also Mapped.

Chart Peace in Which All Nations Will Be Invited to Join ‘World Family of Democratic Nations’   REAFFIRM ATLANTIC CHARTER   Combined British and American General  Staffs Follow Teheran Meeting With  - Concentrated Planning

German Army fo Be Crushed by 3-Sided Drive   ‘World Family of Democratic Nations’ ls Plan for Peace

‘Germany To Be Hit From 3 Sides; Chart A Peace Open To All People of The World

FAMILY OF DEMOCRATIC ATIONS PLANNED AFTER WAR AND BASED ON ATLANTIC CHARTER; RELENTLESS ACTS; CPUC TH PRIISH FAEMY: ACK WIRE PAINPEBATION

JOINT DECLARATION ISSUED BY ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, STALIN AFTER IRAN CONFAB   “We Shall Work Together In War,  Peace,” Statesmen Agree

‘Scope and Timing’ Of Victory Plan - Are Agreed Upon   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Friends  in Fact. Spirit and Purpose. Says Final Communique   IRAN'S POSTWAR FREEDOM  GUARANTEED BY CHIEFS

Allies Agree Completely On Aim, Time   Big Three Maps Peace Era For World Nations

AGREEMENT ON INVASION PLAN   Scope And Timing of Operations Completely Mapped

Roosevelt, Churchill and _ Stalin Agree on Plans  ~ for War   CHART PEACE ERA, TOO   To Invite All Nations to Join  World Democratic 4 Family

World Family Of Democratic Nations Is Aim   History-Making Conference Between FDR, Churchill and Stalin Were Held in Teheran Nov. 28 to Dec. 1; Attended by Military Leaders and Diplomats

Leaders Agree on Scope, Timing of Triple Smash Against Foe at Meeting

Plan Otfensives to Smash German Army from Three Sides: Form Peace Charter

AGREE UPON TIME ANG PLAGE FOR ASoAULT 10. OMASH GERMAN ARMY   Official Statement Declares Victory and Enduring Peace in World Family of Democratic Nations Have Been  Fo ee ee 2

Allied Leaders in Iran Conference Chart: ed Peace Era to Which All Nations \ Be Invited to Join—Cairo  Confe ence Statement Later ;   By JOHN F. CHESTER ‘and: WILLIAM McGAFFIN:

Plans Completed Smash German Armies In Epic Conference Of Leaders

NAZI SUPPLY RAIL ROUTES ~~ ARE BEASTEE   POWERFUL AERIAL BLOWS AGAIN STRUCK AGAINST COMMUNICATION LINES  TO GERMANS IN ITALY 

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST NAZI RALL LINES IN FRANCE   Riviera Coastal Route to  Italy Severed in funknae Assn

CAMPAIGN 10 SEVER LINKS GAINS FURY   Latest Crippling Blow Is Centered on Cannes

CRIPPLING BLOW GIVES NEW FURY TO AIR ATTACKS   Smash Centers on Coastal Link With France at Cannes

94 Year Old Resident !s ‘Death Victim   Patrick Duffy dies at home of daughter near Ayrshire.

A Pioneer Resident: Is Called   Patrick Duffy Died at Ayrshire Saturday. Funeral at Wexford Wednesday.

USES JAP FLAG   Rickenbacker Swabs Out Planes nm With ‘Nin’ Standard.

Former Army Corporal Dies In Electric Chair As Slayer   Farris Pays With Life For Murder During _Week-Long Orgy Of Crime With 2 Women

MICKEY ROONEYS QUIT FOR GOOL   Wife Filing Suit For Divorce; Join Statement Issued By Actor And Wife

MAIN STH ARMY - FORCE CROSSES TUNISIAN BORDES   Heavy Battle Expected to Follow Within the Near Future;

Bad Weather To Be Over by End of March   Time Imminent , For Opening of Big Battle

British Move: Axis Reports Own Offense   Announcements Indicate Clash Near Mareth Line as U. S. Fliers Rake Foe at Kairouan; Kharkov Defenses Are Crumbling.

Missouri Cufs Through High. Levee, Encircies Vital Railroad Yards, Battle With Flood On

Arkonsas River Flood Leaves Oklahomo Roaring Towards Fort Smith, Ark., Leaving Terrific Toll of Damacae in State

MISSISSIPP] AND MISSOURI RIVERS TO RECORD PEAKS   Weather Bureau Predicts Highest Levels Today Since Floods of 1844

CONGRESS I WARY OF PUERTO RICANS   (Proposal to Free Island Brings Advice to Go Slow on Matter

KING STAVES OFF ATTEMPT 10 OUST HIN   Saying Political Truce Necessary Until Allies Reach Rome, Victor Imanuel Wins Temporary Reprieve.   Six Parties

Italian King Puts Off Move To Oust Him   Compromise Cabinet Looms as Ruler Wins Temporary Reprieve From His Opponents

ALLIES PURSUING JAPANESE CONVOY   Attack by Bombers Scatters Nipponese Fleet Off New Guinea.

President Signs United Nations Relief Compact   Piedge Is Made To Feed Those Oppressed by Foe

43 JOIN WITH 15, TOASSST AXIS VICTIMS   Roosevelt Brands ‘Document Proof of United Nations Humanitarianism.

44 Nations Sign Humanitarian Pact   Roosevelt Calls It ‘Strong Link’

RELIEF, REHAB. AGREEMENT IS SIGNED BY 44 NATIONS TODAY   President Says Move Far Reaching

FDR SAYS, ‘WE MEAN BUSINESS   Speaks After Signing of Relief Agreement

Roosevelt HailsAnother ‘Strong Link’   UNRRA ‘ShowsWe Mean Business in‘ Political and Humanitarian Sense’      4) NATIONS SIGN      Blackened’ in Axis Re-  - treat, President Says

MOMENTOUS DOCUMENT IS SIGNED TODAY   Historic Ceremony Takes Place in White House, 43 Nations Pledge to Aid Downtrodden   PRESIDENT GIVES TALK

President Speaks in Behalf of Peoples of Dominated Nations   International Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

PRESIDENT. ROOSEVELT DECLARES     IN HUMANITARIAN COMMON SENSE   Signing of United Nations Relief Agreement and _Msocow. Coriference Proves Intentions of Parties Concernéd = ,

44 Nations Join to Feed World  Speech by Roosevelt Climaxes Pact Signing

NEW RELIEF AGREEMENT iS SIGNED   Shows “We Mean Business” Says Pres. Roosevelt’

United Relief Agency Created   Forty-Four Countries Sign Pact For Aiding Stricken  Nations.

UNRRA Lauded By F. R.   Humanitarian Goal Ranks With Military Objectives .

PLAN TO RELIEVE VIGTIMG OF AXTs PRAISED BY FOR.   International Relief Agency Set Up Today As 44 Nations Sign Pact

ALLIED RELIEF TREATY SIGNED AT WHITEHOUSE   Roosevelt Declares Jt Shows United Nations Mean Business in Po-  litical, Humanitarian and Military Sense  J

PRESIDENT SIGNED RELIEF AGREEMENT OF UNITED NATIONS  COUPLED WITH MOSCOW DOCUMENTS IT INDICATE

‘United Nations Relief Agreement Signed; Hailed As New Link Joining Allie:

ROOSEVELT HAILS ~ PACT GREAT PLAN   ' Representatives Will Meet Wednesday} to Work Out More Agreement Details.

AGREEMENT FOR RELIEF SIGNED BY 44 NATIONS   Roosevelt Talks On World-Wide Rehabilitation

F.D.R. Signs Relief Pact of Allied Powers   President Declares Agreement Joins United Nations in Relieving Distress

President Hails New Ally Pact   44 UNITED NATIONS JOIN IN AGREEMENT TO FORM UNRRA,; F. D. R. SAYS DOCUMENT SHOWS “WE MEAN BUSINESS IN THIS WAR”

44 Nations Sign Relief Aareement   FDR ‘Says UNRRA Is One More Link Joining UN in Facing Problems of Mutual Interest and Need

EDR Stresses Importance Of United Action   Declares Relief Agreement Shows “We Mean Business In This War.’  =e este ie? a pid a tien Sa i:

RELIEF PACT IS HAILED BY FOR   44 Nations Join In Agreement To Aid Oppressed

Allies Must Pool Relief   PVUU NGI  President Says Aid  To Ravaged Countries Da. wn’ hi1is., XL All

Allies Sign Relief Pact At Capital   President Hails United Front

FD. U.S. SERIOUS ON WORLD AID        Nation Means Business ir Post-War  Rehabilitation, President Declares in Signing Allied Relief Agreement.

FD Signs Pact With 43 Nations   ‘We Mean Business’  He Tells World

FDR PLEDGES U. S. TO AID NATIONS STRICKEN BY WAR   SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH ENVOYS OF 43 OTHER COUNTRIES

Four Die in Cut Bank Oil Tanker Crash   Victims Burned After Truck Plunges Over Fmhankmant

HELEN HOLTON A BRIDE TUESDAY   United: In. Wedlock To L. “Matisur Tinsley , ae “9-00 A: M.

HELEN HOLTON A BRIDE TUESDAY   United: In. Wedlock To L. -Matisur Tinsley At “9 nn A M .

HARD FIGHT IN TUNISIA SEEN   Stimson Says U. S. Troops Perform Magnificently ; Our Losses Heavy

TROOPS NOT GREEN, STIMSON ASSERTS   Secretary, However, Warns Against Hopes of Quick Victory

Contradicts Story U. S. Troops In wee bey ele TRON   American Soldiers — Carefully Prepared Stimson Declares

AMERICANS ARE GIVEN PRAISE BY SECRETARY   Stimson Scouts Idea That Troops In Tunisian Fight.  ing Were “Green”

LABOR HEADS SEEK VETO OF STRIKE BILL   Three Spokesmien Say the Measure Would Ham. string WLE

Union Leaders Appeal Again For Bill’s Veto   May Force AFL, CIO To Quit Labor Board, They Inform President

LABOR HEADS CALL ON FDR TO VETO BILL   Tell President Strike Ban Measure Would Hamstring WLB

Labor Appeals Anew for Veto  Of Strike Act   Three Leaders Tell Roosevelt Bill Will Hamstring WLB and Force Them to Quit

3 Labor Chiefs Hit Anti-Strike Bill as Fascist   Is Worst in 100 Years, They Say, Hinting  wWwsherap E*..'.

Labor Rests Gas Against Bill  Banning Strikes Measure Called ‘A Wicked and  Vicious’ Plan

LABOR LEADERS FIGHTING BILL   President Is Told CIO And AFL Members May Quit War Labor Board

Organized Labor Urges Veto of Anti-Strike Bill   Green, Murray and Rob ertson Says Legislation Is Wicked’

SWEDISH MOTORSHIP SUNK BY SUBMARINE   Spotlights Played on Flag of Neutral Nation’s Vessel—All on Board Saved.

Ask Berlin Send Help  To Tunisia   Allies Blast 142 Axis Planes in Mediterranean in  Last Three Days

Ask Berlin For Support In Air War   Axis Loses 142 Planes in Last Three Days

AXIS LOSES 24 PLANES IN TUNISIA   Berlin Warned By Nazi Command About Need: Of Reinforcements

ENEMY AIR LOSSES IN MEDITERRANEAN CAUSE OF CONCERN   Report That. Nazi Command in Tunisia Has “ Advised Berlin to  Send Helu.

World Food Delegates Bask in Lap Of Luxury in Swank Virginia Hotel

DIRECTOR BYRNES URGES SUBSIDY PLAN TO KEEP DOWN INFLATION   Mobilization Chief Warns That War Is Not Yet Won, and People On Home Front Must Fight Harder Than Ever.

Subsidy Foes Warned ToDrop PoliticalGuns   Byrnes Urges All-Out Mobilization Of Congress to Curb Inflation, ‘So We Will Not Lose Peace’ at Home

BYRNES ASKS UNITED DRIVE ON INFLATION   Sees Danger to U.S Economy; Favors  Subsidy Plan

Anii-Intlation Aid Demanded   Byrnes Appeals for Administration Plan

Anti- Inflation Aid Demanded  Byrnes Appeals for  Rdaminisitration Pler

ISSUE TIRE CERTIFICATES   Fuel Oil Panel of Ratior’ Board  Meets Friday Afte:

Knox Reports U. §. Air Raid On Jap Sea Base Is Costly   4 Bombers Shot Down Six Missing In Raid wn. Kurile Navy Base

Navy Announces Loss of Submarine Grenadier and Two Subchasers: Japs Bomb U.S. Base at Funafuti

NPA PAE SS SUBSID   Program of Government: Paid Ads Would Be Disastrous, Is View.

WAR STRATEGY TALKS TO BE RESUMED SOON   Churchill Will Join Roosevelt In Washington

3% Servicemen Listed With 57 Dead in Wreck   Streamline Train Piles Anto Derailed Flyer In Narth Carenling

09 Killed, 50 Hurt in Double Train Wreck   48 Service Men, 21 Civilians Die in N. Carolina Tragedy

60 killed, 50 injured when trains crash   37 service men reported dead

NAVAL VESSELS ARE SRT AFIRE AT COPENHAGER   Nazis Shoot At Danes In Drastic Clamping Down Of Martial Law; Aged King Is Interned

Fleet Scuttled; Refugee Vessels Being Attacked   Copenhagen Harbor Reported in Flames Fleeing Inhabitants Attacked at Sea

Nazis Killed In Clashes In Denmark   Report Several Hundred Slain Danish Ships Sunk In Harbor

NAZIS SLAI  HUNDREDS DURING RIOT   Big Fires Blaze Fiercely  Among Scuttied Hulks Of Ships In the  Harbor

Fires Burnin Danish Ships Sunk by Crews   ~ Germany Clamps on Military Rule and Interns King and Cabinet Members

 Sm Small Bottles W ill Be Used by Dionne.  i [ ".Quints: in Christening Liberty Ships

Small Bottles Will Be Used by Dionne Quints in Christening Liberty Ships

Soviet shells broke Leningrad siege: tiny force held nazis at bay

Critical Egg Shortage Predicted As Result of Buying for the Army

EGG SHORTAGE IN BALTIMORE   Situation Throughout Nation Will Be Critical Next Winter, Official Says

Kast Texas Town Suffers Greatly From Windstorm  At Least Three Kile at San Augustine:

Father of U. S. Soldier Slapped by General Patton Asks Congress to Drop the Whole Thing

DANGER OF POISON IN HOARDING RUSE   Transfer of Food From Cans tc Jars on Pretense of Home Canning Carries Risk.

NIPPON BASES IN AUSTRALIAN AREA BOMBED   BABO AND MADANG SET ABLAZE BY ALLIED RAIDS

Allies Bomb. New. Guinea “Plane. Base: Babo, Madang Hit Ground Troops .  " “Strafed =~

Two Jap Bases Heavily Raided.   21 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Madara

Allies Again Hit Jap Holdings In Jungle Zone  Great Fires Result; Enemy Bombers, Fighters Are Struck

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT JAP BASES   Installations At Babo And Madang Heavily — Blasted

CORN IS UNDER PRICE CEILING   Battle Looms Between Administration And harm iloc.

Farm Bloc In Rage Over Move   Prices Set At January 8-12 Level To Prevent Sale Of Corn Held For Stock Feed.

F ood: Subsidy Foes in Quandry   Fear Ban Would Kill Commodity Agency

FARM BLOC FACES DIFFICULT CHOICE ON SUBSIDY ISSUE   Has Votes To Defeat Program, But Wants To Keep CCC

REPORTS INDICATE BOMBINGS AND MILITARY DEFEATS ‘HAVE CHANGED PICTUBE /~~{NSIDE GERMANY

 Germanu’s Morale Nearer Cracking  = Paint Than at Anu Previous Time 

Coast Guard Ship Sinks Sub, Bombs 5 Others In Pack   Was Guarding Convoy At Time Of Attack

Coast Guard Cutter Has Dramatic Battle With U-Boat Wolfpack Lying In Wait For Convoy

2-DAY-OLD BABE IS ABDUCTED   Police Have No Clews in Disappearance of Labor Lead. er’s Daughter

NO CLUES IN SEARCH FOR MISSING INFANT   Baby Not Two Days Old When Kidnapped from Crib

Kidnaping of Two - Day - Old Babe Baffling   Albany, Ore., Police Admit They Have No Leads In Abduction Case  RANSOM NOT MOTIVE

Labor Officer’s Baby Kidnaned   Police Baffied By Abduc tion From Hospital Crib.

TEMPERATURES:   Two-Day Old Baby Kidnaped From Albany, Ore., Hospital

BABY KIDNAPED FROM HOSPITAL      Two-day-old Daughter of Labor Official Taken From Crib; Youngest Ever Abducted

TWO-DAY-OLD BABY KIDNAPED   Albany, Ore. P olice Baffled at Odd Occurrence

BABY TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL NURSERY   Two-Day-Oid Daughter of Labor Union Official Is Kidnanned.

Reporter Lands In Mousetrap’ Seeking His Story   Wanted to See How Much Protection Was Given President

LHURGHILL FOR WAR CONFERENCE WITH RUSSIANS   Says Meeting Of ‘Big Three’ Representatives “Urgent and Necessary’

CHURCHILL SPEAKS 10 WORLD TODAY   France Will Rise Again a Free ahd Independent Nation.

Great Holes Torn in Axis Line on 170-Mile Long Front—Furious Battles Are Reported in Progress South of Mogilev.

Allred Gains First Step To Judgeship   Louisiana Nomination Is Bitterly, Contested

Given Two To 1 Vote And Sent To Full Committee For Recommendation Fer U. S. Judgeship

ALLRED UNDER FIRE FOR FEDERAL JUDGE   Senator Daniel Sees Something “Funny” About It

ALLRED GIVEN TWO TO ONE VOTE TODAY BY SUB-COMMITTEE  SENATOR HATCH SAYS HOPED FULL COMMITTEE ACT SOMETIME MONDAY

Allred Approved For Judgeship By 2-To-One Vote   Texan Confirmed By Senate Committee: Now It's Up Te  Congress

Confirmation of Allred Favored By Senate Group  Subcommittee Vote: 2 to } for Texan - To Get Court Ploce

SUB-GROU?P FOR ALLRED      Noninaiion to Julgeship Sent t fo Sonate Committees

EDEN, HULL BEGIN CONSULTATION ON POSTWAR PLANS   Simultaneously Senators Win _ White House Approval of Parallel Program.

Eden, Hull Hold First Talk Today   Historic Parleys Begin; Post-War Program Proposed

HULL AND EDE LAUNCH PEACE FORMULA TALK   Conferences Start Coincident With FDR Nod to Senate Group's Proposal.   DEBATE DUE ON LATTER   Sponsors of Plan Prepare to Introduce Resolution In Senate Tuesdav.

Gen. Chiang Says Victory Sighted   Jap Defeat Is Seen Within Two Years

Chiang Sees Japs’ Defeat In Two Years   oxth Anniversary O! War Is Marked By  Optimism

Gen. Chiang Says Victory Sighted   Jap Defeat Is Seen Within Two Years  By SPENCER MOOSA

Chiang Says Time Limit. For Defeat Of Japanese  Cannot Exceed Tivo Years

Time’ Limit for Utter Defeat Of Japs Can‘t Exceed 2 Years Chiang Kai-shek Tells China

SEES JAP DEFEAT WITHIN TWO YEARS      General Chiang, on Anniyersary, Says Invader Mired Down

KALSHEK SEES DEFEAT OF JAPAN WITHIN? YEARS   Chinese Leader Sounds Encouraging Note On Sixth Anniversary of War With the ‘Land of the Rising Sun.’

SEA-AIR ATTACK HERALDS ACTION 70 REGAIN WAKE   Nimitz Reveals Strong Blow «; on Island Taken by Japs _ = jn December, 1941

American Sea-Air Offensive Makes Wake Island Target of Heavy Raid

STIMSON HAILS RED PROGRESS   Says Success Of Allies In Italy Is Aiding Soviets

GERMANS MAY FACE DISASTER LIN RUSSIA   Russian Successes May Force Germans to Abandon Entire Dnieper River Line Stimson Thinks

Louisiana Solons Opposing Allred   Formtr Governor  In Washington

Allred Nomination Called ‘'Trifling With Judiciary’   Louisiane Senator Vigorously Opposes Texan's Selection

SENATE DEBATE ON PAY - AS - YOU - G0 BEGINNING TODAY   Every Indication Points To Adoption Before Week-End—George To Report

Kiska Pounded In Six New Raids Saturday   Continuous Raids Are Carried Out Against Island

Russian Rebound Wrecks 103 Tanks Near Kiev  Nazis Loose All-Out Drive in Gamble Bar Ukrainian City

Soviets Stage Counterattack West of Kiev   One of Greatest. Battles Rages For Ukraine City

Russ Balk Big Drive at Kiev   One of Fiercest Battles of War On As Nazis Hit Back

EXPERTS SEE FOCUS STILL ON GERMAN)   While Others Believe Concentration May Be Shifting to Japan in Planes of Allies 

AWAIT LEWIS SIGNAL   Spencer. Sees No. Reason for the Kansas Miners to Quit

Home Front Is Winning No Battles   NATIONAL COMMANDER ROANE WARING OF AMERICAN LEGION ASSERTS IN RADIO ADDRESS; FIGHT TO THE DEATH.   Allies Fighting Team

Legion Chief Flays Home Front for Being Too Hopeful  Waring Urges Work, Loyalty; Says Nation Is Careless

LEGION HEAD SEES FIGHT T0 DEATH   ROANE WARING DECLARES HOME FRONT IS NOT YET WINNING ITS BATTLES.

NATION CALLED TON APTIMISTIC   Home Front Not Winning Its Battles, Says Legion Chief

Home Front Not Yet Winning War, Roane Waring Says  Legion Commander De: clares There Is Too Much Optimism

LEGION COMMANDER DECLARES HOME FRONT IS NOT WINNING ITS BATTLES      Waring Reports on His Recent Tour Of _ North Africa 

Two More Ships Of Enemy Hit by Allied Bombers   More Activity Reported Today On Pacific Front

Yankees Gain In Solomons   Weak Resistance Reported \s Land. Air Forces Edge Forward On Isle.

Small Advances By U.S. Forces  In Guadalcanal   Enemy Positions Bombarded, Bombed, Then Attacked

Two More Ships Hit With Bombs   Total of Planes Shot Down Or Crippled  Boosted To 138   BUT GEN. WALKERS MISSING IN ACTION

Small Gains Made on Guadalcanal   Weak Resistance Encountered After Barrage  And Bombing

Two More Jap Ships Hit By Allied Planes   138 Jap Planes Shot Down or Crippled in Four Days of! Blazing Action in New Guinea Area

2 More Jap Ships Hit In Aerial Attack On Convoy   Gen. Kenneth N. Walker Is Reported Missing

AMERICANS GAIN ON GUADALCANAL   ARTILLERY, GROUND AND AIR FORCES BATTER JAPS

PUMMELING GIVEN ENEMY CONVOY GAINS IN SCOPE ©   Few Japs Landed At Lee Attacked At Town By Allied Airman

‘YANKS ADVANCE IN GUADALCANAL   “Navy Reports Gains After Artillery Barrage And Bombing Attack

ENEMY FOUND WEAKENED BY U.S. STRAFING   Offer Slight Resistance After Guadalcanal Bombing

Successes In  South Pacific  Seope Of Walloping Of Jans Exuanded

Artillery And Planes Smash Jap Positions   Ground Forces Make Advances; Resistance Weak   Enemy Troops Believed Suffering From Hunger   Disease Also Is Reported Weakening Japs On The Island

U. S. FORCES ADVANCE IN SOLOMONS   Planes and, Artillery Sup. “port Infantry in po “=” New Gains   ONE. OF A’SERIES OF SUCH ACTIONS   Americans May Be Moving to. Crush. Enemy, “Long Cut-Off and Weakened

Yank Planes Batter at Jap Convoy   138 Nip Aircraft Shot Down, Two More Ships Hit

Allies Bag 138 More Jap Warplanes   Two Transports Known To Have Sunk; Hits Scored on Two More

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UP)—American forces on Guadalcanal have attacked enemy positions on the ground and from the air, and have scored small advances, the Navy announced todav.

138 Japanese Planes Downed  Ships Sunk   Enemy Pays Heavily For Trying To Land in New Cuinea

Two More Ships of Con voy Hit; Jap Plane Toll 138 for 4 Days. °   Brigadier General Lost

} z a § U.S. Forces Advance Into Jap Area on Guadaleanal   Americans Meet Weak Resistance Following Artillery Barrage and Acrial Bombing and Strafing; Indicates Possibility Major Operation to Crush the Enemy In Making

Yanks Drive Back  Japs on Guadaleana   Troops Make Small Advances Against Weak Resistance Following Artillery. Barrage and an Aerial. Bombing and.Strafing.....--

Americans Gain On Guadalcanal   Advance Comes After Artillery Barrage Had Been Laid Down

Roosevelt Sends Word To Pope Pius   Vatiean City Will Be Spared During  Invasion, He Savs

Roosevelt Assures Pope Vatican Will Be Spared   President’s Message Clearly Portends Allied Invasion of Italy Proper; Experts See Early Continental Push

Vatican City Safe, FDR Tells Pope   Message to Pontiff Pledges Protection, Tells of Peace Aims

35.000 MINERS IDLE IN FIVE STATES: WLB ORDER IGNORED   Rail Workers Reject Four-Cent Hourly Wage Boost Suggested by Government

Reciprocal Trade Threat Is Seen   Republicans Claim Strength to Reduce President’s Powers.

G. O. P. AMENDMENTS TO TRADE TREATIES   Belicved To Have Sufficient Strensth In House To Limit Fresident's Powers

Slavs Battle Nazi Troops   Jugoslavia-Austrian Border Is Crossed

Claim Yugoslays Are in Austria   Guerrillas Battle On Soil of Reich

OHIO WARRIORS REAL FIGHTERS   Major Tells Of Great Role Played By Buckeyes Against Japs

PRAISES 37TH'S WORK AT MUNDA   Major Home from Pacific Tells of Tough Going Under Fire

BEIGHTLER IS ~ PRAISED FOR FINE RECORD   SIGNAL OFFICER HOME FROM SOLOMONS SAYS OHIO HAN” RIGHT TO BE PROUD + OF ITH

Four Rail Unions Reject A Cent Boost   Spokesman Says Strike Vote Is Favored By Gen eral Chairmen   ACTION IS DELAYED   Non Operating Unions Probably Will Follow Course Set By Big Five

Rail Wage Increase Proposal Rejected  Four of Five Labor  ce peel aes: base:

WHITE SLAVE RING BROKEN   Three Arrested by F.B.1 For Operating ‘Call’ Establishment

FBI Opens Drive Against Vice in Nation's Capital   Three Arrested in Raid ot “Pseudo Massage Parlor

BABSON OUTLOOK DEC. 30 FEATURE   FORECASTS FOR 1944 SAID TO BE MOST STARTLING SINCE 1929 PREDICTION OF CRASH

Babson Forecast For 1944 to be Given Next Week   Startling Predictions of Fam ous Forecaster to be in The American

Tatl Voices Fear That Passage of Bill Giving Soldiers V ote May Bring Contest

Ceiling Price On Household Goods Solid At Auction Set By O. P. A,   Violations Are Federal Offense And Basis For Suit

PLEASANT HILL U. B. CHURCH   OPA PLACES CEILING PRICE-ON ARTICLES      ‘Are Regulated Bither At Public. Or Private Sale

Violation. At P Private: s Can Also Be Severed ly - Punished. es

Help Problem Alarming In Institutions   Flow of Employes Into Higher Paying Jobs May Be Stemmed   CLASSED AS ESSENTIAL

STRIKERS AGREE TO RETURN TO CHRYSLER PLANT   Walkouts In Rubber Factories And Ohio Mines Also Terminated

Celanese Employes Vote To Resume Work Monday   WLB Warns Lewis Military Action May Be Taken to Keep Mines Working

FDR and War Labor Board Win First Round in Fight   There’s Still Danger of Crippling ° Nation-Wide Coal Strike: Action Seen

WORKERS END STRIKE   Roosevelt Wins First Round From Lewis  In Labor Rows

Administration Wins Preliminary Round In ‘Showdown With Lewis   Possibility Of Military Action Seen To Prevent Walk-Out Of Coal Miners As Lewis Defies War Labor Board

Workers Heed Order to Halt Fabrice Strike   Coal Mine Walkout Still Looms in WLB-Lewis Fight

NATION-WIDE COAL STRIKE THREATENING   WLB And President Win First Round With Lewis But Show-Down Pends.

Fear Spreading Among Germans   Czech Says Heavy Pessimicm Prevails

Fear Spreading Among Germans   Czech Says Heavy  Peccimicm Preaunile

INGUME TAX FORMS BEING MAILED OUT   Collector of Internal Revenue Reminds Truckers.

Japanese Troops Advancing in Burma   Threat Is Seen To British Lines

Japs Advance East Of Mayu,  Menace India   British Army Guards Route

FIND NEW OIL FIELDS   Valuable Deposits Discovered it Russian Territory

Allied Victory Came Fast tn Tunisia— —By Glenn Bat  Churchilil-FDR Bevamp Casablanca Program

U,S. Forces Help  In Corsican Drive   More Than 1,000 of the y Enemy, Already. Slain’ ° in Fighting   TAKE MANY: PRISONERS.   Pall of Smoke ale Over Naples -> as Germans Rush, &: ‘ Demolitions

1000 Fleeing Nazis Killed in Island Fighting   Germans Throw Up Temporary. Defense Line Near Naples

:-Yank Troops Battle on French Isle; Corsican Port Turned Into Dunkirk iBy American and British Bomb Raids

BRITISH, YANKS ARE PUSHING UP THROUGH ITALY   Nazis Pillaging Naples, Apparently Intent on Leaving Hollow Skell

Yank Commando Unit Aids French Forces in Running Germans Out of Corsica

“Yanks Aid « French on Corsica   Germans Are Being Driven Into Corner of Island, More Than 1,000 Slain   “AMERICANS PUSH ON FROM SALERNO   U. 5. Eombs Escape Ports; Naples Overhung With Smoke as Battle Roars On

U. S. Forces Help In Corsican Drive   More Than 1,000 of the , Enemy Already Slain in Fighting   TAKE MANY PRISONERS   Pall of Smoke Over Naples as Germans Rush.  F’ Demolitions

NAPLES LEFT IN RUINS BY ALLIED BOMBS   Huge Fires Scar Italian City; Peopl= Flee

Allies Tighten Lines in Italy   HUGE BLAZES, DEMOLITIONS SCAR METROPOLIS AS GERMANS THROW UP DEFENSE; FRENCH CHASE CORSICA NAZIS AS FLIERS RIP BASTIA, LEGHORN

NAZIS THROW DEFENSE RING AROUND CITY   Allied Armies” Pressing Forward From Salerno Bridgehead

4 More Italian ‘Towns Taken   French, Native Patriots Chasing 12,000 Germans on Island as Bombers Blast At Escape Ports: 8th Army Advances

Believe Nazi Evacuation Of City Started   Foe Loots, Destroys: 5th Army Seizes Three More Towns; Potenza Falls To British

RANGERS ARE: ON JOB; 1,000 NAZIS KILLED   Several Hundred Others Taken Prisoner as Allies Drive Enemy ToWard the Northeastern Corner of Island.

Allied Armies Advance From Salerno Area As Great Cloud OF Smoke Overhangs Naples

Demolitions by Germans Cast Pall of Smoke Above Naples   Foe Setting Up Strong Line South and East of City

Strong Defense Lines Builf to Retard Allies   American Fifth Army Drives on Despite Opposition

FRENCH DRIVE      More Than 1,000 Germans Already Killed in Corsica Fighting.   NAZIS TERROR IN NAPLES

Naples Burning As Nazis Loot Before Retreat   5th Army Advances  From Salerno As 8th Army Drives Northward

American Unit Aids in Driving Germans Toward North eastern Corner of Island and Already More Than 1 O00 Taken Pricanerc   Germans Throw Defensive Ring About the Battle-Scarred Naples

American Troops Aiding French In Corsica Fighting   Mare Than 1,000 Of Enemy Reported Slain

AMERICAN UNIT IS AIDING FRENCH IN CORSICA DRIVE   Helping to Force the Germans Toward the Northeastern Corner.   MORE THAN 1000 SLAIN   Several Hundred Nazi Prisoners Have Been Seized. a Communique Said.

Germans Turn Naples Into A City Of Horror   Allies, Expanding Salerno Area Holdings, Press Toward Big Port.

'RATIONING OF  MILK WILL  BEGIN ‘MONDAY   Dealers Will Not Be Permitted To Sell More Milk  - Than They Did During the Month of June _   CITY INCLUDED   re am Products Other Than Fluid Milk Will Be Cut to 75 Per Cent, of the ‘Jane Average

Nazi Soldiers Fire at Crowd On City Streets   General Strikes Spread in Denmark Despite Germans

Germans Speed Into Denmark To Stem Revolt   Volley Of Shots Fired- “he ., Square At Copenhagen ‘. During Disturbance!

Gunfire Marks A Disturbance  Parachutes Found Near Dil...s..3 W..2) FT ten

GERMAN TROOPS FIRE AT DANES IN COPENHAGEN   g Nazis Trying Desperately to Stamp Out Sabotage; 6,000 Workers Strike

NAZI SOLDIERS OPEN FIREIN DANISH MARKE]   Tension Rises at Copenhagen, Ger. mans Place Seventh City Under Martial Law

SOLDIERS FIRE oN CROWD IN € OPENHAGEN   People's Revolt Against Occupation Flares Up in  Cities of Helsingfor And Vejle   DISRUPTS PRODUCTION

Strikes Spread Over Nation as Danes Revolt   Many Reported Killed And Injured in Clashes; King May Be Interned

ENEMY TROOPS QUELL RIOTERS WITH GUNFIRE   STRIKES SPREAD IN DENMARK; SABOTEURS LANDED BY BRITISH

Strikes Cripple Danish Industry   Germany Sends Soldiers  Into Country to Stamp Out Peoples’ Revolt.

German Troops Fire On Danes To Stop Riots   Strikes Continue To Spread Despite Nazi Efforts To Halt Revalt   ITHINK ‘CHUTISTS HELP

German Troops and Gestapo Pour Into. Denmark, But Strikes in Harbor Cities Cripple German Shipping, Boat Building

Strikes Spread In Denmark As. Crowd Fired On   Materials For German Submarines. Disrupted By Walkouts:

GERMANS FIRE ON RIOTERS IN DENMARK   Despite Gestapo Actions Disorders Spread

VIOLENCE FLARES AND SHORTAGE OF FOOD GETS ACUTE   Parachute Saboteurs from Britain Lend Hand, Tip

GERMAN SOLDIERS SPEED INTO DENMARK TO PUT DOWN REVOLT   DESPITE, INFLUX NAZI TROOPS AND GESTAPO GENERAL STRIKES SPREAL

Denmark Genera Strikes Spread   Troope Fire Volley In Copenhagen Market Place, Reports Say

REPORT 60 HURT IN EASTERN CRASH   Passenger Collides With Engine Hal Mile From Wayland Rail  Florida Sheriff Says Youth — Confesses Slaying Boy, 14

25 Persons Die. in Train Wreck  60 Others Believed Tadured in Crash

Ld Passenger's Die, Many Hurt  In Train Crash   Lackawanna Flyer Hits Local Freight Engine On Ron to Ruffeale

DEM-GOP FORCES PLAN CAMPAIGN   Democrats to Meet in Lansing Jan. 15 to Reconstruct Party Lines

NEW VACCINE BEING TESTED   MEDICAL - SCIENCE'S SEARCH FOR WEAPON ‘ AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS MAY,  BE ENDED 

CANADIANS IN ADVANCE PAST ORTONA RUINS   While American Bombers Rip German Transport Centers Located In Two Italo Cities.

Canadians Push Up Adriatic Beyond Orfona   Italian Transport. Centers Bombed By Americans

Canadians Push  Northward From ‘Ortona Ruins   Mine Fields, Cold Weather Slow Down Violent Fighting

FIGHTING SLOWS UP IN ITALY   “ nadians Advanice  ile. Beyond. Raine Of Ortoria ~

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS ALONG THE ADRIATIC   U. S. Bombs Raid Rail Centers Of Rimini, Ferrara

Full Unity Is Sought By French   De Gaulle Heartened By Giraud’s Statement Or Recognizing Laws 0! Third Republic

 LAA ASAD AAAAAAAAAAAS A. Hey, Buddiec!  The War's Over the First One

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Sudden Blow  Hits British in North Tunista   Allied Lines Holding: Yanks Still Gaining im Contar 

Rommel’s Forces Lash At Pursuers   Attempts to Cut British Lines  Are Unsuccessful

Series Of Quick Jabs At Allied Lines Were Offensive Steps To Cui British Communices (ca Lines   GERMANS HAVE BEEN HELD IN CHECK, SAID

NAZIS HELD IN CHECK IN TUNISIA   Series of Jabs In North Sector Stopped By British

500 BOMBERS ROCK COLOGNE      . Tempo Of Fighting Slackens On Land Fronts‘

Expect U. S., British Forces To Occupy Three Air Bases Recaptured From Germans

Rommel’s Army Stabs At Yanks, Still Retreats   Germans Speedily Withdrawing Bu Attempt To Cut Communication Lines; Allies Are In Swift Pursuit

Axis Racing for Coast in Central Area; Drive at Mareth Line Near

Also Recovering Vital Airfields As Axis Retreats   Rommel Falling Back, to Original Line. Awaits All-Out Attack

ALLIES STILL  HOLDING NAZIS   Series of Quick Jabs Against Alied Lines in Tunisia ‘Tried by Flecjng Germans — Axis* Withdraws Kear Guards from Sbeitla Areas.

Island Stepping Stones To Italy Mit hy Allies   New Raids Follow Unconditional Surrender of Axis Armies in Tunisia

ANTI-VIOLENCE BILL RECEIVED   House Gets Legislation To Curb Racketeering Among Unions

Labor Bill OK’d By Committee, Sent to House   Would Make Unions Subject to 9-Year-Old Anti-Racketeering Act

Anti-Racketeer Measure Sent to House   Chamber Committee May Crder Probe Into Labor Situation

Anti-Racketeer Measure Sent to House  Chamber Committee Mav Order Probe

FRENCH NOBLEMAN HELD IN DEATH OF GOLD MINE MOGUL   Count Accused of Murdering Sir Harry. Oakes, One Of Richest Men In World

FRENCH NOBLEMAN HELD FOR MURDE!   Accused Of Slaying Rich Father-In-Law

THREE STATE NEWSPAPERME? ARE HONORED   Coveted Editor-Publishe award presented at annual press meeting

Journals from England  ‘A first-hand account of the British Isles at war. By Raymond 4A. Mefannoel?l ir.

Heavy Aerial Battles Over New Britain   Japs And Fifth Air Force Trade Heavy Blows Over Arawe Area   CAPE GLOUCESTER BEING BLASTED

CORN SUPPLIES TO FALL SHORT   26,000,006 Bushels Lacking by Aug. 10, Spokesman Predicts

Hindu-Moslem Compromise Possible  Religious Feud Is Fly In Ointment In India   --BY DeWITT MacKENZIE— (Associated Press Writer)

INDIAN CRISIS BRISTLES WITH DANGEROUS POINTS   Religious Differences Between Hindu-Moslem Chief Point to Cause Trouble

INDIA DIVIDED BY POLITICAL ISSUES   Hindus and Moslems Cannot Agree on United Government,  LATTER SEEK SEPARATION

Red Cross Holds to Position Request From All Concerned Necessary to Probe ‘Nazi Charaes Polish Officers Slain.

Red Cross Asks  Requests from All Countries Involved To Probe Charges

Red Cross to Stand Firm  On Position   [Maintain All Nations Must Request Inquiry Of German Charges

INTERNATIONAL RED  CROSS HOLDS TO ITS  ORIGINAL POSITION ALL PARTIES CONCERNEI  IN POLISH-RUSSIAN AREAID MIICT ACREE

Germans Rejoice AtRuss Break With Poland   Red Cross Holds To Stand Not to Conduct Inquiry

Still No Probe Of Mass Killing   Red Cross Says It Can't Act Until All Countries Make Request,

Red Cross Not To Investigate Slaying Story   Only Geriian and - Polish Sources Request Coinmission

«NAZIS HAD PLANNED WINTER STAY IN SAN PIETRO  ‘Fearful Price Paid as Yanks Capture Mighty Bastion

Eighth Army’s Threat InRear Halts Rommel   ‘Nazis Only 14 Miles From Algeria; Montgomery Men Enter Modenine

CITY NOW IN HANDS OF NAZIS   Rommel’s Army, Overrun American Triangle and British Menace Their Rear.

Montgomer y Opens Flankins  Movement   German Forces Now Menaced From Rear As Britons Drive Up

BRITISH 8TH ARMY ATTACK MENACES. - ROMMEL’S FORCES   Loss Of Feriana To Germans Revealed  By Africa—U. - S, Troops  Reach Point Where Going’ Will Be Tougher For Nazis

Allies Told To Furnish Fighters Sen. Bankhead Declares  We'll Furnish Food, Weapons For Battles

CONSIDER HALT IN MANPOWER   U. S. the Arsenal, Allies Furnish More Men Save Bankhead.-

Bankhead Asks Study Of War   ~  Senator Would Have U. §. Furnish Supplies. AllieFurnish Men.

Suggests A Change   Would Have Allies Furnish Men; U. $. The Supplies

Governor's Pay Boost Approved   Future Executives To Get $10,000

ICKES SAYS EAST  GAS SUPPLY MORE   But Foresees No Ration Hike Immediately Despite — Outlook Now ss

LONDON PAPER DEMANDS TRUTH OF LEND-LEASE   DECLARES REPORT OF U. S. SENATORS HAS CREATED ILL FEELING

New Lend-Lease  Signing Near British Press Takes Shot At U. 8S. Solons

Takes a Pot Shot  At Five Senators   London Paper Says ‘Talk ing Senators’ Create Anti-British Feeling.

REPORT CHANGE IN LEND-LEASE   New Agreement to Be Signed; Touring Senators Hit Again.

Lend-Lease Is Two-Way Affai   U. S. Forces Get Much Aid From Britain

reating Anti-British Feeling In America and AntiAmerican Feeling In C)sim   EGISLATORS HELD HGNORANT OF FACTS   runtend U.S. Has Gained Credit For Material Supplied by Britain Under Lend-Lease

‘Talking American Senators’”’ Criticized  London Daily Mail Says Truth About Lend-Lease Must Be Given To Public

Daily Mail Takes Pol-Shot Ai Five Talking  American Senators For Disrupting Relations

Talking By Five Senator: Widens Rift Of Allies   Anti-British Feeling Here And Anti-U, S. Sentiment There;  Press Deeply Stirred

Talking SenatorsAre Rapped Again   London Daily Mail Says Much Ill-Feeling Has Develoned.

BRITAIN’S PRESS IS AROUSED BY SENATORS’ TALK   Anti-British Feeling’ Created By Report in U. S., Paper Charges

LONDON NEWSPAPER “TAKING POT SHOT” TALKING SENATORS  ' DECLARES MUCH ANTI AMERICAN FEELING WAS REEN CREATED

New Deal For Lend-Lease   Will Be Signed Even As British Resentment Flares

America’s “Talking Senators” Chided by London Daily Mail      Paper Says “Tourists” are Ignorant of All Facts on Lease-Lend

~—LONVON ALP LIS  "Talk Of 3 Solons Rapped   Britain Denies Taking Lend « Lease Credit

PUBLIC =REPORT ON LEND-LEASE IS NOW URGED   British-American Feeling Strained by ‘Talking Senators,’ Is Claim

Americans Praise Churchill's Postwar Remarks  Hoover, Gibson See Great Value in Peace Council Plan

Rome Target For Allied Bombers Blast All Railroad Yards Today   Daylight Raid and No Religious or Historic Buildings Hit.

RAIL ASSEMBLY YARDS MAIN OBJECTIVES; FLIERS AVOID RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS OF CITY

send enaeetttememeettetienalemeeemmnemmetietateinaeen eee teed  13-YEAR-OLD BRIDE SEEKS ANNULMEN’

McNutt Amends WageJob Control Edict Bit   Ww rkers, Anywhere In Country, May . hift Employers For Higher . Paying Assignments

Essential Job Freeze Order ls Modified   Provision Allowing Shifts For Higher Pay If U. S. Approves Is Extended   MADE NATION WIDE   MeNutt Is Expected To Shun Additions Te Non Deferable. List

Job Order Applied To 27,000,000   Persons In Essential Work Barred From Leaving Their Jobs To Ge Higher Pay

Essential Workers Are Virtually Frozen in  Jobs by New WMC Edict

Wage-Job Order To Be'‘Amended.   New Plan To Allow For Moré Leniency

McNUTT TO MODIFY HIS CONTROL ORDER   Essential Workers Will Be Permiited To Take Higher Paying Jobs With New Employers

Wage-Job Rule To Be Modified, MeNatt Asserts  Workers Anywhere Ti Be Allowed to Shift  Toe by Anproval

Platforms More  eos xe ® “ae? Tmnortant Than a) * ke oo  Personalities

URGES VINSON TO GIVE RAIL -WORKERS RAISE   Sen. Wagner Trying To Avoid Congressional Showdown On Increase   UNION LEADERS ARE NOT COMPROMISING

Waaner Proposes Rail Wage Peace   Suggests Vinson Reverse Himself

Wagener Urges Vinson Permit  Rail Pay Rise   Administration Seeking To Avoid Possible OK he Canerece

VINSON BACK OWN ON ACT      ‘Rail Wage Increase fusal Key  to Plea

LIQUOR RATIONING — A STEP NEARER IN OHIO STATE TODAY      House Passes Bill, Which Bears at Least Tacit Approval of Factions,

LIQUOR RATION UP TO STATE DIRECTOR   House Bill Approved By  Wets And Drys

MACKENZIE FINDS HINDU AND MOSLEM RELATIONS HAVE IMPROVED   Aside From Their Religious Beliefs They  Have Much in Common

MOSLEM AND HINDU OF INDIA BORN TO ETERNAL ENMITY AND BLOCK SOLUTION OF TROUBLES

MOSLEM AND HINDU OF INDIA BORN TO ETERNAL ENMITY AND  BLOCK SOLUTION OF TROUBLES   Rv DEWITT MACKENZIE

“11a Little Good in the Worst of Us”   Murderer Gives Some Skin So a Badly Burned Little Girl Will Have a Chance to Live.

Lifer Gives Skin From Thigh lo Aid Girl’s Fight For Life   Daniel Donahue, 41, Serving Time in Pennsylvania Penitentiary for Murder of Policeman, Volunteers for Grafting Ordeal; Bends and Kisses Child Burned Terribly Last November ©

Little Girl, Near Death, Is Given Skin by Man Serving Life Term for Murder

Not A Cure-All, But A Starter Towns Seeking Ways To Provide Postwar Jobs Are Offered This Plan  2 a ae

Quick Punishment For Leaders Of Riots Coming  Filing Of Murder  Charges Expected

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Sentencing Stepped Up.

ES Se A oS ST 4  Find Body Of Deaf Mute Wanted For Slaying Of Deaf Couple

Cigars, Cigarets Scarcer [his Year   Some Wholesalers Rationing Dealers

BERLIN BLASTED _ BY RAF PLANES IN HEAVY RAID   German Capital Bombed For Two Hours By Strong Force Of Brit - ish Air Fighters.

Say Nazis Will Be Back at Place of Start Last Summer If Reds Take 3 Key Cities

ICKES NAMES DIRECTOR FOR COAL MINES   Carl Elbridge Newton of C & C Railroad Gets Post, May Mear Long Term Operation   STRIKE END SLOW   More Miners Return but Pennsylvania Remains Sore Spot with 106,000 Still Idle

ICKES APPOINTS COAL DIRECTOR   Act May Indicate Continued U. S. Operation Of Mines

Ickes May Operate Coal Mine Until Owners, UMW Sign   Secretary Considers Long-Range Group To Supervise Coal

ICKES MAY RUN PITS UNTIL PACT IS SIGNED   Fuel Coordinator Names Director of Mines

ICKES MAY OPERATE COAL MINES   Until Owners and Miners Sign Working  Aocreement

POSTAGE RATE RISE IS KILLED   House Also Reverses Self On Boosting Cigar Taxes

RESCINDS ACTION ON POSTAGE RATE   House Committee Makes Other Moves In Plans to Get Needed Revenue.

Unit Rescinds — Stamp Increase   Cancels Proposals To Double Cigar Tax

ALLIES IN ITALY ARE FORCED BACK SLIGHTLY TODAY   Nazis’ Continual Counter-attacks Claim Small Area. Weather Bad.

U. 3. OUTPOSTS UANEN BAGK BY NAZI ATTACK   Americans Lose One Section Of Mount Croce In Italy, In Sharp Fighting —

Nazi Attack Pushes Yanks Off Hilltop   Wintry Weather In Italy Hampers Both Armies

GERMANS REGAIN HEIGHT IN ITALY   Bad Weather Immobilizes  Allied Troops

WAIT TILL AUGUST 1   'OPA Makes Announcement on Late Applications for Book 3

K KK KW We 18 Boche Divisions In North Italy ©   Huns Can’t Stop Reds.

18 Nazi Divisions Reported at Po Line   Madrid Hears Germans Confident That if Badoglio Quits, They Can Hold Northern Italy—Troops on Move for Week.

Report 18 German Divisions In Northern Italy Ready To Fight If Badoglio Gives Up   Troops Have Been Pouring In For Week, To Fight In Event Of Invasion By Allies

NAZIS INTO. ITALY   Madrid Dispatches Say 18 ' Divisions Move Into  the North

NAZIS WATCH NORTH OF PO   ‘Confident That Badoglio : Can Surrender Only  Southern Italy

NAZIS RUSHED 18DIVISIONS INTO ITALY   About 270,000 Soldiers Sent to Defend Po River Line As Result of Badoglio’s Delay

Eighteen Nazi Divisions Are In North Italy   Madrid Reports Steady Influx In Area Beyond Po River Basin.

Badoglio Has Less To Give   Germans Move Powerful Forces in North of Po River

18 Divisions of Nazis In Italy   Garrison Northern Area as Badoglio Stalls

Squeeze Play On Japs Due   Shift in Commands Believed to Indicate Offensive Pending

British Shift Seen Squeeze  Play On Japs Burma And Pacific Campaigns Are Predicted

Job Control To Cover U. .5   System Devised for Labor Shortage Areas to Be Extended to Nation

JOB CONTROL PLAN MAY BE EXTENDED THROUGHOUT NATION   Devised In First Place For Local Regions With Labor Shortages —- Approved By W. M. C. Committee

JOB CHANGING MAY GET OKAY   New System Will Be Offered To WMC Today

WEATHER BALKS FORCES IN ITAL   Yanks Plunge Through Driving Rain to Take 2 Strong Points; Air Attacks Further Cripple Supply Lines

Marauders Blas Nazis in ltaly   Rains, 5now Restrict Ground Activity

STORMS DELAY DRIVE IN ITALY   Heavy Bombers Bogged Down; Troops Seize Two High Points

Nazis in Italy Driven Back   Communications of Enemy Are Blasted

RAIN, SNOW CURB FIGHTING IN ITALY   AIRMEN BOMB NAZI COMMUNICATIONS IN NORTHERN PART OF COUNTRY.

RAF Continues Night Raids  Over Germany   Ruhr Industrial Valley Target Of Attacks

‘Presentation of Stalingrad Sword ‘Most Colorful Ceremony at Parley   BY LLOYD STRATTON

British Present Stalingyad Sword  To Stalin in Impressje Ceremony

‘Stalingrad Sword Presented To Stalin By Churchill In Colorful Ceremony At Teheran

Then Photographers Have ‘ ‘Field Day’ Taking Pictures Of Big Three

Pictures Will Tell Best Story of Meeting Between FDR, Stalin And Churchill

ALABAMA MINERS . THREATEN TO QUIT      Notice Given of Termination of Temporary Acreement

22,000 Alabama Miners Threaten To Leave Jobs   Give Five Day Notice o Termination of Their Agreement

TAKE 2 MORE HEIGHTS FRON GERMANS   Complete Consolidation of Hold on Mount Sammucro

U. S. AIR FORCE STRIKES RECORD BLOW IN BURMA   RAIN EXPLOSIVES ON ENEMY SUPPLY AND FUEL DEPOTS

Bomb Japanese Bases In Burma  More Than 100 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

INVASION OF EUROPE IS PROMISED ALONG WITH ~ BOMBING OF JAP ISLANDS

GIVES FACTS ON WAR PRODUCTION   U. S. Armed Forces Have Grown To 7,000,000 Roosevelt Relates In Message

AXIS DEFEAT DURING 1944 WAS HINTEE   PRESIDENT IN SPEECH TO CONGRESS PLEDGES CRUSHING OF AXI6 POWERS AND A. “DURABLE PEACE”

AMERICAN FORC ONLY 10 MILKS FROM BIG BASE   French Also Move Close To Coas British Destroy 12 Enemy Tanks In Hurling Back Counter-Attack

AMERICANS ARE PUSHING DRIVE ON FERRYSVILLE   German  Counterattack Ie Smashed North Of bake Near Vaval Base   TWO AXIS SHIPS SUNK   Weather Hampers Aerial Operations; Southern Front Remains Quiet

Have Reached a Point Only 10 Miles From that Naval Base, Allied Headquar ters Announced.   ANOTHER GAIN IS MADE NEAR MATEUR   Penetration to Within Artillery Range of Bizerte Was Made After Beating Back  German Counterattack.

GERMAN EFFORTS 10 STRIKE BACK FAIL   Axis Troops Ate Now Fighting on Shrinking 120-Mile Eront

Ferryville Is Under Threat Of Americans   French Units Advance With Yanks Along Mediterranean; Germans Lose 12 Tanks  In Attack East Of Medjez-El-Bab

Yanks, French Sweep Forward On Two Sides   Push Close To Base Along Coastline; Yank Forces From South Score Gains

ALLIES NOW WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF AXIS NAVAL BASE  GERMAN COUNTERATATTACKS AT SEVERAL POINTS BEATEN BACK

Yankee Troops Within 10 Miles Of Naval Base   Other Forces Drive Five Miles From Ferryville

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN IN DRIVE ON NAVAL BASE   AMERICAN FORCES PUSH TO POINT 10 MILES FROM BIZERTE

NAVAL BASE IS WITHIN SHELL RANGE   Another Yank Move Aimed At Tebourba   FRENCH UNITS   Give Valuable Assistance; Poor Weather Prevents Much Air Action

Bizerte Port Is In U.S. Guns’ Range   American © Patrols Also Push Out in Direction of Tunis   FRENCH SMASH AHEAD   Enemy Apparently Trying . ‘to Keep Road to Cap ‘ —t Bon Open

Reach Point Only lo Miles From Naval Base   Other Ameriran Forces Approach Ferryville and Tebourba, Latter 18 Miles  From Tunis; Resistance Strong in South,

RESISTANCE IN FRENCH, BRITISH SECTORS STIFF   Pincers Begin To Close On Axis; Ships Loaded With Supplies Sent Down

Penetration of French and Americans to Within Artillery Range of Bizerte Is Made Following German Counter-Attack

Americans, French Close In On Fortress   Another U. S. Column Drives Within Five Miles Of Ferryville, Eight Miles Across Lake From Axis-Held Naval Stronghold

RESISTANCE   Other Americans Drive Within Five Miles Of Ferrvyville

YANK BIG GUNS POUNDING AXIS SEAPORT BASE   "Long Toms” Hurling Shells Ten Miles Into Stronghold of Enemy;  Nearing Tebourba   COUNTER-ATTACK BY NAZIS IS REPULSED   Gen. Eisenhower Reports Tanks Shattered and Foe Driven Back In North Tunisia

Other Forces Within 9 Miles of Ferryville   Artillery Now in Range of Big Port: German Counterattacks Are Repelled—

Counterattack of nazis beaten back   Five-mile gain made by Americans from Mateur

FURTHER GAINS MADE BY U. S.   Forces From Mateur Only Five Miles From Ferryville   AIMING AT TEBOURBA

U. S., French Only 10 Miles  From Bizerte   Yanks Near Tebourba. Says British Source; Yet Another Column Moves On Ferryville

Allies Only Jen Miles From Bizerte   Yanks Repulse Enemy Attack To Move Ahead

Americans, British Re. pulse Axis Counterattacks; 19h  KrenehCorps Meets Stiffening Resistanee in Renewed Drive Toward Strategic Commu nieation Center of Zashouan.

BiG NAVY BASE WITHIN RANGE OF ARTILLERY   Allied Troops Continuing Their Advance Along Mediterranean  OTHERS CLOSING ON FERRYVILLE  U. S. Patrols Take Eddekhila, Six Miles From Tebourba

Nazis Retreat Under Relentless Assaults In Northern Tunisia;  Lose 12’ Tanks In Trap

17 NAZI TANKS ENTER TRAP IN COUNTER DRIVE   Believe Enemy Looks to Cap Bon Peninsula for Last Tunisian Stand

Patrols Near Junction  With British First Army   Advance Scored North of Lake Achkel After German Counter-Attack Thrown Back—Pincers Threaten Axis

Yanks Repulse Light Attack, Make Gains   British Report 5,000 Prisoners Taken Since April 21

Other U.S. Forces Neat Ferryville   Make Five-Mile .. Gain, Pushing Out of Mateur to East.

Yank Troops And French In Gains   ALLIES ONLY 10 MILES FROM BIZERTE NAVAL RASK

Big Axis Base Brought Under  Allied Guns   Yanks Also Push South and East From Mateur

Fresh Advances By U. S. And French Places Them Ten Miles From Bizerte

COASTAL FORCES TEN MILES FROM AXIS-HELD PORT   Southern Troops Only Eight Miles From Vital Town

Former Merced Cowboy Is Lucky As Fortresses  IPlaster Wilhelmshaven

BIG HOSPITAL MONTH   January Report Shows Great Increase Over a Year Ago

Berlin Casualty List Is 10.000   Claim City May Never Recover From Raid

Hitler’s House Set Afire During Raid; Home of Von Ribbentrop Blown Away

HEAVY GAINS ARE MADE ON GUADALCANAL   AMERICANS EXTEND LINES SOME MILES BEYOND POINT CRUZ

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Naval Officers To Visit Le Mars  — Will Examine Recruit: Hara Maw 9

Chance For Boys To Receive oe Training As Naval Officers   Seventeen Months College and Flying Is Acsnred

PROBE OF RACE RIOTS STARTED; CURBS RELAXEL   Death Toll Reaches 3 But Detroit Is Calm Again

Detroit ‘Nearly Normal’ Again;  New Bans Lifted   Committee Named By Governor Begins Inquirv

FACT-FINDING GROUP PROBES RACE RIOTS   Wayne County Still Under Emergency Order

ITALIANS PROMISED FREE CHOICE OF GOVERNMENT; DANTELLEGIA SURRENDERS   Allied Forces Begin Occupation Of Island 60 Miles from Sicily

ROOSEVELT CALLS ONTTALY 10 QUIT, ASK FOR MERCY   Says Htalians to Have Free Choice of Rufers   DECLARES MUSSOLINI, FASCISTS TO BLAME

School Districts Will Have Say In State Affairs   Reorganization Of Department Of Public Instruction ls Underway

SCHOOL SETUP TOBE REVISED   Governor Favors Greater Authority, More Funds By Local Districts

Most Embarrassed Man In Tunisia Is Probably American Photograper

TOUGH YANK SERGEANT IN AFRICA GETS TOUGH WITH - - YOU GUESS WHO!

Gomel Falls, (Carryine Dowr  e Main Defenses   Berlin Diseloses Loss;  Soviets Gain on 2  Fronts

Reds Take Gomel To Break Line   Southern End of Nazi Line Now Badly Smashed

Nazi Line in White Russia Sags; British Gain in Italy: Forts Hit Reich; Naval Victory Described

Entire Southern End of German Line Shattered   Russ Chit Confirms Earlier Broadcast  By DNB News Agency

Japs Ready For Thrust At Moresby   Attack Expected To Be on Major Scale. Reports Say

Japan Prepares New Thrust af Port Moresby: :   See Effort to . Occupy All of  NMlaw Guinac.

MERCHANTS 10 START CLOSING ON WEONESOA   Most Business Houses Will Have Half Hodidays During Sumnrr.   A FEW WILL BE OPEN   Wednesday Afternoon Vacation Will Continue Until Next September.

MERCHANTS 10 “START CLOSING ON WEONESDAY   Most. Business ‘Bouses’ Will .. Have Half Hodidays Dur-. ; ing Summer.   A FEW WILL BE. OPEN   Wednesday Afternoon Vacation Wil Continue Until Next & September.

FEMALE LABOR LAW REVISIONS WANTED   Ohio Employers Demand Legislative Action

Evacuation  Of Kolombangara   tacular Sea Fight Ocrs Northwest of Vella vella With Moderate merican Losses.

Jap Cruiser, 2 Destroyers Gre Sunk   Outnumbered Yank Destroyers Smash Foe Units in Solomons Area

Rep. Gearhart First GOP Member To Uree Enactment Of Federal Sales Tax

Renews Fight for Imposing a Sales Tax   California Republican Declares It Only Way to Raise Revenue

Republican Says Retail Sales Tax Only Way Open   lst GOP Member Of House Ways And Means Com. To Declare Publicly

IFORMER MINER FULFILLS VOW UTTERED 'IN DISASTER, BECOMES CLERGYMAN

MAY DIVERT ALCOHOL 10 MAKE LIQUOR   Move Being Planned. Decision Must Be Made “High Up”

World Releif Following War Is Considered   Vast American Plan To Set Up Central Agency To Rehabilitate People  = a a — a. os

Plan Vast Post-War Relief Job   Program to Set Liberated Nations on Feet  Again Being Considered By Allied Governments

PLAN TO FEED WORLD OFFERED   Has Approval a of Britain, Russia And China

Offer Program To Feed World   Suggest Council To Rehabili. tate People Of Liberated Nations.  

WORLD RELIEF PLAN OFFERED   American Proposal Seen Pattern For Post-War Political Organization

Relief Agency May Be Pattern Of World Gov't  U. S., Britain, Russia And China Would Be

) Governments Consider U. S. Relief Plan   British, Russian and Chinese Have Already Made Approval

U.S. STUDIES RELIEF PLAN   Central World Relief Agency Proposed In Vast Program

Food And Clothes For War Victims ~ Under American Plan Is Considered

Governor Says  No New Taxes For Bay State   Need Stressed For Short Session Of Legislature At Inaugural Ceremony

Governor Asks Short  Lesislature   Saltonstall Urges Efficiency During War Years

DIME AND PLACE OF INVASION SET SAYS PRESIDENT   Tells Congress Solomons. ¢ Mediterrean, Aleutians Only Start

PRESIDENT IN REPORT TO CONGRESS SAYS PLANS COMPLETED FOR NEW INVABSION LANDINGS

PRESIDENT IN WAR REPORT 10 CONGRESS   Allies Just Beginning Still Far From Vietory, He Says

Places Selected For New Invasions   President Reports To Nation In Message To Congress

PRESIDENT’S REPORT READ TO CONGRESS   Says “time and places’ selected to invade Germany, Japan

Applications — Out Nov. 15 for  Gas Rations   Non-Highway Ration Gasoline Issued for Six Months

Will Mail Renewal Non-Highway Gas Ration Forms Soor   Applications Must Include the Size of Your Farm and Number of Acres Cultivated

BILL 10 BOOST TEACHERS PAY TS NEAR VOTE   House After Bitter Debate Refuses to Increase Raise .

Two-Day Drive For Red Cross War Fund. Ovens Todav: County Quota Is $35,000

Two-Day Drive'For Red: Cross War: Fund: Onens Todav: County Onata Te $22: 0N0._-

Russian Attacks Seize Points Near Kirovograd  mT 1. One BGawiate   Berlin Says Soviets Crash Nazi Lines Bordering Latvia

SOVIETS NEARING LATVIAN BORDER   BERLIN SAYS 250,000 REDS HAVE CRACKED LINES NEAR NEVEL.

02 PLANES IN TUNISIA ARE KNOCKED OUT   Twenty-six Enemy Craft Are Destroyed; Similar Number Damaged.

Nazi Power Hit Heavily   26 Craft Destroyed; _ Americans Lose 19

AMERICAN PLANES DESTROY 52 AXIS AIRCRAFT OVER TUNISIA FRONT   Air Fighting Cost Allies Only 10 Airships. Series Of Raids Launched  Against Germans.

U. S. Airmen Shoot Down 52 Enemies   Hard Blow Struck Germans——-Teh American Planes Los

AMERICANS DOWN AD ENEMY PLANES   U. S. Flyers Strike Heavy Blow at Axis Air Power in Tunisia.

If True, Move Would Outflank German’s Mareth Line Stanc As Eighth Army Masses Strength On Tunisian Border For Final Smash at Rommel.   26 GERMAN PLANES DOWN OVER GABES   American “Forts” Raid Series of German Airports Around Gabes and Play Havoc With Swarms of German Fiohters That Rose For Combat.

RED ARMY'S DRIVE SPLIT NAZI FORCES   Part of Caucasus Army Backed Up Against Sea and Part Driven Toward Ractay._

22 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed   No Confirmation Of Reports Two Armies Have Met

U.S. BOMBERS LEAD ALLIED CRAFT IN RAID ON TUNISIA   $2 Enemy Planes Downed In Day's’ Battle As Against 10 OF * Aliies

AMERICAN - AIRMEN STEP. UP. RAIDS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS   increased” Aerial Offensive Is A. Prelude To U.'S, , Domination Of ° Islands

QULOMONS AERIAL UAE STEPPED UP   Guadalcanal Field Plays Vital Role In Plans

Many Subjects Will Arise On Hoitse And Senate Floors—GOP In  ~ Control  _ SHORT SESSION  Jarnes To Give: ‘Report On  His Four-Year-Term As Governor

Legislature. Convenes To Hear James      Governor's Report. Will Highlight New Session

SMALL TAX RETURN SHORT, MAY BACKFIRE   Pays Quarterly Payment of One Cent

Funny Citizen, Eh!   One Penny Sent For Income Tax Costs Government $3

BALKAN FIGHTS WORRY NAZIS   Germans Establish General Headquarters in Effort To Curb Guerrillas

NEW oULUMUN POSITIONS FALL TO AMERICANS   Japanese Are Driven Back In Bitter Fighting On Guadalcanal   170 ENEMY TROOPS KILLED IN BATTLES   American Bombers Carry Out Intensive Attacks On Munda Airfield

Soviet Guns Blast Nazis Near Rostov   Red Paper Calls On Army To Prepare For Decisive Battles

SOVIET PAPER SAYS DECISIVE BATTLES NEAR   Red Army Urged To Be Ready When Time Comes

REDS ARE TOLD - TO BE PREPARED      Decisive Battles Are in the Offing, Says Izvestia’s Call to Army

Soviets See Big Battles   Decisive Conflicts To Come, Official Newspaper Declares

SAYS DECISIVE BATTLES ARE NOW IN THE OFFING   Izvestia Calls Upon the Red Army to Make Preparations.   INTENSIVE ATTACKS   Are Carried Out_ iCUssian Against werman Communications.

WARNS REDS OF DECISIVE FIGHT   Official Soviet Newspaper Tells Russian Army To Get Ready.

Soviet Airmen Press Atfacks   Bomb German Lines And Communications, Moscow Reports-

REDS CALLED ON TO PREPARE FOR DECISIVE BATTLES   “Which Are in The Offing.” Plea Comes as Red Air Force Carries On Decisive Actions Against Nazis.

CALL ON REDS TO PREPARE FOR BATTLES   Official Newspaper Declares De cisive Engagements With the Germans Are in the Offing

RUSSIANS HINT NEW BATTLES   Nazis Happy Over Break Between Soviets and Polish Regime

RUSSIANS GIRD~ FOR NEW TESTS   Tzvestia Warns Critical Battles in Offing— eds Continue Heavy Air Attacks

Allied Raids Scare Nazis   German People Sore At Hitler As Bombs Blast Berlin Homes

Committee In House Goes All  Out For Farmer   Votes Inclusion Of In creased Labor Costs Ir  Fixing Price Ceilings.

INCREASED FARM COgTS SHOULD BE        Janking Committee Votes to Re. quigfe Labor Costs to be Putin Setup

Votes for Labor Costs In Parity   Inclusion Required in Bill Approved by  Committee

House Group Behind Farm Parity Plan   Would Include Increased Farm Labor Costs  In Computing Prices

Higher Farm Price Ceiling Bill Goes to House For Vote   Senate Passage of Act May Bring Truce in Farm Bloc-FDR Row

House Would Go Further To Hike Cost   Committee Gives Approval: To: Cost oF Tabor Charge

House Group Votes Farm. Costs Plan   Legislation Opposed. By Administration.Given A 2 New Boost   THREAT OF HIGHER PRICES:SEEN   Roosevelt May Attempt Compromise to Head. Off Eetenepos MOhanca

Nine-Point War Program Outlined Hoover Demands Consolidation  Of All Food Output Authority

Hoover In Nine- Point Food Program Urges Authority Be Placed In One Man’s Wande

Greater Food Production In  1944 Advised   Hoover Outlines Program To Help U.S. In Emergeney

CONGRESS .GETS REPORT ‘ON THE WAR DEPARTMENT EM _ _PLOYES, NEW. CLARSI * ." FICATIONS 800N

War Department Has Gained Deferment For 23,000 of Its Own Civilian Workers

War Department Itself Has Obtained  a Great Many Deferments From Draft

WHEAT CROP LESS   Prospects for Lower Yield But Up to Ten-Year  Average

Lt. Paul L. Pascoe Sent to Washington On Temnorary Dut’   CARROLL BIRCH HOME

ITALIANS BLAST TUNNEL   Pathway From France Inte ltaly Destreyed By Troops

DOLORES OSIEK ADVANCED TO APPRENTICE SEAMAR   Daughter of Mr. ana vrs. Marry Osick Completed 5 Week Course At Towa State Teachers,

OHIO PAY BOOSTS CREATE PROBLEN   Money Appropriated But Must Be Spread Out

Allied Sub — Shells Village in Japan   U-Boat Hits Coast Town,  Tokliaq Renorte

Sub Shells Isle in Jap Hamoland   Tokyo Broadcast. Tells. of Attack Probably By An American:-Sub  BRITISH FALLING = *.:. BACK IN BURMA   But Allied Planes Are Hammering .Enemy; Canton Base Devastated:

Submarine Shells Village in Japan   Tokyo Radio Tells Of Allied Gunfire

Allied Submarine Bombards Japan   Tokyo Radio Says No Damage Done

Allied Submarine Shells Coast of Japanese Isle   Undersea Boat Brings War Home to Enemy as Planes Continue Their Batterine

Russ Shatter Famed Nazi .  ‘Crimea Line’   Advance Along 500-Mile Front,  Close on Gomel

Price Ceiling On Live Beef Due Next Week   Top Expected About $16 a Hundred-Weight Capitol Sources Say

Navy Reports New Attacks  On Japanese   Number Of Planes Brought Down In Earlier Fight Is Changed To 34

Uv. S. Planes ‘Attack Kahili   Flying Fortresses And Avenger Light Bombers Make Raid

Japanese Positions Attacked By Planes:   Army and Navy Planes Involved

RESUME RAIDS ON JAP BASES   Shortland Island area hombed. by Yanks re sume air offensive

Flying Fortresses Attack Jap Positions Near Solomons; Nav; Revises Downward Nip Losses

U.S. FLYERS BLAST JAPS AT KAHIL   Results of Latest Attack on   Enemy Positions in Solo  mons Not Reveaied.

JAPANESE GLAIN VICTORY AT SE!   Tokyo’s Version Far Dif. ferent Than That Is. sued By U.S. Navy

YANKS CONTINUE PACIFIC AIR WAR   Strike New Blow at Kahil Despite Bad Weather Conditions

Kahili Base Of J aps Is Bombed   Bad Weather Makes Results Unknown

Yanks Attack Shortlands   Flying Forts, Avengers $trafe Kahili; Cargo Flotilla Is Blasted

LOCAL P.M. EXAMINATION   Receipt of ‘Applications to Close Here July 18th

EXAMS OPEN FOR POSTMASTER HERE   APPLICATIONS MUST BE ON FILE WITH U. 8. CIVIL SERVICE AUG. 10TH

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Russians Doom Last Remaining Line Of Escape   Major Breakthrough Is Reported; Germans Abandon Supplies

Past 24 Hours Blackest Of War For Germany, Pa per Says  Major Break In Lines By Russians Described   Major Break In Lines By Russians Described As Catastrophe: Red Army Forces Stronver

FOR GERMANY   Nazis Threatened With Great Catastrophe By Soviet Breakthrough.

New Red Army Break-Through Perils Nazis in  Dnieper Elbow   Foe in Situation Similar to That When Cut Off  at Stalingrad   Nazis Blackest Day,’ Rerlin Cables Report

Tribune 2%...   _ Rail Junction Far. ‘Behind Dnieper Line Taken in Power Drive

Dnieper Elbow OQutlook Grave   Berlin Takes A Gloomy View Of Future, Swedish Newsmen Report

Past 24 Hours in Which Reds Crack  Nazi Lines Blackest For Germany

NAZIS. JITTERY AS REDS CRACK DNIEPER LINES   War Reports. - Give. - Reich . Blackest Days. Since Stalingrad.

Red Triumph Is Virtual Catastrophe For Hitler   Blackest Day Of War For Reich Reported By Swedes

REDS PERIL ALL NAZIS WITHIN DNIEPER BEND   Germans Face Catastrophe Unless They Can Check  Russians

PERIL DWARFS THE ONE AT STALINGRAD   Gloom in Berlin During Last 24 Hours Is Caused by a Major Break in Germans’ Eastern Front Defensec.

BLACKEST DAY YET FOR NAZIS   Germans Admit Situation in Russia Dangerous

BERLIN CITIZENS SENSE CRISIS   Swedish Correspondents’ Reports Past_24 Hours Blackest of War for Germany. Even Counting Stalingrad, Passes Censor

NAZIS FACING CRISIS ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Will Mean Catastrophe If Reds Continue Gains

The Red Army Cracked the Nazi Eastern Front Defenses in Major’ Break,  Swedish Sources Said.   SOVIET TROOPS WILL ATTEMPT FOLLOW UP   If This is Done It Means a Catastrophe That Would Put Stalingrad Instance  in the Shadow. —

GERMANS FACING COMPLETE ROUT   Reversals on Eastern Front » Bring ‘Blackest Hour’ of Wor for Nazis

Blackest Day Of The War For Germany      Anxiety Grips Berlin As Army - Reverses Grow

NAZIS ADMIT OUTLOOK FOR VICTORY BAD   Blackest Day Of War Reported By Germans

Major Break -in Line West -of Dnieper   War Reports From. Russiz ‘Give Berlin Tits: “Blackest Daye ‘of War :   NEWS TO GERMANS © ~ -s INCSOLEMN:- WORDS   Reds Appear: to. Be Growing “Stronger Instead of Weaker, Stockholm Hears”:

Red Triumph Gives Nazis Darkest Hour   Facing Catastrophe If Soviet Troops Can Carry Forward

GERMAN ARMY IN RUSSIA IN SERIOUS SPOT   Russians Actually West of Crimea As Nazis Face Destruction; Expected to Stand and Fight   CAPTURE OF KIEV IS THOUGHT TO BE NEAR   Mass Forces of Red Army Overpowering German Troops On All Sectors Of Long Front

Major Russian Break Through In Nazi Line   Disaster May Exceed Stalingrad as Loss to German Arms

Selective Service Still Undecided Whether Fathers Will Be Draftec  : 

Fathers’ Draft Future Still Held As Uncertain   Selective Service Not Yet Sure! If Fathers Will Be  Needed !

DRAFT SYSTEM IS UNDECIDED ABOUT FATHER INDUCTION   General Drafting Of Fathers Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Variety May Not Be Needed

Drafting of Fathers Undecided   Manpower Plans Now Such That Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers May  Nia¢t Hawa tn Sarva

DRAFTING OF DADS IN COUNTRY STILL REMAINS IN DOUBT   Selective Service System Undecided Whether It Will. Have to Calf Fathers.

Organized Fighting by Japs On Papua Over; Casualties Against Enemy Said Heavy

' Ground Fighting Comes To End In Papua Area   Heavy Japanese Casualties Are Reported By Troops Mopping Up.

DAVIES HANDS “SECRET LETTER’   STALIN RECEIVES U. S. ENVOY AT KREMLIN

Stalin Gets FDR Letter  ; F rom Davies   Reaction Is Not Indicated

Stalin Given  F.R. Letter   Davies Delivers Secret Message and Confers in Kremlin With Premier

Himmler Named Interior Minister In Nazi Shakeup   Relieved Move Will Place All Germany Under Gestapo Rule Follows Air Raid 

Reich Reported Under Complete Rule Of Gestapo   Heinrich Himmler, Chief Of Dread 88, Made Minister Of Interior In Unexpected Germany Government Shakeup

Himmler New Minster Of Interior For Nazis   Surprising Development 0: War As RAF Hits Berlin  And Reds Advance

ALL GERMANY PLACED UNDER GESTAPO RULE   Himmler Named by Hitler as Minister Of Interior

NAZI GESTAPO. CHIEF IN NEW CABINET POST   Himmler Is Made Minister of Interior, Increasing His Police Powers.   BELIEVED HITLER MOVE _ TO FORESTALL COLLAPSE

Himmler Given Control Over Nazi Home Front   New Move Believed - Effort To Keep Germany From Folding

SHAKEUP AMONG NAZI OFFICIALS REPORTED   Henrich Himmler, Notorious Chief of the German Gestapo Is Named Minister of Interior—Baron Yon Neurath Relieved of Post as Protector’ of Bohemia-Moravia—Frick Is Switched About jn the New Deal

Shakeup in Nazi Regime  Ousts Frick   Shuffe of Reich Officials Follows  Bombing of Berlin

Himmler Is Appointed Interior Minister  By Hitler   Rules All Activities

Frick Loses Power; Himmler Is Elevated   Gestapo Chief Gains in Favor As Hitler Enoineers Shakeup

Himmler Is Minister — Of Interior      MAJOR REORGANIZATION: REVEALED; MAY MEAN T ALL GERMANY IS. UNDER DIRECT GESTAPO RULE ~*

Himmler ls Named Minister of Interior  In Nazi Shake-Up    Reorganization May Place All of Germany Under Direct Gestapo Rule, Following Heaviest Raid On Berlin

HITLER ORDERS SHAKEUP OF NAZI CHIEFS   Heinrich Himmler, Notorious Head of Gestapo, Shifted to New Post.

Indicts _ New Deal Bickering   Spangler Tells Kansans Republicans Are United In Support of the War;  Work for a Just Peace

TO SAVE FREEDOM   G. O. P. National Chairman Addresses Kansas Day Club Meeting

Seek to Half Escape Attempt From Tunisia   Eighth Army Advances 12 Miles Beyond Newly Captured Oudref

EOUAPE FLEET POUNDED HARD   Rommel May Attempt New Stand After Four Days Of Retreat.   TALLIED TROOPS ADVANCE

Rommel May Make Stand North of Narrows at Gafsa   Russian Front Is Still Comparatively Stalemated Today

RAID SHIPPING NEAR SARDINIA BY FORTRESSES   British Score Another  2-Mile Gain Behind  Rommel’s Retreat

100Fortresses Bomb Evacuation Vessels  Off South Sardinia   U.S. Flying Armada Hits 26 Ships: Rommel Seen Tr ying New Stand; British Move Closer To Bizerte

Axis Ships Are Attacked By  US Fortresses.   Hit 5 Merchant Ships and 21 Smaller Craft at Sardinian Port; 8th Army Has Advanced a Miles: Beyond  Oudref QR

Rescue Fleet * Under Attack Off Sardinia   Large Armada of Flying Fortresses Wrecks Vessels Assembled .To Remove Rommel's Forces from Tunisia

Apparent Attempt In Made To Evacuate Nazi Troop:   8th Army Continues To Advance Against Rommel Who May Make New Stand

MAY ATTEMPT SEA RESCUE OF NAZI ARMY   Madrid Hears That French Shipping Being - Rounded Up in Italy.   ROMMEL MAY . TRY ‘NEW STAND   ‘Eighth Army Close “on ~Heels .of Africa Corps North of Gabes,

ROMMEL MAY BE ATTEMPTING  NEWSTAND AFTER FOUR DAYS: OF RETREAT FROM MARETH LINE   Madrid Dispatches Report Axis Mobilizing 350,000 Tons of Shipping At Genoa, Spezia And Ports of Sardinia and Sicily. Might Be Used to Evacuate Rommel

Attack Fleet off Southern Sardinia in Mediterranean Sea   Allied Ground Forces Advance in Tunisia, Rommel May Make Last Stand Near Sfax

MASSED SHIPS ARE SMASHED BY GIANT BOMBERS   Force Concentrated Off Tip Of Sardinia Suffers Severe Damage   ALL RAIDERS COME BACK   Meanwhile, Allied Armies Drive Toward Union To Trap Rommel’s Force

100 FLYING FORTS POUND AXIS VESSELS   Meanwhile Ground Fighting in Tunisia Slows Down Due to Mines, Stiffening Nazis.

Huge Yank Air Armada Smashes At Sardinia    Axis Still Packs Punch, Says Stimson

Largest Armada of U. S. Fortresses Strikes Hard Blow at Sardinian Port

CLAIM CAGLIARI CRIPPLED WITH HEAVY ASSAULT   3 Sardinian Airdromes Also Blasted in Big U. S. Bomber Attack

Seek To Prevent A ‘Dunkerque’ Rescue From Tunisia; Trap Closing On Axis Forces.

100 Planes Bomb Sardinian Ships   French Vessels Are Being Mobilized To Take Fleei ing:  Rommel and Army From Tunisia

Germans Mass Many Vessels Near Tunisia   Rommel Offering Resistance To Eighth Army, May Attempt Stand.   AMERICANS ADVANCE

NEARLY 100 GIANT AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST AT CAGLIARI  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CLOSE ON HEELS OF AXIS REARGUARDS

In Addition Allied Planes Destroy or Damage 57 Aircraft on Ground and Shoot Down 14 Axis Fighter Planes

Fortress Armada Blasts Rommei’s ‘Dunkerque Fleet   U.S. Planes inflict Damaging Blows At Sardinia; Rommel Attempts Stand

Blast Armada Off Sardinia   American Flying Fortresses, 100 Strong, Bombing Enemy’s Tunisian “Dunkerque Fleet”’

New Developments Point to Another Stand by Rommel      ‘British 8th Army : Drives 12 Miles Beyond Newly Recaptured Oudref

Soviets Keep Up Pressure  On Smolensk   Meeting Mounting Nazi Resistance; Bitter Battie Rages Around Belgorod

REDS HAMMER NAZI DEFENSE LONES TODAY   Surging Ahead in Their Cam. paign to Wrest Smolensk From Hands of Hitlerite Invaders

19 BODIES TAKEN FROM WRECKED TRANSPORT PLANE   Two Others Believed to Still Be in Plane Which Crashed at Evansville Last Nicht.

WLB Delays Action on Coal Wage Contract   Vote to Be Taken Today on Agreement: Most of Miners Still Idle: Price Hike Seen

Labor Board Believed Set To Approve Coal Contract   Most of U. S. Miners Remain Out of Pits, Awaiting Instructions Fram UInian T eaderc   ICKES ADMITS PRICE OF COAL TO INCREASE   NT RO NAN PRB RNP ALUN ER ESSER OE  Coal Operators See 15 to 45 Cents Ton As Tikele Ranct

WLB WILL VOTE . THIS MORNING ON AGREEMENT   Vast Majority Of Miners Remaining Idle Until _ Contract Is Signed   INCREASE IN PRICE OF COAL INDICATED

RISE IS EXPECTED IN PRICE OF COAL   WLB Postpones Action on Proposed New Wage Aarezment

TOLL IN STATE   Fifteen Hunters Killed to Date; Girl Is Latest Vic tim,

TIME CHANGE BILL SIGNED WEDNESDAY BY OHIO GOVERNOR   Clocks Are to Be Set Back Sunday One Hour— Some Cities Favor Veto.

Time Change In Ohio Due Next Sunday   Measure May Be Killed If Too Muct  Confusion Results

Arizona's Part in Red Cross 1943 War Fund Drive 120 Pct. Above 1942

KNOX APPROVES PULP CAMPAIGN   Cut-A-C ord Drive Begins Nov. 11; Paper Cartons Needed For Shipping

portion ikely to Courts   Threaten e Bill: Eases in firm in House

CHURCHILL, INONU MEE} IN TURKEY   Indicate Allied Strategy Program Near Action Stage

Prepare Against Invasion   Fortify Greek Coast, Feat ing Attempts at United Nations Landing

JITTERY AAN MOVES TROOPS TO NEW AREAS   Reeling Under Heavy Blows In Russia And Africa, Hitler Befuddled

Man Terrorizes Women and Girls   Six Are Attacked in Chicago Homes, Streets

RAF Is Believed Already Preparing For Great Knockout Bombing; Suggestion Greets New Applause

Aerial Knockout Experiment Expected To Start Soon: Berlin Seen As First Taraect

MANN NONCOMMITAL ON FUTURE PLANS POLITICAL NATURE  RESIGNATION AS ATTORNEY GENERAL IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE

PROMINENT LAWYER HELD FOR MURDER   Accused of Electrocuting Mentally Abnormal Son

COLOGNE BLASTED   Diesel Engine Works And Munitions Factories  Laid Waste

War Planners Busy as Big Chiefs Meet   Experts Are Perfecting New Moves to Step Up the War Tempo   ROOSEVELT AND ] CHURCHILL MEET   Conference in Quebec Expected to Last a Week; War News Is Bright

Conferees Face Many Problems   FDR AND CHURCHILL START STRATEGY TALKS

Talks Opened Between F.R.., British Chief   President Arrives In Canada To Map Next Allied Moves Against  Awis Farcec

FDR IN CANADA FOR OPENING OF COUNCIL OF WAR   Task of Mapping Next Move Against Axis , Expected To Require Week °   RECEPTION IS COLORFUL   Unconditional Surrender of Axis Is Primary Aim of Two Allied Leaders   BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

War Chieftains Map Strafegy At Conference   Roosevelt Present At Historic Parley Held in Canada

Historic Meeting Begins In Canada   Thousands Cheer President On Arrival In Quebec

FDR, Churchill Begin Conference With War Chiefs  Secrecy Surrounds

President, Premier  Open Talk:   Roosevelt, Churchill Begin Conferences in Quebec

FDR ARRIVES FOR MEETING      Joins Churchill In Planning Next Strategical Moves of Allies

DRAFT PLANS HOR GHUSHING FED QUICKLY   Roosevelt and Churchill to OK Military Blueprint for Next Move.   EARLY INDICATES MEET WILL END THIS WEEK

ENGLISH AND U.S. LEADERS MAP NEXT MOVE   FDR and Churchill _ Surrounded by Best Military Minds of Theis  Al .tianc

New Moves Are Mapped In War Conference   Roosevelt, Churchill, May Take Week To Complete War Plans

Allied Leaders : Busy In Quebec On War Moves   President Accepts  King's _ Invitation To Make Trip ~- To Ottawa -Next'- Week

Churchill, FDR Map Next Blow : At Quebec Meet   Roosevelt Arrives In Canadian City

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, MILITARY CHIEFS OPEN WAR CONFERENCE IN CANADIAN CITY

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL  PLUNGE INTO CONFERENCE   Axis Losses In Sicilian Drive 167,000 Casualties To Aug. 10

FDR And Churchill Begin War Conferences At Quebec With Military Chiefs Of Staffs   May Take Week To Complete New Pattern And Finally Approve Plans

Roosevelt Reaches Quebec for Conferences Which May Result In. New Drives Against Hitler

(t WAR PLANS   President And  Churchil Ready To Approve New Offensive Action

FDR, Winnie Plunge Into War Planning   Military Staffs About Ready to Submit Plans For Next War Moves

OHIO CONGRESSMAN HITS FOOD PROGRAM   ‘Serious Hunger’ Predicted Along With Criticism

POSSIBILITY THAT 17 YEAR OLD BOYS MAY BE INCLUDED IN DRAFT   One Out of Every Twelve Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Included.

17-Year-Old Draft Age  Considered   Possibility Under  Discussion at Senate Hearing

JACOBS SAYS NAVY NEEDS 2,935,284 BY DEC. 31 FOR QUOTA      Navy...Personnel. Chief Ip Favor Of Drafting Father—Committee  Studies Bill

Draft Boys of 17, Senator Hints   Proposal Might Avoid Inducting Fathers

NAVY BACKS ARMY STAND ON FATHER DRAFT   Senator Would Use Boys of 17

FATHER DRAFT DELAY DEBATE OPENS TUESDA)   Military Leaders Lay Objections Before Congress

Navy Personnel Chief Tells Senate Recruits Must Be Had To Carry Out War Precram.

‘Possibility of ‘Drafting 17-Year: ‘Olds Discussed   366,000 Men Each Month § set as Draft Minimum

DRAFT PROBLEM STILL MUDDLE, MAY LOWER Abt   Senator Reynolds Delves Into Feasibility Of Taking Youths of 17

INTO SCHOOL RACE   Another West Hills Resident Files for Board of Education

 Trattic Accidents Take More Lives Than Are Lost On Fighting Fronts

Says More War Workers Killed In Auto Accidents Since Pearl Harbor Than U. S. Soldiers Killed in Action

TRAFFIC TOLL APPALLING   Police Chiefs Hear Report On War Workers’ Deaths

MAY RECORD-395 STRIKES RECORDED   Same for April, But Number Involved Trebled

Fa Ghee (ie ad ee ee eT te eee  ‘Strikes Increase ‘Over Month Period

CRASH KILLS 7   Victims of Navy Plane Accident Not Yet Revealed.

Russian Relations With U.S. And Allies Held Best Since War Began

Relations With Russia Improve  Anglo-American Drive In Tunis Brings Praise Fram Pravda

Reclamation and Irrigation Held as Mere Incidents. in Army Plans for Development of Missouri River Basin

Governor Flays Missouri Plans   Declares Irrigation, Reclamation Ignored

DOWNFALL OF BRYANSK NEAR   Russians Within 12 Miles of Bastion Greater Nazi Disaster Imminent

Million Dollar  - Blaze In Houston   4 - Story Furniture Store Razed

U.S. CONTROLS ANOTHER ISLAND IN SOLOMONS   Holds Main Positions o Vangunu, Southwest of New Georgia

Yanks Take Over Vaugunu Island, Meet Resistance   MacArthur’s Troops Win 200 Square Mile Dot In Pacific; Operations On Limited Scale.

Full Results Of Battle Are Still Lacking   American Forces Complete Occupation Of Vangunu Island South Of New Georgia; U. S. Destrover Is Reported Lost

VANGUNU ISLE TAKEN   Americans Meet Stiffer Resistance Than on Rendova

Yangunu After Hard Fighting   Although Japs Have Been Hard Hit, It Is Believed They Have Force to Put up Battle

Pleads guilty  of murdering girl at Sutton   MacAvoy in state prison; will ask penalty of death

PLEADS GUILTY ON RAPE-MURDER COUNT   State To Ask for Death Penalty Against Soldier

Germans Slacken   Kiey Bulge Blow  Red Outils anking Thrust  Opens Poland Road

ESCAPE ROAD NARROWS FOR 300,000 MEN   NAZIS LOSE LAST BASTION EAST OF DNIEPER

FOE DESTROYS TOWN BEFORE FALLING BACK   Gomel is Won by Bold Outflanking Action Of Red Army

Red Army Wins Strategic Area; Cut Nazi Lines  . Pee Ee sem ff Fearvcesriem re   Twenty German Divisions Of 300,000 Men Are Facing Trap

Red Strategy Threatens 20  Nazi Divisions   Russians Also Advance In New Offensive North of Fallen City  NAZI FRONT SPLIT

GOMEL FALLS TG RUSSIANS BY MANEUVER   Stalin Announces After Germans Declare They Had Destroyed Town And Fallen Back; Special Salute.   Most Opportune

4 HURT IN KENTON RAILROAD ACCIDENT   Passenger Runs Open Switch, Hits Standing Freight

COAL DISPUTE ~ MAY G0 T0 WLB   Producers of South Plan  Request to Conl ciliator

Miners’ Wage Dispute Nears New Crisis   Thousands of Miners Refuse to Work Following WLB Decision; Latest Truce Ends at Midnight Tomorrow

Travel Pay Demands of Miners Is Rejected By War Labor Board   PRESENT TRUCE DUE TO EXPIRE SUNDAY   Case for Courts to Decide, Board Declares In Its Decision

Latest Coal Mine Truce Near End   Nation Awaits Action Of UMW Leader Lewis Following Refusal of  WLB to Grant Demands

Miners’ Travel Pay Demands _ Rejected By The Labor Board; ~ New Coal Crisis At Hand

Miner’s Travel Wage Demands Are Re jected . MEETING TODAY  Union Truce Will Ex. ‘pre Qn Midnight’  Sundav

Coal Dispute Near New Crisis  WLB Puts Portal Pay Decision Up To Courts, ~ Some Miners Walk Out

Sporadic Walkouts » Reported Today in Varied Coal Fields   nion Truce Expires at Midnight Tomorrow; All Eyes on Lewis

ANOTHER CRISIS DEVELOPING IN COAL INDUSTRY   Union and Operators May Go To Court After WLB Drops Hot Potato

Some Miners Are Already Off Job Before UMW Acts   Lewis Committee Meets Today To Decide On New Strike Sunday Night After WLB Refuses Portal-To-Portal Pay

TRUCE EXPIRES SUNDAY; EXPECT ANOTHER STRIKE   John L. Lewis, Policy Group Meets Today

Miners May Stage Another Walkout, UMW Holds Meeting   Diggers Fail To Work at Some Pits ir Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama; May Spread

WLB Rejects Pay Demands; Miners Refuse To Work   Board Says Travel Time Issue Is * Matter For Courts

Hitler Names New Navy Chief; Sub Drive Seen   Submarine Expert Replaces Raeder

DOENITZ IS NOW NAZI NAVY CHIEF   Sub Expert Is Succeeding Admiral Raeder.

Sub Expert New Head of German Navy   Doenitz Expected To Press Dreaded U-Boat Campaign

BENNETT TRIAL SET FOR DEC. 2   College Prexy to Be Tried Before Higher Court Can Act

Bennett Trial Set Dec. 2   Tulsa Judge Hurries It Ahead of Writ Hearing

REPART FARE  Rut Valk © UROUL  LANDED NORTH OF TOK SECTOR   British-Canadian Troops Expand Gains In Boot; Berlin Says Second Landine Made   CLAIM AMERICAN ARMY IS “AT SEA”   Flying Fortresses Pound Italian Airdrome On _ East Coast; Down 11 Axis Warplanes

ALLIED INVASION FORCES EXPANDED HOLD ON MAINLAND  HOLD APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY MILES OF TOE - JTALIAN BOOT

PREDICTIONS oF Year AGO “RECALLED AS DEk FURREER " PREPARES FOR ANNUAL ~" "> AbDRESS

Decree Against AP Without Hearing of Evidence Requested   Unprecedented Procedure Proposed Today by Justice Dept.

Government Asks For Judgment Against A. P. In Anti-Trust Procedure Without Precedent

Seek Summary Action Against . Associated Press   Government Asks Court To Act Without Takina Testimony

A FREE PRESS FIGHTING WITH BACK T0 WALI   Government Asks Three Judges To Rule Against A. P, Without Testimony

Government Asks Summary Judgment in Suit Against AP   AP Challenge of Government Claim No Material Facts Remain Uncontroverted Expected— Government Move Unprecedented

U. S. Moves To Force AP To Sell To All Papers   Summary Judgment Is Sought“In Unprecedented Procedure.

U.S. Would Ban Trial in Court   Government Asks Summary Judgment Against AP

UOGMENT WITHOUT TRIAL   Government Moves for Summary Decision in Suit Against AP.

Unprecedented Step Taken To Control Pres:   Government Would Ba Hearing To AP In Anti-Trust Suit

Ask Judgment In AP Suit   Government Requests No Trial In Unusual Trust Procedure

Quick Actior Against AP Is Sought   Government Today Asked Federal Court for Summary Judgment Against Newsgathering Agency —

Asks Summary  Judgment Of AP —hrsuit By Govt.   Anti-Trust Procedure Sail Without Precedent In ~ Barring. Alil~Testimony

Verdict Minus  Testo Ta  Asked By U, S.   Government Requests Summary Judgment In Suit Against AP

GOVERNMENT ASKS. JUDGMENT IN ITS. CASE AGAINST AP   Continues Unprecedented Anti-Trust Charge Procedure Against Largest News: Gathering Organization

Summary Judgment Asked Against AP   Move by Federal Government to Obtain Decision Without Open Trial Unprecedented in a Sherman Anti-Trust Act Suit.

ASK JUDGMENT “AGAINST ALP   Anti-Trust . Procedure Said Without Precedent

AMERICANS WIDENING BEACHHEAD   wae ighter Planes From Bougainville  Attack Rabaul

TORGKINA: RIVER ON BOLGAINVILLE FORCED BY. U.-S.   American: Troops Widen Invasion. Beachheads on Jap   Bastion at Rabaul -

Approach Arawe Airstrip In Stepped Up Push   Ford Torokina River At Other End of Pincers On Rabaul

YANKS OPEED UP OnWE ON NEW BRITAIN   Widen Invasion Beachheads and Near Jap Airstrip East of Arawe.

VANGUARDS ARE NEAR AIRSTRIP IN PENINSULA      Americans Stepping Up Advance Through New Britain Jungle 250 Miles Southwest Of Rabaul Is Report   BOMBERS UNLEASH : HARD DOUBLE BLOW

YANKS WIDEN BEACHHEADS ON ISLANDS   Advances Made On New Britain And Bougainville

Umtincalu Village Is Captured   Control Of Airstrip Would’ Give Americans New Base For Attacks ‘On Japs At Rabaul

BEACHHEADS ARE BEING WIDENED ON VITAL PENINSULA   Aim At Airstrip—Force Torekina River—Advance In Junales.

Yanks Widening Beachheads on. New Britain   Make Advances. “On Both: Sides" Of Rabaul:

Yonks Only 4 Miles From Airstrip On Arawe   WIDEN BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE, TOO

Americans Gaining on New Britain   Widen Beacheads Near Ra baul and Hasten Advance  Through Jungles

Six Firemen Believed Dead In Chicago Fire   Physician Leads In Search, Three Firemen Are Found Alive

NINE FIREMEN ARE BURIED IN DEBRIS OF CHIGAGO BLAZE   Three Found Alive, Two Dead and No Trace of Others — Doctor Leads Rescue.

Three Men Rescued and Two More Found Dead — Dead and Injured Buried Beneath Tons of Smoking Cartons of Model Airplanes,

3 Buried Firemen  Are Alive   Physician Leads Rescuers Into Basement After  Chicago Fire

SIX FIREMEN DIE IN BLAZE   — Buried Under Debris When Top Floor of Chicago Building Collapses

WLB Refuses To Correct What It Concedes Is Wage Inequality   Declares lt Intends To Ob serve Literal Meaning’ of Anti-Inflation Order

FOLLOWS FDR'S WAGES RULING   First Action After New Hold The Line Order  Forecasts Denial  Of Many Boosts   2-Cent Raise Given

LABOR BOARD RULING HOLDS TOFDR ORDER   Announces Refusal to .Carrect Conceded Pay Inequality

WLB Unanimous!  Against General Wage Increases  To Enforce Roosevelt Anti-Inflation Labor Order to the Letter

WLB Adheres To President’s Hold-Line Rule   Refuses To Correct ‘Inequality’ in Case Of Atlas Cement Co.

BOARD PLANS TO CARRY OUT ORDER OF FDR   WLB Decision R Refuses to Correct Conceded Inequality

ARGENTINE CHIEF CANS. OFFICIALS” WHO SIGNED PAPER   Ramirez Qusts Public Officers Who Approved Pro-Democratic Manifesto — Gther   Game” Conrad

NEW GOVERNMENT CRISIS UNFOLDS IN ARGENTINA   JEWISH NEWSPAPER BAN LIFTED AFTER ROOSEVELT’S REBUKE

HEAD ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKES PRO-AXIS STAND  BAN ON JEWISH PUBLICA.  TIONS, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN REVOKED

President Labels Many . Signing: “Democratic” ” Manifesto Foreigners”

Argentine President Scoffs Manifesto Asking Nation To Adopt American Solidarity   Charge Paper Signed By “Foreigners”; Lifts Ban On Jews After FDR's Rebuke

MANIFESTO nl] BY ARGENTINA   Ramirez Government Applies Label of ‘Foreigners’ To Signers.   LIFT JEWISH PRESS BAN

Ramirez Hits Back At Foes  As Foreigners   Warns Of Penalties If Any Pro-Democracy Advocates Guilty Of ‘Tampering’

_Argentines. Submit Plea   Jewish Ban. Lifted - After FDR Rebuke

Signers Of Manifesto In Argentine Hit   Ramirez Calls Backer; Of Plan Foreigners: No ‘Tampering’ Will Be Tolerated

Signers of Appeal ~ to Government of ~ Argentina Attacked    President of South Amer. ican State Dubs Them Foreigners

Manifesto Draws Fire Of Ramirez   President Of Argentine Takes Exception To Published Plea.

President Of Argentina Hits ro Democrats   Says His Government Will Not Stand For Any ‘Tampering’

RAMIREZ TURNS ‘ASIDE PLEAS T0 END AXIS TIES   Argentine President Applies‘ Labels: of “Forcigners”.to.Manifesto Sign  ers: Bans “Tampering”

Calls Signers Of Manifesto "For eigners’  ‘eae   Ramirez Replies To Plea That Argentina Keep Its Pledges

CRITICS ARE TO BE FIRED BY RAMIREZ   Argentine President Or: ders Dismissal of All Public Officials W ho Signed Petition for American Solidarity. }

President Ramirez Issues Manifesto  Argentine Government Warns “Foreigners” No Tampering Is Allowed

BAN LIFTED ON JEWISH NEWSPAPERS   Argentina Gets Rebuke From FDR Friday

20 ON MISSING ARMY PLANE ARE ALIVE   Transport Craft That Disappeared February 4 Located in Canadian Wilderness.

MISSING ARMY PLANE TS FOUND IN CANADA   Twenty Persons Are Safe In Forced Landing Feb. 4 In Wilderness Area

Plane Found, 20 Passengers Alive   Army Transport Is Located in Canada Wilderness

Missing Plans Said Located   All On Board Reported Alive And Well

Stove Rationing Starts August 24   Certificates Must Be Obtained For Purchase

HEATING STOVES TO BE RATIONED   Nationwide System Ordered for ‘ Distribution of Cooking “4, + +Stoves,. Also.

aT OVED WILL BE AATIONED AUG. 24   But OPA Order Will Not Affect Stoves For Com mercial Purposes

TIGHTENS UP   ‘OPA Makes Rationitg of Stoves Mation-Wide Oneratinn.

Soviet Attack Grinds At Nazi Summer Gains   Russian Steamroller Approaches Within 118 Miles Of Kharkov Steel Center

Pour Across Donets River Near Kamensk   Grinding Away All of Germany’s Summer Gains; Smashing Toward Kharkov

Reds in Mighty Strides on Wide  Southern Front   Russian Army Pours Across Donets River in Southward Drive on Rostov.

Russians Pour Across Donets Near Kamensk  Red Assault Grindin:   Red Assault Grinding at All Nazis’ Summer Gains in South

New Red Assault Moves Toward Kharkov. ...  Russians Drive Relentlessly On Toward Rostov

RUSSIAN FORCES SURGE ACROSS DONETS RIVER   Approaching Within 118 Miles of Kharkov, Great Urkaine Steel Center

Nazi Summer Gains Fade  before Push   Russian Force ‘Hold. Striking Position 60 Miles East of Rostov; Cut ‘Enemy Forces,

140,000 GERMANS ARE KILLED IN TRAP   Steady Gains Are Reported By Red Armies: On All Fronts

Do POURING ACROSS RIVER   Drive South Toward Rostov Co-ordinated With Kharkov Push,

Reds Crossing Donets River   NEW GAINS REPORTED BY RUSSIAN ARMY TODAY

Red Army Pouring Across Donets River Only 85 Miles From City Rostov

Russian Forces Grinding Hitler Army To Piece:   Reds Advancing On Al Fronts; Big Battle For Rostov Near -

MANY HEADED THRUSTS KEEP NAZIS ON RUN   One Drives Within 118 Miles Of Kharkov Millerova Captured

Soviet Army Pours Across Donets Few Miles From Kamensh   Reds Drive on Kharkov. Great Steel Center of the Ukraine

MIGHTY SWEEP ENVELOPS SOUTH RUSSIA   Red Armies Now In Position to Drive Directly on Key City At Mouth of Don

Evacuate Hamburg homes as high waters roll over Omaha port, Carter Lake   3 health department units reach area: downstream threat mounts

Omaha Airport Is Abandoned To Floodwater   Battle To Save Carter Lake Village From River Also Fails.

FLOODS TAKE OMAHA AIRPORT   ‘Hamburg. Evacuations _ Start-as Pikes Break

Carter Lake and Airport Flooded   Omaha Seriously Damaaed by Flood

Omaha Airport, Carter Lake, Ia. Area Given Up   Evacuation Begun In — Area Around Hamburg

Josephus Daniels Says Flynn Admirably Fitted To Serve As U.S. Ambassador To Australia

LaGuardia Asker As Witness in Flynn Hearing   Josephus Daniels Thinks Accused Man Is Qualified

Joe Daniels  For Ed Flynn   Former Secretary of Navy Endorses Selection As Ambassador to Australi

Back To Farm Move Is Seen   Selective Service Head Re ports Definite Back To Farm Trend By Workers   DRAFT CHIEFS ARE HAVING CONFERENCE

“BACK-TO-FARM’ MOVEMENT = REPORTED TO DRAFT CHIEF   HERSHEY SAYS REPORTS FROM FARM STATE DRAFT OFFICIALS SHOW DEFINITE  ‘ TREND

Galveston And   Warnings Issued Tha Disturbance Is Of “Wide Extent’

Major Naval Units May Clash Soon   Experts Believe Knockout Battle Coming in Contest for Solomons

SHOW - DOWN NAVY FIGHT [S EXPECTEL   Heavy Battleships May Be Drawn Into Fray

NAVY BLIMP CRACKS UP, CREW SAFE   Patrol Craft Hits Top 0; 2,000-Foot Hill in Cahfornia   PILOT, CO-PILOT ARE INJURED   Others Found Safe by Ground Searchers From s, Sheriff’s Office

OUSTER CASE PREPARED FOR HIGHER COURT   Question of Court’s Jurisdiction Is Raised In Hearing

CHURCH BOARD ~ PLANS APPEAL   Seeks Authority To Preven Expelled Members from Entering Church

CHURCH OUSTS 16 OF ITS MEMBERS   Mount Vernon Congregation Backs Action With Appeal To Courts

Iowa Slayer Sentenced To Gallows   Stanley Kaster Faces Death by Hanging Late Next Year

Final Climax Is Nearing In Africa Drive   Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim Reported to Have Fled: Nazis, Short of Fuel, Using Giant Tiger Tanks As Stationary Forts

Bataan-Like Cape Trap for 80,000 of Axis   Nazis Use Tiger Tanks as Forts in Attempt to Halt Allied Drive

AXIS DEBACLE NEAR CLIMAX ON CAP BON   80,000 Soldiers Face Disaster In Allied Trap

MOP UP IN NORTH   Germans Use Fuelless Tanks as Forts; Bombers Hunt Ships

CRUSHING AXIS DEFEAT NEAR INN. AFRICA   Allies Determined To Make   Final Assault in Short  Order.

POULTRY PRODUCTION GAINS 14 PERCENT   Ohio Ranks Eighth in Nation, Raises Over 38 Million

Soviet Vs. Jap War Forecast - As Inevitable   Red Fishing Concession Intended to Delay Siberian Blow

SOVIET-JAPANESE WAR IS. BELIEVED INEVITABLE DESPITE FISHING PACT

Airborne Force  Seizes Airfield   Japanese Caught  By Sudden Move

AIRBORNE — AUSSIE! TROOPS SEIZE JAP BASE AT KAIA PIT      Allied Positions In New Guinea Extended 60 Miles Inland  TWeemaee 1 an

Jap Base and Airfield Captured: Australians in a Surprise Attack

AUSSIES SEIZE JAP AIRDROME   Surprise Attack Made By Airborne Troops

AUSTRALIANS  SEIZE JAP AIR BASE   Airborne Troops in Surprise Attack

HOUSE BALKS ON MUSTER OUT PAY   Won't Go Crazy Like Senate Did Mav Declores

Mustering-Out Pay Bill Delayed   House Balks At “Lot  of Complications”

MUSTERING OUT PAY BILL HITS SNAG IN HOUSE      Chairman-May Says Many Snags Found — Hits Senate Measure

MUSTERING-OUT BILL HITS SNAG   House Committee Chairman  Refuses to Rush Plan

Yanks Smash Ahead All Along the Line   No Reinforcements, Face Saving Drive Is Expected By U. S.

Axis Defenses Are Unhinged By Mateur Capture   Flying Fortresses Blast Installations  At Nazi Stronghold

DRIVE CLOSE 10 TUNIS, BIZERTE   Fall Of Mateur Cuts Only Rai Link Between Axis Bases

Approach — Both T: unis and Bizerte   FALL OF MATEUR YESTERDAY UNHINGED WHOLE AXIS DEF OF NORTHERN TUNISIAN AREA:

WARSHIPS CHOP KISKA DEFENSES   Blasting Shells Reveal Location Of Enemy Shore Batteries

Shelling Locates Kiska Batteries  Japs Return Fire Of U.S. Warship

Americans Force Foe To Reveal Site Of Shore Batteries  U. 5. Warship Hurls Heavy Shells . At Japs on Kiska

Solons Ready to Consider Pearnanization   Special Committee Named to Handle Proposed Measures

Solons Ready to Consider Reorganization  Special Committee   Special Committee Named to Handle Proposed Measures

Houses Ready for Measures on — Reorganization  Ecton and Dillavou Head Committees - To Handle Proposals

HEALTH NURSE BEGINS DRIVE ON T. B. PLAN   Seeking Unsuspected Cases. )

LURKING T. B. SEARCHED OUT   Not Hard To Cure If It Is Dealt With In Early Stage

MAY HAVE TB» AND NOT KNOW IT   Tuberculosis Survey ‘Being Made In County

HEALTH NURSE TO SEEK CASES OF UNSUSPECTED TB   When Early Discovery Made, Serious Illness May.Be Avoided

Texas River Authorities Bill Passes   Compromise Bill Finally Passed By House, 70 to 54

Michigan Will Set Clocks Back An Hour Feb. {!   Central War Time I: Adopted By Vote Of Legislature

Man In Uniform May Not Be Soldier   Hoover Warns of Talking Freely to ‘Uniforms’

New York Stocks   New Orleans Cotton   New York Cotton   Chicago Corn   Chicago Wheat   Performer Vietim of 20-Year-Old Rope Stunt

British Launch Tunisia Atfack   Smash Goes Eight ‘Miles In Deoth

ADVANCE EIGHT MILES IN NEW OFFENSIVE ON NORTH BATTLE SECTOR   Attack Sets Long Dormant Front Into Action as Eighth Army Continues Steady Gains From South

ACTION BEGINS ALONG NORTH TUNISIA FRONT   BRITISH AND FRENCH ADVANCE 8 MILES NEAR MATEUR

ACTION REPORTED ON AFRICAN FRON]   Continuous Attack Made by British and French  Fareee

Advance: on fialian  held line   Field reporter tells of assault

British and French Set Northern Front Into Action   YANKS TAKE OVER

Tunisia Action Is Launched By British - Freneh   Push forward  eight miles; success of operation awaits comple‘tion of second sweep. °

Northern Tunisia Into Action  British and French Advance 8 Miles in Continuing Attack

Northern Front In Tunisia  Aflame Again   British-French Forces Advance Eight Miles At Mateur, Near Bizerte

Allies Open Attack  in Tunisia   Advance 8 Miles Against Italian-Held Line

ITALIANS HURLED BACK EIGHT MILES IN NORTH TUNISIA   Long Dormant Front Flares Into Action With Dawn Attack by British and French.   PRIMARY OBJECTIVES REACHED BY ALLIES   British Eighth Army Pounds Rommel’s Retreating Forces With Artillery Fire in South.

ITALIANS FIGHT NAZI TROOPS IN CITY'S STREETS   PT Boats Sink 2 Ships Olf Albania; Blockade  of Corsica Intensified

Full Scale Offensive on Nazi Mountain Positions Begun; Blockade Corsica

CLARK THROWS HEAVY ATTACK AGAINST NAZIS   American Fifth Army Swings into Full Scale Offensive For Capture Of Naples

Seven Transport Planes Shot Down As Allies Forces Occupy New Towns

Motor: Torpedo Boa Beais Sink Two: Enemy Vessels in Darirg Raid: in Valona Harbor, Albania    BRITISH ADVANCE   Three Towns Captured as Allies Open Drive Agains! Nazis En. trenched in Nacles

Smash Foe’s Attempts To Quit Corsica   Seven German Transport Planes Brought Down; Italians Fight Enemy In Burning City

Motor Torpedo Boats Make Foray Against Albania; Sink 2 Ships   Steady Progress Made On All Fronts; Two Important Towns Fall To Invaders

PT Boats Sink Two Nazi Ships   FIFTH ARMY LAUNCHES MOUNTAIN DRIVE FROM SALERNO POSITIONS; BLOCKADE OF CORSICA TIGHTENS AS NAZIS WEAKEN

Allies Launch An Attack on Naples   Fifth at Starts Offensive Against Nazi Mountain Positions   ‘SINK. 2 ENEMY SHIPS   Italians Reported to Be Bat , thing Germans in the Streets

Nazis Try To Quit Corsica   Allies Intercept German Aerial Transports

American Army Opens Fire on Nazi Positions   Enemy Continues Its Withdrawal On Corsica Isle

BASTIA BOMBED, RUINS LEFT 10 SLOW GERMANS   Allied Planes Thwart Nazi Effort at Aerial Evacuation of Island

Intensify Corsican Blockade Against Escaping Germans   Italians Engaged In Warfare with Enemy; Allied Motor Boat Foray To Alzania Marks New Move.

Germans Continuing To Withdraw On Corsica; Evacuation Aitempt Halted

Gen. Mark Clark Throws Nearly His Full Strength Into Battle, but Troops Meet Stiff Opposition and Fighting Is Bitter and Severe—Allied PT Boats Sink Two Ships on Albanian Coast—Blockade Around Corsica Is Tichtened.

ENEMY WITHDRAWS NORTH ON CORSICA      Aerial Blockade of Island Intensified; DeGaulle Hails Victory.

Full Scale U.S. Attack On Naples   Close Air Trap On Germans Retreating In Corsica

Allies Launch An Attack on Naples   ~ Against/Nazi Mountain ositions .  F ifth i Starts Offensive   “SINK: 2 ENEMY SHIPS   Italians Reported to Be Bat, thing Germans in the streets

FIFTH ARMY BEGINS FULL SPATE PUSH   Fighting Germans In Mountains Near Naples

ALLIED TORPEDO BOATS DESTROY 2 NAZI VESSELS   Thrust Into Harbor Surprises Enemy—Clark’s Forces In Mountain Fight

STRIKE AGAINST GERMANS IN THE ITALIAN HILLS   Full-Scale Drive Opened Against Enemy Positions Guarding Route To Naples; Fighting Bitter And  Severe.

Two Enemy Ships Sunk Off Albania   Seven German Transport Planes Downed by RAF

FRENCH GLAM TWO CORSICAN TOWNS TAKER   Communique States Ger mans Continuing Their Northward Withdrawal On Island

‘Full-Scale Drive’ ‘On Nazi Defenses At Naples Starts:   Torpedo Boats Sink Two Enemy : Vessels .

Escape Port. Of Corsica  ‘Now Useless   Bombs Wreck Bastia; Latest French Warships in Campaign

5th Army Hits Nazi Positions   Full-Scale Offensive on Routes to Naples Begun ‘by Clark’s Forces   ADVANCES MADE IN SEVERAL AREAS   Naples Citizens Fighting Germans in Streets; Many Ttalians Slain

De Gaulle Hails French Efforts   de Says French Troops Used Largely in Liberation of Corsica.

GERMANS CONTINUE TO FALLBACK TO NORTH IN CORSICA   Seven Nazi Transport Planes,  Evaculating Troops,. Shot  Down—Two Southern: Cities  Occupied by Allies —

Allied MT Boats Hit Albanian Ports   Sink Two Enemy Ships—Allied Planes Intercept Nazi Air Fleet Seeking to Evacuate Germans From Corsica—French Cruisers Landed French Troops on Island

Fifth Army In All-Out Drive Against Naples   Allied Planes Intercept Nazi Attempt At Aerial Evacuation Of Corsica.

Corsican Conquest Is Near; Torpedo Boats Bag 2 Ships   Two Towns Fall Before British, American Onslaguht; Italians In Naples Reported Battling Germans; Air War Blazes

Strike at Enemy Guarding Naples   American Fifth Army Attacks Germans Holding Mountain Positions Along Route to Italian Port—Two Vessels Sunk in Valona Harbor.   OLIVETO-CITRA TAKEN

\Allied Torpedo Boats Sink Two Enemy Vessels in Valona ‘Harbor on Coast of Albania   Blockade: of: Desperate Nazis: on Corsica Intensified; Sevén Planes. Evacuating Personnel Shot Down:

2 SHIPS SUNK INATTACKON ALBANIAPORT   Clark’s Troops Hammer At Nazi Mountain Positions That Guard Naples

YANKS ASSAULT NAZI POSITIONS ON MOUNTAINS   Bitter Fighting Rages With Germans Defending Ruins Of Key Port City   ALLIED FORCES COMBINED   Reinforcements Still Pouring Into Salerno Area While Allies Control Skies

Mountain Route to Naples Hit   Full Offensive Follows Taking  More Italian Cities

Big Guns Duel; Allies Strike At Albania By Sea   Nazis Put Up Stubborn Resistance; British Take Matera In South

Offensive Opened In Full Seale   Evacuation Of German: Of Corsica Hampered By Repeated Attack: By RAF Beaufighters

Blockade on * Corsica Is  Drawn Tight   Daring Motorboat Raid Is: Staged on Albania and: Two Vessels Sunk ‘

Fifth Ai’ ‘ny Attacks Nazi Mountain®Positions That Guard Ro%te to Naples.

ATTACK FOE ON NAPLES ROUTE   Allied Motor Torpedo Boats Stab Into Harbor of Albania.   IDOWN NAZI TRANSPORTS

LAUNCH FULL SCALE OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMAN POSITIONS   The Nazis Were Guarding the Route to Naples When Attack Was Made.   CAPTURE THREE TOWNS   The 5th Army Took City 24 Miles East of Salerne, It Is Said.

MOVES INLAND FROM SALERNO   Beaufighters Slice Into German Air Evacuation Transports  DOWN SEVEN PLANES

iAllies Put Stop To Nazi Attempt To Flee Corsica ‘As Fall Of Island Is Near

Allied Boats Raid Albanian Harbor Sink Two Ships   German Evacuation Of Corsica By Air Smashed As Allies Baq Seven Transports

‘Nazis’ Mountain Positions Feel Full-Scale Blow   5th Army Troops Face Barrages From Artillery

NAZI RETREAT ON CORSICA 1S CONTINUING   Allies Occupy Two Towns at Southern End of Isle as Airmen Down Seven Transports Evacuating Troops.

CORSICA’S CAPTURE IMMINENT   Oliveto-Citra, Altamura, Matera, Fall To Allies; Two Axis Ships Sunk Off Coast Of Albania

REICH AERIAL RESCUE SHIPS BLASTED DOW   Nazi Garrison on Island Cornered. ' Meanwhile Allies Progress in Naples Offensive

Nazi Mountain Lines Stormed By Fifth Army   Full-Scale Offensive Under Way Against Strong Defenses

BEAUFIGHTERS BLAST NAZIS OFF CORSICA   Seven Transport Planes Shot Down Trying Evacuation — Tensier Among French Leaders Indi  . cated

RATION BOOK NO. 3 TO BE SENT BY MAIL   Postmen to Distribute Applications and New Coupons Will Be Mailed in June and Julv.

Replacement for Books  and 2  Ration Book No. 3 Will Be Sent To Public By Mail in June, July

War Ration Book No. 3 Will. Replace Present Books in June or July

AlliedPlanes Continue to Pound Nazis   Hamburg Raided Five Times in 60 Hours—Fur ther Gains in Sicily

Soviets Smash Nazi  Effort to Get  Positions at Orel Enemy’s Losses Are  Heavy in Men, Material, Reds Say

Germans Put More Troops Against Reds   Nazis Are Active in Sector Where Summer Drive Is Exuected

NAZI OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IS POSTPONED   Inadequate Supplies At Forward Bases Caused Change Of Plans, Report   SUMMER DRIVE MAY BE LAUNCHED BY REDS

Red Army Smashes German Attacks  Nlasie Call Lln Frach   Nazis Call Up Fresh Troops Near Orel

ussians Repel rman Advance of Orel   ut Moscow Reports nemy Is Throwing Fresh Troops into Action

Nazi Blows On’ Reds Smashed   Repeated Attempts Near Ore] Beaten

Russians smash nazi attempts to regain positions near Orel   Germans throwing heavy forces into fight with heavy loss, Moscow says

Fresh Nazi Troops in Action Reds Smash German Efforts To Regain Ground Near Orel

Russians ? Throw Back Repeated Nazi ‘Attacks   German Stubborn Efforts io Regain Lost Orel Positions Rebuffed; Fresh ‘Axis Troops Being ‘Thrown In

GERMANS FAIL TO TAKE BACK LOST SECTORS   REDS SMASH FRESH OFFENSIVE NORTH OF OREL

GERMAN THRUSTS NEAR OREL FAIL   REPEATED ATTEMPTS MADE BY NAZIS TO REGAIN LOST POSITIONS NEAR CITY.

See er NR st re ea he er GUNG re ee   SOVIETS SMASH NAZI ATTACKS NEAR OREL

WILL CUT QUOTA. OF CANNED GOODS   Civilian Population, Too, Will Be Asked To Get Along With Simpler Clothing — More Meat Held Likely

WFA CUTS CIVILIAN CANNED GOODS QUOTA   WPB Bans Frills on Clothing to Prevent Rationing

FOOD ALLOCATION SET AT 70 PERCENT   WPB to Clamp ‘Down on Clothing Frills to Forestall Rationing; Parity Hit

Less Canned Goods for  Civilian Use   Allocation of 213,009,000 Cases Compared with 278,000,000 Cases Last Year; Rest Goes to Armed Forces

LESS CANNED FOODS, SIMPLER CLOTHES ASKED   Clothing Rationing Won’t Be Needed If Frills Are Dropped, Nelson Says

Warns Raids On U. S. Are Possible   Would Bolster Moral Of Germans

GEAMAN AIR RAIDS ON U.S. POSSIBLE   Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce Says They May Be Worthwhite for Hitler.

RAYBURNLISTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS   Speaker of House Says United States Has 2,000,000 Men Overseas; Navy Soon To Be Twice As Strong As Year Ago.

'WO MILLION OVER JAE   Speaker Rayburn Gives Figures on American Trdops erseas

This Is Not Happy Reading For Axis   Rayburn Summarizes Tremendous War Achievements

Two Million Men Are Now Overseas   Navys strength Doubling in 1943

2 Million Men Now Overseas:  Navy Is Doubles   8 Victory Strides Are Explained By Rayburn; Program  Is Bared   But Not As Much As Last War, He Says; Food Supply Now Adequate

U.S. Now Has 2 Millon Men Overseas,  Rayburn Says   Navy To Be Twice As Strong At End Of This Year As At Close  Of 1942. He States

2 MILLION MEN IN AEF, SPEAKE OF HOUSE SAYS   Navy To Double In Size By End Of Year

Rayburn Receives. Honorary Degree From East Texas   Speaker of House Lists Nation's Gains, Defends Price Control

Rayburn Says 2 Million Men  Are Overseas   Speaker Of House Lists Accomplishments Made In War To Date.

SOLON LAUDS ARMED FORCES   Rayburn Says 2,000,000 Americans Are  Overseas

,000,000 MEN ARE OVERSEAS   Rayburn Cites Figures to Ref. ute ‘Grumlins’ in \ Texas Address

Rayburn Hits At 'Grumlins’   Speaker of House Tells of Achievements Toward: Victory

RAYBURN ANALYZES  UNITED STATES ON  HOME, WAR FRONTS HONORED AT ETSTC  SPEAKER OF HOUSE HOMECOMING ON FEPRINA’

Says 2,000,000 Men Overseas   Rayburn Sees Bigger Navy At End Of Year

"Rayburn Cites Eight Accomplished Strides Toward Victory in Speech Made Prior ‘Te Dacaiving Honorary Law Degree Today

Roosevelt Sees  Big Ship Year   Says 1943 Output To Be 16 Million Tons

US Shipyards Exceed Goal Of President   Build 8 Million Tons During ’42

U.S, SHIPYARDS EXCEEDE.R. GOAI   746 Ships and 800 Smal Craft Made jn 1047

US Shipyards Exceed Quota During 1942   Output Now 14,400,000 Tons Year With Yards Delivering at Rate of Five Ships a Day Beginning in May

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Large Scale Evacuation Of Axis From Tunisia Believed Unlikely

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUL IN ACCORD   U. 5. And British Mediation Bring Vital Results

U.S., British Mediation Said To Have. Brought Agreement: Between Giraud and DeGaulle

French Officers  In An Avreement   Difficulties _ Between DeGaulle and Girard Are  Troned Out.

DEGAULLE AND GIRAUD REACH AN AGREEMENT   TALKS PART OF PLANS OF ALLIES TO WIN WAR FROM AXIS

FRENCH FORCES IN NO. AFRICA IN AGREEMENT   United States and British Leaders Mediate Differences io Unite De Gaulle, Giraud

DeGaulle, Giraud In Agreement Over War Plans   _ Allies Attempting To Prevent Nazi Armies from Joining

French Chiefs Reach Accord   Gen. De Gaulle and Gen. Giraud Are Reported In Aareement

De Gaulle and Giraud Meet   Reported to Have Reached Agreement; U. §S. And Britain Mediace

Giraud-DeGaulle Agreement Hinted   Part of Win-theWar Discussion

U. §., BRITISH SETTLE FRENCH DIFFERENCES   ‘Elimination Of Vichy Men Seen As Difficulty  GENERALS   Have High Regard For Each Other: Equipment Being Rushed ‘To Africa

Full Accord Is Reported By Factors   De Gaulle and Giraud Brought Together, London Hears.   Allies Mediate   U. S. Rushes Modern Equipment To Army Once Handicapped.

IWINTARD ROAD F MILL PROCEED, Ih (OUNG ASSERTS R   FRENCH REAM IN NORTH AFI BEACH ACCOR   Gens. DeGaulle And Giraud Brought Into Agreement By U.S. And Britain

DeGaulleAnd Giraud Reach Agreement In North Africa   Mediation By United States And Great Britain Successful  In Ending Differences

British Press Implies Soviet Chief Was Not  In Attendance   London Paper Hints at ‘News to Stir the World’   DeGaulle, Giraud Accord Reported Reached With U. S. Aid

BRING PEACE BY MEDIATION   Discussions Understood To Be Part Of Win-War Plan Outlined By Allies

French Leaders Reach Accord In North Africa  U. S. And British   U. S. And British Mediation Helps Find Agreement

Gens. DeGaulle, Giraud Confer; Pledge Unity   Meanwhile Axis Plight: In Africa Grows ~ More Critical

De Gaulle Meets Giraud, Agrees On African Policy   U. S., Britain Mediate, Map Further Plan For Winning Of War

MURDER, SUICIDE, - VERDICT IN DEATHS   Find Bodies of Ohio State Student and Companion

MURDER-SUICIDE PACT CLAIMS MEN   Coroner’s Verdict Dissipates Murder Mystery

EARLY DRIVE ON BURMA IS FORESEEN   Action Indicated by Success of Other Allied Offensives

BURMA DRIVE ~ PLANS READY FOR FUTURE   OFFENSIVE TO REQPEN BURMA . HUPPLY ROUTE MAY BE  { OPENED EARLY THIS  t FALL

‘Bitter Fights Rage As Allies Advance   ‘British Forces Turn Germans’  Adriatic Flank in 5-Mile Posh

BELIEVE GERMANS MAY BE WRECKING KEY ITALY HARBOR   8th Army Smashes Forward —Every Enemy Position - For Miles Ahead Threatened.

Yanks, Britons Drive Ahead on Two Flanks   Germans Believed to Have Started Destruction of Port

FIFTH ARMY IS WITHIN NINE MILES OF PORT OF GAETA   Germans May Be Wrecking  Preparatory to Evacuating ft.

PRETTY COUNTRY WEDDING HELD   Adolf*Oltmanns: and Regina Harms Exchange Vows ::-

Grant Couple Were Married. On March 12  Regina Harms Is Bride Of Adolf Oltmanns

NAZIS RETREAT 10 MILES IN CRITICAL MOUNTAIN SECTOR   /Pursuing Americans Seize Cassano, Driving Deep Wedge Into Enemy’s   Positions.   GAINS PUT THEM NEAR KEY HIGHWAY CENTER   British Units of Clark’s Forces Locked in Bitter Fight With Foe North of Salerno.

Armies Advance On 108 Mile Front; Near Foggia Base   Germans Retreat in Critical Sector; Yanks Take Cassano

Allied Forces Advancing on Foggia Airbase   Nazi Positions In Grave Danger

GREAT FOGGIA AIRBASE NEXT ALLIED PRIZE   PURSUING YANKS ON KEY HIGHWAY TO FLANK NAPLES

Nazis Retreat in Critical Mountain Area   Foggia Airbase Is Within Striking Distance

Forging Ahead To Big Foggia Air Objective   Allies Aiming At New Route To Naples; Closer To Balkans

Yanks Gain in Hard Battle East of Naples; British Menace Foggia; Corsica Being Mopped Up

Allies Near or eat Foggia  Plane Base   Also Menace Avellino, Which Flanks Naples, And Capture Cassano  MOPPING UP CORSICA

New Advance Hanks Naples Area   Within Striking Range Of Great Foggia Air Base Near Adriatic

Allies Drive Close to’ Foggia Base   Reach Striking Distance of Great Air Center

Make Progress On  108 Mile Fronts: Drive Nazis Back      Americans aul Br: L Are Now Within Strik-, ing Distance of Foggia Air Base and Key HWighway Couter of Avellino.

NAZIS ADMIT HEAVY DAMAGE TO FRANKFURT   RAF Follows Flying Forts To Hammer City

Axis Throws Up Furious Defense Ove Sicily; British Raid Germany, Americans Hit Italy

Hit Duesseldorf And Messina   British Bomb Germany as  Americans Lambaste Italy

Big RAF Planes Drop 2,000 Tons of Bombs  On German Target  SICILY HIT HEAVILY DESPITE OPPOSITION  Nazis Admit Deaths, Damage to Buildings; 38 Allied Planes Lost

Washington Post Says Army ‘Helps Mend Rayburn's Political Fences’

NEWSPAPER EXPOSE HITS HOUSE SPEAKER   Rep. Rayburn Accused 0! Using Army in Politics

Victory Opens Way For Soviets’ Next — Drive Into Poland   Nazis Flee Capital of Ukraine To Eseape Encirclement by Reds; Reich’s Dnieper Defense Dogmed

NO ANSWER I$ FOUND TO LIQUOR SHORTAGE   More Received in Ohio But Still Not Enough

NINE - MONTHS SCHOOL BILL IS OFFERED HOUSE   Harmony And Speed Are Keynotes As N. C. General Assembly Meets.

CoALATOE GET DLL CALLING FU NE MOS, SCHOOL   Measure Which Is Endorsed By Both Major Political Parties Is Introduced In House By Rep. Gass of Forsyth.

Board Stops All Conferences Until  “Strike Is Ended   Miners’ Czar Hints at Invoking Injunction Law Against WLB; Congressman Demands to Know “‘Who is Boss, Roosevelt or Lewis.’

MINER CHIEF "LEWIS BLASTS LABOR BOARD   Roosevelt Confers With Byrnes and Ickes

APPROPRIATION JAM UNBROKEN IN CONGRESS   Five Big Money Bills To Come  Un Sometime Next Week

CONGRESS STILL ‘ON MONEY BILLS   Five Measures Left, Two Locked in Conference

MORALE LOW FOR NAZIS ON SICILY FRONT   PANIC IS REPORTED AMONG GOERING'S PRIZE TROOPS

State May Experience Double Blackout Or Twofold Daylight Drill This Month   Sttae Defense Council Head Sees Chance For Double Alert Period

Blackout Due This Month   Surprise Raid Before Aori!l 1. Planned

RED CROSS LAUNCHES BIG WAR FUND DRIVE   National Goal Is 125 Millions

Allied Forces Control Air Move Confidently Ahead In Driving Japs From Guinea

INVASION PLANS ARE MARE: RADIO WARNS PATRIOT:   Underground Tcld to Be Ready for Early Move to Continent.

ANTI-NAZi UNDERGROUND -ORGANEZATIONS TOLD TO PERFECT ARRANGEMENTS TO AID INVADERS

INDERGROUND BETS ORDERS TO STAND 8}   “PREPARE FOR IMMINENT INVASION” IS WORD TO EUROPE.   No Direction Hint   Broadcasts Are Reversal of Earlier Warnings to Not An. ticipate Action.

Anti-Nazis Told To Make Preparations   First Time Allies Have Advised To Get Ready  Immediately

FREE EUROPE HOUR NEARING   Underground Advised T Hurry Preparations For Invasion

NO EXTRA GASOLINE FOR VACATION TIME   Brown KO’s War Worker’s [Plea for Vacations; Kelly to Accent Decision

No Extra Ga: For Anyone, Says Brown   OPA Head Turns  Down Requests

NO VACATION GAS, OPA SAYS   Rubber And Gasoline Supplies Are Too Short, Brown States

MINES CLOSED BY WALKOUTS ; AT MIDNIGH’   Lewis FORCING SHOWDOWN POWER OF GOVERNMENT  : “pO OPERATE MINES ween  OUT WAGE AGREEMENT -

Miners Stage Walkout Over Entire Nation   Lewis Strike Hits Nation With : Paralyzing Effect

Reds Declare German Losses Heavy   General Advances Continue on All Four Fronts

REDS KEEP UP ADVANCE; KILL 470,000 NAZIS   DRIVE UNCHECKED ALONG 600-MILE WAR FRONT

Kill 420,000 nazi troops in 2 months   Russian offensive sweep unchecked

tb etry  Aussians: Jim 42., _. Germans Sie, 8.5. "Wouncet.  n Ww -on-1s 07 Reariar e « —ensive   3.408 9 v00.ing c=" erioc 3e-ore Peace "a e. — ines Sa in ‘ “ee-ing

Over Million Nazis Listed As Wounded   38,600 Also Captured, - Along with Great Toll Of German Material  OFFENSIVE GAINS

Russians Reveal Nazi Casualties In Current Drive   420,000 Germans Killed In First_ two Months _ “OF Big Campaign

Russians Kill 420.000 Nazis In Two Month:   Reds Say at Least 1,080,000 Wounded As Troops Sweep on  Unchecked in Drive

Russians Taking Huge Tolls; Gain On Four Fronts   Soviets Issue Special Statement Saying 420,000 Nazis Killed; Advance Through Outskirts Of Stalino; Capture Material

Soviets Force Nazis Back On All Fronts   Reds Claim 420,000 Germans Killed During Offensive

420,000 NAZIS SLAIN BY REDS IN TWO MONTHS   1,080,000 Others Wounded And 38,600 Captured In Summer Drive   FALL OF STALINO DUE MOMENTARILY

REDS ADVANCE SAY 420,000 NAZIS KILLED   1,080,000 Wounded; 38,600 Captured In Two Months Of Summer ‘Cffensive, Wiaccis Chitin   30,000 Sq. Miles Retaken

Staggering Nazi Losses Claimed.   Soviet Says Half Million Are Slain -

OVER MILLION WOUNDED IN 2 MONTHS BATTLE   General Advances Made By Russians; Route Cut In Rear Of  Stalino   Much Material Taken

420,000 GERMANS KILLED IN LAST 2 MONTHS, REDS SAY   Russians Report 1,080,000 Wounded and 33,600 Captured Since Summer Drive Started.   ADDITIONAL GAINS MADE ON 4 FRONTS   Nazis Driven From 300 More Lowns—Armies Battling in Outskirts of Stalina.

Reds Set Nazi Dead At 420,000   Wounded Tota 1,080,000 In Two Months.

More Thon 420,000 Listed as Killed by Soviets  FALL OF STALINO IS EXPECTED SOON  Continuing Gains on Four Active Fronts Re. ported -

URGES STUDIES OF STATE AIDS   Beloit Senator Says 15 Counties Pay Most of Government Gosts.

NOW GERMANS FORCED TO DIG IN. ALLIES SA’   Battle Tide Turns After New Air And Naval Bombardment

German Wedge Being Withdrawn   British Eighth Army Within 51 Miles of Junction With Fifth Army

ODESSAN IS AMONG HEROES —  Five American Fliers Keep Pledge To Give Lives After Bomber Is Crippled Over Rabaul

WHEELER DRAFT BILL 10 “SHELF   Quite Move - Underway In Senate Today To Shelve Father Draft Deferment Bill.

FATHER DRAFT ~ MAY GET 0.K   @ Move To Shelve Wheeler Deferment Bill Is Under Way

ELER PLANT FACES HOLD-UF   Senate Group Would Shelve Bill Before Baruch View

Plan Shelving  Delerment Bill   Senate Poll Shows Trend Away From Wheeler Motion; Baruch To Testify. —

WHEELER BILL DEFEAT SEEN   Move Underway In Senate ee elve Father Draft ferment Proposal

Huge German Tanks Massed For Red Attack  Blows In Belgorod Orel Sectors Ate Expected Soon -

Rail Station Close To Strategic City Falls to Soviets   100 Towns, Villages Retaken by Red Armies in Drive

Reds Already Storm City, (Germans Say   Retreat in Disorder Before Stern Blows Of 3 Soviet Armies  POUNDEN FROW ATR

Soviet Forces Take Rail Station in Strategic Krivoi Rog Area; Town ". 94 Miles From Melitopo! Won

REDS ADVANCE TO OUTSKIRTS OF KRIVOI ROG   NEARLY 100 TOWNS TAKEN; INVADERS LOSE HEAVILY

Russian Forces Near Krivoi Rog As Germans Seek To Escape Trap   Reds Capture Railway Station Two and a Hall Miles from Industria’ Rail Center

Hard driving soviet forces chasing battered remnants of Hitler’s retreating army   Reds continue offensive roll toward Krivoi Rog; Veseloye in Russ hands

Reds Get to Outskirts Of Vital Krivoi Rog   Germans Try to Get Out of Closing Dnieper Bend Trap and Retreat in Disorder: 100 Towns, Villages Taken

FIGHT 10 ESCAPE FROM SOVIET TRAP “IN DNIEPER BEND   More Than 100 Towns and Villages Overrun by Muscovites, 28 in Melitopol Sector.   GERMANS MOVING TOWARD BUG RIVER   Enemy Said to Have Lost 1,000 Dead in Fighting for — Dnepropetrovsk and Dneprodzerzhinsk,

Catch The Fiend!   Nazis Fleeing In Near Rout   Reds’ Dnieper Trap Closing As They Roll On Krivoi Rog

REDS ON OUTSKIRTS OF KRIVOI ROG A§ NAZIS FALL BACK; OPEN NEW OFFEN. SIVE IN WHITE RUSSIA.

Krivoi Rog Is On Verge Of Capture   Three Red Armies Driving Germans From Crimea

Three Soviet Armies Capture Nearly 100  Places  KRIVOI ROG NEXT GOAL OF ERE IRUSSIANG Nazis Make no Effort to  Conceal Gravity of Situation

SOVIET TROOPS IN OUTSKIRTS OF KRIVOIROG   Germans Are Reported Res   treating In Disorder Be ‘ ) fore Russians   BERLIN ACKNOWLEDGES SITUATION IS GRAVE

Albert C. Duhn Severely Wounded  In South Pacific Message From War

F. R.'s Proposal Is Given  Silent Treatment More Liberal Salar Ceilings Declared Probable

F.D.R. Tax Proposa Ignored by Solons  Repeal! of $25,000 Salary Limit Sought

F. B.'s Proposal Is Given Silent Treatment   More. Lideral salary Céilings. -Declared Probable

SEENCE. GREETS     “FOR TAX PLAN   House Unit Does Nothing At All. About It; Disney Proposal Favored

‘FOR RENT—3. ROOM APARTnrent at 105 Plymouth: st, NW..  OR rer   Z SALE DATES. —  nn,” Lor * ae? oe

Soviets Drive Nazis Baek in Kiev Salient   Regai ‘in Three Days Alm. SL Al Territory  ESL in Five Weeks

ADVANCE IN KIEV SECTOR   Regain Two Thirds Of Territory Lost In 5 Weeks

RED OFFENSIVE SWEEPS AHEAD   Ground Lost in Five Weeks Mostly Recovered

SOVIETS PLUNGE AHEAD 25 MILES TOWARD POLANT   Nazi Ostenses Crumble—15,. 000 Die—Threat to Kiev Erased for Good.

Regain Most of Ground Lost la Five Weeks   Zhitomir, Korosten Endangered By New Winter Offensive

OPENED )NEW OFFENSIVE.   ‘Have Already. Ended Nazi Threat To Kiev Area . _

GENERALS MEET AT GIBRALTAR   Churchill Reported Tc Have Held Parley With Leaders

Reds Cut Up Nazis  In Donets   Drive Salients Into Strong German Positions

Western Republicar Meet Is Scheduled  ios: EP Aer: Pe ce,   ‘Set Helena Session For October 19

G. 0. P. Officials Plan Meeting  Regional! Conference Slated at Helena

Massed Cannor Clear Path for Giark’s Army   German Air Transports Fleeing Corsica Sunk  Lye Alt nn

German Air Transports Downed As Troops Seel To Flee From Corsica

AXIS QUITTING CORSICA AREA: STH MOVES ON   Artillery Barrage South of Naples Civos Allies Ground

Artittery Barrage Blasts Nazi Lines Beyond Salerno:   . Break-Through Expected—Germans Ready to Flee City—Transports Blasted

ALLIES NEARING PLAINS OF NAPLES FIGHTING HEAVY   Terrific Bombardment By Air, Artillery Causing Germans to Withdraw.

ALLIES DRIVE enn 10 NAPLES   Massed Cannon North of Salerno Clear Pathway

WINS HILLTOPS ABOVE NAPLES IN HARD FIGH]   Allies Shoot Down 19 More Giant Nazi Transports

Government Plans Action To Terminate  Coal Strike   Hard Coal Stocks Low. Labor Board Asserts, Immediate Return  To Work Demanded   TELEGRAMS SENT ALL INVOLVED

END OF ANTHRACITE STRIKE IS DEMANDED BY WAR LABOR BOARD   oal Stocks at Level Threatening Prosecution of War, Union and Company Heads Are Told

IMMEDIATE END TO ANTHRACITE STRIKE URGED   President Roosevelt May Be Asked To Take Over Mines  For Government.

President May Be Asked to Take  Over Operations   Secretary Perkins Certifies Dispute To Labor Board

WAR LABOR BOARD DEMANDS MINERS RETURN TO WORK   Hints at Drastic Action Unless 14-Day-Old Walkout in Pennsylvania Ends at Once.   SEIZURE OF WORKINGS SEEN AS POSSIBILITY   Group Declares Strike Threatens Nation’s Safety and Violates National Policy.

WLB Demands Miners Resume - Work.at Once   Board: Cites Peril of Low Stocks, Hints, Seizure Contemplated Unless  ‘Walkout Ends ~ *   Safety of Nation “Held Threatened   Telegrams Sent to Lewis, . 22 Locals, Five Firms :\+ ia Amthwactts Field

12,000 Prisoners Taken In Five-Day Campaign; British Near Catania   Americans Gain 15 Miles in Drive Into Interior ; Red Army Takes Initiative on 255-Mile Front; Heavy Air Raids Hit Nazi Europe Transportation

Pacifie Coast Plane Workers  Are Deferred ... if Irreplaceable. Byrnes Declares

PLANE FACTORY MEN DEFERRED   Blanket Order by Byrnes Covers West Coast Workers

BAN DRAFT OF AIR WORKERS   BYRNES SAYS NECESSARY MEN TO BE DEFERRED

NEW IDEA PLANNED INU, S, HOSPITALS  _ To Be Used As   Universities

POPE REPORTED AS GO-BETWEEN FOR AXIS AND ALLIES   Well-Informed Sources Say Influential Germans Seeking Way Out of War

PEACE RUMORS, SOME WILD AND SOME NOT SO WILD, IN AIR BUT NA7I CERMANY NOT WHIPPED YET

g War Will End By Chri  PEACE TALK IS GOING AROUND AGAIN: ADu A PINCH OF SALT

Today’s Wat Moves   Report Pope Go-Between for Germany, Allies in Paare Mave

Plenty of Rumors on Peace Out   (This column, conducted regularly by DeWitt MacKenzie, is written in his absence today by J. M. Roberts, Jr.)

Peace Talk Is Going Round, Anything Can Happen, But No Letupin War Is Apparent

Petar Uneertaln              ‘This column regularly by Dewitt Ma is written in his absence by Mrs. J. M. Roberts Jr.

 The War Today— What To Offer German People May \Become Big Subject At Conference

The War Today   Peace Talk Going Rounds Again, But Don’t Bet On Quick End of War.

The War Today   Pope Pius Reported Acting As Intermediary for Peace

COAL PRICE TOO LOW, ICKES SAYS   Secretary Appeals To Vinson Against OPA Recommendation

Ickes Says Price Boost Not Enough   Makes Protests To Fred Vinson

ickes Protests Coal Price Hike Not Sufficient  Says Production  Cost Is Not Met

COAL BOOST T00 LOW, ICKES SAYS   Protests OPA Price Increase Pengram

Ickes Protests  Prices Of Coal   Secretary Says Increases Recommended By OPA Not High Enough.

FOUR REJECTS IN ~ JOLY DRAFT eA   Army''Gets’ Six and Navy Five From Last . Contingent:

Mystery Blast Has London a-Twitter   ‘Secret Weapon’ Talk Heard Again, But it Is Not Upheld

Mystery Blast Puzzles British   Explosion Wrecks Five-Story Building In London’ s  Night Club Belt.

Mystery Explosion in London Stirs Talk of Nazi Secret Weepon   Authorities Silent on“Investigation  Of Blast Which Wrecked Building

Enemy Apparently Determined To Make United Nations Fight For Rome   AMERICAN SEVENTH IS SLATED FOR BALKANS

NAZIS ENGAGE STH ARMY IN BITTER FIGH]   Foe Takes Stand Along Adriatic Coast After Long Retreat

300,000 FACt ALLIES FOR A SHOWDOWN   Montgomery’s Men Already Engaged in Bitter Struggle With Enemy on Adriatic Coast.   7TH ARMY THRUST AT BALKANS SEEN   Dispatch Says Patton’s Forces Are Massing on Mainland Apparently to Deal Blow.

Enemy Ends 300 Mile Retreat to Make Stand Against Advancing Allies Along 125-Mi. Italian Front   Germans Entrenched to Exact Dear Price; Montgomery Brings up U.S. Units in Advance on East Coast; Patton’s Forces Massing

Nazis Rush New Forces  To Adriatic   Attack British Eighth, But Assaults Repulsed, Allied Quarters Say  LINE NEFENDTS ROME

HEAVY FIGHTING UNDER WAY; GER. MANS APPARENTLY GETTING READY FOR LONG STAND; PAY HEAVY PRICE.

Germans Hurl New Divisions Against Allies   Reporied Fighting On 125-Mile Front

Three Hundred Mile Retreat Is Ended by Nazis  NEW TROOPS BEING POURED INTO ITALY  Enemy Apparently Entrenched for Long Struggle

ARMORED UNIT SENT AGAINST BRITISH ARMY   FORTIFICATIONS ARE RUSHED TO HALT AMERICANS

Bitter Fight Opens Against Fighth Army   Line on North Side of River Formed to Stop Fifth Army

Nazis Rush Tankmen To Adriatic   Gen. Montgomery Brings American Troops To Area

Fliers Trade Blows in New Battles   London Is Hit; Harm Is Said Slight; . RAF Wings to Europe

Reed To Run Again If He Feels Well   Junior Senator Is Tip Top Now, Tells COP Politicians.

(Please Turn to Page Two) JAPS PROTEST SHOOTING OF PRISONER OF WAR

Allies Gaining ltalian Ships   Merchant Vessels Being Aded Along With Warships

MANY  ITALIAN CHIPS GAINED   170,000 Tons Shipping, 149 Warships Under Allied Control.

ITALIAN FLEET BROUGHT UNDER ALLIED CONTROL   INCLUDES 170,000 TONS OF MERCHANT SHIPS, 149 WARSHIPS

Allies Acquire Italian Shipping   Merchant Craft  Under New Flag

At Least 170,000 Gross Tons Of Italian Merchant Shipping And 149 Warships ‘Are Now Under U. S.., British Control

Bomber Crew Settles Score with Japs Shooting Fliers in Parachutes

FOUR DIE IN FIRE OF TWO-ROOM HOME   Mother and Three Children Are Trapped—Father Escapes

PLAN CONTROL TO STABILIZE GERMAN SETUP   ALLIED COUNCIL TO GOVERN GERMANY: FOR PERIOD OF TIME AFTER WAR . HAS ENDED

‘BIG 3’ TO RULE POSTWAR NAZIS   Agreement on Council Is Due at Forthcoming Parley of Leaders

PLAN COUNCIL TO RULE REICH   Group Would . Govern-.- Until Peace Terms Are Settled

Predict Council Will Be Formed To Rule Germany   Believe Allies Will Name Council To Govern Germany After War   BELIEVE PLANS ARE NOW WORKED OUT

Train Headlight Blinded Engineer  No Warning Torpedoes or Fuses on His Track

Engineer Says Headlight Glare Balked Efforts To Flag Train   A. C. L. Engineman Describes Events Leading To Wreck of Streamliners Which Cost The Lives of Seventy Persons

Allies prepare for bloody battle thru 1944 with Germany   U.S., Russia and Britain form ‘Mediterranean commissicn’

SALES TAX INQUIRY DEMANDED IN OHIO   Democrats Contend Not Al Money Reaching State

LEGISLATORS TAKE UP SALES TAX ISSUE   Charge Millions Fail To Reach Treasury

EVATT DOUBTS VALUE OF PROBE   Ohio Tax Chief Admits Inequalities But Says State ~ Loss Is Small

Nazis Try Frantically To Escape   Americans Make Small Ad. vance in Italy Through Rough Country

NAZI DEFENSES IN SOUTH FRONT FALLING APART   Red Tanks, Infantry Are Pouring Into Area West of Melitopol

Reds Push © _ Ahead for Big Gains   Allied Pace Reported Slov On Italian Front Today.

Russians Drive Ahead to Cut Off Crimea and Close Bulge; Thousands of Foe Surrender   Allied Armies in Italy Nearing Powerful Defensive Line Where Enemy  Plans Final Stand Before Rome.

German Defenses  In Italy Stiffen, Major Battle To Halt Allies Near

GERMANS BRAGED IN ITALY FOR ATTEMPT TO BAR ROME DRIVE   Russians In Two-Way Smash To Seal Off Crimea And Cirele Dnieper Bulge; Allies Reach Rommel’s Mountain Line   Rye UNITED PRESS

Hundreds of Nazis Slain by French  No Sign of General   No Sign of General Revolt Seen Yet

No Sign of Full-Scale Revolution  ‘Hundreds’ of Germans Killed  By French Protesting Actions

Salerno, On Mainland Of Italy, Given ‘Heavy Attack   British Bombers Make Assault And Start , Many Fires In Yards Of Railroads

Offical Stresses Multiple Projects   Cooperation Urged At Reclamation Meet

AUSSIE TROOPS MAKE ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA   Americans Resume Pounding Of Bougainville In Fight Against Rabaul

AUSSIES GAIN TWO MILES IN NEW GUINEA   U. S. Fliers Resume Aerial Pounding Of Bougainville

Aussie Tanks Foree River In Huon Drive   Jap Rear-Guards Beaten Back 19 Lakona: Yanks in Wide Air Raids

Guinea. = . Resumption ot Ameri. can Aerial Drive on. Bouganville Reported. : :

LABOR ASKED TO SPEED UP ONWAR WORK   McNutt Tells AFL Production Gain  Must Be Made

LABOR SHORTAGE STEPS TOLD AFL   M’Nult Urges That Moves Be Made Voluntarily

WARNS LABOR WORK SPEEDUP AN EMERGENC   McNutt Tells AFL Convention Manpower Shortage Now Critical. —   OUTLINES SIX STEPS TO RELIEVE SITUATION

NATION'S GOAL MINES TO UPC AGAIN MONDAY   Both Miners And Operators Fairly Well Satisfied With New Contract

Full Coal Output Seen Tomorrow   ULM. W. Orders Mer Back to Mine Jobs

REV. JOHNSON TO CONFERENCE   Will Introduce Discussion 01 F Wielding an Influence “For Peace.

HULL, STALIN CONFER   U. S. Secretary Of State Received By Russian Leader

RUSSIAN TALKS IN SEVENTH DAY   Tri- Power Group Marking Down Plans for Future Peace in Moscow

REAGH AGREEMENT IN TRI-PARTITE MEET   Allied Representatives Work on Post-War Problems

Tri-Partite Conference Moves Into Seventh Day In Complete Accord

Hull Confers ‘With Stalin. At Kremlin   No Report on -the: Subjects Discussed; Experts Drafting Points Agreed Upon

CORDELL HULL HAS AUDIENCE WITH STALIN   Nature of Talk Not Indicated—Diplomats Begin Writing Out Points Agreed On During TriPartite Meeting.

Trio At Moscow Drafting Points Of Agreement   Three-Power Conferees  Discussed During Week

STALIN, HULL HOLD MEETING   No Indication Made of Subjects Covered

Russ Parley Draft Terms F or Accord   Russian Press Consider: Coalition of Powers Necessary for Peace

DIPLOMATIC EXPERTS CONTINUE WORK WITH RUSSIAN PRESS WARM  SOVIET PRESS CONSIDERS COALITION. THREE GREAT POWERS NECESSARY

MUU W  Points Of Accord Set Down   Russ Feels Tri-Power Coalition Necessary

Draft Terms Of Tri-Partite Meet  Agreements Being Put TLnwtn Ghane

—CONFERENCE—  RUSSIANS FAVOR BIG THREE PACT   Coalition With U. S. And Britain Reported Gaining Favor

Tri-Partite Conferees At Basic Points   Reducing Subject of New Co-Operation to ‘Black And White’

Tripower Conferees Begin Drafting Terms Of Agreements Discussed In Past Week

‘Big 3’ Reach Agreement, Draft Points   Soviet Press Urges Coalition of Powers For Post-War Peace

Envoys Agreed Upon Problem   Points. Are Written Down -As Moscow Conference Makes. Provress «

HULL RECEIVED BY STALIN TODAY AT TREPARTITE MEET   Subjects Discussed’ by Soviet Chieftain and U. S. Secretary of State Not Disclosed —Conference: in Its Seventh

Hull Confers With Stalin   Red Press Savs Coalition of Three Powers Necessary For Peace.

_ [t Happened This Week... . Success Seen In Allied Conference In Russia   Nazis Flee Kussta In Diserder In East

Premier Stalin Receives Hull   Russian Head Talks “With U. S. Secretary’ Of State in Moscow

Hull Confers With Stalin   Tri-Partite Conference Proceeds in Moscow; Outlook is Favorable

Marshal Stalin Receives Hull  Secret Conference Parallels ‘General Anraemant’ by Paclev

Conferees Aft Moscow Work ‘OnAgreement   Diplomatic Experts Begin Setting Down in Black and White Vital Document   COALITION JIS URGED

Diplomats To Definite Point   Russians Consider ThreePower Coalition Necessary

Moscow Parley Drafting Terms Of Agreements   Soviet Press Sees Accord Necessary For World Peace

NW VMASON CITY   Willkie Undecided on Going Into Primary Vote in Ohio   Says He Might Get 1944 GOP Nomination in Spite of Himeelf

SUBVERSIVE ARMY OF 12 MILLION Is READY FOR ATTACK   Unconquered: d- Fighting ‘Men Waiting To -Help’ Allies Battle  Navia

POTENTIAL ARMY OF 12 MILLION AWAITS DEADLINE   ‘People from Norway to Salkans Primed for Big Moment.

FARM CHIEFS REJECT ‘LIMITED’ SUBSIDIES      Taft Plan Viewed As Benefit For Food Processors

Navy Gives Details Of Battle For First Time. Weather Handicaps Difficult To Overcome.

HEAT FOR WEEK END      Top Soil Is Dry and Crops Begin To Suffer in Kansas

GF With Our  Soldiers      Mrs. Harrie Sawyer Joins WAAC’s;, Now On Inactive Duty

With Our  1 Soldiers } and  \ Sailors e060 Gi       Mrs. Harrie Sawyer Joins WAAC’s; Now On Inactive Dut)

Rollback In Prices Of Cabbage, Lettuce Due   New Ceilings Approved By OPA Will Be Effective Jule 20

OPA ORDERS GUT INCABBAGE AND LETTUGE PRICES   DEALERS ARE ORDERED TO MAKE 50 PER CENT REDUCTION ON CABBAGE AND 25 PER CENT ON LETTUCE.   MAY AFFECT OTHER GREEN VEGETABLES   Roll Back of Coffee Prices Is Reported Abandoned and Subsidy Program Will Be Limited to Butter and Meat.

Nelson Predicts Production Goals to Be Met  Critical Period Will Be Next Four Months on ““Musts”’

NELSON PREDICTS ENDING PROJECTS   WPB Chairman Says Al 1943 Objectives to Be Accomplished

Nelson Certain Of 1943 Goals   Predicts Production To Be on Schedule

Nelson Says 1943 Production Goals For Military Objectives Be Reached

Nelson Opening Up Bottlenecks In Urgent Items   Next Four Months Critical. He Says, For Synthetic Rubber, High Octane  ‘Gas,’ Shipping   Jeffers Asks Priority To Avert Catastrophe   Handful of Manufacturers Piling Up Parts Orders They Cannot Fill

Arnold Elevated lo Full General  First U. S. Airman To Get Four Stars

‘Hap’ Arnold, Commander of U. S. Army Air Men, Becomes First-Airman—Fe-Be-Made—-Full-General-

Arnold, Chief Of Air Forces, Full General   First Airman To Get Four Stars from Army,  Ranks with 3 Others

Head of U.S. Air Force Is Promoted   H. H. Arnold Becomes Full General; Is First Flier of Rank

HIT A BORNEO BASE   MacArthur's Bombers Make a 2,600 Mile Round Trip to Attack

U.S.COMMANDERS DENY JAP CLAIMS OF ALLIED LOSSES   DECLARE NOT ONE WARSHIP HAS BEEN SUNK IN SOLOMONS

NO WARSHIPS OF ALLIES SUNK, REPORT   Yanks Establish Six-Mile Line On Bougainville; Enemy Destroyer Sunk In Aerial Pounding

Marines And Soldiers Establish Position On Bougainville; Air Raid On Java Base

Deny Jap Claims On Sinking Ships   Not a Single Allied Warship Goes Down in Drive on Northern Solomons.

Japs Lied About Losses, Reply Of MacArthur, Halsey   In Meantime, Marines And Soldiers Have Solid Hold on Bougainville Area

2 U. U.S. . Chie. hiefs Deny Sinkings   Mae Arthur, Halsey: State There Is.No Basis To _ Japan's Ss: Claims”

MacArthur, Halsey Give Lie To Jap  Solomons Claims   Not One Allied Ship  Sunk, Leaders Declare

Jap Claims Of Ship Sinkings Are Untrue   MacArthur, Halsey Discredit Statements By Nips As Fantastic

MacArthur And Halsey Report Ne Warships Have Gone Down In  - Current Allied Drive

NAVAL CLAIMS OF JAPS ARE WITHOUT FACT   Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Halsey Give Lie To Reports of Victories Sent From Tokyo   OFFICIAL SCORE GIVEN

TOKYO CLAIMS OF SHIPS SUNK DRAW DENIAL   Qaly One U.S. Destroyer Lost and Thal in Collision While 11 Jap Ships Sent to Bottom

‘Marine Paratroops Numbering Few ‘Hundred Fool Japs Into Believing ‘They were Invasion Force of 20,000   MacArthur, Halscy Hail Victory In €olomons; Refute Jap Naval Claims

MACARTHUR, HALSEY GIVE LIE TO CLAIM OF JAP VICTORIES  NOT SINGLE ALLIED WARSHIP WAS SUNK IN - RECENT OPERATIONS —

JAP ACCOUNTS OF OUR LOsots BRANDED Ut3   No American Warships Lost MacArthur And Halsey Assure Nation

NO ALLIED SHIPS LOST BUT JAPANESE LOSE DOZEN DURING CURRENT DRIVE ON RABAUL -

Story. of Losses Was a Jap Dream   No Allied Warships Sunk in Recent Pacific Oper~ ations   ENEMY WAS THE LOSER   Marines and Army Now Have Solid Position on Bougainville

U.S. Command in Retort To Japs   NO HUGE NAVAL LOSS SUFFERED IN PACIFIC BATTLE

MacArthur and Halsey Brand Tokyo's Naval  Claims as Lies   No U, S. Warships Lost Since Chevalier, on Oct. 6

Give Lie To Jap  Naval Claims —   Not A Single Warship Lost, Says MacArthur And Halsev.

Japanese Claims Of Naval Victory Nothing But Lies   No American Ships Lost In Northern Solomons Campaign

Allies Occupy Vital Point on Road to Rome   Drive Deep Wedge Into Axis Lines

 Allies Drive Deep Wedge in  Rome Defense:   Allicd. Fifth Army Holds Deminating Position in Area

YANKS BEAT BACK COUNTER-ATTACKS   old Dominating Positions in Large Battle Area   FACE RAIN AND MUD   Fighth Army Crosses Moro River Near Adriatic; Push Nearer Pescara

KEDGE DRIVEN INTO NAZI LINE BY FIFTH ARMY   R pel Frantic German Counterattacks, Advance in Mud, Rain

WEDGE DRIVEN IN NAZI LINES BY AMERICANS   FIFTH ARMY HOLDS KEY POSITION ON ROAD TO ROME

Wedge Driven In Nazi Line   Yanks Capture Dominating Mountain Heights In Italy

oth Army Seizes  Mountain Sector Montgomery’s Men Dash  , a 7 ae

F th Drives   Then 8th “Army Crashes Across Moro River  On Adriatic

Yanks Fight ty Steep Slopes To Take Heights   ‘Drive Wedge i inFortifications of ® Nazi Winter Line

ALLIES DRIVE THROUGH MUD TO ADVANCE   Fifth Army Now Holds Dominant Position on Road to Rome   FORTIFICATIONS OF NAZIS BATTERED   American_Troops_ Throw Back Repeated Counter Thrusts

SEIZE HEIGHTS SOUTHWEST OF MIGNANO BASE   Americans Throw Back Frantic Attacks By Germans; British Cross Moro

Laval Said. Giving French Ships to Nazis   Remnants of Fleet Reported Turned OvertoHitler —

Laval Swaps Navy Ships To Nazis For New Powers   DéGaullists Report Pact ‘ Promises 400,000 French Workers To Hitler

‘Yankees Have Sober Will To Win'-Gtignnom  _ Bateene Fea: Timers

Nazis Retreat At Orel Under  Russian Blows   Offensive Carries Reds Within Five Miles of City: Nazi Jabs Are Repelled

Red Army Takes [wo Suburban lowns near Orel   Drive within Five Miles of City after Capturing Stish and Filatovka

Germans Fail To Check Red Advance   Loss Is Staggering As Entrapment Faces Enemy Horde

NAZI RETREAT IS UNDERWAY OUT OF OREL   RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE WITHIN 5 MILES OF DOOMED CITY

Red Forces Continue  To Close In   Capture More Towns And Important Road Near Besieged City  NAZI TOSSES HICH

General Nazi Retreat Starts At Orel as Russians Exact Heavy Toll From Invaders

Nazi Retreat Seen At Orel   Russ Troops Pushing Ahead Jn Orel Area:

~ “7 ~  m NEG Ja wvage 4 arta PS  ah. maw vw 4 oe Me  Lotter te Soiacg 

General Nazi Retreat From Orel Indicated As Soviets 'Smash On Toward Big Base

Germans Lose Many Men to Red Attackers   Axis Troops believed Being Drawn Away on Bryansk Highway

General Retreat Appears Tc Be Underway   TREMENDOUS LOSSES   Russians Drive Into Surburbds Of City; Repel All Nazi Counter-blows

Nazis Retreat To Escape Trap at Orel   , Russians Near City, Capture Great Quantities of Arms

Nazi Retreat at Orel Is Under Way   Soviet Forces Are Within 5 Miles of Besieged City

NAZIS FORCED TO RETREAT IN ~ OREL SECTOR   Trip-Hammer Blows ‘By Reds Carry Nearer Vital Base City

GERMANS REEL BACK, SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   As Russian Forces Push Toward Orel; Nazis Fight Insanely Through Mudd: What Fields   Fresh Stabs

NAZIS FALL BACK AT OREL; REDS 5 MILES FROM CIT!   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Battle and Their Withdrawal From Bastion Appears Under Way.   RUSSIANS ADVANCE FROM THREE SIDES   Capture Great Quantities of Ammunition and Food as They Occupy Addition ‘al Villages.

ALLIANCES WON'T BENCEDED AFTER WAR, HULL SAYS   Tells Congress Moscow pact Starts Real Cooperation   SEES UNITED NATIONS AT FULL UNDERSTANDING

Hull Tells Congress Activation of Moscow Program Would Obviate Need For Spheres of Influence, Alliances

Pattern for Maintaiming Peace Given   Hull Outlines Plan For Cooperation Among Nations

MOSCOW CONFA ENDED OLD IDEAS, HULL DECLARES   Spheres of Influence and Balance of Power No Longer Needed In Diplo manu

World Partnership By Peace-Loving — States Big-4 Aim >      “Sovereign Equality Principles Key To Internaticnal Organization; - €opnoress Praised for Peace Role’

HULL TELLS CONG. ABOUT MOSCOW CONF.   Cooperation Must Be Carried Through  Cawe Gan’ af Stata

‘BALANCE OF POWER’ NEED IS ELIMINATED   Necessity For Alliances And Other Special Mediums To Preserve Peace Removed By Moscow Parley, Hull Tells Congress

Most Iowa Coal Mines Operating   Governor Seeking to Aic : Operators Get Increase - In Prices

‘UNITED STATES ‘VOWS TO AVENGE 'AIBMEN’S DEATH    Seek To Smash Jap’s Military Might With Renewed Vicor

VOWS ARE HEARD TO GET EVEN   Americans Are Aroused fram Cross - Roads to Congress by Barbarous Act.

Reprisals To Be. Directed At Jap Officials -- Hull   No Retaliation Now Against Jap Prisoners But Retribution to Be Exacted, Authorities Gav

WARLORDS 10 PAY FOR EXECUTIONS   Tokyo Radio. Hints More Will Die If Grounded During Raids on Japan.

NATION AT LARGE, AROUSED BY EXECUTIONS, DETERMINED TO AVENGE BARBAROUS ACTS   War Department Promises to Hit Tokyo Again and Again; Comment:

Fury at Jap Execution Of American Raiders  To Be Aimed at Officials

No Ac Towar       EXECUTION OF AMER. AIRMEN B JAPANESE BRINGS PROMIS ae OF: RETRIBUTION ON THOSE: ee: RESPONSIBLE ee

t. S. Will Not Undertake Reprisals  Against Jap Prisoners for Killing Of American Fliers, Says Patterson

JAP OFFICIALS GIVING ORDER TO PAY LATER   Americans Deplore Action Against Doolittle Airmen Who Raided Tokyo as Violating All Rules of War.

EXECUTIONS OF TOKYO RAIDERS 10 BE AVENGED   Stern Retribution Is Promised Nipponese Responsible for Savage Acts.

‘AROUSED U. S. VOWS VENGEANCE ON JAPS FOR THE EXECUTION OF FLIERS

NATION STIRRED OVER REPORTS OF EXECUTIONS   Nip Officials Admit Some Of Tokyo Fliers Were Tried And Put To Death   10 LISTED AS MISSING   Roosevelt Says Warlords Eventually Must Answer For Diabolical Crime

AMERICA PLANS T0 AVENGE EXECUTION OF AIRMEN BY JAPS   Te Smash With Renewed Vigor At Military Might—Punish Officials

Reprisals Against Jap Prisoners Not  To be Undertaken   U.S. to Live Up To Commitments of Geneva Conv. Articles

Immediate Reprisals _ Against. the Japs For ~ _ Executions Not Likel)   Army Air Forces to’Avenge Comrades At Every Opportunity Says Chief; Jap Officials to Be Held Accountable Later

Declares Reprisals  Not Now   Patterson Tells Press That Reprisal Now Would Lower Us to Enemy’s Level

Swedish Passenger Plane Shot Dowst By Unidentified Warplane, 13 Killed

SWEDISH-GERMAN RELATIONS HURT   Eleven Persons Killed As Passenger Plane Is Shot Down; Nazi Warplane Believed To Have Been Responsible

SWEDISHNAZ CRISIS FLARES   CLAIM GERMAN WARPLANE DOWNED PASSENGER CRAFT

PASSENGER PLANE SHOT DOWN WEST OF SWEDISH COAST   11 Killed * "As  Unidéntified - Warplane, Presumably ‘Nazi, Attacks, Transport

Swedish Plane Is Shot Down Off Coast of Sweden by Unidentified Warplane Believed to Be German

Nazi, Swede Relations = ‘Near Break:   11 Die’ as: German Plane Shoots Down 2nd Air Transport:

Passenger Plane  Shot Down; 11 Die   Swedish Officials, Public Enraged

SWEDE-GERMAN CRISIS LOOMS   Passenger Airplane Is Downed, 11 Dead

REDUS REPRIEVED AGAIN   Slaver Of Athens Policeman Given Third Stay From Death

Chinese F ight  Encirclement   Jap Columns Reinforced Ry Air. Ground Trogne

Chinese Cling to “Positions: Close To Burma Border  Show Advances at  Be: Bt

Chinese Cling Desperately To Positions   Outnumbered Forces Fight Fiercely Near Burma Border

Yank Challenge At Truk Futile   Carrier Task Force Steaqme Nenr Race

VETERAN IN TRIBUTE TO YANKS OF TODAY   “Old Sarge” Tells Legionnaires , Present Soldiers Make Men of 1918 Look Like “Sissies.”

Plants Prepare For ‘Show Down   Virtually All Mines In West ern Pennsylvania And West Virginia On Strike   HOUSEHOLDERS ALSO ANXIOUS ABOUT COAL

Thousands In Flooded Areas Left Homeless   Emergencies Faced As Crests Of Swollen Rivers Rise

Ohio Flood Pours Into Mississippi   Thousands Homeless In Wake of High Waters

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES IN SANGRO ARE!   Two-mile’ Push Recorded A: Only Mave Against Nazis Wednesday.

British Troops Dey Weather To Make Advances.   German Counteratinds: Smashed By Allies In , Sangro River Sector d

BRITISH 8TH ARMY GAINS TWO MILES   Only Advance Recorded on Italian Front

British Fighth Army Advances  Two Miles   Gain Made in Sangro  River Sector; German Canniaratiansk Waltad

Eighth Army = Punches Fora For Two Miles”  Only Advance : ~ Regorded on © .

BRITISH SCORE GAIN IN ITALY   Americans Held Idle by  Swollen Streams

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES TWO MILES   Allied Forces Within a Few Miles Of Sangro River

IOWA WINTER NOT OVER YET   Temperature Dips to Zevo in Mason City

GREAT GERMAN NAVAL BASE I$ POUNDED AGAIN   Biggest British Bombers In ‘Saturation’ Raid On Wilhelmshaven

R. A. F. DUMPS BLOCKBUSTERS ON WILHELMSHAVEN   Over 300 Planes Dump Thousands of Bombs On  Sub Base

WILHELMOHAVEN AGAIN POUNDED BY RAF RAIDERS   Big German Naval Base : Visited For Second Suc:  cessive Night

WILHELMISHAVEN BLASTED AGAIN BY BRITISH BOMBS   Loss of 14 Planes Indicates Raid Was on An Extensive Seale.

RAF Doggedly Blasts Away At Sub Base  British Lose 14 Planes in Heavy Rat .. rf.

NAZI NAVAL BASE SMASHED BY RAF IN BIGGEST RAIL   Wilhelmshaven Hit By Block. busters In Anti-U-Boat Campaian.

GERMAN NAVAL BASE BLASTED   Two And Four-Ton Oemolition Bombs Are Dropped On Wilheimshaven

ROYAL. ‘AIR’ FORCE RAIDS NAZI BASES IN WILHELMSHAVEN   Submarine -Center Gets 72nd ‘Raid Of War —— Planes Drop Large Bombs, Intcendiaries

BLOCK-BUSTERS ROCK SUB BASE   Wilhelmshaven Is Smashed 2nd Time In 8 Nights

Block-Busters And Incen.diary Bombs Rained On Wilhelmshaven With Good Results.

RAF RAINS BOMBS ON NAZI SUB BASES IN WIEHELMSHAVEN   Attack Appears Heaviest In Intensified Aerial Offensive Over Germanv™

Block-Busters Rain on Nazis      LONDON, Feb. 19 (U.P)—Britain’s biggest bombers smashed at the German naval base of Wilhelmshaven last ato ha tah. campaign to cripple Axis U-boat nests.

2 AND 4-TON BLOCK-BUSTER HITS SCORED   Thousands of Incendiaries Rained on Great Northwest German Port.

Great German Sub Base Gets Biggest Raid   Center Is Believed Nearly Immobilized By Block-Busters

LOYAL JAP-AMERICANS ARE. BEING RELEASED   21,000 Se Far Have Been Freed From Relocation Camps And Others Are Eligible

PROBES START ‘OF Z00T SUIT’ WAR ON COAST   Fighting Subsides After 110 Men Hospitalized, 114 More Jailed -

START PROBE OF RIOTS IN 'LOS ANGELES   Start Probe Of Riots in  Los Angeles

LOOT SUIT RIOTS  SUBSIDING AFTER  RAGING FOR WEEK    Investigation ‘Started To Learn Cause — 110 Persons 7 Hospitalized

IF YOU'RE DRIVING   110 Men in Hospitals, Many in Jails As Result of Rioting in Los Angeles   Fighting Subsides; Inquiries Under Way To Determine What “Zooting’ Is All About

TROUBLE IS PROBED IN LOS ANGELES BY ROCKEFELLER AIDES   Field Representatives of Coordinator of InterAmerican Affairs on Job.

Investigation Into Zoot Suit War Being Made   Fighting in L. A. Subsiding After  Raging Naarie «a Waal

1.090 DUTCH KILLED   Casualties Heavy In Disorders In Occupied Land, Report

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Landon Opposed to “Blank Check for President”

JAPS PAY HEAVY PRICE FOR SMALL DAMAGE DONE IN GUADALCANAL ATTACK

a  JAPS PAY HEAVY  PRICE FOR RAID  ON GUADALCANAL DAMAGE ONLY TWO  SMALL SHIPS AND 1 Nece 77 DI ANESC

JAPS PAY 77 PLANES FOR 2 SMALL SHIPS   This is Summary of Action in Which American Flyers Over Guadalcanal Scored Big Victory.

U. S. Sub So Close To Japan Crew Saw Horse Races, Trains  ,; Qf -%  gv-}.;-.+« @..% * .-" oe: § sane... .34. wr... fr. TFT. CGiek RAsenw RAave

American Sub on Surface During Attack on Convoy   Stays On Top For Hour and Half Trying to Get Another Shot After Sinking Two Jap Ships Within Sixty Seconds of Each Other and Damaging Third: Crew Learns Much About Janan

U. 5. SUBMARINE WITH REPUTATION GETS MORE SHIPS  COMMANDER SURFACED DURING ATTACK UPON ’ ENEMY CONVOY

U.S. Sub Defied, Enemy,Guns  To Surface Throughout Raid Upon Large Japanese Convoy

IN “CLOSE RELATIONS”:   German Ambassador to J apan Confers. With Italians :

k3 Japanese Ships Are Discovered In Vicinity Of New Ireland Island.

Allies Disperse Japanese Convoy  Two Merchant Ship Are Reported Hit

Bombers Slash Jap Convoy: Possibly Hit Two Ships   Darkness Handicaps Allied Fliers, Preventing Accurate Check-Up Of Damages to 13-Vessel Flotilla

BRITISH ONLY 40,60 MILES FROM TRIPOLI   In Twin Columns Surge Down Upon That Burning Capital Of Mussolini’s Tottering Libva.   Sink 10 Ships

Interoreti ng  The War   Believed Dictator Has Ordered Army to Retreat

Fuel For His War Machine Lost To Hitler In Soviet   That Fact Probably Most Encouraging Aspect Of Vast Struggle To United Nations

“rer 2u.s Cur Caucas's Arnies “o Aver “a or ‘“ticarv 2 ises-er  a

Big Loss Of Life Charged To Strikes Poage Assails Appeasement ‘And ‘Reward’ Given Lewis

Bombers Smash at France   FRANKFURT SHAKES IN BIGGEST BOMB HAIL OF WAR ON GERMAN CENTER

Up to Congress To Decide Taxes   In Speaking For Ruml Plan Kansan Verbally Spanks Treasury Dept.

ADVOCATE 1S HEARD   Rep. Carlson Declares Opposition By Treasury Is ‘‘Nonsense’’   UP TO CONGRESS TO DECIDE, HE SAYS   Truman Proposes Tour of Battle Fronts By Eight Members of Consress

KYSER’S CASE APPEALED   Roosevelt to Review 1-A Classifi. cation. of Musician

DEFERMENT SOUGHT FOR 1-A KAY KYSER   Draft Director Takes Action To Keep Band Leader Out

FARM BLOC — FIGHTING FOR HICHER PRICES   New Congress Facing Increased Demands for. Hike in Farm. Prices *. ~And°More Manpower

NEW FARM PARITY BATTLE LOOMS   Asriculutre Bloc, 4 Groups Ask Better Prices and More Manpower

FARM PRICE BOOST DEMANDS INCREASE   Congress Fight Threatened in Plan Turned Down

FARMER PARITY BATTLE MOUNTS   Bloc. Joins Four Groups Requesting Laws for Better Pricés

Farm Leaders Start Another Parity Fight   Farm Bloc Members In Congress Join New Price Campaign   Predict Shortages If Problem Is Unsolved   More Manpower Also Needed Together With Longer Working Hours

Parity Revision  Upward Urged   Increasing Demands Heard In Congress

nee  UPWARD REVISION OF FARM PARITY BESET CONGRESS TODAY  OKLAHOMA SENATOR SAYS FIGHT OVER LEGISLATION WILT UPSET UNITY

BETTER PRICES & MORE MANPOWER FOR FARMS URGED   New Congress Beset By In. creasing Demands Fo Upward Revision of Agri: cultural Parity Formula; New Legislation Asked.

Manpower Aid Sought; Farm Groups Rally   Leaders’ Threaten Food Shortages Unless Critical Situation Is Remedied

HIKE 1S URGED BY FARM BLOG   Upward Revision Of Parity Formula Advocated

New Dratt Law To Be  Considered   Congress Will Study Plan ~ To Require All Men and Women to Register

HOUSE GROUP TO HEAR NEW DRAFT PLANS   Body May Try To Get More Money For Dependents

May Revise Draft Bill   National Service Registration Proposal May Be Revived

MAY FORCE ALL ADULTS 10 REGISTER   New Draft Legislation Will Probably Bring all Elders Into Line For War  Service   HEARINGS PLANNED

House Military Committee Promises Airing of Draft Legislation in Fall With Eye on Status of Fathers

New Draft Law May List All Men and Women   Dad Induction Up For Argument  When Recess Made

SERVICE BILL TOGET BARLY HOUSE ACTION   ‘Military Committee to Hold  Extensive Hearings On ,  Draft Legislation   After Recess    NEED MORE DATA   All Adult Men and Women Would Be Required to Repister For Assignment ta War Work

Plan Requiring Men and Women to Repister for Service to be Studied

NeW DRAFT BILL WILL BE STUDIED AFTER VACATION   Would Require All Adult Men and Women To Reg: ister For Service In War Effort—Where There Is A Need for Them—In Armed Forces, Industry Or Agriculture.

Congress to Kye New Draft Laws In Next Session  Proposal Requiring Al ee es aie ie eh eee nies Tt.

NEW DRAFT LEGISLATION EXPECTED   Registration of All Men, Women Mav Be Designed

New Draft Bill Hearings Are Sel  Plan to Call tary i... fg pe rt

NEW DRAFT BILL TO BE STUDIED   LEGISLATION WOULD REQUIRE BOTH MEN, WOMEN TO REGISTER

New Draft Bill Is Considered   Propose Registration of All For Service

ANOTHER DRAFT PLAN POSSIBLE   Registration . Of Aub Adults For War Jobs Studied

House To Study New Draft Law After Recess   Fathers’ Induction May Be Postponed; May Draft Women

HOUSE TO STUDY NEW DRAFT BILL   Fathers May Be Exempt Under Provisions Of Proposed Measure

CONGRESS WILL REVIEW DRAFT   Labor Signup, Call 0: Fathers Tops List For New Study

May Require All Persons to Register   Outlook in Sept. May Influence House Military Committee in Hearings

Reds Open Way For Encircling Nazis in Crimea   Industrial Citadel On East Dnieper Bank Is Stormed

ZAPOROZHE ON EASTERN BANK TAKEN BY REDS   Army Closes In On Kiev From Bridgeheads As Germans Dynamite  é Capital City

Reds Capture Citadel of Zaporozhe   Shatter Germany's Southern Defense Lines

Russians Charge Nazis Prime Gate to Crimea      Soviets, Crashing Forward, Annihilate Three German Divisions, Take Zaporozhe; 100,000 Nazis Face Trap

RUSSIAN TROOPS STORM INTO CITY ON DNIEPER BEND   Kill 10,000 Nazis in Capture of Zaporozhe—Seizure Opens Way for Plunge Into Crimes.   SMASH 3 DIVISIONS IN BATTLE FOR KIEV   Battle Way Over Piles of German Dead in Effort to Take City Before It Is Wrecked.

Way is Opened for Russian Landslide Into Crimea   MANY NAZIS FACE EARLY ENTRAPMENT   Red Armies Continue to Close in on the City of Kiev

“Reds Closing Crimean Trap   -Zaporozhe taken, 100,000 Germans Face Entrapment

——— —————— Oe —OTt—  REDS FORCE GERMANS OUT OF MELITOPOL   After Cutting Them Off From Crimea By Snapping Main Railway Into Peninsula at Two Points.   “Enormous Losses”

ENTRAPMENT OF 100,000 GERMAN TROOPS LIKELY   Industrial City Of Zaporohe Taken By Reds To Shat ter Nazi Line   CAPTURE OF GOMEL IS BELIEVED NEAR

Reds Crack Nazi Defense Lines in South to Peril Forces of Foe in Crimea

Reds Crush Nazis’ South  Defense Line   100,000 Enemy Troops Facing Entrapment On Crimean Peninsula  KIEV DRIVE CAING

Dnieper River Stronghold in Russian Hands   Melitopol Sealed Off, New Break Thru at North of Kiev

REDS CAPTURE ZAPOROZHE ON DNIEPER RIVER   WAY IS OPENED UP FOR LANDSLIDE INTO CRIMEA

Dnieper Base Is Captured In Drive   Three German Divisions Beaten In Battles ' North Of Kiev: Nezi Linee Broken In Ficht

Soviet Victory Opens Way for  Crimea Drive   Melitopol, Kiev and Gomel Appear on Verge of Falling to Advancing Russians

Nazi Occupation O{the Crimea ls Imperiled by Red Soldiers Advance   foviet Army Breaks Desperate Enemy Resistance To Take Imporfan' Transport Junction

Reds Capture Dnieper River Stronghold   Opens Way For Soviet  Landslide

Enemy south defense line is shattered   Zaporozhe fall  imperils nazis

CLARK MOVES BY SHORT CUT AGAINST NAZI   Troops Score Initial Advance ‘But Meet Stiffening Resistance,   PLANES BLAST ATTEMPTS TO EVACUATE CORSICA

FULL SUALE UFFENSIVE UNDER WAY   Gain Three Miles In Few Hours     SURPRISE NAZIS  French Cleaning Up Corsica

Fifth Army In Full-Scale Drive Towards Naples   Offensive Launched North Of Salerno To Clear Path For Naples Attack   GERMANS MAKING HEAVY RESISTANCE

BIG DRIVE AIMS TO GLEAR ROAD FOR FIERY GITY   Heavy Artillery, Mortar and Machine Gun Fire Faced by Americans

YANKEES SEEK TO OPEN PATH INTO NAPLES   Battle Before Blazing City Mounts In Intensity By The Hour

—WAR IN ITALY—  Naples Drive Opens   5th Army Opens Strong Offensive

Growing Demand Seen In Congress To Giwe Army Jap Evacuee Problem

ARMY MAY GET CAMP. CONTROL   STRONG SENTIMENT IN -CON GRESS TO TAKE JAP /IN ., TERNMENT CAMPS FROM CIVILIAN AGENCY

Jap Pressure In Burma Slackens   Fighting Flares Up On Mayu Peninsula

GOVERNMENT COTTON CONTROL ABANDONED FOR COMING YEAR  NO QUOTAS WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR 1944 STATEMENT DECLARES

Purge Of German High Command Aaimed At Forestalling Coupe Of Junkers Military Clique RePorted In Germany   BIG GUN DUEL ON FIFTH ARMY FRONT

CANADIANS GAIN NEW GROUND IN COASTAL DRIVE   ~ Eighth Army Units Advance Mile—-Yank Bombers Hit Nazi Supply Lines

Eighth Army Gains a Mile   American Bombers Rip Into Nazi Supply Lines in Italy

ALLIED TROOPS REPORT GAINS   Advance Mile Up HeavilyMind Road; Bomb Nazi Supply Lines.

BRITAIN'’S EIGHTH  ARMY OVERRUNS BiG  GERMAN AIR FIELD AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY  ALSO ADVANCES IN WESTERN SECTOR

Seize Strategic Hill   American Bombers Rip Nazi Supply Lines In Italy; Deal Heavy Air Blows On Rimi and Ferrara; Nazis Still Hold San Vittore.

Bombers Block German Supply Line In Italy   Eighth - Army Troops  Press A Mile Toward “Pescara Over Heavily. “Mined Road, Germans ” Still’ Holding San Vit  teen

'AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY KNIFES DEEPER INTO NAZI DEFENSES ‘ABOUT PORT OF NAPLES    Considerable Casualties Inflicted On Enemy In Capturing of Important Airfields. Berlin Says Nazi Troops Have Landed On Island of Corfu

Opens Up Balkan Area To Invasion   Germans Act To Ward Off New Allied Menace To “Fortress”

Eighth Army Pressing On To Pescara   Move Over Mined Roads— Planes Rip Nazi  Supply Lines

Bth Gains To North OF Ortona   .. Fifth Inches Toward San Vittorio Village

CANUCKS PRESS UP ADRIATIC -FROM ORTONA   Bombers Concentrate on Italiar Seaporis, Rails — Fifth Army Troops Storm Hill

City Is Most Important, Strategically, of Bases Selsodl in Italian Drive

British Forces Make Advance — Along Adriatic   Allied Planes Concentrate On Blocking Ports And Rails Sopplying Nazis

Eighth Army Troops Push Forward Over Heavily-Mined Road in Italy

Supply Lines Of Nazis in ltaly Hit   Eighth Army Pushes Forward and Fifth Storms Mountain

EIGHTH ARMY’S MEN GAIN MILE   'Press Up Adriatic Coast Toward Pescara

THE EIGHTH ARMY PRESSED ON TOWARD PESGARA TODAY   Moved a Mile Up the Coast  Over Heavily Mined : Roads.   NAZI SUPPLY LINES HIT   In Central Sector 5th Army Troops Stormed a 3000Foot Mountain.

Yugoslav Guerrillas Threaten Nazi Base in Montenegro—Allies Open New Drive on Madang, Batter Finschhafen—Reds Storming Across Dneiper at Several Points

Take Huge Air Base At Foggia   - Allies Now Control Hub of 13 Air Fields; 5th Army Plunges Deep Into Naples Defenses

RED ARMIES SWEEP ACROSS DNEIPER, RECAPTURE 1,320 TOWNS. VILLACES IN ONE DA}

POUND NAZI SUPPLY LINES   “Heavy Air Blows inflicted; Fifth Army Also Gains

Fighth Army Advancing Up Pescara Roac   Patrol Activity Chief], On Fifth and Eighth army Fronts

EIGHTH ARMY MOVES AHEAD FOR PESCARA   Air Forces Cause Heavy Damage To German Lines

Yankees Push      Capture Of Foggia Puts Allied Planes Closer Souihern Bomb Targets.   REDS BOAST BEST DAY

Fighth Army Drives Ahead Another Mile   Going Is Slow On Both Sides Of Italian Boot

BRITISH TAKE VITAL GERMAN AIR TERMINAL   Fifth Army Advances In Drive On Scourged  Naples   NAZIS HOLD CORFU   Red Steamroller Crosses:  Dnieper; Threaten  Five Key Towns 

8th Army Mile Beyond Ortona   Fifth’s Men Storm 3.000-Foot Mountain

EIGHTH MAKES NEW GAINS IN PESCARA DRIVE   German Supply Lines Ripped From Air

BRITISH DRIVE UP ADRIATIC COAST OTH TAKES HILL   Allied Airmen Assault Naz Supply System in Italy

Nazi Airbase At Foggia Is Taken by UN   Fifth Army Advances Toward Naples; Nazis Claim Capture of Island of Corfu; Reds Sweep Across Dneiper River, Recapture 1,320 Towns

British Eighth Army Advances Mile Up Adriatic Coast Over Mined Road

U. S., British Gain New Positions In Italian Battle  Eighth Army Advance Past Ortona With  Diteseuce mes Bee: Ce cucmins 4

Fighth Army Advancing Up Pescara Road   Patrol Activity Chiefly On Fifth and Eighth Army Fronts   Storm Mt. Cersanola

Eighth Army Presses On   Bombers Concentrate On Seaports, Rail Supply Lines

RIGHTH ARMY PUSHING HUNS BACK IN ITALY   Ady ance Mile From Captured Ortona Toward   Pescara; 5th Storms  Mt. Cersauola

U.S. oth Army Breaches Nazi Defense Lines   Germans Claim Capture of Corfu Island and Recapture of Guerrilla-Held Split

American Bombers Pound Nazi Supplies to Italy; Ground Forces Advance

Foggia Falls; Soviets Cross Dnieper River   Americans Knife Deeper Into Naples Sector; Germans Occupy Corfu; Russian Drive Sweeps Toward Poland And Rumania

Allies Now Have — Base for Bombina Southern Germany   Berlin Reports Nazi Troops Take Corfu, Guarding Adriatic

Berlin Announces Corfu Landings, Claims Other Gains   Nazis Suffer Heavily in Italy; Russians Sweep Across Dnieper River

Treasury Asserts Sales Tax Not Being Considered   Reply to Congressman Who says It Is In New Revenue Program

lreasury Does Not seek Sales Levy   Denies Statement of California Scl6n

Sales Tax Isn't Being Considerec   Ireasury Reasserts Posi tion after Rep. Gearhart’s Statement

Treasury Asserts Sales Tax Not Being Considered   Reply to Congressman   Who says It Js In

HUNDREDS TRANSFER TO DEFERABLE JOBS   WMC Order Swamps USES Offices with Applicants

NEW WORK ORDERS LEAD T0 JOB RUSH   Plenty of Places Available For Transferees, Claim

Jap Ships Blasted In Rabaul Waters   Allied Planes Take Heavy Toll in Battle of Northern Solomons

NIPS SLIP AWAY UNDER COVER OF FOG, IS THEORY   WITH SUPPLY LINES CUT, FOE BLISTERED BY AIR, SEA ATTACK

Supply Lines Cut, Radio ~ Smashed, Enemy Flees Big Base For the First Time

No Opposition Met In Landing On Island   Landings Were Made On Kocky Island August 1), And No Jap Troops Were Found By Invasion Forces

Enemy Is Swept From Last Known Stronghold In The Aleutians, West of Alaska

Canadians Aid Yank Troops; No Opposition Encountered   106 Bombings in 15 Days Causes Japs To Abandon Fightor-Die Tactics

Last Enemy Foothold In Americas Erased   No Japs Found When Landing Craft  Reached Rocky Shores On August 15

Japs Abandon Vital Base Without A Fight   Long And Terrific Bombardment Drives Nips From Last Known Foothold In Aleutians After 14-Month Occupation.

Yanks, Canadians © Occupy Vital Base Without Opposition   Nav ry Says Landings Made Aug. 155. Believe Positions Abandoned By Enemy Just Prior To Occupation.

Bombers Blast Invaders From Last Known Holds Upon Aleutian Islands

Possession Of Important North Pacific Base Gained After Terrific Bombardment Of Invaders’ Positions—Landings On Narrow Beaches Ef. fected August 15, Navy Announces—Action Follows Numerous Air And Sea Attacks

Japs Escape From Once Strong Post   Heavy Air and Sea Attacks Have Been Made Upon Island

LAST NIPPO OUTPOST FALLS   HEAVY BOMBINGS SEND NIPS FLEEING FROM BASE

JAPS ABANDON ALEUTIAN BASE AFTER 14 MONTHS AFTER HEAVY LOSSES IN SHIPS AND SUPPLIES   Navy Releases Statement Today Saying Last Vestige of North American Territory Freed of Japanese Forces—FDR Makes Statement

U.S.,Canadian Troops Land, Navy Reports   First Time Japs Have Refused to Fiaht

Yankees, Canadians Find No Opposition On Aleutian Island   Last Grip of Foe in North American Territory  Broken---Landings Were Made Six Days Age «Enemy Once Had 10,000 Men on Isle

Last Hold of the Enemy on the Aleutians Is Now  Broken  ISLE HEAVILY BOMBED  Tee eeceteaiecaeneianinel      Enemy Withdrawal Followed Weeks of Intensified Attack

Enemy bul Recently Fled, Navy Says, How Unexplained—Foqs Probably Shielded Ships   SUPPLY LINES CUT   Japs Redio Smashed in Bombing Long Silence Impesed to Kecp Tokyo Guessing

Important Base At Kiska Occupied Without Opposition  NO JAPANESE FOUND   Discloses Japs Pulling In Horns and Shortening Lines

‘AMERICANS, CANADIANS MOVE IN   Japs Give Up Last Aleutians Foothold Without Opposition

REVEAL LANDINGS MADE ON ISLE AUG. 15   Heavy Bombardments Had Been Made by U. S. Planes. Warshins

Fog May Have Covered Japanese Evacuation; Foe Hit 106 Times In 2 Weeks

No Japanese Found in Lands ing Made August 15 Af« . ter Heavy Raids.   SILENCE IS EXPLAINED

WAAC Number Less Than Half Official Hopes   Withdrawals By Sept. 1 May Cut Even More; False Reports. Blamed

Many Women Soldiers To Ask Discharges... +  Enlistments In WAC Fall Far Under Hopes

SOVIET UNITS _ - HAVE REACHED ~—DNIEPER LINE   RED ARMY NOW ATTACKING  - APPROACHES TO BIG GERMAN STRONGHOLDS AT KIEV AND SMOLENSK © .

SOVIETS POUND GATES OF KIEV AND SMOLENSK   Nazi Chiefs Admit Poltava Abandoned; Reds Gain on All Sectors

SMOLENSK,  KIEV UML BADES LEP]   Russians Hammer at Gates of Both   cee oe  GERMAN ‘2 ROU TED  Soviets Shatin Dens? Defenses

Conadions Report Slight Goin, But Yanks Stop   ALLIED AIRCRAFT ARE KEEPING UP PACE

2 ARMIES SLOWED GREATLY BY MIRE   . . New air Blow Against says In Marshalls and Solomons Is Revealed.

MIRE SLOWS ©      Canadian an ‘Troops Make Only Gains Recorded ©

CEN, MARSHALL MAY NOT LEAD INVASION ARMY   Creates Surprise In London; May Invade £oon

London Favors  Gen. Marshall   Surprised About Reports Saying He Will Not  Lead Invasion

RUMOR 1S HEARD MARSHALL WOULD NOT LEAD FORCES   British Officers Reluctant In Accepting Report, Realize U. S. Will Provide Most of Soldiers.   LONDON PAPERS TELL OF GREAT MANY MEN      Nation Gets “Final Warning” of Railroads Moving Troops and Supplies For Second Front.

Switch From Marshall Is Surprise As Americans Stream Into Britain

Huge American Forces Being Poured Into Britain Daily, Papers Report

Londoners Surprised by Reports Marshall Not to Head Invasion Forces

Yanks Pouring Info England   Invasion Of Western "Europe. _Impends

Bar Bill’s Publication  Is Ordered   No Court Has Right To Enjoin Legislative Process At Any Point, Asserts Supreme Court

Order Bar Bill To Be Published  Act Will Thus Become Part OF Statutes

Pilot Navigates Bomber Low Over Golf Course To Toss Bundle to Family

CIVILIAN DRAFT OPPOSED BY FDR   House Committee Approves Father Deferment and Rickenbacker Hits Labor

Roosevelt Would Delay Civil Draft   Rickenbacker Asks Harder War Work

Roosevelt Seeks to ~ Avoid Any National  Service Legislation   While Rickenbacker Is Pleading People at Home Are Aroused

Father-Draft Bill Approved by Committee   FDB Wants to Avoid National Service Act; Rickenbacke: Says Manpower Is Being  -- Wasted

PRESIDENT. WANTS AVOID DRAFTING OF CIVILIANS IN JOBS   HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL TO DEFER DRAFT OF FATHERS

RUHR DISTRICT RAIDED BY RAF   Bad Weather Handicaps Airmen; Isle of Wight Death Toll 12

Trouble for Bachelors Seen in Latest OPA Ruling   Droopy Underwear in Sight as Result Of Order Laundries Can‘t Fix Buttons

“Frill” Services To Be Dropped By Laundries  OPA Blames It All Upen War

Bachelor’s Face Droopy Underwear; Other Inconveniences In Future

REP. LUCE FIRES BARB AT WALLACE   Global Thinking ‘Globalony,” Congresswoman Says in First Speech.

NEW CONGRESSMAN RIDICULES WALLACE   Vice President Replies With Similiar Sarcasm

ONLY A WEEK LEFT TO INSPECT AUTOS   Second Inspection Period for All “A” Ration Book Holders Is Held This Month.

AUTO INSPECTION FOR CLASS“A”’ CARS   Second Inspection Period for All “A” Ration Book Holders Is Held This Month.

— ew oe Wee eva es eee  Rental Panels Planned In Rationing Board;

Irrigation States Seek to Retain  Control of Water  Gathering in Denve Draws Delegates

Irrigation States Seek to Retain Control of Water   Gathering in Denve: Draws Delegates From Big Territory

China Also Included In Historic Decisions Made At Moscow Conference. Separate Peace Is Out.

Historic Decision at Moscow Conference Revealed Todayin6 MomentousDocumenis

Fear 125 Trapped  In Mine Explosion  Blast Occurs Two Miles From Opening

SOVIET ARMY OPENS ROAD TO KHARKO¥   Close in on Three Sides Upon Rostov

SOVIET FORCES BREAK GERMAN DEFENSE LINES   Communique Reveals Deep Drives In Enemyheld Areas      Nazis Deny Russian Claims Of Velikie Luki Capture   AXIS EXPECTS BRITISH TO LAUNCH ATTACK SOON ON ROMMEL’S TANK ARMY

Russians Claim  Further Gains; Booty Captured   Reds Drive Down North Caucasian Railway Beyond Kotelinkovski; Attempt Clean Out Enemy In The Elista Sector

C1 AIM CAPTURE OF THREE MORE SALIENT CITIES   Continue to Mop Up Nazis in Central, Southern Areas

Germans Lose Heavy ‘ily In Supplies   Casualties Also  Run High, Moscow Radian (Cletee

Remontnaya Falls to Reds: Booty Taken  Soviets Drive Down N. Caucasian Railway Succeeds

Red Drives Add fo Peril: Of Nazi Army   City 115 Miles Southwest Of Stalingrad Taken

Russians Capture Railway Station   Take Important Center in Deep Caucasus; Nazi Equipment Is Seized at Remontnaya

Storm Troops ‘Smash ‘Enemy Lines   Second Enemy Retreat Is Forced by Sovieis

Large Amounts ofBooty _ Seized hy Reds   More Than 1 7100 Nazis Fall 4: on Field Saturday

GERMANS CLAIM THEY STILL HOLD VELIKIE LUKI      Key Fortress  Threatens Germans  ~ At Leningrad And Smolensk

Large Amounts of Booty Seized bv Reds   More Than 1,100 Nazis Fall on Field Saturday

Russians Seize Strategic Towns And Heavy Booty   Germans Deny Soviets Hold Velikie Luki

BLKHOTOYO IN DEEP CAUCASUS ALSO IS TAKEN   Soviet Army Advances 27 Miles Beyond Koteknikovski at Point Where  Railroad Crosses Sal   GREAT AMOUNTS OF BOOTY FALL TO REDS   German Tanks, Artillery, Food Stores, Cattle and Other Supplies Seized,  Moscow Says

Advance Over 117 Miles From Stalingrad; Continue Wins   Advance Reported On All Fronts Sunday Ancient Velikie Luki Is Taken

RedsRaceDown Caucasus Rail _ Line, Take City   Remontnaya's Fall Yields Large Store Of Booty; Nalchik Victory Reported; Soviets Push West Of Velikie Luki

RUSSIANS OCCUPY 2 MORE TOWNS IN CAUCASIAN DRIVE   ‘Tanks, Artillery and Food ' Stores Fall to Reds—800 Nazis Fleeing Elista Killed.   MAIN ENEMY DEFENSE LINE IS BREACHED   Soviels Overrun Trenches and Dugouts Near Stalingrad —Hitlerites Deny Loss of Velikie Luki.

Russ Take 2 More Cities   Red Armies Advance On All Fronts, Push On in Caucasus

Kharkov Laid Open To Attack   Soviet Cleanup Is Continued Unchecked

Key Points Fall To Russians  In Drive South   Advance Down Caucasus Railway Ha: Brought Severe Defeat to Nazis; Germans Routed in Elista Campaian

Towns And Nazi Supplies Are Captured   Berlin Radio Denies That Germans Lose Velikie Luki

feng of Tulagi’ Told . On ‘War Correspondent  TONIGHT AT 6:30, WOAI

French Sailors lacluded in Thousands Of Reinforcements Sent to Europe

BiG TROOP CONVOY REACHES BRITAIN   Imperials Set For Action Now As Thousands More Troops Arrive In British Isles; Mostly Canadians and Fighting Frenchmen.

Hopeful of Opening  New Front  Thousands of British Troops. French Seamen Arrive Overseas

Fighting Men Make Atlantic Crossing  French, Canadians Arrive Overseas

MORE CANADIANS REACH BRITAIN   THOUSANDS IN CONTINGENT TO CROSS—ACCOMPANIED BY FRENCH SEAMEN.

BRITISH EIGHTH   ‘Proceeding According To Pian Despite Stiff Resistance’   BERLIN SAYS ALLIES ARE PLANNING 2 OFFENSIVES

‘War Labor Board Demanyis End Of Anthracite Strike   W. L. B. Sources Say Strike Will Be Turned Over To President Thursday   “ARMY MAY BE ORDERED TO ACT   Some Of Miners Vote Tc Continue Strike Despite W. L. B. Action

OMAHA SCHOOLS WILL REOPEN   Settlement Reached in Strike of Custodians

AGREEMENT MEI ON FRENCH UNITY   Ends Five-day Crisis on Views of DeGaulle and Giraud.

French ‘Weather Disputes   Report Agreement On Unity Now Reached by Factions

C.OFC. ELECTS. (BAD OFFICERS   Waiter Brown. Is Chosen President to Succeed N. R. Beagle

Yankees Battle To Retain Thin Gains In Ital   Montgomery's Army Is Driving To Meet Clark's  Weakened Force

Mrs. Oakes on “Witness ‘Stand   Widow of Slain Multi-Millionaire Tella of Husband's Anger Against Son-in-l aw

KNOX HINTS AT SECOND FRON]   Increased Tempo Of Blows At Europe Predicted

FULL VICTORY OVER HUNS SEEN BY NAVY CHIEF   Tempo Of Blows On Europe Will Increase Steadily, Secretary Says      JAPAN COMES SECOND   Pacific Sea Might To Grow Until Final Day Is Done For Tojo

Sec, Knox Hints Second Front Due   Knock Germany Out Of War First; ‘‘Jap Offensive Long Since Stopped’’

DRAFT CHANGE WON APPROVAL OF COMMITTEE   BILL TO PLACE MARRIED. MEN WITH CHILDREN AT BOT‘TOM OF LIST GETS Boosr

APPROVE DELAY IN DADS’ DRAFT   23.. Senators Join Move to Halt Army Service by Farm Help

HOUSE GROUP OK BLL FOR ~ DEFERMENT:   Approves Kilday Proposal to Put Fathers at Bottom of Draft List.   HERSHEY SAYS BIG ARMY ~ WON’T ENDANGER FARMS

MARRIED MEN WITH! CHILDREN   Given Draft Preference by Passage of Kilday Bill in the House.

MARRIED MEN _ -WTH GHILDREA   Given Draft Preference b3 ’ Passage of Kilday’ Bill in the House.

Japs Set to Flee Tokyo   NIPS PLAN MOBILIZATION OF CIVILIANS, BAN AGE LIMIT ON ARMY SERVICE

EVACUATION OF TOKYO PLANNED BY GOVERNMENT   Tojo Warns People That A “Time Of Emergency” Is At Hand

Japs Prepare Io Leave Big Cities   Moye In Interest of Improving Defense

JAPS PREPARING MOVE INDUSTRIES AND GOVERNMENT   Governmental Departments, Industrial Establishments and Civilian Population Of Tokyo and Other Important Cities To Be Moved In “Interest of Improving Defense.”

JAPANESE TOLD KY KATTEMIAN AT  AUUALIUN ut TOKYO PLANNED   ‘Defense Measures” Listed In Nipponese Statement Include Removal of War Factories

Jap Government To Flee Tokyo; Civilians, War Plants Also Quit Cities

Major Offices, Industries To Be Moved Soon   Civilians Also Will Be Evacuated As Major Air Raids Anticipated

MAJOR JAP CITIES TO BE EVACUATED   PREMIER TOJO WARNS PEOPLE THAT “TIME OF EMERGENCY” IS AT HAND.

Japs Plan To Move Oftices Of Government  Prepare Other Defense Moves

Jittery Japs Prepare to Quit Tokyo   New Demand Made for Total Mobilization

TOKYO, OTHER JAP CITIES TO BE EVACUATED   ‘All Persons Made Subject to Na tion Service as Japan Prepare: for All Out War

Government Reveals Other Measures To Help Gird Defense Of Country

JAPS READY 10 EVACUATE TOKYO   Prepared To Move Out Factories, Government Departments And _ Civilian Population.

DRASTIC MEANS OF TIGHTENING DEFENSE TAKEN   Total Mobilization of Civilian Population Revealed in Broadcast

Nippon Girds For ‘Decisive Turn of War   Total Mobilization And Strengthening Of Defenses Ordered

Japan Getting Ready To Quit Larger Cities   Tokyo Takes Gloomy View of the Future

Japs, Fearing Allied Attack, Plan To Evacuate Tokyo; Tojo Warns People Decisive Phase of War Ils Now Near

Japan Plans To Evacuate Its Capital   Total Mobilization aad the Abolishment of Age Limits Are Announced by Premier Toyo

NIPS PREPARE TO MOVE FROM TOKYO AREA   Government, Industrial Plants and Civilian Population To Be Shifted From Cities   TOJO TELLS THE NATION

Plan Evacuation Of Jap Cities   Tokyo Expects New Air Blows at Country

LARGE CITIES   Tokyo Radio F orecasts Allied Aerial Blows At Nippon

Japanese Prepare to Evacuate Tokyo and Other Important Cities as Premier Tojo Gloomily Forecasts New Aerial Blows by Allies

JAPS PREPARE TO EVACUATE LARGE CITIES   Tokyo Radio Forecasts Allied Aerial Blows At Nippon

JAPANESE PREDICT NEW AIR ASSAULTS      Nation Ready to Evacuate Tokyo, Broadcast Savs

Reports Japan Plans Removal    Civilians And Industry To Be Taken From Tokyo In Interest Of Defense

WPB Bans Double Breasted  Suits for American Women   Pockets in Skirts and Buttons on Cutfs Limited: Cut Sweep of Evening Dresses

LIMITATIONS ON EVENING GOWNS   Other Restrictions Are Also Decreed By WPB For  Women’s Fashions

Muaay s Double-Breasteds And Other Special Types Of iGarments Taboo As WPB Takes Tine-W an Bahyipe Canteal

Milady’s Double-Breasteds And Other Special Types Of Garments Taboo As WPB Takes Two-Way Fabrics Control

Heavy Rains Fall in State   Ardmore Has One Inch More Showers Are Being Forecast

London Has Three Air Raid Alerts   Damage Is Suffered ir Suburban Areas of English City

GERMAN PLANES ATTACK LONDON   Fires Are Started In Capital; 3 Alerts Are Sounded

LONDON HIT BY NAZI RAIDERS   3 Raid Warnings Given During Night; Homes Are Destroyed In Suburbs

SLUGGED IN JAIL BREAK MON. NIGH]   Two Prisoners Escape For Only Short Time; Chase Ends In Temple

DEPUTY SHERIFF SLUGGED IN JAIL BREAK MON, NICH   Two Prisoners Escape For Only Short Time; Chase Ends In Temple

Two Conviets Believed in Petaluma Tran   Every Street Combed ii City for Trace of BRugitives

PUSSE SEEKS BAY CONVICTS   LAY NET IN PETALUMA FOR SAN QUENTIN PAIR

Coal Dispute May Go Back to WLE   Operators and Union Heads Pessimistic  SMa ce: eta stained

Coal Wrangle Will Land in Lap of WLB   Operators and Miners Unable To Agree

Soft Coal Operators, Miners Recess Without \Reaching an Agreement

DPERATORS, COAL MINERS UNABLE TG REACH AGREEMEN   Spokesman For Southern Operators Says Parleys Are About Broken Down, Will Inform WLB.   NORTHERN OPERATORS ARE TOLD BY BURKE   Winois Proposal Suggested as Basis For Negotiations and as Pattern For Industry.

Coal Situation Still Deadlocked   Parley Fails, WLB Is Last Hope

WAR LABOR BOARD RESUMES STUDY OF MINE DISPUTE   ILLINOIS OPERATORS AGREE TO INCREASE OF $1.50 PER DAY

WAR LABOR BOARD MAY AGAIN RECEIVE MINER WAGE DISPUTE   MINE OPERATORS DECLARE NO CHANCE FOR AGREEMENT WITH UNION

Coal Pay Dispute Is Back to WLB   Producers to Report There’s ‘No Chance‘ - For Agreement

NOPROSPECTS OF AGREEMENT SEEN IN MINE DISPUTE   Operators and Mine Workers Try Again to Compose Differences Over PortalTo-Portal Pay; Dispute Appears Headed Back To Ww

Operators See “No Chance” of Ending Deadlock in Parley   Negotiations in Miners Wage Dispute Veer Back to WLB

MINE DISPUTE VEERS BACK TC LABOR BOARD   ¢ Southern Operators Indi, cate No Chance of Agree¥ ment in Negotiations

Coal Dispute May Go Back to WLE   Operators and Union Heads  Over Agreement

Coal Parleys Break Down, Due for WLB   Both Factions 7 Too Far Apart for Further Conferences;  Reject Lewis’ Offer

Operators Indicate More Negotiations Useless; “Portal”  Pay Blocks Accord

Operators In Illinois Agree On $1.50 Pay Boost AsOthers Say NoChance

Coal Parleys Break Over ‘Portal Pay   Whole Question May Again Go To WLB;  Senators Oppose  Subsidies For Prices

Coal Mine Fight. Still Deadlocked Th Wage Dispute   Soft “Coal: Operators ‘Say “Sides. Too. Far: Apart; . “May. Call: Upon WLB

Operators Prepare to Repori No Agreement Possible, Both Sides Reporled Pessimistic :   LEWIS ADAMANT   $1.50 Travel Pay, Proposed bv Lewis, Accepted as Basis for Negoliation in [linois

‘Mine Talks Veering Back Toward WLB   Operators Reported Feeling Further Parleys Futile

_ Mine Wage Deadlock Holds   Committee Sharpens Teeth In Anti-Strike Bill

Coal Mine Talks Turn Back to WLB   Producers Convinced Both Sides Too Far Apart For Further Conferences

COAL DISPUTE VEERS TO WLB   Both Sides Represented as Far Apart in Parley

Bituminous Parleys Bog Down on Portal . Wage Disagreement   Operators Reject $1.50 Compromise, Hold for $1 Maximum; Ready to Report Failure to WLB

Coal Dispute Headed Back to Labor Board   Little Hope Seen ‘Operators, Men Can Adjust Differences

Coal Operators, Miners Fail To Settle Dispute   Negotiations Veerine Back To National War Labor Board

WLB Deadline In Dispute On Coal Pay Near   Little Hope Held For Settlement On Last Day Allotted For Talks,   BOARD PLAN UNKNOWN

Coal Dispute Is Still Unsettled   Lnion Helds Out for 82 A Day for Undereround Travel

Wage Dispute Still Far From Settlement   Operators, Miners Sending Case Back Toa The WLR

Coal Minetalks Veer Back Toward War Labor Board: Operators Feel Negotiations Futile

Coal Mine ‘Talks Veer Back WLB   Operators Said Feeling Further Negotiations Nil   Cooling Off Period May Be Left Out of Measure

Coal Row Veers Back To War Labor Board   Operators Convinced Sides Too Far Apart For Further Conferences Over Table

FEAR DEADLOCK IN CONFERENCE ON MINE WAGES   Illinois Workers Accept Offer Of $1.50 Pay Boost

Coal Dispute Headed Back To WLB Once More   Mineowners Will Report to Board That They Are Unable To Agree on $2 Daily Increase.

MINE DISPUTE VEERING BACK T0 THE W.L.B.   Both Sides Too Far Apart For Further Conference Table Talk to Do Any Good   PARLEY BREAKS DOWN

QUITS ASSEMBLY FOR NAVY POST    Columbus Representative Leaves { To Report For Duty.

MOSCOW CONFERENCE  GUARANTEE AGAINST  ANY ISOLATIONISM SECRETARY OF STATE  HULL IS GRATIFIED WITH ACHIEVEMENTS

Hull Views Pact as Guarantee Against More Isolationism   Secretary of State Acclaims Results of Moscow Parleys

HULL DECLARES U.S. AND RUSSIA BETTER FRIENDS   VIEWS FOUR-POWER PLEDGE AS GUARANTEE AGAINST ISOLATION

Hull Sees Pact As End Of U. 5. “Isolationism”  Other Big Powers Also Guarantee  ln mee omen dear

Moscow Accord Makes Impossible Isolationism on Part of U.S.  Or Other Powers in Hull’s View

MOSCOW-BORN  ALLIED ACCORI VHAILED BY HULL   Renders Impossible Any isolationism On Part of U. S., Britain and Russia, He Savs

‘Hull Views Agreements Signed At Moscow Conference ‘ As Guarantee Against Isolationism In Post-War Era

HULL THINKS: PACT FINISHES ISOLATIONISM   Aloofness No Longer Possible for U. S., Britain and Russia Under Moscow Agreement, Secretarv Declares.

isolationism  Out For U.S   Hull Sees Conference As Ending Aloofness Of America, Russia.

Sec. Hull Views Four-Power Agreement. As Guarantee Against U.S. Isolation

Big 4 Have New Unity from Pact   Hull Says It Is Impossible for Either Allies to Hide Behind Isolationism

Cordell Hull Acclaims Result Of Conference   Sees Four Power Agreement as Block To U. S. lsolationism

Isolationism Impossible, Hull Claims   Says Moscow Meeting Fixed Base for Cooperation

Hull Views Four-Power Agreement As Guarantee Of No More Isolationism

Yanks Driving Nazis Back Under Terrific Assault by Plane:   Axis Has Lost 66,000 Men in Africa Since Jan. 1, According to Official Bice Estimates

STRONGHOLDS BEING YIELDED WITHOUT FIGHT   Enemy Concentrating Armored Strength Against Tank-Supported Blows  by British Army   FRENCH SEIZE FIVE MOUNTAIN SECTORS   British First Army Penetrates Narrow Plain East of Goubellat; Considered Vital Area

Axis Losses Put at 66,000   36,000 Taken Prisoner From January 1  To April 15

Ship Sinkings Listed As Heavy; Air Superiority — Shown In Figures __

Positions Are Taken By Allies   British and Americans Push Back Axis Forces Steadily

Axis Army Has Lost 66,000 Men in North Africa Battle Since Jan. ]

Axis Losses In Africa 66,000   36,000 Prisoners Among Casualties Claimed

Six Men Trapped 'In Mine Rescued   Entombed in Flood Waters 38 Hours

\Six Men, Trapped In Pi By Flood, Are Rescued    Voice Signals Rescue Crews Thru! Darkness That Workers  Tiwva

PLAN TO AUGMENT — FARM AID SUPPLY   Initial Steps Taken to Bring Workers Into Potato  and Pea Fields   A MEETING YESTERDAY

PLAN TO AUGMENT FARM AID SUPPLY   Initial Steps Taken to Bring Workers Into Potato  and Pea Fields

U.S. FACES BIG AFTER-WAR TASK   Will Practically Have To Sup: ply Military Power To Police World, Says Knox

U.S. LOOMS AS WORLD POLICE   Knox Says America Cannot ‘Give’ Freedom

Sleep Ends Invasion Vigil by Children   THREE YOUNGSTERS KEEP LOOKOUT FOR NAZIS BUT SANDMAN INTERVENES

‘AN INCREASE IN SUPPLIES IS 10 60 TO SOVIET RUSSIA   Result of New Anglo-American Lend-Lease Agreement to Be Signed Tuesday.   CANADA IS INCLUDED   Ali the Documents Have Been Kept a Secret; May Be Some Changes.

Notes About Food Crisis Confusion   Solution Even Eludes War Committee Of Food Industry

Bombers Leave Messina Harbor, Door Of Freedom For Nazi Forces, In Flames; Sicily Te. Fall In 72 Hours?. ”

Ground Forces Smash Through Stiff Enemy Resistance.   AXIS SHIPS A MASS OF FLAMING INFERNO   Military Experts Predict All Sicily in Allied Hands Sunday.

Lewis Predicts WLB Approval Of Union Pact   Mine Workers President Asks 2,000 In Alabama, Indiana to Return Monday to Mines; New Wage Set

Lewis Urges Miners to Go Back to Jobs  elicits was: Spake   Sees WLB Okeh For New Wage, Hours Contract

LEWIS EXPECTS WLB APPROVAL OF WAGE RISE   Urges 25,000 Idle Alabama And Indiana Miners To Return

LEWIS EXPECTS MINER PAY WILL BE INCREASED   Tells Miners, in Appeal Tc  End Strikes, WLB May Approve ‘Boost of Earnings $1.75 Day

Lewis Urges Miner Return   Thinks WLB Will Approve Pay Boost Next Week

Decision on Coal Wage Dispute Due This Week   New Board Named To Consider Rail  Union Pay Demands

Increase In Earnings For  Miners Seen   Lewis Reports WLB To Approve Contract To Lengthen Hours, Hike  - Pav $1.75 A Day

Lewis Asks Coal Miners to Return to Work   Expects Contract Approval by WLB Next Week

Mine Wage Boost Hinfed In Peace Plea   Lewis Asks Return To Work; Shipyard Strike Continues

TELLS MEN it EAPEGTS WLB TO BOOST PAY   Roosevelt Sets Up Three-Man Emergency Board in Rail Wage Fight.

LEWIS PREDICTS MINE WAGE BOOST   ‘TELLS COAL DIGGERS HE EX PECTS WLB TO APPROVE , CONTRACT THIS WEEK.

Lewis Urges Mine Strike End   Believes Approval Of Contract Likely

Russians Advance  On Three Fronts   Germans Admit Allied Thrusts  In Tunisia; French Come to Front

 Soviets on Offensive in  Drive Against Key City of Rostov  AMID RAIN, SNOW ‘Hiterlites Move Officers  By Plane From Area At Stalingrad

Soviet Airmen Attack Krasnodar, Hugh Nazi Base, South Of Rostov   RAF Drops 100 Tons Of Bombs On Ruhr In 12 Minutes During Night

PLANES LAUNCH ATTACK AGAINST KRASNODAR   Concentration Camp Prisoners Liberated by Advance

30 CHILDREN KILLED IN NAZI RAID ON LONDON   German Bombers Attack Again Four Times Last Night But Cause Little Harm   School Is Shattered

DAY AIR RAID. KILLS PUPILS   Nazis Stab At City 4 Times; School House Hit

SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED IN LONDON   German Airmen Attack British City at  Naantime .

HITLER'S MEN SNUFF OUT 60 YOUNG LIVES   ONLY SIX RAIDERS ELUDE BRITISH DEFENSES

TIRE BOMBS ARE DROPPED IN ONE AREA   Attacks Follow Daylight Assault That Wrecks School and Kills at Least 31 Children.   THREE TEACHERS ALSO LOSE LIVES   Thirty Others Trapped Under Tons of Debris —Thirteen Planes Shot Down by RAF.

Nazis Follow Air Raid With Scares   Biggest Damage Done Display of Death For Schoolchildren

London Children Slaughtered By German Rooftop Raiders   30 Known Dead, 63 Buried in School House Ruins; RAF Flyers Shoot Down at Least 13 Enemy Planes

JAPS DIG IN IN BURMA   Entrench In Hills East Mayu! River In Anticipation Of : British Counter-Blow

HIT THE JAPS IN BURMA   The R.A.F. Drops Bombs and Strafes Communicaions

Today’s War Commentary  Rommel’s Stand  Throws Allies Far Behind Schedul

/Rommel’s Troops Strike Back Sharply Against  American and British - Forces.

GOV'T REPORTS ON CASUALTIES GF U.S, FORCES   Total Casualties Hit 103,932; Army  Losses Largest

U.S. Casualties Number 104,658   Includes Deaths, Wounded, Others

AMERICAN. CASUALTIES OF WAR REACH 104,658   Army Reports Conquest of Sicily Cost 7500 in Dead, Wounded and Missing

U.S. CASUALTIES TOTAL 105,446   All Losses In Military Ser. vices And Merchant Ma. rine Listed.

Army Loses 7,500 In Sicily Battle   Casualties in Island Campaign Far Below Original Estimates.

7,500 IN SICILY LOST BY U. S.   Thot Number Gone Ir Killed, Wounded And Missing  TOTAL NOW 105 446

Armed Forces’  Losses Listed   American Army’s Casualties in Sicily Bring Total for War to Date to 104,658

ARMY LOSSES  IN SICILY ARE TOTAL OF 7800   Over-all Casualties For All U. S. Services Are Announced Today As 105,446

ARMY LOSSES IN SIAN CAMPAIGN STAND AT 7,500.   List of Killed, Wounded and Missing From Sicilian Theater Raise .Army’s Total Losses to'70,872 °°.

LIST 105,446 nt § CASUALS   7,500 Killed, Wounded o1 Missing In Sicilian Campaign

U.S. SICILIAN LOSSES MADE PUPRLIC.   7.500 Killed, Wounded And Missing from 38-Day Battle for Island

ARMY'S SICILY LOSSES 7500   ANNOUNCEMENT BRINGS WAR TOTAL TO 70,872

38 DAY CONQUEST OF SICILY GOST THE ARMY 7,000 MEN   This Number Killed. Wounded And - Missine:   9,209 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN KILLED

U.S. Casualty Total Now At 104,658 Mark   Sicilian Campaign Won At Cost Of 7,500 In Dead, Wounded And Missing. Savs Official

UNITED STATES CASUALTIES TOTAL 105,44¢   19,863, Listed as Dead, 2523 Wounded by All Services — Many Wounded Back on Duiv

Redsin Greatest Offensive   Take 1000 Villages. = Daily; Pound Westt 1

Thousands of Villages Are Liberated   Germans Being Pushed Back So Fast They Cannot Fieht Back

Soviets Unleash Greatest Drive   Within Gun Range Of White Russia

REDS OUTFLANK DEFENSE BELT AT SMOLENSK   Soviet Armies Clearing 1,000 Villages Daily In Big Drive

GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSE OPENS   Red: Armies. Pounding , Westward Within 10. Miles: of White Russia  * —Germans Being Thrown’ Back to Dnieper River.

~INEPER RIVER   Offensive Carries to 27 Miles From Base at Kiev   GERMANS EVACUATE 1,000 VILLAGES A DAY

REDS WITHIN 15 MILES OF THE DNIEPER   Greatest Offense Of War; Near Both - Kiev arid Smolensk

VILLAGES: CAPTIVES SET FREE   Great Quantities of War Booty Taken as Soviets Drive On at High Speed in Areas.

SWIFT SOVIET GAINS WRECK NAZI RETREAT   Germans Unable to Stop at Prepared Positions, Lose Vast Stores to Advancing Russians.

Germans Being Thrown Back Te  Dnieper River   Soviet Armies Move Within 10 Miles of White Russia

Soviet Forces Nearing White Russia Border      Only 25 Miles From Dnieper River, 27 Miles From Kiey

Wichita Man Is Sentenced 'To Be Hanged   Severns Must Die For Fatal Beating Of Young Niece

Chevrolet Men Vote To Strike   10,000 Voice Approva Of Work Stoppage

BRAZIL MAY BE SET FOR BATTLE   President Indicates Active Fighting Considered

ABOUT $10,000 PAID   Approximate Total for October Checks in Dairy Subsidy Here

Bremen Plane Plant Damageca Badly in Raid   Half of Buildings Destroved by U. S.  Heavy Bombers

BREMEN WORKS BADLY POUNDED   Photographs Show U. §S. Bombers Damaged Half Of Plants

Cities And Towns In Sicily Are Pulverized   RICHARD TREGASKIS TELLS OF FLIGHT OVER AREA WITH COL. ELLIOTT R VELT    By Richard Tregaskis

e WITH PRESIDENT'S SON   Tregaskis Writes of Flight Over Sicily With Col. Roosevelt

Correspondent Flies - Over Sicily; Reports Bomber Devastation   By RICHARD TREGASKIS<

@ WITH PRESIDENT'S SON  Tregaskis Writes of Flight Over Sicily With Col. Roosevelt   BY RICHARD TREGASKIS

Shortage Of Truck Tires Now Serious   War Has Thrown Added Burden On Haulers; Surplus Gone   (Last in a series of three ar. ticles on the tire shortage.)

atter Brooklyn sold him to the ‘New York Ginnts early this week.   \2-Day Old Baby Kidnapped From ‘Albany. Oregon Hospital

Processors Accused Of - Price Plot   Food Industry Group 1. ‘Behind. Fight Agains! Subsidies, Claim OF Union Official

Attempt to Save Subsidy Program   Farm Union, Auto  Workers Heard

Farmers Union  Backs Subsidies   Says Giving Up Plan Would Spell Ruin

BACKERS FIGHT TO SAVE FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN   CLO, Farm Leaders Speak

TOJO TEELS JAPS WAR HAS REACHED DECISIVE STAGE   Declares Allies Are Preparing for Counter-Drive and _ Raids on Mainland Can Be Expected.      ATTEMPT TO CUT OFF SUPPLIES IS SEEN   Admiral Shimada Reports Destruction of 13 Enemy Battleships, 11 Carriers and 5,214 Planes.

DIET WARNED OF DANGER OF ENEMY RAIDS      Tojo, Boasting of Japanese Strength, Says Allied Attacks Foreseen

Tojo Fears Raids On Japan; Victory Assured People   Tells Diet Counter-Offensives Were Foreseen By Military Leaders; Boasts Of New Methods To Break Allies

TOO TELLS DIET WAR 1S NEARING DECISIVE STAGE   Warns That Enemy is Mobilizing All His Resources ,. For Counter-offensive   BOASTS THAT JAPAN IS GROWING STRONGER   ‘Mls Japs to Expect Air Raids On ‘Our Mainland’; Navy Minister Reports Enemy Losses, ‘Destroys’ Allied  Oricets on Paver

War Reaching Decisive Stage, Air Raids On Mainland Coming, Tojo Warns Japan

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NEGRO SCIENTIST DIES IN ALABAMA   Dr. ‘Carv er, Renowned Chemist, Dies From Fall Suffered Recently

SOLDIERS’ THANKS TO JR, RED CROSS   seer: Student. Teaghers, .. Attend. Sectional: #:s Meeting.

ARAB’S THANKS TO F.D.R.   Sees Significance in U. S. Gift of Clothing for Children.

EXERT PRESSURE FOR FOOD CZAR WITH AUTHORITY   PROPOSE CONTROL OVER PRICES AND FOOD PRODUCTION

APPOINTMENT OF FOOD CZAR URGED TODAY   House Expects To  Reach Subsidy Solution Soon

NEW PRESSURE ON FOR ‘CZAR   Overall Food Boss Urged As Subsidy Verdict Nears

Food Czar Plan Again Broached  Movement Comes With Fight Over Subsidies

25 BIG FIRES ARE STARTED IN NAPLES   Allied Bombers - Also Wreck Many “Jtalian Targets

25 Big Fires Started in Naples Area   23 Axis Fighters Are Shot Down By Allied Planes

Entire Sicilian Supply Center Raided By Allies   100 Fortresses Lead Bomber Fleets In Widespread Attacks

FORTRESSES HIT NAPLES, SUPPLY BASES FOR SICI'   U. S. Planes Also Hit Ruhr Valley in Hard Raid __

Link New Pushes With Big 3 Parley Rumors  27? eee sei ar 0CUP ko Se

Set Stage for Parley By Leaders   Stepped ‘Up Offensive May Be Preparation for Meeting of ‘Big. Three’   CHIANG, BENES MAY BE. PRESENT   Rumors Also Heard’ - That Germany. Might Have Representative

Offensives Believed Settin g Stage For Great War Development; Allied Leaders May Make Final W arning To Germany To Ouit War

Momentous Development Is Hinted   _ Stepped-up War  sTempo Suggests. Imminence of Epochal Event

Momentous War News Near, New Activity Hints   Many Events Point To New Developments In Diplomatic Field

NEWS BREAK 1S AWAITED ON SUBJECT      May Make Demand On Foe Before   nvasion

MOMENTOUS WAR NEWS IN MAKING.   Stepped Up’ Blows May Set Stage For Maior Announcement

FOR ACTIVITY   Result of Stepped Up Offensives on Three Sides Of Hitler.   ‘BIG. THREE’ MEETING?

Much Speculation As To What’s Coming Momentous Diplomatic  Development Expected To Break At Any Time

OFFENSIVE STEPPED UP ON NAZIS   Intensified: ‘Three-sided Campaign Against Hitler’s Europe Comeides with  Hints: oe ‘Pesce Proposals

New Stepped-Up Offensives Hint Momentous Development      ‘Last Warning’ To Germany Before Launching Invasion Among Moves Speculated Within Allied Capitals

"BIG THREE" MAY MAKE DISCLOSURE   Chiang And Benes  May Meet With Roose eanlt Oharverhill Céalin

Startling War Development is  Held Possible!   Heightened Activity on Three Sides ) Fortress Europa Spurs _ Coaniectirec

RUMORED MEETING   Speculation That Chiang Kai-shek Will Join  “Big Three’

Hint “Big Three” Plan Diplomatic Blow AtGermany   Last Warning Before West E:rope Invasion May Be Announcement

Believe Momentous War Move imminent   Speculation Turns on Last Warning to Germany, Nazi Peace Bid and RooseveltChurchill-Stalin-Kai-shek Meeting.

Rumors On Meeting Of Big Powers Grow Ac Do Renorts Of Germans’ Bid For Peace

Rumblings Of Something ‘Momentuous’ In Offing Grow In European Capitals   BY JUDSON O’QUINN

New Move in War Strategy Believed Near   Events Indicate Momentuous Action Being Contemplated

See Stepped-Up Allied Drives As Setting Stage For ‘Last Warning’   “Big Three” May Be Planning Dramatic Announce ment Before Launching Grand Invasion Of Western Europe.

Intensified Allied Aerial Assaults On Three Sides of Fortress Europe Coincide With Reports of Meeting of Allied “Big Three” Chieftains.

World Waits Momentous Development   Stage Appears To Be Set for Big Piece of News

STAGE SET FOR BIG WAR NEWS   Offensives Aimed at Hitler as London Hints at Major  Annatnmeamoent

MOMENTOUS DAYS SEEN AHEAD   Simultaneous Stepped-Up Offensive on Three Sides

RUMORS HINT OF DRAMATIC TURN IN THE WAR SOON   STAGE BELIEVED SET FOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

Europe Buzzes With Speculation On Meeting Of ‘Big Three’; Peace Rumored

War Offensives Foreseen As Setting The Stage For _ Momentous Developments

Simultaneously Intensified Offensives On All Side: Of Europe And Hints Of ‘Big 3’ Parley Indicat Significant Diplomatic Push.

Re THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   Offensives From Three Sides Seen Setting For Major War Development

ALLIES SPEE EUROPE DRIVE   Momentous War Development Pending, Observ ers Believe

RUSSIANS SEND IN RESERVES TO RETAKE GROUND  LOST TO NAZIS   German Hold On Zhitomir Is Precarious. Red Army Fighting Savagely.

(Civil Court Term Bevan Here Today   No Cases of Public Inter est on Docket.‘

lowe oy ft ran Civil Court Term  Began Here Today      No Cases of Public Inter: est on Docket.

Americans Find Bizerte In Ruins, ‘Like Hell Itself’   Tankmen Calmly Brush Off Flowers, Resume Battle Across Canal

BIZERTE WILD WITH JOY AS YANKS ARRIVE   FRENCH RESIDENTS TOSS FLOWERS AT U.S. TANKMEN

Frenchmen -Strew Flowers On American Tanks At Tunisian Naval Base

Upward Parity Price Revision Action Started Again As Bill Approved By House Committee

Agriculture Committee Approves Bilt Raising Price Levels.   'PACE WRITES MEASURE

Favor Upward Revision Of Farm ‘Parity Prices   Proposed New. Parity Formula, Which Would Inclose Cost Of Farm Labor, Wins Unanimous Approval Of House Agriculture Committee

FARM PARITY BLL SEAT T0 HOUSE TODAY   Price Controversy is Renewed, Despite White House ‘Opposition.   MEASURE BEATEN IN LAST SESSION   President Has Declared It Will Greatly Boost Living Costs.

BOOST IN FARM PARITY OKAYED   House Committee Approves Bill To Revise Parity Upward To Include Cost Of Farm Labor.

Parity Change Approved By  Committee   Higher Formula Is Sought Again By Farm Bloc

FARM SENATORS APPROVE BILL TO RAISE PARITY LEVEL   Farm Bloc Opens New Drive, Measure Includes Mnct OF Labor

Parity Bill Backed By  Committee   Farm Labor Costs Would Be Factor In Farm Prices Under Terms Of House Measure

Again Move To Increase Living Cost   House Committee Gives OK To Hike In Parity Price

FARM. PARITY REVISION BACKEL   House Group Approves Bill Calling for Higher Price ‘Levels

UPPING FARM PRICE PARITY LEVELS 0. XD   Formula Change Estimated To Add 10 To 12 Percent To Price Computations

NEW BIO UNDER WAY TO LIFT FARM PARITY   House Committee Gives 0. K. To Proposal

PARITY PRICE . DRIVE OPENED - BYFARM BLOC   HOUSE AG COMMITTEE OKEYS BILL TO INCLUDE COST OF LABOR

Boost in Farm Parity Level Is Given Approval   Committee Okays Bill That Would Include the Cost  of Farm Labor.   Formula Change Was Defeated Last Year

FARM PRICE HIKE AGAIN DEMANDED   Upward. Revision. of Parity Levels Given Approval by House Committee   ROOSEVELT BEAT. MOVE LAST YEAR      New Measure Would Take in Cost of Farm Labor in Fixing Parity

Revised Farm Parity Price  Bill Advance:   Measure Turned Down By Last Congress Would In clude Labor Costs.   HOPE FOR EARLY VOTE

House Committee Approves Increase for Farm Parity   Farm Bloc Launches Drive Which Roosevelt Defeated Last Year

BABSON DISCUSSES AFTER-WAR ECONOMY   Insists “Planned Economy” Will Be Out, And Incentive For Individual Enterprise   Must Be Present.

MEN IN ARMED FORCES WILL HELP DECIDE POST-WAR POINTS   Babson Thinks Plans Now Being Considerec Will Not Bear Much Fruit, Employers and Labor Must Be Considered.   {By ROGER W. BABSON).

U.S. Sul. Seeks Jap  Exchange   Stimson’ Has Hopes Swiss May Aid in . Release of Captives

AUSOTAN PLANES STRIKE AT NAZIS   Bombing Raids Dur in g Night Damage Axis Hangars in Ukraine

WASHINGTON CO. FIRST TO GIVE UP ROADS TO PA,      Highway Secretary Announces This County's Roads Have  Reen Accented

WLB Resumes Boeing Probe; Delay Hinted   Labor Member Earlier Announced Postponement Until Tuesday   STOPPAGE OUTLAWED   Union Official Orders Workers Not To Leave Aircraft Jobs

Boeing Workers in Threat at WLB Delay   WAGE PROTEST MASS MEETING SCHEDULED MONDAY IN SCRAP WITH WAR LABOR BOARD

REPORT SAYS FRENCH HEADS STILL AT ODDS   De Gaulle And Giraud Fail To Reach Agreement At Casablanca.

FIGHTERS GRATEFUL FOR BLOOD DONATIONS   Plasma Is Essential Weapon Against Burns, Hemorrhage, Infection And Shock

BLOOD MOBILE UNIT DUE HERE MONDAY   Number Of Registrants. Per Visit Stepped Up To 152— Some Vacancies On Schedule Remain To Be Filled

BLOOD MOBILE UNIT PLANS TWO-DAY VISI1   Will Be Here June 21 And 22, Red - Cross Committee Announces—  Registrations To Open

Germans Shift Attacks Against Reds  Costly Offensive on Donets Front Is Broken

Germans Shift   ® e Drive Against Donets Defense   Lost Heavily In Attacks In Izyum Sector

SPEARHEAD IS MOVED UP IN DONETS BASIN   Costly Attacks  In Izyum Sector Broken; New Site Is Near Balakleya.

FATHER DRAFT OPENS FRIDAY   Most Of States To Start Inducting Family Heads Immediately

_ Federal Pay Roll Purge of Non-Fathers Tentatively Approved. by War Officials

ARMY BACKING MOVE TO PURGE U. 5. WORKERS   Group Wants NonDads On Government Payroll Drafted

President Blends Christmas — Greetings With War Analysis In Greatest Of Radio Hookups   White House Officials Silent On Coritents Of Message This Afternoon

Expect Stiff War Talk from F.D.R.   President’s Afternoon Radio Message to Combine Greetings with War Analysis  ae SE eae:

Greatest Radio Hookup Ever Projected  President’s Talk Today To Be Broadcast In 30 Languages Over World

World Gets Roosevelt’s Yule Tiding:   30:Tongue Broadcast Of Report on Allied Conference Arransed

InvasionChiet Likely to Be Named Today      Announce Selection in Message 1o World  Roosevelt. May

FDR Talk To World   International Hookup Will Carry Speech to Far Corners of Earth

FDR Blends Christmas Greetings With War Analysis: Biggest Hookup Ready For Speech

Roosevelt To Make Address   PRESIDENT TO SPEAK TO NATION OVER RADIO

SENATE APPROPRIATES FUNDS FOR LAND ARMY   Measure Is Expected To Reduce Estimated Shortage Of Farm  Workers In Nation

Eisenhower Commands Africa Front   Appointment Is Consequence of Recent Meeting

Eisenhower Named Allied Cogimander ~ Over No#th Africa      ut-of Casablanca Conth: Africa To Be --Ovnerations  Appointment Grows’ ference, Belief; _ Qnrinahoard

Eisenhower Heads Allies   Amerivan Geis Reins In Northern Africa

FINALACTION ON ANTI-STRIKE MEASURE NEAR   ‘Congress Approval Before  New Deadline for Work Stoppage In Mines Is Predicted   BILL IN CONFERENCE   Believed Drastic Provisions In House Version of Statute Will-Be Accepted by. Senate

SPEED VOTE ON NO-STRIKE ACT   Solons Seek to Pass New Measure To Prevent  Coal Walkout

Law To Prevent  Strikes Rushed   Connally Predicts Bill Will Be Ready To Stop Coal Strike.

CONNALLY TO PRESS FOR BILL ON STRIKES   fonference Scheduled Or House Legislation

PREDICT PASSAGE OF ANTI-STRIKE BIL   Aimed To Prevent Another Coal Walkout

CONGRESS oPEEDS ANTI-OTRIKE BILL   Enactment Before Deadline Of Miners Predicted

EXPECT ACTION ON STRIKE BILL   Final Action On Anti-Strike Legislation Due Before June 20, Date For Possible New Coal Crisis.

ANTI-STRIKE LAW IS EXPECTED SOON   Congress Spurred To Action By Mine Troubles

ANTE STRIKE LAW POSSIBLE SHORTLY   Conferees Scheduled To Dis cuss Measure as Plan to Assist War.

CAPTURE OF KEY CITY DESCRIBED   U.S. Infantrymen -Enter-Castelyetrano In Pre-Dawn Charge

AMERICANS TAKE NEW TOWNS IN POWERFUL DRIVE   Castelvetrano And Sciacca Captured As Seventh Army Nears Islands Western Tip; Other Towns Taken; British Army In Heavy Battle.

Japs In Wareo Are Driven Out By Australians   Allied Force Gains Its Goal After Steady Drive From Finschhafen

WAREO IS CAPTURED BY AUSSIES   Main Jap Defense Point Is Taken; Nip Boat Is Sunk

HUGE AMOUNT PLANNED FOR . ~ POST-WAR All   ‘GOVERNMENT  CONSIDERING _ VAST RELIEF, SETUP. AS < ' " QUARD AGAINST CHAOS —  AND ANARCHY —-

Flynn’s Friend Denies ‘Blue Room’ Antics as Betty Hansen Testified '

Flynn Not With Girl, Savs Host   He Was at Table When She Charges Attack

Believe Pacitic Basic Plans Set   Mountbatten Leaves After Conferences

NEW LEADER ENDS CAPITAL PARLEY ON PACIFIC STRATEGY   Churchill To Arrive In U. 5. Next Week For New Conference With Roosevelt

CHURCHILL TO VISIT CAPITAL, RENEW TALKS   Lord Mountbatten Leaves After Completing Strategy Parley

LANDON FAVORS N.Y, GOVERNOR   Former GOP Candidate Says Dewey ‘Outstanding Possibility’ for President

Landon Booms  Thomas Dewey   1936 GOP Candidate To Talk With Hoover Of Likely Prospects 

FIND BODY OF MISSING MAN   Twin City Resident Hangs Self In Woods; Dead Two Months

—JAP SHIP—  AMERICAN CRAFT AN DARING FER)   Slips Boldly Into Water Off Japan’s West Coast To Bag Ship   “WAKE ATTACKED   U.S. Warships Open Heavy Attack On Japanese On Island

JAP SHIP SUNK, - 5OO-LIVES LOST   US; “ “Sub by Rait of Enemy’s West Coast

Jap Ferry Sunk By Sub   More Than 500 Die After Bold Foray Into Jap Waters

u. 5. Submarine Sinks Jap Ship In Daring Raid   Tokyo Claims More Than 500 Persons Perished When Ferry Steamer Goes Down

ENDS DOWN  ~_ U-BOAT JAP STEAMER   fokyo Broadcast Says More Than 500 Persons Are Lost When Submarine Attacks Ship   BELIEVED AMERICAN

U.S. Sub Sinks Nip  Ferry   500 JAPS DIE IN DARING UNDERSEA CRAFT ATTACK; WAKE ISLAND TOTTERS

CREDIT SINKING TO SUBMARINE LIKELY YANKEI   ‘Steamer Was on Regular Run and Only Few of Those Who Were  on Board Were Saved

Fine Work Off Coast OF Japan Submarine Sinks Jap Steamer  Off Main Island; Hundreds Die

00 PERISH SO AS SUB SINKS A JAP STEAMER' NA   Allied Craft, Believed to Be American, Slips Boldly Into Waters Off “wpanese West Coast, Tokvo Savs.

SUB SINKS SHIP OFF JAP COAST: 00 ARE DEAD   Tokio Reveals Loss to Bold-Attack by American Submersible

' More than oUVU Japs Vie ‘American Submarine Sinks Ship Off Japanese Coast

Sub Sinks Jap Ferry      Bold Attack In Sea _ Between Korea and Japan Takes 500 Lives

Allied Sub Sinks Ferry  On Jap Coast   Daring Exploit Compared With Sub Which Went Into Tokyo Harbor

fore Than 500 Persons Drown As American Submarine inks Ferry Steamer During Daring Raid In Jap Waters

ALLIED SUB SINKS STEAMER   Slips Boldly Into _Waters Of Jap Coast; 500 Killed

SUB SINKS JAP STEAMER WITH 500 ABOARD   Nippon Broadcast Says There Is Little Doubt But  That It Was American cok

Into Seas Off Western Japan, Sinks Ship; 500 Persons Die       Blow Is Struck By Craft Believed American, Tokyo Radio Announces

American Sub Sinks Jap Ferry   500 Perish As Result of Daring Attack

SUB INTO JAP WATERS   Japanese Report a Bold Strike by an Allied Craft

MORE TRUCK MER VOTING ON STRIKES   Bottleneck Grows As Freight Piles Up At Terminals

REPUBLICANS HOPE TO OBTAIN HARMONY TICKET AT PRIMAR}   Bricker Backed By State Committee; Plans ‘To Extend Campaign

State COP Committee Endorses Bricker For President Moves For — Harmony In Republican Primar

RUBBER INDUSTRY NORMAL   Full FPreduction Resumed Toeday Afier FOR Ultimatum

WANT MORE POWER FOR WAGE PANEL   AFL Chief Tells President Need of New Wage Orders; Peace in Akron

Rubber Workers Return To Jobs At Akron, Ohio   Strike Occurs  in N_ Y. Factory

90,000 RUBBER WORKERS RETURN TO THEIR JOBS   Strike Was Result of Dissatisfaction With WLB ‘Handling Wage Dispute.

ae é : ‘Internal Dissension, How  ever, Has Broken Out in   One Segment

AUBGER PLANTS BACK AT WORK   Soft Coal Operators Make Proposal! to Settle Dis‘nute With UMW.

AMITY RESTORED ON RUBBER FRON   Workers Return To Their Jobs In Response To Appeals Based On Nation's Need for Their War Products; Dissension In One Segment, However.

Rubber Plants Operate, But Others Close  C10 Unionists In   C10 Unionists In Big Bearing Plant Quit Their Places

RESUME WORK IN RUBBER PLANTS   DISSENSION BREAKS — OUT ON OTHER LABOR. FRONTS; PROTEST WLE

AMITY RESTORED IN  RUBBER INDUSTRY;  WORKERS RETURNED PRODUCTION HALTED,  HOWEVER, IN ANOTHER IMPORTANT WAD PLANT

ROLLER BEARING WORKERS QUIT   Amity Restored In Rubber Industry, But New Trouble Arises In Bearing Plant In N. ¥. State,

ROMIMEL'S ARMY SUFFERS HEAVILY IN TWIN ATTACKS   Allies Confident Tide Ha Turned on African Front: Russians Pursue Retreat  ‘ing Germans.

Yanks Rush — “to Re-Equip Their Units   But Time: Table “Has” Been - Upset: Somewhat. by the. Axis Attack ”   ALLIED FORWARD UNITS MOVE BACK   Axis Makes . Big’ Claims; Alexander to Lead Allies*: in Ground. Offensive

Double Nazi Setback; British Press Attack On Mareth Line; Reds Smash Ahead.

Allies Crush Axis’ Attempts to Reach Big Algerian Base   German Losses Heavy in Clashes With British  and American Troops

British$th = Army Hitting Mareth Line   U. S. Troops Guarding Stabilized Mountain Front; Tide Believed Turned Against Foe

STOP 2 JABS TOWARD THEIR TEBESSA BASE   Military Authorities Declare “Tide Has Turned” and Expect the Newly, Formed Mountain Line to Remain Firm.

Allies Crush Renewed Nazi  African Push   American, British Troops Turn Back Axis Stab To ward Algerian Base.  POUND GERMAN TANKS

‘Tide Has Turned’ Military Authorities Say after Repulse of Two Axir Attacks, but Timetable Upset

BRITISH MAKE CONTACT WITH MARETH ARE!   Nazis Claim Capture of 3,000 Prisoners, “Mostly American,” in Tunisia Battle.

Allied Chiefs In Tunisia Say Tide Has Turned   U. S.-British Line Stabilized; Earlier Losses Minimized

American And British Hur! Back Germans   Setback To Axis Indicates “Tide Has Turned” In Battle For Central Tunisia

Tide Turns in Tunisia, Say War‘ Experts’   American Equipment Loss Gains Germans Valuable Time

ROMMEL IS NOT ABLE TO PIERCE MOUNTAIN GAPS   Allies Withdraw Troops From Forward Positions in Ousseltia Valley

CRUSH ATTEMPT ROMMEL’S FORCES TO REACH TEBESSA   United States and British Troops Check Thrust Toward Algerian Base.   GERMANS LOST 6 TANKS   Clashed With An Allied Brigage Near Sbiba, It Is Announced.

second German Punch Parried: Allies Turn Tide   Hommel Jabs Foiled at Two Points; Yanks, British Crush Armored Tinite

Tanks Are Lost By Axis Forces During Cash With Allied Brigade Near Shiba

Crush Two Efforts To Break Line   Mountain Positions Withstand Terrific Assaults By Enemy   Germans Lose Tanks And Guns In Battle   Berlin Statement Says 3,000 Yanks  Are Now Prisoners

Eighth Army Is Attacking Mareth Line in Dust Storm   Allied Troops Are Wtihdrawn From Ousseltia Valley

Axis Offensive in Libya  Refares as Having Reached  Limit  LINE IS ; STABILIZED  ET   Axis Armored Vehicles De, stroyed by British and . U.S. Troops

AMERICAN-BRITISH FORCES CRUSH NEW DRIVE BY ROMMEL:  MILITARY AUTHORITIES

TIDE TURNED IN TUNISIA, EXPERTS SAY   Alexander Takes Command Of Forces In Field   LOSSES OF WEEK   Throw Allies Off Schedule Though Defeat Is Taken Only As “Incident”

STRONG GERMAN UNIT LOSES SIX TANKS IN DRIVE      Six Self-Propelled Guns Also Destroyed by Allies Guarding Stabilized Central Tunisia Line   “TIDE HAS TURNED” MILITARY MEN CLAIM   Meanwhile, British Attack Axis Near Mareth Line; Berlin Claims Many Yankee Prisoners

Po GUARD MOUNTAIN  INF   Authorities Agree ‘Tide Has Turned’ With Setbacks For Nazis.   GERMANS LOSE 6 TANKS

Axis Offensive in Libya Regarded as Having Reached  Limit   LINE IS STABILIZED   Axis Armored Vehicles De_ stroyed by British and U. S. Troops

Rommel thrust at Algerian base fails; say Alexander commands troops in Tunisia

Axis Attack  Is Resumed  To The North   Allied Forward Troops Ouit Ousseltia Valley

Germans Lose Tanks, Guns Near Sbiba    Tunisian Offensive Crushed; Alexander Assumes Command

Rommel Suffers Two Setbacks at Hands of Allies   Military Authorities Believe “Tide Has Turned” in Tunisian War.   Nazi Losses Heavy in  Combat With Yankees

Rommel Thrust At Tebessa Lost. By Gap Defense   Withdrawal to New Positions at Ousseltic Admitted in Report

Axis Attack In Kasserine Gap Repelled   Nazis Lose 6 Tanks Near Shiba; Alexander in Personal Command   ISLAND BASE TAKEN   Capture of Djerba Will Allow Flank Assault on Mareth Line

Yanks and British Turn Nazis Back   Military Authorities Believe “Tide Has Turned”—British General Alexander in Command of All Allied Grotind Forces Under Eisenhower -

Yanks Repulse Thrust Toward Alaerian Base   Nazis Lose Tanks, Guns In Attack In Mountain Passes; Alexander Takes Tunisia Post Under Eisenhower -

Tide Turns in Tunisia, Say Allied Leaders After Lines Repel German Thrust

AXIS PREPARING FOR INVASION IN MANY LANDS   European Tension Highlighted by Reports Allied - Parachutists -Have Base in Norway

Troops Will Aid Harvest In North Dakota   War Department Sends 5,100 Soldiers From Army Camps To Help Harvest Grain Crop

DECLARES STOCKYARBS GLUTTED WITH MEAT   Urges 2-Week Point, Morator ium‘to Prevent Spoilage

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4,000,000 Dr af ted in. Five-Month Period - Shows Army Growth Will Be Speeded

 GENERAL ‘IKE’ CALLS  FOR RBEDOUBLED EFFORTS  ATYrY?Yefgsekwk8ktf:t 777" ATA LAT? A TRI rec

“Utter Defeat” Of Nazis Seen By Eisenhower   Calls For Intensified Fury, Redoubled Efforts In Anniversary Message

EISENHOWER SEES DEFEAT OF GERMANY; CALLS FOR BLOWS OF REDOUBLED FURY

Victory SureGen. Eisenhowel   Calls For Redoubled _ Home Front -Effort

HOUSE BEGINS DEBATE ON TAX   — Vo, Long Awaited Battle Over Skipa-Year Plan Opens With Verbal Fireworks ~

KNUTSON OPENS CONGRESS FIGHT FOR RUML PLAN   Says Pay-Go Tax Is Geared To War Program   TREASURY PLAN IS CALLED ‘1913 MODEL’

MARETH LINE DEFENDERS HIT   Airmen From Four Continents Plaster German Armored Forces.

Nazi Reinforcements for Mareth Line Badly Bombed   Allied Airmen From Four Continents Swarmed Over German Defense Fortress in Tunisia to Unload Clusters of 40-Pound Bombs That Pilots Call “Hand Grenades”

YANKS STRIKE AT MARETH LINE   Nearly 100 P-40s Stage Shuttle Service Raids In Tripolitania.

ALLIED BOMBERS HUNT NAZI TANKS   Airmen From Four Continents Over Mareth Line

SWIFT DAWE “TO RECAPTURE THE GAUGASUS   Russian Armies Striking Out in Two Directions to Trap Axis.   REDS SURGING AHEAD   Germans. Continue tc Lose Heavily in Manpower and Equipment.

MOZDOK SEIZED AS PUSH MOVES NEAR NALCHIK   Twin Offensives Are Aimed At Vital Rail Junctions Held By Enemy   IVELIKIE LUKI CLAIMED   Reds Continue Southward Advance Thru Don Area Toward Rostov

Red Forces Move In Two Directions  Out From Mozdok   Swift Campaign To Reconquer Caucasus Is Aim Of © Soviet Forces   MOZDOK RECAPTURE AIDS IN ADVANCE   Mid-Caucasus Rail Junctions Are Next Goal In Attack By Red Troops

New Two-Way Offensive To ee *  rap Armies   Hitler’s Crack Regiments Are Overwhelmed

NEWSPRINT PRICE GOING UP AGAIN   An Increase Of Four Dollars Per  Ton Is Added.

-NEWSPRINT PRICE HIKED   4 Per Ton Increase Is Announced By U. 8.-Canadian Board

NEWSPRINT 10 BE RAISED $4 A TON SEPTEMBER 151   Second Increase fn. Price Since 1938 Has Been Granted By OPA.

OPA TO APPEAL JUDGE'S RULING   Method Of Closing Up-Business Held Illeaal

Stock Limitation Ruling Is Eased  WPB Action Covers Both  Retailers, Wholesalers

NEW S00 LOCK IN OPERATION   speeds Iron Ore Through Canal At Army-Booming City

MCARTHUR LOCK AT SAULT MARIE OPEN   Formally Dedicated Sunday, Cost $14-000,000

Bill Designed to Halt Hoarding Is Noticed  31 New. Proposals Are Filed in Upper Chamber

Senators Give Notice of 31 New Measures   Today Is Dead Line For Introductions In Upper Branch

Prosecution of  Hoarders Is Sought in Bill   Price Ceiling Violators Also Listed; Large Run of Business in Senate; Today Final One for Introducing Bills

U.S. STH ARMY IN NEW SMASH ~ BEFORE NAPLES   Clark’s Troops Take Acerno as Eighth Capture Avigliano

YANKS DRIVE NEW SALIENT NEAR NAPLES   Air Offensive Greatest of Campaign  NAZIS STUBBORN  = nemctenant  Fifth Army Advances 10 Miles a Day

Hitler $ Promise: More Horror And Suffering   _ kk kK kk xkkwek kw k Carnared And Decnerate He Honec Ta Dectrav FEurone

PERIOD OF DEEPER HORROR AND SUFFERING PROMISED PEOPLE OF FUROPE IN HITLER DECLARATION

Foretells Tragic  Times   Hitler Paints Grim  - Picture of Suffering ‘In European Countries Before War Is Ended

Expect Bold Hitler Move  Coming Soon   German Fuehrer May Be Planning Drive On Ends Of Mediterranean.  aren rir hor OO AT TA TO Tee. hUCUR ae UA OY

New Horrors Are Hinted. By Hitler   Nazi Leader Comered. Bold Move Due?

VITAL PASS CONTINUING   Rommel Takes Gamble In North; Planes  Score Victories

TANKS ARE WRECKED   British 8th Army Reported Half Way to Mareth

RommelHits Americans’ HillPositions   Germans Repulsed On-2 Other Fronts In Slashes at Allies’

REGAIN GROUND AFTER LOSS OF PASS IN TUNISIA   Soviet May Reveal New Successes Tuesday On Anniversary

NAZIFORCES MAKE BID 10 SEIZE HILLS   Allies Smash 13 Tanks from German Assault

Heavy Fighting Sill — Raging At Kasserine — Pass: Nazis Lose Tanks

Battle Continues; Two Other Nazi Thrusts Repelled   Rommel Gambles on Smashing Hill Positions? Before 8th Army Strikes; 13 Tanks i Smahed at Kasserine Pass ig

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE ACROSS WHITE RUSSIA   Threaten Imminent Capture of Gomel and Mowiley

BIG BASE BOMBED TO PREVENT USE AS ESCAPE PORT   Meantime Forces of General Montgomery Prepare to Resume Attack North of Gabes,   ROMMEL CONTINUES RETREAT UP COAST   Reporis of Junction Between, Americans Under Patton  and Eighth Army Are Denied.

Montgomery’s Force Believed Ready To Resume Attack On  New Positions

Montgomery's Forces Gather  For New Stabs   Berlin Claims Axis Armies in Tunisia Joined; Allied Fliers Deal Out Punishment

Eighth Clearing Enemy Pockets   Junction OF Yanks And British Denied

BRITISH FIRST ARMY FIGHTS TOWARDS AXIS STRONGHOLDS IN TUNIS AND BIZERTE; MEET LITTLE RESISTANCE.

Fall of Bizerte And Tunis Near, Allies Believe   Rommel’s Divisions Again under Heavy Attack from Air   Germany Reports Junction of Von Arnim and Rommel Forces

Enemy Flees, Leaving Booty Behind   Yanks, British Keep Striking From Air Relentlessly

First Army Advances and Eighth Army Plans Attacks  FIGHTING QOHIETED   FIGHTING QUIETER, COMMUNIQUE SAYS   Terrific Punishment Being Dealt Enemy From the Ai, .

First Army Advances and Eighth Army Plans Attacks  FIGHTING QUIETER, COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Terrific Punishment Being Dealt Enemy From the Air

MONTGOMERY IS PREPARING FOR ANOTHER BLOW   Massive Fleets Of Bombers Strike At Sfax Without Loss Of Single Plane.

British Make Gain in North Tunisia Drive   Eighth Army Prepares to Give More Smashing Blows; Germans Claim Their Two Forces Joined

Montgomery Peepers for  More Blows   Allied Planes Keep on Harassing Forces of Axis Generals

FIRST ARMY IN STEADY DRIVE ON AXIS BASES   Enemy Forces In The North Reported Offering Lit tle Resistance   ALLIED AIRMEN ARE ASSAULTING ROMMEL

Massive Air Assaults Harass Fleeing Rommel Divisions   British-French Forces Slash at Nazis in Mateur Vicinity; Regain Ground Lost to Von Arnim; Take Supplies

FLEEING AXIS FORCES LEAVE BOOTY BEHIND   ALLIED WARPLANES MAKE ROAD HOT FOR ROMMEL

Smashing Air Blows Are Dealt Rommel   Montgomery's Units Gather Force for New Assaults

GAING MALE 0 BIZERTE, TUNIG   Von Arnim’s Troops Leave Much Booty Behind   ROMMEL’S FORCES   ‘Retreating up Tunisian Coast Battered by Continued Air Assaults

Terrific Punishment. Bex ing Dealt Out By, Allied Air Arm; 100 Light aiid Medium Bombeis' Plas{ter Sfax

PASS A WAR BILL   Enables Compliance With U. S. Victory Tax on State Payrolls

Passes First War Bill   Authorizes State Com' pliance With Victory Tax on Payrolls

Tax Measures  Continue To  Predominate Legidlabnre Gives  Official Approval To Pay Roll Levy

Progressive Mine Union Asks Lewis’ Plea Be Rejected   Says Admission of UMW to AFL Is Impossible Under Constitution

UMW ENTRY IN AFL PROTESTED   Progressive Union Files Objection To Lewis’s Proposal

ASK REJECTION OF LEWIS BID TO ENTER AFL   PMWA PETITIONS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO DENY RE-ENTRY

TOJO WARNS OF ~ ALLIED DRIVES   Counter Offensive ‘Real anc Serious’ Japanese Told

Premier Tojo Warns Japan   Tells Japanese House Of Peers Allied Offensive Becomes Serious

‘Adm, Halsey Has Low Opinion of Jap Service Man   U.S, Soldier Equal to 20 of Enemy Frank Officer Declares

TIGHTEN PARTY LINES BEHIND RUML TAX PLAN  PEPUBLICANS FAVOR   FEPUBLICANS FAVOR PROPOSAL TO ABATE 1942 INCOME TAX

Rum! Plan Viclory Sure Says Martin   Compromise ‘ia Air’ As G.0.P., Democrats Line Up for Vote

House Republicans Mapping Strategy On Rum Tax Plan  Conferences Held To Tighten Party Lines Before Voting

GOP Confident Of Passing A Skip-Year Tax   Strategy Mapped By Leaders As Debate Is Continued

GOP LINE OF RUML PLAN MADE TIGHTER   Democrats Continue Running Battle Against Tax Abatement Measure

REPUBLICANS MUSTER VOTES. FOR RUML PLAN      Dies Predicts Veto if Compromise Not Adopied—Democrais Favor Forand Bill

Party Tightens Lines Behind . Ruml Proposal   Martin Confident Of Victory when Voting Is Started

STILL CERTAIN   Martin Predicts House Passage of Rum! Tax Measure.

MARTIN CONFIDENT "OF RUML PLAN   House GOP’ Group Meets to Tighten Lines Behind Ta Proposal

WILL FIGHT. TO END FOR RUML PLAN   ‘No Compromise’ Stand By GOP in One of the Bitterest Tax Fights   VOTING MAY BE STARTED TOMORROW:   Talk of Compromise Increases in Hot Clash Over Tax Skip

Ruml Passage  Certain-Martin   GOP Leader Calls Stratecy Meeting

Republicans To Stand Firm   Will Go Down the Line For Ruml Plan and Fiaht Compromise

‘No Compromise’ Say Republican Leader:   G. O. P. Tightens Their Lines Behind the Ruml Tax Policy.

House Seen Approving Ruml Plan   Republican Steering Group Meets To Tighten Party Lines Behind Proposal

HOUSE REPUBLICANS SEEK TIGHTEN LINES BEHIND RUML PLAN  VARIOUS COMPROMISE PLANS REPORTED IN  BREAUIAIO Tet WRrEesmoen éanrr

HOUSE REPUBLICANS SEEK TIGHTEN LINES BEHIND RUML PLAN  _ VARIOUS COMPROMISE _ PLANS REPORTED IN MAKING BY DEMOCRATS

DLANTNHOISF NEARING VOTE   Republican Steering Committee Tightening Party Lines Behind RumlLike Proposal   MARTIN CONFIDENT OF BILL’S PASSAGE   GOP Leader Keeps Strategy Secret; Leading Democrats Abandoning Committee’s Measure

GOPTightens ‘Lines Behind Ruml Plan   Martin Maps Strategy When Voting Begins ‘on Tax Plan —

Martin Sure Rum! Plan Will Pass   Republicans Meet To Gather Strength For .Fieht

GOP Certain Of Tax Votes   Martin Believes Skip-A-Year Plan Will Pass House

AIR GRASH LEADS TO TRAIN WRECK   TWENTY-SIX CARS STACKED UP AFTER ENGINE HITS BOMBER—CO-PILOT DIES.

BOMBER GRASH ~WREEKS: TRAI   26 Boxcars Stack Up After Freight Hits Debris; Flier Killed

7 Freedoms Plan Drawn   Vice President Calls For ‘People’s Peace’

COMMON MAN’ EAA AT HAND. SAYS WALLAGE   Seven Freedoms, Stemming From One Of Roosevelt's Listed Ry Wallace

North American Soil Now Clear Of Axis Invaders   American, Canadian Forces Holding Bleak Kiska; Fogs Believed To Have Aided Myster. ious Escape Of Jap Forces From Island

OppositionLacking From Rocky Island   Heavy Bombing Precedes Allied Landings On Can And Air Bace: Fon Aided Jan Feranec

Merciless Raids Drive Japs Out   Actions Hint New  Policy In Pacific By HAMILTON W. FARON

Jans Abandon Kiska Island Without Fight  U.S. and Canadiai  Troops Occupy

JAPS FLEE BLAZING NAVAL AND AERIAL ASSAULT, LEAVING KEY BASE ENTIRELY UNDFFNFDED

Troops Land, Find Japanese Forces Fled  Apparently Slipped Away Through Fog

Landing Forces Find Aleufian Island Deserted   Believed A By Heavy Fors  Escape Of Japanese Aided

No Japanese Found On Last Enemy Stronghold In Aleutian Islands   Americans And Canadians Land On Island Following Terrific Air And Sea Pounding

NORTH AMERICA INVASION ENDS WITHOUT FIGHT   Enemy Is Believed To Have Fled Last Toehold Under Fog Cover   IS VITAL BASE   Way Is Opened For Renewed Assaulls On Kurile Island Chain

No Foes Wait As Allies Make Landing   Aleutians Cleared of Invaders, Enemy Bases Easier to Hit

JAP. GARRISON, GIVES UP KISKA WITHOUT FIGHT      Takes Flight, tt is Believed,  Under Shroud of Fog   When Position Be comes Unitenable    MAY HAVE FLED TO KURILES BASES   Escape Believed To Have Taken Place Between   Aug. 13 and 15 After Terrific Bombardment

Enemy Flees Without Final Battle   ° Yanks, Canadian  _ Occupy Outpost  After Air Assaul

ACREAGE WINTER WHEAT NEXT TO SMALLEST YET   Dreary Outlook Reported By Department Of Agriculture As Nine Per Cent Loss Is Indicated In This Year's Crop,

EXPECT LARGE TOTAL ACREAGE ILLINOIS CROPS   Need Favorable Weather; Report Gives Outlook State Crops.

Soviets Take Center Of Melitopol   Other Advances Are Posted By Red Armies

Melifopol In. Soviet Hands   Fifth Dnieper River Crossine Successfu}

Soviets Storm Kiev, Nearly Deserted Now   Evacuation Is Nearly Complete As Germans Prepare For Loss _   CITIZENS ENSLAVED   Russians Preparing To _ Bombard.Kerch In Drive On Crimea

U-BOATS “SURPRISED”   Aiveraft) Carriers Uxe In fan er tperts German Plans

Nazis Recall “Pledce”   Huron Squadron Of Civil Air Patrol Gets Officer Commissions

Japs Suffer Sharp Defeats On Various Battlefronts, Including China

Japanese Gain in Drive on Finschhafen   More Than 200 Nips Are Killed in Sharp Fighting

Japanese Counter On Finschhafen  Advances Farther  Enemy Makes Progres: For Second Day; 17 Nip Planes Down

Big American Bombers Strike  At Frankfurt   Daylight Assault Follows Heavy RAF Attacks on Kassel

Yet Another Night Attack Is Indicated   75. Nazi.Planes Are. Destroyed by Planes ‘of United Stales

Churehill And Roosevelt May Meet In Quebec      U. S. Military Leaders Arrive In Canadian  City For Confab

U. S. Chiefs of Staff Arrive at ‘Quebec for Anglo-American Parley

ARRIVAL OF CHIEFS OF STAFF POINTS TO EARLY MEETING   Time Principals Arrive At Quebec Is Closely Guarded Secret—~ Eden Expected

EDEN MAY COME TO CONFERENCE, LATEST REPORT   Steps for Anglo-Russian Collaboration Predicted

Quebec Waits Principals in Historic Meet   Hint Eden May Attend and Later Carry Word to  WA. errr

Staff Chiefs Avr rive At Quebec Today   President, Churchill Expected Soon For. Vital Conferences

Eight Die as Two Bombers Collide Near Carlsbad   Two Parachute To Safety, Another Man Is Missing

665 AT THE PREMIERE   “So Proudly We Hail’? Shown at Jayhawker Yesterday

SHOW NO SIGNS OF RETURNING TO JOBS TODAY   AWAIT OUTCOME OF LEWIS’ CONFERENCE WITH SEC’Y ICKES

John Lewis Is Expected To Call ‘eeting Of Policy Committee To Approve Action

Coal Pits Idle, Talks  Continued   Government’s Call to Work Generally Ignored Today inMajor Producing-Areas   LEWIS “AND ICKES..” CONFER AGAIN   Committee Session Also Planned; New. Stoppages in’ Some Cases

Regional Boards Soon To Deeide Labor Disputes   WLB To Create 14 Units In Various Big Cities: Wage Pacts Involved

LABOR BOARD MAPS CHANGE IN PROCEDURE   Creation of Twelve to Fourteen Regional Boards — With Wide Powers Is Proposed   PLANS BEING STUDIED

BOARD 10 DELEGATE CENTRAL AUTHORITY   Drastic Reorganization of Procedure Calls for Regional Offices.

Labor Board To Set Up A Dozen Regional Units   Decentralization Of Authority Designed To  Sneed Settlemente

War Labor Boara To Try New Plan  Regional Groups Will Have Power to Rule

DALLAS GIVEN WLBBOARDIN REGION SETUP   TO HAVE POWER TO RULE IN LABOR, WAGE MATTERS

WLB To Create 14 Regional Units To Decide Labor Disputes And Wage Pacts

WLB REGIONAL BOARDS SOON   Reorganization Will Give Them Authority To Act On Disputes.

Revional Boards Planned by WLB   Would Have Power To Rule Finally In Disputes

REGIONAL WLB BOARDS TO GET WIDE POWERS      12 to 14 District Boards Planned jo Rule Finally in Labor Disputes, Voluntary Wage Agreements

War Labor Board Hands Authority To Regionals   Area Groups With Final Say To Be Set Up In Dozen Or More Cities.

WAR LABOR BOARD PLANS 10 CREATE REGIONAL BODIES   Drastic Reorganization Call: for Groups in Ten Cities to Speed Action on Dis.  nite

WLB to Set up Region Boards All Over U.S.   12 to 14 Officers Will Have Full Authority In Disputes

FOOD STAMP PLAN URGED 10 REPLACE SUBSIDY PROGRAM   sen. Bankhead Proposal Intended To Aid LowIncome Groups

Urges Substitute For Subsidies   Senator Suggests Using Food Stamps

Confirmation Of Flynn Is Still In Doubt   Indications Are Party Lines Will Be Split in Senate Voting

VOTE ON EDWARD J, FLYNN IS EXPECTED TO BE A CLOSE ONE   ‘His Confirmation. or Rejection Will Be By Close Margin.   SENATE POLL IS MADE   Of 88 Interviewed Only 29 Declared Themselves for Flynn.

Smiles At Pastors As He Is Executed   Child Slayer Put Toe Death By Cyanide Gas

ACTION ON TAX BILL EXPLAINED   Senate Committee Says Its Revenue Cutting Decision Influenced By Budget Bureau’s Action.

BOOST IN TAX LEVY UNSOUND, SENATORS SAY   Failure to Meet Goal Of Treasury Cited  By Committee

SOLONS DEFENL TAX GOAL CUT   COMMITTEE INFLUENCED BY BUDGET BUREAU ACT

TAX FRAMERS ARE LED BY BUDGET GUT   Senate Finance Committee ‘Influenced’ by Cut of 11 Millions from Deficit

Committee Defends Its ‘Tax Plan   Current Year's Deficit I: Eleven Billion Les: Than Estimated, I Senators’ Report

SENATE GROUP  JUSTIFIES ITS SLASHIN TAXES   Committee Influenced’ By Budget Bureau’s $11,000, 000,000. Cut In Deficit 4  Estimates © “

Low Tax Bill Is Credited To Budget Cut  $11 Billion Reduction In Estimate Of Year's Deficit Influenced

Budget Bureau Showed Way To Cut Tax   Senate Committee Says Deficit Tos Roe Smaller

New Revenue Bill, Butt of Morgenthau Anger, is Reported   Senate Committee Influenced by Budget Bureau’s Action

New Tax Bill Reported by Senate Group   Gives Reasons for Not Meeting Demands Made by Treasury

Sever New Tax Bill Because Of Deticit Cu   Senate Finance Committee Reports During Congress Holidav Recess.   PROTECTS OLD AGE

EXPLAIN REASON FOR REDUCTION OF TAX SCHEDULE   COMMITTEE CONTENDS TREASURY DEMAND WAS NOT JUSTIFIED

TARGETS GET SHOWERS OF HUGE BOMBS   Home Front of Rhineland Plostered By Explosives From Swarms of Airplanes   INVASION IS FEARED

ARMY T0 MOVE OUT OF HOTELS   eee  To Give Up 206 And Save 4 1-2 Millions In Rent

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS Nar Department To Cive Up 206 of 434 Hotels Lease

OPA UPS POINT VALUE ON HAW   January Meat Quota Will Re. main About Same

KEEP °EM FLYING NOT JUST SLOGAN   Air Service Command Lauded for Work Behind the Lines.

General Praises American Worker   Planes Kept In Good Fighting Trim

PLANES KEPT FIT BY SERVICE CREWS   ONLY 5 PER CENT OF OVERSEAS SHIPS GROUNDED FOR LACK OF PARTS.

No Official .Notice of Canning Sugar Has Been Received by She Loca! Rationing Board

CANNERS TO  GET SUGAR      As Much As 25 Pounds Per Person Is Available For  All Purposes

TO SIMPLIFY - SUGAR ISSUE FOR CANNING   BUT DATE. AS. ‘Nor BEEN SET ue DO START DISTRIBUTION          All Fatilies Will Be Encouraged: To . _ Preserve, As Much. Fraits and Vegetables As Possible  4 ge.

Canning Sugar: To Be Available In Short Time —  U1) Allace on   Will Allow 25. , Pounds Per Person It is Announced

Sugar For Canning Is Available; 25 Pounds   Aig france [s J Pound Of Sugar For ’ Each Four Quarts of Fruits, Vewetabies, 5 For Jams

Army Air Forces Smash Nazi Subs As Far As 1,000 Miles From Shore: 10 U-Boats Hit

U.S. Army Flyers Blast 10 U-Boats In 13 Battles  Keep Three Others   Keep Three Others From Attacking Allied Shipping

American Army Bombers Sink or Damage 10 Subs   Attack U-Boats Far in Aflantic

10 U-Boats Sunk Or Damaged By U.S. Bombers   Three Others Forced To Remain Submerged Near Menaced Convoys

10 NAZI SUBS HIT BY FLIERS   Five Definitely Thought Destroyed by U. S. Army Bombers In Atlantic

10 Nazi Subs Sunk Hit in Atlantic   Three Others Forced to Stay Submerged So They Could Not Attack Nearby Allied Shipping—No Dates or Locations Revealed But Some as Far as 1,000 Miles Out

FLIERS BOMB TEN GERMAN U-BOATS   Vessels Sunk or Damaged . Recently, It Is Announced .

Yankees Hit Wake Island   Bomb Japanese Base “Promiscuously and Generally,” Knox Says

JAPANESE BLASTED BY AIR AND GROUND ATTACKS RECENTLY  WAKE ISLAND HIT BY LIBERATORS AS MUNDA BEING STORMED

Blast Japs On Wake Island      Shoot Down 18 Zeros  In Heavy Attack; U.S Troops Gain on Munda Bomb Kiska 10 Times

Wake Island Attacked By US Bombers   18 Jap Zeros Destroyed or Damaged; Americans Advance in Climactie Assault Against Munda

Wake Island Given Heavy Bombing By Big Navy Warplanes   Land Forces Advance 500 Yards in Front-Line Smash Toward Munda After Heavy Bombardment

4-Engined U. 5. Planes Deliver Heavy Attack   American Ground Forces Advance in Assault on Munda

U.S. Bombers Attack Wake   American Troops Smash Center Of Munda’s Front Line Pillbox Defense.

KNOX DISCLOSES HEAVY FORAY ON JAP-HELD WAKE   Island Blasted ‘Promiscuous ly And Generally By Liberator Bombers

Yankee Aerial Bombs Plaster Jap-Held Wake   U. S. Ground Forces In Climactic Advance On Munda Air Base.

The Pacific War:  _U. S. Attack On Wake Is Revealed; Americans Make Gains On Munda

Start Offensive against Munda   U.S. Liberators Heavily Attack Wake Island While American Troops Advance on JapHeld Base After Heaviest Pacific Bomb Raid

PACIFIC JUNGLE A NEWS CENTER   Plenty of Stories But You  Must Be Up There © ) to Get It

POPE ON RADIO PLEADS FOR PEACE THIS YEAR; ‘SEES CLIMAX NEERING: SCORES QPPREScaRS

POPE, IN RADIO TALK FROM ROME, ASKS JUST PEACE   Speaking In Italian Pope  Pius Recalls Efforts to ' Halt Hositlities, Hopes  Words Will Help All.   TALKS OF FIFTH CONFLICT ‘ANNIVERSARY   Message Uttered At An Hour  When Russians Are Mak ing Greatest Achievement + of Nation.

Pope Pius Predicts War To End In ’43      Speaks To World Over Vatican Radio, Say:  ‘New Dawn Of Peace’ Is Looming

Pope Pius Asks  For ‘Just Peace   Sees End of War and the Dawn of Peace in 1943.

POPE PIUS CALLED ON WORLD LEADERS REACH “JUST PEACE”   PONTIFF EXPRESSES HOPI 1943 WILL SEE AND OF PRESENT WAR

Pope Calls For Just Peace In Message Showing Belief War Fast Nearing Crisi

POPE ASKS FOR PEACE IN 1943   Pontiff Speaks for 14 Min. ! utes: Calls for Just Settlement of Problems.

Pope Broadcasts Hope For End Of War, “New Dawn Of Peace” In 1943   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

POPE PLEADS PEACE ON WAR’S ANNIVERSARY   ‘Pontiff Says Crisis Approaching, Expresses Hope for End of Con     ADVANTAGETOALL   Holy Father Asserts People Revolt Against War, Ask Nothing but ‘Peace, Bread, Work’

Pope Sees Climax: Pleads For Peace   Pontiff’s Broadcast May Speed Italian Efforts Tc Get Out Of War; Scores Forces Of Oppression Abroad In World

Lope Sees War Ended In 1943: Calls For ‘Inst Peare’   ' Headlines Tell Of Growing Allied Strength   Find Tt Difficulé To Reassure Germans

Plea For Just Peace Sounded  By Pope Pius   Influence Of Vatican Is Thrown Behind Efforts To Restore Worldwide Peace This Year

The Nebraska Story By Gov, Dwig by Coed  PAGE 6   Pope ealls for  a just peace

Pope Calls on World Leaders To End ‘War This Year With Just Peace’

Pontiff Asks Leaders For A Just Peace   Believes Crisis  Has Been Reached

End War in ‘43, Pope Pius Urges      Fight Nears Climax, He Says in Broadcast

Pope Pius Radios New  Peace Plea   Pontiff Expresses Hope For End Of World War This Year.

Pope Pleads For Peace    Speech Broadcast on War’s Anniversary Suggests Belief Time of . Crisis Near at Hand

PONTIFF HOPES THAT °43 WILL SFE WAR’S END   Addresses Radio Talk To All Nations Willing To Seek Peace   CRISIS IS PREDICTED.    Hostilities Nearing Culmination, Pius Believes

Pope Appeals to World for'Just Peace‘ This Year   Hostilities Are Reaching Climax, Dontifl Cave

Pope calls for  a just peace   Nazi throne totters at 5th milestone   Reeling Germans face 3rd winter in Russia

POPE ASKED THE WORLD LEADERS T0 REACH ‘JUST PEACE   Expressed His Hope and Faith That 1943 Would See the End of the War.   HE SPOKE 14 MINUTES   Careful to Stress His Concern for the Whole Human Family.

Group Planning Real New Order Given Blessins   Expresses Hope 1943 Will :  “New Dawn Of Peace’?

POPE CALLS E GALLS FOR “JUST PEACE”   Pontiff's Message Expresses Belief War Is In Or Near  Last Great Act

PONTIFF MAKES PLEA FOR PEACE   “People Revolting Against Violence,” Pope Pius Declares

Pope Pius Calls — For Just Peace   Expresses Hope and Faith That 1943 Will See End of World Strife and “A New Dawn of Peace”—Speaks Over Vatican Radio.   APPEALS TO LEADERS

‘Just Peace’ Asked By Pope  Approaching Crisis Indicated By Pontiff

(War Is “Reaching Climax,’ [Pope Declares In Pleading ‘For Just Peace [his Year _

POPE PLEADS FOR PEACE IN PRESENT YEAR   War Reaching Climax He Declares in  Radio Talk

POPE CALLS FOR WAR LEADERS TQ REACH PEAGE   Expresses Hope That Conflict Will Come To End This Year

End Of Struggle This Year Seer   Condemns War Makers In Stirring Address

Pope Broadcasts Appeal for Just Peace This Year; Says Hostilities Reaching Climax

POPE CALLS FOR “A JUST PEACE   PONTIFF URGES END OF HOSTILITIES IN 1943

New Budget Will Reach All-time High   Congress Plans Close Study of Proposed Funds

FDA WILL Ak 040-4 BUDGE OF 100 BILLION   Economy-Minded Congress To Demand Accounting Of Every Outlay   UNPRECEDENTED BURDEN IS FACING TAXPAYERS   Some Form Of Pay-As-YouGo Tax Plan Holds Favor Of Legislators

America is Ready for Supreme Test  of Battle in 1944   Production Schedule is 25 Per Cent Greater Than for This Year

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE IN 1944 BIGGER   America Is Armed And Ready For Battle Test

‘American Production Bests  Al Axis Nations Combined  Armed and Ready for Supreme Battle

Terrific Toll Being Paid For Small Gains   ‘Insignificant Gains’ Of Germans Paid Fos Heavily In Blood And Armor

100,000 Chileans Gather to Hear Wallace Speak   Brotherhood -Among Nations of New World “Stressed in Address

fOMEL FALLS 10 REDS; GERMAN ‘LINE COLLAPSINE   Germans Are First to Disclose Capture of City   REDS SMASH THROUGH ON WIDE NEW FRONT

- BACK TO NEW LN   Hitler’s Latest Counter-attack Disintegrates” ‘Before Sov-

FOE QUUT ERM LINES COLLAPSE IN WHITE RUSDIA   City Is Free From German Yoke For First Time Since August, 194]

RED ARMY CRACKS   Soviets Drive to Upper Dnieper River on Broad Frarnt

Gomel Falls Before Russian Onslaught; Foe Fleeing Pincer    Renewed Offensive Knocks Gaping. Hole in German Delense Sector; ~~. 180 Towns and Villages Retaken. © -

CITY ENCIRCLED, RED ARMY OPENS. DRIVE TO NORTH   DNB Says Developments In Fighting in Gomel Area Led German Command to Plan Evacuation.   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ‘FENDS OFF ASSAULTS   Americans in Biggest Formation of Heavy Bombers to Blast Arcas In Northwest Germany.

Germans Quit Gomel, They Admit, And Soviet  Armies In Other Gains

Rival French Leaders Meet For First Time; More Aid  Promised Russia and China

Precedent Shattering Conference Held At Casablanca—Roosevelt Makes Trip By Plane

UNCONDITIONAL AXIS SURRENDER IS KEYNOTE OF AFRICAN MEETING OF ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL   Difficulties Between French Factors Started Toward Settlement at Historic Conference—-Russia and China Included in Plans and Leaders Consulted—- U. S.  And British Chiefs Make Trips by Planes

PRESIDENT FLIES 5,000 MILES ACROSS ATLANTIC FOR 10-DAY MEETING WITH BRITISH cere AT CASABLANCA.

‘MASTER PLAN’ AGREED UPON AT CASABLANCA   Historic Parley Thriils  United Nations As Hope  For Axis Defeat In   1943 Increases   GEN ERAL STRATEGY AIRED BY LEADERS   Unconditional Surrender Of Foes Will Be Only Terms for Peace In Allied Program”

Roosevelt And Churchill End 10-Day Conferences After Mapping Strategy   Heads of Armed Services of Two Nations Attended Meetings at Casablanca; Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek Unable to Leave Home Wars

President and Premier Reach Full Agreement In North Africa   Stalin Invited. Unable to Go to Casaclance For Conference   De Gaulle, Giraud Meet   Continued Aid to Russia, China Part of Grand Strategy

Giraud, De Gaulle Meet With Them: Roosevelt Drives in Jeep to Review Pop-Eyed American Troops Sur: prised to see the Chief in Africa

Complete Surrender  Of Axis Only Goal   Roosevelt, Churchill and Military Leaders Leave Casablanca for Fighting Posts

Total Surrender  Of Axis Is Goal   President Flies 5,000 Miles To Attend 10-Day Conference Of Allied Military Leaders; Russia, China Kept Advised Of Progress

PRESIDENT FLIES 10 NORTH AFRICA FOR WAR CONFERENCES   ALLIED LEADERS MAP PLANS FOR GLOBAL WAR IN 1943 AT MEETING IN CASABLANCA ON AFRICA COAST

Unconditional Surrender Of Three Axis Nations Is Allied Goal For 1943   Military Staffs Present For 10-Day Conference Held At Casablanca

Top-Flight Military Men Plan Action   Roosevelt ‘and: “America’s Military: Commanders Met Churchill in Casablanca,   NOTHING LIKE. IT IN. ALL HISTORY   Complete Agreement. Mada on Strategy But Plans Are g Military Secret -

UNCONDITIONAL AXIS SURRENDER DEMANDED   Giraud And De Gaulle Meet For First Time; Fullest Aid . Pledeed To Reds, China

Roosevelt-Churchill North Africa War Plans Conference Highlights

Roosevelt Breaks More Traditions in 5000-Mile Air Trip to Africa Nearly Twa Weeks Ago.   GROUP SPENT MANY HOURS DELIBERATING   Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek   Are Not Present, But Kept Advised on Progress of Proceedings.

President’s Airplane Trip To Battlefront Is Revealed; French Agreement Gained

It Happened This Week...  Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Met In iran

President Elys to Africa for Historic Parley   War Plans for 1943 Are Outlined by President and Prime Minister During 10-Dav Secret Conference

Flying Leaders Outline Offense   United Notions to Keep Initiative, Seek Unconditional Surrender of Germany, Italy, Japan in Great Drive

DeGaulle, Giraud Brought Together  During Last Two Days of 10-Day Meeting; Greater Aid to China Piedged: FDR Flew to Parley

Africa Parley To Mean New Allied Drives   FDR, Churchill And Staffs Believed To Have  Charted Bold Offensives; French Amity  Negotiations Put Kili Way

It Happened This Week... .  Roosevelt-Churchill Plan Victory In Meeting

Allied Leaders Agree On 1943  Axis Surrender   Unprecedented 10-Day Conference Held At Casablanca; American Troops In Morocco See President

Leaders Get FullSupport Of Officials  In Sessions   Complete Unity Is Reached By  Nations

President Flies To North Africa To Hold Historic lVieeting  WORLD SURPRISE  Is First Time President Of United States Has Ever Flown Across Atlantic

FDR-Churchill Give Policy at Conferences   President Flew 5,000 Miles for Meeting With British Prime Minister; War Staffs US-England Attend; Giraud, De Gaulle Pledge French Liberation

Giraud, De Gaulle Brought Together; European Invasion. Courses Believed Charfed, Field Commanders Selected

Roosevelt and Churchill * Meet Allied Officers at -*, ‘Casablanca   OVERSEAS BY PLANE   Choice of Field Commanders for Various Operations Secret

ALLIES START EXECUTING MASTER PLAN AGREED ON FOR AXIS’ UNCONDIFIONAL DEFEAT

President Flies to Morocco for 10-Day Conference, Visits Yankees in the Field

President, Traveling By Plane, Accompanied By U. S. Military Leaders   D’GAULLE AND GIRAUD EASE FRENCH PROBLEM

Aim at Forcing Axis’ Surrender   European Invasion Course Believed Charted At Historic Conference Of FDR, Churchill, French 7 Leaders In Africa.

LEADERS HOLD TEN DAY MEET IN NO. AFRICA   Roosevelt and Churchill, With Staffs, Study War's Prospects   SEEK END THIS YEAR   White House Says New Chapter To Story To Be Written

De Gaulle, Giraud At Unprecedented Allied Conference   Leaders of Two Nations Agree On ‘Unconditional Surrender” Of Germany, Italy, Japan;  Stalin Informed

‘Roosevelt - Churchill Casablanca Conference Outlines War Strategy

Roosevelt Defies Tradition, Flying To African Front   Meets With Churchill at Casablanca; Talks With French Chiefs.   itended by Staffs  f Britain, America

Demand Unconditional Surrender from Axis   Allied Leaders Fly to Morocco to Lay Grand War Strategy; Get French Chiefs " Tocether

Trauition Broken, FD Fhes Atlantic To Attempt Parley   Meet Lasts 10 Days, Ended Sunday; New War Commanders  Chosen

°. D.R. Flies   Ten-Day Meeting Is Protected By Strictest Secrecy   de Gaulle and Giraud n Strategy Agreement   Points At Which Axis Will Be Hit In 1943 Decided

Roosevelt and Churchill ’ Meet Allied Officers at  Casablanca  OVERSEAS BY PLANE  re ee ealidincaall  ro 2 np» ee ¢ FS %   Choice of Field Commanders for Various Operations Secret

Planes BearChiefs To African Parley   : Five-Point Prograni Places Peace On Unconditional Surrender Basis

Top-Flight Military Strategists Heading For Home After Dramatic Sessions Held In Casablanca In Strict Secrecy

Roosevelt Meets With Churchill, French Leaders   “L neonditional Surrender” OF Axis Nations Is Goal Established At Veet

President Flies 5,000 Miles To Confer With British Chief In Casablanca; © Chiefs-Of-Staff Attend Parley

Roosevelt and Churchill Meet In War Theater   President Flies Across the Atlantic Ocean for Conference  FRENCH HEADS MEET  To Demand ‘Unconditional Surrender’ of Axis  Nations

FDR, Churchill And Staff Members Outline Strategy At Conference In Africa

Ready to Put World Strategy In Execution   ‘Chiefs Determine to Press Initiative In  Every Theater of Operations as  ' De Gaulle  Giraud Confer on Fuller Use of French Forces.  '

Meets Churchill and French Chiefs to Fix Program; “Unconditional Surrender” Only Terms for Axians

Allies Count On French Revival As Armed Force   International Command Believed To Have European Invasion Charted.

Germany, Italy To Be Knocked Out First   Roosevelt And Churchill, In Secret 10-Day Conference In North Africa, Map Master War Plan For 1943 Aimed At Forcing Unconditional Surrender Of Axis Powers.   No Letup In Pacifie.

Global Strategy. To Be Put Into  Active Execution   Breaking More Traditions, President Flies to Casablanca For 10-Day Talks

ALLIED CHIEFS . QUIT WEET WN NORTH AFRICA   Roosevelt, Churchill Parley at Casablanca Approves Global Strategy.   10-DAY CONFERENCE ENDS IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT.

Roosevelt And British Prime Minister Reach ‘Complete Agreement’ on Objectives at Casablanca—Their Strategy Will Be Put ‘Into Active And Concerted Execution,’

Will Demand Full Surrender By Axis   Two Leaders Separate to Put Strategy Into Active and Concerted Execution; Both Fly to Historic Meeting at Casablanca

Ten-Day Conference Held In Morocco Calls For Unconditional Surrender Of Axis

Master Strategy Agreed Upon At Casablanca War Council   Blueprint Of United Nations’ Great Offensive Against Germany, Japan And Italy Adopted At Historic North African Conference Headed By Roosevelt And Churchill

Roosevelt and Churchill Agree On 1943 War Plans At Meeting In Morocco

President Defies Tradition to Fly Across 5,000 Miles of Atlantic to Bring Giraud and De Gaulle Together; Stalin, Chiang Kept Informed of Meeting

F.D.R. Flies 2,000 Miles  Aeross Ocean  mnymmtnen W.. Ce. Mt _   Complete War Staffs Of Two Great Nations Participate in Talks That Last Ten Davs   STALIN INVITED, UNABLE TO ATTEND  _ Decisions May Affect Fate of the World Generations to Come

Roosevelt Flies Over Atlantic For Momentous Casablanca Sessions; Visits Troops in Field

 Roosevelt and Churchill in Ten Day Con,. ference Agree on Strategy in Every ; Theatre With Aid to Russia. China   GIRAUD AND DE GAULLE CONFER   Stalin, Unable to Leave Russia for Meet ings, Kept Informed of Steps—Emphasis  Put on Keeping Initiative

F. R. Flies 5,000 Miles to Meet Allied Leaders At Casablanca     BRITON ALSO FLIES  Stalin, Kai-Shek Absent But Both Advised OF Results

Historic {0-Day Confer. ence at Casablanca Is Announced Last Eve

Unconditional Surrender Of  Axis Is Goal   DeGaulle, Giraud Call For United Action By All French Fighting Men,   FDR WENT BY PLANE

American Airmer Hit U-Boat Base   Raids Continue In Nazi Territory

ST. NAZAIRE AGAIN RAIDED BY YANKS WITH GOOD RESULT   Germans Put Up Stiff Resistance and Six Bombers are Reported Missing

St. Nazaire Hit By U.S. Bombers  German ‘Flying Circus’ Keeps Yankee Airmen Rerer’ After Accanlt

U.S. BOMBERS HIT ST. NAZAIRE   6 Missing as Nazis Put Up Stuff aBttle

U. S. Attacks  St. Nazaire   Fortress and Liberators Raid Sub Base; Big Defensive Fire Encountered

Japs Get Ready for Offensive   War Entering New Phase in Pacific, Tokyo Asserts.

SAPS THREATEN AN  ALL OUT OFFENSIVE  IN TOKYO BROADCAST DECLARE WAR IN SOUTH  PACIFIC 1S NOW ENTERING IIPON NEW PHASE

Blows Indicate New Campaign To Crush Nip   Kiska Fiercely Bombed; 11 Enemy Ships Sunk Or Damaged

CEILING PhiGt MEETING HERE   County - Wide Meeting of  Merchants at Courthouse y Friday Night.

CEILING \PRIGE. MEETING HER   cbunty: - : Wide Meeting a Merchants at Courthbise) Friday Night. io 

TANKS, INFANTRY RESUME ATTAGKS   Beaten Back Earlier by Tough Yank Corabat Team   PRONG THREATENS   American Base of Tebessa in Algeria; Rommel Seeks Thwart British

GERMAN TANK UNITS PIERCE TEBESSA LINE   AMERICAN LOSSES HEAVY; ROMMEL GAINS AGAIN

Nazis Are Now Within Fou Miles Of Vital Thala  Road Junction   ENEMY IS EMPLOYING POWERFUL NEW TANKS

Smash near Thala, vital  road center   African enemy appears tiring

Tank Supported Nazi Infantry Stabs at Kasserine Pass  ADVANCES MADE IN THRUSTS BY NAZIS  Allies Face Difficult Task in Saving Southern Line

Allied Bases Are Menaced  By Germans   Tanks Only Four Miles From Thala, Junction  On Flank of British  TEBESSA IN ALGERIA ALSO ONE OF GOALS  Nazi Drive Threatens Whole Southern Line After Loss of Pacc

DRIVE OF AXIS PERILS YANKS TEBESSA BASE   Nazis Strike Through Kasserine Pass,  Gain 16 Miles

Another Column Menaces French’   “British Flank Is.” Now Endangered

Germans Stab Anew At U. S. Base Of Tbessa   One Arm Of Marshal Rommel’s Army Advances To Within 4 Miles Of Thala.

Germans Hit Anew at  U.S. Base   Tank-Supported Nazi Infantry Again Charges Through Pass Taken Eram Amerirans Tnward Aleerian Post

Axis Pushes On Tebessa And Sibaba  Stab Anew Thru Kasserine Pass

NAZI TANKS DRIVE 16 Mi. TWARD THALA   Only 4 Miles From Essential Allied Position In Central Tunisia; Attack Slowing I]n.   Critical Situation

Second Thrust Made at Tebess:   Yankees Lose. Strategic Pass to Romniel

MARSHAL HURLS MOST OF ARMOR INTO STRUGGLE   One Column Threatens Flank of British First Army by 16-Mile Gain Toward Thala.   ANOTHER MOVES ON AMERICAN BASE   Third Strikes at Sbiba——Allies Face Task of Withstanding Assault on Whole Southern Line.

(Germans Press Forward for .  Knockout Blow   Nazis Believed Using All Resources to. Gain Vantace Points

NAZIS MOVE UP 16 MILES NEAR THALA SECTION   Third Column Menaces Sbiba; Rommel Puts Full Force Into 3-Way Drive   Vital Pass Lost

Tank Supported Nozi In: fantry Stabs at Kesserine Pass .   ADVANCES MADE: IN . THRUSTS BY NAZIS   Allies Face Difficult Task in Saving Southern

Three Nazi Groups Gair In Africa   Rommel Believed Trying To Cripple British Ist Army

Limit Packages To U.S. Troops  Must Contain Article Requested By Soldier, With Officer’s Okay

aetna tieeertneetiatmeatetll mentees iene cael  New Rule Restricts Parcels tor Overseas

OVERSEAS MAIL IS REDUCED BY STIMSON ORDEF   Secretary of War Declares Packages Take Too Much Cargo Space

MAL TO SOLDIERS ~ TOBE RESTRICTEL   Articles Must Be  Requested With Approval of Com~ manding. Officer.

SOLDIERS’ PACKAGES — ARE BEING LIMITED   Parcels To Men Overseas May Be Sent After January 15 By Special Permission

RESTRICTIONS ON OVERSEAS PACKAGES   Soldiers Must Request Articles and Obtain Permission From Their Commanding Officers.

DANE SCORNS NAZI BID TO FORM CABINET   Eric Scavenius, Prime Minister Who Quit Post During Demonstrations, Declines To Act   ‘AIR TRAFFIC RESUMES

—LIQUOR—  LIQUOR PROBERS TOLD ABOUT OHI   Million Gallons Purchased Through ‘Out-OfState Jobbers, Claim

JAP FLEET MAY SEEK BATTLE   Heavy Enemy Units Seen In Sea Between Truk And Solomons

JAPS MASSING FLEET UNITS   CONCENTRATION OF SEA POWER ‘AROUND MID-PACIFIC BASE INDICATES AN ATTACK SOON.

Chinese Force Jap Column to Break Up, Run   British Units Make. Successful Attack On Burmese Coast

China Routs Jap Advance On Salween   Foe’s Attempt to Bloel Junction With India Forces Fruetrated

China Wins Battle  In Burma Sector  Breaks Up Jap Columr In New Move

Halt of Japs Who Landed AreWipedOut   U.S. Army Troops Land To Support Marines, Correspondent Says  U. S. LOSSES LIGHT

Half of Troops Landed on Island By Foe Killed; 67 Nipponese Planes Are Downed in Day’s Fighting

a ea  PLUNGE FORM HOTEL WINDOW IS FATAL TO MRS. ELI LONG   Known Here Where Husband Has Shown Horses

British, French Also Closing in   Allied Aircraft Wages Non-Stop  Attack on Cornered Axis Forces

JOHNSTON RENEW: ATTACK UPON FoA   Cotton Council President Says Agency Ruinous

Oscar Johnston Hits At F.5.A., Urges Other Reforms in Annual Report

Red Army Cracks German Defenses In Three Sectors   Russians Reach Melitopo' and Move Nearer Kiev and Gomel

Soviet Forces Nearing Kiev;  Pound At Gates Of Gomel   German Defenses Cracked at Three Points by Rus. sians While Many Nazi Strongpoints Are Caotured

Keds Tear Three Big Gaps in Nazi Lines   Soviets Sweep to Center of Melitopoll, Where Fierce Fighting Rages, and Cross Szoh River to Very Gates of Gomel

Soviets Tear Three Gaps in Nazi Lines   Spearhead Drives Toward the Suburbs of Kiev

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Soviet Troops Tear Three Gaps in German Lines and Peril Foe Army in Crimea

R AF BOMB! KIEL, BIG NAZI NAVAL BASE   U.S. Flyers Raid Re nault Motor Works Near Paris

KIEL TARGET FOR TERRIFIC R. A. F. ATTACK      Allied aerial assaults against Axis set new record for intensity

ICKES SAYS NATION FACES FUEL CRISIS   Tells Congress Situation Will Be Unparalleled in History as Result of the Recent Strikes by Coal Miners.

NATION FACES - FUEL GRISI   Unparalleled in History, Result of Production Loss Bue to Strikes.

FUEL CRISIS NOW CONFRONTS NATION DECLARES ICKES   - 40 Million Tons Shortage - Has Created Unparalleled Situation, He Tells Con oraea :

Worst Coal Crisis In History Is . Facing U. S., Says Secretary Ickes

ICKES PREDICTS FUEL CRISIS AS COST OF STRIKES   TELLS CONGRESS COUNTRY FACES GRAVE SITUATION

Nation Facing A Fuel Crisis,  Declares Ickes   Miners’ Strikes Responsible; Seeks Coal Allocation Boards.

NATION 1S FACING SHORTAGE OF FUEL   Ickes Tells Congress Loss of 40 Million Tons Will Be Serious Crisis.

Ickes Fears Coal Famine   Strike Loss Placed ~ At 40 Million Tots

U.S. Fuel Crisis Without Parallel Seen By Ickes   Interior Secretary Says 40 Million Tons Lost Through Mine Strikes

Fuel Crisis Is Greatest Ever  Known In U.S.   Ickes Says Mine Closing By John L. Lewis Has Led To Great Shortage

Ickes Says Strikes Cause Nations Worst Fuel Crisis   Loss of Coal Totals 40,000,000 Tons Due to Miners’ idleness, Officer Savs; Asks Fund to Aid Distribution

COAL CRISIS IS UP, ICKES SAYS   Strikes Have Slashed Produc: “tion 40 Million Toris,~ Claim

Fund Approved For Strict Allocation Of Coal Over Nation  Nation Faces Its Worst Fuei Crisis In All History, Ickes Tells Congress

Ickes Sites Critical Fuel Crisis Ahead   Tells Congress Loss of 40 Million Tons By Strikes Critical

Nation Faces "Unparalleled’ Fuel Crisis This Winter, Ickes Declares

Thailand Gets Malay States   Japan Gives. Away Territory Taken From Britain

JAPS ‘AGREE’ AS THAILAND GRABS MALAYAN LANDS   Gen, Tojo Visits Area, But Reaches Singapore; Big Territory Involved

Strikers Are Slowly Going Back To Work   Insurgent Drive Against Resumption Centers in Pennsylvania  LEADERS ENCOURAGED

Miners Continue  To Trickle Back   More Than 150,000 Return Today

MINERS RETA TO WORK SLOWLY      ckes Lays Plans for Government Operation of Mines Until. Contract Is Signed

Miners Taking Own Time In Going To Work   Some Local Unions In Insurgent Mood Still Balk At Returning

‘Miners Slow In Returning To Their Work   Most Difficulty Is Encountered In Pennsvivania

MINERS SLOWLY RETURN TO JOBS   Many in Pennsylvania Still Idle—Ickes Names a Rail Official

JAPS GIVE UP - CENTRAL SOLOMONS   “Silently Fold Their Tents  and Steal Away”

RAY SOMERLOT BEST CORN ENTRY   Held Satyrday in Local  High t hool Building  In Richwood a A. Corn Show

TWO FORMER PURDUE DEANS DIE SUNDAY   Will Conduct Funeral Services at University

THREE GERMANS AND RUSSIAN ~— HANGED FOR CIVILIAN DEATHS   FIFTY THOUSAND PERSGNS WITNESS EXECUTIONS IN KHARKOV AFTER FIRST _ ATROCITY TRIALS ©

GIRAUD ON WAY TO WASHINGTON   French African Leader May Try To Aid In Martinique Situation

GIRAUD ENROUTE TO WASHINGTON   Dispatch Says General Has Passed Through Natal Air Base

Giraud Passes Nafal Enroute To America   DeGaulle Presides In Al giers During Absence O Army Leader   HOLIDAY IS RESTORED   Admirals Hoover, Robert Are Scheduled To Talk Martinique Terms

FRENCH LEADER ON WAY TOUS   General Giraud  Leaves ~ Algiers, Report

GIRAUD ON WAY TO AMERICA   De Gaulle to Preside Over French Committer

Reveal Giraud On Way to U.S.   De Gaulle to Preside in His Absence

Giraud Heading   Now In Natal; May Study _ Situation In Martinique  Area

MAN APPOINTED TO MARTINIQUE   French Name Envoy To Dea With Vichy Governor

GIRAUD ON WAY TO U<8.   To Discuss "Supply of Amertom Arms to French

Investigation of State Industrial School for Girls Ordered Resumed

ENTIRE AXIS LINE: ON ISLAND IS NEAR COLLAPSE   ‘Military Observers In. London Say Resistance May Be Over In Three Days.

Sicily’s Second City Captured Karly Today   British Righth Anny Sweeps Across Plain — After Heavy Barrage

Rumanian Premier Arrives in Rome   Antonescue to Confer With Italians

COUNTED 30,000 AUTOS AT GAME   Storm Of Protest Arises: Police Counted 8,000 More Cars At Rose Bowl Game Than In Peak PreRation Year.

NICE START © ‘REPORTED r ~ BONDDRIVE      Merrill, Akron and. Craig “Already Over Pledge Quotas

NICE START ‘REPORTEDIN ~ BONDDRIVI   Merrill, Akron and Craig Already Over Pledge  Quotas

HAMBURG BOMBED BY RAF FOR. 7TH TIME IN. 6 DAYS   Giart German Pert Is Mass of Ruins Following 105th — ' Assault of War. oe

Haniburg Port Again Battered   Bombers Smash Devastated Port For Seventh Time In Six Days   OTHER RAIDS ALSO MADE ON EUROPE

HAMBURG BOMBED BY AAF FOR 7TH TIME IN & DAYS   Giart German Pcrt Is Mass of Ruins Following 105th Assault of War.

Surging Russians — Closing Pincers  Kiev Victory Perils Rie Nazi Faoree

Soviets Drive Closer to  Big Rail Hub   Triumphant Red Troops Fan Out From Kiev in Deep Lunge Toward Sector Of Exceptional Military Importance

Russians Seize More Towns in Relentless Drive   Strategic Rail Junction Falls To Red Forces

ALLIED PLANES CREDITED WITH ALMOST CERTAIN PDESTRIICTION OF 2? STIRS:

 Two Axis Submarines Believed Sunk By Allied Planes Guarding Convoy

NEW CONCERN : TAKES OVER OIL- OUTFITS   TRUESDELL HEAD OF RECENTLY  ORGANIZED COMPANY   Purchases. Sinclair Wholesale Plants at Hawarden and LeMars and Several Other Stations

REX TRUESDELL NEW MANAGER   Hawarden Man To Operate Sinclair Wholesale . Phant Here

OKLAHOMA MAJOR RETURNS   Wounded Former Congressman Back From South Pacific

NATIONAL BUREAL! OPPOSES SUBSIDY   Question Included In 18 Res: olutions, Ail ta Be Favored Is Belief.

DEFERMENT OF FATHER DRAFT NOW UNLIKELY   Administration Troub: Shooter Expressed Sentiment By Statement in Support of Marshall

COUNTY EXTENSION PROGRAM PLANNED   Educational Meetings WIN] Be Held to Present Facts of GardenIng to the Public

Sumner Officer Is Listed As Missing  te Eeeromean Ares   ¥Fditer O'Brien Dies

Papuan Victory Discloses New Form Of Battle   MacArthur Believes It Will Point Way To Ultimate Defeat Of Jap

Gen. MacArthur Foresees Vast Attacks on Japs   Island-to-Island — Advance Said Not Necessorw

Papuan Fighting Has Been Testing Ground; Strategy Precludes Isle-by-Isle Fieht Against Japs

AIR PROGRAM REVIEWED BY ALLIED CHIEF   MacArthur Says Use of Air Power Will Defeat Enemy in Pacific

General Hails New Method Of Warfare  MacArthur Says Test In Papua Points Way To Defeat of Japanese  ALLIED AIR ARM MOST EFFECTIVE  Method Involves  Calculated Application Of Strang Air Pawar

REVIEWED BY ALLIED CHIEF   MacArthur Says Use of Air Power Will Defeat Enemy in Pacific

MacArthur Credits Air Powe; As Proved Factor in Victory   Effective as Offensive-Defensive Weapon, Transporter of Troops, Supply in New Guinea

Big Attacks On Japanese In. Offing.   MacArthur Dislikes Island to. Island Plan of Warfare

NEW CAMPAIGN IS VERY SUCCESSFU   MacArthur Reports Tested Plan Points Way For Defeat of Japs In Pacific.

Big Base First Need Of Allies   One Must Be Established In Italy Before Big Attack Can Be Launched   GERMAN MOVES OFFER NO SURPRISE   Rome the Most Delicate and Difficult Problem Now Facing Allies

ALLIED CHIEFS EXPECTED NAZI MOVES IN ITALY   Germany's Swift Disposition of Forces for Baitle Displays Sort of Effi  ciency Looked For

NAZI EFFICIENCY SHOWN IN ITALY ‘NOT UNEXPECTED   Despite -Batterings: German Army Still One of World's Strongest — Rapid ‘ Deploy-

SWIFT DISPOSITION OF GERMAN FORCES INDICATE STRENGTH  EFFICIENT AND POWER EXPECTED OF NAZI MA CHINE CARRIED ONT

NAZI ACTIONS IN ITALY WERE FYPECTED BY U.S   Eisenhower Believed to Have Sufficient Troops In Country. to Care For German Military Machine’s Take-over   HARD JOB AHEAD

(GERMANS. STILL ae POWERFUL IFIGHTING MACHINE   Swift Disposition of - Forces In Italy Displayed Efficiency- and-Power

No Surprise In NaziMove   Swift Maneuvering to Take Over in Italy Anticipated by Allies

Nazi Moves In ltaly Expected  Shows Efficiency And Power Still In War Machine

BOMBER MISSING      Ship With Six Aboard Long Overdue, Army Reports.

Nazi Army Evacuating, Is Reported   rerman Line Opposing Americans in Italy Is Crumbling Steadily

GERMAN LINE IN ITALY IS CRUMBLING   Yan British Air Forces Strike Heavily

War's Greatest Air Blows Rock  Axis Europe   Yank, RAF, Red Fliers Join In Big Pre Invasion Sky Push; Sardinia, Italy, Berlin, Warsaw, Czech Area Blasted

All United Nations Hurl Mighty Blows   Hitler’s Fortress Struck on All Sides—Berlin Bombed— Italian Island Shelled

Europe Pounded By Heaviest Assault   Softening Up Bombardment By Allies Worst Yet Over All Europe

Weather Forecast   Nazi- Held Europe Rocks Under Blows  From Three Sides   American. British And Russian Air Forces Attach Military Centers On Round-Clock Basis

efenses Against Invasion is Task Isn‘t an Easy One  Petr Trying to Tighten

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS      Axis Satellite Nations Seeking Easiest Way Out Of War Camp

Sweeeee 50 Per Cent Cut   The War Today— Hitler Calls In Cringing Puppets  To Bolster Wall Against Invasion

The War Today  eee  Hitler Conferences Concerned With ‘Hot’ Inwasion Prospects.

“Just Had To Have A Baby” Is Woman’s Excuse For Her Act — Charge Of Child Stealing Causes Her To Face 25 Years’ Imprisonment, A $1,000 Fine Or Both Under Oregon State Law

Air Offensive On Southwest Pacifie Front  Is Stepped Up   Enemy Bases Attacked Over Entire Front, Special Attention Ratne Civen Salamaua   NO INTERCEPTIONS IN MAJOR ASSAULTS

Japs Feel Lash Of U.S. Airmen   Enemy Bases Over Wide Area Blasted  By WILLIAM F. BONI

Important Japanese Bases.  Attacked By Allied Bombers   Salamaua, on the Northeast Coast of New Guinea, One of the Targets—Heavy Damage Ils Caused .

Jap Bases in Pacific Are Hit by Bembs   Ground Troops From Munda Delaye by Heavy Rains

Enemy Bases Blasted on Entire Front   Great Damage, Fires And Explosions Follow Allied Blows

Japs Feel Lash Of U. 8. Airmen   Enemy Bases Over Wide Area Blasted

Salamaua Area “Heavily Hit By ~ Allied Bombers  Many Fires Left Burning In District; Enemy

Theatres.Going To Boost Sales of War Bonds During Third War Loan

Aerial Activity Increases Over Libyan Battle Area; As Fleeing Transports Of Rommel Are Hit

RAF BOMBS FALL ON ROMMEL UNIT   Aerial Activity Increases Generally Over Libyan Battle Area.

NEW GIANT BOMBER IS BEING MADE   Superior Even To the B-29  Super-Bomber

Super-Giant in Produc:  tion, Crews “Are Being; Trained, Sparkman Says !

Super-Duper’ Bomber Now Being Turned Out For Use Against Japs, Solon Announces After Seeing It

Captured Jap Zero Revealing Secrets  of Enemy Technic:   Is Machine of No Compromise; Meant for Aerial Jiu-Jitsu

Jap Plane Makes Pilot Fight or Die   U. 8. Experts Studying Armorless Zero Captured in Alentians.

PREDICT QUICK TRIAL IN COAL STRIKE CASES   Hearing For 30 Coal Miners Possible Early In September

:  Gasoline Supply, Distribution Plan Is Ordered Revisec   New Mexico One of Six States Affected By Ickes’ Ruling

ICKES TAKES NEW STEPS TO GET MORE GAS TO EAST COAST   Supply and Distribution System in Six-State Area Re. arranged—More Transportation Facilities to be Freed

PREDICTS MERCURY TO CLIMB FRIDAY   Weather Bureau Sees Temperatures of 27 to 28 Friday but Colder Tonight

STATE'S COLD WAVE BREAKS   Mercury May Dip Slightly Tonight, Rise Again Tomorrow

MICHIGAN COLD WAVE ON WANE   Mercury Will Hit Upper Twenties Today, Says Weather Bureau

Nine Die as Snowstorm Sweeps East   COMMUNITIES ISOLATED AS 20 INCHES FALL IN NEW ENGLAND AREA

Brown Says Price Of Corn to Stay At Same Levels   OPA Director Also Promises More Supplies For Beef-Hungry.   To Ease Driving Ban In Eastern Section

OPA HEAD PREDICTS MORE BEEF FOR CIVILIANS, LIFTING OF ‘PLEASURE DRIVING BAN LATER   WMaxon Quits

Also Reviews Situation 01 Meat, Corn and Oil; He Will Not Resign   ‘HOG PRICE TOP BEING TALKED   Never Heard of Any: Plan for Government Taking Over Business *

BEEF AND GASOLINE PICTURE BRIGHTER   Brown Pledges Pleasure Driving Ban Will Be Lifted

BROWN PREDICTS CIVILIANS T0 GET ADDITIONAL MEAT  ALSO SAYS BAN ON PLEAS URE DRIVING IN EAST  MAY BE LIFTED

Brown States OPA Program.  Denies Charge   Price Administrator Declares Agency Has Definite Po ee   PLAN NO BEEF LIMIT

BROWN PREDICTS CIVILIANS 10 GET ADDITIONAL MEAT  OREDRIVNG IN EAST  BMAAV Dr FIICKTCH

Brown Predicts Improvement In  Civilian Supply   Pleasure Driving Ban In East Will Be Lifted; Reports On  Prices

Brown Predicts More Meat For Beef-Hungry Civilians; Lifting Of OPA Driving Ban

OPA Head Clarifies Beef Outlook, Says Oil Situation Improving And Ban On Pleasure Driving For “A” Card Holders May Be Lifted Soon.

More Beef For Public  Says Brown   yrleasure Driving Ban on ‘A’ Card Holders Also To Be Lifted

BROWN SEES MORE BEEF IN COOLERS   OPA Official Says Additional Livestock Is Minving .  to Market   OIL. SETUP IS BETTER

SUPPLY OF BEEF WILL INGREASE   Brown Says Shortage Aided By Heavy Movement of .. Livestock to Market.   CORN PRICE STAYS SAME

BROWN SEES MORE BEEF IN COOLERS   OPA Official Says Additional Livestock Is Moving to Market

More Beef Moving To Market Now      Ban Against Pleasure  Driving May Be  Lifted Soon

Heavy Movement of Cattle to Market to Give More Beef   Brown Says Corn to Remain at Present Level of Quotations

Corn Ceiling to Stay at Present Level, Brown Says   Beef Supply Is Increasing; East Gets Hope for Gas

Brown Sees More Beef, Ban Lifting On Gasoline   Corn Solution Is Near; Maxon Is  . Answered

BROWN SEES END OF A GARD BAN   More Beef Also Promised  To Civilians By Head Of OPA

MORE BEEF SOON TO BE AVAILABLE FOR CIVILIANS   Prentiss Brown Says Eastern ‘A’ Card Holde Pleasure Driving Ban Will Se Lifted Soon As -PRoacerhlo mes a

More Beef And Gas— OPA Chief   Discusses Several Points: Corn Price Not To Be Increased

Oil Situation Better, Brown  Ban on Pleasure Driving to be Lifted As Soon as Poosible

Brown Sees More Meat And Gas For East States   Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Lifted As Soon As-Possible For 'A’ Card Holders

Civilians To Receive Beef, Brown Claims   East's Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Lifted As Soon As Possible, He  Tellke Newemen

Supply of Beef To Be Boosted   To Lift East’s Ban On Pieasure Driving

More Beef In Sight for  Civilians   Greater Supplies Ahead; Pleasure Driving Ban In East to Be Lifted

Will Increase  Beef Supplies   Heavy Movement af Livestock to Markets Is Revealed by Price Administrator

NS. LUCY ADAMS ~ DIED THURSDAY   Passid “Away. at ‘the ‘Robert . Long Hospital Soon’ Aft: er Admittance. ‘~

MAS, LUCY ADAMS Dic THURSDAY   Passed Away at the Robert Long Hospital Soon After Admittance.

BUTTER STOCKPILE AT-ALL-TIME HIGH   Most of Record Supply Destined for Use of Ameri can Tronme,

Great Amount of Butter Stored   Nearly Half of Total Going To Soldiers

Germans Withdrawn  To Hills, Report  nme... Berroco agsyTrarn “a

GIVES MINERS. UNTIL 104M ON SATURDAY   Roosevelt Makes “Friendly Appeal” with Threat to Take Over Mines.   ACCUSES MINERS OF CRIPPLING WAR EFFORT

Allies Scored ‘Grand Slam’ By Teamwork   Months of Preparation Preceded MacArthur Bismarck Sea Victory

Long Prepared For Jap Move   MacArthur’s Airmen Had Prepared For Reinforcement Move,

Extermination Of Hu ge Jap Convoy Due To Well-Laid Plans   Months Of Preparation Made Fer Just Such ‘ A Threat: Fine Coordination By Allies

Sea Victory Is Result Of Long Planning   Correspondent Points Tc Co-ordinate Effort By All Forces As Leading To Defeat Of Japs

Bismarck Sea Victory Rocks And Sets Japs Back On Heels    Destruction of 22-Ship Convoy Does Not, However, Mean That Tokyo Has Been Knocked Out of New Guinea Area; Many More Trained Nips Available: Battle Fleet Still Formidable

Planning Brought Victory   Months of Preparation Preceded Smashing of Jap Convoy in Pacific; No Detail Overlooked

French-Italians Reporting Holding Corsican Capital; Allies Advancing   American Fifth Army Continues Expansion of Salerno Bridgehead Capturing Two More Towns

French Patriots Help to Capture Capital City of Corsica Isle; Clark Expands Gains at Salerno

Allies Keep Winning Grim Fight   Enemy Scurries for Cover at Corsica After Losing Base Which Offers Fine Facilities for U. S. and Britain

Allies Continu: To Advance in Salerno Sector   French-Italian Units Said Holding Capital Of Corsica; Badoglio In Allied-Held Italy

Canital City of Corsica  Also Seized   Allied Forces in Italy Expand Salerno Beachhead

EVACUATION TO CORSICA ALMOST COMPLETED SAYS COMMUNIQUE; GERMANS OCCUPY BASTIA, SMALL SEAPORT, RAILWAY TERMINAL.

New Penetrations Made by American Fifth Army  GERMAN AIR BASES BOMBED BY FLIERS  British 8th Army Moves at a Rapid Pace

Corsican Capital Lost by Germans   Foe Announces Italian Tine Reine Shortened

French-Italians Holding Corsican Capital; Germans  Pull Out Of Salerno   BADOGLIO SAFE IN ALLIED TERRITORY

Italians  Drive Out Nazi Units   U.S. Fifth Army Advances At  Salernn

SALERNO HOLD IS WIDENED BY AMERICAN STH   Important Enemy Airbase Occupied 10 Miles Inland; Germans’  Line Thinning

Nazis Are Fleeing Salerno Districts  Under Allied Fire   French And Italians Reported Holding Corsicar Capital; Marshal Badoglio In Allied-Held  Italian Territory Now

Germans Fleeing to Corsica Where “Struggle for Control is Waged; Sth Army Expands Bridgchead

Germans Flee Across Strait To Corsica   Bridgehead Expanded, Allies Drive Inland On Italian Mainland  NAZIS BACKING UP

TO DEMONSTRATE FIRE FIGHTING   By Use Of The Latest Methods Next Week. Thursday In Wellsboro.

LATEST. METHODS FIRE FIGHTING ~ 10 BE SHOWN   cGw, Boro Fire Department .to Give Joint Demonstration; General Public’ Is In aittod

SURVIVING ~ATTU JAPS SPLIT UF   Village Wiped Out By American  Bombers

FACING DEATH OR SURRENDER   Japs All But Exterminated: Yanks Spring. The “Rat Trap”

NIPS ARE CAUGHT IN % POCKETS   Report Claims Battle » In ‘Final Stage’ As Planes Raze Town

Full Extermination Near For Attu Foe   Island Struggle in Final Phase; Bombs Nearly Obliterate Village

Kiska Facing US. Attacks   Japs On Attu Are Alt But Exterminated Now

Fulbright Plan Has Top Place   World Peace Move Slated as First Business for House, Reconvening Tomorrow   WIDELY FAVORED, REP, SABATH SAYS   Father Draft Will Be Maix Topic in Senate; Tax Bill May Long Be Delayed

WAR EQUIPMENT MAKES NEW HIGH   5489 Planes, 667 Over No vember, Delivered To Army In December.

RAIDS LEAVE AXIS-EUROPE SHUDDERING   Seven Cities Bombed in Latest American and R. A. F. Cycle

CHOICE OF CLARK DEEMED CERTAN   Texan Appears Likely Successor to Arnold in Anti' ‘Trust Division

American Planes Can Haul Hangars  Soldiers Can Erect Pre-Fabricated Shed  Bow th. 2b phe Bc cx

NANCY DE MARIGNY ON WITNESS STAND   Alfred Weens When Wifs Is Brought Up; Adjourn Trial Overnisht

De Marigyn Cries as Wife Testifies  Daughter of Slain Man Takes Stand

DEFENSE RESTS IN DE MARIGNY’S TRIAL FOR OAKES MURDER   DEFENDANT’S WIFE WAS FINAL WITNESS FOR ACCUSED MAN

DE MARIGHY’S WIFE WILL BE LAST WITNESS   Accused Husband In Tears As Wife Begins Her  Testimony

De Marigny Case Nears Close As Wife Testifies   Defense Rests After Nancy Tells Of Family Dispute

AIRSHIP _CAPTAIN ~ NAMED ADMIRAL   Rosendahi's Promotion Means Charge of New Training Command

Wife of Frank H. Pearce Was°Active in Church and Fraternal Affairs

UNREST OVER FAST OF GANDHI GROWS      Bomb Explosion, Strike And «Demonstration Among Reactions

U.S. FORCES NEARING PASS   Americans Sweeping Across Tunisian Plain Unopposed.

Weir Balances Home Values Against Steel   Helena Attorney Asks Army Engineer How Far Plan Developed

rand Fxits Cut Off   Rescue Bomber Crew of Ten tot in Flight to Rabaul

HOLD TOBACCO VOTE JULY 24   Referendum On Flue-Cured Tobacco Marketing Quotas

Leaf Growers: Vote On New Quotas July 24   Date Is Decided On By WFA

Tobacco Quota Referendum Set For July 24   Growers In Flue: Cured Area To Vote On Quotas for 1944 Crop or For Three-Year Period, 1944.46.

LEAF REFERENDUM SATURDAY, JULY 24      Farmers Will Vote on Marketing Quotas For 1944 Crop Or For The ThreeYear Period, 1944-46.

HOCVER URGES U.S. RETAIN ITS SOVEREIGNTY   Says Post-War Alliances Are Harbingers Of War, Snimical To Peace

HOOVER HITS Al POST-WAR MILITARY TIES   For lasting peace, U. S. must avoid international alliances

Ca we Be  Allied, Native ‘Leaders Meef To Solve Lehanese (Crisis

BEIRUT TENSION IS RELAXING   Catroux Seeks Solution lo Lebanese Crisis

ARMY-NAVY COLLEGE TRAINING. PROGRAMS ARE CALLED SOUND    Dr. Harold W. Dobbs, President of Princeton University, Takes Issue With Critics—Speoks at Alumni Ass‘n Dinner

These Miners Would Return   Wire President They Want Action So They Can Return.

SIX-DAY MINE WEEK ORDERED   Ickes Takes Action to Assure Sufficient Coal For War Plants

6 Day Week in Coal Mines by Ickes’ Order   Wage Controversy Is Deadlocked; UMW Fail to Send Represent

Six-Day Week In All Coal Mines Set Up By Ickes   Opinions Vary As To Move’s Effect On Wane Traihlec

LEWIS SILENT ON PROPOSAL AS PITS OPEN   Virtually All Miners At Work Again; WLB Will Take Up Hearings Tomorrow   Effect Is Scouted

ICKES ORDERS MINES PUT ON 6-DAY BASIS   Step Taken to Assure Adequate Coal Output

Lewis Silent as Labor Board Digs Into Coal Wage Dispute   kk kes Orders Six-Day Week in Mines ; Controversy Still Appears Deadlocked

Ickes Puts Coal Mines of Nation On 6-Day-Week   Miners Wage Controversy Appears To Be as Deadlocked as Ever

Coal Mines Put On 6-Day Week   Wage Controversy Appears Deadlocked;  Full Production

ICKES MINERS WORK SIX-DAY WEEK   Wage Controvers Appears To Be  Deadlocked

WLB to Resume Coal Hearings  Wav Onenedl ac Minerc   Way Opened as Miner: Co Rack ta Wark

Ickes Orders Six-Day Week In Coal Mines   But Wage Controversy Appears as Deadlocked As Ever Under Truce   WLB HEARINGS RESUME THURSDAY

‘6-Day Week Is Ordered By Ickes   GOVERNMENT BOSS OF MINES ISSUES DECREE SO OUTPUT OF COAL WILL MEET NEEDS OF GOVERNMENT.

REPORT HUGE TAX PROGRAM IS COMPLETE   Treasury Said Reliably to Have Presented Plan to Byrnes to Raise 16 Billions Additional in Revenue.

100,000 Japs Said Trapped   Chinese Troops Have Encircled Invaders

nese Poise = Trap for Huge japanese Force   veloping ‘Movement Threatens 100,000 Invading Troens-

FIVE BODIES FOUND IN WRECKED BOMBER   Youth Discovers Smashed Plane in Mountains

Trucker Strike Ties Up Freight   Equipment Needed By War Plants Bottled

‘Unauthorized Strike of 4000 Truck Drivers Spreads in Southern Cities

OUTLINE OF EMPLOYERS ‘DUTIES UNDER SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AVAILABLE

Bullseye Hits Scored on Targets With 2000 Pound Blockbusters   St. Nazaire, Rennes, La Pallice Hit in Daylight Raid; RAF Follows Yanks in Night Raid; Elastic Warfare in Russia Continues ~

4 PUPILS KILLED IN BUS ACCIDENT   SCHOOL VEHICLE AND TRUCK CRASH NEAR DARDANELLK,  ARK.—20 HURT.

Four Students Die, Many Hurt When Bus-Truck Collide   Sheriff Investigating Accident at Bridge Across Bayou

6 Hardy Coa! Miners Safe After Flood   TRAPPED BY FLASH FLOOD IN OLLETT MINE AT BRIDGEVILLE AND HELD TWO DAYs.

FLOOD-TRAPPED MINERS RESCUED   Six Men Held Underground For 48 Hours None Worse For Experience; Men Calmly Awaited Rescuers

STEPS BEING LAID ~ FOR ISSUING BOOK   State OPA to Send Out Blanks for Ration - Bank-2- <a

STEPS BEING LAID FOR ISSUING BOOK   State OPA to Send Out Bianks for Ration Book 3

WARN FARMERS. ON TAX RETURNS   Extension Agent Gives Data On Dec. 15 Estimate

TO. DISTRIBUTE TEN MILLION . RATION BOOK:   Plans For Third Issue In Pa. Outlined   Formed In Phila. Bj Angry. Poultry

EOS DRIVING GERMANS OUT UF GAUGAGUD   Push Remnants. of Nazi Army Toward Tip of Narrow Taman Peninsula.   POPOV’S TANKS SMASH ON INTO WHITE RUSSIA

Popov force driving thru heavy rains   Smash Caucasus remnants of foe

CONFER ON WAR REFUGEE CAMPS   U. S. Hopes Europe’s Jews Can Be Taken Into Neutral Lands

Proposes Punching Hole In New Penny To Make It Easier To Distinguish

Soviets Capt ure More Towns Near  Velikie Luki   Six Gerrnan Counterattacks  Thrown Back

M'NUTT OPPOSES - MANPOWER DRAFT LEGISLATION NOW   There Is Too Much Talk About Forcing People to Do Many Things, He Said.   FOR VOLUNTARY SYSTEM   This Is Being Tried With a Measure of Success, McNutt Announced.

MCNUT OPPOSES COMPULSORY LABOR DRAFT   War Manpower Commissioner Thinks Too Much Talk of Forcing ' People to do Things

McNutt Opposed To Compulsory Draft of Labor  Other Developments Bearing on U. S. Monnower Situation

McNutt and Stimson Differ : Over Labor-Draft Legislation   REGIONAL WMC DIRECTORS TO mike WORK WEEK

McNutt Opposed to Compulsory Labor-Draft Legislation Before Trying Out Voluntary Method

MeNutt Against Draft of Labor   Disagrees With Stimson On Wadsworth Bill

McNutt Opposed To Compulsory Draft of Labor  - Other Developments  BRearina on U. S.

OPPOSITION VOICED ON LABOR DRAFT   McNutt Differs With Stim son on Proposed Leg- islation

CAPITAL UNEASY BY SOVIET SHIFT OF AMBASSADOR   Two Points of View Express: 203 Some Fear anange Indicates Red It tiencea_

LITVINOFE SHIFT DRAWS STUDY   UNEASINESS FOLLOWS TRANSFER OF ENVOY

Interpretations of Soviet Move Vary; May Mean Change in Foreign Policy

Capital Sources Uneasy Over Envoy Changes   Removal of Russian Ambassadors Seen As Slap At Conference

SOVIET CHANGE IN AMBASSADORS MET WITH - UNEASINESS   Shift May Be Prelude. Tx Different Russian , Foreign Policy

ALLIED CAPITALS ARE UNEASY OVER NEW SOVIET MOVE   Ambassadorial Changes in Washington and London Hint Russian Opposition to War Policies.

‘Wives Take Toll in Polar Bear Club ‘as Members Postpone Annual Dunk

Legislature Starts Tax BillsOn Way   LAW AND ORDER COMMITTEE OF SENATE BLOCKS SUNDAY MOVIES AND SUNDAY BOWLING BILLS.   Teachers Want More

Tax Bills Move  In Legislature   Senate Group Fails to Report Bills to Legalize Movies

GROUND, AIR PATROLS HUNT MISSING BOY   Tot, 3, Wanders From His Home At Lake Michigan Beach   NO TRACE IS FOUND   Begin Dragging Waters of Nearby Lakes This Morning

Germans Klee Soviets in Rich Ukraine  Fall of Sector Ranks Among  Best Victories

Fourth Largest Russian City Back In Soviet Hands; Crete, South Italy Landings Denied   Ry IUNITEDN PRESS

Reds Take City  For Second Time   German Broadcast Admits That Troops Leave to Escape Trap

ITALIANS BLOW UP NAZI AMMUNITION STORES AT MILAN   Resistance Increases In  Northwest Province — Ghost Voice Heard  + + On Radio Program

NEW TENSION GVER INVASION GRIPS EUROPE   Germans Intensify Lookout for Thrust From England

Two Perish in Fire  In Hobbs Hotel   Score of Guests  Escape: Loss $50,000

CITIZENS ACT   Form Committee to Obtain Teledo School Re-onening.

GAS FOR VACATIONS APPROVED IN EAST   But Jaunts Must Be Taken on Regular Allotment

Nimitz, King And Halsey e Hold Meeting   First Visit of King to Pacific Theater dince War’s Outbreak

Ranking Officers Make Plans For Paecifie Attacks  Conference Held In Honolulu  By Admirals

Roosevelt Warns Italians To Quit War, Overthrow II Duce  Paanla Coven Einnlt Chance Ae Pantellaria   People Given Final Chance As Pantelleria Falls To Allies: Invasion Forces Poised .

FARM PROBLEMS IN CENTER OF CAPITAL FUSSES   Ceiling Prices and Parity Formula Among Chief Unsettled Disputes   LABOR ANOTHER HEADACHE   Probe Started To Dig Out ‘Higher-ups’ Responsible For Fake Steel Tests

rr we oS ee  Food Problems Discussed; John L. Lewis Subpoenaed; Hurley Assigned To East

Meat Rationing, Food Problems Spotlighted    Wickard Worries over National Production, Farm  Ceiling Prices

A Dying Prisoner Causes a Problem   Is Taken F rom Veterans’ Hospital to Home of One of His Relatives.

3 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK IN OKLAHOM/   Thirteen Others Injured, None Seriously, in Head-On Collision . Near Claremore.

FARM FAMILY IS TERRORIZED BY IOWA FUCITIVE   Runyon Kidnaps Family and Later Mechanic’ in Southeast lowa

Farm Family Abducted By Escaped Lifer   ‘Runyon Reportedly in the  Vicinity of Iowa City Today

Family Of 3 ‘Kidnaped By fowa Killer   Forced To Help Escaped Lifer’s Flight In Com mandeered (Car.

Soviet Armies Cut Off Retreat  Of More Germans   Nazi Forces Below Rostov Face Desperate Situation To Escape   ONLY AVENUE IS OVER KERCH STRAIT   (BULLETIN)

GERMANS LEAVE ALL HEAVY ARMS TO HOP STRAITS   Unit After Unit of Caucasus Force Makes Hazardous Crossing

AUSUIANS ARE CUTTING OFF NAZI ESCAPE   Surging Forward Toward Sea of Azov and the Blac’ Sea.   DRIVING UPON ROSTOV   Soviet Commandos Landing on Black Sea Coast to Catch the Enemy.

HIGH MASS OF ReQU EM HELD IN CONCORD   Mrs. Catherine (Shaugh: nessy). Keese Was Active - in Local Affairs -

Mrs. Catherine. “(Sha igh ‘eey): Keese Was Active in Local Affairs. -

Yanks, in Day Raid, Blast Rouen, France   Attack Follows RAF Night Assault Upor . “Stuttgart, Germany—American Fliers -- ‘Bomb Railway Yard, Oil Tanks.

STUTTGART HIT BY RAF PLANES   11 Bombers Lost In Attack On Industrial City

British Raid Stuttgard As London Is Hit   Germans Describe “Terror Attack”

STUTTGART IS HARD HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   Berlin Calls it “Terror A tack’ Indicating Heavy Raid; Nazis Raid England

Royal Air Force Planes Raid Vital Communications City of Stuttgart

Stuttgart Hit An Heavy Raid   11 Planes Losi— Germans Lowe'S in’ Raid on England

British Blast German Plants   Nazi Raiders Strike At London In Return Raid; 11  Planes Lost.

U.S. ARMY BOMBERS IN STRONG ATTACK ON LOUREN, FRANCE   Pounded Railway Yards and Adjacent Oil Tanks in Daylight.   STUTTGART ALSO HIT   RAF Smashed at the Important Industrial and Communication Center.

STRONG BRITISH AIRCRAFT FORGE BLASTS GENTERS   Stuttgart, Other Industrial Areas  Are Bombarded

U.S. Planes Pound Rail Yards, Oil  Tanks at Rouen RAF Smosties at  Night Raid

Royal Air Force Pays Eighth Nocturnal Visit This Month To Germany, Pounding Important Industrial And Communications Center—Eleven Planes Fail To Return—Nazi Raiders Stage Sunrise Assault On   ondon Suburban Area

Stuttgart, Industrial Center, [s  Attacked   Strong Force Of British Planes Smashes At German Communications

NAZI PLANES REPLY WITH LONDON RAID   Engine Works and Precision Engineering Plants Hit; Londoners Strafed on Way to Work.

] BOMBERS FAIL COME BACK AFTER STUTTGART RAID   Important Industial And Communications Center Pounded By RAF On Its Eighth Night Visit to Germany During March; Sizeable Force Takes Part.

STUTTGART IS TARGET OF BRITISH   German Raiders Strike Back At London Suburbs

RAF Blast Stuttgart, Big Industrial, Communications _ Center, Lose 11 Bombers

Stuttgart Is Given Bombing  R. A. F. Sends Major   R. A. F. Sends Major Air Mission Against German “tv

RAF ASSAULTS VITAL CENTER   Stuttgart Pounded in Night Raid; Allied Planes Over France.   ‘NAZIS ATTACK LONDON

Stuttgart Battered In RAF’S Eighth Raid On Germany In March; London Is Attacked

U, 5. BOMBERS POUND ROUEN   RAF Hits Stuttgart i Heavy Night Raid

Strong Force of RAF Planes Bombs Stuttgart, 11 British Aircraft Fail fo Come Back

Heavy Air Blows Traded Over Channel   British Batter Stuttgart—Nazis Attack London

RAF Planes: In Big Raid On Stuttgart   Nazi Airmen .$trike Back at London Suburhs

RAF CONTINUES HEAVY ATTACKS ON GERMANY   11 Bombers Fail To Return From Stuttgart Raid

LIGHT GERMAN RAID IS MADE ON LONDON'S EDGE   2 Waves of 12 Nazi Raiders Each Fly Up Thames Estuary”

RAF Blasts Stuttgart in Mass Attack      li Aiveraft Lost; Nazis Stage Dawn Assault on London Suburbs

ALLIES HURL BACK JAPANESE ATIAGK   Enemy Suffers 100 Casualties In Sharp Action

Japs Repulsed With Heavy Loss   U. S. Planes Inflict Severe Punishment On Retreating Enemy

JNPS REPULSED IN NEW GUINE?   Allies Now Command Ridgetops Overlooking JapHeld Mubo,

AUSSIE FORCES ROUT JAPANESE ATSALAMAUA   Heavy Attack Repulsed B; Australian Troops At “Mubo Monday, Allied Report Discloses.   NIP. BASE RAIDED   Ground Fighting Lull Is Broken by. Battle On Ridge; Yank Pilots Riddle Japanese

JAP ATTACK ON NEW GUINEA HURLED BACK   New Line By Allied Troops Holding Fast

JIPS PAY HEAVILY IN JUNGLE ATTACKS   Patrols of Considerable Size Strike at Australians; Airmen Raid Floatplane Base

ROYAL AIR FORCE RENEWS NIGHT RAIDS ON REICH   France Also Hit in Assault: Allies Continue Attacks Today

RAF RESUMES GERMAN RAIDS      119th Attack Carried Out On Cologne: Targets In France Blasted

Pounding Of Continent Is Resumed; R. A. F. Heavy Bombers Raid Cologne

Cologne Target as RAF Renews Raids   Mediterranean Pounding Goes on

Cologne hit hard by nigh RAF raiders   Kight bombers lost in attack

COLOGNE AGAIN TINTED AY AAI   Attack On Rhineland In. dustrial Center Is 119tt Of War   8 BOMBERS LOST   Hundreds Of Allied Planes Rain Explosives On Sicily Targets

Air Assault on Germany Is Renewed   RAE. Blasts Cologne and  Other Rhineland Points After 4-Night Lull   MORE RAIDS MADE IN MEDITERRANEAN   Hundreds of Allied Planes Rain Explosives on Axis Military Points

RAF Renews Attack On Rhineland   1-Day Lull Ended as Big Bombers Return to Task Of Leveling Reich

COLOGNE HIT IN 119TH ASSAULT   RAF Returns to Attack After 4-Night Lull

Cologne Attacked By RAF, After Lull  Ac Bombers Return.   As Bombers Return, Allied Fighters Sweep Over Channel

19 PLANES DOWNED IN RAID ON EMDEN   AMERICANS LOSE TWO FLYING FORTRESSES AS THEY BLAST AT SEAPORT,

F RESUMES EUROPE RAIDS   Return to Assault After Lull; German Planes Attack England.

RAF Pounds Cologne Last Night in Returing to  The Assault:on Germany

Cologne And Other Targets Hit By RAF   Battered City Gets 119th Assault. Other Industrial Targets Blasted. Other RAF Forces Swecp Toward France to Continue Daylight Offensive.

‘Cologne Again Is Plastered   Eight Bombers Lost In Heavy Attack On Industrial Center.

RAF Renews Assault On Nazi Centers   Rhineland Industrial City of Cologne Again Raided During Night   EIGHT BOMBERS LOST

Daylight Alert For Londoners  RAF Delivers Another : Punch At Cologne

EIGHT BOMBERS LOST IN RUHR CITY ASSAUL   No Let-up in Aerial Pounding of Airdromes, Communications on Island of Sicily

AACHEN RAIDED BY RAF FLIERS   20 Bombers Lost In Heavy Attack On Nazi City

Cologne Is  Bombed Again   British Announce Loss Of Eicht Planes

RAF RETURNS TO GERMANY   Makes Heavy. Attack on Industrial Center of Cologne

R.A. F. RESUMES HEAVY ATTAGKS ON NAZI CITIES   Cologne Bombed In Raid; Eight Aircraft Lost

Cologne Raided By RAF Airmen  Heavy Attack Made On Industrial City

British Make Heavy Attack On Cologne   RAF Loses Eight Raiding Bombers

British Rip at Cologne Again   Lose 8 Bombers During Heavy Attack

RAF LOSES EIGHT BOMBERS IN RAID OVER RHINELANE   Returns To Assault On Germany After Four Night Lull In Allied Aerial Offensive; Cologne Is Target of Heavy Attack.

RAF Hammers at Rhineland Area, Damages Cologne   Mines Laid In Enemy Wa: ters; Heavy Bombers Re. turn, Then Allied Fight. ers Sweep Over Channel In Daylight Raids.

Aachen, Vital Nazi Rail City, Heavily Bombed By RAF In Night Raid

RAF RESUMES BIG ATTACKS ON RHINELAND   Eight, Bombers Lost In Heavy Attack On Cologne

A HEAVY ATTACK MADE ON COLOGNE LAST NIGHT BY RAF   Returned to the Assault or Germany After a FourNight Lull.   EIGHT BOMBERS LOST   ‘Mines Also Were Laid ir Enemy Waters During the Night.

R.A.F. Bombers  Batter Cologne In New Attack   Return To Assault Of Reich Industries After Four-Night Lull.

CIVILIAN SHOT AT SELFRIDGE   Gov't Probe Impends Into Two Shootings At Army Base

Congress Will Probe Assaul   Selfridge Field Air Chief In Custody.

2 WOUNDED AT U.S. ARMY POST   Colonel Alleged To Have Sho Army Private at Self: ridge Field

SHOOT CIVILIAN AT SELFRIDGE   INVESTIGATE SECOND SHOOTING WITHIN. SPACE OF 24 HOURS

2 Shootings Within 24 Hours Take Place At Selfridge Field   Sentry Wounds Civilian Following Shooting Of Negro By Ex-Officer

Meat, Butier Rationing Starts March 29; Point Values Are Explained

Choice Cuts to Cut Deep in Stock  Of Red Coupons After This Week

NEW PROGRAM OF RATIONING BEGINS MONDAY; MEATS-FATS RATIONS ARE MORE LIBERAL   Principal ltems on Official Consumer Point Table Published

OPA Announces Point Values For Meats, Cheeses, Fats, Which Go On Sale March 29

Point Rationing of Meat, Fats, Fish and Cheese To Be Effective Mar. 29

POINT VALUES FOR MEATS, FATS, OILS, CHEESES, RELEASED   Newest and Largest Wartime Food Rationing Program Begins March 29.   MUST DISPLAY TABLE   An Allotment of 16 Points Per Person Per Week Is Made.

Each Consumer Allotted 1¢ Points Per Week For Food Stuffs Under Program.

Madam hHousewite, ifis is  16 Points Per Person to be Weekly Allotment As Represented by Red Stamps in War Ration Book No..

Shine Planes Support Troops   GUNS BLAZE AS BANK RORRERS ARE NABBED

Shoots Auto Tire To Halt Bandits   Highway Patrol Captures Convicts in 80-MileHour Chase.

Three Ex-Cons — Caught After Bank Holdup   Blazing Away With Shot: guns in 80 M.P.H. Chase, Patrolmen Stop Them   A TROOPER’S SHOT PUNCTURES TIRE   Trio Then Surrenders and Money Is Recovered; 65 Troopers Svread Net

Allies Are Consuming Jap Planes And Bases   All Signs Point To Shriveling Supply In South Pacific As MacArthur Moves On

Take Possession Of Big Airdrome In Drive for Lae   Strategic Field Finally Seized   Japs Strictly on the Defensive As Aerial Strength Grows Weaker

JAPS FIND PLANES, BASES ARE SHRINKING   Enemy On _ Defensive Ix South Pacific And In Seemingly Dire Straits As Allie Push Advantage   No Secrets

Pan American Good Neighbor Policy Urged by Hull for the Postwar Era

Hull Urges World  Co-operation   Asks Good Neighbor Policy Become New Magna Charter

Secretary Of State Hull Pleads For International Cooperation After War

HULL OFFERS MAGNA CARTA TO THE WORLD   Urges Adoption of PanAmerican Good-will * Policy

Pan-American Policy Urged for Post-War World  Canad Neighhar Plan   Good Neighbor Plan Should Prevail, Secretary Hull Says

GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY URGED   Hull Says Pan-American Plan Should Be Used For Whole World

STENGON AGAIN PROBE WITNESS   Attorney General Back From ‘Fruitful’ Mystery Errand.

CALL STENSON BACK TO STAND   Key Figure In Graft Sift  Talks Again; Rushton  On Mystery Errand

MYOTERY CLOAK GRAND JURY PROBE   Rushton Leaves Court Room for Half Day on Unannounced Business

Charlie's Heir? Daughter Born to Girl Who Named Chaplin As Father

Nationwide Walkout Is Set On Morning Of December 30   Strike Order Is Protest Against Refusal To Approve Hourly Waae Increase For Men

15 Non-Operating Unions To Go Out At6:00A.M. Dec.30   Will Join 350,000 Operating Employees Already Scheduled To Strike At That Hour; Protest  Against Administration’s Wage Program.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazis Definitely On Run we Russia, But Decision Lacking Elsewhere

Kiev, Flanked By Reds, Seems Doomed To Fall  Russians Cross Dnieper   : Oe Russians Cross Dnieper At Three Points To Flank Germans   CRIMEA TMPERILLED   Soviet Armies Only 60 Miles From Latvia In North. Drive

Reds Get ~— ‘Set fora New Leap   Gains in - Surprise Push Across Dnieper Are Being «Consolidated Quickly   GERMANS AGAIN CAUGHT NAPPING   » New Advance Threatens to Cave-In Entire Front; Next Blow May Come at Kiev

Red Steel Ring Closes on Kiev   THREE DNIEPER CROSSINGS SHATTER GERMAN DEFENSE LINE; RUSSIAN GUERRILLAS STAGE POWERFUL UPRISING; KEYSTONE CITY DOOMED

‘Alhes Drive To Cut Sicily  Into Two Parts   Rapid Advance Results In Capture Of Enna Hub Of Communications   DRIVING GERMANS INTO MESSINA AREA

f R., CHURCHILL, STALIN MEETING APPEARS IMMINENT. SAYS VICHY RADIC

Recommended Change Would Make Saving In Personnel  AN IOLIRNIAAENT IS TAKEN

Relief Funds Sharply Cut   Decline in Relief Load Makes Possible 31 Million Siash

Huge Cut In Relief Costs  Only 88 Million Sought For Biennium. Te Cut Perconnel

10 HURT IN RIOT AT SHIPYARDS IN TEXAS   Trouble Starts Over Raping of Young Mother

Allies Down 186 Planes In  One Theater   RUSSIANS APPEARING TO BEAT GERMANY TO SUMMER DRAW.

BERLIN AGAIN BOMBED, MORE PLANES DOWNED      Allies Arncunce Destruction Of 113 Axis Planes, Reds Progressing

Transport Lines Take  Hard Blows   Berlin and Towns In Italy Feel Repeated Attacks

Turin, Spezia Naval Bose Are Targets For Bombs   NAZE U-BOAT BASE AT LORIENT BOMBED, TOO

U.S. Flying Fortresses on Widesnread Raids   British Making Steady Attacks  i... ih

BOMBS RAIN ON VITAL WAR FACTORY AREAS   Turin And Spezia Are Targets In Northwest italy; Lorient In France   ‘THREE PLANES ARE LOST,   Bombers Cover 550 Mile Front In Night Attacks; U. S$. Ships Hit Reich

WIDE ATTACKS COST RAF ONLY THREE PLANES   First Simultaneous Blow At Three Countries Since 1940

TURIN, SPEZIA AND RUHR ATTACKED BY BRITISH BOMBERS   Lorient Also Visited During  Night Following U. &.  Davylicht Raids.

RAF Sweep Hits Northern Italy, Ruhr, Lorient   Bombers From England Cover 550 Mile Target Arc In Non Stop Offensive: Turin, Spezia Naval Base Blasted

SUB BASE ATTACKED IN NIGHT   Lorient, on the French Coast Is Blasted—Only Three Planes Lost by  British. ;

Berliners Told To Write Wills   Section Where Records Were Kept Was Deatroved By Fire.

SIDELIGHTS ON RAID  Berliners Told How To Write Wills; Elephant And Zebra Meat Is Served; Brick With Message Dropped On City   FAT, PROVINTCS PrHAnn

War Ration Books and Bond Wallets at Harpel’s.   CAPT. SPITLER, ON LEAVE, PAYS TRIBUTE TO ARMY DOCTORS

RED TRAP THREATENS GERMANS   Fall Of Nazi Bastion Held Inevitable As Railways Are Cut

Fall of big Naa Defense ‘Bastion Imminent   Two Major Russian Forces Converging On 4th USSR City

SOVIETS SEVER RAILROAD LINES INTO KHARKOV   Axis Escape Corridor Narrowed As Reds Push Drive To Isolate City   IMOVE TOWARD BRYANSK   Huge German Losses In Equipment And Men Reported On All Fronts

Red Army Lightning Blows _ Sound Knell Of Fourth ; Russian City As Nazi Base  RAILROADS CUT  Optimism Sweeps Country As Reports Of Victories.  Reach h Capital

RUSSIAN FORCES NEARING KHARKOV IN UKRAINE DRIVE   Reds Cut All but Three Railroads Supplying City; ‘Nazi Escape Corridor Narrowed.

KHARKOV SURE TO FALL INTO RUSSIAN HANDS   Nearly 200 Towns and Villages Wrested From Nazis on 200Mile Flaming Battle-front.

EXPECT FALL OF KHARKOV IN FEW DAYS   Russians Cut All But 3 Rail Lines To Vital Base

Encirclement Of City Traps Nazi Forces      Big Guns Bombard Russia’s Fourth Biggest City; Another Smashing Victory Assured; Great Optimism Sweeping Through Countrs

Soviets Drive 43 Miles Past Kharkov To Close German Escape Corridor

Cossacks Give Germans Their Worst Defeat   Steppes Scene Of Vas Slaughter As Blades Cut Up Germans   Little Resistance Seen As Invaders Flee For Their Lives

BLAST FRONT, CUT RAILROADS TO DOOM CITY   Red Air Force Bombards Stations

KHARKOV DOOMED TO FALL SHORTLY (S BELIEF OF REDS   Russians Hit Lightning Blows  to Cut Railroad Lines With } Frontal Assault on - Ap‘proaches.   TURN TOWARD VICTORY , 1S SEEN !N PACIFIC   Rescue Party Locates 19 _ Survivors of Transport  Who *Chuted to Earth, \ Land in Burma Jungle.

(HARKOV IN RANE AP HEAVY GUNS; FALL IMMINENT   §oviet Push Threatens To Trap Nazi Garrison   RUSSIANS UNDER GERMAN YOKE AWAIT LIBERATION

RUSSIANS ARE. A MILES PAST. ~ THE NAZI BASE   Radiating Railroads. are. Cut. Other. Soviet Forces Near Brvanak.

Cossacks Sweep Into Final Battle; Reds Take Aleshki   By HENRY SHAPIRO   Escape Tries Fail

RUSSIANS CUT ALL, BUT, THREE SUPPLY ROADS   Fianking Columns Swept As Far As Forty-Five Miles Past Kharkov

REPUBLICANS IN KENTUCKY WIN   Elect Men To Governor. ship And Five Other State Posts

KENTUCKY JOINS VICTORY PARADE   SIMEON S. WILLIS, REPUBLICAN, WINS IN GOVERNOR RACE

Willis Puts Kentucky In GOP Column   Border State Goes Republican For First Time Since 1927 By Small Majority

REPUBLICANS TAKE KENTUCKY   Attorney General Only Democrat To Gain Victory

No News Is Good News Says War Department In Regard To Casualties of This War

RUBBER PLANTS IN AKRON SHUT DOWN ENTIREL'   48,000 Strikers Seek Settlement of Four-day-ald Disnute.

LEADERS SEEK WAY 10 HALT AKRON STRIKE   Two Rubber Plants Are Closed; 48,000 Men Idle

AKRON STRIKE S STILL UNSETTLED   48,000 Workers Walkout and War Production is Being Badly Crippled.

RUBBER STRIKERS HALT WAR PLANTS   Number Of Idle Employes, Now Totals Over * 48,000

Soviet Command Tells Of Recapture  Of Five More Central Caucasian Towns And Cities

5 MORE CAUCASIAN LOCALITIES TAKEN   Timoshenko’s Offensive Relieving Leningrad; Ain Airmen Set Pace

CHILE JOINING. ALLIED GROUF   SENATE VOTES BREAK WITH AXIS AND FORMAL AN .NOUNCEMENT 18 NOW AWAITED.

Misunderstood Order Results In ‘Incident   Nazi Prisoner Drops Crates By Accident, Guard Fires Gun

House strikes out incentive payments   Approves appropriation with FSA also deprived of funds

$715 Million Appropriation For °44 O. K.  Refuse Extra Funds To   2VUR 8284 W686 228  Refuse Extra Funds To Encourage Greater Production Of War Crane In Nation

HOUSE OPPOSES INCENTIVE PAY FOR WAR CROPS   Also Deprives Farm Security Group of Any Appropriations

Farm Funds Bill Passed By House   Incentive Funds Banned—Wipes Out Funds  For FSA

FSA And Insurance  Eliminated   Maximum Of $500 In Bounty To One Person Is Fixed

HOUSE REFUSES FSA INSURANCE. FINANCES   Farm Programs Tossed Ou Of Appropriations

HOUSE AGAIN T FARM SUBSIDY   Bill Passed By Representatives Deprives FSA Of Funds.   CROP INSURANCE IS QUT

Farm Benefits Curbed In Bill Passed By House   FSA Funds Denied; Incentive Pay Plan Wiped Out

HOUSE FAILS TO ALLOW FSA FUNDS   BELIEVE DAYS OF FARM SECURITY ARE NUMBERED

House Votes Farm Funds   Approves $715,099,662 Bill; Ban Use  For Incentive Payments

HOUSE APPROVED FARM SUPPLY BILL $715,099,662 TODAY  STIPULATED THAT NOTH. INC PREF TICEN FOR INCEN.

HOUSE APPROVES 1944 AG FUND WITH LIMITATION   Limitation Stipulates None of the Fund of $715,099,662 Is to Be Used for Incentive Payments

No Incentive Payments In New Farm Bill   House-Approved Measure Also Cuts Out The FSA

No Provision For Incentive Payments Made   $500 Maximum on Individual Benefits; FSA Gets No Funds

Payments Hit in Okay on Farming Fund   INCENTIVES BANNED IN ALLOTMENTS FOR AGRICULTURE BRANCH

NUUSE PAooED FARM BILL BANNING Fo!   Incentive Payments To Farmers Also Eliminated

Discontinuance Of FSA And Crop Insurance Program Also Ordered ‘In House Measure

House Rejects Incentive Pay Farm Program   Funds Denied FSA As Lower House Approves 715 Million Budget,  ‘FIX BENEFITS LIMIT

LOCAL ORSERVATIONE   Incentive Farm Payments Killed   House Eliminates Benefits in Its Agricultural Appropriation.

HOUSE DENIES INCENTIVE PAYAND FSA FUNDS   Also Discontinues Crop Insurance: Programs in Voting Agricultur Appropriafion

ALLIES REPEL GERMAN LAND UNIT IN NORTH   Rommel Back To Starting Point Of Advance  ACTIVITY   Increases At Mareth Line: Yanks Dodge Maze Of Traps And Mines

BIG CHURCHILL TANKS CAUSE FOE RETREAT   Allied Forces Continue to Consolidate Their Gains Over Axis In Central Sectors   RAIDS STEPPED UP AGAINST NAZI LINES   Four Axis Vessels From Six-Ship Convoy Sunk and Enemy Motor Transport Shot Up

PATROLS CONTACT FOE NEAR FAID   Rommel’s Forces Near Mareth Line Increase Their . Patrol Activity

Severe Losses Are Inflicted: Four Ships Sunk   Hand: To-Hand Battle Rages. In Sedjenane; -Romimel Retreats.

YANKS REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK AT SEDJENANE ©   Bombers Assist Ground Troops In New Advance

First Army Renels Stiff Nazi Attack  ~ Yanks Continue - To Gain Ground  ae . Pe ti ee

FOUR MORE AXIS VESSELS SUNK FROM SIX-SHIP CONVOY   Tank-Led Ist Army Forces _ Repulsed an Attack at Sedjenane.

German and Italian Motor Transports Shot Up in Aerial  Accompaniment

Bombers Inflict Heavy Damage On Enemy Convoy And Shoot Up Motor Transports While Ground Fighting Develops Into Battle For Junction On MateurTabarka Road—British Attack Spearheaded By Churchill Tanks Emitting Six-Pound Shells.

Bombers Sink Four Vessels In Convoy; German Infantry Has Severe Losses

AXIS CONVOY HARD HIT BY BOMBERS IN ATTACK WEDNESDAY  GERMAN ARMORED UNIT FORCE WAY INTO TOWN BUT ARE THROWN OUT

NAZI DRIVE IN TUNISIA REPULSED   Increased Activity On ~ Mareth Front Noted By Eighth Army

Severe Losses Inflicted As Nazis Retreat   Allies Sink Four Axis Vessels; Shoot Up Enemy Motor Transports

Tank-Led First Anglo-American Army Repulses Determined Attempts by _ Germans to Recapture Town of Sedjenane

WERE PART OF CONVOY OF SIX   Enemy Motor Transports Shot Up During AerialGround Attack.   HAND TO HAND FIGHTING

Four Axis Ships Sunk by Bombers   British Repulse Heavy Attack on Junction in North Tunisia   ROMMEL TANKS SOUTH   Nazis Appear to Fear No Immediate Attack in Center

ALLIED BOMBERS SINK 4 AXIS SHIPS AS GROUND FIGHTING IS INCREASED

Rommel Driven Back fo Starting Point in Pass   British 8th Army May Start Drive On Mareth Line

Four Axis Vessels In A Six-Ship Convoy Sunk By  Bombs In Mediterranean

BLAST SIXSHIP CONVOY IN HARD HITTING ATTACK  Pare mi iatn FARA Drs   GROUND FORCES TURN BACK VAN ARNIM’S ARMY AT SEDJENANE

Determined Axis Attack At Sedjenane Repulsed by Tank-Led British Forces   Allies Continue to Consolidate Recent Gains in Central Sector —- Rommel Intensifies Activities in Mareth  Line Area of South

British Hurl Back Fresh Nazi Thrust   40-Ton Tanks Lead Attack in  Ground Fighting

British Repel Gen Von Arnim   Nazis Enter Sedjenane.  Then Lose It

FOUR AXIS VESSELS SENT 10. BOTTOM. ~ BY ALLIED PLANES   Bombers .Shoot ‘Up German, Htalian, Motor Columns In North Africa   IDRIVE OFF NAZI PATROLS

Heavy Fighting  Raves in Tunisia   Fortresses Blast Ships While Heavy British Tanks Drive  Fnemvy Fram Cantured Taun

Four Axis Ships Sunk Off Africa   ALLIED BOMBERS RAID CONVOY OF NAZI VESSELS

4 Out Of 6 Ships Sunk; Heavy Nazi Attack Repulsed   Germans Beaten Back With High Losses After Street Fighting In Sedjenane

ROMMEL FORCED BACK TO POINT ~ DRIVE STARTED   Allied Bombers Sink Fou Axis Ships—Sedjenane Attack Fails

BOMBERS SINK — _FOUR SHIPS IN AXIS CONVOY   Von Arnim Repulsed After Driv. ing Tanks inio Sedjenane, Tvnisian Highway Key ~   PATROLS ACTIVE   Brushes Reported in Vicinity of Faid Pass and Far to South Alona Mareth Line

SMASH ENEMY TANK-LED UNIT AT SEDJENANE   40-Ton Churchill’s Spearhead Armored Attack, Fires 25 Shells Per Minute

Rommel Retreats To Starti Point Of Tunisian Offensive! Heavy Fighting At Sedienans

Germans Ousted From Sedjenane Von Arnim Is Checked: Yanks Consolidating  >. WFrsAarenaTnit?* Raa’?

Allied Airmer Harass Axis   Four Enemy Vessels. Sunk; Nazi Attack Repulsed by Tanks

BITTER BATTLE IS FOUGHT ON TOWN STREETS   Churchill Tanks Lead British Attack on Axis Motor Column

uermans Driver From Junction   British 40-Ton Tonks Lead Street Battle At Sedjenane as Allied Bombers Sink Four, Damage Two Ships in Enemy Convoy

British Drive Off Von Arnim’s Force as Rommel Withdraws To Faid Pass Starting Point

WLB Offers Coa Mine Pay Boost Micirectly  Refuses $2 A Day Demand But Okays D...! T. D.3- 1

BRITISH TO STICK WH AMERICANS ~UNTILWAR ENDS      Eden Gives ‘Assurance: Duri “Annapolis Address * ha His Country. Will: Helk Against Japan. ©      LITTLE OIL POURED: ON- TROUBLED WATERS   British Secretary. Says.England Has -No° Secret °En ’ gagenients, Boundries Not to Be Extended.:

EDEN AdabhED BRITTO PLEDGE   Says England Will Nct Let U. S. and China Down in Jap War.

Eden’s Assurance England Will Not Slacken War  Effort With Defeat Of Germany Widely Welcomed

BRITISH. FOREIGN SECRETARY _ DECLARES ALL ENEMIES MUST -UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER

M’ARTHUR’S TROOPS GAIN ON NEW GUINEA   Two Japanese Strong Points Protecting Sanananda Point Are Destroyed.

Two Strongpoints Of Japs Fall And Cargo Ship Sunk   " 8,000-Ton Vessel Blasted By Two Bomb Hits, Sending It Down In Eight Minutes

JAP POSITIONS ARE LIQUIDATED   Strong Points Destroyec By Allied Ground Units At Sanananda

191 Students of J.C  High School and  College Graduated Mary Applegate and  Mary David Rootes Receive High Honors

 Commencement Tomorrow  179 High School Graduates ‘And 12 From Junior College

Japanese ‘Routed’ On Guadalcanal  More Than 6,000 Slain In Last 25 Days Of  American Drive

JAP DEEEAT 19 CALLED AQUT       Naval “O: er “Describes American Victory Gn ‘Guadalcanal ¢

UTTER DEFEAT AT GUADALCANAL   ’  American Conquest Of Island Described As “Complete Rout” Of Japanese Army. 

‘JAPANESE ARE ROUTED   J Withdrawal From Guadalcanal Described as ““Non-Orderly”

Conquest Of Guadalcanal ‘Complete Rout’ Of Jap:   Large Quantity Of Enemy Equipment Is Captured In Final Days Of Campaign

WAR LABOR BOARD ACTION 1S ASKED   Intervention Is Sought in the Coal Wage Dis pute

SOFT COAL WAGE DISPUTE PLACED ‘IN WLB’S HANDS   Mine Operators And Union Are Unable To Reach  Acraamant      OPERATORS FAVOR PRESENT AGREEMENT

RED CROSS READY FOR AUTUMN WORK   Steady Production of Wa Need Articles Is  Continuing

Plymouth County Red Cross Executive Board Meets In LeMars This Week   Plans Discussed For Winter And Fall Activities

Labor Leaders To Meet Roosevelt   Wage Control Relaxation Wanted

Labor Seeks A Showdown On Wage Controls   Case Against W. L. B. Will Be Laid Before  Denacident Saturday.

FDR ACTION ON FORMULA SEEN   Labor Hope President Wil Indicate Position

ROOSEVELT TO GET UMN VEWONWLE   Meeting Saturday May Determine Future of ‘Potent War Agency.    UNIONS CRITICAL - OF ITS POLICIES   Soft Coal Strike Threat May Have Important Bearing.

Labor Leaders         Appear Before’ FDR This “Week To Ask Relaxing” “ WLB. Wace Hold:

Present Labor Problems Soon   Union “Leaders To Request Relaxation Of Wage Controls Saturday.

Labor Chiefs To Lay Case Before FDR  They're Out?To   They’re Out?To Remove The Lid  From Wages

sue Will Be Placed ‘Be ore President Roosevelt   At Conference Scheduled For Saturday   UTURE POLICIES  WLB HELD AT STAKE   ederal Wage Supervision roup Already Shaken By Internal Strife; Faces Miners’ Wrath

EASING OF WAGE. CONTROLS SOUGHT BY LABOR HEADS —   To Lay Case Before FDR Saiurday, the Results of Which May Determine War Labor: Board Policies

Hope President Will Indicate Stand On Scrapping Of WLB’s Wage Formula

Russian Drive Keeps Growing  In Feroeity      Last German Holds On East Bank Of Dnieper Smashed

German a Ge holds   Russian Offensive Along 400-Mile -  Driener Stretch Mounts in Scale, Violence

REDS WIPE OUT LAST NAZI HOLDS - ON EAST BANK   Massed Artillery Slams Away At Forts on West Bank of Dnieper.

Reds Liquidate Nazi Toeholds Along Diener   Guns Pound Germans Fighting Reported In Gomel Streets

Liquidate Last German Toeholds  (On Eastern Bank   Massed Soviet Guns Lob Shells Across —  River Softening Nazis

RIVER HOLDS LIQUIDATED   Russian Drive. Along Dnieper ‘Mounts in Scale

Massed Russian Guns Lob Shells  Across Dnieper   Red “Army Assault. Troops Hammer Nazi Still Clinging to Last Holds on East. Bank Near Kiev'‘and Dnepropetrovsk

Last of Nazi Toeholds on East Bank of Dnieper Are liquidated   Massed Russian Guns Lob Shells Across River

LAST GERMAN RIVER HOLDS LIQUIDATED   Russian Drive Along Dnieper Mounts in Scale

Russian Drive. Gains Momentur  End Nazi Toeholds  On FE. Dnieper Bank:

BERLIN. ADMITS OUVIET ARM PAST DNIEPEE   Russian Offensive Mounts In Fury Along Stretches Of Strategic River

Frankfurt Is Handed Another Heavy Pasting   RAF Bombers Follow Up American Fortress Raid

FRANKFURT IS BLASTED 38Th TIME BY R.A-F.   Another Great Load of Bombs Dropped Upon War Production Cen ter in Germany   LUDWIGSHAFEN HIT

German Airfields In Greece Are Battered   RAF Follows Up American Daylight Raid With Giant Blow At Nazi Production Center; Continue Advance

Frankturt Hit in Major Raic by RAF Fliers   Assault Follows on Heels of Attack by American Fortresses

sault By RAF losely Follows J.8. Fort Attack   dwigshaven Also Target; Berlin -Broadeast Says 3 Hospitals Destroyed

BRITISH FOLLOW UP DAY RAID BY U.S. FORTRESSES   Heavy Attacks Loosed On Important German War Production Center; Other Areas In Nazi Territory Bombed.

BRITISH DUMP ANOTHER LOAD ON FRANKFURT   RAF Follows with Night Raid Flying Forts’ Blasting by Daylight.   OTHER BIG BOMBERS RANGE OVER RHINELAND

Frankfurt Hit Hard Twice In 12. Hours.   RAF Follows Up Yankee Raid; Also Blasts Ludwigshafen

BERLIN ADMITS RHINE RAIDS WERE SEVERE’   RAF Dumps More Bombs On Frankfurt Twelve Hours After Attack By Americans   OFFEN BACH, SAAR ALSO HIT. FOE SAYS   Flames From Frankfurt Blow Visible 300 Miles; Flames Eating Thru Sections of City

RAF DELIVERS 38TH RAID FRANKEURT   Deliver More Than 500 Tons On the Important Industrial Site; Germans Caught Short.

900 Tons of Bombs Rained on Frankfurt   Raid Made by RAF, Following Yesterday’s Precision Attack by U. S. Fortresses— British Also Pound Ludwigshafen.

FRANKFURT HIT SECOND TIME IN 12 HOURS   RAF Blasts Reich War Center; Night Bombers Smack Ludwigshafen

Frankfurt Hit By RAF Soon After Forts Strike   Ludwigshaven Also Pounded: Twelve British Planes Lost. In Night's Operation:

RAF Bombers Again Raid Frankfurt  Dump Heavy  Load 12 Hours ! After Raid

FRANKFURT AGAIN BLASTED BY RAF HEAVY BOMBERS   Attack Followed Less Than 12 Hours After American Fortress Blows.   LUDWIGSHAFEN IS HIT   Small Fleet of Night Bomb. ers Attacked the City; Fires Raging.

FOLLOWS YANK DAYUGHT RAID   Fires in Frankfurt Observed 300 Miles Away by Flying Crews

FRANKFURT ntT BY RAF AGAIN   British Raid Follows Shortly After Flying Fortress Attack.

Nazi War Plant City Given 38th Aerial Pounding   Other Points Bombed By RAF During Night

DUMP HEAVY BOMB LOADS OVER RHINE   Flying Forts Roar Over Blasted City of Frankfurt After RAF Raids.   Twelve Airplanes Fail To Return From Raids

Frankfurt Bears Brunt o Big Night Attack—Little Opposition for Bombers

R.A-F. Returns To Blast Frankfurt, Ludwigshafen   ‘Returning Bomber Crew: Report Fires Eating  Through City.

ee fee ee), es re  Te  a  RAF Follows Yanks in Raid On Frankfurt

RAF RAF Bombers Follow-Up Raid By Yank Flying Fortresses On Frankfurt

R. A. F. Follows Up Americans  Frankfurt Raid   Mass Night Attack Sets Big New Fires In Nazi  Production Center.

ONE-TWO PUNCH FLATTENS REICH INDUSTRIAL CIT)   Frankfurt, Target of Daylight Raid by Yanks, Hit Again by RAF

FIRES SEEN 300 MILES FROM TARGET   Berlin Acknowledges Damage Is Severe; Follow Up American Pounding: 12 Planes Lost 

U.S. Precision Bombers Plaster Frankfurt Area   Great Air Fleet Ranges Over Vast Rhinelang Area

OTHER POINTS IN RHINELAND BOMBED AGAIN   Another 1,000 Tons of Explosives Shower on Frankfurt Following Raid by U. 8.

RAF Bombers Again Raid Frankfurt   Dump Heavy Load 12 Hours After Raid  By Fortresses

Frankfurt Gets Night Bomber Raid   RAF Follows Up American Fortress Attack With Heavy Pounding

Frankfurt Hard Hit By British Germans Admit Severe Bombing Attack   Lose 12 Planes

CORRESPONDENT 10 GIVE TALK MONDAY   Yarbrough Has Served in Pacific and Atiantic War Zones.

WAR STRIKES WHERE YARBROUGH APPEARS   War Correspondent, Coming Here Nov. 1, Has Seen Much Action.

Supply. Lines Inadequate in - Lhitomir Area  Clantiyva Okerwnck and Naaw   Capture Ovruch and Near Gates of Cherkasi in Surprise Thrust

REDS OFFSET THEIR LOSS OF ZHITOMIR   Make Surprise Drive Across Dnieper to Gates of Cherkasi, Bringing New Threat to Nazi Forces Below Kiev.

Supply. Lines  Inadequate in —Lhitomir Area   Capture Ovruch and Near Gates of Cherkasi- in Surprise Thrust

COLES’ CROPS TO EQUAL PRODUCTION   Average Down, But Increased Acreage to Make Up Difference

Presided Over Colony’s Tria   Retired From Supreme  Court In 1937

RAl AP 6 Gi ‘<c ele Planes Raid Axis Forces  On Crete   100 Or More Aircraft Take Part In Aitack, Ranging All Over German-held Island

GREEKS AID IN CRETE ATTACK   17 Planes Lost In Big Scale Aerial Operation

AIR ATTACKS MADE ON SRETE   RAF and Greek Bombers  Hit Ammunition Dumps

Allied Planes  Ra’ * “rete   100 Take Part in Attack; Berlin Radio Calls Damage Slight

sritish and Greek lanes Bomb Crete   ‘ar Plants Hit on NaziHeld Island

BOMB NAZIS IN. CRETE.   R.A. F, ant Greek Air Force! ‘Range All Over Island -

Proposal Called Inflationary in Acrid Message   Declares Roll-Back Program Essential To Stabilization

Message Bitterly Critical   Says Measure Inflationary, and Would  Junk Plans to Hold Down Living Costs 

FOOD SUBSIDY BILL VETOED   President Rejects Measure Te Ban Funds for Roll Back of Prices.

LIMITED BASIS FOR SUBSIDIES IS CONSIDERED   Some Senators Ready To Back Down On Plan  BULLETIN

FDR FLAYS ACTION OF CONGRESS   CCC Measure Is Held ‘Inflation Bill’ By  Executive

Weather Forecast   AY AGOSEVELT   Acid Message Sent Congress By FDR In Explanation Of Veto Action

Bill to Cripple Subsidy Vetoed By President as  ‘Inflation Aid   Would Hamstring Credit Corporation,’ Acid Message Says

BITTERLY CONGRESS FOR INFLATION’ ACT   Declares Commodity Credit Corporation Would Be “Hamstrunr’

FDR Vetoes Antisubsidy Legislation   Declares It To Be Inflation Bill Which Would Set Soldier, Worker and Consumer at War with Farmer

President vetoes measure to cut off subsidy program   Says bill to keep CCC is inflation aid in one of most wrathy messages

Vote Expected To Override FDR's Action   President Acidly Declares Bill Would ‘Hamstring’ CCC

Roosevelt Vetoes Anti-Subsidy Bill   Termed “‘Inflation Act’’ In Strongly Worded Message; Urges Greater Harmony Between Congress and Chief Executive.

Anti-Subsidy Bill Vetoed © By Roosevelt   In Long, Bitter Message to Congress, Chief '.Ex cutive Says Measure Is ‘Inflation Bill’ Homctrinaina CCC

F. R. Vetoes Bill Cutting Food Subsid)   Commodity Credit Body Would Be Hamstrung By Measure, President Declares In Message

Roosevelt Vetoes Anti-Subsidy Bill   Says Measure Denying Funds for Food Price ‘Rollbacks Is Inflationary and Will Ruin U. S. Economy and War Effort.

VIEW HELD FARM IS HIT   Food Price Axe Is Killed By Veto Of President

[t's Inflation Measure, His Message Says   Lengthy And Sharply Critical Note Is Sent To Congress

SUBSIDIES BILL VETOED BY FOR   Says Bill Would Set Soldier, Worker and Consumer Against Farmer.   CALLED ‘INFLATION BILL’

C.C.C. Bill Is Branded Inflationary   Blacks Out, Program To Cut Living Costs, Says Acid F. R. Message.

ROOSEVELT IN BITTER MESSAGE VETOED BILL OUTLAWING SUBSIDIES   HECTADER IT INET ATIAN   DECLARED IT INFLATION MEASURE WITH UNWARRANTED RESTRICTIONS

ANTI-SUBSIDY ‘BILL VETOED BY PRESIDENT   Dem Leaders Say House Wil Uphold Killing of CCC Measure.   Expected To Tell Congress Today Legislation Would Hit Hold-the-Line,

Callsit ‘Inflation Bill’ ‘High Cost of Living   Asserts Measure Would Prevent ‘Holdin the Line’, Aid to Farmers, Refuses Re sponsibility for Wages

Subsidy Curb Handed Sharp Veto By FDR   President Returns Measure To House With Aeid  Criticism.   SHOWS CONSEQUENCES

CCC MEASURE IS VETOED, TERMED DANGEROUS ACT   FDR Turns Thumbs Down On Proposal Junking Subsidy Program

FDR Denounces Congress For Opposing Him   Vetoes Farm Bill, Say: Chaotic Conditions Will Prevail

TERMS MEASURE INFLATIONARY IN VETO MESSAGE   SCORES CONGRESS FOR FAILURE TO CUT LIVING COSTS

COMMODITY .CREBIT BILL      lgasure Would Have Now Also Whittled Down oy Adsninistration’s Plan ‘l'o Subsidize Processors

Roosevelt Vetoes Bill That Would Kill Food Subsidy   President Declares Commodity Credit Measure  An ‘Inflation Bill.’   Critical Message Is Sent to Congressmen

House Upholds FDR’S Veto of C. Credit Bill   President Says Plan Would Align Rest of U.S. Against Farmers

ROOSEVELT VETOED COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION BILL   The President Declared It to Be an Inflation Bill in His Message.   AN “ACID” MESSAGE   Said Measure Was Not One to Continue the CCC But to “Hamstring” ‘It.

FDR Vetoes Subsidies Ban Bill   Tart Message of Explanation Accompanies His Action

Extra   CCC EXTENSION BILL VETO BY F.D.R. TODAY   Called “Inflation Bill” in Acrid Message from Pres, Roosevelt to the Congress

FR Vetoes No Subsidy  Legislation   Declares Congress Seeks To Hamstring CCC, Asks Closer Harmony

CHINESE MOPPING UP   Jap Casualties Continue Te Mount In tu Area Of China

PULPWOOD LACK IS THREATENED WPB ASSERTS      Victory Pulpwdod Campaign Under Way; Newsprint, and Other Paper Shortage Loanix. -

UMW, OPERATORS START DRAFTING WAGE AGREEMENT   Southern Operators Vote Against Participating In Coal Conference

BEGIN DRAFTING OF MINE PAY CONTRACT   Prolonged Dispute Still Faces Obstacles

Draw Up Miners Wage Contract /  3   Coal Operators, Union Heads Agree To Dicker

GPA POLICIES ARE DENCUNCED   Well-Informed Officials Admit Office of Price Administration is “Cracking at The Seams.’

Official Admits OPA Is “Cracking At Seams” But Adds That Administration Will Not Allow ' To Entirely Collapse

OPA “CRACKING AT SEAMS,” INFORMED OFFICIAL CLAIMS   Emphasizes, However, That Administration Couldn’t And’ Wouldn’t Allow Collapse

ee  SEE NEED FOR OPA ‘DICTATOR   Brown Criticized As Too Easy In Enforcing Controls

Strike Halts Work At Packard Plant   Promotion of Negro Workers Protested

Packard Workers Out On Strike   Protest Boost of Three . Negroes To Better Job

Production Halted at Packard War Plant As Workers Strike Because 3 Negroes Were Given Higher Jobs

Promotion Of Negroes  Causes Strike   Packard Plant at Standstill as Thousands Walk Gun

OPA EXPECTS FOOD PRICES T0 DROP IN HIGH COST AREAS   Dollars.and Cents Limits Pu! on Certain Foods In 150 Cities.

Sees Drop In Big City Food Prices   Community Ceilings. Likely To Have Effect

Prepare Food Price Ceilings In 150 Cities   OPA Predicts Reduced Costs to Consumers In Limited Areas

RAF BOMBERS END CITY'S 13NIGHT RESPITE   Another Large Section Of Capital In Ruins; 30 Planes Lost

RAF Pelts Berlin With 1.500 Tons   ‘Center’ of Capital Jolted After.13-Day Bad Weather Respité

Soviets Roul Nazis; Take Mining City   Reds’ Artillery 15 Miles From City Of Stalino

Reds Take Artemovsk,  Mining City   Germans Set Stalino Aflame Before Leaving

Russians Capture 120 Localities, Gain Nine Miles   Stalino in Flames As Reds ‘Advance

REDS WITHIN 15 MILES OF STALINO BASE   Artemovsk Retaken After Bitter Street Fight; 120 Places Fall In 9-Mile Gain   Nazis ‘Shorten’ Lines

Germans Set Fire to Steel City   Onrushing Reds Take Staggering Toll Of Men and Material

Red Army GunsPoint At Staline Mining City Fall  In Bitter Street C < ao kk + + no

Red Artillery Only 15 Miles From Stalino,  Big Axis Base   120 Localities Taken In Nine-Mile Advance; Artemovsk Captured In Donets Basin Push   NAZIS REPORTED FLEEING STALINO   Red Soldiers Contend Clean-Cut Victories Due to Own Power

DONETS BASIN ARMY TAKES ARTEMOVSK   After Killing Or Routing German Garrison In Bitter Street Fighting; 15 Miles From Stalino   70-Mile Grip

Soviets Drive Ahead in Big Advance  Darla Ren LATi4¢hin   Reds Are Within 15 Miles of Base at Stalino

RUSSIAN ARMY ONLY 15 MILES FROM STALINO   Reds Take Mining City And 120 Towns in  Donets Basin

Nazi Garrison Is Routed at. Artemovsk —   120 Other Localities Fall Into Hands of  ‘Advancing Red Barre

REDS DRIVING INON STALINO      Wide Gains Scored by Russians on all the Fronts

GUERRILLA NAVY ROVES COASTLINE ALONG ADRIATG   Jugoslav Partisans Boast Sea Forces Credited With Two Sinkings

INDIAN TEACHERS TOSUMMER SCHOOL   Staff Members Will Attend Session at Haskell  Institute   FROM ALL OVER U. S,

HEAVY BOMBING AT WAKE ISLAND   13 Jap Planes Are Destroyed By Allied Airman During Chinese Raid.

Yanks Bomb Wakelsland, Pound Kiska   Nine Zeros Downed In Pacific Fighting; Bombs Tear Runw

Wake Raid Nets Nine Jap Zeros   U. S. Attack Last Sat. Hit Island “Drogmiccnonelv’”’

LONG RANGE U.S, BOMBERS = AGAIN RAID. WAKE ISLAND   KNOX REVEALS JAP-HELD 18 iD POUNDED BY BOMBS  AND MANY ZEROS WERE . SHOT DOWN ‘

Wake Hit Despite Heavy Opposition   Nine Zeros Destroyed On Liberator Raid

Secretary Knox Says Japan Is Now Facing Disaster in South Pacific

Knox Says Japs Facing Disaster   Heavy Cruiser Loss Said Tellina Blow

‘Committee Favors 9 Months School; Solicitorial Redistricting Shelved   Committee : To Leave Matter to 1945 Assembly. . "a

House Education Committee Ir Favorable Report On Bill For Nine-Months Term !n Schools

Ninety-Six More Planes Destroyed   JAPS ALL BUT WIPED OUT ON ATTU ISLE, Ft OS ANNOUNCED,

Allied Airmen Down 96  More Planes Three-Day Scourge On Nazis, Italy Sets High Record

Giraud Opens Way for French Unity  African Chief Asks   African Chief Asks DeGaulle to Join Him; Ousts Leaders

North Africa Unity Nearer   Giraud Clears Way To End De Gaulle Feud

GIRAUD CLEARS WAY FOR PARLE   Moves to Join French To: gether Under One Banner   INVITES DE GAULLE   Action Follows Announced House - Cleaning of ProVichy African Officials

Giraud Invites DeGaulle’s Aid   Way Cleared For ~ Meeting On Unity

Giraud Clears Way for Unity In North Africa   Invites. DeGaiille. to Join French: ‘Together Under One Banner

Giraud Clears Way for Unity   Bid Sent Hewaulle to Join All French Under One Banner

Giraud Opens Way for French Unity   African Chief Asks DeGaulle to Join Him: Ousts Leaders

Allies Praised By Red Press   War Efforts Ranked With Stalingrad

Russian Paper Pravda  Praises War Efforts of Allies, Predicts Invasion

Russian Newspaper Pravda Praises  War Effort of Allies       Declares Combined Blows Have Shaken Hitler; African Campaign Is Comprred With Battle af StoHhnercad

Russia Voices Warm. Praise  Ror Her Allies  ;   Sure of second front; Pravda, a Communist party. newspapes,: says Hitler lives in dread.

COURT UPHOLDS FCC RADIO RULE   Two Justices Dissent In Chain Broadcast Discussion

Another Flood Into Lowlands Of the Osage   Downpour in Lake Watersheds Sends River Over Banks

Finance Growp To Study State Pay Increases   Committee Learns ~ That About 70 Fer Cent OF Salaries Will Be Raised

Inland Dash Seen as Attempt to Cut in on Rommel  NAZIS FACED WITH SERIOUS PROBLEM  U. S. Airmen Blast City From the East and West

ALLIED FORCES DRIVE OVER 40 MILES ONE DAY   Cairo Radio Announces That British Are Only 30 Miles From Big Nazi Base   Beni Ulid Captured

Montgomery’s Left Wing Reaches Within 30 Miles of Tripoli; Axis Defense of City Held Doubtful

Inland Dosh Seen os Attempt to Cut in on Rommel   NAZIS-FA SERIOUS ._ PROBLEM   U. S. Airmen Blast City From the East and West

British Troops Reported In 30 Miles Of Tripoli   Left Flank Seeks To Cut In Ahead Of Fleeing Nazis

British Drive to Less Than 50 Miles From Tripoli as Nazis Renew Tunisia Attack:   ‘Axis Commentators, in Sober Broadcasts, Admit They Face Desperate Fight Against Russians

BRITISH ONLY FORTY MILES FROM TRIPOLI   Left Wing Of Eighth Army Sweeps Across Tripolitanian Hump; 40 Miles in 24 Hours.   Axis Must Act

Left Wing of British Seeks To Sweep Around And Head off Rommel  MOVE 40 MILES WITHIN 24. HOURS °  Fresh Allied Attacks Made by Air Force On Tripoli Air Field

Axis Tripoli Believed Almost Won   Offensive Wing in 40-Mile Sweep; Try to Bag Rommel

British Forces Within 50 Miles Of Tripoli   Rommel Facing Decision of =~ Making Stand

ALLIES WILL RENDER GREAT PORT HELPLESS   Rommel Must Decide Whether To Stand Or Withdraw Inte Tunisia.

TOR ROMMEL SEEMS NEAR   British Apparently Trying to Cut In Ahead of  Axis Forces Fleeing Along Coast.   SWIFT PURSUIT GAINS MOMENTUM   Port May Prove Indefensible — Capture Would Give Allies Base for Bombing Tunisia.

BRITISH ARMY TRIES 10 CUT OFF ROMMEL   LEFT WING DRIVES WITHIN 40 MILES OF TRIPOLI

E RAPIDLY NN INLAND DASH   Left Wing Sweeps Across @  ‘Tripolitanian Hump   CAIRO REPORT   Puts British Within 30 Miles of Tripoli; Momentum of Pursuit Rises

British Dash Inland fo Cut Nazi Retreat  Advance 40 Miles ir 2h Hours; Stream 0

Ford Pledges Montana’s Aidin Fight   Governor Collaborates With Idaho Chief In Opposing U. S. Plan

Idaho Governor to Call Meet  Seeks Protection  ee a ee ee Oe aw ee, Pe ee

Governor Ford Demands More Meat for Miner.   Montana's Chief Executive Declares at Mass Meeting Jap Internees Should Not Be Fed at Expense of War Workers   Idaho Governor to Call Meet  Seeks Protection of State’s Rights

Oilmen See U. S. Relentiny On Price Lid   Dallas, Pittsburgh Hear Renewd.-Pleas  as Vinson Takes Up Tekes Reeommendatio:

INVASION FRONT GROWS JITTERY   Germans And _Italians Rush Defenses Of “Underbelly”

Axis Strengthening Defenses Of Europe — Ac Hour Glass For Invasion Rune Tan:

Axis Defends For Invasion   Fortifications Are Prepared In Itaiy

Invasion Fears Speed Germany, Italy Defenses   European Coastal Areas Being Prepared to Meet Allied Thrusts; More French Labor Demanded

Nazis Recapture Fiume Suburb.  Partisans Beat Ott Btamnted Tandines$c

Nazis Recapture Fiume Suburb  Partisans Beat Off Attempted Landinas

Solid Fuels Administrator  Ickes May Move In and  Make Uncle Sam Boss OF Coal.

THIRD MASS WALK-OUT IN TWO MONTHS BEGAN AFTER MIDNIGHT ‘WITH 530,000 MEN ON STRIKE

Congress to Start Holiday Tuesday.  Issues Pending   Temporary Pact Reached in Battle Over Food Subsidies

ltalian Rail And Air Base Devastated   Scores of Ants Planes Burned And Shot Down

Three Air Fleets Smash _ Italian Roads, Air  ‘Bases   DESTROY MANY AXIS AIRCRAFT

ALL-AMERICAN ASSAULT ON ITALIAN RAIL HUB AND AIR BASE I$ SUCCESSFUL   Scores of Parked Planes Burned, Troops Are Machine-Gunned

AXIS AIR, RAIL BASE OF FOGGIA LEFT IN RUINS   Scores Of Parked Aircraft Destroyed By Americans In Surprise Attack

CLOCKS SET BACK IN MOST OF OHIO   Trains and Federal Offices Remain on Fast Time

TIME CHANCES ACBIN FOR MOST OHIOANS   Only Three Cities in State To Stay on Fast Time

KEPT AT BAY BY SHERIFF   Shipyard Workers Riot In Negro Quarters After Assault

Homes Burned, Many Hurt tn Race Rioting   Tear Gas Thrown: Guardsmen Called; Negro Hunted

DWELLINGS AND AUTOS OF NEGROES DAMAGED   Assault Upon White Woman Leads To  Violence

Texans Headed By Gov. Stevenson Flock Tc Newport News To Launch New Warship

N ay y Discloses Wo Sinkines        ‘Attention, Nippon: Second ‘Cruiser Houston \Launched To Keep Fateful Date With Tokyo

DENIES REPORT   Secretary Says Mrs. F. D. R Von't Visit Seuth Americas,

HUGE NAVAL BILL IS PASSED   HOUSE OKAYS LARGEST ONE-YEAR U. S. SUM

House Approves  Record Supply Bill For Navy   Expect Senate To Pass It Too

Step up supplies for navy   2912 billion bill receives house o. k.

NAVY BILL APPROVED   House Gives Lnanimeus Suppert Te 79-Billion Appropriation

Red Planes Blast Nazi Supply Lines   Bryansk, Karachev Chief Targets

RED FLIERS BOMB GERMAN SUPPLY LINE   Air Force Strikes Al Bryansk. Important Rail Center

Russian Planes Bomb Iwo Centers  Moscow Says Land Actions Are Limited

Nazi Supply LinesBombed By Russians   Greatest Soviet Air Fleet-520 Planes—Hits Orel

VET PLANE G POUND GEAMAN LINES AT OREL   Continuous Aerial Attacks Made Against Germans By Russian Fliers

Russ Batter Rail Centers   _ Nazi Supply Lines ' Bombed In New Raids

MAKES PLEA IN KENTUCKY   Girl Ptoads Not Guilty to Charge of Murdering Father and. Brother— Mother ‘Still Clings''to bane: ‘After Being Hit by Bullets. A

MOTHER CLINGS TO ACCUSED DAUGHTER   Accepts Jean Kiger's Story of Slaying of Her Father and Brother.

Mother Accepts Joan Kiger’s Story of Shooting; Accused Girl Visits Her at Hospital

MOTHER STICKS BY ACCUSED GIRL, 16   Daughter Denies Killing Father, Brother

MOTHER DEFENDS GIRL ACCUSED OF ~ KILLING FATHEI   Kentucky Woman Dees Nol ~ Believe Daughter Fired ~ Fatal Shots.

ArmyRecalls Order For Cotton Pick      EMERGENCY NOT ENOUGH OF AN EMERGENCY SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON TELLS PRESS CONFERENCE,   Wickard Surprised

COTTON PICKING AID NOT NEEDED   Soldiers Will Not Be Sent To Arizona To Help Save Crop

WILL NOT PICK ARIZONA COTTON   Army Rescinds Its Order To Have Soldiers Work In Fields

PACIFIC DRIVE IS SPEEDED BY JAP RETREATS   Enemy Forces Give Ur New Georgia Under Cover Of Darkness  NEW POLICY SEEN     Supplies Left Behind Base On Kolombangara Under Attack

SENATE REVERSED ITSELF ON HOUSE ROAD BOND BILL  SHORTLY AFTER ACCE!   SHORTLY AFTER ACCEPT ING HOUSE AMENDMENT CONCURRENCE REFUSED

STATE GUARD “DRAFT ASKED   Bill in Senate Would Give Governor Authority 6g Act

PLAN DRAFT MEN IN STATE GUARD   Administration Sponsored Bill Introduced In State Senate

CONFERS WITH DEWEY      Landon Is Sure the G.O.P. Will Carry New York in 1944

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK FRANCE IN FORCE TODAY   Center Of Paris Is Hit For First Time According To Report

Limits Placed On Anthracite   Dealers ‘Cannot Sell Te Persons Havi ing Over 10-Day Supply

RUSH RAILROAD WAGE INCREASE   Million Workers Vote, Walkout Certain

Action on Rail Wages Speeded   Senate Approval of Increase Foreseen

Rail Wage Rise Sought By Senate Action  © Move Follows Strike Vote Of Brotherhood:

NEW METHODS SPEED DELIVERY   Postmaster General Makes New Ruling in Regard to Addressing Mail to City Dwellers

Mail Deliveries To Be Speeded Up By New Branch Numbers   MAIL TO LARGE CITIES WILL BE HANDLED FASTER BY THIS METHOD

Postoffice Department Speeds Up Delivery of Mail In Larger Cities

New System Of Addressing Mail Speeds Delivery   Postal Unit System For City Offices

SPEEDING UP MAIL DELIVERY   MAIL ADDRESSED TO CITIES TO HAVE ZONE NUMBER ’ ATTACHED

New Postal Unit Put Into Effect By —Posteftice      All Mail Addressed to People In  Large Cities Should Include  Fone Number

JONING TQ) oPEte MANL DELIVERIES IN LARGE GHTVES   Residents of Small Towns and Cities Asked to Cooperate

Enemy Airfield at Abbeville Raked by British Bombers; Sardinian Capital at Cagliari Is Being Evacuated of Civilians

ALLIED BLOWS ROLLING BACK AXIS PEOPLES   Inhabitants Of Mediterranean Islands And Toe Of Italian Boot Softening Under Terrific Raids   Cagliari Evacuated

Daylight Raiders Pound at AxisHeld Europe   ltalians Reported Evacuating Bomb-blasted Islands and Southern Italy

POUNDING OF AXIS EUROPE IS CONTINUED   Allied Flies Hit From Africa and Great Britain

Tokyo Raid --Jap Version   Alleged Details Of Story Given By Nip General To The Press

Former Russian Prince to Speak  Appears Monday at Forum Meetina.

Weather Slows Allied  Drive on Rome  Wrekel. Ranses fit wilae   Fifth Army Gains Mile in Hard Fight at Mignano

Weather Slows Allied  Drive on Rome   Fifth Army Gains Mile in Hard Fight at Mienano

Aussies Close In on Japs at Satelherg   Allied Flyers Down at Least 20 More Enemy Planes

Aussies Close In on Japs at Satelherg  Allied Flyers Down   Allied Flyers Down at Least 20 More Enemy Planes

Text of Speech Broadcast Today by President Roosevelt From Ottawa

British 8th Army Presses Retreat  Of Rommel’s Men   Vanguards Reach Zuara  After 20-Mile Advance

QPA OFFICES NOTIFIED OF GAS CHANGE   Official Order Ends Enforcement Activity In Non-Essential Driving.

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES HOW 'UNITED NATIONS WILL BE ABLE ICLHIARANTER ACAINST NEW WARS

How Can the Whelping of © Another Hitler Be Prevented? Axis Must Be Totally Disarmed

The War Today  eee  What Will Statesmen Do To Prevent Rise Of Another Hitler ?

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MacKENZIE  (Associated Press War Analyst)

Today’s War » Moves »   Will Allied Nations Be Able to Prevent Another Hitler

The War Today— Bombing Of Germany May Knock Out Prussianism For Good Of Europe

MACKENZIE PONDERS POSSIBILITY OF LASTING PEACE   After Present World Conflict Has Been Settled And Axis...  - Leaders Disposed of

Frederes-Owens Wedding Tuesday At St. Mary’s  Young Couple Will Live On

Frederes-Owens Wedding Tuesday At St. Mary’s  Young Couple Will Live On Farm Near Alton

Offer War Service Bill In Congress   Provides Draft Of Men. Women

TWO GOPS WOULD UP FDR POWER   Proposed Act Due To Put Men, Women In Jobs, On: Farms

Two Bills Filed By Republicans   Measure Would Give President Authority To Put Men and  Women on Farm or in Factory

Farm, Plant Draft Effect of New Bill   F. R. Would Hold Workers’ Reins in Sweeping Action

Universal Draft Bill  Introduced  Roosevelt Would Be Given Power 

National War Service  Act Drafted   Would Give President Sweeping Power to Utilize All Man and Womanpower

PRESENT NATIONAL WAR SERVICE BILL   Grant FDR Power To Utilize Nation’s Labor

Two: Republicans. Offer War. Measure Deemed “ Necessary for Victory.   ) MILLIONS: WOULD BE. AFFECTED   Seeks: To Preserve the Vol“autteer System; Covers Both: Men:and Women

NATIONAL WAR SEAMIUE AGT IN INTRODUCED   Republicans Propose Plan Affecting Every Adult Citizen Of Nation

REPUBLICANS SPONSOR BILL _ ON MANPOWER   ‘Austin-Wadsworth Act Would Give : FDR Sweeping Authority for Armed Services. Industry

War Service Act Introduced Today by 2 Republicans   Utilization of All Man and Woman Power of Nation Proposed

Manpower Bill Gives FD Power ~ To Shift Jobs   Men, Women Under Service Act

Would Give FDR Sweeping Power In Service Bill   Two Republicans Introduce Act to Utilize Nation's Manpower.   Agriculture Complains  About Labor Pirating

NEW MANPOWER BILL PRESENTE!   Measure Would Give Roosevelt Sweeping Power Over Civilians

PRESIDENT MAY GET POWERS TO CONTROL LABOR   Could Put Men And Women Workers Where Necessary; Some Women Exempted

Congress Gets Bill To Draft Men, Women   Two Republicans Introduce Measure In Both Houses   Gives President Power To Direct Job Changes   Registration Of All Women 18 to 50 Is Required By New Act

BROAD POWERS IN’ PROPOSED MEASURE   Men and Women Might Be Drafted for Any Kind  ' of Work   ITO HELP WAR EFFORT

President May Get Sweeping Power to Act   Would Require Registration of All Women Between 18 and 50

WAR SERVICE ACT BEFORE CONGRESS   Nould Empower FDR to Use Man, Womanpower in Any Job For Victory

HERPING WAR ANPOWER ACT FFORE HOUSE   oposes Granting Roose elt Wide Powers to Util ize Nation’s Men and Women _   ILLIONS WOULD BE AFFECTED BY MOVE   bject to Call to Duty On  ssembly Lines of Tanks  and Planes and In Farm Fields

War Service Act Offered  To Congres:   Would Give President Sweeping Authority Over Manpower, Womanpower.   USE VOLUNTEER FIRST

Draft of Labor For War May Be Broadened   Measure Introduced in Congress Would Give President Sweeping Powers To Assign Men and Women to Essential Jobs in Factories and on Farms

Would Grant Broad Power To President   Swift Tax Action Expected   Cut Size Of Army, Hoover Urges

FOR WOULD GET WIDE POWER ON ASSIGNING MEN   New Bill Grants Right Te Shift Workers Where Needed the Most

FDR WOULD BE EMPOWERED TO CALL WORKERS   "Men Listed In Draft Are Affected; Women To - Be Revistered

War Service Act, Giving FDR Power To Conscript Men And Women For Jobs, Is Presented

WAR SERVICE ACT T0  GRANT NEW POWERS  PRESIDENT PLANNED WOULD GIVE POWER TO UTILIZE ANY PERSON  ~« “sew

GOP In Congress Move To Give FDR Sweeping Powers Over US Workers

Manpower Program Is Submitted   Authority For President To Use Workers Where Needed Is Contained In New Legislation

Two Republicans Sponsor Measure Giving President Authority to Draft Labor for Any Job Deemed Necessary for Victory

Bill Granting President Control Of All Manpower  Introduced In Congress   Many Complaints

PROPOSED MEASURE   Men and Wenn Mi Drafted for ey ane  of W   TO HELP WAR EFFORT

WIDE POWERS GIVEN FDR IN SERVICE ACT   Could Utilize Nation’s Manpower Under Bill’Offered Bv Two Republicans

War Service. Act Giving FDR Broad Power Over Nation’s Man And Woman Power Is Introduced   Would Make Millions Eligible. For Call to War Industries or Farms.

Act Would List Women, 18-50, Call Signed Men   Herbert Hoover Says Armed Forces Should Give Needed Worker:

Bill to Give FDR Power to Draft All  Americans Proposed   -Measure-.Would-Make--All-Mer And Women Eligible for Call To Duty in Factories. on Farms

All Civilians Affected by Work Plans  Roosevelt Would Have Power to Fill Jobs in Plants or on Farms SAFEGUARDS FIXED Wadsworth, Who Drew First Draft Bill, Author of New Prooram   SAFEGUARDS FIXED

LABOR DRAFT AGT OFFERED IN GONGRES:   Makes Millions of Women and Men Available for War Plants and Farms.   REGISTRATION OF WOMEN 18 TO 50 REQUIRED

WAR SERVICE ACT WOULD MOBILIZE LABOR RESOURGES   Measure Calls for Registration of Women Between Ages of 18 and G0; Mil. Pane Fiiothlc.

WAR SERVICE AGT T0 GRANT WIDE POWERS   Congress Gets New Bill Which Would Affect Millions of Workers.   WOMANPOWER ALSO WOULD BE ELIGIBLE   To Provide Further Mo_bilization of Workers for War Effort.

MANPOWER ACT BEFORE SOLONS   Millions of Americans Eligible For Call To War Industries Under Bill

Bill Would Give F.D.R. Broad Power   Registration Of All Women Between 18  And 50 Provided.

@ Men And Women ” Could Be Assignec » ‘New Jobs Under “ Pronocsed Bill

Congress Asked To Pass corey To Use Nation’s Manpower To Win War   HOOVER IS CALLED

NATIONAL WAR SERVICE MEASURE INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS TODAY   Act Would Grant President Sweeping  Powers Over Nation’s Manpower

OFFERS NATIONAL WAR SERVICE ACT   Senator Would Give The President Power To Draft Labor

Nation Facing Mobilization Of All Men, Women   Presidential Control Over Every Person Contemplated

MOBILIZATION OF MANPOWER STEP NEARER   National War Service Act In Congress Would Grant Pres. Sweep< ing Authority   COMPLAINTS MOUNT

New Draft Bill IncludesWomer   Weadsworth-Austin Act Would Permit F. R. To Transter Both Sexes to Any Job Deemed Necessary to Achieve Victory

 War Service Act Gives ‘Wide Power  To Executive   Wadsworth And Austin Introduce Bill To Call Manpower And  Wamananiwaer Ta Calars

DRAFTING ALL   Measure (Introduced in Congress Today By Two Republicans.   SOME MOTHERS EXEMPT

Congressmen Offer Service Act To Solons   Measure Would Grant President Right To Put Any Registrant Into Emergency Job

Millions In Nation Would Be Subject  To National Service   ‘Women As Well As Men Affected In Bill Introduced Today By Republicans Wadsworth, Austin

A. National © War Service Act for U.S.   Proposed Bill Would Authorize FDR te Use Men and Women Where Needed for Victory

Bill to Give F, D. R. Right To Call Men and Women for Any War Job Is Introduced

INTRODUCE WAR SERVICE PLANS   Sweeping Power Over Manpower Provided for in Proposed Measure

Light Vote in State Likely:   Lack of State-Wide Fights Expected to Cut Balloting

EXPECT LIGHT VOTE TOMORROY AT PREGARY      Party Leaders In: Pa Note Lack .Of Interest —

EXPECT LIGHT VOTE TOMORROW AT. PRIMARY   Party Leaders In Pa. Note Lack Of Interest

Primary ‘Voting ~~ Small.   Slightly Over ‘Million from State at  Polls Tuesday. :

Worcester County Price,  Rationing Board Shufflea      Marvland OPA Director McCormick Announces Two Members Dismissed On Orders of New York Regional Office; Three Old Members and Three Newcomers Constitute New Board

o Go Ahea  T0 FORM COAL ‘DISPUTE PANEL DESPITE ATTITUDE OF LEWIS

WLB Will Set Up  Fact-Finding Pane For Wage Dispute   Lewis Refuses to Nominate Member To Take Part

Lewis Declines Part In Naming Wage Arbiter   WLB Moves To Set Up Panel To Hear Miner Dispute

WAR LABOR BOARD PUSHED AHEAD WITH COAL WAGE DISPUTE   JOHN L. LEWIS REFUSED NOMINATE LABOR MEMBER. HOWEVER .

SOFT COAL WAGE DISPUTE PANEL IS NOW BEING SET UP   This Action Is in Spite of Refusal of John L. Lewis to Name Labor Member.   MANY MINERS GO OUT   Reported 6000 Stopped Work in the Appalachian Field.

LEWIS SNUBS WLBS PANEL IN COAL QUIZ   Declines To Appoint Labor _ Member For Hearings On Wage Dispute

WLB Unit To Go Ahead Witl Its Inquiry   Membership To Be Completed Withou Labor Chief’s Help

BOARD GOES T WORK IN SPITE DF UNION SNUB   Three-Man Panel Assigned To Investigate Demands, , Report Back Findings

LEWIS REFUSES TO ASSIST WLB   Labor Leader Has Declined To Name Men On Special Panel

Many Miners Quit Work as WPB Take Up Wage Question   Board Goes Ahead With Its Plans Despite Lewis’ Refusal

LEWIS IGNORES GOVERNMENT IN COAL MINE ROW   Mine Union Chief Refuses To Cooperate in Plan To lron Out Difficulties   WLB PROCEEDS, HOWEVER   UMW Spokesman Says Strike Has Not Been Called But Hints Men May Quit

Lewis Ignores WLB Plan For 3 Man Panel   Labor Member Must Be Named: Sporadic Soft Coal Strikes Reported   8,000 MINERS ARE IDLE   Union Policy Declaration Is Delayed Until Tues. day Conference

LEWIS REFUSES PLAN PROPOSED BY WAR BOARD   Declines Chance To Nominate Man For Hearing

Lets Deadline of The Board Pass   War Labor Board Will Set Up the Full Panel   NO EXPLANATION OFFERED BY LEWIS

WLB TO APPOINT THREE TOGROQUE   Head Of Coal Miners Rejeets Invitation From Labor Board   MEET TURSDAY   SH earings On Dispute Over Pay Scheduled To Begin Wednesday

Strikes Flare Up In Coal Dispute   John Lewis Refuses to Name Labor Representative for Hearing.

LEWIS DECLINES WLB INVITATION NAME MEMBEI   UMW President Had Been Invited To Name Labor Member of Three-Man WLB Panel to Hold Hearings On Wage Disputes.

BOARD TO PROCEED IN COAL CASE      Goes Ahead Without Lewis Who Refuses to Nominate Labor Man for Board   MINES ARE IDLE IN SEVERAL AREAS   No Formal Statement by Union Until Policy Group Weets Tomorrow

MINERS POLICY COMMITTEE 10 STATE VIEWS   To Issue Statement After Meeting of Group Tomorrow Afternoon in New York   HOLD CONTRACT OUT      Lewis Holds Self Aloof From WLB; Not Calling Strike Vote, Spokesman Says

Lewis Won't Name Man To Body   Sporadic Strike Outbreaks in Various Parts  Of Field

LEWIS DECLINES WLB INVITATION   UMW Chief Refuses To Co: operate In Wage Hearings

WLB Pushes Plan: For- Fact: Finding In Coal. Disnute™       Undeterred. by: Refusal: of UMW ‘Head. John “L. Lewis ‘To: Nomitiate: A Labor » Member. For Three-Man Paiel-->

WLB To Appoint Panel On Coal  Lewis Refuses ‘Any Part In Hearings; Some Miners Out

WLB GOES AHEAD WITH PLANS ON WAGE DISPUTE   Aim To Set Up Panel, Lewis Refuses to Nominate Member

DECLINES BID OF WLB   Lewis Refuses To Name Labor Member For Dispute Hearing

Lewis Holds Out Against WLB Edict   UMW Chief to Confer with  Policy Committee Before Making Statement on dispute Proceedings

Lewis Ignores  WLB’s Deadline   Labor Board Plans Tc  Continue Hearing

UMW Leader Refuses To Name Member To Fact-Finding Body Set Up By WLB To Probe Coal Situation: Strikes Increace

Refer Coal Dispute Tc WLB Panel   John L. Lewis Rejects Invitation To Name Labor Representative For Three-Man Group

NOT CALLING STRIKE. VOTE cHyS MOF A   Union Head, Spokesman Says, Will Make State ‘ment, Tomorrow.   WLB GOES AHEAD WITH PANEL PLANS   Estimated 6;000 Miners Idle Today in Pittsburgh Area.

UNION CHIEF IGNORES WLB INVITATION   Sporadic Strike Outbreaks Reported in Appalachian Field as Wage Parley Lags   NO VOTE BEING TAKEN

Lewis Refuses To Name Labor Man To Board   WLB Te Select Own Work. ers Representative, Start Coal Hearings.   FEAR MINE STRIKES

Refuses To ‘Name Labor Member Of 3-Man Panel   John Lewis Sulks In New York While WLB Takes Up Cual Wave Dispute

Board Pushes Plans To Hear Coal Dispute   Miners Expected To Strike When 30 Day Extension Period Ends; Operators Answer Union

BOARD T0 PICK LABOR MEMBER OF 3-MAN PANEL   John L. Lewis Refuses to! Nominate Three Choices as Requested by Federal Agency      CASE TO PROCEED BARRING STRIKES   Uncertain Whether Board Would Take Cognizance of Scattered Walkouts  in Bituminous Field

GOAL MINERS UIT WORK A WLB GETS BUS!   Sporadic Stoppages Reported and Lewis Refuses to Attend Parley,   ROOSEVELT EXTENDS COAL CONTROL DATE

LEWIS AGAIN SNUBS WLB IN WAGE DISPUTE   Refuses Te Name Representative of Union to Help Conduct Pay Negotiations.   ‘TRUCE’ ENDS APRIL 30   UMW Chief Calls Meeting of Policy Committee To Decide Nayt Stan.

Board Proceeds fo Fill Ouf Pane! 4o Weigh Miners’ Wage Demands Jtself   2,000 Remain Out in Captive Mines of Pitishurgh Area, as Unres' Reported

John L. Lewis Still Stubborn In Coal Row   United Mine Workers’ Head Refuses to Nominate Labor Member to Three-man Panel To Hear Dispute.

WLB Goes — Ahead On Coal Probe   Lewis Awaits Union Policy Meet Before Naming Member tov Panel

Lewis Not At Parley   Refuses to Name Labor Representative to Group Studying Coal Dispute

UNREST MOUNTS AS WLB HEARS WAGE DISPUTE   REPORT SPORADIC STRIKE OUTBREAKS IN PA. COAL FIELDS

Wallace To See His Idea Fulfilled   Reveal Ten-Year Story  Behind Visit To  S. America

Nazis Display Increasing Invasion Fears   -Proclaim Emergency in Coastal Areas of The Netherlands

NAZIS DISPLAY INVASION FEAR   Coastal Areas Of Netherlands Are In State Of Emergency.

FRENCH GUERILLA FORCES GROWING   Hundreds Of Frenchmen Are Joining Underground To Escape Labor Draft

Experts Say Coal Industry onPowderKeg   Situation More Tense as Mine Shift Comes without Contract Being Sianed 

Strike Closes. Two Furnaces   Approximately 12,500 Of Alabama's 25,000 Miners Are Out

Critical Farm Help Situation Faces Jowa Farmers in Hybrid Corn Fields

FDR WARNING AGAINST GAS   Says Initiation of Poison Gas War fare by Axis Countries Will Bring Quick Realiation,

ALLIES READY TO BACK GAS WARNING ANNOUNCED BY FR   Superiority In Air Gives Our Side Advantage Hf Weaoon fs Used.

ALLIES ARE PREPARED FOR POISON GAS      Are Ready to Retaliate If Axis Uses It

Allied Ability To Employ Gas. Grows Steadily   President Roosevelt Issues’ Statement .—  To. Axis. Countries

POISON GAS USE WARNING   Quick Retaliation . By Allies Certain Gas Is Used

AXIS MAY USE GAS, FD. ASSERTS; WARNS OF QUICK REPRISALS   Allied Ability To Employ This Weapon Increasing Gas Warfare Waged Most Effectively + By Planes

ALLIES READY TO FIGHT USE OF POISON GAS   President Warns Axis Powers Of “Full And Swift Retaliation In Kind”   “AERIAL POWER JS CITED   United Nations Believed Holding Advantage tf Drastic Step Is Taken

Report Admit: Japs Mass For Sea Push   Nips Concentrate ~ Fleet 600 Miles From N. W. Australia

ENEMY SHIPS CONCENTRATE AT ABONDOBO   Japanese Transports and Cargo Ships increasing” in Number; Ground Forces Are Being Rsinforced.   Constructing Airfields

New Airports Being Built By Japanese   Warning Is Recalled; Allied Planes Blast Two Vessels in Convoy  FOUR SHIPS NOW per

Japan Concentrates Warships at Ambon   Allies Hit Four Vessesl in Eight-Ship Convoy Off Northeastern New Guinea Coast

Japs Mass New Fleet At Amboing   Allies Blast Two Vessels OLf Wewak; Enemy Builds Bases

IAPS ASSEMBLING. ~— GROUP OF SHIPS   Japanese Drive In China Has Collapsed According to Chinese Report.

New Gatherine Of Jap Ships ls Reported   Concentration Reported 500 Miles From Darwin, Australia

ALLIED PLANES - BLAST CONVOY   Big Enemy Concentration Of Ships Reported North Of Darwin,   FOE PAYS BIG PRICE

Shipping Being Concentrated At Isle Bases In Banda Sea   Allied Bombers Smash 2 More Boats in Convoy

Japs Mass Ships  In Pacific Sector ‘Report From MacArthur  Expresses Warning

JAPS MASSING SHIPMENTS IN AMBOINA AREA   Concentration Reported Within.500 Miles of. Dar~ win, Australia, By Al-.  lied Headquarters’   NIPS REINFORCED   Announcement: Made In Wake of Allied Airmen Blasting Two More Ships In Jap Convoy

ENEMY MASSING SHIPS AND MEN IN SO, PACIFIC   Allied Airmen Bag Two Vessels Off New Guinea

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST TWO MORE JAP SHIPS IN. CONVOY OFF NEW GUINEA; SEE CONCENTRATIGN OF ENEMY SHIPS

Signs Point to 3-Power Parley   Stalin to Meet With Churchill, Roosevelt, London Believes

Improvements Seer In Relations of  Allies. and Russia   Meetings May Bring  Second Front,  ,t ... gO

Prospects Better  For Meeting of  FR, Winnie, Stalin Might Give Greater  Satisfaction to New Front Urgings

SIGNS POINT 10 TRI-POWER MEET   Prospects Brighter for Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin or Their High Representatives

improvements Seen In Relations of  Allies and Russia   Meetings May Bring Second Front, Other Big Actions

Tri-Power Meet In Caucasus Seen In Signs   Prospects Brighten For F. R., Stalin, Churchill Conclave

Possibility Of Stalin Meeting Grows Bright   Russian Premier Is Report: Planning Tripertite Conference In Caucasus   RELATIONS IMPROVE   Eden Is Believed To Be Preparing To Visit In So viet Capital

Signs Point To 3-Party Meeting  Stalin Is Expected To Join F. R., Churchill

Signs Suggest 3-Power Meet   Prospects Take Brighter Turn For Conference Between Allied Heads.

Stalin. Roosevelt. Churchill Talks Believed Near   London Suggests Russian Second Front  Demand to Be Met

WRITER PRECICTS S-POWER PARLEY   STALIN REPORTED WILLING TO CONFER WITH ROOSEYELT AND CHURCHILL

Medies and engineers to  be deferred   Won’t be called till early 1944

Half Million Foes —  Slain in 2 Months    Voroshilovgrad, Donets Industrial Center, Menaced   Red Forces 50 Mile8 Inside East Ukraine   Overnight Surges Indicate Russians Galning Speed In Vast Offensives

Nazi Lines Yield Over Entire Front   Orel Menaced; Reds Sweep to Within 60 Miles of the

Reds Menace Large City Tn Donets   Voroshilovgrad Is Threatened; 500,000 Nazis Dea

DONETS BASIN INDUSTRIAL CITY PERILED   Moscow Radio Reports Voroshilovsk Has Fallen to Red Army; Great Booty Falls   To Victors   Reds Rush On

MAJOR EFFORT LAUNCHED BY ENEMY FORCES   Battle on Sea and In Air Developing— Outcome Still Is In Doubt.

WITHDRAWAL IN FULL SWING AS TRAP TIGHTENS   Right Wing Of Germans Ensnarled As U. S .  Troops Land In Flank Stab   Randazzo Under Fire

Main Bodies of German Forces Make Wild Break for Italy; Demolition Units Slow Pursuit

ltalians Fired Upon by Fleeinc Boche Soldiers   Vazis Seek To Save Guns and Supplies from Capture   Large Numbers Expected To Escape to Italian Mainland

German Guns On Beaches Fight Planes   Americans Again Land To Rear of Defenders Along Sicilian Coast

New Pincers ‘aps Enemy       “Desperate Rearguards and Demoli tion Squads Seek -to Delay Allies

Allied Airmen Braving ‘Flak’ To Hit Exodus   Narrow Strait May Aid Gernians lo Avoid

ESCAPE BOATS CARRY NAZIS TO MAINLAND   ENEMY MAY AVERT ANOTHER CAPE BON DISASTER

Evacuation at Messina in Full Swing   Americans Ensnarl Right Wing of Enemy Pincers

At Least 80 Vessels Ferrys ing Men Across Strait  AMERICANS LANDED BEHIND NAZI LINES Aerial Squadrons Make  ~ Attacks in Sicily and Htaly

ALLIED AIRMEN POUNCE ON FOE   Brave Barrage of Over 500  Anti-aircraft Guns   GERMANS LEAVE   Rear Guards and Demolition Squads Behind to Slow Allied Armies

mks Again d Behind  fnemy Lines   ssenhower Replaces Tired Troops With Fresh Ones: Randazzc ‘oder Artillery Fire

Allies Clamp Pincers, — Speed Rout   Desperate German Rearguards Attempt To Slow American Drive, But Merciless Attacks Are Maintained

Roy Miller, Boone Co. GOP Wins State Senate Seat by 1213 Majority   Unofficial Tabulation Gives Columbia Condidate 8007; Groce 6794 in 139 Out of 157 Precincts

MILLER ELECTED TO STATE SENATE   HIS VICTORY THROWS UPPER HOUSE OF LEGISLATURE INTO PARTY TIE.

Many U. S. Bombers Reach Britain Huge Air Drive Is Forecast   Spain May Unite Soon With Allies

1LS. BOMBERS REACH BRITAI   Giant Airfields Are Full of  Planes and New and Heavier Raids on Germany Expected Soon.

Many Bombers Sent to Britain   Big Influx of U. S. -Planes Reported

Allies Push Three Drives   Germans Forced Back In Italian Fighting

US-French Gain Four  More Miles   Score Good Advance At Cassino; Tank Battle Ensues  At Ortona.

Genesis Of} That Peace Resolution   Fulbright Got Germ Of Idea When Student At Oxford

WEA Food KFumbling Is Revealed   GOP Food Study Group Disclosures Needle U.S. Agency

Roosevelt Collection Surprises   President Even Has An Autograph Of H, Hoover

Manpower Setup Starts To Function   But What Happened To That Sept. 15 to Oct. 1 Draft Inventory?

Consumers Train Guns On Inflation   Local Price Panel, Home Front Pledge Drive Combat HCOL

Rumors On Marshall Are Spiked   Michigan’s Rep. Shafer Confused Over Situation

Opening The Pottaeis Of W LB Office   Booklet Explains Red Tape; Maybe You'd Better Write

Young Lady Had Key To Argument   Story Of Sweet Music And Sour Tempers  In Capital 

Deal Over Molasses Won't Flow   Cuban And Puerto Rican Prices Too High, U. S. Says

Army’s Food Policies Are Made Clear   What And How Much A Soldier Eats Up To Dietitians

Top Billing Is Awarded Fitst Lady   Mrs. F. D, R.’s Film Story ‘Terrific’, With GOP Dissenting

Writer Watches Axis Retreat   Allied Tank Take Up Chase Immediately

HOUSE REJECTS PLAN TO PAROLE LIFE TERMERS   Board Inserts Section Which State Commission Can Recommend Pardons

Commissioner Of Island Colony To Lose His Control   Vice Admiral John Hoover Will Talk With Admiral Georges Robert

New Deal Seen On Martinque   U.S. Admiral Sent In For Conference

NEW MARTINIQUE DEAL IN PROSPECT   CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD TODAY ON CHANGE IN ISLAND GOVERNMENT.

American Envoy To Discuss Change With Island Leader   ‘Change Of French Authority’ Expected To Be Arranged In Near Future With Robert

Severe Coal Shortage In Deep South   Depleted Supplies  Add To Discomfort

COAL SHORTAGES ADD TO TROUBLES  IN PARTS OF SOUTH  : Relief in Sight Today fron  Frigid Visitation As Tem   naratiroae Start tn Rien

SOLONS TO STUDY — POST-WAR PLANS   Problems May Be Placed Before 11 Man Commission

BOMBARDMENT RENEWED AFTER SURRENDER BID   Overwhelming Forces Hit Italian Outpost When Offer Is Ignored; Blockade Begins   Island In Smoke

FLEET AND PLANES ROCK TINY (SLANG   Attacks to Continue Until Defense Collapses   ROME RADIO ADMITS   Overwhelming Air and Naval Forces Are Besieging Pantelleria Fortress

talian Sea Outpost Rocked by Big Pre-Invasion Bombardment; Enemy Defenses Severely Battered

Special Allied Bulletin Says Outpost Will Be Subject to Bombardment, Bombina, Blockade Until It Collavses

Planes, Warships Strike at Base: Receive No Reply   Unconditional Surrender Terms Given Island

DEMAND MADE FOR ISLAND SURRENDER   Tiny Italian Outpost 1s Rocked by Sea and Air  Bombardments

Pantelleria attacks resumed as demand tosurrender ignored   Cruisers pound island outposts; ‘will be continued until collapse’

NG SURRENDER PANTELLERIA’S BOMBED AGAIN   American Flying Fortresses And British Warships Cheat! Little Italian Sea Outpost With Smoke.   Invasion Imminent

island Defies [Demand for Unconditional Surrender   So Flying Fortresses And British Warships Rock Outpost Again With Heavy Assault   ISLAND BESIEGED, ROME RADIO SAYS   Attack on Lampedusa Only ‘Reconnaissance, British Announce

Americans Blast Pantelleria Isle On Large Scale   Attack Savagely When De mands for Surrender Are Ignored   Heavy Bombardment Will Continue Until Defenses Collapse

Island Rocked As Surrender Plea Ignored   Violent Bombardment To Continue Until Fortress Gives Up; Invasion Imminent

Invasion Now  May Be Under W ay   Defenses of Stepping-Stone Island Sheathed in Smoke as Allied Air and Naval Forces Besiege Base

Terrific Bombardment Fellows Demands for Surrender; Land Force Waits Move on Isle

Surrender Demand Made By Gen. Spaatz   Attack Intensified by Planes and Naval : Units Afler Refusal

HOPE DWINDLES FOR EXECUTIVE   Search Continues F or J. B. Pierce, Missing On Flying Trip

Search for Pierce Centers in Hill:   Stark Now Doubts Barium President Was -Forced Down in Ohio

ITALIAN MONARCH REMOVES SUARDO   Fascist President of Senate  Resigns; Replaced By  de Velle

WAR BOND SALES FAR ABOVE QUOTA   Service Leegue Sets New Mark For Week's Sales

High Court Gets {st Conscientious Objector Case  Trial fs Viewed As a Test on DN eet pe Pak fa

Supreme Court Gets Test Case On Objector:   Involves Appearance Of If Board Denies Claim

Collin County Farmers Are Urged To Protect This Year's Cotton   Cotton Crop Insurance Is Offered To Give Farmers A Cash Income When Crops Are Destroyed By Unavoidable Hazards, Says J. B. Mooney, Secretary Of The Collin Countv AAA Committee.

Crop Insurance Gives Farmers  Peace of Mind  Protection From Possible Cotton Disaster Offered

ALLIES ARE NEAR TO — _ ACCOMPLISHING PLAN   Three Months After the’ Casablanca Conference, - Expulsion of Axis.from Africa Has Been Push- 7 ed—Softening Up of Nazi Defenses and. _ -. War Industry Is Prelude to‘lnvasion. .

Initia! Task Set at Mect Nears Finish   Expulsion of Axis From Africa Near After 3 Months

DeGaulle Insists Upon Terms, May Withdraw  Agreement Appears Far, But Many Believe It Certain

De Gaulle Upsets Conference of French Leaders  Refuses to Attend Mecting Until Granted Concessions

AGED PRA  RE  WANN ISSDEAD   Noah Cardwell, Age 83, Died at Grandson’s Home’: ; Monday Morning. .-.

AGED PRAIRIE MAN [3 DEAD   Noah Cardwell, Age 83, Died at Grandson’s Home Monday Morning.

HESS BRINGS 6 PROPOSALS FOR PEACE   Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Tells House of Commons, Threatening Eng land With Perpetual Bendage.   Different Setup

Eden Discloses Hess Proposed  6 Peace Points   High Nazi Leadership Had Given Up Hope of Defeating British

den. 218C. oses ~ ess 2roug 1 eace > an—"e.s SOMMOLS ~. am) Ane .o-2ussian /.zreemen- \ ear

‘Full Story of Flight Te Scotland May 10, 194.1, Revealed for First Time

Details of Peace Offer. Hess Brought to England Are Revealed by Edeii

Russians Told Of Standley’s  Declaration   Moscow Radio and Newspapers Give Soviets First Information They Have Received on the Controversy

Standley View Told Russians  Moscow Radio and Newspapers Tell of

17,481 Americans Killed in Action   Casualties Total More Than 126,969

US. Suffers 126,969 Casualties 7A8\ Are Killed in Action   Army Casualties From Start of War Total 94,918; Figures Compiled by Navy Show 32.051 Exclusive of Gilbert Island Losses

126,969 CASUALTIES OF WAR ANNOUNCED   Total of 27,481 Amati. cans Killed in the War to Date

U. §. Casualties Reported 126,969  27,481 of Total Killed in Action

AMERICAN DEAD IN WAR, 27,481   TOTAL CASUALTIES = 126,969— LIST DOES NOT INCLUDE GILBERT LOSSES.

JAPAN Agata SUNIL  AUaalA UF NETRALITY   Peace Pact To Be Respected Japs’ Foreign Minister Reports To Diet .

Japs Will Respect Pact With Russia      Tani Says Neutral Policy Sull Comodifiedl—Assume Reds Will Avree

JAPS WILL RESPECT TREATY WITH REDS   Tokyo Has No Intention Of Breaking Neutrality Pact With so-

Japan Respects Red Neutrality   Foreign Minister Tani Addresses Parliament

Tojo Is Boastful Of Jap Victories   Premier Tells His People That Japan's Position  Has Been Completed.

JAPAN INTENDS TO KEEP RUSSIAN PAG]   Neutrality Pact With Sovie Union Was Concluded in April, 1941.

Dionnes to Christen ‘Quint Fleet,’ Sing Star Spangled Banner in Enalish, Too

Dionne Quints To Visit State, Christen Ships  Canadian and U. S.

QUINTS TO VISIT U.S.   Dionné Sisters to Christen Ships Named for Them

Vast Pincer Movement With Mountbatten ‘At One End and MacArthur at Other May Cut Japs From Conquered Islands

PINCER DRIVE TO CUT JAP ISLAND HOLDINGS IS SEEN   MacArthur Would Be at South End And Mountbatten On The North Jaw—Regarded As Possibility In India

VAST PINCER MOVEMENT TO CUT OFF JAPS SEEN   War's Most Widespread Battle Near For Air Sases in South Pacific Area

PINCER MOVEMENT AIMED AT NIPPONS   Quebec Parley Lays Plans To Sever Japan From Southern Islands

Japs Facing Big Pincers   Mountbatten Will Head One End and MacArthur Will Swing From Other

Vast Pincer ‘To Cut Jap. Lines Likely   First Allied Move Believed Planned In Burma Sector

Great Pincers Move Against Jans Foreseen   Would Aim At Cutting Nippon Off From Con quered Islands.

Vast Pincer Movement May Cut Japan From Conquered Islands   Mountbatten Would Be At One End, MacArthu At The Other, With Canton Area, From Which To Strike By Air At Japan, As Goal.

MACARTHUR AND  MOUNTBATTEN 10  STRANGLE JAPAN TWO LEADERS MAP  DOOM TO NIP PLAN OF WORLD CONQUEST

OUTLINE VAST PINCER MOVE AGAINST JAPS   Designed To Cut Off Enemy Newly-Won Southern Islands

BURMA, TRUK MAY BE ALLIED PACIFIC GOALS      Vast Pincer Movemeni Against Japs, Rather Than Island Hopping Advance, Pictured

PINCER MOVES TO SEVER JAPS LINES MAPPED   Quebec Conference Puts New Emphasis On Far Eastern Theater of Globa! Conflict

Vast Pincer Move In Pacific Seen As Possible Result Of Conference

‘Vast Pincer Movement In Pacific  Area Likely   MacArthur Would Apply Squeeze From One End, Mountbatten From The Other

Pincer Strategy May Cut Japan From Islands   WEGUIA CEO ECS EE Will Direct Operations “Am Proposed Campaign.

PINCER MOVEMENT  TO CUT JAPAN OFF  FROM CONQUESTS FORCES UNDER MOUNT BATTEN AND MACARTHU! MAY COOPERATE

HINTED PINCER DRIVE AGAINST JAPS PLANNED   Vast Movement To Cut Japan Off From All Newly-Acquired Southern Islands Seen As Possibility.

PINCER BLOW AT JAPS SEEN   PREDICT MOVE TO CUT OFF NIPS FROM ISLANDS

PINCER MOVE ON JAPS SEEN   Allied Orive Straight Through Enemy-Held Pacific isles Probable,

Vast Pincers Movement to Cut Off Japs From Conquered Isles Likely

VAST PINGER MOVE AGAINST JAPS SEEN   Plan to Cut Japan Off From All Her Newly Acquired Southern Islands Seen As Possible Result of Quebec Parley.

Missouri River Flood Expected To Be One of:Highest in History   29 Foot Stage Expected at Kansas City; — Streams of Northwest Missouri Flooding; Workers Abandon Effort to’ Save Crops

FLOODS WIPE OUT CROPS IN KANSAS, MISSOURI AREAS   Big Muddy and Kaw on Rampage With Thousands of Acres of Farm Land Under Water.   LOSING FIGHT MADE TO SAVE MANY DIKES   Gov. Schoeppel Calls Out State Guards at Lawrence as Families Evacuate Homes.

SERIES OVER IF N.Y, WINS TODAY   Morton Cooper Opp _ Spud Chandler in th  ntest

SERIES OVER IF ~ NY, WINS TODAY   Morton. Cooper Opposing , Spud Chandler in Fifth  : Contest '   ALL EVEN IN THE FIFTH

Davies To Be Guest Of Honor At Reception At U.S. Embassy In Moscow

ANTIONING GF WQUOR BRICK PLANT HESD QUE IN PENNSYLVANIA ADDRESSES KIWANIS   egislature To Act Prompty Ben Nicod On Proposal Weel   Nicodemus Guest A Weekly Meeting

Nazi Morale May Crack  Before Expected Under Air Power, Hoare Says

News Behind The News  Copyright McCture Newepaper   WASHINGTON ArRay Nackerc

Burglars Steal Ration Coupons   11,449 Books Taken At Janesville

621,552 Gasoline Coupons Stolen  New Series Obtained By  Burglars

Fall Of Sicilian Stronghold Termed Imminent With Allied  Troops Closing In For Kil p g )

Steady Advance  Brings Allies T Gates Of Catan   Crack American, Canadi And British Troops Mov Upon Great Sicilian City   STRATEGIC POINTS NEAR CITY TAKE   ADVANCED ALLIE COMMAND BASF TIniv ©

Fall Of Sicilian Stronghold - /Termed Imminent With ‘Allied Troops Closing: In: For Kall

PRESIDENT ’LL ASSURE COAL WILL BE MINED   But Will Take No Action Until After U.M.W. Policy Committee Meeting Next Monday.   Contradicts Lewis

President Will Move Rapidly If WLB Wage Proposal Is Rejected By Miners Policy Committe On Monday. Nation’s Coal Supply Short.

FDR WILL ACT IF MINERS DO NOT ACCEPT   President Dectores He Will See That Coal Je hMAined   NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN THIS WEEK

President Says He Will Act If ~ Terms Rejected   Will Make Known His ‘Decisive’ Step After UMW Parley

FDR WILL ACT IF MINERS DO NOT ACCEPT   President Declares He Will See That Coal Is Mined

F.D.R. Ready to Move in Coal Strike  Will Not Act Until After U.M. W. Meeting Monday

Roosevelt Says ‘He'll See That  Coal Is Mined   Coal Strike Is Referred To FDR By Labor Board

$0,000 Miners Idle as Strikes Spread Rapidly   Steel Mills Say Operations Must. Be Curtailed. .

Jones Is Named As U. W. Regent   Will Succeed Glover, Who Resigned

CONGRESSMEN STRUGGLE WITH OLD PROBLEMS   Consentrate on Farm, Manpower, Financial Matters

FARM WORKER DEFERMENT NOW GAINS SUPPORT   Bill To Save Fathers from Immediate Draft Hits Snag, However   FOOD PROBLEMS STUDIED   America’s Fighting Men Not Crying About Taxes and Asking No Favors

TWO KILLERS ARE HUNTED IN MYSTERY   STUDY OF, CRIME SCENE AT FAYETTE COUNTY FARM INDICATES TWO MEN WIPED OUT FAMILY

Girl Acquitted in Nightmare Killing  Crowd Cheers When Verdict Is Returned

GIRL, 16, FREED -INTWODEATHS   Kentucky School Student Acquitted In Slaying of Brother, Father

GIRL, 16, FREED IN NIGHTMARE   Jury Acquits Joan Kiger. Accused of Shooting Boy und Father; Dreamed. Of. “Intruder? ~

GIRL ACQUITTED OF KILLING KIN      Charges Against Mother ir Double Murder As Dropped

SCHOOL GIRL FREED OF CHARGE KILLING HER LITTLE BROTHER   OTHER CHARGES AGAINST JOAN KIGER WERE THEN DISMISSED

Farm Fire Near Adaville Causes  Some Damage  Serious Loss Averted By Presence Of Prompt Assistance

Farm Fire Near Adaville Causes Some Damage  Serious Loss Avertec  By Presence Of

NAZI COLLAPSE IS HELD AS POSSIBLE   By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst tease TT ( Pane fica

AMERICAN ROMBING FLERT DUMPED TONS OF. EXPLORIVES ON SEVEN REFINERIES IN ROMANIA

200 Uo. BUNBEhD DEVASTATE ok VEN AXIS OIL HELDS   Lightning Low Le el Attack May Have Changed the Course cf War.

British Reported — Landing at Stax   Relentless Pressure Put Upon Retreating Naz Army By Land And Air; Transportation Lines Are Heavily Bombed   Americans Pound Flank

Yankees Stab At Left Flank Of Axis Army   Luftwaffe Fails to Fend Off Allied Air Attacks: Gabes and El Hamma Captured

Air Battles Rage As Marshal Flees Ground Attack   Enemy Rear Guard in Stubborn Resistance; Yanks Hurl Back Nazi

300 Enemy Vehicles De. stroyed Or Damaged; 8,000 Captives Are Taken   BRITISH UNITS LAND AT SFAX, RADIO SAYS

Thrown Out  Of Gabes, E Hamma   British in Hot Pursuit, American Forces Threaten Nazi Flank; Axis Under Relentless Pressure

Drive Against Von Arnim Is Reported   British and American Land Troops Closing In on Nazi Refugees

Allied Forces Are  Nearing Juncture   Sfax Next Objective Of British Forces As Cahec And El Hamma Decerted By Germans

Americans Cut  Off Axis Army   Escape Corridor Is Narrowed Down For Rommel; British Take Gabes And Kk] Hamma; Sfax Occupied

Axis Forces Lose Both El Hamma,  Gabes To British   Americans Threaten Left Flank As Kighth Army Pursues Afrika Korps.

“WEARY CORPS, WHIPPED ON LAND AND FURIOUSLY BOMBARDED FROM AIF PLUNGES TOWARD SFAX.

Decrease in Food Seen Unless Farm Prices Rise  Secretary of Farm Committee Wants Restrictions Cut

Forecasts Drop In Available Food for “44   Farmer Must Have Fair Price to.Meet Labor Competition

INJURE  D HAND IN CORN PICKER   H. M. NASSEN LOSES THREE FINGERS WHEN HAND WAS CAUGHT IN MACHINE

WILLK  IE WILL STUMP EAST   Confab With Congressmen Leaves Candidacy  In Air

Willkie Plans . Speaking Tour   GOP Leader Is Definitely In Races Will Address * Eastern’ Groups

WILLKIE 10 TOUR EASTERN STATES      Leaves No Doubt That He Will Seek Nomination After Meeting with Congressmen:

WILLKIE PLANS TO SPEAK IN IMPORTANT POLITICAL STATES  NOT EXPECTED TO ENTER PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Willkie Plans Addresses In Three States   1940 G.O.P. Standara Bearer to Talk In New York,  Jersey, Massachusetts   IS BELIEVED CANDIDATE

Fxpounds Beliefs Off-the-Record, : Takes Stump Tomorrow for Han Jey at Syracuse   PLANS ADDRESSES   New Jersey, Massachusetts on List, but No Declaration Before First of Year Expecied

SPEAK IN WY.   GOP Candidate May Make ‘Declaration After First Of Year

FOR IMPORTANT POLITICAL TALKS   Is: Not Expected to Formally _ Enter Race For Republican Presidential Nomination Until Sometime Next Year :

Willkie Will Give Talks in Three States   Announcement of His -andidacy Expected First of Year

WILLKIE CARRIES CAMPAIGN INTO EASTERN STATES   NOT EXPECTED TO FORMALLY ENTER RACE UNTIL 1944

GOP CASTS EYE ON POSSIBLE HOUSE CONTROL      Minority Party Confident’ of , 6% oe

Republicans See Chance of Winning Control of House Before November

ALLIED PLANES HAMPER NAZIS AFRIGAN DRIVE   Striking With Bombs and Guns Ancient ArmorSupported German .  _ Forces      Reich Troops, Threatening} French Positions At   Ousseltia, Con  ‘tinue Advance

One Axis Tank Unit Held to a Standstil   Savage Allied Counter Blow Halts Germans East of Mountain Chain   ANOTHER COLUMN -HEAVILY PUNISHED   Allied Planes in Heavy “Attacks Help French Forces Battling Both Units

German Tanks Make Thrusts  For Position   Allied Aerial Squadrous Strongly Supporting French

ANOTHER ENEMY FORCE PRESSES TO SLIGHT GAIN   But Axis Is Punished Over Wide Tunisian Area Losing 10 Planes

Allies Send Planes To Aid Of French At  Ousseltia   German Forces Seek To Box Off Strategic Strip Of Uiohlandc

BURNED IN EXPLOSION   Three Men Escape Si Serious Injury at Sunflower Plant -

HITLER PRESSES BALKAN ALLIES   Calls on Countries to Contribute Soldiers, Workers and Economic Aid; Hitler Sends Threatening Notes

Hitler Advises His Allies Of Total War Effort And Asks For More He'p

HITLER MAKES NEW DEMANDS ON HIS ALLIES   Calls on Balkan Countries for Greater  War Effort

Note Sent to Bulgaria Takes Threatening Tone, Ankara Advices Report

Hitler demands ‘total effort’ from Balkans   Note calls on Bulgaria to sacrifice; report nazis ready giant offensive

HITLER WRITES TO ALLIES ABOUT WAR   New “Total War Effort’ Said to Be Given In Detail to Five Countries.

FOR MORE HELE   Heavier Demands Made On Axis Allies In War Effort

GERMANY CALLS UPON HER ALLIES - FOR GREATER AID   Hitler Demands Five Balkan States Contribute More Soldiers and Work ‘ers to Reich.   THREATENING NOTE SENT TO BULGARIA   Nazis Reported Building Strong Defenses Between Thrace and Macedonia Against Invasion.

HITLER MAKES NEW DEMANDS ON HIS ALLIES IN EUROPE   Notes Sent to Southeastern European Nations Setting Forth Details of Germany's New “Total War Effort’ and Calling for Similar Action by Allies

Nazis “Who See No Sense in Holding on,’’ Admonished   Berlin Radio Preaches Death-and-Duty Sermon to Hit: ler’s Soldiers On Stalingrad Front, It Was Disclosed Today; Told “Fuehrer Knows Position and Will Cope With It: Duty to Obev”

Vichy Charges Allies Launch Propaganda Drive   Seek To Shatter Morale Of  People

PROPAGANDA I§ VICHY CHARGE   Claim Allies Are Causing Unrest Among French.

Report Fighting in Marseilles  Patriots Attack - Vichy Militia -

Pay-Go Taxing April 1 Urged   Director of Budget Hint: Intervention by FDR; Ouick Action Asked-

“SWIFT ACTION ON TAX PLAN      Favors Skipping Part Of 1942 Levy Obligations”. :

Budget Director to Testify  on Tax Program  Harold D. Smith Favors Cut in 1942 Income Levies

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 PLAN IS PUSHED   Budget Chief Favors Skipping Part of 1942 Levies

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX PLAN URGEL   Budget Director Calls for Swift Action by Conaress

30,000 Japs iDrive Deep In ‘Rice Bowl   Chinese High Command Admits Many Towns Captured

Nazi East Front Tottering; ~ Red Advance Not Denied  Scope Of Russian Offensive Along Long Line Revealed: Rain. Mud Don't Stoo Them

Nazi Crisis Approaching: Russian Blows on Both Flanks May  Cause Utter Disaster for Germans, ‘Associated Press Analyst Asserts

1000 Planes Over Germany Every 2 Days Would Win War, Says Brig. Gen. LeMay

Red Noose Tightens On Nazis   Troops Flown hh To Tottering . Orel Base

FRESH TROOPS FAIL 10 HALT ‘SOVIET GAINS   Reds Smash Ahead i in Fierce Fighting in Orel Sector

NAZIS CLING TO SLENDER GRIF ON GREL   Russians Gain Six Miles, Capture 20 Villages Rimming  Death Trap; Reinforcements From Germany   Going Tough

Fresh Troops Are FerriedInby Air   Germans Fighting on Orders to Prevent Complete Defeat -

TROOPS FLOWN IN BY NAZIS AS REDS HAMMER AT OREL   Soviets Gain Six Miles, Capture 20 Villages in Bitter Fighting on Rim of Hitler Stronchold.   REINFORCEMENTS ARE ENGULFED BY FOES   Germans Reported Fighting on Urgent Orders “To Prevent Complete Defeat”  of Their Army. -

Russians Chop  Off More Miles to Orel   Death Trap Is Encircled by Rampant Red Attack; Some of New Nazi Reserves Taken, Moscow Declares

RUSSIANS GAIN 6 MORE MILES      Hitler Rushes Aid By Ain To Orel Death Trap; 20 Towns Retaken

SOVIETS LESS THAN a0 MILES FROM KIEV   Take Bakhmach, 116 Miles Northeast of Ukrainian Capital

MEAT PRODUCTION NEARING MAXIMUM      Farmers Feeling Better Over Labor and Machinery

PROPOSAL TO CURBFDRS APPOINTIVE POWEL   Indepedent Democrats And Republicans Would Require Senate Confirm: ation of Appointees to Jobs Paying $4,500 And Over

Congress fo Seek Power   Anti-Administration Democrats Team Up With Republicans

TEN MAIL BAGS FULL   C. of C. Wrapping Station Re. ports Rush Done

TEN MAIL BACS FULL   C. of C. Wrapping Station Reports Rush Business Done -

Rommel’s Beaten Army in Tripoli; British Advance   Axis Leaders May Decide Not To Defend Italian Base, Retire to Tunisia

FRENCH TARGETS UNDER ATTACK   Objectives In Low Countries Are Raided By Allied Bombers

French Rail Lines Under Air Assaull   RAF. Bombers Also Blast ‘Targets in Low Countries; Hit Rail Junctions   NEWU U.S, PLANES H GO INTO ACTION      Thoscemolis: Wi Battle With 30.of the German Fock. Wulf Fighters

PROCEDURE FOR STRIKE TO TAKE ABOUT 20 DAYS   WV CV Vii  ACTION TAKEN AT JOINT MEETING OF RAIL IINION CUIcEeS

Poll Ordered For Workers or U. S. Carriers   Men Dissatisfied With 4-Cent Raise Granted by Board

Railroad Heads OK Strike Vote   Action Taken After General Chairman Voteed Dissatisfaction Of Wages,

Strike Vote By Railroaders May Be Issued Today   Heads of Brotherhoods Meet Today and May Direct Poll of the 350,000 Rail Work arc _   BULLETIN

Rail Strike Appears To Be Favored    Brotherhoods Reported to Have Rejected 4-Cent Wage Increase

RAILROAD CHIEF ~ VOTE TO CONDUCT A STRIKE CALL   This Action Was Taken at a Joint Meeting of General Chairmen Today.   AGAINST 4 CENT RAISE   Effort Will Be Made by Officials to Get Miners to Return to Work.

Heads of Big Five Operat ing Brotherhoods. Meet Today to Act On Resolution

Railroad Strike Poll Is Ordered By Chiefs. ‘Of Five Brotherhoods

Railroad Men For Strike Vote   Proposed Four-Cent  Increase Refused

RAILWAY UNION LEADERS VOTE STRIKE BALLOT   ‘Conference of Operating Brother  head Leaders Rejects Four Cent ; an Hour Pay Increase   SEEK 30 PC HIKE   Whiiney Asserts Stabilization Pro. gram ‘Vulnerable, No-Strike Pledge Becoming Unienable

DAVIS CAUTIONS - ON WAR GUESSES   Says Decisions Some Distance Away in Tunisian Encounters

ANNAPOLIS COERSF CTT   Urge Higher Allowances For Service Men's Kin

LOSS OF CRAFT WAS REVEALED 3 MONTHS AGO   Names of 3 Cruisers, 7 Destroyers Announced

NO CASUALTIES MENTIONED IN 4ATE RELEASE   Aircraft Carrier Lost In Southwest Pacific Identified As Hornet.

Yank, British Squeeze Peril:  3 Vital Bases   Allies Smash Ahead 15 Miles As Nazis Head For The Coast   The War:

Brazil Conference Points To  New War On Submarines  Roosevelt’s Pause To Confer With President Vargas   Roosevelt’s Pause To Confer With President Vargas Symbolizes Good Neighbor Policy

Welfare Probe Voted, 32 to 7   State Senate Sets up 10Man Commission

SIDETRACK STATE SALESTAX REFUND   COMMITTEE VOTES 17 T0 16 TO DEFER CONTROVERSIAL BILL

SIDETRAGK BILL ON TAX REFUND IN SPRINGFIELD   Measure Returned To Sub-Committee By 17 to 16 Vote

~—— Duy War Bonds — SURVEY INDICATES BUMPER FOOD, FEED PRODUCTION IN ’43

Orson Welles Springs New Surprise’ in Hayworth Rites   Second Marriage

VWVEEUSALO Vl PR Ee?  COUNTY MEN TO LEAVE-SOON ON INDUCTION CALL   Draft Groups Go To Chicago; Board Handles Only Routine Work.

Expect More Calls For November; Others End Leaves.   BOARD MEETS TONIGHT

Induct County Group In Past Week; Return On Leaves.   BOARDMEETSNEXTWEEK

GOOD NEWS FOR: ” PILES SUFFERERS   FREE BOOK—Tells OF Causes, Effects And Treatménat --

PLANE PLANT PAY DEMANDS ~ ARE STUDIED   WAR LABOR BOARD IN SESSION ‘Ag THREAT OF- STRIKES, ALONG WEST. COAST.  GROW MORE 4 SERIOUS

AIRCRAFT PLANT STRIKE THREAT IN WLB HANDS   Federal Group Promises Not to Settle Issue Unless Workers Remain at Their Jobs

WLB CONSIDERS STRIKE THREATS   West Coast Aircraft Case Being Considered By Labor Board

Japs Claim U. S. Cruiser, Destroyer And Ten Transport Vessels Sunk

BOAST OF 15 SHIPS EITHER SUNK, DAMAGEI   Tokyo Version of Solomons Battle’ at Wide Variance With U. S. Version of Guadalcanal

JAPS MAKING HEAVY CLAIMS   Boasting Sinking of Cruiser, Destroyer and (0 Transports in Air Attack on Wednesday — Tokto Communique Reports: Attack Qccurred Of Florida Estand.

BLIND PRINTER, POET IS NAMED TROPHY WINNER   Jacksonville, III. Man Is Selected For Migel Award

Striking Group May Lose Rights   WAR LABOR BOARD IN TOUGH RULING ON WALKOUTS

Seniority Threatened   Striking Workers Told By WLB That Rights May Be Withdrawn

Dnieper Bend Campaign Reported Now Underway Along 150-Mile Sector

New Red Army Offensive ks Now In Making   Heavy Drive On 150 Mile Front In Dnieper Bend Is Imminent   GERMANS CONTINUE DRIVE TOWARD KIEV

INEMENKA ABOUT ENCIRCLED AFTER LINE IS SEVEREL   Cutting of Two Railroads tt Threatening Last Escape Route For Nazi Garrisor in River Bend.   CLARK’S MEN MOP UP ENEMY IN MOUNTAINS   Stimson Announces Casual  ties of Fifth Army, 192¢  - Die, 7809 Wounded Wit! 2780 as Missing.

THREAT TO NAZI DEFENSES IN DNIEPER BEND   Second Russian Retreat in Kiev Area Reported

REDS PREPARE HEAVY BLOWS   : Russians Capture Village Near Sumy  Cg is

Italians, Asking For Peace, Parade In Milan And Turin   » Demonstrations Continue Despite Military Warnings , —Mussolini Spends Birthday as : Prisoner

Rushes Troops Into Fiume, Trieste Areas   Demonstrations Are Nearer to Social Revolution

CIVIL STRIFE IN ITALY CONTINUES   FASCIST AND REGULAR TROOPS CLASH—PARADERS IGNORE WARNINGS.

ttatlans Parade With Placards C alling i For Peace And Return Of Bous Fram Wot.

Italians Parade With Placards Calling _ For Peace And Return Of Boys From War

FRANGES FARMER SEEMS IMPROVING   Mental Tempests Not So Evident In Hospital.

GIO POLITICAL ARM COMES INTO BEING   Changing Of Anti-Labor Congress Is Objective

FHA Ready To Pick Up Work In Smmall Home Field Quickly   No New Legislation Needed For It to Function When War Over

APPROPRIATIONS COM. TO PROBE LEND-LEASE   War and Other Expenditures of Gov't to Be Investigated

STRUGGLE IN ITALY TAKES GRAVER TURN   Mutiny Reported Among Troops at Milan; No Asylum for Dictators

Neutral Nations  Warned   By President Roosevelt Not To Admit Mussolini

Roosevelt Warns Neutrals: Don’t Aid Axis Leaders      Such Action Viewed As Inconsistent With. Principles For Which Allies Are Fighting, Says President? Would Deal With Italy

MUTINY OF ITALIAN TROOPS AT MILAN IS REPORTED FRIDAY   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VOICES WILLINGNESS TREAT TO END FIGHTING

Roosevelt Issues Ultimatum To Neutral Nations Against Harboring Of Axis Chieftains   Such Asylum Declared Inconsistent With Principles Of’ United Nations

Surrender of War Criminals Is Expected   Point Made Clear Last November, Roosevelt Says in Virtual Ultimatum   READY TO TALK WITH ITALIANS   Will Deal With Any Leader Regarding Peace So Long’. as He Is Not a Fascist

Warns Neutrals Against Harboring Any Enemy Leaders   United Nations Not To Work Wit! Fascist Party Members on Italian Peace Plans

 ‘Neutral Nations Warned: Against ‘ Harboring Axis   President Contends’ U.S. ‘Will. Regard: Protection Of Leaders As Hostile

President Asks Neutral Nations Not to Offer Asylum to Axis Leaders

Roosevelt Speaks Again For End of Fascist Resistance   U.S. President Warns Neutrals Not to Take In Axis Leaders

Churchill And Cabinet Meet   -.»- FDR Willing To Deal With Any Non-Fascist

Neutral Nations Warned By Roosevelt Not To Offer Refuge To Any Axis Leader

FDR Issues Ultimatum: Backed Up By Britain   Flight Of Il Duce Is Probably  Reason  2

PRESIDENT SAYS THERE MUST BE NO ESCAPE PATH   Chief Executive Stresses That Nations Should Not Let Duce In

NEUTRALS AR WARNED BY FR   President Tells Nations Not To Offer Asylum to Axis Leaders.

Roosevelt Warns Neutral Nations  Should Not Offer Asylum To Axis Leaders

Roosevelt Warns All  Neutrals   They Are Expected Not to Harbor Any Axis War Leaders

Warns About Harboring of Axis Leaders   Virtual ultimatum Served on Neutrais by  Roosevelt

Further Clashes Reported Between Ital_ jan and German Troops as Germans Apparently Move to Set Up Line Along Po

Neutrals Expected To Bar Axis Leaders   F. D. R. in Virtual Ultimatum, Says Affording Asylum to Allies’ Enemies Would Be Inconsistent’ With United Nations Aims.

Shut Gates To Avenue Of Escape   Roosevelt Issues Virtual Ultimatum To Neutral Nations Not To Offer Asylum To Axis Heads

Roosevelt Issues Ultimatum on Places of Refuge   President Says =~ U.S. Ready To Deal’ With Peace Offers :

FDR WILLING TO DEAL WITH ANYONE IN ITALY EXCEPT THE FACISTS   WARNS NEUTRAL NATIONS NOT TO GIVE ASYLUM TO AXIS LEADERS

FDR Warns Neutrals   Says U. 8. Government Hopes None Will Give Asylum To Axis Chiefs

PROTECTION NOT TOBE AFFORDED LEADERS OF AXIS   Willing to Deal With Anyone In Haly Except Definite Leaders of the Fascist Party.   MUSSOLIN! AND TOJO MAY ATTEMPT ESCAPE   Roosevelt Hopes Neutral Nations Will Not Provide Asylum For Either of Mer or Followers.

Italian Troops Refuse To Fire On Civilians   People in Milan Sweep Through Streets by Thousands Shouting Demands for Peace; Fortresses Bomb Southern Italy; Reds Now Storming Orel’s Inner Defenses

FDR RAPS HAVEN FOR AXIS GANGS   Italian Peace Deal To Be Made Only With  Non-Fascists

Peace Parley Would Be Held With Anyone   Chief Executive Says Criminals Must Stand Before Court

SEE SIGNS OF MAJOR TURN IN ITALIAN CRISIS   Alhes Resume Bombing of Italy; May Indicate Proposals Reiected

Ultimatum Invites Peace Talks With Non Fascists; Bans Axis Chiefs Asylum

EISENHOWER'S PEACE TERMS SEEN REFUSED   Churchill’s Cabinet Meets In Two Extraordinary  Sessions   IMAJOR TURN HINTED   Nazis Squeezed Tighter In Sicily; Hamburg Gets Another Pasting

Italian Soldiers In Milan Revolt   Badoglio’s Rejection of Surrender Terms Indicated; Fascist Council Reported Arrested

Ultimatum Given   President Warns Neutral Nations Not To Give Protection To Axis Leaders Fleeing Allied Armies

Churchill Meets With Cabinet; Air Assaults Resumed   American Troops Storm Through Breach in Axis “Coffin Corner Defenses”

Churchill Calls Hurried Session  1:30 A. M. Today   Two-Hour Session Pre. sumably Dealt With Major Turn in Italian Situation or Military Developments.

Ultimatum Issued  To Neutral Nations  Roosevelt Says Aid To Axis Leaders VWinwld Ba lneroadihlae

Says We'll Talk Peace With Any Non - Faseist to  Avoid Anarchy   ‘Self - Determination for People Ultimate Goal’

Ultimatum To Neutrals s Issued By FDR   Nations Urged No! To Offer Sanctuary To Axis Leaders

Allies Renew Peace Offers  To Italian:   President Roosevelt States Views On Neutrals Harboring Axis Leaders.   CHURCHILL IN TALKS

NEUTRAL NATIONS ASKED NOT TO AID THE AXIS LEADERS   President Roosevelt Issued : Virtual Ultimatum to These Nations Today.   ‘WILL TREAT FOR PEACE   Take Cognizance of Report Mussolini Might Seek Re fuge in Neutral Nation.

Milan Revolt Completely Out Of Control   Hamburg, Holland and Southern Italy Bombed Heavily

Neutrals Warned  On Axis Flights   Should Not Offer Asylum to Mussolini or Others,  Says F. D. R.   TO TREAT FOR PEACE   President Is Prepared tc Deal With Any Authority in Italy

Neutrals: Warned On: Axis Flights      Should Not Offer Asylum.to ' Mussolini or ones . ~ Says F.    TO ‘TREAT FOR PEACE   President Is Prepared’ to . Deal With Any Authority in Italy 

‘Roosevelt Warns Neutral Countries  ‘Not To Offer Asylum To Axis Leader:   Senators’ Post-War Movement Believed Dampened By President

Churchill Meets With War Group   May Have Talked About Italian Situation

Will Talk Peace With Anyone But  Definite Fascist   First Objective To End Armed Resistance Throughout Italy

PRESIDENT WARNS NEUTRALS AGAINST HARBORING AXIS  VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM ASYLUM MUST NOT BE GI\

Pres. Roosevelt Warn: Neutral Nations Not Tc Give Asylum To Any Ot Axis Leaders.

Allies Decline To Deal With Fascist Chiefs   Roosevelt States Stand on Move to End Italian War

Keep Axis Leaders Out, Neutrals Told  F. R. Gives Ultimatum To Countries

Roosevelt Repeats  Offer to Talk Peace   Warns Against Giving Refuge to Axis Leaders; Crowds in Milan Defy Orders Against Demonstrating to End War.

F. DR. WARNS THE NEUTRALS   President Issues Virtual Ultimatum Warning Neutral Nations To Refuse To Grant Asylum To Any Axis Leaders.

Rome Admits Peace Terms Studied; Allies Will Deal. With Anyone But Fascists   British Cabinet Meeting Sets Off) New. Wave of Rumors; Italian Troops Refuse to Fire on Rioters at Milan

Report Italian Troops In Milan Have Muti-: nied For First Time Since Bitter Crisis. Over War Or Peace — Allies Press For,  Victory In Sicilv

NAZIS RETREAT IN NORTH; STEP UP AIR BLOWS   Allies Drive To Finish Conquest of Island: Make New Gains

F.D.R. Warns Neutrals Not To Give Asylum To Any Of Axis Leaders   President Takes Cognizance Of Rumors That Mussolini And His Gang May Attempt To Take Refuge In Neutral Territory.

Session Believed To Be Connected ~~ With Halian Grisis   Report Troops In Rey volt At Milan _ As €rowds Clamor For Peace; U.S. Units Press Gains In Sicily

Ready to Make Peace   U. S. Will Deal With Italy But Not With Fascists

Rome Radio Asserts Allied Terms Are Teo Drastic and Complains That Britain Is Asking for a "Carthaginian" Pact   PUBLICATION OF EISENHOWER'S OFFER BANNED

Churchill Has Meeting With War Cabinet  Gather At 1.30 This Marninge

No Asylum For Axis  Leaders   F. D. R. Issues Virtual Ul timatum To Neutra! Nations

BRITISH CABINET CALLED, ITALIAN MUTINY REPORTED   Crowds Defy Warnings of Being Shot for Parading Whilk Stories of Disor-

FDR GIVES VIEWS ON PEACE DEALINGS   Neutral Nations Warned Not To Shield Any Axis Leaders

Don't Offer Axis Chiefs Asylum, Neutrals Warne   Virtual Ultimatum Issued By President Against Protecting Mussolini, Hitler Or Tojo; Ready To Dea! With Italian King

RULES ARE LAID DOWN ON FRIDAY   Warning Given to Neutral Nations Net to Give. Asylum to Any Axis — Leaders.

SSD  TO FAG TRIAL, HE REAFFIRMS   Hitler, Tojo And Mussolin Must Face Punishment For Their Crimes

DON'T AID AXIS LEADERS GOV'T WARNED BY FDR   Ultimatum Issued By President To  Neutral Nations

‘NEUTRALS WARNED: BY EDR. NOT TO 'AID AXIS CHIEFS —   Roosevelt: Issues: Virtual Ultt matum Against:. Protecting or. Harboring Any Leaders of the Axis

NEUTRALS TOLD: NOT TO HARBOR AXIS LEADERS   ‘Roosevelt Issues Virtual: Ultimatum -to. Neutral.   Nations-Not to Offer Refuge ~   MUST STAND TRIAL   President Says U. S. Willing to Deal In Italy With  — Anyone Not Member   of Fascists .

Neutral Countries Told Not to Harbor Fleeing Axis Chiefs   Roosevelt Expresses Willingness. For Peace Dealings With Anyone Except Definite Fascists in Italy

President Warns Neutral Countries Not To Shield Axis Leaders and Gangs

PASTOR QUITS SUICIDE FAST   Minister In Saugatuck Goes 45 Days With out Foo

Eighth Army In Italy Moves Up Five Miles More   Vicinity Of Sangro River Is Reached By Latest Allied Advance   HEAVY RAINS HAMPER FIFTH ARMY AGAIN

AIRDROME AT C. GLOUCESTER INITIAL GOAI   Beachheads Established on Both Sides Despite Franfic Japanese Aerial Opposition

GUADALCANAL WARINES ARE AT CAPE GLOCESTER   Swarin Atross Straits From New ‘Guinea; °  Seize New Britain + + Reachheads

MARINES SEIZE BEACHHEADS AT CAPE GLOUCESTER   Veterans Swarm Across Straits To Northwestern Tip Of New Britain

HOUSE TACKLES BROAD SCHOOL CODE REVISION   Hickenlooper Takes Steps to Keep Bill From Being Killed

ET Utility Sale to TVA Is Favored   Up State Group At Johnson City Meet Maps Plans

WAITING FOR ‘EQUIPMENT.   City Hopes to Repair Broken: OutJ _ fall Sewer Soon

WAITING FOR EQUIPMENT   boa! Hopes to Repair Broken Ont _ fall Sewer Soon

TWENTY-SIX MEN REPORT MARCH 18   Orders for Final Type Physical Examination Mailed Out Today.

TWENTY-FIVE MEN IN MARGH 4 CALI   Orders to Report for Induction That Day Are Being Sent Out.

SELECTEES WILL REPORT ON MAY 11   Youths Will Go to Ft. Leayenworth for Final Type Physical Exams.

SEND INDUCTICN NOTICES TO 21 MEN   Orders to Report July 12 Are Mailed by Livingston Co. Selective Service Board.

25 YOUTHS GALLED FOR MONDAY, JUNE 7   Will Be Sent to the Induction Station at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

Revenue Bill ixpected To Pass House   Congress Begins Work on MusteringOut Pay for World War Ul Veterans

Revenue Bill Expected To Be Given Approval   House Expected To Pass Bill  -_ Increasing faxes on Some Items, Including Postage Rates.

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Miracles Of Shipyards Recounted   Mass Construction Beat; Anything Ever # Imagined

Uncle Sam Salts Away Some Dough   Government Able Te Save Little Money Here And There

OW! Keeps Civilians On Their Toes   Information Program On Many Campaigns Well Done .

Bricker May Seek Fourth Term As Ohio’s Governor and Pass Up Presidential Nomination Fight

FLYING FORT HAD 10 OF CREW HURT BUT CAME HOME   American Plane Bests Germans in Battle Over . Europe and Survived Contest

Scuttle Ships In Preparation Of Evacuation   Corsican Battle Into Final Stage; Cut Escape Lanes

GERMANS SCUTTLE 30 SHIPS IN BLOCKING NAPLES HARBOR   Industrial And Rail Centers Of Metropolis Fall To Nazi Torch And Dynamite Crews; Allied Navies And Air Corps Tightening Blockade Of Corsica

30 Ships Scuttled to Block Harbor; Allied Forces Close in on City; Corsica Battle Nearing End

Nazis Wreck Naples; Sink 30 Ships   Corsica Battle Nears End As Yanks Gain

Troops Within Sight. Sound of Wrecked Port   Battle for Corsica In Final Stages as French and Yankees Close in on Bastia

Scuttle Ships, Blast Harbor ‘And Railroads   Allies within Sight of City

Allies Move Within Sight, Sound of Destruction   BATTLE FOR CORSICA   Seems in Final Stage; French And Yank Rangers Close In on Bastia Port

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THIRTY SHIPS ARE SUNK 10 BLOCK HARBOR   NAZIS ON CORSICA TO BE WIPED OUT IN FEW DAYS

Harbor Wrecked As Allies Push On Unmolested   Yankees May Soon Arrive At Scene Of Razed Metropolis

Apparently Preparing to Evacuate   Battle of Corsica Has Entered Its Final Stage

DESTROY ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY IN PREPARATION FOR EVACUATION; ALLIES PRY LOOSE NAZI LEFT FLANK.

VAST DESTRUCTION IN GREAT SEAPORT. CAUSED BY NAZIS   Allied Armies Surge to Within Sight of City Which Enemy Is Preparing to Evacuate.   FIGHT FOR CORSICA . ENTERS FINAL STAGE   Warships and Air Forces Throw Up Blockade to Prevent Escape of Germans.

Ships Scuttled To Block Harbor   Allies Advance On All Battle Fronts

Ships Are Scuttled in the Harbor of Italian Port  CORSICA FIGHTING IN FINAL STAGES Whole German Left Flank  in Salerno Area Turned Inward

Nazis Scuttle 30 Vessels  In Harbor   Allies Blockade Corsica And Nazi Left Flank On Mainland Turned  NAT AW DWV WrU ABTA IY wR

Germans Prepare To Abandon Region of Naples   Nazis Blast Waterfront, Scuttle Number Of Ships; Battle of Corsica Hits Final Stage; U. S., French Troops Gain

isilies Again rpued As Jones (fers Milk Plat   ! Flares Anew Wit nrecsing Demand For Price Boost

WASHINGTON SILENT ON AXIS CLAIM   American Artillery Opens Wedges In Enemy Pockets

Penetrate Enemy Pockets on Attu   Japs Retain Only Two Island Posts

Last Stand Of Attu Defenses   Ridge Positions Captured As Bombers Strike Kiska Again.

SETCEILING ON ~NEW ICE BOXES      lin Many Cases Prices Will ' Be Lowered By Ceilings

Believe President Plans To Fight Congressional Revolt With Veto Powe:

PRESIDENT GETTING SET 10 START VETO PROGRAM IS BELIEF   May Appeal to Public Opinion on House Rebellion Against New Deal Policies.

Roosevelt Meeting Congressional. - Rebellion With Silence Strategy

BILL HELD T00 BROAD   Senators Criticize Plant Seizure. Medsure, ManyChanges Proposed   MAY SEND BILL BACK TO COMMITTEE   Texan Determined to Get.a Vote; Taft Opposes Hasty Action

OHIO NEGRO NABBED ON MURDER CHARGE      Held in Boston for Cor Slaying in Alliance

ALEUTIAN DRIVE INDICATES EARLY ~ ATTACK ON KISKA   Amchitka, New Americar Base, Is Only 1927 Miles “from Tokio. as

NEW U.S. BASE ESTABLISHED AT AMCHITKA   lokyo Threatened by Latest Typeof Bomber Now Under Construction.

U. © MOVE T0 SEIZE ENEMY-HELD KISKA IS EXPECTED SOON   Navy Reveals Americans Have Base Set Up. At Amchitka, Only 72 Miles Away

HITLER ADMITS ‘HARD’ WINTER   Reports Soldiers Suffered  Severe Privations

Hitler Admits Great Damage   Declares Soldiers Had VW Laealeed Rappebeanet!

Hitler Says It’s Been 2 A Hard Winter For The  German Army Forces

HITLER ADMITS HEAVY LOSSES DURING WINTER   Praises German Soldiers in Russia for Stopping Red Offensive

MUCH SUFFERING AMONG GERMANS DURING WINTER   Involved the Hardest Bur. dens of Our Soldiers, Hitler Said.   BROADCAST BY FUEHRER   Said His Soldiers Had Averted a Crisis by Holding Russians.

Hitler Admits Hardest Winter   Suffering Of Soldiers Told Nation

Winter Hit Army Hardest, Says Hitler   Troops Make Great Sacrifices in Russia

Hitler Howls Winter “Heavy for Germans”   NAZI FUEHRER CLAIMS AXIS HAS AVERTED CRISIS IN RUSSIA

DER FUEHRER PRAISES ARMY   Tells of Heaviest Suffer ing, Hardest Burdens of Soldiers

Winter Hardships Recounted by Hitler   Heavy Suffering Reported by Army

Initial Landing On Italy Encounters No Enemy Opposition   British ‘Streaking Like Scalded Cat”  —_— fnaacere eo oF es, iC6e°* 4 ee

Ninth Consecutive Day of Record Breaking Assault on Europe.  SUNDAY RAID ON ATHENS AIRDROMES  Industrial City of Naples, Italy in R.A.F. Raid.

Teacher Dies Seeing Pupils Out of Danger   (,0es Into Blazing School To Make Sure All Have Been Brought Out

WORLD POLICE BILL ENTERED   Bitter Debate In Senate Is Seen Over Measure

MINES TO RUN AT CAPACITY. MONDAY   Contract, With One Adjustment, Wins WLB Avproval /

SEE FULL MINES OUTPUT MONDAY   Unions Stand Pat on Worl Order Despite WLB Qualification

BAGK-10-WOnK UADER STANDS FOR CGAL MINES   Union Leaders Stand Pat on Order to Nation’s Diggers.

QUALIFIED OK GIVEN BY WLB TO COAL WAGE   Case Reverts Back To Ickes   LEWIS IS CALLED   Pay Increase Means Longer Work Day

y Germans Hammer Relentlessly At Russian Defenses   Greatest Mechanized Battle Of War Being Waged On Soviet Front   “ NAZIS MAKE SMALL GAIN: LOSSES HUGE

Kxtend Order  On Rationing   Wickard Directs Rationing Of Dry Edible Beans,  Dried Soups.

WICKARD PUTS DnY ITEMS ON RATIONS Lia]   Stocks of Dried Beans, Peas, Lentils and Soups Are Frozen..   SUPPLIES LOW BECAUSE OF SHORTAGE IN MEAT

Other Items Are Rationed   Dry Edibie Beans, Dry  Dane Othere Cut OFF

Bean And Pea.  Stocks Frozen   Wickard Orders Ration Of Additional Foods,” Soups Last Night

Dried Peas anc Beans Placed On Ration List   Lentils and Dehydratex And Dried Soups Are Also to Be Rationed, Wickard Annauncec

Dry Beans Listed] For Rationing   Pas And Dehydrated Soup Also Placed By Wickard On List, Beginning In Fight Days   RECORD CROP MUST” TEED ARMED FORCES   Asserts. Allied Nations Need Great Amounts of Dried ‘Beans During” Current Year

Freeze On Dried Foods Is Announced   Beans, Peas, Lentils, Soups fo Be Rationed March 1, Wickard Say:

Wickard Extends Rationed List   Include Dry Edible Beans, Dried Peas

Sale Of Canned Vegetables And Fruit Halted For Week   ‘Can-Opener Era’ Ends; Ration Values T« Be Announced Sunday Night

Beans, Peas, Soups Will Be Rationed   Added to List That Will Go in Effect March 1

Rationing  Extended to Dried Foods   Freeze of Items Rationed March 1] lu Effeet Today

More Foods Added to Ration List   Dry Beans, Peas, Lentils, Soups. Are Ordered Frozen

‘Aydrated Soups (3 Included in ‘eeze Directive   etail Sales Banned nmediately, Will ) esume March 1  } COST POINTS  ecretary Cites i  yj ; eee 7 1

German Forces Routed   American And Canadian Troops Continue  Inland Push

Move Steadily Ahead On East Sicily Shore   Advance North of Gela Poises Spearhead on Right Flank of German Armored Forces Guarding Catania Plain,

Two Towns Captured at Rim of Plain  General Allied Advance Made All Along Curving Front YANKS SLICE AHEAD  Powerful Allied Fleet Guards Montgomers’s ot 7  J Wacl        YANKS SLICE AHEAD   Powerful Allied Fleet Guards Montgomery’s Seaward Flank

4 More Towns In Sicily Fall Before Allies   American Forces Drive 30 Miles Inland And Gen. Montgomery’s Eighth Army Smashes Heaviest Counterattack Yet Launched

Smash Germans In Biggest Tank Batfle In Sicily   ‘Capture 2 More Towns _ As Allies Continue To Sween On

STORM LENTINI AND SCORIAIN VAST ADVANCE      Canadians Capture Caltagirone to Round Out Seizure of Four More Towns by Allies   YANKS PENETRATE FARTHER INLAND   Believed to be Pouring Into Catania Plain to Join Forces of General Montgomery’s Desert Armies

Enemy Fights Hard  To Stem Advance   ‘Canadians Take Town To Protect Montgomery— Americans Fishtine for Ae went

British Beat ff Germans InBigBattle   U.S. Troops Score Advance OF 30 Miles

FRENCH FLEET MAY SUB FOR ALLIED NAVIES   Report Assignment Tec Mediterranean In Offing

FRENCH FLEET MAY PLAY BIG ROLE IN ALLIED OFFENSIVE   Strong Enough To Take Over Mediterranean For Anglo-American Navies

Former Resident of Roundup Admits She Fractured the Arms of an Infant; Child Dies in Seattle Hospital

WOMAN, 23, ADMITS NISTREATING BABY      Police Claim-Her. Confession Clears Injury, Death sree —of Girt

WAR DADS ORGANIZE   Chapter Is Established at the Sun flower Ordnance Works

Seaman Killed By Coastguardsman   Refuses To Get Up For  Work, Youth Slain

Young Coast Guardsman Held Pending Inquiry Into Sailor’s Death Aboard Coal Freighter

Street Fights Flame Between Slavs, Germans   ‘Action In Trieste Begins By New Flareups; Fiume Threatened.   ® GUERRILLA LEADERS   Italian Queen, Crown Prince In Switzerland

GOEBBELS SEES DECISIVE FIGHT   Europe. Entering Decisive! Battle, Nazi Propaganda, Minister Says, But Tells! Germans To Be Calm.

ae a  Goebbels Assures Fulure All Right   Tells Folks Allies Haven't Won Any Large Victories

Europe Enters Decisive Fight  ~—-GOEBBELS   G;oebbels Says Germany Can Look To Future East De velopments Calmly,

Tell miners, operators to negotiate   WLB says issues  ean he cettled

Secu 0 FIRE SWEEPS PLANT AT ARTHUR   (Cause of Blaze at Progress Factors Yet Undetermined

THREE PART PLAN FEATURES ALLIED -PACIFICSTRATEG\   Will Seize Bases Until Time ls Ripe for Direct Drive on ‘Tokio.

ALLIED STRATEGY TO CRUSH JAPAN IN’ 3-POINT PLAN   Two. Points  ‘Are Already Approaching Goal : —: May Not Néed Aid:  Of Russia

Allies Follow Three-Point Plan of Action   Strategy to Crush Japan “Is Outlined ~

Miners Insist They Will Quit Work March 31   District President Says Labor Board or No Labor Board, Wage Increase Demands Must Come.

NAZIS BEGIN. TO DISARM ITALIAN FORCES IN’ GREECE   Endless Columns Of German Pantzer Divisions Are Moving Through  ’ Balkans:

GERMAN TROOPS. "DISARM ITALIANS ON GREEK FRONT   Nazi Panzers Are Moving in to Meet Expected Allied  Invasian_

COLD HITS STATE   Record Breaking Sub-Zero  Temperatures Predicted for Tonight

Tonight To Be Colder   Kansas Blanketed By Drifting Snow; Most Highways Open

May Drop © To 10 Below   .Record-Breaking Cold Promised Shivering  Kansans By Tonight

Trams, Busses Resume Service In Los Angeles   But Interurban System Faces Crippling Strike Sunday Morning.

Los Angeles One Day Strike Ends  Another Brotherhon,   Another Brotherhood Schedules Walkout Next Sunday

Axis Forces Speed Flight Into Tunisia   British Jubilant Over Victory as Fighting In Tripoli Ends and Nazi Radio Admits Troops Have Evacuated City.

GERMAN ARMY RESUMES FLICHT FROM TRIPOLI   British Forces March Into Last Stronghold Of Axis In Libya   FRENCH REPEL NAZIS   Great Battles Developing In Tunisia—Russians Reach Kursk Area

Vanguards of Victorious Army Occupy City and Raise Union Jack Above Goverment Buildings—Rome-Berlin Axis Acknowledges Great Victory of British

British Flag ~ [s Flying Over Tripoli Today   Gen. Montgomery's Army Sweeps Into Great Libyan Port   GREAT BRITISH VICTORY IS WON   2 ee  Survivors Of Rommei §& Army Fleeing Into Tunisia After Defeat

British Flag Waves Over Vast Area   Unien Jack Hoisted Over Tripoli

AN EMPIRE IN AFRIGA LOoT BY -MMUOoULIN   British Take Full Gc:ntrol as They Enter Port of Tripoli,   UNION JACK RAISED   Rome and Berlin Admit This Great British Victcry.

15 Missing As Vessels Collide  Tug With Workers Sinks After Crash

WHISKEY HUNT GIVES SENATE VEXING PROBLEM   Greatest Demand Yet for America’s Food Likely To Face Farmers in 1944

Rum Probe, New Tax Has ‘Senate Busy   One Committee Trying to Tax it, Another Just Trying to Find It

ARNOLD MAY CO TO LONDON TO MAP ACTION   Conviction Grows That War Leaders Plan Crushing Germany First   -MACARTHUR MUST WAIT      Russ Fall Back On Donets River Line—Allies Strive To Split Hun Army

ARNOLD TO LEAD ALL-OUT BLOWS ON REICH BY AIR:   Elevation to General May Mean Pacific Campaign Must Wait

PES Ges Suess: TERE SRR SEY. SRR Tg RRR Se Se SZ  Moffat, U. S. Minister To Canada, Passes Away

Moffat, Minister To Canada, Dies  One Of Most Popular O1 U. S. Envoys

Draft MacArthur Fish Proposes   New York Congressman Suggests Republicans Draft General For President

Italian Troops May Join Allies   Stiff Resistance Seen to Germans

Italy’s Forces May be Placed in Field With Allied Armies   Eisenhower's Troopers Punch Ahead Slowly  on Italian Front

Gilford Soldier Killed in Action   Pvt. Ned R. Francis. 22. Arrived in Africa March 15

Gifford Soldier Killed In Action   Pvt. Ned Francis Had Been In Africa Since Mar. 15

BLOWS AGAINST JABS.   In the Pacific Aimed to Prevent Jan Offensive.

U.S. SEEKS T0 KNOCK OUT JAP BASES   Recent Blows Aimed at Neutralizing Advanced Posts

F.R. Charges Present Act Inflationary   Message One of Most Acid Ever Sent to Congress; Sounds Warning

Japs Claim ~ Success at — Sattelberg   Report 500 Amer ‘icans Were Killed as Tank- Supported Thrust Failed

May Take Fight  For Seal fo Courf Contest Will Be — Decided bv Sec’y.  ak Chobe Meacsm

Baruch of Opinion Marshall Should Have Full Support   Financier Testifies Before Senators On Father Drafting

Baruch Advises Congressmen  Urges Full Support for Gen. Marshall

Baruch Urges Marshall ‘Get What He Asks  Draft Of Father: Up To Him, Says

BARUCH PUTS FATHER CALL UP 10 “BOSS   Respect for Marshall Stressed ‘ore

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Move to Quietly Shelve Draft Bill  Baruch Urges Congress Give  Marshall What He Desires

BARUCH SAYS GIVE WHAT ARMY NEEDS   Full Backing of General Marshall Urged by ’ Witness

BARUCH BACKS UP PLANS FOR FATHER DRAFT   Give Marshall What  ’ He Wants or Oust Him, He Says

BARUCH ASKS FULL SUPPORT OF ARMY NEEDS   Movement Is On Foot Te Shelve Bill To Defer Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers

Baruch Holds Army’s Needs Of Ist Import   Byrnes’ Adviser Opposes Proposal to Delay Father Draft

Baruch Would Give Marshall What He Wants   Backs General's Pians for Draft

DRIVE AHEAD IN CAUCASUS   Once-mighty Nazi siege force is rapidly dwindling at Volga city

German Forces At Stalingrad Reduced To 5,00   Russians Advancing Tc Close Ring Around City Of Rostov   i ea et ae  NAZI RESISTANCE APPEARS WEAKER

U.S. Rips Nips From Key Hill   AMERICAN TROOPS BLAST ENEMY FROM FISH-HOOK HILL IN BLAZING DRIVE

Yanks Launch Final Drive in Attu Area      Gen. MacArthur’s Bombers Drop 19 Tons of Bombs or Jap Air Bases

AMERICAN TROOPS REPORTED BLASTING LAST ATTU JAPS   WASHINGTON SOURCES DECLARES FINAL PHASE OF FIGHT REACHED

U. §. TROOPS CAPTURE FISH HCOK RIDGE   Scale 60 Degree Ridges Under Enemy Fire to Take Important Jap Position.

Enemy: Blasted Off Ridge      Americans Storm Up Steep. Snawy Slopes to Battle Ahove Clouds

Bears Charmed Life: American Flier Blows Up Munitions Dump, Bails Out and Rejoins Unit

Late News Bulletins.   Mitchell: Bombers Blast Jan Tankers Of Hainan

MARCH 2 WILL BE DATE OF PRIMARY   Groundwork. for Coming _ Campaigns Started by City Clerk   ELECTION ON APRIL 6

MARCH 2 WILL BE DATE OF PRIMARY   Groundwork. for Coming Campaigns Started by City Clerk

British Eighth rmy Pushes Into Tunisia   Rommel establishes defense line in front of advancing forces

Report British Eighth Army 65  Miles In Tunisis   Rommel Has Established 60 Mile Front To Combat Advancing British   NAZIS IN DESPERATE DELAYING ACTION

U. S. Losses Replaced ‘Many Times Over,” Knox Says In Giving Box Score

. 5. PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON JAP BASE   60,000 Pounds of Explos. ives Are Dropped In Rabaul Area   11 JAPANESE BARGES REPORTED DAMAGED   American Submarines Also Credited With New Ship Sinkinas

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 12 ENEMY SHIPS IN PACIFIC   Include Destroyer, Jap Transport Damaged Near Dutch New Guinea

Italians May Declare War On Germany   Such An Action, Badoglio Figures, Would Enable Italy to Line Up With America and Britain As Full-Fledged Ally.

Italy Seeks Recognition as an Ally   But Troops and Others Are Opposed to Granting Full United Nations Status   MAY BE ACCEPTED AS CO-BELLIGERENT

Place Italy As Co-Belligerent   Indications Made That Badoglio May Declare War  Lipon Germany.

ltaly May Get The Status of Co-Belligerant   Concessions to Be Measured By Aid She Delivers

Allies Study Italy’sStatus   Nation May Obtain Co-Belligerent Role

italian Government May Be Granted Status Of Co-Belligerent By Allies

Italy Tries For Status As Ally Partner   Allied Troops Dubious of Accepting Italians as Comrades

Cobelligerent Status May Be Granted Italy   Recognition As A Fullfledged Ally Of Britain And U. S. Unlikely.

ITALY SEEN AS CO BELLIGERENT   Badoglio Government Desires Recognition As Full-Fledged Ally

CONCESSIONS 10 BE MEASURED BY AID ITALY DELIVERS   Instead of Full Fledged British-American Ally, She Is a Co-Beligerent.   NEAR A GERMAN BREAK   Premier Badoglio Attempts to Line Italy Up With the Allies.

STATUS OF ITALY DEPENDS ON AID GIVEN TO ALLIES   TROOPS RELUCTANT TO ACCEPT ITALIANS AS BROTHERS IN ARMS

Co-Belligerent Status for Italv Is-Believed Likely   Concessions Probably Will Be Measured by Actual Aid Delivered

ITALY’S STATUS TO DEPEND ON HELP TO ALLIES   Badoglio’s Efforts To Enter United Nations Run Into Many Difficulties

Badoglio Government, Anxious To Be An “Ally,” May Be Named As Co-Belligerent

ITALY MAY BE ACCORDED STATUS OF CO-BELLIGERENT   Any Success She May  Achieve Will Be Measur ed by Her Ability to Deliver Aid to Allies: .

ITALY SEEKING STATUS OF ALL   Believed Any Concessions She Receives Will Be Based On Aid Given Britain and U.S.

Italy's Place Is Uncerfain   Concessions May Depend On How Much Aid She Delivers

Italy May Be Accorded Status Of Cobelligerent   Indications Are: Badoglic May Issue War Declara tion On Germany ~

RANGOON HARBOR PUT VIRTUALLY OUT OF BUSINESS   By Heavy and Medium Bombers of the Tenth  Air Force Command.

U.S, AIR FORCE RIPS JAP BASE IN BURMA   Virtually Wrecks Rangoor Harbor, Hits Other Positions

Shorn Of The Power He Loved So Well, Mussolini Is Facing 60th Birthday Without Hope

MUSSOLINI FACES HIS 60th BIRTHDAY SHORN OF ALL POWER AS OTHERS SEEK TO SAVE ITALY

FATHER OF FASCISM, BENITO MUSSOLINI, SHORN OF HIS POWER  EXPONENT OF PHILOSO-. PHY “LIVE DANGEROUSLY” LIES LOW

Biography! Fall of a Dictator x wk wk * & *  AndTheExplosion of An Ego   At Long Last W orld’s Greatest Four Flusher Falls

The Big Voice with Feet of Clay Topples from Pedestal  Il Duce’s Downfall Is No Surprise

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Oiher Of Axis Satellites gikely To Follow Lead Of Italy And Quit

Fascist Leaders Career Ends After More Than 20 Years Of Dictatorship

The War Toda Fall Of Mussolini, Big Voice With Feet Of Clay, Was Inevitable Event

First Blizzard Leaves Ten Dead   Midwest Blizzard Blows It self Out After Causing Heavy Damage

FIRST BLIZZARD TOLL TEN LIVES   Communications and Crops Damage Heavy; Shipping of Coal Delayed

Allied Fliers Hit Rabaul With 16 Tons of Explosives  Japs Take Beatings na: t   Japs Take Beatings At Several Points in Islands

Allied Fliers Hit Rabaul With 16  Tons of Explosives Japs Take Beatings At Several  Points in Islands

Georgia Girls Win Career in Films—Almesi   Hubby Puts Foot Down When Hollywood Leg Art Photos Appear

Movie Leg Art Hurts Worse Than Own Ankles; No Career For Wife And Sister

McIntyre, F. R. Secretary, Dies  President Mourns Loss of Friend and Aide af 20 Years

FDR's Secretary Succumbs Today  Marvin McIntyre Dies At Age Of 65

Secretary To F.R. Dies   Marvin H. Melntyre, Succumbs at Age 65 to Long-Standing Illness

Marvin H. McIntyre Dies in Washington   President’s Secretary, 65 Years Old, Was a Former Newspaper Man.

“Secretary To Prezident Dies   Marvin McIntyre Had Served Since 1932

Marvin McIntyre Dies; President’s Secretary Since He Took Office

FDR Secrefary Mdntyre Dies   Had Been Associated With President Many Years

FD.A. oLGRETARY OES AT CAPITAL   Marvin H. McIntyre Was Veteran Member Of  White House ‘Family’

WHITE HOUSE SECRETARY DIES TODAY   Marvin Mcintyre, Secretary Since 1932 Succumbs

MARVIN, MPINTYRE. FOR OEGRETARY DEAL   President’s Confidant Succumbs After Long Service

ROOSEVELT ~ SECRETARY DIES   Marvin H, Mcintyre, 65, Always with Chief in White House

M. O. McIntyre President's Friend, Dies   Had Been Secretary At White House For Deeade

McIntyre, FDR’s ‘No Man.’ Dies   Succumbs to Long-Standing Lung Illness; Was Secretary For 10 Years.

Marvin McIntyre Taken By Death   Secretary To President Roosevelt Dies Suddenly In Washington

M. H. M’INTYRE, SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT DIES   Roosevelt from Abroad Pays Tribute to Long-Term Friend and Assistant

Death Claims Close Friend Of President   Marvin H. McIntyre, Member Of FDR’s Secretariat Taken By Death

F.D.R’S VETERAN SECRETARY DIE   M: H.. McIntyre Put. Devotion to ‘the Chief’ Ahead of His Health -

Marvin H. McIntyre Claimed By Death; Had Served As Secretary To President Throughout His 10 Years In White  House.

M. H. McIntyre, FDR Secretary, Dies At Capital   Had Been Associated With President Roosevelt For More Than 2 Decades

MARVIN INTYRE, ADE TO FR, DIES   Long Standing lilness Cause Of Death of President’s Secretary.

FDR's Secretary of 10 Years Dies At White House   Marvin H. McIntyre Associated with Roosevelt 20 Years

SECRETARY OF PRESIDENT DIES   Marvin McIntyre Succumbs To Old Illness

Mclntyre,FR’s Secretary, Dies  At Washington   Old Illness Recurs; Had Been President's Follower Since 1920

Secrefary fo President Dies   Marvin H. McIntyre Passes at Home of His Dauahter

SCHOOL BOMBED AND GUNNED BY TERROR RAIDERS   British Fighters And Ack Ack Bring Down 11 Of 30 Invading Planes   REDS POUND GERMANS   Eighth Army Nears Tripoli And Allies In Pacific Await Jap Move

WITHHOLDING RATE AGAINST TAXABLE WAGES UNCHANGED   House Ways and Means Com. mittee Decided to Take No Action.   TO PUBLISH REFUNDS?   Those Coming Under the Relief Provisions Are to Be Made Public.

COMMITTEE WILL STUDY TAX DEMAND   Witholding Tax To Remain Same At Present Time

2) Per Cent Tax To Remain ‘As s   House Group Decides To Make No Changes =

Withholding Tax ~ Not To Be Altered  House Group Decides Against Change 

ALLIED PLANES DOMINATE SKY OVER ITALY   Ground Forces Meeting Virtually No Oppo: sition From Germans:  So Far In Italy

ALLIED PLANES ‘COMPLETELY’ DOMINATE SK}   Find Few Targets, Little Road Traffic in Southern Italy, Many White Sheets Displayed

Little German Opposition Reported So Far...  Allied Planes Easily - Dominated The Skies

PLENTY OF WHISKEY BUT IN WAREHOUSES, SENATE PROBER SAYS   Subsidy Row Pops Up While Tax Boosts Are Nipped

BONDED WHISKY MAY BE TAPPED   Senate Probers Hint Stiff Tax May Boost Withdrawal

PLENTY OF LIQUOR  TO GIVE 12 QUARTS  TO EVERY AMERIGAN TREASURY TAX DEMAND:  NIPPED BY BOTH HOUSE ANN CENATE

Whisky Supply -Is Held Ample   Bonded ‘Warehouses Are "Well Stocked; Blends  -.. Gut Down Removals

GOT YOURS?   7  Solon Says 12 Quarts Of Whisky Per Person Are  ff. tAlanakharaan

Senator Asserts Every Man, Woman and Child Could  Be Given Twelve Quarts  PROBE 1S OPENED

GERMANS THROW NEW TROOPS INTO RUSSIAN BATTLE   Northern Section of Red Army Line Holds Fast; Soviets Regain Ground in Counter Attacks.

Battle of Kursk Salient Grows In Intensity, With Germans Throwing In Everything They Have; Enormous Losses Reported.

Germans Rush In New Tanks fc Exploit Wedae   Russians Regain Lost ’ Ground in Series Of Counter-Attacks, Are Holding Firm

Wedge In Red Line Hammered By Nazi Push  Smashing Attack On Soviet Positions

REDS RECAPTURE SOME GROUND IN NORTHERN AREA   Power of Russian Air Force Can Determine Outcome of Fight

Germans Throw Masses of Fresh Troops, Tanks Against UnyieldingReds

Battle For ‘Salient Of  Kursk Grows In Intensity   Nazi Tank Columns Probe For Weak Point In Russian Line; Reds Recain Lost Ground

Battle Of Russia Is  Raging   Nazis Try To Exploit Wedge In Enemy:  Lines.

WEDGE INTO RED LINES   Report 110 Enemy Planes Downed In Day: Some Of Lost Territory Retaken In Counterattack

WEDGE 1S DRIVEN INTO RED LINES   Germans Bring Up Fresh Troops And Tanks As Conflict Rages   200-MELE FRONT   Russians Declare Enemy Fails To Gain Air Supremacy

NAZIS DRIVE WEDGE INTO CAVIET LINES   Russians Admit Enemy Gains In Vicinity  Of Belgorod   REGAIN GROUND IN NORTHERN SECTION   Moscow Says 90,000 German Troops Fail to Pierce One Line

FRESH TROOPS, MORE TANKS HURLED INTO RUSSIAN BATTLE BY ADVANCING COLUMNS ©  Germans Step Up Operations In Effort To Take Advantage Of Wedge Forced In Line

MAKE EFFORT TO EXPLOIT NEW WEDGES   Soviets Regain Some Lost Ground; North Line Holding

Germans Hurl Fresh Troops Into Fighting Near Belgorod   Some Ground Regained Claim Russians. as Battle Intensifies

HEAVY FIGHTING NEAR BELGOROD   Battle Mounts in’ Intensity As Nazis Drive Wedge in Red Defenses.

GERMANS EXPLOITING WEDGE   Reds Regain Lost Ground And Hold Against Great Drive

Reds Admit Nazi Tanks Pound Way To Sheht Gains   Furious Fight Mounts In Intensity Along  200 Mile Front In  . Russia

SEVEN AXIS COUNTERATTACKS REPULSED; DESTROY 50 PLANES   Big Port Of Syracuse Occupied, Axis Bases Knocked Out Along 100-Mile Coastal Strip; Messina In Ruins   Ry VIRGIL PINKLEY

Coordinate Big. Pacific Drive And Burma Push   Allied Attack Expected Late  This Fall —

BIG OFFENSIVE IN PACIFIC TO COINCIDE WITH BURMA DRIVE   Reconquest Of Key Town Would Open Road Into China--Tim3 Of.  Blow Secret

Burma Is Key to Offensive   JAP RESISTANCE 1S BITTER AT SOUTH PACIFIC AIR BASE

Believe Pacific Offensive Will Be Coordinated with Drive on Burma

ALLIES TO STAGE DRIVE ON BURMA   Considered Key _To the Entire  Pacific Situation

PUSH ON BURMA TO BE PART OF PACIFIC DRIVE   Observers See Burma's Recapture as “Key” to Swift Victory for Allies in Campaign

Desert Fox Is Headed for Tripoli   Allied Bombers Smash Axis Bases in Africa

ROMMEL AGAIN FLEES TOWARD TRIPOLI BASE   Allied Fliers Pound Ragged Columns; May Continue To Tunisia.

Rommel Once  More FI ecing  Across Libya Allied Bombers  Batter Axis Supply Lines

FALL IN ICELAND KILLS U. S. CHIEF OF EUROPE FORCES   PLANE CRASHES IN WILDS WITH BISHOP LEONARD A VICTIM

U.S. General, Bishop Killed   Army and Church Heads Die in Crash

Bishop Leonard Also Killed in  Plane Accident   Other “High Ranking’ Army Officials Said Aboard Same Craft: Details Withheld

Gen. Andrews, Bishop Leonard Killed In Crash   Plane Carrying Army Chiefs Falls In Iceland Area

LEADERS DIE IN CRASH OF ARMY PLANE   Lt. Gen. Andrews and . Bishop Adna Leonard Victims of Accident In Iceland   NO DETAILS ARE GIVEN

General Andrews Killed In Crash   * Methodist. Bishop Also Loses Life 

U. 5. GENERAL, BISHOP KILLED   Andrews, U. S. Command. er In Europe, And Leonard Are Victims  a ener nttnegear te  OTHERS IN ACCIDENT

America Loses Two Noted Men   Gen. Frank Andrews And Methodist Bishop Adna Wright Leonard Die In Crash Of Plane

GEN. ANDREWS, BISHOP DIE IN ICELAND CRASH   Other High-Ranking Mer Of Air Forces Killed In Mishap; Details Are Withheld   AERIAL PIONEER   Bishop Leonard, Leader of the Methodist -Chiirch, Among Victims of Plane Accident

General Andrews And Bishop Die   U. S. COMMANDER KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE

Commander of American Forces in European War Theater Dies in Iceland

GEN, ANDREWS, OTHER ARMY HEADS IN WRECK   Touring Methodist Bishop Included in List of Iceland Air Mishap

Lt. Gen. Andrews Commander of US Forces, Killed   Dies in Plane Crash; Bishop Leonard Dies in Iceland Tragedy

High Army Mar And Bishop Die in Crash   Lieut. Gen. Andrews, U. S. Chief in Europe “And Bishop Leonard, Methodist. Perish

LIEUT. GEN, FRANK ANDREWS, METHODIST BISHOP ADNA LEONARD DIE IN ACCIDENT  ~ Commander Of American European Units  Aboard Plane Which Crashed In Iceland

Gen. Andrews Loses Life In Plane Crash   Bishop Adna Leonard Of Methodist Church Is Another Victim Of Accident In Iceland

GEN, ANDREWS If FATALLY HURT IN {GELAND ACCIDENT   Commander of American Army Troops In European Area, Methodist Bishop, Others Reported Dead.   FULL INFORMATION NOT YET PROVIDED   Andrews, Eighth Highest Ranking Officer, Who Has Lost Life, Bishop Leonard Visiting Camps.

U.S. General Killed in Plane Crash   American Leader in European Theater Is Victim

Gen. Andrews Dies in Air Crash   LIEUTENANT-GENERAL FRANK M. ANDREWS, METHODIST BISHOP ADNA WRIGHT LEONARD KILLED IN PLANE MISHAP IN ICELAND

Methodist Bishop Also Among Dead   Only One Enlisted Man Is Said To Have Survived In Iceland.

General Andrews, Bishop Leonard Reported Killed   Commander of U. S. Forces.in European Theater and Methodist Leader Lose Lives in Iceland—Detatle of Arciden? Withheld .

GEN. ANDREWS, BISHOP DIE IN PLANE CRASH   Other High Ranking Army Oificers Reported Dead Somewhere in Ireland   DETAILS LACKING   Bishop Leonard, on Tour for FDR, Formerly Head of Buffalo Area Methodist Churches

GEN. FRANK ANDREWS, COMMANDER AEF IN EUROPE, 18 KILLED  METHODIST BISHOP LEON. ARD ALSO. ON PLANE

Commander of U. 5 Troops in Europe Dies in Air Crash   Gen. Frank Andrews, Methodist. Bishop Amond Yictims

ICELAND CRASH KILLS GENERAL, CHURCH BISHOP   Commander Of All American Troops In European War Theatre Is Victim   ‘FULL DETAILS AWAITED   Methodist Leader Was On Inspection Tour Of U. S$. Forces Abroad

Lieut. Gen. Andrew: Killed In Crash   Bishop Leonard, Methodist Leader, Among Victims of Airplane Crash In Iceland; Other High U. 8. Army Officials Aboard

General, Bishop Killed in Crash   Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, European Commander of Yanks, and Bishop Adna Wright, High Methodist Official, Die Monday When Plane Crashes in Iceland

GEN. ANDREWS BISH. LEONARD BIE IN CRASH   Details of Tragedy In Isolated Locality In Iceland Have Not Reached 8th Army Headquarters   Only One Survivor

Gen. Andrews, BishopLeonard Die In Crash   ‘Commander of Americans In European Theater Sth General Lost

General and Bishop Die in Plane Crash   Other High Ranking Officers Reported Aboard Allied Plane Which Crashed in Teeland

CEN. ANDREWS, U. S. CHIEF IN EUROPE, KILLED IN CRASH   Fatal Accident Which Occur ed In Iceland Monday Also Took Life cf Bishop Leonard ' of Washington, D. C. 

GENERAL AND BISHOP KILLED   U.S. European ‘Commander and High. Ranking. Methodist Die in. Plane Crash

Bishop Adna W. Leonard of Methodist Church Dies in Same Accident

U.S. CHIEF IN EUROPE KILLED   Le. Gen. Andrews I: Victim of Crash

Gen. Anderson And Bishop Die In Crash   Other High Ranking Officials May Have Been Aboard Plane

Iceland Air Crash Kills War Leader   Gen. Frank Andrews And Bishop Leonard Travedy Victims

GENERAL ANDREWS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN ICELAND   Commander of All U. S. Forces in European Theater Loses Life at Isolated Spot on Island.   CENSORS WITHHOLD DETAILS OF TRAGEDY   Other High Ranking Officials Believed Aboard Craft— Methodist Bishop Dies in Accident.

Gen. Andrews, Bishop Leonard Killed In Crash   Commander In European Theater Is Victim Of Iceland Plane Accident

i Swedish Fighters Drive Off German  Bombers Over Karlskrona Navy Base

SWEDES DRIVE GERMANS AWAY   Two Nazi Planes Driven Off By Swedish Fighters.

NAZI PLANES CHASED   Swedish Planes And Guns Drive Off German Bombers

Strategic Viaduct In Burma Attacked   Japanese Rail Communications Cut Aso Recult

LEADER OF SOUTHERN SENATE GROUP WARNS AGAINST © BRINGING BILL TO THE FLOOR

Naval Air Arm to Be Stronger  Japanese Carrier Strength Improves

Jap Strenath In Pacific Is Cited   Admiral Says Nips “Won't Venture Out

se os : - oom . va) Jarier S-reng=1 crowing, Jane 2e7 acemencs /. arming   Aussiar. Cries -or Diversion -in-7 Zee ~-“ensive 0 ~rouj2

Navy Plans to Expand / Air Force to Offset Growing Japanese Carrier Strenath

$22,000 Excess Is Sold in Randal   County Chairman Expresses Great Appreciation For Work Done by Citizens

Citizens Pour Cash Into Bonds   Randall County Made Fine Record in War Bond Sales; Continue the Monthly Quote

Quota Is Passed For Red Cross   Additional Funds To Be Asked From Those Who Have Not Contributed

Resistance To Lake Ferry Service Broken, Truckers Start Shipping Cleveland, Detroit Trailers By Boat

WHITE WOMAN WAS ATTACKED BY NEGRO;  DEAD, 11 INJURED   DEFENSE GUARDS, STATE POLICE AND RANGERS PATROLLING STREETS

MARCUS ISLAND RIT HARD SEPT. 1 BY BOMBERS   Aircraft Carriers  Take Planes To Site Near Tokyo

‘arcus Bombed ‘or Eight Hours  Biggest Carrier Force Fully Prepared for

STORY OF MARCUS ISLAND ATTACK 1S FINALLY BEING TOLD  GREAT U. S. TASK FORCE SKEEING FIGHT FAILS

Bare Splintering American Air Raid on Marcus Island   BIGGEST CARRIER FORCE EVER SENT ON SINGLE MISSION TEARS ENEMY STRONGHOLD TO SHREDS

MARCUS ISLANDRAID DETAILS ANNOUNCED TODAY   Jap Defenses on Isle 1,200 Miles From Tokyo Very Nearly Demolished —- No Nip Planes Got Off Ground

CARRIER FORCE RUINED MARCUS   Navy Reveals Enemy Offered No Opposition To Attack On Sept. 1

STORY OF MARCUS ISLAND ATTACK 1S FINALLY BEING TOLD  GREAT U. S. TASK FORCE SKEEING FIGHT FAILS  FIND OPPOSITION

Marcus Island Js Bombed 8 Hours, Defenses Leveled   U. S. Carrier Force Boldly Sails To Within 1200 Miles Of Tokyo

Carrier Force Lays Waste To Marcus Island   Not A Jap Plane Challenges US Navy In Its Bold Stroke

YANK PLANES BLAST JAP WELD ISLANG   Allies Go Unchallenged ir Huge Raid

Threate..:; Democratic Filibuster Will Cost $100,0000, Heyburn Says

FILIBUSTER IS SEEN AS A COSTLY MOVE   Republican Leader Charges Fight on Redistricting May Ruin Present Session   TAX MUDDLE GROWING

TARGET OF ASSASSINATION   Russians Report Attempt to Take Life of German Minister

STAGED TODAY AGAINST MUNUA   Entrenched Japanese Unable To Halt American Gains Against Air Base

FIGHT FOR MUNDA PROGRESSING BUT GOING IS TOUGH   Stories of Imminent Fall of Japanese Base Are Now — Outdated.

Drive On Munda Going All Right, Says MacArthur   Jap Defenses More Difficult Than Those  Encountered Earlier

W ARTHUR REPORTS ALLIED. GAINS- IN SOUTHERN PACIFIC   vlow, Hard Fight Continues TA pains t” Japanese Garrison At ‘Munda

Yank Progress * At Munda Said to Be Satisfactory .   Japs Fail to Halt Steady U. S. Advance

SYNTHETIC TIRES PROVEN BY TESTS   Pre-war Wearability Seen by WPB Head

SYNTHETIC TIRES > — DURABLE-JEFFERS  Speed Limit May Be Lifted, Hinted

TIRES WILL WEAR WELL   Jeffers, Save 3 Synthetic Casings end Normal Speeds

TIRES WILL WEAR WELL   Jeffers Says Synthetic Casings Will Stand Normal Speeds

JEFFERS LAUDS ERSATZ RUBBER   Director Says All-Synthetic Tires Will Be About On Par With Crude Rubber Tires; Talk Of Speed Restraint Termed “‘Hooey.”

SYNTHETIC TIRES NEARING OTHERS   Existing Plants Expected te Produce 30 Million Ouring Coming Year.

Germans Acknowledge Flight From Zaporozhe; Hope To Stall Russian Westward Advance; Dam Is Key To Southwest Industry.

Fleeing Germans Blow Up Dnieper Dam To Stall Advance By Russians

Water Covers Countryside After Blast   Germans Falling Back From Their Key Base At Zaporozhe Today

Double-Pronged Red Offensive  Menaces Crimea   [Indications Are Germans Jn Crimea Will Make No Attempt Yet To Escape But Will Try to Hold Peningula At All Costs. Melitopol Isolated and Fall Expected Hourly. Gomel Capture also Imminent,

Flood Russian Countryside by Blasting a Dam   Water Depository From Dnieper River Is Blown Up by Germans.   Hope to Stall Russian Advance Into Crimea

Hope Flood Will Stall Red Drive   Germans Facing-Disaster in Crimea; Lines Also ‘Brok"en in Kiev’ Sector   100,000. TROOPS: ” FACE ENTRAPMEN1   But. Nazis Apparently Are Intending, to°-Make Every Effort to Hold

Waters Sent Rolling Over Countryside In Attempt To Halt Russians  1 4PrIiirrrvRrni oc Ce Pmt A OT

Nazis Blow Up Largest Dnieper Dam In Flight From ZaporozheKeyBase

Germans Blast Dam To Slow Russians   Waters of Dnieper Sent Rolling Over Countryside As Soviet Troops Press Fleeing Nazi Enemy

GERMANS BLOW UP BIG DNIEPER DAM IN RUSSIA   Admitting Flight From Zaporozhe, Reich Reports Act To Slow Pursuers

Crimean Key Fortress Is  Abandoned   Dynamititig Still Fails to Spoil Real Russian Victory

* Waters Sent Rolling Over Countryside to Check Soviet Advance ZAPOROZHE TAKEN  “- Tisunhle-Denawoad BPusstaw   ZAPOROZHE ' TAKEN   # Double-Pronged Russian Offensive Aimed at Crimea -

AGT DESIGNED TO AD FLIGHT FROM CRIMEA   Waters Roll Over Plains as Germans Flee Zaporozhe, Southern Key Base.

RS OE ae Oe  AAITLERITES FLEE CRIMEA FORTRESS  erlin Ann s Flight . 7 Nazi ‘Troops From Zaporozhe an      REDS PUSH AHEAD   Melitopol Reported 'Isolated And Capture Is Expected Soon

GERMANS BLOW UP GREAT DAM   Flood Area in Effort to Stop Advancing Russian Troops.

DYNAMITE DAM ASKEY BASEIN CRIMEA FALLS   Largest Reservoir In Eu. rope Wrecked to Impede Advance of Russians From Zaporozhe   SOVIETS THREATEN TO TRAP 100,000 FOES   Another Red Army Immimently -Threatens Burning Kiev; Gomel In White Russia Tottering

Big Dnieper Dam Blasted By Germans   Red Drive Menaces Forces in Crimea; Hope to Halt Drive

DNIEPER DAM IS BLOWN UP   Germans Blast Gigantic Dam In Effort to Retard Red Advance

Ukraine Flooded to Delay Red Army Driving to Cut Off German Invaders

Dnieper Dam Wrecked Agair By Nazi Army   Germans Acknowledge Retreat From Key Base In South

RMANS BLOW UP BIG DNIEPER DAM   Enemy Hopes to Prevent Entrapment of Crimea — Garrisons 

GERMANS BLOW UP BIG DNIEPER DAM   Enemy Hopes to Prevent Entrapment of Crimea Garrisons  ! i   'AXIS LINES’ MENACED

GEAMANS BLOW UP BNIEPER RIVER DAN   Nazis Hope to Stall Russian Advance Westward Toware Crimea Garrisons

Huge Dnieper Dar Blasted by Nazis  Vase. ff fo... P.... W.......*?.   Waters of Great Russ Reservoir Sent Rolling Over Countryside

GERMANS BLOW UP DNEIPER RIVER DAM ACKNOWLEDGE FLICHT FROM ZAPOROZHE   News of Destruction «f Dam Indicates Nazis Had Succeeded in Repairing It After the Russians Had Destraved Tt In 1941 When Falling Back

BARRIER ONCE WAS WRECKED BY RED FORCES   Nazis Admit Loss Of Zapotozhe; Fall Of Melitopol Is Expected Hourly

‘Its Waters Were Sent Rolling - Over the Countryside Once More, the Berlin Radio Reported Today.   DESTROYED BY THE RUSSIANS IN 1941   The Gigantic Dam Is Situated Five Miles North of Zaporozhe and Was an Out standing Achievement.

Flood Waters Roll Over Countryside For Second Time Since War’s Start

Nazis Blow Ur Dnieper Dam fo Stop Reds   Send Waters Across Russian Plains Before Evacuating Zaperozhe

GERMANS ACT TO CHECK RED TROOPS IN AREA   2nd Time Barrier Has Been Wrecked, Soviets Used Same Plan in Retreat

Nazis Blast Huge Dnieper River Dam   Hope to Stop Reds After Fall of Key Base of Zaporozhe

DNIEPER DAM BLOWN APART BY GERMANS   Retreating Nazis Giving Up Hope In Kiev Area

Germans Flee Key Base At Laporozhe   Driving Russian Troops Threaten Kiev; Gomel Tottering

Soviets Advance As Foe WrecksHugeDaminTry To Save Army In Crimes

Waters Roll Over Russian Countryside   Germans Abandon  - Zaporozhe, Southern Key Base; Reds May Cut Off Many Nazis

BIG. PROJECT IS LARGEST IN EUROPE      German Purpose Appar‘ently Is to Slow Soviet * Advance Westward and  Prevent Trapping of Forces in Crimea.

GERMANS FLEE SOVIET FORCES AT ZAPOROZHE   Panic Stricken Nazis Destroy Dnieper Dam Second Time

50 Pct. Cut In  State Income Tax Indicated   House And Senate Subcommittees To Draft  Reduction Bill.

50 PCT. INCOME TAK SLASH SEEN   legislators Cearn State Funds-Can Stand-Cut.

U.S. Gets Northern Outpost   AMCHITKA PLACES BOMBERS WITHIN RANGE OF TOKYO

Amchitka Taken By U.S. Forces  Only 63 Miles -_ a en ) 2.20 poe .

NEW U, S. BASE IN ALEUTIANS   Navy Reveals Occupation of Island 63 Miles from Kiska, 1700 from Tekyo

U.S. Has Base Only 63 Miles  From Kiska   Tokyo Now Put In Range of  A a se Raswechara

Lebanon Shops  Asked To Open   French Wish To Restore Normal Conditions With Little Delay.

‘ASKS STORES TO OPEN   ‘Gen. Catroux Seeks to Settle Dispute in Lebanon

ASK SHOPS IN BEIRUT REOPEN   Lebanon Settlement Sought by Catroux

Lebanese Shops Asked fo Open   French and Lebanese Claim Support in Political Dispute

YANK BOMBERS HIT WARSHIPS   Fire One Axis Destroyer, Damage Another

AXIS DESTROYER IS LEFT IN FLAMES BY ~ AMERICAN AVIATORS   Another Is Damaged in the Mediterranean, Allied Spokesman Discloses.

AXIS SHIPS HIT GY U.S, AIRMEN   Bombers Blast Destroyers In Mediterranean

U.S. Bombers Blast Axis  Destroyers   Announcement Says Allied Military  Tl endere Had Canferance

George! H. Striegel Died Monday   Had Lived In Le  ~ Mars For Sixty Years

GEORGE STRIEGEL RITES WEDNESDAY   Pioneer. Settler For Sixty Years Succumbs To Sickness

Aids Given To Americans   Italians Keep Nazis aor eens eee Der ene Pa

Italians Defy Vichy Police  Refuse to Deliver Americans, British

se cect cy esasserst tapas si: te step ane stesso wages at winsy eae: rapes ctae ssamesse

PREPARE DEFENSES AGAINST INVASION   High Ranking Nazi and Italian Officers in Conference.

AXIS PREPARING DEFENSES. FOR ALLIED INVASION   High Ranking German and Italian Officers Discuss Ways and Means To Protect Italian Shores.

8 TO 1 ADVANTAGE   Americans Hold the Upper Hand Over the Japs in  Solomons ©

ENTERED BY RED PATROLS   Skirmishing Acro 88 Ice-Covered Don River

Easing of Auto Sales Ban Seen   Many May Be Sold Without Priorities

“SHANGRI-LA” WAS CARRIFR SAYS LONDON   Veil of Secrecy on Bombing of Tokio Lifted Partly

FLIERS WHO BOMBED TOKYO —  BEVEAL CARRIER WAS BASE   ANNIVERSARY DINNER IN NORTY AFRICA HELD BY SOME OF MEN WHO WERE IN RAID

Petaiis of Dootittle’s Tokyo Raid Bared-I init, ra t ge ® ; Shanari-la' identified As Carrier

FOOD BUYING “1S ASSAILED      MEMBER OF REPUBLICAN COM. MITTEE CHARGES GOVERN-.. MENT IS PURCHASING  TOO MUCH FOOD

Union Fights Lewis’ Return  ToA. F. OF L.   Constitutional Right Of Union To Veto Lewis Charter Is Basis For Labor Battle

AFL MINE UNION OPPOSES UMW READMISSION   Progressive Mine Workers Insist on Right to Veto Lewis’ Application under Constitution

AFL Likely To Delay Action On Lewis Bid   Progressives Will Insist on  Right of Vetoing Any Separate Charter   APPLICATION TO GO TO CONVENTION   Delay Would Keep Miners Vote and Voice Out of Any Political Moves

Small Union Fights UMW AFL,Charter   Declares It Has Privilege Of Resisting Action By  Constitutional Rule

MINER'S GROUP GO BEFORE AFL   Delegates Insist on Right to Veto Separate Charter For UMW.   BASED ON CONSTITUTION

Talk-Provoking Post-War Proposal Is Shunted Aside As Money Bills Take Place

POUND BASES AT ATHENS, ARAXOS   New Raids Follow R. A. F. Assault on Rhodes

Witnesses Report  U.S. Raiders  Cripple Nazi City Fliers Wreck Harbor,  Part of Port at Rdunin Sailare Sav

Gdynia Damaged Heavily in Raid  Sha Obi. Beecal.   Eight Ships Sunk, Many Damaced

Yanks Smash Gdynia Area  Stage Bombing Raid   Stage Bombing Raid On Polish Harbor Without Opposition

Gdynia Damaged Heavily in Raid  Eight Ships Sunk,  Many Damaaded

M'NARY AGAIN MINORITY CHIEF   says Harmony So Thick it Runs Down Cheeks

G. 0. P. SOLONS RENAME McNARY   Senate Republicans Approve Added Representation on Body Committees

GOP Re-Elects Senator McNary   Vandenberg Choice For President Pro-Tem

MeNary Stays On As Leader   Harmony In Chunks At Republican Caucus

GOP In Congres Shows Harmony:  Gain Additional Place On Committees; Demacratc in Fiaht

NIP AIRMEN HIT GUADALGANAL   Allied Air Units Blast Nazi Airbase in France Today

JAPANESE PLANES RAIDED U, S. STAND ON GUADALCANAL   Slight Damage And Minor Casualties Was Caused in Sunday’s Attack.   THIRD ONE OF THE WEEK   Believed the Raid Was Car. ried Out by Planes on a Reconnaissance Mission.

JAPS PAY HIGH PRICE AT LAE   Losses In Men And Equipment Also Heavy At Salamaua

Jap Planes Raid Guadalcanal   Cause Slight Damage, Minor Casualties,  Navy Reports

Capture of Sicilian Capital Gives Allies Advantageous Spring Boare   City’s Defense Forces Paralyzed as Americans Pour Into Palermo; Offer no Resistance; British Push Against Fierce Axis Resistance

More Than 45,000 Axis  : Troops Trapped by : Force   RESISTANCE ENDED IN MOST OF ISLAND   Battle for Catania, However, Continues to Rage

Yank Lunge 'To Palermo ‘Springs Trap On 45.000   hresistance of Enemy In Much of Island Believed Shattered By Speedy March EVACUATION STORY, COMES FROM BERN Yanks and Canadians  Menace Nazi Flank Ac Foe Holds Catania

Palermo Falls,  Mop-Up © W ork Begins   Catania Still Holds Out, Although Montgomery’s Troops Continue Sieqe: Axis Camp Is Demerclized

Americans Fan Out Toward Fleeing Foe   At Least Three Divisions Have Been Cut Off With Capture Of The Sicilian Canitat

Resistance Ends  In Most Of Isle   Patton’ s Army Thunders Into Sixth Largest  Italian City After Dash Of 60 Miles In 58 Hours From Enna

ON FOUR-FIFTHS OF ISLAND; BLOW CAUSES CONSTERNATION, GERMANS RESISTING NEAR CATANIA; REPORT EVACUATION.

Enemy resistance ended over four-fifths of island after capture of Palermo   Demoralized Italians demonstrate wm cities against continuins war

45,000 Axis Troops  Are Trapped:   Rome Broadcast Implies New Ravarcacd rt Catonia

45,000 Axis Troops Are Trapped   Rome Broadcast Implies New Reverses at Catania

Enemy Reported Quitting Sicily As Capital Falls   Bulk of Resistance Now Confined To Northeast Tip of Island; Italian Cities Clamor for Peace

Demonstrations By Crowds Shouting For ‘Peace’ Staged in Italian Cities;  Worest Grows in Balkans:

AMERICANS CAPTURE PALERMO TO ISOLATE WESTERN SICILY   Sledgehammer Blow Caused Consternation Among Surprised Defenders And Demoralized Axis Camp; Germans Resist British At Catania

SOVIETS SEIZE TEN TOWNS IN PUSH ON OREL   Last Base Of Shattered Nazi Southern Line May Be Captured Soon   KHARKOV RETREAT PUSHED   Axis Salient At Voroshilovgrad Being Wiped Out; Huge i Booty Seized

BIG NAZI BASE NOW IN PERIL   Last Formidable German Foothold on Southern Russian Line Is Threatened.

YARD ~ BY ~ YARL FIGHT CONTINUE:   Defenders of Munda Now Entrenched in Caves   BARGES DESTROYED   _ to 200 Number of Supply Boats of Enemy Wrecked in 10 Days

Americans Reach Munda Outskirts   On East End of Jap Base; 29 Barges Hit

YANKS REACH EDGE OF BASE   U. S. Forces Advance To East End of Munda; 29 Barges Sunk

Progress At Munda Slows   Yard-By-Yard Advance  oe Kdcks ‘Ox Wessel”.

EASTERN END OF MUNDA AIR BASE HELD BY ALLIES   Yard-By-Yard Battle Continues Against Japs On New Georgia .   29 WOODEN BARGES REPORTED DESTROYED

U.S. Forees Reach Munda  Plane Base.  -_   Ground Troops Attair Objective by Means of Hard Fighting

MUNDA REACHED BY U.S, FORCES   Yanks Arrive At Edge Of Airfield; Planes Bag 29 Barges

U.S. Forces Reach Jap Air Base After Hard Battle  Fliers Also Progress, — Inflicting Heavy - Loss at New Guinea

YANK FORCES REACH MUNDA   Reported at East End of Strong Jap Base After Fierce Fighting

Bitter Fighting Marks Progress   Barges Smashed Jn Other Battle Areas

East End Of Munda Base Seized   Americans Gain Few More Feet Towards Airport

U.S. Invasion Units Reach  Kast End of Munda Base   Troops Make Second Advance in Two Days \gainst Japanese: 29 /Rarges Destroyed  “Or Damaged by Plane’ in New Guinea Area

East End of Japs Munda Air Base Reached by Allies   Allied Planes: Destroy Enemy Barges

AMERICANS REACH MUNDA AIRFIELD   SLOW ADVANCE TAKES M’ARTHUR’S FORCES TO EASTERN END OF STRIP.

Part of General Advance; 29 More Barges Blasted In New Britain Area -

REACH EAST END OF MUNDA   Airbase In Yard To Yard Battle Against Cave Entrenched Enemy; Damage 29 Pp...   Bomb Salamana

Longer Work Week Will  Free Workers   Leniency for Establishments Where 48-Hour Week Will Not Release Workers for War Produgtion

FREEZING WORKERS TO JOBS IN AREAS OF MAN SHORTACES   Cities Spread Over Nation are Listed as Being in Danger of Shortages

HOUR ORDER AIM EXPLAINER   Statement By Manpower Commission Answers Some Questions.

YORK PUT ON LIST FOR 48-HOUR WEEK   Harrisburg, Lancaster And Chambersburg Also Designated As Anticipated Labor Shortage Areas

48-Hour Week Not Hardship   Intended To Free Labor For Other Jobs; WMC To Be Lenient -~

local Plants Facing ‘War Contract Bars   Restrictions Because Of Labor Shortages May Be Imposed —WMC

Predicts Dry Spell in ’46   Tree Ring Student Says America Will  Have Severe Drought

GRAPEVINE CARRIES  NEWS OF ARRIVAL OF  GERMAN PRISONERS SECRECY CARRIED OUT A’  MEXIA CAMP SO FAR AC PNCCIRIE

GRAPEVINE CARRIES NEWS OF ARRIVAL OF GERMAN PRISONERS  SECRECY CARRIED OUT AT MEXIA CAMP SO FAR AS POSSIBLE

Milk Purchases Less Than Quart Banned By Order   Ruling Is Effective February 1 And Includes Buying At Retail Stores And Home Deliveries; Move Made To Cut Costs Of Distribution

MILK RULING  1S ANNOUNCEL   BALE OF MYLK IN PINT -AND HALF-PINT . CONTAINERS WILL STOP AFTER FEBRUARY 187 *

WICKARD PLAN MOVING AREAD   Milk Now Holds Spotlight In Drive To Stabilize wwe  Beise Of Food — —

ITALIAN COLLAPSE AND INCESSANT BOMBING OF REICH FORCES HITLER TO PREPARE FOR DEFENSIVE WAR   Fast Moxing Events On All Fronts Indicate Ths the Final Phase of Armageddon Is Close at Hand.—Bombings Heving Effect

The War Today   ine war 10day  Fast Moving Crises In  All Fronts Indicate Final Phase Near. ~

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   idoglio Has Given Nazis €.. To Reinforce Line In Northern Italy

FAST MOVING EVENTS COMBINE TO INDICATE EUROPE RUSHING 'HEADLONG FOR REAL SHOWDOWN

NAZIS MAKE IMPORTANT MOVES IN ITALY, BALKANS  Py to Be Hitler's Main Line in Italy

Fierce Fighting May Be Expected in Po River Area Hitler Will Battle for Stalemate

Labor Board Won't Decide  Boeing Case   ‘Members Refuse To Be Pressured By West Coast Threats

WLB WILL NOT BE HURRIED IN BOEING PLANT WAGE CASE   Will Resume Discuséion Today — Have Had Case Since  Last Sonten es

WLB WON'T BE ‘PRESSURED’ IN BOEING DISPUTE   May Not Decide Pay ~ Case Unless Workers  Remain ‘Loyal’

FORCES GATHER FOR TAX FIGHT   Dispute Due To Rave Over Trade Pacts Also

Trade Pacts, Pay-Go Taxes Face Congress   McNary Says GOP Wants Congress Veto By Majoritty Vote Of  Anv Trade Aareeman}

Trade Pacts, Tax Battle, Developing   Minority Group Wants to : Keep Trade-Pact Veto - Power in Congress

Today In Washington: Factions Gather Forces For Reciprocal Trade And Tax Disputes

Congress Girds For Trade Pact And Tax Fights   McNary Seeks Legislative Veto Power Over Reciprocal Treaties.

Republicans Steal ~ March in Planning Postwar Proposals   ® 33-Man Committee Named to Make Study; News of Capital in Brief

OPA TURNS DOWN GAS POOL PLEA   Capt. Donald §. Leonard  — Terms Rejection as ‘A Lot of Boloney’

Allied Flyers Again Pound Lae   Flying Fortress Downs Six Planes

Lae Is Heavily Batfered Again   Five Jap Fighters Downed In Foray

Liberators Raid Lae, Dropping 36 Tons of Bombs   Flying Fortress, Attacker by 16 Jap Zeros, Shoots Down Five

Hurl 36 ton: of bombs on Japs at Lae   Lead immense for target size

LAE AIRDROME HIT BY ALLIES   36 Tons Dropped On Jap Base In New Guinea;  5 Planes Bagged

Lae Is Heavily Battered Again   Five Jap Fighters  Maweme- I. Cr-e..

3 Small San Luis Children’ Found Dead, Smothered in ‘Trunk That Closed on Them

Cut Red Tape by Patriotism, State OPA Director Suggests   Bingaman Returns From Denver With Orders for Simplification

Long Journey Made To Attack  Jap Refineries   Allied Bombers Make 2,500 Mile Round Trip To Hit Borneo   ISLAND OF CELEBES IS ALSO ATTACKED

Senate Votes Increase for Dependents   Approve $30 for First Child of Service Man; $20 for Others

Substitute Draft Bill Would Require Written Evidence For Deferment

aU WHEELER DRAFT alll IN SENATE   New Substitute Calls for Explanations .on All Industrial Deferments

Indispensability  Must Be Proved  Otherwise Fathers © Will Be Drafted

WHEELER BILL SCUTTLED BY SENATE VOTE   Substitute Measure Approved Would Sieer Thousands ci Deferred Men Into Service   VOICE VOTEACTION   Provision Included fer Setting Ur Board to Consider Lowering Army, Navy Standards

More Pay Ok'd For Soldier Kin   Surprise Action in Senate Provides $30 Monthly te First Child, $20 for Each Additianal: Wheeler Bill Scuttied

Upper House Plans To Steer Thousands Of Federal And Industrial Workers Into Army

May Alter War Plant  Defermeni   Senaté Votes to Require’ Evi. deuce of Indisperisability of Workers   SUBSTITUTE FOR WHEELER BILL   Move -Scuttles His ‘Plan: to -.. Defer Inductions of *. "Pre: War’ Fathers

Senate OKs New  Payments   RAISE ALLOTMENT FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN OF U. S. SERVICEMEN

Senafe Votes Draft Bill   Would Steer Federal, War Plant Workers Into Army

To Weed Out Dispensables   Senate. Approves Bill Aimed At Digging Out Draft Age Non-Fathers Hiding In Industry

Senate Votes Substitute to Wheeler Bill   Evidence Showing “Indispensability”  *To Be Required for Non-Father Workers

Father Draft BanOft, Work Check Passed   ‘New Measure Tightens  Deferments, May Put 4F’s in Uniform  {

Votes Substitute to Steer Many Federal Workers Into Ranks   Written Explanations for Deferments to be Required

WHEELER FATHER DRAFT DEFERMENT. BILL IS SCUTTLED   SENATE VOTED ALSO TO RAISE ALLOTMENT FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN

Senate Votes. Substitute For Wheeler il  easure Wou   Measure Would Tighten Draft Regulations

Senafe Approve: Study To Induct More 4-F Men   Comission Asked To Study Lowering Physical Standards

‘Scnate Moves To Draft War  Plant Workers   ‘Indispensability’ Must Be Shown, Amendment Provides

SUBSTITUTE IS OFFERED FOR FATHER DRAFT   Proposal is Designed to Steer More Federal Employes Into Armed Ser vices of Country  SEEK EARLY ACTION

Senate Votes Substitute For Wheeler Bill. Want Fvidence Of DefermentNeed

SENATE FAVORS NEW DRAFT BILL   ACTION SCUTTLES WHEELER MEASURE TO BAN FATHERS

Senate Votesto Increase Government Allotment to Service Men’s:Dependents

STITUTE FOR  ATE VOTES UB WHEELER BILL      o Be Tightened; 4F’s  pba te Deferments To Be Considered

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES FACE CALL   Another Proposal .Would Call Many Classed In 4F

Senate Favors New Allotment To War Wives   Pass Measure Demand Proof Of “Indispensability” For Defense Workers

Senate Votes New Draft Lav   4-Fs And Federal Job Holders Face Call

WOULD STEER U. 5. WORKERS INTO SERVICE   Wheeler Bill Killed By Senate's Action

SENATE SCUTTLES DRAFT BILL   Wheeler’s ‘Don’t Draft Fathers’ Gete Substitute

Senate Approves Drafting Of Government Workers Before Inducting Fathers

A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE WHEELER BILL   . : ae . Requires Evidence of “‘Indis spensibility’” of Non-Fath ers Holdmg Deferments.

DRAFT LOOMS  FOR FEDERAL, ~ WARWORKERS   Action Indorsed By Senate Will Require Evidence  Hit ‘Indienaneshility’

NO-DAD DRAFT BILL SCUTTLED   Senate Votes To Steer Deferred Single Men Into Army

Senators Ask Written Proof On Determent   Substitute For Wheeler Mieasure Aims To Clear Out Non-Fathers.   -REEXAMINE 4-F GROUE

Wheeler Plan Seuttled In Senate Move   Require Evidence Of ‘Indispensability’ Of Non - Fathers Holding Deferments

Senafe Votes fo Raise Allotments   Would Require Proof For Job Deferment

WHEELER DRAFT BILL SCUTTLED   Senate Votes Measure to Steer Non-Fathers Into Service.   ASK STANDARDS CHANGE

Wheeler Bill Scuttled by Senate Action   Plan Adopted To Steer More Workers Into Army

Would Dip Into Federal Ranks For Armed Mer   Senate Proposes Change in Draft Law That Affects War Plant Workers.   Also Plan to Lower Physical Requirements

Women Placed In Industrial Work  Nazi Mobilization Plane Ravealad

Anti-Fascists Are Being Assassinated   Germans Helping Italian Terrorists

Index   Balkan satellites are uneasy as soviets continue steady advance

Germans Worried  Over Reds Success  Neutral Source Hints A: Burning Fears

NAZI FEARS RISE WITH RED TIDE   Germans Watching the East With Increasing Fear and Uneasiness; Propaganda Increases.

RED ADVANCES TURN GERMAN EYES TO EAST,   German Question: Will German Retreat End at the Dnieper river? Hope for Rain.   Runianians Fearful

REDS’ ADVANCE STIRS FEAR OF NAZIS’ ALLIES   German Public Watching East With Burn7 ing Interest

Russian Sweep. Instills Fear In Nazi Satellites   TEL. War Today At A Glance

Balkans Uneasy Over Red Gains Against Germans   Fear Nazis Will Fail on Dnieper

Halifax Reports  Hitler's Desien  For Victory Fails U. S. Production   U. S. Production Is Foretaste  Of New Blows

Halifax Reports Hitler's Desien For Victory Fails   U. S. Production Is Foretaste  Of New Blows

Mountain Strongholds Given Up   Yanks Advance Without Opposition; Fierce Battles On Other Fronts Reported

ALLIED SIEGE ARMIES REDUCE — HEDGE OF MOUNTAIN POSITIONS OF GERMANS ONE BY ONE   Frontline Dispatches Say No Indications Where Retreat in North Will Stop. Nazis Throwing Near Their Last Armored Reserves Into Battle To Try to Stop Allied Advance.

Axis Forces Leave Fortified Posts in Tunisian Mountains   Allies Pound Forward in All Five of Main Sectors of Front

Nazis Retreat Before Violent Assault Of American Armored Corps In North Mountain Area

Reich Throws Last of Armored Units Into Death Struggle   U.N. Leaders Unable To Determine Where Withdrawal Will End: British, French Make Big Gains

ALLIES POUND AHEAD ON FIVE POINTED FRONT   American Forces Doing Thetr Share of Advancing as Germans Pushed Nowhere 

Enemy's Reserve Of Tanks Thrown Into Big Battle   Thrusts From West Opening Paths to Tunis and Bizerte

Allies Ahead Steadily In All Sectors ©   Diplomatic Break Between U. S. and Finland Said Only Matter of Hours—Flying Fortresses Bomb New Guinea Bases in Easter Foray

FIERCE ATTACK BY AMERICANS BREAKS LINES   Fighting Continues All Over African Front, With Allies Advancing   NO END OF RETREAT SEEN   Reds Drive Toward Black Sea—Jap Pacific Bases Smashed by Bombers

MLIES POUND EAD IN FIVE IFRICAN AREAS   Fxtent of Retreat in North Unknown, Say Allied Sources

Americans Take Important Peak At Sidi N’‘Sir   Tanks and Infantry Hurled Into Action as Nazis Give Way

AMERICANS HURL AMIS ARMY BACK IN TERRFI DRIVE   Allies Advancing in Fiv Main. Sectors; German: Using Last of Armored  Reserves tn Ficht

Allies Start Drive in 5 Main Sectors   How Far Nazis. Will Withdraw Unknown; Axis Troope Ordered to Fight to Finish

French Break Through Into Coastal Plain   No Indication Where German Withdrawal From Heights Will Stop.   INFLICT TANK LOSSES

FrenchUnitsReach Coastal Plain South Of Tunisian Goal      Russians Seize Heights Overlooking  Novorossisk; British Push   Northward

Allies Pound Forward in 5 Main Sectors   Nazis Throw Nearly Last of Armorec Reserves into Fight to Death wit! Massed Allied Tanks

Allies Hammer Forward On Five Main Sectors Of 140-Mile Tunisian Front   French Units Win Five Mountains And Wipe Out Enemy Salient That Had Poked Dangerously Into Lines; ‘Break-Through’ Threatened At Goubellat

ALLIED ARMIES REDUCE STRONG POINTS OF AXIS   Pound Forward in All of 5 Main Sectors of 140 Mile Tunisia Front

VIOLENT ONSLAUGHT OF AMERICANS BRING RETREATING ACTION  ALLIED SIEGE ARMIES   ALLIED SIEGE ARMIES POUNDED FOr WARD IN FIVE MAIN SECTORS

ERICAN FORCES PUSHING GERMANS BACK STEADILY   Allied Siege Armies Are Pounding Forward On All Fronts   NAZIS ENGAGED IN 4 FIGHT TO DEATH

LULL GRIPS RAIN-SOAKED EAST FRONT   Reds announce capture of 46 villages as offensive halts

PATTERSON DECLARES DRAFT OF FATHERS AND LABOR DRAFT NEEDED_LT: GEN. MeNARNEY TESTIFIES

Must Draft Fathers In War Effort   Congress also told it should force conscription of labor

DRAFT FATHERS AND WAR LABOR PATTERSON AIM   Gen. McNarney — Declares Curb Would Change Victory Plan

DISAPPROVES PLAN TO ROLL BACK PRICES   Votes to Slash 20 Per Cent More From OPA: Budget in Uprising: Against Its Policies, -:   OFFICE OF WAR: INFORMATION HIT   Lower Branch Calls for Abolishment of Domestic Operations of Elmer Davis’ Agency.

Food Subsidy Plan Banned And Aaency Funds Slashed   Texas Governor Offers Food Subsidy Protest At Capital

FOOD ROLLBACK STOP DATE SE1            tic oe of OWI  Price_ Ageey s 2 ning Slashed 20% lishes. Domes: .

\House Bans Food Subsidy Plan, Slashes OPA Funds; Abolishes Domestic Operations of OW!

2 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ARE UNDER ATTACK   House Acts To Ban OPA Subsidy Program And To Curb OWi   CONGRESS BITTER IN DENUNCIATION

House Votes Ban On OPA Food Subsidies July 1   Slash of 20 Per.Cent in Funds for Agency Voted Domestic Operations of OWI Abolished . by the Action 7

Votes 160 to 106 to Bar Food Subsidies After July 1; Slashes Funds   Measure Restricts Price Agency Policies, Trims Budget 20 Per Cent; Abolishes Domestic News Bureaus of OWI

OPA SUBSIDIES VOTED DOWN   House Votes To Limit Funds of Agencies

Congressmen Bitter At Policies   Would Ban Food Subsidy Program Beyond July 1

House Clips Power Of OPA and OW!   Bans Continuance of OPA Food Subsidy Program Beyond July 1 and Slashes 20 Percent From Budget — Domestic Operations of OW! Are Eliminated

Powers of Two Major Agencies Sharply Reduced   Food Subsidy -Progran Ordered Terminated on July 1   Domestic Operations of War Information Agency Abolished

House Votes Subsidy Ban, Curb Of OW!  OPA Budget Slast: Of 20 Per Cent  . A nrorover

House Votes Restrictions  On OPA. OW]   Moves To Abolish Domestic Operations Of Information Of fire   CUTS 20 PCT. MORE FROM OPA BUDGET

Surge Of Bitterness Seen In Act Against Agencies   Food Subsidy Program Of OPA And Domestic Operations Of OW! Abolished In New Rules   Stevenson Protesting Food Subsidy Program To Chiefs

House Votes to Ban OPA‘s Subsidy. Program   Also Abolishes OWI Domestic Bureau by Slashing Funds

UNEMPLOYMENT 1 BEING CONSIDERED   12,000,000 May Be Out oi Jobs Soon After War Labor Bureau Thinks,

ALLIED FIGHTER PLANES COME TO AID OF GROUND TROO 2000 INDIVIDUAL SORTIES

5th Army Supported By Reinforcements,  Record Air Attack   Tremendous See-saw Battle Rages South of Naples; Americans Consolidate New  Positions After Yielding Ground

New Positions Consolidated By 5th Army   No Thought Of Evacuation Held By Yank Troops

Huge Acreage Of Timberland Lost In 4-Day Blaze   Damage In St. Mary’s County Estimated At "Over Half Million.

U. S. Leaders Favor Forming  World Council   Organization For Postwar’s Peace Preservation Is Favored In Congress

FORMATION OF PACT UNIT SEEN   Hill Predicts Establishment of International Agency Soon

Mercer Boards Protest Rulings   Threaten to Resign Unless OPA Makes Changes

AIRFIELD TAKEN ON NEW BRITAIN   Australians Rout Japs; Cape Gloucester Hit Hard By Bombers

ARAWE AIRSTRIP ISCAPTUREDBY AMERICAN UNITS   414 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Cape Glou-:  cester Sunday   MARSHALL ISLANDS ARE ATTACKED AGAIN

Arawe Air Strip Captured  By American Forces Sunday   Announcement of Seizure Made by General MacAr thur—414 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Enemy’s Air Installations

Six Mile Gain Is Made by Invaders   Japs Are Routed by Australians in New Guinea Area

Yankees Blast Rangoon Docks   Also Bomb Railroad Facilities in Big — Town in Burma

U.S. Air Armada Blasts Rangoon   Docks And Railroad Facilities Hit Following R.A.F. Raid.

RECORD FORCE OF US PLANES HITS RANGOON   BLASTS DOCKS, RAILROADS; ALL BOMBERS RETURN SAFELY

Bombers Blast Rangoon Docks   ‘Largest Raid Of War On Burma Base

RANGOON FEELS U, $. AIR MIGHT   Largest Yank Bombing Force  Sears Burma Port;  Docks Hard Hit

NO RATION EXTENSION   Ickes Lays At Rest Mid-West Fears Of Further Hestrictiens

No Restrictions «On Gas Just to Be Rationing   Ickes Assures MidWest There Will Be Reason If Its Done

Ickes Says, No Tight Rationing   Reassures Midwestern Congressmen On Point

MARYLAND FARMERS MAY PURCHASE HAY   200,000 Tons To Be Imported Into Counties Of Four States Under Subsidy Plan

Editor of Dallas. Morning News Dies After Long Illness   “Dr; Taylor Widely Known as ‘Author Of State Press:   Willkie Receives Honorary Dearee   London Newspaper Says Italy Has Mobilized Huge Army for Invasion

REPORT SAYS ITALY HAS 1,500,000 MEN TO MEET: INVASION   New Drafts Have Brought Army To Larger Size "Than When She  Entered War

‘PINT PER PERSON’ RATIONING FOREGAST   1,350,000 File Applications for Liquor

FDR AND CHURCHILL FACE DEMAND FOR BLOW AT JAPANESE   Sen. Chandler Wants Ring Tightened Around Nazis While Death Blow Is Dealt Japan

FR, Churchill ‘Face Demand Fo: Drive On Japs —   Call Off Attack On Germany, Concentrate On Nippons, Request

DEMAND U. S. BLOW AGAINST JAPAN NOW   Attack On Germany Car Wait, View In Congress

Chandler Talk Timely in Face Of Coming Speech By Churchill   Concentration of Attack on Japan Ie Suevested

DEMAND DEATH BLOW BE STRUCK AT JAPS WITHOUT” ANY DELAY         President and Minister Are Confronted With BiPartisan Congression al Request. .

Concentrate on’ Japan, Demands U.S. Senators   Germany Can Wait, Claims Can Chandler

SOLONS DEMAND BLOW AT JAPS   SEEK POSTPONEMENT OF EUROPEAN INVASION

EMPLOVES AT STEEL PLANT END WALKOUT   Grievances: to Be Referred To War Labor Board for Sattloment.

HOUSE TOLD OPA SET UP SYSTEM OF MOCK COURTS”   Report Charges Acts of Unlawful Search, Seizure and Arrest

House Told OPA Works Outside Law   Unauthorized Authority Grabbed By Unit, Says Smith Report

‘MOCK COURTS’ REPORT SAYS   HOUBE COMMITEE ALSO AC. CUSES OPA OF CREATING CONFUSION BY MULTI - TUDE OF ORDERS

UONGREGD REFORT GHARGES OPA hho ARRGGETED FEWER   k Courts, Lack of/Simplification of  Orders Are Blasted

Pope Broadcasts Religious Appeal   First Radio Address  Since Rome Was Seized

Pope Broadcasts Message to Peru  Does Not Touch on Political Subjects

Rations, Prices And Wages   RATIONING SUMMARY EBRLTK AR UEC ETARIECC

News Rehind The News  Copyright McClure Newapener  ee ee,   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker

Sinclair Calls for Oil Industry Consolidation, Closing of Gas Stations

Oil Industry Consolidation Is Invited  By Sinclair  Suggestion Embraces   Suggestion Embraces Closing of Two-Thirds Of Filling Stations  By U. S. Directive   HELD NECESSARY TO WINNING OF WAR   Problem Is Serious, Cannot Be Sidestepped Any Longer. He Says

FUEL RUNS LOW AS COLD ENGULFS ATLANTIC SEABOART   Crops in Sections fram Maine to Florida Are Damaged   T LEAST 36 ARE DEAD

36 DIEINCOLD WAVE, SHORT ON FUEL OIL, GAS   Supplies Sufficient for Manufacture of Natural Gas for Four Days

FUEL SHORTAGE HIGHLY ACUTI   Gas and Oil. Are: Near, Vanishing Point in: Kast, Now Shivering “in. Cold

TWO DAYS OF COLD CAUSE 36 DEATHS   Damage Caused to — Crops From Maine to Florida; Cause Fuel Oil, Gas Shortage

COLD PERIOD HAS SERIOUS EFFECTS   Seaboard States Report 36 Deaths in Frigid Two Days. —  FUEL SHORTAGE  MOPF PPECUNG

DEATH TOLL FROM FREEZING WEATHER AT TOTAL OF 36   Fuel For Four Days Gas Supply Left In New York City

COLD TAKES BIG TOLL IN NATION   Deaths Mount To 36; Crops Damaged In Many Sections; Fuel Shortage Serious In Spots.

ATLANTIC SEABOARD SHIVERS WITH COLD   Fuel Oil Shortage Adds te Sub-zero Suffering

Naziattempt to cross Donetsriverrepelled by Russiandefenders   German detachment annihilated by reds; bombers hammer rail junction

Soviets Watch Nazis  Walk Into Trap  Which Kills Several Reds Blast Survivors  Of Group Which Stepped in Minefield

Reds Trap Nazi Detachment In Ruse At Donets   ~ Group Annihilated After Stumbling ° Intan AAtne Eialad

Reds Trap Nazi Detachment In Ruse At Donets   Group Annihilated After Stumbling Inta Mine Field

Fo. 2cast 5 kk alow To ight   New € . Wave Predicted   NeW { Wave Freaictec  , oa  by Weather Bureau — Strong Wind, Too

COMPROMISE SOUGHT FOR RUML PLAN   Canadian Plan to Forego 50 Per Cent of ‘42 Taxes Viewed As Possible Substitute   NOT NEW SUGGESTION

Canadian Tax Plan Might — Be Approved.   Ruml Opponents To Listen To Program  Of Forgiving Half

Canadian Ta) Plan Seen as Compromise  Carlson Opposed To Collection of on ee. ee

50 PER CENT FORGIVING   Canada’s Plan To Forego Half Of Taxes Considered

U. S. to Study Ottawa Tax   Pay-Go System May Be Adopted as Plan For This Country

Canadian Tax Plan Seen as Compromise   Carlson Opposed To Collection of More Than One Veuve Ta: ©

, Consider Canadian Plan of Foregoing Half of 1942 Taxes   Congressional Staff Not Yet Agreed on Pay-asYou-Go Income Tax

Balk Ruml Plan But Modification Given Approval   20 PC Withholding Scheme Does Not Provide For Old) Tax Forgiveness

CANADIAN TAX PLAN MAY BE COMPROMISE   Under Plan Half of 1942 Taxes Would  Re Forciven

CANCELLING A BOOKS OPPOSED BY HENDERSON   OPA Chief Sees No Need Even of Reducing Value of Gas Coupons ——Use of Taxicabs Criticised °

BAN ON PLEASURE RIDING IN TAXIS   Federal Officials Hint Further Measures May Be Needed to Relieve Eastern Oil Crisis.

OPA DIRECTOR AGAINST CUT IN “AY VALUATION   Leon Henderson Also Voices Opposition to Suspension of Such Ration Books in East   HELD DISASTROUS   Would Leave 5,000,006 Cars Stranded; No Cut in Coupon Value Imminent

Jans Fa Fail To Use Mechanical Aids Iding Airfield On Attu In — Aleutians, Americans Discover

Yank Troops Examine Mysterious Airfield Japanese Builf for Months on Attu

Japs Built Attu. Airfield Without Engineering Aids     ty Ready It-in-5 Days.’

Japs Not Neglected Declares Patferson  Complete Victory Promised by Aide

Leaflets Warn Italians In Raid   Say Fascists May Arrange To Have Bombs Dropped On Center Of Rome   ONLY MILITARY OBJECTS TARGET

MANY TOWNS ARE VISITED BY STORMS   Nearly 2,000 Homes and Many War Plants Damaged by Devastating Winds   RED CROSS IS AIDING

fornadoes Slash Through Cleveland, Akron, Fremont Areas, Killing Two Children; War Plants And Private Homes Are Damaged

Farm Barn on KinamanOrangeville Road: Demolished by 1 by Big Blow.   EASTERN OHIO _ SUFFERS DAMAGE

Ohio Tornado Leaves Trail  Of Wreckage   Three Killed, Many Injured As Property Damage Hits Million

Tornadoes Kill Two, Injure 150  Storms Rage Across Northeastern Ohio

2,000 HOMES HIT “IN AN OHIO STORM   Damage Near Cleveland Is timated in Excess  of $1,000,000   FOUR PERSONS KILLED

Homes Torn Up, War Plant: Jarred; Many Hospitalized In Akron. Cleveland

$1,000,000  Damage In  Ohio-Area Four Tornadoes  Strike Cleveland; mM... ten Bila

lornadoes Hit Cleveland Ares  3 Killed, Many Hurt As Buildings Are Unroofed In Storm

Two Killed As Tornado Slashes Ohio   150 Others Injured; Destruction Will Reach Over $1,000,000

CLEVELAND * 1S STRUCK . BY TORNADO   2 Children Killed and 150 Persons Hurt; Damage Exceeds a Million   SHORT AND NARROW PATH THROUGH CITY   Akron Also in Path of Storm; 100 Persons Treated at Hospitals There

Damage Exceeds Million Dollars When Storm Wrecks 2,000 Homes And Several Plants

A Death-Dealing Tornado Slashes  Over North Ohi   Two Children Are Killed and Damage Is Figured in Millions of Dollars.   Disaster Agents Sent To Cleveland, Akron

2,000 HOMES HIT "IN AN OHIO STORM   Damage Near Cleveland Is Estimated in Excess  of $1,000,000  i sceniameiainiatiadinemiesiniaiaiminceaaaienel

Cleveland Hardest Hit By Storms   Estimate Damage At More Than $1,000,000

2 Killed, 150 Injured as Severe Storm Sweeps Ohio   Destruction of Property Reckoned In Excess of SM, 000,000; 2,000 Homes and Several War Plants Damaged; Many Residences and Barns Cave In: Orphans Lose Lives

Ohio Damage Hits$1,000,000 In Death-Dealing Tornadoes   Two Orphans Killed, More Than 150 Other Persons Hurt And 2,000 Homes And Several War Plants Torn

4 Killed, 150 Injured ‘In Storms   2,000 Homes, Several War Plants Are Damaged

Two Killed, 150 Hurt: Million Property Los:   2,000 Homes, Big War Plants Damaged By Tarrific Wind

NORTHEASTERN OHIO HITHARD BY WIND STORM   Defense Factories Damaged in Cleveland, Akron; Four Killed, Power Off

TWO. KILLED, 150 HURT IN OHIO STORMS   Tornado Loss, in Excess of $1,000,000, Includes Damage to 2,000 Homes —Cleveland, Akron and Freemont Hit.

MORE THAN 150 HURT; 2 CHILDREN KILLED   Homes and Barns Cave in: Power Lines Down; Aid Rushed to Area

STORM DAMAGE TOPS MILLION   Three Killed, Hundreds Injured As Twister Hits Northern Ohio

Four Tornadoes Strik. Kill. 2 Children   2000 Homes. War Plants Damaged; 150 Injured; Loss Set At $1,000,000

Tornadoes Kill Three In Ohio —   One Hundred and Fifty Others Injured And  Much Damage Done In Cleveland-Akron Area

Storm Rips through Ohio Killing Three   Property Damage Runs _ into \ Thousands of Dollars, Many ‘ Hospitalized: Michiqan Hit

Ohio Slashed  By Tornadoes   Damage Amounts To §$1.. 000,000; 2 Children Kill. ed, 150 Persons Injured.

FANCY WRAPPINGS ON GIFTS BANNED ON FDR GIFTS   President Will Use Original Papers and Cartons - As Means for Saving  Pp, Tray

F. R. Plans Noel Party at Home  Family to Gather at Hyde Park; Paper Wrappina on Gifts Out

Gifts As They Come, With No Fancy Wrappings, Will  Be Given President's Aides

FAMILY WILL SPEND YULE AT HYDE PARK   Three of FDR Children and Seven Grand Children Will Be Present.

Russians Drive To Spring Trap On Nazi Forces   Escape Route Is Only 60 Miles; Battle Slows In Italy

CHINA RELIEF — GETS9 MILLION   Willkie Reports Drive Shows Admiration  For Our Allies

Santa Rosa Aur Instructor Kuilled oe Qe ae   Plane Crashes  On Routine Flight

BRITISH COMMANDOS RAID NORWAY COAST   Small Seale Attack Last Sat urday Night Reported to Be Very Successful

Gives General Outline of Hopes  For Peac-.ta Follow the Conflict

Year Promises Advance Along — Road to Berlin   Urges Lawmakers Forget Bickering and _ Strive For Unity  REVIEWS PROGRESS  Importance of -Russian Events Stressed By Executive —

Stop Bickering And Seek Unity      Message To Congress Cites ‘Miracle Of Production; Pledges Hard Blows 'V Europe; Urges Post-War Plans

Miracle of Production Backs Nation’s 7 Million Fighting Men.   GIVES REPORT ON WAR

Calls Nation’s Work Miracle ~ Of Production   Congress Hears Events On Long Russian Front, Are —  Termed Most Important.   ASKS DURABLE PEACE

News Day And Nig   U5. MIRAGLE OF PRODUCTION HIGHLY LAUDED   Our Arsenal Of Democracy Definitely Making Good, Chief Tells Congress   DEFENSIVE WARFARE NOW OVER FOR ALLIES   Year Will See United Nations On Offensive Everywhere President Pledges

President Urges  Congress Unite For War Effort   Lists Arm Production, Reveals Plan For Peace

We're Going To Strike Hard In Europe This Year, Says President In Annual Message

Miracle Of Production’ Backs Up Army   Text of the president's message to congress will be found on page @ of today's Journal-Standard.

Post War  Aims   1943 Carries Promise of Advance to  All Axis Capitals

Events On Russian Front Stand Out In 1942 War Picture   Roosevelt Tells Congress U. S. Is Advancing On Road To Tokyo, Berlin

Heavy Blows Pledged Against (Axis; Peacetime Hopes Listed In Message to U. S. Congress

SAYS ENEMY HAD TO WIN DURING 1942   Commander in Chief, in Message to Congress, Predicts Big Advance on Road to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo. ‘

Outlines His Hopes To 78th Congress In Report On War   Calls On Legislators To “Put Aside Bickering” On Other Issues, Contribute To National Unity

Asks Congress to End Bickering in Move to Achieve National Unity   ‘Miracle of Production Has Made Allied Gains Possible During Year,’ President Says In ‘State of the Union’ Address

Roosevelt Says Allies, Backed By U. $. Output, Will Advance In 1943   Roosevelt Message Hails Production, Red Strategy, But Makes No End Of War Promise; Asks Bickering Ban

President Calls for National Unity and After Victory a Peace Guaranteeing Freedom From Want and Fear

Allies In Stride, FD Tells Solons: Looks To Peace   Message Traces Rise to Offensive, Asks Unity; Eyes Post-War Security.

"Declares © “Allied -Gause Advancing in Annual Message to Congress.

SEES 1940 AS BAD YEAR FOR “AXIS GAPITALS   Tells of Military Progress, Production “Miracle” and ; Peace Hopes.   CALLS ON CONGRESS TO PUT BICKERING ASIDE

Stalingrad’s Stand Most Important in Past Year of War   President Closely Guarded in Giving Message to Congress

This Year Pictured By Roosevelt As Period Of Gains Along Roads Leading To Berlin, Rome And Tokyo —‘Miracle Of Production’”” At Home Cited As Backing Nation’s 7,000,000 Fighting Men—‘“Let Us Redouble Our Efforts,”’ Executive Urges

PRESIDENT SAYS UNITED NATIONS MOVING FORWARD   Asks Congress to Put Aside Bicker ing Over Economic Measures y Hn Wavits Drive,

President Reviews Progress In War Abroad Munitions Making Aud Gives Peace Hopes

President Asks Congress to Quit Bickering, Get to Work   In Address To Congress, Roosevelt Lauds ‘Miracle Of Production’ As Reason Why United Nations See Victory In The Offing

CHIEF FORECASTS ADVANCE (IN RNADS TO AXIS CAPITALS   Nation's Leader Promises United States Will Carry Fight to Enemies During Camine Year

Tells 78th Congress Tt Will Have Chance To Determine Fuiure World’s Welfare

U.S. Production Called ‘Miracle’   United Nations Will ‘Strike and Strike Hard’ in 1943, President Tells Congress; Hopes for Post-War Period Outlined

ALLIED CAUSE GAINS GROUND F.D.R. STATES   Addresses 78th Congress On State Of Nation Today   SCORES BIGKERING   lo Disarm Axis, Uproot Theories Hurtful To World

F.D.R., Speaking To Congress, Cites ‘Miracle Of Production’ In  United States During Past Year   Asks That Bickering Over Economic Measures Ke Put Aside; Events In Russia Outstanding In Past Year Of War; Capitol Heavily Guarded

Path Charted Qn Roads To Berlin, Toyko  FDR Sees Substantial Advance To Allied Victory In ‘43

F.D.R. Claims Allies Are Moving Forward   President Delivers His Annual Message To Congress Today -- Calls On Legislators To Put Aside Bickering And Strive For National] Unity ee

QUTLINES HOPES FOR PEACE AFTER WAR   Calls On Congress To Stop ‘Bickering And Strive For National Unity

ADVANCES: SEEN ‘ONTOKIO,ROME, “BERLIN ROUTES   No Prediction Is Given On War. Length; Japs Facine. Us $8. Drive

FORESEES GOOD JOVANCB ALONG ROAD 10 ENEMY   Calls On. Victory - Pledged ' Congress, to Put Aside   Bickering Over Eco  nomic Measures   ALLIES PREPARE TO STRIKE IN EUROPE   Withholds Social Seounty Reforms; Dissents to   Advice This Is Not   Time 

Hails “Miracle” Of Production   Within Realm of Possibility That 78th Congress May Write the Peace, President Tells Congress — Allies Will Prevent Re-Arming After War .

PRESIDENT SAYS GONG TO STRKE. AND STRIKE HARD   United Nations Going Forward Now On All-Fronts ~   IGHT

President Adds I hat Production Will Carry on Advance in 1943   Roosevelt Calls on Congress to Strive for Contribution to National Unity

Cause Is Moving Foreward at Last   President Cites Advances _ in Europe, Asia, Africa, in Message   HUGE OUTPUT OF ARMS   Annual Message to Congress Is Delivered in Person  Today

HAILS "MIRACLE > OF PRODUGTION   Victory-Minded Congress Hears President In Annual Message   CITES PROGRESS   Cause Of United Nations Moving Forward, Declares Executive

Asks For National Unity on Economic Measures, Output   Speech Divided into Three Parts, Progress of War, Arms Production, Outline of Peace

Praises Russians, Says Midway Most Vital U.S. Victory; Lists War Cutput

‘Cites American ‘Miracle of Production’ While Building Armed Forces, Gives Russians Leading Role in 1942   PREDICTS PACIFIC OFFENSIVE   President Forecasts Concentrated Air Attacks in Europe When Land Front Is Opened in ‘Own Home Islands’ of Japs

FDR Says Allies Will Strike Axis In Europe; Clarifies War Issues

Offensive On All Fronts Is Foreseen   President Lauds U. S. Miracle Of Production As Top Factor In AI.lied Onsurge.

CAUSE OF UNITED NATIONS 1S MOVING FORWARD, BACKED BY U. $. MIRACLES OF PRODUCTION   Lauds Allied Military Machines In Annual Message Vo Congress; Outlines Hopes For ‘Decent And Durable Peace” After War

FDR TELLS CONGRESS U, N. CAUSE MOVING FORWARD ATLAST INEUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA   “Miracle of Production” Has Carried United States Far ‘Along the Road to Sustantial Advances On Rome. Berlin and Tokyo In 1943.

He Told the New Congress a “Miracle of Production” Was Backing Country’s 7,000,000 Fighting Men.   HE DID NOT PROPHECY WHEN WAR WOULD END   The Axis Powers Knew They Must Win War in 1942 or They Would Eventually  Lose, He Said.

Annual Message to Congress Warning to Foes of Nation   Says 1943 Will Find the United Nations on Way-te Triumph

Nazis and Fascists Ask.for It, and They’re Going to Get It, He Says; To Advance on Japs

CONGRESS TOLD OF ALLIED AIMS IN GLOBAL WAF   President Delivers Views in Person Before Cheering Throng at Capitol

Axis Knew They Must Win i in 1942 or Lose  ; Everything, He Says; Praises. Russia and-.  ‘Declares “We Will Strike, and. Strike vas Hard in Europe”; Reviews War... -

Miracle of Production’ Backs Fighting Men, Roosevelf Says, Tells Legislators They May Have Part in Writing Peace

Tells Congress Year Promises Material Gains   Cites “Miracle Of Production”: Calls For Unity; President Heavily Guarded

Solons Gird For Victory   78th Congress Pledged By Its Leaders to Triumph of Allies

Says Period of Defense ls Passing   Roosevelt Declares 1943 Will See _ Advance on. Roads to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo; Asks Congress to “ Bickerina

Calls on Congress To Halt Bickering On Economic Bills   -Contribuie to National Unity, ‘Lawmakers. Urged by President; Arms Production Report Made

PREDICTS 1943 BE YEAR SUBSTANTIAL ADVANGE TO VICTORY   TELLS 78TH CONGRESS THEY MAY HAVE PART IN MAKING PEACE

PRESIDENT CITES MIRACLE ‘OF PRODUCTION   Declares 1943 Carries Promise Of Advance Along Road To Berlin And Tokyo

Durable  Peace Aim Defended   President Calls for Harmony in War Effort

Message Given to Congress   President Reveals Allies Are Moving Forward on All Fronts of World War   PLEA FOR U. S. UNITY MADE   Mighty Arms Production Achievements Described; Heavy Guard Posted

AsksCongress to Unite for Victory Cause   Chief Executive Reports America’s Miracle of Production ts Turning Tide

President In Three-Phase War Message   President, Appearing Before New Congress Reviews Progress and Reports on Production.   OUTLINES HIS HOPES FOR PEACE TO COME

Asks Congress To Strive For National Unity   Put Aside Bickering On Economic Measures, He Pleads; Period Of Defensive Action Over

MakesNo Prophecy On End Of War   Miracle of Production Backing Country's 7,000,000 Fighting Men; Axis Used Everything In Attempt to Gain Victory Last Year

Cause Is Moving Foreward at Last   President Cites Advances in Europe, Asia, Africa, in Message   HUGE OUTPUT OF ARMS

Annual Message Hails “Miracle” Of Production  President Predicts Unprecedented Air

Miracle Of Production” In U. S. Carries Promise Of Substantial Advance'In 1943 Along Road To Victory, Declares President In Message To Congress   Praises Russia’s Contribution

President Roosevelt Tells Congress of Progress in 1942 Which Has Made. United Nations “Greatest Military Power” in History; Reveals That U. S. Has Army of Seven Mil-lion With a Million and‘a Half Overseas _

1943 CARRIES PROMISE OF SUBSTANTIAL GAINS TOWARD BERLIN, ROME   President Puts Outcome Of Pacific War On Mathematical Basis; Says Losses Are Cutting Japanese Strength Each Day

Roosevelt Reports On War,Miiitary: Production In Address To Congress

“Dedication Week” Begins February 28   Methodists Throughout U. S. in Special Observance

o Swisher County Agricultural Adjustment Agency Program for 1944 Calls for Crop Increases

Steel Executive, Daughter Die In Pittsburgh Fire   Stanton S. Hertz Trapped With 13-Year-Old Daughter In  Burning Home

FIRE DEATHS IN PITTSBURGE   Father and ° Daug hter Trapped, Two Leap to Safety.

ABOLITION PLANS WOULD CLIP MANY FROM “FAT” JOBS   Discarding the NYA and Bituminous Coal Division to Leave Over 12,000 “Out.”

FEDERAL PAYROLLS MAY BE CLIPPED OF MORE THAN 12,000   Data Show 82 Workers For National Government To Every 100 State And Local Employes

 GOEBBELS ADMITS EAST SITUATION IS SERIOUS Red Offensive Greater Than 1941-42

GERMAN COMMAND APPARENTLY PREPARING HOME FOLK FOR NEWS FAILURE OF RUSSIAN CAMPAICN

Nazis Being Prepared for the Bad News   Goebbels Now Paying Way for Telling Germans About Setback in Russia   STRONG. EFFORT TO HOLD ROSTOV   Fresh Red Forces. May Have American. Arms; Stalingrad Situation. Reversed

War Prisoners Join Patriots   Guerilla Campaign In  North Italy Spreads

WAR INDUSTRY STUDY PLANNED   Debate Develops About Storing Up Reserves For Peacetime Production   Three Issues Involved

Study of Postwar Industry To Be Made by Ways and Means Committee

WILL: TAKE UP WAR PROFITS   House Group in Study of Contracts to Consider Post-War Industry

Post-War Industry Status Under Congress Study  Debate Is Predicted On Right to Store Up Financial Reserves

NEW EUROPEAN INVASION HINTS) COME WITH STATEMENT ITALIAN CAMPAIGN FAR BEHIND SCHEDULE

SIGNS MULTIPLY THAT INVASION ’ FROM WEST MAY COME SOON AND GREAT DRIVE ON NAZIS BECUN   Allied Offensive in Italy Admittedly Behind Schedule and Italian Collapse Has Nullified Value o Capture of Rome. New Offensives Loom

Eaton Backing Up Wadsworth   Urges Acceptance of GOP . Nomination In C eming Presidential Race

WADSWORTH OF N.Y, TALKED UP   New York Congressman Proposed For Republican Presidential] Nomination.

BiG AIR FLEET: BOMBED ROME   OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED 521 AMERICAN PLANES TOOK PART IN. RAID AND ONLY THREE LOST

10 Die, 10 Injured  In Hotel Blaze  New York Building Is Swept by Blaze

Two Plans To Hike Salaries Of Teachers   Governor Martin Outlines Methods For Raising Needed Costs   SALES TAX IS _ HINTED

Allies Extend Raids On Italy Fovgia Bomber   Axis Planes Being Shot Down At 3-1 Rate Gen. Bisenhower Reports   MANY AIRCRAFT ON GROUND SMASHED

YANK BOMBERS ROCK MAINLAND BASES IN ITALY   Down Three Axis Plane: » ~—- for Every One Lost . To Allies

City From Germans   Partisans Also Derail Train, Killing 200 Men

PARTISANS TAKE TOWN   Guerrilla Headquarters Report Stip Captured From Nazis

Slavs Defeat Nazi Forces   Captured Town of Stip; Other Victories Over Germans Renarted

Yugoslavs Seize City From Germans   Partisans Also Derail Train, Killing 200 Men

»in Stiff Fight to Capture Nicosia. U.S. Troops 7  ‘Climb Cragay Hills Under Nazi Fire

Yanks Scramble Over Craggy Mountains, in Teeth of Hot Fire, To Take Sicilian Goal   RY RICHARD TREGASKI<.

BUTTER SCARCE AR A-NIRT   Market Experts Warn Stock Depletions Face Many... Araae

FEAR TEN DEAD IN PLANE CRASH   Wreckage of Missing Liner Found in Tennessee by Farmer

Senator Says Fourth-Term Draft in Card:   Mead Thinks Roosevelt Best Asset For War and Peace

KOSSUTH MONEY TO PROVIDE HELP FOR USO CENTERS   Drive to Raise $22, 000 Ty Started In County; Fuad to Cover Help For 17 Agencies and Clubs.

Miss. Governor Dies After I!Iness   Paul B. Johnson Taken By Death After Fight Against Heart Attacks.

Governor Succumbs To Heart Attack  NAlcelecinnt Evaritiva   Mississippi Executive ll for Two Months

President Offers Cheering News To Reds, Chinese   Roosevelt Anriticipates More Success as War Plans Develop

President Informs Stalin He Sees Success on Eastern. Western Fronts

Tax Easement Plan Hold:  Favor in House Group   Committee Appears in Agreement On Partial Abatement, But Opposes Adopting Ruml Proposal

Solons Shy Away From Ruml Taxation Plan  Cancellation of 1943 Levies Finds Little Favor

RUML TAX PLAN LACKS SUPPORT   House Committee Agrees To Abate Some Part of 1942 Levy

PAY -AS~-G0 TAX PLAN ASSAILED   House Committee Appéars Agreed Some Portion of ’42 Taxes Will Be Abated; Hearings to Continue

Ruml Fails to Win Majority for Plan   Committee Agrees On Some ‘Forgiveness

WDTAY PAYMENT   Looks With’ ttefavor: Upon -- Ruml Plan After 4- . __..____Pay Debate

PORTION OF TAXES WILL BE REFUNDED   House Committee, However, Is Opposed To Wiping Out All Of Payments On 1942 Income

Solons Shy Away From Ruml Taxation Plan  Cancellation of 1943 Levies

Italians ‘Offered Free Choice of New Regime If Fascists Overthrown

Says Mussolini Has Betrayed His Own Nation   President Makes Statement Following surrender of Pantelleria by Italy

President Assures People Of Right To Chonse Own Government If It Is Non-Fascist

FR Expresses Satisfaction With Isle’s Surrender   Tells Italian People They Will Get Choice  of. New Government

Urges Italians To Throw Out  Their Leaders      Roosevelt Offers Free Choice of  New Government

FDR Pleased With Surrender Of Island   President Tells Italians, Fascists to Rlame for Miseries

Today’s War Moves   By THOMAS J. DONOHUE  ltimited Preece Analvat

Victory May Ease East Oil Dearth   Will Be Able To Bring In Petroleum Now From Near Fast.

May Ease Oil Shortage Here   Expect African Victory to Help Materially

Afvi ican Victor y         US. - Oil Shortage   Less War Fuel Seen Used With Axis Resistance In Mediterranean Halted

CARGO SHIP'S CREW SAVED AFTER MISHAP   Panama Vessel essel Sinks After Grounding On Shoal Near . Cape Lookout, Va.

‘SHORT’ IN FLOOR LAMP DEALS DEATH   Miss Ida E. Murr Electrecuted in Farm Home Near  Lone Star

SHORT IN FLOOR LAMP DEALS DEATH   Miss Ida E. Murr Electrecuted in Farm Home Near Lone Star  HIT TRON REGISTER

NEGRO SENTENCED IN CASE INVOLVING PASSENGER LAY   Bigamy Case Also Heard In Court Today Along With Series Lesser Cases; First Instance of “Jim Crow” Law Heard Here In Quarter Century.

Bigamy Case Also Heard In Court Today Along With Series Lesser Cases; First Instance of “Jim Crow” Law Heard Here In Quarter Century.

Wage Policies Facing Another Test   R. R. Brotherhoods Submit Final Arquments

RAILWAY WAGE CASE IS HEARD   Non - Operating Workers Ask Twenty Cents An Hour Increase

RAIL DISPUTE NEAR CLIMAX   National Wage Policy Faces New Test on Brotherhoods’ Demands

Final Arguments  In Rail Pay Case   Non-Operating Unions Ask 20c Hour Raise

Another Test Of Pay Policy ‘Taking Shape   Closing Pleas Heard In Wage Demands Of Rail Brotherhoods  900.000 INVOT VER

STORMS IN OHIO. KILL TRIO, TAKE PROPERTY TOLL   Man Killed as Tornado Hits Canton Plant; Vermillion Woman Victim

WIPE OUT 170 NIPPON PLANES   Allied Bombers Batter  Grounded Fighters  At Wewak

Cripple Jap Air Power   Paralyzing Allied Raid On Wewak Weakens Enemy in New Guinea

170 WARPLANES LOST BY ENEMY IN AIR ATTACK   Only Three Allied Planes Lost When Jap Aerial Armada Was Surprised at Wewak.

36 SELECTEES LEAVE TODAY      Evenly Divided Between Army And Other  Services

3] Men Leave For Army, Navy   Selectees Lenve Today For War Service

Ration Board and Farm Bureau Move Their Quarters   Will Be Found In New Locations After October 1

Ration Board and Farm Bureau Move Their Quarters  Will Be Found  In New Locations Af.  . £f™ « FB 0 ri

CHIANG TOUR DELAYED   China's First Lady Postpones Start Of Trip For Week

JAP GONVOY NEAR WEWEK 0 ATIAGKEL   Allied Airmen Striking Off New Guinea in Wave After Wave.   DAMAGE THREE SHIPS   ‘“‘We Are Continuing the Attack,” MacArthur Reports Tersely.

unt CONVOY et We 1S ATTACKEL   Allied Airmen Striking Off New Guinea in Wave’ After Wave.   DAMAGE THREE SHIPS   “We Are Continuing the Attack,” MacArthur Reports Tersely;  - 

RATIONING ENDS AUG. 11 ON JAVA   Coffee Supply Ample To Provide All The Brew America Can Drink

COFFEE RATIONING MAY END BY AUG. 11   OPA Officials Believe Supply Wil Be Sufficient to Satisfy All Needs.

GOOD NEWS FOR COFFEE USERS   OPA Says Rationing Will End About Aug. I1

End to Rationine of Coffee Seen as  Supplies in U.S. Return to Normal 

COFFEE RATIONING WILL END AUGUST 11   Supplies Will Then Be Ample Tc Supply All That Americans Want To Drink, Says OPA

OPA Sees End to Coffee Rationing Soor   Verdict Is Reached at Special Meeting of Officials

End of Coffee Rationing Near   Expect Action on or Before August 1]

COFFEE RATION END SEEN AUG. 11   PA Officials Predict Enough Supplies to.Be On Hand

ALLIED TROOPS HAVE CAPTURED 600 PRISONERS   British Light Naval Forces Are Hunting Out Axis  Shinning   IMPORTANT HILL IS TAKEN BY AMERICANS

Goal Is Near: French and British Gain   Enemy Shipping Is Hit Severely; Allies Improve All Positions

SPECIAL ELECTION ON SEPTEMBER 14   Little Interest Shown Thus Far; Registration < ks     Tr, CTIY 9? VACANSCICG

SPECIAL ELECTION ON SEPTEMBER 14   Little Interest Shown Thus Far; Registration c Books Open   TO FILL 2 VACANCIES:

Alternate Office Plan Is Proposed  Giraud Sends Offer To De Gaulle

Big Sicilian Port Captured as Yanks, British Push on Deeper into Italian Island   Believe Allies About 15 Miles Inland. Air Superiority Maintained — More Troops Are Being Landed On Beaches.

ttlement Near  Rail Dispute; trike Called Off  Last Three Unions Rescind Work  A cine Owedor

Rail Strike Called Off by Union Chiefs  fen natiatian Clade   Cancellation Order: Sent by Heads of Hold-Out Groups

" Last of Rail » Union Hold Outs Cancel Strike   Signs Point to Effort to Wind up Whole Wage Dispute

Railroads Cancel Strike Plans   Signs Indicate Effort Underway To Settle Dispute

Railroad Strike Threat Is Ended   Unionists Send Out  Cancellation Order By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK

THREE RAIL UNIONS CANCEL STRIKE CALL   Leaders of Firemen, Brakemer and Conductors Notify Regional Chairmen of Withdrawal.

Unions Decide to Call Oit Rail Walkout   Brotherhoods Turn to White House With Wace Demande

Railroad Strike Called Off; Wage Conferences Being Held   Whole Dispute May Wind Up Quickly and Let Roads Return to Private Management—Unions Rescind Strike Orders

Railroad Strike Threat Is Ended   Unionists Send Out Cancellation Order

Railway Unions Call Off Strike   Return to Private Ownership Seen

Rail Strike  Threat Ends As 3 Unions Back Down   Firemen, Conductors, And Switchmen Groups  Rescind Orders . Rar Mambhar Walkante   UNIONS, GOVERNMENT HOLD CONFERENCE

Three Brotherhoods Cancel Strike Order; Hold Conference with FDR

Railway Walkout Order Cancelled By Three Unions   Leaders Instruct Regional Chairmen To Call Of! Strike; Indications Point To Early . Settlement Of Dispute

STRIKE ORDER CANCELED BY "3 RAIL UNIONS   Efforts Underway to ~ Seattle Wage Dispute Quickly

FCC Chairman Approves Proposal For Equal Radio Time To Opponents

British Blast. Netherlands  Axis Targets  Fortresses Laudec Alter Raid On: Ne

RAF Fliers Hit Dutch Targets   erga Follows Raid by LU. S. Bombers  hated St. Nazaire

Allied Flyers Active Over  Nazi Europe   Industrial Targels in Holland Hit After St. Nazaire Raid

curopean Aerial Attacks Renewed With Heavy Blows  Raids on Holland Follow U. S. Attack On St. Nazaire  MEET BAD WEATHER  Strong American   MEET BAD WEATHER

FOURTH TERM ISSUE AGAIN BLAZES FORTH   Pennsylvania Senator Says He Favors FDR Again

GUFFEY LIKES FOURTH TERM   Tells Senate There Is No Tradition Against Idea.

BACK-T0-WORK MOVEMENT IS SLOWED DOWN   Roosevelt’s Scheme to Raise Induction Age to 65 Meets Opposition.   BULLETIN

Opposition To Draft Plan Is Widespread      Objections Voiced By Supporters of Anti-Strike Bill

OPEN RESENTMENT ~ BEING EXPRESSED “BY MINERS TODAY   President's Proposal to Extend Draft Age to Cover Strikers Generally Opposed.

U.S. AIRMEN RAID TWO JAP BASES   Enemy Positions On Bougainville, Shortland Hit

U.S. Airmen Strike Again At Jap Bases   Kahili Airdrome, Shortland Island  Area Is Attacked

U.S. AIRMEN STRIKE AT JAP BASES      Japs Organizing Fleet For Defense Of Home Waters

Capture of Catania Is Imminent   Allies Now Occupy Hai of Island — Control  Communications

ONE-HALF OF SICILY IN ALLIED HANDS   Russians Close In On Orel  From 3 Sides

STRIKING TRUCK DRIVERS RETURN   Say Will Go Out Again if WLB Fails to Act on Wages in 30 Days

MOST. STRIKING  TRUCK DRIVERS  BACK TO WORK   Drivers’ Will, Remain. on Jobs..f 'WLB Act Favor_ ably on Requested Wage Bike

Churchill Says Counterattacks Offset Gains   Algiers Broadcast States British Only 13 Miles From Gabes

Reports on™ Battles In -~ Area Varied   Churchill Says Gernians Offset Allied Gains at Mareth Line :

Count on Britain  To Give More Oi   Solons Pleased by  Roosevelt Promise

U. 8. - BRITISH ADVANCING ON AXIS COLUMN   Headed Back Toward Gafsa  ' French Also Active in Sbiba Area; Advancing 12 Mitlee   Smash Enemy Docks

ENEMY fo UNDER HEAVY ATTACKS   Allies Make Strong Raids on Gafsa and Sbeitla   FRENCH JOIN CHASE   Advance 12 Miles in Sbiba Sector; Claim of Pria. oners Taken Denied

AXIS COLUMNS © BEING PURSUED TOWARD GAFSA   Retreating Nazis Are Un« der Heavy And Unending Aerial Attack   ROMMEL IS IN POOR DEFENSIVE POSITION

Retreating Rommel Heads Back Toward! Gafsa InN. Africa   Other Allied Forces Advance Ten To Fifteen Miles In The Area Of Sbiba Northeast Of  Kasserine Gap In Tunisia

Nazis Admit Drive ‘Concluded’; Advances Made 10 to 15 Miles in Sbiba Area

Rommel Forces In Retreat To Gafas   Retreating Nazi Forces Are Under Unending Attacks From Air Arm: German Bases Raided

EIGHTH ARMY PENETRATES 10 WADI ZIGZAU   United States And British Airmen In Continuous Aerial  Assaults On Nazis. iby WES GALLAGHER

American and British Strike Out Beyond Pass  OTHER ADVANCES BY ALLIES ARE MADE  Retreating  Forces Under Heavy and Unending Attacks .

Allied Forces Smash At Retreating Germans And Advance Ten Mile:  PLANES MAINTAIN STEADY POUNDING  Nazi Claim of Capture Of 4,000 Prisoners  Branded Exasveration

HIGH MILITARY CHIEFS DEFEND FATHER DRAFI   F. D. Message Friday Te Deal With Manpower Controversy

DRAFT OF FATHERS iS STILL DEBATED   Military Officials to Tell Committee Step is a Military Necessity Tadav,

AXIS TOWNS ARE TAKEN   Allies Seek To Drive Their  Enemies Into Sea   A BIG BLOW TO NAPLES   Rome Gives Propaganda On: Purported Peace Terms

Dig Allied Fush in Sicily Smashing Ahead on Schedule,  ROOSEVELT SUBMITS 7-POINT PEACE PLAN Military Observers Think  Battle Will End Soon Sicily.

TALK WITH GIRAUD NEAR   DeGaulle Expected to Make Trip to North Africa

DeGaulle Expected to Leave Shortly for Unity Conference In North Africa With Giraud

Allies Capture Four Key Points In Italian Drive   Straighten Out Line «And Shorten It By Some 20 Miles

4 KEY POINTS ARE CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES   Gains Are Scored In Italy Despite Continued Bad Weather   GERMANS PREPARED FOR STRONG DEFENSE

\llied Forces fake 4 Key  talian Towns   British Iron Out fight- Mile Deep salient; Bad Weather Cancels Air Activity

Line Straightened and Shortened by Forces in Italy  GAINS SCORED IN SPITE OF WEATHER  Germans Evidently Pre  pared to Make Strong Fight

(BRITISH IRON ‘OUT SALIENT, RESTORE ROADS   Americans Score 3-Mile Advance In Upper Volturno River Section

Allies Scoring Sizeable Gains _ In Italian War  Fifth And Eighth Armie: Resume Offensive

Allies Capture Four Key Points On Italian Front   Eighth Army Meets Little Opposition

Allies Capture Four Key Italian Points   Eighth Army Gains Up to Eight Miles at Aqnone

Allies take 4 key points on ltalian front   8th army flattens bulge at Agnone

RED ROLLER GETS GOING ONCE MORE   THOUSANDS OF GERMANS CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP   Savage Fighting Develops As Russians Race to Close Gap Behind Gomel

Agreement Seen On Compromise Levy Proposal   Would Provide Some Tax Forgiveness in Pay-as-You-Go Bill

DAYLIGHT BLOW HITS GERMAN!   American Heavy Bombers Follow Up Night Mosquito Raids.   BULGARIA IS ATTACKED

Atti Casualties Returned to U. S.  Nearly All Woundec In Coast Hospitals

Attu Wounded Rushed fo. U.S. Hospitals.   - Wounded Are Sent To States Before . Battle ls Ended

OPERATION OF JAP. CAMP. —-GRITICIZED BY SENATOR   WYOMING SENATOR DECLARES _ RELOCATION CENTER HAS BEEN PUT ON “POLLYANA" BASIS.

VOTE INQUIRY AIMED T0 CUT STATE COSTS   Proposal of ‘Governor Approved in Action Of Legislature

ProbeAimed ToSaveCash Of Taxpayer   ONLY ONE DEMOCRAT OPPOSED MEASURE, FIRST ADMINISTRATION MEASURE TO REACH VOTE IN EITHER HOUSE.   Ross Under Fire

SHOE RATIONING PERIOD EXTENDED TO 6 MONTHS   OPA Orders Change To Cunservs Present Supply.

SHOE RATIONS CUT ~ TOTWOPAIRA YEAR   Shortage of Leather Blamed For New Regulation

2 Shoe Stamps Per Year Now   OPA Decided Two Pair Per Year Sufficient; Leather Demand High.

EASY ON THE ~ BROGANS, BOYS   it’s Gonna Be Six Months Now Between Coupons

Shoes Must — Last Longer, New Rulings   Leather Shortage Results in OPA Order Changing Rationing Prosram

Easy On the Shoes Now, It’s Going To Be aLonger Time Between Pairs

Longer Time For Shoe Stamps Now   Military Needs Cause Shortage of Leather

STRETCH ATION PERIOD FOR SHOES   No. 1 Airplane Stamp. i Book Three Will Have te Last Six Months

Jap Invasion  Of Australia Is Not Feared   Australia Now Armed Bas. tion Of Attack Against Jap, Says Curtin

Pursue Remnants of Jap Fleet After Downing 138 Warplanes In Last 4 Days

138 Jap Planes Shot Down, Crippled By Allied Airmen   F.D.R. ASKS WAR BUDGET OF 100 BILLION  ™ * ¢ + & #8 . + ee ee zs. *« &£ € *& * * © £ * © > ££ © * #@ +5 = ® & &£ Y© w& x

Allies Destroy 138 Jap Planes In Last 4 Day:   Heavy Action Involved In Pursuing Enemy Convoy Fleeing From N, Guinea

Brig. Gen, Kenneth Walker, USA, Missing in New Guinea Fight   MacArthur Announces His Failure to Come  Back to His Base

138 Jap Planes Lost In Violent Convoy Battle   Allies Hit Two More Transports Off New Guinea

2 MORE SHIPS DAMAGED; 138 PLANES LOST   Allies Blast Enemy Efforts To ” Land Reinforcements In New Guinea   [AMERICAN AIRMAN LOST   Ground Forces Continue Steady Pressure On Nips At Sanananda

Allies Blast 138 Jap Planes In Convoy Rout  General K. N. Walke i ee  er eae   General K. N. Walke Fails to Return From Rabaul Raid

Allied Airmen Chase Remnant  Of Jap Convoy   Lift Number of Planes Shot Down or Crippled to 138

JAPS LOSE 138 PLANES IN FOUR DAYS OF BATTLE   BATTERED CONVOY FLEES; TWO MORE VESSELS BLASTED

138 JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED OR CRIPPLED AY ALLIED AIRMEN   2 More Ships Hit As Allied Fiiers Pursue Battered dap Convoy   BRIGADIER GENERAL LOST

ALLIED AIRMEN IN CONTINUED PURSUIT OF JAPANESE CONVOY  TOTAL OF 138 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN OR  CRIPPLED IN FOUR DAYS

Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses at New Guinea   Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker Reported Missing; Troopship Sunk with All Hands

ALLIES DOWN 138 JAPANESE PLANES   Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker Is Reported Missing

Allied Airmen Raise to 138 the Number of Jap Planes Downed in 4 Days

Allies Hit Two More Jap Ships   They Increase to 138 Enemy Planes Shot Down or Damaged

Allies Boost Jap Plane Loss in Guinea to 138   Hits Scored on Two More Ships; General Reported Missing

Four-Day Plane Toll For Japs Climbs To 138 After Beating By Allied Force At New Guinea

138 Jap Planes Shot Down in 4 Days of Action   Remnants of Battered Convoy Under Heavy American Air Attack.   Gen. Walker Fails to  Return From Rabaul

AT LEAST THREE TROOP SHIPS SUNK AND BOMB HITS SCORED ON TWO AS CONVOY LEAVES GUINEA   Only Discordant NoteWas Announcement That Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker Failed to Return From Aerial Attack At Rabaul, New Britain.

138 JAPANESE AIRCRAFT HIT IN FOUR DAYS      Allies Either Shoot Down or Cripple Planes . in Pursuit of Convoy— Bomb Two More Enemy Ships..

INCREASE TOLL OF JAP PLANES   Allied Airmen Shoot Down 138 In Running.Fight as They Batter Enemy Convoy.

Score Against Japs Is Raised To 138 Planes   Allied Airmen Report Bomb Hits On Two More Ships — General Walker Is Missing

Allies Pursue Battered Jap  Convoy Force   Foe’s Total Plane Los: Boosted To 138 For Four - Day Period A, Ships Flee Guinea

Knemy Plane Losses Soar  To 138 Total   Other Ships Hit As M’Arthur Airmen Chase Convoy

HITS SCORED ON TWO MORE JAP VESSELS   Allied Airmen Boost to 38  Enemy Planes Shot Down Or Crippled in Blazing Action    GEN. WALKER MISSING

JAPLOSSESIN LAE AREA NEW GUINEA MOUNT   Allies Score Hits On Two More Ships of Convoy Trying to Land Reinforcements   AIR LOSSES HEAVY   Hundred and Thirty-Eight Enemy Planes Are Shot Down; American Brig. .  Gen. Lost In Combat

JAP CONVOY HARD HIT IN GUINEA WAR   138 Nip Planes Downed In 4 Days; General Lost in Plane

ALLIED AIRMEN DROP BOMBS ON TWO MORE SHIPS   Total Of 138 Japanese Aircraft Shot Down Or Crippled In Blazing Battle As Allies Pursue Battered Jar Convoy.

TOTAL NUMBER OF JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN IS 138   These Were Blasted or Crip pled in Four Days of Blazing Action.   PURSUE A JAP CONVOY   Was Fleeing From New Guinea Yesterday; Scored Bomb Hits.

Allies Boost Nippon Plane Losses fo 138   _Flyers Score Hits ~on_ Two More Ships of Fleeing Convoy:

A Lesson In Ways Tokill Tough Japs   Knife Method Best To Handle Japs—lIt’s Silent, Too

TOKYO CLAIMS ATTEMPTS 10 LAND REPELLED   Navy Denies Jap Claims That Gas Is Beign Used

Hurricane Toll Set at 21 Dead   Texas Gulf Coast Damage Is 10 Million

50 YEAR REUNION   Members of the Class of 1893 to Get Together at K. U.

50 YEAR REUNION   Mechers of the Chu ol 1893 to Get Together at K. U.

Postoffice At Struble Robbed Friday Night   Burglars Steal Small Sum of Money and Postage Stamps

Postoffice At Struble Robbed Friday Night  Burglars Steal Sm: Sum of Money and

August Ration Point Values Set   Changes Made In Points For Frozen Vegetables And Fruits For August

NEW BLUE STAMPS WILL \BE VALID TO SEPT. 20; ‘FROZEN FOOD POINTS UP

FROZEN FOOD POINT RISES   FROZEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AFFECTED BY ORDER—CANNED GOODS  ‘LITTLE CHANGED -

Valley Banks Make Record On Clearings   Almost Every Month Shows New Increases Above Previous Year

NO CUT IS LIKELY IN OHIO RATIONS   So Says OPA Official at Dayton in Denial

Powerful U. S. Attack Made on Japs   Marshal Islands Are Battered by Task Forces

Complete Results Unknown Owing Te Radio Blackout lo Protect Fleet.

Marshall Islands Shelled By Large Navy Task Force  No Details Are Available On Damage Done As Radio Silence Must StiJl Be Maintained

POLITICAL-MILITARY  COMMISSION MAY BE  FORERUNNER OTHERS WHOLE SERIES OF ALLIED  COMMISSIONS MAY Dc RORPN OF WAR

Mediterranean Military Commission May Be Forerunner To.a Whole Series

COMMISSION Td SUPERVISE WAR ISSUES SETUP   To Deal With Problems Arising In Mediterranean Area; Others May Be Named

Political-Military Commissions Patterned After Mediterranean  Set-up May Apply to Other Regions 

Reveal Stassen  To Quit April 27   Will Resign To Go On Active Duty With Navy

C ongress Faces Draft Issue on Return Today   Rep. Martin Demands Survey of Whole Manpower Situation

CONGRESS 0 ACT EARLY ON ARMY NEEDS   Leadcrs Want Survey of Entire Manpower Question   REVIEW URGED BY MINORITY LEADER   Congress to Reconvene Today After o Long Recess

Congress Will Oper Session Today, Debate on Draft  Military Topics Are Of First Import; Showdown Is Sought

Quick Showdown On Man Power Seems Likely   Senate Expected To Act This Week

Hot Issues Before  The New Congress  Martin Demands Survey Of Manpower Situation

Leaders Call For Showdown. On. Manpower Needs   eae °. Sia, eee Would Have Army and Navy Heads Explain Reason For Faking Fa es

Congress Will Open Session Today, Debate on Draft  Military Topics Are OF First Import; Chomsaredoncarm Te Cracimbe

SHOWDOWN ON DRAFT LOOMS   Calling of Fathers Seen As Hottest Issue As Congress Meets

Quick Manpower ShowdownUrged   Barkley Asks Army, Navy Heads BeCalled

CONGRESS WILL CONVENE TODAY   Leaders Plan Showdown On Manpower Needs Of Services

Congress Set To Analyze Draft Puzzle  Solons’ Reconven Today, -Debate Hot Issue ~

FATHERS’ DRAFT HOTTEST ISSUE   Legislative Leaders Te Seek Showdown On Army Manpower

ARMY. MANPOWER SHOWDOWN URGED   SOLONS, ON EVE OF FATHER DRAFT, ASK PROOF THEY ARE NEEDED

THEY ALSO WILL SELECT CONVENTION. DELEGATES FOR COUNTY ELECTIONS

FARMERS VOTE FRIDAY ON NEW ‘OFFICIAL BODY   Delegates To ‘Convention To Also. Be Named 

1000 SORTIES HURLED INTO AXIS POSITION   Record Tonnage of Bombs Dropped In Tunisia

Allies Push Kerial Drive   Trap On Axis Forces Is Being -Tightened

Allied Planes Unleash Big Offensive   Luftwaffe Nearly Driven From Skies Over Africa

Allied Planes Rule Tunisia   Greatest Offensive of Air Power Smothers Axis in 1500 Sarties

Allied Air Forces ‘Give Ground Troops Wonderful Support   Fliers Stage More Than 1500 Sorties in Single Day To.Set Up a North African Record; Meet No Opposition

FIND BODIES OF TWO MEN IN HOTEL ROCN   Pair Registered Sunday at Delaware Hotel

BODIES OF TWO MEN ARE FOUND IN HOTEL   Double Murder Mystery  Scented in Delaware

FRENCH FASCISTS ARE SHOT TO DEATE   Steps A re Taken To Rid France Of Evil Influence

MAIN BATTLE WITH JAPAN YET TO COME SAYS SECRETARY KNOX   Says U. S. Navy Hasn’t Seen Jap Aircraft Carrier In Four Months

ON MAIN JAP BATTLE   Knox Says Navy Hasn't Seen Jap Carrier in Four Months

LANDINGS ON EUROPE WILL BE MADE--F. R.   U. S. President, In Review, Hints at Balkan Invasion. Sees Victory Still Far Away.

Four Japanese Cargo Ships Hit by Bombs  Allies Stage Raid   Allies Stage Raid on Buin Naval Base in Solomons

Four Japanese Cargo Ships Hit by Bombs   Allies Stage Raid on Buin Naval Base in Solomong

BOARD CONTROL OF CLOSING PROPOSED   Bill Would Pui Put Sunday Question Up to Local . . Commiccionere

BOARD CONTROL OF CLOSING PROPOSED   Bill Would Put Sunday Question Up to Local Commissioners

a SE ee een  Huge Copper Mine Closed By Strike   Conductors Refuse to Work On Ore-Hauling Trains

SSS ieee ements aisha errr nin enemas a  Huge Copper Mine Closed By Strike   Conductors Refuse to Work On Ore-Hauling Trains

District Four UMW  Convention Saturday  Moved Up One Week From Original Date

CAN'T DRIVE CARS — WITHOUT STAMPS    Motor Vehicles Cannot Be Driv.  on on Highways Without New Federal Tax Stamps.

MANY INJURED IN TWO NORTH ‘ALA. TOWNS   Business Section of  Hackelburg Completely Nanton nd

ALABAMA TORNADO KILLS FOUR PERSONS   Scores Injured At Hackleburg And Vinemont Today

CHANGE IN DEFERMENT       Special Committee Makes Recom_ mendation on Federal Workers

Says Government May Release Men   Asserts Overlapping Functions Hold Workers

Federal Service is No Paradise Of Draft Evader:   Will Not Be Exempt From Army Or War Industry Demands, Group States

Vital War Work Draft Test for U.S. Employes   3-A Applicants For Officer School Not Accepted

bee GIVEN LAWMAKERS   Kelly’s ‘Fact-Finders’ Submit Short Form Budget To Save Time.

State to Spend 123 Million   Thrifty Lawmakers — Stick Close to Current Operations; Expect Tax Decrease

Yanks Blast Boulogne Aree In Heavy Raid   RAF’s Pressure On Nazis Reaches New Destructiveness Peak

U.S. TARGETS ARE KEY NAZI SUPPLY BASES   British Assault Considered Record Smash — Smoke From Carpet of Fire Reaches a. Height of 15,000 Feet.

23 BOMBERS IN ATTACK   Krupp Munitions Plant Is Seriously Damaged   ANTI-AIRCRAFT   Fire Said To Be Intense: Americans In Daylight Punch At Rouen

23 Big Planes Lost in Blast At Key Plants   Much Damage Done But Nazi Defense Reported as Stronge

ESSEN BLASTED AGAIN BY RAF’S BIG BOMBERS   New Peak of Destructiveness In dicated on City Already Pound  pd March Sth   Blow Follows Daylight Raid by Americans on Rouen — British  Coast Raided

(Boulogne Hit Today; Essen Nizht Target   Hitler’s European Empire Under Constant Day and Night Allied Aerial Thrusts

Americans blast Kailroad Junction of Amiens Today; RAF Again Scourges Essen

HEAVIEST RAID OF '43 CARRIED OUT ON CENTER   Block-Busters Used By Planes In Night Assault  DIT? FT WPTINT

SMOKE FROM CITY RISES 15,000 FEET   Pilots Tell Of Big Blasts; 23 British Bombs Fail “to Return

BiG U. $. BOMBERS HIT AT BOULOGNE   New Destruction Is Heaped Upon Important German Tarvcets

1,000 TONS  BOMBS HIT REICH CITY   One Of Heaviest Raids Of Aerial War With 23 Bombers Failing to Return From Mission

‘RAID BIGGER THAN THAT. ‘OF MARCH 5   Pilots See Flame. Shoot 15,000 Feet. In Air After Raid

Krupp Works’ Home Blasted In Heavy Raid   British Report Attack Exceeded That Of Week Ago; 23 Planes Lost In Terrific Assault

23 Bombers Are Lost in Big Attack   Large Krupp Arms Works Hammered by British Bombs

Amiens Rocks in  U.S. Raic   BRITISH PILOTS SMASH ESSEN IN GIGANTIC JOURNEY OF DESTRUCTION

Record RAF Raid Smashes Fssen Base   United States Bombers Hit Rail Junction At Amiens In Daylight Sweep   '7 DAY OFFENSIVE   1,000 Tons OF British Bombs Hit Ruhr Center In Heaviest Attack Of War

RAF Blasts Krupp Munitions Works at Essen During Night   Crippling Blows Dealt Essen in Heaviest Attack of Year

R, A, F. STAGES RAID ON ESSEN   Americans Blast Rouen in Daylight; Nazis Bomb England

SMOKE 15,000 FEET IN AIR IS SEEN OVER CITY   23 Bombers Missing as Air Attack Reaches New Destructive Peak

Essen, Boulogne Smashed Again   RAF and American Raiders Continue

Attack on Nazi Munitions Center Believed Greatest Of Entire Aerial W arfare

LOSE 23 PLANES IN LATEST RAID OVER EUROPE   Germans Strengthened City, Anti-Aircraft Fire Very Heavy

Heaviest Raid On Essen by RAF Friday   23 Bombers Lost By British Due To Improved Defense

RAF Increases Pressure on Germany in Great Raids On Essen.   23 PLANES ARE MISSING

ESSEN ATTACK HELD HEAVIEST OF 1943 RAIDS   Hundreds of Tons of Blockbusters Rained Down on Ruhr Area  Before Dawn Today   AIRMEN STRIKE WITH CONCENTRATEDFURY   Twenty-Three Bombers Missing But Assault Pressed Home; Nazi Defense Overcome

ESSEN IS AGAIN ATTACKED BY THE ROYAL AIR FORGE   Four-Engined Planes Poured Attack on City Exceeding One of March 5.   RAID WAS LAST NIGHT   A Carpet of Fire Was Set by the Block-Buster Bombs.

British Bombers Rain Destruction on Essen   Furious Blast Exceeds that of Devastating Raid on City March 5; More Than 1,000 Tons of Bombs Believed Dropped.

RAF Hit New High In Raiding Essen Again Last Night   Home of Germany's Big Krupp Armament Works Was Target

HEAVY BOMBERS OF UNITED STATES AIR FORCE IN ACTION   DAYLIGHT RAID FOLLOWS DESTRUCTIVE RAF NIGHT ATTACK ON ESSEN

yut Number Of Bombs  Unloaded On Krupp Works During Second paid Of This Month

Great Arms Works Suf. fers Crippling Blows: New Russian Setbacks Ir Kharkov Battle.

PILOTS REPORT SMOKE 15,000 FEET IN Alt   More Than 1,000 Tons o! Bombs Dropped On Nazi Munitions Center’

ESSEN VICTIM OF NEW RAF ATTACKS HEAVIEST OF WAR   Smoke From Carpet of Fire Set by Last Night’s Raid Reached Height of 15,000 Feet; Heavier Than Last Week's Raid.

TURKISH PEOPLE ARE IMPRESSED   Allied Victory .In North Africa Leaves Deep Impression.

XPECT VOTE TODAY ON COAL WAGE DISPUTE   rwis Suggesis 30-Day Extension Of Contract After F. R. Warns Acainst Strike

Await Reply From Lewis To President’s Request To Continue Mine Work

Fear Of Coal Strike April 1 ‘Now On Wane   President’s Appeal For Pact Extension Brings Quick Action

Dies Committee Says Army Doesn't Want Job of Taking Care of JapAmericans in Relocation Camps

Schoolgir Says She Didn't Try To Resist Flynt   Admits Telling Jury She Was Guilty Of Perversion; Flynn Impassive

BLONDE REPEATS FLYNN CHARGES   Denies Resisting Actor: Singer Takes Stand And Weeps

Be tans Bp CONTROVERSY OVER OPA POLIOIES ON PRICE-CONTROL  ‘INOREABING IN CONGRESS ..

SUBSIDIES bY OPA TD BE BUILLOTINED   SENATE EXPECTED TO APPROVE BILL PREVENTING PAYMENTS.   ' Fight Waxes Hotter   House Committee Divides the Field in Battle Against OPA Policies and Methods.

Veterans Will Be Trained For Jobs At Pensions Ranging From $80 A Month During Courses Up To Four Years

Jones Gets At Trouble’s Cause   Solid: Philosophy” Was Adopted Early

SEEKS REINSTATEMENT   alate Attorney Wan: Wants To Return to the Kansas Bar

PERPETUAL SALES TAX IS PROPOSED   \ MISSOURI SENATE COMMIT. TEE WOULD STRIP LAW OF EMERGENCY CLAUSE.

Perpetual Two Per Cent Sales Tax for State’   Senate Committee Salvages Measure in Donnell Program

Italy Develops Into Second ' Front In The Fullest Sense   American Fifth Army, Still Bloodily Engaged, Emerge From Crisis—Salerno Struggle Still Rising in Violence

Salerno Crisis Is Said Past ~   Fighting Continues Grim As British Eighth Races North .

CRISIS FOR FIFTH ARMY HAS PASSED   BATTLE RISES IN VIOLENCE, BUT BRIDGEHEAD IS NO LONGER IN DANGER.

AmericanFifth Army Wins Round Against Violent Cerman Counterattacks

DESPERATE AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY EMERGES FROM SALERNO CRISIS   Eisenhower Says Some Ground Is Lost but New Posi tions Are Being Consolidated as Reinforcements Pour In

Maj or front develops on  Ttalian boot   Extent of enemy effort revealing

African Monkey Saves Soldier's Life In Tunisian Fighting, Claims Iowa Private

FIRST DRAFT UNIT LEAVES FOR CAMP   Seventeen Soldiers Board Train at Station: Second Group Leaves Tomorrow

Hall of Mirrors Swept by Blaze   All Mirrors Cracked And Considerable Othe Damage Is Caused

Merchants Hang Out ‘SRO’ Signs Pennsylvanians Rush to Use  No. 17 Shoe Stamp by Tomorrow

Coffee Rationing Comes to an End; Increase in Sugar Held Probable

Ban Off Coffee: Ease up on Suoar Ration   President Tells of Increase in Shipping Space

President Declares Coffee Removed From Ration Lists  War Developments Prime Recisons; Order Valid Taday

CIVILIAN COFFEE RATIONING ENDS   More Sugar To Result From Successful War Against U-Boats

Coffee Rationing Is Suspended   Increase in Sugar Allotments Forecast

COFFEE RATION TO END TODAY   Increase in Shipping Has Made Step Possible, President Says

Coffee Rationing Brought to End   To Increase Sugar, Roosevelt Says

Coffee Is Taken Off Ration List   Roosevelt Also Hints Sugar Allowance May Be Boosted

Coffee Is Freed From Rationing   “Hike In Allotment On Sucar Probable

Supply Grows, Coffee Is Off Ration List   Use Of Stamps No Longer Necessary For Purchase Of Coffee — Will Boost Allowances Of Sugar

Coffee Rationing Ended Today   Coupons No Longer Needed for Purchase

Coffee Unrationed, More Sugar Soon   More Shipping Space, Fewer Subs Allow Changes

Stop Coffee Ration Today   President Roosevelt’ Gives Hint Of More Sugar Allowances Soon,

COFFEE IS UNRATIONED   ‘President Makes Ay Announcement ' Hint of More Sugar Soon

FREE COFFEE FROM RATIONING   More Sugar Soon Is Hinted by President

Rationing Of Coffee  Terminated   Coupons No Longer Needed for Purchase, EF_D. RR. Annnuneepe   SUGAR ALLOTMENTS LIKELY TO INCREASE

COFFEE RATIONING ENDED IN COUNTRY   Commodity Will be Released From Rationing Today

COFFEE SALES NOW -POSSBLE WITHOUT BOOK   Probable Increase  Seen For Sugar : Allotments

NELSON WINS FULL CONTROL   EMERGES AS VICTOR IN CONTROVERSY FOR UNIFIED © CIVILIAN CONTROL OF _' WAR PRODUCTION

Civilian Control In W. P. B.   Battle is‘over; Nelson beats his military critics; Civilians  in charge

Two Die in Plane Crash at Las Vegas   Instructor, Cadet Victims of Accident

ACK-ACKS BAG PLANES, NOW   Ordnance Chief Says AntiAircraft Defense Is Vastly improved

Reds Slash New Gain: Through Nazi Lines.   Troops Take Big Defense Strongholds Along One Front, Kill 6000 Of Enenty in Six to Nine-Mile Advance

Destroyer, Five Cargo Vessels Sent To Botton   Tokyo Claims 2 Allied Battleships, Three Cruisers Lost

American Subs Hit Japs Hard   Fortresses Hit Shortland Island Port

American U-Boats Strike New Blows at Japan's Ships   Sink Six and Damages Seventh; Sec. Knox Back From Pacific

Russian Paper Runs Story On American Aid   Statement By Stettinius On Lend-Lease Aid Is Published Today In Government Newspaper

SOVIETS-TOLD—OF {END -LEASE HELP ‘RENDERED BY U. S.   Russian Newspaper Prints Re: port af Aid; Radio Also  Lists Information

RED PAPER CARRIES STORY GNU. S._ AID FOLLOWING STANDLEY’S REPORT

SOVIETS LIST AMERICAN Ai   Article Follows Talk of Standley Bemoaning Lack of News

Russian Press Gives List Of AidFromU.S   Izvestia Publishes “Stettinius Statement On Food Sup Hips’   RADIO REPORTS HELP

RUSSIANS ARE TOLD ABOUT AID BY U.S.   Lend-lease Report Printed by Government Paper

RUSSIA TELLS OF LEND-LEASE   EEE aE  Standley Statement Stirs Paper And nati

FDR’S: SPEECH 10 PHILIPPINES HINTS FREEDOM IN 1946   Philippine Republic Is Promised As Soon As Japan Is Reaten

COAL INDUSTRY ON POWDER KEG   Situation Made Tense By Government Return of Mines to Owners.

Doubts Expressed "On Security Plan   ‘Fantastic’ Avows Thomas: Others See FDR Talk Aw Magnificent

MESSAGE PRAISED BY CONGRESSMEN   Remarks of the President Win General Com. mendation 

Talk Lauded Generally hy Congress   Few Have Reason for Finding Fault With Speech

Reds Seal Big Army Unit Fate Last Rail Course ~ Of Escape Is  - . Cut Off ©

GERMAN ARMY IS OUTFLANKED IN FAST MOVE   Corridors for Escape Of Axis Troops Are Reduced

Reds Virtually In Control Of Donets   Capture Of Krasnoarmeiskoye Seen As One Of Important Red Attacks Of Present Drive

German Jitters Amuse Britons   Cartoonists Feature Churchill’s Tour

“GIFT OF GOD” BABY PHYSICIAN IS FREED   Ludwig O. Muench Released Afte Serving Six Years for Attempted Mail Fraud.

Senate Votes To Reseind $25,000 Limit   Congressional Critic: Predict Early Doom of Order

Predict End To Salary Measure   Senate Approves Order To Rescind

VOTE TO KILL SALARY LIMIT   SENATE APPROVES PROPOSAL TO RESCIND ODRER

Nurse Millie Quaas Teaches  Gobs. Elements Of. Nursing   Former Public Health Of. cicial Now Ensign In   U. S’ Navy 

Airmen Dealing. Retreating Nazis . Worst Pasting   “Wide of Battle Swings Sharply in Allied Favor as Armored Units Retire to Three Miles From Pass

Weather Improves to Allow Great Air Strength To Aid Troops   RITTIWTIN

GERMAN DASH FOR THALA STOPPED AT END OF THREE DAYS   Allies Blast Retreating Forces Of Enemy Troops Along Road—. German Losses Said To Be - Considerable. .

Canada’s Steel Strike Spreads   Walkout Estimated Would Cut Steel Production Two-Thirds.

Canada’s Steel Output Cut Two-thirds   Strike Spreads To Four More Giant Plants

STEEL STRIKE IN CANADA IS ON INCREAS!   SPREADS TO FOUR MORE MILLS, CUTS OUTPUT TWO-THIRDS

* Hoarding Held As Cause of Liquor Shortage  Fabulous Prices Being Paid For Whisky

U.S. Forces Nearing Sea   Mid-Tunision Drive Pushes By El Guettar

U.S. FORCES CUT CORRIDOR TO 60 MILES   Nazis Launch Drive On North Front In Tunisia

ADVICE ISSUED TO HOUSEWIVES         ‘Asked To Clip “Consumer Dé claration” From Newspaper

Housewives Asked to Clip Copy Of Consumer Declaration Form, Fill ‘It Out, Register For Ration Book 2

DECLARATIONS FORCONSUMER PRINTED HERE   Clip Yours From This Paper; Each Family Must Have One

Urge Consumers To Be Prepared For Declaration  Excess Stocks of Coffee, Canned Goods

Meat Rationing Becomes Effective, March 29; No “Freeze Order Made

MEAT RATION 18 TO START. ON MARCH 28   CHEESE, BUTTER, EDIBLE FATS AND CANNED FISH ARE INCLUDED IN THE ORDER

DRIVING LAWS ARE REVISED   Ohio Motorists Advised Tc Take Note of Change Now In Effect

LIST CHANGES IN STATE'S MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS   New Rules Assure Money for Victim or Take Rights From Driver

Hitler Strives To Rally Forces For Last Stand   ‘Here  Will Stay!’ He Tells Army On Banks Of Dnieper River

Says Posi-War Peace Plans, As Now Outlined Are Doomed To Failure

NYESAYSU.S.WON'T HAVE WHOLE VOICE IN * PEACE: - PLANS   Says We Will Make Kind Of Peace Gur Allies. Will Allow’ Us To  - . Make

DOWNEY RAPS BiG ARMY PLEA, SAYS PLANES CAN WIN WAR IN FOUR MONTHS

Sen. Downey Declares Allies Could Bomb Nazis Out of War in 4 Months

Nazis Can Be Blasted Out of War   That is Opinion of Sen  Downey Talking for Wheeler Bill

Senator Scores War Plans Made by FR, Churchill   Downey Says Bombers Could Whip Germany Within Four Months

DOWNEY SAYS GREAT U.S. AIR FORCE ~ COULD FINISH GERMANY IN 4 MONTHS; © CLAIMS HUGE ARMY STRATEGY FOOLISH   Californian Challenges F.D. R.-Churchill Plans—Say: ; U. S. Plane Production Is Already 5 Times Greater Than Nazis

NEXT 100 DAYS VITAL TO WAR   Titanic Clashes Expected to Start by Spring

Indicate Next 100 Days Will See ‘Allies and Germany Poised for Or ‘Engaged  in War's Decisive Battles

Next Me Days. Ore Of Great at      See Military “And Political     Devalanmentc

SEE EUROPE AS BATTLEFIELD IN NEXT 100 DAYS   Developments Indicate That Bott Sides Are Poising For Clash

Bill For Control Board For Mental Hospitals Passed      Measure Creates Unified Board for Three Mentat Hospitals.

House Passes Measure Ordering Unified Board Of Control For Operating State’s Hospitals

Today’s War Commentary  Pacitic Fleet  Dares Japs To Come Out and Figh

Woman Awaiting Funeral of Her. . Baby Learns Husband and Mother Killed, Sister-Hurt, on the Way .

Veteran Marine Finds More Squawking At Home Than On Cuadalcanal:

Media Marine Finds More Squawking Here at Home Than on Guadalcanal

Gun Explosion © Causes Death _ Rolfe Soldier   Arthur Bendixen Dies at Camp Granite, Indio, Calif.

Escaped Nazi Prisoner Is Captured By Woman. Armed With Flashlight; 12 Of 19 Who Escaped Have Been Taken

Victory Is Won By House Wets   Beer Curfew Goes Back to Committee For Further Study

Wets Win Round In Ban. Of Beer      Bill Sent Back For Further Study

TUMTOIAN AREA  UUIET Ad RING IMPEDE ALLIES   Soviets Steadily Advance In Drive On Smolensk, Win Several Towns

Below Kharkov, Germans Claim New Advances   Japanese Backtrack In Burma While Rain Delays War  In Tunisia

Russians Deny Chuguev Lost To Nazi Army   Soviets Claim Important New Gains In Drive On Smolensk; 3220 Germans Reported Slain In Heavy Battles

Rains and Dust Storms Hold All Ground Forces Quiet in North Africa   Germans Claim Additional Advances Against Russians on Southern Front; Moscow Reports  Heavy Toll of Foe; More Aerial Raids Indicated

Touched Off By Recent Engagement Solomons Naval Showdown Looms   (Details of current fighting o7 Page 4-A}.

EMPRESS AUGUSTA SEA BATTLE MAY START BIG-SERIES:   JAPS EXPECTED TO. AT _TEMPT., RESCUE: OF . “BOUGAINVILLE TROOPS

War Buddies Journey To Honor Flie   Pay Final Honors Sunday to State’s No. 1 Aerial Ace   SILENCE MINUTE   —__o——— Youngsters Grieve At Tragic Death of ‘Buzz’ Wagner

U.S. Navy Bags 6 Enemy Ships, Damages More   Americans Lose Cruiser Helena in South Pacific

Think Six Jap Ships Are Sunk   Several Others Dam*zged in Kula Gulf Battle — Kiska Bombarded

6 Probably Sunk and 4 Are Damaged   U. §. Loses One Cruiser in Night Action Off New Georgia Island   Frantic Jap Air Raids Fail te Impede Steady Yank Progress

Navy Claims Six Nippon Warships Sunk In Battle   Victory In Solomons  Threatens Supply Line of Japs In Islands

U. 5. Cruiser Is Price Of Victory In Kula Gulf   Six Japanese Ships Sunk, Four Damaged; Enemy's Aleutians Guns Are Silent

U. S. LOSES. CRUISER IN KULA BATTLE    Enemy Shore Batteries  Fail To Return Fize. Of U.S. Warships —

TO JAP CRUISERS * AND DESTROYERS SUNK OR DAMAGED   MacArthur Hints Final Score May Be Bigger—One U. S$ Shiono Lost.

Shore Batteries Strangely Silent With Warships Going Unchallenged

CRUISER LOST IN SOLOMONS WAS HELEN,      Navy Confirms Six Ships Sunk, More Damaged in Kula

Six Sunk, Four  ‘Damaged  in. Battle of Kula   \One American Cruiser Lost In Clash Expected to Doom Foe’s Biggest Central Solomons Base ‘at.  Munda, M’Arthur Reports... =

Fleei Bombards Kiska Again; Kula Gulf Battle Seen As U. S. Victory

TEN JAPANESE CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS PROBABLY SUNK   Gen. MacArthur Hints That Enemy Losses May Be Higher; Navy Admits Loss of Cruiser Helena in Battle

10 ENEMY VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED -INKULAGULF AREA   Enemiy’s Land Batteries Fail To Return Fire—Americans Raid Jap Bases In Other Sections Of  Solomons Chain

3 “ARE DEAD IN HOSPITAL BLAZE   Only 18 Escape Oil-Fed Fire Ir Rest Home For Aged Near Seattle. Wash.

THIRTY-ONE ARE BURNED TO DEATH   Sanitarium On West Coast Is Scene Of Latest  Holocaust

FLAMES TOOK ~— LIVES OF 31   COUNTY HOSPITAL INMATES TRAPPED BY FIRE THAT SWEPT THEOUGH  BUILDING -

Mrs. M. L. Rayburn Claimed By Death   Well Known Resident For Forty Years

MRS WM. RAYBURK IS TAKEN BY DEATH   Had Been Ailing Since 80th Birthday On February 2

LAND SKIRMISHING FOLLOWS BIG AIR BATTLE IN GUINEA   Allied Forces Kili Additional 39 Japs Near Salamaua—41 Encmy Planes Downed Saturday

MINERS RETURN TOPITS ASUS. * GIVES MORE PAY   LB ‘Still Must 0.K. Pact for $1.50 Per Day Increase

MINERS AGREE TO GO BACK TO WORK   To Get $1.50 Per Day Raise in Return for Longer Hours

Miners Begin Return To Work As Strike Ends   Ickes And Lewis Reach. Tentative Agreement Which Ends Mine Tieup   LEWIS ORDERS MEN TO RETURN TO WORK

MORE PAY FOR MORE WORK 18 BASIS OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN ICKES AND LEWIS

MINERS RETURN TO PITS UNDER NEW CONTRACT   WLB Must Approve Pay Increase To Make Agreement Effective

Autopsy Reveals McAllen Girl Is Shot fo Death  Child 13 -de   Child, 12,:1s Found After Month's Search

Autopsy Reveals Missing McAllen Child Murdered   Body Found Thursday Was Missing For Month; Probe To  Continue

ALLIES CLOSING  IN ON NIPPONS  TRAPPED AT LAE YANKS AND AUSSIES  ALSO ADVANCING ON SALAMAUA AIR BASE

Allies Squeezing Ring Around Japs  Artillery Parachuted To Yank Troops

Armor Dropped By Parachutes Used On Enemy   Strong Offensive Patrolk Of Japanese Troops Routed In New Guinea

PARATROOPS HIT ENEMY TARGETS   Jap Troops Facing Fire From Artillery Dropped With Yank Forces

Australians Rout Japanese   Drive Within Range Of Enemy Guns at Lae Which Have Not Fired

Paralroops Shell Japs   Hundreds of Enemy Routed Near Lae in Clash With Aussies

JAP TARGETS FIRED ON IN THE LAE AREA   Using Field Pieces Dropped by ’Chute, Par. atroopers Are Bombarding New Guinea’s Markham Vallev.

1, ARTILLERY BLASTING JAP   Field Pieces Dropped By Parachute Now In Ac tion Near Lae

AIR-BORNE GUNS BURST INTO ACTION   Japanese Offering Little Resistance To Yanks, Aussies

FIELD PIECES PARACHUTED TO PARATROOPERS   Reassembled Artillery Turns Fire on Jap Targets in Markham Val ley—Aussies Advance   AIRSTRIP IN USE   Three Jap Airdromes on New Guinea in Imminent Danger of Capture, 20,000 Japs Trapped

Allied: Artillery’. Dropped: From:An Moves Upon Lae   Australians Now Within Range of Enemy Guns But They Have Not  Been Fired Yet: 

Field Artillery Dropped from Planes Now Hurling Shells Into Enemy Positions Near Lae While Aussies Close in from Opposite Side

ARTILLERY DROPPED  BY PARACHUTE NOW  FIRING ON JAPANESE NUMBERS OF ENEMY  TROOPS ROUTED BY AUS TRALIANS NEAR LAE

YANK TROOPERS BLAST JAPS IN VICINITY OF LAE   Artillery Pieces Dropped By Parachute Effective Against Enemy

YANKS PUSHING AHEAD TO LAE   Field Artillery Pieces Dropped By Parachute Firing At Japs.   JAP PATROL IS ROUTED'

Planes Drop Field Guns   Paratroopers Using Them On Jap Defenses

US Troops Advancing Toward Lae   Hundreds of Japs Routed 10 Miles East of Lae by Australian Infantry; Enemy Guns at Lae Silent

JAPS POUNDED BY YANK GUNS IN LAE ATTACK   Field Artillery Dropped By Parachute Is Used to Batter Enemy At New Guinea Base.   AUSSIES DRIVING TOWARD AIRDROME   Yank Paratroops Have Not: Met Serious Opposition In Markham Valley, MacArthur Says

Paratroop Artillery In Action   Guns Dropped From Air Are Assembled and Fired on Lea; Little Opposition

Allied Troops Tighten Noose Lae Defenders  Field Artillery Guns Are Dropped From Planes in   wy gal,

Yank Paratroops Turn Artillery On Japs At Lae   Australian Infantry Puts Enemy To Rout

NAZIS RETREAT AFTER SAVAGE SIX-DAY BATTLE   Acerno, 45 Miles Southeast of City, Captured by Allies

Raleigh County Goes Over Its Bond Quota By $32,292   Third War Loan Campaign Will End Today; Total Purchases Amount To $2,211,292; Final Tally To Be Made Tonight

Non-Stop Raids On Kiska Likely   Dawn-To-Dusk Raids On Aleutians Are Foreseen By Experts   SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIDS CONTINUE

NON-STOP RAIDS! ON KISKATO  BE RESUMED   Intensification of Air War in All Parts of Pacific Expected

VOTE ON BOND BILL DELAYED      Opponents Win Round Af. ter Adoption of Favor. able Report

State Senate Votes 15 Tc 14 To Make Bill Special Order For Today   CHESAPEAKE NETTING BILL RECOMMITTED

Mobilization of Manpower in Lands Occupied by Nazis Proving to Be Boomerang: Resistance General

Nazi Manpower Plans Backfire    ‘Sabotage In Areas Said On Inerenca

GOAL STRIKE:: -- NEARING END   MANY MINERS WERE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO WORK TODAY PENDING SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTE OVER  "UNION DUEB

HUSBAND HELD AS SUSPECT I POY SLAYING   “Battle Royal” in Luxurious Apartment Leaves Blood on Stairway,

‘Husband of. Murdered  Heiress Held in Canada   Flying Cadet To Be Questioned About Murder of Estranged Mrs. Wayne Lonerean in NV. YC.

Pretty Socialite Heiress Beaten To Death In Her New York Home; Companion Held

MAN QUIZZED IN WOMAN'S DEATH   RAF Officer's Wife Slain Ir New York Apartment

Slain Heiress’ Husband Held   Victim Fought Furiously, Police Say

Socialite Slain In Apartment   RCAF Cadet Is Taken Into Custody For Questioning On Death Of Estranged Wife

Brewery Heiress Slain In New York Apartment; Night Club Escort Held

Murder Apparently © Followed Gay Tour of Stork Club and Other Haunts of Cafe Society.

MISSING UNIFORM IMPORTANT CLUE IN HEIRESS’ DEATH   Authorities Check Conflicting Stories Told By Estranged Hushand.

Heiress Slain; Husband Held  Wife of Canadian Air Cadet Found Ranten ta Banth

Four Oklahomans Missing In Action   Sulphur, Wewoka, Maud And Dale Represented

Healdton Man Now Missing   Tech Sgt. Teague © Missing in Action In European Theater

CHURCHILL IMPROVING   Leng Recuperation Peried Anticipated By Physicians

L. A. Newspapers Protest OWI Order Channeling News From U. S. Agencies

Press Revolts At OWI “Gag”   Los Angeles Papers Scrap Ration News

RUSSIANS DOWN 29 MORE AXIS PLANES   Land Action Is Breaking Out Along Russian Front.

AMERICANS ROLL NAZIS BACK 6 MI.   Record-Breaking Aerial Onslaught Supports Offensive

British Eighth, First Armies Plus American Second Corps Begin Their Grand Smash   Combined Strength of the Allies Is Being Thrown at Cornered Axis Forces. ‘Defenders Forced Back 7 Miles.

FINAL DRIVE IN AFRICA ROLLING ON. ALL FRONTS   U. 5. Troops Gain Six Miles After Desperate Fighting Near Mateur.

Attack on Kuriles Surprises Japs   _. Japs Expect More Yank Raids on Tokyo

STALIN REJECTS SEPARATE PEACE PLEA OF GERMANS   Acknowledges Aid of Allies and Joins “Unconditional Surrender” Pledae.

Stalin Lauds Allied Blows; Sees 2nd Front   Rejects Suggestions Russ Would Accept Separate Peace With Nazis

JOS. STALIN EXPRESSES OPTIMISM   Also Says Russia Will Make No  Separate Peace

‘Tells Russians Allied Blows Have Created Prerequisites for End of Hitler.

Course Of War Is Changed By Allied Blows On Land And In  Air - " MAY DAY ORDER   _ MAY DAY ORDER  Blows From East And West _ Now Merged, Premier  TDiaclarac

STALIN-BLASTS SINGLE PEACE   RED PREMIER SEES ALLY VICTORY IN NEW BLOWS

Gangster Is Killed as He Gets Shave   Police Character in Chicago Assassinated in a Barber  Shop

Chicago Man © Slain. While In Barber Chain   Gangland War Is Blamed For The Fatal Shooting In North Side: Shop Of Thomas Oneglia -

Allies Make Way To Strategic Italian Position   Ground Forces Take Mountain Tops; Flier: Rake Fleeing Nazis With Explosives; Prisoner Toll Surpasses 2,000 Fighters

Allies Seize Heights Over Naples’ Roac   Salerno Action Cost U. S. 3,497 Casualties To Sept. 15, Says War Department Report

2,000 Nazis Captured By ~ Clark’s Surging 5th Army   Allied Airmen Smash German Troops Fleeing From Corsica: 19 Junkers Downed

ALLIES DRIVE TO MOUNTAINS OVER NAPLES   AIRMEN TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF FLEEING AXIS TROOPS

merican and British Forces mash Way to Mountain Top: uarding Plain of Naples

INVADERS IN POSITION T0 SHELL ENEMY   Bombers Slaughter Nazi Transports Trying to Flee Corsica

LLIED TROOPS CAPTURE PEAKS   irmen Take Growing Toll Of Enemy Fleeing From Corsica   hone LOADED TRANSPORT IRPLANES ARE DAMAGED

Yanks Storm Mountain Top   Fifth Smashes On; Voll In. Corsica Evacuation Mounts:

Naples Plain Is In Sight As Nazis Give Way   Fifth Army Pressed On Day And Night In Ruaqged Terrain

NAPLES PLAIN WITHIN alGhT UF FIFTH ARMY   Americans And_ Britisl Smash Way To Tops Of Mountains

Capture More Than 2,000 Prisoners   Bombers Continue Air Assaults On Nazi Communications

Toll Of Germans Seeking Corisca Escape Grows As Airmen Bag 19 Junkers

Ground Forces Take Mountain Tops; Flier: Rake Fleeing Nazis With Explosives; Prisoner Toll Surpasses 2,000 Fighters

Air Forces Give Support To Infantry   Graind Troops Finish Laborious Task of Reaching Heights

Allies Fight To Top of Ridges   Taking More German Prisoners In Drive On Naples

ALLIES REACH HEIGHTS OVER NAPLES PLAIN   Smash Way to Mountain Tops Where Neither Trucks Nor Tanks Can Go.   MORE THAN 2,000 NAZI PRISONERS CAPTURED

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES ON NAPLES   Going Is Slow In Drive Up Mountains; 2000 Prisoners Taken

Allies Seize Heights Over Naples Plat   Destroy. Damage Air Transports Carrying Nazi Experts From Corsica.   THREATEN AIR FIELDS

JTH ARMY IS ENTRENCHED ON MOUNTAIN TOPS   19 Nazi Transports Evacuating Corsica Shot  Down

Fifth Army Smashes To Mountain Tops Overlooking Big Metropolis   Allied Airmen Take Growing Toll Of Nazi Troops Trying To Escape Corsica By Air

Allies Smash Air Evacuation From Corsica   Sea-Borne Flight From Island Hit By Warplanes

Fifth Army Wins Heights Above Naples   Nineteen More Nosi Transports Downed Evacuating Corsica

YANKS- BRITISH GAIN IN DRIVE TOWARD NAPLES   Reach Mountain Tops In - Savage Battle; English Army Nears Foggia, Strategic Field

Airmen Take Growing Toll Of Nazis Trying To Evacuate Corsica   British Eighth Army Within 60 Miles Of Foggia Fifth Army Meeting Tough Resistance

Long Fight On Exclusion Law Expected   Bill Granting Citizenship to Chinese Claims House Attention; FDR to Send Food Message to Congress

OPENING OF DOORS UNITED STATES T0 CHINESE PLANNED   VARCED OPINIONS ON OLE EXCLUSION ACT BRINGS LONG DEBATE

Floods Checked By Cold Weather   Many Streams Receding; North Hit By Snow:

Complete Long-Term Occupation of Germany May Have Been Discussed

German Future  -Parleys’ Topic   Long-Term Occupation Is Discussed Alone With  Destroying Arms

Postwar Occupation of Germany Is  Believed Talked at Moscow Parley

Allied Planes Smash at French Coast in Raids Designed  to Knock Out German Defenses

U.S. PLANES DOWN 7 AXIS TRANSPORTS   Attack Fleet Of 50 German Junkers—Yesterday’s Total Now 23

23 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   U. S. Airmen Lose Only 8 In the Day's Fighting

400 STRIKE AT COVEL PLANT   Walk Out In Protest To Discharge of Union Steward

Panzer Patrols Continue Firing On Danish Groups   Brutal Street Shootings Are Told, With 6,400 Deaths In One Town

Ferman Troops Fire on Civilian Groups In Danish Towns: Manu Renorted Killed

GERMANS ENFORCE MARTIAL LAW; FIRE ON DANISH PEOPLE   ‘Danes ° Defy y Overlords ‘At ‘Every Opportunity _ "King Himself Is  A Leader

GERMAN TROOPS FIRE-ON GROUPS ‘IN STOGKHOLB   King Christian Encourages Stiff Resistance by Danes

MANY RESIDENTS IN DANISH TOWNS KILLED BY NAZIS   Fire Indiscriminately On AU Groups. Claim 6,000 Die In One Town

NAZIS MURDERING DANISH CIVILIANS   Roving German Troops Firing Without Provocation

NAZI SOLDIERS TOUR STREETS KILLING DANES   Civilians Being Slain In discriminately But Continue Revolt

Thousands of Danes Reported Slain By Nazis; Troops Fire on Crowds

Nazis Ruthlessly Slaughtering Danes; King Christian x and  People Defy Hitler,s Huns  Every Group With More Than Five Peo ple in It Is a Target—National ‘ Leaders Are Rounded Up..

NAZI TROOPS ARE FIRING ON DANES   King Christian Gives Approval To Resistance

GANDHI CAN SURVIVE. FAST, DOCTORS SAY   Indian Leader Sure He Will Live . Makes Plans on What He Will Do Next

WEST VIRGINIA PLANT HAS FATAL EXPLOSION   Production of War Materials Moves Along At S. Charieston In Wake of Blast

PRIVATE: SAMUEL. Cc. ‘SAYLOR, 3RD IS RECOVERING: FROM: BROKEN: BA

Civilians Are Facing Another  Cut In Goods   15 Per Cent Reduction Now Expected; Clothing To Be One Of Items

Yanks’ Armored Forces Evade Nazi Tank Ambush in Africa, Lash Back at German Troops

[AMERICAN TANK  FORCES EVADE i NAZI TRAP   Similarly Prepared Trap Used Against British In Lybian Desert  Last S:ummer

“PRICE CHANGES DELAY ORDERED   “New OPA Mark-Up Schedule Has Been Rescinded

OPA Mark Down Of Food Prices Proves To Be Mark Up Instead, So Deal Is Off

British Also Flank Line ‘From South   Gen. Rommel Strikes At Americans to North, Only 31 Miles from Sea  GREAT BATTLE LOOMS

Mareth Line Breached By British, Americans  Threaten Other Flank   Decisive Battle for Southern Tunisia Begins, But Hard, Critical Fighting Is Ahead; Russians Beat Back Germans on Zhizdra Front

REARING ON HOBBS BILL OPENS TUESDAY   First Labor Fight Of 78th Congrss To Start

Spermatozoa 500 Miles By Air Causes Pregnancy   3 Doctors‘Report Amazing Case In Canada: Is First Successful Experiment

Drive On Japs In New Guinea  Being Extended   Land, Sea And Air Attack Is Made Upon Supply Base At Finschhafen   JAPS RESIST BUT ARE DRIVEN BACK

ALLIES LAND “TROOPS NEAR ~ FINSCHHAFEN   Gr eat Japanese Base  Threatened   DRIVE EXTENDED   Nimitz Bares Blows at Islands

BIG ALLIED UNITS POUND JAP BASE AT FINSCHHAFEN   Land, Sea and Air Attack Aimed at Base, 63 Mites from Lae

ARN SERUC   Another Group of Tipton _ County Men ‘Go to Fort. © Benjamin Harrison. 

TEN MEN 1 ARMY obRVIGt   Another Group cf Tipton County Men Go to Fort. Berjamin Harrison.

FARM SOLONS IN ATTACK ON THE TRIPLE-f   Committee Of 48 Organized To Present Solution Of Farm Problems To Roosevelt

Russia Receives More Lend-Lease Munition Than England, Repor      United States is Outbuilding the Aggressors in Every Category of Arms, Reports Roosevelt in Report. To Congress ©

Uo. MUNITIONG ONT TO ove] TOP BAIT ANS   Russia Now Getting Biggest Share Of Our Equipment Reports Roosevelt   LEND-LEASE AID TOPS 11 BILLION DOLLARS   U.S. Outbuilding Aqgressors In Every Arms Category, President Declares

11 BILLIONS EXPENDED 10 DATE, REVEAL   This Country Outbuilding Aggressors in All Categories of Arms, President Reports

Report on Aid Given  Conaress   Roosevelt Says U. S, Out. building Enemy — Work to Win Quickly

LEND-LEASE RUSSIAN AlD IS INCREASED   U.S Outbuilding Enemies In Every Category, Says Roosevelt

RUSSIA 1S GIVEN ‘MORE MUNITIONS ~ THAN BRITISHERS   Roosevelt, Told’ Congress. To; tal Through’ April: Exceeds  UN Billion, . Reports © or ~> Building. .   ENGLAND ISFIRSTIN — ALL LEND-LEASE: GOODS   Report ; Promises Uncondi= tional ° Surrender, .. China Will Receive More _ With Burma Reopening. .

More Lend-Lease Munitions Have Been Sent to Soviet Than to Britain, FDR Says

MORE LEND-LEASE AID BEING SHIPPED TO SOVIET RUSSIA   FDR Reports To Congress That Aid To Allies - For April Totaled  11 Billions

ENEMY HOLDS ONTOSTRONG LINE IN ITALY   ALLIES MAKE ONLY MINOR GAINS ON ROAD TO ROME

New German line in Italy very strong   Spectacular nazi counter expected

ALLIED ARMIES RECORD MINOR GAINS IN ITALY   British 8th Advances To 6 Miles; Clark’s Force Captures  Two Heights

Grim Contest For Rome InProspect   Germans Entrenchec In Mountain Area May Counterattack

ALLIES TAKE TOWNS, HILLS; NAZIS BiG IN   Face Difficult Job As They Pull Up Before Germans’ New Line; No Victory Before Snow Fall.   Blast Airfields

Allied Army Records Sligh Advance In Italy As Germans Strengthen Line

Allies Pull Up To New Germai Line in Italy   British Take 2 Towns. Americans 2 Ridges As Nazis Entrenched  For Defense of Rome

ALLIES MAKE SMALL GAIN IN ITALIAN DRIVE   British Capture Two Towns, Yanks Take Two Ridges

Minor Advances Are Made by Allies in Italy   Last Nazi Forces Are Withdrawn to © Mountain Defenses

Allies Make Minor Gains In Italy   Weather, German Last Stand Tactics Slow Down Drive

‘Two Towns Held By British In Italy; U.S, Forces Advance   Last German Rear Guards Withdrawn Into Mountain — ~-Defense Line—Terrific-Counter-offen- =  sive Ie Exnecrted

Eighth Army Advances  3 to 6 Miles   Nazi Rear Guards Withdraw to New Defense Line

German Rear Guards Withdray To Mountains   Minor Gains Made; 8th Army Advances; Occupies Towns

‘Two Towns Held By British  In Italy: LS. Forces Advance   Last German Rear Guards Withdrawn Into Mountain Defense Line—Territic Counter-offen e;iwa le Ewnartead

Nazis Driven To Mountain line   Tough Job Ahead Of Allied Armies

DECEMBER TIRE QUOTA IS HIGHER   Raised 27,685 Units, Say:  OPA Announcement

BOARD REFUSES PLEA OF BURKS   Toni Jo Henry’s Partner : Due To Die Tuesday

Weather in Helena  By U.S. Westher Suraaw      Third War Loan Drive Bond Show at Marlow Theater Tonight Will Present Unusual Features

Weather in Helena   Third War Loan Drive Bond Show at Marlow Theater Tonight Will Present Unusual Features

ICKES AT MEETING ON MIDWEST GAS RATION    Attends Conference On Whether  ss Altowance Should Be. Cut.

IN BITUMINOUS AREA INCREASED   Approximately 23 C Cents Per Tor Increase For This District

Eisenhower Supervises Conflict Personally. Yanks Give Wavy At Some Points

BOOST IN MEAT SUPPLY LOOMS   WFA Suspends Slaughtering Limitations For September, October

Remove Lid On Livestock Slaughtering  Increased Meat Supply For Civilians Assured As Result Of Action  a am «

CIVILIAN SUPPLY OF MEAT BOOSTED BY ATLEAST 20 PE.   Housewife, WFA Says, Will _ Be Able to Use All Her Ration Stamps.

G.0.P ATTACKS   Vice President Accused o! Diverting Attention from Home Front

MONEY POWERS HIT BY WALLACE   Detroit Speech Pooh-poohed By Republicans as Mere Cover-up for Failures

Wallace Strikes At “Fascists” In United States   Would Undo What FDR Has Built

GOP Charges Dems Evade Home Issue   Wallace Charges Powerful Factions Trying to Destroy FDR Accomplishments

allace ‘“‘Covering Up” for ew Deal Failures, ls Claim      lictment of “Isolationists” and “American Fascists’ Provekes Republican Charge He Is Attempting to  3 sheer £  * Take Func mid Leon TAT ASaIAR A yecenen Of Administration Gn Tiome Front” “2

WALLACE, GIVEN ~~ GOP COMEBACK   say Speech Attempt to “Take Public Mind Off Demo Messes’”

Wallace Answered By Republicans  GOP Charges Attempt To Take Public Mind OFF Recent Troubles

'Isolationists Are Indicted By Wallace   Republicans Charge Vite President Trying to Take Public Mind Off Embarrassing Messes ,

Says Wallace Tries To Cover Up New Deal’s Domestic Mess   His Speech At Detroit Seen As Effort To Take Public Mind Off Embarrassing Muddle In This Country

WALLAGE’S TALK BRINGS GHARGE   Indicts ‘American Fascists’ To Divert Public Mind Is Claim.

Republicans Say Wallace Easing The Public Mind   Isolationist Indictment Is to Relieve Talk of Home Front Mess.

BRITAIN'S NAVY PREPARED FOR BIG OPERATION   Kvery Invasion Detail Worked Out Now, Paper Says

Allies Ready to Invade Europe  Warships Prepared To Cover Landinas

ALLIED INVASION OF EUROPE 1S DU AT AN EARLY DATE   Details Are Complete London Hears, Warships Take Up Positions, Barges Ir Tunisian Waters.   MUSSOLINI, LEADERS PLAN FOR DEFENSES   Newspaper Describes Impending Invasion as Great-est Naval Operation in All History. 

INVASION PLAN DETAILS READY   London Paper Says Opening Of New Front Imminent

WARSHIPS NOW IN POSITIGN, PAPER SAYS   News-Chronical! Writes 2nd Front Opening Near

LONDON SAYS ALL IS READY FOR INVASION   Every. Detail Worked Out;  .. Warships:In--» Strategic: Position

London Dispatch Says Plans Ready For Second Front   British Warships ‘Take U, Pasitions'; Italy Links At tack With Red Drive

EVERY DETAIL IS WORKED OUT FOR INVASION      Invasion Of Europe Imminent Ac cording To London Newspaper

Sole Survivor Tells Of  Crash That Killed 14; Gen. Andrews Not Pilot

SOLE SURVIVOR OF CRASH IN WHICH 14 DIED TELLS STORY   Lt. Gen. Andrews, Bishop Leonard Aboard ‘Plane -——Ohio Soldier Is  Commentator

Fifth An-v Advance Give: Allies Dominant Position For New Drive To Rome

BITTER FIGHTING NOW RAGING IN SNOW IN RUSSIA   Air Attacks Indicate New Offensives Planned by Allies Against Japs

YANKS CAPTURE MOUNT CAMINO INHARD FIGHT   Fifth Army Seizes Lofty Mountain Summit, Again Take Vital Ridge On Route to Rome

Allied Forces Take Three Villages and Recapture a Ridge   Enemy Pushed Off High Ground in Italian Fighting as Americans and British Hammer Relentlessly at Foe—New Gains on Adriatic Sector.

SUMMIT OF MT. CAMINO IS CAPTURED   American Hammer Blows Through Winter Line Accompanied By Fresh Gains By British   MORO RIVER CROSSED

ALLIED TROOPS MAKE SAVAGE, STEADY DRIVES   Evidence of Heavy German Casualties in Battle Revealed

Americans Rout  Foe From Three Towns In Battle   Nazis Shoved Back In Savage Attacks By Allied Forces

NAZIS ROUTED FROM TOWNS NEAR MIGNANO   Monastery Ridge Retaken: German Casualties Reported Severe: Planes Hit Enemy Port

Fifth Army: Takes Mt. Camino, Three Towns; British Regain Losses

THE ALLIED STH ARMY HAS CAPTURED MT, CAMINO SUMMIT   Troops Also Routed the Germans From Three Villages.   NEW HEIGHTS ARE WON   Enemy Was Shoved Back to the Fringe of Ridges of Mt. Camino.

Allies Take Summit Of Mt. Camino   Fifth Army Commands Road To Cassino; Fresh Eighth Army Gain.

Gain Again in Savage ‘Encounter   Fifth Army Takes Important Heights Overlooking Road to Cassino and Rome:   NEAR: PLAIN. WHERE TANKS CAN BE USED   Bitter Battle for Every Foot of Ground; ‘Nazi Losses: Are Severe

YANKS CAPTURE MOUNT CAMINO ON ROME ROAD   Rout Nazis From Three Villages and Regain Monastery Ridge

5th Army Drive Gains New Heights   Germans Routed From 3 Villages In Fighting for Road to Rome

U.S. Captures Italian Hill, Germans Flee   Bitter Fight Wins New Advantage; British Also Gain

German Losses Heavy In Unsuccessful Attempts To Stop Allied Advance

REDS MAKE NEW GAINS, OFFSETTING RETREAT IN ONE AREA: FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES

SUMMIT TAKE BY FIFTH ARMY   Rout Nazis From Villages And Recapture Ridge in Drive to Rome.   TADRIATIC GAINS TOLD.

YANKS CAPTURE LOFTY SUMMIT OF MT. CAMINO   BRITISH 8TH ARMY MAKES FRESH GAINS ON ADRIATIC COAST

U.S. Fifth Slices Through Nazi Defenses in Italy   British Crush Repeated Nazi Attacks

TAKE SUMMIT OF CAMINO; ALSO 3 TOWNS   In Addition, Fifth Army Forces Recapture Monastery Ridge — Some Yanks Near Plain Accessible to Tanks. s

emwiAashisi  GEAMANG PUT U STUBBORN BATTLE   Monastery Ridge, Overlooking Road To Rome, Is Recaptured   EIGHTH ADVANCES   Fresh Gains Scored By Allies In Adriatic Coastal Sector

SUMMIT TAKE BY OTH ARMY ON ROME ROAD   Capture Lofty Mt. Camino, Re-take Blood-Soaked Monastery Ridge

Rain-Blood-Soaked Position Captured on Highway to Rome   Fifth Army Captures Summit of Lofty Mt. Camino in Drive

oth Army Takes Mit. Camino Ridse   HERE IS SITUATION MAP SHOWING ITALIAN FRONT

British Fifth Army Scores New   Gains Near Adriatic—One Nazi Division Knocked Out   CIVITAVECCHIA HIT   Americans Already Working Way Down to Camino Plain, Where Tanks Can Be Utilized

Starts Down Slopes To Rome Plains   Advances Made By Allies After Bitter Fighting

Fifth Army On Summit of Mount Camino   Capture Made After Bloody Fighting; Eighth Army in New Gains

FIFTH ARMY TAKES MOUNT CAMINO IN SAVAGE FIGHTING   Menastery Ridge on Road to Rome Also Captorand he Alliac

5th ih Ary Seizes Mount Camino; British Advance   Heavy Casualties Of Nazis Revealed By Reinforcements

Clark § Army Gains Summit of Mt. Camino   Pierce Deeply Inte Nazi Winter Line on Road to Cassino

Nazis Are Cleared from High Ground Region by  General Clark’s Forces

5th Army  Captures Camino   GERMANS ROUTED FROM THREE VILLAGES AS MONASTERY RIDGE FALLS

Savage U.S. ‘Blows Send. Foe Reeling   Fifth Army Takes Mountain Top and Vital Ridge in Ritter Fighting

Blood-Soaked Monastery Ridge Taken By 5th Army In Bitter Raging Battle

Fifth Smashes. Ahead Against Nazi Positions   Mt. Comino Summit Is Taken and Additiona Villages Are Occupied By Clark’s Fighters

Allied Forces Capture Mt. Camino, Rout Germans From Three Villages Near Mignano And Retake Monastery Ridge—Steady, Savage Thrusts Of American And British Troops Push Enemy Back—Eighth Army Registers Limited Advances

Lofty Height Taken, Nazis Routed From 3 Villages   Nazi Officers Under Severe Allied Attack Annihilated; Fifth Army Near Plain

Fifth Army Captures 2. Key Heights   Savage Thrusts Gain Ground For Allies

ALLIES POUND NAZIS BACK ON ROAD TO ROME   Fifth Army Captures Summit of Lofty Mount and Rout the Germans.   British Make Fresh Gains Along Adriatic

ENEMY 1S SHOVED BACK AS AMERICAN, BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUE SAVAGE ATTAGKS

Fifth Continues To Smash Deep Into Strong Winter - German Defense Barriers

YANKS CAPTURE HEIGHTS AFTER BITTER ATTACK   British Also Advance In Drive Along East Coast

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES LOFTY SUMMIT   Fresh Gains Made By Americans In Italy

Gain More Ground In Savage Attack   Summit of Mount Camino on Road to Rome Held -by Fifth Army =”   NAZIS SUFFER LOSSES   German Infantry Division Replaced After Costly  _ Defense

3 VILLAGES CAPTURED BY ALLIES   Nazis Shoved Back To * Northern Fringe Of Mountain Ridges

Fifth Army Takes Lofty Mt. Camino   Many Signs of Heavy Nazi Losses in Defense of Rome

Blood - Soaked Rid ge Recaptured By U. S. Forces; British Sth  Crushes Nazi Blows

U. S. Troops Occupy Three More Towns, Sth Army Advances   Fifth Army Dents German Winter Line Toward Cassino, Report Nazi Casualties High

Sth Army Scores Fresh Gains In Adriatic Secter   Duyehboys and Fonures Push Germans Back Tn Steady Savage Thrusts. Fight In Rain Against Desperate Enemy Defense and Coumeral tacks.

Yanks Capture Key Summit Of Lofty Camino —      ‘Within Short Distance Of Plains Where Tanks Can Be Used.

[Seize Mount Camino And Monastery Ridge   Steady, Savage Thrusts Made Against Bitter Nazi Resistance; Yanks Near Plains Where Tanks Can Be Used

Allies Command Chief Positions  For Rome-Drive   Blood-Soaked Monastry Ridge Retaken By Fifth Army; British Crush German Attacks

STRICKEN CITY IS TAKEN BY CHINESE      Jap Invaders Are Moved Back From Vital Rice Bowl

Disclosure of U. S. Help To Spain Arouses Ire of Various Congressmen

Shipment Of Oil To Spain  Stirs Solons Danial Ie Made   Denial Is Made By State Dent.

 Cotton and Food Sent to Spain,   State Dept. Denies Oil Shipped

ROME REPORTS INVASION MADE IN GREAT FORCE   German People Long Kept in Dark by Berlin Radio, Vichy Indi. cates Several Landings

Admit Action Is On ‘Vast Scale’   Italian Communique Tells of Operations

OPERATIONS ON “VAST SCALE” ALONG COAST ITALIAN OFFICIALS REPORT ON BROADCAST

ROME REPORTS ALLIED ATTACK ON VASTSCALE      Berlin Delays Broadcast of  invasion News Long Af ter Announcement Made by Allies

ITALIANS REPORT ALLIED OPERATIONS ARE ON VAST SCALE  GERMAN RADIO ADMITS INVASION OF ITALY BU1 SAYS NO SURPRISE

A Call To Prayer Goes Out To All People   VV OFlIG vay UF s rayon Friday, March 12, 1943 2:30 P. M.

A Call To Prayer Goes Out To All People   World Vay of Frayer Friday, March 12, 1943 2:30:-P. M.

Recovery Of Nurse From Deadly Malady May Pave Way To Save Wounded Soldiers

Blood Infection Treatment Cited: May Save Lives of Many Soldiers

Sign of Split In Farm Price  Policy Board   OPA Orders Sub-Parity Price Ceilings Continued qn Carn.   Comes as Surprise to Leaders of Farm Bloc

SPLIT IS POSSIBLE ON PRICE POLIC'   OPA Orders Sub-parity Price Ceiling Continued on Major Commodity.

SIGNS OF A SPLIT ~ ON THE FARM PRICE POLICIES. SEEN   Sub Parity Price Ceilings Were Ordered Continued on Corn.   OPA ACTION A SURPRISE   Matter Has Not Been Settled Yet, Spokesmen for Agriculture Dept. Said.

PREDICT SPLIT ON FARM PRICE POLICY INU, S.   Administration’s Economic Bosses  Differ On Plan

SUB - PARITY PRICE CEILINGS ON CORN ARE TO CONTINUE   Administration’s Economic High ~ Command Spht Expected Due to Order”

Split Over Low Corn Ceiling Seen   Administration Is Divided on Subject

SIGNS OF SPLIT ON FARM PRICE POLICY SCENTED   Administration Bigwigs in Dispute Over Ceilings And Parity Formula   CORN IS CRUX OF FUSSES   OPA Puts Subparity Lid on Main Livestock Feed in Surprise Action

SIGNS OF SPLIT AMONG LEADERS ON FARM PRICES  DISAGREE OVER OPA ORDER TO CONTINUE

Farm Bloc Near Split   Continuance Of Sub-Parity Corn Ceilings Blamed

SIGNS OF SPLIT ON FARM PRICE POLICIES   Byrnes Directs Continuance of Sub-Parity Ceiling. Aggy Dept. Says Matter Not Settled

EXTEND SUB-PARITY CORN PRICE CEILING   Byrnes Directs Continuance of Program; Action Is Surprise to Farm Bloc

PROBE CAIRO’S 41H MAJOR FIRE   STATE FIRE MARSHAL BELIEVES THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG

STATE OFFICERS START PROBE OF FIRES IN CAIRO   Fourth Major Blaze Speeds Investigation

“Something Wrong" in Cairo, State Fire Marshal Says; Plans Inquiry

A Least One Break Occurs; Rise Continues   Crest Appears Near at Fort Smith; White on Equal Rampage

NAZIS MOVE SWIFTLY T0 CONTROL ROME   Mussolini Placed At Head Of Reorganized Fascist Rule

GERMANS MOVE T0 SMASH REVOLT IN NORTH ITALY AREA.      Berlin Radio Says Il Duce Soon Will Announce Formation Of New Fascist Regime.

NAZI IRON RULE CLAMPED OUWN UPON ITALIANG   Germans Moving Swiftly Te Crush All Revolts In Occupied Areas

North Italy Revolution Continuing   Nazis Act Swiftly To Halt Disorders; ° Benito Maps Recime

NAZIS SMASH REVOLTS I IN’ ROME, MILAN   . Let Cities Know They Are Under . ‘German Rule

Pittsburgh Area Is Hit Last Night; Much Damage   FLOOD WATERS CLOSE BRIDGEVILLE MINE

Flood Waters Trap Six in Coal Mine  Biteeeesiicccomecs ee   Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio Hit By Flash Floods

Crews Work ToSaveSix Men Trapped In Mine By Flood   Bridgeville Scene Of Frantic Ef fort To Reach Men In Hickman Pit

STORES ASKED TO LIMIT SHOE SALES   Play Shoes Will Be Removed From Rationing Beginsing Thursday.

TO LIMIT SALES OF NON-RATIONED SHOES   Various Types of Shoes Ex empted from Rationing

4-H GIRLS MEETING AT HIGH SCHOOL   Highland Township Group Program Given on Wednesday Evening Next Week.

Divorce, Other Items On Court Schedule Here   One Suit Filed, Decree Entered, Birthdates Established and J. P. Case Is Appealed.

LIFER’ ADMITS HE KILLED MAN 16 YEARS AGO   Similarity of Clayton County Crimes Led To Solution

Ft. Madison Lifer Admits Farm Killing   Doing Time For Second Slaying, He Clears Up 16-Year-Old Mystery.

SIMILARITY IN TWO SLAYINGS CAUSED PROBE   “Lifer” Confesses He Killed Wilkes Williams on Clayton County Farm

U.S. S. Spending ~ Little Abroad   Maj. Spiegelberg Appears At Lend-Lease Hearing; “Offset: Reviewed: ©

U.S. Forces Get Supplies From British   Committee Is Told How Lend-Lease Operates In Reverse

ARMY OFFICER CLAIMS BRITISH AID U.S.TROOPS   Services Required In United Kingdom Procured  As Reciprocal Aid From British   PROBE LEND-LEASE   Major States British Fulfilling Obligations to U.S. Under LendLease Program

HEAVY RAIDS MADE ON JAP! ON WEEK-END      Planes And Subs Both Claim Toll In Many Actions

All Planes Return Safely From Week End Attacks On Japs.   ‘SINK 12 ENEMY SHIPS

NO COMPROMISE ATTITUDE TAKEN BY BOTH SIDES   Union Boss and Operators Defy Government as Pits Remain Closed   NEGOTIATIONSRESUMED   Meanwhile, Ways To Avert Paralysis of Industry Feverishly Studied

Board Voids Any Action by Parley  Until Strike Ends    : Refuses to Sanction Agreements Reached Under “Strike Coercion,” Says Tele  gram to Lewis and Operators

WLB TO ACCEPT NO AGREEMENTS AT CONFERENCK   ‘Strike Coercion’ Is Assailed; President Has ‘Hot Coal’ to Cool

NEGOTIATIONS -AREHALTEDBY ORDER OF WLB   Board Refuses to Sanction’ Any Pact Reached by “Strike Coercion”   ‘OPERATORS, UNION HAVE NO COMMENT   Work Stoppages Are Held As Violations of NoStrike Pledae

WLB Orders Wage Parley Called Off   Says Walk-Out ‘In Violation Of Pledae

Say Agreement Reached Now Will Not Be Considered Or Approved   But Lewis and Representatives of the Operators Proceed Without Little Interruption and No Comment

LABOR BOARD URDENS WAGE TALKS HALTED   Declares No Agreement While Strike Is On Will Be Approved.   DIRECTS PRODUCTION OF . COAL BE CONTINUED

Orders All Bargaining To Cease   Warns Any Agreement Reached During Strike Will Not Be Recognized By the Beard

War Labor Board Unanimously Decides Not to Approve Any Agreement Mode While Miners Are Not Working It Says

Labor Board Puts Halt to Negofiations  Men Must Retur To Work Asserts hAadintian Panel

MINE CONTRACT PARLEY HALTED BY WLB ORDER   Strike Checked Back To FDR For Such Action As He Sees Fit   STEEL OUTPUT PERILED   WLB Rules Out Any Pact Influenced By “Strike Coercion”’

Mine Walkout Referred To White House: Hit At Coercion By Lewis Union

BOARD WARNS AGREEMENT REACHED DURING STRIKE WILL NOT BE APPROVED

REFERS CASE TO PRESIDENT FOR ACTION   Board Says It Will Not Recognize Any Agreements Reached While Walkout Exists —500,000 Men Are Tdle.

Federal Agency Orders Disputing Parties To Stop Their Contract Negotiations—Secretary Ickes Terms Miners’ Action Strike Against Government—John L. Lewis And “A Few Powerful Operators” Criticized By U. S. Fuel Administrator

COAL MINE STRIKE ~ IS CHECKED BACK TO MR, ROOSEVELT   “For Such Action as He Deems Appropriate,” War Labor Board Said.   STOP NEGOTIATIONS   Lewis and Operator Representatives in Session at the Time.

Talks Must Stop Until Mines Open   Labor. Board ‘Order . Is <Issued by Unanimous Vote: of Members   TIE-UP THREATENS “< WAR INDUSTRY,   Action by Board: Comes “as Lewis and Operators. Planned Fresh Start

NEGUTIAT ION ON MING ACW ORDERED ENUED   WLB Declares No Agreement Reached While Strike On Will Be Recognized   ARGUMENT SENT BACK TO PRESIDENT’S HANDS   May 25 Directive Rescinded By Board’s Action Today; Mines Remain Idle

Negotiations Ordered to End   Steel Production To Be Curtailed If Strike Continues.

 Contract Negotiations Are Order ed Suspended Until Miners Return to Work

DISPUTE AGAIN GIVEN FDR FOR FINAL SOLUTION   500,000 Workers Idle; Threat To War-Vital Mills

WLB Tosses Mine Walkout  To Roosevelt   Disputing Workers, Operators Instructed To Halt Negotiations

WLB Turns Mine Dispute Over to FDR   Board Says Any Agreement on Issues While Workers Are On Strike Will Not Be Considered ;

Stop Negotiations, Roosevelt To Act as He Sees Appropriate   War Labor Board Will Not Consider Any Agreement Until Miners Resume Production

Coal Squabble Back in F.R. Lap   WLEB Orders Disputants to Cease Parleys Until Miners Return to Pits; Curteiiment Of Production May Force Netienal Dimou

Orders Parties: . To Stop Parleys   Referred to President for Such Action As He Deems Appropciate — Miners And Operators Go Back Into Joint Session Without Making Comment

Any Agreement During Walk-Ouf Onposed by WLB   Fresh Efforts to Settle Dispute Had Just Been Started

WLB Refuses To Act While Ven Strike   Newest Efforts For A Solution Strike A Stalemate

Disputing Parties Ordered to Suspend ‘Wage Negotiations   ‘Miners and Operators Directed By War Labor Board To Halt Contract Deliberations Until Men Return to Work   COMPROMISE OFFER IS REJECTED BY BOTH SIDES

[Tells Lewis, Operators To Stop Negotiations, Saying No Deal Legal During Strike   Will Net Approve Any Agreement Under Pressure Of “Strike Coercion’; Walkout Violates Pledge

Labor Board Checks It To White House   Negotiations Are Ordered Halted If Workers Are lle

PARTIES TOLD 10 STOP THEIR NEGOTIATIONS   Waikouts Termed Unwarrartad Violation of No-Strike  Pledge ws

WLB Tells Union AndOperatorsTo Stop Their Talks   Orders Cessation Of Negotiations Until Miners Return, But Conference Resumes

NEGOTIATIONS BANNED UNTIL WORK STARTS   Board Will Refuse to Approve Agreement ‘Under Coercion’

(Coal Operators, Union Told Miners Must Return ‘Before Talks Continue

TELLS MINERS, OPERATORS 10 CLOSE PARLEYS   Charges Any Agreement Under Strike Coercion ‘Will Not Be Approved

Negotiations On Contract Must Cease   Demand Compliance With Order of May 25; Case Given to F. R.

Round Two: a      Labor Board Unloads Mine Strike Issue On President

Conferees Had Just Started All Over Again   Lewis to ‘Consider’ Ickes Appeal to Get Work i in: Mines Started °

W. L.B. SAYS PRESIDENT SHOULD ACT   Miners, Operators Told To Stop Negotiations   HALF MILLION   Men Remain Out Of Mines; ~ ekes Puts All Blame On - John L. Lewis

‘Strike Is Checked To the President   WLB Calls for Such Action  as. Executive Deems - Appropriate   NEGOTIATIONS HALTED   No Agreement Made Under Strike. Coercion” Will 1 Be Recognized

Union And Operators Ordered To Halt Negotiations  ACTION BY WLB Coal Mine Walkout  Checked Back To F p.R.

Fuel Supply for 49 Days Is at Hand   Miners Still Out of Pits ‘Despite Appeal by Ickes; Plan to Curtail Use of Coa!

COAL DISPUTE TO ROOSEVELT BY WLB ORDEF   Referred to Chief Executive “For Such Action as He Deems Appropriate” in Situation

Halt Ordered On Contract Negotiations   Ickes Says Lewis Cannot Escape Responsibility For Stoppage

MINERS TOLD 10 RETURN TO JOBS   No Agreement Between UMW, Operators Will Be Recognized   HALTS CONFERENCE   WLB Orders Negotiations For Settlement Of Is_ stes Stopped

WLB Tells Both Parties to Stop All Negotiations   Lewis and Operators Had Just Begun Fresh Efforts to Settle Dispute.   Offers to Compromise Are Rejected by Both

WAR LABOR BOARD ORDERS BOTH SIDES STOP NEGOTIATIONS  BOARD DECLARES NEGOTIATORS UNDER “STRIK!

TO FINISH JOB   Sea  Remainder Of Repatriates ® To Leave Liner Today

REPATRIATES LEAVE VESSEL   Only 200 Leave on Board After First Day

Yankees Tighten Grip on Point On New Georgia   Substantial Advance Made.as Japs Are Hit by Flank Move

AMERICANS GAIN ON NEW GEORGIA     ADVANCE TOWARD BAIROKO HARBOR, ONLY POINT HELD  ON ISLAND BY JAPS. 

American Forces Advance on Last Enemy Stronghole  Allied Grip on New Georgia’s Last Jan Base Tichtened

Yankees Tighten Grip on Point On New Georgia   Substantial Advance  Madeas Japs Are

Allies Tighten Grip on Bairokce In New Georgia   Keep Pressure on Japs Holding Only Point Left To Them on Island

TIGHTEN HOLL UN LAST POINT " NEW GEORGIA   American Ground Forces Re gister Substantial Advance to Penetrate Within 2 miles  of Bairoko Harbor  j   Amid Heavy Rains

FDR WILL NOT ~ SIGN REPEALER   Debt Limit Bill To Become Law Without Signature

Important Nazi Airplane Ronee Base Blasted ©   _ Flying Fortresses Hit Antwerp, Belgium, _ As Raids Continue

FLYING FORTRESSES KNOCK OUT NAZI PLANE REPAIR BASE   Reconnaissance Pictures Show Direct Hits On  Antwerp’s Erla Engine Works

BI7'sDestroy Antwerp Plane Repair Base   British Raid Follews Twe Days Of Intense U. S Bombing On Continent   CHANNEL FOE HI]   Allied Fliers. Bomb 3 Ships North Of Dieppe Damage 2 Torpedo Boats

U.S. AIRMEN SET 2 DAY RECORD   Pictures Show All Buildings Hit At Renault Plant

Fasting Gandhi Sinking: Leaders Seek Release   ‘ndian Factions Join In Petition When Physicians Give Scant Hane

 RELEASE OF FASTWEAKENING GANDHI 'ASKED BY INDIANS   Conference Of 200 Indian Political Leaders to Demand Release of the Frail, Old Nationalist Leader

GANDHI'S CONDITION REGARDED AS GRAVE   Indian Leaders Petition for His Release

GANDHI ‘GRAVE   Indian Leaders. Petition For His Release By British.

Fear Gandhi May Not Live   Committee of Prominent Indians Petition Viceroy To Release Leader

United States Takes Hand in Crisis In India as Gandhi Grows Weaker

GANDHI IS WEAKER AS FAST CONTINUES   Efforts To Get Release by British Unavailing

GANDHI IN VERY SERIOUS STATE   Condition Of Mahatma So Grave Committee  Petitions For His Release.

Indians Ask British To Free Gandhi  Fasting Leader Growine Weaker

GANDHI GROWS MUCH WEAKER   Nationalist Leaders Give Up Hope of Obtaining His Release

Indian Leaders Seek Release Of Gandhi   Hopes. Of - Reconciliation Rest On Action ‘Taken ‘By British, - Political Leaders Contend

Mahatma Gandhi Barely Able to Sneak in 11th Day of Three-Week Fast

WOULD FREE WEAK GANDHI   Prominent Indians, Alarmed By His Condition, Have Petitioned Viceroy

7 3-Y¥r.-Old Mohandas Gandhi, Ten Days Of Fasting Ahead Of Him, ls Growing Much Weaker

GANDHI GROWS WEAKER DAILY FROM HIS FAST   Condition Such Committee _ of Indians ‘Petition Viceroy for Hindu’s Release   U. S. APPEALED TO   His Survival Would be Miracle, Some Contend: May Suffer Permanent Disability

Gandhi Is Barely Able To Speak As He Passes Half-Way Mark of Fast

‘India Chiefs’ Ask Gandhi Be Released   Friends Fear Mahatma  May Not Survive Fast; Is Much Weaker

VICEROY URGED 10 RELEASE GANDHI   Mahatma’s Condition Causes Alarm on Tenth Dav of Fasting.

Last Rites Held For Old Settler  _ Mrs. Simonsen of wwe * = — ° a

Last Rites Held For Old Settler  RA we qe peas, Be, oo we ff   Mrs. Simonsen of Kingsley Passes Away

Gas Cylinders Used By Japs  Shown In China   Allied Officers See Tear, Sneezing And Mustard Gas Containers

Proofs. Of Gas. Use Displayed   Chinese » Show. Cylinders Of. “Tear: and Sneezing : Fumes. Of-Japs »

JAPANESE GAS BOMBS VIEWED   Allied Officers See Cylinders Of Tear And Sneezing Gas Used By Japan.   -~BY CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH.

Officers Examine Gas Bombs  Taken From Foe  Japs Are Accused - Of Using Fumes On Allied Troops

PLAN EARLIER RIVER TRAFFIC   Plows to Begin Push North Month Sooner This Year

B INDICTED Aa GERMAN SPIES   Charge Carries Possible Death. Penalty on Conviction.

Solons Move to Refund Bonds   Would Save State $36,000. Annually

Refunding of Bond Issue Is Proposed :   Savings in Interest Would Be Large, Leaislater States

Solons Move io Refund Bonds  Would Save State CAL AND Been eacc el lee

Nazis Trying fo Force Re: lease of German Armistice Commission Seized  In North Afrien

Chinese Trap Five Divisions Near Ichang   Break Up Jap Thrust Aimed At Heart Of Nation — Destroy 23 Or More Jap Planes

CHINESE ENCIRCLE 5 JAP DIVISIONS IN COUNTERATTACK   Possibly 75,000 Of Enemy Threatened On Narrow  Yantze River S a oe

CHINESE TRAP 5 JAP-DIVISIONS, ANNIHILATE ONE   U. §. Planes Help Ally Force Disastrous Retreat

HELP REFUSED TO ARGENTINA   Bid for Lend-Lease Aid i: Brusquely Rejected In Hull Letter

Argentina Aid Bid Rejected By Cordell Hull   Charges Country Ha: Failed to Do Share Against Aggression

ARGENTINA DENIED LEND-LEASE Al)   COUNTRY’S REQUEST TURNED   DOWN IN BRUSQUE LANGUAGE BY SEC. HULL.

'Rebuff Goes To Argentine   sharp Statement Declines Lend-Lease, Raps Attitude

Town Destroyed By Artillery Fire   San Vittore Dies Under a ‘Serenade’ of Hundreds of U. S. Guns.

Italian Town Only Name After Yank Artillery Finishes With Serenade

U.S. ARTILLERY. DELIVERS SERENADE FOR SAN VITTORE  ANOTHER ITALIAN TOWN DIES BENEATH TERRIBLE CROUND FIRE

CANNON LEVEL ITALIAN TOWN   San Vittore a Mass of Rubble After Barrage To Drive Out Germans.

 Only Church Steeple Remains To Identify Town  Of San Vittore After U. S. Artillery “Serenade”   American Fliers First Spotted Nazi Flotilla In Bay Of Biscay

San Vittore Dies Under U. ‘Ss. Guns Only a Church Steeple Remains!

Big Yank Guns Destroy Town   Newsman Watches San Vittore Die Under Terrible Fire

DESTROYER WITH CONVOY LOST, 2ND DAMAGED   British Reveal Action on Northern Route to Russia

British Planes Hit Mannheim Port, Arms Area   Americans Join In Raids on  Bases in France

Mannheim And Ludwigshafen” Are Bombed   Aerial Armada One Of Biggest Yet Hurled Against Germans

Bombers Hammer Nazi Port   BLOCKBUSTER ASSAULT CONTINUES AS NAZI ARMS CENTER ROCKS

BLOCK-BUSTER RAID HITS LARGE GERMAN PORT, ARMS CENTER   RAF Loses 32 Bombers In Heavy Assaults; U. S. Fliers Continue Offensive By Davlieht

Block-Busters Blast Nazi Ports   RAF Planes Batter Vital Arms Center

BRITISH BOMBARD VITAL NAZI CENTER IN NON-STOP RAID   U.S. 8th Air Force Continues Offensive, Attacking Air Field Targets—  32 Bombers Lost 

RAF Bombers Continuing  Acrial Raids   Vital Arms Center Smashed as New Assault Keeps Up

R. A.F: Planes “Block-Buster’ Reich Port   32 Bombers Lost in Attack on Vital Arms Center

BLOGK-BUSTERS STRIKE MANNHEIM IN LATEST RAID   Nazis’ Second Largest. Inland Port Bombed—32 Planes Renorted Loat.

RAF MAKES NEW BLOCK-BUSTER RAID ON NAZIS      Non-Stop Aerial Offensive Hits Germany's Second Largest  Inland Port

BOMBERS HIT  GERMAN PORT      Mannheim . Ludwigshaven, Vital Arms Center, Pounded Heavily— New Non-Stop ANied Aerial Of. fensive Now in Second Day.

Inland Port of Germany Blasted   Marauders: Attack French Air Fields

GERMANY’S 2ND LARGEST INLAND PORT GIVEN BLOCK-BUSTER TREATMENT   Marauders Attack ’Drome Targets At “vereux-Fauville

CITIES IN-FIGHT — ON TAX MEASURE   Rep. Junge’s Amendment to Sales Tax Would Drive Business Away, They Say

Business Men Protest Sales Tax Changes   St. Louis and Kansas City Leaders See Losses for Missouri

MOSCOW MEET WILL LEAD TO OTHERS-—FDR   Plans Not Yet Complete For Meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin and Circhill

WOULD SEE STALIN   President Roosevelt Admits He Is Hopeful of Meeting

UTHER UNITED NATIONS TALKS IN THE OFFINE   President Says Conference o! Heads of State Still Undecided,

Roosevelt Sees Other  Conferences   Mediterranean Commission Expected to Meet Soon in London

FDR EAGER 10 MEET STALIN   President Avers, However, That No Date Set for Meetings Abroad

Roosevelt Is Anxious To  Meet Stalin   Sees Moscow Parley Lead- ing To Other United Nations Meetings

FDR Sees More ‘Moscow’ Pacts  Wawdée HO. ADT. 2S   Wants To Meet Josef Stalin

President Sees Other Meetings  President Roosevelt Save Hoe le Enner ta

Swollen Rivers Hold Up Allied Drive In Italy   Warplanes Raid Rome And Athens

Here Is New Draft Order for Fathers   CALIFORNIA HAS 400,000 FATHERS SUBJECT TO INDUCTION AT PRESENT

@ TROUPER WITH BROKEN HEART   Lou Costello Goes on With Show Though Baby Had Just Drowned

Allied Jap Offensive May Not Depend On Defeat of Hitler Before Starting 

MARIGNY'S CAE GIVEN SEVERE JOLT   Witness Claims Fingerprint Not Left After Crime

RUSS ARTILLERY OPENS ATTACK   Big Guns Thundering On Eastern Front

Red Big Guns Presage Summer Drive Opening   Russians Announce Gains In Heavy Fighting Along Donets And In Kuban.

Big Summer Campaign Is Presaged   Reds Score Gains Along Donets and in the Kuban

Russians Advance  In Kuban   German Attacks Smashed In Two Areas

Japan Shifts Troops Along  Soviet Border   Nippon May Attach Siberia if Time Appears Right

THe BALKAND ARE ocE THING WITH UMOR   Germans Sending ir Reinforcements to Meet Invas cn Threats.   NAZI FEARS GROWING   Mussolini Puts Martial Law _ in Nine Southern Ital ian Provinces.

MASS TROOPS, EQUIPMENT AFTER AXIS REPORTS OF BRITISH TROOP MOVEMENTS

Report Germans Are Reinforcing Units In Balkans   Axis Fears Allied Thrust _ In This Area After Bor der Closing Move     ‘SOUTHERN ITALY  HAS MARTIAL LAW

U. S. BOMBERS RAID FRANCE; AXIS SAYS SHELLS HIT PARIS   “Very Great”. Damage And ‘Casualties Reported, ' By Nazi- Controlled: Broadcast

PANEL MAKES ITS REPORT IN * MINE DISPUTE   Way is Left Open fot ¥ Compromise Benefiting Union

WLB Report Shows Facts In Mine Row   Green Tells UMW AFL to Observe No-Strike Pledge

LEAVES WAY OPEN FOR ADJUSTMENTS   Portal-to-Portal Compensasation Seems Possible   BOARD STUDIES REPORT   Panel Finding Factual, Contain no Recommendations; Cite Figures

WLB Panel in Coal Dispute Submits Report   Indicates Straight Basic Wage Hike of Formula Unlikely

‘Panel Report Sees No Pay Aid Under Formula   But Way Is Left Open For Other Adjustments To Help Coal Miners

Report Opens Way For Adjustments  WLB Panel Issues Coal Case Findings

But Panel Report Favors Pay from Portal-fo-Portal   ix-Day Week Also Sug: gested as Way To Adjust Differences   ar Labor Board Receive: Figures and Will Take Action Soon

REPORT MADE BY WLB PANEL -ONCOALISSUE   Basic Wage Raise Improb. able But Way Left Open for Adjustments .

WLB’s Panel Makes Report On Mine Wage   Straight $2 Rise Viewed Unlikely, But Other

WLB PANEL'S ie BARS TRAIGHT LIFT      But Leaves Open Ways For “Increasing Miners’ Pay ‘~ Without Violating Little  Steel Formula   No Recommendations

Panel Leaves Way Open F or Mine Adjustments   Report To WLB Indicates Straight Wage Boost Is Improbable, But Underground Travel Pay Seen As Possibility

No Wage Hike  For Miners   Other Adjustments, However, Recommendes

March On Berlin Seen ~ As Marshall's Top Job   Many-Fronted Drive On Nazi Strongholds Looming;  Paving Way For Big Three Conference

‘arley May Bring Quick End To The War— Saivilse, —By Kirke L. Simpson  Russian Advance Has Changed War Picture

REDS THREATEN KEY CITIES IN WHITE RUSSIA   SOVIETS CONTINUE PRESSURE AGAINST MAJOR NAZI BASES

KEY CITIES IN WHITE RUSSIA ENDANGERED   Gomel, Megilev and Vitebsk in Path of Advancing Red Forces as Pres sure is -Exertea   HAND-TO-HAND BATTLES

Key Cities Of White Russia Under Attack   Last German Caucasian Base Smashed In Red Advance

8 VITAL CITIES WHITERUSSIA IN SOVIET PATH      Further South Red Columns Continue Pressure Against Kiev; Gateway to Crimea   ‘LAST NAZI BASE IN  CAUCASUS SMASHED   Virtually Seals Fate of Whatever Axis Forces Left In Northern Area; Berlin Admits Loss

Temryuk, Last Nazi Base ia Can: casus, Smashed, Germans Face Entrapment or Flighi   DNIEPER CROSSED   Russians Batile Germans on Wes! Bank at Severa! Points—Dnepropetrovsk Suburb Taken

Gomel, Mogilev And Vitebsk, In White Russia, Lie In Path Of Soviet Forces—Other Columns Press Against Kiev, Kremenchug, Dnepropetrovsk And Melitopol—Last German Caucasian Base Smashed, With Axis Troops In Area Facing Capture

Nazis Routed From Caucasus Defense Base   Russians Imperial Seven Key German Army Strongholds

GOMEL, VITEBSK AND MOGILEV IN SOVIETS’ PATH   Other Russian Forces Continue Unrelenting Pressure Against  Kiev And Other Im portant Centers.

KEY CITIES OF WHITE RUSSIA IN REDS’ PATH   Soviets Continue Pressure On Kiev. Dnepropetrovsk For Drive Into Crimea

Reds Advance To Take Three Cities   SOVIET COLUMN MENACE 3 GERMAN BASES IN CRIMEA

Russ Advance On 3 Ke: Cities In White Russia Nazis Lose Last Cauca sian Base.

Three Key White Russia Cities And Four Big Bases on Dnieper River Under Pressure of Reds

HITLER'S HORDE KEPT ON RUN BY FIERCE ATTACKS   People of Germany and Balkans Uneasy as War Rushed Nearer Home I

CONTINUE PRESSURE ON KIEV   Suburb Of Dnepropetrovsk Captured By Russians: 1,320 Villages Taken In Single Day

RUSSIANS ADVANCING ON THREE KEY CITIES IN WHITE RUSSIA; NAZIS REGROUPING FORCES   Other Red Columns Continue Pressure On Kiev -Kremenchug, Dnepropetrovsk and Melitopol. Last German Caucasian Base Smasned

Kiev Offensive Unrelenting’ As Reds Push Ahead   Last German Bass In Caucasus .  Smashed; Gome Is Next?

Battle For Kiev Onens As Soviets Cross Dnieper:   Dnepropetrovsk Falls In Savage Struaale

ALSO SUSTAIN DRIVE ON 4 OTHER BASES   Moscow Says Nazis, Reeling Under Impact of Soviet Offensive, Are Surrendering by the Hundreds.

THREE KEY CITIES OF WHITE RUSSIA ARE UNDER THREAT   UNRELENTING RED ARMY PRESSURE UPON KIEV IS CONTINUED

Nazis Still In Caucasus Are Isolated   \ Russian Drive Southward Is Also Possible, Jumpoff For Crimean Drive 

Dniepropetrovsk Suburb Captured  —Deiva On Snringhoard   ~Drive On Springboarc Into Crimea

SENSATIONAL GAINS MADE BY RUSSIANS   They Continue Pressure Along Entire Front in White Russia.   Russians Smash Last Nazi Caucasian Base

REDS ADVANCE ON THREE KEY CITIES TODAY      Soviets force German RearGuard Into Dnieper: Seize War Booty

Reds Menace Key Cities in White Russia   Continue Pressure In South For Possible Drive  Inte Oe ika

ee eR EM  UNITED NATIONS RELIEF SETUP  CONSIDERED BY 43 COUNTRIES   FINAL PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF POSTWAR REBABILI- . TATION PROGRAR

ROYALTIES WANTED BY MUSIC UNION   Petrillo Explains Ban te Senate Committee

Most Coal Miners Go Back to Work   Some Still Holding Out, Checkup Shows

Pennsylvanians Balk At Policy Group’s Orders   All West Virginians Return; Full Scale Pro: duction Necessary to Avert War Industry Crisis

MAJORITY OF COAL MINERS GOING BACK   Steel Industry Begins To Feel Efefcts Of Coal Strike

Most of U.S. Miners Trek Back to Pits   West Virginia Seen Brightest Spot as All Mines Reopen

Majority Returns To Jobs In Mines   Few Ohio And Pennsylvania Locals Refuse To Comply With Back-To-Work Order; Test Of Strike Law Looms   DIVISION ARISES IN PENNSYLVANIA

Deny MacArthur Political Move   General Does Not Plan U. S. Trip Soon

BIG MACARTHUR BOOM IS DENIED   Spokesman Says General Is Not Coming To United States

MacArthur Denies Report He Plans Return To America in March   ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA

SEN. GEORGE ADVOCATES SALES TAX.   Would Resort To This Method When More Cash Needed

GEORGE PROPOSES CONSIDERATION OF SALES TAX   If Nation Needs More Revenue to Finance The War Than Present Laws Will Produce.

General Sales Tax Urged by Senator George   Private Enterprise System. to be “On The Spot” He Says

Felephone ‘Waker-Uppers’ Take Place of Alarm Clock   Operators Who Arouse War Workers and Others Discover That Most Men Are Pleasant, but It’s Different With Women; Young Mothers Also Get Early Morning Calls

Wake-'Em-Up Phone Service in Story   Head of Rising Firm Tells Reactions of Clients

BRITISH RAID BEHIND AXIS TUNISIA LINES   Supported By French Troops And British Field Pieces, Ccmmandos Penetrate Ene. my Territory Deeply.   South Of Bizerte

Commandos Hit Bizerte Sector. :   ‘British Prow! For’ ‘Hours Behiad Ling

Commandos Hit Bizerte Sector  British Prowl For Liarre Rehind  ina

COMMANDOS RAID AXIS POSITIONS IN BIZERTE AREA   British Shoot Up Italian Posts, Blow Up Roads and Lay Mines in Successful Attack.   ENEMY’S RIGHT FLANK HIT AT SAME TIME   Two Hundred Fascist Troops Killed and 20 Captured, Along With Several German Officers.

RAINS QUIET AFRICA FRONT   Ground Forces are Retarded By Weather; Raid is Made by Commandos

BRITISH MAKE DEEP THRUST INTO TUNISIA   COMMANDOS CAUSE CONFUSION IN AXIS RANKS

SURPRISE RAID MADE ON AXIS   British Penetrate Lines At Bizerte; Enemy Claims Beating  Back Attacks

Commandos Raid Area (Of Bizerte   Snow and Rain Stifle Ground Action In North Africa

Doolittle's Men Pound Eternal City; RAF North Italy Smash Hits Turin

MENUTT NOW PLANS REGIONAL PACTS      Nation - Wide... Stabilization Propesal Dropped By Official

Regional Work Pacts Planned By U.S. Board   Order For Nationwide Job Stabilization.  Is Dronned

McNutt Changes Employment Plan   Regional Agreements To Replace National Stabilization

DEFENDS ‘DRAFT STRIKERS’ STAND   Governor of Tennessee Algo Backs Board Which Refuses To Make Inductions.

MINERS TOLD TO WORK OR FICHT   Two Southern Governors Order Draft Boards To Reclassify Strikers

German Munitions Chief Calls On Leading Economists To Try To Match Allied Production

Nazis Seek To Match Allied War Production   Shocked By Allied Output, Emergency Meet Called By Leaders To Map Plans

Master of Hitler's Fighters  U.S. Sends New Thunderbolt  Into Action Against Germans

P-A7 Master Of Germany's Best.   Thunderbolt Packs Terrific Wallon. -

P-47 Master Of Germany s Best  L.. .. tb ~.la4 MW _!..   Thunderbolt Packs Terrific Wallop

New U. 5. Planes Run Interference For Bombers at 400 Miles an Hour

Patrol Boys Attend Party   Theatre Party and Dinner Given In Bradford

390 Patrol Boys Will Be Feted   Theatre Party and Lunch Scheduled for Saturday

RAF BOMBERS ROAR TOWARD CONTINENT   Third Big Raid of Week Indicated as Berlin and Cologne Radios Become Silent.

British Leader Tells Commons War To Go On   Says Italian People’s Desire For Peace Shown In Palermo

Italy Will Be “Seared From  End to End’   No’ Peace Offers Received. From New Government; ‘Allied Commanders Giver Instructions To Keep. Up Attacks

iGives New Italian Premier Choice of Surrender or Seeing Italy Scorched End te End   NO PEACE BID YET   Charchill, However, Cautions Against Act or Words That Might Bring Chaos in Italy

ITALIANS TOLD TOBREAK YOKE WITH GERMANS   Commons Cheers Prime YY Minister As He Hails End of Fascism

CHURCHILL SAYS  WAR ON ITALY MUST  CONTINUE UNABATED NO PEACé OFFERS FROM   NEW ITALIAN GOVERN-

Churchill Tells Commons Italy  Will Be Seared   Just So Long As On Side Of Nazis

Allies Will Continue War From All Quarters So Long As Nation Continues To Side With Hitler   Declares Nazis Are Making Land Of Their Ally Preliminary Battleground To Keep War From Home: No Peace Overtures From Rome

‘Full Surrender’ Held Only Peace Term By Premier   ‘To Sear, Scald, Blacken Nation End To End,’ Unless Full Break With Nazis Comes; No Badoglio Overtures Received .

COMMONS TOLD ALLIES INTEND TO GARRY ON   Won’t Make Any Difference in War’s Outcome Anyway, He Says

Peace Overtures Lacking As Yet From Italy.   Churchill Says Allies Will Continue War Against Italy.

Churchill Says War On Italy ‘Pushed To End’   Unless She Quits Soon, Italy To Be ‘Seared, Scalded, Blackened From End To End’

CHURCHILL WARNS OF RESULTS   Badgolio’s New Government Offer: No Peace Moves

Perkins Asserts Prices Advancing   Fresh Vegetables Largely Responsible

COST OF LIVING RISES .8 IN MAY   Hike Is Recorded In Food Prices

Living Costs  Up 8 Percent   Jump Mostly In Food: Prices 6.2 Percent Above  Rollback’ Level.

Sn Ee ee  Might- Tenths Per Cent Cost of Living Rise Within Month

WLB READY TO INVOKE ‘NEW POWERS   Plans to Use Its Authority in. © Strike in Pa. .

Labor Board Expected to Use New Authority to Break Strike at Aircraft Plant in Pennsylvania

U.S. Provides 10 Billions In Lend-Lease   55 Per Cent of Goods Shipped Is Munitions

UNLY 800 MEN LET ON oT RIK Lol IN MINES   Last Big Holdout Colliery Returns To Work Today At FDR’s Request

MINERS BACK  AT WORK TODAY   Last of Anthracite Holdouts End Worst Tieup of War Period. _

Last Big Mine Is Back at Work   All But 800 of 23,000 Miners Who Were on Strike Resume Work.

Costly Coal Mine Strike   1,000,000 Tons Kept From Market; Workers Lost $2,000,000 Wages

LAST HOLDOUT COLLIERY IS IN OPERATION   Union Leaders Estimate Miners Lost $2,000,000 In Wages During Walkout

RODUCTION (5 WEARLY NORMA      Three Weeks’ Wildcat Sirike Cost Miners About $2,000,600,

RUMOR HEARD UMBERTO WAS:  AT-GASABL’C!      REPORTS ALSO CURRENT THAT FRANCO, AND OTHER, NEUTRALS WERE- AT ¢ : FRBERCE.»

Physically Fit Subject to Call   TO Meet Army's Quota of 10,500,000 Men by Barly in 1944, Says Draft Director

Fathers Will Be Drafted In Order To Meet Army's Quota Of 10 Million

OM Manpower Officials eect to raft Most Physically-Fit Fathers Regardless of Number of  * Children They Support.

MORE DRAFT PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED   F athers to Go Early in 944 For Certain

FATHER DRAFT CERTAIN BY FIRST OF YEAR   Boards Without 1-A’s Must Take Family Men at Once

Singed Alamogordo Fortress Pilot ‘Lands’ Flaming Craft in Channel   Lieut. James Stevenson and Eight Others Dodge Burning Fuel Oil Until Rescued From Icy Waters

LIMEYS AND. YANKS CELEBRATE TOGETHER   American Independence Day To Be Big Show in Africa

NLRB WOULD DISMISS KAISER LABOR ROW   Board Applies New Congressiona Restriction On Handling InterUnion Disputes

Operations May Lead to Final Battle for Altica   British Forces Repulse Nazi Tank Attack ©

MAY LEAD 10 FINAL BATTLE IN NO. AFRICE   Operations Are Screened By Activities OF Air Forces 4   British Repulse Enemy Attack, Destroy Two © 52-Ton Tanks

BRITISH FORCES CLOSING IN ON ROMMEL’S PATH   In Russia, Reds Delivering Death Blows on Germans Caught at Stalingrad   AXIS OFFENSES STOPPED   Allies Develop Plans To Concentrate on Wiping  Out U-boat Menace y

May Lead To Long-Awaited Africa Battle   Blows At Three Tunisian Sectors Foreshadow General Offensive And Decisive Battle

ENEMY PUSH WESTWARD IS SLOWED DOWN   Aerial Squadrons of Both Sides Active in Support Of Ground Troops In Africa   BOMBERS RAID MESSINA

Allied Planes Assist Gr ound Units in New Smashing Offensive   British 8th Army Moves Within 35 Miles of Tunisia, Germans Resist at Port of Zuara

STH ARMY CAPTURES ZUARA IN MOVE WEST   Bizerte Pounded Again By Allied Aerial Units   GERMAN PUSH HALTED   U. S., RAF Planes Smash At Cintlion Navv Base

BODY OF BRITISH ARMY WITHIN 35 MILES OF TUNISIA   PUSH WESTWARD TO MAKE CONTACT WITH ROMMEL REAR GUARD

Americans Hit At Germans in Three Sectors   Yankee Operations May Lead to General Allied Offensive in Battle for Tunisia

May Lead To General Offensive   Three Attacks to Regain Pass — British Smash Big Nazi Tanks

Final Battle for ~ North Africa May Follow U. S. Stabs   American Troops Peck at Germans in Three Tunisian Sectors

British Lines: Move Nearer To Rommel   Long-Awaited Big Push Bay Be Shaping In North Africa

U. 5. Forces Stab  At Nazi Positions   Drives on Three Central Tunisian Sectors Are  - Under Way   BRITISH WRECK TANKS   Pressure Exerted to Narrow Corridor Held by  the Axis

U.S. Soldiers Stab At Three  Nazi Position:   Attacks May Lead Te Long-Awaited General Offensive And Final Battle Of Africa

Begin Attack Which May Open Way To General Offensive And Final North African Battle

AIR FORCE SCREENS ACTIVITY   Stab At Germans In Three Central Tunisian Sectors:

BRITISH FORCES ALSO SMASH AT FOE’S DEFENSES   Nazi Tank Attack Repulsed —Rommel’s Legions Step Ahead of Allies

Stab at Germans In Tunisia   Halt Nazi Tank Monsters; 8th Army Moves Ahead.

Yankees Stab At Germans on African Front   May Lead to General Offensive and Final Battle  For Tunisia.   British Move West to Frontier of Tunisia

Planes Screen Operations in Three Sectors   Long-Awaited General Drive May Start; British Repulse German Assault

American Troops in 3-Pronged Tunis Offensive   Air Force Covers Operations as Yank, British Forces Swing Into Final Drive to Push Axis Forces From North Africa

AMERICAN TROOPS STABBING AT NAZI TUNISIA POSITIONS  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY MOVING FORWARD AGAIN TOWARD TUNISIA

(TION MAY BE URERUNNER OF RIG OFFENSIVE   Operations In Three Central Tunisia Sectors Aeri‘ally Screened, It Is Announced   BRITISH REPULSE NAZI TANK DRIVE   Wreck Two of Germany’s _ Monstrous New Mark VI’s, Shielded By 7-Inch Armor

Sparring In Africa May Bring Battle   Big Allied Drive Near; Small Gains Against French

Action in 3 Central Tunisian Sectors May Lead Final Offensive.   ENEMY USES BIG TANKS

Planes Screen American Thrusts; British Repulse Nazi Tank-Led Assault

52-Ton Mark YI Tanks Are Used By Nazi Army   {Additional Tunlstan story t° summary of Sunday's asvente, Pages 10),

Yanks Stab At Nazi Lines In Three Places   Aerially Screened Operations In Tunisia May Lead To General Offensive.   BRITISH EIGHTH GAINS

Central Tunis Flares Into Action; Rommel Still Run:   British Just 35 Miles From Tunisia; Escape Corridor Cut Again; Bizerte Bombed

FULL-SCALE OFFENSIVE MAY BE STARTING   German Attack Led By 52-Ton Tank  Is Repulsed By The British

Yanks Stab At 3 Nazi Posts In Tunisia Line   Giant Nazi Mark VI Tanks Repulsed By British To North; Wide Allied Air Smash Hints Offensive

ARE STABBING AT THEM IN THREE AREAS   Aerially Screened Operations May Lead to the Long-Awaited General Offensive and Final Battle for North Africa,

WORKERS NEEDED.   ‘Pacific Yards of the ‘Navy Re  cruiting Workers Now.

Two Teen-Age Boys Produce Parts in ome Workshop on Sub-Contract for Army

Two Teen Age Boys Operate “War Plant’  Pee ee eee eee ee   Produce Delicately Tooled Plane Parts In Basement Factor

Yugoslav Partisans Capture Rail Areas   Strike Crippling Blow at Germans

Yugoslavs Seize Two Rail Centér Close to Border  ; BerlinClaims to.  Have Ta ken Three  r1.4~.

April Draft Quotas Cut 10 To 20 Percent Over Entire Country, Report

GLOBE-SHAKING DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED   F.D. R. and Churchill Resume Talks in Washington

CONTINUED PRESENCE. OF CHURCHILL IN WASHINGTON CAUSES SPECULATION OF NEW WAR  - "MOVES 

DEVELOPMENT OF IMPORT SEEN   Churchill Remains Jn Washington To Continue PostWar Planning

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE IS BOMBED   RAF Carries Out Sweeping Raid During Night—Also Hits Sicily

Italian Navy Base Attacked by RAF   Aerial Activity Continues High

Italian Naval Base Heavily Blasted By British Planes   RAF Follows Up Attack By Raids Aaainst Germany

Italian Bases Are Hamered by Air Raids From Britain and Middle East

HOME - BASED BRITISH FLIERS RAID SPEZIA   Middle Fast Airmen Blast Palermo and Messina, Targets in Northwest Germany Hit

RAF Bombs  Spezia Heavily Palermo And Messina Are Likewise Blasted

British Bomb Italian Ports   Spezia, Palermo, Messina Harbors Hit In ‘Softening Up’ Raids.

RAF SCALES ALPS, BLASTS NAVAL BASE   Other Planes From Middle East Attack Palermo, Messina

BOMBERS BASED IN ENGLAND HIT NORTHERN ITALY   British Planes Raid Spezia, Port 50 Miles Southeast of Genoa

Italian Navy Base Raided By British   : Sicilian Harbors Also Hit By RAF From Middle East

SPEZIA, NORTHERN ~TTALY NAVAL BASE, RAIDED LAST NIGHT   RAF Bombers From Middle East Command Also Attacked Harbors.   PALERMO IS BLASTED   Messina Also the Scene of an Attack on Monday Night.

BRITISH BOMB ITALY, GERMANY   Spezia, Palermo, Messina, Germany And Occupied Countries Subjected To Aid Attacks.

GANDHI WEAKENING AS INDIA WATCHES   Roosevelt Envoy Told Of Violence To Follow Death.

FIRST ARMY “FIGHTS OFF FIERCE BLOWS   Dispatch From the Field Says American and French Detachments Ave Now 20 Air Line Miles From Bizerte.

ALLIED TROOPS = EDGED FORWARD ON TUNISIAN FRONT   Advanced on Both Wings Yeserday, It Was Announced.   THE FIRST ARMY BUSY   Fought Off Powerful Nazi Counterattacks in Medjez El Bab Area.

Fathers And Their Draft Confusion   Nobody Knows How Long ‘Non-Dads’ Supply Will Last

TEMPERATURES:   Air Campaign Speeded Up In Balkans And East Mediterranean

OTH ARMY GETS READY T0 HIT VOLTURNO LINE   Allied Bombers Make Attacks in Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean

Rains And Mud Delay Advance; Intensity Raid   Greek Island Vita For Defense O Adriatic; Rive: Crossed

Allied Fliers Attack Corfu   Smash at Airfield On Strategic Greek Adriatic Island

Ground Attack In Italy Bogged Down By Weather; Major Battle Believed Brewing On Volturno; New Raids On Other Islands Announced

Major Battle Brews Between Gen. Clark’s Forces and Germans   Armies Face Each Other Across Volturno in Southern Italy

German Airfield on Corfu Raided by U.S. Bombers   Rain and High Water Slow Up Allied Advance on Italian Front

Bombers Keeping Up Blows On Islands, Greek Airports   Fifth Army Preparing For Assault on Powerful German Positions

Corfu Air Base Of Nazis Smashed By U. S. Planes   Northwest African Air Force Takes Enemy By Surprise; Italv Campaign Slows

CAMPAIGN IN ITALY BOGGED BY RAIN, MUD   Bomber Pilots Range North of Rome to Shoot Up Axis Motor  Columns as Weil as Trains 

Lightnings Blast Merchant Vessel in Corfu Harbor as Yanks, British Step Up Aerial Activity in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean—Rains Slow Ground Opera tions in Italy.

Bombers Smash  Corfu   GERMAN AIRFIELD.ON KEY GREEK ISLAND DEVASTATED BY YANKS

Nazi Balkan Wall Is Hit by Bombers   Weather Halts G Ground Cam paigns but Allied Airmen   Range over Lines. Bases

American Troops Bogged Down On Ttalian Fronts   Airmen Batter. Nazi ‘Bases In Balkans For Seventh Day

STRIKE NAZI ISLAND BASES TO BALKANS   American Air Force Hits For Seventh Day Smash ing Blow on Corfu.   Allies Bogged Down By Rain, Mud in Italy

BOME GEAMAN AIRFIELDS, HIT PLANES ON GOS   Fifth and Eighth Armies in Italy Hammering at Nazi Netanese

ALLIES BOMB GERMAN BASE HEAD PALKANS   Islands Of Crete And Rhodes Hit  By Americans

Only Artillery and Patrol Activity on Muddy Halian  a eee   ENEMY OPPOSITION STIFF

Rhodes, Crete Also Bombed   Little Action on Rain-soaked Battle Fronts in Italy.

Air Raids Hint Action Is Near On Large Scale   Rains Bog Troops As Sth Army Faceg Nazis At Volturno

Nazi Airfields in Balkans and Easiern Mediferranean Again Targets of Airmen   VOLTURNO FLOODS   Artillery and Patrot Action Reporled While Armies Prepare for Great Baltle

Face Powerful Enemy Défenses Along Volturno   Opposing Armies Sqiiar“ed: Off ‘Arourid” Valles “Ringed With Hills: Al fied Air: Forces Strike “Germans In: Balkans & Eastern Meditérrancan.

HEAVY RAINS ARE IMPEDING ALLIED FORCES   Artillery and Patrol Actions Are Reported as Fifth Army Maps Assault on Vital Enemy Positions   OPPOSITION INCREASES

Pound Nazi Bases Before Balkan Door   Meantime Clark’s Fifth Army Prepares To Big Assault In Italy

Allied Bombers Blast Nazi Air Base On Corfu   Mud And Rain Bog Down Land Campaign On Italian Mainland.

BLOWS Hl] Ml NMS TN BALKANS   Land. ‘Troops. F ail To Gain Due To.. Weather.

Allied Bombers Strike Adriatic Island Of Corfu   German Airfield On Strategic Island is Bombed Heavily

ALLIES SHELL, BOMB NAZIS IN GREECE. ITALY   Rain Slows Land Fighting So Americans and British Hit Foe With Planes and  Artillery.

ALLIES DEAL GREEK ISLAND “HEAVY BLOW   Strategic Base Dominates Entrance to Adriatic— Rains Bog Down British and American Drive in Italy.

AIR BLOWS DEALT WHILE ARMY BOGS   Smash Strategic Island Dominating Adriatic Entrance

SMASHING BLOW STRUCK AT CORFU NAZI AIRFIELD   Is a Strategic Greek Island Dominating Entrance to the Adriatic.   PLANNING FOR ASSAULT   5th Army, Along the Volturno, to Attack Powerful German Positions:

Balkan © Barriers Blasted   Allied Airmen Batter Isles Off Greece And Turkey.

Allied Bombers Blast Airfield On Corfu; Lull In‘ Land Battle   Yank, Nazi Guns Duel on Rain-Bogged Volturno  Front

Allied Air Units Hit Aegean Bases   Nazi Air Fields on Corfu and Other Islands Heavily  mbed      RAINS IMPEDE FIFTH   Allied Land Forces in Italy . Prepare for Big Offensive

Action Slowed By Weather On Italian Front   Island Of Corfu At Adriatic Entrance Is Pounded

‘ALLIED AIRMEN  DEAL SMASHING BLOW ON CORFU   Nazi-Held Greek Isle Blasted; Mud Delays Fight In Italy

Other Enemy Sites In Adriatic Region Hit By Yank Bombs   Slight Action Reported On Flooded Italian Front As 5th Army Plans Assault On Strong Volturno Line

NAZI AIRFIELD ON ISLAND OF CORFU {8 HEAVILY ATTACKED   ARTILLERY AND PATROL SECTIONS CARRIED OUT ON MUDDY BATTLELINE

African Air Force Rocks Enemy Field   Rain Slows Allies ir Action Against Foe  On Volturno

Allied Planes Attack Greek Island Field   ‘Berlin Admits Retreat of Army On Italian Front

Major Battle Will Break on  Italian Front   Allied Forces Facing German Strong Defenses Across Volturno River

U.S. STH ARMY READY TO MAKE HEAVY ATTAUK   American Air Force Strikes Heavy Blow At Nazi-Held Island Of Corfu

U. S. ARMY FACES GERMANS ACROSS VOLTURNO RIVER   GEN. CLARK’S MEN AWAIT SIGNAL FOR SMASHING ATTACK

NAZI AIRFIELD: ‘AND VESSELS IN HARBOR RAIDED!   Crete and Italian Dodecan ese Islands of Rhodes and   Cos Off Turkey Also . Attacked      RAIN AND MUD BOGS DOWN WAR IN ITALY   Only Artillery and Patrol Action Reported As Fifth Army -Prepares For Volturno Battle

Nazi Island Barriers To  Balkans Hit   Greek Isles Of Corfu, Crete Bombed; Rain, Mud Bog Down Push On Italian Front

Africa Airmen Hurl Smashing Blow At Corfu   Strategic Adriatic Isle Is Raided As Rain Continues To Balk Infantry Action On Italian Battlefront

CORFU, CRETE ATTACKED BY YANK PLANES   Strategic Greek Island Entrance to Adriatic Undergoes Bombing

Crucial lest for Volturno Draws Near   Major Contest on Italian Mainland Below Rome Looms

ONLY ARTILLERY AND PATROL ACTIVITY REPORTED ON ITALIAN BATTLE FRONT —   Heavy Rains Impede Allied :Troops Along Volturno And Across Mountains to Termoli on Adriatic Coast

The War Today—  Allied Command Lacks Leader But General Marshall Is Its Keystone   By WILLIAM FRYE

COMPLEX STRUCTUTURE ALLIED WAR COMMAND SHOWS NEED FOR KEEPING GEN. MARSHALL AS CHIEF OF STAFF   His Amazing Capacity for Assuming Responsi bilities and Getting Things Done Makes Him More Valuable As Advisor Than as Field  Lrinemmeanrniaw 

COMPLEX ALLIEID WAR COMMAND STRUCTURE. SHOWING UP AGAIN IN CASE OF GENER AL MARSHALL

Reds Storm 450-Mile South Front   Menace Enemy Bastions, Kursk Kharkov, Rostov

RED OFFENGIVE EDGES FORWARD   Danger To Nazi Anchor Points Grows Daily As Soviets Smash Ahead

*Moscow Says Nazis Are Beginning To Show Signs Of Panic On the Kursk Front.

TCKES ASKS WMC TO DISCHARGE MINERS FROM ARMED FORCE      Manpower ~ Shortage ~ Cuts Production Of Coal -—Rationing Not Imminent

Milk Rationing Is Considered      October Butter Production Off More Sharply Than Normal.

May Have Tc Ration Milk   Butter Situation Fails To Improve; May Use More Drastic Methods

Butter Dwindles, Milk Rationing Is Seen Possible   October Fails To Produce  Improvement, Nullifying  Government Withdrawal 

3 FARM MEETINGS SET FOR DECEMBER   Farm Bureau Is Sponsoring Sessions Early Next  onth   DAIRYMEN TO CONVENE

3 FARM MEETINGS SET FOR DECEMBER   Farm Bureau Is Sponsoring ita ey Next   DAIRYMEN TO CONVENE

Changes In Point Values For Foods Are Announced   Several Articles Included In Order That Will Become Effective Saturday.

Hoffman Made Member of Committee Probing Acts Of Executive Agencies

MINOR BILLS FACE STATE LAWMAKERS   Legislators. Mark Time With Many Inconsequential Measures.

Solons Await Final Bills   Bill to Double Lawmakers’ Pay Is Passed by Senate, Would Get $6 a Day

BiG INCREASE — ~ IN-AIR POWER   ‘ONGRESSMAN QUOTES GENERAL AS SAYING 200 OF ' NEW BOMBERS CAN KNOCK OUT JAPAN -:

Germany's Life Now Depending Upon Weathe   Sen. Downey Says Only Bad Weather Can Prevent Germany Being Bombed Out Of War

SAYS AIRPOWER WILL WIN WAR FOR ALLIES   Declares 200 new uv. S. Super-bombers can destroy Japan

ene Life Depends on Weather;”  Senator Asserts Bombing Will Win Out

‘ONLY WEATHER CAN AID NAZIS   ‘Bad Conditions Could Pre vent Aerial Knockout’

INDIAN LEADERS FAVOR USE STRONG:ARM PLAN  TO ESTABLISH GOVT.   Procedure Advocated Makes Logic Because Of Differing Factions Of Country

The Crisis in India  ndian Leaders Say British Strong-Arm Methads Cor   Re DEWITT MACKENZIE

RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, SOCIAL GROUPS. ‘ADD TO COMPLICATIONS OF ADJUSTING ‘MIXED UP AFFAIRS OF INDIAN EMPIRE:

AT SALAMALIA   Japanese Mountain Front Line Is Cracked Open By Allied Attack.

FROM AIRBASE AT SALAMAUP   Enemy Reported Fleeing Defense Lines Under Allied Attack

Mountain Line ‘Near Vital Field “Split Wide Open   Race: Toward: Last Defense © Guarding . The.: Prized > Ateport -On NE - Coast

JAPS  FLEEING AT SALAMAUA   Mountain Line Cracked  Wide Open; Abandon  Heavy Guns

YANKS, AUSSIES  CRACK MOUNTAIN  LINE, ROUT FOE GUINEA NIPS MAKE  STAND ON EDGE OF COASTAL AIR BASE

Salamauan Defenses Crumble   Japs in Headlong Retreat; Abandon Heavy Guns on New Guinea

Yield Under U. S. Pressure. . At Salamaua   Japs in Headlong Retreat Before Bomb-Battered And Highly-Prized Base   NIPS ROUTED FROM RIDGE POSITIONS      Americans and Australians Now Mopping Up in Area of Coveted Airfield

Abandon Guns And _ Flee .To Scarred City   Steady Pressure From Air Plus Damage to Wewak Hastens Rout

JAPS ROUTED FROM RIDGES AT SALAMAL   Foe in Headlong Retreat, Gen. Mac Arthur Reports, Leaving Uncre mated Dead Behind   MORE PLANES HIT   “! Addifions: Rushed in a 8 Reinforcements, Destroyed in New Raid on Wewak

Salamaua Japs Put To Flight   Mountain Line _ Broken, Foe In Full Retreat

Japs Abandon Defense Lines At Salamaua  Mountain Front Cracked Open; Guns Left Behind

Mountain Line Shattered By Allied Blows   Japs Retreat Toward Last Defenses Of roe thee Air Base  nee ee 060lU OO OO

Break Outer Jap Defenses  At Salamaua   Fleeing Enemy Leaves Heavy Guns; Allies Only Two Miles From Valuable Air Field

Japs Retreat In Confusion At Salamaua      In Headlong Flight As Allies Advance On Battered Front   ABANDON BIG GUNS      Artillery And Buried Dead Left Behind By Foe Retreat

JAPS RETREAT BEFORE YANKS AT SALAMAUA   With Front Line Cracked, They Abandon Heavy  Guns in Last Defenses.   Japs at Last Routed From Their Air Field

Salamauan Defenses Cromble   Japs in Headlong Retreat; Abandon Heavy Guns on

ABANDON HEAVY GUNS AS THEY FLEE NORTH   Enemy Crackup At Salamaua Will Hasten Fall of Wewak

Japs Fleeing Into  Salamaua Bastion   Allied Troops Surge Forward To Drive Enemy Pell-Mell  Ream Cnn Pacitiaqns

Japanese Fall Back To Inner Salamaua Line   Foe Abandons Big Guns In Headlong Retreat In New Guinea.

ALLIES GRACK JAP DEFENSES AT SALAMAUA      Enemy in Full Retreat as Their Much Bombed Mountain Front Line Crumbles

Jap Salamaua Outer Defenses Are Crumbling   Fleeing Enemy Abandons Heavy Guns In Retreat

Japs Retreat To Salamaua   Abandon Mountain Line for Inner Defenses

DECLARE JAPS RETREATING ON SALAMAUA LINE   Nipponese Abandon Heavy Guns as Front Is Cracked Wide Open

JAPS RETREAT AT SALAMAUA   Mountain Front Line Cracked By Allied Troops

First Full Rehearsal ‘For Invasion Took Place 'A Year Ago At Dieppe

 MAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL Soldiers Forced  To Use Gas Masks Near Fish Factory

 pAAAAAAAAAAAAADAAAAA AL Soldiers Forced To Use Gas Masks  Neanr Fich Factory

Jap Offensive Said Postponed   Heavy Plane Losses Are Believed Reasor

BRITISH RADIO “PROTECTS’ YANKS   Stringent Code of Taboos Thought Guard at Homesickness

Last Real D. A. R. Marks (0th Birthday  Mrs. Gregory, Whose Father Was At — Valley Forge, Feted

Raid is Emphatic Followup to the Churchill-Roosevelt Ultimatum for Country to Cease Hostilities   LEAFLETS TELL WHY CITY IS OBJECT OF ATTACK

Coal Strike Forces Steel Production To Lowest Level In Three Years

Pacific War Lull Broken   Further Fighting On Major Scale  Believed Imminent

PACIFIC LULL ENDS AS AMERICANS AND JAPS SWAP BLOWS   Increased Air. Activity Believed Portending ' Renewed Fight On’ © Major Scale

PACIFIC BATTLE ACTION FLARES   Air Raid On U. 8. Shipping Marks End of Lull, Proves Japs Have Reinforced Defenses

JAPS FRANTIC TO BUILD UP ISLE BASES   Fearful of Big Offensive By Americans, Make Numerous Claims

State Workers” Due To Receive ‘Extra Pay Soon   $3,276,000 To Be Distributed. This Yeor To 6,000 Employees, Governor Seys.

State Workers Get Pay Boost   Increases To Total Over Four Million Dollars In Two Years.

BLEAK DAY ON AFRICAN FRONT AXIS POWERS   Reds Continue Advances On  Eastern Front

Army Using 485 Hotels. Probers Say   Eight Purchased, 475 Leased: Will Buy Two More

Three-way Attack Will Bring Victory, Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Declare   Will Work Together fot “Enduring Peace” And to  Banish Oppression

Promise Peace That Will Banish Scourge of War For Many Generations   Official Text of Three Power Parley

Mosquito Bombers Heap Fresh Ruin On Burning Berlin   irip-Hammer, Round-the-Clock R.ids Feared by-Nazis; 73,000 Homeless, Thousands Flee Cir

LIGHT BRITISH PLANES HARASS BLAZING BERLIN   Hit Selected Targets Missed During Mass Blasting By Heavy Bombers   HUGE FIRES STILL RAGING   Fortresses Returning From Africa Attack Objectives In France

LIGHT BOMBERS STRIKE BLOWS WITHOUT LOSS   Select Specific Targets Missed In Raid Night Before

BW CUsal Term @mrPLIiwe   SMALL BOMBERS BLAST; BERLIN DURING NIGHT   Policy of Hitting Important Targets in the Reich Hard - and Often !s Being Carried Out With Precision by Allies—Fall of German Economic Struc"ture This Year Is Predicted.

Berlin Bombed  Second Time  Without Loss Around-Clock  Blows Slated To Doom Plants

SMOULDERING BERLIN HIT “IN NEW. RAID   Twin-Engined _ Mosquito Bombers Attack Selected Targets

Reconnaissance Shows Fires In Berlin Raging   George Says Economic Structure of: Nazis  Will Go By December

FIRES STARTED BY FIRST RAID TILL BURNING   Correspondents Denied Privilege of Sending Out Stories

ALLIED PLANES OVER BERLIN AND ITALY   73,000 Homeless In Nazi Capital

Planes Complete Mop-Up Of Convoy   Gen. MacArthur Announces ‘Scarcely A Survivor’ Left From Battle; Jap Bases At Lae And Gasmata Bombed

ALLIES COMPLETE FINAL “MOP-UP” OF ENEMY CONVOY   Bits of Wreckage and Oil Stains On Water All That Remain of Japanese SeaBorne Force of 22 Ships.

15,000 JAPS DIE IW SEA BATTLE   Wreckage and Oil Slicks Only Traces of Ships Left After Engagement.

COMPROMISE OVER FARM PRICES NOW BELIEVED LIKELY        Official CancatnO¥ duee Ieee Production Mounts; Plantings Given Attention

Hear Talk Of A Compromise On Farm Prices   Official Concern Over Nation’s Food Produc tion Growing.

Compromise Seen Over Farm Prices   Government May Support All Farm Prices at Full Parity.

Compromise on Farm Prices Seen  Mounting Concern On Food Production Shown By Officials

Farm Price Compromise Is Hinted At Capital; Food Worry. Increasing

Talk Of Compromise On Farm Prices Heard In Conital: Food Concerns AR

Farm Price Unity Near?   Suggested Compromise Would Set No Ceiling At Less Than Parity

Germans Threaten to Raze Grenoble, France Unless Terrorism, Sabotage Stop, Report   ‘MASSACRE OF BELLONA “ADDED TO WAR CRIMES

KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR   Herman Stahel Suffers Leg Fracture Below the Knee

Allies Have Destroyed Average of 25 U-Boats a Month, Past 4 Months

ALLIES BLAST NAZI SUB DRIVE   CRAFT DESTROYED FASTER THAN ENEMY BUILDS THEM

DESTROY 150. GERMAN SUBS      ‘Are Eliminated  Faster ‘Than Nazis Can Build Them .

60 U-Boats Lost In Three Months   Destroyed Faster .  Than Nazis Build.

Subs Being Sunk Faster than Nazis  Can Build Them   Invasion Prelude TDestrovs 159 m Last Six Months

RS SE ST ET STE Ea aT TTT  Invasion Feared: Allies Chip Axis Tunisian Defense  ——————

BRITISH, FRENCH IN ADVANCES  RAF, Batters Stuttgart In Heavy Raid

News Day And Night   ALLIES SMASH TAAUUGH FOES IN NORTH AREA   Total Number Of Prisoners Captured In Last Week ~ Hits 30,000 Total

Frank Braun, Phiiosopher OF. . Grasshoppers, To. Be Honored   Nominated For Special R Recognition At WNA “Tower ae sheet

Frank Braun, Phitosopher OF — . Grasshoppers, To. Be Honored   Nominated For Special Rec ognition At WNAX “Tower Dedication

CITY COSTS ARE GOING UPWARD   LeMars Bucks General Trend As Far As Fire  Department Goes

Stalin Reports Impressive New Victories   Nazis Are Making Wholesale Retreat to Dnieper

German Lines Crack Before 5 Red Armies   Vital Bryansk-Kiev Railway Cut, Retreat To Dnieper Expected

Battered Nazi Forces Race  For Dnieper   Five Russ Armies Crack Vital Bryansk-Kiev Line

Production of Warships and Planes Hits Next Record During November

War Production At Record High  Plane Every 5 Minutes Produced In Month

Ship, Plane Production RecordsSetIn November; Output Tempo Increases

85,800 Planes Expected Total For This Year  More Than 1,000   More Than 1,000 Bombers Turned Out Last Month; Ship  Canctruction High

New Records Set in Production of Warships and Planes in November

House to Take Easter Recess   Finish Fight on Tax Plan Is Deferred

Pay-as-Go Tax Group to Take Easter Recess   Democrats Back Softer  Rates, Lifting Levy On 7 eo

Tax Decision Is Postponed Until After  Faster Reeecc   Lawmakers Returning To Homes May Find Answer to Question How They Should Voie  BATTLE SCHEDULED TO RESUME MAY 3  Another Big Struggle Along Party Lines Appears Inevitable

House Recesses.  Puts Off Tax Bill   Agrees to Start May 3 On Another Attempt

BATTLE ON PAY-6D TAX PLAN DELAYED   House Decides to Take an Easter Recess Until May 3 When Controversial Bill Will Be Tackled

House Schedules Tax Battle and Takes a Recess   Will Take Up Ruml anc Other Similar Plans on May 

Finish Battle on Tax Plan Set for May 3   House Decides to Take Easter Recess: Another Battle on Party Lines Inevitable

HOUSE TO TAKE EASTER RECESS   Finish Battle On Income Tax Proposals Set For May 3

By PAUL MALLON   ‘Distributed by King Peatures Synticate, Inc, Reproduction tn Full or i Part Strictly Prohibited.)

HITCH-HIKERS OF THE AIR ARE LATEST   But Only People In Uniform Are  Eligible

Punth-Drunk Germans Reel Back Under Sledge-Hammer Blows in All Sectors

Soviets Send Armies on to  White Russia   Reach Gates of Area After Key Rail Base of Bryansk Falls

GATES OF WHITE RUSSIA REACHED BY SOVIET ARMY   Germans Smarting From Loss Of Key City Of Bryansk, Punch-Drunk From Hard Slugging Of The Russians.

Nazis Retreat On Wide Front As Soviets Near White Russian Border

Nazi Lines Crumbling In Russia.   Reds Reach Gates of White Russia, While  _ Germans Try To Make New Defense Lines

REDS THREATEN DNIEPER LINES AT TWO POINTS   Pound on Gates of White Russia, Drive Wedge Toward Kiev, Take Ossipenko on Azov   NAZI STORES LOST   Caplure of Bryansk and Bezhitsa Opens Way to Smolensk—Nazis Prepare io Meet Drive

REDS REACH THE GATES OF WHITE RUSSIA   Central Stretch of Moscow-Kiev Railway and Junction Leading to New Objective Cleared by Soviet Troops.

Nazis Dniepe Lines Start Crumbling   Russians Reported Mounting Heavy Defenses Before Kiev

WHITE RUSSIAN GATES AEACHEL   Red Army Advance Brings Control of Orel Area After Bryansk Fall.

At Gates of White Russia   German Radio Starts Talking About Heavy Rainfall Though

WHITE RUSSIA'S GATES REACHED IN RED ADVANCE   Nazis Reported Trying to Build New Defenses Before Kiev, Smolensk

{Nazis Set Up New Barriers Along Dniepel   Soviets Clear Center Section Of Big Rail Line

Red Army Pushes To White Russia   Cross Desna and Capture Stretch of MoscowKiev Railroad.

FORTRESS IN SOVIET HANDS   Advancing Red Army A‘ Gates of White Russia, Moscow Reports

RED ARMY AT GATEWAY T0 WHITE RUSSIA   Soviet Strategy Aimed at Trapping German Garrison Which Has Been Holding Crimea

Red Army Captures Nazi Key Fortress Of Bryansk And Drives Enemy Back To Lines Of Defense On Dneiper River Base Points

Gates Reached After Clearing Vital Highways   Report Enemy Is Driven From Central Stretch Of Moscew-Kiev Railroad

Soviets Drive To Borders Of White Russia   Routed Nazis Build New Defenses Before Kiev And Smolensk.

RED ARMY STEAMROLLER (KNOCKS NAZIS STEADILY BACK ALONG ENTIRE EASTERN FRONT   German Lines Before Dnieper Barrier Said to I Curling Up As Incessant Russian Attacks Drive Cerman Armies Back From Soviet Territory

White Russia’s Gates Reached By Red Armies   Advance Clears Wide Network of Communications

OPAHead Order Food Price Cuts   Coffee, Butter, Five Meats Are Affected

To Roll Back Cost Of Living   Prices Of Coffee, Butter And Five Five Kinds Of Meat Ordered Reduced.

Lower Prices Ordered Upon Meats, Butter And Coffee   Price Reductions Due To Go Into Effect By dane Firet Price Adminictrator Announces

NIP NAVY DAY   EEE  But Japs Celebrate By Reminiscing On Old Victories

Probe of Army Plane’s Spectacular Crash Is’ Started; 11 Are Dead

ARMY PROBING BOMBER CRASH   One Of 12 Occupants Survives As Fiying Fortress Plummets To Earth

Plane Crash Kalls 11 Men   Lone Survivor in Columbus Hospital: Condition Critical

ARMY PROBING GIANT BOMBER CRASH: 11 DIE   One Soldier Survives Training Plane Accident

Motorists in Gas Shortage Area May Use Cars for Vacation Travel Soon

One Vacation Trip Allowed To Holders Of *A’ Cards   Autoists Must Prove Other Transportation To Vacation Spot  “Is Not Adequate

VACATION TRAVEL TO BE PERMITTED   A Card Holders Can Get Authority Under Cer tain Conditions

VACATION TRIP GAS ALLOWED   All Other Non-Essential Driving Banned; Stocks Low In East

0.P.A. Promises Vacation Trips On "A" Cards   But Ban Will Remain on All Other Non-Essential Driving

Use of Cars for Vacation Travel Will Be Permitted By OPA Beginning July 15

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Russ Turn Back Donets Attacks   Nazis Preparing For  Ukraine Offensive

SOVIETS CHECK GERMAN DRIVES   Nazis Mass Reserves at Same Ukrainian Bases As in 1942

NAZIS BACK IN UKRAINE   Repeated Assaults Believed Prelude To Offensive

NEW AXIS ATTACK DEFEATED BY REDS   Six Grounded Jap Planes De stroyed, 2 Enemy 4 Allied Ships Are Sunk.

nn TR i" NG DRIVE   Red Army Throws Back All German Thrusts at Points on Donets River at  Other Points.

RED ARMY THROWS BACK NEW GERMAN DRIVE ON DONETS   Field Dispatches. Report Extensive Preparations ; For Big Nazi Drive ” -This Surnamer

MONTGOMERY IN AN ADDRESS TO TROOPS   Gave a Personal Message tc His 8th Army Before Entering Italy.

Points Out Curb Placed on Reporters Denies News to Public, Violates Freedom Of the Press

Writers Charge Food Conference News Ban Abridges Freedom of the Press

CURB ON NEWS HIT BY PRESS   Correspondents Object To Exclusion From Food Conference

Washington Correspondents Protest Dress Restrictions at Food Sessions

To: Equalize Gas: Rations over Nation   Not-So-Good News on Tires  Revealed; New Rationing Procedure Disclosed

EASTERN AREA WILL BE GIVEN BIGGER SHARE   Completion of Huge Oil Pipe Line To East Is Help

Slash In Midwest Gas Is. Proposed By Ickes   More Motor Fuel For East And Less For West Is Seen Likely; Jeffers Bans Sale Of New Tires For Spares

Gasoline Rations — To Be Cut In West   : Completion of Pipeline (Runs Through Fayette County) To Carry More To Eastern States—Tire Outlook Gloomy, Too

East Will Get  More Gasoline, Midwest Less   Tighter Restrictions On Tires Are Decreed For Motoring Public.

MoreGasin East, Less In West   Tighter Restrictions on Tires Decreed for Vast U. S. Motoring Public, Say Officials

Motorists Face. More Bad News   Gas Rations To Be Cut. Tire- Sales Banned

MORE GASOLINE FOR EAST; BANS ON TIRES LOOM   Gas Rationing For Driving Public to Be Equalized Over Most of Nation, Ickes Savs   TIRE SALES HALTED      Spares Will Not Be Sold For Few Months Except to Doctors, Firemen, Emergency Groups

Gasoline Ration Revision Promised   More Gallons for East but Less In Western Areas: Tire News Gloomy

East fo Get More Gas, West Less With Tighter Restrictions on Tires Decreed For World's Greatest Motoring Nation

MORE GAS LIKELY FOR FAST COAST   Rules On Tires Are Made Tighter

Gas-Starved East Has Promise of More Petrol Today While West Faces a Cut -

GASOLINE AND TIRES  STILL TROUBLE SPOT  FOR UNITED STATES MORE GAS FOR EAST,  LESS FOR SOUTHWEST; BAN ON SALE TIRES

Ban Sale Of New Tires  For Spares   Gasoline Rationing To Be Equalized; B, C, E and R Coupons Good Until Renewals Issued

EAST GIVEN HINTS OF MORE GASOLINE   Increased Allowance Indicated For Seaboard With Cut In Prospect For West—Tire News Not So Good

West To Get Less Gas In Near Future   Starved East Expected To Get More; Tires Sales Are Curtailed

MORE GASOLINE FOR EAST; TIRE SALES LIMITED   Parts Of West To Get Less Gasoline; No More New Spare Tires; Big Inch Pipeline Is Ready.

MORE GAS TOBE SENT ~ TOEAST.- MIDWEST: WEST GT UES   Sale of New Tires For. Spares Prohibited For Next Few : Months   RATION SYSTEM REVISED

Less Gas For West   Finishing of Pipeline Means More for East; Tighter Pinch on Tires

WILL EQUALIZE GAS RATIONING   Gas-Starved Eastern States To Be Allowed More Gas“oline; Midwest and South West Will Get Less; Tire News Not So Good,

MAY INCREASE GASOLINE FOR STARVED EAST   Rationing for Driving Public May Be Equalized Over Most of the Nation Soon   ‘RUBBER SITUATION BAD

Tire OUutiook Vark  More Gasoline Ordained For East; Less For West

MORE GASOLINE PROMISED EAST   Mid- West Rations To Be  Cut; Jeffers Bans  New Spare Tires  }

AUTO TIRE OUTLOOK REMAINS DISMAL   Gasoline - Starved Eastern Area To Get More

GLOOMIER PICTURE. SEEN FOR NATION’S MOTORISTS ON GASOLINE AND TIRES

More Gasoline For East, Less For West Seen  OPA To Tighten Tire Restrictions =... 288 Bren! .d.

Midwest Drivers Face Gas Ratior ‘Cut; Tire Restrictions Tightened

East to Get More Gas and West Less   Tighter Restrictions On Tires Decreed For Motoring Public

To Erect Soybean Plant Just North Of Building   MIN Expected To Re In Operation By October; Will Employ Ten Men At The Start

Sovbean Mill To Be Located In Shaldan   iG FOUR... CO-' OPERATIVE. - BUYS _ QUAKER OATS “ELEVATOR  EXPECT TO EMPLOY AT LEAST TEN MEN TO START

Explosion Death loll Reaches 10  At Least 2 Others Still Are Missing

Crable and Judae Called   They Are Subpoenaed To Appear Before Tulsa Grand Jury

Jury Calls For Crawford And Others   Tulsa Grand Jury. Subpoenas Ada District Judge Crable, Daniel

British battle strong enemy force at Coo   Aegean fracas grows steadily

Nazis Seek To Halt Drive On Balkan States   Cairo Reports Germans . Land. Strong Units In The Dodecanese

BRITISH, “NAZIS~IN STIFF BATTLE FOR AEGEAN’S CONTROL   Conflicting Reports Come From Cairo And Turkey , About. Situation On Islands

STRUGGLE FO AEGEAN TAKES ON IMPORTANGI   British Occupy Island, Still Fight Nazis On Cos, Said

Junge Sees Need Of More Funds To Balance Budget   New or Broader Taxes Necessary to Provide Needed 3 Million

Tax Squawk By Big Firms Is Fssailed   Rep. Junge Defends tt. So-Called ‘‘Use Tax’’ to Catch ‘‘Tax Dodeers’’   DENIES IT FALLS ON THE POOR GUY   (ust Have More Beviune  Soys.. pute petadons ao

‘BIRMIAN KILLED   Three Fliers Die On Routine Flight At Jacksonville Air Base

ALABAMIAN KILLED    Montgomery Flier Fatally Injured : In Crash At Dothan

3 DEAD, 2 HURT IN PLANE CRASH   Bomber Accident Occurs After Take-Off Last Night From Baer Field

WORKING ON NEW CIVILIAN PLANS   New Cost of Living Program Expected To Be In Operation Before Congress Convenes Next Month.

INEW COST LIVING PLAN MAY SOON IBE IN OPERATION   _ It Had Been Expected That President Would Sidestep  _ Any Further Subsidies .  , Without Congressional  Approval -

May Offer New Food Subsidy  Program Soon   New Program Expected To Deal Largely In 3 o,f

NEW PLAN ON SUBSIDIES SEEN   Operation Must Await Con gressional Approval Of Necessary Funds

PREDICT NEW FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN TO BE IN FORCE SOON...   Officials Feel Cost of Living Plan’ Will Be ‘in Operation Before Congress Returns— Funds Needed

To Disclose New Subsidy PlanSoon    ‘Based Largely on Purchase and Resale at  a Loss by Government; Congress Must Approve

ADMINISTRATION'S NEW COST OF LIVING SUBSIDY DUE SOON  PREDICTED PLAN TO PRECEDE RECONVEN-

Plan Subsidies To Cut Prices   New Program May Affect Vegetables

Subsidy Planned   ... But Solons Must Vote Funds For New Program

ANNOUNCE NEW FOOD SUBSIDY PROGRAM SOON   Cost of Living Reduction Plan Is About To Be Unveiled   ASK CONGRESS GRANT   Gov't To Buy All Crops, Sell At Loss To  Consumers

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN IS EXPECTED SOON   Cut in Living Costs To Cost Millions of Dollars

DETAILS BEING KEPT VEILED BY 1. §. OFFICIALS   To Contain Government  Purchases and Resate at-Loss Operations and Other Devices   FUND FOR PROPOSAL AWAITS CONGRESS   Expected to be Answer fo Nar Mobilization Director Byrnes’ Lower Living Cost Promise

New Subsidy Plan About Completed   Expected To Deal With Vegetables; May  Cost Billion Dollars

NEW FOOD SUBSIBY PLAN BEING DRAWN   PROGRAM TO CUT LIVING COSTS MAY BE LAUNCHED , AT EARLY DATE,

SUBSIDY LIVING PLANTS DUE SOON   May Be.In Operation Before Congress Resumes Work During September.

Officials Predict That Administration's New Cost‘of Living Subsidy Plan Will . ‘Be in Operation Before Congress Returns

SUBSIDY PLAN IS PUSHED TO FRONT      Slated For Operation In Near Future

PAPER LICENSE PLATES 10 BE USED IN STATE   No Metal Tags Will Be Issued For Coming Year

ONE SLAIN IN ~ PRISON BREAK      ‘Two Others and Guard Are  Wounded In Junction     City Mutiny

ONE KILLED IN » PRISON BREAK   Two Injured. Three Others Seized At Junction City

BREAK ATTEMPT AT HONOR CAMP UNSUCCE SSFUL   Guard Slugged, Two Prisoners Wounded Thursday Evening

SEXTET FAILS IN PRISON BREAK AT JUNCTION CITY   Kill Convict, Wound Two Others; Guard Also Hurt

GERMAN SUB BASE SUFFERS ADDED HAVOC   U-Boat Pens And Port Works Hit Hard In Attack

NAZI SUB BASE BOMBARDED BY BY RAF PLANES   Two Bombers Are Missing After Night Assault

LORIENT SUB BASE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST BOMBED   Heavily Attacked Last Night by Aircraft of the RAF.   TWO PLANES WERE LOST   Explosives Add to the Havoc Wrought by Americans December 30.

RAF RAIDS SUB BASE AT LORIENT   Two Royal Air Force Bombers Lost in Night Offensive Attack

GERMAN U-BOAT BASE POUNDED   RAF Makes Heavy Raid Over Lorient In France

GERMAN SUB BASE AT LORIENT HIT   ~ TWO BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN FROM ‘HEAVY ATTACK’

RAF Pours Heavy Bombs On Nazi Subs Af Lorient  58th Raid On Nazi EY Dent Daan flastco   58th Raid On Nazi U-Boat Base Costs Two War Planes

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST LORIENT   German Sub Base Raided In R. A. F's. Fourth Night Attack

BRITISH POUND U-BOAT NEST   Two Bombers Fail to-Re tun:from Assault on French Coast

NAZI BASE ON FRENCH COAST NIGHT TARGET   LORIENT SUBMARINE NEST TARGET FOR RAF BOMBERS

TWO SOUGHT FOR TRIPLE MURDER ON MERCER, PA., FARM   Hired Man and Hired Girt Disappear Alter Series of Slavinne -

Two Sought In Triple Murder Case   Hired Girl and Young Parolee Hunted for Questioning

QUEBEC COUNCIL LAI PLANS FOR WAR IN PAGIFIL   This is Why Russia Wasn't Invited, F. D. R. and Churchill Say

Pantelleria's Aicter (sland Under Attack   First Ultimatum Turned Down by Axis Defenders

Allied Air Forces In Mediterranean Staging Terrific Aerial Assault Against Italian Isle Of Lampedusa

CONNALLY STRIKE BILL IS APPROVED   Modified Plan Passed tn Senate 63 to 16 After De‘ate Three Days.

CONNALLY BILL PASSES SENATE      Bill Heads for House; Would Legalize Seizure of Struck Plants

SENATE SENDS PLANT SEIZURE BILL TO HOUSI   Connally Measure Voted 63 to 16 —Taft Amendment Defeated but WLB Power Voted

‘Connally Plant Seizure Bill Faces Uncertain Destiny Before House

Anti-Strike Bill  Fate Uncertain   Bill Passed By Senate Legalizes Seizure Of Struck Plants.

Woman Jailed in Fafal Shooting   Signs Statement She Shot 43-Year-Old Man in His Home

Corpus Christi Has Costly Fire   Fire Rages Nearly Four Hours in Building of William Cameron

Nazi Propaganda Shows Panic Sign   Allied nerve war driving Hitler’s experts to weird outbursts

Southern Coal Operators Wan! WLB To Take Case   UMW Spokesman Takes Is sue with Request of Mine Owners

Operators Seek WLB's  Adjudication   SOUTHERN GROUP CALLS ON CONCILIATOR STEELMAN ‘tJ CED Y MENE WAGE CONTROVeRsy £O TLRIBUAL.   UMW Doesn’t Want It

Nazi Agent poner J aps  On Dec. 7   Used Light To Signal For Attack On Pearl Harbor; Sentence Is Commuted

At Least One of Them, Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn, Was Sentenced to Death      LATER CHANGED TO 50 YEARS IN PRISON   Convicted by Military. Com mission In Honolulu  With Giving Japs In farmatian af Fleet

GERMAN ESPIONAGE AGENTS HELPED JAPS PLAN PEARL HARBOR  NAZI AGENT TRIED AND SENTENCED TO DEATH BUT GRANTED LENIENCY

GERMAN SPIES AIDED JAPS AT PEARLHARBOR   One Agent is Tried Before Military Commission on Charge of Betraying United States   SENTENCE COMMUTED

German Agents Assisted Japs In War Plans   OWI Reveals At Least One Nazi Sentenced to Die, But Later Given 50 Years at Hard Labor, For Helping Nips Prepare Attack on Pearl Harbor.

ONE AGENT WAS SENTENCED 10 DIE, OW! SAYS   Sentence Was Commuted Tc 50 Years In Prison In October

Nazi Agents Aided Japs Plot Raid On Harbor   One Is Convicted But Death Edict Is Rescinded

NAZI SPIES AIDED . JAPS WITH ‘STAB’   U. S. Fleet in Pearl Harbor Betrayed to Japan By German Agent.

German Agents Helped Japs Plot Pearl Harbor Attack, OW! Declares

NAZIS HELPED JAPS PLAN PEARL HARBGE   Nazi Agent Gives Informatio: Gn U. &. Fleet

Nazi Spies Aided Japs In Planning For Pearl Harbor   Agent Arrested, Confesses To Working Out Code Signals, Telling Of Fleet

Nazi Agents ~ Helped Japs in Honolulu      German Agents Assisted Nips in Plans for Attack on Pearl Harbor   AGENT ARRESTED BEFORE ATTACK   Sentenced to Be Shot, But Later Gven 5 Years at Hard Labor .

NAZI SPIES AID JAPS IN PEARL HARBOR PLOT   Military Board Sentences German To 50 Years of Hard Labor

NAZI ESPIONAGE AGENTS ASSISTED ~ATPEARL HARBO   Bernard J. 0. Kuehn :Sen“tence to Be Shot ‘at Military Trial Later’-Given Term of 50: Years:   BANKED $70,000.1N THREE-YEAR PERIOD   Wife, Others In Family. Interned For Duration, Went ‘to Honolulu to Learn Jap Lanauage. ,

0).W.L Reveals Nazis Helped Jap: Plot The Attack On Pear! Harbo:

NAZIS GAVE AID TO JAPANESE IN PEARL HARBOR   OWI Reveals German Spies Helped Nippon to Prepare Attack

German Spy Helped Japs In Hawaii   Worked Out Signals For Attack on Pearl  Harbor; Death Sentence Never Carried Out

NAZI SPY AIDED NIPPON ATTACK   One Now Interned Devised Signals For Pear} Harbor Assault

German Spies Aided Japs at Pearl Harbor   One Was Convicted and Sentenced to Be Shot, Sentence Commuted To 50 Years Hard Labor

Nazi Spies Helped Plot Pearl Harbor Attack, OWI Says   Death Sentence Given One at Trial Held Is Later Commuted

German Spies Helped Japs Plot Pearl Harbor Attack, O. W. I. Reveals

Nazis Aided Japs at Pearl Harbor; One Devised Sionals to Nip “Fleet

GERMAN ESPIONAGE AGENTS HELPED JAPS PLAN PEARL HARBOR  NAZI AGENT TRIED AND me MEtArr wrt Te Aw

GERMANS HAD PART AT PEARL HARBOR   Nazi Agents Helped The Japs Plan Their Attack

Nazi Agent Convicted Of Conniving With Japanese In Pearl Harbor Attack

Nazi Espionage Agents Helped Ready Attack On Pearl Harbor   One Was Sentenced Te Be Shot But Penalty Was ‘Later Changed To Fifty Years Imprisor:ment

SENTENCE NAZI FOR  PEARL HARBOR ROLE   OWI! Reveals Germans Helped Signal Time for Jap Attack.

Germans Told Japs of Pearl Harbor Fleet   Julius Kuehn Sentenced To Be Shot Gets 50-Year Term

Principle Of Separate Air _ Force With Co-Equal Power Set Un In New Reaulatioan

Meetings of Furniture Eardware, and Electrical Appliance Dealers   Also Merchants Selling Women’s Missese’, and Children’s Outwear Garments

The Dietrich Rites on Monday Morning’   Services Wil Be at 9 o’Clock From St. Joseph Church In Utica.

SENATE VOTES FUNDS 10 FSA   Only a Stepping Stone ir Preparing for Other Farm Appropriations

"LEND-LEASE CORN PLAN PROPOSED   Rep. Andresen Says Program Would Pry Grain Supply Loose

POWER FAILURE HITS COLUMBUS   Public Transportation, War . Production Paralyzed

SUDDEN OUTBURST OF ARIAL ACTION REPORTED IN CHINA   American Planes Attack Hankow — Japs Raid Chinese City Of  ' Chungking

China Air War Activity Rises   40 To 50 Jap Planes Shot Down In Raids

$200,000 Fire Loss in Erie   One Building Destroyed—Others Damaged

ERIE BLAZE IN BUSINESS AREA   Loss .in Morning’ Outbreak Is Estimated at $900 000.

ERIE FIGHTS $200,000 FIRE   One of Two Kresge Store: Gutted—17 Persons Escane

72 Billions For Army Is FDR Request   Amount Asked for Is More than 6 Billion Dollars above the President’s January Figures.

Corn Yield 10 To 25 Per Cent Of Its  Normal Here   Prolonged Drouth, Hot And Windy Weather Has Played Havoc With Crop

ALLIES APPROVE GIRAUD’S PLAN   North Africa To Be Used Only As Invasion Base, Officials Declare

Father Is Held After Baby Succumbs Wien Taken From Hospital Too Soon

RESUME WORK AT CHRYSLER   Full Production Is Not Expected Before Monday

Men Returning To Work Affer Two-Day Strike   Heed Order From WLB; General Motors Wage Parley Deadlocked

WLB Directive Obeyed in Part Bu Full Resumption Not Expectec Before Monday

CHRYSLER MEN READY T0 WORK   Full Pr oduction Indicated Not Later Than Monday

Four Others Hit By Yankee Fleet  -In Solomon Sea   American Loss Is One Cruiser; Dive Bombers Finish Off Fleeing Enemy; Japs Lose 20 More Planes, Raise Total For Week’s Offensive To 182.

Japan Naval Fleet Beaten In Sea Fight   Six Sunk And Four Damaged Is Report Of General MacArthur

Americans Lose Cruiser.in Fight and Destroyer in Earlier Bombardment; More. Jap -Planes Shot Down

U.S. Warships in Kula Gulf Battle: One Cruiser Lost   Jap Air Defeats Mount; Enemy Raids Nassau Bay

FOUR OTHERS DAMAGED IN HOT BATTLE   American Cruiser and Destroyer Are Sunk

FOUR OTHERS DAMAGED; U.S, CRUISER LOST   Victory Over Nipponese in Kula Gulf Announced by Gen. MacArthur’s  - Headquarters.   ENEMY IS DEALT . NEW AIR BLOWS   Seven of 48 Planes Raiding Darwin Shot Down —Nine Bagged in Other Areas.

U.S. Warships Sink Six  7 Jap Vessels   Allied Sea Victory Won in Kula Gulf In Central Solomons; One Cruiser Lost: Nin Air Losses Mount

6 Japanese Ships Are Probably Sunk   Four Others Damaged In U. S. Naval Victory In Kula Gulf; 9 Enemy Planes Downed In Battle Area

Enemy Suffers Much Damage in Fight at Sea   U.S. S. Strong Is Sunk by Jap Torpedo

Six Nipponese Vessels Probably Sunk, Four Others Damaged; American Cruiser, Destrover Lost

US. Claims Big Victory In Kula Gulf   Americans Lose Cruiser; Four Nip Vessels Hit

One American Cruiser Lost In Engagement Fought Tuesday In Narrow Gulf   SEVEN OUT OF 48 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN

Gomel, Rechitsa Totter in Push   MAY SPLIT GERMAN FORCES BY UNHINGING CENTRAL, SOUTHERN FRONTS ON BOTH SIDES OF PRIPET MARSHES; RAIL LINE SLASHED

RECHITSA ALSO PLACED UNDER DIRECT ATTACK   Cutting Of Railway Threatens Collapse Of German De. fenses

RED ROLLING ALONG ON 200MILE THEATRI   Fall of Gomel Reported Immin ent. Soviets Strive to Open Invasion Route to Reich   Drive on West By ASSOCIATED PRESS

FALL OF GIT ba WILL UNH INGE ENTIRE FRONT   Russians Plunge Westward All Along 200-Mile Front Using 500,000 Troops

Gomel, Rechitea Under Siege By  Soviet Forces   Drive Along 200-Mile Front Threatens To Split German Troops

RED ARMY ROLLS WESTWARD ALONG Z00-MILE FRONT   Fall of Gomel {s Imminent, Rechitsa Is Equally Insecure With Splitting of Nazi Forces.   JAP CRUISER BLASTED, AIRDROME IS BOMBED   Germans Believed Preparing to Move Tirpitz to Home Port For Repairs From Recent Attack.

Pripet Marsh Splits Nazi  Armed Lines   Soviets Swing Divisions Around Gomel in Center

Fall of Gomel Is Imminent   Red Armies Are Rolling Westward On 200-mile Front

at Drwvin Rommel’s Units Being Driven Tow serine Pass — Troops Harassed by Allied Planes Numbers of Prisoners Taken.

German Tanks Pushed Back fo Kasserine Gap   American. Artillery Shells Nazi Columns. Aircraft Rule Skies

ALLIED AIR POWER TURNS BATTLE TIDE   Rommel Forces Now 3 Miles From Kasserine

Rommel Turns Tail “Under Allied Push: ‘Planes Rake Army   Full Retreat Threatens to Become Debacle at Kasserine Pass; Great Storec Fall ta Vanke and Beinch

Americans, British Suddenly Turn on Desert Fox, Deal Out Greatest Pasting of Tunisian Fight   Crack 21st German Unit Which Pushed Yanks Back, Now Near Disorderlv Rout Stage.

RETREAT FORGED AFTER ENEMY IS NEAR GREAT BASE   Tide Changes As Allies Dominate Air, Germans Forced to Fall Back Approximate ~ ly 24 Miles.   TUNISIA FIGHTING — SWINGS FOR ALLIES   American Liberators Bomb ers Make Direct Hits Upon  ‘Messina Harbor Ouring Davlight Raid.

GERMANS Okan BACK TO PAoo UNDER ATTAGK   Artillery and Planes Smash  Nazi Armored Units in Frantic Flight.   MANY PRISONERS TAKEN BY AMERICAN FORCES

CRACK GERMAN OUTFIT HARD HIT BY ALLIES   Nazis Are Given Worst Pasting Yet Received In Tus nisian Campaign.

AMERICANS, BRITISH STOP ENEMY DEAD   Tide of Battle In Tunisia Turns in Favor of Allies

CRACK GERMAN ARMORED UNIT GIVEN PASTING   Rolled Back To Area Three Miles From Vital Pass

Germans Stopped By Allies After Three-Day Battle   Rommel’s Afrika Korps Driven in Retreat ' Toward Kasserine Pass, Harassed By Allied Planes and Troops

Being Pushed to Kasserine ° Pass Ares   HARRASSED AFTER ALLIES STOP KOE DEAD IN TRACKS, '%

Crack Armored Units In Flight From Thala Are Attacked, Land And Air

Allies Take Minor SetBack in Tunis   Troops Forced to Withdraw from Mansour: Hill

STALEMATE IN TUNISIA AS THE BRITISH LOSE HILI   Eighth Army Still Withhold: Final Mareth Line Attack.

Slow Down, Take Adequate Periods of Rest, Is Advice to Executives

Big Force of U.S. Bombers Attacks Ruhr   Krefeld Hit With 2,000 Tons Of Bia Bombs

CROSS CHANNEL AS RAF RETURNS FROM BIG RAIDS   ftaly Feels Weight Of Allied Bombs Too

Navy Exhibit For Pittsburgh District  To Boost ‘Steel For Vic tory" Campaign

Reds Open For New Pole Rue   Declares New GovernmentIn-Exile Need Not Be Set Lp In Moscow.

INVITE POLES FORM NEW GOVT. IN EXILE   Reds Reject First Group but Leave Way Open for Reorganization

No Change In Russo-Polish Crisis Noted   Door Left Open, However, For Poles To Form New Regime: -

New Polish Regime Urged   Russia Says Sikorski Given No Authority To Sneak For Poles

RED-POLE RIFT WAY BE HEALED BY RUSS ENVOY   Moscow Rejects Regime in Exile, But Litvinoff Is Expected to Settle Present Crisis   NEW SET-UP SEEN   Believe Russia Planning  To Establish Polish Government Within Soviet Union

Cut in Water Conservation Funds Sought   $150,000 Per Year Proposed by House Appropriations Body

Fund for Water Conservation Asked in Bill  Allottment Would Rea T ace Tham

Fund for Water Conservation Asked in Bill   Allottment Would Be Less Than in Last Biennium

Large Slice Asked in Water Fund   Proposal Is $50,000 Per Year Below Former Aljlotment

See Labor Draft Bill In Offing   WMC Has Been Hinting In Latest Statements

NATIONAL SERVICE LAW MAY BE TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT   Congress May, Consider  Debated Matter When  It Reconvenes on . September 14.

NEW DEAL MOVE. HINTED ON DRAFT   Government May Seek To Forestall Ban on Induction of Fathers.

Believe Administration May Ask Congress For National Service Law

Manpower Request Is Anticipated   Administration Expected to Make Move When  Congress Convenes

Re~uest for Labor Dratt Anticipated   Congress Expects Administration  To Take Lead

Farm Bloc Seeks Early Vote on Subsidy Program   Moves for Action Before Christmas

SUBSIDY FIGHT IS NEAR SHOWDOWN      Farm Bloc Seeks to Force Vote on Bill Before Holidays

SUBSIDY FIGHT 15. ~ WEAR SHOWDOWN   Farm Bloc Seeks to Force Vote on Bill Before Holidays.

RUBBER FACTORY IN FRANCE GIVEN SHOWER OF BOMBS   Other Bombers Hit Targets In Berlin And Other Points   FORTRESSES GO . ON NIGHT RAIDS

BERLIN RAIDED BY RAF; PARIS HIT BY YANKS   Rubber Plant Bombarded By British Heavyweights

AIRMEN BOMB RUBBER PLANT NEAR VICHY   Berlin Hit By R. A. F.; Other  Towns Damaged

British Bombers Attack Berlin,  Nazi Industries   Report Raids 0; Cities In France

French Rubber Plant Bombed   Allied Raiders Also Attack Paris Area, Berlin

AlliesPushBeyond  Fallen Sangro Line   German Defense Smashed By Eighth Army In Spite Of Desperate Resistance; Yanks Advances 3 Miles

American Troops of Fifth ‘Army Also Smash Forward  ALL-OUT” BATTLE FOR ROME IS DUE Germans Fight With Des ‘ peration at Every Point

Allies Break Through Nazi Line in Italy   Beginning of All-Out Drive on Rome Seen as British Advance; Fifth Army Makes Three-Mile Gain

British Smash Through  Nazi Defenses   Americans Fight Through for Three-Mile Gain

All-Out Drive For Rome Is Indicated   British And Americans Smash Nazi Lines In Italy As Germans Fight Desperately  Re... ere Barr Amman nr

All-Out Drive On Rome Said To Be under Way   Both Americans And British Gain

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BRITISH PIERCE GERMAN DEFENSES IN SANGRO ARF:   Bloody Hand-to-Hand Fighting Takes Place With Enemy Losses Described as “Very Heavy.”   HUNDREDS OF PLANES BOMB NAZI POSITIONS   Clark’s Fifth Army Gains Three Miles in Central Sector, Capturing Valuable High Ground.

Eighth Smashes Nazi Defenses  Beyond Ridge   Geis Heaviest Tactical Air Support of Campaign Fifth Moves Three Miles

HEAVIEST Alh ” SUPPORT GWEN   British Advance Beyond Cap® tured Sangro Ridge   AMERICANS GAIN   Puree Miles in Central Sector; May Herald Start of Drive on Rome

Yanks, Britons Make Advances   ‘Believe All-Out Rome Drive May Open Soon

STH ARMY IS ADVANCING: STH MOVES UP      Probably Heralding “All Out” Allied Drive On Rome; Germans Resist Attack Desperately.   Shell Nazis

SOMERVELL DEFENDS CANADA OIL PROJECT   General Says Development is Vital Invasion Strategy Link and Recommends Expansion.

Somervell Backs Canada Oil Plan   Aid in Invasion, General Asserts

Chihuahua Power  Plants Quit Work   \lost of Mexico State Atlected by Strike

ET ARMIES STORM AHEAD IN NORTH RUSSI   Marshal Timoshenko Troops Are Smashing All Before Them In Big Offensive.

Reds Storm Ahead on North Front   Nazis Claim Gains In Donete Racin

RUSSIANS THREATEN KEY NAZI FORTRESS OF STARAYA RUSSIA   11,000 Germans Die As Timoshenko Storms Forward In Far North

Burma Push Hinted Near   Stilwell Tells China Of Allied Decisions

SAYS WAR PICTURE IS BRIGHTENING   Japan Will Be Defeated Sooner Than People Think, Says Field Marshal Smuts.

MUNITION MEN MAKE PROTEST   Miranda Brothers Charge Attempt to ‘Smear and Discredit’ Them.   ISOLD PLANES TO JAPS

3 GIRLS SAVE CRACK TRAIN   Build Fire To Flag Limit. ed Near WreckageStrewn Tracks

Senate Committee Votes 11 to 5 To Continue Food Subsidies 60 Days

Food Subsidies Voted New Lease on Life  60-Day Extension Favored By Banking Group

Would Delay Subsidy Ban   Senate Committee Favors Continuing Program 60 Days

ie TAX PROPOSAL HITTING. SNAG   BITTER CONTROVERSY DEVELOPING AROUND SUGGES- TION OF .NATIONAL® o SALES. TAK

Sales Tax Fight Gains In Intensity   Leader Of Foes Declares Opposition Mounting in Committee

THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS AFTER FIVE-DAY FLOOD   Property Damage More Than Million Dollars; Wheeling Stadium Damaged

WEST VIRGINIA FLOOD DAMAGE OVER MILLIOR   Thousands Lefr Homeless By Worst December Disaster In History of State   WATERS RECEDING   Red Cross Survey Shows 5,000 Ohio County Residents Will Need Rehabilitation

LATER, GREAT FLEETS HEAD OVER DIEPPE   Latest Round-Clock Aerial Offensive Against Fortress Now in Its Fourth Day

FRANK REVELL, DEMOCRATIC LEADER, DEAL   Kingpin of Party In Anne Arundel County Succumbs At Home In  Glen Burnie, Md.

Chairman Of State Highway Body Stricken   William H. Armatrong, Former Racine Mayor, Dies At Madison After Heart Attack

Armstrong. State Road Chief, Dies Commission’s Chairman  Stricken In Madison

CANADIAN CHIEF     SEES ITALY FALL   Warns Final Act. May Not Come as Soon as a fe Bypested -

Takes Four To Replace A. Hitler   Name party leaders to “ee 99 ~* take over’”’ in case  Adolf dies

NAZI LEADERS ~ PLAN SUCCESSOR TF HITLER DIES   Four High-Ranking Nazi Party Leaders Plan To Take Over  Rule In Emergency

Name Four Hitler Heirs   Take Over Rule in Case Fuehrer Dies  — map _——_

OANTA GALLS UN BOYS IN PACIFIC   Fighting Yanks  Everywhere Celebrate Christmas, But Keep Gung Handy

YANKS ON TARAWA GREETED SANTA ATOA.M. TODAY   AN HOUR LATER HE VISITED THE AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL AND BOUGAINVILLE ISLANDS.   EACH YANK GETS 3 BOTTLES COLD BEER

British Troops Drive Nazis Back  West Of Mateur   ™’Germans Driven From Strongly Defended Hills In Tunisia Clash   SIX HOUR SERIES OF ATTACKS MADE   U.S. Air Forces Bomb Sfax And Kariouan And Cause Havoc

Mrs. Roosevelt Is Luncheon Guest Of Australians   Royal Carpet Used As Special Tribute

Pay-Go Tax Plan In Effect for  All Wage Karner: U.S. Starts Out  On Record Spending Year

Start New Fiscal Year   Budget Calls for Expenditures of $109,000,000,000

Government Starts Heavy  Tapping of Payrolls Today   Withholding Tax Goes Into Effect, With Indications Rate Will Increase Next Year

EFFECT TOQMAY   Government Embarks on Fiscal Year Costing $109.009.000,000.

Flower Of Rommel’s. shfrica Corps Strikes Defenders From Two, Directions.

Senate To Look Into Spending   Truman, Tydings, Nye, Make Up Committee

EXPENDITURES ABROAD PROBED   Nye Is Named Head of to-Make-Inquiry

SENATE NOT KIDDING IN SPENDING PROBE   Topnotch Fact - Finders Put In Charge

Senate Prepares For An Intensive Probe Of U. S. Expenditures Abroat

INVESTIGATION OF EXPENDITURE OF U.S; BEGINS   Senate Follows Up  Charges. of Five  Globe Touring Membérs

Both Axis Capitols Given New Blasting By Bombers  Swiss Air Alarms Early Saturday Indicate Bombere Aacin Winning Over Necthern Ital.

Rome, Berlin Milan, Turin Bombed by Allies   Challenge to Badoglio Seen in New Strikes

BRITISH MARE NIGHT ATTACK UPON BERLIN   MILAN AND TURIN ALSO TARGETS FOR RAF

Alert Indicates New Air Raids On North Italy   Would Be Follow Ups  Of Attacks on Rome, rT er

Food Parley Closes With  Fine Program   EMBODIED IN DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND 30 ,RESOLUJIONS; FOOD DISTRIBUTION FOR ALL PEOPLES.   Silent Prayer

FOOD PARLEY ENDS; PROGRAM ADOPTED   Resolutions Call for ¢ World Free From Want

Food Parley Winds Up With Pleas for Better Fed World   Confidence Expressed Day of Victory Is Nearer Due to Meet

FOOD PARLEY COMES TO END   Program Aimed at Freeing  World from Want Adopted at Final Session

FOOD CONFERENCE COMES 10 GLOSE   Adopts Program Aimed at Paving Way Toward World Free From Want: Committee To Be Set up

ALLIED BOMBERS SOFTENING ENENM   Red Air Force Attack South Southern Front as Ground Army Remains Inactive.

Billions in Wat Contracts For Small Plants   Nelson May Reshuffle WPB for Efficiency; Holland to Remain

Billion in War Orders Offered Small Busines:   "43 Goal Is Set by Nelson: Reshuffle For Greater Efficiency in WPB Unit Rumored

SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF PLANNED   Nelson Plans Billion Dollars In Contracts As WPB Goal For 1943

Allies Ignore Rome Claim  As Open City   Warn of Continued Bombing Until All Rules Are Met

All Military Targets Must Be Eliminated   Proof That Eternal City Is No Longer Used as Base for War Operations Must Be Provided to End Allied Assaults

ir Attacks Will Continue Unless War Activities In Rome Are Ended

Allies To Refuse Recognition Of Act   Proof Must Be Furnished City No Longer Being Used For Military Purposes By Axis

Radio Tells Italy ‘Open City’ Plea Is Not Enough   Madrid Hears Pope Pius Insisted On Declaration; Deor To Peace Seen

ALL MILITARY USE MUST END IMMEDIATELY!   Removal of I Industry, War Traffic Is Ordered

BADOGLIO STATEMENT S DECRIED BY ALLIED RADIO; LACK OF RAIDS CELEBRATED   United Nations May Send Investigating Committee

United Nations Say Attacks Will Go on While Capital ls Communications Center

Italians May Be Preparing Peace Offer   Bombing of Eteraal City To Cuntinue Until Militaey. Use Halted -

SENATE BACKTRACKS ON RAISING OF OLD AGE ASSISTANCE  ACTION FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY. AFTER EXECUTIVE SESSION OF BODY

U.S. Forces Are Transferred to the Northern Tun- isian Front   30 MILES FROM BIZERTE   Advance Made in Heavy Fighting Thru Difficult Hill Country

Movement of U.S. Troops in Africa Campaign Lauded   Speed and Secrecy Surrounding Transfer From Onc Sector to Another Praised; Involved Moving Large Numbers of Soldiers and Great Quantities of Stores and Equipment

ADVANCE SIX MILES NEARER GERMAN BASE   Yanks Moved To Northern Front From South   FIRST ARMY   Of British Pushes Ahead; Bombers In Record Number Of Sorties

U.S. Forces Are Transferred - to the Northern Tun- isian Front   Advance Made in Heavy ~ Fighting Thru Difficult -;* Hill Country

Shift Yanks To Northern Battle Zone   U, 5, Staff Work Praised In Traop Movement

Gen. Alexander Praises Americans For Way In Which Shift Was Made

U.S. SOLDIERS DRAW CLOSER TO CITY MATEUR   Other Yankee Unit Hacks Way for Seven Miles Through Stiff Enemy Fire . to Beja-Mateur Road   BRITISH EXTENDING ALLIED ADVANCES   Capture Long Stop Hill, 28 Miles West of Tunis; Air Forces Collaborating

Wanks Change Battle Zone In Africa   200 Red Bombers Bata Prussia City

TRANSFERRED 10 NORTHERN AREA FOR NEW BLOW   Americans Are Praised; Speed Up Campaign

British First Hommers Out Six Mile Cain Ip Goubellat-Bou Arada Area

Army Is Shifted To No. Tunisia For Final Push   Marshal Rommel’s Last Hill Stronghold Falls Before Onslaught

SHIFTED FAD SOUTHERN LINE   Advance Severa} Miles in Most Difficult Terrain In Tunisia.   STOP COUNTERATTACKS

NORTHERN TUNISIA SCENE OF LATEST 1). §, TROOP ACTION   RECORD NUMBER OF ATTACK FLIGHTS BY ALLIED AIR FORCES

Transferred Yanks Fight Advance Six Miles Near Mateur   Allied Troops Seek To Widen Three Tunisian Salients In Bitter Fighting; Long Stop Hill Is Captured By First Army

American Second Corps Rolls Back Axis In General Offensive On Road To Mateur

American Forces Are Transferred To Northern Area   1500 Aerial Flights Made By Allied Airmen In Single Day; British First And Eighth L  Armies Score New Ground Gains

U.S. Troops Shift North, Thrust Axis Back 6 Miles, British Take Long Stop Hill

U. S. Troopers Transferred to Bizerte Region   American Units Score Advances In Desert Battle

AMERICAN TROOPS SENT FROM SOUTH TO NORTH TUNISIA AREA  ANNOUNCEMENT PRAISES AMERICAN STAFF FOR SPEED. SECRECY

BRITISH PRAISE U.S, MANEUVER   Americans Transferred To Aid In Final Campaign

U.S. TROOPS. PRAISED FOR QUICK CHANGE      Occupy Terrain in Northern Area  Where Some of Fiercest Fighting  has Taken Place :

Americans Assist Ist Army in Battle For Axis Citadels   Patton’s Forces Only 24 Miles from Bizerte, Anderson’s Soldiers Reported 28 Miles West of Tunis

U.S. Forces Advance Through Most Difficult Mountain Land; Comrades Take Long Stop Hill   One OF Our Uniis Hacks Way Through Stiff Enemy Fire; Violent Enemy Counter- Attacks Parried; Fight Way Hill By Hill

British Take ~ Hill 28 Miles ~ West, Tunis   Gen. Patton’s Yanks Turn Back Desperate German Counterattacks

U.S. Troops Moved North For Final Drive On Foe   Shifting Of Large American Force Draw Praise Of Senior British Officers

ADVANCE IN DIFFICULT TERRAIN   Only Six Allied Planes Lost In 1.500 Soarties

Gains of 6 And ‘1 Miles Made   British First Army Takes Long Stop Hill = One Unit Moves Six Miles Toward Mateor—Another Hacks fte Way Hill By ‘Hill Northeast of Beja

Strong Axis — Resistance in ~All Sections   But. Allied Advance Is Ex: tended to Practically the Entire Western Flauk.::   U. §. TROOPS MOVING *TOWARD MATEUR      They Are Within 30. Miles of Bizerte; British Mak> ing Strong Drive

Dies Committee Probe Denounced  ‘Racial Antipathy’ Will Be Result

Dies Committee Probe Denounced  % "Reactal Bntinethy’   ‘Racial Antipathy’ Will Be Result

Bomb Tempo Picks Up In Many Spots   PACIFIC, AFRICA, ITALY AND GERMANY SCENES OF LAMBASTING.

Hit Seven Warships In Attacks   Five Cargo Vessels Blasted in Enemy Shipping  Concentration

GERMAN RAIDERS BOMB ENGLAND   HOUSES AND BUILDINGS ARE WRECKED WITH CASUALTIES IN MINING TOWN,

Nazi Raids On England Are Increasing   RAF Strikes af-Arms . Factories: in. Belgium; Rail Yards Target

Americans Lash Nazis At Rouen:   RAF Pounds Other Industrial Aréas

U.S. Bombers Hit Rouen — In Daylight   Germans Relaliate by Striking at Two Enolish Towns

German Raiders Shower Explosives and Incendiarics On Fwo English Powyle

FARMERS COUNTY WIDE CONFERENCE   Neighborhood Leaders and Families Will Survey Our Community Resources for Labor Etc.

COUNTY FARMERS ACT TO ALLEVIATE LABOR PROBLEMS   Neighborhood Surveys Set To Determine Supply; Renner, Harris To Assist

FINNS TAKE . STEPS TO GET QUT OF WAR   Demands for Separate Peace with Soviets Are Presented at Helsinki.

Political Groups Demand Government of Finland Take Steps fo Investigate Possibility of Separate Peace With Russie

Allied Spearheads Drive Wedge Into the Ger man Position. British Cutting Way Inland  - From East Coast.

Allies Now on Verge of Crashing Nazi Volturno Line in Italy.  ALLIES CROSSED NORTH RIVER BANK  Only the Autumn Rains Are Delaying Long Awaited Drive.

BIG PUSH ACROSS VOLTURNO RIVER  EXPECTED SOON   Croatian Cabinet Quits as Guerillas Continue to Mop up in Jugoslavia

MARINE LANDING ON BOUGAINVILLE MENACES RABAUL   Invaders Caught Japanese by Surprise; Slight Opnasition Offered

Invasion Forces Storm Ashore On Bougainville   Thousands of Japs At Outflanked Bases Appear Doomed

LAST BIG JAP ISLE INVADED IN SOLOMONS   Enemy Fleet Refuses Challenge To Come Out And Fight

RECONQUEST OF SGLOMONS IS SPEEDED UF   American Invasion Forces Storm Ashore. on Bougainville Island

MARINES LAND ON SOUCANVLLE I NORTH SOLOMONS  Thousands of Enemy Troops May Be   JAPS FAIL TO OPPOSE BIG LANDING FORCE

U.S. FORCES INVADE CAPE TOROKINA IN SURPRISE LANDING   Japanese Fleet Fails Te  ‘ Come Out And Resist Reconquest Move Of Americans

HOUSE GROUP ASKS PROBE OF OPA, WLB   Chiefs of two agencies  will be called before special hearings

Log-Jam on Corn  Is About Broken   Processors Obtain About a Million Bushels From Midwest Area.

Corn Processors Get Supplies  After Late Start, Corn Now Moving Rapidly To Market

Break Jam On Stored Corn   Corn Processors Say OneMillion Bushels Purchased This Week.

CORN LOG-JAM IS OVER, DEALERS SAY   Mid-West Farmers Suddenly Start Stores Moving

LULL IN CORN SALES BROKEN IN MID-WES!   Near Million Bushels Sold To Dealers This Week

CORN LOG-JAM IS PROBABLY BREKEN   Corn In Greater Quantities Being Received at Closed Industries.

FARM-STORED CORN GOES TO INDUSTRY   Government Price Guarantee Breaks It Out of Bins

SIX SOLDIERS VICTIMS OF BOLT OF LIGHTNING   Saldters Doing Training Work On Fort Belvoir Drill Field When Struck

LIGHTNING KILLS SIX SOLDIERS IN VIRGINIA   Victims Were on Drill Field at Time of Bolt

GERMANY HAS LOTS OF SUBMARINES BUT LACKS TRAINED CREWS: RUN IN “PACKS”

Rev. C. F. Sandahl, Noted Lutheran Divine, Is Dead  _ Headed Neb. Auqustana

Kiska Island Jans Bombec   American Flyers Make Raid On Aleutians, Navy Department Reports   NEW ATTACKS IN SOLOMONS ALSO

FAMILY IS ‘ARRESTED   Nazis Are Enraged at Relatives of  German Officer

100 SPEAKS TO JAP DIET ABOUT IDEA   U. S. Britain Singled Out For Their “Ambitions”

1030 fells Diet Japan Will “Crush U. S. And Britain” To Live In Peace. Serrt.,

U. S. THRUSTS FARTHER INTO HITLER LANDS   Attack Industrial Target At Schweinfurt And Airplane  Factory At Regensburg; Paris Also Raided   12,000 Workers

YANK HEAVY BOMBERS HIT GERMAN TARGETS   Attack’ Industrial Target At Schweinfurt Near Frankfurt And Airplane Factory “Northeast Of Munich

IRWIN SCANDAL ~ LAID TO MORGAN   ‘James W. Gerard Wires Senate Investigating Committee,  SAYS STOCKHOLDERS ADE TNH APATURTIC

Arctic Attu Captured By Desert Force   Some Mistakes Made But Japs Were Surprised Completely

Peter Edson Writes of  News in National Capital   JAPS AND WEATHER

Missourt Girl Kulogized  In Best Seller   Nurse On  Bataan Identified By Sister

WORKERS GO BACK 10 JOBS   Preduciion of Jeeps and Rubber Getting Under Way Again — Work Disrupted for Five Days.

WHEAT BAN LIFT WON'T HELP IN °43   Kruse Claims Action Came Too Late

Tavern Patrons Testify Jno. Lindahl Is Persistent Chap Despite 'Bums' Rush’

HOME FRONT! ~ BIVEN STEEL   INCREASED ALLOTMENT OF. METAL FOR MANUFACTURE  OF ARTICLES FOR ’ OFVIELIANS -

More Steel Released for Vann facture of Civilian Goods for Home Front Use

President Warns All Must Share ln Sacrifices  D Sends Measure Back With Plea Not To Raise Living Costs

U.S, MUST KEEP INFLATION CURB, WARNING OF FOR   Says Adding Billion and Half to Food Bill Would Bring Disaster

President Vetoes Bankhgad Bill To Halt Inflation   Says Measure Tends To Break Down Barriers Erected To Avoid Inflation   TERMS LEGISLATION DANGEROUS TO WAR

SPRINGLIKE WEATHER   No Change in Pleasant Temperatures Is Forecast for State

RECORD SNOW IN NORTH OHIO   Traffic Tied Up in Cities And Highway Blocked by Blizzard-like Storm

HEAVY SNOWFALL SETS NEW RECORD   Report Six Inches of Snow in Geauga County

NORTHERN OHIO DIGS OUT OF RECORD SNOW   Six Inches In Geauga Coun: ty, Four At Youngstown

WAR BOND oALE CALLED QUOTA   July Quota Barly Ht hi Last Minute Cimpaign, Chairman Says.

COUNTY BOND DALES. NEAR HUGE QUOTA   The Total War Bond Sales in This County Are Now $410,668.50.   ONE WEEK MORE TO GO   The Last $69,000 Will Prob. ably Be a Little Difficult to Secure.

FAB BEHIND Ih ALE OF BOND:   Tipton County Lags During First Half of Month, Report Shows.

British Take ‘Verdun Hall,’ Key to Plain   ‘Patton’s Men Strike for  Mateur in ‘Final Drive’  to Push Axis in Sea   GAIN AT BOU ARADA   Yanks Cling to Hillside Posts Despite Fierce Axis Artillery Fire

 Axis Counter-attacks Repelled As Americans Storm ‘Tough’ Terrain for 6-Mile Advance

GOP FEARS REVIVAL OF VAN WAGONER   Kelly Likes Plan to Clip Highway Depariment’s Wings: Mav Plan Compromise

Mother Stabs Aunt, Hurls Children Off Six-Story Building, Leaps to Death

Aerial Photos Show Great Damage Done On Condemned Island  SICILIAN AIRFIELDS ALSO HEAVILY RAIDED  39 Axis Aircraft Destroyed During Day And Allies Lose One

U.S. Scores 39-1 on Axis Fliers   Islands Get Series Of Severe Blows As Fighting Rages

ltalian Island Makes Strong, Though Futile Defense Against Planes; Many Foe Craft Destroyed

Yanksbag 39 Enemy Airplanes  Ty\.... Click. 90   Duce Shifts 29  Provincial Dyofarte

Two Sicilian Airfields Are Torn Up   39-fo-One Aerial Victory Is Scored Over Axis

TEAR UP TWO SICILIAN AIRFIELDS NEAR VOLCANIC MOUNT ETNA; WIN 3% TO 1 AERIAL VICTORY.

ALLIES SCORE 39-1 VICTORY   Condemned Pantelleria Island Seared Again With Heavy Loss To  Axis Planes

Pantelleria Is Hard Hit   American Airmen Put Pressure On Island

TERRIFIC ALLIED ATTACKS BLAST ITALIAN POINTS   Pantelleria, Sicilian Airfields Battered in 39-to-1 Aerial Victory

Pantelleria Struck Hard and Two Sicilian Airfields Wrecked hy Heavy Aerial Attack

Bombers Again Raid Pantelleria   Win 39-1 Air Victory At Italian Outposts

mericans Blast anfelleria and icilian Ports   alian Airfields Heavily Bombed by Fiying Fortresses   Many Enemy Planes Shot Down, Others Damaged on the Ground

39 Axis Planes Bagged at Cost Of Lone Craft   Invasion-Jittery Isle Puts Up Strong But Futile Defense; Large  Fires Set in Sicily

Yank Airmen Score 39-1 On_ Italians   Drop Explosives On Sicily, Rake Pantelleria Isle

PANTELLERIA HARD HIT BY ATTACKERS   American Airmen Lay Many Explosives Across Island

Proceeds of .““This Is. the — Army” Thursday to Army Relief   TALK BY EVERSMEYER

BERLIN ATTACKED BY BRITISH AIRMEN   Nazi Radio Reports Damage in Residential Areas— Says 5 Planes Were Shot Down.

More U.S. Food To Be Exported   Lend-Lease To Take More Than In 1942

WAR MOTHERS CLUB WAS ORGANIZED HERE YESTERDAY     Mrs. F. C. Fay, Who Was In  fluential in the Organization, Is President.   36 CHARTER MEMBERS   Mrs. Elva Patrick of Brookfield Was Here to Assist in the Work.

Next Regis Registration Late In October   Will Be At Schools; Book No. 4 Comes Up Then

OPA Reveals Book 4 Plans   ‘To Hold Another Schoo!  Registration

Ration Book 4 Due In October   Registration To Be Held In Schools

OPA ROPES RATION BOOK 470 BE LAST   Registration for Fourth Book to Be Held in Last 10 Days of October.

Later Date for Primary Refused   Anti-Picketing Legislation Dies

Rains Slow Reds In White Russia   “\talians Proud of Battle With Germans:  “Nazis Machinequn Naples Breadline

TTALIANS FIERCELY  PROUD OF SOME OF  SCARS ON NAPLES POINT TO PLACES WHERI  THEY FOUGHT GER. . — MANS IN’ SYREETS™

Italy Proud Of Naples’ Resistance   City In Ruins, But Nazis Were Beaten There   Nazis Were Trapped

Thanksgiving Day  ‘Spread’ by War   Evan Balkans  Observe Occasion

American Boys in Uniform Carry Feeling  Of Thanksgiving Throughout Allied World

Allies Note U. S. Thanksgiving Day  Fighting Men Receiv  Terelteternel Trulear

Thanksgiving Day Is set Throughout The Allied World   Prayers For Victory Mingle With Traditional Thanks To Diety; Turkey Tops Meals On Battlefronts

Thanksgiving Observed in Alt Of Allied World   From Italy to Fox Holes Theme of Thanks Prevails

Thousands Are Drowned and  Whole Cities, Villages i in the Ruhr Valley Are Flooded   Reported That Nazis Have Prociaimed - State of Siege in Westphalia — Industry. Railroads at Standstill.

Ruhr Valley Floods Called Greatest German Catastrophe   Thousands Drowned, Whole Cities Inundated by Surging Waters

THOUSANDS DIE AS RUHR VALLEY FLOOD MOUNTS   State of Siege Ordered By Germany After Dams Bombed

Broken Dams Put Cities Under Water   Allied Warplanes Continue Pounding Of Germany .

Thousands Drown in ©  Nazi Floods      Bombing of Dams Causes Havoc  Thru Ruhr Valley

State Of Siege Proclaimed Throughout Provinces Of Westphalia And Ruhr  - THOUSANDS DROWN  Bridges, ‘Power lants, Pumping Stations And ~ Docks Flooded

Blasting of  Dams Nazis Greatest Loss   Thousands Drown and Whole Cities Inundated by Floods

WAR'S WORST CATASTROPHE   Loss of Life Continuing as Waters Swirl; Industrial Paraivsis Renarted.

Ruhr Valley Flood Causes Much Chaos   RAF’S DESTRUCTION OF DAMS CRIPPLES MANY GERMAN CITIES   Thousands Reported Drowned and Installations Wrecked by Waters

Flood Causes Real Disaster In Germany   Thousands Drowned And Cities Are Inundated Or Isolated By Surging Flood Waters

BLASTING OF DAMS HARD NAZI BLOW   Light Fighting at Novorosisk as Reds Again Repulse German Attacks.

Thousands Said Drowned, Whole Cities Inundated   Bridges, Power Plants, Washed Out; Siege  Proclaimed In Province

THOUSANDS DIE IN BOMB-CAUSED VALLEY FLOODS   Allies Carry Air Attack Into Sixth Record-Smashing Day

SMASHED DAMS WREAK HAVOC ON NAZI TERRITOR’   Thousands Drown and Whole Cities Are Inundated

Plant Areas’ Loss Heavy   Whole Cities Flooded By Surging Waters

LABOR BOARD IS CRITICISED BY MEMBERS, UNIONS   Grants Slight Pay Raises to) West Coast. Aircraft Work-;   ers After Long Effort at Ware Stabilization

WLB's Decision On Aircraft Pay Hit Two Ways   Slight Increases To Workers are Authorized

INCREASE PAY OF PLANE WORKERS   ACTION OF LABOR BOARD MEETS WITH SHARP CRITICISM

Axis Armies Fighting to Last Ditch   British General Says Victory May Not Come Quickly

VICTORY S00 IN TUNISIA ANTICIPATED   Allies Drive On Toward Bizerte And Tunis

END EXPECTED COME SHORTLY IN TUNISIA   Heavy Blows Are Struck By Allied Planes

APPROVE PLAN TO ENCOURAGE PAY AS YOU GO BASIS  fALIiCc Cno Ae fir   CALLS FOR 4% CUT ON INCOME TAX FOR PAYMENTS BEFORE DUE

INDUCEMENT T0 PREPAY. TAXES IS SUGGESTED   Opposition to Ruml’s Plan Expressed by Roosevelt

Plan fo Reduce Taxes of Persons Beating Deadline Approved by House Group

Pay-As-You-Go . Swine A Plan -’ Wins Approval   Would ‘Deduct 4 Per Cent For Those Who Meet ’ Taxes Before Due Dates

Tax Proposal Gives Cut For Karly Payment   Committee Approves Up Te 4 Percent Reduction Or Income Taxes,   FDR EXPRESSES VIEW

PLAN APPROVED TO SPEED NEW TAX PAYMENTS   Reduction In Levy For Early Income Returns

FDR COOL © TO RUML’S. IDEA: NEW ~ TAX PLAN   House Committee Gives: Approval to Discount for. Ouick Payment:   WOULD SPEED UP PAY AS YOU GO   President Against Rum. Plan Because It Favors ° . Higher Brackets ;

For Discount On Tax Paid  In Advance   ~ Honse Committee Holds Out Lure to Paya You-Co

HOUSE APPROVES TAX SAVING IDEA   By Paying Before Taxes Be. ~ come Due, You Will Get Reductions

FDR Warns 01 Russia Talk   With Reductions High As 4 Per Cent Tax Plan Incentive to Pay-As-Go

FDR ASSERTS RUML TAX PLAN COSTS REVENUE   President Says Skip-Year Plar Benefits Wealihy — Tax Oe counts Approved

Ways And Means Idea Would Grant  Discount To Taxpayer   President Says Rumi Plan Decreases Total   Claims Skip-A-Year Proposal Would Make Tax Bills Shrink

REDUCTION PLAN ON TAX PAYING LIKED BY SOLONS   House - Committee. Would. Reduce as. Much, as Four Percent, Income, Tax ‘Obligations Paid Before Due-Date

Plan to trim taxes if paid ahead of time   Roosevelt hits Ruml proposal

House Group Drafts New Tax Method   Would Reduce by 4 Per Cent Obligations Paid Before Due

House Group Favors 4 Percent Reductio To Encourage Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan

Roosevelt Voices His Objection To Ruml Idea On Basis Of   Reduced Revenue

New Pay-as-YouGo Plan Offered   House Committee Thinks Reduction Will Foster  Early Payment.

Tax Discount Offered for Pre-Payment   Those Who Have Money Can Go On Pay-as-You-Go

Committee OKs Tax Discounts For ‘Early Birds   Rebate Plan Proposed To Speed Payment Of Current Levies

FOUR PERCENT TAX REDUCTION FOR FARLY PAYERS   House ‘Ways, Means Offers Incentive To Pay-AsGo Individuals

Revenue Loss  Will Be Less   FDR States Ruml Scheme Would Reduce Income Of Government

Tax Obligation Reduction Approved By House Committee When Payments Ahead of Time

TAX DISCOUNT FAVORED FOR PRE-PAYMENT    Ways and Means Com _ mittee Approves Saving Up to 4 Per Cent as In  ducement to Accept Pay-as-You-Go Plan.

HOUSE GROUP FOR TAX REBATE PLAN   Proposal’ Would Cut Obl: gations; President Reiter‘ates Rum! Step Opposition

‘Mop-up of Japs On Attu Resumed   Effort to Relieve  Garrison is Futile

OPA Freezes Restaurant Food Prices   Drinks Affected Also in Order Going in Effect in East July 26

RESTAURANT FREEZE ORDER   Food and Beverages Given April 4-10 Ceiling July 26

CAFE FOOD, DRINK CHARGES FROZEN   Restaurants Also Must Put Back Rates to April 4Apni 10 Level.

RESTAURANT PRICES TO BE FROZEN JULY 26   Will Be Fixed At Levels Charged From April 4 To April 10— OPA Order Signed

RESTAURANT FOODPRICES TOBEFROZEN   Order, Including Mary: . land, to be Effective on Monday

Restaurants and Drinking Places Placed under Price Freezing Rule

RESTAURANT. FOOD AND DRINK PRICES “FROZEN BY OPA   Levels Prevailing fram April 4 to April 10 Fixed As Ceilings.

Rolled Back to Those Charged Between April {and 10 Under Or der of OPA   JFFECTIVE JULY 26 THRUOUT MARYLAND   ‘ive States and District of Columbia Affected; AFL President Sounds Warning

‘Paper Sack’ Bandit Must Die In Chair   High Court Affirms Death Penalty For Rex Reard

New Allied Victory Pacts Are Predicted   U. S.-RUSSIAN-BRITISH PARTNER AGREEMENTS ARE SEEN IN LONDON :

Big Decisions Expected Soon   Would Put Finishing Touch To Adolf

6, BANISH PLANES TARE  URTHER TOLL   American Fortesses Lash Out Against Port of Leahorn, Near Rome. —   MUCH DAMAGE DONE   Ferry. Terminal of San Giovanni, Sicily, and Sardiana Bombed.

ftalian Port  Of Leghorn Is Asain Blasted   Allied Bombers Lash At Port 200 Miles Northwest Of Rome Second Time   OE OF ITALIAN BOOT ALSO STRUCK

ROSS LABOR BILL ~~ 18 BEFORE HOUSE   Clears the Senate After Two Months of Controversy — Repudiated by Sponsor.

SENATE PASSES FEMALE LABOR BILL TO HOUSE   Provides Maximum Day And Weekly Hours For Women And Child Workers   EMERGENCY CLAUSE LOSES   Substitute For Union Regulation Measure Prepared By Committee

Leaflets Fired To. Enemy Territory   Can Be Used By Germans, Italians As Surrender Passes

Probe of LaGuardia Regime Ordered   New York City Council Acts Speedily

NEW YORK CITY PROBE ORDERED   Council Votes Sweeping In vestigation Of La Guardia’s Regime

LA GUARDIAS MANAGEMENT TO BE PROBED   Council to investigate every department under  mayor’s control

RECORD IS SET INSHIP PRODUCTION   Total of 175 Vessels De. . livered in Month of Mav

Japs Flee Base As MacArthur's Men Cut Supply   Run Short Of Food Anc Ammunition In Solomons Sector

Japanese Attempt Flight From Island, Risk Lives   Enemy Is Starving, Short of Supplies; Escape From Vila Costs Heavily In Men, Ships; Many Vessels Are Sunk

Starving Japs Abandon Vila In Solomons   Flee Southern Half of Island

Japs Evacuate South Half Of Kolombangara Isle Base  Enemy Starving And Short Of Ammunition; . Big Air Base Of Vila Falls To The Allies

Starved Japs Abandon Vila   SouthernKolumbangara Teland Toft he Fane

VILA AERIAL BASE LEFT BY JAPANESE   Enemy Believed to: Have Abandoned Kolom®  bangora Area

SOLOMONS 100 HOT FOR JAPS   Starving Troops, Short Of Ammunition, Make Costly Retreat

Japs Evacuating Kolombangara,  MacArthur Says   Planes Blast Barges Ferrying Enemy From Important Air Base

Jans Flee Island At High Cost in Lives and Ships   MacArthur Anno unces . Snemy. Fvacuation. Of Vila Base

SUPPLY LINES CUT, JAPANESE. TROOPS ABANDON AIR BASE   Garrison Departs From Vila on Kolombangara as Food and Ammunition Run Low.   WITHDRAWAL COSTS ENEMY MANY MEN   Suffer Heavy Loss of Life as Barges Are Sunk—Attempt to Evacuate Entire Keland.

Vila Garrison Said Abandonec By Jap Forces   Enemy ls Virtually Driven Out of Central Solomons

Evacuation Is Reportedly Still Going On   Allied Planes Hit Enemy Shipping Over a Wide Area

Missing Boy in Cleveland Found   City Officials’ Son Located in Suburb

NEW OXFORD BOARD SUPPLIES 33 MEN   Twenty Passing Physical Examinations Enter Army, 11 Go Into Navy, And Two Select Marine Corps

THIRTY-FOUR MORE MEN ARE INDUCTED   Number Of Registrants From This Vicinity Sent To Harrisburg By Adams County Board No. 1

ADAMS COUNTIANS PASS FINAL EXAMS   Fifty-Three Young Men From District No. 1 Inducted Into Armed Forces Of United States

Much Bloodshed And Much Suffering Is Due Allies   Battles Larger Than Waterloo Or Gettysburg Are Predicted Before Outcome Is Determined

Interpreti ng  The War   Winter Offensive By Reds May Imperil Invaders

AMERICANS BOMB 2 FRENCH TOWNS; dD PLANES LOST   Strong Opposition Encountered in Raids on Nazi-Held Coast Bases of Brest and Lorient.   RESULT OF ATTACKS HELD SATISFACTORY   Onslaught Comes on Heels of Blasting of Great Krupp Armament Works at Essen by British.

Yanks Driven From Venafro ‘High Ground :   Germans in Great Strength Force . U. S. Withdrawal

Eighth Wins New Heights In Eastern Area; Resistance Of Nazis Growing

Yanks Lose High Ground dear Venafro   Driven Back by Counter-Attacks— Fighth Wins  New Hilltops

GROUND AT VENAFRO   5th Army YieldsBefore Onslaughts; Eighth Army Gains

Nazi Attacks Drive Yanks Off Italian Hills   American Fifth Army Loses Ground In Counter Attacks But Eighth Army Gains New Hilltops.

Gen, Clark’s Army Loses High Ground   British Ez, Gain o Flank in Italy

Germans Push Yanks Off Hill  Above Venafro   British 8th Army Win: New Heights In Easterr Sector Of Italy.

Nazis Drive Yanks from Hill Positions   Foe Launches  Counter-attacks; British Advance In Eastern Italv

YANKS YIELD T0 ENEMY THRUSTS   j Germans Are Desperate in  Winter Line Fight

AMERICANS FALL BACK SLIGHTLY   Nazi Counterdrives In Venafro Area Take High Points

Eighth Army Gains New Ground   Strong Nazi Forces Retake Vital Hill From Fifth Army  By EDWARD KENNEDY

Counterattacks -Force Americans From Hills;  Eighth Army Makes Gain

5th Driven Back On Italian Front   American Troops Forced to Give Ground in Fierce Counterattacks

Germans Push 5th  From High Ground  In Counterattacks 8th Army, Meantime  Wins New Hilltops In Eastern Area

Montgomery’s Forces Win New High Ground In Eastern Sector. Re: sistance Still . Strong Along 5th Army Front. Bombers Lash at, Airflelds Near Athens.

Nazi Attacks Drive Fifth Army Back   Two Counter-Attacks Take High Ground On Italian Front

German Counterattacks Push Fifth Army Troops  Out of Mountain Areas

Fifth Army Driven From Its Positions In Venafro Area   Resistance Still Strong, However, Along Entire Italian Front—British Eighth Army Seizes Hilltops 14 Miles Inland From Adriatic.  rm ~~ Fa Geri ewe CF FP ere ee ee ee SF

Nazis Wrest Some Ground From Clark   Enemy Counterattacks Halt Progress on Slopes of Monte Santa Croce

FIFTH ARMY FORCE DRIVEN FROM HIGH GROUND BY NAZIS ©  TWO GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS WIN; EIGHTH ARMY WINS HILLTOPS

German Attacks Drive American Units From Hill   Eighth Army Gains New Positions In Eastern Italy Area

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVEN FROM HIGH GROUND BY NAZIS   The 8th Army, However, Won New Hilltops in Eastern Sector of Italy.   American Medium Bombers Hammered Kalamaki Airdrome, Athens Area.

Clark’s 5th Troops Yield Hich Ground   German Attacks Force Americans Back; 8th Army Gains Hilltops In Eastern Italy

Major Battle Seen Forming on Italy Front   Opposing Ferces Relieved Girding for a Showdown

Upward Toil Hardest So Far in War   Large, Well-Disciplined Enemy Force Dug Into Prepared Positions

Americans Forced to Give Ground in Campaign in Italy   Bad Weather Slows up Fighting; Greeks on Leros Island

Yanks Dislodged By Nazi Assaults   Opposing Forces In Italy Girding For A Showdown  Sann

GERMANS SEIZE ITALY HEIGHTS   BRITISH TAKE NEW HILLS AS AMERICANS FALL BACK

GERMAN ATTA DRIVE AMERICANS FROM HILLTOPS   ‘Nazi Onslaught Pushes American Fifth Army  : Troops Out of Positions or - Monte -Santa Groce

AZIS RETAKE HILL POSITIONS OF AMERICANS   Eighth Army, However, Captures High Ground in East, With Mos! Action at Standstil!   AIRMEN GROUNDED   Weather, Terrain and Strongly En irenched Enemy Give Allie: Tough Baltile Roule

NAZIS SHOVE YANKS BACK   Germans Take Hill North Of Venafro In Two  Counter Drives

YanksForced Back In Hard Fighting   British 8th Army, How: ever, Scores Advances In Italian Fighting

Two Nazi Assaults Drive Americans Of Fifth Army From High Ground North Of Venafro—Eighth Army Wins New Hilltops In Eastern Italy—Resistance Remains Strong Along Entire Front—Mud And Bad Weather Hinder Land Operations

American Troops of Fifth Army Lose Hill North of Venafro to Two Nazi Counter-Attacks   EIGHTH ARMY GAINS IN SANGRO SECTOF   Land Operations, However Are Held At Standstill By Mud and Bad Weather

AMERICAN UNITS DROVE BACK IN ITALIAN SECTOR   Nazis Push U. S$. Troops Out of Area Threatening German Winter Line

Drive U.S. Forces FromHighGround   Nazi Counterattacks Push ~ Allies From Hilltops ' Near Venafro   DRIVE HELD BY MUD   Bad Weather Keeps Allied Air Forces Inactive in Italy

Americans Lose High Ground In  Venafro Section   Eighth Army Makes Short Gains On East Coast Resistance Strong On Fifth Front

GERMANS PUT UP STIFF FIGHT ON 3TH ARMY FRONT   BRITISH 8TH ARMY WINS NEW HILLTOPS IN EASTERN ITALY

ferman Attack Forces Retreat Of U. §. Force   British Win New Hilltops In East As Sth Army Falls Back At Vensafro

Both FDR And Wallace Out Of U.S. As President Sets New Precedent

Lewis Declares Inflation Will Be Hard To Curb   Says Government  Policies Clash

Striking Workers To Face. Draft   Tennessee Governor Revokes Deferments

Strikers Face Call To Fight ‘Daft Boards Ge Lstructions In Tennessee

Full-Scale Attack On Axis Units Set   g Remnants Of Axis Armies In Africa Will Be Driven From Africa In Bia-Scale Drive

TEXAS UNIVERSITY REGENTS ASKED T0 RETIRE PROFESSORS  AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS TAKE HAND

italian Politicians Turn On Allies After. Being Rescued From Nazis

See Showdown On  Italian Situation  Unauthorized Meeting: Rapped By AMG

Okay of Farmer Deferment Looms   Two Amendments Get Little Support

Soviet Motorized Columns Race To Bottle up Crimea   Hitler Loses 20,000 Men In Great Battle; Entire Nazi Line In South Undermined

VICTORY UPot Ta NAZI STRATEGY   Reds Chase Nazis in Race to Cut Off the Crimea   MOSCOW GUNS BOOM   Triumph Brings Threat to German Armies Cornered In Dnieper River Bend

GERMAN LOSSES ARE PLACED AT 20,000 TROOPS   More Than 4,000 Reich Soldiers Slain in Final Day of Stand

Slain In Fight To Defend City   Victory Upseta German Strategy On Southern Front

RED ARMY WINS [1-DAY BATTLE FOR MELITOPUI   Ravaged City Taken Street by Street in Bloody Struggle Costing Germans 20,000 Men.   RUSSIANS RACE ON TOWARD THE CRIMEA   Loss of Citadel Shatters Front of Hitler’s Forces From Zaporozhe to Sea of AZov.

Moscow’s Big  Victory Guns Bomb Again   Great Triumph Hailed By Stalin With Fall Of Melitopol, Center Qt Navi Defencec

Announce Fall Of Melitopol  To Red Troops   Nazt Foree Of Helf Millien In Crimea Threaiened With Entrapment.   GERMAN LOSSES HIGH

Reds Lunge On After Fall Of Melitopol And Menace To N azis In Crimean Crave

Germans Lose 20,000 Men in Vain Effort To Hold City; 500,000 Germans Threatened With Being Trapped With Narrowing Outlet

4,000 GERMANS ARE KILLED T0 CLIMAX BATTLE   Fall of Soviet City Under mines Entire Defense Strategy of Huns in South   LARGE QUANTITIES ‘MATERIAL CAPTURED   Victory Shatters German Front From Zaporozhe to Sea of Azov: Other  Huns Endangered

Crimea Key Lost by Nazis to Red Armie:   Melitopol Falls to Threaten Safety of Germans in Crimea

135 Miles Of Open Steppes Are Ahead Of Reds   Loss Of City Wrecks Foe's Strategy In South, Costs 20,000 Lives

'1 Days of Street Fighting for Key City Ends in Victory; 20,000 Nazis Die in Effort fo Fix a Winter Line   Entire German Defense Strategy in South Is Undermined; Entrenched Nazis Expected to Fall Back Toward Dnieper and to Black Sea

New Action Believed Near in Fifth Army’s Campaign for Rome   Big Guns of Moscow Celebrate Fall of Melitopol With 20.000 Germans Slain in Eleven Days; Japs Are Thrown Back North of Finschhafen

Door To Crimea Unlocked Alter Furious Battle   ldalf Milfion Nazis Awaiting Red Drive Toward Peninsula

NAZIS LOSE 20,000 MEN AN DEFENSE   Crimea Is Opened As Enemy Faces Grave Stand

City’s Capture Imperils Nazi Forces in South   ‘Those in the Crimea Are Also in Danger Of Being Trapped; Germans Lose 20.000

GREAT VICTORY, SAYS STALIN'S SPECIAL ORDER   Reds Now Poised to Block Escape of  German Army

Race Is Begun For Vital  Crimean Goal   German Hordes Perish in Melitopol Fight As Russians Sweep Forward to Wreck Equioment: Other Red Units Gain

60) Foe Planes Are Blasted n Rabaul Raid   Allied Bombers Also Sink 3 Japanese Ships In Enemy Harbor   3 BOMBERS ARE LOST   Halsey’s Liberators Pound Nipponese Convoy Over 24 Hour Period

Pacific Blitz Nets 60 Jap Planes. 3 Shin:   Loaded Transport Hit in New Attack On Rabaul

Destr roy Sixty Jap Planes In Allied Raids   Three Jap Shins Also Sunk During Surprise Return Attack On Base In New Britain

60 MORE NIP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Allied Bombers Sink 3 Ships In Raid On Rabaul

Destroyer, Two Other Ships ‘Sunk In Attack   Island Fields Main Targets of Tree-Top Pacific Raiders

ALLIES TAKE TOLL OF 60 JAP PLANES IN RABAUL ATTACK      Bases On New Britain And Troop Transport Off ’ New  Ireland Shattered: -°

MORE JAPANESE PLANES, SHIPS ARE DESTROYED    Battered Enemy Stronghold At Rabaul Gets Surprise Return Attack

60 MORE JAP WARPLANES ON DESTROY LIST   Three Vessels Also Destroyed in Surprise Attack by Allies on Base at Rabaul.

ALLIED BOMBERS STAGE SURPRISE RETURN RAID  ON RABAUL   At Least 60 Jap Planes, Three Shins Destroved

ALLIES DESTROY SIXTY MORE JAP PLANES AT RABAU   Troop-laden Enemy Transport Is Bombed Into Flaming Wreckage.

Alhies Blast Rabaul Again ~ In 5 Waves   Massed Bombers Strike Battered Jap Base in Tropical Storm   SMASH 60 PLANES   Big Fires Left Raging in Another Air Blow at Cape Hoskins Field

JAPS LOSE 60 PLANES, THREE MORE VESSELS   Allied Bomber Fleets In Surprise Attack At Rabaul

Stage Surprise Return Attack Upon Rabaul   Destroy 60 Jap Planes and _ Three More ‘Ships

Supplies Cut Off Enemy Suddenly Starts Retreat   Abandon Artillery  And Machine Guns;  350 Found Dead  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Saturday, Aug. 21

jps Retreal from Base 1 Salamaua   Blies To Move Nearer Other Nic Strongholds

Enemy Falls Back Tolnner Defenses Of Air Base   Defenses Crack Wide-Open; New Raid on Wewak

 Mikado’s Troops in Full Retreat From Hills Toward Inner Defenses of Air Base,   LEAVE MACHINE GUNS AND ARTILLERY BEHIND   Flight Begins After Defenses Are Cracked Wide Open— Yanks and Aussies Mopping Up.

Japs Retreat At Salamaua   Enemy Suddenly Gives Up Mountain Defenses

iRetreat to Inner Defenses  Of Air Base   Captive of Airdrome Will Allow Allies to ae SS

JAP TROOPS ARE FLEEING   Jungle Forces Falling Back et Salamaua Air Base

350 Enemy Dead Are Left Be. hind Along With Considerable Equipment   ALLIES NEARER TO NEW BRITAIN BASES

Japs Retreat At Salamaua   Nips Give Up Ridge Lines, Flee For Inner Defenses

Quit Lines, Fall Back To Air Base   Enemy in Retreat to Inner Salamaua Lines in New Guinea, Leaving Behind Guns and Buried Dead. MacArthur Says in Communiaue

Defenses Crack Before Steady Drive of Amerieans und Australians On Land: and In Air and Nips Fall Back to Inner Defenses

Nips Abandon Artillery, Machine Guns   Capture of Vital Airport Now Appears Likely

Flee Positions Outside Major New Guinea Base   MacArthur Announces Important Advances

JAP TROOPS ARE FLEEING   Jungle Forces Falling Back -at Salamaua Air i * Bace :

REGLASSIFICATION UF DRAFTEES TODAY   Selective Service to Take Collaterial Dependents.

STAMPS IN RATION BOOK NO. 3 ARE NOW COMING INTO USE   Housewives Will Have To Carry Three Books While Doing Shopping

No Change in Tax on ’43 Income Seen   Any New Levy Written This Year to Take Effect in '44

A DELAY Fh NEW TAX GILL   Members cf Congress Want to Wait Until Early 7 This Fall.

Harmon  Is Safe   Flier Shot Down By Jap Zeros October 30, Rescued By Chinese

TOMMY HARMON IS EN ROUTE TO BASE   The Former University of Michigan All-American Football Star, Safe.

House Passes Big  Appropriation Bil  71 Billions Provided   71 Billions Provided To Carry on War

WAR SPENDING WINS APPROVAL      Money To Go Out At Rate Of 195 Millions Daily For The Year

Records Reveal Not Many Conscientious Objectors Among Millions In Draft

ITALY CAPITULATION.  LEAVES. UNANSWERED  NUMBER QUESTIONS HOW MUCH ITALIAN SOIL  HITLER WILL ATTEMPT HOLD UNRNOWN

No Substantiation Found For Report That Son Of President Is Prisoner

REPORT F.D.R.’S SON CAPTIVE UNVERIFIED   No Substantiation Found in Washington or London for Story Published in Italy.

"HIGH HONORS’ PAPER IN STATE PRESS CONTES)   Ranking Received for Publications in Cities Under 25,000

PRESS CONTES)   Ranking Received for Publications in Cities Under 25,000

State Flier Performs Feat   Smashes Underground Hangar as Well as Gun Emplacement

Ground Forces Isolate Enemy Solomon Posts   One American Killed, Several Wounded As Plane Bombs Positions

YANKS REACH MARSALA ON WEST COAST   Axis Runs in South and West Areas, But Holds on at Catania

Blame Freight Train Crew For R. R. Wreck: Death Toll Put At 2¢   18 Dead In One Coach

Live Steam Spurts Into Coach—Cylinder Breaks On Engine BLACKOUT LIFTED Special Agents Of FBI Take Over In-— Inquiry -

New York to Buffalo Train Sideswiped Switch Engine ~ Near Village of Wayland   Passengers in Fifth Coach Scalded to Death When Cylinder Head Explodes, Releasing Steam Through Windows.

27 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK IN NEW YORK   26 Passengers And Railroad Official Dead; 60 Injured

Attempt To Make Up Lost Time Believed Cause Of Wreck On Lackawanna Railroad — Many Victims Scalded   LIMITED CRASHES ENGINE ON SIDING

Freight Crew Blamed; 26 Dic In Rail Wreck   60 To 75 Persons Injured; Freight Crew Entered Main Line Despite Signals To the Contrary, Says Report 

CREW OF FREIGHT ENGINE BLAMED ~ FORFATALCRASH   Speeding Passenger Train Crashed Into Switch Ene gine; Victims Scalded by Escaping Steam.

Lackawanna Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight Engine At Wayland, New York

27 DEAD, MORE THAN 46 HURT IN RAIL WRECK   Lackawanna Limited, Speeding Along at 70 Miles Per Hour, Strikes Freight.   BULLETIN

SMUTS WARNS WORLD PEACE NEEDS FORCE      Speaks By Trans-Atlantic Cabl From South Africa Today

Thousands Defiant; Back- To- WorkMove  Gains Momentum   President’s Dr alt Proposal Viewed “By Most: Congressional: Circles As ‘Poor ‘Anti-Strike, Substitute

ICKES ASSUMES ACTIVE ROLE IN RUNNING MINES   He Notifies Coal Executives Of Job to Keep Produetion Going

Many Miners Remain Away,  Irked By FDR   Irate At Draft Threat And Protest Mining More Hazardous   MAY RETURN SOON   Large Numbers Fail To Go To Work; Steel Mills Affected

Solons Declare  Opposition; Want: President To Sign Anti-Walkout Bill

FDR's Plan Under Attack In Congress   Use of Draft As Club On Miners Called Inadequate Substitute For Strike Bill

Proposal To Draft Miners  ‘Not Favorec   Mori Lawmakers View Roose. velt’s Plan as Inadequate Substitute for Anti-Strike Bill Naw ts His Hands

DRAFTING OF MINERS BELIEVED PROBABLE   Congress Views FDR Proposal As Inadequate

Ickes Moves ” To Take Over U.S. Coal Mines   Secretary Ready To Assume Active Control of Plants

Coal Rationing May Follow Loss Due to Strikes   Ickes Discloses Plans to Take Over Mines

Veto Held Likely,On Strike Bill   Congress Regards FDR Miner Draft Threat  Aa cA rican at

Solons Cool To Draft Miners Plan   Call It Poor Substitute for Strike Bill Which May Be Vetoed

Ickes To Run Coal Mines ~  _ Takes First Steps Leading To Full Gov't Operation

Ickes Assumes Direct Charge Of Coal Mines   Summons 29 Major Mine Owners To Confer With Him on Future Problems, in Capital Tomorrow.

EITHER WORK AT PRESENT WAGE OR ARMY SALARY   Government to Operate Pits for Indefinite Period of Time

Solons Rap Roosevelt Mine Draft Plan; Ickes Calls Seizure Session   Congressmen Say Draft Club Inadequate Substitute For Anti Strike Bill; Activa Uf S. Control Near

ROOSEVELT PLAN COMES UNDER FIRE   Is Called A Poor Substitute For Anti-Strike Law

ACTION TAKE TO PROTECT WAR EFFORT   Reports Rationing Of Fuel May Be Necessary As Result Of Production Lag Due To Strikes

Proposal Of FDR Is Viewed As Inadequate   Draft Club Plan Not Favored For Anti-Strike Bill

Ickes Plans More Active Participation   So Far He Has Maintained Only Nominal Control of Coal Mines   COAL PRODUCTION ‘SERIOUSLY BEHIND’   Wage Question a Matter for for Labor Board, Says, Discussing Situation

DRAFT PLANS FOR STRIKER’   Threat to Steel Production Re. newed. Most of Miners Back to Work in lowa Pits   Ry UNITED PRESS

BILL VETO EXPECTED   bloom. ..-@ 8s Proposal ‘“eundicates Strikers  Will Be Inducted

Losses in Coal Production Due to Strikes May Bring Rationing, Ickes Declares   Secretary Discloses Plans to Take More Active Hand in Management; Thousands Of Men Still Stay Away From Pits

ICKES TAKING ACTIVE CHARGE OF ALE MENES   Indicates He Expects to Continue Operations For _ Government “For Con  siderable Period”   TO SEE OPERATORS; RATIONING POSSIBLE   Hopes for Speedy Settle  ment; Lewis Set Dead _ line After Talks With, Interior Secretary

EDR. STRIKE -CHECK IS SEEN -ASINADEQUATE  Comopece Calle TDrati   President Tells of Plan to Draft Miners

NDUGTION OF TRIKING HINE ORKERS IS AIM   Iso Wants to Raise From 45 to 65 Maximum Age   For Conscripting For  - Non-Combat Service   INTS HE WILL VETO {NTESTRIKE BELL   ost Congressional Quar rers View Moves As Inadequate Substitute for Walkout-Ban Measure

Ickes Moves to Take Active Charge Of Coal Mines   Roosevelt Wants Right to Draft Strikers Up to 65

‘OPERATORS ASK FOR RETURN OF THEIR MINES   President’s Proposal Gets Cool Reception —-In Congress

Rationing Forecast  For Coal   Ickes Calls Mine Operators To Parley

THOUSANDS OF MINERS STILL WON'T. WORK      sa, Locals: Flatly’ ‘Refuse to ” Heed Union ‘Ordars: to’ ty End Strike: 

Cool Reception For F. D. R. Plan   Congressional Chiefs Frown on Substitute For Anti-Strike Bill

GKto TO. TAKE ACTIVE GHARGE OF GOAL WINES   Government To Continue Operation Long Time. He Indicates

DRAFT AS CLUE FOR COAL MINES VIEWED COOLY   President Discloses Plan To Induct Draft Age Miners If They Strike Again   ‘HINT STRIKE BILL VETO      Roosevelt Says War Production Except For Mines Has Gone Ahead Well

FDR Plans Draft Club  over Miners   See in Proposal,  Move to Put Miner's < in ‘Uniform, Send Them into Pits

Ickes Plans To Take  Active Charge Of Operating Mines      Twenty-Nine Major Owners Summoned To Washington For Meeting Friday; Government Operation For Some Time Seen

ICKES PROBABLY TO OPERATE MINES   Had Hoped For Settlement Of Controversy

ICKES MOVES TO TAKE ACTIVE _ CHARGE MINES   Calls Mine Operators to Meet with Him in Person to Outline Goverpment’s Part   MAY RATION COAL   Says Controversy Could Be Settled but Moves to Protect Nation in View of Reduced Stocks

we  (KES MOVES TO ASSUME ACTIVE CHARGE OF MINES   Fuel Administrator Indicates He Expects To Continue Operating Pits For Government “For Considerable Period Of Time”—Only Nominal Control Exercised Previously—Hopes For Speedy Settlement Of Cee troversy To Permit Return To Owners :

CALLS PARLEY OF OPERATORS AS NEXT MOUE   Says Some Sort of Rationing May Be Necessary for Fair Distribution.   THOUSANDS OF MINERS REFUSING TO DIG COAL’

Ickes Plans Active Coal Mine Operation   Indicates That He Expects to Continue Man. agement for the Government for “a Considerable Period of Time.”

FDR FOLDS DRAFT CLUB THREAT OVER STRIKING MINERS   Steps Already Taken To Set Up Machinery To Induct All Draft-Age Miners Inte Armed Forces and To Raise From 45 To 65 the Maximum Age.

Seeks Power To Induct Men 65 Years Old   Congress Calls Method Poor Substitute; Expect Veto

Strikers Refuse To Return to Jobs In Mines   Many Thousands Out, Ickes to Take Over; See Roosevelt Veto

DRAFT CLUB IK CURBING LABOR NOT POPULAR   Congress Does Not Think FDR Proposal Takes Place of Anti-Strike Bill He is Expected to Veto.

Ickes Acts To Run Mines   Secretary Prepares to Take Over Control For Long Period

Steps Taken To Set Up Machinery For Drafting Miners   Conscription Threat Viewed in Congressional Quarters As Inadequate Substitute For Anti-Strike Bill   BACK-TO-WORK MOVEMENT IS BOGGING DOWN

Will Ask Congress To Raise Induction  Age From 45 To 65   Congress Views Presidential Proposal as Poor Substitute for Anti-Strike Bill; Miners Slow In Returning to Work

Secretary to Take Firmer Control of Coct a Mines THOUSANDS REFUSE “TO RETURN TO WORK Fuels Administrator to Confer With Mine Owners Today 

Anti-Strike . Bill Believed Facing Veto.   Roosevelt Proposal For Inductions Seen Inadequate

Voio of Anti-Strike Bill Seen in Attitude, AHempt to Override Predicted   MINERS OBDURATE   FDR, Indicating Uniforms fo Strikers, Says General Labo Situation Good

Ickes Moves To ‘Undertake Active ‘Charge Of Mines   Indicates Government Will Be Compelled To Continue Custody And Operation Of Mines For Considerable Period OF Time.

DRAFT CLUB DODGE TO SUPPORT VETO?   Is Viewed - ag Inadequate Substitute for Anti- Strike Bill ~   TO EXTEND DRAFT AGE

Ickes May Operate Mines for Long Period   To Actively Participate in Production of Coal; President Proposes Army Draft for Strikers.

F. D, RS THREAT TO MINERS SEEN AS INADEQUATE   Congress Sees ‘Draft Club” As Poor Substitute For AntiStrike Bill, Which President Is Now Expected To Veto.

‘Draft’ Club Is  Frowned Upon By Legislators   Don’t Make Army Into Penitentiary Argument of Congressrnen Backing Anti-Strike Measure

F. D. R. Swings A Draft ‘Club’  Over Strikers   Solons Call It A Poor Sub For Antistrike Bill, Now Facing Veto.

IGKES AGTS 1 OPERATE MINES   Expects to Continue Government Coniro! ‘For Considerable Time.’   HINTS FUEL RATIONING

Coal Rationing May Be Ordered Ickes Declares   Believes Government Will Operate the Mines for a Lona Time

Ickes Acting To Take Over  Mine Contro.   Government Prepare: To Operate Them Fo ‘Considerable Perioc  Of Time’

AIR OPPOSITION IN ITALY FADES   Hundreds Of Allied Planes Bombing And _ Strafing Sicily, Sardinia, And Italy Meet Exactly 15 Enemy  Plana«.

Hundreds Of Raiders Meet Only 15 Foes   Allies Make Sweeps Over Sicily, Sardinia, Messina Strait and Toe of Italy   NO OPPOSITION ‘WORTH NOTING’   ; i = ‘Roads, Railroads, Ships and Various Installations Are Attacked

Airmen See Only 15 Enemy Planes In Raids On Sicily, Sardinia And Italian Toe   Americans Fail To Encounter Single Plane In Their Sweeps In Sardinia

Axis Airmen Are Scarcer   Allied Aircraft See Few Of Them Over Sicily, Italy

ENEMY FLIERS REFUSE FIGHTS   Only 15 Axis Planes Seen In Allies’ Sweep Across Sicily. Messina

War Agencies Money Bill Up For Final Vote   Conferees Slash Fund To Be Allowed O. P. A And O. W. I.

Repo itish Forces Advance 25 Miles From Objective In Western Burma Offensive

ALLIES RAID JAP BASES IN BURMA   Ground Forces Believed Nearing Port of Akyab

HEAVY RAIDS MADE BY BRITISH FORCE   Strike in Series of Forays on Village of Kalemyo in Central Burma.

BRITISH FORCES NEARING AKYAB   Allied Bombers Carry Out Raids on Ninponese

American Warplanes Hit Jap’s Bleak Kiska Outpost For Total Of 51 Attacks Since March I

British 8th Army Easily Overcomes Opposition in City   Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark's American Forces Register Gains of From Two to Five Miles to the North of Salerno   GERMANS STILL OFFERING STUBBORN RESISTANCE

Tank Column Runs Through  Nazi Defenses   Eighth Army. Gains City, and Its. 12. Satellite Fields With Little Trouble; Fifth Army Battles for Small. Gains.

MOBILE FORCE PIERCES NAZI DEFENSE LINE      Races 25 Miles to Capture  Vital City: Fifth Army  Makes Small Gains

Springboard For Raids On Reich, Balkans Is Taken   American East Wing Of 5th Army Seizes 3 Towns In 5 Mile Gain

ITALIAN AIR BASE CITY OF FOGGIA TAKEN   British Eighth Army Races 25 Miles Thru — German Lines to Capture Important City

Mobile CokunnRaces 15 Miles Through Enem   Fifth Army Continues To Take Limited Objectives In Italian Offensive

KEY TO OFFENSE IN BALKANS IS SEIZED QUICKLY   Yank and British Forces Meanwhile Battle Ahead In Naples Area

. Melfi's Capture Puts Americans on Road Network Leading io Back Door of Naples   ALLIES NEAR PLAIN   Rapid Advance by British Prevenis Destruction of Foggia’s Airfields, Posing New Threat to Axis

Clark’s Men Make 2 To 5 Mile Gains   German Prisoners, Captured by Fifth Army, Speak of Fierce Fighting—Say 16th Panzer Division Put Out of Action .~Foggia Airfields Still Intact

ENTER FOGGIA AFTER A DASH OF 25 MILES   Overcome Minor Opposition After Racing Through Nazi Defenses —Fifth Army Captures Thrae Mare Towns.

City Was No. 1 Objective of Drive in Southern Italy—-Clark’s Men Advance Two to Five Miles in Face of Stubborn German Resistance—Enemy Losses Pile Up.

Eighth Army Into Air Base Center   British Drive 25 Miles te Capture Foggia Near East Coast :   Clark’ s Men Drive North  Against Stubborn Resistance

Air Base al Foggia -.. fo Allies   Most Important Gain'to Date in Italian Campaign; 5th Army Battles On’   GERMAN ‘BATTLE : LOSSES: HEAVY         ‘Bloody ‘Resistance.

Race 15 Miles to Take City With 12 Airfields   Swift Advance Prevents Destruction By Enemy; Slight Gains Against Stiff Opposition. Made at Salerno. .

‘Foggia, 12 Airfields ‘Taken by 8th Army   Great Air Base Opposition Light; Fifth Army Gains ? to 5 Mile.

Mobile Armor - Column Moves  In 25 Miles   Gen. Clark’s Sth Army Captures Three Towns; German Panzer Losses Are 50 Per Cent

Strong Mobile Armored Column Breaks Through Field Marshal Kesselring’s Defenses To Take Key Point And Its Dozen Satellite Airdromes From Which Balkans And Southern Germany Can Be Bombed— Gen. Clark’s Forces Seize Several Towns

British Shatter German Defenses To Take Big City   Fifth Army Registers Gains In Salerno Area

Fifth Army Takes Three. Towns in intense Fight- . ing in Italy.   'GERMAN LOSSES SEVERE

STRONG BRITISH ARMORED COLUMN  ENTERED FOGGIA   Raced 25 Miles Through Nazi Defenses to Capture City Late Monday.   OPPOSITION WAS SMALL   ‘Lieut. Gen. Clark’s 5th Army . Registered Gains From Two to Five Miles.

British Forces Race 15 Miles To Take Sector   8th Army Advances; Clark Gains In North _ Despite Resistance

Eighth Army Into Air Base Center   British Drive 25 Miles to . Capture Foggia Near + East, Coast   FIFTH HAS HARD FIGHT   Clark's. Men Diive North Against Stubborn J Resistance

BIG AIR BASE CITY FALLS “TO ARMORED UNIT   5th Army In West Makes Gain Of 2 To 5 Miles

Other Allied Troops Push _ Nearer Naples   Capture of Foggia Is Key To Allied Strategy in Southern Italy

British Are In Air Base City   Foggia Seizure Gives Allies Base For Aerial Blows On Southern Germany, Vital Rumanian Oil Fields

Italian Air Base, Many Other Fields Taken By Troops   Strong Mobile Column Was First To Enter City: Forced Way Through Nazis Defenses; Vanguard Entered At 3 P. M. Yesterday

Eighth Army Moves In Rapidly; Americans Get Towns In Naples Region

Fifth Army Makes Gains At Salerno   Germans Claim Capture Of Split; Landings On Corfu Island

American Units Hew Out Gains Toward Naples   Germans Report Fresh Forces Join U.S.

25-MILE ADVANCE BRINGS CAPTURE OF IMPORTANT AIRBASE  ALLIED FORCES IN WEST TRACER Ora! fT ADWw

‘Allied Army Also (Continues Drive  ‘North Of Salerno   Historic City of Melgi Overrun as Fifth Army  ’ Plunges Forward Krom Two to Five Miles.

British Seize Vital Italian Defense Point   American Fifth Army Moves To Outflank Naples

British Pierce Nazi Defense in  25.Mile Advance   Americans Register Gains to North in the Salerno Vicinity.   Nazi Division Wiped Out by Yankee Attack

Vital Base For Blows At Balkans   Fifth Army Knifes Deep. er Into Nazi Defenses Around Naples.

‘Very Little Evidence’ In Support Of Charges About Merchant Marine

SEAMAN PROBE BEFORE HOUSE   Subcommittee Feels News Story Was Based Qn “Broad Statements”

CARGO“STRIKE’ REPORT GOES TO COMMITTEE   Naval Subcommittee Concludes Akron Papers Story. Based On‘ ‘Broad General Statemenis”’ .   DEPLORES STORY   But Reporter May Have Reason to Believe Some ~ Sort of Incident Occur - red On Guadalcanal

Outer Defenses ‘Of Kiev Falling To Russians —    Great Dnieper Dam Blown Up By Nazis In Apparently Vain Effort To Stem Red Advance

Nazi- Repaired Dnieper Dam Is Blown Up Again   Berlin Admits Troops Fleeing Zaporozhe, Crimean Bastion

Berlin Admits To Blowing Up Huge Structure   Hope To Prevent Entrapment Of More Than

Kiev's Outer Defenses Crumble as Russians Surge Across Dnieper, Aflack Rear   GOMEL. TOTTERING   Russians Shape Pincers on Crimea With Crossing of Dnieper at céporozhe, Mass in Taman

UNIEPER DAM IS REPORTED BLOWN UP BY GERMANS   Great Russian Dam, Once Blown Up By Soviets, Then Repaired By Nazis, Is Destroved Second Time; Fall Of Kiev  Imminent.

GERMANS BROADCAST REPORT DESTRUCTION GREAT DNIEPER DAM  NAZIS ADMIT FLIGHT FROM KEY BASE GUARD-

Outer Defenses Of Kiev Falling To Russian Drive   Nazis in Crimea Are Threatened by New Soviet Gains

BAILEY ELECTED IN MISSISSIPPI   Defeats Former Governer Conner For Chief Executive

BRITISH NAVY BLASTS JAPANESE COASTAL  DEFENSES IN BURMA British Land Units  Continue Advance Southward in Mayu Ta + #4 ,

British Navy Guns Japs in Bengal Bay   Shell Donbaik, Start Fires; Planes Range Wide Over Burma

POUND JAPS IN W. BURMA   British Unleash Naval Guns, Continue Their Progress on Land Against Invaders.

BRITISH STRIKE JAP POSITIONS IN WEST BURMA   Numerous Fires Started in Area by Guns From Royal Navy’s Coastal Ships   Advance Units of Land! Forces Continue Progress ‘Southward in Mayu  Peninsula

40,000 REFUSE TO VACATE PORT OF MARSEILLES   Finns Unwilling to Oppose U. S.; Planes Blast Nazi Flight in Africa

Queen of U.S. Planes  Much Traduced P-38 8 Is Tops Amon Tops Among Fighter Craft On War Front.

See ee ea a  Many Soldiers To Have Giftless Christmas  “ ke  le ee! ee ee ee

U. 5. Soldiers Overseas May Not Get Christmas Gifts Account Neglect

Axis Armament Found Less Superior to U. S. Material   Tests of Captured Equipment Flown From Battle Zones Reveal German kquipment Best, Italian Poor Second and Japanese Tail-End Third; Nazi  Design Clever: Workmanship Careful

Says Final Phase Reached In Tunisia   Alexander Would Drive Enemy Into Sea

Alexander Calls for Drive to Sea   BRITISH COMMANDER SEES LAST PHASE OF © CAMPAIGN IN TUNISIA

SURRENDER FAILS TO EXCITE OHIOAN   Eats Late Lunch as Roundup Takes Place

Many Flee Nazi Cities As Fears Of Attack Grow   Axis War of Nerves Tense as Reports Circulate of the. Massing of Allied Fleets and Closing of — Syria’s Frontier With Turkey

Duesseldorf, Ruhr Districts, Berlin Residents Flee   Hitler Press Admits Continued Raids Make  Localities Untenable SYRIA BORDER SHUT  British, U. §. Armies Near Turkey Believed Started on the Move

ALLIED MASTERY OF AIR FACTOR      Serman Papers Disclose Civilians Are. Being Evacuated From Western Cities

i ”- ww . oll . a Doll ”- ” ”  Italians React to Their Hatred of German Overlords

AXIS FORCES FLEEING FOR ESCAPE PORT   Evidences of Plan for General Withdrawal From Messina as Allies Cut Deeper Into Isle

OIL HEATER BLAMED FOR DEPOT HIRE   Coroner’s jury completes probe of disastrous blaze at Burlington

Oil Heater Blamed for Fire   Temporary Heating Plan Was Dangerous

Japanese Islet Base Deep In Mid - Pacific Raided Wednesday By American Planes And Warships

Reveal U. S. Battleships Shelled Jap Island Base of Nauru December 8

WALKOUTS SPREADINGIN CGAL FIELDS   Miners Leave Work, in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky in Protest of No Working Agreement

Soft Coal Strikes Close  More Mines   6000 Workmen Idle and 14 Pits ‘Are Shut Down

MORE STRIKES FEARED, 4,700 LEAVE MINES   UMW Chief’s Bid For Returr To AFL Seen as Attempt To Bolster Powers.   ‘ONLY WAY TO JUMP’   Nine Pits Shut Down In Coal Fields of Pennsylvania as Unrest Spreads,

14 MINES CLOSED   Soft Coal Miners in East Are Demanding a Work ing Contract

STRIKES PLAGUE COAL INDUSTRY   More Than 6,000 Men Idle Six Mines Closed in Three States

Strikes Among Soft Coal Miners: - Over Lack Of Working Contract . Spreading In Pennsylvania, Ohio

6,000 MINERS ALREADY OUT   Won’t Work Without New Contract Leaders Say; Ohio Is Affected

Pennsylvania, Kentucky _ Workers Reported Leav ina Jobs   OUTPUT HALTED AT WILLOW GROVE   Local Leader Declares Men Refuse to Work Without Contract

A IOWANS DIE AT R. R. CROSSINGS      3 Farmers Victims in Crash Near Lost.Nation

Suply Base Of Arawe Wrecked In  T-Hour Attack.   ‘More Than 100 Heavy Bombers Meet Little Opposition in Heaviest Raid Ever Staged ‘Iv Southwest Pacific.

MARTINIQUE ASKS TERMS OF U.S. NAVY   Collapse Seems Bloodless Victory For American Naval Forces

PARIS CONFIRMS FALL OF ROBER}   i Martinique GovernorForced to Ask for Terms Because  ot Famine.

Order American Troops To Aid Arizona Cotton Farmers With Harvest

TROOPS WILL HELP HARVEST COTTON CROP   LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON MARKETING OF WHEAT   BY WILLIAM T. PEACOCK

U.S. Assigns Troops to Aid Farmers   Roosevelt Flavs Cry for Crop Work Furloughs

SOLDIERS 10 PICK COTTON IN THE SOUTH   ne  Emergency Use of Troops in Arizona Fields Announced

SOLDIERS 10. PICK COTTON ~INTHESOUTE      Emergency Use of Troops - - im Arizona Fields -

SOLDIERS 10 PICK COTTON   President Acts to End Clamor for Furlough Of Farm Hands

U.S. Troops Due To Help Pick Cotton  In Awiznansa   Ordered by President, Who Hopes His Action Will Quiet Clamor  For Farmer Furloushs   MARKETING QUOTAS ON WHEAT LIFTED  Ceiling Established On Price of Eggs At Wholesale Level

Troops Ordered ta Pick Arizona Cotton   Rigid AAA Limitations on Wheat Production Eased

U.S. Soldiers -Given Cotton Picking Jobs   To Harvest Other Crops: Wickard Lifts Wheat Marketine Onuotas

Restrictions On Marketing of Wheat ‘Lifted; Seek Student Volun~ teers To Aid On Farms

Iroops To Pick Arizona Cotton Under New Orde   Swift Series Of Moves On Food Production Front; Ceiling On Eggs

Army Units Ordered To Pick Arizona's Big Cotton Crop  President Says He Hopes Action Will Still ,  Yr en aa: er a ear ae ee oe

Soldiers to Pick  Arizona Cotton   Wheat Marketing Quotas Lifted

ARIZONA COTTON WILL BE PICKED BY ARMY TROOPS   President Expresses Opposition To Furloughing Of Farm Hands   GOVERNMENT SETS CEILING ON EGGS

SOLDIERS STAND READY TO HELP HARVEST CROPS   Roosevelt Says They Will As: sist, if Necessary, After One Group Is Given CottonPicking Task.   FROWNS ON FURLOUGHS FOR ALL FARM HANDS   Meantime OPA Establishes Ceilings on Egg Prices— “Mark-Ups” to Be Announced Later.

TROOPS ORDERED 10 PICK COTTON   Action Marks Series of Moves on Food Production Front Including Lifting of Wheat Marketing Quotas

RULL, EDEN TO MEET AGAIN   Briton,’ Golng to Canada for Talk "ath Prime Minister

TEACHING STAFF IS NOW COMPLETE   Due to War, New Teachers Will Outnumber  Veterans

Teaching Staff LeMars Schools Is Now Complete  i Majerity On Staff Are New Teachers _ For First Time .

IMPORTANT FOOD GOALS WILL BE MET   Final 1943 Farm Sign Up Figures Have Been Tabulated.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazi Heads Retain Hopes Of Finding Sanctuary When Defeat Comes

BYRNES MUM ON CEILINGS VIEW   Livestock Men Say Official Non-Committal on “se erams oa)

TESTS GIVEN FATHERS   48 Men Thru Selective Service Screening T:

TESTS GIVEN FATHERS   48, Men Thru Selective  Service eening Tests 

Japanese Warships Are Sunk  Three Vessel:   Three Vessel. Lost, Three  Damaged —

GREATEST Al VICTORY OF AFRICAN WAR   Week-End Toll Raised to 104; 30 Others Damaged Sunday

Don’t Leave Own Town To Hunt Job Without Release. Mannower Commission Warns

TRAIN CRACKUP TOLL MOUNTING   Search Continues For New Victims; Expect List ! Will Reach 80

EXTRICATION OF DEAD EROM WRECK’ STILL. PROCEEDS.” nts:   Final  Death Toll in Lum- *  berton, N.C., Disast& M Reach. &0, with 50° nae

Final Death Count in ACL Wreck May Reach Four Score   Work of Extricating Bodies of Victims Continues Today

Clearing of Rail Wreck —  Progressing   Red Cross Officials Say Death Toll May Reach 80 Persons

TRAIN WRECK TOLL RAISED TO 80 AS DEBRIS SEARCHED   Ten Bodies Known To Be Still in Wreckage

EXPECT WRECK TOLL TQ HIT 30   Railway Official Announces Formal Investigation

DEATH TOLL OF TRAIN WRECK HIGHTREACH30   Rescue Workers ‘Still Dis covering Portions of Bodies and Pulling Out Bloody Clothing

FEAR WRECK TOLL MAY REACH 80 LIVES   Formal Investigation to Be Held; Fireman Tried to Stop North-Bound Train

TOLL IN CRASH CLIMBS 10 80   FIFTY INJURED TAKEN FROM WRECK OF TRAINS

47 SERVICE MEN KILLED IN WRECK   RED CROSS WORKERS SAY DEATH TOLL MAY MOUNT TO 80

STILL COUNTING BODIES IN WRECK   Estimated Final Toll Of N. C. Train Tragedy May Be 80; Traffic Resumed.

Six Points In Senate Feeling   Debate Evolves Attitude On Postwar Foreign Policy

NO CHANGES IN CONNALLY PLAN ARE EXPECTED   Six Signposts Erected For Negotiators

Debate Clears Purposes of Peace Plans   Special Group Sets Out Six Things  -Recalutian Meanc

DEBATE ERECT PEACE SIGNPOST   Guages Senate’s Attitude Toward Post-war Foreign Policy: Six Major Points Supplied by Committee

Foreign Policy Signposts Built  Debate Resumes on Measure Monday

Power Drive For Rostov Gains Speec   400-Mile German Front Believed Crumbling As Soviet Troops Go Smashing Ahead

STATE ENFORCES TRUCKING LAWS   FINANCIAL STANDING STRESSED AS SAFETY RULES ARE OBSERVED

Plants to Receive Army-Navy ‘E’ Flag; Men, Women to Get Lapel Insignia on January 28 and 29

Anaconda, Great Falls. A.C.M. Employes Win)  WarProduction Honor   Plants to Receive Army-Navy ‘E’ Flag; Men, Women to Get Lapel Insignia on January 28 and 29

Diversification a Necessity—Babson   Discitsses Thitee Method of Purchasing Stocks at Present Time

Buying Stocks For Investment   BABSON DISCUSSES 3 METHODS FOR U. S. CITIZENS

Increasing Strained Relations Between DeGaulle Committee and United States Government

PANTELLERIA ISLAND AND TRAPANI BOMBED   Allied Planes Attack Two Targets on Sicily With Americans Taking Part in Raid—Dock Area and - Railroad Yards Plastered — Six Enemy Fighters Shot Down in Enaaaements.

PANTELLERIA ISLAND AGAIN  IS BOMBED   Allied Air Forces in Africa Pound Stepping Stones Between Tunisia and Italy Almost Daily.

400 U.S. TROOPS BACK FROM ATTU   SCORES UNABLE TO WALK BECAUSE OF FROSTBITE — TELL OF HARDSHIPS.

400 VETERANS ATTU BATTLES BACK INSTATES   Grin Through Frost-Bite And Wound Pains As They Reach San Fran-. cisco Hospitals   TELL HEROIC TALES   Saw Japs Shot by Own Of. ficers When They Ran  From U.S. Bayonets; Others Knifed

Special Message Given Soldiers   Christrnas Greeting Sent by President

Rebel French Defying Axis  Other Unrest Breaks Out In More Sectors

Vichy Hesitates to Launch Battle With Patriots For Fear of Causing Revolt Throughout Nation

HEAVY ATTACKS MADE ON AXIS ISLAND BASES   26 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down In Raids

Force Rommel To Evacuate  Post In Hills   Enemy Attacks East Of Ousseltiam, Bomb Sened

ABSENTEES OFFER SCORE OF ALIBIS   Six Out of 100 War Workers Use Other Reasons Than Illness

American Aircraft Keep Japs From Using Vital Bases  Yankee Planes Not Challenged in Recent Bomb Raids

KAHILI-KARA CRIPPLED BY U.S. PLANES   Compelling Japanese to Quit Using Most Important Air Bases in Northern Solomons.   Damage Ship

Japanese Quit Air Bases in the Northern Solomons After Heavy Bombings by Hundreds of Planes

Raids Cripple Jap Bases In Solomons  Airfields of Kahili, Kara Rendered

Jap Air Bases In Solomons Are Knocked Ou   Bombings Force Foe To Give Up Use In Northern Sector

RAIDERS WRECK JAP AIRFIELDS      Nipponese Are Forced Te Quit Using Bases In Northern Solomons

JAPS UNABLE ‘TO USE BASES   American Bombings Crip-ple Important Airfields Ja'Northern Solarions

Japs Driven Out Of Main Bases   Northern Solomons Proving Untenable ©

BOMBS KNOCK OUT JAP AIR BASES IN NORTH SOLOMONS   Enemy Has Not Used Fields at Bougainville, Kahili and Kara Since October 23.   FOE’S LOSSES HEAVY IN GROUND FIGHTING   Three~Attacks Repulsed by Australian Jungle Troops in Clashes Above Finschhafen.

Japs Quit Using Major Bases in — Kahili and Kara   Constant Bombings by Americans Chase Enemy Away ©

IMPORTANT JAP BASES IN SOLOMONS MADE INOPERATIVE BY ALLIED RAIDS   series of Attacks Prevents Enemy from Keeping Fields in Repair

New Fleet Of Sub Killers Is  In Production   Destroyer Escorts Will Be Ready This Summer To Combat Submarines, Reports Knox

NEW HOPE SEEN IN SUB WARFARE   Knox Reveals New Fleet Of ‘Sub Killers” Now In Mass Production.

Mass Production Of New Fleet Of Submarine Killers Started To Crush Nazi's U-Boat Fleet

wt Bi ) )   Knox Sees Answer To WolfPack Tactics In New De strover Escort.

PROVIDE EXTRA PUNCH T0 CRUSH AXIS SUB MENACE   NEW FLEET OF U. S. SUB-KILLERS ON MASS PRODUCTION

PREDICT END ~ OF U-BOAT FLEET   Navy Men Say New Killers to Provide Extra Punch

U.S. BUILDING SUB KILLERS   Solution to U-Boat Threat Seen in New Type of Fast Warship.

U.S. Launches Anti-Sub Ships In Large Numbe   Destroyer Escorts  ' Built In Four Months; 700 Fighting Planes Delivered To Navy

Fleet of Sub-killers Coming Down Ways in American Mass Production

FRESH HOPE OF SMASHING AXIS U-BOAT FORCES   New Fleet Of Sub Killers Is  Near Completion

Sub Killer Ships May Crush Nazi ‘U-Boat Menace   Navy Officials Hopeful Over New Type of Craft

Sub Killers to Clear Atlantic of U-Boats   Knox Reveals New Naval Plan to Sweep Seas of Nazi Menace with Mass Production of Half-Sized Destroyers

Submarine Killers Seen as Reply to Wolf-Pack Attacks   New Type of Warship Is Praised by Navy Secretary Knox

Sub-Killer Fleet Rolls Into Action   DE Boats Coming  Out In Quantities, Rnay Tiic-ln-e.   To Work in Teame«   Speedy Stinger Is Believed Answer To Nazi Wolf Packs.

NAVY BUILOING SUB ‘KILLERS   Allies Expect New Destroyer Escoris Wilt Crush Nazi U-Boats.

SEVERAL SCORE U-BOAT KILLER VESSELS READY   Destroyer Escoris Put on. Mase. Production to Meet Expected Increased Sub-War-This Year —

LITTLE CHANCE OF IMMEDIATE AGREEMENT ‘ON POST-WAR PROGRAM   Welles Proposed Yesterday Putting Aims of Atlantic Charter Into Effact

POST-WAR PACT LEFT TO FUTURE  Ti«xer  Gxnntnuer San  TTotetTo   Most Senators See Little Chance of Agreement At This Time   WELLES’ PROPOSAL BRINGS COMMENT

LITTLE CHANCE FORAFTER-WAR PACT NOW SEEN   WELLES VIEWS AIRED)      Some Term Them Sound; Others Not Sure They Know “What He Is Driving At”

CHANCES SLIM FOR POST-WAR FORMULA NOW   Senators Say Future Cannot Be Foreseen, but  4 Hope for an Early Allied Settlement on “Basie Principles.”

Stalin Is Now Convinced of — ‘Value of Bombing Nazi Centers   By WILLIAM B. ZIFF (Written for the United Press

It May Be Christmas. 1943, or 1947, or 1954-- But [t's Christmas

DENIES CHIANG GAVE OUT STORY   Chinese Information Chief Asks Investigation

SOLON SCORES RUBBER ‘CZAR   O’Daniel Attacks Locatior Of Alcohol Plants

JEFFERS TARGET FOR O'DANIEL BLASTS ON NEW ALCOHOL PLANTS  SAYS TEXAS NOT CONSID  SAYS TEXAS NOT CONSIDERED; RAIL ATFILIATIONS BROUGHT UP

Reductions To Include Cotfee Price   OPA Pushes Program As Meat Subsidy Is Under Attack  BUTTER SUBSIDY TO BE FELT SOON  Rollback for Meat Ordered Saturday, Toa Cackt 200 Millian

[OPA Going on With Plan: ‘To Roll Back Prices, in Spite of Some Opposition

OPA Maps Plan To Roll Back Price of Coffee   Labor Encourages Subsidy Extensior Although Trade Sources Object; Butter Reduction Due This Week

Subsidy Program Draws Fire  ‘OPA Goes Ahead With Plans For Rollback of Coffee Price

BUTTER AFFECTED BY OPA THURSDAY   Objections Arise In Trade Sources, Segmient of Congress Over ._ Price Actions.

MEAT SUBSIDY DRAWS FIRE OF PACKING FIRMS   OPA Defying Opposition Is Making Plans To Roll Back : Coffee Price   MURRAY APPROVES GOVERNMENT ACTION

Coffee Subsidy Plans Advanced   Roll-Back Objections Are. lgnored by OPA

OPA To Extend Food Subsidies To Coffee Soon   Rollbacks May Soon Take Place in Several Other Necessities   Butter Subsidy Will Reach the Consumer within a Few Days

Meat Subsidy Attacked  But Plans Go Forward   OPA Officials Proceed With Plans to Extend Program Despite Objections—Coffee Cut Soon to be Announced

OPA PROCEEDS WITH PLAN TO + USE SUBSIDIES   Will Extend Roll-Back To Coffee in Spite Of Objections

OPA Will Order CoffeeRollback   Butter Subsidy to Reach Consumers Plarpeeday

NOTED PIANIST DIES SUDDENLY   Rachmaninoff Started Career Of Half Century When Only 13

MOURN DEATH OF COMPOSER   RACHMANINOFF DIED SUNDAY ‘AFTER BRILLIANT CAREER . AS PIANIST, COMPOSER  AND ‘CONDUCTOR .

Pleurisy is Fatal To Rachmaninoff   Musical Genius Dies in California

R. A. F. Batters Berlin Second Straight Night   Hunelreds of Tons Of Bombs Dropped; 22 Bombers Lost

NAZI CAPITAL BATTERED BY 4-TON BOMBS   22 Planes Lost In Great Attack; Air Raid Alarms Sound In London.

RAF Drops More Bomh: On Berlin   Great Fires Set In Huge City By Incendiaries

BERLIN AGAIN BATTERED BY RAF. BOMBS   German Capital Better Prepared To Resist Raiders; Germans In Turn Bomb London Killing 12.   Lost 22 Of Them

Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Dropped On German Capital Sunday   22 BRITISH BOMBERS : LOST DURING ATTACK

BERLIN AGAIN RAIDED, GREAT FIRES ARE SE   British Report Loss of 22 Planes; London Has New Alert

RAF Batters Berlin for.  Second Night   Raid Is' Costly as 22 Big Bombers Fall to Nazi Ack-Ack Guns

BERLIN AGAIN IS TARGET IN BIG RAF RAID   HITLER’S CAPITAL SET ABLAZE BY HUGE BOMBS

Berlin Battered By RAF Bombers   Britain Says Raid “Worth Heavy Cost

Berlin's Hit Second Night in Row   RAF Drops Hundreds Of Tons of Bombs On Hitler’s Capital

German Capital Again Hard Hit By RAF Airmen   Tons Of Biggest Bombs  Ever Known Set Great Fires Inside Berlin

RAF Strikes At Berlin In Second Raid   100,000 Incendiaries and Great Bombs Are Dropped; Damage Huge

Biggest Bombs Dropped Along with Incendiaries And Great Fires Rage

Onslaught Costs 22 Bie Bombers  German Radio Adinits 82 Persons Killed In Two Raids  100,000 Incendiary. Bombs Drop on City  Swiss Air Alarm Sounded,  Seen Pointing Another Eee PM oe Oe, See ieee      Swiss Air Alarm Sounded, Seen Pointing Another Attack Upon Italy

Reorganizing Measures to Be Introduced   Eight Bills Prepared Dillavou States; Legislators Active

Reorganizatior Bills to Be Offered Today   House Committee to Introduce Eight Measures

(  DOUGHBOYS IN PICHON   Straight Front Line 100 Miles Long Available

ClO CLAIMS WLB CAUSES STRIKE   Says Board Fails To Protec! Employes, Halts Vital Production

UNION ORGANIZER RAPS WLB RULING   Workers at Thompson Plant On Strike

Postal Receipts For Year Show Substantial Gain   Sixteen Percent Increase Shown In Receipts Here During Fiscal Year 1942-45

First Time In History Of Local Post Office That Receipts Passed $20,000 Mark

AUTHORIZED FUNDS TO REPAIR HI-WAYS   President Has Authorized Seven and One-half Million Dollars.

23 OF ENEMY ~ WARSHIPS IN PORT WATERS   15 Sunk, 88 Enemy Planes Downed in Latest Encounter at Big Base on New Britain

Rabaul: Japs Pour In Ships   MacArthur’s Forces Keep  Hammering, But Japs Bring Up Planes Too

Japs Heedless Of Losses At Rabaul   Still Sending Ships And Planes Into Bombed Area

Japs Reinforce Rabaul In Spite OF Big Loss   Ships And Aircraft Reach Great Base In Face Of Terrific Punishment; Three More Nipponese Warships Sunk

JAPANESE CONTINUE MOVE WARSHIPS AND PLANES TO RABAUL  _ AMERICAN BOMBERS TAKE  HEAVY TOLL, BUT FIND

Japs Hang — on, Paying Heavy Toll   Heedless of Steady Losses, Planes, Ships Continueto ° Slip Into Rabaul   MORE CONVOYS ON  THE WAY FROM TRUK  ;   88 Planes Lost By Nips in Latest Thrust, More Ships Sunk and Damared

Losses Fail To Halt Jap Convoys   Pour Reinforcements Of Ships and Planes Into ‘Rabaul; Allies  Still Have “Too Little”

Japs Fighting fiercely to Hold Rabaul   Follow Heavy Losses With More Planes and Warships

A Suicide Stand by Japanese   US. Carrier Based. Planes Sink Three  More Warships and Damage 12.Others.

Civilian Draft Law Advocated   Undersecretary of War Patterson Urges Plan To Provide Workers

Would Draft All Labor In War Effort   Patterson Says It’s Only Way For A Democracy   But Washington Sees Compromise On Issue   Senate’s Voting Farmer Deferment Rlow To Camnuleian

Patterson Presses for  Civilian Draft   Obligation of All To Help War Must Be Recoenized

PATTERSON FOR CIILIAN ORAFY   Declares Thousands Are Still Employed In NonEssential Work .

Urges Care In Alloting  Manpower   Senate Military Committce Hears Patterson Plea For Civilian Draft Law

Senate Urged To Pass Labor Dratt Measure   Undersecretary Of War Says U. §. Only Belligerent Without Such Plan.   ARMY PLANS REVIEWED

Draft of civilians advocated   Patterson says thousands make non-essentials

Thousands Still Vainly Employed   [Says Wise and Ordered   Use of Manpower Now Imperative   THIS WAR FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE

Civilian Draft Law Is Uroed-by War Official   Many Still Work At Needless Jobs Says Patterson

PATTERSON APPEALS FOR ENACTMENT OF CIVILIAN SERVICE   WOULD DRAFT MEN AND WOMEN INTO ESSENTIAL PRODUCTION CHANNELS

LEADER ASKS CIVILIAN DRAFI   NONVITAL BUSINESS HIT BY U. S. OFFICIAL

CIVILIAN DRAFT ORDER URGEL   Wise- Use of Manpower Now Tinperative, Says War Undersecretary

PATTERSON APPEALS FOR ENACTMENT OF CIVILIAN SERVICE  WOULD DRAFT MEN ANI WOMEN INTO ECCENTIAT   WOULD DRAFT MEN AND WOMEN INTO ESSENTIAL PRODUCTION CHANNELS

Labor Draft Needed, Says Patterson      Thousands § ill Working on Non-KEssential  i Prothuets r

Senate Republicans Hold Fate of Trade Pacts Bill   Crucial Amendment Permitting Repudiation May Be Passed

German Ship Fires On Swedish Plane   Incident Is First Since Transit Action

Goodland Signs Defense Action  Governor To Name 1!   Governor To Name 15 Members of Council

Believe Two Great War ' Leaders Are _ Setting .. Their Final Plans For - Invasion Of Europe.

Makes Fifth Wartime Meeting With Our President.  EXPERTS FROM INDIA WITH CHURCHILL  Hitler Has Suddenly Switched His Headquarters.

CHURCHILL COMES TO WASHINGTON   Presence Of British Experts From India Indicates Far East Offensive

A NEW FUEL OIL PLAN   OPA Makes Announcement for  lowa, Nebraska and Kansas

In Heavy Rains   A NEW FUEL OIL PLAN   OPA Makes Announcement fo: lowa, Nebraska and Kansas

Bonds For Ideas Is Planned Again By Pangisorn   First Shop Employes’ Sug gestion Contest Is Creat Success.

PANGBORN CORP. TO PRESENT WAR BONDS FOR PRODUCTION IDEAS   First Shop . Employees’ Suggestion Contest Yields Gratifying Results—Many Worthwhile \ Ideas Received

WUDGEMENT OF . “$6 500 AWARDEL   Jury Here in Anderson Case - Decided in Favor of.  the Plaintiff. :

JUDGERIENT Ut 00,000 AWARDEL   Jury Here in Anderson Case Decided in Favor of the Plaintiff.

Sicilians Friendly to Americans Fascist Propaganda .Failed To Take

Sicilians Did Not Believe Propaganda   People Were Saturated with Home-Made Movies Depicting Americans as Rapists, Cowards, Ogres

IT DIDN'T TAKE SICILY NATIVES FAIL TO TAKE ITALIAN PROPAGANDA SERIOLSLY.

7. RTE SE ens es —By Burke L. Stpsor  Lightning To Strike Axis Again--But Where?

Germans Faring Badly In Russia And Sicily   American, British And Canadian Forces Gouging Through Both Enemy Coastal Flanks

HEAVY RAID MADE ON JAPANESE BASE   21 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Main Celebes Airport.

Acauit accused hwnchers   Drop 21 tons of explosives  in East Indies

HORNET SUNK, 3 CRUISERS, ‘T DESTROYERS   Aircraft Carrier Went Down With Porter In Battle Of Vera Cruz Islands Oct. cP ad   Japs Lost, Also

NAVY REVEALS U. 5. CARRIER HORNET SUNK   SEVEN DESTROYERS AND 3 CRUISERS REPORTED LOST

Vessels Lost hy Enemy Action Are Identified   Eleven Warships Fall Victim ‘in Pecific Battle

AIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET IS IDENTIFIED AS SHIP LOST IN PACIFIC BATTLE OCTOBER 26   Navy Also Announces Names Of Three Cruisers And Seven Destroyers Heretofore Reported Sunk In South Pacific But Not Previously Identified

HORNET LOST AT SANTA CRUZ OCTOBER 26TH   Three Cruisers, Seven Destroyers Already Reported Victims Are Listed   Costly To Japanese

Ten Other Ships Are Identified             J I:  And Many Dama  aed

AIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET WAS SUNK LAST OCTOBER 26; 10 OTHER U. S. SHIPS LOST

Also Identifies Three Gruisers, Seven Destroyers Previously Announced bors

NAVY REVEALS 11 SHIPS LOST -— INSO: PACIFIC      Names Aircraft Carrier, Hornet Three Cruisers, Seven Desiroy: ers as Sunk

Navy Reveal: Names of LL Lost Vessels  Carrier Hornet Heads List; Utahn Missing

Among 11 Listed  Previously   Vessels Named by Navy Lost in Actions Costing Japanese Total of 37 Craft Sent to Bottom and 18 Others Damaged

Lost Carrier Was Hornet   Identity of Lost Cruisers And Destroyers Given

Ten Other Ships Are Identified   Japs.Lest37. Ships: And Many Damaged

Hornet Lost in Island Battle; 10 Ships Sunk, Identified by the Navy

Navy Names   Ships Sunk in  South Pacifie Include 20,000-Ton  Plane Carrier Hornet And Three Cruisers   SEVEN DESTROYERS ARE IDENTIFIED

NAVY REVEALS CARRIER SUNK WAS HORNET   Also Gives Names of 3 Cruisers and 7 Destroyers Lost   Next of Kin Notified

Navy Reveals Hornet, 20,000-Ton Aircratt Carrier, Lost Oct. 26   Names of Eleven Vessels, Previously Announced As Sunk in Solomon Islands Fighting, Are Given in Special Communique

ALLIES HOLD AXIS ATTACK AT SEDJENANE   Four Ships Sunk As Bombers Harass Convoys Between’ Sicily And Tunisia   ROMMEL AT MARETH LINE:   Aerial Assault Indicates Preparation For Large-Scale Land Action

AXIS FAILS IN ATTAGKSS OW VILLAGE   Aw Forces Launeéh New Offensive In Tunisia

Street Fighting Ended In African Center By British Tank Attack —

Warren Threaten:  Milk Act   GOVERNOR MAY RESORT TO COURTS TO AVERT STATE “MILK FAMINE”

'5-Cent U. 5. Stamp Honoring France Will Be on Sale Senfember 28

Maryland Worker Frozen’ in Jobs By MWC Order   Move Made To Abate Turnover of Employes in Essential Plants

Manpower Commission Rules Affect Many Local Employers And Employes.

NEW RULES GIVEN ON JOB TRANSFERS      Maryland Regulations Is. sued by War Man.power Commission -

KISKA SOFTENED UR AR INVASION   Jap - Held Aleutian Is'and Is Subjected te New Heavy Blows.

Invasion Of  Kiska Nearing   Believe U. S. Forces Will Soon Launch Move To Drive Japs From Island   PLANES AND SHIPS SOFTEN DEFENSES

DESTROYER T0 BE NAMED FOR IOWA FAMILY   President approves name of “U. S. S. The  Sullivans” for new ship

CUT RAW MATERIALS   Germans Have Been Drawing on Reserve Sunonlies

36,000 MINERS NOW REPORTED TO BE ON STRIKE   COAL MINERS ARE OUT IN ALABAMA, OHIO, KENTUCKY, PENNSYLVANIA, INDIANA, AND TLLINOIS.   MINERS’ OFFICIAL DEPLORES WALKOUT   Representatives of 850,000 Railway Unions Vote to Take Strike Vote—Congress Still Hacking at Rie Tax Bill.

Coal Strike May Go tok. Rif Men Won't Work   U. S. May Take Over Mines Under Labor Law

Reveals Five U. S. Merchant Ships Lost In Attack   Axis Air Raid On Bari On December 2 Destroys Number Of Allied Ships   CASUALTIES TOTAL AROUND THOUSAND

GERMAN RAID ~~ BAUSED LOSS   STIMIION. REVEALS FIVE MER’ CHANT SHIPS DESTROYED DURING NAZI RAID N BARS

Kennedy Rites Will Be Held™ On Thursday   ‘Friends: Will Be. Received At Faneral. Home Till 1 P. M.

BOMB HEADQUARTERS OF GERMAN COMMAND   Allies Also Score Hits on Placc Frequented by German Troops in Rald on Marseilles.

German Headquarters Bombed at Marseille:   Severe Measures Reported Taken——Several Persons Hit. Waiter Dies

Strong Counter Attack Defeated Near Augusta Americans Push On   Kighth Army Fans Out Over Cantania Plains Where Majer Batile Is Developing

BRITISH CUT OFF AT AUGUSTA HARBOR FOR A TIME BY NAZIS HERMANN GOERING DIVISION

Eisenhower Says Fight Still Goes ell, Despite Stiffening Resist. ance.

Big Super-Nazi Tanks Are Helping in Fight  Against Allies.  oe  YANKEES DRIVE   15 MILES INLAND  Americans Knock Out a Number of Nazi Tiger Tanks.

Japanese Move Great Fleet Toward Rabaul   Enemy fo Risk Valuable Ships To Retain Area

Big Battle Pends in South Pacific  Japanese Moving in Larae Force From Truk

'U.S. Airmen Tear Into Five Jap Convoys of 53 Ships On Way to Bolster Rabaul

Showdown Fight Near as Japs Move to Save Rabaul   Big Force of Nip Cruisers and Destroyers Moving Down From Truk

JAP WARSHIPS  ARE MOVING ON RABAUL ISLAND   Fifty-Three in Three Convoys — New Stakes in Raging Solomons Deci sion: Allies in Range

Nip Warships Are Watched By Bombers   Numerous Vessels In Five Groups; Foe To Risk Much In Attempt  Ta Save Roneainville

Great Convoys Sighted Heading Toward Rabaul   Would Be Determined Jap Effort To Gain  Control In Solomons

Hint Gigantic Pacific Battle   SEE ALL-OUT JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO HALT ALLIED DRIVE AIMED AT RABAUL, KEY ENEMY STRONGHOLD ON ISLAND OF NEW BRITAIN

American Airmen Lying In Wait For Five Jap Convoys   Jap Warships Moving On Rabaul; Every Move Of Fleet Watched

Big Naval Fight  Begins in Pacific   Rabaul is Prize in  Air-Sea Battle

HUCE NIP FLEET ENTERING WAR AREA IN PAGIFIC   Allied Reconnaissance Planes Keeping Constant Check on Jap Convoy

Observers See Huge Jap Fleet Nearing Rabaul   Yank Bombs Strike Convoy As Allies Make Plans, For Major Sea Battle

Allies Sight Japan Fleet Southbound   53 Ships From Truk Moving to Defense  Of Menaced Rabaul

VIOLENT NAVAL ACTION SHAPING UP IN SOLOMONS   JAPS APPARENTLY TO RISK BATTLE FOR BOUGAINVILLE

American, Jap Forces Are Believed Joined In Great Air-Sea Battle

Heaviest Battle Since Bismarck Sea Looms 53 Japanese Ships Are Moving On Rabaul Anc Into U.S. Planes’ Range

Jap Naval Armada Is_ Moving Toward Rabaul   “Great Battle Looms As First Of Enemy _ Convoys From Truk Begin Moving Within Range Of U. S. Planes. 

AIRMEN SPOT POSSIBLY 53 BELOW TRUK   One of Five Convoys Already Hit by Bombs in Preliminary Skirmish to Promjsed Grea! Balle   ALLIES CONFIDENT   MacArthor and Halsey Prepares for Engagemen!, Wilh Rabau! Slake of Battle

JAPS MOVING SHIPS TOWARD RABAUL AREA   American Bombers Hit Convoy; Five Groups Struck

Japs Prepare For Naval Show Down   Estimated 53 Warships Being Sent From Truk to Rabaul Where U. S. Blow:  Aim

BELIEVE GIANT AIR-SEA FIGHT ON IN PACIFIC   Japs Reported Throwinc Fleet Into Rabaul Battle: Tokyo Claims Two U. S. Carriers Stink.

JAPS MOVING BIG CONVOYS   Estimate 53 Warships and Other Vessels Are Nearing Rabaul.   EXPECT NAVAL BATTLES

TO RESCUE SOLOMONS ©   Sea Battle Looms As 53 Warships Head For Rabaul

Think Naval Battle May Have Begun   Japs Reported to Have Sent Big Force to Tackle U. S. Warships

MOST MINERS WORK MONDAY   Back-To-Work Movement Gains Among Last Holdouts

Miners Slowly Resuming Work In Pennsylvania   But 100,000 Men Remain on Strike Throughout Country

COAL STRIKE NEARING END   Thousands Return to Jobs On Holiday in Response To Union Appeals

100,000 MINERS STILL STRIKING SURVEY REVEALS   30,000 Returned To Pits Thursday; Full Production  BRenastad Sane      WILL WORK HOLIDAY TO BUILD UP STOCKS

30,000 More Back In Soft Coal Mines   ONLY 100,000 MINE WORKERS REMAIN OUT OF PITS; TUES. DAY LOOKED TO FOR END OF STRIKE,

Operators and Union Leaders Predict Normal Operations Today or Wednesday; Few Scattered Holdouts

Celebration Will Be Held On 64th St.   Event Will Be Held Monday Night; Legion to Hold Show Sunday Evening in Soldier Field.

Fireworks Display in Southtown   Sunday Night Event Here Will Be Followed by Legion’s Show Monday in Soldier Field.

Nazis Will Fight For North Italy; Slow Surrender   See Little Hope Badoglio Can Withstand Pressure OF German Control

CEILINGS FOR MEAT PRICES ARE PLANNED   ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRICES TO STABILIZE MEAT SITUA1 ‘TION WILL HE MADE ON TUESDAY

Dollars and Cents Limit Will Be Put in Effect Tuesday by OPA to Equalize All Prices

Meat Ceilings Will Be Fixed N ext Tuesday   Retail Dollar and Cent Prices Will Cut Black Marketing

DOLLAR AND CENT CFILING. ON MEAT LOOMS NEXT WEEK   Agriculture Department Will Move To Equalize Prices in Plan To Help Shortace Zones.

DOLLAR AND CENT CEILING PRICES ON RETAIL MEAT WILL BE CLAMPED ON TUESDAY; PREPARE FOR RATIONING

Club Women Of Le Mars Are Cooperating In Sale Of War Bonds   Booths Placed And Decorated In Many Stores

GRAIN OFFICIALS ANSWER GOODLAND   Three Members of State Commission Deny Governor’s Charges.

~~» AT ST. JOSEPH   Fr. Karlhoff of Oyens I: _ Principal Speaker of eon Evening

Interoreting The War   Delay in Africa Is Of Little Value To German Troops

POPULAR PARTY DISSOLVED   French Committee Abrogates Vichy -. Peerees

NCE NEAR A NEW CRISIS      Petain Faces Ultimatum From Laval to Accept Nazis Or Quit.

REPORT PETAIN ta FACING ULTIMATUN   Aged Marshal Henri Petain ‘Must Accept Nazis or Resian as Chief of State

NEW CRISISIS FACING FRANCE      Would Compe! Petain To Accept Nazis As Alfies Or Quit

Rainstorms Again Sweeping Texas   One Killed, 2 Hurt Hail Damaging

FLOOD CREST MOVES SOUTH TOWARD GULE   HIGH WATER, SLOWLY. DRAIN: ING OFF THREE’. Mibtro ACRES—LOWER Mrssidatert .  FACES EMERGENCY

New Flood Danger At St. Charles, Mo   Estimate 82,000 Driven From Their Home

BIG-AREAS IN "SHES ARE FLOODED   Indiana Is Hardest Hit by _ the: Flood Menace in the Midwest.   NEW DANGER APPEARS   At St. Charles, Mo.,. Large Section Is Likely  to Be “  -Inundated.

GIG AREAS IN EIGHT” STATES Anc FLOODED   Indiana Is Hardsst Hit by the Flood Menace in the Midwest.   NEW DANGER APPEARS   At St. Charles, Mo., Large Section Is Likely to Be Inundated.

America Will Defend Bombing of Rome as Reina Necessaru Militaru Measure

Ameri ica. Will Defeiid Bombing of Rome “as ‘Being. Necessar U M ilitaru: Measure

GERMAN CAPITAL WAS “HAMBURGED” BY MANY BOMBERS   _ MOST WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION WROUGHT IN HEART OF AXIS

Best Raid Made There, Say Airmen   Four Square Mile Area Left Mass of Fires in Heart Of German Capital

5,000 Men Take Part In Attack  Number Of 4- Engined Planes Believed Record

Smoke Rises Three Miles Above City   Bombs Are Rained Down By Raiders For 42 Minutes

BERLIN HAMBURGED' LAST NIGHT  FOR 42 MINUTES BY HUNDREDS OF ‘PLANES IN BIGGEST RAID OF WAR   Excellent Weather, Plus Second-Rate Oppositior And Brilliant Bombing Made First Step in Elimination of Berlin A Success

Airmen Who “Hamburged” Berlin Say It Was. the Best Raid They Ever Made

FIRES ARE LEFT RAGING IN CITY   Berlin Raid Lasts 42 Minutes; It's Described As Best Yet Made

2'000 Tons Of Bombs Shatter Reich Capital   Scope of Attack Indicates Allies Have Started Air Battle To Wipe Nazi Capital From Earth; 58 RAF Planes Lost

BERLIN ATTACK WAS “BEST YET”   —BY LOWELL BENNETT Sqrontas The Combined American Press. Distributed By The Associated Pree.

War Powers Act Hearing Opens   Little Opposition’ ° ‘Belteved Likely

Lend-Lease Goods And Services Top Eight Billions  U. §. War Production Greater Than Any Of Our Allies Now  REPORT TO CONGRESS  Russia Has Been Chief Beneficiary ' Of Our Huge Output  1

U. S$. Outout Rate Greater Than Every Other. Allied Nation, Report

U.S. Is Leading War Production Rate Of Allies  Last Quarter Total Ir   Last Quarter Total In 1942 Exceeds Full Year Production In 1941

U.S. LEADING ALL NATIONS INWAR WORK   Production Rate Has Sur. passed Every Other Allied Country

U. S. EXCEEDS INWAR OUTPUT   Lend-Lease Over 8 1-4 Billions Level Up To Dec. 31

UNITED STATES TOPS PRODUGTION   Outstrips All Other Allied Nations in War Supplies; Stettinius Reports LendLease Aid to Congress

America Outstrips All Other Allies:in Output ‘Of War Materials: Lend-Lease Head Reports

GIRL KIDNAPING VICTIM HUNTED   Youthful Witness Says Blonde Was Dragged Into Auto

POLICE SEARCH FOR KIDNAPERS   Chicago and Northern Indian: Combed for Two Men and Reported Girl Victim.

Destructive Attack Made On Sfax By  Allied Foree   Heavy Damage To Axis Supply Port In Strongest Attack Of Tunisian Campaign

U.S. AIRFORCE BATTERS SFAX IN HARD RAID   Many Fires Started And Six Enemy Planes Shot Down   ATTACKS CONTINUOUS   Seek To Prevent Merger Of Rommel and Von  Arnim Armies

U.S. Sky Force hits Enemy Port   Showdown Looms in Africa as Allies Poised for Kill

Four-Wave Smash Leaves Many Fires   Heaviest Attack by U. S. Force; Little Change  In Ground Situation

U. S. AIR FORCE ATTACKS SFAX, LOSE 2 PLANES   Execute Heaviest Raid of War in Africa on Axis Supply Base

YANK FORCE AT MAKNASSY AN TUNISIA      All-Out Drive To Divide Nazi Armies Expected   Advances 65 Miles West Of Tripoli; Allies In Other Attacks

FIRES AAGING IX AXIS SUPPLY PORT   U.S. Air Force Launches Heaviest Attack In Four-Wave Raid   WEATHER IS BAD   Entire Allied Action In North Africa Limiting Operations

HARBOR SFAX RAIDED BY FOUR WAVES PLANES   Used For Regrouping of Axis Forces In Tunisia For Attacks On the Allies   ITALY SAYS DAMAGE TO PORT IS HEAVY   Meanwhile, British Eighth Army Artillerymen Duel With Rommel; Axis Betray Jitters

Fortresses Lead Heavy US. Attacks   Raid Is the First of Its Kind Tn, North Africa, Heaviest in’ That Area   MANY FIRES. RAGING: ’. ~..  RATL- YARDS HIT   B-25's Drop Their _ Bombs at Fifty-Foot . Intervals in’ ‘Starvation’ Raid.-.:

Bombers Batter    Axis Supply Port in ‘Tunisia in Flames After Heavy Attack: — By 12th U. S. Air Force

Ceilings For Live Hogs  Action Outernewth   Action Outgrowth Of Inflation Fight

Broad 4 Point Livestock-Feed Grain Price Program Designed ‘ To Eliminate Price Squeeze on Packers to Be Announced     A e e

Gack. And Faad  ZIVATL PIM LT UU  Revisions Due:   Seek To Eliminate ~Dackeare! Sariaasa:

Stock And Feed Revisions Due   Seek To Eliminate Packers’ Squeeze

PACIFIC DRIVE. IS MAKING PROGRESS, STIMSON. REVEALS   Secretary Of War Points Out. Strorig Enemy Action May. Be ‘Expected

GERMAN POPULACE GETS GLOOMY NEWS BY PRESS, RADIO   People Being Prepared For Bad News On Russian And '‘Cther War Fronts

DIRGES PREPARE REICH FOR NEWS OF ROUT IN RUSSIA   Berlin Paper Says People Must Face Defeat but Urges Courage, Pointing to Britain ac Examole.

Hitler Prepares German People For Big Let-Down   Radio Dispatches and Newspaper Comment Most Gloomy As Fuehrer Gets Ready To Admit Defeats

Germans to Hear Bad Russian News   Press, Radio Paves  Wav for Shock

Funeral Music Is Heard Over German Radio   Public Apparently Is Being Prepared For Admission Of Loss Of Troops At Stalingrad

Man Kills Self, Two Daughters   Michigan Father Goes Berserk; Also Shoots 2 Others

ENRAGED FATHER KILLS DAUGHTERS   Police Put Tear Gas Into His Barricaded Home; 2 Slain, 2 Wounded

» FATHER OF SIX KILLS 2 GIRLS   p Man, 14, Also Wounds Twa Other Daughters, Then Takes His Own Life

FATHER OF SIX GOES BERSERK   Kills Two Daughters, Wounds Two Other Children, Kills Himself.

BERSERK FATHER SLAYS 2 CHILDREN   Turns Gun on Self; Two Oth. er Daughters Shot, One Critically :

Father ¥” One Da.   Wounds Th. ze Others; Ends Own Life Despite Efforts to Stop Him

Father Shoots 4 Daughters  Berserk Man Then Thisssee foes fin Soalf

FATHER FATALLY SHOOTS CHILD   Michigan Man Wounds Three Others, Self After Family Quarrel

John P. Morgan,  Financier, Dies         Banking Firm Was Colossus of Financial World: Died In Atmosphere of Dignity and Restraint

J.P. Morgan Noted Banker Dies in Florida   Heart Disease Fatal fo Financier; Rites to Be in New York

Man Whose Name Was Symbol of Wealth And Power Dies Quietly at Florida Home—Just as He Had Planned It

Wall Street Calm At News Of Death Of Noted Financie:   Morgan, 75, In Coma Three Days In Florida: ‘House Of Morgan’ To Be Unchanged

J.P. Morgan Dies Of Heart. Ailment   Financier Passes After-Three- -Day Coma; Prior: Plans Prevent Business Upheaval

J. P. Morgan Dies at 75, But Great Financial Institution He Headed Will Go On Without Any Shakeup

DEATH TAKES J.P. MORGANIN FLORIDA HOME   NAME OF FINANCIER WAS BYWORD IN BANKING

Messina Given Pounding By Heavy Bombers   Fires Started In Dock And Railwav Areas

Coal Stoves Are Released For Sale   Can Be Obtained After March 30

Pincers  Closing On Orel   Fast Freight Wreck Blocks North Western

Commitment By U.S. Now Opposed by 32 Senators   24 Favor Commitment To Post-War Course Of Preserving Peace Through Police Force  32 MEMBERS FAIL TO REACH DECISION  Those and 8 Others Not Reached in Poll Will Decide Issue

Senators Are Divided On Post-War Police Program   Thirty-Two Listed as Opposing Commitments at This ‘ Time—Tweénty-Four Favorable With Remainder Still Undecided

Survey Reveals Senate Split On World Police   Poil on U. 3. Participation To Keep Peace Shows 32 Opposed, 24 in Favor

32 OF SENATE OPPOSE WORLD POLICE PLEDGE   Only 24 Favor Committing U. S. Now to Post-War Action

Post-War Policing Divides Senators   Press Poll Finds  Hatch, Chavez Apart

32 Senators Are Opposed to Committing UJ. §. at This Time to Postwar Police Plan

Senate Opinion Varies on Postwar Role of U. S.; 32 Are Against Commitment Now: 24 Are in Favor

Senate Majority Opposes Police For All World   Thirty-two. are against commitment to postwar world force; plan ‘favored by 24.

Chandler Urges Separation of Sheep - From the Goats in Japanese Camps

SURROUND. LAST NAZIS IN AFRICA.   Remnants Are Confined to 15-Mile Circle

Allies Crushing  30,000 Germans Still on Cap Bor   Fighting Expected to End ix A Few Hours; 10,000  Italians Surrender

REMNANTS OF ONCE MIGHTY ENEMY DOOMED   Both Germans and  Italians Are Sur rendering Unconditionally.   War Summary

REMNANTS OF AXIS ARMY DOOMED TO DEATH, CAPTURE   Allied Armies Thrust From All Sides On Last Resisting Forces Near Bou Ficha—Prisoners May  Total 150.000

Cap Bon Fighting At End, Few Hold Out At Bou Fiche   30,000 in Last 15-Mile-Wide Circle Doumed to Early Capture or Death; Prisoners Number About 100.000

SOON MAY BE ENDED   North African Sector Is Soon to See Peace, Allied High Command  Indicates, 1

Axis Remnants Now ‘Trapped In 15-Mile Circle   Remnants of Once Powerful German and Italian Army of Africa Doomed To Death or Capture in Few Hours

WICKARD HITS AT PACE BILL   Secretary of Agriculture says measure would prove inflationary

Welles Defends Trade With Spain   Says Oi Shipments To Neutral Country Do Not Injure U. S. Consumers

TOLL OF 23 JAP PLANES IN ONE DA)   More Intensive Operations Against Invaders In “Area Under Command Gen. MacArthur   Planes Salvaged

Allies Chalk Up 65 to 5 Air Win   23 Jap Planes Destroyed Friday in Final Day of Two-Week Period in Which 65 Planes Were Shot Down; Americans Sink Nip Sea-Plane Tender

Allies Have 65-5 Score (n Air War  Big Edge Reflect:   Big Edge Reflect: Tokyo Concern Over Action  In Pacific

Japanese Lose Heavily In Air Battles   Allies Have Margin Of 65-5; Tokyo Admits Situation ‘Dark’

UN Fliers Have ‘Good ‘Aim in Air   Victory Score of at Least 65to-5 Over Japanese; Tokyo Complains Situation Becoming Darker

U. S. Air Force  tn New Victory   YANK FLIERS HOLD BIG EDGE OVER JAPS IN PACIFIC

Japs Whipped In Air Battle   Allies Down 65 Planes And Lose Five

Allies Have 65-5 Score in Air War   Big Edge Reflects Tokyo Concern Over Action  In Pacific

Americans Have 65 to 5 Score in Pacific Air War   Tokio Has Reason For Gloomy Reports On Sky Battles

Allied Fliers Winners In Violent Air Battle . Over the Guinea Front

TOJO ONLY A MOON!   Jap Premier, However Says Dictator Job a Sideline

Ring Of Steel Is Around Mount Etna   Many German Troops Now Face Entrapment; Yank Seventh Army Foraes Ahead In Driva

Crushing maneuver has axis facing entrapment and ready for ‘knockout’   Americans smash north flank as British drive sweeps Catania field

Germans Face Destruction —  As Line Sags   U. S., British, Canadian Forces Smash Ahead; Last Big Strongholds Are Threatened; Enemy Defense Fails

Ring of Steel Drawn Around Bastion   German Troops Are Facing Entrapment in Crushing Attack

GERMAN TROOPS FACE TRAP AT VOLCANO BASE   Enemy Flank Pushed Back As Patton Rushes On: British Gain in  Catania Drive   Nazi Line Severed

Fresh Yankee, British Troops Pour Into Drive   Smashing Success by  Allies Shaping Up Into Another ‘Cap Bon’ for Axis: Troina Csptured

Surround Naz Bastion With Ring of Steel   Yankees Drive Deep Into North Sicilian Flank

Whole Northern Hank Exposed .   Yanks Smash On, Nearing East Coast

COAST TOWNS ARE CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   BRITISH - CANADIAN TROOPS GAIN AT CATANIA

Allies Pour Fresh Men  Into Drive   Americans, British Crack Mt. Etna Line, Many Nazis Face Trap  BIG PUSH IS ON

AMERICANS CUT INTO MESSINA BATTLE SECTOR   Entire Northern Wing Of German Line Reported To Have Retreated   BRITISH TRYING TO OUTFLANK CATANIA

NORTHERN FLANK 5 THROWN BACK   Yanks Roll to Within 40 Miles Of East Coast   NEW TROOPS ARRIVE   British and Canadians Shatter Nazi West Defenses On Catania Plain “

Whole Northern Flank Exposed ©   Yanks Smash On, . Nearing Eaet Canet

Entire German Worth Flank in Sicily Hurled Back in Crushing Attack By Yanks; Troina is Captured

Surging Forward To Enirap Many German Troops   Crushing American Attack Throws Back Whole Nazi Northern Flank

Tunisia Rout Looms Ready For Encore   Allies Forge Ring  Of Stee! Around Nazis at Mt. Etna

HOLES RIPPED IN DEFENSES AT 2 POINTS   Americans Hurl Back Northern Flank as Montgomery’s Men Deal Crushing Blow on West.   ENTRAPMENT FACED BY MANY GERMANS   Enemy’s Chance to Escape to Messina Strait Reduced by Smashing - Allied Successes.

Reds Plunge On Toward Stalino   Heart Of Axis Rail Network Is Seized

CONTROL RAIL LINES LEADING INTO STALINO   5.000 Enemy Killec In Crushing 15-Mile  Advance

Russians Seize Core of Donets Supply Network   City of Stalino Is Threatened With Encirclement

Stalino’s Fall Nears; Soviets Take Rail Keys   Hub Of Nazi Donets Sup. ply Network Is Captured: 2,500 Germans Die   MAKE I5 MILE GAIN   Encircling Sweep Above Konotop Frees 3,00 Civilian Prisoners

Russ Capture Rail Head in  Donets Basin   Fall of Stalino Near as Reds Crash Forward

Russians Move On Stalino In Smashing Drive   Battered Enemy Retreating Toward Dnieper and Desna

Steel City Of Stalino Is “mperilled By New Advance   Press Correspondent Reports Germans Have Been Defeated Alona Entire 600-Mile Frant

CITY’S FALL IS ~ BELIEVED NEAR; FOE-IN RETREAI   Germans Are Fleeing Toward Dnieper, Desna Rivers; Reds Gain 15 Miles

Soviets Take Rail Heart Of Supply Lines   Germans No Longer Can Launch An Offensive, Says Writer At Front With Russians

Soviets Seize Hub Of Enemy Supply System   Fall Of Important Steel City Believed Near As Three Rails Cut.   HASTEN NAZI RETREAT

Germans Said Unable to ..  Counterattack  One Red Force Near Sialino; Many Men Se Bate Bicwnne Tis:

Foe May Lose Big Steel Center Soon   Russians Also Control Three Great Rail Routes to Metropolis

ASKS PRESIDENT TO END STRIKE   War Board Fails To End U. M. W. Walkout At Newark Plant

FDR IS ASKED TO INTERVENE   WLB Seeks Presidential Action in Strike««at Celanese Plant

F.D.R. Asked ToTakeAction In Celanese  Plant Strike   Mine Worker Union Refuses To Call Off Pickets and Restore :

President Asked To Act in Strike   WLB Asks Action  In Celanese Dispute

WLB ASKS ROOSEVELT TO STEP INTO CELANESE LABOR FIGHI   President May Call Out Army or Navy To Force Resumption of Work in Newark Plant

Two ‘Appointees of Stevenson Rejected; Senate Turns. Down. Lawson-and Gen: J. Watt Page

BRITISH FORCED BACK SLIGHTLY   Spectacular Successes Made By Alkes In Air Over  Tunrsia

OURPRISE ATTACK HOLOUGES ENEMY   Clears Way For Americar Attack; Fher Downs 5  Nazi Planes Nazi Pl

SMASH 10 BIZERTE, MATEUR   Yanks Take Hill 609, British Fall Back in Central

NEW ARMY OF FARMERS NOV IN TRAINING   Denim uniformed youths take short course, food production

Reports New Special Devise That Should Add Much To Morale In Remote Outposts

ITALIAN COMMUNIQUE  Allies Massing Invasion Barges in Tunisia Ports Close to Italian Shores   First Time Axis Broadcast Has Spoken Of Landing Boats So Close to ‘Boot''

ASK DELAY ON JAP-AMERICAN PLAN IN IOWA   Resident of West Branch Ask Postponement of Action on Plan For Relocation Center.

West Branch Seeks Delay On Proposal   Use of Scattergood Ref. ugee Hostel For Relo. cation Center Opposed

West Branch Cool To Accepting Japs  Friends Committee Asked to Delay

STEEL WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE   Transfer of 16 Time-Takers Brings Walkout of 2,600 Today.   UNION CURBS ASSAILED

SON OE AO A RNC SO A aca rE  Van Nuys Lauds Federal Agencies  Asks Help Of Law Officers

Farm, Prices 196% Of Base Period   Grains Higher but Meat Animals Drop

Farmer Prices at 196 Percent  Grains Higher But Meat Animals Lower

to STORY IRLELE ua tehind the new   RATION, nuwa behind  - WASHINGTON

Japanese Claim Coal Strike Is Proof No Unity Exists In U.S. On Prosecution Of War

JAP VIEW   Nipponese Say Coal Strike Is Fourth Term  Sem npninm.

Japanese Rejoice in Miners’ Strike; See Disunity Here   Nip Papers Say Such a hing Inconceivable __ in Their Country

Japs Watching Mine Strike   Seen as Direct Challenge to  Governmental Power

japanese Are Cashing In On Coal Strike   Propaganda Machinery   Is Making Most Of Failure Of Miners To Remain On Job

U. M. W. CHIEF IS SILENT AS GOVERNMENT MOVES IN TO OPERATE STRIKE-BOUND MINES; PRESIDENT SLATES RADIO ADDRESS SUNDAY

Japs Pleased At Walkout of Coal Workers   No U. S. Unity Observes Tokyo Paper's Editorial

British Squadrons Slash German Transport by Day  Heavy Bombers Again Reported Idle; Bomb Records Given

Renews Call for Supplies in So. Pacific   MacArthur Spokesman Says Men and Material Continue Insufficient

Gen. MacArthur Insists Forces Are Inadequate   Spokesman Says Large Scale Offensive Now ls Impossible

PACIFIC AREA HEADQUARTERS NEED MORE MEN   Only Five Per Cent Of Army  In Solomons

Big Push In Pacitie Not Possible Now   MacArthur's Spokesman Reports Insufficient Men And Supplies At Hand For Drive

MacArthur Spokesman Declares Troops And Equipment Aili “In South Pacific Insufficient For All-Out Drive On laps

rea Mas But Five Per Cent Of Military esources, Getting Tenth Of Shinmente

Lack Power For Drive In Pacific   ‘Declares Full-Scale  Offensive Must Wait Till Greater Flow of Supplies Is Available

Materials Not Sufficient For Big Offensive   Spokesman Declares Statement By Navy Supply Chief Wrong

MacArthur’s Spokesman Says Men, Equ:pment for Big Drive Not Available

WAR SUPPLIES IN PACIFIC THEATER BEING INCREASED   Available Equipment Not Yet Large Enough For LargeScale Offensive Against Japanese.   QWOTHER SPOKESMAN MAKES CONTRADICTION   Washington Sources Quoted As Saying Americans Are to Hold Japs Until ‘Nazis Are Knocked Gut.

MacArthur's Spokesman Says Insufficient Men, Supplies Are On Hand For a Major Drive

PACIFIC Chit ASKS SUPPLIES   REVEAL JAP FIGHTERS ALLOTED 5 PER CENT

MacArthur’s Dearth of Men, Equipment Stressed by Aide   Says Southwest Pacific Commander Has Less  Than 5 Pct of Army

MAC ARTHUR AID IS INSUFFICIENT, SAYS SPOKESMAN   LACK SUPPLIES FOR LARGE-SCALE BLOW AGAINST JAPANESE

LACK OF MEN, MATERIALS IN PACIFIC CITED   Spokesman Says MacArthur Is Doing All He Can With Equipment ‘Available

Pacific Sector ~ Needs More Aid   MacARTHUR FORCES ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH ARMS

ONLY TRICKLE ‘OF SUPPLIES,  MARTHUR SAYS   Gets 10% of War Shipments

Area Has But Five Per Cent Of Military  Recourcec Gettinga Tenth Of Shinmente

MacArthur Can’t Supply Major Drive   Spokesman Says Southwest Pacific Getting Small Part of Materials

MacArthur Aide Says Material Is Still Lacking For Al!-Out Drive   Despite Rationing, American Food Called Better Than Pre-War

Pacifie Gets Few Supplies Army Claims   Spokesman Says Only Five Per Cent Goes to East

Only:5 Pct. of Militery-Output For Forces in South Pacific   Constant Pleas for More Men, More Guns Still Goes Unanswered, MacArthur Spokesman Says; ‘We Are Doing Best We Can”

Equipment Insufficient For Big Drive on Japs in Southwest Pacific, Gen. MacArthur’s View

INSUFFICIENT MEN AND MATERIAL BEEN SENT TO MACARTHUR  FLAT DENIAL MADE OF TRAVELING ADMIRAL’S RECENT STATEMENT

Lack Power For Big Push Against Japs   Southwest Pacific Has “Less Than 5 Per Cent of U.S. War Resources”

ROUIPMENT AND MEN LACKING IN PACIFIC,CLAIN   MacArthur's’ Spokesman Says Major Drive Against _ Japanese Impossible At Present -

U.S. SHORT OF WAR NEEDS FOR DRIVE IN PACIFIC   Spokesman for MacArthur Says Total of Equipment, Men Insufficient

Insufficient Men and Supplies For Major Pacific Drive, Spokesman Say:

MacArthur Spokesman Says Southwest Pacific Is Getting Less Than 10 Pct. ‘Of War Shipments From America

Gen. MacArthur Lacks Supplies For Major Blows   Spokesman Corrects Statements Made by Rear Admiral Young

MAC ARTHUR GETS SMALL PER CENT OF NATION'S WEAPONS   Strategic Successes are Being Won [n Spite of Little Alfotment.

REFUTES CLAIM OF NAVY CHIEF   Southwest Pacific Has Less Than Five Per Cent of Resources.   /RABAUL CLIMAX NEARS

MACARTHUR SAYS AVAILABLE MEN AND SUPPLIES INSUFFICIENT FOR LARGE SCALE OPERATIONS   Southwest Pacific Has Received Something Less Than 5 Pct. American Military Resources, Excluding Air Resources Which Are Even Smaller

‘Insufficient Men, Supplies ‘On Hand For Any Major Drive, Says MacArthur's Suolesman   Declares Southwest Pacific Has Less Than 5 P, C. Of U.S. Military Resources

Spokesman Reveals Less Than 5 Per Cent of Nation’s Military Resources Are in Area,     SITUATION SIMILAR LO THAT YEAR AGO      Disclosure Refutes Admiral} Young’s Statement Equipment for Big Offensive Is Available.

Lack Power For Large-Scale Offensive MacArthur’s Spokesman  Denies Pacific Getting Enough Supplies & Mer  a eS oe

MACARTHUR IS SHY OF NEEDS   Lacks Sufficient Troops, Supplies for Major Offensive

Te Allied Drive On Japs   Equipment, Men Available Termed Inadequate Now

American-Losses On Atiu Placed At 342 Dead   Jap Casualties Vive Times as Great; Ouly 11 Prisoners Taken:

US. Lost 342 ‘Killed on Attu; 11,135 Wounded   38 of Our Men Are Missing; Japs’ Known  Dead Totaled 1,791

BULGARIANS ASK HUNGARY'S HELP IN PEACE EFFORT   Urgent Session of Cabinet Discusses Possible Overtures

BALTIC STATES NOT MENTIONED   Attention Focused On Three Countries Overlooked By Moscow Conference.

VIEW FATE OF BALTIC STATES   Moscow Report Fails To Mention Three Tiny Nations

TOTAL: IDLE ARE 77.000   Greatest Number-of Miners Idle, Are in Alabama Where 19,600 Have Stopped Work

NEW COAL CRISIS 15 LAID ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S DESK   NUMBER OF IDLE MINERS GROWING AS STRIKE TAKEN TO WHITE HOUSE

Victory Shuts Main _ Gateway to Crimea   Half.Million Germans Are Facing Encirclement; Moscow Celebrates. Fires 994.Caun Salnte

20,000 NAZIS Dt IN V1-UAY STREET BATTLI   Victory Tightens Trap for Up to Million Germans in Crimea.

Nineteen Axis Planes Are Shot Down By Yanks   Not A Single American Plane Is «Lost In Clash Near Tunisia

ROMMEL LEAVES TANKS IN FLIGHT ON MARETH LINE   =ighth Army Reports Little Loss in Repelling Axis Thrust

Still Maintain  Advantage; 40 To 50  Tanks Destroyed   Yanks, French and British  Hold Ground Gained, But Furious Counter-Attacks Stall Farther Advances

RUSSIAN AIRMEN BOMB HELSINK\   Finnish Capital Reports Some Casualties and Considerable Damage.

RED BOMBERS. HIT HELSINKI   Second Straight Night of Raiding in Finland

CLAIM 8TH ARMY NOW IN TUNISIA   Neutral Reports Indicate Montgomery Prevaring To Outflank Mareth Line

MIARETH LINE TO BE CENTER OF B16 BATTLE   Gen. Sir Harold Alexander Declares Axis Defense Can Be Turned.   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CROSSES INTO TUNISIA

‘Final Africa Battle Near’ —Alexander   “All Dice Loaded in Our Favor; Mareth Line Can Be Turned”

OPTIMISM VOICED BY ALEXANDER   General Says Mareth Line Can Be Turned

‘Dice Loaded in Our Favor, Says Britisher of Coming Tunisia Battle

Time Near For Battle Of Tunisia   Gen. Alexander Of Britain Sees Warfare Merger

Montgomery Says Allies Ready for Blow in Africa   Reds 41 Miles From Key German Base; Drive     Gains Ground

HAST ENEMY NAVAL LOSSES REVEALED IN GUADALCANAL FIGHT   “our Russian Armies Close In On Kharkov Behind Artillery Barrage; British Cross Tunisia Border In Force

Rothenberger Gets Acquittal   Had Been Charged With Complicity In Death

Hitler Shakes Up Diplomats   Replaces Envoys to Japan, Spain and Sweden, Reported

Nazi Envoys Are Changed   Hitler Believed In Disfavor With Allies   Peeved With Japan

Hitler Recalls Envoys to Japan Spain and Sweden In Diplomatic Shaketip -

Hitler Recalls 3 Diplomats   Ambossadors to Japan, Spein and Sweden Are Ordered to Return

Hitler Envoys To apan, Spain A  Sweden Recalled   ‘Shake - Up Indicates ‘Hitler Angered At Ally And Neutral  Nations

HITLER JUGGLES FOREIGN STAFF   His Ambassadors to Japan And Spain Replaced, Called Home

HITLER SHIFTS ~ HIS DIPLOMATS   Ambassadors to Three Nations Are Replaced

Ambassadors To Tokyo And Madrid Called   Motives of Sweeping Changes In German Foreign Relations Is unclear

HITLER SHAKES UP EMBASSIES   Berlin Dissatisfied With Tokyo; Puts Pinch On Sweden and Spain

Hitler Calls Home Diplomats; Tokio Post Bolstered   Envoys To Spain, Japan Sweden Get Orders Ir Sweeping Shakaup

DIPLOMATIC SHAKE-UP IN NAZI REALM   Hitler Reported Recalling Number of Ambassadors  and Making Other Changes

HITLER CHANGES MANY DIPLOMATS. RECALLS OTHERS   Ministers To Spain, Japan Sweeden, Enrout Mars:

Hitler Shakes Up Diplomatic Representation   Japanese, Spanish And Swedish Envoys Are Called Home

Hitler Makes Big Shake-Up In Diplomats   New Envoys Named For Spain, Japan And For Sweden   Seeks To Improve His Relations With Japan   Stahmer, Who Aided In Jap-German Pact New Jap Ambassador

TOKIO, BERLIN THES BELIEVED TO BE WEAKER   Nipponese Reported to Be Less Eager to Co-Ordinate Stratecy

Hitler Replaces Envoys to Japan, Spain, Sweden in Major Shakeup.   Apparenily Seeks to Get More Help From Nips

NAZI DIPLOMATS ARE SHAKEN UP   Hitler Replaces Representa tives To Japan. Spain And Sweden

Sweeping Nazi Diplomatic - Changes Reported; Envoys To Spain, Japan Recalled

Hitler Calls Home Jap, Spain Envoys   Minister to Sweden To Return; Nazis Displeased With Japs

Nazi Envoys Called Home In Shakeur   ‘Hitler Makes. Sweeping .. Changes in. Diplomatic Coros Abroad   NEW AMBASSADORS : TO JAPAN SPAIN   May Seek Closer Ties or Increase Pressure; New Envoy to Sweden

Hitler Seeks To Strengthen Foreign Ties   Recalls Ambassadors To Japan, Spain, Sweden As Nations Drift From Axis,

AU OUlAN AIRMEN STALK AIR FOES   Red Fhers Pick On Failing Luftwaffe Instead OF - Nazi Plants

SOVIETS OPEN AIR WAR ON LUFTWAFFE   Destroy 300 German Planes In Three Days

George E. Deatherage, Alleged Leader Of White Camelias, Put in Custody

BAN UPON PLEASUR DRIVING NO JOKE   East Faces Severe Penalties For Vilolations

OFFICIALS — READY TO ENFORCE BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING   Cars Will Probably Not Be . Stopped On Highway— Amusement Places To Be Checked   BAN-LIKELY-TO Last: FOR SEVERAL MONTIS

UNRRA FUNDS FOR REFUGEES AN ISSUE   Russia To Allow Entry Of Observers

REPATRIATION IDEA STUDIED   Compromise Is Expected On Use Of UNRRA Funds

AXIS FORCE 1S HOLDING APPROACH   Sfax Advance Held Up; Ouseltia’s  Gain Seen

GLOBAL RELIEF PLANS OUTLINED   Agreement Is Sought For Rehabilitation Of All War Victims

Hull Projects New Scheme of  Global Reliet   Allies Invited to White House Meeting To Sign Agreement

Relief Scheme {s Ready for All Allies to Study   Hull Asks Delegates To White House Meet for Completion

Post-War Aid To Be Planned By 42 Nation:   Hull Sets First Meeting For Early Nov ember  Dec, See” ise,

Allied Nations Invited to White House Conference   Revise Plan for Global Relief of War’s Victims

Global Relief Plan Is Offered   State Department Invites Conference

WAR RELIEF PLAN IS AGREED UPON BY 42 COUNTRIES   Hull Invites Them to Send  Representatives to Wash ington to Sign Document.   SCHEME, DRAWN LAST JUNE, SINCE REVISED   Calls for Selection of Director General to Operate in All Parts of World.

Revised Global Relief Scheme Offered by U.S.   Council of All Nations to Control ‘Big Four’ Committee

AMERICAN PURSUIT OF FOE DESCRIBED   EYEWISNESS TELLS HOW HITLER’S TROOPS FELL BACK IN TUNISIA.

GREEK PORT OF SALONIKA HIT BY U.S. FLIERS      Force Operating From Bases. Somewhere At Extreme End Mediterranean Carry Out Assault   POSSIBLE INVASION POINT LEFT AFLAME   Meanwhile, Allied Airmen  “Blast Sardinia ‘and Si - cilian Targets; 20 Enemy Planes Downed

ALLIES HIT SARDINIA “AND SICILY   All American Planes ® Return Safe From Greek Assault

Salonika Hit First Time By U.S. Planes   Heavy Blow Drops On Nazis At Greek Port; Sardinia And Sicily Bomoed Again

ALLIES DEFEAT SUB WOLFPACK   Sea And Air Forces Sink &£ Of 20 Nazi U-Boats

Three Japan Vessels Sunk   Convoy Attempting Tc Run Blockade Helted

Fourth Vessel Suffers Direct ‘Hits   Ground Forces Close In on Enemy at Finschhafen

Objectives In The Reich And — France Blasted By Flying Fortresses

Night Bombers Blast Hanover ~ Tn Heavy Raid   German Rail And Industrial Center Given Terrific Pummeling   U. S. BOMBERS HIT AT NANTES, FRANCE

BOMBERS BLAST NAZI U-BOAT BASE, HANOVER   Heavy Loads Are Dropped On German Rail And Industrial Center

BONG RAIDING FLIGHTS BLAST AT NAZI BASES   Flying Forts Hit Naval Docks , at Nantes After RAF } Hanover Raid.   GABLE TAKES PICTURES; '- QPERATES NOSE GUN

BOMBERS RIP HANOVER CITY   RAF Attack One of War’s Heaviest   U. S. Fortresses Blast Nantes, France

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST NAVAL INSTALLATIONS   British force one of larg: est sent out by bomber command

Yankees Destroy Another Secret Nazi Project   Berlin May Have Been Target For Tremendous Fleet Of British Bombers Last Night. Yankees Lose Four Fortresses In French Raid.

Key Point Of Rail Lined In Balkans Badly Bot tered By American Fly-*  area

U. §. Airmen Make First Raid on Sofia, Bulgarian Capital   Vital Hub of Enemy Communications in the Balkans.   ALLIES MAY ATTEMPT NEW ITALY LANDING   British Bombers Hit Key Positions on Nazi Railroad.

U. 5. STH ARMY EXTENDS HOLD BELOW NAPLES   Allied, Italian Troops Mopping Up on Sardinia, Corsica

NAZI TROOPS ARE BELIEVED. BURNING CITY   Flames Suggest Preparation for Further Retreat—5th Army Widens Hold Below Port.   CORSICA, SARDINIA BEING MOPPED UP   Allies Seize Two Dodecanese Islands — Raid Made on Venice for First Time.

Russia To Pass United States As World Leader, Predicts Scientist

EMDEN QUAKES UNDER BOMBS OF FLYING FORTS   Russia’s Red Army Storms Vital Dneiper River Defenses Of Huns   PARATROOPS JOIN FIGHT   Tokyo Reports New Yankee Bombing Attack On Kurile Islands

JAP SHIPPING BLASTED BY ALLIED PLANES   Destroyer, Transport Fired; Barges And Freighter Hit

JAP SHIPPING IN. S. W. PACIFIC IS POUNDED FROM AER   Allied Planes Fire Destroyet and Transport, Wreck © 15 Barges and Score ‘Neal “Misses on Freighter

Jap Shipping Is Hit By Bombers   Set Fire To Destroyer, Transport

Jap Shipping Attacked by Allied Planes   Enemy Warships Set Ablaze by Heavy Bombs

Jap Destroyer, Transport Hit  13 Enemy Barges Listed As Destroyed

American Red Cross To Distribute 1,000,900  Garments To _ Italians

“YU. S GIVES TO ITALIANS   Red Cross Will Distribute 1 Million Articles of Clothing

Coneress Flated Ove ews Flynn Nomination Is Approved: Fathers To Be Drafted In Year

Washington Roundup:  Congress Elafed Over Big Ne News Flynn Nomination Is Approved \Fathers To Be Drafted In Year

LABOR DRAFT BULL STUDIEL   PROPOSED MEASURE TO PUT _ALL MANPOWER UNDER WAETIME CONTROL REACHES WHITE HOUSE

 Manpower Problem Still Big One, Witi:  Sentiment Against Drafting of Fathers

Military Might Will Now Be Used Against Italy   “Invasion Of Mainland May Be Started In Short Time As First Step   FURTHER STALLING NOT TO BE ALLOWED

TEMPORIZING BY BADOGLIO TO BE ENDED BY NEW BOMB RAIN,   Week’s Respite   During “Think It Over" Period Germans Have Fortified { Northern Italy.

GEN. tlocndWeh GETS FREE HAND GUNGEANING ITALY   Roosevelt and Churchill to Hold to Unconditional Surrender Warzing.

EARLY INVASION OF MAIN- LAND HINTED AS STEP TO FORCE ITALY TO TAKE “ACTION

SEABORNE INVASION PREDICTED   Landings On Mainland Can Be Expected At Any Time, Claim

ALLIES POISED FOR MAINLAND * BLOW AT ITALY   Eisenhower Given Free Hand ¢) to Force Surrender by Invasion

POPE PIUS IS VIRTUALLY A WAR PRISONER   Unable to contact outside world since Germans occupied Rome

RED ARMIES DRIVE NAZIS WESTWARD AT TERRIFIC: PACE      Soviet Forces Now Nearing ‘Dnieper River And White  Russia 

RUSSIANS DRIVE CLOSE 10 BORDER OF WHITE RUSSIE   1,000 Villages a Day are Freed of Germans—Arms Taken in Trainloads.

TOOK MESSAGE TO GARCIA, DEAD   Col. Rowan, Spanish .War Hero. Stricken at 85 Today.

Col. A. §. Rowan, Who Carried Famed Message to Garcia, Dies in S. F.

Hero of Message To Garcia Dies   Major Andrew Rowan Succumbs in Army’s Letterman Hospital

Bearer Of Message To Garcia Dies At San Francisco; Spanish-American War Feat Important To Cause Of US

“MAJOR ROWA     DIES   Carried “Message To Garcla" In Snanksh War

Major Rowan Passes Away   Famous Carrier Of Message To Garcia Is Remembered Here

Major Rowan, Who Carried Famous Message to Garcia, Dies in Frisco

Major Andrew Rowan, Whose Daring Journey In Spanish-American War, Dies In Calif.   RISKED LIFE DURING HIS SECRET MISSION   Carried Letter to Cubar Rebel Leader to Learn Military Information of Spain

YANKS TAKE KEY TOWN ON ROAD T0 ROME   Nazis Get Bloody Nose In Repeated Counterattacks

AMERICANS DRIVE 3 MILES UP MAIN HIGHWAY 10 ROM   Clark’s Victors at Sparanise Poised For Great Plunge Against Nazi Blocking Road To Canital.   ALLIES IN WIDESPREAD BOMBINGS UPON ENEMY   Gen. Mikhailovitch’s Patriot Army Occupies Big Arez In Serbia, Axis Gets Aic From Bulgaria.

Yanks Take Key Transport Town In Push for Rome   ‘Americans Give Nati: "Bloody Nose’ in Caunter-Attacks

Advance Three Miles To Capture Town At Fork Of Main Highway To Rome; Four Nazi Attacks Beaten Off   Ry RICHARD T) MemMlit 1 AN

Germans Suffer “Bloody Nose”  In Counter Drive   Sparanise Capture Gives U. S. Control of Highway Junction

Sparanise Cantured By Allies   Key Transport Town Is Held Against Attacks

ALLIES SCORE SLIGHT GAIND IN THREE AREAS   Heavy Assault Upon German Defense Line At Massico Is Believed Imminent

TEN “ACUTELY” * NEED MEDICOS   Templeton and Colve Included. ‘on List in- Washington

PRODUCTION OF U. & ADEQUATE, 15 CLAIM   Somervell Says Troops Tc Get All Weapons Needed

Texas Divorcee Is Acquitted In Death Of Tulsa Socialite   Mrs. Ella Howard, Fort Worth, Overcome With Joy As Jury Presents Acquittal Verdict

Japs Launch Sub Drive  In Pacifie   Enemy Believed Aping Nazi “Wolf Pack” Teehniaue

Japs Begin Sub Campaign Agains Allied Shipping   Nippons Fall Back On Adolf Hitler's  ‘Favorite Weapon

JAPAN RESORTS TO SUB CAMPAIGN AS AIR WARFARE FAILS   MacArthur Reports Enemy’s New Attacks Are Of Some Force Off Australia

JAPS LAUNCH SUB CAMPAIGN IN S. PACIFIC   Air Attacks Frustrated. Turn At tention To Submarine Campaion

MRS. JOE NILES DIES AT REMSER   Funeral Services To Be Helc Saturday Morning At ‘Remsen

MRS. JOE NILLES ~ DIES AT REMSER   Funeral Services To Be Held Saturday Morning At  R PMNCe»nr

ITALY SHARBOR PALERMO AND REICH RAIDED      Heavy American Bombers Blast Sicily Target In Dayli ght Attack Without Loss   ROME SAYS DAMAGE *- IN HEART OF TOWN   Reported Casualties of 318 May Be Increased, Com-  munique Says; Ruhr Is Target

Allied Bombers Blast Sicily #   Palermo and Licata Bombed; 46 Killed, 272 Injured, Says Rome

ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB PALERMO. POINTS IN RUHR   Sicilian Harbor and Sulphur Works at Licata Pounded— Jap Port of Akyab Raided

U.S. Planes Bomb Harbor Of Palerma   Americans Make Daylight  Atiack On Port Ir Sicily Without Loss 0}  Any Planes

Heavy Yankee Bombers Blast Palermo Harbor   Daylight Attack Staged Without Less; Italians Report 318 Casualties

ALERMO. BOMBED BY ALLIES   Italian Port Hit In Daylight Ra) Thursday

U. S. Bombers Raid Sicily   Rome Admits Attack In Force at Paiermo; All Planes Return

Return Without Loss Of Plane; Italians List 46 Killed, 272 Wounded In Assault

Palermo Harbor, Factories  On Sicily Raided By Allies   Attack On Westbound Axis Motor Column Indicates Rommel Plans New Withdrawal

Harbor Of Palermo, In Sicily, ls Blasted By Heavy Americar Bombers With Daylight Attack

FIVE IMPORTANT BILLS STAND OUT IN LEGISLATURE  AWAIT PASSAGE OR   AWAIT PASSAGE OR DEFEAT AS SESSION DRAWS TO ACLOSE

REDS SMASH 2 GERMAN ATTACKS   Russians Drive Deeper Into Smolensk Belt

REDS SMASH KHARKOV BLOW   SOVIETS INCH DEEPER INTO SMOLENSK LINES

SOVIETS SMASH STRONG GERMAN ATTACKS AGAIN   Reds Inching Deeper Into Smolensk Defense Belt Despite Sodden Central Front

REDS ADVANCE, BREAK TWO AXIS COUNTER-ATTAGKS      Edge Closer to Smolensk. Kharkov Push fs Stable.

Reds Smash Two Nazi Drives On  Kharkov F ront   ~Russian Troops Inch _ “Deeper. Into Defense . Belt: In Smolensk Area

RED ARMIES SMASH TWO NAZI ATTACKS ON KHARKOV FRONT   Russians Also Inch Deeper Into Smolensk Defense Belt On Sodden Central Front

TWO STRONG NAZI ATTACKS SMASHED _BY RUSSIAN ARM)   Red Forces inch Deeper Into Smolensk Defense Belt on Central Front.

10 GERM AN ATTACKS   Both on Kharkov Front; Edge Nearer Smolensk

Soviets Push  Slowly Ahead Through Mud   German Caucasian Force ‘in Danger  Of Being Cut Of

British Report -Bridgehead on’ ~ Road to Sicily   Axis Invasion Jitters Growing Hourly As Rome, Berlin Radios Predict Blows Against Coast of Europe In Five Places.

ULTIMATUM 8 SENT 10 AXIS: FORGE   RUMOR HEARD. atuiss HAVE STARTED GROUND OPER. “ATIONS OF “SMALL”  ’ “STEPPING STONE” FORTRESS

Island Surrender Was Demanded [s Report From Italy   Ultimatum Issued To Defenders Of Pantelleria Unanswered, Declares  Rome Radio   PLANES AND SHIPS HAMMER ISLAND

American in Tokyo Prison During Raid Learns Jap Planes Used Machine Gun:   Rv MAX HILI,

Tokyo Stories Stirred Hate Against U. S.   Japs Were Caught Flat-Footed By Doolittle Attack

BOMBING OF TOKYO GAVE JAP WARLORDS PROPAGANDA CHANCE  ” MAX HILL, PRISONER OF JAPS AT TIME, TELLS OF EMOTIONAL ACTS

War Lords Whip Japs Into Frenzy  ‘Of Hatred Against All White Men

Newsweek Comes into Possession Jap Papers Printed After Tokyo Raid

54 Per Cent Of Iowa Corn Is Safe Now   Frost Can Still Damage A Large Part of Crop, Notably in South

54 PER CENT OF CORN SAFE FROM FROST   Large areas in southern lowa where practically none is safe

94% of lowa Corn Safe From Frost   Frost Predicted For Lowlands Tonight

82% of lowa Corn Safe From Frost   Condition Is 12% Better Than Normal!

BOMBARDIER DOES TRAPEZE ACT 23,000 FEET OVER GERMANY, PRIES LOOSE BOMB THAT COULD HAVE DESTROYED PLANE

Contract with  Union Flayed   Former President of Airplane Plant Explains Reasons for  Pradiction Katlures:

RECOVER BODIES       Rescuers Take Six From Waters of Colambhia Biver

VARIATIONS, HEARD ON PAY-AS-YOU-CO INCOME TAX PLAN   Committeeman Says They Now Have Twenty: Five” -, Different Recipes

Tax Proposals Swamp Congress   Too Many -Cooks May Spoil ‘‘Broth’’

Mountbatten Unites Air Combat Units  Combines American And R. A. F. Groups

HOURS 10 A. M.-4 P. M.   Mailing and Wrapping Station Will n Earlier Now

Jap Air Force Attacks Arawe, Loses 16 Planes   Launch Heaviest Air Attack Yet On Advancing Americans — U.. S. Bombers Pound Cape Gloucester Airdrome.

Japanese Lose 16 Planes In Attack On US Beachhead   Americans Advance At Arawe In New Britain

16 Jap Planes Destroyed in Arawe Raids   Slight Damage Caused By Attackers; U. S. Bombers Active

Japs Lose 26 More Planes in Biggest Attack on Yankees   100 Enemy Divebombers Stab at Americans at Arawe, New Britain

Japanese Fail » To Halt March   Lose 16 Planes Seeking ‘To Blast Americans In Arawe Area

Yanks Down 16 Jap Planes iIn Arawe Battle; Troops ‘Extend U.S. Beach Holdings

Arawe Attack Proves ( ostly lor Japanese   Americans Down Sixteen Jap Planes In Heaviest Attack On t. S. Forces

16 MORE NIPPON PLANES BAGGED IN ARAWE RAID   Air Attack, Heaviest So  Far, Does Only Slight  Damage; U.S. Positions Consolidated

Japs Lose 16 Of 108 Planes Raiding Arawe   U. S. Ground Troops Consolidate Gains Beyond Beachhead

DOWN 16 MORE JAP RAIDERS Ih ARAWE ATTASK   Sixth Army Troops Extend Positions on New Britain Island

APS LOSE 16 PLANES IN HEAVIEST. a ON: TROOPS AT ARAWE   Lightnings. and. Thunderbolts “Tangle With 100 Jap Dive Bombers   ‘SEA: --ACTION: - REPORTED

ARMY, .NAVY BACK AIM OF ~— 30,800,000 MEN   ‘Less Than Eight Per ' Cent of U.S. Total’

Army, Navy Manpower Figure Upheld   Needs Compiled  by Military Leaders of Nation

RATION STAMP EXPIRATION DATES ,   Surrender or Else - - Mussolini Now in Sicily?.

TWO SWEDISH BOATS SUNK BY NAZIS, CHARGE   Swedish Foreign Office Spokesmar Says if Reports True, Aifack ‘Ex tremely Serious’

SWEDISH BOATS REPORTED SUNK BY DESTROYERS   News Azency Says Vessels Blasted By 3 Nazi Craft

2 Swedish Ships Sunk   ‘Fishing g Boats Fired Upon at Close Range By Nazi Destroyers

Germans Sink Two Swedish Fishing Boats   12 Men Aboard Might Have Been Victims  Of Attack

Germans Sink 2 Swede Boats   Three “Axis Destroyers Attack Ships Off Tip Of Denmark In North Sea.

2 SWEDISH BOATS. SUNK BY GERMANS      Attack in the North Sea Is Reported by Swedish ~ News Agency  WERE FISHING CRAFT

TWO SWEDISH FISHING BOATS SUNK. REPORT      Noxi Submarines Blomed for Attack on Vessels   CASE IS SERIOUS, OFFICIALS STATE

Sweden Irked At Sinkings   Fishing Vessels Sunk By German Destroyers

SWEDISH BOATS REPORTED SUNK         GERMAN a SHG PRESS DISPATCH SAYS

Sweden Aroused By Sinking of Fishing Vessels   Stockholm Reports "Serious Situation’

2 Swedish » Boats Sunk By Germans    Atiacked-by 3 Destroyers From Range of 50 Yards, News Report Says   * WORST OF SERIES OF SUCH INCIDENTS   Sweden This Month Ordered Cessation of Nazi Troop Moves Across Country

SWEDISH VESSELS REPORTED SUNK BY NAZI DESTROYERS   Twelve in Crews of Two Fishing Boats May Have Lost Lives After Shelling  by Germans.

Nazis Sink Two Swedish Boats   Regarded as Serious Affair and Worst of Series of  Nazi Incidents.

Swedish Boats Sunk By Nazis   Fishing Craft Carried Flag, Insignia in International Waters

Sweden Charges Nazis Sink Two Fishing Vessels   Government Starts Swift Probe; Say Three Boats Escaped

Nazi Destroyers Attack, Sink Two Swedish Boats   Fishing Craft Blasted In North Sea, Gothenbure Dispatch Reports; Incident Threatens To Bring Sweden Into War Acainst Nazis

Nazis Are Suspected Of Firing Upon Swede Fishing Ships  Incident Is Cause Of Serious a een oe

Two Swedish Boats Sunk By Germans   Stockholm Regards Incident as ‘Extremely Serious’

Lord Mountbatten New Commander  For ; The Alties   Commando Leader Ta Lead Attacks On Japan; Salamaua Tottering

Swedish Boats Are Sunk by  German Guns   Sweden Inclines to Take Serious View of Latest Incident

Two Swedish Boats Are Sunk By Three German Vessels In the North Sea

New Incident  Hikes Tension Between Nazis  And Sweden   Two Fishing Vessels Reported Sent Down By Nazi Destroyers Off Coast of Denmark   FOREIGN OFFICE INVESTIGATES STORY

SWEDISH CRAFT SUNK   sweden Reports German Destroyers Responsible For Sinkings

‘Report Nazis Sink 2 Swede Ships in Nortl   NEWS AGENCY DECLARES ATTACK OCCURRED IN NORTH SEA WATERS

Nazis Are Suspected  Of Firing Upon —  Swede Fishing Ships Incident Is Cause  Of Serious Official Concern

Two Swedish Vessels Sunk By Germans   Stockholm Government Reards’ Incident’ as Worst in Series Since Destruction of Submarine Last Avril

2 SWEDISH EOATS SUNK BY GERMANS   NAZI DESTROYERS SAID TO HAVE OPENED POINT-BLANK FIRE ON VESSELS.

Sweden Probes 2 Ship Sinkings   German Destroyers Blamed for Attack 3 Vessels Escape

Craft Attacked While Fishing Near Denmark, Dispatch Says   Foreign Office to Regard Affairs Serious if Confirmed

TWO SWEDISH VESSELS SUNK   “Serious Incident Comes As Nazi Warships Destroy Fishing Boats

SWEDISH BOATS SUNK BY NAZIS   Neutral State Agitated Over Destruction Of 3 Fisherman's Vessels

STRENGTHENED NAZI FORCE 1S HALTED BY TITO   Germans Renew Drive In Central Bosnia; Loss Of Islands Is Criticized

Rommel Hurls New Divisions Against Slavs   Guerrilas Hold Major Positions

Rommel Pushes Yugoslav Drive   Guerrilla Head Says - Nazis Stopped Cold

Partisans Hold All Fronts As Nazis Add Sirensth   Tito Forces Crush German Attacks From Adriatic Islands; British Press Raps Aegean ‘Losses «.

Nazi drive in Balkans said stopped   British criticize loss of Aeveans

Nazis Strike al Yugoslavs  SS” Sea 0 ELI   Partisans Report Germans Stopped

Rommel {hrows Fresh Divisions Into Balkan Wai   Reinforcements Sent Into Battle With Yugoslav Army

PATTERSON SEES LONG, HARD WAR   Germans Retreat in Order. Japs Still Dominate / Pacific

ITALY APPEARS BORDERING ON COLLAPSE TODAY   Reported Ard Denied That King Emmanuel Abdicates; Toe Occupied

New Military Government Promise  Loyal Cooperation with Other Amer ican Nations—Allies Deluge Pantel leria with Bombs and Fire

HUNDRED POUND BOMBS TO AID IN BOND DRIVE   Buyers Can Place Sig. natur es-On Projec-° filea :   RAISE $800.514   17.7.Percent Of Coun: ty Quota Subseribed

HUNDRED POUND BOMBS TO AID IN BOND DRIVE  Buyers Can Place Signatures On rojeciles RAISE $800,514 17.7 Percent Of Countv Quota Sub        17.7 Percent Of County Quota Subscribed

SHORTAGE IN ~ COUNTY FUNDS   FORMER ASSISTANT TREAS. URER OF CHAMPAIGN _ COUNTY I6 CHARGED  WITH EMBEZZLEMENT

CHARGE $10,000 SHORTAGE FOUND   Former Champaign County Assistant Treasurer in Jail

EUDORA U. S: 0: CENTER IS READY   Open House for Club Room Will Be' Held ary  Afternoon   IN THE OPERA HOUSE

SECRECY SURROUNDS DEVELOPMENTS IN FIGHTING ’ ‘THAT MAY BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ENGAGE"MENTS OF THE WAR IN SOLOMONS AREA— ’ RUSSIANS SHELLING NAZI DEFENSES  -AT ROSTOV.. .  “By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

AFL Asks War Labor Board to Scrap. 15 Percent Ceiling on Wage Raises

Heavy Jap Air Loss   25 Qut of 27 Enemy Romher Casnalties OF Raid on 4th LS, AAF Lieadeuarters

JAP BOMBERS LOSE HEAVILY IN USAAF RAID   27 Bombers in Raid, of Which 1! Definitely Downed, 7 Probably 3 Damaged

YANK AND BRITISH LEADERS CONFER   Meeting Between Montgomery and Clark Held at Latter’s Headqaurters; Lasts More Than an Hour

ress GET: MORE MEAT AS COFFEE RATION IS INCREASEL   MEAT RATION FOR SPECIAL CLASSES OF WORKERS IS IN. CREASED AND COFFEE STAMP PER MONTH 8 ISSUED

EEO  MEAT RATIONS WILL BE UPPED   Certain Workmen Are To Ge Double Portion

RATION CHANGES ARE ANNOUNCED   Coffee Ration Is_ Increased; Greater Meat Ration Allowed To Some  Workers

More Meat For Miners And Loggers   OPA Grants 158 Point Daily Increase to Men - in Isolated Areas

SPIN CAUSED . ~ FATAL CRASH   “BUZZ” WAGNER, FAMOUS ACE OF. COMBATS IN PACIFIC, KILLED DURING ROU. : TINE FLIGHT

FAMOUS FLIER’S BODY IS FOUND   “Buzz” Wagner, Philippines War Hero, Crashed In Flight Over Florida

Body of U.S. Air Hero Found in the Wreckage of His Plane in Fiorida

 Body of U.S. Air Hero Found i in the: f Wreckage of His. Plane.in Florida

Detense Line ds Shattered  By 5th Army   Castellammare Taken, 8th Army Also Drives Past Captured Foggia  NAPLES RAVAGED

Fifth Army Pursues German Forces; Reign  Of Terror in Big Port.         Nazis Believed Falling Back te New Line on Volturno River; Russian Armies Register Big Gains in Twe Regions

~\: aa LG  Tle  tan en  WR ee me   BY RICHA 7D McMURRAY Associated "ress War Fdaltor

POSTAL DEPARTMENT ASKEL rr, ry_PpPT AIN   FOR RENT: WHITE HOUSE  BRBmrrszoc

Government To "Stand Against Those Whe Have Wounded Sacred Soil Of Italy'’;  Successor Is Named

King Vittorio takes command; Badoglio new prime minister   ‘We must stand against those who wounded our sacred soil’

Movels Regarded As Possible Bid By Italy for Peace   Badoglio Stern Anti-Fascist; Fall of Duce Shattering Blow To Other Partners in Axis

King Victor Emanuel Takes Command Of Italy’s Armed Forces   MARSHAL PIETRO BADOGLIO IS NAMED PREMIER IN PLACE OF FASCIST PARTY’S CHIEFTAIN; PEACE MOVE SEEN.

Army Taken From Duce By General He Ousted; Fascist Party Smashed 

Mussolini Has Been Deposed As “Dictator”   ‘King Victor Emmanuel) names Marshal Badoglio as head. of  ‘ynilitary -government,

Dramatic Event Is Shattering Blow To All Axis; Hope fs Held For Peace Moves by New Leaders

Fruit Juices To Require  Less Points   Prunes, Raisins Removed from Ration Lists

New Schedule To ¢ Become Effective In Stores Monday   Ration Requirements Are Raised On Canned Beans, Catsup And Chili Sauce; Prunes » And Raisins Will Need No Coupons

Food Point Values Rejuggled by OPA; In Effect Toda   No Overall Increase in Rations Possible at  Present, Says OPA

FRUIT JUICES. DOWN, APPLE. “SHUCE ANISED   OPA Announces Reductions an Slow-Moviny Articles. in ” Effect Monday,    VALUES JUGGLED BUT AGGREGATE THE SAME

Prunes and Raisins Are Off the Ration List Next Month; New Chart Represents Shifting of Values, but No Aggregate Change

New Point Values Announced For Dried, Processed Foods   Fruit Juices, Dried Soups Reduced; Prunes, Raisins on Unrationed Lists; Increase Points on Other Foods

Fruit Juices, Dried Soup Values Slashed To Meet Lag in Sales   Dried Fruits Taken Off Restricted List To Avert Spoilage; Points Increased On Canned Fruits, Catsup, Tomato Paste

Fruit Juice Point Values Much Reduced  * Canned Fruits, Catsuy and Beans-Are Made Tlasder in {nt

Value Of Peaches Pineapple Raised But Coupons Cut For Fruit Juices

DRIED FRUITS ARE REMOVED FROM POINT RATIONINE   Fruit Juices Can Now Be Obtained for Less Points and Value of Dried Soups Reduced Also; No Overall Increase In Rations Seen.

Food Point Values Rejuggled by OPA   Fruit Juices to Require Fewer Coupons, Prunes And Rajsins to Take None at All

NO POINTS USED ON DRIED FRUIT   Rationing Values For Processed Foods Are Revised By OPA

POINT VALUES ON SOME FOOD ARE REDUCED   Fruit Juices Lower Prunes and Raisins Need No Coupons

Fruit Juices Reduced Up to 60 Per Cent   Need More Points For Canned Beans, Catsup and Chili

New Schedule Into Effect On Monday   Prunes And Raisins Are Point Free Under New Chart

Fruit Juices Can Now Be Obtained for Less Points and Value of Dried Soups _Reduced Also; No Overall Increase In Rations Seen.

OPA Reshuffles Canned, Dried Food Point Value   Some [tems Take Fewer Stamps, Others Require More

New Rations Rule Is Due Monday   Point Values Slashed On Many Items, Some Reduced to Zero

Point Values Are Up On Many Items   Fruit’ Juices Cost Less In Stamps; Prunes And Raisins Put On Free List Under Ruling

Fruit Juices To Require Fewer Blue: Coupons as OPA Rejuggles Values

New Listings Go In Effect On Monday   Fruit Juices Are ‘Cheaper’; Prunes. Raisins Off List

Some Reductions Are Established For Canned Food   Increased Number Of Points Also Announced As Effective Monday.

OPA Rejuggles Ration Values  On Most Items   Grapefruit Juice Is  60 Percent Less: Meat Stamps Now Usable

RATION COSTS ARE CUT FOR FRUIT JUICES   Prunes, Raisins And Dehydrated Goods Are _ Taken From List     FEW ARE BOOSTED     OPA Officials Say No Overall Increase In  Rations Possible

More Points Needed for Canned Beons, Catsup, Applesauce, Fruit Cocktail, Pineapple; Apple Juice Unrestricted

Fewer Coupon: Needed For Many Foods  Points Lowered On All Juices;   Points Lowered On All Juices;  Raisins Unrationed

Fruit Juices Will Require Fewer Points Starting Monday; Prunes and Raisins Take None At All

TEXANS APPROACH HALF-WAY MARK IN THIRD WAR LOAN  VARIOUS TEXAS COUNTIE:! MAKE GOOD REPORTS; TRAVIS GOES OVER

Knox: road to victory is charted   More power now in Pacific area

Knox Says Japs Face New Blows   Stern Notice Goes -To Embattled Axuic

MORE U. 8, SHIPS AND PLANES MOVE TOWARD FAR EAST   Knox Says Major Effort Is Under Way in Pacific That Will Increase as Time Goes On.   ALLIED VICTORY ROAD MAPPED ‘ALL THE WAY’   Warns Hard Fighting Is Ahead—Declares Axis Is Meeting With Little Success in Atlantic.

KNOX DECLARES VICTORY WILL GO ALL WAY   Plans Mapped Through To End, Extra Dose For Japan, Tells Press Meeting   Many Casualties Ahead

Catania, Captured Today By British, 2,600 Years Old; On Slopes of Volcano

Nelson Deplores Fighting over Gas and Rubber   Takes Responsibility fo Delaying 100-Octane Gasoline Program

Nelson Placed Plane Gasoline  Below Rubber   Controversial Order I: His Responsibility, He + Tells Committee

NELSON TAKES BLAME FOR DELAY ON AVIATION GAS   Declares He Overrode War Department to Complete Projects for Rubber Production.   JEFFERS-PATTERSON DISPUTE DEPLORED   Asserts Fuel for Planes Could Not Be Increased Today if Tire Program Were Halted.

NELSON BACKED BUNA PROGRAM   Admits Overriding War Department to Get More Rubber

NELSON DEPLORES GAS-RUBBER FIGHT   WPB Chief Takes Responsibility for Overriding War Dep‘t —

STREET CAR, BUS EMPLOYES STRIKE IN’ LOS. ANGELES   Walkout.. Paralyzes War “Production As” Workers Are Stranded

 Transportation Workers Strike   Los Angeles Workers Carried Today in Airplane Assembly  Trucks and Taxicabs

Drivers Strike  In Los Angeles   Trucks Take Workers To Airplane Plants

Los Angeles Strike Paralyzes One Of Two Transportation Lines   Service for Million War Workers Curtailed For 24 Hours

TRANSPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES IS ALL TIED UP   Taxicchs and Assembly Trucks Take Place of Street Cars and Motor  Busses,

Los Angeles Car Workers Strike   Cabs, Trucks Haul War Plant Employes

Last Stages of War Seen by Hoover In Plea To Feed Europe's Starving

Last Winter Of WarHope (Of Hoover   FORMER PRESIDENT TELLS FOREIGN RELATIONS SUB-COMSITTTEE IT IS TIME TO SEND FOOD ACROSS.

FOOD AS WEAPON — SEEN BY HOOVER   Former President Says It Wil Save Troops’ Lives

"This Is Probably Last Winter of War In Europe," Says Ex-President Hoover

War In Its Last Year Says Hoover   Urges Food Shipping To Europeans

HOOVER PREDICTS LAST WINTER OF FIGHTING EUROPE  FORMER PRESIDENT TESTIFIED BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE

MUST FEED EUROPE   Hoover Says War Is in Lat. ter Stages, Urges Aid Preparations

Hoover Urges Europe Be Shipped Food, Savs War There Is in Latter Stages

Hoover Asserts Europe War in ‘Latter Stages,’ Urges Food Shipments

Former President Ur ges Shipping of Food Now To Continent’s Hunery

HOOVER SEES END OF WAR   EX-CHIEF SAYS “THIS IS LAST WINTER BATTLE”

Hoover Sees War Climax  Last Winter of Fighting In Europe, Probable, ——- Save Former President

War In Latt fer . Stages-- Hoover   Ex-President Asks Shipment Of Food

Commandos - Alarm Nazis   : ‘Unsuccessful’. Raid On Sark Reported.

Commandos Raid  Channel Island   Americans Practice With Live Ammunition

Nazis Report Invasion of Europe Near   Yanks Rehearse With Live Bullets for ‘Big Show’

Nazis Baeport Commandos  Raid Isle .   Sark Scene of Fighting —Yanks Practice Invasion

Commandos Set Stage F or favevien      Yank Troops Hold  Rehearsals for Attack on Europe

PPPPPPPPPPPPPP PPP ADDL  Plane Fires 4 Bullets After Air Raid Drill

Ally Wave Sweeps to Suburbs   Rommel Cutoff Try is Seen in Move to Bypass City

Advance Allied Units Crack Main Defenses, Take Vital Airport; Last Big Axis Base In Libya Burning

Fall of Capital of Libya Is Imminent, Observers Believe   Last Stronghold of Il  2 Duce’s African Hold-_

Gen Montgomery Outwits Nazi Retreaters By Sending Out Column To Cut Off Retreat into Tunisia   FRENCH HALT ONE COLUDIN OF HUN ARMY

BRITISH ARMY \. ~ FIGHTING THROUGH TRIPOLI SUBURBS   Battling Against Crumbling Opposition, London Re ports State.   INTO LIBYAN CAPITAL   Axis Left Only Rear Guard Troops to Slow-Pursuit of Alliese:

Rommel Leaves Rear Guard to Delay Pursuit; Enters Tunisia   Fall of Duce’s Last Empire Stronghold Imminent   Report City in Flames   Heavy Fighting Said to Be in Progress on Western Front

Seek to Cut off  Enemy’s Retreat   American Airmen Continue to  Strike at Fleeing Afrika Korps

STH ARM¥ IN POSSESSION OF AIRPORT   Main Defenses Of Bix ‘Axis Base Falls To Invaders

Rommel Columns Go Into Tunisia   Defenses Of Italy’s Last Holding In North Africa Crumble Before Artillery Blasts Of Allies; City Being By-Passed As Well As Attacked

Mighty Eighth Army Entering Outskirts Of: Tripoli Under Heavy: Artillery Barrage. .":

To impede Retreat To Tunisia   Report a British Force to By-pass Tripoli and Cut  Off Germans

ADVANCE UNITS Ut ATTAGKERG ENTER SUBURBS   Column Is Sent Around City In Effort To Intercept — Fleeing Axis Force

London Observers Believe Column Sent To South fo. Cut Off Enemy Retreat, Planes. Harass Fleeing Axis Forces

BRITISH ARMY 15 BATTLING THROUGH TRIPOLI'S SUBURBS  OTHER BRITISH SPEARHEADS BYPASSING CITY IN LFFORT CUT RETREA”

British Army At Suburbs; 1 Force By-Passing City   Axis Forces Leaye Only Rearguard To Slow Pursuit; Port Is In Flames

PARTS OF CITY AFIRE: TUNISIA FICHTINGHEAVY   British Field Guns in Dominant Position Over Axis at Tripoli

Fall of Tripoli. . To Montgomery Is Imminent   Dispatches Say City Now Is In Flames -

Unit Strikes To Cut Route Into Tunisia   Fall Of City Is Regarded As Imminent; Fleeing Axis Commander Leaves Only Rear Guard Troops To Cover Retreat Westward To Tunis And Bizerte

Rommel’s Column Flees Into Tunisia   British Eighth Army Reported Already in Suburbs of Tripoli   BATTLE IS HEAVIER   Axis Forces in North Attempt to Keep Road Open for Retreat _

Part of Eighth Army Reaches Tripoli Gates   Much of City Appears In Flames and Many Residents Are Being Moved, Reported

Rommel’s Column Flees Into Tunisia   Bnitish Eighth Army’ Re. ‘ported Already in Suburbs of Tripoli   Axis Forces i in North At‘tempt to Keep Road Open for Retreat 

Rommel Leaves Only Rear Guards To Slow Down Pursuit by Allies   Strike for Airdrome

‘Main Defenses Of Axis Base Seized’   Advanced Units Of Montgomery Forces Declared Inside Flaming City Which Rommel’s Men Evacuate

AXIS TROOPS ARE MOVING INTO TUNISIA      Planes Maul Units 23 Miles Inside Border in Attempt to Head Then Off—Only Rear Guards Left in City. .

Vital Airport Seized by Montgomery—Axis Shipping Fleeino Harbor Assailed

CASTEL BENITO, NECDED AIRPORT, BELIEVED TAKEN   Planes Operating From Point Will Be Able to Pound Tripoli and Harbor Now RBaodiy Smachad      20 ENEMY VESSELS SUNK IN THREE DAYS   RAF Bombs German War Plants With Four Bombers Lost and Nazi Planes Visit English Points.

‘Queen City of Italy’s Last Empire in Africa is Near Capture; Germans Admit Situation is Grave   City’s Fall Will Mark End of Sensational 1,400-mile Advance of Eighth Army; Confidence in Russia Rampant.

BRITTon FIGHT INTO SUBURBS   Other Spearheads of Eighth  Army Bypass Capital Into Tunisia.   FRENCH BEAT OFF-NAZIS

Nazi U-Base Is Bombed Again   Lorient Attacked By British Planes

LORIENT IS TARGET FOR HEAVY RAID   R. A. F. Showers Block Busters On Axis U-Boat Base

‘LORIENT SUB BASE ON FRENCH COAST 'HEAVILY . BOMBED   Follows Flyin zg Fortres: ‘Attack On'St. Nazaire —6 U.S, Bombers . Missing

FREIGHTERS ARE CONVERTED INTO PLANE GARRIERS   “Woolworth” Craft Latest Addition to Convoy Fleet Used by the Allies.

Casablanca Meet Reports May  Be Incomplete  Broad Hints of Big Events to Come From Capital

Hints Indicate Story of Meat Incamniete   New Chapters Will Be Released as Events Unfold

Complete Story Of Conferences Yet To Unfold  _ gees SpE ere gmat ("Lp abate ( la.   Subsequent Chapters Un_doubtedly Will Be Writ ten As Events Occur

New Chapters To Untold On Conference  White House Hints Story of Meefing

PARLEY SEEN AS PRELUDE TO GREAT EVENT!   Both Washington, London Hint Big Devel opments Soon

Hints Indicate Story of  Meet Incomplete New Chapters Will Be Released  Pe iy one . Fata Se,

SPECULATION IS RIFE FOLLOWING AFRICAN PARLEY   White House Gives Broad  Hint Of Momentous Event In The Melt...   CONFERENCE BALKS AXIS PEACE MOVES

Momentous Events In Making Will Give Full Picture; Huli To Comment On Parleys Soon  ® “Peace Feeler’ Plans Of Axis Powers Hit By Demands For ‘Unconditional Surrender’

White House Hints Story — Of Casablanea  Tneomplete   Momentous Events May Be in Making To Complete Picture, Serretarvy Farly Savs   SERUULALIVUIN WIPE IN WASHINGTON   Sec. Hull Indicates Some Developments May Come Quickly

New Chapters To Unfold On Conference   White. House. Hints: Story of Meeting -s Still Incomplete

Idle Army Picks Flowers   BRITISH LOLL IN DESERT SAND, WAITING FOR WORD TO ATTACK

Japanese Building Rafts of Bamboo   Shipping Losses Result in Action

PROFIT. SELLING CHECKS STOCKS   Few Manage to Hol Agaimst Downtread; Minus ” Colas Well Popalated

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CLOSING IN ON TRIPOLI   Axis Forces in Tunisia Seek to Aid Rom mel’s Retreat

German Tanks Move Forward in Tunisia to Protect Marshal’s Line of Retreat From Libya.   BRITISH TROOPS PRESS CLOSER TO TRIPOLI   Now 30 Miles From Outskirts of City —Axis Given Little Time to Sow Minefrelds.

Nazis Ad To Stave Cut By British 8th   Seek fo Save Lines of Communications; Rommel! Near Tripoli

Reds Threatening Vast Envelopment Of Rostov Region   Japanese Cruiser And Merchant Vessel Reported Bombed Off Ambon In Southwest Pacific; Two Others Badly Damaged

Gigantic Vise Begins Making Itself Felt  To Germans at Rostoy   Fighting French Under Giraud Forget Political Disputes to Help Allies in Libyan Push; 700,000 Enemy Troops Wived Out. Says Moscaw

Stave Cut By Brifish 8th —   Seek fo Save Lines of Communications; . Rommel Near Tripoli

BELIEVE ROMMEL SLATED AS NAZI HIGH COMMANDER   Refugee Leaders Predict His Promotion to Supreme Post as Move to Foresitall Anti-Hitler Plan.   HINT VON RUNDSTEDT WILL BE REPLACED   Western Field Marshal Reported to Have Had Part in Peace Bid With Offer to Depose Der Fuehrer.

Rommel May Get Supreme Command Over Nazi Army to Forestall Plot for Peace

London Editors Demand End of French Quarrel   Beaverbrook’s Newspaper - Takes Lead in New - Move for Unity

New President of ANPA Urges Unit To Support Country's Free Press

Big-3 Plan:   Secretary Of State Says Plans Will Result In Full Strength Of Allies.

Richard Lyons Says He Will Be Candidate For U. S. Senate Next Year

36 HOLIDAY DEATHS   Total Is Far Bélow th the Average of ‘Other Years

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL SHOWS SHARP OROP   136 Deaths Less Than Half . Of Last Year’s Total

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL HITS 136   Less Than Half of Total Reported Last Year

ADVANCE OF 22 MILES BEYOND BELGOROD MADE   Red Army Storms Into Chuguyev, Southeast Of Ukranian City;  Nazis Confused   Volchansk Occupied

REDS CONTINUE SWIFT ADVANCES UPON MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE   Mobile Units Take Number of Cities In Sweeping Ukraine Offensive; Land Troops Along Black Sea

GEN. EISENHOWER PLEDGES VICTORY   Allie d Commander In Africa  Says He'll “Destroy”  Enemy Forces

Eisenhower Promises Destruction   Speculate on Hour for Big Push in Tunisia

SENATE APPROVED RESOLUTION INVITE NANI TO SPEAK   STATE’S JUDICIAL SYSTEM TO OPERATE ON OVER HALF MILLION LESS

Plenty Of Men For — Women Says U.S. Nurse      By SECOND LIEUTENANT ALICE. RADCLIFFE

New Guinea Nurses Get Bucket Bath   'No-Woman's' Land Girls Looking Forward to U. S. Beauty Shops

YANK POSITIONS . IN PACIFIC AREA GROW STRONGE   Knox Says Nation Is Ahead of Schedule In Campaign to Beat Japs, Steady Advances Made.   AMERICANS HAVE DIFFICULTIES FINDING FOE   Secretary of Navy Reads Message of 36-Hour Battle In Which 80 Jap Planes Are Beaten Off.

POSITIONS STRONGER, SAYS KNOX   ‘Ahead Of Schedule In Southwest Pacific, Nayy Chief Asserts

American Forces Ahead of Schedule in Southwest Pacific, Asserts Knox

JAPANESE NAVY ‘GETS WEAKER KNOX DECLARES   American Positions Grow Stronger, Secretary Says, as Situation of Year Ago Is Reversed

High Court Upholds  Employer Decision  May Give His Views On Union Balloting

Free Speech by Employer Legal If Not Coercive   Supreme Court Concurs In Appeal From NLRB Charae

COURT UPHOLDS RIGHT TO ADDRESS EMPLOYES   High Tribunal Rules That Employer May Legalty Give Workers His Views On Unionism

NLRB Loses ‘Free Speech’ Appeal Move   Supreme Court Refuses to Consider Plea

Soviets  Strike at Poland   Red Spearhead At Baranevka, 30 Miles from Border

SOVIETS THIRTY MILES BEYOND ZHITMOIR NOW    Ukranian Army Within Striking  Distance of Former Polish  Border as Nazis Retreat.

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins or Lutest World News Today.      Torninent.

Set Sail  For Britain   14 Americans Among Troops. ‘Exchanged for German Invalids .

THOUSANDS OF WAR INVALIDS SAILEOR HOME   Exchange of 5,000 British Canadian and Australian - Soldiers, and Fourteen  Americans Completed

PROBE ORDERED IN FARNSWORTH DEATH   Bette Davis’- Husband Falls Dead on Sidewalk

BETTE DAVIS’ HUSBAND DIES   Coroner to Probe Odd  Manner of Farns worth Death

MYSTERY CLOAKS HOLLYWOOD DEATH   ~ AUTOPSY ORDERED AS HUSBAND OF ACTRESS DIES FROM INJURIES

DRDER AUTOPSY IN MAN'S DEATH   Husband of Bette Davis Dies from Injuries Following Puzzling Fall on Sidewalk

URDER AUTOPSY IN FLIER'S DEATH   Arthur Farnsworth’s Death Puzzie To Officers :

President Orders Miners to Accept  WLB’s Decision   Declares Letdown in Coal Production Will Not Be Tolerated—Withholds ‘Decisive Action’ After UMW Policy Group Meeting

K.D.R. Issues Ultimatum To Striking Coal Miners  Save He Will Tako    WALKOUTS SPREAD TO PENNSYLVANIA

MINERS ADVISED TO ACCEPT WLE WAGE PROPOSAL   President Says Letdown Of Coal Production Will Not Be Tolerated   DECISIVE ACTION. IS HINTED BY EXECUTIVE

DR Warts of Actie i} 1 te ) ay “t  + EO me me ne a ee eee? Se!   Strikes Triclec!

DEMANDS UNION ACCEPT BOARD'S WAGE DECISION   If It Rejects Ruling, President Says, Steps Will Be Taken to End Shutdown.   NATION SHORT OF FUEL FOR ITS WAR NEEDS   Executive Declares Production Letdown Cannot Be Tolerated — Suppties of Steel Milis Low.

FDR Asserts Coal Mining Will Not Stop   ‘Lewis and Associates Must Decide Monday Whether to Strike

WHITE HOUSE TO SEE THAT MINES REOPEN   PRESIDENT AWAITS ACTION OF UNION NEXT MONDAY

SAYS DECISION OF BOARD 15 FINAL   Number of Striking Minerg Passes 80,000 Mark   FDR WRITES WLB   Will Withhold Action Until Meeting of UMW Policy Committee Monday _

Will Take Decisive Action if Board’s Offer Is Rejected   Decision On Steps To Be Taken Awaits Result Of UMW Policy Meeting Monday; 80,000 Lay Down Tools

Declares Nation Will Not Tolerate Letdown on Production;  Move Waits Monday UMW Meet

‘Recisive Action 10 See That Coal Is Mined,” Promised; Number of Men on: Strike Over: 80,000 -

Notice Served Mine Strikers   Let-Down Will Not Be Tolerated—FDR

Says He Will Take Action To Gel Coal Mined   Appeals To Men To ignore Chiefs

NAPLES SEEMS TO BE DESERTED CITY FROM SKYWAY VIEW   Italy’s Big Seaport. Appears In Dead State Like Nearby Pompe!l

MANY RETURNED SERVICEMEN ARE AIDED BY STATES   700.000 Already Released Anc Are Returning To Civilian Life

—By Car! Cranmer   Islands Provide Allies With Advance Air Bases—  Sicily Is In For An Aerial Lambasting

Fire, Blasts Raze Whole City Block   3 Killed, 6 Missing In Dawson Creek, B. C

LAMPEDUSA ATEOT PRIZE Ut AIR FORGES   Isolated Little Island Gives Up After 24-Hour Blasting; Russian Front Stirring

An Allied Invasion Warning to Italians  Wess BE? ARTES We wT FMKns

PPOCEPEPEPIGPOEP OPO ADD ES Bataan Poster Model Held as Draft Dodger

More Food ~ For Hungry Parley Goal   Press Still Is Forbidden To Attend All But Two  SSessions

How to Squeeze Living For Two Billion Peopie is  Problem  CLOTHING ALSO ISSUE

FOOD PLANS UP AT CONFERENCE   U. S. Delegates Want To Ex_ pand Domestic Ag Production

FOOD CONFERENCE OF UNITED NATIONS OPENS ON TUESDAY   HOW TO SQUEESE LIVING FOR TWO BILLIONS OUT FOUR BILLION ACRES

Food Parley Aims High   Seek Ways To Insure Peoples Of The World Freedom From Want

United Nations Food Parley To  Open Tomorrov   Decent Living For All Peoples Of World Basic  Postwar Problem.

MORE RAIN EXPECTED   Continuation of Abnormally Coo! Weather Forecast. ©

19 RESCUED it CORAL SEA: 9 DAYS ADRIFT   Brig. Gen. Twining, Col. Jamison And 13 Others Suffer Severe Sunburn In Expoe1re.   At Hospital

Rescue of 15 Is Disclosed   Combat Mission Members Spent 6 Nights Adrift Qn Life Rafts

[0 ADRIFT FIVE DAYS ARE SAVED   PLANE FINDS AMERICAN GENERAL AND 14 OTHERS IN CORAL SEA.

JAPS SUFFER MORE LOSSES IN S, PACIFIC   Lose 63 To 79 Planes, Many Small Vessels

(Jap Position in South Pacific Critical Says Sec y. Knox   Enemy Continually Suffering Heavy Losses at Rabaul

URSULA PARROTT “INDICTED BY JURY   -Noveli Counts on Army . Charae

INDICTED FOR DESERTION AID   Novelist Ursula Parrot Charged With Helping Soldier Escape

Issue Call For State Soldiers   Police Sergeant Among  Those Slain in Negro Dis. trict—Over 300 Arrested

SIX NEGROES KILLED; MANY MORE INJUREL   More Than 300 Arrested on Vari. ous Charges in Outbreak of Violence at Motor City

THREE DEAD IN RACE RIOTS IN DETROIT ARE!   3,500 Policemen Called Out; 150 Injured, 250 Arrested .

DETRON lUTa CLAIM 9 LWVEa; HUNDREDS HURT   Police and Guardsmen Mobilize In Racial Outbreak: 326 Arrested

White Doctor, 2 Policemen pen In Serious Condition; Riots Start At Belle Isle Park And Spread To City

Five Killed In Detroit Race Riots   At Least 150 Are Injured; 3500 Police Mobilized

g\ine Are Killed Many Hurt In Race Rioting  Home Guard Out With Police To Quiet Negroes

3,500 Called To Quell Disturbances _  Nine Die In Detroit Race Riots

FIVE PERSONS ARE KILLED IN DETROIT RIOTS   Guards, State .Police. Auxiliary Police On Emergency Duty

150 Hurt; 3500 Police Called Out.   SEVERAL POLICEMEN AMONC THOSE INJURED; TROUBLE > COVERS A TWO-MILE AREA

Allied Sea and Air Forces ‘Rip Jap Shipping and Air Bases as Prelude to Attack

Invasion Route To Rabaul s Hit By Air, Sea   Swift Followup To Crippling New Britain Blow Hints Drive Soon   PT BOATS ARE ACTIVE   Cape Gloucester Airdrome Suffers Brunt Of Damage From Bombers

Allies Strike New Blows In South Pacific   Enemy _ Shipping And Air Bases Pounded; Jap Losses Severe

Alb ¢ fanes Pr a Jap Bases . New Britain   Intensive Attacks May Presage Land Assault On Island

SEA, AIR BASES ON ROUTE TO RABAUL STRUCK BY ALLIES   Attacks Suggest An Early Drive Into Island From Newly-Won Bases

INVASION ROUTE ‘TO RABAUL UNDER DEADLY ATTACKS   Both Shores of New Guinea Raided By Planes and P-T Boats.

YANK BLOW AT RABAUL   Allied Air and Sea Forces Attack Jap Shipping —

U.S, AIR, SEA BLOWS SOFTEN JAP DEFENSES   Swift Follow Up To Crippling Air Blow Struck At Rabaul

ALLIES STRIKE ALONG RABAUL INVASION PATE   Attack Jap Shipping And Air Bases; Early Drive Hinted

Allies Batier Jap Shipping And Base In New Britain  Follow-Up Blows ruc Crippled Rabaul

Farm Program Is Revised, Calling for More Corn, Barley Acreages   Grains Will Be Increased to Provide Feed

GRAIN CROPS 18 BE FAR GREATER   Wickard Finds Feed Neces sary For Increased Produc* tion of Meat and Poultry,

New Promise For Motorists   Once Again Ickes Gives Promise Of Relief At Some Future Time   CHANGE MAY BE MADE IN SEPTEMBER

East To Benefit From Midwest Gasoline Cut   Midwest Reduction of 4 to 3 Gallons Announced

: * MIDWEST COUPON \ LUE CUT FROM FOUR TO THREE GALLONS UNDER EQUALIZATION SYSTEM

VALUE OF GAS COUPONS CUT T0 3 GALLONS   Officially Announced Program Effective at Midnight Sunday

ALLIES AGAIN RAID PALERMO   Minor Air Activity Report: ed a Lail Settles an Mediterranean Area

SUBMARINE WAR MENACE TO ALLIES   Invasion Plans Depend . ecking Of Submarine War

No Draft Call Reduction Held. Probable Until February with  Manpower Situation: Improved

U.S. DRAFT SLASH UNSEEN   WMC SEES NO NEED FOR NATIONAL SERVICE LAW

NO REDUCTION IN DRAFT CALL SEEN W. M: C. DECLARES   No Let-Up In Sight At Least Before Last of February— No Need For National Service Legislation

REPORT IS ISSUED “ON WAR WORKERS   WMC Believes There Will Be No Reductions In Force  For Three Months.

By Joseph — ~ Austander   No Cut Soon In Draft Call   WMC Predicts Heavy Calls On Through February

Armed Forees Aid Study Of New Taxes   Warn of Possible Production Loss  Due to High Levies

y,and: Navy Fear Tax Hike Will Cut Supplies      ‘Concerned: Lest: High: Imposts Destroy ‘Incentive for Fullest:Production

ARMY, NAVY TO STUDY TAXES   Authorities Want Work Incentive Preserved  In War Plants

J ap Resistance In Lae Sector Sull Not Heavy   Depleting Air Strength In Other Areas To Brace  Forces in New Guinea

Japs Put Up Ne Heavy Fighting  Against Allies   Enemy Depleting Plane Strength on Other Fronts to Aid Men in Lae Sector

JAPS FIGHTING FEEBLY AT LAE   Delete Air Strength in Other Regions to Bolster New Guinea Forces

Japanese Aerial Power Dwindles As Allies Gain   Weakness Revealed By Gen. MacArthur

HEAVY JAP PLANE “LOSSES REPORTED   Defenders of Lae Desper. ately in Need of Air Support

Japs Depleting Plane Strength   Other Fronts Are Robbed To Aid Lae

Farm Labor Bill Pendina   Senator Bankhead Has Offered New Measure

NEW MEASURES TO PLEASE ADMINISTRATION WOULD ONLY DEFER FARM LABORER WHO IS RAISING ESSENTIAL CROPS.

Black Market  Drive Pushed   Government Campaign in State to Be Stepped up

1) SHIPS AND 1x000 TROOPS ARE SCUTTLED   Allied Planes Hit Nipponese Convoy hound For New Guinea Coast.

Victory Entirely Due to Bombings  Attacks Kept Up Until Vessels Wined Out

ALLIES ERASE 22 JAP SHIPS 55 JAPPLANES   Ten Warships, 12 Transports New Guinea-Bound Convoy, Sunk Or Sinking In Rismarck Sea.   15000 Soldiers Drown

CHILDREN DIE IN AUTO TRUNK   Subboceted When Garage Catches Fire

HITLER'S SOUTH NUoulA FORGES IN GREAT PERIL   Nazi Corridor Of Escape From Caucasus Closing As Russians Advance

NAZIS DIG IN, OBSTRUCTING ROAD T0 ROMI   Fifth Army Smashes  Fiercest German Counter Attacks

German Forces Dig Into New Ridge Positions   Nazis Launch Hard Counterattack; 8th in Slight Advance

Kesselring’s Forces, Forced To Retreat   After Counterattack, Hold Rome Line’

FIERGE GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED BY FIFTH ARMY   Tank-Led Thrust Sharpest Since Nazi Attempt to Drive Allies Into Sea at Salerno.   ENEMY FORCES DIG IN ON NEW LINE   Kesselring’s Forces Now Firmly Entrenched to Contest Clark’s Advance on Rome.

Hitlerites Dig In  OnMountainRidec   Strong Fositions Biock Allies Wav tan Rame

Germans Dig In on New Line Blocking Advance Toward Rome   Fifth Army Repulses Counterattacks; Nazis Indicate Intention to Defend: Positions

HUNS SOLIDLY BLOCK ROAD T0 BTERNAL CITY   Entrenched in New Positions on Massico Ridge  Mount Matese Despite   Sethacke   COUNTER-ATTACKS COST NAZI DEARLY   American Artillery Knocks Out Number of Enemy Tanks: British Foil + . Counter-Blow

Fifth Army Hurls Back Counterattack But Germans Dig Ir For New Positions

Sth Army Beats Counter Blow   Germans, However, Dig in New Positions To Block Road to Rome

Nazis Dig in to Block Road Toward Rome   Germans Fighting Desperately to Hold Mountain Positions

Nazis Dig In For  Determined Stand  ‘Stuff Counterattack Beaten Off

FIFTH SMASHES COUNTER -ATTAGK   One of Sharpest Attacks , since Landing at Salerno   COSTS FOE DEARLY   guy of Assault Indicates Germans’ Determination To Hold Present Line

Nazis Set Up New Block On RoadToRome   Counter Attack To Check Yanks' Advance Is Costly To Germans   SHIPS ARE SUNK   U. S. Motorboats Range Up Italy Northwest Coast In Raid Near Leghorn

ATTACKS BY GERMANS ARE BEATEN BACK   Counter Attacks Hurled Back By Montgomery _

NAZIS’ DEFENSE LINE BLOCKING ROAD 10 ROME   Germans Dig in After Fierce Tank Counterattacks Thrown Back.

GERMANS Dit IN 10 BLOCK WAY T0 ROME   AMERICANS EXACT HEAVY TOLL AS NAZIS ATTACK

Germans Dig In To Block Clark's Drive For Rome   Nazis Lose Heavily In Counterattack; Eighth Advancing

Germans Launch Fierce Tank-Led Counterattacks   British Advance As Enemy Facing Fifth Army Digs In Firmly

Allies Gain lowly on taly Front   Enemy Counterattacks Viciously But at Tremendous Expense

prise blackout, having previously demonstrated their ability to blackout completely in one minute or less.   Ft. Harrison Post to Collect Records, Urge Contributions as Aid to Service Men

LEGION RECORD CAMPAIGN GETS * INDERWAY HERE    Hillsboro Post, Auxiliary Launch Drive for Old, Unused Phonograph Numbers

WILL AGAIN GATHER QLD RECORDS HERE   Legion Post And Auxiliary Plan Collection For Nex Month On Behalf Of Mem. bers Of Armed Forces

Citizens Asked To Confine Christmas Lighting Decorations To Trees Inside Homes

SMALL SCALE XMAS LIGHTING 1S REQUESTED   Purpose Of Request to Conserve Electricity ; Tree Lighting Is O. K.

Clark Expeets Kighth Army to Arrive Shortly   Warships Hurl Shells Into Foe; Bridgehead Now Secure; Conques  Of Italy Predicted

LONG SALERNO BRIDGEHEAD IS MADE SECURE   ARRIVAL OF BRITISH EXPECTED HOURLY FROM SOUTH

British 8th Nearing Fifth Army Bridgehead; Thousands of Planes Give Air Support fo Clark Forces   Reinforced Americans Drive 8 Miles in First Serious Offensive From Salerno Position; 8th Army Captures Towns on Dash up Coast

Salerno Bridgehead Is Firmly Secured After Bloody Eight-Day Battle   GEN. CLARK COMMENDS ‘MEN IN ORDER OF DAY

DAWN ATTACK ROUIS NAZIS AT SALERNO   Germans Driven More ‘Than 8 Miles From Sea — Anglo - American Bridgehead Secure.   SHIPS AND PLANES BOMBARD ENEMY   Foe’s Ring at Junction of Sele and Calore Rivers Snapped by Furious Onslaught.

Bridgehead Is Secure, Nazis Driven  Back 8 Miles   British Eighth Army Driving Up West Coast Less Than 20 Miles  From Srene af Rattle   GREAT AIR POWER POUNDS AT ENEMY  Thousand. at Planec

SOVIET TROOPS CUT IMPORTANT NAZI RAIL LINE   Continue Advance Toward Key Base Held By Germans

Key Railway To Kharkov {s Taken By Reds   Reports Say Bastion Already Under Fire; Bryansk Drive Pressed

Soviets Tighten Stranglehold On Ukrainian City   Germans’ Lifeline  om eg lle ig’:   Germans’ Lifeline Railroad Severed By Russian Troops

05 TIGHTEN HOLD ON GIT)   Soviet Army Within Seven And Gne-Half Miles of Ukrainian City.

Tightening "Vise On Foe - al Kharkov   Reds Reported Shelling City in Continuing Drive @ <Acainst German Base   RAIL LINE SUPPLYING NAZIS IS SEVERED   Armored ‘Trains Used in Desperate Effort to Hold Back Soviet Surge

RED STRANGLEHOLD ON CITY OF KHARKOV CONTINUES TIGHTEN   MAIN LIFELINE OF DEFENDING NAZIS HAS BEEN DESTROYED

Red Army Reported 7 And A Half Miles From Ukranian City As Nazis Stage Rally

SOVIET TROOPS ONLY 7 MILES FROM KHARKOV   Perfect Co-Ordination of Tanks, Infantry, Guns and Planes Reported

CUT NAZIS’ RAILROAD LIFELINE   City Reported Under Fire; Drive Upon berensk Gains

Report Kharkov Now Under Fire From Red Guns   Russian Troops . Tighten Stranglehold On City; Main Nazi ‘Lifeline Cut

Fall Of Kharkov  [mminent. Belief  Soviets Cut Poltava Railroad Line

Reds Tighten Their Grip on Vital Kharkov   Russian Troopers Within Few Miles Of Ukrainian City

Important Rail Line Is Severed   British Report Bastion Already Under Fire From  Russian Guns

Reds Advance To Withn 7 Miles Of Kharkoy Now   Tighten Strangleholc On Vital City As Rail Link Is Cut Today

Reds Tightening Strangle Hold On City Of Kharkov   Cut Main Rail-Lifeline Of Nazis, Base Under Fire Of Russian Guns

Kharkov ts Under Fire Of Soviets   Russians Sever Railway Line And Reach Point Seven Miles From Big Ukrainian City

LETHAL PINCERS CLOSE ON NAZIS IN KEY CITADEL   SOVIETS ALSO SURGE FORWARD IN BLOODY BATTLE FOR BRYANSK

KHARKOV’S FALL EXPECTED SOON   British Report Says Nazi Bastion Within Range of Russian Guns

Russians Fight On Outskirts. Of Kharkov   Main Railway Lifeline of Nazi ‘Forces Severed

Kharkov Within Seven Miles of Soviet Lines   Germans Throw Every Reserve Into Desperate Defense of City

EARLY FALL OF KHARKOV 1S PREDICTED   Russian Stranglehold on Big Ukrainian City Is er Being Tightened   BASTION IS UNDER FIRE

RUSSIANS HAVE COORDINATION OF TANKS, INFANTRY, ARTILLERY AND AVIATION IN RUSH FOR CITY   Drive from Orel for Bryansk Pressed Forwa-d Through 70 More Villages Yesterday Despite Rad Weather

Russians Tighten Hold on Kharkov   Red Army Troops Advance Within 714 Miles of Ukrainian Stronghold.

REDS TIGHTEN STRANGLEHOLD ON KHARKOV   Solumn Driving in 7} Miles from City on Northeast Culs Nazi Es cane Railroad   BIG GUNS OPEN UP   70 More Villages Taken in Ad vance on Bryansk, Germans Re port Smolensk Atiacks

‘Soviet Hold Tighter For Kharkov Are:   Main Railway Source Of Nazis Is Severed; Drive For Bryansk Rolls Over Fresh Tanks.

Red Army Troops Within Seven And One-Half Miles 6! Ukrainian City—Main Railway Lifeline Of Defend. ing Nazis Severed—Nearly Encircled Bastion Re. ported Under Fire From Soviet Guns—Big Drive On Brvansk Rolls Forward

Russian Stranglehold On  _-Kharkov Tightened; Reds Within 74. Miles Of City

Strong Russian Hold on Kharkov Grows Tighter   Reds Menace City From Northeast, Severing Railway

Fall Of Kharkov Imminent ‘As Reds Approach Suburbs; Lifeline Of Nazis Is Severed   Offensive Against Bryansk Sweeps On Through Fresh German Divisions

REPORTS RED GUNS FIRING ON KHARKO\   ‘Account Comes From the British Radio, as Soviet Troops Fight Their Way Into Suburban  }) District From East.

Troeps Drive to 7% Miles of Nazi Base   London Hears Russian Guns Pounding City; Bryansk Drive Continues

Faint Hope Is Held for 68 Still Trapped   Skilled Workmen Are Pushing Farther Into Shaft

bombers Aid Yanks In Attack   Nips Face Slow - Annihilation On Island

ReportAdvances  Outflanked Nip Strongpoint   Army Bombers and Fighters Support Ground Operations in Action Which Will Hasten Final Operations

End of Battle For Island Near: Report Advance   U. S. Forces Attack Above Clouds; Only Enemy Remnants Left

U.S. Troops Drive Deeper Into Attu   Small Pockets Of Japanese Resistance Are Being Wioed Out In Bottles Above Cloud:

Americans Drive Wedge ‘into Jap Center on Attu   Important Advances Re ported in U. S. Navy Announcement   Army Bambers and Fight: ers Helping To End Battle on Island

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ENEMY SCATTERED IN TINY POCKETS THAT MUST BE CLEANED OUT WITH BAYONETS AND GRENADES.

Yank Artillery Rakes Japs’ Attu Hide-Out   Sweeping Attack Penctrates Hillside Position

YANKS PENETRATE CENTER OF AREA HELD BY ENEMY AFTER DEADLY ARTILLERY BARRAGE

Americans Push Deeply Into  Center of Area Held by.  Enemy Remnants Still Holding Out.   BIG GUNS SHELL FOE _ BEFORE DRIVE STARTS      3  Much of Fighting Is Above  Clouds in Mountainous  Country——New Air Raids Made on Kiska.

Organized Jap Resistance Is Gradually Break. ina   ‘FIGHT CARRIED To , ISOLATED POCKETS   Bombers and — Fighters Support Ground — Operations

Fight Below and Above Island’s Constant Clouds Against Desperate Enemy

Americans advance in  Atiu drive   Penetrate deep into Jap sector

Artillery Sottens Up  Detenses   Much Of Battle On Rough Terrain Is Above Clouds.

Fliers Hasten Last of Mop Up Job   Much Fighting Takes Place Above Clouds on Ridges

Japs Smashed Back On Attu   Center Of Area Held By Remnants !s Penetrated’

LAKE SAILORS  ~ GET INCREASE   ae  PAY. HOX#g“GRANTED. BY WEB  EXPECTED TO CAUSE DE-   ‘MAND’ BY OCEAN SAILORS :

oBROWN ASSURES ADEQUATE FOOD "TO SUPPLY U. S.   potart. Meat and Edible Oil ~ Rations; Some Values Altered   Editor’s Note—Revised table > of poirt values on processed foods will be found on Page 2.

MEAT RATION 1S IN EFFECT   “FREEZE” GF BUTTER AND CHEESE ALSO ENDED TO. DAY—PROCESSED FOOD POINT CHANGES of

AMPLE FOOD FOR NUTRITION SEEN UNDER RATIONNN   Brown Says Changes In Eating Are Necessary, Believes They Will Not Be Unduly Severe.   BUTTER RETURNS AGAIN AFTER WEEKS’ FREEZE   Lower Point Values In Some Articles Will Be Benefit to Housewives Who -Saved Faw Points.

Meat Rationing Is Inaugurated In Nation Today   Butter, Cheese, And Fats Also Now Sold By Ration Coupon Plan   SOME CHANGES IN OTHER POINT VALUES

Weekly Allowance 2-Fo- 35 Pounds Under Ration Rules   Purchases Of Butter, Lard, Cheese. Canned Fish Must Be Included In Making Use Of 16 Points

Point Values Of Meat, Butter, Lard And Cheese Disclosed   Some Puckers Blame Shortage On Government Interference With Normal Producing And Marketing  Procedtres

Two Pounds Of Steak Or 3 1-5 Pounds Of Hamburger Per Week Is Ration Allowance Announced

Here's Explanation of How to Use Those 16 Points Weekly (Plus Cash. of Course) to Get Meat Butter Ftc

FATS INCLUDED IN ALLOWANCES OF 16 POINTS   Maximum of 2 Lbs. of Steak or 3 1-5 Lbs. * of Hamburger Provided

Only Two.Pounds Steak Per Person Starting Monday   Point Values.” Réleased Under ‘Largest Wartimé Food Rationing.

9 Pounds of Steak ls Ration Allotment  Under U.S. Plan   INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBSTITUTE THREE AND ONE-FIFTH POUNDS OF HAMBURGER IN NATION-WIDE PROGRAM

Two Pounds Steak Per Week Allowed; System Described As Fairly Liberal

INDMIDUALS 10 ‘GETTWOPOUNDS “OF STEAK WEEKL'   NEW RATIONING EF-. FECTIVE ON MONDA\   Farmers Are Allowed Unlimited Amounts, Must. Take "Coupons With ‘Sales. ‘to Customers. ~

More Meat If You Eat: Hamburger   Most Desirable , Cuts, Cheese and “Butter 8 points

Meat, Butter, Cheese Ration Points Fixed; Go In Effect Monday      Canned Fish, ‘Lard: ‘And Other Fats-Included In _ Eist, Each: Person. Will Have 16 Points. Per “Week: ‘Meat-Consumption Will Drop

“PER WEEK ~ FOR MEAT    Most. Popular Cuts.Are Giv' ‘en--Value of -8 Points:  ’ Per Pound . co   BUTTER ALSO-IS. ON: FIGHT POINT LIST   ‘Hamburger’. Is ‘5. Poitts; Ground ‘to: Order Meats: at: Regular Point Values -

—RATION TO AVERAGE 2 POUNDS A WEEK—  Meat Points Are Revealed   -- + Butter, Cheese, Lard On Same Coupons

Maximum Of Two Pound: Of Meat Of Good Grade; Allow 16-Point Total

POINTS PER WEEK ALLOWED   Coupon Cost of Whole Group Of Foods Averages Eight Per Pound.   WILL DIVIDE SUPPLIES

New Ration Average Is 8 Points a Pound   With 16 Points to Spend Weekly, Each Person 4Can Buy 2 Pounds of Steak, Butter or Cheese, or Divide Points Between Them.

Point Values For System Announced   People Will Buy Less Meat in Order to Obtain Butter, Cheese and Lard; Each Person Has 16 Points Per Week to Use

AVERAGE COUPON COST 8 POINTS PER POUND UNDER NEW RATIONING SETUP

COMMODITY   COMMODITY   ‘New Rationing Program  Is Designed To Even Up  Nation’s Supply Of Meat

OPA Sets Meat Point Values; Steak Costs 8   16 Units Weekly For Each Person, Children Included, Must Also Cover Butter Cheace Fate Purchases

RATION PLAN ALLOWS OVER 2 POUND RATIO   16 Points Per Person Each Week Also Apply To But: ter, Fats, Oils   SYSTEM STARTS MONDAY   Red Stamps May Be Accumulated Over First FourWeek Period

16 Points Per Week: 8 for Lh Of Steak 6 for Other Meats    Butter, 8 Points Lb.; Lard, Shortening, 5 Points; Cheese, 8: Hamburger, 5

RATIONING 10 GtT UNDER WAY MONDAY   Even Farmers Must Callect Coupons for What They Sell to Cansumers

OPA Sets Up Meat. Cheese,  Fats Points   Fight Points Average Cost For Entire Group, High Of 10, Low OF 1.   BUTTER COST 8 UNITS

Supplies Cut For Families Under New Rule   Eight Points ‘For Pound of Butter Planned

Other Meats Are ‘Cheaper’ in New Ration Set-Up   Butter Costs Eight, Hamburger Five, Fish Seven, Cheese Eight

Coupon Sale — Goesin Effect On Monday   Allowance of 16 Points a Person Weekly Averages Two Pounds Each   FOODS IN GROUP

16 Points Per Week Also Must Buy Cheese, Lard   x *k$ Kk OY Generous Rations

.WALUES TO AVERAGE “2 POUNDS PER WEEK   Cheese And Butter Will Be Included In Program   @ PLAN TO BEGIN MONDAY   16 Points Allowed For Each Person Weekly

COUPON VALUES ARE ANNOUNCED BY U.S. AGENCY   System Effective Next Monday Termed Liberal As Most People Will Purehase Less      BUTTER AND CHEESE INCLUDED ON EIST   OPA Declares Rationing Will Give An Equal Chance to All In Buying Meats

POINT VALUES FOR MEAT Lal MADE PUBLIC   16 Points Weekly Is Plan Of Coupon Rationing Announced Today   PLAN DESIGNED TO EVEN UP SUPPLIES OF MEATS   Coupons Are Not Necessary In Restaurants, Cafes But Supplies Limited

Takes Ettect at (12:01 Midnight   Only Milk, Bread, Cereals, Preserves  ._ Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Unrat ioned; Farmers Can Eat All They  ~Want; More Hamburger Than Steak  _ Allowed But Some Uncertainty A: - To Hamburger Content. 

Apportionment of Meat, Butter, Fat Will Start Monday   Full Week’s Stamps To Be Good for 2 Pounds of Popular Steak

‘Meat Coupon Values Disclose ‘Each Person Can Get Maximum  \Of 22 Pounds Of Steak A Week   16 Points A Week Allowed; Ample Supply Under New Budget Is Seen

 Let ‘Em  ‘Em Eat Hamburger Meat. Rationing To Allow Maximum 2 Pounds A Week   But You May Buy 3’: Pounds Of Hamburger; Full Details Here; To Start Monday

COMMODITY   Three and One-Half Pounds of Hamburger Permitted, But Most Persons Will Want To Buy Some Butter and Cheese, It Is Said

EachWillHave 16 Points to Spend Weekly   Maximum of Two Pounds a Week to Be _ Established Under Rationing

Meat Ration Allows About 2. Pounds: W     Veekly;. Point-. Values Announced Today

Each Person Gets About 2 Lbs. a Week   New Plan Will Go Into Effect Next Monday

POINT VALUES MEAT, BUTTER, FISH REVEALED   16 Points Per Person Per Week Buys Two Pounds Sieak, 3 1-5 Pounds Hamburger -

OPA Sets Amounts Of Ration Program   Two Pounds of Steak or Three Pounds of Hamburg Possible Under Plan Starting Monday

EACH PERSON 10 HAVE 16 POINTS TO SPEND WEEKLY   AVERAGE COST OF MEATS TO BE 8 POINTS PER POUND

ONE GOOD BIG STEAK A WEEK. COUPON LIMIT   And That Means No Red Stamp Left. for Butter, Cheese, Lard or Fish. --  “BRIGHTER SIDE”—MORE: MEAT: NEXT MONDAY:

FEW IMPORTANT ITEMS NOT YET ‘ON RATION LIST   Meat Program Expected to ‘Affect People More Than : Similar Undertakings

Baltimorean Is Accused  Of Sabotage ‘‘For Spite”   Young Medical Student Admits Damaging Or Destroying Equipment Valued At Millions Of Dollars to “Get Even” With Martin Plane Plant Inspectors

YOUTH JAILED AS SABOTEUR IN BALTIMORE   Harvey L. Thomas, of Frederick Co. Admits Causing Damage

HOLDS COUNTIAN IN $25,000 BOND AFTER SABOTAGE   Former Adamstown Youth Charged With Cestly Plane Losses   FURTHER HEARING SET FOR FRIDAY

U.S. BREAKS WITH FRENCH WEST INDIES   Cordell Hull abrogates agreements with  Admiral Robert

AGREEMENT WITH ADMIRAL ROBERT ABROGATED “HE-' ~  CAUSE OF HIS COLLABORB AON-WITh- Vierr-——

U.S. CUTS TIES IN MARTINIQUE   Navy to ‘Guard American Interests After Break With Vichy Aide

U, 5, ABROGATES FRENCH TREATY   Hull Charges Failure to Cooperate With Allies

Large New Butter Firm Restrained   OPA Withholds Points From Safeway Subsidy Pending Ruling

Congress Seeks To Clear Decks Before Reces:   Huge Appropriation Bills, Food Price Rollback Up For Action Today

Congress Plans a Vacation   Final Action on Administraton’s Subsidy Plan Is Left ‘on. Docket

GEROW T0 HEAD BRITAIN FORCE   Will Command U. 5S. Army In England, Taking Place Of Hartle

PAIR NABBED AFTER SLAYING   Boy and Girl, Captured ai Chardon, Questioned In Mercer Murders

ROME REPORTED IN BOMBING PANIC   Italian Anti-aircraft Shells Falling to Earth Blamed for Some Damage.

Changteh Fall Is Hard Blow Upon Chinese   New Jap Drive Is In Prospect

Changteh Captured By Japs   Severe Military And Economic Blow _. To China. —

Chinese Suffer Severe Setback   Ancient City of Changteh Falls to Japs After Bitter Fighting.

British Eight Army Takes  Important Base Of Isernia  Fifth Army Captures Important Heights Fro Which lt Con Shell German Gun Pocition:

Nazi Line In Italy Is Crumbling   Great - Offensive Launched By Eighth

PRISON TERMS TO FOUR   Five Negro Soldiers Sentenced for Part in Arizona Riot.

Sea Fight Off Mexico Coast   Ship And Planes Said Fighting Near State

Rumor Battle Off Coast of Mexico  Gunfire and Plane   Gunfire and Plane Motors Are Reportec

Key To Allied Strategy At Quebec Is Attritior   Importance Of Time Factor In Evolving New Wa: Designs Is Stressed By Conferees

FDR-Churchill Want Speed In Axia Cleanup—~ By Kirke L. Simpac  Allied Strategy To Tie In With Red Gains

Quebec Conference Js Mapping Attrition Fight  Chiefs Make ft Clear  Plans Must Be Evolved Sneedily

MANY GERMANS KILLED IN RED COUNTER BLOW   Almost Company Of Nazis Wiped Out, Equipment Captured; Reds Not Giving In Anywhere So Far

Red Army Holds Off Intensive Attacks And Makes Further Advances Toward Smolensk Base.

Soviets Face Growing Powe Of Axis Army   Red Army Progress s Slow In Offensive Toward Smolensk

Germans Pour Men, GunsInto Chuguev Area  Concentration Of Ai Power Grows, Too, As   Concentration Of Air Power Grows, Too, As Reds Brace; Smolensk Campaign Moves Ahead

Nazis mass fresh troops to attack in Chuguev area   Russians report assaults repulsed with use of tanks

RUSSIANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY TO HOLD POSITIONS  BEAT BACK GERMAN  ASSAULTS ON BANKS OF DONETS RIVER

DESPERATE EFFORT T0 CRACK REDS   Germans Concentrating Heavy Power Against Soviets in “Donets   SO FAR ALL DRIVES HAVE FAILED   Soviets Are Continuing to Edge Forward in Smolensk Area

PLANES AND BIG GUNS INCLUDED IN LARGE FORCE   Russians Beginning to Pound German Troops in Belgorod Sector

Nazis Augment Stalled Armies   Reds Report More Artillery And Air  Power In Ukraine

‘Nazis Mass Huge Fresh Force Near Chuguev   Numeruiia Fierce Attacks By Enemy Repulsed; Russians Nearer Smolensk

NAZIS STRIVE MIGHTILY TO CROSS DONETS   Reds Say Enemy Has _ Massed Fresh Troops,  Artillery and Air Power in a Supreme Effort to Crack Lines.

Germans Mass on Donets   Soviets Continue Slow Advances Toward Smolensk.

NEW, DESPERATE DRIVE TO CRACK RUSSIAN DEFENSE   While Germans Put Heaviest Power in This Area Reds Edge on Toward Smolensk   By EDDY GILMORE

GERMANS MASSING IMPRESSIVE FORCE NORTH OF CHUGUEY  RUSSIANS ON CENTRAL FRONT EDGED STILL CLOSER TO SMOLENSK

Germans Mass Troops Fo Attempt to Cross Donets   Supplying American Soldiers in. Tunisia Means 4,500 Mile Trip

NAZI MASoING FRESH FORGES   Germans Making Desperate Effort to Crack Soviet Defenses.   REDS SAY FOE STOPPED

GERMANS MASS HEAVY FORCES AGAINST REDS   In Desperate Effort To Crack Soviet Defenses on Donets River Front

GERMAN ARMY IS TRYING TO CRACK SOVIET DEFENSES   Have Massed Fresh Troops Against the Russian Lines in Donets River Sector.   SOVIETS ON THE MOVE   Vanguard of the Central Front Again Edged Toward Smolensk.

Nazis Attempt To Crack Red Lines on Donets   Desperate Enemy Hurl Big Force Against Russians

Nazis Mass Fresh Troop: On Donets   Red Vanguards On Central  Front Edge ‘foward Smolensk

Nazis Mass New Units In Russia   Make Desperate Drive To Crack The Reds

Plan New Smash  On Donets River   Germans Concentrate Land and Air Power Near Chuguev   RUSSIANS EDGE WEST   Smolensk Little More Than 30 Miles Away From Advance Troops

Germans Mass New Troops for Donets Smash   Red Army Edges Toward Smolensk, Repulses Attacks

Nazis Mass New Forces Against Reds   sLaunch Heavy Assault ‘In Chuguev Sector, but ‘Soviets Say Lines Hold ‘Firm At Every Point

Fresh Troops, Heavy Guns Enter Fight   Desperate Effort To Crack Red Defenses Indirstec

Mighty Nazi Thrust Made Along Donets   Germans Concentrate Fresh Forces For a Major  Break-Through.   Soviet Troops Move Closer to Smolensk

EFFORT MADE TO CRACK RED DEFENSES   Drive On Smolensk About 30 Miles From Goal   ENTIRE COMPANY   Of Nazis Killed In HandTo-Hand Fight: Much Equipment Captured

SOVIET TROOPS HOLD DEFENSES ON RIVER FRONT   Push Ahead On Central, North Battle Fronts

SOVIETS STORM NAZI TRENCHES NEAR BELGOROD   Kill Almost a Company of the Enemy in Hand-toHand Combat and Seize  Guns, Ammunition   HUNS MASS FRESH TROOPS IN SECTOR   Making Desperate Prepar ations to Attempt to Crack  Stubborn Soviet Defenses Southeast Kharkov

Nazi Assaults in ~ Ukraine Repulsed  by Russian Force   Reds Storm Stronghold of Germans in Drive on Smolensk

Nazis Mass Big Force For Attack   Will Attempt to Crack Stubborn Red Defenses in Donets

Nazis Mass For All-Out Donets Drive   Huge Forces of Troops, Artillery and Planes Concentrated

JOHNSTOWN MAN FINED FOR ATTACK   Richard Williams * Pay: $200 for Assaulting Officer

New Hornet Is Launched   Knox Hints Broadly At Plans for Blows at Tokyc

Knox Pledges New  Blows To Japanese  Secretary Speaks Al Harnet Launching

Large-Scale Bombings Of  Japan Coming   Raid On Tokyo Only ‘Small Sample’ Of What Lice Ahead

Knox Launches Carrier Hornet   Promises New, Bigger Raids on Japan

Another ‘Hornet Launched Today   Knox Hints of New Raids on Tokio

New Aerial Blows Hinted Against Foe   New Aircraft Carrier Hornet- Launched As Knox Reveals New Attacks on Enemy

Another Hornet Launched Again   Aircraft Carrier Named After Famous Boat That Took Planes to Tokyo.

KNOX PROMISES HORNET AGAIN WILL HIT JAPS   Carrier Whose Planes Blasted Enemy Capital Lives Again In New Giant of Sea.   HER HISTORY RECALLED   Navy Chief Says Japan Wil ’ Feel More and Heavier UW & Air Blows.

New ‘Hornet Is Launched   Replaces Famed. Aircraft Carrier Sunk Last Year in Pacific

Big Scale Bombing Ahead Of Japan Knox Says As Carrier Is Launched

NEW ‘HORNET IS LAUNCHED   Knox Hints Broadly At Big Aerial Blows On Tokyo

A New Hornet and Hint of Bigger Raids    Great Name in Naval His. . tory Reborn at Launching  of New Aircraft Carrier   KNOX TALKS OF NEW AIR BLOWS   Declares Raid on Tokyo Was Only 2 Sample of At tacks to Come

NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET SLIPS INTO SEA   Great Name In Naval History Reborn As Second Hornet Is Launched: Knox Hints Broadly At Great Air Blows Against Tokyo.

LAUNCH NEW SHIP HORNET   KNOX HINTS PLANS FOR U.S. AIR BLOW AT JAPAN

Tokyo Marked For Big Scale Bomb Attack   Hint Given By Knox At Launching Of New Carrier ‘Hornet’

KNOX REVEALS TOKYO 10 GET  BIG BOMBINGS’   Navy Secretary Speaks At Launching of Carrier “Hornet,” Named For Sunken Flat-Top   HAGERSTOWN MAN GIVES INVOCATION   Last Year’s Air Attack On Jap Capital “Sample” Of Things to Come, Knox Declares

Knox Hints of BigBlows at Tokyo As New Carrier Hornet is Launched

— ‘Fiornet’ Born Aircraft Carrier Launched  As Knox Hints at New Raid

Army Ordnance Opens Biggest Show Of Axis-Chasers at Philadelphia

War Bond Buyers See What They Are Paying For as Army Ordnance Opens Nation's Largest Show of Axis-Chasers

~ HAVE MEETING   Secretary Returns to Capital From Stay in  ’ Florida.

EDEN HOLOING CONFERENCES ON WAR AIMS   Calls on Hull After Talking with Wallace, Knox and Stimson.   SENATE POSTWAR MAP SAID TO NEED EDITING

Eden And Hull Confer Monday   British Envoy Pushes Post-War Talks

Eden Confers With Officials   President Roosevelt Receives Film From Britain’s Churchill

Anthony Eden Confers With Hull Today: Dinner With FOR Last Nicht

SECRETARY HULL TALKS TO EDEN   British Official. Also Sees  Wallace as Important Parleys Continue

Eden Calls on  Secretary Hull   Halifax Along: Mum On Talk With Wallace

Eden Visits Wallace and Hull Today   British Secretary Mum On Results of Past War Talks

Urges Student Work Program   MeNutt Encourages Plan Kven If School Hours Must Be Readjusted.

War Board, Lewis Call Miners Back   Separate Telegrams Go Out to, Officials of Mine i  Unions   FEAR GENERAL STRIKE   Mines in Alabama and Ohio . ° Only Ones Affected  at Present

URGE MINERS 10 RETURN MONDAY   WLB and Lewis Seek to End Coal Strike

CALLS ISSUED TO MINERS TO GET TO WORK   War Labor Board and John Lewis Send Messages to Striking Miners.   Miners Await Decision On [linois Contract

Asks Men: cm to Mine Pits   Labor Board and Lewis. in Separate Calls. for .an’ @ -- Immediate Return   FEAR WAR. EFFORT > WILL BE HAMPERED   Jnion Head. Expects. WLB -to Rule Next. Week on *. Tinois Contract

URGES MINERG RESUME WORK   John L. Lewis Makes Appeal As Walkout Threatens To Spread.   25,000 ARE NOW IDLE

WLB AND LEWIS ASK MINERS TO GO TO WORK   Lewis Sends Telegram ‘Asking Miners to Subordinate Feelings and Gel Back to Work

LEWIS CALLS ON COAL MINERS TO RETURN TO WORK IMMEDIATELY WAR LABOR BOARD   ALSO ISSUES ORDER FOR

Walkout Halts Mines   NEW GENERAL STRIKE FEARED AS LEWIS ASKS RETURN TO COAL PITS

LEWIS AND WLB URGE STRIKERS RETURN T0 PITS   Appeals Are Sent to Coal Miners in Alabama and Indiana

Most of Its Labor Remains Ahead of Illinois Assembly   Legislature Is at Half Way Mark; to Recess  Until April 13th

THREE PERSONS ARE INJURED IN AUTO COLLISION   Pedestrian Is Struck While Crossing Street

Local Contests Are Highlights Of Election   Only Statewide Balloting Involves Election Of Supreme Court Justice Who Is Unopposed

WHAT MINERS ASK, WHY!   Coal Diggers Buy Own Tools, Power, Lights Out ‘of Pay, Complain of Increased Food Cost

What About Miners’ Pay? Costs Of Food, Equipment And Working Conditions Involved

What Miners of Nation Want   Wages are Substandard Says John L. Lewis As Dispute with Mine Operators Continues

What Miners Want In Dispute   Lewis Insists Wages Are Still Sub-Standard

Various Points At Issue In Miners-Operators Dispute   Lewis Claims Pay Substandard, Food ' Costs Higher: Men Buy Own Equipment

Lewis Claims Wages Sub- Standard OPA Pr omises Probe Into Food P: Prices

British Legislators Stage Fisticuffs  ‘Nasty Old Man’ Term Brinas on Bravw!]

REPORT LULL AMONG WEST ‘ZOOT-ZUITERS’   Only One Fight Turned in te Police

MIKHAILOVITCH READY 10 FIGHT IN YUGOSLAVIA   Believed Waiting for Word of Landing by Allies

YUGOSLAV ARMY READY TO STRIKE   Guerilla Force Awaiting Word of Landing by Allies

TRAINED GUERILLA. ARMY AWAITING LANDING OF AL.LIES BEFORE OPENING - LARGE-SCALE OF 1 -FENSIVE

Yugoslav Guerilla Armu Is Poise? and Ready to Strike Against German Forces

MARTHUR TALKS ON BATAAN FALI   Anniversary Is Commemorated Teday From Somewhere In Austratia.

M’ARTHUR TALKS OF LOST CAUSE   PRAYS THAT DAY OF LIBERA. TION OF PHILIPPINES MAY COME SOON.

MacArthur Prays Deliverance Of Allied Heroes of Bataan Will Not Be Delayed Too Long

‘macarthur rays High Tribute To Men Of Bataan, And Renews Pledge To Return, Hoping It’s Not Toa Late

Savage Offensive Designed to Trap Red Army Forces   “Stalingrad in Reverse” Is Goal of Hitler . Hordes in New Drive; Moscow Admits No Decisive Gains by Nazis

SMALL GAINS ARE MADE AT TERRIFIC COS]   sermans Strive To Trap 400,000 Russians In Kursk Area

Moscow Admits Slight Setback   Claims Nazis Lose 30,000 Troops, 1,500 Planes and 649 Tanks

Y OPPOSE: STATE CONVENTION   Primaries Give People Decision On Policies, He Says

President Roosevelt Warns Adolf Hitler To Surrender  Says Allies Bent Upon Achieving Victory In Shortest Possible Time On All Fronts

President Says Quickest Possible Victory ts the Goal    LASTING PEACE IS DEMAND OF ALLIES   Chief Executive Speaks to Large Audience in Ottawa

Surrender Now, Roosevelt Warns Hitler: Says Allies Bent Upon Victory in Shortest Time Possible   President Tells 50,000 Canadians Only Real and Lasting Peace Can Justity Sacrifices Being Made

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Better World Promised by President   Canadians Informed Quebec Decisions Will Be Revealed

Says United Nations Will End Gangsterism   Axis Nations Will Be Made Acquainted With Decisions Made At Quebec In Due Time, F.D. R: Declares In Speech

‘Surrender Now’ Roosevelt Warns In Ottawa Speech   President Addresses 50,000 Canadians at Parliament Hill

Roosevelt Tells Canadians Axis Would Be Better Off To Make Speedy Surrender

(90,000 Hear U.S. Executive At Ottawa   Says Decisions Made For Quickest Possible United Nations Victory  STERN POTICY VOIDS

IS GIVEN AXIS ‘BY PRESIDEN]   Says New Forces Will ' - Be Loosed to Win Early Victory

Had Better Surrender Immediately   Victory as Speedily As Possible Is Aim Of Allies, Says FDR

PRESIDENT SAYS QUICKEST VICTORY 5 GOAL OF ALLIES   Sternly Warns Hitler That Surrender Now Will Pay Better Than Later   ADDRESSES LARGE CROWD AT OTTAWA   Reveals Problems of PostWar World Among Subjects Discussed at Quebec Conference; Denounces Critics Of Four Freedoms

——— a a —— een cen —_ —_ — ——_ _—_— a — co OS ny ) eT te eel Nanas: nd  . e % # PRESIDENT DECLARES:  SURRENDER NOW!

Roosevelt Warns Germany to ‘Surrender Now   Declares War Strategy Adopted At Quebec Means Nazis’ End; 50.000 Hear President at Ottawa

FDR Warns Hitler  “Surrender Now!”   “Fresident Tells 50,000 Canadians Foes Will Learn Plans “On Field Of Battle’ -

NEW WARNING IS GIVEN AXIS “BY PRESIDEN]   Sys New Forces Will * Be Loosed to Win Early Victory

WILL UNLEAS FRESH FORCES ON AXIS SOON   ROOSEVELT REVEALS VICTORY PLANS AT QUEBEC

Roosevelt Gives Germany Warning   Better Surrender Now, He Declares

Authority Of Exiled Poles Is Disputed   Not Representative Of People Head Of “Patriots” Asserts

SAYS LONDON POLISH GROUP NOT LEADERS   Body In Russia Claims To Represent Polish People

RUSSIAN-POLISH QUARREL BRINGS JOY TO HITLER   Red Newspaper Charges That ~ Government in Exile Does  Not Represent People   COMPLICATIONS FORESEEN   Word from Axis Capitals Reveals Satisfaction as Credit Is Claimed

FULL PRODUCTION 10 BE RESUMED MONDAY   Controversy Has Cost the Nation 10 Million Tons “At Beal

JAMES ROOSEVELT TO GET TREATMENT   FDR’s Son Has Malaria; Elliott Narrowly Escapes Iniury.

SENATE PASSES ON REVISED OLD AGE ASSISTANCE   Bill To Encourage Pensioners to Take  Jobs On Farms

Bills Liberalizing State Pension Law Passed Last Night   Amendments Go Back to House for Concur- _ . rence Today

New Series of Articles Gives Tips On New Federal Income Tax Rules

CHICAGO HEIRESS ABDUCTED, TAKEN ON A WILD RIDE   Released Unharmed After Police Close In on All Sides.

STORMS CAUSE OF TWODEATHS      aE PLY  Meany Others Injured In _ Nortern Ohio: Factories Are Damaged

NORTHERN OHIO HIT BY SEVERE WIND STORM   Damage To Run Over Million Dollars; 2 Killed, Scores Hurt, Baby Missing

STORM TAKES . LIVES OF TWO   Tornadoes and Wind Storm: ‘In Ohio Halts War Production

NORTHERN OHIC IS LASHED BY SEVERE STORMS   Two Known To Have Been Killed and Scores of Others Injured   WAR PRODUCTION SLOWED   Tornadic Winds and Lightning Do Damage Estimated at Near Million Dollars

STORE TO CURR SALES   Honor Code Designed Ta Halt Seare Buying Of Clothing

Gulf Coast Braces For Hurricane Fur  Storm Is Expected At Dawn Today

Parley May Solidify Stand on Surrender Terms, Peace Proposal   Visit Lends Significance.to Davies Mission to Stalin; Military, Naval Staff Accompanies Briton; White House Silent on Purpose

High American Statesmen to Take Part in Meeting   Arrival of Prime Minister Made Public Ry MacKenzie King

British Prime Minister Ac companied By Military And Naval Experts   SPECULATION RIFE OVER SPEEDY TRIP

rrime {viinister $ Visit Stirs Talk Of Another Front  : Military and Naval _ Experts Accompany  Restan tan Wachinetan

See possibility of — final check of plans  to invade continent   Meeting gives added significance to president’s letter to Stalin

Churchill Is In anada, WI See Roosevelt   British, U.S. Military Staffs Will Hold Confer. ences On Strategy   RUSSIANS STAY AWAY   Prime Minister Will Con. fer With Mackenzie King Before President

Many Problem: Expected to Be Considered   Prime Minister's Arrival in Canada Announced

British Prime Minister Arrives Following African Victory  STAFF OF EXPERTS WITH CHURCHILL  No Specific’ fic’ Details on  ’ Purpose of Visit  Given

British Chief Accompanied By Military, Naval Leaders   Talks May Complete United Nations Plans For Hammering Open Cantinental Prant   INDICATED TRIP PREPARED IN HASTE   Churchill Arrives Against Background Of German Jitters

British Prime Minister Accompanied By Military and Naval Experts; . Invasion Conjecture Spurred.

War Conferences Are Scheduled With Roosevelt   Military Chiefs Accompany Prime Minister on Visit

Churchill In Canada  For Talks   High Officials Of U. §. to Join Britisher

Brings Staff For More War Talks   Final Check With President Roosevelt Of Plans for Hammering Open Another Front Believed Top Business

Reaches Canada For Conferences With Americans   To Meet With Premier MacKenzie King, Then Roosevelt To Prepare Final Blow For Hitlerism. Consider Italy’s Fate and Post-War Plans.

Churchill Here _ Conference ~ On Invasion   BRITAINS PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES AGAINST BACKGROUND OF TUNISIAN VICTORY AND GERMAN JITTERS.

Churchill’s Visit To U.S. Spurs  Tnvasion Tak:   Staff of military and naval experts accompanies the war leader; miieninn 16 eeeret:

WITHED.R TO BE HELL   Prime Minister Accompanied by Staff of Experts, Including Military and Naval Men.   NEW BATTLE FRONT MAY BE DISCUSSED   Visit Gives Added Significance to Secret Letter Dispatched to Stalin by President.

Plans for New Offensive May Be Probed   Important Decisions Expected From Current Conclave

Roosevelt Meets, Takes Premier To White House as Guest; Expert Military Staff Comes Along

Prime Minister And President  To Diseuss War   No Specific Details of Exact Purpose of Swift Trip to U. S. Given by White House

Prime Minister to Confer W ith Roosevelt, is Accompanied  By British Staff

British Leader in Washington  te cneenetnennrenteennnnte en meee acneeneintnentnnnanenmanannsnecti - aetna i CE AA  New Allied Moves Predicted      -IFTH WARTIME SESSION HELD BY TWO LEADERS

CHURCHILL IN CANADA   Prime Minister Arrives in Quebec or War Talks

Allied Heads Man Invasion   German Jitters Over Invasion Background For Historic Meet

Experts Are In Party Of  Englishman   Final Check-Up Of Invasion Plans With FDR Seen.

Churchill  In Canada   Brings Top Flight Array Of Advisors, to See FDR

Another Axis Blow Pending’   Hurried Trip Follows In Wake Of Tunisian Victory

AMERICAN, BRITISH MILITARY STAFFS WILL CONFER AS GOVERNMENT CHIEFS TALK; F. D. R. MEETING SLATED AFTER CANADA CONCLAVES

Great Allied Parley Slated   Minister of War Trensport Among Steff Accompanying British Heed on Fourth Trip to America; Met by Canada Heed

LEADERS MAP STRATEGY FOR CRUSHING AXIS   ALLIES MAY OPEN ANOTHER FRONT IN EUROPE

Kills Ex-Wife  And Roommate   Solc.er’s Note Says Army Teaches To Kill; Then A Suicide.

26 WESTERN PA. MINES CLOSE   Striking. Miners Nearly Double in Day to 14:700. :

PRODUCTION LOSS IN PA. IS MOUNTING:   Based on Average Output Of Six Tons a Man, Coal Shortage is Over 88,000 Tons a Day   OTHERS ARE RESTLESS

Dependency Deferments Of 2,880,000 ‘Men Wiped Out By Selective Service   Men With Wives Only, Coilatera! Dependents Get New Classification

(Only 3,200,000 In 18-38 Class [To Be Exempted   New Draft Regulations Wipe Out 3-B Class _ As Revealed By Hershey

M’NUTT HINTS ALL 18-36 UP BY DEC. 318]   3,200,000 in Agriculture Only Exceptions, He Declares

Dependency Deferments  Are Ended   2,880,000 Registrants Are Affected Under New Classifications

YOUNGER, ABLE MEN WILL 60   Only 3,200,000 Between 18 and 38 to Stay

FATHERS PLACED IN CLASS 3-4 BY NEW SERVICE RULE   /M’Nutt Says Armed Forces  Will Total Nearly 11,000,000 Men by End of  Precant Year.

ESTIMATED 1,880,000 AFFECTED   Classification System Revised by Selective Service

All Able Men To Be In Army By Year's End   Only Few Of 18 To 38 Year Olds Will Be Left At Home

ALL DADS GET DEFERMENT UNDER RULING   Fathers Now Only Persons Deferred Solely Due To Family Ties   3-B CLASSIFICATIONS ARE NOW ELIMINATED   Childless “Non - Essential’ Job Holders To Be Transferred Into 1-A

DEPENDENCY DEFERMENTS OF 2,800,000 MEN ELIMINATED BY REVISION OF NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE   Fathers Whose Children Were Born Before Sept. 15, 1942. to Be in Class 3-A.

DRAFTING OF FATHERS PLANNED   Will Be In Armed Forces By End Of Year, Says McNutt

Wives Removed as Cause of  Deferment in Newest Official -Re-Shuffling of the Draft Act

DEPENDENCY CLAIM OF 2,880,000 MED LOST IN SHAKE-UE      Men With Wives. Only. Or “Collateral: Dependents : Deferred Only If  ‘Becanttal

New Classifications In 18-38 Draft List   * All Able-Bodied Men, Except Work-Deferred Will Be in Armed Forces by December 31

Most Able-bodied Men, 18 to 38, in Armed Forces in 1943, Says McNutt

Deferments Cut By New System   Taking of Fathers Still Last on List

SENATOR 15 JAILED FOR CONTEMPT   Grand Jury Exhibits Willingness to Use Mailed Fist in Dealing with Witnescac

fur will take care of 100 square feet of floor space,  The wool crop for 1948 in the United States is estimated to be about 4% smaller than in 1942.      Nearly All ‘Farm Mishaps  ee.  ene

YANKS TAKE STRONGHOLD OF TROINA   Pound Toward Randazzo To Cut Off Enemy   ADRANO’S FALL IS SEEN   German Foreign Minister Is  Called to Rome

 Greuhound Company Plans Helicopter {  Air Service When the War Is Ended 

AIR BUS PLAN 1S ANNOUNCED   GREYHOUND LINES APPLY FOR PERMISSION TO USE. HELI- , COPTERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

PLAN GREYHOUND AIR BUS SERVICE   Helicopters to Operate Over Present 60,000 Miles of Routes

Pleasant Palm Sunday Great Post-Season Snow Ended by Greater Rain

COLD SNAP TO PASS SUNDAY   Blustery Weather of Past Two Days Believed to  Be Over.

All Baboons Rounded Up at Delta After Show for Kids, Headache For Adults Who Had To Corral 29

German Rail Lines Pounded   Nazi Sub Pen:  Are Blasted By Alhies

FLYING FORTRESS PILOTED BY TEXAN SHOOTS DOWN ELEVEN OF TTS ATTACKERS OVER GERMANY

DIPLOMATS GET DOWN 70 WORK   Basic Topics In Moscow Conference Come Up For Consideration

Military Men Join   American and _ British Generals Take Part In Conference At Moscow

Mililary Chiefs Participate in Moscow Parleys   Russian Demands Reported Aired

SECOND FRONT INDICATED AS PARLEY TOPIC   Two Generals Sit ir With Hull, Eden And Molotov

CEILING PRICES ON BEEF ErFrECTIVE MAY 17   NOTICE OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MEETING

'T' Stamp Good Throughout June   ‘New Stamps To Become Valid Soon

“d MEAT oTAMPo VALID THAGUGH JUNE   Time Extended To Avoid Rush On Week-End

Committee Trims Millions From ‘War Purposes’ Fund   99 P. C. OF Funds In New Appropriations Measure Listed For Direct War Programs

Big Supply ill Given  The House   Most Of Money Is For Building Of Merchant Ships 

Appropriations Measure Reache: U.S. House   Three Federal-Aid to-States Programs are Eliminated

6 Billion Bill  Goes to House   Committee Strikes Funds  For Victory Corps

House Group Puts Okay On $6 Billion Bill   Appropriations Plans Eliminate Funds For Three Aid - To - States  Provrame

SUBCOMMITTEE SLASHES FUNDS TO AlD STATES   Appropriations Measure Sent To House For Action

Offer Trimmed War Fund Bill Of Six Billion   Large Part Of Deficiency Allocation Marked For Merchant Ships.   AVOID LABOR PROBLEM

FISCAL BILL PARED DOWN IN COMMITTEE   Funds For Three FederalAid-To State Programs Are Sliced From Appropriation List  een  LAND MAKES REPORT

APPROPRIATIONS BILL CLIPPED OF SOCIAL EXDENSES   $6 Billion Measure Goes Te House; 99 Percent Of Measure For War Purposes

‘APPROPRIATION BILL TURNED OVER TO HOUSE   Three Contributions Trimmed From Fiscal Bill

APPROPRIATION BILL TO HOUSE   99 Per Cent of $6,298,530,435 Measure Listed for Direct War Purposes

Aid-To-States Items Slashed By Committee   House Receives Appropriations Measure Calling For Six Billion Dollars

99 PERCENT OF APPROPRIATION BILL FOR WAR   Subcommittee to Eliminate Funds for Federal Aid-toStates Program

War Fund Bill Given To House  Six Billion Dollar  Whee oe ee A ees ts eee

Big Deficiency Appropriations Bill To House   Funds For 3  FederalAid-To-States Programs Fliminated.

AID TO STATES ELIMINATEDIN APPROPRIATION   Three Items Cut From Bill Seeks Billions For War Effort

APPROPRIATIONS BILL TRIMMED   House Gets Measure For Over Six Billion, With Several Items Left Qut; Ships Biggest Item.

AD-T0-aTATba TEMo aLfontl FROM WAR BILL   Three Allocations To States Are Eliminated Entirely From Appropriations   NATIONAL RESOURCES BOARD ALSO CUT OFF   Most Of 6 Billion Dollar Funds Listed For Direct Purposes Of War

NEW APPROPRIATION BILL. OF BILLIONS EARMARKKED FOR WAR   99 PER CENT OF TOTAL OF SIX AND QUARTER BILLIONS FOR WAR USE

6 BILLION WAR FUNDS SOUGHT   House Committee Eliminates Money For Three Federal Aid Programs

HUGE FUND BILL GOES TO HOUSE   Appropriations For 3 Fed eral-Aid-to-States Plans Erased: by Sub-Group

SIX BILLIONS: APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP   War Expenditures Represent 99 Per Cent of De - ficiency Appropriation  * Bill Presented for Congressional Action.

APPROPRIATIONS MEASURE TURNED OVER TO HOUSE   $6,298,530,435 Measure Given to House After Elimination of Special Aid to State Programs

SHORTAGE SEEN      Milk To Be ‘Tightest’ 0: Foods, Is Prediction

Nazis Retake Positions In Mateur Fish   Allies Are Forced To Abandon Gains After Holding 24 Hours At Vital Crossroads

British Report Germans Have Retaken Positions In New Tunisian Battle

Heights, .5 Miles West of Mateur, Had Been Captured by the British  _ On Tuesday   NAZIS DRIVE OUT ALLIES IN DAYLIGH1   Berlin Says 30 U.S. Para chutists Who Dropped Behind German Lines Killed: Or Captured

Nazis Retake Jebel Azzag, All Other Ground Gained by Allies Near Mateur   Says the Fighting Lasted a Full Day

Nazis Retake Positions In Tunisia   Vital Land Before Bizerte Changes Hands Twice in 2 Days

Nazis Regain Positions in Mateur Sector   Recapture Jebel Azzag; American Bombers Raid Kairouan; Fighting French Advance

FRENGH Win LIBYA BASE FROM NAZIS   Russians Break Througl German Lines Near Rostov

Nazis Retake Positions In Tunisia  Vital Land   Vital Land Before Bizerte Changes Hands Twice in 2 Day.

Germans Gain Land in Africa   Allies Forced Back West of Mateur. After Advancing

NAZIS RETAKE LOST POSITIONS AT MATEUR   Positions Retaken On Both Sides of CrossRoads West of City

AXIS RETAKES POSITIONS IN NORTH AFRICA   Reuters Reports Heights West of Mateur Have Again Fallen to Enemies  MILD CCUNTER - ATTACK

RANGERS BATTLE FOR HEIGHTS   RAF Downs Warplanes; Algiers Has Three © Air Alarms

GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE RETAKEN HILLY POSITIONS   DESPITE SUPPORT OF RAF BRITISH FORCED TO WITHDRAW

Battle For Hills In Tunisia Marks Ground Fighting In North Africa

Axis Recapture Allied Area to West of Mateur   Vital Positions on Front Before Bizerte Change Hands Twice.   Nazi Chutists Drop Behind Allied Lines

Republicans Name Publicity Director   James P. Selvage Chosen for Post’

U. §, FURTHER MENAGES NIPS IN SOLOMONS   Paratroops Invade Chois eul Island While Air  Blows Lay Waste Japanese Airbases

Bases Are Laid In Ruins   American Para troopers Unopposed In Choi seul Invasion

U. S. Paratroops Invade Choiseul Isle; Japs Flee —   Menacing. Spearhead Now Pointed At Solomon Taland Control.

 Outflank J apanese In Solomons   Paratroops Use Barges In Their Landing -On Jap-Held Island In  Northern Solomone

PARATROOPER UNITS MOP UP JAP OUTPOSTS   Enemy’s Hold On Solomons Threatend by Invasion Of Choiseul

‘YANK PARATROOPS INVADE THE JAP ISLAND CHOISEUL   Menaces the Last 260 Miles ‘the Enemy Controls in the 680 Miles of Islands in Solo wenn

UJ. §, PARATROOPERS INVADED CHOISEUL;  MET NO OPPOSITION ... INVASION FLANKS. LAST  “BIG JAP BASE ON ~ BOUCAINVILLE ISLAND

JAPANESE FLEE PARATROOPERS ON CHOISEUL   Americans Score Quick Victory in Landing on Flank of Nip Base on Bougainville   CLOSE IN ON MONO   Hundreds of Bombers, Fighters Pound Jap Air Bases in Solomons Without Opposition

Trap Closing Around Enemy In Solomons   Yankee Troopers Driving Toward Jap Barge Bases

Choiseul Island In Solomons Is Invaded by U.S. Chute Troops   Yanks Are Landed by Navy Without Opposition

Forees Land From Ships; Enemy Split   New South Pacific Move On 50-Mile Isle Made By Jungle Fighters; Stiff Battle Expected

PARACHUTISTS THREATEN JAPS      Many Enemy Airfields Left In Ruins

INVASION POINTS NEW SPEARHEAD AT BOUGAINVILLE   JAP TROOPS FLEE NORTHWARD WITHOUT STAGING A FIGHT

Choiseul Landings Peril Bougainville   Picked U. S. Paratroops In Landings   Jungle Fighters Did Not — Jump, But Were Landed  From Sea

U. §. Paratroops On Choiseul  One Of Last Major Solomon Islands Held By Foe Invaded

PARATROOPERS INVADE BASE ON SOLOMONS   Americans Close In On Isiand At Choiseul

sea-Borne Yankee Paratroops Seiz Strategic Isl   Japanese Bases in Solomons Laid Was by Aerial Attacks

Two Soldiers Killed   One Injured When Plane Kets Out af Canirol

PEGS AME WY  Of Ruin And Death  Germans’ Nemesis Left A Heap Of Powdered Brick, Twisted Steel

Stalingrad, German Nemesis, City Of Powdered Brick, Twisted Steel!

Stalingrad In Mass Of Rubble With German Dead Stacked Along Streets

Tortured, But Proud  Heroic Stalingrad Becomes City Of Powdered Brick And Twisted Steel From Bombs

a a od  Bodies Of Dead Nazis Piled High In Streets Of Ruined Stalinerad

Stalingrad Is Shambles  * * * % * *% *  Few Houses Left, All Damaged  * % ¥ ¥ * % *  Some Still Living There

Stalingrad Is City Of Twisted Steel, Powdered Brick, Eyewitness Relates

\Stiff Bodies Of German Dead Stacked In Stalingrad Streets   Many More Lie Inside Crushed Buildings; Field Marshal Paulus Very Much Broken Man

Navy Transport Planes Are Benorted Lost   43 Persons Are Aboard Two Missing Craft

Tin Is a War Weanon   Naval Transport Planes Vanish With 25 Aboard   Craft From Pearl Harbor Missing As Fog Balks S. F. Landing; Another Ship Overdue in Southwest

Searches Started for Missing Airliners; 25 Officers and Enlisted Men Aboard

GAS RATIONS SHORTER   Military Needs May Force Further Reduction, Officials Say

COMPOSITE FORCE IN ACTION IN CHINE   Yank and Chinese Fliers Join In Hitting Japs

Russians Say Heavy Fighting Rages in Area   Reds Make New Gains In Drive to Knock Out Smolensk: Plea For Second Front

Soviets Say Heavy Fight Ts Continuing   Russians Continue Advances on Northern Sector

Russia Tells Of Advances Tn Other Area   Germans Issue Special Communique; Moscow Ts Noncommittal

Russians Driving Toward Bryansk  Attacks West of Vyazma  BRactaw ka Sagtote

Fall Not Admitted By Red Command   Great German Counterattack Threatens  Wipe Out linportant Segment Of Gains Made Through Winter

Great Battle Continues, Is Soviet Report   And Vyazma Rivers to Approach Within 65 Miles of Smolensk

‘Russians Frankly Admit  ‘Plight Of Their Outnumbered  Southern Army   REDS NOW WITHIN 65 MILES OF SMOLENSK

Loss ot City NotConfirmed By Moscow   But German Report Comes as No Surprise To London Observers  BIG BLOW TO REDS

MOSCOW DEVOTES MOST OF COMMUNIQUE TO CONTINUING RED GAINS ON CENTRAL FRONT APPROACHING  SMOLENSK.

Russians Admit Withdrawals As Nazis Increase Pressure; Reds Push Nearer to Smolensk

Red Army Faces Loss of Gains Made in Winler   Moscow Declares Heavy Fighting Continues against Odds   Germans Hurling Best Men into New and Furious Offensive

Silver Bloc Puts Across Quite A Deal   Scores Victory In Price Rise To 71 Cents Per Ounce

BRIDGEHEAD AT ’ GALERNG SAFE   Fifth Army Lashes Qut at Enemy on Eighth Day of Big Battle.   8TH ARMY DRAWING NEAR

Newsmen Bridge Gap of 2 Armies   CORRESPONDENTS TRAVEL ROUTE BETWEEN BRITISH, CLARK ARMY IN ITALY

ESTABLISH CONTACT   Correspondents Travel From Montgomery to Fifth Army

THREE KILLED IN CRASH OF GLIDER   MOTORLESS PLANE FALLS UNSEEN 10 MILES FROM OLNEY

April War Bond Drive Will Ask Millions Here.   County’ s Quota Is Likely To Be Near $5 000,000 Mark

April War Bond Drive Will Ask Millions Here  County’s Quota Is Likely To Be Near  ae Foe FP mH UCC ACL

AFL Hears Talk By Legion Chief   Austin-Wadsworth Bill Advocated

STRIKE TIES BOMBERS   Walking Out in Plant Making Engines for B-29

Democrats Laud Message by FDR   Unifying influence Seen in Review

Solons Praise Speech   Demo Praise More Vig. orous Than GOPs But All Agree FDR Message Offers’ Inspiration

Silver Leaders ‘Predict New Trouble Ahead   Doughton Appoints House Unit To Study All Bills

Allies Standing  Near Victory  Roosevelt Avers  F.R. Optimistic On Date of   Atlantic Chartet

FDR Reaffirms His Belief In ~ ‘Atlantic Pact —   Extenson Of Social - Security Law Also "Is Advocated 

UNITED NATIO  ON THRESHOLD BIG DEVELOPMENTS SAYS ROOSEVELT   President States That W« Are Fighting To Re  ‘move All Oppressior Intollerance.

President Says United Nations on Threshold of Major Developments ‘In War, Determined on Total Victory

AKG BROADER  CEGURITY LAV   Says Allies Determined te Gain Victory Over Axis For World Freedom.   ‘AXIS NOT ONLY ENEMY?’

FDR SAYS UNITED NATIONS ON VERGE OF BIG. UNFOLDING   Statement Comes As U. 5. Honors Anniversaries Of Atlantic Charter,  Security Law

United Nations ‘Stand at Threshold of  Major Developments,’ Roosevelt States

Allies On Threshold Major War  Development   Roosevelt Reaflirms Belief In Atlantic Charter; Extension Of Social Security Asked

F.R. Reaffirms Charter Stand   President's Statement Declares Allies to Press World Freedom

BIG DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR DUE, FDR PROCLAIMS TODAY   Says Allies Now, Stand Upon the Threshold of Majer Developments in War

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DECLARES ALLIES STAND ON THRESHOLD OF MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR   Reaffirms Belief in Atlantic Charter Pledging Tc Establish World Freedom. Allies Determined Tc Gain Total Victory Over Axis

FDR: “Maj jor Developments”  In War Ready   Makes Forecast Of Events Of . Great Importance On 2nd Charter Anniversary

President Roosevelt, Declaring the Allies Stand on Threshhold of Major Developments in War, Reaffirms Atlantic Charter Pledges

F.R. Reaffirms  :  Charter Pledges  Allies ‘On Threshold’ Of Major Action

PRESIDENT IN NEW PLEDGE. OF VICTORY      Made on Second Anniversary of Atlantic Charter

Allies “Stand on Threshold of Developments in This — War” President Declares   REAFFIRMS FAITH IN CHARTER VOWS   says Allies Determined to Gain Total Victory; Urges Expansion Social Security Law

Major Events Are Impending, President Says   Reaffirms Faith In Atlantic Charter On Anniversary

WORLD FREEDOM GOAL OF ALLIES   FDR REAFFIRMS HIS FAITH IN PROPOSALS OF ATLANTIC CHARTEF

F.D. Predicts Total Victory   President Says Major Developments Near

Reaffirms Belief in Charter   FDR Commemorates Second Anniversary of Signing of Atlantic Charter and Eighth Birthday Social Security

Extending Of Benefits Urged By Roosevelt   Broader Social Security Program, Collaboration With Other Nations Are Asked By President

F.R. Sees Big Allied Victory   PRESIDENT SAYS ONWARD-DRIVING UNITED NATIONS “ON THRESHOLD OF MAJOR WAR DEVELOPMENTS; WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN”

Allies ‘ Pp eecyttee Poised For. Great Moves   President Reaffirms * Belief In Atlantic Charter

fies All Mount Etna Possession  In Pledge Of Allied Army   FDR Reaffirms Beliefin — Charter Pledace

FOR REAFFIRMS ALLIED PLEDGE   Major War Developments Are Pending, Says President

Knox Reveals U. S. Subs Have Sunk Or Damaged Total of 460 Jap Ships

721 JAP VESSELS DESTROYED BY US. SINCE WAR BEGAN   1479 Ships Have Been Sunk Probably Sunk or Dam-. aned.

Submarines destroy 98  enemy ships   Americans sink Japanese vessels

KNOX REPORTS ON ‘U. §. SUB SINKINGS   721 Ships Of All Types Sunk Since Pearl Harbor

Action halts rollback thru measure extending commodity credit life   Proposal designed to avoid cutting prices farmers paid

L NOW GOES HOUSE FOR APPROVAL   ower Hiked  Ilion Dollars  es Borrowing

SETS NEW PRICE STANDARD FOR FARM PRODUCTS   Bill Goes to House for Compromise

VOTE 10 DENY OPA RIGHTS 10 MAKE PAYMENT   Upper Chamber Action Similar to That Taken Previously by House

Solons Reject Use of Funds For Rollback   Act to Prevent Price Cuts Moving Back to Farmers

Act To P revent On Commodities      “Amendment To- ccc: Bill Protects F: armers  From Slashes In* Pay -

Allied Planes Wage Assault on Enemy Base   Jap Warehouses Ars Demolished in Aerial Raid

Yank Carrier Forces Blast At Marshalls   Pacific Attack May Presage Another Invasion; American Subs Sink 11 More Jap Cargo Ships

‘11 More Jap Vessels Sunk  By U. S. Suhs   Big U.S. Losses Claimed By Japs in Reporting Marshall Raid Earlier  DETAILS WITHHELD

Navy Planes Bomb Japs On Marshalls   U.S. Subs Smk 1] More Nip Cargo Vessels

YANK SINK MERC  U-BOATS 11 MORE   Aussie Tanks Force Jap Retreat on

American Submarines Sink 11 More Jap Ships;  Gain in New Guinea   New Blows in Pacific Revealed on Eve Of Second Anniversary of Pearl Harbor;  Foe Also Pushed Backward on Bougainville

Altack — Believed to Presage Another MidPacific Invasion, Australian Troops Gain On Huon Peninsula In New Guinea. leven Jay Ships Sunk

Foe Liquidated Says Stalin in Victory Order  70,000 Germans Reported Killed  In Summer Drive

“Complete Liquidation’ ‘Of Germans’  Julv Drive   Stalin Issues Order Of Day Commending Three Generals And Their Armies

Stalin Acclaims Liquidation Of Nazi Offensive   Soviet Premier Congratulates Gen erals Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Popuy, Fo Decisive Victory In Orel-Kursk Secto:

JOSEPH STALIN SAYS GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN JULY LIQUIDATED  NAZIS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST 70,000 OFFICERS AND MEN

Stalin Puts Out Liquidation Order   Fierce Battle of Attrition Rages in 12th Day in Orel Sector

Victory Is. Announced hy Stalin   ‘His Message Says 70,000 En. "  emy Officers and Men Were Killed   2,900 TANKS WERE . WRECKED, DISABLED   Says Nazis Did Not Take Reds by Surprise; Counter Blows Also Dealt

Premier Lauds Red Generals In Offensive   Russian Troops Storm Across River In Drive  On Orel

GIVEN RED ARMY CHIEFS BY STALIN   Praises Three Generals on “Complete “Liquidation”  of _ the German July” Offensive, —Says 70,000 Nazis: Killed.

Russians Smash Across River "  East Of Orel —   Also Make New Gains North And ‘South Of Besieged City.

Stalin Reports “Complete Liquidation” of Nazi July Drive: Foe’s Toll 70.000   Honors 3 Generals for Thumph Over Big German Force

STALIN LAUDS “LIQUIDATION’ OF NAZI DRIVE   Says in Order of the Day 70,000 German Troops Have Been Killed—2,900  , Tanks Among Battle  ” Casnalties.

Stalin Lauds His Generals F or Victory   Sends Order of Day On Contgratulation for Liquidation of Attempt

OFFENSIVE SMASHED   Stalin Congratulates His Army on Checking Nazi Summer Drive

Liquidate Nazis-Stalin   Russian Premier Issues An Order Of The Day To His Generals

STALIN REPORTS NAZI OFFENSIVE IS LIQUIDATED   Premier's Order of The Day Says The German Summer Offensive Has Been “Completely Liquidated.”

)Ners Congratulations in Order of The Day to Three Generals Who Directed Assaults   ib, (00 ENEMY DIE -1N SUMMER ATTACK   Message From Premie) Lists 2,900 Nazi Tanks, S44 Guns, 1,392 Planes,  3000 Trucks Wrecked

Stalin Congratulates “His _ Artny on Checking Nazi Summer Drive ~

STALIN. GALLS T LIQUIDATION   Congratulates Russian Generals on Success of July Offensive.   70,000 NAZIS ARE KILLED

Allied Bombers Rip Sicily For 6th Day In Rov   ‘Shuttle Service’ From North Africa Steps Up

AIRDROMES: KEY TARGETS UNDER HEAVY ATTACKS   Catania Hard Hit By Liberators In Daylight Assault

APMY CASUALTIES IN ITALY TOTAL 8,307   Only 511 Listed Now as Killed in Action

U.S. CASUALTIES IN ITALY TOTAL 8,307   511 Known To Have Been Killed - - 5.428 Wounded 

VENICE AREA RAIDED BY U. S. FORTRESSES FLYING 1,200 MILES   C(RULLETIN)

Nazis Blasting Installations at Port 160 Miles Beyond Rome   J, 8. Forts Seal Reopened Brenner Pass Rail Bottleneck   1295 Yanks Killed in

But Only511 Men Listed As Killed   5,428 American Sdldiers _ Wounded and 2,368 Missing °   U. 8. LOSSES LARGER THAN THE BRITISH

Casualties Total For Fighting In ttaly Released   More Than 1,200 Kilied, Many Wounded and 2,400 Men Missing in Action

IREPORT ON CASUALTIES   Army Lists 511 Killed in Action at Landing on Salerno

0,307 CASUALTIES FOR U. S, ARMY SINCE SALERNO   Only 511, However, Listed as Kill. ed in Action, According to Report from Stimson

311 AMERICANS DIE IN ITALY      Stimson Gives Losses In Four Weeks’ Fight

Army Losses In Italy Set At 8307 Men   Stimson Reports U. S. Casualties

Month’s Battle Losses In Italy Light—Stimsor   U. §. Dead Total Only “511, He Says; 8,307 Wounded Missing

US Casualties Since Salerno  Total 8,307   511 Killed; Losses Above British

ARMY CASUALTIES IN 4 WEEKS 8.207   511 Killed in Action in ttaly Since Landings Began —Stimson.

CASUALTIES LIGHT   Only 511 Americans Killed Thus Far In Italian Campaign

GERMANS LOSE AREA COMMAND ORDERED HELD   ‘Docks at Leghorn and Pes cara Demolished In Effort to Prevent Out  flanking Maneuvers   ‘BRITISH ADVANCE FIVE MILES IN SNOW   Capture German-Destroyed Rionero, 10 Miles From Isernia: Also Sweep Up Sanegro River

511 Killed At Salerno   Stimson Reports On Casualties So Far; 8,307 Dead, Wounded, Missing

Yank Casualty List in Italy Totals 8307   ONLY 511 KILLED IN U. S. CAMPAIGN FOR SALERNO, NAPLES

Allies Nab Mt. Croce  in Drive   CLARK’S TROOPS MOP UP ENEMY POCKETS IN HILLS AS NEW HEIGHTS FALL

O11 Killed In  Italian Area   War Secretary Stimson Says 5.428 Americans Wounded, 2.368 Missing.

307 CASUALTIES OCCUR IN ITAL’   511 Killed, 5428  Injurec With 2368 Missing Stimson Announces.

ARMY CASUALTIES ~ SINGE SEPTEMBER 9 NOW TOTAL 8,307   Of This Number 511 Listed as Killed in Action, Says Sec. Stimson.   9,428 WERE WOUNDED   Casualties Are Somewhat Greater Than Those Suffered by the British.

CLARK’S LOSSES FIXED AT 8,307   U.S. Casualties Since Salerno Landing

8,307 U.S.  Casualties In Italy   American Losses Are Somewhat Heavier Than Those of British

Yankees Lose 8307 in Italy   Of This Number Only 511 Are Killed, Stimson Reports

.(Turn to ITALY, Page 6) Army Casualties 8;307. .. Since Landings At Salerno

OPA PLANG TD CUT EEF AND LAMB PRIGks   New Retail Ceilings Will Go Into Effect May 17; "Drops Living Cost.   SCHEDULES TO STRIKE AT BLACK MARKETS

CHECOTAH AREA IS NEARING GOAL IN FUND DRIVE   Expect To 'o Reach Quota Within Next Two “Weeks

RUSSIAN ARMIES CHEERED ON BY STALIN'S PRAISE   Red Forces Also Driving Deeper Into Ukraine As Premier Says Invaders Must Be Driven Completely Out Of Rus sila.

102 AXIS DIVISIONS DESTROYED, STALIN TELLS RED TROOPS   More Than 200,000 Captured, ‘He Says tn Order Praising Russian Armies   WE URGES THEM: ONWARD

Stalin Calls On Nation To Expel Nazis   Russia's Tremendous Offen: sive Pushing Deeper Into Ukraine Breadbasket

TWO WARSHIPS -OF U. S. SUNK OFF SALERNO   15.00-Ton Destroyer Rowan, Tug Nause! Lost in Mediterranean, ’ Tug Navajo in So. Pacific   ALL NEW VESSELS   Navy Communique Says No Cas. ually Reports Yet Received from Rowan or Nausel

Navy Discloses Destroyer Lost   Rowan Reported Sunk {In Italian Waters

Threaten Outflank of Italy’s: Second Greatest Port from — North—Mosqu toes Rake Berlin Third Night—  Nazi Lines Crumble in Russia—_  ‘Lae Falls to Allies

Landing Cost 2 Warships  . «+ Destroyer, Tug Lost At Galerna. Narw Saws

Destroyer Is Lost In Fight   Total Of Three Ships Sunk In Mediterranean

U.S. Lost Two Ships in Invasion   Destroyer Rowan And Tug Were Sunk

U.S. Airmen Strike Axis Cruelly   incessant Attacks Cause Ruin of Many Enemy} Vehicles, Tanks, Inflict Great Cacuntties: Total Score Is Tremendous

Draft Reported Made for New World Structure   Detailed Problems Are Believed Left For Future Meetings

‘Commander of Japanese Garrison On Attu Is  © Cited Posthumously —

LATE COMMANDER OF ATTU JAPS’ HONORED   Awarded Medal for Suicide Stand in Aleutians

\Nazi Withdrawal on Russian Front Ranks with Dunkerque Has Taken on Nature of a Rout

ANALYSE SAYS  Nazi Disaster Looms i in Russia  1  Costliest ‘of Retreats Is Ce certain

be war today  German Withdrawal In Russia Ranks As Pivotal Crisis Of War,

The War Todey Nazi Retreat In Russia Much Like the Rout. at Dunkerque

HITLER COUNTS ON DNIEPER TO GAIN HIM TIME   Mackenzie Ranks Retreat in Russia with Dunkerque ’ Pivotal Crisis

The War Today—  Sees Withdrawal Of Germans From Russia As Ranking With Dunkerque

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   German Armies’ Retreat From Russia Proving War Turning Point

All Agencies Urged To Help Enforce Ban   Added Fuel Restriction Expected to Add More Than 1,500,000 Gailons Daily   DEFINITION IS COMING

DWINDLING GAS SUPPLIES BRINGS END TO EAST'S  PLEASURE DRIVING  Fuel Oil In Non-Residential Establishments Cut -' To 45 Per Cent of Normal

STRINGENT EDICT HITS MOTORISTS   Order Effective At Noon Today; Fuel Oil Is Cut

If It’s For Fun, You Can’t Use Your Car.... @ a Non-Residential Fuel 8 s Oil Is Drastically Cut

CUT IN HEATING OIL IN EASTERN STATES ORDEREL   Pleasure Driving Ban Is Effective Throughout East

“If It’s Fun It’s Out’’ New Rule for Gasoline Users  In Atlantic Area

BAN PLEASURE DRIVING IN 17° SEABOARD STATES; CUT HEATING OIL USE

OIL CUT AFFECTS SCHOOLS, SHOPS   Churches, Theatres Also Curtailed; No More Driving for Fun

Fuel Oil Ban Blow to East   Schools, Theaters, Stores, Must Choose Between Shorter Hours And Low Temperatures

HEATING OIL — COT ORDERED   Schools, Churches, Stores ‘May Curial Hours or Continue on Cool Basis

Persons Motoring to Theatres Races and Amasenent Places Will Lose Rations

Pleasure Driving Forbidden . In 17 Eastern States; Use Of Fuel Oil. Sharply Cut

Dwindling Supplies Bring Cut InUse Of Fuel Oil And Put An End To All Pleasure Driving

PLEASURE DRIVING IS BANNED IN EAST   Shortages ‘Also Responsible For Cooling Homes

Fuel Oil Use In East Cut Still More   OPA Issues Stringent Edict; Driving for Pleasure Prohibited

DRIVING FOR FUN IS BANNED IN EAST IN DRIVE TO SAVE GAS   Fuel Oil Rations Also Slashed Because Of Dwindling Supplies; Motorists Disobeying Edict Face Cancellation Of Ration.

KIMMEL AND SHORT CASE DELAY VOTED   Senate Approves Plan Extending Deadline 6 Months

Demands Action Against Officers   Says Charges Should Be Filed At Once

Pear! Harbor chiefs given 6monthsstay   Kimmel, Short may yet be tried

FOR FOOD STUDY   Assignment Would Take Him _ Abroad: Davis May Get Cabinet Post

WICKARD MAY QUIT CABINET   President Plans Sending Secretary Abroad On Food Mission To Aid Output

Program for North Africa Urged  Wickard May Help Coordinate Allies’ Food Production Plans

WICKARD MAY GET NEW JOB   To Be Named to Help Coordinate Allied Food Production, Report

Wickard May Get Internationa! Food  Co-Ordinator Job   Commission Would Include Work in Russia, England, North Africa

WIGKARD MAY GET NEW POST   May Be Asked By FDR To Take Commission To Help Co-ordinate Food Production Programs of United Nations.

May Be Asked By FDR To Take Commission To Help Co-ordinate Food Production Programs of United Nations.

Wickard Slated For a New Post In Food Setup   Secretary of Agriculture Believed about To Resign

See. Wickard May Get Major War-Food Job   May Be Co-ordinator Of Food Production For U. S.. Britain. Russia

Brown Proceeds With Rollback Despite Protests   _ Meat Subsidies For Packers Announced;  Corn Is Released —

Ann :unce Sub: ‘dies  For  ‘leat      Brown Uo ® Ahead with   ~ € . Programs Seck to Open Corn Market

Administration Moves Against Foes to Hold Line Against Inflation   OPA Goes Ahead on Program to Roll Back Retail Meat, Butter and Coffee Prices Through Subsidies

THREE MOVES 10 CHECK INFLATION   Price, Defense, Credit Organ: izauons In Plans to Protect Food Corn

Brown Starts Move to Curb Inflation   Sen. Robt. Taft Says OPA Chief TIac Nig Antharity

Administration Moves to Hold Against Inflation   Congressional: Opposition Is Firm —

DIVORCE ASKED IN COURT ACTION   One Decree Is Granted; One Divorce Suit Dropped; Judgment Paid

CONSTRUCTION OF WILL ASKED   Executor of Henry Deafner Estate Files Suit; Divorce Asked by Roby Cox

Three Days More To Sell $9,000 War Stamps And Bonds In Stores   List Of Stores In Order Of Sales Reported

BOND SALE DRIVE IN FINAL STARE   Committees Working ‘Hard To Make Sure of Going Over Quota .

Vuhdrawal Of Troop: from Rome Is One Of Requirements O} International Law

Italians Declare Rome ~ Now Is An Open City; ~ Await Allied Decision

TO DECLARE ROME AN OPEN CITY NOW   The Italian Government Is Taking Necessary Steps to This Effect.

Italian Government Acts As Sicilian Line Caves And Germans Flee Battle Fronts

Second Raid Indicated Spur to Act   Reuters Quotes Italian News Agency as Reporting Plan of 3adsglie Government   WILL NOT DELAY   Battle for Italy Seen as Taking Shape in Stepped-up Aerial Blows

ALLIES PURSUE BEATEN FOE AS VICTORY NEARS   SUICIDE REARGUARDS GIVE GROUND UNDER RELENTLESS ATTACKS

Congress Is Clearing Way For Vacation   Legislative Action Expect ed This Week on Appropriation Bills   N. Y. A. IN SPOTLIGHT

RECESS PLANS FOR CONGRESS. BRING SPEEDED   Goes to Work On Appropriation Measures Totalling $115,000,000,000 As Week Gets Underway   FIGHT DUE ON NYA   Unusual Precaution to Be Taken of Empowering Majority or Minority to Reconvene Legislature

HABEAS WRIT IS DENIED 10 H. BRIDGES   Longshore Chief To Appeal To U. S. Supreme Court

Bridges’ Move to Shun Order Denied   ‘Attorney-General Biddle’s Edict Is Upheld in Decision by Federal Judge

Harry Bridges Loses Again    Federal Judge Denies His Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus

Judge Rejects Bridges’ Petition On Deportation   Longshore Chief Will Appeal To Supreme Court Against Biddle Order

Former Newspaper Reporter Says He Once Told Phillips of $8,000 Payoff For Dr. Eisminger Parole

$8,000 Deal Brought To His Attention  Clemency Sold - “Wholesale”

19 Convicts Flee  From Penitentiary Bank Robber Believed  Leader; Watchman Is Overcome, Guard Hurt

'PRISON ESCAPE FOR 19   Mississippi Institution Hag Largest Break in History

19 Flee Prison In Mississippi   Overpower Night Watchman And Injure Guard In Biggest Break.

NINETEEN FLEE PENITENTIARY IN TENNESSEE      White Convicts Overpower Night-Watchman and Seriously Injure Guard   Hit Guard. Over Head  With Gun When He Re-.  sists Demand for Keys -. to Automobile -

Nineteen Convicts Escape from Prison   Overpower Guards And Steal Truck

EXPRESSION FROM ENTIRE HOUSE ON RUML BILL ASKED   Republican Members ot Congress Serve Notice They Will Demand This Action.

Republicans Lead Ruml Plan Drive   Want. Expression - From Full House On Tax Appeal

REPUBLICANS TO ASK EXPRESSION ON RUML’S PLAN      “Want Honse To Speak On Plan Not Bound By Action Of Committee

GOP TO DEMAND RUML PLAN VOTE   House Committee Favors 20 Per Cent Withholding Tax Gn Incomes

PRICE CASES ARE HEARD BY PANEL   Promise to Abide by Regulations

PRICE CASES ARE HEARD BY PANEL   Three Alleged Violators Promise to Abide by Reaulations

MILK DISTRIBUTORS ARE NOW ON SPOT   If They Pay Higher Prices Nov. 1 OPA May Act—lf They Don’t, State May Prosecute Them

Pa. Milk Distributors Consider Conflicting Commission, OPA Orders

CIO WOULD REPEAL ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Murray Says His Union Will Try To Enlist Public Support To Win Back Congress

‘French Revolt ;  Ready, Asserts Gen. DeGaualle   Poputace of Algiers Hails Bastille Day First Time Since *:10 Arensseticn

POINT TABLE “ON MEAT, FSH 18 ANNOUNGED   One-Point Increase in Man $teaks and Roasts to Come in May.   CANNED FISH iS CUT   The New Table Goes. Into Effect Just After Midnight Sunday.

POINT TABLE WW MEAT, sh ~~ {8 ANNOUNCED   Oue-Point Iucrease in’ Mani . Steaks’ and Roasts to  “, Come in May.: . -. oer a te E a ue.      CANNED FISH IS. CUT   The New. Table ‘Goes- Into Effect Just After Mid--_ “night Sunday. “ee

NAME WORKERS FOR FUND DRIVE   Chairmen For Outlying Communities Are Selected

Allied Invasion Forces Surge Forward Against Stiff Axis Resistance.  16 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN 24 HOURS  American Fortresses Distribute Tons of Bombs Over Italy.

Seize 13° More Towns  In Sicily ~ *   Surge Forward Against Desperate Axis Resistance

British And  French Gain Near Mateur   Montgomery’s Maneuver Cuts Down Battleline

All-Out Drive Seen For Africa   Weather Hampers Tunisian Campaign

Weather Delays  Tunisia Smash  No Change Reported In Land Fight; Bombers Remain Active

BRITISH: IN HOT PURSUIT AFTER ROMMEL FORCE   Eighth Army Pierces Enemy's Hill And Wadi Lines North Of Gabes   AMERICANS MOVE EAST   Allied Aerial Forces Bag 79 Planes And Sink 17 Ships In Convoy

6,000 Axis Prisoners Captured By Allies In Furious Ground Action

500 Guns Bombard Axis Defense Zone:  6000 Taken Captive   All Key Positions In Enemy Line Are Seized By British Infantry; Heavy Attack Opened By Yanks

i fi            British Report Captur More Than 6,000 Pt  oners,   AMERICAN ARMY ©: ALSO ATTACKIN          Next Defense . Area’ Maj

ROMMEL, ROUTED IN HEAVY ATTACK, FLEES NORTHWARD   British Capture 6,000 Axis Prisoners and Take All Defense Positions at Wadi El Akarit.

Rommel Driven From Defenses   Allies Seize 6,000 Prisoners; American Troops Launch Offensive

Montgomery Smashes Wedge In Africa Corps Defenses; Prisoners Pouring To Rear

Heavy Shelling Drives Nazis From EI Akarit Defenses   Americans Lash Out in Push East From El Guetar

Montgomery's Army Breaks Through His Hill, Wadi Defense   Americans Press Nazi  From—West as Yankees Mop Up

Yanks Advance in Rommel Squeeze   Americans Mopping Up North of Maknassy —Rommel Retreating With Montgomery In Hot Pursuit, Churchill Declares  6,000 Axis Prisoners Taken

EIGHTH ARMY CRACKS NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Americans Mop Up German Force Near Maknassy   Taken In New Offensive: Yanks Only 28 Miles From Coastal Road

Enemy Loses Wadi El Akarit Defense Zone   Allied Infantry Makes Charge With Bayonets in Tunisia

Red Army Hurls Back Two New German Thrusts on Donets River; Gain in  Almost Every Area

British overwhelm hill defenses, roar into desert country   Americans launching great new attacks in co-ordinated squeeze

Americans, British Open New Coordinated Drives; 5 000 Italians Captured

Fox Is Driven From His Last Natural Lines   Montgomery’s Doughty Warriors Pursuing Remnants Of Army “Toward Sfax

BRITISH REPULSE VIOLENT GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS   Many Prisoners ers Taken; Chur chill Says British Armor in Oven Country

Sth Army Takes 5,000 Captives In New Thrust   Americans Push Ahead In El Guetar, _ Maknassy Sectors, Only 28 Miles From Axis Retreat Road; New Victory Hailed by Churchill.

British, Americans Press Routed Troops   8th Army Drives Enemy From Wade El Akarit On to Open Plain; U. S. Troops Push Squeeze On Rommel’s Flank.

U.S. And British Both Engaged In New Offensives   Eighth Army Breaks Through Axis Defense North Of Gabes; Air Offensive Continues

Montgomery Launches Assault with Heavy Bombardment of Axis Line, Followed by Infantry Capturing Two Hills  ‘ieee «<p «am NU cto ins Chg,   U. S. FORCES ALSO ATTACK   Advance After Desperate Assaults on on Strongly Entrenched Artillery—Forces to North Cut Toward Coastal Road   Churchill Savs Romme! Fleece

VETERAN BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IN NEW SMASHING VICTORY   MORE THAN 6,000 PRISON. ERS CAPTURED AND ALL KEY POSITIONS TAKEN

Six Thousand Priscners Left Behind by German Flight— Patton Hurls U.S. Troops on Flank

Americans Mopping Up North of Maknasay —Rommel Retreating With Montgomery In Hot Pursuit, Churchill Declares  —6,000 Axis Prisoners Taken

Americans Advance East Of El Guetar; British Capture More Than 5,000 Prisoners   Heavy Attack Launched By Second American Army Corps Is Successful; Montgomery Drives Wide Wedge Into Enemy Line

Sth Army Breaks Through German’s Defense, Takes Hill   American Troops Mop Up Enemy North of Maknassy Today, Tighten Rommel Squeeze

Onrushing British Capture 5000 . Prisoners, Mostly Italians; Montgomery In Hot Pursuit, Says Churchill

Rommel Flees Northward and Allies Pursue   Americans Lash Out Toward Sea; Reds Hold at Kharkov

British Hold Captured  Hills, U. S. Drives On in Effort to Join Montgomery

Rommel Defenses Smashed   Bighth Army and Yankee Troops Move Forward in Co-ordinated Squeeze   - AXIS FORCES ARE “FPLERFING NORTH   British in Hot -Pursuit; 5,000. Prisoners, . Mostly Ttalians, Captured

‘MORE THAN 6,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED FROM WADI EL ‘AKARIT DEFENSE ZONE   Prime Minister Church ll Tells Commons “Rommel’s Army Is N »w Retreating Northward And Being Hotly Puts :ed.’”” Gen. Patton’s ° Forces Driving Toward Coast

Africa Corps Retreats Over Open Country   U. S. Forces Under General Patton Drive Hard For Junction With Allies.   GUNS POUND GERMANS

6,000 German Troops Taken by 8th Army   Montgomery Drives Desert Fox from Strong Defense Zone at E! Akarit

Smashing New Victory For — Eighth Army   Americans Lash Out in Heavy Attack from El Guetar Sector; Reds Crush Nazi Assaults on Kharkov Front

American Troops Threatening Foe’s Rear In Offensive   Heavy Artillery Bombardment Prepares Way For Assault; Allied Airmen Sink 17 Ships And Down 27 More Planes

ROMMEL’S LINE BREAKS UNDER BRITISH ATTACK   Yank Forces Mop Up and Drive Ahead To Tighten Squeeze on Fleeing Nazis   BAYONETS PUT INTO USE   Aerial War Over Tunisia Is Maintained and Supply Lines to Enemy Blasted

Yanks And British Drive To Wipe Out Axis Force   British Balked  In Burma

British And U. 5. Forces Tighten Ring Around Foe   Thousands Of Prisoners Taken In Tunisia; Convovs Wrecked

CRACK NAZIS’ DEFENSE LINE AT EL AKARIT   U. S. Forces Lash Out In Heavy Attack on Road to Sea

Lifting of Driving Ban Depends on Way Public Conserves Dwindling Gas   Use of Cars for Pleasure September 1 Will Be Permitted Only if Present Restrictions Are Obeyed between Now and Then; Rations for Southwest and Middle West Reduced   Statement hw toeke«   Western Pennsylvania Gas Shortage Forces Many More Stations To Close

OHIO INCLUDED IN NEW RULING FOR MIDWEST   Eastern States, Getting Along With 14%-gallons for A Coupons Will Benefit:

y Mexico Gas ion Slashed h ‘Southwest  iddle West Also Maced: Value of A,   C Coupons Same iCTIVE MONDAY bids Out Hopes  astern Drivers  ) ill Get More

MIDDLE WEST GAS REDUCED   Of ficial Announcement Cuts Coupon Value To 3 Gallons Monday

May Lift Ban On Pleasure Autos Sept.    Price Administration Announces Cut ‘ .In Value of Ration Coupons in Middle West and Southwest

Ickes Promises Shakeup In Gas Rationing Soor  Pleasure Driving Ban Ir   Pleasure Driving Ban In East May Be Lifted By First Of Month

C242 — CL SES - =0€ dary icing  2 erste. >fiviIg an; Says) ‘Fay <e: nave, %es—iccion Seri. 

Pleasure Driving Ban May Be Lifted Sept. 1, Bowles States   Restrictions to be Observed for. Balance of Month,  ain Officiol Seys—Gos Ration Coupons in Middle West Cut

ONLY 3 GALLONS THEN PERMITTED   Bowles Says Eastern Pleasure Driving Ban May Be Lifted Sept. 1

Cut Effective At Noon Monday OPA Announces   Coupons Dropped From A to 3 Cal in Middle Areas.

Gasoline allotment values in midwest drastically slashed   25 percent reduction in effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday. OPA announces

Gas Coupon Value Cut  In Southwest And Mid-West   Pleasure Driving Ban In East May Be Lifted First of September  If Drivers Co-operate  WESTERN REDUCTION EFFECTIVE MONDAY  Possibility Held Out Fast May Get Increase  T afe. sey Sanfacn han

Value Of Coupons In Eastern States May Also Be In~ creased Next Month   WESTERN AREAS ARE GIVEN CUT IN GAS

OPA Moves On Equalizer Plan   Lifting Of Driving  Ran In Enct Seen

MIDWEST CAR FUEL QUOTAS DROP MONDAY   Order Will Reduce Occupational Driving, but Will Not Affect Hometo-Work Mileage.   SOME ELIGIBLE FOR MORE STAMPS   East’s Allowance Un.changed for Present— May Lift Ban on Pleasure Trips in Northeast.

GAS COUPON CUT ONE GALLON WEEK  Motorists Now Get - Only Three A Week

Cape Gloucester Sector is Invaded by 2 Yank Forces;  Major Strait. Dominated

U. S. Pincers   Aimed At Rabaul   No Men Lost in Establishing Beachheads ‘At Cape Gloucester; Heavy Sea Ard Air Bombardment Precedes Attack

NOT AMAN ISLOSTIN 2 LANDINGS   Mighty Force Of U. S. Marines Land; 61 Jap Planes Are Shot Down

U.S. MARINES IN TWO ADDITIONAL NEW BRITAIN LANDINGS  TWO BEACHHEADS ESTAB LISHED AT CAPE GLOUCES TER WITHOUT LOSS MAI

SECOND . FRONT IS ESTABLISHED ON NEW BRITAIN   Landings Give Allied Forces New Foothoid In Threat To Rabaul

NOT A SINGLE MAN LOST WHEN MIGHTY FORCE SWARMS ASHORE ON WESTERN TIP. OF BIG ISLAND   Japanese Offers Serious Aerial Opposition and Sank One Small Allied Escort Ship, But Lost 36 Bombers .and:25 Fighters. Jap Emperor Says  War le Sarniane

Second Front For Invasion  Of Stronghold.   Landings Made on Western Tip; Japs Sink One Vessel

Beachheads Firmly Established With Loss of One Allied Ship, Three Others Damaged   NOT A MAN LOST      Jap Destroyer. Two Cargo Ships Sunk as Allied Airmen, War ships Pound Enemy Bases

MARINES MAKE MORE LANDINGS: ON CAPE GLOUCESTEE   Both Beachheads Firmly Established Without Loss of a Man   ONE U. S. SHIP IS SUNK

LANDINGS MADE BY VETERANS OF GUADALCANAL   Surprise Move Carried Through Yesterday Without Loss of   Single Man   AERIAL AND NAVAL BLOWS OPEN-UP WAY   Once Ship Lost, Three Damaged and Seven Planes Missing In Operations; 61 Jap Planes Bagged

Marines In Twin Landings   ' Swarm Ashore Above And Below Base At  - Cape Gloucester Without Loss of a Man

Go Ashore At Two Places   Not a Man Lost After Terrific Pounding Of Jap Stronghold

2 BEACHHEADS ARE SECURED IN TWO HOURS   Not a Single Life Lost At Gloucester, Says  MacArthur

Simultaneous Landings On New Britain   Within Two Hours United States Marines Swarm Ashore on Cape   'NO CASUALTIES LISTED

New Invasion Front Opened Against Japar   Marines Make Two New Landings Without Loss Of A Man

U. §. MARINES LAND ON WEST END OF ISLAND   Simultaneous Attacks Launched in Area of Cape Gloucester

Coordination And Timing ‘Was Perfect   After a Tertific fic Bombard. ‘ment and Aerial “As. -* sault, Marines Landec  Withéut Casualties. :             AIR BATTLE.

2 New Landings MadeBy Marines   Not A Man Lost In Invasion Of New Britain At Cape Gloucester

'Beachheads Seized Without Loss; Jap Rabaul Stronghold ‘Menaced by New Landings

Proven Troops Swarm Ashore At Two Points   Large Invasion Force Firmly Establishes Both Beachheads Without Loss Of A Man; Long Island Is Occupied

Veterans of Guadalcanal Storm Cape Gloucester;  Beachheads Established

Marines Ashore On Western Tip   Simultaneous Landings Made on Cape Gloucester — Both Beachheads Are Established Without Loss of Single Man—One Small Ship Lost, 3, Damaged

FRONT SETAE   U.S. Marines Swarm Ashore In Two Landings at Cape Gloucester.   VETS OF GUADALCANAL

No Men Lost Ir Double Landings On New Britain   Mighty American Force Advances Toware Cape Gloucester Airdrome; Invasion Covered By Heavy Bombardment

Western Tip Of New Britain Seized by Yanks   New Beachheads Secured Without Loss of a Man

Two Landings Completed Without Loss Of A Man; 1 Ship Lost, 3 Damaged

Effect Landing On New Britain With No Losses   Establish Second Front On Jap Island Stronghold In Southwest Pacific

MARINES WIN 2 NEW HOLDS IN CAPE AREF   Beach-Heads Established In Gloucester Sector; U.S. Loses No Troops

2 New U. S. Landings On - New Britain   Marines Get Footholds At Cape Gloucester On Western Tin.

Guadalcanal Veterans in New Attack:   Jap Plane ‘Attack on Beaches Beaten with Heavy Loss Inflicted

AMERICANS ON NEW BRITAIN DRIVE AHEAD  Men Advanc: In Jungles; Jap

NEW FRONT IS SET UP AGAINST JAPANESE. BASE   One U. S. Ship Lost, 3 Damaged; 7 Yankee Planes Are Destroyed

U.S. Forces Storm Ashore On Western Section Of Island In Two Landings -

Japanese Lose 61 Planes Trying To  ‘Stem Invasion   Campaign Presages Alli-ed Command of Outer Bismarck’ Sea, Savs MacArthur.

No Men Lost In Big-Seale Landing Move   36 Jap Bombers And 25 Fighters Shot Down Attempting To Stop American Forces

Second Front On Japanese Pacific Isle   Not a Man Is Lost During Establishing of Dual @ Beachheads

SWARM ASHORE WITHOUT LOSS ATTWO PLACES   Japs Lose 36 Bombers ; Guadalcanal Veterans Participate

Get New Toehold On Isle   We Lose One Ship, Japs 61 Planes  dn Invasion.

Two Landings, — Both Firmly Established          Beachheads Are Secur Without Loss of .a. Man, One Small Ship Lost   61. JAP. PLANES... ; ARE. SHOT: DOWN      Heavy. Bombardment... by. ‘Planes and Ships Accom: ‘panies. New Assault...

Establish Second Invasion Front on Japan Stronghold   Marines Swarm Ashore in Two Landings on Tip of New Britain.   Naval and Air Fire  Accompany Landings

Marines Gain Beachheads Without Loss   61 Planes Lost By Japanese in Effort to Stem Invasion Tide

Marines in Two Dashes on Christmas   Establish Second Invasion Front Without Losing a Man

SECOND INVASION CARRIED OUT AT CAPE GLOUCESTER  JAPANESE LOST 61 Tol AAIPW AR tat Awe Keene   JAPANESE LOST 61 PLANES IN ATTEMPT TO BEAT OFF YANKS

Marines Make Two Landings On New Britain   Both Beachheads Firmly Established Without Loss of Man, Headquarters Says

COMPLETE 2 LANDINGS ON WESTERN TIP   Drives .Made . Simultaneously at Cape Gloucester Without Loss of a man — 61 Jap Planes Are Shot Down.

TEN DIE IN CRASH   Army Bomber Fell 200 Feet af Smoky Hill Base Sunday

ITALY WILL NEED AID   Will Be Long Time Before Country . Will Produce Foodstuffs

Mussolini's Son Reported Killed   Italian Air Ace Also Said Dead

FASCIST BIGWIGS REPORTED KILLED   Slain in Revolt in Italy After Mussolini’s Fall

STATE TRACTORS PLOW 164 ACRES; DISC 470 ACRES   Farmers Given A Lift By State Hichway Tractors :

STATE HIGHWAY AID TO FARMERS   Tractors Owned by State Plow One Hundred Sixty-four Acres ie a Union County Residents

Use Tokens For Change   Red and Blue Plastic Discs To Be Used With Ration Book Number 4

PARATROOPS TAKE ISLAND FROM JAPS   Choiseful Seized, Outfianking Nips On Bougainville

Surprise Blow Seals Off - Bougainville Flank in Solomons Sweep  MOP UP ON MONO Jap Ack-Ack Batteries at      MOP UP ON MONO   Jap Ack-Ack Batteries at Kahili and Kara Are Blasted From Air

Sky-Borne Allies Grab Jap Island ~   Paratroops Land Unopposed on Choiseul Shores

Barge-Borne Yank Paratroopers Land On Choiseul Island   Little Resistance Met From Japs in  Flanking Seizure

JAP-CHOISEUL ISLAND TAKEN   Allied Troops: Strike First. Blow. ot Solomon Campaign on Thursday— Paratroopers Land Unopposed on Southeastern: Coast.

YANK AIRBORNE TROOPS FLANK JAP-HELD ISLE   Land On Choiseul Island To Heighten Peril To Rabaul

LANDING FORCES TRAINED 10 MAKE ATTACK ON BOATS   Invaders Fan Out into the Mountains Along Beach, Find Only Few of 2000 Jan Defenders.   CAMOUFLAGED ALLIES MAKE OTHER LANDINGS   Dawn-Attack on Mono Executed With Precision, Gasualties Reported Few, Mostly Superficial.

SKY-BORNE TROOPS MAKE FIRST. MOVES IN SOLOMONS WAR      Japs Reported, ‘In Full - Retreat To Northern .End Of Last Enemy Stronghold -

JAP EVACUATION OF KISKA MADE BY SUBMARINES      “We Got Quite A Few Of Them,” Vice Admiral Kinkaid Declares   CLEVERLY COVERED ACT   Yank Destroyers Move Right In Midst Of Careless Enemy U-Boats

ROME RADIO ASKS: ABOUT PEACE TERMS   Wants to Know Whether U. § and Britain Will Guarantee Italy’s 1919 Frontiers.

ALLIES QUERIED ON PROGRAM OF PEACE   Italy Wants to Know About Guarantee of 1919 Frontiers

U.5.Is Making Steady Progress On Attu Island «   Heavy. Casualties: ‘Are Reported in’ Tokyo Broadcast

ROMMEL ARMY HIT BY ALLIED AIR ATTACKERS   1 ‘Africa Corps Suffers Cas.  ualties in Several Sec tors, British Communique Reports   TRIPOL! BLASTED   Hits Reported on Railway Station and Military Stores—Fighting Breaks  Qut in Sirte Area

CURTIN EXPECTS OFFENSIVE SOON   Australia’s Prime Minister Sees “Limited And Perhaps Full-Scale” Attack Against Japan.

Curtin Sees Full-Seale Attack On Japs Coming   Australian Prime Minister Optimistic After Conference Witl Gen. MacArthur

Time Near For Pacitic Drive   Australian Prime Minister  Positive Nation Cannot Be Invaded.

CURTIN SAYS TIME NEAR FOR OFFENSIVE WAR   Holding Tactics Imposed on Australia Ai an End, He Says After Seeing MacArthur

Sees Full-Scale Attack On Japs Not Far Away   Australian Chief Believe: Defensive Strategy Te Owar

Offensive Near In Pacific Area Believes Curtin   Defensive Warfare To Give Way to Limited Attacks

TIME NEAR FOR DRIVE AGAINST JAPS-CURTIN   Predicts All-Out Campaign in Pacific Ocean

Australian Premier Says Forces Ready  For All-Out Attack To Smash Japanese

Defensive Warfare In Pacific ‘Soon: To Shift. Offensive Curtin Says

Australians Look Ahead To Offense   (Time Fast Approaching in  Southwest Pacific, Says  Curtin

JAPO MENACE IF AUSTRALIA PAST, BELIEF   Once Pessimistic Curtin Says Allies Preparing To Take Offensive

Australians Look Ahead To Offense   Time Fast Approaching in Southwest Pacific, Says Curtin   Jans Can't Invade

FIRE HITS A HOSPITAL   Indiana Institution for Insane Is Destroyed by Flames

1 Dies in Fire af Insane Hospital  No Casualties Are Reported Among

INMATES ESCAPE HOSPITAL BLAZE   Institution for Insane Is Destroyed by Fire—1,200 Persons Are Guarded

FIRE DESTROYS STATE HOSPITAL AT EVANSVILLE   1200 INMATES FLEE IN NIGHTCLOTHES; EMPLOYE KILLED

Woman Dies In Fire At Asylum  1,200 Patients Are Evacuated Safely

HOSPITAL FOR INSANE BURNS   Woman Employe’s Body Found i Ruins of State Instifution at Ev ansville. El.

1,200 Patients Flee Fire in Indiana's Asylum for Insane   Widow, an Employe, Only Fatality in $3,000,000 Blaze This Morning

GAS RATIONING CHANGES ASKED   Senate Group Paints Gloomy Picture: Asks Centralized Contre!

ARGENTINA 15 REFUSED LENDLEASE BY U.S   SECRETARY OF STATE HULL IN BURSQUE LANGUAGE CHARGES BUENOS AIRES IS AXIS HOT BED.   SAYS ARGENTINA’S “PLEDGE NOT KEPT   Hull Also Notifies Argentine That It Must Remain Outside the United Nation’s Door When the Post War World Is Planned.

NO LEND-LEASE FOR ARGENTINA   Hull Turns Down Bid For Military Aid To Nation

Secretary Hull Refuses Supplies To Argentine   Refusal Made in Exchange With Storni

U.S. Rejects Bid Of Argentina for Lease-Lend Aid  Hull Says Nation Not Assisting in ar “s:6h6Uee ee

Hull Spurns Help for Argentina   That Country’s Acts Do Not Justify Lease-Lend, He Says

Hull Rejects Argentine Bid For U.S. Help   Secretary Turns Down Nation’s Appeal in Brusque Language

NAPLES, SICILY, SARDINIA AMONG POINTS BLASTED   Lorient, Nazi Submarine Base In France, Also Bombarded by Aviators for Allies. .

Many Spots Struck Hard © In Lambast   JAPS BOTTLED UP NOW IN GUADALCANAL, FT IS a REPORTED. 34

NAPLES, SICILY AND SARDINIA ~ BLASTED HARD   British-based Craft Make Heaviest Raid of War Upon Lorient.   War Summary

U.S. FLIERS IN HEAVY RAID ON NAPLES   Believed Made From New Bases At Tripoli

Bombs Rair On Naples; 3 Ships Hit   Sicily and Sardinia Also Raid Targets; -Damave Admitted

HEAVY RAIDS ON CITIES OF ITALY   Submarine Base On French Coast Also Bombed

War Prisoners Exchanged By Japs, Germans  Free Men Grin, Wisecrack As Ships Dock

HEAVY CRUISER, MERCHANT SHIP ARE ALSO HIT   Great Fires Left Burning By Fortresse:

Cruiser, Merchant  Ship Also Blasted   U8. Airmen Kuock Out Backbone: of Italy's Heit gened Fleet and. Wreck Spezia Naval Lastallationg in Mizhiy Aerial “Accault

Americans Blast Warships in Italian Harbor  Heaviest U. S. Blow at Italy

Fifth Seizes Anchor Pots  In Italy Hill   U. S. Bombers Range Up Italian Coasts Aiding  Yank. British Armies.   RUSSIANS MAKE GAENS

5th Army Captures Heights   Advance Four .viil- > Against Stiff Nazi  Resistance; Russians Into Eastern Crimea

BOMBS SMITE ~ NAVAL BASES, PAIL YAPNS   Reds.: Exploit: Coup in Crimea; Strike Japs in Solomons

Allies Within ArtilleryRange Of Venafro   Fifth Army Takes Casanova; United States Bombers Blast Naval Bases of La Spezia and Ancona; Marines land on Bougainville

Reds Land In Crimea; Yanks Take Massicc   Allies Move Within 83 Miles Of Rome

Red Armies Seal Crimea  Death Trap   U. S. Bombers Range Far ‘over Enemy Targets; Eighth Army Reports Gains 

LOFTY ANCHOR POINTS TAKEN FROM NAZIS   Allies Now Within Artil lery Range of Venafro . And Garigliano River 

Chunks Of Maks Line ~ Cantured   Sth Army: Bores Into Lofty » Anchor Points of Enemy - = Positions: in- Italy   HEAVY BOMBERS  “-. RAID: NAVAL BASES         Germans Severely Shaken ‘Aground, Allied Gain Is

Venafro, Center Anchor, Now in Artillery Range   Russians Land at Kerch as Crimea Escape Is Cut Off

YANKS PUSHING NORTHWARD AS NAZIS STIFFEN   British Gain Additional Ground Along Adriatic

Artillery Is Within Range Of Venafro   British Forces Gain Four Miles On Coast

Slav Troops Enter Udine “Area of Italy   - Half of Albania Reported Retaken By Revolutionists

PATRIOT ARMY ENTERS UDINE IN NORTHWEST   Albanians Reconquer Half of Their Country

Sgt. Bob Burns, Long Overseas, Says Red Cross Is O. K.   It’s Helping Make Life In Africa For More Rearable

Bob Burns Writes From North Afric: To His Relatives  Tells Of What Red Cross Is Doing For Soldiers

MOTIONS ARE FILED   Defendants Seek for Definite Charges in Sunflower Action

Too, Too Much!   Industrialists Overwhelmed When Hiroihto’s Men Visit

Elevator Men  Strike In N. Y.   Thousands Trudge Up Endless Stairs

Walkout Ties ' Up Elevator:   Thousands Trudge Up Endless Flights of Stairs at Rockefeller Center

ELEVATOR MEN STRIKE AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER   Thousands of Office-Workers Forced To Climb Endless Stairs as Result

WORKERS CLIMB STAIRS AS BME UNION STRIKES   Rockfeller Center Scene ot Pedestrian Tie-up; Elevators Down

KLEVATORSIN ROCKEFELLER CENTER TIED UP   Thousands of Office Workers Trudge Up Endless Flights of Stairs Because of Strike

$600,000 Fire in Heart of Peoria's  Business District; Seven Firemen Hurt

GLOUCESTER AIRDROME 1S CAPTURED   750 Japs Are Killed By Marines In Battle

U.S. Losses Small, Lieut. Krneger Anncunces — Sends MacArthur News Of Capture As New Year's Present Today   ALLIED PLANES CAN HALT BARGE MOVEMENT

CAPTURE CAPE 9 DAYS AFTER U.S, LANDINGS   Marines Occupy Key Airdrome, Kill 750 Japs

Marines Win Key Airfields With Bayonets, Tanks, Fire; More Than 750 Japs Killed, Cape Conquest Is Complete

Marines Seize New Britain Isle Airdrome  750 Japs Slain But Yankee Losses Light

YANKS CAPTURE CAPE GLOUCESTER, GOD IAPS KILLED   “Our Losses Unbelievabl; Light” Says Kreuger’s Victory Announcement.

YANKS HAVE AIRDROME ON GLOUCESTER   Marines Killed 500 Japsin__ . Capturing Field

Taking Airfield Extends U. S. Air Threat   750 Japs Killed In Final Assault, Many Others Flee To Hills

Williams, Charged With Conspiracy, Is Out on Bond   Acquitted of Quirk Murder, He Faces Gambling Charge.

AXIS CRUISER DAMAGED   Hialian Warship Taken By Germans Knocked Out By Bombs

U.S. TROOPS DRIVE INTO NAZIS IN ITALY   Fight Through Tank Attacks; Germans Begin Orderly Re..  treat

Wheeler Move Exvites Solons   Proposes Exemption Of Fathers From Draft in Army

Solons Strive To Enact Legislation Deferring Farm Workers from War

SENATE SEEKS © TO WITHDRAW BILL AMENDMENT   TED  Wants Essential Farm Workers Deferred

Butte Miners Plan All-Out Effort in War Fund Drive   Substantial Gifts Are Vitally Needed If Silver Bow County Is to Realize $50,000 Goal Set in Worthy Campaign

Small Contributions Blocking Success  of Red Cross Drive   Five-Dollar Family Donations, $10 From Firms Needed to Put County's Campaign for $46,000 Over the Ton

COLLETT PLEADS INNOCENT TODAY   Set February 14 as Date Trial To Start

12 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Famed Test Pilot and 11 Others Die as Bomber Hits Plant

BURNING PLANE CRASHES PLANT   Edmund T. Allen And 11 Others Known To Be Victims

12Dieas Big Bomber Dives Into Planf   Explosion and Fire Follows Crash; Pilof Edmund Allen Killed

BOMBER HITS AT LEAST 12   20 Workers Missing; : Famed Test Pilot Is Victim

FAMED TEaT PILOT KILLED IN CRASH   Edmund T, Allen and at Least 11. Others Killed When Boeing Bomber Crashes Into Seattle Packing Plant

GOGEBIC GROUP FACES OUSTER   Kelly Gets 1] Reports of Grand Jury On Five County Officials

KELLY RECEIVES OUSTEN EVIDENCE   Five Gogebic County Officials ‘Are Charged with Misconduct by 1-Man Grand Jury

Mine Conference Again in Recess   Roosevelt Freezing  Order Is Studied

BITUMINOUS COAL OPERATORS REJECT MINERS’ DEMANDS   UMW Preposed 6-Day-Week Instead Of $2-A-Day Increase In Wages

Allies Advance On All Fronts;  Berlin Bombed   5 trict Censorship Bans News Of Late Raid; 8th Army Wins Anew

RAF Drops Another 1.000 Tons of Bombs on Berlin: British Eighth Army Gains

Reds Slash Cleser To Polish Borcer:  Chaos in Berlin   Censors Veil City After New Great Bomb Raid; Edge Ahead in Italy

REDS SLOWLY CLOSE POCKET IN THE SOUTH   Entrapment of Powerful Nazi Forces Would Be Possible With Fall of Krivoi Rog, Which Is Believed Near.

Pour Onto Steppe West Of Melitopol   Tanks, Infantry Closing Dnieper Trap With Fast Flanking Move.

2 COLUMNS CONVERGING IN UKRAINE   Russian Army Nears ’ Only Railroad Line Out Of The Crimea

CLOSING IN ABOVE ELBOW   Krivoi Rog Is Expected To Fall At Any Time; Reds Check Enemy Attempts To Break Trap

Russians Take Possession of Little Roads   One Red Army Column Moves Southward From Akimovka Along Rail Line to the Crimea .

REDS DRIVE IN ON KRIVOI ROG FROM 3 SIDES   Nazis Prepare To Move Plants in Rumania To Rear

Russians Press On With Unrelenting Advancing Blows   Moving Into Flanks Of Germans Fleeing From Crimean Area

Red Tank Units Pour Into Steppes   Soviet Armies Forging Ahead Along a 150-Mile Long Front

Hitler's Troops Face Entrapment As Red Army Cracks Defenses And Opens New Drives In Ukraine Area   Berlin Admits Situation Now Is Serious; German Troops Are Making Withdrawals As” Soviets Continue To Push Rapidly Ahead

ARING THE LAST. HIN COMM DIMER   Recapture Upwards Of 300 Square Miles In — Breakthrough   GERMAN Lin Lines  GROWING THIN

CERMANY’S LINE SLASHED BY RED UNITS IN DRIVE   Enemy Forced to Fall Back Toward Crimea as Russians Push on

RUSSIANS THREATEN ENCIRCLEMENT LARGE NUMBER NAZI TROOPS  RED TANK UNITS AND STRONG INFANTRY FORCES POURING FORWARD

Reds Continue Advance Along 150-Mile Front   Encirclement Apparent in Dnieper Bend;  Krivoi Rog Fall Expected.   Germans Throwing in Huge Reinforcements

Germans Continue Slow but Steady Retreal Along Entire Southern Front   RUMANIA NERVOUS   Nationals Outside Gwn Old Bor‘ders Warned fo Prepare for Evacuation fo Homeland

‘Russian Tank Units Drive Ahead In Effort To Cut Off Fleeing Germans

Russians Moppine Up Region West Of Melitopol   Soviet Forces Push Ever Nearer Only Crimea Escape Route

fat Coie Of Krovoi Rog   Tank Units, Strong Infantry Forces Encirele Nazis

Swift Russian Columns Force Steady Retreat   Zaporozhe Breakthrougn Recaptures 300 Square Miles; German Reinforcemente Fail Ta Halt Withdrawal

REDS ADVANCE ON NAZI LINE   Russians’ Forces Pour Into Desert Steppe West Of Melitopol

Reds Retake 300 Square Miles of Dnieper; Nazis Retreat Toward Crimea

RUSSIANS THREATEN ENCIRCLEMENT LARGE NUMBER NAZI TROOPS  RED TANK UNITS AND STRONG INFANTRY FORATA RAIINEIBM FARDUARR

RUSSIAN TROOPS SEIZED ALL ROADS IN MELITOPOL ARFA   Tank Units and Strong Infantry Forces Poured Into the Steppes.   REDS MOVING RAPIDLY   Recaptured More Than 300 Square Miles South of the Dnieper.

Russians Stop Germats At Donets River; Churchill Pressed For Ivformation On Snbmarine Campaion Now At Its Height   SLOW PROGRESS ON FRONT IX RUSSIA

ASK RAISE FOR “WHITE COLLARS’   Operators Ask = WLB Permission to Give Non-Miner Raises

RESISTANCE IS STIFFENED BY JAPANESE   Staging Last-Ditch Fight Te Hold Munda

PENOION PLA FOR FIREREN 10 UP AGAIN   Proposition for Civil Ser. vice Discussed and Then Referred.   CAME UP LAST YEAR   Council Orders the Electric Plant Clcsed to All Except by Pass.

Council Orders the Electric Plant Clised to All Except [by Pass,

Depression-Born Custom of Thumbing’ Aids War Effort   Returns On Grand Scale Complete With Placards. Signposts and Book of Rules, In Face of Jam On Street Cars and. Interurban Trains In California Termed “Awful to Behold”

WORKERS TURN 10 ‘THUMBING   Placards And Book O Rules Help Share-TheRide Traffic

RAF and Fortresses Join in Attack on Supply Lines of Enemy; Brenner Pass Pounded   Eighth Army Veterans Plunge Forward Five Miles — Reds Fan Out in 100Mile Are Bevond Kiev.

tden Comments on the Conference at Moscow      Battered Germans Flee ~ In Italy, Russia Today

Allies Drive on In Russia, Italy   American Troops Encounter First Blast of Italian Winter Weather

RAF Night Bombers Strike Deep  Into French Alps In Attempt  To Knock Ont Main Railway  Line Between France And Italy    BRITISH ADVANCE FIVE MILES IN ITALY

SVL b ey 'tt 2a. ea aeg ger ra ahr =the theese eS ie at ee  Germans In Retreat All Along Russian, And Italian Fronts

Nazis falter under heavy Russ attacks   Reds strengthen offensive lines

AXIS VESSELS REPORTED SUNK NEAR TUNISIA   Strategic Position Is Now Held by British

British Hold Tunisia Gain   Allied Planes, Subs Claim 19 Enemy Ships

Students at Davenport High Parade in Protest  to Schmitt Dismissal

17 Persons _ Killed Over The Holiday   Toll In Wisconsin High Compared With Deaths In Other States; Nine Drownings Listed

OPA Launches Drive On Black Market In Beef   *  jPhree Ohio Slaughterers Charged By Government With Violating OPA Price Ceilings; Warrants  Signed By District Attorney

GOVERNMENT HITS BEEF VIOLATIONS   Charge 3 Slaughterers with Exceeding Price Limits

Davis Gets Food Control By Bill   Measure Would Give  Him Rationing Power

House Committee Approves Measure Transferring Food Rationing Powers From OPA to Chester C. Davis

House Group In Opposition to Mr. Roosevelt   Agricultural Comn ttee Wouid Give Authority to Food Ad muinistrator Davis

Approve Legislatios Giving Davis Full Authority Over Food Industry Despite Presidential Opposition

FOOD PRICES AND RATIONING MAY GO TO WAR FOOD CHIEF   House Committee Ignored the President’s Opposition

Japanese Attempt Retaliatory Raid On Gilberts   Cause Little Damage; U. S. Flyers Cripple  Foes’ Hare Island Base

Hin Group Are Volunteers: Will Get’ Week's Furlongh iy They P Army E       tts

41 Sioux County Men ‘To Take Exams On January 12; Will Re Grant. ed A Seven-Day Furloorh

Confederacy Members Observe Today In Memory Of Those Who Fought Three Wars Ago

Only 300 Left With Memories Of Gallant Million as South  ‘Honors Memory of Her Sons

Confederates Day Observed in South  Only 300 Left With Memories of Gallant Millian Wha Faunht

Rebel Yell Is A Faint Echo Of the Past   But Those Who Fought Three Wars Ago Carry on Gray Heritage,

Freighter Loaded With Grain Sinks In St. Clair River After Collision

GRAIN CARRIER SINKS WN ST. CLAIR RIVER   Ship, Bound for England on Maiden Voyage, Collides with Coal Boat

Vessel Sunk On Maiden Voyag   95,000 Bushels OF Grais In St. Clair River

8 Colored Men Leaye For Army. Wilt Take Physical  Examinations Baltimore

4] Colored Men Taken Army Tests  Report To Baltimore Fo: hvsical Examination«

Allied War Prisoners Relate. Experiences:  Aboard Italian Sub Bombed Into Surfacine

NON-OPERATING UNIONS STRIKE 1S EXPECTED   Would Coinecide With ‘Big 35’

HEADS OF RAIL GROUPS CALLED TO WASHINGTON   Seek To Avert Nationwide Strike Of Railroad Workers Set 4 For December 20

MILLION MAY WALK OUT DECEMBER 30   President's Plan Would Offer Raise To Brotherhoods

COMMITTEES FOR R. R’S GATHER IN WASHINSTON   Snek Settlement to Prevent Strike Scheduled for December 30

Senate Asked to Follow Lead of House and Pass Bill to Outlaw  Poll Tax—New Revenue Bill to  Reach Senate Today. “ «

Eighth Army Is Nearing Pescara   British Bombard Nazis from Adriatic; Hitler Forces Recapture Korosten, Speed up Counterattacks

Fifth . ‘Army. Pushes “Ahead, -Straightens’ . . Line  STH ARMY GAINS Fall Of Three Impor.  ‘tant Towns Un. confirmed

8 Seize: Sandro      Smash. Eastern Anchor’ of German -Line‘in ltaly 

Fifth, kighth Armies Gain On Italian Front   Germans Stiffen Stand In White Russian After Re capturing Korosten.,   CAPTURE LANCIANO

American Troops Straighten Lines In Central Secto:   British Within 20 Miles of Peseara: Nazis Step Up Counter-Attack In Ukraine

British 8th — ‘Army Is Near 'to Pescara   Allied Bombers Cross Channel to Mine Waters, Hit ‘Solingen, Hit Convoy

Continue Advance. In Italy   Allies Gain Ground In Face of Bitter Enemy Resistance; Nazis Recapture Korosten

5th Advances To Straighten Allied Line   UN Troops Form Menacing Arc Around Distant Approaches to Rome; Nazis Recapture Korensten, Intensify Counterattack in Ukraine

Yanks Are Moving Ahead Along With Eighth’s Thrust   In Russia Nazis Intensify Their Counter-Offensive

Allies Fashion Menacing Arc in Drive on Rome   American Fifth Army Advances 3 Miles and British Continue Forward.   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Winter War

BRITISH EIGHTH WITH HEAVY IR SUPPORT SLASHES AHEAD: WARSHIPS BOMBARD GERMANS      Allied Headquarters Report New Gains on Sangro River Front snd General Advance Against German Line in Jtalete Revorted

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY SLASHES AHEAD IN MOUNTAIN SECTOR  HEAVY LOSSES FOR GER. MANS IN BATTERED EAST. ERN ITALIAN LINE

PINGER APPLIED TO JAPS WITH NEW LANDINGS   Russians Get Set-back af Railhead But Lunge On In Dnieper Bend Area

Today’s War Commentary  Pacitic Powder Keg  events lidiecate Explosion SOOn

FINE KANSAS WEATHER   “April” Brand to Hang On; Some what Colder Tonight

More Of Same Nice Weather   Tonight Will Be Somewhat Colder Says The Forecast

Clubs Info ' Production Clubs   ished Animals Must Bs d By Quantity and : Weirht

Clubs Info Production Clubs      finished Animals Must B: d By Suantity and Weight

Nazi Army Morale Cracking Sharply   Veteran Correspondent Sees Signs Of Weakening Among German Troops

BURKE WRITES A LETTER   Criticizes Appointment of . Helvering as Judge

New Tax Bill To Be Pushed   Congress to Seek To Comply With F. D. R. Request

CONGRESS WILL WORK ON TAXES   Will Make “Every Reasonable Effort’? To Find 16 Billions Additional In  Ravenie.

Tax Leaders Pledge New Bill. in Fall   Confer With Morgénthau But Leave Details of © Levy Open.

Congress To Meet Demand For Revenue   Every Effort To Be Made To Supply 16 New Billions

New Tax Bull  Coming Soon / $16,000,000,000 More  Must Be Raised

Tax Leaders in Congress Discuss New Levy Measure   “Every Reasonable Effort Will Be Made” to Enact Bill This Year to Mect Roosevelt’s Request For At. Additional $16,000,000,000 In Revenues, Conferees Say

TAX HEADS TRY TO MEET FDR’S REQUEST   President Asks for 16 Billion Additional Taxes

HOPING 10 MEET FDR TAX REQUEST   House Ways and Means Committee Plans Early Discussions So As to Have Hearings Before Congress Reconvenes.

NEW TAX BILL TO BE SOUGHT   Likely Will Be Started After Summer Recess

New Tax Bill To Be Sought   Congressional Leaders Meet With Morgenthau; More Money Needed

Tax Bill, Calling For 16 Billion More, In Prospect   Tax Leaders. Announce Plans After Seeing Morgenthau.

Bill for Additional Tax Gets Support   ‘Leaders. in Congress Hold Conference With. Morgenthau

LOSSES SLOW UP GERMAN FORCES   Nazi Counterattacks In Russia Halted; No Important Engagements Reported.

Lull Occurs on Russian Front   Fighting Dies Down After Counter-Attacks Of Germans Fail

Heavy Losses  Halt Nazis   Germans Prod Other Sectors of Long  Front in Russia

RED TROOPS SEIZE A MOUNTAIN RINE ALONG BLACK SEA   Are Now In Position to Start Attack on Novorossisk   LAST MAJOR NAZI BASE IN CAUCASUS

HEAVY LOSSES HALT GERMAN KUBAN DRIVES   No Important Engagements Being Fought On Front

NAZIS PROD AT VARIOUS RED LINES   Both Sides Wage Active Scouting Operations

HELD IN KUBAN DELTA   Germans Prod at Leng Russian Line Without Result

ITALY “GIVEN” HITLER AIDES. FOR DEFENSE   Goering and Himmler Said Selected For Task

Top Nazis Are Given Assignments in Italian Metropolis  Himmler, Goering Get Task of Arranging Defenses for Nation

Nazi ‘Purge’ Facing Italy   Goering And Himmler Said Taking Over Defense Plan

NAZIS TO PREPARE. ~TTALY'S DEFENSES   KUSSIAN RADIO SAYS HITLER WILL SEND GOERING AND HIMMLER TO ROME,

DEFEAT OTARTLEG AXIS WAR LORD!   Marshal Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Head of Gestapo, Said Going to Rome To Direct Defenses

Goering, Himmle: Named To Bolster ltalian Morale   Will Reorganize Army and Speed Fortifying of Bases   Iwo Hitler Lieutenants Will Have Charge of Emergency Measures

Nazi ‘Purge’ Facing Italy  ‘Goering And Himmler Said ~   Goering And Himmler Said Taking Over Defense Plan

NAZI LEADERS SAID IN ROME   Hitler Reported To Have Picked Goering And Himmler For Task

EISENHOWER NOW “MAVOR- GENERAL   Medal Also Awarded Army . Leader; Marshall's Term Extended

BLAZE SWEEPS FORD FACTORY   Thousands Of Workers Routed; Plane Engines Lost

HEAVY BOMBER OUTPUT PUSHED   More Than 600 Believed Turned Out During Month Of April

Big Bombers Coming Off Assembly Lines in Record Volume, WPB Says

LOGAL SCHOOLS A TEST CENTER NAVY COLLEGE TRAINING   Bureau of Naval Personnel of the U. S. Navy, Makes Arrangements.   A V-TWELVE PROGRAM   High School Seniors, Graduates and College Students Acceptable.

Americans Scale 60-Deqree Slopes. Dislodge Foe In Brilliant Attack

JAPS ON ATTU DRIVEN NTE      Enemy Is. Driven From Another ‘Stror  Point On Attu !

Enemy Falls Back From Ridge Post   U. S. Soldiers Are Fighting In Weird Cloud-Land.

Japs Challenge Yanks to Air Duel They Oblige and Wipe Out the Foe

President Insists on Stark Facts About War Being Given to Public

Public Will Get More War News   FDR Writes Department Heads On Matter

STEEL WORKERS ERD WALKOUT   Heed War Labor Board Order. Expect Full Output by Tonight

STEEL WORKER “RETURN: 1D JOBS   Unionists. Accept WLB Resolution

CLEVELAND STRIKE COMES TO AN END   American Steel and Wire Company Workers Heed Labor Board Order

MEAT CONTROL BOARD FORMED   Nine-Man Panel Selected In Movement Against Black Market

13 More Axis Ships Hit by AlliedAirmen   19 Planes Also Knocked Out in Non-Stop Drive

Offensive Paying Woy To Final Win   Campaign To CrippleAxis Communications With Tunisian Bridaeheod Seen Successful

19 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Allied Armies Poised For Knockout Blow In Tunis Area

PLANES, SHIPS SMASH BLOWS AGAINST FOL   Tunisia Land Forces In Lull Before The Storm

Carlo Trasca, Former IWW Leader, Shot from Auto While in Fifth Ave., New York

EDITOR OF ITALIAN WEEKLY 1S KILLED   Carlo Tresca, Anti-Fascist Sfain in New York Ciw .

[Peet Admitting Nazi Defeat At Stalingrad, Praises. Forces, Sees 300,000 Tueaiaine Slair

ALLIED LIBERATORS BLAST JAP BASES      Hammer Kendari Airdrome In. Dutch Indies—Hit Cargo Ship

ICKES ENDS MINE CONTROL   FUEL HEAD TO TAKE U. S. “OUT OF COAL BUSINESS”

MINES ARE TURNED BACK TO OWNERS      Government Goes Out of the Coal Mining Business

Government goes out of coal business   Ickes liquidates  mining arency

RELIEF FOR “A” HOLDERS COMING   Pleasure Ban In Northeastern States Expected To Be Lifted Almost Immediately; May Increase Weekly Gas Allotments.

Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Litted Within Fortnight  Hope For Relief MM A Caed Haldarc

“ind of Pleasure Driving Ban in East Thought Near   ) C. Speaker, Capital's Unefficia! Authurity, See  Hope for Almost Immediate Relief For Hapless A-Card Motorists; Brown's Opposition to Prohibition Wins Backing of Authorities

RELIEF SOON FOR A-CARD HOLDERS SEEN   Unofficial Report Indicates Driving Ran To Fnd   Expect Slight Gas Al. lotment Increases J ata,

Ban on Pleasure Driving in East May Be Lifted in 2 Weeks, Belief

Sees Hope Fc or Immediate Relief . _ For Hapless A-Card Motorists ‘In Eastern Seaboard States

OPA 10 RELAX DRIVING CURB   Ban On Pleasure Riding Will Be Lifted In - East Soon

DrivingBar To Be Over Shortly   D. C. Speaker Forecasts Relief for Motorists

Americans *And French  Form Pincer   Flying Fortresses Deliver Crushing Raid On Bizerte.

French Units Only 13 Miles From City   Threat To City Said Mounting Hourly With* Allied Forces Closing In On All Sides.

FRENCH ARMY NOW 13 MILES FROM BIZERTE   Yanks Sweep North To Naval Base; Forts Raid

POSTHUMOUS AWARD TO- AKRON SOLDIER.   Purple Heart Given For James Russell Montagne, Killed In Action

PAY MEETING 1S SCHEDULED   CIO AND AFL LEADERS TO HEAR ROOSEYELTS VIEWS ON  “WAGES ATCON- «>: FERENCE :

BLOCK-BUSTER BOMBS DAMAGE U-BOAT NESTS   Four-Engined Heavy Planes Laid Big Bombs; Light Ships Follow In Path.

$10,000,000 Damage in Hurricane   Houston - Galveston Area Suffers One of the Worst Blows in History   CROPS AND PROPERTY WRECKED: MANY HURT   Power Break-Down Brings Water Shortage; Cadets Hold Down Planes

Storm Called One of Worst In History   Galveston Faces Shortage of Drinking Water; as Power Fails; Loss’in Rice Growing Region May Hit $2,000,000

TEXAS GULF COAST IS HIT BY HURRICANE   Multi-Million Dollar Damage Estimated in Houston, Other Towns —Galveston Flooded

TEN MILLION » LOSS CAUSED BY HURRICANE   At Least Two'Deadin-One of Severest Storms Ever to Hit Texas Gulf Coast — Twenty-two Soldiers Hurt.

Big Storm At Galveston   Two Killed  Property Damage Totals $10,000,000

TWO LIVES LOST IN TEXAS STORM   Many Others Were Injured ina Severe Tropical ' Hurricane   CROP DAMAGE IS HUGE

TWO LIVES LOST IN HURRICANE   Galveston Facing Drinking Water Shortare

$10 Million Storm Hits Texas Coast   One of the Worst Tropical Hurricanes on Record Sweeps Gulf Cities

Hurricane Rips Gulf Coast Area   Two Dead and Scores Injured in Devastating Storm; Damage Is Estimated at $10,000,000

TWO DEATHS LISTED IN TEXAS HURRICANE   Damage in Houston-Galveston Coastal Region s $10,090,090.

HURRICANE KILLS 2, INJURES SCORES AND CAUSES $10.000.000 IN DAMAGE TO TEXAS

Jap Center Quiet After Resistance   2000 Avowed Disloyalists Dispersed with Tear Gas

HERBERT IN STATE RACE   ATTORNEY GENERAL ‘FOR. MALLY ANNOUNCES HE 1S CANDIDATE FOR NOMINA-  TIGN AS GOVERNOR

Those Lady Marines Have Landed, But the Situation This Time Is Out of Hand

A Ticklish  Situation:   Lady Marines. May Not Have Lyrical Nickname

Naming of ‘Lady Marines’ Upsetting to Slang Gang   Decision to Call Marine Corps Women’s Reserve Just “Marines” Causes Barber Shop Boys to Be-  come Blue, Befuddled; They Don’t  Even Feel Like Whistling

COMPROMISE OFFERS BIG FORGIVENESS   Waives 75 Per Cent Of Year’s Taxes For Many

Waive 75 Pct. On All Over $50   Twenty Percent Wiholding Collections Will Start On July 1.

Pay-As-You-Go Compromise Is Reached By Committee   Forgiveness Of Part Of 1942 Taxes Included In Recommendations Made After Conference

House and Senate Conferees Agree on Pay-as-You-Go Tax and Partial Levy Waiver

Governor Asking Immediate Action  On Rail Problems   Broughton Asks Legislature For “Prompt Cosideration”

Donets Basin [ron Center Captured By Soviet Troops   Russians Post Advances On Entire Front

REDS REPULSE ENEMY ATTACK      Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses  In Orel Sector

NAZIS FOULED INBFFORT 70 SRIZE MTSENSK   Russians Inflict Heavy - Losses Upon Semi  Trained German   Reservists   OTHER FRONTS QUIET   Prisoners-Taken In Mtsensk Sector Admit Highly-Trained Huns Have Been Killed

Reds Smash German Attempts To Recapture Lost Positions   Hitler Declared Using Semi-Trained Reservists; Suffer Heavy Losses

GERMAN EFFORTS T0 REGAIN POSITIONS BEEN TURNED BACK  GERMAN PRISONER SAYS SEASONED NAZI TROOPS BEEN KILLED IN ACTION

OREL SMASHED   Report Half Trained German Troops Used in Counterattacks

NEW NAZI MOVES AT OREL REPULSED   Heavy Losses Inflicted Upon Semi-trained Nazi Reservists and Rea!-line Troops Thrown Into Struggle.

INAZI ATTACKS IN OREL AREA SMASHED BY REDS   * Reports indicate German ‘Manpower at Front Sometimes Half-Trained ©

Soviets Smash  Nazi Offensive Effort To Recapture Misensk Post Fails  

Russians Turn German Attack By Reservists   Captured Nazi Admits All Trained Regulars Of Division Killed.   TRADE BOMBER BLOWS

NAZI EFFORTS TO RECAPTURE POINTS FOILED   Germans See Soviet Offensive At Orel  “Hinge”

French Hiding From Labor Draft   -5000 Fugitives In Mountain Area

Fugitive French Seized By Nazis   Germans Strike Supply Source of Rebels

Delay Attack on Frenchmen   Report Planes: Attempting to Send Supplies; Try — tc Avoid Rinadshen

ee tee cc scam tr ene aenerdanm gman th  No Direct Attack on French ‘Rebels

Lewis Silence Starts  Battle   ‘ Plunges Union Into Fight With President By Shutting Mouth

LEWIS DECLINES OFFER COMMENT   Labor Leader Permits Presi dent’s Resumption of Work Deadline Pass Without a ~ Murmur

Goering Goes to Rome To Seek Nazi Custody ‘Of Benito: Mussolini .

Goering Is Reported to Have Pleaded For Custody of Mussolini, But Request Was Refused by Chiefs

GERMANS WANT MUSSOLINI FOR SAFEKEEPING   Goering Said to Vainly Appeal to Badoglio And King After  Duce’s Ouster

Goering Reported Sent to Rome After Fall of Fascism to Offer. Nazi Protection for Mussolini—King Said to Have Balked at Suggestion and to Have Kept Ousted Leader Moving From Place to Place Under Guard.

Reports Say Goering’s Rush Trip And Effort To Remove. Mussolini To Germanu Fail

‘OK’ IS SOUGHT   Texans Will Ask Nelson’s Approval Of Stee! Mill

LEWIS SAYS COAL MINES ARE CHECKED   MINE UNION LEADER CHAROES , ARMY INTELLIGENCE MEN ARE MAKING A RURVEY

ARMY QUIZZING IS HIT BY LEWIS   UMW Chief Deplores Hints Bayonets May Force Coal Digging

AMERICANS PUSH AXIS FORGES OFF THREE VITAL BITES   Allies Now Within 21 Airline Miles of Tunis   RESISTANCE 1S STILL STRONG ON ALL LINES

Allies Move Ahead On All Key Sectors To Within 21 Air-Line Miles Of Tunis  PONT DU FAHS GOAL  Nazis Fighting } Fiercely To - Halt Break-Through By Allies

AMERICAN INFANTRY DRIVES ENEMY FROM TWO STRATEGIC HILLS IN NORTHERN TUNISIA   General Says It’s Unlikely Enemy Will Be Able to Offer Long Fight

ALLIES PUSH FORWARD ON KEY SECTORS   ‘Germans, Italians Are  Fighting Desper ately to Prevent  Break-through.

Move Ahead On Jeffne And British And French Gain At Pont Du Fahs

Recistaa   ALLIES FOUR MILES FROM ‘f1 PLAINS AT ONE POINT; 21 AIR LINE MILES FROM TUNIS ITSEE

Allies Reported . To Be Within 21 ‘Miles of Tunis   U. S. Infantry Drives Enemy From. Three Strategic Positions

YANKS GAIN 3 HILLS IN WIDE ALLIED ADVANCE   Ee: Day of Hara Fighting wrives Axis Back to Within 21 Miles From Tunis

Yanks Advancin gOn the Town of Jeffna As Allied Armies Thrust Forward On Key Sectors 21 Miles From Tunis

DRIVE TO TURIS IS ~ GOING OR   Forces of Allies Now Only 21 Air-line Miles from Objective in Tunisia.

NAPLES BEING PREPARED FOR OFFENSIVE USE   British capture two more towns north of  Foegie air base

Army’ s College Will Be No  Place For Leisurely Living   Men Will Have No Time For Sports And -Usual. Socia Events—-Will Have To “Hump” To Keeyp Un

SOLDIERS AT COLLEGE HAVE LITTLE TIME   Specialized Training Plan Is Intensive

Archbishop Says Bombing Of Rome Is “Sad Event”   Cardinal O’Connell  Issues Statement

LABOR VIOLENCE CASE REOPENED   HAMILTON CO, GRAND JURY INDICTS EVAN DALE AND 4 OTHERS

Red Troops Seal Doom of German Caucasus Troops   Russians Dash Into Yeisk On the Sea of Azov To Seal Doom of German Troops Trapped in the Caucasus

Soviets Push Attacks on Kharkov   Bataisk, Less Than 10 Miles From Restoy, Is Taken

Red Army Isolates Nazis in Caucasus In Lightning Thrust   Sea of Azov Coastal Town Taken,  Slashing German Line to Rostov; Twin Kharkov Drives Win 6 Towns

CAPITAL OBSERVERS LOOKING © ASKANCE EUROPEAN RUMORS OF GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVES

Split Strength In Congress Begins To Show After Hectic Week's Action

Coming Week Looms Today as Busiest One For Congress   Storms Brew on Capitol Hill; Washington  News Summarized

Hitler’s War Costs World 400 Billion   Test Of Administration. Busiest Week Loom Ahead  For New Congress.   OPPOSITION STRONGER

U. 5. Diplomats Skentical at Peace Offensive   Some See Possibility of a Movement Affecting Finland

STORMY WEEK IN-CONGRESS LOOMS   Showdown on Salary Limit Opposition to Drafting Fathers Expected

See Showdown Next Week On New War Laws   Congress May Act To Avoid General Draft Of Fathers   Diplomats Discount Peace Drive Reports   Deferment Of Farm Workers Also Is Being Considered

CONGRESS FACES BUSIEST WEEK OF NEW SESSION   POTENTIAL STAND AGAINST NEW DEAL BEGINS TO SHOW

Showdown or Salary Order Stirs Capitol   Opposition to Manpower Comsission’s Edict to Draft Fathers Rises in Congress

WORK-OR-FIGHT ORDERS 10 BE ATTACK CENTER   Skeptical Eyebrows Raised At Peace Offensive Launched by Axis

Salary Curb Fight Looms In Congress   Spokesman Declares FDR’s $25,000 War-  time Salary Limit an ‘Affront to Congress’

Resistance Shows Un in Congress   Hitler Has Cost World 400 Billion

RUMBLINGS HEARD. FROM CAPITOL HILL AGAINST SOME PLANS  NEXT WEEK EXPECTED TQ  BE ONE OF BUSIEST

Swéebtn on Taward Dalener   Sicilian Mafia Leaders Jailed In Allied Coup

Allies Smash . - Sicilian Gang   Two Notorious Leaders” of Mafia and 17 District Bosses ‘Are Nabbed in Coup

Allies Deal Enemy Smashing Blow Over New Guinea  Airport at Lae Gets Heaviest Attack Since Bottle Beaqan

Jap Base at Lae In Heaviest Raid   36 Tons of Bombs Blast Entire Area   JE LIED HE ADOL ARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Tuesday, June 1 (#

TONS OF BOMBS SHOWER ON LAE   Nipponese New Guinea Base Has Heaviest Raid Of War

MEW CERMAN SECRET WEAPON IS MARTIAN-LIKE GLIDER BOMB POWERED BY ROCKET

Nazi Glider Bomb Attack Described   Rocket-Powered, Radio Controlled “Secret Weapon” All Miss Ships

Glider Bombs Launched by Planes One Og Nazis’ Secret Weapons That Failed

Glider Bomb Poweréd by Rockets And Controlled by Kadio Used by Nazis in Attack on Allied Convoy

HouseGOPTry To Keep Floor   Filibuster Is Continued With New Demands ‘For Action —

Republican Bloe Forcing Action   Cost of Living Board Trving to Beat SixtyDay Limit for Study

GOP Filibusters For More Action  Members Talking Day-In, Day-Out

Treasury Has Completed Plan  For More Revenuc   Withholding Tax May Be Upped 10 Per Cent

NEW POST SEEN AS DEMOTION FOR MARSHALL   Friends Resigned To Roie Of Field Commander Serving War Board   CONGRESS MAY PROTEST   Chief Of Staff Has No Desire To Shift—Others Support Attitude

FRIENDS OF CHIEF OF STAFF SAY, KOWEVER, THAT HE PREFERS HIS PRES ENT DUTIES

. SLATED TO BE ALLIED CHIE   Likely To Command All Armies  " F RIK NDS ROU SkD  Cr _ as Head of U, ' S. Army Staff

EXPECT TRANSFER OF GEN. MARSHALL   Expect Early Announcement In Change Of Status Of Chief Of Staff

UNIFIED GLOBAL COMMAND SEEN   Talk Of Single Commander To Direct Strategy On All Fighting Fronts.

One Command  In War Asked   Suggest Single Leadership In Glebal War, View Kisenhower Position.

GLOBAL UNIFIED COMMAND IS PROPOSED   To Direct United Nations _ Strategy On All Fronts . Against Enemy

Some Legislators Propose Establishment of Unified United Nations Global Command To Dictate Strategy On All Fronts.

Seeks Single War Leader   Sen. Gillette Says Allies Must Have  World-Wide Command

ONE-COMMAND  - DRAWING TALK   Solons Demand High Group Dictate World Strategy

High Command Sought To Plan Global Strategy   Eisenhower’s Promotion Results In Lawmakers Making Demand Of U.N

HIGH COMMAND TODICTATEWAR POLICY ASKED   Senator Gillette: Contends Eisenhower's Elevation Should be Followed by Single Strategist   SETUP CRITICIZER   Suewanted Eisenhower's   Command: Might,Not be -Quite as. All-Exclusive As it Appears:

One Command For Whole War Is Urged   Global Commander For Allies Sugrested

Senators Seek One Command  for Allies   Appointment of Eisenhower Excites Legislators to Insist on Unified Control

Pared-To-Bone Tax Bill Goes To House Today   Committee Approves 5th Of Administration's Request   New Tax Bill  Summarized

House Group’s New Tax Measure   Repeals Victory Tax, Raises Normal Rate

Repeals Victory Tax; Retains Exemptions And Credits; Increases Normal Tax Rate

900,000 WORTH OF SECURITIES SOLD SATURDAY  Fo eT ry nf   One Of Largest Sales Of Bank And Other Stocks   WELL ATTENDED   Affair Is Held-In Leb_ - anon National Bank Lobby

$50,000 WORTH OF SECURITIES SOLD SATURDAY   One Of Largest Sales  Of Bank And Other Stocks   Affair Is Held In Lebanon National Bank Lobby

Naples Bomb Kills Throngs   Nazi Time Explosive In Postoffice Spreads Horror in City's Heart

Post Office Torn Apart By Blast   Italians In Neighboring Buildings Are Among Victims Of Time Bomb Planted By Germans

Hundreds Believed Victims of Explosives Planted by Germans  By FEYNOLBS P:

100 KILLED BY GERMAN BOMB   Naples Postoffice Scene Of Explosion

BOMB KILLS HUNDREDS AT NAPLES   Nazi Time Bomb Wrecks City's Post Office

Intriguing Story Of Fun And Excitement Unfolded In ‘Leave My Heart Alone’ New Record-Herald Serial

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Wheeler Hits Draft Dodger: In Industry, Government    Challenges Senate  To Drive Them Out By Blocking Induction Of Pre-War Fathers

Wheeler Demands Draft Dodgers Be Sent to Fight  Says They Should Be Driven From Jobs In Federal Branches

SOLON HUNTING DRAFT DODGERS   Federal Government I; Overmanned, Senator Wheeler Says

Wheeler Charge: ‘Draft Dodging’   Says Slackers Hide In Government Jobs

Wheeler Calls on Senate To Drive Draft Slackers From Their Hiding Places

Wheeler Challenges Senate to Drive ‘Draft Dodgers and Slackers’ From ‘Hiding Places in Government’

Investigation  Of Payroll toBe Undertaken  Wheeler's Challenge  May Resultin Retrenchment

Wheeler Urges Senate To Drive Draft Dodgers and Slackers From Their Hiding Places   Says Bureaucrats, unless Stopped, Will Drive Ameri can Children info Streets while Single Men Remain in Unessential Jobs

Wheeler Flings Challenge at Senate on Draft   Charges Draft Dodgers, Slackers Hide Behind Skirts

Byrd Demands U.S. Discharge 300,000 Employes   Wheeler Assails ‘Draft Dodgers’  In Government

DRAFT CHALLENGE HURLED AT SENATE   WHEELER DEMANDS CHAMBER DRIVE “SLACKERS” INTO ARMED SERVICES.

Wheeler Fights Fathers’ Draft      Says Slackers Hiding On Pisces Te

DEMOS OFFER NEW PLAN TO LIMIT SALARY   Proposed Move Against FDR's Pay Ceiling Is Halted By Action

HIGH SALARY CONTROL PLAN WINS FAVOR   Committee Determined To Ab@jish $25,000 —Salory Limit

Indict Rep. Curley In Case Involving  War Order Racket   Named With 5 Others On Charges Of ‘Fraudulently’ Representing Selves As Competent Engineers;

Ex-Governor In Fraud Net  Curley, Five Others Accused of Getting Fees Froudulentiv

Indict Curley On Charge Of Fraud In Mail   5 Others In War Contract Case

Congressman Curley and Five Others Indicted on Charges of Mail Fraud

CONGRESSMAN AND  OTHERS INDICTED ON  CHARGES MAIL FRAUD REP. JAMES CURLEY  CHARGED CONNECTION WAR CONTRACTS RACKE’

Congressman, 5  Others ltidicted   Curley Of Massachusetts Charged With Mail Fraud Violaticn.

Accused in War Contract Racket   James M. Curley, Demo: cratic Representative From . Massachusetts, Among Those Indicted

Former Governor Curley (Of Massachusetts And Five Others Indicted

Rep. Curley Faces Fraud Indictment   Five Other Men Also Ac cused Of War Contract Brokerage Racket.

Rep. Curley Faces A Federal Charge   He With Five Others Indicted For Violating Mail Fraud Law.

Rep. Curley Faces Mail Fraud Charge   Operated Brokerage For War Contracts

Congressman One of Six Indicted   Indictments In Connection With Brokerage Racket

FIVE OTHERS ACCUSED IN MAIL FRAUD   Ex - Massachusetts _ Governor Cited For Operation of Contract Rrokerane,

Ex-Governor Is Indicted Today in War Racket   Federal Grand Jury Returns Charges of Mail Fraud

Curley Faces War Contract Fraud Charge   Former Massachusetts Governor Indicted By Grand Jury

Curley Named  In Indictment   Congressman and Former Goverqor of Massachusetts Faces Charges of Mait Fraud

REP. JAMES CURLEY INDICTED FOR FRAUL   Former Massachusetts Governor Runs Afoul Of Law

Congressman, Five Others Indicted On Charge Of Operating War Contract Brokerage Racket

Congressman, Others iudieted  Charge Violation of Mail Fraud Statute -

Congressman, Others Indicted  Charge Violation of Mail Fraud Statute On Contracts

High Demo Is Indicted   Rep. Curley Of Massachusetts Identified In “War Contract Racket’

REP, MASSACHUSETTS FACES CHARGES   Grand Jury Indicts Democratic Leader, 5 Others in War Contract Racket

Rep. James M. Curley Indicted for Mail Fraud   five Others Also Indictec In Connection With Al. leged = Operation — 0! Govt. Contract Broker: age Rachel,

FRAUD INDICTMENT FACES CONGRESSMAN      Accused of Operating War Contract Bureau

CONSIDER PLEA TO ELIMINATE PLEASIIRE BAN   Arguments Presented By Civic Leaders To OPA Head, PetroJenm Administrator Yesterday At Washinston   ‘EXPECT DECISION i TO BE FAVORABLE

U.S. Bombers Hit  Littoria Railway  No Planes Based In Middle East Lost In Attack On Rome

2-Party Slate Is Elected   Legislative Amendment. Also Approved in ‘Light Turnout at. Polis   PENSION CANDIDATE RUNS FAR BEHIND   League of* Women, Voters ‘Immensely Pleased’ With the Results

Lewis Moves To Put UMW Back in AFT   Application to Be Acted Upon Sympathetically,

LEWIS APPLIES FOR ADMISSION TO FOLD OF AFL   Application To Be Considered In Sympathetic  Manner, Green Says   NO ADVANCE NOTICE HAD BEEN INDICATED

Asks Green To Take UMW Back into Organization  They Abandoned in 1935   Unexpected Request fo President of American Federation Expected To Be Granted Soon; Green Says He Wants Miners "To Come Back Home’; Expects No Trouble in Arranging Details

[Allied Drives to Crush Axis Forces Take Shape Rapidly as Shift In Major Commands Announced

CRUCIAL MOVE TO CRUSH AXTS BELIEVED NEAR   Ominous ‘Intimations Given : by Roosevelt Final: Cam.”  paigns Are About To Be Launched.

Crucial Blow To Crush Axis at Hand   By Kirke L. Simpson A. P. War Analyst

Quebec Plans - Hopes Had To Be Revised As Allies  Rushing War Along Faster

Enemy Shuffling  Troops in Europe      Quebec Strategy Deemed Outmoded  Rutts Chanmac 2a War Plot, Beliccnd Deen nmethla faw New Bebo bo Be erie.

Year-end ls Darkest of War For Axis Nations   ‘Critical “Campaigns ‘€ldése at Hand in ‘Europe, Pacific:

Interpreting the War   Change in Allied Grand Strategy Seen in Eisenhower Choice

No Rationing For Clothing Is Coming   Price Administrator Asks Report ‘On Black Markets

French To Meet  To Formalize  Unity Today   Strange Situations Continue To Emerge At Alviers Meetings

6-MAN GROUP 10 GOVERN FOR FRANCE   All Territory Outside Axis Domination; Headed Jointly By DeGaule And Giraud Heated Arguments.   “lawful Authority”

Six-Man Executive Committee Will Govern Frenchmen Not under Nazis

20 Per Cent Tax Approvec   House Group Passes Measure For Withholding Tax; Cannot Change Return Filing

TENTATIVE PLANS APPROVED ON NEM INCOME TAX LAW   Over-All 20 Per Cent With  holding Tax on Wages, Salaries Would Include Victory Tax.   CHARITY CREDITS AND EARNED INCOMES OUT   Law Proposed For July t But Present Reports and Two Installment Payments Required.

HOLIDAY QUIET NOW SETTLING OVER CAPITAL   Several Questions Remain On the Fire, However, as Congressmen Go Home

Labor Dispute Hits Capital Newspapers   Legislators Leaving for Brief Christmas Vacation; Quarrel Among Democrats Revived

NMeCumsey Rejected By Black   .,. As Head Intermediate Credit Bank in Omaha

Black Rejects McCumsey for FIC Position   FCA Directors Selected  Him Subject to Black Anproval

ENGINEERS WORK TO REHABILITATE ~ MUNDA AIRFIELD   Defense Believed to Have Cost Enemy 5,000 to 7,000 Men, Many Shins.

Engineers Repairing Munda Field For Use of U. S. Fighters, Bombers

Yankees Isolate  Nip Forces  On New Georgia Munda Drive  Costs Japs About 7000

Chrysler Is Expected To EndWalkout      STRIKES INVOLVING 24,000  WORKERS HAD TIED UP HALF ‘DOZEN PLANTS: DEMAND LAMOTTO REMOVAL.   All Plants Open

N early 40,000 On Strike at Akron Plant   5,000 More Workmen At Goodyear Factory Join CIO-URW Walkout WORKERS PROTEST RULING BY WLB 12,000 More To Join Work Stoppage Today,  T Ininan Ryoaboacn awn Gace

Nazi Drive At Kiev Checked   Losses Said "Very Heavy”; Reds Smash On In South

Russians Gain Territory in  Dnieper Bend   Germans Put Great Number of Tanks Into Major Conflict

Fierce German Attacks In Kiev Bulge Repelled: Great Tank Fight Rages

Fierce Battle Now Raging In Disputed T heater   Nazis Throw Hundreds Of Tanks wul Men Into Desperate Fight. Reds Gail Five Miles Inside The Dnieper Bend Tightening Grip On Amunenka

German Mass Attacks Are Beaten Down West of Kiey   EPIC TANK BATTLE © OF WAR IS RAGING   Russians Take 15 More Towns Inside Dnieper Bend

@iunges to Within 18 Miles Of Enemy’s Citadel at Kirovograd; Nazis Spend Reserves Lavishly in Effért  » Regain Lost Ground

Russians Repel Furious German Drive for Kiev   Epic Tank Battle Of War Reporiea

TANK ATTACKS ARE REPULSED IN KIEV BULGE   REDS GAIN 5 MILES TO TIGHTEN LOOP ON ZNAMENKA

Bussians — Stem Nazi Tank Attack   Dnieper Bend Army Drives Within Five Miles Of Kirovograd

GERMANS BEATEN BACK IN SAVAGE FIGHT FOR KIEV   Nazis Continue to Storm Red Positions After Losing 350 Tanks and 5,000 Infantrymen.   ANOTHER SOVIET ARMY GAINS IN DNIEPER BEND   Captures 15 Villages in Plunge to Within 18 Miles of Enemy Citadel of Kirovograd.

Mass German Tank Attacks  Beaten Down   Great Battle Still Rages As Nazis Drive for Kiev; Reds Menace Kirovograd

Dunbar Soldier  Tries Rescue   . Leaps Into River To Aid Young Woman

REDISTRICTING BILL PASSED; TO FACE TEST   Assembly Votes Reapportionmen: 113 to 33 After Earlier Favor able Senate Action   DEWEY CRITICISED   Republican Opponents Charge Gov ernor Brought Undue Pressure for Measure

BAND C COUPON VALUES CUT IN MIDWEST AREA   Rationing Revised to Give A Card Motorists in East More Fuel

"A" Motorists: Benefit in Gas Changes   A Ration Up To Two Gallons A Week, B-And C Rations Reduced

A-CARD HOLDER INBAST 10 GET MORE GASOLINE   OPA Increases Ration From 143 to 2 Gallons Weekly; B and CCur 44 Gallon Weekly

BROAD REVISION OF GAS RATIONING ADOPTED BY OPA   Move Made to More Equitably Spread Gasoline Supply

B-C Cards Cut To Two Gallon Value   A Cards Remain At Three Galions in New Shakeup Of Gasoline Setup

OPA Cuts Value OfB, C Coupons To Two Gallons   A’s Still Good For Three In New Shakeup

A-CARD VALUE UP: B AND C CARDS REDUCEE   Make Broad Revision Of Gasoline-Rationing

B And C Gasoline Rations Reduced   OPA Orders Cut Fron 3 To 2 Gallons

B AND C GAS CARDS CUT TO GIVE A’S MORE   A Card Holders Get Half Gallon More A Week; B, C’s Cut To 2

A Cards Expire Nov. 8 Giving East More: Gas.  é And C Coupons “Cut To:2 Gallons; -Next.A Coupons: Goo Until February 3:

‘B’ And ‘C’ Gas Rations  Are Slashed   Reduction Aims At More Equitable Distribution Of Supplies.

B,C Cards Cut To Two Gallons   Ration Slashed to Boost Eastern Allotment

GAS RATION CARD VALUES CHANGED      Revision Gives A Coupon Holders In East More Fuel By Cutting Down On B And C Motorists

B and C Gas Rations Are  Cut Today   A Ration for East Coast Motorists Raised to 2 Gallons Weekly

Gas Cut Hits “B”, “C”’ Cards   Coupon Value Reduced From Three to Two Gallons' in Midwest; to Equalize Supplies

OPA MAKES CHANGE IN GAS RATIONING      Effective Today B and C Coupons Are Worth Only 2 Gallons   A’S REMAIN THE SAME

GAG RATION IN MIDWEST LESS   Easterners Get Increase, Others Are Cut to Two  Calinne

Gas Rations Cut to Two Gallons  All Territory East of Rockies Affected

More Gas for A-Card Holders ‘In East Is Announced With Reduction In Both B and C

Gasoline Cut ‘on B-C Lists   OPA Order Designed: to Spread: Supply More Equitably. Hikes A’ Ration in East:

GASOLINE CUT IN MIDWEST TO BE AID TO EAST   B And C Holders Are Hard Hit; A Card Same

Broad Revision of Gasoline Rations Is Effective Today   Value of B and C Stamps Cut From Three to Two Gallons by Order

B And C Stamps Are Worth Two Gallons   East Gets More Gasoline, California Stil Gets 4 Gallons Per Gas Coupon

MORE GASOLINE - FOR EASTERN ‘N’ DRIVERS.   Supply ‘of B-C ‘Holders Cut East of Rocky Mountains

VALUE OF GASOLINE CARDS B AND C CUT TO TWO GALLONS  QUICK ACTION TAKEN I  ae ee ee ee ee a ee   QUICK ACTION TAKEN IN MIDWEST AND SOUTH. WEST AREAS BY OPA

A Card Holders Get More Gas: Cut B and C Amounts East of Rockies

GAS RATIONS FOR MIDWEST ARE REDUCED   B and C Coupon Hold. ers to Get One Less Gallon

B-C Gas Cards Cut to 2 Gals   New Order to Equalize Gas Consumption Doesn't Af fect A Books.

Guerrillas Force Nazi Retreats In Yugoslavia, Italy   German Radio Admits Penetration To Venice

WORK   Dalikans Uprising  Yugoslav Guerrillas Force Germans To Retreat   ALLIED MOVE

GUERRILLAS ARE ROUTING NAZIS   Germans Forced To Retrea! In Yugoslavia.

NAZIS FORCED BACK BY SLAVS   Germans Report Fighting Rages On 125-Mile Front

Slavs Force German Retreat   Indicate Fighting is Preliminary To Major Batkan Events Leading To Junction of. Allied and Soviet Armies:

Tribune "°°...   Nazis Concede Hord Battle at Northern End of Adriatic

NAZIS FORCED TO RETREAT BY GUERRILLAS   Fighting In Progress Along 125-Mile Front Between Venice and Trieste To Northeast   AREA CALLED "UNSAFE"

GERMAN RETREAT FROM GUERILLA FORCES REPORTED.   Patriot Dispatch Claims Nazis Withdrawing ~ at Many Places in’ Northeast Italy and Yugoslavia =

Yugoslav Units Drive Nazis Back  Report Fighting on 125 Mile Front From

GERMANS ARE FORCED BACK BY YUSOSLAYS  Guerrillas Take 100 Mile Strip  Near Venice

GUERRILLAS HIT GERMANS HARD      Yugoslav Irregulars Penetrate _ To Veriice Area In "Italy

Tirpitz Is Damaged by Midget Subs  sneok into Alten  tare ba Black   Sneak Into Alten Fjord to Blast Bia Battleship

Midgets In Bold Attack On Germans   ‘Underwater Wound’ In flicted On Big Nazi Ves. sel At Anchor In A  Norwegian. Fjord.

TIRPITZ DAMAGED   British Midget Submarines Get Into Protected Hideout -

Nazi Battleship Tirpitz Damaged   Midget English Submarines Carry Out Daring Attack Along Norway.

Make Attack On Sept. 22   Three Subs Dare Tricky Fjords, Are Still Unreported

Tirpitz Hit By Tiny Subs   British Damage Powerful Nazi Battleship

MA! BATTLESHIP DAMAGED BY SUBS   Midget British Craft Invade Norwegian Waters

Damage Big Nazi Battleship   35,000-ton Tirpitz Attacked By Midget British Subs in Fjord In Northern Norway

NAZI BATTLESHIP DAMAGED BY SUBS   Tirpitz Attacked In Nor.  way Ford By Tiny Brit. ish Craft

Tiny Subs in Attack on Tirpilz   German Battleship Damaged in Highly Hazardous Raid. oo” "be the. British   PHOTOS GIVE-PROOF. «=: _<) OF THEIR SUCCESS   Midget Undersea Raiders Go - Through: Minefields to: Spring ‘Attack:

Daring Attack “Was Made On _ September 22   Main Nazi Anchorage In: Alten Fjord Breached By Intrepid Seamen

TINY SUBS HIT NAZI WARSHIP   New British U-Boats in Raid On Tirpitz

Nazi Battleship Tirpitz Damaged  British Midget Submarines ”   British Midget Submarines * Carry Out Daring Maneuver

Von Tirpitz Attacked in Alten Fjord   Midget Undersea Craft In Daring Maneuver Score Crippling Blows

SMALL BRIT SUBS DAMAGE THE NAZI WARSHIP TIRPITZ   Midget U-Boats Sneak Into Alten Fjord in Norway and Cause Underwater Damage te German Battleship

TIRPITZ HIT BY BRITISH U-BOATS   Daring Attack Made at Alten Fjord in Northern Norway on September 22

British Subs Damage Tirpitz   Midget Submarines Attack Nazi Ship in In Alten Fjord

TO ADDRESS STUDENTS   Maurice Hindus Will Speak at K.U. Convocation Tomorrow

JAP ATTEMPT TO BOMB U.S. AIRMEN TOLD   Doolittle flyers escaped Nipponese attack after bombing Tokio

EMBARGO PUT ON WORKERS IN _ EASTERN AREA   Would Prevent Movement Virtual   Ty. All Labor in Middle Aflanti   Region of WMC

Workers in Middle Atlantic States Are Frozen to Jobs   Movement Into and Ont of Towns Prohibited by New Order of War Manpower Commission ~

Job Shifting Is Banned In MidAtlantic Area   Semi-Rigid Embargo Is ‘Claimed Today On ’ Worker Movement.

U. S. Curbs Job Shifts Within West Virginia Other Eastern States

Place Workers’ Embargo To Prevent Job-Shifting In - Mid - Atlaatic States

CLAMP EMBARGO ON WORKERS IN SEVERAL STATES   Movement of All Workers Into Or Out of Any Town In Middle Atlantic States Affected By Semi-Rigid Embargo Ordered By War  Manpower Commission.

Em bargo Placed On Workers In Middle Atlantic States’      Prevents Movement of Virtually All Employes Into or Out of Any Towns in Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Washington; Maryland Controlled by Adopted Programs

Place Embargo On Workers   Movement of Middle Atlantic Workers on Semi-Rigid Basis

Berlin Reports Allied Army To Invade Balkans   Crack British 8th Army Massing In Syria For Invasion.

INVASION ANXIETY OF AXIS TURNED T0 BALKAN AREA AGAIN  GERMAN-CONTROLLED VICHY RADIO SAYS ATTACK THERE IMMINENT

AXIS FEAR ALLIED INVASION OF BALKANS   Claim British 8th Army Ready for Action in Syria

Nazis Say British Poised In Syria..... Axis Invasion Fears Shifted To Balkans

Axis Fears Invasion Of Balkans: As American Planes Turn Fury -.On Important Salonika Air Basi

Axis Invasion Guesses Pick Balkan Coast   New Defense Steps Are Mien... .LLAl T nnLa~ LaDUIL, AAVCVUTIS Lidd1lita  at U.S. ‘Terror Planes’

Axis Remains Nervous Over  Balkan Plans   WI Vatinepe yieny BeCaCvCS Allied Attatk In Readiness

Will Crush Nazis in ‘44 ays King   Admiral King Joins Eisen. hower in Predicting Early Fall of Germany

Believes One Battalion Could Have Taken Coast Where Allies Landed

ao JIATH Army Nears End At Stalingrad   German High Command Admits Reds Smashed Last Defensive Ring Of Axis Forces

Crushing Attacks Hit Bizerte, Tunis   Bizerte Harbor Is Set Afire By American’s Artillery Fire- Final Supreme Offensive

Yanks’ Guns Burn  Bizerte Harbor; Massicault Falls  “A   Supreme Push Is On To Drive Axis Into Sea; British Leap Ahead To Point Only 16 Miles From  Tunis ; Nazis Evacuating Tebourba, Lines Crumble

MANY THOUSANDS MUST FILE TAX FORM ON SEPT. 15   Public Advised To Do Job Early And Avoid Penaltv

FORMS MAILED TO TAXPAYERS   Many In District Will Be Required To File Before Sept. 15

TAAPAYERS ADKED TU ESTIMATE ALL INGOME FOR 1940   Collector Urges Careful Study of Declaration

850,000 ESTIMATED INCOME BLANKS MAILED TO TEXAS TAXPAYERS DURING PAST WEEK

Soviet Army Closing In  On Kharkov   Nazi-held steel center im periled by rapid Russian thrusts

Red Army Within  Artillery Range Of Kharkov Now   Naxi-Held Ukraine Steel Center Gravely Imperilled By Russian Advance   TERRIFIC TANK BATTLE RAGING

NAZI-HELD UKRAINE CITY IS OBJECTIVE OF SOVIET ASSAULT BY TANK FORCES

NEW EVIDENCE IN STEEL CASE   ‘Fraudulent Practices’ Ex tended, Is Report

NEW EVIDENCE  _ IN-STEEL. TESTS   Truman : Committee. Sends. New ‘Date to Justice Department: Urging Prosecution .

COPPER MINERS CET PAY BOOST   Increase of $1.25 and $1.35 a Shift Granted for Three Companies

INCREASES GIVEN IN COPPER MINES   Employes in Three Michigan Mines Get Boosts in Wages.

ptiquor To Cost Less After August 29  OPA Predicts Lower Prices for Most Under New Requlations

FIXED MARK-UPS ‘ON LIQUOR SET BY GOVERNMENT   OPA Says Result Will Be “Average Lowering” Of Prices To Public   REGULATION TO BE EFFECTIVE AUG. 29

FIXED MARK-UPS ON LIQUORS 1S ORDERED   “Average Lowering” of Price Predicted by the OPA

SEES CUTSIN LIQUOR PRICES   OPA Establishes Markups For Nation's Whole salers, Retailers

Nationwide Fixed Mark-Ups Set On Rum, Result To Be “Average Lowering” Of Prices

OPA Establishe: Fixed Markups For Liquor _   ‘Average Lowering’ Of Prices Predicted As Result of Action

FDR RETURNS ~ FROM CANADA   Ends ‘Short Vacation On North Shore of Lake  Huron’

Nazis Are Withdrawing From Crimea   Entire Defenses Of Ukraine Are Nearing Collapse

CERMANS READY TO LEAVE CRIMEA 10 PREVENT CAPTURE   Nazi Defenses On South Ukraine On Verge Of Collapse, Reports Disclose

NAZIS READY TO WITHDRAW FROM CRIMEA   Seck To Avoid Entrapment By Russian Troops Closing In Swiftly

GERMANS READ TO GIVE UP CRIMEA TO AVOID TRAP   Fall of Zaporozhe Opens Way For Rie Red Advance

Report Nazis To Withdraw ‘From Crimea   Last Chance to Avoid Entrarment by Reds On Peninsula

GERMANS TO WITHDRAW FROM CRIMEA      “- Prepare: Move'to  Avoid Entrapment By Russians

NAZIS PREPARE TD WMHORAN FROM THE CRIMEA   Zoporozhe Fails and Germans Might Be Trapped   RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON MELITOPOL, SOMEL

NAZIS FLEEING HUM GRIMEA TO AVOID TAP   Enemy Defenses In Southern Ukraine Nearing Collapse, Front Reports Claim

Lend-Lease To Be Probed   Decision Follows Bitter Attack On Its Handling

Lend-Lease Under Attack  Termed Most Colossal Dole of All Time; 8)’ @ Beat Ghawd. shame

Lend-Lease Is Denounced As ‘Colossal Dole’   Sen. Butler Renews Demand For Investigation Of Entire Program.

OENATE GROUP VOTES A PROBE OF LEND-LEASE   Appropriations Committee to Sift. Charges Against Its Operations.

Lend-Lease Ils Denounced As Colossal Dole   Senator Butler Renews Demand for Investigation of Entire Program   CALLED AS A WITNESS

LEND-LEAGE Tl BE INVESTIGATE!   Senate Appropriations Group To Work With Truman War Probers

Senafe Asked To Probe "Dole Of Lend-Lease   Inquiry Demanded On Charges U. S. “Short Changed”

Nazis On Islands Having Hard Time   Allied Airmen Cut Shipping To Aegean Islands

MATERNITY PROGRAM RUNS LOW ON FUNDS   Wives of Ohio Servicemen May Not Get Care

SON IS DECORATED BY ADMIRAL NIMITZ   Lieutenant Nimitz Returns From Submarine Patrol 

Senate Pushes’  New Tax Setup   Ww ants To Get- Increases On Lawbooks Prior To Holiday Period

New Revenue  Bill Pushed   Senate Finance Group Goes Into Executive Session on Subject

Steel Makers Hail Decision As Move Halting Scheduled Reduced Output 

STEEL MAKERS HAIL ENDING OF MINERS’ STRIKE      Will Halt Scheduled Reduction In Output Of as Much as 12%¢ In Some Mills   MINERS REACTING   Ine Says They Are Politi cal Pawns In Hands Of Lewis And Roosevelt

No Need For Annual Meeting, Governor Says   Gov. Schricker Says a “War Chest” Fund Can Be Established to Care for Any Emergencv.

Cov. Sehricker Opposes OneYear Budget   Advocates Establishment of “War Chest” By Budget Committee For Emergency Use

State Director Of OCD Accepts New Appointment   Dr. A. C. Marts Will Become Captain With The Coast Guard Reserves

Wheat Harvest Opens in State   Combines Begin Work In Fields of Northern Oklahoma, Cars Needed

ers, Indus , Others Join In Plot  OLD- LINE GERMANS BELIEVED READY TO OVERTHROW HITLER

CLAIM GERMAN GENERALS ARE SEEKING PEACE   Reports From Inside Reich Assert Junkers . Group Putting Out Feelers to End Conflict   BETTER TERMS ARE BELIEVED SOUGHT   ‘Reasonable’ Conditions In clude Assurance of Keeping Reds From _ Occupying Nation

Anti-Hiflerites Poised For Coup At Proper Time   Junker Group Set For Overthrow Of  Nazis In Germany

Junkers Wa Chance Ts Overthrow Hitler Rule   German Professional Soldiers Already Looking Ahead To Starting Next War

Junker Germans Reported Ready To Oust Hitler   soup ls Viewed as Like. ly To Accept Any Merciful Peace Terms

Anti-Hitler Factions Seek Terms of Peace   German Junta Hopes to Get Better Deal

German Group Reported Seeking Peace Terms To Permit Retaining Of Strong Military Setup   Would Rebuild Army

JUNKERS CLIQUE AWAIT MOMENT TO OUST HITLER   Hope to Win Peace Terms Which Would Leave Enough Prussian Militarism to Form Core of New World Conquest

Report Junkers Clique Plotting To Oust Hitler   Declared Awaiting Op.portune Moment; Peace  Feelers Hinted.

Claim Hitler's Foes Plan Coup   Report Group Alread: Asked for Armistice

JUNKER PEACE PLAN RUMORS EYED ASKANCE   Allies Suspicious of Plan to Over throw Hiller, Moves to Spli United Nations

Report German Militarists Set To Oust Hitler If They Can Wangle An Easy Peace

oosevelt, Churchill, Chiang May Meet S  n Iran To Define Unconditional Surren

COUP AGAINST NAZIS PENDING   Informal Peace Feelers by Militarists Are Hinted

Reich Junker Clique Said Planning Coup  Informal Peace Feelers Report ‘ted;

‘Junkers Clique Is Reported Awaiting Right Moment For Coup In Germany

Biding Time to Overthrow Hitler - Renort Old Tina   Report Old Line Militarists Hoping To Save Something From:the Crash

Anti-Hitler Group In Germasy Reported Biding Time To Attempt Government Coup

German Junta Ready fo Drop the Feuhrer   Reported to Have Sent Up Peace Balloons to Allies

Anti-Hitler Group Awaits Peace Coup   Old Line Militarists Are Waiting Chance for Any ‘Reasonabie’ Peace

Reports From Reich  Tell of Scheme for Hitler’s Overthrow   Junto of Professional Soldiers Said to Be Awaiting Chance

Generals, Nazis Reported Split  Old Junkers Making Peace Bid To Take Over Reich Control

COUP FERMENTS INSIDE GERMANY   Anti- Hitler Junker: Await Chance To Call For Peace

1 PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS NAMED AS THE LEADERS   Junker Industrialists, Diplomats and Others Said to Be Supporting Plan for Attempted Coup.   LONDON HEARS TRUCE HAS BEEN PROPOSED   Junta Expected to Seize on Any Merciful Peace Terms That May Come From 3-Power Parley.

OLD-LINERS BID TO OUST HITLER   Group Seeks Peace To Keap - Way Open For New  War

Old-line German — Soldiers, Others  Reporting Hoping For Peace Chance

Anti-Axis Group May Iry Coup   Group of Old Line Junkers Awaiting Psychological Moment To Overthrow Hitler.

Beaumont Now Quiet, Under Martial Law   Negro Section A Shambles In Wake Of Race Rioting

Axis Dirty Work Seen In Race Riots   Woman’s Story Of Rape May Be Hoax; Inquiry Launched

Military Court Inquiry Called Into Race Riots Prevailing In Beaumont

MILITARY COURT IS IN SESSION   City Is Quiet Under Martial Law; 300 » Held In Jail

Nazi Rear Guards Hold Wadi Akarit   General Eisenhower Makes Personal Visit To Front Lines: American Attack Opened

Coastal Push Aimed At Rommel’s Flank   Bitter Fight Facing Americans; British lst Arny Still Advancing

Tanks, Infantry — Massed to Break Through Defenses   General Eisenhower Inspects Front Lines On the Eve of American Attack; Gen. Patton’s Men Face Bitter Ficht

HIT GERMANS’ MAIN DEFENSE IN MOUNTAINS   Break-Through to the Coastal Plain Is Attempted

FORCES UNDER PATTON FACE BITTER FIGHT   Break Through  To Join British Aim of Americans

Stabilizer, Product of Yank ‘Genius, Helps Tanks to Shoot Straighter

Reds Slug to Edge of Orel   New Drive Reported ai » “ Velikie Luki  _ 7   ‘Mechanical Men’ Hold Guns Steady While Tanks Buck

Tunilty, Six Others Named  In Indictment  Number Pool and Cocoanut Crove   Number Pool and Cocoanut Grove Fire Staried Probe

Boston Police HeadAmong7 Indicted Men   Number Pool Racket and Night Club Holocaust Inquiries ‘Conveyed’

Seven Police Officials Of Boston, Mass., Are Indicted   Seven, Including Commissioner Joseph T. Timility, Charged With Conspiracy to Permit Operation of Gaming Houses and Registration on Bets; One Already in Prison

Boston Officials Indicted by Jury   Gambling Inquiry Results in Charge

Permitted Operation Of Gambling Houses,  Grand Jury Finds   Commissioner And Fellow Officials Immediately Arraigned; Charge They Allowed Bet Registration

T Boston Police Officials Indicted for Conspiracy to Protect Gambling Houses

SIX BOSTON POLICE LEADERS INDICTED   Commissioner and Five Others Cited in Fire, Gambling Inquiry.

MOTHER GREETS SON BELIEVED DEAD IN ACTION   Mrs. Annie Fogle, Near Thurmont, Hadn’t Heard  From Sailor In Year   SEAMAN HAD BEEN TORPEDOED TWICE

SEAMAN, REPORTED ~ MISSING, GREETED   Mother Welcomes Son in Life Drama Unfolded at Thurmont

BIGGEST CROWD AT ROSE BOWL; SUGAR SECOND   Games May Be Final Bow! Tilts For Duration  Of Combat.

Demilitarization  of Rome Starts  Vatican Asked to Tell of Action

ITALY ASSERTS ALL MILITARY HAS LEFT ROMI   Announce ‘Open City’ Requirements Are Met

Coffee Ration Is Increased to Pound For Three Weeks  Further Easing Is Paccibia Tf Shin,

Coffee Allowance Increases July 1   One Pound Allotted For Three Weeks

To Raise Coffee Ration In Week   Increased Stocks Reason For Increase

MORE COFFEE   Ration Period For One Pound Reduced to Three Weeks

Increase Coffee Ration To] Pound For 3-Week Period Beginning July 1

COFFEE RATION LIMIT RELAXED   Pound Every Three Weeks ie Begin July 1 °

Mussolini Reported to Have Smashed Peace Movement   London, Stockholm Stories Conflict

HTALTAN OAK UP THWARTS GIANG   Spiked Peace Movement Reportedly Led By Mus solint's Son-in-Law

Fight Renewed On Poll Taxes   Senate Judiciary Group  Will Consider . Legal Anvles Of Act

FIND NO BIG FLAW   Minor Changes Are Recommended in Superin tendent’s Office

SIX DIE IN BUS MISHAP IN VIRGINIA.   Blade of Bulldczer Being Carried by Truck Rips Greyhound Bus Open; Ten Injured

BKILLED, 10 HURT UNUSUAL MISHAP   Bulldozer Blade Rips Open Side of Greyhound Bus In Virginia As  Truck-Bus Meet In Rain and Fog.

SIX LIVES LOST IN INDIANA WEEK-END   Five Traffic Accidents and Mrs. Mary Shrout, New Castle, Burned.

French General Again Quarrel   ‘De Gaulle Aroused By Armistice Story

Battle Is Now In Full Swing   Marines Have Tanks and Are Battling for Beachhead

BOUGAINVILLE BATTLE NOW IS IN FULL SWING   Fierce Fighting Rivals Affair On Guadalcanal. Secretary Knox Denies Enemy Claims.

HIGH MASS OF REQUIEM HELD  ST. BERNARD'S       Miss Margaret Irwin, 88, Had Been Housekeeper at Rectory for 2( «ears

Farm Bloc Leaders Say Only Veto Can Spoil Labor Cost Parity Plan

ALLIES READY FORLAE ATTACK   Estimate 20,000 Japs Bottled Up There

CONFER ON WAR   ‘Vichy Says Two British Leaders Talk To Eisenhower.

Scattered Remnants of 22 German Divisions Rowled as Russians Shafler Heart of Enemy Fas! Wall and Drive Toward Polish Border

Blunder Costly For Nazi Army   Victorious Soviets Pouring Through 1S85-Mile Break In Enemy Line; Ukraine Supply Route Cut

Weather Forecast   LEWlo AE TURN TO AL SLOGKED BY RIVAL UNION   PMW Objects To United Miners Because Of Jurisdictional Dispute

Lewis Return To  AFL Hits Snag   Two Mine Groups Would Be In Union

Allies Meet Resistance  On Choiseul   Batter Rabaul In Heavy Raid

ALLIED AND JM     sare Be POR CHOISEUL   Meanwhile, Rabaul, Al  ready Heavily Raided, Staggers Under New 115-Ton Attack

M5 JAP PLANES SMASHED ON RABAUL FIELD   Important Jap Base Staggers; Troops Locked In Combat

Planes Smash Powerfully  At Rabaul   Allies Battle Japs For Possession  ‘Of Choiseul

Rabaul Again fs Given Blasting   ALLIED BOMBERS DROP. TONS ON JAP BASE

BOMBS ON RABAUL   Showered Again With Explosives as. Battle for  Choiseul Goes On.

ALLIES BATTLE FOR CHOISEUL   Rabaul Staggers Under ! New Mass Bombing

Choiseul Is Scene Of A Jan Battle   Rabaul Staggers Under Another Massive Bombing

Allied And Japanese Troops Locked In Struggle  Rabaul Battered Again: Choiseul Fight Fierce

RABAUL SMOTHERED UNDER ANOTHER BIG AIR ATTACK MONDAY  AMERICAN AND NEW ZEALAND TROOPS BATTL TAPS ON CHOISEUL

Rabaul Is Staggered _ By Bombing   Ground Troops Locked in Battle for Island of Chotseul

Rabaul Raided. Battle Raging   American And Zealander Troops Are Attacking Choiseul Island

MASS BOMBING ROCKS RABAUL   Battle Rages For Possession Of Choiseful Island

RABAUL SMOTHERED UNDER ANOTHER BIG AIR ATTACK MONDAY  AMERICAN AND NEW JEALAND TROOPS BATTLI

BRISK FIGHTING IS REPORTED ON CHOISEUL   45 More Jap Planes Destroyed at Rabaul, Several Cargo and Troop Ships Sunk

Ainetican Néw Zealand Troops Locked in Battle With Japs for. Choiseul alt _ a :

Allied Fliers Attack Rabaul   American and New Zealand Troops Battle Japanese for Choiseul

FLIERS WRECK 49 PLANES IN RAID ON RABAUL   Troops Locked in Battle for Possession of Choiseul Island

Rabaul Staggers Under Another Raid; Brisk Fighting Reported On Choiseul

Rabaul Battered By Allied Blows  115 Tons of Bombs Hit New Britain Base

Mother, Four Children Of Sandusky  Businessman Killed In Accident

Food Error Is Pointed Out By  Herbert Hoover   Allies. receiving much less meat and fats than in 1918, yet shortage is greater here.

Hoover Declares Nation Faces Meat Shortage   But Says We Are Exporting Less Than in First War

Duce Goes After War Plant Des  Nazis Prepare; ‘Italy Waits For Invasion

BERLIN BOASTS ARMIES GIRDED FOR INVASIONS      Broadcast Declares Ger. man Forces “Preparing For Battles of Largest Possible Scale”   ITALY IS TENSE   Algiers Says Rome Government Orders Military Trials For Deserters From War Factories

GERMAN ARMY IS PREPARING FOR BIG RATTLES TO COME   LONDON PRESS CONTINUE TO TRUMPET ALLIED THREAT TO ITALY

Italy Tense, Nazis Jittery Over Invasion   Berlin Says Army Ready For Anything

ARRIVED IN CAIRO   ‘King Peter of Yugoslavia .Accom panied by Premier

RESUME FIGHT WITH GERMANS   American Bombers and Fighters Attack; British Nearing Tripoli.   STILL CHASE ROMMEL

Montgomery's Army Within 100 Miles of  Tripoli in Advance   Rommel Again on Run as British Make Bee Line Across Big “Hump”

Slavs Capture - Vares-Mayden   Bosnia’s Steel ‘Center I: Taken By Guerrillas’ “< Of Gen. Broz

Naz s Lose Last Industry In Bosnia. . .  Yugoslav Guerrillas - Capture Steel Center

STEEL CITY TAKEN   Nazi Forces Have Lost Heavy Industry Center in Bosnia

Bosnian Steel City Captured by. Yugoslavs   Partisans Claim Victory Over German Army

T0'S FORCES CAPTURE GREAI INDUSTRY CITY   Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties In Battle

YUGOSLAVS TAKE CITY OF VARES   INDUSTRIAL CENTER FALLS AFTER FIERCE BATTLE WITH GERMANS

Yugoslav National Libera. tion Army Claims Captnre of Industrial City

Industry Center In Bosnia Lost  By Nazi Forces   Yugoslav Partisans Seize Manufacturing City 20 Miles From Sarajevo

New Punch In Burma Drive Seen   Advance by Russians Chief Action in Day’s War Theaters

ALLIED LEADERS PROMISE ACTION   Selection of Lord Mountbatten. Ai Southeast Asia Commander . Presages New Thrust

Soviet Armies Capture 60 Villages   Vital Taganrog, Donets Basin Railroad Is Cut

RGUE LABOR BILL'PA‘      Measure Goes Thru House; Senate Is Expected to Act Soon

40 OUT OF a0     ; ee ae ' , v * ; ay, oe       Fort Hayes February 17

30 REJECTED FROM LAST DRAFT GROUF   Local Board Gets Report on Contingent

British Bombers Continue Raids   Round-The-Clock Bombings Continue Over Continental Europe

FARM GROUP T0 PRESS:FOR PRICE, NO RESTRICTIONS   Would Increase Production And Boost Farm liner

Farm Bloc Presses for Higher Prices   Would Increase Food Output— Want Farm Workers Deferred

Pacific War Being Pushed Upon Japs   U.S. Troops Squeezing In On Mubo

Japanese Are Given NoRest  ge y Americans   * n. MacArthur Reports U. S. Troops Squeezing in on Mubo, and Enemy Garrisor at Munda Is Kept Isolated

SOP DOESN'T TAKE TO SHORT CAMPAIGN IDEA   gMay.Settle Party Differences Over Income Tax Issue -

Party Differences » Over Abatement of Tax May Be Settled   ®@ Conference in Dixie ls Rumored; Washington News Summarized

POLITICAL POT HOLDS CAPITAL INTEREST NOW   GOP Refusal To Cut Time For Campaigns Based on ‘Head Start’ of Dems   TAXES GET ATTENTION   Heat Off Temporarily, Too, For Arguments on Labor And War Contracts

Politics Boiling To Top oi Capital Cauldron; Fourtl Term, Tax Plans anc Trade Agreements Are Is sues; Heat Temporarils Turned Off Manpowe Draft Bill.

POLITICS BOILED TO TOP OF CAPITOL CAULDRON TODAY   DOUGHTON AND KNUTSON, OPPOSING TAX LEADERS, MAY CONFER IN SOUTH

Politics Boil Top On Issues. ‘Up In Congress          Republicans Say Democrats Have Already Picked 1944 Candidate.

WICOMICO MAN RAPS LABOR   Delegate Smith Assails Charges To Farmers

BIG BATTLE OF SUPPLY LINES SEEN FOR 40   Axis Is Preparing to Use More U-Boats In Thwarting Gains of Allies.

Supply Line Battle Will Grow Steadily   Germans Prepared To Put 500 U-Boats Into Action

BRITISH TROOPS HAVE KNIFED: INLAND 40 MILES MEETING ONLY LIGHT RESISTANCE =.   , 40 Towns and Villages Taken’ and More Than a 3,000 Prisoners Captured. ‘Aerial Rail Destruction Prevents Nazis From Bringing #@p Reinf« ey

INVASION TROOPS MOVING INLAND ON TOE ITALIAN BOOT   RESISTANCE GENERALLY ! CONTINUES WEAK AND MANY TOWNS OCCUPIED

Santo Stefano Is Taken by Allied Forces   3,000 Axis Prisoners Taken; Russians Within Three Miles of Stalino; 8,000 Germans Killed; War Centers in Rhineland Bombed

V With Our 1 Soldi          Zeta Montague to Report for Duty As Naval Nurse

Ve With Our  1 Soldiers  \ and  4 Sailors ie @e      Zeta Montague to Report for Duty As Naval Nurse

5 LOCAL MOTORISTS LOSE GAS RATIONS   Men Were Accused Of Violating Victory Speed Limit And Plea sure Drivine Ban

JAPANESE ORIVEN UUT OF CHANGTEE   Invaders Caught In Death Trap, Chinese Report

ALLIED WARSHIPS SHELL NEW GUINEA   Australian Troops Capture Bonga Supply Center

4 KNOWN DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK   Death Toll May Be Larger About 40 Others Hurt In New Jersey Crash

Crowded Srain Wrecked in East: 12 to 18 Kitled   Many Injured Venen Atlantic City to N. Y. Flyer Jumps Track

TRAIN DERAILED IN NEW JERSEY      12 to 18 Reported Dead as Cars Overturn

NUMBER KILLED IN WRECK IN JERSEY      Speeding Pennsy-Reading Liner Wrecked in New Jersey .

Repor ts Have 12 to 18 Dead  In Train Wreck   Four Known To Be Dead And Over 38 Injured Near Delair. N. 7.

Threat of Coal Strike Looms Again   Believe Lewis Will Extend — Present Truce

DEADLINE FOR LATEST TRUCE MONDAY NIGHT   Lewis Gives No Sign Of New Extension As Talks Continue

Threat of New Stoppage at ! Midnight Hanes Over U. S. Soft Coal F ‘elds

Ravenna Blast Cause Unknown   ‘Army Investigates;  10 Workers Killed

ARMY INSPECTORS PROBE EXPLOSION      Cause of Blast, Which Killed 10 Workers fs Probed Today at Ravenna.

Army Inspectors _ (Probe Blast Cause At Ravenna Plant  Which Killed Ten

ZO FARMERS HEAR ANNUAL PROGRAM   Delegation Returns Fror Annual IAA Convention in Chicago.

Opponents Hand Ignominious Defeat To Local Warriors to the Tune of 6-0 in 2ist Turkey Day Game

All Coupons In Gas Ration Books Must Be Endorsed At Once   Required Under New OPA Rules As Help To Public, Dealers -

Gasoline Coupons  Must Be Endorsed   New Requirement to Aid In Checking Misuse, and kor Public Convenience.

MUST ENDORSE ALL GASOLINE COUPONS   Livingston County War Price - and Rationing Board Is sues Warning.

TWO PLANES: IN TEST DIVES. EXCEED SPEED OF SOUND   RECORD DIVE OF MORE THAN FOUR MILES REVEALED BY MULITARY AU.. ..... THORITIES «

ATTACK ON JAPS IS STEPPED UP   Low-flying Allied Planes Blast Path for Troops On New Guinea

UNITED STATES UNITS CLEARING WAY FOR DRIVE  Offensive Against Big Japanese Base

Prepare New U.S. Drive    MacArthur Believed To Be Paving Way for Assault on Salamaua

MacArthur's Men Are Preparing fo Assault Salamaua   Rabaul Is Blasted By Allied Planes For Fourth Night

jap Salamaua Base Seen Objective For Aled Offensive.   Fliers Pave Wav   Rabaul Shipping Is Given Fourth Dose Of Attrition.

MacArthur Believed Set For Climactic Offensive On Jap Base At Salamaua

'BUINEA CLIMAX — BELIEVED NEAR   Heavy Air Action In Area Is Continuing

Clears Way For Attack On Salamaua   Allied Airmen _ Continue Blasting of Rahaul Shipping

PLAN ATTACK ON JAPANESE BASE AT SALAMAUA   Blast Region Near Enemy Held City in New Guinea

CLEAR WAY FOR NEW PACIFIC OFFENSIVE   Gen. MacArthur’s Airmen Blast Rabaul Again

Prepare for Offensive At Salamaua   MacArthur’s Forces Clear Way for Climactic Attack; Allied Planes Bomb Towns in Mubo Area

Py¥anes Bomb and Machine-gun Towns and Trails In Region; Patrols In One Sector Killed 60 Jap Stragglers.  Low fying Allied Attack

Climactic Assault on Salamaa on New Guinea Preparing   MacArthur’s Forces on Island Clearing War for Offensive

Prepare Way for Offensive in New Guinea   Allied Fliers Blast Jap Ship. ping Center; Foe Loses Heavily in Raid

Big Offensive In Pacific Area Is Close At Hand?   MacArthur Clears The Way With Air Raids

BIG JAP BASE SOON WILL BE GIVEN ATTACK   MacArthur: 3 Men Clearing Way r Bi Offensive ains scaBor Biz, Off ve Against  + pea Sop tora 12 epee   ENEMY SHIPPING AGAIN ' BLASTEB BY BOMBERS

WAY BEING CLEARED FOR ALL-OUT ATTACK ON JAPANESE BASE   UNITED NATIONS AIRMEN BLASTED JAP SHIPPING CENTER AGAIN

Allies Clearing Way In Pacific   U. S. AND AUSSIES IN GREAT ADVANCES AGAINST JAPS

M’ARTHUR PLANS MAJOR DRIVE ON SALAMAUA BASE      American And Australian Troops Organized For Climactic Offensive Against Important Japanese Position.

FINAL ATTACK AT SALAMAUA BEING SHAPED   As Allies Clear Way for Climactic Offensive Against Big Jap Base in New Guinea, Planes Blast Mubo Area.

ALLIES EYEING -SALAMAUA BASE   MacArthur’s Forces Are Preparing for Smashing Offensive on New Guinea

Yank Troops Prepare For  Vital Battle   Climatic Fight. Is Expected Against Sala( manga

Europe Holds   Pacifie’s Fate   Curtin Says There Is No Short Cut To Victory In Southwest

No Short-Cut To Victory—Curtin   Australian Minister MacArthur Confer

No Short Cut To Win Over Japs   Final Victory Must Wait On Events In Europe, Savs Curtin.

‘Prolonged Operations’ In Pacific  Predicted   ‘No Short Cut To Victory’ Says Curtin After Conference With General MacArthur

RUSH OUT RUBBER IN UNITED STATES   First Plant to Manufacture Synthetic Product in War Opens.

Synthetic Rubber Plant Produces   Swift Building Program Readies Huge Factory

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANT IN OPERATION   Government Factory at Bator Rouge First in Nation to Go Into Production,

Guadalcanal's Drastic Effect on Minds of Men Involved Is Revealed

RUBBER UNION PROTESTS PAY BOOST BY WLB   Production At Three Big Plants Halted By Walkout   WAR OUTPUT HIT

18,000 Rubber Workers Strike   Three Big Firms at Akron, Ohio, Affected By Work Stoppaqge

AKRON RUBBER WORKERS QUIT OVER PAY BOOST   Protest War Labor Board's  Award of Three Cents an   Hour When Eight Cents Was Asked   MAJOR RUBBER FIRM CLOSED BY STOPPAGE   Labor Board Calls on Employes to Return to Jobs in Interest of Nation's Security.

35,000 C10 Rubber Workeés: In Walk-Out   Halt Production at 4 Major Plants After WLB Wage Decision

30,000 RUBBER WORKERS STRIKE   PROTEST WLB.. WAGE DECI- SION—WALKOUT HALTS PRODUCTION AT 2 PLANTS,

WLB Wage Decision Protested: Goodrich, Firestone, General, Goodyear Affected

39,000 Rubber Workers Strike At Akron Plant  Many More Likely To Quit in Dispute Over Wage Rate  SOUTHERN MINERS OU’  Some of 24,000 Chrysler Employes Returning to Jobs

35,000 Quit Rubber Mills   Unionists Protest Wage Increase Order By Wor Labor Board

39,000 Quit In Protest To WLB Deeisior   CIO Union Members In Walkout; President Of International Says Act Violates Pledge

18000Rubber Workers Quit In Protest   Object to Labor Board Ruling on Poy Increases

WLB Wage Decision 7  Protested   Four Major  Plants Hit Re Walkants

Strikes Halt Production In  Rubber Plants   Thousands Leave Job: In Protest Of WLB Wage Decision

18,000 WALK OFF JOBS IN AKRON, DISSATISFIED WITH LATEST PAY HIKE   Three Cents An Hour Increase Granted by WLB, But Employes Protest Decision— Goodrich, Firestone and General Tire Companies Affected by Work Stoppage.

Polish Exile Government Head Killed   Sikorski, 15 Others Die A: Plane's Engines Fail r Gibraltar Takeoff   PLUNGES INTO SEA   Generai's Daughter, Chief Of Staff Lose Lives: Only Pilot Is Saved

General’s Daughter, All Others Aboard Except  Pilot Die In Plunge Into ee

Poles’ Premier Sikorski Killed i in Liberator Crash   Accident Occurs After Gibraltar Takeoff; 14 or 15 Dead, Including Hish Officiale.

Premier Of Cabinet In Exile Dies In Accident   Was Commander Of Polish Armed  Forces

Daughter and Member OF British Parliament Also Victims of Mishap

POLISH PREMIER DIES IN CRASH OFF CIBRALTAK   Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorsk: And 14 Other Persons Victims Of Accident   MOTORS F AILED SOON AFTER PLANE TOOK OFF

Polish Premier Killed at Gib   15 Others Perish in RAF Liberator Bound  ‘For Ensland

Polish Premier  Killed In Crash   His Daughter, 13 Others Die When Plane Falls

Polish General, Army Leaders Killed In Crash  Gibraltar Plane Tragedy Hits At Allied Plans

Premier of Poland dies  in air crash   Liberator down off Gibraltar

Polish Premier Dies in Crash   GENERAL WLADISLAW SIKORSKI IS KILLED AS HUGE LIBERATOR ROCKETS INTO SEA AT GIBRALTAR; FIFTEEN OTHERS LOSE LIVES

Poland's Premier Dies in Air Crash   Leader of Government-in-Exile Meets Death Near Gibraltar; Other,Army Notables Killed

Polish Chief Dies in Crash   General Sikorski  Meets Death in Takeoff - From Gibraltar

Head Polish Government Dies in Plane   General Sikorski, Six Other Passengers and Liberator Crew, Except Pilot, Killed in Crash at Sea

DAUGHTER ALSO AMONG VICTIMS OF AIR MISHAP   Pilot Lone Survivor of Crash Fatal to  Sixteen

PREMIER OF POLISH GOVERNMENT IN EXILI KILLED IN ACCIDENT  GEN. WLADISLAW SIKORSKY AND OTHERS DIE WHEN PLANE CRASHES

Ut BIG PLANE   General Sikorski And Six Companions Are Killed Near Gibraltar

PLANE CRASH IS FATAL T0 POLISH CHIEF   Plunges Into Sea After Taking Off From Gilbraltar

Polish Premier, 14 - Others Are Killed   General Wladslaw Sikorski, Commander Fo land’s Armed Forces, Perishes in Plane Crash Off Gibraltar

Gen, SUKOrSK1 Dies in Plane At Gibraltar  Big Ship Crashes After Takentf Tanehtar   Big Ship Crashes After Takeoff, Daughter Also Victim   Had Reviewed Troops in _ Middle East; Cabinet  Names Deputy

POLISH CHIEF IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASK   Premier and Members of Staff Die When Liberator Falls Into Sea Shortly After ‘Taking Off From Gibraltar,

POLISH PREMIER, 14 OTHERS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Craft Bearing General Sikorski Falls Into Sea Soon After Taking Off From Gibraltar.   DAUGHTER OF LEADER IS AMONG THE DEAD   Ship’s Engines Stail and It Goes Down in Flames— Searchlignhts Used in Rescue Attempt.

Polish Government Premier Is Killed In Plane Crash  Fourteen Orher Persons Die in Accident  Off Gibraltar: Chief’s Daughter Victim

SIKGRSKI ANE 15 KILLED I PLANE CRASH   Motors Failed Shortly After Premier Of Polish Government In Exile Had Left Cibraltar   Daughter Also Killed

Gen't Wladyslaw Sikorski Killed Off Gibralter — Daughter One of Vic time

U. S. Bombers Strike Anew In Solomons   Secretary Knox Says Enemy Suffers Supply Difficulties

BELIEVES JAPS MAY QUITRABAUI   NAVAL SPOKESMAN POINTS TO HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES AT STRONGHOLD,

There's a Job Waiting For Every Physically Fit Man and. Woman In Charleston  ~-T's your patriotic duty to help win ihe war as quickly as possible with minimum Toss of lives.  ~-It's your patriotic duty ta do all you ran to keep business ening so that. our Fight+ ing men wilh have a job to (rn lo afler the war fs         Report Charges Factory Pay ‘Tops That of Army Generals

‘Rep. Engel Reports On Wage “Extravagances” In War Ind., Blames Roosevelt Reg*me

WAR WORKERS PAID WAGES THAT EQUAL OFFICERS’ INCOMES   Persons With Little or No Experience Get Pay of American Generals.

SAYS WORKERS . PAID TOO HIGH   Congressman Reports Some Plant Employees Get More Than Top Army Men

WAR WORKERS GET MORE WAGES THAN SOME RENERALS   House Subcommittee Shows How Nation’s Burden Falla Inequitably.

CHAS. CHAPLIN, 54 MARRIES GIRL, 18   Actor - Producer Weds Oona O'Neill, Daughter of Playwright

CHARLES CHAPLIN MARRIES GIRL, 18   NEW YORK’S NO. 1 DEBUTANTE IN 1942 BECOMES BRIDE OF ACTOR.

Charles Chaplin Takes Fourth Youthful Bride   Marries Actress O’ Neill, Daughter of Author; Miss Berry Collapses 

LIFE IN HARLEN « ABOUT NORMA   Rioting and Vandalism Takes Five Lives, Injuries 261, Causes 504 Arrests; Police Extend Curfew °

HARLEM QUIET AFTER RIOTING   Crowded Negro District Still Under Guard Of 4000 Police

Greek Islands Said Captured   Stage Set For Renewal Of Mighty Struagle For Haly

LEWIS DEMANDS WAGE INCREASE   ASSERTS AMERICAN COAL MINERS FEEL PANGS OF HUNGER

MINERS VICTIMS OF EXPLOITATION, UNION CHIEF SAY!   “Little Steel Formula” No Answer to Children Who Cry for Bread, Confer ence Warned.

Records Broken By Cold Wave   One Below in Pittsburgh; Lowest March Figure in Years

COLD GOES TO NEW LOWS OVER STATE   Many Reports of Below Zero in Northwest, 18 Below at Kane.   RECORD BROKEN IN PITTSBURGH

GERMAN SETBACK IN NORTH AFRICA MAY MEAN OIL SHORTAGE  AMERICAN SUPPLY DECLARED BE ABOUT FOUR MILLION BBLS. DAILY

Reich’s Heavy Losses in Russia Laid to Dwindling Oil Supplies, Insufficient for Armored Forces

Allied Shipping Losses in “42 Exceed Output   Truman Commiitee Report Fixes Sinkings at 12 Million Tons; Cites Production Gains, Sub Letup

Allies Lost 12,000,000 _ Tons of Shipping in 1942, Senate Committee Reveals

Report Allied Shipping Losses Heavy   12,000,000 Tons Were Sunk During Last Year

SHIPPING LOSSES INPAST YEAR WAS 12 MILLION TONS   Production: During: ‘Year Was Slightly Over 8 Truman Committee ‘Re: “port Reveals...        OTHER-ALLIES MADE. *_ ABOUT TWO MILLIONS   Number of Vessels Lost Are Not Listed But Reports Reveal 746 Were Built in This Country.

12,000,000 TONS OF ALLIED SHIPPING IS LOST TO SUBS IN’42      Truman Committee Criticizes Navy For “Hush” Policy , And “Unimaginatiye” Drive On Subs:

Heavy Loss  In Shipping Is Reported By Committee   Figure for 1942 Set  At 12 Million Tons, More Than U. S., Britai) Built Durine Year   MENACE CAN BE MET, COMMITTEE SAYS   Admits Shipping Space Not Enough To Meet All Needs of Allies

12 MILLION TONS OF ALLIED. SHIPS SUNK LAST YEAR   Truman Committee Reports Total Is More Than That Built by U. S. and Britain Combined.   BELIEVES WAR ON SUBS WILL SUCCEED IN TIME   Way to Meet Menace, Group Says, Is to Boost Production of Merchantmen and  Escort Vessels.

12,000,000 Tons of Shipping Lost By Allies In “42°   Senate Committee Hit At Navy Department's “Hush, Hush” Policy

12M MILLION TONS SHIPPING LOST IN SINGLE YEAR   Truman Committee Says Allied Losses Are Heavy But Not Disastrous   SUBMARINE MENACE IS BEING COUNTERED

Shipping Losses Reported Heavy   Truman Committee Gives 1942 Data

SENATE GROUP SAYSU.S. CAN HALT MENACE   Truman Report Shows Losses Were Greater Than Total Tonnage Produced   NAVY PRAISED HIGHLY FOR ‘MAGNIFICENT JOB’

TRUMAN'S BOARD EYES SUB LOSSES   12 Million Tons of Shipping Sunk Last Year

ALLIED U-BO AT LOSSES HEAVY IN PAST YEAR   12,000 Tons Are Sent Down, Truman Says; Outstrips Total Production   Solution Foreseen

“HUSH, HUSH” POLICY — OF NAVY IS DECRIED   Senate Committee In Revealing United Nations Ship Losses to Subs in 1942 at Around 12,000,000 Tons, Assails Secrecy Maintained by the Department — Navy Commended,  - Mawaver

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Navy's ‘Hush-Hush’ Policy About Sinkings Is Assailed by Senate Truman Committee

Allied Shipping  Losses Heavy   12 Million Tons Lost in Year, Truman Say»: Problem Being Solved

SCORE NAVY'S HUSH HUSH ON SINKINGS   Truman Investigators Demand Positive Action, Bare 1942 Loss of 12 Million Tons.

ALLIES LOST 1 MILLION SHIPPING TONS   Truman Group Call: For Scientific Determination

More Ships Lost Than Were Buil  12,000,000 Tons Sunk By Subs; Warn Stiff Bottle Still Ahead

12 Million Tons Of Shipping Sunk   More Than Total Tonnage Built By Allies Is Lost To Axis Submarines in Sea Warfare

Committee Assails Navy Hush-Hush Sinking Reports   Ask for Fewer Explanations and More Quick Action

TRUMAN REPORT BARES SHIP LOSS   12,000,000 Tons of Shipping Lost By Allies Last Year, Claim

LOSS OF SHIPS EXCEEDS OUTPUT   Senate War Probers To Seek To Determine Need of U. S. Armed Forces

NAVY ASSAILED FOR NEGLIGENCE   Truman Group Reveals Gravity Of Atlantic Battle With Subs

Shipping Destroyed Faster Than U. S., Britain Build It   Truman Reports 12 Million Tons Sunk in 1942; Says Submarine Menace Now Being Overcome

12 MILLION TONS ALLIED SHIPPING LOST IN 1942   Truman Committee Seeks to Determine How Many Men Can Be Usefully Employed In Armed Services.

Axis Subs Sank 12 Million Tons   Bui °42 Loss Rate Now  Falline. Sav Prohers

TRUMAN GROUP ASSAILS NAVY   Asks Franknes; in Reporting Losses, Greater Attention to U-Boat Menace

Heavy Naval Losses By Allies In 1942 Reported   Total of 12,000,000 Tons Sunk——More Thon Tota Tonnage Built by U. S.'and.Britain in Period, Truman Committee Reports

12 Million Tons Of Allied Ships Sunk in 1942   More Vessels Lost Than Built by U. S., Britain, Group Finds

SHIP SINKINGS ARE BLOW 10 ALLIED CAUSE   LOSSES 12 MILLION; MORE THAN 1942 TONNAGE BUILT

SAYS 42 LOSS IN SHIPPING 12 MILLION TONS   Truman Committee Declares Sub Menace Will be Met

Record Coal Output Seen   Federal Reserve Report Dee Tee: Hila Ptah?

STATE ESCAPES MAN SHORTAGI   Workers Inadequate For Some Areas Of Bank District

‘OPA ORDERS CUT IN PRICES FOR CERTAIN GROCERY STORE ITEMS  LABOR LEADER, HOWEVER, DECLARES REDUC-

OPA Reduces Profit Margin On Four Food:   Sugar for Home Canning Held to 25 Pounds; Suheidev Preatoated

PROFIT MARGINS ORDERED LOWERED   OPA Issues Instructions For Prices of Onions, Cabbage and Poultry. 

Profit Margins Cut on Cabbage. Onions, Poultry   New Subsidy Plan Is Criticized in House: 25 Pounds of Sugar for Canning Is Fixed

OPA REDUCES PROFIT MARGIN SOME GOODS   Cabbage, Onions and Some Poultry, Salt Codfish Affected by Latest Order

Cut Profits On ‘Cabbage, Onions Frozen Poultry   O. P. A. Takes New Stes In Program To Reduce Cost Of Living.

DPA SETS NEW ‘MARKUP TOPS FUR GROGERIEE   Also Cuts Codfish Prices in Latest Steps to “Roll Back Prices.”   LABOR LEADER CALLS FOR YEAR AGO LEVELS

*PRICES CUT _ ON CABBAGE AND POULTRY   OPA to List Ceilings on Soap; to List Canned Goods Prices

STORE PROFIT MARGIN IS CUT ON SOME FOOD   ‘Canning Sugar Limit Of 25 Pounds Also Set by OPA

REDUCE ONION, CABBAGE, SOME PHI TRY COSTS   Added to 10° 10°o Cut Ordered For Meats, Coffee And Butter   SUBSIDIES PONDERED   Congress To Pass On Plan To Hold Down Food Costs

Cut Retail Markups      Latest ‘Step By OPA In Effort To Bring Down Living Costs

OPA ORDER GUT GROCERS’ PROT *MARGIN ON ITEM   Lowers Profits on Cabbage, » Onions, Some Poultry and Salt Codfish   LIMITS CANNING SUGAR . 25 POUNDS PER PERSON   Subsidy Plan Draws Stir Criticism in House; Com ' munity-Wide Price Ceilings In 130 Metropolitan Areas Are Put Into Effect

Profits On Some Foods Are Reduced Under OPA Order   Cabbage, Onion, Poultry And Codfish Price Stabilized: Canning Sugar Allotment Set

Less Profit For Grocer OPA Decree   SUGAR FOR HOME CANNING FIXED AT 25 POUNDS PER PERSON, SAME AS LAST YEAR.   Cubsides Plan Rapped

Cut Margin Of Profit On  Some Items   OPA Takes Action On Cabbage, Onions And Some Poultry To Help Reduce Food Costs

Profits for Grocers Cut  By OPA Order   Subsidy Plan Draws Criticism From - . Member of House

CUT PROFITS ON CABBAGE, ONIONS SOME POULTRY  OPA TAKES STEPS IN - EFFORT TO REDUCE

OPA Reduces Dealers’ Food Profits  Order Cuts Margin On Several Items;  fasten fiear Gar

PROFIT MARGIN ORDERED CUT ON SEVERAL FOODS   OPA Fixes Top Limit Of 25 Pounds Of Sugar Per Person For Canning   Subsidy Plan Flayed

Slice Grocery Profit Margin In New Order   Cabbage, Onions, Poultry Included; Reduced Price On  Beef. Mutton This Week.   AFI, GCRITICEZES .PLAN

OPA Cuts Profit: on Food Sales .   GOVERNMENT SLASHES MARGINS ON ONIONS, CABBAGE, POULTRY; REDUCES PRICES ON SALT CODFISH IN LIVING COST MANEUVER

Grocery Profit Margins Are Cu   Cabbage,. Onions, © Anc Poultry Affected

MARGIN OF PROFIT LOWERED BY OPA   Cabbage, Onion and Some Poultry Prices Reduced

Profit Margins on Cabbage, Poultry, Onions Cut Today   » OPA Also Orders Price of Salt Codfish Cut; Others Coming

OPA ORDERS CUT IN PRIGES FOR CERTAIN GROCERY STORE ITEMS  LABOR LEADER, HOWEVER, DECLARES REDUCTION IS NOT ENOUGH

Profit Kdge For Grocers Cut by OPA On 4 Items   Reduced on Cabbage, Onions, Some Poultry And Salt Codfish;  Subsidies Critvcized   SUGAR ALLOWANCE FOR CANNING UP  25-Pound Top Limit Per Person Is Set For Home Canning

Reds Bomb Nazi Airdromes, Supply Depots Heavily   17 Planes Shot Down In Leningrad Area; Ground Activity Light

Red airmen smash nazi supply bases   Shoot down 17 raiding planes

Soviet Airmen Hit Hard at Nazi Bases   Ground Activity Remains Light, Russians Report

Russians Strike Heavy Air Blow   Hit Nazi Airdromes And Supply Depots

RUSSIANS DOWN 17 NAZI PLANES   Germans Attempt Triple Daylight Attack At Leningrad

Red Airmen Strike Dromes, Depots Behind Nazi Line  _ Ground Activity Still - Quiet Along Whole Soviet Front

RUSSIANS DOWN {7 GERMAN PLANES   CRAFT BAGGED DURING ATTEMPT TO RAID LENINGRAD SECTOR,

GERMAN SUPPLY DEPOTS BOMBED   Soviets Strike Heavil) At Airdromes; Ground Activity Lacking

Russian Airmen Strike Behind  German Lines — Axis Attempts at,  Spring Offensive Balked From Ajr

OSE NEW SCHOOL BILL   Senate Bill Weakens Chance Of House-Passed Code

RAF BOMBERS SWEEP DEEP INTO GERMANY   Kassel was hardest hit among three important points

KASSEL, ARMS CENTER GETS HARDEST BLOW   Frankfurt, Cologne, Other Targets; 44 Planes Lost

GOP SENATORS MEET TO RE-ELECT 'M'NARY AS LEADER    Group May Adopt Short, General Statement Of Policies

ADRASTIC CUT IN “ARMY CONTRACTS: IN SEATTLE AREA   ACTION TAKEN TO GIVE BOEING CHANCE RECRUIT WORKERS

PRODUCTION SLUMPS _FOR FLYING FORTS   Critical Labor Shortage ir Seattle Area Blamed

Will Cancel War Orders In the West   So That Workers May Go to Make Boeing Flying Fortresses

ARMY CONTRACTS . IN SEATTLE AREA BEEN CANGELLED   Cancellation Made To Give Boeing Aircraft Company Opportunity To Recruit Workers To Get Lagging Production of Fortresses Back On Schedule.

“FORTS” BEGIN TO “SOFTEN UP’ BIZERTE   Kisenhower Reports Unbroken Progress Beyond Mateur

YANKS TANKS ROARING QVER TUNIS PLANS   Helpless Enemy Pushed. Back toa Position 10 Miles South of Mateur. . -  FLYING FORTS SOFTEN.  -UP PORT OF BIZERTE

AAIL-TRUCK TIEUP TO BE ORDERED   ODT Sends Proposed Order to Shippers to Get Reaction; Limits Hauls

Railway- Truck Linking Looms   Government: Drafts’ Plan -.To Control Shipping Over. Country

Coordination Rail, Truck Shipments   ODT Order Expected to Confine Truck Shipments to 300 Miles and Make Rail  Shinment Minimum 100

Feeders Seek  Grain Release   Appeal For Sale Of Addi. tional Government Owned Wheat Stocks.

Butter Ration Is Pound a Month.   Largest Export Market Will Be Russia In 1944

POUND OF BUTTER MONTHLY 1 SEE   Prospect for 1944. Told on Basis of Preliminary Estimates.

SURPRISE IN STORE FOR HITLER FORCES   Americans Who WIiIL Cross Channel Being Trained in New Military Tactics.

Revolutionary Tactics Practiced by U. S. Army  Soldiers for Invasion

U0, COMBAT TEAMS TRAIN FOR ATTACK   Tactics Being Used Are Without Precedent in Military History.

Retail Sales Tax Proposal Is Rejected   Lewis Turns Thumbs Down en WLB Compromise Plan; Drastie Action te End Labor HMearding Demanded

House Group Turns Proposal Down: Tax Measure Whipped Up   Lewis Rejects Miners’ Wage Plan Advanced By WLB; Other News

KILL PROPOSED TAX ON SALES   Ways and Means Group Prepares General $2 Billion Tax Bill.   LEWIS REJECTS OFFER

UPA SETS TOP ON VEGETABLES   U. S. SLASHES COST ON FRESH PRODUCE

OPA 10 ORDER NEW CEILINGS ON VEGETABLES   Reductions in Some Instances Will Be 50 Per Cent

Price Ceilings For Vegetables  Fixed By OPA   Reductions Of As Muck As 50 Per Cent Fron Last Winter's Level: Announced Today

Newspaper Plant Being Picketed  Wt nein nee fin ft hast   Typographers Go Out On Strike

Printers Go Out At Providence   Typographical Union Strikes Against Providence Journal

Report Printers On Strike Today At Providence   Union Spokesman Says Picket Line Is Formed “Kt Journal Co. Plant

Stimson Sees  Heavy U.S. Casualties   Nation Should Prepare For Losses, Declares Secretary of War

HEAVY LOSSES IN US FORCES HELD LIKELY   SEC. STIMSON SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD GET SET FOR HEAVY CASUALTIES

May Come in “Very Near Future”, Says Secretary of War   Heavy Fighting Is _ it Prospect in Tunisia; Discusses War

Stimson Warns Americans To Expect Heavy Casualties   Forecasts Action in North Africa, Finds Past  Week’s Gains Important — Reveals How  Japs Flanked .on Guadalcanal

NATION I$ WARNED TO GET READY FOR HEAVY CASUALTIE'      Stimson Says U.S. Just Beginning to Start Major Offensive Warfare   REVIEWS WAR'S PROGRESS

Stimson Says U. S. Should Get Ready tor Big American Casualties in Near Future

GAINS MADE BY ENGLISH ‘ARMY FORGE   20 Miles Advance Into ‘Tunisia. — Claimed

TOBRACE FOR HEAVY LOSSES   Stimson Declares Furious Fighting Is In Prospect On Tunisian Fronts

MUST BE READY FOR CASUALTIES WARNS STIMSON   Heavy Fighting In Prospect, Secretary Says

Armies Moving Into Place for Major Offense   Secretary's Review Of War Discloses Much ‘Good News’

Heavy U.S. Casualties Coming Soon  Stimson Warns Nation To Steel  Wan ndit

Heavy Losses By US Likely, Stimson Says   Heavy Fighting Near in Tunisia, He Predicts; Praises Russians

Casualties May Become Heavy Soon   U.8. Just Beginning to Par ticipate in Major Offensive Warfare   STARTING TO MOVE ON TUNISIA FRONT   Secretary Stimson Gives Other News on Progress of the War

Stimson Warns Nation Should Get Set For Heavy Casualties In Routing Axis From Africa

Heavy Casualties Seen in Future  Stimson Warns Nation Offensives Just Beginning

GEN, EISENHOWER “BIG CHIEF” FOR UNITED NATIONS      Churchill, Speaking in London, Promises Major Offensive to Come Within 9 Months   CASUALTIES

SAYS AMERICA MUST PREPARE FOR CASUALTIES   Stimson Says They May Come In  The “Very Near Future”

G0 INTO POSITION ]   Armies in Tunisia Preparing for Attack, Says Stimson

Heavy American Casualties ‘Due Soon, Stimson Declares   Country Just Beginning to Participate In Major Offensive Warfare, War Secretary Says In Discussing Plans For Driving Axis From Africa: Finds Budget of Good News for United Nations

Heavy Casnalties Ahead—Stimson Yanks Just Beginning Offensive Warfare, He Declares

U.S SHOULD GET SET FOR HEAVY CASUALTIES —   Near Future May Find Americans Faced With  Heavy Casualties From Ratela

Nearly500,000 Allied Troops In NorthAfrica, Commons Told   Europe to Be Invaded ‘As Soon as Allies Are Ready’   Stimson Warns of Heavy Casualties

AN ENDEAVOR PROGRAM   Popularity Contest to Be Closed Next Tuesday.

RAF Planes Unload Bombs On Remscheid   Large British Air Fleet Turns Attention Te Machine Tool Cente: In Ruhr Valley

Greatest Aerial Drive of War In Second Week   Hamburg Crossed Off Target List After Eight Straight Raids

Ruhr Valley Hit By 1500 Tons Of Bombs   Machine Tool Center Bombed In Greatest Offensive Of All Time

British Air Armada Hits Ruhr Center   LONDON (AP) — United States and British medium bombers and fighter - bombers attacked German airfields in northern France Saturday.

RUHR VALLEY FEELS WEIGHT OF RAF BOMBS   Air Offensive In Second Week

Allies Face Terri ble Task As Men, Planes Gather for Invasion   United Press Chief Finds No Sign of Quick Victory at Eisenhower's Headquarters In North Africa

Preparations for European Invasion Show Enormity of Task Confronting Allied Forces

Gigantic Challenge Confronts Allies In African Theater   Up-To-The-Minute Survey Of Mediterranean Military Situation Gives Cold Facts

SWEDEN WARNS NAZIS AGAINST SHIP ATTACKS   Protest Follows Finding Of German Mines In  Swedish Waters   TWO NOTES SENT.   Navy Is Ordered To Take Action To Preserve Neutrality oh

CANNED GOODS RATION BOOSTED   Civilian Supply Now Expected To Be Nearly 40 Pounds Per Person A Year

More Canned Goods Will Be Allowed   Mistake Is Made In First Calculation Says Agriculture Department

Law Held Valid Exercise of War Powers Judge Schoonmaker Upholds  Indictments Against 30 Miners

STRIKE COUNTS ARE SUSTAINED   Walkout Measure Upheld In Pennsylvania Mine Stoppgae Indictments

Anti - Strike Law Clears First Hurdle   ANTI-STRIBE—1,,,. 0... cscs coos cnve seseyeee  JUDGE SCHOONMAKER OVERRULES MOTIONS TO QUASH INDICTMENTS; TRIAL OF MINERS OPENS SEPTEMBER 1.   Wildcat Stoppages

District Miners  Must Stand Trial Under Court Rule  Federal Judge Refuses Tc Grant Motion To Quash  4 ee

U. §, Judge Upholds Antistrike Statute  Trial of Miners Sat Sentember 1

REPORT CURRENT THAT BATAISK, 10 MILES BELOW ROSTOV, HAS FALLEN TO RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE.

Stalin Lites Faith  In Early Victory  By ‘Joint’ Action Russian Premier   Replies to Message   Russian Premier Replies to Message From Roosevelt  REPORT BATAISK FALLS  Germany Blasted Day, Night in Blows Against U-Boat Output

Reports Say Bataisk, LO Miles Below Rostov, Has Fallen to Russians   REDS MOVE CLOSER TO KHARKOV. KURSK   Another Axis Army Believed Encircled To West of Voronezh

 MAAADAADAAAAAAAAAAAAA Colombia Opens Belligerency Against Nazis

COLUMBIA NOW IN WORLD WAR AGAINST NAZIS   Sinking Of Columbian Schoorfer Called “Cowardly Act” Of Germany

HANOVERIAN ACCUSED OF DEFENSE VIOLATION   William Lescallett Said To Have Driven On Red Signal And To Have Failed To Stop

Premiers Plan More Bad News For Axis Foes      Prime Ministers Meet In Old Canadian  Fortress   STIR SPECULATION   But Official Secrecy Is Bound To Hide Their Plans

FOOD SUBSIDIES ARE OPPOSED AT GRANGE MEETING   ‘Convention Warns Of Impending Shortage Of Milk This Winter

Scar erapne MILK SHORTAGE   Wants Congress to Direct OPA to Raise Ceilnos

Millions of Volunteers —  . Settle Down to Hard .. Gyind for 3rd War Loar

Milions of Volunteers Se.tie Down-to Hard         Grind tor ord War Loan

Millions of Volunteers - Settle Down to Hard Grind for 3rd War Loan

Derailed Train Hit by Another Seores Killed   150 Wounded in Carolin: Crash; Many Soldiers Victims

Tamiami Champion, On Way North Left Rails; Hit By One Southbound

OVER 50 KILLED -ASCRACK TRAINS COLLIDE IN N.C.   Death Toll Believed Heavy; Injured Over 150   SOME REPORTS INDICATE TOLL WILL REACH 75

150 Injured In Wreck in N. Carolina      Three Cars Jump Track, Are Hit by Northbound Fhier

TRAIN CRASH KILLS OVER 50 INN.C.   Death Toll  May ‘Go Much: Higher; 100 Injured’ -

50 to 75 Dead, 150 Believed Injured in Collision of Two — _ Crack Streamliner Trains

90 KILLED AS EAST COAST TRAINS CRASH   Estimate 150 Hurt, Mostly Soldiers

Fifty Killed in Disastrous Train Collision  Death Toll Is Still Rising, May Reach 75

MANY HURT IN HEADON CRASH OF TWO TRAINS   Accident Occurs Near Buie, N. C.: Broken Rail Cause

LUXURY TRAINS IN MORNING CRACK UP NEARRENNERT N.C.   Tamiami Champion, East Coast Flyer Involved; Service Men Aboard

At Least 50 Are Dead in Train Crash   Etreamlined Trains Collide On Atlantic Coastline In North Carolina

JAMMED CARS TRAP ALMOST 150 INJURED   Higher Death Toll Expected

150 Are Believed Injured   Two Luxury Trains Collide in Near Zero Weather Today

MAX STEPHAN T0 BE HANGED APRIL 27   Stocky German, Convicted Of Treason, Sobs Violently

Max Siephan to be Hanged at Milan, Michigan, on April 27 — Collapses when Federal Judge Arthur Tultle Pronoances Date.

Industrial Area a of Dutch Coastal City Raided by RAF   British Fliers Fight Way Through German Fighter Plane Opposition to Reach Targets In Ijmuiden; Attack Follows Up Big American Raid On Sub Base At St. Nazaire,

‘BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST WAR AREAS   Coastal Center  _ Is Bombarded

INDUSTRIAL BASES ATTACKED BY RAF   Fighters and Bombers Fight Way Through Nazi Opposition.

R. A. F. Attacks Industry Sites. in Dutch City   Planes Fight Way Through Axis  7 OsBnaelsion

RAF Blasts .. T argets in - Dutch City   Raid. Follows Heavy At2 tack: -by U.S: “Bombers: 42  "on St: Nazaire *

U.S, AIRMEN RETURN TO RAID U-BOAT BASE   Seven Planes Lost in Attack or ” St. Nazaire—RAF Continues At tacks on Europe

RAID INUDSTRIAL OBJECTIVES IN THE GITY OF WMUIDEN   RAF Followed a Heavy At tack Saturday by Big American Bombers.   RAID ST. NAZAIRE BASE   Six Enemy Planes Were Shot Down by the British Raiders.

Province Lost Last Summer To Nazi Army Is Re-entered   Cossack Fighters Lead Slashing Return to Homeland   6 Key Towns Taken   Other Red Troops Narrow Semi-Circle on Rostov

American May Head Eastern Asia Military Command  Britons Cheer News Of Wavell’s Newest Appointment

NEW EAST ASIA COMMAND SEEN   Allied Shake-Up Hints Of New Offensive Against Japs From India

BREAK PATCHED   Workers Restore Flow af Oil Throuch Bie Pipeline.

Victory Threatens Entire Jap Defense Perimeter in  Southwest Pacific

Allied Raid Smashes 177 Jap Planes   123 Enemy Ships Also Damaged or Sunk at Rabaul

JAP AIR, SEA POWER SMASHEL IN RABAUL RAID   Enemy Defenses Now Wide Open

Nip Pearl Harbor Of Southwest: Pacific Battered   177 Pianes and 123 Ships Smashed in Raid on Rabaul

Japan Suffers ‘Pearl Harbor' Defeat; Kenney Calls Surprise ‘Turning Point Of War'

ATTACK OPENS JAPS’ PACIFIC DEFENSE LINE   77 Planes and 123 Ships Destroyed By Allies

Break Up Vital Point In Defenses   Raiders Break Back Of Great Air-Sea Base Of Rabaul, Report of Gen. MacArthur

ALLIED BOMBERS WRECK JAP SEA BASE AT BABAUL      Heaviest Air Blow In War In That Theatre Of Pacific

Heaviest Air Blow Of War — In Pacific Handed Rabaul   123 Ships And 177 Planes At Great Sea-Air Base On Nev Britain Smashed—Whole Southwest Pacific : Now Open To Attack

MacARTHUR USED EVER PLANE AVAILABLE IN SU " BLOW; DROP 350 TONS OF

Crushing Defeat at Rabaul by US. Air Armada Puts Enemy 'In Hole; Allies Gain Air Mastery   Yanks Smash 177 Planes, Sink 3 Destroyers, 120 Other War Vessels and ' Lose But Five Planes.

RADAUL ATTAGK TEAAIFG BLOW AY JAP POWER   177 Planes, 123 Enemy Ships Destroyed In Pulverizing Assault From Air

177 PLANES, 123 SHIPS SMASHED AT RASAUL, NB.   MacArthur. Takes Enemy by Surprtse for: Disastrous Defeat’ --

i/{ JAP PLANES, 123 SHIPS ARE SMASHED   MacArthur ‘Shoots The Works’ In Rabaul Raid, Fliers Drop 350 Bomb ‘Tons

Heaviest Blow-of War in Pacific Aimed at Rabaul   “177. Planes and. 23 Ships of ~ “Enemy Smashed.

SMASHING BLOW DEALT RABAUL BASE   Altied Airmen Destroy 123 Ships And 177 Planes

177 Planes, 123 Ships Are Smashed   Wednesday Raid Is Heaviest of -Wor in Pacific

EDEN TO TALK ~ TO LEGISLATORS   British Foreign Secretary Accepts O'Conor Invitation To Address Legislature

Churchill explains absence of Russia from conference   Meeting dealt mainly with campaign against Japs, prime minisier says

Mental Test For Price Violator   Sold Butter Above OPA Ceiling, Says He Didn’ Understand.

Mayor A. N. Hendrickson Urges Al. Citizens To Buy More War Stamps

EVERYONE URGED TO BUY A SHARE IN THER “SHANGRI-LA”’   $1.00 Purchase of War Stamps by Every Man Woman and Child, Wil Build Aircraft Carrier

Charge Treason To Americans   Broadcasting From Germany Results In Action By Federal Government

TREASON INDICTMENTS VOTED ~ AGAINST AXIS BROADCASTERS   AMERICAN “LORD HAW HAW" AND SEVEN OTHERS ARE INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY

Gen. Montgomery Gives Recipe For Winning Battles—Precision Timing Between Planes and Ground Troops

Timing Wins Battles Says Montgomery   Importance of Air Power Stressed by Rritish Commander

SOVIETS PURSUE NAZIS’ RETREAT TO OREL GATES   Harassed Germans Boister Inner Lines as Fall Appears Near

Red. Army Makes Fresh Gains In 7 Sectors, Retakes  Key Cities; Allied Raids Continue  ]  In Tynisia   Rye DNITEnN PRESS

GREATEST RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE TAKING PLACE IN SECTORS   In Some Sections Only’ Weak Resistance Is Being Meade by the Germanc.

Russians Capture Key Cities   Important Railway Center Taken by Reds—Gain in All Sectors

Reds Claim Capture of Velikie Luki   Also Regain Ehsta And Four Towns  In Caucasus Area

WMC Has New Power For Recruitment Of Labor in West  Byrnes Says Measures Are Needed to Overcome Shortages

OPA PREPARING FOR NATIONWIDE CEILING ‘ON PRICE TO BE PAID FARMERS

Senate May Work Out Compromise to Save Part of Administration's Billion Dollar Subsidy Plan

SEEK SUBSIDY COMPROMISE   Senators Canvass Possibility of Saving Some of Present Program

‘promise Seen aly in Senate  ‘Food Subsidy   lyree- -Man Committee leks Possible Saving f Part of Program

SEE COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDY PLAN   SENATORS MAY WORK OUT AN AGREEMENT TO SAVE PART OF PROGRAM.

Compromise May Save Part Of Food Progran   Committee to Canvass Plan to Salvage Subsidies

SENATE SUBSIDY COMPROMISE SEEN   Subcommittee Will Canvas: Possibility of Some Salvane

Senate Subsidy Compromise Seen  May Salvage Portior  Of Food Program

Boards Not To Allow Gas For Funerals Or To ‘Service Men On Leave

Kelly Nominated On Democratic Chicago Ticket Seeking Third Full  Term as Mayor; Finals to Be in April

Mayor Kelly Is Renominated   Democrats Poll More Than 2 to 1 Vote Ove: GOP’s in Primary

Kelly Wins Easily In Chicago Primary McKibbin GOP Choice  For Mayor Nomination

Kelly Nominated On Democratic Chicago Ticket  Seeking Third Full Term as Mayor;

6 NAZI BOMBERS STAGE SNEAK RAID ON ENGLAND; BERLIN DAMAGE LISTED   ALLIED PLANES HIT JAP BASES ON NEW GUINEA

Town On English Coast Is Bombed   Six German Bombers Sneak Across Channel For Attack Today   BRITAIN RECOUNTS DAMAGE TO BERLIN

PLANE RAIDS ARE REPT UP OVER EUROPE   Bad Weather Gives ‘the Germans Slight Respite From : . Big Bombers.    THE NAZIS RETALIATE   Six German Planes Sneaked Across Channel for a Nuisance Raid. ~

Nazis Fight Stubbornly ToHoldOn   Germans. Now Call City ‘Tunisgrad”

NAZI “TUNISGRAD’   Germain Troops Have Name for Place of Their Des-  perate Stand

ANOTHER NAZI HEIGHT UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   I  British, Nazis Still im Furious Struggle in  Ortona Streets

Sth Army Seizes Strategic Point Near San Vittore   Two Hilltop Strongholds Assaulted Christmas Day; Allies Press Germans On Adriatic Battle Line

American Fifth Army Advancing On Road to Rome   British Also Win Important Points

Yanks, British Make Gains on Road to Rome   Fifth Army Captures Hilltop Stronghold Dominating Village

HEIGHT IS SEIZED BY ALLIED FORCES   Nazi Hilltop Strongholds Assaulted by Americans

Ortona battle rages as foe  fights grimly   Bombers blast Bolzano center

5th Captures. . Hilltop Posts   Height Above’’San :Vittore  Gatend hie kecenbnons

Bitter Attack on Another Hill Continues   British Pressing Advances in Italian Sector

DRAFT OF FATHERS OPPOSED BY LEGION   State Department Passes Resolution—New Commander Named

BLAKE ELECTED HEAD OF LEGION 0   Convention Delegates Protest Drafting Of PrePearl Harbor Fathers

Stage Set For Bitter Battle Over Parity   Byrnes Speech Interpreted As Declaration That Fight is Welcomed   POLICIES OUTLINED

BYRNES DRAWS SHARP LINE ON FARM PRICES   Administration Ready To Do Battle With Price Raisers

ADMINISTRATION TO OPPOSE FURTHE FARM PRICE HIKES   STAGE IS THUS SET FOR BITTER STRUGGLE WITH FARM LEADERS

Further Advance In Farm Price: Will Be Fought   Administration Sticks To Its Parity Level Policy

Administration Opposes Farm  Price Advances   Byrnes’ Speech Indicates Administration To Hold Present Policies.

Move to Cut Added Farm  Price Boost   Expect Battle In and Out Of Congress on Floors  And Ceilings

Stage Set For Farm Battle   ADMINISTRATION REFUSES TO CHANGE ITS POLICY

BYRNES DRAWS LINE ON FARM, FOOD PRICES    Radio Talk Seen as Notice-Administration Will Oppose Effort to  Change Parity Formula

Stabilizing of  Farm Prices to Be Sought   Administration Ready to Fight for Program. to Avert Increases   FACES POWERFUL FARM OPPOSITION   Byrnes. Outlines. Policies and Plans; Some Subsidy Payments Proposed

BITTER BATTLE FORECAST OVER BYRNES DECREE   Powerful Farm Groups In and Out of Congress Are Expected to Oppose Price Ceilings   HINT ROOSEVELT _ MAY VETO BOOSTS   Some Farm Leaders In Capital Believe GOP Victories “Revolt” Against Policies

FIGHT LOOMS OVER FEDERAL FARM POLICY   ‘Administration Opposition to Further Price Increases Sets Stage for  Row With Agricultural T andare

FIGHT EXPECTED ON FARM PRICES   ADMINISTRATION EFFORT TO PREVENT INCREASES SEEN

BITTER FIGHT IS IN PROSPECT AS FARM PRICES ARE HELD   Administration Moves Against Higher Prices and Blor. ——~ WilBattle —

FARM PRICE RISE   Administration Sets Stage For Bitter Struggle With Agricultural Leaders. :

Farm Bloc fo Wage Baffle   Administration Plan To Maintain Price Parity Opposed

F ight On Farm  Prices Neared   Administration Is ‘Setting Stage By. Ending All Product Boosts

FIGHT LOOMING ON FARM PRICES   Administration Gives Warning It Will Oppose Any Further Advances

Administration Will Fight For Low Food Prices   Byrnes Bans Increases Bitter Struggle With Farn Bloc Is Expected

STAGE IS SET FOR BITTER STRUGGLE ON FARM PRICE ISSUES   Administration Ready to Fight to Preserve Present Production Pelicies .   FARM OPPOSITION ME‘

SEE A FARM FIGHT   Powerful Groups in and Out of Congress to Battle Price Freeezs

DREW SHARP LINE AGAINST FURTHER HIKE FARM PRICE:   Administration Set Stage for _ Bitter Struggle With Agricultural Leaders.   J. F. BYRNES IN A TALK   Would Preserve Its Present Farm and Food Price and Production Policies.

Ban Increased Farm Prices  Administration Sets  _ Firm Hand Against  ay Va , one a , pe

ADMINISTRATION WILL HALT FARM PRICES AT PARITY   Washington Ready To Do Battle To Curtail Inflation

White House To Fight For Farm Policy   j  Byrnes’ Speech Clears Way For Showdown Battles With Congress Bloc

Draw Sharp Line Against Further Farm Price Hike   Administration Faces Bitter Struggle With Agriculture Leaders, 7   Will Try to Preserve Present Food Prices

Sth Army In Drive Too   Terrific Aerial Bombardment Pounding German Lines

Centralian Is Hurt in Crash   David P. Yocom Injured in California Accident in Which Two Other Sailors Dic

SCANT FIVE VOTES BLOCH REDUCTION IN SCHOOL FUNDS   Missouri House Votes Down, 69 to 64, Plan to Cut State Allotment From  3314 to 30 Pct.   PROPOSAL LIKELY TO COME UP AGAIN   Supporters Argue Total Must Be Pared if Budget Is to Be Balanced Without New Taxes.

School Funds Escape Cut By 5 Vote Margin  Effort of Appropiatior   Effort of Appropiation Chairman Futile After 2 Hour Argument

Wayward Wives Occupy Congress  Vioht Re Cunt Off   Might Be Cut Off Dependency List

FRENCH GUIANA ENDS VICHY RULE   COMMITTEE PLEDGED TO SUP PORT GIRAUD TAKES CHARGE,

Burns Gives  Himself Up   Medical Society Head Demands Court Examination; Exnect More Warrants

ASKS HEARING ON BRIBERY CHARGES   Medical Society Executive Surrenders to Grand Sury Warrant.

DEMANDS TRIAL IN GRAFT SIFT   State Medical Society Head Surrenders to Grand Jury © —

OPPOSITION TO FLYNN MOUNTING   Senator McKellar Adds His Name To Opponents,

OPPONENTS SEE FLYNN DEFEAT   49 ‘Sure’ Votes Against Nominee Are Claimed

BLACKOUT DEFIED BY TWO OBJECTORS   Flashlight Waved To ‘Show World the Light’

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Senate Will Be Asked to Drop Stand   Barkeley Seeks Approval Of House Bill For Continuation of CCC

SENATE 10 BE ASKED TO RECEDE ION PRICE STAND   Sufficiently To Allow Acceptance of HouseApproved Bill To Continue CCC, and RollRacke .

LAWMAKERS MAY AGREE ON SUBSIDIES   Senate to be Asked to ReCede From Aggressive Stand Against Proposed Bill  CONFEREES AT ODDnD¢C

Compromise Plan Seen On Food Subsidies   ‘Complete Disagreement’ Reported In Conference Group

Barkley Declares Senate Will Be Asked To Change Mind On Food Price Subsidies

Senate May Accept House  Subsidy Bil   Agreement Would Leave Rollback Funds in Air, But Permit Recess

Chavez Sees Cut In Bean Points   ‘Drastic’ Reduction Due in Few Days

TEXAS DRIVE TO GET CrND OFF ON CIINDAY      "RECRUITS" TOTAL, 1! 150.600

KELLY NAMED 10 THIRD FULL TERN   Powerful Machine Puts Him In Office By Majotity of Over 116,000.

Kelly-Nash Unit  Retains Control.   Mayor Kelly Defeats Republican's McKibbin

KELLY WINS IN CHICAGO RACE   Scores 100,000 Edge Over Republican Candidate

STALINO, NAZI BASE, TOTTERS   Push Deeper “Into Central Portion  sereneennncenceinmenin  Italians Ordered To Surrender

NAZI BASTION OF STALINO IS IMPERILED   Advancing Russians battle against furious Nazi resistance

DONETS BASE IMMINENT   Stalino ts Gravely Imperiled by Advaneing Russians

Action Expected to Be Blow to Germany   Nazis Likely to Continue to Resist; Berlin Reports American Sea-borne Forces Moving Toward New Goals.

eee sees eee eae oS   By ROGER GREENE Aasociated Press War Editor   America Jubilant  At Fall of Italy   Reports That “Break” Was Imminent Flooded Washington Throughout Night

Swift Capitulation of Axis Ally, Officially Announced By Gen. Eisenhower, Takes Place But Five Days After Occupation   ‘REARGUARDS RAPIDLY RETREATING NORTHWARD

EXTENSIVE SHIP MOVES REPORTED   Nazis Announce. New Landings In italy By Allies

Allied Forces On Move to New Goal   Ttaly Collapses Five Days After Allies Cross Mes sina Strait   iNEW LANDING IS MADE   Berlin Radio Reports Sailing of Transport Con- .  voys From Sicily +

U.S.Forces Moving Toward New Goals   Military Armistice Granted to Italy; Stalino Evacuated by Nazis

‘Unconditional Surrender Armistice Approved By United States, Great Britain And Russian Governments

UNCONDITIONAL CAPITULATION CRACKS AXIS   Italian Troops by Hundreds Stream In To Lay Down Arms Five Days After Country Was Invaded   GERMANS FEAR YANK ATTACK   Collapse of Third of Axis Comes a: Reds Capture Stalino, Steel Center Of Donets Basin, and Drive On

Yankee Force On Move, Says  Axis Account   Departure Of Convoy: From Palermo Told It Broadcast; Activity Ir Africa Noted

Americans  * Moving to  _ New Goals, Axis Says      # Reports Big Convoys Have Sailed From Sicily; New Landings in Italy

Nazis Admit Ortona Falls To Allies   Italian Adriatic Port Is Evacuated by Germans, Aecording to Announcement from Berlin. .

‘Military Armistice Is — Granted Axis Partner By Gen. Eisenhower

NAZIS IN ‘40’. EISENHOWER   Invasion Commander Confident as He Bids Newsmen Good-Bye

STEPHAN FEARS GALLOWS ROPE   RESTAURANT OWNER WHO _._BOASTED HITLER WOULD ~’ , SAVE HIM TO DIE  +. NOMOCRROW

Number of Warships in U.5. Navy To Be Doubled in 1943, Knox Says

Number of U.S. Warships Will Be Doubled This Year  Knox Reveals Great   Knox Reveals Great Growth in Navy's Size and Strength   BUILD MANY CARRIERS

U. 3. 10 DOUBLE COMBAT SHIPS IN FLEET IN 1943   Knox Reveals Building Program Is Concentrating on Airplane Carriers and Destroyer Escorts.   66 PER CENT BOOST IN TONNAGE ASSURED   Secretary Predicts Navy Will - Sweep Japs From Sea in 1944 and End Axis U-Boat Menace.

Production — This Year To Double Navy  Statistics Told: A:  ’ Second War Loan“Drive Opens --

Knox Says 1943 Buildin; Program Will More Than Double Navy’s Size   QUALITY OF VESSELS RANKS WITH BEST

U.S. Navy Strength Will Double In’43, Knox Says   Secretary of Novy Warns That Worst of Wor Lies Ahead of Us in Telling of Growing Might sy of Nation’s Fleet

U.S. to Double  Fleet in Year   Stirring Facts Offered By Secretary Knox at 2nd War Loan Rally

Knox Describes Might of Navy In Bond Speech   Destroyer Escorts, Airplane Carriers Are Emphasized

U.S. Navy Will Be More Than Doubled in Number of Ships in Service  by kind of 1943. Secretary Knox Says   Worst of War Is Ahead

U. S. WARSHIPS 10 BE DOUBLED IN SINGLE YEAR   Knox Says Fast Growing Navy Puts Emphasis On Carriers and Escorts   Opens Loan Campaign

Knox Reveals Navy Growing At Rapid Rate      More Combat Vessels To Be Built This Year Than in 1942 Service   AIMED AT JAPANESE AND GERMAN SUBS

Knox Foresees Ultimate Doom Of Enemy Subs   Growth of Navy Praised  In Aircraft Carriers, Se os ¢  es

Knox Tells Navy Might Opens Drive      NEED FOR BOND BUYING STRESSED BY SECRETARY OF THE al IN INDIANAPOLIS RAL z=.   Worst Of War Ahead

Nayy Seeretury Opens Second War Loan Drive With Facts and Figures Relating to Growth of TW Nove

Amercians Disclaim Blame for Delay U.S., Britain Moving Toward Recognition of French Group

U. S. and Britain Moving Toward Recognition of French Liberation Group

Donnell Merit Measure Is Killed by House  * Judiciary Committee   ® Judiciary Committee Vetoes Civil Service by 17-6 Vote —

DONNELL’S CIVIL SERVICE BILL DEAD   HOUSE GROUP KILLS PLAN. TO TAKE 10,000 WORKERS OUT OF POLITICS.

LERMAN APPOINTS HASKELL CHIEF OF FIELD OPERATIONS   New Foreign Relief Admin: istrator Also Names Ter Other Members of His Stat

ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SCHOOL AID BILL   Allocates Income Tax Money And Mill Tax to High Schools.

Delays Action  On Power Bill   Omaha City Council Postpones Decision On Commission Resolution.

Democratic Leaders in Assembly Favor Sales Tax Refunds   Administration Support of Proposed Law Is Not Anticipated

Rew Plane Fleets ToBombGermany   American Fliers Will Add Share to Summer Aerial ffensive   POUND ISLAND BASES   Rain, of Fire on Pantelleria ds Kept Up Without  Respite

Great Mass Attacks On Germany Promised This Summer, Synchronized With R. A. F. Blows.

YANK POWER IN BRITAIN. TO BE EQUAL OF RAF   U: S. Heavy Bomber - Force Doubled in Size Since March

Big Boost In Yankee Air Force   Bomber Contingent Based ‘in Britain Doubled Since .. March, Eaker Says.   WILL BE MADE AS. ~. LARGE AS THE RAF.   Soon Will Be Strong Enough to Hit Several Places: in One Dav

AMERICAN BOMBER FORCE IN ENGLAND GROWING RAPIDLY  WILL SOON BE STRONG ENOUGH TO HIT AXIS MANY PLACES DAILY

EAKER PROMISES U.S, AIRFORCE TO STEP UP FORAYS   Multiple Daylight Attacks on Germany Seen As Bomber Force Grows

RAF Parity to Be Reached  This Summer   Plant to Hit Axis At Many Points In Single Day, Says Eaker

No Adjustments On Ration Book Three Until After Aug.. 1   Boards Must Not Accept Applications Before Next Month

Anthracite Srike Looms   Their Status Is Same ’ ac Soft Coal Miners

WLB GETS HARD COAL DEADLOCK   Perkims Certifies Case To Board; Continued Production Is  Ordered

ANTHRACITE. GASE OS SENT TO WLE   Labor Board Orders Production to Continue Without Interruption; 80,000 Miners Are Involved

In Behalf Of OW! Chief Elmer Davis   Takes Brickbats From All Sources, But Keeps On Pitching

Income Trust Plan Explatned At Store Kratt   Employees Serving Over 5 Years With Company, Under 65 Eligible.   PREPARE FOR FUTURE   Warn Nation OF Rules For New Year's Salety

 Political Situation in North Africa  Bothers Allies; DeGaulle Is Trouble

jRed Army Surges To New Triumph  Trap Thousands of Foe On Peninsula

Russians Capture lerekop and Sinash Five Miles Beynd in Swift Effort To Kill or Capure Tens of Ihousands of Gemans Trapped in Blaek Sea Peénnsula.

Russians Cut Last Nazi Road  From Crimea   Reds Capture Perekop And Rush On Westward To Close Huge Trap   TENS OF THOUSANDS MAY BE BOTTLED UP

LAST RETREAT CUT AS PEREKOP FALLS TO REDS   Invaders Face Disaster Rivaling Stalingrad; Other Units Are Sweeping On

WORKER FORM BLOG 10 FIGHT ANTI-LABORITES   Big Labor Groups Join Hands To Work For  Favorable Legislation

Four Unions Form Bloc  For Fight   Will Present United Front to Protect Labor

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Midwinter Lull On War Fronts Is Shattered “By Allied Actions

MID-WINTER. LULL ON MOST OF MAJOR WAR FRONTS RUDELY SHATTERED DURING WEEK-END

The War Today— General Montgomery Intends Utter Destruction Of Rommel This Time

Midwinter Lull on Major War Fronts Is Shattered      Everywhere Initiative Is With Allies; Nowhere Is Enemy, Germany, Italians or Japanese, Permitted to Choose New Battlefields: North African Campaign Promises Earliest Success

Lieut. Althen Is Injured In Plane Crash   Five Men Killed, Eight Injured In Crash Of Four-Motored Bomber At Boise, Idaho

Interpreting the War   Significance Seen in Russ Reports of Mounting Captive Toll

Officer Tells How Pilot Tom Harmon Was Shot Down in Battle Over China

YANK BOMBERS HIT KAHILI BASE   . §. Loses Six Planes in Shooting Down 25 Over Solomons

Yanks Advance Against Japs In Arawe Area   16 Enemy Warplanes Downed in Attacks On American Sectors

SLAYING OF WAC IS COMPLICATED   Woman Surrenders With Confession, But Police Say She Is Drunk

WOMAN GIVES HERSELF © UP IN WAC’S SLAYING   Meanwhile Police Have Theor, More Than One Person Involved

WOMAN SAYS SHE KILLED ATTRACTIVE WAC IN INDIANAPOLIS  - TOLD TAXICAB DRIVER TAKE HER TO POLICE HEADOUARTERS

58 Smallpox Cases Reported In State  Latest Is Reported From Coatesville

‘ONLY FDR CAN SOLVE U. S. MEAT SHORTAGE’   U. S. AIRMEN ATTACK JAF3 OFF BURMA   ‘MURDER VICTIM’ TURNS OUT TO BE ROAST

NAMES MINED.   Paris Radio Confused Over Whe Was Taken [Prisoner. -

OFFICERS ELECTED BY P. 0. S. OF A. CAMP   Harold Feeser Is Chosen Presiden —Will Be Installed Thursday, July 8  4

New Compass . Guides Bombers   Will Remain True In Dive. Climb Or Rough Waather.

INFLUX OF WAR WORKERS IS NOT CAUSE OF RIOT      ‘Sociologist Rejects Theory  as “Alniost no Factor” in  . Current Detroit Uorising   DEATH TOLL NOW 34   Midnight Curfew Lid Re  mains lightly Clamped   While Troops Continue Street Patrol

Order Railroad Strike Ballot   Heads of 15 Unions Call for Action

Nov. 25 Strike Ballot For 15 Non-Operating Railroad Brotherhoods Ordered by Leaders   PREVIOUSLY ORDEREL FOR OPERATING MEN  Union Men Cautioned All Strikes Are ‘Out? Until Anthorized

Strike Ballot Ordered by Leaders Of Non-Operating Railroad Union:

Rail Strike Vote Ordered   Non-Operating Unions To Ballot On Walkout

RAILWAY STRIKE BALLOT CERTAIN   Non - Operating Unions To Follow Example Of. Brotherhoods

irike Ballot Is Authorized by Non-operating Railroad Unions      (hiefs See No Other Way To Secure Satisfactory Wage increase; Returnable Noy. 25

Railway Union Leaders Order  Strike Ballot   Chiefs See No Way Except by Strike to Get Wage Increase;  1,500,000 Affected

STRIKE BALLOT BY WORKERS ORDERED   Non-operating Railroad Unions Will Take Voate

CONCORD MAN HIT BY TRAIN   Papers Identify Victim As Robert Perey Hamrick.

EXECUTIVE TRADE AUTHORITY SHOULD BE RESTRICTED   Congressman O’Mahone: of yoming Believes if Congress i is to Have  Say in Coming Peace Plane

Curbing Of Treaty  Powers Advocated  Senator Wants Congress To Get Consideration

Japs Lose 90,000 Men, 200 Ships, Over 2,000 Planes   Recapitulation of Heavy Losses In Tokyo’s First Land Defeat In Solomons And N ew Guinea Is Annoimeed

JAP LOSSES IN MEN, SHIPS HIGH AT GUADALCANAL   90,000 Men Killed, 200 Ships Are Sunk, 2,000 Planes Damaged

90,000 Japs Killed In Solomons Defeat; 2000 _.Planes,.200. Ships. Lost   Japs Suffer 75,000. ‘Casualties in Southern Solomons Alone, Observers Say

ESTIMATE JAPAN'S LOSS AT 90,000 MEN IN PACIFIC FIGHTS   Well-Informed Sources At Pearl Harbor List 200 .  Ships Aid -°2,000°  = Planes Lost

ARE LIGHT IN COMPARISOR   75,000 Japs Killed in Solomons Alone.  2,000 Planes Lost

GUADALCANAL AND NEW GUINEA COST JAPS 90-000 MEN   200 Ships Suak or Damaged, 2000 Planes Destroyed In Double Campaign.

JAPS LOST 90,000 MEN, 200 SHIPS, 2,000 PLANES IN) GUADALCANAL FIGHT

JAPS LOST 90,000 MEN AT 2 POINTS   Estimated Losses At Guadalcanal And New Guinea

90,000 Japanese Killed in Great Pacific Defeat   Guadalcanal, New. Guinea ‘losses Heavy

SHIPS, 1100 AIRPLANES   Gen. Patch Officiall,  Confirms Is Fighting Over

Estimate Jap Losses In Guadalcanal Fighting At 90 Thousand Men Killed, 2 Thousand Planes, 2 Hundred Ships Lost

Chalfant In Commerce Secretariat   GOVERNOR MARTIN COMPLETE; RIS CABINET RETAINING RICH ARD MAIZE AS ACTING SEC RETARY OF MINES.   Vin The War, Objective

JAMES WILL DIRECT POST WARPROGRAM   Legislature To Be Asked To Set Up Commission To Map Plans for Reconstruction   MAIZE MINE SECRETARY

LAST OF STATE CABINET POSTS   Chalfant, Maize, Kell Selected by Governor-Elect

Martin Name: Three More To Cabinet   Chalfant, Kell And Maize Selected for Posts

MARTIN ENDS CABINET POSTS   Mines, Commerce and Forests and Water's Jobs Filled

Martin Fills Cabinet Posts  Winning War, Plans For Afterward Guide tic Adminictratinn

Martin Name Three More To Cabinet  Chalfant, Kell And Maize   Chalfant, Kell And Maize Selected for Posts

Maize Continues As Mines Chief; Krell Gets Pos   Westmoreland Commissioner And Waynesboro Publisher Appointed

Two Posts Filled by Governor-Elect and One Tem ' porarily; Incoming Executive Says His Administration First Aim Will Be To Aid War Effort and Plan for Post-War Period. —

Germany Started “Invasion” of Certair Strategic U. S. Industries Long Before Nazis Came to Power

OWI Asserts That Germany Started ‘Invasion’ of U. S. Industry Long Ago

May Boost Pay To Dependents   Army Officials Ask Delay In Hearings Until Plan Ready.

WAR GEFISIALS TO SUBMIT PLAN   Would Allow More Money for Dependents of Men in Service

Army Plans To Recommend Increases For Dependents Of Men In U, S, Armed Forces

Talk of Boost In Allowance   May Increase Fund. To Army Dependents

DEPENDENTS MAY RECEIVE INCOME HIKE   War Department Expected Soon to Submit fo Congress a Compromise Proposal   HOLDING HEARINGS

EXPEGT INCREASE IN DEPENDENTS’ AD   War Department Plans to Make Request Raising Allotments of Soldiers’ Kin

Army May Offer Compromise Planon Boosts in Sums to Soldiers’ Kin

‘So Confident Were Nazis Four Years Ago They ‘Printed Story Of Danzig Victory Before Fight

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE POUNDED BY BRITISH   Flyers Blast Spezia, Principal Anchorage of Italian Fleet

New Price System Is Announced   Cents - Per - Pound Price Ceilings On Meat Will Go Into Effect Here Next Monday

MEAT PRICES INU. S. GIVEN NEW CEILINGS   Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton Schedules Listed By OPA Officials   RATES TO GO INTO EFFECT ON MONDAY   Reductions of One to Three Cents Represented In Most Instances

New MeatPrice Ceilings Are’ Listed by OPA   Cents Per Pound. -Rates Effective On May 17

OPA ANNOUNCES NEW MEAT PRICES   REPRESENT CUT OF FROM 1 103 CENTS FROM CEILINGS

Ceiling Prices. On Meats Listed For The State   OPA Fixes Top Prices on Meats that Come Under Five Grades, with Grade To Be Displayed.

U.S. Marks 2nd Wartime Navy Day   PRESIDENT PRAISES “MIGHTIEST SEA FORCE IN AMERICAN HISTORY”

NAVY-ROOSEVELT DATES OBSERVED   High Ranking Naval Officers In Various Centers For Part In Programs.

President Pays Tribute to Force Which Has. Recovered From Treachery at Pearl Harkor.

U.S. FLEET IS SCATTERED OVER ALL SEVEN SEAS   Ceremonies Mark Day Which Was Also Theodore Roosevelt’s Birthday

R. A. F. Bombers Blast Nazi Twin Cities on Rhine Last Night   German War Cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen in 1000-ton Raid.

Bomb Twin Nazi  War Cities   Mannheim and Ludwigshafen Get Heavy Load

ALLIED AIRPLANES LAY IT ON ANOTHER NAZI WAR CENTER   Mannheim and Ludwigshafen Subjected to Attack

RHINELAND TWIN CITIES BLASTED FROM THE AlR   HUNDREDS OF BRITISH BOMB ERS LAY WASTE TO WAR IN. DUSTRIES OF MANNHEIM AND LUDWIGSHAFEN,   HUGE FIRES REPORTED LEFT IN GERMANY   Air Force Officials Surprised That Only Nine of the Planes Failed to Return from Bombing Vital Nazi Industrial Centers.

Two Important German War Material Producing Cities Suffer Heavy RAF Attack.

Raid on Capit              Bombs Fall While Air Marshal Belittles Re serves, Announces Mobilization ‘of Last: Ger ‘Reserves and Threatens Vengeance’ on: ‘Engl British Mosquito Planes All Return Safely.

Raiders Halt Goering Talk on Birthday   Germans, Celebrating Hitler’s Rise to Power, Are Visited by British

Fierce Fight On As Foe Lands At  ‘Bougainville   American Marines Driving Ahead In Face Of Strone Opposition Provided By Landing Of 21 Bargeloads of Nips; Many Already Wiped Out.

BATTLE RAGES BETWEEN U. 8. MARINES, JAPS   Enemy Lands Troops And Supplies on Bougainville

Tanks, Planes Help Allied Army Advance   Enemy Makes Bid to Halt U.S. Drive on Rabaul

eet A  Newspapers Occupy Key Position in War Effort, Says Report

Claims Water — Diverted From Natural Outlet  "Alleges Artificial _ Barrier Causes - Flood Damage

MARSHALL: NIP FACING PUZZLE   U.S. CHIEF SEES ALLY BLOWS AS CRIPPLING

Enemy Airdromes In France Bombed By Flying Forts   Big Fragmentation Bombs Explode Among Parked  German Planes.   Other Planes Rake Axis Forces in Italy

FLYING FORTS HIT IN FRANGE   German-Held French Air Fields Near Marseille Are Attacked.

Airfields In France Stormed   Huge Bomber Fleets Blast At Fleeing Nazis In Italy

SMASH 150 PLANES   Flying Fortresses Punish Airfields in Vicinity of Marseille

Al YING FORTRESSES BOMBED GERMAN-HELL FRENGH AIRFIELDS   FIRST ATTACK ON SOUTHERN FRANCE CAUGHT NAZi PLANES ON GROUND

African Based Planes Hit Nazi Air Bases In France; Chase Foe Across Italy

Big Airfields In Marseille Area Smashed   Bombs Burst Along String Of 150 Naz? Planes On Ground

Allied Planes Give Italians  Big Pounding   Many German Airplanes Are Destroyed In Marseille Raid

U. S. Forts Attack 150 Nazi: Planes ‘Near Marseille   inflict Heavy . Daniage On “Graft Parked: In. Fields Résistance ‘Is Slight

Fortresses Hif Fields In France  Only Slight German Force Encountered

2 OF BIG U. 5. PLANES ARE LOST IN RAID      Great Fleet of Bombers Pure sue Axis Forces Which Fled From Sicily

Navy Viscloses Poor Record at Brewster Plant  Labor and Managemen Bi rcmecel Cow Ethene   ‘Labor arid Management Blamed for Failure To Produce

Dismal Record of Plane Plant Revealed for House Group by Navy Officials

British Repulse Nazi Attacks, Yanks Inactive  ee  Patton, Staff Arrive In Cairo

ALLIED CENTRAL COUNCIL URGED   Episcopalians Seek Cooper. ative Action On War, Peace

R. A. F. Attacks Ruhr Industries  hAanth at Pank Air   Month of Peak Air Activity Concluded

RUHR TARGETS LASHED BY RAI   Steel, Chemical Work: Blasted To Climax Active Month

RUHR FACTORY TOWN BOMBE!   Reh@irsal  iE or Invasion Indicated In Raids During September

R.A.F. Smashes City of Bochum ©  Concentrated Fires Dana med) Ob eed

R.A.F. Smashes City of Bochum  Concentrated Fires Reported Started

lieavy Attack On Ruhr City Of Bochum Is Made By RAF   Month of Peak Allied Air Activity From Britain Con. cluded——Eight Planes Lost in Sweep Over Industrial Area

RAF BOMBERS RAID BOCHUM   Concentrated Fires Are Set In Heavy Attack on Ruhr Industrial City

To Cut Canned Goods Supplies  Civilians Must Get ye peeps oF a ee oe Re

AMERICANS TO GET SMALLER FOOD RATIONS   Armed Forces Will Get Bulk Of Foods Canned This Year

Lower Canned Goods Portion   Civilians Allocated 70 Percent Of 1943 Processed Food Supply.

Canned Goods For Civilians. Next Year Cut  Home Front to Get Slightly Reduced

Canned Goods For Civilians Reduced   Armed Forces To Get  Increased Amount

Canned Goods Allowed Civilians Cut By WFA For Span Of 12 Months   New Gasoline Ration Cut, Enough Fuel Oil For Homes, Forecast

CIVILIAN FOOD SUPPLY 19 CUT   Civilians Will Get 70 Per Cent of Canned Vegetables. Souns. ~~

Less Canned Goods in ’44      _Home Canned Goods  Expected to Supplemen' Lower Civilian Quota

More Canned Food To Army   Civilians to Get Smaller Share of 1943 Total

FEWER CANNED GOODS   Civilians Must Get Aleng On Less. Warns Food Administration

Deeper Stash Ordered in Civilian Food   Pepulace Gets 70 Pct. OF Vegetables, Soups; 53 Pet. Froits, Juices

CANNED GOODS ALLOWANCEFOR CIVILIANS. CUT   Vegetables And Fruits Will Be Less Than -— Last Year   SURPLUS TO THE ARMY:   Point Values To Be High er In Summer Than  In Winter

Smaller Civilian  Quota For Foods   Canned Goods Cut to 70 Per Cent by the War Food Administration.

Civilians to Get Fewer Canned Fruits - Aind Vegetables During Next 12 Months

Nazis Attack Reds’  Lines; Battle  Ends in Big Loss Soviet Artillery Gets  Enemy Equipment Ard Men Neor Kuban

High Ranking U.S. Officer Almost Lost In Fortress   Flying To Conference, Plane Close To Being Forced Into Neutral Nation

Flying Fortress, WithaHigh . Officer Aboard, Lost Four Hours On Returning From Casablanca

FORTRESS FLIES HIGH U.S, AIDE   Markland Is Gunner or Trip Which Skims  Ocean Waves

Serial Hweiene ay   Britain-Bound From Allied Parley, Bomber Loses Way

Pilot Flying High U. S. Officer to Meeting Tells of Emergency Landing, Being in Fog

High Officer, Pilot Get In, Though Lost   Fortress To England From Casablanca Wanders For Houre.

CAPT. CLIFTON PYLE QE MARSHALL, TEXAS, CONFERENCE PILOT  FLIES HIGH U. S. OFFICER TO CASABLANCA AND INST FOR HOURS

Plane Which Carried High Ranking Officer to Parley In Africa Lost tor Hours

High Ranking U.S. Officer In Close Call   Wave Hopped Home From Casablanca  Due To Weather

‘High Ranking U. S. Officer’ : Has Close Call During Flight. Back To Britain From Morocco   Pilot Tells Of Being Lost In Fog While Returning Unidentified Leader

Bomber Is Lost For Hours in Fog   High Ranking U. S. Officer Was Returaing From Casablanca.

Russians Cut More Enemy Rail Lines   Sever Commrprications German Divisions

Escape Routes Closed   Reds Occupy Krasnodar, Drive Against  Novorossisk

‘REMNANTS OF 25 DIVISIONS ARE BELIEVED CUT OFF  ‘ IN CAUCASUS AND ENCIRCLEMENT TACTICS CONTINUE TO GAIN AT OTHER VITAL GERMAN  * STRONG POINTS ON THE SOVIET  : BATTLE FRONT

Half Million In Axis Armies Face Disaster   Russian Columns’ Thrust Deeper Into Ukraine And Cut Rail Lines   LARGE NAZI FORCE BELIEVED CUT OFF

Madame Chiang Enrolls Workers   Speaks To Union Workers In California

CHINA’S FIRST LADY MAKES APPEAL FOR LABOR COOPERATION   Plea To Avoid Dissention Made At Workers Meeting

MME. GHIANG ASKS LABOR COOPERATION   Makes Dramatic Appeal T« Worker Gathering

British, Russians Agreed on Their Programs  Are to Collaborate In Peace as Well as in War

Eden Says Russia, Britain in Accord  London Ceremonies Laud Red Army

Britain, Russia United on War,  Peace Programs Eden, London Cabinet  Minister, Announces Agreement Reached  HONOR RED ARMY  Meetings Throughout England; Stalin Sends Message of Thanks

Britain, Russia Voice Agreement  Taint Oneareleane   Joint Operations Seen by Stalin

Britain, Russia Voice Agreement!  Joint Operations Seen by Stalin

Axis Opens Offensive  In Tunisia   50 German Tanks Strike at Allies West of Faid

TWIN AXIS THRUSTS CONVERGING ON KEY AMERICAN BASE; AMERICANS AT SIDI BON ZID CAUGHT IN PINCERS

Heavy Fighting In Prorress As Two German Columns Of Panzer Divisions Push. "For ward.

Expect Action On State Taxes  Assembly in Good   “Assembly in Good Pesition for April 15 Adjournment

LEGISLATURE IS ADHERING TO SCHEDULE    House Speaker Declares  Assembly in Good Posi  tion to Adjourn April 15   FIVE TAX BILLS READY

Jap Position ls Captured   ‘Troops-Move Intd New Area North Of Buna

Allied Ground Troops Ad vance On New Guinea   Bombers Continue Heavy Forays On "Japs In Bia Area -

M’Arthur Units Drive 40 Miles   Heavy Bombers Ravage Gasmata Airdrome

Allied Ground Troops Advance On New Guinea  Rankare CAntiniie   Bombers Continue Heavy Forays On Japs In Bia Area

Allies Make Advance in Jungle Zone   Ground Forces Seize New Territory In New Guinea Area

ALLIES ADVANGE ON NEW GUINEE   Occupy Mambare River Area On Northeast Coast; Plane Fliers Fail Find Trace of Crippied Jap Destroyer

ALLIES OCCUPYING — NEW GIJINEA AREA   Mambare River Section Held, According to Communique

ALLIES OCCUPY GUINEA SECTOR   Take Up Positions In Mambar River Area Above Buna

WAR IN SICILY LIKE THIS Yanks Show Guts Under Fire But No Atheists In Foxhole:

Tough American Troops In. Sicily Discuss Malted. Milk, Thick Steaks - While Enemy Shells Fall Around Them

It's Really True That There Are No Atheists in Foxholes Dying Man’s Faith Doesn’t Matter

BREMEN SAID LAID WASTE   German Traveler Says Industry Feeling Raids.

Berry Ceilings Clamped OnB.H. Market By OPA   Similar Regulations To Follow On Peaches And Pears

FRUIT MARKET PLACED UNDER OPA’S CONTROL   Price Lids  Ordered For  Seven Types Fresh Berries   ‘PEACHES, PEARS NEXT   Action Follows On Heels  of Order Pegging Can  e  nery Prices

German Position on Food Is Considered _ tc Be Good With Aid of Heavy Looting

Senate Okehs Anti-Strike Bill, 63 to 16   Connally Measure Now Goes to House for Ballot

Philadel phiz Republicans Elect Mayor   DESPITE WHIT® HOUSE BACKING OF BULLITT, SAMUEL RETAINS OFFICE AS QUAKER CITY HEAD.   Reno Leads

 Samuel Wins Over Bullitt In Philadelphia   Election Is Conceded By Philadelphia Record: Judge Reno Leads Bok

HOME CANNERS TO GET EXTRA SUGAR WITHOUT PENALTY OF RATION POINTS

House Group Asks Support of Postwar Plan  Bisice enn guceteons Pisa   Representatives Go On Record to Favor Senate Move

26 New GOP Congressmen Favor World Security Plan   For ‘National Foreign Policy’ Such as Senate Group, Including Hatch, Seeks to Bring About

House G. 0. P. Freshmen Pledge        Support To Allied Organization

Republican Group Pledges Support to Collective Security Resolution Introduced in Senate

House Group Asks Support of Postwar Plan  Representatives Go On Record to

aro An fa] re 25 *éw 322 Congressmen Sive Su: or--0 So ec7ve Securi-v

68 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECKS   Two Crack Flyers Pile Up Near Philadelphia and New York

BOTH FLYERS EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK   Congressional Limited’s Crash With 65 Killed Called One Of Worst In Nation’s History

Crack Trains Crash Within 10 Hours   Hundreds Injured  in in Pennsylvaniz New York Central Holiday  Accidents — 

INVESTIGATIONS FAIL TO REVEAL ANY SABOTAGE   Congressional Limited Piles Up at Philadelphia in Worst Disaster   MANY TRAPPED FOR HOURS   Twentieth Century Limited Wrecked When Boiler Explodes—Three Killed

Two Fast Trains Derailed in East   Death Toll is 65 as Pennsy Flier Leaves Tracks; "Century" Derailed

Crack Pennsy, NYC Limiteds Leave Tracks   Congressional Limited Cut In Two As It Rounds Curve In Philadelphia; 20th Century Locomotive Blows Up Near Canastota, N. Y.

TWO TRAIN WRECK CAUSE 04 DEATHS   Two Of America’s Crack Trains Wrecked

TWO OF AMERICA’S CRACK PASSENGER TRAINS WRECKED   ‘Congressional Limited and  20th Century Limited, Were Derailed.

Over 60 Die In Train Wrecks   Above 50 Killed As Pennsylvania's Congressional Limited Splits In Two In Northeast Philadelphico—Many Passengers Imprisoned For Hours Under Debris—Three Dead In New York Central‘s 20th Century Crach

IT’S HOT AND STICKY      High Temperatures Are Pulling ’ Moisture Out of Ground

WAVY REVEALS BOMBER RAIDS > ON ALEUTIANS   MacArthur Planes Hit Four = of 14 Ships in Jap . Convoy

Montana Harvest Progress Good   Late Crops Benefit From Moisture

YUGOSLAV TROOPS IN BATTLE FOR TRIESTE, FIUME -.   Fierce Fighting Reported’ in - Southern Suburbs of ‘Trieste Italian Warships Supporting  Guerrillas

Yugoslavs Launch New Drive To Take Fiume And Trieste; [talian Warships Lend Hand   Patriots Strike Blows At Nazis Along Railroads; Italian Warships Shell Coast

Yugoslavs Launch Fierce Battles To Capture Trieste and Fiume Ports

Yugoslavs Fight South Of Trieste   ‘Launch New Drive For   Control Of Italian Ports Now In Hands Of German Troops’

Yugoslav Troops Launch New Drive   Campaign Starts to Wrest Ports Of Trieste and Fiume from Nazis

YUGOSLAV TROOPS IN A NEW DRIVE ON PORT OF TRIESTE   Attempt Also Is Being Made to Wrest Port of Fiume From the Germans.   SMASHING BLOWS MADE   ltalian Battle Fleets Turning Against Former Ally, Supported Slav Guerillas.

YUGOSLAVS FIGHT  FOR ITALIAN PORTS  TRIESTE AND FIEUME ITALIAN FLEET AIDING  GUERRILLAS AGAINST CERRMANS IN DALMATIA

Yugoslays  Open Drive For Trieste And Fiume   Deliver Smashing Blow Along Railways; Units Of Italian Battle  Fleet Shell Towns

Drive Launched By Yugoslavs   Effort to Wrest Trieste and Fiume From the Germans

‘Ttalian Navy Shells .German-Held Cities On Dalmatia Coast   Fleet, Sailing Under Own Flag, Takes Active Part in Allied Attack:  Vusoslavs Drive an Frame. Triacte

Yugoslavians Drive Against Trieste. Firume   Italian Fleet Units In Action: Shell Nazis On Dalmatian Coast; Rail I ine<« Severed

YUGOSLAVS STRIKE AT FIUME, TRIESTE; ITALIAN FLEET BACKS GUERRILLA ACTION

Yugoslavs Drive At Two Ports —   Seek to Wrest Control Of Fiume, Trieste From Germans

GUERRILLAS LAUNCH NEW DRIVE IN ITAL!   Intensify Attacks to Wres! Italian Ports from Nazis

Yugoslav Forces Drive On Two Ports   Bitter Fighting Going On in Suburbs of Trieste; Italian Fleet Bombards German Positions }

TRIESTE, FIUME DRIVES OPENED BY YUGOSLAVS   Guerilla Forces Aided by Italian Fleet Bombarding Nazi- Held Towns on Dalmatian Coast

YUGOSLAV TROOPS BATTLE GERMANS   LAUNCH NEW DRIVE TO TAKE PORTS OF TRIESTE AND FIUME

Slavs Launch Bitter  -Fiume-Trieste Drive   Guerrillas Battle Fiercely to Wrest Two Italian Ports From the Nazis—Forces Also Cut Inland Supply Lines.

Yugoslav Army Begins Drives On Italian Port:   Strikes At Trieste, Fiume; Italian Fleet Hits At Dalmation Coast Line

NAZIS CHORTLE OVER RESCUROE DEPOSED DUCE   Hailed As Master Stroke  and “An Audacious Ven-_  ture;’ Freed From Allies by ’Chutists

Escape of Duce Called Master Stroke by Nazis   Parachute Troops Claimed to have Freed Dictator

Berlin Gloats Over Rescue Of Mussolini   Nazis Say Chutists Released Hi Duce And Henchmen

Ex-Premier diberated, Nazis Say   -London Sources Discount Berlin Report of Rescue

Nazis Chortle Over Rescue of Duce   \Joining Nazi Parexysms .  lans Hail Rescue of Duce

BERLIN HINTS DUCE MAY BE PUPPET RULER   No Confirmation Of Story: Rome Reported Suffering Food Shortage: Germans Draft Men, 50-60 :

Nazis Report Rescue of Mussolini And Some of His Fascist Henchmen

NAZIS GLOAT OVER RESCUE OF EX-DUCE      Berlin Radio Hails German - Reported Liberation as a Master Stroke —Claims Members of Family Saved.

BY THE FORMER ITALIAN. DICTATOR :   Berlin Propaganda Agency Continues to Make . Full Blast Exploitation of Alleged Rescue of Benito and. Some of. His Former Henchmen ..

GERMANS MAKE MUCK  OVER THEIR RELEASE  BENITO MUSSOLINI INCIDENT HAILED BY   BERLIN RADIO AS  ACTDD CTDAYE

NAZIS CLAIM MUSSOLINI IN THEIR HANDS   Berlin Says Ex - Premier Was Rescued By German ‘chutists

~—IL DUCE RESCUE— Axis Reports Mussolini Rescued By German Parachute Troops      Details Of Reported Liberation Still Lacking But Nazi Broadcasters Hail It As A Master Stroke And ‘An Audacious Venture’

Hitler Calls It A Master Stroke   Mussolini Had Not At Any Time Been In Allied Hands   CAN DO ALLIES LITTLE DAMAGE

GERMANS MAKE MUCH OVER THEIR RELEASE BENITO MUSSOLINI  INCIDENT HAILED BY BERLIN RADIO AS MASTER STROKE

NAZIS HARP ON FREEING DUCE   Propagandists Begin to EX: ploit Action as a ‘Master Stroke.’

Mussolini Has Been Rescued By Germans   May Be Restored as Puppet, Dictator in Nazi-Controlled Territory in Northern  via. i.

Germans Report Mussolini Freed In Daring Coup   Probably Slated To Be  Head Of Puppet Regime In North Italy.

NAZIS EXULT OVER RELEASE OF MUSSOLINI   ‘Radio Exploits Incident as ‘Master Stroke, Parades by Fascists in No. Haly Reported   MUSSOLINI SILENT   Germans Occupy Como, Where American, Brilish Prisoners Renorled Ready to Enter Switzer land

Nazis Claim Il Duce Is ‘Rescuéd’   Germans Say _, Parachute Troops Released Fascist Leaders in Master Mave

Nazis Say Mussolini Freed; May Head New Puppet Gov't; Natives Believe He's "Nuts"

GERMANS CLAIM DARING RELEASE OF MUSSOLINI   OWI Notes That While the Nazis Are Boasting of II Duce’s Capture They Haven’t Seen Fit To Have Him Broadcast and Aren’t Even Quoting Him.

Gloats Over Nazi ‘Rescue’ Of Mussolini   German Radio Exploits Re. ported ‘‘Master Stroke’’ of Elite Guard   SNATCHED AWAY FROM ITALIANS   No Confirmation From Any Allied Source; Duce Was Beld By Italians

BERLIN SAYS DUCE FREED BY NAZI ‘CHUTISTS   THE WAR TODAY  HITLER'S SCREAMS OF RAGE REVEA

BERLIN CLAIM DUCE AbobUED FROM ALLIES   Nazis Chortle Over “Brilliant’” Coup Achieved In Freeing Fascist Leader

Adjust Differences On Navy Funds Bill  Ready for Final Vote On Record Measure

APPROPRIATION BILL FOR NAVY ADOPTED   Huge Sum For Expansion Of Fleet Is Greatest On Records; Dif ferenees Adjusted

Violence Follows Arrest of Officials In Lebanon; Martial Law Declared; Curfew Is Imposed; British Protest

Shooting Breaks Out in Lebanon   Arab Leader Held, Curfew Imposed

NATIONAL SERVICE ACT   Recruiting Of Workers For Fesential dobs Te Bring Action

U.S. DRAFT Ot LABOR S SEEN   NATION NEEDS 3,600,000 FOR ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY

Important Bills Introduced In Raleigh Broad War Powers For  Governor Asked; W ould Alter N. C. Labor Laws

Bill Introduced To Create Office Of  Labor Conciliator   Legislature Also Gets Measure To Give Gov: ernor War Powers.

CANADIANS JOIN IN KISKA RAIDS   Buildings Are Destroyec By Warhawk Fighters At Japanese Camp

KISKA RAIDED BY CANADIANS   ‘A Number of Buildings Destroyed” in 13 Attacks By Allied Planes

CANADIANS AID KISKA ATTACKS   Join U. S. Fliers To Hit Kiska 13 Times In One Day

OUVIET AND HAZ! FORGED IN OTAUGGLE   Battle Around Novorossisk Is Bitter One, Mosc:w Reports Say.   AND IS IMPORTANT   Outcome Will Determife i’ Germans Can Keep the Bridgehead.

AUDOIANG TRIKE IN KUBAN VALLEY      Bitter Struggle May Hint Red . “Offensive.

Heavy Fighting Near Naval Base (f Novorossish   Moscow Silent On German Claims Reds Have Opened Big Offensive   NAZI AIR FORCE IS BATTLING FURIOUSLY

SOVIETS OPEN HEAVY ATTACK IN CAUCASUS   Russ, German armies locked in struggle northeast of Novorossisk

‘Soviet, German Forces ‘In Bitter Struggle Northeast Of Novorossisk

SOVIET AND : AMZ FACES, ~ IN STRUGGLE   Battle. Around Novorossisk Xs Bitter. One, Mosccw * Reports Say. _   AND IS -IMPORTANT   Outcome Will Determihes i’ ’ Germans Can Keep the ' Bridgehead. ~

Prime Minister, General Staffs of U.S., Britain and Canada Meet in Quebec

STRICT SECRECY SURROUNDS THE _ MEETING PLACE   Believe Decisions, Results Will Be Caonveyed to Stalin. Kai-Shek.

STRATEGY IS TO BE TAKEN UP   Momentous Sessions to Be Held in U. S.; Minister ‘Arrives in Canada.

Secrecy to Surround FDR-Churchill  Conference   Allied General Staffs Discuss Strategy; Reds, Chinwre Not Represented

Strict Military Secrecy Surrounds Plans for 6th Roosevelt-Churchill Conference to Be Held Soon

ARRIVED IN QUEBEC YESTI IDA? CONFERENCE WITH ROOSEVELT HASTENED BY FAST-MOV. ING EVENTS IN EUROPE 

Plans for F.D.R.Churchill Parley: Are Kent Secret         Premier Arrives ‘ In Quebec With’ Military Chiefs -

PRIME MINISTER T0 CONFER WITH MR. ROOSEVEL   War Strategy Looms Sub. ject of New Meeting; Canadians May Spear. head Big Invasion Thrust

PLANS FOR CONFERENCE HELD SECRET   Churchill Begins His Talks With Canadian War Leaders

British Leaders In Canada—Place Of Parley A   Secret  ALLIES AHEAD   ALLIES AHEAD _IN ALL AREAS

Conference To Be Held In U.S., Report   Prime: Minister And Canadian. Officials Meet Today

BRITISH IMPROVE POSITION ON ISLE   Fierce Fighting for Leras {s Still Regarded As Inconclusive.

British Are Improving in Leros Stand   \erial Assistance Given Embattled Garrison on Dodecanese Island

BATTLE CONTINUES ON LEROS ISLAND   Fierce Fighting On Island : Report; R.A.F. Takes Part In Attacks

BRITISH FORCE MAKES GAIN IN LEROS BATTLI   Inflicts Substantial Casualtices On Germans and Capture Number of  Prisoners

ISLAND STILL INCONCLUSIVE FIGHT ON LEROS   British Improve Positions, But Germans Hold Island’s Waist

Brits Improve Positions In Dodecanese   Fighting At Leros Inflicts Casualties On German Forces

ALLIES GAIN IN LEROS FIGHTING   British Improve Position; RAF Raids Islands

BRITISH TROOPS SECURE BETTER LEROS POSITION   Inflict Substantial Casualties on Germans; Fierce Fighting Accompanied By Aer. ial Assaults.

POSITIONS ON LEROS ISLAND IMPROVING   British Inflict Heavy Casualties: On Nazi Forces

BRITISH BETTER POSITIONS ON LEROS ISLAND   Germans, Holding Line Across Narrow Waist Dividing Allied Forces, Strafed by Airmen

Advances Made On Leros. Isle   British Improving Their Positions; Planes Are Put In Service

British Improving Hold on Leros   Fighters, Bombers Aid Fierce Battle for Island

BRITISH BETTER LEROS POSITIONS   Capture Several Nazis in Battle for Sub Base

Reports Current That Important Change  . Imminent in Lend-Lease Policy Pending

LEND-LEASE 0 S, AMERICA CUT   Future Aid To Be Based OQ; Offensive Policy

POLICY CHANGE IN LEND-LEASE   GOVERNMENT NOW BYRESSING OFFENSIVE ANGLE OF ‘WAR MATERIALS FOR. .LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS

DELINQUENCY T RACED TO LAXNESS OF LAW   PTA Congress Hears Taverns Are Contributing To Juvenile Way wardness .ind Disease

Juvenile Crime Blamed on Night Clubs by P.T.A   Liquor Laws Discussed a Closing Session of Conference

Only F. ‘DR. Can ue Traitor.   "Max Stephan: Set.  ‘gate i +a wpe

ONLY PRESIDENT CAN SAVE STEPHAN ~ FROM EXECUTION   Treasonable Innkeeper Dies Friday Unless Roosevelt .Intervenes.

STEPHAN DEATH IS SET FRIDAY   Will Hang Unless FDR Intervenes In Case  Of Aiding Nazi

Traitor Hopes For Reprieve   Only President Can Save Stephan from Hanging Tonight.

PREPARE TO HANG STEPHAN EARLY FRIDAY      Traitor Still Hoping for Executive Clemency

(Continued On Page Four)   TRAITOR FACES GALLOWS DEATH   Only Presidential Intervention Can Halt Event Friday Morning

STEPHAN HOPES FOR REPRIEVE   Only President's Action  Can Save Innkeeper

TRAITOR TO DIE ON GALLOWS   Only F. R. Intervention Can Save Stephan Life

Only FR’s Intervention Can Save Stephan _  Traitor To Die Before Dawn

STIMSON AIRS ITALIAN “MOVE   Secretary of War Thinks No> tion Will Give Allies . Considerable Aid

Italy’s Value In War A Question Fleet Helps, But Army   Ceconath Ten’t Known

SEEK CADET'S SUIT IN MURDER MYSTER\   Young RCAF Cadet Is on ' Way to New York; Uncover Clues in Bedroom

Detectives Hunt Missing Uniform  Considered Important Murder Mystery Clue

SEEK UN  FORM (F AR CADET   No Charges Placed Against Husband of New York Murder Victim.

Police Hunt Avidly For  Lost Uniform   Consider It Important in Solution of Slaving of Patricia Lonergan

RAF Bombers Blast Nazis On Continent   Low Countries  Are Attacked

DAYLIGHT RAID MADE ON SOFIA   Bombers Of North African An Force Carry Out Raid On Bulgar Capital  = grywmatwyartr ROVEYV

SOFIA 1S TARGET OF CRAFT FROM ITALIAN FIELDS   DNB Reports Number Killed and Wounded by Planes Hit in Waves

HUNDREDS OF RAF BLOCK-BUSTERS ARE LOOSED ON CAPITAL   RECORD-BREAKING SATURATION ATTACK MONDAY NIGHT COST 58 BOMBERS

58 Bombers Lost in Heavy Raid on City   Red Armies Sweep Through Holes in German Lines “in Followup of Kharkow Victory

RAF Loses 58 Big Planes In Record Attack   Highly Concentrated Blow Considered A Success By  British Fliers.   CONTINUE RAID TODAY

Nazi Capital Gets Long-Due Heavy Assault From Air   RAF Loses 58 FourMotored Planes but Results Worth Cost

Berlin ‘“Hamburged:’ In Gigantic Air Raid  HEAVY LOSSES 58 RAF Bombers Fail

38 WARPLANES LOST BY RAF IN HUGE RAID   Indications that Knockout Campaign Against Nazi Capital City Has Opened

58Bomber: Of RAF Missing    2,240 Tons of Explosives Hurtle Down on City

Heaviest  On Any Capital   Long-Expected Knock-out Attempt May Be Under Way

58 RAF Planes Missing In Raid Over Nazi Capital   Germans Nervously Admit Damage Casualties in Smashing Attack Over Continent

Knockout Attempt Is Under Way      .. Smoke From Fires Billows Up Three Miles

58 BRITISH BOMBERS LOST IN GREAT SATURATION RAID, HEAVY DAMAGE IS ADMITTED   2,240 U. S. Tons of High Explosives Spewed on . Reich Capital, But Largest Numbers British Bomb ers Ever Lost in One Night Recorded

Long-Expected Knockout Attempt on German Capital Believed Begun—2,240 Tons Dropped—i'wice as Heavy a: Any Ever Made on Any Capital

Hundreds Of War Planes Take Part In Record Attack      British Estimate 2000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

58 Bombers Are Listed As Missing   Long-Expected Knockout Attempt on German Capital Believed Begun-—2,240 Tons Dropped-—Twice as Heavy as Any Ever Made on Any Capital

Big Knockout Attempt on Berlin Begins   RAF Raiders Smash German Capital in Record-Breaking Attack; 58 Planes Missing; Reds Threaten to Collapse Entire Southern Wing of German Defencec Below Kharkay

Detroiters Strive To Identify Inciters of Riot  Governor Appoint: Committee to Scrutinize Set-Up

Chaplin In Sex Case   eet al  Girl Says He's Father Of Unborn Child

CHAPLIN IS SUED BY UNWED WOMAN   Comedian Father of Unborn Child, She Says

Name Chaplin In Paternity Suit  Claim He Is Father . of Unborn Child

CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN COURT TODAY   Joan Berry Says Comedian Father of Her Unborn Child

Chaplin Denies Paternity Charge   Movie Comedian Named In Suit By Girl; Says He Caached Her.

CHAPLIN IS DEFENDANT   Film Aspirant, 22, Says Comedian Father of Unborn Child

Labor Priorities: System Set Up  Classifications Are Tecned by WMC

DECLARES JAPS ON THE DEFENSIVE   McArthur Declares The Allied Headed For Tokyo

Nazis Retreat As Reds Begin  New Kiev Drive   Report Advances of ‘Many Miles; * New Bridgeheads  Gained on Dnieper.   German Air Force on Defensive Along Front

SOVIETS NOW 1.8 MILES FROM KIEV   Reds Say Nazis Have Laid the Torch to City’s Suburbs and Have Damaged the Ukrainian CapStal Itself.

Soviets Open Power Drive Above Kiev      Russ Armies Developing Bridgeheads on Dnieper West Bank   AIR CONTROL SHIFTS   Terrific Bomber Losses Force Nazis to Go on Defensive

SOVIETFORCES ARE WIDENING BRIDGEHEADS   Russian Army Newspaper Reports Abandonment of Aerial Offensive Tactics  By Germans   DRIVE NORTH OF KIEV

Russians Drive North of Kiev   Berlin Reports Reds ~ Are on Offensive Near Capital of Ukraine

New Red Drive On Kiev Opened   Nazi Air - Force Or  Defensive Now

NAZI AIR FORGE ON THE DEFENSIVE ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Reds Developing Ever-Widening Bridgeheads on West Bank of Dnieper   START NEW PUSH ON KIEV

Soviet Armies Launch Powerful New Drive in Ukraine, North of Kiev

Russians Seize Air Initiative On Wide Front   Reds Launch New Drive At Kiev From Bridgeheads Above Ukrainian Capital

RUSSIAN ARMY ONLY 1.8 MILES FROM KIEV NOW   German Air Force Definitely On Defensive Over All The Vast Russian Front  After Terrific Bomb er Losses.

Reds Drive Within 1.8 Miles Kiev   BBC Broadcast Heard in New York Says Germans Evacyating Gome! in White Russia   CLOSING PINCERS   Germans Reporl New Power Drive North of Kiev—Russians Claim Definite Air Initiative

THE GERMANS ARE EVACUATING GOMEL BBG ANNOUNCED   Nazi Air Force Is Reported Definitely on Defensive Over Russian Front.   SOVIETS IN NEW DRIVE   Red Star Reported Abandonment of Aerial Offensive Tacties by the Nazis.

NAZIS GIVE UP CITY OF GOMEL   Germans Begin Evacuation Of White Russian Fortress

Russians Widen Gains On River   RED STAR REPORTS NEW PROGRESS ON EAST FRONT

Russians Drive To The Edge Of Nazi-Held Kiev   Germans Said To Be Ap. plying Torch To Great Ukraine City.

Red Power Drive North Of Kiev  Germans Announce Push By Russians

Reds Within Mile of Kiey, Paper Claims   Nazis Have Set Fire to City Suburbs, Is Report

Nazis Out Ot  Air In Russia   Soviet Armies Develop Bridgeheads On West Banks Of Dnieper River.

SOVIET TROOPS OPEN NEW PUSH NORTH OF KIEV      Red Air Force Now Holds — Superiority Over Nazis  In Vast Front; Gomel   Battle Raging:   RUSSIANS ADVANCE WEST: OF DNIEPER   Report Germans Evacuate Base In White Russia As Hun Air Power Steadily Wanes

RUSSIAN DRIVE 1S UNDER WAY NORTH OF KIEV   > Berlin Declares Soviet Armies Launching Power Attack Near Key City

Russian Armies Steadily Widen Dnieper Drives   New Drive North Of Capital Of Ukraine Reportedly Launched

Germans Repor New Red Drive North Of Kiev   Stalin Armies Are Steadily Advancing West Of Dnieper

TEMPERATURES:   Russ 1.8 Miles From Kiev; Foe ~ Fleeing Gome   Suburbs Of Ukraine's Capital Afire As Reds Press On

Powerful New Drive Opened North Of Kiev   Reds Continue Widening of Dneiper Bridgeheads. Nazi Air Forces Now on Defensive.

—RUSSIA—  REPORT GERMANS ~~ FLEEING GOMEL   ‘Nazi Air Force Definitely On Defensive In Russian Fighting

CLOSE IN ON KIE\   Soviet Armies Widen ~ Bridgeheads on West  Bank of Dnieper ©

German Air Forces Is on Defensive Over Russian Front   Reds Expand Bridgeheads on Dneiper; Climax is Near

Soviets Launch New Power Drive  Attack Key City of Kiev From the North

Reds Enlarge Bridgeheads Under Air Net   New Power Drive By Soviet Forces Reported In Berlin

Soviet Armies Continue Te Develop Bridgeheads On Dnieper West Banks

Flynn Speaks For Himself   Claims Accusations Against Him Come From Political Enemies

Says He Did Not Know Deputy Was Gangster   Fiynn Testifies Before Senate Committee Regard) ing Appointment Of Dutch Schultz As Deputy When He Was Bronx County Sheriff

EDWARD J. FLYNN [5 WITNESS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE  CLAIMS DID NOT KNOW ARTHUR FLEGENHEIMER AND DUTCH SCHUTT7 SAM

‘Didn't Know,’ Flynn Asserts   But F. D. R. Friend Admits Hiring Gangster As Special Deputy Sheriff,

Did Not Know Flegenheimer Was Schultz  Flynn Tells About Gangster Being Named Ac Dennty

Flynn Denies Charges Of Sen. Bridges   Says He Did Not  Know Gangster

Flynn Denies All Charges As ‘Untrue  State Departmen?   Pris Will ww  State Department Witness Testifies That Australia Had hinda Na Ohieetiane

Flynn Denies Charges Of  Unfitness   Claims He Didn't Know Identity Of Gangster Schultz

Flynn Faces Senators In Own Defense   Dem Ex-Chairman Denies He Knew Deputized Gangster.

FLYNN OKAYED BY AUSTRALIA   Witness Disecloses ‘Approval Before Nomination; Didn’t Know Gangster

FLYNN DENIES ALL CHARGES   Didn't Know Dutch Schultz’  Real Name, Is Claim

Flynn Didn’t Know Deputy Was Hoodlum   Appointed Dutch Schultz On Plea Of Friend, He Says

Flynn Denies All of Bridges Charges Before Committee   Minister - Designate to Australia Says They Are “Political”

Appointed Ambassador to Australia Takes Stand; Call Charges ‘Political’

Ed Flynn Didn’t  Know Gangster   Roosevelt's Appointee Testifies in Own Behalf Be fore Committee.

FLYNN EXPLAINS HIS APPOINTMENT OF DUTCH SCHULTZ   Did Not Know Gangster By His Real Name   FLYNN REGARDED FIT BY STATE DEPT.

Flynn Denies Wrong Doings   Says, Schultz Was: Sworn In With Group, Never : Received. Salary

Flynn Denies He Knew Gangster Became Deputy   Schultz Naming © Callec ‘Gesture’ With No Pay Appointment Defended

 Ambassador Nominee   Says Gangster Only a  “Special” Deputy.  AUSTRALIA SAID - TO BE SATISFIED

Flynn Denies All Senate Charges      Australia Approves His Appointment

RLYNN DENIES KNOWING THUG NAMED DEPUT’   Defends Record In Quiz Before Senate Group, Says Dutch Schultz Not An Officer   CUSTOM CITED   Asserts Many Men Were Named As Courtesy and Gangster Was Listed  .«dnder- Other Name

ALL OF BRIDGED CLAIMS DENIC BY EO FLYNN   President Roosevelt Choice For Australian Minister Testifies At Hearing   ADMITS DUTCH SCHULTZ APPOINTED “OFFICER’   Job Was Only Temporary And Carried No Salary, He Tells Senators

FLYNN DENIES HE FAVORED DUTCH SCHULTZ   DIDN’T KNOW REAL NAME OF GANGSTER, SENATE GROUP TOLD

Flynn Denies Charges Made   “Dutch” Schultz Not Regular Deputy, He Declares

Edward J. Flywe Denies All Charges By Senator Bridges As Congressional Hearing s Begun in Washington Today

Flynn Denies All Charges By Senator   Says He Did Not Know City Help. Used in-Paying

Flynn Declares Gangster’s Name Strange To Him   Subject Of Dutch Schultz Arises During Hearing Before Senate Group

Yo CHARGES ARE POLITICAL   Didn’t Know Man He Made Deputy Sheriff Was Gangster.   ‘CHOICE OF PRESIDENT

Edward J. Flynn Asserts He Did Not Know Man He Named Deputy Sheriff Was Notorious Gangster

‘All Charges Are Denied by Flynn   Declares the Attack by Sen. Bridges Is Political and Nothing: New   HE MAKES FIVE SPECIFIC - POINTS   State Department and Australia. Have Approved His Appointment

Flynn Says He Didn't Know Arthur Flegenheimer Was Notorious Gangster When Named Deputy

“FLYNN GIVES 5 - POINTS IN DEFENSE   Minister Designate to Ans tralia Denies. He Knew Appointee Was Gangster.

Flynn Denies All Charges:   Says He Did Not Know His Appointee Was Dutch Schultz, Ganaster

IGNORANCE PLEA MADE BY FLYNN DENYING CHARGE   Fight Over Appointment of Minister To Australia Begins in Capital

Flynn Unaware Of Gangster's Name He Avers   Former Democrat Chief Grilled By Senators \

FLYNN TAKES STAND AT HIS OWN REQUEST   Minister Designate to Australia Offers Denials To All Charges Against Him   SCHULTZ NOT DEPUTY

REDS CAPTURE 3,350 GERMAN SURVIVORS   Fewer Than 8,650 Downed  Troops Remain In Stalingrad Sector Of Army Of 990.000.   Pocket Remains

NEW CONTACT IS MADE WITH FLEEING ARMY   American Troops Aid In Capture Of Pass In Section Menaced By Germans   Axis Posts Attacked

MOVE TO PROTECT ROMMEL’S FLANK UPSET BY ALLIES   Capture of Tunisian Positions Balks Attempt to Form Line to Aid Fleeing Germans,   AMERICANS AID FRENCH IN ROUTING ENEMY   Nazis Abandon Small Arms, Ammunition and Food— Messina and Naples Bombed by Airmen.

Big Offensive ‘Believed Near © In North Africa   Allies Take Positions Axis Sought for Line To Protect Rommel

Final Offensive In North Africa Seen In Offing  Number Of Positions Ir ~ Ousseltia Valley And In

Rominel Hastily Retreats Into Tunisia to Attempt. Stand With Von Arnim

Allies Take Tunisian Axis Points   Rommel’s Retreating Forces Strung Out To Meet Von Arnim

Final Allied Offensive Believed N eal   Several Tunisian Positions Are Recaptured

ALLIED FORCE GETS SET FOR WINDUP PUNCH   AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE; BRITISH HARRY ROMMEL

OCCUPY PASS ON FOE FLANK   Eighth Army is Again In Contact With Rommel Troops  tm ‘rm FP A AIEF A aS

Key Positions In Tunisia  Fall to Allies   Rommel Retreats In Effort to Strengthen Lines

RUSSIANS BEAT OFF NAZI BLOWS   German Attacks Near Black Sea And In Other Sectors Repulsed.

Descendants of Abraham Flory in Many States of the West   \CAME HERE IN 1864

PIONEER FAMILY IN NUMBERS HERE   Descendants of Abraham Flory in Many States ‘ of the West   (CAME HERE IN 1864

16-POINT WARTIME PROGRAM OUTLINED BY EDWARD MARTIN      Executive — Tells -Joint Session THat. Crisis Requires Sacrifice,  Toil, Unity -

MONTANANS SUCCESSFUL PARTICIPANTS IN BOMBING RAID OVER “DAISY CHAIN”

OUR FORTRESSES, LIGHTNING FIGHTERS GREAT COMBINATION, BATTLE REVEALS

U.S. Youths Show Stuff In Air Duels   A. P. Correspondent Tells OF Violent Battle Over North Africa

Greatest Air Weapon   Created by American Engineering Genius and Courage Of Youth.

U.S. Planes Lauded After Tunis Raid   Eyewitness Account Of Violent Air Battle is Given

U.S. Planes And Crews  Greatest In  The World  Engineers And Raw American Courage Forged Into Great Air Weapon

Fortress With Lightning Fighter Makes Combination Nazis Can’t Match in Air

YANKS QUTFIGHT NAZIS IN BATTLE HIGH OVER TUNIS   i9 Crack German Fighters Blown From Sky By Fortresses

YANKEE AIRMEN OUTRIGHT BEST GERMANSORFER   Prove Their Superiority {n ; Recent Battie Over Tunis, War Correspondent Savs   RIP THRU DEFENSE   Enemy's Best Anti-Aircraft Guns Unable to Stop Slashing Attack By Amercians

]  FINAL ACTION SOURED FOR HOUSE BILLS   Z ‘Congressional Reapportionment Gets Special  Right of Way.   AGREE ON PASSAGE OF OTHER MEASURES   Action Breaks Up Democratic Filibuster of Several Days.

REDISTRICTING BILL GIVEN PRECEDENCE   First Final Action of 1943 Legislative Session Is Expected to Occur Today   BITTERLY CONTESTED

Allies Strike At Centers of Concentration   All Points of Possible Attack Are Strafed by American Airmen

One-Third Of Output GoestoWar   Manufacturers and Canner: Ordered To Withhold Huge Supplies For  Army, Lend-Lease.

30 PER CENT LESS BUTTER   Wickard Orders Supplies Held for Armed Forces

CITRUS FRUIT SET ASIDE FOR ARMED FORCES   30 Per Cent of All Butter Must Be . Given to U.S.

STATE'S DRAFT HEAD ASKS FOR EMPLOYERS’ AD   Wants Deferment Notices Filed  In Advance

FLEEING NAZI ARMY LEAVES KHARKOV AREF   REDS GIVE CHASE; MORE RAILROAD TOWNS TAKEN

5 Fayette Co. Officals Are Presented   COUNT\ COMMISSIONERS, THEIR CLERK, COUNTY CONTROLLER ‘ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AND MALFEASANCE.   Former Senator, Also

IndictHigbee Also Grand Jury Urges   COLLECTED $3,000 FEE FOR SER VICES TO FAYETTE COUNT) WORTH $200 OR $300, SAYS Pre SENTMENT.   “Mere Conspiracy Charges

Captures High lialian Officer   Captain of Engineers Elated After Turning General Over to Allied Headquarters  ~

Italian General Is Captured By Yank Engineer   Captain Takes Wounded Fnem

SUB CENTERS MAIN TARGET FOR BOMBERS   What Part of Reich Attacked Not Disclosed in Official! Announcement From London.

First U.S. Raid On Germany   “Big “Naval Center “Made _ » Target of Blows. by > 3." Heavy Bombers   “BRITISH PLANES BLAST LORIENT   Liberators . and Fortresses ,- Used: in All-American ~ = ” fir Attack’

First All Yank German Raid Is Executed Today   Three Bombers Missing After Raid on Large Naval Targets

Yankee Bombers  Attack Germany  Forts And _ Liberators In First Assault On Nazi Homeland

Raid Bases Of U- Boats During Day   Flying Fortresses And Liberators Deliver Shattering Blows At Naval Installations -

YANK FLIERS STAGE RAID IN THE REICH   Is First All-American Blow of War on German Homeland—Targets Include Naval Base at Wilhelmshaven.

HITS SCORED ON 3. DESTROYERS BY AMERICANS   Action Apparently Result From Efforts to Reinforce Guadalcanal

Americans Bag 17 Jap Planes  Battle Hailed As One Of Biggest In War

3 Destroyers, Cargo Ship Hit In Raids   Seven U. S. Planes Lost In Stepped-Up Air Fighting In Pacific War Zone

AMERICANS LOSE ONLY SIX CRAFT IN ONE OF GREATEST AIR BATTLES   Nipponese Suffer Their Heaviest Air Losses in Fighting Over Guadalcanal Area Wednesday, Navy Dept. Reports—13-to-1 Score Best Ever Recorded in Single Action.

30 AIRCRAFT DOWNED; FOUR SHIPS BOMBED   One Destroyer Left A fire; Two Others Badly Damaged     7 PLANES LOST  Four Major Air Actions Listed Against Enemy Forces

U. S. Losses In Air Figh Put at 76   Japs, Losing 77 Planes, Failed To Do Much Damage

Japs Paid Heavy Price In Raid On Guadaleanal   Only Two Small Freight Ships Damaged As Nips Lose 77 Planes in Great Air Battie In South west Pacific; Six U. 8. Planes Lost

Four Enemy Ships Bonibed  In Solomons   ‘Presence of 14 Nip -Destroyersin Area Is Disclosed; Seven AWed Planes {ost

‘Our Losses Were Six Craft  Missing, Navy Reports After ‘Furious Guadalcanal Battle   Enemy Lost 32 Bombers And 45 Zeros: Brief Report Made To Washington; 13 To 1 Score  Rast Poon ts. Tew bw Aaet.i A...

Americans Lose Only Six Planes In Setting Back Enemy Over Guadalcanal

Yank Fliers Bag 77 Jap Planes   Lose Only Six in Guadalcanal Battle

Fight Yesterday Over Guadalcanal Set New Record   Enemy Apparently Considers U. S. Base Worth Great Losses

30 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED; 3 DESTROYERS HIT   GROUND TROOPS IN NEW GAINS AGAINST GUADALCANAL JAPS

American Loss At Guadalcanal Reported Light   Mass Attack Cost Japanese Many Planes

WE LOSE SIX IN BATTLE AT GUADALCANAL!   13 To 1 Score For American Fliers Probably One of Best Rung Up So Far tn War

In One of Great Air Battles Over Guadalcanal Japs Lose 77 Plane:

Yanks Crush Jap Convoy in Solomons   Marines ‘Advance on Guadaleanal in Stiff Battle

GUADALCANAL BATTLE SCENE   13 to 1 Score Turned in By Americans Best Ever Recorded.  ¥   i6 U.S. PLANES MISSING

Blast Enemy Fleet. Planes In Solomon:   Thirty Aircraft Downed. Three Destroyers Damaged, Cargo Ship Fired.   END ATTACK ON MUBO

U.S, Had 76 Casualties In  Shooting Down 77 Jap Planes Once Pilot Of Our Six Migsitie Craft Rescued ;  eee     See a.  Ca fo

U.S. Loses Just 76 In-120-Plane Raid. By Japs on Island  77 Planes of Enemy Were Downed in

Casualties In Air Clash Put at 76   25 Americans Killed, 29 Wounded and 22 Missing

3 Destroyers Hit; 30 Planes Downed   Japanese Suffer Losses in New Actions in the Solomons   PUSH LINES, FORWARD   Gains of 3,000 to 4,000 Yards Reported on Guadalcanal

Great Air Battle in Guadalcanal Area on  Wednesday Revealed   American Losses Placed at 6; Score of Raids Over Germany Told

U. S. Ground Forces On Guadalcanal Advance; Enemy Line Cracked In New Guinea, 152 Slain.

WARSHIPS HIT BY AMERICANS IN SOLOMONS   NIPPONESE ATTEMPT TO AID FORCES ON GUADALCANAL

Heaviest Air Loss Yet Inflicted On Enemy In  That Area; 6 American a ee

30 Jap Planes Brought Down  Ships Bombed   Aerial Warfare Picks Up In Solomons; US Loses Seven Planes

Japs Lose 30 Airplanes; 3 Warships Hit   American Fliers Score Heavily In The Solomons   Americans Gain 3,000 Yards On Guadalcanal   Single Catalina Attacks Destroyers Leaving One Afire

Allies Bag 30 Jap Aircraft   Four Ships Also Hit As: Tempo Of War Increases

Thirty Jap Planes Are  Shot Down   U. S. Forces In Solomons Get Hits On Three Destroyers

Great Fight Takes Place With Slight Loss 1oU.S.   Japanese Loss I: Thirteen To One  & For America

YANKS DOWN 30 PLANES IN SOLOMONS   Three Destroyers Hit; ‘Cargo Vessel Damaged

LOSSES WERE SMALL   American Casualties at 120 Plane Assault Was 76 Men

U.S. SUSTAINS 76 CASUALTIES AGAINST JAPS   Twenty-Five Killed, 29 Injured and 22 Missing In Air Battle Over Guadalcanal   TWO VESSELS HIT   Merchant Ship. and Barge  Bombed; U. 5S. Plane Losses Stand At Six;   Japs Lost 77

American Troops © Continue Advance  On Guadalcanal   Cargo Ship Is Also Leff Burning; Actions Apparently Result From Fnemy Atfemots to Reinforce Troops

Lose But Six In Fight Over  Guadalcanal   Navy Reports Great Sky Battle Wednesday During Bic Attack

U, S. PLANES BAG  30 AIRCRAFT, HIT FOUR JAP SHIPS   Fierce Warfare in Solomons Disclosed By Navy; Yank Losses Light

GUADALCANAL IS SCENE OF FIGHT   One Of Greatest Aerial Battles Staged In South Pacific   FOE HARD HIT   Six American Planes Missing, Navy Reports In Communique

4 ENEMY SHIPS HIT IN BATTLE FOR SOLOMONS   14 Jap Destroyers in Guadalcanal Waters Are Reported

Only 6 American Craft Lost in 13 to 1 Victory   32 Nipponese Bombers and 45 Zero Fighters Shot Out of Air Over Guadalcanal Island: May Be Record

Only Six Yank Planes Lost In Solomons Action   13 to 1 Score By Americans Termed One Of Best Ever Record ed in Single Action; Enemy Losses Nearly Twice Previous Raid

U. §. LOSSES SLIGHT   Jap Raitt Against Guadalcanal Costs 76 American Casualties

BATTLE NE      U. S. Airmen Lose Only     Never Have Nips Los So Heavily.

32 BOMBERS, 45 ‘FIGHTING PLANES LOST NAVY SAYS   British Bombers Stage Great Acrial Offensive Over Cologne, Third Largest City of Reich.   7600 TONS CASCADED DURING SIX NIGHTS   Russians Beat Off Eight German Counter Attacks Ir Defense of Bridgeheac North of Orel.

Americans down 30 Jap planes, damage three destroyers   Action follows Nip attempt to reinforce Guadalcanal

30 Jap Planes Shot Down And  3 Enemy Destroyers Damaged   Seven U.S. Aircraft Lost In Fighting In Solomons. aweeloan Ground Forces Gain

WAR PLANES   Shot Down By Allies In Big Air Battle Over  Guadalcanal

AMERICAN FORCES IN SOLOMONS SHOT DOWN 30 JAP PLANES   DAMAGE THREE ENEMY   DAMAGE THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS AND LEFT CARGO SHIP BURNING

(7 JAPANESE — PLANES SHOT. DOWN BY U.S.  A ok Ke Dattle We   Great Air Battle Is Waged Over Guadal-.   eanal   RECORD LOSSES   Americans Lose Only Six Of Their Planes

Record Loss For Japs At  Guadalcanal   Americans Lost Only Six Planes in Big Aerial Battle Wednesday

American Planes Bomb Four  Jananese Ships 30 Nip Aircratt   Are Destroyed  in Aerial Batiles

JAPS DAMAGED TWO SHIPS AT GUADALCANAI   Ravy Reperis American Casualltie: _in Attack 25 Killed, 29 Injurec and 22 Missing

ATTACK IN SOLOMONS REPULSED   Jap Losses Heavy In Engagement Over Guadalcanal

30 Jap Planes Downed, 3 Destroyers Damaged ‘In Actions in Solomons

AMERICANS LOSE ONLY SIX PLANES IN BIG VICTORY   Ine Of Greatest Air Battles Of Pacific War Took Place Over Guadalcanal Wednesday, Com.  munique Reveals.

More Details Of Pacific Battle Revealed. ....  76 U. S. Casualties In Raid On Guadalcanal

Yanks Lose 7 Aircraft In Action To Smash Nipponese Attempts To Reach Guadalcanal

Yank Pilots Shoot Down 77 Jap Aircrait Over Guadalcanal, — ‘Americans Lose Only Six Planes

Yanks shoot down 77 Jap  aircraft over Guadaleanal   Lose six American planes __ in engagement, navy reports

Enemy Losses Result © Of Tries To Bring Aid To Guadalcanal Forces

Record-Breaking 120- Plane Raid. « By. Japs. On Guadalcanal Island Cost U.S. Garrison 76 Casualties

77 J ap Planes Downed  Ovur Guadalcanal Isle   Only Six American Planes Lost; 29 Bombers Included In Toll

Nippon Attempt i Thwart U. 5. Drive Indicated   Americans Lose Only Six Aircraft; Foe Suffers Greatest Island Loss

Americans Lose Only Six Of Their Own Aircraft In Engagement Over Guadalcanal Island While Inflicting Upon Nipponese Heaviest Loss To Date In That Area—32 Enemy Bombers And 45 Zero Fighters Included In Single Day’s Rac

32 Enemy Bombers And 45 Fighters Claimed Lost in Wednesday Action

THIRTY NIPPONESE PLANES DOWNED; WARSHIPS BOMBED   [Red Army Scores New Gains in Drive on Rostov; Battle Reported in Libyan  TDeeart

Warfare In Islands Grows In Infensify  4 Enemy Ships Are Bombed; U. 5. Iacec 7 Dianec

76 Casualties In Air Battle   Ship, Barge Damaged In Great -Conflict

UNITS ADVANGE AGAINST ENEMY   Series of Actions Against Foe Trying to Land Troops on Isle.   IRESISTANCE IS STRONG

Great Air Batfle Takes Place At Guadalcanal   American Losses Are Set at Six Planes, Two Pilots

imerican Planes Set Fire To Japanese Cargo  Ship In Series Of Action Resulting From Enemy Attempt To Land Reinforcements tm Cradaleanal

Heaviest Loss Yet Handed Jap Airmen At Guadalcanal   Observers Believe Japs . Taking Losses to Break Up American Drive Plans

Three Enemy Destroyers Damaged And Cargo Ship Fired by U.S. Planes Attack ing Japs in Solomons.

One-Sided Victory Over Japs in Air   One of Greatest Aerial Battles of War

U.S. FLIERS SCORE RECORD BAG OF JAP PLANES OVER GUADALCANAL   Japs Lose 77 Aircraft; Yanks Lose Only Six

SIX AME MISSING AFTER SOLOMONS RAID   Toll of 32 Fighters, 45 Zeros Heaviest Ever Taken in Area

Yanks Score Spectacular Air Victory   Lost Only 6 Planes. In Violent Battle . Over Guadaleanal

YANKS SHOOT OOWN 77 SAP PLANES   Americans Lose Six in Ai Battles over Guadalcanal Navy Reports:

SEVENTY-SEVEN JAP AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN BY AMERICAN PLANES  ONE OF GREAT AIR BATTLES OF PACIFIC FOUGHT NEAR GUADALCANAL

SEVEN U.S. PLANES LOST IN ACTION JN 'SOLOMONS AREA    Troops Continue Advance Against Enemy On Guadalcanal

Only SevenU:S. Aireratt Lost: Enemy's Cargo Vessel Is Fired   Foe Apparently Was Trying to Bolster Force on Guadalcanal   Ground Gain Told   3000 to 4000 Yard Ad.vance Achieved on Island

Ratio Of 13 To One Is Established In Air Fight  Over Guadalcanal Base

Allies Smash Solomons Aid   Widespread Air Fighting Drives Off New Attempts to Reinforce Foe; Cargo Vessel Set Afire; Our Losses Light

World Events — At A Glance   U. S. Casualties 76 In Guadalcanal Air Battle, Navy Reports.

Japs Lose Le: Planes To U. S, Six   ao et we ged Believe 13-1 Score: Is Best _ Recorded: By: ‘America,  In Single Aerial “Action:

YANKS WIN IN BIG AIR FIGHT   Japanese Lose 77 Planes  During Engagement

77 Japanese Planes Shot Down by Yanks   Only Six United States Pilots Missing after Engagement in Which Enemy Loses 32 Bombers and 45 Zero Fighters

YANKS DOWN df JAP PLANES IN SOLOMONS AREA   Americans Lose 7 Craft in _ Air Fighting as Nipponese Try to Put Troops Ashore.   FOUR DESTROYERS OF ENEMY BOMBE)   Four Major Engagements Fought Off Islands—vU. 8. Ground Forces Encounter Stiff Resistance.

77 Jap Planes Shot Down In Big Air Battle   Americans Lose Only Six In Guadalcanal Fight

h Yank Ship: Lost Over Guadalcanal  U. S. Scores Great Victory in One   U. S. Scores Great Victory in One Of Biggest Air Battles of Pacific

Air Victory Cost US Only  76 Casualties   Six American Planes  Lost While Enemy mh..1)1 Wae 77

Navy Tells of Big Air  T r iumph   Enemy Losses Hit All-time Peak for Coodplennoal Ares

‘NASTRI VETORY QVER IAP FLERS   Shoot Down 77 Planes While Losing . Only Six   WORST DEFEAT FOR. “RISING SUN” BOYS

30 Planes Down And 3 Destroyers Struck by Bombs   Heavy Fighting Continues on Guadalcanal

76 Lost in " Air Battle - With Japs   US. Casualties in Big Clash Far Under Claims Made by Tokyo   JAPS APPARENTLY WERE SURPRISED   s There Is Much of Significance in Latest Clash;Japnese Finally on Defensive

American Airmen Shoot Down 7/7 Planes, Lose 6 In Clash at Guadalcanal

JAPANESE AIR POWER WEAKENS   Defeated Air Armada Believed Aiming at Allied Shipping

PACIFIC WAR CAULDRON If CFETHING   Japs Show Increasing Nervousness Over American Plans

Airmen Blast Japs Trying to Aid Solomons Forces   a wa oe eaeaevV eer ia CCl  30 Enemy Planes Knocked Down, Four  Ships Are Bombed THREE WARSHIPS HIT  Allied Troops Drive In On Sanananda  From Two Directions

U, S. Airmen Score Great Air Victory, Lose Only 6 Aircraft   13 to 1 Ratio Best Ever Made in Single  ‘Fight in South Pacific ) Sector

SIX AMERICAN FIGHTERS ARE MISSING   Edge Of 13 To One Makes Battle One Of Most Decisive Ever Reported; Over Guadalcanal

ACTION BAGS TTAAP PLANES      32 Japanese Planes Were Bombers, 45 Zero Fighters, Navy Department Reports At Washington Today   MARES RECORD BAG OF JAPS IN THE WAR

TT JAP PLANES IN PACIFIC FIGHT   Only Six in Big Battle  BY Reveals U. S. Loses Over Guadalcanal

U.S. Flyers Win Big Air Victory At Guadalcanal   Enemy's Losses Break Record, Communique  Reveals Today

Shoot Down Thirty Enemy _ Planes, Damage Three  Destroyers and Bomb   - Cargo Ship      AMERICANS ADVANCE ON GUADALCANAT   ‘Aerial Assault Believed To  Have Foiled Enemy Attempt to Reinforce Island Force

Solomon Yanks Hit Cargo Ship, 3 Destroyers.   30 Japanese Planes Downed As New Reinforcement Attempt Is Seen; Enemy Raids Guadalcanal Twice

13 to 1] Score of U.S. Airmen Perhaps Best Ever Recorded in ’ Single Action   JAP BASES RAIDED   Purpose of Jap’s Heavy Atacks in Solomons Not Clear — New Shift in Tactics Seen

Americans Lose Six Aircraftin Greatest Victory      To SUHBE Heo Defense” Losses:

NAVY REPURTS ON GREAT AIR BATTLE   77 Jap Planes Shot Down Cost 76 American Lives.

Americans Chalk Up 30 Jap Planes, Cargo Ship, And Three Destroyers

‘8 Destroyers Damaged Off  Guadalcanal   Enemy Makes Another Effort to Reinforce Troops; 7 U. S. Planes Lost

A Big Russo-Polish Boundary Dispute Is in the Offing Many Others Will Need Settling 

The War Today— Many Boundary Changes In Offing After War But They'll Help Peace

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Europe's Boundary Lines wm’rovide Big Headache ‘sf Postwar Planners   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Wide World War Analyst

DISPUTE. BETWEEN RUSSIA AND POLAND BELIEVED MEAN THAT BOUNDARIES WILL BE INVOLVED

Russo-Polish Row First Move in Fight lo. Determine Postwar Boundaries —

SHIPS SUNK ND DESTROYER EET BURNING   ering Attack Strikes At  Heart of Italy's Sea Com munications In Defiance Italian Fleet.   LLIED SHIPS LEAVE “ROCK,” SPAIN SAYS   essels Steam Westward Into Mediterranean,  f Convoys Totalling 137 North Africa~-Bound

INVASION RUMOR GROWS; ITALIAN ISLAND POUNDED   German Invasion Jitters Persist; 137 Allied Ships, Including Carriers, Leave Gibraltar; Pantelleria Blasted Again.

Expect Allied Attack Upon South Europe   Gibraltar Is Deserted In Pantelleria Attack

“ Convoys Also Put Out to Sea   ‘The Rock® Deseried Aa Allies Stage Daring Naval Conn

ALLIED SHIPS ATTACK AGAIN   Italian High Command Issues Communique; Germans Jittery

137 Shins Leave Cibraltar For - Unknown Ports   Axis Nervous Over Invasion Italy Is Again Heavily Bombed

ALLIED WARSHIPS MAY BE CLEARING INVASION ROUTE      Pantelleria Island Is Shelled In Third Attack   TWO CONVOYS SEEN AN MEDITERRANEAN

SHIPS CHASE OFF JAP FLEET      Quite Heavy, Engagement - Takes Place. at. Night in Vicinity of Bougainville Island,

U.S. WARSHIPS DEFEAT JAP TASK FORCE   Nip Cruisers And Destroyers Run After Battle

Jap Fleet Beaten Off Bougainville   Tries to Interfere With Invasion

AMERICAN VESSELS BEAT OFF SURFACE FORCE IN PACIFIC   Japs Stalled 1 In Attempt To Interfere With Yank Invasion Plans

Jap Surface Craft Chased Away Near  Bougainville   Enemy Fleet Is Forced to Flee to Base at Rabaul

ENEMY FLEET YURNS TAIL TOWARD RASAUL   Engag ement Is De. scribed as “Quite Heavy” +

Halt Invasion Of Bougainville   Enemy Surface --— Force Driven _ Off by Americans

Enemy Force Is Defeated By American Ships   Cruisers And Destroyer: Turned Back Toward Rabaul After Clash With U. S. Warships

American Ships Force Japanese  Vessels To Flee   Nipponese Attempt To Interfere With  Invasion Frustrated

Palo Alto Co. Bond Drive Opens Feb. 22   Chairmen in towns and townships are named. Quotas set.

Campaign Will Start On Monday   Committee Named to Canvass Palo Alto ‘Alto County. Goal Set-Is $1,124,200: To  _ Be Many Workers.

Superbly Equipped Units in North Africa and Great Invasion Fleet Concertrated in Mediterranean Sea, Stand ty for Next Blcw at Fortress Eurove.

GREAT INVASION FLEET AND ALLIED ARMIES STAND READY TO STRIKE FORTRESS EUROPE

ARMIES IN NORTH AFRICA AND FLEET IN MEDITERRANEAN MAY BTRIKE ANY,  i MOM

IGKES ASKS ALL POWER OVER OIL   Would Strip O, P. A. Of Rationing Pricing Authority

NELSON STUDIES ICKES’ REQUEST   Wants Authority to Rule Over Oil Rationing

ICKES ASKS OIL RATION POWERS   Decision May Set Precedent Aimed At OPA Authority

Huge ‘Numbers’ Ringe Is Smashed   Dentist, 22 Others Held After Raids In New England

Ten Airmen Die In: Bomber Crash   23 Seized in Lottery Net   90 Mittion Profit 4 Seoon Veus Alléeced

Allies Firmly Secure  Bougainville Hold   Army Reinforcements Join Marines in Slaughtering Japs on Islands; Planes Blast Soerabja, Former Dutch Base

JUNGLE FORCES MAKING GAINS AGAINST JAPS   AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ON NEW GUINEA CLOSING IN ON ENEMY STRONGHOLD

JUNGLE UNITS MOVING IN ON JAP GARRISON   MacArthur Announces Drive on Mubo on Line to Salamaua,   ATTACK PRECEDED BY AN ARTILLERY BARRAGE

Alles Closing In On Japanese Salamaua Base   Jap Garrison At Mubo On Salamaua Line Is Being Trapped   SUDDEN ADVANCE BY ALLIED FORCES

Allied Jungle Fighters Closed In Around Jap  Garrison In New Guinea

ALLIES PUSHING DEEP INTO FOE'S SALAMAUA LINE   Seasoned Jungie Fighters @ in Drive to Push Jap from New Guinea

ALLIES DRIVE FAR INTO JAP POSITIONS   Advance Behind Pow. erful Rolling Artillery Barrage

Allied Attacks Against Axis In  Tunisia Open.   Large-Scale Assaults Reported; Montgomery Goes Into Action ,

BELIEVE FINAL BATTLE NEARING; ALLIES ARE READY   Air Activity Stepped Up No _ Henanly on All Sec tape,

Radio Vichy en Activity Is Increased   United Nations Bombers Attack  Sicily and Tinie

AXIS REPORTS LARGE SCALE OPERATION:   Bombers and Fightet Planes Attack Enemy Targets Afrika Korps.

BLAST GERMANS — BY LAND, SEA, AND AIR TODAY        Flame Throwers Are Put to Hective Use ry. Our

WLB WILL atER TQ END oTRIKE IN GOAL MINES   John L. Lewis, Other Union Officials Will Attend Conference Today   SHORTAGE OF HARD COAL IN EAST BECOMES ACUTE   Immediate Return To Work Principal Objective Of WLB Hearing

JOHN L. LEWIS TO APPEAR BEFORE WLB   Ordered to Explain Why. Coal. Miners Are On: Strike” a

Lewis Appears Before Labor Board Today   He’}l Be Asked To Explain Strike In Anthracite Field

LEWIS CALLED BEFORE BOARD IN STRIKE CASI   Mine Union Leader Ha: Disapproved Of Walkout

WLB SEEKS TO FIND CAUSE. OF MINER STRIKE   Union Officials And Operators Summoned To Conference In Washington   ‘WALKOUT IN 17TH DAY   20.000 Tri-District Workers Delay Action Pending Result Of Hearing

WAR LABOR BOARD GALLS ON JOHN L, LEWIS TO EXPLAIN   President of United Mine Werkers, Others Must Give Explanation for Coal Strike.

ICKES THREATENS SEIZURE OF MINES BY GOVERNMENT   U. M. W. Chieftain, Union and Company Officials Called Before Board This  Afternoon.

President John L. Lewis To Explain Why Miners Are Still On Strike In Anthracite Fields.

WIB CALLS LEWIS, OTHER OFFICERS TO CAPITAL HEARING   Threat. Of An Additional 20,000 For Strike {5 Called Off—Strike 17-Days Old

Lewis Offers Testimony at  Mine Inquiry   UMW Asked to Explain Cause For Shutdown

LEWIS, OTHER UMW LEADERS APPEAR BEFORE WLB   To Explain Why Miners are on Strike In Anthracite Nlictriad

NO FINAL WORD ON FARM PRICES   President Has Not Indi. cated Scope of. Davis’ Authority. -

DAVIS STATUS IN FOOD SET-UP PROVES PUZZLE   Assistants Baffled Wher Congress Turns Down Appropriation, For Crop Incentive   CONTROL SOUGHT   Farm Groups Ask White House to Give Power Over Prices to Food Administrator

FARM PRICE CONTROL NOT GIVEN TO DAVIS      Division Of Price Authority Still Not Solved

FARM PROBLEM STILL PUZZLES CAPITOL HEADS   Davis Has Not Yet Been Granted Full Powers ~—

Davis’ Authority Over Farm Price: Still Unanswerec   His Assistants Puzzled Over Congress’ Refusal to Vote Crop Payments.   Raises Question of Increasing Ceilings

QUESTION OF FARM, PRICE CONTROL IS STILL UNANSWERED   Farm Organizations And Davis Visit President in Efort to Heve Control Placed in New Administrator’s Hands

Davis’ Powers As Food Czar Not Defined   Farm Prices Prove Puzzle

SLAYER DRAWS LARGE CROWDS   Barricaded Man Threatens To Kill Wife And Children.

B-17 Is Hit . By Lightning   11 Crewmen Killed As Ship Explodes; Crash Near Ponca City, Okla.

United Mine Workers Call on Four Public WEB Members to Resian Posts

QUICK ACTION ON TAX PLAN IS DOUBTFUL   CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS EX. PRESS DOUBT IF TAX BILL CAN BE PASSED, BY MARCH 19TH

Expect Delay In Passing Tax Bill   Growing Sentiment for Adoption of Rumi Plan

BRITISH 'CHUTISTS AGTIVE IN DENMARK NAZI RADIO STATES   Complaint Is Made That Sabotaging !s Instituted Pending Fulf Scale  Invasion.

GERMANS HUNT CHUTISTS WHO BLOW UP FIRMS   Arms Factories Damaged In Norway and Denmark

GERMANS HUNT GHOST CHUTISTS   Lay Sabotage To English. Parachutists; Nazi Officials Executed  oe

Germans Press Search for Allied Saboteurs Reported At Work in Norway, Denmark

NAZIS ARE SEEKING BRITISH = ’CHUTISTS ACTIVE IN DENMARK   Set Fire To Four Workshops And German Barracks In Copenhagen Also Active Elsewhere

PARATROOPS DOING DAMAGE          Nazi Broaticast ports Sabotaging ja Denmark io Delay German War Effort — Messages Complain that Danes are Aiding British,

SABOTEURS DROP FROM PARACHUTES ON DANISH SOIL   Nazis Claim Armed British Paratroopers Seek to  Cheek Nazi Production.

CHUTISTS BLOW UP FACTORY IN DENMARK, CLAIM   Workshops. Barracks Set On Pir In Copenhagen By British

4 H BOYS PROJECTS JUDGED ON FARM   Judging To Be Done Last of August

No Fair, But 4-4 Preiects Planned   Will Judge Livestock on Farms of Competitors.

SCATTERED FIRM SPOTS IN MARKE!   Many Leaders Seem t _ Need Rest; War News Stabilizing Influence

Wake Isle Raided By U.S. Fliers   Jap Base Blasted Promiscuously, Generally.

FEAR NAZIS: PLANNING TO SACK ROME.   Vatican Is Preparing for The Worst

Situation At Rome Remains Tense Today   Fascist Leaders Move North As Troops O: Allies Advance — Fate Of Vatican Uncertain:

POPE READY FOR ROME SACK   VATICAN PREPARING FOR NAZI DESTRUCTION

Roosevelt Assures Continued Aid  To French Forces Of Gen. Giraud

‘Army, Navy Men Among The Victims   Hills of Southern Keniuck: Scene of Crash—Cause Not Indicated

20 Die In Two  Bomber Crashes   Only One Survivor of Texas Mishaps

20 Die as 2 Army Bombers Crash   Both Big Planes From Biggs Field

ONE BIG CRAFT SUNK OY NAZI DIVE BOMBERS   Other Italian Warships Sail into Malta Under Escort Of British Forces

WEEK-END Wd BUSY PERICD FOR OFHGERG   Several Arrests Are Made on Liquor and Tr: ffic Charges.   ONE FISHING EPISODE   Scme Charges Came as Result. of Cont nuation of Traffic Drive.

WEEK-END WAS BUSY PERIOD. FOR OFFICERS   Several ‘Arrests Are Made  on Liquor and Tref- .  ‘fic Charges. — .   { ~ 4   ONE FISHING EPISODE   Some Charges Came as Result. of Cont’ nuation of . Traffic Drive. :

Russian Front ~ Lines Unchanged   Nazi Attacks Are Repulsed As Red Forces Make Slight Gains   REPORT GERMANS LOSE MANY MEN

Finschhafen Attackers Driven Back   Allied Planes Help To Smosh Foe's Move To Retake Key Town

Nip Forces Cut Down In Attemp: To Reach Coast   Australians Hurl Back Four Attacks Ry Desnernte Ene

Allies Drive Japs to Hills   Attempts to Retake Finschhafen Foiled By Australians

Hurl Japs Back ~ At Finschhater   [Allies Also Achieve Sea, Air Victories

Japs Driven Back To Hills  In New Guinea   Week-Long Offensive Is  Broken Up By Tough ' Australians

JAPS PUSHED BACK IN JUNGLE HILLS   Unable To Break Aussie’s Line To Reach Coast,

Japs Whittled In Jungle War   Troops Trying To Attain Coast Forced Back To Junvle Wilds

Aussies Break Nipon Charge   Enemy Hurled Back In Finschhafen Area After Week’s Fight

JAPANESE FORCES DECIMATED IN AREA NEAR FINSCHAFEN  ENEMY’S STRUGGLE TO BREAK THROUGH TO . COAST THROWN BACK

Jap Flight Crushed And Battered   Nips Forced Back Into Jungle Hills By Hardened Allies

AUSTRALIANS REPULSE FOUR JAP ATTACKS   Enemy Forces Whittled Down and Thrust Back Into Jungle-Matted Hills   SEVERAL SHIPS SUNK

JAPS DRIVEN BACK   Enemy Forces Fail to Break Thru the Australian  Lines

Japs Beaten Back, Cut Up In Attempt To Dash To Coast   Fail To Break Through  Finschhafen Aussies

Four Enemy Attacks Are Repulsed... - .  Jananese Driven Back In New Guinea Jungle

JAPS REPULSED IN NEW GUINEA   Effort to Reach Coast Is Beaten by Aussies

JAPS UNABLE TO PIERCE AUSSIE LINES   Nips Trying to Break Through to New Guinea Coast Near Finschhafen Reduced and Pushed Back Into Hills.

Supplies Sent Russia Nearly 3 Million Tons   Stettinius Says Great Majority of Supplies Are Getting Through Safely; Losses Still Te Be Expected

Flat Rebuff Given Roosevelt; Request » for Wage Bar Fails   Today’s Activities in the Nation’s Capital Are Summarized by AP

UNITED STATES AID  TO RUSSIA PREACHING  HUGE PROPORTIONS GREATER AID TO CHINA  PLEDGE IN PRESENCE EIRCT TANV OR CHINA

FRED BERTRAM  STILLIN COMA   Ireton Resident Suffers 1 Betalss ‘While Working .  “On Farm -

Moment Nearing For Allied March on War-Torn Europe   Russia Has Smal Need To Fear Stab-In-The-Back From Japanese At This Stage Of War

Interoreting he War   Pacific Fight Helps Reds by Keeping Japanese Occupied

SOVIET UNION MAY JOIN RELIEF GROUP   Success of Moscow Talks Gives Credenc: To Renorts

Partial Coal Ouvpat Assined   North Accepts Union Proposal to Limit Talks, South Doesn't

Coal Production Assured 30 Days Longerin North   Appalachian Operators Accept UMW Proposal To Negotiate Month After March 31; Southerners Reject Offer

HIT SOCIAL SETUP   Receiving Home for Chil. dren Would Be Controlled by Governor

Senate Does About Face On Subsidies   Goes To War With F. R. Again; Delay Seen On Congressional Recess Ae Reeult

SENATE BATTLES FDR AGAIN ON SUBSIDY PLAN   VOTE TO RESTRICT PAYMENTS IN FOOD ROLLBACK PROGRAM

Senate Shifts On Subsidies  Chances for Mid-Summer Recess Are Fading

AGAIN BATTLE OVER SUBSIDY   In Dramatic About Face. Solons Vote Ban On Roll-Back Plan   LOOK FORWARD TO PRESIDENTIAL VETO   Existing Federal Aid On Meat and Butter Would Be Invalidated

Senafe Turns On Roll Back Subsidy Plan   Votes For Subsidy Restrictions Like Those Roosevelt Vetoed

SEEK SOLUTION ON FOR’S PLAN FOR SUBSIDIES   Senate Takes New Stand On Program Against Leaders

SUBSIDY RESTRICTIONS ARE VOTED BY SENATE   Same Bill Continues Life of Commodity Credit

fat Warns Veto Is Due  On Subsidy   Benale Again Wages War  With Roosevelt, Delay of Summer Recess Is Seen In Capital   RESTRICTIONS PUT  ON ROLLBACK PLANS   Vongressmen Agree Veto  “Will Follow In Event  Subsidies Are Made  q   Paboo In Measure

Senate Turns Back to Fight Subsidy Plan   Sharp Reversal Returns Entire Controversy to Former Position

WAR WITH F.D. R. OVER SUBSIDIES   Senior Group Executes: a‘ - Dramatic About Face. on  Government’s Plan to Roll} ' Back Food Prices ;

Dramatic New Senate Revolt Over Subsidies   Chamber Dares F. D. R Wrath Again By Insist. ing On Ban.

NewSubsidy Revolt Jolts Recess Plan   Rampaging Senate Votes Fresh Limits On FDR’s Spending

Blocks Subsidy Program   ‘Senate Refuses To Allow Funds for RoilBack; Bill To Join Committee for Study

Senate, House  In Subsidy Jam   Upper Branch Votes Ban Opposed by Lower

Senate Again Votes to Ban Food Subsidy   First Agree and Then Reverse Decision; Chances Of Recess Setback

Measures Vigorously Attacked By Roosevelt, Beaten By House, Supported In Upper House; Little Hope For Adjournment Tonight

— i eee 2 ae  Subsidy Battle Rases   . - Senate Passes, Then Kills Limited Bounty

Revolt Against FDR’s Policies Blazes Up Again   Opponents OF Rollback Program Score in Dramatic Coup

senate Bucks Administration Again Over Plan To Roll Back Food Prices By Paying Subsidies

Senate Figures In Turnabout Over Roll Back   Goes To War With FDR Again On Subsidy Plan; Recess May Be Delayed

Senate Again Bans Subsidy   Rollback War With F. R. Renewed; Recess Plans Go Glimmering

Subsidy Fight Again Breaks Out Into Open  _ Senate Wars With /. oe o£

SENATE BATTLES cuaSIY CET   Administration’s Effort To Continue Progran Faces Fight

SENATORS RISE FOR FIGHT WITH ADMINISTRATION   Oppose Payment Of Subsidies To  Processors

SENATE VOTES RESTRICTIONS ON SUBSIDIES   Dramatic Aboui-Pace Produces Bill Similar to That Which Brew Veto Last Week   BLOCKS ROLLBACK   Senate-House Conferees Wrestle With Measure Diametrically Opposed

GO INTO HUDDLE ON SUBSIDY PLAN   Senate Rises Up To Battle With Administration In Sudden and Dramatic Turn About; Hope of Early Recess Fades.

Senators Vote Against Subsidy  Quick Switch Made; House To Seek New Taxes For Next Year

SUBSIDY PLAN STILL BLOCKED   Goes to Conference After Refusal by Senate

SENATE BALKS AT SUBSIDY 10 CUT FOOD PRICES   Sudden Turn-about Made in Original Position on Living Cost Rollback   PRESIDENT IS CHALLENGED   House Action Contrary to That of Senate - - Policies To Be Reconciled

Senate Balks At Approval Of Subsidy Plan   Conferees Given Difficult Task Of Ending Dispute

Senate Turns On Rollback Subsidy Plan   Upper House Makes About Face; Recess Bloched

Conferees Working Over Subsidy Bill After Bad Time In Senate Voting

SENATE VOTES RESTRICTIONS ON ROLL-BACKS   Sudden Turnabout Passes’ Measure Similar To That Vetoed Last Week   ICCC IS GIVEN NEW LIFE   Conferees Seek T6 Reconcile Opposite Proposals tn Two Bills

Turnabout Senate Battles President Over Subsidy Plan   Congressmen Vote For Restrictions On FDR’s Provisions

SOLONS IN NEW SUBSIDIES ROW   Summer Recess Of Con gress May Be Delayed   By Battle

FATE OF SUBSIDIES STILL UNCERTAIN   Senate And House Seeking Settlement

SENATOR GEORGE LEADS MOVE TO KILL NEW BILL   Battle With Administration Looms—tInflation Is Action’s Target

ELEVEN AIRMEN KILLED IN GRAS   Army Bomber Wrecked on Training Flight; Names of Victims Revealed.

Umbrellas Coming Back In Style; They Match The New Spring Dresszs

YANKS CAPTURE BAIROKO HARBOR ON NEW GEORGIA   Several Small Islands Also Taken as Aftermath . of Munda

RESISTANCE AT BAIROKO HARBOR ENDS SUDDENLY   Sons Of “Heaven” Refuse Battle As New Georgia Island Is Cleared   NUREMBURG HIT BY RAF   Second Largest Industrial City In Germany Sees Mighty Air Armada

KEYOTONE FORT IN OULONGK9 fa CAPTURED BY Uo   All Organized Resistance Is Ended at Harbor as Our Men Extend Gains.

Americans Occupy  All New Georgia   Fall Of Bairoko Gives Yanks Control Of Keystone Of Solomons

YANKS EXTEND GRIP TO OTHER ISLES IN AREA   Nips Once Again Decide Faces Not  Worth Saving

CONQUEST OF NEW GEORGIA NOW COMPLETE   American fighters take Bairoko harbor, resis tance ends

STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK AT AKRON RUBBER PLANTS   Workers Heed Order Of Back-To-Work From  President Roosevelt.

SEVEN U-BOATS SUNK   Bay Of Biscay Battle Brings Victory ) For Allies

7 SUBS DESTROYED BY ALLIED’ PLANES   Sinking In Bay Of Biscay Greatest Victory In That Area

AMERICANS BAG 700 PRISONERS IN MARCH ON GABES   Captives Include Many of Hitler’s Crack Tank Grenadiers——Axis Retreats After Desperate Fight.

BANKHEAD BILL IS SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE   Administration Fails In At tempt To Have Measure  Killed Outright   FEAR OF LEWIS ONE STUMBLING BLOCK

FARM BLOC BALKS ATTEMPT TO KILL BANKHEAD BIL   Senate Votes, 62 to 23, to Send Controversial Measure Back to Agricultural Committee.   ACTION A DEFEAT FOR ADMINISTRATION   Raises Threat Legislation Will Be Brought Up Again If Wages Pierce Economic Controls,

BANKHEAD GILL FACES NEW TEI   Administration Forces Seek To Deal Death Blow To  Fa rm Measu re

Senate Shelves Bankhead Bill   Goes to Conimittee By 62-to-23 Vote

Price Ceiling Measure Put In Storage By Farm Bloc   Sent to Committee To Be Held as Threat In Event Blanket Wave Boosts Allowed   LEWIS AND HIS UMW NAMED IN DEBATE

VETOED CEILING MEASURE SAVEL   Farm Bloc Sends Price Bill Into Storage For Future Use

SENATE PUTS VETOED BIL IN “STORAGE   Farm Bloc Rescues Bankhead Draft From Defeat

FARM BILL GUta TO COMMITTEE   Bloc Rescues Vetoed Bankhead Measure to Place it in Storage: Is Kept Technically Alive

Senate Sends Farm Bill Back  To Committee   Bloc Beats Down Administration Move to Kill Measure Outright; Vote 62-23

Farm Bloc Rescues Senate Bill   Bankhead Measure Now in Hands Of Friendly Committee

Senate Returns Parity Bill to Farm Committee   Bloc Rescues Vetoed Measure In Face of Override Defeat; Held as ‘Club’ in Inflation Plans

Farm Bloe, on Defensive, Prevents Vote   Bankhead Bill- Saved From Oblivion. by Sending to Comniittee

Farm Bloc Wins Partial Victory Over Roosevelt   Helps Send Controversial Bankhead Bill Back fo Committee

VETOED FARM BILL SENT TO COMMITTEE   Bill ts Kept Technically Alive as Result of Action

Naval Stafion ~Thills WAVES   Go On First: Chizage Lake Trip Saturday

PROBE _ CONTINUES IN AIRCRAFT CASE ON FAULTY PARTS   Curtiss-Wright Company Charged By Senate Truman Committee  In Renort

Federal Grand Jury May Investigate Curtiss Wright   Civil Suits Filed, Charging Defective Engines Made at Lockland Plant

County's 1943 Red Cross Goal Set At $33,000: Campaign Oi Morch 1

Will Not Bargain With John Lewis   Union Attempting To Organize Foremen

Secretary Completes Pacific Tour   With Nimitz, Halsey Under Two Air Attacks But No One Injured  MORALIFE IS PRAICEN

Knox . High Naw Chiefs Under Jap Air Attacks   Tokyo May Undergo Bombing Raid Again, Naval Secretary Says; U. S. Forces Well Equipped and Ready for Hard Fight

KNOX UNDER FIRE TWICE I 1WO WEEKS   With Admirals Nimitz And Halsey, Secretary Of The Navy Visits South Pacific  Ceatinne.   Praises Men

HIGH OFFICIALS IN JAP ATTACK   Knox, Nimitz and Halsey In Two Raids During Inspection Trip In Pacific

Knox Tastes Jap Fire in  Pacific Tour   Navy Secretary, Aides Inspect Island Bastions

SEC'Y KNOX UNDER ‘JAP AIR ASSAULTS   Nava! Secretary Tells of Raids Made by Enemy - Forces

1S, BOMBERS IN 100TH ATTAGK ON GERMANY TOBAY   Western Germany Is Scene of Newest Attack   SPECIFIC TARGET IS NOT YET ANNOUNCED

HITS CHINA AID       re Calls Ht ale”        London Representati ‘Ridiculously

Congress Now Awaits Reports By Committees   Both Houses Back in Session Today, but Will Mark Time Until Measures Are Put on Floor.

Major Bills Are Awaited By Congress   Both Houses Mark Time—Taxation.  Appropriations to Get First Attention

GAS DEMANDS OF ARMY WILL BE MET - ICKES   Statement is Made to — Senate Committee  By Oil Chief

Ickes Declares Army Will Get 100-Octane Gas   Says ‘Continuous and Discouraging Obstacles’ Will Be Overcome

WOUNDED PRISONERS ARE EXCHANGED BY ALLIES AND NAZIS   Seventeen Americans Among 9,000 Allied Servicemen

5.000 DISABLED MEN EXCHANGED   First Transfer with German: Includes 17 Americans te Be Sent Home

AMERICANS 0 EXCHANGE SHIP SAILING HOME   Had Been Captured By Germans On Battlefields:

OVER 9,000 DISABLED ALLIED SERVICEMEN WILL BE EXCHANGED  WAR’S FIRST MILITARY PRISONER EXCHANGE INCLUDES 17 AMERICANS

5,000 Injured . AreExchanged   Germaiiy And - Allies Are Sending. Men, ‘Home. To Empty Camps ~

5, 000 Allied Soldiers Are Released   First Exchange of Military Prisoners - with Germany

More Than 5,000 Disabled Allies Held Prisoner by Nazis Will Be Exchanaed

5,000 Allied Soldiers Headed For Home Under First Prisoner Swap With Nazis

First Military Exchange Of War Prisoners   More Than 5,000 Disabled Service Men of United Nations on Way Home   17 ARE AMERICANS

5,000 Wounded War Prisoners  Are Exchangec   17 Yanks Included In First Such Swap

ALLIES, GERMANY TRADE PRISONERS   17 Americans Among 5,000 Servicemen in Exchange

17 Americans Listed Among  Those Traded   5.000 Wounded War Victims Exchanged; Most of Allies Are British, Canadians

First Military Prisoner Swap With Germany   17 Americans Among The 5,000 Disabled Allied Troops Exchanged.

EAGHANGE GF WAR PRISONERS WITH GERMANY BEGINS   More Than 5,000 Allied Service Men on Way Home From Swedish and Spanish Ports.   17 AMERICANS AMONG CAPTIVES SWAPPED   Freed Nazis Had Been Held in England and Africa— Further Repatriation Moves Expected.

17 Americans Among 5,000 Allied Prisoners of Nazis to Be Exchanged

ALLIES, GERMANS MAKING EXCHANGE   17 Americans Among 5000 Disabled Held as Prisoners on Way Home.

REICH FLAILED AGAIN FOR THE SIXTH NIGHT   ‘Wuppertal, Twin Industrial Cities of Ruhr, Gets Hammering

Chemical Center Is Target   Allied African Airmen Stage First Altack On Salonika Pott

Wuppertal Target of Big Blast   Mediterranean Objectives Hit From Africa

Big R. A..F. Block-Buster Roiders - Drop Hundreds of Tons of Bombs In Spite of Stiff Anti Aircraft Fire

RAF Batters  Wuppertal In Ruhr Region   Other Raiders Blast At  Sicily, Sardinia, Greece

RAF KEEPS ~ UP BLASTING OVER RUHR   Large Nazi Chemical Works at Wuppertal Attacked in Great Force.   Is Sixth Consecutive. Attack on Continent

Wuppertal In Ruhr Attacked As Italy Is Bombed Again   War-Vital Chemical Works Bombed Today;  Mussolini Purges Italian Officials   33 BOMBERS LOST OVER EUROPE   American Fortresses Raid Salonika For Firsé Time; Jap Bases Attacked

Wayland Man Missing In North Africa   Corp. Leo K. Wagner Missing Since Feb. 17

VICT “TORT! 1?"“apvoca CATE   Texas’ Second Oldest Newspaper—Established 1846

Of mit —_ . 7 VICTORIA” ADVOCATE   Texas’ Second Oldest Newspaper—Established 1846

JAPS MENACE AUSTRALIA WITH 2.000 PLANES   Facilities For That Number Set Up In Invasion  Arc

JAPS PREPARE 10 INVADE AUSTRALI   Germans’ Apparently Aban donTheir Offensive in Northwest Caucasus.

JAPS BUILD UP BASES IN ISLES   Can Send 2,000 Planes Against Australia, Minister Warns

“ACTION! IN i  2,000 Jap Plan s Can   MACARTHUR REPORTS JAP CRUISER SUNK

Young People —  Soon To Marry Two Plymouth County Couples To Wed

Tojo Cedes Six States to ; Thailand in Maneuver to Win Favor in East Asia -

ew Positions Slategically Placed For rurther blows; Reports Hint Jap Withdrawal Erom Kekala Bay

DRIVE ENDED   With Kolombangara Seizure Yanks Dominate South, Central Solomons

Yankee Forces Occupy All of Kolombangara   Vila Airfield Seized Without Opposition From Japanese; Mucl Equipment Captured

CAPTURE VILA WITHOUT ANY OPPOSITION   October 6 and Complete Occupation of Kolombangara Island Three Days Later: Ring Down Curtain.   Triangular Base

USE SELECTIVE SERVICE TO FILL ‘MANPOWER NEEDS   Armed Forces Will Secure Mer Through Machinery Of Tera tt

US. FORCES IN JUNCTION WITH FIGHTH ARMY   New Drives Launched in Both North and South Tunisia

British And U.S. Forces Join In Africa   Pursuing Rommel Northward  Toward Sfax

U.S. AND BRITISH JUNCTION SIGNAL FOR NEW DRIVES   Retreating Axis Columns Hammered on Coast Road to Sfax

REUNION THRILL TO MONTGOMERY   Film Star. Recovering From Tropical Fever, Eager to Rejoin Family

WAR CONFERENCES CLOSE IN CAPITAL   Roosevelt  Reports Full Agreement on War Strateqy

Churchill and Roosevelt End Long Series of Conferences on War Plans

AXIS FORCES TO BE BASHED ON ALL SIDES   BRITISH - AMERICAN STAFFS WHOLLY IN AGREEMENT

Drtsn, AMerican Strategy Talks End in Agreement  Roosevelt Announces Conference Success:  No Hint of Plans ACCRESSIVE ACTION

U. S.-British Strategy Conference Complete:  Work on War Program

U.S.-Brifish Conferences Come fo an End   ln Agreemént on Plans  Roosevelt Discloses; See Step up in War

Conference On Wat Strategy Ends In “Full Agreement”   Operations Outlined In All Theaters Of War; Hope Held For Meeting With Stalin

F. D. Gives No Hint on Scope Of Decisions   Joint Staff Concludes Conference Started in Washington May 11; Terse Report Made

Strategy Conferences In W ashington React Complete Agreement On Operations Plan:

FDR-CHURCHILL COMPLETE TALKS ‘IN WASHINGTON   PresidentReports Complete Agreement’ on Plans for Coming Drives

ROOSEVELT ENDS STRATEGY TALKS WITH CHURCHILL   President Announces Agregment “On Future Operations in All Theaters of War.”   STEPPED UP ATTACKS ON AXIS FORESEEN   Washington Considers It Probable Two Leaders Will Meet With Premier Stalin Soon.

Conference On War Strategy Ends In “Full Agreement”    Operations Outlined In All Theaters Of War; Hope Held For Meeting With Stalin  Rar WSO Tr MTA nas

Military strategy is plotted   Roosevelt and Churchill reach  full acreement

WAR CONFERENCES (LOSE IN CAPITAR      Roosevelt Reports Full Agreement on War '  Stratecy

FDR-Churchill Parleys Close   President Reveals Full Aeocard Reached

STOCKS MOVE TO NEW HIGHS   Advances, However, Re stricted by Light Profit Cashing.

M'KENZIE TELLS OF ‘ALEUTIAN STATUS   They’re Important As Air. Naval Bases to Nation That Holds Them

ALEUTI ANS MYSTERIOUS BUT ARE IMPORTANT TO DEFENSE OF U.S. MAINLAND FROM ENFMY ATTACK

The War Today  Attu Only 700 Miles From Nearest Japanese Base South Of Kamchatka

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   War In Aleutians Vital Wart OF Our Efforts ‘Yo Conquer Japan

The War Today   Jap Toehold in Aleutians Micht Bring Trouble Later.

MISSING SOLON 1S LISTED A FOUND   Rushton Hears Stockfish Will Appear as Witness to Testify in Investigation

REP. STOCKFISH WILL TESTIFY   Rushton Reveals Missing Solon Will Appear  Before Carr

EIGHTH ARMY TEARS HOLES IN AXIS LINE   Sappers Clear Way Through Dense Mine Fields

CHESTER DAVIS RESIGNS AS FOOD ADM.   Marvin Jones Is Named Successor

Disagreement Over Subsidy Program Revealed: Marvin Jones Is Successor

RAILWAY LINES AT PISA ARE BOMBED   Air Attacks Made While Warships Shell ltealian Toe

SHIFT AIR RAIDS TO NORTH ITALY   YANKS BOMB PISA RAILWAY YARDS—WARSHIPS SHELL TOE OF MAINLAND.

Fortresses Hit Rail Yards in North Italy   British Battleships Batter Western Toe of Mainland

RAIL YARDS IN PISA BLASTED   Fortresses Deliver Fierce Attack As British Ships Shell “Toe”

NORTH ITALY IS BLASTED byFORTRESSES   Pisa’s Railroad  Yards Targe.  For Mighty Blows; Also   Hit Airfields And Plane Factorv   Hit Salerno

Fortresses Hit Rail Yards  in North Italy  British Battleshivs   British Battleships Batter Western Toe of Mainland

Ships, Warplanes Blast at Italy   Pisa Bombed, Coasta Defenses Shelled

PISA RAILWAY YARDS PASTED BY AMERICANS   GREAT BATTLESHIPS POUND WESTERN ITALIAN TOE

Vital Blows Struck at North Italy   Fortresses Hit Pisa, British Battleships Shell Coast Defense

ortresses Hit ital. Railroad Yardls in Italy   S, Fliers Raid Pisa As British Bombard Western Shore

Northern Italy Heavily Bombed By Fortresses   Vital Rail Yards Al Pisa Damaged

ITALIAN RAIL CENTER LASHED   City Of Pisa Gets Dose Of Fortress Bombing; British Warships Shell Mainland

ARGENTINE TO STAY NEUTRAL “FOR PRESENT      “Loyal Cooperation Witt Americas in Conformance With Existing Pacts,” Also Pledged   RAMIREZ TAKES OATH   Outlines Policies In Firs Address to People After  Becoming President of , Revamped Government

ARGENTINA TO STAY NEUTRAL   Military Men In Control Of New Government As Ramirez Takes Over

Ramirez Forms Government Pledge Te Neutrality; To Adhere to Pacts

New Regime In Argentina To Be Neutral   "Loyal Cooperation With Nations of the Americas" Is Pledged   COMMUNIQUE IS ISSUED

ARGENTINA'S NEW GOVERNMENT OUT FOR NEUTRALITY   Day-Old Military Regime Is Also On Record To Cooperate Under Terms of Existing Pacts.   RAMIREZ MADE NO REFERENCE TO CONGRESS   Gen. Ramirez Greeted By Multitude When He Appears to Make First Address as President.

Neutrality Plan To Be Followed By Argentina   New Officials Say Ramirez, Leader Says Cooperatior With Americas Sought

Argentina To Be Neutral, Ramirez Says   Will Adhere To  American Pacts

FIVE MEMBERS WILL BE NAMED   PLEDGE GIVEN OF NEUTRALITY   Foreign Influence Will Not Be Tolerated. Military Regime Warns

Argentina To Stay Neutral For Present   Ramirez Affirms Loyalty To Interests of This Hemisphere

Argentina Pledged to Neutrality   Day-Old Military Government  Pledges Loyal Cooperation with Nations of the Amerjcas

Argentina Will Retain Neutrality   Ramirez Pledges Co-operation With American Nations.

ARGENTINE SETS NEUTRAL POLICY FOR PRESENT   Promises That Country Will Maintain Representative Government

ARGENTINA WILL KEEP NEUTRALITY ROLE FOR PRESENT   But Is Pledged To Loyal Cooperation With Nations of the Americas In Conformance With Existing Pacts; Ramirez Sworn In Monday Night.

New Argentina Regime Pledged 'To Neutrality   But Promises Loyal Co. operation With Ameriean Nations.

ARGENTINE CHIEF REVEALS POLIGY   Neutrality for the Present and Loyal Cooperation Among Neighbors Pledged

RAMIREZ SAYS ARGENTINA TO KEEP NEUTRAL   But Pledges ‘Loyal Cooperation with Nafions of Americas’ in Statement of Policy

New Argentine Govt. Pledged To Neutrality   Promises To Adhere To Pacts With Other Amer ican Nations.

ARGENTINA T0 STAY NEUTRAL SAYS NEW HEAD   Will Cooperate With Americas on Pacts; Ramirez Takes Oath

Still Can’t Make Much Out Of It Argentina Will Remain Neutral, But Loyal To  The American Nations

Ramirez Takes Neutral Stand   Day - Old Government Of Argentina Pledges Coopreation With Americas,

Argentina Pledges Neutrality, fo Be Loyal fo Americas   Ramirez Government Is Sworn in; Will. 1 Observe Pacts."

NEW LEGION OFFICERS   Merle Elliott Post No. 252 Elected New Officers July 20th.

FLYNN VOTE WEDNESDAY   Committee Expected To Confirm New Australian Minister

EXPECT COMMITTEE TG CONFIRM FLYNN   Republican Senators Ts Carry Fight To Senate Floor

G. 0. P. 10 PRESS FIGHT ON FLYNN   Hope Absentee Democrats Will Block Confirmation of Envoy Appointee.

Negro, Facing Death for Mh eke 19) Murder; Wonders About Gas Ratior

KILLER LAUGHS AT DEATH RAF   Negro Wonders About ‘Gas Ration’ as Jury Finds Him Guilty

Jury Convicts 'Nearo of Death   Cook Found Guilty Of Killing Pretty Bride of Ensian

Negro Slayer Jokes About Gas Ration   Folkes Faces Death In Death OF Bride In Lower 13 Berth

Dining Car Cook Guilty Of Slaying   Negro Is Convicted of Slaying Pretty Bride in Pullman Berth   APPEAL IS PLANNED

COOK CONVICTED IN ‘LOWER 13° SLAYING   Faces Death Sentence  Oregon Gas Chamber

Negro Convicted For Train Death   Jokes About Getting ‘Gas Rations’

JURY FINDS NEGRO GUILTY OF MURDER   Lower 13 “Murder Verdict Fails to Strike 20-Year-Ol¢ Cook as Serious

TRAIN COOK GUILTY OF IST DEGREE MURDER   Jokes With Visitors After Hearing Verdict

KNIFESLAYER ~ TODIEBY GAS   Porter Who Cu Cut Throat of Woman © in’ Sleeping Car Unperturbed.

Negro Faces Gas Chamber For Slaying   Jury Finds Folkes Guilty Of ‘Lower 13’ Killing on January 23

CONDEMNED KILLER JOKES OF EXECUTION   Negro Is Found Guilty of Berth 13 Murder

ALLIES RAP JAP VESSELS IN PACIHC   Bombers blast cruiser at East Indies naval base of Amboina

Berlin Blasted By 900 Tons OFR. A. F. Bombs   German Capital Left Flaming; U. S. Flyers Attack Rouen Sunday

U.S. Bombers Make Daylight  Raid on Rouen   German Capital Has Heaviest Attack of War, Leaving City Surging Mass of Fire

RAF Batters Berlin Starts Huge Fires In Terrific Attack   Americans Raid Rouen, France, Damage Railway Junction; British Resume Aerial Offensive With Blows on Liege, Belgium, and Rotterdam

Nazi Capital Hit by 900 Tons of Bombs   U. 8. Planes Follow With Daylight Raid on French Point -

U.S. 8th Airforce Hits Rouen Yards  Another Great Airfleet PeAsins Clyannal

Yankees Join In Raid on Nazi Capital   City Shudders in Big Attack; 900 Tons Of Explosives Fall

’ Heaviest Raid {s Staged Against German Capital  AMERICANS LAUNCH ASSAULT ON ROUEN  ? Nine Bombers Lost on 1,200 Mile Round Trip to Berlin

German Capital Subjected fo Terrific Raid   Great Force of Bombers Does Much Damage, Sets Many Fires   Attack Twice As Severe As Any German Raid on London

OHIO AUTO DEALERS STUDY GAS RATIONING   Buckeye Motorists Ready Te Aid War Effort

What to Do About Big Italian Population in Tunisia Allied Problem   Question Involves Three-Way Political Headache for United Nations

Status Of Italians in Tunisia Ares Puzzle To Allies   May Be Biggest Question Faced By U.N. Following Liberation Of Territory

Early Start Grand Scale Anticipated   IN RUSSIA, NAZIS ARE POUNDING AT DOOR OF KHARKOV,

8000-Ton Merchant Ship Is Sunk; 20 Nip Planes Are Shot Down; Alexishafen And Ballale Bombed 

Jap Shipping Continues To Suffer Losses   Eight Thousand Ton Merchantman Is Sunk In Rabaul Area   TWO OTHER SHIPS BADLY DAMAGED

FOUR INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH NEAR JOHNSTOWN   Flyer Crashes Into A Derailec ' Freight Car—Two Soldiers Hurt

Roads and Fields Beginning To Dry Up, While - Allied Troops Prepare Offensive.’

Axis Thrust ‘At Tunisian : ‘Town baikec   Dawn Attack by British Tanks Hurls Germans Out of Sed Jenane

TanksHurlNazis FromSedjenane In North Tunisia   Heavy Thrust By Von Arnim Is Checked As British Inflict Losses in Street Battle: French Score Gains

F orce of 600 Germans Qusted From Town   Activity Along Mareth Line Is Increased

HEAVY ENEMY THRUST  IN TUNISIA IS CHECKED   Axis Effort Directed at Sed Jenane in Northern Sector Is Set Back After Severe Street Fighting—Germans Thrown Out of Important Road Junction After Scrimmaces.

Allied Tanks, lnfantry Check Heavy Thrust   Nazis Pushed From Sedjenane In Hot Street Fighting

Eden Comes In ‘Time For Fence Fixing   Visit Timed Nicely To fevive Good Will For British

RELIEF PROMISED IN DROUGHT AREAS   Farmers to Get Hay and Corn to Improve Milk - Situation

CRITICAL MILK SHORTAGE FACES CITY MARKETS   Government Promises Relief To Drouth-Stricken  Farmers   SHORTAGE OF FEED IS GROWING ACUTE

Russians Make Steady Gains   Nazis Speed Retreat In Donets Basin

PLANNING FOR A YEan's HARD WORK   Boy Scouts Here Are Observing Scout Week, February 6 to 12.

BIRTHDAY F BOY SCOUTDOM   33rd Anniversary of This Organiization Which is Doing Hard Work to l'~" “Vin War.

BOY SCOUT WEEK FEBRUARY 6 TO 12   “Toughen Up! Buckel Down! And Carry On To Victory” Theme For 33rd Anniversary

BOY SCOUTS MARK 33RD ANNIVERSARY   Youth Group Aids War Program On Home Front

Aussie Infantrymen Lunge To Limits Of Fitschhafen  Allies Swarm Over Airdrome As Japs Fall Back Before Swift Advance Of Invaders

Aussie Troops Take Airdrome At Finschhafen   Capture of Port Itself Appears To Be Imminent

Hard Coal Production Back to Normal as Striking Miners Return to the Job

Rigid Censorship Cloaks Any  Repercussions Within Italy As  Increasing Strikes Are Hinted; Correspondents Remain Silent   RUMOR MUSSOLINI HAS FLED ITALY

DENI MUSSOLINI RESIGNS; GEN. BADOGLIO TAKES OVER GOVERNMENT OF ITALY

Whereabout Of Duce Is Unknow:       MAY HAVE FLED TO SWITZERL  —SIGNS MOUNT THAT CHANGE: MEANS ITALY IS READY TO: *! OUIT THE WAR

NEW REGIME MAY ASK FOR PEACE TERMS   Public Meetings Banned  To Prevent Uprising By Factions

BLOW FORGED AS CHIEFS AND ” CHIANG CONFER   GDR Sitent on Time But Enc of Monsoons Indicate Move Near

PACT REACHED AT MEETING HELD IN CHINA RECENTLY   Representatives of Three Nations Confer in Chungking In Wake of Meeting at Moscow.   MEANS BAD NEWS FOR JAPANESE—ROOSEVELT   Leaders Decide Upon Program to Operate From Continent, Plan Supplies For All Forces.

BRITAIN, CHINA AND U.S. AGREE ON JOINT PLAN   President Reveals Accord Was Reached At Chungking Conference

U.S. BRITAIN, CHINA AGREE ON PLANS   President Says Development Means “Bad News for Japs”

Joint Operations Against Japan Are Agreed Upon   United States, Britain And China To Move Jointly On Continent Of Asia   PRESIDENT GIVES REPORT TO PUBLIC

CHUNGKING TALK MAPS OPERATIONS   Roosevelt Announces Successful Meet  Of 3 Powers

U.S, BRITAIN AND CHINA DFCIDE ON JOINT PLAN OF OPERATIONS ON THE © MAINLAND

YANKS, BRITISH STAGE ADVANCE TO GARIGLIANO   Flying Fortresses Join In Fray, Pounding Vital Supply Railroad g   REDS TAKE 100 TOWNS   MacArthur Reveals Sinking Of Jap Cruiser And Four Destroyers y

108 Jap Planes, 15 Ships Smasher   Big Enemy Convoy Wrecked at Rabaul

[American Income Hits Record of More Than {2 Billion in September

WAR STAMP SALE   Women’s Committee Wil Have Drive Well on  By Tomorrow

TAMP SALE   Worrien’ s Committee Will Have Drive Well on By Tomorrow

Yank Fleet, Planes Record Brilliant Victory Over Jap:      }  AMERICANS WRECK FOUR JAPANESE BASES, 72 PLANES, 2 CRUISERS IN DEVASTATING ATTACK ON FOE IN MARSHALL ISLANDS

VICTORY FOR U.S. NAVY AT JAP-HELD ISL!   Four Bases in Marshalis Knock ed Out Along With Two Cruisers and 72 Warplanes

BASES IN RUINS ON MARSHALLS   Reveal 2 Cruisers Sunk and 72 Nippon Planes Destroyed in Raid

Brilliant, Complete Victory in Marshall Island Zone Scored; U.S. Suffers One-Ship Damage   Strong Points at Wotje Are Reduced ta  Rubble — Raid by U. S. Planes   Lasted Only 10 Minutes — Four Caxeeiave Tlasd

Four - Marshall Island Bases Left In Ruins   Task Force And Planes Wreck Havoc On Foe Atoll Chain

Four Jap Bases in the Marshalls Are Destroyed by U. S. Navy Planes

Powerful Attack Launched on Mar. _ Shalls — Two Jap Cruisers and - More Than 72 Planes Victims of Powerful American Fleet.

Four. Marshall. Bases "Demolished by Yank:   300 Carrier Aircraft Strike Foe; U. S. Forces Suffer: Light Losses

Four Jap Bases In Marshalls  Are in Ruins   Navy Planes Score Sparkling Vietorv

Destroyed By Ameri Aircraft _   TWO JAP CRUISERS AND 72 PLANES ALSO VICTIMS OF 300 AMERICAN, AIRPLANES.

American Fleet Strikes At Heart of Coral Atolls   72 Nipponese Planes, Two Cruisers Bagged In U. S. Bomb Attack

TWO JAP CRUISERS, (2 PLANES BLASTED IN MARSHALL RAIDS   Reveal 300 Fliers From U. S. Carrier-Fleet Left Four Strong Island Bases In Ruins; 4 Other Ships Sunk

Four Strong Jap Bases in Ruins In Marshalls   __ Two. Cruisers _ ‘And Over 72 Planes Destroyed

(Admiral Pownall is a former Altoonan and his picture and a story of his career will be found on page 20 of today’s Altoona Mirror).

U.S, CARRIERS SINK CRUISERS IN MARSHALLS   Four Strong JaJpanese Bi In Same Islands In Ruins

GIFT MAILING IN NOVEMBER URGED BY POST QFFICES   Only Way to Be Sure Of Delivery by Christmas This Year, Warning’

KELLY WILL SIGN ‘SLOW TIME BILL   Measure Will Be First to Become Law Ouring 1943 Session.

DAVIDSON SCORES FATHER INDUCTION   Claims Government Employes Are Eligible

Coal Crisis In Kansas   Work Stoppage After May 18 May Be First Test of New Labor Lav

Call Second 24-Hour Meet of Plane Men   Impatient Air Craft Workers Arrange Demonstration Meeting at Consolidated

PLANE UNION ORDERS NEW DEMONSTRATION   24-Hour Meeting Called At Big Consolidated Plant

Union  Holding  Demonstration   Consolidated Plant Scene Of Protest Over WLB Failure: To Act

AFL AIRGRAFT UNION CALLS 2ND MEETINC      Impatient at Lack of WLB Decision

Need More Thar 1,200 Workers  On lowa Farms   But General Situation Not Bad, Reports Place ment Supervisor.

Farm Machinery Is Given Boost   Enough Steel Allowed to Raise Output to 80 Per Cent of 1940.

ATTEMPT TO REVISE FARM TOOL OUTPUT   Plan To Rate  Food Priority With War Material

Farm Machinery Output Doubled   Davis Expands His Food Organization

New Program Will Raise Food to No. One Priority, Level With Munition:

RECOGNIZE FARM MACHINERY NEED   PLACE PRODUCTION OF IMPLEMENTS ON PAR WITH *MUNITIONS

Double Output Of Farm Tools For Next Year   Raising Food Production To Priority Level Of Munitions, Weapons,   MORE -STEEL IN JULY

More Farm Tools in ’44   Increase Allotment Of Steel To Allow — Greater Production

Machinery For Farms Next Year   Food Raised To Level With War  Munitions Now

Fugitive Is Apprehended By Officers   Man Who Escaped From Farview Taking Nurse Back in Toils  “TIRED AND HUNGRY"

Threat to Kiev and Entire Nazi Defense Line ‘Increased  MANY PLACES“ARE TAKEN BY SOVIETS  Red Armies Prepare for an Assault on the i - Crimea

Russians Extend New Bridgeheads West Of Dnieper   Soviet Troops Fan Out In Three Directions, Increasing Threat To Kiev; Nazis  Nearly Out Of Caucasus

REDS INCREASE KIEV THREAT: GREAT BATTIE   Russian Army Reported Continuing to Enlarge Footholds North and South of City.   Forced Back

DNIEPER RIVER IS CROSSED IN THREE PLACES   OVER 210 HAMLETS AND TOWNS FALL TO RUSSIANS

THE PENDERGAST GASE REVERSED BY SUPREME GOURT   He Was Charged With Criminal Contempt of Court.   LIMITATION IS BAR   Justice Douglas Delivered the - Decision, Justice Murphy : Not Participating.

SUPREME COURT VOIDS CONVICTION OF PENDERGAST   Former Democratic Boss of Kansas City Serving Term for Contempt in Insurance Settlement.

High Court Reverses Pendergast Decision   ‘Tribunal Makes 6-to-1 Ruling on Contempt '. Conviction in Connection With State’s - .* $10,000,000 Fire Insurance Settlement. 

Court Release To Pendergast   High Tribunal Reverses Convietion In Insurance Rate Contempt Case.

Not Guilty In  Contempt Case   Supreme Court Reverses Decision In Pendergast Case

Pendergast Wins Supreme Court Appeal   Conviction In Criminal Contempt Case Is Reversed   Clears Slate In K. C. Insurance Prosecution   Court Holds Contempt Would Be Barred By Limitations Statute

Tom Pendergast Wins Appeal on Court Contemp!   Supreme Court Votes Six to One in Favor of Missourian,   Conviction Is Barred By Limitation Laws

PENDERGAST UPHELD   Conviction of Kansas City Bess Is Reversed By Justices

SUPREME COURT REVERSES RULING Ih PENDERGAST CASE   Political Boss, Two Others Were Convicted On Contemot Charges

Pendergast Conviction Is Reversed   Two Others Freed Of Criminal Court Contempt Charge

DECISION REVERSED   Supreme Court Invalidates Pendergast Conviction . for Contempt

10 SPEAK ON SITUATION IN ITALY   Italians, Meeting at Vatican, Reported Seeking Peace

Second Case Of Polio Here   Develops in Southeast Part of City This Week

Retiring Chief Of OPA Scores Fuel Consumers   DeClares ‘'Carelessness And Indifference’ Are Partly To Blame

Henderson Raps Public ForOilPlight   SAYS BUJTLEGGING IN EAST I PROBLEM, OUTBCUND PRICI ADMINISTRATOR TELLS SEN ATE COMMITTEE.      More Tank Cars?

OIL SITUATION LAID TO PUBLIC BY HENDERSON   Carelessness and_Indifference Shown,  Senators Told

HENDERSON HOLDS PUBLIC TO BLAME FOR FUEL SITUATION   Outgoing Price Administrator Says “Carelessness And Indifference” Partly Created Problem; Another Suspension Of Gas Rations Is Hinted At Hearing

Henderson Sees New ‘Gas’ Ban, Reveals Bootlegging   Military Needs, Cold, May Bring Cut This Month, Says OPA Chief, Regretting He Wasn't ‘Tough’ ; Farm Fuel. More Tank Cars Studied

Officials See Little Hope For Easing  ASas Situation   Public Indifference And Carelessness Partly To Blame, Leon Henderson Says   OPA HEAD ASSAILS GAS BOOTLEGGING

CHIEF OF OPA RAPS PUBLIC INDIFFERENCE      People Held Partly to Blame for Situation by > Henderson .   WITNESSES HEARD BY SENATE GROUP   Administrator Says East to Stay an “Hand to Mnuth” Basis

HENDERSON CITES BOOTLEGGING ERA   Failure To Convert onvert Oil Burners T: Coal Also Shows Full Seriousness In U. S.

OPEGIAL otNATE COMMITTEE EYES OIL, GAS SHORTAGE   Henderson Declares Public Is Party to Blame for the Present Situation   ADMINISTRATOR SCORES GASOLINE BOOTLEGGING   ickes Says East Will Remain On ‘Hand-to-Mouth’ Basis; Jeffers Urges Farmers Be Allotted All Gas Needed for Essential Food Production

Senate Starts Oil, Gas Probe   Henderson Blames Public Carelessness

PUBLIC BLAMED BY HENDERSON   Outbound OPA Chief Puts Blame For Oil Status On Indifference  Of People

‘Battered Japs Are Hard-Pressed By U. S. Attacks   Sons Of Nippon On Defen. sive. To Greater Degree Than Since War Started   SUDDEN ATTACKS UPSET JAP MACHINE

200 Men Injured As Tornado Hits  Kansas Army Pos'   Five Seriously Hurt, 28 More Hospitalized At Fort Riley Center  SHORT BUT SAVAGE  Damage to Barracks, Other Buildings Set at $200,000

200 INJURED BY VICIOUS WINDS AT FORT RILEY   Damage Estimated At $200.000; 3 Seriously Hurt

200 INJURED IN STORM AT FORT RILEY   Vicious Tornado Destroys or Damages 41 Buildings in Cavalry  - Replacement Center.   RIFLES, BUNKS, CLOTHES SCATTERED   Mess Halls Lifted Into Aix and Set Down Yards Away—Five of Victims  . Seriously Hurt.

Tornado Hits "Ff. Riley: 200 «Men Injured   41 Buildings Down at Cavalry Center; Damage $175,000

Storm Injures 200; Levels A1 Buildings   Mess Halls Are Lifted High in Air and Dumped Yards Away, Equipment Scattered About Post

Tornado Injures 200 Men at Fort  41 Frame Buildings Are Destroyed

Two Hundred Men Injured By Big Blow  Damace Tataling   Damage Totaling $200,000 Done At Cavalry Center.

TORNADO TEARS UP FORT RILEY   About 200 Men Injured, Barracks Wrecked; Damaged $200,000

TORNADO WHIPS FT. RILEY CAMP   200 Injured As 41 Buildings Are Leveled With Loss Of $175.000

TORNADO HITS ARMY   200 Soldiers At Fort Riley Injured By Storm Saturday

Rum! Taxatio: Plan Hurdles  First Barrier  Senate Committee Approves It With

BACK PRINCIPLE OF RUML PLAN   Senate Group Favors 1942 Tax Abatement

MAP MICHIGAN SOLDIER VOTE   Legislature To Be Asked To Simplify Ballot  Procedures

ARMED SERVICE BALLOT STUDIEL   Michigan Residents In Uniform Will (Get Chance To Vote

STALIN PROMISED REPAYMENT. FOR SUPPLIES SENT BY U.S.   NELSON REVEALS RUSSIAN PREMIER DECLARED LENDLEASE AID WOULD BE REPAID IN FULL

TO BE DIRECTED BY COMMITTEE OF OVER 4)   Kxplained to ! tailers at Av Dinner Mee  “

Salerno Cost Casualty List   American Killed, Wounded and Missing at 3,497

American Losses  At Salerno Are  Listed At 3,497 Far Less Than   Far Less [han  German Claims

‘ar Depi. Reports This Number. Americans Killed, Wounded and Missing in Week's Battle

YANK CASUALTIES AT SALERNO 3,497   Total Not Broken Down for Dead, Wounded, Missing

NEWU, S, SHELLS TO STOP TANKS   Demonstrations Given by Ohio Factory To High Officers Of Army and Navy

REVOLT IN DORTMUND   Pepulace of Bombed German City Disarms Civil Police

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   Boys 4-H Club Committee Urges:  Darnaor BParolimant far Caunty

URGES ENROLLMENT   Boys’ 4-H Clab Committees Disenssed Probiom ef Maintaining am Active Cinh Organisation

FIGHTING FLARES IN BURMA AREA   U. S. Air Forces Team With Chinese In Hitting Japs

American Bombers Support Chinese  Japs Suffer Losses On Burma Border

Russians Lose Korosten, But Push Ahead in Five Other Important Areas   American Flying Fortresses Batter Ruhr City Of Solingen by Daylight; Aerial War on Germany Continued at Night; Rome Threat Grows Greater

British Shatter Nazi Winter Line      Nimitz Inspects Tarawa, Learns More About Japs

BRITISH CAPTURE SANGRO RIDGE IN SMASHING DRIVE   Eighth Army Gains Threaten to Turn Flank of Entire Nazi Defense System Before Rome.   FOUR MORE TOWNS FALL TO MONTGOMERY   Tommies’ Bridgehead Now Extends 15 Miles Inland— Clark’s Forces Advance in Heavy Fighting.

“PERILS FLANK © OENAZIS LINE   Smash “Winter Line's { Anchor by 15-Mile Push. Take Ridge

BRITISH SEIZE VITAL POINT IN CENTRAL ITALY   Clark’s Army Surges Ahead

Enemy Counterattacks Beaten Off; 4 Towns Captured by British; Fifth Gains Mile

Veteran Eighth Threatens ‘To Turn Flank Of Germans   Enemy Driven From Huge Bridgehead North aAnd West Of Sangro River 15 Miles Inland

SHARP. ADVANGE IRE BY 57 ARMY IN TALLY   Strategic Ridge Is Overrun — By Allied Forces As Nazis Are Pushed Backward

Vital Road Junction Captured   German Defenses Are Laid Open for Flanking Move

EIGHTH ARMY PERILS FLANK - OF NAZIS LINE   Smash ‘Winter Line’s Anchor by 15-Mile Push, Take Ridge

Shatter east anchor nazi winter line   Threaten Rome defense system

British Smash Nazis In Fast   Blow Menaces Enemy FlankOn Whole Defense System —

NAZI ANCHOR LINE SMASHED   Bridgehead Extended At Least 15 Miles From Sea; Americans  Make Guins

Whole of Sangro Ridge Captured After Bitter ~ "Fighting FOUR MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN ADVANCE  Enemy Forces Driven Out of. Huge River Bridgeheod

GERMAN WINTER  LINE CRACKED  BY MONTGOMERY    Eighth Army Drives Forward Four Miles From  Sangro River   NUMBER OF TOWNS CAPTURED IN DRIVE

Key Nazi Town Tn Rommel Line  Falls to Allies    Allies Moving Forward  Toward Rome Along Whole Front

British Army Takes Whole Sangro Ridge   Smashes East Anchor Of Nazis’ Winter Line, Bridgehead Extended  1 MORE TOWNS FALL

Hitler's Army Fights Desperately   Fierce Advance Is Continued in Bitter Battle

WINTER LINE ACROSS ITALY IS SHATTERED   WHOLE OF SANGRO RIDGE TAKEN BY EIGHTH ARMY

British Beat Off Desperate Nazi Counterattacks   27 Towns, Villages Taken By Allies On Italian War Front

Two 6. 0. P. Leaders Question Move For Identical Foreign Policy Planks

LANDON SAYS SAME POLICY PLAN WRONG   Against Use Of Same Policy By GOP. Demas

No Identical Planks for These   Landon, Vandenberg Criticise Suggested ‘One Foreign Policy’

WLB NEAR VOTE ON MINERS PACT   Some Members Said to Holc Contract Violates Wage Program

Heart Ailment Fatal to Well Known Nurse  MAee Eethar Slanla:   Mrs. Esther Slanker Stanford Had Been _ IIT Since December

Noted Local Nurse Dies of Heart Ailment   “Mrs. Esther Slanker Stanford lil for Ten Months

Defense Administrator Hugh Stephens Submits Resignation to Donnell

Resignation of Stephens - to Donnel   To Quit State Post When New Civilian Defense Bill Is Passed   HE HAS OPPOSED SUBSTITUTE PLAN   Duties Are Shifted to Politically Elected Officials Under New Plan

Stephens Says Governor Has His Resignation   Will Become Effective ® As Soon as Defense Bill Is Passed

SKIES TO BE CLOUDY   But No Precipitation Forecast for Thanksgiving Day

NEW TAX PLAN TO BE DRAFTED   All Proposed Pay As You Go Schemes Rejected By House Group In Present Forms

TAX PLANS GO 10 HOUSE COMMITTEE   All Programs Rejected ond Matter Sent to Sub committee

House Group Seeks New Pay As You Go Plan   Current Proposals Rejected; Ruml Bill Has Sfrony Support

ALL TAX PLANS ARE SET ASIDE   Subcommittee Is Named To Draft Compromise Bill  For Congress

PLANS 10 PAY TAX AS YOU GO ARE REJECTED   House Group Appoints Subcommittee to Find Compromise

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plans Are Rejected  - Subcommittee Is Named to Dratt Compromise Plan

Committee Acts To Start From Seratch On Tay Rill   House Group Rejects All Pay-as-Go Plans, Appoints Sub-group To Draft New Meacnrs   RUML PLAN BACKERS STILL CONFIDENT   MSR: See Se  ¥F.D.R.’s Move To Hol Salaries to $25,000 Rejected Officially

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX PROPOSALS ARE VOTED DOWN    House Committee Throws Out: All Plans Before It and Orders Acceptable Compromise Drafted.   ALL MEMBERS FAVOR A WITHHOLDING LEVY   Roosevelt's Salary Ceiling Program Also Rejected, “and Very Loudly,” According to Disney.

Rum! Program Of Skipping Year Downed   House Committee Begins Work On  Levy Compromise

 Pay-as-you-go taxation plans are voted down   Compromise ‘is to be drawn up

Pay-as-You-Go Plans Rejected   Group Named to Draft  Com nramica

UPWARD 80,000 BEING MOPPED UP, 1S CLAIM   All That Are Left of Force Which Once Numbered 220,000 Men, Moscow  Communique States   TOLD IN ULTIMATUM POSITION HOPELESS   German Military Leaders Ignore Warning: Fifth Major Drive Toward  Kharkov Underway

NAZIS REJECT SOVIETS OFFER OF SURRENDER   NEW RUSSIAN PUSH GAINS 50 MILES AT ROSSOSH

“Russians Report Only 80,000 Left Out OF 220,000   Starving, Freezing Foe In Stalingrad Trap Spurns Ultimatum To Surrender

25.000 AI STALINGRAD   Mopping Up of Trapped Siege Force Begins Atter Leaders Reject Ultimatum to Surrender.   MORE THAN 70,000 TROOPS IN POCKET   Russians Open New Of fensive in Direction of  Kharkov, Vital Ukraine  Metropolis.

SOVIET GAINS ON VORONEZH FRONT TODAY   MAIN THRUST DIRECTED TO UKRAINE AND CITY OF KHARKOV

4  RAPIDLY MOP UP FREEZING NAZIS   Force of 22 Divisions Has Dwindled to 80,000   NEW OFFENSIVE   Launched by Russians on Upper Don in Direction Of City of Kharkov

New Offense  ls Launched At Voronezh   One-Time Force of 220,000 Is Reduced to 80,000 And They Are Being Rapidly Mopped Up After Rejecting Russian Ultimatum To Surrender

Nazis Reject Soviet Demand To Surrender   Germans Lose 25,000 In Dead and Original Force of 220,000 Men Cut to Not Over 80,000

Russians Break Thru Defense of Once Great Army; Mop up Troops  FE NANA Garmane Daad in 7 Raw   25,000 Germans Dead in 7 Day Battle of Annihilation; 30 Major Strong Points Are Captured

Final Slaughter Starts When Nazis Spurn Ultimatum   Starvation, Cold and Disease Take Toll of Foe; New Voronezh Offensive Toward Kharkov Overruns 600 Towns in Rapid Advance

Since January 10th The Germans Have Lost 25.000 In Dead By Defense

Russians Open New Offensive Toward Ukraine   Report Says Germans Trapped Before Stalingrad Starving and Freezing

STARVING NAZI AMRY REDUCED AT STALINGRAD   Enemy Rejects Russian Ultimatum To Surrender On Eve Of Battle.

Rapidly Clear Stalingrad Area of Nazis   Enemy Casualties Include 15,000 Killed in 3 Davs

German Losses Terrific But They Fail To Accept Terms of Surrender; Russians Opening Another Offensive

TWO DANVILLE MATRONS KILLED   Printer Held For Murder Of Wife And _ Sister-In-Law Following Child’s Birthdav Party.

HITLER SPEECH SPIKES RUMORS OF HIS DEATH   Cthurchill Awaits World Reaction To Challenge For Post-War Peace Plans

BRITISH MAKE SNEAK LANDING IN ENEMY REAR   Allied Forees Inch Forward

British Land In Enemy Rear To Aid Attack   Supplies How Over River for  ™ = ry

GAINS MADE ON VOLTURNO LINE BY FIFTH ARMY   Nazis Put Up Fierce Resistance But Can’t Stop Clark Forces

CLARK'S ARMY PUSHES BEYOND VOLTURNO LINE   Further Enemy Withdrawals Imminent; British Troops Try Flank Move

5th Army Landing Behind Nazi Lines Aids Advances;  Allies Move Nearer Rome

TROOPS NEARER CITY OF ROME      Fifth Army Aided.‘ by Leap.Frog Landing Behind Enemy Lines — Allied Engineers Building Bridges ‘Across Turbulent Volturno, ..,

LANDINGS BEHI BEHIND ENEMY LINES AID ~ ALLIES’ ADVANCE   American Artillery On Heights In Capua Pouring Down A Heavy Barrage On Enemy Below  —Withdrawal Certain 

LANDING AIDS ALLIES   Front Reports Say Valturno Line Ils Cracked

Nazi Italian [R Line Folding F;   Yanks Land Behind Volturno: Foe Reels

To Seek Closer. War Cooperation With Russians   Need of Full Understanding Is Emphasized

SEEK COOPERATION WITH SOVIET UNION   Necessity For Complete Harmony Among Allies Emphasized

Inited States and Britain Woo Russia as Fortress Europe Ru:   ‘ess Europe Rumbles With Rumors

FEAR EXPRESSED OF FRENCH REVOLT   GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAYS SABOTAGE AND CLASHES ARE SPREADING.

Craft Fails to Reach Gettysburg State Police Scour Mountains  For Missing Mail Pick-Up Plane

Would Revive Pay-As-Go Tax   Movement Starts To Offer  Income Measure For Consideration Soon,

Striking Coal Miners Provide Background For Washington Conference

WHITE HOUSE CALLS LABOR CONFERENCE   Union Leaders anc WLB to Discuss Wage Demands

Insists Ruling In Controversy ls Final Word   lells Ickes There Is Ne Longer Anything To Decide   Board Also Said To Plan To Challenge Position of Lewis

Demands must be accepted   WLB refuses resumption of work as final

B Insists Mine orkers Union  ollow Its Order   poard Says Dispute Determined and Only Enforcement of Ruling Necessary; Ickes Says Rationing Likely Due to Output Loss

RATION COAL BECAUSE OF STRIKE LOSS   Secretary Ickes Says Government Will Be Obliged To Operate Mines For a Con siderable Time   Seeks Qeadline Removal

r =6Final Decision Made, ° Statement Contends; Directed at See. Ickes, Who Expressed Hope For Quick ‘Settlement’  OPERATORS CALLED TO MEETING TODAY  Ickes Says Rationing Of Coal Possible Because UMW Strikes Have Cut Production

WLB TO INSIST MINERS COMPLY WITH ITS ORDER   Use of Sanctions Favored if Lewis and His Union Continue Defiant Attitude.   PRODUCTION LOSSES MAY FORCE RATIONING   t Thousands Stay Away From Pits — Some Vote to Remain Idle in Face of Draft Threat.

WLB DEMANDING MINERS COMPLY WITH DIRECTIVE   Thousands Of Miners Are Ignoring Orders To Return To Work   COAL RATIONING IS LIKELY, KCKES SAYS

‘Chicago Gambler Faces Charges Of Smuggling iSoldier Out Of Camp

LIBERATORS DROP TONS OF BOMBS ON FOGGIA AIR FIELDS   43 Axis Fighters Are Shot Down — Great Fires . Kindled At Many Points

AXIS PLANES AREDESTROYED BY LIBERATORS   RAF Blasts Northern Arsenal City of Turin In Third Assault.

WALLACE CLAIMS MONOPOLY   Five Specifie Charges Made Regarding Control of ‘Parnsmertation

Alleges Monopoly Robs Shippers   Wallace Flays U. S.  Transport Companies

WANTS GARBAGE DRAINED   Sanitary Officer Makes Suggestion  tan Honecehaldarc

WANTS GARBAGE DRAINED   Sanitary Officer Makes Suggestion to Householders

SOVIET TROOPS CLOSE PINCER NEAR ROSTO\   Caucasus Oil Field Town of Maikop Retaken

RUSSIANS REGAII MAIKOP, CENTER OF OIL DISTRICT   Also Capture Key Rail Juncture as Germans Retreat from Caucasus

Reds Capture Important Rail Junction   Center of Maikop Oil Fields Klso Is Retaken

Major Rail Junction Is Captured   Another Soviet Unit Seizes Oil Center of Maikop

Soviets Take Rail Centers   Nazis Have But One Outlet For Retreat

Russians Tighten Nuteracker On Rostov; Capture Maikop  Southern Drive on Caucasus Gate City Sweeps Nazis From Big Rail Center; Oi] Fields Fall to Reds

RUSS TIGHTEN  ONE PINCER. OF ROSTOV CLAM   Capture Tikhoretsk, Major Rail Junction; Maikop in Oilfield.   14,000 NAZIS KILLED; 12,000 MADE PRISONERS

RAIL CENTER “NEAR ROSTON   Another Red: Unit. Captures Maikop, Rich Oil Center 

Major Rail TownT aker In Caucasus   Rich Oil Center Of Maikop Also’ ‘Falls to Seviets

Reds Capture Important Rail Junction  Cantar at Meaikan   Center of Maikop Oil Fields Also Is Retaken

“The Jap Is On The Run,” Says General DeWitt.....  Kiska Opens Up Shortest Route To Tokvo For U.S.

Reoccupation Of Kiska Puts The Allied War Machine On A Direct Highway To Tokyo

'YANKS~AUSSIES GLOSING IN ON JAPANESEBASE   Salamaua Airfield Is Nex  Goal of Ground Forces  Now On Ridge In NewGuinea Assault

Allied Troops Spread Out From K*ska, Occupy Segula   Island Lies About 25 Miles East of Kiska — Further Evidence of Japs’ Haste to Abandon Kiska Uncovered—Chinese Call for New Blows

American And Canadian Troops Spread ‘Out To Aleutian Island Around Kiska

Strange Occupation O} Kiska Puts Allies On Shortest Route To Tokyo

Allies Spread Out From Fallen Kiska  Take Another Island In Aleutian Area

Japs Declare Kolombangara Defense Holds   Pacifie Island Is Site Of Next Possible Objective In American Campaign

YANK, CANADIAN FORCES OCCUPY SECULA ISLAND   ‘No Japanese Found’ in Seizure of Isle 20 Miles From Kiska

Consolidate North Route To Tokyo   Gen. DeWitt Points Out That Shortest Highway To Japanese Empire Has Been Cleared

TO JAP EMPIRE   Re-occupation of Kiska Places Allied Forces on Offensive.   PINCER MOVE IS NEXT

KISKA’S SEIZURE OPENS SHORTEST ROUTE'TO TOKYO   ‘Lt. Gen. DeWitt Declares “We  . Are Now on the Offensive in the Pacific, the ane Is. on ‘the Run”

AMERICAN FORCES BOLSTER POSITION IN ALEUTIAN AREA   Military Leaders Believe Occupation of Kiska Has Opened “Shortest Road  an TBakon

Americans, Canadians _ Spread From Kiska, Take Nearby Segula Island

JAP IS ON THE RUN IN PACIFIC   Yank Leaders Agree Initiative Has Been Wrested From Enemy

Another Island  Occupied   U. S. Consolidates Position In Aleutian Area

NO JAPS ARE FOUND   Canadian and American Troops Consolidate Positions at Kiska

Jap Is On Run, Happily Proclaims DeWitt;' Troops Disappointed at Not Finding Some Japs to Kill; Ready If Japs Try to Return

Allies Sweep West From Kiska Island   Land on Segula And Prepare To Build Bases

YANKS OCCUPY SEGULA, TINY ALEUTIAN ISLE   Move In From Kiska Unoppssed Navy Announces

SHO TOTOKY TOKYO OF VIA KISKA   Military Chiefs Declare Jap Abandonment of Aleu tians Leaves Route Open

Kiska ‘Clears Path to Japan   ‘Foe on Run,’ Says Gen eral DeWitt

Yanks Fan Out From ‘ — Kiska Base   Take Small Island of Segula 20 Miles East of Kiska; Find Jap Subs

TO USE KISKA AGAINST JAPS   Aleutian Islands Will Be Stepping Stone For Offensive

BLOODLESS FALL OF KISKA OPENS ROUTE TO TOKYO   ALLIED STRATEGISTS HINT AT NEW BLOWS TO DOOM NIPPONESE

CHINESE ENVOY JOINS QUEBEC WAR COUNCILS   Likely To Mean Air Squadrons To Be Built Up In China   KISKA REOCCUPATION OPENS — SHORTEST ROUTE TO TOKYO

ALLIED SIEGE GUNS BLAST AT SALAMAUA   Enemy Troops Reported Retreating Deeper into Their Last Circle of Defenses   ALEUTIANS ROUTE OPEN

ALLIED SIEGE GUNS BLAST SALAMAUA KISKA FALL SHORTENS WAY TO TOKYC

‘Segula Isle Taken Over   "Yanks Find Outpost Near Kiska Deserted

Allies Now Have Shortest Route To Jap Capital   “Occupation Of Kiska Cleared The Way For Bombing Of Tokyo.

Tokyo Menaced From North iKiska Capture Provides  Shorter Route to Nippon

Allies Seize Segula Island Near Kiska   Americans and Canadians Consolidat Positions in-Entire Aleutions Area: Three Midget Jap Subs Discovered —

LITTLE COUNTY GOES OVER TOP   First Day. Of War Loan Campaign In Michigan Brings $37,854,000

STATE BOND SALES NEAR 50 MILLICNS   Presque I{sle First County to Exceed Quota; Nation Is Resnonding to Apnneal

War Loan Drive In Full Swing   First Day’s Results Ir Michigan Gratifying

PRESQUE ISLE  ~ MEETS QUOTA   First County In State To Go Over Top In Third War Loan

Fifth Air Force Service Repairs \Airplanes In. Jungle Stronghold

News Behind The News  fCovrrirnt MeCiure NaewsDaber   WASHINGTON Ryu Raw Torker

NEW LINES INSTALLED   Toni-Tom Communication System Replaced by Telephones

Churcuill Reported To Be in Africa  Claim He Paid Secret Visit to Gibraltar -

Bob Walsh, Paper Carrier, Buys  - $500 Bond With Savings  ind Mrs. Cecil Walsh, anc ane of The Globe-Post’s cit   WEDDING UNITES POPULAR COUPLE   Anna Mae Muecke and Harold Ladenthin Take Vows

WEDDING UNITES POPULAR COUPLE   Anna Mae Muecke and Har old Ladenthin Take  Vows

50% Income Tax Cut Passes Senate   Action Might Be Complete This Week

HOUSE TO TAKE UP BILL TO CUT IOWA PAY LEVY   Senate Passes Measure 47 to 0; Action May Be Completed This Week

FLIER SMACKS U-BOATS   Young Officer Destroys Two Subs And Damages Two Others

INAL ASSAULT NEARS ~ ON ENEMY IN TUNISIA   General Eisenhower's Allied Armies Tighten Their Lines and Move Up Men and Guns for Last Big Slap on Axis Pocket — Comparative Lull Reported on the Front Today.

Bombers Pound Axis Supply Ships   Allied Land Forces Consolidate  Gains, Prepare for Decisive Battle

MIGHT EXTEND FILING PERIOD   But To Get 60-Day Extension You Must Satisfy Bureau You Need More Time

YOU MAY GET MORE TIME TO FILE YOUR INCOME TAX REPORT   Provided You Can Satisfy Internal Rever we Bureau That The  Time is Needed

VFA Warns That Many Thousand Farm Workers Needed on a Volunteer Basis

Fierce Yankee Air Attacks  An Indication   Or Constant Bombing Might Presage New  Allied Push

ALLIED SUBS, PLANES SCORE IN AFRIC WAR   PATROLS OF BOTH FORCES TESTING OPPOSING LINES

FOE ATTACK IN TUNISIA SEEN AS IMMINEN]   Yank Aerial Assaults Seen as Prelude to Heavy Fighting

ARGE TUNEHAN DRIVE BY GERMAN FORGES EXPECTED                   Siaorverss Believe Axis\: Pre i paring to Launch Fre ~. Assault Against Bry.  ish Army.   Ls Ss. AIRMIEN BLAST  SPORTS AND HIGHWAYS   tacks Seen as Possiblé At »mpt to Crack Enemy Styply Lines and Break  S Up Offensive.

Nazis Believed Planning Blow   Unrelenting Raids Opened By Allies

In North Africa  Believed Near   American Bombers Step Up Attacks On Enemy Bases

ALLIED PLANES HARASS ENEMY BASES. ROADS   Gen. Nehring Is Thought To Be Preparing Great I'rontal Assault.

One Source Believes Germans in Tunisia May Start Offensive  ALLIED AIR FORCES CONTINUE ASSAULTS  Roads on East Coast And Tunisian Ports Target of Bombers

U. S. Forces Are Relentless  In Africa Fight   Hint of Major Attack by Axians is Seen In Americans’ Increased Activity; Alliee Strafe Several Enemy Stations

AXIS MAY TRY HIRST PUSH IN NORTH AFRICA   AMERICAN BOMBERS HAMMER PORTS IN TUNISIA

BRITON BELIEVE AXIS WILL STRIKE FIRST IN TUNISIA   Observers Say Gen. Nehring Preparing Large Frontal Assault on British   PENCHANT FOR ATTACK REGARDLESS OF COST   Enemy Communiques Report Heavy Artillery Dueling With Allied Forced Give up With Allies Forced Give up Fires in Casablanca

Bombers Of Allies Are Active   Possible Prelude To An Offensive From Axis Tunisia Forces

ALLIES BLAST TUNIS PORTS. ROADS, BASES   American Aerial Activity May Be Intended To Break Up Possible Axis Offen ° eit   Big Guns Boom

Air Assaults Prelude New Offensive  Observers Believe Land Battles May Reain Anew

Teeth For Blackouts   Kansas Considers Increasing Income Tax Exemptions

OFFER WAR BILLS   Solons to Put Blackout Pre cautions on Enforceable Basis

HEAVY DAMAGE 10 CROPS AT TOLEDO IS DUE TO FLOOD   Hundreds of Families Are Forced. to Flee from Homes After Dike   Callansed.

WHEELER WANTS CONGRESS 10 ACT ON DRAFT RULES   Montana Senator Says Latest’. Directive Has Not Changed Situation

Interpreting  The War   Japs Must Be Feeling Loneliness of Island Position

U.S. Increases Air Offensive Against Kiska   PROPAGANDA INDICATES Lonliness Worrying Japanese

Harriman Nominated Ambassador  To Moseow   Action Completes Preparations by U. 5. For Big Conferences With Britain, Russia   HARRIMAN SUCCEEDS ADMIRAL STANDLEY

Harriman Named For Post of Envoy to Russia “Nomination Complete U.S. Preparations fo Coming Couferences

HARRIMAN NEW MOSCOW ENVOY   Lend - Lease Ex pediter Gets Nomination As Ambassador

HARRIMAN 15 NAMED ENVOY   Picked for Moscow Post As FDR Lays Ground work for Parley

Harriman Named Ambassador fo Soviet Russia   Friend of Stalin Going fo Moscow

HARRIMAN IS SELECTED FOR MOSCOW POST   Industrialist 1s Nominated to be Ambassador to  Russia   HULL 15 PLANNING FOR TRIP ABROAD   Edward Stettinius, Jr. Expected to Accompany Secretary

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Mosquito Bombers Attack Targets in Western Germany

SEE QUICK ACTION BY WFA CHIEFTAIN TO FREE CORN FROM PRESENT PRICE JAM

JONES TO ACT ON CORN, BEEF CRISIS AT ONC!   ‘Decisive’ Action Due On Two Major Food Problems

Decisive Action On Corn, Beef  Problems Seen   Price Jam, Shortages  First Matters To  ~ Confront Marvin Jones

Nozis Stage Fierce Counterattack Jn Attemot To Halt Reds At Dnieper

LARGE FORCE OF MEN, TANKS ASSAULT REDS   Battle for Dnieper River Increases in  Violent Character

EFFORT 10 HOLD NAZI BRIDGEHEADS ON DNIEPER RIVEF   Germans Unleashed Concentration of Troops and Armor Today.   MANY COUNTERATTACKS   Red Army Put in a “Critical Situation” at One Time, a Dispatch Said.

10-12 Thrusts Daily Hurled Against Reds      No Progress Reported in Direction of 2 Major Objectives

Russians Faced New Nazi Drive   GERMANS _ COUNTER - ATTACK FIERCELY ALONG DNIEPER

TURN ON REDS TO MAINTAIN BRIDGEHEADS   ‘As Many as 10 to 12 Drives Staged Daily With Strong Air Support to Protect Positions on East Bank.

Violent Fighting Reported Along Dnieper as Germans Strive to Hold Positions

Nazis battling Fiercely Along Dnieper River  Many, Counterattacks In Swift Succession Are Haldine Reds Off      NO NEW PROGRESS    Soviets Unsuccessful In Breaking Through Defenses Yet

TANK ATTACK BY NAZIS IN WHITE BUSSIA   Battle For Dnieper River Is Fierce, Report Szys

Nazis Bringing Large Force To Bear On Russians   Counterattacks Heavy In Effort To Hold Dnieper Defenses

Nazis Loose Counterblows   Trying to Hold Bridgeheads On East Bank of Dnieper

Kremenchug Capture By Reds Looms   Nazi Escape Bridgehead On Dnieper Is Squeezed From Three Sides.  rerrrtnhrTin

Nazi Attack Slows Reds At Dnieper   Counter-AHacks Check Reds but Drive Into White Russia Confinues   NAZIS FLEE KUBAN   Russians Draw Close io Kremenchug, One of Few Remaining Escape Bridgeheads on Dnieper

Mighty Battle Is Raging For ~ Bridgehead:   Russians Hold Firm Against All - Out Enemy Assault

Germans Attack Heavily. Trying To Retain East Side of Dnieper   Reds in North Take 1000 ‘ Towns in Push Toward Baltic States

STILL FALLING BACK AS REDS PUSH ADVANCI   Artillery, Aerial Attackers Make It Tough for Nazis Retreating Across Crimea,

Nazis In Counter Attack In Russia   Germans Make Big Drive to Hold Bridgeheads on Dnieper River   S  UPPOR T FROM THE AIR   Soviet Artillery Comes tc the Support of the  Russian Army

Germans Battle ToMaintain Hold On Bridgeheads   Russian Artillery Effective When Critical Situation Faces Reds On Dnieper

Germans Defend Line at Dnieper   Heavy Counterattacks Launched Aaainst Onrush of Red Armies

In Stiff Battle To Hold Dnieper   Germans Unleash Continued Counter Attacks Against Russians.

NAZIS COUNTER ATTACK AT DNEIPER RIVER   In Effort to Maintain Bridgehead On Eastern Bank

GERMAN MAKE COUNTER ORWE   Reds Consolidate Positions - Near Kiev; Take 1,000  oi Villanec.

Soviets Defeat German Charges Along Dnieper   Great Russian Drive Halted Temporarily

U. S. Airmen Bomb 3 Jap Cargo Ships In Rangoon River   ‘One Vessel Sunk, Two Others . Blasted as Yanks Join. RAF In Assaults on Burina Baces

Three Jap Cargo Ships  Are Bombed   Sunk Or Damaged In Attack In Burma Area By U. S. Planes

U.S. Bombers Sink 3 Jap . Cargo Ships   Huge Fire Also Started in Moulmein, Vital Bridge in Burma Damaged

THE DODECANESE RAF Captures Kos Airdrome   italian Ground Forces Co-onerate

Military Rule Established In Occupied Area   General Alexander Is Head Of Organization Formed By Allies And Known As “Amgot”

Allies Plan an Offensive Against Japan   Nips Fear Attacks to Be Launched Soon From China

U. §. Bombers Pounding Away At Jap Bases  7 Indicate Offensive  i a i cl   Indicate Offensive Against Nippon Soon From China

500 Nazi Planes Hit at Kursk; 130 Downed by Reds   Large Display Of Air Strength Causes Much Speculation On New Summer Drive; Strong Forces Assembled

123 shot down in five attacks, as against loss  of 30 fighters by soviet   Display of axis sky strength causes speculation of intentions “oe enemy

Foe Attacks Kursk  Five limes   Display of Axis Sky Strength Causes Immediate Speculation on Possibility of Awaited Offensive

Russians Split German Forces In the Ukraine   Stalin Announces Major Victories

TORIES oPLlT GERMAN ARMIES   Boatloads of Panic-stricken Nazis Are Slain   ATTEMPT TO FLEE   Reds Repulse Constant Nazi Attacks; Trainloads of Booty Taken

Twin Victories Announced in Orders of Day by  Stalin wy HEAVY LOSSES BY GERMANS REPORTED Soviets Recover From the  Slight Retreat in Zhitomir Area

Victory Narrows Escape Corridor   Protective Stronghold Of Rechitsa Taken After Furious 3-Day Battle; Vital Railway Line Is Blocked

Korosten and Rechitsa Fall To Red Forces   Nazi Counterdrive Near Zhitomir Halted by Soviels_

Reds Wipe Out Boatloads of Fleeing Nazis    Hundreds of Enemy  Bre Killed  Near Zhitomir

Split Germans’ Ukraine Armies, Soviets Disclose   Stalin Announces Victories; Nazis Perish in‘ Rout

Krug Is Again Object Of Hunt   German War Prisoner Makes Escape From Canada For Second Time  TREASON CASES AFBRTERR VFIRCT RPSCKAPEHF

eS ne MENON OrT? GR g RES Sabin  ~ HAS ESCAPED CANADIAN CAMP   PRINCIPAL WITNESS, AGAINST DETROITER YN TREASON TRIAL MAKES HIS SECOND GETAWAY

Krug Loose Again   Nazi, Aided by Stephan Over Year Ago, Escapes

NAZI AVIATOR ESCAPES AGAIN   Krug, Fleeing In Swimming Trunks, Is Hunted fn Detroit Area

MILK SALES CURB SOUG   Move to Aid Output ___of Cheese and Butter

War FOod Agency Working on Plan To Curlail Sales  Steps Taken to Raise   Steps Taken to Raise Supply of Butter  And Cheese ~

CURB OF MILK ~ SALES PLANNED   Government Acts To Make More Cheese And Butter Available

Mardi Gras Flares Burn Brightly, but Only in Spirit in New Orleans

REACHES U. S.   Paraguayan President Deciin Comment oan APrrentina

Back Salerno Bone Drive Day Planned   Returns Show Nearly Three Biflion Raised

Friday to-Be ‘Back Salerno’ Day  In War Loan Drive, Treasury Says   Sales Near Three Billion Dollar Mark With ‘Big Money’ Expected Today

MARIGNY GUILTY OF VIOLATING GAS LAW   Frenchman, Acquitted Last Week Of Murder, Will Be Sentenced In Nassau Today

BOOST PRESSURE ON ATTU JAPS   Americans Close In on Trapped Enemy; Knox Says 15-Day Battie Continues.

NEW TIRE REGULATION   A and. B Book Holders No Longer Can Receive Grade 1 Tires

'NAZIS BEING © SHOVED BACK ON LONG FRONT   Russians Overrun 300 Towns In 24 Hours

Relentless Red Armies Unchecked   New Red Successes Ever Day—Take 300 Towns  in 24 Hours

ALLIES BOMB BARGES IN CONVOY   Rommel Attack With Armored Cars Believed To Be Defensive Move

Axis Artillery and Infantry Beaten Back in Repeated Attacks; Sea Lanes Raided, but Weather Hampers Air Operation.

*Rommel Is Pressed Tighter in Pocket » By British Thrust   Allied Airforce Begins Softening Up Desert Fox’ Positions

Aris Attacks — Against Brifish Defenses Beaten   Attempt to Break Through Allied Ring Is Stopped

Three Attacks By Von Arnim Beaten Back   Allied Bombers And Fighters Exerting Pressure on Rommel

Allied Planes Soften Rommel Positions;  Three Axis Drives Repulsed In North

AXIS INFANTRY SMASHES AT BRITISH LINES   VonA rnim Dri ven Back fn Three Attacks

AIRMEN SOFTENING UP. ROMMEL’S LINE   Axis Attack 40 Miles Southwes of Mareth Line Regarded a: Small-Scale Action      British and Americans: Beat Of Three Attacks by Von Arnim’ Forces in North

Allied Airmen Softening Up Rommel's Line   RAF Boston Bombers Escorted By U. S. Fighter Planes   British-American Army Fights Off Yon Arnim   Only Patrol Activity On Central Tunisian. Front, Says Report

Begin Softening Enemy Positions And Supply Line:   Americans Beat Off 3 Attacks By Axis In North; Inflict Considerable Losses

ALLIES BOMB AXIS LINES IN MARETH AREA   British and American Ground Forces Beat Off Three Attacks by Gen. Von Arnim   ROMMEL LASHES OUT

ALLIED BOMBERS SOFTEN ROMMEL'S (MARETH POSITION   Axis Infantry Driven Back Near Ta  sedate.

SOFTEN AXIS POSITIONS IN TUNISIAN WAR   Rommel’s Forces Driven Back Repeatedly by the  British Near Tamera.   Desert Air Forces  Pound Mareth Line

MAIS FAL WN ATTAGS OW FNeLISt   Eighth. Army Has * Held Tunisian  Territory’

ALLIED FORCES STRIKE AT AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA   United Nations’ Hit from Ground, Air; Repulse Attacks in Tunisia

ALLIED BOMBERS CRACK DOWN ON ROMMEL’S LINES   GROUND FORCES BEAT OFF THREE ATTACKS BY VON ARNIM

Nazi i Transport Leaders Try Hard To © Bolster Equipment-Starved Railways

Prospects of Larger Food Imports Now Best since U.S. Entered War

IMPROVED IMPORT — QUTLOOK REPORTED   More! Tea, Bananas, Co coa and Sugar Expected

ON INCREASE   Greater Supply Of Tea, Bananas Foreseen During Year

LARGER IMPORTS OF SOME FOODS   More Tea, Bananas, Cocoa, Sugar, Pineapples Can Be Expected

PROSPECTS FOR *(MPORTS BRIGH   Dark Clouds Surrounding Do wnestic Food Shortages Lift As Imports of Tea, Bananas, Other Products Grow

Imported Food Qutlook Better   Expect More Cocoa, Bananas, Pineapple

increased Food Shipping Space Prospects for Larger Imports Of Tea, Bananas. ¢ ocoa, Sugar

U. S. Forces Gain Foothold On High Ridge of Pocket.   Slight Casualties ‘Suffered By American Troops, Says Stimson

U.S. LOSSES PROVE SMALL SAYS STIMSON   Weather Hampers Operations Of American Invasion Force

U. S. FORCES PUSH FORWARD ON ATTU   Gain~ Foothold On High Ridge —- Japs In Last Stand

Warship Shells And Air Bombs Help Advance   Amercians’ Right Wing Held Up By Entrenched Japs

FINISH OF ATTU FIGHTING NEAR, NEWS INDICATES   Only 127 Americans Killed In Battle. Stimson Says

U.S. FORCES GAIN HOLD ON ATTU RIDGE   Army Bombers Resume Attacks On Kiska Island

JAPS ARE ATTEMPTING LAST STAND   North African Casualties for U.S. Total 18.558

VICTORY CORPS PaING OVER TOE   High School Unit Expects ~ to Reach $30,000 in — - Bond Pledges.

VICTORY CORPS BOING OVER TOF   High School Unit Expects to Reach $30,000 in Bond Pledges.

Disloyal Japs in Tule Lake Center Demand Better Food, Refuse to Werk

permians Reported Failing in Effort To Conscript Mer   ltalians Refusing to Help As Soldiers and Werkers

Disorders Increase As Italians Dodge Nazi Draft  _ Death, Damage Resul From Conscription  : gurl rm tte

Northern Italy Opposing Nazis   Plans To Conscript Workers Is Failure

Defiant Italians Threaten Chaos to Nazis in North  German Authorities Order Harsh Measures to Repress French; Stiffen Controls on Home Front

BACK-T0-WORK MOVE STARTEL   Fist Fights Break Out as Rubber Strike Weakens

CHRYSLER PLANT WALKOUT ENDED   No Ruling Made in Coal Case; 30,000 Rubber Plant Workers Idle

VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT MONDAY AMONG RUBBER STRIKERS   MEN SEEKING RETURN TO WORK MET BY SHOULDER. TO-SHOULDER PICKETS

Fights Break Out At Rubber Plant As Workers Report  Disturbance Occurs As Group Met by « Piekot Rlackada

30,000 WORKERS REMAIN IDLE AT RUBBER PLANTS   CHRYSLER WALKOUT ENDS; WLB PRESSES FOR COAL DECISION

Fights Break Out At Akron Rubber Plan   Chrysler Workers Back On Job After Strike But Other Unionists Hold Up Production

Strike of Rubber Workers in Akron  Breeds Violence   38,000 CIO Members on Strike in Two Big Rubber Plants

Strike To Protest WLB Wage Decision Spreads Through Akron Factories

WORKERS ARE RETURNING IN MANY PLANTS   Back -To- Work Movement Restores Production in Some Units of the Chrysler Corp.  COAL DISPUTE WAGES

"G0 BACK TO WORK   However, Some Strikers Still Idle at Big Rubber Plants

Rubber Plant Workers Return  Portal-To-Portal Pay Considered  Sn AA: RPeAaArFEe ’ errs

MANY STRIKERS BACK AT WORK AS PLANTS OPEN   Half Dozen Chrysler Plants Resume Work Along with Two of Four Major Rubber Plants.

Back fo Work Move Begun   Chrysler Strike Off; Rubber Workers in Fights With Pickets

War Production Is Restored In Struck Chrysler Co. Plants By Back-To-Work Movement:

TRIKE WAVE RENEWS CALL ON CONGRESS!   Anti-Strike ‘Legislation Comes Up This Week for House Vote.   RUBBER WORKERS ARE STILL OUT, PROTESTING

Back-fo-Work Movement Grow: In Strike Areas   30,000 Workers In Rubber Plants Still Idle Today

Return Moves Partly Restore War Working   WLB Presses Toward Final Decision In Soft Coal Dispute

FIGHTS BREAK  OUT IN STRIKE   Pickets Stop Workers at Akron; 38,000 Are Away From Jobs.   OTHER WALKOUTS END!

Chrysler Employes Back At Jobs; 30.000 Rubber Workers Still Idle

Work Begun in Struck Plants   Strikers Go Back to Work in Both Chrysler and Rubber Units.

Chrysler Walkout Is Ended By Back To Work Vote Of Two CIO Unions   30.000 RUBBER WORKERS REMAIN IDLE IN AKRON   Goodyear. General Plants Resume Overation Today As Workers Return

CHRYSLER MEN START RETURN TO THEIR JOB   [wo Rubber Company Men Also Start Back, But 6,000 More Walk Out In Akron

Chrysler Strike Ends; Production Resumed In 2 Rubber Plants   Goodyear and General Company Strikers Return; Firestone, Goodrich Still Idle

I ights Break Out as Rubber Plant Reopens   Shoulder-to-Shoulder Picket Line Greets Akron Workers Re turning to Jobs

Production Restored In Most Plants   Only Chrysler and Some ~ Rubber Plants Still on - Strike

Six Chrysler, Two Rubber Strikes End   Fist Fights Break Out Between Workers, Pickets At Goodyear Plant   DELAY COAL DECISION   Back To Work Vote Halts Pay Protest Stoppage By Two Tire Plants

Failure of Luftwaffe to Go Up And Fight is Big Puzzle of Tunisia War

1 Ship Sinks, Others Crash in Lake Fogs   Crew Escapes as Ship Sinks Following Collision in Lake Superior

DISCARD PRIMARY SYSTEM    Idaho Legislature Votes for Returt to the Convention

BACK ON. RATION LIST   Points Will Be Needed Soon to Buy Prunes and Raisins

Dozen Mines Are ~ Closed In Penn.   WOMEN TAKE PART IN LATEST STRIKE PICKETING

WOMEN JOIN PICKETS IN ‘OUTLAW’ STRIKE   Walkouts Trouble Only Mines Owned by Steel Companies

WOMEN PICKETS HELP CLOSE MINES   Did Discontent Flares Up In Pennsylvania Coal Fields

WOMEN JOIN IN COAL WALKGUT   Strike Still on at 12 Stee _ Company Mines. in Pennsylvania

Women Pickets Close Coal Mines   Flareup in Pennsylvania's Captive Mine Area  Keeps 10,000 Idle.

PICKETS CLOSE CAPTIVE MINES   10,000 Miners Idle in New Flareug Affecting Dozen Steel CompanyOwned Pits

" DOZEN MINES ARE CLOSED BY STRIKE   " District UMW JMW Chief Says ‘Outlaw’ Miners Cause

Women Leading New Revolt In Mine Region   Rebellion Flares In “Cap tive” Belt Vital To tee] Output.

 Roving Band Including Women, Close “Captive ’ Mines i eastern Part oe Ga ate

NEW COAL STRIKES IN CAPTIVE’ MINES   About 10,000 Workers Idle as ‘Unofficial’ Flareup Threatens Steel Mills

Claim “Outlaw Miners’ Help Close Dozen Coal  Pits in Pennsylvania

C. C. Cropp Heads  Legion Committee   Other Officers Are Chosen at Meeting

C. C. Cropp Heads MekKean-Cameron Legion Co;nmittee   Other Officers Are Chosen at Meet Here: Reese Gives Report

Port W i n Range of — Artillery   BRITISH FORCES TO THE SOU’ SMASH 12 ENEMY TANKS IN REPULSING COUNTER-ATTAC!

Patrols Thrust Forward Toward Great Nazi Base   VU. S. Troops Capture Eddkhila, Six Miles West of Tebourba

U. 3. TROOPS DRIVE ONWARD   American Infantrymen Only 16 Miles from Bizerte — British Forces Smashing Strong German Counter-Attacks.

CHANGES IN THE AIR      University May Take Over Some Frat Houses This Semester

Congress Joins In Honoring Barclay   Liberian President Invited To Address Both Houses 

LIBERIA PRESIDENT TO VISIT OHIO CITIES   Congress Pays Tribute Tc Edwin Barclay

CERTIFICATE FROM SCHOOL FOr PAKERS AND cooKs SWARDED TO DEMING MAN

Western Section Of Pennsylvania Has Excess Gas  Refineries Faced With Possibility Of Shutting Down Operations

REFINERIES IN PENNA. REPORT EXCESS OF GAS   ‘May be Forced to Close, Congres  man Gavin. Says—Situation Explained to Petroleum Administration .

Too Mach  Gasoline   Refineries in Pennsylvania Can’t Dispose of Their Surpius Motor Fuel

EXPECT PARLEY   ¢ Heads Of Four Nations Ma‘ Meet; ‘Surprise’ Hinted

MAY HASTEN CONCLUSION OF WAR   Conflict in Pacific as Well as Europe May Be Affected

‘BIG THREE’ TO MEET THIS WEEK IS NAZI REPORT      Claim Kai-Shek May Meet With Them — Story Is Not Confirmed

German Attempt To Make Stand At River Blasted By Americans   Montgomerys Fighting Army Also Battling Big Main German Force Near Termoli

Germans Resisting Allied Drive Ferociously. Gene eral Montgomery Driv= ing Westward’ From T anew =

FRENCH INVASION COAST PULVERIZED   RAF ASSAULTS WEST WALL DEFENSES BETWEEN DUN_ KERQUE AND CALAIS,

Explosions Rock English Coast 10 Miles Away   U. §. Air Forces Blast Factories

HEAVY AERIAL RAIDS MADE ON WEST EUROPE   Allies Blast Plants, Ports, Railways And Airfields

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British Planes Blast Freneh Invasion Coast   Tons of Bombs Fall On Fortifications: Another Force Raids Deep in Continent

Nazi Targets Blasted In 24-Hour Air Assault By Yanks And British

Allied Bombers Intensify Raids  Smash at German Factories, Bases

RAF Bombers Hit West Wall   Another Strong Forec Strikes Into Germany

Assault Coast From Calais To Dunkerque   Explosions Shake English Coast in 24 Hr. Bombings

French Coast ‘Pulverized’  In Great Raid   ‘RAF Bombers Pound West Wall Between Dunkerque and Calais   ENGLISH COAST SHAKEN BY BLASTS   Other Bomber Fleets Head Farther Inland, Hannover ‘Blitzed’

AlliesHammet  Long Coast Without Lull   New Blow Is Expected as Horde of Planes Roars Across Dover; Record Is Believed to Be Set by 24-Hour Offensive

MORGAN'S SONS GET BULK OF FIFTY MILLION ESTATE   MANY PERSONS REMEMBERED ‘IN WILL OF FAMOUS FINANCIER WHO DIED RECENTLY

Registration Sites. Will Be at Town — Schools of County      Applicants Must Clip Declaration Form Which Appears In This Issue

Gulf Disturbance Slated To Hit Texas Coast During Day   Galveston, Port Arthur Area Preparing For First Major Blow Of The Year

HITLER AIDE SEES IL DUCE   Ribbentrop Trip to Rome i: Seen as Move to Keep Italy Fighting

Dewey Says General Will Have Charge During Important Tran-: sitional Period

U. SHOULD NOT FURNISH MOST MEN   Sen. Wheeler Comments on Statement Made By Senator Johnsan._

WARNED TO HOLD PRICES ON FOODS   Brown Warns of Danger if New Control Plan Collapses

Nazi Planes Bomb English School  Four Killed, Several  Ciblisve ooxe bata:

Nazi Bombs Kill Four at School In South England  Raid One of Several Made on Small Scale by Enemy

13-Hour Grill Fails to Shake Flying Cadet   Detectives Say Strong Circumstantial Case Is Being Built Up

LONERGAN’S STORIES ARE ‘CUT TO SHREDS’   Accused of Killing Wife ir New York Apartment

Police Confident Lonergan Guilty  RCAF Cadet Maintains Story Of Innocence After Night's Grilling

POLIGE BUILD TIGHTER CAE ABOUT CADET   Tear Lonergan’s Story Dowr in All-Night Grilling in D Ale Office.

Detectives Feel They Have Good Case Against R. C. A. F. Cadet Now

CASE AGAINST LONERGAN   Detectives Claim Slaying Suspect's Stery Being Broken Down

CANADIAN ARMY FLIER GRILLED INWIFE DEATH   Wayne Lonergan Denies - He Had Any Part In Slaving of Heir- . ess Mate

Thwart Jap Plans For Air Offensive ‘To South Pacific   Mighty Allied Aerial Attack Knocks Out 225 Jap Planes At Three Airdromes   AIR STRENGTH ABOUT EQUAL   Catch Japanese Planes Om ~ Ground Warming Up For Take Off

FAVOR LIFTING 523,000 LIMIT   Roosevelt Asks Committee To Give Him Chance To Submit View

$25,000Salary Move Awaits Roosevelt   Decision Postponed — tc ‘Allow President to Submit Views

Bloc in House Delays Fight On Salary Curk   Defers Action Week To Give President Chance to Air Views

SALARY PEGGING ORDER OPPOSED   Roosevelt Given Chance To Submit His Views Before Solons

OCCUPATION OF ITALY   Natis Already Recamiled Te Loss Of Junior Partner

ALLIED INVASION PREPARED FOR BY GERMAN OFFICERS   Authorities Make Pians to Resist Occupation of Italy, London Learns.

NAZIS PREPARING FOR INVASION OF ITALY BY ALLIES   Printed Instructions To Be Given Civilians On How To Resist Advances

State Direetor Explains Lexie  For ‘Manpower   Dependents. will no longer keep men out of armed forces; needed in war plants. .

WAR FOOD COMMITTEE NAMED  ICR NOW IS TH CYCCIITOC AAC AT Annernc   JCB NOW IS TO EXECUTE MEAT ORDERS

Parley Reported To Have Opened  In Teheran, Iran   Churchill, Roosevelt,\, Stalin Said Discussing ;  Momentous Matters 

IRAN REPORTED SCENE OF ‘BIG THREE’ PARLEY   Allied, Axis Radios Agree F. D., Churehill, Chiang Met In Cairo

Daily Temperatures   By UNITED PRESS   Allied Bombing of Europe Expected To Strengthen Position of F. D. R. ‘And Churchill At Parley With Stalin

ANTLNAZI GROUP NEARING REVOLT   Allied Air Blows at Germany May Give Advantage at Parley

BIG 4 AT IRAN, BELIEF: KAI-SHEK PRESENCE IN SECOND MEET IN DOURT

Churchill, FDR On Way NowTo Histo vr ie Meet   Europe Radios Flooded With Reports Parley Te Near   HAVE STRONG CARDS   Lengthy Conference At Cairo Rumored To Have Ended

Berlin Bombing Attacks Expected To Bolster FDR, Churchill Position At Conference With Soviet Chief

Beet Price Support Will Be Given Soon Hope to Announce  ms oe ee

ALABAMA LAGGING   State Only In Fourth Position In Dixie War Loan Drive

Congress Needs Policy, Not Protecticn, Mahon Says in Defending Dummy Gun Use

; Solons Amazed To Find Wooden  » Guns Guard ‘Em   There Ought To Be A Law, Says Cooley; He Plans One.

lowa’s Coal Shutdown Is Spreading Out   UMW Board Member Says OPA Trying to Sabotage Wage Agreement

FIGHTING MAY BE OVER  IN SICILY  IN FEW DAYS   United Nations Force Approach Mt. Etna’s Slopes

Churchill Tells Of Sicilian War  Resistance May ~ End th Few-Days —

Three Ke Strongholds      LAST RESISTANCE BY AXIS on ISLAND SHOWS SIGNS OF CRACKING; EXPECT END  IN A FEW DAYS

Senate Group Would Draft Jap Residents   Says Army Wants Them As Soldiers

Many Japs Already In American Army  Committee Recommends  They Be Drafted

ELECTRIC COSTS IN WISCONSIN DECLINE   State Well Below Average For Nation, Says Commission.

New Liberty Ship Will Be Named After Former Dean Walter Williams

Auctions Off Eggs in Los Angeles, Gives Wa Bonds to High Bidders

Subsidy Foes ThreatenOPA   Would Cut Off Funds Unless F. R. Backs Down; Drain on Taxpayers

Subsidy Foes May Hit OPA   Opponents Threaten To Link Agency Bill With Program

‘Subsidy Foes Threaten To Cut Off O.P.A, Funds Unless President Backs Down

Senator Smith Comments Rollback Program Should Bring “Political Roll~ yok In 1944"   ULTIMATUM SERVED BY FOES OF PLAN   Threaten’ to Attack Very Existence of OPA Unless Roosevelt Drops Subsidv Demands

‘U Political” Rollback Urged In Subsidy Talks   House Banking Group Threatens Attack On OPA

POLITICAL ROLLBACK   Cotton Ed Smith Asserts People Going To Change Things

\MERICAN PILOTS SHOOT DOWN 37 OF 46 JAP PLANES ATTACKING BASES   NOT A SINGLE AMERICAN PLANE WAS LOST IN FIGHT TO PREVENT JAPS FROM BOMBING ASSAM

PLANS FOR 4-H CLUB YEAR ARE MADE   County Officers Will Sponsor Rond and Stamp Bonth at the County Falr Next Week

FAYETTE: COUNTY FARM - BUREAU- NEWS LETTER   4-H’ers Plan for. Future

War Situation Is Bright on All Sides for Allies  Sicily, Russia Send Cheering News; New Attacks Are Due

R. A. F. Bombers Pound Munich During Night   Industrial Areas Of City Are Heavily Attacked London Reports   OTHER ATTACKS ARE MADE IN GERMANY

R. A. F. RAINS DESTRUCTION UPON MUNICH   Twelfth bombardment oO! Germany within fourteen day period

NRPB Cites Problems For Industry  Savs Government em . -_   Savs Government Must Assist In Postwar Era

50 COPPERS ~ WALKING BEATS   Erst Traffie -Men i Pittsburgh Given “Demotions”

 Revenue From State ‘Income Tax About  Same As Last Year   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

State Jax Revenues Remain at  High Level   50% Income Tax Reduction Can Be Repeated.

TRADE PROGRAM MAY YET GET GOP SUPPORT   Cangress Wants Check Rein On Any Agreements

Fear, Unrest In Germany   ‘CONQUER OR PERISH’ SLOGAN IS KEEPING PEOPLE UNITED

Nazi Warlords Find People’s Feat ‘Still Potent Weapon, But Unrest 'Grumbling Becoming Apparent

Bloody Struggle Is Now Raging _ South of Naples   Enemy Guns Hammer Allied Positions; Germans Claim  Progress In Area

EATING PLACES TO GET 40-50 PER CENT RATIONED FOOD CUT   Slash Starting . March » Will: Bring Skimpier Menus, Smaller . Portions

Restaurant Rations Cut   Allotments to Be Based on Amounts  Used in: December

REDUCTION OF 50 PER CENT IS PREDICTED   Persons Served During December Is Basis Of Allotments

Rationed Foods for Cafes to Be Cut About 50 Per Cen}   Allowance to Be Based on Amounts Served in  December of 1942

RESTAURANT FOOD SUPPLY TO BE CUT   Cut Slightly Less Than 50 Per Cent Say. OPA Officials

40 MILLION PEOPLE HOMELESS, IN LABOR CAMPS AND PRISONS  REHABILITATION THESE PEOPLE ONE OF OUR . GREATEST PROBLEMS

Forty Million  Are Homeless   In Axis Labor Gangs Or Prisons; UNRRA Problem

Forty Million People Are Homeless Or In Axis Labor Gangs Or Prisons

One Of Future’s Greatest Problems  40 Million People Now Homeless Or Prisoners  As A Result Of The War

Government Movies Attacked As “Communistic, Fourth Term Propaganda, Smear of Congress”   And Some Of It, Says Rep. - Taber, Is Just Pure Drivel .

Josh Lee On Aviation In C. America   Certain U. S. Citizens Keeping Airlines Going There

HEAVY BLOW ut BOMBERS HITS RABAUI   SIXTY ENEMY PLANES AND THREL Bors DESTROYED  IN NRW.RAID BY. AL WED FLIERS on gf

INVASION FEARS DISTURB VICHY   Terrorism Sweeps Nation As Drive Draws Near

TERRORISM IN FRANCE SPREADS   Early Curfew Planned To Curb Pre-Invasion Optimism

Vichy Fights Terrorists   Pre-Invasion Revolt Sweeps Over France

LAVAL MOVES TO CURB NEW TERROR WAVE   Shuffles Cabinet Police Force To Avert ‘Civil War’

Vichy, F eating Invasion Soon,  Orders Curfew   Underground Stands: Ready. To Aid Allies

VICHY PROCLAIM CURFEW TO HALT FRENCH UPRISING   Petain Regime Alarmed aft Growing Strength of  Patriots

PRE-REVOLT WAVE SWEEPS FRANCE, ~—VIPHY FEARFUL   Laval Reperted te Have Reshuffled Cabinet to Meet New Crisis.

DAHLOR TO NEW POST   Haskell Principal Accepts School Position in Kansas City

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‘minum Union ‘qs in Demand . Wage Boosts   ttle Steel Formula aces New Threat; val Talks Continue

NINUM UNION ASKS WAGE RAISE   orkers Seek 15 Cents An Hour Increase; To Crack Little Steel Formula.

DEMANDS FOR RAISES SPREAD   About 50,000 Aluminum Workers Seek 15-Cent  Pay Increase

Wage Increase Demands Major Capitol Worry   Aluminum Workers Join In Pay Claim; Is Up To W.L. B.

WAGE BOOSTS ARE _ ASKED BY WORKERS   Aluminum Workers Join CIO Maich for Pay  Increacec

Aluminum Group Asks Pay Boost   Other Unions Also Rap Wage Formula

LITTLE STEEL PAY FORMULA   luminum W orkers emand 15-Cents-anHour Increase

Higher Pay Is Demanded By Aluminum  Worker Union   Joins CIO Campaign To Crack Little Steel War-Wage Formula  Of War Labor Board   50,000 WORKERS INVOLVED IN CASE

MATTOON WAR FUND DRIVE 10 OPEN MONDAY   150 Workers to Seek Donations: Goal Set at $15,000

Next Blows At Railways.   Battering of Ruhr May Be Followed by Blasting of Rail Systems

Allies to Hit Nazi Railways   New Series of Blows Forecast by Military Observers in London

PIGS MISSING AT STOCK YARDS   Experts Unable ‘To Explain Why Hogs Not Marketed

Pigs Held Back From Slaughter   Receipts Are Lower Despite Record-Breaking Crop and High Prices.

HOG PRICES “ARE HIGHEST SINCE 1920   Boost Due to Absence. of  - Porkers on Market, ‘a Mystery to Buyers,  _ Since They Know the Pigs Were Born.

HOG PRICES HIT $16 AT CHICAGO   Predict Record Breaking Spring Pig Crop, Market Sales Slow

WO MINES CLOSED FOR SPECIAL WORK   Equipment Installations, Repairs Being Made at Montrea!, Eureka,

Goodland Is Critical of Legislature Because of 17 Vetoes In Two Days

SOLONS GEN SHARE REBUKE   Gov. Goodland Critical of Legislators in Report To State.

STREAMLINED TRAIN WRECKED IN OHIO   Twe Crewmen Of Pennsylvania Engine Ate Killed And 18 B And ©. Passengers Hurt

KILLS 2 HURTS 50      Streamtined Passenger Train Crashes Into Wreckage of Freight Collision

TWO MEN KILLED IN RAILWAY WRECK   Fifty Passengers Hurt in B. & O. Crash in Ohio

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM. BUREAU NEWS LETTER  (By County Betansian Miractar?   One Man Crew

New York Stocks   Chicago Corn   Former Arkansan Pays Kor Murder In Loutsiana

U5 CHINA FLIER ANOGK QUT JAP AAIDING FLEET   Gen. Chennault’s Flying Dragons Destroy 45 Of 58 Enemy Aircraft

31-to-1 Victory   Japanese Raiding Fleet Smashed In Furious Dogfight Wednesday

Otis Tracy, 76, Found Dead at His Residence   luneral Rites Tuesday With Burial at Bear Grove Cemetery

Daily Times Herald   Otis Tracy, 76, Found Dead at . His Residence   Funeral Rites Tuesday With Burial at Bear Grove Cemetery

MORE COAL MINERS (0 BACK TO WORK   RETURN TO JOBS IN PENNSYLVANIA AS GOVERNMENT ‘BEGINS INQUIRY.

Work Resumption In District Pits Gains Momentum  Government Investiga  Government Investigation Will Open In Pittsburgh On Wednesday

BAGK - 10 - WORK MOVEMENT GAIND   More Than 4,000 Pennsylvania Miners Return to Jobs; Attorney - General’s Office Probes Trouble ¢

MINERS RETURN TO THEIR JOBS   Less Than 14,000 Still Idle: Steel Furnaces Feel Shortage

4,000 MINERS BACK ON JOBS   FBI Investigates Cause * Of Wildcat Strike In Pennsylvania  On Eve Of Jury

TOKYOSAYSU.S PLANNING T0 BOMB JAPAN   Japanese Domestic Broadcast Says Raid Similar to Last Year’s Will Be Carried Out.

FEAR PACIFIC WAR MAY DRAG ON FOR YEARS   Americans Called on to Prod Congress Into Realization of Seriousness of Danger

TOKYO WARNS YANKEES PLAN NEW BOMBING   New Nippon Naval Base Airports Speeded to Block Attacks

Tokyo Awaits Another Raid  By American:   New Alarm Sounded by Tokyo as U. S. Senator Warns Pacifie Conflict May Continue for Many Years

TOKYO SOUNDS NEW ALARM THAT US PLANS BOMB JAPAN AGAIN  -CHAIRMAN REYNOLDS SAYS MUST ACT OR WAR nr Anh: AbBren

lamor for ore Pacific  ar Raised   Congressmen Fear if Japs Dig In War May Last ‘Forever’

NEW JAP HORRORS REVEALED ~ AS TOKYO PREDICTS ANOTHER U.S. BOMBING RAID ON JAPAN   Jap Troops Butcher Every Man, Woman and Child In China Region Where Doolittle Raiders Found Haven.

Japanese Expect New Raid   Gen. Chang Reveals Nip  Butchery Of Chinese Sheltering U. S. Fliers  Following First Raid

JAPANESE FEAR ATTACK COMING   Tokyo Reports U. S. ‘Making All Kinds of Preparations’ to Strike

Tokyo Warns Japanese U. S. To Raid Soon   Japs Told America Now Making All Kinds Of  Raid Preparations

CHURCHILL TO PASS. -UP_.REPLY   Says Full Statement Ready For Possible Future Use

CHURCHILL MAKES NO PUBLIC REPLY   Inferentially Rebukes U. § Senators In Speech Before Commons

CHURCHILL TO REMAIN SILENT ON LEND-LEASE   Decides Against Public Reply To Charges By 5 Senators

CHURCHILL SAYS HE WON'T REPLY TO ANTI-BRIT. CHARGES MADE BY IS SOLONS

BOMBS ON MACASSAR   Japanese Stronghold on Celebe: Raided by Liberator

Wilson, Young Dies in St. Louis ‘Affer Long Ilitiess   Missouri Pacific Enaineer Was Veteran of Two U. S. Wars

Wilson, Young.      Missouri Pacific : . Engineer Was Veteran of Two Ue Ss Wars

VETERAN OF TWO WARS DIES OF LONG ILLNESS   Wilson W. Young, Prominent Missouri Pacific En. gineer Suffered © From Heart Trouble 3 Years

THREAT SEEN   Murray Declares Grave Situation Caused by War Labor Board Action

Steel Situation Termed Grave   Contracts of 350,000 Workers Expiring

Steel Labor Controversy Near Crisis  Union Contracts Weel, IPA £........ es .

STEEL WORKERS CONTRACT ENDS   ‘Grave Situation’ Arises For 350,000 Men, Murray Says

100 U. S. Planes Batter At Munda   Dive, Torpedo Bombers Shower 82 Tons On Garrison: Ground Troops Close In

Closing In On Enemy’: Vital Base   Japs In New Georgia Badly Mauled; New Guinea Army Gains  On Salamua.

{00U. S. Bombers Dump 82 Tons. Of Bombs on Defenses at Munda   Pressure Is Maintained in New Guinea And Solomons at Opposite Ends of Line   Yank Bombers Strike Abbeville   R. A. F. Believed Back Over Italy

Yanks Shower Munda With — 82 Tons Bombs   Raid on Tap Base Is Heaviest Staged in Solomons

U. S. Plasters Munda in  Biggest Raid   Dive and Torpedo Planes Back Ground Attack

FURIOUS NAZI ATTACKS SLOW RUSSIAN ARMY   Reds are Held to Minor Gains on All of Long Front

GERMANS STRIKE WITH NEW VIGOR   Make Major Bid to Stem Russian Offensive   HIT EVERY FRONT   Counter - attacks Slow Red _ Army to Minor Gains  On 600-mile Line

Nazis Lash Out Anew At Soviet  Desperate Efforts mm - . ££ J. ..39 POT w....k

NAZIS STIFFE LINE 10 HALT RED ADVANCES   RESERVE STRENGTH BEING TESTED IN RUSSIA

GERMAN LASH OUT FURIOUSLY AGAINST REDS   Only Minor Gains Made By Russians On 600 Mile Front; Nazis  Counterattacks

GERMAN ARMY AGGRESSIVE IN RUSSIA   Strong Reinforcements Trying To Stem Russian Offensive, Slowing Reds To Minor Gains.   No Kiev News

NAZIS STRIKING WITH VIGOR ON RUSSIAN FRONT   15 Counter-Attacks Mounted By German Troops  In One Sector   SOVIETS LIMITED TO LIGHT GAINS

NAZIS STRIKE OUT ON SOVIET FRONTS      Intense Counter-attacks Slow Red Army to Minor Gain<«

Nazis Assert Fresh Vigor In All Areas  Of East Front   Counter-Attack  15 Times in One Area In New Major Bid  To Stem Red Drive   INTENSE FIGHTING IS UNDIMINISHED  Russian Offensive Slows After Months OFf Steady Prooress

Nazis Strike With New Vigor at Reds   Russian Advance Is Slowed by Intense Fighting

Nazis Lash Out Anew At Soviet   Desperate Efforts Bring Hard Blows

Germans Making Major Bid To Halt Red Drive   Russians Held Back On 600-Mile Front

CHURCHILL TO ADDRESS CONGRESS      Leaders Believed Planning Fall Drive In Burma

Discussion Of Drive in Burma Seen   Churchill to Deliver Two Speeches While In Washington

FALL DRIVE Ih BURMA AREA Is SEEN PROBABLE   Roosevelt And Churchill Be. lieved, Mapping Big Campaign Against Japs   COUNCIL MEET CANCELLED:   British Leader Will Address Homeland, Speak To Congress On Wednesday

HOA, CHURGRILL NAPPING ORI AGAINST BURWIA   Major Offensive In Far East Scheduled For Next Fall, Washington’s Belief   PLANS WON'T PRECLUDE STRONG BLOWS EARLIER   Cpening Of Road To China Is First Prerequisite For Pacific Victory

Roosevelt, Churchill Map Plans   Fall Offensive to Drive Japs Out of Burma Seen Likely

AUTUMN DRIVE IN BURMA PLANNED BY CHURCHILL, F.R   ‘Signs Point to Mainland for First Major Offensive Against Jans.

F.R.- CHURCHILL SUBJECT MAY BE DRIVE IN BURMA   Fall Offensive Could Open Route To China, Tokyo

Prime Minister ‘Will Address Congress Wednesday   BOTH LEADERS SEE PRESIDENT OF CZECHS

Allied Leaders — Continue Laying Plans For Fall    Pacific War Council Meeting Scheduled .. For Today Postponed

Aim war machine at Japan   Burma believed big parley topic; Churchill to talk

RADIO APPEALS FOR POPULACE TO AID ATTACK   Jap Air Armada Destroyed: Nazis Battle Desperately to Save Kharkov

British Fight Nazi Chutists For Cos] Field  Desperate Battle Rages on Tiny Isle Off Turkey for Air Control  AIR KEY TO, CRETE  Germans Make Fierce Ef. fort to Rrevent Allied Gianling NTawac      Germans Make Fierce Effort to Rrevent Allied Flanking Moves

BRITISH AND NAZI TROOPS. IN -FIERCE STRUGGLE FOR COS      Small Dodecanese Island  + Is. Vital: -Fighter: Base  “Near Crete’ And Greece

BRITISH BATTLE DESPERATELY 10 HOLD C08 ISLAND   RAF Defends Position Which Qutflanks Crete In Aegean  Laan

BRITISH BATTLE DESPERATELY TC HOLD COS ISLAND   Germans Land Air And Seaborne Force in Dodecanese

NORMANDIE FLOATS IN HUDSON RIVER   Work Progressing Smooth. ly on Salvaging Big French Liner

Floating of Big Liner Soon To Be Completed  LaFayette May Be Righte at Its Pier  in New

Work of Raising Former French Luxur liner Reported Progressing Smoothly

Satisfactory Progress Is  Made With Normandie   Predicts Ship Will Be Ready Within Two Months To Be Turned Over For Refittings

NOAMANDIE i BEING RIGHTED   Officials Think it Might Not Be Necessary to Edge Former French Liner Into Hudson River to End Job

CHINESE FACING GREAT FAMINE   May Be Worst in History Unless Food Relief Widespread

INVASION FRONT OF JAPS BOMBED   M’ARTHUR’S AIRMEN BLAST 14 ENEMY BASES AND SHOOT DOWN 7 PLANES.

Enemy Above Australia Is Hit Hard   Japs’ Big Invasion Front {s Object Of Big Allied Raid

Allies Blast 14 Japanese Bases   Sow Destruction on 2,000-Mile Front

Gen. MacArthur’s Fliers Pound Invasion Front North of Australia  DOWN SEVEN PLANES AND SET HUGE FIRES   Madang in New Guinea Point Hardest Hit In Aerial Offensive

URGES PEACE RESPONSIBILITY   U. S. Must Be Practical And Share Part In Keeping Freedom, ,  Welles Says

U.S. AIRMEN BOMB JAP AIRDROMES   Land Action On Increase Near Salamaua

U.S. ARMEN POUND JAP SUPPLY BASES NEAR NEW BRITAIN   Fuel Dumps and Grounded Planes Set Ablaze By Incendiary Bombs.

FLYING FORTRESSES STRIKE JAP BASES   Destroy -Fuel Damps And Leave Fires Visible ’. For 25 Miles

TWO AIRDROMES AT RABAUL HIT BY FORTRESSES   Fuel Dumps Destroyed, Fires Visible For 25 Philec

New Contrac’ For Miners  WLB Object   Kaiser Predicts End of Troubles for Brewster Corporation; Committee Pleas for Small Industry Men

SENATE COMMITTEE  HEARS WARNING OF  NEED OF MORE COAL CHANGES IN OPA HEAD EFFECTED IN QUIET,  CMAATIY WAY

SEE SHORTAGES (IF COAL AWEAD   Witnesses Warn Winter Suffering Ahead in New England States.   OTHER NEWS OF CAPITAL

All Of Europe Under Virtual Military Rule   8 Million Nazi Troops Are Deployed Over 6,000-Mile Line

Axis Army of 8,000,000 Guards Coast As Hitler  Prepares For Invasion

3 Million Men Guard  Coastline   Administration, Communication Centers Seized

Frantic Hitler Waits Invasion   NAZI FUEHRER SPREADS 8,000,000 TROOPS ALONG 6000-MILE CONTINENTAL COAST LINE; MARTIAL LAW OVER ALL EUROPE LOOMS

Allied Sources Report flitler Has Spread 8 Million Troops on 6000 Mile Coastline of Fortress Europe

NAZIS TO IMPOSE MARTIAL LAW CN ENTIRE DOMAIN   Spreads 9,000,000 Troops Along 6,000 Miles of His

'NAZIS SPREAD 8 MILLION ‘TROOPS ALONG COAST IN PREPARING FOR INVASION

IS PREPARING FOR INVASION   Adolpe Hitler Spreading Troops Along Coastline of Continental Domain — About to Impose Martial Law on AN Lurspe.

Hitler Has 8,000,000 Soldiers Guarding Europe. Allied Sources Sav

Hitler Spreads 8,000,000 Troops Along 6,000- Mile Axis Coastline

FUEHRER ABOUT. TO PLACE ALL-EUROPE UNDER ARMY LAW   Nazi. Chief Has 8,000,000 Troops Spread Along ° 6; 000- Mile. Coast Of His Domain

NAZI SOLDIERS PREPARED FOR INVASION MOVI   Germans Set To Place Occupied Nations Under Martia! Law

PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN. BY HITLER. ALONG COASTLINE   Spreads 6,000,000 Troops Over Continental Do-. main; to Impose Martial Law.

PAPER DEFENDS FOREIGN POLICY   State Department to Issue Collection of Diplomatic Documents

FOREIGN POLICY PAPER PREPARED   Documents To Cover U. S. Re. lations With Rest Of World In Recent Years

STATE DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE WHITE PAPER IN DEFENSE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

4 BILLS PASS LEGISLATURE   Final Action On Fish And Game Measure Tem porarily Postponed

Deleqates Pass AQ Minor Bills In Night Session   One. Provides for Use « Prison Labor in State Hospitals

HOUSE PASSES 40 BILLS AT SESSION      Senators Debate for.Nearly an Hour on Meaningless Meocura -

STATE HOSPITAL BOARD IS NAMED   Governor Broughton Named Unified Board Of Directors For State Hospitals For The Insane.

Broughton Names Board For State  ‘Hospitals Insane   Dr. R. D.  McMillar . Among 15 Appointed } To Unified Board _ of r Control.

POCPEPOPOP PEP POPP OIA PDAS  800 Men in One Mine Vote Against Return

MIDLAND MINE AT HOUSTON, 800 MEN VOTE TO REMAIN OUT; CLYDE 1 AT FREDRICKTOWN' HESITATED.

Keeps Giles of 264 Jowa   Has Almost Complete Story Of Iowa History 

‘Many Newspapers _ Stored In Basement  Of Historical Building   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special. Correspondent

Republican Mayoral Candidates Ride Victory Wave in New York   Legislature Gets Nine New Members But Party Division Is Same

Our Outfit Took No Prisoners During ‘Guadalcanal Fight, Texas Marine Says

GERMAN RETREAT PATHS APLAME   AIR BOMBARDMENT IN TUNISIA WORST ROMMEL’S TROOPS HAVE SUFFERED.

Reds Pound Ahead Along Orel Sector   German Lines Pushed Back 243 To 4 Miles In Day’s Fighting, Bring Advance For Week 26 To 50 Miles

BIG UNION MAY WITHDRAW AFL   Machinists Threaten To Quit As Result Of Work Dispute

Third Largest Union Threatens To Quit A.F.L.   International Association of Machinists in Row with Carpenters

TIRE CHECKS ARRIVE HERE   Most Motorists Satisfied With U. S. Payments

b Pe * Marines on Choiseul Discover New Use for  Discarded Razor Blades

Farm War Board Will Eliminate Black Marketing   Announce Controls To Govern Slaughter And The Sale Of Meats

Mc ARTHUR'S STRATEGY IN PACIFIC BEST   Man who can win war ir shortest time and least cost of life

Five Senators  Back From War Tour Of World   Believe Gen. MacArthur Should be CommanderIn-Chief In Pacific  Area   ier eie ities nena meal  MUST KEEP CHINA FROM QUITTING WAR

Draft Officials Explore Ways To Avoid Inducting Fathers In October

Embattled America Still Gives Thanks, Casualties Low, War Production High

America Can Be Thankful For Factor: Holding War I Casualties Down

Stores in City Bare of Meat   BAKERSFIELD HOUSEWIVES THRONG THE MARKETS IN A FRUITLESS SEARCH

OPA IGNORES OPPOSITION 10 SUBSIDY PLAN   Senate May Support House Attack On Agency’s Control Program      FUNDS SLASHED   Theorists’ Are Ordered Replaced By Prac tical Businessmen

Allies Ring Axis Forces In Pockets.   Resistance Seen Approaching End On Bon Peninsula

ALLIES SWA OVER CAP BON AXIS ‘HIDEOUT   All Enemy Resistance About To Cease On Peninsula

SEES COAL SHORTAGE   Pegple Must Learn to Keep Warm on Lesa, Says Ickes

COAL SITUATION TO GET WORSE   Every Consumer In U.S. Will Have To Cut Down, Says Ickes

SEES COAL SHORTAGE   wees Muat Learn ‘te Keep Warm eon Less, Says ickes

DOZEN INJURED   i Hurt ' When Seven Cars of Passenger Train Leave Rails.

WPB Asks Hearing on Brydia Bill To Abolish War Time   All Members of House Will Hear His Plea Next Wednesday

MAN FAILS TO BREAK UNDER POLICE QUIZ   Officers Press Hunt for Flier’s Missing Uniform

Canadian Flyer Denies Killing Heiress Wife   Cadet Held As Suspect In Murder Of His Estranaed Mate

Innocent of Witfe’s Death. Flier Claims   Police Call Lonergan ‘Likely Suspect’ in Bedroom Murder

Lonergan Is Suspect In Wife’s Death   Flying Cadet Steadfastly Maintains Innocence of Slaying

CADET QUESTIONED IN DEATH OF WIFE   Wayne Lonergan, Called ‘Likely Suspect’, Claims Innocence,

Defense Bill Referred Back  To Committee   Substitute Measure 1s Offered By Democrat: When Debate Opened On Republican Bill

Action Delayed On Defense Bill  ‘Substitute Bill Is Offered In Senate

Munich And Italian Points  R. A. F. Targets   Powerful Bombing Squadrons Hit Many Axis Mil- © itary Objectives    SIXTH ATTACK IS MADE ON MUNICH

British Bombers Rip At Berlin   Respite Ends; “Terror Attack,’ Say Nazis

Berlin, Bremer Feel Knockout Ally Air Blows   Heavy Destruction Done Both Cities; Thirty Rambeore Tact

resumed on Berlin   Nazis admit Bremen heavy damage by Fortress raid

ra . ROCKED RAF; YANKS An BREMEN   1500-Ton Assault fs Reported on Nazi Capital   GERMANS ADMIT ‘HEAVY DESTRUCTION

RAF RESUMES AIR ATTACKS UPON BERLI   Fire and Ruin Again Spread Through Nazi Capital by Big Bombers.

Berlin Smashed In 1500-Ton Raid By RAP.   Bremen Is Target Of Yankee Fortress Assault

PLASTER BERLIN IN NIGHT RAD, ~ BREMEN BOMBED   Fire, Ruin Are Spread With 1500-Ton Blockbuster Assault, Germans Reveal Bremen Attack.   YANKS SMASH NAZIS IN ADVANCE TO ROME   Brozovich Partisan Army of Liberation Breaks Full Scale German Offensive In Jugoslavia,

FRE AND RUIN AGAIN SPREAD THROUGH CIT)   Thirty Bombers Lost In All Attacks Over Europe

BIG BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST NAZI CAPITAL   More Than 1500 Tons Dropped On Berlin

Berlin Subjected To 1,500 Ton  Bomb Treatment   Fire, Destruction Spread Through German Capital, Huge Flare Trail Is Laid by Enemy Night Fighters

LA GUARDIA FOR FOOD SUBSIDIES   Declares Program Is Aid to Consumers

FEARS INFLATION WITHOUT SUBSIDY   MAYOR OF NEW YORK VOICES OPPOSITION TO SUBSIDY REPEAL

LaGuardia Calls For Subsidies  Ban Would Bring Ruin. He Tells Congress

La Guardia In Subsidy Appeal   New York City Mavor Says Abolishment Might Mean Inflation,

LA GUARDIA FOR FOOD SUBSIDIES:   Warns Against Boost in Living Cosis

LA GUARDIA SAYS INFLATION WILL RUIN CITY   New York Mayor Asserts Cosi o Living Already Up 39 PC, Mus Continue Subsidies

Early 1944 Is Named by ‘Gen. Smuts as Time Fixed For Big Allied Invasion

Allies Clearing Way For Invasion Of Europe; Reds Moving Closer To Rostov

Says Victory Theme Of African Meet      Promises Hard Blow In Europe

SAYS CONFERENCE HELD 10 WIN WAR, DLAN THE PEACE   Chief Executive Emphasixes Effort Brazil Making Against Subs

President Terms Casablanca Parley One to Win War, Fulfill Pledge ‘to Hit Enemy Hard In Europe

Emphasizes Recent: Promise of New Blows at:the’.-> - Axis in Hne TO: “SUPPLY: ‘ARMS. "TO THE. F RENCH   Political. Problems: in’ ‘Africa  Going. Along Pretty = Well: He-Declares'

PRESIDENT HINTS OF NEW ATTACKS ON AXIS EUROPE   Says Allies Plans To Strike Hard Were Made At Casablanca Conference

CASABLANCA CONFERENCE HELD TO FULFILL PROMISE THAT U. N. WOULD STRIKE HARD AT AXIS”   Parley With British Prime Minister Was Held To Formulate Plans For Fulfillment of Promise Made in January Message to Hit Axis Hard

FDR REPORTS ON CASABLANCA TALKS .  Win-the-War Main Aim Of African Trip

French Political Problems Satisfactory Says Roosevelt   Counteroffensive Against U-Boats Forecast After White House Meet

President Sees Pledge in Annual Talk Fulfilled   “Unconditional Surrender” Highlight of Meeting at Casablanca: Roosevelt

Planned Allied Blows On Axts  At Casablanea  oo a   President Repeats United , . ree I + . Nations To Strike Hard At Enemy In Europe.   POINTS TO HIGHLIGHT

President Pleased — With Trip   Says French Unity . Closer Than Before; Plans Made to Hit  Hard in War Zones.

Surrender Clause Is Highlight   President Tells Press Conference That Meeting Backs Up Promise to Congress

FRANK TALKS ARE HAD WITH CONGRESSMEN   Stiffened Offensive In Anti-Sub War Is  Forecast   TELLS ABOUT TRIP   Discusses Aid To China And Russia With Leaders

FDR-Churchill Drafted Plans ToSmash Axis   President States Allies To strike Tn Europe. As He Promised

Africa Parley Was One To Win  War: Roosevelt   Says Stand Against A Negotiated Peace With Axis Re-emphasized

OFFENSIVE’ ON SUBS PLANNED   Seriousness Of Menace Discussed With Legislators At White House Meet

Highlights Of Casablanca Meeting Stressed By President In His First  - Press Conference

Casablanca Parley One “to Win War”   Designed to Fulfill Promise United Nations To Strike Hard in Europe, Roosevelt Says; no Negotiated Armistice.

FDR Hints New Blows At Europe To Follow Parley   President Talks of North African Meeting . At Press Conference.

FDR TELLS OF - CASABLANCA TALK   Considers ReEmphasis on Unconditional Surrender Highlight of Meeting 

TO HIT IN EUROPE   Roosevelt Relates Events of His Visit With Churchill

Casablanca Parley To Fulfill Words In January Message   President Supplies Details of Meeting With Anecdotes

Roosevelt Says Casablanca Meeting Designed To Win War; Says Allies To Strike Europe Hard

Says. Conference Was . Move.in: Carrying Out ° ‘Statements to: Congress   LENGTH. OF TRIP: PLACED AT ee hi

TO STEP UP PLAN IN WAR AGAINST ENEMY U-BOAT   President Roosevelt Discusses Submarine Menace with Congressional Leaders

President Says Winning War Aim of Parley   FDR Emphasizes Promise to Strike New Blows at Axis

FDR SAYS MEET WITH CHURCHILL SERVED PLEDGE   Addressing Press, Chief Executive Labels Huddle One to Win War

FDR Emphasizes Winning War North Africa Primarih;  War Problem He Says In Review Of Trip

Die Cast For Blow In Europe, Says F.R   Casablanca Conference Designed To Fulfill ~ Promises To Congress That Allies Will Hit Hard—This Year

F. D. R. Tells Of His Trip   Says Things Are Going Well Now In North Africa

Roosevelt Tells Press Conference Casablanca Parley With Churchill Was Aimed At Fulfillment Of Promise United Nations Would Strike Hard In Europe— Describes Reemphasis On Unconditional Surrender  Of Axis As Highlight Of Sessions

Invasion Plan Outlined at Casablanca  Agreement Is Called Highlight PRAISE FOR BRAZIL President Lauds Latin Country’s Campaign on Submarines

JOURNEY PRIMARILY MILITARY MISSION   Meeting Held To Lay Plans For Allied Victory   Annual Message To Congress Given Re-Emphasis

Pres. Roosevelt Reviews Parley In North Africa   Calls Talks With Churchill Fulfillment Of Promise ’ U.N. Would Strike Hard

HIGHLIGHTS: OF AFRICA PARLEY CIVEN TO PRESS   Says Problem in North Africa Is Essentially a Military One

TO FULFILL PROMISE MADE TO CONGRESS   * Unconditional Surrender Phase Is Highlight   BRAZIL VISIT   Had Two Important Angles: Political Trouble In Africa Explained

FDA DESCRIBED AFRICAN MEET   Calls Casablanca Conference Fulfillment of Promise to Congress.

F.R. Will Fulfill Promise To “Strike Hard”... President Says French Problem Being Handled Pretty Well In Africa

FOR Tells of Casablanca Conference   Chief Reason To Plan’ Hard Blows Promised In Message

EDA. RENEWS PROMISES TD HIT AXIS HARD   President Says One Highlight of Trip Was Plans to Battle U-Boats.   CHARGES TALK OF FRENCH DISPUTES HELP ENEMY.

‘No Surrender” Ultimatum Called Highlight of Churchill Parley   President, However, Reveals Little in First Press Conference Following His Return

PRESIDENT DECLARES AFRICA CONFERENCE WAS ONE TO WIN WAR   HIGHLIGHT OF CONFERENCE WAS UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER PHASE

ALLIES PLAN T0 STRIKE HEAVY BLOW IN EUROPE   i * + * = i'Roosevelt.Tells Press Gon_férence Talks In Casa--  blanca Were Ones to  ' Win the War    LITTLE REVEALED   Talks Mostly In Generalities; Thinks Things Go.ing Pretty Well In - North Africa

FORMED VICTORY PLAN, SAYS FDR   Explains Major Business of _ Casablanca Meeting

PLAN OFFENSE AT “NAZI SUB MENACE   Seriousness of U-Boats i Stressed By FDR

President Says Casablanca Trip Was to Fulfill Pledge To Hit Axis Hard in Europe

CONFERENCE AT CASABLANCA ONE ‘TO WIN WAR“FDR   RECALLS PROMISE TO STRIKE HEAVY NEW BLOWS IN EUROPE

HIGHLIGHTS OF C ONFERENCES EMPHASIZED   Chief Executive, Talking to Reporters, Supplies New Details of Historic African Trip  TO FULFILL PROMISE

F. R. Stresses No Negotiated Peace Stand   Will Smash Germany From Ground and Air Every Hour of Day

No Negofiated Armistice, He Says Decided   Only Unconditional Surrender of Axis To Mark End of War, President Declares

FDR SAYS AFRICA MEET WAS THE ONE TO WIN WAR   Also Says Casablanca Conference Would Enable Him Ta Fill Promises Made in Message To Congress

FD Says Casablanca Meet Was Held To ‘Win The Wa   Designed To Fulfill Promise Of Allies To Invade Europe, He Tells Parley

(Pictures of President Roosevelt in Africa, Liberia and Brazil are on the back page. Also see story on Page e\

Win the War Plans Made In Africa  Roosevelt Tells Of Principal Aims Accomplished

FDR REAFFIRMS REMARKS MADE IN WASHINGTON  African Meeting   African Meeting Designed To Win War And Peace

Chief Executive Pledges Allies Will Hit Europe   Roosevelt Says Highligh! Of Conference Was Decision Against Negotiation

NEW DRIVES DUE, ROOSEVELT SAYS   Assures Casablanca Parley Will Fulfill Promises

ROOSEVELT MAKES PRESS COMMENTS ON AFRICAN TRIP   Meeting With Churchill Held to Help Carry Out Promise and Plan Hard Blows for Europe.   GENERALITIES USED IN MEETING PRESS   President Reported as Not Predicting Early End ol War; Cost High, Loss of Life Great.

Casablanca Conference Was One To Win The War   President Renews Promise United Nations Will Hit Hard In Europe

Roosevelt S Says His Conference in Africa Was to Fulfill Promise That the United Nations Would Strike in  ed I, PVevrywes   He Predicts More Unity Between Giraud and DeGaulle and Staffs

FOR REITERATES ALLIES 10 STRIKE HARD IN EUROPE   At Press Conference The President Says Casablanca Parley Was One To Win the War and Fulfill Promise He Made Congress.

CAPITAL RIFT BRINGS PLEA FOR CAUTION   Taft Urges Committee to Survey Actions Taken by the House

‘BRINGS PLEA -FOR CAUTION      Taft Urges Committee ta Survey Actions Token .

Republicans See Danger in Clippins Roosevelt ‘Wings    Revolt in Congress Might Cripple War Effort, Some Feel  WARNING BY HATCH Taft Proposes Special

GOP Leaders Urge Caution In FDR Clas!   ‘Congress Should Decide On Size of Army.

Republicans Fear Result Of Hasty Acts   More Discrimination In Opposing F.D.R. Urged by Senator Taft   OHIOAN SUGGESTS VIGILANCE GROUP  Confirmations Issue Adds to Rift Between F.D.R. and Coneres«

CAUTION URGED: ASRIFT MOUNTS   Republicans Fear Impair‘ment As FDR Policies Are Over-Rode

cn nn Tee ea  HIROHITO’S BIRTHDAY IS OBSERVED BY JAPS   16,000 Prisoners Freed as Part of Celebration

TROPICAL STORM STRIKES INLAND IN HOUSTON AREA  WIND VELOCITY OF 60-70 MILES; LITTLE DAMAGE

SOUTH TUNIS FRONT BATTLE BEING WAGED   Nazi Marshal Trying To Bolster Right Defense Wing

IOWA TO HAVE 2 PLANTS FOR GRAIN ALCOHOL   WPB Selects Sites at Keokuk and Dubuque Out of Five in Midwest,   PLANNED TO PRODUCE 36,000,000 GALLONS

Leaders Pledge To Win War   Denounce Bureaucracies Demanding Greater Legislative Role in Victory.

Sam Rayburn Heads House   FDR Gives State of Union Talk to Congress Today

Puerto Rico Asks Colonia Regime End   Legislature Unanimously on Record as Urging US Permission to Select Own Form ef Government

Puerto Ricc Votes for Freedom   National Houses . Ask U. S. Congress To End Contra)

3 KILLED IN A WRECK   Thirteen Others Were Injured in _ An Oklahoma Train Crash _

Three Killed In Train Wreck   13 Other Persons Arc Hurt in Collision Near Claremore

PVT. JACOB MORGAN, e DIED IN PHILIPPINES, WAS 4. C. MORGAN’S YOUNGEST SON

Ridge Positions Fall to Fifth In Hard Battle   Nazi Wall Before Rome Severely Shaken by Allies

CLARK'S ARMY GAINS IN DRIVE IN MOUNTAINS   Captures Important Positions on Towering Massico Ridge

German Mountain Uefense Repotted . Severely Shaken   Fifth Army Aims Heavy Attacks at Core of Enemy Line

Yanks Capture Peak in Drive On German Line   Fifth Army Launches Heavy Offensive On Core of Defenses

NAZI WALL BEFORE ~ ROME IS “SHAKEN”   Fifth Army in Italy Has Captured Important Pasitione

Allies Strike At Core of Nazi Defense   Clark’s Troops Make Gains in Rugged Mountain Territory

Fifth Army Takes Important  Positions On Massico Ridge Nazi Wall Before Rome Severely Shaken As  Pe ee ee fer ae eee ee

CLARK'S FORCES DENT MOUNTAIN LINE OF ENEMY      Capture Large Part of Lofty Peak and “Important Positions” on Massico Ridge.   GERMANS PUT UP A STUBBORN FIGHT   Ground Won Brings Hinge of Foe’s Defenses Within Range of American Artillery.

oth Army Take: Vital Positions In German Line   Nazis’ Wall Before Rome Badly Shaken; Yanks Storm Ridge

NEW ATTACKS ARE LAUNCHED AGAINST NAZIS   Allied Spokesman States German Wall To Rome Is Severely  Shaken

err,  NAZI WALL BEFORE ROME REPORTED AS ASEVERELY SHAKEN”; GENERAL CLARK’S MEN TAKE MOST OF MATESE

 Massico Ridge Positions Fall To Fifth Army   Americans Clear Germans Out of Strategic Spots In Matese Mountains

Air Collision Kills 20 Army Flyers   None Survives Idaho  Mishap Seen by Many

FATALLY STRICKEN IN M’SHERRYSTOWN   Mrs. Joanna Mary Fox, Aged 65 Years, Dies Unexpectedly From Heart Attack

MORE MINERS GO BACK 10 COAL PITS   Production in Nation’s Big  Fields Continues to Im ;  ' prove.

Coal Operations Gain Gradually   Large Amount of Steel Lost Due To Strikes

Miners Gradually Return to Work   Diggings- Continue. To Improve

COAL OUTLOOK IS IMPROVING   Miners Are Gradually Ending Costly Strike

COLUMNIST IS CHRONIC LIAR PRESIDENT SAYS   Drew Pearson Is Attacked By Roosevelt For Re cent Remarks

PILOT IN 18 SAYS AIR WAS SAFER THEN   100-Mile Flight Was Big Trip In Old War

Positions They Hold Mean  “More Hell’ For Japanese  Describes Operations In Pacific To Date Be General Plan Of Unremittina Pressure

AIR COMMERCE 10 BE SAFEGUARDED   Board Has Been Considering Plans For America In Postwar Aviation.

AMARILLO IS HOST  Fat Stock Show Dates March 8-I]   Nation Guarding Post-War Flying

Russians Adyance Fram Yorenezh and Milleroyo in Two Powerful Forces   (Additional story of Russlap drive en Page 8.)

ISoviets Sweep Through \Millerovo, Advance on /Kamensk in New Drive

Make Plans For New Bond Drive  Quotas To Be Fixed For Pay Deductions

soosenehemenentenentnamepennsieenennetenenenenmnienimeatieamtaemmenentemmaammtaneedl  Great RAF Force Attacks Germany

ALLE AIRCRAFT IN DAYLONG RAID ON GERMAN AREAS   Sky Above France From Dun kerque to Boulogne Criss Cressed With Vapor Trail: of Many Planes

—AIR RAIDS—  PLANES BATTLE OVER GHANNE   iVapor Trails Over Frarce Indicate ighters In General Melee   RAF IS ACTIVE   Series Of Night Sweeps Made On Nazis Centers In France, Germany

REPORT LARGE AIR FIGHT OVER FRANGE TODAY   Allied Planes Cross Southeast Coast of England at Noon

Great Force Of Allied Planes Roars Over Channel In Raids Marked By Fierce Dogfights   Fighters Mix In General Melee During Day Of Considerable Aerial Activity

Huge F orce Allied Bombers Raid French Channel Area      Sky Above France Criss-Crossed With Vapor Trails From Dunkerque to Boulogne, Indicating Fierce Battle; Mosquitos and Spitfires Blow Up Dozen Nazi Trains In Night Attack

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK FRANCE   Mighty Aerial Force Returns After Two-Hour Raid On Coastal Areas

MARINES TARE JAP AIRDROWE   Capture Savagely-Defendede Cape Gloucester Field In 4 Days

Capitulation’ On New Year's Eve Following Four Days After InvasOn,

Marines Take Prize of Cape  Gloucester   Airdrome at New  Britain Stronghold Falls To Americans After Savage Fight

U.S. LOSSES IN DRIVE ON PLANE BASE VERY LOM   Flame Throwers Enable Troops To Score Quick Victory

American Troops Storm Pillboxes Strew Battle Area With Japanese Dead

Gloucester . Cape Taken By Marines   Dead, Japanese “Mark Path  ‘Americans: Trad

Cape Gloucester Airstrip Falls To Americans; Remaining Japs Entraped

-Marines Win Jap Dromes   Britain Airfields  Fall in ‘Savace Ficht

Nipponese Face ‘Entrapment — Ae Marines. Seize Airdrome  From Gloucester Defender:

JAPANESE AT CAPE FACING YANKEE TRAP   Gloucester Airdrome Taken By Marines

Marines Capture . Gloucester Drome After Four Days   Krueger Presents Prize to FDR as New Year's Present

Victorious Marines Take Savagely Defended Point Four Days and A Few Hours After U. S. Invasion; .MacArthur Praises Bravery of Men.

Cape Gloucester And Airfield Taken by Yanks  U. S. Losses Described As Very Light; Jap Force Trapped

Cape Gloucester Airdrome Taken By U.S. Marines   Hundreds Of Jap Soldiers Kitied In Jungie Fight; American Losses Light

AIRDROME AT GLOUCESTER IS CAPTURED   United States Marines Take Savagely-Defended Field Four Days After Point Is Invaded   700 JAPANESE KILLED

Casualties Light As Yanks Advance On New Britain Marshall Islands Pounded 21st Straight Day; New Guinea Progress Slow

U.S. Marines. Take Airfield  On Gloucester   “Success ‘OF. Campaign’ In New": Britain. «Is: Fold "By General Krueger: As New Year’s Present

Cape Gloucester Airdrome Taken Nip Losses High, Yanks’  ‘Unbelievably Light’

Cape Gloucester is New Year’s Present for Gen. MacArthur   Marines Praised by Com.mander in Chief for Speedy Victory

Cape Gloucester Airfield Taker   Su rviving Japs Face Entrapment Today

AIR FIELD AND CAPE CAPTURED   U.S. Marines Strew New Britain Jungle With Hundreds of Dead Japs.   BATTLE LASTED 4 DAYS.

MARINES TAKE LOUGESTth IN TOUGH BATTLE   <reuger Offers Jap Stronghold To MacArthur As New Year’s Present

MARINES GRAB SLE AIRHELD   NIPS FACE ENTRAPMENT AT CAPE GLOUCESTER

Marines Capture Japanese Airdrome   Hundreds of Enemy Meet Death In Savage Clash in New Britain

700 Japanese Killed In Offensive   Marine Flamethrowers Burn Way Through Pillbox Defenses

Jungle Strewn With Hundreds Of Dead Japs. . Marines Capture Cape Gloucester And Vital Airfield In Four Days

Hundreds of Japs Left Dead in Jungle, Others Face Destruction as Americans ‘Seize Airdrome Menacing Rabaul Base

Yanks Capture Vital Airdrome Of Gloucester   Overrun Pillbox Defense: Leaving Hundreds Of Dead Jans.

YANKSOVERRUM JAP PILLBOXES: TAKEAIRDROME   ‘Surviving Japanese on Cape  Gloucester Facing En  trapment; U.S. Casualties Slight

JUNGLES ON NEW BRITAIN HELD BY U.S,   Hundreds Of Japs Killed; Take  Airdrome

Marines Capture Jap Airdrome At Cape Gloucester  New ‘Year's Gift

GLOUCESTER’ VITAL AIRPOR]   Hundreds Of Foe Wiped Out Surviving Nipponese Are Facing Entrapment

“AFL Workers Press Plans for WLB Action   Board Tells Workers ‘Loyalty to Jobs Is Involved in Case

Second Set of Tickets Good Leftover Coupons Plus New (Ones May Be Enough for Roast

SECOND SET OF COUPONS GOOD   Left-Over Ration Points May Be Added To New Allotment

OPEN ARGUMENT IN COUNT’S TRIAL      Wife Defends DeMarigny’s Innocence; Case Nears Bahamas Jury

COUNTS TRIAL IN FINAL STAGE   Crown To Ask Death Penalty From All-Male Jury

NOTED TRIAL TO: “END TOMORROW   ACCUSED SLAYER OF SIE MARRY OAKES EXPECTED TO KNOW FATE BY  . TOMORROW

COUNTS TRIAL IN FINAL STAGE   All Male Jury Expected To Start Deliberation After Summations

 fae cs ects te eae eat aa ae bee HN FINAL $1 PER CAPITA ‘SCHOOL MONEY IS PAID

Great Armies Poised for Final: Battles   Germans and Russians Regroup Their Forces

NAZIS, REDS READY FOR BIG BATTLES   Both Armies Have Finished. Regrouping Operations On Entire Front

Russians, Nazis Re-Group Forces   Preparations For Main  Offensive Under Way

Fifth Army Is Credited With Further Gain   San Vittoro Is Next Goal In General Clark’s Drive Along Road To Cassino Strongpoint

New Gains Pounded Out by Fifth And Eighth Armies  American Liberators Strike Into  ,. ne ee oe

Fifth Army Captures San Pietro, Drives On Cassino  As Eighth Army Advances   Slav Partisans _ Maintain Attacks On Nazi Invaders

AMERICAN ARMY PUSHES TOWARD FOE STRONGHOLD   Son Pictro Captured Afte Bloody Fighting, Yanks Near San Vittore

New Gains Pounded Out by Fifth And Eighth Armies  American Liberators Strike Into Germany From South

GAINS ARE MADE BY LIEUT. GEN. MARK CLARK’S STH ARMY   Moving Toward San Vittore, the Second Strong Defense Point After San Pietro.   A GAIN OF TWO MILES   Gen. Montgomery’s 8th Army Overran an Enemy Position in Another Sector.

Fifth Pushing Ahead In Italy   Advance Two Miles After  Taking Fortified San Pyaten.

SAN PIETRO TAKEN IN BLOODY FIGHTING   Montgomery’s Forces Knock Out German Tanks On  Adriatic Coact.

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY HAMMERING OUT NEW ADVANCES  SAN PIETRO CAPTURED AFTER DAYS OF FURIOUS FIGHTING

5th Army Pushes 2 Miles On   Near San Vittore, Next Step Ahead On Rome Road

British, Yanks Now 75 Miles From Rome   Eighth Army Moves Ahead On Flank Of Americans

New Gains By Americans In italian Push   Troops Advance from San Pietro, Taken In Stiff Battle

Fifth Army dlammers  Out Gains   Capture of San Pietro Followed By Lunge Toward Next Strong Point

VILLAGE OF SAN PIETRO IS CAPTURED   Gains Up to Two Miles Are Registered in Mountains to Northeast of Heavily  Fortified Town   MORE TANKS DAMAGED

TWO-MILE GAIN MADE BY STH AT SAN PIETRO   - Montgomery’s Army Knocks Out Mark lV Tanks

San Pietro Falls After 3 Days Of Sharp Fighting   Eighth Army Also Is Forging Ahead On Adriatic Coast

hilth Pounds Out Gains On Cassino Road   Montgomery's Eighth Army Overruns Enemy Post On Adriatic.   DEMOLISH NAZL TANKS

AN PIETRO IN ALLIED HANDS AFTER BATTLE   Yanks Drive On Toward Enemy-Held San Vittore In Difficult Fighting

Fifth Army Takes Heavily Defended San Pietro After Three-Day Battle

(Fifth Army Forces Drive Forward on Road to Rome  After Fall of San Pietro

Fifth Army Makes Gains Up to 2 Miles   Hammers Way Toward San Vittore, Next Strong Point on Route to Cassino, Fellowing Capture of San Pietro.

Germans Pushed Back in Mountain Fighting in Italy   After Taking San Pierto in Bloodiest Battle of War, 5th Army Advances.   British Overrun Nazis Positions Along Sea

bth Gains — in Bloody Battles   Clark’s Men. Hammer Out 2 Mile Advance. in: Push Toward San Vittore   MONTGOMERY’S MEN .. ALSO ADVANCE   San Pietro Taken by U.S Forces in Some of Blood-' jest Fighting of the War

Progress Made In Allied Drive On Italian Fron   Gains Are Made By Americans on Road to Cassino

Clark Forces Forge Beyond San Pietro   5th Holds Ttalian Town Firmly After Costly - Battle in Hills   TOMMIES MOVE UP   Nazi Tanks Knocked Out as British Advance in Adriatic Sector

Gen. Clark’s Forces Follow Triumph At San Pietro, After Three Days Of Furious Fighting, With Drive Toward San Vittore—Other Advances Recorded In Mountains To Northeast—Gen. Montgomery’s Troops Win Village Six Miles From Orsogna

Two-Mile Gains In Mountainous Areas Reported  Way ue Lisl Valley Opened; itish

San Pietro Falls After Bloody Battle   Fifth Army Hammers . Gains; Enemy Forces Beaten on Adriatic

Key Position Is Captured in Furious Fight   Son Pietro Falls To 5th Army After Three-Day Struggle With Foe

AMERICAN FIFTH  ARMY HAMMERING  OUT NEW ADVANCES SAN PIETRO CAPTURED AFTER DAYS OF  EMIpinite LCICRTING

CLARK’S MEN ADVANCING ON SAN VITTORE   Americans Capture San Pietro ir One of Bloodiesi Baitles Fough! in Italy   BRITISH ADVANCE      Fifth Army Troops North of Vena fro Blasting Way Forward in Dif   ficult Terrain

San Pietro In Allied Hands After Strugele   Tank-Supported British Sth Scores Gain On Adriatic Side; Knock Out Enemy Machines

Few Yankees Lost In Bitter Fighting   General Mark Clark’s Men, Aided By The Fighting French Push Forward To New Goals On The Road To Rome

Sth Army Advances 2 More Miles   Take Heavily Fortified Village Of San Pietro

Yanks Surge Past Fallen San Pietro   New 5th Army Gains On Road To Cassino; Eighth  Advances In Fast.

‘Hammer Out New Gains Toward San Vittore As Fiahth Army Advances

POUND OUT NEW GAINS ON ROUTE TO SAN VITTORE   5th Army Advances Toward Next Strong Defense in Haly

Furious Fight in   Clark’s Men Smash Ahead Toward San Vittore After Fall of Village

New Gains Made on Italian Front  Both 5th and 8th _Armies Press Forward

5TH ARMY IS NEAR CASSINO   Yanks Hammer Out New Gains On Road To Rome

Walkouts Idle’  Alabama Mines   Return to Private Management Blamec

Records Of UMW Local Union Are Scanned By Jury  Indicted County Couple Released Upon Posting Personal Bond

JURY STUDIES UNION RECORD   Papers Of Local Brought Into Pennsylvania  Strike Probe

Swindle InUncle Sam To Army PantsHandle All Ils Charged Farm Labor

of . , Ja, Sn A A, Sn Ce a An, ¢  Limiting Of Clothes Due   Move Urged To Avert Buying Panic

Changes in Social Security System to Await New Taxatior   Congressional Commit__tees Will Be Busy on _ Tax Biils

SOCIAL SECURITY MAY BE DELAYED SEVERAL MONTHS   OTHER PROBLEMS CONSIDERED MORE PRESSING NOW

Not Knough Equipment For Farmers   Truman Protests Against Rules  Of The WPB

FARM EQUIPMENT RESTRICTIONS HII   WPB Policy Hurting Farmers, Says Sen. Truman

Sen. Truman Charges Farmers Face Shortage Of Equipment Because Of WPB Restriction

Truman Protests Machine Shortage In Producing Food   Questions Order Cutting Farm Machine Produc tion 23 Per Cent.   Nodaway’s Quota Fixed at 249 Pieces

Farmers Face  Tools Shortage Truman Charges _ Claims WPB. Order Too Severe On  - Needed Equipment; Tiahten Gas Allotmen

Farm Machinery Problem Serious Asserts Senator   War Production Board Urged to Change Ruling

Urges More Machinery For Farms   Senator Truman Protests Cut In 1943 Production   Says Farmers Are Already Handicapped   OPA Tightens Up On B and C Card Holders In East

Farm Machine Restrictions Questioned   Truman Committee Says Production  Will Be Affected

Senator Truman, At Committee H-aring, Protests Restrictions   LEGISLATION DELAYED

Endorses Bill To Speed Up Ship Building   House Bill Would Provide More Than a Billion Dollars to Increase Production of Merchant Ships

U.S. To Make 5 Ships a Day, Congress Hears   Knox Tells of Jap Evacuation Of Guadalcanal

Use ‘Silo’ To Train Bomb Crews Now   Newest Gadget For Air Navigation In War Described

Ailing Rommel To Take Up New Task  Berlin Says He’s Been Home Since March 11

Byrnes Supports Move Involving  Civilian, Supplies   Seen Leading Campaign To Get Control From WLB; Nelson’s Status In Doubt

Uncle Sam Clothing His Fighters Against Gases Which Blister Skin

Prepared For Repelling Gas   Soldiers’ Clothing themically Treated

Today’s War Commentary What About Spain?  Franco Faces Critical Decision

20 More Are Shot Down As Battle Rage:   Foe Believed Ferrying Craft Down Through Truk And Rabaul To Rancgainville Race.

20 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down   Aerial Actions in Buin-Faisi Area Steadily Increase

Yank Airmen Bag 20 Japs In Solomons   Enemy Rushes In Reinforcements, Risking Air Armadas

Japs Battle Aerial Power  Challenge Allied Mastery in Skies Over Solomons

JAPS REINFORCE THEIR AIR FLEET IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Sky Fighting Mounts in Solomons Area—Americans Destroy 20 Planes in Two Raids,   NIPPONESE ATTACK AIRFIELD AT MUNDA   MacArthur’s Ground Forces Mopping Up at Lae—Enemy Freighter Hit Off  : New Ireland.

Air Battle Is Furious in Pacitic Zone   Americans Smash 20 Jap Planes; Enemy) Sends Reinforcements to Solomons To Wage Bitter Fight for Stronghold

JAPS BATTERED ANEW, LOSING 21 MORE AIRPLANES   Enemy Is Forced to Risk Big Formations in Pacific Air War

BIG FORMATIONS IN SKY BATTLES   Japanese Rush Warplane Reinforcements To Solomons Area

ALLIED AIRMEN SHOOT 20 MORE TAPS BROW SKY   Enemy Giving Every Evidence of Challenging Allied Mastery of Solomon Area

Japs Increase Battle Foree   American Planes Add 20 Ta 2.000 Enemy Aireraft Destroyed,

U.S. Planes Blast 20 Jap Fighters Above Solomons   Enemy Sends More Aircralt to Battle Advancing Allies   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday, Sept. 19

ee More Jap Planes Downed  By U. S. Flyer:   ‘Enemy Reinforcing His Southwest Pacific Air:Force -

10 Nips Downed, More Rushed In   Face Saving Sends Enemy Into Furore

PA ACTS TO REDUCE EAN, CABBAGE COST   Lower Wholesale Prices Or ’ Vegetables Ordered

FRESH VEGETABLES TO GET PRICE GUTS   Cabbage and Snap Beans First Under Control

Military Talks At FDR Parleys   With Russia Out of Conference, Military Strategy Emphasized.

Russia Not Invited to Quebec Conference; ttaly Hopefully Eyes Talks as Peace Move

REDS REPORT NO INVITATION TO CONFERENCE   Statement Leads To Belief Parley To Deal with Military Subiects.

DEMOCRATS PREPARE PAY-AS-YOU-GO PLAN   Under Proposal 1942 Income Would Be Taxed At 1941 Rates; Republicans Balk

VOTES TO PASS TAX PREDICTED   Doughton Sees Strength To Bring Out Pay-Go Plan For Showdown

CLAIMS VOTES FOR TAX BILL   Doughton Says Bill Levying Lower Rates on 1942 Incomes to be Reported

Doughfon Predicts Democrats Will Pass Tax Bill with Rates of 1941

 Ten Die in Demonstration St. Louis Mayor And Officers Plunge To Death In Glider

TEN LOSE LIVES IN GLIDER CRASH AT SAINT LOUIS    Mayor Of City And Other  High Officials Victims Of Accident   THOUSANDS WITNESS DIVE ONTO AIRPORT

1 Die in Crash Of Glider at {, Louis Field   Yayor of City and Pioneer Aviator Are Among Victims: Wines Crample From Craft

Two Prominent St. Louis Men  Die In Crash   Glider aecident - takes - toll of ten lives; many visitors at airport see  1,500 foot plunge.‘ —

How About a Bond?   Glider Crash Kills 10 In St. Louis  Mayor, Officials Die in Plunge OM A waas: ('enft

housands Watch Mayor and Nine Others in Craft ‘all 1500 Feet to Death   Presiding Judge of County Court, Head of City’s C. of C., President of Aircraft Corp., Army Officers - Among Dead as Wing Falls Off in Demonstration

Motorless Plane Breaks Up, Falls 1,500 Ft. to Field   Thousands of Spectator: ~ See Crackup during Test Flight   Army Officials and FBI In vestigating Possible Sabotage

S.LOWISMAYOR 1 CF IODEADIN GLIDER CRASH   Prominent Civic and Military Men Aboard When Left Wine Falls Off 1500 Feet  in the Air   Recker Reform Mayor

TEN PERSONS GLIDER CRASH   St. Louis Mayor, Two Army Officers are Among Victims

TEN PERSONS LOSE LIVES IN GLIDERCRASH   Wm. D. Becker, Mayor o St. Louis, One of the Victims   COUNTY OFFICIALS ALSO ARE KILLED

Army Glider Crash Takes Lives of Ten At St. Lannc   Mayor of St. Louis, Two Army Officers, Three City Officials And Judge Victims  WINGS COME OFF DURING FLIGHT

len Are Killed In Glider Crash   Mayor of St. Louis Is Among Victims

Ten Die When Big Glider Crashes  Mayor of St. Louis Is Among Victims

TEN PERSONS LOSE LIVES IN GLIDER CRASH   Wm. D. Becker, Mayor of St. Louis, One of the Victims   COUNTY OFFICIALS ALSO ARE KILLED   Craft Falls During Dem. onstration at Air Field

TEN PERSONS ‘ARE KILLED IN GLIDER CRASH   St. Louis Mayor, Twe Army Officers are . Among Victims

lhe War I oday—  Opening Of Second Land Front In Europe Believed Definitely Decided

KISKA MARKED FOR KNOCKOUT   Ten Flights Of Planes Tear Up Airfield And Silence Big Guns

Farm Leaders From Friendly Nations May Confer in 1944   Proposal Made to National Grange; Hears Food Administrator

PROPOSE COUNCIL OF FARM LEADERS   National Farm Bureau Chiefs  Propose Allied Leaders Draft (Post-War Program

RAF Lost Only 88 Planes to Wreck Hamburg; Nazis Lost 1200 in London

‘PROGRESS 3 MILES DESPITE BATTERING ALLIED DEFENSES   Bad ‘Weather Hampers  ‘Operations In Cath   Fleet Ready To Hit At Japan Itself

Pacific Fleet Ready to Hit Heart of Industrial Japan   Admiral Nimitz Declares United States Now At Cross roads of Pacific Campaign; Says It’s Qur Job to Destroy Enemy’s Ships and Planes and to Neutralize His Island Strongpoints

Towa Towns Battle To Avert Flood   Extensive Diking In Progress; Flood  Stave At St. foe

Builders of Dike Race With Flood  Two Villages Evacuat ed As Torrents Rage

New Way of Making Gun Barrels Told   Army Discloses This Prevented Artillery Shortage

FRENCH LEADER TO JOIN GIRAUD   Commissioner In Syria Represents DeGaulle In North Africa

ESCAPE DEATH IN FIVE MISHAPS   Girl Jumps from Sixth Floor Window, Unhurt in 45-Foot Fall

CEILING PRICES ON MEAT T0 BE LOWER   New Prices Will Become Effective Monday — OPA Claims Savings To Customers Will Be 10 Per Cent

LOWER: CEILING PRICES ARE SET ON MEATS   New Scale Will Become Effective On Monday...

irap Looms For Nazis in Donets Basin  Krasnograd, Pavlograd Ball in Swift Wheelhna      Krasnograd, Pavlograd Fall in Swift Wheeling Movement  RTPA OTS waASrtIrmTyy Corn rn   NEAR POWER SITE   Possibility Is Seen of Axis Abandonment of Crimea

Great Power Site Tn South Russia Now Threatened By Russian Drive   Krasnograd and Pavlograd Fall; Trap ‘Uhrentening Retreating Nazis In Donets Rasin

Reds Threaten Ta Clee- * ‘ap  sO yao 2A, )~= Oot A   ~via Kussian Movement Raises Possibility  Of Axis Abandonment Of the Entire Crimea

SOVIET TROOPS MOVE FORWARD   Reds Capture Krasnograd, Railroad Junction

Threaten To Trap Enemy In Donets Basin  Possibility of Axis Abandonment in

Reds Capture Two Southern Rail Centers   Russian Advance Raises Possibility Of Nazi Abandonment Of Crimea.   (CLOSE ON AXIS UNITS

TRAP CLOSING ON HITLER IN DONETS BASIN   KEY RAIL JUNCTIONS CAPTURED IN RED ADVANCE

SOVIET TROOPS SHATTER NAZIS IN SOUTH ZONE      Approach Vital City Of Dneperopetrovsk andCapture Railroad Junction Points   SWIET SKI TROOPS TRAP NAZI UNITS   Report Germans’ Rushing Reserves From France In Futile Effort To Stem Red Drives

Soviet Drive May Retake Crimean Area   Midnight Communique Re: veals Wheeling Movement Only 36 Miles From Dnieperopetrovsk

SUVIET ARMIES PUSH FORWI ON WIDE FRONT   Russian Troops Only 36 Miles From Keystone Of © Secondary Defenses

RED ARMY ONLY 36 MILES FROM FOE STRONGHOLD   Reds Threaten Nazis Along Wide Front, Nearing Point Vital to Enemy

Reds Lash  At Nazis In All Regions   Stalin’s Fighters Threaten More Keys Of Hitler’s Defense

Soviets Only 36 Miles From  Power Center   Russian Forces Drive Through Thawing Ice To Threaten City Of  Dnieneronetrovsk

War Bond Score   Russians Push On Toward. Germans’ Secondary Lines

Reds Capture Two Vital  Rail Junctions   Threaten to Trap Nazi Forces ; in Donets Basin

GERMANS FLEEING IN DONETS BASIN PLACED IN PERIL   Face Threat of Entrapment as Russians Seize Two Key Rail Centers South of Kharkov.   CRIMEAN POSITIONS ALSO ENDANGERED   Reds Only 36 Miles From Dnieperopetrovsk, Power Site Keystone of Nazi’s Second Defenses. .

Swift Red Push. Perils Keystone Of Dnieper Line   Russians Wheel Southwest Of Kharkov, Stab To Krasnograd, Pavlograd, Both Important Railway Junctions «°

Reds Nearing Key Nazi  Base, Damsite   Possibility of Axis Abandonment Of Crimea Raised by Trapping Retreatine Army in Donets Basin

Claims Allies  Raided Vatican   Germans Say Bomb Hits Caused Destruction In Mosaic Factory.

Italian Flying Fields Hit With New Fury   Important Bases -on Sicily and Mainland Smashed

FOUR ITALIAN AIR BASES PULVERIZED BY U. 5. BOMBERS   One Hundred Liberators Rain  400,000 Tons of Explosives   on Defenses of  Taranto.   RAIDERS DESTROY TWELVE AXIS PLANES   Battered Palermo and Catania, Sicily, and Cagliari, on Sardinia, Blasted by RAF.   RBRULLETIN.

Vatican Bombed, Germans Claim   Plot to Discredit Allies Suspected

Nazis Charge Vatican Raid   Mosaic Factory Hit, German Radio Says in Unconfirmed Report

Palermo Air, Naval Bases  Knocked Out   Rome Radio Declares Positions ‘No Longer Exist?’ After Heavy Allied Pounding

Rome Radio Says Vatican Hit by Bombs   Damage Claimed; Allies Claim Trick by Germans

Claim Vatican  City Is Bombed   No Confirmation Of Ber« lin Broadcast; Recall Allied Leaflet Warning.

Germans Name July 14 Date  For Invasion   July 3, Hitler's Second Guess For Attack Day, Passes Quietly.   BOMBERS PASTE ITALY

Rome Radio Admit Palermo Hammered Into Uselessness  By Repeated Raids

ALLIES BOM 4 AA Bhato BY DAYLIGH]   Scores of Tons of Explosives and Fire Bombs Hit important Cities.   NEGRO PILOT GETS HIS FIRST. ENEMY FIGHTER

Allied Bombs. Destroy Naval And Air Bases   American Bombers Blost Italian Airfields os British Drop Bombs  On Italian Cities

 ¢ WH Ag TER FB UREA REO Tix an Sy NEWS BUN   Germans Claim Allies Bomb Vatican City

Bombs Land in Vatican City ©   German High Command Claims Damage Caused By Allied Aircraft

Hits Cause Destruction in World-Famous Mosaic Factory and Goyernor’s Palace   REPORT DRAWS NQ COMMENT IN LONDON   Allies Had Warned in July Possibilty of Bombing Intentionally by Axis Powers

Raids Hit New Peak Of Fury On Italians   Big Italian Naval Base Reported Wiped Out in Air Assaults

CLAIM VATICAN CITY BOMBED   No Confirmation Of Berlin Report From Allied  Sources

VATICAN CITY RAID DOUBTED   Suspect Nazi Plot To Diseredit Allies

NAZIS REPORT RAID ON VATICAN CITY   Declare Allied Airmen Caused Considerable Damage—Story Lacks Confirmation,

Air Attacks On ltalian Islands Are Intensified   Military Ajir Field: Pounded: Holland  France, Belgium  Raided

Allied Assaults — Reach New Peak   Four Big Italian Bases Pulveried  ic: -mpseene “Seren Nie ae Ease wets

Italians Admit Palermo Base Knocked Out   Air, Naval Installations Declared Useless After Heavy Sicily Raids   85 AREAS BATTERED   Seven Weeks Of Aeria Pounding Wrecks Axi: Island Supply Lines

Rome Complains Allies Are Not Playing Fair’  Kick Down-Out [me Ss ee ee

Bombs Dropped On Vatican City   Mosaic Workshops Damaged, But No One Is Iniured

VATICAN S BOMBED, GERMAN RADIOS SAY   Allies Had Warned Nazis Planned Such Propaganda

Germans Claim Vatican City Hit   Believed Attempt To Discredit Allies

NazisSay Vatican City Bombed   Allies See Propaganda Move In German-Controlled Report

ee a as ee a en  Bombs Dropped On Vatican City  Unidentified Plane Involved

Germany Charges Vatican Bombed  - Berlin Report ‘Not nf tha Aliiacg

FOUR BOMBS FALL IN VATICAN CITY   EXPLOSIVES DROPPED BY SINGLE PLANE DAMAGE WORKSHOPS AND PALACE.

Allied Assaults — Reach New Peak   Four Big Italian  Bases Pulveried By NOLAND NORGAARD

Nazis Claim Vatican Hit by Bombs   GERMANS SAY “DAMAGE CONSIDERABLE” IN FOUR-BOMB AIR RAID

Vatican Bombed By Plane But Damage Slight   Ship Is Unidentified Several Bombs Are Dropped, Building: Are Hurt

GERMAN RADIO SAYS “ENEMY” AIRCRAFT — ATTACKED VATICAN   Associated: Press Has Been Unable to Get Any Confirmation. of Any Such  Attack: =.

NAZIS SUSPECTED OF AERIAL ATTACK ON VATICAN CITY   German-controlled Rome Radio Tells of Bombing Last Niaht+

Number Mines Still Idle In Pennsylvania   Back-To-Mines Movement Gains Favor However

Pennsylvania Miners Refuse To End Strike  Pickets Appear   Pickets Appear As 20,000 Defy UMW Orders

FDR Holds Draft Club Over Any New Coal Strike   Congress Critical, Sees  Veto Of Anti-Strike Bill

MINERS SLOW ~ IN RETURNING TO COAL PITS   Back-to-Work Movement Gains bu Some Locals Vote Refusal Oth ers Stall on Issue

Some Miners Staying Out  Back to Mines  Move Gaining Mamantsum Haweve

COAL MINERS REMAIN IDLE BY THOUSANDS   Although Back-to-Work Movement Gains Momentum, Some Locals _ Have Voted Not to Obey UMW Orders.

Trek Back To Pennsylvania Pits Is Slow   Number of Unions Representing 24,000 Workers Vote Against Returning  PICKETING IS REPORTED

THOUSANDS OF THE - NATION'S MINERS ARE IDLE TODAY   Refused to Go Back Despite Orders From United Mine Workers.   23,000 OUT IN ALABA™*   Approximately 5000 Refused to Return to the Mines in West Virginia.

Thousands Of Miners Refuse To Obey Lewis’ Back - To - Work Order   Many Mines Still Idle in Pennsylvania Coal Field: Where Less Than 50 Pct. of Workers Have Retur: ed to Jobs. Meeting to Be Held to Pass on Polic Committee Instructions

Team Work With White House Sought  Old Democratic Organization: Is: 

Gen. Giraud Now At Dakar  Will Confer With Tinited States Mission

General Giraud Reaches Dakar   High Commissioner of Africa to Confer with American Mission

Giraud In Dakar To Confer: With American Missior   Boisson, Also Attending Fully Favors Agreemen’ With DeGaulle

GIRAUD AT DAKAR   French High Commissioner Arrives At West Coast Port

GIRAUD IN CONFERENCE   High Commissioner for French ! Africa Arrives in Dakar

DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS PASSES SENATE   Action Is Spurred By Reports Of Imminent Food Shartave   DEFEAT IS SUFFERED BY ADMINISTRATION

Senate Votes For Deferment  ‘Of Farm Hands   Some Say Action Already Too Late to Improve Food Situation

‘Deferment «To Farm Labor Group Voted   Senate Overrides War Department; Bill Goes fo House

SENATE MOVES TO ASSIST FARMERS   Passes Bill to Check Draft: ing Workers For Army, House to Act.

Senate Passes Bill To Defer  Farm Labor   Some Supporters Fear Drain on Farm Labor Already at Serious Stave

Senate Votes to Defer Farm Workers   Measure Now Goe: to House for Final Action

SENATE MEASURE DEFERS FARMERS   Passes Bill Overriding Wai Department Protests; Goes to House

SENATE APPROVES DRAFT DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS   Measure Put Through by Vote of 50 to 24— War Department Protests Unheeded.   APPLLES TO LABOR EMPLOYED FULL TIME   Sponsors Contend Bill Will Avert Food Disaster— Legislation Now Goes to House.

SENATE VOTES FOR FARM DEFERMENT!   Protests..of War Depart. ment Overridden—Bill Goes to Houce

SENATE VOTES  BILL TO DEFER MEN ON FARMS   War Department Protests Overridden 50 to 24

Senate Passes Bill to Defer  Farm Workers   Chamber Overrides Protests of Army: House Votes Fund for Recruiting Program

Senate Approves Ban on Draft Of Farm Labor   War Department's Protest Overridden By 50-to-24 Vote

Senate Votes To Defer Farm Labor  Body Overrides Army Chiefs; Ballot 50 to 24

SENATE PASSES BILL 10 HALT FARMER DRAFT   Overrides Department Of ~ War In Denying Any More Agricultural Men For Army   House Gets Measure

-Deferment »To Farm Labor Group Voted  ©  Senafe Overrides   ' Senate Overrides War Department; Bil Goes fo House

First Army Captures Heidous; French Drive Wedge In Center of De fense Arc.

HARD BATTLE LIES AHEAD, IS WARNING   Enfidaville Still Is in Hands of the Germans

ORGANIZATION “OUTLINED FOR RELIEF SETUP      ESTIMATE MILLION PERSONS WILL BE NEEDED FOR POSTWAR. REHABILITATION IN RUINED COUNTRIES

MILLION PEOPLE TO BE USED IN WORLD RELIEF   Price And Ration Controls Are To Be Continued Following War   HEAVY BURDEN FOR JU. S.   Gulick Declares America Should Carry Greatest Share Of Cost

Million People Will Be Required to Handle Relief Rehabilitian Program

Frenchmen Working On Near Unity   Giraud to Run Headquarters, De Gaulle Military Campaigning

Agree On French Military Rule  Giraud To Command  At ‘Headquarters _ _ mo i

BIRAUD REMAINS ~ AEAD-OF-ARMY   Agrees To Number of Concessions To Géneral De Gaulle

GIRAUD RETAINS ARMY COMMAND   Concessions Made To Fighting French Under New Compromise

GIRAUD REMAINS AS COMMANDER » OF FRENCH ARMY   MAKES CONCESSIONS TO DE GAULLE IN NEW COMPROMISE

Report Giraud and DeGaulle Agreed on  Division of Command   Spirit of Conciliation Brings About New Free French Government

Compromise Seer For French Unity   Giraud Will Remain  As Commander,

GEN. GIRAUD STILL FRENCH COMMANDER   However, He Has Made Concessions to DeGaulle Which Give Other Fighting French Army Jobs.

NEAR FRENCH UNITY ‘AF   DeGaulle and Giraud Reported to Have Reached An Agreement

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD REACH  NEW TREATY   Latter to Remain Commana-,-in-Chief of French Army, Source In AL giers Reports   CONCESSIONS MADE   Understood Giraud Will Replace High Officers With Generals From Fiehting French

Giraud Still Army Chief   Agrees To Give Up Field Command; Great. er Unity Developing

Giraud Status As Leader Is Still In Doubt   Fighting French Leaders Said to Have Reached New Compromise  rent it ARAL AsIr AC mirac Cr

Giraud Remains As Commander  Of French Army   Give And Take Compro mise Made With DeGaulle.

GIRAUD READS  FRENCH ARMY   New Compromise Reached Settling Long Standing Issue of Command.

Free French Leaders Reach New Compromise To Set Up Giraud As Head Of Forces

Reunited: Again - By Compromise   Giraud To. Be “Army. Chief .. Accepting Top: Officers ” From De -Gaulle Camp

FRENCH REACH NEW COMPROMISE   Giraud to Remain Commander in Chief of French Army, but to Grant Concessions

GIRAUD EXPECTED TO RETAIN POST, NEW COMPROMISE   Concessions Made By Girauc Provide Replacement of High Offivers of French Fighting Force.   GIRAUD’S JOB MAY BE ONLY IN HEADQUARTERS   National Liberation Committee Takes Up Efforts of Directing War Against Axis Forces.

Giraud Holds Army Contro!   African French Leader Makes Concessions To De(Gaulle Faction.

Gen. Giraud Continues  Army Leader   Agrees To Replace Some Officers With de Gaullists

Degaulle and Giraud Agree   New Compromise is Reached Between French Leaders

MGIRAUD ‘STAYS E AS ARMY HEAI   De Gaulle Wins ‘Number Of Concessions In Return

Gen. Giraud Will Continue To Head Army   ‘Commander-In-Chief Will Make Concessions To De Gaulle As Result Of   New Compromise

REPORT FRENCH LEADERS REACH AN AGREEMENT   Gen. Henri Giraud To Remair Commander of Fighting Frenchmen

Floods H amper Rescue Work In Hurricane Area As Toll Hits 15 And Damane Ricec

Floods Slow Work Of Rescuers: -.... After Hurricane  Coastal Area Deaths  Now Total 15; Damage ts Ahant 2717 O00 OT

RAF Speedsters _ Whip Thru Germans   Russian Front A Lake Of Slush

SPEEDY BRITISH  MOSQUITO PLANES ATTACK GERMANY   Dropped Bombs From Altitudes As Low As 50 Feet on Power Station and Railroad Shon

GERMANS GAPE AS RAF FLIERS DIP OVER CITY   Mosquito Ships Swoop Low To Drop Delayed Action Bombs On Shops

WFA To Remove Market Quofas On 1943 Coffon   Consumption Slated To Fall Below Praduction

AAA Quotas On 1943 Cotton Crop To Be Suspended   Impending Action By WFA Will Permit Farmers To Sell This Year’s Crop Without Penalty.

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD TO MEET IN ALGIERS  Conference May Unite Al   Conference May Unite All Frenchmen Outside of Metropolitan France

EXPECT OE GAULLE IN ALGIERS SOON   Conferences With Gen. Git aud to Unite All Frenchmer Outside of France

John B. Meling’ Died Friday   A Well Known Cylinder ‘Resident. Funeral Was Held Wednesday.

Court Hears Viereck Case  Conviction As Nazi Agent Submitted To Supreme Court

GERMANS DELAY RUSSIAN DRIVE   Hitler, Favoring Summer Offensive, Yields To Von Bock

Shortages Caust Delay Of Nazi Drive In Russia   Full Offensive Against Soviet Would Draw Troops From Invasion Defense

“Playing in . Big Leagues” —Eisenhower   General Says Allies Now Are Hitting the Germans Where It Hurts

We're Playing In Majors Now   Eisenhower Explains Why All-Out Invasion Tried

How Nazis Put Out Peace Feelers In 1940 Revealed By Ex-Ambassador

Davies Reveals German Peace  Proposals Made During 1940   Provided For Hitler’s Retirement But For Retention Of Nazi Power

Nazis’ Peace Feeler In’40 Is Described   Davies Says They Wanted To Keep All They Had Stolen

Joseph E. Davies, Former Ambassador to Russia, Approached by Spekesman For Germany   PROPOSAL INCLUDED HITLER RETIREMENT   But Germany Was to Keep Dominant Place Which Conquest Achieved In Europe

‘DAVIES REVEALS NAZI PEACE FEELER PROVIDING FOR HITLER RETIREMENT

Hitler Sought Peace With US In 1940 Talks   Nazi High Officials Present. ed Plan To Retire Hitler. Retain Gains.   DAVIES CUT OFF PLAN

Germans Made Overtures In 1940 Davies Reveals Nazis Made Offer Of Peace  ia Be es ee

Former Ambassador To Russi Davis Reveals Meeting Inspired By Business Men

New Air Raid Warning Signals Are In Effect   To Be Uniform Throughout the Entire State.

GOVERNOR MAKES GRANGE IN HAIL WARNING SYSTEM   War Department Is Asking For Uniform Signal Protection

Red Army Drives to. Within 75 Miles of Rostov In Caucasus      Russians Gain on Four Fronts to Seize Many German-held Villages; Nazis Expect Red Offensive On Black Sea

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   _ Caucasus Position Becoming Desperate As Soviets Close In

Soviets Push Forward on Four Fronts   Black Sea Area To Flare up Soon Stockholm Says

AUSUIAN ARMM DRIVE NEARING CTY OF ROSTOV   Steadily Advancing Soviet Forces Within 75 Miles Of Caucasus Gateway   RUSSIAN GAINS ON FOUR FRONTS ARE ANNOUNCED   Little Land Action Occurs On Tunisian Battlefront But Bombers Active

REDS DRIVE TO WITHIN 75 MI. OF ROSTO'   Russians Gain On 4 Fronts, Many Villages Taken

Strikers Disregard WLB Refurn Order   First Union-Authorized Strike Under New Act

Correspondent Tells Of Fight  Ending Resistance On Papuan   Word-Picture Of Battle Fought Under Great Odds Told By Youthful United Press Official   By FRANK H, RARTHOLOVEN

Belting Hell Out Of Japs   Nevada Resident Gives Eyewitness Account of Battle   By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW

Michigan War Wounded Tell Epic Tales OF Valor Under Fire In New Guinea

Offers To Negotiate   Petrille Says Time Has Come Te “Talk Business”

Petrillo To Lift Ban If Terms Mef   Senate Committee Hears Union Leader On Music Issue

MUSICIANS’ CHIEF AGREES TO NEGOTIATE   Petrillo Explains Union's Side. Says Would Permit Recordings on FDR's Order

Petrillo Agrees To Parley With  Record Firms   Tells senators he will try to reach accord and end bar on. making transcriptions.

READY TO Y°°oTIATE      rilleo Prom... _, ry to Settle = r Record no le’

House Receives 73 Bills for  Consideration Total of 256 Is ‘Less Than  See: TU ewek RE ec cas:

House Receives 73 Bills for  Consideration  Total of 256 Is Less Than  fo  eet. 6 acotan

House Winds Up Entry ()f New Bills   Record Set as Final Measures Come in Before 35th Meeting

SOLON CRASHES FOOD PARLEY   Michigan Republican Astounds U. S. Chiefs But Is Welcomed

ATTENDING PARLEY.   Congressman Crashed Food Conference At Hot Springs.

e @ NEW CHAMPION ‘  CRASHER’ :  Congressman Springs Lock on Door of Food Conference

ALLIED AIRMEN POUND MUNDA IN THEIR HEAVIEST ATTACK IN THE PACIFIC ARE!

Reds Stop Big Nazi. Tank Drive   Massed Artillery Crushes Gigantic Offensive.

SOVIETS FIRM ON ALL SECTORS   Heaviest Attack Is Aimed At Korosten Near Kiev   3,000 GERMANS   Reported Killed In Fight; Claim Reds Make Dent In Vitebsk Line

“HEAVLARTILERY. TONE TANS   Red Army Forces Holding Firm On All. Sectors

“GERMANS? TANK UNITS CHECKED   Reds Battle Hitler’s Legions To Standstill in Heavy Fighting Near Kiev

SOVIET FORCE DESTROYS 148 BIGNAZITANKS   New Enemy Counter- Ati tack Comes As Red Pres  sure Increases In Vit  ebsk-Polotsk Area   HE. AVIEST N ST NAZI BLOW EAR KOROSTEN   First Ukraine Army, Instead of Giving Ground Before Onslaught, Improves Position

RUSSIANS BLAST TANK ATTACK   Germans Spring Large Scal Drive Along Forty Mile Front.

Armored Action One Of Heaviest In Present Wat   Reds Increase Pressure On Enemy Defense In Vitebsk -Polotsk Sector

Heavy Armored Assault Hurled Against Russians   Terrific Attack Started Along 400-Mile Front

War's Biggest Tank Battle In Russia   Germans. Smash Against Advancing Soviet Lines

Massed Russian Guns Blaze From Unyielding Lines   Heaviest Assault Hurled ‘In: Korosten: Sector Of ‘Kiev’ Bulge, But Red Forces Holding Firmly —Red Baltic Army Advances; Now Less Than  15 Miles-of Vitebsk.

RED FORCES STAND FIRM ALONG LINE   Korostén. Sector: I: Scene Of New ‘Fighting

RED ARTILLERY HOLDING NAZIS TANK ASSAULTS   Germans Unleash One Of Heavist Armored Attacks

Russians Hold Against Heavy Nazi Offensive   Germans Launch Heavy Armored Assault on 400-Mile Front; 148 Nazi Tanks Destroyed

HEAVY ARMOR CARRIES LOAD ON RED FRONT   Russ Forees Reported Holding Firm Against Power of Nazi Attacks.

Massed Russian Artillery Blazes Away Against New German Armored Offensive On 400-Mile Front From White Russia To Dnieper Bend—At Least 148 Of Assaulting Vehicles Reported Destroyed—Soviet Pressure Increases Near Vitebsk

EXTENDS FRO WHITE RUSSIA TO DNIEPER BEND   Soviet Forces Holding Firr on All Fronts, Smash 148 Tanks

Offensive Described asOne of War's Heaviest;  Russians Holding Firm

Massed Russian Heavy Artillery Blazes Away Against Gigantic New German Tank Offensive

GIGANTIC GERMAN TANK OFFENSIVE AGAINST SOVIETS   Massed Russian Heavy Artillery and Big Mobile Field Guns Used on Nazis.   ATTACKS YESTERDAY —   ‘Were Made on 400-Mile  Stretch; Reds Are Hold ing Firm.

Soviet Guns Pound Huge Tank Attack   Large Scale  Assault Sprung On 400 Mile  Peart

REDS REPULSE TANK ASSAULT   Soviets Reported Holding Firrn iff Latest LargeScale Attack

Gigantic Tank Drive Fails Yo Budge Russian:   Germans Attack Along 400-Mile Front, But Are Thrown Back

Nazis Launch Huge Armored  Attack On Reds   Russian Troops Drive Upon Vitebsk Fortress

Soviets Hold Firm Against Tank Assault   Germans Strike on A 400-Mile Front; Pressure Increases On Vitebsk-Polotek

NEW GERMAN TANK CORPS FIGHT REDS   Russians Holding Firm Against New Attack

Russians Drive Forward Along Northern Front   Soviet Lines Refuse To Yield Before Nazis; Threat Grows Hourly To Vitebsk Base

Russ Trap Thousands   Heavy Guns Check Nazi Tank Drive On 400-Mile Front

Russian Troops Drive Westward From Vitebsk   Moscow Says Massive Nazi Counterattacks Stalled; White Russian Rail Center Reporte Within Artillery Range

GERMANS USE TANKS AN-COUNTER ATTACKS ON 400-MILE FRAN   Reds Report Smashing 14 Tanks With. Fire. From Mobile Guns ~   SKI. TROOPS ARE. USEI

SOVIETS CHECK HEAVY GERMAN TANK THRUSTS   Gigantic Battle Flares On 400-Mile Long Front

Altack Stretches Fron White Russia io Dnieper Bend     PEN ARMY UaATHive   RED ARMY HOLDING   Heaviest Assault, Massec in Korosten Sector of Kiev Bulece

BISHOP VOICES OPPOSITION TO CHURCH MERGER   Episcopal Leader Rejects Plans To Join With Presbyterians

MERGER OF CHURCHES MEETING OPPOSITION   Episcopal Bishop Against Present Plans

MAILING RUSH STARTS   Only Packages” Sent Early Can Be Delivered on Time

Japs Are Forced ‘To Leap Into Sea   Marines Borrow Page from Singapore Book And Drive to the Rear to Seize Viru Harbor

Foxy Marine: Fooled Japs   Page Lifted From Singapore Debacle; Foe Driven Into Sea

U.S. Marines Give Japs Taste of Their Own Medicine at Viru Harbo

Marines Employ Jap Tactics In Atfack on. Viru  Soe mens: = eT ARVO ea

How Marines  Captured Viru   Surprise Attack Drove Japs Over Cliff

May Call Willkie In Election Quiz   Charges by Sparks Cited by Senator

SENATE BODY MAY SUMMON WILLKIE   “Bought” 1940 Nomination, Former Akron Mayor Says

FOOD SITUATION MORE SERIOUS THAN REALIZED   Secretary Wickard Makes Report To President—Bationing Lies Ahead

Situation Is Told by Wickard   More Serious Than People Realize, Says in Report  to President

U.S. FOOD SITUATION IS SERIOUS, IS REPORT   Nation Too Complacent, Is Claim Of Wickard   DEMAND HAS INCREASED   ‘Must Begin To Hold Back’ Now, Says Secretary

Turin Paper Gloomy Now   Says Italians Have Long Since Lost All Illusions

ITALIANS LOSE HOPE   A Turin Newspaper Says Charices Against Allies: Are Poor

Congress May Recess Today Until Jan. 10   Some Unfinished Items May Be Completed, but Great Many Others Will Be Carried Over.

Morgenthau Issues Burning Criticism of Revenue Measure   * ‘Treasury Secretary is Still Holding Out for 10 Billions

SENATORS: REPORT SHOCK TO BRITAIN   Little Unofficial and No Official Comment Is Forthcoming.

British Obviously Aroused By ‘Secret’ Report of U. S.  Solons On Overseas Tour

SENATORS SHOCK BRITISH PUBLIC   CRITICISM OF GREAT BRITAIN VIEWED AS CHILDISH NONSENSE

Statements Shock British   Press and Public Surprised at Five Senators’ Charges

Senate Subpoenas  John L. Lewis   Demands Testimony In Manpower Hearing

BIG THREE OF OHIO COP SET HARMONY TRIF   Schorr and Taft Backing For Bricker Presidential Run Seen In Move.

BRICKER WILL" VISIT SCHORR   “FISHING TRIP” TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT HEARING ON STATE GOP POLITICAL BETUP

House Passes ? Contested Bills   Parole Board Ripper And Civil Service Suspension Passes

HOUSE ADOPTS PAROLEBOARD RIPPER BILL   Hotly - Contested Legislation is Passed and Goes To Governor For His Signature  TWA VITAL ITEMC LZET

Another Jap Convoy Under Allied Attack   Two Of Eight Vessels Are Hit; Assault Still Going On; Move Under Caver OF Rad Weather

Airmen Discover Enemy Fleet Off New Guinea, Scores Hits on Two Ships   Five Merchantmen, Three Destroyers Head For Island Under Cover of Storm Front; Flyers Continuing Attack Anyway

ALLIES ATTACK ENEMY CONVOY   Hit Transport, Cargo Ship Off New Guinea

ALLIES ATTACK NEW JAP FORCE OFF NEW GUINEA   Direct Hit Reported on 8000-Ton Cargo Ship; Assault Continues

Allied Planes Pounce on Jan Convoy   Two Ships Are Hit in Initial Attack Near Wewak

Allied Planes Hit Two Ships In Jap Convoy      +Fortresses: Fire: Transport ”. ; And Cargo Vessei

SECOND NIPPON CONVOY BOMBED   Allied Planes Report Hits On Transport and Cargo Ship

Two Vessels Hit; Attack  Continuing   Five Merchantmen and Three Destroyers. Are Found by Warplanés:

Fortresses Continue Attack Off New Guinea; Second Japanese Fleet Hunted

Transport And Cargo Vessel Hit   Convoy of Eight Vessels Spotted Gn Wav to N. Guinea

Allied Planes Damage 2 Japanese ‘Ships in Convoy Headed for Guinea   Attacks Are Continuing on Fleet of Five Merchantmen and Three Enemy Destroyers

ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB JAP CONVOY   TWO OF & SHIPS DAMAGED IN NEW GUINEA AREA—ATTACK CONTINUES.

SUICIDE DIVES BY AIRMEN - . REVEALED IN PLOESTI RAID   GUNNER IN ‘SENSATIONAL AT. TACK TELLS OF TWO CRIPPLED SHIPS PILOTED  “~ §NTO TARGETS

Germans Burning  Part Of Equipment   Main German Resistance Is Thinning Over Salient On Rome Road Just North Of Capua

3-Mile Advance Posted By Yanks  On Volturno  8th Army Runs Into Stiff  Resistance

10 Towns Won In  Advance   Fifth Widens Volturno Bridgehead; British Fighting  Fiercely.

Enemy Laying Down Heavy Barrage   German Strongpoint Taken Over by American Forces

WASHINGTON IS SHOCKED BY JAP REPRISAL MOVE       Pian Showdown on Father Drafting, Tax Issue Fight

Russia Believes Zero Hour Near  For Big Attack   Sharp German Feeler Thrusts

‘No Surrender’ Is OPA’s Policy   Brown Declares He'll Not Change

‘APPEASEMENT?’ IS RULED OUT OF OPA    ‘Brown Declares ‘No Surrender’ In Policy

OPA T0 HOLD TIGHT ON FARM CEILINGS   “The Boss" Brown Calls For “No Appeasement” On Any Ruling

Price Boss  Stands Pat   Post-War Planning Board Holds Hot Debate

)FFICERS NAMED BY. RED:CROSS. ~ AT -ANNVILLE   Reports Are Heard At Annual Meeting Eridav

FALL OF LAE T ALLIED FORCES BELIEVED NEAR   Jap Stronghold Tottering; 48 To 59 Japanese Fighter Planes Destroyed In Amazing American Aerial Victory.

BELIEVED LAE NEAR  CAPTURE BY ALLIED  NEW GUINEA DRIVE ANOTHER GREAT AERIA  VICTORY MARKED UP pv ATTIEN EneCe

FALL OF LAE LOOMS AFTER JAP DEFEAT   Force of 70 Enemy Planes Riddled, 48 Lost, Toll May ~ Reach 59

JAP BASE AT LAE TOTTERING   Fall Believed Imminent, Ground Forees Close In

Fall Of Lae Imminent As  Japs Crumble   Allies Moving, Up:: ‘Fas Upon Weakened: Ené my. Great Air Victory  Scored In Destructior Of Probably 59 Enem Planes Out of Probabl Attacking Force of 70:

Fall of Lae Believed To Be Imminent   Allied Airmen Merk Up Another Amazing Victory Over Japanese

United Attack Smashes Lae   Fall Of Jap New Guinea Base Imminent: Allies Gain Aerial Victory,

LAE TOTTERS IN BLAZING ALLY AIR WIN; GROUND DRIVE SPEEDS   AIRMEN BLAST 48 OF 70 JAP PLANES FROM SKY AS MACARTHUR SWEEPS IN ON BASE FOR KILi

LAE IS TOTTERING   Allied Airmen Mark Up Another Victory Over  Japanese

9 Jap Planes Bagged In Big Allied Victory   Lae Tottering As Foe Meets With Gravest Land Reverses

Lae Tottering, Downtall Is  Held Imminent  48 Jap Planes Downed in New Guinea War

Lae’s Fall Near  As Allies Advance   Terrific Aerial Pounding Dealt Japs As New Guinea Warfare Hits New High

Malian Tet           United:Nategs 3 ::; Altmen Best lags In Greal Air Dual -

Fall of Lae Thought Near  48 Jap Fighters Downed in Raid  On Wewak Base

Fall Of Lae Now Imminent As Yanks, Aussies Close In   Allied Airmen Mark Up Amazing Victory—Down 4§ Of Attacking Jap Planes

IN FOR THE KIL   Strong Allied Ground Forces Reported Converging On New Guinea Base and Airmen Mark Up Another Amazing Aerial Victory  Over Japs.

Collapse Of _ Lae Expected Momentarily   Allied Airmen Chalk Up Smashing Victory Over Japanese

JAPS ROUTED IN BIG AIR FIGHT   Lose 59 Fighters, Report: Lae Tottering

FALL OF LAE ~—{S (MMINENT   Allied Airmen Markup New Victory Over Japs; Down 48 Planes

Reduction Of $5 For Each Classification Has Final Approval Of Legislature

Houses Concur: Car Fee Slash Up to Goodland  If Bill Is Signed Motorists May Take

ETS 7) 000 IN  ARMY CHECKS   Allotments in County Amounted To $271.000

War Brought Home To Bulgaria With Bombing of Sofia   Other Axis Targets Pounded as Land Fighting Goes Slow

War Comes Home To Balkan Ally Of Adolph Hitler   United Nations Planes Strike a French Riviera; Russians Push — Powerful Offensive

BULGARIAN CAPITAL OF SOFIA BOMBED BY AMERICAN PLANES  WAS BULGARIA’S FIRST REAL TASTE OF ALLIED POWER TO DATE

Air Atiack * On Balkan Rail Base   American ‘Bombers Smash Hub of Lines at Sofia in First Raid There   “OTHER ARTERIES OF TRANSPORTATION HIT   Germans Threaten Reprisals, * Shedding Crocodile Tears for Bulgarian Ally

Allied Air Fleets Busy Hammering Axis Forces  REDS STILL GAIN  Soviets Expand Salient West Of Kijiev

Russians Plunge 30 Miles West of Zi          mans Launch Offe tion. Co:

OTHER AIR FLEETS STRIKE FRENCH RIVERIA   War Brought Home to:  Bulgaria Who Has Beeh Holding Down Her Ba kan Neighbors

U.S. Warplanes Smash At Sofia,  Bulgar Capital   Other Allied Bombers Raid Riveria, Balkans

US. Planes Bomb Sofia, Hit Vital Railroad Line   Bulgarian Capital Has First Air Attack C War; Russians Step Up Offensive; - Little Change In Italian Front

REDS SURGE ON TOWARD POLAND AND SPLIT NAZIS   Germans Send More Planes To Italy But They Fail To  Halt Allied Assault   By RICHARD McMURRAY

Warplanes Attack German Satellite   ‘Sofia Punished for Its Aid To Axis—Italian Airport Besins To Pay Dividends

Allied Planes 3 Strike German Roads To Italy; ,, Russians Advance ” Toward Poland

Canital Bombed For First Time: Damage Is High   Reprisals Threatened By Nazis; Riviera Also Is Raided By Ally Planes   ITALY ‘FROZEN’   Russians Push Ahead  30 Miles West Of Zhitomir, Capture Baranovka

Air Fleets. Raid Axis, Rail Lines.   Bulgarian Froops Which. Hold Down Greece. and Yugoslavia Taste War _

© Warns Victory , Still Far ‘Away “In All Theaters:   wi ivi AEDES ESI Sele ; Relationships - Based . On Good Neighbor  . Policy» OF Americac

F.D.R. Pledges New Ally Blows   PRESIDENT SEES GREAT, NEW SMASHES AT GERMANY, JAPAN, INCLUDING “DEFINITE TIMES, PLACES FOR OTHER EUROPE LANDINGS”

Specific Plans for New Blows at Axis Have Been Made   FDR Tells Congress Plans Include Definite Times and Places for Other Landings on Continent of Europe and Elsewhere

PRESIDENT SAYS CRUSHING BLOWS SET FOR ENEMY   1 Message to Congress, Chief Executive Warns Against ‘Let Down’

F’. R. Promises Further Blows; Is Optimistic   Message to Congress Analyzes War’s Progress—Axis Sattelites Asked to Sue For Peace

Chief Executive Gives Congress Review of War   Allies are Far From Victory He Says in Message

Times, Places Have Been Decided Upon, President Declares Betore Congress

Roosevelt Promises New Blows Against Germany   ‘Specific and Precise Plans’ for Blows: Against Japan as Well, President Tells Congress   SAYS OFFENSIVES AID RUSSIA   President Warns s Against ( Overconfidence Sees Long, Difficult Fight Ahead, but I: Cheered by Gains   Face Longo Ficht in Orient

War Job ‘Ahead Big   President Delivers War Message To Congress, Tells Of Problems

Russian Blows Against Axis Draw Praise   Answer Given To Criticism Of Allied Actions

Crushing Blows Near, Says F.R.   Landings on Continent, Elsewhere Soon, Hints President in Message te Congress, Belkans Mey Be Scene of Next Thrust

“Precise” Plans Include Definite Times and Places for Other Landings On Continent of Europe and Elsewhere; Gives Possible Hint Balkans May Be Scene of New Thrust.

Message Gives War Review Confident But — Warning War Will Be Long; Prussianism, Jap Policies Must Go Out With Leaders

Roosevelt Says Hitler Has Leff Vulnerable Spots   Long and Difficult Fight and Heavy Losses Are Ahead

LONG, DIFFICULT STRUGGLE SEEN BY PRESIDENT   ‘There Can Be No Letdown Anywhere’, Chief Executive States

Can't Have a Letdown ‘Anywhere   President. Expresses Confidence as He Gives Warning’ in Analyzing War Situation   INVITES BALKANS:  AREA TO :REVOLT.   Hints. Attacks. May. Come. There Soon; as. He Reports on Glohal Picture

SPECIFIC PLANS MADE FOR BLOWS AT NAZIS, JAPS   Was Announced in a War Review Sent Congress by President Roosevelt.   LONG WAY TO VICTORY   Hitler Has Left Vulnerable Spots in Wall of Fortress Which We Will Point Out.

Roosevelt Review Of War Progress   President Analyzes Everts ma Lengthy Message to Congress   NEW THRUSTS CONENG   Axis Satellites Are Aavisec to Make Exit From the War

WAR EFFORTS "ROUND. WORLD ARE. REVIEWED   Predicts New Invasion Attacks On Hitler’s  European Fort   NO RECOMMENDATIONS   Cites Allied ‘Thrusts As Providing Aid To  Russians

FR. Promises ‘Further Heavy Blows At Axis   War Review To Congress Pledges A Rooting Out OC} Militariate.

‘But Warns Allies Are Still A. Long Way From Victory   Time and. Places Set fot  New: Allied Landing: In Europe :and_ Else where, Roosevelt Says Immediate: Balkan In ydsion  Hinted. Long Fight Seen. in Pacific:

WAR MESSAGE GIVEN CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT   America’s Lawmakers Told of Allied Achievements and Given Hints of Future   RUSSIA HELPED, HE SAYS   Chief Executive Outlines Accomplishment in War Production at Home

Roosevelt War Review Bares Specific Plans To Hit Vulnerable Ayis   Balkan Thrust Is Indicated Soon, With ‘Heavy Losses’ In Defeating Japan; Production Report Is Optimistic

War Review ls Sent To Congress   President Hints Specific, Precise Plans Against Japs, Nazis

PRESIDENT SAYS LONG, HARD WAR AHEAD IN BOTH EUROPE AND ORIENT:AGAINST AXIS   Says Great Progress Made and Tide Has Turned But End.Not Yet In Sight—Warns Against Over Optimism and Urges Greater National Effort

New Landings Due in Europe President Says   ‘Great New Blows’ Planned Against Germany, Japan

HITLER “FORT” VULNERABLE IN SEVERAL SPOTS   President Warns Allies Are-Far From Victory in Any Major Theater

PRESIDENT REVIEWS ALLIED WAR EFFORT FOR U. $. CONGRESS   FURTHER BLOWS PROM. ISED AND FINAL WEEDING OUT OF WAR GANGS

Plans for New Blows at Japs Nazis Ready   Broad Hints of Coming Action in Balkans Are Made in War Summary to Conaress

Specific, Precise Blows, Ready For Axis, FR Declare:   (See Highlights of President's Message, Page Two) By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

Plans Include Definite Times, Congress Told   Places Also Decided On, Declares President In Review But Says Victory Long Way Off

Says Plans ForLandings Already Made   Review of War Is Submitted  Tos Cancress

Probe-Gas-Train Fire At Ashland; Norwalk, Other Cities Send Fire Trucks

Oil Train Is Derailed At Ashland, Fire, Explosions Follow; Rubber Co. Plant Destroyed By Flames

TALK 1944 FOOD — GOALS FOR AREA   Educational Meeting for Leaders of 8 Counties On Here Today

TALK 1944 FOOD GOALS FOR AREA   Educational Meeting fo. Leaders of 8 Counties On Here Today   COUNTY CONFAB SOON

Destroyer and Small Transport Lost ai Cape Gloucester Landing   Secretary of Navy Knox Reveals Qur Losses Today.

ARAWE ONLY A DIVERSION   PRACTICALLY NO OPPOSITION ENCOUNTERED B) ALLIES AT CAPE GLOUCESTER DUE TO OLD MILITARY STRATEGY

MARSHALL'S ROLE SEEMS DECIDED   Army and Navy Register Says Protests Will Have No. Effect on Assignment as Anglo-American Chief 

Plans to Give Marshall Definitely. Decided On, Publication Declares

Marshall Said Definitely Set To Lead Allie:   Navy Publication leks Assignment CCreat Compuliment®

Angle Island Houses Naz is— — Orisoners Like War Camp   By ROGER A. JOHNSON

Clearing Station for Prisoners of  War Is Described   German £oldiers Processed Before Sent Elsewhere

Churchill in Review of Wa Before Commons   Sees Domination « Of Air Over . : Germany OS

Handling of Beaten Italy Termed Okay      Guards Disobeyed Orders to Shoot  Mussolini, Claim

POINTS TO HOLD   Processed Food Values to Remair Same. Asserts OPA,

Hull Urges UNRRA Fund  Authorization   His Request in Letter To House Committee Studying UNRRA

Invasion Force Has At Least Half Million Fighters   Tough Troopers Have  Fine Material, ge~ pete fF. ff __ get.

Invasion Force Has At Least Half Million Fighters  Tough Troopers Have Fine Material,

Invasion Spearhead Led By Half Million To Million Tough. Batfle-Seasoned Veterans —

HOW MUCH? ONL! TAX BILL ISSUE   ABATEMENT AT SOME LEVEL APPROVED BY MOST LAWMAKERS

SENATE GIRDED FOR DEBATE ON TAXATION BILL   Senator Vandenberg Says - Tax-Abatement Seems to Have Approval of Almost Everybody   AMOUNT UNCERTAIN   Opponent of Ruml-Carlson - Measure Agrees With _ Views of Michigan ‘Senator .

All Agreed On Forgiving Some Taxes  Pay-As-Go Plan When Amount Is. . Fixed Ry Conoresc

Not Principle, But Money In Tax Abatement Battle   SENATE TAX FIGHT TOMORROW

It's Not the Principle, It's the Money Now in Tax Abatement Battle

Pay-Go Degree Argued   Principle Not Involved Now, Senators Explain

How Much, Is Tax Argument  Abatement Seems Approved by All, Vandenberg Says

Degree, Not Principle, Is  ~ Tax Problem   Most Senators Seem to Agree on Some Tax Abatement

TAX CONTROVERSY BOILS DOWN TO HOW MUCH   Of Taxes Should Be Abated. Abatement Plan Has Almost  Everyone’s Approval.

Senate Battle Over Income Tax Bill To Be Waged Tomorrow   Approval of Ruml-Carlson Plan Is Likely; News From Capital

Rommel’s Army Rips 18 Miles Through —  Yank Defense Lines   Russians Continue To Gein Ground In AlLOut Winter Offendive; May Cur OF Retreat OF German Armies

HEAVY LOSSES IN PERSONNEL AND MACHINE:   German Armored Forces, Ripping Through Yank Line, Threaten to Split Front

Yank Thrust Halted by Heavy Losses of Men and Vehicles   AXIS ARMORED FORCES KNIFE 18 MILES INTO AMERICAN-HELD TUNISIA AS MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY MOVES UP TO BREAK MARETH LINE

THREAT T0°CUT ALLIED LINE IN MIDDLE IS SEEN   Americans Fall Back in Tunisia With Heavy Lass of Men, Vehicles

NAZIS GAIN 18 MILES IN FAID SECTOR   Americans. Lose Heavily in Men and Armored Vehicles as Enemy, Reaches Outskirts of Sheitla, Menaces Fer« lana.

GERMANS IN RENEWAL POWERFUL AFRICAN OFFENSIVE TODAY   SMASH TO OUTSKIRTS OF SBEITLA AND ADVANCE TOWARD FERIANA

Casualties To U.S.Forees In Battle ‘Heavy   Rommel Scores 18-Mile Gain, Threatens To Cut Allied Front In Middle In Tunisia

lericans Suffer Heavy Casualties As Axis ‘Armored Units Renew Powerful Offensive

MEET IN 5 CITIES   Annual Fall Gathering of _ Teachers Friday and Saturday

State School  Teachers Meet   Conventions in Six Cities Expected to Draw Large Attendance

10 ABOVE TONIGHT   Snow Covers State as March Flare. back Sweeps In

10 ABOVE TONIGHT      Snow Covers State as as March Flareback Sweeps In

Weather In Flareback   Temperature May Sink As Low As 10 Degrees Tonight

Hitler to Make Fight for Italy   Will Reinforce Axis Lines on Po River

Brenner Pass Is Seized By Italians as Hitler — Orders Bloody Battle -

German Chiefs Say Nazis Will Fight Till Last Man Dies  Foe Moves to Seize Strategic Lines On Country’s Edge

Hurried Conference Reported Called by Ger-'  " man Leader  NAZIS TAKE STEPS   Italians Reported Turning ‘Against Troops of Fuehrer

HITLER MAPS STRATEGY AT A CONFERENCE   Germans Move to Take Over Communication Centers and Strategic Points in Italy.   REPORT ITALIANS HOLD BRENNER PASS   Seize Area on Coast of Yugoslavia in Attempt, to Block Invasion of  Balkans, 

Hitler Redistribuies Troops In Scramble To Escape Trap Set For Nazis By Threatened Allied Invasions

Trapped By Allies Feuherer Calls War Conference   Germany Acts to Preyeul Invasion of Ralkans. Scizes Important Communications Centers. Italians Show Wor lyt

Hitler Decides To Battle to End on Po Line   Nazis Claim Key Places in Central, Northern Italy Taken Block Balkan Drive

GERMANS MOVE TO STRENGTHEN BALKAN LINES   Po River Positions Are Bolstered For Stiff Resistance; Hitler  Calls Parley   Swiss Reserves Called

Nazis To Fight To Last Man on Po River Line   War Conference Maps Final Plan

NAZIS DECIDE ON LAST DITCH BATTLE ON PC   Hurriedly-Called War Parley Reported Held by Enemy

Nazis Move For Po River Stand   Italy To.Be Made Bloody Battlefield

Hitler Plans Stern Fight In N. Italy   Germans Move Swiftly To Seize Many Cities To Offset Allied Gains

HITLER BOLOTERG PQ RIVER FRONT   Decides to Fight There te Last Man, Report   CALLS WAR PARLEY   Occupies Point on Yugoslav Coast ni Effort Balk Balkan Invasion

NAZIS FIGHT TO LAST MAN AT PO RIVER   HITLER DESPERATE; DEPLETED FORCES ARE REGROUPED

Great Weight Of Bombs Loosed Over Chief Nazi Submarine Base At Lorient In France

Rommel Refugees Flee In Corridor of Bombs Through Coastal Gabes  rRIPOLI ALREADY USED BY BRITISH  21 Axis Planes Lost As Allies Increase Bombing of Enemy

British Fight Naval - Battle With Nazis   Set 2 Vessels Afire and Suffer Damage in Re _turn During Close-Range Fight With Dozen Trawlers, Torpedo Boats Off France.

SEES NO EVIDENCE OF ‘FLU EPIDEMIC   Rising Rate Called Normal  far Sarnean

Boost In ‘Flu’ .  Cases Normal   Britain Finds nds Deaths’ Are Increasing; Cautions  Advised In U.S

Ricing Rate Of Flu Called “Normal Seasonal Increase’ By Health Official   Bern Publication Says 250,000 Persons ‘Are Dead In Berlin

Just A Normal Seasonal Increase... . . Rising Rate Of Flu In  Nation Termed Nothing  To Be Alarmed About

Flu Increases ~ AtRapid Rate   Conditions. Far Less Serious Than 1978

INCREASE IN INFLUENZA CASES CALLED NORMAL  No Evidence of Real Epidemic

NO FLU EPIDEMIC YET   Number of Cases Called “Normal Seasonal Increase”

INFLUENZA CASES INCREASE IN U. S.   HEALTH SPOKESMAN DESCRIBES RISING RATE AS SEASONAL

Flu Spread Not Alarming Yet   Described As Normal Seasonal Increase By Health Service.

PRICES OF MILK ~ TO BE INCREASED   NEW SYSTEM OF CEILINGS WILL BE PUT INTO EFFECT IN SOUTHWEST.

FURTHER COAL SHORTAGE SEEN IN OWI REPORT   Enough Fuel Only for ‘Minimum Comfort,’ Bureau Says

Coal Outlook for Nation Gloomy as OWI Forsees “Minimum Comfort” in Homes

South rn Strea:ns Are Rising   Serious Floods Feared il Several States — Two  Lives Already Lost

‘VINSON WILL REVIEW PACIFIC ' RAILPAY CASE   Stabilization Director to Nam: Committee to Seek Adjustmeni— Strike Called Off

Measure Moves Into Position for Final Action By House  WAR - TIME PROPOSAL

Urge Action on $10 Auto Fee   Uniform Fee for All Passenger Cars Before House

ITALIANS  PREPARED TO FIGHT   No Surrender May Be Made Despite the Tervific Battering Going «

ee ee ee a a  A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   Wouldn’t Be Candidate, Declares Sen. Gillette

Aiken Backs Gillette As Candidate   Thinks G. O. P. Should ‘Borrow’ Democrat To Defeat Roosevelt

GOP May Borrow Demo For Race   May Back Democrat For Presidency?

Would ‘Borrow’. Pres. Candidate From Democrats   Aiken Saye-Rank And File _ Would Have Man If Sen. “. Gillette’: Was ° Drafted

Gillette Doesn't Take Seriously Talk That He Run For the Presidency

Brisk Election Campaigns In Many Counties Washington Included, Have” Aroused Interest To Bring Out Voters   ONLY ONE sTATE OFFICE AT STAKE

Governors Will Hear Davies   Former Ambassador Accepts O'Conor /  Invitation

BIRTHDAY OF DUCE SPENT AS PRISONER   Gaudy Celebrations Only  Memory Now

‘Danger-Loving’ Mussolini Spends 60th Birthday Prisoner Of Scorned Monarch

FAIL TO CELEBRATE IL DUCES’ BIRTHDAY   Whereabouts of Mussolini Still Unknown

MUSSOLINI IS 60 TODAY   Whereabouts of Fascist Duce Stil ' a Mystery .

Mussolini, 60, Prisoner in Land He Ruled   No Celebration Of Birthday Noted in Italy

Battle Japs Near Akyab~. Burma Base   British Troops Report Sev. eral. Encounters With Enemy Forces ..   AMERICAN PLANES JOIN OFFENSIVE   Nanking Government, ‘One of the ‘Jap Puppets, Declares War on. Allies -

Actions Reporied at Rathedaune and on Mayu Peninsula—Air men Strafe Akyab

British Are Fighting Japanese in Burma   Troops Contact Enemy at Rathedaung, on East Bank of Mayu River 25 Miles Northwest of Akyab, and on Mayu Peninsula.   Americans Bomb Two Jap Bases in Burma 

Resume Flynn Case Tomorrow   Mayor LaGuardia And Other New Yorkers Called To Testify

MAYOR LA GUARDIA TO TESTIFY AT FLYNN’S HEARING   Senate’s Probe of Qualifications of Flynn for Post of Minister to Australia to Be Resumed Friday

CALL & WITNESSES TO FLYNN PROBE   ‘Mayor LaGuardia Among New Yorkers Called to Testify in ‘Senate tnvestigation

LAGUARDIA TO TESTIFY   New York Mayor Will Appear At Fiynn Hearing

Philippines Are Given Their “Independence” By Japanese Governmen

BiG OFFENSIVE ON RUSSIAN FRONT _ISNOT FAR AWAY   Red Star, Soviet News‘Paper, Warns That Germans Still Have  Plenty Of Strength.

EDS AND NAZIS IN FIERGE BAT TLE   German Strength Is on the Russian Front.

USO DISTRICT HEADS NAMED BY CHAIRMAN      Pomeroy Man Named In Local Area

AUTO" DRIVING NO PLEASURE   Lifting of Ban’ Last Midnight Puts Motorists on Spot

Ay, 5) Gates 1 ites pee ce A COLUMN : ABOUT IOWA.   Burns Fa‘al to Boy Of Bifteen Veare

Italy Again Hit From Air   Stepping Stone Isle Is Target For Raids

BLOWS AGAINST ITALY, ISLANDS ARE CONTINUED   Four Ships Sunk, 1 Planes Downed Monday

300 American Bombers Blast ltalian Targets  ‘Toe’ Of Mainland, Dorntalla-t. An

Fifteen Axis Ships Hit, Four Sunk In All-America Raid; Italian Island And Coastal Ports Attacked

Sardinia Is hit Again; 4 Ships Sunk   300 American Planes Smash Invasion Route

300 PLANES TAKE PART   Pantelleria And Ports In Italy Are Also Hit In Attack

Four Out of 1 15 Axis Ships Hit During Air Raids      Sardinia, Pantelleria Main Targets; 10 ._ Axis Planes ‘Shot. Down

ROUTE IS HARD HIT   Toe of italian Boot Is Attacked and Harbor, . Other Installations  Are Bombed

SCORES OF PLANES SMASH AT ITALIAN PORTS YESTERDAY   Four Out Of 15 Axis Ships Sunk — U. 5. Bombers Blast Railroad Yard

300 AMERICAN PLANES HIT ETALIAN-AREA   . Sink F our Axis Ships; Wreck  Harbor Installations

RUIN DEFENSES NEAR SOUTHERN INVASION ROAD   Allied Air Forces Over Northwest Europe Again

ALLIED BOMBERS, FIGHTERS ON MY TRPOVER FRANC      PLANE LOSS BOOSTED. _: TO 329°DURING WEEK   Soviets Sink Six Axis Barges and Transport In Series of Blows Being ‘Hit In Black Span

British Join Americans In Ai Battles   316 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed In Meditet ranean Area.

RUSSIAN ARMY EXPANDS SALIENT “TO WEST. OF KIE   Germans Say 500,000 Reds Hurled Into Dnieper Bend Battle; Lines Broken   REDS CAPTURE 59 TOWNS

RED ARMY THREATENS KOROSTEN   Baranovka, 30 Miles West Of Zhitomir, Falls To Soviets

KOROSTEN NOW INDANGER OF BEING CUT OF E   Occupation of Sector Would Give Russians Control of 50 Miles of Raitway.to Zhitomir   HUNS REPORT BATTLE IN DNIEPER BEND   Berlin Broadcast Claims  Half Million Reds Have  Been Hurled Against . German Defenses .

Near Rail Center Of Korosten   ‘Berlii Admits New Breach In Dnieper  Bend Line.  =

Polish Line Within Range of Red Guns   Soviets: Hurl 30. Divisions Into.” Raving. Battle of Dnieper Bend:

Salient Expanded West Of Kiev; Fierce Battle Rages In Dnieper Bend

REQUEST MADE FOR — GIRAUD RETENTION   Churchill Discloses Action by U.S. and Great  Rettain

SUPPORT GIVEN GENERAL GIRAUD   Allies Want No Changes In North Africa At Present Time

Churchill,  FDR Agree On French   Giraud Retained As Commander In North Africa

Churchill Says Allies Stand in Giraud s Corner   Asked” French Committee To Give General Full Authority

Churchill Reports U.S., Britain Favor Gen. Giraud  Allies Ask Committee : To Keep Leader  In Charge of Military

SWEDISH PUBLIC BACKS RAIL BAN AGAINST GERMANS   Transit Facilities Are Denied to Nazi Troops and War Materiel Effective August 15.

NAZIS ACCEPT NEW SWEDISH BAR TO TROOPS   No Reprisals Indicated or Threat ened — Invasion Likelihood Aroused Public

OVER DECISION   Decree Barring Nazi Troops And War Materials Is Approved.

SWEDES HAIL NAZI BLOCK   DEMONSTRATIONS FAVOR GOVERNMENT'S ACTION

SWEDEN HAILS BAN ON NAZIS  USING NATION   Demonstrate Pleasure Over Ind of Agreement Permitting Armies to Move Through Country

Swedes Like Ban On Nazi Troop Move:   Nation Now Prepare For Defense: Action Pleases U. S., Hull

BAN ON GERMAN TRAFFIC SUITS SWEDISH PUBLIC   Swedes Demonstrate Pleasure At Decision Of King Gustav To Close Sweden To Nazi Troops And Material; Results To Be Seen.

BAN ON GERMANS PLEASES SWEDES   PEOPLE HAIL MOVE TO BAR TRANSIT OF TROOPS, MATERIALS

SWEDEN AIMS ~BLOWATNAZIS   Government Bars Transit Facilities to German Troops, Materiel

Swedes Are Pleased   Ban on Nazi Troop Transit Eases Burden On. Neutrality Policy

Swedish People Approve Stopping Nazi Troop Transif  Burden on Neutrality Lifted Ralatione   Burden on Neutrality Lifted, Relations With Norway Better

Swedish Public Pleased Over Decision To Bar Transit Facilities To Nazi Troops   Swedes Better Prepared Militaristically Than At Any Time In Their History

Thief Liffs 3 Diamond Rings   Hunt Negroes In Theft "At Williams & Co.

HUNT $1,008 GEM THIEVES   Tray of Diamond Rings Taken From Benton Harbor Store

Reds Continue  Throw Back All  (,erman Attacks Heavy Losses Are Sustained By  Tega ,. ws

Bent Nail Used as Fish Hook Helps Chinese Survive 13] Days Adrift in South Atlant   HIS STORY.

Chinese Survived 130 Days Alone On Raft, Topping All Records 47 Days

Axis Resistance Stiffens, Holds Ground At Tunis  Counterattack To Drive Back British

U. S. And French Armies Advance, British Set Back   First Army Yields After Repulsing First Country Attack With Losses

AXIS MAKING FIRMER STAND IN NO. AFRIC   ‘Little Indication That the Enemy Will Collapse in Its Stand in Hills of Tunisia

HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED RAGING   Sector Northwest Of Medjez-El-Bab Is Scene Of Fierce Battle   AMERICANS GAIN   French Forces Are Reported On Outskirts Of Pont Du Fahs

British First Army Is Driven Back Slightly   Eighth Army, However, Gains About Seven  Miles On Coast   FOE ATTACKS TWICE   Only Germans Are Now In Army Opposing  Americans

U.5 TROOPS GAIN IMPORTANT GROUND BUT BRITISH LOST   TANK-SUPPORTED GERMAN SHOCK TROOPS COUNTERATTACKED

AMERICAN UNITS CONTINUE GAINS IN NORTH AFRICA   Allies Hit Heavier Nazis Re sistance Along Entire Tunisia Front

Nazi Troops Make A Counter Attack   Axis Resistance Stiffens Along Entire Front in Tunisia     CLCROND Coppc faAITNne   Montgomery's Drive in South Held Up Without a Break-Thru

U.S.Army Rolls On  in Tunisia   NAZI LINE STIFFENS AS BRITISH ARE SET BACK FROM KEY HILL   R. A. F. Rips Wilhelmshaven While East Prussia Rocks   East Prussia Raid

Allied Tunisia Drive Is Slowed: Axis Hits Bach   British And American Troops Give Ground; Leng Fight Seen

* YANKS, FRENCH MANAGE TO GAIN "IN BITTER FIGHT   Progress Slow On All Main Fronts; Opposition To Eighth Army Stiff

GERMANS ARE EXPECTED TO FIGHT TO END      First Phase of British First Army’s Offensive _ Apparently Has Ended : Without Hoped-for  . Break-Through. .

Axis Likely to Resist to End   Americans Gain Some Ground; Nazis In Front Lines.

Resistance In Tunisia  Stiffened   ‘British Vanguards Are Forced To Withdraw From Positions Only 20 Miles From Tunis

British Fail mn To Crack Line   First Army Is Hurled Back After Stopping ‘Two Attacks; Enemy’Resistance Stiffens

DISTRICT SCOUT. MIG. WEDNESDAY   Movement .- . Continues Ta Grow In Prairie Gld  Aroeas:

FDR Inspects-Amazed Soldiers — In North African War Theatre   Army. Takes Extreme Caution In Protecting. Chief Executive Against Possible Danger

SURPRISE FOR THE YANKS IN AFRICA -- F.0.R   Riding in Jeep, He Reviewed the Troops, Wreath at U, 8S. Cemetery Decorated With Wreath.

SURPRISE — IS GIVEN TO YANKS   Troops In. Morocco Line Up for Inspection and See President in a Jeép!.

AXIS, NEUTRAL NATIONS REPRESENTED AT CONFERENCE IN AFRICA. IS RUMOR   President Roosevelt, in Jeep, Reviews

MEN SURPRISED AT SEEING ROOSEVELT   Week-old Incident at Casablanca Now Revealed For First Time.

-US.Troops in Morocco Line Upto be Inspected By ‘Brass Hats’ But Roosevelt Rides by in Jeep

WLB TAKES CONTROL: OF PULP WOOD   Action Taken Because of Demands of Various Service Branches for Supplies

WPB NOW CONTROLS USE OF WOODPULP   Forbids Deliveries of Pulp Without Express WP8 Authority,

Carmichaels Miner ls Freed By Jur)  Jury Deliberates 9 Hours At Waynesburg

Nazi Attacks Stopped By Russians   Reds Claim 1,500 Germans Killed In Attack On Kiey

SPOT 10 STRIKE HITLER PICKED   New Zealand’s Minister Says Second Front Plan Is Settled

16 RAILROAD CARS DERAILED AT LEIPSIC   Two Wrecking Crews Work To Clear Tracks

Big Tank Batile as ~ Reds Gain   Germans -Concentrate Great Forces South of Vitebsk; ’ Reds Advance on North   FIGHT WAY THROUGH THICK BARBED. WIRE      Soviets in Gain on Both Sides of War Center Despite Mounting Resistance”

Soviets Beat Back Furious Nazi Assault   Germans Make {1th Hour Effort to Break Advance of Russians

Germans Launch Counterattack In Kiev Bulge   Reds Hold Steady; Destroy 148 Tanks With Bia Guns

Nazis Launch Heavy  Counter Drive In. South   BOMBERS ACTIVE  German Rocket Guns A. D.17°.... 3 oT. ok

HEAVY TANK BATTLE RAGES ON RED FRONT   Reds Mass Big Guns to Halt Large Scale Assault on Long Front.   Pressure Increased Against Nazi Lines

SOVIET FORCES HOLD FIRM ON ALL SECTORS   Large-Scale Enemy Assault Is Sprung on 400-Mile Front From White Russia to the Dneiper   POSITIONS IMPROVED

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY SMASHING NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE PLANS  _ GERMANS HAVE LAUNCH  ED ONE OF WAR’S HEAV-

RED FORGES HOLD FIRM GN FRONTS   Fight Through Wire Entanglements; Push Toward Rail Junction.

Soviefs Holding Firm In Strona Armored Assault   Russian Artillery Stems Push Along 400-Mile Front

RUSSIAN ARTILLERY SMASHING NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE PLANS   GERMANS HAVE LAUNCH.  ED ONE OF WAR’S HEAVIrcr ADMOREN ASAIN Te

Russians Hold  Gigantic New  Nazi Attack  Heavy Artillery And BKield Guns Ston Fae

‘Nazis Launch Huge Tank Offensive Along Big Front   Massed Russian Artillery, Mobile Field Guns Stave - Off Mighty Drive

Foe Attacking In Strength On 400 - Mi. Front; Line Is Holding   Bagramian’s Baltic Army Reaches Outer Vitebsk Defense

Hold Firm Along Front Of 400 Miles   Soviets Intensify Push In Vitebsk-Polotsk Area Farther North.

Reds Halt Nazi Attacks   “Plow Through Barbed Wire On Northern Front To Score Gains

REDS HOLD FIRM ON ALL SECTORS   BATTLE DESCRIBED AS WAR'S HEAVIEST ARMORED ASSAULT

RED FORCES DRAW NEAR VITEBSK BASE      Fight Through Barbed Wire Forming Northernmost Defenses and Try to Cut Rail Line to Polotsk.

Fight Way To Northern Edge Of Vitebs sk   Russians Advance In North As Germans Open Tank Offensive  On Lower Front

Baltic Army~ Fights Through Thick Barbed Wire  Reaches Westward Ta: Chennala. Vitahkeb   Reaches Westward To Strangle: Vitebsk, Politsk Railway

Soviets Hurl Strength To Vitebsk   Baltic Troops Slash Through Barbed Wire Toward Citadel

REDS PRESS ON DEFENSES  OF VITEBSK   ‘Bring Nazi Base Within Artillery  Range, Fan Qut to Cut Vitebsk  Polotsk Railway   GERMANS ATTACK   One of Greatest Tank Offensives of War Sprung from White Russia

TO THE SOUTH OF THIS SECTOR RUSSIAN HEAVY ARTILLERY AND MOBILE GUNS BLAST AT GREAT NAZI TANK OFFENSIVE—REDS REPORTED HOLDING ON ALL SECTORS ALONG THE 400-MILE LINE

Vitebsk Defense  Reached   Baltic Army Also I: Seeking Hold Or  Railway

WAY THROUGH BARBED WIRE :   Baltic Front Seething With Activity While Bis aecle Battle Rages in Rn

Vitebsk Defense  Reached   Baltic Army Also Is Seeking Hold On Railway   14 Counter-Attacks

REDS POUND NEW NAZI TANK DRIVE   Offensive Called One of Heaviest of War

Cut Through Trick BarbedWire Defense   Another Force Seeks to Cut Rail Line! Heavy German Tank Drive Open:

Baltic Army Fights Thru Barbed Wire   Eighth Army ‘Tanks. Infantry Fight Bitterly in Orfona Streets.   ISEIZE MT. CAVALLO

INCLUDE FATS IN MEAT RATION   Ration Bock Two In Use By April: Includes Butter, Lard

OPA Drafts Red Meat, Cheese Rationing Plan   New Idea Subject To Change Planned  Ty, Ragin in Anril

Butter, Cheese, Fats May Be Rationed Alone With Meat Under New OPA Plat

Senate Conducts Another Secret - Session on War  New Outpouringol __ Criticism Heard: Bohind. Doors

Battle F ront Travelers Stir Senate   SENATOR LUCAS, GREATLY AGITATED, READS RULES THREATENING SECRET REVEALERS WITH EXPULSION,   U. S. Diplomats Too Slow

SENATE HEARS FAULT FINDING   Revision Of Military Strategy Demanded By Sen. Chandler

Senators Hear Criticisms of Conduct of War   Chandler Demands Revision of Strategy After Secret Session

McCarthy Will Start Chandler   World Series Opens Tomorrow In New York

Railways, Other Military — Targets Hit Heavy Blows   Specially Schooled All-American Force Make Precision Attack On Fascist Capital First Time During Wor

AMERICAN PLANES BOMB ETERNAL CITY TN DAYLIGHT RAID   ONLY MILITARY OBJEC. TIVES IN ROME ATTACKED BY RAIDERS

‘Principal Objective Railway Marshalling Yard in Capital, Important from Use Particularly by German Troops   AIRMEN SPECIALLY CHOSEN   Given Weeks of Training to Enable Them to Recognize Religious, Cultural Sites —Naples Undergoes Heavy Raid   Crews Specially Trained

MERIGANG IN HEA ATTACK   Railroad Yards, Airdrome Attacked in Precision Daylight Raid.   SPECIAL TRAINED CREWS

All-American Force  In First Capital Raid   Fliers in Four Types of Planes Attack Military Targets in ‘Eternal City’; Follows Allied Ultimatum,

ANIC CAUDE INSIDE. CAPITAL BY HEAVY RAID   Assault Emphasizes Allier Warning For Italians To Get Out Of War

Great Sky Fleet Strikes Rail Air Centers For 2!/, Hours In Daylight

U.S., Canadians Score Gains In Central Sicily   Carefully Trained Bombardiers Hit Railway Yards In Italian Capital As Follow-up Of Ultimatum; 35.000 Prisoners Taken.

Attack Made In Daylight  For All Italians To See   Warning Leaflets Dropped Well Ahead Of Raid—-Washington . Announces It Ahead of Axis Propaganda

Planes Manned By Picked U. S. Crews Strike in  Broad Daylight   Great Care Taken Not to Damage Religious Monuments

Italian Capital Takes First Pounding; Flyers Safequard Sacred Zone

An All-American Flying Force Hits After Ultimatum   Special Care Is Taken By Bomber Pilots Not To Damage Religious Or Cultural Monuments

All Yank Force Makes Big Attack   Specially Trained Crews Used in Precision Bombing — Leaflets Also Dropped by Raiders Terrific Force of Explosives Used

All Yank Force Makes Big Attack   Specially Trained Crews Used in Precision Bombing—Leaflels Also Dropped by Raiders—Terrific  TR eR Soe. FT ae

Military Targets In Rome Bombed  In Daylight Raid —   ‘Bombers Rain Destruction on Railroad Marshalling Yard; Warning Leaflets Dropped Over City Prior to Raid

U.S. Fliers Carry Out War’s First Bombing Of Eternal Fascist City

Allies Follow Up Demand To Surrender By Striking Rome   Extreme Care Taken Not To Hit Religious Centers; ‘Precision Attack’ Made   LEAFLETS EXPLAIN ALL TO ITALIANS   Flood Of Axis Propaganda Expected; Rome Was Definite Military Objective

AMERICAN PLANES BOMB ETERNAL CITY IN DAYLIGHT RAID  OAIV WITITADY An ITS   ONLY MILITARY OBJECTIVES IN ROME ATTACKED BY RAIDERS

Flying Fortresses, Liberators, Mitchells and Marauders From Middle East Com mand Made Raid.   CONCENTRATED ON MILITARY TARGETS   Flying Fortresses Led the Way and Attacked the San Lorenzo Yards; Railway Yards Bombed.

ATTACK AIMED AT MILITARY OBJECTIVES   Leaflets Preceding Bombs Tell Italians Reasons For Assault On City   VATICAN CITY SPARED   Big Railway Freight Yards Smashed To Cut Supplies For Sisily Forces

Targets Near Some Of Most Sacred Sites   Care Taken To Avoid Hitting Vatican, Say Allies; Raid Comes After Ultimatum § «.

Hand: -Picked Crews Stage Precision Raid   Leaflets Explain to Italians Why ‘Rail Centers Must Be Knocked Out; Churches, Cultural Centers Spared

~ROME—  Heart Of Fascist Italy Air Target   Strong Forces Of Specially Trained Crews Carries War To Italian Capital: Only Military Objectives Are Aflacked

Military Targets Attacked   Plane Crews Trained For Weeks to Avoid  Hitting Religious or Cultural Monuments

Americans Concentrate Their Raid On Purely Military Targets There

Military Objectives Blasted; Holy City Hit for First Time. In Carefully-Planned Attack   Leaflets Dropped to Warn’of Raid; : American Forces-Gain Eight Miles - Ae British Storm Gates of Catania

Interoreting e War   Tunisia Obvious Hub Of Global War Wheel at Present

Battle Of Tunisia Pivot Of Allied Policy-Making   Possible Follow-Up Session Is To Implement Promptly Decisions Taken At Casablanca

Leader of Famed Com. mandos Is Made Su. preme Commander  WAR AGAINST JAPS TO BE INTENSIFIED New Chief First British Of.  ficer to Get Supreme Command

Lord Mountbatten, British Commando Leader, is Head of New Military Area to War on Japs in Burma »

COMMANDO CHIEF WILL DIREGT WAR EFFORT IN BURMA   Officer, a Cousin of King George, Is First Briton to Be Given Top Position.   CHOSEN BY LEADERS AT QUEBEC PARLEY   Job Will Be to Conduct Operations Against Japan Under Setup Similar to That in Africa.

New Military Leader Directs Troops in Asia   Lord Mountbatten to Direct Allied Action Against Japan From Southeastern Asia

Japs Will Face Mountbatten   Commando Chieftain Named Asian Leader

Mountbatten Is Named To Lead Allies In Asia   British Commando Chief Will Spark War Aaainst Japs

MOUNTBATTEN IS COMMANDER OF SOUTHEAST ASIA   Leader Of Britain’s Commandes Will Conduct Op erations Against Japs   TO DIRECT OFFENSIVE FROM INDIA, CEYLON

MOUNTBATTEN I GIVEN HIGH POST   Leader of Britain’s Famed Commandos Named Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia

Command Is Created For Asia India And Ceylor Will Be Bases  For Attacks

Appointment of Famed Commando Leader Decided at Quebec Parley   Separate Command for Conduct of War Bas ed on India and Ceylon Against Japan to Resemble North Africa Set-up; First to British

Mountbatten Is Named Leader Of Allied Forces   Will Conduct Operations Based On India And Ceylon Against Japan

MOUNTBATTEN 10 COMMAND In SOUTH ASIA   As New Supreme Allied Head, According to Announcement From Quebec; To Intensify Warfare   Vast Army

Lord Mountbatten Named To Conduct War against Japs   Will Hold Rank Like MacArthur   Brief Announcement

Commando Chief Named For S.E. Asia   To Conduct Operations Against Japanese In Burma Theatre  DECIDED AT OUFBEC

British Forced To Take Up New Positions Along  Arakan Front In Burma

Solons Retreat From Stand On Subsidies   House Votes Stop Gap CCC Fund After Veto ‘Wins: Senete Delays   TAFT SEEKS LIMIT   Borrowing Authority O1 Federal Agency Boosted By $350,000,000

SENATORS FIGHT ROLL-BACK PLAN   Congressional Rebellion Thwaried Temporarily

WILL SET CEILINGS FOR EATING PLACES   To Reduce Any Abnormally High Prices

Maximum Prices Set For Restaurants   Abnormal Charges To be “Rolled Back”

AESTAURANT PRICE CEILINGS PROVIDED   gEstablishments To File April Price Lists

GERMANS SHIFTED RUSSIAN ATTACKS   On Donets River Line to New Sector But Without Progress.

81 DAYS IN LIFEBOAT   Yank and Two Dutchmen, Weak and Thin, Rescued

New Laws Into Effect Nov. 21   Acts Passed by the 62nd General Assembly Not Effective for 90 Days.

EFECTIVE NOVEMBER 21   Missouri Attorney General Rules on New Laws and Acts

New Laws Not  Effective Till ‘November 21   McKittrick Reverses’ Previous Opinion; Score of New Laws Affected

RESISTANCE BY ROMMEL IS OVERCOME   Allies Further Assert Mastery of Skies Over Tunisia and Mediterranean.

Nuernberg, huhr, Nazi-Held France,  Low Countries Hit   Report Entire Railway System In Southern Italy Is Disorganized By Relentless Allied Assaults

Giant. Fleet of Bombers, De_ seribed as the Greatest Armada Sent Out in Four Years, Made Attack.   SPREAD OVER RUHR AND LOW COUNTRIES   Unofficial Estimates Placed Size of the Attacking Ferce at More Than 1060 Bombers.

1,000 Plane Raid Hits —  Nuernberg   Say 1,500: Tons: of High: EX plosives Tear at Germany's — Rail Center -

Nuernberg Target Of Pulverizing Deluge of Bombs   Southern Italy Is Continually Blasted By Allied Assaults

Giant Fleet of RAF Bombers  Blasts Europe   Nuernberg, the Ruhr, Nazi-Occupied France and Low Countries Bombed; Reds Sweep More Than Half Way from Stalingrad to Polish Frontier 

Blast German Rail Center  In Big Sweep      Raid Is Extended Over  France, Low Countries

OVER 1,000 BOMBERS IN DUSK: TO DAWN FLIGHT OVER LARGE — PART GERMANY AND THE RUHR   German Rail Hub of Nuernberg and Parts of Nazi-Occupied France and the Low Countries 33 Planes Lost in Latest Mass Raid

1,000 Bombers Hit Nuernburg, Other European Targets   Bavaria’s Second City Blasted; Southern Italy Feels Allied 7 Airpower ;

MORE THAN 1 000 PLANES BOMBARD HITLER'S EUROPE   Ruhr District, German-Oce cupied France and Low Countries Tremble Under Aerial Blitz.

Nazis Admit Heavy Loss: in Big City   Claim 62 Raiders Yere Shoi Down; British Say They :- Lost 23 Planes   MORE THAN 1,000 ; BOMBERS ATTACK   Berlin Also Reports.. That ‘American Terror Planes” Took Part

GREATEST FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN RAIL HUB  ALLIED BOMBERS UNREa - LENTING IN ATTACK ON ’ JTALIAN MAINLAND

GREATEST A ARMADA EVER TO G0 RAIDING   More Than 1,900 Bombers Estimated to "ave Shattered Shrine City. Only 33 Lost

Greatest Blow Of War Struck Hifier’s Realir   1,500 Tons Of Bombs Blast Nuernberg, Nazi Shrine

Greatest Armada of British Planes Ever to Be Sent Ow From Britain Drops 1,500 Tons of Explosives or  Nuernherg.   In Round-Trip F light of 1,100 Miles 33 British Planes Downed

Reds Sweep More Than Halfway, Stalingrad to Polish Border — Japs Lose Bairoko Harbor, Last Stronghold in  Georgia — Bulgaria Hints Boris — May Abdicate Balkan Throne

Prentiss Brown  Confirmed as OPA Director  Senate Unanimous In Its Approval  at Agqancu Hand

Senate Okehs Brown as  OPA Director   New Administrator Prepares to Take Over Henderson Job

Senate Ok’s Brown For  OPA Chief      FORME MICHIGAN SENATOR WHO BETRAYED FARMERS IS PLACLY IN CHARGE OF PRICE ADM:NISTRATION,   Ready To Take Over

NEW HEAD OF OPA QUICKLY APPROVED   Prentiss Brown Promises to Do Best to Relieve Hardships

‘Prentiss Brown Confirmed as OPA Director   Senate Unanimous In Its Approval of Agency Head

NEW OPA CHIEF IS CONFIRMED   Senate Approves Brown As Administrator Of Prices To Succeed Henderson

PLANES STRIKE AT EUROPE IN DAYLIGHT RAIL   Return Half Hour Later: West Germany Is Night Target

FOLLOWS BRITISH MOSQUITO RAID ON W. GERMANY   Third Major American Assault on Reichland in Five Days

ALLIES AGAIN HIT AT AXIS, EUROPE IN DAYLIGHT RAIDING   ‘Third Major U. S. Assault On Reich In 5 Days — Today’s Targets Not Far Inland  #

AXIS EUROPE CONTINUING   Made in Daylight ‘As Weather Prevents Night Flying

BIG ROMBERS RENEW ATTACK UPON EUROPE   Heavy American Assault On Duren Followed Up Ry New Forays

CROP CONDITIONS ARE FAIRLY GOOD   Potato Prospects In Western Mary= land Are Poor; Drouth Stitt Persists

GERMAN-SWEDISH RELATIONS TENSE   Nazis Admit Freighter Fired on Submarine in “SelfDefense.”

SOVIETS MAKING 3-PRONG DRIVE UPON NIKOPOL   Other Red Troops Advance Tc Trap Nazis in Crimea

Reds Encircling Foe With Stee   Nazis In Dnieper Bend, Crimea Face Doom

Three Red Armies — Converge on Nikopo!   Multiple Drive Against Key Stronghold Is Designed to Complete Entrapment of Nazi Forces in the Dnieper Bend.

Seek Entrapment Of All Germans In Dnieper Bend Krivoi Rog Holding Out Despite Red Drive; Cossacks Lead One Attack

Soviets Drive Upon Nikopol, Clean Dnieper   Other Forces Cut Off Crimea

Three Soviet Armies Converge on Nikopol   Multiple Drive in Effort to Complete — Entrapment of Lower Dnieper Germans.  Krivoi Rog Still Holding Out.

CONVERGING ON KEY NAZI BASE OF NIKOPOL ON DNIEPER   Two Other Red Armies Surging Forward to “%; Seal Nazis Fate in Crimean Peninsula. Hard Ridgy Cossack Cavalrymen and Tanks Take 80 Tows

Russians Push Forward i in Multiple. Drive to: Trap’ Nazis in the Dneiper Bend

Russian Armies Converging On Key Nikopo   Three Armies Gather To Complete German Entrapment In Dnieper Bend; Reds Report A 15 Mile

YANKS SLOG ON THROUGH RAIN IN ITALY DRIVE   Strategically Vital Village on High Ground Seized on Main Road To Rome

Russians Converge on Key Stronghold of Germans-Nikopo   Three-Pronged Drive i: Started to Trap Foe in Dnieper Bend

GERMANS CAUGHT IN-CRIMEA TRAP   Important Areas Captured In Drive To Seal Crimean Peninsula   80 TOWNS FALL   Russian Offensive Slashes Ahead With No Signs Of Letup

Tee Other Soviet Armies Advance   West and South of Melitopol tc  Seal Off Germans in Crimea   KRIVOI ROG HOLDS   Cermans Battle Desperately {o1 Time to Withdraw Forces—Russians Advance on Perekop

Soviets Stage Multiple Drive For Entrapment  Of Nazis In River Bend

Russians Stage ‘Multiple Drive “On Nikopol Base      Other Soviet Army Forces “Attempt To Seal Off '- * Nagi Positions In Crimea!

OED ARMIES NEAR NIKOPOI   Multiple Drive Being Made To Trap Germans in Dniener Bend.   OTHERS AIM AT CRIMEA

3 Russian Units Close On Nikopol   ‘Multiple Drive Seeking to  Complete Entrapment  Jn Dnieper Bend

RUSSIAN ARMIES CONVERGE ON THE CITY OF NIKOPOL   Is the German Key Sironghold on Lower Dnieper River.   IN A MULTIPLE DRIVE   Attempt to Complete Entrapment of Nazis Forces in the Dnieper Bend.

Russians Close —— InOn Nikopol  Multiple Drive Aiming To Trap Nazis

Reds Launch 3-Way Drive to Trap Nazis   Soviets Converging on Key Stronghold on Lower Dnieper

CONVERGE ON KEY CITY OF NIKOPOL   TWO OTHER RUSSIAN ARMIES SURGE SOUTH, WEST OF MELITOPOL

THREE RED ARMIES CONVERGED ON KEY POINT SATURDAY   SEEK TO COMPLETE ENTRAPMENT OF GERMAN FORCES IN DNIEPER BEND

NAZIS IN BEND OF DNIEPER ARE FACING A TRAP   Soviets Completing Circle Around German Forces; Other Russian Troops  Moving In On Cri TIS 

REDS DRIVING FOR NIKOPO!   Triple Pronged Trap Is Closing On Nazis In Dnieper Bend

ENTRAPMENT OF GERMANS IS RED GOAL   Nazis Abandoning  Equipment To Void Trap

In On Nikeotl   Extent of German Defeat Not Yet Apparent; British Reach Western Defense Anchor in Italy

REDS DRIVE FOR NIKOPOL, ENEMY KEY POSITION   Capture of Area, Toward Which Three Russian Armies Are Converging,   Would Snare Huns   OTHER FORCES ARE HEADED FOR CRIMEA   Gains of Fifteen Miles Reported by Soviets; Germans Losing Large Stores Material

Red Armies In 3-Way Squeeze Against Nikopol   Move To Clean Up Dnieper Bend; Speed Closing Of Crimea Trap.

Russ Armies Converging on Key Stronghold   Nazis Abandon War Equipment In Their Flight

JAPAN LOSES ITS BIGGEST WAR GAMBLE   Quebec Statements Show Allies Ready to Fight on All Fronts

United Nations Well Equipped   Plenty Of Ships, Munitions, Men, For Two Ocean War, Japs Lose Gamble

FBR, CHURCHILL ADMIT MEETINGS AIMED AY JAPE   Talks at Capital ‘‘Turned Very Largely Upon the War Against Japan.”

Turkish-Syrian Frontier Closed   Actions Indicate  Troop Movements By LEWIS HAWKINS

Observers Believe British * Armies in Area, Together With U.S. Troops, May Be on Move.   ACTION ADDS TO AXIS INVASION ANXIETY   Germany Said to Be Changing Army Commanders Along Edges of “European Fortress.”

Frantier Belween Syria And ‘Turkey Reported Closed; No Confirmation From London

War's Spotlight Shifts Suddenly As Allies Close Syrian Frontier   German Reports Say Allied  invasion Army is Mass ing in Syria; New Red  Offensive is Expected

Troops Thought On Move Near Border   Allies Close Syria’s Frontier With Turkey As Reports Say Larae Armies Are On Move

Syrian-Turk Frontier Said Closed   British Armies, U. S. Troops in Near East May Be On Move

ALLIES CLOSE SYRIAN BORDER   Observers Think Armies Trained In Fast May Be Moving

BiG INVASION ARMY MAY BE ON THE MOVE   ANXIETY OF AXIS INCREASES; TOP MEN SHUFFLED

Surprise Strategy Intensifies Nazi Fear of Thrust From South; Yank Force Stationed in That Area

ALLIED ASSAULT ON GERMANY VIA BALKANS LOOMS   Ankara Government Breaks With Pro-Nazi French While Trouble Brews   GERMANY SMASHED AGAIN   Aerial Attacks To Soften Up Invasion Routes in West And South Continue

Large Allied Force .In Syria May Strike As Part of Global Offen: sive. Axis Jitters Mount.

Turkish-Syrian Frontier Closed   Actions Indicate Troop Movements

War Spotlight Shifts to-East: Nazis Report Massing by Allies   New Fuel Added to Fires of Axis Invasion Anxiety; Move Might Be Intended to Cover Moves of Allied Troops; New Red Offensive

eds Altribute efeat of Italy o Soviel Arms   Declare Russians Caused Surrender

Diphtheria Rises In State; Advise Prevention Now   HEALTH DEPT. SAYS THERE Ig  CHOICE: IMMUNIZE OR HAVE Dieeaece

JAP CRUISER RAMS PT BOAT, I1 RESCUED  \Americans Make Way To Jungle Island Where Natives Find Them

CREW BELIEVED LOST RESCUED   Kennedy And 10 Others Saved After Boot Cut In Two

Ex-Ambassador’s Son Swims Perilous Straits To Intercept PT Boats

Crew Of Smashed PT Boat Rescued  Ex-Envoy Kennedy's Son Among Survi ivors

JAP DESTROYER RAMS PT BOAT IN PACIFIC   All But Two of Crew Rescued. Destroyer Believed to Have Been Traveling At Rate of 40 Knots

PT Boat Crew, Given Up As Lost, Turns Up Okay   Others Saw Boat Sliced Ir Two By Jap Destroyer; Men Survived On Isle

Crew of U. 5. PT Boat Rescued   Lieut. John Kennedy And Men Taken Off Jap-Held Island

Tots at Play Are Killed by Plane   Son of Former Ambassador Kennedy Rescued From Pacific Island

Former OSU Football Star On PT Boat Has Miraculous Escape   Jap Convoy Is Smashed In Solomons Area With Heavy Loss By Enemy

Daring of Ambassador’s Son, Skipper Of PT Boat, Brings Crew to Safety)   Rammed By Destroyer. Survivors Are Taken Off Desert Isle.

Suspect Admits Participation in Wyoming Murders  Wiiliam Pickell, 26, Says Soldier Aided Him in Cota Slayina

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Union chiefs of 1,100,000 non-operating workers of railroads vote for tieup   President Roosevelt’s compromise overtime pay plan turned down

FDR Rail Pay Plan Rejected   Strike Orders from 1 ,100,00¢ Operating Employes Add tc Strike Threat

STRIKE IS SET FOR DEC. 30 BY ‘RAIL WORKERS   Non-Operating Unions © Dick Same Date as Reoatherhoods

ASK INCREASE OVER OFFERS BY FDR, VINSON   Want Overtime, Layover Pay

Proposal Drafted By Railroad Men To Settle Strike   Leaders of Brotherhoods Reduce Demand, Add  » Demand For Overtime.   To Submit Proposal To Pres. Roosevelt

General Rail Strike Set For Dee. 30   Roosevelt Faces Wage Demands of Two Labor Group

Rail Unions Draft New Wage Plans   New Settlement Basis to (0 to President = as Mediator   Overtime Plan

FIVE RAILROAD BROTRERHOODS DRAFT COUNTER PROPOSALS   Non-Operating Unions Also Plan To Strike Dee. 30

Railroad Brotherhoods Teo Submit Plan to President; ‘Non-Operating Unions Will Strike Dec. 30.

Rail Leaders Adopt A New Pav Proposal   Yyogram To Be Offered President Roosevelt; Non-Operating Union: Vote Strike

Railmen Make Counter - Offer As Million More Call for Strike   Operating Brotherhoods Cut $3 Demand to 64 Cents

Set 6a.m., Dec. 3 Eor Strike of U. §. Rail Workers   ® Non Operating Union Group Favors Walkout for Wage Hike

Complete Rail Tie-Up Feared   Non-Operators Set Strike; Others Reject FDR’s Plan

AA UNION ntAUD FAME GUUNT EA WAGE PROPOSAL   Brotherhood Chieftains Draft Plan To Avert National Strike

Brotherhoods Offer Solution In Strike Crisis   8 Cent Raise, Time and Half After 40 Hours Proposed

RAIL UNIONS HAVE PLAN Td AVERT STRIKE   Operating Brotherhoods Will Submit Their Counter-Proposal on Wages to White House as Soon as Possible.

Brotherhoods Reduce Their Wage Demand:   Counter - Proposals Are Submitted As Parley Is Resumed

RAILROAD TIE-UP LOOMS AT START OF NEXT YEAR   Workers Reject President's Proposal - - - Plenty More Headaches Face Congress

RAIL BROTHERHOOD LEADERS DRAFT NEW WAGE HIKE PROPOSAL  WILLING TAKE LESS THAN FIRST DEMANDED, BUT OTHER DEMANDS ADDED

Brotherhoods Counter With New Proposal   64 Cent Increase Besides Other Demands Cited

New Proposal Is Offered By  Rail Unionists   Reduce Request For Pay Hike, Add Overtime And Other Demands.

—RAIL WAGE VDISFV IE  Counter Offer Is Deratted   Big 5 Brotherhoods Trim Wage Demands; Ask Paid Vacations

NEW COMPLICATIONS “MENACE EFFORTS 10 ~— AVERT..RAIL TIEUP   Office, - ‘Shop: and Track Wark. ers Set Dec. 30 As Wage . Demand Deadline   1.100.000 ‘ARE INVOLVED

Rail Workers Draft Plan to Avoid Strike   Counter-Proposal Reduces Demand to 64 Cent Increase

VOTE TO JOIN BROTHERHOODS IN SHOWDOWN   Operating Leaders Turn Down President's Overtime Pay Proposal

Rail Men Turn Down Plan For  Halting Strike   Roosevelt Proposal Rejected by Brotherhocds as Nan: operating Unions Set December 30 as Date for Walkout

MILLION TRAINMEN JOIN DEC. 30 STRIKE   Non - Operating Workers Hand President New Wage Dispute

BROTHERHOODS SUBMIT PLAN   Leaders of Five Rail Organizations Draft Proposal to Avert Strike

Railroad Unions  Set Strike Date   Non-operating Group To Halt Work Dec. 30, Operating Units Reject FDR’s Suggestion For Settlement Of Dispute

Counter Proposal Aimed At Settling Wage Fight Drafted By Brotherhoods

Leaders of Fifteen Nonoperating Unions Set Walk-Out Hour; Brotherhoods Retect Roosevelt Plan

Non-Operating Brotherhoods Fix December Deadline   Counter Proposals May Be Made Wednesday; Operating Groups Reject FDR Plan

RAIL STRIKE BECOMES MORE CERTAIN TODAY   Meetine Tuesday Fails; To Meet Again Today

COUNTER PROPOSAL COMPLETED TODAY BY RAIL LEADERS   Will Be Presented to President Roosevelt As Soon as He Is Ready.   STRIKE CALLED DEC. 30   New Demands Asked in the New Proposal; Originally Asked $3 a Day.

Wage Increases Offered By President Refused;  Counter- Proposals Given   With Railroad Tra he ia Greatest In History Strike Set For Dec. 30

PLAN PROVIDES SIBSTANTIALLY HIGHER WAGES   rive Operating Unions Respond to FDR's Settlement Bid

RAIL OFFICIALS DRAW UP PACT TO AVERT STRIKE   Lower Wage Demand To 64 Cents Plus Paid Vacations, Overtime, Expenses

Strike Orders Hinder Efforts To Avert Tieuy   Mar Railway Wage Talks; Peace Basis Proposed ’ For Operating Unions

NEW PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY RAIL UNIONS   Jnerating Workers Joined by NonOperating Employes In Strike Move.

Rail Strike Set For December 31   Nonoperating Group Plans Work Stoppage

Rail Unions Draw Up Nev Waae Plan   Presidential Election, Tax Bill, Subsidy Program, Wage Stabilization Few Problems Facing Congress

NON-OPERATING GROUP T0 JOIN WALKOUT DEC. 28   CONTINUE EFFORTS TO AVERT TIE-UP OF U. S. RAILROADS

Temperatures   Seek Eight Cents Hour Hike, Time and Half for Yardmen, Lay-Over Costs, Vacation Pay

NON-OPERATING RAIL EMPLOYES VOTE TO STRIKE   Leaders Of 1,100,000 Workers Set December 30 At 6 A. M. For Walkout   OPERATING UNIONS REFUSE SETTLEMENT

NEW PROPOSALS Of RR. UNIONS 10 G0 10 PRESIDEN   Semand Straight Time Hour ly Wage. Increase of ‘Eight Cents, Overtime  and Vacation Pay.

Rail Unions Draft New — ~ Wage Plans   New Settlement Basis tc (io to President as Mediator

Unions Submit A Plan   Send Proposal  For Settlement of  Rail Wage Dispute To FDR As Mediator

Rail Men Make Counter-Offer  Complete Draft   Complete Draft To Be Presented To President

Both Unions Select _ . Dec. 30 For Walkoui   Non-Operating Group Joins Brothed: hoods After Rejecting Plan

New Strike Order Issued In Rail Case   1,190,000 Non-Operating Railroad Workers Vote Strike

WALKOUT OF Io RAILWAY UNIONS SET FOR BEC. ot   Leaders of Non-Operating Employes Report Wage Adjustment Has Been Sought in Vain.   MEN WHO RUN TRAINS DUE TO QUIT SAME DATE   Settlement Proposed by Roosevelt Turned Down— 1,450,000 Workers Involved in Two Disputes.

Rail Unions Complete Dratt Of New Demand   To Submit Proposals To President Soon; No Federal Action On ‘Non-Ops’ Threat

Rail Strike Threat Hits Peace Move   Rooseyelt’s Efforts to Avert Nation-wide Tie-up Dee.  30 Tangled by New  Union Order :   PROPOSE BASIS TO SETTLE PAY FIGHT   Conferences Continued A: ‘Non-Operating Rail Groups Set Deadline  On Wage Demands

Five Operating BrotherhoodsMake New Counter- -Proposal In Move To Avert Walkouts

RAIL WORKERS DRAFT REVISED WAGE DEMANDS   Counter-Proposal Of Operating Group Exceeds Offer Of President

To Present It 7 To President tot .  pol harap  “ate Today” ora i

Rail Unions Offer Counter-Proposa! To Settle Dispute   Overtime and AwayFrom-Home Expense Payment Requested

Non-operating Rail Union Strike Is Set   Operating Groups Reject Plan Urged by F. D. R.

BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS DRAFT NEW PROPOSALS   Offer Counter Proposals For Settling Wage Dispute and Preventing Strike Dec. 30th

Brothers Add to Eight Cents Hour Demand New Proposals for Vacations, Overtime in Yards   ISSUES UP TO FDR   Argue President's Plan of 4 Ceni: More in Vacation, Overtime Im. pairs Position

Counter-Plan Would Avert Rail Strike   Wage Boost Dropped to 64 Cents But Additional Demands Are Included

Railroad “Nonops” Order Strike for Thursday, Dec. 30   Complicates Efforts of White House to Prevent Full Tieup

UNIONS REJECT PLAN PROPOSED BY ROOSEVELT   Workers Set Dec. 30 As Deadline For Demands

A Counter Proposal > on Wages   -Brotherhoods Present New Pay Proposition, Adding Vacations With Pay   ROAD EXPENSES ALSO: REQUESTED   ‘@Conferences 5 Continue as Non-Operating Employes Call Strike for Dec. 30°

Brotherhoods Draft Their Own Proposals   ‘Non-Op’ Unions Spur Deliberations By Calling Strike For December 30

GOUNTER-PLA 5 COMPLETED   Leaders of Five Railroad Operating Brotherhoods Make Draft.   STRIKE SET FOR DEC. 30!

04 CENT DROP FROM ORIGINAL REQUEST MADE   Vacation and Overtime Pay Asked, However; Strike Called for Dec. 30

Unionists Ask Greater Raises   COUNTERPROPOSAL PROVIDES 8-CENT-AN-HOUR INCREASE, TIME AND ONE-HALF FOR YARDMEN, FULL LAY-OVER EXPENSES BETWEEN RUNS

NEW STRIKE ‘ORDERS MAR ~ WAGE TALKS   Peace Basis Proposed for Unions—Tieup Now Set Dec, 30

GUT DAY RATE; ADD OVERTIME AND VACATIONS   Proposed Basis of Settlement Will Be Submitted to Roosevelt.

FDR TO FACE SECOND RAIL WAGE DISPUTE   Involves 1,100,060 Non-Operating Workers Of Nation's Railroads

F.D.f, STEPS INTO NEW RAILWAY WAGE STRUGGLE   1,100,000 Non-Operating Workers Threaten to Join Strike Tipe 2h

Rail Unions Submit New ‘Pay Demand:   Counter-Proposal Drown Up as F.R. Pian Is Rejected

STRIKE 15S SCHEDULED   Non - Operators Agre: On Dec. 30; Accord On Pay Hike Fails

RAILWAY UNION CHIEFS DRAFT NEW PROPOSAL   Strike Order by Non Operating Groups Complicates Talks

Rail Workers Submit Own Pay Program  Counter Proposal Will Be Given to President Roosevelt  {POINTS STRESSED Operating Employes Ask Straight Increase of 8  Conte an Hane      Operating Employes Ask Straight Increase of 8 Cents an Hour

 Non-Operating Rail Workers Also Call Strike   15 Other Unions Set Dee. 30 as Walkout Date — Operating Group Rejeets Plan of FDR.

Non-Operating Groups Call National Strike On Same Date, Dec. 3f   President's Over-Time Pay Proposal Turned Down: Brotherhoods Name Committee to Draw Up Counter-Propositions in Wage Dispute

‘HIG 5° DRAFTS COUNTER PLAN -IN RAIL SCRAP   ‘ere Proposal to Be Sent o FDR Who Seeks Bar Against Strike

ALL NOW SEEK 8 CENTS AN HOUR BOOST   Five Brotherhoods Close Ranks With Non-Operating Units

THREAT OF RAIL STAIKE 1S HEARD INNEW QUABTER   Office, Shop And Track Workers Present New - Wage Demands

Rail Union Leaders Set December 30 Strike Date   Non-Operating Groups Join Operating Crews, Who Turn Down Basis For Settling Dispute  COUNTER-PROPOSALS WILL BE ADVANCED  Pay for Overtime Over 40 Hours Week :Succested hy FE. TD PR.

Office, Shop Crews J oi Rail Crisis ©   ~ Potential Strikers... Rise:to, 1,450,000;. Dec. 30 Date Holds.

Rail Chiefs Draft New Wage Plan   Counter-Proposal Cuts Pay Requests But Adds Demands For Overtime

RAILROADS IN COUNTER PROPOSAL   Pay Hike, Paid Vacations, Over Time Pay Factors

Non-Operating Brotherhoods Order Strike  Operating Unions   Operating Unions Reject Roosevelt Compromise Plan

Strike Orders Given by Rail Non-Operators   Set December 30 Deadline As Other Meetings Continue To Avert Tie-Up

Proposals By Railway Workers   Larger Increases in Wages Asked by Operating Railway Brotherhoods

ANOTHER MILLION NOW THREATEN TO JOIN IN STRIKE   Office. Shop, Track Workers Threaten to Leave Jobs Dec. 30, Cooperate With Operating Union.   AQREEMENTS FAIL IN NUMBER OF MEETINGS   Several Benefits For Operating Union Members Are expected During Day as Counter Plan.

Roosevelt ToExamine  - New Plan   Paid Vacations, Overtime And Away-From-Home Expenses Included In Brotherhood Proposal

NEW ORDERS MAR RAILWAY WAGE PARLEY   Leaders of 1,100,000 Who Perform Office, Shop and Track Work, Announce Strike Plans   DEC. 30TH IS DEADLINE

Senate Will Likely Pass Ruml Tax Bil!   Even Opponents Concede Likelihood of Modified Bill’s Success

Senate Tax Debate May Begin Tuesday   Committee Puts Finishing Touches On New Version Of  — Rumi ‘Skip-Year’ Plan To Be Presented To Solons

FINISHING TOUCHES ARE PUT ON NEW — RUML TAX MEASURE   Bill Expected To Be Sent To Floor Of Senate Tomorrow   APPROVAL IS EXPECTED

NEW VERSION OF RUML BILL ISFINISHED   Chairman George Says Legislation Likely To Pass

NEW VERSION OF RUML BILL IS UNDER WAY   Unless Hitch Develops It Will Be Reported and Debate Opened Some time Tuesday   PREDICTING PASSAGE

TAX DEBATE DUE TO START TUESDAY   Coalition of Republicans, Democrats Put Finishing --Foueches tq Rum! Bill

COALITIONIN SENATE READY FOR TAX FIGHT   Confident Upper Branch of -Congress Will Override Administration Objections   PASSAGE FORECAST   Debate. Expected to Open Wednesday With Finai Vote by End of This Week

Victory In Senate Forecast —  Coalition Drafts New Version Of Skip-A-Year Tax Legislation

Senate Coalition   Busy Perfecting   Senate Committee To Send Bill To Floor Tomorrow; 5 Democrats- In Favor’

Finishing Touch Being Placed on New Tax Measure   Debate to Start In Senate Tuesday Or on Wednesday

COALITION IN SENATE WORKS ON RUML PLAN   Skip-A-Year Leaders Are Confident Measure Will Pass   EARLY DEBATE SEEN   Revised Bill Will Cancel Lower of 1941-42 Liabilities

RUML BACKERS SEE A VICTORY AHEAD   House and Senate Both Expected To Override Administration

ATE TO GET TAX BILL BY TOMORROW   New Version Of Rumi Plan Ready For Action

FIRE AT DODGE CITY   Department Store Blaze Damage Is Set at $50,000

‘Wuxtra !. Wuxtra  Nation’s Oldest Newsboy Will Be 103 on Saturday

Have You Complained About Travelling Conditions In America? Then Read This!   UP Correspondent Describes* Trip Out Of WarTorn China 

‘Capital Scandal Spanish Dancer Convicted (Of Mann Act Violation.

ALLIES’ QUIPUT OF ARMS MAY BE 410 1 OVER AXIS IN "44   Nelson Says North America Now [3 Producing Twice As Much As Axis

Allied Output Four Times  Axis’ in 1944   Nelson Says Production Spells Doom to Enemy

Allied Arms. Output Great   Four Times That Of Axis In 1944—Nelson

ALLIED OUTPUT  TREBLES AXIS’   Nelson In Optimistic Keport On Arms Production

ALLIED ARMS OUTPUT FAR AHEAD AXIS   May Be Four Fimes As Great As Axis Powers in 1944

Allies Output of Arms 4 Times That of the Axis   that Will Be Proportion — fo Next Year, Donald Nelson  Says in Address at Toronto

ALLIES SET TO QUADRUPLE AXIS OUTPUT   Nelson Says North America Already Produces Twice Foe’s Munitions.   WARNS OF OPTIMISM   Declares Greatest Effort ai  Front and at Home Still Tn Pama

ALLIED ARMS SWAMP AXIS   NELSON SEES OUTPUT FOUR TIMES OVER ENEMY   Warns Fnemvyv

Large Group of Inductees Leaves Today For Duty In Army, Navy, Marine Corps

Inductees From County Leave Today and Enter Service At Camp Perry

Way Left Open For New Application. ....  Raise For Telephone Employes Is Denied

Attacks Crop Control Plans   Maryland Representative Would Suspend Limitations For Duration.

WOULD HALT FARM PAYMENT   CONGRESSMAN FAVORS SUSPENSION OF CROP CONTROL

CAPITAL UNRUFFLED BY NEW (NVASION   Government Spokesmen Await Keynote Signal from Churchill and Roosevelt

INVASION CAUSES NO EXCITEMENT OFFICIAL CIRCLES   Scarcely A Ripple Stirred Ir Washington By Report: Of Invasion of Italy; Stress At Moment Is On War In Pacific.

Not A Ripple In Washington   Invasion Of Italy Causes No Excitement

No Excitement Noted In Capital  Washington Is Calm As Invasion Of Italy Is Begun; Hardly A Ripple

WASHINGTON CALM AS INVASION OPENS   London Is Buoyed Up By News: No Comment In  U. S. Capital

Not A Ripple Of Excitement In Washington Over Invasion   Move Is Regarded Further Eviderice Of Allies’ Long-Range Planning

NEWSPAPERMEN END EDITORIAL MEETING   New Businessmen Disrup’ Plant, Government Unity

Fighters  *Go Along,  . Farlnto  Germany   @Escort “Provided. . Fortress Bombers All the Way for the First.Time   CREWS OF RAIDERS © ARE JUBILANT   Raid on Emden Greatly Ditferent for Them Because: _ of Protective Cover

EMDEN BLASTED BY FORTRESSES AND FIGHTERS   Thunderbolts Set Record Ir 80C-Mile Round Trip Flight With Bombers

Blast Emden Base Again   Thunderbolt Fighters Go All The Way To Protect Fortresses

Thunderbolts Set  Distance Recore  Escort Fortresses Or   Heavy Emden Raid

Fortresses Set Record Over Europe   ‘Emden Bombed for Second Time in Two Days —All Planes Return

MAKE RECORD ESCORT TRIP   Thunderbolt Fighters Fly 800 Miles Round Trip to Protect Bombers Which Raid Naval Base at Emden.

Fighters Go With Bombers  First Time They Go All Way to  _ fe a .. ape aeage s

‘Forts’ Pound North German  Port Of Emder   Thunderbolt Fighters Make Record Jaunt; Mosquitos  Hit Rhineland.   RECORD RAID MONTH

Gen. McNair Not Crifically Injured  Shell Fragments Cut  Through Steel Helmet, hiss bdiw [a Chai ldor

ARMY SADDENED  AS M’NAIR HURT   Head of All Ground 7 Forces Wounded suet WH Bunisia- 2 or

GEN, M’NAIR NOT CRITICALLY HURT   General Eisenhower Reports Shell Fragments Struck Leader on Tunisian Front

GEN, LESLIE M1 NAIR NOT SERIOUSLY HURT   Commander Of Land Forces Wounded In Tunisia

M'NAIR SUFFERS SCALP WOUND   Will Be Incapacitated for Several Weeks

Gen. McNair Is Wounded   Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear Ordered to Tunisia to Assume Command of Ground Forces

Helmet Saves Life Of U.S. General On African Front  Lear Assumes Duties  Of Leslie J. McNair

REPORT M'NAIR WAR GASUALTY   Wounded During North African Campaign

GEN. McNAIR NOT CRITICALLY HURT   Shell Fragment Hits Helmet, Injures Shoulder

Gen. M’Nair Is Wounded   Hurt in Africa While On Inspection Trin ‘

Gen. MeNair Is Injured In Africa  Wounds Not Critical, Savs War Department

AMERICAN GENERAL WOUNDED IN AFRICA      Head and Shoulder Hit by Shrapnel Fragments

Wounded In Africa   Loss Of Gen. McNair Severe Blow To U. S General Staff

LT. GEN. MCNAIR WOUNDED IN TUNISIA   Eisenhower Reports He Was Severely But Not Criticaiiy Wounded.

FUT. GEN. MPNAIR SERIOUSLY INIURED   War Department Gets Brief Report of Wounding of  Commander In Tunisia.

LEAR TO REPLACE LIEUT. GEN, M’NAIR  : Tunisian Officer   Suffers Wound

Lt. McNair Will Be Laid Up Some Time   Received Severe Scalp and Shoulder Wounds Last Friday.

GENERAL MVNA SEVERELY INJURED   Head of Ground Forces Wounded in Tunisia, But Not Critically.

HEAD OF LAND UNITS IN TUNISIA INJURED   Lieut. Gen. Lesley J. McNair Not Critically Wounded

Gen. McNair Not Critically Hurt   Receives Scalp and Shoulder Wound; Helmet Saved Life

ben, McNair is Wounded In North Africa   Helmet Penetrated By Shell Fragment, Says  War Department In Report On Injuries

McNair's Wounds Are Not Critica!   General Mit by Shell Fragments

GEN. M’NAIR HIT BY SHELL PIECES   Army Says Leader Severely But Not Critically Hurt

McNAIR’S WOUNDS ARE NOT CRITICAL   General Struck by Shell Fragments Is Saved by His Steel Helmet

List MeNair  As Casualty   Commander Of American Ground Forces Injured On African Front.

GEN. M’NAIR IS. WOUNDED INN. AFRICA   Although Not ‘Critically  . Hurt, He Will Be Incapacitated Several Weeks —Shell Fragment Penetrated Helmet. 

Gen, McNair Not Critically Hurt      “Receives Sealy and “Shoulder. Wound;" Helmet Saved Life

Gen. MeN air’s Helmet Saved His Life   Penetrated By Shell Fragment; Serious Shoulder Wound Also

McNair Injuries Not Critical  Gen. Lear to Take Command of U. S.  ee ee ee gif,

McNair Hurt on Tunisian Front  Lear to Command All Ground Forces

MeNair Injury Not Critical   Suffers Severe Wounds While Visiting Front In Northern Tunisia

ALLIED FORCES SEVER LINEIN TUNISIAN ZONE   American, British Units Drive Wedge In Escape Corridor On Route Of Afrika Korps   MONTGOMERY HITS AXIS REAR GUARD   Eighth Army Is Advancing Into Tunisia; Pincers Developing to Trap Nazis, Italians

AMERICANS HOLD FAST TO POSITIONS TAKEN  AT VTRTOTY BTMArIMNITADMOpWa ray AAV REY ADO sr A

U. S. Forces Threaten — ~~ Merging Axis Armies      Wedge Would. Seriously Harass T Junction Of “Axis Forces; Berlin Admits Axis Positions In Central Sectér Breached. :

Last means of flight from Caucasus cut; three forces converging on Rostov zone

Red Army Wipes Out Encircled Remnants _Of German Troops   Reds Close Jaws of a Trap On the German  Army of the Caucasus On Kursk Front, : 280 Miles South of Moscow

REDS CLOSE PINCERS ON NAZI ARMY   Russians Near Coast of Sea Of Azov

Russia Closing Jaws of Trap In Caucasus   Last Means of Rail Escape for Germans Cut Off

REDS CLOSE TRAP ON GERMAN ARMY   Drive Nearer To Sea, Cut Off Last Rail Line Of Nazis

Jap Drive in China Is Held Puzzling   Enemy Has Too Small Force for Offensive, Too Larae for Raid

JAPANESE CAMPAIGN  IN CHINA PUZZLING  TO MILITARY EXPERT: FORCE TOO SMALL FOR  MAJOR OFENSIVE BUT TON TARCE ENP DAING

Puzzling’ Is Word Applied By Observers In Capital To Recent Japanese Attack

Japanese Recent Campaign in China Puzzling: Few Reinforcements Sent

DX. ALLAN Rk. DAFOE DIED THIS MIGRNING   Hurtled to Fame by Birth of the Dionne Quintuplets.

War Chest Group Meets fo Arrange Plans for Campaigi   “Several Hundred . Gather at Goyernor;: Head Presides  7

War Chest Group Meets fo Arrange Plans ior Campaigr  Several Hundred . ‘Gather at Governor; gt  #g¢ rm °F

Repatriates Reveal Japanese  ~ People Well Geared For War   BY KAYMAND P. CRONIN AND RUSSELL BRINES  (Copyright, 1943, By The Boucnntantnd Deace

Report Rommel Shot Down By Allied Fighters   Enroute In Transport Plane To Sicily Says Swedish Report

SWEDISH NEWSPAPER PICKS UP RUMOR BROADCAST BY “UNDERGROUND” RADIO

Madame Chiang Speaks Before Packed Senate   Chinese Leader Says Feur Freedoms “Gong CH Freedom”

China’s First Lady Talks in Capitol   “rowded Galleries Hear Her Tell of United Cause of U. S., China.

4 Freedoms Death Knell To Aggressor “Mme. Chiang Urges  Maen Abtaniinn Da

KAI-SHEK’S WIFE PRAISES 4 FREEDOMS   Tells Senate They Are “Death-Knell” to Aggressors of the United Nations— Asks Ameri - can-Chinese Unity.

PLAN TO BUILD UP ARMY IS DEFENDED BY WAR SECRETARY   Stimson Declares That  Program Is Necessary in Radio Address Last Night.

Stimson Defends Plans to Build Large Army   Number of Men  Under Arms Would TT’ .éa1 2 O70 OO

Army Figure Defended By Stimson   Nation Told That Men Are Needed For ‘Offensive’

SEC. STIMSON DEFENDS PLAN FOR BIG ARMY   Tells Nation Why Eight Million Men Are Needed

Stimson Defends Plans For 8-Million Man Army   Secretary Of War Scores Critics Of Military Plans For 1943

KNOX DEFENDS PLAN FOR GIGANTIC ARMY   Trust Your Military Leaders, He Tells Nation

FILM STAR ON MISSING PLANE   Attacked by Enemy, Said Last Message

Leslie Howard Feared Lost on Lisbon Plane   Big Air Transport on Way to London Shot Down, Belief

LEoLIt HOWARD ON LOST PLAN   Actor and 16 Others Are Presumed Lost After Attack On Big Ship

DAY'S ADVANCE NETS RUSSIANS MANY GAPTIVES   First Ukrainian Army Only 15 Miles From Zhitomir

HUNS ADMITTED BARLIER FRESH FLIGHT IN AREA   Way Opened for Sovict Plunge Into Old Poland and Restive Balkans

SEVER ROUTE         Seizure of Zhitomir, 90 Miles West of Kiev, Announced in a Special Order of the Day by Premicr Stalin.

Soviet Army Cuts German Rail Line   Captures Zhitomir, Transportation Hub 90 Miles : West of Kiev   A VITAL NAZI LINK   German Armies: in North and South Russia May Be Split Apart

Lhitomir Falts To Russ Forces: Nazi Escape Cut   Cutting cf Railway Declared One of Major Soviet Feats

Transport Center 90 Miles West Of Fallen Kiev   Allies Make Small Gains in Italy; Leros Peril Grows

Soviets Seize Zhitomir, Near Polish Border   Cuts Major Rail Line From Odessa To Leningrad   HUB OF RAIL LINES   Fallen City Lies Only 60 Miles From Old Border Of Poland

Fall of Zhitomnir Announced By Stalin; Nazis Lose Use Of Vital Supply Railroad.   German Transpert Flotilla Sunk _Off Crimean Peninsula; Advancing Russion Troops OuHlanking Gomel

100 TOWNS CAPTURED IN ADVANCE   German Forces Routed In Some Sectors  Of Long Front

SOVIETS TARE KEY CENTER OF ZHITOMIR   German Armies Of North, South Russia Split; Way  Open For Drive Into Old Daland

Major German Supply Line tn Russia Broker   QOdessa-Leningrad Rai Route Cut In Great New Victory

SOVIET TROOPS MAKING GAINS AGAINST NAZIS   Russians Are Less Than 75 Miles  From Border

Only One Rail System Left To Germans   Way Is Now Open Fo Soviet Plunge Into Poland, Balkans

REDS LENGTHEN ADVANCES IN UKRAINE AREA   Soviets Within Artillery Range of Odessa-Leningrad Railroad

GERMAN ARMIES IN RUSSIA SPLIT   SOVIET TROOPS TAKE 100 MORE TOWNS IN. ONE DAY'S ADVANCE

Half-Million Reds Mass For Battle    Panic Seizes Poland And Bessarabia As Nazi Retreat Toward Berder Continues

RUSSIANS HAVE CUT  MAJOR GERMAN RAIL  LINE TO LENINGRAD CUTTING OF RAILWAY  LINE WAS MAJOR RICAN VICTORY

Major Nazi Rail Line From Odessa To Leningrad Cut   ' Germans Forced To Rely On Circuitous Single Line 100 Miles To The West .

MAJOR GERMAN RAILROAD CUT, STALIN TELL   Transportation Hub in West Uk raine 60 Miles From Former Frontiers of Poland   Cossacks on Gallop (Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Capture of Zhitomir Is Big Victory   Major German  Railroad Is Cut; Scviets Advance In Other Sectors

Capture Of Zhitomir Splits Nazi Armies, Severs Vital Supply Line

Stalin Announces Victory Which Cuts German Railway Between Odessa, Leningrad

HALF MILLION REDS MASSED AT ZHITOMIR   Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk; 88 Jap Planes Downed; War Ships Damaged; Activities On World Battlefronts.

Russians Surge Toward Zhitomir; Menace Vital North-South Railway

Russians Gain More Ground In Drive   Korostyshev Falls To General Who Took Kiev

Tension Increases in Bessarabia, Only 120 Miles Away, and Rumania as Russians Come On   MAJOR RAILS CUT      Reds Also Move to Flank Gomel Germans Reported Preparing  Evacuate Kerch

RAILROAD HUB OF UKRAINE I$ TAKEN BY REDS   Soviets Drive to Within 60 Miles Of Old Polish Line

Nazi Forces In Ukraine Split; Way Opened For A Russian Plunge Across  Old Polish Border.

MAJOR VICTORY IS MADE UNDER COSSACK LEAD   Captured Hub of R. R. Lines Only 60 Miles From Pre-Polish Line

Russians Capture Zhitomir   Capture Announced In Special Order Of the Day

Zhitomir Is Taken, Stalin Announces   Russians Mass Half Million Men In Krivoi Rog Sector

Zhitomir Captured by Sovieis   Russian Victory. Virtually Splits German Armies, Opens Way -to Poland   BALKANS ON EDGE : ‘AS REDS PUSH-ON   Fall of Rail Center. One of Greatest Russian Triumphs; Moscow Celebrates --

Triumphant Soviet Troops Surge Upon Strategic Zhitomi   Threaten to Cut Railway; German Escape Flotilla is Destroyed

Moscow Celebrates City’s Capture Of Key on Railway With 24 Artillery Salvoes By 224 Guns

‘Enormous Jap Losses Shown For Past Year   Pacific Enemy Has Lost 96 Ships Sunk And 1,802 Planes Destroyed

Action By  Legislature  Completed   Enactment Left In Doubt Because Of Plans Of Governor’ Goodland To Veto Measure

CHARGE FFG. - HURTING  WAR EFFORT   CHIEFS OF STAFF ACCUSE COMMISSION. CH ALR MAN. CONTRIBUTED TO PEARL HARBOR DISASTER

FOC ATTACKED BY HOUSE GROUP   Communications Body Held Endangering Military Radio Intelligence

F.C. 0. ACTIVITIES INWAR EFFORTS AEN IN REPORT  Cox Report Says - Radio   Cox Report Says -Radic Endangered Effectiveness and Security of Military Radio Intelligence.   JAPANESE LANGUAGE ~ - IN HAWAII LISTED   55,000 Fingerprints of Operators Worthless Wher Finally Delivered "to FB For Investigation.

GERMAN FORCE Is WIPED OUT TRYING TO INVADE ISLAND   Second Enemy Force I: Destroyed In Stab At Brac Below Split

Hope of More Gasoline in East Dashed  Scant Supply Allowed N. E. for  Rest of Summer

Three Killed, 16 Leap To Safety  B-24 Bomber Crashes In Illinois; Was On Training Flight

Three Killed And 16 Escape   Survivors Parachute To Safety When Army Bomber Crashes

d AIRMEN KILLED, [0 LEAP TO SAFETY   ARMY BOMBER CRASHES INTO ILLINOIS FIELD AND BURSTS INTO FLAMES,

Alamogordo Army Bomber Crashes,  Three Men Killed  Parachutes Save 16 On Training Flight Over Illinois  FORCED OFF COURSE Intended Topeka, Kas.,  LI... geet roe eS   Intended Topeka, Kas., Hop Ends on Farm Near Scott Field

Italians Joyful as Il Duce Falls  People Demonstrate in Many Cities

Demonstrations Celebrate Fall Of Mussolini   Nazi Propagandists Stunned; Allied Circles Optimistic

ltalians Hold  Parades, Urge Peace   Mussolini’s Downfall Prompts Peals Of Joy; Demonstrations Show Anxiety of People for End of War

Italians Throw Away Their Fascist Party Buttons  People Pour Into Streets of Italy's Large Cities With Cries for Peace, Shouts of Joy

DEMONSTRATIONS OCCUR AT ROME, NAPLES, MILAN, BOLOGNA AND OTHER CITIES; OTHER HIGH FASCISTS IN CUSTODY.

Beliet Grows That Italy Wants Peace   New Regime Destroys ‘All Remaining Traces of Fasciat Power

Italian Throngs Cry for Peace   Believe Armistice To Be Asked Soon

Quick End To War Expected   Stunned Nazi Propagandists Speechless In Sudden Blow _

Refusal of More Help From Hitler Seen Leading To fi Duce’s Resignation

Bad Weather May Be Slowing Drive On Attu By Americans   Authorities Familiar With Conditions Are Confident Foe To Soon Be Crushed In Fight

Confidence In Outcome  Not Shaken   Official Word Is Not Received To Describe Progress.

Japs Expecting Aleutian Reverse   Fighting Believed Going Well For Yanks

THICK FOG MAY PREVENT QUICK YANK TRIUMPE   Authorities Have No Doubt Of Victory, However, in Battle for Attu

ATTU FIGHTING IS SHRQUDED IN NAVAL SECRECY   Believed Bad Weather May Be Hampering Efforts To Drive Japs From Island Base   NIPS EXPECT LOSS OF ALEUTIAN ISLE   Tokyo Leaders Have Given People To Understand Defeat For Forces To Be Suffered

BAD WEATHER SLOWS UP U. 8. ATTU VICTORY   TOKYO PREPARING FOR BAD NEWS IN ALEUTIANS

Battle Now Through Fifth Day   Authorities Believe Nipponese Must Be Blown Out of Every Cave, Shelter Before Complete Victory

Chiefs Try to Prepare Japs For Reverses  U. S. Naval Officers  Fynrece Confidence

Believe Japs Are Losing Fight in Aleutian Area   Axis Intimates That Enemy Defeat Is Near; Prepare People

BAD WEATHER MAY HOLD UP DAIVE. AT ATTL   No Official Word of Progress of Battle for Island Since Friday.   LACK OF NEWS ALSO COVERS SOUTH PACIFIC

BATTLE OF ATTU INTO FIFTH DAY   PROGRESS UNDISCLOSED BY WASHINGTON—CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY VOICED,

believe Weather Hampering Drive On Japanese Base  Tokyo Broadcasts Indicate Loss  Of Island Expected PREPARING PFOPIF

BAD WEATHER HAMPERS DRIVE AGAINST JAPS   Japanese Leader Prepares People for  Bad News

Japanese Leader Prepares People For Unfavorable News In Broadcast

No Word Given On Progress  Of Battle   Weather May Be A Handicap To Yanks On Attu Leland

CONFIDENCE MOUNTS IN ULTIMATE U. S. VICTORY IN DRIVE AGAINST ATTU

Bail. Weather May Be liindering Progress But Confidence Mounts Far. Early Expansion of Fac,

Weather May Complicate Attu Attack   No Official Word on Pro. gress But Confidence Grows at Capital

Weather May Slow Struggle For Attu  Authorities Confident Americans Will Win

Judgment In AP Case Requested   Motion Is Filed By  Justice Department

Asks court for judgmen  against A. P.   Government suit claims monopoly

15 MEN DIE IN PLANE CRASH   12 Soldiers and Three Civilians Perish Near Oklahoma City

Seek to Split Nazi East Army   Red Drives North and South of Pripet Marshes Gam  in Momentum

The White Russian Fortress of Gomel in Grave Danger.   GERMAN GARRISONS FACE ENTRAPMENT   Gomel, Rechitsa May Soon Fall Before Red Onslaught.

RUSSIAN TROOPS PUT UP POWERFUL BID TO UNHINGE GERMAN DEFENSES   Red Army Slices Int Fringes Of Impassabl: Marshes Pursuing Re treating Nazis.

DRIVES ON EDGE OF PRIPET MIGHT SPLIT NAZI LINE   German Stronghold; Of Gomel and Rechitsa Expected To Fall Soon

NEARLY MILLION GERMANS SLAIN BY RED TROOPS   Great Quantities Of Equipment Captured During Summer. Report Says   MORE DNIEPER RIVER COMMUNITIES TAKEN

Moscow Says Germany Has Lost That Number in Killed, Wounded and Captured in 4 Months.   TOLL IS 9,100,000 SINCE HITLER STRUCK   Town Opposite Black Sea Port of Kherson Falls to Russians as Offensive Rolts On,

-Nazi Toll Set At 2,700,000.   Soviet Review Says 900,000: Killed In Past Four Months

OFFENSIVE MAY PUSH ENEMY OUT DURING WINTER   About 1,000,000 Killed Or Wounded; Russians Now Opposite Port Of Kherson

Gains Continue in South; 54 Miles from Latvia ‘In Nevel Sectar Drive

Reds Claim Nearly 1,000,000 Nazis Slain or Captured During Four Months of Drive

Nazis Suffer Loss of Million Men   Winter Drive Costs Enemy Highly in Soldiers, Equipment

Total of Foe Casualties 2,700,000, Special Red Announcement Says; Nazi Equipment Losses Huge

Reds Kill 2,700,000 In 4 Months   Soviets Threaten To Clear Russia Of Foe In Winter

German Casualties During Past Four Months of Russian Drive Total 2,700,000, Moscow Asserts

900,000 Dead: 98 (0 Prisoners, Russians Say  9.100,000 Total of German Losses   9.100,000 Total of German Losses Since War Began

900,000 Killed Since July 5, Moscow Asserts   Total Nazi Loss Set af 9,100,000

Nearly a Million Killed During the Past Four Months .  RED ARMIES-GAIN > , IN NEW ASSAULTS More Than 30 Towns Taken in Clean-up of Steppes

Soviets Claim 900.000 Killed In Four Month:   Russians Seize Dimer, North of Kiev; Berlin Says Fresh Troops Landed Near Kerch

House To Open Second  Meeting - Of Session .. Tonight—Senate To ‘> Meet Tomorrow  _ MEETING TO BE BRIEF  Permission To Use Cars Will Bring Thousands ‘To Capital

Capital Prepared For Martin’s Inauguration   Lower Branch of Assembly Meets Tonight, Senate Tomorrow

3 MI. FROM FAID PASS   Axis Forces Make Slight Gain In North Tunisie

WAS STARTING POINT OF AXIS DRIVE RECENTLY   Rommel Forces Being Reenforced Along Mareth Line in Anticipation of British Attack

Allies Drive To 3 Miles Of Faid Pass   U. S. and British Patrol: to Smash at GabesSfax Bottleneck

READY FOR PUSH AT SFAX, GABES   —_—oo Allied Patrols In Position For Drive On Axis Anchor In Middle Tunisia.

Patrols Are Within Three Miles of Faid   Rommiel’s Forces Are Reinforced On Mareth Line

BIG PUSH IS READY  TO START   Only Word from General Montgomery Is Await- ed for Showdown in: Africa, - --- =:

ALLIED PATROLS ARE THREE MILES FROM AXIS POINT   Rommel’s Forces Reinforced Along Mareth Line For Grand Assault Due Soon By British Army.   CONTACTS ARE BEING MADE WITH GERMANS   German Infantry and Tanks Repulsed By Russians In Effort to Stem Great Soviet Drive.

Allies Within Three Miles. Of Faid Pass   Germans ‘Fall Back Rapidly In Tunisia

NAVY ISSUES — ~ MARCH LOSSES   Merchant Marine Casualties Name Three Dead from State. ~

New Gains By Reds Who Give Up Zhitomir   Russians In Surprise Drive Across The Dnieper River

Soviets Abandon Strategic Rail City After Inability To Reinforce Troops—Surprise Assault Across Dnieper Between Kiev And Dnepropetrovsk Gives Support To Left Flank Against Reinforced Enemy—Another Advance Made In White Russia

Drive Across Dnieper    Surprise Soviet Move Captures Village Of  Ovruch

OVRUCH TAKE IN SURPRISE RIVER DRIVE   Soviets Unable To Supply Rail Junction: Germans Lose 4,600 Men In Day, Bulletin States

RUSSIANS GAIN IN DRIVES, BUT LOSE ZHITOMIR   Abandon Str ategic ‘Rail Junction, Under German Pressure; Score New Gains On Dnieper

SOVIETS OFFSET LOSSES WITH A SURPRISE DRIVE   Red Army Abandons Zhitomir, But Drive Ahead To Gates Of Cherkasi And Capture Town Of Cvruch.

Russians Evacuate Zhitomir in Most  Serious Reversal   Offset Setback With Surprise Crossing of Dnieper River

OVRUGH AGROSS THE DNIEPER RIVER IS TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Red Army Crosses Dnieper River and Is at Gates of Cherkasi.   ZHITOMIR ABANDONED   Retreat of Russians From City Most Serious Sethack of the 1943 Campaign.

SOVIETS LOSE ONE CITY BUT TAKE ANOTHER   Zhitomir Retreat Is Most Serious  Of 1943 Drive

MOST SERIOUS RETREAT OF °43 DRIVE FOR REDS   Soviets Cross Dnieper in Surprise Move To Gates of Cherkasi

Russians Stage Surprise Push  Across Dniepe:   Offset Reverse Suffered In Zhitomir Retreat; Now At Cherkasi Gates

°$ TROOPER SAYS BO IN ADMITTED KILLIN WE ELIZABETH VOIG   USSIAN TROOPS TI NEAR CHERKAS! IN iA SURPRISE DRIVE E:   Soviet Maneuver Offsets Retreat From Rail City of TFhitamir

Soviets Offset Retreating With Surprise Drive   Abandon Strategic Rail City When Impossible To Reinforce. es

Soviets Lose Zhitomir But Seize Ovruch   Retreat Termed Most Serious Setback for Reds in 1943 Campaign

CHERKA IN ae BEND GOAL   Ovruch Captured But Soviets Withdraw From Zhitomir

‘> ‘Fore “owns ta_ as . alis Jorge °*-. ine   Sow /.iec rive im .7a_v -as "Tica 27“ec” on <ussian Success

 Allies ominate o¢€a ANG AIF en llary-~ weiay MITKE L. ONNPsO  Sea-Borne Flank Attacks May Speed Battle

Allies Control Sea And Air In Hard Fighting In Italy  Are Aiding Red Army In Northward March Toward   Are Aiding Red Army In Northward March Toward Rome; Entering New Phase

Yanks Take Part In Night Assault On Reich Plant:   Industrial City Of Hagen Attacked From South And West By British

2-Pronged Air Strategy   Bombers From England And Italian Bases Can Now Raid Germany

HAGEN BOMBED IN RUHR AREA BERLIN SAYS   Raid Follows Double Barrel American Attack From African Base, First of Its Rind.

Yank Bombers Blast Hagen, Nazis Report   Join RAF Squad In Heavy Raids

Hagen, Ruhr City, Target For Bombers   RAF Planes  Add Weight to Two-Way Assault On Germany

RUHR INDUSTRIAL CITY OF HAGEN HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   Added Momentum Last Night to Allies “Two-Way As-. sault on Germany.   IRON AND STEEL CENTER

NIGHT BOMBERS ASSAULT HAGEN   Nazis Report American Planes Participate

Strain Noted In Argentina   U. S. Applying ‘Heat’ To Pro-Axis Regime

U.S. TRYING TO SWING ARGENTINA   Attempting to Persuade Her to  Break with Axis

Exert Pressure On Argentina   Making Final Attempt To Get Axis Break

Russia Says Rumania, Hungary, Finland Must Break Away From Axis Camp Soon

Soviets Warn Romania, Hungary And Finland Will Be Treated as Severely as Germany Unless They Break with Axi

SATELLITE NATIONS WARNED — NOT TO DELAY AXIS BREAK   KUMANTA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND TOLD BY BUSSIA NOT TO HELP GERMANY TO  . ‘SHE END

Nazi Satellites Given Warning   Rumania, Hungary And Finland Given Hint To Get Out Of War   SOVIET BULLETIN CARRIES WARNING

County Goes Over Top in Bond Sale   Workers Expect to Ad d t Total of $2,076,000.75:. Today : \ a   Chairman Praises the Work of Various Committee Heads

County Goes Over Top in Bond Sale   Workers Expect to Add to Total of $2,076,000: TS: Today ©.   HRVING HILL PLEASED   Chairman Praises the Work of Various Committee Heads

Raiders ‘Mop Up’ In Harbor   Allies Also Score Dazzling Victory In Bougainville Fheust

Six War Ships Included; Rabaul Is Swept Clean ByMacArthur’s Bombers

Allies Take First Round in South Patitic With 18 Jap Ships Sunk, 85 Planes Down

Eleven Others Are Damaged In Rabaul Harbor   Planes Sweep Big Harbor Clean With 1.000 Pound Bombs

Rabaul Harbor Swept AlmostClean in Attack   One Enemy Cruiser and Two Destroyers Lost Earlier in Day; Navy Reports 10 Merchantmen Sunk by Subs.

Showdown Battle Looms; Both Sides Seem Ready   Allies, With Bougainville Foothold, Nov Have Definite Air Superiority

OMASHING BLOW 15 DEALT JAP SEABORNE POWER IN PACIFIC  EIGHTEEN SHIPS SUNK,  ELEVEN DAMAGED AND  © DPITLANES DESTROYED

Allies Smash 13 Jap Ships in Solomons Fight  U.S. Makes Gains On Treasury,  Choiseul Isles

OPTIONAL TAX FORMS LEGAL   Governor Goodland Signs Bill; Others Are Approved.

MARION BENNETT ELECTED T0 HOUSE   REPUBLICAN ATIORNEY DE.FEATS SAM WEAR IN CONGRESSIONAL RACE.

Troina Falls To Americans   British Take Another Base And Prisoner Total Soars

Iroina Victory Helos Forge Trap To Box Off Nazis   Yanks Push For Randazzo To Halt Army Fleeing Around Mount Efna

Allied Bag Of Prisoners Soars To125,000 As Nazi Army Face Yank Bayonets

Squeeze On Foe Tightens  Near Messine   Battle Racing Toward Swift Conclusion As Yanks Triumph After Savage Fighting

Nazi Forces May Be Split In Half   Other Important Points in Sicily Taken As Campaian Is Nearing lis Closina Phaca

BIANGAVILLA 1 TAKEN BY BRITISH   Twin Victories Trim Sicilian Front to 45 Miles   VICIOUS FIGHTING   Blazing Attacks Leave Straits of Messina Waters Cluttered with Wreckage

Allies Shorten Sicilian Front As Troina Falls  - Americans Meet Resistance as  Foe Is Trapped

More Sicilian Towns Fall to Allied Forces   Nazi Forces Facing Threat of Being Split in Two

Troina Is Captured By U. S. Forces: Front Is Narrowed To 45 Miles   Allies Bag Of Prisoners Soars To 125,000; British Take Important Town

NAZIS FORCED INTO TRAP IN NORTH SICILY   KEY TOWNS FALL PRISONERS NOW TOTAL 125,000

U.S. Forces Take Troina Split Nazis   Sicilian Front Is Narrowed To Only 45 Miles In Width

Nazi Divisions May Be Caught in Trap   Only Germans Left Fighting; Allies Wreck Many Craft Along Messina Strait to Prevent Nazi Escape

ADVANGE NOW. THREATENS 70  GUT NAZI LINE   British Capture Biancavilla from Italians; Close of Campaign Near.   STRAITS OF MESSINA. LITTERED WITH WRECKS

British Gain Also; Vise Grows Tight   Front Narrows; Axis Loses Total of 125,000 Prisoners

Seize Troina. Smash Enemy Escape Flee!   British Troops Squeeze Up From Southeast: Shatter Port Of Messina,   NO ITALIANS FIGHTING

Yanks Threaten To Split Nazi Forces   Americans Rout Germans From Troina Fortification As Hallans at Bianeavilla Surrender to British: Allies Bae of War -Prisoneré Potul< 123.000

YANKS BATTER AXIS FORGE IN CENTRAL AREA   Take Two Strategic Towns, Threaten To Sever Nazi Army As Sicilian Drive  Continues

ESCAPE ROUTES BATTERED BY SEA AND AIR   U.S. Troops Seize Troina As Bntish Occupy  Biancaville  POUND MESSINA  Mt. Etna Lines Shattered  Naval Units Take Ustica Isle

Yanks Threaten to Split Hitler’s Army in Punishing Thrust;  Goering Unit Faces Annihilation

Yankee Advance May Split Axis Sicilian Armies   Americans Capture Troina, British Seize Biancavillg

125,000 Prisoners in Allied Bag; Threaten to Split Nazi Forces   Sicilian Front Narrowed to 45 Miles; German Remnants Flee Toward Messina; Allied Planes Shatter Last Port of Axis Escape

falians Run Up White Flag At Biancavilla   Americans Threaten . To Split Nazi Forces In Half as Prisoners Now Total 125,000.

‘Our Condition Very Grave,’ Fascists Admit   Party Secretary Calls On Italians To Resist To Limit of Streneth

Fascists Urge ltalians to  Battle to End   New Party Sceretary Admits Gravily  Of Nation's Plight

Italians Report Outlook Grave   Say Nation Beset by ‘Inferior Hordes’

SAYS ITALY FACES GRAVE SITUATION      Fascist Official Tells People to Resist to the Ead

ITALY’S CONDITION IS CALLED GRAVE   New Fascist Party Steretary Says Nation Must Resist To End Cr  Suffer Penalties ¢

Italy's Outlook ls “Very Grave’ Scorza Declares   Fascist Party Secretar: Sees Much Suffering To Come

Fascist Party, Secretary. Says Italians Will Fight On, but ‘Condition Is Very Grave’

FOREST FIRE IN NEW JERSEY FATAL TO THREE   Boys Burn To Death, Another Injured, In Sweeping Blaze In East

LESS THAN 65,000 NEW CARS IN POOL   Monthly Quotas to Be Slashed ané OPA Considers Program to Ration Used Vehicles.

REDS CAPTURE VITAL BASES IN: TWO-PLY DRIVE   POUR ACROSS DONETS AIMING AT ROSTOV, THREATEN KHARKOV

Zimmerman Answers Only  One Question   Secretary Gives Report On Purchase Of Car To Remove “Inference Of Impropriety”

Zimmerman Says He Is Not Obliged to Answer The Senate's Questions

Zimmerman Gives   But One Answer  Refuses To Reply To 27 Senate Questions

SYRACUSE MAIN PRIZE BECAUSE: OF BIG HARBOR   Rapidity of Advance Apparently Exceeds All Expectations

ALLIED HOSPITAL SHIP, FULLY LIGHTED, ‘SUNK BY AXIS. 400 WOUNDED SAVED

HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK BY AXIS   400 Saved From Vessel Anchored Off Sicily

Flathead Lake Plan Abandoned   Solons From Montane Issue Statement

JAPS, PROMISE NEW OFFENSIVE   YAHAGI DECLARES NIPS WILL “CRUSH” ENEMIES

REDS WHITTLE DOWNGERMAN BRIDGEHEAD   Center of Enemy Resistance in Kuban Valley Shelled by Soviet Artillery  mew een nm ae ise ee

REDS SHELLING NAZI POSITIONS ON BLACK SEA   ‘Hand-to-Hand - Fighting Reporied as Russians Fight Way Into Fortified Positions

RAF MAKES STRONG ATTACK ON RUHR INDUSTRIAL AREA   British Sacrifice 21 Planes Jn Raid’ On Sermagy 8 “Main ‘Supply... se Arsenal

VALLEY FACTORIES   Loses 21 Planes In Latest Industrial Area Bombing Raid.

RAF Sacrifices 21 Planes During Attack On Ruhr   Weather Conditions Blamed For Large Toll of Aircraft

RAF Loses 21 Planes in  Ruhr Attack  Bad Weather   Bad Weather Hampers Action Of Big Bombers

R.A.F. AIMS HEAVY BLOW AT THE RUHR   21 Bombers Lost In Raid On Nazi Industrial Area

SACRIFICE 21 PLANES — JN RUHR VALLEY RAID      RAF Reports Loss of Bombers As Main Arsenal of the ' Axis Armies Is Blasted—Bad Weather Is Defied \to Press Home Attack Against the Area Housing War Supplies. .

BRITISH BLAST NAZI ARSENAL   Lose 21 Pianes Im Heavy Attack On Ruhr Valley

RAF Sacrifices 21 Bombers In Heavy Attack on Ruhr   LONDON, April 9 (UP)—The Royal Air Force sacrificed 21 planes last night in a heavy at tack on Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, main arsenal of the Axis armie<.

AIR LINES SEEK FOREIGN ROUTES   INCREASE IN WORLD AIR TRANSPORTATION CERTAIN AFTER WAR

Race For Foreign Airline Routes Begins; 29 Lines Seeking Permits

CHURCHILL EN ROUTE TO MEET ROOSEVELT   Prime Minister, Mrs. Churchill and Members of His Staff Entrain at Quebec.

INSTALLATION CEREMONY         Miss Maude W. Tompkins Heads Concord Lodge “P. of H.L

Dr. Symons Predicts Stores Here May. Have To Close To Aid Farmer   “Head OF State Extension Service Cites Situation Here; Few Farm Hands Drafted With Defense Plants Taking Most Of Them.

May Have To Close Stores For Farm Labor  Demanse Gene Patch cal   Symons Sees Critical Times Ahead For Some Maryland Businesses

Predicts National Debt Will Reach 500 Billion Before End Of Conflict

JAP OIL TANKS ON BORNEO HIT   Americans Strike Blow At Base; Marlington Man On Long Raid

AMERICAN AIRMEN ASSAULT OIL PORT   Distance Set by Land Bas.  ed Planes in Borneo Raid

BORNEO’S LARGEST OIL PORT ‘BLASTED BY AMERICAN FLIERS   Liberators Which Flew Over 2,500 Miles Saturday Night Set Installations At Balikpapan Ablaze; Many Months Of Labor For Japs Wiped Out

Allies Have Less Meat Than U. §.   American Rationing Twice As Generous

Allies Launch  Drive On Japs At Finschafen   Australian Troops Land Six Miles Above Position

M’Arthur Opens Land, Sea and Air  - Drive On Jap Base   Continues Momentum Built Up By Fall Of La: In South Pacific. Resistance Is Wiped Out In Sections Of Two More Islands.

Ne a  RAF Wellingtons Hit Sardinia: Fortresses Raid Cagliari, Sicily

Fires Started In RAF Raid On Sardinia   Fires Set in, Alghero as Wellingtons Str ike in Brisht Moonlight

Sardinia Again Bombed By RAF  Unrelenting Attack   Unrelenting Attack On Mediterranean leloc Cantinuad

AN ATTACK MADE ON PORT OF ALGEHERO BY RAF LAST NIGHT   Allied Air Force Wellingtons Bomber the Town and Port Area.   A LARGE FIRE STARTED   It Broke Out in the Center of Town and Appeared to Be Spreading.

No Allied Planes Are Lost In Raid. .... Sardinian Air Field — AndPortAreBombed

R. A. F. Bombs Italy's sland?  - Attacks Air Field  ~   Attacks Air Field — And Port of Alghero, On Coast of Sardinia

BOMBERS CONTINUE ‘RAIDS ON ISLANDS. IN MEDITERRANEAN   ‘Wellingtons Bomb and Strafe Port of Alghero on “West Coast of Sardinia Last Night

ALLIES SPRAY SARDINIA PORT   R. A. F. BOMBERS RIP AXIS BASE AIR FIELD

WELLINGTONS POUND PORT IN SARDINIA   Raid Topped Off With Machine Gun Attack; All Planes Return

BRITISH BOMBS JOLT SARDINIA   Wellingtons Skim Over Coast Towns to Strafe Airfields, Ports

CARRY ON ATTACK   Italy's. Mediterranean Islands Are Targets of Allied Bombs

BRITISH FORGES I DODECANESE IN CRAVE DANGER   Likely to Lose Islands That Furnish Balkan Stepping Stones.

TO SAVE HOLD IN AEGEAN SEA   Heavy Losses Inflicted on Nazis Im Seizure of Simi

Imperilled Allies Take Aegean Isle, Destroy Convoy   Experts Fear Loss Of Cos, Leros, Samos Unless Reinforcements Arrive

Allies Seize Island of Simi  Near Rhodes   Nazi Supply Convoy Is Destroyed in Sornrice Move

ALLIES STRIKE SUDDEN BLOWS IN AEGEAN SEA   Seize Isle Near Rhodes, Destroy German Supply Convoy

Allies Seize Aegean Isle   Germans Repulsed in Attack on Simi; Nazi Convoy Destroyed ‘

ALLIES IN SWIFT MOVE SEIZE SIMI ISLAND IN AEGEAN   Cos, Leros, Samos. Situation Grave — Need. Large Scale Reinforcing ‘Desperately

MUSSOLINI DEMANDS PLANES, ARTILLERY IGROM HITLER FOR THE DEFENSE OF ITALY

Sailor Takes Rest After Sea Battles   Julius Packard is at Pearl Harbor on day of Jap raid.

DIES REPORT ADOERTO JAP S PLAN ATTACK   ‘Something Terrible Is to Happen on West Coast oo oy Oct. 1”   TOJO MADE A BOAST   Jars in Camps Here and Korean Agents in‘Japan Report Rumor.

DIES HEARS OF IAP PLAN F7° US.INVAS   Subversive 2. «Say “Somethir  - rrible Going to = pen

DIES HEARS OF IAP PLAN F22 US.INVAS   Subversive 2 x Say “Somethiy a. ” rrible” Going to pen

DIES REPORT. “SENS 15. ~ PLAN ATTACK   ‘Something ‘Terrible: Is: to - Happen on West Cost * by: Oct. Mei:      TOJO MADE* A-° BOAST   Japs in Camps’ Here’ and “Korean Agents ind a- a pan Report Rumor."

6 mm ah a tak Ts SNA Tin TRS RR es  REPORT CIRCULATED JAPANESE ~ PLAN BLOW:AT U.S, MAINLAND   CAMPS BADD TO BE EXPECT» ING MAJOR ATTACK DURING SUMMER

JAPS IN CAMPS EXPECT ATTACK   Dies Group Says Evidence Sets Date By Oct. 1

SOL LLL LAL LE. LLL LLL  London Hints Of A Master Stroke   ...Momentous Development Looms From Big 3 Meet

Hull Brands Peace Rumors  As Axis Talk      Says Reports Spread In Move To Impair War Effort Of America

HULLBELIEVES  PEACE RUMORS AXIS INSPIRE   Secretary Says He Is Without Information to Sup-port Rumors Germany Seeks Armistice  =

Hull Warns Of Peace Rumors   Says They’re Put Out To Impair Allied War Vigor

Peace Rumors Put Out to Sap Vigor of Allies, Hull Believes   Stepped -Up Offensive Hints ‘Momentous’ War Development

Demand of Surrender To Be Made   Roosevelt and Churchill Are on Scene, Stalin Due

Hull Says Peace Rumors Inspired By Axis To Impair U. S. War Effort

May Even Be A German Peace Move; Hint Word Soon From A Conference

PEACE RUMORS ARE PUT OUT TO CREATE OVERCONFIDENCE   This Statement Was Made Today in Washington by Secretary Hull.   CURRENT CROP AFLOAT   Used to Impair “Vigor” of the Allied War Effort, Secretary Said.

Hull Views Rumors of Peace Moves as Inspired by Enemy   Sees Stories Put Out in Effort to  Impair “Vigor” of Allies

x *k k * ‘Hull Calls Peace Talk Axis Trick   «kK «kK *— Victory or Death Hitler Tells Officers

Peace Rumors  Hit By Hull   Axis-Inspired To Impede Allied Attack

Nearness of Meeting of “Big Three” Commented On and Others May Be in  Canfarance.

PEACE RUMORS ARE FALSE SAYS HULL   Secretary of State Cordell Hull Says It’s Enemy Propaganda.

Hull Denies  Rumors of Peace Moves  Says Stories Put Oust Ta TIhmmnair   Says Stories Put Out To Impair War Effort

A MILES FRO AIRDROME ON BOUGAINVILLE   Eneounter ang Subdue Minor Opposition rom Japanese

YANKS’ TACTICS TO DIVIDE AXIS AFRICAN FORCES   Recapture of Gafsa Viewed As Vital First Step for : Climatic Assault   POSSIBILITIES °‘JALYZED   Appointment of ‘Blood and Guts’ General for Job Is Viewed as Significant

The War Today  General Patton Attempting Wedge Between Axis Forces In Tunisia

APPOINTMENT OF GEN. PATTON TO LEAD U. S. TROOPS CENTRAI. TUNISIA REAL THREAT TO AXIS

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   American Tunisian Drive Designed To Divide Two Axis Forces

The War Today   Patton Expected to Drive Wedge  Te Awetc Darrac in Trmnicia

SHOWDOWN NEAR ON OHIO BILLS   Governor Seeks Action On Tax Levy; Labor Measure Faces Vote Tuesday

OSU SCHEDULE   State To Open ‘43 Season With Game Against Great Lakes.

OPA Detemined To Wipe Out. Black Markets:   - Brown Seeks. _ To Crush ‘All: ” Hleaal’ Sales

OPA WILL TRY TO WIPE “OUT BLACK MARKET ACTIVITY   Prentiss M. Brown Deciares Intention Of ‘Crushing Illegal Sales Of Commodities

BROWN SAYS . HEWILL END BLACK MARKET      Determined to Wipe Out Its — Operations

Believes “Black Market’ at Peak   OPA Heads Vows To Stop Violations

Brown Battling ‘Black Markets’   Price Chief Determinec To Crush Illegal Orerations

eT ee SOE TL ey te ee ee Te aed ret aa eee re ee ere ey Tn  Price Chief Determined To Smash Black Markets

Brown Plans War Against Black Market   Declares Illegal Sales Sabotaging American War Effort

OPATo Attack Black Market  Operations Suits ‘and: Publica:   "Suits and. ‘Publicity: Expected To ‘Sarh  Metiotti ne 9

Large American Bomber Force Plasters Nauru   Much Damage is Done to Jap  Inetallatione

NAURU BASE BOMBED BY U.S. AIRMEN   Navy Reports Much Damage To Jap Installations

Army Bombers Rip Base in Gilberts   Seven Zeros Believed to Be Score Against Enemy

25 Foe Tanks. Destroyed, 500 Taken Prisoner   Massed Artillery Repulses Two Heavy Counter Thrusts by Germans on Enfidaville Front as Allies Hold All Tunisian Gains.

U). S. BOMBERS HIT NARU IN. NEW ATTACK.      Devastating Attack Is Unloosed On Jap Navel Base

NAVY RIPS NAURU IN GILBERT GROUP   Much Damage Done to Japanese Installations, War Bulletin Reports.

NALCHIK TAKEN BY SOVIETS IN MASSIVE DRIVE   Remnants Of 22 Nazi Divisions Are Trapped Before Stalingrad   ENEMY !S BELIEVED QUITTING CAUCASUS

Five Towns InDon  Loop Taken   Nazis Perhaps Are In Retreat To Escape Trap

Russians Capture Five Key Cities in Don Loop And Caucasus in Drive   Tsimlyansk and Morozovskaya Fall; Reds Attempt to Link to Other Troops in Rostov Push

REDS CONTINUE DRIVE TOWARD ROSTOV BASE   Capture Of Rostov Would Trap Entire German Southern Army In Russia.

Two Inside Don Bend And Three In Caucasus Where Nazis Seem Not To Have Resisted.

Reds Surge On In Relentless Drive, Take Five Cities   smash loward Rostoy And Entrapment Of Nazi Army In Caucasus Gains Momentum °

Oil Industry For slimination of ‘A’.   CELCES :s Wirg Se2xs 0707 V2 Ao-ces 2-0-7 _/e-0770

A OTTER KEY CUTIES FALL 10 RUSSIANS   Relentless Smash Toward   Rostov Threatens Entire Southern Army of Invaders,   11,000 GERMANS  FALL IN 12 DAYS   Fast Soviet Advance Leads to Belief Nazis Are Abandoning Central Caucasus.

2 KEY CITIES TAKEN BY REDS IN DON SECTOR   Overrun In Push Toward Rostov To Trap All Of Southern Nazi  Divisions   Caucasus Flight Seen

FIVE MORE KEY CITIES TAKEN BY RED FORCES   Russians Report New Smashing Gains on Several Fronts

AMERICAN AIR POWER GROWS IN SCLOMONS   Japs Have Lost 1,000 Planes in Area Since February

With Our: Fighting Men   Food Conference  ~~ Seeks N ourishment — For All Mankind

Delegates, Gorged With Wine And Good Food, Open Talks On HowTo Feed Other People

FOOD CONFERENCE UNDER WAY TODAY; BLOCK REPORTERS   Sessions Are Opened Blessing by F.D.R. and Christening in Champaane.

Meeting !s Literally Christened  With Champagne   President’s Message Read at Opening  Plenary Seccian

FOOD CONFERENCE RATED IMPORTANT TO UNITED NATIONS   American Delegation Along With 43 Other Groups Begins Sessions

FAIL TO CRUSH JAPS. IN BURMA   British Drive. Bogs: Dows and Now Must Await End of Moonsoon Season

Japs Withstand Four British. Assaults On: wars Peninsula;      Campaigns Balk Any Jap Plan. to. Invade India Before Flood. Season. ~

BRITISH FAIL TO OUST JAPS FROM BURMA   Lose in Four Attempts to Crush Enemy and Must Now Readjust Positions; to Await 300Inch Rains of Monsoon.

ADMIT FAILURE OF BURMA DRWE   Campaign _‘ Tested British Held Off Jap invasion of  Inia

Wavell’s Drive Thto Burma  Bogs Down   British Stalled— Rabaul’s Massed Planes Bombed

Wavell Fails To Crack Defenses In Burma Aree   British To Readjust Positions To Beat 300-Inch Rains Of  Monsoons

BRITISH UNABLE TO Got JAPO IN MAYO DRIVE   Armies In Burma Settling Down To Await Rainy Season Now At Hand

WAVELL’S FORCES FAILED IN FOUR ATTACKS ON JAPS   DISPATCHES SAY BRITISH EFFORT BOGGED DOWN BEFORE TWO POINTS

British Wait For Monsoon Rains To Land Burma Blow   Readjust Lines In Bid To Crush Japs On Mayu

BURMA MONSOON TO BEGIN SOON   Wavell Drive on Mayu  Peninsula Bogs Down

Failure of Wavell To Gain Objectives In Burma Admitted   Must Now Wait for Passing of Heavy Rains of Monsoon

BRITISH FAIL IN BURMESE STABS   Four Thrusts to Rip Jap Defenses Checked—But Enemy Losses Heavy

Fail to Crush  Japs in Burma   British Must Readjust Posi. tions to Await 300-Inck  Monsoon Rams.

Burma Attack Held By Rain   British Fail To Crack Japanese Defenses. Must Wait On Monsoon.

Monsoon Halts Burma:Action  Wavell’s Forces Fail To Take Jap Posts; 3 Lessons Learned

Wavell Fails to Crush Jap Defense On Mayu Peninsule   British Readjust Positions to Await Rains of Monsoon

Navy Takes Charge of - Air Program at Loras   No Change Planned in Training of Cadets Stationed Here

INEW TRAINING CONTROL   Naval Aid Primary Training Command Takes Over Schools

FDR Says Allies Enter Second Year Of War By Moving Into The Offensive

United Nations Said On Offensive As Second Year Of Effort Begins

UNITY TO KEEP PEACE NEEDED, F, D. DECLARES   Says Allies Must Carry Common Aims Into Post-War Period

Roosevelt Says Tide is Tiiriiing:   President Outlines World Peace Plan

ED NATIONS I OFFENSWEIN YEAR, SAYS FI   Cotrasts Situation Today With Bleak Outlook of 7 fine Year Ago.

UNITED NATIONS MUST GARRY ON AFTER WAR-F.OLR   Unity Of Allies Has Borne Fruit, President Tell: Newspapermen

British Navy Has Increased In Strength   Is Stronger Than It Was When War Started im Spite of Attacks by Subs, Planes, Ete.

Reds Driving Behind Orel to Isolate Base; Capture Believed Near   German Garrison Cut Off as Reds Cut Railway, Step Up Attacks on Front South of Grel

REDS BERIND OREL “TO GHEGK ESCAPE OF ENEMY FORGES   Hard-Pressed German Bas¢ Is Cut Off From Reinforcements, Attack Steppee  - Up to South.   RUSSIANS ADVANCING ALONG KEY CENTERS   Germans In Moscow Organize “to Free Germany, Overthrow Hitler, Plan New Government.”

Russians Drive in Behind Orel; German Retreat Nearly Cut Off   Nazi Garrison Left Without A Feeder line

Only: Evacuation Line Is Practically Blocked  . By Soviet  _ Forces oe RED ARMY ADVANCING Attacks Intensified In All  Key Battle 7  Sectors: .

ED ATTACKS ARE AT 3 POINTS   Orel Practically Surrounded and Donets and Mius —Rivers Forced:in New As saults.

Another Stalingrad Reported in Makino   Russians Drive Behind Garrison Close to Railroad; Ukraine Offensive Also Under Wav

SUPPLY LINE 10 GERMAN BASTION VIRTUALLY CUT   Great Russian. Offensive May Produce Results Similar to Stalingrad.

!   Enemy Effort To Reach Vila Ts Smashed   Cruiser And Two Or More Destroyers Sent To The Bottom

Red Army Organ Predicts Early End of Struggle   “Endangered Garrison Without Feeder Line, Dispatches Reveal

Reds Take Main  Orel Defenses  Great Assault on City Ile Planned

Rear Attack Bottling Up Foe in City   Stalin Reported at Front as Trapping Of 250.000 Looms

RUSS CIRCLING. OREL TO TRAP NAZI DEFENSE   Red Troops Behind Germans’ Base Only Five Miles from Railroad.   RUSSIANS EXPAND GAINS ALONG 450-MILE FRONT

for": Massive “Three-Way. Assault ‘on! German Bastion — Whole Southern Front Ablaze with Russian Forces.

REDS DRIVE CLOSER TO GERMAN BASE   Russians Within - Five Miles of Vital Railroad Line

AUS AUILDING UP HEP TITION UE OTALINGRAD   Germans At Orel Facing Encirclement Threat As Soviets Gain

Reds Girrele Orel; Nazis Face Death      New Stalingrad Seen for Germans; Supply Lines Cut

‘NEWS OF COUNTY * FARM BUREAU   ‘Donghty Connty Labor Assistants  Wool Pool Date Sets Canning Demonstrations

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   Paul Doughty hired as County Lahor

REGISTRATION 10 OPEN SATURDAY   Blood Donors Asked to En. roll at Local Headquarters

MOBILE UNIT DUE © HERE OCTOBER 25   Registration Office for Blood Donors to Open on Saturday

BLACK DRAGON PLOT UNCOVERED   E, ST, LOUIS GROUP FACES TWO CHARGES OF SEDITION

Roads to Kharkov Shelled by Soviets   Crumbling of Entire Defense Line Seen If Key City Falls

REDS APPLYING FAST BLOWS 10 NAZI DEFENSES   Long Range Guns Open Bombardment of Strong Points Along Roads

Break Through Center Of Nazi Line Will Be Cause Of Full Collapse

Airplane Bombs Nebraska Town   All Missiles Duds, Say  Officers Investigating

Most Of Axis Prisoners Captured In North Africa May Be Sent To Work On Farms In Canada And United States

Captives, Slated for U. S. Farm Jobs. Long to See Fabled New York

“WHEN DO WE GO TO N. Y.?” ASK ITALIAN, GERMAN PRISONERS WHO _ BEG TO0.BE TAKEN TO AMERICA

Axis Tunisia Prisoners to Workin U.S. A.   150,000 Captives fo Be Employed . in Farmlands

LLL LLL LLL LDL ALL DL I  Axis dis War Prisoners i in North Africa Will Be Brought to United States

Prisoners of War May Aid U.S. Farmers   Canada Also Likely to Get Some of 150,000 Tunisian Captives

BOLIVIA ENTERS WAR AGAINST AXIS   GENERAL MOBILIZATION ORDERED—ACTION FOLLOWS VISIT OF WALLACE.

Bolivia Enters War as Partner Of United Nation:   Pres. Penaranda Calls for Mobilization of Troops, Production

BOLIVIA JOINS WAR AGAINST AXIS POWERS   NATION TO MOBILIZE TROOPS AND HELP UNITED NATIONS

CONCERT AT K. U   All Musical Vespers Service Will Be Given Sunday  Afternoon

Great Raid Conducted On Nazi Duisburg    BATTER OF ATLANTIC 18 TAKING ‘TURN FOR ALLIBS NOW.  P

Duisburg Is Bombed: Subs Sunk   Heaviest Blows of War on Industrial Germany and  on Submarines

Americans Threaten Escape Corridor of Gen. Rommel’s Army   Considered Possible the Allies Have Begun Grand Assault

ALLIES MENACE AXIS CORRIDOR   Americans Thrust Toward Gulf of. Gabes; British Continue Drive,   WEATHER LIMITS ACTION

THRUST TOWARD GULF OF GABES MENAGES ENEMY   Important Plans Believed Under Way In Africa

Algiers Radio Reports U. S. Force: ai Maknassy, Only 33 Miles from Gulf of Gahes   Axis Port Heavily Bombed by U S. Forces, Several Points ii Haly Raided

Yankee Thrust Menaces Path Of Africa Corps   LU, S$. Troops Reported at Maknassy, 33 Miles  From Coast

Reduce Axis Escape Lane  In Tunisia   Rommel’s Retreating Army May Run Into  ~ Yankees; Bad Weather Balks Major Action

ALLIES SQUEEZE ROMMEL'S ESCAPE PATH FROM LIYBA   REPORTS INDICATE DETERMINED DRIVE TO CUT CORRIDOR

infantry Smashes Through Butter Opposition. Gouge Three Miles Into Axis Defenses; Reds Beat Off Caucasus Attack   U. S. BOMBERS POUND POSITIONS OF NAZTS

ALLIED PLANES PUT NAZI RADIO STATIONS OUT   Struck Across the Channel in Sunny Weather During the Day.   BACK AT NIGHTFALL   toad  Soon After 7 p. m. the German Radio Stations Faded Out.

Rommel Forces Face Defeat in Mareth Battle   Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties in Fight with British   Showdown for Possession of Tunisia Believed at Hand

Allied Trap Closing On Rommel   Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Foe By Eighth Army

British Turn Rommel Back   Flanking Attack Upon  Brevish Lines matred:

AXIS ATTACKS PROVE COSTLY IN MEN TANKS   Communique Reports Fighting Continues Amid Wreckage Of Numerous. Vehicles.

ALLIES SLOWLY TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND ROME]   Armies Battle Amid Wreckage of Axis Vehicles With Germans Suffering Heavy Losses.   MARSHAL’S SOUTHERN FLANK THREATENED   Meantime American Flying Fortresses Shoot Down Kight Planes in Two Raids Near Tunis.

Cornered Nazis In. South Driven Back With Heavy Losses   British Tighten Squeeze From South As . French Close !n North Of Mareth Line

Allies Check Nazis in  Africa Again   U.5S., British Continue to Tighten Noose Around Enemy; Germans Lose Heavily in Troops and Goods

Nazis Mauled by British Forces   Sec: Stimson Analyzes War ‘Developments in Tunisia; Says Nazis Gained Nothing

ALLIED UNITS CLOSE IN ON MARETH LINE   AXIS LOSSES HEAVY IN ATTEMPTS TO BREAK OUT

British Infliet Big Casualties  Qn Axis Troop:   Rommel Tries to Push Back Allied Ring: Axis Thrust in North Tunisia is Repulsed

RED VICTORIES SPLIT GERMAN FORCES IN TWO   Foe Escape Corridor From Gomel is Narrowed

Also Narrow Gomel Escape Lane   Two Victories Below and Above Pripet Marshes Announced by Stalin With 24 Salvos; Soviets Cut Last Nazi North-South Railway

KOROSTEN FALLS TO NARROW NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Last North-South Railway Available To Germans  Now Severed   RUSSIANS RECOVER FROM WITHDRAWAL

Red Victories Heavy Blows  To Germans   Nazis in White Russia And Northern Ukraine Split at Korosten  COMET, TRAP CLOSING

Russians Split German Forces In Two Sectors   Enemy's Escape Lane s Now Cut To Less Than 25 Miles

Reds Split German Forces In White Russia, Ukraine Narrow Gomel Escape Path

REDS CAPTURE RAIL JUNCTION OF KOROSTEN   ENEMY FORCES IN WHITE RUSSIA CUT OFF

EOENHOWER MA} HEAD THE ALLIES   Time Near to Merge Mediterranean Into One Vast War Theater Under Single Command, Belief

Time Near For Merging Of Command  Need for Unified Leader: Believe Ficanhawer Ie (haice

GLIDERS GROUNDED AFTER FATAL CRASt   Faulty Mechanism Listed as Cause of Tragedy

BLAME INSPECTORS FOR GLIDER Rast   Two Air Force Inspectors Suspended and 100 Gliders Grounded.

Two County Men Serving As Navigation Instructors At Texas Army Air School

 American Girls Cause Soldiers More Trouble Than Germans Do; Fickleness Rapped

¥ ator OF Famous 36th As Spearhead Of Bloody Salerno — Landing Leaves Texans Real Cause For Giving Thanks   texas Unit singled Out For Spearhead

EVEN IF AXIS NOT SLOWING UP IN PRODUCTION UNITED NATIONS WILI. PRODUCE THREE TIMES MORE

The War Today   War Production of Enemy On Downgrade. Nelson Shows

The War Today   SERRE TER aS  oe oe.  U. S. Has Convincing Proof That Axis Production Is Declining.

Resources Proving Vital Factor Defeat of Axis  Germany and Italy on Downgrade

 The War Today War Production’s ‘Voice Of Doom’ Speaks To Axis At Sicily Invasion

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Cwming Months Will Give B hacicx Productive Ability Acid Test

NAZIS BLOCKING ITALIAN EFFORTS RETIRE FROM WAY   For First Time Open Admission Is Contained In Italian Press of Nazi Pressure On Badoglio Government ‘To Prevent Withdrawal From War.

ITALIAN REVEAL AZT INTERFERENCE   Fear Battle on italian Soi Between Germans anc Anglo-Saxons

ITALY FORCED WAR BY NAZIS   Prees Says Germans Block Badoglio Pesce Moves

Italian Press  Openly Admits  Helplessness , Only Fear of Nazis  Keeps Bidéglio in War Paners Accert

ITALY CAN’T QUIT WAR   italian Press Admits Nazis Blocking Efforts Te End Participation

Germans Block Italian Peace   Nation Not To Resist Invasion, Nor Oppose German Resistance.

Italy Now Admits German Pressure   Open Admission Nation Is Kept in War Is Made in  Newspapers.

Peace Hopes Blocked By Nazi Troops   Italian Press Admits There Is Heavy Pressure on Rome From Germany.   GERMANS POURING TROOPS INTO ITALY   But Italians Will Not Offer Resistauce or Resist the Allies, It-Is Said

ITALIANS ADMIT NAZI PRESSURE   Press Indicates Germans Blocking Nation's Withdrawal from War.

DIES BY SHOOTING   John Cain,’ 69, Left Note Explain; ing Suicide

STATE POLICE ~ FACING: PROBE   Anderson State Senator As  serts That Politics . - Is Rife.

DATE POLICE FAGING PROG   Anderson State Senator Asserts That Politics Is Rife.

FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES SALERNO   British Gain 15 Miles In Drive Up Peninsula

BEAT BACK NAZI COUNTER-ATTACK AS FLEET HELPS   Make Powerful Drive Inland Against Stiff Opposition; Port of Salerno is Taken

POWERFUL DRIVE FINALLY RESULTS IN GAINING POINT   Warships Concentrate Rifle Fire on Tanks In Heavy Beach Fighting, 200 Are Taken Prisoners.   GUNNERS REPEAT PLAN AT SICILIAN LANDING   Italians Reported Fighting Germans In Rome Area, Enemy Has Greater: Part of Peninsula.

AMERICANS SEIZE PORT, RAIL BASE NEAR NAPLES; BRITISH LAND NEARBY

DANISH KING CONFERS  Pree   Parley During Crisis Ove  Nazi Plans to Punish Saboteurs Revealed

Germans Using Air Bases Near Marseilles, France, To Attack Allied Convovs.

Garrison Surrendered Last Night to Land and Air Forces.   BAGO AVE AED ENF SdH EENE  and Air Forces.  NAZIS CLAIM 8,000 PRISONERS, BOOTY  Deadlock on the Italian Fighting Front With Small Gains.

Floods Roar in 6 Middle West States   HUNDREDS HOMELESS AS FARM HEADS FEAR CROP DESTRUCTION

Flood Cuts Off Water Supply of Fort Smith, Ark.   River Snaps Main: Many Flee Homes In Six-State Area

WOMEN CHOSEN ON NEW JURIES   Pick Nine on Grand Jury To Meet in Dubuque

46 HURT IN BUS, TROLLEY CRASK   Woman’s Legs Amputatec in Collision in Detroit Area

Supplies Sent Tunisia’s Needy   Food, Clothing and Medicine Dispatched To Liberated People

Commanders From Pacific Zones Meet   Combat Theatre Leaders Confer At Washington

Labor Stands Firm Against Poll: Taxes   Spokesmen Fighting For  Constitutionality of - House Bill ©

Unions Urge End of U.S. Poll Taxes   A. F. 4, 6.1. G AK CONGRESSIONAL ACTION TO BAN VOTING LEVY

LABOR BODIES ARE  HOLDING BRIEF FOR  THE “DISFRANCHISED" CONNALY REMINDS  UNIONS THEY FORCE MEN DAY PREENRE CAN WORK

QUIZ BELLBOY IN WAC'S DEATH   Police Hold Youth Who Served Drinks In Indianapolis Hotel

BELLBOY HELD IN WAC DEATE   Young Man Admits Serving Drinks In Room of Murdered Woman.

U.S.on ie Spree in 1942  ' Survey Indicates : os __Needof Control

Americans Went On Spending Spree During 4?   Consumer Spending 10 Per Cent Above 19041 Reeard

SPENDING SPREE AN T942 HELPED 10 BOOST PRICES   Will Continue Unabated This Year Uniess Controls are More Effective.

NATION ON BIG SPENDING SPREE   Survey Shows Consumers Spent 10% More in 1942 While Supplies Diminished.

NAZIS STAGE BRIEF RAIDS OVER LONDON   Two empty rural school. houses attacked by  German raiders

Are Greats? Than War Casualties” :   Shows Need-for Greater Safety  ‘Precautions

Cautions’ Patineis to Be on Lookout for Barn Fires   One Way to Test Whether Heat is Dangerous

Avmanas Now Fight ‘on Both Fronts.   ‘Were Conscientious Objectors During Last War

Was the WAC of Her Day   Auxiliary to Tag Every Bond and Stamp Buyer

Liquor, Shoes, : Travel, Cash Bal’nce   Gov. Hicketilooper Called Jowa’s “Eleanor”

Chief Executive  Points the Way   ‘Many State Jobs Open As Men Leave for War

to lowa Legislator:   Men Rejected for Service... Can Get Reason from: Board

Federal Officials ‘Have Been Invited   To Study Shortage of Farm Labor and Machine Shortage

Name New Men in OPA Office.   New Appointments Made as Fiseal Year Ends

Vacation Time  is Dull Time —   ‘This Time Next Year Will be Different

Women and — Labor Play Big Part in Election   Many in U. 8. Service to Cut Man Vote

Termed as Typical Midwestern City   Shenandoah and Red Oak. Were Also in the Running

Farm Union Fight with lowa State Col: ‘lege. Not Yet Over        ‘uses to Take Evidence efore State Board

Plan Occupational Deferment. Slash    Committee Appoirited for Butter-Oleo Dispute

Books and Pictures Willed to State   “G. O. P. Chooses Chairmin; Other News of State

Appointments To Be Made   ‘News and Views From Our: State Capitol

Sixth Native Born Chief Executive _   Public Reception Ceremony To Be Held Tonight

Plan State Confab at an Early Date   Laird to Succeed Fischer in Safety Department.

Many Politicians    Gives Them Chance for Check-up on. Other Districts

Chicago Meeting to ‘Organize States   ‘Say They're Not Willkie‘Haters; .But. Field ig Open

Senate Waits _ for House Action   Wartime Bill Likely to Die in Senate

as. Candidate io For Governor .      This Must Mean That _ Hick’s After Senate Job‘

Farmers Need — Help & Machines   Hoover Points Out Weakness in Our Larder Program

Most of Them. Have Good Jobs   Think AAA Administrator Would be Good Candidate

Hall. and Berry. : Take: the Initiative   Present Four Point Program; Join in World Program ~~

Appointinent of Grimes is Popular With\Newspapers   Once Ran for Governor Against Wilson in 1936

Lots of Pobiveal . Rumors But Lill Action So Far’:      Politicians Likely Feeling. Pulse of ‘Constituents °°.

DRAFT OF FATHERS LOOMS FOR JULY, OFFICIALS PREDICT   Selective Service Department Now Working on Regulations Governing Order of Induction.

= OR 14 OF ~y ARIF MEN NOW IN 3-4   Reclassification to Come Revardless of Number of Children

MRS CARSMEN KNOCKED DOWN AND INJURED   Robbery Occurs Late Thursday Night at 12th and Moultrie

14 OHIOANS FINED ON LOTTERY VIOLATION   Six Fail To Appear for Arraignments

WMC BROADENS JOB CONTROL   Hiring In 149 Critical Occupations Directed to USES Offices

NEW LABOR RULES ARE SET BY WMC   Edict to Go into Effect Friday; Last Step Before labor Draft

Employment in 149 Occupations in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky Ordered lInder USES. Control.

GERMANS PLANNED TO ASSASSINATE THE “BIG THREE”   Explanation of Why FDR Moved to Russian Embassy in Tehran

LIGHT VOTE FORECAST IN 7 STATES HOLDING OFF YEAR ELECTIONS   Politicians Lift Weather Finger to Detect Trend of ’ 1944 Election

Light Vote Forecast In Elections   But Results Watched Closely For Any Evidence Of 1944 Trends

Balloting in Some of Seven States Reported Much Heavier Than Expected

VOTE IN SEVEN STATE ELECTIONS   POLITICIANS WATCH FOR TREND BEARING ON 1944 CAMPAIGN

INGREAGE IN LIQUG PRIGES 1S APPROVED   Senate Votes To Put Excise Tax On July 

ANTI-STRIKE ~ ACTION SEEN   E me BILL BITTERLY OPPOSED BY LABOR EXPECTED TO BE. PASSED - BY THE  BENATE -

LONG WAR SEEN BY WPB OFFICER   “Far Greater” Economic Readjustments Are Slated for Nation, Report

Hitler’s Final A ttempt To Break From Trap Must Be This Year   British Observers Expect Win ‘Or Lose Drive Similar To Dying Gasp Of 1918

JAP VESSELS DAMAGED BY U.S. BOMBERS   seme  Two Destroyers, Two Car go Ships and Tanker Attacked

YANKS MAKE NEW GAINS ON GUADALCANAL   Take Foe’s Command Post, Damage Four Jap Vessels

Japs Given No Rest  In Pacifie   Allies Continue Extermination  War On Islands

Jap Post Taken On Guadalcanal   Five Ships: Lashed In Bombing Attack

FIVE JAP HPS HIT IN SOLOMON   U. $. Troops Continue War of Extermination on Guadalcanal Island; Large Command Post Captured

YANKS GLEAN UP JAPS ON GUADAL CANAL   Cayture Large Enemy Command Post While Warplanes Strike Heavily On Ships And Installations.   Cargo Ship Sunk

BUILDING PERMIT   Wilmer Nini Buys Home.From......::: HE. Rowman:

ASK U, S, PILOTS TO AVENGE NIP BARBAROUS ACT   Pacific Air Commander, Gen. Henry Arnold, Issues Appeal

Promises ‘Special Pass To Hell’ For Every Air Bomber; Hits Americane’ ‘Imbtsman Peace *

JAPS THREATEN TO KILL EVERY TANKEE AIRMAN  Plan Against   Plan Against New Assaults On Jap Cities

Jap Barbarism Stirs America To Flaming Hate   Captured Tokyo Bombers Put To Death; Swift Reprisals Seen

Broadcast Claims Nothing Undone To Prevent Attack   ‘Reprisals Would Lower Us,’ Secy. Patterson Declares

Revenge Planned By Yank Airmen For Jap Death:   Enemy Violates Code,  Kills Prisoners

“Leave Nothing Undone to Preven’ Repetition of Allied Air Atiack, Tokyo Savs   DERIDE DOOLITTLE   Promise American Airmen ‘Special Ticket to Hell—Stricily One Way’

J aps Execute Yanks Caught After Raid; Vengeance Promised   Punishment of Those Responsible for Barbarous Crime Pledged In Note to Japan—Eight of 80 Army Fliers Listed as Captured But How Many Put To Death Not Revealed

THREAT TO EXECUTE  EVERY U. 5. AIRMEN  WHO BOMBS TOKYO THIS IS IMPLIED IN PRO , GANDA BROADCAST EROM NIPPON’S CAPITAT

Execution of Yank Fliers by Nips Is Announced by FDR   U.S. Fliers in Pacific Called by Chief to  Avenge Comrades

JAPS IMPLY AIRMEN WILL BE EXECUTED   Americans Warned That They’ll Have A One Way Ticket to Hell on Raids.

ALL HORRIFIED AT EXECUTION OF PRISONERS   Action Is Direct Violation Of War Ethics   MME, CHIANG   Says Offense Should Make United Nations Even More Determined

Promise Justice. For Army Fliers,  Victims Of Japs   Country’s Wrath Boils As News Of Execution Is Released By President

SEVERAL TOKYO RAIDERS FACKD FIRING SQUADS   News of Executions a American Fliers Electri-_ fies and Shocks Nation’s Capital   JAPS VOW FURTHER DEATH SENTENCES   To Leave Nothing Undone to Prevent Repetition of Air Attacks; Destruc tion War Lords Asked

10 EXECUTE U. S. FLIERS IF CAPTURED   Bombing Japan Insures ‘Special Pass To Hel)’

Talks of Execution of Any Others Captured in Air Raids  @RADIO BROADCAST ASSAILS ROOSEVELT  Attempts to Counter the Disclosure of Killing ° Captured Airmen

Japs Threaten To Execute All Fliers Taken   Japan to Leave Nothing Undone to Prevent Another Bombing, Tokvo Radin Savs

Tokyo Tells US Fliers to Bring Ticket to Hell   A Threat to Execute Every United States Flier Capturzed During Bombing of  Tanan Tmnilied in Rroadeast

Get Revenge, Arnold  Advises Americans   ‘Bring One-Way Ticket To Hell,’ Tokyo Radio Advises Yanks; Murders So Far lustifiable. Savs Enemy Account

Tokyo Implies All American Fliers Captured In Bombing On Japan To Be Executed

\Japs Broadcast Threat [to Execute Every Yank \Flier They Capture

U. S. Fliers In Pacific Called On To Avenge Execution Of Tokyo Raiders   Roosevelt Promises Punishment; Sabath Says He Hopes That When Time Comes We Will Shaw No Mercy; Won't Take Many Prisoners.

JAPS REPULSED AT FINSCHHAFEN   Attempt To Land Troops At Captured Base Is Smashed

Jap Allempt at Landing Foiled __ By: Australians   MacArthur Announces Failure of Enemy at Finschhafen

Allies Repulse Jap Landing at  Finsehhafen   Defending Aussi¢s Destroy Most of Japs In Sharp Fighting

Forts And RAF Continue Raids   Lorient And Brest Are Pounded Hard

Allied Bombs Rain Again Oh  Enemy Bases   Lorient And Brest Hit By Yanks; RAF Pounds Fesen

Red Cross Redoubles Its Efforts to Exceed $125,000,000 War Fund Goal

MIDWEST FACES GASOLINE PINCE      Tighter Restrictions To Help Out East Urged By Senate Group

Senate Group Recommends Restrictions   Increased Authority For Ickes And Higher Crude Oil Price In Committee’s Program

LEADERS tROF WORK   wwe Trae itil: ah  Asks Complete Oil Authority For Secretary Ickes

JAPANESE LOSE 8 CARGO SHIPS   U. S. Submarines Bring Their Total Bag Of Victims To 524

U.S. Subs Sink Eight Jap Ships   )WWhy Is Advance So Slow-In Italy? Veteran AP Writer Gives His Views After Touy Of Seetoy

War-Essential Job Changes to Be Okayed   CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY USES WILL ALLOW EMPLOYMENT SHIFTS

Mother and Two Children Die   Lose Their Lives When Wood Stove Explodes in Home

9 DROWNED IN FLASH FLOOD   At Least 7 Others -Hunted in West Virginia; Ohio « Hit by Floods,

Nine Drowned  In Flash Flood   Seven Others Missing In West Virginia

Nine Drown, Seven Missing in Floods   Many Persons Trapped In Their Homes In West Virginia

NINE LIVES LOST IN FLASH FLOODS VIRGINIA TODAY   At Least Seven Others Reported Missing In Central West Virginia

9 DROWNED IN FLASH FLOODS"   7 Others Missing as Creek Rises Suddenly

Maryland Mosquitos So Full of Sergeant's Blood They Send Him Father's Day Cards in Alabama

[Prize Whopper Of Year   Mosquitoes Become Blood Relatives Of Sergeant, Send Him Father’s Day Greetings

Soldier, With Yarn About Mosquitoes, Crowned Champion By Wisconsin Club

Tale Of Big Mosquitoes Wins 1943 Liars Medal      Have So Much Of Soldier's Blood, They Send Him Father's Day Cards

ARMY SERGEANT WINS MEDAL AS CHAMPION LIAR FOR YEAR 1943 RY HIS MOSQUITO STORY

Sgt. Baron S. Fonnesbeck, Stationed in Utah, Wins Title of 1943 Champion Liar

An Early Bid for Holiday Turkeys   United States Military Needs Placed at 10 Million Pounds.

FASCIST BEAST EXERTING LAST 'STRENGTH-STALIN   “Dissolution of Communist  International Is s Proper And Timely. _—_s”?

Moscow Radio Is First With News   Military Objectives In Europe Are Talked Alona With Political Aspects Of Victory

Make Decisions On Political and War Fate Of Huns   Russian News Agency Reports Plans Complete For Smashing German Militarism Beyond Further Menace, To Be Published Soon.

Spend $25,876 For Welfare Here   Total Of 1,699 Persons Assisted In County Last: Month. ;

1,639 Given Aid Here In August   - Report $25,870.34 Ex-. “pended By County.” ° Welfare Office.

Filipinos Told They'll Be Free   Greeting Addressed to President Quezon by Roosevelt on Former’s 65th Birthday

Blimp Crashes On Mountain Below Gilroy   Crew of Nine Saved But Two Injured; Ship Total Loss

Soviet Armies Reach East Bank Cut Supply Lines   Overrun Vital Rail Network; Storm Outskirts

Capture Believed  Imminent   Other Red Unit: Race Through Ukraine

) BRYANSK NEAR GUN RANGE OF RUSSIANS   German Bastion Faces Threat Of Encirclement; Trainload af Nazis Caught, Most of Them Perish.   Hop River

BRYANSK’S FALL IS ANTICIPATED IN SHORT TIME   One Train Of German Reinforcements Captured In Station By Reds   4 ENEMY DIVISIONS NEARLY WIPED OUT

Russian Army Lays Siege To Bryansk      -Early Fall: of Nazi “Stronghold Ex ected After Red ‘Advance

Soviets Smash Trunk Railway Into Bryansk   German Base Faces Encirclement Threat City in Gun Range: 350 Towns Freed

UNDER SIEGE BY RUSSIANS   Reds Close in on Cit: adel and Cut Four Trunk Railways

4 RAILWAYS FEEDING AXIS BASTION CU   ‘Other Russian Armies Are Racing Through Ukraine Toward Kiev and Dnieper River.

Germans Facing Major Defeat in Bryansk Citadel   Capture of Major Stronghold Looms

Four Of Five Trunk Railway Lines Into City Are Out  ; Fighting Is Reported In Outskirts After  Ruceiane Advance Over Badiec Of Gormanc

Soviets Begin Siege of Big Rail City   Germans Are Trapped At Bryansk; Reds Seize Much Material

Soviets Lay Siege To Pivot Axis Aree  Red Army Is Breaking Through Toward Bryansk

Ancient Ramparts of City; Being Stormed by Soviets  FORCES OF NAZIS ! NEARLY ENCIRCLED:  Invaders Hove Only One: Railway Artery to De-  pend On 

BRYANSK PUT UNDER SIEGE BY RUSSIAN      ‘Reds Close in on Cit adel and Cut Four Trunk Railways

U-BOAT NEMESIS LOST IN ACTION   REAR ADMIRAL HENRY M. MULLINNIX REPORTED MISS-  ING IN PACIFIC AREA, 

ROOSEVELT'S NAVAL AIDE TRANSFERRED   Captain McCrea Leaves White House Service to Command Ship.

Hitler Admits Reich Soil Is “War Zone’   Fuehrer Ends Long Seclusion to Declare Crisis on Eastern Front Has Been Overcome

HITLER TELLS REICH CRISIS IN EAST PAS]   Admits German Soil is War Zone; Promises Gigantic Effort

Exchange Ship Docks   Gripsholm Docks at Jersey City Pier With 1,500 Americans

3      ‘Swap Line Lands 1,50(      Returning Americ: Sing at Sicht of U.!S.

REPATRIATES GREET DOCKING OF SHIP WITH SHOUTS OF JOY _ NEARLY 1,500 AMERICANS  REACH HOME FROM JTAPAN ON CRIPCSHOIM

Americans Shout With Joy at  Arriving Home  Gripsholm Reaches Jersey City With Repatriates

1,500 REPATRIATES REACH U. S. ON EXCHANGE. SHIP GRIPSHOLM #PTER TWO:YEARS*IN-JAPAN.       Singing “God Bless America” Interness Once More Set Foot in America. Group Is Part of Number Exchanged for Japanese jNationals in U.S

: Gripsholm’s Passen gers Shout, Sing   Repatriates Over-foyed As Exchange Liner Docks at New York

GRIPSHOLM DOCKS AMID LOUD CHEERS   Exchange Ship Passenger: - Are Glad to Reach the U.S.A.   IRED CROSS IS ACTIVE

GRIPSHOLM HAS JOYFUL DOCKING   Shouts Of Joy Fill Air As Exchange Liner’ Brings Nearly 1,500 Americans And Canadians Home.

S.S.GRIPSHOLM ARRIVES INU. $   Brings Safely Hor Home 1 ,500 . Americans Interned < py Jananese

PRISONERS OF JAPS CHEER AS EXCHANGE SHIP REACHES HOME   1500 Repatriated Americans Aboard Gripsholm

1500 REPATRIATES BACK IN STATES FROM JAP CAMPS   Joyously Sing “God Bless America” as Gripsholm ts Docked, Each Must Face FRI Anents.   15 AMBULANCE CASES REPORTED ON VESSEL   Red Cross Provides Clothing For Many, 625 Require Cash After Long Time In Camps.

Joy Aboard As  Liner Arrives   Americans Home From Jap Internment Camps

Exchange Ship Brings 1,500 Citizens Home   First View of States After Two Years of War Causes Great Joy   FEW AMBULANCE CASES

Gripsholm Docks Today — In New York   1500 -Repatriates Are Brought Back After Two Years

Joyful As Ship Docks   Repatriates Cheer At Sight of Statue of . Liberty. As Gripsholm Ends Long Journey

1,500 Repatriates Shout And CheerWith Joy As Gripsholm Arrives Safely At Jersey Port

Passengers Cheer, Especially Children,  As They Come Into Viev Of Statue of Liberty

Gripsholm Docks Amid Cheers  1,500 Repatriates Shout toy at Seeing 4 al  OG cn Vc:

Repatriates Sing “God Bless America” As Gripsholm Docks   Americans Back From Two Years’ War Internment By Japs, Shout With Joy

DECORATION DAY. PROGRAM MONDAY   Decoration of Graves of Veterans of Wars Takes Place on Forenoon of May 31.

Former Judge Dick Bond Died After 3 Weeks Illness   Native of Eugene Served on County Bench For Two Terms

Former Judge Dick Bond Died After 3 Weeks 'lness  Native of Eugene Serv ed on County Bench

20,000 JAPS LAE TO ALLIES   Yanks, Aussies Ready To Make Use Of Big Base After Victory.

ALLIES PREPARE TO USE AIRFIELD AT CAPTURED LAE   ‘Softening-Up Raids On Bou gainville Continued

POINT VALUES CUT BY ORDER OF OPA   Changes in Rationing of Certain: Products Announced

Priines, Raisins Dry Beans Cut   Order Goes: Into, Effect Saturday

Point Values of Beans, Raisins and Other Foods Are Reduced; Some ‘Items Are Removed From Restriction

Prunes, Raisins, Dry Beans Cut  OY\erdar. fonac Intn   New Sweet Milk Prices By Areas

FAR OVER GOAL.   Subscriptions for War Bonds in April Most Satisfactory.

“FAR OVER GOAL.   Subse ‘iptions for War Bonds it Apeit Most. Satisfactory, .

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE WON BY BRITISH FLEET   AMERICANS DRIVING INLAND FROM NAPLES

U. S. Fifth Army Moves Up On Naples   British Capture Salerno In Bold Thrust By Navy

FILLE ARMY NAZI DRIVI   MacArthur ‘Verms Inemy Situation At Lae Desperate

Allied Hold Is Strenethened   British Seize Taranto As  Nazis Say Rome Captured

Yankees Drive Inland, Try to Envelop Port   Allied Armada Pours Troops and Materiel Onto Beachheads;: Five Nazi Jabs Crushed

NAVAL BASE AT TARANTO IS OCCUPIED   By Allies Who Advance On Naples After Beating Off Five Desperate Nazi Coun ter Attacks   Danger Great

British Take  Large Port; Fight Rages   Taranto Falls Easily to British Army; Americans, in Grim Battle for Naples, Squelch Heavy Counterattacks

German Seizure Of Vatican City Desperate Move   Clark's American Army Beats Off Nazi Counter-Attacks In Furious Drive For Key Positions

Taranto Captured By British  Vanble QE attary   Yanks Shatte  Five German Attacke ©

‘American Fifth Army Driv  ing Inland To Envelop  Naples Area   ITALIANS FIGHTING NAZI INVASION ARMY

Is Third Landing On Italy Mainland   Contest For Napfes Developing Into Race With German Troonos Opposing The Invasion

Five Strong Foe Counterattacks Are Repulsed By Americans; Big Base Quickly Taken By Royal Navy

Berlin Claims Complete Surrender Yo Marshall Von Kesselring; Says Municipal Commander Quits

Clark Forees. - Smash Enemy Counter Push   U.S. Sth Army Reported Driving Far Inland

Big Naval Base In South Held By Royal Navy   Allies Extending Lines Northward

Yanks Race With Nazis  For Control Of Naples   Five Counter-Attacks By Germans Shattered And Violent Combat South of City Reported  SEA-BORNE FORCES CAPTURE TARANTO  Puts Allies Nearer  Strategic Adriatic Ang Tisrhalont Ralkane

American Fifth Army Advances On Naples After Beating Off 5 Enemy Counter Attacks: Nazis Take Rome   British Troops Land at Ostia and Reported Fighting German Divisions, Swiss Report; Nazis Take Italian Capital Under Protection

YANKEES PUSH INLAND AROUND NAPLESSECTOR   Further Extension Of Offensive Against Germans Seen In  New Landing

Five German Attacks Are Repulsed   Italians Reported Fighting Nazis in Numerous Areas

Bold Oversea Thrust Ig Made by the Royal — Navy FIGHTING FIE FIERCE :  IN NAPLES AREA General Cfark Weathers  Fifst Test in Battle for City

NAZIS TIGHTEN BALKAN HOLD   Rumania Believed To Be Putting Out Peace Feeler.

(Rumania Believed Seeking Peace’  Germans Tighten  Bald an Ralkane

FOR CLEANER CITY   B. and P. W. Club Plans Anti-Spitting Campaign for Lawrence

ACTOR FLYNN  IN SECLUSION   Acquitted of Charges of Girls, He’ll Rest Before Working

FLYNN RESTING IN SECLUSION   Accusers Of Movie Star Leave Hollywood Scene For Their Former Homes

FLYNN ON VACATION AFTER 20-DAY TRIAL   Acquitted Saturday on Statutory Rape Charges

Errol Flynn Resting After 20-Day Ordeal   30th Accusers Dream of Film Careers after Jury Frees Actor

Marines Land In Bougainville   Secretary Knox Reveals That Marines Made Latest Invasion   JAPS APPARENTLY TAKEN BY SURPRISE

U.S. Marines Catch Japs By Surprise   Bougainville Invaded By Leathernecks—Sea Fight With Nips Invited

U.S. Landing Caught Japs by Surprise   Knox Says Yank Fleet Ready to Meet  Ninnon Navy

KNOX REVEALS SLE SURPRISE   NAVY SECRETARY SAYS YANK FLEET READY

BOUGAINVILLE’S » JAPS SURPRISED ° BY U.S, MARINES   frox Lauds Corps Flyers, Says U.S. Fleet Ready to Fight Anywhere

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Marines Invaded Jan-Held Island. Knox Reveals

NAVY READY FOR PACIFIC BATTLE   ‘Knox Repeats Hope Jap Forces  “Will Come Out”

LANDING TAKES JAPANESE BY — SURPRISE   Knox and MacArthur Beg Nippon’s Navy to Come Out and Fight

Senate Committee Hears Flynn Deny  Record Should Bar Him From Post

FLYNN DECLARES CHARGES UNTRUI   Enters Sweeping Denials To Charges; Claims His Record Should Not Bar Him  From Honor.

Flynn Hits At Charge   Denies. His Record Should Ban Him As Envoy

Senate Hears Flynn Defend Appointment  Congress Hears Coal Strikers To Be “Discharaed”’

Edward J. Flynn Terms Senator's Charges Untrue.   Hearing Begins on Flynr  JNomination as° Minis: ter to Australia.

Politics Inspired  Charges Against  Him, Flynn Says Minister Designate  Denies Accusations OF Senator Bridges

SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS FLYNN DENY CHARGES AS UNTRUE  WASHINGTON OFFICIALDOM ALSO AWAITS ACTIO!

GERMANS HALT BRITISH DRIVE NEAR TAMERA   Machine Gun, Mortar Fire Forces. Retreat

Germans Half Allied Drive   Advance British Units Forced Back To Lines

Crowded Calendar Is Faced by Montana Senate  Gambling Measure Is Among House Bills Coming Up

Duce Describes Arrest by King   Mussolini Heard, In Radio Speech

DIRKSEN TO BE GOP CANDIDATE   Ilinois Representative — to Seek Republican Presidential! nomination.

Elections Today Are Expected to Show Pre-Presidential Year Political Trend

Eastern Voting May Bring Out Political Trends   New York, New Jersey Elections Being Watched With Interest

Nation: Watches Voting in East   Interest Centers in New York, N. Jersey

FR, Dewey to  Test Strength  In X.Y. Voting Results May Boost 4th   i heen WIoan<-owm 21

Miners Refuse To End 19 Day Old Walkout   Await Possible Seizure Of Mines By Government

STOPPAGE IN MINE FIELDS IS SPREADING   For Second Time Workers In District 7 Stay Out Forcing Two Collieries to Close  TRF ARPRC ABE IAIADENR

Strike of Coal Miners Spreads   But Some of the Anthracite Miners Vote to Return to  Work.

MINERS HOLD OUT AGAINST WLB DEMAND   Strike Grows as 12,500 More Men Refuse: to   MATTER TO BE SENT TO WHITE HOUSE   Board Sees Nothing Fur. ther to Do, Will Give Dispute to President.

MORE MINERS JOIN WALKOUT   Anthracite Workers Defy  Second WLB Ultimatiany FDR Appeal Saggested

F.R. to Get Strike Case   Hard Coal Miners Vote to Stay Out; Mine Seizure Possible

Larger Mines in Anthracite. -. Section Idle   Back-To-Work Vote Being Taken, But Strike Spreads Again   2,300 MORE MEN LEAVE COLLIERIES   Results May  Hinge on Today's Vote; 9,000 Men Working Today

Union Refuses to Heed Sec. ond WLB Uitimatum to Return to Work.   CASE MAY GO TO FOR

WLB POLICY DAMAGED BY COAL DECISION   Chairman Davis Admits Board Suffered Setback In Recent Nerotiations With Miners

DAVIS SAYS. MINE ROW HURTS POLICY   WLB Chairman Acknowledges Damage But Intends to Hold Line

is Holds Line  ainst Demands ‘Higher Wage LB Head Says Prices  ust Be Cut, to Close icome-Costs Gap

Davis Admits WLB Policy Damaged  » Coal Mining Dispute Hits at Prestige

Despite Coal Strike Wage Stabilization Policy Unimpaired, Davis Affirms

Britons Hail Double RAF Slap At Berlin   Germans Keep Gloomy Nazi Anniversary By Run: ning From ,Mosquitaes   ONE PLANE MISSING   Speedy Plywood Aircraft Fly High Over City; Emden Base Also Raided

FIRST DAYLIGHT RAID ON CAPITAL DELAYS SPEECHES   Goering and Goebbels Flee to Safety With Others as Explosives Rain Naren _   ONSLAUGHT TIMED TO EMBARRASS NAZIS   Two Attacks Made, One in _ Morning and Another in   Afternoon—Only One   Plane Lost.

Murray Flails. “WIB’s “Action   Steelworkers” Contract: Fenire at Midnichi 

BOMB JAP RAILROADS   U. S. Fighter Planes Did Their Work Two Days Ago

U, S. BOMBS HIT JAPS IN BURMA   Tenth Air Force Planes Deal Sharp Blows To Enemy  Communications In North Purma

STIMSON SAYS U, 5, TO FACE FUTURE TESTS   Summarizes War Outlook After  Two Years

AN ABSENTEEISM STUDY   Plans Disclosed at Hearing on Work-or-Fight Legislation.

FOR VOTERS   Primary Election in Lawrence Will Be Held Tuesday, March 2

TOUGH BLOW TO NAZIS   Lack Of Dissension At Moscow Conference Hurts Axis

Harmony  Highlights Conference   Close Cooperation Shown By Conferees Puts End to Nazi Hope Of Allied Dissention.

SUOCESS OF MOSCOW MEET         War. pairs Broo from Under Awe - :

BIG FOUR IN DECLARATION FOR POSTWAF   U.S., China, Russia, Britain i Agreement at Moscow. Pledge Unity in Peaceful World

BRITAIN HAILS MOSCOW NEWS   Declarations Are Seen as a Knockout Blow to Nazis’ Propaganda

London Hails Declarations At Moscow   Is Seen as Considerable Contribution to Hastening End

Soviets Solidify Lines On West Bank Of Dnieper; New Offensive Expected

RUSSIANS PUSH MORE TROOPS OVER DNIEPER   Tanks and Artillery Suppor! Bridgeheads Established Across River Barrier   DRIVE ON IN NORTH   Reds Push to Within 70 Miles o! Latvian Border, Two Column: Advance on Vitebsk

REDS PUSHING REINFORCEMENTS — AND MATERIAL ACROSS DNIEPER  TO SOLIDIFY THEIR.LINES   Captured Ateas on West Bank of River Rapidly Beitg Turned into Vast Operational Zoncs.  ‘Russian Guerrilas Greatly Aiding Advance

Russians Take Nazi Defenses Along Dnieper   Occupy Settlements On West Bank of River And Push Far Beyond, Russian Paper Says

RED ARMY PUSHED MEN AND MATERIAL ACROSS DNIEPER   Action to Aid in Solidifying Their Bridge Heads on West Bank.   AN OPERATIONAL ZONE   The Captured Areas Threaten the Whole Sector to the North and South.

RED ARMY PUSHES MEN AND MATERIAAL ACROSS DNIEPER  CAPTURED AREA WEST OF RIVER BECOMING THREAT FOR LARGE SECTOR

—RUSSIA—  PUERRILLAS AID ATTACK ON NAZIS   Reds Establish Three Bridgeheads On West Bank Of River   NEAR VITEBSK   Russian Forces Now Within 70 Miles Of Latvian Frontier

Russians Pushed ~ On To New Gains   SOVIET TROOPS CAPTURE AREA ACROSS BIG RIVER

Reds Threaten - Nazi Positions North Of Kiey   Solidify Bridgeheads On West Bank Of Dnieper; Force German Retreat

GUERRILLAS HET NAZIS BACK OF DNIEPER LINES   Reds Push Reinforcements Across River To Extend Bridgeheads

Smashing Blows Dealt Nazis On Widening Fron!   German Positions Are Crumbling; Russ 70 Miles From Latvia

Reds Driving Nazis Back Toward Border  Russians Surge Across Dnieper As Guerrillas Hit Germans In Rear

Red Guerrillas Help Regulars Cross Dnieper   Attack On Ukraine Capitol Looms

REDS POUR MORE MEN INTO FIGHT   Russians Advance Far Beyond Dnieper River to Slash Nazi Defenses

Enemy Flees From Range Of Big Guns   Soviet Troops In North Move Toward Latvia

Reds Bolster Their DnieperBridgeheads   Send Men and Materiel to West Bank, Solidifying Positions, as Strong Guerrilla Forces Strike Behind Nazi Lines.

Guerrillas Aid Soviet Army In Drive On- Nazis   German Forces Are Beaten Back

Guerrillas Behind Nazi Lines Aid Rapid Sovie  Gains Across Dnieper

MORE RUSSIAN TROOPS, GUNS SPAN DNIEPER   Soviets Widen Bridgeheads On West Bank Of River; Aided By Guerrillas

Allies Wreck Nazi Lifeline toltaly   Rip Vital Rail installations at Bolzano, Medane

BOMBERS SMACK BRENNER PASS   Rail Installations Wrecked; Turin Plant Hit Again

ENTER ENVIRONS OF FINSCHHAFEN   Australian Forces Entrap Defenders of Supply Base Near Lae

Nip Garrison At Lae Is Ringed On Three Sides; Attack On Enemy Convoy Sinks Three Vessels

Rumanians, Finns Show Signs That They Are Nearing Cracking Point

CRITICAL DAYSBREWING IN GERMANY, NEW EDICT ON STORE CLOSING DUE   Signs of Bréak on Part of Finland and Rumania Grow; Veiled Appeals Made to Engiand

CRACKING POINT IS NEAR IN COUNTRIES   Rumania and Finland Said to Be Near End of String--German Situation Worse,

Rumania and Finland Near Cracking Point   Dissatisfaction Of Nazi Allies  le Growing

RUMANIA AND FINLAND ARE. CRACKING.      Situation Is Desperate In Both Countries

RUMANIA AND - FINLAND NEAR CRACKING POINT   Hear Turkish Envoy At Bucharest Gets Peace Feeler   FINNS ANGERED BY GOERING STATEMENT

SITUATION IN GERMANY NOT $0 ROSY NOV   Increasing Indications That Peace Feelers Will Go Out From War-Weary Reich

Rumania Reported Putting Out Peace Feelers, Starving Finns Angered Over Nazi Statement

RUMANIA, FINLAND READY TO CRACK:   Starving Finns Angere: By Goering

Registering For New Rat ion Book  One More Day In . ‘Which To Apply

Registration For. New Ra-  tion Books Is Under - Way   Volunteers Are Handling Applications At Two — LeMars Schocis ©

ITALIAN TARGETS JOLTED BY TWO RAIDING FORCES   Both Sides of Messina Strai and Pantelleria Are Rocked Anew

FLIERS SMASH RAIL, FERRY. FACILITIES   Yanks and RAF Strike From Two Directions, Raiding Pantelleria and Points on Both Sides of Messina Strait.

30 American Ships In Raid: All Return   Rail And Ferry Facilities Target Of Latest Attacks

New Pantelleria Raid Follows Up Blow at Fleet   “Eight of 30 Axis Fighter Planes Shot Down

MESGINA OTRAIT TARGETS BOMBED   Rail And Ferry Facilities  On Toe Of Italian Boot  Attacked   FLEET 18 RAIDED   Americans Bemb Italian Warships At La Spezi In Long Flight

Smashing Raids Made On Ferry, Rail Facilities   Pantelleria And Enemy Positions On Both Sides Of Messina Strait Fee] Allied  Air Blows From Two Directions

U.S. Airmen Hit At Axis From Two Directions   Rail, Ferry Facilities On Both Sides Of Messina Strait Bombed; Pantelleria Attacked

Smashing Attack Made On Rail And  Ferry Facilities   Officially Announced That Approximately Fifty Aircraft Participated in Raid and Every One , Returned Safely   SOFTENING UP OF PANTELLERIA CONTINUES

Double Pinch Put On Toe of Italy, Island Is Bombed   Rail, Ferry Facilities Are Smashed, Pantelleria Gets Another Working Over

ALLIED AIRMEN ATTACK ITALIAN FLEET IN HARBOR   CONTINUE TO POUND PANTELLERIA; SIX ENEMY SHIPS SUNK

Italian ‘Boot’, Pantelleria Hit In More Raids  Softening Blows Follow Smashing Attack On Il Duce’s Fleet Over  “1... BD... _ gs ee

RAIL, FERRY FACILITIES ARE BOMBED   Saturday’s Raid On Spezia — One Of Heaviest Yet   PANTELLERIA   Received Daily Shelling: Eight Of Intercepting Planes Shot Down

Yanks Blast Italian Boot. Pantelleria   Railway Sidings, Oil Installations And Terminals Hit

Other Bombers Return To Work On Pantelleria   50 Planes From: Middle East Cut: Way ‘Through 30 Fighters. At Messina

Yank Airmen Continue Attacks on Italy’s Boot   Pantelleria, Messina Hit; Eight Planes Downed

ENEMY TARGETS HIT HARD FROM TWO DIRECTIONS   Italian Island Again Attacked By Allied Units

Bombs Blast » Ferry Docks At Messina   § Axis Fighter Planes Downed; Nonstop Raids on Pantelleria —

MESSINA AREA IS BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBS   U.S. Airmen Smash Rail And Ferry Facilities, Pound At Pantelleria   ENEMY PLANES ROUTED   RAF Pushes Daylight Attack On Calais-Dunkirk District Of France

Fighter Planes Are Shot Down By U.S. Raiders   Hits Are Scored On Rail Sidings, Oil Installations

ALARA Nh " CRPPLIN aS   American Airmen Hit Toe of Boot From 2. Directions :   FLEET POUNDED BY GREAT FORMATION

(TALIAN FLEET AT LA SPEZIA HARD HIT   Eight -Axis Fighters Are Shot Down; No Allied Planes Are Loct

Messina Strait Facilities Are Pounded Heavily   Pantelleria Again Hammered By Americans In Follow Up Smash On Italian Battleships; Hits Scored On Sidings, Oil Plants

British Subs Sink Six Enemy Craft In Area   Pantelleria Gets Another Softening Up Assault

Allies Hammer Italian Bases; Submarines Sink at Least 6 Axis Ships

AMERICAN AIRMEN  HIT MEDITERRANEAN  AREA IN TWO WAYS APPROXIATELY HALF  U. S. AIRCRAFT INVOLVE ‘AND ATL RETURNED

FARM LABOR COSTS WOULD BE INCLUDED    House Committee Also Voies I: Favor Of Training Rurat Youth For Farm Work

Asks Political  ‘xites Seized   Declares Argentine Government Requests Uruguay To Intern Opponents.

WAR WORKER IS HELD ~ FOR WIFE'S MURDER      Admits He ‘Slapped’ Her ir Quarrel at Home

“Will Win In 1944”   Gen. Eisenhower Makes Unqualified Prediction Before Leaving Africa

First Job to Weld Leaders Together  Into Team, He Says   Only Thing Needed to Win War in 1944 Is for Every Man and Woman on Bottle Front or at Hame to Do Full Duty, He Says

U nqualif ied Prediction By  I nvasion Force Commander  As He Leaves For New Task ‘°   But Adds That Every Man And Woman, On Home Front As Well As Fighting Front, Must Do Part To Bring Victory

Fisenhower Sees  European  Victory in “44 Allied Commander  Leaves for New Assignment

Commander Makes Flat Prediction   \merican General Declines to Qualify Statement Made at Farewell Press Conference

Cool, But Dynamic With a  Careful Choice of Words,  Texas-Born General Made   This Prediction Today.   HELD A FAREWELL PRESS CONFERENCE   ‘My Own and Personal Job Is to Weld the Directing Team Together in Such a Way There Will Be No Friction.

END OF WAR IN FUROPE IN 744 1S PREDICTEL   Eisenhower Makes Statement On Eve. of Departure to New Duties   PREDICTION UNQUALIFIED

Prediction Is Made Prior To Departure For Second Front   Support Of Every Man, Woman, Child Needed To Win The War; Sense Of Partnership Developed

Will Win In Europe  In 1944   Gen. Eisenhower Makes Prediction as He Leaves For Britain, New Command

Will Need All-Out Backing on Home Front To Do Task   Second Front’ Invasion Chief Addresses Mediterranean Correspondents Before Leaving To New Post

Invasion Chief _ Flatly Declares — Success Assured   Makes Forecast Without Qualification .As He Prepares To Leave To Take Charge

EAVES SOOK TO TAKE UP NEW POST   No Qualification Is Added To General’s Statement   EVERY PERSON   in U. S. And Britain Must Do His Full Duty Next Year, “Ike” States

Germany Will Be Beaten, General Says   Invasion Leader Refuses To Oualify Prediction

Eisenhower Sees Allied European Victory In 1944   New Invasion Leader  Goes To Take Command

IN COOL MANNER HIE TELLS PRESS AT LAST SESSION   Indicates Early Departure to Take Over New Duties, to Create Allied Supreme Staff For Invasion.   YANKEES CAPTURE TWO MORE ITALIAN PLACES   Typhus Fever Epidemic Puts Naples “Out of Bounds” For Allied Troops, 250 Cases Reported.

1944 Victory Predicted By Eisenhower   Will Leave Soon For England to Take Up “Invasion” Duties

Will Win In Europe Next Year   Flat Prediction of Allied Victory Made by General Eisenhower   WILL DEPART SOON FOR HIS. NEW POST    Oreation of an. Allied Supreme Staff -First Job Ahead of Commander

GENERAL AVERS EUROPEAN FIGHT WILL END SOON   Invasion Leader Calls On Doughboys, Folks at Home For ‘Full Duty’

HIS PROMISE. TO WIN IS UNQUALIFIED   General Makes Prediction at Farewell Press Conference, Before Leaving for Britain to Direct Allied Invasion.

194 Victory In Europe Seen By Eisenhower  Chief Of Invasion Forces To Set Up  Command In Britaii

Victory in 1944 Says Eisenhower   General “Ike”  In Unqualified: Prediction of End To War in Eurove

ALLIED INVASION IS PROMISED BY GEN EISENHOWER   New Commander Puts It Up To Civilians To Do Their Part in War Too

INVASION HEAD FLATLY FIXES VICTORY DATE   General Offers No ‘Ifs, Buts In Prediction; Prepares To Leave For Britain

SENATE PASSES EMERGENCY BILL   ee mena Measure Would Give lowa's Gov ernor Broad Wartime Powers

Jap War Strength on Down Grade   Optimistic View Heightened by  Recent Victories

JAP WAR STRENGTH ON DOWNGRADE ICLAIM ALLIED WAR EXPERTS   Optimistic View of Allies’ Prospects In Pacific Heightened By Recent Lopsided Air Victories.

ALLIES EXPECT TURKISH HELE   London Anticipates Grant Of Air Bases Soon

BRITAIN EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE COUP DURING THIS WEEK   Believed Eden Will Return From Cairo With Good News From Turkish Minister

MAJOR ALLIED COUP COMING?   Granting Of Turkish Air Bases Hinted

TURKS MAY GIVE ALLIES BASES, AXIS BELIEVES   Eden Concludes Ankara Talks

TURKISH AID TO ALLIES LOOMS   Eden Concludes Talk Over Granting Of Air Bases

Turks May Let Allies Make Us Of Air Bases   " Major Political ' Scoop. Expected ‘In Landon ~

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Soviet Role In Postwar Years Big Question Of World Today

Express Anxiety As To Role Soviets Will Play In Post War Developments

The War Today  Will United Nations Become Disunited At End Of War?

Russia’s Role After War Draws Much Speculation   Soviet Bound to Emerge as Leading Power in Europe

ROLE SOVIET UNION WILL PLAY AFTER WAR 1S QUESTION: FEARS. EXPRESSED THAT. RUSSIA WILL BE REAL PROBLEM

The War Today   Allied Unity Seen Periled Ry Russia’s Lone- wolf Policy

Nazi French Units Moved to Russia   March Calendar   “Russia’s Role After War—That’s What Worries World

WAR ANALYST TAKES UP PLAINT OF AMBASSADOR STANDLEY WITH REGARDS TO POST-WAR WORLD

The War Today—  Mackenzie Tour Reveals Strong Belief Reds Will Dominate Europe

job Storm W eathered By McNutt   Detroit Manpower Plan Nearly Wrecked On First Day

WILL STOP RECHECK QF REJECTED MEN   Will Now Send Men With Physical Defects Back To Induction Centers Only In Special Cases

RATION BOOKS BY MAIL.   -OPA Announces Set For Distribu:  tion of Book Number 3

FLOODS SPREAD IN CENTRAL OHIO   Families Forced From Homes As Creeks Overflow After Heavy Rainfall

FLASH FLOODS FORCE MANY 10 LEAVE HOMES   Streams Overflow in Central Ohio, 4 Inches of Rain at Marion

HEAVY RAINS SEND RIVERS OUT OF BANKS   Ninety Families Evacuate Two ‘Columbus Suburbs: Hocking County Not Hit

(Sir Harry's. Best Friend tc Testify   Occupied Room Next to That of ‘Murdered Baron

The War Today—  Axis Invasion Jitters Could Be Hint /Of Real Thing; Italy Not Too Secure

The War Today   Axis Fear of Invasion of Islands Not Such A Crazy Idea.

Invasion of Italy May Concur With Tunisia Axis Surrender Not Such a Crazy Idea at That 

AXIS FEARS THAT ALLIES MAY PLAN EARLY INVASION ITALIAN ISLANDS MAY BE BASED ON FACT

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   sicily, Sardinia Logical Bors For Next Allied Move As Axis Fears

75 Reasons For A Bond Costing $75   Check This List, Then Get Behind 3rd War Loan

House Shouts For Economy, Votes Increase   Eleemosynary and Pension: Funds: Hiked “Many-Thousands

PLEAS FOR STATE ECONOMY 1ONOKED   MISSOURI HOUSE VOTES HUGE INCREASES IN APPROPRIATION MEASURES.

Trial of Flynn Continues Today   New Jurywoman Replaces “‘Fixer”’

Girl Tells Jury — About Yacht Trip   Tangles With  » ynn's Lawver

STRUMPET? WHY, IT’S A MUFFIN   That’s What Flynn Accuser Tells Attorneys at Attack Trial.

PEGGY SATTERLEE TO RECITE STORY   Sixteen-Year-Old Girl ts to Tell of Her Experiences With Errol

Flynn’s Moon-Beam Love Told By Miss Satterlee   Star’s Porthole Ardor Too Much, Says She, in Detailing Yacht Trip

Fortresses Bag  50 Nazi Planes   Targets in Northwest Soemany Rlasted

DAVIES DELIVERS NOTE TO STALIN   Hands President Roosevelt’s Secret Message to Russian Premier: Red Press Gives Space to American News

ROOSEVELT LETTER HANDED TO STALIN   Davies Confers With Commissar Molotov Before Going to Kremlin With Message.

MESSAGE OF FDR GIVEN -T0 STALIN   Joseph E. Davies Hands Letter to Premier in Kremlin

STALIN HANDED NOTE FROM U. $   Special Envoy Arrives At Kremlin; Contents Of Letter Secret

Davies Presents F.D.R.'s Secret Letter to Stalin   President's Special Envoy Meets Russian Marshal in the Kremlin

Davies Gives Stalin Secret Message From U. S. Mentor  Special Envoy Meets Russians, Lauds Reds’ War Prowess

SECRET LETTER FROM PRESIDENT HANDED STALIN   Davies Makes Presentation After Long Conference With Molotov   SOVIET NEWSPAPERS SPREAD ALLIED NEWS

Davies Hands FD’s  Messas ge to Stalin   Envoy Delivers Secret Letter at Kremlin After Spending Some Time With Molotov Press Fails to Speculate on His Mission

Union Leader at Brewster Plant Admits Falsifying On Official Documents

Germans Said To Be Taking Important Ports And Bases In North Italy

German-Born Saves Soldiers’ Lives   Warning Prevents Troop Train Wreck Near Camden. N. J.

GERMAN-AMERICAN SAVES TROOP TRAIN   Suffered Through Last War Inside Germany

NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED   Mayor Kelly of Mancic Will Have Charge in This Area.

Dairying Nation's Largest Industry, Statistics Show   Dairymen Battle. Axis When. They Produce Vital Food Products

TANK BATTLE UN TUNOIAN rRUNT AAGEO   Many Planes Also Engaged as Allies Counter German Assault.   SIZEABLE NAZI UNIT   If Rommel Unites With Axis Fcrees in Tunisia, Hard Fight Is Certain.

Alhed Forces Counter Nazi's Tunisia Thrust   Tanks And Aircraft In Battle 60 Miles Northwest Of Sfax  GERMANS ATTACK FRENCH POSITIONS

Jap-Held Aleutian Islands Battered  Kiska Bombed Five   Kiska Bombed Five Times, Attu Once

YANKS BATTER ALEUTIAN JAPS   BURMA WAR FLARES AS BRITISH DRAW BACK

Continue Raids On Kiska, Attu      Japanese Bases Raided, Making OL Assaults on Kiska Since First of March

GRANT TOWNSHIP FARMER FAILS TO SURVIVE INJURIES   John R. Albers Was Life-long Resident Of Plymouth County

Fatally Hurt, While Hauling  Corn On Farm.   John Albers Suffers Broken Neck In Fall From Wagon

Battle For Kiev Enters Decisive Stage, Say Reds   German Demolition Squads Putting Torch To Historic Sites

Kiev Batile In Decisive Stage Now   German Demolition Squads Are Putting Torch to City’s Buildings

NAZI PUTTING KIEV TO TORGH AS FALL NEARS   Triumphant Russian Forces Stream Across. Dnieper To Capture Big City

RUSSIANS NOW FLANK THE CITY ON BOTH SIDES   More Divisions Move Across Dnieper As German Defense Crumbles.

GOMEL, KIEV IN GRASP OF RUSS ARMIES   Forging Way Through as to Give Support to Forces Already Entrenched Along River.

STRUGGLE FOR DNIEPER LINE NEARS CLIMAX   Soviets Push Ahead In Gomel, Vitebsk And Kremenchug Sectors

Prepare To Lose Vital City Despite Hitler's ‘Hold Line Or Die’ Order

German Demolition Units Are Putting Torch To Historic Buildings In Dnieper River City

Kiev is Fired by Nazis as Red Army Draws Near      CLIMACTIC STRUGGLE FOR KIEV IS RAGING

Struggle for Kiev Enters Final Stage   Reds Streaming Ove River on Either - Side of City

SOVIETS ARE CLOSING IN ON KIEV   Nazis Reported Leveling City, Planning Retreat

REDS PUSH ACROSS  DNIEPER IN FORCE TO TAKE BIG CITY   Nazis Believed To Be At Peak Qi Resistance While Striking Power _ Of Russians Is Increasing  By Hour

Russ Stream Over Daieper; Near Gomel   Climax Believed Near on Eastern Front as Germans Retire

DRAFT LIBERALIZED FOR COLLEGE MEN   Deferments Will Be Granted To Pre-Professional And Scientific Students, Selective Service Announces

SENATE GETS OPA WARNING   Veto Overriding Might Cause Rise In Retail Prices.

HITLER TRYING TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR NEW REVERSES   Titanic Battle on Russian Front Is Steadily Worsening for Germans--MacKken7zia’

The War Today  Titanic Battle On Russian’Front Gets Worse For Hitlerites.

NAZIS SEEN FACING NEW DISASTERS      Nothing But Woe Seen For Germans As Reds Roll Ahead

HITLER’S INTUITION OR FLASH HORSE, SENSE BRINGS FORECAST OF DIRE TROUBLE FOR GERMANS

The War Today— German Army Still Good Defensive Machine But Striking Power Weak

The War Today   Hitler’s Warning of Trouble Ahead For Nazis Truth. for Once

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ‘Nazis’ Inability To Halt Red Army’s Offensives Building Up Disaster

4.000 Tons Of Bombs Dumped Upon Germany   British And American Raids Drop Record Bomb Tonnage

Early Approval In House Seen.       Poage Says F rm Situation -S re

Early Approval In House Seen.   Poage Says Farm Situation Serious

FUNERAL TUESDAY   Last Rites for Mrs. Anna C.— sen: Burial at Avalon.

FUNERAL WEDNESDAY   Services fof Mrs. Dolly. Ralls Held at 1:30 o’Clock.

FARM PRODUCTION PICTURE BRIGHTENS   lowa Governor Says Labor And Machinery Coming

FARM HELP, TOOL OUTLOOK BRIGHTER   Report Made by Governor of lowa

Aerial Bombers Attacked German Targets Again Last Night Following American Thrusts   DAMS RELEASE FLOODS

RAF Planes vontinue Aerial Drive   Sixth Successive Night Foray Over the  Continent

AERIAL WAR AT NEW PEAK      British and American Al. ternate in Day and’ Night Attacks

Turks Hold Key To Backdoor Of Balkan Area   Army and Air Force Said Well Equipped To Enter Conflict

WAY IS OPEN TO HIT RUNS IN WEAK SPOT   GERMAN DIPLOMATIC ACE, VON PAPEN, FAILS ON JOB

Strong Position Held by Turkey Against Germany   Large, Well-Armed Army, \s Threat

TUAKEY SETS UP THREAT 10 NAZI   Nation Has Potential Of Two Million Soldiers   HOLDS DARDANELLES   Turks Could Grant Valuable Bases for Allied Smashes At the Balkans

Joining of Allied Cause ‘ Would Present Hitler Serious Balkan Problem

Turkey Holds Balkan Key   Nation of 2,000,000 Potential Soldiers Is Achilles Heel of Nazi Southeast Fortress.

Turkey Has a Potential! Army of Two Million Soldiers    BASES AVAILABLE FOR AIR THRUSTS   Hitler May be Forced to Abandon 8alkan Treas- ure Houce

General Strike in Anthracite Field Called Off  Committee to Report On Meeting in Washington Today

LEWIS, OTHER MINE LEADERS CALLED BY WLE   Miners Call Off General Walkout to Lay Grievances Before Labor  Board   WAIT FOR REPORT   Wani Wage Adjustment Made Reiroactive to Jan. 15— May Resume Work Monday

Miners Halt Spread of Coal Strike  Await Report On Conference Tadav With WTP

General Strike in Anthracite Field Called Off  Committee to Report On Meeting in  Te ee ee. ee eee

UNIT REPORT BARS GENERAL COAL STRIKE   Pennsylvania Miners Await Today’s Action

General Strike Called Off in Coal Fields   Hearing Is Slated for Today on Wildcat Walkout

STRIKE IN COAL MINES HELD UP   Committee of 15 Picked To Carry Grievances To Labor Board

\Hard Coal Strike Held ‘In Abeyance   COMMITTEE WILL GO TO WASHINGTON TODAY TO CONSULT WLB ABOUT WAGE INCREASE RETROACTIVE.   Hear Report Sunday

GENERAL STRIKE AT MINES CALLED OFF   Miners Await. Report of Meeting With War Labor Board

Miners Vote To Postpone Anthracite Ceneral Strike   Pics celta a cad naar 2  Scheduled Saturday, Pending Conference With War Labor Board  GROUP GOES TODAY TO WASHINGTON  Wilkes-Barre Group Will Remain Out  Poendinges Decisians

Striking Miners Sending Committee to Washington   General Walkout Is Held in Abeyance Pending Report From Conference Which WLB Called  With Tinton Leadere. OQneratare

all in Coal Fields  eneral Strike alted for Parley   EW RETURN TO WORK

FORMER JUSTICE DIES LAST NIGHT   George B. Nelson, . Ill for Year, Had Resigned From High Court. ~

George Nelson. Former Justice.  Dies In Madison  Had Retired From Post   Had Retired From Post With State Court On Account Of Ul Health

Death Takes Justice Nelson  At Madison   Member Of Court Whe Retired Last Month Dies At His Home After Long Illness

Nazi Bases On Sicily Are U. S. Targets   - German Reliance on Air Transport Said Sign of Difficulty

AIR TRIUMPH MENACES AXIS SUPPLY LINES   TROOPS CLOSE IN ON LAST ENEMY BASTIONS

Down 84 Planes, Lose Only Three, In Sky Battles   Flying Fortresses Account for 77 over Bases in Sicily   Position of Axis Forces Hourly Becoming More Serious

AIRMEN TAKE Bib TOLL OF PLANES   Flying Fortresses Lead Tremendous Air Attacks   EIGHTH ARMY   Probes Enfidaville Defenses While First Army, Yanks Move Into Positions

American, British and French Troops Squeeze Tighter on Foe Forces; Enfidaville Defenses Probed

84 AXIS PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN AIR BATTLES    Rommel’s Tank Supply  Line Menaced On Eve Of   Tunisian Showdown   ALLIES DEPLOYING FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW

Rip Rommel Sky Cover: Menace Nazi Supply Line   Flying Fortresses Lead Tremendous Assault on Bases

Climatic Fight With Cornered Forces in Africa Near  PLANES DESTROYED AT BASES IN SICILY British Eighth Army Probing Enfidaville Defenses

b4 PLANES OF ENEMY DOWNED TO 3 OF OURS   Thin Supply Line OF Rommel Is Menaced On Eve Of Final Battle.

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES LEAD VIOLENT ASSAULT   Most of Craft Knocked Out Were in Sicily From Which Enemy Has Received Material.   ALLIED GROUND 3 FORCES CLOSING IN   British Eighth Army Probes Enemy’s Mountain De- © fenses and Yanks Prepare to Strike,

AMERICANS GET 77 INLEADING HEAVY ATTACKS   Eighth Army Feels Out Rommel’s Defenses; > Coordinated Blow  Is Imminent   Sicily Is Target

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Rommel’s Air Cover Shredded   Cornered Nazi Force In Tunisia Further Menaced

Allied airmen destroy 84 enemy planes while losing 3; Americans lead assault   Rommel force faces serious problem in thinning of vital supplv lines

Allied Planes Score Stunning 84-5  Victorv Over Axis   American Flying Fortresses Lead Mighty Assault on Sicily to Destroy 77 Enemy Craft; Disrupt Nazi Supply Lines

Climatic Fight With Cornered Forces in Africa   _ Near PLANES DESTROYED _ AT BASES IN SICILY British Eighth Army Probing Enfidaville De- = fenses  -

British Probe Foe’s Defenses  At Enfidaville   French Take 1,100 Prisoners West of Kairouan; Rommel’s Supply Line Menaced

Rommel Is Pushed Into Smaller Area   British And American Forces Move Closer In On Rommel After Bia Aerial Offensive

Nazis. Tell How Mussolini Fell   Berlin Radio Says Italian Dictator Was Dragged from Palace “By Brute Force”

Germans Air Story of Mussolini’s Abduction and Removal from Power

How Mussolini Was Deposed   This Is German Version Of Dictator’s Fall

Mussolini Kidnaped by Badoglio And King. Berlin Radio Maintains   Workers Show Enthusiasm As Bond Drive Begins Here

Berlin Says He Was Strap- ped to Stretcher and Spirited Away In Ambulance      BELIEVED HELD ON ISLAND OF PONZA   Germany Says Mussolini Was Seized During Interview With King Over Desertion of Generals

fl Duce Abducted In An Ambulance Says Nazi Radio   Say Deposed Chief Wa: Dragged b Brute Force From Royal Pal ace And Strapped 7: Stretcher.

Korosten, Rechitsa Captured   Svrongholds West Of Gomel Fall As Russians Smash On  Toward Berlin,

ENEMY MAY BE PLANNING BLOW OF THEIR OWN   Same Propaganda Used In Previous Attacks On Small Countries; Italy Upset   Preparations Continue

Jittery Germans Point To Spain   Nazis Warn Italy Of Coming Blows

Axis Attempting To Suggest Path Of Big Invasion   May Be through Spain Rome and Berlin Sources Declare

Axis ‘Eases’ Italy Fear  Of Invasion   Berlin and Rome Stress Spain As Allies’ Route

Even Nazis Do Nothing To Discourage Reports Italy in Bad Shape Under Air Offensive SAY ALLIED ATTACK MAY INVOLVE SPAIN  Churchill Continues Round of Conferences On Return to London

CONFUSION IN TTALY GROWS   Foe Nerves Drawn Taugh "By Mask Thrown Over “Aliied Plans

Italy, Confused, Awaits — Next Stroke By Allies   Axis at Pains to Suggest thet Spcin Might. be Path of Invasion of Europe—Enemy Nerves Reported Tense

Axis Radio Hints Allied Invasion Of Europe To Come Through Spain

Allied Silence On Invasion Worries Axis   Germans Say Italians Reel Under Bombing; See Thrusts at Spain

Axis Mentions Spain as Place For Next Blow   Enemy's Nerves Kept Taut by Secrecy Maintained by Allies Amid Speculation

Committee Explains Tax New Plan; No Doubling Up Unless Taxpayer. Elects

Heavy Raids Smash Nazi War Plants   Germans Continue Gaining in Fight For Kharkov

223 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON ALEXISHAFEN AND MADANG   Raid Is Heaviest Yet Thrown Against Japs On New Guinea; Some Damage To Allied Shipping Caused By Enemy Air Attack

Alexishafen And Madang Heavily Hit   Japanese Fail to Put Single Plane in Air to Resist Blows

Allies Smash Jap Bases In New Guinea   Alexishaten, Madang Pounded In Heavy Raid

Heaviest Attacks Of War Hit Japs On New Guinea  Tris i. A   Other Areas Also Blasted: U. S. Subs  In Pacific Victories

Japanese Get 273 Tons, Resist Feebly   Blasts Rake Airstrips At Alexishaven, Leave Damaging Fire:

ALEXISHAFEN, MADANG RAKED IN DAWN RAID   ‘Japanese Fail To Send » Up Defending Craft; Rabaul Pounded By Bombers

New Guinea Japs Heavily Bombed   223 Tons Dropped By Allied Airmen

LASH AT MANY KEY POINTS AND INVASION ISLES   Unprecedented Series of Co-Ordinated Blows Dealt by Allied Planes

U. 5. BOMBERS CARRY DRIVE TO 36 HOURS   Allied Planes Smash Europe From Three Sides

Allies Pound . Czech Cities, Naples, France   Yank Bombers Strike North . Germany Today

U.S. BIG BOMBERS — NOW STRIKING AT NORTH GERMANY   Greatest United Nations Air Offensive Of War Against Key War Centers 7 Of Germany, Italy And  Occupied Countries

Franee, Berlin, Bohemia, Warsaw And Italy Bombed   United Nations Push Great Air Offensive Against Axis Centers

Pre-Invasion Air Blows Delivered Krom Three Sides   RAF Loses 34 Planes In New Smash At Berlin; U, S. Bombers Return To Germany; Raids Softening Nazi Europe

Allied Fliers Keep  Harrassing Japs  In Southern Region One Ship Is Struck,  Ground Targets Are Badlv Strafed

Marshall Tour Stirs Fresh Speculation   Talks with MacArthur And Visits Other Areas Of Action in Pacific  JAP PLANES DOWNED

General Marshall Confers With Pacific War Leaders  New And Momentous Blows Against Japane:   New And Momentous Blows Against Japanese Indicated; Taroa Air Base Raided Heavily

Marshall Maps Pacific Strategy With MacArthur   Japanese Lose Probably 34 Planes in Four Aerial Batties

U.S. Army Chief Visits Battle Lines In Pacific Area   Speculation Stirs on New Blows as Air War Steps up

Marshall Holds Conferences With MacArthur   Also ts Visitor at Army Headquarters For Central Pacific

‘ON WAY BACK FROM CHATS   Japs Suffer More Aix Losses in Four Fichts

WEATHER HAS TURNED AGAINSI HITLER IN WEST AND CLOUDS  ATT) RAF IN BOMBING OF BERLIN

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Presse War Analyst)

‘Berlin, Not London, Now Becomes Most Bombed Capital In The World  Sg Sf es ge ee

DEATH TOLL IS 73   Latest Train Disaster Cost Dearly In Human Lives

DEATH TOLL  TOLL IN ~ WRECK NOW 73   Name of Sok Soldier: Not Revealed.’   Dies In Detroit

Russians Balked Nazi Plot to Kill Big 3, FDR Reveals. Utters Hope of Long Peace

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PLOT TO RILL ROOSEVELT IN IRAN IS BARED   SPEECH SCHEDULED BY PRESIDENT ON CHRISTMAS EVE

Roosevelt Says Russians Learned Of Nazi Plot To Kil United Nations Leaders At Conference In Teheran

PLOT 10 KILL ALLIED HEADS IS DISCLOSED   Roosevelt Says Russians Got Wind of Nazi Conspiracy   PRESIDENT HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE   Bare Outline Given of the Talks at Cairo and Teheran

FOR REVEALS NAZI PLOTTED TO KILL ‘BIG 3   Wary Russians Got Wind of Plan at Teheran   PRESIDENT LOOKS   Chief Executive Believes Con: ferences Paved Way for Peace

REVEALS PLOT TO KILL “BIG 3”   Roosevelt Says Reds Nipped Scheme of Germans at Teheran

Plot To Kill ‘Big Three’ Caused Stir In Teheran   Russians Heard of It And President Moved  To Soviet Embassy TT. Piiminate Travel   LOATHE TO PREDICT VICTORY THIS YEAR  Plans To Broadcast Report on Conferences  December 24 at 3 P. M.

PLOT TO KILL ALLIED HEADS IS DISCLOSED      Roosevelt Says Russians Got Wind of Nazi Conspiracy   PRESIDENT HOLDS: PRESS CONFERENCE

Roosevelt Reports Plot Against Lives of Allied Heads at Teheran Parley

Roosevelt Reports Plot Against Lives of Allied Heads at Teheran Parley   Gestapo Captain Admits © Mass Murders at Trial

ROOSEVELT TELLS Or NAZI PLOT 10 KILL “BiG THREE”   President, Churchill and Stalin Avoided Trips Through Streets While in Teheran.   CALLS CONFERENCES SUCCESS IN EVERY WAY   Will Give Full Report on Parley in Radio Address to Nation at 2 P. M. December 24.

Roosevelt Says Nazis Plotted To Murder Him   Churchill, Stalin Marked for Death

UNION POLICY COMMITTEE'S ATTITUDE TO SEIZURE OF * MINES TOBE DECIDED LATE TODAY

Nation Awaits Miners Response   President's Order To Return To Work Is Effective On Wednesday   NEARLY HALF MILLION MINERS ON STRIKE

UNION CHIEFS WEIGHING EDICT “OF PRESIDENT   Back-To-Work M 0 vement * Depends Gn Decision Of Capital Parley   WAR INDUSTRY HARD HIT   Nearly All Shafts Manned By UMW Throughout Nation Idle

Clearfield and Kemey Boye Place In Preliminary U ‘Naval Academy E

REVOKES RATIONS OF FIRST LADY’   Panel Rules Trip of Governor's - Wife Wasn't Essential.

Ration Board Acts On Trip By Mrs. O’ Conor   Suspends “A” Ration For Thrae Months— Revokes “C* Book For State Car

Japs Permit Lend-Lease Goods  To Reach Russia   Soviet Ships Evidently Not Reine Molested

RUSSIAN SHIPS ARE CARRYING SUPPLIES WITH 0, K. OF JAPS   Lend - Lease Shipments Are Revealed for Use Against Axis Partner of Jananece.

Lend-Lease For Russia Going Past “Back Door” Of Japan, Report Shows

JAPS MAKE NO MCVES AGAINST CARGO TO REDS   Shipments Across Pa: cific Unmolested, it Ts Shown

Japs Permit Lend-Lease Shipments to Russia In Pacific, Congress Learns

Japan Is Permitting Lend-Lease Shipments Go Unmolested to Russiz

COMPLETED COURSE.   Six Tipton People Have Certificafes in Engineering.

COMPLETED COTRS      Six Tipton’ People Have ‘Certifieates in “Engineering:

_ School Bells to Ring  1,555,000 Pupils to Return To State Schools Next Week

bien LAUNCH SWEEPING RAIDS   ‘Northern Italy Objectives Blasted — Bombers Also Punch Nazi Sub Base

Only Three Planes Lost In Raids   Spezia, Italian Naval Base Also Bombed Lorient Hit

NIGHT ASSAULTS ARE EXTENSIVE   Big Formations Again Head for North France

NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE, ITALY AND RUHR HIT   Most Sweeping Single Night’s Operation Ever ttempted by British Airmen   TURIN AND SPEZIA ROCKED BY BOMBS   Good Weather Makes Attacks Effective; Bombing of Lorient “Heavy  and Concentrated”

RAF BATTERS . TURIN, SPEZIA   Strikes at Ruby, Lorient ir Addition to Raids on - Italian Cities

TURIN AND SPEZIA AIR BASE BOMBED BY RAF LAST NIGHT   The Ruhr and Submarine Base at Lorient Also Were Attacked.   THREE BOMBERS LOST   One of Most Sweeping Single Night’s Operations RAF Ever Attempted.

Italy, Franee. Germany Hard  Hit By R.A.F.   Planes Start Back Across »Channel This Afternoon  After Night Bombing.   THREE BOMBERS LOST

Italian Cities, Lorient  Sub Base And The Ruhr Suffer Under RAF Bombs

Triple Fury Hits Vital Axis Bases Attack Northern Italy,  Ruhr, Occupied Area Of France   Start In Afternoon

TURIN FEELS FULL MIGHT OF RAF RAID   Is Most Sweeping Operation Ever Attempted By RAF; Ruhr Attacked

ACTION MOST SWEEPING FOR SINGLE NIGHT   Attacks On Turin, Lorient Are Reported Heavy   At Spezia Is Bombed First Time: Ruhr Valley Hit; Three Planes Lost

Busy RAF Attacks Turin, Specia And Ruhr Along With German Sub Base At Lorient In Sweeps

Italian, Nazi Cities Bombed  RAF Stages Series o! Sweeping Raids

Italian Torpedo Plant And Turin Blasted By RAF   Only Three Bomber: Lost In Sweeping Night Operations

British Bomb Turin, Sub Base at Lorient   Fliers Also Lash at Fascists’ Spezia Naval Base for First Time and Attack Targets in Germans’ Industrial Ruhr.

RAF BLASTS AXIS IN FRANCE, ITALY AND THE RUHR   ONLY THREE PLANES MISSING IN BIGGEST NIGHT’S OPERATION

Destruction Splattered (On Big Area   Italy, Germany And France Feel Sting Of Allied Bombs

Turin, Spezia Feel Sting Of Bombs; Other Pilots Hit At German Submarine Base

British Lose Only Three Planes In  ‘Wide Attacks   Turin And Spezia Blasted; Concentrated Blow Dealt At  Nazi Coastal Base

Turin, Spezia ‘Naval Base, % Ruhr. And Lorient Suffer.” ‘Pounding By RAF Planes

Long-Range Bombers Hit Italian Cities  RAF Also Strikes  At Lorient rn’ ae  Lo amen mrt aT

LORIENT MADE BOMB TARCETS   Most Sweeping Operations of Single Night Ever Allempied by RAF   CARRY ON TODAY   Raids Cap 24Hour Offensive in Which U. S. Army Bombers Raid: ed Germany

Turin, Spezia, Lorient and Ruhr Bombed  British Cross Alps to Hit War Induetries in   RESISTANCE SLIGHT   Heavy Night Raids Follow Second All-U. S. Day Smash at Reich

THREE NATIONS FEEL RAF RAID   Italy, Germany, and France  Pounded by Bombers

RAF Renewed ‘Turin Attacks   'EAVY BOMBERS MAKE LONG TRIP TO ITALY

Drive Plannec To Capture Service Vote   Democrats Hurry Move for Compromise: Bill

SOLDIER VOTE COUNTED UPON BY. DEMOCRATS   Administration Feels It Will Receive 70 Per Cent

Soldiers’ Balloting Law Compromise Hopes Hit Snags   Southerners Stick To Demand for States’ Control of Machinery

 Mareh Comes In Like Lamb--In Refrigerators  Snow, Sleet, Sub-Freezina Chill Texas

Air Fields Of Sicily Blasted   allied Planes from Afrioa  Keep Up Assault on Strategic Island —*

Axis Floundering Amid Wild Speculation On Allied Invasion Thrust   Allied Air Forces Step Up Assaults On the Axis Airdromes in Sicily; Invasion in Mediterranean Believed Near ©

Allies Increase Tempo Of Attacks On Sicily, Bring Tero Hour Closer

Allied Bombers Concentrate On Sicily Airdrames   Italians Reported Moving Supplies To Mainland

GERMANS RENEW LONDON ATTACK   44 Dead, 50 Wounded, 20 Missing in Raid On Coast

Seek Bodies Of Children In Wreckage   48 Known Dead in Nazi Bombing Attack on London School

Germans Bomb English School  44 Are Known. to. Have Been Killed:

ENGLISH DI OUT BODIES OF CHILDREN.   ‘48 Known m Dead After: ‘Bombing ~ ‘Of Schoolhouse 

NAZI PLANES OVER ENGLAND TODAY IN REPRISAL.. RAIDING   48~Known ‘Dead: “50- Hurt, 20. Still Missing Ins ; : Schaol Building =.."Bombing :

Germans Bomb  British School   63 Believed Dead; Raidere Back Taday

Elementary School Flattened Wednesday by German Dive-Bombing Plane — Fifty Wounded in Hespi - tal

‘lementary School Is Destroyed   Five of Eight Teachers in Junior Section Amono Dead

‘NAZI RAIDERS RETURN ‘AS ENGLAND COUNTS 48 DEAD iN RUINED SCHOOL.

At Least 48 Schoc Children, Teachers Killed in Bombing    Authorities Move to Investigate Charges Sirens Failed fo Sound, Commons Told Many Shelters Locke

Gashed Heart Sewn Together   Stabbed Man Has Fighting Chance To Live

Women Hired as Guards At Delaware Prison;  Better Shots Than Men

AXIS AIRPOWER IS KNOCKED OUT   Air Commander In Sicily Says Army Cannot Get Same Support On Continent

Says Nazi Air Force Has Been Knocked From Skies   Maximum Help To Allied Ground Forces Now Air Of Northwest Africa Tactical Force

‘Marshal Coningham Declares Nazi Air  Force Is Knocked Out in South ‘War Theater: Lauds Yankees Fliers

RAF BOMBERS BLAST MILAN PLANTS AGAIN   Berlin is Also Raided; Yank Flyers Pound French City   German Air Force Knocked Out of Skies Over Mediterranean, Allied Leader Says

Thousands of Nazis Are Hurled Against Russian Offensive.  IN EFFORT TO DRIVE REDS BACK  Artillery Duels Are the Only Activity Around Smolensk.

LITTLE CHANGE IN EASTERN FRONT   Russians Repulse All Nazi Attacks With Heavy  Losses

RUSSIANS WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD ON ~ NAZI SIDE DONETS   Red Army Communique Says Army Has Captured Several Favorable Positions.

WEEK OF PRICE FIXING LEAVES MART ‘GROECY   Trading Marked by Forced Buying of Non-Ceiling Products   GROWERS ‘CASHING IN’   Receive Unheard of Prices For Items Not Ruled By OPA

COST CUT TO $10   New Law Changes To Flat Fee, Means Varying Saving.

SPEAKER WARNS OF NAZI SOB - STORIES   Russia Will Insist That the _ German Nation Be.  Crushed

SPEAKER WARNS OF NAZI SOB - STORIES   Russia Will Insist That the German Nation Be Crushed   HINDUS AT UNIVERSITY

Five New County Officers to Take Over Their Duties Monday   Sixth to Assume His Post of Treasurer March 4

War Supertax Suggestion Is Being Studied   House Committee Goes To Work on Plan Requested by FDR, but Opposition Is Already Launched. -

No COGNIZANCE OF FDR’S “SUPER TAX” TAKEN BY SOLONS   Group to Stand on Approval of Bill to Peg Salaries Above $25,000 to Pre-Pearl. Harbor Levels .

NCOME LIMIT DEA OPPOSED   Congress Members Are Cool to President’s  Nowect Suomactinn

SUPERTAX MEETS WITH OPPOSITION   BI-PARTISAN CRIES OF CONFISCATORY GREETS PROPOSAL

CONGRESS DOESN'T LIKE ROOSEVELT'S SALARY AGREEMENT   FDR Will Take Off $25,000 jLimitation If Congress IPaccas Another

HOUSE COMMITTEE 10 IGNORE INCOME ‘PROGRAM OF FDR.   Will Stand by Plan to Peg Big Salaries at Pre-Pearl Harhor Levels

Tax Proposed By F.R. Finds Opposition   Special War Supertax Branded Confiscatory And Communistic

HOUSE IGNORES FDR’S PROPOSAL   Disney Plan Wins Out, Super Tax of President Not Even Discussed

House Ignores FDR Request For Super-Tas   Ways And Means Group Simply Favors Income Ceiling As Of Dec. 7, °41

President’s 2 Tax Request Is Ignored —   Committee Urges Salaries Be Pegged At Prewar Level

House Group Passes Up Salary Issue   Takes No Cognizance Of FD Request For War Tox on Income

F.D.R. IS IGNORED BY HOUSE GROUF   Committee Stands-on Approval of Disney Salary Pegs Bill.   SUPER - TAX IS MUCH OPPOSED

ROOSEVELT FOR SUPBRTAX FOR LARGEINCOMES   President Proposes Levy _ As House Moves to Nullify His $25,000Limit Decree   MEETS OPPOSITION   Bi-Partisan Cries of “Con fiscatory” and “Commun : istic’ Heard Against  Executive’s Aims

HOT OPPOSITION TO INCOME LIMIT   ‘Confiscatory,’ ‘Communistic’ Are Some of Cries Against F.D.R. Proposal

Committee Is Cold To Plan For Super-Ta   Roosevelt’s Suggestion: Is Rejected In Favor Of Pegging Large Salaries At Pre-War Level

Committee Ignores President's Letter Urging Income Limi   Votes Disney Proposal; Washington Doings Are Summarized

War Super-Tax Idea Is Ignored By Committee   Roosevelt’s Plan Encounters Much Bitter Criticism

No Resistance Encountered But Withdrawal Is Ordered   Three American Divisions Are Ready To Rolf Toward Gabes As Soon As Rainfall Subsides

Eighth Army Awaits Assault Sigual; Nor ‘tthern Tunisia Activity Out

RAINS HALT  ALLIED DRIVE IN TUNISIA   American Troops. Conidating . Before Attack

Heavy Rains. Delay Allied Aitack   American Troops Consolidate’ Tunisian Gains

DOWN DRIVE IN TUNISIA   Americans Are Consolidating Gains in Drive

15-MILLIONSSE OF “ARMED FORCI   \Senator Downey Says Replacements _  Included

FIFTEEN MILLION IN U. 5. ARMED FORCES PREDICTED   CHARLES P. TAFT SEES INDUCTION OF ALL 3-A DRAFT REGISTRANTS BY MIDSUMMER   State. Solons Strike at OPA Milk Price Policy

DOWNEY FEELS 15 MILLION WILL BE IN ARMY BY 1944   Says That te Army of 11 Million There Must: Be Added Four Million Replacernents and War. Workers

Says They are Stabbing Fighting Men in Back, Aims at Rep. Lamberton

Roosevelt's Son Charges He Gets Unfair Criticism   Elliott Says He and His Brothers Are Being Stabbed in Back

President's Son Raps Solon: For ‘Stab in Back’ While He And Brothers Fighting: War

Elliott Roosevelt Protests Charges  Letter From Officer Is Read in House

[Reply of Roosevelt's Son To Critics of Self and Brothers Draws Applause

President's Son Attacks Crities   Elliott Asks to Be Allowed to Fight, Not Stabbed in the Back

Roosevelt Son Chides Critic Of Family’s War Record   Letter to Congressman From Elliott Asks That He and Brothers Be ‘Allowed to Fight Without ‘Knifing’

Elliott Roosevelt. Says Politics  Stabbing Fighting Men In The Back

Roosevelt Son Defends ‘Record in Armed Services   Asks That President's Sons Be Allowed To Fight “Without Being Stabbed in Back’

Strategy On Huge Pattern   New Drive Starts Reconquest of Jap-Held Islands

U. S. BOMBERS PINNING JAPS TO PACIFIC BASES   American Units Gain Foothold At Nassau Bay; Strategical Significance Of Operations Overshadows  Their Magnitude.   And The Worst Is Still To Come. ....  Destruction Unmatched  In History Heaped On Axis From Air In June

American Bombers Pinned Airforce Of Japanese Back To Effect Landing On Isle

Yanks Take Nassau Bay Beachhead   U. S. Air Force Plays Important Part in Protecting Landing; “In Contact” With Jap:

SOVIETS HOLD LINE AT DONETS   Repeated Nazi Assaults Are Repulsed With Losses Reported Heavy

NAZI ATTACKS ARE STOPPED NEAR KHARKOV   Serious Losses Inflicted on the Enemy, Says Moscow Report.   OTHER LOCAL ACTION   Spring Thaw Is Believed Ending and Reds Are Expected to Push On.

AUTOGASBANENDS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BROWN DECLARES   But Oil Administrator Ickes Says There Is No Indication of Sufficiency in Sight.

Northern Italy, City Of Rome  Facing Famine   Nazi - Held Communities Appeal For Food; Say Jt Will Go To Italians

Italian Capifal Facing Famine  Diminishing Food   Diminishing Food Supplies Repc; ted

FAMINE FAGES NAZI-OGCUPIED AREA OF ITAL)   Northern Section of Nation and City of Rome Lack  Sufficient Food As  Germans Take Over ©

Famine Faces Rome’s People   Germans Requisition Available Supplies

OPECTER OF FAMINE HANGING OVER ITAL’   Nazi Troops Requisitioning All Food Supplies

NAZI ACTIVITIES BRING THREAT OF FAMINE TO ITALY   Rome ‘and Other Nazi-Held » Towns in. Northern Italy “Facing the Specter of “Star-

SPECTER OF FAMINE HANGS OVER ROME, NORTH ITALY CITIES   NAZI AUTHORITIES IN ROME BROADCAST PROC. LAMATION PROTECTION

Report Famine Threat at Rome   Radio Asks Farmers t« Bring in Food

NAZIS BLAMED FOR PLIGHT OF OCCUPIED CITIES   Germans Make Demands on Italian Farmers To Bring In Their Produce

New York Cotton   New Orleans Cotton   (Juestions and Answers On ‘Pay-As-You-Go

South Tops In Shine Making   Mlicit Booze Manufacture Stepped Up, Treasury Reports.

Report Allied Italian Advance Causes Renewed Demonstrations for Peace

BEACHHEAD TASK TOUGH, SAYS KNOX   Landing Is Most Hotly Contested Yanks Have Made

Board, 2 Draftee List Announced  -Men to Be Inducted on June 7 -

WAR GOING BETTER AFTER TWO YEARS   Conditions Now Far Cry From State of Affairs Dec. 7, 1941

Task Forces Smash Jap-Held Marshal! Isles   Second Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor Finds U. §. Ready To Carry War To Jans With Encreased Supplies Qf Planes. Shins, Weanons

Battle Tide Has Turned Greatly Since Jans Blasted Fleet at Pearl Harbor

War anniversary finds nation on victory road   Situation is improved on all fronts as allied might shows increasing growth

seeeieieaeneatinainnaeninmameat oat  RECRUITING OF NURSES RUNS INTO COMPETITION

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 10 HELP GOVERNOR   GOP Opponents of Bill Pass Pressure of Chief Elecutive

BRICKER OPENS NEW DRIVE FOR SALES TAX BILL   State Restaurant-assn Joins Fight To Repeal Levy On Meals Eaten Qut   HIGHWAY OFFICE HELPS   Senate Approves House Measure For Keeping Road Estimates Secret

TWO CONGRESSMEN BANNED. FROM THE-FOOD MEETING   OHIOAN ‘IS ONE OF PAIR DENIED RIGHT ZO SIT IN ON CONFERENCE Dis+ CUSBSIONS

Allied Airmen Explode Jap Vessel  Aerial Attack Is Mada an   Kerial Attack Is Made on Base at Rabaul

Allied Airmen Explode Jap Vessel   Aerial Attack Is Made on  Base at Rabaul

yt) ee a See Ol sats ee Sa es ee et  Women to Meet Tonight _ To Plan War Bond Sale:

ALLIED FLIERS HOLD BiG EDGE OVER NAZIS   Figures on. Score Given on RAF Anniversary:

Red Bombers Hit Nazi Supply Port   Called Part of Growing Air War On Germany

KUBAN BRIDGEHEAD SUPPLY PORTS HIT BY SOVIET PLANES   Red Army Continues Ground Movements As Growing Air War Mounts _ Daily

Harvest Help Need Is Urgent   East Montana Fears Big Crop Losses ,

250 Japs Die As Attack Is Turned Baek   Regimental Commander Slain By Allies In Area Near Salamaua:  Rabaul Raided Again

Japs Hurled Back. On Guinea Leaving 250 Dead On Field   megimental Commander. Among Slain, Aric Allied Losses In Mubo Area Said Light *

JAPANESE SLAIN NEAR SALAMAUA   Fleeing Nipponese Are Killed By Allied Outpost Forces

ALLIES REPULSE FOE RAID WITH “SLIGHT LOSSE:   One-Jap Commander. Killed; Enemy Retreats in Mubo-Wau ‘Area

Commander 0} Nippon Forces Killed In Raid   Rabaul Bember, Two En= emy Vessels Hit; Other Bases Attacked Fram Air

Commandos strike enemy channel fort   Foe predicts invasion soon

NAZIS CLAIM RAID MADEBY - COMMANDOS   ‘Unit Wiped Out in Barb' ed Wire Maze, Ber lin Reports   REPORT OF ATTACK .IS UNCONFIRMED   Announcement Arouses Speculation in Camps of Allies

Germans Claim ~ British-French.. ~~ Unit Wined Out   Christmas Eve Sneak Raid Against Channel Nefenses Reported

Germans Report Commando Raid   Nazis Claim Entire Force Wiped Out

Commandos  Wiped Out,  Germans Say   Stirs New Speculation After Eisenhower Gets Invasion Command  GERMANS NERVOT'S

Germany Reports Commando Attack On Rocket Coast   British Raiders Slain, Say Nazis

COAST RAIDED BY COMMANDOS   Germans Announce Attack On Channel Defenses  Christmas Eve

Couple Losing Five Sons To Make A Tour  Towans To Urge All Warkare Tea Stay

SULLIVANS ARE “CARRYING ON”   Visit Vice President and Mrs. Roasevelt

TAFT SEEKING DRAFT SUPPORT      ‘Ohio Senator Has Propusal to Reguire Drafting of Fathers Under 80 Years of Age First,

PLAN GOES T0 SENATE TODAY   Seeks Bi-Partisan Backing For Bill To Call Fathers Under 30 Years First.   WHEELER SILL DOOMED   Ohioan Hopes To Win Backing For Measure For Effect on Mannower Hoarding.

SEEKS SUPPORT OF PROPOSAL TO CALL FATHERS UNDER 30      Taft Hopes To Offer Plar In Place Of Wheeler’s Which Would Defer All Until Jan. 1

SEN: TAFT SEEKS SUPPORT FOR AGE BRACKET DRAFT      Substitute: for Wheeler Bill; Wants Fath- ’ ets Under 30 Taken.

Would Draft Younger Dads:  Limit to 30 Years ' OF Aae. Savs Taft

TAFT SUBMITS OWN PLAN ON FATHER DRAFI   Ohio Senator Favors Taking Dads Under 30 Years First

TAFT 10 OFFER SUBSTITUTE FOR FATHERS’ DRAFT   Hopes To Offer Proposal In The Senate Today — Seeks Support

Sen. Taft Seeks Bi-Partisan Support fo Proposal to Draft Dads Under 30 First

TAFT SEEKING SUPPORT FOR DRAFT REVISION   Substitute For Wheeler Bill Would Make Fathers Under 30 Eligible First

Plane Exovlodes,. Pilot Is Killed   House Set Afire; Two Women Hurt

BLOW AT TRUK EXPECTED SOON   Little Speck on Map Formidable Barrier to Allied Advance,   '{S & STRONG FORTRESS

U. S. Blow at Truk Expected Shortly   Barrier in Vast Pacific Area Must Fall Before Drive at Japan

WARNING!  Machinegun Bullets From Crash Geene Dangerous. Public Warned

W.S, CARTER IS TAKEN BY DEATH   ’ Longtime Real Estate Owner To Be Buried Tuesday

ABSENTEEISM OF MINERS HIT   Government Also Blamed For Serious Lag In Nation's Coa! Production

COAL PRODUCTION BELOW ESTIMATED NEEDS OF NATION   Soft Coal Publication Says . Indifference, Absenteeism Cause for Production Lag

Fixes Blame For Coal Lag   Says Miner Slogan “No Contract—No Sweat”; ‘Condemns Gov’t Policy

MINE OPERATORS CHARGE MINERS WITH ‘STALLING’   Indifference Is Attributed To Failure of Efforts To Get Contract   SHORTAGE FEAR VOICED   Government Also Criticized For Panic-crying and Too Many Regulations

CLAIM MINERS SHIRK AT WORK SINCE STRIKES   Soft Coal Diggers Motto, ‘No Contract-No Sweat,’ in Full Swing

Indifference And Absenteeism Blamed For Coal Lag  Absentee Miners Rapped  oe eh ae

Miners Are Charged With Absenteeism, Indifference In Report of Operators

Miners Are Charged With Absenteeism And Indifference In Coal Operators Repor'

Operators’ Publication Raps Government For . Part. of Shortage..,

SHAKEUP MADE IN INSPECTIONS AT AIR PLANT   Patterson Confirms Part of Charges by Truman Committee

PATTERSON CLAIMS REMEDIAL ACTION IN DEFECTIVE ENGINES  AFTER ADMITTING COM.  MITTEE REPORT CON LIRPMEN EYCIICL MANE

ruman Group Probes Crashes Of Army Planes   Committee Claims Defective Engines Sold To Services

PATTERSON CLAIMS REMEDIAL ACTION IN DEFECTIVE ENGINES  AFTER ADMITTING COM. MITTEE REPORT CONFIRMED FXCUSE MADE

NOT SENSATIONAL   Patterson ays Army Took emediaj Action Three Months Aco’

PATTERSON RAPS TRUMAN REPORT PRESS COVERAGE   Situation Less Sensational! At the Indicted Plant Than Stories?

Patterson Says Wright Charges Are Not _As Bad As Some Published Statements Imply

BROUP STUDIES AIR PROBLEMS   Truman Committee Seeks Postwar Landing Rights For U. S. Planes.

Officers At ~ Curtiss Plant Are Removed   Changes Are Made By Army After Report  - On Defective Planes  RRode At Lockland

Truman Group ToCheckOn Plane Mishaps   Also Interested in U. S. Rights on Airfields Built Abroad

HUAI PEA Ath SCENE OF BOMBIN(   Fortresses Assisted - RAF In Series  - OF Attacks

Lorient Bombed Again By Yanks RAF Carries Its Sweeps Inland To Strike At  Nazi Trancnoartatian

FLYING FORTS BLAST LORIENT BASE FOR SUBS   Mustangs Strafe Trains Filled With Troops InNazi-held France In Daylight Blow   BERLIN RADIO OFF AIR, FEARING RAID   German Planes Strike At English .Towns During Day, Killing Some In Two Areas

Fortresses Blast at Sub Bases   Inland Transportation Of Nazi-Occupied Europe Also Raked

American Flying Fortresses Blast German Submarine Pens At Lorient And Brest Bases

BREST IS ALSO HIT IN RAIDS   RAF Joins In Attacks Over Continent; 5 U.S. Planes Lost

Americans Smash Nazi Sub Lairs   Large Raids Made on Dens at Brest and Lorient

Three Nearby To Participat   Dawn Alert is Misunder. stood ¥ Thousands In The State

Blushing Chief of Police Returns Door Mat His Dog Bad Geanned Ream Paral

PARACHUTISTS NOW LAND IN BIG NUMBERS   Capture of 23 air bases in southern Sicily is reported

I’'ace Increase In Activity of Enemy Subs   Catania Airport Shelled By Fleet Units

 Colorado County ,Quota For The  Third War Loan Drive is $820,800.00

Berlin Claims Naval Victory   Says British Cruiser Sunk Off France

-CRUISER REPORTED SUNK   German Claim Not : Confirmed From British Source

Dad Deferment Hit By Curtis   Congressman From This District Says Action Not On Richt Track.

SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT CARDS SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR IDENTI FICATION IN CASHING CHECKS

Rose Walsh Is Held in County Jail   21-Year-Old Girl Charged with Murder Will Be Arraigned Next Week in Fatal Shooting.

Mother Will Send Soil From Back Yard to Son For Christmas Present

Rhine And Ruhr Cities Bombed   Flyers Blast Mannheim And Ludwiashaven

R. A. F. BLASTS VITAL CITIES ON THE RHINE   Heavy Bombers Leave Roaring Fires in Mannheim and Ludwigsha fen During Attack   ‘NINE FAIL TO RETURN

British Renew Night Bombing Raids On Nazis   Big Force Is Used In Attack

RAF Pounds Two Major Rhine Cities   Mosguitos Join in Raid On Industries in  Ruhr Valley

BRITISH RENEW NIGHT ATTACKS AGAINST NAZIS   Manncheim Blasted; Ruhr Valley Pummel ed By Mosquitoes

Two Nazi Towns On Rhine River Blasted By RAF   Ruhr Valley And Airfields: In France And The Low’ Countries Also Bombed

Rhine Center ({ Armaments Gets Blasting   Airfields, Railways In French And Low Country Areas Bombed.

MANNHEIM AND LUDWIGSHAFEN RAID TARGETS   Roaring Fires Set In Cities On Opposite Sides of Rhine, Knocking Out War Brductiod   DAMAGE HEAVY; 9 BOMBERS MISSING   Speedy Mosquitos Hit Tar gets In Ruhr: Fighters Raid France; Rome Bombing Dewianded

MANNHEIM HIT BY RAF FLIERS   - NAZILAND TARGET OF WIDESPREAD FORAYS BY ALLIED BOMBERS

Aannheim, udwigshafen ‘aided by RAF   Mosquito Bombers Also Drop Bombs On Rhur Valley

RAF’s Big Bombers Attack Mannheim, Ludwigshaven As Mosquitos Rip Ruhr Plants

RAF Attacks Arms Center. Ruhr Targets   Nine Bombers Lost; Rails. Airfields Hit In Low  Countries. France.   2 ENEMY PLANES DOWN

Twin Germai Cities Are Target Of RAF Bombs   Ludwigshaven And Mannheim On Rhine River Given Pounding ; ebae Dtanre Alen Hit

TWO IMPORTANT NAZI CITIES ARE BOMBED BY RAF   Mannheim and _  Ludwigs-. haven, Which Form Im. portant Armament Center Represent Second Largest Inland Port In Europe; Large Fires Are Sct.

TWO GERMAN INDUSTRIAL TOWNS RAIDED   British Bombers Pound Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, on Rhine, Which Form an Important Nazi Armament Center.

HUGE BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Mannheim And Ludwigshaven Blasted; Large Fires Reported

Towns on Rhine  Blasted by RAF   Big Formations of Bombers Set Fires in Manneheim and Ludwigshafen.

Night Raids On Germany  fre Resumed   Big Force of Bombers Blast Mannheim and Ludwigshafen

BLAST GERMAN CITIES   Mannheim ~ and Ludwigshafen Bombed by R.A.F,

Big RAF Force Blasts Germany  In Night Attack.   Rhineland And Ruhr _Industrial Centers Ablaze After Raids.

Bombers Blast Large Nazi Area   BRITISH PLANES SET FIRES IN TWIN CITIES

HEAVY BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN CITIES   Ruhr Valley Is Again Hit During Night Assault

RAF Strikes Nazi Cities In New Raids   Armament Working Towns Blasted; Ruhr Valley Raided

Allied Planes Again Pound ‘Nazi Centers   Manheim and Ludwigshafe: Blasted During Night Raid; Day Assaults Staged

RAF BOMBERS RENEW ATTACKS ON REICH CITIES   Also Hit Military Targets in France, Lose Nine Planes

RUHR VALLEY AGAIN BOMBED   Big Formations Blast Mannheim and Ludwigshaven

BIG FORMATIONS OF RAF HEAVY BOMBERS BLASTED GERMANY   MANNHEIM AND LUDWIGSHAVEN ATTACKED; OTHER TARGETS SMASHED

RAF Bombers Hit Mannheim, Ludwinshaven   Airfields, Railways Also Attacked; Nine Planes Lost

RAF Pounds Twin Nazi War Center   ‘MannHeim and Ludwigshaven on the Rhine Hit in Heavy Attacks

Airfields And Railways In France Are Also Attacked   NINE PLANES LOST   Large Fires Are Set  In Second Largest Inland Port

RAF, BLASTS ~ VALLEY TOWNS   Nine Bombers Lost in Operations Over West Germany, Focused on Arms Making Center,

RhineArmamentCenter Blasted By RAF In Heavy Night Raid   Dig bombers Attack Mannheim And Ludwigshay en While Speedy Mosquitos Attack Targets In Industrial Ruhr V. alley

TWO RHINE CITIES HIT, ALSORUHR   Armament Centers Principal Targets; Raid Low Countries

Night Raids On Germany Are Resumed; Mannheim, Ludwigshaven, Ruhr Hit

Iowa Boy Shoots Farm Wife, Then Suicides   Donald Perry, 17, Former Juvenile Home Inmate, Dead At Westgate

SHOOTS WOMAN, THEN KILLS SELF   No Motive Uncovered for Act by Youth. 17

Lewis Says His Demands Still Stand   Quotes No-Pay- Raise Order Jn Insisting on So.9 Day RBanct.

LEWIS WILL NOT ABANDON PAY DEMAND   MINE WORKERS LEADER DE. CLANES ROOSEVELT ORDER HAS .NOT CHANGED BITUATION

LEWIS IGNORES WAGES RULING   Wheat, Fish, Milk to Be Manufactured Among Ceiling Items

KEEN SERVICES.   Funeral for Maurice J. Keen To Be Held Monday In Indianapolis.

“KEEN SERVICES.    : _ oF Funcral-for Maurice J.- Keen To Be Held Monday Tho Tndianapolis.

REDS CAPTURE VITAL RAIL CITY   DOGGED RESISTANCE MARKS DONETS FIGHT

NAZI ATTEMPTS IN DONETS AREA FOILED BY REDS   Axis Troops Held in Check by Russians in Fierce Fight; Durovo Reported Captured

REDS ARE NOW 33 MILES FROM GOA!   Soviet Reports Germans Art Moving Up Soldiers At Smolensk Area.

REDS CAPTURE DUROVO, MOVE ON SMOLENS!   Nazi Repeated Attempts To Gain in Donets Crushed

Rail Junction Only 55 Miles  From Smolensk   Germans With Fresh Troops Are Held in I'pner Doneta Rasin

SOVIETS CAPTURE DUROVO IN NORTE: BELGOROD FALL   Reds Say More Nazi Reserves are Being Used In Donete Rasin,

REDS CAPTURE RAIL JUNCTION IN NORTH ARE!   Southern Army Repels Nazi Attempts To Cross Donets

News Behind The News  ee ee   WASHINGTON  By Rey Tucher   ail B dM. Inequalities ore

Special Election Sef on 1/th to Fill Vacancies   Emerson's Successor Among Eight That Will Be Selected

Governor Calls Special Session  To Provide Means for Soldier Voting

State Systeni Inadequate for Soldiers Vote   Governor Sets January 26  As Day for Short Term To Begin

SOLDIER VOTE MACHINERY T0 BE PONDEREL   Gov. Hickenlooper Calls Special  Assemb'y Extraordinary Session for Jan. 26th

To Provide Means For Soldier Vote   Extension Of Time For Returning Absent Voter Ballots Needed.

Japs Found Progressing With Kiska, Attu Airfields Despite Bombings   Half-Mile-Long Runway Might Make It Ready For Fighter Planes Within Few Weeks Despite. Half Dozen Bombings. -

JAPS BUILDING AIR FIELDS IN ALEUTIAN ISLES   Construction Is Carried On Under Heavv Air Raids

Japs Doggedly Building Bases   Feverishly Active On Attu And Kiska

Japs Build Kiska,A ttu Bases Despite Raids  Bomber Ui tl He feadqui irters si WS Se on © ns sn f r had

Japs Doggedly: Building Bases.   Feverishly Active: 4 On Attu'And Kiska:

20,000 Germans Killed Says Stalin In Order Of Day;  Gave Crimea Te Nave

GREAT BATTLE TAKES 20,000 GERMAN LIVES   ASSAULT OF CRIMEA PROMISED NEXT BY STALIN

Soviets Clear German  From Caucasus   Stalin Declares Russians Ready To Enter Crimea

STALIN: HINTS CRIMEA SOON TO BE INVADED   20,000 Nazi Troops Killed, 3,000 Taken  Prisoner

ROUTING EXENY IN SOVIET ARBA REQUIRED DAYS   Great Quantities of War Material Seized in Addition to Toll of Ground Earecac      SOVIETS GAIN IN DNIEPER BATTLES   Advance to Town 25 Miles Southeast of Vitebsk in White Russia; Gun Salute Marks Victories

Russian Armies Drive Last Nazi Out Of Caucasus   20,000 Germans Die In Last Furious Battle; New Gains Made Along Dnieper River Front

FEDERAL FOOD PLAN ENDORSED   Farmers’ Union Head Favors Government Purchase And Resale Proposal

Super Battleship Wisconsin, Symbol ‘of New American Navy, Launched Today

Battleship  Wisconsin  Is Launched   Answers Jap Attack On Pearl Harbor; Huge Craft Built At Cost Of S900 Million

Ship With Bow Higher Than 5-Story Building Christened By Wife Of Governor Goodland.

Large Losses In U.S. Food Stuffs   CONGRESS HEARS ABOUT HUGE SPOILAGE ‘IN NATION

‘(Must Hold These Losses ToA Minimum...”  Heavy Food Losses By Government Reported

BARE GOV'T FOOD LOSSES   To Run Into Hundreds Of Thousands of Pounds, Congress Told

FR Will Submit  Demobilization Plan   Makes Public Lengthy Report By Planning Board

POST-WAR’ AIMS GO TO CONGRESS   F@R to Give Demobilization Program at September Session

Legal Aspects of Water Pact  Are Discussed Federal Official   Federal Official Is. Speaker at Billings Meeting

Legal Aspects of Water Pact  Are Discussed  Federal Official Is Speaker at Billings Meeting

ORELISALSO THREATENED BY NEW ADVANCES   47 Miles from Ore! and With in Sight of City of Rostay.

Old Law is Bar to Promotion of Five Headline Generals   None Has 28 Years of Continuous Service in  Army of U. S.

Old Law Holds Up Promotions For Generals   Clark, Eaker, And Kenney Among Those Affected By Bill

LAW BLOCKING PROMOTION OF FIVE GENERALS   Aren't Generals After All—Just Yet

WASHINGTON TODAY—_—_———__—__________—  Congress and Future Rations = BY PETER FERSON

Rationing Ur To Congress In Future:   Chaos Seen If Approval Of Solons First Is

U.$. READY FOR BIG PUSH ON ITALIAN FRONT   General Clark’s Troops on, Verge of Break-through Toward Plains.

Yanks Clearing Nazis Out Of Camino Heights   Only Two Pockets Left As Americans Fight Toward Plain   . FIERCEST BATTLING   New Maneuver To Give Fifth Army 10 More Miles Of Highwav

MAGGIORE IS CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY   Nazis Are Cleared From All Except 2 Mountain Peaks

CLARK'S ARMY {8 NEAR PLAINS ON ROAD 10 ROME   ‘Sth “Pushes Down Slopes, Driving Nazis Before Them.

Trailer Contract Let   To Oshkosh, Wis., Firm For $48,930 To Put In Trailer Camp Here

CONFEREES AGREE ON FORGIVENESS TAXATION PLAN   100 P.C. Remitted Little Taxpayer; Others are Allowed 75 Percent.   -* An explanation of how: the tax operates appears on Page 2,.Column 1.

SENATE-HOUSE TAX CONFEREES ADOPT COMPROMISE ‘PLAN   Agreement Contains 75% Forgiveness And PayAs - You - Go Features

JOINT CONFERENCE INAGREEMENT ON TAX LEGISLATION   Full Abatement If liability Is $50 Or Less, 75 Per Cent For One Year If Greater Amount.   BOTH HOUSES EXPECTED TO TAKE VOTE FRIDAY)   Treasury Department Objects To Very Last, Democrats; Expect Roosevelt to Sign Measure.

lost laxpayers Would Have 1) Per Cent  Forgiveness   Small Taxpayer Would Receive 100 Per Cent  Forgiveness; Plan May Not he Vetaed hv FDR

NEW TAX PLAN DESTINED FOR EARLY ADOPTION      Compromise 75 Percent Forgiveness Plan Agreed Upon By Conferees

CONGRESS EXPECTED T0 APPROVE PAY-G0 COMPROMISE ON TAX   Senate-House Conferees Agree On 75 Pct. Abatement For Most Taxpayers, 100 Pct. For Income Group

COMPROMISE REACHED ON ‘PAY-80 TAY   75 Per Cent Forgiveness Provided For Most, Taxpayers

CONFERENCE COMM. AGREES ON TAX PLAN   Compromise On 75% Forgiveness In Most Cases

SPEEDY O.K. EXPECTED ON PAY-GO TAX   Compromise Adopted By Joint Committee Puts 44 Million Payers on Current Basis.   FIGHTERS GET BREAK   Civilians Who Owe $50 Given Full Forgiveness, Others Ret 75 Por Can}

Approval of Forgiveness Plan Is Seen   Tax Conferees Of Senate, House Compromise

SURE CONGRESS WILL APPROVE NEW TAX PLAN   No Predictions, However, as to What Roosevelt May Do on Compromise Levy Pian

Forgiving of 75 Per Cent of Tax Over $50 and All Under That Amount Agreed to By Conferees.

COMPROMISE TAX BILL FINALLY AGREED UPON   75_Per Cent Forgiveness Pay-As-You-Go for Most Taxpayers and 100 Per Cent Forgiveness for the Little Taxpayer Proposed—Question Arises Whether F.D.R. Would Sian Meacure.

POSTWAR PLAN CONTEST   $50,000 in Prizes Offered For Bes! Solution To Job Problem

Admiral McCain Reveals Navy Fliers Have Downed 1,600 Enemy Planes As Cost of Only About 300

BLACKOUT OF STATE SET FOR THURSDAY   Educational Blackout To Be Held Beginning at 10.10 P. M., It ls Announced   BROADCAST ORDERS

Headlight Masks No Longer Needed On Emergency Cars   3-State Daylight. Drill’ Will Be Held Wednesday, Feb. 7 : \ To Test Out New. Uniform Rules 

LIFT HEADLIGHT MASK ORDER IN AiR RAID DRILL   N oLonger Required In State On Emergency Cars, New BRule

HARD FIGHTING SOUTH OF CITY IS REPORTED   Germans Seek To Delay Allies Until Destruction Of Port At Naples Completed ~

[Allies Surge Forward Through Three Towns; ‘Corsica Is Battle Site

NAZIS BLAST, BURN NAPLES, SINK SHIPS   Trying to Destroy Port Preparatory To Evacuation

ALL SHIPS IN HARBOR SUNK AS ALLIES APPROACK   Fifth Army In Bitter Fighting. Eighth Pushes Up Center of Italian Boot.

TAKE STEPS T0 CURB MEAT BLACK MARKET  FEDERAL OFFICIALS MOVE TO INSTITUTE

ATTACK STEPPED UP ON ‘BLACK MARKETS’      Federal Officials Threaten Criminal Prosecution

Government Acts to » Curb Black Market  Operations in Meat   a@WVidespread Growth of Illegal Practice Is Alleged by Packers

-ederal Officials for District Hear Packers’ Demand for Adequate Enforcement

LL GURD BLACK MARKETS   File Suits to Wipe Out Illegal Sale of Meat in Chicago Area.

Operators Of. Black Market F ace Arrest   Criminal Action As Well As Injunction Suits Will Be Brought By OPA In Chicago Area

MOVE AGAINST BLACK MARKET   Government Maps Action To Curb Rapid Growth; Situation Desperate

NIMITZ CALLS HIS  SHOTS IN BROADCAST  Td<«. FYTIAMOT Cc TI AAAAATIIDNT XU?

NIMITZ HINTS OF BOLD STABS AGAINST HITHERTO ‘UNMOLESTED JAP BASES

Nimitz Hints of Next Moves Against Japs   Pacific Fleet Head Says Forces Ready to Invade Other Isles

TIME HAS COME TO STRIKE SAYS ADM. NIMITZ   Admiral Announces Readiness to Carry War to Japs as Co-ordinated Blows Envisaged

~~ COMING UP   Hope. Is That Most: Of ‘ Them Will Make  Quotas   S797 ANH F221 RAR RH

Incomplete Report Of War Bond Sales In Plymouth County Released   County Well Above Quota With Other Districts To Report

PLYMOUTH COUNTY TOWNS STRONG ON WAR BOND DRIVE —   ‘Rural Quotas Not Quite Met, But Courity Quota Exceeded By $106,646.50   Town Total .$258,000 . $537,559.25

De Gaulle Promises Traitors’ Punishment  To French ‘Collaborators’

DEGAULLE RAPS NAZI HELPERS   Says Republic Will Take Revenge On Governors  Who Betrayed France

JAPS TRYING -. ~ WOLF PACKS   GROUPS OF ENEMY 8UBMARINES NOW OPERATING BETWEEN COAST AND HA WAIAN ISLANDS.

Reds Beginning 'Desiaive Fight To Seize Orel   Deliver Crushing Blows At Germans And Advance On City’s Defenses

Russian Success At Leningrad May Mean New Allied Front In Norway

NORWAY SEEN POSSIBLE * THIRD FRONT   LIFTING OF LENINGRAD SEIGE - MAY LEAD TO RVENTUAL ‘ALLIED MOVE. IN NORWAY

HITLER MAY SOON FIND MORE TROUBLE IN ANOTHER PART OF EUROPE’S FRONT

Group of 29:White Men, Women: And Children Saved by Sub From Japs

Daring Submarine Operation Results of Rescue of 29   Men, Women and Children in Peril on Isle tn Solomons Group Taken Off by Navy Officer

Daring Coup In Solomons Is Revealed   17 White Women Facing Nip Mistreatment Rescued; 3 Children Also Included.   In Very Nick Of Time

MISSIONARIES SAVED BY SUB   Group Taken from Solomons Just Before Japs Could Grab Them as Planned

Sub Rescues 29 From Jap Held Island   Darkness Shrouds Daring Feat in Race Against Time

Daring Sub Rescues 29 Held by Japs   7 White Women Were In Imminent Danger  Of Ill Treatment

Take Women, Children Off Isie in Sub   \Navy Performs Daring Rescue Under the Very’ Noses of Japs   WINS HOT RACE AGAINST TIME   Operations Carried Out in Secrecy, No Reply Issued to Orders Given Sub

Daring Sub Operation Saves 9 on Island   Men, Women and Children Removed rrom Jap Held Island  — Ss. ee en ee. ee ee oe

Sub Rescue Saves.29   Missionaries Stranded On Jap-Held Island Are Safe in Australia Now

Daring Sub Rescues U.S. Missionaries From Japs   17 Women in Group Taken From Isle Occupied by Enemy Force

Submarine Takes Group Off Island   Rescues 29 Men, Women and Children from Solomon Island Occupied by Japanese Forces

U.S. Sub Slips To Isle, Saves 29 From Japs   17 White Women Rescued In Nick Of Time By Daring Solomons Crew.

SUBMARINE MAKES RESCUE, 29 HELD AS JAP PRISONERS   17 White Women In Imminent Danger, Ill Treatment and Death Were Their Possihle Fates.   COUP ACCOMPLISHED UNDER ENEMY NOSES   Underwater Craft Chosen Is Given Preference Over Planes, Plane Was Race Against Time.

Daring U. S. Submarine Move Save: 29 From Jap-Held Solomon Islanc   Japs Arrive Next Day

U. §. Sub Saves 29 Missionaries   17 in Group Were Women: 3 Children

29 ESCAPE JAPS IN DARING COUP BY U.S. U-BOAT  TAKEN FROM ISLAN   TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN SOLOMONS UNDER ENEMY’S NOSE

IM en, Women and Children fpissionaries Rescued From Under Noses of Japanese

DARING SUBMARINE OPERATION RESCUES 29 FROM JAPANESE  DARING COUP ACCOMPLISHED UNDER VERY NOSE OF ENEMY

U.S. Submarine Rescues 17 White Women   Three Children and Nine Men Are Also Removed From Japanese-Held island in Operation

Daring Venture Succeeds Under Noses of Enemy   17 White Women And Three Children Taken From Solomon

Missionaries Rescued By U. S. Sub From Island in Solomons Held by Japs

Sub, in Daring Operation, Rescues 29 Persons From  Jap-Held Island in Solomons

Under Cover of Darkness,  U.S. Sub Rescues 29 Persons  Off Jap-Held Solomon Isle

BLAMEY SAYS JAPS MASSING FOR ATTACK   Allies Destroy 37 of 100 Nipponese Planes Over Port Moresby

JAPS AMASS LARGE ARMY IN PACIFIC   Allied commander chief warns of widespread Nipponese activity

37 PLANES LOST IN ATTACK ON PORT MORESBY   MacArthur Believes Allied Action Has Dislocated , Enemy's Plans   NEW THREATS ARE SEEN   200,000 First-Line Troops Massed In Island Bases Above Australia’

Barbados Troops Reported Moving  Detachment Moving To Dominica, Claim

PLANES BEAT OFF RAID ON VOLAND   Repulse Strongest Daylight Air Attack Since Early February; U. S. Bombers Attack Japs at Kiska

American Fighter Planes Repulse Strong Enemy Raid on Guadalcanal

KISKA POUNDED BY U.S. FLIERS   Nipponese Plane Attack On Guadalcanal Is Repulsed

YOUNG SAILOR SHOT BY POLICE   Two Chicago Officers Hele  For Investigation

Senate Committee Submits Favorable Report on Bond Commission Measure

COURT BILL FIGHT OPENS ON TUESDAY   Administration Wins 1s! Round in Reorganization Proqram

U. S. Planes Riddle Jap Naval Base   Nauru, Gateway to Truk, Is Surprised By Bombing Fleet

ISLAND BASE IN TURK ZONE I$ HAMMEREL   Long Flight Is Made By Liberator Bombers

FIRST RAID IS MADE ON NAURU   American Heavy Bombers Rain Big Bombs On Base.

American Bombers Raid Nauru Base for First Time   Attack Launched Friday After Long “Night Flight from Undisclosed Base

O1! Stove Explosion Occurs Here Sunday   Victoria Tiger Ace Is Back in China On Prowl for Sons ol Rising Sun

Former "Flying Tigers" Return to China, This  Tima tn Praw! an Tokvo

Ohio’s 37th Division Fought Hard And Well To Take Munda From Japs

NEW AMERICAN BATTLESHIP DOWN WAYS DECEMBER 7   America’s Answer That Day To Jap Atrocity Market Operators

LEGISLATOR MEET TUESDAY TO ORGANIZE   Brief Session Is Expected With Routine Business Before Legislature

Ickes Says End ‘Of Oil Rationing Not Yet in Sieht   Little or No Hope For Inereased Amounts  Of Gasoline. He Holds

Fuel Ration Here To Stay   Ickes Says Plan Must Continue For Durstion

ICKES SAYS BAN ON GAS TO STAY   Rationing Of Gasoline And   Oils To Continue   For Duration

ON WITH OIL CLAMP   Ickes Says the End of Rationing Is  Not in Sight. .

Sicilians Ready To Greet Allies, Observers Say        nted. Islanders. Would Offer Little Resistance; Entire’ Italian Population .Discouraqed: Fearful:

Italy Approaches Fourth Year of War. Defianily in Face of Threatened us

JAP. INSTALLATIONS GET ‘SHELLACKING   Burma Mines, Bridges, Etc., Target of Assault

U. §. FACES HUNGER   L. F. Holt Sees Necessity for Grow. ing More Vegetables

COMMITTEE KILLED LIEN: CLAUSE BILL   Measure Introduced Placing Sanatorium Under  ‘Welfare Control   WRESTLE LABOR BILLS

House Stops Revival Of 1941 Fight   Kills Bill Giving State Residue Of Relief Estates   New Committee Will Draft The Labor Law   Skovgard’s And Another Measure Are Defeated

House Dodges Controversial  Welfare Bill.  Recovery ‘Clause © Won't Be Repealed  met. ot;

D COMIANY COULD AISE- MORE GUARDS   They’d Replace 16 Mem bers Being Inducted Into “Abniv

75,000 PLANE ARMADA BUILT   Nelson Reveals U. $. Produc. tion Of Munitions Shows Steady Advance

U.S. Builds Aerial Armada of 75,000 Planes Since _ Pearl Harbor. Produces 500 Heavy Bombers Per Month

PRODUCTION. HAS: BEEN ‘STEPPED UP. TO RATE OF “ABOUT 7,900 PLANES © /  ° YER MONTE

Nearly 75,000 Planes Built Since U. S. Went Into War, Report Shows

Health Board Will Decide Tonight On Plans for Venereal Hospital   Orders Doctors to Comply With Ruling Against Health Certificates’ Use for Immoral Purposes

GERMANS WELD MORE GROUND TO OUR TROOPS   Enemy's Key Naval Bastion Already Under Artillery Fire Of Americans

Harbor Is Shelled by Artillery   Germans Give Ground Steadily—European Inva sion Plans Hinted

New Legal Step Taken By Clark   Files Cross-Bill, Asks Writ Against Firm

Swirling Flood Waters Spread Destruction, ‘Death in Eight States

FLOOD WATER — AS COVERING GREAT AREAS   MILLIONS OF ACRES UNDER WATER, WIPING OUT CROPS AND CUTTING FROpUCTION:

Eight States Battle Floods   Lowlands Of Midwest Are Swept By Flood Waters— Much Damage   INDIANA HARDEST HIT BY HIGH WATER

FLOOD DAMAGE RISES: MIDWEST HARDEST HIT   Millions Of Acres Of Land Under Water; Eight Lose Lives   MARTIAL LAW ORDERED   Health Authorities Act To Prevent Spread Of Disease

WLB Opposes Pay Por Undergrounc Mining Travel   Miners Fail to Report to Work _ After Decision

Portal-to-Portal Pay Rejected  WLB Rules in Coal Wage Controversy

board Rules Claims By Union for Such Pay Matter for Lawsuit Or Pact with Owners  MINERS IN ALABAMA, JOHNSTOWN STRIKE  John L. Lewis Silent Pending Meeting Of Policy Committee ~

WLB DECISION STARTS NEW COAL STRIKES   Board Refuses to Order Payments for Travel Underground   ALABAMA, PENNSYLVANIA MINERS FAIL TO WORK

Portal to Portal Pay Claim Said Court Matter   9.200 Men Are Idle 4t 3 Alabama Mines _ 200 Fail to Enter  Pis at Johnstown

Board Asserts Any Claim for Such Remuneration Matter for Legal ! Action or Negotiations

WORK STOPPAGE ARE DEVELOPING   WLB Directs Miners to Sign New Contarct at Old Terms   LEWIS SILENT   Board Says Portal Pay Claims Matter for Courts; Urges No Strike Pledge

WLB Refuses Pay Order  For Travel   Workers Asked To Sign No-Strike Pledge For Duration

WLB REFUSES TO GRANT TRAVEL PAY TO MINERS   Work Stoppages Began Developing Last Night In Protest Of Decision   CONTROVERSY MAY BE GIVEN TO COURTS

000 STOP-MINE WORK FOLLOWING DECISION OF WLE   Coal Diggers Protest Board’s Refusal to Order Payments for Underground Travel.   LEWIS IS SILENT PENDING MEETING   Union, Whose Truce Expires Sunday, Directed to Sign Contract Embracing Old Terms.

Portal-to-Portal Pay Declared Up To High Courts   Board Asserts It Is With: out Power To Grant Demands   Work Stoppages Start Almost Immediately after Decision

WLB Refuses To Order Underground Travel Pay   Board Says Question Beyond Its Jurisdiction—Mine . Workers Directed to Sign. Contract Embracing Old Terms

Portal-to-Porial Pay Rejected  WLB Rules in Coal  Wreaae Cantrayvarerdy

TRAVEL TIME WAGE DENIED COAL MINERS   NO-STRIKE PLEDGE ASKED BY WLB IN NEW CONTRACT

Directs Signing Pact Embracing Old Terms; Suggest Court Hearing   Board Decision Approved 8 To 4, With Labor Members Dissenting, By-Passes Legal Claim To Travel Pay

Miner's Travel Pay Is Refused   New Stoppages Of Work Are Reported

Miner's Travel Pay Is Refused   New Stoppages Of Work Are Reported  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK  ig a 4 Manne Sunk Cilolstay

LORETTA KIRSCH DED THURSDAY   Former Resident Called At Young Age of 29 Years

WIDE MIDWESTERN AREAS THREATENED BY RISING WATER   Points On River Between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Mo.. In Dancer

FEAR FLOODS WILL WIPE OUT ~ RIVER LEVEES   Engineers See Great, Damage In St. Louis - Cape Giraudeau Section   ‘RICH FARM LANDS ARE THREATENED   Crest of Maumee Flood Is ) Moving Down River Into Bay Today

MIDWEST FLOOD PERIL SPREADS   Fear Destruction of Levees Along Mississippi Valley

ExpectLevees to Be Wiped Out; 10 Dead   Indiana Hit Hardest as Wabash Leaves Banks; 22,000 Are Hamelasc

LEVEES BELOW ST. LOUIS ARE THREATENED   Thousands of Acres of Rich Farm Lands in Missouri Likely to be Submerced   SLIGHT RELIEF SEEN   Thousands Driven from - Homes Millions of Acres Mid-Continen Farms Inundated

TROOPS, RESCUE CREWS QUICKEN CONTROL TASKS   10,000 Flee Homes In Illinois; Fear  Levees To Break

Thousands of Acres of Farm Lands Swept by Devastating Waters and More Menaced - - Little Relief in Sight as Damage and Suffering Mounts - - War Production Is Handicapped in More Than Eight States

CRACKING OF MISSISSIPPI LEVEES FEARED   Troops Battle Flood Waters In Midwest; Maumee Crest Moves Into Bay.

See. Destruction. ay very Levee  On Mississippi   Toll Of Dead Rises‘ To 10; Only: Slight. Measure Of Relief In. Flooded Aree

Floods Threaten Thousands Of Acres Of Rich Farm Lands Scattered Along Mississippi River

Levees Doomed On Mississippi In New Flood   Cape Girardeau To St. Louis Levees  Expected To Be tn ae A ho   TEN ARE DEAD   22.000 Homeless Ir  Stricken Sections Coal Mines May Be Flooded

Ten Dead; Millions Lost In ‘Raging Flood Waters Now Sweeping Down Mississippi   Red Cross Workers Move Into Scene of Disaster Ard Give Succor to Thousands of Homeless Refugees   : ONE OF WORST FLOODS IN COUNTRY'S HISTORY

Fear For Levees Along Mississippi at Cape Girardeau   Opinions Differ as to Whether They il Withhold the Flood Waters.

Mississippi Levees May Be Wiped Oul   Death Toll Mounts Fe 10 as Floods Sweep Midwest

FLOOD WATERS HARASS WIDE MID-WEST AREA   May ‘Wipe Out’ Several Levees Along Mississippi River

River Levees — Endangered by Flood Waters   Only Slight Measure Of Relief in Flooded Area With Hundreds Forced From Homes

Situation Inc ngly Serious In Flood A  ALL LEVEES FROM ST. LOUIS TC CAPE GIRARDEAU MAY GIVE WA’

Fear All Levees Of Mississippi Are Doomed   Levees Protect Thousands Of Acres Of Rich Farm Lande

ears Levees From St. Louis: to Cape Girardeau to Break   Engineer Expresses Opinion as Crews Try to Check Fleods

Levees Strained On Mississipp!   Army Engineers. Fight To Prevent: Breach

Flood Waters Harass Wide Area In Mid-West States, Damage To Crops Is Heavy

A DROP TO 10 ABOVE    Severe Cold Wave for March  Sweeps Over Kansas

Sudden Cold Wave Coming   Snow May Accompany Drop As Low As 10 Degrees Above Tonight

Augsburg And Innsbruck Are Bomber Targets   Heavy Attacks On Important Bavarian Industrial Center By U.S. Fliers   BRENNER PASS LINK IS AGAIN BLASTED

Solons Institute Thorough Study Of Lend-Lease   Officials Disavow Report Powderpuffs And Beer Were Shipped Abroad

House Group Will Examine Lend-Lease   Foreign Affairs Committee Opens Hearings on Program

Iowa G. G. Pp. Leaders Gorm Anti-Isolation Blee Gor 1944 Campaign   Editors Earl Hall And Dor Berry In The Lead

Expect Republicans  To Form Post War —   Policy Association   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s ’ Special Correspondent

Yanks Raid Revel After RAF Blasts Nuriners. Heavily  American Daylight Attack Is Made In

OFFICIALS DISCUSS CIVIL SERVICE BILL   Police Department Measure Taken Up at Conference

OFFICIALS DISCUSS. ~~ CIVIL SERVICE BILI   Police Department Meas: ure. Taken Up. at > . >: Conference

Pe 231) Me coe  NIUE bce! SBR a CM = Oe a Se  rok Gin eds Soy  War At A Glance

Ask Senate To Aid Food For Starving   SENATORS GILLETTE AND TAFT WIN UNANIMOUS SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL EFFORT FAVORED BY HOOVER.   Committee Approves

Allies Raid Japan Bases   New Raids Are Made On Important Points

PACIFIC BASES OF NIPPONESE GET POUNDINC   TROOP POSITIONS UNDER ALLIED AIR ATTACK

Allies in Number Of Successful Raids Over Islands   U. §., British Strike Serious Blows At Japs in Pacific

Allied Planes Continue Heavy Raids in Pacific   Japanese Island Bases Blasted; Burma Blows Go On

Bombers Pound Japanese Bases   Positions Strafed, Two Nips Downer}

M’ARTHUR’S AIRMEN BOMB THREE TOWNS   Allied Plane, Intercepted on Raid by Two Japanese Ships, Shoots Them Both Down.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rome Poses Difficult Question For Allies Moving Up To Attack

The War Today   By DeWIT® MacKENZIE (Associated Press War Analyst)

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE  man hetasd Deas ar Analwai

: The War Today— Capture Of Rome Gives Allies Big \Tactical Problem: Avoiding Slaughter

SHOULD GERMANS DECIDE TO REMAIN IN ROME IT WOULD BE ITOUGH PROBI FM ALLIED FORCES

The War Today  eee  If Germans Defend Rome, Allies Will Be Faced With Problem.

A HITLER DECIDES TO HOLD OME IT WILL POSE TOUGH  PROBLEM: FOR ALLIED ARMIES   Allies Do: Nat Want toTake Eternal City by Force. and May By-Pass Rome In . Drive to . North—-Mack envis ; ae

Main Allied. Offensive Against Axis. In North Africa Believed Under Way

Nazi Traitor ‘IgReprieved   y Sentence Commuted Or oe Of His Execution

Stephan Is Given”  Reprieve   Nazi s Death Sentence Is Commuted  To Life Im prisonment,

LAUDS OHIO AS EXAMPLE OF TEAMWORK   Jones Says There Will Be Ample Food for Nourishing Diet Next Year

FOOD HEAD PRAISES OHIO OUTPUT EFFORT      Suggests That Other States Use Buckeye System

OHIO FARMERS ARE COMMENDED FOR WAR EFFORT   Food Administrator Says Achievements Example for Rest of Country   BICKERING IS CONDEMNED   Federal Agencies Are Not Planning General Program, Jones Declares

HELP TO RUSSIA STILL GROWING   Total of 5,800 Tanks and 4,600 Planes Shipped By Sea

LEND-LEASE AID TU RUSSIA GROWS   U. S. AND BRITAIN HAVE SENT 6,800 TANKS AND 4,600 PLANES TO ALLY.

FABLED RAINBOW SHINES AGAIN  Famous Division of Worl War I Inspires New Unit

Real Rainbow Greets New Rainbow Division ‘ Omen Of Last World War Seen Again For Second Unit In This War ;

Lucky Omen Follows Unit   Real Rainbow in Sky Inspires Members of New Rainbow Division

RAINBOW DIVISION  TO BE REACTIVATED  SECOND WORLD WAR WORLD WAR ONE OUTIT  MADE GREAT NAME AND DAINRNW WAC THERE

Big Bend Residents Are Asked To Report Cases Of Low-Flying Airplanes

HALF MILLION: AXIS PRISONERS HELD BY BRITISH   About 150,000 British Troops Are Prisoners Of Axis, It Is Disclosed

Rome Vessels Join Allied Fleet at Malta in Flight From Nazis   German Bombers Sink One Battleship Off Corsica

Expect Mine Asreement Soos   Union Officizl Doesn't Look for Any More Shutdowns

AGREEMENT ON MINE PROBLEMS NOW FORECASI      District Officials Predict Union and Operators Will Sign Contract Within Two Weeks   MINERS BACK ON JOB   One Union Local Presiden Says “I Don't Think There Will Be Any  More Shutdowns”

LEADERS SEE EARLY PACT IN COAL ROW   Feel Agreement Will Be Reached By June 20

Second Man Admits Charge Of Espionage.   Erwin Harry de Spretter, Accomplice of Lehmitz, Held in $50.000 Bail

Nazi Agent Admits Guill   FB! Says Information Was Given To German

Foreign Spy Admits Part in Nazi Plot   GERMAN - EDUCATED CONSULTING ENGINEER CALMLY TELLS COURT HOW HE FED NAZIS AMERICAN SECRETS.   Lehmitz’ Associate

Admits Selling U. S. War Secrets   Second Man Pleads Guilty of Espionage

RULING ON ROME NOT DETERMINED   Move Is Made To Declare Other Cities “Open” To Escape Bombings.

ROME NOT YET OPEN” CITY IN U. S, EYES   Hull Says Some Discussion Has Been Held, but Status of Capital Has Not Been Decided.

STATE DEPARTMENT  GHANGES ARE SEEN   President is Studying Plans for Reorganization——-Two Under-Sec retaries Probable.

FDR STUDYING PLANS FOR  REORGANIZING STATE DEPT.    One Idea Calls for Appointment of Tw Undersecretaries

LUFTWAFFE’S ILLS EXPLAINED   “It’s Mathematics” Says Gen Arnold of Army Air Force

Too Much Need For NaziPlanes   Gen. Arnold Answers Oft-Asked Question

Is Luftwaffe Really Weak?   ‘Matter of Mathematics’ Explains General

Tells What Is Wrong With Luftwaffe   General Arnold Says Mathematics of Dividing German Airforce Explains Its Present Weakness

What's The Matter With The Luftwaffe? Matfer Of Mathematics Says General H. H. Arnold

What’s Wrong With Nazi Air Force?  +*+¢+¢+¢ *+¢+4¢4 +4  Just A Simple Matter Of Mathematics. General Arnold .. Out

2,000 MILES WITHOUT PILOT   Plane Flies Alone Afte1 Crew Abandons Ship

IN MASON city      % Motored U. ». Airplane Wanders 2,000 Miles Without Dilat ar Cray

Pilotless Plane Hits  Mountains   Abandoned By Six Crew  " Members And 2 Other: Aboard — Freak Crash Fatal To Several

Plane Roams 2,000 Miles: None Aboard   Abandoned by Crew And Two Passengers Off Florida Coast

Lewis Has A Decision ‘Jo Make Soon   Maybe It’s Time To Quit Saving Labor Chief’s Face

WASHINGTON TODAY  Lewis Has Big Choice to Make  ee BW BETEB BRaAL

BRITISH 1ST ARMY. STORMS LAST BIG. BARRIER TO TUNIS   Land Forces Pound Closer To Bizerte From West And Southwest— Planes Join Assault » Of City 

Docks, Wharves, Shipyards and Materiel Ablaze as Yankees, French Push Closer to Base   Air Force Shoots Down 11/Planes Including Six Ttransports—-More Prison-. ers Are Taken—Heavy Fighting Ahead_

Infantry and Armor Thrown Against City   British, Meanwhile, Capture At Point of Bayonet Strategic Hills Before Tunic

ALLIED GUNS, AIRCRAFT SET HARBOR FIRES   Ground Forces Pound Closer from Two Directions on Trapped Enemy.

GERMANS WITHDRAWING BIZERTE AND INDICATE FI STAND WILL BE MADE. AT F

U.S. FATHER DRAFT CERTAIN   KILDAY BILL TO HAVE SMALL EFFECT ON PLAN

Kilday Bill May Delay Induction OF ILS Fathers   Act, Passed by ° House, Would Have Little Effect

HOLDS KILDAY BLL NO CURB ‘ONINQUCTIO   Designed to Only “Postpone Drafting of Fathers a Short Time.   LODGE SAYS MARRIED MEN WILL BE NEEDES

Say Kilday Bill Will Have Little Effect On Drafting  Of Able Bodied Men

KILDAY BILL 10 HAVE NO SPECIAL EFFECT ON DRAF]   Draft-Age, Able-Bodied Men  May Expect to Be tn Uni~forms By December 31 - According to McNutt.   THREE CATEGORIES WILL BE DEFERRED   Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers to Retain 3-A Classifications Until Childless Men Are Exhausted.

Kilday Measure To Have Little Effect On Draft   House Gives Approval To Deferring Fathers By 143 To 7 Votes

Experts Say Kilday Bill Would Have Little, if Any, Effect on Draft Plans

FLYNN ANXIOUS TO GIVE OWN DEFENSE   Actor Will Get Chane: Next Week

ITALIAN SPIRIT ONE OF APATHY   Initial Surprise Over Invasion Passes Quickly; Italian People See No Hope Of Early Peace.

ITA  LY IS RESIGNED    Population Seems to Realize the Country Will Feel War  ;

ITALTANS FAIL GET EXCITED DUE ALLIED INVASION MAINLAND  FIRST REACTION TO ENTRY OF TROOPS WAS ALMOST INDIFFERENCE

Apathy in Italy Over Invasion   Rome Unstirred by Landing of Allies

Success Crowns Tough Mission of Yankee  ‘Chute Troops on Unfamiliar Soil of Sicik

PARACHUTISTS STARTED FIGHT AFTER LANDING   Completes Mission Behind Lines On  Sicilian Soil

Paratroopers Do Good Job   Never Gave Ground In Slashing, Bitter Attacks On Crack Nazi Troops.

U. S. Paratroops Complete Brilliant, Tough Mission In Sicily Invasion

Correspondent Jumps With Paratroops American Paratroopers  Meet All Expectations In Campaign Of Sicily

AMERICAN PARATROOPS FIGHT LIKE BAND OF ROBIN HOODS   ‘John Thompson of  - Chicago Tribune Gives Eye-Witness Account o American’s Fighting

Deadly American Parachute Troops Perform Behind Axis Lines. in Sicily

Island Invasion Spearheaded By Paratroop Units   Reporter Tells of Fighting On Tough Mission

U. § PARACHUTE  COMBAT TEAM DOES  JOB ASSIGNED IT TOUGH SICILIAN INVASIO!  / MISSION CARRIED OUT OWITH RRITTTANCE

Parachute Troops. Landed at Wrong Place Fight Way Out With Grenades and Rifles

U. S. Parachute Unit Completes Tough Mission   Fights Crack German And Italian Troops, Killing Hundreds

spearhead Invasion of Sicily American Paratroopers Battle Crack German, Italian Forces

Governors Broughton and Darden Issue Joint Statement Today; Action With Respect To Holiday Has Attained Good Results.

Final 20 Minutes Of Car  Captain Tells Story Of Liscome Bay’s Sinking

Men Die, Ignoring Wounds, in Efforts to Save Comrades   Tales of Heroism From  Carrier Liscome Bay Sunk November 24

Sinking Of U. S. S. Liscome Bay Was Gilded ‘With Heroic Actions Of Crew Members

a i nee   Many Acts Of Heroism By Men Of Navy As Aircraft Carrier Goes Down in Flames

Heroic Deeds Marked Endo! Liscome Bay   Survivors Tell Story of Torpedoing of Big Aircraft Carrier

HARROWING EXPERIENCES OF LAST 20 MINUTES BEFORE ESCORT CARRIER USS LISCOME BAY SUNK TOLD BY OFFICER   Capt. John C. Crommelin, Jr., of Montgomery, Ala., Himself Badly Injured Tells of Sinking of Ship by Jap Torpedo Off Makin Island, Nov. 24

Carrier's Men Save Buddies   Many Give Own Lives To Rescue Comrades From Blazing Ship

TAAPAYE RO MUI MAKE RETURN DESPITE PLANS   Pay-As-You-Go P x oposal Won't Be Acted Upon Until After Deadline

Soviet Army Forced to Give Up Korosten   Reds Retreat Before Kiev Bulge But Drive On in White Russia

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Soviet Forces Are Driven From Strategic Korosten By Furious Nazi Assaults

REDS UNRAINTAN ARMY LOSES VITAL RAILWAY JUNCTION   Fierce German Counter-Attack Forces Withdrawal From Korosten, 85 Miles  Northwest of Kiev.   SECOND IMPORTANT RETREAT BY SOVIETS   Muscovites Push Forward at Dnieper Bend and Score_ Fresh Advances in White Russia.

KOROSTEN FALLS UNDER PRESSURE "FROM GERMANS   Loss Of City Is Second Intportant Retreat For Rus sians Recently      SOVIETS ADVANCING IN OTHER SECTORS

REDS WITHDRAW FROM JUNCTION   Soviet Troops Forge On In White Russia; Many Killed

Russians Admit Korosten Lost   Advances Made In Five-Other Areas

REDS DRIVEN BACK . INKOROSTEN AREA   Soviets, However, Pressed Forward in White

Soviets Lose Rai! Center Of Novosten   Reds Press Forwarc In White Russia, Dnieper Bend

REDS DRIVEN BACK INKOROSTEN AREA   Soviets, However, Pressed Forward in White Russia

Russians Admit Korosten Lost   Advances Made In Five Other Areas  M@e YAMTS MW TONS

Russian Army Loses Hold  On Korosten   But Press Forward In Bend of Dnieper And in White Russia  4.000 GERMANS FATT

German Assault Forces Russians From Korostfen   Nazis Regain Rail Junc tion; Reds Advance in White Russia

American Army Drives Ahead In Mountains   Position of Foe Along Canal Line Reported Imperiled

NAZIS FAIL IN HEAVY COUNTER DRIVES ON LINE   Eisenhower. Watches; Vital Junction of -Sparanise Captured

Drive By Allies Imperils Positior Of Nazi Troops   American Bombers Attack Targets In Southern Austria

Violent Battles Develop Along Italian Front   Fifth Army Drives Three Miles Forward; Captures Rail Center

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY TAKES SPARANISE.    American and British North of Stoutly Defend ed Regia Canal Line

Allied Advance   American, British Units Beat Off Counterattacks

Imperil Germans Near Coast by Taking of Sparanise in Determined Advance?   AUSTRIA RAIDED   Big Bombers from Italy Blas! Targets Far Afield, Mitchells Hit Tirana Airfeld

Clark Slashes 3 Miles Ahead   VIOLENT MOUNTAIN BATTLES FLARE ON FRONT OF FIFTH ARMY AS YANKS CAPTURE SPARANISE; EISENHOWER WATCHES NEW ALLIED ADVANCE

Fifth Army Takes Vital Junction From Bitterly Battling Nazis In Italy

VITAL JUNCTION FALLS IN NEW 3-MILE DRIVE   Gain Imperils German Defenses in Area  Of Advance

Railroad Center Taken by Allies   Fifth Army Advances Despite Fierce Mountain : Fighting   ENEMY 4N A POCKET   Montgomery’s Eighth Army Pours Across the Trigo. no River

VIOLENT MOUNTAIN BATTLES FLARED ON OTH ARMY FRONT   Was Result of Allied Drive of 3 Miles That Took Sparanise:   A RAILROAD JUNCTION   American and British Troops North of the Stoutly Defended Regia Canal.

‘Mountain Clashes In Italy Follow Capture Of Vital Rail  And Road Junction Of Sparanise—American And British Troops In Position To Imperil Nazi Defenses —Montgomery’s Men Pour Into Enlarged Bridgehead Across Trigno River

Allied Drive Gains Vital  Rail Junction   Gen. Eisenhower Watche Fifth Army Advance; Halt German Attacks

NAZIS FIGHT TO KEEP OUT OF A POCKET   Three-Mile Advance by Fifth Army to Road Junction Near the West Coast Imperils Enemy Position in That Area.

Three-Mile Gain Is Made — By 5th Army   Rail And Road Junction Of Sparanise Seized As Gen. Eisenhower Inspects His Troops

CAPTURE RAIL, ROAD CENTER ON WAY TO COAST   Turn Nazi Counter-Attacks Back, Eisenhower Tours Front in Italy

Sparanise Seized In 3-Mile Drive; See Nazis Trapped   Report. Violent Mountain Fighting Flares On Fifth Army Front; Entire Tempo Of Battle Stiffens

Nazis Face Entrapment  By 5th Army   Allies Advancing North Of Reggia Canal Line in Italy

Fifth Army Front Scene Of Violent Mountain Battle:   Advance of American Forces, Witnessed By General Eisenhower, Places Troops North of Stoufly Defended Regia Canal   BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS TRIGNO RIVER IS ENLARGED

th Army Seizes Vital Junction In Rome Drive   Nazi Counter-Attack: Repulsed By Yank, British Forces

NAZIS MAY BE CAUGHT IN POCKET   Trigno River Is Crossed By British: Airfields In Albania Attacked; Germans Raid Naples

NAZL POSITIONS “ARE IMPERILEI   Violent Mountain Battles Raging On American Army’s Front   TEMPO INCREASES   ‘Germans Facing Entrapment Unless They Quit Canal Defense

VIGLENT MOUNTAIN  BATTLES FLARES ON  FIFTH ARMY FRONT GERMAN COUNTERAT TACKS FAIL AND THEY WERE DRIVEN OFF

EISENHOWER ON TOUR OF FRONT TO WATCH GAINS   Clark's Forces Push Ahead 3 Miles — Battles in Italian Mountains

NEW BATTLES BEING FOUGHT AY TH ARN   Allies Advance Three Miles and Take Rail Town of Syaranise.

Yanks Gain  Italy; Fierce Batlle Rages   Fifth Army Seizes Junction City; Sritish Menace Nazi Defense

IMPERIL NAZI POSITIONS ON ROUTE TO ROME   Enemy Counterattacks Frustrated; British Pour Across Trigno River

Allies Win Rail and Road  Junction; Menace Enemy At Regia Defense Canal

Regia Canal Defeat Puts. Nazisin Hole   Yank Troops Take Sparanise Junction; + Bill Ficht Racine

ALLIES GAIN GROUND NEAR REGIA CANAL   Germans Launch Offensive But To No Avail

Clark Drives Behind Cana Line In Italy   Eisenhower Watches Yanks Gain Three Miles, Take Sparanise Road Hub   8TH SPANS RIVER   Montgomery's Men Hi Foe Beyond Trigno, En large Bridgehead

Violent Battles Flare Mountains; Americans Take Strategic Junction

FIFTH ARMY Ih BITTER BATTLE   Nazi Positions Are Periled By New Allied  Advances

Big American  Bombers Blast South Austria, Albanian Fiele   Clark’s Men Smash Back Four Counterattacks In 24 Hours

VITAL RAIL TOWN OF SPARANISE TAKEN BY ALLIES   BEAT BACK 4 NAZI COUNTER-ATTACKS TO MAKE NEW GAINS

Allies Seize Key Junction   Sparanise Taken, Violent Battles Rage in Mountains

Violent F ight Raging Five  Mountaintons   Germans Must Retreat or Face Fan teen mest

Key Town Of Saranise In  Allied Hand:   3-Mile Advance Made; British Push In East Enlarges Breach In Trigno River Line

HARD MOUNTAIN FIGHT ENGAGES THE FIFTH ARMY   Vital Rail And Road Junction Of Sparanise Captured; Nazi Positions In Peril; Eighth Army Makes  Gains.

Violent Fighting Rages As Germans Battle To Escape   Enemy Counterattacks Hurled Back Repeatedly By Clark's Forces. Eighth Army Pours Into Enlarged Trigno Riv: er Bridgchead.

5th Army Gain Threatens To Pocket Germans   Eisenhower Watches The Capture Of Key Com munications Town.

SERVICES IN THE PARK   Sermon Sunday Evening Will Be Given by Dr. O. E. Allison

MASSILLON STORES ARE OPEN THURSDAY NIGHT.—AD   CIFTS OF FURNITURE

PULPWOOD PLEA MADE BY LEGION   ‘Cut-a-Cord’ Is Armistice Day Slovan

Diplomatic Kettle Boils Since Parley   Turkey's Intentions Remain Enigma; Opinion Varied

Allies Map Out Spring Attacks   e Half Dozen Armies ~ Ready Along, South  1

SPRING DRIVES PLANNED FOR SOUTH EUROPE   More Than Half Dozen Assaults Will Be Launched

SEE ALLIED PLANS FOR SPRING DRIVE   GROUND WORK APPEARS UNDER WAY FOR ATTACK ON GERMANY FROM SOUTH.

Plan For Three-Front Drive On Nazis May Be Under Way   Diplomatic Activity Most Intense Since the Fall o * France—Turkey’s Intentions Re: . main an Eniqma

Plans for Spring Offensives From South by Half Dozen Armies Reported Under Way

PRICE FIXING TEST DOCKETED   Supreme Court Will Rule On Constitutionality Of OPA Program

ALLIED CONCLAVE ENTERS 2ND WEEK   Observers Report Important Progress Made Toward Post-War Plans

Tri-Partite Conf. Enters Second Week   All Foreign Ministers in Complete Accord

Berlin Panicky Ir Air Raid Threat   Hamburg Refugees Scare Citizens With Stories

BERLIN IS PANICKY UPON HEARING. OF OTHER NAZI RAIDS   Mass Exodus From German Capital Is Underway— Hamburg Refugees Frightened

Nirs. Sam Sinith’s Rites Tuesday 4M.   Well-knowa Woniun-Sue cumbs to lleart Attael ~~ at Allenton.

Mrs. Sam Smith’s Rites Tuesday A.M   Well-known Wor oman Sue cumbs to Heart Attach at Allenton.

Tokyo Has Staff Picked For Invasion Of U. S. A.  Korean Leader Declares

Peace Terms To Be  Offered To China   Leaders For Invasion Of America Hove Been Selected By Japanese Imperial War Council

PREDICTS PEACE OFFER TO CHINA   MOREAN LEADER SAYS JAPAN WILL SEND INVASLON ARMY AGAINST U. S.

Korean Leader Claims Japs Plan China Peace Offer; U. S. Invasion

Korean Sees Early Plan For Peace With Chinese, Claims U.S. Invasion Plans Manned

Korean Tells House Japs Will Offer ‘China Separate Peace   Leader Who Foretold Pearl Harbor Attack Declares Tojo Has Picked Officers to Lead Invasion on U. $.; Congressmen Apologize

Hungary Turns. Down Axis Plea   Won't Send Troops Ta: Defend RaAllaAnc

Hungary Refuses fo Aid ‘Axis in Balkans, Also ‘Withdrawiig From Russia

Hungary Turns. Down Axis Plea   Won't Send Troops To Defend Balkans

HUNGARY CALLS SOLDIERS HOME   Axis Demand For More Troops Refused By Premier Kallay

U.S. Pacific Raiders Hit Enemy Hard   Both Kiska And Munda Bases Are Damaged In Series Of Bombing Attacks

§ MORE RAIDS MADE AGAINST KISKA BASE   Solomons Base Of Japanese Also Pounded

AMERICANS BOMB KISKA ISLAND   Runways, Gun Emplace ments And Main Camp Blasted Monday

Foe Hits U.S. Base at Milne   AMERICAN GENERAL SAYS AIR POWER IS KEY TO PACIFIC WAR

FARM LABOR NEEDS NOW UNDER WICKARD   Operating Responsibility For Reeruiting And Placing Hetp Given To Secretary By WMC

HITLER'S OIL SOURCE HIT HARD BY U. S. AIRMEN   Telling Blow Struck’ Against Rumanian Fields.

May Have Immobilized Half of the Nazi War Machine.  TELLING BLOW ON HITLER’S ARMIES  Twenty Liberators Shot Down While Over Their Target.

Renewed Allied Air Assault Brings New Peace Demands from Italians

ICKES DENIES. LEWIS GIVEN ANY PROMISE   GOVERNMENT COAL CZAR BAYS LABOR BOAHD HAS JTURISDICTION—EX PENDS WORK WEEK 

Ickes Denies « Any Promise Made To Lewis   Says Wage Crisis Must Be Submitted To W. LB. Jurisdiction

Campaign in Sicily Nears Completion   Allies Expect to Stamp Out Resistance Within Few Days

FREDENDALL IN MEMPHIS   Former Commander In Tunisia Back To Teach Tactics  ; ' t

‘Empire Day’ Loses Meaning in Italy  Fascist Leaders  Worrying How to

Republican Holds Lead In Kentucky   Willis Victory Looms As Ballot Counting Nears Completion

Margin for Willis Now Increasing   Precincts Still to Report on Governor Race Normally Republican

Simeon S$. Willis Leads Donaldson In Hectic Race   Majority 5,616, 435 Precincts Out

.0.P. LEADS ~ IN KENTUCKY   Willis Increases Margin Over Democratic Candidate Donaldson

GAINS 1,000 VOTES   In Kentucky Willis Continues To Pile Lead Over — Opponent. _

Republican - . Holds Lead.  in Kentucky   ‘Willis Increases. Margin in Governor's. Race;Democrats. Lead in Other Contests: :

REPUBLICANS IN CONFIDENT MOOD AFTER TRIUMPHS   Leaders See Trend Toward Defeat Of New Deal Next Year   FARLEY SAYS PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED

WILLIS HOLDS ADVANTAGEIN KENTUCKY POLL   Republican Candidate For Governor Leading Democratic Opponent By 5.238 Votes

Willis Increases Lead i in Kentucky Governor’s Race   Kentuckians Haunt Court Houses as Votes Are Counted

Kentucky Info GOP Column   Republican Candidate Pulls Ahead of Democrat

Republican Appears Elected Governor In Kentucky as Lead Increases, Adding to Major Victories of Party

(OP LEAD GROWS IN KENTUCKY   WILLIS 4,933 VOTES AHEAD OF DONALDSON IN GUBERNATORIAL RACE.

GOP Leading in Kentucky Vote  Willis Apparently Elected Governor

WILLIS AHEAD IN KENTUCKY COUN   Republican For Governor : Now 5398 Over Democrat Who Is Falling Behind.

Willis Leads in Kentucky  Has 5,238 Lead With 306 Districts Te 2. LicascdA 

GOP LEADS IN KENTUCKY RAGE   Willis Has 5,398 Lead With 290 Precinets Still Out

Willis Holds Slight Edge   Kentucky. May Get Republican Governor

Republican Candidate Leads Kentucky Race   Willis Tallies 5,616 Jump On Donaldson Fo Governor Of Blue Grass State, With 435 Precincts Out

Willis Piles Up Lead in Kentucky   Republican Wins Governorship For First Time Since 1931].

WILL EASE RATIONING OF FARM MACHINERY   Regulations Covering Purchase O: Many Items Will Be Relaxed Next Year

NAZIS EXECUTE: FIFTY   Residents of Belgrade Put.to Death ! By German Troops

Allied Convoy Battles Subs In Four-Day Attack   At Least Two Nazi Subs Ar@ Sunk—Convoy Suffers ‘Some’ Losses   LONDON REPORTS CONVOY ARRIVES   Thirty-Five Separate UBoat Attacks Fought Off By Convoy Ships  And Planes a

eninsula fs Only Escape For Men At Kuban— —By Hamilton W. Faror  Nazis Ready To Fight Hard To Keep Crimea

Russian Power Demonstrated At Taganrog   Retreat of Nazis Endangers Crimea

FLYNN'S NAME IS WITHDRAWN   FDR's First Outright Rebuff Comes Over  Nomination

WITHDRAWAL IS REQUESTED BY EDWARD FLYNN   Ke xpect Roosevelt Wil Take Back His Nomination

President's Action Halts Senate Fight   Solons Had Been Ready to Refuse Confirmation

Edward Flynn Nomination Is Called Back   Request Of Nominee For Australian Post That Name Be Withdrawn Is Accepted by Roosevelt

Flynn’s Name Is Withdrawn By President   Accedes to Request of Former Chairman,  FDR Says

F. R. Withdraws Nomination Of Flynn As Envoy   President Backs Up Tc Avoid Political Scrap On  Senate Floor.

President Withdraws Nomination Of Flynn as Envoy to Australia. At Request of Ex-Demo.Chairman

OPPOSITION CAUSES WITHDRAWAL FLYNN NOMINATION MONDAY  ADMINISTRATION’S FIRST MAJOR REBUFF IN NEW CONGRESS

FDR Suffers First Rebuff In New Congress--Is Forced To Withdraw Flynn’s Nomination

FLYNN’S NAME IS RECALLED FROM SENATE   F. D. R. Reluctantly Complies With Request by Australian Post Nominee That Such Action Re Taken.

Roosevelt Withdraws Flynn Name   Acts at Personal Request of Nominee for Post in AustraHa

Heeds Request of His Nominee for Diplomatic Place   Action Avoids Bitter Political Fight on Floor of Senate

F, D, R. ACCEPTS WITHDRAWAL OF EDWARD FLYNN   President ‘‘Reluctantly’ Complies With Request That Nomination For Minister To Australia Be Cancelled.

Flynn’s Name Is Withdrawn By President   Nominee’s Own 3 Action Is Major , Rebuff to F.D.R,

FLYNN'S NAME WITHDRAWN BY PRESIDENT   Action Taken Amid Indications of Rejection by Senate ~   NOTATION IS’ SENT BY THE PRESIDENT   ‘Joseph C. Grew Being Mentioned for Austra-_ lian Post ’

FORMAL NOTICE GIVEN SENATE   President Campties With Ex-Demo Leader’s Request ‘Reluctantly.’   ‘CALLED MAIOR SETBACK

FDR Reluctantly Grants Withdrawa Flynn s Nominatior   President Complies With Regret To Request By Edward J. Flynn That His Name Be Withdrawn As Nominee For United States Minister To Australia

FLYNN’S NAME IS WITHDRAWN   Fight Over Minister to Australia Ended By President’s Action

FLYNN NOMINATION WITHORAWN BY FOR   Heated Partisian Battle Ir Congress Avoided

‘No Debate on  Flynn in Senate   President Roosevelt, at Flynn's Request, Takes Back  Aus tralian Appointment

President Notifies The Senate   Message Follows Nominee’s Request To Quit Fight

FR WITHDRAWS NAME OF FLYNN   President Drops Nomination of Former Party Chief in Face of Opposition

Almost C rain ela  Senate Vote      Named by F.D:R To Be Minister: Ta Australia ° --

FIGHT.OVER FLYNN ENDS   WITHDRAWAL 19 REGARDED AS _. FIRST MAJOR DEFEAT FOR ROOSEVELT IN .NEW CONGRESS ~-

FR. Withdraws Nomination Of Flynn as U.S. Minister   President Accedes to Request of Former Party Chief as Senate Opposition Mounts

FOR WITHDRAWS FLYNN NOMINATION   Says He Reluctantly Com plied With Request on Ap pointment to Australia

SENATORS AGREE APPOINTEE FACED CERTAIN DEFEAT   Roosevelt Acts “Reluctant. ly” on Flynn’s Request; Victory for Decency, Bridges Declares.

FDR RELUCTANTLY’ COMPLIES WITH ELYNN'S REQUEST   Senate Receives Formal Withdrawal of Flynn’s Nomination To Be United States Minister To Australia; Follows Mounting Opposition.

F.D.R. WITHDRAWS HIS APPOINTMENT   Flynn Action Is Taken Reluctantly.

Avoids A Fight With The Senate   Sen. Bridges Declares Flynn Would Have Been Rejected   ACTION VICTORY “KOR INTEGRITY”

EDWARD FLYNN NOMINATION IS WITHDRAWN   FDR Reluctantly Bows to Party Coalition

EDWARD J, FLYNN’S NAME WITHDRAWN BY THE PRESIDENT   Formal Withdrawal Was Received by the Senate This Morning.   SENT LETTER TO FLYNN   Mr. Roosevelt Said He Was Reluctantly Complying With Request.

NOMINATION OF aan FLYNN I$ WITHDRAWN   n Face of Mounting Sen ate Oppostion to Australian Minister  ia by. Roosevelt Come:   FLYNN PROPOSED IT   Marks Administration's First Major Rebuff By New Congress;.Grew  Mentioned for Post

FDR Withdraws Flynn As Envoy   Senate Opposition I: Cause Of Action

FDA WITHORAWS FLYNN CHOICE   Marks Administration’s First Outright Rebuff From New Congress; Acts at Nominee’s Request

ROW OVER ED FLYNN 1S AVERTED    Roosevelt. Reluctantly  Withdraws ‘Nomination: at “the New: Yorker’ s. Request   SENATE-DEBATE ele SCHEDULED. TODAY   Prosecution of War ‘Is Above All Else, the “Form: er Democratic Chief Says

Flynn’s Name Is Withdrawn By President   Administration Suffers First Outright Rebuff  From New Congress

I'lynn Out As Nominee For Minister Jot   President “Reluctantly Aecepts Withdrawal Of For. mer Demo Chief.   ‘VICTIM OF CAMPAIGN’

TAKES ACTION UPON REQUEST FROM NOMINEE   Avoids Bitter Fight in Senate; Bridges Sees Victory

FORMER DEMO HEAD ASKED FDR TO ACT   Confirmation  By Senate Was Doubtful

Expresses _ Regret : ‘Over Action “Taken. ‘to Pre- vent Senate Ficht.”   OPPOSITION IN >: SENATE. GROWING

COMPLIES WITH NOTE RECEIVED FROM NOMINEE   FLYNN GIVES FULL STATEMENT ON WHY HE MADE REQUEST

FOR Withdraws” Flynn Selection With Reluctance   Answers Nominee’s Plea To Prevent Political Fight On Senate’ Floor

President Drops Flynn's Name With Reluctance   Nomination Is Withdrawn As Opposition Rolls Up  In Senate

FDR Withdraws Flynn Proposal   PRESIDENT WILL NOT PUSH NAME OF POLITICIAN

FLYNN'S NAME IS WITHDRAWN BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Complys With Request Of His Apnointee

Flynn’s Name Is Withdrawn By Roosevelt   , Grew Mentioned * As Successor To N. Y. Politician

Flynn Is Withdrawn By F. D.R.   Former Democratic chiet gives up fight for minister’s post

Ed Flynn. Withdraws   President: Yields to Senate Fight Against Former Party Chairman

President Withdraws  Flynn's Nomination  ‘Reluctantly Complies,’ And Controversy Ends

FORMER DEMO LEADER WOULD “AVOID DEBATE”   No New Nominee For Post Submitted By Roosevelt.

Nomination Of Edward Flynn Is Withdrawn   Roosevelt ‘Reluctantly Complies With Request Of Former Demo Head To Avoid Scrap

FAILS TO PLACE EX-PARTY CHIEF INENVOY’S POST   Executive Suffers First Major Defeat at Hands of New Congress

President Acts on Request from Nominee, Who Says He Wishes to Avoid Senate Fight   MAJOR SETBACK   Bridges Declares Senale Would Have Rejected Flynn by Overwhelmina Vote

NOMINATION OF FLYNN WITHDRAWN   Action Taken At Request of Nominee

Flynn’s Name Is Withdrawn By President   He Reluctantly Complies With Request in Face of Senate Opposition.   Had Been Nominated  As Australian Envoy

Roosevelt ‘Withdraws Nomination  Of Flynn   President Acts On Request Of Nominee For Thinlamatic Poet

F.D.R. WITHDRAWS FLYNN NOMINATION   Action Taken as Senate Op position to Confirmation Mounted   FIRST MAJOR SETBACK

WITHDRAWAL OF FLYNN. SETTLES PONPRESS FEUD   Developments Pointed To Rejection of FDR’s Nomination   PROBERS EYE MANPOWER   ower House Begins Week Of Stremuous Activity .

Nomination of Edward Flynn Is Withdrawn   President Roosevelt Acts Upon Request of Flynn as Senate Opposition Mounts

ROOSEVELT WITHDRAWS FLYNN NAME   Nomination Is Withdrawn at Flynn's Request

Hlynns Name s Recalled   ... at Nominee's Insistence   FDR Reluctantly Agrees Withdraw New Yorker's Envoy Appointment

Flynn Quits Under Attack   F, R, Complies With Request to Withdraw Name As Ambassador to Australie

FOR WITHDRAWS NOMINATION OF EDWARD J. FLYNA   Requested to Do So By Prospective Minister to Australia.

Flynn’s Name Withdrawn  From Senate   Roosevelt Complies With Request After Bitter Fight Threatened Over Former’s Confirmation

ACTION TAKEN. 10 PREVENT PARTISAN DEBATE ‘IN SENATE   President Does..Not Submit -New Nominee To Fill Post. Of Minister To Australia

Nomination Of Flynn Ts Withdrawn   Action ls Taken By FDR At Request Of Appointee

FLYNN WILL NOT BE ENVOY   FDR Asks Name With. drawn, Fearing Row on House Floor

REQUEST FOR ACTION MADE BY MR. FLYNN   Partisan Political Debate In Senate Is Prevented

Nomination of Edward Flynn  Is Withdrawn   President Heeds Request To Avoid Controvers) In Senate

One-Third Of Draftees Will  Serve In Navy      Rapid Expansion of United States Navy Calls For 586,000 More Men

Fathers Needed For Expanded U.S. Navy Forces   Demands of Army Slackening at Comparable Pace

Navy Gets Most. OFL Drafted Men   Contributes fo Draft of Fathers

NAVY DEMANDS FOR MEN INCREASE AS ARMY NEEDS LOWER   Contributes To Approaching Draft Of Fathers — To Expand SevenOcean Fleet

Heavier Manpower Needs Of Navy One Reason For The Drafting Of Fathers

NAVY NEEDS ADD T0 DRAFT REQUIREMENTS   Third of Month’s Quota Goes to Naval Branch

STALIN 10 GET NOTE FROM U, 8.   Davies Carries Message On His New Mission To Moscow

AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST ITALY IS WAGED VIGOROUSLY   Targets in Pisa Pounded by Fortresses Making 1,000Mile Trip—Brit Warships Hammer Calabria Area

Yanks Step Up Aerial Attacks Against Italy   Pisa Heavily Plastered; Many Other Targets In Widespread Assaults.

‘AMERICAN FLYING ~ FORTRESSES POUND — TALY’S AIRFIELDS   Railway Lines and Aircraft Factories at Pisa Also Were Attacked.   1000-MILE ROUND TRIP   The Americans Also Rushed the Aerial Offensive Against Italy.

Allied Airmen Stepping Up Italian Raids   Strike From North Africa And From Middle East At Rail Lines, Airfields

FLYING FORTS BLAST PISA’S RAILS, PLANTS   British Warships Bombard Coastal  Batteries in Dayligh! on Italian en   SALERNO BLASTED   American, Brilish, Canadian Airmen Strafe Other Italian Rail, Factory Centers

Pisa Bombed By U.S. Forts   Fliers Careful to Spare Leaning Tower

Flying Forts Hammer At Italy Again   Railway Lines Targets For All Sorts Of Planes

Press Aerial Blows oa Italy  Fortresses Make 1,000-Mile Round . Frip Ratd

Soviet Armies Continue Drive   Red Forces Approach Smolensk Area

Italian City of Pisa Is Bombed   Air Drive Against Italy Continues

Africa-Based Fortresses Fly 1000 Miles to Pound at Pisa   Engage Coast Batteries

U.S, FLIERS CONTINUE TQ HIT ITALIAN RAILS   Also Blast Airfields, Attack Plane Plant at Pisa

PISA POUNDED, RAILJUNGTION ~HITBY AIRMED   Flying Fortresses Make 1,000 Mile Round Trip to Plaster liaiian Railway Lines

AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST ITALIAN MAINLAND PRESSED  FLYING FORTRESSES AND OTHER BOMBERS BAST “MIMER OTIS POINTS ~

Pisa Hammered  By U.S. Forts ‘Planes From Africa Hit : Rails, Airfields

Flying Forts Pound af Italy   Bomb Railway Lines, Airfields and Plane Plant at Pisa

YANKS BOMB TARGETS AT PISA, ITALY   Flying 1,000 Miles Round Trip, Fortress Airmen Blast Railway Lines, Airfields and an Aircraft Plant.

Allied Airmen Stepping Up ltalian Raids   Strike From North Africa And From Middle East At

AIRMEN RENE ITALIAN RAIDS   American Flying Forts Make 1,000 Mile Trip to Biast Targets.

AFRICAN BASED BOMBERS RAID PLANT AT PISA   U. S. Fortresses Carry Out 1,000Mile Day Attack

U.S. Forts Bomb Railway Lines, Pisa War Plant   Fwo Britich Battleships Join In Daylight Assault On Italian Mainland

ITALIAN AREAS AGAIN POUNDED   American Fortresses From Northwest African Bases Pound Pisa and Other Vital Points.

U. 8. BOMBERS HIT AIRFIELDS, PLANTS AT PISA   2 British Battleships Pound Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy

BATTLE AGAINST ITALY PRESSED HARD BY ALLIES   Railway Lines, Airfields And Factories Bombarded

Giving Dinner for Guests Will Be Real Problem Under Meat Rations

GIVING DINNER IS NO SNAP NOW   Guests May Have _ to Bring Their Own Meat.   SANDWICHES ? YES, IF READY-MADE

Giving a Dinner for Guests To Be Difficult Problem Under Rationing

DINNER PARTY?  WELL B.Y.0.M   Otherwise It'll Bé Very Difficult Under Rationing

Hitler's Scare-Talk Attempt To Whip Followers Into Line  Berlin Bombings Give It Significance

MACKENZIE SEES RELATION BETWEEN ‘TRIPARTITE: HEADS: MEETING AND ADOEF HITLER'S RECENT SPEECH   Fuehrer Attempting to Whip Followers into Line With Tales of Doom If They Capitulate to the Alls.e  * 4s

The War Today   Hitler's Scare-talk Linked T., Three-nower Conference

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE ‘(Associated Press War Analvyat)

The War Today— Hitler’s Doom Talk Seen As Attempt To Keep Germans Whipped Into Line

‘SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP IN HITLER’S SCARE TALK AND NEW REPORTS BIG THREE CONFERENCE

Board For  Veterans Is Nominated   Five Men Appointed By Governor Goodland Fo Direct Program Of Rehabilitation

American Fiférs Smash Foggia Airdrome, 10 Other Italian Fields, Railways

RAIDERS SPREAD RUIN AT FOGGIA: DOWN 26 PLANES   Italian Airfields Attacked From Low Levels by Fighters, Then Blasted by Bombers,   FLEEING SOLDIERS ARE MACHINE-GUNNED   Axis Thrown Into Confusion by Unorthodox Assault— City’s Railroad Yards Wrecked.

Foggia Airdrome Badly Smashed In Great Raid   Americans Attack From Low Level

Planes Open Ruthless Air Attack   Strange Tactics Take Foe by Surprise As Airmen Skip at Low Level to Devastate Vital Airfields, Railyards

U.S. BOMBERS SPREAD RUIK UPON FOGGIA      Fortresses And Liberators Reduce Air Fields, R-ilroad Yards To Smoking Ruins; Raid Is Surprise   Deadly Intervals

se qe. o - . re. n ~e2e 10)0Ing ?_anes “oom < ver: a y, S-racing ” “10098,  Surning “angars. aS civiians S1eer 

Surprise Raid Is One of War's Most Successful   Scores of Axis Planes Destroyed, Hundreds Killed

Yanks Blast Foggia in Surprise Raid   Leave Airdrome, Rail Yards In Flaming Ruins

Yankees Smash lfalian Sector   Foggia Airdrome, Rai Yards Are Blasted

lfaly Is Blasted By Allied Planes   Surprise Assault Wrecks Airdrome  Rye NWRYAND NORCAARHG

Tree-Hoppers And Bombers Ruin Foggia   Scores of Planes, Hangars. Destroyed In Surprise Attack

U.S. Lighinine Fighters Lead Attack   26 Planes Knocked From Air: Scores of Others Blasted

VITAL ITALIAN AIRDROMENS SMOKING RUIN   AXIS PLANES CAUGHT ON GROUND AND DEMOLISHED

Lightnings Lead Attack On Airfield   Rail Yards Also Hit As Allies Continue Softening-Up Tactics  26 PLANES DOWNED

Foggia Airfield and Rail Yards Smashed in Assault By Waves of Yank Planes

Air and Ground Forces Surprised by Lightning Pilots  MANY BOMBS DROP ON BIG AIRDROME  Planes Greeted by Friendly Waves of ‘the People

Boston Police Department Is Given Shakeup  Sullivan Takes Over As Leader

Sullivan Starts To Clean House on His First Day   New Boston Police Head Again   New Boston Police Head Again Suspends Officers Once Indicted In Camblinge Probe ‘

U. 5. Employes Sought for Draft   3 Classes Urged in Federal Jobs

New Bill Ousts U.S. Workers Between 18-38  Dad-Draft May Be Cut to - Men Under 30

Draft Age Men May Be Fired From U.S. Jobs   Congress Maps Bill te  Oust All But Men of 9 Clacenc

Early Draft Of Government Men Proposed   Bil Would Oust All From 18 to 38 With Some Exceptions

FRENCH WHIP NAZIS . 20 TO 1 IN ITALY   In First Crack at Germans on the Continent They Make Strone Showing.

QUESTION OF WHAT TO DO WITH BENITO BEING — DISCUSSED   Plans For Trials Of Axis Leaders Believed To Be Under Consideration At: Parley

Trial of Duce May Be Topic   President, Premier Believed Preparing War Guilt Punishment

Reckoning Day For Duce Said Being Prepared   Roosevelt, Churchill Believed: Laying Plans To Punish Mussolini

Iwipressive Ceremony to be Held ‘at Plont 5 _ Army and Navy Offi. cials to Make. Formal Presentation

Army - Navy Officials Tc Participate In Ceremonies.   (Read editorial “In Select Class the Hard Way” today on Page 4,

EXPENSE CUT, WAGE RAISES   Governor Maps Measure Designed to Repeal Welfare Laws

Maw’s Budget Message to Call for Salary Raises for State Employe:

REDS PUSH ON NAZI RAIL HUB   Closing In on Zhlobin, Important German Point: Repel Counterattacks.

RED ARMY TROOPS CLOSING IN FROM THREE DIRECTIONS  RAIL AND COMMUNICATIONS HUB OF ZHLOBIN OBJECT OF DRIVE

Two Columns Are Advancing  On Zhlobin   Russians Are Striking From Two Directions In Effort To Enter Important Rail City

Soviets Close In On Zhlobin  From Two Sides   Russians Push Doggedly On In Knee-Deep Mud; Also Gain In South.

Soviets Moving Toward Zhlobin  Advance From Two Directions on City

Reds Move Slowly In Mud And Snow  Two - Directional Drive Made On Zhlobin

Reds Close ~ On Zhlobin, Rail Center   Knee-Deep Snow and Mud Hamper Movement of Attackers

RUSSIANS CLOSE It   Two-Prong Drive Advanies Toward Zhlobin, Rail  Junction

Red Trap Closing On Railway Hub. Troops. Advancing  On Zhliobin from  Two Directions

REDS CLOSE 0 ZHLOBIN FROM TWO DIRECTIONS   Russians Slosh For-° ward [Through Knee-, Deep Snow Andy} Mud; Other Soviet, Forces To The South. Plunge Deeper Into German Lines. _ hy

‘vy ¥Re “  wuss Pincer  DriveClosing On Zhlobin   ‘Red Army Slashes Ahead Through Knee-Deep yaw angel UWraed   'KEY POINTS TAKEN,       Other Soviets Hit Deeper Into Nazi Lines Below Kremenchuz

REDS NEARING ZHLOBIN FROM 2 DIRECTIONS   To South, Other Forces Plunge Deeper Into German Lines and Repulse Counter-Blows in the Cherkasy Area.

RED ARMY TROOPS ARE CLOSING IN ON CITY OF ZHLOBIN   Slushed Forward Through  : Knee Deep Snow and Mud in Drive.   FROM TWO DIRECTIONS   Far to the South Other Soviet Forces Plunged Deeper into German Lines.

Russians Closing In on Zhlobin   i\iev Bulge Battle ls Unreported

RUSSIANS PINCH IN-ON ZHLOBIN   RED ARMY TROOPS ADVANCE THROUGH DEEP MUD AND SNOW

REDS CLOSING IN ON ZHLOBIN, RAIL CENTER   Rokossovsky’s WhiteClad Troops Overrun 108 Villages, Raise Havoc with Communications   PINCERS CLOSING   Russians Cut Deeper Inlo German Lines Below Kremenchug, Stop Attacks in Cherkasy Area

REDS CLOSING IN ON TWO-WAY ZHLOBIN ATTACK   Soviet Forces Gain Through Knee-Deep Snow, Mud

Reds Glose tn On Zhiobin   SOVIET TROOPS SLOSH FORWARD THROUGH SNOW AND MUD

AEDS CLOSE  IN ON TWO SIDES   Sloshing Forward Through Knee-Deep Snow,- Muc Toward Zhlobin..

Russians Closing In On Important German Rail Hub   Zhiobin Being Attacked From Two Directions By Red Armies Sloshing Thru Snow and Mud; Reds Plunge Deeper Into Ger. man Lines In South. P

REDS CLOSING IN ON ZHLOBIN IN GOMEL AREA   Plunge Deeper Into Ger man Lines West of Dnieper Bridgehead Below Kremenchug

the Russian   RED ARMIES PLUNGE DEEPIen AN  DRIVE TOWARD GERMANY: NG DRIVEN IN NATITINECINITAs”   Sloshing Forward Through Mud and Sn___ viet: Make New Gains. British and Ameri > rmie: In Italy Continue Pressure on Enemy Featul

Flynn Choice To Be Aired In Senate  Foreign Relations Committee Votes

OPEN HEARING ON FITNESS OF FLYNN VOTED   Senate Committee to Weig! Charges—Banking Group OK Brown Appointment

APPOINTMENT TO BE GIVEN OPEN HEARING   Major Congressional Spectacle Assured by Unanimouse Vote of Senate Committee   BROWN IS APPROVED

Open Hearings Scheduled for Flynn Charges   Prentiss Brown Wins Support for Vital Price Post

Orders Flynn Hearing   Committee Approves « Brown Appointment; Discuss Methods of Raising Huge New Tax

Senate Group To Quiz FDR’s Appointee to Australian Job   Hearing Probably Will Begin Wednesday or Thursday   Brown Approved   Banking Committee OK’s Proposed Successor of Henderson

MAJOR SPECTACLE ASSURED CONGRESS IN FLYNN HEARING  RROWWN CIVUEN TINANIMOI   BROWN GIVEN UNANIMOUS APPROVAL BY COMMITTEE -SUCCEED HENDERSON

Open Hearing To Air Charges Against Flynn   Naming of Brown To Henderson Post Receives Approval

Soviets Seek Full Rout. Of Germans   Nazis Falling Back In Disorder Before Red Arnyv

REDS CLOSE IN ON KHARKOV IN 3-PRONG DRIVE   City’s Capture Near at Hand

RED ARMY _ APPLYING ~ PRESSURE   Objective Is to Turn the _ Retreat Into Complete Rout for Invaders.

RED ARMIES CLOSING IN ON KHARKOV   Step Up Pressure On Southern Front To Rout Nazis

RUSSIANS STEP RESSURE ON CITY DEFENSES   German Retreat Already Disorderly—Fall of City le Imminent.

SOVIETS PUSHING GERMAN RETREAT TO COMPLETE ROUI   Staiin Returns to Moscow After Front Action   NAZIS LEAVE MUCH EQUIPMENT BEHIND

Fall Of Kharkov Is Not Far Off — Soviets Advance 71 Miles Yesterday      STALIN REPORTED. BACK IN MOSCOW

Pressure Stepped Up By Russians To Make German Retreat a Rout   Nazi Garrisons Being Methodically Exterminated

NAZIS IN ROUT FLEFING FROM KHARKOV TRAE   Russians. Clamping Assault Arc Tighter in Drive on Three Sides.   OTHER OBSTACLES TAKEN ON WAY TO DNIEPER

RUSSIAN FORCES: DRIVE ON, HOPE COMPLETE DEFEAI   Enemy-Reported In Disorder In Kharkov District as  Ukrainian Garrison May Ra Entrannoed   NEW GEORGIA ISLAND BATTLE ABOUT OVER   Communique Announces a Clash on One Flank Has taken Place, Japs Prepare to Fight to End.

RUSSJAN ARMIES TIGHTEN TRAP ON NAZIS AT KHARKOV   Red Army Pursues Defeat. ed Enemy “After Taking Many Villages; Germans Throwing Arms Away.

HOUSE PARES SPENDING BY 4 PER CENT   Votes All Except $3,451,042,091 of Amount Asked

WELLES IS QUITTING   Washington Newspaper Reports Resignation of Undersecretary

Hear Welles Is Quitting   Washington Newspaper Says He Is‘ Resigning At Request Of F. R.

Welles Quits, Says Evening. Star Article   Undersecretary of State Reported Out at F.R.’s Request

Sec. Welles Resigns   Action Follows Request Of President; Due to Friction With Hull

WRITER CLAIMS WELLES T0 QUIT   Resignation Is Already on President’s Desk, Washington Newspaper Declares

Welles’ Ouster Rep orted After Row With Hull   Series Of Disagreements Is Said To Have Resulted In Request For Resignation

/ MORE MORTGAGE RELEASES      Beck reports Fewer Chattel Mort gages Are Recorded

 MORE MORTGAGE RELEASES   Beck. reports ‘Fewer Chattel Mat - gages Are Recorded

WLB Rules Against  The Miners   SOME MINERS STAYED AWAY FROM JOBS TODAY AFTER WLB REJECTED PLEA FOR PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY

POLICY GROUP MEETS; MINERS ALREADY OU   Third Coal Strike in Three Months at Hand

SEATILE SHOPPERS RUSH TO MARKETS   Purchase Government In. spected Horse Meat, Not Rationed.

SS Queen Mary Transports Big Force To Front  Has Vital Role In War Fart

COLD WEATHER —-FATALTO FOUR   Bureau Sees Easing Off Today of “Winter's Worst”

Papers Undergo Changes to Conserve Good White Paper   Maybe Readers Haven't Noticed It But It’s Face-Lift- ing and Squeezing Process Gives Subscribers  Same Amount of News and Entertain- :  ment As Always But In Less Space 

Threaten Fiank Of Nazi Army   Invaders Abandoning Heavy Equipment  In Haste To Get  Ou: Cf Traps.   Land, Air and Sea korces Pound Nazi In Sicily

YANK TROOPS 5 MILES FROM CAPE ORLANDO   British Join With U.S. Forces to Form  Solid Line

‘PASSED AWAY IN CONCORI   High Mass of Requiem it Held at St. Bernard’s - Church

PLENTY OF TURKEYS LEFT FOR CIVILIANS   Only 8 Per Cent of Crop s Taken for Armed Forces

TROUBLE IN NORWAY   Newspaper Reports Food Situation in Country Is Bad

NAZIS START HUNT FOR SIROTEURS   Blasting of Hi Hydro-Electric Dam Sends Invaders in Huge Man-Hunt

Conferees Agree  To Put Dads At Bottom of List   Would Place Prewar Fathers At End of National Draft Pool

HENRI GIRAUD, CHAS. D'GAULLE CO-PRESIDENTS   Catroux Governor of Algeria; Morocco Chief Ousted

RAF DESTROYS 9 AXIS SUBS IN TEN DAYS   Others Believed to Have Been Sunk — British Surface Units Sink Four Nazi Trawlers, Two Gunhboats.

Sink 5 U-Boats In 10-Day Period  Others Listed Damaged In Air-Sea Battles

RAF Planes Sink Five U-Boats   Support Claims That Menace Being Met

STEELWORKERS SEEK 17-CENT WAGE RAISE   CIO Union Will Stick to No Strike Pledge During Baitle For Pay Boost

RED HURL BALK ENEMY THRUSTS   Germans Reported Spreading Efforts In Caucasus Counter-Attacks  

Himmler Gets Frick’s Job As Interior Chief; Neurath Quits   Shift Puts German Home Affairs Under Rule of Gestapo

GERMAN HOME AFFAIRS UNDER THE GESTAPO   Adolf Hitler Has Placed Heinrich Himmler Minister of Interior.   Puts Vast New Powers  With Chief of Gestapo

HEMIMLER 10 RULE NACL HOME FRONT   Announcement Probably Indicates Vast New Powers in Gestapo Chief’s Hands

Himmler Named Minister Of Interior. ....  Gestapo Now Has Full Sway Inside Germany

Name Himmler Chief of (Reich Administration, Minister of the Interior

New Power To  Gestapo Chief   Heinrich Himmler Rules (;erman Home Affairs As Minister Of Interior.

NAZI GESTAPO CHIEF HONORED      Heinrich Himmler Grantec New Powers By Hitler

Himmler Is In Charge   Gestapo Chiof Tales Over German Minister Of Interior Duties

Gestapo Chief Appointed to Interior Post  Nazi Officials Switched in

Gestapo Put Over German Home Affairs   Himmler, Nazi Secret Police Head, Chief of  Administration

Hitler Grants New Powers to Heinrich Himmler As Germany * Fights Unrest on Home Froni

HIMMLER MADE INTERIOR GHIEF   Hitler Places German Home Front Affairs Under Gestano Head.

GESTAPO TAKES CHARGE GERMAN HOME AFFAIRS   Hitler Names Heinrich Himmler as Chief of the Reich Administration

Germany Is Given Shake-up   Himmler’s Gestapo Is Put in Charge of Internal Affairs In Surprise Shuffle

HIMMLER NAMED TO MINISTER'S POST BY HITLER   Other Changes In Government Made, Radio Asserts

Home Affairs Of Nazis In Gestapo Grip   Himmler Gets Interior Post

Gestapo Takes Over Home Affairs In Germany: Hitler's Aides Relieved

Vast New ¢ Powers to Himmler   Gestapo Rule Extended to Cover All German Home Affairs ,   “DNB ANNOUNCES NAZI SHAKEUP   am Frick Is “Is Relieved “of » Post in Reich and Given New Assignment

Himmler Moves Up      Gestapo Head Given Broad New Powers in Home Front Shake Up

Hitler Gives Gestapo Head More Powers   Fuehrer Appoints «i tleinrich,_ Himmler Interior Minister And Chief of Reich

Himmler Is Given Vast New Powers   German Home Affairs Fall. Under Gestapo Rule as Police Head Is Made Minister of Interior in Shakeup ef Nazi Officials.

News Behind The News  Copprighr McClure Newspaper   WASHINGTON Br Rav Tucker

Jews Risk Death In Flight from Danish Cities  Hundreds Reach Safely in Sweden

ews Flee From Germany's Race War in Denmark   jundreds Risk P atro  Fire in Order to Escape Purge

Hundreds of Jews Pour Into Sweden as Hitler’s Anti-Semitic Purge in Denmark Fans Swedish Feeling; Swedes Predict ‘Repercussions’

Asks Repeal Of Chinese  Exclusion   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT » URGES CONGRESS TO ADMIT TO CiTFIZENSHIP ‘GALLANT ARLIES" WHO DESIRE IY.   Flood Of Immigrants

END OF BAN ON CHINESE ASKED   FDR Approves Measure to Repeal Exclusion Act, Grant Citizenship

CHINESE TO GE U.S. CITIZENSHIP   President Pushes Bill; House Leaders Say It Will Pass

President Asks End of China  Exclusion Act   Calls on Congress To Speed - Repeal of Measure

German Rear Guard I: Battered Down—Enemy Lines Are Sagging _ Everywhere  BRYANSK UNDER FIRE  Karachey Enveloped By Soviets—Red Air  Force Active

BiG TRAFFIC JAM THREATENS ESCAPE “OPTHE GERMAN   Russians . Strive te Eneircle City and Trap Remaining ~ Garrison.

Street Fighting Reported As_  Germans Flee   Enormous Traffic Jam Blocks. Roads In‘. Escape-Corridor “   By HENRY SHAPIRO: UNITED “PRESS” STAFF CON PRPRrCPANNHANT -

RUSSIANS BATTLE NAZI FORCES IN KHARKOV STREETS   German Retreat Through Escape Corridor Borders on Panic; Garrison May  Be Trapped.

Retreating Enemy Jams Slim Escape Corridor; Bryansk Gains Growing      Allies On Verge of Two Great Victories With Nazis In Full Retreat

: Report Russians ‘Storming Into Kharkov Streets   German Retreat From City Blocks All Roads In Near-Panic

KHARKOV'S FALL NEAR AS PANIC GRIPS GERMANS  Reds Entering Town   Reds Entering Town On Three Sides, Moscow Says

Escape Routes Packed   Soviets Smash Enemy Defenses Along The Central Front

heads Storming Into Kharkov City Streets  Soviet Forces Already Start To Encircle Bryansk   NAZIS IN FLIGHT   Entire German Line May Be Forced Back By New Attacks

REDS SWARM UP STREETS AT KHARKOV   Near-Panic in Escape Corridor as German Garrison Streams From Fallen Metropolis

REDS STORM INTO STREETS OF KHARKOV   Battering Down Rear Guard Resistance

SOVIET TROOPS CAUSE PANIC AMONG NAZIS   Enormous Traffic Jam Results as Enemy Desperately Tries to Make Escape.

REPORT RUSSIANS NOW IN KHARKO\   Heavy Bombing Helps De stroy Salamana, 43 Jap Planes Are Blasted.

Reds Batter Way Into Kharkov.   Heavy Street Fighting in Progress; Smalenck-Brvanck Threatened

REDS STORMING INTO KHARKOV: NAZIS FLEEING   New Russian Offensive on Central Front fs Reported Advancing

Revenue From Sandusky Bay Bridge, State Owned, Dropped 23 Percent

LARGE DECREASE IN TOLL-BRIDGE FUNDS   Wartime Travel Restrictions Listed as Reason

Warships Shell Mainland Port   Blow Sets Likely  Invacinn Potteorn.

British Warships Sliell Coastal City of Crotone   Action Takes Place 90 Miles From lialian Naval Base

Warships Hit Italian Rail City   Il Duce’s Flee As Dared By British:

CROTONE BLASTED BY BRITISH SHIPS   Blow Set Likely Pattern ‘for Things to . Come =

COASTAL CITY   British Warships, Planes ir Attack on Crotone, Railway Center

Jialian City Shelled By British   First Joint Plane, Ship Blow on Fascist Mainland

OHIPS AND PLANES ATTACK MAINLAND   Pour Shells and Bombs on Crotone, Near Italian Base Of Taranto; Sets Pattern of  — Things to Come

Air, Sea Attack  Blasts Crotone   Onslaught Sets Pattern Of Thinesto Come —~

DAMAGE TWC OR THREE DESTROYERS   Reinforcements Of Foe Forced Away From Guadalcanal

JAP WARSHIPS ARE DAMAGED IN SOLOMONS   EFFORT TO REINFORCE JAPS ON GUADALCANAL IS DEFEATED

FORD FORTUNE TO CHARITY   $200,000,000 Estate Thus Es capes Taxation

350,000 Men May Walk Out   MEMBERS ASK JUMP OF 30 PER CENT AN HOUR; 4 CENTS PROPOSED   Mine Work Tries

RAILROAD UNIONS AUTHORIZED STRIKE VOTE OF MEMBERS  SHOWDOWN NEARS IN LONG-STANDING SOFT COAL CONTROVERSY

UNION OFFICIALS AUTHORIZE STRIKE   Strike Vote of Railroads Recommended By Officials; Coal Strike Gaining  Momentum.

Railroad Unions Ready To Take a Strike Vote   Mine Control by U. S Threatened Unless Work Resumed

’  AT JOHNSTOWN   C. 1. 0. Director Says Mill Strike Is Unauthorized

ATHENS COUNTY ‘PHANTOM HELD      20-year-search for Alleged Wife Slayer Ends

20-YEAR-SEARCH ENDS AS ‘PHANTOM’ KILLER CAPTURED   59-year-old Man Is Flushed From Athens County Cave

ITALY SAID 16 BE TURNING ON BADOGLIO   Abdication of King Also Demanded by Populace

TRAVELERS REACHING switzERLAND SAY LARGE GROUPS er ASSEMBLING IN. CITiEs

UNREST GROWS AMONG ITALIANS   Travelers Report “Demands  Voiced For Ouster Of Badoglio, King Victor

Germans Making Frantic Effort To Destroy Booty; Reds Gain On Five Fronts

RUSSIANS SWEEP THROUGH DONETS, NEAR STALIN  Soviets Carve Out Gains On Five Fronts.

Yanks Tighten Pincers For Final Blow On Munda; Stiff Resistance Expected

Believe Japs Are Saving Strength   Awaiting Last Ditch Fight For Airport

ALLIED PLANES AND ARTILLERY HAMMER MUNUA   Japs Apparently Hoarding Strength For Defense Of Vital Airport

YANKS ADVANCE INBATTLE FOR CAPE AIRFIELD   Marines Gain' Behind Flame Throwers

Marines Use Fiame-Throwers To Meet Stiff Resistance   Artillery Also Helps Advance Toward. Jap Airdrome On Cape Gloucester

Marines Drive On With Flame Throwers’ Aid   Leathernecks Hold Own As Western Flank Advances  In Invasion

Marines Use Flame Throwers in Drive on Cape Gloucester   Jap Resistance on New Britain is Reported Stiffening

MARINES POUR ~ FIRE ON JAPS   Use Flame Throwers At Cape Gloucester

FLAME THROWERS SEARING PATH FOR AMERICAN MARINES  DEVIL-DOGS ARE NOW ABOUT MILE FROM IMPORTANT AIRPORT

Flame Throwers Aid Marine Push Gain In Bitter Battle For Air Base   Aussies Punch Abead

Fire-Throwers Lead Yanks   Marines Advance In New Britain Past Japanese Pitlboxes

FLAME THROWERS SEAR JAP POSITIONS ~ONCAPE GLOUCESTER   Leathernecks’ Thrust Puts Them One Mile From Vita! dap: Airfield   FOE’S ATTACKS REPULSED

MARINES MAKE HEADWAY TODAY AGAINST IAPS   Flame Throwers Searing Path For Invading Force

Marine Flame Throwers Burn Jap Defenses   Australian Troops Make Advances On New Guinea

USING FLAMES AND ARTILLERY   Marines Make Path Througt Jap Pillboxes Defending Air Field.   JAPS HAVE STRONG FORCE

Fire And Shell Melting Opposition Flame Throwers Sear  Path For The Marines ‘Toward Jap Airdrome

Flame Throwers Used by Leathernecks In Drive On Japanese Airdrom

U.S. Marines Advance To Within One Mile Of Cape Gloucester Airfield   Flame Throwers Sear’ .Path Through Japanese Pillboxes — Successful - Raids On Rabaul.

Marines Using Flame Throwers  In Bitter Battle Fér Airfield   Entire Regiment Of Japs Hurled Against One Flank, But Beaten Off By Devildogs,  As Comrades Push Nearer Airdrome.

Fresh Gains Are Scored On  New Britain   Flame Throwers Cut Path For Marines Who Are Steadily Approaching Jap Airdrome .

Flame Throwers Open Path for Airdrome Attack   Stiff Opposition Reported in Drive On New Britain Base

MARINES SEAR PATH THROUGH JAP PILLBOXES   Flame Throwers Open Way  For Leathernecks Toward  Enemy Airdrome On  New Britain

PLANE BUILDERS BOOST 1944 GOAL   Pledge 40 Billion Dollar Output in Next Year.

PLEDGE DOUBLE PLANE OUTPUT   40 Billion Dollars Worth ’44 Aim; May Defer Workers

Aircraft Industry Pledg es Forty Billion Dollars Worth of Planes

Loss Heavyn Sinking Of Two: American Shins   ‘Vessels Are Sent Dewn in Atlantic Four Days Apart

850 Are Lost In U-Boat Atlantic Raid:   Two American Passage-Cargo Vessels Sink Four Days Apart; Casualties Military Personnel, Civilian Workers

Two American Passenger. ' Cargo Ships Tor    LOSS 1S WORST IN: _ . ATLANTIC BATTLE Most of the Casualties OFfficers of Armed Ser. vices .

USS. Suffers Worst Blow In Battle — Of Atlantie      Most of Casualties Army, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard Officers And Men, Navy Asserts  OTHERS CIVILIANS AND CREW MEMBERS  Two Ships Are Sunk I Four-Day Period Early in February

Twin Blow Is Worst Disaster Of World War   Military Personnel and Civilian War Workers Casualties

LOST AS SUBS SINK 2 SHIPS      North Atlantic Scene ~ Of American Disasters

Military Personnel And Civilian War Workers Victims  WORST SEA BLOW  Weather Conditions Make Rescue of Any : Missing Men Doubtful

SEA TRAGEDY “IS WORST IN NAVY ANNALS   DEADLY TORPEDOES SINK VESSELS IN 30 MINUTES

Majority of Victims Are Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Members of Coast Guard.   ALL WERE HEADED FOR FOREIGN PORTS   Two Vessels Sunk at Night in Four-Day Period—Disaster Worst Suffered in Atlantic Battle.

WORST SEA DISASTER OF WAR _ IS ANNOUNCED BY NAVY; ENEMY SUBS TORPEDO 2 U.S. PASSENGER CARGO SHIPS.

Blasting Of Two Vessels In North Atlantic Give: United States Worst Disaster In Battle For Seas; Army Personnel Aboard

TWO SHIPS OUNK IN A-DAY PERIOD   Little Hope That Many of @ Missing Survived Gales  WINReT NICASTER   In Loss of Life Suffered by ® United States in.Battle of The Atlantic

Two American PassengerCargo Ships Torpedoed  LOSS 1S WORST IN ATLANTIC BATTLE  Most of the Casualties Officers of Armed Services

American Cargo Liners Sent fo Botfom by Axis   Casualties Are Mostly Army and Navy Officers and Men   Twin Blow in North Atlantic One of Worst Disasters of War

Little Hope Held That Many Persons Missing Could Have Survived Wintry Gales, Violent Seas

Two Passenger-Cargo Ships Torpedoed In North Atlantic This Month   WORST SEA DISASTER SUFFERED BY NATION

TWO SHIPS ARE SUNK BY SUBS IN FEBRUARY   Navy Reveals Worst Disaster OF U.S.  In Battle Of Atlantic Ocean.

AXIS EXPLANATION OF AFRICAN DEFEAT WON'T HOLD WATER  They Lost 700,000 in “Detaying Action” on Weakened Furone..

Axis Claims Campaign In Africa a Victory; _ Disproven By Analysis

SIGN MINE AGREEMENT   Contract Reached With Illinois Coal Operators Group

Jap Position In New Guinee Now Hopeless   American-Australian Jungle Troops Close Ir On Last Defenses   Hull Reveals Jap Plot To Canture Roosevelt   State Department Turned Down Plan For Ship Conference

ENEMY’S POSITION IS NOW ‘HOPELESS’  eee 98 er 6A OO re oes Ae ek )36©e ee eo or.

Last Pocket of Japs Destroyed In Buna Secto:   BLt APUG JIIUULLUL  MacArthur’s Headquarters Says Enemy’s Position Hopeless  JAP WARSHIP IS HIT  Allied Airmen in Attack On Enemy Bases Fire Large Ship

Jap Position In Swampland Is Untenable   Allies Move Against Last Stronghold As Buna Is Cleared

ALLIES NOW CLOSING  IN ON ANOTHER JAP  SPOT IN NEW GUINEA AMERICAN AND AUSTRA LIAN FIGHTERS WIPE OUT TAPS IN RIINA AREA

Foe’s Position Is Hopeless General Says   American Fliers Continue Assaults on Solomon Islands: Fight on Guadalcanal

BUNA POSITIONS UF JAPo WIPED WUT BY ALLIES   American And Australian Fighters Sweep Onward After Big Victory

Mop Up Japs in Buna Area   Torpedo Boats Score Hits on » Enemy Destroyers.

Last Japs Wiped Out  In Buna Area   US and Australian Jungle Fighters Close in on Sanananda Area Where Enemy’s Pacitian I< Honeless

Yanks and Aussies Close in on Last Pocket of Japs   Buna Area Was Finally Cleaned Up Over the Week-End

Allies Close in On Jap Defenses Near Sanananda  Aerial Attack is Carried Again to

Navy Boats Block Nip Supply Aim   Enemy’s Position _ Reported to Be “Hopeless”

ALLIES ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA   Japanese Jungie Fighters are Wiped out in Buna  Aras

Last Pocket of Japs Destroyed In Buna Sectox   MacArthur’s Headquarters Says Enemy’s Position Hopeless  :  JAP WARSHIP IS HIT  ‘Allied Airmen in Attack  On Enemy Bases Fire _ Large Ship

LAST JAPS CLEARED FROM BUNA SECTOR   Allied Troops Move North on New Guinea

Allied Forces Shift: Attack  In New Guinea   MacArthur Reports Enemy Position At  Sanananda  Area Now Hopeless.   PT’S HIT DESTROYER

MINERS SHOW INCLINATION 10 OBEY FOR   Majority Are  Voting To Return To Their Jobs In Anthracite Field.

Majority Accepts Ultimatum   Nearly All Hard Coal Strik ers Expected To Be In Pits Before Ultimatum Expires.

Germans Cease Costly Attacks  Fail to Win Back - Lost Territory .

Germans Cease Costly Attacks In Orel Sector In Order To Mass New Reserves

Frank Klode Is Target Of - Many Attack:   Director Of Department Of Public Welfare Is Sticking To His Jeb Despite Criticism

JAPANESE DESPERATE   China Keports Desperate Aitempis Ky Japs To Stem Drive

F.D.R. Raps Employe Bill   Opposes Measure To Require Confirmation Of Major Appointments

PENDING BILL T0 AFFECT STATUS OF JOB HOLDERS   PRESIDENT TERMS MEASURE AS LITTLE LESS THAN TRAGIC

FR. OPPOSING SENATE PLAN   “Little Less Than Tragic” To Require President's Nomination, Senate O.K. on Employes.

Roosevelt Is Opposed to Bill   Requires Presidential Nomination and Senate Confirmation Federal Employes.

FDR Opposes M’Kellar Bill   Would Require Confirmation of Many U. S. Employes

F,D. R. TERMS BILL TRAGIC   Impossible To Check Qualifications Of 33,000 Federal Workers.

AKRON JEWELER CALLED BY DEATE   LeRoy K. Burket Also Worked. At Trade In * LeMars

Akron Business Man Dies Friday Of Heart Attack  yy, fF TT  _4. .; Oo. ......   L. K. Burket Succumb: To Heart Attack After Brief Illness

SENATE SEEKS 10 CHECK SPENDING   Administration Forces Fail to Comment on Funds For Emergencies.

CURB IS VOTED FOR ROOSEVEL!   Senate Seeks To Curb Use Of War Funds For Agencies

enate Votes To Curb Roosevelt's Use of Funds for War Emergencies   Financing of Controversial Agencies Prohibited by Vote on Deficiency Appropriatoin Bill

Senate Votes Curb On F. R. Fund Use  Only War and Navy  Denartments Exemnt

Pall of Smoke Covers Embattled City Of More Than Million People; Nazis Seek Corsica Escape Route

Three Dodecanese Islands Taken, Corsica Yields   Germans Believed To Be Preparing To Abandon Italian Metropolis As Filth Army Captures Eboli and Moves To Encircle City.

Accidents In State Fatal To Seventeer   Seven Drowning Victims And Two Are Reported Dead Of Heat; One Local Death Included

15 State Lives Over Week-end  wv rAwWnAIng6sc*  Accidents a   Seven Deaths Caused By Drownings; Two Heat Victims

JAPAN CONTINUED ADD TO GLAINS OF U.S. FLEET DAMAGE  BERLIN RADIO TELLS OF  JAP SINKING TWELVE

Jap Claims Of Damagino Fleet Astronomical   Knox Says Recent Japanese Defeats Have Them On Spot

Japs Continue Damage Claims  On U.S. Fleet   “Mitchell Bombers Blast Jap Shipping Off China Coast, In Pacific.   ‘HIT TWO DESTROYERS

'PT BOAT DESCRIBED AS ‘CARRIER’ —  _ Japs Make Lavish Claims Of Most _ Destructive Naval Victory Since : Pearl Harbor In Unconfirmed Tale

PT Boat Sunk, Jans Say Cruiser   Exaggerated Claims Made In Tokyo

NEW MEAT POINT VALUES   Reductions Scheduled for December, _According te Bowles

NAPLES FALLS AS BiG PRIZE TO AMERICANS   GREAT PORT NOW OPEN TO USE OF ALLIES

Fleeing Germans Hint Stand On Way to Rome   Clark’s Army Enters Stricken City After 22 Days From Salerno; Plans Speedy Clearing of Harbor

Germans scurrying toward Rome after burning and looting Italy’s great port   Allies biggest victory provides hest harhor and airbase facilities

Naples Falls; Rome Is Next   Nazis Scurry North, Stand” Expected In Rome Vicinity

Germans Retreat North wardts Moke a Naw Stand      GREAT PORT OPENS TO ALLIED ARM)   Delaying Actions by Er emy Between Naples: and Rome Expected:

ternal City May Be Scene Of Big Battle        Germans Fighting Delaying Actions

NAZIS FLEEING NORTH TO NEW DEFENSE LINE   Fifth Army Wins Port, Finds City in Ruins And Aflame   By EDWARD KENNEDY

NAZIS FLEEING NORTH TO NEW DEFENSE LINE   Fifth Army Wins Port, Finds City in Ruins And Aflame

Fifth Army Finds City in Ruins With Gas, Street Car and Electric Systems Wrecked.   NAZI REIGN OF TERROR ENDS WITH OCCUPATION   Germans Move Out During Night for Stand Somewhere Between Great Port and Rome.

Important Port To Allies: Nazis Scurry North   Question Whether Nazis Will Put Up Fight for Rome

Bulk of Nazi Defenders Scurry North   American Fifth Army Occupies Important Harbor City; Victory Opens One Of Mediterranean’s Great Seaports

AFTER BRITISH AND AMERICANS IN ARMORED COLUMN FIGHT VIGOROUS RESISTANCE ALONG GULF ROAD.

RAVISHED CITY TAKEN OVER BY CLARK'S FORCE   Victory Opens Key Port In Mediterranean After Wreckage  Is Removed

Fall of Naples  Rivals Pompeii   Seizing of Big Seaport Creaaily Aijde Flierc

Nazi Forees  Retreating Northward   Question Is Whether Germans Will Stand For Battle at Rome  HARBOR IS SHAMBLES

Victory Opens Great Port to British, Yanks   Still Uncertain Where Germans to Make Next Stand; Naples Said in Ruins and in Flames

NAZIS MOVE QUT RING THE NIGHT   Marks Biggest City and Port To Fall to Allies   FOE SEEKS NEW STAND   Probably Will Estabilsh Line Somewhere Between Charred Naples and Rome

Ickes Announcement Fines for Previous Walkout Could be Remitted Pacifies Workers   MATTER HELD ENDED   Alabama Miners Return to Pits: Pennsylvania Operators to Rescind Ickes  Order

Russians Surge Deep Inio Basin   Drive Behind Germat Lines in Orels; Batfle at Kharkov

Russ Surge Deep Into  Donets Basin   Reds Approach Nazis’ Last Winter Line

3 NAZI ATTACKS FAIL IN SAVAGE KHARKOV BATTLE   Russians Closing In on City —Other Soviet Columns Plunge Deep Into Donets Basin.   OREL THREATENED BY PUSH IN NORTH   Nazis Announce Fall of Rostov—-Taganrog, 40 Miles to West, Under Artillery Fire.

Workers To Call Protest Strike   WLB’S Refusal To Review Case Responsible

Lucian. Harris Killed In Texas   Ada Youth Dies ‘In Crash of Plane

Father Deferment Bill Is Advanced  Measure Approved ‘Despite Army Stand

Committee Votes Dad Deferment   ...Kilday Bill Okayed   Measure Provides Draf Quotas Be Put On ‘ State Basis

APPROVE BILL TO DEFER FATHERS FROM WAR DRAFT   Military Affairs Committee Acts In Defiance to Army Chiefs. MeNutt.

Vote Is Near On Kilday Bill   Draft of Fathers Subject of Debate

DEFERMENT PLAN WINS APPROVAL   House ‘Committee Rushes Action on Program to De: Jay Call of Fathers   WOULD ALSO BAR CALL TO GROUP:   Action to Be Sought Early ‘Next Week;Hersliey Again: Gives. Testimony

House Group Puts Okey on Bill to ‘Defer’ Fathers   Draft Deferment Priorities Given

Draft Deferment For Fathers Is Favored by Grour   11 Million Man Army Possible Hershey Declares

House Rules Committee Approves Bill To Grant Deferments To Fathers

KILDAY BILL OKAYED BY COMMITTEE   Would Grant Draft Deferment To Fathers

Kilday. Bill Gets 25 To 2 Approval   Men With Children To Get Draft Deferment Priority

Approve Defering Fathers   House Committee Gives O K. to Kilday Bill—Stim son Opposes

MOVE TO DEFER . FATHERS BACKED   House Committee Approves Bill, Oppose Drafting By Occupations

BILL FOR DRAFT CHANGES CLEARED FOR HOUSE ACTION   is Dene Over ‘War Department Opposition — Would Give Priorities to Fathers, State Handling

Objection To Kilday Draft Bill lanored   House Rules Sends Dependents Deferment Measure To Floor   Stimson Says Whole System Threatened   Also Would Put Quotas On Basis Of Statewide Pool

VOTES 25 102 SUPPORT OF ~KLDAY’SBILI   Would Call Single Men First Regardless of Occupation

INDUCTION PUT ON GROUP BASIS   Bill Would Prevent Drafting Of Men Regardless of Dependency.   ASK STATEWIDE QUOTAS

KILDAY BILL APPROVED B' HOUSE BODY   Would Also Put Draft Quotas On Statewide Basis

Kilday Bill Approved By House Group  Changes System Of Draft Deferments:  Biawler Ulectn FY tlL-nler

DEFERMENT BILL GIVEN SUPPORT   Measure Would Grant Draft Deferment Priorities To Fathers

KILDAY SILL IO OPPOOED BY STIMSON   War Secretary Says He Supports the Principle, Not the Plan.   DECLARES DRAFT  FAVORS FATHERS   Breakdown of Selective Service Seen If Bill Passes.

KILDAY BILL T0 PUT STATE-WIDE PLAN INTO USE   Selective Service Quotas No Longer Would Be on Local Basis

‘FAMILY MEN’ GET PRIORITY   Bill Would Prevent Taking Them In Draft Only As Last Resort.

Kilday Draft Bill Approved   COMMITTEE OVERRODE OPPOSITION OF STIMSON

Stimson Fails To Block Bill On Deferments   Declares Kilday Measure Would Break Administra tion Of Draft Program.   SUGGESTS ALTERATION

GROUP IN HOUSE FAVORS BILL TO DEFER FATHERS   Would Draft Fathers Last; Vote Down Amendment Of Stewart _

BILL 10 DEFER FATHERS VOTED BY COMMITTEE   Objections From War Department Claimed  ‘Without Merit’

House Group Approves Bill Giving Men With Children. ‘Dratt Determent Priority

OK Measure To Defer Dads   ‘House Group Passes Kil day Bill 25-2

Group Puts Dads Last in Draft Order   Military Committee Of House Sets Up Sequence for Call. .

NEW LEGISLATION PLANNED ON DRAF   House Military Committee or Record to Give Fathers Priorities.

DRAFT FATHERS -ARESUPPORTED   House Committee Votes for Kilday Bill, Giving Deferment.

Stimson Argues Against Changing Draft Procedure   Dependency Base Impossible, He Writes Committee

Action Taken On Draft Bill   House Committee Approves Measure, To Give Men with Children Deferment Priority

House Group Favors Kilday Draft Bill   Would Protect Men With Children; Place Draft on State Basis

DRAFT DEFERMENT FOR FATHERS ACT GIVEN APPROVAL   House Committee Votes For Act to Put Draft on Statewide Footing

Group Okays Draft Delay for Fathers   DEFERMENT PRIORITIES FOR MARRIED MEN WITH DEPENDENTS PASSED BY HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE; FAVOR STATE-WIDE DRAFT BASIS

Way cleared to favor men with families   War department opposes measure

Group Places Fathers Last In Draft Call   Stimson Avows Army; Hurt, Says Delay

KILDAY DRAFT BILL WINS. 25-2   House Group Approves Move to Block Recent WMC Order

Would Put Men With Children In Last Class   House Committee Votes to Put Draft Quotas on Statewide Basis.   Clear Way for Quick Action on This Bill   Sets tp Pour Group

Kilday Draft Bill Passes Committee   Deferrnent Favored By 25 to 2 Vote

Vote 25 to 2 For Statewide Draft Quotas   House Committre Overwhelmingly for ‘Fathers’ Bill

Fathers’ Draft Delay Is Ok'd   House Committee Vote To Put Service Quota On Stote-Wide Basis

FATHERS GIVEN DETEAMENT 3 BY HOUSE BILL   Military Affairs Committee Approves Measure By 23-2 Vote   FOUR CLASSES OF DRAFT CLASSIFICATIONS URGED   Fathers Would Be Last Ones Under Priority System Of House Measure

HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BILL TO HOLD FATHERS   Vote Kilday Bill To Place Selective Service On testowide Basis

Kilday bill approved by  committee   Gives fathers priorities on draft deferment

House Group Okays Kilday Draft Plans   Would Give Men With Children Deferment, Put Quotas On State Rasis In Future

House Committee Approves Kilday Bill to Defer Men With Dependents

Bill Gives Fathers Deferment Priority   House Military Affairs Group Approves New Measure Today

FOR DRAFT CHANGE   New Proposal Would Put Quotas on a State Wide sis

Kilday Measure Given Approval   Committee Votes To Give Fathers Priority Deferment

“DEFER DAD" BILL GIVEN APPROVAL   i  ‘House Committee Measure Would Require Registrants Taken in Order.

Stimson A.dvises House Com. Against It’s Stand On Deferments For Fathers

Favor Rein On Drafting Of Fathers   They Would Be Taken Last Under House Proposal

‘Measure Would Also Put  Selective Service Draft   Quotas On Statewide Basis   Under Special Groupings Parents Would Be In Fourth Classification ; Quick Action Sought-

STIMSON FEARS BREAKDOWN IN DRAFT SYSTEM   Rilday Bill to Take Men With De pendents Last Creates ‘Admin istrative Impossibility’

FOR ACTION ON CHANGE IN DRAFT   House. Committee. .Favors Calling Fathers: Last and ’ Statewide Onotas   HOUSE MAY VOTE ON BILL NEXT WEEK   War. - Department Makes Protest to Wording of the Measure

Vote To Delay Dratt Call To  Family Head:   Senators Agree To Offer Bil Compelling Release ot  Farm Heln.   HOUSE RUSHES ACTION

Kilday Bill Cleared For House Action   Would Give Priorities to Men With  Dependents

DEFERMENT FOR FATHERS WINS OKAY TODAY  Given Approval By House Military Committee VOTE TS = 25-2 ‘Would Put Draft   Quotas On StateWhinio Ragic         ‘Would Put Draft  Quotas On State Wide Basis

Bill To Defer Fathers Given New Impetus   Rules Committee Giving Priorities Endorses-Measure—-

WILL DEBATE ORAFT CHANGES   Argue Issue Despite Protests of Stimson

House Gets Bill  To Defer Fathers  Draft Quotas To Be On Statewide Basis Despite War Department

Deferment Proposal Is Endorsed   Deferment Priority’ For Men* With Children Wins Approval Of House Committee 

Deferment Bill Approved By Committee Vote   Would Give Priority De. ferment to Fathers De. spite Opposition of War Manpower Commis. ginn _

KILDAY BILL FOR DEFERRING FATHERS CLEARED FOR HOUSE  COMPLAINTS OF STIMSO HAVE NO MERIT

Aleutians, in Far North Are Shelled and Jap Defenses in South Pacific Are Pounded.   AMERICAN CRUISER HELENA, JAP VICTIM

Naval Force Shells Kiska   Warship Lost in Kula Gulf Battle Was Light Cruiser Helena

Enemy's Shore Batteries Fail To Reply During Shelling Which Occurred Last Night, Navy Says   Department Identifies Cruiser Lost In Kula Golf Rattle Vs The Helena, Which Was Damaved At Pearl Harbor

9700-TON CRAFT LOST IN BATTLE IN S. W. PACIFIC   Warcraft Back In Service; Damaged  At Pearl Harbor

eal U. S. Cruiser Helena Lost. .  U. 5. Navy Bombards Japs’ Base On Kiska

BOMBARD JAPS IN KISKA BAS!   Communique Names Light Cruiser Lost in Kula Gulf Battle 9,700Tor Helena

Cruiser Helena Lost in Battle With Jap Shins   Enemy Losses Are Six Sunk and Four Badly Damaaed

ACTION LINKED TO OFFENSIVE   U. S. Cruiser Helena Lost In Battle With Japs at oe Kula Gulf:   'FOE’S SHIPS DAMAGED

_ Damaged Jap Ships in Battle Put at “Several” by MacArthur’s HeadquartersKiska Shore Batteries Do Not Retuen Fire of Ameriean Craft

CRUISER HELENA SUNK BY ENEMY IN -SOLOMONS BATTLE   American Warships Sent Six Jap Vessels to Bottom;  Four Others Heavily The eee rccel

Aleutians Action Coincides With South Pacific Push; ‘No Return Fire From Island

Attack Timed With Moves In  The Solomons   Loss Of Cruiser An. nounced; Jap Sink. ings Heavy

Navy Reveals Lost Cruiser Is ‘Helena’   Fate of Captain and Crew Not Revealed in Briel Communiaue

NAVAL FORGES AGAIN ATTACK “AISKA SLANG   Jap Bases Bombarded Tuesday Night, Brief Report by Navy Says.   LIGHT CRUISER LOST IN KULA GULF BATTLE

Move Linked To Offensive In Solomons   U. S. Light Cruiser Hel. ena Revealed Lost Ir Yank Victory Over Japs In Kula Gulf.

U. S. Cruiser Helena Lost   = eS ee SS eS a Ew  9,700-Ton Vessel  Sunk During Battle UWsisk, len Pacecas

U. Ss. Cruiser Helena Sunk In Kula Gulf   ‘Attack on Japs’ Aleutians Base © Co-ordinated With Solomons Drive: Six Enemy Ships Believed Sunk

U. S. Cruiser Helena Lost In Kula Action; Six Jap Vessels Probably Sunk   Damaged Jap Ships in Battle Put at “Several” by MacArthur’s Headquarters— Kiska Shore Batteries Do Not Return Fire of American Craft

NAVY BOMBARDS KISKA ISLAND   TASK FORCE FAILS TO DRAW FIRE FROM JAP SHORE BATTERIES

American Naval Forces Bombard  Jap-Held Kiska   Attack Coordinates With U. S. Offensive Against Japs in South.   Announce the Loss of The Cruiser Helena

‘Navy Asserts Zattle oF Task Forces Great American Victory.in Narrow Gulf

SUNK IN FIGHT AT KULA GULF   Six Enemy Ships Sunk, Four Damaged by U. S. Fleet

U.S, WARSHIPS SCORE VICTORY OFFSOLOMONS   Ten-to-One Triumph By American Craft Halled By Navy Secretary In Shipyard Speech   HOLIDAY’ BATTLE ROUTED NIP FORCE   One Cruiser Lost, Japs Pay. Staggering Price In Night Clash North Of New Georgia

ix Japanese Ships Are “Probably Sunk” And Others Damaged, Says  Naval Communique

U. 5. Naval Force Bombs Jap Base On Kiska Island  Cruiser Helena Lost In Kula Gulf Battle

North Forces Join in Attack   REVEAL AMERICAN CRUISER LOST IN KULA BATTLE ‘WAS 9700-TON LIGHT CRUISER HELENA: YANK VICTORY IS CONFIRMED

G JAP SHIPS BELIEVED SUNK IN KULA   Sunken Cruiser Is Identified As Helena; Four Other Nip Vessels Are Damaged In Fight

U.S.S. Helena — Lost in Kula ~ Gulf Batile   But: Americans Again Score a Smashing Victory;Planes Pound: Jap. Bases   YANKEES ‘MOVING ‘UP ON ISLANDS   New. Blow in Aleutians. May. -. Be Possible Prelude to. 7 Landing. Attack

Cruiser Helena Reported Sunk In Kula July 6   Alaskan Attack Apparently Co-ordinated With U. §, Drive In South Pacific

U.S, NAVAL TASK UNIT HITS JAPS ON KISKA ISLAND   Navy Announces American Cruiser Helena Lost in Kula Gulf )

JAPANESE BASE ON KISKA HIT BY THE AMERICANS   In an Attack Apparently Coordinated With U. S. Offensive Against Japs.   NAME LOST CRUISER   The Helena Was Sunk in the Battle With Japanese in Kula Gulf.

Cruiser Helena Sunk in Solomons   Navy Department Says Japanese Had Sia Warship: Sunk in Kula Gulf Battle

CRUISER HELENA ~— TSLOST AT KUL   9,700 Ton Light Cruiser Lost In Battle With Jap Forces On Morning of July 6;

Fleet Bombards  ~ Enemy On Kiska  Cruiser Helena Lost In Kula Gulf

Algiers Raided By Axis Planes  Small Bomber Force   Small Bomber Force Stages Attack

RULES RELAXED ON CENSORSHIP   News From War Fronts Not Affected By Liberalization

SOME CENSORSHIP CONTROLS - LIFTED   Censorship on the Home Front Eased, Price Announces

GERMAN RAIDERS STRIKE AT LONDON   TWO DISTRICTS OF CITY UNDER BRIEF ALERT—COAST TOWNS ATTACKED.

German Raiders Lash At London   RAF Continues Ta Blact Nasi-Enrans .

Occupied France Target Of Raids   Big Procession Of Plane: Sweeps Over Channel

Allies’ Planes Again Roaring Over Channel   Great Raids Believed In Progress; France, Germany Targets

Allied Fliers Over France In Big Raids   Yank Planes Believed Part of Heavy Force, Nazis Gun Civilians

ALLIED..PLANES. IN LARGE FORMATIONS HEAD FOR EUROPE      Indicates ‘Major Raids On Enemy “Territory In Direction Of Caulare

9 Nations at Juebec Talks   Australia Is Included in Secret Meets   Attacks on Japan, Italy Seemingly Most Important

" Australia Added As Meetings Near Conclusion   Announcement On Status of Italy Expected Shortly

Australian Representatives Join Quebec Conference; Pacific May Soon Become Major War Theater

AUOTRALIANG NeW ADDITION TO CONFERENCE   Russia Only Large Allied Country Not Represented At Quebec Meeting

Australian Diplomat Is Called As Speculation Grows In Regard To Litvinov Withdrawal

Russia Now Only Major Power Not At Meeting   Australian Representation Being Added To Quebec . Conferences — Sir William Glasgow Is Due From Ottawa 

Australian Envot Joins Conference Of War Leaders   Russia Now The. Only Major Power Not Represented At Quebec Parley; Secretary Knox And Sumner Wells Also In Canada

ARRIVAL OF SOONG HINTS JAPAN BLOW   Swelling of Air Power In China Expected as FOR Calls In Minister.   SUPPLY LINES TARGET   Quebec Meeting Expected To Bring Shattering Attack on China Sea Area.

AUSTRALIA AGENTS Al CONFERENCE   Russia Now Orly Member of Big ANied Fighting Powers Without Some Form Of Representation At Onebee Confab   SECRETARY KNOX IS NOW AT CONFERENCE

Comacho Visits Corpus Christi  With Roosevelt   Chief Executives  Inspect Part Of TIC NASAL AA LE.

Two Presidents  Say Farewells   Roosevelt. Camacho Visit Air Comber at Corpus Christi

Camacho Says Farewell To Roosevelt   Precedent-Breaking Conferences End At Texas Air Base

Roosevelt and Camacho Finish Their Conference   Mexican President Visits Corpus Christi Naval Training Base

TALKS ENDED BY ROOSEVELT AND CAMACHO   MEXICAN PRESIDENT VISITS U.S. BASE IN TEXAS

FDR, CAMACHO END MEETING   Presidents Say Farewell a’ Corpus Christi After  Historic Parleys

Two Presidents See Huge Naval Air Base-and Eat With Cadets af Cenfers~

PRESIDENTS VISIT - NAVAL AIR CERTER      Roosevelt and Camacho _ Say Farewells in - KTayag

Large Noval Air [raining Center Inspected By Heads   Roosevelt Calls Occasion One Of Great American Historical Meetinas In Address

Two Presidents Say Farewells After Paying Visit to Corpus Christi, Tex.—There They Tour Vast Air Naval Training Center in Open Car and Dine With Cadets in Mess Hall—Two Cheered by Lines of Civilian Workers,

PRESIDENTS OF SISTER NATIONS SAY FAREWELLS   Mexican Executive Is Entertained At Corpus Christi Naval Raca   NO DISCLOSURE OF SUBJECTS DISCUSSED

PRESIDENTS ROOSEVELT. COMACHO SAY FAREWELLS AT U. S. TRAINING CENTER   ico’s Chief Executive Repays Promptl -DR’s Visit to Monterrey; Event Is Termed Historical Meeting

Two Presidents Separate After They Make Visit to Corpus Christi Navy Base

PRESIDENTS’ FAREWELLS END PARLEYS   Dine On Hot Dogs,Murphy. And String Beans At Corpus Christi Aix  Naval Training Cent er   Comacho Renays Visit

Camacho Visits U. S. With FDR   Presidents Part After Visiting Texas Air Base

Mexico’s Chie! Crosses Line  As U. S. Guest   Roosevelt Fetes Camacho at Huge Air Center

PRESIDENTS VISIT NAVAL AIR CENTER   Roosevelt and Camacho Say Farewells in Texas

F. R., Camacho End Conference   View Naval Air Base At Corpus Christi

Comacho Visits Corpus Christi With Roosevelt   Chief Executives Inspect Part Of U.S. War Machine

7 Firemen Are killed In Chicago   Walls of burning building collapse; tragic scene

Six Firemen Killed When Walls Crash   Seven Others Injured As They Battle Blaze At Chieago.

Fall Of Burning Wall Fatal To Six  Chicago Firemen   Seven Others Injured When Trapped Under Debris Of Building

No Place for Fascists in Free Italian   Government, Badoglio Tells New Allies

BAN FASCISTS IN NEW REGIME   Badoglio Plans Government Along Democratic Lines

HOPE SLAPS AT SUBSIDY   Urges Deferment Until Congress Has Time to Act.

Bieri aesiiiy ta  Kerr Will Review College Air Force  Training Group

MOTHER ADMITS SLAYING THREE   Tennessee Woman Held For Axe Murder Of Her Children

Railway Unions And Operators Unable to Agree   White House Hears Report On Difficulty

Playing For More Pay No Agreement Reached In Strike Threat   Joint Committee Reports Failure To President

FDR Offers To Decide Rail Issue   One Group Accepts But Four Other Brotherhoods Delay Their Answers

F.D.R. Offers To Arbitrate R.R. Dispute   Brotherhood of  . -.Trainmen Accepts bee Caryvirne

Roosevelt Will Serve As Arbitrator P Fovided ‘Disputants Agree To Accept His Decision

F.R. Seeks Rail Pact   Offers to Arbitrate In Wage Dispute; War Cannot Wait

Asks Both Sides Agree To Accept His Decision   ‘War Cannot Wait and I Cannot Wait, President Says, ‘American Lives and American Victory are at Stake’

Single Union Accepts Offer   FOUR BROTHERHOODS WITHHOLD ANNOUNCEMENT ON PRESIDENT’S PLAN TO DECIDE DISPUTE ON WAGES AS DECEMBER 30 DEADLINE APPROACHES

Roosevell To Arbitrafe   Trainmen Accept Offer To Decide Wage Dispute

Rail Union Aarees to Le FR. Arbitrate   B. of R. T. Accepts Offer of President; Others  Delay Their Decision 

No Agreement in Rail Stik   Problem Submitted Once: Again: To EDR At White: Hauee

“War Cannot Wait”, FDR Tells Carrier Union Disputants   Offers Good Offices to Mediate Rail Wage  Controversy

Strike ‘Fhreat  Is Continuing      Railway Management Bo And Unions Unable To Attain Accord

Railroads and ‘One of Unions Accept Offer   Others Meeting To See If They Want Roosevelt Ruling

Rail Trainmen To Let FR. Settle Dispute   Four Operating Brotherhoods Still Undecided

FDR May Decide — Rail Issue   Railroads and One of Brotherhoods Accept President’s Offer to Setile Wage Dispute

 Brotherhood Accepts Offer Of Roosevelt   President Says Railroads - Must Abide By His De cision: Await Answer,   VICTORY AT S (AR Se

an  AVS VICTORY NOW AT STAKE   Will Judge Wage War If Parties Agree to Abide By His Decision.   MUST BE WITHIN LAW

WOULD LET FDR SETTLE WAGE ISSUE   Brotherhood — of Railway Trainmen Accept Offer of President.   War Cannot Wait on A Strike, FDR Says

—RAIL ARBITRATION OFFER—   ‘War Cannot Wait,’ President Informs Workers, Carrers

Reports He's Now Ready To Give Verdict   Asks Both Sides Give Him Right To Make Final Decision; War Cannot Wait, He Says

TELLS PARTIES RAIL  DISPUTE HE WILLING  TAKE PERSONAL HAND “THE WAR CANNOT WAIT;  I CANNOT WAIT; AMERICAN LIVES AT STAKE”

FDR Offers to Arbitrate the Rail Dispute   Offer Provides Both Sides Must Agree to Accept His Decision

AT ONCE, FDR WARNS UNIONS      President Stipulates Both Sides Must Abide By  His Decision

Must Agree To Abide By His Decision   Rail Heads and Unions Promise To Give Their Answer Today

FDR’s Offer Acceptable To Trainmen   Other Brotherhoods Ask More Time to Make Decision

ARBITRATE RAI WAGE DISPUTE   Action Follows Failure of Carriers and Brotherhood Chiefs to Reach Accord

‘Carriers, One Union to Take Decision   Chief Executive Tells Carriers, Railmen War Cannot Wait on Inability Ta Reach Acreement on Railroad Waaes

TO ARBITRATE WAGE DISPUTE   Willing To Act But Decision Must Stand   War Cannot ‘Wait, President Says Today

B.R. T. Accepts Offer, Others in Conference   he President’s Propositior «Includes Agreement?to Abide by His Decision   NO AGREEMENT IN EARLIER PARLEYS   ‘American Lives and Ameri. can Victory ai Staké,’ WhitaHouse Statement Says

Roads and One Brotherhood Accep! President's Plan   Other Unions May Delay Their Action On His Suggestion

RAILWAY PAY NEGOTIATORS FAIL TO AGREE   Joint Committee of Management and Union Leaders Reports "Failure To President   NEW STRIKE THREAT

Says Nation Can’t Wait For Parleys   Their Decision on Wheth er They'll Accept Offer  Js Promised Saan   EXTRA!

stuewide, Froration Order Boosts Daily Average Crude Production, With West Texas Getting Mast OF Inevones

Statewide Proration Order Boosts Daily Average Crude Production. With West Texas Getting Most Of Increase

House Committee Gives Tentative  Approval To Withholding Tax Plan

SUBCOMMITTEE MAKES FIRST DEFINITE PROPOSAL TOWARD. PAY-AS-GO FED‘-ERAL TAX PLAN

ARGENTINE IS ~ GIVEN REBUKE   BULL BLUNTLY. REJECTS AP_PEAL FOR ARMAMENTS FROM NATION OUTSIDE  , UNITED NATIONS

TOLL MOUNTS IN AAILROAD WRECK   Known Dead 69 in Major Train Disaster

Wreck Death Toll Mounting   Known Dead Rose To 81 Early Today In North Carolina Wreck   FORTY-EIGHT DEAD ARE SERVICE MEN

HUGE GASOLINE BLACK MARKET 5 UNCOVERED   Two Million Coupon-Gallons Are Believed Involved In Giant Operation   FIRST SUSPECT HELD BY MIAMI AUTHORITIES   Young Man Tells Newsmen He Had Large Number Of Coupons In Home

LEWIS LOOKS ON ATWAGE MEETING   Hlinois Operators Request WLB to Approve Pact Recently Adopted.

URGE APPROVAL BY WLB OF NEW WAGE CONTRACT   Lewis’ Sits Impassively By As Attorneys Seek Such Approval

LEWIS  IMPASSIVE DURING WEB MEET WITH COAL HEADS   Illinois Operators Urge Board To Approve New Contract With UMW

Says Estimate Is Based On Best Information, Predicts Blow to Japan

Figures Indicate  War's End in 1944   Patterson Cites  Basis for Belief

Patterson Says War May Be Over In “44 Or *45   Makes Prediction In Speech In N. Y.

SENATE REJECTS AMENDMENTS TO DEFERMENT. BILL   Conferces to Tron Out Differences With House on Draft

Yankees Silence Axis Snipers Left in Naples .   Peacetime Sounds  Return as. Nazi Terror Ends

British Score Greatest Victory of War   Enemy Is Assailed by Land, Sea and Air; Strong Mareth Line Crumbles Before Heavy Onslaught of English, French, Yanks

Rommel Leaves 6,000 Prisoners And Vast Booty In Flight Into Bottle neck

Eighth Army In Hot Chase   British Fleet Is Bombarding Highway Along Seacoast

Governor To Cal Special Session  Will Study Veteran Rehabilitation

Goodland Plans  Special Session  Rehabilitation, Postwar Planning Needed

Goodland fo Call Special Session, Favors Stassen or Willkie for ‘44

QUEEN MARKY KALED TARQUGH PAA UF fo? YeRVAt  Giant Liner Had Closest Call With Enormous Wave

WAR SITUATION TODAY SAME AS IT WAS IN AUGUST 1918   Neutral Observers In Switzerland Say There Is Good Chance That Hostilities In Europe May End Within Five To Eight Months

Bern Sees Chance Of War End In 8 Months Or Year      Bern is an im tening pert for Europe. Here is an teresting appraisal of the war out jook. as Rgeayed in Switzerlan

Gas Ration Cut in West   Motorists Find A, B and C Coupons Allows 3 Gallons

‘Wildcat’ Strike At. Malleable   107 Men Out ‘In Roy Over Foreman

107 ON STRIKE AT MALLEABLE   Walk Out To Enforce Demands for Removal Of Foreman

JAP SUB DRIVE OFF AUSTRALIA FAILS PURPOSE   Five Freighters Sunk But Allied Supply Flow Not Dented

JAP SUBMARINES IN AUSTRALIAN AREA SINK FIVE SHIPS   Enemy. Trying To Block - Australia — However Fail To Dent Flow Of Supplies

Jap Subs Sink ) Freighters In 13 Days   Allied Troops Have Taken  .. i ae eS

JAP U-BOATS SINK FIVE FREIGHTERS AN THIRTEEN DAYS   Fail to Dent-Flew.of Supplies from U. S. to Australia, Linusear

‘DESTROYED TS REPORT   Submarines Play Havoc With Freighters—Flow of Supplies Hardly Dented.

JAP SUBS SINK § ALLIED SHIPS OFF AUSTRALIA   But Blockade Failure, MacArthur Says, Reportling Land,  a a aa

Jap Submarines Sink Five Ships In 13-Day. Period   Fail To Dent Flow of Supplies From America, Is Claim

GREAT GERMAN WAR  MACHINE REPORTED  FACING DISASTER RED ARMY THROWING  GERMANS BACK SCORES OF MILES TODAY

BATTLE FOR MELITOPOL   Struggle for City Involved some of the Fiercest Battles of the Russian War, in Which 20,000 Nazis Died.

CAPTURE CUTS ESCAPE ROUTE FROM CRIMEA   Dnieper City Also Doomed

Russians Within Artillery Range Of Krivoi Rog. Ore Center.   RY RICHARD McMURRAY.

Shifting Red . Blows Bring ~ Steady Gains   Nazis Unable to- Tell: Where Next Attack Will. Come; ~ Tines.Crumbling 2   FALL OF MELITOPOL: . APPEARS IMMINENT   Heavy Counter Attacks Not Stopping Russians “Ad-'vancing On Several Keys: ..

GERMANS UNABLI TO SLOW DOWN RED OFFENSIVE   LINES APPEAR TO BE CRUMBLING AROUND MELITOPOL, KIEV

Greatest Disaster Of Present Russian Drive Facing Nazis   Ry EDDY GILMORE

Nazis Fall Back As Reds Press Fall Offensive   German Lines Crumble Despite Use of Reserves

Germans Retreat On All Major  Russian Fronts   Counterattacks Foiled as Soviet Forces Spearhead Advance With Tanks.   ‘Defense In Depth’ Plan Sroken In Drive

REDS IN MELITOPOL   Gateway to Crimea Captured After Two Weeks of Fierce Battle

Many Wedges in Nazi Lines Are Enlarged   Swift Advances-‘Now Threaten To Trap 1,500,000 Germans

Melitopol, Gate To Crimea, Is Taken By Reds   Stalin Announces Fall After Two Weeks Of Fiercest Fighting; 1,000,000 Nazis Face Tran 20000 Are Killed

Melitopol Js Captured By Russian Forces After Two Weeks Battle.   HEAVY COUNTERATTACK

Melitopol Conquered, Stalin Says   One Of Fiercest Battles Of War Climaxed By A Victory That May Tray 17th Nazi Army

Stalin Announces Fall In Special Order Of Day;  German’s Loss Terrific

Surging Reds Score Again On Flaming Southern Front   Slight Gains — In Italy —

MINE SAFETY INSISTED O}   600 Men ‘Scared To Death’ of New Explosive Used and Refuse To Work

WILLOW GROVE MINERS QUIT, SCARED OF GAS   ‘Union Head Says Men Afraid Of Blasting With Ex perimental Powder

TROLLEYS HALT   Montreal Rail Workers Strike Tie Uo Transportation.

Riding Free Horse To Death   Treasury Policy Toward Newspapers Is Scored

Says Papers Are Gelting Bad Deal   Treasury “Trying To Ride Free Horse To Death”

CHILE TO BREAK AXIS RELATIONS   President Rios Summons Cabinet; Congress May Act Friday

CHILE EXPECTS AXIS BREAKOFF   Argentine Government Hears Diplomatic Action Nears

Elinor Glyn, English Author, Dies Life as Exciting as Her Novels

ACCUSED GIRL SLAYER WEEPS AT KINS’ RITES   Released from Kentucky Jail To Attend Funeral

AXIS PRISONERS ARE ROUNDED UF BY FIGHTING OTH   Montgomery's Men Make Successful Thrust At Mareth Defenses

BATTLE NEARS A CLIMAX WITH BAYONETS INTO ACTION   Two-Ton Block Busters Being Employed By Allies In Blasting Hole Thru North End Of Mareth Line

Allies Are Numerically Superior   Weather More Suitable for Ground Assaults

VESSELS LOST BY U. S. NAW   Three Major Points Reoccupied By Red Forces

Soviet Armies Driving North ‘Into Caucasus   U. S. Navy Identifies The 20,000-Ton Hornet As  Lost Plane Carrier

Give Marshall Suitable Pest   Stimson Declares Chief Of Staff To Be Assigned Wherever Best-Fitted.

DEATH HALTS WORK IN DEFENSE PLANT   Machinery At Elsner Factory Stopped While Priest Administers Last Rites To Fatally Stricken Workman

SHIFT IN OWI POST   Palmer Hoyt, Oregon Publisher, to Succeed Gardner Cowles, Jr.

WMC To Consider Farm Labor Needs   Investigate Charges That ‘‘Too Many Men Are Employed In Agriculture’’

YANKS ATTACK JAPS AT BUIN   Air Raids Reveal Foe Concentrates Strength in Shortland Region

JAPANESE FORCED TO ABANDON BASE   Bombers Blast Port of Dobo On Aroe Island; Planes Return to Steady Attack on Rabaul, New Britain

JAPS ABANDON ISLAND BASE   Port Of Dobo Blasted By Allies, Putting Town In Ruins

DOBO REPORTED FREED OF JAPS   Port Blasted By Bombers From Gen. MacArthur’s  Command

Japs Driven Out Of Dobo   Base Said So Thoroughly — ‘Wrecked It Is Abandoned:

FOUND DEAD IN BED AT HIS SUMMER HOME   Clark H. March, Aged 48, Cattle Dealer, Dies At Brown's Dam From Coronary Thrombosis

Army Wite Is Found With Stolen Baby   Bizarre Story Of Feigned Pregnancy Revealed In Judith Gurney Kidnaping   HUSBAND 1S FOOLED   Oregon Soldier Says Mate Suffered Head Injuries At Pearl Harbor

KIDNAPED OREGON CHILD FOUND SAFE AND SOUND   Army Wife Charged with Baby's Abduction Tells Bizarre Story that [t’s Her Infant

KIDNAPED BABY 18 FOUND SAFE   Woman, Who ‘Feigned :Preg ‘nancy for Year, Took Bab from Hospital

Kidnaped Baby Found; Weird Story of Woman Who Feigned Pregnancy and Fooled Friends

Find Stolen’ Infant Alive   Stolen by Army Wife In Hoax Attempt; Baby In Good Health ~

Baby Theft Solved; Kidnaper Fooled Husband, Friends   Soldier’s Wife Had Claimed for Months She Expected Child

Army Wife Admits Kidnaping Tiny Baby   Bizarre Story Of Feigned Pregnancy, Fake Births Are Revealed

Kidnaped Baby Is Found Alive; Army Wife Held   District Attorney Claims 26-Year-Old Woman Confesses Stealing Child When Tt Was Two Days Old: Police Investicat:

KIDNAPED BABY RETURNED HOME   Jailed Woman Confesses She Stole Infant From Hospital

ABDUCTED TOT FOUND ALIVE AND HEALTHY   Soldier’s Wife Arrested and Charged With Kidnaping   SIFT BIZARRE STORY   Feigned Pregnancy Nine Months; Appeared With Baby

KIDNAPED BABE IS FOUND ALIVE   Investigate Bizarre Story o 26 Year Old Army Wife

WOMAN CONFESSES TO CHILD-STEALING CHARGE IN OREGON > FINY JUDITH GURNEY, KID  _ NAPED FROM HOSPITAL, FOUND ALIVE AND WELT.

Infant Kidnaped From Hospital Found Alive; Soldier’s Wife Confesses

ARMY WIFE WAS KIDNAPER OF OREGON INFANT   Baby Found Alive and Healthy Last Night by Police Investigating Bizarre Story

KIDNAPED CHILD TO FOOL HUSBANE   Woman Confesses As Nurses Refute Her Story About Birth In Hospital.

Army Wife Is Accused In Abduction   Took Two-Day-Old From Hospital And Fooled Husband

Kidnap Baby Is Returned To Mother   Army Wife, 26, Charged With Abduction

Bizarre Tale Is Related In Kidnap Case   Young Army Wife Confes. ses Abducting Baby to Fool Her Husband   NEIGHBORS SUSPICIOUS

“Pivo-Days-Old Judith Gurney Kidnaped Week Ago From Hospital; Wo- — man’s Story Probed   VEIGNED PREGNANCY ro FOOL HUSBAND   Arrested With Her SoldierMate and Baby Soon After Leaving Home For Portland

Gurney Baby Safe: Woman  Admits Theft      Had Planned Kidnaping For Manv Months And Had Fooled Husband

£5 LL MLL MAMMAL ALLE ALAA ALLA LL LAAN  TINY JUDITH GURNEY FOUND ALIVE AND HEALTHY MONDAY

Abducted Baby As Found Sate   Soldier's Wife Admits Oregon Kidnaping

Kidnaped Infant - _[s Found Alive  Soldier’s Wife Admits Abduction Of Babv

KIDNAPED OREGON BABY FOUND; PROBE STORY BY ARMY WIFE   TINY JUDITH GURNEY RETURNED TO PARENTS AS POLICE INVESTIGATE CHARGES OF FAKED CHILDBIRTH; COUPLE NABBED ON WAY TO PORTLAND, HUSBAND SAYS JAILED WOMAN HAD HEAD INJURY AT PEARL HARBOR

HEALTH QUIZ   Tes W  Do you have headaches ? LIL Do you lack pep or vim? CL Do you get irritable easily ? CIE Do you feel depressed—-nervous? []

HEALTH QUIZ   da you have headaches? OC Doyoulack poparviga? = COC Do you get inritante easity? OE Da you feel dearessed—-pervees? [7] [7

Asks WLB To Scrap Wage Policy   AFL Members of Board Demand a Change from “Little Steel” Formula Of Deciding Increases

AFL CALLS ON LABOR BOARD T0 SCRAP FORMULA   Union Wants Decisions. By Majority Rule and Not Dictated by Any Person or Governmental Agency

AFL Asks War Labor Board To Scrap Its 15 Per Cent Wage Adjustment: Formula

-AFLMembers Of War Board Want New Rules   Scrapping of 15 Per Cent Plan Is Demanded

A.F.L. SEEKS WLB SHAKEUP   GROUP ASKS CHANGES IN POLICY, WAGE FORMULA

Would Serap Little Steel Pay Formula  AFL Members Of WLB Asks Tilting Of Wage Lid

NeW WAGE FORMULA ASKED BY AFL GROUE   Labor Members of War Labor Board Present FivePoint Program   FOR ADJUSTMENTS ON REALISTIC BASIS   Alse Calls for Decisions . by Majority Rule. Witaout Dictation

MANCUSO HAS SURRENDERED   Father of Twins Given New Two Months of Civilian Life

Assembly Delays Action On Measure Designed To Ban Inspection Of Returns By Public

TWENTY-SEVEN TEXAS COASTAL COUNTIES T0 GET MEXICAN LABOR  WAR MANPOWER COMMIS. _ SION TO ALLEVIATE - FARM LABOR NEED

NORWAY BLASTED IN SECOND RAID BY U. 5, PLANES   Second U. S. Attack In Three Days; RAF Giants Hit German Plants

Second American Raid on Norway in Last Three Days.  ICY RAIN, MUD SLOW DOWN ITALY ACTION  Only One Advance of Two Miles Reported on Italian Front.

BERLIN AND NAZI CHEMICAL PLANT HEAVILY BOMBEL   RHINELAND CITY OF LUDWIGSHAFEN BATTERED BY FOUR-MOTORED GIANTS LAST NIGHT.   NORWEGIAN PLANT IS ALSO A TARGET   People of France Warned of Intensive Allied Bombing Campaign and Told to Stay Away From Nazi Industries.

American Bombers Raid Norway 2nd Time in Three Days Following British Raid on Nazi Center of Ludwigshafen   Fifth and Eighth Armies Move Slowly Through Freezing Rain and Mud

British Attack Berlin And Ludwigshafen; Yanks Hit Greek Airfields

American Flying Fortresses Also Make Raid On Greece Again. Italy Fighting Halted By Weather.

LAGUARDIA HAS TALK WITH NINE TTALIAN LEADERS      Impressive Evidence Of Scop Of Peace Offensive Ts Seen

LaGuardia’s Plea to Italy Urges Revolt   Tells of Recent Talks With 9 Ranking Italian Generals

LaGuardia Tells Of Talk With 9 Italian Generals  Shortwave Broadcast Hints gee: red Chiefs May Re in America

CCC Is Huge Bank Outfit. But Modest   Has So Many Sidelines No Wonder Congress Was Confused

OHIO ASSEMBLY CONVENES WITH GOP IN SADDLE   Republican Margin Of Control Widest Since 1929

DISTURBANCES MARK STRIKES IN BALTIMORE   Two Women Victims 0 Violence in Connection With Trolley and Bus Walkouts   STRIKERS ON JOB   Many Returning to Posts, Company Says; Motorman Injured; Derail ment Attempt Fails

Striking Employes Returning to Work  Transit System Still Hampered

Senator Charges  Jones Lobbied   Tried To Halt Subsidies By Disuading Senators

JESSE JONES CRITICIZED FOR LOBBYING   Utah Senator Defends Cabinet Member In Senate Attack

CLARK FIRES LOBBY CHANGE AT SECRETARY   Says Jesse Jones “Could Be Impeached” for Subsidy Efforts.   LAGUARDIA, MURRAY OFFER THEIR VIEWS

CHARGES JONES ~ WITH LOBBYING   Cabinet Member Raked Over Coals In Senate Subsidies Fight

Jones Lobbying On Prices it By Senator Clark  Secretary Could Be Impeached, Missourian Aver:

Germans Claim 14 Ships Sunk   U-Boats Attack Convoy Day After Day, Nazi High Command Says

NAZI U-BOAT ATTACK ON CONVOY CLAIMED   Reports, Unconfirmed, Say 14 Ships Sent Down

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   “Instinct of French People Guides to 4th Republic . .

Japs Quieted By Continued Raids   Pre-Invasion Blows Blast New Britain  Be WYTYsee & wpwrAwT o

Japs Quieted By Continued Raids   Pre-Invasion Blows Blast New Britain

REDS MAY RESU* RELATIONS WIT POLISH COVT. :   Russians Broke Off — tions April 26, Accu” Poles with Acting in THE cert with Nazis

Remeve Points On Canned Soups   Release Grapefruit Juice and Reduce Several Items

Canned Soups and Citrus Fruit Juices Cut. From Ration List: Beef Point Values Slashec

INQUIRY. INTO. ~~ TORCH DEATE   MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL COUPLE CENTRAL FIGURES “IN TRAGEDY IN FLAMING  ‘AUTOMOBILES

WOULD CONTINUE THE OPA      Extension for Another Year Fa. vored by C. of C.

 Fewer Used and: Recapped. Auto Tires’  “Will Be Available for a Short\Time

Fewer Used and Recapped Auto’Tires Will Be Available for a Short Time

PLAN GUT IN TIRE QUOTAS   TEMPORARY REDUCTION Ft NUMBER OF TIRES -FOR.. LOW-MILEAGE DBIVERS

The War Against Cancer— Chemical Cures May Be In Offing, Says Experts

NEW CHEMICALS HIT AT CANCER   DISCOVERY HELD OF TREMENDOUS IMPORT IN SEARCH OF CURE

Three Chemicals Discovered To Dama ge M alignant Cancer Called Definite Proof That A Curative  , Po Fs a} Pe bn: © cn) i a rs

ATTACK ON GANCER MAKING PROGRESS   Three Chemicals Found for New Treatment

Step Nearer Cancer Cure   Discovery of Certain Chemicals Believed yClue to Final Answer:

NEW HOPE FOR "HILLING CANCER      Three Chemicals Harm Growth, but Not Any Healthy Tissue

Three Chemicals Found To Attack Cancerous Cells   Hospital Reports Drugs Will Damage Malignant Growth, Yet Not Destroy Healthy Tissues.

MURDER CHARGED T0 MOUNDS MAN   WILLIAM L, M'CABE JAILED FOR ALLEGED SLAYING OF HIS WIFE

ALLIES MOVING UPON MADANG, SHIPPING BASE   Ground Force Captures Markham Valley Town Of Sagerak   33 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON WEWAK

ALLIES BEGIN MADANG DRIVE   MacArthur's Headquarters Disclose Markham Valley Town Taken

ALTIES LAUNCH ~ MADANG DRIVE   Markham Valley Town Of Sagerak Taken By  Ground Force

JAP'S SHIPPING BASE MENACED   Ground Movement Began Against Madang In New Guinea

Ground Attack Against Jap Base Started  ‘Shipping Base of ar 4. oft Frew LL   ‘Shipping Base of Madang Next on ‘Allied Schedule

Allied land force hits  at Madang   Take Sagerak in Markham valley

Filth Army Hard Upon Nazi Heels   Keeps German Retreat Go ing Too Fast for Enemy to ‘Build New Defenses   COUNTER ATTACKS » ARE BEATEN OFF   Ten-Mile Advance Made, Allies Moping Up as. They Go; New Air Blows

Berlin Dispatches Cite Preparations Near Eternal City   Tell of Heavy Naval Concentrations; News of Conflict in Italy

Situation Changes   Annual Dog Show's Entry List Sets New Record With 136 Canines Entered; Crowds Gather for Event

Annual Dog Show's Entry List Sets New Record With 136 Canines Entered: Crowds Gather for Event

UMW Moves To Resume Work in Pits   Miners Condemn Congress For_ Killing Veto”

Coal Miners Back-to-Work Sentiment Increases    But Many Workers  In East Pennsylvania Vote To Remain Idle, Despite Officials’ Pleas   ALABAMA MINERS WILL WORK TODAY   Many Union Locals Hold Sunday Ballots To Determine Action

Miners Are Now Surging Back  To Coal Mines   Some fields swept by return-to-work -sentiment; 130,000 back ‘in West Virginia.

Miners Prepare To Resume Work In Most Fields   Numerous Locals Vote Tt End Strike This Morning

MINE UNIONS VOTE TO RETURN TO PITS   Coal Production Expected ~ to Get in Full Swing Today

Back To Work Movement —s Manning Pits   Alabama Miners Nearly Unanimous In Voting To  Return To Operations Today To Provide Coal   West Virginia Back

Back-to-work move sweeps over coal mine labor groups   Vote to resume operations in partially-idle producing area

PRODUCTION OF COAL WILL BE RESUMED TODAY   Mine Workers In Appalachian Fields Vote To Return To Work   UNION OFFICIALS FLAY BUREAUCRATS

Coal Miners Vote to Renew Work   Full Operation Looms Today In Nation’s Pits

RESUMPTION OF DIGGING TODAY IS WIDESPREAD   Union Leaders Criticize Roosevelt, War Labor Board But Express Faith In Ickes   Anti-Strike Law Hit

MANY MINERS TO END STRIKE   Wave of Back-to-Work Sen. timent Reported in Appalachian Fields

Chinese Retake Vital Changteh   57th Chinese Division Commander Personally Directs Street Fighting.

Appropriations Bills Are Sent To Roosevelt   WLB Decision in Coal Dispute Expected Today; Civilian Problems Claim Capital Attention 

CONGRESS THROWS  OVER NINETY-NINE  BILLIONS AT ENEMY ARMY BILL CALLS FOR 7  BILLIONS AND NAVY GETS 27 BILLIONS

YANKEES SMASH KEY AIRDROMES   Installations Hit At Capua And Grazzanise; Locri Area Bombarded

KEY AIRDROMES HAMMERED HARD BY U. $. GRAFT   Light And Heavy Planes Sweep Over Italy

ALLIES RENEW AIR ASSAULT AGAINST ITALY   Airdromes Blasted Germans Make Attempt To Bomb Algiers

Strong Forces Engage In Raid   Set of Scorching Attacks Made On Key Airdromes; Capua Airfields Smashed By Fortresses and Aerial Installations At Grazzanaise Bombed By Ma rauders.

Key Italian Dromes Raided   Powerful Bombers Smash Fields, Many Parked Planes

U.$. Bombers Renew Aerial Attack On Italy   Flying Fortresses Hit Key Airdromes At Capua and Grazzanise

YANK BOMBERS HIT ATREIELDS INSOUTHITAL   Scorching Attacks Made On Key Airdromes; Heavy and Medium Planes Used In Raids

—ITALY—  KEY AIRDROMES. BOMBED BY U.S   Americans Continue Scorching Air Attacks On Italian Peninsula

U.8. BOMBERS IN RENEWED ATTACKS w IN ITALY THURSDAY   SCORCHING ATTACKS ON TWO KEY AIRDROMES WITH GOOD RESULTS

Airfields At Capua And Grazzatiise Targets Of American Bombers; Enemy Plane Base In France Hit!

Americans Pounding at Italy Again   Key Airdromes Targets of Series of Raids By All Types of Plane

AIRDROMES IN ITALY HIT BY U, S. AIRMED   Down 15 Axis Planes, Smash Others on Ground

Enemy Air Fields Feel Allied Blows   U. S. Heavy and Medium Bombers Scorch Airdromes of Italy      Capua and Hit; Enemy Raiders Drop Bombs  on Algiers

American Heavy And Medium Bombers In Strong Force Blast Enemy Installations, Wrecking Large Numbers Of Grounded Planes—RAF Airmen Carry Out Night Assault On Suburbs Of Naples—Mainland Again Bombarded By Warships

Fortresses Raid Capua Field, Ma-" rauders Visit Grazzanise, Wellinqions Naples Suburbs   AIR DUELS FOUGHT   Around 50 Enemy Fighters Rise tc Defend Capua—Brilish Warship: Blasi Rail Line

Blast Airdromes In Widespread Attacks on Italy   Large Number of Planes on Fields Are Hit

Widespread. Attacks Also Wreck Motor Transports And Damage Power Lines

lialian Targets Bombed In Set Of Scorching Raids   British Naval Unit Shells Coast Areas

YANK BOMBERS BLAST ITALY’S KEY AIRDROMES   Enemy Loses 15 Planes i Running Fights With American Forces

IN ITALY AGAIN HIT IN ATTACKS   Flying Fortresses Smash Capua Fields, . 19 Enemy Craft Downed

PILOTS STAGE STIFF BATTLES FOR SUPREMAC'   Other American Warplanes in Attacks on North France With Berlin Getting a Rest

MAINLAND IS SHELLED BY BRITISH SHIPS   Flying Fortresses Smash pua Airfields ana Marauders Raid Installations At Grazzanise   SARDINIA OPERATIONS

ALLIES RENEW AIR AOOAULT ON ITALY   Fortresses Smash at Air. fields; Naples and Bagnol: Are Visited

Airports Smashec   U. S. BOMBERS RENEW ASSAULT ON ITALIAN PENINSULA FIELDS

Yankees Renew Blows af Italy   Flying Fortresses Smash Capula Airfields, Grazzanise Raided

Americans Raid Italian  Airdromes   Flying Fortresses Drop Their Bomb Loads In Capua Area — Planes Attack Grazzanise

Air, Sea Forces Renew Attacks Against Italy   Runways And Fascist Planes Smashed By Blockbusters

Bombers Renew Attack on Italy  Scorching Raids hha de ne Ate den ee

Key Airdromes In Italy Hit By  Yank Airmen   _Capau Airfields Subjected To Same,Type Of Attack _ At Eoogia.

ON PENINSULA   U. S. Bombers in Blazing Assault on Key Italian Airdromes.   SARDINIA BLASTED AGAIN

RAIL LINES AND AIRFIELDS HIT BY BIG BOMBS   Many Enemy Planes Are Hit on Ground; We Lose Seven

UNITED STATES BOMBERS SMASHED GAPUA AIRFIELD   In Strong Force, Americans Renewed Assault on Italian Peninsula.   GRAZZANISE ALSO HIT   Marauders Raided the _ Installations There, It Is Reported.

‘More Italian Bases Rocked  U. S. Bombers In Force Smash At Airdromes

BOMBERS SCORCH SOUTHERN ITALY   KEY AIRDROMES ARE HIT; ENEMY FOILED IN RAID ON ALGIERS

Renew Aerial Assaults On Italy's Boot   Warplanes And Warships Rake Installations Along Peninsula

‘Damage Done To Runways  And Planes   Americans Hit Capaua And Grazzanise Fields; 19 Planes Downed

Naples Suburbs Pounded In RAF Blockbuster Raid   Power Lines, Motor Transports and. Buildings Destroyed in Other Widespread Raids. British Ships Shell Rail — way. and Bridges.

REY AUR FIELDS IN ITALY RAKED   Capua, - Naples Blasted ‘bj New Allied Assaults.

Blistering  Air Attacks OnItaly By U.S. Planes   Key Airdrumes Hit In Scorching Blows British Warships  Bombard Mainland

Scorching New Air Attacks On  Italian ‘Dromes   U. S. Bombers Smash Installations At Capua And  Grazvzanice.

Enemy Air Fields Feel Allied Blows   U. S. Heavy and Medium Bombers Scorch Airdromes of Italy   BATTLES IN THE AIR   Capua and Naples Hit; Ene_ my Raiders Drop Bombs on Algiers

Allies Blast Key Italian Airdromes   Many Tons of Bombs Dropped on Capua’ Airfields in Same Pattern of Attack Which Laid Waste to Bases at Foggia.

Germany, Italy. Cleared Out Of “Mare Nostrum   Fighting French From South Join British In Chase

ALLIES MAKE TWIN ATTACKS UPON TRIPOL   FRENCH JOIN EIGHTH ARMY; 14 AXIS SHIPS SUNK

French Aid In Chasing Rommel   14 Nazi Ships In Mediterranean Sunk By Allies

Allies Closing Tn On Seaport   Main Body of Rommel’s Troops Reported Past Italian Bastion   Sinking of 14 Axis Vessels Is Announced    Victories in Mediterranean Seored First '3 Days Of This Week

British Sink 14 Axis Ships in Naval Sweep Aiding Libya Battle   Rommel’s Forces Reported Hurrying Toward Tunisian Border; Expect Only Delaying Action at Tripoli; Heavy Fighting Rages

JOIN FORCES WITH BRITISH COAT ARMY   Sweep Up From Lake Chad Area and Attack Nazis on Left of Montgomery’s Troops,   ADVANCE IS NEW THREAT TO ROMMEL   Meantime English Hammer at Axis Mediterranean Shipping, Sinking 14 Vessels,

14 AXIS SHIPS ARE SUNK IN THREE DAYS   Fighting Frenchmen And English Are Now Massed Before Tripoli.

Fighting French Join Eighth Army In Tripoli Driv   Destroyers Take Heavy Toll Ot German, Italian Shipping Past Three Days

JOIN IN PURSUIT OF FLEEING AXIS   Le Clerc Makes Long March Over Hills, Desert   BRITISH REPORT   Fourteen Axis Vessels Sunk In Mediterranean; Enemy Tanks Make Gains

FIGHTING FRENCH JOIN MA BRITISH NEAR TRIPOLI PU   Swarm Up from Lake Chad District to Close Ir On Rommel! Forces; Admiralty Announces Sinking of 14 Axis Ships in Mediterranean

French Join British in Tripoli Drive   Allied Columns Converge on  Libyan Capital

French Swarm North fo Join British Army  14 Axis Vessels Sunk: Troops Attack fo Left of Enalish Advance

British Admiralty Announces Sinking 14 Axis Vessels in Action in Mediterranean During Past Three Days

Fighting French Help  Fast-Moving British  Closing in on Tripoli 14. AXIS SHIPS SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN  Rommel Is Expected To Use Tripoli Only For Delayine Action

British Sink 14 Axis Ships  LCiehtina Franch Toin British in Advance on Tripoli

Say Duce Backe ‘German Plan   Wanted to Abandon Central and Southern Italy

Dies at NAS-Hospital   Duce Fell. Because He Supported Nazi D Defense Plan, Travelers Report

Bills Taking UNC Trustees Out Of Politics Opposed   Objectors Say Measures Would Eliminate Cap able Persons.

UNIVERSITY BILL IS VOTED DOWN   Measure Would Take University Board of Trustees Out of Politics; Governor’s War Powers Bill U nanimously Approved In Committee.

[ALLIED FORCES MOVE TO FLANK ROME ROAD   Tank Battle in . Ortona Streets

TANK BATTLE TURNING PORT INTO SHAMBLES   British 8th Army Is Bringing Down Nazi Resistance at Ortona.

YANKS, FRENCH, BRITISH FORGE AHEAD TWO MILES   Ortona’s Falf’ = (mminent. Fighting ts Growing In  Intaneiiv.

ALLIES ADVANCE IN BOTH SECTORS OF TTALIAN FRON]   Americans-French Gain ir Mountains; British Battla far Oriana

TANK BATTLE UNDER WAY AT ORTONA   U. S. Troops Gain in Drive Toward San Vittore

Allies Advance  Toward Cassino  On Italian Front Tank Fighting  Rages in mt .« nf Netona

FORCES 2 MILES NEARER CASSING ON WAY 10 ROM   Allies Make Slow Gains Witt Violent Fighting at Bott. Ends of Line; French Gain Mountain Pass.   U. S. BOMBERS MAKE RAID BY DAYLIGHT   Bombing Tzip Followed By Night Raid of Mosquitoes on Western Germany, Fighters~Give Aid.

Ortano ls Reduced ti Shambles   Fierce Fighting In Burning Town Occurs Monday

TANK UNITS IN STREET BATTLE WAREGK ORTONA   Americans and French Fight Ahead Two Miles on 4Mile Front.

Yanks Attack Nazi Defenses Of San Vittore   - Eighth Army. . ‘Tanks Battling.  crf ne en. imrmweme

BOOKLETS LAUDING GOV, BRIGKER APPEAR   Biography of Executive Outlines Administration

BRITISH ATTACK JAPANESE BASE   Commando Type Raid Made On Jetty in Western Burma Port.

Farming Payment Program Stymied   Secretary Wickard Seeks Another

SEEK SUBSTITUTE FOR FARM PROGRAN   Wickard May Try to Have OPA Ceiling Lifted or Beans and Peas

WICKARD SEEKS SUBSTITUTE FOR INCENTIVE PLAN   In Effort to Increase Farm Production to  Necessary War-Time J avel

Wickard Seeks Sub For Farm  Bonus Program   Refusal Of Funds Derails Plan For Incentive Pavments.

Wickard Seeks  Incentive Plan   Wants Substitute Plan Te Encourage Growing Ot} War Crops.

Threat of Coal Strike Dispelled Until End of May   WLB Issue Injunction to Operators From Negotiating With Lewis.   Board Declares It Is Sole Judge of Issues

WLB Insists Lewis Respect Recent Order   Mine Workers Extend Truce Until End Of May On Ickes Request.   PANEL DRAFTS REPORT

Extend Coal  Mine Truce   Lewis Accedes to Plea Of Ickes to Avert Strike Before May 31

WLB Stands Paf On Coal Dispute  Threat.of Another Tieup Dispelled Yineil Fad af hAay

Miners’ Strike Is Staved Off  For Time Being   Lewis Agrees To Exten sion Of Truce Until Enc Of This Month.

WLB Standing: Pat; Longer Coal. Truce      Ickes Has a Formula. for Negotiations, But Next: Sten Is: Not Clear

Lewis Grants Extension Of Miners’ Truce   Advises Workers to Stay   On Jobs Until Midnight  Of May 31

Miners’ Truce Is Extended  Laber Boerd Insists ee SS ee  Perens peeen   Labor Boerd Insists Lewis Must Recognize Authority in Dispute

WLEB will not bow to Lewis   Board demands recognition; coal walkout averted

COAL MINERS ORDERED 10 RESUME WORK   Some Say They Will Not Until They Get Contract

Uncertainty Develops As To Whether Miners Will Accept FDR Back-to- Work Order And Return To Pits Wednesday

US to Open Coal Mines Tomorrow   Lewis Confers With Ickes After FDR Takes Over

Lewis and Ickes Meet to Discuss Reopening Mines   Many of Strikers May Not Heed Roosevelt’s Order But Wait for Lewis to Send Them Back to Pits

Seen as Move To Devastate Nazi Capital   Unrest in Suburbs to a Troublesome Pitch   NO SECTION ESCAPED   No Sign Germany Is Ready to Crack, However

NAVY SHELLS SWEEP ENTIRE «SOUTH COAST  Gen. Eisenhower’s Warning Being Made Good  ee      PEACE MOVE RESISTED   Demonstrations by People Continue to Grow

FINAL STAGES SICILY DRIVE ARE NEARING   Soviets Make  New Gains In Orel Sector

ARFLEETS HIT NAPLES AGAIN IN SERIES OF RAIDS   Americans Advance Lines Three Miles In Coffin Corner of Sicily.

Yankees Captured San Stefano And Mistretta Naples Is Main Target

Busy Bee Baseball Boys Prepare For Coming Games  Rw A CGDONRTeS ENTLITICIAa?T

Los Angeles Is Hit by Tie-Uy   Halt in Transportation Sees Angelenos Meet Emergency by Using Own Cars

Angelenos Get To Work By Car  Los Angeles Street Car, Bus Drivers GeetLs Far hAnro Priv

Trolley Cars In Los Angeles Cease Operatine   One-Day Strike Called to Force Increase in Pay

FRENCH PATRIOTS OBJECT TO HITLER’S BIG SLAVE ROUNDUP, KILL 350 GERMAN ‘SOLDIERS IN GUERRILLA WAR OUTBREAK   Street Fighting Breaks Out in Paris, Other Cities As Gestapo Goes to Work. «

Temperature Of 14 Below. At Superior Lowest For State — Arctic Mase Moves Eastward

‘Cold Wave On Way Out, Says Weather Man   Recordings Of 17 Degrees Below Zero Recorded In Northern Sections— 4 Below In Sheboyecan

American Troops Said Stationed On Cyprus Island   Speculation Grows __ Allies Ready To Move On Axis-Held Isles

Yank Troops Nov On Cyprus Isle   Allies May Move Against Crete—Axis Rushes Sicily, Sardinia Preparations

AMERICAN TROOPS REPORTED TO BE IN CYPRUS; AXIS RUSHES WORK ON DEFENSES IN SOUTHERN EUROP!      U. S. Division Commander Said to Be in Cyprus Capital. Presumed to Be Part of United Nations’ Invasion Plan.

AMERICANS ON CYPRUS ISLAND   Greeks Say Capture of Crete Is Vital as Taking Sicily

RUMORS FLY OF COMING ALLIED INVASION MOVES  Oe "Cypru se cay  A PEEDS WORK ON

HEAR REPORTS YANKEE FORCES ARE ON CYPRIS   Speculation Increases on Possible Allied  Invasion of Europe

Yanks Reported Stationed on Cyprus Island  Began Arriving 7 ~ Two: Months. Ago, .

CLAIM. AMERICAN TROOPS ARE ON CYPRUS ISLAND   Swedish Reports Say Stars And Stripes Flying Beside Union Jack

AMERICAN TROOPS REP ORTED LOCATED ON CYPRESS ISLAND   Speculation . Increases On Allied Preparations For European Invasion

AMERICANS ON CYPRUS ISLAND, EUROPE HEARS   Part of Invasion Talk Has Axis Building Fortifications at Frenzied Rate

RED CROSS HOLDS. ANNUAL MEETING   Directors of County Chapter for 1943 Elected ” Last Night   REPORTS ARE GIVEN

RED CROSS HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING   Directors of County Chapter for 1943 Elected Last Night

New Ceiling ,Prices for Citrus Fruits   Justice Department Looks im to Liquor Situation: Ne Further Grant of Tax Revenue Expected

IRAE. ELDREDGE DIES, AGED 93   Formerly Operaed Store At Seney—Veteran Merchant

Former Seney Man Died In Rock Valley  Tra Eldredge Was Well Known By  fat ¥_ rT

Former Seney Man Died In Rock Valley   Ira Eldredge Was Well Known By Older Residents

Allied Planes Stage Bigges! Raids OF War   Blast German And Italian Factories And Lorient, France   American Artillery Active In Tunisia   Russians Round Up Trapped Germans In Black Sea Corridor

Triple-Raid  TouchesRuhr, Italy, France   Most Sweeping Ai Air Raid Ever Attempted; Reds Sever Ate toy Defense Line

AIR ASSAULTS MADE BY ALLIES ON WIDE SCALE   Hitler’s Army in Russia Put in Death Squeeze as Escape Cut Off   AFRICA OMINOUSLY CALM   Yanks Withdraw from Vital Rail Center in Tunisia But Why Unexplained

RAF Bombs Axis War  Industries   Sweeping Raids In Italy, France

Italy, Ruhr and France ~ Are Blasted   Heavy and Concentrated As‘saults Are “wiade on itler’s.'‘Fortress’’   THIRD SUCCESSIVE. : NIGHT: FORAY   War Industries Singled Out for Pounding; Only Three Planes Lost

Allies Smash At Germany, Italy, France, Tunisia   Bombers Thunder Destruction On Axis In Terrific Far- Flung Aerial Forays

ITALY, FRANC AND THE RUHR ALL ATTACKED   Royal Arsenal City of Turin and Port of Spezia Targets of Allied Aerial Fighters   FOUNDRIES POUNDED

EUROPEAN FORTRESS SMASHED IN TRIPLE FURY BEFORE DAWN .   RUSSIANS REPORT 200,000 AXIS TROOPS CUT OFF BELOW ROSTOV

Bombers Rain Destruction On Italy, Ruhr, France; Rnseians Cut Escape Roads

RUHR, FRANCE, ITALY ROCKED BY BOMBINGS   Most Sweeping Operation Attempted in Any Night. Turin Was Target in Italy

Blast Hitler’s Vaunted ‘“‘European Fortress”’ .   RAF Thunders Destruction On Italy, Germany

Italy, Germany, Occunied France in Triple Blows   Turin, Spezia Bombed In Italy; German Ruhr _ Industries Damaged

Widely-Seattered Targets Dealt Heavy Blows Dur ing Most Sweeping Attack Ye et

Italian Cente           Bombers Set Out Again Today Tow ard France; Big Jap Sea Force Reported: Heads   Guadalcanal; Operations There Not Rev :

RAF Thunders Destruction On Europe   Attack Northern Italy, German Ruhr and Nazi-Occupied France; Allied Blows Also Hit Axis in North Africa

Raiding Operations Greatest Attempted By RAF In One Night   Blast Lorient Sub Nest, The Ruhr, Turin Arsenal, Port Of Spézia; Russians Trap 200,000 Nazis

RAF Blasts Germany, Italy, Occupied France In Greatest Single Raid

RUHR VALLEY AND TURIN RAIDED BY BRITISH AIRMEN   Nazi Submarine Base at Lorient, France, Also Blasted; More Germans  Tranned in Riuecia

BRITISH HOME-BASED BOMBERS THUNDER DESTRUCTION ON NAZLITALIANTARGETS =   Ruhr Valley And Targets in Nazi-Occupied France Heavily Pounded as Well as Italy’s Royal City Arsenal at Turin and Port of Spezia

Ugo UFFENGIVE. PUDHED NAZI BACK AT OnEL   Red Trcops Encircle C ty in Three Eides in New Advances.   GOAL SIX MILES AWAY   Russian Drive, Ncw in Its Fourth Day, Steadily Gathers Speed.

Russian Forces Steadily Closing In On Orel Base   Soviet Spearhead Is Reported Within Six Miles Of Rail Center   GERMAN LOSSES MOUNT RAPIDLY

GIRL, AFIRE, SAVED BY 12-YEAR-OLD BOY      Fiames Smothered But Sister Is Critically Burned

SPARKS PROBE ~ BEING PUSHED   ‘ORTH DAKOTA SENATOR INTERESTED IN LETTER HOP- © KINS ALLEGED TO HAVE ’.. SENT COLLEGE ” PRESIDENT

2 A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA   Iowa Southern Utilities Starte Namave Suit,

RAF “BLASTS ANOTHER CITY IN THE RUHF   Hundreds of British Bombers Strike at Nazis From West

Gelsenkirchen Raid Target   2000 Tons of Bombs Fall on Ruhr City

RAF BOMBERS HEAP MORE DESTRUCTION ON BATTERED RUHR      Gelsenkirchen Target Of Powerful Attack — 2,000 Tons Bombs Dropped

GELSENKIRCHEN HIT BY 2000 TONS QF ALLIED BOMBS   RAF Synchronizes Attack With Sicilian Invasion. Daylight Raids Follow.

Big Bombers Smash Axis From West  ‘British Carrying.  Drow Debts   British Carrying. On Battering “Of Ruhr Valley

COMMITTEE WARNS OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN U. S. AFTER WAR   Says There Will Probably Be 4,000,000 Migrants _ Roaming Country. . For Work

Radio To Feature Bond Campaign   ‘Cavaleade For Victory’ to Close With President’s Talk

The Great Game of Politics   ~By FRANK R. KENT” The Baruch Technique

«Oe eevee we ere eoeewe eee eee Stevens Building Is Unwanted Orphan

NAZIS ADVISED TO LEAVE ITALY   Consuls Tell German Civilians To Get Back Home; Italian Police Chief Reported Assassinated.   —RY FRANK BRUTTO—

GERMAN CIVILIANS IN ITALY ADVISED TO RETURN HOME   Sudden Intensification of Dip‘lomatic 'Negoti Nat ‘jean ‘Reported—Italian Po: Hee Chief.:Said Assassinated

VATICAN ACTIVITY SUDDENLY GROWING MORE INTENSIFIED  GERMAN CIVILIANS LIVINC IN ITALY ADVISED TO GET OUT

Diplomatic Negotiations At The Vatican Are Intensified:  ‘Rome Chief Of Police [s Slain   All Croats At Trieste Ordered To Turn In Their Guns; Bern Hears Badoglio Is Trying To Pave Way For Peace; Country In Transition Period

Nazis Take Weapon: From Italian Troops Stationed in Greece   Yugoslay Guerrillas Penetrate Italian Lines to Reach Udine; Inhabitants Join With Invaders

Evacuation Is Ordered— German Civilians In Italy Told By Consul To Escape

1008 TONS OF BOMBED DROPPED OVER BERLIN   Concentrated Assault Lasts 20 Minutes Last Night; Other  Rhine Cities Pit

‘Thousand Tons Of Bombs Drop  Oh.. Nn! Canital ‘ULL Ladi Ua pias   Fewer Bombers Lost Super-forts Coming, Savs Arnold

BERLIN HIT THIRD TIME IN 12 NIGHTS   AF Drops 1,000 Tons Of Block-Busters And Fire On Nazi Capital; Penetrate Heavy Defense Screen

Highly Concentrated Fight Lasts 20 Minutes With . Bombs Falling Out Of Clear Sky THIRD IN 12 NIGHTS  Raiders Strike On Nicht or

Raid Third In 12 Nights On  German Capital   Blockbusters, Fire Bombs Rain From Strong British Fleet

GONFINE LIGHTING UECORAT IONS TO INOIUE OF HOMES   WPB Asks That No Exterior Lighting Be Used Christmas

INCOME TAX FORMS MUST BE FILED BY SEPTEMBER 15   Estimated 300,000 People Required to Fill Out Form Under New Payment Act

REPORT JAPS’ WAR PRODUCTION GROWS   Nip Head Tells of Need for More Airplanes, Ships

Don't Count on That Surtax Saving; It’s More Than An Even Bet You'll Have To Pay

LEWIS SEEKIN- (0 PERSUADE AFL {0 TAKE BACK MINERS   Return Of UMW Would Change Political Aspeét'Of ‘9 > = Union -

LEWIS TRIES TO REJOIN A. F. OF L IN MEET TODA’   Plan Foreshadows Significant Moves if  Successful

LEWIS MEETS AFL LEADERS   Hopes To Bring U, M. W. Back To Organization He Bolted In 1935

Lewis Trying To Return To AFL   Motion To Rejoin Now Under Consideration

AFL Weighs Piea Of UMWA   Lewis Tries To Undo Bolt Of Eight Years Aqo

GRAPHIC STORY OF AMERICAN INFANTRY ACTION ON VOLTURNE  IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY OF AIR POWER PRAISED RY OFFICERS

BABY MIXUP GETS INTO COURT   $500,000 Suit Filed; ‘Must Be Mistake’, Hospital Savs

BABY BOY TURNS OUT 10 BE GIRL   Infant Stamped As Male, But Hospital Makes  Error

FREEZING ’ FORECAST   ‘Temperatures Drop In Del Rio And Wot Of State

Miller Is Held On Charge Of Manslaughter.   Coroner’s : Jury Brings Charge in .Death of Bowman -Williamson:

EI TD  ALLIES IN CONTROL OF MEDITERRANEAN   aici atte  African Shores Cleared for Short Route to East

Rommel Reported to Be Attempting Escape From Tripolitania to Tunisia.

BATTLE OF LIBYA TURNING INTO GREATEST CHASE WORLD: HISTORY   British Eighth Army Seeking To Overhaul German Africa Corps and Force It Into Fight.

TOWNS TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Soviet Army Fights Stub ~ bornly to Maintain Offensive

Spring Slows Up Red Offensive   Russians Battle to Keep Up Advance

Russians Capture Seven Villages West of Moscow   But Fighting Is Becoming More Difficult, Statement Says

60 Forts Lost And 104 Nazis Downed On Sweeping Raid   Foray Reaches Deep Into Germany For Second Smash Against Big German Plant

600 American Fliers Are Killed Or Missing In Schweinfurt Raid   ENEMY PLANE LOSSES ARE PLACED AT 104

60 Fortresses Are Lost on \Raid Into Reich   Bombers, Fighters .Down 104 Nazi Intercepting Planes

But 104 German Planes Shot Down by Americans  And Great Damage Done

BALL BEARING PLANT RUINED BY ATTACKERS   Nazis Lose 104 Planes During Air Battles With Raiders

Huge Industrial Center Wrecked In Fierce Battle   U.S. 8th Airforce Attacks Focke Wulf Factory

Germany Gets Terrific  Bomb Attack   Important Ball Bearing Plant Is Hit; Enemy Loses 91 Fighters, 13 Other Craft to Yanks’ 91 Bombers in Battle

60 American, 104 German Planes Downe   Great Air Fight Takes Place as City of Schweinfurt Hit

American Fliers Shoot Down 104 Nazi Planes in Fierce Battle   Flying Forces Reach Deep into the Reich To Smash Important Rail Bearing Plant of Schweinfurt

a Forts Lost To Nazi Planes   U.5. Bombers Down 104  Fiehtere in Raid

60 Large U.S. Bombers Lost In Fierce Fight   Rall Bearing Factory Blasted by Flying Fortresses Which Bag 9] of Nazi Fighters

NAZILAND RAID COSTS U.S. 60 BIG BOMBERS   GERMAN LOSSES 104 PLANES; FACTORY IS SMASHED

Americans Lose 60 Fortresses and 2 Fighters in Blasting Important German Plant at Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt Smashed With Record Loss   Alhes Lose 60 Fortresses: Down 104 Nazis

Allies Bomb Nazi Plants   American Plane Loss In Roid Is Heavies?

104 GERMANS ARE DOWNED OVER REICH   ‘One of Fiercest Air Bat  tles of War Fought During Heavy Attack on Schweinfurt.   VITAL BALL BEARING PLANT IS POUNDED   American Loss Represents 600 Fliers Killed or Missing—Second Smash at Center.

91 Enemy Fighters Shot Down in Great Air Battle  INDUSTRIAL CITY HEAVILY BOMBED  Second Smash in Two . Months Made on Schweinfurt

60 Bombers Lost By U.S.  In Germany   Schweinfurt Bombed During Fierce Battle

YANKS LOSE 60 PLANES IN RAID AGAINST NAZIS   91 German Fighters Are Knocked Out In One Of Fiercest Air Tilts Of War

GERMANY IS RAIDED BY 1). $. BOMBERS   Deep Attack by Daylight Smashes At Schweinfurt Where Important Roller Beas Factories Are Lopated.   Head Offices Blasted

RUTLEDGE WINS CONFIRMATION       - lowan Approved Despite Plea by Senator Langer

Senate Confirms Judge Rutledge   Succeeds Byrnes On Supreme Bench

Committee o. k.’s funds  for agencies   Adds 3 millions  for OWI branch

Fund For OWI Wins Approval Of Committee   Domestic Branch Will Be Able To Continue Activities If Both Houses Accept Plan

FUNDS TO OW   Senate Group Approves $3,501,499 to Carry on Domestic Bureau.

RECOMMEND PASSAGE OF HOUSE APPROVED AGENCIES MEASURES  ALLOWS OPERATION OF  OWI DOMESTIC BRANCH IN TIMITEN WAV

OWI Money Included in War Agencies Bill Recommended for Passage Today

Loan Interest Bill Taken Oit Of Committee   Andrae of Cole Says Chairman Norden Blocked Votes

LOAN BILLS FROM COMMITTEE   House Considers Measures Under a Seldom-Used Procedure   REPUBLICANS IN : ANOTHER WRANGLE   Committee Head Accused of Blocking Vote on LongDebated Bills

Ui S. to Seek 15 Billions   Third War Loan Drive Goal Starts On September 9

FIFTEEN BILLION SOUGHT IN NEXT WAR LOAN DRIVE   SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN TO DRAW HEAVILY ON PUBLIC’S POCKETBOOK

U.S. TO BREAK OWN RECORD FOR FINANCING WAR      Will Dig Deeper Intec Pockets Of Citizen

Average Citizen To Dig Deeper  linele Sam Will Ser   Uncle Sam Will Set Out To Break Record For Wor Finagncina

YEW BOND DRIVE WILL DIG DEEPER TO RAISE FUNDS   15 Billion Dollars Goal Set For Third Loan Campaign and Total May Go Beyond Desired Sum.   SECURITIES SAME AS RECENT BOND DRIVE   Volunteer Salesmen, Operat‘ing From Door-to-Door to Interest Civilians to Make Purchases.

GOAL 15 BILLIONS   Nation’s Third War Loan . Drive Will Be Opened September 15 

Treasury Sets New Bond Goal      Seek 15 Billion Dollars In September War Financing Drive.

U.S. WILL SEEK 15 BILLION IN BOND CAMPAIGN   Record Amounts To Come  Entirely From Non banking Sources   OPENS SEPTEMBER   Drives To Be Handled B; War Finance Groups  In Each State

NEW BOND GOAL IS 15 BILLIONS   Sept. 9 Starting Date o Largest Financial Campaign in History

John Q. Public To Dig Again   $15,000,000,000 the Goal In 3rd War Loan Drive To Start in September

Uncle Sam Out to Break Own Recore With 15 Billion War Bond Drive

Record Money Raiser Uncle Sam  Sets Out To Break His Own Mark   Will Attempt To Raise 15 Billion In Nation’s Third War Loan Drive Starting On September 9: All From Non-Banking Sources.

GAMBLE   Three American Soldiers Isolated By Romme Thrust, Trudge 100 Miles To Friendly Camp

Three American Soldiers Cross 100-Mile Desert   Story Of Epic Trek To Escape Germans In Tunisia Told

100 Miles Through Enemy Territory... ..  Lost U. S. Soldiers Make Epic Journey

JAPS TRAPPED IN SOLOMONS   MAJ.-GEN. TWINING SAYS NIP POSITION HOPELESS

Yankees Have Bougainville In Firm Grip   Japs There Trapped In Hopeless Positions, General Reports

Bougainville Japs Trapped   Foe Will Starve On Island, Says Air Force General

Solomons Air Chief Says Way ToRabaul Oper   Bougainville Fields to Be Ready in Month for Planes

Japs hones Trapped on Boudainville   ..Foe. Doomed on. Their Last Hold in Solomons

Army Renews Ban on Over-Age Officers And Some of Them Don’t Like Idea Of Retiring From Active Service Now

JAP POSITIONS IN SOLOMONS ARE ATTACKED   Fiye Raids Silence / Anti-Aircraft “Fire and Start Blazes in : Camp Area   OTHER: JAPANESE BASES - RAIDED BY U. §. FORCES

Knock 37 of 100 Jap Planes Out of Fight Over Port Moresby   Report Japs Massing Aggressive Forces — Near Australia

U. $. Fliers Hammer Away At Japanese   Kiska Under Constant Pounding; Attack In Solomons, Too

ltalians Forced To Help Germans   Labor Battalions Driven under Guns

A MESSAGE FROM DR. WILLIAM BEEBE   MR. AND MRS. SAVAGE HEAR FROM SON ON OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

YANKS DOWN 104 GERMAN PLANES IN AERIAL BATTLE   BEARING PLANT AT SCHWEINFURT HEAVILY BOMBED

Americans Lose Sixty Fortresses   Giant Nazi Bailbearing Factory Obliterated In Raid

REIC:: RAID COST U. 5. 593 AIRMEN   Half of Crews in 60 Fortresses Downed in Schweinfurt Attack Believed Alive as Prisoners, Arnold Says.

i) Fortresses Lost: Bearing Plant Vanishe:   Stunning Blow Dealt German Industry But At Record Cost

Wire Bound Tightly Around Girl's Neck Sends Investigators Probing

‘WESTBROOK PEGLER   Duce’s Fat Girl Friend Was High Score Graiter

ius SOON ISSUE - NEW RATION BOOKS   ntire Registration. To Be Handled _ Through Mail ,

War Ration Book III To Be Distributed By Mail Before July 21   RATIONING NEWS

U.S. House Body Okehs Plan for As-You-Go Taxes   Set-Up Requiring Payers to. Remit Installments for First, Second Quarters Gets Tentative Approval

Pay-as- You-Geo Tax Measure Advances  In Congress  Plan Would Embrace Virtually 44 Million Of U. S. Taxpayers,  Beginning July 1  OK’D TENTATIVELY BY SUB-COMMITTEE  Chairman Doughton Elated Over Prospects Of Early House Action

PAY-AS-YOU-60 LEVY MODIFIED   Speedy Action Promised In House On Income Tax Problem

Double Tax In Last Half  Is Uncertain   Abatement Problems Given To Fuil House Committee

Question of Abating All or Part of Sum Due for 1942 Left Unsettled by House Group.   PAYMENTS IN MARCH AND JUNE CALLED FOR   Withholding Levy of 20 Per Cent Provided—Speedy Action on Proposal Expected,

HOUSE GROUP VOTES PLAN 10 PAY AS YOU G0   Withholding Tax Proposal Adopted by  Subcommittee

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Gets Tentative Okay  System Would Be Effective Inly 1

APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP   Pay-As-You-Go System Is Adopted by Subcommittee .

Pay-As-You*Go Plan Wins Approval   House Committee Skips Over Ruml Income Proposal

LEVY PLAN GIVEN UNIT'S. OKEH   Predict Speedy . Action At Meeting On Monday

TAX PROGRAM APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP   Pay-As-You-Go System Is Adopted by Subcom mittee

Tentatively approve plan  pay as you go   Cooper outlines 4.point proposal for income taxes

PAY-AS-YOU-60 PLAN APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   44,000,000 Income Taxpayers Affected By Plan Effective July 1   MUST PAY HALF OF 1942 ASSESSMENT

Tentative Proposal  for Taxes After July 1 Outlined: All Would Pay Two Installments

Pay-as-you-go Tax Plan By First Hurdle   HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS SUBCUMMITTEE HAS 20 PER CENT. WITHEOLDING INCOME TAX BILL READY. ‘i   Double Tax Half Year

Pay-Go Plan Approved Tentatively   Problem of Abatemen: Dumped in Laps Of Full Committee

PAY-AS-YOU-60 PLAN APPROVED   House Sab-Committee Fay ars Measure to Be Effective July 1

Pay-Go Tax Plan Wins Approval Of Committee   But Cancellation of Las! Year's Taxes Still Is Undecided   Large Groups Included

Eastern Motorists On Reduced Rations   A-Card Holders Reduced by Half

BROWN TRUSTED BY LAWMAKERS   New OPA Chief Invites Complaints From Congress

COUNTY CERTAIN — T0-GO OVER TOP      Survey Indicates County Has Already Sold Quota - of Bonde

COUNTY CERTAIN T0 GO OVER TOP   Survey Indicates County Has Already Sold Quota of Bonds

ARMADAS OF PLANES AND SHIPS HURLED INTO BATTLE TO CHECK GERMAN ASSAULTS

PLANES, SHIPS BLAST GERMAN ARMORED UNITS   Fifth Army Is Strengthening Its Hold On Embattled Bridgehead   TROOPS, SUPPLIES LANDED   British Force, Pushing Northward, Still 55 Miles From Junction

1,236 American Repatriates Are Aboard Jap Liner   Names of Passengers Are Released by Department of State

[206 AMERICAN ON EXCHANGE SHIP   Jap Liner En Route to Portuguese india Where Re. patriates Will Be Placec Aboard Gripsholm

1.497 Allied Nationals on Ship List of American Repatriates  On Jap Exchange Liner Released

List Announced On Repartriates   Texans Included In Returning Groun:

Announce Names Of 1,236 Coming _ Back From Japan  Pro ‘omin ent Ame ricans Are Amo n g—Repatriates

Exchange Liner Carr ying 1,497 From Far East   Names of 1.236 Americans Aboard Japanese Ship Keleased by State Dept.

MAJOR AIR ASSAULT BY YANKS EXPECTED   Recent Lulls Believed To Be Calm Before Storm

SEE BIGGER U.S. RAIDS IN MAKING   Marked Slackening In Operation Of U. S. Bombers Out of England Gives Rise To Sneculation.

AXIS HAPPY OVER STRIKE IN AMERIC!   Propaganda Blasts Say U.S. About To Collapse

Funeral Services For Senator Rowland Today  Masonic Grand Lodge To Hold Rites

Funeral Services For Senator Rowland Today  Masonic Grand Lodge To Hold Rites At Shrine Temple

No Fight Left in Forlorn Italians; Want Food, Chance to Go Home   Allied Military Government Finds Courts First Need; Even Policemen Steal Ration Cards

Yank Conquest of Gilberts Completed; Over 4,000 Japs Slain in Betio Battle

Yanks Complete Conquest of Cilbert Islands   Beiic Isle and Its Strategic Airfield Are Taken After Japs Counter-Attack: Most of the 4,000 Defenders Are Killed

Betio Island ls Captured   Speedy Conquest Of Gilberts Is Expected

Invasion Forces  Take Over Betio   Over 4,000 Japanese Defenders Are Killed In Struggle Giving Americans Strong  Base For New Offensive

Betio Island Conquest Is . Final Step   Two Other Key Points in Gilbert Group ~ Already in U. S. Hands

Americans Take All Islands in Pacific Gilberts   Take Few Prisoners In Occupying Bases

Troops Seek Remnants of  Japs on Atoll:   Nimitz Reports Few Prisoners Taken as 4,000 Enemy Force: Slain on Betio Isle

MOOT OF BETIC DEFENDERS SLAIN   Yanks Chase Remnants on Makin and Abemama   FEW PRISONERS TAKEN.   Heavy Bombers Continue to Pound Marshall Islands; Jap Losses Are Heavy

Conquest of Gilberts Is Completed   Bettio Island Ys Captured and Most Of Its 4,006 Defenders Killed

Montgomery May Lead Allied Push In Pacific   Winter Campaign In China-Burma Area Prepared

Montgomery Is Logical Chief  For Burma War   ‘Naming Of New U. S. General To Head Air Force In India Recalls Need

Gen. Montgomery Seen As Likely Commande: Of Winter Drive On Japs In The Far East

ra * Speculation  Revived Agam ‘OnCommander   fisselts HKecall Brings New Talk About Jap Campaign

IN FARM SESSION   California Later Called to Allocate State Manpower for Harvest

DROWNING   Joseph Fitzpatricls, 11, of Roxbury, Formerly Lived . in Concord

Money Bill Passes House Tax Stalled  Kerr Gets LifeDeath Authority Over Institutions

Vote 278 to 117 For Bill to Take Lid Off of Food Prices   Measure to Senate; Administration Lead. ers Outmaneuvered

Food Subsidie: Outlawed in House Voie   Clear Cut Test Not Made by Solons’ Action

Subsidy Ban Is Approved In One-Sided  Hance Vate   Legislation Outlawing Consumer Subsidies  To Hold Down Prices Te Pascced. 97&R to 117   PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO VETO MEASURE  Coal-Oil Bloc Wins First Move in Effort To Increase Prices

House Passes Bill To Outlaw Futur. Use Of Subsidies   Measure Passed. by Wid. Margin and Sent-to Ser ate; Veto-Expected.

House Votes Against Food Subsidy Plan   Margin Of Defeat Large Enough To Override Veto

House Outlaws Subsidies Plan On Food Prices   If Lineup Remains Intact, Could Override Veto By F. D. R.

BILL OUTLAWING FOOD SUBSIDIES PASSED BY HOUSE   Measure Put Through, 278 to 117, as Opponents Shout It Will Result in Inflation.   ALL COMPROMISE PROPOSALS REJECTED   Legislation Now Goes to Senate With Veto Predicted if It Reaches White House.

Roll Call Vote ls 278 To 11]   Vital Blow Struck  At Administration By ALEX H. SINGLETON

Roll Call Vote Is278 Tol]   Vital Blow Struck At Administration’

Action Taken Amid Inflation Cries From the loor  COMPROMISE PLANS . QUICKLY REJECTED Veto by the President Predicted by Majority Leader

HOUSE VOTES, 21810 117, 10 KAN SUBSIDIES   Compromise Proposals “Rejected; Inflation Warnines Civen

SUBSIDIES ARE VOTED DOWN BY LARGE MARGIN   Action Taken By House De spite Inflation Cries Of Supporters   PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO VETO LEGISLATION

‘ministration ses Attempts ‘Compromise   4 . ‘emocratic Leader  Adicates President ‘Till Use Veto Again

i828 cy Br yg 1: “§3 Veo;   Sneecy A.cion a cen AS —s. " »onems V¢ arn 6- 0 aion

House Votes Bar On Subsidies   Administration Loses Battle by 278-118

House Passes Antisubsidy Bill, 278-117   Long-Disputed Measure Now Goes To Vv ote in Upper House; Opponents See Inflation Certain

VICTORY CORPS FUNDS OPPOSED   Coalition Swamps Effort Of Administration To Finance Plan

Senate Coalition Swamps Attempts For High School "Victory Corps’

‘High School “Victory Corps” Fund, ‘Asked by Administration, Is -Swamped by Members of Two Houses

Lewis Attacks Labor Board Head, Byrnes   President of Mine Workers Charges Industry Is Being Fattened While Labor Is Being Starved

MAPS FOR HITLER FORCES SEIZED   SHOW PHONE, RAIL AND COMMUNICATION LINES IN NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

Maps Enroute To Germany Seized   Sweden And Norway) Detailed In Plats  Te TALIA BF @MrTr RITBW

Maps Enroute To Germany Seized   : Swedéii And Norway Detailed: liv Plats

Sweden Orders Investigation  Maps of Sweden and Norway Found in Car Bound for Reich

Tamaulipas And Texas Governors Meet Saturday   Harlingen Delegation At Big Banquet -

-s, Tamaulipas ‘srnors Meet, : of Ranching  evenson Confers’ ‘ith  Aguilar i in  Foes fe

Navy Communique  Tells of Atfack  On Solomon Bases Mitsubishi Bomber   Mitsubishi Bomber Shot Down in Air Attacks on Japanese

3 Jap Bases ‘In Solomons Hit by Yanks   Big Mitsubishi Bomber Cut Down; Munda and Kieta Bombed

Jap Seaplane Base Hit By U.S. Planes      Equatorial Outpost In Gilbert Islands Target In Attack

Mrs. G. Simpson   Dies in Florida   Bradford Resident Victim of Heart Attack

Mrs. G. Simpson  Dies in Florida   Local Resident Is Heart Attack Victim in St. Petersburg

Terrific Air Battles Occur Above Sicily   Thirty Out Of Force Of 100 Axis Planes Are Shot Down   OTHER ATTACKS MADE BY BOMBERS

Landings Made Without Any Opposition   Yanks Seize Large Amount of Enemy Equipment

AMERICANS TAKE POSSESSION OF VILA GARRISON   Japs Abandon Kolombangara Island Base But Leave  Equipment Behind   SANTA ISABEL ISLAND FALLS, TOKYO REPORTS

Americans occupy Vila; all Japanese  positions controlled   Last important center of enemy Solomons resistance is captured

VILA IS OCCUPIED BY ALLIED FORCES   All Enemy, Positions wun Strategic Island Held ’ by Oct. 9 

CENTER FALLS ATER FIERCE 3-DAY BATTLE   Opens Way to Bug River Line

Ukraine Rail Center Taken By Red Force   Loss Of Znamenka May Unhinge Nazi Lines In River Bend

Fall Of Znamenka: Vital Rail Center, Blow To Nazis; Bulgaria Reported To Be On Verge Of Quitting War

Germans in Rapid Retreat in Italy   Nazi Defenses in Russia Also Falling Apart Under Soviet Blows

Junction Is Taken   Victory Is Firs! Major One Since Capture of Gomel

40,000 Tojo Troops Fall In Hunan Battle   Victorious Chinese Com plete Encirclement © ‘Japanese Base   DRIVE IS CHECKED   Yank Airmen Support Ground Troops With Born Raid On Owchihkow

40,000 Japs Knocked Ow: On Yangize   Few Enemy Troop: Escape Chinese Trap at River

Over Third Of Invading Force Wiped Out In Yangtze Fighting, Claim

China Kills 40,000 Japs On Yangtze   Trap Stronghold In Lone Battle

China Unit Surrounds  Jap Force   Casualties: An ‘Jap: Troops : Yangtze Battle Said To. Total: 40,000

40,000 Japs Killed or Shot By Chinese   Smash Invsaion Force Of 100,000 in 40-Day Battle on Upper Yangtze

Chinese Claim  Heavy Jap Toll   Over Third Of Enemy Force Trapped In Yangtze Vallew Killed.

40,000 ENEMY CASUALTIES IN CHINA SECTOR   Jap Stronghold At Owchihkow Is Taken In Drive

CHINESE ARMIES TRAP 40,000 JAPS   KAI-SHEK’S TROOPS WIN GREAT BATTLE ON YANGTZE RIVER

40,000 JAPS OUT OF ACTION   Casualties Almost Half Of Total Nipponese Involved Are Inflicted

KAI-SHEK’S ARMIES KILLED OR WOUNDED 40.000 JAPANESE   This Occurred During the 40. Day Battle on Upper Yangtze River.   Less Than Two-Thirds of the Entire Japanese Force Escaped the Trap.

40,000 JAPS KILLED BY CHINESE TROOPS   Less Than Two-Third Of Enemy Soldiers Managed To Escape Yanetze River Trap

Japanese Losses in China anc South Pacitic Still Mounting   Of the 100,000 Who Attacked In Upper Yangtze, 40,000 Were Killed or Wounded; Enemy Stronghold Has Been Surrounded

Japanese Lose 40,000 Men In Chiang’s Trap   Chinese Now Surround Enemy - Held Owchihkow On Yangtze Front.

One Of Last Jap Strongholds Now Is Surrounded   40,000 Out Of Jap Army Of 100,000 Slain; Retreat Continues

CHINESE TRAP JAP HELD CITY   American Planes Support Drive Into Enemy Territory

Chinese Forces Slay 40,000 Jap Troops   Enemy Stronghold Completely Encircled By Kai-Shek’s Men

Chinese Kill or Wound 40% of Invader's Forces   China’‘s Rice Bowl Almost Completely Wrested From Enemy

40,000 Japs Are Victims of Chinese   Chiang’s Armies Retake Most of Hunan Rice Bowl, Tokyo Passes Off Air Defeat

JAPANESE COUNT SEVERE LOSSES AGAINST CHINESE   Chiang’s Armies Kill or Wound 40,000 Out of 100,000 Troops

Chinese Close On Owchihkow   Japs Lose 40,000 In Killed or Wounded Out of 100,000 Men

CHINESE MOVE ON OWCHIHKOW   40,000 Japs Reported Killed Area Battie

CHINESE WIN IN “40-DN FIRHT   Kill, Or Wound, 40,000 Out Of 100,000 Japanese  Tranne in Aattla   BLAST JAP STRONGHOLD

SINO TROOPS SURROUNDING NIPPON BASI   Record Toll of 40,000 Jap Troops in Battle Raging 40 Days on Upper Yangtze River

Owchihkow; One of Last ‘Important’ Jap « Held Bases, Surrouiided by Victorious Chinese Forces. New Jap Offensive Being: Halted in Yunnan Province. :

CHINESE GIRGLE BIG JAP BASE   Report Troops Surround Owichihkow, Nip Losses High in Yangtze Battle

JAPANESE FIND ATTACK COSTLY   Chinese Claim 40,000 Of Enemy Killed On Upper Yangtze

Offense In China Is Costly   Meanwhile, Nips Are Given AND GET SET-BACK IN AIR Air War Over Solomons

Chinese Armies Wipe Out Large Japanese Force  40,000 Killed or Woundeds Rice Reaion Recovered

Chinese Encircle Vital Japanese-Held Owchihkow   American Planes Pave Way For Success of Ground Forces In Undertaking; Nips Reported to Have Lost 40,000 In Dead, Wounded In Hunan Offensive

BLASTED: 4 Jap Cargo Ships Smashed In Pre-Dawn Air Raid   RVUreTriv

Evolve New Anesthesia   Claim Spinal Injection Makes Childbirth Both Safe and Painless

Manpower Step Soon   McNutt Warns Nation That Labor Shortages Must Not Be Allowed To Slow Production

RE DG oAY POLES ACTED AS SPIEE   Moscow Official Makes Spe——enfie Charges Of Anti  Soviet Activity

Germans Hanged Kharkov Residents From SE OTE yl for Mile and a Hali

Chile's Entire  Cabinet Resigns   President Rios Gives  Un Visit to LU, S.

Members of Chilean Cabinet Quit Under Pressure  Development Termed Political; Rios Postpones U. S. Trip

Pace Bill Would Up Grain Prices   May Not Affect Livestock But Might Eggs

Lend-Lease Aid On Sicily Yanks Rent Mules To Get Supplies Over Hill Trails

FINALE REACHED IN SICILY BY A U. §. BATTALION   BY C. R. CUNNINGHAM BU. BP Staff Corracnnndant

‘Fake Tests’ of Steel Charged  in Senate —   Committee “Seeks to Pin Blame for Substandard Steel Sent to Government

Senate War Probers Look fo U. 5. Steel And WPB to Ferret Out ‘Higher Ups’ Responsible for Substandard Deliveries

STEEL COMPANY HEAD AROUSED BY FAKE TESTS   Senate Probers Are Tolc Employes Responsible   Will “Walk Plank”  For Their Acts   EMPLOYES TESTIFY   Substandard Steel Sent From Plant to Navy and Others, Truman  Committee Hears

STEEL PROBE PUT UP TO WPE AND U. S. STEEI   Senate Investigating Commiltee Chairman Says Responsibility for Faked Tesis Musi Be Fixed

GOV'T SEEKS TO FIX BLAME FOR FAKE STEEL TESTS   CHARGE INFERIOR SHIPMENTS WERE MADE TO NAVY

Pope Pius In Appeal For Peace   Calls For 'Generosity' To ward ‘Less Favored’ Nations

Pope Makes New Plea for ‘Worthy Peace   Says Real Strength Need Have No Fear of Generosity in Behalf of Nations Less Favored by Trend of War

"WORTHY PEACE’ ASKED BY POPE   Pontiff Voices Hope That Hostilities Will Cease « Before Year's End

Pius Xlil Calls For  Peace   Strength Doesn't Fear Generosity, Pope Says

POPEINNEW PEACE APPEAL   Hopes for a] Lasting Peace by End of This Fifth ‘Year of War

POPE PIUS CALLS ON WORLD LEADERS "FOR JUST PEACE   Expresses Hope That 1943 Will See The End of War And “Dawn of New Peace”

Pope Pius - Hoping For ~ Peace in 43   Holy Father Addresses His Words.to All Willing to Co-Operate

Appeal For Peace Renewed by Pope   Pontiff Expresses Hope War Will End Before End of Fifth Year of Conflict

Pope Appeals To World Leaders  For Worthy Peace   Has Faith That 'This Year Will See the End of the War. Urges. Com: promise

Pope Makes Appeal for a Just Peace   Real Strength Need Have No Fear of Genérosity, He Says in Message   NO MENTION OF SURRENDER TERMS   But He Urges Effort to Bring Dawn of New Life in Peronstruction

Pope Appeals For Peace By End Of Yea   Gives 14-Minute Message To World From Vatican City; Speaks Of Leaders.

Yank Bombers Batter Jap Base At Ouehithkow   Iextensive ‘Damage Caused  By Attack

(20MD tO JANLIUNS, rage 6) o—m—=eGive to the Red Crossi-——  MME. CHIANG ‘FAINTS’, DRAFTS SPEECH IN BED

MADAME CHIANGE IN BED    China’s Firat Lady. to Appear in Madison Square Garden

U.S. Dry Law For Duration ~ Is Propose   Halt of Absenteeism Would Be Effected,

South Carolinan Introduces  Prohibition Bill   Suggestion Also Heard For Liquor. Rationing To Curb Absenteeism

RATIONING OF LIQUOR URGED   New York Attorney Says Drinking Is One Of Causes  For Absenteeism

PROHIBITION ACT BEFORE SOLONS   Bryson Claims Liquor Is Responsible for Absenteeism

Proposal for Prohibition Appears in Congress as Absenteeism and ‘'Mannower Crisis Are Discussed

Move Launched In House For Prohibition, ‘For Duration Of War Bu Act Of Connyose

Tronidition dy Act of Congress  Sought in Bill  Congressman Says Aim ls to Curb War  Plant Absenteeism

PROHIBITION BILL ~ OFFERED IN HOUSE   Measure Would } Make No. tion Dry for the Duretion _

BAN ON LIQUOR URGED IN HOUSE   WEEK-END “HANGOVERS" BLAMED FOR MUCH ABSENTEEISM AT WAR PLANTS.

PROHIBITION BILL OFFERED IN HOUSE   Measure Would Make Nation Dry for the Duration

Flood Spreads At Rulo, Nebr.   Omaha Stage Is Down to 15.85 Feet

Artillery Battle Nets Some Gains  For Red Army   Russians Slowly Forge Forward In West Caucasus Area   REDS CLAIM MANY NAZI PLANES DOWNED

Civic Forum To Resume Sessions  Next Wednesday  Priest To Speak On South America In Warld Affaire

HUNT FOR “MADAME X” AS KEY WITNESS   Dempsey Divorce Case In Recess Until Next Tuesday

Food Prices May Be Cut   New Ceilings In Feed, Meat Are Being Studied

OO ALLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL ET  OPA Prepares To Roll Back Prices ‘To Save Housewives Tidy Sum

OPA PREPARES TO ROLL BACK SOME COMMODITY PRICES   Officials S:y Reductions “Will Save Housewives Tidy Sum — All  -" Can’t Be Cut

HOUSEWIVES EXPECTED 10 NET SAVINGS   Byrnes Waits. Dollars-Cents Ceilings as $14.50 Top On Hog Listings Looms.   WHEAT CONTROL SEEN   Regulation of Fish, Fruit and Milk Prices Also Being Readied.

Housewives To Benefit When Prices Pared   All Commodities Wil] Likely Be Brought Under Ceilings   NEW PRICE POLICY   Livestock Control As Weapon In Black Market, Aim

Rolled Back Prices To Help Housewives; OPA Is Working On Schedule

Wage Decision of WLB Stands  Affirm First Action  In Riuhhhor C acec

Situation Bad In Low  Countries   Relatives Of Tunisian Victims Riot  In Search  Of News.

DISORDERS “SPREAD IN LOWLANDS  ee, en : eee FD   Premature Revolt Provoked by  Germans .

PREVIEW NOW OF BATTLES IN EUROPE   North Africa Bloody. Laboratory For Development Of Tank Warfare; Result May  Re Decisive.   Mine Fields

Axis Prepared To Exact Terrific Cost—  Siege Of Tunis Is Foretaste Of Invasion

WAR MATERIAL SALE URGED   HOUSE GROUP CALLS FOR HUGE SURPLUS DISPOSAL

PLAIN DEALER OFFICIAL SHON      GENERAL MANAGER OF CDEYV:! LAND. NEWSPAPER IN CRI. TICAL CONDITION, FROM WOUNDS -

Big Radio Show Is On Tonight  War Stamp Will Admit to Civic Auditorium Event

Red Cross Fund  To Aid Prisoners   Japan Will Let $25,000  (so for Bataan Victims

BADMANAGEMENT OF PRODUCTION, LABOR CHARGED  COMMITTEE FINDS WAR EFFORT FAR FROM CAPACITY

Criticize War Management Ir House Report   Maladministration Of Production Program Charged By Tolan Committee.   FAILURE ON MANPOWER

BAD MANAGMENT CHARGED IN REPORT   Special House  Committee Claims Manpcwer Handled In ‘Haphazard’ Man ner.

‘House Committee Criticizes War Program and Submits—  Solution Man Power Problem

GROUP IN HOUSE HITS NATION'S EFFORTS IN WAR   "General Maladministration” of Production Program Charged In Report by Committee   RAPS MANPOWER ACT   Handling of Probl em Held “Haphazard;” Failure to Use Small Business Criticized

POOR MANAGEMENT  OF WAR PRODUCTION,  MANPOWER CHARGED MALADMINISTRATION ANI  HAPHAZARD HANDLING COMMITTER DECT ARES

MANPOWER, WAR QUTPUT HANDLING SAID "HAPHAZARD’   House Committee Says Supplies Aren’t Flowing To ‘Allies. U. 5. Forces

War Production Mishandling Hit   ‘Haphazard’ System Is Charged Today

War’s Conduct Js Under Fire   House Committee Reports Successes So Far Are . Unorganized

se Gets Pessimistic Keport  General Muddling Of War Program Charged

War Correspondent With American Forces In Raid In New Britain Area

DIARY DETAILS OF INVASION   Ohio Writer With First Wave To Go Ashore

ATTACKS FOLLOW RAF NIGHT FLIGHTS   Spell Double arning to Inner Gates of Axis

Tito Orders King Peter To Stay Away   Partisans Monarch Denounced for His “Hostile Attitude”

Bans King Peter From: His Country  Tito Asks His Regime Be Deprived of Rights

TITO DENOUNCES REGIME OF PETER   Forbids Young King to Re= tucn to Nation. Until Coun: try Js Liberated

Peter's Regime  Flayed by Broz   Council of Liberation Orders Government Denied  of Its Rights.

King Peter's »  Regime Secor ‘ed   Marshal: Broz Council Is Banning Return Home .. Of Younes Ruler

DENOUNCES HOSTILE ATTITUDE OF RULE   Tito Orders King Peter’s Regime Deprived of All Its Rights.

KING PETER TOLD NOT TO RETURN HOME   Tito’s Group Deprives Monarch’s Regime of Rights and Orders Him to Stay Away Until Yuvoslavia Is Freed.

S'av Monarchy-In-Exile Is Accused Tito Committee Tells  King Peter To Stay Out And Strips His Rights

Tito Deprives King Of Rights   Broz’s Council Denounces “Hostile Attitude.” Acts Of King Peter.

Battle Over Man Power Is Promised   Sclons Are Irked by McNutt, Hershey Plans

Finns Reluctantly Accept Role of Ally to Germany, Writer Says After Visit

UNHAPPY FINNS ARE RESIGNED TO AXIS SIDE   Morale Of People Is High But Clothing And Food  Are Very Scarce   HAVE NO FAITH IN ATLANTIC CHARTER

STALIN IS HANDED CONFERENCE NOTE   Envoys Call at Kremlin Foliowing Casablonca’  Parley

STALIN GETS ALLIED NOTE   U. S. and British Envoys Deliver Message from  FDR, Churchill

Roosevelt-Churchill Note Is Handed té Stalin; He’s Busy Man: Smoking War Pipe. Envoy. Seay

Standley Gives Stalin Message   Note From FDR. Churchill Believed to Contain Military Phins

F.D.R.-CHURGHILL NOTE TO STALIN   COMMUNICATION PRESENTED BY STANDLEY — RELATES TO MILITARY PLANS.

STALIN GETS ALLIED NOTE   Message From Roosevelt  Churchill Delivered At Kremlin

Rubber and Gas Shortage -To Be Worse  Transportation Di irec tor  on a es

EASTMAN SEES GAS RATIONING FOR DURATION      Says Situation Will Get “Muchi Worse Instead Of Better’—, Not Convinced Rubber Or Gas! Problems Are Fasine Up   TRUCKS RUNNING ON BORROWED TINGS

KATE’S ILL   Physician's Consider Operation For Famed Entertainer.

ALLIES HEAR EXPLOSIONS AT THE PORT   Harbor Would Be Ideal for Sending in Supplies  .for Battle of Rome— Fifth Army and British Eighth Advance.

Allies Peril Gaeta   NAZIS MAY ABANDON KEY ITALY PORT AS YANKS SLASH AHEAD

Americans Raid On Dutch Indies   LONGEST MISSION IN SOUTH PACIFIC . SETS FIRES

Jap Base in Dutch Indies Is Pounded    American Warplanes Carry Out Longest Mission in Southwest Pacific on Nip Stronghold in Java

BOMBERS SURPRISE JAPS AT SOERABAJA   Dutch Naval Base, Now in Jap Hands, Is Hit in Longest Raid

Yankee Airmen Surprise Japs At Soerabaia   American Planes Make 2400-Mile Round Trip To Blast Former Great Dutch Naval Base

Yanks Attack Java Harbor   American Planes Set Fire: At Jap-Held Soerabaja bh First Raid.

Huge Fires Are Set i: Surprise Attack on Former Powerful Base in Dutch Indies

ONE KILLED IN EXPLOSION, FIRE   15 Others Injured As Blas! Hits Plant Making Noses For Bombers

WLB EMERGING AS LAST AUTHORITY ON LABOR MANAGING      FDR's Order Authorizing Board To Enforce Its Directives Adds To Powers

WLB IS PROVIDED EXECUTIVE POWER   Order Authorizes Directives to Force Compliance of Board’s Rulings.

Thousands Lose Lives As Flames Devour Areas 10 and 12 Blocks Long

TONS DESTRUCTION HURTLED DOWN UPON HEART OF NAZIDOM   RAF SEEKING TO KNOCK OUT REMAINDER OF GERMAN CAPITAL

Center of German Capital Again Target of Massive Attack.   REPRISALS THREATENED

Total Weight Near That Of Night Previous When German Capital Was Scourged   Homes Of Hitler, Ribbentrop, Goebbels Fired 01 Wrecked, But They Weren't In; Foreign Office Set Ablaze: City Mav Not Be Able Po Recover

Shattering Attack Leaves Most Of Berlin Smoking And Ruined Mass: HAF Loses Only 20 Planes In Raid   Reports From Neutral Sources Indicate Great Nazi City Virtually Paralyzed Following Two Biq Assaults:.25 000 Persons Renorted Killed

Second Straight Night RAF Gives Capital The Works; 25,000 Reported Dead From First Night Attack

Berlin Hit Again By Allied Bombs   German Capital Is Target for Second Consecutive Night   City - a from World  by I elephone and Telegraph

Hard-hit City Rages  In Flames   Capital Isolated By Telephone and Telegraph Lines.

Flames Sweeping City; 25,000 Reported Dead   Capital Cut Off From World By Phone; Government Center Paralyzed By Attacks

Berlin Hit Again By Allied Bombs   German Capital Is Target ‘for Second Consecutive Night   “MANY FIRES STARTED   City Is Isolated from World by Telephone and '* Telegraph

Nazi Capital Still Burning From Monday’s Record Raid   Homes Of Hitler, Ribbentrop And Goebbels Are Hit; 2nd Raid Almost Equals First  25,000 PERSONS BELIEVED KILLED  Allies Seek To Knock Berlin Out Of War; Telephone. Telegraph Wires All Out

25,000 KILLED IN GERMAN CAPITAL STOCKHOLM HEARS   Hitler's Home Destroyed, Reports Picture City Blazina Inferna

Repeat Raid on  Berlin   Last Night’s Attack Near Monday’s For Intensity

Twenty Bombers Reported Lost In Devastating Raid   Tremendous Aerial Offensive By R.A. F. Dwarfs Damaging Blows Struck at London In the Battle of Britain   OVER THOUSAND PLANES BELIEVED IN ARMADA

Bombers Hurl More Ruin On Germany   Big Warplanes Continue to Spread Chaos Throughout Nazi Capital; Fires Spreading for Miles; Other Cities Hit

Berlin in Flames As Raids Continue   Tons of Destruction Dropped ‘On German Capital Last Night

New Knockout Blow Leaves City Paralyzed   Swedish Paper. Reports 25,000 “Persons Killed ©

FLIERS GUIDED BY FIRES SET MONDAY NIGHT   Only 20 Planes Missing after Second Big Raid, Others on Westerm Germany   UTILITIES STRAFED   Communications of Virlually En tire Continent Affected as Rail ways Made Targets

‘RAF Pounds \Capital for Second Night   More Damage Heaped Upon Debris; Flames Roar In City Unchecked

British Seek To Knoek Out Nazi Capital   Force. Weight Of Bombs Last Night Did Not Exceed Record Of Monday.

Second Successive Assault Approaches Fury Of Monday Bombing, In creases Chaos.

BOMBERS HURL NEW HAVOC ON NAZT CAPITAL   1,000 Planes Hit City  Second Straight   Night

Another Big Attack Made On Canital   20 Planes Fail To Return ~ Raid “Concentrated And Effective”

Berlin Target of  Second Massive Raid in Two Days   Bomb Load Was Nearly Equal to Previous Night’s

NEW TONS OF BOMBS ADD 10 CAPITAL'S RUIN   Assault Cost Only 20 Planes, Despite Clear Skies

CAPITAL IN CHAOS DUE TO BLOWS   Second Air Lick Adds To Havoc In City As Fires Rage

AZ CAPITAL HIT otUOND NIGHT IN ROW   City Still Burning From Fires Set Night Before And RAF Picks Targets Easily

Wall of Flame Sweeps Berlin After Bombing   Defense of German Capital Weaker on Second Attack, R. A. F Fliers Say on Return

Walls Of Fire Rage Through City; 25,000 Reported Killed   8th Army Gains Six Miles @   ePEAVeS AND GERMANS

BOMBS BLAS! BERLIN AGAIN DURING NIGHT   Allies Attempt To Knock Out Nazi Capital By Air

“Walls of Flame” Sweep Nazi Capital   Second Night Smash in Row “Concentrated, Effective’; 95.000 Reported Killed

GERMAN CAPITAL DEVASTATED BY SECOND ASSAULT   20 BOMBERS LOST: ESTIMATE 25,000 PERSONS KILLED

RAF Delivers Staggering New Bomb Loads On Burning Berlir   Great Fires Sweep Areas in Devastated City; War Industries in Suburbs, Downtown Centers Hit

Second Successive Heavy Night Attack Rocks Reich Capital   Thousands of Fires in City Are Reported by Neutral Sources

Tons Of Destruction Hurtled On Capital In Followup Raid   ‘Swede Reports Say 25,000 Die; Monday’s Blast Nearly Equaled; Attackers Lose Only 20 Planes

Berlin Blasted Again   City in Chaos After Second Paralyzing Air Attack in Succession; 20 RAF Bombers Lost

Inferno Rages In Berlin As Tons Of Destruction Fall For Second Time

Half Mile Long Walls Of Flame Sweep City; Report Hitler’s Home Destroyed

REICH CAPITAL STILL BURNING, HUNDREDS DEAD   “Heavy Attack’ Last Night Follows Record Bombing Of Monday; Thousands Are Casualties   “WALLS OF FLAME’ RAZING BULLDINGS   More Favorable Weather For Defense Prevailed, But Only 20 Planes Lost by Raiders

RAF KEEPS BIG FIRES GOING IN HEAVY ASSAULT   More Vast Areas of Nazi Capital Leveled in Concentrated Raid

Second Big Bomb Raid On Berlin   Fewer Planes Are Lost in R _ A. P.’s) Follow-Up Blow > to Knock Out Capital   NEW FIRES SWEEP “<THE CHAOTIC CITY   P Communications Wrecked in Paralyzing Assault by ~..4 900 Bombers

BRITISH BOMBERS MEAN TO DESTROY GERMAN GAPITAL   Bombs Link Up Flames Still Burning From Monday Night   SAY 25,000 KILLED THE FIRST NIGHT

Capital Is Hit Again By British   Walls OF Flame Formed Along Berlin Streets During Second Raid In Two Nights

Stricken City Hit Again By RAF Raid   Another Armada Of Giant Bombers Hurls Tons Of Explosives On Devastated German. Canital: Only 90 Planec L oct

Germans Mourn Nazi Victims at Stalingrad  Funeral Marches  Announce Pad af tha Piaké

Germans Mourn Nazi Victims at Stalingrad   Funeral Marches Announce End of the Ficht

Germans Decree Mourning Period  Grieves for Victims Of Stalingrad Loss

PERRY BOARD  DRAFTEES TO BE EXAMINED ON MONDAY   First Cintingent of About 1,000 Countians Called During hAanth   LOCAL GROUP TO GO ON MARCH 22

Burn Japs Out of Caves Near Munda   Jap Beachheads Nearby Blasted by Navy Dive Bombers

'U. S. TROOPS ~ USE TANKS TO _ GAIN AT MUNDA   Flame Throwers Also Brought into Batile for First Time Reporied at Mendes   GAIN FEW YARDS   Sharp Fighting Reported in New Guinea—Torpedo Boats, Planes Desiroy Jap Barges

Flamethrowers  Used At Munda   AMERICANS MAKE NEW GAINS IN) BITTER FIGHT

FLAME THROWERS ARE HURLED INTO BATTLE FOR MUNDA   Attempt to Burn the Japanese Out of Their Caves and Fox Holes.   U. S. TROOPS MOVE UP   First Time the Flame Throw ers Have Been Reported In Month-Old-Fight.

Tanks Are Used In Munda Battle   Flamethrowers Also Hurled Into Fight

FLAMETHROWERS AND TANKS BEING USED 10 OUST JAPS AT MUNDA   NEW EVIDENCE OF GROW ING AIR STRENGTH OF ALLIES IS GIVEN

TANKS, FLAMETHROWERS USED TO ELIMINATE FOXHOLES, PILLBOXES ON NEW GEORGIA ISLE  Americans Creep Up Few Yards In Drive To Oust Japanese From Important Port

YANKS ATTEMPT T0 BURN ENEMY FROM FOXHOLES   Tanks arid Flame Throwers Are Hurled. Into Battle for Airbase at Munda in Solomons   AMERICANS GAIN   Extent of Advance Not Revealed; U. S. Airpower Strikes at Coastal Positions

Yanks Hurl Tanks. F lame - Throwers  At Big Jap Base   Enemy Counterattack Repulsed; Airmen Assist Assault.

Flame Throw ers Used In Munda Fighting   Americans Employ Deadly ‘Weapon for First Time To Rutn Eneins Oacet Pullboxe:

Yank Forces Throw Back Jap Attack      Knox Says Vital Thrusts to Be Made After Initial Campaign Is Finished

TANKS AND FLAME THROWERS HURLED INTO MUNDA FIGHT   Japanese Being Burned Out of Their Rock Caves and Fox Holes By First Reported Use of Flame Throwers; Extent of American Gains Not Announced.

PREPARE MAJOR STAB AT JAPS   Knox Says Island - byIsland Strategy Is to Be Scrapped

Jap Troops Make Counter Attacks  And Are Repulsed   U.S. Navy Divebombers Strike At Coastal Bases

Flamethrowers In Use Against Japs Try To Burn Foe From Rock Caves

Slight Gains Are Made In Munda Drive   Tanks, Flame Throwers Are Sent Into Action In Effort To Drive Japs Out Of Caves

Burn Japs Out From Fox Holes   Americans Use Tanks and Flame Throwers in Ad vance on Munda.

AMERICANS USE. FLAME TINE ~ IN MUNDA BATTLE      Slight Gains Made. In’ Drive _’ On'Vital Jap Solomons Air Base   PLANES . BATTER: ENEMY

TANKS HURLED AGAINST JAPS   YANKS ALSO USING FLAMETHROWERS IN BATTLE FOR MUNDA

TWO INDIANA MEN.    = Reported Wounded in Action in North Africa.

200,000 Penna. Miners Obey The ‘“‘No Trespass” Edict of John L. Lewis

State Miners Idle Today   Obey Lewis Edict Not to Trespass on Mine Property

REVEAL ALLIED MEET IN AFRICA   Political Group To Be Established

Sub Commander Tells How It Feels To Be Bombarded With Depth Bombs By Japs

U-Boat Crews Rarely Betray Nervousness During Altacks   Instead, Despite Their Precarious Position Down Un der, They Curse and Joke About Enemy While Depth Charges Explode About Them; Attacks Last Up te Two and Half Hours

‘U-BOAT BACK FROM PACIFIC, SKIPPER TELLS DEPTH CHARGE ATTACKS IN ENEMY WATERS

COMMITTEE TO WORK FOR ‘FREE GERMANY?   Composed of Prisoners of War, It is Headed by Erich Weinert, the Poet. I

DRIVE INTO KURSK AREA OF UKRAINE   Three Objectives for Soviet Offensive. Attaining Even One Would Cripple Nazis

salsk ‘Seized ‘In Push   Soviets Draw Closer Ti Kharkov And Rostoy *

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Russian Armies Pounding Into Kurska Area

Russian Armies AreNow Pounding Into Kursk Area   Red Forces Drawing Closer To Kharkov And Rostov Says Moscow   SCORES OF TOWNS FALL TO RUSSIANS

SUPERMEN’ SHOWN IN ALL THEIR “GLORY”   Barbaric Decapitation of Captured iver Revealed

BURMA JAPS BOMBED   Enem: Bases In Burma Pounded By American Fliers

U.S. Raids in Burmé Destroy Jap Bases   American Bombers Rain Devastation Or Northern Burma Points; Widespread Sweep by Fighter Planes Aid Raids,

Bombers Lash J ap Shipping   big Vargo Vessel Wrecked - And Two Small Boats Hit

Liberators attack Jap Wewak base   Wreck or damage 3 cargo vessels

DEFER GUTTERS OF PULPWOCD   Cutting of Pulpwood Designated As An Essential Occupation.

PLANS FOR SUNDAY MOVIES ANNOUNCED   Local Bill Expected to be signed by Governor This Week -

300 BILLIONS OF DEBT PREDICTED BY G.0.P. LEADER   Willkie Advises Republicans ta Lead Orive to Renew Land-lL ease.

SOLDIER VOTE LEGISLATION IS AIM OF MEE   Special Elections — tc Fill Vacancies in  House Ordered

Iowa Legislature Convenes Jan, 26   Hickenlooper Acts on Legislation fo Permit Soldiers and Sailors to Vote Next Year

‘Roosevelt, Churchill and  Inonu Conclude War Talks: Announce Accord

Allied Chiefs Meet With Turk Leaders   Turkey Will Actively Join Allies, But Date For Move Not Made Certain At Cairo Parley

KIEV CHURCH DOMES CAN BE SEEN BY REDS   Thus the Advancing Soviets Have Another Goal of Great Summer Drive in Sight—the Capital of the Ukraine.

NO LETUP IS GIVEN JO ENEMY   New Areas of Sicily, Sar. dinia and Pantelleria Laid Waste by Allies.

Opposition Of Japanese Business Believed Causing Trouble For Tojo

FACTIONS IN JAPAN FIGHT FOR MASTERY   Tojo Has “Cold,” Holds ‘Back Reopening of Nation’s Parliament,   CRISIS OF SOME KIND INDICATED   Militarists Seek Control of Country for Rule or Ruin.

POSTPONEMENT OF REOPENING OF JAPANESE PARLIAMENT BECAUSE OF TOJ0’S ILLNESS VERY UNUSUAT.

SEES POSSIBLE DISPUTE OVER TOJ0’S POWERS   Premier’s Cold Not Sufficient Explanaticn for Jap Events

ee ee  Opposition Of Japanese Business \Believed Causing Trouble For Tojo

/POSTPONEMENT OF JAP PARLIAMENT UNUSUAL  Suggests Some Sort of Crisis

Tokyo Political Crisis of Some Nature Seen Pending      Mere Fact That Premier Has Cold Not Held Sufficient Explanation For Six-Day Postponement of Important Parliamentary Session; Believed Pending Bill Would Make Tojo Dictator

MURDER CASE WILL BE TRIED IN CITY   Trial of Russell ‘Robert. son, Accused of Slaying, ‘:Moved Here. ...

MURDER CASE WILL BE TRIED IN CITY      Trial of Russell Robertson, Accused of Slaying, Moved Here

LOWER HALF OF STATE COUNTS HEAVY DAMAGE   ‘Storms, Floods, Ternade Create Havoc Over Wide Area   NILES ‘DIGGING OUT’   South-End City Without Power and Water For Hours

Wind And Rain Cause Havoc In Much Of State   $50,000 Loss Reported At Dowagiac; Other  Areas Hard Hit 3 -

Fortresses Blast French Targets In Aerial Blitz   Hundreds of RAF Bombers Make Raid On Gelsenkirchen

ON RAIL LINE IS IMPERILED   Report Heavy Battles Now Under Way in White Russia

REDS GAIN GROUND. IN UKRAINE FIGHT   German Hold on Rail Junction Imperilled by Soviets

Battles in White Russia May Point To New Offensive   Soviet Forces Locked In Swaying Struggle Ir Ukrainia Gain Ground; Moscow’s Briefness Ominous

HED ARMY {ANS GROUND IN SMASH NEAR KIROVOGRAD   Nazis Break Through Soviet Lines at One Point, but Are Thrown Back by Tanks From Ambush.   FIERCE BATTLES RAGE IN WHITE RUSSIA   Stalin’s Troops Advance in Nevel Area and Imperil German Hold on Rail Wub of Zhiobin.

Gain Ground Ant Absorb inne Swaying Battle’   Berlin Tells Of Defenders Advance in Nevel Area

BATTLE RAGES AT KIROVOGRAD   Germans Report Fierce Soviet Assaults In White Russia

Germans Tell Of Fighting: Reds Reticent   Berlin Asserts That Soviets Are Active on Northern Front

Governor Of Georgia Proves Ace Strategist   Youthful executive is opposed to’ “tax-raising” measures; legislature co-dperates.:

Koepang Aflame After Allied Raid   15 Bombers Lash  Jap Base on Timor

Invasion Of Sicily Proves  Of Great Aid To Russians  Reds Outsmart Nazis In Shifting Attack, Resulting  In Fall Of Vital Key Centers

be lt hh ee a —By Kirke L. simpson [i  Soviet Winter Offensive Under Way At Last

Movement Started to Make Public  Secret Hearings   Says State Branch Should Have Been Supplying Data

Yank Shock Troops Advance. Toward Bizerle Naval Base   Second Corps Seeking to Crash Whole Axis Front West of Tunis

FIRST ARMY SEIZES TWO MORE HILLS   Allies Slugging Hard to Collapse Entire Axis Front

SHOCK TROOPS FANNING OUT IN TUNISIA   U.S. 2nd Army Corps Seeking Collapse of Enemy Front West of Tunis.

AMERICAN SHOCK TROOPS MOVE IN SWIFT ADVANCES   Yankees and French Are Now Less Than 15 Miles From Bizerte, Troops Hear Bursting Bombs.   DAUGHTER OF NAZI COMMISSAR HOSTAGE   Germany’s Main Batile Fleet Report at Sea In Move te Cut Supply Route to’ Rus aia.

BASE NEAR TO ALLIES   Yankees Closing In On  Bizerte As Effort Is  Made to Collapse Axis  Front.

U S. Troops Pour Through Gap at Mateur   Tunisia Victory -May Trap Nazis on Central Front

U. S. FORCES DRIVE IN TWO DIRECTIONS AS MATEUR FALLS   Second Corps ‘Secking Te Collapse Whole Axis .. Front West Of "Tri te

Large Section of Axis Defenses Believed Caught by Allied Maneuver

President to Offer Social Security Data   Doesn’t Know. Whethei He Will Suggest Specific Legislation

‘Hlopes.For.....‘United Nations Victory In ‘44; Praises Shinvards

AYYOU-GO PLAN ENDORSED   F.D.R. Expresses’ Views On Income Tax Pay: ment Proposal   MANY ANGLES   Intends To Give Congress Some Facts On Social Security

F.R. STUDIES NEW SOCIAL SECURITY Ail   President Undecided on Offering Specific Legislation   MESSAGE PONDERED   Many Republicans Join In Predicting Unity In: Congress

VICTORY IN 1944 IS HOPE OF PRESIDENT   Chief Executive Tells Reporters He Had Hoped to Convey That Impression in Address   DISCUSSES TAX PLAN

FOR Will Present Data to Congress On Social Security   Gives Endorsement To Pay-as-You-Go Tax Program

F. R..to Submit Data Soon on Social Security Question   Intended Speech to Convey Hope for "44 Victory by Allies

President Roosevell Jus! Wont Qull On The Subject Of Social Securify, Has Other Matfers Af The Back Of His Mind

Will give data on security   President for pay as you go tax proposal

Roosevelt to Hand Congress Material on Social Security   Not Sure He'll Recom. mend Any Specific Legislation —

To Give Dat: On Social Security   President Roosevelt Will Submit to Congress Information on Postwar Plan Being Prepared

Social Security Data to Conaress   F.D.R. Favors Pay-as: You-Go Income Tax

FR TQ SUBMIT SECURITY DATA      Declines to Say Whether He Will Recommend Spesific Measure,   ASKS STUDY OF PROGRAM.

F, R. IN FAVOR PAY-AS-6O ON INCOME TAXES   ‘Will Submit Some Data, Facts or Social Security Question for Congressional Study

President Will Offer Social Security Data   KK *=K (O¥« Victory Hopes   Congress

PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT DATA ON ‘SECURITY   UNDECIDED CN WHETHER TO RECOMMEND SPECIFIC LEGISLATION

PLANS TO SUBMIT ADDITIONAL BATA SACTAL SECURITY   PRESIDENT, HOWEVER, UNDECIDED ON LEGISLATION RECOMMENDATIONS

FOR UNDECIOED ON NEW oOGIAL SECURITY BILL   Executive Plans To Submit Some Facts To Congress Upon Vital Question   SENATOR BYRD RENEWS FIGHT AGAINST NYA   Most Members Of Congress Laud Conciliatory Tone Of Thursday Speech

President To Submit Some Data   Roosevelt Plans To Send Facts To Congress In Regard To Question Of Social Security

Social Security Program to Be Given Congress   President Favors Pay-as-You-Go Tax But Sees Difficulty

F. R. Hoping For Triumph During 1944   Tells Press Facts On Social Security Will Be Offered Congress At Later Date

Congress Ponders Over  F.R. Speech   Wonder at Significance Of President’s Restraint On Domestic Issues

FDR TO SUBMIT SOCIAL SECURITY DATA TO CONGRESS   Makes No Disclosures As to Nature of Recommendations to Be Made

U.S. Envoy To Russia Coming Home   Admiral Standley t Return for Consultations Here

WALTER WINCHELL IS SUED FOR $1,000,000   Radio Sponser And Network Are Also, Named In Action Filed By Church League Official

OBSERVING MOLLY PITCHER DAY HERE SATURDAY       geal on, Avxiliar AA eee “Bonds, Give Tags.

Buy a War Bond or Stamp Molly Pitcher Day, August 7th  _   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Predict Early Cut In Gat Ration Gor Jowa Cars   Government Claims Ga Shortage In Midwest.

JAPAN'S PREMIER GIVEN MORE POWER   Legislative ‘Action Reported By German Radio

TOJ0 IS GIVEN WIDER POWERS   Japs Grant Premier Tighter Hold on War Production, Germany Reports

RUSSIANS TIGHTEN NOOSE ON STALINGRAD   Corridor At Leningrad I Widened In Fighting   CLOSE IN ON KHARKOV   Voroshilovsk Is Captured In Push On Rostov

Concede Stalingrad Advances by Soviets   Berlin Also Announces Red Army Break-through in South—Whole Defense Sacc

RUSSIANS SWEEP FORWARD ON SIX VARIOUS FRONTS   German High Command Reveals For First Time at Home Grave Reverses Occuring In Russia.   SPECIAL U. S. ARMY FORCES STALK JAP‘   FORCES STALK JAPS  Jap Plane Makes Long Trig to Bomb Espiritu Santo Isz land, Important Base to Anetralia 

NAZIS ARE KILLED BY: THOUSANDS   Others Are Captured by Hard Hitting Red Troops —Leningrad Further Relieved.

REDS FIGHT ON SIX FRONTS   Russia's Winter Offensive Sweeping Forward —- Siege Lifting Corridor to Leningrad Making New Progress.

German Counter-Attocks Beaten Off, Russians , Announce   HUNDREDS DEAD IN . VIOLENT FIGHTING   Populated Places in Donets River Basin Are Canturead

Nazis Iry to Crack Up Kharkov Ring   Russian Grip Tightens Around Huge German Base as Three Furious Counters Thrown Back

“ATTACK FAIL TO HALT REDS   Blows Smashed Back Three ® Times At Chuguyev   NAZI LOSSES HEAVY   “Pther Red Units Pound Forward in Donets River Basin, Capture 30 Places

THRUSTS MADE TQ BREAK ARC NEAR KHARKOV   SS Troops Thrown Into Battle At Chuguyev; Russians Advance  On Other Lines   30) Places Occupied

Axis Suffers Heavy Losses Tn Attacks   Three Counterallacks Beaten Back; Donets Basin Drive Continues

Nazi Attacks Fail To Crack Pincers  About Kharkov  More Soviet Gains In Donets Basin Campaign Revealed  HIT GERMANY AGAIN  American-British Bombers Also Blast  French, Italian Areas

Russian Forces J ighten Noose Around Kharkov   urious German Counter. attacks Reported Repulsed   Nazis Hurl Best Troops into Battle with No Success

OPA Will Put      - Program Expected ~ “Fo Cut Living Cost " Another Two Per Cent

Price Rollback fo Start at Once   Bowles Announces Subsidy Program

Senate Group Will Probe Multiple Controls Over Gas And Oil Rationing

Split i in Fuel Control Cited   ‘Fekes Adusits He Has med fae Anthority”

Senators Probe Complex Contro Of Gas Supplies   No Hope Given For Increased Allotments

UNIFORM “GAS”, OIL CONTROL URGED   Senate Group Would As sure Minimum Supply; Ickes for More Power

Divided. Control Tnapires Probe   Senatorial Investigators To Make Effort To Assure Minimum Civilian Needa

Seek Unified Gas Control   Would Assure  Essential Civilian Supply and  Simplify Ration Forms

GAS RATION QUIZ TO BE CONTINUED   DIVIDEND CONTROL OBJECT OF INQUIRY BY SENATORS

Senate Groun Will Probe Multiple Gas Ration Control  Move to Assure Civilians Minimum C, wal, hl... Jos

A Simplified Oil Control Senate Goal   Many Divisions, Now Must Pass On Domestic Needs

Control Over Nation’s Oil Is Divided   Senatorial Investigators Seek Further Light On Reason For Division In Rationing Control

Multiple Controls Over Gasoline and  Oil Will Be Probed   More Unified Direction Thought Necessary by Senate Committeemen

PUBLIC HEARINGS T0 BE RESUMED ON GAS-OIL SITUATION   Further Light On Divided Federal Control Will Be Sought By Senatorial In vestigators.

Senate Group to Probe Divided Control Over Gas and Oil Rationing

Multiple Controls ~ Over Gas Studied  No Hope Is Given For _ Increased Supplies In  al

Fuel Control _ ~ Plan Debated   Unified Setup To Handle Oil: And Gas Favored . By Lawmakers .. °

SENATE GROUP 10 EXTEND ITS OIL-GAS PROBE   To Investigate Multiple Control of Rationing of Both Fuels, It Is Announced   HEARINGS MONDAY   Meanwhile, It Appears Foregone Conclusion That There Can Be No  Increase In Supplies

Looking Into Divided Rule Over Gas, Oil   Kation Probers See One Boss Necessary: Inquiry Resumina.

Senate Seeks to Untie Ration Snarl   Jeffers Asks New Simplified - Form for Farmers and  Enough Gas

Further Light On Rationing To Be Sought   Senate Special Committee  To Resume Hearings Next Week   SEEK UNIFIED CONTROL

SENATE PROBERS 10 SEEK FURTHER LIGHT IN OW RATIONING   DIVIDED FEDERAL CONTROL OVER GASOLINE AND FUEL OIL BE AIRED

—RUSSIA—  GEAMANS AONAT FERGE ATTACKS   Soviets Declare Several  Strongpoints Seized From Nazis   FIGHTING GROWS   Turn In Flow Of Major Encounter Admitted By Berlin

GERMAN BROADCASTS HINT THAT RUSSIANS TAKING OFFENSIVE  REPORTS FAIL TO AGREE RIT NAZI DRIVE AP-

GERMANS ADMIT TURN IN BATTLE FAVORING RENS      Russians Are Swarming Down Upon Kirov-  orad   ENCIRCLEMENT OF NAZIS THREATENED

Germans Admit Setback In Big Battle Raging On Kiev Bulge %.  gee

Reds Go Over To Offensive   Germans Acknowledge Fierce Russian Blows At Kiev Bulae

SOVIETS TAKE OFFENSIVE IN KIEV SECTOR   Communique Says They Have Seized Several Strong Points and Are Attacking Near Malin, West of Capital.

Germans Admit Adverse Turn In Kiev Battle   Launch Fieree Coun.  terattackhs umns Swar Kirovograd.  - Other Col mn Toward

slide Turns To Russians tn Kiev Bulge   Germans Admit ‘Fierce CounterAttacks; Soviets Menace Rail Key

Germans Admit Adverse Turn  In Kiev Battle        ‘Reinforced Russians  Launch Fierce Coun.  terattacks — Other Col umns Swarm Toward  = Kirovograd.

RedsRushNew Men Into Fight   Russians Also Smash Toe ward Kirovograd, Rail City

Russians in New Offensive  On Kiev Front   Germans Admit Turn In Flow of Battle; Moscow Reports Gains

Nazi Radio Admits That Russians Cause Turn Of Battle Near Kiev Bulge

Germans Admit Turn in Battle Of Kiev Bulge   Red Army: Swarming Down on Kiroyograd, Moscow Says

SOVIETS BATTER FOE NEAR KIEV   Germans Hint ot Reversals As Russians Regain Offensive in Area

Massed Nazi Divisions Have Been on the Counteroffensive in This Sector; Red  Threaten Kirovograd.   AN INDUSTRIAL AND RAILROAD CENTER   German Communique Said  Soviets Had Brought up Fresh Forces and Made Fierce Counterattacks.”

MAY SKIP LEVY FOR THE GENERAL FUND   State May Levy Only for Soldier Bonus and Build- »  ing Funds  \, )     ZFATVYVTA*RYLSALT Tr vyrwrry ¥   IVALUATION IS HIGH

MAY SKIP-LEVY FOR THE GENERAL FUND   State May Levy Only for Soldier Bonus and Build- : ing Funds   >  VALUATION IS HIGH

ALLIED AIRMEN DOWN 24 MORE AXIS PLANES   Von Arnim: Reported Appealing for More Aireratt

KLLIES CRIPPLE ‘AXIS POWER IN 24-PLANE BAT   rench Reports German Ceunterattacks Near Tunis

LOSS OF 24 MORE AXIS PLANES BLOW TO AERIAL POWER   Berlin Warned By German General _ In Tunisia That He Could Not” Guarantee To Prolong _ Resistance .

New Crippling Blows betes              Dwindling Air: Power Suffers as ’Planes:Are Down

24 MORE SHOT” DOWN ON MONDAY BY THE ALLIES   Land Operations Quiet. Down As Air War Continues tn Race.

‘GERMAN GENERAL ~ APPEALS 10 GET SUPPLIES. PLANES   Madrid Says Jurgen Von Arnim Expresses Fear of Evacuation of Personnel Without Assistance.   PLANES DESTROY FIVE SUBS, FOUR-DAY FIGHT   British Light Planes Strike At German Positions, Recent Raids at Pilsen, Renorted Successtul.

AIRPLANES SHOT DOWN   Report Nazi General Appealing For More Planes

Three-Day Toll In Planes Now  Stands At 142   Urgent Appeal Sent To Berlin For More Fighter Type Ships

24 MORE BIG TRANSPORTS SHOT DOWN   French Repulse Germon Thrust In ‘Easy’ Manner

ALLIES BAG 24 MORE PLANES IN TUNISIA BATTLE   Report Nazi General  Asks Berlin for More Pianes   PATROLS SKIRMISH IN GROUND BATTLE

142 Craft Smashed During Three Days   Fuel, Munitions Supplies Fading, Von Aruim Complains to Fuehrer

Allies Drive Enemy Steadily Into Sicily’s Coffin Corner   Germans, Italians. Resisting With Increasing Tenacity Near Messina Peninsola

Americans Make New Advances  In Munda Drive   Loa AVAUCREUAGR SZERYY  Little Over a Mile From Vital Air Base Held by Japanese  ENEMY WORRIED  Tokyo Strengthens Aerial Defenses  Of Island Chain

YANKS CLOSE IN ON MUNDA, JAP AIRBASE   SLUGGING VETERANS OF JUNGLE MAKE NEW ADVANCES

New Advance Is Made On  New Guines  Americans Are Les  Than Mile From

Yanks Smash Nearer Munda   Air Power Aids Stéadily Advancing Jungle Forces

YANKS ADVANGE ON MUNDA BAS   GREEN-CLAD AMERICANS LIT. TLE MORE THAN MILE FROM AIRDROME,

YANKS NEAR MUNDA. BASE   New Advances Are Scored By Americans on New  Georgia Island

Americans Edge Closer To Air Base At Munda   New Little Over Mile From Jap Strongpoint On New Georgia, Salamaua Hit Again  ANOTHER BOMBING OF WAKE REVEALED  Enemy Strives Hard To Stop Liberators, But Lose Nine Zeros

Plan For Subbing ‘Cereals For Meat Strongly Assailed   Would Threaten Nation’s Health, Upset Our Present Diet Methods

Reducing Livestock Production to Make Available More Grains, Cereal Would Constitute Threat to Health of Nation

‘NEAR SLACKERS’   Absentees Cost U. S. 100 Shins a Year. Land Declares.

Emory $. Land Urges Congress Act To Stop Absenteeism in Shipyards

Jap Hordes Were Sweeping Toward Continent And Pessimism Prevailed; That’s All Changed Today

MacArthur's First Year   Built Defensive Force From ‘Shoestring’. In Australia

M'ARTHUR HALTS JAPS IN YEAR   Anniversary of Landing It Australia Shows General Stalemated Foe,

ACTIVITY IN BURMA GROWS   British Penetrate Enemy Lines; U.S. Airmen Busy.

British Troops Make Daring Raid  Americans Down at Least 6 Jap Planes

British Make Daring Thrust Into Jap Lines in Burma As Americans Down 6 Planes Trying to Attack Base

British Troops Make Daring Raid  Americans Down ai   Americans Down at Least 6 Jan Planes

SOVIET TROOPS PENETRATE DEEPER INTO NAZI LINES   Reds Destroy At Least 53 Axis Planes in the Past 24 Hours

RUSSIAN TROOPS SLASH AT NAZIS . NORTH OF OREI  pDp.ji 7 ee a. J 8 ame BD ecwnl   Red Army Soldiers Burst Through German De  fenses To Capture  --- New Forward :Line:: ~~:

FUGITIVE ASKS TO BE PARDONED   NEW YORKER ESCAPES ILLINOIS PRISON; LIVES FREE 18 YEARS

New Yorker Seeks Pardon; Is Fugitive From Joliet Prison   Has Lived Model Life __for 18 Years After His Jail Break

Three New Members of Liquor Board Are Named   Gov. Ford Appoints Wallace, Chairman; Corwin and Rinple

Pay Tribute  To Jetterson   Roosevelt Dedicates Memorial As “Debt Long Overdue’ The Third President.

Roosevelt Cites Jefferson  As Fighter for Freedom   President Dedicates Shrine to Author of LU. S. Independence Declaration, Urges Emulation

A Memorial To Jefferson   Nation Honors Third President By: Dedication of Marble Shrine

IEFFERSON SHRINE DEDICATED INEASI   Roosevelt “Holds Ceremony In Presence of Descendants of 3rd President.

TRIBUTE PAID TO JEFFERSON BY ROOSEVEL]   President Dedicates Shrine at Washington to Author of Declatation of Independence

‘Debt Long Overdue Is Paid by Nation  in Dedication Rites   ‘Men Who Will Not Fight for Liberty Can Lose It,’ Chief Executive Warns in Address to Several Thousand

JEFFERODA MEMORIAL DEDICATED   President Roosevelt Says Nation Is Paying Long Over-due Debt.   SEEN AS s APOSTLE FREEDOM   Present Generation Declared to Have Improved View of Liberty.

Roosevelt _ Dedicates Temple To  Jefferson   Author Of Independence Declaration Honored--In Midst Of War To Preserve Liberty

Mr. Roosevell Pays Tribute To Jefferson   President Declares Nation Pays Debt Long Overdue to Third President of U. S.

FDR DEDICATES JEFFERSON SHRINE   President Says Broader Liberty Will Follow the War

F.D.R. Dedicates Jefferson Shrine Sees Broader Post- War Liberty

PRESIDENT DEDICATES MEMORIAL TO: JEFFERSO}   Ceremony Marks 200th. Anniver Sary of Third’ President,

New Memorial Is Dedicated To Jefferson   Shrine to Freedom Officially Opened By Chief Executive

President Roosevelt Dedicates Marble Shrine to Memory of Thomas Jefferson

Roosevelt Lauds Thomas Jefferson   Dedicates Marble Temlpe To 3rd President

Tribute Paid To Jefferson   FDR Dedicates Marble Shrine to Third President

President Roosevelt Dedicates Marble ‘Shrine to Thomas Jefferson

Nation’s Chiet Pays Tribute To Jefferson  Addresses Throng At Dedication

ERSON GIVEN HONOR; ROOSEVELT DEDICATES TEMPLE   FDR Says Those F ighting Toflay War Will Learn About “3 Old Truth

Allied Forces Land Near New Guinea Base Clear Island of Japs      Enemy Garrison on Arundel in Solomens Wiped Out, Navy Reports; Nimitz Reveals Four Vital Bases Hit in Gilberts Attacks

Americans land near Finschhafen; enemy garrison destroyed   Two powerful blows dealt Japanese  in accelerated Pacific offensive

Heavy Blows: Rain On Japs   Finschhafen Cut Off; Japs Cleared From Arundel Isle

Nip Garrison on Arundel Is Destroyed   Enemy Is Opposing Attacks in Force Around Finschhafen

NEW ALLIED PUSH MENACES ANOTHER BASE OF JAPANESE   Troops Landed in Force Under Air and Naval Protec- — tion Above Finschhafen, New Guinea.   NIPPONESE GARRISON AT ARUNDEL WIPED OUT   MacArthur Bids for Control ( of Huon Gulf, Potential Springboard Against New Britain.

MacArthur’s Troops Land  Above Lae; Japs’ Arundel Island Garrison Smashed

Allied Forces in Dawn Landing At Finschafen  Directed at Base to Give Complete   Directed at Base to Give Complete Control of Gulf

Arundel Garrison Is Smashed In Solomons   Thrust At Finschhafen Aimed At Capture Of Base Controlling Huon Gulf; Heavy Air Blows Made At Madang

Seaborne Landing Hits Japs Anew In South Pacific   Two More Blows Smashed at Enemy in Accelerated Offensive That Destrovs Garrison on Arundel Island

Jans Reel Under Two Heavy Blows   ‘Seaborne Troops Attack Foe; Isle Garrison Smashed

ALLIED TROOPS MAKING LANDING ON NEW GUINEA   Force, Protected From Sea And Air, Offers Threat To Finschhafen   JAP BASE ON ARUNDEL ISLAND IS DESTROYED

COAL MINES IN OHIC HIT FULL PRODUCTION   Miners in Southern Part o State Return to Work

MINERS EXPECT TO GAIN RAISES   Ohio’s Pits Slated To Reach Fuk Production Today

British Tanks Battling Main Enemy Strength   ‘Clash Opposite Pont Du Fahs Junction Continues To Rage, Still Undecided —

YANKS FORGE AXIS RETREAT ON NORTH FRONI   Capture Key Hills As British ‘Tanks Battle Enemy In South Sector

BRITISH BATTLE FIERCELY WITH TANKS IN TUNISIA   Enemy Forced From Key Heights During General Allied Advances; First And Eighth Armies On Move

Captures sf Key Heights an Almost All Sectors of Tunisia Front Reported — British Tanks Engaged in Battle with Main Enemy Armored Strength.

‘Key Heights in Nearly All Sectors Ranidly Falling Into Allied Hands

Yank Infantry Attacks Force Axis Retreat   Allied Forces Advancing Slowly But Steadily in Bitter Fighting

American, French and British Troops Push to Within 25 Miles of Tunis and Biverte, Report. 

Allied Armies Push Ahead on All Lines In Decisive Action   Germans Commit Most of Armor In Effort to Delay Break-Through; No Indication When Retreat te Fund

Americans, Aided By Strong Aerial Support Push Foe Back In N. Tunisia

ALLIES ADVANCE  ON ALL SECTORS; BIG TANK BATTLE   American Infantry In Hard Fighting _ Drives Axis From Four Hills — ~ Allies Only 25 Miles From. Both Tunis, Bizerte

TANK BATTLE RAGES NEAR PONT DU FAHS   Allies Gain On Near All Fronts In Tunisia

Infantry Getting Strong Support From Air Forces   British Tanks Engage the Main Enemy Armored Strength in a Furious Battle, Still Undecided

BABSON VISIONS MANY OLDEN OPPORTUNITIES   He Beliéves Private Industry Can Make and Keep Ameri‘ca Prosperous After The War If Government Theorists Do Not Interfere.

BABSON PREDICTS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN FUTURE   Believes Per Capita Wealth, Scientific Progress Will Handle Change-Over Days  From War to Consumers Goods,

Speedy Chinese Aid Pledged By Roosevelt   Plan to Make Area Great Operations Base Against Japs

CHINA CHOSEN KEY BASE 10 DEFEAT TOKYO   PLEDGES OF SPEEDY AID REPEATED BY ROOSEVELT

CHINA WILL BE MADE BASE IN JAP ATTACKS   FDR Promises Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to Speed Program

FDR Promises China All Aid U. S. Can Send   Declares Ally Will Be  Base of Operations  eo i)

China to Be Made Great War Base   President Pledges Speedy Aid to Ally

F.D.R. Pledges Speed inSending Arms to China   Tells Madame Chiang Of U.S. Plans for Ching As Base Against Japan

Mme.Chiang Is Guest At Press Parley      WIFE OF CHINESE GENERALISSIMO AND MES ROOSEVELT BY HIS :IDE IN WHITE HOUSE OVAL ROOM.   Aid Promised China

FEE CATTLE   re Than 80,000 Head  ntoaded at Major Stock ‘ards to Ease to Some Extent Scarcity   ORST OF SHORTAGE \sT, PACKERS HOPE   i isers Releasing Herds or Market Rather Than Feed Expensive Grains, Is Claim

Movement of Cattle Gains   Large Receipts on — Markets Expected to Ease Beef Situation

Beef Shortage Believed Over   Shipments To Biggest Markets Climb To Highest In Seven Months.

IMPROVEMENT SEEN IN MEAT SITUATION   Unload Heavy Volume of Cattle at Major Centers Yesterday.

Meat Picture Much Brighter   Farmers Release Heavy Volume Of Cattle To Markets.

SEE EASING OF MEAT PROBLEM   F armers Release Record  Loads of Cattle To  Markets

Farmers Unload 80,000 Cattle; Reach Market:   Facing Of Beef Situation ~ Seen As. Chicago* Pens “Receive. Record Freight

BEEF CATTLE SALES HIGHER AT CHICAGO   Will Increase Meat Supply for Civilians

‘STEAKS’ GO TO MARKET, BEEF SCARCITY EASED   Packers Note Stream ot Cattle Coming Into Chicago

Beef Cattle Move, Meat Supply Gains   30,000 Head Reach Stock yards in First Big Western Shipments

BEEF OHORTAGE PAal AS FARMERS SELLING   Worst Of Crisis Believed Over As Supplies Increased

SHORTAGE OF BEEF MAY BE AT END   Farmers Beginning to UnJoad Stocks on Market: 80.000 Arrive Monday

GRASS DRIES UP AND RANCHERS UNLOAD BEEF   Increased Shipments Reach Country's Livestock Centers, Promising Easing of Shortage

Beef Cattle Are Shipped To Market   Jones Announces Great Increase in Crop Program

TOJO'S ILLNESS HALTS JAP DIET   OWI POINTS TO AIR BROADCAST HAILING HEALTH OF PREMIER

TOJO REPORTED ILL, EXCUSE TO RECESS DIET   Opening Session and Reporis After New Year's Delayed—Dictatorial  rend Noted

COMMERCE DEPT. BLOCKED PLAN 10 ‘RATION’ BUSINESS   Revolutionary OPA Proposals Sought to Limit Number of New Enter ee Oe

‘COMMERCE CHIEF BLOCKS  ‘OPA PLAN TO RATION  [AMERICAN ENTERPRISE

JONES BLOCKS. “OPA PROPOSAL   PLAN TO. LIMIT NUMBER OF NEW BUSINESS ENTERPRISES OPPOSED BY COMMERCE  1.  . gBORETARY

0. P. A. Proposed Plans To Ration U.S. Enterprise   Plan Reported By Secretary Jones’ Department Of Commerce   JONES WANTS MORE CIVILIAN GOODS

BLOCKS OPAS PLAN TO LIMIT BUSINESSES   Commerce Dept. Stops “Rationing of Enterprise”

Tension Mounting Through Balkans; Arm) Peace Ultimatum In Bulgaria; Gestapo Active In Rumania

BULGAR ARMY DEMANDS FOR PEACE HINTEL   Rumor Gestapo Starts Anti - Nazi ‘Purge In Rumania

BULGARIAN ARMY PEACE ULTIMATUM   Raid on Sofia and Hull’s Warning Believed to Have Spread Uneasiness,

TENSION MOUNTS IN BALKANS AFTER HULL'S WARNING   Army Peace ‘Ultimatum Re: ported In Bulgaria; Purge In Rumania.

GERMAN DRIVE BROKEN AFTER LONG STRUGGLE   5th Army Smashes Nazt Effort To Retake Peaks In Italy

Civil War Said  Near in Bulgaria   Russians Turn Back Offensive  In Ukraine; Allies Gain on Rome

KETTLE BOILS INTENSIVELY IN BULGARIA   Army Peace Ultimatum Reportedly Issued There as Fear of Allied Bombing Grows 

Bulgarian Army Reported Making Peace Demands.   Nazis Purge Rumania, Ace Trouble-Shooter Goes To Hungary

SOVIETS HALT NAZI DRIVE IN UKRAINE AREA   Civil War Threatens Bulgaria As Unrest Spreads in Ru. mania And Hungary

Bulgaria — Anxious  Quit W:         RUMOR ARMY HAS DEMANDE THAT GOVERNMENT MAKE HULL’S WARNING HAVING

Civil War Threatens If Axis Policy Continues; Entire Balkans Uneasy

Jittery Nazis Purge Rumania   DISPATCHES INDICATE U. S. RAID ON SOFIA, HULL’S WARNING TO AXIS SATELLITES HAS SPREAD UNEASINESS THROUGH THREE COUNTRIES

‘Tension Mounts in Balkans As Allied ‘Nerves’ Offensive Continues; Report ‘Bulgarian Army Officers Seek Peace

Peace Ultimalum Said To Be Made Bulgarian Army   Anti-German Elements in Rumania Purged and Nazi Trouble-Shooter Arrives in Hungary

Women Drivers Doing Good JobIn Africa--Maybe They Scare Nazis Off The Road

YANK GIRLS IN WAR AND DRIVER'S SEATS   In Africa They Drive All Kinds Of Cars

: 5  General Praises  Women Drivers WAACs Behind Wheel Doina Good Job

‘Land Army’ Is Proposed ‘To Help Ohio Farmers Produce Food for War

CHURCHILL WILL SPEAK SOON ON WAR SITUATION   Prime Minister To Make Statement Shortly On Creation Of United War Council; Answers Some Questions.

WAR STATEMENT SOON   Prime Minister Churchill Expects to Discuss Situation

CHURCHILL TO DISCUSS WAR PLANS SOON   Prime Minister Stops Show When Entering Britain’s House Of Commons

British Soon ‘To-Get Report   Churchill, Promises Full Statement; Cheered In First. Appearance

‘hurchill Will Soon Make  War Situation Statement   ill Include Reference to-Creation of United Nations War Council; Prime Minister Cheered and Applauded By All Members As He Enters Chamber of Parliament

oe, i li ae e, dS a ee i  REASON TRAFFIC  }  IS IMPEDED ON HIGHWAY SOMETIMES

MOSCOW PARLEY RUNS SMOOTHLY   Stettinius Makes Official Comment for First Time

Ration Cost Of Butter Increased To Sixteen Points   Situation Blamed On Dwindling Output And Heavy Demand

FOR STEADY PROGRAM   Tax Experts Hopes Congress Will ‘Adopt a Permanent Plan

Ruml Planner: Claim Votes To Put ft Over   Showdown in Senate Commitice May Come Today

RUML PLANNERS ASK SHOWDOWN BEFORE SENATE   Public Hearings On SkipA-Year Tax Plans End Today   EXPECT EARLY VOTE   Count On Democratic Support To Pass Bill In Upper House

Maneuver Fo: Showdown  On Tax Plan   Rumlites Hope Democrats Aid

iRASSAGE OF ROME'S PLAN “1S FORECAS)   SENATE / * sPONdORS oy TAX AYSTEM OFPORED p¥ ap.  ; MINieTkAtiON ame oo MICRORE 4

Senate Fin, Com. Likely To Vote Skip-Year Plan   Expect Decisive Action On Ruml-Carlson Plan » Of Taxation Late Today

Advocates Of "Skip-a-Y ear" Plan Hopeful   Supporters Maneuver For Showdown Vote in Senate Committee  PUBLIC HEARING BRIEF

Showdown Vote Predictec In Afternoon Session 0: Senate Committee Or Income Tax Plans

Ruml-Carlson Plan Gains in Senate   Advocates of Skip-Year Legislation Seek Showdown Vote in Senate Committee

MIGHTY TANK BATTLE RAGES WEST OF KIEL   Nazis Use Nearly 2,000 Tanks;' Reds Strangle Nazis in Savage Fight.

AXIS PROGRAM FOR CAMPAIGN CHECKED   Allied Air Attacks Be. lieved to Have Wrecked Plans

BOMBING OF GERMAN PLANTS MAY CHANGE HITLER'S PLANS   Destruction of Industrial Areas Believed To Have Made Drive against Russia Unlikely

Allies Held Delaying Axis  Summer Drive   Stimson Says German Power Concentrated

‘Blasting of German Industrial Areas by Allied Bombers May ‘Already Have Wrecked Axis Plans for Summer Offensive

Events Hint: That Foe Sees Defeat   Nazis Apparently Hold Greatest Forces To Protect Homeland

Stimson Sees Nazi Offensive  Plan Wrecked Pressure On Russian: Relieved By Allied  - Bomb Attacks

NAZI OFFENSIVE IN RUSSIA OFF, STIMSON HOLDS   Moving of Divisions West« ward Apparently Means . Rome Will Not Face Enemy Alone. 7      NEGOTIATED PEACE ~ BELIEVED AXIS AIM   Change in Tone of German Broadcasts Indicates Lead- :  ers Now Plan Defensive War. + RA

Stimson Says Bombings Have  Wrecked Axis  ensive Plans Off Pl         Tells Press Conference Hitler Was Had to Concentrate Strength to Trotect Home Front ‘Against Air Atlacks

Stimson Believes Allied Bombings May Have Ruined Axis Offensive on Russia

Army Refuses to. Furlough Farmers   Entire Units : ‘Might Be -Madé Available

SKILLED WORKERS ON FARMS NOT 10 CFCURE FURLOUGH   Army Officials Inform Senate Committee It Is Impossible To Check Soldiers Or Qualifications.   SOME TALK FAVORING DISCHARGE OF UNITS   Distinction Could Not Be Made Between Those For Farm Work and Men In Other Occupations.

Army Refuses To Furlough  Farm Workers   Alternate Plan  Of Permanent nH: oa ntenween PG i us gM 7

Army Refuses To Furlough Farm Workers   Alternate Plan Of Permanent Thiccharga Thiecneced

No Furloughs to Farm Workers   Army Denies Appeal of Farm State Congressmen for Help During Crop Season

ARMY REJECTS FURLOUGHS 10 Al) FARMERS   Plan Held Imprac tical Alternative Idea Favored

DENY FURLOUGHS FOR FARM WORK   Srmy Officers: Refuse to Give Men Leave From Duties: To Helo Out With Croos.

Army Rejects Appeal To Furlough ~ Farm Workers To Help In Harvest

ARMY TURNS DOWN PLAN TO FURLOUGH SKILLED FARMERS   nye Seeeting Men Weald        < “Whole” Uniis

Chinese Admit Loss of Town  Fighting Intensifies in Yunnan Province

Chinese Admit Loss of Town Fighting Intensifies  In Vunnen Deauvinns

ITALIAN NERVES MAY BE FRAYED BY SACRIFICES   OWI Chief Says Rommel Is Again Throwing Fascists To The Wolves   AXIS IS DOOMED IN TUNISIAN THEATER

Nazis Sacrifice Italian Troops   Hope Rises Reverses In Tunisia May Fray Nerves of People

Axis :Deteats. Seen. Blow To  Rome Morale Hope For Collapse Of Italy: Grows Among Allies

ITALIANS LEFT TO HOLD THE BAt   Rommel Again Sacrifices Allies to Save German Hides; Reverses Stretch Italians’  Nerves to Breaking Point

Axis Reverses Likely To Fray ltalian Nerves   Successes in Tunisia Ma’ Speed Day of Coming Invasion

Allies Foresee Collapse Of Italy’s Morale   Leaders Vision Success After Rommel Defeat

4-DAY PROGRAM AT HASKELL INSTITUTE   Campus Day Will Be First Event of Commencement Activities

A-DAY PROGRAM AT HASKELL INSTITUTE   Campus Day Will Be First Event of Commencement Activities   QUEEN TO BE CROWNED

DOUGHTON WOULD CANCEL HALF OF 43 INCOME TAXES   Committee Decision Believed to Rest Between His Proposal and One Submitted by Robertson.   LATTER WOULD WIPE OUT SEVEN BILLIO}   Those With Small Incomes Would Pay Nothing—Both Plans Provide for Withholding Levy.

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 PLAN REVAMPED   Cancellation of Half o! Income Taxes Proposed As Compromise

NEW INCOME TAX PLAN SUBMITTED   Chairman Doughton Suggests Cancellation Of Half 1943 Levies

Doughton Would Cancel Half Of This Year’s Income Taxes To Pave Way for New System

Doughton Offers Plan to Cancel  Half of 43 Tax   New Pay-as-Go Version Finds Support in House Committee  RUML IDEA ‘OUT’ New Proposal Would  Meise =e. RG oe

NAZIS IN TUNISIA DECLARED DOOMED   EXPERTS SAY AIR ONSLAUGHT WILL PREVENT ESCAPE OF AXIS FORCES.

ALLIED AIR RAIDS FIERCE IN AFRICA      Axis Armies in’ Tunisia Reeling Under Concentrated Attacks

AIR MASTERY WILL PREVENT ENEMY FLIGHT   CONTINUED BOMBING TO SHORTEN WAR, EXPERTS SAY

DEVELOPMENT OF TELEVISION MAY BESTEPPED UP.   War Pressure Brings Speed Up and Two Year: of Peace Will See Indust ry In Full Headway

Gestapo Takes Over Home Rule In Germany   Heinrich Himmler s Appointed Chief of Reich Administration

POWER GIVEN TO HIMMLER   Purge Chief in Control of All Home Affairs Except Labor

Hitler Orders Gestapo Rule  Over Germam   Control Given Himmler Shift Seen as

Hinmler Obtains  Vast New Powers  Over Germany Dreaded Gestapo Mai Given Task of ”  ‘TT... “Ad Vee

Shakeup In Hitler's Subordinates Seen Move To Tighten Iron Hand On Germany

HIMMLER GIVEN GREATER POWER   Purge Chief Who Has Condemned Thousands Gets Tighter Grip on Reich; to Apply ‘Iron Hand’

GESTAPO TAKES —AVERHOMERUL   Purge-Chief Himmler Given Additional Power In Shakeun

HIMMLER GETS EXTRA POWERS   Shakeup Gives Gestapo Chief Grip On All Reich Affairs But  Labor

Himmler Named To Command Of Nazi Home Rule  Hitler Desirous Of Rally.   Hitler Desirous Of Rallying Old Party Gang And SS About Self

Purge-Chiel Holds Control Over All Nazis   Labor Alone Exempt From His Rule—Act Said Intended to Tighten Up Morale

Hitler Tightens Reins in Germany   Himmler Placed  In Top Position

WIDE POWERS PUT IN HANDS OF HIMMLER   Purge Chief Will Rule Home Affairs of Germany   “IRON HAND” RULE FOR REICH PEOPLE

AIR BOYCOTT ——-- SUGGESTION   Would Deny Craft After War to Aggressive Nations

Peace Ta Came  Should Limit Air Power Use  Gen. Olds Would Give It Only To Nations Who Are Trustworthy

Major General Robert Olds, Commanding Officer of Second Air Force, Says Lightning Planes Ceuld   Set Of Another World War—Belicves NonAgeressive Nations Should Do Building

TURKS PREPARE TO ENTER WAR   Influential Paper Hints Ankara Will Fight Nazis Soon

Turks. Building Up For War On Nazis   Newspaper Says Nation Is Not Without Stdac. And. Ambasendor Ie Called Home

Turkey Reported Backing British   May Soon Enter War, Editor Says

Germany Forms Govt. To Save Italian ‘Honor’   Bloody Fighting  Foreshadowed for Control of Italy, With 18 German Divisions Garris: oned in North. U.S. 7th Army Reported Landed at Leghorn.

Germans, Bitter Over Italian ‘Betrayal,’ Form New Regime   Air Bases Pointed Toward Nazi. Oil Fields Believed Prime Aim   Bases Within Bombing Reach Of Rumanian And Hungarian Fields May Prove Key To Hitler’s European Fortress.

Germans Urge Italians To Keep Fighting  Allied Forces Face Hard Fighting Against Nazis For The Control Of Italy

ALL OF ITALY’S LOST EMPIRE IN BRITISH HANDS   Remaining Axis Forces On Continent Now Pressed Between Two Great Allied Armies.

New Plant, Tool Building Is Cut   Present Production Sufficient to Beat Axis. Save WPB

War Production Board Halts New Projects, Saying Present Capacity Becomes Sufficient

We Now Have Needed Plants And Tools  Halt Is Called On Four Billions Of War Plant Construction By WPB

Order Cut-back In Construction of War Plants   Machine Tool Bottle neck Broken, The WPB Announces

‘Virtual Halt In Building Of War Plants Is Ordered   Conversion of Plants Making Machine Tools To Other Operations Directed by WLB  SOME WILL MAKE  CIVILIAN GOODS Existing Facilities . Sufficient To Handle Vital War Products

l. S. Has Enough to Beat Axis  WPB Places Curb on Plant  And Tool Program in Nation

Cut Ordered In Tool Output And Plant Building”   WPB Savs Nation Now Jlas Sufficient Machine ‘Tools And Plants ‘To Build Production To Beut Axis,

New Plant Construction  Is Halted   America Now Has Adequate Tools , For War Effort

Order Cut Back in War Plant Work   Nation Now  Has Tools and. Plants Needed To Beat Axis

Halt on All War Plant Construction by Oct. 1 Is Announced Purpose of WPB

U.S. Has Enougt War Factories  Plenty of Machine Tools, Says WFB in Bbeeasmn tow a

Curb on New Plants, Tools Ordered as U. S$. Now Has Enough to Whip the Axis

ORDER CUT IN TOOL OUTPUT   SAYS EXISTING EQUIPMENT SUFFICIENT FOR JOB

U0. NOW HAG PLANTS, TOOLS TOBEAT AXIS   WPB Orders Cut-Back in New Construction; to Cancel Some Contracts.   MEN RELEASED TO GO IN MUNITIONS PRODUCTION

Cut War Plants Building Plan   WPB To Review Need For 4 Billion Dollars Of Con tracts, Projects.

HALT 10 BUILDING OF PLANTS CALLED   Virtually All War Plant Construction to be Com-_ ‘wleted Oct. 

WPB Orders Drastic Cut In New War Plant Construction, Citing Ample Facilities Now

PRODUCTION HALTED   New War Plants’ Construction Will Be Curtailed

MACHINE TOOL CUT ORDERED   War Plant 4 ‘Construction  Is Also Halted By Government

WPB HALTS WORK ON WAR PLANTS   DECLARES FACTORIES IN OP_ ERATION CAN FURNISH ALL.ARMS NEEDED.

Tool Output And Plant Building   WPB:-Says Nation Now Has Sufficient “Machine Tools Aid.. Plants” To. Build Prodiiction’ To Beit Axis. g

a eee eee done eee  War Production Board Halts New Projects Saying Present Capacity Becomes Sufficient

Production Now Enough To Win, Statement Says   Work on More Than $500, 000,000 in New Plants To Be Stopped   Machine Tool Factories To Make More Urgently Needed Goods

No More War Plants Are Needed   Building: of Plants And Machine Tools Cut Back By WPB; To Increase Munitions Production

FACILITIES. ADEQUATE   Much. Construction, May: Soon Be: Stopped; Big Conversion Job Next.   ALE-TO PRODUCE). “ACTUAL ARMAMENT   Some Short Shutdowns’ Are Expected as Nation Shifts: Production

ORDER HALTS WAR PLANTS’ CONSTRUCTION   Those Finished Oct. 1 Escape WPB Action

Boards Directed To Reclassity Non-Deferables   ‘Social Escorts’ And Dishwashers Not Exempted

ALL REGIOT RANTS AGED 10 10 do 1 BE REGLASSIFIED   War Jobs to Be Considered Basis For Deferment

Solons Report alter Journey to War Fronts   Chandler Warns That Pacific Way May Be Long and Costly if Japs Dig In

Sales Tax Is Gaining In Strength   Senate’ Receives Private Report from Globe Circling Members; More Money for Dependents

SENATE WARNED PACIFIC WAR T0 BE LONG, COSTLY   MORE AID MUST BE SENT TO MAC ARTHUR, SAYS SEN. CHANDLER

CONGRESS HAS BUSY SESSION DURING WEEK  Father gor aft Is ‘ Main fees ae OFf

Wa r \ 7 it h  a par Will Be Costly  Senators Fear   Chandler Believes Nips Have Secretly Moved Heavy  lnclustries

Senate Gets Second Chapter of Private Report of “Tourists   Globe-Circlers Tell of Conditions on War Fronts of Allies

Chandler Says Japs Gain Firm Economic Grip  Rises For Sales Tax; House To Act Soon

Private Report On War Related To The Senate   ‘Second Installment Is Given  Today by Five Colleagues  Who Made Tour of War  Fronts.

Blow Is Struck At Rommel's Fleeing Force   French Troops In Tunisia Drive Germans Out Of A Mountain Pass  By WES GALLAGHER

Rommel Fort Baltered by - TS Rombhere      Flying Fortresses Mak First Full Raid. on Tripolitania    ALSO MAKE BIG { RAID ON NAPLES   Allies Continue Pounding Axis Lines From Kast and West

BATTER FORT AT GHADAMES REPORT SAYS   Enemy Fighters Dodge Bombers, But Attack Only Escorts   FRENGH CLAIM GAINS   Surround German Forces In Valley North Of Jebel-Boudabous

ROMMEL ARMY HIT HARD BLOW BY U.S, PLANES   Flying Fortresses, In First Full Attack Into Tripolitania, Blast Fort of Ghadames   FRENCH ADVANCE   Drive Germans Out of Mountain Pass and Capture At Least 180 Prisoners

Enemy Forces In Valley ‘Near Jebel Boudabous Reported Surrounded

U.S. Fortresses Strike In Force In Tripolitania   Batter German Fort As French Troops Drive Nazis Qut Of Mountain Pass

GHADAMES IS BATTERED BY  § PLANES   Post At Juncture Of Frontiers Left In Flames In Blow At Rommel   MOUNTAIN PASS TAKEN   French Troops Seize Point South Of Pont Du Fahs; Naples Bombed

(sermans In Africa  Hit Hard   Flying Fortresses Raid Tripolitania, Pass Captured.

GHADAMES FORT IS BATTERED BY U. S. BOMBERS   French Troops Also Score In Attack On Jebel Boudabous, Surrounding Axis  Forces Caught In Valley.

Big Army Planes In Full Raid on  Axis in Africa   Fortresses Batter Fort at Ghadames While French Strike at Nazis.   Enemy Battered on Both Sides of Front

ALLIES STRIKE HARD BLOW IN NORTH AFRICA   Fort at Ghadames Afttacked While French Drive Nazis Out of Mountain Pass

NAZIS DRIVEN FROM TUNIS MOUNTAIN PASS   Flying Fortresses Make First Raid Into Tripolitania Against Rommel

French Strike, Take Pass. Nazis   Axis Troops Trapped in Tunis Valley; Leclerc Captures South Libyan District Capital; Fortresses Batter Foe Citadel

BOMBING FORCE AIMS BLOWS AT GERMAN TROOPS   Flying Fortresses Strike at African Fort — French Report Successes

U.S. Airmen Hit Ghadames   Flying Fortresses Strike Heavy Blow At Rommel’s Forces

NO CHANGE OF HEART   Armistice Would Not Mean Easier Terms for Italy

NO CHANGE DUE   ‘Armistice’ Would Precede Unconditional Surrender

W. W. ALEXANDER IS REAPPOINTEL   Named Chairman of Group 4 for Approaching Fourth War Loan Drive.

Fourth War Loan - pe . Campaign to. Start.on the 18th of: “Janiahs

James J. Deegan  Called To Reward  . Well Known Farmer ~ OF€ This Countv

James J. Deegan —  Called To. Reward   Well. Known Fa armer Of This County

Hold Woman In Threat To Gov. Bricker   FBI Agents Take Columbus Resident In Custody As Author Of Letter

WOMAN NABBED IN BRICKER THREAT   Laundry Worker Arrested By FBI On Federal Charae

Held In Threat Or Bricker   FBI Arrests Columbu:  Woman As Alleged Let ter Writer

Daily Ardmoreite ls 50 Years Old   Editor Easley Has Been With Paper Since 1897

Whether Kathers  Ye xk *  Dr afted De pends On  ee ae  Women Volunteers

AXIS DRIVE IN NORTH REPULSED   Eight Enemy Planes Shot Down In Air  Operations

AXIS ATTACK IN TUNISIA IS REPULSED   Allies Claim Capture _ of _ Mining Center of Metlaoui in Central Region

Allies Hand Von Arnim’s Army Setback  Battle On Grand Scale Shapes Up In Tunisia wo Axis Forces On

ALLIED TROOPS SQUEEZE NEAR BASE AT. GAFSA   Germans Are Driven Off With Heavy Losses  in Sedjenane Sector

FACED BY PERIL LIKE THAT MET ATSTALINGRAD   Only Alternative For Germans Is To Fight To Finish   Timetable Will Be Upset Unless Area Cleaned Out Ouickly

German Push In The North Is Repulsed   Allies Are Pushing Closer To Enemy Base Of Gafaa

Allied Troops Hurl Back Axis Attack; Escape By Water For Romme! Barred

Stimson Reports Allies Had Better Of Fighting In Tunisia Last Week

Axis Attack In Northern ‘Tunisia Is  ‘Thrown Back   Fighting French Take Mining Center by Storm; Allied Blance Hit At Cafeca

FOR ARMY RELIEF FUND   Film Version of of “This Is the Army” Will. Be Shown,in City

TURKISH AID BEING URGED BY RUSSIANS   STALIN SAID TO BE PUTTING ADDITIONAL PRESSURE ON TURKEY TO HELP ALLIES

Believe Turkey May Now Moaity Neutral Stand   Move Favorable To Allies Likely To Follow Action In Teheran Parley   NO CONFIRMATION OF TURKISH PARLEY

NON-STOP AIR OFEENSIVE IS IN 9TH DAY   Both French and German targets have been reached today :

Non-Stop Air Offensive Now  In Ninth Day   Allies Continue Blasting At Nazi-Held European Continent Strong Points   U. 8S. ATTACKS TO BE ‘STEPPED-UP’

TO COLLECT TRASH   City Trucks Will Make Their Usual Rounds Start-’ ing Next Week

ROMMEL MAY HAVE TO GALL OFF OFFENSIVE   Montgomery Army Units Reach Outskirts Of Mareth Line

Germans Are Slowed Down, Says Stimson   Much Ground and Equipment Lost In African Battle

Relief Seen For Yanks By Stimson   Enemy Apparently ‘Slowed Down’ As Sth Army Advances

Yankees’ Losses  Heavy in Tunisia   Germans Finally  Slowed Down

Lato HEAVY IN TUNTOTA SAYS STIMSON   Nazi Attacks Not General Offensive, But Losses Not Unexpected

MD, ASSEMBLY’S ACTS PREPARED FOR GOVERNOR   Hundreds Passed During Dying Hours of Legislature Put In Shape For  Final Disposition- -~—   ADJOURNED SUNDAY   Emergency Legislation Covering Various Phases of War Effort Dominates Session

0'CONOR MUST ACT ON BILLS BY MAY 1   Legislature Ended Session Early Yesterday

Public Opinion Pressure May Determine Draft   Calling of Fathers May be Delayed by  Youthe FEnterine Army

Youths ‘Pressured’ From Deferred  Jobs May Delay Dratt Of Fathers

HERSHEY SEES PRESSURE ON 18-25 GROUP   Director Says Public Opinion Forcing Youths Into Military Service.   LOWER STANDARD DUE   Job and Physical Disability Called Only Grounds For Deferments.

Draft of Fathers May Be Delayed, Asserts Hershey   Public Opinion May Force Youths From  Jobs In War Plants

Fathers Draft: Still Uncertain   Public Opinion ° . '. Is Big Factor —.

SEE DELAY IN THE DRAFT OF FATHERS FOR THE SERVICES   Youths from 18 to 25 May Be Driven from DraftDeferred Jobs by Pub lic Opinion,

Public Opinion May Be Factor In Draft Status Of Father:      Hershey, McNutt Declare Tine Has Come When Standards Of Present Draft System Must Be Changed

Deferment Of Fathers May Be Possible   Pressure Of Public Opinion Is Forcing Many Youths To Army From Factories

Draft May Defer Calling Fathers   Youths Being Forced from Mills to Service

FATE OF FATHERS IN DRAFT UP 10 DEFERRED YOUTHS   If Public Opinion Forces Them Into Service, Fathers May Stay Out for While.

Delay in Calling Fathers Possible, Hershey Declares   Depends on What Deferred Younger Men Do, He Says

MAY POSTPONE  FATHER DRAFT   Youths Leaving War Jobs Foi Service May Cause Delay, Hershey Says.

Japan’s Losses In Ships, Subs Now Total 530   Announce Seven Enemy Vessels Sunk By Allies In Weekend Assaults

RUML TAX PLAN ADVOCATES TAKE THEIR FIGHT TO THE SENATE DESPITE DEFEAT IN HOUSE   Unsatisfied With House-Approved Measure That Would Wipe Out 75 Per Cent of 1942  Individual Income.

RUML TAX PLAN BACKERS CARRY ON IN SENATE   House Approves Compromise Bill  On Pay-As-You-Go

Carry Ruml Plan Fight — To Senate   Pay-as-you-go Tax Bill As Passed By House Abates 755, of 1942 — Income Tax Liabilities

Advocates of Rum Plan Carry Fight To Floor of Senate   House Passes Compromise Bill Wiping Out 75 Per Cent 1942 Individual Income Tax Liabilities; Quick Action Promised

Predict Rum] Plan Will Get Senate’s Ok   Nouse-approved Mea. sure Exempls 90 Per Cent of Payers

RUML PLAN CAMPAIGN TO SENATE   Undismayed by Two De. feats in House, Advocates See New Chance Ahead   SENATE COMMITTEETO ACT THURSDAY   Quick Hearing Promised;75 Per Cent Tax Skip Wins on Close Vote in Heuse

TAA ABATEMENT SENT TO SENATE   House Measure Woulc Wipe Out 75 Per Cent  Of 1942 Taxes   TORRID BATTLE   Rumi Plan Advocates Believe Senate Will Approve Their Plan

GOP Carries Tax Program Into Senate   Not Satisfied With 75 PerCent Abatement of 1942 Income Tax Liability.   COMPROMISE BILL WINS

MODIFIED RUML PLAN LOSES BY 4-VOTE MARGIN      Withholding Levy Preposal Goes Immediately To Senate

PAY AO YOU GO PLAN APPROVED BY HUUSE VOTE   Most Of Income Taxpayers Would Have Liabilities For 1942 Wiped Qut   GOP STILL CENTERING ON FULL FORGIVENESS   Republicans Planning Fight For Rumi Plan When Bill Reaches Senate Floor

House Adopts Compromise Tax Measure   Substitute Plan Eliminates 75 Pet. OF 1942 Liability

Supporters of Ruml Tax Plan Still Hopeful   Carry Fight to Senate as House Votes New Bill

Ruml Men Take Fight To Senate   Not Satisfied with 75 P. C. Tax Abatement by House

House Votes Compromise  Pay-Go Tax   Bill Would Cancel Normal and First Surtax Bracket for 1942

GOP to Take Runl Fight to Senate   20 Percent “Withholding Tax Part of Bill; Legislation Abates 75 Percent of Taxes.

House Income Tax Bill Faces Battle  on Senate’s Floo   Compromise Pay-as-YouGo Measure !s Passed by House Last Eve

House Votes A 75 Pet. Skip In  42 Income Tax   But Rum! Plan Backers Hope For Senate O. K. On Full Abatement.

TAX BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE   75 Per Cent Of 1942 Income Taxes Wiped Out By Measure

HOUSE PASSES TAX ABATEMENT   1942 Income Levies For Most People Would Be Wiped Out

PREDICT FULL IBATEMENT OF TAX TO PASS   -ompromise Bill Votec In House After Heated Scrap

House Approves Pay-Go Compromise Tax Plan; Ruml Plan Advocates Taking Battle To Senate

Ruml Backers Rally Despite Compromise   House Passes. Robertson: Ferand Bill Aiding 90 Per Cent Of Taxpayers   SEE FULL ABATEMENT,   ‘20 Per Cent Withholding Levy Would Cover Both Income, Victory Taxes

Ruml Backers to Continue Fight   Expect Senate to Pass Full Tax Year Abatement Plan

Tax Battle Moves On to the Senate   Republicans Expect Ruml Plan to Supplant House Measure   LOOK FOR FAST ACTION   House Bill Calls for 20 Per Cent Deduction From  Pay Checks

SENATE GETS RUML BATTLE      House-Approved Plan Will Wipe Out 75 Per Cent Of ‘42 Liabilities

RUML TAX PLAN BACKERS TAKE FIGHT TO SENATE   House Passes Compromise Pay-as-You-Go Bill 313 to 95

RUML PLAN TO SENATE AFTER HOLISE DEFEAT   Compromise Pay-Go Tax Plan Approved By  Lower House   ICOP SUPPORTS BILL   Measure Eases Liability of Married, Single Persons

Alternate Bill Wins  In House   GOP Group Asks Complete Removal Of °42 Tax; House Frees 735 P. C,

Ruml Advocates Dissatisfied By  Tax Compromise   House OKs - Measure To Pay-As-You-Go

Ruml Advocates Carry Tax Fight To Senate Floor   To Take Up Battle After House Pagses Compromise Pay-as-You-Go.   New Bill Imposes 20 Per Cent Withholding

Compromise Tax Bill Is Past House   Senate Plans Speedy Ac. tion on Substitute — Rumlites Fight

75 P.C. Tax Abatement Bill Passed By House, Faces New Fight Upon Reaching Senate   Measure Would Wipe Out Most Of 1942 Taxed, Provide Pay-As-You-Go Levies

RUML ADVOCATES CARRYING FIGHT TO SENATE NEXI   “Leaders Undismayed By Two Defeats In House and Unsatisfied By Action on Tax Measure.   SENATE GROUP PLANS FPEEDY CONSIDERATION   Compromised Pay-As-You-Go is Passed, Would Wipe Out 1942 Liabilities For Great Number.

Fight for Rum Plan WillBe ~ Taken to Senate   Compromise Bill Passes House but Issue Isn’t Over

Rum Plan Advocates To Carry Fight To Senate After Setback In House   House Approves Compromise Measure To. Wipe Out 75 Percent Of 1942 Individual Income Tax Liabilities By 313 To 95 Vote.

COMPROMISE PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX BILL VOTED   Republican-Backed Modified Ruml Plan Again Defeated by House but Fight Goes to Senate

OENATE ADVOCATES OF RUML PLAN WILL SEEK ITS ADOPTION   BOMSE PASCEN RITT TH

SENATE T0 ACT ON INCOME TAX ‘ACT THIS WEEK   Rum! Plan Backers Claim _Skip-Year Plan Will Be Approved, Despite Vote In House   MARGIN IS CLOSE   House Approves Measure to ‘Forgive’ Half of 1942 Taxes, Impose Pay-As-You-Go

Take Fight for Ruml Tax Plan to Senate   Advocates Predict Year’s Abatement . After House Passes Withholding Levy, 75 Per Cent Forgiveness.

Tax Measure Is  Passed By House   Pay-As-You-Go — Bill Combines 20 PL. ¢ Withholding: levy With 75 P. C. Forgiye TVA 

House Votes Abatement Of Part Of Tax   Unsatisfied Advocates Of Ruml Plan Carry Battle To Senate And Predict Passage

GO TO SENATE   Rum! Plan Advocates to Continue Fight After Two Defeats.   SPEEDY ACTION SOUGHT

FIGHT 10 SENAT   Not Satisfied With HouseApproved Measure To Wipe Out 75 Per Cent of 1942 Individual Income Tax Liabilities.

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX COMPROMISE BILL (S PASSED IN HOUSE   Would Wipe Out 75 Per Cent of '42 Individual Income Liabilities   THE VOTE {S 313 TO 95

Transfer  Tax Fight  To Senate   Lower House Votes For ‘Compromise . Proposal Abating 75 Per Cent ‘Of 1942 Liabilities

Eight Killed In Crash Of Plane   Wingtip Scraped Near Top Of Cliff, Spinning Plane To Earth.

BIG NAVY TRANSPORT HITS MOUNTAIN TOP   Eight Die in Plane Headed for Oakland Airport

Eight Men Killed In Plane Mishap   Two Others Injured Ir California Crash

Eight Perish In Air Crash   Navy Transport Crashes Into California Hills; Two Others Escape Death

EIGHT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Two Injured As Navy Transport Hits California Hill

Don't Have To See Percly To Be A Wave, But You'll Look Good In Uniform   Requirements. Are uced By Navy Recruiters

Don't Have To See Perctly To Be A Wave, But You'll Look Good In Uniform   uced By Navy Recruiters  Hse By New . Are

Cut Peints of Pork, Veal and Lamb   Butter Stays at 16; Oleo Raised From 4 to 6

Meat Point: Cut; Some Fats Raised   Values of 42 Items Reduced By OPA Order

Slash in Retation Cost of Cet tain Meats Announced  42 Types of ' Veal, Lamb, Pork Cuts Rikeduced in Punta Uh ir) oe

MEAT POINTS CUT IN CHART OF OPA      Creamery Butter Is Un: changed But Cheeses Are Raised

MEAT CUTS T0 BE REDUCED IN POINT VALUE   Board announces ration point changes effective November 1

Point Values Of 42 Meats Reduced By OPA For Hovember   Creamery Butter Left Unchanged As Maraarine Rises

Some Reduction In Meat Points Planned By OPA   Margarine Is Boosted Two Points

Pork, Veal, Lamb Points Lowered   Creamery Butter Ration Is Unchanged

Ration Cost of 42 Types of Veal, Lamb, Mutton and Pork Cuts Announced; Margarine Is Raised

POINTS REDUCED ON MEAT CUTS   Farm Butter Increased; Margarine And All Shortening Up

OPA Point Changes  Qn Several Items  Creamery Butter Is Still 16 Per Pound

GUT RATION COST OF PORK CHOPS   OPA ALSO REDUCES THE POINT VALUE OF VEAL, ! LAMB AND MUTTON,

TRAITOR SAVED BY PRESIDENT   Unnerved Stephan Weeps On Learning Of Commutation To Life Sentence

TRAITOR: STEPHAN “DIES A HUNDRED DEATHS” OF FEAR   Former Bund Member Gives ‘Way To Unnerving  , Terror, Before Commutation

Traitor Max Stephan Died 100 Deaths Before President Commuted Sentence   Kisses Warden’s Hand.

His Life Saved. Stephan Kisses Jailer’s Hand:   Traitorous Max Admit: He Died A Hundrec Deaths From’ Fear —  All Arrogance Gone ~

ONCE PROUD NAZI AGCEPTS MERCY OF US, PRESIDENT   Terror-stricken Max Stephan Saved By Roosevelt's 11th-hour Act.

TRAITOR SPARED BY FD. FROM GALLOWS: GETS LIFE SENTENCE   Stephan Kisses Warden’s Hand After Mercy Plea Granted; Death Sentence Too Severe, President Says

FDR Commutes Death Sentence Of Stephan   Traitor Admits He Died Hundred Deaths From Fear of Gibbet

F.D.R, SPARES TRAITOR’S LIFE   Stephan Died a Hundred Deaths Before President Commuted Sentence to Life Imprisonment.

TRAITOR’S LIFE SPARED IN LAST MINUTE REPRIEVE   Max Stephan Is Saved Fron Gallows By President Roosevelt

STEPHAN IS SAVED FROM GIBBET LATE. YESTERDAY BY FDR   Executive Action Saves Traitor Who Already Had Died a Hundred Deaths.

President Commutes Traitor’s Sentence  Dies Hundred Deaths, But Lives

Suspend Market Quotas On Wheat  Move To Keep Supply Adequate For Cereal Livestock Feed

AAA Quota: On Wheat Suspended   Wickard Moves To Free “42 and ‘43 Crop; Penalty Set Aside.

LIFT QUOTAS ON WHEAT GROWING   Ceiling On Eggs, Fresh Vegetables, Other Moves on Food Front

Wheat Quotas Lifted   Penalties Dropped on 42 and °43 Crops;  ‘Wickard Makes Move To Get Ample Supplies

WHEAT QUOTAS ARE SUSPENDED   Wickard Acts to-Free Surplus Wheat, Increase Acreage of This, Other Vital Crops ,

Marketing Quotas Are Suspended   Wickard Urges Maintenance of Careful Practices

Suspend Market Quotas on Wheat   Farmers Allowed to Increase Planting Without Being Penalized.

All Marketing Quotas Lifted To Free Wheat   Wickard Says Supply No Longer Burdensome Since Heavy Drains.   NCR EASE PLANTINGS

WHEAT ARE SUSPENDED   Wickard Also. Changes Farm Program to Allow Inereased Plantines   ONLY SPRING WHEAT  Ig AFFECTED NOW   Marketing Allowance to Re lease Greater Supplies Now Held in Shortage

WHEAT QUOTAS SUSPENDED 10 INSURE-SUPPEY   Wickard Moves To Insure Cereal For Human Food And Livestock Feed

AAA MARKET QUOTAS FOR WHEAT ENDED   Wickard Orders Suspen{> sion to Insure Adequate Wartime Supply of Cereal for Human Food  and Livestock Feed.

MARKET QUOTAS FOR WHEAT OUT   Agriculture Head Suspends Penalty Tax to Insure Adequate War Supplies

NHEAT MARKETING QUOTAS ARE ENDED   } 'Wickard Says Move Is Made to Insure Wartime Sup  plies For Food, Stock.

ICKARD’S ACT 'EMOVES FINES  WN VIOLATORS   der Designed to Insure  Adequate Wartime Sup plies of Cereal for Hu- mans and Livestock   CARE BUYING OF ‘EGETABLES FOUGHT   eilings Are Placed On  Fresh Items and Price Limit Put On   Eogs

Wheat Marketing Uliotas Suspended   Wickard Acts to Boost Production

AAA Quotas on Wheat Suspended   Secretary Wickard Tosses Penalties Out The Window

Wheat Quotas Suspended   eer wr we  Secretary Wickard Acts for Adequate  pemmiian

Wheat Quotas Are Suspended By Wickard   Move Designed to Insure Supplies of Cereal, Livestock Feec

WACAT QUOT ALOT RIGTIONG ARE REMOVED   All Production Barriers Taken Off Wheat Crops By Sec. Wickard

SUSPEND QUOTAS ON AAA WHEAT MARKETING   DESIGN MOVE TO INSURE ADEQUATE WARTIME SUPPLY

—Wickard Authorizes Overplanting—  Wheat Marketing Quotas Lifted On 942 And ’43 Crops

AAA Wheat Quotas Are Suspended   Secretary Wickard Moves To Insure Wartime Supplies   For Human Food And Feed For Livestock   Order Affects Quotas On The "42 And '43 Crops

AAA Wheat Marketing Quotas Off   Secretary Wickard Acts To Insure Adequate Supplies of Cereal

WICKARD SUSPENDS MARKETING QUOTAS ON WHEAT TODAY   Says. Is Move to Insure Adequate War-Time Supplies of Cereal for Human Food and Livesteck Feed  “s

AAA Wheat Quotas Are Eliminated   Excess Grain Now May Be Marketed Without Penalty

Wheat Quotas Suspended By Secy. Wickard   Increased Planting Permitted To Meet  War Fmervcency

MARKETING BAN ON WHEAT ENDS   Wickard Suspends Quotas To Insure Supplies

WHEAT MARKETING QUOTA SUSPENDED   Move Designed To Insure Adequate Wartime Supplies for Human Food and Livestock; Announced By Wickard.

WHEAT QUOTAS OFF   Wickard Suspends AA Rules, Lifts Penalties on   Production

China Is Included In  -—4-Power Declaratior   Second Front Plans Also Hinted in Abstract Released Simultaneously at Washington, London, Moscow

Four Powers Sign Bond In Moscow   International Organization To Maintain Security To Be Established; Punishment Of Those Guilty Of Atrocities Promised

Pledge International  Organization Maintain World Peace, Security

Cooperation in Battle and « United Action in Peace  Pledged ©   STATEMENT. IS ISSUED   General . International Or. » > ganization Will Be ‘Formed

Closer Battle Zone Co-operation Pledged   United Postwar Action To Maintain Peace Agreed To By Allied ‘Big 3’ And China; Restoration Of Nonfascist Italy, A Free Austria And Punishment For Atrocities Promised.

Conference Is Marked by Talks on Shortening War; China Signs Agreement

United States, Britain, Russia And China Sign  Pact at Moscow   Agree to Set up ‘General International Peace Organization’

SECOND FRONT SET, TRI-POWER REPORT HINTS   United Action in Peace Includes China — Conference Ends Today

Pledge Non-Fascist Italy, Punishment for Atrocities   Austria to Be Freed from Germany; No Nation Will Sign Separate Peace; China Joins Agreement on Unity of Action

United States, Great Britain, Russia And China Pledge Unity In Post-War Action

Hint Hour Set for Invasion   Tripartite Conference In Moscow To An End; China Counted In On Peace Pact Statement

FAVOR JOINT ACTION AFTER WAR IS WON   U. S., Britain, Russia, And China Sign  Declaration

Allied Nations Drawn Closer As Result Of Moscow Conference   Reaction

Closer Cooperation on Battlefront and in Peace Promise   ‘Decision Reached at Moscow Announced by Governments

Non-Fascist ltaly, Free Austria, Punishment Of Guility Fascists Among Moscow Results

Declaration Calls For International Organization To Maintain Peace And Security After The War; Agree On Restoration Of Italy And Austria; General Terms Of Decisions  Revealed.

Pledges Of 3 Nations Close Historic Meet   Far-Reaching Decision: To Win the War Anc Preserve the Peace An nounced ‘as Tripartite Meet Ends.

MEETING CLOSES AT MOSCOW IN FULL AGREEMENT   Sovereignty of Nations Is Assured in Post-war Peace Enforcement

Four Powers In Agreement   Closer Co-Operation On Battlefronts and United Action In Peace to Follow Victory Planned, With General International Organization,

China Severs Tie With Vichy   Accuses Regime of Unfriendly ‘ Acts

Final Senate Decision On Drafting Of Dads May Be Delayed Till Wednesda;

WHEELER ‘BILL WILL BE BEATEN BARKLEY THINKS   Unlimited: Debate May’ Delay Senate ‘Vote on’ Father Draftine

VOTE ON BILL TO DEFER DADS I$ SET TODAY .   Senate Leader Barkley Confident Of Defeating Deferment Wleasure

Senate Draf Vote Slated By Evening   - Leaders Seek ‘Our On: Wheeler Measure To Defer Fathers

Interpreting he War   Little Room Left for Complacency In Russian Battles

OHIO RIVER IS NEARING FLOOD STAGE IN SOUTH   rartsS VF Vid Shawneetown  Under Water

RAINS BRING FLOOD THREAT   OHIO RIVER RISES RAPIDLY AT CAIRO, AND OTHER POINTS

Flood Threat On Lower Ohio   4-Foot Rise for Saturday Seen at Cairo

Shelves Are-Bare Senate Group Claims Liquor Beins Hoarded by Distillers

$10,009 15 VOTED FOR LIQUOR PROBE   VAN NUYS PROMISES TO CRACK DOWN ON ALLEGED HOARDERS OF WHISKY.

HIGH COMMANDS TO BE SHIFTED   Eisenhower Likely To Head Invasion Jump From The West

Eisenhower "May! H ead Invasio  er PEt. Tana] ’s ames aleewwinnae PRET o4y4we ape

General Eisenhower Is Expected To Be Commeonder-In-Chief Of Allied Forces

Split in Allied Command Possible With Eisenhower in Charge of Western Invasion   Gen. Marshall May Retain High Staff Position in Both European, Pacific Theaters; Action May Await Churchill’s Return

tisenhower and Marshall May Have Command of Two Big War Theaters

Grand Command Division Seen   Eisenhower Believed Top Man in Europe

EISENHOWER EXPECTED 10 LEAD ATTACK   Grand Allied Division of Command Appeors Poctible   MARSHALL MAY BE GIVEN NEW TASKS   Visit to Pacific Area Emphasizes Globat Position

JAPS BOMBED 13 TIMES IN 1 DAY ON KISKA ISL   General's Men Advance On New Guinea; Nips Halted in Burma

JAPANESE BASE ON KISKA AGAIN RAIDED BY U. S   Enemy. Position in Aleutians Attacks Thirteen Times Sunday After Four-Day Lull   ATTU ISLAND HIT   Results of Kiska Attack Not -Observed Exactly ‘Due to Poor Visibility,  Navy Announces —

KISKA RAIDED 13 TIMES   American Airmen Resume “Milk Run” Over Aleutian Islands

Bombers Hit Kiska 13 Times   MacArthur's Forces Take Hill Positions Overlooking Salamaurc

Yanks Rock Axis Base in Biggest Raid   ITALIAN ADRIATIC PORT OF BARI SHUDDERS IN SHATTERING AIR BLOW

Kiska, Attu, BlastedAgain By U.S. Fliers   Raiders Strike 13 Times in Day at Main Jap Base in Aleutians

RAF PLANES SWEEP NORTHERN FRANCE   Identity of Targets Not Announced, but Calais and Boulogne Are Believed Bit.

ALLIED PLANES POUND AT AXIS   British Bombers Sweep Across Channel In Continued Raids

Europe Again Is Blasted In West, South   Steppingstone Isle: In Mediterranean Ave Fvacuated

Allies. Loose Aerial Fury   RAF Out Again In. Force Yanks Plaster Stalians.

RAF Planes Over Continent   300 Yankee Bombers Batter Nine Pantelleria Bases

Heavy Attaek Last Night Is Indicated   People of Italian Islands’ Cities Are Said Being Removed

MOVE TO RELIEVE LIQUOR SHORTAGE   DISTILLERS PLAN TO RELEASE 4,000,000 CASES OF WHISKEY

TRAITOR GETS. TAY Au HOPE FOR LIFE les   Former German Sergeant Who Helped Nazi Prisoner Escape, Collapses.   COURT REFUSES PLEAS, SETS HANGING FOR 27TH

CHANGES MIND   Argentina) To  Reseind © Orders Against &. « wu :hant:

Legislators Asked About College Tax   Differ on Question of Endowment Property Taxation

Legislators Asked About College Tax    ae  Differ on Question of  Iindowment Property  Towatinn

MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAID NAZI BASES      Round-the-Clock Assaults . Made by Fliers of  ' Britain «- .

RAF Bombers" Lash Germany  American-Built Fighters  Rinnfe Tenne..

Enemy Land — Attacked Again   Wilhelmshayen Blasted By: Swift Bombers

BATTER NAZI RAIL CENTERS   Swift Mosquito Planes Carry Raids to Wide  Area of Germany

Around - Clock Raids Smash German Bases Several” Hundred  Planes: Maraud.: Wet, Area.

MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAID NAZI BASES   Round-the-Clock Assaults Made by Fliers of Britain

DAYLIGHT RAIDS MADE ON GERMAN}   U-BOAT CENTER AND OTHER TARGETS BLASTED BY RAF —t PLANES LOST.

Northwest Germany Hil By Bombers   British Scatter Attacks Of Drive On Foe’s Plants

Daylight Raids Keep Pressure On Germans   Spread Over Continent After Heavy Pounding Of Wilhelmshaven Port

Germany Bombed Round the Clock   Mosquito Bombers Have ‘Great Day’

APPROVE MAGNUSON BILL   'U. S. Moves Step Nearer Toward Repeal of Chinese Act

MAGNUSON BILL PASSAGE URGED   Senate Committee Would Repeal Old Chinese Exclusion Laws

APPROVE MAGNUSON BILL   U. S. Moves Step Nearer Toward Repeal of Act

Rodgers Outlines Laud Policy   Four Points to Rule  Sales. He Reveals

To the People of This Community:  Fafsfialenr wire siwtiw wraweart

Two Japanese Warships Hit  In Engagement   Army Troops On Guadal.canal Continue Advance Under Aerial Support.   LAE HEAVILY DAMAGED

US. Torpedo Boats Score Victory      Put Jap Destroyers To Rout in Waters. Off Guadalcanal; Planes Smash at Lae

87 ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED TO DATE IN SOLOMONS   ONLY LIGHT ACTION ON OTHER FRONTS IN THE PACIFIC

2, Perhaps 3, Jap Warships Damaged By U.S. Attack”   Motor Torpedo Boats Force Retirement Of Enemy Force In Cuadaleanal Aree

U. S. Motor Torpedo Boats Rout Japanese Destroyers   Two and Possibly Three Are Damaged Trying to Carry  Reinforcements to Nipponese on Guadalcanal;  Forced to Withdraw by Furious Assault,  Navy Communiaue Reveals

JAP WARSHIPS ARE HIT BY U.S. MOTOR BOATS   Nip Reinforcements Fail Due to Torpedo Boat Actions

Enemy Forced fo Withdraw After.  Furious Assault  Ships Said Carrying Reinforcements to

Yank Torpedo Boats Damage Jan Vessels   Two and Possibly Three Warships At Guadalcanal Hit   Thwart Attempt To Land Reinforcements

TORPEDO BOATS DAMAGE 2 SHIPS   Another Jap Destroyer is Also Believed Hit

TORPEDO BOATS HIT JAP SHIPS      Damage Two, Possibly Three Enemy Destroyers Off Guadalcanal island

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAP BASES IN NEW GUINEA   Rain Destruction On Half Dozen Other Targets; Active In Burma

Enemy Flotilla Forced to Flee   New Attempt to Relieve Nipponese On Guadalcanal Apparently Balked; Two Hits Scored on One of Warshins

US Torpedo Boats Hit Destroyers   Jap Warships Carrying Reinforcements to Guadalcanal Island Forced to Withdraw as Result of Assault

Vessels Carry Reinforcements To Guadalcanal   Three Ships May Have  Been Hit In Solomons

ATTACK FORCES ENEMY TO FLEE   Two And Possibly Three Jap Warships Are Damaged By Torpedoes   TROOPS ADVANCE   Attempt To Reinforce Japanese On Guadalcanal Is Frustrated

ALLIED WARPLANES BLAST AT JAPAN'S FAR-FLUNG FORCES   BIG FIRES SET AT LAE NEW GUINEA; RAINS SLOW LAND FIGHTING

TORPEDO BOATS DAMAGE 2 JAP DESTROYERS   Third Possibly Damaged, Flotilla Approaching Guadalcanal Forced to Withdraw   FLIERS BLAST LAE   Cther Points in New Guinea, Burma Raided—Japs Claim Gair Made in China

Two Japanese Destroyers Hit . Off Guadalcanal   "Another Enemy Vessel Possibly Damaged, Torpedo Boats Check ~ ~ Nin Effort fo Sunnly Forces

TORPEDOES STRIKE TWO ENEMY CRAFT   Third Warship Believed Damaged in Attack Near Guadalcanal

U. S. Torpedo Boats In Furious Attack   Dash Into Action Against Jap Destroyers, Damaging Two and Possibly Third, Off Guadalcanal—Enemy Force Flees.

Torpedo Boats Hit Destroyers   Little U. S. Vessels Damage Two and Maybe Three Destroyers

JAP DESTROYERS HIT BY TORPEDOES   Navy Reports Two and Possibly Three Damaged Of Guadalcanal.

ATLEAST TWO OF FLEET ARE HIT IN ATTAGK   Rout Attempt To Land Troops On  Solomon Island

Allied Planes Set Big Fires At Important Enemy Base At Lae, New Guinea

Allied Planes Blast af Japs   Set Big Fires at Enemy Base of Lae in New Guinea, Reported

TORPEDO BOATS HIT JAPS’ SHIPS   Navy Damages 2, Possibly 3 Enemy Vessels; Forced to Withdraw.

Tiny Crafts Damage Three Enemy Ships   Reinforcements for Guadaleanal] Repelled in Sharp Action Tn Caral Sea

Yank Torpedo Boats Damage Jap Warships   Cruisers Trying to Land Reinforcements Forced To Withdraw  TROOPS IN ADVANCE Allied Planes Hit Jap  Far Flung Invasion Lines

U.S. Torpedo Boats Hit at Guadalcanal   Attempt Was Being Mace to Reinforce Troops on Island

ALLIED PLANES SCORE AT LAE   Big Fires Started By Bombs: Other Targets Destroyed

2 Destroyers Damaged Off Guadalcanal   Enemy Vessels Put To Flight While Trying To Reinforce Troops On Teland

PT Boats Attack 3 Jap Destroyers Off Guadalcanal   Armada Bringing Reinforcements Was Forced to Withdraw

Third Enemy Destroyer Listed As Possible Victim Of Speedy American Craft In Night Action Near Guadalcanal—Nipponese Believed Trying To Reinforce Troops On Island—v. S. Planes Bomb Installations At Rekata Bay

Torpedo Boats Smash New Foe Encroachment   Third Destroyer Believed Damaged By Furious Guadalcanal Assault.

U. S. Motor Torpedo Boats Damage Two or Three Japanese Destroyers

TORPEDO BOATS HIT JAP SHIPS   Two And Possibly Three Enemy Destroyers Damaged By Motor Boats Off Guadaleanal.

THIRD POSSIBLY HIT AFTER RAID IN FAR PACIFIC   Navy Indicates Enemy Was Trying to Sneak Supplies Into Guadalcanal

TORPEDO BOATS HIT JAP SHIPO OFF SULOMONS   Jap Destroyers Withdraw After Sharp Attack Of U. S. Craft

TWO JAPANESE SHIPS DAMAGED   Cruiser, Merchant Ship Bombed At Ambon; 12 Enemy Planes Shot Down

Jap Vessels Damaged i in  Ambon Raid   Cruiser, Merehant Ships Are Targets for Allied Bombers

ENEMY SHIPPING IS POUNDED FROM AIR   Jap Cruiser And Merchaniman Hit Off Ambon; 150 Nipponese  ‘Froops Are Slain

Separate U. $. Forces Strike Tarawa, Naura   Spitfires Damage 22 Of 48 Jap Raiders In Attack On Darwin

Tarawa Raid Hints Drive Or Gilbert Isles.   Major Enemy Strenghold Hit At Same Time Other Bombers Struck Neuru   NO U. §. LOSSES   Japanese Air Power In Area Believed Cut Down 20 To 25 Per Cent

Yanks Bomb Twe Gilbert Islands   Nauru, Jarawa Feel  Weight of Air Power

WPB TOTALS WAR COSTS   Authorities Announce New High Reached In Expenditures

‘Union Raiding Confab Is Seen   Heads of Both A. F.L And C..1. O. to Meet

AGREE T0 STOP UNION RAIDING   CIO And AFL Leaders To Reopen Negotiations;  Flat Raises Asked

Rival Labor Leaders Agree To Seek End of ‘Raiding’   Green, Murray Assert, However, That, Wage And Costs of Living Relationship Displeases

Labor Raiding  Truce Proposed   Murray Agrees ta Meet Gro,  an Peale,

STRAIGHT PAY BOOSTS ASKED BY ClO CHIEF   AFL ond CIO Tangle Over Jurisdictional Disputes .   REACH AGREEMENT AT END OF HEARING   Union Chiefs Say Living Costs Not in Line With Pav

AGREE TO END UNION RAIDING   Green and Murray Plan to Reopen Negotiations To Stop Practice   Saves Board Aids CIO

SPANISH MASS MANY TROOPS   Armies mobilized near Pyrenees Mountains  and Gibraltar

HARD FIGHTING WING FOOTHOLD UF VITAL RIDGE   Sea, Air And Ground Forces Pounding Enemy Position On Aleutian Island

BOMBS AND SHELLS ON JAP FORCES      Air and. Naval Suppori Heips U.S.Win Foothold in Chichagof Harbor Area   FURIOUS FIGHT IN NARROW SECTOR   U. S. Casualties Relatively Light Despite Usual Death Stand by Nips

ON ATTU GAIN MORE GROUND   Stimson Says Casualties Relatively Light, Including 127 Killed, 399 Wounded and 188 Missing in Action.

U.S. Troops Win Ridge On Attu   Gain Foothold on Hill Overlooking Japanese Position on Chichagof Harbor: Few Casualtie:

Hold Part of ° Ridge South Of Chichagof   Two Days of Hard Fighting Reported — Our Losses So Far Light

AMERICANS WIN FOOTHOLD ON RIDGE IN ATTU      Advance South Of Jap-Held Chichagof Harbor   HARD FIGHTING   Report American Cas: ualties Relatively Light

Yanks Score New Gains in Attu Battle   Navy Department Reports Am erican Forces “Vin Foothole on Ridge Sr Se Japanese Held Ch! o>’ Harbor ©

U.S. Troops Win Foothold On Chichagot Ridge Near Harbor   Navy Reports Success After Hard Fighting With Japs; Stimson Says Casualties Are Light

Yanks Win New Foothold On Attu Island Ridge; Losses Light --- Stimson

Our Attu Losses Very Light, Says Sec’y. Stimson   Fierce Hand - To - Hand Fighting Believed Under Way. Now.

American Casualties Have Been Light, To Date, Navy Reports   127 DEAD IS TOLL IN DRIVE ON JAPS   U. S. Troops Preparing for Drive On Remaining Foe Positions

AMERICANS WIN RIDGE ON ATTU   Fighting Furious, But Yank Losses Are ‘Relatively Light.’

Yanks Are Making Steady Progress   ‘Casualties In. Taking  Attu Relatively Light

Cites Peace Condition.   N. S. Casualties On Attu Light, “Says Stimson

AMERICANS WIN FOOTHOLD ON VITAL RIDGE ON ATTU   Ground Forces, Supported By Naval Bombardment And Army Bombers And Fighters, Gain Strategic Height South Of Enemy-Held Chichagof Harbor After Two Days Of Hard Fighting—U. S. Casualties On Island Said To Be Light

Win New Hold On Attu Isle   Casualties Of 127 Killed, , 399 Wounded Announced For Campaign.

Japs Blasted  From Foothold   AMERICAN CASUALTIES ARE LIGHT AS ENEMY LOSES GRIP ON VITAL ISLAND BASE; NAVY GUNS, ARMY AIRMEN BOLSTER FIGHT

Yanks Win Foothold on Attu Ridge   “Naval Guns And Bombers Aid Infantry  Forces

‘Americans Gain Foothold Near Chichagof Harbor; Attu Casualties Light

AMERICAN FORCES WIN FOOTHOLD ON NEW ATTU RIDGE   DESPITE FEROCITY OF FIGHTING ON ISLAND AMERICAN CASUALTIES LIGHT

U.S. Wins Foothold on Ridge South of Chichagof Harbor   Stimson Declares American Casualties Comparatively Light

Americans Score New Foothold in Battle for Attu   Casualties So Far Have Been Light, Stimson Declares

AMERICANS IN NEW FOOTHOLD ON ATTU ISLE   Two Days of Hard Fighting Against Japs Gains Ground Around Chichagof Harbor

STIMSON SAYS U. S. ‘CASUALTIES ON ATTU ARE LICHT   iPreliminary Report Says 127. Killed, 399 Wounded 1 And 118 Are Missing.

Casualties On Attu Have Been Light   US Army Has Lost 127 Killed, 399 Wounded and 118 Missing; Troops Making Steady Progress

FOOTHOLD ON RIDGE   American Casualties Held Light Despite Fierce Fighting

CASUALTIES ON ATTU ARE FEW, SAYS STIMSON   Report 127 Killed, 399 Wounded: Jap Loss  Heavier

U. S, FORCES WIN NEW FOOTHOLD ON RIDCE IN CHICHACOF AREA-AT ATTU

VICTORY NEWS EXPECTED SOON   Enemy Apparently Has Dug In for Last Ditch Stand — Survivors Being Pounded by American Air Force when Weather Permits,

127 Killed. 118Missing. 399 Injured   Seeretary Stimson Gives Preliminary Report On Heavy Aleutian Fighting

U.S. Forces Win Position Near Harbor   Despite Fierce Fighting Stimson Says Only 127 Soldiers Killed

U, 8, LOSSES LIGHT IN BATTLE FOR ATTU   Stimson. Reports 127 Killed Aleutians.

hedie Forces Win New Foothold In Fighting On Attu      American Casualties Rel. atively Light, Reports Indicate.

WIN FOOTHOLDS ON ATTU RIDGE   South of Enemy Held Harbor of Chicagof Rav

FALL OF ATTU EXPECTED SOON   U. S. Navy Air Force Helps To Keep Remnants. of Foe fsolated For Kill: °;

STIMSON CLAIMS OUR CASUALTIES LIGHT ON ATTU   Berlin Radio Reports Naz Evacuate Kuban Bridgehead Today

Naval Guns And Air Force Give Support   Main Jap Positions At Head of Harbor; Fierce Fighting Reported

127 KILLED, 399 WOUNDED DURING ISLAND BATTLES   Stimson Reports 2,184 Killed In African Fighting

American Forces Win Foothold On Ridge South of Enemy-Held Chicha gof Harbor After Two Days of Hard Fighting.

AFL To Ballot On Application Of Mine Workers   Question of Reaffiliation Submitted without Recommendation

Lewis Petition to Be Submitted  Recommendations Will Not Be Offered

LOCAL WAR PLANT WILL GET EMBLEM   Kansas Color Press Will Receive Prized Armyavy ".

[LOCAL WAR PLANT WILL GET EMBLEM   Kansas Color Press Will Receive Prized ArmyNavy “E”   ON CONTRACTS FOR AAF

WHITE HOUSE TO CLEAR UP WAGE ORDER   President Discussing Problem With His Advisers

WAGE FREEZING CLARII ATION ANTICIPATED   Roosevelt May Move In Time To Help Avert New Mine Strike   ACTION FORCED BY WLB   President Holds Sessions With Divisional Chiefs On Situation

Ultimatum Is Ignored By Italians   Silence On Pantelleria Believed To Be Omen Of  Troop Attack.

Pantelleria Told To Cease Fighting   British Military Experts Believe Invasion Of Smoll Island Already Under Way By Arm

Fleet Pounds Rocky Shores   Military Writers Believe Troops Are Already Invading Island

Troops Land on Pantelleria British Experts Believe   Sce Invasion Already Under Way With Refusal of Surrender Call; Steady Raids Weaken Resistance

Political Front Confuses Allies In North Africa   Axis Forces Try Diversion Attack Against French

ROMMEL IS HEADING INTO 3-WAY SQUEEZE ON AFRICAN FRON   Political Situation Confused With Appointment Of New Governor General   BRITISH NEAR TRIPOL-:

3 Armies Squeeze Rommel Remnants:   Long Flight Across Africa Ending; Pevrouton Named Alecrian Chief

Smash to Within 110 Miles Of Kharkov, 25 Miles of Salsk; Drive Toward Rostov

SOVIETS ADVANCE ON THREE KEY CITIES ON SOUTH RUSSIAN FRONT   Many Towns Taken By Red Army. Russians Within 25 Miles of Key Rail City Of Salsk.

Heaviest Bomb Blow Of ‘Year On Kiska Heralds ‘Mighty Air Offensive’.

Spring Offensive Against Kiska Is Believed Opened   Unusually Heavy Air Attacks Launched Planes And Men Believed Ready

Not Required To Produce Body, Ruling   Precedent Shattering Opinion by State Court

Both Allies And Japs In Air Raids   Twenty-Three Enemy Planes Damaged At New Guinea Drome.

WeakeningSupply Lines Bring Japs Several Defeats   Reversals Pile Up For Nipponese From Kisk; To Salamaua Within Week; New Crisis  Develops In New Guinea

Fears Sabolage Of Tax Measure   Asks Group Not To Support O’Mahoney

15s In Use On U. §. Bombers   Amazing Devices In Llee Aleo By Navy

LITTLE STEEL’ PACT ATTACKED   Mormula To Die If Subsidy Ban Is OK’d, Warning

FIGHT OVER. FOOD SUBSIDY. ~~. QENTERS ON PAY FORMULA   GROUP LED BY ‘TAFT DECLARES WAGE LIMITATION PROGRAM ALREADY : : IN DISCARD

CONTINUE RAIDS. TO SOFTEN KISKA   Japs Strafed By Army Warhawk Fighter Planes

ALLIES AID KISKA TEN TIMES IN DAY   Softening Up Of Aleutians Invaders Proceeding

KISKA ATTACKS ARE CONTINUED   Ten Battering Assaults Agoinst Jap-Held Island Reported

POUND JAPS ON KISKA FROM AIR   American Airmen Hit Nig Positions 10 Times Saturday

10 Air Raids \Made on Kiska   Americans Carry on Campaign to Soften Japanese Base

10 Raids Jar Japs  On Kiska   .Mits On Runways, Gun Positions Reported

Kiska Hit By 10 Aerial Assaults   Softening Up Campaign Continued in Preparation For Occupation By Ground Troops:

Solons Wrangle Over Vote Issue  Moore Says Ballot   Moore Says Ballot Theft Headed Off

Senators Clash Over Plans for Soldier Voting   Steal Prevented, Moore Declares

HITLER SPEECH ON RADIO    Announced Talk Made Nine Days  Ago Without Explaining Delay

RUMORS ONLY INJURE ALLIED CAUSE, STATES   Big Three Believed to Be Preparing “Last Chance” Demand That Nazi People Rebel   RIGHT. ADOLF'

PLASTIC CLOTHES LIKELY AFTER WAR   Science Barely at Door of Rubber Development

REFUGEE POLISH CHEMIST DISCOVERS  NEW RUBBER PROCESS Dr. Waclaw Szukiewicz     Find Cheap Process for Making Grain Olcohol  Tonkin Weecban tne n

Gov. Donnell Urges Revenue Department  Would Consolidate Duties of Missouri Tax Aaencies

Donnell Asks Consolidation Ot Nine Agencies Which Now Hancle 12 Major State Taxes

Asks Merger of Nine State Tax Agencies   Gov, Donnell's Propose}. for ‘One: “Department Goes to Legislature.   MORE REVENUE AT LESS COST   A tiered AeA SE Salat = thd  Chunks of Patronage and Cut Several Boards

A Central Tax Agency Sought   Bills Prepared by Governor Subinitted to Cut Out Nine Collectors.

— £0) Wart 2IMES  New Bolivian Gov’t Will Hold Election For President In ’44

BOARD RECEIVES JUNE DRAFT CALI   Quota Larger Than May’s: Notices Will Be Sent Out Next Week

DRAFT 10 SUMMON LOCAL MEN SEPT. 2   Induction Notices Mailed tc Compartively Small Group, Board Reports

TAKGOLLEGTOR RAPS CT PT 4   Date Is Deadline For Fil ing Estimate Income Declaration

Deadline For Tax Returns Sept. 15   Fifteen Million Have Choice of Filing a Simplified Re ftiirn

FILE ESTIMATE CEPTEMBER 1   Taxpayers to Declare Their Estimated Income and Vietory Tax.

Sept. 15 Income Tax ‘Report Short, Simple   Dads Draft To Start — Same Time in All States’

DUE: SEPTEMBER 15   First Income Tax Report Under New Law Must _ Be Made Soon

Must File First Renorl Sept. 15   ’ Deadline Fer Filing “OF Esti:

INCOME ESTIMATE IS DUE SEPT. 12   Varied Forms Prepared te Be Used In Filing Probable Receipts in 1943.

Government To Simplify Task of Tax Payers   Short Blank Can Be Used To Estimate Incomes

REAL CHORE ~~ OR MINOR ONE   Sept. 15 Deadline for Filing First Word of. Estimated Income

TREASURY 10 USE NEW TAX RETURN FORM   Taxpayer Can Make Date With Collector A Chore Or An  Annovance

Offer Simple  ~ Return Forms   ‘Short’ Method For Those Filing On 1943 Income Before September 15.

  Die in Cold Wave In Easterry States  New England, New York Report Sub-Zero Marks

New England and Atlantic States Shivering  Many Perish, Host Is Suffering by Exposure and Shock

Allied Trap Set In Italy   Direct Assault Upon Naples Is In Makina

Threaten To Circle Big City   British Bear Down On Foggia, City Of Rail And Air  Importance.

FD. RON AIR AT2 P.M. TODAY   ADDRESS ON 3-POWER TALKS TO BE CARRIED TO ALL PARTS OF WORLD,

World To Hear F. D. R. Address Today at 3 p. m.   Greatest Network Set. Later Rebroadcasts, Translations Planned

F. R. Address Over World Radio Hookup   American, British and Other Units to Carry Speech Tomorrow Afternoor

Roosevelt Address Tomorrow Will Be Carried on Largest ~ World Network Ever Formed

Millions To Hear Roosevelt Today   President To Talk To Many Nations

PRESIDENT WILL TALK TO WORLD   Conferences At Teheran And Cairo To Be Aired In Radio Address

F. D.R. Talk Set on World Radio Hookup   U. S. FIGHTING FORCES THROUGHOUT GLOBE TO HEAR PRESIDENT ADDRESS

FDR To Broadcast Friday Afternoon   Worldwide Hookup to Take Message At 2: P. M.

CRUSHING BLOW AGAINST JAPS AT HANSA BAY   Huge Allied Bombing Fleet Leaves Large Gap In Vital Japanese Coastal Supply Line In New Cnines,   GROUND TROOPS IN FRESH GAINS

GROUND UNITS SCORE GAINS ON PACIFIC FRONT   Coastal Base At Hansa Bay Blasted By Big Allied  Aerial Force   46 SHIPS ARE DAMAGED   American Troops Encircle Last Enemy Garrison On New Georgia

BIG BOMBING FLEET BLASTED IMPORTANT HANSA BAY AREA IN NEW GUINEA: SINK SHIPS <=

Blo AN FLEE RAIDS JAP BASE AT HANSA. BAY  Japs’ Guinea Supply   Japs’ Guinea Supply Line Broken by Heavy Raid   GROUND TROOPS GAIN IN SOLOMONS BATTLE

Heavy Blow Dealt Jap Shipping At New Guinea Base By Allied Fliers   100 Bombers Destroy 66 Enemy Vessels At Hansa Bay

SETBACKS REPORTEL   Huge Gap Is Opened ir  Vital Enemy: Supply  Line—Ground Troops. in Advances.

LARGE ALLIED BOMB FLEFT STRIKES BLOW   Ground Troops Score Gains at Both Ends of Front

Nearly 1) Aireraft  Blast Bivouac And Dump Areas   Two Freighters and 64 Barges Destroyed Py Allied Fliers

Hansa Bay In South Pacific Subject To  Terrifie Raid   Vive-Mile Long Mass Of Flames On Shore Area After Great Assault

BLOW KNOCKS HUGE GAP IN. SUPPLY LINE.   Largest Bombing Fleet Ever. Assembled In New Guinea

GREAT GAP MADE IN SUPPLY LINE NEAR HAUSA BAY   Two Freighters, 64 Barges Destroyed or. Dantaged With No Resistance From Enemy Air Crafts.   RUSSIANS THREAT TO POLTAVA INCREASES   Units of Red Army Accomplish Varied Successes While German Radio Denies Any Achievement.

BOMBERS CUT HUGE GAP'IN JAP SUPPLY LINE AT HANSA RAY   Crushing Blow To Enemy Is Given By Largest Bomber Fleet In New Guinea

HANSA BAY IS LASHED BY 100 BOMBER CRAFT   2 Freighters and 64 Barges Are‘ Destroyed or Damaged in Attack

Yanks Advance  At Salamaua AndBairoko   180 Tons of Bombs Nearly Obliterate Nip Center at Hansa Bax o™

HIGH SCHOOL 10 START MACHINE SHOP TRAINING   Equipment Here and Deal for Building Near Completion

SHOP TRAINING   Equipment Here and Deal for Building Near Completion

LEADERS SEND BREETINGO FOR MEN AT FRONT   America’s Fighting Forces Spend Christmas in Stranoe Lands.

ARMY-NAVY V-12 TEST WILL BE GIVEN   Students To.Take Second Test at Bensalem High School, Nov. 9th   APPLICATIONS READY

TESTS FOR ARMY, NAVY TRAINING NOVEMBER 9TE   Offered at Central College To H. S. Students, Graduates

QUALIFYING TEST FOR ARMY-NAVY PROGRAM OCT. 9   Students Can Secure Blanks At . Statesville High School Building.

SPECIAL TESTS 10 BE HELD IN LINTON   Boys From 17-21 Graduating by March 1, 1944, Are Eligible.

ARMY AND NAVY COLLEGE PROGRAM TEST ANNOUNCED   To Be Held In Island Schools On Tuesday, November 9th; Boys 17-21 Eligible

Army, Navy Tests to Be Given Here   Qualifying Examination Will Be Administered at Schreiner Institute on November 9

Army Specialized and Navy Y-12 Exams   WH Be Given Througliout ‘The Nalion And At The Mull Public School, November $th

QUALIFYING TEST — ARMY AND NAVY   Will be Administered at Richwood High School Tuesday, Nov. 9 According to Supt. Fisher

TRAINING TESTS TO BE GIVEN AT K. U.   Youths Accepted to Enter Specialized Army or Navy Programs ©   EXAMS ON NOVEMBER 9

Second Army,  “Navy Tests To" ~~ Be Given Here    Hyamination® for, College Training Programs -Set ° for November 9   FOR GRADUATES OR SENIORS, 17 TO 21   Candidates May Obtain Information at Junior Colleze 2

Many Highways Still Blocked After Blizzard  Turkey Losses Less Than Anticipated

Many Highways Still Blocked After Blizzard   Turkey Losses Less Than Anticipated From Snowstorm

Catfish Season Will Open Next Week; Won't Bane gt SRO oe Ae Beery meee

Newest Gasoline Ban Skips North Carolina   Drastic Non-Essential Driving Curfew Is Effective Tod: ‘n 12 East Cuast States.

Order All Police To Check Up   Fun Drivers Will Lose Gas Allotments For Duration of War.

Rationing Board Explains Procedure; Fuel OF Ration Applications Should Re Mailed Now

How To Renew Your “A” Coupon Book   BASIC A & D GASDLANE RENEWALS FOR MOTORCYCLES Y AUTOHUMOREA FS.

Six Children Die as Fire Sweeps Home   FOUR BROTHERS, TWO SISTERS BURN TO DEATH AT FARM NEAR CHICAGO

f CHILDREN DIE AS HOME BURNS   Parents Manage to Save Two, Flames Drive Rescuers Back From Home

Six Children © Die In Home   Parents Burned In Their Attempts to Save Them - From Flames

Six Children Burn to Death as Flames Balk Parents’ Heroic Rescue Efforts

HOUSE APPROVES OIL PRICE BOOST   MEASURE PROVIDES 35-CENT INCREASE; MOVES TO SENATE

HOUSE VOTES HIGHER PRICE ~ FOR CRUDE Ol   Bill Designed fo Force ‘Higher Ceilings Sent to Senate but Transfer to Ickes Defeated

Crude Oil Bill Passed by House  Anti-inflation Dikes Spring Another Leak

Senate Gets Oil Bill   Measure Would Direct OPA. to Order Immediate 35e Price Hike >

Oil Price Hike Bill In Senate   Oil Measure Sails Through House Late Yesterday By 171.02.

SAYS JAPS ARE TIRED OF WAR   Lack Of Victories Also Has Average Jap Badly Worried, Says Argentinian

GERMANY TRYING TO KEEP BALKAN STATES IN WAR   Warning Given Bulgaria to Continue Fight as Resentment Grows Against Helping Nazis.   SITUATION IN HUNGARY IS NO LESS ACUTE   Country Seeks Return of Troops From Russia—3 Nazi Divisions to Greek Bulgar Border.

Coal Miners. Again Are Stopping Work   Wage: Negotiations Collapse; Ickes — to Take Next. Move

Mine Leaders Insist — - Upon Work Contract   Union Expresses Willingness. Under  Ickes Rule But. Negotiations

64,000 Men Idle Already In New Coal Strike   Negotiations between workers and operators fail; new talk of U S.  contract,

Union Asserts Men Willing to Work for U.S.   Thousands of Miners Already on Strike; Operators Declare Agreement Impossible

Miners Willing To Resume Work For Government   General Stoppage of Work Begins Again In U, S, Coal Fields

Ickes Invited   To Make Workers Federal Employes   Portal-to-Portal Pay Dispute Deadlocked ; Union Policy Stands Ready to Confer With Secretary of Interior; Showdown Today

64,000 miners idle as pay negotiations fail to materialize   Ickes delays action as laborers vefice ta work withant saantrant

Thousands May Walkout, But Express Willingness To Work for Government   Ask Sec. Ickes To Send Them Back to Jobs as Employes of the United States; Policy Committee and Operators Fail To Reach Agreement and Men Start Leaving Pits, Lewis and Ickes Silent

Union, on Eve of Strike, Offers Proposal to Secretary      MAY SOON RETURN AS GOV'T WORKERS   Negotictions Between Miners ‘and Operators Collapse .

Coal Miners Again Are Stopping Work  Wage Negotiations   Wage Negotiations Collapse; Ickes to Take Next Move

Mine Union Expresses Willingness To Work For U.S. Government, Inviting Ickes to Send Men Back to Shafts  64,000 WORKERS ALREADY ON STRIKE  General Stoppage Likely This Morning As Miners Insist:  ON nA Canteant Nn Wark

Consequences Are Pictured For Italian: Nazis Warn Peopk  Of Sufferances Jn Defeat

Berlin Warns Italy Of Defeat Dangers   Cites Consequences, Loss of Power

Rome Lists Dozen Penalties Italy Must Pay for Peace, But Fails To Acree With Allies’ Intention

To Share . Crop Risk   Federal 1 Loans to Farners Cancelled in Event Of Cron Failure

10 Million Tax May Be Levied On Ford Estate   Will Has Bearing 0: Future Of Great Motor Company

FINANCIAL IMPACT ON FORD MOTOR Co. OF RECENT DEATH   INHERITANCE TAX OF UPWARD OF TWO HUNDRED MILLION SEEN

Edsel Ford's Will To Be Filed Soon  Effect of Death May Be Disclosed

Government May Get 20 Million By Ford's Death   Will of Edsel Ford To Be Filed For Probate

Financial Impact Of Edsel Ford’s Death May Be Felt At Probate Of His Will Next Week

COMEBACK PLANNED BY JANE FROMAN   Singer Unable To Walk After Crash of Airliner

Between 20 and 25 Nazi Divisions Now in Italy.   YANK CASUALTIES IN ITALY TO BE HEAVY   511 Killed, 5,428 Wounded and 2,368 Reported Missing.

STIMSON REPORTS NAZIS BUILDING UP FORCES IN ITALY   War Secretary Says Eighth Army Meeting Heavy © Resistance On East Coast .

The War Today   Keystone for Global Peace Laid at Moeeaw Conference

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Dispelling Of Mistrust. Greatest Handiwork Of Moscow Confab

The War foday  Most Important Gain At Moscow Contained In Hull Statement.

WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT GAIN FROM MOSCOW AGREEMENT DUE /TO TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING

The War Today— Elimination Of Distrust Between Russia And Allies Cited Big Gain

Food Czar Named by  Roosevelt   Takes Over Duties © Wickard, But President Will Make Decisions

Meat Scarce  Thruout USS.   Restaurants and Butcher Shops Feeling Pinch

Butcher Shops Raided On Lve of Rationing   Housewives in Many Cities Jostle In Fight to Purchase Last Scrans

New Yorker’s Face Week-End With No Meat; Many Other Ghio Cities Are Hit

Nation Faces Meatless Wecek-End   Greatest Current Food Shortage Is Meat, Survey Show:

MEAT SUPPLY OF WEEKEND FADING   Across’ Nation, Pre-Ration Shortage Is General.

Almost Meatless Week-End Is Faced   Acute Shortage Of Meat Prevalent In Most Sections, Survey Indicates

AP NEWSMIAN DIES GF HURTS OT IN BATTLE   Edward Henry Crocket, Former New York And Bos ton Reporter Succumbs After Warships Torpedoing   Few Details

AP WAR REPORTER SUCCUMBS AT SEE   Edward Crockett, With British Fleet, Was Wounded in Torpedoing.

CORRESPONDENT KILLED   AP Writer Dies After ‘Torpedoing Of Naval Vessel

"AP WAR WRITER DIES OF WOUND!   Harry Crockett Wounded in  Torpedeing of British War } ship in Mediterranean; Is Buried at Sea

AP. CORRESPONDENT KILLED IN ACTION   Edward H- Crockett Fatally “Wounded in. Torpedoing of a British Vessel

ST ASSEN NOT TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY   Minnesota Governor Says He Ex pects To Join Navy In April; Bricker Is Non-Committal

FUNKHOUSER TL SEEK NOMINATION   Candidate’s Action Formally Opens State’s 1944 Gubernatorial Campaign; Issues Challenging Statement

FUNKHOUSER IS GOP CANDIDATE   Charles Town Man Opens Campaign With Hints Of Hard Fighting

NEAR 2 BILLIONS FOR INDUSTRIES   Most Spectacular Drop_at End of War Will Appear } In Munition Plants.

Attu U.S. Army Commanders Say Japs Will Get ‘No Chance To Recoup; Much Booty Captured

Excursion Boats Exempt From State Sales Tax   Loacky Deg   BReid on Mandaiay   Yanks Have Taken No Attu Prisoners, General Reveals

Although U.S. Capture of Booty Great. INo Taps Are Taken Prisoner on Attu

No Prisoners Taken on Attu After Eight Days of Fighting   .-~ Enemy Given No Time to Recoup Says Chief Of American Forces Attacking Vital Isle

Japs Will Get No Chance To Recoup, Yank Commander On Attu Declares

MUCH BOOTY, NO PRISONERS TAKEN ON ATTU   Japs Will Get No Chance to Re coup, Gen. Landrum, Army Com mander, Asserts

GENERAL ON ATTU SAYS JAPS WILL BE CAPTURED OR KILLED  BOOTY TAKEN BY AMER. ICANS LANDING ON ISLAND WAS GREAT

d  TAGGEN WANTS LASTING UNITY   Declares Machinery Should Be Set up Now in Planning For Peace; Suggests Definite Commissions Form

ALLIES DESTROY 20 TRANSPORTS NEARING TUNISIA   Axis Loses 28 in One Day; First Army in Smashing Advance

British and Germans Are  Battling Hand to Hand on the Enfidaville Line

Twenty Giant Air Transports  Are Shot Down   Allied Airmen Get Every Transport In Formation Over Sicilian Straits   TEN ESCORTING PLANES DESTROYED

TAFT OPPOSES BANKING PLAN   Ohio Solon Says Program Should Be Under Government Control

TAFT TOLEAD FIGHT AGAINST WORLD BANK   Believes Loans To Other Countries Should Come Under Act of Congress

TAFT TO FIGHT BANK PROPOSAL   Says Idea Part Of New Deal Deficit Program

Allied Bombers Pound Japanese In New Britian   Area in Greatest Threat of Invasion By: MacArthur Forces

Bombers Rock Jap-Held Cape   Mediums Hit Japanese With Steaieht Dav

Convoy Attacked In Solomon Sea   U. S. Flyers Also Hit  New Guinea Points

HOT FIGHT FOR CONTROL — OF THE MERCHANT MARINE IS NEARING CLIMAX:   MARITIME COMMISSION SU. SPECTS NAVY OF SPREADING HOSTILE STORIES.

WAS OLDEST RESIDENT OF MATTOON   Funeral to Be Held Tuesday at First Methodist Church

Secret Treaties ~ Hit By Congress   US Warns Such Pacts Not Binding

HIGH CO FOR FOR URGED   Board Would Aid President With Home Problems

Home Front High Council Is Proposed   New Setup Would Relieve Roosevelt  In Domestic Field

Command to Cope with Domestic Problems Seen   Top Advisers to Present Proposal to Roosevelt When War Tasks Cleared Out

HEDY LAMARR IS MARRIED AGAIN   Brunette Screen Beauty Takes Third Husband At Beverly Hills Last Night

SECRETARY HULL IS BACK FROM MOSCOW   Met At Airport By Presiden And Then Taken To White House For Conference

HULL RETURNS FROM PARLEY   Secretary Greeted by Wife, President at Airport In Washington

WELCOME GIVEN TO ~ SECRETARY HULL   Roosevelt ‘on Hand to Greet Official at Airport

SEC. HULL BACK IN WASHINGTON, MET BY F. DR   Receives Warm Kiss From Wife as He Steps From Plane—Senators in Wel coming Party,   GOES TO WHITE HOUSE TO TALK WITH CHIE!   Trip to and From Moscow Made in Big Transport—. No Trouble Experienced on Journey.

Hull Gets Hero's Welcome on His Return From Moscow: Confers With President

HULL RETURNS FROM MOSCOW   Secretary Of State Met At Plane By President And Other Notables

HULL REPORTS 10 PRESIDENT   President Greets Secretary On Return From Moscow; Decisions of Conference Remain Secret.

Hull Returns To Report on Soviet Parley   Secretary Gets Kiss From Wife, Hearty Handshake From FD

Russian Drive Going Strong in All Areas   Berlin Broadcasts’ ‘Tell. 0!  Heavy Soviet Attacks; Whole Front Ablaze

EXTRA WAGES NOT REQUIRED FOR 48 HOURS   ALLEMPLOYMENT AFFECTED BY NEW ORDER

WORK PLAN IS PRAISED AND CONDEMNED      McNutt Movés te Put New Federal Order Into Effect

Battle Chief To Be Namec   Command in Tunisia To Be Revealed as First Result of Parley

PARLEY NIPPED PEACE GESTURE   Nazi Moves Forestalled By African Meeting, Observers Say

Results Of Parley To Be Seen Soon,  Churchill States   Germany and Satellites Seek To Discount Confab Results

NO NEW PEACE OFFENSIVE FROM BERLIN   Casablanca Conference Closed Door To Anticipated Offer Of Compromise Settlement Of Disputed Points.   FullyCoordinate

In North Africa   Clear Statement From Casablanca Spreads New Wave Of Hope To Enslaved Peoples

Single Command To Be Named for  Tunisia Battle   African Conference  Forestalls New Nazi  Peace Offensive  CO-ORDINATE EFFORT  Axis Radios Decry — Churchill-Roosevelt  /_ em +. 6. heme   ‘CO-ORDINATE EFFORTS

CHIEF FOR TUNISIA   London Expects the Announcement of Command  Set-Up Soon

New Command Set-Up Reported As Next Move After Roosevelt-Churchill War Conference   Narrow Axis. Zone In Africa

German Peace Offensive Forestalled, Say United Nations Observers; Over-AJJ African Command Expected

HITLER PEACE OFFENSIVE 18 STALLED OFF   HIGH COMMANDER AGREED UPON BY ALLIES

MAN TO DIRECT TUNISIAN BATTLE MAY BE NAMED   Talks in Africa Said to Have Brought Agreement to Place All Forces Under One Commander.   GERMAN PEACE DRIVE BELIEVED FORESTALLED   General De Gaulle Reported Disappointed Over Failure to Settle Differences With Giraud.

German Peace  Drive Stalled   Casablanca World Strategy Parley Blocke Offensive, Sav Observers

Peace Drive By Nazis Seen Forestalled   Over-All Command For Battle of Tunisia Believed Selected  ERENCH ONT Y CTLOTID

Allied Chief For Tunisiar Drive Seen   Ending Friction Between De Gaulle And Giraud Sought

COMMAND SETUP FOR BATTLE OF TUNISIA SEEN   Informed London Circles Expect Action In Few Days; Parliament Cheered; Awaiting Churchill’s Report.

Over-all Command for the Battle of Tunisia Expected  NEW DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED SHORTLY   Biggest Cloud Failure to Reconcile French Flements

Peace Feeler  Believed Forestalled   Announcement of Over-All Allied Command for Impending Tunisian Battle Is Expected

Peace Offensives  by the Axis Declared Halted   Full Agreement Is Reached on Commander to Take Charge of Allied Forces for the Impending Battle for Tunisia

Peace Offensive Believed Halted:   Over-All Commarid Said Agreed Upon’

U S.CAPTURES 1 NN! MORE Ht SICILY   Enemy Retreats to Northeast Corner for Last-Ditceh Stand

Prisoner Toll Of U.S. Forces Reaches 57,000   Many More Axis Troops In Sicily Surrender To American Troops   AXIS FORCES ARE DRIVEN INTO CORNER

WORK oHEETS ARE REQUESTEL   Farmers Who Neglec‘ed This Duty Are Asked to Send Data at Once.

Ickes Against Return of Mines   Says Production Is Still Too Far Behind

Ickes Says U.S. Will Keep Mines   Won't Be Returned Now. He States

CHIEF JUDGE BOND IS DEAL   Elected To 15-Year Term In 1926 And Was Unopposed For Reelection in November

Jap Ships Sunk : in Convoy Oif Bougainville  Nips Evacuating Kolombangara, Yanks Closing in

Japs Desperate in Efforts to Relieve Garrison   OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED IN HOUR-LONG BATTLE

Planes Sinash  Tan Convevi mn  WaEy y Ban  Solomons Area   2 Ships Sunk in Alnight Attack; Enemy Loss  Oe iy Sn ey eT

Three Ships Of Jap Convoy Go To Bottom   American Bombers Smash New. Japanese Attempt To Bring In Troops Or Evacuate Island

U.S.Ruins  New Jap Isle Try   ENEMY LOSES 3 SHIPS OF 11-SHIP CONVOY IN BOUGAINVILLE BATTLE

THREE JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY U. §. LIBERATORS   Smash Convoy Attempting TX Evacuate Japs From Solomons

Yanks Blast 3 Jap Ships InNishtDuel   ‘Planes Bag Convoy Graft'as'Foe Tries. Solomon. Evacuation

Jap Convoy Off Bougainville Hit ‘By Liberators   At Least Three of 11 Ships Reported Sunk In Attacks

NEW JAP ATTEMP1 TO AID SOLOMONS GARRISONS FOILED      At Least 3 of 11-Ship Convoy Sunk In Night Battle ' In Bougainville Sivetic —

U. S. Bombers Blast Convoy Of Jap Ships   Direct Hits Scored Or Four Ships Trying To Aid Garrison

JAPS LOSING HOPE OF FINAL VICTORY   Former Shanghai News Editor Reports Jap Leaders Ready to Flee Tokyo When Bombs Fall

ITALIAN POLICE SEIZE 11,000   Move To Stamp Out 5th Column As Germans Bolster South Europe

Duce's Police Column Arrests _ 11,500’ Seized  --In italy During — Past Week

Mussolini Tries to Stamp  Out All Anti-Fascists. Before Allied Invasion —

ITALY SEIZING MANY 10 STOP FIFTH COLUMN      11,150 Persons Arrested By Benito Mussolini’s Secret Police

ITALY ROUNDS UPITS FIFTH COLUMNISTS   Wants Them Out Of the Way  Before Invasion

TAX PROBLEM UP TO CONGRESS: FOR   Indicates Opposition to Sales Levy; Sorry About Confusion

CONGRESS MUST DECIDE TAXES   President’s Message Tc Deal With Inflation  In General

President Says Congress Must Handle Tax Problem, Confines Himself To Advice; May Oppose Sales Tax Plan

New War Taxes Up to Congress, Roosevelt Says   Opposed fo Sales Tax, but Says It May Be Enacted

CONGRESS MUST SECURE TAXES   President Says He Is Opposed To Sales Tax And  Forced Savings

It's Up to Congress to Decide What to Do About Taxes, President Declares

FOR PUTS TAXES UP TO CONGRESS   May Send Body Message Dealing With Inflation; President Indicates Opposition to Sales Tax

President Puts New Tax Up To Congress   Says Additional Levy Must Be Lawmakers’ Job

CONGRESS GETS TASK ON TAXES   Details Of Raising New Revenue Not Framed By President

President Dumps Tax Problem  ‘ ‘ Into Congress Lap   May Send Inflation Message to Body But There'll Be Little Detail

FR. Says Taxes Up to Congress   May Send General Inflation Message

6,000,000 Men Are Prisoners  Y. M. C. A. Official Makes Estimate

U. 5. Accuses Arms Makers:   Plane Parts Faulty, Grand Jury Charges

U.S. INDICTS BRONZE FIRM, TOP OFFICERS   Aluminum Plant Charged With Selling Defec tive Plane Parts

Stalin Spurs On Russian Soldiers In Announcement  German Offensive Said Collapsed On Nazi Graves

Russian Vise Tightens Around Nazis   Stalin Declares German Push Has Been Smashed

Enemy Losses Skyrocket (On All Fronts   Violent Battle Rages But Russians Continue Big Gains

GREAT HITLER PUSH CRUSHED; LOSSES 70,000   WITHDRAWALS NEAR OREL ADMITTED BY BERLIN

Stalin Says Nazi Offensive Broken With 70,000 Dead   Reds Continue To Close In On Orel As Chief Reviews 19-Day-Old German Drive

STALIN ASSERTS NAZI OFFENSIVE HAS COLLAPSED   Announces Death of 70,000 Germans in Drive as Rus-— sians Beat at Gates of Orel.   SAVAGE AIR BATTLE RAGES. NEAR CITY   Red Ground Troops Only Kight Miles From Nazi Bastion—Capture 18 More Villages.

Stalin Says Nazi Drive Collapses   Spurs On Own Armies In Orel Area

Russians Are Forcing Way Toward Orel   Premier Says Nazis Had 70,000 Men Die in Futile Drive

Stalin Praises Generals —   Russians Tighten Vise About “Orel Wii Gains From South™

18,000 Coal Miners Continue  To Strike   Squabble Involves Increase in Iinion Dues

Miners defy government on walkout   Work halt by 18,000 continues

Miners Refuse fo Pay tligher Dues:   “Defy Government, Continue Strike

18,000 MINERS DEFY DEMANDS TO END STRIKE   Ignore Ickes’ Request Ir 13-Day Work Stoppage

15,000 Stay Away From Coal Mines   Bulk of Strikers Ignore Government Request

MINERS CONTINUE STRIKE, DEFY ALL WARTIME PLEAS   Work Stoppage Termed ‘In. tolerable” By Ickes: Pro- . duction Off 30,000  Trane

18,000 HARD COAL MINERS REFUSE 0 END 13-DAY STRIKE      Seridus Fuel Shortages Resulting—New Moves « Toe Be Made To End Walkout

Axis Forces Pressed Now Between lwo       News Of Tripoli Fall To Be Heaviest Blow For itaiians

Nazi and Italian Officials Escape   Union Jack Hoisted Over Duce’s Last Capital in African Empire

Germans Reported Trapped   Rommel’s Forces Between Two Allied Armies —  Ends Italy’s Empire   : a

10 YEAR OLD BOY HURT   Floyd B. Haas Hit by Car Last Nitet at U. P, Underpass

Fall on Stairs Proves Fatal to Mrs. Cody   Former resident of Palo Alto dies at Fairmont, Minn.

3,000 Japs Are Slain In Battle  ‘Counter- Encircling’ Move By Chinese

SENATORS WANT PART IN TALKS   ‘Ask Representation At Food Conference Of United Nations

OEORETARY HULL IN ANGRY REPLY   Calls Untrue Charges That Department Wishes Russia Bled White

Hull Brands  Russian Bias  = eer  ol GT. Ularzeé raise   Monstrous, Diabolical Says Statement of  Qoarratery

Hull Denies Charge He's Anti-Russian Made By'Columnis   Secretary of State Angrily Brands Charges By Merry-Go-Round Writer As. “Monstrous and Diabolical:Falsehoods”

HULL DENIES CHARGES BY COLUMNIST   Drew Pearson Draws Ire Of State Secretary

‘HUGGING ATTACKS’ KEEP POLICE BUSY   Two Girls Escape Latest in New York—yYouth Knifed

GROUP OF NEGROES ATTACK YOUNG MAN   Girls Escape Unharmed During Fist Fight

Hull Praised by Soviet Newspaper   His Role at Moscow ‘Particularly Big’

TRIBUTE PAID HULL IN RUSSIAN PAPEF   Praise Follows ‘Kid Offered’ al Moscow Conference

Official Russ Newspaper Lauds Hull For His Role At Moscow Conference

Beaverbrook Presses for Second Front   Must Strike While Russians Are Stull Gaining

SHOWING OF Y’AR ART.   Defense Poster Originals Are in Spooner-Thayer Exhibit

FOUR WALK AWAY FROM CRASH HIGH UP ON MOUNTAIN   Rescue Crew Finds Note Saying Only One Man Injured’. _ in Accident

VACATION TRIPS.   Holders of “4™ Cards Haye A Distinet Advantage.

VA CATION TRIPS,   Holders ‘of .-“A" Cards Have A ; Distinct Advantage.

FORD FUNERAL WITHOUT POMP   Hundreds Attend Rites For President Of Motor Company

REPORT STANDLEY. WANTS 10 RESIGN AS SOVIET ENVOY   Ificial Comment Lacking But It Is Said That Admiral Standley Has Been C ontemplating Resigning For Some Time.

Claim Standley Wants To Quit   Ambassador To Russia Is Dissatisfied

Standley to Quit at Once   U. S. Ambassador to Moscow Dissatisfied ; Davies Mission Reason

Admiral Understood fo  Have Resented Roosevelt Sending Davies to Kussia With Stalin Letter   MESSAGE TO WHITE HOUSE “VIGOROUS”   ‘Ambassador Also Reported o Have Been Ignored “by His Military and Nave! Aides

Standley To Quit, Report Is Dissatisfied With  Mission Toa Macsraw

Arrest Second German Spy In  New York Area   Consulting Engineer Harry DeSpretter Pleads Guilty To Charge.   SENT PLANE DRAWINGS

N ame Another Man In Espionage Case Gathered Information ae eile eal

Second Spy Caught; He Pleads, Toc   Engineer Admits Giving - Information to Nazi — Agent

PLEADS GUILTY TO SPY COUNT   Engineer Admits Aiding Nazis to Get Money

Ask Political Parties To Hold 1944 National Conventions In Chicago

Parties Are Asked To Meet in Chicago  ODT Head Gives His Views on Conventions

College Soldiers Get Sports OK  Equipment Available Only Limit To Part Taken In Athletics

War Department Eliminates Use Of Men in Training. for Regular Competition Between Colleges

TH VICTIM OF INDIANAPOLIS TRAIN CRASH   Funeral Thursday at Trinity Kpiscopal Church

Peg Fresh Tuna Prices   Lid On Other Foods . ‘Expected Soon; Freeze Cafe Eating Prices

OPA ACTS 10 CURB COST OF LIVING   SET CEILING ON FRESH TUNA FISH AS FIRST STEP

eeeEeEeEeEEeEeueEEEEEEeEeEeEeEeaeaEmEae=s=EEe  More Foods To Come Under OPA Price Controls

OPA SETS PRICE CEILINGS ON TUNA   Similar Action Promised on  Halibut and Other Fresh ef.

SETS CEILING   OPA Fixes Tuna Fish Price tr Move on Living Costs.

OPA PUTS FIRST ROOF OVER PRICES OF FISH   Tuna Ceilings Set; Others To Be Decided Soon

All Food Soon Will Be Under Price Control: Fresh Fish Comes First

. General Unrest Is Reported In : Bulgaria In Reaction To Nazi Demands For Additional Troops

Allied Airmen Smash af Axis   Heavy Explosions Rattle Windows in Folkstone. Enaland

SHAKE WINDOWS   Bfasts Indicate Heavy Raid On Nartidirccnpied Franen.

Commander in Chief Waves Aside Island-by-Island Strategy In Pacific Area as Too Slow

SAYS ALLIED STRATEGY DOES NOT INCLUDE SLOW ISLE BY ISLE CAMPAIGN   Hard Fighting Everywhere, Constant Pressure on Germany, Italy Make Up Policy, President Says

Plans Made To Drive Japs From China,  F. D.R. Asserts   Declares Many Roads Lead Right to Tokyo And ‘We Shall Neglect  None of Them’ OFFERS ASSURANCE ON FRENCH STATUS  Says United Nations  Undivided in Goals  And Praises Russians

ATTACK TOKIO BERLIN, ITALY ALE TOGETHER   President Says Allied Policy Is To Fight Hard Everywhere And End War Quick.   Radio Address

HEART OF EMPIRE TOFEEL ASSAULT ROOSEVELT SAYS   Constant And Unrelenting Pressure On Germany, Italy Promised   MANY ROADS LEAD TO JAPAN, HE SAYS

Will Neglect No Roads to Japan   Unity Of Allied Objectives And Efforts For Victory, Future Peace Emphasized; Points To Axis Propaganda

Short Cut To Victory  Promised Plans. Mapped  To Drive Foe:  - From China : :

Island By: Island Reconquest Drive Is Said Too Slow.   President Says Unrelenting Pressure Ine - Many-Pronged Offensive To Be Maintainac

Alllied Policy Is to End  War Quickly   Commander in Chief Waves Aside Island-by-Island Strategy In Pacific Area as Too Slow

President Promises Many-Pronged Drive At Japanese Empire   Pledges ‘Constant and Unrelemting Pressure On Germany and Italy; Warns Axis Trying To Divide United Nations by Propaganda

Island-by-island strategy too slow, president says; soil of China to be freed

Roosevelt Relates War Progress; Promises Blows at Japs and Axis  Says Churchill Suggested Eisen= hower for Supreme Command: AA SOS eae nae _ ge . g  is ini ii il  mall

ALLIES CARRY OFFENSIVE 10 EVERY FRONT   PRESIDENT PREDICTS BLOWS DIRECTLY AT TOKYO

President Also Sure Germany's Fate Is Sealed   Promises ‘Constant and Unrelenting Pressure’ on Axis Forces   Pictures Vast Offensive af Early Date; Praises Russian Army

FDR Reveals War Policy Against Axis  United Nations To  Detve Invaders

Island-to-Island Strategy Too Slow, Roosevelt Tells Nation; Air Force Will Lead the Way

FDR Pledges Direct Blows At Japanese   Seeks Sound Economy At Home To Prevent Domestic Disaster

Many-Pronged Offensive  to Be Launched   President Reassures Those Disturbed Over Policy Toward French, and Those Fearful Allies May Falter

President Pictures Many-Pronged Offensive Aimed At The Heart. — Of The Japanese Emnjre

PLANS OUTLINED IN FDR ADDRESS   Island- By-Island Advance Strategy Waived Aside; Reassurance __    Is Note In Sneech

Vast Offensives Will Be Opened Against Enemies   Will Not Waste Time In Battling Japs Island By Island Is Avowal.

= eee a6 ee ae ee eeaeee SS”:  Local Business To Get First Call on Building:

JAPS ON TARAWA WELL PROTECTED      Invading Marines at Mercy of Enemy, Lose 3,583 in 76 Hours. Japs Lose 5,700

3,583 MARINES DEAD, WOUNDED TARAWA COST   Jap Losses Estimated at 5,700— War's Total for Army and Navy Now Put ai 126,969

MARINE CORPS TOLL IN TARAWA CONQUES] EXTREMELY HEAVY   MORE THAN 3,500 DEAD AND WOUNDED IN 76 HOURS OF FIGHTING

CONQUEST OF TARAWA TOOK 3,583 LIVES   Japanese Losses Reported Great On Solomons

Atoll Costly To Marines   U. S. Suffered 3,583 Casualies in: Fight

CASUALTIES IN U.S. MILITARY RANKS 126,96:      Anny Dead, Wounded and Missing 94,918; Navy,  “Marine Corps. Coast Guard 32,051 ,

Tarawa Conques! Toll Put at 3853  Cas waltie s Greater Than on Guadaleoanal

U.S. LOSES ESCORT SHIP   CARRIER IS LOST IN BATTLE OF GILBERTS   WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. (UP) The navy‘ announced today that the escort aircraft carrier Liscome Bay was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the   TARAWA TOLL

LOWEST WHEAT HARVEST SINCE      Estimate. On .Pa.-Out-. put.Given ‘By? Miles. Horat

Reject Cashman Plea To Stop Sending Butter  at Hee + aay  RES ae ag  tego

LARGE CORN CROP IN U. S. FORECAST   Agriculture Dep't Predicts Yield of 3,086,000,000 Bushels

Second Largest Corn Crop in U.S. ls Predicted   3,086,000,000 Bushel: Forecast; Estimate for Wheat Is Less

SECOND LARGEST CORN CROP SEEN BY GOVERNMENT   Wheat Yield Will Be Under 1942; Big Increase In Potatoes   COMMERICAL APPLE CROP ON DECLINE

Crop Forecast Below 1942  Heorvest Is Rhove   Harvest Is Above 10-Year Averaca

Governor 7 Pp, WP ty Budget Reduction of $7,500,000   Also Asks Reduction In Auto License Fees

‘Might Even be Two Million   Increases and Decreases in Expenditures Listed

Attempt.To Reduce 1943-45 State Budget 12 to 2 ‘Million   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Corresnondent

NEW FOOD POINT VALUES ARE DELAYEL   Cut Value for Vegetables; Frozen Fruits Zero

FOR DISCOUNTS ATH TERM TALK   *44. Candidate Conservation Stems from Plan to Drop ‘New Deal’ Slogan

Fourth Term Talk Called  "Picayune"  FDR Says He Favors Expanded- Economy  ‘Ae... t£s 8 me

Roosevelt Speaks Against Economic And Military Isolationism:; Dodges Fourth Term Talk; Explains Scrapping Of “New Deal”

FDR SIDESTEPS ATH TERM QUIZ   Goes On Record As Favoring An Expanded Economy

FOR Dismisses - Question as to  Slogan Purpose   New Motto Not Meant For Fourth Term, Fie Declares

FDR Says New Deal Medicine Cured Old Ills; War Surgeons Needed Now

F. D. R. Announces His Postwar Policy. .... President Brushes 4th Term Question Aside, But Blushes A Little

President Batfles Newsmen Roosevelt'Terms Fourth Term Talk “Picayune”

Picayune, Says FDR To News Question   Skirts Fourth Term Query, Talks of Enlarged Program

Roosevelt Sidesteps Fourth Term Question; Says Nation’s Ills Cured

BRUSHES ASIDE QUERY ON 4TH TERM AMBITIONS   President Favors Scrapping Term ‘New Deal’ Now

NEW ECONOMY PROGRAM MUST SE IN EFFECT   Rooseveit Tells Futvre Needs Of Nation

Postwar Plans Puzzle Newsmer   President Favors Change in Doctors

President Calls 4th Term Query Picayunish; Favors Scrapping Ot The Term “New Deal”

Fourth Term Question Brushed Aside As ‘Picayune’ by FDR Who Wants to Drop ‘New Deal’

Roosevelt Would Scrap Term ‘New  Deal’ After War   Favors Expanded Economy, Is Opposed to Economic Isolation.   Brushes Aside Inquiry On Any Fourth Term

Question Of Fourth Term Shoved Aside   Expanded Economy After War Is Called For By Roosevelt As New Deal Term Is Scrapped

ROOSEVELT BRUSHES ASIDE QUESTION OF FOURTH TERM PLANS   SAYS NEW DEAL GONE BUT WIN-THE-WAR SLOGAN TAKES ITS PLACE’

FDR Evasive When Quizzec on New Deal   Also Silent on Whether He Will Run for 4th Term

4th Term Detoured By F.D.R.   New Deal Critics Challenged By  President   Economical Running Autos Predicted for the Future

Shying Away from Questions About Fourth Term Aspirations and Dumping of “New Deal’ Slogan He Says Long Range Planning Now Second Only Ta Winnihe the War

Roosevell Dismisses Question Of Fourth Term as ‘Picayune’   President Says Dr. Winthe-War’ Has Succeeded Dr. New Deal’

NO NEWS YET ON ATH TERM   Roosevelt Evades Quer) Of Reporter, Talks In Allegory

4th Term Detoured By F.D.R.   New Deal Critics Challenged By  President

Roosevelt Terms Ath Term Query “Picayune”   Favors. Expanded _ Economy:Against Postwar Isolationism

EDR. Puzzles Vewsmen on ‘Post-War Plans   Fourth Term Talk ‘Picayune,’ He Tells Questioners

ATH TERM QUERY TRRITATES F. 0. 8   DESCRIBES AS PICAYUNE QUESTION WHETHER HE WILL RUN AGAIN,

NEW NEW DEAL FOR PEACETIME IS SEEN BY FDR   Question of Fourth Term Is Brushed Aside for Post-war Discussion

F. D. R. Dismisses Fourth-Term Query   Reporter’s Question Irritates President

Roosevelt Says:  NEW DEAL BOWS TO DR. WIN WAR   Fourth Term Plans Brushed Aside By Chief Executive

Fourth Term Question Irks FDR   Explains Reason, fot Scrapping ‘New Deal’ For ‘Win-the-War’

New Deal Has Done Its Work, FDR Declare   ‘Doctor Win-The-War Is His Preferred Title Now

Fourth Term Picayune—FDR  ere resi ident Is Again nst   President Is Against § conamic, Military Isolation After War

President Dodges New Term Query   Says Dr. Win-the-War Succeeds Dr. New Deal

Pr ‘esident Brands as ‘Picayune’ Question on 4th-Term Aspiration

Roosevelt Brushes Aside as Picayune Query on 4th Term   Puzzles Newsmen on His Postwar Plans: Will Scrap “New Deal”

Martinique To  Join Allies Now   Epecial French Mission Ar. rives To Complete Plans For Move   FOUR WARSHIPS TO BE AVAILABLE

MARTINIQUE CHANGE SEEN   ALLIES. TO GET USE OF WAR. : SHIPS AND FREIGHTERS ' AFTER ROBERT RESIGNS HIS - POST

Dewey Says GOP Will Offer Own Post-War Plans   Will Give No Comfort te lsolationists, New York Governor Asserts

DEWEY FLAYS FOOD POLICIES   New York Governor Says GOP Will Form Strong Post-War Policy

Diary Reveals How Japs ‘Beheaded. Allied Flyer   Story of Atrocity Told in Diary Found or Body of Dead Jap at Salamaua

Beheading of Allied Fher Revealed in Jan's Diary   Airman Unknown; Description of Kwvnaentian Civan

Diary Recounts New Jap Atrocity   Beheading of Allied Flier is Revealed

Diary of Jap Soldier Reveals Brutal Beheading of Allied Flier   Entire Jap Garrison at Salamaua Witnesses Atrocity Performed by Jap Swordsman: Victim Unidentified

JAP ATROCITY, ALLIED FLIER IS BEHEADED   Story Revealed When Body Of Enemy Soldier Found In Ruins

Chaplin:Pays © $15,800 To  Joan Berry   Girl Agrees to Blood Test To Determine Paternity Of Unborn Child

CHAPLIN TO PAY BUT DENIES CHARGE   Blood Test on Paternity Ti Determine Future

CHAPLIN PAYS HER $15,000   Continues To Deny Paternity, Atedien! Teacte Planned

Chaplin Agrees to Pay Girl Accuser Pending Birth of Her Expected Baby

Continues Until the  Rationing   Lid Clamped On Pendins Start of Meat - fats Point Rationing

,eveal Point Talues Wednesday   eek-Lang Freeze on Fals Precedes Rationing.

Mest ltems  New Rationing Gut Fox Week   ALL BUT MEAT, CHEESE SUsPENDED EN SALES UNTIE MON.

Butter, Lard, Salad Oils in U.S. ‘Frozen’   Meats-Fats Rationing Se! Monday, Point Values Dated Wednesday

RETAIL SALES OF BUTTER ENDED FOR BALANCE OF WEEK   Stocks Must Accumulate for Beginning of Rationing Program,

‘Sales Of Butter, Margarine, Other  'Fats Suspended For Balance Of Week      New Rationing Program Starts Next Monday — Can Buy Meat. (Cheese

Butter Sale Halted Rest Of This Week   “Freeze” Ordered In Preparation for Rationing Program

Butter, Lard Sales Suspended by OPA   MARGARINE, SHORTENING, COOKING SALAD OILS ALSO ON LIST FROZEN FOR WEEK

HALT SALE OF BUTTER, FATS UNTIL MAR, 29   Ration Point Values For 200 Meat-Fat Items Due Wednesday

ANOTHER OPA BLITZ — — — —  Halt Is Made on Retail Sales of Butter, Lard, Margarine, Shortenin: Until Meat Rationing Commences

Go Easy on Butter, Folks, It's All You Get This Week   Lard, Oleo, Shortening and Cooking Salad Oil Also Frozen

Butter, Lard Sales Halted   Trade Banned During Week by OPA Order

‘FREEZE’ PUT ON BUTTER, ~ FATS SALE   Sale Suspended For a Week To Precede New Rationing

\\SQ WE SURRENDERED.”  Italian General Tells Correspondent to Remind British That Ytaljan People Think Kindly of Them.

Italian General and Aide Interviewed; Praise Montgomery; Criticize Own Navy.

Italians Flee Larger Cities   Fear Mass Bombing By Al. lies Will Soon Be Under Wav   NAZIS SEIZING ITALIAN FLEET

GERMANS IVADE ALY 10 TALL ALUED INVASION   Hitler Fears Immineni Surrender cf Al y; Mill ons of Italians F lee.

CLAMP DOWN ON FRENCH PEOPLE   Premier Laval Takes Steps to Preserve Nation From Threat Of Civil Warfare.

Threat of Civil War in France   Strengthening of the Gestapa Forces in France Is Announced.

YOUTH IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Richard Olmstead Victim of  Crash on Massachusetts Street   HIS WIFE ALSO HURT

YOUTH IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Richard Olmstead Victim of Crash on Massachusetts Street   HIS WIFE ALSO HURT

RUSSIANS ON OFFENSIVE IN DONETS AREA   German Forces Fail to Reach Donets South Bank

Fierce Counterblows Keep Germans From South Donets Shore   REDS DRIVE FOES FROM HILLS NEAR IZYUM; NORTHERN ARMIES SLASH CLOSER TO GIANT KEY METROPOLIS

OFFENSIVE TURNED ON THE ENEMY   Germans Are Driven from Range of Hills Near Izyum—Fail to Reach Bank of Donets.

SOVIET TAKES OFFENSIVE. ON HONETS FRONT   Moscow Indicates Situation Now. Well in Hand -on South Sector.   IN SMOLENSK DRIVE. NEW ADVANCES MADE

REDS SEIZE INITIATIVE IN FIGHTING   German Armored Forces - Fail To Reach South Bank of Donets

Ukraine ForceBatters Nazis in New Attacks   Soviet Pushes Hitlerites From -Donbas Hills

German Drive Near Kharkov Is Checked   Initiative Is Seized By Russians In Several Sectors — Hills Near Izyum Are Captured

Germans Driven From Hill in  Izyum Region   Enemy Armored Forces Fail to Reach Donets Rank

GERMAN DRIVE IN SOUTH IS UNDER SOVIET CONTROL   Hitler Stopped At Donetz. Reds Attack—Timoshenko Nears Smolensk.

ENEMY I FORCED TORETIE FROM HILLS AT NUN   Violent Fighting Is Reported as Strong German Tank and Motorized Forces Continue Attacks.   RUSSIANS LAUNCH NEW ATTACK NEAR PETSAMO   Allied Planes Systematically Battering Mareth Line, Others Penetrate Near Big Axis Base.

Army, Navy Decline to  Aid Probers   President Orders That No Cooperation In FCC Study be Given Committee

FDR ORDERS NO CO-OPERATION IN PROBE OF F.C. C.   War And Navy Departments Are Directed Not To Permit Aides To Appear

ARMY, NAVY SNUB HOUSE FCC PROBE    Departments Refuse To Cooperate on Orders of President.

Documents Are Denied Probers   Cox Asked For Papers To Support Charges  Against FCC.

Committee Is Denied Aid In Investigation   War, Navy Departments Will Not Participate In Inquiry Into the FCC   CHAIRMAN IS ATTACKED

Refuse to Aid In FCC Probe   War and Navy Head: Refuse to Act on Orders of President.

MILITARY WON'T HELP IN PROBE   Army and Navy Refuse to Aid in Investigation of FCC By Order of FOR.

Armed Forces Deny Request  Refuse To Turn   Refuse To Turn Over FCC Papers

BANS OFFICERS FROM FCC QUIZ   Army, Navy Departments Act Under F.D.R.’s Direction

No Officers  Before FCC   Hearing Roosevelt Refuses To Permit Them Tc

WAR-NAVY DEPARTMENTS REFUSE TO COOPERATE JIN PROBE OF F. Cc. Cc.

REFUSE TO AlD PROBE OF FCC   Army, Navy Department: Act on F. R. Orders

FCC Probe Blocked by  President   Departments Refuse To Allow Officers To Testify  ~

PROBE OF FCC BALKED BY FDR   Army and Navy Officers Refuse To Comply With Committee Requests

FILES ARE HELD UP   Army and Navy Refuse to Cooperate in FCC Investigation

War And Navy Department Refusing To Cooperate In Investigating The FCC

Another Coal Strike Is Threatened  T acetic Dianawinmrac   Lewis Denounces Ickes Plan to Fine Miners

New Strike In Mines Feared   ‘Lewis Angrily Calls Fine ‘Brutal And ‘Unwarranted'

FINE ANGERS MINERS, NEW STRIKE LOOMS   Lewis Denounces Ickes Decision to Levy  $1 a Day on Men

Lewis Hits Ickes’ $1 Day Fine   Miners Idle Past Week Must Pay, Secretary Says

Decision by Sec. Ickes ‘Brutal Application  Of Economic Sanctions. John L. Lewis Charges  SOME UNION MEN WARN OF STRIKE  Claim Coal Contract Was Not in Force Durins Last Walkout

NEW COAL STRIKE THREATENED OVER ICKES PENALTIES   ‘Lewis Denounces Decision to Fine Miners $1 a Day for Time They Were Idle in Last Walkout.   CALLS ACT ILLEGAL; CONTRACT HAD EXPIRED   “Another Step Toward Political Tyranny,” Union Chief Says—Men in Camps Reported Inflamed.

Ickes Recommends Fine for Coal  Men; Strike Looms  WLB May Disapprove _ Underground Travel Pay of $1.30

ANOTHER COAL STRIKE LIKELY DUE TO FINES   Ickes Orders Miners To Pay Penalties For Walk.  ant Tuna 1.4      ACTION IS DENOUNCED BY JOHN L. LEWIS

War Labor Board Said to Frown Upon $1.30 Portal Pay; _ Reaction Awaited

New Coal Strikes Threating In U.S.   Fines Of $1,Per Day For Striking To Open New Controversy: Lewis Hits Ickes’ Move +

MINER FINES HINT AT NEW COAL STRIKE   Union Irked At Ickes Action; Question     Contract

Lewis Denounces Penalty Set By Secretary Ickes   WLB Disapproval Of $1.30 Mine Travel Pay Is Indicated  HEARING HELD  Agreement Necessitates Price Ceiling Boost, Operator Declares

Ickes’ Move Denounced by John L. Lewis   Fine Imposed on Mine Workers Who Walked Out This Month

Another Coal Strike Is Threatened   ‘Lewis Denounces Ickes Plan to Fine Miners

New Coal Strike Threatens on   Worker Penalty  Ickes’ Decision to Fine Miners For Last Walkout Stirs UMW;

UMW Leader Denounces Fines Levied by Ickes  Strikers Must Pay   Strikers Must Pay $1 Daily Penalty for Time Lost

ICKES’ ACTION NIGHT BRING NEW WALKOUN   Lewis Scores Move to Fine Bituminous Miners for Last Strike   WLB MAY NOT APPROVE SALARY RATE FIXED

As Ickes Decides  To Fine Miners   Lewis Denounces Action of Mine Boss in Imposing $1 a Dav Fine for Last Walkout; WLB Opposes $1.30 as Travel Time Pay

New Coal Walkout  Threatens Fine Of Strikers A. TL) D...   Fine Of Strikers Assailed By  L @wie

Lewis Heatedly Denounces Proposed Action of tekes   WAR. LABOR BOARD MAY REJECT PACT   Plan for $1.30 a Day Un. derground Pay May Be Reiected

Fines for Not — Working Arouse Union Leaders   "Brutal Application of Economic Sanctions’, Lewis Declares   Ickes Says Men Must Pay ~ $1.00 a Day for idleness

STRIKERS ARE FINED; LEWIS ANGER FLARES   ANOTHER STOPPAGE THREATENED IN COAL FIELDS

Threat of mine strike   John L. Lewis denounces fine order of Ickes

ICKES’ FINES MAY CAUSE NEW STRIKE   Fuel Administrator Promises To Impose $1 a Day For Last Strike In Coal Bielde q   Lewis Storms Over News

BOARDS RELEASE VOLUNTEERS FOR NAVY “ MARINES   State Director Notifies Board: That Registrants May Be Giver Opportunity To Enlist In Tw Branches Of Service.

BINGO 4th JULY AMEND COMPANY STORE Benefit Civilian Defense   RENRPPEPTT Hance

ALBANIA IS SAID TO HAVE QUIT WAR   NEW PUPPET GOVERNMENT REPORTED SET UP WITH CONSENT OF GERMANY.

Vegetable Price Ceiling Demanded   Florida Group Asks Quick Action

RAILROADS OF NATION UNDER ARMY CONTROL   Workers Get Wags Increase, Pay Vacations

President Orders Immediate Taking  Over Of Railroad:   Declares Such A Move ‘Essential To Prosecution Of The War'—17 Of 20 Unions Had Abandoned Plans For Strike

Army Control Supervisory, lt ls Believed   Operation to Go On Under Present Management, Rail Executives Expect

AIR ATTACKS ON U. S. CITIES THREATENED BY NAZIS AFTER BERLIN BLASTED BY ALLIES

[Allied Armed Forces, Civilians ni Nations*Over World Pause’ To Observe Feast of Easter. -

Airmen Pound Bases in France   Daylight Activities Follow Night Raids

Air Raiders Batter Nazis   Northern France Hard Hit In Plane Attacks

Montreal City Clerks Strike   White Collar Employes Halt Work In Demand For  Wage Increase.

CRUISER HELENA FOUGHT TO LAST   SEVERAL JAP SHIPS SUNK BEFORE YANK VESSEL GOES DOWN

FORD IS NEARING SOTH BIRTHDAY   Naval Personnel at Schoo! He Established Stage Party for Him

Defense Line Of Cormans North Of Volturno T otters   Fifth Army Smashes Ahead —British Land Behind German Line   STEADY PROGRESS BY ALLIES REPORTED

SOVIET ARMY _ PUSHES AHEAD   FIFTH ARMY RUSHING REINFORCEMENTS ACROSS RIVER AND CAIRO RADIO CLAIMS GERMANS HAVE , ALREADY LOST BATTLE ON THE PATH TO ROME. —-RUSSIANS ON OUTSKIRTS GF KIEV IN FIERCE BATTLE.   Ry INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

OF VOLTURNO   British Troops Put Ashore Under Guns of Royal Navy

YANKS AIDED BY LANDING NORTH OF VOLTURNO   British Troops Put Ashore Under Guns of Roval Navy

PICKETS LEAVE BOMBER PLANT   Threat Of Shutdown At Ford Works Ends Sunday Night

Labor Unions’ Break Widens   CIO And A. F. of L. Far “Fron Goal Of: Unity: ° ; Murray ‘Speaks

Rift Between John L. Lewis-UMW and CIO Appears Wider Than Ever Today

Further Delivery Of Gasoline To East In Tank Cars Banned   Railroads Ordered To Use Such Cars Only For Transportation Of Fue! Oil

Bolstered Russians Check Desperate German Thrust, Start Flanking Movement

FEDERAL OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION ORDERS CONSERVATION OF ALL ~ TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT

Bolivia Wants U.S. Recognition   Secretary of State Hull Wants Situation Cleared

Hull Queries  Bolivian Coup   Secretary Asks [f “Outside Influence Unfriendly To Allies’ Present.

Talk Plain To Bolivia   Must Know If Any ‘Outside Unfriendly Influence” At Work—Hull

Who Backed  Revolution,  Hull Queries   U.S. Interested to Know Of Outside Influence in Bolivia

HULL TO SCAN INFLUENCES IN LA PAZ COUF   Seys U.S. Concerned Whether An: ‘Quiside Influences Unfriendl; to Allies’ Involved

A9 Persons Die In Ftre In Houston   Worst Holocaust In City’s History

HOTEL FIRE © AT HOUSTON . TRAPPED 49   WOUNDED WAR VETERANS REPORTED AMONG VICTIMS OF FIRE IN DOWNTOWN. CU. OHOBTGN’ i

MANY KILLED INLEAP FROM FIRE ESCAPE   Wounded Soldiers Among Victims   BODIES STACKED   ee ae  Holocaust Worst In City’s History

DE GAULLE EAGER TO GO   French Group Says He Wants to See Giraud Soon.

DIRECT ROUTE TO JAPAN IS BEING OPENED   CAPTURE AIR BASES IN GILBERTS TO PRESS ATTACK

}  [Dome Of Hlinois Statehouse To Become  I Booby Trap For Birds

Plan Board To Push Airports   Preliminary Procedure To Carry Out New Aeronautics Law Already Worked Out  Torkelson Reveals In Interview

JAPANESE CRUISER BOMBED OFF RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN   Hit by Big Bomb

Nip Warships Hit By More Allied Bombs   Cruiser, Merchant Ship Damaged In Convoy Off Rabau

U. S. Bombers Score Hit on Jap Cruiser   Large Merchantman Also Reported Heavily Damaged

JAP CRUISER IS BADLY DAMAGED BY DIRECT HIT   Large Enemy Merchantman Is Also Attacked By Catalina Planes   AERIAL BLOWS ARE SWAPPED IN PACIFIC

U. S. Plane Scores Direct Bomb Hit On Jap Cruiser In Attack On Rabaul

Bombers Batter Bonis Airdrome   CATALINA PATROL PLANE RIPS MERCHANTMAN WITH 500-POUND BLASTS; LIBERATORS SMASH AIRFIELD ON BUKA ISLAND OFF BOUGAINVILLE

Lorge Merchantman Also Reported as Bombed ©  ZEROS DESTROYED - IN RAID ON BUKA  Marines and Soldiers in Ciash With Bougain-ville Patrols

BOMBER HITS JAP: CRUISER:      New Raid. on. “Rabaul ‘Area Staged ‘Saturday. According ‘to Report — Liberators Batter Bonls ‘Airdrome Near BRourainville. i

Jap Cruiser, Cargo Ship Hit by Allies   Attacks Made On Convoy Vessels At Rabaul: New Guinea Air Base Is Knocked Out At Least Temporarily

PATROL BOM3ER SCORES HIT ON JAP GRUISER   New Raid on- Rabaul A‘reas Liberators  Pound Bougain enlla ‘

Allied Fliers Score Hits on Pair of Japanese Vessels   Airmen Strike at Two Convoys in Region Near Rabaul; Cruiser Is Badly Smashed, Merchantman Struck Amidships

Allied Planes Hit Jap Cruiser In Rabaul Area   Marines. Soldiers Clash With Patrols On Bougainville

JAP CRUISER HIT BY BOMB NEAR RABAUI   Large Foe Cargo Ship Also Damaged by Yank Flyers

JAP CRUISER HIT SQUARELY IN BOMB RAID   AMERICANS TANGLE WITH ENEMY AT AUGUSTA BAY

Catalina Scores Direct Hit On  Jan Cruiser   Liberators Batter Bonis Airdrome With  ft Tana af Bae ha

ALLIED FLIERS RAKE JAPANESE   Aerial Thrusts Constitute Major Action In Pacific

Large Merchant Ship Also Hit —   Patrols Clash In Bougainville Area

BOMB HITS JAP CRUISER; VESSEL BADLY DAMAGEL   1,000-Pounder Lands on Stern of Ship Off Rabaul, Penetrates Armor and Explodes Inside.   LARGE MERCHANTMAN IS STRUCK AMIDSHIPS                               on Enemy at Buka—Yanks Clash With Patrols at Augusta Bay.

Direct Hit Is Scored On Jap Cruiser   Bomb Explodes Amidship During Attack Made By Catalina Bomber In Rabaul Area

DIRECT HIT SCORED BY PATROL PLANE ON JAP WARSHIF   Light Cruiser, Merchant Vessel Damaged By Bombs

HIT SCORED ON JAP GRUISER IN RABAUL SECTOR   Liberators Batter Bonis Field With 51 Tons Of Explosives

Catalina Scores Direct Hit On  Nippen Cruiser   Liberators Batter Airdrome of Bonis Near Bougainville

WHISKY HOARDING SHOWN BY SURVE\   Inspectors Found 74,000 Quarts in Back Rooms of Stores

Face Heavy Docket   WHISKY HOARDING SHOWN BY SURVEY   Inspectors Found 74,000 Quarts in Back Rooms of Stores

Says Talk Of Not Paying Federal Debt Non  Proposes 100- Year Plan To Pay Off Debt Of U.S

{00-YEAR PLA} RORPAYINGWAR DEBT PROPOSEL   Tax Spokesman for National Association of Man_ ufacturers Suggests $22,000,000,000 Annual Levy Budget

Propose 100-Year’Plan For Repayment ‘Of Huge War-Swollen National Debt

Open Hearth Strike ~ Ends At Johnstowr  Bethlehem Steel Worl Stoppage Abruptly Ends

New Scale Nets Growers More, Officials Say:   Transportation, Package Costs May Be Added By Revised Rule -

OPA TO ALLOW PACKAGING AND HAULING COSTS   Adds 64 To 72 Cents Te Originally Announced Ceilings   GROWERS CALL RALLY   Week’s Delay to be Asked At Meeting Tomorrow Afternoon

Shoots Man in Back; Steals Four Automobiles and Two Trucks; Ends 25-Mile Ride with His Quiet Surrender to Grove City Police; Venango County Resident; to be Given Mental Test, Says Venango District Attorney.

Plant Guard Goes Berserk At Franklin   Motorist Shot in Back During Wild One-Man Outbreak in Venango Co.  STEALS FOUR MACHINES

FIVE ALLIED VESSELS LOST ’ OFF AUSTRALIA   Nip Subs Take Toll Ground Action Flares

Allies Lose Five Vessels To Jap Subs  New Gain Is Made  In Salamaua Region

‘PAY-GO' ISSUE STILL MUDDLED   Conference Group Again Is Unable To Agree

No Tax Accord. Yet In Sight   Senate-House .Group ° Recesses To: Monday

FOURTEEN MEN ARE  KILLED IN CRASH  TWO U. 5. BOMBERS BELIEVED ACCIDENT  RESULTED FROM COLLISION IN MID.AIR

14 Men Killed InCrashof Two Bombers   Reported Collision la  mwnmretbeunam ta   Reported Collision Investigated by Board of Officers

Gastonian Killed As Two Bomhers Collide   Sgt. John B. McFalls, 25, Son Of Mr. And Mrs. Fred McFalls Of Gastonia, Among 14 Army Fliers Killed As Planes Crash To. gether Near Newberry, S. C.

14. Men Die In Crash Of Two Medium Bombers   Craft On Routine Training Flight Frow Florida Wrecked In South Carolina

Many Dead In Plane Crashe:   Two Bombers Collide Ir South Carolina, One Crashes In Hlinois.

Medium Bombers Crash. 14 Killed  Machines Believed To Have Collided: Seven Die In Illinois Mishap

14 KILLED AS  BOMBERS CRASH  IN SO. CAROLINA BELIEVED CAUSED  WHEN TWO PLANES  GOLLIDED IN AIR

FOURTEEN ARMY FLYERS KILLED AS BOMBERS COLLIDE   Planes Crashed on Farr Near Newberry, S. C. Late Yesterday; List ot Victims Announced.

14 MEN ARE KILLED IN TWO PLANE CRASHES   Two Army Medium Bomber: Fell on a Farm Near Newberry, S. C.

14 Men Killed In Crash of 2 Army Planes   South Carolina Tragedy Occurs During Flight From Tampa —

25 KILLED It TRIO OF ARM} PLANE CRASHES   Collision. of Two Medium Bombers In South Carolina Kills 14 Army Men   2 OTHER CRASHES   Seven Lose Lives In Crackup of Twin-Engine Plane   In Uinois—Four Die  In Mass. Crash

21 Soldiers Die in Separate Plane Crashes Last Night   Clinton, Ill., and Greenville, S. C., Scenes  Two Tragedies ~~

14 Killed in Crash  Of 2 Army Bombers   Planes Are Believed to Have Collided in Mid. Air on Training Flight From Tampa—Mishap Occurs on South Carolina Farm.

JAPANESE DISASTER IN BATILE OF BISMARCK SEA HAS LOOSENEL HOLD SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA

Jap Grip on Area Loosened   Called Setback Of Strategical Significance

The War Today  ys VuUuYy   ‘Jap Setback in Bismarck Sea ' Shows Allied Air Suneriority

Gienn Babb says . Growing Allied Air Power Menaces Jap Island Hold

‘Japanese Grip on Southwestern Pacitic Loosened By Disastrous Convoy Battle in Bismarck Sea

Reds Isolate Crimea Area   Nazi Army Trapped By New Advance In South

SALAMAUA IS CAPTURED BY ALLIED TROOPS   While* Pincers Tighten On Lae Eighteen Miles Away; Japs Attack Morobe With Slight Damage.   Operate From Wau

Allies Capture Isle Base  Of Salamaua   Japs Flee Toward Lae and Trap; Abandon ‘Materiel

Pincers on Lae Tightened by New Air Blows   Troops Pursue Enemy Forces: Isolated  Jap Air Base at Vila  Is Heavily Bombed

Allied Pincer Against Lae Is Tightened Further, Makassar Bombed Again

ALLIED FORCES TAKE SALAMAUA   Japanese Flee To North, But Another Trap Is Waiting At Lae

Salamaua Sea Base Captured By Allies  Closing Grip On Objec tive In New Guinea

LAE SQUEEZED BY PINCERS OF ALLIED FORCES   Planes Heavily Bomb Dock Avea, Barracks At Makassar

Pincer Move on Lae Is Tightened   Smashing Blows Delivered on Enemy From Air

BY PINCERS OF ALLIED FORCES   Planes Heavily Bomb Dock Area, Barracks At Makassar

BOMBS RAINED ON GERMANY $ ARMS CENTER   *LYING FORTRESSES LEAD ASSAULTS ON ITALY

Allies Stage Two Mass Plane Raids   Italy And Germany Both Pounded Hard When a Bombers Attack Jndustries In Tuesday Raids

Both Messina, Duesseldorf Heavily Blastec   Nearly 900 Planes Based in Britain and Africa Give Foretaste of Greater Blows Planned for Enemy Areas

BL 0 CKBUSTERS RAINED ON WAR INDUSTRY CITY   Called Foretaste Of Air Blows Yet To Come In Campaign On  Nazi Plants   500 Planes Take Part

Dusseldorf and Italian Outposts Get Hammering  900 ni " hit ve —  os emv

Attacks Center (\n Duesseldort And Messina   2.000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Ruhr Cit: By RAF; Americans tee African Bases

RAF Lambasts _ Duesseldorf In. Smashing Drive   Over Five Two-Ton -Busters A Minute lash Armee Cantar

Nearly 2000 Tons Droppd On Nazi City   Jtalian Islands Are Subjected to Raid by Nearly 400 Planes

esseldorf Hit ith 2,000 Tons Heavy Bombs   F Gives Germans Sam le of What They Can Expect Soon   al of Nearly 900 Plane Raid Axis Munitions Centers

PARALYZING AIR BLOWS RAINED ON AXIS IN EUROPI   Five Hundred Planes Bomb Nazi Arms Center of Duesseldorf While 400 Others Raid Italian Outposts.   CRIES OF PAIN RISE FROM WEAKER PARTNER   Twenty-Seven British Bombers Lost in Attack on Ruhr City—Explosives Start Huge Fires.

WHILE AMERICAN-LED ARMADA GIVES WARNING TO ITALY; TOTAL OF 900 PLANES RAID AXIS.

NAZIINDUSTRIAL CENTER ERASED BY RAF PLANES   Italian Bases Again Rocked, Still Heavier Attacks Promised Soon

British Rain Bombs on Duesseldorf With Armada of 500 Planes; Fortresses Rock Il Duce’s Outposts

AXIS STRUCK HEAVY BLOW IN AIR RAIDS   Bombs Showered on Duesseldorf by RAF ~ + Eliges

AXIS STRUCK HEAVY BLOW IN AIR RAIDS   Bombs Showered on Dues. seldorf by RAF Fliers

Duesseldorf Pasted With Bombs   American-Led Armada Deals Italians Paralyzing Attack

Staff Rides With F.D.R. On Special   Secretary And Physician Among Party Personnel

IN ROOSEVELT PARTY   Large Group - Accompanies the esident on Tour

Troops Make Bloodless Advance In Louisiana   Gov. Sam Jones Declares Martial] Law In Plaquemines Parish

LOUISIANA GUARD GAINS ‘VICTORY   ‘Rebels’ Opposing Governor Give Ground Without Firing A Shot

Small Death Toll Seen for Holiday  Total Reported of Far Is Only 27

LIQUOR SIGN-UPS COMMENCE MONDAY   Raticning Program Effective June 1 Fisher Says

START SIGN UP TODAY FOR LIQUOR BOOKS   Application Blanks Available at Retail Stores

"44 Consumption of Meat To Fall   Will Be One Pound Less Per Month

Meat Rations For 1944 Will Be Lowered   Program Sets Figure About 11 Pounds a Person Under 1933 Total

TOKYO STATES HEAVY FIGHTING [S IN PROGRESS   Hand-to-Hand Struggles Believed Raging on Narraw Beachhead:

OPEN DRIVE ON JAP ISLES IN MID-PACIFIC   Naval Showdown May Result

Invasion OF Makin And  Tarawa Is Regarded As First Step In Mid-Pacific Drive

U. $ Troops Invade Two Jap-Held Gilbert Islands, Makin and Tarawa

U.S. INVASION OF GILBERTS IN OPENING PHASE   Hand To Hand F Fighting With. Japanese Believed  Raping

BATTLE JAP DEFENDERS IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING; FL AND PLANES AIDED LANDING

NIMITZ REVEALS LANDING MADE AT ~JAP-HELD BASES   “Moderate Resistance” at Makin But Yanks Encountered “Strong Opposition” at Tawara Base.   AUSTRALIANS CLOSE IN ON JAPS AT STELBERGC   138-Ton Attack In Seven Waves Second Strongest In District, Surpassed Only By Rabaul Attack.

Makin and Tarawa Invaded   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages Along Beaches

FLEET, PLANES COVER GILBERT ISLE LANDINGS   Heavy Fighting Reported By Tokyo After US. Invasion

25 Are Killed When  Army Plane Crashes  Transport Wrecked on a a a

Sabotage Increases  Generally in  Occupied Countries Uprising Persists  In Holland, France and Norway

Wave of Sabotage Breaks Out Anew In Occupied Area   Assassinations, Daring Guerrilla Activity Alarms Nazis

All Fear of Nazis Lost By Turkey   Nation Said To Be Ready To Fight if Hitler Invades Land

Vice-President Denies Re ports  Won't Take Over Pricing, Rationing

WALLACE DENIES CONTROL PLANS   Vice President Is Keeping Hands Off Price, Food Problems

FARM CONTROL PLAN DENIED BY WALLACE   Has Not Given Advice and Will Not, He Says

Wallace Denies Reports Of Becoming Food Czar   Vice President Says He Will Keep Hands Off Price And Ration Work

WALLACE REFUTES FOOD CONTROL TALE   Reports That He May Head OPA and WFA ts Denied by Vice President

Wallace Not Expecting To ~ Be Food Bos:   Denies Rumors of Another Super-Agency — Reports Farmers Satisfied

NORTH AFRICA RESULTS TO DEMAND US PATIENCE.  Definite Action May Require Months   Once ina Lifetime

THE WAR TODAY   Situation In Attica Is Largely One Of Preparation, Acual Results Can Not Be Expected For Nigh On To A Spell Yet

Hepes Of Early Victory In Africa Dispelled By Problems Of Supply

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   High Praise for American Pilots and Bombardiers

GERMANS ADMIT ARMY'S DEFEAT AT STALINGRAD   ) Forces Commanded by Mar. shal Paulus ‘Overwhelmed’! ‘Heroic Defense’ Aired

Nazis Admit Loss of Army At Stalingrad  Commanding Office: Captured As Reds Continue Liquidatior

REDS WIPE OUT NAZI FORCES AT STALINGRAD   Marshal Paulus, Newly Promoted 13 Other German, Two Rumaniar Generals Captured   PRAISED BY BERLIN   Russians Continue Drives on Voronezh Front and in Caucasus Sectors

BERLIN CLAIMS FIELD MARSHAL BADLY WOUNDED   Fuehrer’s High Command Contends Another Nazi Group In North Stalin grad Still Holds Out   WHEREABOUTS OF PAULUS NOT CLEAR   ‘Fighting Continues With Undiminished Violence” On Other Fronts, Berlin Says

Berlin Admits Reds’ Victory   Nazis Praised For Stand At Stalingrad; Force Still Hokdine Out

FIELD MARSHAL AND T5 GENERALS CAPTURED   240,000 Of 330,000 Who Attacked Last Summer Buried . In Frozen Sod

Siege Force Of 330,000 Almost Liquidated By Russians; Field Marshal And 15 Generals Held   210,000 Germans Buried In Frozen Sod Between Volga And Don Rivers; Thousands More Are Prisoners Of Red Army

Hitler Makes Four New Field Marshals. .. ..  Germans Admit Sixth Army “Overwhelmed”

OTHER FORCES STILL ACTIVE, BERLIN SAYS   Field Marshal, 15 Generals Are Captured   240,000 DEAD   At Gates Of Great City; Many Planes, Tanks, Guns Held As Booty

Senate Passes Modified Skip AYear Jax Bill   Measure Back to House;-Body Rejects George Proposal

MODIFIED RUML TAX BILL VOTED   Skip - a - year Abatement Income Levy Plan Passes, 19-30

Senate Passes Bill to Abate Full Year's Tax   Lower of Either 1942 Or 1943 Levies Voided ‘Windfalls’ Excepted  49 TO 30 BALLOT Bill Is Sent Back  To House to Compose Differences in Plans

‘Skip-Year’ Plan Passes In Senate ©  Modified Bill Is Sent Back   Modified Bill Is Sent Back  To Lower House

MacArthur Bolsters Position for New Britain Invasion   Allies Capture Sattelberg Plateau; Many Japs Slaughtered

Aussies Capture Key Plateau   New Guinea Position Is Strengthened For New. Britain Invasion.

AUSSIES CAPTURE GUINEA PLATEAU IN LATEST FIGHT   Australian Troops Followe: Tanks As Far As The:  _ Could Go And Stormed Sat telbere Friday

Victory Places MacArthur Forces in Position for Invasion of New Britain

New Guinea Plateau Seized  Australian Force ELE tJ. tftaet. A ck

AUSSIES TAKE SATTELBERG TO COMMAND GULF   Japs Slaughiered or Driven Out ir Three-Pronged Aifack on Moun: tain Ridge   TWO CRUISERS HIT   One Probably Destroyed, Second Perhaps, MacArihur's Report Report Reveals

First Major Blow Since Finschhafen. .. . .  MacArthur Men Take ‘ital Sattelberg Hill

j ; ;  Aussies Fake Sattelberg To Stfengthen Allies’ New Guinea Positions

HIGH PLATEAU   Storm Sattelberg, Kill Japs In Dugouts, Chase Others Into Jungle.

Capture Of New Guinea Base Strengthens Allied Position. For Invasion Of New Britain   Capture of Sattelberg Gives Forces Of MacArthur Control of High Plateau

DRIVE JAPS FROM JUNGLE HEIGHTS IN NEW GUINEA   FALL OF SATTELBERG OPENS INVASION ROAD TO NEW BRITAIN ISLE

Sattelberg Is Captured After 9-Day Drive   Jungle Plateau Nea: Huon Gulf  Stormec Successfully By Unit: Of Australians

M’ Arthur Commands Plateau   Aussies Wrest Strategic Position from Japs In New Guinea

Australian Capture Of Sattelberg Sets Stage For MacArthur To Hit New Rritain

Allies Take Sattelberg   Japanese Driven From High Jungle Plateau In Brilliant Attack

ALLIES TAKE HIGH PLATEAU FROM JAPANESE   MacArthur’s Men Capture Equipment In Island Drive

Australians Capture Vital Island Hill   Sattelberg Dominate: Huon Gulf of  New Guinea

Japs Driven Out Of Strong New Guinea Position   High Jungle Plateau Is Wrested From Enemy In Major Victory

STRATEGIC HILL OUTLOOK FALLS TO AUSTRALIANS   ‘Aussies’ Capture Sattleberg on New Guinea Coast

YORKTOWN BLAST COSTS SIX LIVES: DAMAGE I$ SLIGHT   Historic Virginia City Rocked by Explosion of Mine Denot

Six Dead in Naval Mine Depot Blast   More Than Twenty Injured and Extensive Damage at  Yorktown, Va.

Yorktown Naval Mine Depot Blast Takes Six Lives   20 To 30 Injured As Explosives Warehouse of Plant Blows Up

U.S. Navy Mine Depot! Blast Kills at Least Sixes Iniures 20 to 30

SIX KILLED IN EXPLOSION AT ‘YORKTOWN BASE      Explosives Warehouse Blows Up. Score Injured — Blast Heard Many Miles

OCCUPIED ITALY   Benito Today Proclaimed Himself Head of New Government.   PARTY NAME NOW IS REPUBLICAN FASCIST   Orders Execution of All So-called Traitors to Fascism.

MUSSO ‘SAWDUST CAESAR’, TRIES COMEBACK TRIAL   Duce’s Escape Is Empty Victory, As Mobs Riot, Troops Fight Germans.

Stalin Announces Fall Of Nezhin; Reds Drive On Toward Dnieper River   ci His Ghost--Proclaims Again

RED ARMY OPENS IN LOWER RUSSI   Jap Supply Line to Cape Gloucester Believed Cut By Aerial Blockade.

REDS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE IN WHITE RUSSIE   Initiative Regained by Soviets in Kiev Salient Where Nazi Campaign Fizzled Out,

Reds Launeh New Drive On Germans   Berlin Says Russians Have Regained Initiative

Soviets re gain Kiev initiative, enter Comnduk 3 in Vitebsk. drive

RED ARMY OPENS NEW OFFENSIVE IN WHITE RUSSIA   Soviets Also Closing Ring Around German Base at Vitebsk

RUSSIANS BEGIN NEW OFFENSIVE   Drive Revealed by German ~ High Command Report

New Drive  is Launched '.” "By Russians   Soviet Army, Regains The  Initiative In The Kies  “Salient; Nazi Attack Fizzles Out

Maximum Retail  Prices Put on Fish  See OPA Effort to End Work Stoppage

RETAIL CEILING IS SET ON FISH   New Limitations Go Into Effect Thursday; Strike Reduces Supply

Palermo, Sicily Heavily Bombe   Allied Planes Make Attack On Harbor—Many Fires Started  (BULLETIN i

STOCKS LOSE UNDER PROFIT CASHING   Many Leaders That At tempted to Advance Slip Into Minus Columns

Ceilings On Four Fresh _ Vegetables   Margins. of. Profit. to- Be Limited: Under New OPA Order   ACTION IS TAKEN TO. RELIEVE SOUEEZE   Order ‘Applies to Cabbage, Carrots, Spinach and: Snap: Beans :

Price Ceiling Being Clamped On Vegetables   Cabbage, Carrots, Snar Beans, Spinach in Six States Affected by Order Issued by OPA

$35 Ton Ceiling Set On Cabbage By OPA Friday   Other Vegetables Are Fixed For Firs Time To Relieve  Dealers

Vegetable Shipping Ceilings Are Set  OPA Order Goes Into Effect Saturday tn Six States

GIRAUD NOW IN WASHINGTON ON WAR CONFERENCE   Settlement Of Martinique Matter Might Coincide With Visit

GIRAUD ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON   Observers Believe Martinique Question May Be Cleared Up

GIRAUD ARRIVES FOR TALKS; MARTINIQUE STATUS MAY CHANCE   French Commander In North Africa Visits Washington; Expect Tangled Situation To Be Settled

ALLIED BOMBERS KEEP UP ATTACKS ON JAP BASES   Single Plane Scores Direct Hit on 4,000-ton Boat.

New Guinea Is Blasted Five Straight Days   Allied Airmen Keep Up Hard - Pounding Of Area In Aid Of Ground Troops

OPERATOR SPLIT EXPECTED 10 OCCUR AGAIN   One State Operator Would Sign Contract Now

LEWIS SCHISN OF 9 YEARS AGO AGAIN BOBS Ut   Employs Strategy of 1941 In Reaching Separate Agreements With Mine Operators   SOUTH STANDS PAT   One Terms Reported Pennsytvania Pact As Grab For Price Advantage

1,000 TONS DUMPED ON NAZI CENTER   Expect Italian Garrison to Give  Ln Under Pounding

ISLAND GARRISON FACES SURRENDER   Mediterranean ‘Ste p ping Stone’ May Follow Lead Of Pantelleria

LARGEST FORCE OF 4-ENGINED BOMBERS MAKES 53RD RAID   2000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Rhine Metal and Munitions Works

MORE DEAD FOR NAZIS TO BURY   Reds Beat Back New German Counter-Thrusts Above Novorossisk

Germans Launch New Counter-Drives   Russians Claim  Moves Repulsed

NAZIS LAUNCH NEW COUNTERATTAGKS NEAR NOVOROSSIS}   An Attempt Is Being Made te Relieve Their Besieged Forces.   EVERY ATTEMPT FAILED   German Forces Tried Vigorously to Regain the Initiative.

td  Nazis Start New Drive at _ Novorossisk   Vigorous Bid to Regain Initiative Crushed, Soviets Report

Nazi Counter Drive Beaten, Reds Declare   Artillery Pounding Concentrations of German Reserves

Germans Launch New Counterdrive:   Russians Say Every Attack Northeast of Novorossisk: Fails

GERMANS’ COUNTER ATTACK SMASHED ° BY SOVIET FORCES   Vigorous Nazi Drives Northeast of Novoressisk Defeated by Russian Artillery   on

REDS REPULSE COUNTER BLOWS BY GERMANS   Infantry, Artillery Throws Nazis Back

SIDES CHOSEN IN TAX SCRAF   Republican, Democratic Tax Chief Indulge in  Preliminary Bout

Democrats, GOP Swap Oral! Blows On Tax Proposals   Arguments Thrive With Showdown Due Next Week

Pope fo Flee ltaly, Report   Allies Said to Be Seeking Pontiff's Removal to America

Biggest Task In Southwest - Pacific Begun   Arawe Scene of Landing By Americans After Record Aerial Attack

Allies Develop Flanking Attack  On Japanese   Final Drive Made To Oust Enemy from Papuan New Guinea

ALLIES REPORT PAPUA ADVANCE   Jap Warship Believed Sunk By Torpedo Planes

ALLIES DEVELOP FLANKING ATTACK ON SANANANDA PT.   Airmen Believe They Have Accounted for Another Enemy Cruiser.

FINAL DRIVE AT JAPS 1§ PREPARED IN NEW GUINE!   ‘American Army Divisions Are Steadily Closing In on Ene emy Positions Near Sananhanda.   680 JAPANESE PLANES DESTROYED TO DATE   Clouds Prevent Flyers To DeDetermine Extent of Loss In Bomb Raid of Minda and New Georgia.

UNION MINERS IN STATE IDLE   Other U.M.W.: Members in This ‘Section’ of U.S. Also “Staying Away..From.: Pits

African Airmen Bomb Sicily In  Terrific Attacks   Messina and Palermo Blasted In Combined RAF-U. S. Operations

SICILY “UNDERGOES ANOTHER 24 HOURS OF HEAVY BOMBING   Enemy Believes Invasion Of Island Will Take Place In’ Near ' Future

SICILY 1S BOMBED FROM END 10 END DURING 24 HOURS   African Air Force Continues  Terrific Offensive—ital— iang Take Big Pound-

Allies Rip Sicily ‘With Bomb Hail   ‘SOFTEN UP ITALY’S OUTER DEFENSES AS GIANT BOMBERS POUR HIGH EXPLOSIVES ON AXIS BASES; MESSINA, PALERMO ROCK

BOMB SICILY STEADILY FOR 4 HOURS   Island Raked from EndtoEnd By . Allied Air Forces 

Sicily Bombed From End to End In 24 Hours   Daylight Offensive Paced by Fortress  Attanko an Dalarwmn

OWI WARNS COAL  MAY BE SCARCE  BEFORE SUMMER SAYS STOCKS MUST  BE REPLENISHED TO AVERT CATASTROPHE

Shortage Of Coal Is Near Catastrophe   Progressive Shortage Throughout Year Causes Serious Situation   STOCKPILES DECLINING

Warns Of Coal ‘Catastrophe’ Unless Stocks Replenished   OWI. Reports Shortage Is Acute; Delivery Troubles Hit Consumers

Nation Not Digging as Much Coal As It Is Using; °43 Shows Progressive Shortage.

Warns Of Coal ‘Catastrophe’   Delivery Troubles Hit Consumers Along With Short Sunnlv.

OWI Warns Fuel Shortage ‘Growing Acute   “Catastrophe” Seen In "44 Unless Coal Supplies Built Up

COAL STOCKS MUST  BE BUILT UP TO HALT CATASTROPHE   >. W. I. Reports More Coal Is Being. Consumed Than Is Be ing Dug—~Bins Must- Be. Replenished By Next Summer

Shortage of Coal Grave, OWI Reports   “Catastrophe” Predicted Unless Stocks Replenished; Distribution Hits Consumer:

Coal Shortage Gr owing Acute.  Reports . OWI   Output Of Mines Is Less Than Amount Used And Stockpiles Are Below Last Year’s Level

Fuel Catastrophe Faced By Nation Is OWI Warniné   Declares U. S. Coal Stocks Must Be Replenished; Trouble In Deliveries

Nation's Coal Pile Nearing Danger Point   Stockpiles Rapidly Being Consumed as Production Decreases

Coal Shortage Growing Acute Says Washingtor   Demand in 1944 To Exceed Output Says OWI Report

Coal Scarcity - Grows Acute   Replenishing Of’ “Stocks By Next- Summer Seen-' As Only Solution

Critical Coal Shortage Next Year  Predicted If Output Is Not Raised’

COAL SUPPLY SERIOUS, OWI REPORT SAYS   Nation Facing Severe Shortage

Coal Shortage  Called Acute  Supply Being Used Bactiar Than Minad

Coal Situation Will “Approach Catastrophe”  » Unless Stocks Are Replenished, O. W. I. Warns

Fuel ‘Catastrophe’ Warning Issued by Federal Officials   Coal Stocks Must be Replenished, OWI Announces Today

Diminishing Stock Piles Indicate Real Coal Shortage Coming In 1944

Willkie Pleads for Goodwill as Check On Probable Worldwide Chaos When War Ends: Address Church Meet

Critical Period to Follow War   Willkie Airs Views _at Church Meet

SENATE TO VOTE MONDAY ON BAN OF FARM DRAFT   Liberalizing of Parity Price Structure Near House Showdown

BOMBER RACES AGAINST DEATH TO SAVE-CHILD   Package OF Penicillin Is Rushed To Georgia Tot, Near Death; Editor Obtained Drug

Jap, U.S. Civilian  Exchange Possible  Hope Is Held for - Second Transfer  a i See

Civilians May Be Exchanged   Negotiations Between U. S. and Japan Underway, Announced

New Exchange Of Captives by U.S., Japs Seen   State Department Is Hopeful of Swapping Civilian ‘Prisoners ~

American-Jap Prisoner Exchange Hinted; 1500 Civilians Are Affected

U.S. and Japs Plar  Civilian Exchange   1500 Americans May Be Returned Soon

JAPAN SEEKING SECOND TRADE OF NATIONALS   Proposes: Exchange of Approximately 1500 American Civilians for Equal Number Nips‘   PLANS BEING MADE   State Department En deavoring to Locate Japs in U. §. Tokyo Desires to Repatriate

Japs May Agree To Exchange of 1500 Civilians   Propose to Trade U. S. Citizens for Japanese Held Here

U, S., JAPAN TO FREE PRISONERS   1.500 American Civilians May Be Exchanged tn Near Future

SPECIAL FRIDAY-SATURDAY Roses 50c per Dozen. JOHNSTON THE FLORIST.  veces

RAF DUMPS TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON LEIPZIG ‘WHILE DIVERSIONARY FORCE BOMBS BURNING BERLIN

WERS 1,50 TONS OF BOMBS ON CITY   Mosquitoes Visit Berlin; Half of Capital Reported in Ruins -

Nazi Defenses. Crossed Up by Feint at Berlin   German Railway Center Blasted By RAF Assault -

Powerful RAF. Bomber Forces Attack Leipz   Huge Amount Of Bombs Dropped On German In-  dustrial Center    HALF OF BERLIN REPORTED IN RUINS

Best Paid Unemployed Man in World: Italy’s  Minister of Colonies

CIVILIANS TO EAT   Have Been ‘Allotted 75 Per Cent of Fiscal Year’s Food Output

Civilians to Receive 75 Per Cent Of Nation's Food Output, FDR Says

CIVILIANS TO GET THREE-FOURTHS OF FOOD PRODUCTION   CURRENT DOMESTIC FOOD SHORTAGES NOT DUE TO LEND-LEASE

75 Pct. of  Food for Home Use   Roosevelt Tells Amounts Allocated in His Report on Lease-Lend Aid   ABOUT 10 PER CENT OF FOOD TO ALLIES   Axis People Need Not Fear Surrender, He Says; Much Aid to Russia

CIVILIANS GET MOST OF FOOL   Home Front Americans Allocated 75 Per Cent of Food Production.

Civilians Will ‘Get Less Food   President Reports On Lend-Lease Volume

Civilians To Get 75 Per Cent Of U. S. Food Production For Year, FDR Says

Civilian Food Supplies Cut By Lend Lease   President Makes His Report on Aid to World

Civilian Food  Share Reduced   Allocate 75 Percent Of Production—-Equal To 193539 Average.

75% OF FOOD TO CIVILIANS   Present Shortages Not Due To Lend-Lease, FDR  Asserts

Civilians Get 75 Per Cent Of Food Supply   U. S. Armed Forces And Lend-Lease Will Share Most Of Remainder Of Food Output

Civilians To Get 73% OFU.S. Food  Increased Consumption A ntod In Natinn

U.S. Will Get Majo Food Run   ROOSEVELT DECLARES LEND-LEASE BLAMELESS IN FOOD SHORTAGE

U. 5. to Get 75 Per Cent Food   That Allocation Is Made to Civilians Roosevelt Says

CIVILIANS GET MOST UF FOOD SUPPLIES   Shortage Not Due To LendLease, Says Roosevelt

CIVILIANS TO GET 75 PER GENT OF U. S. FOOD FOR FISCAL YEAR, ROOSEVELT SAYS

Three-fourths Of Food ; Produced In America Is To Go To Civilians

Civilians Will Get 75 Percent _ OF Food Soon   FD Makes Report On Lend-Lease

¢o Per Cent Of Nation’s Food Supply To Be \Allocated To U. S. Civilians. Save FD. BR.

Civilians Get 15 Per Cent Of U.S. Food   FDR Report Says Shortages Due to Increased Service, Home Consumption

German Defense System Totters; Allies Advance.   Nazis Give Hint Of Fears When Fresh  Division Riched In

Eighth Advances 5 Miles As Yanks Threaten Flank   Nazi Defenses Totter In Italian Theater

Nazi Lines Are Toftering   British Take Defense Key, Yanks Capture Venafro

5th Threatens Right Hank of German. “a  “eo .  se ae 5 “ . . 22 glee \ ay a ti 4 Or ‘0 ation ~ Danger  ~ xs uany Advar $

ROMMEL LINE   British Eighth Army Makes Five-Mile Advance   TAKES KEY CITY   Americans Advance into Mountain Behind Vena. fro; May Flank Nazis

FIFTH, EIGHTH ARIES WAKE “CTEANY GAINS   British Smash Ahead for Five Mile Advance, Yanks Take Venafro.

VENAFRO AND VASTO TAKEN IN NEW GAIN   Fresh Nazis Fail to I . : Halt Americans in  Victory Drive

YANK - BRITISH DRIVES SHOCK GERMAN FORCES   American Fifth Army Threatens Whole Nazi Right Flank by Capture of Venafro—   EIGHTH ARMY STABS AHEAD FIVE MILES   Some 15 Towns and Villages Taken by Allies; Germans Pin New Line  on Towering Aurunci

GERMANS’ LINE WAVERS UNDER HARD POUNDING   American Fifth Army Menaces Whole Right Flank of Foe in Italy

Strategic Venafro Falls To Clark’s Forces; German Flank Threatened

Germans Reel Before Allied March   Americans Threater Right Flank, British Make Gains

Nazi Defenses in Italy Are Tottering  Fifth Army Takes Strategic City of Venafro

GERMAN LINE ACROSS ITALY IS TOTTERING   AMERICANS UPROOT RIGHT FLANK AT VENAFRO

ALLIES HIT NAZI LINE AT BOTH ENDS IN ITALY   Eighth Stabs 5 Miles to Take Vasto; Yanks Seize Venafro on Other Flank

STH ARMY GAINS 3 MILES; GERMAN DEFENSES TOTTER   Montgomery’s Troops Capture Vasto, Key in Enemy’s Line, in Advance Up Adriatic.   CLARK’S FORCES PUT RIGHT FLANK IN PERIL   Enemy Throws New Division Into Struggle Against Americans but Fails to Check Drive.

Nazi Defense Line Totters in Italy  Clark's Fifth Army Threatens Riah? Flank

NAZI DEFENSE LINE IN ITALY IS TOTTERING   Brittsh Gain Five Miles; Fifth Army Takes  Venafro

Adriatic to Take Nazi Defense Key   5th Drives Into Mountains; Yanks Face Easier Going

FIVE MILES. ARE GAINED AYENGLISH       Fighting Becomes Fiercer; Clark Sets Trap

TOKYO BARES RAID AGAINST PARAMUSHIRU   Liberators, Fortresses Also Hit Tsu Shima {sland In Korea Strait.   MORE ATTACKS FEARED   Jans Told By Own Radio Tha’ U. §. Has Prepared To Blast Homeland.

KURILES AND TSU SHIMA ATTACKED   Reports Not Yet Confirmed by Washington Sources

TOKYO TELLS OF ATTACK ON KURILES AREA   Warplanes Flying From Aleu{fans Aim At Paramushiru Naval Base   CLAIM THREE DOWNED   American Noose Is Tightened Around Bairoko in New Georgia

Kurile Islands Of Japan Again Bomber Targets   Tokyo Radio Reports U. 8. Bombers Make Raid On Islands Of Japan   SAYS RAIDERS CAME FROM ALEUTIANS

Dozen German Cities Left Afire After 72-Hour Raids   American Fliers Knock Down 102 Planes, Losing 32

Yankees Help  Pre-Invasion Cnftaninea TTn  Rss a © SA al 4 hey a af  Allies Open Campaign to Blast Luftwaffe From  Skies NEW TRIPLE BLOW  Munster, Coesfeld and Airficid in Holland Vedaplearl   NEW TRIPLE BLOW

Dozen German Cities Stil Smoulder From Raids   Bad Weather Brings Temporary Lull to Allied Air Offense

Americans Round Out Heaviest Day of Conflict   Yanks Shoot Down 102 Nazis; Over 800 Bagged In Six Weeks

Lull Comesin Allied ‘Air Drive After 72 Hours   -Dozen German Cities Smouider Following Attack

FATHER, YOUNG DAUGHTER, OIE IN HOME FIRE   Man’s Death Attributed To Suf focation, Child's To. Burns

Fire Fatal To Five Firemen   Two Others Trapped In Building Collapse

Six Chicago ‘Firemen Dead   They Were Trapped Under Debris of 4-Story Building

6 FIREMEN DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE   Others Trapped as Burning Building Caves in Unexpectedly

aIX FIREMEN DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE   Three Others Are Trapped Under Tons Of Debris; Four Injured

Five Firemen Die  In Chicago Blaze  Others In Hospitals Or Trapped In Debris

SK FIREMEN Dic -AT CHICAGO BLAZ   Rescue Workers Seek To Free Three Others Trapped in Debris.

Six Firemen Known Dead in Chicago   Others Trapped in Wreckage of Near North Side 4-11 Fire Early This Morning

Two More Still Are Trapped In Blazing Debris   Office-Factory On Near North Side Burns Early Today

Showdown Clash For Kiev Bulge Nearing Climax   Korosten, Strategic Ukrainian Railroad Junction, Lost By Reds

Ugg HURLING MOnE TROOPS ACROSS AWE   Step Up Offensive After Nazi Counter Drive Smash Took Korosten.

BATTLE FOR KIEV ~ IS NEAR CLIMA   Naval Forces Bombard a' Australians Chase Japs On Huon Peninsula.

REDS BOLSTER BATTLE FORCES IN KIEV BULGE   Seek To Offset Loss Of Kor osten, Strategic Rail Junction In Ukraine

FOR CRUDE OIL PRICE HIK}   Governors of 48 States to Be Asked to Help in Campaign

ISLAND BELIEVED BEING SOFTENED  BEFORE INVASION   Battleships Possibly Included in Attack 24 Hours  After Bombing of Run 4  ’ way in Main Camp Area.

BIG U.S. SHIPS JOIN HEAVIEST ” KISKA ATTACK   Paittleships Believed Part of Bombarding Force _ After Air Raid

PACIFIC WAR FINDS JAPS ACHILLES HEEL   Lack Of Supply Causes Nipponese To Abandon Kiska And Vella Lavella, Impor bBant Raecce   Counter-Attack Fails

Japanese War Machine Hit By Snapping Of Supply Lines   Abruptly Expanded Story of Defeat for War Lords  From Kiska to Salamaua Written During i" the Past Week

Week's Fight Is Disaster To Jap Troops   Allies Smash Decisively at Nipponese On Vast Front; Enemy Toll in Men, Material is Huge, Defeat Looms

Supply Problem Hampering Japan   Blamed for Defeat On Several Fronts

War Machine Of Nippon Suffering Sudden Setback   New Crisis At Salamaua Offers Insight Into Enemy Supply Problem

Supply Line Losses Hil Japs Hard  ‘Enemy Crippled From Kiske  T. Cele

GPA TARGET OF MORE CRITICISH   Enforcement Policies Are Denouneed

Election Interest at Low Ebb in Tri-Cities Area; 3 Contests Here

STATEMENT SAYS PLAN ‘TOO MUCH’   ‘Program Believed To Be Doomed; Vinson  Will Testify

Move To Oust Morganthau Grows As Rebellion Over Tax Program Spreads

REBELLION AGAINST NEW TAX PROGRAM SPREADS IN HOUSE   Leaders Say Estimate Could Be Reduced 40% If ‘Economy Were ‘ Practiced

Morgenthan’s Tax Plan Seen As ‘Foolhardy’   Leaders Of Both Parties Attack. Secretary And His Ideas . .

House Body Scores Tax Bill Of Morgenthau   Movement Seen to Get  Job; Vinson Is Montioned

Proposed Tax I Denounced By House GOP   Ways, Means Group Fa. vor Strict Economies, Pre: dict 40 Per Cent Saving   PLAN IS DOOMED   Curb On Corporation Profit Attacked By Com mittee Witness

WLB ORDERS END OF NEW JERSEY STRIKE   Controversy On Betweer Board And Union

WLB THREATENS STRIKERS ARMY MAY TAKE OVER   District 50 UMW Celanese Workers Say Will Work for Military, Not for Company

UMW, WLB AT DEADLOCK ON ‘WORK’ ORDER   Will Work For Government But Not For Company

STRIKE HEADING FOR SHOWDOWN   Developments Indicate Some Action Shortly In Celanese Walkout.

Germans Throw 150,000 Men, Many Tanks IAt Russians. Force Reds Back in Ukraine .

Russians’ Admit Germans Regait Some Territory   Nazi Counterattack Is Described as Full-Scale Offensive

COURT VACATES PAMPHLET CASE   Rutledge Takes Seat On Supreme Bench With Important Cases Pending

NEW JUSTICE BEGINS DUTIES   Rutledge Finds Self in Mid dle of Three Cases as He Takes Seat

JUSTICE RUTLEDGE TAKES COURT SEAT   New Supreme Court Jurist Finds Self in Middle of ’ Three Cases —

Rutledge In “Middle” As Tribunal Reopens      New Justice Breaks In Hard Way A: -. Three Important Cases     Arise Monday >

TWO DOWN It PACIFIC, ONE IN ATLANTIC   German U-Boat ~ Toll Mounts

Two Ships Sunk In South Pacific;  Navy Announces   Old World ‘War Vessel Goes To Bottom After Ramming U-Boat

Report by Tokyo Not Confirmed   Fourth Battleship Sent tc Bottom, Asserted by Jap anese Radio

Mortal Wounds Received By Destroyer Borie As _ Result Of Ramming   German Submarine

Defense Council OK'd By Senate   Goodland Revision Includes Women

First Panel Sent Back By Senate   Membership Of Defense Council As Revised By Gov. Goodland Wins Approval

Revised State Defense Counci Finally Okayed  Resubmitted List   Resubmitted List Includes 2 Women Members at Large

U0. FLEET TRIED TO LURE TIRPITZ WITH BOLD RAIDS   Made Daring Daylight Sorties Into Norwegian Waters Last Summer

SPEECH IS CALLED A BID FOR VOTES   Roosevelt Address Held Beginning of 4th Term Campaian

Had 4thTerm Sound, FDR RadioSpeech   CONGRESSIONAL CRITICS OF PRESIDENT COMMENT ON HIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT ADDRESS TO THE NATION,   Bid For Soldier Vote

r.U.N. Speech Plea for Vote Of Soldiers, Critics Say  Senators Smith, Taft Assail Radio Talk, SWI *3). gt. PRP oe

GOP Chieftain and Other Party Members Attack [Roosevelt for Address

MAKE CHARGE OF POLITICS   GOP CHAIRMAN .SAYS ROOSEVELTS SPEECH WAS BID FOR SOLDIERS AND ~ SAILORS’ VOTES

EN OE EKING SOLDIER BALLOT   Radio Talk Said ‘Start of Fourth Term Campaign’   OW! REQUESTED   Distribute Comment of GOP Leaders and Several Members of Congress

Speech Seen As Bid for Fourth Term   Roosevelt Talk Wooed Service Vote, Say Critics

Deny FDR is seeking  fourth term   Critics say talk showed intentions

President's Talk Called Opening Of 44 Campaign   Veterans’ Program Termed Bid for Big Soldier Ballot   OTHERS DIFFER   Spangler Demands Armed Services Be Given GOP Statement

SOLDIERS’ VOTE BID IS CHARGED   Roosevelt's Radio Talk Begins His Campaign, Says GOP Chairman

Roosevelt Speech Called Opening Of "44 Campaign   Spangler and Others Charge President Seeks Soldier Vote

JAPS BOAST OF BIG NEW OFFENSIVE   Americans Drive To Clear Nippones« Out of Aleutians

Allies Prepared to Meet Any Blow the Japs Put Out.  RUSSIANS TAKE NAZI BASE ON BLACK SEA  Stalin Is Ready to Consider Pact With Poland.

Business in State Shows Big Increase   Gulfport-Biloxi Area Second in Business Activity in December; Pascagoula-Mobile Area Is Third

STATE BUSINESS ACTIVITY JUMPS 27 PERCENT IN "42   Greenville Area Shows Better Than Average With 29°. Increase Over 1941

Year-old Lad Credited with Saving Liyes of Four.People from Flames’

Communists Support New Anti-Nazi Movement in Russia  Newspaper Expresse: Favor for Group  Seeking Democracy

EIGHT DIE IN HEAD-ON AUTOMOBILE CRASH   Investigation Pending in Penn sylvania Accident

8 DIE AS CARS CRASH HEAR-ON   Seven Burn’To Death As One Vehicle Catches  Pire

SEEK COMPROMISE ON CONSOLIDATION   Legisative Interim Commit: tee Named to Study All Phases.

Allies Attack — On All Fronts As War Rages   Start of fifth year finds Hitler’s forces on defensive on all fronts; Japs doomed, too,

Alhes Attacking On All Fronts As World Conflict Enters Fifth Years

TO INTERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS   Lieut. Frank D. Kelley Will Be Here on Wednesday, January 5.

Navy Aviation  Students Needed Officers Here Monday to Talk  — With High School  _ Seniors and Grads

ADMIRAL SAYS ROUTE CLEARED TO MOVE AHEAD   Believes Many Japs Killed in Attempt ing to Escape

Northern Route To Japan ‘Completed’   Admiral Reveals Protection Now Offeres Ships Two-Thirds Of Way To Tokyo A Result Of Kiska’s Recapture

Victory Opens Road fo Japan, Kinkaid Says 7   ‘Complete. ‘Chain ‘o of ~ Air-and Naval Bases  Protect Navy: Two-Thirds. Way to Tokyo. He Save-

Naval Action in Fog Sea Off Island Revealed; Victory Called Important   American Air Force in Aleutians Now Freed to Deliver Heavy Biows Directly at Japanese Homeland Bases

NUMBER KYELED IN AIR ASSAULTS BEFORE RETREAT   Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid Says Recapture of Island Completes Northern Read to Tokye.,   BASES *IfO FURNISH SHIPS PROTECTION   Commander Declares Whole Pacific Picture Has Been Changed by Rout of Foe From Aleutians.

Governors Urge Release of Feed   Bady Also Condemns Strikes During War

LOCAL SCOUTS To RECEIVE TRAINING   Many To Attend Camps At Fort Dod e-And Okoboji

LOCAL SCOUTS 10. RECEIVE TRAININE   Many: To Attend Camps At Fort Dod e-And). . Okébo 0

Milk Ceiling For Kansas  Again Tilted   Top Retail Price. In Hutchinson To Be 14 1-2 Cents

LIFT MILK CEILING   Price Per Quart in Law. _ rence Will Be Fourteen  Cents

Milk Prices Up Again   OPA Hopes New Ceiling Lid Will Mean Greater : Output in This Area

Ceiling Prices on Milk Are Boosted In Six States: Effective Saturday

Kansas Milk Ceiling Rises   Atchison Retail Maximum Set At 14 Cents Quart

MILK CEILINGS -TO GO HIGHER   [43-Cent Ton Allowed in This Zone Under New Rerional Schedules

CEILING PRICE ON MILK IS 14 CENTS   This Is the Top Allowed in This Zone Under New Regional Schedules.

ADDITIONAL AIR BASES CAPTURED BY AMERICAN FORCES BRITISH MEANWHILE CON,  TINUE ADVANCE TOWARI CREAT CANTANIA PORT

SYRACUSE AND KEY TALIAN DEFENSE   Planes Thwart Enemy Attempts to Stage Come-Back   MORE THAN 2,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

British Push Up East Coast on Catania Against Weak Resistance, Way Blasted Oven by Allied Airmen   U. S. WARSHIPS SUPPORT TROOPS   Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla Makes Daring Raid in Messina Strait, Two Destroyers Hold Augusta for Ground Forces   Naro Also Captured

Capture More Towns In Big  3-Way Drive   Warships Blast Catania, Goal Of British 8th Army

British Continue Thrust at Catania   Allied Warships Bombard Objectives While Planes Maintain Bombing Pade; British Based Bombers Attack Rhineland City of Aachen; Strategy Keeps Axis Guessing

General Montgomery’s Veteran Eighth Army Advances From Fallen Augusta Upon Great Seaport of Catania

British Also Speed Toward Catania Field   Heavy Guns of Fleet Pour Explosives on Invasion Targets

Weak Defense Meets British Catania Drive   RAF Bombers Blast German Industrial City Of Aachen In Night Raid.   YANK BOMBERS BUSY

Gen. Patton Commands American Ferces; News From  Ieland T-rmed “Great.”

Axis Loses 4 Defense Bases To Invaders   In All, Ten Towns Have Been Captured On Island of Sicily

British Sweep Upon Catania   Allied Armies Pressing Forward Along Whole Sicilian Front; Navy Bombards Airdromes as Planes Pound Defenders

Seventh Army Moves Forward In Sicily-Drive   British Troops Speed Ahead to Port of Catania

Americans Seize Two More Vital Bases On Island  British 8th Army Smashes Forward

Railway Town Of Naro Also Falls   Allied Warships Aid Drive With Porto Empedocle Bombardment

YANKS DRIVING: TO MEET AXIS COUNTER PUSH   Warship Guns Blaze Path for, Patton’s Men; British Menace Catania.   COMISO, PONTE OLIVO — TAKEN BY AMERICANS

TWO SICILIAN AIR BASES CAPTURED BY THE U.S. 7TH ARMY   Also Made a 15-Mile Advance Upon Agrigento, It Was Announced.   LITTLE RESISTANCE   British 8th Army Rushing Upon Catania, From Captured Augusta.

TORPEDO BOATS STRIKE INTO -MESSINA STRAIT   Push Into Catania Plain Ap. pears to Be Next. Move By the British

Syracuse, Ancient Port City, Taken By Allied Forces   War News Brighter for Avenging Forces of United Nations as They Blast at Axis Bastions

AMERICAN DRIVE MADE OVER PATH OPENED BY NAVY   British, on Other Side of Island, Dash on Beyond Augusta on to Catania   AXIS MASSING FOR STAND   Allied Warplanes Batter Enemy Positions and Slash Reinforcements

Allied Warships And Planes Join In Heavy Saturation Of Axis-Held Points

Naro Taken in Big 15-Mile Offensive, Catania Blasted   Raids On Germany Renewed by RAF; On Russian Front Germans “Retreatinge”  ' ts

Yanks Take More Bases; English Near Catania As Warships Aid Troops

SEVENTH ARMY SURGES AHEAD ON AGRIGENTO   British Famous Eighth Army Stalks Catania As Naro Falls To Yanks

American Troops Driving 15 Miles Inland Against Strong Opposition Take Rail Center   Powerful Concentration of Germans Is Reported Being Rushed to Positions Athwart the Advance Line   CAPTURE OF AUGUSTA AND RAGUSA CONFIRMED

Warships Blaze A Path For Patton’s Men; British Eighth Army Racing  Toward Catania

Two Sicily Air Bases Captured   British Continue Advance Toward Catania Seaport

U. S. Units Make 15 Mile Advance   British Rushing from Fallen Augusta  Upon Catania— Warships Pave Way for  Advancing Troops with Storm of Shells Motor Boats Penetrate Messina Strait

Red Army Attacking In Belgorod Sector; U. S. Troops Closer To Munda

Warships Sail Along Coast Blasting Path for Advancing Ground. Forces

Railway Town of Naro Also Seized By U. S. Forces   British Continue Up East Coast Toward Catania  in - Mi tie 2 .An tt “See

Reds Claim Huns Retreat with Big Losses  on Bloody Belgorod Front—U. S.—  Troops Close in on Munda After © Air Battle; Jap Escape Foiled

SYRACUSE SURRENDERS: 1,000 PRISONERS TAKEN AS 50 MORE AXIS PLANES SHOT DOWN

‘Advance 15 Miles on Flank _ Where Counter Attack: Shapes Up   RAID MESSINA STRAIT   Montgomery Finds Little Resistance to Northwar oe dvance .

BRITISH RUSH UPON CATANIA   American Troops Make 15-Mile Advance Toward Agrigento   RESISTANCE IS SLIGHT

U. S. 7th Army Driving To Meet Large Axis Force   British Eighth Army Rushing From Captured Augusta Upon Catania; Naro Falls   Axis Sources Report Fierce. Fighting All Along Sicilian Front; Allies Reinforced   Italians Report Fighting In Mountains; British Eighth Army Approaching Catania

British Also  Speed Toward.   Heavy Guns of Fleet Pour Explosives on Invasion  Targets .

US Soldiers Capture Two Sicilian Cities   British Continue Advance Up Coast Toward Catania; Heavy Fighting Reported in Progress Inland; Warships Aqain Bombard Coast

SEVENTH ARMY “SEIZES VITAL ~~ AIR CENTERS   Augusta ‘Taken, British Rush Toward Bombarded Catania On Coast

Sth Army Drives On Toward Catania, Sea Units Hit Port   Allied Motor Torpedo Boats Stage Daring Raid, Attack Enemy in Messina Strait

WAR STRATEGY “TS DISCUSSED   MILITARY. QUESTIONS SAID TO BE ‘HOLDING ‘ATTENTION ‘AT FIRST CONFER- .  ' ENCES:IN- MOSCOW

FAYETTE COUNTY WAR CHEST EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ESTABLISHES QUOTAS . FOR FALL NRIVE

SET UP QUOTAS FOR WAR CHEST DRIVE   County Quota In 922,162—Amonnts to Be Raised in Towns and Town. ships Are Listed Here

NINE MEN KILLED IN ARMY BOMBER GRASR   Names Withheld Pending Noti fication of Relatives

NINE FEARED DEAD IN BOMBER CRASH   Plane Reported Smashed Up Neard Idaho Capital

President Quezon Warns People Against Japanese Independence Promises

Air Attacks Against ‘Reich Prepare  for Invasion Soon   A Constantly Increasing Offensive Now Can Be Expected Against Those Industries Essential to the Germans

Raids-on Europe Seen. As Invasion Prelude   Aerial Attacks on German, Plants Expected To Increase in Fury and Frequency Soon

SIXTEEN MORE ENEMY SHies  'SUNK OR DAMAGED AS: RESULT OF U.S. UNDER- ~*~ SEA OPERATIONS

Subs And Planes  Continue Forays On Jap Shipping   Latest Report Reveals 16 Jap Ships Sunk Of Damaged In Pacific   MUCH AIR ACTION IN PACIFIC AREAS

Lifer Digs Way Out Of Prison At Ft. Madison   Killer Runyon A Former Member Of Barker, Gib son Outlaw Gangs.

LIFER ESCAPES AT FT, MADISON   Thomas J. Runyon, Former  Gang Member, Free

Authority Says Dam Group Has Shelved Plans for Raising Level of Flathead Lake: Discussion Continues

Temperatures To Drop Here   Hope Held Out 25 to 30 Mile-an-Hour Wind Will Abate After. Nightfall

FOURTH TERM ISPREDICTED BY SEN. HATCH   ROOSEVELT CERTAIN UNLESS WAR ENDS, SOLON CLAIMS

Hatch Backs Roosevelt for Fourth Term   Nomination ‘Inevitable’ If Nation Still at War Or Negotiating Peace  GOP LOOKS SOUTH  Wallace Reveals Plan to Get ‘Acquainted Thrauohout Country

ator Believes Inevitable  less War Ends and  ace Negotiations Are Completed   rT FINDS SOUTH {UCH DISSATISFIED   io Senator. Favors Plar  : Cooperation With emocrats Whe Want New Deal Defeated

HATCH PREDICTS EDR, WILL RUN   BELIEVES HIS RENOMINATION CERTAIN UNLESS WAR SHOULD END SOON.

Warren Plans Citizen Body o1 Tax Problems   Governor Plans to Name Experts to Map ., Course

Warren Will Name Group for Tax, Finance Probe   Fifteen-Man Committee Will Weigh Disposal of $60,000,000 Surplus

Germans Start Fires In the City   Evidently Intend to Give Up Naples to Allies, Who  Take Several Towns

Plan To Force Share - Ride In Northeastern Ohio Area, ‘No Riders- No Gas’ Order

GAS RATIONS TO BE TIGHTENED   Drivers Who Do Not Carry Full Load May Lose Supplemental Supply

BOARDS IN 18 COUNTIES MUST ENFORCE RULE   August Renewal Will Be Tougher To Get For ShareRide Noncompliance

GILMER TO ‘DIG INTO ASPHALT   Tulsa Grand Jury Will Hear Nance and Al Nichols On Monday

NAZI NAVAL WRITER. “ADMITS W-BOATS; ~ LOSING GROUND   British And Americans Are Proving Too Resourceful   ALLIES USING NEW DEFENSE WEAPONS

GAS SHORTAGE CUTS MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS      Maryland Observance Sun.  day and Monday to be   Quietest Within Recollection Most Residents   SERVICES CANCELLED   Railroads and Bus Lines  Warn Would-be Travelers  to Remain Home or Experience Delays

Memorial Day Observance Over  W eekend To Be Quictest Known   Gasoline Shortage Forces Cancellation Of Some Programs; Monday To Be Lezal Holiday

Foe Hit Hard By Yugoslavs   Germans Allude to Actions As ‘Grim Battles’

PARTISANS CUT INTO NAZI BALKAN FORCES   Berlin Admits That Yugoslav Troops Have Been Puiting Up Stiff Resistances

Slavs Cut Deey Into German Battle Lines   Major Fighting Enters Into Its Third Week

Berlin Changes Tune: Germany Now Admits Balkan Drive  By Partisan Army Is Dangerous

GERMANS ALTER VIEWS ON TITO   Grim Battles Adesitted With Claims 5,668 Slavs Are Killed

REDS REGAIN INITIATIVE ON KIEV FRONT   Reach Suburbs of Key Rail Center Of Smela

Spearhead May Be Enlarging Springboard Into Rumania; Reds Take Initiative To West Of Kiev

RUSSIANS HAVE AGAIN REGAINED ~ THE INITIATIVE   Believe Winter Springboard Into Rumania Is In the Making,

WAR VICTIM   James Montagne Killed In ’ Action In South ~~ Pacific

RON MAN-* WAR VICTIM   James Montagne Killed Ie ’ Action In South » Pacific °°

PRESIDENT CONCERNED OVER BLOF   11,000,000 to Be In Armed Forces By End of Year

VITAL oIGILIAR AALWAY EB fo BELIEVED VANER   “Located in the Geographical Center of Sicily, Enra Is Strateg-c.   CANTANIA FALL NEAR   Hermann Goering Division Fights Furiously to Save Seaport.

VITAL SIGILIAN RAILWAY HUB.IS BELIEVED TAKEN   Located in the Geographical . Center of Sicily, Enna Is Strateg:c.   CANTANIA FALI, NEAR   ‘Hermann Goering Division _ Fights Furiously to Save Seaport.

NAZIS SAY CONVOY I) AT GIBRALTAR   ASSERT .20 SHIPS ARRIVED YESTERDAY AND 65 VESSELS MAY SAIL SOON.

NAZIS REPORT CONVOY MOVES   Claim Big British Fleet Leaving Gibraltar For Mediterranean Area

Sailor Drown: At Hampton Rds.   James Roy Templeton Reported Lost

LOCAL SAILOR LOST AT SEA   ‘James Roy Templeton Is Washed Overboard At Hampton Roads

Federal Prisoners Change \PrisonGarbForArmy Khaki   roled to Go Into Service; Predicts “Lot of These Fellows Will Make Good Soldiers;” Prisons Producing.War Material

Many Prisoners Entering Army   Institutions Also Producing War Goods

Fascists Shed Faith Easily   Leaders of Party in Sicily Appear Glad To Renounce It

Oil Heiress Pens Letter To Army Officer Before Fatal N. Y. Plunge

Big Three Sei Summer as Victory Goal  Adopt Strategy’ To Set All Europe Aflame

FDR ACCUSED OF EXCEEDING INTENT OF LAW   Committee Calls for Re. peal of Executive Order Limiting Salaries

House Body Says Pay Lid Flouts Congress Intent  Motives of Roosevelt Assailed In Report Asking Repeal Of Order in Salary Ceilings

Roosevelt Goes Beyond Intent of Congress, Charge   Salary Limit Order Brings Signs of Revolt

President Is Accused Of FloutingLaw   CHAIRMAN DISNEY DESCRIBES WAYs AND MEANS COMMITTEE ACTION AS REVOLT AGAiST DIRECIIVE GOVERNMEN!'.   Disney Bill To Pass

House Vommitice Demands Repeal Of Salary Ceiling  Accuses Roosevelt Of Flouting Intent Of Congress Action  BATTLE AHEAD

Ways And Means Committee Hits At F.D.R. Rulings  Calls For Repeal Of Executive Order Relating To  Tan Salaries

FADLR. SALARY LIMIT CRITICIZED   HOUSE COMMITTEE SAYS §$25,000 CEILING FLOUTED INTENT OF CONGRESS.

HOUSE ATTACKS SALARY PEGGING   Roosevelt Is Accused of Flouting Intent of Congress

Germans Disregard. Great Loss of Life, 1,539 Tanks, 649 Planes; Risk All For Break-Through   Russian Lines in Kursk Area Bend But  Situation Is Not Yet Regarded as Serious—Murderous Fire Rips * Hitler's Lines to Shreds.

Hurl Nearly Half-Million Men With Tanks and Planes in Do-or-Die Bid in Seetor.

NAZIS INCH ON NEAR BELGOROD   Onen Pincers Drive On Kursk As Soviet Denies Big BreakThrough

NAZIS MAKE SMALL GAIN AT BELGOROD   Russians Making Axis Breakthru “Efforts Cestly——

Germans Inch: Eastward j in. Beloorod. ‘Area   ” Nazis. ‘Stage: ‘DoOr-Dié Bid: for. . Breakthrough -:

Soviet Battle Costs Nazis 30,000 Men  Cn, paren      Slight New Gains Made in Belgorod Area, Soviets Admit   GreatestArmoredWeight of All Time Thrown  a. er dlilu OTliggie

FranticGerman Drive Blazes On   DO-OR-DIE BID FOR BREAKTHROUGH INCHES EASTWARD AT BELGOROD AS ROARING BATTLE OF SOUTHERN FRONT GOES INTO FOURTH DAY

Soviets Kill 30,000 Men In 3 Days   German Reserves Rush by Thousands Into Russian Baitle

CERMANS INCH FORWARD IN BELGOROD AREA   Disregard Cost in Door-Die Attempt at Break-Through

Nazis Inch Aheac at Terrible Cost. in Russian Batfle   30,000 Men Die Without Achieving Real Breakthrough

GREAT AXIS ARMY HURLED AT REDS   Enemy ts Heedless of Losses Believed More Than In Other Campaigns.

‘Americans Closing In On New Georgia Bases   Biggest Surface Clash Since Battle of Lungg; Casualties Low

‘No Decisive Break-Through Made by Foe   Reds Make Nazis Pay Dearly for Every  Banat af Ceaneema

Nazis Make Slight Gains  On Russia’s Southern Line   Hurl Half.Million Men, Thousands Of Tanka And Planes Against Soviet Defenses In Do-Or-Die Bid To Break Through Lines

Germans Evacuate Big Cities Allied Raiders  Create Chaos — In Reich —

Nazi Civilians Flee From  Bombed Area   Order Indicates Germany Has Case of ‘Jitters’

German Civilians Moving to Rural Areas From Heavily Bombed Cities

NON-ESSENTIAL CITIZENS BEING EVACUATED FROM GERMAN CITIES   Reich Falling Victim to General Condition of War Nerves

War Nerves Hit Germany   Civilians Evacuated From Most Bia Cities

MANY LEAVING REICH CITIES   Bombed Places Evacuated Of All Not Necessary To War Effort

People of Bombed Germar Towns Being Evacuated And Placed With Farmers

Grand Junction Digs Shrapnel Out of Streets, Buildings After Blast

Blame Brake Sparks For Munitions Blast  Coloradans Hunt for Unexploded Shells

SILK PAJAMAS RULED OUT BY WLB   Paboo as Working Garments at Ohio Crankshaft Company Plants   —Slacks Are Manda ~ tory for Women.

DOMINATED BY POLITICIANS  Charge Made.By Peed net RE OW OTS.   Charge Made.By Ousted N. Y. Distriet Head   REVEALS FACTS   Says Political Pres sure Used To Guide OPA

Lutherans To — Meet At Sheldon  ~ Women’s Society Tc Hold Sessions

LUTHERAN GROUP ~~ MEETS JUNE 1   Expect 200 ) At Missionary  Feder ation Meeting At Gheldan

WUTHERAN GROUP ~MMFETS JUNE 1   Expect 200 At Missionary Federation Meeting At Sheldon

30 Jap Barges Sunk Last Week   Boats Main Source of Supplies For Nips

U.S. Bombers Bag 80, Only Lose 5   Just Beginning, General Eaker Savs

Americans Blas! 80 Axis Planes, Lose only Five   Probably Shot Down 29 More, Official Statement Declares

American Plane Losses — One To 16 In Germany   Gen. Ecker Says Raids Are But a Sample of Things to Come in Germany—Economy of Flying * Fartresses Proved

Eaker Says Heavy Plane Losses Only A Foretaste Of Damage Due Germany Soon

Down 80 Axis Airplanes With Loss of Only Five, Maj. Gen. Eaker Reports

AMERICANS BAG 80 PLANES, LOSE 3   BOX SCORE ON TWO RAIDS ON GERMANY SHOWS ICONOMY OF U, S. BOMBING,

AMERICAN PLANE STRENGTH GROWS FAST IN ORIENT   China-Burma-Indian Theater of War Witnesses Great Increase in Strength

STOCKS ENCOUNTER . PROFIT CASHING   Favored Rails, Industrials New Highs Hurdle Barrier to Reach

‘ Disclose Names of 11 Sunk U.S. Warships; : Eyewitness Depicts Loss of Carrier Hornet

SINKING OF 11 U. 5. SHIPS IS COSTLY TOJAPS   Navy Reveals Names Of Warships Sunk In South Pacific Last Fall   CARRIER HORNET LOST   Nippon Losses Set At 26 Vessels And At Least 125 Airplanes

Reds Continue Heavy Raids On Nazi Communications   'Airdromes of Enemy Targets of Repeated Blows by,  Russian Airmen; Fifty Planes Detroyed in 24  _ Hours; Soviet Military Observer Says Hun Ex  periencing Difficulty Protecting Supply Lines

SOVIET PLANES ~ ~ RAID GERMANS   Red Air Action Reported ' to Be Severely Hamper’ ing Nazi Supply Lines.:

RED AIR FORCE RAIDS CONTINUE   Soviets Heavily Attacking German Communications And Airdromes.

Russians Continue Heavy Air Attacks  Reds Report Enemy  AeaAac ia Planac

RUSSIAN FLIERS “BAG 50 PLANES _ IN HEAVY RAIDS   ~ Aerial Activity Is Centered On Fringe of Kuban Valley in Caucasus

RED AIRFORCE ACTIVE AGAINST AXIS TARGETS   Russians Claim 50 Enemy Planes Destroyec Within 24 Hour Period.

Russian Planes Continue Raids   Nazis Have Trouble With Supply Lines

Transfers Of Essential Workers Prohibited Here   Local Head Of Employment Office Notifies Employers To That Effect

GERMANS’ RAIL LINES SEVERED   Yugoslavs Aim New Blows at Nazi Forces Requiring Supplies

YUGOSLAV ARM\ MAKES GAINS AGAINST NAZIS   Seize Island Of Lussino; Cut ImPortant Railway

SLAV PATRIOTS CUT RAILROAD   New Successes Against Germans Announced By Yugoslav Army Of Liberation,

Yugoslays Sever Trieste-Austria Railway Route   Croat Patriots Conque Lussino Island Off Dal: matian Coast

YUGOSLAVS GAIN NEW SUCCESSES   Cut Strategic Railway, Take Full Control Of Island. :

Yugoslav Patriots Score New Successes Against Germans   Cut Railroad Between Trieste And Austria; Croats Take Island In Surprise Sea Attack

Yugoslavs Cut Railway Line   Croat Patriots - Claim Control of Island of Lussino

DRIVE ACROSS RIVER, CRACK GERMAN LINES   Greatest Success Since Capture of Naples Scored by Americans on Road to Rome

NEW SUCCESSES AGAINST GERMANS ARE ANNOUNCED   Cut Strategic Railway Line Between Trieste and the Austrian Border.   CROATS HOLD LUSSINO   The Island Is 50 Miles Off the Coast; Taken in Surprise Assault.

TOWN ESCAPE BEING DAMAGED, JAPAN DECLARES   Meanwhile Jap Troops Score New Successes In Burma But Are Hammered By Allied Bombs

U.3. JONG MEXICO TO HALT INFLATION   Economic Upset in Latin American Countries Breeds Rising Costs

U.S. AND MEXICO JOIN TO COMBAT INFLATION   Presidents. of Both Nations Announce Results of Their Meeting Last  Week.

Giant Railroad Monopoly Seen By A. F. Whitney   Brotherhood Presiden Charges Plan To Control Transportation

SAYS RAILWAYS PLAN MONOPLY   Brotherhood President States Lines Seek To Build Control

Congress Warned About Refunds  To Corporations   Letter of Helvering Ex-Revenue Office  Head, Given Committee

Showdown Expected Monday On Coal Strike as Miners Ignore Back to Work Order

MINE SHOWDOWN IS DUE MONDAY   Union Groups To Vote Over Week-End On Lewis’ Order To Resume Work

MINERS AWAIT SHOWDOWN Ih WAGE DISPUTE   MORE PITS CLOSED; LEADERS ASSAIL NO-STRIKE LAW

Await Showdown in Coal Areas  More Miners Quit   More Miners Quit in Pennsylvania

Drive Faster Than Offensive Last Winter   Br yansk Thre Threatened As Reds Harrass Fleeing Germans   By. HENRY SHAPIRO UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Soviets Outflank Base, Ihreaten City From Rear   ‘Red Tanks, Motorized Columns Top Speed Of Winter Offensive

REDS ARE BETTERING THE. SP OF THEIR WINTER OFFENSIVES) MAY ENVELOPE CITY FROM

RUSSIANS WITHIN. STRIKING DISTANCE — OF KHARKOV SITY   Zclochevy Captured by Soviet Forces After Fall of Belgorod   ADVANCE SIX MILES ON BRYANSK FRONT

Soviets Threaten To Bottle Up Enemy-Held City From Rear In  New Push BELIEVE CAPTURE NEAR  Town Of “Zolochey Falls Quickly—Advances Everywhere

REDS 18 MILES FROM SOVIETS’: -FOURTH CITY   Zolochev Fell Following Belgorod; Allies Advance an Entire Line.

REDS BETTER SPEED OF THE WINTER DRIVE   Reach Within 18 Miles of Outflanked Kharkov; Smolensk Evacuation Now Reported.

Speed Routs Nazis   Defenses Breached, Enemy Pushed Back Across Plains

LOLOCHEV’S FALL TO SOVIET FORCES WAS YESTERDAY   Attack on German Positions in Upper Donets Basin Has Aim to Pinch Off 7 Nazi in South

Nazi Defenses Fail To Halt  Russian Drive   Soviet Troops Within 18 Miles Of German Held Kharkov   CAPTURE IMMINENT   Report 2,000 Germans Killed In Heavy Orel Fighting

‘ALSO DRIVE -ONBRYANSK   Reds’ Summer Gain: » Held Better Than Winter Push

RUSSIAN COLUMNS INCREASING SPEED, ENCIRCLE KHARKOV   Reds Travel 22 Miles, Cap ture City, In 24 Hours,  Distance Required Four 1 Days Last Winter.   LEADERS HOLD CONFERENCES OVER JAPAN, ITALY   Berliners Frightened By Accounts of Hamburg Raid, Mass Arrests Made When Pofugees Talk.

Reich Death Toll Placed At 120,000   Soviet Planes Rake Rear of Retreating, Demoralized Enemy

RUSSIAN FORCES NEARING KHARKOV IN NEW OFFENSIVE   London Experts Predict Fall of City Within Days; Germans Retreat Across Flatlands.

REDS PUSH T0 WITHIN 15 MI. OF KHARKOY   Threaten To Envelope Big German Base

JSSIANS DRIVE DROSS STEPPES JR KHARKOV   Gain Ground on ‘Bryansk Front

HOUSE WETS BLOCK MOVES FORCE OUT STATE LIQUOR BILL  MOTIONS TO TAKE MEAS URE FROM STATE AFFAIR

Men In 3-A, 3-B And 3-C Are To Be Re-Classified   Drafting Of Fathers To Be Delayed As Long As Possible But Time Nears.

Hershey Says Time for Drafting Fathers Is Approaching More ‘Rapidly Than You Would Desire

Draft Boards to Reclassify All 3-A, 3-B, 3-C Men; Call Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Soon

nse Days Of. Gales, Rain Cost TI Lives In State   New Weekend Warning: Issued: Hundreds O} Families Quit Homes

Position of F inland May Soon Become Untenable   Conferences Are Being Held in Nervous Helsinki

FINLAND EXPECTED TO CHANGE STATUS IN WAR ANYTIME      Steady Slipping Of .German Position On Russian Front Reason For Move :

Finland Expected to Try to Get Out of War As Nazis’ Position On Russian Front Deteriorates

UW. S. Gunys Official-—— tu WEST AFRICA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to (let Alane with the Peanloe

U.S. Cimya Offical —— tude WEST AFRICA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Along with the People

Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Along with the Peopble

Telling What the Customs Are and How to @o Albanese with the Penhle

WU. S. Camys. Official — tudeto NEW ZEALAND   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alane with the Penhle

U. &. Camysz Offiaat —— tue WEST AFRICA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alans with the Peonle

UW. S. Grimys. Official —— taieto NORTH AFRICA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alone with the People

UW. S. Crys. Official — cost, NEW GUINEA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alane with the People —

Reproduced by the Southeast Economist for the Families of Service Men, with Permission of the Special Services diviston of the War Department

U. S. Crmyh. Official —— tude to GREAT BRITAIN   ‘Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alone with the Peoble

Telling What the Customs Are and How to tad Bhan: with tha Dexnnls

Telling What the Customs Are and How to font dlaen with the Doenhloe

tude» GREAT BRITAIN   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Llet Alana with the Penhle

U.S. Aunya Official —— cude 1 AUSTRALIA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alone with the Peohle

——-U. S. Gimysa Oficial —~ tude NEW GUINEA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alone with the People

U. S. Army Official ——— tux GREAT BRITAIN   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Get Alone with the Péoble

——U. S. Aimys Official —— tua WEST AFRICA   Telling What the Customs Ave and How to  Get Alane with tho Pennie

Telling What the Customs Are and How to Cot Alanoe with the Peonle

U. §. Grmy Official — tuieo NEW GUINEA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to Gei Alone with the People

U. S. Chmysa Official — cade o AUSTRALIA   Telling What the Customs Are and How to  7 ng) Albeawen ee wo hth, then Daw].

Jowa’s. Fiftieth — General Assembly Convenes Monday   is Expected to Be Most Important Session In State’s History

50th Jowa General  To Open Neat Monday   Important Legislation Is To Be Considered

N ew Session of State Legislature Opens January 11th ©   State, Capitol. News, Letter AS. ‘Reviewed by. Sentinel’s - Special Correspondent

SCHOOL SCHEDULED THURSDAY EVENING   Agricultural Program to be Given at Gathering Here

39,000 Die in Taganrog Trap, Reds Say   Nazi Troops West of City Appear in Precipitous Flight

35,000 Germans Liquidated in Taganrog Trap   Report Nazi Troops Are Also Fleeing From Donets Basin

n The Rationing Front .  SERVICE MEN ON 1 DAY FURLOUGH OR LONGER, ARE ENTITLED TO RATIONS   Get Half-Pound Sugar, 16 Food Points, For Each Week . At Home; Old Gas Stamps Must Be Turned In

Allied Harmony In War Effort Hailed by Eden   Expresses Hope Spirit Will Be Carried Over To Effect Lasting Peace

Eden Expresses Hope for Postwar Unity  Minister Declines   Minister Declines To Guess at Details of Aims

EDEN ADDRESSES CONGRESS GROUP   British Diplomat Hopes Harmony Attained in Prosecution of War Will Carry Over To Effect Lasting Peace

EDEN HOPEFUL ALLIED UNITY CARRIES OVER      Lasting World Peace Theme At Capitol  Luncheon

Eden Hopes Allies Will Keen Harmony   Leaders in. Accord of Post-War World Program for U. N.

Congressiona:  Heads See Eden   Briton Expresses Hope Allies Will Effect Lasting Peace

Congressional Leaders Hear Eden's Views   Believe Framework Should Be Laid for Postwar Settlement

Axis Feels Power  of Heavy Allied Aircraft   Raid on Italian Capital City Climaxes 36-Hour Period in Which Targets in Six Countries Are Raked From Air

500 AMERICAN PLANES SLASH AT RAILROADS   Over 1,120 Tons Loosed On Milan; Turin Also Receives Heavy Blasting   Southern Italy Hit

ICKES PROMISES NEW OIL, GAS LIST   Norks With OPA, WPB ot Substitute for Cancelled Original Plan

Germans Battered Along 600-Mile Front...  Soviets Bear Down On Faltering Nazis

Reds Shattering Nazi Resistance Along Main Front   Soviet Armies Are Wiping Out Nazi Winter Gains.   Ukraine Line Blasted  In Russian Advance

DOWN ON NAZIS   Russian Army Smashes to Bits Fortifications Held By Germans.   MOSCOW 1S CELEBRATING

Remnants of Fortifications Which Nazi Army Held For Two Consecutive Winters Being Smashed To Bits.

Moscow Celebrates Second And Third Major Victories Within Two Days -i

Legislature Acts On 300 Bills _ As Democrats End Filibuster   Lawmakers Drive For Sine Die Adjournment May 8th — Woodward Bill To Die In Committee

Men’s Clothes Comfortable!   Revolutionary Change Seen In Fashions

SOTRANSPORTS, Tb FIGHT ERG ARE INCLUDED      Allied Pilots Pounce On Huge Fleet Of German Planes, Chalk Up Victory

DESTROY 74 IN BIG BATTLE OFF NORTH TUNISIA   Blast Nazi Bases, Supply Ports As Ground Force Action Slows

58 Junkers Shot Down Seeking to Evacuate ‘Troops   French, Americans Punch at Axis Lines on Ground; Air Battle Grows ~

Down 85 Planes in Single Day   Most of Nazi —— Are Big Junkers Transport Planes,  North of Tunisia

RECORD ‘TOLL SUFFERED BY AXIS FORGES   Toll Not Equalled Even During the Battle ~ Of Britain

GASOLINE AVAILABLE FOR ‘VACATION’ TRIP   Detroiters Can Get Gas If They Pledge to Help With Cherry Belt Harvest

RUSSIA TO J TO JOIN ALLIED SESSION   Soviets Accept Invitation To Meet On Post-War Food Problems   BRITAIN, U. S.. CANADA MASSING HUGE FORCES FOR EUROPEAN INVASION

Reds Accept U. S. Bid To Food Meet   Russ Make First Move To Cooperate On Problems Following War

RUSSIA WILL _ DISCUSS FOOL   AGREES TO HAVE  REPRESENTATIVES AT CONFERENCE ON POSTWAR FOOD  PROBLEMS —~

TAREE NATIONS ENDORSE MEET   Great Britain, China And Russia Will Have Delegates At Food Conferences,

Way Cleared for  Tunisia Offensive   Observers Think That Weather May Halt Drive Few Weeks: Axis Seaplane Destroyed

Babson Believes in Co-Operative Groups If They Are Headed for Ultimate Goal

Stock Insurance Companies Sound   BABSON BACKS SYSTEM OF ONE AGAINST MUTUALS

BABSON GIVES HIS REASONS FAVORING STOCK COMPANIES   Comments For Week Contains Discussions Why He Prefers Stock Insurance Firms Over Mutual Organizations.

STOGK VS MUTUAL INSURANGE GROUPS   Babson Discusses Differences In setup of Stock and Mutual. Insurance Companies. Favors Stock Companies.

NAZI MASSACRE IN ITALY EXPOSED   CHARGE GERMANS SLAUGHTER 54 IN VILLAGE OF BELLONA

\lazi Rats Massacre Italians And Greeks In Reprisal Acts   Two Points Agreed Upon At UNRR Meet

‘54 Italian Boys and Men Massacred By Nazis In Reprisal For ‘The Killing of a German Soldier Who Tried To Abduct Girl

34 Men, Boys Are Massaered   Germans. Execute. ttalians After Two Nazis Die In Seizure Attempt

BELLONA MASSACRE BARED   British Report on German Execution of 54 Italian Men and Boys, Result of Slaying of Germans Seeking to Abduct Girl

Men, Boys of Italian Village Massacred, Buried Under Tons of Stone

State Assembly Begins Session   Both Parties Pledged to Short and Busy Term in War Year; Recess Until Night Before Inauguration Planned; Republicans i in Control of Both Senate  and Laren

135TH SESSION OF PA. LEGISLATURE IS OPENEL   Gavel Bangs ‘At.Neon Today To Start Off Firet Ses. sion Of Assembly In 77 Yenra To Meet In Midst t Of Maicr War.

Assembly Onens 135th Meet Today   Possibilities  Of Cut in State Tax Uppermost In Many Minds

QUIT KANOPOLIS DAM      “Work on Smoky Hill River Project ! Is Stopped by Government

PILOT RODE TO His DEATH IN A BOMBER   Chose ta Remain With Plane Rather Than ‘Chute to Safety with Comrades,

Backers Show Surprising Strength... ..  Vote On Anti-Strike Legislation Friday

ANTI- STRIKE “BILL PUSHEL   Backers Strive to Force Measure Toward Vote

House Won't Kill Anti-Strike Bill  Consideration of   Consideration of Amendments for Measure Underway

4-H BOYS AND GIRLS EXHIBITED STEERS: ‘AT JUNIOR SHOW   “All Union County Calves But One Placed —  Firat Ten Of Class 

AIR RAID DRILL POLICY WILL BE LEFT WITH ARMY      More Blackouts Needed To Keep Citizens Morale Up To Standard

Lindenwood. Children’s’ — : Theatre to be On Ait Saturday Morning

THIRD SCHOOL FIRE IN CLEVELAND IS BLAMED ON FIREBUG   Suspect Nabbed as He Ran From Blazing Car

J. J. JAKOSKY WILL DIRECT RESEARCH   Is Assistant to President of U. of Southen ~ California .

J. J. JAKOSKY WILE DIRECT RESEARCH   Is Assistant to President of . of Southem  California. ”      IDEAN HERE . 3!

LANDON BLASTS WALLACE ON HIS RECENT SPEECH   Charges Vice President With Approval of Candidate Roosevelt, “Declared Civil War’   SEES BITTER FIGHT   Holds 1944 Campaign Will Be Between Fascist New Dealers” and American Republic

Roosevelt Hits Proposed Bill   Asks “’Hands-off” on Selection of Employes

PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS 10 KEEP HANDS OFF JOBS   Roosevelt Opposes Bill Re quiring Senate Confirmation Of Appointees in $4,500 Bracket.

Keep Hands Off Hiring, Solons Told   President Criticizes Proposal Requesting Congressional Okay On Emploving

FDR urges ‘hands off? by congress   ‘No time for  McKellar plan’

FDR Assails McKellar Bil   Asks Congress To Keep Hands Off Selection Federal Employes

OPPOSES PLAN REQUIRING O.K. BY CONGRESS   McKellar’s Bill Would Order Confirmation  Of $4,500 Jobs

LEAVE JAPAN      . §. Nationals Sail on Shin Vroin *toke  change, “

BAS MBSE UERG EL ak a  ‘Nazi Withdrawals Being Skillfully Fought —

Italy Provides Bases To Bomb Germany Out   Allies Occupy Strategic Sector As Springboard For North Or East Invasion Thrusts

AMERICAN TROOPS: HAVE LANDED ON TAP-HELD) ATTH ASU   SAYS ALGTERS RATDOED

ATTU INVASION SHOWS PROGRESS   Jap Aerial Onslaught at Oro Base Repulsed as Enemy Loses Planes,

Jap Expulsion Hails Thrusts Toward Tokyo   Hilly Isle 35 Miles Long  And 20 Miles From North to South

Determined Fight Waged For Island   Navy Secretary Says Results Thus Far Satisfactory

LANDING ON ATTUIS OF IMPORTANCE   May Foreshadow North Offensive On Japanese

INVASION SEEN AS FIRST STEP TOWARD TOKYO   Ouster Of Japs From Kiska Next On Program

DETAILS ASTO BATTLE WITHHELD BY WAR DEPT.   Navy Landed Regular Army . Troops on Bleak, Aleutian I[eland.

U.S. SOLDIERS LAND ON ATTU FOUR DAYS AGO      Eventual Expulsion Of Japs Frou Island Seen — Fighting Is For Keeps

Jap Naval Base at Paramushicu, 756 Miles West. Mav Be Next Objective

CONTINUE OFFENSIVE   Fighting Progressing - Satisfactorily,’ Is Latest Word

Yanks Next ~ Problem Is Kiska Port  Drive for Jap Navy Center in Kuriles Seen as Objective 736 MILES AWAY  Island Route to Tokyo Would Open From Paramushiru

KNOX, NAVY CHIEF, SAYS FIGHTING ON ATTU IS FOR KEEPS   Initial Attack Of U. §. On Island Foreshadows Driving Japs Off ’ Aleutians

—hUSSTA—  RUSOIAN DRIVE THREATENS OREL   Germans Throw Two New Divisions Into Raging Battle   REDS ADVANCING   Nazis Fighting Desperately To Check Major Breakthrough

RED FORCES SMASH NEARER 70-OREL   Germans Fight . Desperately To Stave Off Major Break-through

NEW DIVISIONS THROWN IN OREL LINES BY NAZIS   Germans Lost 3,181 Tanks And 1,762 Planes

NAZI THRUSTS ARE REPULSED BY°RED ARMY      Two New German Divisions are  Used lo Try to Curb Rus     OREL.IS THREATENED - BY SOVIET FICHTERS

RUSSIAN ARMY NEARING OREL   Frenzied Nazi Resistance Fails To Stem Red Attacks

Russians Repulse Reinforced Germans   Nazis Use Two New Divisions Against Spearhead Threatening Orel, But Soviets Continue Advance.

TWO NEW GERMAN DIVISIONS ARE IN   One Armored and One Infan. try Thrown Against the Russians.

Nazi Base of  Orel Menaced   Germans Rushing Up Reserves in Attempt To Stop Red Advance

NAZIS PUT NEW MEN INTO FIELD   Red Army Repulses Thrusts And Continues ‘to Adyance. Renort.

FRESH FORCES OF NAZIS SENT AGAINST REDS   But Russians Beat Back Everything Hitler Hurls In To Stop Attack

DIVISIONS. TRY TO HALT GAINS   Nazis Frantically Rally Available Men, Guns to Meet Attack

GERMANS THROW TWO NEW DIVISIONS INTO OREL FRONT LINE   RED ARMY, HOWEVER,   RED ARMY, HOWEVER, REPORTED REPULSING THRUSTS TO ADVANCE

Germans Throw New Divisions On Russ Front   Red Counterattack Driving Close to Important City

NAZIS ATTEMPY TO HALT DRIVE BY RED ARMIEK  Two New , Divi ision, O Armored and One Infantry, Thrown “In to   BOTH ARE REPULSED   One Wing of Soviet Force Reported to Have Rolled to Within 25 Miles of Enemy Base

Orel Within Range Of Russians’  Field Guns   Soviet Columns Make Further Gains; Can Now Shell Railway

Onsurging Reds Stab Closer To Nazi Orel Base   Repel Efforts Of Reinforced Germans To Hold I]ln Advance.

2 MORE NAZI DIVISIONS ARE ON RED FRONT   One Infantry and One Armored Unit Sent Against Spearhead Threatening Orel, but Soviets Continue Gains.

Divisions Fail  To Stop Reds   Russian Forces Reported to Be Within 25 Miles of Orel; Fighting Dies Down On Southern End of Bulae

RED TROOPS THREATENING BASE AT OREL   Soviets Within 25 Miles Of Enemy Stronghold: German Losses Mount To 62.000 Men

RUSSIANS MAUL ENEMY, ADVANCE CLOSER TO OREL   GERMANS REINFORCE TROOPS IN ATTEMPT TO STEM RED BLITZ

Reds Repulse Attacks and: Drive Ahead   Germans Throw Two Divisions Against Russian Spearhead

Nazi Reserve Fighters Fail To Halt Drive   One Wing of Red Army's Counter-smash Only 25 Miles From Orel   329 FANKS SEIZED   ? Three-Pronged Offensive Biting Deeply Into German Defenses

NAZIS HURL NEW FORCES 'Fe AGAINST RUSS NEAR ORELIA   Frantic Effort is Made te Helt Red Army Drive; Gormen Tank Losses Mount

Nazis Are Frantic Over Advance.  Of Red Forces   Two New Divisions Are Thrown Into Battle To Save Orel.

Soviets Are Repulsing All Thrusts   Orel Threatened—Now Is Within Artillery Range Of Russians

Nazis Desperately Trying fo Stop Russians at Ore!   Two New German Divisions Rushed To Critical Area

Germans Throw More Armored Troops At Reds   Russ Armies Reported, However, To Be Repulsing All Thrusts

GERMANS MAKE FRANTIC RUSH TO STEM REDS   Red Army Reported Continuing Advance With Heavy Enemy Losses

Germans Frantically Rally All Manpower ....  Desperate Nazi Drives Repulsed By Russians

Reds Advance Despite Stiff Nazi Fighting   Germans Put Two Fresh Divisions Into Battle In Effort To Block Push On Orel

NAZIS UNABLE 10 CHECK RED ARMY ADVANCE ON ORE   Ruasians Repulse All Counter Thrusts and Continue Drive Towards Key Rail  Cantew

Germans Try To Prevent  Red Advance   New. Division Thrown Into Heavy Fighting Around Ore

NAZIS UNABLE TO STOP SOVIET DRIVE IN NORTH   Red Force Within 25 Miles o German Stronghold, Hitler Using Reserves

REPULSING ALLNAZI THRUSTS   Reds Now Reported Within Artillery Range OF Enemy-Held City

Russians Throw  Back All German Thrusts on Orel   Nazis Throw Two More Di visions in Sector But in Vain.   Soviet Artillery in Range of Nazi Base

‘Germans Throw Two Divisions  Against Red Spearhead At Orel  But Russians Repulse Thrusts

Morgenthau To Explain Fund Plan:   Post-War Currency Idea To Be Detailed: Hint Seeretary Irked By  London ‘Leaks’

TREASURY HEAD OUTLINES WORLD CURRENCY PLAN   PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO 34 NATIONS

Morgenthau to Reveal Program for Stabilizing Post-War Currencies

‘Morgenthau to Give Details Of Post-War Currency Plans Today: Irked By ‘‘Leaks”’

TREASURY B0SS OUTLINES POSTWAR CURRENCIES   Discusses Plans For Stabilization  Thruout Worid

Details of Postwar Currency Plans to  Be Outlined Today   Treasury Secretary Is Believed Irked by London ”’Leaks”

Removal Of International Cartels Proposed At Committee Hearing To  Open Up World Trade

STRONGLY - FORTIFIED. DEFENSE LINE BROKEN   One Force of Germans. Pinned to Sea; Another. Pressed Toward Rostov

RAPID PUSH OF FORGES SPLITS GERMAN UNITS   Invaders Pinned Against Sea In Southern Drive

Enemy Force Split South of Rostov   One Army Pinned to Coast, While Other Tries To Flee Throush Threatened Citv

German Forces Are Doomed To Annihilatior   Slaughter Continues Or Soviet Front; Rostoy Lines Breaking

ANOTHER UNIT FORCED BACK NEAR ROSTOV   New Wedges Are Pounded Around Kursk Front   ANNIHILATION   Of Remainder Of Trapped Divisions At Voronezh Sought By Soviets

WILL RETURN TONIG’   on  Pic. Carl Dale Woods ah S10 Ft, McClellan, Alabama.

15,000 MINERS ON - STRIKE IN PENNSY   Walkout Grows Despite Demands From Union Leader

Anthracite Coal Strike Spreads   15,000 Defy Lewis" Demand to Return

STRIKE GROWS   Anthracite Workers Ignore Demands of Lewis, Ickes And Other Officials

15,000 Hard Coal Miners Quit Pits   Protest UMW Dues Increase In Face of Lewis, Ickes’ Pleas to Béeanme Tail

COAL SHORTAGE FACES EAST AS STRIKE GROWS   Number of Hard Coal Miners on Sirike Grows to Nearly 15,000 Despite Pleas of Ickes, Lewis

STRIKING MINERS NUMBER 15,000      Daily Production Drop Hits New England Area; Demands Made

STRIKE AFFECTS 15,000 MINERS   Unauthorized W alkout Cuts Production In Hard Coal fields

Red Army Troops Locked In Bitter Struggle To Drive Nazis From Kuban   First Major Campaign May Be Forerunner Of Several To Develop Along Vast Russian Front; Air Warfare Rages.

Russians And Germans Locked In Struggle To Control Kuban District

Violent Battle Continues For  Bridgehiead   Guerrillas Wreck Germar Troop Trains, Hit Garrisons. -

BATTLE RAGES ALONG KUBAN   Bitter Fighting. Continues or Land and in Air on Southern Front.

VIOLENT AIR, LAND BATTLES RAGE IN RUSSIA   Red Troops Locked In  Swaying Bitter Struggle Against Nazis In Kuban Area   ARTILLERY ACTIVE   German Defense Positions Demolished; Guerrillas Wreck Enemy Trains  in Smolensk Sector

Russ, Nazis In Bitter Battle  Fighting In Kuban Sector Increasing

8 MILLION POLES PUNISHED, KILLED   Hundreds of Thousands Dead By Execution Or Mattreatment.

Poles Suffer  Under Germans   Eight Million Have Experieneed Barbarous Punishment Or Death-—Halifax.

SAYS 8 MILLION POLES PUNISHED, SLAIN BY NAZIS   Lord Halifax Reveals Reports Indicate Mass Terror In Poland; Sees Tunisia As Turning Point of  ar

SAYS 8,000,000 POLES SLAIN OR BADLY TREATED   Barbarous Punishment Provided by Hitler’s Men Cited by Halifax

Nothing Ready From Conference President Says   Churchill and FDR Enter the Third Day of Discussion Over War, with Details To Remain Secret.

NO HIGH PRESSURE USED IN CAMPAIGN   Complete County Figures Not Available in Sale  of Bonds

0 HIGH PRESSURE USED IN CAMPAIGN   Complete - County Figures Not Available in Sale of Bonds   SCHOOLS ARE ACTIVE

HITLER CALLING FOR FRENCHMEN   Food Cards To Be Denied Those Who Won't Work For Nazis

TURN OUT FOUR VESSELS A DAY   v. 3. Shipyards to Exceed 1943 Quota of 16,000,000 Tons, FDR Says

U.S. Yards Are Producing Four Shins Per Day And Will Exceed 1943 Goal. President Claims

NATION BUILDING FOUR SHIPS ADAY   TONNAGE OF 8,090,000 TURNED OUT LAST YEAR WAS WELL ABOVE GOAL,

YARDS TO BUILD 5 SHIPS DAILY   President Roosevelt and ‘Admiral Land Say 1943 Goals Will Be Surpassed as 1942. Were

OUVIET FORGED OWEEP FOR.U.AD ON GOMEL  AE   Pincers Mcvement Threatens Germars in Entire Sector

Russians Gain In Gomel Arez   Soviet Smash Through White Russia Is Aimed At Rail Center Of Zhlobin, And Minsk

MAY CUT OFF NAZIS FLEEING FROM GOMEL   Push Forward Along Railway Line to Minsk

FARM BUDGET SLASHED BY HOUSE UNIT   Farm: Security Admini stration Abolished  In Economy Drive

JACK-POT AS TAKEN IN DRIVE   Total of $240, 093,647 Lopped Off Agricultural ' Allotment for 1944,

SOLONS TRIM FUNDS; MOVE FOR ECONOMY   Wickard Warns U. 5. 0! Manpower Shortage On Farms

No Inducing Sum Listed For Crops   240 Million Dropped From Appropriation;  Chop AAA Work

House Group Hits Jack Pot  For Economy   Farm Security Administration ls Abolished

HOUSE COMMITTEE MAKES BIG CUT. IN AGRICULTURE FUND   Siashes Department Budget, Abolishes FSA, Bans . Government Loans To Farmers.

WOULD REDUCE AlD TO FARMER   House Committee Favors  . $240,000,000 Cut

HOUSE EC DRIVE DECREES DEATH OF FSP   Commiitce Slashes Agriculture Department Funds, Cuts Out incentive Payments

ECONOMY DRIVE SLASHES FARM AGENCY FUNDS   House Committee Abolishes Security And Crop Insurance Programs   PARITY PAYMENTS CUT   Crop incentive Plan Upset; 100 Millions Dropped From AAA Budget

DEMANDS PACT ON LEND-LEASE   Understanding Now Would Avoid Post-War Conflict Says Senator

DEMAND U. §. BE “INFORMED 1S TQ LEND-LEASE AC   Solon Says Administration Must Clarify Meaning of World Aid.

REY. SMITH WILL SPEAK AT PARK   Emmanuel Reformed Pastor Will Deliver Sermon At Twilight Service Sunday Evening

TWILIGHT SERVICE PROGRAM PLANNED   Rev. Robert C. Schiebel Will Speak At Union Worship In Wirt Park Sunday — Mt. Carmel Choirs To Sing

REY. CATHERMAN TWILIGHT SPEAKER   First Methodist Pastor Will Deliver Sermon At Wirt Park Service Sunday Evening—Program Announced

  83 Per Cent OF Coal Miners Return To Jobs   Ickes Warns Coal Rationing Is Still Possible

ARMY REQUESTS EARLY MAILING OVERSEAS GIFTS   Christmas Packages Going To Overseas Soldiers Not Acceptable After Oct. 15

(, Simmons lected First  Vice-President   Other Bradford Men Named to Association’ foard of Directors 4} Annual Meeting

Bradford Man - Heads Oil Group   D. T. Andrus Elected at Oil City Meeting

American Navy Ships Shell Enemy Positions on Gasmata, New Brifain

NEW BRITIAN BASE SHELLED   Naval War Carried Tc Japan’s Stronghold Of Gasmata

JAP POSITIONS ARE. SHELLED BY SHIPS   Gasmata and Madang Bombed by American Vessels .

ve Foray Is ade AtMadanq   Aussies Pushing On Well Beyond Bonga  a a nT

U. S. Naval Vessels Carry War to  Japan’s Front Door   Ships Shell Gasmata and Madang Durinc Night in First Sea Bombardment ! of Those South Pacific Niv Stronacholds

Shore Installations at Gasmata, New Britain, and Madang,  - _New Guinea, Shelled for First Time—One Unidentified Enemy Vessel Is Blasted to Bottom—Nip Territory Deeply Penetrated to Carry Out One Attack.

Gasmata And Madang Bombarded In Daring Foray By Naval Craft   ISOLATED JAPANESE FORCE IS WIPED OUT

Navy Carries War Deep Into Jap Territory   Enemy Bases Shelled At Gasmata, Madang; Small Vessel Sunk

PASSED AWAY   Funeral for Mrs: Jeannette Towle, 93, One of Oldest . ‘Women in Town 

arcu mm   Funeral for Mirs. Jeannette Towle, 93, One of Oldest Women j in Town

STATE HOUSE, SENATE START 2-WEEK REGESS   Committees Will Be Appointed During Layoff

SEC. KNOX MUM —ONNAVY MOVES   Won’t Affirm or Deny Yank Attack On Paramushiro

KNOX SILENT ON RUMOR OF RAID   Cabinet Officer Refuses Te Confirm Or Deny U. S. Attack On Japs”

NOTHING TO & TALK ABOUT   Knox Declines Comment on Report of Attack on Base in Janan.

KNOX KEEPS SILENT ON REPORT-JAP. BASE RAIDED   ‘on't Reply To Questlon of Paramushiroa: Attack.

Spearheads Within 79 Miles of Kharkov   Famous German Combat Regiment Te Ponted

Reds Close in. On Five Key 'Nazi-Held Cities   Spearheads of ” Troops Continue © To Advance .

Rostov Gap Is Slashed to Fifty Miles   Russ Armies Crush Nazis as Kharkov Is 79 Miles Away

REDS CLOSE IN ON FIVE KEY CITIES   Include Kharkov, Salsk, Armavir And Rostov

Wherry Behind Meat Controls   But Nebraska Senator Fears Administrations Plan May Bog Down.

VICTORY GARDENS HELP   Billion Dollars Werth Of Food Be ing Produced This Year

20,000,000 U.S. Victor) Gardens to Produce A Billion Dollar Crop

FA ACCIDENT ~ LIKELY. FATAL   Ray Leavell Critically Hurt ’ While Putting Up Hay - .Near Windfall..

FARM ALLIDENT LINELY FATAL   Ray Leavell Critically Hurt While Putting Up Hay Near Windfail.

Major Caner To Cut Processing Grapetruit Juice   Sales ‘Impossible’ To Civilians Under New Point System, Says Schmidt

GEN. RAWSON IS CHOSEN PRESIDENT   Castillo, Ousted, Resigns His Office

MRS. HOLLOWAY FREED   Montgomery Wife Given Arquital On Charge Of Murder

NAZIS TAKE BACK HILL POSITIONS   British Withdraw From Points Near Mateur, Tunisia

British Driven Back by German Gounterattack   “Forced: to Give Up Hill Taken Previously —

Allies Driven From Hill on Mateur Road   Germans Wrest Heights From Foe During Nicht

Hillfop Near Mateur Back’ In Nazi Hands.   Withdrawal Carried Out Successfully by Enalish Troops

BRITISH WITHDRAW FROM KEY POSTS ON HILL NEAR MATEUR   Germans Caunter- Attack And Allies Are Forced To Give Up Gains OF Yesterday

3,400,000 DIE, _ NAZI VICTIMS   Exocuied or Died in Prison in Nine Germian-Occupied Countries,‘ Heports International Committee -.

3,400,000 PERSONS HAVE DIED IN NAZI: OCCUPIED COUNTRIES   Figures Compiled Mainly From German Announcements. 1,000,000 Jews Perish or Killed  In Poland

Nazi Executions Are Put at 3.400 000: Poland Tons List With 2.500.000 Stain

Submarine Thunderbolt Overdue. Believed Lost   Approve F. R. Authority On Stabilization Fund

House Votes Special Fund   President Given Authority Over Stabilization Fund For Two More Years

HOUSE VOTES STABILIZATION FUND NEW LIFE   Adds Amendment Designed to Pre vent. Use of Funds in Interna. tional Bank

Restrict Use Of Big Fund  FDR Can’t Tose It   FDR Can't Tose It Inio World Kitty

House Passes Money Fund Extension   Amendmetit Bans Use of Fund  In World Banking Fund

U-BOAT SUPPLY ~~ SHIP IS SUNK   French Cruiser Destroys German Vessel And  Captures Crew

French Cruiser Based at Dakar Sinks Nazi Sub   Big Supplies Carrier Was on Way to Japan With Careo and Gunner

French Cruiser Sinks Big Sub Supply Vessel   Ship Bound for Japan With War Cargo and Gunners Sent Down:  90 Prisoners Taken

French Cruiser. Gets lito’ War,. Sinks Bia Nazi Sub: Supply Ship

French Warship Scores on Nazis   Cruiser Sinks German Sub Supply Vessel

Nazis Leave Vital Bryansk   Reds Take Pivot of Central, Southern Battlelines

Bryansk Falls To Soviet Attackers   Main German Defense Line Before Dnieper River  Breach   RAIL NETWORK BROKEN   Bulge of Nazi Line Toward Moscow Is Removed by . Capture

AUSUIAN ARMY TAKES BRYANSK   Germans Evacuate Key Railroad Center for Two Battlefronts.   NAZI-HELOD SINCE 1941,

Reds Shatter German's Main Dnieper Line   Pivot To Central And Southern Fronts Is In Soviet Hands

REDS CAPTURE KEYSTONE CITY   Germans evacuate Bryansk Reds Breaching Main Dnieper Defense

Reds Take Pivot City ~Of Bryansk   Seizure Breaches Main German Defense Line Before Dnieper River.

BRYANSK IS CAPTURED BY SOVIET ARMY   Fortress City, Breaching Enemy's Main Defense Line Before Dnieper River, ls Seized   EVACUATION ADMITTED

Loss of Base May Breach  Nazi Defenses   Nazis Report Loss of Base Before Reds but Add That Retreat Js in Order

NAZI RETREAT TO DNIEPER IS EXPECTEL   Hope Is Raised That Soviets May Be Able to Trap Large Forces Before They Cross to the West Side of River.

Reds Capture Brvansk; Cut Nazi Defense   Germans Evacuate City; Hopes Held For Large  Forces Trapped.   OPENS FRONTLINE

Nazis Admit Withdrawal Of Troops   Key City Was Vital Rail Network For Transportation

LOSS OF CITY 1S ADMITTED BY ERMAN: RANIO   London. Quarters. Think Nazis Must Retreat Until Reaching Dnieper

RUSSIANS CAPTURED  FORTRESS CITY OF  BRYANSK LAST NIGHT GERMANS EXPECTED TO  RETREAT TO DNIEPER RIVER TINE GOON

NAZI KEY POINT SEIZED AS RED DRIVE ROLLS ON   Germans Are Driven Out of Bryansk, Pivot of Main Line in Russia   RUSSIANS NEARING. KIEV   Invaders Slaughtered and Soviet Army Maneuvers To Set Another Trap

REDS CAPTURE BRYANSK TODAY ‘IN FAST DRIVE   Germans Pay Heavy Price For Their Resistence

Foe Admits Loss Of Rail Center   Fleeing Nazis Face Threat OF New Tran

SOVIETS NICK MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE   Nazis Admit Evacuation of Key To Dnieper Bulwark and Railway Center,   FLIGHT HINTS TRAP   Small Bridges. Ferries Only Way For Hitler Army To Ret Arrnee River.

Bryansk Falls to Russians   Keystone of German Deiense Lines in Central Russia, City Was Taken in ‘October, 194]

Germans Admit Loss Of Sector Held Since '41   Main Defense Lines Breached Monday Night; Germans  Evacuate

Fall Of City Breaches Main Nazi Defenses   ‘Disrupts Rail Network Vital for German Winter Transport; Trap May Be Sprung

RUSS 60 THRL WAN GERUAN DEFENSE LINE   Capture Bryansk, Pivot o' Central and Southern Enemy Front.   NAZIS EVACUATE TOWN HELD NEARLY TWO-YEARS

Main German Line Near The Dnieper Breached By Reds   Nazis Admit Evacuation Of City; Believe Large Enemy Force Is Trapped On East Bank Of River

REDS BREACH MAIN DNIEPER DEFENSE LINE   Cefeat Disrupts Rail Network Vital To Nazi Winter Transport   BATTLE AT RIVER LOOMS   Capture Of Keystone City Opens Way For Drive On White Russia

Naxis Report Heavy Street Fighting in Novorossisk; Line To Crimea Menaced

Main Defense Line Before Dnieper Is Breached By Reds   Nazis May Not Be Able To Halt Retreat Until River Line Reached; Berlin Breaks News

Reds Capture Bryansk as Nazis Retreat   Only Inadequate Bridges and _Ferries Available for Ger“mans in Flight Before Russian Armies

Russians Capture Bryansk In Drive   KEY CITY IS TAKEN AS RUSSIANS MAKE NEW GAINS

REDS CAPTURE - BRYANSK, KEY DEFENSE CITY   Germans May Not Be Able to Halt Retreat Until Dnieper River Reached.   Large German Forces Are Believed Trapped

Germans Steal Ou! of Long Held Pivot of Central and Southern Baitlelines   VITAL RAIL CENTER   Berlin Beais Moscow in Announeing City’s Fall—New Perils Threaten Refreating Germans

Hl ITLERITES IN FULL RETREAT, BERLIN ADMITS      Belief Expressed Nazis May Be Unable to Halt _ Before Reaching West   Bank of Dnieper   VICTORY OPENS WAY: TO WHITE RUSSIA   Berlin ‘Claims Withdrawal Orderly; Moscow Says Enemy Paying Heavily Jn Casualties

Russians Capture Bryansk as Their Offensive Rolls on   Germans May Not Be Able to Stop Before Dnieper Rive

NAZI BASE IN RUSSIA. FALLS   Capture of City Disrupts Ger man Rail Network on Soviet Front.

FORTRESS CITY OF BRYANSK TAKEN BY THE RUSSIANS   Broke the Germans Main Defense Line Before the Dnieper River.   IT SERVED BOTH FRONTS   Evacuation of City Was Acknowledged Today by the Germans.

Bryansk, Held  By Nazis Since Oct. 1941, Falls To Red Troops   Soviet Victory Breaks Main Enemy Line Before Dnieper

Shatter Main Defense Line Qf Nazis; Berlin Admits Fortress Falls

Soviets Breach German Defense Line In Seizure   Nazis Flee Toward Dnieper River Bank

Bryansk Falls To Russians   Berlin Acknowledges the Keystone City Is in Red Army’s Hands   CENTER OF LARGE RAIL SPIDERWEB   Developments Indicate the Nazi Retreat Will Extend to the Dnieper

GERMANS MAIN DEFENSE LINE IS BROKEN   Germans Acknowledge . Evacuation. of Keystone City Before Dnieper  R —_—— a

Fortress City Of Bryansk Falls   Main Defense Line of Germans Breached By Advancing Reds in Bitter Campaign

MAJOR NAZI DEFENSE LINE IS BREACHED   ‘Retreat Of Enemy Likely To Continue To Desna River; Rail Network Is Disrupted

Bryansk Falls To Russians   Germans’ Main Defense Line Before Dnieper Breached

RUSSIANS HAVE ENTERED CITY BERLIN REPORTS   ‘apture Of Important Rail Junction By Soviet Army Unhinges Entire German Central Front.

KEYSTONE NAZI CITADEL TAKEN BY RUSS ARMY   Capture of Bryansk Opens Way for Drive Into White Russia   BERLIN ADMITS LOSS   Bulge In German Line Toward Moscow Is Removed

Nazis Make Fast Retreat Toward Kiev   Capture Breaches Germans’ Main Dnieper Defense Lin

Flying Fortresses Seek to Cork  Up Brenner Pass   British Battle in Lemon Groves on Toe o! Italy After Successful Invasion — Other Allied Armies Poised for New Moves — No Official Word of Battle’s Progress

  EUROPE TOKENED        Secrecy Shrouds Italian Moves; 3 Jap Transports Sunk

Curtin Denies MacArthur Shift  Prime Minister Says He Has Not Been

Weather Slows Much Of Action On Red Fronts   Soviet Troops Plow Through Muddy Terrain For Some Central Front Gains   GERMANS UNABLE TO CROSS DONETS

COALITION OF RADICAL GROUPS — SEEKING OVERTHROW OF KING   UNDERGROUND ‘MQVEMENT IN ITALY SPONSORING STRIKES “AND DEMANDING END OF THE WAB

ANTI-BADOGLIO GROUPS SPREAD   Foster Italian Strikes, Push Campaign For Overthrow Of King

24 BILLIONS FOR NAVY IS SOUGHT   Stunning Sum  Overreaches Amount Appropriated for Year.  GREATER PART FOR WARSHIP REPAIR

14 Billion U.S. Navy Bill for “4   Lorgest Appropriation In History Requested To Build Up Fleet

ASK FOR 24 BILLION   Navy Appropriation Request Is: A ‘New All-Time High

Record Fund For Navy To Get Attention   Request for $24,151,070. 000 to be Studied by Sub-Committee   LARGEST IN’ HISTORY

Ask 24 Billion For Navy Work  eniuect car Piunde   Request For Funds ls Given Congress

Navy Budget Is Biggest In U.S. History   Ask Twenty-Four Billion To Make Fleet World’s Mightiest

NAVY REQUESTS MORE FUNDS OF CONGRESS   FDR Sends Navy’s Estimtaed Needs For ’44 Fiscal Year to  Lawmakers

AIR BASE PLAN GAINS SUPPORT   New Zealand Will Grant Per. manent Rights To U.S. In Pacific Area

NEW ZEALAND — OFFERS BASE   ISLAND GOVERNMENT IN F.  CIFIC WILLING TO GIVE U. 8. PERMANENT AIR *    BND NAVAL BASES

New Zealand Offers Bases  Permanently First of United Nations to Proffer Perpetual Rights to U. 8. ASKS PEACE PLAN  Would Have Mutual De. fensive System Mapped

Red Counter Offensive May Develop   Russians Capture Two Villages on Kursk-Orel Front

Value of “A”, Ration Coupens Cut in’ , Half ORDER APPLIES TO EAST COAST AREA  Action Called More Severe Than Pleasure Motoring Ban

GAS RATIONS - ARE REDUCED   You May Use Your A Coupons As You Please, But Ration Is Cut In Half.

Driving Ban Ends Effective Next Monday   Motorist Must Make Period 5 Coupons Last Four Months: Only East Affected

 Cut A Ration To 1% Gals Of Gasoline      BUT BOOKHOLDER MAY USE IT AS HE CHOOSES, GET FUN OUT OF IT IF HE CAN; BAN ON PLEASURE RIDING IS OUT.   Tighten Grip On Users

PERIOD FIVE COUPONS MUST LAST 4 MONTHS   Ban On Pleasure Driving Will End March 22, OPA Ironically Announce:

GASOLINE RATION REDUCED IN EAST   VALUE OF A COUPONS CUT IN HALF—PLEASURE DRIvVING BAN LIFTED.

Gas Ration For Eastern “A” ‘Bookholders Is Reduced To Gallon And A Half Weekly   Period Five Coupons, Effective Next Monday, Will Be Used Over Four-Month Period; Pleasure Driving Ban Will Be Lifted

LIFT PLEASURE DRIVING BAN: “A’ VALUE CUT   New Regulations Effective March 22; Period 5 Coupons Must Now Last Four Months, Giving Approximately 1'% Gallons Per Week.

Pleasure Car Ban Will End Monday Alse   “A” Book Holders Who Drive to Work To Get Supplemental Rations as New Orders Go Into Effect

Eastern State Order Effective March 22, Period 5 Coupons  To Last Four Months  GAS MAY BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE  Provision To Be Made For *A’ Card Holders Who Drive to Work

Pleasure Driving Ban Off But Reduced Allowances Likely To Keep Autos Off The Highwi:ys

Bowling Alley Fire Injures  100, Kills Six   Seven Others in Critical Condition; Explosion Accompanies Fire Which Causes $150,000 Damage

SIX BODIES . IN FIRE RUINS   100 Others Injured in Chicago Bowling Alley Blaze Causing ~ $150,000 Damage ©

SIX PERSONS DIE IN CHICAGO FIRE   More Than 100 Are Injured From Flames, Blast in Bowling Alley.

Six Persons Perish in Fire   Many of 200 Patrons of Bowling Alley Blown Through Doors by Blast

6 ARE KILLED, 100 HURT IN CHICAGO FIRE   Many Are Blown Through Doors By Force Of Blast

Six Perish, Many Hurt In Chicago Fire  Bowlina Alley Burns   Bowling Alley Burns After Blast Traps Victims Inside

Find 6 Bodies After Bowling Alley Blaze  More Than 100 Are Injured In Chicago:

6 ARE KILLED e IN FIRE BLAST   Bowling Alley Gutted Bi — $150,000 Blaze; Many Injured

Six Lose Lives In Chicago Fire   Explosion Causes Blaze in Bowling Alley

Six Killed.  In Blaze   Fire and Blast Wreck Chicago Bowling Alley

SIX KILLED IN CHICAGO FIRE   More Than 100 Others Injured by Flames and Explosion. .

Chicago Tragedy Injures Over 100   Explosion Brings Fire; Damage $150,000

Six Persons Dead, Over 100 Injured in Chicago Blaze   Bowling Alley on South Side Destroyed by Mysterious Blast

Bowling Alley Fire Kills Six And Injures 102   27 In Critical Condition After Night Blaze

SIX TRAPPED IN FIRE DIE   Hundred Others Injured When Fire and Explosion Wreck Bowling Alley

CHICAGO FIRE LEAVES 6 DEAD   100 Injured as Blast. Flames Wreck Bowling Alley With $150.000 Damane.

SIX KILLED, MANY INJURED IN CHICAGO: BOWLING ALLEY FIRE  EXPLOSION BLEW MANY  THROUGH DOORS TO  STREET DURING BLAZE

SIX CREMATED AS FIRE RAZES BOWLING ALLEY   Bodies Recovered After Firemen Battle Blaze In Frigid Weather Late Last Night   OVER 100 INJURED   New Structure Built At Cost. of $250,000 By Chicago Syndicate ' Had 20 Alleys

Flames Attack Bowling Alley; {00 Are Injurec   Victims Are Trapped By Searing Blasts And . Are Suffocated

Blaze Takes Lives of 6, Injures 100   Chicago Bowling Alley Blas! Blows Patrons  Througt ‘Door; Six Are Trapped

Six Die In  Chicago Fire   Bowling Alley Blaze Drives 200 Into Street

Six Perish, Many Hurt In Chicago Fire  After Blast Traps Victims Inside

Six Killed In Chicago Fire   100 Injured When Explosion Wrecks Bowling Alley

Death To Six, Scores Hurt  In Big Fire   Bowling Alley In Chicago Scene Of  New Holocaust

Six Dead In Blast      More ‘Than a Hundrec Injured in Chicago Bowling Alley Fire

FIRST LADY MISSES RIGHT TO BUY SHOES   Intended to Make a Purchase ir New York Saturday, but Didn't Have Time to Shop.

MINISTER ESCAPES FROM PENITENTIARY  Trusty Climbs ~° Wall At Chester

Dispatches Say That Red Army Has Ripped Hole In Defenses and Are Battling In Suburbs.

FALL OF REACH TQ RED FORGES EXPECTED SOO   Russian Steamroller Tears Into Defense Of Ancient  Crimean City

‘Russian Drive Threatens to Cut Vital Rail Line  RV TINITEN prrec

CIVIL DEFENSE MEETS TEST IN FLOOD DISTRIC)   Thousands of Well-Trainec Volunteers Aid Ohio River Areas

DEFENSE COUNCIL RESPONDS IN THE FLOOD EMERGENCY   Yeomar; Work Accomp. lished in Flood Districts by Groups Called Upon.

Almost Simultaneous Air Attacks Are Made Upon Rome And Berlin— Milan And Turin In Italy Also Heavily Assaulted From Air In Most Extensive Raids Of War

ABANDONMENT Or GERMANY'S LINE IN ITALY SEEN   Fifth Army Pushes Northward Along Two Sides of Rome Road

British Eighth Army Making New Advances   San Leonardo Is Captured In Attack Despite Fierce Nazi Resistance   GEN. CLARK’S TROOPS REPULSE ATTACKS

DESPITE NAZI ATTACKS   Algiers Sees Signs of General German Withdrawal

STH ADVANCES DESPITE NAZI ATTACKS   Algiers Sees Signs of General German Withdrawal

U. S. Planes Hit 3 Nippon Destroyers    Fire Cargo Ship, Down 30 Planés In Solomon ‘Area   Jap Offensice. Broken

JAP FLOTILLA ATTACKED BY U. S. FLIERS   US. Troops Achieve _ Important Gains on  Guadalcanal

LARGE SCALE ACTION NEAR IN SOLOMONS   30 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down By Airmen

Joint War Aid Group for U.S. Canada Set Up   Maj. Gen. J. H. Burns Chairman for U.S. E. P. Taylor Chief of  Canadian Section

JOINT GROUP SELECTED BY TWONATIONS   War Aid Committee Will Study Lend-Lease Prablame   GENERAL BURNS TO ~ HEAD U.S. GROUP   E. P. Taylor Is Named Chief of Canadian Section

U.S. Canada Form War-Aid Group At Quebec Parley  No Grave Significance Attached to Moscow’s Recall of Litvinoff

JOINT GROUP SELECTED BY TWONATIONS   War Aid Committee Will Study Lend-Lease Problems   GENERAL BURNS TO HEAD U.S. GROUP

U.S., Canada Embark on  Mutual Aid   Nations Orga nize Test Program, 8  Quebec Reveals

Last-Minute Change To Pacific May. Be Ordered At Quebec   Creation Of Joint War Aid Committee To Study Lend-Lease Problems Involving U. S. And  Canada Announced Sunday 

Joint War Aid Committee Is Announced  Two Great Question: Hang Over the QOuehec Conference

Announce creation of joint committee to study lease lend   Burns, Taylor are named chairmen of American, Canadian organization

Body Named To Study Lend-Lease   Committee Picked At Conference Held In Quebec

COMMITTEE TO MAKE A STUDY OF LEND-LEASE   Problems Involving Canada And United States To   Be Canvassed   QUEBEC SILENT ON LITVINOFF OUSTER

Joint U. S.-Canada War  a      Group Sel Set Up By Roosevelt, King T« Study Lend-Lease Problems  Of Two Countries

Gen. Giraud Meets ‘With President, Others at Capital  cio . .  Chittains Discuss  - Plans to Drive . Wazis From France

Gen. Giraud Meets  With President,  Others at Capital Chi*zains Discuss Plans to Drive Nazis From France

Giraud Confers With Roosevelt  Martinique Issue Nears Settlement

GIRAUD TALKS TO PRESIDENT   High U. S. Military Offic ers Also Confer With French Leader

Giraud and F. R. Have Conference   French Leader Is White House Guest

Bringing of Martinique Into War Effort With Allies Well On Way Toward Accomplishment

Hirohito Says Jap Position ‘Truly Grave’   Allied Blows at Rabaul Cost Japs 123 to 163 Planes, Total Near 800

Heavy New Blows. Inflicted on Jap — Pacific Air Power   Tojo Declares  ~  U. S. and Britain Lash Out Blindly

Latest Blows Aiming To Soften Rabaul For Invasion; Losses In  Month Total 800

“Premier Tajo In. Summmation of Jap Losses OL Miade But Tries to Boost cere ere Altied Losses Heavier

ALLIED AIRMEN STRIKE SEVER BLOWS AT JAPS   Additional 123 Enemy Planes Destroyed In Heavy Raids On Pacific Airfields

ALLIED BOMBS LASH RABAUL   Nip Airpower Blasted As  ! Emperor Cites Serious  Situation

WAR SITUATION GRAVE, JAPAN’S DIET IS TOLD   Empercr, Hirchito and Shimada Try to Beost Morale, Repar! Great Nipponese Successes

U. S..Pombers Smash Rabaul, Bougainville   Emperor Hirohito Warns Japanese ‘Situation Is Truly Grave’

ALLIES INFLICT STAGGERING NEW LOSSES ON JAPAN   HIROHITO WARNS DIET PRESENT SITUATION IS GRAVE FOR JAPAN

Staggering Losses Inflicted hy New Raids Over Rabaul   Hirohito Warns Nippon Diet “Situation is Truly Grave” Now

MEETING. OF LEGISLATURE   Opening of tre State Assembly in Indianapolis a Quiet Affair.   CG. 0. P. IS IN CONTROL   Legislatcrs Are In Serious Mood and May Shorten the Session.

Hl WARTIME   MEETING OF f LEGISLATURE   Opening of the State“ Assembly in Indianapolis” a Quiet Affair.   G. 0. P. IS IN. CONTROL,   Legislaters’ Are In Serious ‘Mood and May Shorten 1.\ the Session. .

TEXANS DEMAND LIGHT ON STRIKES   Call on Government Off  cials for Statement on   Labor Dicoutes.

DNIEPER LOOP WINTER LINE FALLS APART   RUSSIANS CUT OFF ESCAPE RAILWAY ON RIVER BEND

Eseape Railway  Cut at Junetion   Fighting Very Bloody, Both Sides Renort

Nazis Escape Route Cut by Red Forces   Russians Strike Deep Behind Enemy’s Lines

Soviets Strike Deeply Behind  German Forces   Capture Pyatikhatka, More Than 30 Miles Inside Bend of Dnieper

Hitler's Winter Line Is Falling To Red Assaul   Germans Admit Retreat From Middle Dnieper  River Sectors

WINTER LINE FALLS APART iN RUSSIA   Germans Admit Retreat  From Middle Dnieper; Fighting Described By Both Sides As Bloedy.   Seventh Day

Red Troops Seal Route — OfRetreat   Russian Columns Strike Deep Behind Large German Forces On Bend

PYATIKHATKA RAIL JUNCTION TAKEN BY REDS   More Than 1,800 Enemy Officers And Troops Captured During Breakthrough

Berlin Admits Nazi Retreat From Dnieper   Reds Cut’ Main Escape Railway to the West in River Bend Area -

LABOR DRAFT DELAY URGED - AY PRESIDENT   ROOSEVELT TELLS PRESS CON.  FERENCE HE FAVORS AVOIDING BUCH ACTION IF AT ALL POSSIBLE”

PRESIDENT AIMS TO AVOID LAW FOR NATIONAL SERVICE   Chief Executive Hopes Work-Draft Legislation May Not Be Needed Durino This War. °

Report 19,594 Russians Captured   Wallace to End Costa Rica Trip

LITTLE'S 0. K.   Small Supply of Canned Food Won't Reduce Counans

IN DEFENSE OF HER STAMP    Postal Bnip loye Explains Reason a, ; age Came Back {

IN DEFENSE OF HER STAMP   Postal — oye ve Explains Reason a age Came Back

LEGIOLATORS GET TEMPERANCE BILL   Asks That Beer Of More Than One Per Cent Alcohol Be Declared Intoxicating, Under Board Control

NEW BEER BILL IS INTRODUCED   Measure Puts 1 Per Cent Beverages In Class Of Intoxicants

Salerno Fields Now Being Used   Many Enemy Planes Caught On Ground

Health Of FDR Is Not Factor In Fourth Term   Report Could Stand Strain

ROOSEVELT'S HEALTH “G000’   Wouldn't 1 Be e Deciding Factor If He Runs for 4th Term

President's Health Reported Okay   Could Stand Strain Of Another Campaign

Says Roosevelt's Health Will Not Be Deciding Factor in Seeking 4th Term

FDR’s Health Won’t Be Deciding Factor On Whether He Will Or Will Not Run Again

President In Top Condition  Still Capable OF Throwing Of Troubles

OPA Orders Price Cut In Many Items   Designed To Lower ‘Cost Of Living By 2.3 Per Cent

OPA Plans Food Price Roll Back   Seeks to Lower Living Costs  To Consumers By 2.3 Per Cent.

Cost Of Living Slash Planned  New Subsidy Program Revealed By OPA

OPA ANNOUNCES PRICE CUT-BACK   Promises Cost of Living Curt Through Reductions on Numerous Items.

OPA Lists Huge Price Roll Back   Potatoes, Lard, Oranges And Other Products Reduced

Sweeping Program Designed to Lower Cost of Living, Says Bowles.   FEDERAL AID PLANNED

Retail Prices To Be Cut On Lard, Spuds   Apples, Oranges   Apples, Oranges And Other Items Face Slash

Extensive Program Is  Disclosed   Living Cost Reduction Of 2.3 Per Cent Is Goal Announced By Chester Bowles Today

Retail Prices of Potatoes, Lard and Other Articles to Be Lowered by Proqram

Definite Roll-Back of  Prices Seen   OPA Manager Lists Numerous Items to  Be Affected

The OPA to Start Rollback Through Big Transportation Subsidy Program   FIRST EFFECTS TO : BE FELT SOON  But More “Funds Will Be ) Necessary to Put Lid On Milk Prices

Sweeping Rollback In Food Prices Planned      Reduction In Price Of Living By At Least 2.3 Per Cent Is Planned By OPA; $100,000,000 Government ‘Subsidy Fund To Re Tised

OPA Reveals Plan to Slash Cost of Living  2.3 Per Cent   To Lower Winter Fruits, Vegetables 15 Pet. Be low Last Year

BLACK MARKET I$ UNCOVERED   2,000,000 Gallons In Gas Books Are Involved.

Martin To Take Governor Oath Tomorrow Noor  Inaugural Plans Com. plete; House Meets To-

OPTIMISM IN OPINIONS OF GEN, GIRAUD   North African High Commissioner Promises Racial Intolerance Will Soon be Abolished.

REDS CAPTURE MILLEROVOIN ROSTOV DRIVE   Kharkov And Maikop 01 Field Next Objectives  Of Russian Armies   EXTERMINATION OF GERMANS CONTINUES

Millerovo, Rail Junction, Captured by Red Army  SUCCESSES SCORED IN OTHER SECTORS  Violent Battle of Extermination Rages Near Stalinarad

GAINS MADE IN KHARKOV PUSH, OTHER SECTORS   Extermination Battle Is Reported In Volga City With Nazi  Force Reduced   Millerovo Occupied

Millerovo, Rail Junction, Captured by Red Army  SUCCESSES SCORED IN OTHER SECTORS  Violent Battle of Exter  Violent Battle of Extermination Rages Near Stalinarad

More Distrubances In Copenhagen   General Strike Spreads, Unrest Mounts

SERIOUS RIOTS START AGAIN IN COPENHAGEN   General strikes spread through Denmark as unrest mounts

Unrest In Denmark On Steady Rise   Serious Disturbances Ir Copenhagen As Strike Spreads Over Land

Towa Sec. of Agriculture Judge at Fair   Harry Linn to preside at horse show Tuesday, Aug. 24.

W.P. Barnes Held In Manslaughter Case In Court   Local White Man Held For Superior Court In Connection With Accident Death of Negro Woman Last Month.

MURDERER BOUND OVER 10 COURT      Charlie Griffin, 61-Year Old Negro, Ordered Held Under $500 Bond By Recorder Pending Trial In Sup “rior Court for Slaying George Batts, Negro.

R.A. F. Bombers Renew Attacks   Roar Over English Channe! Headed For France And Germany

North African War Bulletins   SEIZE ITALIAN FLEET tO COVER EVACUATION

Utah Solons Visit Ogden, War Plants   Luncheon Sponsored By Chamber Given At  Arsenal

Expected Stand by Gen. Rommel Fails To Materialize While He Continues’His Flight To Tripoli

Rommel Flees Valley Defenses East Of Tripoli   Allied Air Blows Stil Provide Main Action Ir  Tunisian Battle Zone

British Clear Another Hurdle in Libya; Axis (Forces Resume Retreat

British Pass New Hurdle  Marshall Rommel Passe:   Marshall Rommel Passes Up Stand Against Foe At Wadi Bei El Chebir

CONTINUING TO TRIPOLI   Fighting French Moving Up f From South   AXIS ATTACK   In Pinchon Area Repulsed By Giraud’s Men; Air Raids Widespread

Germans Prefer to Run, Give Up Gulches At Wadi     TUNISIA IS BOMBED     Fighting French Continue Advance Northward To Join British

GERMAN LEADER FAILS TO MAKE POSSIBLE STAND   Allied Bombing Attacks May Have Convinced Retreating Axis

British Jump Hurdle in Dash After Rommel   Eighth Army Drives Axis Force Farther West of Wadi After a Clash.   Allied Bombers Force Axis to Take Cover

ENEMY DRIVEN BACK BY EIGHTH ARMY VANGUARD   Axis Forces Still Prefer Running Toa Fighting, But British Still Expect Last Desperate Desert Stand.

RETREATS FROM WADI EL CHEBIR   Heavy Air Blows Rained On Axis-Held Ports  FRENCH MAKE NEW GAINS  Nazi Supply Lines Pounded As Struggle Looms   FRENCH MAKE NEW GAINS

ROMMEL FAILED 10. FIGHT AT LOCATION FOR GOOD DEFENSE  DESERT FOX MAY BE   RACING TO TRIPOLI TO

Axis Desert Army Again Declines To Make Stand   British Had Expected Rommel Would Fight Before Abandoning  Daal V thewws aad

RommelKeepsHlis Army on theMove   British Troops Still Chase _- Axis Forces. Across  ~  Libyas.   ACTION AT TUNISIA   Both  Sides Preparing for Impending Decisive ’ Struggle 7

Rommel Goes ~ Past Wadi In Desert Chase   Retreating Axis Army Leaves Last Place In Wilderness To Make Stand Against British

BRITISH MAKE ANOTHER HURDLE IN LIBYAN CHASE   Axis Forces Put To Flight After Series of Clashes At Wadi

Rommel Flees Farther West Across Libya   Motorized Units Driven Back After Clash in Gulches

ALLIED PLANES BLAST ENEMY'S AFRIGAN BASES   Supply Lines Are Bombarded  Near Sousse

Rommel Continues Retreat   Fails to Make Stand and Heads Toward Tripoli.

AxisRetreats: After Clash ~ West of Wadi.   Rommel Abandons: ‘One’ of Last Libyan -Places for Stand —

BRITISH ARMY GOES OVER ANOTHER HURDLE TODAY   Still in the Pursuit of Marshal Rommel’s Fleeing Army.   DRIVEN FARTHER WEST      The Eighth Army Vanguard Drove Axis Motorized Units Back.

Bombers Blast Axis Communications in Battle for Tunisia   Rommel Army Continues Flight; French Ad vance in Libya

TROOPS FIGHT ONLY 195 MILES EAST OF TRIPOLI   Rommel’s Retreating Forces Leave City of Wadi Bei El! Chebie

FIGHTING FRENCH ‘PUSH NORTHWARD   May Aim for Juncture With British Planes Hit” Enemy Shins

ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS OPEN NEW YEAR IN AFRICA   FIGHTING FRENCH ADVANCING SLOWLY FROM SOUTH LIBYA

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY INCHES CLOSER TO CATANIA AS DEMORALIZED SOLDIERS TRY ESCAPE VIA MESSINA.

American, Canadian Troops In  Control Of Half Of Sicily As Axis Retreat

Enna Engulfed By Allied Drive   British Beat Back Stubborn Assault.

Foe Forces Demoralized With Fall o' Strategic Center to Allies; Nazis Pressed Back in Catania Fight

Enna Engulfed By Allied Drive   British Beat Back  Stubborn Assaults By RELMAN MORIN

Capture of Enna’s Road Center Gives Allied Forces Supremacy Over Half of Sicily

AXIS FORCES BEGIN RETREAT AFTER ALLIES CAPTURE ENNA      1 ‘ 7 British Continue To Press Back Stubborn German Foe In Suburbs Of Catania; Collapse Of Enemy In Sicily Predicted Soon

Fall of Catania Will Pave Way for Rout of Enemy  ENNA IS CAPTURED BY ALLIED FORCES  General Eisenhower expresses Confidence in

U. S., Canadians Capture Key Base  Reinforced Nazis Battle To Stave Off Rout 

‘Allied Army Now Controls  Half of Sicily   British and Germans Continue Ferocious Struggle for Catania  5 pee peers muenmemris um, «saciid ummm) © we, © figlgs Cau um

U.S., Canadian Troops Cantare Enna   Axis Forces Begin . Demorclized Retreat to Messina

Enemy defense crumbles; allies control over half of  Sicily since taking Enna   Germans’ defeat at Catania leaves Messina as only hope for escape

British Gain In Move (n Catania   Allies Now Control Western Half Of Important Isle

Back Door To Catania FallsioWU.S.   Enna’s Capture Gives Allies Half of Sicily

Enna Falls to Yankees, Canadians Axis Retreating to Escape Port   Withdraw for a Last Ditch Stand in Messina Area; Gen. Eisenhower Predicts Slowing of Allied Advance: Predicts Ultimate Victory

Loss of Enna Starts Germans On Wild Flight   Americans and Canadians Making Rapid Progress in Great Drive   British Pounding Catania and Fall of City Is Seen as Certain

Germans Pushed  Hard At Catania   Ferocious Struggle Put Up By Enemy Against Eighth Army; Fallen Road ‘Hub’ Controls Half Of Sicily

Liquor Rationing Increases, Number  Of Permit Holders   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Corresvondent :

Jowa Liquor  Pulled Boner  Ou Ration Program   State Supply Reported To Be Very Low

That icwa Rideye Will Hold Out      More Liquor Permits ‘Increase Sales Considerably

BABSON MAKES AN EXTENDED COMMENT ON 1944 OUTLOOK   Production, Commodities, Sales, Labor, Bonds, Stocks, War Outlook, Elections Are  Listed In Discussions.

Business and Financial Outlook for 1944; Many Changes Next 1d Months

Financial And Business Outlook For  Year 1944 Outlined By Roger Babson  a*°8s tm Go & 264147 dS   Thumbnail Outlook For 1944

Lower Output, Higher Retail Dollar Volume, ' Babson ’44 Prediction   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1914

Nation Will Enjoy Another Good Business Year In’44, Babson Says}   BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1944  D>. wrictuw «Er ea rocrrer

Retail Dollar Sales to Average Higher in 1944, Small Increase in Taxes, Babson Says in Predictions for 44

Financial And Business Outlook For Year 1944 Outlined By Roger Babson   Thumbnail Outlook For 1944

Famed Business Analyst Peers Into 1944 Here’s A Preview Of The New Year

Babson’s Business, Financial! Forecast Hinges on Conflict   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1944

Famed Business Analyst Peers Into 1944 Here’s A Preview Of The New Year   Thumbnail Outlagok For 1944

War Developments May Bring Mahy ~ Big Changes In’44   Sale of Consumers Goods wilt Increase As Manufacturers Get Post-war “Go-Ahead”

Daily Temperatures   Babson Gives His Financial And Business Qutiook For Year 1944

CONTINUED HEAVY BUSINESS DEMAND FORESEEN FOR '44   ‘Some Loss in Production * Indicated by Babson Forecast

Babson Sees Greater Dollar Sales; Less Merchandise Units Changing Hands in 1944

1944 Business Outlook Dependent On Nazi Collapse, Babson Asserts

Allied Planes Shatter — German Bases   Continuous Raids on Continent Are Carried Out

GOVERNOR LIKELY TO VETO MEASURE   Senate Passes Bill to Curb Interference With Faod Delivery

Senate Passes Bill To Speed Food Productior   Measure Kimble Charges ls Aimed at Labor Wins after Battle

Enemy Air Field Couldn't Help   Biasted Just: Before Fiaal At Pantelleria

Charles E. McCreary to Craig Field, Ala.   Has Completed His Training at the Basic Flying School at Courtland, Ala.

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RALLY TO OPEN 3RD WAR DRIVE HERE THURSDAY   Two Tokyo Bombers To Appear On Program; Parade; Address By Cherry; Other Features Planned.

Parade, Talks By Gregg Cherry And Two Tokyo Bombers lo Feature Countywide — Patriotic Fete Here September 9.

CROSS KEYS TAX CLAIMS RULED OUT   ‘Amended Distribution Of Assets Also Cuts Amount Given Littlestown Bank—More For Bittinger

Flying Fortresses Carry Offensive Deep Into Heart Of German Resistance — Strikes At Rail Lines   RUSSIANS PREPARING FOR NEW OFFENSIVE

Allied Gains in Italy   Germans Display Desperation in Forced Marches, Counter-Attacks, ‘

Position of Red Armies Isimproved   Nazi Efforts to Hold River Lines on Two Fronts Meet Setbacks

Surprise Thrust ‘Aims To Clear New Guinea Coast   MacArthur Takes Personal Command Of Largest South Pacific Operation

ALLIED FORCES MOVE SWIFTLY TO INVEST LAE   Jap Garrison Believed Doomed; Landing Is Surprise

MARTHUR TROOPS ADVANCE RAPIDLY QN JAP DEFENSES      Have Driven. Within Nine Miles Of Lae After Surprise. Attack =a  ” "On Bases

JAP CHAIN OF BASES IX NEW GUINEA SPLIT BY LANDING   Offensive Is Under Personal Direction Of MacArthur; Nip Garrison Doomed

MAC ARTHUR LEADS DRIVE ~ AGAINST LAE   Japanese Bases Split In ‘Surprise Landing In *- New Guinea

Allies Spit Up Jap Bases On New Guinea  Surprise Landing Held Largest Ever Attempted

PRODUCTION BOOST IN RUBBER SEEN   FIRESTONE PREDICTS OUTPUT IN 1944 WILL DOUBLE NORMAL DEMAND. .

Administration To Yield A Bit On Food Prices   Seeks To Appease Farm Bloc; Manpower Hearings Begin.

FARM PRICES. UNDER. STUDY   Administration Expected to Concede Some Increases to Ease Farm Bloc Pressure

Opinion Over Farm Prices To  Be Given Soon   Attorney General Biddle Expected To Give Congress Opinion So It May Base Farm Ceilings.

Move To Lift Agricultural Ceiling Is Gaining Momentum in Capital

Drafts Legal Opinion on Farm Prices   Administration Prepares for Strategic Retreat to Avoid Assault by Congressional Farm Bloc

Farm Bloc Seeks Hike in Ceilings   Administration Retreats Tactfully to Prevent General Attack on Price Law

Administration May Make Concessions in Farm Price Struggle   Moves to Avoid General Assault by Law Makers  From Farm States

MOVE TO HIKE FOOD PRICES IS RENEWED      Farm Bloc Would Raise Ceilings 10 to 15 Per Cent — Administration Reported Ready to Make Concessions,

ADMINISTRATION MAY RETREAT ON FARM PRICE FRONT   OPEN HEARINGS ON HOW LARGE AN ARMY iS NEEDED TO WIN

NEW DEAL 10 GIVE IN TO . AVOID ROW   Cive On Some Points Wilt Appease Farm Bloc, Administration Thinks

Retreat Seen  On Food Plan   Government Is Reported . Trying To Dodge War Over .Cost Setup ”

A Strategic Retreat On Farm Prices   Administration Said to Be Framing Plans to Avoid General Revision   WOULD INCLUDE HIRED LABOR COST   More Foods Probably Will Be Rationed; Wickard Asks. All to Help

Today At Washington: ; Administration May Make Concessions On Farm Price  Stand; Manpower Probed

CONCESSIONS ON FARM PRICE PRONT LOOMING   Administration Reported Preparing for. Strategie Retreat On Agricultural Problem   OPINION DRAFTED   To Define Extent to Which Increased Farm Labor Costs Should Enter Price Ceilings

Administration Prepares For Retreat On Agriculture Price Front To Avoid New Assaults

FARM BLOG 10 GET SOME CONCESSIONS   Change In Farm Labor Cost Provision Expected

Congress Farm Bloc Given Nod   ADMINISTRATION MAY CHANGE CEILING PROGRAM

FARM BLOC MAY BET FOOD COST CONCESSIONS   Administration Prepares fo Strategic Retreat

Administration Reported ‘Preparing Retreat On Avricultural Price Front   Hearings - on Size of Army Needed to Win War to Begin Today.

Back-Down Seen In Farm Prices  Report Administration To Be Preparing For Retreat On Stand   Food Prices May Rise

ALLIED AIRMEN SET ITALIAN SHIP ON FIRE   Rehit Main Rail Targets Near Naples

Congress Heads Home to Hear  Voters Views  Will Face Heavy — of Mator  iii ae n Return

 Partisan Scraps Brew As 78th Congress Goes Home For 20-Day Recess

(8TH CONGRESS BEGINS RECESS   Several Controversial Issues On Docket After Jan. 10

78th Congress To Meet Vital Issties in 1944   Taxes, Subsidies, Service  Discharge Pay Among ae ee ee Le ee

CONGRESS TO TAKE RECESS UNTILJAN. 10   Many Issues ta Face Solons on Return From Holiday   SUBSIDY QUESTION ~ HIGH ON CALENDAR   Action on Rail and Mustering Out Pay Delaved

78th Congress Heads for’ Yuletide Rest   Important Issues Await Action Of Next Seasion

CONGRESS 10 TAKE RECESS UNTIL JAN. 10   Many Issues to Face Solons on Return From Holiday   SUBSIDY QUESTION HIGH ON CALENDAR

Congressional Session Closes: Many Measures Are Sidetracked   Partisan Battles Expected To Mark New Sessior Jan. 10 Controversia Leaislation

CONGRESS QUITS AND GOES HOME   MUCH HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATION SIDETRACK#D IN LATE RUSH.

Future Campaigns Against Japanese Charted By Group  Strategy Approved

Conferences Lay Strategy For Pacifie Drive   High Ranking Officers of Pacific War Theater Complete Important Conferences.

PLANS ARE MADE FOR CAMPAIGNS IN THE PACIFIC   digh Ranking Army And Navy Officers Complete Conferences On Planned Activity Against The Japanese.

Pacific War Plans Made in Washingtor   High-Ranking Army and Navy Officers Complete Series of Conferences on Plans for - Future Campaigns Against the Japs.

New Pacifie Strategy Has Been Outlined   High Officers OF Army And Navy End Capital Conference

PLANS ARE LAID AT CONFAB FOR WAR ON JAPAN   Decisions Reached by High Army and Navy Officers in Washington Withheld   BATTLE IN PACIFIC HINTED   Allies Continue To Blast Jap Island Bases with Heavy Air Assaults

DISCUSS FUTURE ~ DRIVES AGAINST — THE NIPPONESE   ‘High-ranking Army and   Navy Officers From Pacific War Theatres Have Just Completed Series of Conferences; No Decisions Disclosed.

HIGH ARMY, NAVY OFFICERS CONFER   None of the Decisions Reached at Washington Conference Were Disclosed.

U.S. Officers Map Plans to Attack Japs   Conferences Held by Leaders From War Theaters in Pacific *

Officers to Return to Overseas Station to Direct Operations Against Japanese Aareed on in Washington Conference

U.S. War Leaders Learn Casablanca Campaign Decisions   None Disclosed Following Session Of High Ranking Army, Navy Officers From Pacific Theaters

Plan Pacific Strategy   iCall Army and Navy fficers From War Fone to Washington

Council of War For Pacific Has Been Completed   High-Rank Officers Met With Army and Navy Chiefs of Staff

SOUTH PACIFIC ARMY, NAVY OFFICERS MEET   Map Plans for Drive Against Japanese

Confab oft Pacific officers   Conference in Washington te hear strategy

High Officers From Pacific Confer in U.S.         Army and Navy Chiefs Get Orders for Future Campaign

New Offensive Against Japan Now Prepared   High Ranking Chief: Of Pacific Area Have Conferred In Washington

HIGH RANKING MILITARY CHIEFS LAY WAR PLANS   Casablanca Strategy Is Presented To Army, Navy Officials

CHIEFS MEET “TODECIDE ON JAP STRATEGY   High Ranking Officers End  Conferences On Future Pacific Action

FUTURE DRIVES AGAINST JAPS BY U.S, MAPPED   Group of High Ranking Army and Navy Officers Conclude Conferences In Washington   ACQUAINTED WITH CASABLANCA AIMS   Decisions Reached By Meeting of Joint Chief of Staffs of Pacific Area ‘Kept Secret

Officers Of All Pacific War Groups Map Strategy   High Ranking Army And Navy Men Have Concluded Series Of Important Conference:

ARMY, NAVY LAYS PLANS FOR JAPS   Meeting Is Called to Acquaint Commanders with Strategy Approved at Casablanca

Secret Talks  Close   ..- Pacific Chiefs Told Of Casablanca Plans

End Parley On Pacific Battle   Commanders Told of Cas ablanca Decisions

Army and Navy Leaders In Pacific Zone Confer InU.S.On War Plans.

Brass Hats From Pacific In Washington  Leaders Confer on Action; Naval Forces

HIGH ARMY, NAVY OFFICERS DISCUSS PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS   SERIES OF CONFERENCES GIVE PACIFIC HIGH OFFICERS CAMPAIGN PLANS

GREAT GERMAN DEFENSE BASE ISCAPTURED   Russ Take Mtsensk “Northeast of Orel

Mtsensk Taken By Russians As Drive Broadens  *Germans In Orel Sector Face

3] MORE ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN WEWAK RAIL   Twelve More Possibly Shot Down By Liberstors and Lightnings In 114-Ton Bombing Attack On The New Guinea Base.

ATTRITION WAR HITS JAPANESE   ALLIES REPORT MORE NIP PLANES DOWNED IN STRAFING WEWAK

ENEMY AIR STAND COOTS 37 PLANES   MacArthur Reports Air Victory After Bombing Raid on Wewak

New Air Victory Scored Over Japs   MacArthur Reports 37 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Attack on Wewak.

Desperate Jap Counterattacks  Are Beaten Off   37 Japanese Planes Bagged By Allies In 114 Ton Bombing As sault On Wewak; Allied Troops Strengthen S alamaua Positions

ALLIED PLANES OMAGH WEWAK WITH NEW RAID   Another Heavy Blow Dealt Jap Air Power As 37 More Planes Lost

Allies Leap Over Kolombangaraln Further Advance   Landing Indicates Plan Tc Starve Out Strong Garrison At Villa

37 More Jap Planes Are  Destroyed In ‘Wewak Raid   Enemy Loss May Go To 49; Reinforcements Sent In By Nips Are Dealt Severe Rlow

37 Jap Planes Destroyed in_ Heavy Raid Against Wewak   Alhecd lroops Hold Strong Ridge Positions Above, Below Salamaua

AMERICAN. AIRMEN DOWN 37 PLANES: IN WEWAK ATTACK      Liberator. Bombers Drop 114 Tons of Explosives on Nip Base in New Guinea—U. = Losses Light. :

U. S. PLANES DROP 114-TONS OF BOMBS ON JAPS AT WEWAK   Enemy Has Lost More Than 300 Planes There Since Mid-August

Allied Bombers Take Jap Toll   MANY ENEMY PLANES ARE DESTROYED BY YANKS

Lightnings and Liberators In Bombing Attack   New Air Victory Scored Sunday and Reported Today

U. 5: Bombers Down 37 Japs   Enemy Loss May Go To 48 Planes, Allied Headauarters Savs

MANY ADDITIONAL JAPANESE PLANES BEEN DESTROYED  WEWAK AGAIN SCENE OF ENEMY DISASTER; ALLIE! STRONG AT SALAMAUA

DESTROYED IN ATTACK   Allied Troops Fight Above Airdrome At Salamaua

Destroy 37 Jap Planes In Wewak Attack   Allied Ground Troops Hold Strong Ridge Positions Above And Below Salamaua Field

Yanks Chalk Up New Air Victory   Destroy Many Japanese Planes In New Guinea

—PACIFIC—  JAPS ARE HANDED NEW AIR DEFEAI   Wewak Heavily Bombed And 37 Japanese Planes Shot Down

Destroy 37 To 49 More Jap Planes   Yanks Drop 114 Tons Of Bombs In New Air Victory At Wewak.

Americans Take Heavy Toll Of Japanese Planes  More Than 300 Shot   More Than 300 Shot Down Since MidAugust Fighting

WEWAK HIT BY HEAVY BOMBING   Allied Planes Drop 114 Tons of Bombs On Air Base

ALLIED BOMBS BLAST WEWAK   Destruction of 39 More Jap Planes Brings Latest Toll to 300

114 More Tons of Bombs Are Droppec On Japs at Wewak   Ground Forces Are On Two Sides of Salamaua Airport

YANK FIGHTERS BAG 37 PLANES INNEW GUINEA   Aerial Victory Scored In Wewak Raid Boosts Jap Losses.Over 300. Jn. «.,. “ou Recent Weeks

37 JAPANESE PLANES DESTROYED IN RAID   Twenty-Five Shot Down, 12 on Ground Blasted in Allied Attack on Wewak,.

37 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   U. S. Fliers Add Toll to More Than 300 Shot Down Since Mid-August.

Wewak Hit Again In Heavy Attack  37 To 49 Jap Planes  Destroved In Raid

Wewak Raid Bags 37 Jap Planes   American Fliers Drop 114 Tons Of Bombs On Base

Allies Destroy 37 Jap Aircraft  Tn Wewak Attack   Troops Hold Strong Lines At Salamaua

37 JAPANESE PLANES DESTROYED IN YANK AIR ATTACK ON ENEMY’S BASE IN NEW GUINEA  Strong Ridge Positions Held By U. S. Forces Above And Below Key Airdrome

a7 JAP PLA ARE DESTROYEL   New Air Victory in Pacifi Reported By MacArthur Today.

Destroy 37 Jap Zeros at Wewak   Enemy Is Repulsed In Salamaua Battle

Smash 37 Jap Planes In New  Raid On Wewak   Allies Repulse Ground Attacks

at Jap  Planes  Said. Destroyed. In Wewak Raid   Lightnings And Libérators _Inflict Heavy Damage ‘In New.:Enemy Attack

WewakRaid Stuns Japs; Plane Toll37   Liberators, Fighters Blast Reinforcements For Salamaua Base

114-TON BOMBING ATTACK MADE ON WEWAK NEW GUINE:   Liberators and Lightnings  Added at Least 37 Jap Planes to List.      Allied Troops Also Holding Strong Ridge Positions Near Salamaua.

SHOOT DOWN ANOTHER 3] JAP PLANES   : Possibly More in Latest Action a! Wewak as Unlimited Aerial Warfare Continues.

Jap Plane Loss in Area 300 Since August: Foe Repulsed Near Salamaua

Yanks Smash 37 Planes in Wewak Raid   Allies Repulse Jap Attacks On Kila Ridge  Near Salamaua  ait ——-_—p.,me meee eee e@ eee

New Victory Scored in Air Against Japs   37 More Planes Are Destroyed In Wewak Attack

INCREASE IN NUMBER OF PARTY-LINE TELEPHONES   Approximately 100,000 More Pa. Families Using PartyLines Since Pearl Harbor   HELPS MEET DEMANDS

‘Informer’ Law  Set For Repeal   Get-Rich-Quick  Scheme On Way Out

CRURCHILL NOW IN LONDON; CONFERS WITH = MINISTERS   Popularity Still High _Although There Has _ ’ Been Criticism Of  Government

WAR PROGRESS TALK PLANNED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister, Back In London, To Address Commons

Churchill to Talk Before  Parliament   Prime Minister Back in London After Long Stay

CHURCHILL BACK HOME   British Prime Minister Soon To Make Report Te Parliament

CHURCHILL PLANS TO _ ADDRESS PARLIAMEN]   rime Minister to Review the Progress of War in Speech to Ba Made at a Time Not Designated— Long Journey Home Is Completed—Thousands Welcome Official on Arrival in London With His: Wife and Dauchter

Yanks and Russians Drive Ahead   Germans in Desperate Sit uation in Southern Ukraine and Crimea

ROMMEL’S TROOPS SCORE AGAINST JUGOSLAV PATRIOTS   Reds, Nazis Locked in Fierce Struggles At Four Key Points on Long Soviet Line

Germans Spread Big Mine Fields, Throw Out Counter Attacks To Impede Marching American, British Forces    ALLIES MAKE GAIN ON ITALIAN FRONT

Call Luftwaffe to Drive Slavs From Split   Report Patriot Fighters Enter  “Bigyme Pert

GERMANS PLANNING TO HALT JUGOSLAV SEIZURE IN ITALY   Crotian Army Headed For Flume ,Is . Stopped... By ‘Partisan Fighters

With Our Soldiers  \ and ‘\ Sailors  L\e@ @        Lieut. Sam Lipsman, Former Carroll Boy, Plane Crash Victim

Special Committee Reportedly Agrees That Present Military Goals Must Be Maintained   FBI Chief Advises Men They Must Carry Draft Registration Cards

AIRFIELDS AND BOULOGNE AREA CHIEF TARGETS   ‘Attacks Against French Territory Are Placed On NonStop Schedule   BERLIN SAYS PARIS HIT   Germans Offer Little Resistance; Explosions Are Feit In England

ISTRONGEST BOMB (RAID VISITED ON EUROPE —   Flying Fortresses Spear. head Great Daylight  . Drive On Nazis On French Coast

TIME SCHEDULE FOR OHIOANS — STILL ISSUE IN LEGISLATURE   ERS FIND THAT CONTEOVERSY NOT OVER DESPITE PASSAGE OF LAW TO TURN BACK CLOCKS

CAPITAL BUZZES WITH TIME TALK   Legislative Efforts Ti Modify Or Repeal Law Believed Certain

Curley, 3 Others Plead Innocent  To Mail Fraud   Judge In Federal Court: ‘Gives Defendants Two Weeks To File Motions

Representative Pleads Innocent   Arraigned On Mail Fraud Charges

ICKES MEETS WITH GROUP OF OWNERS   FF. D. R., Ignoring Truce, Says He's Trying to Mine Coal

President Will Reveal Position  Before Midnight   Refuses To Give Indication Of Attitude On Bill At Conference   CONGRESS READY FOR ISSUE BATTLE

POSITION WILL BE MADE KNOWN BY DEADLINE   Congressional Leaders Reacly To Seek New Vote If Measure Is Killed   TWO MAJOR COUNTS CITED   President Fears Law Would Add Unrest, Give Walkouts Legal Sanction

LABOR SHORTAGE HELPED   48-Hour Week Decreases Demand _ for Additional Men

Turkey May Get Invite to War At Conference   -Statesmen Are Gathering for.  Cairo Parley

Allies May Invite Turks  To Enter War   Important Conferences Open Todav at Cairo

TO HAND TURKEY AN "INVITATION TO WAR"   Allied, Ankara Statesmen — Gathering at Cairo Today

WEA Undecided On Sugar Beets   Refute Earlier Story of Reduced Acreage

80 German Tanks Wrecked; Armies Near Twin Ports”      They GIVE Their Lives—You LEND Your Money.

ARMORED FORCES OF ‘ALLIES DRIVE NEAR IMPORTANT ROAN   . BRITISH FIRST ARMY DRIVING UPON TEBOURBA, GATEWAY TO TUNIS

British First Army Has Cleared 11 Miles Of Rood From Medjez-El-Bab to Tebourba And Reached Toum Railroad Station

80 German Tanks Are Knocked Out Of Battle   ee  Nazis Retreat To 00 o Fast To Bury Own Dead; First Army 23 Miles From Tunis

Axis’ Defenses in Tunisian Mountains Appear Crumbling   Germans Abandon Many Dead Unburied

RIGHTY GERMAN TANKS SHOT UP IN RAGING FIGHT   Allies, for First Time Since November 1942 Setbacks, Again on Threshhold of Tunis Plain   ENEMY TROOPS AND BASES BEING RAIDED   Intensity of Air Offensive Increasing; Airfield 90 Miles From Rome Hammered

ALLIES ON THRESHOLD QF TUNISIAN PLAIN   Americans Advance So Fast Germans Haven't Time To Bury Dead

Rearrange Lines in One Area in Tunisia, Gain on All Others   Ist Army Within 23 Miles of Tunis at One Point, Allies Smash 80 Axis Tanks

BRITISH ARMY REACHES VITAL TUNIS GATEWAY   80 German Tanks Destroyed Since Sunday In Bitter Armored Battle   AMERICANS ARE ADVANCING   Heavily Fortified Mountain Positions Fall To Allied Troops

Allied Armies List Advances On All Fronts   Americans Drive Forward So Rapidly Nazis Unable To Bury Dead; U. S. Bombers Hit Italian Airport Northwest Of Rome

Allies Drive within Four Miles of TunisPont du Fahs Road, Destroy 80 German Tanks   GAINS MADE ALL ALONG FRONT   Armored British Spearheads Threaten te Cut Off Pont-du-Fahs — AlKed Air  men Deliver Telling Blows

Badly Battered Germans Yield Strategic Heights In North Tunisia With out A Fight.

U.S. Bombers Smash Italy Plane Bases   Allied Tanks Drive Near Road Linking Tunis and Pont du Fahs   HILL FORTS TAKEN   British Infantry Clears Road to Tebourba as French Gain in North

ALLIES MOVE NEARER VITAL AXIS ROAD   80 Tanks Lost By Enemy In Three-Day Fight   On Threshold To Plain Of Tunis; Threaten Major Supply Base

80 AXIS TANKS ARE DESTROYED INN. TUNISIA   American, British Forces Continue Speedy Advances

Armies Advance To Threshhold Of Tunis Plain    Drive Within 23 Miles Of Both Tunis And Bizerte; Americans Gain Rapidly   Key Assembly Point For Axis Planes In Italy Is Smashed ©    Liberators Make Devastating Raid; Believe Not A Plane Left Intact

Yanks Forced Back in Attack West of Mateur   Allied Armored Forces Continue Desperate Battle

Great Tank Battle Seen Key To Fight Alone Whole Front   Rapidiy. Advancing U.S: Forces Take Two: Stra: -tegic, Heavily Fortifice - Mountains. British And French: Within 23 Miles Of Rizertée and Tunis:

Allies Regain Threshold To Tunisian Plains; Axis Forces In Hasty Retreat

Armored Force Nears Vital Supply Road   German Strength ‘Hourly Reduced’; 80 Tanks Lost

British First Army Only Miles From Capitol; Nazi I In Men and Equinment He

ALLIED ARMORED FORCES DESTROYED 80 GERMAN TANKS   Armored Forces Are Within 4 Miles of Tunis-Pont du Fahs Road.   THE BIG BATTLE RAGES   Further North the British Ist Infantry Cleaned 11 Miles of Road.

Great Tank Battle Seen hey Tok ieht Along \ hole Front   Rapidly Advancing (' $, Forces Take Two Stra. tegic, Lleavily lortilied Mountains. British nd French Within 23 Miles Of Bizerte and Junis.

BIG TANK DUEL RAGES IN PUSH AIMED AT TUNIS   Americans Drive Hard On Enemy’s Heels; Planes Pound Strong Points

Yank Forces Continue To Make Gains   Allied Armored Forces Destroy 80 German Tanks In Battle

Armored Forces Drive lo Within Four Miles Of The Tunis-Pont Du Fahs Road

‘Nazi Troops Abandoning High Ground   Allies Once More On Threshold ox Plain; Gain On All Areas

ALLIED ARMOR 4 MILES FROM DU FAHS ROAD   First Army Reaches Toum, 23 Miles West of Tunis in 11-Mile Drive.   80 GERMAN TANKS LOST IN BATTLE SINCE SUNDAY

80 German Tanks Destroyed In Big-Scale Battle; British 1st Army At Toum Rail Station   Patton's Americans Advance So Rapidly Enemy Nas No Time To Bury Dead: Fortresses Perform Speetacularly By Bombing Northwest Of Rome

Allies Near  ~ Tunis Plain  ~ Once More   Americans Drive Germans Before Them at Furious Pace

french And British Units Advance To Within 23 Miles Of Tunis And  Bizerte

PACK HOMECOMING WITH ACTIVITIES, FUN & EXCITEMENT   Football Game on Friday Night To Be High  Point

High School Homecoming Will Be Celebrated This: Weekend In LeMars   Annual. Game With ~ Cherokee To Be One Peature' Of Event .

"2 5U0 TANKS IN ONE WEEK   Nazis Claim 28,000 Men Taken Prisoner Around Belgorod; Air Battles Continue

Renew Try After  7 Days Disaster On Soviet Front   Ten Attacks Thrown Back With Slight Gains, Staggering Losses

DRIVE ON KURSK ‘IN SECOND WEEK   Nazis Battle on Virtually Same Ground. as When New Offensive Beaogn.

Nazis Make Only Minor Gains In Week's Fighting   Nazis Have Lost 2,500 Tanks. And 1.068 Planes During Week

Details Still Lacking —   Nazi Armored Columns Open Second Week Of Kursk Offensive-Ai Abou Same Points From Which It Started

CE AMIANG BELKED IN SOVIET BRIE   Second Week Of Cam paign Opens With Onls Minor Gains

‘Russians Hold Firm Against Axis’ Thrusts      _ Regain: Two:-Towns. In Ons, Sector; Germans 9 500 Tanks.

RUSSIANS HOLD GN ALL FRONTS   Germans Lose 2,500 Tanks, 1,068 Planes in Past Week of Fighting

RED LINES ARE HOLDING FAST   After Seven Disastrous Days Of Fighting Germans At Starting Point

SECOND WEEK OF  GERMAN OFFENSIVE  OPENED MONDAY NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY  LOSSES WITH ONLY SLICHT CAINS MADE

GERMANS MAKE LITTLE GAINS IN D-DAY FIGHT   Begin Second Week Kursk Offensive In Russia On Much: Same Ground Occupied July 5   NAZI LOSSES HUGE   Both Sides Make Lavish Claims; Few Details of Engagements Available  In Present Situation

Nazis Shift Main Attack   Gains Are Negligible After 7 Costly Davs

REDS BEAT OFF EIGHT — NAZI THRUSTS   Succeed in Holding All Newly Won Points

Russians: Hold New Bridgehead Against Nazi Counter-Attacks   German Troops Reprised Eight Times

CEASELESS WAVES OF NAZI TROOPS ATTACK SOVIETS   Germans are Ordered to Re capture Towns Near Orel Bt All Caste.

Reds Stop Nazi Counter-Attacks   Germans Seek to Regain Lost Areas

Russian Troops Beat Off Nazi  Counterattacks   Germans Throw Large Forces of Bombers, Tanks Into Battle

Air Power To Be Given Its Chance   But Invasion Date Has Not Been Changed By Leaders

Political Stage Reached In Parley   Military Planning Thought Completed Between Roosevelt And Churchill

Vatican City virtually cut off by nazis   Riots break out in northern Italy

Vatican City Nearly Cut Off  Hetnated   Pope Anticipated German Action

Jiplomats There Unheard From In Three Days With Free Use Of Radio Banned;,Concern For Pope Grows

‘Protectors Mount Guns Inside Walls   Pope Anticipated German Occupation: Envoys Dispatched

Vatican City Is Isolated  Hundreds of   Hundreds of German Troops “Protect”  Holy City

‘Vatican Cut Off From Outside World, \Pope Refuses To See German Envoy, \Food Riots And Strikes Are Reported

VATICAN CITY CUT OFF FROM WORLD BY GERMAN FORCES   Nazis Set Up Machineguns, ‘Anti-Tank Guns On ' Property Of Church

Operation Of Vatican Radio Is Restricted   Contact With Outside World Is Affected By Nazi Troops Stationed On Church Property

TAX CANNOT BE CHANGED MUCH, SENATOR WARNS   Morgenthau Still Seeking More Revenu

House Tax Plan  To Stand, Claim  Morgenthau To Request  Rie Inereasce

STATE FACING BIG SLASH IN AUTO MILEAGE   Gas Consumption Must Be Cut 33° To Meet U. S. Figures   PARLEY FIGHTS CUT   Trade Publication Brands Gasoline Rationing “Farce”

PRIGE CONTROL AGT 15 UPHELD   Federal Judge Rules Rent Contro! Provision Constitutional.

Desperate Germans Rush to Plug  Defense in Balkans   Nazis and Satellite Troops Must Fill in for Withdrawing Italians; Axis Partners Being Urged to Help

Nazis Attempt To Plug Balkan:   Send 14 Divisions of Troops Into Area

GASOLINE SITUATION WILL IMPROVE SOON   Transportation Problem Will Be Solved By December, Official Declares

Allied Pianes Based.in Britain — Carry Out 300 Raids in 7 Month:

Al OFFENGIVE AGAINaT AX! 0 GONTINUED   300 Raids In Last 7 Months Record Achieved By Allied Airmen Over Europe

Allied Fifth Army Drives to Mouth Of Halian River  Shottered Ramparts Of ‘Little Rommel Line’ left Behind As Alfied Force Aime At Rame

DVIETS PICK UP SPEED IN DRIVE. ON KEY.AXIS-DEFENSES   Nazis . Rush. Fresh Troops Into Counter . Drives At Vital Points On Front Line °

NEW TYPE BONE IS BAFFLING FOR DOG   Rommel Action Ancers Italians

antaweke RIVER BICES   Italian Troops Furiously Angry At Nazi Leader Deserting Troops Before Defeat

American Diplomat Held By Axis at Tunis Tells Of Italo-German Discord

cOVIET ADMITS FEMY SUCCESS ON KIEV FRONT   Russians Claim Gains On All Other Sectors Of Long Battle Line

Germans Capture Rail Site, Lose Elsewhere   Korosten Falls to Enemy, But Reds Surge Forward on Other Fronts, Maintain Hold on Vital Rail Route Despite Drive

REDS EVACUATE KOROSTEN FOR DEFENSE STAND   Germans Now Hold Both Aail Juncfions and Zhitomir bul Railway Line SHI is Cut   NAZILOSSES HEAVY   Russians Advance in Other Sectors, Bring Zhlobia Within Easy Artillery Range

Soviets Give Up: Strategic Rail J unction   ‘Korosten. Falls to Nazis, But in All  Other Sectors the Reds Surge Ahead

RUSSIANS ADVANCE DESPITE LOSS OF CITY OF KOROSTEN   Nazi Army Under Von Mann:  _ stein Hammering Hard At ‘Red Ukrainian Army Along The Kiev Buice

Nazis Retake Korosten City   Hurl Massive Attacks To Regain Rail Point

Nazis Gain Korosten in Kiev Bulge   Elsewhere Russians Are  Slogging Forward in  ' Steady Drive

Korosten Again in German Hand:  Reds Abandon City for BetHer Pasition

Red Army Yields Near Karosten   Drive Against Nazis Gains Elsewhere

Masters Of © Mayhem Are Turned Out   Jimmie Roosevelt Head-Master Of Marine School

Their Job Is. To Kill First   Marine Raiders Must learn Quickest Way Yo Annihilate Foe

Lost Airmen Sought Near Plane Wreck   Army Bomber Broken: Tail and Nose ip  Mud of Lake

DEER: AT- BOONE WILL BE SHOT   Officials Seek to Reduce Crop Damage

SLAP .TAKEN AT MANPOWER CHAIRMAN IN. STATEMENT ‘ON. PROPOSED DRAFT CLASSIFICATION  BILL

KILDAY BILL WOULD ALTER DRAFT RULES   Measure ‘would call all single men before those married

Peace Demonstrations Are Made As Council Of Ministers Prepares To Name Regency

Demonstrations Against Nazis Break Out In City Of Sofia  BALKANS NERVOUS  Peace Moves Are Backed By Bulgarian ~ People

ANTI-GERMAN REACTION IN BULGAR CIT)   Nazis Putting on Pressure for AllOut Axis Cooperation Follow. ing Death of King

Anti-German Demonstrations Break ‘Out in. Sofia — Nervous Balkan Monarchy Facing Nazi Demands ‘for: All-Out Axis Cooperation.

fwman People Regard Loss he Political Calamity for ] Ani¢: Cause.

Threatens Abdication   Anti-Nazi Rioting Flares as Bulgarians Demand Peace

Scandinavian Storm Center   Reich Faces Bulgarian Demand For Peace After Boris Death

Bulgarians Restless After Death of King; Reported Demanding Peace

Vinson Orders Limited Increases in Milk Prices for Smaller U.S. Towns

MINERS BEING INTIMIDATED BY MILITARY MEN   Lewis Says Government - Plans To Open Second Front In Coal Fields   CHARGE IS DENIED BY GENERAL AURAND

LEWIS SAYS ARMY IS INTERFERING   UMW Chief Charges Agents _ Intimidate Miners   CHARGE DENIED   Northern, Southern Groups Recess Conference Un. til Monday

INTIMIDATION   Says Military ita  Intellig ence Agents Suggest “‘Secqnd Front at Mines”

Lewis Charges Arniy Intimidating Coal Mine Men  ‘Commanding . Officer Immediately Deny. UMW Chief’s Assertion

John L. Lewis Sees Attempt At ‘Intimidation   Area Commanders Deny Charge Made By Mine Leader

SAYS THREAT   Lewis Says: Men Are Being’ Tatimidated — by  Military.Agents.

Army Denies Intimidation  Of Miners   Lewis Charges Agents Of Army Intelligence Are ‘Demanding’ Data  FEARS ‘2ND FRONT’ IN U. S. COAL FIELDS  Stern Denials Made By Commanders or Trea Carne Arpac

Lewis Charges Intimidation of Mine Unionists   Says Intelligence Agents Are Threatening ‘Second Front’

Intimidation of Mine Unions Denied by Army   Lewis’ Charge That Intelligence Agents Are Implying ‘Second Front’ In Coal Fields Refuted By Maj. Gen. Aurand

TIME BILL IS BEFORE SOLONS   Return To Fast Time Sought By Sen. Stanley Mechem, Athens

Fortresses Follow RAF Nieht Blows   First American Attack On Important Railwav Point

FORTRESSES BLAST HAMM, ROTTERDAM   ‘Daylight Attacks Follow Night At tack on Hamburg, U-Boat Base, he RAP   INAZIS RAID LONDON   Small German Forces Make Attacks, Few Bombers Get Tasange Defenses 

FORAY BY FLYING FORTRESSES TODAY FOLLOW RAF RAID ©   Big U. §. Planes: Bomb Docks, Warehouses: in Rotterdar And Freight Yards in German City of Hamm

BOMBERS BATTER FIELDS IN FRANGE   Berlin Radio Goes Off Air In dicating Night Raids Again in Progress; Nazi Fighters ' Scarce —-

“Around-the-Clock Air Offensive on * Germany Continues   British Take Over During > Night; Yankees Pick Up at Dawn

T00US. Bombers: Altack Railway, - Factory Centers   Force As Lorge. As Thet Of Wilhelmshaven ~ Raid Takes Part

PLANES PRESS ‘PRE-INVASION’ AIR OFFENSIVE   U. S. Fortresses Pound Germany After Raids By RAF at Night

Heavy Attack Is Made on Hamburg   Eighth Successive Night Raid Made by RAF Over  Germany.

Fourteen Enemy Planes Shot Down — Hamburg Is Pounded Heavily By RAF Bombers

Flying Fortresses hit at German centers   Germans strike back weakly few planes reaching London

More Air Raids on Germany   U. 8. Flying” Fortresses Spring Daylight Assault Following R.A.F. Attack   HIT ROTTERDAM ’ AND CITY OF HAMM   Hamburg Heayily Blasted in Night Foray by the British : Fliers

100 AMERICA HEAVY BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Industrial Targets At Gelsenkirchen And Muenster Rail Yards Hit   HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE 1S ENCOUNTERED

German Airports In France Take Severe Pounding   Rhineland Cities of Muen chen - Gladbach and Rheydt Are Bombed

American Air _ Attack Follows _ Hamburg Raid   German Territo Continue: °

AOTFERDAM HIT BY U.S, PLANES   Freight Yards at Hamm Raided; British Bomb Hamburg, -

Amiens-Glisy Field Assailed by Forts   Berlin Radio Indicates Seoht Raid Ta On

Flying Forts Hit Rotterdam And Nazi City   Attacks Follow Raid On Hamburg; Danish Radios Leave Air

German Industrial Targets  Attacked By Heavy Bombers    Flying Fortresses and Liberators in Large Force Raid j Targets at Gelsenkirchen and Muenster  During the Day i‘(e

Russians Rally After Suffering Sharp Setback   Battle 375,000 Fresh Nazi Troops on Southern Front After Being Driven Back 100 Miles and Losing Eight Key Cities.

REDS BEAT OFF ATTACKS AIMED AT KHARKOV, CLOSE IN ON VYAZMA STRONGHOLD   Spearhead Driven Down Moscow Railroad to Within 17 Miles of City

Soviet Pincer Aimed At Vyazma Fortress   ‘Enemy Legions Step Up Retreat ° From Broken Salient at Moscow

Foe Repelled InNew Smash Near Kharkov   Soviets Lose Eight Towns In Withdrawal

Red Armies Closing in On Vyazma   Form New Line In Donets Area Following Retreat

FARM STATE SENATORS ARE DISPLEASED      Don’t Like Byrnes’ Move Against Price Increases

Farm Senators Assail Byres   Insist That Labor  Costs Be Included

BYRNES TARGET OF FARM BLOC   Charges Speech a Rebuff tc Agriculturists

Scores Hurt as One of Worst Railway ~ Disasters of Modern Times Occurs As Speeding Train is Ditched

Flier Breaks In Two  On Curve   List of Dead and Injured Mounts as Crews Reach More Victims of Pennsylvania Conaressional Limited

Fast Pennsylvania Piier Breaks-In Two On Curve © Tn Philadelphia...

Most Disastrous Wreck In History   Death Toll Still Uncertain As Many Being Taken From Smashed Cars: Train Wes Loaded

300 Believed Injured In Heart of Philadelphia Residential District   Washington-New York Limited Disaster Fills Hospitals; Nine Cars From Middle Of Train Leave Rails; Soldiers Aid in Rescue

FIGURES INDICATE A00 ARE INJURED   Limited Wrecks at Northeast Philadelphia ,   DEATHS MAY MOUNT   Workers Struggle to Rescue Trapped Persons Hours After Wreck

Train Wrecks; Toll of Death Put 100 to 150   Congressional Limited. With Holiday Crowd,  t+ e& Satie

Nine Cars Jump Track on Edge Of Philadelphia   Pennsylvania Railroad Limited Breaks in Two on Curve;  Total of Injured May Hit 300

Death Toll In Accident May Increase,  300 Injured   Congressional Limited Buckles on Curve  In Northeast Section Of Philadelphia  MANY TRAPPED IN WRECAGE  Nine Cars Derailed, Hurtle Across Tracks And Embankments

Fastest PR Limited In Bad Grash   Upwardsi( OF 300 Injured “An Crash Near North Philadelphia

Wreck One Of Most Disastrous In Recent Rail History— . Many Are Trapped

EASTERN FLIER BREAKS IN TWO TURNING CURVE   Many Still Trapped In Wreckage Of Limited At Philadelphia; Estimates Vary   Faulty Journal Blamed

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FLIER BREAKS IN TWO; 300 ARE INJURED   Victims Strewn Along Tracks as Congressional Limited Is Derailed in Philadelphia.   PANIC AT SCENE HAMPERS RESCUERS   Searchlights Play on Demolished Cars as Efforts Are Made to Reach Those Trapped.

Death Toll In Philadelphia Railroad Disaster May Reach 150; Many Are Injured   SERVICE MEN AMONG LISTED CASUALTIES

100 Lose Lives In Wreek Of  Famous Train   Pennsylvania’s fastest flier leaves rails when journal on trucks ‘of one car burns off.

Navy Guns Rock Coastal Cities   AIR-SEA BOMBARDMENT WRECKS BRIDGES, POWER INSTALLATIONS IN BLOWS ON KEY AXIS BASES OF PALMI, GIOIA TAURO

Warships Blast Italian Coast In First Attack   Entire Italian Sixth Army Revealed Taken In Sicily Campaign

U.S. WARSHIPS BOMBARD ITALY COAST   Planes Attack Railroads And Highways

Aid In Touching Off Violent Explesicns At Two Key Points On Coastal Railway; Bridge Installations Wrecked   SHIP GUNS SHELL PALME, GIOIA TAURO

hapa and Installations Believed Wrecked   Announcement Made  That Italians Lost Gth Armve in Cieile

MEDIATION 10 BE REQUESTED   Wage Dispute Of Miners-Operators Still Deadlocked.

Ud. MEDIATION IN GOAL MINE HUW EXPECTED   Government Will Be Asked By Operators To Mediate Miners’ Wage Dispute

FCC CHARGED WITH DEFERMENT ABUSES   Cox Committee Claims FCC Obtained Delays in Less Than 30 Days:

THREE MIEN QUALIFY UR OTEAGALL SEAT   Smith, Andrews, Farmer — Running For Congress

Republicans Still Aim To Obtain Abatement Of Some Kind; Ruml’s Idea Loses. 215-198

CONSIDERS A RECESS   Members May . Take Two Weeks Off at Easter, Sen. Barkley Says   CHANCE TO. GET, VIEWS AT HOME   More. Meat. Is. Predicted by OWI Chief; Sees. Chance of Invasion. This Year

BATTLE ON TAX PLANS DORMANT   Barkley Suggests Congress Recess; Rumi Plan Defeated.   FARM BILL IS OPPOSED

Public Indifference Toward Postwar Set Up Is Unexplained   Senators Are Puzzled; Washington News of Day Summarized

SENATOR BARKLEY INDICATES RECESS DUE FOR CONGRESS  ’ PRleer cy UEP Et roRy   TWO-WEEKS LAY-OFF MAY COME AS RESULT DORMANT TAX BILL

Pay-As-Go Income Tax Plan Rejectec   Congress Hopes for Two-Week Recess; Elmer Davis Discusses Conditions at Home and Abroad

NAZI ARMIES IN DISORDER ONS MOSCOW   [hey Are Retreating on the Scuthern Front Und:r Ficrce Blows.   MORE TOWNS TAKEN   “Enemy Has Been Routcd,”’ Declares the Soviet Communiqve.

Rostov March Revived   Advancing Red Columns Capture 30 More Vital Towns

REPORT NAZI ROUT ACROSS SOUTH FRONT   Make progress against stiff resistance in Don basin sector

TAFT, BURTON VOTE TO OVERRIDE VETC   Cliff Clevenger in Line With Congressional Majority

SINK NAZI E-BOATS IN CHANNEL ACTION   American Medium Bombers ‘Successfully Hit Shipyard in France: Airfields Hit

WARNING GIVEN ON INFLATION BY PRESIDENT   Food Chiefs Ordered To Place Ceilings On All Cost-OfLiving Items   SALARIES ARE STABILIZED   Job Switching To Be Prohibited Except Under Approval By WMC

rete  F.D.R.Dernand:        10S Wages, Prices: Be Held Down’.   . Congress. Receives Sharp Warning With: Caution.

WAGES, PRICES ARE FROZEN BY PRES. ROOSEVEL      Drive Against Inflation Is Under Way — Congress Will Study Order

PRESIDENT WARNS CONGRESS 10 FIGHT AGAINST. INFLATION   Issues Order. Barring Most ‘Wage Increases, Retail ' Price Rises And Job Transfers

Executive Order Issued By White House   Senator Smith Does Not Know What the  President ic Driving at

FDR ISSUES WARNING ON ~-.S. RCONOMY   “Inconsistent” Publie Carrier, Utility Rates Facing Reduction,

President Also Bars Job Shifts, Price Increases   Tells Congress Country Must Limit Spending

PRICE INCREASES ARE FROZEN BY ORDERS OF _ PRESIDENT ON FRIDAY   BOND INVESTMENT INCREASE IN U, S,. BEING ADVOCATET   War Food Admi Administrator Makes Recommendation — “Not 10 Per  Cent War,” He  Save.

LAGUARDIA LEAVES MAYORSHIP TO JOIN  U. S. ARMY  Doubtful That He Will Bear Rank of Brigadier General

One Shot Needed For Americans To Take Pessession Of Heavily Fortified Kolombangara Island

SEALED IN SOLOMONS   35,000 Nips Face Starvation Or Fight to Death

DOOM SEALED FOR JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS   35,000 Nips In Northern Area Pictured In Bad Plight

Defeat Of Japs In Solomons Is Certainty Now   Time To Starve tarve Them Out Is Possibly Needed, But Fate Is Sealed

US. FORCES SE DEFEAT OF JAPS INNO. SOLOMONS   Final Conquest May Be Months Away But Re- sult ‘Ils Certain Now,

SAYS WMC RULES WILL BE ENFORCED   Workers, Changing Jobs, Must Adhere .to —  Regulations

WORK REGULATIONS ARE BEING TIGHTENED   Virtually All Labor In Maryland Is Placed Under Controt OF  Manpower Commission

RAIL TRAFFIC CURTAILED 10 LESSEN CRISIS   MINERS INVITED TO WORK; SOLDIERS MAY BE USED

Ickes 'Prays' Troops Will Not Be Needed; Warnings To Strikers Posted

Ickes Also To Ask Dimout To Save On Fuel   Appeal Is Made To Miners To Go Back To Work ‘For Their Government;’ Secretary  Hopes To Avoid Calling Out Of Troops

Officials Prepare to Clamp Down On Rail Travel-Power in Fuel Crisis   Mines Declared Property of United States; Miners Invited to Work for Government Subject to No Order From John L. Lewis

Ickes Considers National Dim-Out To Cut Use of Fuel   480,000 Miners Idle in Shafts Which Produce 95 Per Cent of American Coal; Troops Will Be Used If Necessary

Drastic Cuts in Railroad Travel and Use of Fuel Is  Foreeast in Washington

PUBLIC URGED. TO SAVE FUEL IN EVERY Wt   Roosevelt Orders Sec’y Ickes to Take Control and. Gperate -Mines..   SAYS TROOPS WON'T. BE. USED UNLESS ‘NECESSARY.

Invites Miners Return To Work  For Government   Would Be Subjeet to No Orders. From John Ti: Lewis Who Keeps Silcnt. Soldiers to Aid Th Keeping Mines Open if  Napascary

Acts Quickly to End Crisis Threatened By Nationwide Walkout   Ickes Instructed to Take Possession and Oper: ate Mines Under Protection of Army

Fuel Administrator Confers With Regional Heads, Orders Operation; Dimout Looms

NATION AWAITS REACTION 10 SFIZURE ORDER   Restrictions Loom On Rail Travel And  Electric Power   ICKESISBOSS

NATION-WIDE DIMOUT BEING CONSIDERED   Ickes Takes Charge of Coal Mines, Expressing. Hope He Will Not Have to Use Troops.   ORDERS THE PITS  REOPENED MONDAY   Survey Shows 480,100 Idle — Power Generation to Be Curtailed to Save Fuel,

FDR Hopes To Escape Troop Use.    Government Takes Over Mines as Men  Asked to End Strike

Ickes Moves fo Cuf Use of Coal, To Open Mines   President Roosevelt Arms Ickes With Full Authority to Use Troops If Necessary

Curb Is Seen On Power And Travel   General Dimout Could Result; Railways Are in Grave Status

Nation-wide Dimout May Be Ordered   lekes. in Control, Hopes Use ‘ofl Proaps Wart Be Neves     ary:

Ickes Named As Director   Troops To Be Used Only If Essential To Reopen Mines

Ickes ls Given Power fo Call on Troops if Necessary And Steps Are Taken to Reduce Consumption of Coal

Operators Receive Orders to Work For Government   Secretary Ickes Says Troops Will Not Be Usec Unless Made Necessary; Railroad Traffic Ordered Curtailed

Efforts Are Being Made  To Conserve   Miners Invited To Work For Government And Ignore Lewis.

Kail Travel, Electric © Use Ordered Reduced To Save Nation's Fuel

Ickes Considers Curb on Power  Use, Rail Travel   Roosevelt Appeals to Half Million Men to Return to Their Jobs; Prepares for Restrictions on Use

Government Seizes Control  Of Mines, Ickes In Charge   Dimouts Ordered Tc Conserve Coal ;  Troops May Be

 ilckes Made Manager of Mines Where 480,000 Men Are Idle; Plans to Reduce Rail Mileage, Power Use: May Use Troops

Nation-Wide Dimout Considered Probable; 480,000 Miners Idle; Public Is Urged To Conserve On Its Supply

President To Carry Case Directly To Unionists Via Radio Tonight   JOHN L. LEWIS SILENT AFTER PRESIDENT ACTS   Use Of Troops Is Provided In Presidential Edict lf Need Arises

Ickes in Charge, Acts Swiftly To Reduce Use of Coal in Rai  Travel, Electric Power Source

ENGLAND MUST BE STRONG   ‘Paper Says Powers in Europe Do  Not Trust Each Other

House Awaits Vote. On Ruml Plan Bill: As Senate Approves   Senate Approves Skip-a-Year Tax Bill By Vote of 49 To 30; Opponents Fear House Passage, Hope For Veto

Ruml Plan Foes Hoping for Veto   Republicans Predict Passage This Week, No Roosevelt Veto

AMEND GAG RULE   Resolution. Introduced Ia House Today Would Substitute the Word ‘Majority’ for ‘Two-Thirds”; Both Houses Hold Brief Sessions.

BLIZZARDS TAKE EIGHT LIVES IN NORTH CENTRAL   Two Perish at Sioux City As Result of Early Winter Storm. Schools Have to Close

Eight Dead As Icy Wave Rolls East   Heavy Snows Block Roads, Tear Down Poles in Northwest

SNOW STORMS IN WEST CAUSE FIGHT DEATHS   Blizzards Sweep North Central States — Many Roads Blocked

BLIZZARDS CAUSE 8 DEATHS IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES   Duluth Has 13 Inches Of Snow; Canada Sends lev Winds

Government Expecis Complaints Due To Butter Shortages as Output Low

Greater Butter  Shortage Seen  Production Is Low Now. But Should Increase In Sporing

BUTTER SUPPLY GETTING WEAKER   CIVILIAN DEMAND 15 PERCENT HIGHER THAN BEFORE WAR

Rationing of Civilian Butter Su pplies Is Anticipated by Food Authorities

Butter Shortage Growing Acute   New Outbreak of Consumer Complaints Anticipated a: Wartime Demands Increase — Remedies, Including Rationing, Suggested by National Dairy Union

Martin Urges People Obey Rationing Voluntarily To Release 400,000 Workers

Mediation Fails Over Demands of  Railroad Workers   But National Board Feels That Strike Will Not oe Called.   There’s No Threat to  Rail Transportation

Mediation Of Request Abandoned   National Board Is Unable To Bring Agreement On Demands Made By Railway Employes

End Mediation ‘in Dispute on Rail Wages   But Board Is Confident Matter Can Be Settled Without Strike Vote   PEACEFUL METHODS ~ ARE TO PREVAIL   Both Sides Have  Pledged There Will Be No Strikes Durine War

Mediation Board ~ Quits Rail Fight Makes No Agreement On  Wages, Closed Shop: Involves 900,000

Board Abandons Effort To Mediate Rail WageDispute   Labor Organization Offi cial Denies Possibility O: Strike During War

BOARD DROPS ~-RAIL DISPUTE   Unable to: ‘Mediate’ ‘De- mands .of ,Non-Opera‘Hes Unione:

Mediators Abandon Railroad Wage Case   Board Confident, However, That Dispute Can Be Settled Without Strike Vote—Sees No Threat to Wartime Transportation.

BOARD GIVES UP EFFORT INR. R. WAGE DISPUTE   - Confident Settlement Can Be Reached Without Resort to Strike Vote

STATEMENT BY GOEBBELS   Blows of Fate Have Been Causing ’ Bitler te Suffer

Fathers Given Draft Warning   Must Signify Intent To Get Essential Jobs

DEADLINE IS SET TO CHANGE WORK   Must Sianifv Intention To Enter War Work By Sept. 15 To Escape War.

Deadline Is Set for Fathers  Intentions Must Be Listed by Sept. 15

Fathers in Nondeferrable Jobs Granted Until Sept. 15 to Indicate Change Or Be Subiect to Induction in Draft

Deadline Set On Dads For Draft   Non-Deferables To Eare Coll Sent 15

SEPTEMBER 1515. FATHER DEADLINE   Set Early Deadline For Fathers In Non-Deferable Jobs To Signify Intention To Transfer To Other Work.

Father draft deadline set for Sept. 15   New draft board rulings clarified

Draft Warnin: ning  Given Father 5   Authority of Local Dealt Bosurds Ts Rectisietad

SEPT. 15 108. “FOR FATHER   Induction Is Threat of Government Chieftans

Nondeferable Job Transfer Deadline Se!  Fathers Must Shov  Change Intent By Sentember 15

15-Point Program Urged By Farmers   Ask Workers’ Draft Deferment In Message to Congress

HOUSE COMM. 0.K’S NAVY FUND BILL   But Cautions — Against Too Large Armed Force

‘EXTRA ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR NAVY FAVORED BY GROUP   Navy Personnel  Expected To Tetal 2,800,000 : Officers, Men By. June

HOUSE COMMITTEE WARNS NAVY OF MANPOWER DRAIN   Four-billion-dollar Measure Approved With Notation That Expansion Should Re Serutinizved.

Hard-Hitting Soviet Armies Nearing Orel   Smashing Down Defenses Taganrog’s Lifeline Cut Northwest of Rostov

GERMAN ESCAPE CORRIDOR CUT BY RED THRUST   Soviet Offensive Gains Momentum As Nazis Flee In Snowstorms

Reds Slash At  Escape Route   Gen. Vatutin’s Army Cuts Half Way Through Corridor From Rostov.

Russians Slash Into Germans’ Escape Corridor  Reds Now Within 25 Miles of Taganrog,

Reds Slash Nearer Nazi Escape Paik   Now Only 25. Miles From Taganrog, Stumbling Block of .1941 Drive   CITY’S LIFELINE HAS BEEN CUT   250,000: Germans Reported Fleeing Along Narrow Coastal. Corridor

Flare-Lit Bougainville Sea Fight — . Costs Japs Crutser. 4 Deéstravor

Americans Smash Japanese Effort To Land Troops   Long Sea Battle At Bougainville

RABAUL MAY SOON BE ABANDONED BY JAPANESE, REPORT   Fliers Note Reduction In Shipping, Air Activity At Big Base

Cape Gloucester  Area Bombarded   Japs Believed To Be Moving Out of Rabaul

EAVY RAID ON NEW BRITAIN .   Ninth Straight and Heaviest Air Raid on Coast Reported by General -McArthur—Aldrome_ Targets _._Blanketed with: ‘Smoke;

Ninth Straight Raid Made on New Britain   Coast Hit in Heaviest of All Attacks

NEW GUINEA COAST RAIDED BY AIRMEN   Indications Seen Japs May Abandon Base At Rabaul

HEAVY RAIDS MAY FORGE ENEMY 10 EVACUATE RABAU   Coast of New Gritain Being Hit Again and Again By Yank Bombers.

‘BLANK CHECK’ ISSUE: RAISED   SENATE CONTINUES DEBATE ON RESOLUTION STATING POSTWAR POLICY RE - GARDING WORLD ~ PEACE

MacArthur Takes Field In New Guinea Air Trip   - Japanese Are Blasted Out Of Vura On Vangunu Isle; 21 Tojo Planes Downed

Fourth of July Bombardment Smashes Enemy  Strategic Town —   Strategic Town Captured by U. S. Troops in Islands

NAVAL UNITS STAGE JULY 4 BOMBARDMENT   '. Both Places Hit Are Key Points in the Way of Knocking Out Jap Air Base at Munda on New Georgia.

MACARTHURS FIGHTERS ARE ROLLING AHEAD   --VYank Troops Seize Vura Village On Vangunu Isle

Japs Get Sample of Good Old Fourth of July Spirit, With Big Naval Attack on Islands

Big Shells From Warships Bombarc Jap Positions      Fires Started On New Georgia and Kolomb. angara, Kev Points In Drive To Knock Out Munda, In Fourth Of  July Bombardment.

AMERICAN FORCES  UNDER MACARTHUR  CONTINUE ADVANCES STRATEGIC VILLAGE IN  SOLOMONS TAKEN; MORI TAP PILANES NOWNED

Warships  Hammer Nip Posts   VILA, BAR BAIROKO GET BLASTING FROM GIANT GUNS IN NEW OFFENSIVE

Americans Wider Foothold In New Georgia Islands  Vangunu yilece Seized; 21 Planes a ap

M’Arthur In Direct Charge  Of Oper ations   300 Japs Killed As Village Taken; 21  Planes Downed

Axis Airmen Give Battle, 43 Downed   U. §. Warships Shell Jap Isles

MANY FIRES SET IN: JAP: POSITIONS   Heavy Fourth, of: July Bombard-". ment in Solomons:

Key Points ‘Are Shelled   Land Forces Capture Village; Jap Plane Loss Heavy

HUoolANe FORGE GERMAN RETREAT   ‘Nazis Fall Back Through Kiev Bulge

RED ARMY. WINS.IN KIEV BULGE ‘SECTOR AFTER - FIERCEST BATTLE OF YEAR AND ALLIED TROOPS CONTINUE PUSH TOWARD ROME ON ITALIAN - FRONT—-GERMANY HIT IN NEW ‘DAYLIGHT SWEEP

RUSGIANG FORGE GERMAN RETREAT   "Nazis Fall Back Through Kiev Bulge.

Nazi Troops In Retreat   Long Columns of Nazis Fall Back In Russia

Senators Oppose Army Leaders on  Draft of Fathers   U.S. Already Doing More Than Allies In War, They Claim

SENATORS SAY U. S. GIVING MORE 10 WAR THAN ALLIES   Protest To Delay Drafting Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Into. .  Armor

HEAVY RAINFALL ENABLES ENEMY UNITS TO RALLY   Axis Resistance Increases; Yanks Consolidate New ly-Won, Positions

Secret Enemies of German Nazi Regime Reported at Work Even in Highest Positions in Party Groups

High Nazis Undermining Party Now?   Opposition Growing In Germany, Says Swede

“BEHIND THE STEEL WALL”.--ENEMIES OF NAZIS HAVE INFILTRATED HIGH PARTY POSTS SWEDISH OBSERVER  THINKS THEY ARE ARMY-BACKED

Coal Decision  Still Pending   Portal-to-PortalPayment Delbherated by WLB

COAL DISPUTE CARRIED OVER   WLB, UMW Policy Group Hold Meetings But Nothing Decided

WLB Defers  Coal Decision   Goes Over Until At Least Today; Board Is Giving Intensive Study To Portal-Portal Pay Legal Phases

Coal Decision May Be Given Today  Porfal-to-Portal Pay Considered

YANKS SEEK 10 BALK RESCUE OF ROMMEL’S ARMY   Raid Staged By Largest Force Of Bombers Yet Used By Americans   HUNS CONTINUE FLIGHT.   British And U. S. Forces Smashing Enemy On Al African Fronts

May Expect More Heavy Fighting   Stimson Warns Axis Still Has Strong Forces In Tunisia

WARNS OF HEAVY TUNISIA FIGHTING   Stimson Says Axis Still Capable of Strong Resistance

MacArthur And Halsey Join Forces In Attack:  Yanks Drive On Munda

Eisenhower Rebuke to Patton Barec   General Told He Will Lose Command if Incident Is Repeated

SECRET WARREPORT SESSION HELD IN SENATE   Global ‘Tour Methbers Feel’ Delaying Pa-: : cific War Means * 1.000.000 Casualties

Senate Told Soviet Bases Are Big Need   Would Save Million U.S. Casualties, Lodge Tells Closed Meeting °

Senate Hears More of Secret Reports on Wat   Chandler and: Brewster Tell Storiee Today

SENATORS AIR DISPUTE OVER SOVIET BASES   Battle - Front Tourists Also Find Fault With British

Touring Senators Argue Claim Russ Base Would  Save Million Americans

Claim U. S. Would Be Spared Many War Casualties If Russia Would Open  Pacific Air Bases To The Americans   Senators Also Assert British Building Up Reputation As World Benefactors With American Lend-Lease Supplies   Differ On MacArthur’s Estimate of Casualtie<«

SENATE IN SESSION TO HEAR MEMBERS’ ACCOUNT. OF WAR   Senators Say U: S. Access - To Soviet ~ Air Bases Would Reduce  gt _ Casualties

Southern Mine Operators Shy At Lewis Paci   fialf of Tonnage Said Willing to Sign With Union

Mine Agreement Covering Half Of Tonnage Reached   Southern Appalachian Operators Hold Out Against Contract Outline Based On LewisIckes Arrangement

BOWLES COMES OUT IN FAVOR OF SUBSIDIES   Says Housewives Will Pay More For Food

BOWLES FIGHTS FOR SUBSIDIES   Sees Rise In Living Costs As Only Alternative

Bowles Urges Food Subsidy   States. Housewives  Soon Will Be Paying More. If Plan Fails.”

Bowles Backs  Subsidy Plans   OPA Chief Sees Rising Food Costs Unless Congress  Votes Price Aid,

Bowles Speaks For Subsidies   Says Without Them Housewives Will Pay More for Food

OPA Head Urges Subsidy Program  Says Alternative Is Higher Costs

INDIA HELD SECURE FROM JAP INVASION   Dewitt Mackenzie Says Big Country Is a to Allies.   POLITICAL AFFAIRS STILL UNSETTLED   Capture of Burma First Move to Drive . Jap Army Back:

The War Today  eae  India Will Be Needed As Base For Defeat Of Oriental Huns.

BACK.TO THEIR BOOKS   Lawrence City Schools Will Start 1943-44 Term Tomorrow

LOCAL SAILOR MISSING YEAR LISTED AS DEAD   Seaman Patrick Raschella Lost Alter Ship Torpedoed Near Guadalcanal in Battle Year Ago

GIVE UP HOPE THAT WILLIAM WINFIELD LIVES   Former Boone Boy, Seaman First Class, Had Been Missing Since New Orleans Torpedoed

Jap Airport At Salamaua Falls   Australians Capture Important Point

Salamaua ~ Captured By Allies   Japs Fighting ting Desperately to Hold Open An Escape Lane to Lae   BRITISH PREPARING FOR NEW DRIVES   May Launch Offensive In October; U.S. in New Paid on Kuriles

JAPS TRY FOR ESCAPE ROUTE   Australian Troops Cepture Salamaua Airdrome In New Guinea

Salamaua Airport Captured; Battle For Route to Lae   Tokio Report Says U.S. Planes Have Raided Kuriles Agair

Japs Try to Keep Trail To Lae Open   Prized Airdrome At Salamaua Taken by » Australians

Eo TAKE JAP'S AIRFIELD   Salamaua Airdrome Captured; Japs Fight to Keep Escape Path Open.   YANKS POUND KURILES

Aussies Capture Salamaua Field In New Guinea   Britain Increases Far Eastern Fleet For New Actionc

Airfield Taken  At Salamaua   Tokyo Admits New Raid On Kurile Isles

Japanese F ighting To Keep Open Escape Lane To Lae After Australians Capture Airdrome In New Guinea—Tokyo Says Eighteen American Bombers Attacked Installations In Northern  Islands— Rritain Increases Far East Fleet

{HOLD OPEN ESCAPE LANE OL AE   - New Guinea Strongho'd Falls to United Nations As Japan Reports New Raid On dapan’s Kurile lelands.—.Jans Fight Desperately at Salamaua

AUSTRALIANS — TAKE AIR FIELD AT SALAMAUA   Outlook Brighter Today In Pacifie War Theatre

Japanese Attempt To Keep Trail Open In Direction Of Lae; Allies Close In

AIRDROME AT SALAMAUA IN ANZAC HANS   Japanese Fighting Desperately to Hold an Escape Lane to Lae After Australian Victory   ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN

Salamaua Air Base Captured By Australians   Retreating Japs Caught In Trap; British Move Ships To Far East

to Australians      Japs Faced with Task of Keeping ‘Escape ‘Lane to Lae-Open; Report Raid on Japan's '  Kurile Islands:and ‘British ‘Prepare tq Bannan Riuirmsa

Australians Take Airfield At Salamaua   Japs Fight Desperately te Hold Open Escape Lane to Lae; Kurile Islands Raided

Defends Rollback  Program   Price Administrator Gets Into Argument With Senator Taft

OPA Chief Says Subsidy Is Essential   Brown Cails Food Rol!back Impossible With out Funds

BROWN DEFENDS OPA’S PRICE CONTROL PROGRAM   Senator Taft Questions Authority to Use Subsidies as Means of Curbing Prices:  Roosevelt Gives Support to Subsidy Plan

Brown Says Subsidies Are Vital   Prices Cannot Be Stabilized Without Them

NEED SUBSIDIES “INROLLING BACK PRICES OF FOOD   Price Administrator Brown Is .Witness. Before Senate Banking Group, Formerly On Committee.   WOULD PREVENT USE.  OF CERTAIN FUNDS   Many Factors Are Involved as Administration Comes to Defense of OPA Activities on Food Costs.

Steel Official Says Unaware  Of Fake Tests   Woman Testifies That Specifications Met With Pencil Only

Steel Head Says High-Ups Didn't  Know of Defects   Replies to Employe Charges Fake Tests Made on Navy Material.   Supervisor Tells Co.  Shipped Bad Orders

Charge Tests Of Steel Were Faked  Firm’s President Says Officials Not Involved

"WORK OR GET OUT ULTIMATUM USED   Glenn Martin Company Fires 167 Absentees Within -Week’s Time

BRICKER URGES      Surtax Would Apply to 1,000 Manufacturers in Ohio

WARN AGAINST DELAY IN CAR INSPECTION   Current Inspection Period Ends Midnight of July 31st

POLICE WARN “AGAINST. DELAY IN CAR CHECKUE   Inspection Period Ends July , 3b: Pelice List Reasons for  Incnectinne Now.--

RAPS OWN BILL   Connally Admits Failure Of No-Strike Law Section

Salamaua [s Bomb Target   Allied Fliers Blast Jap Base In New Guinea In An. Other Attack

36 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN NEW GUINEA   American jungle troops  mopping up on New Georgia island

SPY RING MEMBER REFUSES T0 EAT FOOD   Move Mrs. Behrens from Jail To Detroit Hospital

Accused Woman Refuses To Eat  Held By F.B.I. On Sabotage Charges

ere  Reach 1941  Winter Line Of Germans      PACE OF ADVANCE SEEMS TO BE INCREASING; SOME UNITS.. ONLY 27 MILES FROM ROSTOV.

CUT LAST RAIk LINK OF NAZIS TO CAUCASUS   300 RAF Planes Pound Hamburg; 16 Are Missing

Nazis’ 194] Winter Line Reached at Two Points;  Axis Army Faces Trap   Large-scale Fighting Expected to Break Out Soon in Tunisia: Allied  Air Force Continues Active

U.S. Fifth Army  Storms Forward   German Rear Guards Withdraw Slowly; New Air Bases Gained

Fifth Army Surges Forward In Attack   Noples Threatened From Several Sides As fslands Fall To Allies: Rhodes [s Taken

Naval Units Take Islands WithoutShot   . Sea-Land' Pincer Attack Possible; ‘Airfield in. Use

U.S. Sth Army Drives Ahead From Salerno   ¥Y anks Capture Airfield At Montecorvino In . Forward Surge

Five Killed In Accidents   Three Pedestrians Meet Death Over Weekend, Reported

Five Road Deaths In State Weekend   Three of Victims Were Pedestrians, Says Patrol

Axis Exploits Rome Attack   Berlin) Broadeasts Vatican Reaction; Says Pope Astounded, Disgusted.

ROOSEVELT IS BACK AT DESK   President shows no signs of fatigue following historic trip

Devastating Aerial Raid Announced   (77 Jap Planes, Many Tons of Shipping in Harhor Destroyed

Road Costs Reach  New High in  Montana System : Conditions Remain  Dangerous as Rrankin Started

Road Costs Reach New High in Montana System »  Conditions Remain Dangerous as Breakup Started

Details ‘Are , Withhe} by MacArthur   Enemy ‘Apparently Seeks to Cut Tl & Genie Tine:

Details Are Withheld by MacArthur   Enemy Apparently Seeks to Cut U. S. Supply Lines

Will Be Cold Again Tonight   Snow Blankets Kansas As Mercury Flirts With Zero

Winter Hits Parting Blow   Light Snow and Near Zero Temperatures Prevail Over Kansas

COLD WILL REMAIN   Sub-Zero Temperatures Are Expected to Revisit State Tonight

Doughoys Kill Charging Japanese With Bayonets ‘In Action On Attu

Woman Killed In IOP Blast   Muscatine Worker Was Alone In Loading Room

WAS WORKING ALONE, LOADING MACHINE JOB   Mrs. Virginia H. Johnston, 27, of Muscatine was instantly killed

BAGS 2 JAPS    Monroeville Flier In Thick Of ’ Guadalcanal Battle.

BOWLES SEEKS REPEAL OF BAN o0N PROFESSORS   New OPA Chief to Request ® Congress to Rescind  Amendment

SENATE COMMITTEE ASKS REVERSAL OF LEND - LEASE HELF   Demands Allies Of UV, S. Give More Supplies To America

Would Put Brakes on  Lend-Lease   Truman Probers Demand Allies Share More Costs

Propose Allies Furnish More War Supplies   Use Of Own Reaource: To Maximum Urged In Report Issued By Truman Committee

TURKS MANIFEST GREAT INTEREST IN MOSCOW TALKS   GOV'T REFRAINS FROM EXPRESSIONS AS TO EFFECTS ON TURKEY

BABY EATS CANDY AS RESCUERS DIE   Tumbles Into Pipe in Well; 50 Men Toil 41/2 Hours. at Task

BABY EATS CANDY AS RESCUERS DIG   Uninjured After Tumbling Down 1@-Inch Pipe Into Abandoned 30-Foot Dry Well.

Fireerackers Are Replaced By Bombs    Military Sets Pace In Texas Independence Observance

Leros Defenses Pea Split By Nazi Forces   Germans Reinforced By Sea as Bombers Batter Anglo-italians

German Troops On Leros Get Reinforcements   British, Italian Cefenders Are Outnumbered

lO ih Li lil eh he ht th Nazis Discuss Purge Of ‘Lukewarm Elements’

Congress Cool Toward FDR's Draft Threa   President Would. Force Striking Miners To Serve In Army   FDR's Proposal To Draft Miners May Hit J. Lewis

Many Pits Idle In W. Virginia, Pennsylvania,  And Alabama   “Why Pay Dues When We Work for U. S.?’ Some Shout   Lewis in Uniform ?

AXIS DEFENSE GIVES WAY 10 STH ARMY PUSE   Holy city of Kairouan occupied by British, American forces

KAIROUAN TAKEN BY RAPID SWEEP OF ALLIED FORCE   Axis Loses Last Important Coastal Stronghold to Eighth Army   Yanks Break Through Two Passes to Join British on Nazi Heels

Reds Threaten Vyazma, Vita]  German Base  Capture Of More Thar 100 Settlements I: Reported By Marching Soviet Army

RED THREAT 10 VYAZMA GROWS   Russian Troops Pour Into  Gaps in German Lines

SOVIET TROOPS POURING INTO GERMAN LINES   More Than 100 Towns Fall To Onrushing Reds

KEY GERMAN BASE APPEARS DOOMED AS REDS:CLOSE IN   Two Russian Columns Apparently Planning Doom Of Vyazma As Hundred More Settlements Captured ‘ As Red Army Rolls Westward.

RED ARMY ROLLED ‘ON WESTWARD TODA) AGAINST GERMANS   CAPTURE OF MORE THAN HUNDRED MORE SETTLEMENTS WAS REPORTED 

FRESH RUSSIAN TROOPS PLOW THRU GAPS IN GERMAN LINES IN NEW PUSH TO WEST  Soviet Forces Planning Doom Of Key Axis Base At Vyazma West Of Gzhatsk

Fresh Soviet Troops Pour Into Gaps   Capture Of 100 Mor Towns Reported; Others Falling

RUSSIANS POUR INTO GAPS MADE IN GERMAN LINES   RED ARMY ROLLS ON WESTWARD; CAPTURE MORE SETTLEMENTS

RED ARMY IS OPENING NEW GAPS IN LINES   Push on After Capture of More Than 100 Villages and Concentrate on Drive 4q Gohaick.

Reds Pour Into New German Gaps   Two Russian Columns Plan Doom of Important German Base.

J00 TOWNS RE-WON BY RUSSIANS   Other Villages Falling »Continuously As 2 Columns Converge

TWORED COLUMNS PLANNING DOOM OF IMPORTANT BASE   Soviets Take Gzhatsk And Then Push On Toward Vyazma   BATTLE MOVING AT SWIFT PACE

RUSSIANS FAR WEST OF GZHATSK   Nazis Admit Withdrawal Below Rzhev to Shorten Their Front

Vyazma Now Menaced By  Advance Of Russ Army   Fresh Soviet Troops Pouring Inio Gaps Made In German Lines

German Base At Vyazma Is Russian Goal   Soviet Troope Continue To Roll Westward After Capturing More Than 100 Settlements

AEDS THREATEN GERMAN LINES   Fresh Soviet Troops Pour Into Nazi Fronts West Of Gzhatsk.   TAKE 100 SETTLEMENTS

REDS POINTING OFFENSIVE AT VITAL FOE BASE   Fresh Soviet Troops Pouring inte Gaps In German ines to. Seal Doom of Vyazma   MAY TOWNS. SEIZED   - ; Germans Being :Forced From Numerous Settlements In Smolensk,  . Pravda Reports

Caphire More than 100 Commutifies in 24 Hour Period, Pouring into Gaps in Nazi Lines   MOVE ON VYAZMA   Two Large Red Armies Convergs on German Base—-Many Town: in Smolensk Area Taken

Red Columns Are Heading  For Vyazma   100 More Settlements Taken In Westward March

Vital German Base Is Threatened By Unrelenting Reds   Capture of More Than 100 Towns Announced by Soviets As Two Columns Move Toward Vyazma, 35 Miles West of Gzhatsk—Winter Weather Remains.

RED ARMY ROLLED ON WESTWARD TODA) AGAINST GERMANS  TITIDE OF WANDe TLAK   CAPTURE OF MORE THAN HUNDRED MORE SETTLEMENTS WAS REPORTED

100 New Towns Are Recaptured From Nazis, Reds Announce As Attack Continues

MORE RAINS FORECAST    Inundations Continue Along Blue.  and Delaware Rivers e

HEAVY RAID ON PATANIA AND GERBIN   Silican towns feel weight of quarter million pounds of bombs; enemy craf! shot down   Carved In Rocks

Bombers Hit Crucial Axis Posts   Another Isle Quits Struggle, Falls Into Allied Control

Explosives Blanket 25 Grounded Planes, Hangars, and Runways  N. AFRICAN FLIERS GET SUNDAY REST  Only One Allied Plane Lost in Day’s Attacks That Extend to Aesean

CANTANIA AND GERBINI GIVEN HEAVY SEARING   Thundering Formations Drop Quarter-Million Tons Of Explosives On Strongholds   African Force Rests

Huge American Bombers Batter lfalian Areas   Report Surrender Of Small Uninhabitec Island of Lampione

Two Enemy Ships Set Afire in Attacks on Shipping in Aegean; African Fliers Rest

Liberators Strike With Crushing Force-at Axis : Positions . BOMBS RAINED ON ENEMY AIR BASES Only One Allied Plane Lost in the Assaults

island of Lampione Captured; th Air Force Attacks Enemy Bases   Liberators Wreck Grounded Enemy Planes at Gerbini; Shoot Down Fighters at Catania; 2. Shows Set Afire; One Allied Craft Is Lost

BOMBERS OMAGH CATANIA. GERBINI   Grounded Planes, Hangars And Runways Shattered   HEAVY OPPOSITION   Capture of Lampione and Linosa Islands Brings to Four Number Occupied

CRUSHING RAID IS MADE UPON AXIS AIRBASES   ISLAND IS SOFTENED UP FOR NEXT BIG ALLIED PUSH

Quarler of Riles Pounds of Bombs  Smash Catania and Gerbiny; Two  Poe Shins Set Afive in Aegean

Quarter of Million Pounds of Bombs Smash Catania and Gerbini; Two Foe Shins Set Afire in Aegean

Allies Continue Advance on Jap Pacific Bases   Hand-to-Hand Battles Reported Near Munda And in New Guinea  OUR LOSSES LIGHT  Planes Give More Effective Assistance To Ground Forces   ALLIED HEADQUART. ERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Tuesday, July 20

Jungle Fighting Costs Enemy Jap Many Casualties   Allied Forces Press Their Attacks Through Southwest Pacific

Grim Fight Costs Japs Heavily  in Pacific Area  Allied Forces Make Steady Gains on Widecaread Fronts

Yanks Advance Toward Munda’   Powerful Support le Given From Air

Allies press  Pacific blows   260 J apanese die in sharp fighting

AMERICANS KILL [79 JAPANESE IN FIGHT NEAR MUND:   MacArthur’s Men Make Limited Advance on Enemy Base to Enlarge Their Lilio Beachhead.   AUSSIES CONTINUE PUSH IN NEW GUINEA   Kill 82 Nipponese on Slopes of Mount Tambu as They Move Closer to Base at Salamaua.

Allied Troops Fighting Way In Jungles .   Americans Advancing Slowly on Jap Base

Allies Press Nearer Munde   Many Japs Killed In Fighting In Junales

Foe is Driven ‘Back by Yanks _ In Munda Area   260 Japs Killed in Fighting on New ‘ Georgia and New Guinea; Furious Hand-to-Hand Combat Waged

hAND 16 HAND FIGHTING IN SOUTH PACIFIC      Jungle Battles Bloody With Many Jap Casualties; U S Losses Light; Australians Continue Advance   Bridge Damaged

New Chief Orders Countr Back To Work   Ousted President Castillo, Ministers Dock At La Plata

Business _ As Usual . \In Argentina   Leader of Successful ’ Revolution Forbids : Celebration; Only . Fifty Soldiers Killed

Axis Loses iInS.A.   Argentina Arrests Stirs Powers, Who Watch Fleeing of President Costillo

Pro-Allied Government In Making By Rawson   ———a  Revolt Leaders In Complete Charge Of Government

Nip pesitions strafed hard by Mitchells   Birds-eye view of action presented

Continuous Air Attacks by Allie In Offensive   300 Yank Fighters Strike at Harbors, Bases at Sardinia

CITIZENS FLEE CAGLIARI AFTER REPEATED HITS   Reinforcement Has But Little Effect On Morale Of Fear Struck People   300 Planes Strike

Planes Blast Italy Bases   Destruction Is Great In Continued Raids

SOUTHERN ITALY FAST FALLING UNDER ATTACKS   United States Pilots Lead Continuous Assaults on Enemy Bases

ISLAND BASES OF MUSSOLINI ARE CRIPPLED   AERIAL OFFENSIVE SPEARHEADED BY U.S. FLIERS

MORE THAN 300 AMERICAN WARPLANES SMASH AT HARBORS, AIRFIELDS AND COMMUNICATIONS OF SARDINIA.

Allied Aviators Sow Destruction On Nazi Garrison:   300 American Warplanes and RAF Bombers Make Widespread Raids

YANKEES MA GAINS DURING NIGHT ATTACK   Fierce Fighting Rages As Nazis Bolster Forces On Road To Rome

FURIOUS NIGHT ATTACKS OVER RIVER SUCCEED   Establish Bridgeheads Over Most Formidable Obstacle on Rome Path

Fierce Fighting On North Bank     Engineers Bridge Stream to Get Yank Tanks Over to Reinforce Bridgeheads— Germans Rush Troops South to Meet Clark's Expected Atiack

CROSS VOLTURNO AER IN FIERCE ~— BATTLE'AT NIGH   Engineers Bridge The River To Get U. S. Tanks Across   LAST OBSTACLE IN PATH TO ROME

CRACK ENEMYS DEFENSE LINES   Americans, British Swarm Across Steep-Banked Volturno River.   SUPPORTED BY BARRAGE

British Advance Along Adriatic; Bridgeheads Made   German Resistance Grows Fierce; Albanian Capital Bombed By Allies

BRITISH, AMERICAN  TROOPS ESTABLISH  RIVER BRIDGEHEADS SEVEN GERMAN DIVISIONS  SEEK TO HOLD LINE NORTH NADIE

Strong New Bridgeheads Established Along North Bank In Resumption Of Drive On Rome.

Clark Drives ° Across When River Drops   German Ground Units Are Pinned to Spot By Allied Air Power

Troops Advance All Along Line In Big Assault   General Clark Tells Men To ‘Hit ‘Em Hard’ As Drive Is Started

Allies Swarm Across Stream   Great Artillery Barrage Precedes New Offensive; Establish Strong Bridgeheads On North Bank; Eighth Army Gains Seven Miles

Crack Enemy Lines Across River In Fierce Night Drive   Artillery Barrage, Fliers Check German Counter-Attack; Two U.S. Ships Hit Mines, Sink

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES AS NAZIS POUR IN TROOPS   Dive Bombers and Artillery Soften Up Blockade on Allies’ Roadto Rome,  — s

Allies Cross River, — Set Up Bridgeheads In Offensive Blows   Planes Pin Enemy Tanks, Guns Down and Block Reinforcements to Desperate German Defense%

GERMAN LINES CRACKED ALONG RIVER FRONT   British-American Armies Aavance Toward Rome

Fifth Army Cracks Nazi  Defenses   Smashes Across Volturno River in New  Drive Toward Rome; Triumph in Pacifie

Sky Fleets and Cannons Help Ground Forces Rip Nazi Defense to Shrets

POSITIONS ON VITAL ROAD 10 ROME SECURED   Sth Army Drives Across River In Bitter Night Battle

Main Nazi “Defenses ‘Cracked   Fierce. Enemy’ * Resistance ‘Overcome in :Frésh’ Drive. by ‘Americans,-British   ARTILLERY, PLANES”: AID THE INFANTRY.   Troops ‘Hit "Em Hard,’ Going Across in Assault Boats: to Establish Bridgeheads’..

Allies Cross Volturno and Smash Nazis   Supported by Heavy Artillery Barrage And Air Armada, They Extend Bridgeheads

Bridgeheads Established During Night   Thunderous Artillery Barrage Paves Way; German Attack Fails

Fifth Army Over River Jn Strength   Anglo-Ame ricons, Threaten Entrap‘ment of Nazis

AMERICANS AND BRITISH CRUSH NAZI DEFENSES   Troops Push Across Volturno To Score New Gains In Italy

pidgeheads Established  Qn North Bank; British Make Landing At Mouth Of River

Fifth Army Unleashes  WMS Ud Menten ahi yy 4il3 5 £7223     Powerful Air Armadas Support Thundering Artillery Barrage GAIN BRIDGEHEADS Eighth Army — Pushes Ahead 7 Miles Near Center of Line      GAIN BRIDGEHEADS

American and British Troops Swarm Across Volturno River, Their Greatest Obstacle, to Resume Drive on Rome.   Fifth Army Is Given Support of Artillery Barrage and Air Armada   Wosttle Ssllt Rrideon

German Line Cracked By Clark’s 5th   Short Advances Made in Center; Bombers Cross Sea To Blast Albania Capital At Tirana

Vital Bridgeheads Said Established On North Volturno   ¥anks Unleash: Mighty-New. ‘Drive; British Gain 7 Miles In Push; Nazis Rush Troops From Reich

Several Strong Bridgeheads Established After German Counter-Attack Repelled in Italy.

Weather Big Help To Clark; British Advance Slightly   Several Bridgeheads Reported Established; ‘Germans Have Seven Divisions In Battle

GERMAN DEFENSES — ~TNTTALY CRACKED ~ BY CLARK'S ARMY   Establish Bridgeheads on North . Side of Volturno River in Fierce Attacks   AIR FORCE SMASHES FOE

ALLIES SWARM OVERVOLTURNO RIVER BARRIER   Yanks Face Hurricane Of Steel to Drive  Across River

GERMAN DEFENSES WERE CRACKED IN BIG NIGHT ATTACK   American and Britixh Troops Resumed Their Drive on Rome.   STRONG BRIDGEHEADS   These Were Established on the North Side of the Volturno River.

Americans Nab Volturno Holds   FIERCE ALLIED NIGHT ATTACK NETS NEW GRASP ON VITAL ITALY BRIDGEHEADS AS ARMOR BOLSTERS NEW FIFTH ARMY ADVANCE

Allied Troops Crack Powerful  German Defense   Nazis Had Rushed New Troops To Hold’ River - But Allies Cross

TROOPS CROSS AIVER AND SET IP BRIDGEHEAD   Engineers Bridge Volturno to Move 5th Army Tanks Across Straam. .

American Fifth Establishes Bridaeheads   Allies Cross River fn ‘Hail of Enemy Lead’ To Push Nazis Back

Night Attack Cracks Nazis’ Volturno Line   Clark Unleashes Mighty New Offensive, Esta blishes Strong Bridgeheads   TIRANA IS BOMBED   Yanks Swim River In Hail Of Bullets, Shells, Set Up Tank Spans

Allied Tanks Smash Across Volturno River   Reinforced Nazi Lines Fail to Hold Against Big Assault

Crack Nazi Defenses   Capital Of Albania Is Raided For First Time— From Italian Bases

German Defenses To North Crack At Several Points   On Adriatic Side Montgomery’s Eighth Gains Seven Miles

STILL UP IN THE AIR   State Has No Money { Money for Vital. Statistics Division —

Miners will resume work immediately   Not to wait for final settlement

DOUBTFUL DEMOS WEIGHING FLYNN   Australia Minister Designate Fate Rests in the Hands of Solons of His Party

Probers Told Of Threats At Tule Lake   Former Officials Say Japs Planned Blaze

CHECK DAYTON BOMBER CRASH   At Least Four Die as Low Flying Plane Plows Into Ground

CHURCHILL IN TRIPOLI, THANKS BRITISH TROOPS   Eighth Army Is Congratulated For Its Victory Over Rommel   PRIME MINISTER IS GIVEN RECEPTION

Russians Cut Kiev-Zhitomir Highway; Large German Tank And Infantry Force Trapped   Second Powerful Soviet Offensive To North Pressing On Toward Vitebsk

GERMAN TANK AND INFANTRY FORCES HAVE BEEN TRAPPED   Red Army’s New Winter Offensive Across the Ukraine Bears Fruit.   HIT KIEV-ZHITOMIR ROAD   Gen. Vatutin’s First Ukranian Army Pushed West on Both Sides of Highway.

Russians Cut Vital Highway   New Winter Offensive Sever Niev-Zhitomir Road; Trap  Large Force.

RUSSIANS CUT MAIN HIGHWAY   Kiev-Zhitomir Road Sever. ed, Large Nazi Force Reported Trapped

BIG NAZI FORCE IS TRAPPED AS REDS CUT ROAD   Russian Army Severs Kiev-Zhitomir Highway As Other Forces Continue To Edge Forward Through Vitebsk Zone.

Soviets Grip Nazis in Strong Trap   Russians Cut Highway And Isolate Enemy Tank, Infantry Group

Soviet Ai-uy’s New Winter Offensive In The Ukraine  Traps Large German Fores

Soviets Trap Big German Tank Force   Winter Drive Cuts Kiev-Zhitomir Highway; within 20 Miles of Prize

Russians Trap German Forces   Encircle Large Nazi Tank and Infantry Units, Moscow Says

Russians Trap Big Nazi Force  Kiev-Zhitomir Road Cut; Red Army Only 2 hdilne Erarm Vitohck

Red Drive Surges On Near Kiev   New Winter Drive Cuts Strategic Highway; Nazis Trapped

Nazis Admit  Reds Advance In Kiev Bulge   “Soviet Is: Quickly Regaining Ground; Vitebsk Menaced _

Kiev - Zhitomir Hi-way Cut By Red _ Offensive   Tremendous Artillery Barrage, Tank And Infantry. Assault. Brings Dramatic Reversal.

Kiev, Vitebsk Drives Pushed   First Ukrainian Forces Move Germans Back  25 Viiles

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON ZHITOMIR   REPORT ENTRAPMENT OF GERMAN TANK AND INFANTRY FORCE

Soviet Army Traps Large Enemy Force   Sen. Vatutin’s Ukrainian Troops Advance Along KievZhitomir Highway — Gains Reported in Vitebsk Zone.

Russians Cut Highway, Trapping Nazi Tank Force   First. Ukrainians” “Advance 20 Miles West: of Zhitomir

Reds Cut Road Connecting Kiev With Zhitomir   Vatutin’s Ukrainian Army Advances On Highway Toward Prize Bastion

Reds Trap Big Nazi Tank And  Infantry Force   Advance Within 20 Mi. Of Zhitomir; Capture Of Vitebsk Looms.

Nazi Forces Are Trapped In Red Drive   Dramatic Reversal in the Ukraine Sees Russians Developing Major Push   HIGHWAY IS CUT, ‘BIG. BASES. TOTTER   Germans’ Lines Reported Broken Betwen Vitebsk J and Zhitomir z

New Offensive In Ukraine ls Progressing   Red Army Cuts Kiev-Zhitomir Highway Trapping Large Number of Nazis   BREACHES ENLARGED

Powerful Red Winter Drives  Smash Ahead   Menace Dhitomir In Kiev Bulge, Hammer Vitebsk Approaches.

Kiev-Zhitomir Highway Is Cut By Russian Army  Big Nazi Force Caucht In Trap

Red Army Cuts Kiev Highway   Large German Force Reported Trapped

SOVIETS TRAP LARGE FORCE IN UKRAINE   Troops Cut Kiev-Zhitomir Highway and Are Moving Along Both Sides of Route Within 20 Bits af Tattar City.

Kiev-Zhitomir Highway Cut By Russians   hifth Army Takes Two More Hills As Kighth Army  Continues Fight

SOVIET ARMY TRAPS NAZI TANK FORGE   Russians Nearing Zhitomir Today In Fast Drive

Kiev And Fhitomir Highway Cut By Russians   Large German Tank And Infantry Force Reported Trapped By Vatutin’s Army

Reds Push On To New Ground   OFFENSIVE CONTINUE AS RUSSIANS MOVE FORWARD

CRASH KILLS B. H. TRUCKER   Leon Hartwick Dies Ir Accident Near Concord

PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR.  wey  ELECTION HERE   Primary. Balloting “Will Be Held:  Muesdayv

PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR ELECTION HERE   Primary Balloting Will Be Held Tuesdav

HEART ATTACK IS FATAL TO CRUMIT   Prominent Radio Star of Team of Sanderson and Crumit Dies Suddenly.

FRANK CRUMIT, SINGER, DIES   er Succumbs to Heart kt Em Waw nel  Entertai Rid

Wounded Prize Fighter Hero of Guadalcanal Kisses Ground As Soon As He Lands In U.S.

Flections Today Closely Watched   Expected To Show Trend in Nation

WOMEN TO WIELD WIDE POWER « 6 States Set to Vote; Bearing on 44 Eved

Elections in Seven States Are Tomorrow   National Interest Fixed On New York Where FR Backs Candidate

Many Women Will Cast Ballot: Tomorrow; Interest Centered  In New York With GOP Active

Elections To Be Held in Seven States   Political Leaders and Forecasters Will Watch Results for Possible Signs of 1944 Swing

Women Expected to Cast Majority of Votes Polled in Tuesday's Elections

EyeOff-Year Elections   Returns from Six States Voting May Indicate 1944 Swing

Elections Set In Six States For Tomorrow   Trend of Voting To be Watched by Political Experts

Women Voters — ~ Are Believed in Majority   Off-Year Elections Tomorrow to Be Watched for Clue to Wrend. for 1944

Six States Go To Polls Tomorrow Politicians Have Eyes  On Off-Year Balloting  For Significant Signs

Today's Voting in Seven States Will Be Studied For Clew to 1944 Trends

Leaders Watch State Elections  Voters to Polls in Seven States Tuseday

VOTERS IN SEVEN STATES 10 BALLOT   Off-year Elections Will Be Studied Closely for Possibie Clues to 1944’s Political Wars

Elections in Seven States Are Tomorrow   National Interest Fixed On New York Where FR Backs Candidate   Chief Interest

ELECTION CLUES WATCHED TODAY   Voting In Seven States May Give Hints For 1944 Trends

ELECTION RESULTS WILL BE STUDIED      Voters in Seven States Ba!lot Today in Off-year Elections

Results of Tuesday’s Off-Year Election In Seven States May Indicate 1944 Trend

Today's Elections Eyed Closely As Forecast of Result in 1944   New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia Contests cr. nted to Re Decided by Light Votes

State Elections Stir Interest  Clues to National Trends Mav Show

Storm in Georgia Claims 12 Lives   High Winds Lash Southern Hamlets

12 PERSONS KILLED BY SOUTHERN STORM   Tornado Strikes Sectinns Of Georxia And Alabama With Many  Residents Injured

12 Killed by High Winds   Georfia and Alabama Points Battered by Heavy Weekend Storms

DEADLINE SET FOR 10 A. M. ON SATURDAY   President Roosevelt W arns of Drastic Action if Production Is Not Resumed

Lewis Notified  President Will Use Full Powers   Lewis Refuses to Comment As Strikes Spread in —  Bituminous. Fields

Connally Bill Comes Up Monday   Measure Will Authorize US Seizure of Mines

Senate To Take Up Connolly Bill For Seizure of Strike-Closed Plants

Balcony Is Em  MUSSOLINI STRUT ABSENT AS ALLIES LAND IN ITALY   Buffoon Isn’t On Hand te Witness Final Degradation of Country He Led to Shame

“Photo Joe” Has Taunted Americans Last Time   By WILLIAM MeGAPPRIN

Lia Guardia Radios To Italy's People   Says C aptive Generals  ‘Hopeless’ in New York

LITTLE MAYOR MEETS ‘ELECTRIC WHISKERS’ Italians ‘Frustrated and Hopeless’,  ‘Says LaGuardia After Secret Parley

HINT TO ITALY   La Guardia indicates 9 Fascist Generals Are in UL &.

SPECULATION AS TO WHEREABOUTS OF YANKS RISES   Absence of Americon Troops Among Invaders of Italy Discussed at Capital.

MERICANS TO Hit ELSEWHERE, BELIEF   U. S. 7th Army Poised For Attack From Cicily, Claim

SPECULATION ON ABSENCE OF U.S. TROOPS IN ITALY   American Troops “May Be Poised For Thrusts In Other Places

Leaders Silent On Start Of Invasion   White House Press Conference Canceled; Absence Of American Boys In Attack May Mean Thrusts Planned Elsewhere

FRIEND SAYS COUNT WAS HOME NIGHT OF SIR HARRY’S DEATH   Wife Of Accused.Man On Trial Will © Testify In His Deferise Later .

La Guardia Offers * Services to Army   Present Post . Called important

La Guardia’s Job Now Said Helpful  Stimson Reports Mayor Had Offered

N. ¥. MAYOR OFFERS SERVICES TO ARMY   See. Stimson § Says The Matter Left Open

HUGE CAVERN WAS SHELTER DURING MESSINA AIR RAIDS   RESIDENTS WHO DID. NOT "LEAVE CITY HAD REFUGE IN SIDE OF ROCKY HILL

Cheaper Rubber  Process Outlined      Firm Official Tells Senate Group Priorities Delays Have Slawed Wark

German Forces At  Smolensk Flanked   LLL LLY ALLEL ALI ee a  More Than  130 Villages Overrun As Battle For Nazi Anchor Nears Climax; Reds Drive To Spring Dnieper Trap

"SOVIETS FLANK © SMOLENSK BASE   Cut Highway And Railway Into The Crimea   4,130 VILLAGES TAKEN   Nazis Show Signs of Abandoning The Caucasus; Red Airmen Sink Vessels

RUSSIANS SEIZE 1,130 VILLAGES; FLANK SMOLENSK   Stalin’s Troops Plunging Forward at Rapid Clip Along Many Sections of 75Mile Front.   GERMANS BELIEVED ABANDONING CAUCASUS   Reds Cut Escape Railway From Crimea — Hope to Trap Thousands in Dnieper Bend.

Vast Red Army Routs Germans, Takes Big Tol   Soviets Outflank Smo. lensk; Now Threaten The Caucasus

Soviets Flank Nazis’ Bastion  At Smolensk   Reds Threatening to Trap Thousands of Troops in Dnieper:  1,130 Towns Taken

Soviet Army Cuts Railway  Into Crimea   Kiev, Dnieperopetrovsk, Other Big Communities Menaced by Russians  1.130 VILLAGES TAKEN

TRAP CLOSING ON ENEMY AT DNIEPER BEND   SMOLENSK BASTION OF NAZIS NOW FLANKED

Soviets flank Smolensk in  quick drive   Trap nazi army in Dnieper bend

Reds Capture Many Towns In Fast Move   Enemy Is Believed Ready to Leave Valuable Caucasus

Red Armies Take 1130-Villages to i Flank Nazi Bases   Cut Kiev Highway, Enemy Believed Abandoning Region

Giant Wheeling Movement Opens   Signs Hint Nazis — Quitting Caucasus

NAZIS BELIEVED READY TO QUIT CAUCASUS AREA   Red Paratroops Being Dropped Back Of German Lines At Smolensk   ENEMY IS RETREATING ALONG 750-MILE FRONT

Hundreds of Thousands of Enemy Troops Are Trapped  VELIZH IS TAKEN - IN RAPID ADVANCE Smolensk Battle Rising to  Climax, Berlin Says

REDS SMASH TC DNIEPER, WHITE RUSSIA   rhreatening to Trap Hundreds of Thousands of Enemy Troops;  Velizh Falls Imperiling Smolensk.   15 Miles Away

Stronghold Is Flanked by Charging Reds   Many Thousands of Enemy Facing Entrapment

Giant Wheeling Movement Opens   Signs Hint Nazis  Quitting Caucasus Re TAMES Ww. YTONG

Russian Advance Traps Thousands Of Nazis in Bend Of Dnieper River   Red Army Takes 1,130 Villages; Smolensk Batfle Nearing Climax; Ger mans Fight fo Finish.

Reds Trap Foes In Dnieper Bend   Soviets Within & Miles OL Melitenoal

JAPS TRAPPED IN NEW GUINEA   Allied Mortar And Machine Guns Pound Enemy.

GIRLS’ 4-H RALLY DAY JUNE 24TH   Annual Event Will Take Place in the College Gymnasium, Week From Today

CITIZENS RUSH TO BEAT TAX DEADLINE DAY   MANY DELINQUENTS LISTED DESPITE FINAL CRUSH

Taxpayers Swamp Offices —  Of Income Tax Collectors   Troop To Internal Revenue Offices Through out The Country; Some Collectors Fear Delinquencies Will Be Many

TAXPAYERS IN FINAL RUSH TO PAY UNCLE SAM   Payments In Some . Sections Set Record; Delinquents Reported   BALTIMORE OFFICE SWAMPED BY RETURNS

Last-Minute Rush, Jams Tax Offices   Thousands Deluge Mails With Forms As Deadline Passes

Income Tax Payers Flood Revenue Office   Rush Slackens in Final Hours After Breaking Record

UNGLE SAM'S TAX COLLECTORS HAVE THEIR BIGGEST DAY   Offices Throughout Country Swamped With Business as Deadline for Filing Re turns Draws Near.   KANSAS CITY PAYMENTS SHOW 250 PCT. GAIN   Late Mail Received in Cleveland Indicates Threatened Tax Strike of Workers Failed to Develop.

Byrnes Orders Shoes Rationed Three Pairs to Person a Year   Limit in Effect Tuesday No Sales Permitted Today   No Coupons for Sales Made Retore Order

HANLEY LEADS OPPONENT BY OVER 341,000   Haskell Concedes Defeat in Race for Lieutenant Governor as GOP Majority Mounts Steadily.   BEATEN CANDIDATE GOT F.D.R. VOTE   James A. Farley an Active Supporter—House Seat Goes to Republicans in Sweep.

ELECTION WON BY REPUBLICAN   State Senator Hanley Chosen Lieut.-Gov. Of New York

New York Is Assured Of GOP Leader   IN EVENT DEWEY RUNS FOR PRESIDENT iN 1944; HANLEY WINS OVER UASKELL FOR LT. GOVERNOR.   Heavy Vote

Republican Hanley Wins In New York   Assures G.Q.P. Control Of Administration If Gov. Dewey Resigns  AURELIO VICTOR IN JUDGESHIP RACE  Had Been Nominated And Then Repudiated By Both Maior Parties

OHIO WAR PLANT OFFICIALS FACE FRAUD CHARGES   Faulty Bronze _ Castings Sent to Navy, FBI Investigators Find

INDICT SEVEN IN CASTINGS EROBE   Sandusky Firm Named Ir Alleged Conspiracy ‘Against Navy

y. F&M... SEVEN OFFICAL HERE INDICTED   Federal Court at Toledo Returns True Bills on Charge of Conspiracy in War Coniracts.

Report Italians Withdraw Inland  Unable to Resist First Allied Drive

Axis Troops Are Moved Back From Sicily Coast  To Make Stand  In Interior  Of Island

GOP PREDICTS ITS CANDIDATE WILL BEAT FDR  REPUBLICAN CHIEF SAYS U. S. TIRES

G. 0. P. Victory Predicted on Public Opinion  Solid South Nol @. Salid.

GOP, ANALYZING PRIVATE POLLS, SEES ’44 VICTORY   ‘Chairman Spangler. Feels, Victory . Will Be BD ided in             South: Not So Solid’

Predicts G. 0. P. Victory In 194:   Private Polls Reveal Trend, Spangler Says

REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERS PREDICT VICTORY IN 1944  PREDICTION BASED UPO!

» REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERS PREDICT VICTORY IN 1944  PREDICTION BASED UPO! PRIVATE POLLS GOP

GOP, Analyzing ‘Private Polls,’ Predicts It Will Dominate 1944 Popular Vote and Win Presidency

GOP Victory In 1944 Is Predicted   Republican Party Bases Claims for Victory in Presidential Elections on Polls of Public Opinion

GOP Predicts ‘44 Victory in’ Elections   Party Chairman Makes AS: sertion on Strength of Pub: li¢ Opinion Polls

Republicans Flatly Predict Success In Getting Control Of White House Next Ballot

1944 GOP VICTORY FLATLY PREDICTED   Labor and Small Business Being Counted On

G.0.P, PREDICTS VICTORY IN °44   Party Leader Asserts ‘Polls Of Public Opinion’ Show New Strength

Spangler Sees 6.0. Victory   Private Polls Show Republican Gains, Chairman Savs

Gei mar 'g in. Southern Italy y Reported — -. to Be Establishing New Defense Line

Seimars in Southern Italy Reported to Be Establishing New Defense Line

TUNISIAN LOSS TO HURT REICH   Stimson Says Decisive Wir Not Luck Nor Chance

NAZIS FLEE SOVIET TRAP   Russians kill 600 enemy troops, threaten city with encirclement

Stalin Says Nazi Losses  Nine Million   Twenty Months War On Russia Takes Heavy Toll Of German Forces   RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER TO OREL

GAINS ALSO REPORTED BY BRITISH   San Pietro Captured After Bloodiest Fight In Italy

“WBLGODY FH   San Pietro Falls in Hardest Fighting Since Salerno,   STRIKE DOWN LIRI IN HIGHWAY TO ROME

AMERICANS MOVE FORWARD 2 MILES ALONG LIRI RIVER   With San Pietro Captured In Toughest Fight Since Salerno Army Lays Siege to San Vittore Village.   PLAN BERLIN EVACUATION, FEAR PLAGUE   Liberated talians Are Cooperating With Allies to Kasten Destruction of Enemy Axis.

AMERICANS LAY SIEGE TO SAN VITTORE   San Pietro Is Captured; Nazis Retreat Rapidly

U.S. Soldiers Strike Down Liri Valley   Take San Pietro And Advance For Two Miles 

PUSH UP LIRI VALLEY AFTER HEAVY FIGHTING   Capture San ‘San Pietro—Cag sino Next In Line—8th Pushes on Too.

NEW ADVANCE TOWARD ROME IS PROMISEL   Nazis Are Broken at San Pietro After Toughest Fight Since Salerno.

Fifth Army Strikes Toward Plain Before Eternal City   Americans Are Victorious in Bloody Fighting in Streets of San Pietro

SON-IN-LAW AIDED MUSSOLINI QUSTER   Ten-hour Debate in Fascist Grand Council Preceded  Vabe

Ciano Opposes ‘Mussolini In Revorted Vote   Grandi Proposes Resignation of Mussolini

DEALERS BLAME OPA FOR BLACK MARKETS   Charge Experienced Meat Men Aren’t in Government’s ‘Setup.

RUSSIAN FORGES — DRWING DEEPER INTO THE UKRAINE   Cut German Rail Lines, Throw Flankers Around Nazi Defense Positions   REPORT JZYUM CAPTURED

Russ Troops’ Plunge Deeper Into U Ukraine  Enemy Defense   Enemy Defense Centers Being Flanked

Red Forces Hit Deeper Into Ukraine   Soviets Press Double Assault to Destroy

Yanks Blast 5 Nippon Vessels In Solomons   Japanese Destroyers Are Damaged By United States Dive Bombers ~   10 ZEROS DOWNED   American Advance On Guadalcanal Captures Anather Nipponese Post

Germans Attack in North in Sideshow   Powerful Aerial Blows Hit Nazi Line

Navv Pounds  Wake Island   Likely That Japs May Have Been Overwhelmed

PROPOSE LEEWAY IN FREEZE ORDER   WLB ASKS AUTHORITY TO ADJUST WAGE AND SALARY INEQUALITIES

ASK MODIFICATION OF WAGE-PEG EDICT   WLB Petitions Byrnes While Labor Plans to Present Specific Cases

WLB PROPOSES MODIFICATION WAGE “FREEZE”   Petitions Stabilization .Di rector Byrnes for Some  . Leeway in Dealing With Inequalities   UAW. ASKS CHANGE   Auto Workers Present, Ser.  ies of Specific Cases   Held Typical’ Of Those “Frozen”

Byrnes Asked By War Labor Board to Ease Wage Freezing   WLB Seeks More Leeway on Inequal ities

Woe ARP BIG MEPARTIRE   Milk Price Cases ln Supreme Court   Sales to Army Are Involved

Guard Says That He Beat a Prisoner   Used Whip and Stick on Convict Who Refused To Toe a Line   OTHERS TESTIFY — ON PUNISHMENT      Conflicting Stories Told Before Governor. Hearing Charges Against Prison

Guards Admit Beating and Clubbing Unruly Convicts   Whip and Stick Used On One Who Refused To Toe Line; Dr. Maxey Tells of Treating One Man for Broken Arm and Hand

Convicts Beaten By Prison Guards   Testimony Is Given at Governor Donnell’s Probe of Prison.

A PRISON GUARD TESTIFIED HE BEAT CONVICT WITH WHIP   Said He Also Used a Stick Because Prisoner Refused to “Toe a Line.”   WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL   George Couch of St. Louis Sustained Broken Arm and Hand, It Was Said.

Crosby's Residence  Is Burned   Palatial Home of Movi Star Destroyed — Loss of $100,000 to $200,000

CROSBY. HOME . JS DESTROYED   sHORT CIRCUIT IN CHRISTMAS LIGHTS CAUSED FIRE DAM- ° : 2 AGE OF MORE THAN 9200,000

BING CROSBY HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE   Family Escapes $200,000 Hollywood Blaze

Ban on Sliced Bread Liffed   Ration News Takes Happier Turn as Aaencies Relen:

SLICED BREAD iS BACK; FUEL OIL RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED   Happy News Comes to Harassed Householders — Ready Sliced Bread to Reach Counters To-day—Women’s Stockings to be Lowered

CRISIS IN PACIFIC ADMITTED BY JAP   Decries “Persistence’ of Allies Following Setbacks Ba Ale Battles

Japs Say Yanks ‘Keep Coming’  Speaker Sees Decisive Battle   a cM

WAR OUTLOOK IS DARK JAP SAYS   Air Force Officer Says Allies ‘Persistently Come Back’

GEORGIA FUGITIVES STILL AT LIBERTY   Notorious Harvey And Black Object Of Wide Hunt

GEORGIA OFFICERS — ‘CONTINUE. SEARCH FOR HARVEY. BLACK   Spurred on By Purported Threat of Kidnaping Governor Arnall’s Son.

Does and Don’ts on Holiday Shopping  From our local War Price and Rationing Roard

PRESIDENT TAKES ISSUE ON REPORT OF FIVE SENATORS   Questions Any Utterances of Nature Which May Lead to Causing International Bitterness.   NO EVIDENCE IS SHOWN AF GREAT RESENTMENT   Questions Pertaining to Oil, Russian Air Bases Near Japan, Trucks Discussed at Press Meeting.

FDR QUESTIONS SENATORS’ TALK   Dubious Of Utterances Of Solons About World Fronts

Soviet Tightens Pincers On Ore   Seizes 70 More Towns In Heavy Fighting

Russians Move ‘Ahead, Take 70 ‘More Villages   Troops Cross Oka River And Cut In Behind Orel To Threaten Only Avenue of Escape For Germans.

Russian Troops Moving. Ahead ~ On Three Sides of Béleaouered Ore

Leave 5,000 Nazis Dead after Battle      Soviet Troops Are Cutting in Behind City to Sever Rail Escape

REDS ADVANCE FROM 3 SIDES   German Losses Reported Running High as Nazis Counterattack

REDS GAINING ON THREE SIDES OREE   Capture 70 More Villages Despite Bitter Nazi Resis-

SOVIET TROOPS BAIN AT OREL   Russians Moving Ahead On Three Sides Of Huge Nazi Base

Reds Maintain PRESSURE ON OREL BASTION   Capture 70 Villages, Move Ahead On Three Fronts

Nazi Losses High In Futile Effort To Stop Soviet Drive   Russians Move Ahead On Three Sides Of Orel; Cutting In Behind City Now

Dh. MOVER RECALLS DISEASE CHARGE   LO  ‘Misinformed,’ State Health Director Says Regarding Jamaican Negroes in State

New ‘Markup’ System For ‘Vegetables  U.S. To Drive Prices  ee eee, ) or

NEW MARKUP POLICY ON VEGETABLES SET   Step Believed Preliminary To Price Reduction

New "Markup’ System For Vegetables   OPA Makes Preliminary Move. to Bring Down Garden Produce Costs

A NEW PRICE RULING   OPA Prescribes 2 “Markup” Sys. tem for Fresh Vegetables

Fresh Vegetables ‘Markup’ System Is Prescribed   O.P.A. Intimates Step Pre liminary To Bringing Down Cost.

Limit Markup On Vegetables   Retailers Must Not Take More Than 39 Percent Margin In Most Cases.

‘Markup’ System Set For Fresh Vegetables   Maximum Retail Prices on 7 Items   At Fixed Percentace Over Wholesale

Check Mark-Up On Vegetables  OPA Orders Levels Which May Be Set Above Wholesale Pric.

Plan Close Of Bond Campaign   Workers Gird for Big Job of Pushing Drive To Successful Conclusion in Allen County

Bond Drive Kick-Off Tonight .   ‘Volunteer Workers Will Get Final Instructions in Meeting at 7:30 Tonight

FR Lauds Action of Senate Unit    Inclusion of Mscow Resolution Praised 

Break Nazi Line In Italy   Whole Enemy Defense Position Endangered

BREACH PERILS ENTIRE GERMAN FRONT IN ITAL!   Bighth Army Capitalizes Quickly on Gains Scored Across Sangro

ENEMY DEFENSE ON ADRIATIC IS ENDANGERED   Slight Gains Made By Fifth Army Under Heavy Artillery Fire

HTH HARIME HG FURTHER BREACH IN GERMAN LINE   Nazi Winter Line Crumbling Under Combined Assaults

Eighth Army: Smashes Into Nazi Positions   German Winter . Line Already Considered Lost

PRESIDENTIAL HONOR FOR TOUGH FREIGHTER   14,000-Ton Alchiba Kept Afloat By “Heroic Efforts Of Wer Crew In Pacific Waters

‘Deathless’ Ship’s Crew Is Given  Citation By FDR   New England Man ls Her Skinner

Germans Apparently Fearing Russian Break Thru Resume Destroying Poles

Gestapo Strikes Anew To Exterminate Poles   Lxiled Government Sees Move Proving German Terror of Ricei<

Extermination Of.  Poles Is Pushed  Nazis Clear Corridor To Speed Their Work On Defense Line

GEOTAPO OPENS POLE ROUNDUP   Exile Government Report: New Series of Executions, Arrests.

Food Agency Planned by  President   Davis Would Head Bureau-—Brown Protests Farm Bills

Brown Attacks Parity Bills  Says Passage Means End Of Price, Wage  flantral Attamnte

Farm Bills Will Let Down The Bars   President Planning A New Food Administration   Cc. C. DAVIS SAID  OFFERED THE JOB

AGENCY MAY HANDLE FOOD PRODUCTION   Rumor Connects Name of St. Louis Man as New Administrator To Head Bureau   BILLS ARE OPPOSED

WARTIME FOOD - CHANGE HINTED   Administration Declares Opposition To Bankhead, Pace Bills :

FD. R. PLANS CHIEF OF FOOD   Chester C. Davis, Reservs Bank Head, Reported Ofttered Job

aT. LOWS MAN CATED FOR IGP   ‘Administration Opposes Bankhead And Pace Farm Price Bills   BATTLE LOOMS   Brown Declares Passage Will Wreck Stabiliza tion Efforts

\dministrator Brown Say: They Will Increase Consumers’ Budgets More  Than $3,750,000,000   ANTLINFLATION "PLANS ENDANGEREL   Roosevelt Reported Read; io Counter Farm Bills. With Creation of Food  Administrator.

New Agency Rumored to ~ ‘Handle Food   Vould. Control Production, Distribution and Prices

2 FARM BILLS HELOPERILTO STABILIZATION   Price Chief Brown Declares Prices and Wages Will Be Boosted.   FARM BLOC LEADERS PROMISED STIFF FIGHT

Chester C. Davis May Direct Board Planned To Prevent Food Price Increases And Soaring Wages

BROWN WANTS BILLS KILLED   Expresses “Deep Opposition’ To Bankhead And Pace Measures

New Agency Near To Handle Food Problems   Opposition Grows To Farm Price Bills in Congress

Russian Forces Drive  On Axis At Georvieusk   After By-Passing. Georgievsk,’ Red. Army fs Naw Driving », . Into German Defenses Narth And ‘South OF Impocrtant Town ue So

KEY POINT 1S BYPASSED BY RUSSIANS   Red Army Driving into Nazi Defenses Necor Georgievsk

Russians By-Pass Key Railroad J unction of Georgievsk, Take. 17 Places in North Caucasus 

HED AnMAY kg HARDER GOING NEAR RAILAAL   Take Four Towns During Night but Face Stronger Line of Fortifications.   BYPASS GEORGIEVSK TO NORTH, SOUTH GF TOWN

RUSSIANS DRIVE INTO NEW NAZ ROSTOV DEFENSE!   Communiques Report Capture of 30 Places Within Few Hours, Reds Use Envelope Tactics.   ROMMEL’S TROOPS GET BACK DOOR THRUS   Two U-Boats Sunk, Nine Others In Pack of 13 Attacked By Allied Coastal Command Planes.

HERSHEY SEES 1-5 DAD DRAFI   ONE-FIFTH OF FATHERS DUE WITHIN SIX MONTHS

Says At Least One-titth Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Will Be Drafted

ORO BAY BASE IS ASSAULTED BY NIPPONESE   INCREASING ENEMY - AERIAL STRENGTH -- IS DISPLAYED

Japs Come Back To Raid Oro Bay   Little Damage Done; Allies Hit Eight Bases

6 Japanese bombers hit at Oro bay   Slight damage,  no easnaltiec

Japs Attack Oro Bay Area   Only Stight Damage, No Casualties Result

Japs Raid Oro  Bay Base Again   Planes Cause Slight Damage: Allies Hit Foe on Kai Islands

Jap Bombers Lash At Oro   ‘Damage Slight In Second Foray; Nip Bases Blasted

FATHER ARRESTED FOR DEATH OF SON   Child, Abnormal Mentally, Electrocuted in Home

Davis Lashes Out At Over-Optimism   Takes Issue With Halsey’s Prediction War to End During This Year

No Early War  Finish—-Davis   Information Chief Fails To Agree With South Pacific Naval Commander.

DAVIS WARNS ON OVER-OPTIMISM   War Information Director Points Out Submarine Menace in Message

WAR OVER-OPTIMISM DECRIED BY DAVIS   Director of War Information Par ticularly Stresses “Continuing Sub Menace.”

DAVIS NOT OPTIMISTIC      Early End Of War Not Foreseen By Director Of OW!

Record Grain  Stocks Found  Kansas Well Supplied Tits New Stace Tec

FALANGIOTS MAR U. 5. CONSULATE   Spanish Party Members Invade Valencia Office

RUSSIAN DRIVE ROLLING ON IN KHARKOV AREA   Strategic Towns Tak en As Red Forces Smash Ahead

Russians Rain Heavy Blows On Nazi Units   Bogodukhov Captured, Soviet Drive Develops in Kharkov Region

REDS SMASH RETREATING HITLER ARMY   Rain Heavy Blows on Remnant of Routed Germar Units Fleeing From Ruin ed Kharkov   Nazis Make No Report

Rail Junction Poltava Next Major Objective Of Russian Offensive  ALSO PRESS NAZIS FAR TO SOUTHEAST  Reds Seek To Close Eseape Corridor Of Retreatine CG0orman

STALIN'S ARMY ROLLING FORWARD ~ ON BROAD FRONT   Heavy Blows Dealt Fleeing Nazis, Who Have Abandoned Large Quantities of Equipment.   RED FLAGS RAISED IN BIG STEEL CITY   Guerillas Aiding Regular Soviet Forces in Rostov Area—More Towns Are Liberated.

Jap Oil Field In East Indies ~ Is Set On Fire   Allied Heavy Bomber Attack On Port Boels Causes Heavy Damage; Yanks Suffer 76 Casualties In Guadalcanal Fight

ALLIED FLYERS LEAVE AREA IN FLAMES   Three Important Enemy Air Fields Also Raided

Jap Oil Field At Port Boela Under Attack   Allied Fliers Set Big~ Field Afire In Occupied Netherlands Island Of Ceram   BANY OTHER RAIDS MADE BY ALLIES

LIQUOR RATIONING PLAN STILL HELD UP   No Definite Date Set for Announcement

ISES "PHONE   Mme. Chiang Stays fa Hotel, *Calls” Aireraft Workers.

Wikkie § speech Viewed As 6.0.P 4th Term Keynote  Charges Prolonged   Cherges Prolonged Tenure Of Office  Is Not Exampie  Of Free Government

WILLKIE CRITICIZES AFTER-WAR. PLANS ON MILITARY BASIS      Attacks Roosevelt Regime For Discouragement, Curtailing Of Free Enterprise

1940 Candidate Dedicates Self to Ousting Roosevel   Free Government Jeopardized, He Savs at St. Louis

WILLKIE IS HEARD BY MISSOURIANS   Dwelt Largely on Fourth Term Issue  Last Night

Old Rainbow Men Meet      Hold Reunion Before Attending Ceremonies Re-Activating Division

Soldiers Busy Trying to Win War, Go Home; Not Interested in Moscow or Other Pacts.

Votes 75-3 Against President   Substitute Puts Wage Ceiling At Top Level Of 1942 Up To September 15.

SET LARGEST WAR BOND SALES DRIVE   Launch 13 Billion Goal Next Month

American Air Force  Plasters Jap  Fast Burma Bases More Than 100 Tons  Of Bomibs Dropped by Tenth

Burma Given Heavy Pasting By U. S. Planes Jap Supply Base: Smashed, B-24’s  @,.0 Eo.

U.S. Bombers Rair  Explosives on Jap  Bases in Burma  100 Tons of Bombs Cascaded on Enemy  Ce  ee en

BURMA BASES HIT BY YANKS   100 Tons Of Bombs Are Cascaded On Supply Stations In Day

Force Delivers Record Tonnage   Communications, ‘Supply Center Hit

Allied Drive Slows Down In-Tunisia   Axis Defensive Blows  Grow to Proportions Of Cannter.Offenawvoe-:   FIGHTING BLOODIEST SINCE DRIVE BEGAN  Rut Rreoneh. Amaricangc

U.S. Gains; Alllies Hold Firm  mth. lk eet ke. Men eer Drtgtaek Yara   Nazis Intensify Defense; British Lose Some Ground But Enemy Still Recomes Generally Weaker

Tanks, Infantry Thrown Against Allies Ali Along  Tunisian Front   Fighting Rises to Blo jest Pitch Sinee’ D to Throw Enemy” i Sen Beoon .

SERMAN AND ALLIED ARMIES MEET IN CRITICAL BATTLES   Axis Forces Fight Desperately All Along Front To Stave Off Impending Loss of Tunisia

AXIS GOA ies DRIVES, ALGNG ALLIED FRONI   Fighting Rises To Bloodiest Pitch Since Allies Began Effort To Drive Enemy  Intn S.an   8th Army Gains foal

Germans pound at captured positions on entire front in heavy counteroffensive   British force beats back strongly; French within 22 miles of Bizerte

AXIS COUNTER ATTACKS SLOW DOWN ALLIES   British First Army Unable To Penetrate Center  Defense Line   AMERICANS MAKE — SLIGHT ADVANCE

FIERCE ATTACKS ARE HURLED AGAINST ADVANCING TROOPS. IN HEIGHTS GUARDING TUNIS

British, French and Am. _ ericans, However, Continue March   BATTLE RISES TO - BLOODIEST PITCH   Americans Make Slight . Gains in North— — French Advance

Allied Line Beats Off Big Smash  Tanks, Infantry   Yanks, Infantry Flung Into. Bartle —

ENEMY TANKS POUND NEWLY WON POSITIONS   Fighting Reaches Stage Of Counteroffensive By Germans; Three  Vessels Sunk   Ai Activity Slowed

U. S. Gains; Allies Hold Firm   Nazis Intensify Defense; British Lose Some Ground But Enemy Still Becomes Generally Weaker

Desperate Nazis Check Offensive   Fighting Reaches: Blagdiact Stace

Enemy Defensive Flung Against Allied Positions   Bloodiest Fighting of War in All Front Drive Against. Nazis

AXIS STRIKES BACK HARD ON TUNISIA FRONT   BLOODIEST FIGHTING OF CAMPAIGN NOW RAGING

DEFENSE G TO PROPORTION OF OFFENSIVE   Enemy Infantry And Tanks Are Thrown Against Allies All Along Front Lines.

Axis Flings Tanks, Infantry Against Allies   Defensive Measures Reach Proportions o' Counter-Offensive On Tunisian Fronts

AXIS SMASHES AGAINST MOST ALLIED POINTS         Counter-Offensive Slows Ad: vances Against Tunisian Troops   SLIGHT AMERICAN GAINS ARE REPORTED

THROW TANKS AND INFANTRY INTO FIGHT   Strike at Points Recently Won by Allies—Bloody Struggle Rages Al Along Front.   AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE SLIGHT GAINS   British First Army Beating Back—One French Force Advances Closer to Bizerte.

Counterattacks Delay Allied Tunisian Drive   Axis Hurls Tanks And Infantry Against Positions

Axis Smashes Approach an Offensive   Enemy Tanks, Men Attack All Along the Front

TANKS, INFANTRY HURLED INTO FRAY   Smashes Reach Proportion » Of Counter-offensive   FIERCE FIGHTING   gs First Army Beats Back Furiously; Americans Gain in North

RAF EXTENDS RAID SCOPE   Berlin, Rostock And Stettin Are Bomber Targets.

Push at Smolensk Main Red Action   Storm Second Line West of Dnieper

SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE IS STORMED   Dominant Height 1s Captured; Gaps Blasted on Front

RUSSIANS AGAIN TAKE. INITIATIVE IN KHARKOV ARE   Oust Nazis In Two Hamlets Near Belgorod; Smolensk Advance Continues,

Russians Break Primary Forts Near Smolensk   Red Troops Storming Second Defense Line West Of Dnieper

SOVIETS BREAK FORTIFICATIONS NEAR SMOLENSK   Russians Also Capture the Dominant Height Beyond The Upper Dnieper

PHILIP JAMES’ RITES TUESDA)   Hicksville Bank Director Former Grain-Coal Man Dies in Ft. Wayne

Davidson Alumni   Dinner Here Feb.1   President. Cunningham Will Be Speaker . at Meeting of Alumni and Friends. -

Davidson Alumni To Have Dinner ;  Meet Here Feb..1   B. F. McMillan Heads Robeson Alumni Group in “Forward Program”  “of College.

BUILDING REGULATIONS ARE BEING RELAXED   Babson States Restrictions Are Being Eased Up on Certain Essential Types Of Building Construction.

Real Estate Is Given Impetus    BUTIENING - RESTRICTION RULES FIFTED BY  WPR

REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK BETTER  UNDER NEW ORDER FOR HOMES   Various Construction Costing Below $10,00( Is Authorized Under WPB Regulation, To Help Home Situations.

22 INTO THE ARMY   Group Is Home on 21-Day Furlough Following Induction

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Millsboro Sergeant Wins Army Citation  Sink Jap Transport In Bis: mark Sea Battle

BOY SCOUTS OUT QN PAPER DRIVE   Will Canvass Town On Saturday —Fublic Asked  Helo

COUPON SALES TAX PROPOSED   House Studies Boost In Postage And Other Rates

COUPON SALES TAX SEEN ‘AS POSSIBLE COMPROMISE BASIS   Would Guarantee Taxpayers ' Below Certain Bracket Amount Of Script ‘For Payment

COUPON SALES LEVY SEEN AS POSSIBLE TAX COMPROMISE   Proposed To Lighten Burden For LowIncome Group

Coupon Sales: Tax. Proposed As Compromise      Would Ease Load On Low-Income Taxpayers, Claim

COUPON SALES TAX MAY SERVE ‘AS COMPROMISE   Proposal Drafted For Early Consideration By House Committee

Proposed Coupon Sales Tax May  Be Compromise   Measure Would Be Protection for Small Wave Earners

HIGHWAYS BLOCKED   Heavy Rains in Eastern Counties Cause Flood  Conditions

Heavy Rains Swell Rivers   Floods Block Highways In Parsons, Oswego and Coffeyville Areas

TURKEY'S PLANS FOR FUTURE ~ OBSCURED BY MANY AUMORS   CONFLICTING- REPORTS ONLY _ SERVE TO DEEPEN. MYSTERY AND GIVE BALKAN NATIONG MORE .

TURKS PRESENT QUESTION MARK ON WAR SCENE   Nation’s Military Intentions Still Deep Mystery

Newspapers Told To Pull In Belts  May Keep Only   May Keep Only 50-Day Supply Of Newsprint

SPENDING MONEY FAST   Congress to Tap “Paid Out” Key Heavy for Next Six Weeks

CONGRESS 10 PAY ? BILLIONS DAILY   Record Appropriations Jam Legislative ‘Halls as June 1 Draws Near

300 Killed During Slav Reprisal Duel   ISTRIAN PENINSULA SCENE OF EXECUTIONS OF PARTISANS, GERMANS

FDR Insists On Mine Wage Settlement; Labor’s Higher Ceiling Appeal Is Reiected

MOVE TO SETTLE RUSSIAN-POLISH © FEUD UNDERWAY   Great Britain and United States Began Immediate Discussions To Settle Issue..

RUSSIA-POLAND FEUD IMPROVED   United Nations Are Movying Swiftly to Settle Feud.

Great Armada Takes to Air; Europe Alert   Daylight Raid Made on Celebrated Airfield at Paris”

Le Bourget Near Paris Major Tarcet   100 Two-Ton Bombs Art Dropped on Milan, * Berlin Pounded Again  NO LETUP LIKELY

RAF Armada Sweeps Out On New Raids   Sortie Follows Day Of Havoe Over Nazi France, Milan

AIRBASE JUST DUTSIDE PARIS LEFT IN RUINS   MILAN HIT AGAIN; PEOPLE CLAMOR FOR PEACE

Pessimism Mounts In Italian Press  Reasonable De mands  Okay—Rome Radio  7... =e 4 ae @> WW? 8° ee 7

Italy Expecting Coup De Grace   Press Plecids For Wray Out OF Wor

Press Reflects Defeatist Attitude as Axis Forces Reel Backward in Italy   Pounding of Brenner Pass Impresses Italians With Allied Aerial Power;  Eisenhower’s Next Move Still a Mvysteryv

Army Plane Is Reported Down   Two Deputy Sheriffs Sent From Pawhuska To Investiaate

Allied African Aircraft Takes Another Day Off   RAF Fighters Attacl Shipping in Aegean.

U.S. MUST POLICE WORLD-KNOX   SECRETARY SEES NEED FOR NETWORK OF SEA, AIR BASES

KNOX SAYS U.S. MUST MAINTAIN POST-WAR ARMY   Secretary Asserts  We Must Keep Military Machine

jian Ports in Pounded Fortresses   d- Sized Formatior als Terrific Blows in New Raids   's Largest Battle ips and Harbors Blasted

Italian Naval Giants Blasted   Fortresses Hit Mussolini’ S Protective Fleet

Blow Follows  Stunning U.S. Attack   Pantelleria, Sardinia and Sicily Suffer Cascade of Tremendous Bombs; Harbor Areas Are Blasted and Burned

Hard Hits Dealt By  Bombers   Damage To Fleet May Be Told  Bv Photos

ITALIAN FLEET IS DEALT BLOW BY FORTRESSES   2,000-Pound Armor-Piercing Bombs Hit Three Big Battleships   OTHER TARGETS ARE HEAVILY POUNDED

Assaults by Bomber Formations Damage Three Battleships, Spread Ruin on Island Bases

Record Fortress Assault Is ‘Made on La Spezia Harbor   MUSSOLINI'S FLEET =; "DEALT HEAVY BLOW   Aerial Bombardments of tsland Outposts Con:  tinue

British Warships Pour Shells Into Pantelleria; 3 Big Vessels Damaged

Armor-Piercing Bombs Fall on 3 Battleships   Dock Areas Set Afire In Great Raid; New Blows Struck at  Isles Ringing Italy

U.S. Fou r-Engined Bombers in Record Attack Wreck Huge Harbor Areas; Ships Again Shell Pantelleria

Pantelleria, Sardinia and Sicily pounded by damaging  blows from large formation   ‘Loose cascade of battleship bursting bombs on [taly’s anti-invasion fleet

Fathers May Be Drafted By Late Spring   McNutt Clarifies Situation; Draft Boards Must Receive Orders Before Taking Married Men with Children.

Parent Status In The Draft Is Clarified   MeNutt Says Fathers Cannot Be Drafted Without Authority From Washington

Remaining Force Trapped on Narrow Neck of Land on Peninsula.  NO POSSIBLE CHANCE FOR THEIR ESCAPING  Fighting Allied Air Armada Pounds Away at the Trapped Nazis.

WAGE HIKE IN TEXTILE MILLS ASKED   -TWU ‘Demands Raise For 600,000 Cotton, : Rayon Workers: :

"OUAKES KILL 1,000   Disastrous Earthquake Hits Northern Part of Nation Friday

U-BOAT PACKS ATTACK CONVOY   Four Merchant Vessels Sunk Off Coast of South America

U-Boat Wolfpack Sinks Four Ships Off South America  Axis Raiders Strike Heavy Blow at Con voy;

U-Boat Wolf Pack Is Busy   MANY U. S. VESSELS ARE SUNK BY NAZI SUBS

Wolfpack of Nazi Subs Strikes Blow at Convoy Off South American Coast

FOUR SHIPS SUNK BY U-BOAT PACK: 28 MEN MISSING   Undersea Raiders Eaunch Attack at Night on Convoy Off South American Coast.   SURVIVORS CLING TO FLOATING woop   Men Picked Up After Daylight by Escort Vessels Directed by Pilot of Plane.

>roblem on Home Front War Profiteers Are in Action  Poo Markets Are Grave

Severe Sentence For Black Market Dealers Suggested   Experiences Abroad Show Practice Must Be Halted at Start

The War Today   =—oor  Black Market Is War Scourge U.S. Will Have To Face.

UNITED STATES HOME FRONT IS FACING HARD BATFLE UPON EVER INCREASING BLACK MARKE1

Black Markets Not Halted By Fines; Stiff Jail Sentences Only Weapon

7 Negroes Die As Home Burn:   Another In Baltimore Ys Critically Burned

SEVEN INONE PANTLY PERISH INBALTIMOR   Victinis,. All Negroes, Trap‘by Fire In Home;. - Eighth Member — Critically Burned -

WAS THAWING OUT PUMP   ‘Blaze Starta From Straw Packing; No Damage Was Done

Nurses Will Be Capped Sunday  (" avawn APT  Diannnar   Ceremony Planned for 28 Students

BLASTING REPORTED   Thunderous Explosions Off French Coast Followed by Great Columns of Smoke.

ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE CONTINUES   Large Formations Of Planes Cross English Channel

Record Aerial Offensive of Allies Resumed   Big Formations Of Bombers Pass Over Channel

ENGLAND SHAKEN AS BOMBS BLAST COAST OF FRANCE   Huge Fleets of Allied Fight ers and Bombers Fl; Over Channel to Conti  nent.

Attack Compared To Onslaught of Three Years Ago   Big Bombers Thought Idle After Four Days of Heavy Work

Thunderous Noise Off French Coast Shakes Englana   Boulogne Raid by Allies Resumes Aerial Offensive

ALLIES FEGROUP FOR BIGGEST OFFENSIVE YET AGAINST ENEMY   Broadeasts Warn French Patriots To Prepare For Landings; London Feels Second Front At Hand

“Invasion Site’ On Channel Given Heavy Pounding By Allied Bombers

Thunderous Blasts Felt On Channel   Allied Bombers Believed Raiding French Coast

FRENCH PORTS HIT BY BOMBS   Thunderous Explosions Are  Heard on English Coast

ASSIGN NEW ENWOY TO DEFENGE GROUP   Argentina Names New Minister to ‘Rio de Janeiro Conferance of Ministers .

Montgomery's Army Within 15 Miles Of Catania: Crack German Division Is Mauled         Enemy Believed To Be Taking Most Of Hi Resources In Effort To Hold Allied Push South Of Port City: City Shelled Again

Enemy May Attempt to Flee Sicily   Allies Toke 12 More Towns; Yanks Toke 15,992 Prisoners

British Army Only 15 Miles From Catania   More Than 20,000 Axis Prisoners Captured In Seven Days Of Campaign; Allies Are Continuing Advance On All Fronts

18,000 Prisoners  Are Taken   British Relentlessly Drive Back Germans Tu Advance on Catania

ALLIED DRIVE NEAR CATANIA HILLS TODAY   Goering’s Corps Fail To Hold  Front Lines

Axis May Turn To Rearguard Action In Sicily   American Troops Inflict Severe Losses Upon Enemy

HEAVY ANGLO-AMERICAN RAIDS ON WESTERN EUROPE SERVING TWO MOST IMPORTANT PURPOSES

F née war £o0aay— «  ‘Devastating Allied Air Blows On Reich Believed Prelude To Invasion

~ The War Today Bombing Offensive May  Be Preparation For European Invasion.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Aerial Offensive Against Nazi Europe  Hastens Invasion Ry. PTNethrrnr ATaekK ENZTIE

INVASION OF EUROPE WILL BE MADE; "AIR FORCES ARE PREPARING WAY BY CONSTANT BOMBING OF NAZI TARCETS

BOMBINGS ARE PREPARING WAY FOR U. N. INVASION   Devastating Allied Bombing Raids Calculated to Iron Out Boch Resistance

Widespread Belief That Hitler Can be Crushed Only by Allied Invasion

With Our Soldiers  and Sailors      Louis D. Meiers of Arcadia Reported Wounded in Action

ory MARY. ag  \ With Our ‘ Soldiers and Sailors eo @              Louis D..Meiers of Arcadia Reported Wounded in Actien

Three Jap Transports  Are Sunk   Enemy Given Rough Treatment As Convoy Tries To Get Through

Third Enemy Ship Sunk in South Pacific   20. Zeros Shot Down in Allied Blitz Seeking to Stem Enemy Attempts. at Reinforcing Area

Effort To Land New Guinea Aid Smashed Again   Three Out Of Four Troopships Sunk; Few Get Ashore

ALLIES DOWN 20 JAP ZERO PLANES, SINK TRANSPORT   Ceaseless Air Attacks Made on Convoy Trying to Land Reinforcements in New Guinea.   VESSELS PURSUED INTO LAE HARBOR   Some Enemy Troops May Have Reached Shore— Barges and Beachhead Strafed and Bombed.

20 Jap Fighter Planes Bring to Total of 38 Zeros Lost in Action  ALLIED AIR BLITZ LASTS 24. HOURS  Japanese Apparently Succeed in Landing Some Forces at Lae _

FLIERS DESTROY JAP TRANSPORT AND 20 ZEROS   24 Hour Blitz Leaves Only One oi Enemy Transports Afloat te Reach Lae Harbor   GEN. MacARTHUR BACK IN AUSTRALIA   Decorates Gens. Blamey, Eichel  berger for Exploits in Destroy   ing Japs on Papua

3 TRANSPORTS AND 20 ZEROS DESTROYED   In Attacks On Jap Convoy Bound For New Guinea; Air Force Of Allies Ceaseless.   Fine Leadership

HOPES FOR NO STRIKE   ' Head of ODT Says - Says Railroad Ti l Is Unthinkable _ Pil

HOPES FOR NO STRIKE   Head of ont Sa Rallvond Tieup Is Unthinkab

Allies Step Up Assaults On Italians   Nine Bases . Smashed—-45 Avis Planes Shot Down

45 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Axis Air Power Takes Heavy Beating In 24-Hour Attack

ALLIED PLANES BLAST ISLANDS   Mediterrancan Scene of Big Aerial Onslaught

HUGE ALLIED AIR ATTACK IN MEDIT.      Blast Nine Axis Base Targets in Sicily, Sardinia

Deferments for Farm Workers to Be Liberalizec   New Criteria Is Outlined to Guide Draft Boards

U.S. Liberalizes Deferment of Farm Workers   ‘Relaxing of Rules Expected to Boost. Food Output

Loosen Draft Deferments To Keep Workers on Farms; War Unit Standard Is Base

CHANGE IN DRAFT LETS MORE MEN “REMAIN ON FARM   Selective Service Liberalizes ® Rules for Agriculture Exemptions

 HouseGroupOkays  Higher Farm Price   ‘Early Passage’ Predicted By Committee Chief, Despite FDR

ALLIES INTEND TO TRAP AXIS -FORCES STILL IN AFRICA       Great Armies Only 300 Miles Apart—Terrific Battle Soon To : Be Fought

Axis Forces Hard Pressed By The Allies      Remnants Of Enemy Armies Now Face Gigantic Trap

All Axis Forces in Africa — Now Compressed Between American, Allied Armies   U. S. and Fighting French Expected te Stab Through to Coast in Effort to Halt German Retreat.

Last Remnant Of Empire Lost To Italy Now   Battle Developing As Allies Seek to Trap Fleeing Korp:

Few Applying For Licenses To Drive Cars   Once-Flourishing Army Of New Operators In State Missing  DAAITI ina. AC fatTlICcc

BUY CIVILIAN CLOTHING IN PREPARATION   Pitched Battles Are Spreading Over ‘ Peninsula

RAF Suffers Heavy Losses In Day Raids   Sweeps Made Over France and Holland: 13 Planes Downed

TO TAKE DEPOSITIONS   Attorneys to Start on Suit! Involving Sunflower Ordnance

REFUSES Foop      Woman Who Killed Three Babies “Reade Philneanhy

WILL ADDRESS WOMEN:   WAAC Recruiting’ Officer To Speak at Meeting This Evening

EARLY ASSAULT ON RABAUL JAPS RY ALLIES SEEN   Now Believed Marshalling Forces To Hit Keystone Jap Defense Post

ASSAULT om     THOT} en   Allies Mustering ©’ Air, Sea and Ground Forces for Attack”

ALLIES MASS AIR, SEA, LAND FORCES TO ATTACK RABAU!   Assault On Large Jap Base Will Be Big Undertaking

Pact Renewals  Urged by Hull   Arnold Would Break Up World Cartrele

ASKS RENEWAL QF TRADE ACT   Hull Says Agreements Are Vital To War And  Framing Peace

Hull Urges New  Trade Treaties   Arnold Says No Good!  If Cartels Continue

Extension of Act Favored by Hull  Trade Agreements  Wanwsrinere Gat

BLAST IN COAL MINE TRAPS 18   Hope Slim For Finding Men Alive Deep In Kentucky Shaft

Blast Seals 18  Men in Mine   Little Hope Is Held  For Anv of Victims

Harlan Blast — Traps 18 Men   Little Hope Expressed  Bare Minar’ FT iene

18 Coal Miners Sealed Up Mile Below Surface   Cumberland Mountain Explosion Buries Mine Workers

WAS. GRANTED TIRES, TUBES   Over Hundred Tipton County Pecple Have Petitions Approved.   BOARD WAS VERY BUSY   Tire Panel Cleared the Book Yesterday at MonthEnd Sess.on.

MS PRANTED “TIRES, TUBES   Over Hundred Tipton Coun* ty Pecple Have Petitions os Approved. .   BOARD WAS VERY BUSY   Tire Panel Cleared the Book ‘Yesterday at: MonthEnd Session. -.

U.S. Reported Ready For Aleutian Drive   Axis Claims Huge Yank Bases in Alaska Completed: Hot Action Predicted

LABOR IRKED BY NO-RAISE RULE   WMC Sees Revolt Based on Pay Rather Than Freeze Limitations of FDR.

UNIONS. INDICATE THEY. .PLAN STRONG OPFOsTTION ~ TO : os SHOLD-THE-LINE:  . . ORDER -

Radar Helps Sink Jap Battleship Eight Miles Away On Stormy Night

FOUR GERMAN U-BOATS SUNK   Byrnes Also Discloses Destruction of Jap Warship

ARMY DISCHARGE RULES RELAXED   Trained Soldier Not Needed to Replace Man 38 or Older.

WAR OFFICE DROPS ONE REQUIREMENT   No Longer Require 38 Year Olds to Be Replaced By Trained Men.

Russia Again Pleads For Second Front In Europe; List Soviet, Nazi Losses

RUSSIA RENEWS 2ND FRONT PLEA   Cites Losses Inflicted On Nazis As Basis For More Allied hid

Say Invasion Would End War Quickly  Reds In Strong Second Front Bid

RUSSIA RENEWS PLEA FOR SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE   Could Bring War to Speedy Close, §s Necessary for Vietory.

REDS PLEAD FOR EARLY INVASION   Say It Would , Bring War to. A Speedy End

RUSSIA ASKS SECOND FRONT   Says Invasion Now Would Bring Quick Victory

SECOND FRONT APPEAL FROM RUSSIAN GOVT   Could Bring War to “Speedy Conclusion,” According to Moscow Information Bureau

‘ Successful Invasionof EuropeCould Bring Warto ‘Speedy Conclusion.  rl ow & ® &* &* &* & ® & &   2) tnt 7  iRussia Makes Strongest Plea Yet for Early Opening of Second Front: Second Anniversary of War Observec

Russia Makes Strongest Plea Yet For the Opening of a Second Front

Hurry Invasion, Russia Appeals   Strike While Iron Is Hot, Reds Urge

Bond Buying Volume Soars   x «= Ke OY Bond Campaign Workers Busy

War Bond Drive Rolling Along   2 Billion Dollars Already Subscribed

SECOND VICTORY CAMPAIGN ROLLS ALONG ON TIME   Newspapers Thruout U. S. Support: Federal Treasury

NEWSPAPERS BACK BOND CAMPAIGN IN ENTHUSIASTIC WAY  APPROXIMATELY TWO BILLIONS ROLL IN FIRST

War Bond Drive Rolls Along   Estimate Two Billior Is Subscribed in First 24 Hours

FIRST DAY OF U.S. DRIVE PILES UP TWO BILLIONS   6000 Newspapers, Advertisers Carry Message to Peopte in 3-Week Campaign

NEWSPAPERS OTART BRIGK BOND SELLING   Printed Appeals to Buyers Carried: in -at: Least 6000 Papers.   HEAVY SCHEDULE TO BE CONTINUED   Campaign to Be Carried on for Three Weeks in Growing Tempo.

Two Billions In Bonds Bought:   Treasury Estimates That Amount Subscribed First Dav.

Two Billions Subscribed   6000 Newspapers Are Pushing War Bond Sale Campaign

Estimate Two Billions In War Bonds Sold In First 24 Hours Of Drive

War Bond Campaign Rolls Along Behind  Two-Billions Star   Wide Newspaper Support of Drive Reported by Special Committee

WAR BOND DRIVE PICKS UP SPEED   ESTIMATE 2 BILLION DOLLARS SUBSCRIBED IN FIRST 24 HOURS

With United Nations in Control Aleutians Are Safe Again  ——  RrmAANeC re ,. ,ZARKRING ARI IP eC TI ARK IC

NEW KEY POINTS ON HIGH GROUND TAKEN BY ‘FIFTH   Nazis Achieve Some Local Gains in Italy; "Chutes € Supply Yanks

NAZI THRUSTS ACHIEVE LOCAL SUCCESSES   Eighth Crosses Moro River and Battles With Tanks

Fifth Army In  Some New Gains On Italian Fron!   Germans Counter-Attack For Local Gains On Some Sectors Of Italian Front   HEAVY RAINS HAMPER MONTGOMERY'S ARMY

GERMANS REPORT ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF MARCEL DEAT   Pro-Nazi French Leader Said to Have Been Fired On by Machine-Gunner at Nevers.   BROADCAST DENIES STORY OF RIOTING   Statement Contradicted by De Gaullists, Who Say Disorders Are Mounting With Increase in Deaths.

BERLIN DENIES PARIS RIOTING   Machine-Gunner Tries To Assassinate Pro-Nazi Leader Deat

Gunman Fails In Attempt To Kill Pro-Nazi French Leader   Marcel Deat, Target Of Previous Assassination Attempts, Escapes; Germans Deny Reports Of Rioting In France

ATTEMPT MADE TO ASSASSINATE FRENCH LEADER   ‘Marcel Deat, Pro-Nazi, At tacked By Man With  Machinegun   OUTBREAKS MOUNTING PARIS REPORTS SAY

FRENGH LEADER DODGES BULLET   Machine Gun Assassin Fails To Kill Deat; Rioting Denied

Another Attempt ToKillDeat, — Pro-Nazi Leader   Germans Deny French Claims of Revolt Rising on Continent

Machine Gunner Attempts Life Of Marcel Deat   French Pro-Nazi Leader Has Narrow Escape at Arbouse

German Troops, Cut Off as British Break Through, Surrender to French Forces

BRITISH CLOSE DEATH POCKET ON NAZI ARMY   SICILIAN SEAPORTS ARE HAMMERED IN AIR RAIDS

Germon Troops Surrender to the French   _ Forces ARMISTICE ASKED BY BEATEN FORCES  Allied Airmen Carry Out  Raid on Mediterranean . Island

NAZI TROOPS SURRENDERING 10 FRENCH   PocketedInMouataious Region They Asked For Armistice But UnconditionalSurrender  Was Only Answer   One Lone Plane

300 Miles To Northeast Cut Vital Rail Line Needed By Germans In Defending Kiev, Capital of Ukraine: Borzna is Captured   LARGE STORES OF BOOTY ARE SEIZED

Russians Cut  Vital Rail Line   Stores of Booty Seized at Salino

REDS PURSUE NAZI FORCES, CUT RAIL LINE VITAL T0 KIEV   Russians Seize Big Stores Of. Booty In Driving Germans From Stalino

Allied Bombing of Bases Believed to Have Hamstrung Nazis’ U-Boat Fleet

BOAT DECLINE IS SUBJECT OF STUDY  BY NAVY EXPERTS   Operational Difficulties Befieved Linked With Bombing of Bases.

ABSENCE OF NAZI BOMBERS PUZZLING   Seversky Says Germany Has Already Lost War, Unless Unknown Numbers Being  Held Rack.

Trucker Slain  In Erie Cafe   Murder Occurs After Victim Plays Joke on Another Man

COLD TO STAY AROUND   U nseasonable Snow and Sleet Storm Moves Out of State

Predicts Fall Of Tripoli In Few Hours   Over- All Picture of War : Bright

Massive Assaults By Allied Flyers Qn Rommel Army   Battered Afrika Korps Is Hammered Heavily In Flight From Tripoli   RETREATING NAZI COLUMNS BLASTED

Loss of Kursk Perils 3 Other German Bases   Strong Red Drives Are Aimed at Orel, Kharkov and Bryansk

TAX BURDEN S SOARING   ESTIMATE FEDERAL, STATE .2AND_ LOCAL TAXES NEXT... FISCAL YEAR AT FIFTY BILLIONS

TAX BILL FOR YEAR 10 BE AD BILLIONS   Sen. George Totals Federal, State and Local Levies

Forfresses Raid Bremen   Weather Is So Cold Spare Oxygen Freezes

U. S. Fortresses, Marauders Bomb Bremen and Chievres; Down 45 of Enemy's Plane:

CARRIER READY   USS Bataan Is Commissioned For Service With Navy

SHOE SALES FROZEN   Rationing Starts Tomorrow; No. 17 Stamp in Book 1 Will Be Used.

HEALTH BOARD MEETS      Nurses Complain About Spitting on Sidewalks in Lawrence

Allies Take D Villages  In New Drive   Push Through Yawning Breach in Nazi Lines 30 Miles from Coast  EIGHTH GAINS. TOO

ENEMY GIVES UP DEFENSES AT VOLTURNO   AMERICANS SMASH THROUGH, TAKE FIVE TOWNS

Americans Rip Big Breach in Volturno Fron!   Fifth Army Seizes Eight More Italian Towns and Villages; British Make Gains

Fresh Drive Hurls Nazis Into Hills   Enemy, Shor of Air Support, Forsakes Last Volturno Positions

Badly Mauled Nazis Retreat  Volturno Battle Ends With Nazis Taking To Mountain

NAZIS ABANDON DEFENSES ALONG VOLTURNG RIVER   iNew Blows Dealt by Fifth  Army Drive Enemy Forces - Back to New Mountain Positions.   [RETREAT FOLLOWS BITTER 6-DAY FIGHT   Allies Seize Eight More Towns and Villages — Fresh Advance Scored by Montgomery.

Yankee Troops Are Victorious In 6-Day Clash   Battle Of Volturno Won, 5th Army Continues On North

BADLY MAULED   More Italian Towns and Villages Fall to Allies   END OF VOLTURNO   Battle Coincides With Ad. vances on Central and Adriatic Sector

Germans Retreat to Mountain Positions After Six-Day Fight  BREACH RIPPED IN ENEMY’S DEFENSES  Eight More Italian Towns and Villages Surrendered

CLARK'S ARMY TAKES 8 MORE TALIAN TOWNS   Nazis Flee From Vol turno to New Mountain Positions

EIGHT ITALIAN TOWNS FALL T0 NEW ONSLAUGHT   Americans Rip Breach In German Defenses 30 Miles Inland As Gains Spread

Twin Thrusts End Volturno Fighting   End Of Battle Coincides With New Advance Made By Eiahth Army On The Adriatic Coast

Enemy Occupies Last Positions Above Volturno   Battle for River Ends When Yanks Capture Villages

Enemy Takes Up New Positions   Yawning Breach Is Ripped in German Defenses

Nazis Badly Mauled In Fighting   Foe Surrenders Eight Italian Towns; Volturno Battle Over

Jap Ship a Day Sunk by Allies   Nipponese Unable To Replace Them

U.S. SUBS SINK NINE JAP SHIPS   Seven Freighters, Tanker, Plane Transport Lat est Victims

‘Surging U.S. Sea and Air Forces ‘Sink Jap Shipping at Rate of One Ship a Day Since Pear] Harbor

JAPANESE SHIP LOSSES MOUNT   American Submarines Speed Up Attacks On Freighters

Measures Io  Be Talked Over In A Meeting   House Republicans in State Legislature Will Hold a Caucus Tonight Over Proposed Problems.

Washington and Moscow Relations Seen Improved   Strengthened Collaboration Reflected Tn References by FDB to Soviet Army

RUSSIA’S TEMPER TOWARD ALLIES SEEN CHANGING   Better Collaboration Hinted In F. R. War Messasce To Convress

U.S, RELATIONS WITH MOSCOW SEEM BETTE   Evidenee Is Encouraging On Basis Of F. D. War Message

23 Millions _ Go On Roads   State Likely To Let 30 Per Cent Less During This Year.

OHIO’S MAIN ROADS ARE TO BE KEPT UP   That’s ‘Impression Given by Program for 1943

French Armed Forces United   Giraud and DeGaulle Forces Join -—e Giraud Is Made Commandev-in- Chief

French Armed Forces United :   Giraud Heads Army, .. DeGaulle Defense Unit

TRE BN TUBE PEnAHTO Lol   Ratiening Panel Passed Out Certificates to Numerous County Drivers. -

TIRE AND TUBE. - PERMITS LISTED   Raticning’ Panel Passed Out Certificates to Numerous :.- County Drivers. - . -

REDS ROLL TOWARD DNIEPER   Counter-Offensive Around Poltava, Kharkov, Broken

SOVIET SUMMER © DRIVE PUSHES TOWARD DNIEPER   /Russians Continue To Threaten Kharkov, Pol tava.

Late Report Places Russians Only 12 Miles From Bryansk.  RED ARMY COLUMNS 9 MILES OF POLTAVA  In the South the Soviets Have Rolled Past Smiev.

QUOTA FOR COUNTY ~ EXCEEDED IN DRIVE   Total of $2,114, 114,000 List ed-in Campaign . --€. Bae

QUOTA FOR COUNTY EXCEEDED IN DRIVE   Total of $2,114,000 List. ed in Campaign So Far

a Pee Fe Te  Congressmen 1 Seek Action, But Not Cruel Saturday Work

@ AND NO OVERTIME!   Congressmen Seek Action, But Not Cruel Saturday Work

NON - OPERATING UNIONS WIELD STRIKE WEAPON   House Committee Postpones Action on 8-cent Issue

HURRICANE HITS PORT IN MEXICO   WINDS CAUSE DAMAGE AND  GROUND PLANE-—-NO LOSS  OF LIFE REPORTED. 

Hurricane Hits Mazatlan;  ~ Communications Are Down   Damage And Loss Of Life Still Unknown; 100-Mile Winds Are Reported

Hurricane Hits Port in Mexico   Wire Communications Interrupted, But No Loss of Life Reported

Roosevelt Favored As ~ €andidate   President's. ‘Name Is Ranked Far Above All: Others, State “Dezaockate ' Awsert

‘Committee Urges Support Of F.R.  ‘Resolution Submitted  To Demo Convention

Flash Flood at Sparta Gives ‘Army Engineers Practical Experience

 Judge R. ‘GC: Rodman In Hospital. F or Maior Oneration .;:      HOSPITAL NOTES

ALLIED FLIERS STRIKE JAPS IN WIDE AREA   Airdromes, Shipping, Positions Of Enemy Target Of Airmen

Allied Airmen Attack Jap Bases and Installations —  Over Wide Area in Pacific

TO INVESTIGATE WALLACE BODY; TO ASK FUNDS   Peace Making Conference At White House Fails —

Wallace Will Ask Separate Fund for BEW   Byrd Committee Plans a Sweeping Investigation Into Policies

Sweeping Quiz Of BEW Follows Wallace Dispute   Byrnes Peace Parley Fails to Reconcile Pair

TO PaObE BEW ALTIVITIES Aa FIGHT SEQUEL   Present Senate fnquiry to Be Widened to Cover BEW Commitments.   JONES STILL BED HOT; PEACE PARLEY FAILS

EWS WORLD POLICIES DUE FOR PROBING   Byrd Committee to Investigate Following Wallace-Jones Battle of Words. .   PEACE-MAKING FLOPS   Cabinet Members Issue New Blasts After Meeting With Ryrnec.

Byrd Committee Plans Probe Of Two Bureaus   Appropriations In Jam:   Subsidy Scheme Definitely Dead

Senators Plan Full Cheek On ~ BEW Policies   Vice President Wallace States Economic Board To Seek Own Funds.   CONTINUE R. F.C. FEUD

Investigation Into Policies Of BEW Starts   War Mobilization Director Unable to Make Peace In Wallace-Jones Feud   INQUIRY IS BROADENED

Byrd Committee Plans Probe Of B.E. W. Policies   Senate Inquiry Comes As Result Of Wallace lanes Feud.

Byrd Group Plans Probe In Jones Case   Will Explore Fully Policies of BEW Headed By Wallace

Plan Probe Of B. E. W.   Inquiry Asa Result Of Flare-up Between Wallace and Jones

PROBE OF BEW PROMISED BY SENATOR BYRD   Byrnes Is Unable to Settle Argument Between Leaders

JAP AIR FORGE ROUTED TRYING TO CHECK PUSH   Four Other Ships Reported Damaged In S. W. Pacific

4Other Enemy Vessels Hit,  Navy Reports   Secretary Frank Knox Praises U. S. Victory In Kula Gulf Area; One American Cruiser Lost; Yanks On Rendova Island Are Reinforced

Six Jap Warships Sunk h Kula Bay Victory For U, §,   4 Others Damaged Our Loss Is Hele To One Cruiser A: Munda Is Exposed

Fight in Kula Bay Was U.S. Victory   But Decisive Naval Engagement in Area Still Is to Be Fought   U. S. DESTROYER LOST   Six Japanese Warships  Probably Sunk, Four. Others Damaged

U. 5. Gunnery Bests Japs In Solomons   McDaniel Tells Of Victory Chalked Up By American Ships

Fight in Kula Bay Was U.S. Victory   But Decisive Naval Engage“ ment in Area Still si to. _ Be Fought  {   U. S:. DESTROYER LOST   Six : Japanese Wa ships - Probably Sunk; F oat ” . Others Damaged!

Adm. Halsey Issues Statement After Big Sea Victory   Late Communique from MacArthur’ Headquarters Lists Several Jap Ships Damaged in Kula Gulf

Munda Base Endangered   Smashing Naval Victory Leaves Japanese Base Threatened _

JAPS LICKED DECISIVELY IN BATTLE   U. S. Forces Hold Full Initiative In Solomons Area

SIX WARSHIPS BELIEVED SUNK FOUR DAMAGED   Guns Of American Ships Prove Victorious In Solomons Area Battle   MUNDA [S — IMPERILED   U. S. Forces Repérted Holding Initiative On Land, Sea And (n Air

Six Jap Warships Probably Sunk; Four Are Damaged   Admiral Halsey’s Headquarters Announce Kula Gulf Action Ended With U. S. Forces Continuing To Hold Initiative All Around

U.S. Naval idrces, Hit 10 Jap Ships In Sea Battle; Believe 6 Probably Sunk

ONLY LIGHT SHIPS “INVOLVED IN ACTION   Victory Costs -1 Cruiser; Details Are Missinc

‘AULA GULF NAVAL BATTLE DEFINITELY AMERICAN VICTORY   TEN JAP WARSHIPS PROB‘ABLY SUNK OR DAMAGED; ONE U. §. CRUISER LOST

NAVAL BATTLE DEFINITELY A YANK VICTORY   Mopping Up Of Rendova’s Japs Still Going On

BATTLE OF KULA GULF POSITIVE U. S. TRIUMPH   Six Jap Warships Probably Sunk, Four Damaged; Many Details Still Lacking; American Forces On Rendova’ Reinforc ed, Munda Menaced.

Offensive In Pacific Is Rolling Forward   Naval Victory I Announced  Today

PROBABLY SUNK IN SEA VICTORY   4 Others Damaged as U.S. Loses Cruiser Communique Discloces

22,000 Prisoners Taken Since Big Mareth Line Fell Before Eighth Army   Moscow Reports New Heavy Toll of Germans Along Donets Battle Line; Allied Planes Strike French Area Again After Pounding Ruhr Industries

Loss of 22,000 Prisoners, Hundreds Of Vehicles Hampers Fleeing Nazis; Allies Press Toward Tunis, Bizerte

lransport Facilities of Axis Being Blasted   Africa Corps Weakened By Loss of 12, 000 Prisoners In Three Days; 34 Jap Planes Bagged

Americans Receive High Praise For Tunis Victory  Stimson Declares U. S. Troops Fulfilled Ordere With Precision

AMERICAN TROOPS IN. TUNISIA HAVE PLAYED PART WELL   Secretary Stimson Says They Have Operated According to Plan And Orders

Americans Receive High Praise For Tunis Victory  ee Naslarac JIS   Stimson Declares U. 5, Troops Fulfilled Orders With Precision

STIMSON SAYS PATTON'S TASK IMPORTANT ONE   Declares Critics Unfair, Americans Were Directed to Hold Axis to Line, Not Cut Off

STIMSON PRAISES AMERICAN FORGES   Says They Accomplished What They Were Told To Do In Africa:

Heavy Fleet Units Shell Nieka Race   Report Japs Have Completed 3,700 Foot  Rasimernn dee

Kiska Island Port Shelled   Action Is Believed A ‘Softening Up’ Move

U.S. Ships  Pour Shells On Kiska   Frequent Attacks Lead To Belief That Time Of Invasion May Be ‘Near: Jans Raid Ellice

FLEET UNITS BLAST KISKA; RETURN FIRE   In Seventh Deadly Attempt! To Soften Up Enemy Defenses; Score Hits on  Ke cunenem ww   Work Six Months

HEAVY GUNS, OF U. 8.  FLEET BOMBARDED »  JAPS UPON KISKA SEVENTH SURFACE AT ’ TACK AGAINST ENEMY Il ATEIITIANS THIIRCHAY

U.S, NAVY HITS KISKAISLE AGAIN   Soften Jap Shore Positions in Preparations for Invasion

NAVY BOMBARDS JAPS ON KISKA   ALEUTIAN ISLAND BELIEVED SOFTENED FOR LAND ASSAULT

Fleet Turns Guns  On Kiska Island   Sheiling Intended to Soften Jap Positions For Final Drive to Oust Foe from Aleutians

Navy Task Force Bombards Kiska   Shelling Draws Fire From Japanese Guns

7TH. S, NAL ATTACK OWKIGK   Navy’s Big Guns Hammer Jap Positions Qn Aleutians Outpost   American Bombers Blast Soerabaja In 2,400 Mile  . Flight

Heavy U. S. Naval Guns Bombard Kiska   Surface Attack Is Seventh This Month and Apparently Is Intended to Hasten the Ousting of Japs From the Aleutians.

Heavy Warships Bombard Kiska   Attack Yesterday Revealed by Navy

Softening Up Process Is Started   Bombardment F ollows Raid By Bombers On Runway Of Aijrport Built By Japs

YANKS BLAST SOERABAIA   Japs Taken By Surprise In Raid On Java Stronghold

FLEET IN ACTION   U.. S.. Heavy Guns Were Trained on Jap Positions © at Kiska  : 1

BIG WARoHIPD GUNG HOMBARD JAPS UN KloKA   Heavy Guns Of American Fleet Turned Against Foe In Softening Up Move

Jap Positions East Indies On KiskaFeelBase Is Hit New Bombing By Surprise

PACIFIC FLEET POUNDS KISKA   Enemy Guns Return Fire In Softening Up Bombardment

JAPANESE POINTS ON KISKA ISLAND WERE BOMBARDED   Seventh Surface Attack of  - Month Against Aleutian  Outpost.   WAS MADE BY WARSHIPS   Communique Described Them as “Heavy and Light Surface Units.

Heavy Guns Of U. S. Pacific Fleet Blast Kiska Seventh Time In July

Big Guns Blasting at Kiska   Heavier Power Is Turned On Japs Following Air Bombardment   ENEMY STRIKES OCEAN OUTPOST   New Moves May Be Start of New Actions On the Pacific Front

Warships Blast ips On Kiska   Enemy -Coast-Guns Prove Ineffective

HEAVY GUNS SHELL JAP POSITIONS   Indicate Attack Made By Heavy Units Of Fleet

U. §. Fleet Bombs Jap Positions On Kiska Again  Army Heavy Bombers Raid Jap Runway And Main Camp Are

Seventh Attack This Month Believed Prelude to Amphibious Assault to Retake Island   JAPAN’S SHORE GUNS REPLY TO YANK FIRE   Nips, Meanwhile, Make  Raid Against American —  Base On Funafuti; Some Casualties

U. S. Pacifie Fleet Bombards ‘Kiska Island   Shelling By Heavy Gung Seen as Softening Up For Amphibious Assault And Final Aleu tians*Drive.

Warships Blast ps On Kiska   Enemy Coast-Guns  Prove Ineffective By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER  a ae ee oo nn 7 ia? a   oy ee

KISKA ISLAND IS BOMBARDED BY WARSHIPS   JAPANESE LAUNCH THRUST AT U. S. SHIPPING LANE

Pacifie Ships Bombard Foe On Kiska Isk   Shelling Seen As Blow To Soften Defenses For Day When Assault Can Be Launched

‘Jap-Held Kiska Shelled by U. S. Heavy Warships   Intended to Damage Runway Japs Built for Plane Take-Offs.   ‘Nippons Hit Back at Yanks on Ellice Isles

Primary Without StateWide Fight May Be Novelty This Fall  RENO G. O. P. FAVORITE

Superior Court Candidates May Be Nominated Without Opposition In September

Hatch Group Asks Wallace to Join  Post-War Effort   Vice-President Considers National Radio Talk  Early in September

Japs Face Vital Allied Thrusts   Fog’s. Pacific Defense “Lines Threatened

Ships, Planes Bombard Jap-Held Nauru Island; Aussies Capture Wareo

AMERICAN SEA AND  AIR POWER STRIKES  AT JAP DEFENSES CHALLENGE FOR SUPREM  ACY ISSUED TO ENEMY IN ISLANDS AREAS

Ships and Planes Blast Jav Island   Growing Carrier Might Of Pacific Fleet Shown In Assault on Nauru

ALLIES POUND JAP POSITIONS   Ships Batter Nauru; Wareo Falls To Aussies; Chinese Attack

Pounding Believed Preliminary To Invasion Of Jap Islands; Berlin Says American Fliers In China Prepared To Bomb Japan Mainland

NAVY BOMBARDS ISLAND OF NAURU   BLAZE CHALLENGE TC STRONG JAP BASES OF RABAUL AND TRUK

Nauru Island Attacked by Air and Sea   Rabaul and Truk Bombarded; Aussies Capture Wareo on Huon Peninsula: Chinese Secure Hold on Changteh

Tighten Grip on Changteh; Wareo Falls   Yanks Penetrate Jap Defense System to Pound Island,  500 Miles West of Gilberts

Assault On Japanese Outpost Four Days After Heavy Raids On Marshalls Demonstrates Growing Might Of Pacific Carrier Forces—American Sea And Air Power Blazes Strong Challenge To Japanese Supremacy—Australians Capture Wareo

American Sea and Air Power Blazes Challenge To Enemy Island Defenses In the Pacific

Yanks Pound Obstacles to Philippines   (By MORRIE LANDSBERG) (Associated Press War Editor)

NAVY ATTACKS NAURA ISLAND   Aerial Raids Are Made On Three Islands In Marshall Group   POUNDING IS KEPT UP

AIR, SEA POWER HURLED AT JAP ISLAND LINES   Fleet Bombards Nauru, Planes Hit Marshalls; Aussies Capture Wareo

Blast Japs . By Sea And Air   Roosevelt Presents Citation To Maltese

Americans May  Be Preparing For Invasion Of Truk And Rabaul Bases

Navy Blazes Its Challenge fo Japs  Fleet Unit 500 Miles Past Gilberts

Jap Supremacy In The Pacific ls Threatened   American Sea And Air Power Blasts Trail To Victory

Jap Positions Hit By Strong Allied Forces   Maru Island Attacked By Units of U. S. Pacific Fleet

SHIPS AND PLANES BOMB VITAL JAP POSITIONS FROM.RABAUL T0 TRUK IN MOVE TOWARD INDIES.   Nauru Island Among Those Under Heavy Attack 500 Miles West of Gilberts. Jap Naval and Air Forces Challenged to Meet Advancing Allied «

Nauru Isle Attacked By  Naval Foree   New Britain Pounding Continues; Australian Troops Capture Wareo In New Guinea

U.S. PUTTING MORE PRESSURE ON JAP BASES   Stiff Challenge for Defense Line Running From Rabaul! to Truk. Invasion Imminent?

Molotov Charges Germany Abducts Russian Citizens For Slave Labor:  Warns Of Punishment After War

RUSSIANS ENSLAVED BY NAZIS, IS CLAIM   Reds Warn Those Responsible Will Be Punished

MOLOTOV HITS NAZIS FOR ENSLAVING REDS   Declares ‘Responsibile’ Will Be Brought To Account

UPRISING IN YUGOSLAV   Patriots. Report Destroying « , Power Plant and Mine

FOR STRIKE AT PACKARD   Production Back To Normal in Plant Today. -

GEORGE ASKING PEN SESSIONS ATFOOD MEET   Senator Says Conference  Premature Unless Pre-  liminaries Have Been Accomplished   FOR PUBLIC OPINION   Hold Barring of Press ‘From Conference Cannot But Have Bad Effect On Americans

Food Parley Arrangements Criticized   Senator George Insists the Public Should Be Admitted   WILL HAVE BAD EFFECT

WANTS FOOD PARLEY BE MADE PUBLIC   Senator George Says Meeting Premature If People Not Infarmed

MacArthur's Forces Capture Enemy Village In Central Solomons Area; Javs Lose 21 Planes Over Rendova

Americans Thrust On In Pacific Operations   MacArthur Takes Full Charge Of  ive

YANKS CAPTURE TWO VILLAGES IN SOLOMONS FIGHT   21 Jap Planes Downed Over Rendova; Kiska Is Dealt New Blows

Japs Raiding Yank Bases Shot Down   Americans Capture Another Village in New Georgia Island Drive   300 OF FOE SLAIN:   MacArthur's Forces Spreading Out on Steadily Advancing Arc

Yanks Capture Village, Blast. 21 Jap Planes   General At Front To Direct Attack That Brings Fall Of Vura; Munda Rocked By Dive-Bombers; Nine Heavy Raids Smack Kiska.

21 Jap Planes Shot Down Over Rendova Island   MacArthur _ Takes to Field, Personally Direct: ing Operations. Torpe-do and Dive - Bombers Pound Munda Heavil¥:

MacArthur's Airmen Down 21 Jap Planes   On Vanguner Island Americans Kill 300 Japs in Capturing Village of Vura

MINER DISPUTE HANDED TO WLE   Both Lewis And Operators Call Talks ‘Farcical’

WAGE DISPUTE IN WLB HANDS   Coal Operators and Unior Declare Bargaining Is Unreal

Only War Labor Board Decisior Seems Way Of Averting New Coal Mine Walkout At End Of Truce

ORDER PUBLIC MINE HEARING   War Labor Board’s Order Poses New Question For Lewis

soft Coa! Bargaining “Farcical”  —V-——  Oneratars. Union   Operators, Union _ Throw Wage Dispute to WLB   JUNE 21 LOOMS   Only Quick Decision Will Avert Yet Another Strike

Coal Parley Breaks Down  Acceptable Decision by WLB Seen Only Way

a Miners’ Strike Hearing to Be on Thursday  Labor Board @. Ready For Reports

Labor Board Sets Hearings In Coal Dispute   Efforts Continue To Cut Deadlock In Mine Strife

Negotiations Between Coa Operators And Union Reported Deadlocked On ‘Portal-To-Portal’

WLB Slates A Hearing On Mine Wages   Question Is Again: Will Lewis Appear Before Board?

Operators, MViiners Agree Conference On Wages Farcica!   See WLB Decision Only Way To Seitle Dispute

Want To Buy A Town? Beaver County Community  Is Put On Auction Block

Administration Wage Policy. Hit   Labor, Congress Voice Protests

John C. Lonsdale Noted St. Louis Banker Is Dead   Once Co-Trustee of Frisco; Active In State Since 1891

MORE REVENUE SOUGHT BY U5   Search Narrows Down to  Higher income Taxes Gr  Sales Levy.

WAR FINANCE CASH SOUGHT   ‘Narrows To 2 Possibilities— More Income Tax Or Federal Sales Tax

INCOME TAX BOOST, SALES LEVY FAVOREL   Treasury Reported Backing Higher Assessment on Individuals.   NEED $12,000,000,000   Experts Put Little Emphasis on Retail Collection, But Conoress Might Like It,

TAX SEARCH FAVORS HIGHER INCOME LEVY   Sales Tax vs. Increased Individual and Corporate Taxes Debated

WASHINGTON PLANNING ANOTHER TAX HIKE SOON   Capitol Hill Hears Treasury, Tax Experts, Leaning Heavily Toward Hike Income Rate

Search for New War-Financing Revenue Seems Narrowed fo Increasing Income Taxes or Federal Retail Sales Tax

Treasury Leans Toward Income *Tay Increases   Bloc May Be Formed in Cengress Favoring Sales Tax to Avoid Further Drastic Deductions from Income

INCOME TAX. OR SALES LEVY   Search for New Revenue Narrows to New Fields

Search For New Taxes Narrowed   Capital Said Favoring Income Tax Increase

FIGHT LOOMS ON NEW TAX ISSUE!   Bloc In Congress May Op.   spose Hike Of Income   Deductions

SOLONS STUDY NEW PLANS FOR TAY INCREASES   Federal Sales Levy, Increased Income Tax Are Favored   DISSENTERS LOOM   Excess Profits Levy On Individual Incomes Gains Backers

New Tax Bill Hints Higher Levy On Income   Excess Profits Of Individual To Be Tapped

2, Avenues Toward New  War Finance   Income Tax and Federal - Retail Sales Tax Are  Of Chief Interest

Experts Study Income Tax Boost, Federal Sales Levy   fonfer With Morgenthau

HUNT FOR NEW FUNDS NARROWS   Increased Income Taxes Or Sales Levy Predicted

AN INCOME TAX INCREASE SEEN   Treasury and Congressional Experts Seeking New Billions of Revenue.

Study Sales.  Income Taxes   al  Excess Profits Formula May Soon Be Applied To Indi vidual Incomes.

GIRAUD IS SEEKING MORE AMERICAN AID   Gen. Bergeret Being Sent To Washington In Effort To Speed Up Assistance

“Heifers for Relief Project" Part of _ Program of Church of the Brethren

CRACK PENNSY TRAIN DERAILED IN PGH. TUNNEL   “The American” Derailed I Fourth Avenue Tunnel This Mornine

Commander-In-Chief Karl Doenitz to Put Entire  Concentrated Navy  Tato U-Boat War   CHALLENGE TO ALLIE SEAPOWER EXPECTED   Pace of Sinkings of Naz U-Boats Presents Germany Herself With Desperate Problem

Threatens Greater U-Boat War   Germany Will Make Desper-ate Effort to Win War by All-Out Campaign Against Allied Supply Lines

Allied Supply Lines Object Of Submarines   Germany Claims Sinking of Many Ships in Month

Nazis To Concentrate On U-Boats © In Desperate Effort To Win War

AXIS PLANS. U-BOAT WAR EXPANSION   Remains One Hope Orv ictory: New " Chief Named

SUBMARINE WAR   Originator OF “Wolfpack” Sub Warfare Made Head OR Nazi Navy

Germany Threatens Allies With Greater Sub Warfare Backed By Total Power Of Nazi Navy

GREATER U-BOAT MENACE LOOMS   Germany Threatens Intensified Undersea Warfare; Doenitz Made Commander-In-Chief Of Nazi Navy.

NAZIS PIN IGTORY. HOPES ON U-BOATS   German Navy Gets New Commander-in-Chief Who Promises All Out Sub Campaian

NAZIS PREPARE U-BOAT CAMPAIGN   UNDERSEA EXPERT NAMED TOP OFFICIAL OF GERMAN NAVY

NAVY BACKING U-BOAT DRIVE   Germany Menaces Allies With Threat Of Greater Submarine Warfare

Nazis Warn of U-boat Campaign  Subs To Concentrate ~ On Supply Lines

Nazis To Open All-Out War  By Submarine:   To Concentrate On Attacks By U-Boats, New Commander Says

Chief Strips Ships to Man U-Boat Fleet   Fight to Finish Pledge Is Made By Adm. Doeniiz

Labor Leaders Demand Lower Food Prices   Ask For Rollback Or Brown’s Scalp

Labor Shortages and Union Demands for OPA Director's Scalp Unless Prices Fall Complicate Warfime Production

Labor Poses Alternatives  To War Chiefs   Ask Lower Food Prices or Higher Wages — May Seek Brown’s Scalp

MINE WORKERS, OPERATORS IN AGREEMENT   But War Labor Board Must Pass on Proposal

ARKANSAS STREAMS ~~ NEAR DANGER STAGE   Rivers and Creeks Through. out Northwestern Part of State On Rampage

Small, Large Streams Rise fo Danger Levels  Much Farmland Reported Inundated in

Reds Isolate _ Railroad Center   —Advance- Twenty — Miles in Two Days:

GALLANT AIRMEN RETURN TO HOME BASE AFTER BOMBING DESPITE HEAVY CASUALTIES  Plane Badly Damaged, Crew Shot Up But . Liberator Is Returned Despite Handicap

SURPLUSES IN TREASURY HIT   OEA Asks For 12 Milion More  Per. Year. -For Public Schools

SCHOOL FUNDS BOOST 1S: ASKED   Teachers Urge 12 Million Increase In State Payments

FREEZE CAFE PRICES IN 19 OHIO COUNTIES   Effective Next Week in Northeastern Part of State

CHARGES FOR RESTAURANTS, BARS FROZEN   Manstield Dealers Say Order To Have Little Effect on Current Prices.   EFFECTIVE JUNE 12   ‘Order Establishes April 4-10  Period as Base Level For 10 fauntiae In Aras

Operators Are Cool Toward ‘Model’ Plan      Industry Leaders Buck llinois Contract; Ask WLB to Force Miners Sign .

DEMAND THAT WLB ENFORCE RULING   Spokesmen for Operators Indicate Lack of Enthusiasm for ‘Model’ Agree ment Between UMW and  Operators.

Spokesmen Ask WLB Enforcement  Miners Would Sign Contracts For No Travel Time Waaes

LACK OF ENTHUSIASM  INDICATED FOR MINE  WORKING AGREEMENT BIG COAL OPERATORS  DEMAND WLB ENFORCE ITS RECENT RIILING

Operators Demand. War  Labor Board Enforce  Rule Against Portal ... to-Portal Pay   AGREEMENT MADE   Illinois Operators Sign Pact Granting Up to,$3 Day Increase; W/LB Must Approve It

Coal Operators Shun Travel Pay   Show No. Liking ‘Foi New Wage Contract

Operators. Of Big Coal Mines Are Still [Against Wages For Underground Travel

Operators Hit Illinois Pact  Demand WLB Use Power To Enforce No Portal Pay

Mine Contract Is Protested By Operators   Demand Is Made That WLB Enforce Ruling Regarding Pay

Gasoline Dealers Ask Price Raise   A-Card Program May be Dropped

‘NATIONALIST PARTY’ FOUNDATIONS LAID   Influen tial Republicans To Oppose Willkie

WANT M'CORMICK FOR PRESIDENT   RESOLUTION CALLS FOR PUBLISHER TO BE A CANDIDATE

G.O.P. Urges McCormick  For President   Publisher Would Oppose Willkie

Boom Launched For McCormick   lsolationists Back Tribune Publisher

FUEL CONVERSION POLICY REVERSED   Brown Deems It Inadvisable to Force Orders in Old Areas

Axis To Defend Southern Italy, Say Travelers   Sicilian Invasion Forcés Germany To Speed Up Defenses.

LONERGAN IS ENROUTE BACK TO NEW YORK   RCAF Cadet Waives Extradition for Questioning in Murder of Wife—New Clues Reported

Gotham Police Await Arrival Of Lonergan   Husband of Slain Woman Waives Extradition to Return to States   NEW DEVELOPMENTS

TROOPS OCCUPY JAP CAMPIN U.S,   Action Comes After Trouble Between Internees and Civilians

NIP UPRISING AT TULE LAKE * UNDER CONTROL   WRA Calls Troops After / Aliens Severely Beat Night Watchman   EXPLOSIVE SITUATION   Area In Turmoil Since Prisoners Refuse To Engage In Work

Large Seaplane With 19 Aboard Is Long Overdue   Plané Lost After. * Trip To' Mainland From Pearl Harbor

Widespread Search Being Made For Seaplane With 19 Persons Aboard   CARGO TRANSPORT IS ALSO OVERDUE

25 Aboard Lost Planes of Navy   One, Carrying 19, Overdue From Pearl Harhor; Avena Saarchad

Big Seaplane With 19 Persons Believed Down In San Francisco Area  )PPED FROM HAWAII  Transport Carrying Six Sought in High  Arizona Mountains

SEAPLANE WITH 19 ABOARD IS MISSING   NAVY CRAFT OVERDUE ON   FLIGHT FROM PEARL HAR BAR TO SAN FRANCISCO.

Two Planes Missing with 25 Aboard, Navy Reports   Transport Seaplane Overdue on Flight From Pearl Harbor With 19 in Cabin   THURSDAY CIRCLED SAN FRANCISCO

NAVY SAYS Ch Un  ARE MISSING   Another Also Report. ed Overdue Along West Coast .

19 MISSING ON NAVALPL ANE      Big Transport Over 24 Hours Overdue at San Francisco

Plane With 19 Aboard Is Overdue   En Route From Pearl Harbor to U. S.; Cargo Ship Missing

Big Seaplane Long Overdue  19 Men Abeard Ship   19 Men Aboard Ship Fouled By Fog

PLANE WITH 19 ABOARD MISSING   Navy Transport Is Long Overdue on Flight From Hawaii

Seaplane With 19 Aboard Over Due 24 Hours   To U. S. From Pearl Harbor; Cargo Transport Also Overdue

FIRST SESSION   War Mobilization Board Meets Today In White House.

Congress To Decide Fate Of Subsidies   Cost Is Set At $1.750.000.000

Senate Democrats Seek Compromise  in Subsidy Battle   Farm Bloc Has Spurned Idea; Other News From Washington

Congress Faces Alternative On Food Subsidies   Administration Holds Out Choice of $1,250,000,000 In Subsidies Or Touching Off Inflationary Prices and Wage Rises To Congress.

SUBSIDIES OR INFLATIONARY PRICE PISES   Administration Says One of Two Must Be Approved

INFLATION THREAT GIVEN CONGRESS   $1,250,000,000 Subsidy Cost Is Offset by Inflationary Price and Wage Rises

lowa's 34th Infantry Now Bottling in Italy With American 5¢h Arm

AIGIO CURB ON WHEAT REMOVED   Food Administrator Suspends Marketing Quotas Which Restricted the Sale, Use and Feeding of Wheat

Vext Job Is to Muscle Von Arnim. Jut of Mountains, Huss Reports   Re PIERRE J HIS

14 KNOWN DEAD IN NEW JERSEY TRAIN WRECK   Seven of Fifteen Cars in Pennsylvania Express Leave Rails

P. R. R.-Reading Seashore Lines Express Wrecked Outside of Camden, N. J.

FOURTEEN DEAD IN TRAIN CRASH   Pennsylvania Puts Blame On Engineer in Tragic Accident

Fourteen Dead In Train Wreck At Camden, N. J   Pennsylvania Train With 1200 Passengers Aboard In Wreck Last Night  HUNDRED HURT AS CARS YPSET

MORE THAN 1,000 PASSENGERS ON FAST EXPRESS   Seven Of 15 Heavily Loaded Cars Jump Tracks At Camden, N. J.   SOLDIERS, SAILORS HURT   Three Way Investigation Into Railway Tragedy Gets Under Way

Eight Workers Charged With Faulty Welding   Charge Hurry-up Jobs Were Done To Boost Earnings

Faulty Work Is Admitted, Says Hoover   Tell Of Hurried Jobs To Increase Earnings; No Evidence Of Connection With Axis.

MEN TRIED 10 HURRY JOBS T0 GET MORE PAY   Improper Welds Would Have Made Liberty Ships Structurally Weak

ADMIT SABOTAGE   Workers Admit Faulty dob on Liberty Stipa, Save FRI.

Lexington Man Among Eight Seized By FBI On Charge Of Sabotaging Liberty Ships

EIGHT FORMER WELDERS HELD FOR SABOTAGE   Hoover Announces Arrest Of Men Accused Of Faulty Welding On Liberty Ships; No Evidence Of Axis Connection, However.

WELDING ON SHIPS FAULTY FBI CHARGES   Seven Under Arrest Admit Inferior Work in Order *o Earn More Money   ‘ARE BEING ARRAIGNED

Faulty Welding Found in Ships: FBI Nabs Eight   Made More Money By Being Fast on Job, Men Confess

FBI HEAD ANNOUNCES ARREST OF WELDERS   Seven Men Charged With Sabotage Act

‘Sabotaging Of Liberty Ships Laid To 7 Welders   FBI Head Says Men Worked Fast, Did Defective Job, To  Karn Rannsec

FBI SAYS MEN SPED WORK T0 GET MORE PAY   Faulty Welding Not Attributed to Axis Direction At Maryland Yards

8 Aceused ‘Of Sabotage   FBI Announces Arrests Of Shipyard Welders

ARREST EIGHT FOR SABOTAGE   WORKMEN WHO’ DID FAULTY WELDING ON BHIFS TO: EARN MORE PAY ARE  PICKED Ur

7 Arrested For Sabofaging Ships  Men Admit Faulty Welding to Finish Work ina Hurry

8 Welders Accuse Of Ship Sabotage By Faulty Work  Men Admit Hurry-Up Jobs To Make

EBL ARRESTS 7 FOR SABOTAGE   Formerly Employed As Welders In Maryland Shipyards

FAULTY WORK ON BOATS CHARGED   FBI Rounds Up Seven Men; Face Hearings

ARREST SEVEN FOR POOR WORK   F.B.I. Charges Welding Frauds in Hurry . To rn More.

SEVEN LIBERTY SHIP WELDERS ARRESTED BY F. B. . AGENTS   Men Admit Performing Faulty Welding, But Are Not Believed to Have Had Any Axis  Direction

Arrest Eight War Workers  For Sabotage   Charge Men Did Faulty Work On Liberty Ships In Order To Increase Pay,   ALL PLEAD NOT GUILTY

Eight American Shipyard Workers Arested for Sabotaging U. S. Shifs

Charge Of Sabotaging Liberty Ships Brought Against Seven Men By F. B. I.

Accused Admit Defective Work In Rush on Job   No Evidence of Axis Direction or Sympathy On Par f ‘ce ucrs, J. Edgur Says

Charge Seven With Sabotave   Admit Faulty Welding On Ships to Earn  “More, Hoaver Says

Bad Work Is Blamed  On Greed   Hoover Sees No. Evidence ---Of-Axis. Sympathies Or. Direction In . Offenses

WELDERS hELD FOR SABOTAGE   Seven Men Charged With Doing Faulty Work on Libarty Ships.

Fight Held   F.B.1, Charges Feulty Woldiang in Haste Te Earn Mere Pey

Warfordsburg Man Jailed In Baltimore, Accused of Faulty Welding In Ship Yards   FORMER CONVICT   Federal Agents Testify Suspect Served Terms For Robbery, Attack. On Policeman

GHT SEIZED  BALTIMORE  SAROTUERS   ;  arged by Federal Bureau of Investigation With   Improper Welding   On Liberty Ships   L ADMIT FAULTY WORK PERFORMEL   Yi Director Says No Eviprice of “Axis Direction Or Sympathies” by Accused Found

Arrest Seven For Sabotage   Admit Doing Faulty Welding On..Ships, “To Finish In A Hurry And Earn More Money”

WELDERS FACE FBI CHARGES OF SABOTAGE   Seven Accused of Faulty Weldine on Liberty Ships In Order tc Earn More Money

7 Former Welders Arrested By F BI Fo or Ship Sabot: age   Three: Car olin nians  Aion Those Charged With Per forming: Fauloo ty Welding:

‘SEVEN ARRESTED FOR SABOTAGE   Former Welders Accused (jf Faulty Work Done On Liberty Ships

Seven Held As Saboteurs In Ship Yard  Greed For More Money Led Men To Tha Bankivy Work

EIGHT ACCUSED OF POOR WORK TO RUSH JOBS   Six Plead Innocent at Arraignment Before Commissioner

Tunis Scene Of Confusion   Gen. Henty Giraud’s Picture Is Everywhere; Many Ask for De Gaulle

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC  CONFUSION PREVAIL  IN CITY OF TUNIS MANY ALLEGED “COLLAB. ORATORS” HAVE  MOea ~aDnore Ttrn,

Army Casualties Total 63,958   Includes Dead, Wounded, Miss. ing and Prisoners

Methodist Church EB. LEROY PULLMAN, Ministe   United Brethren G. M. TALBOTT, Pastor

WAAC RUMORS ARE BRANDED AS FALSE   Stimson Assails “Sinister Reports” About Women’s Corps

Reputation of the WAACs Defended By Stimson and Two Congresswomen

Light Cruiser and Three Destroyers Already Sunk.   2 MORE DESTROYERS PROBABLY SUNK

Fight May Still  Continue   U. S. Troops Inch For. ward Toward Munda.

MURRAY IS CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF C10 FOR FOURTH TERM   Union Chief Is Unepposed For Union Post — 9 Vice Presidents Also Elected

C.].0O. Names Murray Head for 4th Term   WLB CONTINUES STUDY OVER COAL MINE WAGES AS PIT OUTPUT LAGS

Murray Renamed  CIO President —   Long Demonstration Follows Re-Election

BULGARIAN KING IS REPORTED VERY ILL   49-Year-Old Monarch Is Said Tt Have Angina Pectoris; German Specialists Called

KING BORIS SAID TO BE SERIOUSLY ILI   German Physicians Reported sen to Sofia to Attend Bulgarian Ruler,

FDR’S MONEY POWER SLICED   Right to Devalue Dollar Dropped by Committee

Would Curb F.R. Power   Senators Would Eliminate President’s Authority To Devaluate Dollar

Subchaser, Cargo Vessel Collide  Two Missing After: (oat. font C eae

es Pihaheaiisit ith bine tad vane atc COMMITTEE: MEWAERS Beiiee   ASSIGNED TODAY AFTER. / MESSAGE FROM ROOdEVELT OPENS THE a MEETING .

FORD FOREMEN ENDED TODAY   ‘Result in No Actual Loss Of Production

Invading Army In Advance On Three Fronts   Allies Savy King Vittorie Em. anuele Reigning In Rome; Nazis Disagree.   24 SHIPS SURRENDER

Report 4Battleships, 7 Cruisers, 6 Destroyers at Malta; 7 Others InSpanish Port: Roma Is Sunk   American 5th Fans Out in Naples Area as Enemy Counterattacks; British 8th Reaches Maida; Report Landing on Peninsula

35.000-Ton Roma Is Sunk By German Dive-Bombers; U.S. Forces Take Salerno

Rites for Mrs. Fred McDaniel Held on Friday   Resident of Kerr County for 36 Years Expires Thursday After Long Illness

British Eighth ~ Army Captures Town Of Caldar   Army Is Battering Way Forward On Right Wing Of Italian Line   CLOSE RANGE COMBAT FEATURES ATTACKS

EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES CITY OF CALDARI   Join Bridgeheads Five Miles Long Across. Moro River

ALLIED COMMAND SHAKEUP INDICATED   Speculation Rifle On Statement by MacArthur

GEN. MARSHALL — MAY HEAD ALLIED GLOBAL COMMAND   Reports Continue To Cir culate In Washingto: That U. S. Chief Wil Be Named To Import  ant Past.

Farm Bloc May Support Bill  - Senator Opposes _ Drafting Fathers

International AAA Food- Producing Formula \Aimed at Elimination of Famines in Future Will Be Offered at Coming Allied Conferenc

World AAA Plan Would Ban Hunger   U. $. Delegation Prepares Blue Print For International Food Control   TO AVERT FAMINES      United Nations Parley Will Be Offered New Deal Farm Idea

BLAST FOUR JAP SHIPS IN .NEW GUINEA   Wide-spread damage done by bombers under  command of MacArthur

4 Japanese Ships Hit in New Guinea   One 5,000-Tonner; U. S Bombers Raid Gasmata, Lae and Mubo Areas

Four Jap Vessels Blasted By Bombs   Twenty Ships Are Destroyed In Four Days

Allies Capture 5 Important Cities In Sicily Drive   Fierce Attempt Fo Knockout Punch Rages Or &§ Mile Front

 Ring of Steel Being Drawn : Around  Sicily’s Bastion  MANY NAZI TROOPS FACE ENTRAPMENT  Forces Under General Pat. ban Oeeiimu Mb of   Forces Under General Patton Occupy City. of Troina

Ring of Steel Being Drawn Around Sicily’s Bastion  MANY NAZI TROOPS FACE ENTRAPMENT  Forces Under General Pat. ton Occupy City of Troina

HULL HOME TODAY   “Gallant Old Eagle” Covered with Praise on Success of Moscow Mission

REBUTTAL IN FLYNN TRIAL IS UP TODAY   Actor Firmly Denies Misdeeds With Either Of Accusing Girls

FLYNN DENIES ALL IN COURT GRILLING   State Summons _ Rebutta! Witnesses

R COVER WIDE AREA IN MID-ILLINOIS   Highways Still Open, However; I. C. Has Washout Near Latham  eon G&S oo & >= ee ee ae 2 AP OS oe ee A ~_+ ee oe

“WAR BROKERS” PROBE IS URGED   Congressman _ Says That 121 of Them Have Earned 15. Millions..

‘INFLUENCE BOYS’ TAKE IN MILLIONS   At Least That’s Claim Made By Georgia Congressman

WAR BROKERS. ‘MADE. MILLIONS - SAYS: VINSON   Seeks Renewal Of Authority To Probe Costs Of War

121 WAR BROKERS CETISMILLION ~ IN DEFENSE 108s   Rep. Vinson Has Report on Income of Sales Engineers Since 1939 In Soliciting Anencies.   FORMER FEDERAL EM. PLOYE GOT $200,000   Study of War Contracts In One Year With Re-nego ftiations Results In Saving of 700 Miltion

15 Millions. Paid Out to “War Brokers’   Rep.. ‘Vinson G Gives: the Fig. = mres, Asking: “Funds 40° ” Continge:: Inquiry.         PROBERS DAVE SAVED:   Several “Sales: Engineers’ “Reported: Facing ° Tndict. “ment-as Resultcof Inquiry:

29 Dead Or Missing After Crash Of Huge Bomber Into Packing Plant

Bomber Smashes A Packing House For Toll of 29   Test Pilot Rides to Death in Bomber With One Engine Afire.   Building Is Fired By Crash of Plane

STILL GROWING   U. 8. Resident Population Rises Deaplte Men Sent Abroad. -

CANNED GOODS ~ RATIONS WILL BE CUT FURTHER   Civilians Will Get 15 Per Cent. Less During Next Twelve Months

PUCK SOLD FOUD BATION DECLINE   Fifteen Per Cent Cut in Veg. etables and Fru.-ts for Civilan Use.

WEA Indicates 15 Pet. Cut In Canned Foods   More than 27 million fewer -cases’ may - be available to: ‘civilians i in next 32 months.

CANNED FOODS FOR CIVILIANS T0 BE CUT 14”.   WEA Announces Coming Reductions in Rationed Items

GANNED GOODS CUT FORECAST   ABOUT 15'PERCENT REDUCTION FOR CIVILIANS IS PLANNED DURING NEXT TWELVE MONTHS »

POURED DEATH, DESTRUCTION ON NAZI CITY   Nuremburg, other objectives in Ruhr and France blasted

German Citv And Other Targets Hit   Enemy Obiectives In Ruhr Included

Forces Also      INITIAL PHASE OF  MEDITERRANEAN DRIVE WILL WELL UNDER WAY BY END OF WEEK. IT IS INDICATED

Battle of the Mediterranean Has Been Joined on 3rd Anniversary Of Mussolini's Stab in the Back

Propose Farm Labor Survey   Plan County - By - County Study To Determine Potential Food Output.

Vast Offensives Believed Near   Tripling of Casualty List Seen in 90 Days

Predicts Huge U.S. Casualties In Next 90 Days   High Executive Hints of Great New Offensive

BATTLE CASUALTIES IN NEXT © 90 DAYS TO BE VERY SEVERE   High Government Executive Says American Losses Will Be Triple Those For First Two Years Of War; People Not Prepared For Tremendous Shock

FORECAST MADE OF HEAVY CASUALTIES   Mighty and Bloody Conflicts in Offing, Executive Save

Official Hints at Offensives Far Mightier and Bloodier ‘Than Any Yet Undertaken by Allies

Invasion Costs Probably High. ‘Avows} Official   Battle Casualties for Next 90 Days Seen Triple  > > ee) 7, ee.

Public Warned Casualties May Be Half Million   Assault on Reich Believed Planned

Bloody Battles, Far Costlier Than Any Before ‘Near’   High Lxecutive Predicts Action Within 90 Days

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HEAVY LOSSES FORESEEN FOR NEXT 90 DAYS   HOME COMPLACENCY CAUSES WORRY IN WASHINGTON

High Government Executive, Hinting at Mighty Offensives, Believes Battle Losses in Period Will Triple Total for Two Years of War—War and Navy Depariments Are Silent on Official’s Remarks, .

HITS OVERTIME   Rickenbacker Favors 40-Hour "Week at Reqular Rate ~

Rickenbacker Opposed To Overtime Pay For Workers On New 48-Hour Schedule

AGAINST OVERTIME PAY   Rickenhacker Thinks Laborers . Should Work for Regular Wage

ATTEMPT TO LAND TANKS NEAR ZARA REPORTED HALTED   Nazis Say Allies Tried. To Reach Jugoslav Coast South Of  Venice

ALLIED LANDING: INJUGOSLAVIATS: REPORTED BY FOE   Story Is Unconfirmed—Parti sans and Patriots Clash on Several Fronis.

Claim Beating Off Allied Tank Force Landing   Nazis Report “Attempt on Yugoslav Coast Near Zara

Allies Try Landing On Slav Coast   Oslo Radio Says Tank Forces Beaten Off In Attack on Zara

Heavy Air a  in ~~ Balkans   Airfields: Near’ A Athens ‘Are Main ‘Target. of 300-Plan -vRaid:- by Americans.         ALLIES MAEE NEW -.. GAINS IN ITALY      Nazis Complain of ..Goin Against’ ‘Tough: Wil 220. (Men -From’ Texas”:

U. §. Bomber: Blast Targets in Balkans   Giant Attacks Made on Airfields at Athens and Piraeus

Mighty Raids On Fields And Port   Heavy Aerial Battles Fought As Allies Step Up Blows

Twelve German Planes Downed In Assault on  Three Enemy Airfields

Down Twelve Nazi Planes Over Greece   Eighth Army Captures Caldari, Six Miles From Ors tona On Adriatic,   HIT PIRAEUS HARBOR

YANKS RAID AIRDROMES AT ATHENS   Piraeus Harbor Also Attacked; British Advance In Italy

Over 300 American Bombers Strike At Nazi-Held Greece   Giant Attack Against Three Airfields at Athens and Piraeus Harbor Comes as Canadians and Indians Lead Assault on Caldari   COMMANDING OFFICER OF GRENADIERS TAKEN

U.S, BOMBERS ATTACK GREECE IN AIR BATTLE   Report Knockout Blows Against German Bases

ALLIED PLANES ATVAGK GREECE   Canadians Capture Commancer of German Armgored Division.   TAKE MANY PRISONERS

Dozen Nazi Fighters Shot Down   Three Athens Airfields, Piraeus Harbor Attacked by Liberators, Fortresses And Escort Planes in Heaviest Assault

Balkans Rocked by 300 Bombers   CANADIAN, INDIAN TROOPS LEAD EIGHTH ARMY ATTACK AS CALDARI FALLS; 200 GERMANS ARE TAKEN PRISONER IN NEW ADRIATIC ADVANCE

ASCALDAR BSTORMER   Canadians. Indians ‘Lead 8th Army’ s  Advances

BIH ARMY CAPTURES * CALDAR] IN ITALY   German. Fighters Are Brushed Aside With 12: of Them -Shot Down

AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT NAZI-OCCUPIED -GREEGE HARD BLOW   Said to Have Been Greatest - Allied Attack of Air War Over the Balkans.   300 PLANES IN ATTACK   Canadian and Indian Troops Led 8th Army Raid That Captured Caldari.

GREATEST ALLIED BLOW OF CONFLICT   Three Airfields At Athens And Piraeus Harbor Hi

Record Smashes Made By Large U.S. Air Force    300°Planes Strike Greatest Blow Of Air War Over Balkans: Port Blasted

Americans Plaster Greek Airfields: Dozen Nazis Downed In Aerial Battle

Greece Is Target Of Aerial Attack   More Than 300 American Planes Struck Balkans Yesterday   BAG 12 NAZI FIGHTERS   Canadian and Indian Troops Led An Eighth Army  Advance

OVER 300 AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACKED NAZLOCCUPIED AREA  CANADIAN AND INDIAN TROOPS LED NEW EIGHTH ARMY ATTACK 

Nori Prisoner Says Germans Told Thev Fiaht “Touch Wild Texas Men”

Adriatic Coast Town Captured By British   12 German Planes Downed In Big Raid; Fifth Army Engaged In Only Patrol Action

—TALY—  RAIDS HEAVIEST TO HIT BALKANS   Canadian And Indian ’ Troops Score Gains In Italian Fighting   PRISONERS TAKEN   Moro River Are Merg c  Bridgeheads Across ed-Into One

GERMAN BASES IN GREECE BOMBED BY U. S. AIRMEN  12 NAZI FIGHTERS  tk a. ee ee te  

Raid Declared Heaviest Blow Yet In Balkans  Fighting In Italy Marked By 8th

Fliers Attack Three Airfields at Athens and Piraeus Harbor, and Down 12 Fighters in a Big Aeral Rattle. ni E

More Than 300 Warplanes Deal KO Blow to 3  Nazi Airports   Down 12 Out of 35 Challenging German Fighters

YANK BOMBERS HIT AIRFIELDS IN GREEK AREA   Canadian, Indian Troops Of Eighth Army Seize Caldari and Capture 200 Prisoners   CLEARING WEATHER  HELPS U.S. AIRMEN   Invasion of Balkans Is Seen Near, As Result of Aerial Blows Dealt Nazi-held Fields

300 Bombers Hit Airfields In Greece   Air Action Mounts as Allies Continue to Advance in Italy

12 NAZI CRAFT DOWNED IN BIG AERIAL BATTLE   Canadian Troops Make Daring Raid on Berrati, Capture German Leaders

U.S. Planes Hit Greece Record Blow   Over 300 Bombers In Giant Assault; 12 Enemy Fighters Downed in Battle

Bombers Hif Greek Bases   Strike Terrific Blows; Patrol Clashes on Land

More Than 300 Planes Stage ‘ ‘Pre-Invasion” Type Blow On Airports

American Air Force  Hits Athens, Piraeus   300 Bombers And Fighters Stage Biggest Raic On Nazi-Occupied Balkans; 12 German Planes Downed: Goins Made In Italy

Greatest Allied Air Blow of War Made on Balkan:   Giant Attack on 3 Airfields Comes as 8th Army Captures Caldari,   Daring Night Raid Is Made on Village

THREE AIRFIELDS > AND HARBOR HIT IN AIR ASSAULT   @ Main Targets Located ot Athens, Piraeus Seaport—12 Nazi Planes Bagged

Planes Raid  Airfields In . Athens Area   Twelve German Planes Are. Shot Down: In “Aerial Battle With.  American Raiders

GREATEST AIR BLOW OF WAR IN BALKANS   12 German Planes Downed: Two Bridgeheads Across Moro River Are Merged; Caldari Taken

Yank Fliers Lash Athens And Piraeus   Allies Step Up Warfare On Balkans Front; Down  12 German Planes.

Yank Planes Raid Greece   300 Bombers and Fighters Strike; 12 German Planes Downed

Strong Force OfU. S. Heavy Bombers Hits Gr eek Ports   Air Fields Held By * Nazis Given Terrific Hammering; 12 Enemy Fighters Downed

Nazi Commanding Officer Captures [By Canadians   Knock-out Blow Dealt 3 German Airficids Near Athens, Pirueus Harbor Also Blasted.

Raid Said Greatest Made In Air War Over Balkans Area    Canadians Take German Leader In Night Move On Italian Village; Fifth In Clashes Near Venafro

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Reds Roll Artillery Up On Bryansk   Soviet Big Guns Ready To Shell Sagging Fronts

Red forces nearing vital German base   Soviet advances imperil Byransk

RUSSIANS WITHIN. ARTILLERY RANGE OF BRYANSK BASE   In Position To Shatter Sagging Nazi Line On Central Front   REDS CONTINUE TO MAKE SWIFT GAINS

Russians Are 12 Miles From Bryansk   Smash to Within Artillery Range of Base

Red Artillery Now in Range  Of.Bryansk   Rail Station 12 ‘Miles From Big City "Taken by Russians

Russian Troops Near Great Nazi Base at Bryansk   Advance to within Artillery Range

REDS WITHIN FIRING RANGE OF VITAL BASE   Rail Junction 12 Miles From Bryansk Falls; Advances Made On  Other Fronts

Army Marches Toward Big Railway City   Soviets Now Hammer At Bryansk From Only 12 Miles Away

East Assured Of Gas Supply  Ickes Says Reduction In Middle West Ratio.

Early Relief From Gas Ban Is Predicted   New na Representative Says Supplies Are Being Increased   CONGRESSMEN BUSY

AMERICAN SUB WINS BATTLE IN PACIFIC   Japanese Submersible Sent tt Bottom in Surface Fight in ' Winnonese Waters.

U. §. Submarine Sinks Jap U-Boat  Officer Is Cited For Pacific Feat

MERCY onl? oAlLa WITH RELIEF CARE   Swedish Liner Gripsholm Sets Out in Blaze of Light and Hope for Prisoners’

Gripsholm Going To Get Americans   Carries 1,500 Japs To Be Exchanged

STORK VISITS — HOSPITAL WITH TWIN BABIES   Thirty-Three Patients Ad. mitted to Hospital During Past Week.

Says Prisoners in Jail Go Hungry   Sheriffs in Many Counties Aren't Even Making Starvation Wages.

Blasting horror-ridden city to point of military oblivion   Over 6,000 tons of high explosive heaped on capital. within 8 nights

Third of Berlin Is Reported Leff in Ruins   Air Experts Predict R.A. F. Will Deal Still Greater Blows

British Seek to Wipe Out City   RAF Says It’s Only “Warming Up’ So Far; 30,000 Reported Killed

Third Of Berlin In Ruins After Friday Night Raids  Air Chief Marshal Reveals 6,720 Americar Tames al Baahke Ava Denneanel f¥n Nast Cite

AA BOMBt Ho LEAVE DE ALIN IN WRECKAGE   Nazi Capital Being Beaten Into Ground By Bombs From Britishers

[THIRD OF REICH CAPITAL ESTIMATED IN SMOKING RUINS AFTER FIFTH RAID

FIVE-SIXTHS OF MINERS RETURN   2,400 In Two Locais Remain Adamant After Presidential Deadline Passes

$00 Miners Stull Defy FD’s Order   1,600 Return to One Mine; Outpu  Near Normal

MOST STRIKERS JN ANTHRACITE AREA AT WORK   Over Five-Sixths Of The 12.000 Men On Sirike Back On Job

FIVE SIXTHS OF STRIKERS BACK ON JOB   Production at 90 Per Cent of Normal After Loss of 1,000,000 Tons.   MINERS LOSE $2,000,000   Few Remain Away From Work Ask White House: ‘What Have We to Gain?’

REST OF STRIKERS VOTE TO RETURN 10 COAL MINES   1,600. Remaining Miners _ Make Return to Jobs Nearly Comnleie.

MOST ANTHRACITE MINERS NOW BACK   Five-Sixths Of 12,000’ Who Struck Have Returned To Their Posts

PRACTICALLY ALL STRIKERS RETURN: 2,400 STILL OU   Five-Sixths of the 12,00C Men Who Left Jobs Answer Order of President.

CHAIN BROADCAST © RULING 1S UPHELL   Congress Has Responsibility To Grant Authority, Savs Court.

Restrictions Imposed On Chain Broadcasting Upheld   ‘Supreme Court Rules 5 to 2 Against Challenge to Rules By National Broadcasting Company, Inc., and  ; Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.;  Claimed “Drastic Damage”

——_—  RESTRICTIONS UPHELD   Chain Broadcasting Companie: Must Follow Regulations

‘RESTRICTIONS UPHELD   Chain Broadcastirg Companies Must Follow Regulations

2nd Mediterranean Stepping Stone Is Captured By Allies   Italians Surrender As Yankees And RAF Resume Terrific Bombing Of Germany

Greatest British Air Attack Of War on Bases   43 RAF Planes Are Lost; Devastation Believed Great

To Go Ahead -SON-TEVERUES Now in View    House G.0.P. Leader. for  Balauced Budget With ont Increasing Taxes   MANY ITEMS WILL HAVE TO BE CUT   Temporary Measures Are Offered tp Finance All State Agencies

Food Picture, — Latest View ‘of Situation   Shortages in . Some. Main  Items, But Increases. Are Forecast in Others   NO SUCH WORD AS ‘SURPLUS,’ HOWEVER   Demand, Weather and Other Factors Canse Recurring Changes in Situation

Food Situation  Changes Fast  In Nation Now Find Shortages In Most Items

BRITISH PRESS DRIVE ON NAZI LINE IN ITALY   Soviets Closing In On Zhlobin; Gain On All Fronts   WAR AT GLANCE

HULL SEES FORCE -SERENE WORLD-KEY   Collaboration With Russia ‘Settled Policy's’ Secretary Reports In Air Address

ForeignPolicy Is Outlined By Secretary   Wants Collaboration With Russia To Grow Now and After War  URGES WORLD COURT

Full American co-operation for peaceful world asked   Secretary Hull urges use of force if necessary to insure serenitv

Friendly Globe United Against War, Is Goal   International Court Vital He Says;  Praises Role of Russia

Hull Envisions Force Keeping Lasting Peace   World of Good-Friends  Controlling Outlaw Ther _.at....- Wet. Bb...

Hull Outlines U.S. Post-War  Foreign Policy   Secretary Emphasizes Readiness to Use  Force: Lauds Russia

Hull Says Big Postwar Aim — To Be Harmony   Readiness to Use Forces to Maintain Peace Indispensable

Hull Quilines American Foreign Policy  International Unity Backed by Force Declared No. 1 Aim

Post-War Plans to Keep Peace. Ate: Offered by Hull   Secretary Proposes : That Nations Join in Stopping Aggressors.-

Readiness to Use Force _ To Keep Peace is Vital, Secretary Hull Asserts   @ives Outline of American Foreign Policy anc Denies He Looks With Cold Eye on Russia; Allies of U. S. are Praised

Hull Says U. S. Has Neighborliness As Prime War Goal  Secretary Declares Americans Will Work With Soviet

PEACE PLAN WITH TEETH HULL'S AIM   Secretary Presents That Idea as No. 1 Aim of American Foreign Policy—Says Allies Must Stay Together.

Garrison Awaits Landing Attack By Allied Force   Demand For Unconditional Surrender of Battered Italian Island Dropped By Plane Before Assault Launched

ARMY TAKES OVER ON GUADALCANAL   Army General Patch Re leves Marine Commander.

Report Jap Resistance  Weakening   Allies Whittle At Four Pockets  Near Sanananda

FREEDOM NEAR FOR PHILIPPINES   President Quezon Sends Cheering Birthday Message To Isles

Philippines Leader Has 65th Birthday  Sends Message Of Chee: To People

Philippine Chief Sees Redemption  Quezon, 65, Sends Message to People

Miss Agnes Ryan Marries Ensign Herbert Ludwig  Ceremony Takes  Place Thursday At

Miss Agnes Ryan Marries Ensign Herbert Ludwig  Ceremony Takes  Place Thursday At Qs Tew wen be ’ a) eee oe

HUDSON RIVER MUD IS GIVING UP NORMANDIE   FORMER SEA QUEE) SLOWLY RIGHTING HERSELF

Ship Once France's Best Luxury Liner Slowly Rises Out of Hudson River Mud

TRIAL OF TRAPPER CONTINUES TODA   Emil Schroeder to Testify In Slaying of Forest Sunervisor.

All-Army Show To ‘Tour’ Jungles   “Fifty-Fifty” Taking Entertainment to Isolated Posts

14 INDICTED IN COCOANUT GROVE FIRE   Grand Jury Finds Loxity in Fire Costing 489 Lives   CITY DEPARTMENTS RAPPED IN REPORT   No Complete Coordination for Protecting Health, Morals

11 INDICTMENTS GIVEN ON FIRE   Grand Jury Hits At Laxity, Lack Of Co-ordination

Crane Operators May Be Drafted   Baltimore Board Furnished Names

ASK PROTEST   Leaflets Call For People af Rome To Go on Silent tri

MYSTERIOUS STRIKE CALLED IN ROME   Ant i-Fascist - Organizations Deny Responsibility

Knox Predicts A_ Long, Bitter War   Navy Chief Says It May Last Three Or Four Yaars Marc. .

LONG WAR AHEAD, SAYS SEC. KNOX   ‘May Last-Three‘Or Four More Years, He Says In Speech

War May Last 4 Years, Says Knox   Sees Earlv Use Of Victorv Plans

U, 4, ALLIES FACE LONG, BITTER WAR   Secretary Knox Says Conflict May Last Three of Four Years More

Mihailovic's Brigades Reach Udine Region   London Reports Slovene Partisans Break Through Italians

Patriot Bands Break Through lo Udine Area   Slovene Civilians Being Recruited To. Fight Axis

RECRUITING OF PATRIOTS TOLD IN DISPATCHES   Active Fighting Against Italians Is Announced’

————————————— EE ee  Guerrillas Break Through Italian Line: Reach Udine

MILAN’S RIOT DEAD NOW 700   Yugoslav Guerrillas Break Into Italy And Begin Signing Patriots

Underground Forces of Occupied Europe Await Orders to Erupt Against Axis Powers

Many Join Guerrillas   Yugoslav Group Breaks Through Eenemy Lines In Udine Region

Underground Forces Of Occupied Europe Are Showing Signs Of Great Restlessness

Slovenes Fighting In Italy   Two Brigades of Irregulaz  Forces Reach the Udine Region in North   MANY JOINING THE GUERILLAS   Underground Forces in Other Parts of Europe Reported Awaiting Orders

Patriots Smash Italian Lines   Yugoslavs Under Mihailo vic Reach Northern Tanler

MIHAILOVIC’S TROOPS ENTER NORTHITALY   Yugoslav Partisans Break Through ‘Ttalian Lines fo Reach Udine Region, Enroll Recruits

TWO SLOVENE UNITS GRACK ITALIAN LINES   Fifth and Sixth Brigades Reach the Udine Region, Government -inExile Declares—Are Recruitinge Inhabitants.

PATRIOTS BATTLE AXIS TROOPS IN BID FOR LIBERTY   BALKANS ALSO SAID ERUPTING AS CHAOS SWEEPS HITLERLAND

Big Concentration of Jap Airpower in * Pacific Is Smashed   250 Nip Fighters, Bomb@ ers Feel Weight of 54 Tons of Bombs

HIT AIRFIELD ‘IN GUADALCANAL   Some Damage Caused by lessee Aa Raict

Allies Blast Jap Planes On 3 Fields   Fliers Drop 54 Tons Of Bombs On Massed Aircraft At Rabaul.

Jap Planes Damage Guadalcanal Field  Enemy Attack on Selomons Island Mieerlncad Bu Naey ~

Guadalcanal Field Damaqed   No Casualties to Personnel Resulted From Jap Raid

GUADALCANAL BOMBED   Material Damage Done American Airport In Solomon Islands

TRANSPORT GRASH - 1S TO BE PROBED BY ARMY AT ONCE   Deaths of 35 Americans Will Be Thoroughly Investigated by Officials.

‘Army Investigates Transport Crash   May Send Board To Dutch Guiana

MOTOR FAILURE CAUSED PLANE CRASH, BELIEF   35 Americans Killed Ih Worst Air Disaster; Author Victim

Crash In Which 39 Died Probed By Army Board   Tragedy In Dutch Guiana Greatest In U.S. Air History

PLANE CRASH THAT TOOK LIVES OF 35 TS INVESTIGATED   Death. Toll Surpasses - That In Any Previous -American Plane Disaster.

Army Board Investigates Plane Crash   Greatest Single Plane Disaster in History  Of U. S. Aviation

'N ew Store Hours  Effective Monday   Opening at 8:30, the Stores Will Close at 5:30 Except on Saturday.

New Opening Hours Made for Stores   Beginning Monday, Business Houses Will Open at 9 a. m., Close 6 p. m.

Officer, 7 Men Die In Explosion At Camp Swift   Pyt. Porter Parham of Paris Is Among 5 Others Injured: Investigation Beaun

Eight Killed By Explosion  In Texas Camp   Five Others Injured And Board of Officers Starts Investigation

EXPLOSION DURING DEMOLITION DRILL CAMP SWIFT FATAL  LIEUTENANT AND SEVEN ‘ENLISTED MEN DEAD ANI RIVE ATUER WOTINNEN

JAPAN HAS PAID  STAGGERING PRICE  IN AIRPLANE LOSSES OF 300 PLANES ON RAID:  125 HAVE BEEN SHOT DOWN op NAMACEN

JAPS PAY HEAVY COST FOR RAIDS   Large Scale Attacks  Have Proved Expensive

JAPS PAY DEARLY FOR PACIFIC RAIDS   ‘Half of Force Sent Out Is Downed or Damaged

125 Of 300 Jap Planes  Shot Down   Staggering Losses Sustained In Raids In Southwest Pacific

JAPAN PAYING HEAVY TOLL Ih AERIAL POWER   125 Planes Shot Down o: Badly Damaged Out of More Than 300 Risked  in Pacific Areas   TOTALCOVERS MONTH   Allied Loses Reported for Similar Raids Far Below 10Sc Formula, it Is Announced

Jap Air Raids Prove Costly   125 Shot Down or Damaged During New Guinea Area Attacks

Japs Pay Heavy Price In Planes  More Than 125 Lost in Daceitice Daide

Japs Suffer Heavy Pacific : Plane Loss   More Than 300 Risked Since April 11 With - 125 Lost

‘Axis Offensive From Mareth Line Fails; Russians Report Capture of 114 Villages; British First Army Renews Tunisia Battle

Allies Bound Back at Axis  In Tunisia   After Initial Successes Rommel’s Offensive Called Failure; Reds Threaten Vyazma

Rommel’s Tank Drive Collapses   {Red—Armies—-ConvergingOn Nazi Vyazma Base After Taking 114 Towns

Allied Forces Hurl Axis Troops Back on All Tunisian Fronts   Russians Announce Capture of Additional Cities, Smash into Vyazma, Germans Admit Retreat from Sychevka

British Advancing Again in North; Rommel Repulsed   Soviet Forces Take 114 Settlements and Head for Vyazma

Crush Mareth Line Attacks, Gain In North   Russians Match North African Success As Two Columns Pour Through Rents In German Lines to Converge on Doomed City of Vyazma.

Allies Advance In North After Rommel Stalled   Russians Also Wain And Advance Near Vyazma, Vital Nazi Base

Rommel Offense ~ From Mareth Line Is Halted  LOSES 33 TANKS  Russian Troops Are Canveroing On

Allies Regain Initiative In North Tunisia   ... Eighth Army Smashes Foe’s Assaults

Rommel Halted; Russ Columns Shatter Nazis   Allies Seize Africar Initiative; Russians Menace ‘Smolensk

PUSH FORWARD IN NORTHERN TUNISIA ARE!   Rommel Repulsed in South British Eighth Army Where His Offensive Has Failed

Allies Regain  » initiative In  ~ North; Weather Halt< RAF Raide

ALLIED FORCES IN NORTHERN TUNISIA REGAIN INITIATIVE   ALLIED COMMUNIQUE DE. CLARES FLATLY THAT ROMMEL’S PUSH FAILED

Enemy Loses  Heavily At Mareth Line   British Smash Rommel Assaults In Tunisia

Germans Lose 33 Tanks in Friday Thrusts   Bombers Score Heayily Against Axis Convoys in Sicilian Straits

Allied Forces Gain In North Also After Stonewall Defense   Axis Loses 33 Tanks Friday Alone In Fruitless Blows Against Eighth Army; Eight Enemy Ships Blasted By Allied Bombers Combing Sicilian Straits

BRITISH PUSH AHEAD ON NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNISIAN SECTORS   Storm Of Bombs Beats On Japs   Reds Plunge  Toward Vyazma

THE BRITISH KNOCK DUT 33 NAZI TANKS WHILE LOSING NONE   Allies Pushing Forward  On All Fronts In Thnisia   ALLIED AIRMEN TO @ PASS AMMUNITION

Nazis Lose 33 Tanks in Withdrawal .   Russians: Develop New Offensive While Allies Regain Initiative in ‘North Tunisia

BRITISH SMASH ROMMEL'S ASSAULT   German Offensive From Marth Lines ~ Has Utterly Failed

Soviet Troops Close Pincers Upon Vyazm:   Russians Rush Through Breaks In German Line To Threaten Rail Town.   BATTER AFRICA CORPS

Allies Regain Initiative In  North Africa   British 8th Army Smashes Rommel’s Assaults; Reds Converging on Vyazma After Capturing 114 More Settlements

AXIS ASSAULTS SMASHED - NAZI LOSS 1S .HEAVY   Success in Africa Matched In Russia Where German Lifes Crashed by Reds   INVADERS SLAUGHTERED   Allied Air Attacks Against Hitler-held Europe Are Slowed by Weather   By CARL C. CRANMER

Goose Step In Reverse On All Major Fields   Rommel Thrust Fails And Russians Claim Further Advances In Two Sectors

German Attack From Mareth Line Driven Off With Loss of 33 Tanks! British Army in North Pushes Forward; Russians Moving Toward. Smolensk Threaten Vyazma, Report 114 Settlements Retaken.

New Rommel > Assault Is Driven Back   United Nations Forces in Stone Wall Resistance  To Germans

Axis Chieftain Loses 33 Tanks In One Day; Russians Converge On German-Held Vyazma.

Foe Jabs Vainly In North, South: Soviets Dash On   Rommel Repulsed At Mareth Line: Russians Converge On Vvaema Brea

Three American Fliers Rescued   Celebrate Return From 10 Months in New Britain Jungles

Three Yank Airmen Relate Hardships of Wandering LO Months in Island Jungles

Three Fliers, Lost 10 Months, Return Safely To Their Base      Wander In New Britain Jungles After Japs Downed Their Plane; Live On Bugs

Baroda Airman Killed In Cras!   Sgt. Alvan Wenger Die: When Bomber Falls

JAP BASE ON NEW GUINEA IN ALLIED HANDS   Strategic Position is ~ Won by MacArthur After Long Drive

Nalamaua Airfield  Captured By Allies   One Of Objectives Of Current Campaign . Accomplished By MacArthur: Pincers Move Tightens On Lae

Pressure in Lae Area Is Tightened  Naval Craft Sink Enemy Barges Off Finschhafen

OFFENSIVEON BASE LAUNCHED LAST JUNE 30   MacArthur’s Troops Now In Position To Concentrate Qn Lae Stronghold   JAP COUNTER-ATTACKS ARE BEING REPULSED

Allies Seize Field Of Salamaua, Start New Drive  Lae Is Threatened; Fighters Move In Pincers System

Big Jap Field Won By MacArthur Mer  Two Strategic Objective ~ Gained In New Guinea

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI DEFENSES BEFORE BRYANSK   Russians Reported 15 Miles From Vital German Held City   NEW RED OFFENSIVE FORECAST AT BELY

SOVIETS MAKE 4-MILE GAIN NEAR BRYANSK   POSITIONS IMPROVED AT KHARKOV AND SMOLENSK

Nazi Resistance Stiffens Before Russian Troops   Germans Reported Falling Back, However, In Bryansk Sector

REDS GAINING IN ADVANCE ON BRYANSK   Also Improve Position In Drives Upon Smolensk And Kharkov;Germans Fall Back  From Many Positions   Reel Back

ADVANCES MADE ON TO BRYANSK BY RED FORCES   Positions Are Improved In Drives On Kharkov And Smolensk; Over 10,000 Slain   Resistance Stiffens

Gains Made On All Frents By Russians   Bryansk Is Menaced By Reds Advancing From Two Directions

Soviets Score New Gains  In Drive Toward Bryansk   Positions Also Improved in Campaigns Upon Smo lensk and Kharkov, Late Moscow Dispatches Renart

Red Army Smashes Threugh Nazi Resistance Tuesday  Nazis In Retreat After Being Dislodged From Their Main Line Near Bryansk Front

Russians Smash  Stiffer Defense   Over’10,000 Nazis Are Claimed Slain

Reds Push Back FoeonBryansk,  Smolensk Lines   German Reserves Slow  Russian Movements Ve. Ut... 1 a

Red Army Makes New Gains in Bryansk Drive   Germans Dislodged From Main Line, Retreat

Russians Smash Stiffer Defense   Over 10,000 Nazis Are Claimed Slain  By EDWARD D. BALL

Russian Army Gets Closer To Bryansk  More Than 10,000   More Than 10,000  Germans Are Killed During Day’s Fisht-

NAZIS HURLED BACK FARTHER NEAR BRYANSK   ‘Reds Gain on Several Fronts, Though Foe Defense Stiffens

FIERCE BATTLE © 15 IN PROGRESS   Germans Fall Back From — Position After Position   RED TROOPS   Last Reported 15 Miles From @Bryansk; 60 Towns Taken by Russians

Berlin Again Bombed, Also Ruhr District   At Least 600 Planes Take Part In Raids On Germany Last Night   SECOND HEAVY RAID ON BERLIN

HOUSE PASSES BUCK ON RAILROAD WAGES BACK TO ROOSEVEL!   Delayed Action Means Controversy Now Up To President

House Committee Delays Action on  Railroad Wages   Hopes of Averting Strike Rest on Presidential Move

Between Vinson, RR Unions; House  FDR May Have To Settle Dispute Com. Delays Action On Pay Hikes

Alamogordo Plane  Crash Kills Seven   Plane Falls Near Army Air Base

AX!S RESISTANCE STIFFENS AGAINST RUSSIAN ADVANGE   RED ARMY TROOPS CRAWI FORWARD IN EXTREMELY BLOODY FIGHTING

Russians Advance  In Bloody Battle   But Germans Put Up Stiff Resistance at Novorossisk Defenses.

Reds Battling Within Defense Lines of Enemy   Bloody Fighting Continues Today on Novorossisk Front

Red Airmen Blast Enemy Supply Lines   Axis Resistance Stif fening; Bloodiest Fighting Of War Reported

DEFENSE AT NOVOROSSISK STIFFENING   Reds Crawl Forward Yard By Yard in Some of   Bloodiest Fighting   Of the War     aaa  rF At®T AMPTIVAITICC

STIFFER NAZI RESISTANCE ON RUSSIAN FRONI   Reds Battling Furiously On Novorossisk Defense Line. Their Airplanes Pounding Enemy

REDS DRIVE 0 YARD BY YARD IN HARD FIGHT   3loodiest Fighting Since Stalingrad Re. ported At Novorossisk; Nazi Resistance  Stiffens; Air At.  tacks Continue.

Nazi Defense Stiffens at Novorossisk   Red Air Force Unable to Halt Steady Flow of Supply

BLOODY FIGHTING  INSIDE NAZI LINES  AT NOVOROSSISK RED PLANES HAMMER  - GERMAN SUPPLY LANES "Tr VIIRAN CECTOR

Reds Continue To Pound Nazi Lines   Russian Army Is Moving Forward Yard by Yard in Bloody Battle   RESISTANCE JIS. STIFF   Germans Reported to Be Bringing in Motorized Equipment

REDS BATTLE INSIDE GERMAN DEFENSE LINES   Inch Forward Trench by Trench in Kuban Fighting, Smash Gun Positions, Blockhouses.   NAZIS REINFORCED   German-Controlled Paris Radic Says Sea-Borne Russian Troops Made Large-Scale Landings

Air War Keeping Pace In Battle For Naval Bases   Germans Rush Up Supplies Despite Pounding By Soviet Airmen.

CONTINUE ADVANCES   Soviet Airmen Hammer Nazi Defenses;  Down 43 Planes

Russian Army Closes In On Novorossisk   Stiffening Axis Resistance Brings Bloodiest Fighting Since Stalingrad   TRENCHES STORMED   Moscow Radio Claims 49 German Planes Downed In Raid On Restor

Russians Gain Yard by Yard   German Resistance at Novorossisk Stiffens; Heavy Fighting Occurs

Russian Drive s Fiercely Resisted   Germans Getting Reinforcements

PUSH AHEAD IN BLOODY BATTLE FOR VITAL CITY   Soviet Aircraft Continue Raids On Supply Lines

GERMAN LINES STIFFEN ALONG KUBAN SECTOR   Russians Crawl Forward In Mighty Battle

REDS ADVANCE YARD BY YARD IN CAUCASUS   Battle Within German Defense Lines At Novurossisk Reported Bloody As Stalinorad   AXIS STIFFENING   Soviet Air Force Meanwhile Keeps Up Major. Series _ Of Attacks Against En emy Supply Lines

REDS EDGE NEAR TO NOVOROSSISK   Fighting Declared Bloodiest Since Stalingrad Siege

Reds Storming  N OVOrISSISK  Nazi Defenses   Bloody J.and And Air Jeighting Rages; Nazis Continue Reinforcements, Stiffen Opposition.

RUSSIANS POUND AT NOVOROSSISK   But Advancing Forces Are Running into Stiffening Axis Resistance

Soviets Battle Furiously Inside Enemy’s Lines of Defense at Novorossisk

RED ARMY TROOPS MEET STIFFENING AXIS RESISTANCE   Crawling Forward Yard By Yard In Some of Bloodiest Fighting Since Days of Stalingrad; Red Air Force Keeps Up Major-scale Series of Attacks.

REDS DRIVE ON AS AXIS SUPPLY LINES BLASTED   Battle Is Carried Inside Novorossisk Despite Stiffening Opposition

Axis Lines ~ In Caucasus Stiffening   Reds Unable to Completelv Cut Off Supplies to Nazi Forces

MORE NAZIS . THROWN INTO KUBAN FIGHT   Enemy Enabled to Stiffen Resistance as Reds Engage Troops in Some of Bloodiest Combat Since Stalingrad.

NAZIDEFENSE LINES STIFFEN AT NOVOROSSISK   Reds Make Small Gains i Bloodiest Battle Since Stalingrad

RED ARMY TROOPS BATTLE WITHIN THE GERMAN LINES    Bloodiest Fighting of Russian-German War Since  Days of Stalingrad.   HARD AXIS RESISTANCE   Red Air Force, Meanwhile, Kept Up Major Scale Attacks.

Major Air Baitles in Kuban Area   But Reds Are Not. Able to Keep All Germans Back Despite Heavy Raids   BLOODY FIGHTING AT NOVORQSSISK   Tightest Battle Since Stalingrad Sees Gains Meas“red in Vards

Fighting Rages Inside Defense: At Novorossisk   Red Army ‘Troops Crawl Forward Yard by Yard

BLOODY NAZI-RED FIGHT CONTINUES   Russians Crawl Forward. Yard by Yard, In Drive On Novorossisk

Soviets Creep Forward At Novorossisk   Battle Is Bloodiest Since Stalingrad, Germans Stiffen

REDS CRAWLING FORWARD IN SOME OF BLOODIEST FIGHTING OF ENTIRE RUSSIAN-GERMAN WAR.   German Resistance Re ported Stiffening.  ~ Russian Fliers Keep Up Heavy Attacks Against German Supply Lines Along Front.

 amy, nk a a or har. i ene ene A  3 dt AIR OFFENSIVE ROCKING AXIS NATIONS

AXIS BEING BOMBED ON SFRONTS   Russians Join Anti-Axis Air Attacks

Push Closer To Airdrome   Stiff Jap Resistance Fails to Halt Marine Advance At Gloucester

Japanese Fail To Halt Steady Allied Advance   Heavy Rainstorms Also Beset Yanks In New Britain Battle   ‘NEARING AIRFIELD   Enemy Abandons Stores To Escape Terrific Aerial Pounding

JAP RESISTANCE ON THE GROUND IS STIFFENING   Heavy Rainstorm Fails To Halt American Drive From Cape Gloucester Toward Enemy Airdrome.

Marines Edge For Airdrome Held by Japs   Leathernecks Push From Beachheads at Cape Gloucester; Nip Planes Downed

MARINES CONTINUE DRIVE FROM BEAGHHEADS TOWARD AIBN ROME ON FL AIIESTER

TANKS SUPPORT YANKSINPUSH TOWARD FIELD   ‘American Fliers Blasting  Japs On New Britain In Drive to Take Cape   Gloucester Base   37 NIP WARPLANES  DOWNED IN FIGHTS   Japanese Airmen Attack  Landing Craft, Driven . Off By Ships and Thunderbolts

Marines Drive on from Cape Gloucester Despite Stiff Enemy Resistance

MARINES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE AGAINST ENEMY’S AIRDROME  DETERMINED ENEMY Fo\ ai <i AUE  re £9rs Mere

Despite Stiffening Opposition In New Britain, Marines Push On From Invasion Beachheads

U.S. Marines Expand New Beachheads   Capture Huge Stores Left by Enemy; Jap  Air Losses Heavy

New Britain Yanks Push Enemy Back   Tropical Rainstorm Fails to Halt Drive; Japs Lose 37 Planes

\Marines Push Toward Airport On Gloucester   Stiffening Jap Resistance, Rainstorm Fail To Halt Them.

Jap Resistance And Rains Fail To Halt Marines  Leathernecks Push Inland Toward Vital Airfield

Marine Invaders Beat Off Attacks   Leathernecks Continue Advance Toward Cape Gloucester Airdrome

FOURTH CRISIS IN MINES UP TO NATION'S CHIEF   Government Seizure 0! Operations Expected; Hard Coal Miners’ Pay Boosted

Seizure Of Mines Likely   Ranks of Striking Miners Swells To Over 70,000

FR. Is Handed Coal Crisis; Steel Menaced  Utah Miners Prepare To Walk Out

WLB REFERS STRIKES TO ROOSEVELT   Number Of Idle ‘Mine Workers Exceed 60,000

COAL CAIs BACK IN LAP OF PRESIDENT   Government Seizure Of Mines Virtually Imperative To Avert Paralysis

70,000 Out in Coal Mines;  Seizure Seen   Steel Production of U. § Threatened; Deadline Order Ignored

60,000. Strike; — - Néw Coal Crisis Faces Presiden’   Seizure By Government Is Only Recourse Under War Labor Dispute. Act

Fourth Crisis in Coal Fight Facing FDR   Coal Miner Strike Handed to President by War Labor Board

Give Mine Dispute Tc President   Govt. May Not Seize Minee Immediatelw

COAL CRISIS SERIOUS IN MOST STATES   More Than 60,000 Miners Out Of Pits Todav

U.S.Reins  on Mines Loom   STRIKER TOTAL SWELLS TO 70,000 IN NEW THREAT TO STEEL OUTPUT

FDR FACED WITH NEW COAL CRISIS   Spreading Strikes in Coal _ Mines Indicate Virtual ‘Paralysis by Monday

‘More Than 60,000 Coal Miners Now Out ‘On Strike And Number Steadily Growing: Lewis Objects T oPay Schedule Sef By WLB

COAL SITUATION SERIOUS AGAIN   New Crisis Confronts President — He May Ask For Army's Help

New Coal Crisis Faces President As Strikes Grow   Federal Seizure Of Idle Mines ts Declared Needed

STRIKE PROBLEM IS LAID IN. LAP OF PRESIDENT   Government Operation o' Mines Looms as New Crisis Develops

FDR HANDED. MINER RIFT FOR AGTION   Army May Control Property; More Men Quit

Government Expected to Seize Mines   Steel Production Threatened as Walkouts Spread

Yerroer YY _¢. Wid helers Coal Tieups  To President   Federal Control Weuld Subject Strike Chief to Heavy Penalties   60,000 MINERS OUT   Special Board Weighing Wage Controversy of Railroad Workers

Coal Dispute Put Up To President   Thousands Of Miners Are Already Idle

Ath Coal Strike In Six Months  Faces Roosevel   60,000 Men Already Idle And _ Tota Grows Hourly Ir Coal Areas   Huge Steel Works Idle

ROOSEVELT HAS COAL CRISIS IN HIS HANDS AGAIN   Fourth Coal Slowdown In Six Months Faces President: Industry Faces NearParalysis By Monday.

U.S. SEIZURE OF MINES PREDICTED   Strike Referred To President; 70,000 Stop Work

70,000 of Workers Have Quit   Industry Has Only Smal. Supply of Fuel on Hand —Strike Spreads

PARALYSIS OF INDUSTRY I RISING HOURLY   WLB Refers Problem To Presfe   dent, Making Government  Seizure Imperative

60,000 WORKERS  IDLE: PROBLEM IN FDR’S LAP      Alabama Hit Hardest; Stee Plant Shutdowns Imminent

Government Seizure Of Coal Mines Is Imminent   Ranks Of Striking Miners. Swell To 70,000 Today—Coa ee “Wage: ‘Dispute. Again: Referrea- To: President: — 9000 Out In Pennsylvania. -

Move Is Blow to the Axis Partners; Tokyo and Berlin Silent.  ITALY NOW UNDER NEW MARTIAL LAW Nazi Troops May Compel  Rome to Keep Up Fight.

Removal of Duce, Appointment Of Badoglio to First Place Viewed as Peace Move

Proclamation Issued By Kuler Announcing Resignation  Of Boasttul \lussolini

Dictator Resigns In Possible Move  ToSeparate Peace   King Takes Command Of Italian Forces, Names Marshal Badoglio Head Of Government; Fascist Party Apparently Ended

Foe of Fascism Named by King To Head Armies   Plan for Early Peace May Be Behind Shift

MUSSGLINI FIRED BY KING OF ITALY AS PEACE MOVE   Marshal: Badoglio, Foe of Fascism, Named Premier   SHATTERING BLOW TO AXIS PRESTIGE

780,000 NAZIS AT ONE TIME STORMED ITS OUTER GATES   New Threats To Hitler’s Ar mies Brought by Joining of Two Red Armies.

Churchill Message to Chicago Says That Axis Is Still Far From Being Defeated

Great Effort Needed, Says Churchill   100,000 Chicagoans in Patriotic Rally Hear Message

Cotton Allotment Upped 10 Percent  Action Taken to  A Penne ee: & Lee aa OF oe

Grove Fire Defendants Deny Guilt   ‘Nine. Enter Flee Heavy. Bail -Set.: By Judee Dench.

PRESENCE OF STILLWELL AND CHENNAULT IN CAPITAL MAY: . FORESHADOW.FAR EAST.  _ DEVELOPMENTS

FAR EASTERN BATTLE CHIEFS MAY SPEED WAR   Early Stepping Up Of Blows At Japan Seen At Capital Parley   LEADERS IN CONFERENCE   Stilwell And Chennault Leave War Theatres For High Command Parley

U. §. Leaders From Far East In Washington   Early Stepping Up Of Air War Against Japan Seen As Result Of Trip  By JOSFPH 4 Pape

U.S. BOMBERS BAG MORE THAN 200 NAZI PLANES   ‘ Fighters Destroyed In 26 Raids Over Nazi-Occupied Europe In 1942

Reds Have as Their Aim to Shut Gateway to Caucasus and Trap 500, 000 Germans.   30 MORE RUSSIAN TOWNS ARE RETAKEN

Today’s War Moves   BY THOMAS J. DONOHUE  CS SS Se aE SS Se Fer See

Today’s War Commentary  Allies Speculate  Is New German Drive All-Out Effort

Stalin Ridicules Nazi Peace Talk   Says Air Blows Mean Second Front

Stalin Sees Nazis’ Downfall in Allied Advances  Red Leader Scorns Hints That Foe Should Have Peace

Calls Attention Of Russsians To Air Raids Of Allies And To Nazi Defeats In Africa Ae Forerunners Of Second European Front

Second Front Forecast by Soviet Leader   Stalin Lauds British, U.S. Air Blows and Ridicules Any Talk Of Peace with Hitler

Stalin Sees Nazis’ Downfall in Allied Advances  m.Jdr.. 0 fie:   Red Leader Scorns Hints That Foe Should Have Peace

Calls For Unconditional Nazi Surrender In May Day Order To Troops

Stalin Scorns Nazi Peace Talk: Sees Second Front   Calls Allied Aerial Blows Prelude  To Europe Invasion  MAY DAY MESSAGE  Reiterates Roosevelt, Churchill Stand  Of ‘No Compromise’

Moscow Reports Russian Troops Again on the Move In Northwestern Caucasus; Several Key Enemy Positions Reported Captured

Premier Sees US British Air Raids Invasion Omen   » Ridicules Peace Talk, Praises Allied Blows in May Day Order

RAIDS PRELUDE TO 2ND FRONT, STALIN SAYS   Red Premier Ridicules Success of Hitler Peace Talk

GET OUTSIDE HELP   National Infantile Paralysis F oundation Sends Two  Men

Big Haul Reported By Navy   Two Troopships and Three Cargo Vessels Downed;  Four Damaged.

Hearing Set On Draft Bill   Many. Changes. Likely In Holise Couninitioe

SENATE DRAFT BILL IS FACING MANY CHANGES   House Committee Will Consider Five Alterations

House Proposes  Draft Bill Changes   Public Hearings Open Tomorrow

PATTERSON SEES “MORE SURPRISES FOR THE JAPANESE   Making Tour of South Seas Battle Zone; Jap Reinforcements Bases In New Guinea Reported Being Pulled Back.

No Wonder Tugboat Crew Men Blinked:  There, at Sea, Was Swimming Horse

Decoration Day Program As Usual For LeMars   Exercises Sunday And Monday Mornings Are Planned

Decoration Day Program As Usual For LeMars  Exercises Sunday An Monday Mornings  ‘Rte EE

31 PLANES LOST AS R.AF. DROPS OVER 2000 TONS   Nazi Airmen Hit Northeast and Southern Coastal Towns   Southern Italy, Sardinia and Sicily Smashed from North Africa

HITS DORTMU AND OTHER NAZI CITIES IN RUHR   Mighty Air Fleet Drops Over 2,000 Tons of Bombs

CITIES IN RUHR.   Mighty Air Fleet. Drops Over. 2,000 Tons of Bombs

King Peter Would Include All Elements  Yugoslav Monarch To Form New Government

Allied Aerial : Drive Continues Scorching Pace   Sevénty Transport Planes Destroyed In Offensive Against Ferry Route

ALLIED AIRMEN DESTROY 24 MORE ENEMY PLANES   BRING 48-HOUR TOTAL TO 112 IN TUNISIAN AERIAL OFFENSIVE

70 TRANSPORTS INCLUDED IN 2 DAY TOTAL BAG   Allied Airman Continue to Plaster Nazis’ Air Ferry Routes

70 TRANSPORTS ARE WRECKED DURING ATTACK   Troop-Loaded German Junker-52's Tumble Out of Sky Like Leaves In Forest Fires   BERLIN ADMITS AIR BATTLES ARE HEAVY   Tell Germans Reports “At Least Exaggerated:” Allies Lose 23 In Two Davs

Offensive Continued On Enemy Airmen   Allied Forces Closing Down On Marshal Rommel’s Lifeline

Toll Of Axis Planes Rises Toll?In  Africa Area   73 Big German Transports Among Those Shot Down By Allied Airmen

TOTAL OF 112 THOT OUT OF ORY IN 2 DAY   Bag of Fire from Malta May Add to Heavy Losses in Air Power.   REPORTS OF GROUND FIGHTING ARE MEAGRE

Axis Air Losses Soaring   112-117. Nazi, 23 Allied Air Units Downed   73 Enemy Troop Transports Shot Down in 48 Hours

Allied airmen knock 112 planes to earth in 2-day operations   Toll includes 70 big transports; Malta claims five more bombers

Allies Knock ‘Down 24 More Axis Planes  Toll In Two Days Mounts To 112  In Africa

73 Big Nazi Transports  Among Toll   Planes From Malta Join African Force In Smashing Air Fleet

ADD 24 PLANED  TO 2 DAY BAG   48 Hour Total Shot Down in Tunisian Area tncreased to 112.   'ALLIES LOSE 23 PLANES

Blistering Pace Kept Ur Off Tunisia   Total Bag 112 In 48 Hours Over  Mediterranean.

Allied Air Attack Is Still . Clicking   Twenty-Four More Enemy Planes Were Cut Down Yesterday   IGRAND ‘TOTAL OF 117   Despite Weather Conditions Fortresses Pound Tunis  Docks

TOTAL OF ‘112 PLANES ~SENT DOWR   Land Front Has Little Action; Big Bombers ’ Pound At Tunis

70 Transports, 52 Other Aircraft Two Day Total   \Malta Fliers Add to Toll While French Repel German Counter-Attacks—Axis Reports Tell of Naval Activities

Scorching Pace Continued By Allied Airmen   German Admits Aerial Transports Suffer Furious Attacks   MALTA PLANES AID   German Landing Fields In Tunisia Likewise  Heavily Pounded

Allies. Hammers Axis .. Ferry Route and Warplane 2 Nests Night and Day  HITLER: LOSES 112 © PLANES IN 48 HOURS Lively ‘Fighting Reported in All North Africa; No . Big Evacuation Moves

»112 GERMAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN 48 HOURS   DOCKS, RAILWAY YARDS IN TUNIS POUNDED BY AMERICAN BOMBERS

Rommel Loses 70 Transports Over Strait:   Berlin Declares Allied Claims Of 112 Planes Downed Are Exaggerated.   FRENCH REPULSE PUSH

48-Hour Total Mounts fo 112 Axis Aircraft   French Beat Off Counterattack in North Africa

AIR OFFENSIVE OF  ALLIES DESTROYED  112 ENEMY PLANES TOTAL PLANES MISSING FROM THESE ATTACKS  ONTY TWENTY TUD

24 More Enemy Planes Downed  48-Hour Total Already At 112; May Reach 117

CONTINUE AIR OFFENSIVE ON FERRY ROUTE   70 Transports Loaded With Troops Knocked Down in Battle

Allies Down 12 Junkers-52's, Eight Escorts   Four Planes Destroyed In Other Operations,  Headquarters in North Africa Announce

48-HOUR BAG INCLUDES 70 JUNKERS-52°S   Malta Dispatches Indicate Airmen From That Fortress Raise Casualties to 117, Including-3 More Bic Transports.

12 ALLIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED MISSING   Loaded German Transports Tumble From Sky Like Leaves In Forest Fire

BRANDON-GREEN FIGHT NEARING NEW SHOWDOWN   Argument Taken To Legislature From Committee

Showdown Fight on Merger of Illinois Relief Setup Nears   Neither Side Pulls Its Punches or Indicating  It Will Retreat

’ May Be Final Blow Needed To Knock Essen Out of War Picture  23 PLANES LOST IN ‘WAVE BOMBING’  One U. S. Plane Lost In Sicilian Offensive, 13 Axis Craft Downed

56th Assault On Essen Aimed at Krupp Worle   Pilots Claim Effect Awesome As. {@ Separate Sweeps Raid City In 3

SOLDIERS RIOT   Military Police Called Out Tc Quell Free-For-All

Army Turns Over Surplus Foodstuffs   Canned Goods Go to Civilians

Verdict Finds Cole Shot Kin In Self-Defense   Threats, Violence By Tom Morgan, Victim, Are Described

AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE NAMED   Checking Up on Small Loan Interest Rates in Missouri.

AEM ener ae me: Smaem: ERO  MAN IS N 1S TALKED OUT OF THREAT TO END HIS LIFE

Martinique Joins Allied ‘Nations, Provides Ships   French Resources At Disposal Now Of Allied Forces

Martinique Won Over to Allied Side   Last Holdout Swings to  Cause of Freedom on Bastille Day

MARTINIQUE JOINS ALLIES   Formal Transfer  Comes To United Nations On Bastille Day

These Are-Men: Who Direct: Allied Force<   In Assault On Sicily   oO —M. ARTINIQUE— Martinique To Fight  With United Nations   French West Indian Outpost At Front Door Of  Panama Canal, Long A Hold-Out, Joins War For Free. France

FRENCH ORAFT AT MARTINIQUE TO AID ALLIES      Former Vichy Regime Acts to Join United Nations On Bastile Day and Use Warships   BLOCKADE LIFTED   Big Aircraft Carrier Is Among Vessels That May Now Enter the Battle Against Axis

MARTINIQUE SECEDED ON BASTILE DAY   =ormal Tranfer of Alleg: iance Comes on 154th Anniversary of Birth of French Freedom   ROBERT RELINQUISHES

Martinique Joins Allies, Places Ships And Resources At Disposal Of United Nations From Now On

MARTINIQUE G0ES OVER TO ALLIES: ROBERT OUSTED   Ships and Resources of French Island Will. Be Placed at Disposal of United Nations.

French Antilles Turn Resources Over To Allies   Martinique Joins Fight On Axia, Surrenders Ships

MARTINIQUE RETURNS TO UNITED NATIONS FOLD; PLACES SHIPS & RESOURCES AT THEIR DISPOSAL

SHIPS, GOLD INVOLVED IN ISLAND DEAL   Martinique Joins United Nations On Bastille Day

Mi ARTINIQUE ENDS ALLIED HOLOOUT   Admiral Robert bert Steps Down in Favor of Representative from French Committee

Martinique Joins Allies; Offers  Snips, Resources   Last Vichy Islanc Shifts Policies On Bastille Day  Observance

Martinique Goes Over To Allie:   Transfers Allegiance After Long -Holdout

ALLIES JOINED BY MARTINIQUE   Allegiance Transfer  Made on Bastille Day

MARTINIQUE JOINS UNITED NATIONS IN FIGHT FOR FREEDOM  SHIPS AND RESOURCES 0)   SHIPS AND RESOURCES OF CARIBBEAN ISLAND TO AID ALLIES ARE

Martinique Lines Up  With Allies   New Administrator Pledges Ships and Resources to Help In War Against Axis

MARTINIQUE JOINS CAUSE OF ALLIES   Plasing of Ships, Resources Occurs on Anniversary of Bastil Storming.

Martinique Joins United Nations: Ships, Fortune in Gold Involved

Martinique Joins Forces  Allied Powers   Naval and Other Vessel Including Aircraft Carrier Bearn Will Be Placed at Disposal of United Nations

French Islands  Off Panama On Side Of Allies   Martinique, Under Vichy Nazi -Control Since War’s Start Given Up by Adm. Georges Robert—Warships and Cargo Vessels There—Food Blockade Lifted by United States

MARTINIQUE IS NOW UNITED TO ALLIED NATIONS   Admiral Robert Is Replaced; U. S. Is Satisfied

MARTINIQUE ON SIDE OF ALLIES   Transfer of Allegiance Occurs On Anniversary of  Bastille Day

Allies Gain  Martinique   French Committee Has Assumed Control Over Island; Robert Steps Out

French Island Of Martinique To Help Allies   Henri Hoppenot Arrives To day To Take Over As  Governor Of Antilles,   SHIPS TO FIGHT AXIS

SAYS POLICE MAY NOT SEIZE GAS RATION BOOK   Keystone Auto Club Official Bases Statement Upon OPA Interpretation Of Recent Order

New Dairy Product Is Examined   Critical Examination Is Given At Madison To New Spread For Bread   Developed At U. W.

JUNIOR HIGH MEET   Problems of School To Be Discussed by Monday _ Evening Panel

UNITY KEYNOTE OF PRESIDENTS’ SPECIAL TALKS   Camacho, FDR Watch Trainees At Texas Base

Relations Between U.S. and Mexico Cemented Solidly by Historic Meeting

CLOSER TIES WITH MEXICO SEEN AS PRESIDENTS PART   HISTORIC MEETING CEMENTS RELATIONS OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES

.9,- MEXICAN RELATIONS ARE BEING CEMENTED   Historic Meeting Held Between Presidents of Two Neighboring Republics At Corpus Christi, Texas, Naval Air Training Cen ter.

U.S-MEXICAN. FEELING “COOD’   Relations Solidly Cemented by RooseveltCamacho Meet

Relations Between U. S., Mexico Are More Strongly Cemented.   SOLIDARITY 1S STRESSED

HISTORIC MEETING AT CORPUS CHRISTI CLOSES SESSIONS   Continental Neighborlinéss and Military Solidarity Stressed By Presidents of  Twn Nations.

U. S. And Mexican Relations Held More Solidly Cemented By Meetings Of Roosevelt And Camacho

Comacho Is Guest of FDR  at Conference   _ Military Solidarity and Con'tinental Neighborliness ts Stressed at 2nd Meeting

Continental Neighborliness and Military Solidarity Stressed At Meeting of Presidents   ROOSEVELT PRAISES NAVAL AIR CADETS   Glad to Greet Avila Camacho At Training Center Because Mexicans Are Among Trainees

RELATIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND MEXICO IMPROVED BY VISIT  Of President Roosevelt; We pe Gr... FJ. J.J gp   Of President Roosevelt; Meeting Concluded at Corpus Christi Yesterday

CONFERS WITH NIMITZ WHILE AT PEARL HARBOR   Heavier Newsprint Shioments Planned

Army Depot Workers Peddle Gas Coupons  Civilians Plead Guilty Placed On Probation

Retreating Rommel Forces Mercilessly Pounded By Bombers   Nearly 100 Allied Bombers Blast Retreating Axis Lines, Airfields, Ports, Etc., In Tunisia. Yanks And British Ground Forces Push Ahead

ALLIED BOMBER ATTACKS BLAST FOE'S AIRFIELDS   Axis Engineers Reported Throwing Up Defenses on New Line

ITALY, olGlLy BOMBING PUT UN FULL TIME   By Day and Night Huge Planes Plaster Axis Bases and Rail Junctions.   ALLIES LOSE ONE PLANE WHILE DESTROYING -19

Ble BOMBERS: Fl ‘Ach KEEP ACTIVE   eteaing Up, M:diterrnea Crast:. for! the.- Su oo mer: ‘Invzsion;        ROUND CLOCK FLIGHTS   Island of :  Pantelleria : sand  Bases in Italy, and, S:¢ ye Are. “Assaulted.

Junction of  U. S., British  Believed Near   Mass Air Attack Batters Airfield at Sfax, Blasts Troop Concentrations; ~ Patton’s Yanks Push Steadily Eastward Toward Gabes.

PANTELLERIA BOMBED DAY AND NIGHT   Direct Hits Scored on Railway and Air Ferry Junctions

BIG BOMBER ROM AFRICA KEEP ACTIVE   Softening Up Mc:diterrnean Ccast for the Summer Invasion.   ROUND CLOCK FLIGHTS   Island of Pantelleria and Bases in Italy and S:c ly Are Assaulted.

Ajlied Planes Hit Fleeing Axis Troops   Attack Enemy Centers In Daylight Onslaught

Allied Bombers Keep Up Attacks Against Italy   Mainland And Islands Are Subjected To RoundThe-Cock Assaults   ITALIAN FLEET IS CRIPPLED BY ATTACK

Passenger Tire Quotas Slashed   Estimate One-Third Less for Civifian Usa,

Activity At Vatican Hints Peace Move   Italian Peace Moves Believed Held Up By Threats From Germany

ITALIAN PEACE MOVE BLOCKED BY GERMANS   Threatened With Revenge i She Capitulated to Gen. Eisenhower

German Threat to the Germans   Prevents the Acceptance of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Surrender Terms.

NAZI REVENGE BALKS ITALIANS   Threats from Hitler Prevent Acceptance of Allied Peace Terms, ’Tis Said

Liberators Fly 2,400 Miles To Deliver Devastating Cargo Of Bombs

ALLIES RAID JAPS’ NAVAL BASE ON JAVA   Unloaded Bombs For Period of 70 Minutes

Jap Naval Base On Java Bombed   Liberators Make 2,400-Mile Flight

Simpson Sees Early Fall Of Boot From Toe To Heel   Italians Caught Between Devil Of Hitlerism And Deep Sea Of All-Out Allied Attack

Interpreting The War   Axis Is Creaking Under Allies’ Heavy New Blows

Americans Lose Kasserine Pass   Gandhi's Fast Also Perils United Nations Plans in ’43; Reds Gain

Beat Back Armored Thrusts   Ten Mile Gain by Rom mel’s Forces Eliminated  in Counter-attack

COUNTERBLOW CANCELS OUT 10-MILE GAIN   Yanks Score Success In Kasserine Pass Counterattack

GERMAN TANK THROWN OAK IN SHARP FIGHT   13 Nazi Tanks Are Wrecked In Furious Fighting Still Underway

Work Or Fight, Miners Warned   48-Hour Ultimatum Is Hurled At Strikers by President

Roosevelt Orders Coal Strikers To Resume Work   Executive Says Government Will Act a Men Fail to Return to Anthracite Mines Within 48 Hours

: Volunteers , Needed. ‘to Aid Distribution. ‘of “A” Ration Books

U. S. Tightens Its Control of Job Transfers   McNutt Sets Up List of 149 Draft Proof Occupations

Job- Shifting Restriction Is Tightened   149 Occupations Virtually Draftproof In Mannower Step

McNutt Tightens U.S. Control Of  Job Transfers    List Established of 149 Virtually Draft proof Critical Occupations in Sweeping Revision of WMC and Draft Rules

PATTERN FOR FATHER CALL   Tightens Controls Over Transfers  Of Jobs

New Basis for Manpower Is Revealed   McNutt Lists 149 Critical Jobs As Non-deferred Rise

Byrnes Takes Control At Home  Congress In General Praises Appointment Of Former Justice

HAVE BLACKOUT NEXT THURSDAY   State-Wide Alert To Serve Double Purpose

All Defens. Corps Units Must Be at Posts by 12 Noon Today Public Cooperation Asked For Half Hour in Clearing Strate Ete

State- Wide Air Raid Drill Scheduled To Take Place Thursday, Sept. 9   Practice Drill To Be Held at Noon On That Date

AIR RAID ALERT AT NOON TODAY   First Daylight Warning Will Be for Practice, and Also to Announce Third War Loan Drive

Everyone Should Help With Work   Why Everyone Should Send in Their Scrap NOW!

OnIPMENT OF COAL SHOWING INCREASE   Great Lakes Area Gets Big Increase Over Preceding Week.

State Goal 35 Millions In W ar Bonds   Hibbard, State Finance Committee Chief, Announces Quota for Campaign Starting On Sept. 9 and Extending Through Month

Silver Bow County's Quota in Third War Loan Drive Which Will Open September 9 Is Set at $3,842,800

Another List of Men Inducted by Jones Co. Board   Selectees Sent to Induction Station — Accepted into

MOST BUSINESS PLACES HERE CLOSED TODAY     Government Plants Continue in Full Swing      shut-Down Under Fuel Saving Or. der Brings Quietness Siinilar  to Narmal Sunday

AFRICA GETTING FOOD SUPPLIES   50,000 Tons Delivered As Political Row Clears Up

POLITICAL PROBLEMS TO BE SETTLED SOON    Secretary Hull Says Spanish And French Communist Deputies Will  Be Freed From Prison

Allies Keep Pounding Vital Sites   U. S. Fliers Brave Strong Defenses To Blast at Sicily

MOSQUITO PLANES RAID JENA, GERMANY   Blast Carl Zeiss Works, Whicl Makes Optical Instruments for Nazi Army.

Heavy Cargoes of Fragmentation Bombs Dropped  AMERICAN BOMBERS SUFFER NO LOSSES  Strong Head Winds Are Bucked by American Airmen

Central German City Plastered   Yanks Continue To l ~§.t. lowtew.l Awe ee

Central German City Plastered   Yanks Continue’ To ] ach lelLawed De eS

Two Targets Are Reported Hit by Speedy Bombers   Raiders Pierce Heavy Anti Aircraft Fire in Heavy Attack

ALL OO LLL LED IEE I  YANK AIRMEN DECORATED FOR EXCEPTIONAL BOMBING

WORKERS TO STATE   More Are Coming into Kansas Than State Is Send ing Out

More Workers Info Kansas Than Leave   USES Sends 9,005 Outsiders To Jobs In State

BYRNES FACES 3 IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS   OPA, Subsidies and Civilian Agency Plea Already on Desk

Byrnes Facing Three Problems   Chairman Of Super War Board Is Confronted With Many Issues  By PHILLIPS 1 PECK

BYRNES FACES. THREE [ool IN NEW JOB   Fight on OPA and Subsidies With Drive for Civilian Agency.   APPROVED FOR TASK   He Must Adapt Domestic Economy to the Urgent War Demands.

CONGRESSMEN STILL WANT FREE AGENCY   Seek Independent Unit te Handle Civilian Matters, But Approve OWM.   BOTH HOUSES PLEASED   Controversy Still Rages Over  Use of Tax Money to Rall Bart Prirae

BYRNES FACES  PROBLEMS OF “WAR ECONOM)   HEAD OF NEWLY CREATED _ CENTRAL WAR RFFORT AQ-  ENCY HAS CONTROVER- : SIES ON HIS HANDS :

BYRNES HAS HANDS FULL IN NEW JOB   DISSOLUTION OF OPA, SUESIDIES AMONG FOREMOST PROBLEMS.   Pressure Is On   Mast Solve Roll-Back of Prices with Congress. Determined Against Payments.

MORE FATHERS ARE CALLED UF   17 of Board  Selectees Are Pre-War Dads

40 FATHERS 60 TO CAMP DODGE   All But 13 of Group Are Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads

76 LEAVE HERE FOR ARMY TEST   18 of Group Pre-War Dads:  Several Volunteers

PRE-WAR DADS GO FOR EXAMS   But All Are Volunteers to Enter Armed Forces

MORE FATHERS SENT TO DODGE   Only Four of Group Are Not Pre-War Dads

Coal Powers Given Ickes   Gets ‘Blanket’ Authority  Owar Penduction

Ickes Given Broader Powers   Gets Virtually Blanket Authority to Regulate Coal Mining, Sales

ICKES TO HANDLE COAL PRODUCTION   Virtual Blanket Order Als Gives Authority on Distribution of Fuel.

ICKES POWER EXTENDED IN COAL CONTROL   Blanket Authority Ove Output, Distribution Given By FDR In New Order   Named To W. P. B.

WIDE COAL POWER GRANTED TO ICKES   Blanket Authority on Production and Distribution Given

ICKES IS MADE CZAR OF COAL   Given Power to Say How It Shall be Produced and Distributed

ICKES IS GIVEN CONTROL OVER ~ COAL INDUSTRY   Conservation And Development Of Solid Fuels Given Official   EXECUTIVE ORDER CONFERS FULL POWER

Ickes Given Coal. Control   Has Anthority Over Entive Indusiry *

Germans Order Evacuafions on Both Coastlines   Decree Called Move to Strip Areas of ‘Resistant’ Elements

NAZIS ORDER FRENCH 10 CLEAR "URGENTLY THREATENED COASTS   MOVE SEEN AS AXIS TRY TO “DRAIN YOUNG AND RESISTANT ELEMENTS BEFORE INVASION”

FRENCH COAST CLEARED READY FOR INVASION —   Gargantuan Preparations on  African Coast Noted

Fresh Products Lacking: Canned Goods Pile Up   Dried Fruits Spoil In Wholesale Houses Survey Reveals

rr rn cr et er a mate ee RN  “OPA Endeavors To Find Missing Jeep

MUSIC GROUP OPENS ANNUAL CAMPAIGN   Drive for Members te Continue Throughout Week

Can Buy Milk In Less Than Quarts   Schools. Playgrounds, Workers Affected

FORTRESSES RENEW ATTACK ON GERMANY   Raid Today Follows Double Barreled Blasts

Forts Hit German Transport   Americans and British Pound German Centers

Attack On Cities In Germany Takes Place After Blasting Of Rail Bottlenecks

Russ Sweeping On to Poland  Germans Admit Red Army Gains; Entire Frant it Ahlaze   Flying Forts Aqain Blast German Cities:

Jap Losses Seen Higher  94 Out of 120   94 Out of 120 Planes Believed Destroyed In Guadalcanal Battle

Russian Planes Hit Insterburg  One Plane Is Lost in Raid on Prussia

Russians Blast Supply Center   Kast Prussian Industrial City Of Insterburg Heavily Bombed.

VIOLENCE FLARES IN DANISH CAPITAL   Demonstrations Lasted Four Days Last Week —. . Began July 6

ITALIAN INVASION COAST BOMBARDED; PISA IS BLASTED   British Battleships  Are Active — Level Big Guns At Reggio Calabria

Giant Naval Guns Bombard Italian Coast   ‘Britain’s Largest Battleships Blast Straits -Fortresses

Battleships Level Guns At Reggio: Calabria On Strait Of Messina, Fires Touched Of By Warships, Polish Ship In Group   LEANING TOWER Or PISA IS AVOIDED

BRITISH SHIPS BLAST INVASION COAST OF ITALY   Allied Bombers Attack Pisa

HEAVY BRITISH “VESSELS. BLAST - REGGIO GALABR  “Foris’ Hit Pisa But Avent foannimn   *Foris’ Hit Pisa But _ Avoid - Leaning Tower   CRUISERS, DESTROYERS ESCORT BATTLESHIPS

Nelson, Rodney Bombard Italian ‘ Coast   Flying Fortresses Raid Rail-Air Center of Pisa

POST-WAR MILITARY TRAINING MEASURE TO BE INTRODUCED   Would Provide Year's Training For All Youth

CALL OFFICIALS BEFORE COMMITTEE   Opposition to Smith-Connally Labor Bill Must be Ex nlainead

TO QUIZ OFFICIALS   Four Government Chiefs To Be on House :Group’s Carpet

Think Alexander Will Be Named’ To Head Forces.   East Asia Commander Also In Offing As Leaders Study Politics ‘

INVASION PLANS, ALLIED GENERAL ARE DETERMINED   Three Names Are Being } Heard For Appointment to ] High Command, Still Re' mains Military Secret.   WORLD AWAITS MOVE OF FOUR AT QUEBEC   Allied High Command Broad casts Appeal to French  Patriots to Prepare For ! invasion Day.

ALLIED HEADS PLANNING TQ CONFUSE AXIS   Will Accomplish Plan Behind Screen Of Unbridled Speculation

Campaign Plans Are Drawn Up   Allied General Believed To Have Been Named To Direct An Early  Invasion Of Continent

REPORT QUEBEC DECISION MADE   Allied General Who Wil Lead Invasion Named

Quebec Hears Allied Head ls Named   Nature of Meeting Keeps Axis Busy At Guessing Game

Quebec Plan For New Front May Be Ready   Roosevelt, Churchill Now Consider Related Political Strategies   COMMANDER CHOSEN   Observers Speculate Whether Alexander, Eisenhower Will Lead Assault

PLANS FOR EARLY INVASION OF WEST EUROPE COMPLETE      FDR, Churchill Take Up Related Political trategy At Confab

FDR And Churchill Turning To Political Strategy As Military Settled

DECISIONS ARE MADE AT OUEBEC   Allied General Who Will Direct Campaign Named

EXPECT EARLY INVASION OF EUROPE   Gon. Alexander Believed Chosen To Lead Armies

COMMANDER ° NAMED FOR INVASION   Allied Chiefs Take U: Telafed’ "Bolical Strateay. Too

Military Plans For Invasion  Are Completed   Churchill And FDR Are Said To Have Agreed On Commander

FRENCH JAIL 6000 PERSONS IN MARSEILLE   NAZIS CLAIM ACTION 1 NEEDED TO MAINTAIN ORDER

6000 MORE ARRESTED IN FRANGE BY NAZIS   Old Port of Marseille To Be Evacuated and Demolished

Tohin Stays Out Of Labor Parley   AFL Leader Desnairs Of Unity With CIO

MOUNTBATTEN 10 MEET MARSHALL T0 MAP ASIATIC PLANS   Strategy For Big Drive Against Japan From India Included In Talks

MOUNTBATTEN, CHIEF FOR BURMA, CONCLUDES CONFERENCES WITH ' MILITARY, NAVAL LEADERS TODAY

Mountbatten  Meets General G. C. Marshall   Far East Con Conférence : Strategy Planned

Mountbatten Confers With Gen. Marshall   Commander Of Forces In Southeast Asia Begins Making Preparations For Forthcoming Drive

MOUNTBATTEN CONFERS WITH: GEN. MARSHALL   Asiatic Commander Meets With U.S. Chief of Staff

MOUNTBATTEN, MARSHALL 10 CONFER TODAY   Composition Of Staff Will Be Discussed By The Two Military Leaders

MOUNTBATTEN CONFERS WITH GEN. MARSHALL   American Army Officer Believed Selected as Deputy Chief-of-staff.

MOUNTSATTEN MEETS U. S. CHIEF QF STAFF TODAY   Marshall to Advise With New Allied Asiatie Comman der on Aides

MOUNTBATTEN TO MEET U. S$. WAR AUTHORITIES   Whirlwind of Conferences With Amerieon Military  end Naval Leaders  Scheduled By Newly  Appointed Allied Commander for Southeast Asia—Plan to Push Japs from ~ Burma Is Seen at Time Later On

Southeast Asia Chief Will Confer With Marshall; Choice Of U. S. Officer  . As Deputy Indicated

MOUNTBATTEN CONFERS WITH GEN, MARSHALL   India - Based Offensive Against Japan Is Subject

GAS RATIONING PLAN SIMPLIFIED   ‘A” Renewals To 8e Handled By Mail To End Long Waiting Lines

GAS RENEWALS TO BE MAILED   A And D Coupons Included In New System

AAI OTIFFENG TUNISIAN LINE   Nazi Shock Troops Counterattack, British Retire Slightly.   YANKS GAIN HEIGHTS

MANY ITEMS ON STORE SHELVES BECOME SCARC   War Depleted Stocks Show Up On Inventories 8 ome Merchandise Is Doled Out To Make Supply Last A Little Longer. :

Store Shelves Show Vacancies Of Many Items; Many Substitutes Are Proving Satsifactory

LOANS THRU FSA   $15,000,000 Fund Available for Flood Damage Repair

Some Southern Democrats May Balk on Raising Funds for Presidential Drive

TALK STIRS DEMO LEADERS   Georgia Chairman Says State Committee; Not Furnishing Money to National Party

172 SELECTEES ARE DISPATCHED   Gastonia Board Sends Contingent To Camp Croft For Induction: Number Of Pre-War Fathers In List.

GASTONIA SENDS LARGEST GROUP YET INTO ARMY   otal Of 227 Selectees 204 White Men And 23 Negroes— Dispatched To Camps For Induction; Six Transfers  Also In Group.

EX-GOV. DICKINGOR DIES TODAY AT 34   First Man to Reach Governorship of State Through Death, Passes at Noon

EX-GOVERNOR DICKINSON DIES   Concludes Career of ‘Vice Crusading’

Luren Dickinson  of Michigan Dies   Crusading Former  Governor Was 84

EX-GOVERNOR DICKINSON DIED TODAY    Death Came Quietly At Charlotte Home Shortly After Noon

FORMER GOVERNGK DICKINSON 1S DEAD   Heart Attack Fatal to Aged Former State Chief Executive.

FORMER MICHIGAN GOVERNOR EXPIRES      Luren D. Dickinson Succumbs Quietly at Farm Home; Was 84

L. D. Dickinson, Ex-Governor Of Michigan, Dies   84-Year-Old Former Chief Executive fxpires Today

Fails to Rally From Heart Atiack Suffered Yesterday At His Home In Charlotte   KNOWN FOR BLAST AT “EVILS HIGH LIFE’   Fired Verbal Barrage Against Annual Conference of Governors At Albany, N. Y.

German Force  Gives Up Rzhey   Berlin Announces Garrison Of Vital Base Has Been Withdrawn  (BULLETIN)

KEY POSITION GIVEN UP BY ADOLE HITLER   Bloody tank, infantry battles raging along southern front

Mexico Now Has Ceiling Prices   Essential Items Tt Be Controlled

Bougainville Drives Fail   Japs Unable to Turn U. §. Invasion Tide

Two Jap Offensives Against Bougainville Are Repulsed   Major Efforts Made By Enemy To Recapture Island Unsuccessful

10,000 STRIKE IN CANADA FOR HIGHER WAGE   Hardest Hit Are Shipyards  At Quebec, Where 7,000   Demand Pay Boost and Closed Shop   OTHERS ASK BONUS   Contended Employers Re. main Frée-to: Deny: Collective Bargaining; Worker Controlled

Daily Times Herald                      With Our \ Soldiers and  Sailors   Karl Davis Is In  Maritime Service

URGES INDUCTION OF © MEN BETWEEN 37 AND 4¢   Pennsylvania Congyessman Also Suggests “Gamblers and Bums” Be called

Favors Draft Of 37-45 Year Group   Congressman Would Take Hoboes, Gamblers

Would Renev Induction Of Older Men   Defer Draft Cf Young Fathers

Urges Draft Of Older Men For the Army   Congressman Says Comhat Services Filled Up Now

Would Draft Men Up to 45   Snyder Would Take Older Men Rather Than Dads Under 37

Asks Induction of Men 3 To 45   Most Draftees Now Won't Be In Combat

Says New York City Is Facing  Potato Famine   Look For Supply From This State

New York City Faces Spud Famine iWith Black Markets Springing Up

Lt. Charles K. Warren Of Three Oaks Awarded (DFC With Oak Claster

Five Japanese Planes Downed At Finschhafen   Ground Fighting Becomes Intense

Nazi Officers Prepare Men For “Hard Shocks” On Visits Home---Result Of Heavy Bombings   Allies Reveal Two Nazi Manifestos Claimed To Have Been Captured

Nazi Officers To Comfort Men   Are to Encourage Soldiers Before They Go on Leave

Bombs Rock Berlin   1,500 Long Tons Drop On Half-Ruined City; Strike Again at Rail Lines in North Italy

BOMBS AGAIN START FIRES OVER BERLIN   Blazes Still Raging in German Capital; Center of  City Suffers Most.   War Slows in Italy; Reds Gain Offensive

1,500 Tons of Bombs Start Fires in Berlin.   Center of Nazi Capital Suffers Heavily —30 Allied Bombers Lost in Raids on  Germany and France

British Bomk Berlin, Set More Blazes   Another Heavy Raid On Capital   Terror Attack.

SMOKE BILLOWS OVER BERLIN AS PLANES STRIKE   ‘Terror Attack’ Parolyzes Transport, Causes Many Fires

Big Fires Still Rage in Capital   Fifth Captures More Hills; Eighth Makes Successful Attack on Pescara

1500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Capital  RUSSIANS GAIN UPPER IHAND IN KIEV BATTLES

BRITISH BOMBERS BLASTED CAPITAL OF NAZIDOM LAST NIGHT   WAR IN ITALY IS MOVING AT EXTREME. LY SLOW PACE

IN MONTH ON NAZI CAPITAL   High Explosives and Incendiaries Rained on Center of City. Western Ger manv Also Hit

Berlin Is Raided By British With 1,500 Tons Bombs   Pace of Land War In Italy Remains Slow; French in Figh

Great Fires Stil Raging _ From B.AF, Night Attack S. - on Reich Center   OTHER AXIS AREAS BOMBED AGAIN   BSlow Pace in Italy. French Join Allied Forces; Russia Wins More Ground

Enter the Merchants’ Bond Club Contest  DWE ATY $TUIC ARTY DE A WINN YD

Staggering Sum Asked For War   Appropriation Sought For Year Estimated At Hundred Twenty-Three Billions

OPPOSES FOURTH TERM   Senator Gietllte Says It Would Be Threat to Democracy.

SURPLUS SEEN FOR OHIO GENERAL FUND   Accumulation of 45 Millions Forecast

50,000 TONS OF FOOD 70 FRENCH   Allies Getting Needed Ma terials In Return From ‘North Atrica

90,000 TONS CF FOOD, SUPPLIES, SENT 10 AFRICE   J. $. and England Shares te Provide Early Shipment; Program Provides 30,000 Tons Monthly.   LEHMAN RELIEF OFFICE IS ALSO CO-OPERATING   Travelers From North Africa Comment on Starving Natives Badly In Need of Clothing.

Plan Huge Shipments to North Africa   50,000 Tons of Food and Other Supplies Have Already Been Shipped to Civilians of French North Africa

90,000 TONS OF FOOD SHIPPED TO AFRICA   Half from U. S$. and Half from England

NORTH AFRICA GETS LEND LEASE FOODS   30,000 Tons Per Month Will Be Sent To French In The Future

00,000 TONS OF FOOD, SUPPLIES SENT'TO ARRICA   Plans Being Made by Lend‘Lease Administrator Stet~tinits to Ship Other Huge Amounts   BRITAIN IS: AIDING   Diverted, Convoy Bound ‘For Another Theatre to. Ease Situation Among Africa Civilians

AMERICAN AIRMEN AGAIN RAID KISKA   Bad Weather Conditions Obscure Amount Of Damage Scored  On Targets

American Flyers Blast at Kiska  Results Unobserved Because of Storms

KISKA BASE IS HIT BY FLIERS   143rd Raid On Island I: Carried Out In Bad Weather

Attack Carried Out on Munda  U.S. Fliers Make Two More Raids on Jap Base at Kiska

SOUTHERN TUNISIA ALMOST CLEARED OF ENEMY FORCES   Americans and’ Biitish: “Cap: > ture 9500 Prisoners In Forcing -Enemy Toward Sea Near Mahares.   NORTHERN BRITISH ° ARMY SEIZES PLACES   After Three-Night Rest RAF . Is Back In Action, Bombing Germany’s Industrial and Arsenal Centers.

Allies Scourge Enemy Fleeing South Tunisia   British Take 9,500 Prisoners in New Push

Combined Forces Open New Front Near Maknassy   Small British Naval Craft Sink Two Supply Ships in Attack on Convoy

BRITISH 8TH.ARMY TAKES 9,500 ENEMY ~ CAPTIVES IN DRIVE.   Afrika Korps Under Rommel Retires Northward From Sack Allies’ _ Were Attempting To Pull Around Them

Combined Forces Push Enemy From Southern Tunisia   Eighth Army Captures 9,500 Prisoners In Drive Along Coast’ 

ALLIES STRIKE ALONG NEW LINE RUNNING 10 SEA FROM MAKNASSY PAST MEZZOUNA   British Eighth Army Captures 9,500 Prisoners Along March

United Armies Pushing Foe Back to Sfax:   List of Prisoners Still Growing; 25,000 Now Counted

ROMMEL IS FLEBING FROM ALLIED SACK   British Naval Craft Torpedoes Enemy. Supply Ships Off North Coast,

ALLIED AIR, GROUND FORCES ON NAZI TAIL   Deive Axis Forces From South Tunisia As British Score New Sea Victory

8TH ARMY TAKES 9500 PRISONERS   Two Enemy Supply Ships Torpedoed Off North Coast

613° Survive LisbonCrash Of Clipper      SIX KNOWN SURVIVING PASSENGERS AND SEVEN CREW MEMBERS LISTED BY CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD.   Entertainers For Army

U.S. Airmen Down 26 Plane Damage 26   10 Allied Craft Are Lost: British Probe Rommel Defense

YANKS DESTROY 26 AXIS PLANES   SCORE BRILLIANT VICTORY IN FIGHTING OVER TUNISIA~LOSE 10 CRAFT.

AXIS LOSES 26 PLANES TO TEN , FOR AMERICANS   Other Enemy Plane: Are Damaged; No Change Reported In Ground Warfare.

Americans Bag 26 Planes on Tunisia Front      Flying Fortresses Account for 24; Lose 10 Craft

BRILLIANT AIR VICTORY WON BY U.S. FLIERS   TURIN AND RUHR BOMBED AGAIN BY RAF

'26 AXIS PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN OVER TUNISIA   126 Other Enemy Planes Are Damaged; 10 Allied Craft Destroyed   AMERICANS DEPART. . FROM SENED POINT

Allies Score Brilliant Air Victory   26 Axis Planes Are Downed, 24 of Them hy Fortresses

YANK AIRMEN DESTROY 26 ENEMY WARPLANES   Land Action Remains Minor In Tunisia; Brit ish Eighth Army Continues Probe Rommel’s Defenses

U.S. Fliers Down 26 Axis Airships   Brilliant Aerial Victory Scored In Africa With Loss Of 10 Allied Craft; Eighth Army  Probes Rommel’s Defenses

Yanks Score Brilliant Air Victory   Americans Destroy 26, Damage 26 Craft in Africa

LEWIS TO SEND ENVOY TO WLB?   Reportedly Ready To Talk On Mine Wage Issue

LEWIS IS SEEN FAVORABLE T0 WLB HEARING,   Observers Believe Representatives Will Attend Monday Meet   VICTORY LOOMS   Miners Expected To Con. tinue In Pits After  Truce Expires

Lewis Reported Ready to Send Proxy to WLB   UMW Leader Maneuvers  To Resume Scale Talk the Hes *

The Bride Vi ants a Home Girl, 12. Hopes to Keep House for Her Husband, 19

ASK TRUSTEES 10 ~ AID TRAFFIC SKED   Upkeep of Rural Roads Necessary, Sours Says

Nazi Peril Grows Hourly in Russia   Whole Position in South Increasingly Worse as Reds Arrive at Lower Reaches of ° Dnieper and Approach Kherson.

Soviets Reach Lower Dnieper   Russians Approach Port of Kherson ct Mouth of River

Reds Approach Port Of Kherson On The Dnieper   Report German Positions In South Russiatr Area Grows Worse By Hour

German Position In Russia Grows Worse by Hour   Red Army Reaches Lower Reaches of Dnieper and Approaches Kherson,   Soviet Bombers Blast  Disorganized Germans

Onee-Proud Nazi Army In Russia Disorganized Mob   Flee Toward River Bug, Followed By Cossacks; Rail City Is Captured

~—RUSSTA—  SEAMAN POSITION GROWING WORSE   Russia ns Reach. Lower Reaches’ of Dnieper In Strength   NAZIS IN-FLIGHT   Onee ‘Proud German Army Of. Ukraine Now Badly. Disorganized.

NAZI POSITION IN RUSSIA IS PETTING WORSE  German Army Is At The a rcy OYE Savi

NAZI POSITION GETTING WORSE   Red Army Reaches Lower Dnieper in Strength in Several Places.

Reds At Dnieper In Strength, Crossing Threatens Disaster   Russians Gather Momentum, Winter Moving South To Further Favor Soviet Armies in Fierce Fighting

Germans’ Position in Southern Russia Grows Worse Hour];   Reds Approaching Por of Kherson at Mouth  of Dnieper River

Reds On Heels Of Fleeing Nazis   German Position in South Russia Grows Worse, Many Soldiers Cut Of

REDS APPROACH PORT OF KHERSON   German Position In South Russia Growing Hourly Worse; Berlin Announces New Ration Landing In Crimea.

GERMANS WORSE OFF IN RUSSIA   Red Bombers Blast Nazis Trying To Cross Dnieper

Reds Mau Fleeing —  Germans   Russians Reach Lower Dnieper in Encireling Move

(:rew Worse by the Hour Today as Red Army Pushed Forward to the Lower Reaches of Dnieper.   ARE APPROACHING THE PORT OF KHERSON   Hundreds of Germans Blasted As They Were Trying to Make Their Way to West ern Banks of River.

GERMAN PERIL IN SOUTH RUSSIA IS GROWING HOURLY   SOVIETS MAKE NEW LANDINGS ON EAST BANK OF DNIEPER

‘Whole Nazi Position Menaced in South Russia as Soviet Forces Arrive at Lower Reaches of Dnieper.

Whole Nazi Position Is Threatened   Russians Renew Their Offensive North Of Kiev — Make Landing South Of Kerch

REDS DRIVING ON   German Position in South Russia Growing Worse  by the Hour

German Position In Russia Gets Hourly Worse   Soviet Army Reaches Lower Reaches of Dnieper In Strenath

U-BOAT BASES IN EUROPE BOMBED AS RAIDS RESUME      Americans Attack Withelmshaven—RAF Blasts At St. Nazaire.

Raid Follows Yank Attack or Wilhelmsiaven   Hundreds of Bomb Tons Dropped on U- Boat Base

RAF BOMBERS HEAVILY ROCK ST. NAZAIRE   8th U.S. Air Force Smashes at Wilhelmshaven

RAF Follows Up American Attack on Wilhelmshaven With Night Raid on St.  Wavaire.

ALLIES RESUME DAY NIGHT AIR RAIDS ON EUROPE   British Bombs Rock St. Nazaire, Nazi Sub Base   U. S. FORTRESSES HIT WILHELMSHAVEN BASE

Yanks, British Raid Huge Nazi Sub Bases   Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire Rocked By Tremendous Assaults

RAF RESUMES NIGHT ATTACKS   —ee Roars -Qver St. Nazaire In FollowUp to Big U. S. Assanlt On Wilhelmshaven

ROCK GERMAN — U-BOAT BASE AFTER REST   Night ‘Attack Follows Yank Bombing of Wilhelmshaven

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZI EUROPE ON “ROUND THE CLOCK” BASIS

POST WAR FLYING IS BEING STUDIEL   Churchill, FDR Agreed There Should Be Freedom of The Air.

FREEDOM OF THE AIR   Postwar Aviation Already Being Discussed Says President

Freedom lof Air  Planned   CHURCHILL, F. D. R. STUDY AVIATION IN POSTWAR WORLD ERA

FREEDOM OF AIR ANOTHER WAR AIM   President Gives  Views or Post-war Developments

POST-WAR AVIATION UNDER STUDY BY COVERNMENT FOR MONTHS. FDR SAYS

Great Tank Battles.   » Rage ‘in. Russia as” “Nazis Counterattack

Gen. Clark Opened Campaign With Only 3 Divisions  Entire Assault Hung By Thread in Drive’s Early Stage

PRAISE GIVEN CIVIL AIRLINES   Lauded For “Highly Strategic” Role in War Effort

AIRLINES HIKE. PROFIT ADIN IN WAR WORK   Transport System Covering Seven Seas Helping Army and Navy,

POULTRY DEALERS THREATEN TO QUIT   Will Suspend Unless OPA Ceilings Are Lifted

STRIKE THREATENED BY POULTRY DEALERS   Can’t Make Profit Because Of Ceiling, They Say

On. Farm: Foods   Senate..Group. Attempting To ‘Uncover Measures To Roll ‘Back - Prices

Roll Back Of Food Prices Stirs Senators  OPA Is Asked To List Extent

SUBSIDY BATTLE 16 SEEN IN COWERESS   Senate Banking Committee Summons OPA to Explain ' Plans

Another Date For Taxpayer      Next Income Tax Statements Are Due December 15

REMINDER ISSUED TO NATIONS  TAX PAYERS   Several Million Americans Have Date With Uncle Sam on Dec. 15th

TAX RETURNS MUST BE MADE DECEMBER 14   Several Millions Due Government  Before 1944

Reventie Chief Reminds Many Taxpayers They Have Another Date With Him In 43

Another Date With Revenue Collector Awaits Taxpayers   Many to Get Advance Notice from Uncle Sam; Reminder

TAXPAYERS FACE DEC. 15 DEADLINE   DECLARATION FORMS NOW OBTAINABLE AT COLLECTOR'S OFFICE

REVENUE MAN TO HAVE MORE DATE WITH TAXPAYERS   Collector Reminds Public That Another Installment Of Income Taxes Is Due With Return On December 15,

ANOTHER TAX DATE   Several Millions Must File Income Return Before , Dec. 15

dh WS,  With Our Soldiers and  \ Sailors @ @                Richard Heider Reports for Duty In Army Reserve

SITUATION GROWS TENSE IN ROME AS ~ ALLIES ADVANCE   Sniping and Sabotage In crease—Food Shortage Is Acute.

Rome Residents Attack Germans   Sabotage Grows As Allies Advance

U.S, BOMBER PILOT BLAMED FOR CRASH   Twelve Lives Lost When Airliner Wrecked

BOMBER PILOT ~ FOUND CUILT!   Aeronautics Board Charg. ed Reckléssness in Mid. Air Crash.

MiD AIR CRASH BLAME IS FIXEL   Authorities Say Bomber Pilot Careless in Coast Mishap Fatal to 12

Blame Bomber Pilot in Crash   CAB Gives Findings In Crash Between Bomber and Airliner

ARMY BOMBER’S PILOT BLAMED  FOR AIR GR ASH   Civil Aeronautics Board Terms His Acts “Reckless and Irresponsible”   12 PERSONS KILLED   Bomber Sheared Off Air. liner’s Tail In Maneuvering Close for WingDip Salute

All Berlin Could Do During Huge Raid Was Cringe, Take It   No Fighters Up And Searchlights Were Unable To Penetrate Dense Clouds Over German Capita

Fierceness Of Attack Described   Fliers Tell How City Appeared As - Great Sea Of Fire

RETURNING FLIERS TELL OF TERRIFIC BLASTS AT BERLIN  "GERMAN CAPITAL GREA’ SEA OF FLAMES AND - EYPLOSIONS

TWIN SUCCESSES IN EARLY STAGES OF BIG PUSH LEAVE AXIS IN DESPERATE PLIGHT   Eighth Army Cracks Mareth Line At Stronaest Point, Radio Says

FUEHRER MAY GALL TUNIOIA WRONG GUESS   Leader Of Afrika Corps Being Boxed In As Americans Push Forward

Outflank Germans In Tunisia   British Get Behind Mareth Line—Germans Attack  Americans

BRITISHCRACK MARETH LINE   Nazi Forces Expected to Try For Stand in Tunis-Bizerte Area

British Break, Outflank Germans F aneil Defenses  In South Tunisia, Place Axis In Grave Position

TEACHERS VOTE APPROVAL OF I! RESOLUTIONS   Gordon Cook of Herrick Elected President

UERRILLA FIGHTING IN BALKANS, REPORT      Patriot Fighters Take Advantage of Softened Italian Morale.

Balkan Guerrillas On Offensive Now   As Italian Morale Weakens, They Strike Harder

Balkans Fishting  lames   .+-+- Patriots Avail Selves of Low Italian Morale

FIGHT AXIS IN BALKANS   New Wave of Guerrilla Warlare Breaks Out

GUERRILLAS ACTIVE   Patriotic Resistanre tn Raikans Reaches Sew Peaks

Allied Planes Renew Attacks On Lae, Japan's Biggest Base In New Guinea

Allied Bombers Pound Lae Again   Last of Enemy's  Fleet Wiped Out

HEAVY ATTACKS ON ‘NEW GUINEA BASES RENEWED BY YANKS   MacArthur Reports Last o! Bismarck Sea Survivors are Eliminated.

Allies Mop Up Battle Survivors, Bombs Hit Lae   Waves of Planes Strafe Airdromes And Installations

LAE INVASION BELIEVED NEXT AIM OF ALLIES   Land, Air Drive Coming; * Erase Last Survivors Of Jap Convoy

Fleeing Japs Hunted Down InSwamps   Nipponese Death Total of 1671.  Judeed Tncomplete

Jungle Fighters Chase Japs Into Nearby Swamps   American Troops Hunting Down What Few Nips Not Slain

Americans Chase Japanese Troops Info the Jungle   Annihilate Fleeing Enemies in Swamps

All Organized Resistance {s Crushed Out   Munda Air Base Completely Under American Control

Yanks Pursue Japan Forces   All Munda Resistance Crushed By American:

REMNANTS OF JAP MUNDA GARRISON BEING DESTROYED   Americans Pursue Enemy Troops Into Mangrove Swamps After Capturing Air Base.   SEVEN ZEROS DOWNED OVER BUIN-FAISI   Altied Bombers Continue Hunt for Barges Used to Supply Menaced Nips at Salamaua.

U. S. Soldiers  Pursue Fleeing  Japs at Munda  1.671 Reporte eed Killed  iT i) ee oe

Jubilant American Troops Celebrate Victory. At Munda   Ground Forces Mopping. Upas U.S. Fliers Shoot Down Seven Zeros—Anniversary Is Marked ’

Yanks Crush  Beaten Jap Troops   Americans Mop Up Fleeing Remnants of Enemy on First Anniversary of Offensive Campaign in Solomon Zone

MUNDA'S FALL OPENS WAY TO NEW ATTACKS   Capture of Base Puts U. S. Airmen Within Range of Rabaul

With Our  Soldiers and  Sailors                 Tech. Sgt. Spiller Writes to Parents From North Afric:

Daily Times Herald   With Our  Soldiers and  Sailors          Tech. Sgt. Spiller Writes to Parents From North Africa

Benate Committee Expects to Arrange for the Resumption of Manufacture of Whisky for Civilian Consumption.

FOES OF oUBSID PLAN NOW READY TO COMPROMISE   Food Administrator Urges Speedy Settlement For Sake Of Farmers

HULL 10 TALK ON THURSDAY   SOLONS TO HEAR REPORT ON MOSCOW AGREEMENT   No Secret Pacts   Vital Decision

5 Children Lose Lives In Flames   PARENTS BOTH AWAY FROM HOME WHEN HGLOCAUST TAKES PLACE; VICTIMS AGED FROM ONE TO FOUR.   Escape Blocked

BUKA ISLAND BLASTED BY U.S. WARSHIPS®   Yanks Also-Score New Advances On Bougainville

NEW ADVANCES ARE SCORED ON BOUGAINVILLE   U. S. Warships Come Back From Grave To Bombard Buka Island

J, S, WARSHIPS ‘SUNK’ BY JAPS BOMBARD BUKA   Yank Forces Also Score New Advances On Bougainville

Warships Shell Japanese Base  On Buka Island   Yanks On Bougainville Extend Lines As Planes Support Attack

AMERICAN. NAVY POUNDS ENEMY ON BUKA ISLAND   Heavy Bombardment Refutes Jap Claims Of Victories In Naval Engagements

Yanks Roar On at Bougainville   500 MORE JAPANESE TROOPS DIE AS AMERICANS SLASH AHEAD ON KEY ISLAND; AIRMEN BLAST BONIS AIRDROME IN PARACHUTE BOMB ATTACK

Yank Warships Shell Japs On Buka Island  Fifth Raid Hits Marshall, Gilbert Islands

U S. “Ghost” Warships Smash Buka Island   Liberators Give Marshalls, Gilberts Workine Over

U.S. “Ghost Ships” Hit Jap Base   American Warships Return From ‘‘Grave’”’ To Bombard Buka Is.

Buka Island Is Given Shelling By U.S. Ships.   -Yanks Score: . . _Neéw. Advances On Bougainville

U. S. TROOPS. IN NEW ADVANCES AN ROUGAINVILLE   American Warships Bombard Buka Island: Kill 500 Japs

FreeF'rench Army Setup Is Pleasing  ToChurchill   Both U. S., Britair Ask Generals To * Keep Status

Giraud And DeGaulle Asked Not To Make Any Important ‘Change In French Command   Churchill Discloses U. $.-British Request To Maintain Unity In Africa

U.S., Brifain Want Giraud As Commande:   Churchill Reveals Request For No Important Change In French Command

Churchill Reports U.S, Britain Favor Gen. Giraud   Allies Ask Committee  To Keep Leader  In Charge of Military

Keep Giraud In Command, Allies Advise   Britain, U. S. Ask Two Leaders To Make No Important Changes In Africa Setup

U5, BRITAIN ASKED DE GAULLE, GIRAUD KEEP STATUS QUO   Churchill Tells Commons Any Important Change in French African Command Unthinkable Now.

CONTROL BY GIRAUD IS HELD NEED   Safety Of Troops Is Issue, Declares  Churchill

Allies Demand French Accord   Churchill Reveals De Gaulle and Giraud Summoned to End Feud in Interests of Vietory in Africa; U. S., Britain Impartial

BRITAIN SIDES WITH U. S. STAND IN NORTH AFRICA   ASK ASSURANCE OF FRENCH ACCORD WITH GIRAUD IN COMMAND

ASK FRENCH TO.KEEP ARMY COMMAND   ‘Churchill Asks Assurances — That No important Change  Take Place

The Allies Want To Know Who Is Who   Can French Be Depended On In Next War Effort   WILL THE COMMAND REMAIN THE SAME

CHURCHILL STATED  GIRAUB DESIRED AS  FRENCH ARMY HEAD AMERICAN-BRITISH GOV.  ERNMENTS ASKED AS -STIRANCES NO CHANGES

GIRAUD GIVEN FULL BACKING BY CHURCHILI   Premier Says Frenct Command Must Be Stabilized

‘APPEAL MADE TO CHIEFS OF FREE FRENCH   ‘Assurances Asked of Both   DeGaulle and Giraud  ' ‘There Would Be No Important Change   FOR MILITARY PURPOSES

Churchill’s Views Virtually the Same on French Situation as Those ‘xpressed by American Writer

Ask French Leaders for Cooperation   De Gaulle and Giraud Asked To Make No Important Changes in Command in North: Africa.

Reveals Request French: Factions - Keep Command   Churchill ‘Tells Commons ’ America. And. Britain - "Made: Appeals “June 19

Allies Sought  French Peace   ‘Churchill Says U. §., British Both Insisted On African Settlement.

AFL Rules Bar Miners Union  Jurisdiction Of Unions Is Question To Be Settied

AFL CONSTITUTION BARS UMW MOVE   Somebody or Something Will Have to Give Before Lewis Is Readmitted

AFL Begins Studies of Lewis Bid   Union’s Constitution, How - ever, Appears as Bar to Immediate Readmittance of UMW Group

AFL Constitution May Bar Re-Entry UMW Of Lewis To Membership In Society

NF OF L UAW 1a BAR TO LEWIS RE-ENTRY   Jurisdictional Dispute Hurdle For Union Head

Polish-Soviet Pact Welcomed By Sikorski  Polish Teader   Polish Leader Notes Statement By Stalin

Russ-Polish Peace Hopes Brightening   Sikorski Welcomes Stalin Plan for, Alliance Against Nazis

PROSPECTS OF APOLANDRUSSIA PACT   Stalin Proposes One; Situation Is Brighter

PREMIER SIKORSKI WELCOMES PEACE MOVE FROM STALIN   Russian Premier, Says Reds Want To See Strong, — Independent. Poland

STALIN HINTS POLE-RUSS PACT   Prospects For Resumption Of Relations Brighter

Polish Premier Welcomes Stalin's Proposal For Pact Against Germany

Polish Premier Welcomes Stalin's Proposal Of Polish-Russian Paci

Prospects for Russo-Polish Pact Good   Resumption of  Relations of Two QGavarnmantc Saan

SIKORSKI WELCOMES PACT PROPOSAL FOR PEAGE WITH POLANN   Prospects Brightening for Resumption of Relations Between Countries.

Polish-Russian Pact Is Nearer   Premier Welcomes Stalin Proposal

INVASION OF KISKA ISLAND ~ 1 EXPECTED VERY SHORTLI   LONG-DELAYED BLOW AT LAST JAP STRONGHOLD IN ALEUTIANS MAY COME   ANY DAY

TIME LEFT FOR INVASION OF KISKA SHORT   Borneo Port Raided: U. S. Reveals Loss of Six Warships

Expect Surprises In Pacitic Area   Startling Developments Felt In The Making In North And South Pacific

WAIT STARTLING PACIFIC EVENTS      U.S. Pilots Batter Salamaua, 11 Jap Bombers and 23 Fighters Downed

TOUGH DAY  S AHEAD   UNION MEN TO LEARN ABOUT HARDSHIPS OF ARMY LIFE AT FIRST HAND.

250 CIO Leaders to ‘Join’ Army for Three-Day Hitch   Under Military Discipline, Will See For Selves W hat Our Soldiers Need

clo Leaders To Be Given Opportunity to See Whai Life in U. S. Army Is Like

Nationalist From India Asks UNRRA to Help India's Starving People

INDIA QUESTION UP   British Delegate Holds Famine Relief Outside of  UNRRA Scope

HELP SOUGHT FOR INDIARAISES NEW - RESPONSIBILITIES   Llewellin Declares Problems Are Outside UNRRA Control, India May Deny Contribution. ”   AMERICANS, BRITISH SEEM TO BE IN ACCORD   Indian Representative Says Nation’s Hungry Multitude Are Actually Victims of War.

A, B and C Gas Coupons in Far West Are Slashed  Drop to 3 Gallons as Quotas for Area Are Cut

COUPON VALUESIN FAR WEST REDUCED   Gasoline Curtailment Or: der Is Issued by the ODT ~

“GAS” COUPON VALUE IS CUT IN FAR WEST   Rations Reduced From Four te Three Gallons on A, B and C Stamps in 10 States,

UPAGuts Value Of Gas Coupons ~ On West Coast  ean Steatae   Ten States Affected By Curtailment to Three Gallons

Gas Coupon’s Value Cut To Three Gallons   All West Affected; Cannot Apply for Aid Until Oct. 20

Gasoline for Rest Of West Is Cut To Three Gallons  OPA Order Effective Today Affects All A_ Band C Counons

Gasoline Cut Hits Utah, Entire West   OPA Reduces . AH] Coupons To Three Gallons

Value of All A, B and C Ration Coupons Is Cut   Order Effective In Ten States In Western Area

FAR WEST GIVEN GAS REDUCTION   A, B and C Coupons Only Worth Three Gallons

Gas Ration Coupon Values Cut in  West by OPA Order   A, B, C Stamps Will Get Only Three Gallons Each. Curtailment Is Effective After 12:01 A. M. Today

JULY A HOT MONTH   Mean Temperature Here Was 1.07 Degrees.Above  Normal

Says N. E. Potato Situation Is In Critical Period   Lack Storage For  Increased Crop

POST-WAR PLANG GIVEN ob T-DAGH   Churchill Speech Will Have a Great Influence on U. 8S. Action.

Ud, PRISONERS REACH LIVERPOO!   CENSOR DELETES STORIES OF MEN, HOLDING THEY MIGHT DISPLEASE NAZIS,

SOLONS WEIGH GHIEFS TERM   STATE ASSEMBLY MAY ASK EIGHT-YEAR LIMIT

THREE TO LOSE. FEDERAL JOBS   HOUSE AND SENATE CONFER EES AGREE TO ‘MOVE TO PROHIBIT. PAYMENT  ~ OF SALARIES

Eighth Army Moves Nearer Halian Port   Nazis Are Destroying Port Installations in Harbor Of Gaeta

BILLS OFFERED TO ~ REVISE JUDICIARY   Court Reorganization Bills Dropped in Senate -_Hoepver 

COURT REVISION BiiL PRESENTED IN LEGISLATURE   Changes Recommended By Bond Commission Are  Introduced   COUNTER PROPOSALS OFFERED BY CRONIN

BURMA BATTLE BLAZES ANEW FOR 30 HOURS   Allied Air Forees ave Active in Widespread Far Pacific War Theater   JAP SUPPLY LINES ARE TARGETS FOR AMERICANS

NEW BATTLE OF BURMA GROWING MORE INTENSE   Thirty Hours a Fighting Reported Along Mayu River; American Fliers Range Far and Wide Over Jap Territory.

Battle For Bur.na Is Flaming Anew   British Report Thirty Hours of Fighting Along Mayu iver.

NEW BATTLE OF BURMA   British Headquarters Report 30 Hours of Fighting

FORCES STEP UP FIGHTING ALONG RIVER IN BURMA   American Fliers Raid Japanese-Conquered Territory, inflict Heavy Damage

REINFORCED JAP TROOPS ATTACK WAVELL’S FORCES   AMERICAN FLIERS RANGE FAR TO BOMB OBJECTIES

U. S. FLIERS RAID FAR EAST BASES   Warships Shell Japs it Solomons; Planes Rake Enemy Shipping

Battle of Burma Breaks Out Anew   RAF and American Bombers Attack Enemy;  Navy Launches Greatest Attack on Kiska  While Yank Sub Toll Mounts

Thirty Hours of Fighting Along Mayu River Reported; Wavell’s Force Attacked

JAPANESE BASES HEAVILY BOMBED BY UJ, S, AIRMEN   Fighting Along Mayu River Is Told By British

burma Fighting Flares With Great Intensity  Reritich and la   British and Japanese Engaged on East Bank of Mayu River

BATTLE OF BURMA INTENSIFIED AS AMERICAN PLANES BOMB JAPANESE OVER WIDE AREA

New Battle of Burma Grows More Intense   British Report 30 Hours of Fighting Along the Mayu River; US Planes Hit Jap Supply Lines

WAVELL’S LINE STIFFENS IN BURMA BATTLE   American Fliers Range Widely Over Japanese. Conquered Territory”

Battle Of Burma Rages 30 Hours; British Stiffes   Only Five Of 15,006 Japs Escaped Ir Convoy Defeat Says Davis   No General Chance

American Pilots Support Wavell’s Defensive Action   Japs Are Trying to Flank Allied Force Pushing From India

Yankee Fliers Bomb Japs As New Batile Flares Up In Burma   British Active Along Mayu, Enemy Convoy Turns Back

BATTLE FLARES IN BURMA AREA   American Planes Hit Jap Supply Lines In Widespread Attacks

Battle of Burma Flames Anew: Japanese Attack   U. S. Fliers Range Far and Wide Over Enemy Lands

Jap Attacks Failing To Gain Against Wavell’s Army In Fierce Fighting

Burma Battle Flames With New Intensity   Fighting .. Rages Along Mayu River. Allied Bombers Pound Jap Bases, Supply Lines.

BRITISH REPEL JAP ATTACKS IN BURMA AREA   Allied Airmen Bomb Jap Base in _ Aroe Islands, North of Australia —Kiska Heavily Raided

NEW BURMA BATTLE FLAMES WEDNESDAY AFTER MANY HOURS  MARSHAL WAVELL SAYS   MARSHAL WAVELL SAYS INDIA’S VOLUNTEER ARM) READY TO FIGHT

Yank Bombers Blast Enemy Supply Line:   American Planes Attack Truck Convoys As Battle Of Burma Flares.   ‘WORST’ KISKA ATTACK

Sales Tax Gains Favor In Congress   Committee Turns Back on Other  Revenue Proposals

May Ask Administration To Decide Between Excise, Coroporation Taxes  'Or Federal Retail Sales Levy

Administration Must Soon Make Choice On Taxes   Increased Excise Or Federal Sales Levy Must Be Decided Upon

EXCISE VS. SALES TAXES MAY SOON BE REVENUE ISSUE      Administration’s Proposal For Boost In Income Levies-Expected To Be Rejected

FORT MADISON TO HAVE WAR EXPOSITION   Income Tax Due June 15: Cuts Start July 1

WHEN TO PAY THE U, S, TAX   Payments Due June 15 and for Many This Will Be Last Such Payment to Be Made

Tax Installment Must Be Paid   Nothing In New Bill Changes Payments

BERLIN DAMAGE EXCEEDS NAZIS’ LONDON ATTACK   New Assault by Mosquitoes Finds German Capital Still Afire

Wooden Bombers  Strike At Berlin   ‘Smoke Pall Over City Visible 200 Miles Away Evidence Of Damage

Fall-of Big Italian Port Expected at Any Moment; 8th Army Gains II Miles

Fifth Army Drives Throug]  Widenins Can Widening ‘fe an   - Germans Appear To Be Preparing For Evacuation -

NAZI MOUNTAIN DEFENSE LINES BROKEN BY STH   Allies Swarm Onto the Plains Before Big Port City

Dust Bowl May Be Put To the Plow   Risk of Creating New Problem May Be Taken To Grow More Feed

May Plow Up “Dust Bowl”      Huge Post-Invasion Food Needs Call For Greater Production

GERMAN DRIVE WEAKENING IN KIEV THEATRE   South End of Nazi Defense Line in White Russia Collapses With Fall of Gomel

Red Vanguards But 585 Miles rom Berlin   British Mosquito Bombers Attack Nazi Capital for Fourth Stecessive Night   BULLETIN

Goebbels Asks Help Of World   German Propaganda Minister Talks Of “Great Danger ——Bolshevism.

Goebbels Hints Wish For Allied Rift With Reds   Alarmist Address Seen As German Peace Feeler

APPEALS TO WORLD   Nazi Minister in Speech Might Have Been Seeking Sympathy

Goebbels’ Alarmist Address Is Seen As Appeal For Sympathy For Germany

GOEBBELS ASKS FOR SYMPATHY   Nazi Propaganda Minister Interpreted As _ Belated Appeal To World.

HITLER'S CHIEF OF PROPAGANDA WARNS OF REDS   Alarmist Address Seen as Effort To Split Allies

Goebbels Tries A  New Line   Speech Seen As An Attempt To Cause Rift In Allied Ranks

GERMANY ASKS! WORLD SUPPORT AGAINST: REDS   Propaganda Minister Goeb-bels Makes Alarmist Address On “Dangers For West”   ADMITS DEFEATS   Appeal for ‘World Opinion’ Includes U. S. and Brit-. ain; Refrains.From Attacking Them

Germany Asks For Sympathy   Goebbels ‘Paints Russia As Monster ‘In Talk “Made Over Radio

COEBBELS GIVES ALARMIST TALK   Speech Seen Open Appeal For World Support And Sympathy For Nazis

BOEDBELS ASKS FOR SYMPATHY   Broadcast Yesterday Interpreted As Appeal for World Sunport.

House Sure To 0. K. Extension Of Lend-Lease   Action Due Today After Action On Several Proposed Amendments.

Lend-Lease Continuance Is Certain   House Expected To Give Unanimous Approval Today

House V otes Extension Of Lend Program  Reject Proposal For Giving Congress Vetc

CONTINUANCE OF LEND-LEASE AID TO RUSSIA SEEN  PREDICT AN ALMOST UNANIMOUS VOTE

Lend-Lease Bill Extension Seen   Uproar Continues On Russian Angle

Lend-Lease Bill Passed By Lower House   Measure Extending Act For Another Year Is Approved Late Today By 407 To 6 Vote

HOUSE TO PASS WAR AID BILL   Predict Unanimous Vote to Extend Lend-Lease for Another Year.   SOVIETS PRINT ARTICLE

Congress to Extend LendLease Bill   Approval Assured Despite Uproar Resulting From Admiral Standley’s Charge:

Lend-Lease Extension Seen Assured Despite Standley “Bomb-Shell’’

House Approves Year's Extension After Voting Down Veto Amendment         BACKERS OF RIDER GIVE UP LENGTHY DISPUTES

NO COMPLAINTS ON LONG WEEK   Emplovers Cooperate In Plan To Release Men For Other Jobs

AE-HOUR WEER ORDER OBSERVE   WMC Finds General Compliance With Regulations; Few Workers Released Immediately for Other Jobs

UNITED FRENCH MOVE STALTEN   Dispute Between Giraud And DeGaulle Still! Unsettled

CORRESPONDENTS PRAISED IN GHILE   Honored for Heroic Devotion To Duty at Front

TURAGE TANKS ANU BUILDINGS ERED IN BURME   U. S. Bombardiers Repor Direct Hits On Refine Near Rangoon

POST-WAR TAX REFUNDS URGED   New Revenue Program Includes 30 Per Cent Withholding Levy

New Proposal Has 30 Percent WithholdingTax   Includes Tax Refunds In Government Annuities Or Insurance

TAX PLANS. SE   Post-War Refunds Renorted Inc'uded; Withholding . Levy Listed

Plan for Post-War Refund Embodied  In Tax Program   Payment in Governmen Insurance, Annuities Reported in Proposal

Tax Refund Plar May Be Sought In Revenue Bill   Reported to Be Part Of New 30 Per Cent Withholding Program

HIKE PROPOSED IN TAX TAKEN FROM PAYROLLS   Proposal Calls For 36 Per Cent, With PostWar Refunds In  Annuities

\dministration Includes Return of Part of Levy In Revenue Program

WITHHOLDING TAX OF 30 PCT. ASKED   NEW ADMINISTRATION REVENUE PROGRAM CALLS FOR - ~ POST-WAR REFUNDS.

Refunds for Taxpayers: Thirty Per Cent Withholding Tax  Urged in New Deal Revenue Plan   Government Insurance or Annuities Would Be Provided under Administration Program

Plan for Refund Of Taxes After War Heard  Taxpayer Would Be Able to Take Insurance Policies

U.S, SIXTH ARMY TROOPS MADE GAINS ON NEW BRITAIN  ALLIES  CONTINUED TO  Ff, ACCOCNCIVEC AN

Americans Near Japanese Airport On New Britain   Capture of Arawe Landing Strip Is Expected Soon

YANKS NEAR AIRSTRIP ON NEW BRITAIN   Capture of Arawe Field elieved Imminent — Troops Seize Umtingalu Settlement for Gain of Three Miles.

AMERICANS APPROACHING ARAWE FIELD   Capture of Bombed-Out Japanese Strip on Invasion Front of New Britain  t Apears imminent   AERIAL SQUEEZE LOOMS

CAPTURE OF JAP AIRSTRIP ON NEW BRITAIN NEARS   Nips Admit Seriousness « Situation; Allies Hold Elsewhere

Close In On Arawe ‘Airfield   Capture of Jap-Made Landing Strip Would Provide ;Another Base For Bombing Rabaul

New Britain Offensive Is Moving Fast   Allies Continue to Hold tnitiative on Other Fighting Fronts in Pacific Theatre 

Capture of Strip Would Allow Three-Way Aerial Smashes at Rabaul Base

Sixth Army Wins Pacilie Gains   Hold Offensive in Arawe, New Guinea. And Bougainville

Yanks. Approaching Arawe Airfield Unusable by Japs   On Other Pacific Fronts, Allies Hold Offensive In All Areas

FALL OF JAPS’ NEW BRITAIN AIRSTRIP NEAR   Americans Close In On Arawe Base for New Attacks on Rabaul; Other Gains.

U.S. Forces Close in on Jap. Airstrip   Capture of Field -On New Britain Close at Hand; Squeeze on Rabaul

Jap Airfield Near Capture  By 6th Army   Fall Would Put A 3-Way Aerial Squeeze On Rabaul; Enemy Plane Attack« Decrease

Invading Armies  Roar On   THREE-WAY AIR SQUEEZE AGAINST RABAUL SEEN IN NEW BRITAIN DRIVE

Fall Of Jap Air Field On New Britain Imminent; Tokyo Warns Rabaul Must Be Held At Any Cost

ARAWE AIRBASE NEAR CAPTURE   Allied Forces Score New Gains Against Jap Defenders

Jap Airstrip Goal Of New U.S. Push   New Britain Offense Carries to Near Landing Area

SIXTH ARMY NEAR ARAWE AIRFIELD ON NEW BRITAII   Three-way Squeeze Against Japanese Base at  m£..it.....,

JAP AIRSTRIP ON ARAWE IS MADE USELESS   Allied Troops Get Set for 3. way Squeeze on Rabaul

3Way Squeeze Against Rabaul Now Imminent   Allied Forces Sure of Capture of Japanese Airstrip on New Britain.   Allies on Offensive In Pacific Theaters

Allies Make. New. Gain In Fight For Rabaul   \Tokye Radio Acknowledges The Threat Against The . Jap Positions And Says: Rabaul Must Be Held At All Casts

Yank 6th Army Fights Forward In New Britain   Capture Of Important Jap Airfield Appears Imminent Toddy

U5. BTH ARMY IN NEW GAINS   Supported By Artillery Fire And Allied Planes on New Britain.

YANKS SCORE NEW GAINS IN ISLAND DRIVE   American Planes Still Rule the Air Over U.S. Bridgehead

Yanks Near Air Field on  New Britain   Flying Strip Made Useless to Japs by Bombers, Next Prize

Pacific Base Near Capture   U. S. TROOPS TO TAKE AIRSTRIP ON NEW BRITAIN

Sixth Army Troops Make New Gains in New Britain Sector   Capture of Airstrip on Invasion Front Near, Officers Believe

UJ. 5. SIXTH ARMY TROOPS MADE GAINS ON NEW BRITAIN   ALLIES CONTINUED TO HOLD OFFENSIVE ON OTHER FIGHTING FRONTS

Americans Advance on  Jap Airfield   Aussies Mopping Upon Huon Peninsula; New Push Started on Bougainville: Chinese Capture Several Villages

U.S. 6th Army — Making Push on Jap Field   Capture of Arawe™ Airstriy on How Britain Appears: -< Tyminent  ~   ‘3:WAY ATTACK ON oS" RABAUL IN VIEW   Allies “Hold Offensive in Other: Sectors: of Wide Pacific Battlefront

ARAWE AIRFIELD CAPTURE LOOMS AS IMMINENT   Bomb-Out Japanese AirStrip on New Britain Invas ion Coast U. S. Objective

6TH ARMY GAINS ON NEW BRITAIN   Capture Of Arawe Airtield Appears Imminent

ITALIANS, NAZIS LOSE 45 PLANES: OVER SARDINIE   Attack By Fortresses on Sicily and Other Iste Costly to Enemy Air Forces.

ALUES RAID HITS. SICILY   Foriresces Raid Eight Airdromes, _ Destroy 45 Axis Planes 

ALLIED AIR POWER RAIDS NINE BASES IN MEDITERRANEAN   45 More Enemy Aircraft , Downed: Over Sicily And Sardinia In Attacks

Eight Enemy Airdromes  Are Bombed   Allies Shoot Down 45 Aircraft Over  Girile Cardinia

Axis Airdromes In Sicily and  Sardinia Bombed  One Yank Downs Seven Nazi Planes in Raid

Soviet Armies Slowly Closing ~ Trap On Nazis   Columns In Advances Are ~\ Now But 40 Miles Apart Says Moscow   DRIVE ON ROSTOV MAKING PROGRESS.   Large Amounts Of War Materials Being Captured Russians Report

RUSSIAN: DRIVE.    Reds Continue To Press Their  Offensive In Causasus.

‘WESTBROOK PEGLER   Maritime Union Tries To Intimidate Newspaper

SWISS SOURCES SAY GERMANS. ~ HAVE LOST THEIR CONFIDENCE   SPLITS. APPEARING BETWEEN POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS AS RESULT OF DEFEATS

DUTCH TRAITOR SHOT TO DEATH   ASSASSIN KILLS GEN. HENDRIK A. SEYFFARDT, WHO JOINED INVADER.

Dutch Traitor General Is Slain   ‘Drastic Reprisals’ Promised by Nazis

Dutch I[raitor General Killed By Assassin  Nazis Plan ‘Drastic Renyisals On:

Hearings on Draft  To Close Monday   Gen. Marshall Yet to Be Heard

Solons Study Baruch Report ‘On Labor Plans   Marshall To: Wind Up Testimony On Dad Draft Question

HEARING ON DRAFT OF FATHERS TO BE RESUMED MONDAY   Senate Debate Will Stari _., Luesday — Baruch's. Suggestions —  Studied

GOAL CONFERENCE OBSTACLES GROW   Pittsburgh District Operators — Pledge Not to Give UMW Right to Represent Super_ visory Workers

Operators Ban  Union Foremen Pittsburgh Bloc Pledged   Pittsburgh Bloc Pledged Against Pronosal

Obstacles ‘lo Soft Coal  Conferences   BETWEEN OPERATORS AND U. M. W. ARE SEEN; JOHN L. LEWIS THREATENS TO DEMAND  # 15% WAGE INCREASE.   Meet March 10

Coal Conference Is Fraught With Touchy Problems  Atmosphere Is Already Clouded By Proclaimed Disregard Of Formula

TO NULLIFY FE.D.R, ORDER   Conference Committee Agrees on Salary Bill

AAF Gets 3,515  Enemy Airplanes   U. S. Loses 846 In First Six Months

NEW TEOTIMONY FAVORS SUSPECT   De Marigny Could Have Burned Hands At Din ner, Witnesses Say

Red Assault Already On,  Germans Say   Soviets Knock at Gates Of Smolensk in North And Kiev in South  frKIniyrs ST TMT LS 'Ye LCL h6WER EW TY

ROAD OPENED INTO POLAND AND GERMANY   POWERFUL SOVIET FORCES ATTACK NEAR GOMEL

Critical Battle Gets under Way On Long Front   Reds Approaching Smolensk and Kiev

REDS KNOCK AT SMOLENSK GATES   Nazis Say Attempted Dnieper # Crossing Repulsed   GERMANS ON RUN   Megscow Says Arms, Supplies Abandoned; Nazis Paint Dark Picture

Soviets Battering Germans Back In Last-Ditch Battle   Nazi Broadcasters Paint Dark Picture; Hint At Huge Evacuations; Russians Try To Break Through Front At Smolensk

Smolensk  And Kiev Gates Hit  Russians Reach   Russians Reack River Defenses - In Force

Reds Surae In Force Along 300 Mile Front   Armies Knock at Gates of Kiev and Smolensk

Smolensk Is Target of Rapid Drive   Kiev Is Imperilled Also; Soviets Seize Many Towns

REDS REACH DNEIPER IN TULL FORCE   Prepared to Attack Germans On West Bank; Nazis Report Assault Already BermnhNn.   Take 466 Towns

ADVANCE MADE IN KERCH AREA BY RED FORCE   Germans Report Russians Try To Cross River; Kuban Base Being Abandoned

Russians Surge Forward on Front of 300 Miles; Germans Report Soviet Attempt to Cross Stream

Another Rush Takes Russians to Border of White Russia  NAZI PLIGHT DARK, BROADCASTS STATE  Large Populated Places Captured in Red Army Advance

Soviets Reach Dnieper, Close To Smolensk   Nazis Say Attempt Made to Cross River: Russian Army Gets Nearer White Russia

House Group Shapes Vote On Tax Plan   Ways and Means Com: mittee to Ballot on Amount of Forgiveness

PAY-AS EARN COMPROMIS       House Committee Given Plan Approved by ~ Sub-Group

Fail To Fix Tax Nation  Will Collee   Pay-As-You-Go Given Committee Approval. But Set No Amount For °42 Payment

Full Committee Will Decide On Tax Skipping   Subcommittee Adopts Compromise ‘Payas-You-Go’ Plan

Skip-a-Year Issue Up for Another Vole. In House Committee After Subgroup —  Approves Pay-as-You-Go Compromise Plan

HOUSE COMMITTEE ARGUES TAX PLAN   Can’t Agree on ‘on How Much to Forgive--Put Taxpayers on Current Basis, July 1

Tax Abatement Ready for Debate In Committee   Compromise on Pay-as-You-Go Plan Approved

ISSUE SHAPES UP IN HOUSE   System Approved to Put Nation’s 44,000,000 Taxpayers on Pay-AsYou-Go Basis

Tax Proposal Given Support   PAY AS YOU GO PLAN EXPECTED FOR 1042

VOTE EXPECTED TODAY ON SKIP TAX PROPOSAL   Author: ‘of  Bill- on: Rum! Plan. Asks*House Committe to Vote Again  on Modified Offer   DEBATE RAGES.   Doughton Calls-Full Committee to Meet Monday’ Outright Cancel-. lation Opposed

Tax Issue  To Vote   Question of Income Tax Forgiveness May Be Decided: Monday

Committee To Vote Again On  Tax Forgiveness   May Decide Monday On Amount Of Income Levy To Be Abated.

Amount of Income » Tax Abatement, if  Any, Is Undecided   ouse Ways Means Committee Will Try to Agree on Monday

Moditied Skip-a-Year Measure Sponsor Will Ask New Vote by House Committee

MIHAILOVIC CALLS CROATS   'Pavelic Army Has Been Serving With the Germans

,, Edgar Hoover Warns of Tremendous Increase tn Juvenile Delinquency Here

FB! HEAD ALARMED BY JUVENILE CRIME   If Unchecked, It Will Undermine Nation’s Security, He Says.

TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN JUVENILE CRIME   J. Edgar Hoover Says Law Enforcement Agencies Can No Longer  Decline Challenre

J. Edgar. ‘Hoover Warns of Tr emendous  Increase in Juvenile Delinquency. Here

WELDING DOES NOT CAUSE STERILITY   Many Engaged In Occupation Are Given Assurance,

AXIS NATIONS PREPARE FOR « AFR. SETBACK   Warn Their People OF: Possible. - titles aoe 2 Tuniéian Defeat’

Axis Prepares To Admit Full Africa Defeat   Swiss Reports Say Italy Papers Are Protesting, See Fate In Balance   SEA FIGHT LOOMS   Paris Radio Cites Navy Move By 6Gritish To Pre.  vent Evacuation

AXIS NEWSPAPERS PREPARE PEOPLE FOR TUNIS DEFEAT   Propaganda Ministries Order ~~ -Bessimistic-Note on Af-" rican Reports.

AXIS. NEWSPAPERS PREPARE READERS FOR TUNISIAN LOSS   Great Naval Battle May Be In The Making To Prevent Nazi Evacuation

NEW CONJECTURE   Unidentified Democrat Sees Possibility to Break Precedent

Roosevelt May Run, Resign and Head Peace Group   New Suygestion Made at Capital

PRESIDENT MIGHT RUN, THEN RESIGK   At War's End Ue Could Head U. S. Peace Delegation

Sees F.D.R. Running Again, Resigning at End of War To Head Peace Delegation

“Lyman Silent On Action OF 12 Apostles   Precept Violation Charged in Sioned Statement

Mormons Oust  One Of Leaders   Excommunicated For Violating Laws

TRUMAN GROUP TO PROBE WAR PLANE CRASHES   Investigating Loss of Military Planes   AIRPORTS BUILT   On Foreign Soil Also Subject To .  £Inauiry so

Truman Group to Probe Army Air Crashes  Investigate Reports   Investigate Reports  That U. S. Airports Built Overseas Will  Re Given Lin After Wa:

Lion Hunt in Kansas City Boarding House Gets Off to Futile Beginning

Lion To Get a Mickev   Other Efforts To Entice Him Out of Cellar in Kansas City Home Futile - - So He’s To Get Knockout Drops

Trap Closing On Gere mans At Naples. Bitter Hand-To-Hand Fighting For Peaks As Americans Batter Way Forward.

SUDDEN 22-MILE ADVANCE BY THE EIGHTH ARMY   Naples Trap Is Closing On Defending Germans

Resigns in ~ Row Over Hospital   St, Joseph Superintendent Quits After Charging Political Interference   GOVERNOR MAKING STUDY OF CHARGES   Stewart Says He Welcomes Probe; St. Joe Paper Calls for Grand” “Tury Inquiry

Schrader Resigns From Job at No. 2   Superintendent Had Made Charges Hospital Run by Politicians.

MOVE Is WELCOMED BY  ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, AID TO UNITED NATIONS’ \ ~ DETERMINE AFTER-WAR

ITALY'S HELP WILL AFFEGT HER FATE AT PEAGE TABLE   Allied Nations By No Means Erasing Past Action of Ey.enemy.

AIO TO ALLIES TO DETERMINE ITALY'S TERMS   Italians Must Prove Selves In Future, Is Substance Of Allied Reaction

Italy Must Provide Aid To Allies   Declaration , Welcomed by Allied Statement

Nazi Munitions Ship Explodes in Oslo Harbor   Germans Declare “Pure Accident”

Oslo Rocked By Explosion   German Munitions Ship In Harbor Blows Up; Casualties Are Numerous

Munitions Blast Sets Oslo Afire   Germans Declare Explosion Accident

NAZI VESSEL BLOWS UP IN OSLO HARBOR   Worst Catastrophe in History o! Norwegian Capital But Toll of Life Called Slight.

OSLO SHAKEN BY MUNITION BLAST   Nazi Ship "Explodes, Shells Thrown Into City

Oslo Set Afire By Explosion:   Nazi Munitions Ship Biows Up in Port

Oslo Rocks As Ship Explodes   Nazi Munitions Vessel ‘Ts Lost In Harbor, With Many Gasualties

Nazi Munitions Ship Blows Up In Oslo Harbor   Initial Explosion Occurred While Ship Being Unloaded.

OSLO 1S ROCKED BY POWDER BLAST   Many Buildings Blown Down; Fires Rage; Ac. cident

Oslo Shaken By Exploding German Vessel   Ammunition Thrown Into City as Nazi Munitions Blow Up

OSLO SHAKEN BY EXPLOSION   Norwegian Capital Thrown Into Uproar As Munition Ship Blows Up

Oslo Shaken by Giant  Explosions   Munitions Ship Blows Up in Norwegian Harbor, Nazis Claim Explosion ‘Accident’

OSLO SHAKEN BY EXPLOSION NAZI MUNITION SHIP   Windows Smashed All Over Town and Great Numbers of People Waunded

Expleding Ammunition  Bombards City of Osle   Ship in Harbor Blows Up, * Setting Fire to Norwegian Canital’s Port Facilities

HUGE AERIAL FORCES BLAST JAP POSITIONS   U. S. airmen in heaviest assault so far over New Guinea

BOMBERS RAZE TARGET REGION   Heaviest Single Air Attack in New Guinea Area Disclosed

KENNEY TAKES CHARGE. OF AlR FIGHT ON JAP   Allied Air Force Chief Goes to New Guinea on Return from U. S.   JAPS LOSE 90 PLANES IN THREE-DAY BATTLE

27 FATALLY HURT INRAILWAY WRECK      Seventeen Victims of the ; Crash Have Been : Identified

Death Toll 27 In Train Wreck. Probes Start   Only 17 Identified; 56 of 150 Injured Remain in Hospitals

GAOULINE USERS FAGE NEW ATTACK   Only Signed Ccupons to Be Accepted

Germans Resisting Allied Charge For Conquest Of Rome   Hope Of Quick Victory Fades; Montgomery's Army Makes Lone Advance; May Take Up Winter Stand In Mountainous Sector

Demand Probe Of Butter Rationing  State Seeks Survey Of Situation

Agriculture Board Asks Congressional Probe of Butter Ration Points

Yanks to Bomb Japan Again ‘Soon’; Doolittle Wants to Be on Next Raid

GEN, DOOLITTLE PREDICTS MORE TOKYO ATTAGKS   Wants To Take Part In Next Raid On Japan

American Flier Says Tokyo Threat Spurs ‘Revenge’ » Rather Than Intimidates Airmen In U.S. Ranks

Gen. Doolittle Pledges More JapBombings   We Will Attack Again Soon’ Asserts Tokyo Raid Leader

Yank Fliers Scorn Threats, Plan Raid   Doolittle Says Raid On Tokyo Due ‘Soon; Daylight Raids On Europe Continue

Bombs Will Find Their Tar gets ‘Soon,’ Says Gen.  Doolittle,   FLIERS ARE UNDAUNTED

Bombing of Tokyo Is Yank Ambition Now Say Fliers Who Already Have Met Japs

WANTS 10 BE IN ON NEXT RAID ON ISLE   General Says Foe Will Be Hit Until He Begs For Mercy

U.S. Fliers, Undaunted By Jap Threats, To Strike At Japan’s Heart, Says Doolittle

Doolittle’s Note To Tokyo:  ‘We'll Be There Again; _ They'll Beg For Mercy!   Flight Leader Hints -Hirohito’s Palace Wi Make A Swell Target; ‘Our Bombs Will Not Be Missing Their Mark’

Jimmy Doolittle Says Yanks Will Attack Japan Again, All Fliers Want To Go Back

Doolittle Is Undaunted By Tokyo Threat   Flier Who Led First American Raid on Japanese  Cities Will Go Back   WILL FIND TARGETS

Yanks To Strike Hard—Doolittl  Undaunted By Threats Thevw'll Hit lanan

FLIERS EAGER TO HIT TOKYO AGAIN   Doolittle Says “‘Boys’* Are Undatinted By Jap Death Threats

FLOOD CRISIS IS OVER IN NORTH STATES      Southern Area Still in Grave Danger, However

FLOOD CREST NOW DROPPING IN NORTH CENTRAL SECTION   Thousands Of Victims Are - Returning To Homes— ' Damage Continues In South

Flood Victims Straggle Back To Their Homes      Danger Past In North Vicinity Except In Two Critical Zones

LEVEES COLLAPSE AS FLOOD WATERS MOVE SOUTHWARD   Crest Spills Over Dozen Bar. riers Protecting Farmlands of Missouri.

‘Martin Says Teachers’ Salary Increase Bill Needs Change:   Lower Bracket Incomes Will Get Pay Boosts Up To $300 —Governor Foresees New Tax Cuts _

LEGION COMMANDER LAMBASTS STRIKERS   Soldier Would Be in Front Of Firing Squad, He Says

Bombings Alter Berlin’s Slogan.         Raiders Wreei Italy’s Railway

COMMANDOS OF BRITAIN MAKE NORWAY RAID   Called “Very Successful” with Heavily-Mined Coast Area Penetrated by Troops

U.S. Air Force Man Finds His Way Back to American Troops Through Axis Lines

(ANK GUNNER BAILS OUT; LOST 15 DAYS IN SICILY   Former Ohio Farm Boy Found Friendly Natives Who Helped Him Return fo American Lines

‘Yank Who Bailed Out Behind Axis Lines Is Aided by Sicilians In Long Trek to Safety

U.S. Bombers Pulverize Italian Port   300 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Two Tarcets

Big Oil And Naval Port Pulverized   100 Fortresses And 40 Liberator Planes Take Part.

Invasion-Jittery Italy Smacked hy Flying Forts   Big Oil and Naval Port of Leghorn Is Pulverixed by 100 American Planes

U.S. Bombers Pulverize Italian Port  300 Tons of Bombs  Rem —   300 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Two Targets

WAR OUTPUT LAG PUT 10 CHURCHES   WPB Says Religious Groups Agree to Campaign for Goals 

Churches To Issue Stay-On-Job Plee  WL Asking Religiou:  Leaders’ Help

POUR OUT DOLLARS TO FIGHT THE AXIS   Local, Bond Sale Drive Is Now Up to Total of ; © $312,056.75

POUR OUT DOLLARS TO FIGHT THE AXIS   Local, Bond Sale Drive I: Now Up to Total of $312,056.75  WOMEN DO BIG SHARE

PLANE BUILDING TIME DECREASEL   Engineers Cut Time Required To Turn Out Medium Bombers From 70,000 to 13,000 Man-Hours

WORK SPEEDED UP ON BOMBERS   Production Time Reduce. ed From 70,000 to 13,000 Man Hours

PRODUCTION SPEED IS TOLD TO SENATE   Remarkable Strides Re ported in Building of Bombers

PRODUCTION IS BEING SPEEDED   Army Officer Says Industry Has Made Remarkable Strides

Expert Defend: Big Army Goal  Says Speeding Up Plants   Says Speeding Up Plant: Need Fewer Workers

Main State Roads Open   High Winds Subside; Weather Man Still Forecasts Continued Cold

MOTORIST FACING LOSS RATION CARDS§   Heating Oil for Non-Residential Establishments Cut 45%; Must Curtail Operations:

Driving Of Cars To Amusement  Places And Social Calls Banned   Recreation, Sightseeing, Vacation Tours Out; Can Drive Automobiles To Church Services

Essential Gas  Use Explained   Social, Amusement,.Travel ‘And Sightseeing Trips —o*: Ended-In Area —

PERMITTED USE OF CARS STATEL   O.P.M. ‘Says It Is All Right to Go to Church or Shopping.

Captured German Plane Now At Wright Field As Strange Episode Ends

\Discouraged Nazi Flier Gives Up “Best” ‘iPlane And Himself To Allied Air Force

German Bomber, Turned Over to Allies By Disausted Pilot, Studied by Yanks

Nazi Flier Lands Plane At British Airfield On The Island of Cyprus

JAPAN MASSES 200,000 MEN, Ble AIR FORCE  Australia   ALLIES DESTROY 52 PLANES IN ONE DAY

Japanese Mass Troops, Planes   But Guinea Attack Costs Them 37 Craft

ALLIES BAG 52 ENEMY PLANES IN ISLAND ARG   Failure Of Attack On Uew Guinea Blunts Jap Offensive

Japs Gambling For Air Mastery In South Pacific   . Aerial Offensive. = ~ Costs Enemy $2, ~ Planes In Single Day

Japs Massing 200,000 Men At ‘Fringe’   Enemy Gambling For Mastery of Sky. Says Blamey

Japs Massing 200,000 Men, Says Blamey   Lost 52 Planes Monday In Gamble for Air Superiority

Russians Repulse German Attack in Leningrad Secto   Black Sea-Caucasus Front Reported Stirring Once More

Reds Repulse Nazi Leningrad Thrusts as Germans Report Activity in Caucasus

RUSSIANS WIPE OUT ATTACKERS   Caucasus Front Erupting Again, German Radio Hints

Russian Artillery  Knocks Out  Company of Nazis Nazis Suggest Front  On Black Sea Stirring Once More

48-HOUR WEEK IS EXTENDED T0 31 NEW AREAS   Decree Applies To Al Sections Of Country Where Shortage Of  Labor Exists

Order 48-Hour Weel  For Many Sections  Affects All Areas Short of Labor

48-Hour Week Is Decreed  in Butte Area  WMC Orders Longe Work Week ~ by November 15

30 AREAS GET 48-HOUR WEEK   WMC Extends Program of Longer Working Time To New Districts

ae I SENT ' 0 WAR BY FOR   Abproves Bill Making Huge Stockpile Available for. Production

U.S. Bombers Blast Nazi Supply Lines Through Brenner Pass, Alllies Also Pound Foe On Italian, Soviet Fronts

Nazi Supply Line In Brenner Pass Cut by Bombers   Lull in Italy Broken; Allied Armies Push Forward; Russians Check  Germans Advance West of Kiev -

Better Weather Helps Allied Forces Resume Advance On Italian Front

Drive Nazis Back on 15 Mile Front   German Bombers Make De structive Raid On Adriatic Seaport

Soviets Pour Through Nazi  Line at Gomel   U. S. Heavy. Bombers Plaster Bremen; italian Front Erupts in New Offensive

Last Night's Raid 3 May Have Equalled Mondays Attack %   Friday's Formations Of U. S. Bombers Were Largest Yet

RAF Over Berlin After 1,000 U.S.  Planes Hit Bremen   ‘Russians Surge  Through Gap At -Gomel; 8th Army folds Bridaehead

FIFTH SUCCESSIVE RAID 1S STAGED ON GERMAN CAPITAL  REPORTS OF UNBROKE} erpire ne ATEIrcn cir.   REPORTS OF UNBROKEN SERIES OF ALLIED SUCCESSES POURING IN

Fleet Now Counts 817 F ighting Ship cluding More Than 40 Aircraft. Cc riers—Portugal’s Premier Waving Between Neutrality, Belligerene

oth Heavy — Air Aitack: ~ On Berlin   Stuttgart. Also Bombed.Following Great American ~ . Attack on Bremen   ALLIED SUCCESSES ~ ON OTHER FRONTS   But Air Offensive Maintains. Pace Overshadowing... . Other. War Actions

REDS DRIVE ON TOWARD BORDER   Allied Advances in Italy Again Slowed by Mud

UN Successes Reported on All War Fronts   Berlin Bombed for Fifth Consecutive  Night; 32 Bombers Lost by RAF and) RCAF; Red Army Rushes Toward  Dolich Rarder

Russian Forces Pour Through Gap [In German Lines   Chinese Troops Surround 100,000 Jap: in Hunan Province; Stuttgart Bombed 

REPORTS OF UNBROKEN ‘SERIE S (OF ALLIED SUCCESSES POUR IN FROM WAR FRONTS = /    Russians Pour Through Gaps in German Lines in White Russia Toward Polish Border. Bayonet Wielding Chinese Forces Surround 100,000 Japs  In Chinese Rice Bowl

Chinese Pursue  Beaten Japanese  Advance 13 Miles North of Changteh

Assembly Opens oixth Week   Better Record Of 1941 State Legislature

ASSEMBLY IS MAKING TIME   Sets Several Records Over 1941 Schedule in Busy Session.

Point Rationing  Is Primarily  Woman’s Concern Some of Changes      Some of Changes  Are Here Defined

Point Rationing, Effective Soon, Will Revolutionize Nation’s Buyng Habits

SOLONS BATTLE FORCED SAYING   VINSON URGES LEVIES WITHOUT LATER CREDIT

ANTI-HITLER MOVE HINTED WN LETTER   Netherlands Authorities Believe Letter Authentic from “German Official in Prussia

Sgt. Schweinsberg Wounded In Africa   Adams Street Soldier Reported Badly Wounded Fighting Against Axis

2 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK OFF DUTCH COAST: FOUR HIT   One Driven Ablaze Onto Beach While Three Are Brought to Stand ' still by British   RAILWAYS, AIRPORTS IN FRANCE POUNDED   U. S. Airforce [In Britain “Definitely Set for Great ~ New Flow of Planes,” Says Air Chief   London, June 28 (7)—~A large force of. United States heavy bombers attacked targets in France fate todar.

AIRPORTS, VITAL FRENCH RAILWAY BASES BOMBED   Other Nazi Ship Beached; Germany  Missed In Raids

Axis Convoy ‘Off Dutch Coast Is Hit By RAF   Two Ships Sunk, One Driven Ashore And Three More Brought To A Standstill

ALLIED BOMBERS HEAD TOWARDS FRANCE TODAY   Two German Ships Sunk and Another Forced Aground

Bombs Sink Two Enemy Cargo Ships   French Railway Lines Also Hit In New Attacks

British state Gandhi's fast  his own risk   Fears mount as condition srows worse

GANDHI NEARS DANGER STAGE   British Government Says Hunger Strike Responsibility Up To Leader

Gandhi Can Starve, If He Elects   British Government Won't Interfere With His Fun .

Britain Places Blame on Gandhi   Says His Condition Is Grave and He Alone Is Responsible

Heavy Damage To Messina  Ténkhae OCeeexe   Italian Ferry Junction Rombed

AGREE TO WORK 30 DAYS UNDER PRESENT PACT   Set up Provision That Any Gains Be Retroactive

Miners Offer An Extension   To Work After April 1 Provided Agreement Is Made Retroactive

‘UMW Offers Northern Operators Agreement to ‘Continue Work If Pay Raises Are Retroactive

MINERS OFFER TIME LIMIT ON NEGOTIATIONS    Agree To Continue Operations  For 30 Days Under Present Contract   PRESIDENT  INTERVENES   Orders No Work Stoppage; WLB Refuses To Alter Wage Formula Plan

INERS SEEK TIME LIMIT ON WAGE PARLEYS   Offer Operators Agreement to Continue Production - For Thirty Days After Contract Expires   COUNTERS MOVE BY: PRES. ROOSEVELT   Executive’s Request For Continuation of Conferences Placed No Deadline For Agreement

Lewis Offers Delay In Wage Settlement   Offer to Mine Owners Follows Government’s Insistence That Pits Continue To Produce

TWO WARNINGS ARE GIVEN TO JOHN L. LEWIS   Roosevelt Says Mine Dispute Must Be Handled Like Any Other

Will Work» for 30 Days  ~ After April 1,‘ Conditionally,  SAY WAGE BOOST  TA pr DETDNATIVE

Again Offer Agreement  Of Miners   Renewal To Appalachian Group Is Said Result Of Telegram From FDR

UMW Plan Again Giver Operators   30-Day Extension Of Pact Requested As FDR Steps In

LEWIS SAYS “NO RETREAT   Labor Board Refuses to Crack “Little Steel” Formula

Every Citizen Called In Buying War Bonds  ee ee, ee ee ee eee ee ee ee ee, ee, .

Every Citizen Called In. Buying War Bonds  “RUG See “Gieree Weee tee come foros, ieee Sel oe oe sea

COMMENTS VARY ON CONFERENCE   Hull Declares Meeting Was Wise And Timely, Others Dubious

Aircraft Men. Ask for Labor to Hike Output   Senator Wheeler Pledges 4Hour Speeches in Renouncing Father Draft in Senate

Manpower Problems Give — Administration Headache   Wheeler To Continue Fight Against Drafting Fathers

WHEELER PUSHES DAD DRAFT FIGHT   Montana Senator Threat. ens Two More Prolonged Speeches

FATHER-DRAFT ROW WON'T BE EASED UP   Wheeler Serves Notice He Will Continue Fight

NCORD LIONS SPONSOR SCOUT CUB PACK      Wolf Badges Presentec Lads at Meeting in Bulk- eley School

Rain Floods Enid Streels   Downpour Totals 2.67 Inches, But No Serious Damage Resulted

EXTENSION SEEN   Further Restrictions Loom On Gasoline For U. S.

Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Widenet   Restrictions Due For Entire Nation

Gas Ration Cut Expected Soon   Official Hints Action for Entire Nation

MINERS’ STRIKE HARD BLOW T0 HOME OWNERS   Suffering Threatened; Steel Industry Fuel Low

SHORTAGE CATEGORY OF LABOR IS GIVEN RESHUFFLING TODAY   Classifications in Certain Areas Are Changed by Manpower Commis . cls

Tenn Wreck iniures 75    Internment it of. Ernest Fischer Told on “War. Correspondent” ce ESDAY, 6:30 P. M., WOA!

Internment: of. Ernest. Fischer noe Told: on “War: Correspondent”.  TUESDAY, 6:30 P. M., ‘WOA

Today's War Commentary  Jap Air Fleet  Production Not Keeping Up With Losse

Allies Push Forward in Sicily Drive   Sweden Reported to Have Taken Anti-Nazi Step —Ask Oretans’ Aid

ALLIES CALL ON CRETANS TO RE READY   Unrest Spreads, Guerillas Fight In Balkan Area

People Of Crete Are Asked To Aid Italian Soldiers   Allied Command Tells: Cretans To Await Signal For General Uprising When Invasion Farces _Land For Attack On European Fort From Southeast

People Warned To Await Signal For Big Uprising   Guerilla Fighting In  Balkans, Italo-Nazi Clashes Are Reported

NAZIS AIMING TO TAKE OVER FASCIST FLEE]   Peace Demonstrations Continue In All Major Cities Including Rome.   BULLETIN

AID ITALIANS, ALLIES URGE POPULATION   Unrest Spreads Across Italy

Germans Already Have Taken Over ~ 15 Italian U-Boats; Report Slovene Guerillas Now 30 Miles Inside Italy

ALLIES GALLON GRETANS 10 AID ITALIAN REVOLT  Invasion Coming Soon,   Invasion Coming Soon, Leaflets Tell Populace   STRIFE SPREADING IN BALKANS AND ITALY

10 KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER   Plane on Routine Flight Falls in New Mexico—Ozark, Mo., Man One of Victims.

MANY PARTICIPATE IN'ANNUAL EVENT   Merchants and Window Shoppers Pleased With Spring Show      THOUSANDS ON STREET

Shoppers Pleased Wi  Merchants and inde t ' Spring Show   \THOUSANDS ON STREET

Silo Filling Time Is Here....  A & M Specialist Gives Helpful Information

Russians Close Pincers Tighter on Orel; Report 50,000 Germans Slair

SOVIETS CRASH FORTRESS LINK GUARDING CITY   RED ARMIES STORM APPROACHES TO KEY GERMAN STRONGHOLD

Russ Spear Heads Converge on Orel   Crash Thru Strong Point of City’s Northern — Defenses  }   NAZI LOSSES AREHEAVY   Germans Say Red Attacks _ Are Extended: to New . Parts of Front. -

COUPON BANKING WILL BE STARTED TOMORROW   Local Banks Will Assume Duties Of Detailed “Paper Work’— Will Not Affect Consumers

Soviets Gain Nev Ground in Rush Into Orel Area   Repulse 11 Nazi Counterattacks With Heavy Enemy Losses

Soviet army crushes German reserves at Orel; gain on city   Russians repel 11 counterattacks with heavy losses to enemy force

SOVIET ARMY DRIVES AHEAD IN OREL AREA   Reds Make Gains of 6 to 10 Miles; German Plight Desperate

Russians Gain 6 to 10 Miles As Nazis Call  On Reserves   11 Nazi Counter-Attacks Repulsed and Losses For Germans Mount  In Men. Tanks. Planes   Yor Germans Nount In Men, Tanks, Planes  PLIGHT OF OREL CALLED DESPERATE  “Taxicab Army’ Used By Nazis Rushing Men  Vactwarr tn Kenawmeé

OREL DOOMED: REDS ADVANCE ON VITAL CITY   GERMAN RESERVES CRUSHED; STALIN VISITS FRONT

Reds Thwart Furious Nazi Attack   Enemy Loss Continues To Swell: Great Defeat Mav Result

Germans Repulsed With Heavy Losses, Dis. patches Say  FRONT IS VISITED BY JOSEPH STALIN  Six to Ten Miles Added to Gains of the Soviets

AGAINST NAZIS IN OREL SECTOF   Gains Of From Six To Ten Miles Made Through Re serves On Vital Bastion   ACTION DIES DOWN AROUND BELGOROD

Soviets Score Six to Ten Mile Advance   11 Counter-Attacks by Germans Are Beaten Back

REDS SMASH NEW GERMAN RESERVES LINE   Advance Six To Ten Miles Or Orel, Repel 11 Counter Attacks With Concentrated   15 Miles From City

Soviets Score Six to Ten — Mile Advance   ll Counter-Attacks  by Germans Bea Rarntanv Rael

Russian Troops Repulse German Counterattacks, Advance on Orel   Reds Smash Through New Nazi Reserves Being Pushed fo Front in Every Type Vehicle

PLAUES ALLIS ONLY 412 MILES FROM PORT CITY  Second Expedition Seizes To epecpecee Lelhaewd «nf Deaeaea   Second Expedition Seizes Larger Island of Ponza, 65 Miles Northwest of Metropolis   BATTLE FOR SALERNO 1S VIRTUALLY ENDED   Germans Pulling Qut From South Where YanksBritish Knife 11 Mites Infand

Daring Coup Seen  As F lanking Threat To Big Italian Port   Salerno Battle Claimed Virtually .-inded As Nazis Flee From Traps. Report Germans Occupy Elba

BATTERED BY AIRMEN   Mass Bombing Tactics Seek To Wipe Out Italian City

5th and 8th Armies Act.  As One Unit   Continuing Pressure Is Too Great for Embat tled Nazi Armies

Lipari And Stromboli Isles Give Up Without A Fight   Main Islands Of Aeolian Group Now Placa Allies In Control Of Vital Bases

ENTIRE AEOLIAN GROUP NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIED FORCES  ITALIAN CITY OF FOGGIA HEAVILY ATTACKED RV DAY AND NIGHT

Nazi Pull Back North:   Allies Take Two Islands In Naples Bay, Set For Big Battle There

slands Near Italy's Second Port Captured   Germans Withdraw From Salerno In Face Of Clark Offensive

“WESSINA NOW ~INULS. HANDS   Lipari and Stromboli In Tyrrhenian Sea Surrender to Naval Force

Galbraith Quits Post With CPA   Action Expected To Salve Business W oun!

RESIGNATION OF GALBRAITH HELD HELPFUL TO OPA   Favorable Comments Are Made Over the Withdrawal of Deputy Ad ministrator.

Position In OPA Given Up  By Galbraith   Deputy Administrator's Resignation Expected To Quiet Criticism Of OPA's Operations

GALBRAITH OUT OF OPA SETUP; MOVE TO QUIET CRITICISM   Price Chief's Resignation Climaxes Feud With Lou Maxon

Jap Torpedo Planes Fail to Damage U. S. Task Force Off Marshalls

REPUBLIGANS AT CONFERENCE  SAY POST-WAR PLAN LACKING   DEWEY TAKING LEADING ROLE ——“YN APPACKS ON ADMINIS--—[TRATION POLICIES IN  . COLUMBUS

DEWEY TAKES LEAD AT MEET OF GOVERNORS   New York man charges that President has no post-war plan

ALLIED PLANS DISARRANGED BY REVERSES   German Tanks Slash At U. S. Rearguard While New Defense Line Is Prepared   3 Fields Evacuated

U.S. FORCES HURLED BACK AFTER ATTACK   Battle Of Armored Columns Rage All Day In Area West Of Faid Pass.

NEW 18-MILE THRUST MADE BY AXIS; YANKS GIVE UP 3 AIRFIELDS   er EEE EEE oOo  Fierce Armored Battles Continue te Rage After Smashing of American Counterattack at Sidi Bouzid

Nazis Gain 35 Miles AgainstU.S   Three-Day Drive By Rommel Hurts Allied Program

Nazi Gain Perils Flank of British   18-Mile Thrust Is Scored By Axis After Yank’ Attack Smanghed

Rommel’s Tank Forces Push Ahead 18 Miles For 35 in Three Days  U.S. CASUALTIES ADMITTED HEAVY  Rommel’s Aim May Be  To Destroy Supplies; Allied Plans Unset

Rommel Pushes Americans Back   “18- Mile Thrust Is ‘Made By Veterans

Thirty-five Mile Advance by Nazis in Three Pays . Reported   BRITISH NEARING THE MARETH LINE   American. Casualties. in Engagements Report: ed Heayy

Enemy posts fresh gains of 18 miles   Report American casualties heavy

AMERICANS PUSHED BACK IN TUNISIA   Yank Counter - Attack Stopped by Rommel’s Forces, Who Plunge Forward 18 Miles.   U. S. CASUALTIES ADMITTEDLY HEAVY   Fighting Continues Into Night With Hisenhower’s Rearguard Trying to Halt Nazis.

AMERICANS ABANDON THREE OF ITS ADVANCED AIR BASES LEAVING FUEL, RATIONS AND SOME PLANES  BEHIND.

NET ADVANCE OF 35 MILES MADE BY AXIS   GEN. ROMMEL HITS HARD WITH HEAVY ARMORED UNITS

Germans Gain 35 Miles in i Three Days  Se,   Allies Report That Three Advance Bases Abandoned

Tank Thrust: Forces Yanks  Back 35 Miles   Americans Evacuate Three Advance Air Bases jn Retreat

Remnants of Goering Division Holding  Well Entrenched Positions in Sicily

Nazis Hamper  U.S. Pursuit   Hold Advantageous Positions In Hills Of Northern Sicily   ARTILLERY HOLDS UP ROAD REPAIRS

Normandie [s Being Righted   Huge Former French Luxury Liner Lifted From Muddy River Bottom  ve a ea rece ME OPAMP COU MA HA   WORLD'S GREATEST FEAT OF ITS KIND

WLB Refuses To Permit Revision Upward Of “Little Steel” Wage  Formula.

FDR Asks Coal Groups To Extend Contracts   Would Afford Opportunity For Adjusting Wage Scale Dispute.

Germans Making An AllOut Drive To Prevent A Break-Through By Allies.

SQUEEZE PLAY ON TUNIS AND BIZERTE   Allies Not Over 40 Miles From Coéast Cities  Anywhere

Gain Four Miles in Their Drive Toward Mateur.  ALLIES WITHIN 25 MILES OF TUNIS  No Indication Where Nazis Will Make New Stand.

Red Armies Smash at Sagging Germans  After Taking Kursk   Nazi Army Destroyed in Capture of Germans’ Anchor Point

Smashing of Hamburg Is War's First Example of Complete ‘Use of Airpower Against Enemy   Fortuitous Circumstances Make Attack First Successful Strategic Bombing Operation and Not One of Terror or Laboratory Test

Power of Air “War Proven By *Hamburg Raids   First Completely Successful Air Operation —

Hamburg Raids Set Pattern For New Blows   Experts See First Example of Full Use of Air Power

Hamburg Raids Set Pattern for Future Attacks   Precision Bombing And Night Area Raids Teamed to Perfection  To Wipe Out Key City

Hamburg Sets Allied Pattern   Use Of Full Power In Air Exhibited  Wer USTTTTARL FT ERYVE

Smashing of Hamburg, War's First Example of Complete Air Attacks

NEW MILITARY RAID PATTERN HITS HAMBURG   Complete Annihilation Of Submarine Port Was Objective Of Allies   Repairs Are Blocked

‘Smashing Of Hamburg Not - "Terror'' Operation, Instead  Was Simple Laboratory Test   Ruthless Destruction Of Residential Quarters Anc Industries Is An Integral Part Of The Military Attack

GERMAN CITIES QUE FOR BLITZ   Hamburg Attack Shows What Air Power Can Do Alone

See ° am ure  Raics * ‘irs : “es: ut > Sor). e-e se 0: Air? ower Anc 2a-ern-or . ew Assau_-s

PROPOSED MINING BILL 1S OPPOSED   Provisions for ‘Excessive’ Authority for State Mines Chief Should Be Eliminated, UMW Spokesman Asserts

OPPOSITION 10 PROPOSED MINE LAWS IS HEARD   UMW Spokesman States Revised Measures Gives Chief Too Much Power   Sullivan Gives Views

BOARDS GET MORE DEFERMENT POWER   Selective Service Gives Local Draft Boards Authority to Defer More Farmers

LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS GRANTED AUTHORITY   To Permit Deferment of Agricultural Workers

Grumbling Texans Stock Up On Gasoline ‘As Cut In Rations Is Effective Monday

United Tax Plan Wins First Test On House Floo1   With United Republican Backing Donnell’s System Approved.   Democrats Promise  A Prolonged Battle

Dorneil Tax Pian Wins First Test   One of Bills Providing for Consolidation Is -Perfected in. House   MOST DEMOCRATS » REMAIN SILENT   Merit, Plan Amendment May Be Offered, Caus-. ing Biggest Scrap

-Donnell’s Tax Program Over oln First Test   Democrats Sit Quietly Through Preliminary Maneuvering

Set Price Ceilings   Simplified Tops For Butter, Cheese, Poultry

CavurcaeS   - Methodist Church E. LEROY PULLMAN, Ministe   United Brethren G. M. TALBOPT., Pastor

Methodist Church 3. LEROY PULLMAN, . Ministe   United Brethren M. ‘TALBOTT, Pastor

Methodist Church 2, LEROY PULLMAN, Minister   United Brethren G. M. TALEOTT, Pastor

_ AT THE  URCHES   _ Methodist Church _ E. LEROY PULLMAN, Minister

CuurcHeS   Methodist Church ; E, LEROY PULLMAN, Minister   United Brethren G. M. TALBOTT, Pastor

Cau  T THE  RCHES   Methodist Church E. LEROY PULLMAN, Ministes   United Brethren G. M. TALBOTT, Pastor

Bin of Attacks OnNazisin — France Reported   Police Attempting to  Round Up 400,000   NAP Lae Ene Carman

FRENCH RIOTERS SHOOT 23 NAZIS   Unrest Sweeping Nation Workers Object To Hitler Edicts

‘Unrest In France Brings Battle In Streets Of Paris   Nazis, Demands For Labor Resented; 23 Germans Slain By. ‘Guenitles “At lille.

French Patriots Battle Germans  Guerrillas, Sentrias   Guerrillas, Sentries Clash in Paris

PARIS STREET FIGHTS WITH NAZIS REPORTED   Four Attacks Made On GermanOccupied Buildings In Past $ Days; 1,500 Italians Kilied

Rioting Marks Labor Roundup In French Cities   400,000 Listed For Nazi Plants

Wave of Attacks On Nazis in France Reported  Police Attempting to Round Up 400,000 Workers for Germany

FRENCH FIGHT NAZIS IN PARIS   German Sentries and Patriots Battle in Streets; 23 Slain at Lille

300 Bombers Blast Both Sides of Brenner Pass Supply Route To Italy

NAZIS’ SUPPLY TRAIL IS BOMBED BY GREAT FORCH   300 Allied Planes Rip Vita Rall Center In Biggest Attack.

MAIN CONTROL POINTS MESSED UP DECISIVEL)   Meanwhile Allied Forces in Italian Land Fighting Make New Progress Toward Rome

NAZI SUPPLY “LINE 10 ITALY ~ KNOCKED OUT   Vital Railroad Linking Germany With Battle Front Disrupted by Bombers.

OFFENSIVE IS STEPPED UP IN ITALY   Nazi Brenner Pass Supply Route Is Heavily Bombed

300 ALLIED BOMBERS HIT SUPPLY PASS   ‘Stunning Blows’ Against Route to Italy Are Made

JAPANESE BASE LEFT IN RUINS   Australians and Dutch Play Part In Great Allied Air Sweep

Allied Bomber Attack Destroys Jan-Held Town   Dobo in Aroe Isles Is Left in Flames By Aerial Raiders   HIT OTHER AREAS   Situation in Solomons Remains Unchanged Washington Reports

Jap-reid Dono Is Smashed By Allied Bombers   Town Is Left In Ruins And Other « Arage Hard Hit

Jap-Held:Dobo Is Smashed By Allied Bombers   ‘Town: Is Left In Ruins And Other > Areae Hard Mit

Churchill s Silent About Charges Made   Refuses to Reply to Statements Made by Touring Senators

CHURCHILL NOT TO MAKEREPLY U.S. SENATORS   Tells Commons Statement Being Prepared For Purpose of Record Or Publication

CHURCHILL REFUSES MAKE REPLY REMARK OF U. §. SENATORS  STATEMENT OF FACTS,

“WORDY WARFARE” NOT FOR CHURCHILL   Tells Parliament Talk of Senators Has Been Exaggerated   ARMIES ARE IN BATTLE

“WORDY WARFARE” NOT FOR CHURCHILL   Tells Parliament Talk of Senators Has Been Exaggerated

No Churehill reply ToU.S   Prime Minister Refuses To Answers Criticism Made By Senators.

Churchill Won't Reply ‘To Criticism Of Senators   Says Best Example Of ee Is Performance OFULS. And British aa In aly

Churchill Spurns Plea To Reply To American Senators’ Criticisms —

CHURCHILL REFUSES REPLY TO SENATORS      Not Reliably Informed of Charges He Says, No Advantage it "Wordy Warfare’

CARIBBEAN ISLAND OCCUPIED BY U.S.   Troops Reported Sent to Base Near French Martinique

ALLIES WIPE OUT JAPS IN BUNA SECTOR   CLOSE IN ON DEFENSES IN SWAMPY AREA FARTHER NORTH ON COAST

GREYHOUND BUS FACING TIE-UP   Breakdown of Negotiations Over Carrying Standees Cause of Worrv

Driver Strike May Tie Up All GreyhoundLine:s   Carrying of Standees Crux of Disagreement And Negotiations Fail

U.S. Program Confronted by Bottlenecks   Actual and Artificial Shortages in Meat, Milk And Poultry Production

Serious Bottlenecks Hampering National Programs For Producing Wartime Meats, Milk, Poultry

Feed Supply Shortages Seen  Poultrymen, Cattle, Hog Feeders Face  wD... L)....

Bottlenecks Threaten War Food Program  Affects Meats, Milk. Poultry

1942 PULITZER PRIZE AWARDS   Award Given Upton sinelair for Novel “Dragen'’s Teeth’—Theornton Wilder's Play “The Skin of Our Tecth”’ Also Wins.

PULTIZER PRIZES SURPRISES   Sinelair’s Novel And Wilder’s Play Honored

Davies Nears  End of Jaunt   Roosevelt's Special Envoy to Moscow Leaves Minneapolis for National Capital

Nazi Force Pulls Qut After Threat  Ot Encirclement   Gallant Outflanking Maneuver Captures the Industrial Center by Storm.   Great Weight of Men Thrown Into the Drive

RUSSIANSSCORE VICTORY AFTER 9-DAY BATTLE   ‘Stalin Terms Assault  Which Drove Enemy Out “A Gallant Outflank ; ing Maneuver”   STORMED UKRAINE CITY AT DAYBREAK   Berlin Announces Other Soviet Columns Had Renewed Attacks on Kerch  and Perekop Isthmus

Russians Move Into Position’ For Drive Into Poland As Key Dnieper River Bastion Is Evacuated by Nazis — Americans Cap.  ’ ture Venafro In Central Italy

Russians Were Poised on City’s Flanks for Weeks   Offensive Started Two Days Ago; Nazi Withdrawal Ordered

Reds Rout - Fourleen _ Divisions   Key Enemy Bastion Smashed in Twin Drive Launched Two Days Ago   CITY EVACUATED, BERLIN REPORTS   Great Russian Triumph One of Biggest of the War So Far

‘Bastion Topples In 2 Days      Germans Evacuate Third Largest City Under Swift Onsleuch

Vital Enemy Resistance Center Falls Before Sudden Flanking Attack.

OLD CAPITAL IS STORMED AT DAYBREAK   Fall of Key Dnieper River Bastion Announced by Stalin—Was Most Strategic Point on Nazis’ Right Fiank.

KIEV FALLS TO RUSSIANS, STALIN SAYS   German Troops Pull Out Ahead Of Red Attack

Triumph Gives Reds Gateway To Poland, Balkans   Stalin Announces Victory In Special Order After Nazi Report Of Withdrawal

Capture Of Capital Of Ukraine Cleare Way To Invasion Route  To Nazi Stronghold

Germans Lose City of Kiev to Red Forces   Next Defense Line on Polish Border, 120 Miles to West

Other Russian Columns Renew Attacks on Both Sides of Kerch Straits

[Gates Opened For Poland, Balkan Drives   Berlin Radio Announces Evacuation of Key City; New Attacks in Crimea

Reds Open Way For A Thrust Into Poland, Balkans   Russians Clear Last Germans From Steppes East Of Dnieper

OUTFLANKING MANEUVER SUCCESSFUL   Germans Say Soviets Renew Drive In Crimea: Last Natural Defense Line Lost To Nazis

GREAT FORTRESS OF DNIEPER RIVER FALLS TO RED ARMY FORCES  WITHDRAWAL INVADERS CAME SOON AFTER SURPRISE ATTACK OPENS

Reds Outflank Enemy Positions   Germans Have No Important Natural Defense Line Between City and Former Polish Border. -Enhances Red Chance To Cut Southern Armies In Two

Nazis Flee City on West BankDnieper   Fall of Citadel Leaves Hitler No Natural Defense Line Shor! o! Polish Border   THREATENSCRIMEA   Russians in South By-Pass Kherson lo Plani Forces Opposite Mouth of Bug River

Germans, Almost Encircled, Pull Out Thru Last _ Opening  BASE FOR NEW DRIVE Stalin Cites Huge Force For         Stalin Cites Huge Force For Special Honors for Victory

Key City Of Kiev Captured By Soviet Forces   German Troops Leave Fortress As Red Columns Draw Near

Capture of Bastion Announced Today by Premier Joe Stalir   Surprise Flanking Maneu. ver Forces Nazi Forces to Flee

Major Bastion In Ukraine District Lost, Nazis Admit   Former Capital Of Russia Had Been Held By Germans Since Three Months After War  Began; Stalin Announces Victory

Soviets Open Way For Push Into Poland   Berlin Says Masses Of Tanks And Infantry Thrown Into Battle; Nazi Lines Wrecked

EVACUATED .   ' Ancient Russian Capitol Falls After Great ‘Holes i; Were Blasted in Nazi

Berlin Admits Move   Maneuver Made To Prevent Encirclement By  Red Armies

Red Army Now 120 Miles From Polish Border As Germans Retreat.   CAPTURED BY STORMING

The key Dnieper River Bastion and Ancient Capital of i*tussians, Fell to Red Columny, Stalin Announced   BLASTED HOLES IN GERMAN POSITIONS   fhe German High Command Announced a Few Hours Previously the Great Fortress Was Evacuated.

Berlin Announces City Is Evacuated Prior To Capture   ‘Proclamation By Stalin Reveals  . Occupation Of Vital Industrial  Center Effected By Reds At Dawn

Stalin Issues Special Order After Two-Day  Russian Drive Successful

Germans, Almost Encircled, Pull Out Thru Last Ing  =—_ 2 zoe Seni a dit a e=——err060U SO TSS! PO   Stalin Cites Huge Force For Special Honors for Victory

Moscow Has Its Greatest Celebration   Nozis Insist Battles at Kerch.and Perekop Intensified

IN A CKASH LANDING    Five Members of Bomber Crew  From Topeka Base Escape Injury

AMA Foresees . Big Increase in Infantile Paralysis  Four States Are -Most Seriously aw Affaecte

Outer Line of Jap Island Defense: Under Land-Air Attack by Allies

PACIFIC DRIVE CARRIED AHEAD   Tokyo Tells of Heavy Allied Raid on Rabaul  By MORRIE LANDSBERG

Coal Mine Dispute Still Unsettled   Lewis Truce Will End Next Tuesdav

Farmers Seeking Loans for Feed, Livestock Here   New Type Loans Are Made Here For Many Production Purposes

CARROLL FARMERS ASK WAR LOANS FOR FEED, LIVESTOCK SAYS ZINN   LOANS ARE MADE BY CO. WAR BOARD TO SPUR FARMERS TO GREATER PRODUCTION

TO EXTEND USE OF SUBS   Germans Report Warfare Will Be Carried on in Qther Seas

REFERENDUM BILL KILLED   Committee Reports Unfavorably On Price Measure.

NAZIS MAKING — LABOR DRIVE   MANY DISTURBANCES AS GERMANS ATTEMPT TO GET FAC‘ TORY WORKERS—GUE- —  ’ RELLAS STTLL * FIGBTING

Gestapo Creates Reign Of Terror At Lyons, France   Nazi Occupation Agents Rounding Up Thousands For Forced Labor In Germany   FRENCH GUERILLAS ARE HOLDING OUT

PATRIOTS HOLD QUT IN FRANCE   Reign Of Terror Launched By German Gestapo

TERROR REIGN BY GESTAPO, LYONS, FRANCE   Capturing workers for slave labor continues in many cities

FORCED LABOR 5 SOUGHT IN FRENCH CITIES   Gestapo Agents Trap Workers For Deportation To Reich Factories   GUERILLAS FIGHT BACK   Ignore Ultimatum To Sype render: Yugoslav Unrest Is Reported

GRAGH OF ARMY GLIDER PROBEL   Five Groups of Official Investigators Study Crash in Which 10 Passengers Drop  “To Death

Five Groups Probe Fatal Glider Crash  St. Louis Tragedy Sun. day Took Ten Lives

GLIDER CARRIES TEN TO DEATH   Ship Loses Wing, Takes Nose-Dive;: Possible Sabotage Checked

COMER SMITH IS FIRST WITNESS   9. C. Attorney Appears Before Tulsa Grand Jury in Initial Session

Smith Will Outline Case   And Guthrie Man Curious About Text: Thrown in River

Report Turkey Will Enter War on Side Of Allies Within Next Three Months   Conferences at Cairo Believed to Have Laid Groundwork for Entry

Nazis Cleared From Donets   Stalino. }aken As Surging Reds Plunge On Westward

ussians Score reat Victory n Donets Front   Famous Steel Area laken by Soviets

Donets Clear, Red Spearhead Slashes. West   Russ Troops Within 100 “Miles of Kiev, Move  Tk .. sig me

‘Russians Take ’ Stalino; Clear Donets Basir   sed Armies Charge Toward Dnieper River, West Of Stalino, Cutting Nazi Lines Of Retreat

Reds Clear Donets Basix Of Invaders   Germans Fall Back Along 600-Mile Front In Russia

Stalino Falls: Reds in Fult Control of Donets   Gains of 2 Years of War With Reds Lost to Germany

Stalino Taken In Advance Of  — Soviet Forces   Germans Cleared From the Donets Basin, Marsha Stalin Announces in Special Order of Day— Germans Admit Loss :

PANTELLERIA TRAPANIGIVEN HEAVY BOMBING   Onslaughts Carried Out From African Bases; Axis Loss Put At 324,000   Yanks Stage Attack

Third of Million Axis Troops Lost In North Africa   Final Figures Show 30,000 Are Killed, 27,000 Wounded

Nazis. Italians  Lose 324,000   Tunisia Battle Costly For Axis; Allies Raid Pantelleria, Trapani

Axis Losses In War Told   Allied Planes Batter Island Of Pantelleria

Axis Gambled Third Of Million Of Best Troops— And Loast—- In Tunisian Campaign

ITALIAN ToLAND BOMBED HEAVILY   Axis Loses Third of a Million Of Best Troops in Vain-Effort to Hold on to Tunisia, Revealed

30,000 of Them Killed; Island of Pantelleria Suffers Worst Bombing

AXIS LOSSES ARE HEAVY IN TUNISIA   324,000 Killed, Wounded or Captured, Late Reports Say

Tunisian Losses Of Axis Nearly Third of Million  italian Istand Gets Its Worst Bombing From U. §. Planes

GERMAN ELITE TROOPS OUSTED   Canadians Root Nazis Out Of Last Footholds In Strategic Ortona

House-io-House Battle Staged  Germans Forced to T aawwea Strangqhaldac

BLOODY ORTONA BATTLE RAGES ON   CANADIANS USING BAYONETS AND GRENADES TO DISLODGE GERMANS.

Canadians Clear Up Last Nazis In Ortona Area   German Elite Troops Make Death’ Stand; Take Few Prisoners

A Slogan to Fight Delingency Given   When the Soldier Boy Is on Leave, the American Girl Is on Duty.

When Seldier On Leave, Girls Are On Duty, Is Proposed New Stogan

Russians Carrying on Immense  New Offensive in Far North To (Reach Baltic, Without Fanfare

Reds Apparently Have Big Norther Drive Under Way  Nazis Report Battles; Land Fighting Still  + -S Be,

Christmas Mail for Army Folk Enroute   Arrangements Made by Post Office Dept. to Handle Requests

Alabama Congressman—  Seeks Death Penalty For Inferior War Production

FAVORS DEATH IN WAR FRAUDS   Hobbs Would Also Provide Heavy Fines For Faulty Material

Death Penalty Sought By Rep. Hobbs In Frauds   Use Of Faulty War Materials Termed “Treason”

AFRIKA KORPS AID 1S SENT   Crack Units Will Face Americans At Faid Pass.

Block Advance - To Coast    Soldiers of British Eighth Army Contact American Unit

GERMAN CRITIC ADMITS SEVERITY ~ OF NAZI DEFEATS   General Oietmar Says People At Home Face Ever © Greater Hardships.

FORT CUSTER  NEGROES HEL   FIVE SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH ‘ATPEMPTING TO TAKE / TRUCKS AND, AMMUNT: +. MIONINTO DETROIT -

Velikie Luki Nazis Die in Vain Fight   Elista, Kalmyk Capital, Seized;  Soviets Advance on - Other Frantic

REDS SEIZE SUPPLIES AT VELIKIE LUKI   Communique Says Large  Nazi Stores Were Taken , After Fall of City — . Campaign Moves Ahead ” ‘BRleewhere.

REPORT ENTIRE GARRISON WIPEL OUT BY TROOPS   Velikie Luki And Elista Taken In New Ground Raid

RUSSIAN ADVANCE TAKES OTHER POINTS   Velikie Luki Garrison Refuses To Surrender And Is Wined Out

Red Troops Enter Velikie Luki, Elista, Cross Terek River   Wipe out German Garrison Forces Which Refuse To Give up Their Positions

Russian Drives Gain  Two Major Objective:     Moscow Claims Velikie Luki And Elista, But Naz High Command Denies Former’s Loss; Many Towns, Rich Booty Fall To Reds

REPORT OF CAPTURE TWO MAJOR SOVIET ~ OBJECTIVES 1S MANE   They Were Velikie Luki, in the North and Kalmyck, in the South.   A LONG BITTER SIEGE   Velie Luki Fortifications -\ @ Slowly Reduced, It Was Announced.

Velikie Luki,  Elista Fall In Big Drive   Claim Entire Garrison  Annihilated In Attack

Red Army Captures Key Cities Elista and Vetikie Luki   Moscow Reports Whole Garrison in Latter  Place Wiped Out

Heavy Bomb Raid  lade on Germany   Allies Loose More Than 600 Craft on Nazi War:  Installations   55 FAIL TO RETURN   Raiders Strike Mannheim, Ludwigshaven and Pilsen in: Foray

LUDWIGSHAVEN, MANNHEIM AND PILSEN RAIDED   “ifty - Five Allied Planes Missing Ir Large-Scale Attack Surpassed_ 1,000. Ton Bomb Assaults

Biggest Operation at Night Reported by British Today   55 of Bombers Fail to Return; Three Big Cities Bombed

AERIAL BLASTS HEAVIER THAN ESSEN ASSAULT   Skoda Munitions Works in German-Occupied Czechoslovakia, One of Targets Smashed   ALL ATTACKS ARE LISTED SUCCESSFUL   Two of the Targets Are on Rhine; Berlin Indicates Russians Again Over Reich

Damage Tops  All Previous 1943 Forays   55 Planes Lost Held as Not Excessive in View Of Success

Home of Skoda Munition Works and Pilsen in Ge TmanOccupied Czechoslovakia, Suffer Heavily Fro: 400Warplane Raids, “ 4   British Lose 55 Planes in Raid That Surpasses Attack on Lorient

Total of 55 Craft, 37 on Pilsen Trip, Fail To Return; Biggest One-Night Loss

55 PLANES LOST IN BUSIEST NIGHT SO FAR IN YEAR   Pilsen in Czecho-Slovakia One Of Three Targets On Parade Of Bombs

Over 600 RAF Bombers Strike Heavily at Three Nazi Industrial Centers

WAS BIGGEST NIGHT OPERATION OF YEAR   Fifty-Five Are Missing in the Raid the Air Ministry Announced This Morning.

* PLANT HIT; . 55 BOMBERS ARE LOST   ~ “Biggest Night Operation ‘of Year’’ By RAF Brings Heaviest Air Loss   @ BUT IMPORTANT _POINTS.ARE BLASTED   “Allied Aircraft. Roaring, Across Channel as Air Offensive Continues

Bombers Reach Czechoslovakia, Hit Arms Plant   Rhine River Cities Also Are Targets of Fleet of 600

* HUNDREDS BOMBERS BLASTED GERMAN POINTS LAST NIGHT  FIFTY-FIVE BIG PLANES , REPORTED MISSING

Gigantic Skoda Works Bombed   Mannheim, Ludwigshaven and Pilsen Heavily Roked in Foray by 600 Planes; 59 of Total Force Reported Missing

RAF LOSES 55 BIG CRAFT WITH MASS ATTACKS   Mannheim, Pilsen and Ludwigshaven Pounded in Assaults in Moonlight

55 PLANES FAIL TO RETURN, RIP 3 LARGE TOWNS   Hit One German-Occupiec Village in Czechoslovakia Last Night

Heavy Blows Struck al German Munitions Works In 3 Cities.   FORTS RAID SUB BASES

00 BOMBERS ARE REPORTED MISSING   Mannheim, Ludwigshaven and Occupied Pilsen Ara Heavily Attacked

600 Bombers Are Used in Raid on Mannheim, Pilson, Ludwigshaven  55 PLANES MISSING Biggest Night Operation  Of Year Causes Wide Damage

55 Allied Planes Lost   . . Possibly Surpassed Lorient-Essen Assault

Axis Munitior Works Hit By Blockbusters   Air Ministry Classes Raid As ‘Biggest Operation Of Year’

Heavy Damage Done In Heavy Night Raid   Industrial Works Hard Hit Following Widespread Daylight Raids; 55 Bombers Reported Missing After Attacks.

STRAFE PILSEN, RHINE CITIES   {Soda Munifions Plant and Arma. ment Works at Mannheim-Lud. wigshaven Targets   55 BOMBERS LOST   Nazi Sub Bases and Ostend Chemical Works Also Bombed—London Has Alert

‘Biggest Night Raid’ Strikes Skoda Works   55 Planes Missing A More Than 600 RAF Air craft Hit Arms Center:   DROP BLOCK BUSTERS   Mannheim, Ludwigshaven, Pilsan are Main Targets Of British Attack

HomeOf Giant Skoda Munition: Works Among Enemy Cities Hi In Terrific Raid Last Night   Fifty-five Bombers Fail To Return; 37 Are Lost Over Pilsen And 18 Over Ludwigshaven And Mannheim: Over 600 Planes Took Part

600 CRAFT RAIN ‘EGGS’ ON PILSEN   Mannheim , Also Hit In One Of Greatest Assaults Of War

600 GRAFT TAKE PART IN HEAVY NIGHT ASSAULT   55 Planes Are Reported Lost By Authorities

More Than 600 British Warplanes Hit at Centers Of German War Industries

MOST PLANES EVER LOST IN ONE NIGHT   Mannheim, Ludwigshaven, Pilsen Are Blasted   OPERATION   Said To Be Biggest This Year With 600 Participating In Action

37 Planes Lost in Big Night Attack   Mannheim, Ludwigshaven, F Targets of Raid; Nazis Strike Back

600 British Bombers Raid Europe; 55 Lost   Mannheim, Ludwighaven And Pilson Blasted In Biggest Night Attack Of War; RAF Casualties Heaviest Of War

8 Counties Prepare For  Chest Drive   Campaign for United War Chest  Fund Begins Soon

AIR MIGHT OF ALLIES IN FIGHT   Greatest Assault on Record  Launched

GREATEST AERIAL ASSAULT FLUNG AT NAZIS AT SALERNO   2000 Sorties Flown Over German Lines In Support Of 5th ©  Army

ALLIES BAG 62. JAP PLANES LAST WEEK IN PACIFIC FIGHT   Aircraft Destroyed In. 28 Attacks On Airfields, ’ Keeping Allies On Top In Area

ALLIES AHEAD IN PACIFIC AIR BATTLE.   Destroy 62 Jap Planes in Week; Also Hit Airdromes

AEAINST JABS   62 Enemy Planes Destroyed In Week Of Intensive Aerial Battling

Allies Destroy 62 Jap Planes   Battering Raid Made On Penfoei Airfield

UPSETS PLAN TO FREE JAPS   Return to Pacific Coast Is Opposed by Offcial

U.S. Gen. Stilwell Reaches London  Japs Handed Setback In Chungking Drive

SERIAL NUMBERS ~ FORNEW RATIONS   Gasoline Coupons Will Be Ir Strips Similar to Movie Picture Tickets.

GASOLINE RATION COUPONS WILL BE NUMBERED SOO)   “T” Type Effective on Jan. 1; “B" and “C” About Anril 1

Invasion TroopsHold Trobriand, Woodlark; Land Near Salamaua   Gen. MacArthur Directing Operations; U. S$ Forces Invade Central Solomons; Violent Fighting in Prospect as Offensive Opens

hiots Follow Hitler Speech   Sweden Hears Of Shootings:  Talk Seen As Final Try To Lift) Morale.

Materials for ~~ Soldiers’ Kits  Received Here   Red Cross to Complete 150 Bags by January 15, 288 Extra by May

British Drop 1000 Tons Of Explosives on Vital Nazi War Factories

BOMBING OF CITY ITY CLIMAXES MONTH OF DESTRUCTION IN RUHR INDUSTRIAE VALLEY:

BRITISH LOSE 35 BOMBERS IN RAD IN MULHEIM ARE!   Fires Are Observed For Distance of 100 Miles as Result of Very, Heavy Blastind.   THIRD SOMBING OF NAPLES STARTS FIRES   Possible Air Raids on Rome’s Industrial, Military Objectives Hinted, Shrines May Escape.

1,000 TONS OF BOMBS DUMPED UPON MULHEIM   Billowing Fires Are Visible for 100 Miles Following RAF Attack.

“Blazing Mass” of German War Factories Torn Apart in Great Ruhr Industrial Valley, Which Has Suffered the Heaviest Attacks Ever Launched  Against a Comparable Area— Datde Aan M224 l..      Allied Bombing Plan on Ruhr Sector Maintained

Hundreds of RAF Bombers Attack Industrial Ruhr —   35 British Bombers ‘Lost In Mulheim Blasting Assault ~

Mulheim Left Blazing; 35 Bombers Lost   Seven Cities in Vital Nazi Area Devastated in Rew Weekc

RUHR VALLEY TOWN TARGET ——- FOR BIG RAID   RAF 1,000 Ton Attack Clumaxed Month Of Intense Assault

Strike Spreads In Coal Field:   6,100 More Quit Over Whai Lewis Terms Overtime Pav Dispule

LEWIS URGES NEN TO RETURN 10 THEIR JOBS   Number of Local Unions Will Decide Issue Today

COAL STRIKE IS SPREADING AGAIK   Despite Back-to-Work Ulti matum of WLB, More Workers Drop Shovels

MINERS IGNORE WLB ORDER 10 ININ STNPPARE   6,100 Members of Six Locals Take Holiday Saturday   VOTE IS TAKEN   Diggers Disgruntled When Federal Action Is Denied

U. 3, POSITION AFTER WAR 13: MADE AN [oolle   Four Senators Want PostWar Collec.ive Security System Adopted.   MOVE HELD NECESSARY   Our Allies Want to Know Exactly Where We Stand on Setelement.

LONG DEBATE IS FORECAST “IN CONGRESS   PROPOSAL TO CREATE UNITED _NATIONS PEACE ORGANI. > ZATION AFTER WAR © CAUSES CONTROVERSY

EXPECT BATTLE IN SENATE OVER ‘WORLD POLICE   Burton of Ohio One of Four Sponsoring Plan to Start New League Now

Tribute Is Paid To Crew of Sub Sunk by Japanese   Men ‘Accepted Destruction Rather than Surrender, Navy Reports

Navy Pays Tribute to Eight Officers and 94 Men Who Perished When Japanese Depth-Charged and Shelled the Argonaut Off Rabaul, New Britain—Submersible Successfully Attacked Enemy Destroyer Before Being Destroyed.

Sub Crew Prefers Death to Surrender  Columbus Man Listec Among Heroic Grou

Canadians Repulse Armored Assaults Along Adriatic Fifth Front Quiet

Eighth Army Canadians And  Indians Score   Crash Through German Defenses On Center Front and Hurl Back Armored — Attacks Along Adriatic.

BRITISH EIGHTH ARM}  BATTLE GERMANS ON  EASTERN END OF LINE ARTILLERY. DUELS AND  PATROL SKIRMISHES ON RIETH ARMY FRONT

‘Troops From India Crash Through German Defenses  Canadians Hurl Back Nazi Armored Attacks in Italy

Indian Troops Pierce Nazi Defenses In Italy While Canadians Crush Attacks

Indian Troops Lead British Drive in Italy   Canadians Throw Back Counter-Attacks on Adriatic Coast

Indian Troops Dent Nazi Line  EKighth Army Driv. In Italy Continues But Fifth Army Action {Is Timited

Indian Troops Crash Germar Lines In Italy   Canadians Of 8th Arm: Hurl Back Armored At tacks By Nazis.

PIERCE GERMAN LINES IN ITALY   Indian Fighters of Eighth Army, Canadians Register New Gains

INDIAN TROOPS SCORE IN ITALY   Unit From British Eighth Army Crashes Through German Defenses.

Indian Troops Crack German Defense Line   Prisoners Taken in Brisk _ Activity Along Eighth  Army Front

INDIAN TROOPS GET PRISONERS _ IN NAZI LINES   Canadians Hurl Back German Armored Attacks Along Adriatic Coast in Italy   8TH ADVANCING   Heavy Artillery Duels Reported on American Front, With Nazi Prisoners Taken by Patrols

Indian Troops Take Prisoners In Onslauaht   Canadians Wreck Tanks In Cracking Armared Attacke

EIGHTH ARMY UNITS MAKE FRESH GAINS   Indians Crack Nazi Defenses in Center and Canadians Smash CounterAttacks—Allied Bridgehaade BMenandad.

INDIAN TROOPS IN EW ATT AGH   Bloody Battle In Italy Reported; Make New Gains

British Forces Nake New Gains      GERMAN DEFENSE LINES SMASHED IN NORTH ITALY

INDIAN TROOPS CRASH CENTER OF DEFENSES   Line is Penetrated While Canadians Along Adriatic Coast Hurl Back  Armored Attacks   CASUALTIES INFLICTED

Eighth Crashes. Through Lines To Take Prisoners; Fifth In Artillery Duels

British 8th Smashes Nazi Adriatic Push      Indian Troops Take Pri oners, Yank Planes Raid Yugoslav Coasts

INDIAN TROOPS GAIN IN ITALY   PLUNGE THROUGH ‘ NAZI DEFENSES ON 8TH ARMY FRONT

Prisoners Say Nazi Losses In Italy Heavy   Eighth Army Successfully “Beat Off CounterAttacks.

Heavy Fighting On East Flank Of Italian Front   German Forces Reported Given Severe Battering By Eighth Army Troops

Nazi Line in  Italy Cracked   Indian Troops Attack Successfully in Center; German Smashes Checked

NAZI ATTACKS ARE STOPPED BY CANADIANS   Fifth Army Front Reported Quiet

Indian Troops Take Prisoners   Canadians Along Adriatic Coast Hurl Back Nazi Attacks

8th Army Beats Off Nazi Blows  U. S. 5th Probing Enemy Lines For Soft Spot

INDIAN TROOPS IN ITALY CRACK LINE   Units of British Army Take Prisoners; Artillery in Buels_

Canadians Along Adriatic Hurl Back Nazi Armored Attacks; U. S. Bombers Attack Split Oil Dump.

Indian Troops Pierce German Lines On Eighth Army Front; Canadians Hurl Back Attacks   Crash Through German Defense On Center Front: Fifth’s Front Quiet

Germans Fail fo Check 8th Army Advance   Montgomery Continues Steady Advance to Strategic Junction

Allies Crash Through Naz Defense Line   8th Army Repulses Panzer Attacks; 5th Bombords Enemy

8th Crashes Nazi Defense   Indian Troops Break Through Line In Italy

Going Heavy In Italy   Bad Weather Again; Indian Troops In British 8th Score Advance

IndiaPust  Crashes Nazi Line   EIGHTH ARMY GRABS PRISONERS; CANADIANS HURL BACK AXIS ARMOR

British Take Prisoners In Italy   Germans Unable te Halt Drive of Eighth Army

CONVOY BATTLE COSTS AXIS FOE — THREE U-BOATS   U.S. Cutter Rams and Sinks One Sub, Disperses Five in Another Fight

Reveal Three Subs Are Sunk In Sea Battle   Three Day Running Engage ment Between U-Boats And Convoy   SOME OF CONVOY SHIPS ARE LOST

NATIONAL GRANGE FLAYS SUBSIDIES   Demonds Elimination of Govarnmental Controle

Grange Subsidy Opposition May Hit All Price Control   Third of 135 Resolutions Introduced at National Convention Demand Elimination of Farm Price Ceilings

FOOD SUBSIDIES HIT BY GRANGE   Farm Organization Would Eliminate Government's Control Over Prices

Complete Elimination Of Farm Price Control Is Grange Sentiment   Higher Farm Goals Planned For 1944

ROMMEL OUT-FOXED   Nazi Marshal Out-Maneuvered By Montgomery, Says Davis

Davis Predicts Allied Invasion During 1943   OW! Cautions Against Optimism, But Reports Rommel's Chances Poor   NAZI OUTGENERALED   Italy Prepares People By Emphasizing Power Of Steilian Defenses

ELSON RELAXES BAN JAPS IN MANUFACTURERS ARE   Production Of Some Civilian Products To Be Resumed

WPB. To Order Civilian Goods Produced Again   Nelson Says Government Plans To Restore Many Products Now on Ontlaw Tice

W/PB MAV END BAN ON REFRIGERATORS   Other Consumer Goods May , Also Be Brought Back Inte Production.

Production Ban on Many Items Lifted   Nelson Reveals Outlawed Products Again to Be Available

Production Of Some [tems Will Be Resumed For People On Home Fron:

To Round Up Delinquent Registrants   Must Carry Registration Cards at All Times Says Col. Armstrong

DRIVE TO ROUND UP DELINQUENTS BY DRAFT BOARD   Col. Armstrong Warns That The Government Plans To Start Prosecution Against All Registrants Who Do Not Comply.

No Early Action On Liquor Board   Considering 11 For Membership on 3 Member Unit

BOSTON FINDS TURKEYS HIGH   It Ain’t Funny at All, Owner Declares

Turkeys So High That Nobody Seems Able fo ~ Do Anything About Ii

U. S., British Forces Waging Bitter Offensive Toward Naples; Torpedo Boats Destroy Four Enemy Ships In Daring Foray Into Valona Harbo:

Followers OF Badoglio Slain By Fascists   Reign Of. Terror: Follows Unmasking Of Opposition.

Fascists Murder Pro-Ally Italians   Germans Permit Reign of Terror

BADOGLIO FRIENDS VICTIMS IN REIGN OF FASCIST TERROR   Reports From Frontier Say Premier’s Followers Killed Without. Trial.

MOVE TO WIN PEACE IS SEEN   English See Attempt To Bluff Allies If Army Leaders Take Over In  Germany

TO PAY FOR LOST PANTS   Act of Congress Provides Reimbursement for Two Sailors.

All But One Bomber Back  From Assault on Jap Fleet   Major Convoy Broken Up By American Fliers; Navy Department Tells of Nine Attacks Through Fog on the Aleutians Without Loss

STIMSON SEES RECRUITING AS ABOUT AT END      Armed Services May Cut Back Personnel Goals At Any Time

ANOTHER HINT ~ DADS MAY NOT BE DRAFTED   Stimson Say’s Army’: Personnel Goals May be Cut Back

Senate May Get Anti-Strike Bill   Senate May Be Stirred To Take Action Against Labor Leaders

SENATE HATCHING ANTI-STRIKE BILL.   Labor Leaders Who incite Workers to Leave Jobs Would Be Punished

BILL T0 OUTLAW STRIKES.IN WAR 1S TAKING FORM   Senate Believed Ready to  Pass Anti-Strike Legis-  _ dation As Coal Stop  page Ends   WILL HAVE TEETH   Punishment For Labor Leaders Sought As Clause In Measures Being Considered

Senate May Get Anti-Strike Bill   Senate May Be Stirred To Take Action

Senate Believed Ready To Enact Anti-Strike Law  Teeth In Proposed Measure Tok To Bi te

Anti-Strike Bill With Teeth Apparently Will Be Passed By Senators

Senate Begins Labors   Will Bite Any Labor Leader Seeking Work Stoppage

ANTI-STRIKE BILL EVOLVING IN SENATE   Senate Appears to be Stirred to Point of Taking Drastic Action Against Strikes.

Anti-Strike Bill With Teeth Seen   Agitators Will Face Real Trouble

Senate Believed Ready To Enact Anti-Strike Bill   Punishment For Labor Leaders Who Call Strikes Likely.

Perish in Flames After Explosion Of Gasoline Ship   28 Merchant and Navy Gun Crewmen Are Survivors

88 Perish In Tanker Crash   -Blacked-Out Ships Collide Off Florida And One Burne

28 SAVED IN DISASTER OFF FLORIDA COAST   Explosion Of Aviation Gasoline Traps Crew Members

DIE IN FIRE THAT SWEEPS TWO TANKERS   Blacked Out Vessels Crash Off Florida—2§s Crew Members and Navy Gunners Saved.   MASTERS OF BOTH CRAFT ARE LOST   Survivors Picked Up at Sea After Leaping Overboard — Tell of Terrific Explosions.

Two Blacked-Out Vessels Collide in Darkness; Aviation Gasoline Aboard One Explodes   28 SEAMEN AND NAVY GUN CREWMEN LIVE   ap Overboard as Flames Whip Over Decks and Spread Out Over Water

FIRE SEARS FUEL-LADEN NAVY CRAFT   Coastguard Races  To Scene After ‘Explosions

Aviation Gas Explodes After Tankers Collide   28 Crewmen, Navy Gunners Escape By Leaping Into Sea

ONE LOADED WITH AVIATION GAS EXPLODES   Blacked-Out Vessels Crash in Darkness  Off Florida Coast

88 DIE AS TWO SHIPS COLLIDE, NAVY REVEALS   Tragedy Occurs Off Florida Coast—One Tanker Laden With Aviation Gas

88 Seamen Killed In Tanker Collision   Captains of Both Ships, AU But One of Gun Crew  Officers Lose Lives... Saved Fram Flaming Cas

88 SEAMEN PERISH IN COLLISION OF TANKERS   Two Blacked-Out Boats Collide Off Florida Coast; Explosions Spread Flames; Twenty-Eight Men Rescued

88 ARE KILLED IN COLLISION OF 2 TANKERS   Only 28 Seamen Escape Death

Only 28 Men Rescued In Sea Disaster   One Vessel Laden With  - Aviation Gasoline; Spark From Contact Believed Cause

88 Men Die as 2 Blacked Out Tankers Crash   One Ship Bursts Into Flames as Gasoline Explodes

Aviation Gas Explodes; 28 Men Are Saved   Rescued Men Jump  Overboard as Flames Spread on Decks and Out. Over the Water .

STEM RED RUSH; CAPTURE LEROS   Soviets Abandon Several Places In Zhitomir Region But Nazis Admit “Dente”

OININED STARTED NN COAL FIELDS DESPITE TRU   3,500 Miners Strike Cambria County Properties   WLB BLOCKS LEWIS’ EFFORT TO IGNORE IT

Air, Sea Power Strike New Softening Blows At Italian Mainland   Americans Capture San Stefano Anchor to Right Flank of Catania Line; More Than 20 Liberators Lost in Sunday Attack on Oil Fields of Rumania

Americans Take Over  San Stefano   Imminent Invasion Of Italy Is Promised  Unless It Surrenders

Invasion Threat Made — To Temporizing Italy   Naples Rocked Anew By Flying Fort-

Baruch Blames Inter-Agency Quarrels For Much of Nation’s Trouble In Manpower Supply: Urges Action

Baruch Assails Friction Aniong ~ Tederal Bureaus   ‘Denounces Feuds ir Submitting Coast Labor Report

West Coast Labor Plan Was Formed by Baruch; Congressmen Discover

Baruch Report Placed in Record   Government Agencies Receive Criticism

Labor Budgeting Urged by Baruch  Friction Between - Agencies Scored

DR. CHARLES MARVIN DIES      Deceased Was Chief of U.S. Weather Bureau for 21 Years

NAZIS CLAIM SINKING SHIP   High Command Announce Destruction Of U. S.  Ammunition Boat

Germans Claim American Ammunition Carrier Sunk On Way to Oran, Algeria

Provisional Cabinet _ Breaks Over Inclusion  OF Two Pro-Fascists

Rawson Out As President Of Argentinz   Efforts to Form Cabinet Fail; In Office 28 Hours

PRESIDENT A. RAWSON QUITS POST   Inability ToF orm New Cabinet Held Reason For Swift Change

RAMIREZ TAKES OVER AS RULER OF ARGENTINA   Rawson Resigns Presidency After Efforts To Form Cabinet Break Down   CEREMONIES CANCELLED.   National Congress Is Dissolved; Communist Newspaper Office Closed

RAMIREZ IS LATEST PRES. OF ARGENTINE   -Rawéon Resigned After Holding Office 28 Hours -

Mystery In   Soviet Action   Possibility of Separate Peace With Germany

CAPITAL THINKS “HULL'S AID MAY FLY TOMOSCOW   Allies Try to Iron Out Soviet Impatience Over Delay in Second Front

MAY BE SENT 10 MOSCOW 10 PACIFY STALIN   State Department Says Only That “He'll Be Away a Few Davs”

Yank Veterans Fight In Sicily   Four Divisions Saw Service In Africa

FALL OF JAP SHIP BASE IN GUINEA, SEEN IMMINENT   Finschhafen Airdrome Captured By Allied Jungle Troops

Another Jap Base Near Fall  In New Guinea   Allied Forces Are Closing In On Jap Shipping Base At Finchhafen   AUSTRALIAN FORCES  DRIVE TO BUMI RIVER  i

FINSCHHAFE IS ENCIRCLED   Kall Expected Any Moment  Allies Hold Important Airfield

Liberaters Meet New Nazi: Fighter Teehnique   Smashing Contmunications Tn Italy, American Fliers Down 27 German Plane

British-Canadian Troops Establish Long Bridgehead   Reggio, Calabria Is Among Major Sites Taken On Mainland

TEN MINERS KILLED IN WEEK-END BLAST   Another Critieally Injured In West Virginia Explosion Saiurday Night

BIG BOMBERS AIDED IN RAID ON GILBERTS   Land-Based Planes Joined Those  of Carriers in Attack, Nimitz  Says—Summarizes Results 

Yankee Bombers Smash Japs On Gilbert Islands   Admiral Nimitz Reveals Raids

NAZI NAVAL BASE RAIDED BY BRITISH   Loss of 14 Planes Indicates 300 Took Part

GERMAN NAVAL BASE BLASTED   Wilhelmshaven Raided For Second Straight Night

300 BOMBERS RAID SEA BASE FOR 73RD TIME   British Lose 14 Planes In Another Blow At Wilhelmshaven

MOTORMAN IS. CRASH VICTIM   Reported to Have Leaped to Safety, Then Return ed to Rescue.

Missing Nebraska Girl Found Slain  Discover Battered Body Near Highway

CG Cutter Puts Up Real Fight  ‘Nazi Sub Destroyed, 33 Of Crew Captured

33 Captured As U-Boat Is Sunk  Remaining Crewmen Go Down With Ship

AMERIGAN CUTTER SINKS U-BOAT OFF CAROLINA COAST   Thirty-Three Members of Submarine’s Crew Captured—Others Perish in Sea.   DEPTH CHARGE RAIDER, ATTACK WITH GUNS   Battle Rages for 30 Minutes With Nazis Firing Torpedo That Goes Wide of Mark,

Coast Guard Cutter Sinks German Sub, Captures 33  Depth Charges Smashed at Undersea Raider   Depth Charges Smashed at Undersea Raider Destroyed Off Carolina Coast in 30 Minutes

Campaign Plans Completed Here   - War Fund-Community Chest Drive To Open  Tomorrow.

STAGE IS SET FOR CAMPAIGN OPENING   War Fund - - Community  Chest Drive to be Launched Tomorrow

BRITISH MEET RESISTANCE IN BURMA DRIVE   WAVELL FORC ES BATTLING JAPS IN RATHDAUNG SECTOR

Thirteen Smaller Town: Taken, 18 Miles Of Rostov-Baku Rail Line  Cleared.

LEADING RED VICTORY OF WINTER WAR   100-Mile Front in Caucasus Site  Of Advances

Henry. County Over Red Cross Quota   Total Was $9,748 Compared with Quota of 38,500

County Over Red Cross War Fund Quota   Total Was $9,748 Compared With Quota of $8,500

Fredendall Is Likely To Get  Lear’s Place      ‘Hero Of Tunisian Campaign Probable Successor To Retiring General

FREOENKALL TO SUCCEED LEAR   Reports As Deputy Chief of Second Army; Lear Retires Soon.

LEAR TO RETIRE AS COMMANDER OF SECOND ARMY   FRENDENHALL IS SEEN AS CHOICE TO SUCCEED VETERAN

Fredendall, Veteran Of Tunisian War, May Succeed Retiring Lt.-Gen. Lear As Commander Of U. S. Second Army

Raids Carried Out by  Fleet of Mosquito Bomb  oe on Unannounced argate

U. S. planes hit Germany. Belgian field   Berlin burrows out of wreckage

German Reprisal Detied, New Air Raids Hit Nazis   One Third Of Berli In Ruins, And Mor: Attacks Promise  By Allies

U.S. Planes Raid Belgian, Naz Target:      Strike Heavy Blows At German War Ceniers On  Heels Of RAF Attacks.   DISREGARD THREATS

HITS TARGETS IN THE REICH   Bombers Make Night Raids in Western Part of Germany—Offensive Operations Are Being Continued Today.

Marauders Raid Target In Belgium   Night Attack Is Made On Western Germany By Formations O;} British Planes

RAF Planes Strike At Targets In W. Germany   British Continue Heavy Attacks As Ranting Goebbels Makes Threats

AVIED FOR LIFICTEV ANT   Raid Follows R.A.F. Assault on Reich; American Forces Blast Belgium Center

BERLIN GETS BIGGEST OF ‘ALL BOMBINGS   American Bombers Continue Raids Early Today  BULLETIN

NAZI TARGETS INREICH AND BELGIUM HIT   Americans Carry On. At tacks On Heels of Overnight Bombing On Western Germany.

Bombers Keer Up Raids On Germany   Airfield in Belgium Also Attacked By American Fliers

U.S. BOMBERS CARRY WAR TO REICH, BELGIUM   Berlin Escapes Raid Second Night in Row While Big Bombers Strike ai Other Targets   EXPAND OFFENSIVE   Kepner Says German Air Power Growing Steadily Weaker While That of Allies Increases

RAIDS ON REICH REACH NEW PEAY   GERMANS THREATEN DIRE REPRISALS FOR ATTACKS ON BERLIN ©

WESTERN REICH POUNDED AGAIN   R.A.F. Strikes In Defiance Of Nazi Reprisal Threat

Air Field In Belgium Struck   Air Offensive in England Being Greatly Expanded.

Germany Paid Another Visit   Western Area Of Country Pounded As Nazis Try . Bold Defiance

RAF Hurls New Blow At European Fortress   Defy German Threat Of Mysterious Reprisals For Bombing Of Berlin; All Of Raiding Mosauito Planes Return.

American Bombers Attack Northwest Germany After RAF   Goebbels Tells Nazis Secret Weapon Soon To. Bring Revenge

U. 3, BOMBERS HIT GERMANY   Attack Targets in Northwest Germany Today on Heels Of RAF Raid.   IN DEFIANCE OF THREATS

AMERICAN FOLLOW-UP   Northwest Germany Raided by Day After RAF Night Bombing

Heavy Yank Bombers Stage Raid on Reich   Northwest Section Hit On Heels of Night Assault by RAF

Daylight Raid Follows Night BlowsBy RAF   Mosquito Craft Sent Out By British To Hapvass Foe; Other Planes Lay Mines

Yanks, R. A. F Pound Anew At  West Germany   Berlin Has Second Raid. less Night; One Third Of Capital In Ruins.

RAF Rains More Bombs on Nazis;  Defy Threats   No Planes Reported Lost in i  Attack on Undisclosed  Objectives Last Night.   Air Force Expansion Announced by Allies

HEAVY BOMBERS HIT GERMANY IN DAYLIGHT RAIN   ATTACK CLOSELY FOLLOWED RAF BOMBING WESTERN GERMANY

VAST EXPANSION (F AIR MIGHT IN BRITAIN BEGUN   Spending Billions To Increase Striking Power Of RAF And USAAF; Western Germany Target Of Latest Raid.

GERMAN REPRISAL THREAT FOR ATTACK ON BERLIN, DEFIED   RAF Bombers Blasted Tar. gets in Western Germany Last Night.   RAIDS BY MOSQUITOS   Specific Objectives Were Not Immediately Disclosed.

R.A. F. Keeps Up Attack On Nazis   Berlin Has Second Night Free From Allied Raids

Full Destruction of Berlin is Possible, Nazis’ Acknowledge   Goebbels’ Threats of Reprisals Fail to Stop Aid Raids

HAF BOMBERS DEFY THREAT: OF REPRISALS   Raid Western Germany While Berlin Gets a Night of Respite.

Light Bombers Raid Western Germany Dire Reprisals Threatened By Nazis

U.S. BOMBERS FOLLOW UP RAF RAIDS ON REICH   Berlin Has Second Raidless Night, Ignore Reprisal Threats

Allies Expand Air Offensive Against Reich   Third Of Berlin Reported In Ruins After Assaults

FAST MOSQUITO FLEET ATTACKS WEST GERMANY   Berlin Has Raid Free Night But 3rd of Capital Is in Ruins

Reich Raids Persis As British Airmer Defy Nazi Threats   U.S. Bombers Make Daylight Attack On Enemy Field; Report No RAF Craft Lost

RAF Hits Western Germany, Passing Up Berlin; Nazis Threaten Dire Reprisals   ' Offensive Continues In Defiance _Of Vow Of Mysterious Retaliation

Northern Germany Blasted Today By  American Airforce   Raid Follows Closely on Heels of RAF Assaults On Western Germany—Marauders Rain New Blows on Hitler’s Airfield at Chievrec. Relaium.

Nazi Targets In Belgium Also Blasted   Yank Attacks Come on Heels Of RAF Blows

RAF Ignores Reprisal Talk   Germans Admit Raids Likely To ‘Lay All Berlin in Waste’

RAF BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN CITIES TODAY   Nazi Claim Of New Weapon Unheeded

RAF Blasts Nazi Targets Sunday Night   Western Germany Raided Despite Reprisal Threats

RAF BOMBERS STRIKE IN BOLD ~ DEFIANCE OF GERMAN THREATS   Raids Carried Out By Fleet Mosquitos; No Planes Los! In Night Operations; London Had Short Alert But No Bombs During The Night.

R. A. F. BOLDLY DEFIES THREAT BY GOEBBELS   Warning of Mysterious Reprisals Ignored as European Targets Are Blasted   NO PLANES ARE LOST

Senate Committee Splits On Value Of OW! After Hearing Elmer Davis

DISPUTE OVER ~ OWI POLICIES   SENATORS WHO HEARD DAVIS . DISAGREE ON VALUE OF HIS AGENCY'S WORK

OPEN FIRE ON JAP POSITION   U.S. Troops Advance On Bairoko; Wewak Raid Is Successful

WEWAK POUNDED BY 112 TONS OF ALLIED BOMBS   Artillery Has Opened Up On Japs At Bairoko Harbor

BIG GUNS SHELL JAPS AT BAIROKS   EIELD PIECES MOVED Up IN EFFORT TO ROUT ENEMY FROM POSITIONS,

Yank Artillery Batfers Enemy   Substantail Gains Made At Bairako

Artillery Opens Up On Big Japanese Units At Bairoko  Ground- Menoced Salamoua Aurdrome Blastec

Liberators Hif Wewak with 112 Tons of Bombs   Artillery Opens Up on Jap anese af Bairoko in New Georgia

American Artillery Opens Up on Japs Making Last Ditch Stand at Bairoko After Yankees Gain Ground

Allied Artillery Pounds Bairoko Base of Japanese   Big Bombers Again Blast at Wewak;  Nine Enemy Downed   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, (Wednesday), Aug.

MOST MINERS   UNION. OFFICIALS EXPECT LAST THIRD OF STRIKERS »  §) SOON RETURN  poe 8) OD PERS

Doom Of Evil Men   Battle Raging In China’s Ancient City Of Changteh

Central China Fighting Intensified   Japs Admit Resistance Unyielding; City Of Changteh Rubble

Heavy Fighting Inside Changteh  Tokyo Says Japs Completed City’s  Oarinatingn Foti dng

Red Barrage Biggest Ever   Russion Array of Artillery 10 Times Greater Then Verdun

Red Army Pushe: Toward Bryansk Heavy Drive  Move West Of 3Wi¥edew Dine  , .   Move West Of Orel Under Big ‘Artillery Barrage

CLARK'S FIFTH ARMY [IMPROVES SITUATION   Strengthens Grip on Salerno Bridgehead After StoneWall: Stand Against Terrific German Counter‘Attacks—Second Day of Titanic Assault on Nazi Positions Below Naples Continues Teday.

Lull In Pacific Forerunner of New Offensive   American Occupation Of the Ellice Islands Significant

Make Day By Day Bombing Forays  ee een   Raids Extend From The North to South Pacifie

Slav Guerrillas Wace War   4U.S.F ighters Sheot  Down 5 E nemy Zeros

UME RAIDS IN SPITE OF BAD WEATHER   Nips Attempting To Build Aleutian Airbase   LULL IN NEWS   From South Pacific Hints New Offensive Action May Be Taken Soon 

JAPANESE LOSE FIVE FIGHTERS IN AN AIR BATTLE   Four American Planes En. gage Ten Enemy Bombers and 20 Zeros.   TWO U. S. PLANES LOST      Failed to Return After Aerial Battle Northwest of Guadalcanal.

4 U. S. Raiders Battle 30 Jap Planes, Bag 5   Lose 2 Of Own Planes In Daring Operation Off Guadalcanal   Bombing Of Kiska Again Resumed As Weather  Eases Up Some

Continue Bombings In Pacific   Activities May Be Forerunner of New Offensive.

INDICATIONS ARE THAT RECENT LULL IN SOUTH PACIFIC IS FORERUNNER OF OFFENSIVE —   Flying Fortresses Hold 26-Minute Parade Over Wewack, Jap Strong Point in South Pacific. Japs Launch Attack on Allied Positions in Mayou River Area. —

New Pacific  Offensive In Making?   Washington Observers Believe Recent Lull In Fighting There A Forerunner of Action

ALLIES CONTINUE AIR ATTACKS ON JAP POSITIONS   Hit Enemy in Aleutians, Solomon Islands, Burma Over Week End

J, S. FLIERS RESUME RAIDS \GAINSTKISKA   \mericans Gamble Navigation Skill For Chance To Slow Construction Of Airbase   ESULTS UNREVEALED

Pacific Lull May Point fo Offensive   Daily Bombing Forays Continue

AU. 5. Fighters Battle 30 Jap Planes, Down 5   2 American Ships Don't Return From Guadalcanal Fight

Pacitic Drive Expected Soor   Allied Bombers Renew Attack Against Kiska Bases After Two Day Rest. 

Pacific Lull Believed Sign Of New Drive   Allied Pacific Air Forces Continue Daily Bombing Forays

4 U.S, PLANES FIGHT 30 OF JAPS, DOWN !   Battle 10 Enemy Bombers. 20 Zeros Off Guadalcanal

FOUR U. 5. PLANES WIN CLASH WITH HUGE JAP FORCE   FIVE NIPS DOWNED AS YANKS RIP INTO 10 BOMBERS, 20 ZEROES OFF GUADALCANAL

New Offensive : Operations i in Pacific Predicted   U. S. Occupation of Ellice Islands.‘Is Said Forérunner:

Pacific Lull May Fortell New Activity   U. S. Occupation of the Ellice Islands Held Significant

QUUTH PACIFIC OFFENSE SEEN   Recent Lull May Be the Forerunner to New Operations.   ALLIED AIR FORCE BUSY

WEEKEND COSTS RIPS 15 PLANES   4 U. S. Fighters Beat Off Enemy Attack » At Guadalcanal

Americans Bomb Japanese Bases  Continue Raids Over Wide Pacific Area

Yanks Beat 30 to 4 Odds   5 Jap Zeros Downed Over Guadelcanel: Wewak Gets Pasting

DEFY FOG, STORMS TO BLAST AIRBASE   AMERICAN FLYERS GAMBLE TO POUND ENEMY AT KISKA

4.U. S. Planes Battle With 30 Enemy Craft  Two Of Our F Highbars  Bait TT. Das. ax.

YANKS DOWN JAP PLANES IN SOLOMONS   Lull May Be Forerunner To New Offensive Against Nips

Allies Pepper Jap Air Base at Kiska During Bad Storm:   Enemy Installations In Other Parts of Pacific Are Bombarded

FIVE JAPS ARE SHOT DOWN BY ll, §. FIGHTERS   Americans Engage 1!0 Enemy Bombers And 20 Zeros Off Guadalcanal; Two U. S. Planes Fail To Return; Resume  Kiska Raids.

Yankees Down Five Jap Zeres   Two of Four American Planes Engaged Fail To Return to Base

U.S. Fighters Down 5 Zeros Over Canal   Raids Over Kiska Ari Resumed; Other Jay Bases In Pacific Are:  Are Attacked

INDICATIONS POINT TO AN OFFENSIVE PROGRAM IN PACIFIC   ALLIED AIR FORCES RANGING AREA CONTINU! DAILY BOMBINGS

Purchase Of Seals Helps T-B Society  Wartime Program In The County Enlarged

Chinese Beat Back Jap Force   Enemy Retiring In Disorder, Is Report

Japs Driving On Chanesteh Beaten Back   Retiring In Disorder After Heavy Losses; 4,000 Japs Killed In Two Days

CHINESE REPULSE JAPS   Enemy Forces Reported Retiring In Disorder

Chinese Report Repulse Of Japs Charging Chanateh  2,000 Said Wiped   2,000 Said Wiped Out After Attack Behind Poison Gas

JAPS DEFEATED BY CHINESE IN      More. Than: 2, 000: Nips: Are “Wiped Out “When. They Charge -City: Behind — - Glouds Poison Gas ~

Chinese Kill Horde Of Japanese on  Rice Bowl Sector Defenders Report Enemy Again Uses Poison Gas

Japs Retreat At Changteh  In Disorder   Chinese Defenders Stand Off Repeated Waves of Ground and Air Attack

Retreat Forced On Jap Troops  Near Changteh   American, Chinese Fliers Continue To Give Aid To “Rice Bowl” Defenders

Interpreting e \War   Axians Likely to Commence to Falsify Reports

More Lies In Reports From _ Axis As Offensives Begin   How Germans And Japanese Have Constantly Mis represented Their Defeats

Sugar Status Still Sticky Scribe Says   Bottleneck Holds Uj increased Supply For Public

More Aviation Gasoline To Be Produced in U.S. Stepped Up Air ‘Attacks

AIR ATTACKS — CONTINUE ON. MAJOR SCALI   GREATEST ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE OF WAR CONTINUED FROM BASES IN ENGLAND

GREATEST AIR OFFENSIVE IN FOURTH DAY   Hamburg Pounded in Fifth Successive Bombardment

NATION'S PACKING HOUSES JAMMED WITH MEAT TODAY   Packers, Once Begging For Meat, Now Lack ....9pace To Store it AIL

HUGE STOCKS OF GRAIN BEING HELD ON FARMS   Seek to End Shortage of Dairymen, Poultry Raisers, Processors

OPA May Cut Hog Prices To About $13. To Insure — Sale OF Midwest Corn

U.S.Leaders Eye Paramushiro As Enemy Flees   Jap Isle Base 630 Miles Westward Hinted as Tokyo Springheard; Nips Ouit Aleutians Without Fisht

Non-Essential Oi Use Pared 40 Pet.   Move by Ickes, Acting OPA Chief Is Taken in East To Helo Shoriage

LASH OF 407, FAGING-EAST ON FUEL OU   “Non-Essential” Uses Hit In New U. S. Edict

FUEL OIL RATIONS. REDUGED IN EAST   SUPPLIES FOR NON-ESSENTEAL COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL USES CUT 40 PCT.

ANOTHER FUEL OIL SLASH 1S ORDERED   New Edict Applies to Non. essential Oil Rations

Col. Peterson, Arizona Native, Fails To Return From Air Scray   Modest Commander, 28, Respected By All Associates — Credited With 42 Missions

Would Change Tme   Nazi-Halian War Said On   German Property At Milan Destroyed

Battle Between Italians, Germans For Milan Looms: Situation Tense   German Troops Reported To Have Surrounded Italian City; Violent Demonstrations Against Germans In City Reported.

Yugoslavs Pierce Zagreb Area, Smash Air Base   Italians Help Score  Against Nazis

Tito’s Forces Destroy Air Base  ws _Qomme T0022. Cte   Italian Division Said Aiding Patriots

OPA Figures Backing Food Subsidy Plan Challenged af Senate Hearing

Montgomery. Breaks Through Nazi Line   'Rommel’s Afrikan Korps Retreating Across Plain Barren of Natural Defenses

TEMPERATURE   American Forces Pressing Axis Flank Unceasingly From West; Junction With British Soon Expected

Partisans Regain Coast Positions  Yugoslav Artillery  on ee oe 7 ir

VETO OF FEMALE LABOR LAW LOOMS   Gov. Bricker Threatens Te Nullify Proposal

BRIGKER MAY VETO FEMALE LABOR LAWS   Committee Considers Lifting All Regulations

New ¢ New Order Has Been Issued by OPA  for Second Pair of Rationed Shoes 

SECOND SHOE STAMP T0 BE IN BOOK NO. 1   Ration Book No. 3 Can't Be Distributed in Time, OPA Says

29°F ARCH BOTTRESA      Open Disbarment Proceedings Against Leche

WLB WILL ASK , FOR INTERVENE IN COAL STRIKI   “Lewis and Ickes in Second Meeting Seeking Way to Mine Peace

TRIKE TD BE TURNED OVER TO ADOSEVELT   Ickes and Lewis Meet Again but Give No Signs of Solution.   SETTLEMENT WAITING ON HIGHER-UP ACTION

Ickes And Lewis  In Conference On  Coal Strike Move   Reported Seeking Some Means Of Settling Paralyzing Coal Strike   W. L. B. WILL SEEK TO HAVE PRESIDENT ACT

Ickes and Lewis  Confer Two Hours   No Visible Signs of Solution In Coal Strike

INTERVENTION ‘BY ROOSEVELT 18 PREDICTEI   ICKES AND LEWIS END. CON' PERENCE TODAY WITH NO”  ENDICATION AN AGREEx “MENT IR. NEAR

Petrillo Teils Solons Musicians Will Not Make Any More Recordings

Petrillo Says Musicians « Are Destroying Themselves   Bets Iceman Would Not Make a Frigidaire, in Defending Self Acainst Senate Probe

More Work Is Our Objective, Says Petrillo   Order Against Making Of Recordings Is Defended By Head Of Union At  Committee Hearing

Mine Dispute Heads Toward Crisis; Union Heads To Meet   Policy-forming Leaders of UMW Expected to Moke Decision Today—Deadline for “Truce” Over Wage War Expires es

NATION-WIDE COAL STRIKE  530,000 MINERS   Tri-State Miners Join Nation. al Movement to Impede the War Effort

More Miners Ready to Join Those Now Idle   Men Await Action  Of Policy Group; Truce Over Wage War Expires at Midnight

U. S. Coal Mines idle: Officials Await Action Of U. Mi. W. Policy Committee

ers’ Decision Wage Rulings For Todav   lit Coal Fields Face ymplete Shutdown ending Union Action

Mine Workers Not Expected To Defy F.D.R.   Policy Committee Ready for Action

® MINE STOPPAGE HITS WAR EFFORT; LEWIS DOMINATES MEETING TODAY   Survey Indicates That Strike Will Spread Un til 530,000 Miners Are Dyer

CRISIS IN COAL CONTROVERSY LIKELY TODAY   Union Leaders Expected to Decide Not To Defy Order

Fourth General  Coal Work Stoppage Starts   Policy Forming Leaders of More Than 115,000 Striking Miners Are Expected to Make Decision in Few Hours

Ath General Coal Strike In 6 Months Under Way   Thousands of Miners Joining 115,000 Already on Strike As Truce Exnires   UNION COMMITTEE DUE TO MEET TODAY

Most Soft Coal Mines Close Down   Decision By UMW Policy Group Expected Monday

THOUSANDS ARE READY TO JOIN GROWING STRIKE   Fourth Shutdown In Six Months Looms; Seizure By Government Is  Probability

BALKANS BEGIN TO CRUMBLE; HUNGARY IS READY TO QUIT   Believe Germany Will Make No Major Effort to Defend Balkans

HUNGARY PUTTING OUT PEACE FEELERD   Other Axis Satillites Preparing To Leave Sinking Ship

Two Killed, Five Injured In Explosion Aboard Train At Erie RR Depot, Ashland

Explosion Aboard Train Kills Two   Baggage Car and Station Set Afire

FATAL TRAIN BLAST IN OHIG PROBED BY THE FB] WEDNESDAY   ‘Two Men Killed and Five  Others Are Injured in Naphtha Car Explo cram

NEW GUINEA BOMBER SQUADRON HAS TALE FOR WES GALLAGHER  FORTY-ONE RAIDS NOT RECORD BY ANY MEANS DECLARES WM. BONI

Road To Naples Jammed With Al Kinds of Arms   Italian City Will Be Without Much Food For Long Time

ALLIES POURING SUPPLIES INTO SALERNO PORT   Concentration More Than of 8th Army’s In Africa

50 Liberafors Drop 250,000 Lbs. on Italy   Yank Bombers Find Mark on Calabria Harbor

Liberator Bombers Attack Italian Port   Flames Reported Leaping High in Air

Italian Port Is Bombed Heavily  Quarter offa Million Pounds Are Dropped

IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK   American Raid Was 'Led by Colonel Compton of St. Joe. Mo.

SANCTITY OF HOME STANDS ABOVE OPA   Judge Protests Woman from Search for Coupons

OL dC name   Dissatisfied,” Says Hubby ‘After 57-Year. Marriage.

‘She Seems ..   Dissatisfied.” Savs Hubby. After 57-Year Marriage.

MORGAN IMPROVING   Financier Spends “Fairly Comfortable” Night At Florida Retreat

INVASION . OF EUROPE IS PLEDGED   To Strike Foe’ On Land, Sea, Air © In Nine Months 

CASABLANCA REPORTED GN BY CHURCHILL   Tells Commons Europe To Be Invaded Soon As Allies Ready   500,000 IN AFRICA   British Are Pledged To Carry War Against Japanese

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Congress Helps Kaiser Freeze Out Rival Unions

ARRAIGNMENT OF CODARRE DELAYED   Boy, 13, Who Slew Girl, 10, To Face Court Wednesdav: Victim Buried.

2,000 MINERS ARE ON STRIKE   Workers In Five Captive Pits Not Expected To Work Today

Strikes May Close Soft Coal Mines In Pittsburgh Area   Thousands of Men Expected To Refuse To Work Today

Many Protest Proposed Federal Plan   Mansfield Objects To Raising Level of Bia Lake

Flathead Lake Meet s Today   Governor and Army Engineers to Confer

SOLONS AGREE BROWN’S TASK IMPOSSIBLE ONE   Scrap Present Economic Program, Is Suggestion

ASK NEW WAGE: PRICE SET-UP   Senato r Taft Advances Plan For Controlled  Increases

Wage-Price Controls Urged  se Se   Taft Suggests Controlled Increases  Of Both

PLAN SUGGESTED TO END PROGRAM ON STABILIZATION   Senators Believe Brown s Unable to Hoid Line Against Inflation Under Present Conditions.   WARNING, DISCLOSURE BEFORE ANNOUNCEMENT   Taft Believes Roll Back Impossible and Suggests § Per Cent Increase In Annual Wages.

Senatorial Suggestion Calls For Controlled Wage, Price Increases

WAGE-PRICE BOOST URGED BY TAFT 10 CONTROL INFLATION   New Stabilization Policies in Making, Belief

BY OFFICIALS   Taft, Favoring Controlled System, Would Scrap Stabilization Program

PRICE AND PAY CONTROLS URGED   CONGRESS LEADERS PONDER MEANS OF CURBING INFLATION

Taft Urges Controlled Inflation’   Scrap Present Pion, Raise Wages, Prices Together, Suggestion

Senators Hint Controlled Wage And Price Boost   After Disclosure  Of Plans By FDR

TAFT PROPOSES WAGE CONTROL, PRICE BOOSTS   Claims OPA Unable To Check Inflation Under Present Set Up

Taft Offers . Plan to Peg Costs, Wages   Senator Says Labor Ask: the Impossible, Suggests 6% Price Rise

Urge Controlled Price Increase   Would Also Control Wage Boosts 

TAFT FAVORS CONTROLLED WAGE BOOSTS   Suggests 6 Per Cent Annual Raise in Pay Checks and in Prices in Lieu of Present Stabilization Program.

ANTI-INFLATION PLAN PRESENTED   Senator Taft Would Allow Controlled Increases of Wages and Prices

CONTROLLED RISE _ OF WAGES, PRICES   Senatorial Suggestion I. New Development on Inflation Front   FLEXIBILITY IN PLAN

Controlled Pay and Price Hikes Talked   Suggestion by Sen. Taft at Least, Partially Favored by Two Other Senators   PROPOSES! PLAN TO CURB BOOSTS

THE STABILIZATION PROGRAM ATTACKEL   Should Be Scrapped in Favor of Controlled Wages and Prices, It Was Suggested.

Senators Suggest Wage And Price Boosts Be Controlled, Not Banned

Controlled Price, Wage Increase To Replace Present Siahilization Is Latest Anti-Inflation Suggestio:

TAFT IN FAVOR OF CONTROLLED WAGE, PRICE INCREASES   Bekeves Price Rollback To Level of Sept. 15, 1942 Impossible; WLB Warns  at Inflation.

! Serapping of Stabilization Program In Favor of Controlled Wage, Price ‘Increases is Senatorial Suggestion. 

Roll-Back  Idea Wrong   Bound to Be Inflation During War, But Increases Should be Kept Under Strict Control

PRESENT ECONOMIC  STABILIZING PLAN  MAY BE SCRAPPED CONTROLLED WAGE AND  PRICE INCREASES WOULI BE SURSTITUTED

SENATORS MAKE SUGGESTIONS Ti CONTROL PRICES   Recommendations Follow President’s  Talks On Changes

Controlled Wage And Price Increases Likely To Be New Stabilization Move

CONTROLLED RISE OF WAGES, PRICES   Senatorial Suggestion Is New Development on Inflation Front  ) 

~-STRUBIE WOMAN   Emme Beitelepacher . Dies  ~ Age cof 35—Funeral ee ae an

DEATH SUMMONS ~STRUBLE WOMAN   Emme *Beitelspacher .- Dies ~ Age of 35—Funeral adn aeday 

CAPITAL WONDERING FINAL OUTCOME OF TWO PRICE MEASURES   LABOR AND INDUSTRY AND WPB CONFER ON “INCENTIVE” PAY PLAN

Price Bills, Record Navy Appropria: tion, Coal Act Extension Are Capital Topics

FARM VS, LABOR FIGHT LOOMS ON CAPITOL HILL   Farm Senators Challenge Administration To Get Tough With Labor from Now On   MINERS TO BRING TEST   Meanwhile, Request by Navy For $24,151,070,000 More Gets Congress’ Attention

WASHINGTON ’S EYES TURN TO LABOR’S PLEAS   Farm Bloc Waits To See  Administration Holds Line On Inflation

lraq Declares War As British Ally   Belligerent Status Will Simplify  Situation

IRAQ BECOMES ALLIES PARTNER   First Of Independent Arab Nations To Join Conflict Against Axis

Latest Raid On Kurile Islands Successful But Costly To U.S.   Americans Sank One Ship, Another Exploded And Third Was Left In Flames: Ten Planes Missing   Rail Yards On Adriatic Coast Bombed By U. §.

RAID UPON JAPAN'S  KURILE ISLANDS [8  SUCCESSFUL, COSTLY FIVE OF RAIDING BOMB ERS LOST AND FIVE OTHERS MISSING

Nazi Forces At Stalingrad Are Being Wiped Out   Reports Indicate 185,000 Slain Near Stalingrad In Past Ten Weeks   LESS THAN 12,000 STILL SURVIVING

MORE GERMANS “ARE DESTROYED AT STALINGRAE   Complete Regiment Ki'led _and- Another Regiment Surrendered.   DRIVE IS: CONTINUED:   Mescow. Estimates. Number of Nazis Slain Last Few .  : Days at 185,009, 

MORE GERMAN ARE DESTROYED AT STALINGRAD   Complete Regiment Ki led and Another Regiment £urrendered.   DRIVE IS CONTINUED   Mcscow Estimates Number of Nazis Slain Last Few Days at i85,€0).

GREEK PORT OF SALONIKA IS BLASTED   Liberators Complete 1000-Mile Trip  From Cairo

Yankees Hit Greek Airfield   Sardinia Raid: Meet Heavy  Onpnosition

American Liberators Blast Axis Air Base at Salonika in Greece   Blow Is Dealt at Vardar Route Figuring In First World War; Sardinia Is Raided

Americans Make Gain on Vangunu Off New Georgia; Toll of Foe Aircraft On Rendova Mounts to 155

Salamaua Drive Also  Prepared MacArthur Joins   MacArthur Joins Allied Troops At Front: -

21 Jap Planes Downed In Battle At Rendovs   American Forces Capture Vangunu Village Or Island, Inflict Loss Of 300; Viunda Bombed

House Group Starts New FCC Probe  Chairman Orders   Chairman Orders Counsel to Remain Seated

FCC Charged With Imperiling National Security  Alaskan Inciden’ Hinted in Probe of Fly's Activities

SOLON AND LAWYER HAVE LIVELY TILT   FCC Hearing ~ Enlivened as Charges Are In. vestigated

COX THREATENS TO CALL POLE   FCC Investigation Offers ;¥e Resor:

ESSEN HIT BY ‘HEAVY ATTACK   Bombers Continue to Raid Targets Saturday

RAF Smashes At Ruhr Objectives  Lose 13 Bombers In - Attack By Niaht

[RAF Makes Heavy Night Raid On Essen; Planes, Believed: . U.S. _ Off On Daylight Foray   British Lost 13 Planes In ‘Attacks On Ruhr Targets; Nazis Admit Damage

Gigantic Raid Made on Esser  Keupp Center, Most Bombed City 'n BAF. Bs 8 we) Oe... t

ROVAL AIR FORCE ATTACKS ESSER   Hits Other Points in Ruhr Valley; Loses 13 Bombers

RAF SMASHES Al      13 Bombei's Fail to. Return From Raid. Berlin Says: Considerable Damage Done.

Essen Again Target For Night Raid By British   Other Area In Ruhr Valley Also Bombed By RAF; Thirteen Rig Planes Lost

RAF, Yanks In Air Raids   Americans Strike Today After British Smash Ruhr Valley at Night

Bombs Rock Ruhr Valley   British Concentrate On Vital Krupp Plant

RAF Delivers AnotherHard Raid On Essen And Valley Areas In Germany At Night

13 RAF Planes Lost in 4th Attack on Nazi Industries in April.   10 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK

RAF Bombers  Hammer Rul   Liberators. Fortresses Follow Up British Raid On Industrial Valley.

U.S. Airmen Follow RAF In Mass Raids   British Bombard Ruhr Plants. Yankees Head Over France

RAF Makes ‘Heavy Attack on Essen   American Planes Go Out in Daylight

ESSEN BLASTED IN HEAVY RAID BY RAF FLIERS   Ruhr Valley Cities Hi in Night Attack, With 13 Bombers of Big .. Force Shot Down   TOLL REACHES 602   Mounting Losses in RAF  Planes Indicate Rise  in Aerial Attacks On Reich Areas

RAF BOMBERS AGAIN HEAVILY ATTACK ESSEN   Thirteen Craft Lost in Fourth April Raid on Home of Krupp Works —Other Ruhr: Valley Targets Are Blasted.

Lack of Rain Is Being Felt Here   Pasture Situation Serious With April Showing 1.82 Deficiency.   RAF Makes Heavy Aerial Attack on Targets in Reich

ROYAL AIR FORCE—  Pound  Essen   Blast At Shipping   Ruhr Objectives Bombed In Force

HEAVY’ ATTACK MADE ON ESSEN BY RAF PLANES   13 Bombers Missing After Night Assaults on Ruhr District

A ‘HEAVY ATTAGK’ ON ESSEN LAST NIGHT BY THE RAI   Other Ruhr Valley Targets ir Western Germany Also Were Raided.   13 BOMBERS WERE LOST   Squadrons of Heavy Bombers Flew Across Channel Toward Cherbourg Today.

Heavy RAF Attack On -Ruhr Valley   ‘Tempo of Aerial Action  Stepping Up Notably   Over Europe

RAF. Airmen Blast Essen In Big Raid   British Lose 13 Bomb. ers; Yanks Believed Continuing Raid

Essen Again  Is Target Of RAF Planes   Industrial Center Of  ' Ruhr Valley Become:  _ Most Bombed City Ir Entire World :

‘City-Busters’ Raid Aimed at Arms Cente   500 Bombers Deliver Mammoth Blow 1 Ruhr Iron and Steel Town; 27 of Attackers Lost; British Planes Ambush Luftwaffe Flight...”

500 BOMBERS DROP LOAD ON DUESSELDORF   Second Great Attack On Nazis In Two Nights Is Recorded   97 RAF PLANES ARE REPORTED LOST   Explosives Are Dropped On Other Targets In : Germany

J00 RAF PLANES PARTICIPATE IN REICH ATTACK   27 Bombers Lost As British Report Assault In “Very Great Strength”   ;NAZ] RAIDERS THWARTED   Sicily. Sardinia And Pantelferia Are Given “Terrific Hammering”

DUSSELDORF IS BOMBED BY RAF   Some 500 Planes in Heavy Attack on Important German War City

The Armada Probably Was as Strong as the Force Which Unloaded 2000 Tons of Ex plosives on Dortmund.   ESTIMATED THAT 500 BOMBERS TOOK PART   At Least Three-Quarters of Them Were Giant Four-Engined Craft; Full Reports Unobtainable.

500 Of Britian’s Heaviest Bomber: Hit Arms Center   Bombs Dropped May Have Equalled Raid On Dortmund; Luftwaffe Stabs At English Coast

Duesseldorf Under Heavy RAF Attack   27 of Some 500 Bombers Lost; Great  Damage at Arms Center

BIG BOMBER ARMADA HEAPS DESTRUCTION ON NAZI ARMS CENTER   Reports of Damage Inflicted on Duesseldorf Obscured By Bad Weather

RAF Armada Probably As Strong As That Whic Hi it Dort ricci Paralyzine Blow   27 Bombers Lost; British Offensive Aimed At Obliterating Enemy Arms Centers One B; One: Nazis’ Thied Larvcect Inland Part

Dusseldorf Is Again Blasted By RAF Bombs   500 Planes Take Part, Dropping Explosives on Key Industrial Town.   Another Raid in Progress Today

00 BOMBERS IN SLASHING ATTACK   British Announcement Says 27 Warplanes Failed To Return   Italy’s Outer Invasion Defenses Given Terrific  Hammering

ESTIMATE 9 BOMBERS JOIN IN ATTACK   Steel City Believed Hit Heavily As Dortmund   Lost In Near-Record Efforts Other Targets In Germany Blasted

HEAVY FORCE OF RAF BLASTS DUESSELDORI   Raid Believed as Strong as That  Which Unloaded 2,000 Tons Bombs on Dorimund   27 BOMBERS LOST   Abbeville Airfield, Other Targel Strafed — Germans Raid Tw British Towns

ARMADA OF 500  PLANES BLAST  DUESSELDORF HEAVY BOMBERS  ATTACK TARGETS IN RUHR VALLEY

Armada Lashes Nazis   ,..Duesseldorf Blasted By 2,000 Tons of Bombs

lron, Steel Works Hit In Huge Raid   Foray Rivals Spectacular Assault That Laid Dortmund Waste

Blow Equals Attack Made On Dortmund   Offensive Aimed At Knocking Out Arms Centers One By One

OBLITERATING ARMS CENTERS ~— ONE BY ONE      Duesseldorf : Given Fury That Razed Dortmund =

Rhineland Arms Center Is Hit By 500 RAF Bombers.   Tonnage Of Explosives May Equal That Dropped On Dortmund Sunday

Continuing Offense Appears Aimed at Nazi Arms . Centers.   ITALIAN CITIES BOMBED

KEY INDUSTRIAL CITIES HIT HARD IN NIGHT ATTACK   Twenty-Seven Bombers Lost At Dartmouth

Growing Assaults Aimed At Wiping Out Industria! Areas Of Germany

MISSILES MAY EQUAL WEIGHT AT DORTMUND      At Least Three-fourths of Armada Estimated to Be Giant Four-Mo-: tored Craft — Air Offensive Is Continuing. —

ee  BIG RAF ARMADA HITS DUESSELDORI   Continuing Offensive Apparently Aimed At Obliterating Germany’s Arms Centers One By One.

Factionalism Danger Serious   BARSON SAYS FFFECT ON BUSINESS IS BAD

Babson Fearful As Factionalism Grows   Effect on Business May b Disastrous, Says Noted. Statistician

TOO MUCH FIGHTING ON THE HOME FRONT   Babson Asserts’ Factional Competition And Divided Leadership [s Hindering The War Effort At Home.

Five More Big Towns Recovered   Cross Kuban River As Axis Stand Fails; Capture Kamansh; Near  Kharkov.

Soviets Press On Toward Key Objectives   Number of Prisoners Taken Continues to Grow Larcer

MOVES   (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By LOU Is T. KEEMLE  (ee ee ee Le ee

WAR ESSENTIAL JOB LIST GIVEN   ADDITIONS, CHANGES ANOUNCED FOR USE BY DRAFT OFFICIALS

PROSECUTION NEAR END OF TESTIMONY AT FLYNN’S TRIAI   Only Minor Witnesses Left; ‘Strumpet’ Is Settled

STATE TO END FLYNN EVIDENCE   Parents Of Miss Satterlee, Who Admits Illegal Operation, To Be Called

CLERGYMEN SCORE ‘NUMBERS’ RACKET      Toledo Ministers Appeal To Ohio Legislature

ALLIED BOMBERS INACTION NEAR NPS’ HOMELANG   U. S. Announces Sinking Of Nine More Jap Ships By American Subs

Suggests Italy Get Out of War   Churchill Favors Wag: ing Vigorous War In the Pacific

Quentin Roosevelt Has Been Wounded   Was Struck in the Back With Either Machine Gun Bullet or Shell Fragment.

A ROOSEVELT WOUNDED      Grandson of Former Eresident Ht Im Tunisia _

GRANDSON OF T.R. WOUNDED   Quentin Roosevelt Struck By Machinegun Bullet Fragment.

SON. THRODORE ROOSEVELT IS AFRIGA VICTIM   Grandson of Late Teddy  Roosevelt Struck in Back  by Bullet or Anti-Aircraft Shell Fragment   NO VITAL ORGANS ARE BELIEVED PIERCED   Was Forward Observer and Liaison Officer for Artillery When Struck Bown

‘WOUNDED IN ACTION      Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, Son of  Teddy, Jr. in Africa

GRANDSON OF ‘T.R WOUNDEDINAFRIGA   Quentin Roosevelt Struck By Bullet During Raid on Tunisian Front.

Famed Teddy’s Grandson  Is Wounded  Quentin Roosevelt Stenck by Nazi

Working Week of 6 Days in Coal Mines Ordered by Ickes   Directive Is Issued as Miners Returned to—  Work for 15 Days

DAY AND NIGHT AIR BLOWS HIT NAZI SUB BASE   Light Thrust At . Berlin Also Made During Night Raids

ROYAL AIR FORCE WILL BE 25 YEARS OLD TOMORROW   Britain’s Air Military  _ Might Has Grown From Mere Handful Of Planes To a Reported 23.000

RAF To Celebrate 25th Birthday With Over 23,000 Planes   291,000 Officers and Men Taking Part In Pasting Of Germany's War Machine

SHIP WITH NAZI OiL CARGO SUNK   Fuel For Rommel’s Tank Columns Cut Off By American Bombers

Allied Forces Open 3-Way Assault On  Bomb-Racked Island   Italian Says Allied Parachutists Spearhead Landings; Heavy Fighting Reported On East, South Coast Of Island

Smash Through Barbed Wire And Gun Emplacement At Landing Points On Sicily

ALLIED ARMIES FIGHT THROUGH BARRICADES, TO CONSOLIDATE BRIDGEHEADS INSICILY INVASION

Bombardment By Navy And _ Many Planes   Landing Barges Go In After Terrific Pounding of Enemy Bases   MUST CONSOLIDATE THE BRIDGEHEADS   First Three Days Regarded As Most Critical Period in Amphibious Invasion

\merican, British ‘And Canadian Troops Form Invasion Army Which Eisenhower Has Sent Against Strongly Entrenched Axis Forces In Southeastern Sicily

Troops from Landing Barges Battle Through Mine Fields, Barbed Wire, Gun Emplacements To Form Strong Bridgehead

U.S., Canadian, British Troops Pierce Strong Axis Defenses   Heavy Naval and Air Units Support Land-

Allied Troops Storm Sicily   Thousands of Soldiers, Supported By Planes And Warships, Battle Through Axis Coastal Defense To Launch Big Attack On Island.

AirplanesAnd Warships Aid Troop Units   American, British and Canadian Forces Battle Through Coastal Mine Fields, Barbed Wire and Gun Emplacements to Effect Landing; Italians Report Counter-Attacks   Declares “Battle of Europe Has Begun”

SITUATION CLEARS UP   ‘Sailors and’ Marines Allowed to   Return to Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES OPENED TO MEN IN SERVICE   Police Say Zoot Suiters Now Under Control

RESTRICT SUBSIDY’ USE, SENATE PLEA   Rollback Fight Dev As Banking Unit Takes’. etand

Praise the Lord and — Work !  Pastor Doubles as War Plant Guard, Helps Pay Church Debt

The. Greatest. ‘Food ‘Crop in. the United States. Has Been Too 4 ‘Scarce to Eat. < .

POTATOES ARE IN ABUNDANGE NOW   The New Crop Is_ Larger Than That of Last Year, Lee Says.

Victims Found By Neighbor In Mercer County   Dairyman's Wife, Mother And Hired Hand Are Brutally Murdered

2 Women, Man Are Slain On  Mercer Farm      Youth, Once George Junior Republic - Inmate, and Girl Being Hunted; Neighbors Discover Tragedy

Find 3 Slain On Mercer Dairy Farm   WIFE AND MOTHER OF EVERETT WILSON AND HIRED MAN VIC TIMS OF TRIPLE MURDER ON FARM.   Farm Hand Suspected

‘inree Slain On Farm  Near Mercer  F armhand, Hired Girl And Car of One Victim Sought by Officers

Inflation Is Biggest Fear With Congress   Administration Is Attempting To Move Cautiously  in Bills for Farmers and Labor.

Administration Seeks Cheek On Inflation   Strives to Help  Both Farmers and Labor—Farm Bloc Has Two Weapons

Wickard and M‘Nutt Agree On Program   Dratt Deferment For Farm Workers ls Agreed Upon

Agreement Reached On Farmer Deferment Plan   Secretary Of Agriculture Wickard And McNutt Decide On Four-Point Program.

Program For Deferment Of Farm Workers Agreed Upon By Wickard, McNutt

Wickard, McNutt Agree on Four-Point Program for Farm Workers Deferment

Farm Labor Deferment  Plan Set Up   McNutt, Wickard Agree on Program  For Draft Status

Wickard, McNutt Agree  On Farm Deferments   Formulate Four-Point Program For Draft Boards’ Guidance; War Boards Must Intervene

Initiate plan aid shortage of farm labor   Leaders draw up program to defer essential workers

Wickard-McNutt Pact Effective Immediately   -.Four-Point Agreement Outlined; Acriecultural Boards Get Orders _

British Closing In On Tripoli; Sink 13 Ships   Axis Reports Say Outskirts Reached By 8th Army, Suburbs Afire; Enemy Thrust in Tunisia Gains 7 Miles

SOME INDICATIONS, POINT TO. “CONSIDERATION ‘or’ RE VISING BABIC STRATEGY oF WAR

ALLIED POLICY SHIFT INDICATED , AT CONFERENCE   Pacific May Be Cleared Before Final Drive Against Hitler   EUROPEAN PLANS SET   Conference At Casablanca Believed To Have Taken Care Of Atlantic

MAY CHANGE MAJOR BLOWS TO PACIFIC   Bits of Information at Conference Indicate New Strategy

INDICATION THAT NEW PLANS BEING MADE BY LEADERS   Surmise, if True, Means Radical Revision of Attack Plans.

STATES ARMY’S NEED     Will Take 75,000 J Men Monthly  After January 1, Stimson Says

WOULD STAMP OUT THE QUIZ-MANIA   Questions The Bureaus Asking People Don’t Even Make Sense .

AERIAL BATTLE FOR SOUTHERN ITALY BEGINS   Allies Shift Focus of Bomber Power to Knocking Out Railways   American Battleships Bombard Italian Toe

American Warships Pour Concentrated Fire Into ‘Hells Triangle’ on Lower Peninsula   SHELL GIOIA TAURO   Batlered Rail Lines in Naples Area Again Straléd in Day and Night Atlasks :

SOUTHERN AREA OF ITALY UNDER CONSTANT RAID   Waves of Fire From Sky Being Supplemented by Naval Forces Moving  . Alone Coast   CUTTING RAILWAY SYSTEMS TO PIECES   Same Pattern of Attack Forced Surrender of Pantelleria and Cut Sicily’s Communication

COMMUNICATION CENTERS BEING BLASTED APART   Allied Flying Buzzsaw Tearing Mainland Apart

ALLIED BOMBERS SPRAY DEATH ON SOUTHERN ITALY  SKY BATTLE UNDER   SKY BATTLE UNDER WAY TO KNOCK OUT KEY RAILROAD LINES

Sea Forres Aid In Maintining Waves (f Fire   ‘Hell’s Triangle’ Feels Brunt Of Allied Sea And Aerial Might

Sky Battle For Southern Italy Has Fully Begun   U.S. Warships Pour Tons Of Shells Into “Hell's Triangle” On Toe Of Italian Boot; Allied Bombers Softening Defenses

Allies Hit Rail Lines in Italy  U. S. Naval Units Shell Mainland Coast Ae Rambera Strike

Italy Is Bombarded  From Sea and Air   Planes Strike at Communication To North and Naval Guns Pound Southern Ports

_ American Naval Guns Pound At Southern Italy   Allied Aerial Bombers Blast Railway Connections With North.

RAILWAY SYSTEM IN NAPLES AREA HEAVILY BEASTED   Allied Airmen Hammer Lines Linking North and South Italy—-Down 14 Planes,  Lose 10. .   AMERICAN WARSHIPS SHELL GIOIA TAURO   Naval Forces Unchallenged as They Move Along Coast, Hurling Broadsides at Tarvets.

U. S. Warships Bombard Shore Points; Day and Night Assaults Damaging

Sky Battle Over  Italy Is F laring Bombers Knocking Out  Railway Lines

ALLIED PLANES AND WARSHIPS BATTER ITALY   Concentrate On Knocking Out North-South Rail  Connections   GIRD FOR INVASION   Swiss Report Says Rome   Expects Attack In   Few Days

RAIL AND ROAD NETWORKS ARE BEING BLASTED   Naval Forces Pour Broadsides Into ‘Targets Along Coast   FOGGIA RUINED   Objectives In Naples Area Smashed By Allied  Bombers

Relentless . Air Assault Rocks Italy   Pre-Invasion Raids Growing More Intense

Rail Lines, Roads Left In Wreckage   Natis Throw More “Planes Against LL. S.oRAF Fliges -

Naples Region Bears Brunt Of Sky Attack   North and South Italian Connecting Lines Are Hammered

—IT ALY ~  ITALY BATTERED FROM SEA, Alp   Sky Battler For Southern Half Of Country Launched By Allies   POWERFUL BLOWS   Day And Night Bombers Slash At Important Railway Lifelines

Sky Battle Rages For Southern Italy   American Warships Concentrate Fire On Lower Peninsula’s Railway Points

Allied Planes Rip Into Naples Area   Vulnerable Points Are Blasted Round-the-Clock

From Air And Sea Southern ltaly Blasted   German Planes Try Unsuccessfully To Stem Allied Air Tide

NAPLES AREA HARD HIT BY AIR ASSAULT   NAVAL FORCES POUR BROADSIDES INTO ITALIAN PORTS

Allied Sea, Air Forces Open Drive For Italy   Smashing Power Brought To Bear On Mainland Area And ‘Heil’s Triangle’; Railroad Lines, War Installations Smashed: -Huae: Fires Started. -

AIR BATTLE FOR SOUTH ITALY IS FULLY OPENED   Large Allied Formations Continue Assaults . by Day and by Night

Bombers Focus Qn Italian Rails As Navy Shells ‘Hells Triangle’   Three Cities in Naples Area Hit by Waves of Planes

Allied Air and Sea Power Hammer at Southern Italy  Railway Lines and Hiahwavs Bombarded   Railway Lines and Highways Bombarded Around the Clock by Allied Planes

Key “Triangle” Cities In Italy   Warships Take Big Role ay Aart Up Of Mainland

SKY BATTLE FOR SOUTH ITALY ON   Allies Shifting Focus of Forces to Knocking Out Railway Connections with Narth

KNOCKING OUT OF AXIS ARMY MOVEMENTS AIM   Meanwhile, American Warships Are Pouring Concentrated Fire [nto Italian Toe   iTARGETS AT GIOLA TAURO ARE BLASTED   British Sea Forces Sink Seven Landing Craft Off  Scajea as Blows on Main  land Grow Heavier

U.S, PLANES RIP ITALIAN CITIES   Air Battle for Southern Italy in Full Tilt

Stiff New Blows ‘Aimed At Major Defense Roads   Rome-Naples Line Is Cuts - U.S. Warships Pound ’ Toe Of Italian ‘Boot 

‘Hell's Triangle’ —   Air Battle For Southern Italy Going Full Tilt As Allies Pound At Vital Targets In Round-The-Clock Raids

Air Fleets Pound At Italy   Devastating Bombing Following Conquest of Sicily Prepares Way for New Assaults; German Planes Frustrated in Defense Effort

Bombers of All Sizes Enter Fray   Transportation Lines Are Principal Targets Of Airmen

All Out Blows ToCrippleSouth Italy Launched   @Dominant Air Power Strikes At Rai Connections; U. S. Fleet Rips Left Side Of ‘Hell's Triangle’

ITALIAN RAIL LINES BOMBED      Allied Pilots Attempting To Sever Connections With North

Sky Battle Is On For South Italy   Communication Lines the Special Targets-of Alhed Bombers   WRECK RAILROAD LINKS   From Naples Southward An And Sea Craft Join In Attacks

All-out Air Battle Is Underway   Seek to Knock Out Railway Connections North

Railways To North Pounded   U. S. Warships Are Pounding Italian Toe At Will.

Allied Bombers Range Far Over Italy to Slash Rail Lines And Blast Targets in Naples Area

LIST 25 FLYING FORTS MISSING AFTER ATTACKS   Sweep by Daylight Over Heavily Defended Area to Lash Targets

Rhineland Raided By  Amerieans   Twenty-Five Planes Are Lost In Attacks On Belsenkirchen, Bonn And Wesseling

FORTRESSES IN ACTION FIRST TIME IN AUGUST   25 Bombers Lost in Raids

PENSION BILL IS ‘HOT POTATO’   House Plans Reconsideration Of Vote Approving Judges’ Retirement

JUDGES’ PENSIONS MEET OPPOSITION   Bill Becomes ‘Hot Potato’ For Ohio Legislators

Judges’ Pension Bill Becomes “Hot Potato” Many Representatives Likely To Change Votes

PENSION BILL HOT POTATO   House Temper Indicates Judges’ Measure Might Be Defeated

Local Option Question Up In Assembly   Proposal Is Sponsored By Anti-Saloon League, And WCTU

ASK SUPPORT OF MEAT PLAN   Gov't Chief Says Ration Program In Critical Position

Soldier Trio Dies Of Thirst On Maneuvers  Company Of Missing Trainees Found *  On Desert

3 Soldiers Dead, 1 Lost In Desert   SOMPANY ON ENDURANCE TEST  IN 124 DEGREE TEMPERATURE, LIEUTENANT GOES FOR WATE MEN GET SEPARATED.   Size Of Pennsylvania

39 Soldiers Lost In Desert Found, With Three Dead   Company on Maneuvers Had Beer Missing Several Days—Temperature Un to 124 Recorded.

Three Soldiers Perish of Thirst When Company Is Lost in California Desert

Three soldiers Die as Company Lost in Desert  Searching Party Finds Men Missing Since Saturday

UNT SABOTEUR S SHELL TRAIN FIRE RAKES CITY   Eight Wounded in Colorado, Ammunition Hits Many Buildings

AMMUNITION TRAIN BLOWS UP: EIGHT HURT   Believe Catastrophe May Have Been Work of Saboteurs

[COLORADO TOWN DAMAGED AND EIGHT: PERBONB-~ INJURED AS RESULT OF EXPLODING 8HELLS

GLASS ADVOCATES PACT ADOPTION   Dictates Recommendation That Colleagues Endorse Moscow Conference; Hails Peace Aims.

Indorsement Of Moscow Pact Urged   Carter Glass Would Substitute Language For Pending Measures

Glass Indorses Moscow Meet   Asks That Senate Support Conference

Hides Reveal . Black Market   Large Increase. Ts ‘Noted In nluipagenta ‘Despite. .S. Controls:

BLAGKMARKETS IN MEAT FLOURISHING   Cowhide Shipments From Unins pected Slaughterhouses Increase 75 Percent In Recent Months.

BLACK MARKET IN MEAT CITED a His BOOS!  7 MM... nail Dannets      Tanners’ Council Reports Huge Increase, Reveals Untraceable Hides In Many Areas   SLAUGHTER SHOWN   Devious Methods Listed In Illegal Ways Meat Price Ceilings Are Being Violated

Increase in Untraceable Hides Noted   Leather Industry Provides Proof of Black Market Operating on Big Scale

Proof Of Biack Mar ket In Beef 7 Is Viewed By Leather Industry Tn Supply Of Untraceable Hides

Increase In Hides Show Day’s Trend  Proof Of Black Market In Beef Ja Big. Movement

More Than 1.500 Japs Killed In Attu Fighting      Tokyo Admits Setback {n Fierce Fighting On China I*ront.

Americans Kill 1,500 Japs While  A Surrender   Estimate Is Based On Actual Count After Battle

1,500 Japs Slain In 20 Days On Attu   Yankees; Nipponese Admit A Setback In China Struggle

Jap Casualty List For Attu Mounts High   More Than 1,500 Are Killed In First 20 Days Of Fighting

1,000 JAPANESE KILLED AT ATTI      U. S. Conquest Complete Excepi for ‘Suicide’ Bands.   FOUR TAKEN PRISONER

Miners Refuse To Work Saturdays   Fear Action tion May Touch Off Another Wave Cy! Tdlaneca. :

Fortresses Now Pack More Bombs   May Team with RAF In Night Fighting

Radio Hints Blows At Berlin, Munich  Ti-Raat Plaeot at Teo   U-Boat Plant at Emden, Ruhr Cite Sipached

IITTIEF ©€f8 eT awre   Two Londoners Are Convicted Of Conspiracy

New Gains In  ~ Munda Battle   Yanks Push Closer To Vital Base On New Georgia Island   ALSO ADVANCE IN SALAMAUA DRIVE

‘ALLIES MAKE NEW GAINS IN BITTER MUNDA FIGHT; \JAPS MAY GIVE UP KISKA

Deadline For Miners To Return To Mines Under F. R. Order Wednesday

John L. Lewis Confer: With Ickes In Regarc To Efforts To Reoper Nation’s Mines

F. R. Meets With Heads of Business   PRESIDENT HOLDING CONFERENCE SERIES ON U.S. WAR EFFORT

NORTHWEST IS HIT BY FLOOD   Tugboats Mobilized To Halt Logs In Willamette =

OREGON, OHIO FLOODS WREAK HUGE DAMAGE   Log Jam on Willamette Threat to Shipyards . Ait Portland

STRING BOOMS TO HALT Logs   Tugboats Prepared té Give Help in Harbor

Logs Choke River When Dam Breaks      Portland Harbor Endangered; Ohio Flood Nears Peak

LOGS RIDING FLOOD CREST   Harbor At Portland Is Threatened With New Peril.

Government Makes Unprecedented Move for Action against the AP   Asks for Summary Judg ment without Testimony in Anti-trust Suit

ASKS RULING AGAINST A. P.   Summary Judgment f News Distrbution Case Is Sought

GOV'T TAKES NEW STEPS IN AP LAW SUIT   Unprecedented Move for Summary Judgment Launched ~

NEAR 100,000 MINERS STILL REMAIN IDLE   More than 30,000 Returned to Work  Yesterday—Steel Activity Increasing

STEEL INDUSTRY GETS MORE COAL   SITUATION IMPROVES AS MINERS RESUME WORK; 100,000 IDLE

Blast Furnaces Getting Back Into Operation   About 100,000 of 521,000 Coal Miners Are Still Idle

6 More Stee Furnaces in Operation   Made Possible By Increasing Supply of Coal For Industry

STEEL CUTPUT INCREASED   UMW Officials Predict Ful Production After July ¢ Holiday

Coal Supplies Beginning To Grow Again   Steel Furnaces Re. sume Operations; Miners Returning

Straggle Back To Coal Mines   More Working in Anthracite Area, But 100.000. Still Idle

6 More Stee! Furnaces in Operation  By Increasing Supply of Caal

SIX MORE BLAST FURNACES PUT INTO OPERATION   By U. S.. Steel Compan} . In View: of Increased Coal Sunvlies —

Six Furnaces Are Restored By Steel Corp.  ee   On Twelfth Day of Walkout 100,000 Miners Are Reported Idle

RESTART 6 BLAST FURNACES IN EAST   Ohio Coal Operators Raise Wages of Miners

WAGE INGREASE DENIED MINERS   Portal to Portal Pay Issue Was Tossed Back Into Collective Bargaining.

Recommend Some Other Con‘cessions, -However, an d Turn Portal Pay Issue Back to Collective Bargaining

WLB DENIES WAGE RAISES TO MINERS   But Other Concessions . Are Grantéd, And Collec. tive Bargaining Principle Is Re-Instated

WLB Nears Coal Decision   Portal-to-Portal Pay Likely Bargaining  WLB Refuses to Grant Basic Coal Pay Hike

BOARD BACKS PORTAL PLAN WV OECISION   Raise in UMW Vacation Pay Allowed; Equipment. Pro-:. visions Made.   SIX-DAY WEEK ISSUE GOES TO.COMMITTEE

WLB Refuses Miners Plea  For Pay Boost   Board Recommends Some Other Concessions to Soft Coal Miners

War Labor Board Okehs Portal To Portal. Miners Pay, Denies Wage Rise

Major Rubber Plants Closed By Walk-Out   Unionists Ignore War Department's Demand To Return

Basic Wage Increase Refused By WLB But Way Is Opened For Approval Of Portal-To-Portai Pay If Agreed Upon Through Collective Bargaining Procedure

EXTRA   Refuse Straight Pay Boost For Nation’s Miners  here _— tes It Will Approve

Refuses Basic Pay Increase      Wut War Labor Board-Recommends ‘Some Other Concessions to Miners   GOR BARGAINING ON PORTAL PAY   Also Acts .to Plug Some Loopholes in Operation :. of 6-Day ‘Week

War Board Refuses Coal Mine Increase  Collar-Ts-Collar Issue Undecided

Some Concessions On Other Points Allowed, However   Portal-to-Portal Pay Issue Back to Collective Bargaininc

CHRISTMAS LETTERS TO SOLDIERS WHO ARE INTERNED SHOULD BE WRITTEN AT ONCE

War Prisoners In Line For Christmas Letters --But Write Them Now

Extension of  CCC Is Voted   WASHINGTON (AP) — The house voted Friday to extend the life of the Commodity Credit corporation until Feb. 5.

EXTEND LIFE OF CCC 60 DAYS   No New Subsidies to Be  Started in Interim

Subsidies Win  Breathing Spell  Bargain Ends with 60-Day Extension Of Life of CCC

Smuts Says Zero Hour  Approaches   Ttaly Calls on Sicilians To Defend Themselves

British Start Large Fires In Port Of Olbia   Field Marshal Smuts Says Zero Hour For Offensive Approaching

ZERO HOUR SEEN APPROACHING IN EUROPEAN FIGHT   Field Marshal Smuts Predicts’  Main Battle To Be  Joined This Year

SMUTS SEES ZERO HOUR AT HAND FOR --BESIEGED EUROPE   Nazi Broadcaster Makes Ad: mission That Axis Can Re Dafestead

MAY LOSE WAR, . NAZIS ADMIT FOR FIRST TIME   All Signs Continue to  Point to Landing int Southern Europe

Marshal Smuts Says Zero Hour For Allied Offensive Is Approaching

STATE INCOME TAX CUT WINS SENATE FAVOR   House Votes to Place Bill at Top of List For Wednesday

SELECTIVES STILL — - STRONG IN MARKET   Profit Cashing Futs Leaders in Minas Column; Many * New. Highs

 ———e—eeEeEeEeE—~=—eEeEeEe PROFIT CASHING DAMPENS SOME STOCK LEADERS

LIEUT. SCHERER COMMENDED FOR GALLANTR’      Concord Man, Fo n 1 Em ploye of Town’ Awarded. “Citation af Guadaloanal

LIEUT. SCHERER COMMENDED FOR GALLANTRY   ‘Concord Man, Former Em ploye of Town Awarded.  Citation at Guadalcanal

U.S. Takes All Frozen Chicken For Servicemen   ‘Points Cut For Canned And Frozen Food

Canned Food Points Slashed   SNAP BEANS, MOST FROZEN VEGETABLES TO BE RATION-FREE DURING JANUARY; JAMS, PRESERVES, MARMALADES RAISED

New Vegetable Cuts Ordered   OPA Reduces Points On Frozen Products

Royal Air Force Crosses Channel  Activity Resumed After Five Nights

MORE DADS ARE AWAITING CALLS   Draft Board Places Large Number of Pre-War Fathers in 1-A

SCORES OF DADS ” ARE ON 1-A LIST   Draft Board Announces Actions Taken at Recent Meeting in Miami

PREDICT MEAT SHORTAGE FOR LAST OF JUNE   Large Part Of Current Quarterly Quota Butchered

MEAT SHORTAGE IS EXPECTED IN OHIC   Metropolitan Area of State May Be Hit by Conditions Late in June.

Practice War In Desert   Army Trains ‘Trains Men Under Conditions Similar To Those in N. Africa

Nazis Believed  To Have Pulled  Delaying Guard Off the Island   British Take Taormina; Berlin Admits Force Is Fleeing

BRITISH ALS PUSH FORWARD IN NEW DRIVE   End of Campaign In Sicily at Hand, Says Official Report

—SICILY—  END OF SICTLIAN CAMPAIGN NEAR   Yanks Overrun Axis Rearguards 14 Miles From Escape Port   NAZIS IN FLIGHT   Majority Of Germans Flee Into Italy Across Strait

Axis Rearguard Overwhelmed By American Army   Messina In Range Of U.S. Guns; Germans Desert !talians

KNOCKOUT OF SICILY 1S DUE MOMENTARILY   Light Resistance Indicates Germans Have Made Getaway   REDS PERIL BRYANSK   Milan and Other Bases In Italy Pasted By Allied Planes

Sicily Campaigr End “at Hand   U. §., BRITISH RACE ONWARD TO PUSH NAZIS OUT OF BITTERLY CONTESTED AREAS; ITALIANS LEFT AS REAR GUARD BY ESCAPING GERMAN TROOPS

Yanks Close In on,  ‘Axis Rear Guard in Vicinity of Milazzo   ‘All Indications Are That Nazis Have Pulled Out Even Delaying Parties Leaving Italian Units Only To Face Climactic Push   ‘VALUABLE EVACUATION AREA DENIED ENEM\

Within Artillery Range Of Axis Escape Hatch; Germans Already Gone; British Take Taormina.

Allies Speed Up Messina Sprint   .. +. Foe Shells British From Italian Maintand

Lost Yanks Straggle Back to Base, After Italian Captors Free Them

Lost American Infantrymen Report Italians Who Captured Them Wanted to Be Taken Prisoner So They Could Get Food

Japs Have Sworn to Fight Americans to Death Finish.   ANTICIPATE HAND TO HAND COMBAT   NF ee eT ae at et er ee ae eS oe  Enemy Has Dug in for Last Stand on High Ground.

'U. 5. PREPARES FOR FINAL ASSAULT ON "TRAPPED JAPANESE   Enemy Forces Or On ‘Attu May ‘Make Desperate LastDitch Stand From Fox-Heles

Japs on Attu Digin for Last Stand   Operations on Isle Continue, Navy Announces

DIG IN FOR LAST STAND   Nips Trapped In 15 Square Mile Area By Americans

42 More French Warships Soon To Join Allies   Aamnral Fernard Says Craft Includes Two BattleShips, 6 Cruisers, Carrier; Crews Fager To Fight Germans

French Ready 46 Warships To Help Allies   Navy Mission Chief Says Two Cruisers Already Join Battle

FRENCH FLEET TO AID ALLIES   Admiral Says 42 More Warships Will Soon Join Sea Armada

42 French War Ships Soon Will Fight With Allies  French Vice Admire   French Vice Admiral Says Two Cruisers Already in Scrap

FRENCH WARSHIPS INTO ACTION SOON   FORTY-TWO, IN ADDITION TO 4 AT U.S. PORTS, TO JOIN ALLIES.

42 More French Warships To Join United Nations’ Fleet Soon, Admiral Says

More Warships To Join Allies   French Admiral Says 42 More to Enter Fight

FIVE MEMBERS OF RANCH FAMILY SLAIN   Dead Cow, Dying Calves Head Officers To Scene

RANCH FAMILY "OF FIVESLAR   Dead Cow, Dying Calves And Starved Rabbits Led To Finding Of Crime

F amily Ot 5 ound Slain. ig ‘A Ranch   Starving Stock Attract Notice Of Deputy Sheriff

Deaths of Five Prove a Puzzle   Members of California Ranch Family Dead

C-I Is Facing 2 Actions for Faked Tests   STEEL CORPORATION IS_ CONFRONTED WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INQUIRY AND INFORMER’S DAMAGE SUITS.   8 Employes Sued

Knox Reveals Splendid Work Of U.S. Subs   Period of Action Is Not Not Disclosed

YANKEE SUBS SINK 98 MORE JAP VESSELS   Announcement Made By Knox  TOTAL HITS _ 319  ed  Reveal U.S. Power In Pacific

U.S. SUBMARINES SINK 98 MORE JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC   See’y Knox Reveals 319 Vessels Blasted Sinee Pearl Harhor

War Carried To Nip Home Waters   ee . 460 Sunk Or Damaged Since Pearl Harbor   Sept. 9 Total 312.

Five Polio Cases Here Bring Re-Emphasis On Health Precautions: Plainview Fights Polio And Meninaitis   City Council At Plainview Orders Thorough Cleanup   Rollo Insists All Health Rules Are To Re FEallowed

five £oulo Cases Here Bring Re-Emphasis On Health Precautions; Plainview Fights Palin And Mout, tt.   Rollo Insists Aff.  Health Rules Are Ta Ra Callaweaed   City Council At Plainview Orders Thorotgh Cleaniun

Germany's Heavy ~ Tanks Thrust 18 Miles Farther West   Russians Sweep on . After Capture of Kharkov Yesterday

GERMANS RIP 18 MILES INTO US. LINES   German. Armored Drive Threatens to Cut Allied  Line in Center

American Losses in Men And Equipment Reported ‘Heavy in First Bie Battle

NAZIS CONTINUE RETREAT ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT   Germans Have 125-Mile March from Kharkov to Dnieper River

ALLIED FRONT IN TUNISIA IS FACING THREAT   Hitler’s Hordes in Russia Face Disaster, However, As Reds Drive On   KHARKOV FALLS TO SOVIET   Allied Air and Submarine Attacks Stepped Up and Japs Put in Squeeze

Tanks Rip Over American Lines: Split Impending   Gravest Reverse in Africa Seen: Kharkov Nazis Head for Dnieper.

MAIN U. S. FORCE’S CASUALTIES HEAVY   Montgomery's Army Reported Pushing Forward Stronglv In Soith

Entire United Nations F Threatened in Middle        RUSSIAN NEWS BRIGHT   Germans in Headiong Retreat Toward Dnieper — River

Germans Threaten To Cut Aliied Line   Number of American Units Cut Off in Rush of German Forces and Not Heard From as Nazi Desert Veterans  Advance 18 Miles.   But British Army Is Expected to Bring Pressure Avainst Rommel

ONE OF GREATEST  ALLIED REVERSES IN  AFRICA I$ ADMITTED RUSSIAN SITUATION  BRIGHT AS RED ARMIES DIIPCIICV CERMANS

Threaten to, Cut Alli              GERMANS USE. - HEAVIEST TANK        Yesterday's: Rally

Nazi Tanks ~ Dent Allied Battle Lines   Americans Rally Following Baptismal of Fire By Enemy Forces

Yanks Face Reverses as Foe Charges      Picture Looks Brighter in Russia Where Germans Flee From Encirclement —

TANK FORCES THREATEN 10 DIVIDE FRONT   J. S. Counter-Attack Fades Before Huge Enemy Machines

Rommel Forces New Retreat By American Army   German Tanks Smash Through To Sbeitla In Fresh. Drive

TANK DIVE: FRASES ALL 0.8, GAINS   Losses.Of Armored Equipment, Men Reported

Armed Troops Cool Tempers Of Rebellious Japs   Internees at Tule Lake Quelled After Riots and Assaults

TROOPS GUARD JAPS AT CAMP   Rebellious Internees Are Brought Under Control At Tule Lake

THE NEWS   Will 15-Minute Lunch  Period Hurt Miners?  Lewis Says “‘No”

Group Attacks State Anti Labor Activity   Senate Civil Liberties Committee Hears Report! By La Foltette   LEGISLATION URGED;      Belligerent Employers Associations In California Are Criticised

ROMMEL UNITS HURLED GAGK IN ALL SECTORS   Six Thrusts By Armored Forces Are Repelled; Russians Slowed

Americans Advance In Central Tunisian Area   Allied Planes Support Attacks On Retreating vermans; Eighth Army Ready For  Smash On Southern Front

Yankee Planes Hammer Foe In Europe, Africa   Americans Chase Rommel Toward Faid Pass After Taking Kasserine.

U.S. Forces Chase — From Kasserine Area   Supreme Effort To Put Axis in Sea Is Believed Near  ‘RED BLOWS CONTINUE  Capture of Populated Places West of Kharkov Reported by Moscow

Yankees Chase Nazis Toward Faid Pass Line   American Flying Fortresses Bomb Brest as Russians Hammer German Force:

Americans Recapture Rail  Hub And Pursue Fleeing Foe   Europe; Reds Advance In Donets Area

BLUSTERY WEAT HET HTD WESTERN U, 6   Violent Winds Up To 65 MPH Cause Damage

NEW PEACE DEMANDS HEARD FOLLOWING RAIDS ON ITALY   CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES IN MILAN REPORTED VIRTUALLY PARALYZED AFTER BOMBING

British Spearhead Driven Into Lines   Four Heavy Counter Assaults By German: Are Beaten Off By British Eighth Army

DJEBEL GARCI PEAK REACHED BY ATTACKERS   Machine-Gun Nests Cleaned Out by Bayonet

Wins Back First Major Air Base Blocking Allies   Doughty American General Making Pro On His Promise That He Would Return To Philippines Some Day.

Allies Win Salamaua Airdrome   Japanese Dead Litter Jungle T ra 7 ] S$

CTheDANY utsttty, WASHINGTON MERRY- ‘eo  ‘Oy OREW oe PRARSON yall

HITLER FACES ORDEAL IN ADDRESSING NAZIS      Wilf Have to Make a Speech of Some Kind This Week on 10th Anniversary of Assuming Role As Dictator — May Be Tinged With Foreboding Rather Than the Bombast Used in  Previnuc Yerrc.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazi Situation In Russia Steadily Getting Worse \linder Reds’ Blows

WEATHER LIKE SPRING   Forecaster Expects Continuation of d Conditions

Weather To Remain Mild   Cold Weather In North Not Expected To Reach Kansas

10 EMPLOYEES OF AIR LINE STRICKEN   Chicago Health Officials Begin Investigation Of Enad Poisonine.

Today’s War Commentary  Nazis Must Decide  Red Victories Pose New Onuestions

Bastia’s Capture Points Another Spear at Germany  Corsican Base in Easy

NEW SPEARHEAD AGAINST NAZIS IS DEVELOPED   Conquest Of Corsica‘ Is Nearly Complete As Enemy Remnants  Are Pursued

Bastia’s Capture Points Another Spear at Germany  Corsican Base in Easy Range of Nazi-Held Coast, Spain te ltaly

VICTORY IS NEAR IN CORSICAN WAR   Fresh Troops Enter Bastia as German Army Evacuates

Battle nears end as Bastiz falls to allies   Remaining nazis are now isolated

ALLIED FORCE TAKES BASTIA   Conquest of Corsica Virtu ally Completed by Fail Of Island Port

ALLIES VIRTUALLY END CONQUEST OF CORSICA   Moroccan Warriors Enter Bastia; American Rangers And French Troops Mop Up cattered German Remnants

CORSICA CONQUEST NEARLY COMPLETE   FALL OF BASTIA SHAPES ANOTHER ALLIED SPEARHEAD AT HITLER’S FORCES.

TEST CASE HINGES ON PIECE OF PIE   OPA Edict Conflicts with Old  Rav Sinta law

PAPAPPPPPPPPPPP DAP ODDS Navy Plans Increase  Of Waves to 91.000

FLIGHT OF CIANO ANGERS ITALIANS   Mussolini’s Sonsinslaw Viewed Chief Culprit in Fascist Regime.

CIANO FLIGHT ANGERS PEOPLE   Mussolini’s Son-in-Law Reported i in Munich

Ciano's Flight Angers People   Italians Considered Him as One of Leaders Of Fascist Regime

ltalians Sore At Ciano   People Blame Him For Much of Fascist Regime

Ciano’s Flight Irks Italians  Duce’s Son-In-Law In  Munich, Report

CHURCHILL TELLS MARETH SETBACK      Says Na zi CounterAttacks Regain Defense Line

Rommel Regains Greater Part Of Mareth Positions   Churchill, Reporting Reversal, Sees No Easy Decision; Americans Holding

CHURCHILL SAYS HARD FIGHTING AHEAD IN TUNISIA   DISCOURAGES HOPES OF EASY DECISION FOR ALLIED FORCES

Churchill Tells House Of Reverse   But Has Great   Confidence In

CLIMAX AHEAD, SAYS PREMIER   British Leader Has - Great Confidence’ in Final Result in Africa

Churchill Says Axis RegainsBridgehead Lost fo British   Rommel Restores — Main Defense Line, Premier Declares

Counteratiack Restores Defense Line Pierced by Kighth Army  YANKS GAIN AGAIN  ee ny. i: es ie   U.S. Fighters Smash at 100 Axis Tanks From EI Guetar Hills

GERMANS REGAIN PART OF MARETH LINE IN TUNISIA   Mr. Churchill Warns Allies That Bitter Fighting Is Ahead; Confident Of Final  Result.

CHURCHILL ADMITS GERMANS WIN BACK MOST MARETH GAINS  TTICTE MIReeT BRATEITOC TOO   BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS BATTLE NOT YET REACHED CLIMAX

CHURCHILL IN TUNIS WARNING   NAZI COUNTERDRIVE REGAINS MARETH LOSS

Churchill Pleased With Africa Fight   Has Great Confidence In Final Result

Tax Discount Now Suggested For Persons Who Pay 1943 Income Levies by June 15

SUPPLEMENT IS ADDED T0 PLAN   House Committee Favors Inducement Svstem For Taxes.

WOULD ABOLISH “TIOUOR CONTROL   Cleveland Launches Forma! Complaint Against Rationing System

LIQUOR SYSTEM IN OHIO SCORED   ‘Friend of Public’ Insists on Back Rations

Approved Quickly Brown Nomination   Senate Banking Committee Made a Quick Decision This Morning.

Senators Give Brown Okay   Unanimous Approval For Successor of Leon Henderson

Brown Given Quick Okeh   Former Senator Wins Senate Approval As Price Boss

Brown Certain Of Senate's 0. K.   New...Rationing... Chief Facing ‘Tough Job —

CLEAR PATH FOR BROWN TO SUCCEED  HENDERSON   No. Opposition. Voiced. in >, Senate Committee; Big ~ Rationing. Job Ahead   “MUST GO THROUGH BELL: TOGETHER’   ‘Serious Shortage Ahead,”’ Adds-Sen: Tobey, Who™ Doesn't Envy New Chief°

BROWN’S 0. K. IS FORECAST   Senate Is Expected To Con. firm Price Chief Next Week.

Brown Popular For OPA Place   Early Approval Expected As Banking Committee Starts To Check

BROWN GETS APPROVAL   Senate Banking Committee Gives New OPA Head Green Light

Taxes, Mine Strike Weighed in Capitol   “Restraining Levy” May Be Sought as Compromise in Turmoil Over Revenue

DEMAND NEW TAX MEASURES   MORGENTHAU RENEWS PLEA FOR HUGE LEVIES

Company D Goes To Camp On Sixth Of June  - Federal Inspection T   Federal Inspection To Be Held At Armory Tuesday, May 11

MANEUVERS - FOR D CO.   Intensive 14-Day Training Planned At Camp Dodge

{iurn to _BLACKOUT, Page 7)  MORE REA FINANCES IN FARM BILL ASKED         Bankhead Seeks To Jack Up Price Ceilinds

SENATE DEBATES FARM MONEY BILI   Rural Electrification Bureat Gets 20 Million

PLANE WRECKAGE FOUND: ALL DEAL      Navy Transoort, Lost Jan. 21, Crashes, Burns in  Mountains

Wreckage of Big Navy Plane Found   All 19 Dead on Craft Lost 10 Days Ago

9 Found Dead n Plane Wreck   Missing Navy Craft Crashes and Burns

Plane Wreckage Ts Found  in Mountains  High Naval Officers Are Among 19 Persons Killed

siaeieeneneemuenamne: siumnmaiaiaiiiesaiipalaes ‘U. S. BIG BOMBERS RAID TOE. OF ITALIAN BOOT

Marines Battle to Within Mile and Half of Enemy's  Cape Gloucester Airdrome

‘Marines, Supported by Tanks and Artillery, Advance on Vital Jap-Held Airdrome   American Casualties in Jungle Fighting Are Reported Extremely Light; Australians Advencinag in Their Gactar

AGAIN MAY BE POSTPONED   August Induction  Quota Is Cut to 150,000 Men

DRAFT OF DADS AGAIN MAY BE POSTPONED   August Induction Quota Is Cut to 150,000 Men

BIG REDUCTION REPORTED = IN AUGUST DRAFT QUOTA   NUMBER OF MEN TO BE CALLED 18 CUT TO 150,008 FOR MONTH

QUOTA CUTS TO BENEFIT DADS   Reductions Starting In August Further Delay Induction Of Fathers

FARM MACHINERY — QUOTAS RECEIVED   Palo Alto County Farmers Get Quotas on Farm Equipment for This Year.

New York Cotton   New Orleans Cotton   Frisco Plans Post-War Airline; Blytheville On Proposed Route

BELIEVES HALSEY SOON WILL STRIKE HARD AT JAPANESE   Writer Looks for All-Out Attempt by Fighting Admiral to Deal Enemy’s Fleet Crippling Blow.   AMERICANS BETTER EQUIPPED THAN FOE   Many Now Think It Possible, as Naval Commander Predicted, to Defeat Japan ’ This Year.

VICTORY OVER JAPS IN 1943 WINS SUPPOR}   HALSEY PREDICTION FOR END OF WAR POPULAR

Allied Planes Sink Jap Sub In Lae Harbor   ‘Nip Raiders Offer Heaviest. Attack In “Months Near Buna   "Don’t Sell Halsey-Short’’ Club Making Rapid Gains ‘ Admiral’s Forecast Of Full Victory Over Japs In?43 Picking Up Manu Followers

Belief Grows U. 8. May Deal Kuoekeut to Japs in 1943   ~ Nipponese Reverses Bring New Converts To ‘Don’t Sell Halsey Shori’ Club; American Navy Gets Ready for Showdown

All-Out American Offensive Against Japanese Naval Bases Predicted by Correspondent   Sees Growing Acceptance Halsey Right in Saying Japs Will Be Defeated Before End of This Year

‘Don't Sell Halsey Short’’ Club Making Rapid Gains Admiral’s Forecast Of Full Victory Over Japs In’43 Picking Up Manu Followers

Missouri GOPS Become Bitter   Defeat Legislative Plan to Provide More Money for Aqency

MISSOURI REFUSES FEDERAL MONEY   GOP Defegts Bill To Benefit Government Program

Federal Funds. Rejected By Missouri House.   “Reviresentatives Kill

RUSSIANS SEEK TO CROSS RIVER   Soviet Troops Now Only Nine Miles From Smolensk  TARASENKI REACHED

ENEMY FLEES FROM KUBAN BRIDGEHEAD   Berlin Radio Declares Forces Systematically Evacuating Defenses At Kerch Straits   RESERVES THROWN IN

High Command Declares, However, That Heavy Thrusts Have Been Repelled—Break-Threugh to Big Qbjective Achieved in Drive From Poltava, but Strong Forces of Soviets Have Arrived at Stream and Several Other Points.

NAZIS QUIT BRIDGEHEAD AT KUBAN   Red Army Only Nine Miles From Smolensk; Capture Of Anapa Is Announced By Russians

AUSS ARMIES SEALING FATE OF SMOLENSK   Germans Abandon BSridgehead in Caucasus; Facing Peril at Kiev. ;   SURGING SOVIET TROOPS DEVELOPING’ DNIEPER TRAF

NAZIS PREPARE TO FLEE KUBAN BRIDGEHEAD   Kiev Threatened With Envelopmeat, Move That Wouid Unbinge Entire Dnieper Defenses   UNECHA CAPTURED   Rail Junction 73 Miles Southwest of Bryansk on Road to While Russia and Gomel

Reds Arrive At Dnieper   Start Efforts to Cross River Advance Near Smolensk —

Soviet Army In Drive To Smash Nazi Positions In Smolensk, Along Dnieper

Red Avalanche Now 9 Miles  Irom Smolensk   Drive Within 3 Miles Of White Russia In Un, checked Offensive,

Other Soviet Units Said Three Miles ~ From White Russia   Germans Declare Heavy Thrusts To Cross River Are Repulsed; Nazis Endangered At Smolensk

Reds Reach Dnieper In Full Force   Only Three Miles Away Lies Border Of White Russia

NAZI DEBACLE MOUNTS HOURLY ON RED FRONTS   Berlin Admits Troops Are   Fleeing Long-Embattled Kuban Bridgehead After Bloody Defeats   IREDS ONLY 9 MILES  FROM SMOLENSK   Reach Tarasenki, Three Miles From White Russia Border; Attempting to Cross Dnieper

Soviets Reach Dnieper River  In Full Force   Other Red Units Northwest Of Smolensk Arrive At Tarasenki Village.   BREAK AT POLTAVA

Soviets Nine Miles From Smolensk  ONazis Abandoning Kuban Bridgehead  In Caucasus,

SOVIETS READY 10 CROSS THE BORDER OF WHITE RUSSIA   The Red Army Is About lo lake Back Territory Which the Germans Have Held Since the Early Days of their Drive loward Moscow.

Soviets Nine Miles From Smolensk   - Nazis Abandoning Kuban Bridgehead In Caucasus,  * Berlin Says

Lower Dnieper Is Threatened By Red Advance   Smolensk Is Within  Artillery Range; Kiev Danger Is Admitted

NAZIS FALLING BACK STEADILY NEAR SMOLENSK   Red Army Just 3 Miles From Border of White Russia

Russians fo Dnieper in Force   Hitler Facing Major Disas. ter as Retreat Takes on the Nature of a Rout   FACES GREAT TEST AS REDS PUSH ON   Fall Rains May Come to Aid of Germans Now Under Pile-Driver Blows

Nazis Quit Kuban Area   Russians Now Only Nine Miles From Smolensk,  In Artillery Range

Germans Expected To Develop Strong Defense On Stream: Villages Liberated

HITLER FACES LOSS OF BASE AT SMOLENSK   Nazis Abandon Their Kubar Bridgehead In Caucasus Under Red Pressure

Red Forces At Dnieper Strong   GERMANS STRUGGLE TO HOLD RIVER POSITIONS

NAZIS ABANDON BRIDGEHEAD IN THE CAUCASUS   Russian Forces Reach Big Objective Of Offensive; Break Through At Poltava Turned The Trick.

Russian Troops Today Are Only Nine Miles From Smolensk.   POLTAVA KEY TO BREAK

THE SOVIET ARMY HAS REACHED THE DNIEPER IN FORCE   While Other Russian Units Are Only 3 Miles From White Russia.   ‘9 MILES FROM SMOLENSK   The Germans Are in Immediate Danger of Losing Their Central Front.

Russian Armies Reach Dnieper River In Force   Nazis In Wholesale Withdrawal From Caucasus Area; Vast Forces Threatened

RUSSIANS OPEN _ OFFENSIVE TO - CROSS DNIEPER   ' Advance Carries io Within Three Miles of Border of While Russia at Tarasenki   ‘CAPTURE POLTAVA   Vorskia River Crossed in Face of Heavy Artillery Fire—City Fired as Germans Nearly Trapped

Germans Flee Bridgehead In Kuban   Hitler's Hope Of Seizing Caucasus O Treasures Collapses  DM. B’'vyepat’ ¢'ef 274

REDS IMPERIL NAZI POSITION BELOW RIVER   Soviet Dispatch Claims Russians Reach Dnieper In Force

NAZIS DECLARE RED EFFORT TO CROSS BROKEN   Germans in Danger of Losing Smélensk, Central'Front Citadel

Roosevelt Gives Gen. Clark DSC On Sicilian Trip   Other American Officers Decorated Personally By Chief Executive

President Visits Trinidad Base   Chief Executive Stops Off To Inspect Island On Return From Casablanca Conference

F. D. R. to Sicily To Honor Clark  President Awards DSC to Fifth Army Commander

President Stops  Off In Sicily  Gives Distinguished Service Crosses To Clark And 5 Others

Mr. Roosevelt Sees Officers In Sicily  General Clark Cited   General Clark Cited For Extraordinary Heroism in Action

F.D.R. Stops In Sicily and Honors Leader:   Awards Distinguished Service Crosses to Gen. Clark and Five Fifth Army Officers

THE DISTINGUISHED CROSS CONFERRED ON LT.-GEN, GLARK   ; President Roosevelt Person  ally Decorated the Lieu  tenant-General.   FIVE OTHERS ARE CITED      Clark Was Decorated for “Extraordinary Heroism in Action.

Humboldt Man Is Decorated By the Presiden   Lt. Col. J. B. Crawford Personally Decorated  By Commander-in-Chief In Sicily Ceremony _,

FR. Awards Medals to Clark and 5   Distinguished Service Cross Pinned on Fifth Army Leeder for Velor

FDR Honors Gen. Clark  for Heroism   ‘Extraordinary Heroism in Action’ at Salerno Earns Fifth Army Chief DSC

Distinguished Service Cross Conferred Upon  Gen. Clark, 5 Officers

FDR Confers Medals Upon U.S. Officers   Visits Clark’s  Army In Sicily

CLARK DECORATED  _ BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Personally Confers Honors on Five Other, Officers in Sicily

PRESIDENT GIVES DSCS TO CLARK, 5 OF HIS AIDES   Roosevelt Visited in Sicily to Honor Officers After Leaving Cairo

Lt. Clark And Five Officers Given Awards   President Personally Confers Crosses During Stopover in Sicily   TROOPS ARE INSPECTED

Roosevelt Visits Troops in Sicily   President Confers DSC on General Clark and Five Others   IS CITED FOR HEROISM   Chief Executive Inspects Soldiers While Riding .  in a Jeép

Winter Becomes Official Today   Nation Prepares For Second Cold Wave of Year

WINTER REACHES U. S. WITH SUB-ZERO WAVE  Chilly Weather Forecast Made, With 16 Below in Minnesota Town

NOVOROSSISK TO BE GOAL WITHIN MONTE      Record Air Raids on Nazi Fields as ‘Tune Up’

War Plant Plans Mock Trial To Learn  Reasons, Correction Of Absenteeism

Huge Fund ‘For Roads _ Proposed   Highway Department Is  - Seekirig’. Expenditures Of $28,000,000. Each Year: For 10. Years

TEMPERATURES:   Hedgehopning Fighters Lead - Heavy Bomber:   Foggia And Taranto Get Withering Attacks In Surprise Raids

26 Enemy Planes Downed   Attack Loosed From Northwest Africa  And Middle East.

SMALL AIRCRAFT SMASH WAY FOR BOMBER ATTAGK   Three Waves Of Heavy Craft Hit  Important Bases

GROUND DEFENSES AT FOGGIA SHOT UP BY U.S. LIGHTNINGS   Hedge-Hopped All the Way Across Italy to Make the Attack.   AMERICANS FOLLOWED   Wrecked Airdromes and Ten Satilite Fields in Three Waves.

Yanks Roar In, Shoot Up Big Airport   Tree-Top Level. Flight ‘to Foggia Surprises the Germans and Itahans   ee OF PLANES KNOCKED TO PIECES   26 Are Shot Down in Com: bat; Airdrome and 10 Satellite Fields Wrecked

Rip Italian Ground Defenses, Down 26 Planes in Combat   Attack Enemy Targets at Tree-Top Level in Surprise Assault; Spaatz Awards Medal To Leader

GROUND, AIR CREWS ARE MOWED DOWN “BY MACHINEGUN FIRE   ‘Sweep Across Italy at Altitude of Less Than 100 Feet; Damage Heavy

Fighter Planes Hedgehop Clear Across Italy To Pave Way For Dev ssteatina Avene.

Fly at Tree-Top Level to Fire at  Foggia Airfields   Italians Along the Way Cheer American Pilots on Destructive Flight.

AIRDROME, 10 OTHER FIELDS HIT AT FOGGIA   Fighters, in Record Hedgehopping Trip, Pave Way for Bombers, Shooting Up Ground Defenses, Baggins 26 Planes.

Hedge Hopping P 38's Make Longest Raid Flight To Blast Foggia Airfield   Flying Fortresses, Liberators, Manned By Yanks, Follow To Plaster Installations And Railroad Yards 

YANKS BLAST FOGGIA DISTRICT   Ground Defenses Hammered; Airfields And Railroad Lines Hit

Lightnings Pave Way For Bombing Of Italian Base   Twenty-Six Enemy Planes Destroyed

Fighiers Catch Parked Axis Aircrafi on Ground, Stream to Alack at Tree-Top Level   LONG FIGHTER TRIP   ‘One of Most Successful Surprise Aitacks of War’ Wins DFC for Fighters’ Leader

Lightnings Flash Over Italy Skies   LOW-ALTITUDE MASS FLIGHT SHATTERS ITALIAN GROUND DEFENSES TO PREPARE FOR WRECKING CREWS OF AMERICAN BOMBERS ON VITAL POINTS

Airdrome At Foggia, Italy And Its Ten Satellite Fields Smashed. by Allies

Foggia Under Heavy Raid by U.S. Planes   26 Enemy Planes Knocked Down; Scores Blasted on Ground

ARE DOWNED IN AERIAL FIGHTS   Lightning Fighters Hedgehop Across Italy in Sensational Raid

Way Paved By Lightnings In Huge Swarms  Fortresses, Liberators Assault Airfields, Rail Targets; Swoop Low

Yanks Destroy Base At Foggia, 10 Other Fields   Lighinings Hedgehop Over Italy To Pave. Way For Assault By Americans

U. S. Fighters Speed In Low, Confuse Enemy   Few Defending Aircraft Get Off Ground As Rail Yards, Airport Hit.   NAZI PLANES RETURN

Flight Across Italy Is Made At Altitude Of Less Than 100 Feet By Lightning Fighters

Yankees Roar Across Italy To Hit Foqgia   Lightnings Go In  At Low Level to Rip Enemy Planes Caught On Ground: Forts Follow

ITALIAN GROUND DEFENSES TAKE HARD POUNDING   ‘Surprise Attack by Flying  Fortresses, Liberators Centered on Foggia

ONE OF MOST SURPRISING RAIDS OF WAR   2.38’s Pave Way For Big Bombers By Knocking Out Ground Defenses; Blast Rail Yards

FOGGIA BLASTED BY SWARMS OF ALLIED PLANES   Lightnings Hedgehopp Entire Distance R.A.F. Active Again

ALL-AMERICA: Leer HIT FOGGIA AREA   Fighters Hedge-Hop To Kayo Defenses For Bombers

Kalian Airdrome Wrecked; Planes Caught Parked On Ground; Scores Destroyed: Machine Guns Cut Down Enemy Ground Crews

Foggia Airfield Wrecked By US Heavy Bombers   Twenty-six Of Enemy Planes Shot Down, Others Destroved

Allies Continue To Attack Italy   ‘Air Raid Is Made on: the Adriatic Side of the  Peninsula    ‘DOWN 26 ENEMY PLANES   Tree Top Level Flight Threw Foggia Area Into ’ Confusion

AIR FIELOS AND BAIL YARDS HIT   Daring Attack Is Staged By American Fighters And Bombers   15 PLANES LOST   Ground Defenses Shot Up, Airdrome, 11 Hields Battered

TEN AIRFIELDS NEAR FOGGIA ARE BOMBED   Lightning Fighters Hedgehop All Way Across Italy To Adriatic Side of Peninsula   AT TREE TOP LEVELS

THREE WAVES OF BOMBERS BLAST POINTS IN SOUTH   Lightning Fighters Hedgehop All’Way Across Axis Partner to Hit Defenses at Foggia.

Discuss Post-War Period at Quebec   President Rejoices In Withdraw al of Japs from Kiska

Five Britons Are Said Rescued Fron Liner Shot Down   Nazis Believed Gunning for Churchill In Attack on Plane

Believe Nazis Gunning g for Churchill. When They Shot Down Dutch Airliner

BELIEVE GERMANS HUNT CHURCHILL   Shoot Down All LondonBound Planes over Bay of Biscay

U. S., Britain May Team Up To Block Ambitions Of Gen De Gaulle   Germans Believed Gunning For Churchill On Airliner

BRITISH SEARCH FOR WRECKAGE Of LOST AIR LINER   German Attackers May Have Believed Churchill Was Bhoard Plane.

BAY OF BISCAY SEARCHED FOR MISSING PLANE   See Pair Chance Of Survival Foy Howard And Other Passenrers

Nazis Believed Gunning For Churchil! When Big Transport Is Shot Down

CHURCHILL PLANE HUNTED BY NAZIS   Believed Gunning for Pre. mier When They Shot Down Transport

Rescue 5 From  Lost Airliner  British Believe Nazis Sought Churchill

Nazis Tried To Get Churchill  Thought He Might : Have Been on Plane

SHIPS, PLANES HUNT AIRLINER CARRYING STAI   ‘Leslie Howard, 16 Others On Plane Shot Down By Germans

MISSING PLANE HUNTED AT SEA   Leslie Howard Aboard British Airliner Shot Down Over Bay Of Biscay

CONDUCTED FOR GROUP   Bay of Biscay and Atlantie Ocean Are Scoured for Victims of Nazi Aircraft,

BELIEVED GERMANS  AFTER CHURCHILL  IN BIG AIRLINER ~ ‘THIRTEEN PASSENGH?PS CREW OF FOUR: AP. PARENTLY LOST

NAZIS GUNNING FOR CHURCHILL   Believe That Was Aim When Actor’s Ship Shoi Down

BELIEVED GERMANS AFTER CHURCHILL IN BIG AIRLINER  THIRTEEN PASSENGERS CREW OF FOUR APPARENTLY LOST

Churchill Seen As Nazi Target   Plane That Downed Airliner Is Believed Ta Have Been Gunning for Prime Minister

SEEK MISSING BRITISH PLANE   Passengers Have Chance of  Survival, Official Says

SURVIVORS RESCUED   Five Britens From Plane Shet Down Tuesday Reported Saved

FIRST LADY THANKS AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE   Americans Grateful for Welcome Extended U. S. Forces, She Says.

INVASION NEAR, VICHY WARNING   Nazi Broadcast Declares Preparations Finished in Africa

GERMANS ott NVAGIGN oOUK   Vichy Radio Says the Allier Will ‘‘Strike Scon” on the Cortinent.

MORE TROOPS DEMANDED   Hitler Cails Qn Hungary And Bulgaria For Additional Troops

HITLER SEEKS NEW PLACE OF ITALIANS   Resistance And Unrest Are Increasing Daily In Balkan States

HITLER ASKS AID OF SATELLITES 10 REPLACE ITALY   Signs of Unrest in Hungary and Bulgaria Are Reported Increasing.

MATTER OF LIQUOR SALES NEAR ARMY CAMPS FLARES UP  REP. DEEN FAILS TO GE’ HIS REGULATORY BILL RE  Trnprrny BTU CORARAD?' TCO!

MATTER OF LIQUOR SALES NEAR ARMY CAMPS FLARES UP   REP. DEEN FAILS TO GET HIS REGULATORY BILL REFERRED NEW COMMITTEE

Revolt Against Administration Grows In Senate   Group Seeking To Shear Powers Of Majority Leader Barkley

ANTI-NEW DEALERS WANT CONTRO! OF STEERING GROUP   Propose To Fill Vacancies By Vote Of Ali Democratic Senators

Caucus Fight Launched By  Insurgents   Democrats Seek To Shear Some Powers  Of New Dealers

Anti-Administration Group Starts A Fight Over The Control Of The Senaie Steering Commiftee That Pomises To Be Lively

TOKYO REPORT GREAT VILIURT IN SEA BATTLE   No Confirmation Of Action Received From Allied Quarters Today

JAPANESE RADIO REPORTS BATLE OFF SOLOMONS   Admiral Says Five Allied Warships Were Sunk by Planes; Tokyo Claims

Enemy Report Has No Confirmation From Any Source   Knox Predicts Early Guadalcanal CleanUp; Bombs for Tokio

Japs Dream Up Fight; Tokyo Raid Predicted   Knox Avers Good Chance Of Air Attack on Jap Capital

Japs Claim Planes Sink 2 Warships   Nationality Of Force Said Intercepted In __ Pacific Jan. 29 Not Disclosed

Japs Tell Of South Seas Battle   Claim to Have Sunk Two Battleships in: Air-Naval Engagement South of Solomons

Foe Tells Of Pacitie Fight   Japanese Claim. Twe American Battleships, Three Cruisers Sunk By Planes.

Tokyo Claims Victory Over Yankee Navy  May Be Same Type  Scored Before; Kno:  + ome ae

Japs Conjure Up Story of One-Sided Battle as‘Knox Brings—  Encouraging Solomons Report

TOKYO CLAIMS FIVE ALLIED WARSHIPS SUNK   Uncorifirmed Radio Reports Say Two Others’ Damaged in Solo. mons Area by Jao Planes   Inspects Guadalcanal, Other Pacific Positions, Warns Tokyo Pre: pare for New Raids -

Japs Claim Sinking Of Battleshins   Report Is Without Confirmation From  Any Allied Source   Admiral’s Statement Doesn't Name Nation   Secretary Knox Warns Tokyo To Be Ready For Attack By Air

TOKIO HEARS TALE. ABOUT SEA FIGHT   Knox Predicts Early End to Organized Resistance on — Guadalcanal’

DECLARE FIGHT OCCURRED OFF RENNELL ISLE   One Sided Story Claims Warships Were Sunk by Nipponese Forces .

Japan Radio Tells of New Sea-Air Clash   Claim Nip Forces Sank Three Warships; Knox Sees Raid on Tokyo

JAP RADIO TELLS OF ONE-SIDED NAVAL BATTLE ©   Claims Two Battleships And Three Cruisers Sunk In S. W. Pacific Theatre

UNION LEADERS URGE TRUCKERS TO END STRIKE   8500 Men In South Are Told to Resume Work; Settlement Promised In Wage Dispute

3B CLASS TO BE ABOLISHED   New Draft Regulations Will End Outright Discharge Of Older Men

URGES CHANGE IN RATIFYING U.S. TREATIES   Senator Gillette proposes plan to “‘streamline”’  old methods

President Roosevelt Makes Indirect Plea For French Unity on Eve of Bastille Day

French Unity Is Urged hy F.D.R.   President Issues Direct Appeal

Ration Calendar And Ration News Of Local Interest   New Books To Be Issued Soon

FAVORS MORE AID TO CHINA   Stepped-up Shipments of War Materials are Urged By Rep. Curley

INCREASED AID TO CHINA ASKED   oo. eee  House Applauds Plea for Stepping Up Arms Shipments

Lend-Lease Aid for China Urged  Sentiment Grows in Congress Halls

GEN. MAC ARTHUR REPORTS ANOTHER BlG AIR VICTORY   Sixty-seven Enemy Planes Destroyed; Still, Nip Flying on Upgrade

Jap Landing Force Wiped Out; 26 Enemy Planes Downed at Bougainville

New Victories Are Scored Over Japs   MacArthur’s Men Destroy 67 Nip Planes; US Marines Wipe Out Half Japanese at Empress Augusta Bay

Americans Win New Victories In So. Pacific   Foe’s Landing Attempt Frustrated By U: S. Marine Force

NEW VICTORIES (VER JAPANESE   67 Planes Destroyed; Bougainville Operation Success, Report.   FOE MAKES BIG CLAIMS

AMERICANS SCORED NEW VICTORIES OVER JAPS SOUTH PACIFIC  SIXTY-SEVEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED, JAP LAND FORCE WIPED OUT

AMERICANS SCORED NEW VICTORIES OVER JAPS SOUTH PACIFIC  SIXTY-SEVEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED. JAP

Victories on Land, in Air Reported by General MacArthur   Half of Enemy Forces Landed on Bougainville Wiped Out

67 More Japanese Planes Destroyed   Yanks Wipe Out Half Enemy Force

New Victories In Pacilie By  Yankee Forces   Destruction Of 67) Japanese Planes Reported By General MacArthur. e   ‘GET REINFORCEMENTS

Yanks Score New Vidories   In Air and On Land Win Decisively In Pacific

67 Planes, Nip Force Destroyed   Victories Demonstrate American Superiority Over Jap: anese in South Pacific

Army Troops Join Fight On  Bougainville   Help Marines Destroy Half Of Fresh Jap Force; 67 Nip Planes Blasted

Drive Crushes  Two Nazi Battle Lines   Soviets Storm Kiev From Three Sides, Make 16-Mile Gain in Sudden Spurt; Germans Take Staggering Loss

Russians Pounce Down on Kiev   Reds Surround City on Three Sides in Major Drive—Advance 16 Miles in 24-Hour Period

Reds Surround Kiev on Three Sides   New Drive Breaks Through Two Nazi Defense Lines

Surround Kiev On Three Sides Ir Surprise Move   Enemy Fighting Desperately in Effort to Stem Tide

Reds lake Suburbs Of Kiev   Russian ‘Mother City’ Hit From  Three Sides

Russians Launch Drive on Kiev   City Is Hemmed in On Three Sides 

Historic Cathedral City-Is Flanked by the Soviets  MAIN HIGHWAY CUT, MOSCOW ANK ANNOUNCES  Eleven German Strong: holds Fall Before the = Offensive

SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST KIEV   Capital Of The UWhraine Now Hemmed In On Three Sides By Reds   3 MILLION RUSSIANS KILLED, NAZIS CLAIM

Russians sweep behind German defense at Kiev   Cut off strategic highway as fortified nazi centers taken

German Defense Lines Crumbling   Soviet Says Large Forces Are Routed

REDS SWARM FROM NORTH INTO KIEV      Enter “Mother of Russian Cities’ From North and West; Drive Breaks German Defense Line.   City Doomed

German Defense Lines Crumbling   Soviet Says Large  Forces Are Routed By JUDSON O’QUINN 

_ Moscow Reports Rout of Large Enemy Forces— Fall of City Appears Certain.   ONE ESCAPE ROUTE OPEN TO GERMANS   Number of Fortified Settlements Occupied by Soviets as They Swarm Down From North. _

Russian City Now Flanked On 3 Sides    Large German Forces Routed, Reds Report As Defense Lines Fall  PUSH INTO SUBURBS

Russian Troops Surround Kiev on Three Sides as ~Drive Smashes Foe. Line

ALLIED. TROOPS NAR CONQUEST UF OALAMAUA   Allies Reported Storming Rim Of Japan’s Big Air Base in New Guinea Area

Bombs and Shells Bring Capture of Salamaua Nearer   Allied Planes Fly in Greatest Strength Yet Gathered in Pacific

Salamaua’s  Fall Near   Big Japanese Air Base in New Guinea  May Crumble Today

Jap Salamaua Base Totters Under Attack   Allies Advance On _ Aifrdrome: Shell Town In Concentrated Drive.   BOMBERS SCORE AGAIN,

100 Forts Hit Supply Base in Heavy Raid   New Southeast Asia Commander Charts Squeeze Play Against Japanese

Yanks, Aussies Storm Airfield   SEIGE GUNS POUND TOWN AS TROOPS ATTACK IN DECISIVE BLOW AGAINST KEY AIRSTRIP; U. S. BOMBERS WRECK HANSA BAY SUPPLY BASE

ALLIED TROOPS STORMING RIM OF. AIRDROME   Nipponese Slowly Retreating Before American and Australian Ground Forces  SUPPLY BASE BOMBED

Salamaua Air Base Expected To Fall Soon   Fourfold Objective Under Discussion For the Far East

SENN e ee  ALLIES DRIVE ON SALAMAUA   Fall of Jap Airdrome I: Expected Momentarily As Nips Retreat

Salamaua Base  Near Capture   Yanks at Rim of Airfield; Bairoko Defense Weakens

Salamaua Is On the Verge Of Falling   American and _ Australian Troops Advance Almost to Edge of Enemy-Held Airdrome

Ailied Units Near Rim of Jap Airfield   Siege Guns Hammering Town — Planes Pounding Hansa Hay Base

ALLIED PLANS — ARE REVIEWED ~ AT HYDE PARE   ROOSEVELT BACK IN WASIIINGTON AFTER PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE . WITH CHURCHILL

Roosevelt Back in Washington After  Preliminary Confab With Churchill

PRESIDENT IN CAPITAL FOR WAR REVIEW   Spends Three Days With Churchill at Hyde Park Estate

Roosevelt Back After Conference  With Churchill   Two Leaders Meet In Hyde Park For Quiet Visit With English Premier   QUEBEC MEETING TO BE IMPORTANT

Enemy Convoy Off Wewak Forced to Flee   Three of Nipponese Ships Had Been Bombed Thursday

No Stop to War!   Yanks Seize Isle Group In Solomons  Navy Frustrates Convoy Bound For Aleutians

Navy Seizes More Islands   Patrol: Force Battles With 10 Jap Warshios

Turkey President  ReceivesNaziEnvoy  Meeting Recalls That Nation Figures in Invoesinn Pranram

FARM: WORKER DRAFT POLICY UP TO HOUSE   DEFERMENT BILL, VOTED BY SENATE MAY BE CHANGED TO AFFECT STATUS OF  ‘ * MARIED MEN

FATHERS DRAFT * BANDUALISSUE   Kilday and Bankhead Bills @ Linked as Senate Votes to Defer Tillers   Agriculture Committee Chief @ in House Gives Notice of Merger

EDUCATOR DIES   former Elyria High Principat fim Of Heart Attack.

iAontreal Clerks Cancel Ultimatum for Strike   Drop Tax Plan to Bring Liquor From Warehouses

CONVICT SEDGWICK COUNTY OFFICIAL   Hale Will Appeal Case to Franklin County District Court

On Our Way Back To Philippines, Says MacArthur   Major Battle For Sky Control Of Northern Solomons Rages As Dazed Remnants Of Beate: Ground Forces Seek Refuge In Jungles.

Dazed Remnants Of Beater  Garrison Flee From Yanks  american And Jap Air Forces Locked In Big  Battle For Control Of Skies Over Solomons

FIRST LADY RETURNS AFTER PACIFIC TOUR   Leaps From Plane To Greet Son James In New York

FIRST LADY BACK FROM BATTLE AREA   Journey Took Her to Islands Of South Pacific

Pay For Lend, Lease Sought   Truman Committee Says British Hindered U.S. Rubber Buvine  —_-

ASK BRITISH TO REPAY U.S. LOAN   Committee Says U. S. Had To Supply England With ‘\- Rubber —

TRUMAN GROUP SEEKS PAYMENTS   Lend-Lease Repayment Sought by Group; Rubber, Metals Mentioned

pene Wants ome Pay Back   Thinks Britain Should Make Some Sort of Settlement

Committee Suggests Move To See About British Repayment Of Lend-Lease Goods

Committee Wants Lend-Lease Pay   Would Accept Manganese From Russia

URGES BRITISH LEND-LEASE PAY   Truman Committee Says Some Repayment Due From England

TRUMAN COMMITTEE  WOULD SEEK PAYMENT  BY GREAT BRITAIN CLAIMED BRITISH FAILED BUILD RUBBER RESERVE  AWK UINNMEDEN TI ¢

TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT   Truman Committee Would SeeLease-Lend Funds Come Back

SUGGEST BRITISH MAKEREPAYMENT FOR LEND-LEASE   TRUMAN COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS STUDY OF PAY POSSIBILITY

Repayment For Lend-Lease Urged By Truman Committee   American Taxpayers Need Help; British Hindered Rubber Plan And Criticized

WOULD MAKE BRITISH PAY FOR U.S. AID      Truman Committee Says Some Thought Should Be Given to Obtaining’ Repayments for LendLease Shipments.

Lend-Lease Pay From Britain Is Urged In Report   Truman Committee Stresses Need for Cutting Tax Costs

Suspect Arrested In Tresca Slaying   Brooklyn Man Held by Police

YANKS SURPRISE NAZIS TO TAKE MOUNTAIN POINT   Berlin Admits Abandoning Several Places On Cen bend Denms  200 WAR VEHICLES ARE ATTACKED BY AIRMEN

\Foe Reported Falling Back Rapidly  As Americans in Brilliant Move  Win Strategic High Ground

Americans Speed Mountain Drive in Italy; Desperate Nazis Rush Reinforcements

Troops Grab  Valuable Hill Position   Enemy Admits Peril; British Smash Forward in East; 52 Towns Fall; Nazis Add New Force to Fight

SEIZE POSITIONS FOR PLUNGE PAST DEFENSES OF ROME; BRITISH OFFENSIVE SMASHES EAST: FIVE MILES.

Allies Capture Heights Over Italian City   Gain Also Made. hy British Troops on East End of Line

Win Positions to By-Pass Nazi Defenses   British Offensive to the East Gains Five Miles

-American Troops Gain Ground ‘In Surprise Mountain Fight   Positions Captured for Plunge Up Broad Valley to By. Pass Powerful Mountain Strongholds— British Smash Forward

Allied Drive © May Outflank  German Line   - Defenders Surprised By American Ability _ At Mountain Fighting  ENEMY FALLS BACK’

GAINS PROVIDE POSITION FOR VALLEY PLUNGE   Germans Falling Back On Eastern Italian Line; y Several Towns Captured

British Smash Ahead as Deep As Five Miles   Americans By-Pass Nazis’ Powerful New Aurunci Strongholds. 92 Towns Captured

1180. INSANE.” ” PEOPLEESCAPE   Million-D ollat Fire Frees Patients ;

100 REPORTED STILL MISSING   Searchers Look in Pairs bee (—_——, Reece:

INMATES ESCAPE IN ASYLUM FIRE   Woman Attendant Killed in $1,000,000 Blaze

New Nazi Drive Disbelieved  -Counterattacks Are Possible, But Huge Scale Drive Untikely

GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE SEEN AS PROPAGANDA   Reich Still Has Reserve Power, However

WAR OF REVENGE   Nazi Soldiers Fight on, Believe Leaders Storing Up Reserve for Derisive RBinw

 Think Nazi Prisoners’ Stories of Big German Spring Offensive is Propaganda

Fantastic Nazi Propaganda Is Told Soldiers   Washington Discredits Tales of Nazis Husbanding Men and Material For Great Spring Offensive.

OTORY OF PLANNED GERMAN OFFENSIVE CALLED PROPAGANDA  GERMAN PRISONERS CAP TURED IN ITALY SAYS

Commerce Department Has Post-War Job and Profit Plans for Communities

Post-War Plans  Up to Community   Commerce Department  Issues Booklet of Ideas

Department Of Commerce Adopis Community As Basis For Posiwar Jch, Profit Plans. .

Telling New Russian Blow © May Be Struck Near Kerch  rrs.tot Soe, ee» rae Fe Me ee   Baku Pipelines To Black Sea Ports Far Out Of Naa  Reach Are Available To Red Fleet

Interpreting  The Wer   Third Battle of Rostov Now Believed Raging

Major Effort In The Pacifie  Huge Quantities Of Shins Planes F'n Route

WORK HALTED AS ADVERSE RULING MADI   Discontent Is Rife Throughout Soft Coal Fields

1500 Foremen Walk Off Jobs In Ford Plant   Production Continues As Thousands Work Without Supervision

Workers Are Busy As Foremen Strike  Production at Ford Plant Not Stopped

Ford Foremen Walk Off Jobs In Rouge Plant   Many Working Without Supervision; Strikers Protest Dismissal Of 50 Unionists

Seek Exchange With Japanese   Ask Safe Conduct for Gripsholm; May Bring Internees Home By Fall

PLAN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS   U. §, Asks Japan For Safe Conduct of Exchange Ship

An Exchange of Internees Ts Planned   U. 8S. Asks Safe Conduct Guarantee for Exchange Ship Gripsholm   REQUEST IS SENT TO JAP GOVERNMENT   Also Asks That Allies of Japan Give Same Safe Conduct Assurances

U. S. Asks Safe Conduct For~ Liner, Hoping to Exchange American for Jap lutereibes

Exchange Ship Gripsholm To  Return Americans   Safe Conduct Asked For Ship. Hope For Exchange Of Americans Interned by Jap: anese.

CHURCHILL SENDS NOTE HE 1S WELL   Declares He Feels Better Now Than Any Time Since Departure From Honie.

PNEUMONIA THROWN OFF BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Says All He Needs Is a Few Weeks in Sunshine to Restore Strength.

Churchill Makes Known Recovery _ From Preumonie  Prime Minister Issue : Personal Note to Alltead Neatiane

Churchill Takes Up His Duties   Declares He Hos Recovered From Attack Of  Pneumonia

Churchill Is Able To Get At His Work   Makes Recovery From Pneumonia

Churchill Note Reveals Illness End   PRIME MINISTER “ABLE TO TRANSACT BUSINESS FULLY” AFTER CRISIS

CHURCHILL NOW REPORTED MUCH BETTER TODAY   Sends Cheerful. Message To Those Who Have Remembered Him in His  Iiiness

CHURCHILL  "RECOVERE   Prime Minister “Able- to “Transact Business Fullv’”’.

USING ARMISTICE OAY TOIL   Overtime Pay Row Brings Numerous Shutdowns

U.S.RAID ON CANTON REPORTED   Berlin Radio Also Says Allies Busy In Mediterranean

M'NARY NAMED BY REPUBLICANS   Democrats Choose Barkley Majority Leader

CLASS 3-R ABOLISHED. AND OTHER STEPS .TANEY IN GENERAL RESHUFFLING

Dralt Changes Are Announced: Drop Class 3-B   Sweeping Changes In Classi fications Are Made Bv McNutt And Hershey   SIX MAJOR FACTORS IN NEW REGULATIONS

A GROUP IS STABILIZED TO PROTECT DADS   Wives And Collateral Dependents Are Removed As Deferment Causes    FIVE MILLION AFFECTED   New Class Created For Those Whose Induction Would Create Hardship

SLAIN WAC’S FATHER GOES INTO SEA-BEES   ‘That's Way She Would Want It,” He Explains

NAZI LEADERS PLAN FOR ALLIED ATTACK      Hitler Reported Inspecting Defenses In Western t Europe

NAZI DEFENSES ~ BEING RUSHED TO COMPLETION   Hitler Believed Making Inspection Trip in West. Rommel in Greece for Parley

Hitler Working Fast To Perfect Europe Defenses   Fuehrer Said To Be Making Inspection of French Fortifications

PLANS TO CANVASS   Round of Meetings Held for ‘Instruction of Bond  Workers

INSTRUCT WORKERS   Women’s Committee Has Resumed Work in Third War Loan Drive   Rulletin

INSTRUCT WORKERS   Women’s Committee Has Resumed Work in Third  War Loan Drive

MAJOR CONTROVERSY LOOMING OVER AGENCY TO CONTROL PROGRAM OF . BENEFITS

House Republicans Give Consent  To Hearings On Food Tax Repeal   B. U. GC. Amendment

CAUCUS AGREES TO HEARINGS ON FOOD TAX BILL   Taxation Committee ~ Decide on Possible Recommendation

AGREEMENT NEARS - LEADERS DECLARE      Democratic and. Republican Heads Soon to OF.. fer Pay-As-You-Go  Proposal.

HOUSE. AGREEMENT ON NEW INCOME TAX PLAN IS EXPECTED   New Bill May Be Ready: For _ Senate Consideration By Close Of -" Week

Reds Approach Two Remaining Rail Escape Lines Supplying Beleagquered Nazis In Kharkoy   Smash Across Donets River In South To Capture Strong Enemy Position

REDS MENACING ) ESCAPE LINES   Capture Zmyey, Kill 1,200 Nazis In ‘Decisive Assault’   GERMANS FALL BACK

Reds Advance On Nazi Railways   MORE TOWNS TAKEN - IN ATTEMPT TO CUT ESCAPES

Russians Slowly Gain at Kharkov   Two Remaining Nazi Rail Lines Neared

Soviets Near German Rail Escape Lines   Reds Announce City South of  Kharkov Taken; Kill 1,200 Nazis

REDS PUSH NEARER NAZI ESCAPE ROADS   Russians: Drive Ahead Thru ‘German Resistance South  _of Kharkov   BLASTING ‘AT BRYANSK

Russians Closing In On Remaining Escape Railways   Nazis Below Kharkov Fight Bitterly

Reds Are Slowly Strangling Kharkov   Germans Shift — TroopsSouthward

Reds Approach Escape Lines   Kharkov Escape Corridor Less Than 30 Miles Wide

Verge Upon. Two Re. maining Railway’ Lines Supplying-Nazi Garri: 8on at Kharkov>Gain in ‘All Sectors. Stre et  Battles Continue in feted rigs:

Russian Army  Approaches Lasi  Nazi Supply Lines Soviet: Shock Troops  Keep Up See-Saw. - Battles in Kharkov

Soviets Meet Fierce Nazi Resistance   Reds Reported To Be Within 9 Miles Of City Of Kharkov

Sross Donels and Capiure Zmyev to South, Advance North and Norihwest of City   FIGHT IN SUBURBS   Troops Avance on Bryansk from Three Sides, Gaining Four ic Six Miles

KHARKOV ESCAPE CORRIDOR BEING CLOSED BY REDS  Art Er AOREeA CAcaayv   REINFORCED ENEMY FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO OVERCOME RUSS

Nazi Escape Road in Peril   Corridor to Kharkov Less Than 30 Miles Wide as Bloody Battle Rages

RUSSIANS CROSS DONETS BELOW KHARKOV TODAY   Capture City Within 10 Miles of Main Nazi Railroad, Kill 1,200 Germans

Reds Approach Nazi Rail Line   Slog Way Through Stiff Resistance

KHARKOV TRAP TIGHTENED AS REDS DRIVE ON   Counter Attacks by Desperate Germans Hurled Back With Heavy Loss to Nazis   BITTER FIGHT CONTINUES   Berlin Radio Says New Drive Opened by Russians While They Rush on in North

Reds Threaten Nazi Railways  Near Kharkov   Slow Advance Made Over German: Reserves; Capture War Goods.   OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE

Soviets Pound Escape Route Near Kharkov   Russians Are Driving Toward Two Remaining Railway Lines Which Supply Nazi Garrison

—RUSSEA—  GERMANS’ ESCAPE LINES IMPERILLED   Red Army Troops Report‘ed Within Nine Miles '-Of Kharkov On South

RED ARMY TROOPS  CONTINUE BATTLING  ENEMY AT KHARKOV TWO REMAINING RAILWA\  ESCAPE LINES ARE REINGC APPRNACHEN

Soviet Troops  Still Advance   Approaching Two Last Railway Escape Lines For Nazis in Kharkov

REDS NEARING NAZI ESCAPE, RAIL LINES   Zmyev Captured 20 Miles South of Kharkov. 1,200 Enemy Troops Killed

REDS NEARING ) REMAINING ESCAPE LINES   Capture of Town 20 Miles South of Khar oy Is Announced

RUSSIANS NEARING LAST TWO ESCAPE LINES AT KHARKOV   Two Remaining Railways Sup plying Nazi Garrison - at  “Kharkov Threatened by Approach of Reds

Russians Near Nazis’ Railway  Escape Avenues   Gains In Kharkov Made Against Fresh Nazi. Reserves.

SOVIET TROOPS THREATEN NAZI ESCAPE LINES   Plow Thru Stiff Resistance Near Important Base

BEATEN NAZIS STRUGGLE 10 FLEE TRAD   Unmercifully Pounded by Allied Sea and Air Forces

TUCKER CONTINUES IN GRAVE CONDITION   Confessed Slayer of Waitress SHII Clinging to ' an AT ee

TUCKER CONTINUES IN GRAVE CONDITION   Confessed Slayer of Wait. ress Still Clinging to i ife

DEMOCRATS LAY UUNVENTION PLANS   MEETING TO NAME 1944 STANDARD BEARER WILL HAVE 1,176 DELEGATES.

Democrats Make Convention Plans  Total of Delegates Is Placed at 1.176

Democrats Lay Convention Plans,  Allott 1176 Votes   ‘Bonus’ Awarded States Giving Party Electoral Ballots

Democratic Convention of 1944 Will Have 76 More Delegates Than 1946 Meet

Demos To Have 16 More Votes   L16 Delexaics To Attend Corvention

ALLIED AIR FORCE BLAST NAZI PORTS   Third Night of Consecutive Assaults on Axis Europe.

KIEL NAVAL BASE BOMBED BY RAF   American Forts Blast Paris Motor Factory and Port Of Naples In Italy

Situation in Pacific Is Improving   General's Summary of Conditions Fits Entire Area

Pacific Situation Is ‘Satisfactery And Improving   New Air Attacks Listed on Anniversary  Of Pearl Harbor Stab

Leaders Seek _ To Avert Socia! Security Fight   Democrats fear President’s request for ex‘panded program will upset Congress.

Congressional Leaders Seek to Persuade President Not to Bring Up New Social Security Program

SEEK DELAY IN OBTAINING NEW SECURITY PLAN   Congressmen Trying To Persuade Roosevelt To Delay Plan

U. $. BELAY ON SECURITY — PLANS FREED   Demos Seek te Persuade F. R. to Postpone Program   MESSAGE THURSDAY   Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plans Get Boost From Chairman

RASTER WILL DENY KILLING PLANT GUAR   Defense Council Startles Court in “Innocent? Claim to Jury.

CLAIMS KASTER IS NOT KILLER   Defense Attorney Startles Courtroom

Russians Hold Firm Against German Troovs   Enemy Reports Attacks by Reds Launched ©

Russian Lines Holding Firm All Along The Orel-Belgored Sector In Fierce Fighting  German Radio Reports Russians Have Begun Their Own Offensive All Alona Battle Line

GULF HURRICANE TOLL REACHES 1!   Tughoat Founders in StormSwept Seas; Scores Are Injured

BROWN STICKS  TO HIS GUNS      Defends OPA Against Bom bardment, Proposals to Yield Powers

Brown Defends  Q.P.A. Policies   Director Labels Stories Of Drastic Changes In Personnel False.

CRITICS LOUDOPA STANDS PAT   Defends Plan to Roll Back Cost of Living

OPA Defends } Control Of - Food Prices   Brown Scoffs Rumors of Mass Resignations and Imminent Shakeup

Brown Sticks To OPA Policy   SUBSIDY PAYMENTS TO BE PAID ON SOME JTEM

OPA NOW FACING STRONG ATTAGK   ‘High Command’ Sticks to Its Guns in Face of Opnasition.

High Command Of OPA Hits Back at Critics   Price Ceiling System Defended By Prentiss Brown

BROWN DEFENDS SUBSIDY PROGRAM   “SUPPORT OPA SYSTEM OF DOLLARS AND CENTS FOOD PRICE CEILINGS

BROWN STICKS TO HIS GUNS; DEFENDS 0.P.A.   Denies Wholesale Resignations Taking Place

BLANKS IN MAILS   Postmen. Delivered Appli cations for Ration Book 3 Today

Year Ago Our Marines Hit Guadalcanal   Gen. Vandergrift, Who Led Them Ashore, Promoted, Ready For New Work

Vandearift Back In South Pacific  3-Star General Now Commands Marines » In Sauthwect Aran

VANDEGRIFT ON JOB: AGAIN   He Led Marines Ashore At Guadalcanal Year Ago Today

V andeg rift  Back In South  Pacific Again   To Direct All Marine Operations In That Area

Denaturalization  of Red Invalid   Supreme Court Decides In Favor of Communists

Churchill, Roosevelt Conferring   Speculation uns Free an ; Subjects Under Discussion

British Prime Minister And President Roosevelt Open Another Parley At Washington—Capital Expectation Is That Talks On European Invasion Situation May Be Of Political Rather Than Military Nature —White House Issues No Details

© Third W artime Trip ® Political Problems © Japs Considered  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

NO OFFICIAL WORD ABOUT TOPIC GIVEN   Hint New Offensive May Be Started In Pacific   THREE LEADERS   From India Theater Come With Prime Minister; Benes In Washington

United Nations Leaders Meet With Forces Poised For New Blows At Axis

Prime Minister  In U. S. Capital For Talks, Shape Victory Program

Talks Likely To Bring In  Jap Problem   Leaders In India Theater Accompany British Minister

Presence of Wavell and Other Leaders of India Theatre May Mean Early Action In Pacific   President Promised China Would Be Used As Base Against Japan and Burma; To Follow Up Successes. In Europe, However

Prime Minister of Britain Arrives in  Capital Last Night   Fourth War Council To Formulate Blows on Every Battleline

CHURCHILL AND FDR HOLDING — COUNCIL WAR   British Leader Arrive): Last Night in Washing: ton For Third WarTime Visit.

Intensified Offense Against Japs Scented as Officers From Far East Attend   CHURCHILL VISIT SURPRISE   Invasion of Europe Believed To Be Getting Most of Attention, However

British Head On 3rd War Trip To U.S.   Triumph In Tunisia Opens New Offensive

Offensive In Far East One Likely Topie   Wavell and Other High-up Officials Are With the British Premier

CHURCHILL HAS INDIAN LEADERS AT CONFERENCE   Allied Chiefs Discuss New Plans as War in  Tunisia Nears End

Next Step In ‘Battle Of Germany Is Outlined: Axis Tries To Keep Calm

War Council As Allies Set New Blows   White House Silent As Leaders Sit Down to Bring Enemy Closer to Their “Unconditional Surrender” Demands

Allied Leaders Ponder Blows   BRITISH, AMERICAN CHIEFTAINS CONFER IN WASHINGTON AFTER TUNISIA VICTORY WITH ARMIES POISED FOR DEADLY SMASH

Military Staff Arrives With Prime Minister   Speculation Rife As “Invade Europe” Expectations Mount

WHITE HOUSE IS SILENT ON PLAN OF DISCUSSION   London Observers Claim Wal Strategy Prime Purpose of Meeting

Churchill Brings Far East Chiefs   British Prime Minister and Generals Begin Talks With  President in Washimoeton

Concentrated Attacks Against Japan Believed Being Formed By Allies

Map Allied Plans for New Attacks   High Ranking Officers Accompany Prime Minister to Washington Conference as Tunisian Victory Previews New Attacks on  Hitler’s Powerful ‘European Fortress’   Tunisian Defeat 6 Times Worse Than at Dunkirk

FDR, Churchill In Conference   To Bring Enemy Closer To Unconditional Surrender

Wavell Here with Churchill, Indicating War Against Japs Looms High in FDR Session   Observers See Main Topics To Be Politics OF Future Offensives

Wavell Among Top Officials In Washington  Allies Now Poised For TE ypi...... , a ee   Allies Now Poised For New Blows Against  Foe In Europe And Dasifice Theater.

LEADERS TWO GREAT  ALLIED NATIONS IN  CONFERENCE AGAIN CHURCHILL AND ROQSE VELT EXPECTED TO MAI INVASION PLANS

Roosevelt and Churchill and Military Leaders in Washington  TOPIC NOT ANNOUNCED        Political and Military: Dispositions May. Be Discussed .

ALLIED CHIEFS: MAP STRATEGY TO WHIP FOES   Churchill, Roosevelt Meet with Military and Naval Leaders. ;   CZECH PRESIDENT BINES MAY JOIN CONFERENCE

Highest Military Leaders Take Part In Conference   Presence of Wavell Gives Suggestion of Plans Against Japs

British Chief Brings Staff Of Leaders   Wavell, Somerville. Brooke, Pound Others Accompany Prime Minister.   THIRD TRIP FO (3

INVASION CHIEF TOPIC TODAY IN WASHINGTON   Prime Minister Arrives U. S. Last Night —

Speculation Is. Running High: On Objectives   More Action on Pacific _ Front; Attack on Hitlex, Fortresses Main Topics

HITLER SHIFTS HEADQUARTERS WAITING BLOW   War Strategy Believed Primary Purpose of Churchill's Third Trip to Washington   BENES DUE TODAY   Political Aspects Also Though! Due for Study—Beaverbrook Also in Washington

‘With Victory In Tunisia Ringing In Ears, Leaders ‘Map Further Strateqy

Strategy Of An Early Allied Invasion Of Europe Not Likely To Be  Sidetracked, However.

OR. KELLOGE DIES OF PNEUMONIA   World-Famous Health Expert Expires Late Tuesday After Serving Thousands

Reveal Petain Wanted France  A Democracy   Undelivered Talk Shows That New Constitution Has Been Proclaimed

Slain in Nev Russ Drive   Germoas Drives bork 27 Miles After Being Helted on Ali Freats

RUSSIAN POWER FORCES RETREAT   —— ee Violent Nazi Drive Halted = All Along Front \

GIRAUD ASKED TO VISIT U. §   Roosevelt Indicates Approval of Eisenhower's African Diplomacy

Eisenhower's Handling Of  French Situation Approved Problem Stemming Out ‘Of Wrangling In North

Roosevelt Asks  Visit by Giraud   Action Gives Support To DeGaulle Rebutt

BOND DRIVE IN ITS LAST PHASE   $1.723,389 In Federal Securities Remain To Be Sold

ALLEN-CO NEAR MID-WAY MARK IN BOND DRIVE   Two And One-Quarter Million Subscribed In 10 Days  CLOSES SEPT. 30  Extra Effort Urged By Chairman To Put Area Over Top

Today’s War Moves   New Move in Argentine  Will Aid Allied War Cftart

The War Today   Argentine Revolt Expected To Aid Allied War Effort

The War Today  eee  Argentine Revolt Points Toward Greater PanAmericar Solidarity.’

Argentine Revolt Holds Interest   MUCH GOOD EXPECTED FROM MILITARY COUP

ARGENTINA MAY JOIN ALLIES IN WAR WITH AXIS   Revolt Headed By Pro-Allied Army Officers

Revolt May Mean PanAmerican Solidarity Argentina Center Spy System

 The War Today— Sees Argentine Upheaval As Swing ‘Away From Reactionary Government

ARGENTINE REVOLUTION MAY BE ANOTHER - STEP FOR SOLIDARITY ALLIED WAR AND POST-WAR PLAN

British Now Seem Ready To Open Cross-Channel Front To Attack Germany

BRITISH SPEED PLANS FOR OVER CHANNEL MOVES   May Ccme Too Late For Any Invasion Before Next Year

NO KNOCKOUT BLOW AGAINST GERMANY SEEN BEFORE 1944   Sudden British Interest In Speeding Cross-Channel  Invasion Is Too Tate  Ss

SMALL BOATS DRIVE AWAY JAP VESSELS   Destroyers Are Hit By U. S. Torpedo Craft

ESQUIRE MAGAZINE HIT BY POSTMASTER   Breezy Pictures and Stories Cause Mail Restrictions

U.S. E.S. Places 8,274 More Persons In June Than In Previous Month

‘Reverse Aid’ By British Totals $1,174,000,000   Figure Given by F.D.R. In Lend-Lease Message; Critics Ask More Data

FIGURES SIVEN ON LEND-LEASE   Reverse Aid From Britain Totals $1,174,000,000 Congress Informed

LEND - LEASE REPORT MADE TO CONGRESS   Roosevelt Tells of Amount Greot Britain Has Supplied   Comment Made by Solons ’ Following the Re nare

LEND-LEASE FOES ASK MORE DETAILS ON BRITISH HELP   Roosevelt Says United Kingdom Has Furnished U. S. Supplies Worth  $1,174,000,000.   MESSAGE INDICATES AID IS EXPANDING   London Reports Payments to Allies in Excess of Sums Received From Them of $9,000,.000,000.

LEND - LEASE REPORT MADE 0 CONGRESS  Raacavalt Talle af Amatun?   Roosevelt Tells of Amount Great Britain Has Suoplied   CRITICS WILL ASK MORE INFORMATION   Comment Made by Solons Following the Re nort

MORE DETAILS ON LEND-LEASE ARE DEMANDED   FDR Says British Aid lo U. S. Amounts to $1,174,000,000

CABINET MEMBERS NAMED BY MARTIN   Will Take Office Jan. 15 : On Day OF Governor's Inauguration

Yanks Capture Agrigento In  10-Mile Push   Canadian Troops Advance, Threaten Right Flank Of  Axis Forces.   ‘BOMB GERMANY, ITALY

German Lines Defending Plain Reported Pierced; Algiers Says Outer Defenses Are Contacted

Fall of Catania To British Army Appears Near   U. S. Troops Advance 12 More Miles, Seize  Agrigento From Axis NEW RUSSIAN GAINS  Soviet Forces Now Only 25 Miles From Orel in Triple Drive

Hit Jap Fringes   Allies Gettinoe Un Steam For Offensive In Pacific

iT he War Today—   Sees Big Naval, Air Battle Growing Out Of South Pacific Situation

DeWitt Mackenzie Says Important Events In Pacific Can Be Expected

 Conquest of Lac, Salamaua Important Victories  MacArthur Looking at Rabaul, Truk

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS            WiacArthur’s Offensive n Southwest Pacific finitely Underway

The War Today   Victories In Europe Should Not Obscure Significance Of Lae.

CAPTURE OF LAE AND SALAMAUA INDICATE START. OF NEW PHASE OF OFFENSIVE WAR IN PACIFIC   While Reds Hammer Germans and Hitler’s Mediterranean Sands Collapse. Developments In South Pacific Give Promise of New Drive on Jap:

CAPTU RE OF SALAMAUA AND LAE! BELIEVE D TO PRESAGE SOME NEW ‘AND. IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS 

Back Wallace To Direct New  Food Program   AAA Officials Anxious To Have Vice President In Food Czar Position.   FD. R. MUST DECIDE

Wallace Boosted For Food Czar   Agitation Reported For New Agency

Witness Says Crossing of Volturno Followed by Annihilation Bombardment

Morin Tells How Fifth Army Troops Crossed Volturno   Surge Forward behine Terrific Artillery Barrage Just before Dawn

NO COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDY ISSUE IS SEEN IN CONGRESS   Administration: Heads Open  “Caanpaigh "Keine Big Threat Of Run-Away  ‘Inflation

MOMs NAT aeTYOwWY am  FOOD EXPERTS DINE ON MUSKRAT; GOOD, BUT DIVIDED ON TASTE

Forest Fires Under Control   Cannery, House And Barr Destroyed In Anne Arundel. Howard.

7 Forest Fires ‘Cause Damage  Cannery Destroyed   In Jessun Blaze

Wipe Out Gains of Germans   " Observers Believe Nazi Offensive One of Limited  Objectives

AUD HAMM EF AUK GERMAN DANE IN SOUTH   10.000 Nazis Slain, 738 Tanks And 203 Planes Destroyed, Claim

Losses of Allied Shipping on Route To North Africa Only 2.16 Pct.

Shipping Losses Reported Light   Only 2.16 Per Cent of Tonnage Destroyed

STRAGGLERS NOW BEING MOPPED UP   Vast Booty Captured; Eisenhower Praises Americans

Ex-Convict Nabbed by Tulsa Police After Kidnaping Pair Of Sperry Men Early Today

FLOOD LEAVES MANY HOMELESS   600 City Blocks Under Water In Ft. Smith,  Arkansas

Three Convicts In Break Effort Shot   One Killed During Frustrated Kansas Attemp'

CONVICTS SHOT IN MINE SHAFT   One of Trio Dies in Attempt ' To Escape Kansas Prison Property

Shoot 3 Convicts In Prison Break   Refused to Surrender in Cage of Lansing Mine levator.

CONVICT IS KILLED   Fatal Injury. to One of Three _. Jn Abortive Break at Lansing

Prison Break Foiled   One Convict Killed, Two Wounded in Vain Attempt to Flee © Mine at Lansing

FOOD SUBSIDIES BATTLE HEADED FOR SENATE NOW   Ratio of 278 to 117 Defeat In House Expected to Be Dunlicated.

SECO COMING UP IN SUBSIDY FIGHT   Senate Likely To Give Price Control Plan Another Beating

Subsidy Fight Heads Toward Senate Today   ‘Committee Arranges To Begin Hearings Next Tuesday — House Vote Is 278 To 117

SUBSIDY BAN NOW GOES TO SENATE   ‘House Passed Bill by Vote Of 278 to 117

SENATE EXPECTED TO VOTE AGAINST » FOOD SUBSIDIES   Hearing to Require About One Week to Begin Tuesday, Debate on Question   May Start By Dec. 10.   MANY REQUESTS FOR CONTINUATION FILED   Senate Farm Bloc Leaders Believe House Action Will Be Affirmed Despite Much Pressure.

Distinguish Services Cross Awarded To Sgt. Jos. Schwaller   Jefferson City Gunner Was Shot Down Over Enoalish Channel

Distinguished Service Cross To Schwaller  Jefferson City Army Aix Force Gunner Wins Coveted Honor

Tire Situation May Stop 10% of Cars =  ' Walters Says “A”   Ratians Mav End

Factions of French to Reach Deal   Giraud in Command Of Military Under New Plan

Nazis Say ’Chutists— In France   But Claim All Paratroops Are Captured

ALLIES POST NEW GAINS IN ITALIAN AREA   Nazis Reported To Be Fleeing From Kiev

RUSSIANS REPORT GERMANS EVACUATING KIEV AND GOMEL   Marshal Badoglio Turns Forces Against Germans and Followers of Mussolini

Mosquito Bombers Hit Hamburg Again   RAF Makes 5th Raid in 60 Hours; Retaliatory Attacks 2v Luftwaffe Weak

Bombers Attack arning Hamburc  _ Stage Fifth Raid NPP ge PA ED ee

Europe Gets Relentless — Air Attacks   Flaming Hamburg 1: Subjected to’ More  Bomb Punishment

Churchill Pledges RAF Will Batter Japanese   Avers “Cruel And Greedy Nation” Must Be Stripped Of Its Power.

‘RAF Pledged To Jom U. S. In  Japanese Raids   Churchill Says Nips Must Be  Beaten Down

U-BOAT WAHOO IS BAGK IN PORT AFTER REAL HUN   Sinks Destroyer, Four Valua: ble Transports In Pacific Jaunt.

Allied 5th, 8th Armies Continue Italian Advance   Nazis Fall Back & Miles; Yanks Push Ahead North Of Capua

Germans Plannine Desperate Stand   Prepare for Major Battle in Italy

Nazis Retreat to Mountains   FURIOUS GERMANS SCORCH COUNTRYSIDE IN FLIGHT FROM VOLTURNO; YANKS RUIN ENEMY STAND AS EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES PETACCIATO

Japs May Free 1,500 to U: S.   State Department Hopes  Seen ee Men

ANOTHER AIR RAID ALARM SOUNDED IN ROME LAST NIGHT   Residents Of Bombed Areas Meving Into Inner City — Doolittle Plans Raid

SPEEDBOAT UPSETS AND SIX DROWNE!   Buckeye Lake Is Scene Of Tragedy

EIGHT ARMY BY-PASSES MARETH LINE DEFENSES   Makes 50 Mile Advance Thru Desert   ONLY 20 MILES WEST OF GABES NEAR EL HAMMA   Americans and French Only 34 Miles From Coast

Report English Soldiers Eighth Army Have Cracked the Most Strongly Fortified Section Of Mareth Line.

LEGAL PUBLICATION   IN THE PROBATE COURT WITHIN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF McKINLEY AND STATE OF NEW NIEXICO

Germans Scuttle Al Ships Remaining in Naples Harbor   Bitter Battle Raging North of Salerno on Road to Bia Port

9 MILES ON OREL FRONT   Towns Taken 10 Miles North and South of Base

RUSSIAN ARMY NEARING OREL; 10 MILES AWAY   Only 25 Percent Of First Line Germans Troops Now Fighting

ONLY 25” OF AXIS TROOPS IN RUSSIA ARE NATIVE NAZIS   Reds ‘Continue To Smash Ahead in Orel Area —Fighting Is  Fierce

Reds Gain Mile In Orel Smash   Report Only Fourth of Enemy Germans

U.S. AIRMEN RAID KISKA THREE TIMES   First Aerial Activity In Four Days In Aleutians

FSA Goal _ More Farm Productios   BRINGS AID 10 THOSE BLOCK.. BY CREDIT LIMITA. TIONS.

FLYING FUnThitoo UATE REPORTEL OVER GONTINEN]   Results ani Target of Raid Not Known; Swiss Neutral.ty Violated.

® Mine Chief Backs Down, Raps WLE ‘Abusive Tactics’   UMW Retreat Follows Roosevelt Threat To Draft Strikers

WOUNDED YANK PARATROOPER TELLS HOW HE ESCAPED AS. HOSPITAL SHIP IS BOMBED

‘Battle of Words’ Raging Over the Bombing of Rome   iThe Allied Story   The Axis Story

PILOTS REPORT ON ROME RAID   Declare Heavy Damage In flicted? Historic Landmarks Undamaged

Military Objects Damaged And Many Killed And Hurt In Area, Reports Show

RUSSIANS GAIN INKUBAN AREA   Important Height Taken After Counterattacks Are Repulsed

REDS CRUSHED NAZI ATTACKS IN CAUCASUS   Though Germans Used Superior Force To Capture Hilltop. Russians Dislodged Them In Kuban Valley.   Reds Lose 58 Planes

Russians Crush German Atfacks, Capture Height   Moscow Reports Fightinc in the Northwestern Caucasus

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED BY RUSS   important. Height ir Northwestern Caucasus Captured

East Coast Under Alert Christmas Eve. Saturday Against Possible Attack

TURKS SUPPLY ALLIES WITH NEW WEAPON   Seen Entering War On Allied Side When Time Richt

See Turkey As Ready To Join Allies   Once Friend Of Germans May Be Aid In Spring Balkan Drive; Has Na Sympathy For Reich

Turkey is Believed About Ready to Join Allies Against Axis   Diplomats Boldly Assert Former Friend of Germany May Act Soon

Reveals Turkey Will Join Allies _ At ‘Right Time’    ae See SS Nation s Completely Uut  Sympathy With Reich

TURKS WILL ENTER WAR AGAINST NAZIS WHEN TIME IS RIGHT   Sympathy With Reich and  Now Completely Out of Ready Soon to Take Plunge

TURKS REPORTED READY 10 JOIN ALLIES IN WAR   TIME OF ENTRY APPEARS TO HINGE ON THE WEATHER

Diplomats Hear Bold Talk Now   Weather To Be Major Factor; Therefore May B: Spring Before Action

Issue Between Finland And Russia Is Small Strip Of Land, Navy Base

RUMORS CIRCULATED KING EMMANUEL ON WAY QUT IN ITALY   Swiss Report Claims 73-Year-Old Ruler Has Abdi cated In Favor Of Son As Internal  Crisic Mounts

Urges Italians to Take Up Arms And Fight Nazis   Radio Station at Milan Appeals .» to People to Oust Mussolini  ——Keport) Abdication

RIOT SPREADS OVER EUROPE   Clandestine Radio Urges Italians to Throw Germans Out

Doubt Reports. Victor Emmanue Has Abdicated:   ~ Rumors F rom Europe Say King Replaced _ «By Prince Humbert

TALY’S AIR LOSS WAS 18,500 MEN IN AFRIGAN FIGHT   Nation’s Leaders Meet to De: ide. How. to Defend Country Now.

‘CLAIM (TALIAN KING ABDIGATES ‘NOT CONFIRMED   Many Rumors Of Italian Internal Crisis Arise Frcm Tunisia ‘ Defeat

ASK ITALIANS TO JOIN WITH ALLIED FORGE   Radio Appeal Against Mussolini as Rumor Persist Italian King Will Quit Throne

APPEAL MADE T0 ITALIANS TO AID ALLIES IN BATTLE   Reports State That King Victor Emanuel III Has Abdicated As Ruler

ITALIANS URGED TOHELP ALLIES   ‘Radio Free Milan’ Says Mussolini Worst Enemy

However, Whole Country Is Jittery And Reports Indicate Ousting Of Mussolini Is Possibility.

APPEALS TO ITALIANS T0 FIGHT ON ALLIED SIDE IN OUSTING MUSSOLINI

RUMOR KING OF ITALY . ABDICATES   Report Is Doubted; Mussolini Is Losing Prestige

“Underground” Radio Urges Italian  People To Join Allies, Oust Il Duce; Rumor King Victor Has Abdicated

GERMANS ALARMED OVER POSSIBILITY OF EARLY INVASION   State Of Alert Ordered In Jutland Province Of Denmark

MINERS LEAVE PITS IN STATE   Belief Expressed That Shutdown Will Not Extend Beyond Today

Vague Hope Is Held That Shutdown of Mines Will Not Extend Beyond Today; State Miners Halt

WESTERN UNION ABSORBS POSTAL   TELEGRAPH COMPANY MERGER ENDS LONG COMPETITIVE FIGHT

Approval Given Merger Terms   Favored By Western Union Stockholders

HOMEWOOD YOUTH TO RECEIVE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT   150 Scouts and Cubs to Participate in Ceremonies

CAPACITY CROWD WITNESSES SCOUT COURT OF HONOR   Paul Keen, Walter Clark Are Awarded Special Scout Honors

Flyers Report Hits” Installations And Ne Misses On Ships        ITALIAN TROOPS =           Axis Forces By Hundreds On ! Sicily Front —

HUGE BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON ENEMY ISLAND   Fires Observed As American Birdmen Drop Bombs In Clear Weather   SHIPPING SAID DAMAGED   Navy Announces Sortie By Tokyo Pilots On Depot Off Somoa

Army Bombers Attack Jap Base On Paramushiru   First Raid On Japan’s Home Island Chains Since Maj. Doolittle’s Raid   BASE ATTACKED IS NORTHEAST OF TOKYO

START FIRES, BLAST SHIPS IN BIG RAIL   Army Liberators Stage Attach Only 1,200 Miles Away From Tokyo.   BUILDINGS HIT   Navy Also Reveals ‘Harmless Bombing’ By Foe of U. S. Island of Canton.

SOMBERS RAID BIG JAP BASE, * PARAMUSHIRI   Yanks Start Fires on Nips’ Outpost 1200 Miles from Tokyo

SCHOEPPEL TO SPEAK   Governor Will Address Closing Session of Boys’ State

SCHOEPPEL TO SPEAK   a 4 ade. 3 Governor Will Address Closing Session of Boys’ State

J.P: MORGAN FINANCIER, DIED TODAY      One of World’s Wealthiest Men; Die in Florida

Heart Attack Fatal To New York Banker In His Florida Winter Retreat

; Result CF Heart Ailment   End Comes Early Today in Florida—Was Second Fi nancier of Same Name

HEAD OF MONEY DYNASTY DEAD   Heart Ailment Fatal. to J. P. Morgan After Short IIness

Head of Financial’ Dynasty Succumbs To Heart Ailment at Age of 75

J.P. MORGAN SUCCUMBS TO. AILMENT.   Financier, _Reputed . Tc ’ Be World's Richest > Man Succumbs

U.S. Bombers Rip German War Centers   NAZIS SCATTER BOMBS IN EASTERN ENGLAND AS LONDON IN ALERT

48,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped   RAF Reveals Total Load In 100 Nights

Axis Convoy Smashed by U.S. Bombers  33 Afrika Korp: Korps Tanks Destroyed as Allies Stop Axis Thrust  NEAR MARETH LINE  American Armored Force Seizes 84 Italians in Attack on Pass

American Bombers Smash Axis Convoy Off Tunisia Coast   Retreat in South Started Yesterday in Medinine Area After Rommel Thrust ot Lines

FOX RETREATING ~TOTHE HELIS -— NEAR MEDENINE   L ee ase ‘Germans Start Off Boldly But Run Into Steel Wall; Turn Back.

EIGHTH RAM SIMSHES SK. ANS ATTACKS   Montgomery Orders Counter . Offensive. After. Four ~ Assaults Stopped..   AMERICAN ‘BOMBERS ° BLAST SUPPLY CONVOY

AMERICAN BOMBERS SMASK CONVOY CARRYING FOOD, SUPPLIES TO AXIS FORCES   Eighth Army Wins Cleancut Victory in Opening Phase

U. 5, BOMBERS SMASH CONVOY OFF TUNISIA   _— Eighth Army Breaks Six Assaulis By Afrika Korps, Puts Ger mans On The Run Again...

ENEMY UNITS RETREATING IN TUNISIA   American Bombers Smash Up Convoy Carrying Supplies to Rommel.

British Repulse  Tunisian Attacks   Germans Fail in Bloody Attempt To Crack Montgomery tGiefore Mareth Line

Afrika Korps Retreats After Being Stopped By Artillery At Medenine

Germans Retreating ° Toward = Hills North and Northwest of Medeatne Rommel Thrust’ Stopped When His Troops Run into Heavy Artillery and Tank Resistence.

'Yanks Blast AxisConvoy Off Tunisia   Seven Ships. Hit “By U.S. Bombers; 3 Vessels Sunk:

Roosevelt Signs Bill Giving Hershey All!  SelectiveService Powers

OHIOANS WONT DRINK HEAVILY   Initial Ration Is Fifth Must sh _ Last se : Weske

2 Pints For 4 Weeks. First Liquor Ration   State Liquor Director Don Fisher “Announces Amount Ohioans Will Be Able To Buy During Period From June 1 To June 26 *

ARST ORI RUM UNIT ANNOUNCED   One Quart or Fifth, or Two Pints, Permitted to June 26

QUART PER MONTH IS LIQUOR RATION   Or. It May Be a Fifth ot Two Pints, Beginning Next Tuesday

QUART A MONTH SET FOR LIQUOR   Initial Rationing Period Will Run From June 1 To 26

Anglo-American. “Aerial © Offensive Knocks ‘Out! Industrial Capacities of 15-of Germany’s Leading Cities  {Manpower ‘Being Tied ‘Up.

Allied Air Attack Has Knocked Out 15: Leading German Industrial Cities

Troops And Equipment To Visit Florence Sept. 28 In Salute To Wood Caravan

‘WAR SHOW TO BE GIVEN IN PYVILLETONIGHT   Soldiers; Jeeps, Arm Equipment. in Wallsend; Dance  Follows

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN SEA FIGHT   Third transport sunk, 24 aircraft lost in New  Guinea battle

Jap Convoy Is Badly Battered ~— ByU.S. Attacks   Sea And Air Battle Off Coast Of New Guinea Costly To Japanese   FIVE TRANSPORTS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Only Fragmentary Troop Elements Could Have Been Landed By Enemy

George Sees Longer War   Cautions Nation Against Military Decision in Europe Before Late 1944

'NO MILITARY DECISION SEEN THIS YEAR BY SENATOR GEORGE   There is “Substantial Hope” For Victory JT ate jn 1044

WILLKIE SAYS GOP WIN IN °44 NEEDEE   Republican Leader Also Says Victory Meeting With Russia Overdue

Willkie Says Nation Needs GOP Victory   Wants Reds At  Victorv Parley

NAZIS CLAIM — ~~ ROME ATTACK   GERMAN NEWS SERVICE SAYS ALLIED WARPLANES MADE RAID ON_“ - VATICAN CITY

Quebec Meeting Of Allied Heads Ready To Begin   Roosevelt-Churchill Confer. ence May Be Most Important Thus Far   ANTHONY EDEN TO BE PRESENT

 Prime Minister Returns to Quetec  for Talks With FDR and Militarists 

SUI TO AID IN ARMY TRAINING   500 to Artive for  * Specialized Program

STATE CONVENTION TO PRESENT MANY SPLENDID LEADERS   Daytime : ‘Sessions - Of $.. _ Meeting In Churches. Night ‘Ones. In Oller Hall

WILL COOPERATE IN THE STAMP SALE   Retail Stores, Theatres, Newsboys and Many Others to Aid. in Drive.

Battered 5th Army Repulses Nazis In Battle Of Salerno   Planes And Warships Help Allied Forces To Turn Tide Of Onslaught; 8th Army Is 67 Miles From Bloody War Area

Spent Childhood  On Homestead Near Indians  Mrs. Weidenfeller Came Plymouth  , . ae Se ye gee. pe?

Spent Childhood  On Homestead Near Indians  Mrs. Weidenfeller ‘Came P lymouth —

FLAUD CLAIMED IN PLANT PROBE   Criminal Prosecution Recommended for Labor Leader

Recommends Prosecution  OfUnionHead   House Sub-Committee Blames de Lorenzo Kar Rrewcter Failures   ALSO BLAMES NAVY AND MANAGEMENT

PLANE CRASHES NEAR RED RIVER   Terrific Explosion Reported By Farmers—Number of Dead Undetermined

Big Army Plane Falls 2 Miles From Lehanon   Fire Follows Crash  And It fs Tmpossible To Rescue Men Trapped In Four-Motored Ship

‘Honor System For Rationing   Assistant OPA Head To Start Program Soon

HONOR SYSTEM FOR RATIONS, PRICES URGED   New OPA Assistant Calls For Parades, Bands to ‘Sell’ Program to Public.   WARNS ‘TRAITORS’   Promises to Pay Closer Heed  To Civilian Needs  in the Future. 

OPA May Use Honor System On Price Rules   Urges Organization Of Rationing Drives Like Red Cross Plan

TALKS ON GAS   Roosevelt Confers Today With Ickes on Fuel Crisis.

Drastic Cuts In Retail Deliveries  By 0.0.7. Orde   Gasoline Crisis Causes New Order To Ban Retail Delivery Of 15 Commodities   OTHER DELIVERIES ALSO CURTAILED

WAR CORRESPONDENTS.   May Ue in Line for War Eee ra titcns in Near Puture.

Two Aagean Islands Held i Allies May Be Lost;.RAF Mc  quito Bombers Strike Westei 1 Burove   RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN INVESTED CRIME

FIFTH AND ElGHTH ARMIES PUSH ON, NEW RED PUSH DUI   British In Aegean Islands Ap pear to Be Losing Grip.

Germans Winning On Aegean Island   American Bombers Put Air War  In Europe Back on Full Basis

Scent of Death Pervades Nazis   Germans Suffer From Raid Psychosis

 *The Scent Of Death’ Brightly-Lighted Dummy Rail ‘Stations F ailed To Fool Allies   Odor Of Decay Hangs About Bombed German Cities; Men Wounded In Russia Swarm Streets

U.S. Attacks  In Burma Area   war . a ue MAACLAIOLIE LODMMILED  Made On Japanese

Mav Re Part Of Plan   American Fighters Resume Attacks On Burmese Jap Bases   Excellent Results Reported In Damage To Bridges, Landing Fields

GIANT U.S. AIR FLEET POUNDS NORTH FRANCE      Greatest Daylight Raid Of War Believed Under Way Today Against German Bases There.

YANK BLOW HITS HEART OF FRANCE   Report Eighth U. S. Air Force Bombs Paris For Two Hours

—AND MORE MAY* CoME   Center of Paris is Hit — In Raid for First Time

Huge American  Bombing Armad: Attacks France   ‘Raid Relieved To Be + - Gteatest Daylight  : Effort. of Entire War

PARIS ROCKED BY BOMB RAID   Heart of City a Target of Huge U. S. Armada

NORTH ITALY, PARIS ON U. S. BOMBING LIST   German Lifeline Into Italy Smashed by Flying Forts Raiding From N. African Bases

Second Front On Continent Is Opened  PPINGEHEAD ESTABLISHED ON   BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED ON SOUTHWESTERN ITALIAN COAST   Amphibious Assault Is Carried Out Iinder Cover of Heavy Bombardment   U.S. Bombers Smash France   Axis heports Heavy Assault Made on Paris   Attack May Be Greatest Daylight Raid af the War

Raid May Be Greatest Day Air Attack   Damage to French Capital ‘Is Very Great’ Reports Say

INDUSTRIALIZATION OF FARMS FORESEEN   Novelist-farmer Takes Dark View of Future

REPORT SURPLUS OF EGGS IN U. S.   Many Markets in Large Cities Glutted

‘Tremendous Productivity Of America Evidenced By Present Egg Surplus

Egg Surplus Is Reported in Many  Cities; Prices Drop Under Ceilings

Japan To Lose Empire   Roosevelt, Churchill, And Chiang in 5-Day Conference Agree Nip War Gains Must Go

Leaders Leave For Iran; Chiang Off for China   Major Decisions Are Reached at Allied Conference

Strike at Nazis Through  Balkans May Have Been  Discussed at Meeting

EPIC TRI-POWER CONFERENCE ALSO SOUNDS DEATH KNELL FOR JAPAN WHO WILL BE STRIPPED

ROOSEVELT ENDS SESSION WITH CHIANG, CHURCHILL   Nips To Be Stripped Of Empire Grabbed In Last 50 Years

Destruction of J apanese Empire Also Promised at Cairo Three-Power Talks

Believe Plan. For European Invasion Als Made At Big Secret Conference In Cairo

New European Invasion Mapped at Cairo Parley   U.S., Britain, China Also Pledge Smashing Of Jap Empire; Stalin Meeting Reported

Conferees Now In Persia, Is Report      Nippon To Be Reduced To- Small Group of Islands; New Offensive Against Nazi Fortress Probable —

Agree On Details Of New Offensive Into Europe; Promise To Conquer Japs

Europe Attack Mapped   FDR. Chiang And Churchill Finish Cairo Conference

Japan Will Be Shorn of Her Empire   United States, China, Britain Affirm Purpose at Cairo

Global War ~ Conferences Continuing   No Secret About Momentous Decision Regarding Japan and the Orient   CHIANG. RETURNS  TO CHUNGEKING   Roosevelt and Churchill ‘to Develop War: Plans in Talks With Stalin ©

Japan To Be Stripped Of Empire Gained Since Start Of World War One, Chieftains Aqree In Meeting   Roosevelt And Churchill Reported To Be Meeting In Teheran With Premier Stalin; Details For Global Victories Are Topics

Unrelenting War On Japs Promised By 3-Party Parley   Roosevelt and Churchill Proceed to Iran to Talk  With Stalin.   To Strip Nippons of All Stolen Property

GREAT BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES IN NEW INVASION PLAN   BIG DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED FROM CONFERENCE HELD IN CAIRO

Unrelenting War to Thrash _ Nips Into Unconditional’  . Surrender Decided  Tinon   TO BE REDUCED TO *. STATUS OF 1894   Question of Balkans Alsc Aired At Cairo Conference of “Big Four,” Dispatches Hint

Great Developments Are Expected Soon  From African Confab   FDR And Churchill Reported C onferring With Stalin After Five-Day Parley With Chinese Leaders; . Dismemberment Of Japan Pledged

Tri . Power. Pledge Would Dismember . Jap Empire.  1s "SIGNIFICANT Strike Into. Balkans Also Believed . hiexrivvewnel

THINK SECOND FRONT PLANS AGREED UPON   Reliable Report on Cairo Parley Indicates Military Men Discussed Blow at Balkans, as Well as Europe.

Invasion of Europe Believed to Have Been Decided Upon at Allied Parleys in Africa   Positively Known That Agreement Was Reached to Strip Jopan of All Island Possessions Gained by That Country in the Last Half Century

Big Three Pledge  Dismemberment Of Japanese Empire   Allied Four-Power Meet Reported In Iran; Crush Nazis Before Spring Prime Theme

Crush Germany Before. Spr ra Prime Theme of © ‘Roosevelt-Stal Talks; Meeting Syrichronizes‘Str - egy to.Hasten End of  All War

Balkans Campaign Might Have Been Cairo Parley Topic   Stripping Japan of All Stolen Territory Was Main Decision

U. §., Britain Mapping Details For New Front   Unrelenting Push Against Japanese Set By Allies

Details Are  ~ Worked Out By Leaders   Good Authority Had For Initial Report of This Important Meeeting

CAIR AONS a 10 JAP CONQUEST   Unrelenting Pressure By Air, Sea, Land Pledged Against Nips

IU. S. and Britain Agree: on Details of Big Smash; Japs To Be Stripped of Empire >

European Drive Mapped In Fake Cairo Parleys    To Strip Japan of Whole:Empire: She. Won in Fifty:Years:of Conquest

Pledge Is Made at Tri-Power Conference Held Recently in Cairo.   CHIANG BACK IN- CHINA

Tri - Power Pledge Would Dismember  Jap Empire IS SIGNIFICANT  Strike Into Balkans Also Believed  ra? ..... Yf

Allied Leaders Plan to Tear Away Empire Gained in 50 Years of Conquest

Pacific Islands Taken Since World War I, Manchuria and Stolen Portions of China To Be Restored; Korea to Be Independent

Britain, U.S, Agree On New Invasion Plan      With China. Two Powers Pledge Unrelenting War To Thrash Japan.   REOPEN BURMA ROAD

ALLIES AGREE ON DETAILS FOR NEW EUROPE INVASION   PROMISE PRESSURE ON JAPANESE BY LAND, SEA AND AIR

Cairo Parley Seals Doom Of Japanese   Stalin Reported At Three-Power Meet in Teheran

All China, Korea to be Freed Again   Tokyo Will Lose All Islands of Pacific, Other Occupied Lands, ABC Leaders Declare   LOSE MANDATES   Powers Foreswear Gain for Themselves, Any Thought of Territorial Expannsion

BRITAIN, U. 9. PLAN DETAILS OF NEW BLOW   Major Development’ Expected to Come Out of War . Strategy Meet. a

Military Chiefs Discuss Details For Invasion Of Europe At Historic Meet

HOME ISLANDS OF CENTURY AGO TO. BE-MADE BOUNDS   Unrelenting War on Orien-. tals Pledged Chinese During Epic Tri-Power Conference in Cairo.   CHIANG WILL NOT AjTEND STALIN MEETING   New Japan’s Population May Total 75 Million instead of 500 Million, Area to Be Much Less.

Balkan Campaign Probably Planned   Three Powers Pledge War To The Finish Against Japs   MOVE ON TO IRAN TO MEET STALIN

EASTERN 'T’ RATIONS ARE CUT BY 0.D.T.   40 Per Cent Slash Made; Big Saving * Predicted

Trucks, Buses Get Less Gas   Ban Already In Effect In 12 States Is Not Changed As To Passenger Cars

BUS, TAX! AND. TRUCK ‘MILEAGE IN. EAST CUT   Forty Per Cent Reduction Ordered by ODT Will Affect Many Asnects of Life.

T RATIONS IN EAST SLASHED 40 PER CENT   TRUCKS, BUSES AND TAXIS HARD HIT BY ODT ORDER

LUMMERUIAL bao HATIONG IN EAST ARE GUT   40 Per Cent Slash Ordered By ODT To Relieve Acute Shortage In Region   TRUCKS, BUSES. TAXIS ARE LATEST EFFECTED   Many Aspects Of Civilian Life Undergo Change Effective Tonight

Commercial Gas Allotments In Twelve States Are Slashed; North Carolina Is Not Included

MANY ASPECTS LIFE IN BAST 10 BE AFFECTED   Drastic Curtailment in Deliveries of Beverages, Ice Cream, Flowers Will Result   ONE RULE EFFECTIVE TODAY AT MIDNIGHT   Validity Third-Quarter “T’ Rations Starts at Midnight July 26 Instead July I

East’s Commercial  Mileage Slashed Reduction Ordered  Of 40 Percent for

Cut in Bus, Truck Mileage in Fast   40) Per Cent Slash In Effect Monday

EASTERN 'T' ‘RATIONS ARE CUT BY 0.0.1,   - 40 Per Cent Slash Made; Big Saving + Deadiot ed

ODT SLASHES EASTERN GAS   Ax Slices Mileages for Trucks, Buses, Cabs To Stall Breakdown

castern ‘Tl’ Ration Cut 40 Per Cent  20,000-Barrel Daily Gas Saving Sought

Allied Bombers Continue To Pound Messina   Sicily Battered Ry Heavy Bombs  Cantinwariely

Admiralty Announces That Submarines Have  - Four More Ships  Little Opposition Is  Encountered In Roid By Flying Fortrescec

Joe Aylward is Missing in Pacific Area  Son of Mr. and Mr Clan “Awlwarwn i i Aa   Son of Mr. and Mrs Geo. Aylward. Aer ial gunner.

Charles W. Barron  Missing in Action   Port Allegany Man Missing Since Oct. 21

Snowstorm Blamed For 4 lowa Deaths   Two Men Missing At Storm Lake

FOUR IOWANS FEARED FIRST STORM VICTIMS   Two Sportsmen Believed to Have Drowned Last Night While Duck Hunting on Storm Lake

BOMBING OF ROME INDICATES ALLIES READY GO ALL-OUT   DECIDE MILITARY NECESSITY OUTWEIGHS ANY PROTESTS CRIES

Allies Gain Ground on Sicily Front   Half-Way Across Middle Part of Island; British Eighth Drives on Catania

Allies Take Long-Considered Step To Bomb Military Targets At Rome

ALLIES TO IGNORE CRY OF PROTEST   Crews Instructed To Avoid Historic, Religious Targets

COURSE OF WAR! PROMPTEDROME RAID IS BELIEF   Observers Hold Allies Decided Military Considerations Outweighed Cries of Protest   REASONS AWAITED FROM CHURCHILL   Rome. Says “Numero us. Bombs Dropped, Causing ‘ ' Damage Not Yet  ‘Ascertained”

‘Americans Bomb Military Targets in Rome      Allies Settle, With Action, Arguments Over Bombing of Eternal City   _ 197 Helena Survivors Rescued Under Japs’ Noses   Four-Piper Destroyers Sail: Impudently by Moonliaht to Enemv-Held Island ‘Pick Un Hunary Crewmen Eram Crear

Strong Protest Is Expected  Churchill May   Churchill May Explain Rome Raid

Allies Await Axis Protest   Statement Believed Due From Churchill?

BOMBING OF ROME PRECEDED BY LONG ALLIED ARGUMENT   Some Britons Even in Recent Weeks Have Questioned Propriety of Raids on Eternal City.

Bombing of Rome Finally Decided   This Military. Operation Long Had Been Issue Among Allied Chiefs.

CIVILIAN DEFENSE WITHOUT A CHIEF   Passage: of New Bill. ‘Lets _ Me Ont’ Says the State . ° .. Administrator...

DRAFT BOARD NO. 2 TO SEND MORE MEN FOR ARMED FORCES   Group Passed Exams This Week And Will Report After Brief Furlouch

NEW GROUP SENT TO ARMED FORCES   ‘Men Pass Final Exams At Altecna; Now On Furlough

KASSEL, KEY INDUSTRIAL CITY   Heavy Assault Made On German War Machine By British Bombers Last Night.

REGIONAL RED CROSS BROOKFIELD FEB. 15   Linn County Chapter will be hes® See ee tral Missouri   AT CHRISTAIN CHURCH .

MEET  BROOKFIELD FEB. 15   Linn County Chapter will be host to 52 Chapters of North and Central» Missouri      AT CHRISTAIN CHURCH   H. S. (Dick) Johnsen, Chairman will preside in All Day Program

BRITISH REACTION MINED BUT ENGLISH EXDECT ACTION NOM   Expect To Hear Report Fron Churchill, Want News Of lite dt Command

NEW HOPE SURGES IN BRITAIN WITH AFRICAN REPORT   BELIEVE AGREEMENT WAS REACHED ON WHO WILL BE COMMANDER

Official Washington Shows Wide Opinion Differences On Importance Of Session

England Expects Big Development From Conference   Early Report From Churchill Is Anticipated

BIG FLOATING DRY DOCKS TO BE IN SERVICE   Cutting Weeks, Perhaps Months, Off Present Repair Time, They Will Add New Punch _ to Navy’s Pacific War.

Fleet Of Huge Floating Docks To Follow Warships Into Action Will Provide New Navy Punch

Huge Floating Drydocks Add Punch To N avy   Warships Can Be Serviced Quickly Near Foe And Sent Back To Fight

BATTLE CRIME       New York Police Repart Eighth Street Attack In Week.

BULLITT WOULD UTILIZE POWER   Says U. S. Must Use Clubs To Win Post-War Peace.

Finland Moves Nearer to Bid For Russ Deal   Premier Takes Open Stand For Withdrawal From Germany’s War 

Finnish Head Boosts Peace   Premier Linomies Identifies Himself As Spokesman Who Wanted Peace.

PEACE SENTIMENT GROWS IN FINLAND   Feelers Put Out by Premier To U. S. and Britain

GARDENING MINISTER IN SCRAP WITH OPA   Two-car, 140-mile Drive To Summer Home Scored

AMCHITRA ISLAND MAY BE KEY T0 DRIVING JAPS FROM ALEUTIANS  } > ) ne Te _ fF Ff FF _   Pinpoint Of Land In Icy  Waters Of North Pa ‘cific Is Half Way To Toakun.

Machitka May Be Springboard   Yankee Control Of Aleutians  Rests on Base

AMERICANS HOLD MACHITKA ISLAND IN THE ALEUTIANS   May Be Used As Springboard For Kiska and Attu Attack

DIM-OUT SHIFT DUE OCT. 10   EMMONS REVEALS NEW RULES TO BE ANNOUNCED

HARMON’S OWN STORY OF PLANE CRASH      Released by Antilles Air Vask Force

One Newsman Killed, Another Wounded In Solomons Battle   Ry REMRERT TFAMES

CONTINUE SCHEDULE ON NAZIS   No Letup Is Given in Pro. gram of Destruction and. Havoc on the  ’ Enemy.

RAF Pounds Axis Againin Wide Sweeps   Berlin Is Attacked for Second Night in Row Transportation Hit

BRITISH IN 66TH RAID ON BERLIN   Air Offensive Against Axis Areas Continues

Mosquito Bombers Slash At Berlin For Second Night  All Raiders Return; - Other Planne Strata 3   By Associated Press  LONDON, May 21. — Flying Fortresses raided Emden and ‘Wilheimshaven today.

ASSAULT 66TH OF WAR, FIFTH IN EIGHT DAYS   All RAF Bombers Again Return Safely From Nazi Capital

Bombers Again Attack Berlin   Capital Raided Fifth Time In Eight Days; Intruder Planes: Wreak Havoc On Rails, Shipping In France, Germany

British Mosquito Bombers Attack  . Capital City Second Night in Row — Intruder Planes Make Dash Across France.

Berlin Blasted Second Straight Night By British   Planes Blast German Shipping, Industry Rail Transportation

GERMANS PICKING ITALY AS ALLIED INVASION POINT  WILL GIVE LITTLE EARL’ AID TO JUNIOR AXIS

NAZIS FORECAST ALLIED INVASION THRUST AT ITALY  PROMISE HELP BUT  APPARENTLY DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT   Nazis Fail to Predict Date Of Invasion; French Warned

Germans Forecast Invasion Of Italy; ‘Nazis Plan “New Action” In Russia

Italy May Have To Fight Alone   Nazis to Help in Event of ‘Decisive’ Battle

NAZIS FORECAST ALLIED INVASION THRUST AT ITALY   Italians To Fight for Life Without Aid from Hitler at Home

Germans See Invasion By Way of Italy   Indications Are Nazis Will Give Little Aid to Junior Partner

Germans Predic Allied Invasion To Strike Italy  Nazis Still Play  Guessing Game Ace Vitinen {lens

NAZIS SAY TURKISH GROUP VISITS GERMANY   Nazis Promise Little Aid To Italy In Repelling Allied Landing Party

Nazis Continue Guessing Game   They Think: Italy Will Be Invaded

Italy Likely Attack Site, Says Reich   ‘Nazi Aid Promised In Event ‘Decisive’ Battle Develops

Nazis to Give Italy Little Invasion Help   Troops Promised Only it Big Battle Takes Place on Peninsula Soil

Allied Invasion Of Italy Is Seen  Nazis Promising Help, Rut Do Little

GERMANS PICK ITALY FOR INITIAL ALLIED INVASION THRUST, RADIO REPORTS SHOW

Germans Pick I taly as Most Likely Snot for Initial Allied Invasion

Nazis Promise Aid To Worried Italy   But No Help Will Be Forthcoming to Ally - Unless There’s a Decisive Battle in Sight

FIRST INVASION FORGES ALONE   Germany Promises To Help In “Decisive Battle” Oniv. Is Report

Italy Picked As Probable Landing Point   Little Indication That Germany Plans To Give Partner Much Aid  MUSSOLINI PREPARING

Berlin Sees Italy As The  Invasion Point, But May  oe. ae ae ee  ot Send eee Much Help

Germans.Forecast Allies Will Invade’ Ataly;: But ° Offer No Help to Fascist Allies   BERLIN HINTS.DUCE RECALLING TROOPS   Nazi Broadcasts Assert Italians: Are: Awaiting Attack; But Balkans — Must Be Watched

UTALY SEEN Aa INVASION POINT   talians Will Receive Little Aid From Nazis In Initial Attack

Nazis Forecast Invasion Thrust  ‘Through Italy   Promise Their Ally Help But Have Done Little Sn Far

GERMANS HINT IFALY THRUST   Nazis Forecast Allied In vasion By Way of Italian Mainland

Germans See Allied Stab Through Italy   Mussolini's Army To Meet Attack Without Help

QUEBEC PARLEY IS SCHEDULED TO END TODAY   Roosevelt And Churchill Expected To Make Joint  ee ere a   DECISIONS REACHED CONCERNING JAPAN

BOMBER FORCE MAY BE MASSED IN EAST CHINA   Plans Mapped at Luncheon Conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, Hopkins and Soone.   PARLEYS TO CLOSE WITH TODAY’S MEETING   Intimate of Prime Minister Says Conclusions of “Utmost Importance” Were Reached.

Many Important Decisions Made At War Parleys  ier sere  2.44.  rn   Important Matters Of Strategy In Pacific Admittedly Decided

Orders Sent: Military Men Against Japs   F. R, Will Speak At Ottawa Wed. Before Return

Pacific strategy is laid--Bracken   Momentous decisions made at Quebec, Briton reports

JAPAN TALK AT QUEBEC   Brendan Bracken Announces At Quebec; Many Important Decisions Made; Churchill To Talk And Fish   Soong In Parley

Strategy to Smash Japan Mapped at Quebec Parley   Conferences ~_ i =s-_ Rn emrament<¢   Conferences End; Announcements  Today

Quebec Meet Maps Strategy  For Europe. Pacific   lor Europe, Pacific Complete Statement by Roosevelt  And Churchill Set Tuesday; Smashing Blow at Japan Agreed On

How To Lick Japs Planned At Meeting   British Minister Hints Churchill, FDR Decisions

Heavy Blows at Japs Planned by Churchill,  Roosevelt at Quebec   Many Important Decisions Made, Say: * Conference Spokesman; President Confers with Chinese Leader

QUEBEC PATTERNS ALLIED STRATEGY TO GRUSH JAPAN   Brendan Bracken Says Decisions of ‘Utmost Importance’ Are Made   CHURCHILL PLANS TO MAKE RADIO ADDRESS   President Roosevelt to Ad. dress Canada’s Parliament Wednesday Before Head. ing Sotith; Russia's Position Gontinues Puzzle

So Many Important Decisions It ls Difficult to Give Priority British Information Chief Says   Churchill to Broadcast Speech and Then Go Fishing at End of Conference; Roosevelt to Make His Speech Tomorrow

QUEBEC PLANS WAR STRATEGY AGAINST JAPS   Decisions Of Utmost Importance Are _ ° Reached

War Conference Makes  Important Decision:   Strategy To Defeat Japan Has High Place In Conclusions; Joint Statement Is Expected Today

Important Decisions Made  At War Parley, Bracken Says   ‘British Minister of Information Makes Statement as Conferences Near Conclusion—Agreement — on Strateqy Believed Reached

FDR, Soong Chart Drive Against Japs   Quebec Conferences Will End With Sessions Today; Accent On Pacific

Briton Says Foe Will Be Crushed   Minister Declares Momentous Plans Are Mapped

OUTLINE PLAN AT QUEBEC 10 DEFEAT JAPS   PACIFIC STRATEGY IS DISCUSSED AT WAR CONFERENCE

Important Battle Decisions Made At Quebec War Council  Strategy To Defeat Japan Constitutes Big Part. Brendan Bracken OF Britain Declares

Plans Take Form At Conference To  Press Nip War   Spokesman Says Military Decisions of “Utmost Importance Reached”, Churchill to Broadcast Before  Returning to London

Noted Anthropologist, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka Of Smithsonian Institution Dies at 74

Loss Of Husband Basis Of Damage Action In Court   Don Frericks Named Defendant By Loraine O’Brien

Loss Of Husband Basis Of Damage Action In Court  rT, b ont   Don Frericks Named Defendant By Loraine O’Brien

Baby Born To Joan Berry, Claims Chaplin As Father   Six Pound Girl Named Carol Ann; Blood Test In Four Months

BABY GIRL IS BORN IN CHAPLIN CASE   Movie Comedian is Father, Her Mother Says

TOWN CRIER:  Like To Swap Places With These Boys?  Many Of Us Will Pay Income Taxes This Week: Many

TWIN CITIES TO ACT JOINTLY Of TAVERN HOURS   Order Midnight Curfew And Sunday Closing Act Drafted   WILL HOLD HEARING   St, Joseph and Benton Townships Expected To Follow

Twin Cifies Ac On Liquor Curbs   Ordinances Being Drawn Up On Sunday Closing

‘Washington Keeps Silent on New  ‘Regime of Italians Hull Indicates Allies Will Add Pressure  T.. Crsevrancliaw Tiassa

Allied Leader: Plan to ‘Pour It on Italians   Are Cautious in Comments on Mussolini's Fall

ONLY ESSENTIAL FUNDS INDORSED   State Senate Passes Reselution on Policy

(OWA SENATE. ACTS 10 CURB FAPENOITURES   Declares Assembly Policy to Provide Funds Only for Gov’i, Needy, Defense,   SENATOR ASSERTS HUGE FUND ON HAND A MYTH

lowa Senate Has Adopted Proposed Economy Policy   Shaw Declares News Story of 30 Million Surplus Misleading

Senate Bill to Vote Vital Cash Only Is Passed   Only Funds to Support State and War Needs To Be Given

wages or prices which could only, he declared, bring distress to all.  Invasion Of Furopve

‘Stay Calm!’ Eisenhower - Tells Frenck   Allied Landing in Sicily First Stage of Liberation, - General Declares

AIRCRAFT POUND AXIS POSITIONS ACROSS STRAIT   Bridges And Power Installations Get  Hard Warship Hits

ALLIED PLANES HIT AXIS ROADS AND R. R. LINES   U. S. Naval Forces Pound Targets in Gioia Tauro, Palmi

U.S. Warships Shell Italy   Ships, Planes Allow Beaten Axis Troops No Rest

Communications Heavily Pounded   Many Germans and Much Equiment Lost in Sicily.

ALSO HIT BY AIRMEN   Gioia Tauro And Palmi - Brought Under Guns Of U. S. Warcraft

Fight Duel With Heavy Axis Guns   Enemy Bridges, Powe Installations Given Heavy Shelling

YANKEE WARSHIPS’ FIRE RESULTS IN TERRIFIC BLASTS   Cities in Southern Italy Shelled While Allied Air Fleets Pound Axis  Trann.

Warships and — Planes Fire On Mainland   US. Continues Attack. on Axis Troops Throughout Southern Italy   MANY MILITARY TARGETS BLASTED   Northwest African Planes Continue Chasing Germans From Sicily

American Warships Bombard Mainland   Nazis Get Little Respite From Mighty Allied Power; Roads, Railways Get Pummeling

Retreating Axis Forces Harrassed’ By Allied Aerial Attacks Against Communicafions On Peninsula Toe  Middle East Air Squadrons Continue Assaults

BLAST BRIDGES AND POWER © PLANTS   Allied and Enemy Shore Batteries Exchange Fire

Americans Attack Italian Mainland   United States . Warships  -Shell the Shores of —. Southern Italy —   BOMBERS IN ACTION   oii : Bridges and Power Installations Are Hit on Gulf of Gioia

ITALY 1S AGAIN ‘SUBJECTED 10 BOMBARDMENT   Beaten Axis Troops deprived of Respite As Coastal Areas Are Shelled

BOMBERS ATTACK RAILWAYS, ROADS   Ground Action Limited to Ars tillery. Exchanges Across Messina Strait

YANK FLIERS ALSO STRIKE SOUTHERN TIP   Pound Roads Used To Move Troops Out Of Sicily; Six Axis Planes Shot Down Over Bizerte

ENEMY BRIDGES AND POWER ARE NAVY TARGETS   Heavy Explosions Caused by Bombardment at Gioia, Tauro and Palmi   AXES DEPRIVED OF RESPITE BY AIRMEN   Pound Communications Throughout Southern Portion of ltaly to Stem Troop Movements

WARSHIPS SHELL SOUTHERN ITALY   MAINLAND HIGHWAYS POUNDED TO IMPEDE RETREATING GERMANS

U. S. Warships Pour Shells Into Italian Mainland; Violent Explosions Resul

HIT MAWNLANG   Allied Air Fleets Pound Axis Communications in South aly.

Bridges, Other Objectives Hit From The Air And Sea   Entire Italian Sixth Army Destroyed In Sicily; Nazis Lost Two Divisions

FTALIAN MAINLAND GETS DOSE OF WHAT CHL Y RECEIVED   Shells From'U. S. Ships Cause Violent. Explosions   BEATEN AXIS ARMY GETTING NO RESPITE

Italy Is Shelled By Yanks   American Warships Hurl Shells on Italian Mainland For First Time

NAVAL FORGES NOW onELLING LTALIAN COAST   Hit Power Installations. and Bridges While Planes Strafe Troops.   BIZERTE, TUNIS, AGAIN BOMBED BY AXIS PLANES

First Time U. S. Warships Have Hit Mainland   Bridges And Power Installations Shelled; Roads, Railways Also Hit

VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS SHOW BOMBARDMENT RESULTS WERE GOOD  ALLIED AIR FLEETS HARASS BEATEN AXIS TROOPS ON MAINLAND

Violent Explosions Develop at Gioia Tauro and Palmi. Communications Throughout Southern Italy Pounded By Allied Air Fleets.

‘INVASION GATE’ BEING SOFTENED FROM SICILY TOO   Bridges, Roads and Railways Blasted from Land, Sea And Air by Allies   AXIS PLANES RAID BIZERTE   Axis Casualties Estimated At Six-to-one Ratio for Allied Forces

LS, WARSHIPS SHELL ITALIAN SHORE TARGETS   Power Installations, Bridges ® Pounded from Sea : and Air

Allied Planes Rip Roads and Rails to Upset Flight of Axis   6 Enemy Craft Downed While Attacking Bizerte

CAUSE GREAT EXPLOSIONS AT 2 POINTS   Missiles Blast Bridges and ’ Power Installations at Gioia Tauro and Palmi, 20 Miles North of Mes ° eins

Sea Units Pound Enemy Mainland For First Time   Power Installations And Bridges Are Ripped Apart By Naval Guns

U. 5. Warships Allied Planes Blast af Italy   Shells Cause Violent Explosions at Gioia Tauro and Palmi; Plane: Smash Communications

Power Installations and Bridges at Gioia Tauro And Palmi Are Bombarded

Mainland Objectives Shattered in Raids   Violent Blasts Follow Pounding Of Targets 20 Miles From Messina

Allied Airmen Hit Axis Escape Routes In Southern Italy   ‘American Warships in First Shelling of Roman Homeland s#last Bridges, Power Facilities

‘Allied Planes Keep Bombing ‘Beaten Axis   Violent Explosions Occur At Gioia Tauro and Palmi After Bombardment

PLANES HAMPER ENEMY RETREAT   Gioia Tauro And Palmi Power Installations Hit

SMASH POWER UNITS, ROADS NEAR MESSINA   Germans Reported to Be Reinforcing Northern Italy

POWER PLANTS, BRIDGES HIT IN FIRST ATTACK   Allied Airmen Continue Strafing of Axis Communication Lines iz  Southern Italy   RAILWAYS PITTED   ‘Accounts of Axis Losses in Sicily in Men, Equipments Grow—Biterte Raided

U.S. Warships Shell Italian Mainland   Bridges. and Power Installations Targets of First. Thrusts. Allied Air. Fleets Also Pound  fer

Bridges, Power Plants Targets In Bombardmen   Allied Airmen Keep Retreating Axis Troops Under Fire

Pounding Develops Violent Explosions  Along Gulf Of Gioia   Hit Bridges, Power Installations 20 Miles North Of Messina; “Wrecking Crews” Chase Enemy

ITALIAN MAINLAND SHELLED YESTERDAY BY U.S. NAVY UNITS   Violent Explosions Caused at Gioia Tauro and Palmi, It Was Said.

U.S. WARSHIPS SHELL ITALIAN MAINLAND   Violent Explosions Caused At Gioia Tauro And Paimi

Allied Warships Shell Italy  Violent Explosions At Gioia Tauro, Palm

ITALIAN TARGETS ARE SHELLED BY YANK WARSHIPS   Bombers Blast Remnants of Axis Army—Coastal Areas Hit

U S. Naval Forces Train Big Guns  On Italian Cities   Bridge And Power Installations In Gulf Of Gioia Blasted To Bits   BOMBING ATTACK AT MANY POINTS   Italians Lose Sixth Army, Numbering About 130,000 In Sicilian Campaign

Develop Violent Explosions At Targets On Givia Gulf;  Planes Hit Roads. Raihcays   Entire Italian Sixth Army Was Destroyed In ociian Campaign, Aiiied Headquarters Keports; Germans Lost Pwo Complete Divisions

‘DEVELOP VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS   Bridges And Power Installations Are Targets

Weather Forecast   Ud. WARSHIPS OHELL UTALIAN GUASTAL AREAS   Allied Air Fleets Also Busy Pounding Communications Throughout Country

BIG GUNS POUR DESTRUCTION ON GIOIA GULF AREA   Bridges, Power Lines Feel Weight Of Missiles; Explosions Heard   NEW PEACE OVERTURES?   Swiss Report Activity In Lisbon; Nazi Escape Line At Kharkov Menaced

~—ARLINGTON—  Peo S War Dead Honored  Bea ee EGlideccaccla GiTwecd   .. FDR Stands Silent at Tomb Unknown Soldier

Governor Bricker Speaks to State Republican Organization Tonight

NIPPON MASSES BULK OF FORCES FOR NEW BLOW   MacArthur Warns Australia @ or Solomons May Be Jap Target

Allied Forces Push Jans Back  In New Guinea  Enemy Strengthens Munda Air Base And Burmese Army

Jungle Fighters Crowd Japs Near Last Stand  Foes Cling to New Guinea Point; Planes Strafe Trail

JOHNSON MACHINE WORKS RESUMES WORK HERE TODAY   Given Authority to Proceed With Work on Portion of Order.

WORK ON BUOYS RESUMED HERE   Two More Carloads Were Loaded and Shipped . Tuesday,

Germans, Italians  Battle In Albania   War-Weary Italian Troops in Jugoslavic Mutiny; Anti-Fascist Riots Rage

FRESH SLANT GIVEN FOOD DISCUSSIONS   Nations Told to Do Something at Home Before Seeking Help.

Food Parley Is Cautioned By Australia   Delegates Insist Each Country Should Use Own  Initiative in Matter  RUSSIA TAKES A STAND

NEW SLANT ON  FOOD PROBLEM   Australia Suggests All Na. tions First, Do Something at Home

Every Nation Must Work On Own Problem   Self Sufficiency Demand Made By Aussie Delegates

N.Y. ELECTION SENDS DEWEY’S 1944 STOCK UP   Edge Carries Jersey; Bullitt Loses; Demos Ahead in Kentucky   THE WINNERS

NAZIS CLAIM NORTH HALE OF ITALY   Berlin Says Rome Firmly in Hands of German Troops

RM CONTROL OVER ITALY CLAIMED IN BERLIN PAPER      Sa eee ASSERTS ROME AND MOST IM PORTANT PARTS OF MIDDLE AND NORTHERN TrALY HELD

BILL CODIFYING BANKING LAWS OF STATE WAS PASSED  MEASURE SENT TO GOV. ERNOR CREATES STATE FINANCE COMMISSION

Nazi Leaders Cive Goering Great Powers   Army Commands German Affairs, Retains Party As Facade.   HITLER NOMINAL HEAD

Goering New Chief German  Army, Party Leaders      Army, Party Leaders \Confer; Miiitary Takes Over Reich

Press Dispatches Say That Power of Great Magnitude  Given to Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering After a Meeting of Nazi Chiefs and Army Leaders.   Army Takes Over All Phases of  Life For a Defensive Warfare

Triumvirate of Military Leaders is Reported to Be Taking Over Rule in Reich

REPORT HITLER ES REDUCED TO NAZL FIGUREHEAD WELD MILITARY TRIO TARES OF BR

Triumvirate Said to Lead Reich   CLAIM HITLER ONLY FIGUREHEAD AS NAZI DESTINY IS GUIDED BY KEITEL, DOENITZ; PARTY SEEN AS FACADE TO PREVENT REVOLT

Goering Chosen  Nazi Leader,  Madrid Reports Nazi Party Aces   And Warlords Hold Conference

Nazi Party Chiefs Turn From Hitler In Meeting   Long Defense War Is Anticipated’ Under Setup

Hitler To Be Figurehead In New Regime   Army Clique Taking Over Control Of Germany, Report States

HITLER REMAINS AS “FIGUREHEAD,” DISPATCHES HINT   Spain Hears German Army Is Preparing for Long Defensive War; London Snenacta Peace Plat.

GOERING REAL GERMAN CHIEF IN. SHAKE - UP   Hitler Remains Nominal Lead er but Goering, Keitel and Doenitz Rule in His Stead and Name   Army and Navy Take Over

Reports Current In Spain That Nazi Army Is Taking Over Conduct of German Affairs In Preparation For A Long. Defen sive War.

Hitler Remains As Figurehead Of New Regime   Military Chiefs Take Over Reich, Plan for Defense

Goering Leader Of Triumvirate — Set Up By Army   Nazi Party Left As Front To Avoid Upheaval Among German Population

Goering Reported With Great Powers. Atter Nazi Meeting  German Affairs Being  Taken Over By Army For Long Defensive

Hitler Left As Nominal  Head of State   Goering, Keitel, Doenitz Maintain Nazi Party Only To Prevent Chaos  PLAN LONG DEFENSE

GOERING NAZ KEY FIGURE IN TRIUMVIRATE   Military Dictatorship Set up in Ger  many, Hitler Figurehead, Re ports fo Spain Say

Dispatches State Goering Given Great Powers After  Meeting Of Nazi Officials

Military Men Seize Government Reins In Germany; Goering Is Given Immense Power in Nation’s Politics

ei a a  ae  Reports. Reaching Say Hitler Taking Back Seat in New Regime

NAZI PARTY LEFT ASFRONT   German Military Taking Over Conduct of Campaign in Preparation for Long Defensive War

REPORTED FIGUREHEAD   Added Power Given To Goering; Military Clique Ruleés

Triumvirate Is Named, According To Spanish ~ Releases From Berlin   Powers Of ''Enormous Magnitude" Centered In Hands Of Reichsmarshal  Hermann Goering

Goering Seen Head Of Germany   Amy Believed Set For Long War Of Defense

Triumvirate Plans Prolonged Defense   Adolf Schickelgruber Hitler Retained As Figurehead To Prevent Upheaval

‘Spanish Claim Goering Given Powerful New Post as Nazis Prepare for Defensive War

Reports .\t Madrid Contend Hitler Remains \, Nominal Head Of State And That Goering, Field Marshal Keitel And Admiral Doenitz Are Real Rulers

ARMY TAKING OVER, BERLIN REPORTS SAY   Great Powers Centered in - Hands of Marshal  Goering   MILITARY PLANNING LONG DEFENSE WAR

ARMY TAKING OVER, BERLIN REDORTS SAY   Great Powers Centered in Hands of Marshal Goering MILITARY PLANNING  LONG DEFENSE WAR  Nazi Party Headed by Hitler to Remain as Front

New Powers For Goering As Army -_ Replaces Hitler   Reports From Berlin Indicate Army Is Taking Over  Conduct Of German Affairs With Adolf Remaining Ac BRiocnuroskaad

~-MADRID RUMORS —   Goering Reported To Be New Kingpin, With Hitler A Figurehead

Goering Takes Over Supreme Control of Nazis, Madrid Hears   Hitler Is Left as Mere Figurehead Under Reported Reorganization Decisions

HITLER APPARENTLY STEPS ASIDE PERMIT NAZI ARMY'S RULE  THREE MEN GIVEN POWERS FORMERLY HELD BY ENEUPER REPORTS SAY

Berlin Reports Goering Raised To.New Power   Spain Hears Marshal : Given Lofty Authority; Hitler Is Fiqurehead

Goering Given More Power  As Army Hinted In Saddle   Hitler Shunted To Political Post, Say: Rumor; Secrecy Shrouds Meeting

Hitler May Be Figurehead Leader Now.....  Goering, Nazi Army Granted Big Powers

Goering, Military Chiefs Reported In Fall Control   Dispatches Indicate Powers of ‘Enormous Magnitude’ Have Been Centered on  Marshal, As Army Takes Over

Disorders in Italy and Fall of Mussolini Raises Fears in Germany—Allied Leaders Scent Move To Ask for Better Peace Terms—New Italian Premier Reported Seeking ‘Honorable’ Way To Get Out of War

GOERING GIVEN GREAT POWERS   Hitler Remains As Figurehead Leader Under New Setup.   PLAN DEFENSIVE WAR?

GOERING GIVEN WIDE POWERS   No. 2 Nazi Reported To Have Relegated Hitler to Figure. head Position.

Report Army Is Replacing Nazis   Herman Goering Is Given Wide Grant of ‘Powers; Belief That Hitler Has Been Shelved Spreads as Army Plans Long Defensive War

Goering Reported Named Top Leader In German Set-Up   Military Experts Rumored Planning Defensive Warfare Under Nazi “Fronr’   ‘Shelving Of Hitler Won't ‘Mean End Of Nazi Ideology

GOERING HAS GREAT POWER IN THE REICH   Army Said to be Taking Over Conduct of Affairs For Long Defensive Wear   HITLER NOMINAL HEAD

Goering Reported Given Enormous Power’ in Reich  Spain Hears Military Takes Over Germany For Defensive War  RETAIN NAZI PARTY  Generals Said to Fear  Chaos I iter A  _wmseen tao Ltie@¢enita

Hitler Remains ‘ag Fig: ure-head) Leader as Army Reportedly Takes .Charge of Ger: man Affairs: In Preparation for A.ongDefensive:War.

Greig Te: 18 A! inp rm oe  a ve Poccg: Nazis. Sur Sp wig: Ren oes.

IMADRID SAYS GOERING HEADS MILITARY GROUP ‘TAKING OVER IN GERMANY

HITLER REPORTED FIGUREHEAD WIT COFRING IN POWE   Madrid Hears That Nazi No. 2 Gets “Powers of Great Magnitude” at -Partyl Army Conference.   RETAIN-NAZI PARTY .“TO PREVENT UPHEAVAL   Move Permits Army to As  "sume Full Control of Coun try In Preparation to Figh Defensive War.

Hitler Now Figurehead, Says Report   Goebbels Tells Leaders Allies Planning To Force Nazis To Knees In Multiple Blows

Reports Say Goering Now In Power  RterPyoe Trae he   Germans Throw Reserve Troops Inte New Fight

Goering Is Given New War Powers   Rumor Has It That He I:  Virtuai Successor t¢ Adolf Hitler

Goering New German Strong Man As Army Takes Conirol, Leaving Nazis As A Facade   Military Leaders Are Taking Over The Reich For A Long War Of Defense, Berlin Reports Say; Hitler Still Nominal Head Of. The State

RULE OF REICH TAKEN OVER BY MILITARISTS   Goering Said to Head New Regime, With Adolf as “Front”

‘Powers of Great Magnitude’ Are Purportedly Granted to Goering; Hitler Just to Be a Figurehead?

Goering Reported Given Great Powers After Meeting Of Party, Army Chiefs

NAZI PARTY BEING USED AS ‘FACADE   Goering, Keitel, and Doenitz Hold Real Power In Reich, Madrid Informed.   HITLER’S FIGUREHEAD   Army's Rule Said To Extend  Over Most of Home and Enreinn Frante.

Hitler May ‘Have Followed  His Partner   Germany Is Reported Under Triumvirate

REPORT GOERING CONTROLS NAZI MILITARY UNITS   Replaces Hitler in Shake Up, Hint Germans Seek Lighter Peace Terms

Goering Given Great Powers In New Setup   Parley With Hitler Lends Color To Report Army Plans For Long War

German Power In  Hands of Goering   Hitler Remains as Figurehead Leader, Others to  ' Run State. ~   REPORTS TO MADRID   Mlarshals Goering and Kietel and Admiral Doenitz in ' Charge °

GOERING HOLDS GERMAN POWER, SPAIN REPORTS   Hitler Retained As Figure head With Army and Navy Leaders Holding Reins On Government

GOERING SAID ‘TO BE NO. 1 GERMAN NOW   Madrid Hears Hitler Will Be Figurehead Henceforth, With Keitel and Doenitz as Other Rulers of Reich.

HOPES DWINDLE IN MINE TALKS   Compromise Plans Agreeable To Union Are Rejected By Operators

NEGOTIATIONS ARE DEADLOCKED TODAY IN COAL ARGUMEN’   Bituminous Operators and United Mine Workers Are Unable to Get Together.

SERVICES TAKE 57 FROM HERE   29 Are Inducted Into Army. 21 Into Navy and Seven In Marines

SERVICES TAKE 48 FROM SALEM   Nineteen Are Inducted Into Army, 25 Into Navy, Four In Marines

SIX JAP VESSELS SUNK, 72 PLANES DESTRC vED IW BiG CARRIER ATTACK

Mili Blasted In Marshalls Air Assault   Land. Based Planes Lash Jap Ships in Lagoon;  New Raids on Rabaul

Liberators Raided Marshalls Same Day Carrier Based Planes Attacked

Tenth of U.S Meat Supply Goes to Allies  Lend-Lease Food Shipments Will Exeeed Last Year’s

LEND-LEASE OUTGO 6 OF U.S. SUPPLY   Steftinius Announces Export of Meat to Allies for First Quarter

C..0. Board Slaps Lewis   Personal Vendetta, Jeopardizing Miners Condemned by Body

ClO CONDEMNS LEWIS   Lnion bats 1 MW President Wreek. ing Coal Miners’ Chances

ClO Board Charges Lewis Harming Labor’s Position  Urges Equitable Wage  Adjustments for lInited Mine Workers

U-BOAT BLASTED BY NAVY PATROL   Depth. Charges Blow It in Bathes, Report.

NAVY PATROL PLANE ~ SINKS. NAZI U-BOAT   Depth Charges Blows Craft in Two as Crew Sun Bathes on Deck.

CONTROL OVER . RADIO SOUGHT   SENATOR .WHEELER SAYS STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN. TO CONTROL RADIO COMMENTATORS...

Tax Proposals Are Berated as Debate Nears   House Prepares For Discussion On Latest Plans

TAX FIGHT STILL RAGING IN HOUSE   Neither Ruml Plan Nor Administration Proposal Gains Wide Favor

Two Income Tax Plans Berated By Partisans As Schemes To Aid Rich

Tax Payment Plan Unsolved   Both Parties Berate Fach Scheme Advanced

RESIDENTIAL DAMAGE   artisans Berate Both Tax Bills As Scheme To Aid Rich While House Prepares For Debat

PARTISANS SAY BOTH TAX PLANS FOR WEALTHY   Ruml Scheme and Administration’s ‘No Abatement’” Measure Denounced By Opponents.

GOP Declares Democratic  Plan Stupid  Partisans Claim   Partisans Claim Both Tax Proposals Aid Wealthy

Rival Income Tax Planners Lambast Each Other. In Warm-Up For Battles Expected On Floor Of House Soon:

Fight Over Income Tax Plans To Start in House Thursday   Debate on Pay-as-You-Go Proposals Will Be Hot  and Sustained

OPPOSITION TO BOTH TAX PLANS   PARTISANS BRAND OPPOSING BILLS AS AIDS 70 WEALTHY

RIVAL INCOME TAX PLANNERS HIT EACH OTHER   Ruml. Proposal to Skip _ Levy Year Berated By Foes As Scheme to Aid Wealthy   REPUBLICANS REPLY   Say Democratic Majority’s Plan Would Place Small Taxpayer In “Straitjacket”

Food Short: War Workers  Leave Jobs   California Threatens to  Install Own Rationing  System

FRENCH ANTILLES MAY JOIN ALLIES   Martinque Commissioner Asks U. 5. To Send  Representative

Admiral Robert Appeals To U. S.   Washington Still Silent Concerning French Unity

LEND-LEASE MEAT ORDERS CHANGED   Action Taken To Even Supply To Civilian Consumers

Every Cullman Citizen Asked To Buy $1 Extra Stamps For Shangri-La   (By R. H. Holland; Chariman, Co War Saving Staff)

ARMY CALL TO HIT COLLEGES   3,600 Reservists To Be Assigned To Active Duty

Americans ‘ound Jap Conve * For 36 Hours   Allied “Airplanes Race , ver Owen Stanleys Bombing; Refueling, And 4 ain Attacking Enemy

ICKES TAKES MINE OWNERS TO TASK   Defends His Negotiation Of An Agreement With Union During War-time Strike

Mine Owners  Taken to Task   Operators Hil by Ickes for Absenting Themselves from Wage Conferences

IGKES PROVOKED BY MINING CPERATORS   Takes Group to Task for Being Absent From Pay Negotiations. .

JAP MANDATED ISLES PERILED   Wake Assault Challenges Foe in West-Central Pacific Area

Navy Assault on Wake Island Is Challenge to the Japanese Control of West-Central Pacific

JAPANESE FLEET AVOIDING FIGHT ‘WITH AMERICANS   Hesitancy May Enable U S. To Cut Nippon’s Life line In China Sea   WAKE ISLAND ATTACK MAY BE SIGNIFICANT

Jap Fleet Avoiding Battle; U.S. May Cut China Sea Lines   Naval Authorities Betting Enemy Will Not Risk Re  maining Warships—Assault on Wake Island  Offers CholJence

U.S.Navy Assault on Wake New Challenge to Jap Fleet   Cutting of Jap Lifeline In China Sea Like!, If Fleet Avoids Battle

BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN LAST NIGHT BY RAF BOMBERS   MORE THAN A _ THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON NAZI CAPITAL IN SPACE OF TWENTY MINUTES.   WAS THIRD ATTACK IN TWELVE NIGHTS   German Government Reported to Have Decided on Complete Evacuation of Vienna Says Zurich Dispatch.

British Aid Guerrillas in Albania   LIAISON OFFICERS BOLSTER FORCES FOR “FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS”

BRITISH OFFICIALS. WITH GUERRILLAS   Churchill Says Officers with Forces of Albanian Patriots; Pay High Tribute To Guerillas.

Verdict of $1,000 for Death of Race Horse Is Appealed and Upheld

Will Investigate Crash of Glider Which Killed 10   Mayor of St. Louis, Prominent Officials  Die In Sudden Plunge

Probe Cause of Glider Crash Which Killed 10, Including Mayor of St. Louis

TEN KILLED IN GLIDER CRASH   Huge New Cargo Glider Collapses at St. Louis — Mayor of St. Louis One of Victims.

SEEK CAUSE OF GLIDER CRASH THAT KILLS 10   Spectators See Wing of Ship Collapse as It; Soars Over ' St. Louis Airport.   MAYOR ONE OF VICTIMS   Prominent Aviation Figures Die as Motorless Plane Falls 2.000 Feat.

Mayor of St. Louis, — Nine Others, Killed In Glider Crack-Up   Army Investigators Seek to Determine What Caused New Cargo Glider to Collapse on Test Flight in St. Louis

i 0,000 Look on in Horror _ As Glider Crash Kills 10, T ncluding St. Louis Mayor

CARGO GLIDER COLLAPSES, TEN KILLED   Mayor of St. Louis Among Crash Victims

NEW CARGO GLILER CRASHES, KILLS ‘10   St. Louis Mayor And Other Prominent Persons  Die In Dive

Ten Persons Killed in Glider Crash   St. Louis Mayor, Aircraft Corporation Head Among Victims

MORGENTHAU T RENEW BATTLE FOR MORE TAXES   300,000 Men To Get Induction Notices By New Years

Expect Tax Plea to Be F rozen Out   Morgenthau Is Warned by Dem Leaders That House ‘Bill Will Stand

FIGHT RENEWED IN CONGRESS TO INCREASE TAXES   Soldier Vote Bill Provides Another Scrap and OPA Is on Carpet Again

UNION LABOR GAVE CHEERING RESPONSE RE-ELECTION PLAN  WALLACE’S ASSISTANT SUGGESTS ROOSEVELT AND WALLACE AGAIN

CHEER SUGGESTION FOR FOURTH TERN   Vice President Wallace Gives Boost for Union Labor at Meet.

FRAIL GHAND! WEATHERS HIS FASTING CRISIS      Appears More Cheerful and) Comfortable, But Heart  Is Weaker, Doctors  Sav - .   DRINKS LIQUID   Swallows Water and Lime Juice After Recovering . From Severe Nausea, - Bulletin Reveals

New Crisis Weathered By Gandhi   Fasting Hindu Ascetic Appears Comfortable After Rallying From Attack Of Nausea

Gandhi More Comfortable  Heart Weaker — Pleas Pour in  From All India

Rally Is Made By Mohandas   Crisis Is Weathered By Gandhi, Bulletin  Cima   Continues Fas}   Advises Indicate Leader Is Growing Wanker.

GANDHI HEART GROWS FEEBLER   Government of India Publishes White Book Accus ing Mahatma; Eight Days Of Fast Remain

Gandhi Grows Weaker; British Publish Facts on His Treasonable Plans

GANDHI RALLIES AFTER CRISIS. HEART WEAKER   Bulletins Evidence Concern bu Government Shows No Sign o:  Ralanting   GANDHI ACCUSED   Government Quoting Indian Lead. er on Rioting, Says Two Rail ways Tied Up

SITUATION ACUTE AS INDIAN LEADER PERSISTS IN FAST   GANDHI’S FOLLOWERS CONTINUE APPEAL FOR HIS RELEASE

GANDHI GROWING STEADILY WEAKE   Frail Hindu Leader Weathered A Crisis Yesterday But Appears More Comfortable and Cheerful Today; His Heart, However, Is Weaker.

GANDHI iS WEAKER _ AS FAST CONTINUES   Death of: ‘Indian Leader Feared If He Does Not . Take Fond

Gandhi Rallies on Sunday; His Heart Action Much Weake   " Doctors Fear for Life of Hindu Leader If He Maintains His Fast

Gandhi Growing Weaker By Hour   Appeals For Release Pour In, But Government Standing Pat.

GANDHI PASSES CRISIS IN FAST   Nationalist. Leader’s Heart Grows Weaker; Fast May Cost Life

Gandhi’s Life  Nearing Close   Little Indian. Continues Fast Though Rapidly ‘Growing Weaker

Gandhi's Weakness Becomes Alarming India White Book Puts  ie meee e Rlame Or Hin

Gandhi Has  Passed Crisis   Appears More Comfortable And Cheerful; Heart Has Gro-wn Weaker

It May Be Too Late to Save Gandhi Unless Fast Ends Nou   U.S. Is Believed Taking Hand in Effort to Ease Indian Situation as Leader Nears Death's Door

Gandhi’s Life Ebbing Fast, Doctors Say   Nationalist Leader Apathetic, Drowsy; U. S. May Intervene

GANDHI RALLIES FROM “CRISIS”   -Threat’of-fmminent ~  Death Not Allayed

Gandhi Sinks. Life Flickers Only Faintly Protests Pour in; Indian Leaders Appeal to Churchill WEATHERS CRISIS  Bulletin Says Heart Is Weaker After  onc nan

Gandhi Passes Another: Crisis   ‘Appears Comfortable And Cheerful, But Heart Is Weaker

GANDHI REPORTED AS SERIOUSLY ILL   Condition of : Nationalist Leader Grows Increasingly Grave

Gandhi Appears More Cheerful; Condition Grave   Hindu Leader's Heart Weaker, But Water And Lime Juice Seems to Keep Him Alive — Indians Renew Demands for His Release.

GANDn! GROWING STEADILY WEAKER   Se teermetinannntttinenstaninnend!  Frail Hindu Leader Weathered A Crisis Yesterday But Appears More Comfortable and Cheerful Today; His Heart, However, Is Weaker.

Gandhi’s Heart Growing Weaker   But Indian Leader in 13th Day of Fast Appears  More Cheerful.

GANDH! WEATHERS SUNDAY CRISIS   Frail Hindu, on 12th Day o Fast, Grows Weaker; Life ls in Danger

GANDHI REPORTED “AS. SERIOUSLY ILL   Conditior.cf. Nationalist Leader. Grows Increas~*inaly Grave:

Gandhi Fast May Be Fatal  Crisis: Comes On 13th Day Of Self Denial

Gandhi Rallies. Heart Weaker   No Hint of Abandoning Plan for 21-Day Fast

INDIAN LEADER RALLIES TODAY   Mohandas K. Gandhi Begins 13th Day of Hunger Strike

\Gandhi Near: Death’ From: Fast; ‘US. Takes ‘Hand in India’ 'In-Effort to Prevent Trouble”   Republicans: Urge. Congtess Use’ Discretion in: Opposition’ to.New Deal Policies

GANDHI DEATH . APPEARS NEA   FAMOUS HINDU LEADER'S CON. . DITION 18 CRITICAL AS ' EART ACTION BECOMES WEAKEE —-

Gandhi Moves Past Crisis, Crows Weaker   Fast Continued:  Government Shows No Change Toward Leader.   PUBLISH WHITE PAPER

GANDHI WEATHERS CRISIS IN FAST   Twelfth Day of 21 Day Fast Proves A Touch One

Gandhi Reported In Increasingly Grave Condition  Will Dic if Fast  Isu7t Ended Now

Gandhi, in 12th Day of Fast, Weathers Crisis; Heart Growing Weaker

Gandhi Weathers Crisis in Fasting   Indian Leader Cheers Up as Heart Becomes Weaker

GANDHI'S HEART GROWS WEAKER   Indian Leader Weathers Crisis As Appeais For His Release Mount i.

Gandhi Is Feared Near Death   Doctors Give Him Little Chance If Fast Not Ended

Gandhi'sEnc Seen Nearer:  Heart Weak   Trouble Brewing After Publication Of ‘White Book’

Gandhi Weaker, Light Days More Of Latest Fas   Passes One Crisis, but Heart May Give Out, Doctors Assert

GANOHI RALLIES, SURVIVES CRISta   But 13th Day y Of Fast Finds Indian Leader Growing  Steadily Weaker

GANDHI PASSES SEVERE CRISIS   Indian Leader Steadily Grows Weaker; White Book Is _ Issued On Movement

Gandhi More Cheerful but Is Weaker   Indian Leader Rallie: From Crisis, - but Death Is Feared

Gandhi Passes Crisis But Is Weak. Report   No Signs Evident That Either Government Or He Will Give In; Fast In 13th Dav

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI ENTERS CRISIS IN FAST   Frail Little Indian Leader Persists in Fast  That May Prove Fatal

THIRTY TO START ACTUAL TRAINING   4-F Registrants Can No Monger Given Out ’ Bv Board

THIRTY 10 START ACTUAL TRAINING   4-F Registrants Can No Longer Given Out ~ -' Ry Roard

HIGHER FARM PRICES ARE IN PROSPECT   Davis Guarantees ; Anereases: for _  i Vi  Asis ey ee iGe- Craps

Government Gnarantee Of Higher Prices For Five Farm Crops Annonnced By War Food Administrator Davis   MAY ELIMINATE SOME PRESSURE

Food Chief Leads Farm Price Hoist:   5 Crops Face Rises Bankhead Measure Back in Committee

MOVES TOWARD FARM RAISES   Boost in DPriees May Follow Five - Crop Guarantees

SEE WAY OPENED UP FOR BOOSTING FARM PRIGES IN COUNTRY   ‘Guarantee Made for Boost in Price of Five Crops May Pave Path for   Advances.

Higher Prices For Five Crops. Are Guaranteed   Beans, Peas, “ Peanuts, Soybeans, - Flaxseed Listed

O HIGHER PRICES MAY BE BEGINNING -FORGENERAL RISE         ‘Aetion By: ‘Davis ‘May Eliminé ate “Some. Congressional ~ Pressure For: Desired Leg ielatinn    peters AREGIVEN. ~ E . SPECIAL-BENEFITS   Administration. Believed Pre » paring to . Raise. . Ceiling . Prices or Subsidize. Production. .- °

Food Chief Davis’ tnitial Order Indicates General Farm Price Rise

Food Chief Davis’ Initial Order Indicates General Farm Price Rise   Pace Rill Up

New Orleans Band Leaders 11 Others Are Arrested   Marihuana Smuggled In Car Doors From Reynosa To New Orleans

Draft Boards Will Make New Checkup  Complete Inventory Of Manpower Ordered

French Being Moved Away From Coast   Thousands Are Hurriedly Evacuated by Nazis as an Anti-Invasion Measure

Phone Rebate To Be Mailed   Ardmore Subscribers To Receive $32,134; Other Towns Listed

LOWER TARIFFS URGED   Canadian Delegation Makes [lea Before Food Conference

Low Tariffs Urged  At Food Conference  ‘Canadians Offer Cooperation Plan

H. B. MAYNARD mS, UTILIT FRM OFFICIA   With Gas, Electric Company Here Since 1906; Active in Many Groups,   FORMERLY RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER

DIES FROM INFECTION CAUSED BY SCRATCH   Edward Stambaugh, Aged 72, Near Iron Ridge, Passes Away—Funeral Thursday Afternoon

Half of State Woods Closed  To Hunters   Fires Bring Suspension    of Seasons Ouiside ; + Adirondacks

HUNTING BAN IS ISSUED AS FIRES SPREAD   Woodlands Closed in Half of State South of NYC, Lifting Ban Waits on Rains

New Charges Hurled At Fly   Claim Naval Officer “Virtually Cashiered"’

ARMY SHAKE-UP?    Navis Say U.S. Troaps Will Replace British In Iran.

LIBERATOR BOMBERS ATTACK WOTJE ATOLL   Numerous Direct Hits Reported No Fighter Plane Opposition Is Encountered

BRITISH ATTACK BERLIN ON THIRD OF FQUR NIGHTS   64th Raid on German Capital. Ruhr and Rhineland Targets Hi, ll eC:

BERLIN RAIDED THIRD TIME IN LAST 4 NIGHTS   Record Aerial Offensive Carried Into Fifth Day

U.S. Planes Blast Enemy, Four Lost  Weer KATOT AAI !T OI! 4A ATO

YANKS BOMB OUT OLD YEAR IN NO. AFRICA   Make Concerted Attacks On Axis Communications Facilities From Northern Tunisia To Tripolitania.   1 Bomber Lost

ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL MAY HAVE OPENED DOOR ON CRIM INTERNATIONAL SKELETON   Powerful Interests Would Like to Remove Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall From Present Position In Washington

 The War Today— Report Chief Of Staff May Be Ousted Hints At Intrigue By Big “Interests”

ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL MAY HAVE OPENED DOOR ON RATHER 'GRIM SKFLFTON ON MARSHATI.

The War Today  Has Army-Navy Journal - Opened Door On International Skeleton?

Rep. Reed Says Little Fellows Borrow at Rates Up To 240 Per Cent.

MADAME-CHIANG IS OVERCOME > AT SCENE OF COLLEGE DAYS   China's First Lady Near Collapse But Continues Her Speech Warning Women Against “Machine Made Processes of Thinking”

MME. CHIANG TAKEN ILL AT WELLESLEY   Wife ‘Of Chinese Leader Is Overcome By Emotion While Delivering Speech

China’ s First Lady Falters Mine. Chiang Returns to Talk ‘At Alma Mater After 25 Years

MADAME KAI-SHEK NEAR COLLAPSING   Suffers Two Attacks as She Addresses Students at. Wellesiey

JAPS REPULSED AT CHUNGKING   Two Waves Of Nipponese Planes Attempt Raids On Capital; Yanks  Pound Hankow

JAP). FOILED © IN ATTACK ON CHINESE CITY  Through Chungking’s Defenses  JAP PLANES NES SHOT DOWN AT HANKOW  Air Warfare Reaches the Minkacé Pitch in         Bombers Foifed to Break Through Chungking’s Defenses   JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN AT HANKOW

American Airmen Destroy 39 Enemy Planes At Hankow   Another Group Of 13 Counted As Probably Destroyed

Aerial Warfare Spreads in China   Japanese Repulsed Ouiside Chungking

JAP PLANES IN BELATED RAID ON CHUNGKING   4 Nipponese Aircraft Shot Down In Attack On  Hankow

Deep Wedge Pushed In Fleeing Nazis   Red Army 40 Miles From Vital Rail Center and Germans Fail To Stem Broad Advance

soviets Near Key Ukraine Rail Junction Another Red Army in   Another Red Army in North Is Closing In on Orel   Russ Assault Forces Deepen Donets Basin Wedge

REDS BATTLE AHEAD DURING FIERCE STORMS   Capture of Orel Will Knock Out North Anchor of Axis Southern Line.

- SOVIET GAINS ~ UNBROKEN ON SOUTH FRON)   meee: caer’ Red Ferces Midway Between Kbarkev and Dnieper at One Point, Taganrog About Ysolated

GERMANS FORCED TORETREATFOR ANOTHER 30 MILES   Dispatches Report Unbroker Soviet Gains Along Entire Southern Front, Progress Varies. ‘   FULL DUMPS OF JAPS BLASTED IN SOLOMONS   Gandhi Is Reported Weaker. Two Sons Called, Britist Continue Campaign to Geil U-Boats.

Viove On Poltava As Other Forces Close In On Orel   Gains Unbroken All Along Southern Front; Poltava Only 65 Miles From Dnieper

CLOSING IN ON POLTAVA   Gains Made All Along Southern Front Today

Reds Near Orel, Last Nazi Base Facing Moscow   Report Soviet Gains Along Entire Front; Drive on Dnieper

SOVIETS PUSH DecPeh INT UKRAINE AREF   Fierce Blizzard Fails _ te Check Russ Onrush; Villages Fail.   VITAL RAIL JUNCTION NOW IS ENDANGERED

Hoping To Move To Speedy Conclusion, 1943 General Assembly Brings First Week To Close

ASSEMBLY IC MOVING FAST   Recess This Week End Will Probably Be Last One.

German Lines Cracked   Red Winter Drive Gets Up Steam Both North, South

GERMAN LINE BELOW NEVEL IS SHATTERED   Siberian Veterans Chop Hole 50 Miles Wide and 19 Deep In Enemy Defenses.   BULLETIN

TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY  (Up to 6 P. M.)   Wartime Clothing To Sacrifice Eye ‘Appeal For Durability, Survey Hints

American Way Of Wartime Life Promises T 0 Be Less Colorful   Government Plans Program To Simplify Civilian Goods — Simplicity To Be Keynote

CORN LOAN RATE SET FOR COUNTY   ‘Loan Rate This Year 83 Cents In Palo Alto County; Few Loans Expected.

Wickard Says Less Food to Be Available  Government Will Purchase Fourth of Output

Wickard Says Less Food  FE Be Available  Government Will  Demme .   Government Will Purchase Fourth of Output

LATIN REPUBLICS TO PROBE CHANGES   Bolivian ‘Situation Gets South icans Arousad

BOLIVIAN COUP POLICY 1S SET   U. S., Other Republics to Investigate Governments Set Up By Force

POLICY IS SET   iL. &, Other Republics to Investigate Governments  Set Up By Force

Family Heads Facing Draft  By August 1   Dependency Alone Unlikely to Help Many Fathers Sitav Out of Service

DRAFT OF FATHERS TO BE STEPPED UP   Dependency Alone Not Enough For Deferment, Is Tip

Fathers Will Be Drafted August 1   Dependency Alone Not to Defer Them by Year's End-——McNutt

MCNUTT SAYS 3-A’S TO 60   Dependency As_ Deferment Grounds To Be . Dropped

DRAFT TO TAKE MANY DADS BY END OF YEAR   McNutt Says Dependency Deferments To Run Out

Fathers To Be Drafted, Claim  Expect Lowering of Physical Standards

37TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE WILL BEGIN NOV. 22, THRU DEC. 2!

Rumania Urges Stronger. Front Against Russi   Military Leaders Ask ‘German Withdrowel To Bua

Rumania Shaky, Fears Russians   . Stronger: Defense  Ry Germane lJraed

Rumania Fears Red Invasion  Of Nation Near   Leaders Urge Nazis Withdraw Troops To Bug River Line

Rumania Shaky, Fears Russians   Stronger Defense By Germans (Iraed

‘Aides Stress New Nazi  Line on Bug   Leaders See Need For Germans  To Reform Defense

Rumania Has Fears Of Red Invasion, Urges New Defense  Nervousness Prevails In Budapest as —  Nazis Continue Losine

JUKE: i. RAVES . iagara 74,8. pr Jncisc.osec —es-ina-ior Wie acs coninie inn ue vec

Churchill Visits Niagara Falls; Plans Kept Quiet   Date of Coming Confer ence with Roosevelt Not Revealed

Militarists Hold Strategy Talks  F.D.R., Churchill to Meet Later

UHURCHILL On JOURNEY OUI FROM QUEBEC   British Prime Mi nister Leaves War Staff in Quebec Where Master Strategy Review Continues.   Guards Yet on Duty

Churchill Shiffs Base, Staffs Meet   Prime Minister Visits Niagara Falls Before Conference

Tanker Rocket Arrives In Port With 1,800,000 Gallons Of Gasoline

GIRAUD IS IN CAPITAL FOR TALKS   General Says France To Make Choice Of  Postwar Leaders

GIRAUD PLEDGES FRENCH LIBERTY   African Chief Says Nation Can Choose Qwn PostWar Government

WORKERS 10 TES WEAPONS IN USE   War Plant Squad Entrains for Camp: Will Live . With: Soldiers ©

Old Age Pensions In Double Portion   Funds Are Freed When Governor Donnell Signs Emergency Bill,

OLD AGE PENSION CHECKS ARE HEADED FOR THE MAIL BOXES   Mailed Out Today to Nearly 112.000 Pensioners in Double Portion.   FUNDS ARE RELEASED   Gov. Forrest C. Donnell Signed Appropriation Bill Late Saturday.

King Emmanuel Arrives in Naples, Rumors He Will Abdicate.   ALLIED FIFTH ARMY GAINS NEW POSITION   Allies Storm Through 27 More Towns and Villages.

Allied Invaders Now Straddle Main Road Te Rome, Just 86 Miles From Italian Capital. —

Knox Says Japs Lose Third of Ships, Rate of Destruction Is Increasing

NN eg ee ee Oe, Ne ee ee ee ee oe  Third of Jap Shippiig Sunk, Knox Declares

THIRD OF JAPAN'S : SHIPPING WRECK   Mare Than 2,500,0 Tons of Nipponese Ship ing Sent Down

Knox Summarizes Terrific Toll Alfies Have Caused Jap Shipping, Says More Is Due: Homeland Will Be Hit

Third of Jap Shipping Is Sunk by Subs   Communications With Conquered Lands Crippled, Says Knox

THIRD OF JAP SHIPPING SUNK   Knox Reports Foe is Having Difficulty Maintaining Communications   daps Having Difficulties

JAPANESE FEEL SHIPPING PINCH   Allies Destroy Third Of Tokyo's Needed Cargo Vessels

(One Third of . Enemy Vessels ‘id Destroyed ~      “De traction Hampers.        Exploiting: Gains:

Japan's North Pacific Base Of Paramushiru, 1200 Miles From Tokyo, Takes Pounding

Russians Push On in Caueasus   New Nazi Attempts to Cross Donets Are Turned Back

TOWNS ARE SEIZED IN RUSSIAN DRIVE   New Enemy Attempts to Cross Donets River Halted

BULLETIN SAYS SEVERAL TOWNS ARE CAPTURED   New Nazi Attempts To Gain In Izyum Area Of Donets Valley Unsuccessful.

Reds Advance In Caucasus Sector   New Nazi Efforts At Donete Halte-

Soviets in Drive ‘On Nazi Base At Novorossisk   German Attempt to Raid Leningrad Sharply Defeated

REDS GAIN IN CAUCASUS AREA   Several Places Taken After Hand-To-Hand Fight; Germans Held At Izyum

Russians Make Caucasus Gains   Also Turn Back Foe At Donets River

REDS CAPTURE MORE PLACES IN CAUCASUS   Turn Back Enemy Attempts To Cross Donets River In Area Of Izyum, Moscow  R anarte.   Nazis Raid Leningrad.

GERMANS HURLED BACK ON DONETS   ATTEMPT TO CROSS RIVER FAILS—REDS PUSH CLOSER TO NOVOROSSISK. —

TOWNS ARE SEIZED _ IN RUSSIAN DRIVE   New Enemy Attempts to Cross Donets River —--~ __-»:Helted — --.-—

VINSON APPROVES WAGE INCREASES FOR MILLION RAILWAY WORKERS   Threatened Strike Of Railroad Men Averted By Today’s Action.

RAILWAY STRIKE VOTE BELIEVED JOBE AVERTED   WAGE INCREASE FOR 1,100,000 NON-OPERATING WORKERS APPROVED TODAY BY DIRECTOR VINSON.   MINERS’ WALKOUT REPORTED AT END   Congressional Action This Week Will Center About the Postponed Father-Draft Legislation— Look Into War Contracts.

RAILWAY STRIKE BELIEVED AVERTED   Wage Increases Approved Non-Operating Railway Workers

Vinson Approves Raises For Railway Workers; Miners Return To Work

GOP Drops Fight to Kill Highway Bill   Senate Votes Down Committee Proposal; House Gets Welfare Appropriation Bill

GOP ENDS ROAD MEASURE FIGHT   Give Up Battle te Abolish Post of Highway Commissioner.

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today.   Records Farthaunke.

ICKES NOW SEES MORE GAS SOON FOR EAST   Supply For “Ordinary Motorists” Will Be Increased Within Next Few Weeks, He Says

Few Have To File Income Tax Returns  On Todays Deadline     i, eC a

AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN NORTH AFRICA ' 12,000 TO DATE, INCLUDING 1,500 DEAD).

U. S. Casualties In Africa 12,000,  Davis Reports   1,500 Americans Killed Since Campaign Opened, ‘Says Director of OWI

MacArthur Calls Hirohito Liar  For Buna Claims   Asserts Japanese Didn’t Evacuate Area;  They Were Killed ENEMY RETREATING

Jap Withdrawal Claim Untrue Says MacArthur  Men Perished in Buna Area; Virtually Calls Mikado Liar

Japanese Lied About Buna, Says General  MacArthur Declares Enemy Perished; Allies Press Drive

Jap Withdrawal Claim Untrue Says MacArthur  Men Perished in Buna

REDS TRYING TO SET TRAP IN CRIMES   Beating Back Waves of Counter- Blows, They Move Westward in Hope of Eliminating 100,000 Enemy Troops.

RUSSIANS PLUNGING STEADILY WESTWARD IN CRIMEA SECTOR  WAVES OF GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS HAVE BEEN BEATEN BACK

/ RUSSIAN TROOPS DRIVE WESTWARD » FROM MELITOPOL   LAUNCH ATTACK TO CUT OFF GERMAN ARMY IN CRIMEA

REDS PLUNGING ANBAD TOWARD CRIMEA AREAS      Beat Back Waves of Desperdte’ Coiifiter - Attacks” in, and Around Mel ’ itopol:.ins Advance ~

Reds Drive Toward Trap ~ On Peninsula   Other Armies Are Moving Down From Zaporozhe To Melitopol

Reds Driving To Bottle Up 100,000 Foes   MOSCOW (UP) — Germany was reported Saturday to have thrown her main reserves into a showdown battle on the tottering Dnieper line.

Soviets Pound Nazis Along Entire Front   Counterattacks Fail to Stop Red Army in Its Westward March

viet Forces Battling Way Down Rail Line Leading To Melitopol; Reds Re. ported Massing Amphibi ous Forces For Attack Across Kerch Straits.

Red Plunge Into Crimea Perils Nazis   Soviet Trap Closing On 100,000. Troops; Kiev Defense Falling

100,000 NAZIS MAY BE TRAPPED ON PENINSULA   Soviets Beat Back Desperate Enemy Counterattacks Around Melitopol; Battle For Kiev Continues.

RUSSIAN TROOPS  BEAT BACK WAVES OF GOUNTERATTACKS   The Soviets Are Plunging  Steadily Westward Across the Low Flat Plains.   MOVING TOWARD CRIMEA   Other Red Army Forces Have Infested Zaporozhe, Industrial City.

05 BEATING BACK ATTACKS   Russians Making Audacious Attempt to Trap 100,000 Germans.

Russ Troops Plunge West In Bold Move 'To Trap Nazis   Melitopol, One Of Germans’ Key Bases, Reported Also In Hands Of Soviet Army

Hitler Tells Men To Stand To The Last   Germans Decide To Make “Stalingrad” Stand On Peninsula '

Russians Move To Trap Nazi Army In Crimea   Move Steadily Ahead Against Desperate Nazi Counter Attacks

Aim Dual Blows to Trap Germans Still Battling for Melitopo! — Hold Half of City   OPEN NEW DRIVES   Repeated Nazi Counter-Attacks Repulsed as Reds Batler Way Into Kiev's Defenses

RUSSIANS MOVE TOWARD CRIMEA TO TRAP NAZIS   Reds Beat Back Waves Of German Counterattacks — In Big Drive

Russians Drive To Trap 100, 000   Nazis In Crimea   Push Westward In Daring “Move; Half Of Melitopel Reported In Red Hands

Reds Repulse Counter-Attacks Of Nazi Forces   Germans Send Wave After Wave Of Men into Line

Russians Plunge Steadily Westward On Plains Leading  ‘To Crimea In Effort To Cut Off 100,000 Germans   On Peninsula—Other Red Army Forces Believed About To Capture Melitopol—Repeated Enemy Counter-Attacks Repulsed Near Kiev

Russians Slashing Forward Across Low lains to Crimea   Soviet Trying to Entrap Over 100,000 Nazi Men  on Peninsula

NAZI ATTACKS BEATEN BACK AT MELITOPOL   Thousand Germans Killed in Fierce Battle Near Zaporozhe; Fighting For Kiev Continues

Red Army Races To Trap 100,00 In The Crimea   Savage Counter - Blows Around Melitopol AreBeaten Back ~

Plunge Toward Crimea   Red Army Making Audacious Attempt To Entrap 100,000

REDS BEAT BACK NAZI-COUNTER ATTACKS AND PLUNGE STEADILY WESTWARD TOWARDS CRIMEA   Berlin Ignores Fighting in South But Announces . Russians Have Launched New Attacks Southeast Of Kremenchug Above Bend in Dneiper River

NAZIS FACING SOVIET TRAP   Red Troops Plunge Forward Toward Objective In Crimea

REDS ATTEMPT TO TRAP NAZIS ON LOW PLAINS   Counter-Attacks Along Dnieper Are Reported

Nazis Fighting Hard But Reds March Forward   Desperate Counter-Attacks Beaten Back ans.

RUSSIANS REPEL NAZI ATTACKS AT MELITOPOL   Soviets Fight Fiercely i Attempt To Trap Enemy in Crimea

Soviet Troops Fighting Way Across Plains  Germans Smashed Back Through Five Railway Towns  NEW RUSS THREAT  Red Army Massing fon Attack Across Kerch Qteaic   NEW RUSS THREAT   Red Army Massing for Attack Across Kerch Straits

Reds Plunging Toward Crimea From Melitopol   Attempt To Entrap Over 100,000 Germans; Storm Kiev Outskirts.

oKAY KYSER LOSES APPEAL ON DRAFT   g Orchestra Leader Denied Deferred Status

T. B. CLINIC USED   November Cases 61; Service Supported by Sale of Seals

FACE OF GEOGRAPHY ~LWIES BACK OF TIME — ARGUMENTS IN OHIC   ‘Buckeye State Is In Awk. ward Position in Respect ' to Zones—‘In Middle.’

STATE SOLONS: TO GET-BUDGET ITEMS TONIGHT   Governor Expected to Devote Part of Message to. Proposed Income Tax Reduction   TO NAME TREASURER   Estimated Cut-In. Income Tax Rate Would Result In $4,045,000 Saving to Taxpayers

TOCUTSTATE INCOME LEV’   Will Result In $4,045,000 Annual Savings If Adopted, Says Governor

Reported Talks. Between Tur President, FDR And: ‘Churchill Arouse: Anxiety. In Germany      “Nazi: Radio: Reports Such Confetence::.* Says Communique Coming InDay Or: Te.

F.D.R., Churchill See President Of Turkey After Taiks With Stalin   Axis Anxiously Speculates On Parley. Held With Inonu; Believe Turkey May Soon Join United Nations In War Against Axis.

Turkey’s Role  Worries Axis   Nazi News Agency , States President Inonu- Met Allied Leaders

Turkey Still Question Mark In Europe War   Nazis Anxious As Truk Officials Confer In Cairo

TURKEY SAID ~ INON PARLEY   Germans Aver Ismet At Cairo Conference Saturday.

Axis Speculates On Turks’ Stand In Glebal War   German Agency Reports On Meeting Held By Inonu, Roosevelt And Charchill

Turkey's War Role Puzzles   ‘Statement ‘Wednesday May Help Solve peshlem 

Enemy Awaits  Turkey's Role   German News Ageney Asserted That Turkish’s President Meeting FDR.

Turkey : Has Axis Worried    Country’s Future War Role Is Subject Of Anxious Speculation

NEARER CHASM OF BIG WAR   Future Role in European War Believed Soon to Be Determined By Events

AXIS ANXIOUSLY SPECULATING OVER TURKEY’S. FUTURE ROLE IN THE WAR.

FDR, Churchill See Turkish Head, Says DNB   Germans Report Parley In Cairo

FDR, CHURCHILL AND: PRESIDENT TURKEY CONFER   German News Agency Reports Parley Held in Cairo Saturday, Arousing Axis Speculation   TURKEY NEAR WAR   Emir Mansur, Son, and Imir Fahad, Nephew of Arabian King !bn Saud, Also Visit Cairo

Germans Watch Turkey Closely  Efforts Made to Keep Nation Neutral

TURKEY'S ROLE IN WAR SUBJECT OF SPECULATION   German News Agency Insisting President of Ankara Regime Has Seen  Roosevelt, Churchill

Germans Report FDR, Churchill See Turk Leader  Future Of Turkey   Future Of Turkey In War Believed Now Decided

Eye Turkey’s Future Role   Axis Casting Anxious Eyes on Capital as Result of Conference

Speculate Over Turkey’s Role   Anxious Germans Declare Turkish President Talked With Allied Chiefs

Tokyo Fears Alaska Attack   Radio Warns Japs OF U.S. Air Threat; Kiska, Attu Raided   Germans Might Make ‘Suicide’ Attack; Likelihood of Jap Coast Roid Canvassed

AMERICANS AND BRITISH TROOPS NEAR OBJECTIVE   Fifth Army Tokes Teano, 10 Miles Northeast Of Mt. Massico

TEANO IS TAKEN AS ALLIES MAKE FURTHER GAINS   Fifth Army Captures Road Control Point; Eighth Army Reports Steady Progress In Battle Of Italy.

SEIZE ROADS CONTROLLING NAZI ANCHOR   Fifth and Eighth _ Armies Register. New Advances

Yanks Seize Teano After Hard Battle   Controls Roads Vital tc Franking Movement Against Nazis

Fifth Army Seizes Teanio On Hill:Flank   British: Take. Two Points To Menace Center of Germans

Fifth Army Troops Stage Spectacular Feat in Single Day   Advance Five Miles in Rain and Up Steep Mountain Slopes

Allies Seize Vital Italian Road Genter   Teano Captured In Drive To QOutflank Germans On Massico Ridge.

Important Center  Seizéd by. Allies   Fifth Army Making Mile by . Mile March up’ ‘Ttalian  Peninsula   AMERICANS IN A GAIN   Teano Is Taken After: Fierce  Battle With the Nazi  : Troops

Americans Capture Vital Town   Fortresses Also Strike Blows at French Supply Route

Fifth Army Seizes Road Control Point   Teano Captured In Furious Battle; Yanks Make Drive in Rain

Troops Seize Town Close To Massico Ridge   Fifth Army Occupies Control Point To Important Roads On Enemy’s Flank

ALLIED STH ARMY HAS SEIZED TEANO   Control Point to Important Roads Flanking Massico Ridge, Is Taken.

YANKS BATTLE IN OT OHM 1 SEIZE TEANO   Capture Control Point Along  Flanking Germans, Binns Annkann

$th Army Drives Within 9 Miles  sernia Bastion   Americans Also Mak: Spectacular 5-Mile Ad vance In Downpour Ur Steep Mountain Slope: In Face of Intense En. emy Fire to Captur: Hill Citadel.

FIFTH ARMY FORCES CAPTURE IMPORTANT HIGHWAY CENTER   EIGHTH ARMY ALSO REGISTERED SUCCESSES AS NEW WEEK OPENS

Fifth Army Takes Teano in Prsh Up Italian Peninsula   RON *o “ghth Army . Also Makes Steady Progress

talian City Is Control  Point To Important Roads; Reritice REA Mawes Narth

FLANKS NAZI ANCHOR IN MASSICO RIDGE   Eighth Army Captures “Singing Wolf” Town

Rome Defense Line Crackine   Fifth, Eighth Armies Make Steady Gains

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES. MAKING STEADY PROGRES   Making A Mile by Mile March Up Italian Peninsula   SOME BRILLIANT WORK BY YANKS

OTH ARMY WINS OND JUNCTION   Seize Teano, Point Flanking Enemy’s Massico Ridge Anchor.   iN SPECTACULAR DRIVE

Near Nazi Line   Fifth Army Takes Teano; British Force Also Gains

i British Caplure _ Town In Center Of German Line   Other Gains Made Despite Furious Enemy Resistance

TAKE TEANO ~AND FAN OUT “BEHIND LINE   Nazis Had Attached Great. est Importance to Hold: ing Town—British With. in Nine Miles of Central Sector Bastion.

ALLIES SEIZE TEANO TODAY: DOCKS BOMBED   Relentless March By U. S. Troops  Routs Germans

Allied Advance In Italy Gains Speed Monday   Americans Push Five Miles Up Mountain Under Heavy Fire

CLARK’S MEN SEIZE TEANO, CUT HIGHWAYS   British Eighth Advances to Withi: Nine Miles of Isernia, Germans Central Bastion      Foris Blast French Rail Bridge as Troops Movements io Russia Reporied—Savona Bombed

Fifth Army Seizes Tenao. Control Point to Important Roads Flanking Massico Ridge Anchor; Viaduct Hit

Clark's Army Seizes Teano in Hard Fight   Takes Control Point to Important Roads Flanking Ridge Anchor

Allies Seize Control Point   Teano Important Capture By Gen. Clark’s Forces

Yanks Hit Bremen in  Big Raid   HEAVY BLOW FOLLOWS BIG SMASH BY R. A. F. ON WAR FACTORIES

OPA EASES POINT VALUES ON MEAT: HIKES BUTTER —   Meat Picture Bect Since Rationing Began.

MORE MEAT, LESS BUTTER, FOR NATION   Ration Table On Reduced Meat Points Revealed

‘PEOPLE BEHIND OPA’   Administrator Brown Thinks That  Agency Does Effective Job

Western Germany Pounded by RAF   Industrial Ruhr, Important Cities Are Bombed

RAF Strikes At West German   Stabs Industrial Area In Niaht Raid

British Again  Over Rubr Are:   Important Centers In Section Bombed

BRITISH PLANES RAID RUHR AREA   Second Successive Night Eng: lish Stab Western Germany, Berlin Admits

RAF STABS AT WEST GERMANY IN FRESH RAID   British Bombers Pun. ish Industrial Sec tions Of Nazilanc For Second Succes. sive Night.

Nazis Blasted In RAF. Raid  Ruhr Valley Again Bombed; Targets in

RAF Stabs At Germany   Raid Great Industrial Valley and Other Points; Germans Strike Back

BRITISH RAID RUHR SECTION FRIDAY NIGHT   SECOND IN SUCCESSION AND 12TH ATTACK MADE THIS MONTH

RAF STABS AT GERMANY   Berlin Tells of Civilian Cas ualties, Property Dazaged: -. Nazis Strike Back

WESTERN REICH AREAS RAIDED AGAIN BY RAF,   First News of Attack Comes From Berlin Listing Civilian Casualties and Property Damage   NAZIS STRIKE PACK   Northeastern and South ern England Attacked,  But Not on Heavy Scale; Casualties Light

ESCAPE ATTEMPT FUTILE FOR 2 MEN   Recapture Pair After Short Flight in Officers’ Car

ESCAPED PRISONERS BACK IN CUSTODY      Car Thieves Overpower Deputy Marshal

INVASION TEAM FOR ALLIES IS TAKING SHAPE   British Name Two More Chiefs; Doolittle To Head 8th Air Force

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   New York Faces “Famine:” Meat at All-Time Low

Soviets Launch New Offensive  Against Orel      Red Artillery Already in Range Of German Stronghold After Slashing Advance

Russians Open Big Offensive In Orel Sector   German Lines Are Broken In Smashing Assaults

Russ Spearheads Crack Nazi Lines   Orel Within Range of Soviet Artillery

BENNETT ~ PLANT     SETTLEMENT MADE   Parentage Case Payment Provision Okehed By  Court

Payment Approved Son of Constance Bennett  Gets $150.000 Settlement

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS LEWIS   “Testify Or Else” Ultimatum Given Union Leader

Lewis Shies At Probe: Subpenaed   U.M.W. Chief Ignore: Senete Quis; Feces Contempt Penalty

Truman Threatens Mine Union Chief Will Be In Contempt If He . Fails to Come  “ISSUES SUBPOENA     Murray and Green Agreed to Testify In Probe of  Production In War Matorial

TO VOTE ON APPLICATION   ‘Lewis’ United Mine Workers Want Back in the A.F.L.

AFL CONVENTION VOTE TO DECIDE UMW APPLICATION   LEWIS PUTS END TO SPECULATION THAT HE MIGHT WITHDRAW

Take UMW Bid to AFL   Federation Convention To Vote on Lewis’s Admittance Request

Lewis Asks UMW Re-Admission To AFL Ranks   Conventicn !n  Roston Monday

TU KEEP UMW BID BEFORE CONVENTION   Lewis Ends Speculation by Allowing Application to Go to Vote

RATION BODY MEMBERS, OPA OFFICIALS MEET     Dei Sesto Addresses Group at Rogers High School     40 Violators of Driving Bam Ke pert 10 Board; Four Lone

RATION BODY MEMBERS, OPA OFFICIALS MEE   Del Sesto Addresses Group at Rogers High School   0 Violators of Driving Ban Re port to Board; Four Lass ” Ration Books

Apply at Local Filling Stations   How to Get New Books Explained by County Board

le Will Soon Be Time To  Apply For Gas Rations Again   Details To Be Handled

Applications For Gas Ration Books At Oil Stations   Can Be Mailed To Ration Board In LeMars

le Will Soon Be Time To Apply For Ges Rations Again      Details’ To Be Handled By Mail This  Ts an

NORTHERN FRANCE, GERMANY BLASTED   British Night Raiders Return to Base Without  a Lace

BRITISH BOMB NORTH FRANCE   Unspecified Targets Blasted By RAF; Flying Boat Simashed Off Norway .

BOMBERS ATTACK AREAS IN FRANGE   RAF Mosquitos Blast Western German Targets   15 PLANES DOWNED   Air Attacks Have Destroyed About 60 Per Cent of Nazi Industrial Targets

KNOX SAYS END OF ATTU BATTLE CLOSE AT HAND   Plan to Drive Nipponese Out of Favorite Fishing Grounds

American Occupation Of Westernmost Islands Seen By Some Authorities As Possible Serious Stab At Nippon’s Fishing Grounds—Would Be Major Step In Economic Strangulation Of Empire—Victory On Attu Only Question Of Time, Knox Says

American Victory In Aleutians May  Cut Off Jap Food   Can Chase Fishermen  Out Of North Pacific

Yanks Peril Japs’ Chief Food Supply   Aleutian Advance Cutting OFF Enemy Fishing Grounds

CONQUEST TO MENACE JAP FOOD SUPPLY   Aleutian Conquest May Deprive Tokyo Of Fish Sources

U. 5. MOVE AGAINST JAP FISHING GROUNDS IN PACIFIC EXPECTED   Knox Says Attu Campaign Is Successful; Japs Face Death Or Surrender   WILL KISKA BE NEXT?

U. 5. AIMS AT JAPAN’S FOOD   Will Cut Off Enemy Fishing Ground, Striking From Aleutians

ATTU CONQUEST BLOW TO JAPS   Food Supply Endangered By Capture of Island

A Serious Stab at Japan’s Food Supply   American Conquest of West ern Aleutians Aids in Cutting Off Supply.

Loss of Attu To Cripple Jay Food Supply   Fishing Grounds Will Be Next Objective Of American Forces

SRveMae.  SeMeresn Benin dvan Myer SER ORR TEE  JOINT } INCOME RETURNS, SALES TAX INDICATED

U.S. Sales Tax Is Expected  Rep. Gearhart Sees 4Q, Dar Cant lavy

Senate Is Divided On Flynn Propose  Barkley Opines T' ere   A"Good Chance”

Dutch Advised to Defy  Internment Register   Army Is Employed To Save Lives in Flooded Arkansas

Reds Fall Back 100 Miles In Donets Basin As Axis Bring Up Reinforcements

RED ARMY FIGHTING BITTER BEFENSIVE BATTLES IN DONETS  _ INVADERS FORCE RUS  INVADERS FORCE RUSSIANS BACK ABOUT 100 MILES SOUTH KHARKOV

German Drive Puts Russians On Defensive  100-Mile Gain Scored By Nazis Near Kharkov

100-MILE  RETREAT IS ADMITTED   Russians Report New Gains In Northern Battle Sector

IN WIDE AREA   Bitter Defensive Battle Being Waged by Russians; Claim Nazis Stopped   SOVIETS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE IN ONE SECTOR

Nazis Advance 100 Miles, Take Many Key Towns   Red Forces Push Forward in North And Central Areas

GERMANS RECAPTURE EIGHT. CITIES IN DONETS THRUS]   Moscow Admits Fresh Enemy Divisions Hurled Into Battle But That Losses Extremely Heavy; German Rush Heid After 100 Mile Retreat.

Soviets Forced to Fall: Back 100 Miles South of Kharkov, in Donets Basin   12 German Divisions From Europe in  ‘Counter-Offensive, Soviets Say. — Reds Continue to Push Forward on Central Fyorit and in Northern Region

RUSSIANS FIGHT —TOHOLD GROUND    Positions Won in November Crumbling Before Determined Nazi Attacks

Draw Lines Closer on Vyazma While Timoshenko Takes Another Town in-Far North   NAZIS REINFORCED   Moscow Concedes Withdrawal from Eight Towns in Donets Under Heavy German Attacks

Russians Forced  Back 100 Miles   Lose Gains in Newly Won Ground South of Kharkov

CONGRESS OPENING WORRIES BRITISH, FEAR U.S. WILL BECOME WORLD HERMIT

78th Congress Convenes; Will Hear President  Talk Thursday   Session United on War But Divided on Domestie Policy   GOP Stronger   ‘State of Union’ Message May Give FDR's  Peace Ideas   London's Papers  Feneese Anwiata

HALIFAX HINTS WAR “MAY END SUDDENLY’      British Envoy Again Gives Warning Fue Is Strong, Sa “Don’t Slacken”

Guerrillas May. Form OCD Uni   Reorganization And New Status Favored

Gun and Armor Blows Begin to ‘Tell on Battered Enemy;  May Break Off Fighting

New Hope Comes to China In ‘Full Measure of Help’ Assured by U.S. President   By JAMES D. WHITE

China Has Plans for Successful Use OF Promised ‘Full Measure of Help’

Chinese Know How To Use _ Increased Aid   Have Been Calling For Weapons To Equip Soldiers

CHINESE READY FOR AID PROMISED BY FOR   Cannot Arrive Too Soon, Fighting Since 1937

TROOPS NEAR AIRFIELD ON: NEW: BRITAIN   MARINES ADVANCING WITH SUPPORT OF TANKS AND FLAME -THROWERS ' CLOSE TO OBJECTIVE

Marines Drive On Airstrip On Cape Gloucester   Heavier Resistance Is Being Presented By Japs On New Britain   AIR SUPPORT IS GIVEN ADVANCE

Administration Wins Big Victory in Closing Hours as Senate Abandons Bat  ste Aeainst Subsidies.

CONGRESS RECESS TO SEPTEMBER 14   Legislators Will Talk Things - Over With the Folks.  at Home   LIFE OF -CCC IS SAVED

78th Congress Adjourns After Hectic Session   Weary Lawmakers Start Home to Talk It Over With Voters

SENATE VOTES SUBSIDIES IN CLOSING HOURS   Congress Adjourns Until Sept. 15 Alter Hectic Six Months of War Legislating   HOUSE WINS BOUTS   Three More Huge Appropriation Measures Voled—FDR Wins and Loses on Veto Issues

TEMPERS TAUT AS CONGRESS STARTS HOME   Leaves Record of Fullest Support of War During - Hectic Session.   LOSES LAST FIGHT   Administration Wins Battle _On Subsidies But Not On NYA. Salary Curb.

CONGRESS QUITS TO BUILD FENCES IN HOME DISTRICT   Senate Retracts Earlier Stand, Votes In A Food Subsidy

18TH CONGRESS ADJOURNS UNTHI MID-SEPTEMBER   End Long, Hectic Session; Members Start For Home

CONGRESS VOTES   ALONG RECESS   Members Go Home to Voters After a Most Hectiz and Historic Session

Work-Weary Congress Adjourns For Rest Period After Hectic Session

CONGRESS IN RECESS UNTIL hic aay eee   Ends Session Made Hetic By Domestic

VICTORY GIVEN COVERNMENT IN SUBSIDY FIGHT   Renewed Battle Next Fall Forecast by Congressmen

Weary Solons Leave For Home   CONGRESS ADJOURNED AFTER LONG HECTIC SESSION

Congress Takes A Recess; To Return Sept. 14  La symne okers Call Tim Out After

18th Conaress Members Leave For Homes   Senate Abandons Its Battle To Ban Paying Of Subsidies

Congress Takes Recess After Senate Drops Rollback Battle   Work-Worn And Weary, Legislators Leave Capital  For Rest Until Sept. 14; Appropriation Meas. ures Are Passed

Congress Takes Recess, United On War Measures, At Odds On Home lesues

Hectic Session Of Congress Ends   Lawmakers Go Home for Extended Recess To Talk Over Domestic Issues with Voters

7TH CONGRESS NOW IN RECESS   FDR in Final Victory As Senate Drops Oppasition to Subsidies.   WILL BETURN SEPT. 14

CONGRESSMEN G0 HOME FOR FIRST LONG WAR RECESS   Legislators Worn and Weary After Six Months of Attempts to Mesh Civilian and War Needs.   BIG ADMINISTRATION REALIZED NEAR ENT   CCC Bill Gives Administration Free Hand on Subsidies, Credit Plan !s Extended.

Recess Is  Taken Until  September   Members Of Congress Are On Way Home To Talk Things Over With Constituents

Conaress lakes Recess; Senate OK’s Subsidies   Many Problems Le d By Taxes Will Face Congress On Resuming 78th Session Sept. 14

Congress Takes ) Summer Recess  Of Two Months   New Battle Over Food Subsidies Is Promised  This Fall.

AFTER LONG, HECTIC  SESSION CONGRESS  QUITS FOR AWHILE WILL BE IN RECESS UNTI  SEPT. 14 UNLESS EMERCENCY COMES —_.

PRESIDENT WINS FINAL TILT ON FOOD PRICE ROLLBACK PLAN; ELEVEN MAJOR BILLS PASSED   Lawmakers To Go Home Until September 14 To Talk Things Over with Voters After Appropriating $114,000,000,000 For Fighting War and for More Administrative Control!

Weary — Solons  Go Home   Congress on Vacation Until September 14th In Its First Long — Recess of the War

Congress In Recess Until September 14   Legislators Taking First Breather Since Start of War

Senate Rout Marks Finis Of Congress   Subsidy Ban Defeat Is Major Setback  Ae Tlanaewe Aslinnen

CONGRESS IS ENJOYING A LONG RECESS   Adjournment Taken After Historic Session Splits On Domestic Problems   HIGHLIGHTS OF WORK

Solons In Conflict On Domestic Issues But Accord Noted In War Prosecution

Administration Wins First Round ‘Of Subsidy Battle, But More to Come

LEGISLATURE WILL END SESSION MAY II; HOUSE VOTE 113 T0 If   ADJOURNMENT RESOLUTION ALREADY HAD BEEN APPROVED BY SENATE

Legislature fo Adjourn May 11  Resolution Approved  By House; Session to: 7 + .. TS3ALLEL Pr.

WAYS, MEANS TO  DRAW LEGISLATION FOR 1943 TAX PLAN   Rum! Plan May Be Out; . May, However, Get Abatemant On 104? Tax

Tax Proposals Are All In; Law Drafting Next   Committee Concludes Public Hearings on Proposed Changes and Plans To Prepare Measure.

Pay As You Go Legislation Is Due Soon   Public Hearings End—Selective Service Question Up in Congress

att LITTLE CHANCE FOR RUNL TAX PLAN   Ways and Means Committee May Forgive Part of 1942 Taxes: Debate How Much

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Proposal Hearings End   House Committee Now In Executive Session To Draw Up Legislation

House to End ‘Pay-Go’ Plan Tax Hearing   Mor ‘genthau Takes Air Tonight to Stress March 15 Payment Date

“Expect Crest At Tuscumbia Late Tomorrow   J May Go 36 to 37 Feet Engineers at the Dam Declare

, ED DOVER FOUR LESSE® TRUNK WIRES we  es cNi NEWS BIN ETING         Ununthatten Promoted to Full Admiral

Draft Deferment Reviews Ordered   Procedure Changed Under Amendments

REVIEW OF DRAFT CASES ORDERED   THOUSANDS AFFECTED BY PLAN TO REOPEN OCCUPATIONAL DEFERMENTS.

Reds In Campaign To Smash Entire Nazi Winter Defense Line   FARLY CAPTURE OF ROSTOV EXPECTED

RED COLUMNS SURGING WEST INTO UKRAINE   Soviets Drive Southward to Outflank Retreat from Rostov

IMPERIL NAZI WINTER LINES   300 Germans killed in night fighting between Rostov, Kharkov

KURSK SEIZED. STRIKE ROSTOV AND KHARKOV   Soviets Columns Surge Thru Eastern Ukraine In LargeScale Drive   GERMAN COLLAPSE NEAR   Enemy Retires From Oil City , Under Attack From North And South

REDS MAKE MOVE TO SMASH ENTIRE NAZI WINTER LINE   Soviet Drive Is Speeded Up After Fall of Kursk, Entire German Force Is Now Threatened. .   ALLIES KEEP'UP LONGRANGE BOMBING TRIPS   Tunisian Land Soaked Following Rains, Messina Is Bombed By Day, Sub Gets Four Vessels.

Aussies Press Drive on Huon In New Guinea   Jap Attacks Are Repulsed By Allied Troops

Aussies Drive . Toward Wareo   Three Jap Counterattacks Are Beaten Off;. Planes:  Hie’ Fnemvy’s Rear

Wareo Totters in Drive   AUSSIES PRESS TOWARD KEY NEW GUINEA BASE; BOMBERS LASH ISLANDS

Aussies Close In On Jap Base   Beat Off Three Jap. Counterattacks To Press On Wareo.

Japs Fail To Halt Aussies Nearing Goal   Australians Repulse Three Jap Counterattacks And Move Toward Wareo

Aussies Repel Jap Attacks Before Wareo   Tighten Grip On New Guinea Base

‘Aussies Drive On Wareo, Smash 3 Jap Attacks   May Get Early Support From 2 Other Units Also Closing In On Base.

‘AUSSIES’ INCH TOWARD WAREC   Allied Fliers Hit Bougainville, New Britain Isles

Aussies Press Steadily Toward Wareo; Repulse Jap Counter-Attacks

Aussies Repel Jap Attacks Before Wareo   Three Enemy Counter-Attacks In New Guinea Are Repulsed  1  BOMBERS ARE ACTIVE

Australians Press On Toward Wareo Objectives   Fighters Repulse Foe In Three Battles; Other Forces Gaining

AUSSIES REPEL 3 COUNTER ATTACKS IN WAREO SECTOR   Aided By- Artillery Fire And _Air Cover Advance Steadily On Jap Positions On New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula

Japan Raids ‘eing Urged   Doolittle Asks Raids Until Empire Crumbles

All Plans. Agreed On, Says Eden   Conferences At Teheran And Cairo Will Help Shorten War, Asserts Foreign Secretary

‘Conference To Shorten War—Eden   Foreign Secretary Reports on Talks With Stalin; Will “Destroy Japan”

Eden Pledges Britain To Battle to the Final Destruction of Japan

SHORTEN WAR BY DECISIONS AT TEHERAN   Anthony Eden Pledges Britain to Final Destruction of the Japs.   Military Plans Made For Defeat of Axis

Dates Set for New Attacks, Eden Declares   Slavs To Choose Own Government After War, He Says

EDEN GIVES REPORT TO COMMONS   Foreign Secretary Says Plans And TimeAgreed Upon

QUICKER DEFEAT OF THE AXIS IS ASSURED   “Closer Cooperation of Military Plans” at Teheran Cairo Meeting Will Bring  This About, He Said.

EDEN SEES END TO AXIS PUSHED BY BIG PARLE}   British Official Tells Cheering Commons Churchill Is Still Mapping Plans

oAYS WAR TO BE CUT SHORT, JAPS CRUSHED   Commons-Told Churchill Has More Work to Do in “Prasent Sphere.”

Eden Reports To House Of Commons   Says Decisions Of Teheran Will Soon Be Unrolled On Field of Battle

British Pledge to Fight Japan to End Renewed as Leader Addresses Commons; Churchill Still ‘at Work’ Abroad

‘Tells Commons ‘War Will Be Shortened’ ‘in Decisions Reached by Allied Chiefs

COMMONS TOLD DEFEAT OF AXIS 10 BE SPEEDED   Decisions Reached By Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin to Be Unrolled  On Battlefield .   REITERATES BRITAIN / TO AID JAP DEFEAT   Churchill Has “Still More Work to Do in Sphere ‘Where He Is Now;” Cooperation Assured.

REPORTS CAIRO PARLEY RESULT TO COMMONS   Foreign Secretary Confident Decisions Will Shorten War

Conference Decisions  To Shorten War--Eden   *F oreign Secretary Reports To Commons In Absence Of Churchill, Who “Still Has More Work To Do.”

Foreign Secretary Has Good Hopes for Turkey—Conferences Assure Co-operation in Peace

Eden Says Conferences Shorten War   Quicker Defeat of Axis Insured By ‘Close Cooperation of Our Military Plans” He Tells Commons

Plans Mapped to Crush Foe, Claims Eden   Tells House of Commons Time Is Set for Final Blow

TO FIGHT JAPS UNTIL VICTORY   Commons Told United Nations Pledged To Complete PostWar Cooperation

Britain Pledged To Battle For Jap Destruction   Anthony Eden Says Big 3 Conferenses Will Shorten War

Allied Talks Mean Shorter  War, Eden Savs   War Will Be Shortened: by Parley Decisions, Foreign Secretary Reports To Commons.

Plans Set To Speed Knockout   Quicker Defeat of Axis Insured by the Decisions at Teheran, Rden Says   RENEWS PLEDGE  TO DESTROY JAPAN   Commons Cheers as He Gives Report,But He Cautions the Vicory Won't Be Easy

CAIRO-TEHERAN CONFERENCES FORESEEN AS SHORTENING THE WAR BY ANTHONY EDEN

Shorter War Seen From Conferences   Eden Pledges Agair Britain Will Help Beat Japan

DECISIONS WITH STALIN SHORTEN WAR, SAYS EDEN   PLEDGES BRITAIN TO FINISH FIGHT WITH THE JAPANESE

Foreign Secretary Again Pledges Britain to Aid In Destruction of Japan

Secretary Eden ReportsOn Talks -AtTeheran, Cairo   Views Turkey As An Ally; Tells Of Aid In Balkans; Reiterates Japs’ Doom

AGAIN PLEDGES BRITISH AID IN DEFEATING JAPS   Tells Commons Churchill Still In Cairo Te ‘Complete Job’

Eden Reports Conference To Commons   Pledges Britain To Final Destruction Of Japanese

Victory Will Be Speeded   Quicker Defeat of Axis Insured By Conferences

Anthony Eden Reports Home As Churchill Stays in Atrica Making More Arrangements For Victory; Will Fight Japan To The End

Eden Declares War Will Be Shortened By The  Cairo- Teheran Decisions

WAR SHORTENED BY CONFERENCE COMMONS TOLD   British Foreign Secretary Reports On Cairo And Teheran Meetings In Parliament; Says Every Plan And Date Agreed Upon, As Will Be Shown In Due Time.

BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DECLARES WAR BEEN SHORTENED  QUICKER DEFEAT OF AXIS ASSURED BY COOPERATIVE MILITARY PLANS

Decisions of conferences ‘shorten’ wal   Eden reports to lower house

Eden Reports To Commons On 3 Parleys   Says Churchill “Still Has More Work to Do” Be} fore Returning Home

Britain To Battle For Destruction  Ot Japan   United Nations Also Agreed On Post-War Plans, Foreign Ministe Tells Commons

Decisions Reached By “Big Three” To Shorten The War   Foreign Secretary Eden, Reporting to Commons, Again Pledges Britain to Battle to Final Destruction of Japan   OPENS TWO DAYS DEBATE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SHORTER WAR IS SEEN AS RESULT LATEST TALKS,   Anthony Eden Tells British Commons Recent Decisions of Far Reaching Im nortanrca

‘Big 3° Accords Will Shorten War, Says Eden   Again Pledges Britain To Fight To Final De struction Of Japan.

PLEDGES BRITAIN TO FIGHT UNTIL JAPS FOLD UP   Says Churchill Still Has More Work to Do Before Coming Home

TIME OF WAR CUT SHORTER, EDEN CLAIMS   Says Conferences tc Hasten Defeat of Axis Powers

Closer Cooperation of Military Plans Means Defeat of Axis; Decisions at Teheran to Be Unrolled on Field of Battle

Britain Pledged To Fight Japan To End; Allies To Cooperate In Post War Area

EDEN REPORT  TQ COMMONS   Says War to ‘Be Shortened By Decision Reached in Meetings.

Tells Commons Every Plan, Timing Are Upon, Decisions will be Unrolled  on Field of Battle   COMMITTED TO JAPS’ DEFEAT   Again Pledges Britain to Utter Crushing o Japan, Termed As Much a Menace tc Britain as to China and U. S.

Eden Sees Axis Defeat QuickerThanPlanned   Foreign Seerctary Reaffirms Pledec to Destroy Jap Menace

“EVERY PLAN IS AGREED UPON” EDEN DECLARES   Decisions of Teheran Will Be Unrolled on Field of Battle

Every Plan Now Agreed On, Say: British Official   Pledges Anew Britain-To Fight Japan; Says Blow To Reflect Teheran Decisions

War Shortened Says Eden Report   Summary of Allied Conferences Given: Churchill Still Absent

Nazi Defeat Planned By ‘Big Three   Eden Reveals Timing for Defeat of Both Ends of Axis Agreed on at Conference

Pledges Full Fight Until Jap Gives Up   Britain Still Principal in  Pacific, Also Her Do— minions

Says Allied Pacts Will Shorten War   Reporting to Commons on Teheran-Cairo Talks, Anthony Eden Also Renews Pledge to Fight to Final Defeat of Nips.

Eden Tells Commons Time, Plan Agreed Upon; Pledges British Aid Against Japs

EVERY PLAN AGREED UPON, COMMONS TOLD   Churchill Stays In Cairo To Complete Meetings: Repeats Britain’s Vow To Destroy Japs

Eden Hails Ally Stalin Pacts   OFFICIAL SEES SHORTENED WAR AFTER TEHERAN-CAIRO CONFERENCES; PLEDGES BRITAIN TO BATTLE TO JAPAN DESTRUCTION

AMERICAN FLYERS BLAST JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS   Yank Airmen Go On Bombing Expeditions From Several Different Places.

Nazi Troop Ship Sunk Off Norway   Widespread Sabotage Reported im Country

GERMAN TROOP SHIP  SUNK OFF NORWAY:   Vessel Destroyed During Recent Sabotage in Area—Details Are Lacking.

400-SHIP RAID HITS MESSINA   Two-Way Attack Pounds Italian Port From African Bases;  Others Raked

Allies Prepare Heavier Air Blows for Italy   Optimism Runs High as Allies Settle Into Battle Routine —

Allies Prepare Heavier Air Blows for Italy  Optimism Runs Hig as Allies Settle

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEARSON  (Wee Aamaric \}

London Underwriters Reduce War Risk Insurance Rates on Cargoes Showing Anti-sub Fight Improves

Yank Correspondent Sees Only Defeat For Germans in Russia After Covering War for Nearly Two Years

Jeffers Scores Army And Navy Loafers For ‘Preventing Smooth Operation Of War Plans

Short Campaign ‘Proposal Gets ‘Cool Reception  GOP Chairman Say: F ourth Term

BRIEF CAMPAIGN PLAN IS SCORNED   G.O.P. Chairman Says Democrats Already Have Their Candidate.

AIR OFFICIAL SEEKS, RULING   LOCKHEED HEAD ASKS FOR DRAFT DECISION

HOUSE REFUSES ——- TOBACK DOWN   Insists on Withholding Parity Payments, Dropping Crop Insurance

FORESEE COLD WAVE RELIEF   Temperature Dips To 7 Below Zero at Youngstown; 2 Deaths Result

COLD WAVE TAKES TOLL OF 19 LIVES   Relief Promised From Winter's Frigid Blast

BOMB-BLACKENED BERLIN WAS UNDER ATTACK ONCE MORE   Raided Last Night for the Third Consecutive Night, It Was Announced.   EMBERS STILL GLOWED   Travelers Report West and South Sections of Berlin Were Worse Hit.

Third Night Raid In Succession Harrasses Berlin  German Broadcast Admits ‘Nuisance Raids’ Over Country

RAF MOSQUITOES IN THIRD NIGHTLY RAID UPON BERLIN  OTHER ALLIED AIR ACTIVITY REPORTED OVER FRANCE CERMANY

‘Mosquito Squadrons on Third Nightly Bombing of Berlin Say Embers ‘Still Glow from First

Thousands Moving Qut of Berlin   Bomb Damage Is Reported of Catastrophic Proportions, City in Feverish Fear   THIRD NIGHT RAID MADE BY BRITISH   Schools Bvacuated,Refugees treaming to Other Cities; Fires Still Burning

Berlin Is Hit Again   MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAGE OVER NAZI CAPITAL IN NEW “NERVE” ASSAULTS

BOMBER “SUZIE Q” IN CRASH LANDING   Group of 20 Aboard, Flying Fortress Escapes Serious Injury in Nhaliange RAiahan.

Death Claims ‘Rachmaninoff   Famous Musician Dies of Pneumonia At Beverly Hills

Master of Piano Expires On Coast   Rachmaninoff Dies At Beverly Hills

Rachmaninoff Dies Sunday  Musician 2nd Only To Paderewski As Mactor af Kavhoord

RACHMANINOFF 1S PNEUMONIA VICTIM   Famed Composer-Conductor Succumbs Sunday

RACHMANINOFF DIES AT CALIFORNIA HOME   Pneumonia Claims Famous Music Composer

Rachmaninoff Is  Pneumonia Victim   World-Famed Pianist Dies On Coast

PNEUMONIA FATAL TO NOTED PIANIST   Sercel Rachmaninoff Dies Sunday at Home in Calitornia.

Propaganda Line Already Formed   Davis May Visit Africa After London Visit

Elmer Davis Has Reached London   Says Stage of Allied Offensive Already Was Well in Mind.

Marooned 148 Days  * *  ae Ice, He Wants  * 4.4 * 2 ss “ * ®   Transfer To Tronies

ARMY FERRY PILOT READY FOR SERVICE   Marooned With His Crew in Greenland for 148 Days.

PRICE CONTROL TO REACH CAFES   MAXIMUM CHARGES TO BE FIXED—ORDER AFFECTS ' DRINKING PLACES.

OMAHA PAPER 1942 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER   CARTOONIST AWARD WON AGAIN BY DARLING

Pulitzer Awards Made to ‘Omaha Newspaper, Various Writers, and Composer:

HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY NAZIS   Two Sharp Attacks, Against “Russian Bridgehead West Of Donets River, Thrown Back; Reds Use 520 Bomhers.

520 Russian Bombers Rip German Base   Two Nezi Attecks Hurled Beck in Growad Fighting

German Attacks Halted By Red:  520 Russian Warplanes In Raid On Orel

OREL BLASTED ~ BY RED FLIERS   520 Soviet Warplanes In Attack On German Held Storng Point On South Central Front

Russ Troops Crush Two Nazi Attacks   Furious <Aerial Battles Continue to Dominate  Front Action

Soviets Repulse German Attacks   Russians Step Up Aerial War; Oren Pounded By Armada.

TWO SHARP GERMAN ATTACKS ON SOVIET FRONT REPULSED   FURIOUS AERIAL WAR CONTINUED TO DOMINATE RUSSIAN FIGHTING

PRETTY WEDDING. ~ FRIDAY EVENING   Evelyn Weinreich, of Kingtley, Weds. Pfc, Carl  Berglund

PRETTY WEDDING ~~ FRIDAY EVENING   Evelyn Weinreich, of King-sley, Weds. Pfc. Carl og ’ Berolond

Private Berglund And Miss Evelyn Weinreich Wed  Tt, ec   Pretty May Wedding ‘Takes Place Near Kingsley

STALINO TAKEN, “USS: PLUNGE ON   Red Army Moves F<rward on All Fronts From Smolensk to Azov Sea.

RUSSIANS DRIVE NAZIS 40 MILES BEYOND STALINE   Soviet Troops in New Gains from Smolensk Area to Sea of Azov

Heavy Rain: Fail To Stop Soviet Gains  Russians Report Motor Vietare   Russians Report Mgjor Victory In Southern Area

Soviets Reach Pronya River In White Russia   Major Defense Victory In Southern Ukraine Claimed by Germans

FALL RAINS ARE SOAKING WHITE RUSSIAN FRONT   Soviets Claim To Have Killed 5,500 Germans In Taking Cherikov   DEFENSIVE VICTORY REPORTED BY NAZIS

Latest Gains By Reds Up To 30 Miles   Claim Defense Stand Made in South After Five-Day Battle

SOVIETS PUSH DEEPER INTO WHITE RUSSIE   Reach Pronya River in North As Nazis Claim Victory in South

Reds Reach Pronya River Near Mogilev   Soviet Forces Slog Through 460 More R-in-Soaked Villages in White Russia; Nazis Claim Major Victory in Ukraine

Reds Advance Through White Russia   Nazis Claim Victory in the South After Long Battle

9,900 GERMANS ‘SLAIN IN PUSH ONTO POLAND   460 More Places Taken By Soviets; Berlin «Claims Victory In South

REDS DRIVING GERMANS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Close in on Gomel and Vitebsk near Polish border; Reds  break some Nazi defenses   Dig In On Dnieper

ees Storm On In  ite Russia. -Area      460 Towns Freed, 5,500 Germans Slain;  NastetClates Gai idee Ubeaiee Virisey

SOVIETS BATTER NAZI DEFENSES   Reds Reach the Pronya River In White Russia   RAINS DRENCH FIELDS   Strong Defenses Stall Off Capture of Gomel; Kiev Battle Not Reported

RED ARMY GAINS IN WHITE RUSSIA: TAKES 460 TOWNS   Smash Way to Pronya River Over Rain-Drenched Battle Field—Nazis Abandon Guns in Retreat.   DEFENDERS OF GOMEL HOLD OFF SOVIETS   Germans Claim Major Defeuse Victory in Five-Day Battle Near Zaporozhe at Dnieper Bend.

Reds Drive Ahead _ In White Russia; Battle On Dnieper      Thirty-Mile Thrust Takes Soviet Forces From Krichev Area

Soviets Advance In North: Nazis Gain Confidence   Germans Indicate Hope of Holding Line Along Dnieper

Soviet Troops Batter to the Pronya } River  RAINS DRENCHING THE BATTLE ZONE  Cherikov Js Token in New Crossing of Sozh River

BEGIN DRIVE T0 PASS BIENNIAL APPROPRIATIONS SOLONS SWAMPED AS LESS TWO MONTHS OI  €@PeEeINAL DE

WPB Against Time Change   “War Time’ Essential, Nelson Wires Assembly...

J  Seing Sought  ‘$ Lloyd Smith, Lifer '; From Marietta, One * OF the Fucitives

ADD NEW TOUCH   Nazis Call Their Retreat An Offensive Withdrawal.

U. S. Heavy Bombers Hit At Germany  Fortresses and VT th ewntawe

12,000,000 TONS OF SHIPPING LOST IN 1942   More Ships Sunk Than Built, Says Truman Group .

Disclose Heavy Shipping Losses   More Tons Lost Than Built By U. S. and Britain

SHOW GRAVITY  OFU-BOAT TOLL   » Truman Committee Reveals 12 Million Tons Sunk During Year  aad J

“QUARRELING OF ADMIRALY ‘ GVER ESCORT. CRAFT > : BLAMED BY. COMMIT TEE FOR TERRIFIC SEALOSSES - —

SENATE HITS AT U.S. NAVY FOR NEGLECT   Truman committee report shows ship toll exceeds building rate

Italian Slave Labor Used by Germans to Build Fortifications   REPORTS MADE OF BIG ALLIED GAINS   American - British Forces Already Pounding New Line

Allied Armies Hit New Winter Line ‘Of German Troops   Nazis Use Italian Slave Labor to Build Defenses and Pour in Reinforcements In Hope of Stapping Advance to Rome

Allies Pound at German Defense Line   50 Towns Captured in Northward Drive Against Rome

ALLIES SMASH AT FOES NEW LINE IN ITALY   Germans Using Slave Labor to Construct ‘Winter’ Defenses

Allies Pound At New Winter Line   Nazis Frantically  Pouring In Troops By EDWARD KENNEDY

AT FOE'S NEW ‘LINE IN TTALY   Germans Using Slave Labor to Construct “Winter” Defenses

Use Italian Slave Labor in Erecting Defenses in Effort To Halt the Allies   Allied Armies Are Pounding New Fortifications as Germans Pour Reinforcements into Haly

Allied armies reach nazi cloud-capped ‘winter line’ in mountains across Italy   Germans pour reinforcements into barrier built by Italian slave labor

Allies Pound New German Winter Line   Captured Prisoners* Report Arrival Of  Nazi Reinforcements

Italian Slave Labor Used by Germans to Build Fortifications      REPORTS MADE OF BIG ALLIED GAINS   BI’ ALLIEV VAIN     American - British Forces Already Pounding  New Line

ITALIAN SLAVE LABOR BUILDS WINTER LINE   GERMANS ATTEMPT TO STEM ALLIED ADVANCES

Allies Pound At New Winter Line   Nazis Frantically “Pouring In Troops

Nazis Erect New Winter Line; Pour Men Into Italy.   50 Towns and Villages Into Allied Hands

Little Joe Has None To Spoil Him With -Mother Working And Benefits

State Guard Slip Up Labor Tie-up In IIlmo Dispute   Armed Militia Men Patrol Project, Avert Disorder as Gov. Acts.

MRS. CHIANG INSPIRATIONAL    China’ s First Lady Gives Stirring Address In Chicago

New Social Security Aid. — Is Proposed   sovretary Perkins - “Tells of Plans Which: May Goto Roosevelt~ Soon   LARGER. PENSIONS, OTHER BENEFITS   Would Provide Payment for Work - Interruptions - ° Repardless of Cause

Larger Old-Age Benefits Sought   Secretary Perkins Tells of Plan to Boost Federal Social Security.

Social Security Revision Sought New Proposal Includes  Larger Pensions And Other Benefits

Outline Social Security Plan   Perkins Program To Provide Payment For All Interruptions Of Employment.

German, Norwegian War Centers  Battered By Allied Air Armadas .   German Chemical Center Of Ludwigshafen Hit Last Night While Mosquito Bombers Visit Berlin For Third Time In Week.

American Bombers Again Raid Norway\   Daylight Attack on Hitler’s War Industries of North Follows Heavy R. A. F. Assault on Ludwigshafen in Germany.

Widespread Bomb Raids Are Made   Liberators Over Norway, RAF Over Germany

Liberators Hit Norway In New Raid   RAF Pounds Chemica! Plant in Attack on Ludwigshafen

Today’s Targets Not Identified   British Raid Ludwigshaven And Hit Berlin   ONLY ONE BOMBER FAILS TO RETURN

AMERICAN BOMBERS AGAIN. RAID. NORWAY   Attack Follows RAF Night Assault On Germany

LIBERATORS HIT NORWAY TARGETS   Ludwigshafen, Nazi Chemical Center, And Berlin Raided

POWER STATION AND MINE NEAR OSLO ATTACKED   Raid On Hitler's Far Northern War Industry Follows Heavy RAF Assault On Ludwigshafen.

Night Assault By RAF Pounds Ludwigshafen   French Warned 36 Cities Slated For Mass  Allied Air Blows; Norwegian Foray By Liberators Second In Three Days

Yankee Bombers Blast at Norway  Daylight Raid Fellows Attack by RAF

Liberators Range Far to Smash Hard at Hitler’s Northern War Industry

THE HITLER WAR INDUSTRY BLASTED IN NORWAY AGAIN   Second Time in 3 Days U. § Bombers Had Struck at German War Industry.   Was Made on the Chemica Center of Ludwigshafen by the British.

YANK BOMBERS BATTER NORSE WAR FACTORIES   RAF Pummels Berlin, Ludwigshafen In Sweep  Over Reich

FLYING FORTS BLAST TARGETS IN FAR NORTH   ‘Norwegian Raids Follow RAF  Night Attack on Nazi City  of Ludwigshafen.

Liberators Again Raid Norway; RAF Hits Big  Nazi Chemical Factory

Yanks Again Over Norway   RAF Carries Out Heavy Raid On German Chemical Works

—AIN RAIDS—_  U5. LIBERATORS BLASTING NORWAY   German Chemical Center Of Ludwigshafen Attacked By RAF. -

Nazi Chemical City Is Target Of RAF Raid   Berlin Also Hit; U. S. Bonibers Return to Norway

LUDWIGSHAFEN TARGET OF RAF RAID   Berlin Hit By Mosquitoes Third Time In 7 Days; French Told To Stay Away From Factories

Industry Of Nazi Norway Again Blasted   Second Such Raid In Three Days On That Section

Chemical City Target Of Big RAF Assault   Allies Warn Frenchmen To Stav Away From Factories In 26 Towns.   HEAVY RAIDS COMING

Bombers — Again Hit At Norway   Raid Follows RAF Attack on Nazi Chentieal Center _

FORTS POUND NORWAY: RAF HITS BERLIN   Big German Chemical Center Raided By RAF

Yanks Raid Nazi Industries — In Norway Again Following Heavy RAF Blows In Germany   Ludwigshaven Chemical Plants Blasted In Force; Berlin Hit By Mosquito Planes

American Planes Again Strike At Norway Targets   RAF Batters Nazi Industrial Centers During Night Foray

Allied Air Squadrons Hit Norway   36 French Cities Named As Possible Targets for Mass Raids

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST NORWAY TARGETS AGAIN   Attack Today Follows Up Heavy RAF Assault On Nazi Chemical Plant

UDWIGSHAFEN IS BLASTED) BY AA: LOGE IN PLA  -STPENETH ARE REDUCED

Norway Bombed After Chemical Plant Hit:      American Libertors Range Far Over Hitler's Northern po eetechos Berlin Again Target for RAF Attack,

Hitler’s War Plants  Targets Of Attacks:   Of U.S. Liberators   Second Bombing Of Captive Nation Follows Closely RAF Assault On  Great German Chemical Center

Blast Nazi War Plants In Norway   Yank Raid Follows Big R. A. F. Night Bombing Of Ludwigshafen.

Yankees Raid Norway fo Hit At Nazi Plants   R. A. F. Bombers. Blast Large German Chemical Center  _ At Ludwiashafen

BOMBERS HIT INDUSTRIES IN BIG RAIN   French People Are Warned To Stay Away From Work

U.S. Bombers Again Blast At Norway    Attack Follows A Heavy RAF Assault on Nazi Chemical Center

BMICAL CENTER TARGET IN RHINELAND   Plants Manufacture High Explosives, Submarine Parts, Tanks, Trucks and Diesels   CAPITAL OF REICH STUNG BY MOSQUITOS   Norwegian Targets Of American Attackers Not  Revealed; Power Station Flattened

AMERICAN LIBERATOR BOMBERS RANGE OVER NORWAY THURSDAY  MISSION FOLLOWS RAF ASSAULT ON LUDWIGSHAVEN CHEMICAL CENTER

R. A. F. RAIDS LUDWIGSHAFEN   Americans Aim At Hitler's Far Northern War Industry   FRENCHMEN WARNED

ALLIES BLASTING "HITLER'S CENTERS   Americans Batter Norwegian Industries By Daylight While British Blast Chem- ical Center of Ludwigshafen Over Night.

Heavy RAF Force Assaults German Chemical Cente)   British Fliers Also Attack Berlin in Night’s Operations; Do Not Reveal Objectives of American Raid

Crash of American Plane In Dutch Guiana Kills 35   Death Toll Heaviest in Nation’s Aviation History: Two Texans Die

Dutch Guiana Army Crash Kills 35 Men   Author Eric Knight, State, dustice Department Aides Are Among Dead   ALL ON PLANE LOST   Big Transport Was On Way Overseas, Some Enroute To Africa

Death To 35 As Transport Plane Crashes   Government Men Among The Dead Olf Dutch Guiana

35 Americans Die In Dutch Guiana Crash   No Survivors Of Accident In Remote Part Of Country   Left United States About A Week Ago   FBI Men and Army Officers Among Ill-Fated Passengers

35 Killed in Crash Of Transport Plane   Toll Biggest in American Aviation History— Craft Fell January 15 in Dutch Guiana With Troops, Author, FBI Men Aboard.

TRANGPORT PLANE CRASHES, 35 DIE   Accident Occurs on January 15 Near Coast of Dutch Guiana.

Crash of U. S. Army Transport Plane in  South Called Worst   35 Persons Meet Death in Tragedy Reported by Army Yesterday

Thirty-f ive Die In Crash   Accident In  South America -_=  January 15

Air Crash Kills 35   Accident Off Coast of South America Called Worst in History

Thirty-five Die When Transport Plane Crashes   Believe Largest Number Ever Kifled in Plane Accident

REPLY MADE IN CONGRESS   LETTER FROM LT. COL, ROOSEVELT COMPARES ATTACKS BY CONGRESSMAN AS _ “STARS IN BACK"

NAVY SAYS WAVES ARE REALLY NEEDED   Publicity Office Of Navy Recruiting Station Tells How Women Take Over Shore Duty, Relieving Men For Active Service At Sea.

ITALIAN SOLDIERS DESERT ARMY OVER DEFEAT IN AFRICA   New Uprisings Break Out In Jugoslavia, Greece —lItaly To Fight Own Battle

STATE OF SIEGE IS DECLARED   Frantic Efforts Mode f Restore Order After Great Loss of Life, Property.   Italian Troops Desert — In Increasing Numbers

AXSUSEMASSED TANKS, INFANTRY AGAINST RUSSIANS   Grim Battle Under Morniess Sky, All Weapons From Tanks ‘to Rifle Butts Are Employed.   BiG TUNISIA FIGHT SEEMS IMPENDING   British Trawler Sinks Itatian Submarine Off Africa, Ruhr Bombed, Damage Is inficted,

Desperate Nazi . Efforts to Stop : GCoviets. Smashed   Russians Continue Advance on All Main Batflefronts, Several More : Villages Taken in Caucasus Drive

Soviets Repulse German Counter-Attacks in Caucasus  TANKS KNOCKED OUT; Bayonets and Rifle Butts  Used to Advantage By Russians

GERMANS STRUGGLE IN VAIN TO THWART RUSSIAN ADVANCES   Nazis Counter-Attacks. In -Caucasus Repulsed — Reds. Chalk ‘Gains On 4 Fronts   SOVIETS CAPTURE . MANY VILLAGES

ENEMY LOSSES ARE HEAVY IN CAUCASUS AREA   Russians Use Tanks, Bayonets And Rifle Butts In Fierce Night Battle   IREDS SEIZE MORE TOWNS   Important Railroad Station West Of Stalingrad Retaken From Germans

REDS REPEL DESPERATE COUNTER DRIVES   Armored Battles, Hand to Handi Fighting Reported

SOVIETS SMASH IM GERM   Bloody Night Battle Leaves Russian Line Intact   GERMANS REALIZE DISASTER GROWING

Enemy Fights Desperately Without Suecess   Reds Advance on Caucasus, Middle Don, Stalinerad, Center Lines

THADW TANKS AND MEN INTO NIGHT BATTLE   German Counterattacks Use Every Weapon Against Russ Drive.   PLIGHT TAKES ON SIZE _ OF GENERAL DISASTER

ENEMY DEFEAT REGARDED AS NEAR DISASTER   Tanks, Bayonets and Rifle Butts Are Employed In Wild Night Battle.

LABOR DRAFT BILL NOWIN COMMITTEE   Congressional Comment Largely Against Measure

GOVERNOR TO FILE WITHOUT SIGNATURE LABOR UNION BILL  DECISION FOLLOWS MORK ING CONFERENCE WITH

Governor Refuses To Sign Union Reculation Bil   Measure Filed, Will Become Law Without  Executive Action

U. S. Scores Successes Near Gafsa   Russians Gain In Triple _ Drive Against Smolensk; U.N. Fleeta Said Growing

AMERICANS SHELL SANS AEE DESPITE BOMBING   Yankees Win Control of Last Mountain Ramparts  Overlocking Foes’ Corris ore ae

British Hold Against Axis Counterdrive   American Troops Shell Mezzouna Airfield 22 Miles From Coast.   BOMB AXIS. POSITIONS

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY STILL WARDING OFF ROMMEL  U. S. LONG RANGE GUNS SHELL GERMAN AIR FIELD  BAIraAD cra rnacTt

U.5. PATROLLS STILL ADVANCE AT MAKNASS\    ong-Range Guns Hi Mezzouna_ Aijrfield 22 Miles from Sea

British Ward  Off Strong Axis Assault   Heavy Artillery Fire Marks Mareth Battle

Allies Ward ° Off Attack ©  - Of Germans   British, American Troops Holding Under Enemy’s Counter Drives

FIERCE GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS ARE FOUGHT OFF   U. S. Artillery Shelling Mezzouna Airfield, 22 Miles of Sea   AMERICAN PATROLS MAKE LOCAL GAINS

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY STILL WARDING OFF ROMMEL  U. 8. LONG RANGE GUNS SHELT CERMAN AIR FIELD

Montgomery Wards Off Axis Attacks, And Yanks Advance   Yanks Win Last Mountain Ramparts Near Maknassy; Russians Also Advance

U. S. Long-Range Guns K. O. Vital Axis Airfield; Reds Still Balk Nazis Along Donets.

‘Counter-Attacks Stall British; Americans Gain   Yank Raiders Pound Japs

YANK ASSAULTS CONTINUED IN DRIVE TO COAST   Fierce Fighting Rages ag Americans Advance While Planes Aid Barrage   MARETH LINE STILL HELD   Red Armies Surge Ahead In Three-ply Drive on Vital Nazi Bases

Mareth Battle Markedby Foe Land Attacks   Artillery Dueling Highlights  Desert Battle, Ist Army Strikes Back

British. ‘Eighth Army ‘Standing Off .  . Germans HEAVY GUN. DUEL  Ameriiin: ‘Troops Win Control Of  BRetetiarks °

J. S. Long Range Guns Shel Mazzouna Airfield Only 22 Miles From Sea  Paar a2 rAOXeon Meuse

NORTH AFRICA FIGHTING NOW AT HIGH PEAK   Crafty Nazi Desert “Fox” Reported to Have Had to Divide Up His Remaining Force

AT UPPER END GF MARETH LINE: U.S. LONG-RANGE GUNS SHELL MEZZOUNA AIRFIELD   American Patrols Score Local Gains in Maknassy Area. In Gafsa Sector Americans Carried Out Offensive Operations Successfully. Allied Airmen Attacking Enemy Night and Day

Heavy Fighting On Mareth Line  bs itish ag! Makes  Trunician Gain

CHINESE ROLLING INVADERS BACK   Repulse Drives Toward Rice Bow!  and Changkine. P

E  This- Week — ‘Fighting Flares  On Soviet, N orth African Fronts

SHORTAGE IN FOOD CUPFLIES AGE THE Uo   At Least 6% Reduction From 1942 Is Inevitable This Year,   [IS NOTHING SERIOUS   Bigger Crops This Year, But Armed Services and Allies Get More.

FORECAST OF © SHORTAGES IN. FOOD SUPPLY   MORE OK LESS CONTINUOUS SHORTAGES OF OME KINDS OF FOODS PREDICTED

N.S. 10 GET 6%. LESS FOOD THIS YEAR   Shortages of Some Items Predicted in OWL Report

Jap Military Intentions Thrown in — Reverse by Failure of Aggressive Moves in Pacific Area: Attacks China

Drive In China Appears More Than Side-Issue   ‘Present Campaign Ma y “Be Prelude To Major — ~ Offensive In Sector” ”*~

FLYING FORTRESSES STRIKE HEAVILY AT JAP WEWAK BASE   Score Direct Hit And Twe Near Misses On Large Enemy Cargo Ship

French. Grab Vital African  Mountain Pass   Victory Claimed as Allies Continue To Strike Rommel

Continental reports \picture Germany in mobilization frenzy   Predict unprecedentedly harsh decrees by Hitler on Saturday

Hitler Becoming Desperate Tolssue Series Of Dectees For ‘Present Emergency’

NAZIS IN FRENZY OF PREPARATIONS — -FORDIRE EVENTS   News from All Frants Stirs Germany—Harsh Civilian Restrictions Expected. -

REVERSALS “Tt FREND      Total War Mobilizatio _ Ordered By 7 On Anniversary:

Hitler Clamps Down on Nazis As News of Allied Successes Brings Total War Mobilization

GERMANS TOLD OF NEW ‘AND HARSH DECREES IN TOTAL WAR MOBILIZATION

WILL GET $500 A MONTH   Supreme Court Justices Sets Alimony in Dempsey Case

BRUNSVILLE GIRL ~ MARRIES ENSIGH   ses Harms And Ensign . Gord ion Mennen Ex“change Vows

Harms-Mennen Wedding March 6 In Chicago  Brunsville Young Woman Bride Of  Naval Eneiton

BRUNSVILLE GIRL ~ MARRIES ENSIGN   Teresa Harms And Ensign Gordon Mennen Exchange Vows

YANKEE CLIPPER CRASHES: 25 DEAD IN TAPIIS RIVER   Plane Dove Into Water Afte: Passing Over Lisbon, Portudal.

YOUTH TORTURES f-VEAR-OL0 SISTER   Shoots Girl for Being ‘Tod Noisy’ After Tying Up and Mutilating Her

KING TAKES JOB IN WAR FACTORY   ENGLISH MONARCH, WEARING OVERALLS, HELPS TURN OUT PARTS FOR GUNS. _

Farm Unit Heads Deny “Sell-Out”   “Unholy Alliance” Termed Falsehood

U. S. Fortresses Bomb French Railway Yards   LIGHT RAIDS ON BRITAIN.

eee ANVASION, Pag  GREAT CANADIAN  FORCE ENGAGED IN  INVASION SICILY FIRST CHANCE TO SHOW  ABILITY SINCE ATTACK PON DIEPPE

Discovery of Three Whiskey Stills in Georgia State Prison Revealed

THREE WHISKEY STILLS FOUND IN TATTNALL   Warden H. R. DuVall Says Stills Were Discov: ered Day He Took Over At Prison.

Three Whiskey Stills Found In Georgia's State Prison   Liquor Plants Discovered Prior to Break ~ In Which Twenty-five Inmates Made Escape

“an. gs eénitentiary .   Three Are Destroyed In Georgia Prison At Reidsville

Convicts Had Their Nips Of Moonshine  ‘ Three Stills Found   ’ Three Stills Found In Georgia Prison In Past Month

Three Whiskey Stills Discovered In Georgia Prison--Eleven Of 25 Who Escaped Are Still Among Missing

Warden Reveals How Three Whiskey Stills Were Found In Georgia's State Prison

HARMS BUYS KASS STOCK SAV: BANK   M. Kass and Joe Kass To Remain on Job For  A While

HARMS BUYS KASS STOCK SAV. BANK   M. Kass and Joe Kass To Remain on i For le

‘Most Colorful Figure’ in Orient Dies Thursday in Shanghai, China

Washington AndLondot Press Hints Statement  Will Be Far Reaching

COAL STRIKE FEAR EXPRESSED FRIDA)   Ickes Fears Walkout if Contract Agreement js Not Reached by October 3].

More U.S. Aid to Aussies Sought   Highlights of F. D. R.'s State of Union Message

House Accepts Senate Salary limit Repealer   Measure to Go Back To Upper Branch for Ratification Today

HOUSE ACCEPTS INCOME RIDER   Bill Nullifying FDR's $25,000 Ceiling Is Certain To Pass

President’s Order On Salaries To Be Nullified  House Has Accepted Senate Plan; Up to President

President’s Order On Salaries To Be Nullified  House Has Accepted Senate Plan:

House Also Hits Roosevelt's Plan To Limit Salaries   Votes Approval of Sen: ate Action Nullifying President's Move

SALARY ORDER OF FOR 1S NULLIFIED      House Accepts Senate Version of Ceiling Renealer

Texas Industralist To Be Guest Speaker On Safety Council Program

od Czar ll Goes  House   minittes Defies . tident in Move to ip OPA's Powers

SIGHT OF BIG HYDRO-ELECTRIC CITY, PITCHED BATTLES RAGING ONSHORESOFBLACK SEA   Russian Advance in Ukraine Poises Triple Threat to Nazis; 250,000 Axis Troops Arounc Rostoy May Be Hemmed in by Advance

‘SPEARHEAD IN UKRAINE   Drive. Toward ‘Hydro:Power . Center - on: Dnieper River. Moves 35 Miles   A TRIPLE THREAT TO THE GERMANS   Savage... Fighting . Under Way on Both Sides of Black: Sea Escape Port. -

Push Ahead  Over 35 Miles.  In Ukraine   Offensive Activity on the Tunisian Front Pushes Rommel Back

RED ARMIES DRIVING ON POWER CITY   One of Aims of Current Red Drive Is to Cut Off “Escape Corridor” of the Nazis

HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED ALONG BLACK SEA COAST   ‘Red Armies Closing in Around Nazi Escape Corridor; Allied Offensive in   North Africa.

Savage Fighting Rages on Black Sea On Both Sides of German-Held “Escape Port’ of Novorossisk, It ls Announced

Battles Rage Along Shores Of Black Sea   Russians Drive  On In Ukraine

Report 35- Mi. Push in Ukrait       General Vatutin’s Army Within 60 Miles o Power City, Dneipéropetroush; Pitehed Take Place on Black Sea Shore; Bad Weat Tunisia Ties Down Allied Army.

Soviets Seek To Break Up  ‘Dunkerque   Savage Fighting On Both Sides Of Novorossisk, Nazi Escape Port,   LAUNCH AFRICAN PUSH

Russians Make. 35 Mile Drive  — Pitched Battles. Rage On Black Sea Shore

Soviet Don Armies Near Power City   Within 60 Miles of Dnieperopetrovsk After 35-Mile Advance

KHARKOV-CRIMEA RAILROAD AND ROSTOV MENACED   Wedge Between Two Large German Armies Threatened as Russian Fury Continues Unabated

Soviets Seek to Split Nazis in Caucasus   35-Mile Advance Threatens Invaders’ Escape Route; ‘African Offensive Held Up —

‘Advance ls Triple Threat To Germans Still in Caucasus   Definite Information On Tunisian Front Is Lacking Today

Dnieperopetrovsk Was Center For Electric Power   AFRICA IS VAGUE   Rommel Retreats Ir ‘Good Order’ Ir Tunis: Offensive  Launched?

‘CENTRAL DON ARMIES OF GENERAL VATUTIN HORIVE IN UKRAINE   THRUST TOWARD GREAT CITY BRINGS TRIPLE THREAT TO NAZIS

BATTLES RAGE ALONG SHORES ‘OF BLACK SEA   Nazis Claim Russian’ Warships Fail to-Enter Novorossisk Harbor

Meanwhile, Russ Warships Battle To Plug German Escape Port On Black Sea.

Nazis Claim Harbor City Still Heid   Allied Offensive Activity Said Surging On Both Ends Of Tunisian Front

Batties Rage On Shores of The Black Sea      Russians Are Fighting Furiously to Prevent Escape of Nazi Troops; Red Army Is Within 60 Miles of Dnieperopetrovsk 

REDS CONTINUE FAST ADVANGE AGAINST NAZIS   General Vatutin's Armies Push Swiftly Toward Great Power Center Of  Dnieperopetrosk.

Red Armies Plunge On In  Central Don   Great Power Dam May Fall To Russians; Heavy Rains Cause Lull On North African Front

DISPUTES HALT PRODUCTION   War Workers In Three Plants In East Stop Work.

Sea Units Move Against Islands   Big Boribers' Join Driva Narthword

Allied Flyers Bomb Bases in Mediterranean   Devastating: Blows Rained on Italy 

Allied Naval Units Shelling Last Of Axis Bases in Mediterranean.

Heavy Blows Dealt in Italian Area   Sardinia, Sicily, Enemy Shipping Pounded by Bombs

BRITISH NAVAL FORCES SHELL ENEMY BASES   Ships Aid Intensified Aerial Attacks in Mediterranean

NAVY UNITS SHELL BASES OF THE AXIS   Mediterranean_ Positions Also Bombed From the Air

ALLIED SHIPS SHELL ISLAND   Naval Force Turns Guns On Pantelleria; Planes Strike At Harbor In Sicily

Allies Keep Up Air Blows.   African-Based Planes Hit Southern Europe

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Sicily, Italy Are Targets of Africa Raiders   British Naval Force Shells Fortified Isle in Sicilian Strait

Mediterranean  Bases Pounded   ‘Allied Naval Units Combine With Planes

New Devastating Blows At Sardinia, Sicily, Italy Struck by Allied Plane<

NAVAL SHELLING AXIS ITALIAN BASES   ALLIES CHECK OVER IMMENSE BOOTY IN TUNISIA

Allied Naval, Air Units Pound Bases Off Africa   Sardinia, Sicily and Italy Bombed; Ships Shell Island

Navy Shells Axis Isle in Vediterranean   Allied Naval Power Joins Air Force in Softening Up Path To -iuéonean Vee

MEDITERRANEAN BASES SHELLED   Blows Dealt Sardinia, Sicil) And Italian Mainland   DAY AND NIGHT   Raiders Strike Through Berlin and Into Czechoslavakia; Naval Bases Hit

Mediterranean Bases Blasted   Allied Naval Units, Planes Are Active

Roosevelt Ask: $2,514,538, 000 More for War   Wants $47,342,000 for OWI, $48,170,000 To Relocate Japs

ADAMS COUNTIANS PASS ARMY EXAMS      One: Hundred And Forty  Three More Men Inducted  Into Armed Services Of Country At Harrisburg

81 ADAMS COUNTIANS PASS PHYSICAL TESTS   That Number Sent Out By Board No, 2 Accepted For Service With Armed Forces

MORE ADAMS MEN PASS ARMY TESTS   Forty-Six From Distict No. 2 Inducted — Eighty - Three From District No. 1 Examined Today

German Defense Lines In Russia Crumbling, Reds Drive On Toward Kiev

RED OFFENSIVE ~~ GAINS MOMENTUM   Hitler’s “Eastern Wall” Dream Smashed

Catherine Wright's Prosecutors Learn She Was Convicted of Theft Committed iin Honolulu Day Pearl Harbor Was Bombet

Congressional Forces Are Lining Up For New Showdown Fight on Food Subsidy Program Aimed at Inflation

Veto of Subsidy Ban Predicted   Jones Program Said Backed by F. D. R.

SHOWDOWN IS NEAR ON SUBSIDY BATTLE      Roosevelt. .and Congress. donal Farm Bloc Tangle on Program

Veto Predicted Of Bill To Ban Farm Subsidies   FDR and Congress Facing Showdown

FDR Resists  Far mer Bloc  ye 4   His Veto Hinted on Bil Barre Subsidies

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDY PLAN IS DEVELOPING   Veto Predicted For An; Legislation Banning Payments To Keep  Prices Down

STATE INCOME TAX REDUCED FIFTY PERCENT   Savings To Individuals Does Not Apply To  Corporate Incomes

State Income ‘Tax For 1943  Ordered Reduced By Board   Governor Announces Action of Board of Public Works —No Cut on Corporate Incomes Provided at Session

RY ELV CAEEL) 60 Ra Osa rope by Way of the English Channel.  NAZIS FEAR NORWAY IS ALLIES NEXT GOAL  Military Restrictions Shut Off England Coastal Areas.

European Invasion By Way Of English Channel May Follow Quebec Conference

INVASION PLANS FOR EUROPE TO BE THRESHED OU1   EXPECTED THAT ROOSEVELTCHURCHILL CONFERENCE WILL FIX SCHEDULE FOR  SINGLISH CHANNEL DRIVE.   ard FEAR NORWAY INVASION   Radio Berlin In Obvious Attempt to Scare Allies Off Tells of Powerful German Reinforcements Pouring Into Norway.

Invasion Of Europe By Way Of English Channel Expected To Follow Conference Of Leaders   No Justification For Hopes Of Early End Of War Declares Knox

INVASION ACROSS CHANNEL MAY BE RESULT OF PARLEY   Roosevelt, Churchill .. Likely to Discuss Move, ‘Experts Believe.

AFL Groups Cold to UMW Readmission   Five of Six Resolutions at Convention Opening Oppose Lewis’ Return

Re-Admission Of John Lewis To Be Fought   Many Small Unions Are Prepared To Oppose ’ Acceptance At Annual A. F, Of L. Convention

Small Unions Oppose UMW Reentry AFL   Five ef Six Resolutions Against Lewis’ Group, While Sixth Stipulated Certain Cenditions for Admission

DUTCH SOLDIERS URGED TO HIDE   Government Advises Men To Resist Nazi Edict And Be Unfindable

GERMANS ROUNDING UP DUTCH SOLDIERS   Netherlands Government Calls Upon Unarmed Troops to Resist Internment Decree.

400,000 Dutch Soldiers Face  Nazi Concentration Camps   Told by Exiled Government to Hide Out; Resist New German Decree

Ordered Into Hiding 400,000 Duteh Soldiers Told to Hide From Nazis

Duich Soldiers Urged io Resist   Roundup in Holland Started by Nazis

Scientist Says Super-Gas Will Make Enemy Planes Like ‘Roosting Pigeons’

Build British Ship In Eight Days At Boston   Navy Men Hail  Season Record

FAST NEW ESCORT VESSELS ROLLING DOWN WAYS   Officials Believe They Will Be “Part” Answer To Nazi U-Boat Menace

New Ships To Answer Sub Menace   Many Hundreds of In. vasion Vessels Roll — Down Ways of Nation’: Numercus Shipyards

PROPOSE NEW U.S. TAX PLAN TO CONGRESS   Suggested measure originated by Doughton of North Carolina

SOLON OFFERS NEW TAX PLAN   Levy Based On Rates Of 1941 Suggested By Head Of Committee

North Africa Fighting Now Merged Battle   Axis Forces Face Enemy On Two Sides As Rommel Flees To Tunisia   EIGHTH ARMY MAY ALSO BE IN TUNISIA

Today’s War Commentary  Axis Soft Spot  Italy Military Liability For Nazi

Giraud Guest At Ford Plant   Lewis Resumes Efforts To Win New Wage Pact

Lewis Summons Policy Committee   Gives No Hint of  Reason for Meeting

Workers Desert German Press Sees Crisis  As Italy Talks of Windfall

ITALY TOSTAY TN CONFLICT: REPORT SAYS   Rome Correspondent De. clares Nation Has But One Choice   “HEAVY CRISIS” {5 FACING THE REICH   Berlin Paper Says Country in “Lifeand-Death’’ -Struagle

Axis Alarms Evident in Statements   Nazi Press Warns of Heavy Crisis Now Confronting Country

NAZIS ADMIT "HEAVY CRISIS   German Press Declares Na: tion in “Life and Death” Struggle in East

Axis Face Crisis, Italy In Middle  Rome Morale Hurt By Air Attacks

Germans Admit ‘Heavy Crisis’   Rome Says Italians Must Stay in War

German Press Admits  Reich Faces Big Crisis   Italy May Stay In Conflict In Hope Of Some Windfal Through New Developments, Correspondent Sveculates

ITALY BELIEVED AIDING HER TIME   Waits for New Developments To Help Her Decide; Reports Say Italy Will ‘Continue in the War’

Germany Facing A "Heavy Crisis”’ Nazi Press Says   3! Italy Is Reported as Planning To Remain in the War

Eisenhower Confers With Badoglio   Seek to Make Italian Military Effort More Effective

44 Killed in London Raid   Rescue Workers Continue To Search Debris of Ruined School Building

KNOWN SCHOOL DEATHS IN LONDON IS RAISED TO 43   Many Rescue Workers Toiled Through Night Recovering Bodies.   THREE TEACHERS DEAD   Fifty Others Were Reported Injured in the Bombing Yesterday.

41 SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED IN LONDON BY NAZI RAIDER; RAF GOES OUT FOR REVENGE

LONDON TOLL IN RAID PUT AT 44   30 Children Injured by German Attack

44 Londoners Dead In Raid   Last Debris Is Cleared To: Obtain Bodies Of > Pupils. Teachers.

44 BOMBING VICTIMS   Direct Hit On British School Kills 44, Injures 50

44 KILLED IN LONDON RAID   Three School Teachers, Remainder Children Victim«.

Broken Bodies Of Children Taken From Ruins Of Nazi Military Target

LONDON SCHOOL DEAD REACH 44      Three Teachers Among Viciims of German Bombs, 50 Injured — Raiders Return in Night

TAX PLAN GETS COMMITTEE OK   Group Approves Withholding Tax Of 20 Per Cent

TAX PAYMENT FROM SOURCE ~ 1S ADVOCATED   HOUSE COMMITTEE NOT YET DECIDED ON “FORGIVENESS” FEATURE TO BE RECOMMENDED IN BILL

Pay-As-Go Plan Is Outlined By  House Program   House Committee Agrees On Details Of Payroll Withholding Tax   PROGRAM OF 1942 TAX UNDECIDED

16 KILLED BY NAZI RAIDERS   ATS Girls Are Casualties; Al lied Fighters Resume Daylight Smashes

American Force of Warships Shells Jap Base  Mtn Mabnenly Alw   Air Attack Also Is Made on Nipponese Cruiser

U.S. Surface Force Blasts Japs at Munda   84. Japanese Reportec Killed in Fighting ‘Around Airfield on  Petwinicenal

Enemy Plane Base And Installations Hit on New Georgia  CRUISER, TRANSPORT ATTACKED FROM AIR  Cargo Ship Bombed, Other Vessels Targets In Raid in Aleutians

Ships Bombard Japs on Munda   Other Operations Lidicate U. S. Seeks to Forestall Enemy Move in Pacific

American Force of Warships Shells Jap Base  Air Attack Also Is Made on Nippvonese Cruiser

Middle Solomon Islands Raided by U. S.  Jap Cruiser and Transport Also Battered

JADANESE BASE AT MUNDA IS BOMBED   Daring Foray Made Into Enemy-Dominated leltande

Chinese Capture Four Strong Points  Continue Gains in Yangtze Battle

State Gets 4 Gallons Of Gas, Ban Is Lifted   W. Va. Removed From Restrictions Of Easterr Seaboard Area; Pleasure Driving Permissible Beginning Today

BITTNER MAY GET WLB POST   CIO Leader Viewed As Logical Successor To Kennedy Who Resigned

Allies Flankin German Lines  Volturno Secte   Two Vital Junction And Ten Towns Ta By Allied Soldiers

Allies Threaten Flank North Of Volturno River   Meanwhile Russians Gain in Gateway to the Crimea

Italy Battle At New Peak Of Intensity   Germans Strengthen Defense Lines In Soviet As Russians Cain.   JAPS OPEN NEW DRIVE

Germans Wreck Roads, Bridges On Way to Rome  MacArthur Reports Advances Along Raad tn Madane

ALLIES ADVANCE TO NORTH FROM VOLTURNO LINE   Soviets Move Toward Melitopol Held By Nazis

J. P. MORGAN TAKES TURN FOR WORSE   Associates of Multi-Millionaire Express Grave Fears for His Recovery.

Fortress ‘Southern Comfort’ Ends Colorful Career in ‘Blaze of Glory! Crashes Empty After Rotterdam Raid

Veteran Flying Fortress Down   “Southern.Comfort”. . Crashes, One Killed

deavy Raids On Bizerte and tits On Cargo Liners Made; 12 Enemy Planes Downed

YANKEES BOMB TUNISIA NAZIS   Two Large Cargo Liners In Axis Convoy Hit By U. S. Aces

Wheeler Gives Up Effort To Keep Fathers at Home   But Senator Says Drafting Them Will Cause Moral Letdown

WHEELER alls   Wants Separate Vote Seon On Bill Deferring Fathers

EXEMPTION OF FATHERS BILL IS WITHDRAWN   Wheeler Warns, However, Of Moral Let-Down If Family Heads Are Inducted   Farm Vote Deferred

FDR’S OFFER IGNORED   Repeal Of $25,000 Salary Limit Be. lieved Certain

Salary Limit Repeal Giver Green Light   House Expected To Follow Out  Recommendation

Struggle For Bridgehead Is In Full Swing   Kuban May Start Big Summer Drive

Southerners Condemn The Use Of Rayon Instead Of Cotton In War Tires

MORE RATION ACTION AKEAD   Three All-Purpose Books to Be Printed, Says OW! Booklet.   PROMISE CANNERS SUGAR

Three All-Purpose Ration Books Planned, Says OW:   Dollars-Cents Price Ceilings Expected to Simplify  Price Control — Standardized Wages,  Living Costs Sought

OWI Hints of  New Rationing   3 ‘All-Purpose’ Books to Be Printed

UNIVERSAL RATION BOOK   Three All Purpose -Books Are to Be Printed Seon 

DEATH TAKES WL. PHELPS   YALE AUTHOR, LECTURER DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Dr. Phelps Of Yale, Famous  Author, Dies   Death Follows Stroke At His New Haven Home; Widely Known Throughout U. S.

DR. PHELPS, NOTED. AUTHOR, SUCCUMBS   Dies At Home. tn News .. Haven, Conn, —~-Was_ ‘Editor, Critic

BELOVED ‘BILLY’ PHELPS DIES   Lecturer, Author, Critic One Of Nation’s Leading Educators

WILLIAM L. PHELPS, NOTED TEACHER OF ENGLISH. 1S DEAD   Professor Emeritus of Engtist At Yale Sucoumbs: At oa Ace of 78.

Norway Slugged c. oe   Jugoslay Crews Make Debut in Balkan Air War

RESULTS 6000 IN DAY RAID ON NORTH EUROPE   Slav Crews in Balkan Assault

CREWMEN REPORT EXCELLENT WORK’ PLACES UNKNOWN   Berlin Says Oslo Had An Hour-Long Air Alarm Around Noon,! Gunfire From Far Distant Heard.   AMERICANS ARE FORCED BACK IN SMALL AREA   British, ltalians Are Holding German Invading Army In Severe Fighting On Lero island.

Excellent Results Are Reported By Airmen On Their Return From Daylieht Attack 

CONDITIONS ARE HEIP TO YANKS   Berlin Reports Gunfire Heard in Oslo; Little Opposition ts Met

OBJECTIVES IN AERIAL ASSAULT NOT DISCLOSEL   Elsewhere, Allied Fliers Strike a’ Western Germany as Well as Nazi Fields in Greece

Vital Military Installations of Germans Blasted   Two Fort Formations, One of Liberators Loose Big Bomb Load

Ww. O. Harrison, Chairman County Board, Receive: Report of State Inspector; Says Some Cell Block: and Hall Floor Needs Painting.

GOOD REPORT OM COUNTY JAIL 100   W. O. Harrison, Chairman County Board, Receives Report of State Inspector; Says Some Cell Blocks and Hall Floor Needs Painting.

FOURTH TERM TALK VIEWED AS POLITICS   Senator Brooks Says New Dealers Open Subject, Blame Others.   GUFFEY SPEECH VIEWED “BALLOON’   No Time to Talk of Candidates or Partisanship, Senators Say.

GUFFEY’S STATEMENT BRINGS PROTESTS FROM BOTH SIDES   Republicans and Democrats Both Think This Is No Time For Politics

SENATORS HIT ATH TERM TALK   No Time for Politics, Lawmakers Tell Guffey

GUFFEY SCORED BY PARTY AIDES   Don't Mix Politics, War, Say G. ©. P., Demo  Senators

6 VESSELS MAY HAVEBEENSUNK BY ROVING SUBS      British Bring Sea War to Italy’s Doorstep by Shelling Targets On Nation's Coast   RAILWAY BRIDGE © DESTROYED BY SUB   Installations Also Target Of Surfaced U-Boat; Three-Way Aerial Attack Presaged ~

British Subs Destroy 3 Supply Ships Shell Italy   Railway Bridge’  And Electric Installations Are Considerably Damarec

British Subs Sink 3 Axis Supply Ships   Probably Have Destroyed Three Others and! Have Shelled Targets on the Southern Coast of Italy, Admiralty Announces.

BRITISH SUBMARINES SINK 3 ENEMY SHIPS   Bring Sea War to Italy’s Doorstep

Sub Shells Italian City   British Boats Sink Three More Vessels ‘In Mediterranean

Total Of Six Axis Vessels  Probably Lost   British Subs Hit Blows, Then Shelf Italian Coast

TREATED POTATO SEED GIVES MAXIMUM YIELD   County Extension Director Mo ¢. Wangsness Points Gut Results of This Treatment

MILK SHORTAGE WARNING GIVEN   Federation Says Only Price Increase Can Avert Drastic Supply Cut

a ee  ASK PRICE HIKE   Milk Producers Warn U. S Will Face Shortage

CEILINGS HIGHER, PATRONS 10 SAVE   Meats May Range Up To 1¢ Per Cent More But Overcome Black Market.

MEAT CEILINGS -TOBRING SAVING   OPA Cites Black Market Boosted Prices Since March of 1942

FARMERS MEET AT HARRISBURG   Wartime. Food Production’ Theme of Three. Dav Gathering.

COUNTY LAGS IN BOND BUYING   Money In Banks But 8411] We Won't Buy

County Falling Down In Drive   Only 46% of Quota Has Been Reached

Less Than Half Of Quota Raised To Date; Chairman Zeug Issues Plea

~INFILLING ITS BOND QUOTA   R, E. Larimer, Bond Chair. man, Urges Investment Of All Available Cash,   69% OF QUOTA MET   Third War Loan Drive Wil Close on September 30.

Price Controls On Live Cattle   Beef-Producing Animals Under Floors, Ceilings

SE EE TE a RU ENS eo EE En ee ee er eT nr a  NEW PRICE RANGE SCHEDULE AFFECTS ALL LIVE CATTLE   “Floors” and “Ceilings” Provided Under New : Schedule of Prices Effec tive Tomorrow

Price Ranges For Cattle   Floors, Ceilings For Live Cattle in Effect Wednesday

Treaties Are Handicap To Air Freedom   Complications Certain No Matter How You Look At It

BLAST DESTROYS COAST GUARD SHIP   Only ‘Two Of Crew Of 6€ Escape In Mystery Blast On U. S. Ship

iberation of Rome, Vatican Aim of Allies   oosevelt Pledges Holy City Liberated and Snored Damage

WILL BE FREED   Allies to Do Everything Possible to Preserve  Shrines, FDR Says

FDR Promises. Liberation for Rome and Vatican  Other Source 's      Other Sources Say Badoglio Government -Will Be Recognized 

Elements of Crusade in Driving Out Nazis  Roosevelt Pledves Allied Arms Will Liberate sii Vatican

FDR Says Allies To Free Rome And Pope  Avers Aspect Of Holy War Taking Shape

PLEDGE IS MADE OF ROME'S LIBERATION   President Says Everything Will be Done to Pre* vent Damaae

FDR. PROMISES “TO LIBERATE POPE   HOPES SHRINES WILL BE SPARED AS ALIJES MOVE ON ITALIAN CAPITAL,

President Promises Allied Arms Will Liberate Rome and Vatican, Try to Prevent Damage to Shrines

ALLIES PROMISE TO LIBERATE ROME   Roosevelt Says Allied Arms Will Act To Prevent Destruction Of Rome and Vatican.

FDR Says Rome Next For: Allies   Carnpaign Takes On Asnect Of Crusade’

FDR Becomes Crusader: President Promises Allied Arms Will Free Rome, Vatican and Pope

MEMBERS OF U. §  ARMED FORCES IN  ENGLAND CELEBRATE UNITY OF TWO GREAT ‘  TIONS THANKSGIVING NINNER VEVNOATE TonA

ARMED FORGES IN ENGLAND CELEBRATE  UNITY OF TWO GREAT NA. TIONS THANKSGIVING DINNER KEYNOTE TODAY

SABOTEURS ARRESTED   15 Men And One Woman Taken By Agents In Sicily

Benes Tells  Congress Czech:  Will Rise Again War Labor Board Gets Authority From Byrnes  To Adjust Wages To Meet Inequalities

Says Victory Forecasts Big Allied Blows   Stimson and Hull Declare Tunisian Campaign Only Forerunner of Others Against Enemy

ATHENS AREA AND NAPLES BLASTED ~ BY US. BRITAIN   Bulgaria Stricken With At: tack Jitters As Deadline Appears Near.

FIELDS NEAR ATHENS GIVEN U.S, BLASTING   Fire and Destruction Spread Through Two Key Centers In Kast.

LEAFLETS ARE ALSO DROPPED OVER ATHENS   British Bombers Hurl Block - Busters On Naples

U.S. Bombers Hit Airports Near Athens   Eastern Mediterranean Invasion Route Is Smashed by U. S., British

U.S. Bombers Smash Key Airfields Outside Greek Capital      Total of 15 Enemy Planes Shot Down During Attack

WEDDED 50 YEARS   Well Known Insurance Man Comes to Plymouth Co.

WEDDED 50 YEARS   Well Known Insurance Man Comes to Plymouth Co. In 18373

ASKS STUDY OF  MAN POWER RESOURCES   Demand Results From Fact 1,500,000 Dads May Be Drafted

ELECTIONS ofOW b.0.P. STRENGTH   Republicans Base 1944 Hopes On Voting Trend In Off-Year Elections

GOP TRENDS ARE SEEN IN’ STATE ELECTIONS TUES   ®BENATOR HANLEY WAS AN EASY WINNER OVER WILLIAM HASKELL FOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.   KENTUCKY RESULTS REPORTED CLOSE   Ex-Ambassador Bullitt Defeated for Mayor of Philadelphia — Walter Edge Wins Race for Mayor at Newark, N, J.

’ SLAYER GOES ON TRIAL   Dining Car Cook Faces Jury Fo Naval Wife's Murder

May Have New Tax Pav Plan   Hope for Quick Action On Pay-as-you-earn Plan for Collecting 1943 Income Taxes

War Finance Committee to  Handle Sales   Streamlined Plan For War Bond Sale: Organization Is Announced Today

IND AND THE WAR SAVINGS STAFF   Eugene C. Pulliam Will - Head New War Finance : Committee.      STATE CHAIRMEN ANNOUNCED TODAY   New Setup Meets the Need for a Unified Organization.

HEAD-ON CRASH HURTS QUARTET   Julian Baldwin in Hospital: Three Relyea Children Cut and Bruised

State Glad To See August Go   Hottest, Driest August Since 1936 Left Some Showers

Southern Area Showers Are fo Ease Off He’   Weat ae her Mr No  \: Showers wy? no n Cer. _  e <% i ’  State to  ~ cd

Stale Glad To        Hottest, Driest August Since 1936 Left Some Showers

NAZIS STRENGTHEN DODECANESE ISLANDS   Fortify Isles Against Alliec Invasion of Balkans

More Germans To Dodecanese Isles   FRESH TROOPS SENT TO MEDITERRANEAN AREA

Tight Rein In Balkans    Axis Takes Steps To Strengthen Defenses Against Invasion

Nazis Move More Troops   Sent to Dudecanese Islands to Meet Any Allied Invasion

Report Fresh German Troops Sent To Dodecanese Islands To Block Attack On Balkans   Berlin Claims Yugoslay And Greek Guerrilla Fétces Being Wiped Out

AXIS SENDS FRESH TROOPS TO ISLANDS   Nazis Claim To Have Wiped Out Mihailovic’s ~ Forces

Nazis Claim  Balkans Quiet   Say Guerrillas Subdued— Yugoslavs, Greeks Deny It

AXIS BOLSTERS BALKAN DEFENSE   Guerrillas of Yugoslavia and Greece Admittedly Cause Hitler Concern

Germans Send Fresh Troops To The Dodecanese Islands Which Are Raiding Points

FRESH GERMA TROOPS GUARD ISLAND CHAIN  e Activity o “Welicans Is Reported Todav

NAZIS SEND MORE TROOPS INTO BALKANS   Reinforce Dodecanese Islands and Report LargeScale Execution of Yugoslav and Greek Guerrilla Bands.

German Troops Sent To Island  Bolster Forces To  Rats al oda temic ma cea a te ucuce rma

German Radio Says Allied Invasion Balked. ...  Nazis Dispatch Fresh Units To Dodecanese

Troops Speeded To Invasion Point   Germans Will Take No Chances on Landing Attempt in Balkans, Send Fresh Men to Isles

Germans Reported To Be Sending Fresh Troops To Dodecanese Islands As Invasion Precaution

Kiska Next Step, Attu Conquest Waits Weathe   Tokyo Radio Reports Steady Stream American Reinforcements Landing — Navy Denies Jap Charge Poison Gas- Used   Saye One Force Annihilated

NEW AMERICAN FORCES LANDED ON ATTU ISLE   Steady Stream of Yank Reinforcements Reported By Japs   EFFECT TWO LANDINGS   Official Washington Still Silent On Progress of Battle

Heavy Fogs Impede U.S. Attu Attack   Army Expects Cleanup ir One Full Day of Good Weather

Kiska Likely Next Objective Of U.S. Forces   Army Officers Predict Japs Will Be Swept From Base At Attu

Japs Sink U. S. Destroyer, Hit Transport Ship At New Britain   Marine Tanks Runible Toward Cape Gloucester Airport   Rabaul Must Be Held At All Cost, Japs Told Rw ASMOMTATERN Perea

Japs Jittery About Rabaul  Papers Want It Held,  a ea  Vt  « PA.

Marines Capture Hill, Rush Tanks At Jap Air-Strips   Americans Hold Cape Posts, Hit Back At Jap Counter-Attacks

NoMore Sleer For Berliners   British Air Raids Make Night Horror For Nazi Citizens

RAF HITS BERL AND RUHR VALLEY   21 Bombers Lost Over Berlin and 12 On Ruhr Valley Raid

BERLIN, RUHR RAIDED AT LOSS OF 33 BOMBERS   Heavy Damage Reporied on Nazi Capital in Second British Raic in Three Days   STEEL CENTER HIT   Rotterdam and Abbeville Also Strafed—Smoke Still Rises from St. Nazaire

Berlin Writer Sees Invasion Beginning  Reaction of Nazi  Spokesman Given Afeanr Briaich Baia

R.A. F. Loses 33 Planes In Raid On Reich   British Bombers Pound Berlin For Second Time In Three Nights.   HIT CITY OF BOCHUM

British Lose 33  Planes in Raids   RAF Blasts Berlin and Ruhr War Plants in l6th Raid  on Capital.

Heavy Raids Cost The RAF 33 Bombers   Berlin, War Plants In The Ruhr Are Under Attack

EXPECT AN INVASION   Nazis Think Raid on Berlin Is Forerunner of An Attack

RAF Atiacks Berlin Again; Raids Ruhr   53 Bombers Are Lost in New Sweep Against German Centers   [ONE OF GREATEST LOSS OF PLANES   More Bombers Used or Nazi Defenses Have. Been Strenethened

RAF ATTACKS BERLIN AGAIN   War Plants in Ruhr Valley Also Pounded in Raids

Royal Air Force Reports Loss Of 21 Planes In Second Attack On German Capital In Three Nights— Dozen Other Craft Fail To Return From Assault On Industrial Valley—Nazis Strike Back At England With Light Bombing Of Coastal Town

R. A. F. Attacks Berlin, Plants Of Ruhr Valley   British Fliers Inflict  Damage on Capital  Of Hitler’s Germany; Lose 33 Bombers

33 Bombers Said Lost In Assault   Heavy Damage Inflicted In British Fliers’ 60th Raid On Capital Of Germany

JS INFLICTED ON CAPITAL   Attack Is Second On Cit) In Three Nights   LOSSES HIGHEST   For Single Night's Work In Six Months: Nazis Strike Back Lightly 

REICH CAPITAL HEAVILY DAMAGED   Iron, Steel, Coal Center Hit, British Lose 33 Bombers in Attacks

BRITISH BOMB: BERLIN AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT   Sixtieth Raid On German Capital Costs ® A F. 33 Planes

REICH CAPITAL PUNISHED; 21 BOMBERS LOST   Twelve Others Are Missing From Attack On Ger-  _many’s Iron, Steel, Coal Center   SECOND COSTLIEST ATTACK ON BERLIN   Either Much Larger Force Than Usual Is Used Or Defense of Metropolis Is Strengthened

BERLIN AGAIN BLISTED WT SUPER BOMBS   RAF Reports 21 Bombers Lost in New Raid, and 12 in Ruhr Attacks.   WAR PLANTS DAMAGED IN FLIGHTS OVER RUHR

Raids On Capital And Ruhr Valley Cost 33 Planes   Heavy RAF Losses Indicate Attacks Made By Large Fleets Of Bombers

RAF Loses 33 Planes In Raid On Germany   Heavy Damage, ‘However, Is Inflicted On Berlin _ And Ruhr Industrial Region. In. Mass Aerial Attack: Nazis Bomb English Coast.

Berlin And Ruhr Blasted By RAF: 35 Bombers Los   Nazi Capitol Is Raidec Second Time Ir 3 Nights, Damage Is Heavy

Heavy Damage Inflicted Despite Loss of 33 Bombers, Says Air Ministry

R. A. F. Loses 33 Bombers In Raids On Reich   Heavy New Damage T: Berlin; War Plants fh  Ruhr Hammered.

British Admit Loss of 33 Raiding Craft   Berlin and Ruhr Valley Hard Hit In New Assaults

33 Planes Lost In Night Attacks  21 Listed As Missing After Capital Raid

NAZI CAPITAL HIT 2ND TIME IN 3 NIGHTS   City Under Air Alert For Two Hours; British List 33 Planes Lost   RETALIATION IS WEAK   Daylight Raiders Smash A’ Enemy Bases In Holland And France

RAF Attacks Berlin, Ruhr War Plants   33 Bombers Fai! To Return— Report Attack Successful

Raids on Nazis Cost British 33 Bombers   Twenty-one Craft Missing From New and DeStructive Assault on Berlin, and 12 Fail to Return From Sweep Over the Ruhr.

Major Air Raids Smash Berlin, ‘Ruhr District; R.A.F. Loses 33 Bombers; Damage Is Severe

RAF Hits Berlin For Second Time In Three Nights  33 Bombers Lost

RAF Raids Berlin And Ruhr Valley   33 Bombers Lost During Activity

Another Raid Blasts Berlin   RAF Losses Are Heavier As 33 Planes Go Down

THE RAF ATTACKED — BERLIN, PLANTS IN: THE RUHR VALLEY   ‘Swept Over the Nazi Capital for Second Time in Three Nights.   33 BOMBERS WERE LOST      Heavy Damage Was Inflicted by the British Flyers, It Is Said.

RAF Airmen Raid Ruhr Valley War Industries, Berlin With Loss Of Thirty-Three Bombers

Berlin and Ruhr Valley — ‘Blasted in New BAF Baid   German Reattion to Berlin Bombing ‘Is That Raids Invasion Starter‘

R. A. F. loses 30 planes in  slant sweep   Berlin and war plants  in Ruhr attack targets

Nazi Capital Hit Second Time In Three Nights - - Expected Reprisal on London Fails But Coast Town Bombed

Mass Raids On Berlin, Ruhr Plants Rock Huns   Reds Slog Closer To Smolensk

33 PLANES ARE LOST IN RAIDS AGAINST NAZIS   British State Reports Show Raid on German Capital Successful

33 BOMBERS LOST BY RAT IN NIGHT RAID ON GERMANY   German Capital and Wa: Plants In Ruhr Valle; Suffer Heavy Damage Berlin’s Raid Is Second ly Three Nights.

RAF LOSSES HEAVY INANOTHER RAID ~ TO NAZI CAPITAL   21 Bombers Fail to Complete Trip With 12 More Lost Over Ruhr, War Plants Are Tarnets.   BOCHUM, IMPORTANT IRON CENTER, IS HIT   German Broadcast Says Brit: ish Unloaded Aimlessl Without Trying to Hit Mil itary Objectives.

1 NICHT RAND   Also Attacks Ruhr Industrial Region Losing 21 Bombers Over German  - Capital and 12 in Ruhr.

HEAVY DAMAGE ANNOUNCED: 33 BOMBERS LOST   Second Raid In Three Days On Nazi Capital

BERLIN POUNDED AGAIN BY RAF’S BOMBER FORCES   Second Heaviest Raid on German Capital Costs Britain 21 Planes

Berlin And Ruhr Valley Raided Agair By The RAF   Heavy Attacks Made Last Night And 30 Bombers Are Lest, Ale Ministry Save

BRITISH LOSE 33 BOMBERS IN LATEST ATTACK   Second Time in Three Night: Nazi Capital Blasted, Heavy Damage

Berlin Attacked Second Time In Three Nights; _ Rhur Area Also Bombed

Second Raid on Berlin Staged In Three Nights   Ruhr Valley Also Hit; British Lose 33 Planes

RUHR VALLEY HARD HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   Thirty - Three Warplanes Fail to Return From British Assault on The Continent   BERLIN AGAIN DAMAGED

BUMBS CRASH ON BERLIN   R. A. F. ROCKS GERMAN CAPITAL, RUHR VALLEY

Berlin Suffers Big Damage in RAF Raid During Last Night   War Plants in Valley of Ruhr Also Bombed by Big British Force

12 OTHERS FAIL   Assault On Capital Come: After Daylight Pounding Of Rotterdam; Great Sub Base Charred

Texas Labor Law Is Held To Be. Partly Invalid  Three Sections Said by Mann te Violate ‘

3 Ministers Quit Cabinet _ In Bulgari   Leftists Force Premier Bozilov and 2 Others Out, Turks Report

Musicians Turn Down Appeal of Six Companies  Decca Only Firm te Receive Contract bagtal th t=... ‘ie

Soviet Forces Press Advance Past Kharkov   Russians Beyond Their High-Water Mark Of Winter Campaiaqn

Reds Take Zenkov In  Great Push   Pass High Mark Of Winter Drive

—RUSSTA—  AEDS AREAD OF WINTER Success   Zenkov, 85 Miles Northwest Of Kharkov, Falls To Russians -

SOVIET ARMY PASSES PEAK IN OFFENSIVE   Red Army Troops Push On Toward Dnieper, Capturing Zenkov

PUSH STEADILY AHEAD ON WIDENING FRONT   Take Zenkov, 85 Miles Northwest of Kharkov and 60 Nearby Villages

Russians Reach ‘Limit Of Winter . Drive On Nazis   Germans Fail To-Halt Red . Surge Toward Dnieper And © Lower . Donets

RED ARMY TROOPS CONTINUE ADVANCE IN KHARKOV SECTOR  SAVAGE GERMAN COUNT ERATTACKS FAILED TO _ HALT - RUSSIAN DRIVE

‘SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE AHEAD: ZENKOV TAKEN IN PUSH 85 MILES NORTHWEST OF KHARKOV

REDS 85 MILES NORTHWEST OF KHARKGY TODAY   Recapture 61 More Towns, Repel Several Nazi Counterattacks

Soviets Crushing Nazis Back U pon Dnieper River Bend; Drive On  Poltava. Lozovava

Pacific War ls Surveyed   ‘Optimistic’ Picture Painted For Leaders

Roosevelt Confers  With Council  On World Affairs Situation Is Said  Bright Although Plans Are Secret

WAR’ PICTURE {f HELD OPTIMISTIC   Roosevelt, Churchill, %ther High Officials Survey Conflict With Pacific War Council Members

Roosevelt, Churchill and Members Of Council Survey War Situation

Picture Looks ‘Optimistic’  Roosevelt. Churchill Discuss Pacifie War in Council Session

New Wasp Is Launched At Quincy Yard   Sons Of Navy Heroes Attend

NAZIS SPECULATE BALKANS WILL BE INVADED BY ALLIES      British 9th. And 10th Anc U.S. 7th Armies Source ' Of Much Worry  To Germans

NAZIS SAY DRIVE THROUGH BALKANS JS COMING SOON   British Ninth and Tenth Armles Believed Poised for Advanoe.

Allied Invasion of Balkans May Hit Jugoslavia, Albania Says Nazi Rumors

Westex Crude To Flow Into The ‘Bie Inch’   80,000-Barrel Purchase In Area Disclosed By Jester

COLONEL FACES COURT MARTIAL   Former Selfridge Field Commander To Be Tried For Shooting Negro

ADDITIONAL RELICE PLEDGED TAXPAYERS   Small Paying Group To Get Further Abatement

Task Ended by  Tax Conferees   Additional Relief Js Recommended by Group for Nation's Smaller Payers

DISAGREE OVER. TAX AGREEMENT   Conferees Meet To Decide What They Decided About Pay-Go.

MAKE CHANGES INPAY-AS-C0   _ Conferees Complete Work on Proposals

Conferees On Tax Bill Get It Clarified  Pay-As‘Go Measure   Pay-AsGo Measure Action Expected In  The Next Week

Conferees Map Defails On Tax Abatement Bill  Forgiveness Won't Include $50 Plus  FF Por Cant   New Tax Bill Boiled Down To “Puzzle-As-You-Go” Plan

New Pay-Go Tax Bill Again Held Up By Deadlock   Congress Conferees Are Unable To Agree On Details

Lighten Tax On Certain Taxpayers   Special Rule Drawn For Bills Between $58 and $66.67

FAVOR FURTHER RELIEF ON TAX   Conferees Recommend Additional Relief For Smaller Taxpayers.

Polishing Of Pay-As- You- (ro Bill Continues   Conferees Decide Against $50 Deduction Plus 75% Abatement. 

Conferees: Agree on. Agreement   “Taxpayers Will” Not Get Deduction And :- Abatement

Solons Ask Shift  in Taxes   CONGRESS CONFEREES URGE ADDED RELIEF FOR SMALL LEVY PAYERS

Can't Add $50 Deduction To Tax Abatement   Conferees Settle Dispute Over Pay-As-YouGo Compromise.

TAX COMMITTEES IRONING OUT DIFFERENCES   Have Decided Taxpaycrs Shouldn’t Be Given $50 ‘Deductions in Addition to (75 Pct. Abatement.

DISPUTE OVER TAX PROPOSAL 1S UNSETTLED   Conferees Disagree As to Details of What They Had Decided Upon At Previous Meetings   NEW SESSION CALLED

 An Extra $50  Deduction On  bTax Abatement   Senate and House Conferees Have to Meet Again, Clear Up Point

CONGRESSIONAL CONFEREES RECOMMEND MORE RELIEF FOR SMALL TAXPAYERS.

TAXATION.  Kink In Pay-Go Muddle   . - » Solons Disagree On Compromise Meaning

Small Taxpayer , May Get Relief  Position Clarified On  Abatement Proposal

Debate Point On Tax Issue   Senate-House Conferees Disagree On Fifty Dellar Reduction.

Solons Confused On Who Granted What In Pay-Go   Extra $50 Tax Allowance Would Mean Abatement

No Added $50 Deduction In  Abatement Bill   Conferees Iron Out This Feature of Plan Atter Disagreement

Call Special  Tax Session   Conferees Disagree Over Abatement Clause; Lead. ers Predict Passage

TAX COMMITTEE AGREES ON NEW DEDUCTION PLAN   Not to Grant $50 Cut in Addition to 75 Percent Abatement

Tax Group Disagrees Agreement   Call Special Session to Straighten Each. Other Out

Relief Urged for Small Taxpayers   Conferees Stick to. . Original Abatement Plan, Add ‘Provision:

Polishing Of Pay-As-You-Go Bill Continues.   Conferees: Decide - Against 350" Dédiiction Plus 75% Abatement.

$50 ‘Bonus’ . Deduction in Taxes Vetoed   Conferees Decide to Keep Abatement at 75 Per Cent

TAX CONFEREES NOW DISAGREE ON COMPROMISE   SPECIAL SESSION CALLED TO IRON OUT TAX ABATEMENT

‘ote For ingle Tax  eduction         Solous Necid Didn't Mean nine €30 Forvivencss

Opposition Is Feeble; Losses  To Alles Low   Naples Is Attacked Japs Hurled Back By Chinese Nea: Chungking   FRENCH UNIFIED   Russians Shoot Down 456 Nazi Planes In Week; Action  Slower  panes org

FORTRESSES JAR NAPLES ANEWIN SWEEPING RAIDS   Sardinia And  PAntelleria Also Bombed—5 Axis U-Boats Sunk

‘GREAT DAMAGE’ IS REPORTED AT INVASION DOORS   Nables and Foggia Air Base Bear Brunt of Smashing Attack by Americans   NAZIS REVIVE IN RUSSIA   Furious Offense Against German War Factories Maintained by RAF

BOMBARDMENT PAVES PATH FOR LANDING   Tokyo Is Gloomy Over Outcome In Aleutians

Soldiers Storm Ashore In Force Under Protection Of Ships’ Guns. Campaign For Bomber Base To Bomb Japs “‘Going Satisfactory’ Says Knox.

RYT DECIDES TO THROW LOT WITH GERMANY   Soviet Embassy Declareg Reds Have No Land Aims In Europe   ST. NAZAIRE HIT BY RAP   Round-the-Clock ~- Bombings Seen As Paving Way For Invasion

Five Raids n Japanese  By U.S. Navy   Cargo ship loaded with ammunition destroyed  off Shortland Island

Teano Stormed  By U.S. Force   Town Overlooking Nazi ‘Line Falls; Raids. Are Made On France —

Chile Near Open Break With Axis   Senate Approves President's Decision

CHILEAN SENATE VOTES 30 10 10, TO AXIS BREAE   President Rios To Broadcast To Nation and Relate In ternational Situation of Coimmtry.   ARGENTINA IS ONLY ONE NOW FRIENDL'   Weeks of Wrangling Are Ended, Action !s Generally Approved When Vote ts Announced,

JAPS URGED TO BOOST OUTPUT   Tokyo Radio Reports Hivohito Is Worried

He’s Worried!   Hirohito Concerned Over Decrease In Japanese War Production

Emperor Of Japan Makes Radio Appeal   Hirohito Concerned By Slump in War Efforts Of Japanese

 Wake Island Is  Attacked By  Naval Task Force  No Details Of Raid Given

More Attacks dre Foreseen   ts Second Time Navy Has Bombarded Islanc

Carrier Task Force Pounds Base Positions   Another Lightning Naval Blow Helps Brew Offensive In Pacific; Withhold Details Until Fleet Clears Dangerous Waters.

Giraud’s Future Seen Uncertain   Committee May Not A eeoent His Terme

ADVANGE ON TWO STRONGHCLDS IN S. W. PAGLFIC   Approach Salamaua, and March on Munda Base

Allies Push Toward Komiatum   American Forces  Are Only a Few Varde fram Munda

Yanks Capture Mubo, on Way To Salamaua  950 Jap Troops: Are Wiped Out * In-Assault

AUTO-TRUCK CRASH FATAL TO ONE; 12 SUFFER INJURIES   Camp Luna Truck. and Civilian’s Car in Fatal Crash East of Springer

U.S. Hits Jap Base At Munda   Attacks Continue As Enemy Marshals Big Naval Armada.

Jap Munda Base Bombed, Fired.   Big Jap Convoy Moving Toward New Guinea Sighted

JAM, JELLY MAKERS GET MORE SUGAR   Allotment Boosted 40 Per Cent By OPA to Encourace Bread Eating

LAST DITCH STAND, NOY AXIS ‘DUNKIRK’ iS ROMMEL’S ORDER      Believe Hitler Has Ordered Another “Stalingrad” To Delay Allied  Invasion

Rommel May Try Tunisian “Stalingrad”  Axis Stand In Africa F oreseen

Nazi Marshal May Attempt ‘Stalingrad’   New Developments Indicate Hitler Has Altered Plans

ROMMEL PLANS FINISH BATTLE   No 'Dunkirk' Looms With Ships Saved to Hit  Invasion Fleet

Developments in Tunisia Indicate Hitler Has Ordered Rommel to Attempt “Sta linerad’” Stand Avainst Allies

Pitched Battle With French Patriots Near   Vichy Guards Closing In on Guerrillas in Mountains With Backs to Swise Frontier

Report French Guards Closing In On Patriots In Haute-Savoie Area

French Guard Closes In on Rebel Band   Fight to Finish Expected at Any Moment in Mountains

FRENCH GUARDS HUNT PATRIOTS   Guerrillas Surrounded in Mountainous Sector Near Lake Geneva

JAPS SAY THEY _ SANK U. S. SHIPS   Tokyo Reports 15 Vessels Hit Wednesday Including Warships:  CLAIM 37 PLANES DOWNED SAME DAY

Tokyo Claim Of Victory Unconfirmed   Version of Sea Victory Sharply Conflicts With U. S$. Communique   FAR PACIFIC ACTIVITIES

JAPS SAY ALLIED SHIPS ATTACKED   Claims Far Apart From Navy Reports On Skirmish

JAPANESE CLAIM VICTORY AT SEA   But Nips’ Version of Solomons Battle Conflicts With Navy Reports

TOKYO CLAIMS VICTORY.IN BIG NAVAL BATTLE   Report Jap Air Force Sinks or Damages 15 American Vessels

JAPS CLAIM 37 ALLIED PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Assert Nipponese Air Forces Sink 15 Allied Warships in Solomons ___....

TOKYO GLAM HARP VIGTORY  Ut SULOMONG   15 Warships And Transports Sunk, Damaged In Fight Japanese Declare

Japan Boasts: Battle Victory   Claims 15 Ships, 47 Allied Planes Hit

TOKYO CLAIMS 15 ALLIED SHIPS SUNK   ‘Or Damaged And 37 Planes Shot Down in Attack on Allied Fleet North of Guadalcanal Wednesday

Japs Claim Air, Ship Victory  Stary Conflicte   Story Conflicts With U. S. Report Of Solomons Fiqht

TOKYO CLAIMS 15 WARSHIPS, OTHERS SUNK   Reports 37 Allied Planes “Sho! ‘Down Off Guadalcanal -— Re. versed U. 3. Report

Tokyo Claims Of 15 Allied Vessels Sunk Or Damaged Off Solomons Unconfirmed In Other Quarter:

Japanese Make Big Claims While Allied Airmen Press Assaults On Many Bases

Tokio Claim of Air-Sea Battle Opposite of U.S.   Japs Report 15 Ships Hit and 37 Planes Shot Down

Party Demands New Agency to Control Food   Republicans Meet To Draft Program For Peace Stand

Home Front Committee De mands Government Food Contro} Agency.   TAFT HEADS COMMITTEE

REPUBLICANS ta “NEW DEAL” ~ “ERCPISM?   The* ‘Home: Fr ont. Committee ‘Demands: Agencies For--Full.;Power. Over “Pood, lis’ Production      SENATOR“ TAFTé:

GOP COMMITTEE DEMANDS SINGLE AGENCY ON FOOL   Group Headed by Taft, In cluding Bricker and Dewey, Scores New Deal

G.0,P, ASKS FOOD CONTRO!   Committee Demanding Govt. Agency Over Production, Distribution, Process of Food.

Raise Cry © For Single Food Agency   GOP Hottie Front Comities. Warns: Nation: Serious. Shortage  a er Present Setup::.

AGENCY WITH FOOD CONTROL POWERS DEMANDED BY GOP   Republican Group Scores New  Deal’s “Instruments of Fas‘cism”—Seeks Board to Control Production, Distribution. Prices

GOP Committee Demands Agency to 4 Control Food Output, Sale, Prices ;

G. O. P. Indicts New Deal’s  Instruments Of Fascism   Finds Government Hampers Production Of Food—For Better Distribution —  Bureaucrats Rapped

Super-Agency is Demanded.   Republic? AgK Ore To Rule Production, Distribution, Price

New Deal Rapped  As Fascism  By Republicans G.O.P. Demands  Agency to Rule Production

REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES DRAFT POLICIES   Tait Committee, With Dewey as Member, Proposes Parity for Farmers, Less Bureaucracy

G.0.P. PARLEY INDICTS FOR'S FOOD PROGRAM   Increased Production and Better Distribution Demanded

RAF Again Attacks French Coast After Long Rest  Nazis Strike England And Cause Damage In Residence District

RAF HAMMERS NAZI SHIPPING   Minesweepers Are Set On Fire, English Coast Hit

FACE WATER SHORTAGE,   Heavy Rains Are Needed to Fill Reservoir at Oklahoma City 

PARKING METER PLEA 13 HEARD THIS AFTERNOON   Citizens Ask Temporary Order To Restrain Op eration Of Meters

HEAR ARGUMENTS IN METER CASE   Judge Harrison To Hear Final Arguments This Afternoon

MARVIN JONES WILL REPLACE CHESTER DAVIS   War Food Official Splits With FDR, Resigns Job

JChester C. Davis Quits As Head Of War Food Program   Shorp Differences With President On How Food Prices And Inflation Should Be Held Dawn Are Criven Ac Hic Reacon For Ovittine

ALLIES GAIN IN SALAMAUA DRIVE   MACARTHURMEN NOW WITHIN A MILE OF NIPPONESE AIRFIELD

Yanks Near  Salamaua   Only Mile Away, Says MacArthur in Report; Jap Airdromes Bombed

WILBERT CONTENDS HE'S NOT MURDEREE   Claims He Has Friends Who Will Prove That He was in  Kokomo

‘HIMMLER'S NEW DUTIES ‘INDICATE ANYTHING BUT ‘SIGN OF NAZI STRENGTH

Rise of Himmler to Power Makes Clear for World True Nature of Nazi Germany, Lochner Asserts -

Senate Would Make  Agency for  Civilian Supplies Approved Bill Favars   Body to Act on Behalf of Home Front

Civilian Supply Board Planned   Senate Approves Bill to Create Office: GOP's Protest Move

VOTE CIVILIAN SUPPLY BILL   Senators Pass Measure to Create Powerful New Federal Agency

CIVILIAN SUPPLY UNIT APPROVED   Legislation Opposed By Chairman Of WPB Goes To House

Patterson Denies  Jeffers’ Charges   Undersecretary Of War   Lambasts Director Of  Rubber Program

‘No Loafing’ --Patterson —   Undersecretary of War ‘Says There Is No Basis For Jeffers’ Statement

Russian Prisoners Conscripted By Nazi Captors  For Active Service In Campaigns In Balkan States

Russian Prisoners Conscripted By Nazi Captors  For Active Service In Campaigns

TIPION oULOIER A PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY   ‘Ralph McCa’1 n, Listed a3 Missing Since Feb. 2, Is Alive.   WIFE GETS TELEGRAM   McCain Was Captured bj German Africa Corps Last Spring.

TIPTON oOLOIER “A PRISONER OF ~ WAR IN GERMANY   Ralph McCa‘n, Listed as - Missing Since Feb. 2, — - Ts Alive. ,   WIFE GETS TELEGRAM   McCain. Was Captured: by German Africa Corps Last. Spring.

ond Pearl Harbor Attack Predicted Most Anytime By Large Japanese Force

TRADE DUROVO FOR BELGOROD   Germans Lose Rail Station But Capture Kharkov Battle Area City In South

RUSSIANS GAIN AGAINST NAZI TROOPS IN NORTH; HOLD IN SOUTH   Red Army Captures Many _ More Inhabited Places On Central Front. 

American, British Forces Sweep Past Mt. Ema Against Stiff Fighting; Fleeing Nazis Abandon Fauipment

Terrific Punishment Gevmans Are Taking Described as “Torture” by  Rerlin Souree   BOMBED, SHELLED AT RETREAT POINT   Meanwhile, Allies Capture All of Mt. Etna Line To Move Within 34 Miles Evacuation Port

Ring of Fire Drawn Around Messina  by Allied Forces   Dazed German Troops Begin Wholesale Evacuation From Sicily for  Stand in Italy; Stiff Resistance Met

German lroops In Wild Flight Across Straif   Fall of Sicily Is Only A Matter of Days; Nazi Lose Heavily in Their  - Evacuation Efforts

Allies Draw Ring Around Germans Seeking Escape From. Sicily To Mainland

Germans Run In Chaos From Sicily   Wholesale Retreat Finds Foe Suffering Blows From Land, Sea and Air; Escape Hopes Diminish; Cities Fall

NAZIS FLEEING Thin RING OF FRE TD TALI   Troops Evacuating Sicil} Are Bombed and Strafed . by Allied Forces.   ALLIED TROOPS ONLY 34 MILES FROM MESSINA

Germans Likely To Save Bulk Of  Sicilian Forces   Allied Planes, Artillery Torture Enemy Fleeing Across Messina Strait Into Italy; Five Towns Fall To Allies

Air and Naval Forces Pound Dazed Enemy Trying to Get Out   Land Forces Move Up Fast Against Fierce Rearguard Action; Most Germans May Get to Mainland But Avenging Warplanes Pursue Them After They Reach Italy

Ring Tightens On Nazis In Sicily —   Warships, Planes Lash Escape Port

AIR AND SEA FORCES BLAST MESSINA AREA   Batter Dazed Germans Rushing Withdrawal From Sicily  SHIPS SMASHED  Allies Seize Randazzo, Control Entire Mt. Etna District      SHIPS SMASHED

NALIS FLEE SICILY UNDER HEAVY FIRE   Allied Planes and Warships Smash at Germans as Wholesale Withdrawal Gets Under Way..   SOME ESCAPE BOATS: BLASTED TO BOTTOM   American and_ British Ground Troops Speed Advance Toward Debarkation Points.

Ground Troops Move ‘Ahead On All Fronts   Germans In Wholesale Withdrawal From Sicily To Make Stand On Italian Mainland

Ring of Fire Is Drawn Around Messina Strait   Dazed German Troops in Wholesale Withdrawal

Ring Of Fire Is Thrown  Around Routed Germans   Boats Return Empty

SHELL, BOMB NAZIS NOW IN FULL RETREAT   \lain Armies of Allies Gradually Closing On Big Sea Port

Air, Sea Forces Plasfer Nazis Fleeing Sicily   Allied Troops Approach Messina From All Sides

CAPTURE IN JUST FEW DAYS SEEN   Rearguard Action I: Overcome, Five Towns Taken

Messina Strait Becomes Inferno   Withdrawing Nazis Circled by Fire

Allies Hammer Remnants of German Army Fleeing Sicily for Stand in ltaly

Ring of Fire Drawn About Messina as Nazis’ Flight From Sicily Gathers Speed

Yanks, Britons Move Up Fast Toward Messina As Nazis Flee Over Strait

H igh Ground On Both Sides Also Taken, Communique Of ‘Allied Headquarters States   Enemy Retreat Through Sbeitla And Faid Vass Menaced; British And American Troops Pross Clisely On Fleeing Nazic

SEIZE PASS, HEIGHTS ON. BOTH SIDES   Kasserine Gains Accom< panied by 10 to 15-Mile Advance in Sbiba Area — Rommel Believed Withdrawing to Gafsa.

DRIVEN OUT OF KAOSERINE PASS   American, British Infantry pursue Fleeing Foes Toward Sea   ROADS ARE MINED   Germans Take Terrific Beating From Ground Forces, Planes

Rommel Army Falling Back Toward Gafsa   Germans Also Are Put To Flight In Northeast Tunisia

Hurl Rommel’s Units Back 10 to 15 Milesin Central Tunisia Area   German Armored Columns Appear To Be Retreating Toward Gafsa; British Troops Near Sheitla

Foe Tacitly Admits Loss Of Offensive   United Nations Planes Sweep Across Entire Front; Yanks, British  Pursue Rommel

U.S., British TroopsGain10 More Miles   Axis Line: . Of Retreat. Threatened

Rommel’s Forces Thrown  Back Onto Flat Plateau   Allies Continue to Pound Fleeing Germans While British, French Forces Drive in on Flank—British 8th Advances

Rommel’s Force Retreats After Tunisian Drive   British 8th Army ‘Penetrates Outer Mareth Line

Germans Fall Back Toward Gafsa Bases   Doughboys, Tommies Drive Up Mountains To Oust Nazis

Allies Pouring Tons Of Bombs On Nazi Units   Americans And British Seize Initiative In Fighting; Axis Falling Back To Gafsa

Allies Seize. Initiative as Nazis Retreat   Germans Appear to Be Falling Back Toward Gafsa; Allies Advance In Sbiba Sector 

High Ground on Both Sides in Their Hatids;, Advance in Shiba Area   Rommel's Forces Believed Falling Be’: Toward Gafsa—Yanks and Britons Keep Close Contact With Fleeing  _ Germans Despite Mine Fields

YANK, BAITToH FORGES MAKE 13 MILE GAIN   Kasserine Pass Falls Again, This Time to Allies; So Does Initiative.   BRITONS CLOSING IN ON FOES AT SBEITLA

ALLIED TROOPS ARE * PUSHING AHEAD IN NORTHEAST SECTOR  _ GERMANS APPEARED TC BE FALLING BACK TOWARD GAFSA TODAY

FORGES RETAKE KASSERINE PASS   Nazis Falling Back Toward Gafsa; Suffer Heavy Casualties.   ROADS HEAVILY MINED

‘U. 3, DITISN Score New Gains 'As Rommel Flees   Pincers Developing To Crush German Resistance

\Kassetine Pass and. High ’ Ground on: Both Sides ‘Are Retaken   NAZIS TOWARD GAFSA   ANA RU EME UE I  Axis Ports and Mareth Line Subjected to Heavy  mbing 

Allies Advance — As Foe Falls. Back on Gafsa   Defeated Germans Retreat as Yanks, British Strike Ahead 10‘ Miles In Sbiba Area; Rommel Suffers Heavy Losses From Bombings.

FORCED TO WITHDRAW   Initiative In Tunisia Passes To American  And British Army

ROMMEL’S RETREAT — EXTENDED FURTHEE   Allied Troops Press Close On Heels of Withdrawing Germans

Counter Offensive Pressed By Allies in Tunisia as iAxis Retreat Continues

KASSERINE HAS ~~ BEEN RETAKEN BY ALLIED TROOPS   Followed Up Rommel’s Withdrawal to Advance 10 to 15 Miles.   INTO OUTER DEFENSES   British 8th Army Cracks the Mareth Line in Pincer Movement,

Germans Withdraw All Along Tunisian Front   Montgomery's Army Penetrates Mareth Line Fortifications; British And American Bombers Harass Enemy

ALLIES PUSH COUNTEROFFENSIVE By Wree GaLLacuER   Fresh Reports Magnify U. S. Air Force Victory In Burma   Only 9 OF 46 Japanese Raiders Seen To Head Back Home After Air Battle

Gain At Least 10 Miles Near Sbiba   Nazi Force Appears To Be Retreating Toward Gafsa; Vital Hills On Both Sides Of Gap Taken; Eighth Army Penetrates Mareth Defenses

Allied Thrust Perils Rommel; Pass Captured   British, American Tanks, Planes Pursue Retreating Germans Onto Plades oe te Ee Res

\Kasserine Pass and High Ground on Both Sides Are Retaken   NAZIS TOWARD GAFSA   Axis Ports and Mareth Line Subjected to Heavy  bing

 Germans Falling Back Toward Gafsa  Before Hord-Hitting Allied Troops

ALLIES ADVANCE 10 10 15 MILES ON SBIBA FRONT   Rommel’s Units Are Retreating Toward Gafsa

KASSERINE PASS HELD BY ALLIES   Germans Defeated in Offensive Close to the AL gerian Border.   Allied Planes Sweep Across Entire Front

Roosevelt To Open War Drive   GEN. EISENHOWER WILL SPEAK ON RADIO SUNDAY

38-45 AGE GROUP BE DRAFTED SOOK   Selective Service Director Says No Date Has Yet Been Set To Call Fathers To the Army.

DRAFT OF FATHERS DATE IS UNCERTAIN   Many Factors Are Involved Hershey Says -—— Public Opinion May Drive Youths From Factories

Date for Drafting Fathers Undecided   Hershey Says Several Factors Are Involved

Father Drafl Not Imminent   Hershey Cites Many Factors For Action

Several Factors To Be Considered Before Date Is  Set. Hershey Savs

CALLING OF DADS . STALL UNCERTAIM   Hershey Makes Statement on Men Over 38, Teen-Age Youths Included.

American Troops Drive To ‘Within 55 Miles Of Messine   U.S. Naval Units Join Battle By Shelling North Coost In Advance Of Seventh Army

YANK TROOPS NOW 55 MILES FROM MESSINA   British and Canadians Slash Deeply Into Catania Line

RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSAL WINS SUPPORT   National Association of Manufacturers Asks Congress to Reject All Other Plans

Increased Taxes Opposed by NAN  Manufacturers Favor Federal Sales Tax

Manufacturers  Oppose Increase h U.S. Taxes   Sales Levy Urged If Congress Must Hike Excises

FOR REJECTION ALL PROPOSALS FOR NEW TAXES   National Association of Manufacturers Urges Retail Sales Tax If More Revenue Is Needed

U.S. INDUSTRY HITS SALES TAX   MANUFACTURERS SCORE NATIONAL RETAIL LEVY

MANUFACTURERS FAVOR SALES TAX AS LAST RESORT   ASK CONGRESS TO REJECT ALL BIDS FOR NEW TAXES

NEW TAXES SHOULD BE REJECTED, NAN SPY AKER CONTENT   if More Revenue is Needed!, National Sales Tax Held Rest Methad

NAM OPPOSES NEW TAXES   Manufacturers’ Spokesman Favors Sales Tax If Revenue Needed

NEW TAXES NOT NEEDED, CLAIM   Unsound And Unrealistic, Congress Told By  Manufacturers

TAX PROGRAM 1S PROTESTEL   MANUFACTURERS’ ° ASSOCIA‘TION SPOKESMAN DECLARES. . PRESENT LAWS WILL, PROVIDE ENOUGH REVENUE

Asks Congress Reject All Pleas For New Taxes   Administration’s Proposal To Raise 10 Million Is Seen Unsound By NAM

REJECT ALL TAX. PROPOSALS, PLE   Committee Hears Views Of National Association of Manufacturers   CHAIRMAN HEARD   Favors Retail Sales Tax If Additional Revenue Is Needed

ASKS REJECTION OF BOOST IN TAX   President of U.S. Association of Manufacturers Says Plan Fantastic

Present Laws Sufficient for. Taxes Says NAN   Manufacturers Urge Congress To Reject Bill.

MANUFACTURERS IN FAVOR SALES TAX IF MORE TAXES NEEDED  REJECTOIN OF ALL PROPOSALS FOR NEW TAXES URGED. HOWEVER

MANUFACTURERS OPPOSE ANY TAX   National Manufacturers’ Association Opposes Any New Taxation, But Would Favor Sales Tax If Necessarv.

Opposes Plan For New Taxes  But NAM Favors Sale: Levy If One Is Needed

INDUSTRY ASKS REJECTION ALL TAX INCREASE   posed if Any—Figures Taxes Above Treasury Estimate

REJECT ALL PROPOSALS FOR NEW TAXES, CONGRESS URGED BY MANUFACTURERS, WITH SALES LEVY AS ’LAST RESORT’

NAM Favors Sales Tax   But ‘hinks No More Taxe: Now Would Be The Liest Program

Joseph Stalin Really Runs Red Army, Famed Associated Press Writer Says

Stalin Directs Personally Red Army Operations, Says Returned Reporter Who Received Letters From Dictator

‘Straidh? From Moscow’    Stalin Amazes World's Military Leaders By Personally Directing Red Army Towards Elimination of Germany

“LEWIS DEFIES WLB AND SETS "STRIKE STAGE   MW Chief Ignores Parley: Walkout Threatened Next Week

Enemy Shipping, Airfields In New Guinea, Solomons Targets Of Foray

NEAVY AERIAL RAIDS HT JAPANESE BASES   Allied Airmen In Pacific Are Hammering Away

Pacitic Air Offensive s Intensified   Buin, Madang And New Guinea Japanese Airdromes Blasted By Allies   CATALINAS ATTACK   Nipponese Occupied Vil lages Bombed, Strafed By Yanks, Australien Airmen

JAPANESE oHIPS ALLIED TARGET!   Airdromes At Madang And Buin Also Battered By Raiders

Allied Bombers Active In Pacific   Airdromes In New Guinea And Solomons Are Hit

U.S. Smashes Airdromes, Jap Shipping   MacArthur Fliers Stage Heavy Offensive; All Planes Return

ALLIED AIR FORCES CONTINUE ATTACKS   Blast Japs*Positions in Southwest Pacific

JAP AIRDROMES AND SHIPPING HIT BY ALLIES   ‘Madang In New Guinea  and Buin In Solomons _. Targets of Heavy Al'. ‘lied Aerial Offensive   NO PLANES LOST   Heavy Damage Caused De - spite Thick Anti-Aircraft  Fire; Enemy Cruiser Attacked

Pounding Of Jap  Bases Continues Enemy Shipping, Plane Bases Targets For  Heavy Attacks

BOMBERS HIT JAP SHIPPING   Airdromes Also Targets of U. S. Raiders

Jap Ships And Airdromes At Madang And Buin Get Hard Pounding From Air

Allies Pound Jap Targets   Bombs Fall On Airdromes And Shipping Ports

AP SHIPPING AND AIRDROMES TARGETS OF U. S. PLANES  Enemy Aircraft Destroyed and Fires  Gat at Fnemvu Racec

SEEK SUCCESSOR TO BISHOP MANN AT CONVENTION      Eight Prominent Clergymen Are Named — Meeting Set For Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Episcopal ' Diocese Selects List Of Possible New Bishops

LONDON REPORTS TROOPS 10 MARCH SOON AFTER RETURN OF CHURCHILL FROM QUEBEC

ALLIED SECOND © FRONT IN EUROPE EXPECTED SOON   London Anticipates Invasion  On Churchill's Return

‘rench Told By Allies Te Be Ready for Invasion; Italy Shelled. By Amer  ican Warships v4

Allied Broadcasts Warn French Patriots to Prepare for Invasion   Vast Civilian Army Waiting to Strike When AIllies Give Word.

Carry In At Least 50 Counties      Governor Includes Philadelphia In Winning List. Allegheny County In Doubtful Column

LEGION TO PLAN ARMISTICE DAY   Rev. Arthur Bily Recovering at Home

Mrs. E. Ray Hall Dies Friday of Long Illness   Well Known Local Woman Prominent in Church, Club Worl

Prominent Church and Lodge Worker  Dies of Long Iliness  Mrs. E. Ray Hall Had Been Resident of This City for 20 Years

ITALIAN FLEET IS SURRENDERED      UL ot. Vit Army Smashes Counter. Attacks of Germans — Pushing Steadily Inland with. Hopes of Capturing Naples. :

Prison Guard Under Arrest After Holiday  Takes Convicts for  Trip to. ... nt emrearg City

Rommel Inspects Defenses In Denmark As German Fears Of Allied Invasion Increase.   Nazis Say Cross-Channel Offensive To Coincide With Russian Straka

Germans Fear Invasion Near  750,000 Allied Troops -Poised for Drive Across Channel, Clain

Rommel in Denmark   Broadcasts From Berlin Reflect Germany's Fear Of Western Invasion

GERMAN FEARS OF INVASION: ARE INDICATED   Military Leaders Writers Make Statements Tending To Show Their Fears

GERMANS EXPECT INVASION   Rommel Reported to Have Inspected. Denmark's  Defenses. Sertorius Fears Offensive Timed  With Russian Winter Drive

Allied Air Enters Upon Final Phase   Preparing Ground for Invasion of Europe bv Land Ferces   Berlin Broadcasts Reflect  Germany’s Fear of Invasion

Nazis Polish Up Channel Defenses   U-Boats Have Lost Battle of Atlantic

Americans Break New Italian Line   Bloody Nine Day “Battle Of Clouds” Ended   Berlin Shows New Fear Of Invasion From West

Local Man In Gun Crew That  Fired On Italy   Private Stanley Sheck : Member Of Gun Crew To Fire First Long Range Gun

Private Fires First Blast   Artillery Shelling Continental Forces

TURKEY MAY MODIFY HER NEUTRALITY   Action Expected to Be One of First Results of Teheran Parley

Harry Sells, 57, Takes Own Life   Pipestone Farmer-Found Hanged In Shed .- 

HANGS SELF IN PIPESTONE   Son And Daughter Find Body of Harry Sells In Packing Shed

French May Unite On Military Aims   DeGaulle Likely to Offer To Postpone Political Consideralions

EFFORTS RENEWED TO UNITE FORCES   General De Gaulle May Meet Giraud in Con ference

FRENCH - PATRIOTS KILLING ENEMY AT RATE OF 50. DAILY   Certainty Of Execution If Caught Does Not Alarm Partisan Throngs

DEATH TALK AT NAZI HEELa THRU FRANCE   Cities Seethe with Revalt as Patriots Kill Their Common Foes.

Catroux Takes DeGaulle Unity Reply To Giraud   Trusted Go Between For Both Factions Has De Gaulle Counter Proposals

PROSPECTS BETTER FOR FRENCH UNITY   Catroux Back: In Algiers To Renew Talks ' With Giraud

Two Boeing Plants Halt Production   Stoppage May Affect Much of Coast  Aireraft Induetryv

BOEING PLANT WORKERS HALT PRODUCTION   Protest Delay Of War Labor: Board On  - Waae Appeals

BOEING FIRMS MENACED BY JOB STOPPAGE   Flying Fortress Workers Want 95 Cents Hour In Seattle

SEE THREAT 10 PLANE INDUSTRY   6,000 Workers Demonstrate, Urge Others To Join. In Wage Dispute.

Solons in Farming Headway   PREDICT OPERATION OF COMPLETE AGRICULTURAL SETUP BY END OF WEEK

FARMERS UNDER PERMIT SYSTEM   All Slaughterers Unde. Meat Control Program; Permits Required

Present Military Goals Perhaps To Be Retained  Figure of 10,800,000 As Set by FDR Is to Be Favored

Drive Grinds Forward   URGES KEEPING MILITARY GOAL   Committee Says Armed Forces Should Have 10,800,000

‘Special Committee Reportedly Agrees That Preseni Military Goals Must Be Maintained

MILITARY GOALS’ RETENTION URGED   Manpower Problem Probers Agree;: Meetings to Continue

UP PRESIDENT ON MANPOWER   Holds Military Goal of 10,800,000 Men Must Be Retained

MUST RETAIN GOAL COMMITTEE REPORTS   Special Committee Finds ’ Military Figure Necessary

Military Goal For This Year ls 10,800,090   Special Committee Agrees upon Figure for Armed Services   Not War Cabinet

Military Quota Near 11 Million   FDR Group Said Agreed On That Fieure

Service Goal Of 10,800,000 Is Upheld   Committee Studying Problem of Manpower Approves of Figure  HEADED BY BYRNES, INCLUDES BARUCH  Attempting To Fix  Quotas in Manpower For All Activities

Nazis Expect Invasion On Saturday   Germans Order Troops From Russian Line To Meet Allied Forces

Nazis Move Some Troops From Russia   Drive To Start By Saturday, Axis Report Says

Germany Orders Divisions in Russia to West   Transfers Coincide WithAbandonment of Red Offensive

[Republicans Celebrate Kansas Day   Smaller. Than Usual Crowd Gathering at Topeka: Today for  ‘Annual Love Feast

GATHER IN TOPEKA   Republicans Will Hear Their National Chairman Tonight

AERIAL BLOWS MOUNT INFURY   Daily Pounding Is Seen As “Softening Up” Process Before Sea and Land Attack On Bases ”

Heavy U.S. Raids On Marshall-Gilbert Islands Hold Promise Of Pacific Drive

AIRMEN MAKING DAILY RAIDS ON JAP ISLANDS   Marshall and Gilbert Islands Blast ed Five Days in Row, May Her ald Nimitz Campaign

Raid Marshall, _ Gilbert Islands 5 Days In Row   American Fliers Are Seen “Softening Up” Enemy For Great Battle Ahead

LASH MARSHALL GILBERT ISLES   Yanks Attack 5 Days in a Row Without Losses

MARSHALLS CONTINUING   Jap-Held Islands Are Raided For Fifth Straight Day

JAPAN'S ISLAND BASES POUNDED   American Airmen Blast At Marshall And Gilbert Islands For Five Consecutive Days In “Softening Up” Onverations.

Daily Raids on Jap Isles Recalls Promise of Central Pacific Drive

Mid-Pacific Jap Bases Again Raided   ~ Allied Bombers Return Unscathed After Fifth Smash

SOFTEN UP JAP ISLANDS FOR ATTACK   Daily Bombings From Allied Warplanes Cause Heavy Destruction to Defense Installations   NO PLANES ARE LOST

Yanks Soften Up Japanese Central Pacific Bases   No Men or Planes Lost in Five Days Of Allied Missions

Pacific Offensive  Marshall, Gilbert   Islanas Attacked Fifth Day In Row

 DAAA AA AAA AAAAABRAAAAAAAL Letter from Wife ‘Fixes’ Husband With Dratt Board

FILM STAR PLACED ON TRIAL FOR RAPE   Actor Errol Flynn Is Ac. cused of Attacking Girl

Administration Firmly Opposes Sales Tax Plans   Even Sponsors Doubt New if Such-a Levy (ould Be Passed

Government Meets New Trouble  In Boosting Tax  Speakers All Oppose Suggested Means Of Raising Revenue

Vinson Fails to Sway Committee   Opposes Federal Sales Tax Proposal

Kininistration — Firmly Opposed To Retail Tay   Ompulsory Saving Plan likewise Unfavorable To Conaressnien

AC minis-ra-icn “ig 1s Sa.es Tax Wile Congress © 990ses Any omow sory Savings zor Revenue

RETAIL SALES TAX PLAN {5 OPPOSED   Administration — Align: Solidly Against Proposal

LEADERS OPPOSE RETAIL SALES TAX   ADMINISTRATION SPOKESMAN SAYS LEVY MIGHT LEAD TO WILD INFLATION,

Administration Aligns Against Sales Tax Plan   Compulsory Saving Plan To Draw Opposition

AMERICANS BELIEVED SET FOR BIG PUSH   Believed Ready To Slice Toward Coasi To Cut Off Rom mel’s Retreat

Yanks Accept Nazi Dare, Raid Tunisian Town  Only Rear Guards Remain in Libya as

U. 5. TROOPS ACCEPT DARE TO ATTACK   Attack Germans, Capture 80 Men Close To Cast

Americans, Accepting Dare From Opposing Forces, Invade Maknassy, Only 33 Miles From Gulf Of Gabes —Allied Forces Halt Menacing German Thrust Down Ousseltia Valley—Powerful Aerial Blows Continue Against Enemy Bases And Shipping

Take 80 Prisoners in Africa as They Go “Out and Fight’   Raid on Maknassy by Yankees _ Evidently Made in Force

AMERICAN TROOPS ANSWER TAUNT AND RAID GERMAN POINT  GERMANS IN TUNISIA HAL ASKED AMERICANS COME OUT AND FIGHT

TROOPS ACCEPT CHALLENGE FOR DESERT BATTLE   Eighty Enemy Soldiers Taken During Raid

AMERICAN TROOPS ANSWER TAUNT AND RAID GERMAN POINT  GERMANS IN TUNISIA HAI   GERMANS IN TUNISIA HAD ASKED AMERICANS COME OUT AND FIGHT

HALT MENACING THRUST OF AXIS   American Troops Defy Note Taunting Them to Come Out and Fight.   ‘CAPTURE 89 PRISONERS

U.S. Troops Accept Defi, Raid Axis In North Africa   Eighty Prisoners Taken; German Thrus Down Ousseltia Valley le Haltad

U.S. Troops Make Daring African Raic   Suggest Americans May Be Ready To Launch Big Push To Stop Rommel’s Retreat

Challenge Answered Promptly   Daring Raid Carried Out On Maknassy Close To Gulf Of Gabes By  American Troops

AMERICANS MAKE RAID IN ANSWER TO TAUNT   British In Close Pursuit Of Rommel’s Army   ALLIED AIRMEN ACTIVE   Fleeing Axis May Not Try Stand At Mareth Line

Soldiers, Civilians Fight Flood   107,000 Persons Are Homeless in Six-State Floods

107,000 ARE NOW HOMELESS IN CENTRAL AREA   10,000 Troops Aid; Mississippi Near 38-Foot Crest

BUSY REPAIRING DIKES   Ss. Army Engineers Are al Work in Weaver Bottoms Area

New England, Mid-Atlantic States Hit By Record-Breaking Cold Wave

COLD WAVE GRIPS PART OF NATION   New England and Middle Atiantic States Experience RecordBreaking Cold

Cold Wave Hits East; 35 Below i in New York  Rw ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLD HITS IN EAST   Record Breaking Storm Strikes the Atlantic States Today

NEW ENGLAND AND MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES HIT BY SUB-ZERO WEATHER —

East, With Scant Fuel, Shivering   ‘Worst Cold Wave Of Winter Hits In- New England

bth Army Only Few Miles FromBigPort:   Castellammare Naval Base In Allied Hands

GERMA IS DRIVEN FROM MOUNTAIN LINE   Yanks, British Pursue Foe on Plain Within 15 Miles of City

Forward Units Are Only 13 Miles From Once-Great Port    Foggia Airports to Be Bomber Bases Within Few Days

Fifth Army Routs Nazis From Last Mountain Positions   Germans Flee In General Retreat As Allies Take Complete Possession Of Strategic Sorrento Peninsula Holds

Allies Surging Swiftly Ahead   ... Impertant Mountain Town Of Nocera Taken

Clark’s Men Yank Nazis From Mountains and Get Them On Plain: Fall _ Imminent

5th Army 15 Miles From Big Port After Nazi Mountain Line Folds; Cermans Retreating Across Plain

Fall Imminent As Troops Nearing City   Germans in General Retreat after Being Routed Out of Mountain Strongholds; Whole Allied Army Line Advances.

German Troops Blasted From Mountain Lines As all Of Italian Port Nears      Castellammare, Important Naval Base, Also Seized By Allied Units; British Eighth Army Erases Deep , Salient On Western Flank And Drives: Ahead

Allies Sweep Onto Plains Of Naples   Capture Village of Nocera, Last Nazi Stronghold in Hills; Red Push Continues

Nocera Falls To Gen. Clark’s Forces   Allied Troops Ready To Use Heavy __. Equipment Against Defenders Of Naples

Allies i in Complete ‘Possession of The ‘Sorrento Peninsula   Germans Routed Out of Mountain Stronghold in Siy Days of Heavy Fighting Are Reported In General Retreat   IMPORTANT NAVAL BASE ON BAY IS ALSO TAKEN

Allies Storm Key Axis City   U. S, BRITAIN GRAB SORRENTO PENINSULA AS GERMANS FLEE MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLDS; BAD WEATHER SLOWS AIR BLOWS AT ITALY

NAZIS DRIVEN FROM LAST HILL POSITION ABOVE SALERNO: ALLIES 15 MILES NAPLES   Important Italian . Naval Base On Shore of Bay Of Naples Falls to Allies. Fifth and Eighth Armies In General Advance

Entry Of Allied Troops Into Strategic Port Exnected Momentarily.

Germans Driven From Mountain Positions — Nazis in Retreat, Leaving Allies in Possession of Sorrento Peninsula —Lighth Wipes Out Salient on Western Flank

DRIVE GERMANS OFF MOUNTAINS   Pursue Enemy on Plain; Fail Of Port Appears Imminent.   HOLD ENTIRE PENINSULA

Fifth Pushes To Plain Near Bay Of Naples   Americans Within 18 Miles Of Citv; German Fires  Still Blaze.   RUSH FOGGIA REPAIRS

PURSUE ENEMY ON PLAIN ONLY 15 MILES AWAY   Gen. Clark Will Be Able to Use Tanks, Artillery In  Drive to Rout Nazis At Key Port   GERMANS DRIVEN FROM MOUNTAINS   British Driving Forward Along Adriatic After  - Capture of Foggia,   Huge Airfields

Hear Yanks In Ancient Pompei   Entire Peninsula South Of Naples Is Now In Allied Hands

Nazi Divisions Routed Out Of Hill Positions   Yanks Pursuing Enemy Across Broad Plains Leading To Italian Port; British Push Attack East Of Captured Foggia

NAZIS IN RUSSIA ALSO:ON RUN AS REDS SURGE ON   Air Assaults on Hitlerland Ease Up But Allies Drive On in South Pacific

Push Across Plains As Nazis Retreat After All Mountain Heights Taken

Enemy In General Retreat, Leaving Allies In Full Possession Of Sorrento Peninsula—Port City’s Fall Believed Imminent—-Castellammare, Vital Naval Base, Taken By Advancing Forces—London Reports Occupation Of Pompei

ON PLAINS NEAR NAPLE!   British Report Fifth Enters Historic Pompei

Fifth Army Is Near City As Nazis Retreat   Allies Possess Peninsula Between Bay And Gulf

GERMANS ADMIT BATTLE LOSSES   Berlin Radio Says Troops Have Abandoned Several Towns Near Naples

5th Army Takes Nocera In Hard  Hand Fighting   Americans Dozen Miles From Flaming Seaport

Sth Army Drives Germans From Mount Defense   Pursuing Enemy On Plains Within 15 Miles Of  Naples

Clark’s Troops Pursuing Foe Only Few Miles Outside of City   Historic Pompeii Already Seized by 5th Army,  London Hears

Expect Troops Ta Smash Way Inte City Any Minute   Fifth Army Pursues Nazis Across Plain After Capturing Last Mountain Position

GERMAN ARMY DRIVEN FROM SALERNO BASE   All-Out Assault On Southern Germany

Allies Drive Foe Back Upon Naples   News of Entry of Allies Into - City Is Expected at  Any Time   FIFTH IN FIERCE FIGHT   Advance Speeds Up After Mountain Positions - Are Taken

Allies Swoop Down Krom Mountains To  15 Miles Of Naples   The War Today—  Capture Of Foggia Opens Way For New Developments In War Theater

Allies Sweep Onto Plain Before Naples   Nazis Continue to Fall Back Steadily in Russia; Fall of Finschhafen on New Guinea Expected Momentarily

Americans Drive Nazis From Their Mountain Posts   Germans in General Retreat, Leaving Allies in Possession of Peninsula.   Important Naval Base  Falls to the Allies

Fifth Army Troops Push Onto Naples Plain, Only Thirteen Miles From City

Capture Of City Seen Imminent   Fifth Army In Pursuit After Driving Enemy From Last Mountain Position; Clark’s Forces In Control On Entire Sorrento Peninsula

ALLIED FORCES: BUT 16 MILES FROM NAPLES   Germans Routed in Mountain: Strongholds Are Making General Retreat.   NOCERA, CASTELLAMMARE, FALL INTO ALLIED HANDS

Fall Of Naples Appears Imminent As Fifth Army Pursues Retreating Foe

British Moving Northward Up ‘Italian Peninsula   Two Sides of Hitler's Fortress Heavily Attacked

Nazis Driven from Mountains Unlikely To Hold Principal South Port Long

Germans Driven From Mountain Positions - Nazis in Retreat, Leaving Allies in  Possession of Sorrento Peninsula — Eighth Wipes Out Salient on Western Flank   Threat to Cermans

Drives Germans From Mountains, Pushing Across Plain With Fall of Naples Due At Any Time; Allied Armies Advancing Along Entire Line Across Peninsula

Nazis Retreating In Face Of Heavy  American Attacks   Fifth Army Only 15 Miles From Blazing City; Germans Driven From Mountains

Germans Driven From Mountains ‘Above Salerno   Nazis Retreat After Attack By Fifth Army

Nazis Admit Withdrawal   Germans Tell of Retreating To Shortened Lines

Castellammare Naval Base On Southern Shore Of Bay Of Naples Falls Into Jlands Of Allied Troops Which ‘Also Are Reported In Historic Pompeii

ALLIES CRACK MOUNTAIN LINE OF NAZI FORGE   Fifth Army, Now on Plain Before Naples, in Position to Apply Hard Hitting Weapons.

Pursuit Of Enemy Places Allied Units 15 Miles From City   Vital Road, Naval Base Captured; Yanks. Pursue Retreating Nazis;

ALLIED TROOPS POURING. ONTO NAPLES’ PLAIN   Nazis Lose Mountain Strongholds; Early Fali Of Vital Port Looms

Allies Crack: German Lines, Take Pompeii:   Clark Army Begins March On. Great Italian Port

Drive to Plain 15 Miles From Port, Foe Flees   Americans Also Enter Pompeii as They Rout Germans From Last Mountain Strongholds; British Chasing Nazis Beyond Foggia.

Nazi Mountain Defenses Fall. After Six Days   Genera Clark’ ‘S Troops Drive Within 15 Milés of City as: Enemy Begins General Retreat:Near Mount Vecuvige

Clark’s Force Pushes Enemy Across Plains  Reach Point Within 15   Reach Point Within 15 Miles Of Naples; Fall Of City Is Imminent, Reanart Tadayv

Enemy Supply. Ships Sunk In Norway Harbor   British Vessels In Daring Raid Manned By Norwegians

Interim Committee for Power Bill. Study Approved in House By Margin of Only Four Votes   British Light Forces Raid Harbor ~ 'In Norway, Sinking Two Axis Ships

TWO ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK BY BRITISH RAIDERS   Light Naval Forces Manned by Norwegian Seamen Made Sussecc ful Daring Raid 

AXIS ARMY FEWER THAN 12,000 MEN NEAR STALINGRAD   Enemy Clings to Few Blocks in Wrecked City; Groups of Germans Are Surrendering to Reds.   JAPS ARE CRUSHED IN GUADALCANAL FIGHT   Enemy Outnumbered But Contest Loses: Force Confined to an Area of 64 Square Miles.

Russians Blast Trapped Nazis   German Planes Fail in Relief Attempt

Barrage of Russ Guns Blasts Encircled Nazi Forces at Stalingrad   Germans Split Into ‘Two Pockets; Number Less Than 12,000 of Their Original 220,000 Men: Reds Close Noose

SOVIET ARTILLERY POUNDS. REMNANTS OF TRAPPED NAZIS       Supply: Doomed “Divisions ~ Several Days  Ago Failed—Only 12,000 Remain

Axis Regiment Surrenders toSoviet.Troops..   ‘Many Groups Said Laying Down Arms on Voronezh Front

LAST OF AXIS BEING OUSTED FROM CITY   Entire German Division Gives Up at Stalingrad

Reds blast at nazis in  Stalingrad   Tighten noose on army caught west of city

Soviet Guns Blast Remnants Of Great Army   One Whole Regiment Surrenders—Air Yields Seized

Germans Hold But Few City Blocks   Many Enemy Surrender on Voronezh Front

ONE REGIMENT GIVES UP AND OTHERS KILLE   Greatest Military Sacrifice in History Nears as Doomed Men Dwindle.   NEW TROOPS JOIN IN LAST CLEAN-UP DRIVE

REGIMENT IS GAIN TAKEN   Russians Claim Surrender of Entire German Regiment in Mopup Operations in Stalingrad.

UNRA PROPOSALS GIVEN TO PUBLIC   SPOKESMAN REPORTS DEFEAT OF MOVE TO BAN NEWSPAPERMEN

SCRAP COLLECTION      Kiwanis Club wand Vie: to Cany: ‘ow  tory. Corps tufday.

SCRAP COLLECTION,   Kiwanis Club and Victory Corps to Canvass Town Saturday.

DRAFT BOARD NO. 1 SENDS NEW GROUP   Men Will Leave Soon For Reception Center Of  Four Services :

New Gas Rationing System Considered   Special Boards Would Fight Black Market

Allied Lroops Kill 300 in Enemy Camp   American Position  Described as “Vary Catiefactarv”’

MacArthur Moves Swiftly To Protect Allied Hold Upon Rendova Island

Bold Attack Takes Vura On Vanguna   300 Japs Killed In Move Southeast Of New Georgia

ALLIES OCCUPY MORE ISLANDS NEAR RENDOVA   New Action Protects Positions Recently Won in Solomons

Allies Take New Island In Solomons   As Garrison on Island Mopped Up 300 Jans Killed

DETAILS OF GEN, PATTON iNCIDENT”   ‘Struck Soldier; Later Apologized ' To All Concerted:

3  General Apologizes To Injured Man And Witnesses; No Formal Reprimand Lodged

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  eae eennemn neem cnneree eee nanmeepnee   Axis Shipping Struck Blow Off Northern Norway

ITALIANS MAY SOON” -BE FIGHTING NAZIS “SPAIN REPORT SAYS   Italy Sends Large Force to Stem Flow of Germans Into Northern Part of Country.

Italian Troops May Fight  Nazis in Balkans, Franee   26 Divisions Ordered to Fight Way  Home; Brenner Pass Danger Point

ITALO-GERMAN CLASHES SEEN POSSIBLE SOON   Rush Troops To Brenner Pass To Halt Flow Of Axis Allies

ITALY ORDERS MANY SOLDIERS FROM BALKANS      Sends 75,000 Troops Into Brenner Pass To Stop Germans

Allied Bombs Sink Seven Jap Ships In Wewak Assault   Attack Also Results in Loss of 39 Enemy Barges and 50 Planes; Aussies Close to Bumi Objective

Allied Bombers Sink Seven Enemy Vessels   Three Tankers and Four Merchantmen Blasted at Wewak

Hi COUNTY. JURIST DEAD   Judge Ralph ‘Smith Victim of Heart Attack .

3 Meet Death In Incendiary S. F. Blaze   Early Morning Fire ir Turk St. Hotel Being Probed

Sugar Beet Crop Shows Decrease  Total Is Announced As 7,434,000 Tons

NAZIS ATTEMPT TO LURE: PAPEN-FROM POST IN TURKEY   Try To Get Ambassador To Take Ribbentrop’s Job As German Minister

Hear Von Papen  Offered New Post   Rejected Job As  Foreign Minister

Lack of Workers ls Admitted by Berlin Newspapel   Manpower Siutation Becoming Serious, Editor Declares

HITLER IS FACING MANPOWER CRISIS   Fuehrer Turns to Conquered Baltic Nations for Soldiers

Hitler's Drive For Manpowel Said Failure   Report Effort Made To Induct Captured Soldiers of Russia

Manpower Crisis Increases Daily  For Der Fuehrer   Hitler Even Seeking Men Among Baltic Natious And Captured Russians

MANPOWER IS BADLY NEEDED.   Hitler Turns To Conquered  Baltic And Russian  Peoples For Men

FOREIGN MINISTER ‘PREASING US. GOVERNMENT TO PEO” “VIDE MacARTHUR WITH . MORE: MULITARY BTRENGTH. ~

Australia Urges  More Allied Aid   Australian Foreign Minister Stresses Necessity Of Sending More Supplies   MAY MAKE VISIT TO CHURCHILL SOON

Non-Stop Air Offensive Batters Axis; Nazis Face Trap At Rostov Sector

Fight On Poll Tax Renewed   ‘House Votes 268-110 In Favor OF Abalitioan

ABOLITION OF POLL TAX 1S APPROVED   House Goes on Record Despite Southern Opposition

BAN IS FAVORED ON POLL TAXES   Mrs. Roosevelt Is Namec As One Of Sponsors; Filibuster Sure

ANTI-POLL TAX BL VOTE NEARS   Southern Opposition Beaten As House Goes On Rete. ord Against It

POLL TAX ROW LOOMS AGAIN   House Revives Issue As Filibuster Threats Develop Among Senators

FIGHT FLARES ON POLL TAX   House Goes on Record as in Favor of Abolition of Levy in South

LOAN RATE CUT GETS HOUSE O.K.   Pleas of County Officials For More State Money Fall on Deaf Ears

STATE POLICE BILL PROPOSED IN OHIO SENATE   New Measure Is Limited In Scope; Loan Act Is Passed

Senate Bloc Votes Same Local Funds   Ohio Finance Group Puts Counties On Pre-War Dole.

Churchill Vows Reprisal In Kind If Germans Start   The War Today— . . Jap Barbarism In Executing Fliers Dramatizes Reason Allies Must Win

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Jap Execution Of Fliers Serves To Emphasize Enemy’s Barbarism

The War Today— Jap Barbarism In Executing Fliers Dramatizes Reason Allies Must Win

JAP ATROCITIES UNDERSCORE ALLIED AIMS   For Crushing Savage. War-Lords of Japan to Rid World of Barbarism.

MURDERER GETS LONGJAIL TERM   PRISON SENTENCE OF 199 YEARS GIVEN TO MT, VERNON SLAYER

CAPT. CLARK GABLE ON RAID ON NANTES   Coming Home With Films To Teach Gunnery

Gable To Return To United States   Hopes To See Action In New Theater

To Declare Rome Open City, Claim   Would Prevent Allied Bombing Of Capital

Italians May Declare Rome  An Open City   Seek To Avoid Repetition Of July 19 Bombing As Means Of Preserving City

300 Planes Take Part In Attack   Assault_On Industrial City. Marks 10th Consecutive, ‘Night Bombing Of Reich 

SOGIAL SECURITY IS AUTHORIZED 10 OVERSPEND BUDGET   Gov. Forrest C. Donnell Re leased $126,667 in Additional Money Today.   YOR OCTOBER SPENDING   Chief Executive Set the Stage for Special Session of Leglature Next Year.

Donnell May Call  A Special Session   Governor Authorizes Overspending of Budget for Social Security

Releases Funds for. Pensions   Donnell Upsets Budget to Meet Relief Needs; Special Session in Prospect. - .   MEETS REQUEST OF SECURITY DIRECTOR   ‘Needs Will Be Met, the Governor Says; Problem Long Has Been Debated

Captive Total Over 200.000   Allied Planes Continue To. Blast Italian Strongholds

Allies Deal Heavy Blow to Port, Field in Sardinia  Masters of Skies Raid Other Points; 23 Nazis Rounded Up

Allied Planes From Africa Strike at Sicily  Final Count of Axis Prisoners Brings to Total of 200.000

Allies Blast ltalian Port   Eisenhower Reports 200,000 Are Captured

SARDINIA HIT HEAVY BLOWS BY RAF FLIERS   Bombers Drop Loads On Town And Port Areas After Hop From African Base   Malta Pounds Iatly

Bombers Deal Heavy Blow On Sardinia   Allied Raiders Blast Southern Italy And Sicily

Port, Airfield Are Blasted  2h Renn a, g, ) tO   Allied Planes in Control of Skies

Russians Capture German Position In Moscow Area Hold Strategic Heigl  against 23 Counter AttarL-

SUVIETS CAPTURE STRATEGIC POINT   Height of Great Importance Taken on Front Northwest Of Moscow; Held Against 23 Counter-attacks

Russian troops take German height ‘of great importance’   Hold position northwest of Moscow against 23 counterattacks by enemy

RUSSIANS SEIZE IMPORTANT HILL   HOLD IT AGAINST 23 COUNTER - ATTACKS IN WHICH NAZIS  LOSE 600 MEN.

Russians Advance On Moscow Front  Report Capture of Strateaic Height

CERMAN HEIGHT FALLS TO REDS   Counterattacks Repulsed With Loss Of 600 Dead By Enemy

Russians Capture important Nazi Stronghold   Many Germans Perish In Aitempt to Counterattack Reds

SUPREME COURT ASKED TO OVERRIDE DECISION   Decision Rendered Last June That Exercise ~— Free Speech Might Be Limite ky Legislative  ~ Bodic.

Barkley Says Senate Will Sustain Veto   Two Administration Officials Scored; Draft Strain Grows

Says Veto of Farm Bill Will Be Sustained ‘   High Officials Charged with  _ Disrespect; Wadsworth Says Manpower Problem Result of Lack of Planning :

F renchmen Raid Nazi ‘Arsenal To Retaliate For Wholesale Arrests

GERMANS HOPE T0 HOLD LINE BELOW ROME ALL WINTER, REPORTS SAY   In Spite of Slowing Rains, However, Fifth and Eighth Armies Are Already Hacking into Approaches

GERMAN WINTER LINE IN ITALY LIKELY TO CRACK   Allied Troops Hacking Approaches Below Rome. Dispatches Say Nazis Abandoning Gaeta.

Audit of Unions Retained in Bill   Financial Reports  Would Bé Required

Senate Group Okehs House  Tax Measure   Security Tax to Remain at Level

Landis’ New Job Indicates Balkan Move   Allied Invasion May Be Next On Cards

LANDIS IS CHOSEN FOR MIDDLE EAST POSITION BY FDR      Resigned Yesterday From Civilian Defense Post —Balkan Invasion Imminent

MOVE INDICATES INVASION PLANS   James M. Landis Is Named Personal Emissary to Place In Middle East.

MOVE IN BALKANS. IS INDICATED BY ACTION ON LANDIS   Series af Developments Show New Post to Be Highly Imaortant.

New Signs Of Balkans Thrust Seen   Sending Landis To Middle East Stirs Speculation

Cows and Snakes Top News Electric Pasture Fences Live Rattlers to Aid War

Bad News For Cows: Electric Pasture Fence May Be Legalized In Pa.

Alaska Highway To Be Completed   Permanent Work To Be Accomplished

WOUNDED JAPANESE ON ATTU ~ KILLED TO PREVENT CAPTURE   OWN MEDIOAL OFFICERS KILLED MEN WITH GRENADES AS AMERICANS CLOSED IN

Jap Medics Are Cited As Slayers   Grenades Used On Wounded Men When Capture By Yanks Looms

Senate to Act Soon on Raises   Quick Study of House Approved Bill Planned, Heads Say

HOUSE PASSES ‘BILL TO RAISE TEACHERS’ PA\   Senate Promises Quick Action On Measure

Talk About Hickentooper   Nebraska Governor Says Iowan “Thinking” About Senate Race

CAVALRY. JOINS. IW KIEV BATTLE   Final Fight For Vital River  Anchor City Gains In Feroci ty As Climax Nears.

PLAN TO CURB DECREE POWER OF PRESIDENT   CONGRESS 18 STUDYING PROPOSAL TO INSERT “INTENT"  CLAUBE IN FUTURE IMPORTANT BILLS

Solons Seek Control For Directives   Move Aimed At Protection Of Congress’ Intent On All Bills

Congress Set On Executive Decree Curt   ‘Intent’ of Lawmakers tc Be Protected in Future Measures

MARCHING SOLDIERS STRUCI   ‘Car Plows. Into Column. of March- ding Men in Edst

Annual Fall Card Party Planned by St. Sabina Altar and Rosarv Soc.

Army Enlisted Reserves Being  Called Up   College Students Will Receive  Tintuy Syummone

SHOWDOWN IN TUNISIA NEAR   Eighth Army Begins Testing Rommel’s Crippled Tank Forces

‘British Eighth army in test preparing for final showdown’   Axis feels rising counter-strength . preparing to tighten pocket on axis

Montgomer' Testing Ayis Line   Tunisian Showdown With Battered Nazi Army Expected

BRITISH PROBE CRIPPLED AXIS DEFENSE LINE   BLOODY SHOWDOWN BELIEVED NEAR IN TUNISIA

Allies Move In On Axis   British Eighth Army, French, Americans Set for Showdown

BLOODY NOSE PROMISED BY MONTGOMERY   Germans Are On Defensive Behind Mareth Line After Losing 52 Tanks.

British Probing Nazi Lines For Knockout Blow   French Menacing Rommel Flank In Southern Tunisia

British Test Enemy; Tank Losses af 52   Montgomery Promises Rommel a Bloody Nose in Trap

SHOWDOWN IS NEAR IN AFRICAN SECTOR      Rommel on the Defense Behind His Mareth  Vinee

Big Allied Squeeze Play On Enemy in Tunisia  May Be Under Motion 

Desert Fox On Defensive Behind Mareth Line And Feeling = Rising Strength of Eighth Ariny

BRITISH TEST OUT ROMMEL 'S TANK FORCES   Germans Are On Defensive Behind Marath Line; Have Lest 52 Precious Tanks Already   Allied Patrols Active

SHOWDOWN SEEN NEAR FOR ROMMEL   Montgomery Probes Foe’ Crippled Tank Forces   AXIS ON DEFENSIVE   Pench Troops Menace West. ern Flank; Patrols Active In Northern Sector

8th Army Feels Out Rommel For Showdown Fight      Germans Put On Defensive Behind Mareth Line While trench Menace Western Flank; Pressure  Put On Von Arnim

ALLIES SQUEEZE ROMMEL’S ARMY; SHOWDOWN NEAR   British Test Strength of Axis Tank Forces as French Menace Marshal’s Left Flanikk.   DESERT FOX APPEARS TO BE CAUGHT IN TRAP   Maneuvering Room of Germans Narrowed Northwest of Mareth Line as Allies Push Forward.

British Testing Rommel Forces   Tunisian Shevdown in Offing: French Menace West Flank

U. S. Casualties In North Africa Totaled 18,568, Stimson Reports

AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN NORTH AFRICA TOTAL 1285   Secretary Of War Stimson Reports On Activities Of U. S. On Battle Fronts

11] AMERIGANS OIE WN TUNISIA   War Secretary Stimson Says Casualties In Tunisia  Total 1258

American Casualties in’  Tanisia Now Total 1, 258   Total Includes Dead Wounded and Missing: To Date—Only 211 Reported Killed. Stimson Declares .

Good News For Allies Is Cited   Secretary Stimson Recounts Important Steps Which Favor United Nations   REPORTS CASUALTIES IN TUNISIA AREA

AMERICAN ARMY'S  AFRICA CASUALTIES  ANNOUNCED TODAY SECRETARY STIMSON  SAID AXIS LOSSES CREATER THAN AILIES

STIMSON LISTS CASUALTIES IN TUNISIAN AREA   1,258 Americans Dead, Wounded Missing—-U. S. Airmen Tak Heavy Enemy Toll

U.S. Casualties In Tunisia Total 1,258 Dead, Wounded Missing; Successes Cited   Only 211 Known Dead; Stimson Outlines Continued ‘Good News’

CTY. STIMSON ANNOUNCES U. S. TUNISIAN CASUALTIES   “Total To Date Set At’ 1,258 Dead, Wounded, And Missing by War  Qarwatary

Casualties in Tunisia 1,258   Figures Include Dead, Wounded And Missing

CASUALTIES IN AFRICA BARED   2184 YANKS KILLED NOVEMBER 8-MAY 15

U.S. LOSSES “REPORTED BY STIMCON      2,184 Killed, 9,457. Wounded in North Africa; 6,937 Are “Missing or Prisoners   30,000 AXIS ARMY -. MEN WERE KILLED   Enemy Prisoner Total Soars to 266,600 and 26,000 .More: Wounded

AND MISSING.   Allied Total 70,000; Losses of Axis Set at 323.000

Army Casualties In Africa Given   Totaled 2,184 Killed Frem November 8 to May 15

U.S. Casualties In Tunisia Set At 1258   Stimson Cites Five Items Of Good News For Allies At Press Meet; Calls Stalingrad ‘Decisive Battle’

U9. CASUALTIES  TOTAL 1,200 IN TUNISIA   211 Killed Included In List, Says Secretary Stimson In Report On War   CONTINUED GOOD NEWS FROM FRONTS OUTLINED   Russia’s Stalingrad Battle May Be Most Decisive Of Conflict, He Says

2TLOF U.S. FORCES KILLED IN TUNISIA   Casualties Totaled 1,258,  Including Dead, Secretary Stimson Announces.

STIMSON VIEWS ‘GOOD NEWS’ FROM BATTLEFRONTS   ARMY FLIERS GET 1349 ENEMY PLANES IN ELEVEN MONTHS

U.S, CASUALTIES IN TUNISIA ARE ISTE AS 7948   Uncliudes 226 Men Listed As Missing, While 211 Aré Reported to Have Been Killed   532 ARE WOUNDED   ‘Says American Air Opera tions In All War Theatres i Have Been “Brilliant i ty Successful”

YANK GASUALTIES IN WAR IN AFRICA TOTAL ONLY 1,258   Figure Includes. Wounded, Missing and Killed

Yank Casualties to Date In Tunisia Total 1,258; Toll Includes 211 Deaths

Casualties In Tunisia 1.258, Says  Stimson   ‘Continued Good News’ From. Fronts Heartening States War Secretary

U.S. CASUALTIES IN NORTH AFRICA TOTAL 18,558   Stimson Reveals 2,184 Were Killed, 9,437 Wounded And 6,937 Missing Or Prisoners From November  8 To May 15.

FIGURE COVERS DEAD, WOUNDED AND MISSING   Allied Total 70,000; Losses of Axis Set at $25,000

Casualties in T unisia Total 1,258 Dead, Wounded And Missing.   BRILLIANT AIR ACTION

Casualties OfU.S.In North Africa Total 18.558   2.184 Killed, 9137 Wounded, 6,937 Missing Or Prisoners,  Stimsan Reports

2,104 Killed in Worth Africa  9,437 Wounded and 6,937 Missing or me

‘U.S. Casualties In North Africa ~ Placed At 18,55   Stimson Says Losses Were 2,184 Killed; 9,437 Wound- , ed And 6,937 Missing   AXIS LOSSES ARE FIXED AT 323,000  (BULLETIN)

1,258 Casualties In Tunisia Fight Total Includes Dea d,  Wounded And Missing, Stimson Reveals

2,184 Americans Killed in Africa: 9.437 Wounded   Those Missing or - Prisoners: Number 6.937. Stimson Says

Casualties Total 1,258  In Tunisia   Stimson Announces 211 Have Been Killed In Action, 532 Wounded And 289 Are Missing ©

Only 2,184 Yanks ‘Killed in Entire African Campaigr   Losses By Allies Reported Under 70,000; Axis Suffered Tremendous Losses In Ficht

Army Casualties In Africa Renorted  Loss Is Light Compared to Foe

‘New Trial Asked For Woman In Greene Co.   ‘Ten Reasons Why New Trial Should Be Granted Are Filed

SEVEN FOUND GUILTY IN FILM CONSPIRACY   Jury Returns Verdicts in Million Dollar Extortion Case After 10 Hours’ Study.

Pla nes Pound. “innumerable” Escape Craft.   Axis Forces Southwest of Bizerte  Ciumann ak

Axis Casualties 42,000; Numbe Of Prisoners Reaches 64,000   Tonician Dehaslo Gave BPadia At Alvlere

Rush Compromise  pen SD gee es ge  Anti-Strike Act”  Anticipate Coal Truce Deadline.

EXPECT ACTION T0 BEAT DEADLINE ON COAL TRUCE   Measure Would Virtually tieup Strike Fomentore Like John L. Lewis.

COMPROMISE ANTISTRIKE BILL MAY SOON BE DRAFTED   House and Senate Conferees Move Swiftly to Complete Measure.

JURY ACQUITS GIRL, 16, IN SLAYING OF FATHER, BROTHER   Verdict Brings Cheers; Mother Escapes Prosecution

What ‘Soldiers WwW ant ~ (Mentioned in Order Of Their Importance)

Oklahoma Has Oil On Capital's Grounds   Also in Backyards of Homes Right In the Heart of Oklahoma City

iptimistic on War ifter Trip Across U. S.   Sun Editor Sees Victory Certain Upon Completing 10,000-Mile Journey

Where Are Servicemen In U. §.2 “Everywhere”   Just About Every City From Coast to Coast Has Its Counterpart of Fort Devens

The Nation's Pet Gripe Is the Bureaucrais   People Everywhere Feel That Washington Is Making a Mess Out of the National Economy

Arizona Desert is Just One Great Wasteland   Los Angeles Hasn't Yet Decided to Be a Bia Town or a Small City

You Have to See It to Appreciate U. §.   Best Way to Know What We Are : Fighting for Besides Our Freedom

The Coal Miner Has No Bed of Roses   So Observes Sun Editor in Going From Pitsburah to Indianapolis

West Coast Fears Jap Aix Raid From Kiska   They Have No Use for Nazis, but They Really Hate and Despise Japs

St. Louis Best Posted City For Air Raid   Far Removed From Either Coast I+ ls Prepared for the Worst

At Least One “Ghost Town Still in U. S.   In Kansas Near Oklahoma Training Base for Enaland's R. A. F.

Cannot Get Pre-War Food Anywhere in U. §   Sun Editor Says at Least He Couldn't Find It, but Adds Nobody Is Going Hunary

SOVIETS SMASH KUBAN ATTACKS   Nazi Thrusts Are Hurled Back In Bitter Hand-To-Hand Fighting

Russians Repulse Counter - Attacks By German Forces   New Attacks In Kuban Are Hurled Back By Soviet Troops   NAZIS LOSE 6,000 TROOPS IN ATTACK

SOVIETS HOLD KUBAN LINES   Germans open new at. tacks after being thrown back seven times

ASK CHANGES IN FARM POLICY   Crop Predictions Bring Renewed Demands From Congress

Solons’ Demands  Grow For Change tn a Far      Pessimistic. Forecast  of Crops Spurs » ~ Criticism of Program

ROOSEVELT DECLARES ROME ‘BOMBING WAS TO°BAVEALLIED LIVES IN SICILY...  ’ CAMPAIGN

Blame In Rome Bombing Rests On Mussolini   Failure To Declare Rome Open City Responsible, Says President Roosevelt   BOMBING DONE TO SAVE ALLIES LIVES

RED AND NAZI AIR MEN SWAP BLOWS   Long Range Soviet Bombers Destroy Munition Dumps.

REDS AND NAZIS TRADE AIR BLOWS   Struggle for Air Supremacy Continues

aT teen er a eet ee. Smee” eer eT es  FOOD SHORTAGE FOR CHICKENS

Nips Thrust at Chungking in Strength   Major Drive Against Chinese Capital Gets Under Wav

LAWYER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN DEATH OF BABY   Pittsfield, Mass. Man Is Charged With Fatally Beating Alleged Abnormal Child In Home

Socialite ls Charged With Slaying Son   Corporation Lawyer and Harvard Graduate Faces Murder Indictment   HELD WITHOUT BAIL

Father Enters Innocent Plea — In Baby Deatl   Pittsfield Attorney Is Held Without Bail Pending Court Hearing Friday

Pleads Innocent Attorney Burned Evidence Of Baby’s Electroecution

Lawyer Says He Did Not Kill His Son   Perform Autopsy On Abnormal Baby

Red Forees Pour Into  White Russi:   Gird for Drive Across Dnieper;  Take 150 Town:

SOVIETS ENGULF 1,000 VILLAGES IN OFFENSIVE SWEEPING WHITE RUSSIA

Offensive Theatens Key Railroad Junetions of Vitebsk, Orsha, Kogilev and Gomel — Germans Being Forced Continually ‘Backward.

WEWAK LASHED BY HEAVY RAID   Allied Bombers Taking Jap Bases Apart One By One

AMERICAN FLIERS FREED BY TURKEY   Sixteen Had Been Interned After Forced Landings

SOLDIERS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN MAY HELP FARM LABOR SHORTAGE  oe y  £   Chairman Fulmer of S. C. Says President  Ayvroves Plan 

SOLDIERS, STUDENTS TO JOIN FARM FRONT   In Areas Facing Serious Labor Shortages

FDR APPROVES USING SOLDIERS IN FARM WORK   But President Stresses Use of Stu: dents as Well, Citing Russia’s Experience

E.R. Approves Using Soldiers For Farm Work   Older School Children Also Slated To Aid In Food Production Job.

Soldiers for  Farm Work   F. R. Approves Plan; Older School Children Also to Be Used

Army, Students May Aid Farmers   Fulmer Reports FDR Approves Plan To Use Soldiers

Use Soldiers  lor Harvest   FDR Approves Use Of Armed Forces In Areas Of Labor Shortage.

County Men Named For New Plan For Laber   Workers Should  Register Names

FRED T.BOYD © . ISCHAIRMAN   Named Concord: Head of _ Greater Boston War Fund Drive -

Writer Who Landed With U. S. Troops At Rendova Describes Zero Hour’

Many New Englanders With Pacifie Fighters   Surprised Japs Easily Knocked Aside by Americans Storming Rendova Beaches

SENATE PASSES LEND-LEASE   DEFEAT OF AXIS POWERS PLEDGED BY ROOSEVELT

MCCULLOCH SIGNS ~ DOZEN NEW BILLS      Piquad, Speaker of the House, Busy Man on Thursday — Gray on  Schoo! Committee.

LEGISLATURE ENDS SESSION   95th Ohio General Assembly Goes Home — Complete 25-Week Session at Columbus. ©

Doctor Missed By Day Time Of Death   Veteran Oklahoman Right Second Time, However

s Missed is Death by Day   He Died Day Later  Than Time He Set, tt Is Stated

iH issed by a Day  But Doctor Knew He Would Die In His Sleep And He Dic

EARLY HALF MILLION PRE}-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS —  .. SLATED: FOR INDUCTION STARTING TOMORROW

DRAFT OF DADS STARTS FRIDAY   Congressional Fight — To Prevent Call Appears Headed For Defeat

Aussie§ Advance in New Guinea; Jap f Force Lashes Back in Solomons

"AUSSIES? GAIN IN CAMPAIGN ON NEW GUINEA   Japanese Air Force Attacks American Invaders on Bougainville

ANZACS ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA   JAPANESE AIRFORCE HITS AT AMERICANS ON BOUGAINVILLE

Nip Air Force Rallying On Solomons Flank To Hit Back At Yank Invaders of Bougainville.

Japs Stiffen Resistance In Solomons   Enemy Planes Strik At Americans And Aussies

Drive Against ‘Fierce Enemy Resistance ‘to Come Within Mile of Commanding Plateau a ie .

'AUSSIES LUNGE THROUGH JAPS DEFENSE LINES   ‘American Airmen Deliver ‘Smashing Blows, But Nips  Again Bomb U. §.-Held Bougainville Area

Airmen Again Raid Bougainville  18 Of 35 Brought Down In Empress Augusta

{Australians Gain. In New- Guinea; Jap. Air ‘Force. Strikes -At ‘Yankees

Aussies Encounter Stiffer Resistance in New Guinea Area   News of War in Pacific Sectors Summarized  for AP Readers

JAP AIR FORCE STRIKING BACK   Aussie Lunge Through Save age Resistance In New Guinea; Jap Planes Inflict Damage As VU. & Airforce Pounds Away.

Nip Airmen Strike Back af Bougainville, Lose 18 Planes bul: Cause Some Casuaities

New Guinea Drive Gains; Japs Strike   Battle Against Savagely Resisting Enemy; Japs In Bougainville Raid

Steaks Cost  More Points  Next Sunday Fewer Needed For Variety  Cuts. However

Steaks To Cost More, Pork Less   New Point . Schedule: Announced Today

Point Value Of Beef Will Rise Sunday   OPA Attempts To Divert American Appetites To Other Meats Beeause Of Beef Shortage

Point Value ‘Of Beef Hiked   Lamb, Veal, Variety Meat Values Drop; Pork Unchanged

STEAKS WILL COST MORE POINTS   OPA Acts to Change American Meat Appetites

POINT VALUES UP ON STEAKS, ROASTS   Steaks Will Cost From One To Three More Points Per Pound.

POINT VALUES ARE UPPED ON CHOICE BEEF   Steaks and Roasts to Cost One to Three Points  More   EFFECTIVE JUNE 6TH   OPA Acts to Change Meat Appetites of American Public

OPA Increases Point Values Oj Some Beef Cuts   A table of consumer point value for meat, fats, fish and. cheese will be found on page 10 of teday’s Journal:Standard.

Increase In: Point Values Of Preferred Beet’ Cuts. Is Announced By OPA   A table of new point values will be found on page 13.

Beef Point Increase to  Shift Buying   Pork, Lamb, Veal and Other Meats Will Replace Preferred Cuts

BEEF STEAKS TO COST MORE IN POINTS A POUND   O.P.A. Seeks To Divert American .. Anppetites

Straight Beef Eaters Hit By Point Changes   Fewer Steaks Under New Schedule; Other Meat Altered Little

STEAKS T0 COST MORE IN POINTS   OPA Seeks To Divert Appetites To Pork, Lamb, Veal And Variety Meats-—Effective Sundav

More Points For Beef   OPA Order Designed to Shift Demand from Beef to Pork and Lamb

MORE POINTS 10 BE REQUIRED 10 PURCHASE STEAKS   Beginning Sunday Customers Must Give Up One to Thre’ Points More To Obiain Beef.   OPA SEEKS BUYING = OF OTHER MEAT CUTS   Pork Generally Remains Unchanged, Lamb, Veal and Other Variety Meats To Be Lowered.

POINTS FOR BEEF ~ BOOSTED BY OF   New Point Values Will Become Effective Next Sunday

Beef To Cost Extra Points  Next Week  OPA Juggles Coupon Values To Stop Buying

Cost Of Steak Up Sharply In Point Charts   OPA Attempts To Shift Purchases To Pork, Lamb By New Schedule.   EFFECTIVE JUNE 6TH

Col. Marchi Known to Many Here   Local persons identi. fy writer of letter from North Africa.

UATE CHIEFS HOLD MEETING   Dewey Warns’ Milk Rationing in East If Grain Is Not Supplied.   \GET MESSAGE FROM FOR

‘PLEASANT DAYS STAY    Light Freeze to Nip Northern  Counties Tonight

CONCORD BEATS BILLERICA BY 60 SCORE   Fourth Victory for Locals and Billerica’s First Defeat of Season

“Limited Duty” Braneh Closed   Re-Examination For Men Serving In This Class

Munda Receives Blasting as 100 American Planes Attack Jap Base   tighty-two Tons of Bombs Dropped; Positions at Bobdubi in Northeast New Guinea Pounded

JAP DEFENSES HEAVILY RAKED   82 Tons Of Bombs Loosed On Munda To Soften Up Base For U. S.  Jungle Force

82 TONS BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON MUNDA AIR BASE   Over 100 American Planes Take Part In Softening-Up Raid   GROUND SITUATION REPORTED UNCHANGED

TEN LOSE LIVES VER WEEK-END   Upper Peninsula Man Killed In Mine Fall Near Iron Mountain.

Strategic Positions _ Unchanged           MONTGOMERY’S FLANKING MOVEMENT MAKES UP FOR GROUND LOST; YANKS PRES: THRU MAKNASSEY HILLS _ —

Germans In Serious Situation   Drive British Back or Mareth Line, but Strategic Position Unchanged

FORCES NAZIS TO RETREAT ON LEFT FLANK   Gen. Clark’s Fighters Push More Than 12 Miles Inland

BERLIN ADMITS ALLIED POWER EXCEEDS NAZIS   Advance Aided by Seizure of Two More Strategic Islands

BAGTIEAD WIDENED BY HE TH ARMY   Allies Seize More Islands  ENEMY CRACKING Resentful Nazis Maul Italians

‘Los Angeles Dealers ‘Predict Many Christmas Trees Will Be Unsold

Goering Calls On People To Sacrifice Even Life; Bombs Delayed Speech

ATLANTIC BATTLE TURNS, DAVIS SAYS   Over-Optimism Curb Urged As April Figures Are Given Public

12 ENGLISH GIRLS KILLED IN ATTACK   German Fighter-Bombers Blast Hostel In East Anglican Town Tresday

AIRMEN KILL 12 ENGLISH GIRLS   Allied Bombers Strike Back After Daylight Kast Anglian Raid

12 KILLED BY GERMAN BOMBS   15 Enemy Planes Raid Britain; Our Craft Over Europe

NAZI RAIDERS KILL 12 GIRLS   Hit at East Anglican Towng RAF Renews Assault On Europe

Fighter-Bombers Kill 12 Girls In English Town  Formations of Allied Planes Strike Back at Continent

German Planes Kill 12 British Girls  Make Daylight Raid Upon East Anglia

Allied Bombers  Raid Continent   Nazis Kill at Least 12 Girls in Smash at East Anglian Town

lkton Community Farm to fave One Crop—Tomatoes   Victory Garden Project Expands Into Program For Planting 25 Acres by Townspecple and Setting Up Community Kitchen to “Put Up” Tomatoes; “No Work, No Share”

American torpedo and dive bombers blast beached Jap ship with 300 pounders   Additional air defeats reported as 46 Nin raiders are shot down

United States Cruiser Lost In Kula Gulf   Four Other Enemy Ships Damaged in Sea Engagement   MacArthur Announces Great Victory in Pacific Offensive

SIX WARSHIPS SUNK, 40THERS ARE DAMAGED   ONE DESTROYER AND CRUISER LOST BY U.S. FORCES

One American Cruiser Sunk in Battle of July 6  GEN’L MacARTHUR TELLS OF VICTORY  Air Defeats of the Japanese Forces Also Mount

Four Other Jap Vessels Are Damaged In Kula Gulf   U.S. Loses One Cruiser, Making Total of Three Since Yank Offensive  Qa... J *. Cc.y.   JAP AIR DEFEATS CONTINUE TO MOUNT

FACTS WILL BE LAID BEFORE SOINNS. PENPIF   Message Friday Expected To Point To Crucial Battles Ahead   OPTIMISM UNDER FIRE   Pronouncement Seen As One Of Most Serious In Many Months

President Draws Up War Report   Expected to Say Worst Fighting Ahead In Talk Fridav.

WAR PROGRESS REPORT LISTED   President Expected To Te! Nation Crucial Fighting Lies Ahead

WAR REPORT TOBE MADE. IN MESSAGE   PRESIDENT DRAWING UP  STATEMENT ON THE over:  ‘ALL, PICTURE OF PROG- — RESS OF WAR

Death Toll Of Bomber Crash Near So. Dakota Air Base Rises To Five

FUEL OIL For SOME opn   “Noneseential” Etabilshments fc Have 40 Per Cent Lass

STRAITS ALSO SAFE: TEDDER   525 Axis Planes Captured in Last Rattles of Africa

AXIS PRISONERS COMING TO U.S.   Farm Work Not Considered Until Problem of Getting Them Here Solved

Axis Prisoners May Come to U. S.  President Says He Assumes This May  D. Tha. f"mnnr

AXIS PRISONERS COMING TO U.S,   FDR and Churchill Discuss . Disposition of 150,309 Taken in Africa

Many of-Axis Captives May Come to U.S.   Roosevelt Says Problem Is Being Discussed With Churchill

BLACK MARKET [S LAID TO OPA   Congress Group Hits at Inequitable Policies of Federal Agencies

Black Market Declared: Nation‘s Wors!   Solons Blame OPA, Agriculture Devariment Policie:

Great Cone Of Light Reaches To Sky After RAF Planes Drop 4,000 Pound Bombs On Berlin

FDRIs Ready To Take Over ~ Nation’s Rails   He Will. Get Union Answer ‘Foday,:Plans to. Make  Binal Annaal

SON-IN-LAW ON TRIAL FOR SLAYING OF OAKES   Revenge Declared Motive for Death As De Mariany Pleads Not Guilty

Smash YANKS, ITALIANS SHOOT 1 Army {7 OUT WITH NAZIS   Guerrillas Turn Out for Street Battle, Copture 15 Fascists, 18 Germans

Guerillas, Doughboys Join To Shoot It Out With ‘Last Naples Axis Pocket

SHE PREFERS GUNPOWDER   -DoughboysIn Thrilling Battle From  Roof-Tops Wipe Out Nazis In Naples

Italian Guerrillas Join Dou ghboys t in Mopping Up Last of Nazis in Naples

Mobs Looted City, Berlin Radio Says   Jailbirds And Prisoners Blamed

Sanananda Point Forces Crumbling   Japs Being Forced Back By Allied Jungle Fighters

Jap Positions In New Guinea: Crumble Under Steady Blow ’ From Allied Jungle Fighters

Jap Positions Are Crumbling  Allied Sapreccac Tn   Allied Successes In New Guinea Reported

JAPS GRUMBLE IN NEW GUINEA   Enemy Positions In Sanananda Area Folding Up  Under Steady Allied laeve

Warn McNutt On Big Worker Shift   Transfer Of 2,800,000 To ‘Essential’ Jobs Would Endanger U. S. Civilian Economy, OCS Director Declares

Warn on  Shift of Labor   OCS TELLS McNUTT MOVE DANGEROUS TO CIVILIAN ECONOMY

PerilTo U.S. Economy iter In Job. Shift   Transfer To Socalled Essential Industries Might Wreck Civilian Economy   BEDROCK IS NEAR   OCS Chief Warns Me. Nutt 54 Hour Work Weel Will Become Necessary

MeNutt Gets  New Warning  On Manpower   Told To Go Careful On Move To Shift 3 Million Workers

‘MENUTT WARNED ~ AGAINST USE OF ~ TERM ‘ESSENTIAL’   ‘All Industries Must Be Maintained,  Expert Says

MPNUTT WARNED OF U.S. CIVILIAN BEDROCK NEEDS   OCS Director Says Population Will Need Certain  Essentia] Services,

URGES CAUTION IN SHIFTING OF U. S. WORKERS   Weiner Says Nation Is Treading Near ‘Bedrock’ of Civilian Economy

OCS TELLS MPNUTT SHIFT OF WORKERS 1S FULL OF DANGER   Change Erom Less Essential To Essential Work May ‘Upset Civilian  i.

Foresee Limit Of Shifting Of War Workers   Civilian Economy Would   Be Close To Bedrock  Under McNuit’s Plan, Survey Shows

Spanish Press Now Admits Germany 1s Preparing To Make Last Stand

NAZIS PREPARE FOR DEFENSIVE   Sinte Italy’s Crumbling Berlin Tone Takes on New Line; Offensive  Not Mentioned

Stimson Praises   Gen. Eisenhower U. S. Losses Heavy In Final Phase Of Battle

Ranks Nazi Rout With ‘Stalingrad   Beaten Man to Man and Army to Army, Stimson Says in Review   LESSON WILL GO ; FAR. AND: WIDE   Praises. Brilliant Planning by Hisenhower and the Superb Execution

Soviets Smash German Lines On Dnieper   Russians Announce 50 Towns Captured In Offensive

Now 35 Miles From Pre-war Polish Line   Masses of Guns And Tanks Pour Through Hole Weat of Kiev

Half Million Reds Battle Germans in Dnieper Bend in New Offensive, Close Quarter Fighting Continues on Kerch

Reds Pouring Through Gap West of Kiev   Reach Point 35 Miles From Pre-War Polish Border In Speedy Advance

Troops Pour Through Gap West of Kiev   New Advance Carries Soviets Into Baranovka

Russian Army Near Korosten Junction in Swift Advances   Gemans Admit Soviet Break-Through — in Bend of Dnieper

GREAT FORCE CUTS THROUGH GERMAN LINES         Masses of Men, Cavalry, Tanks and _ Self-Propelled Guns Push 42 Miles Into Baranovka— Units Near Korosten.

Reds Pour In Masses Of Troops   42-Mile Advance: Is: Made Through Hole West.of Kiev; Drive Nears Border   GERMANS. TELL OF BIC: SOVIET GAINS   Big Withdrawal of. “Nazis May Be Under Way, ! Tt ds Indicated

Reds Advance In Push West Of Gomel   Nazis Claim Rechitsa Held Despite Heavy Russian Attacks

SOVIET COSSACKS AND TANKS SMASH GERMAN DEFENSES   Reds About To Cut The German Front Into Sectors   ARE OPERATING FAR BEHIND NAZI LINES

Now 35 Miles From Pre-war Polish Line  Masses of Guns And Tanks Pour . Through Hale

Russians Driving  On Polish Border   Within 35 Miles of Boundary Thru Hole in Line ' _ West of Kiev   OFFENSIVE PICKS UP   German Radio Acknowledges Increasing Drive ' on Many Fronts

GREAT BATTLE IS RAGING IN DNEIPER BEND   Berlin Broadcast Says Reds Are Hurling Nearly 500,000 Men Against Nazi Defenses   ADMIT BREAK-THROUGH

MASSES OF RED ARMY INFANTRY, CALVARY AND TANKS MOVING  POURING THROUGH HOLI IN GERMAN LINE RUS-

Soviet Columns Only 35 Miles From Old Border   Masses of Troops Pour Through Hole West of Kiev

Masses of Troops Are Pouring Today Into Hole West of Kiev.   NEARING RAIL IUNCTION

SPEEDY RED DRIVE NEARING SOVIET BORDER   Battle in Ukraine Reaches  Decisive Point as Berlin Admits New Breaks in Thaie Tinac.

Reds Now Only 3: Miles From Old Polish Border   Continue Smash Through Gap In Germans Lines Before Kiev

NAZIS REPORT DRIVE TOWARD POLAND GAINS   Reds Advance Closer To Krivoi Rog as Nazis Crack

Infantry, Tanks, Self-Propelled Guns Pouring  Through Line   Nazis Acknowledge Another Russian Gain West of Gomel

RED FORCES ONLY 35 MILES FROM OLD POLISH FRONTIER   Masses Of Russian Infantry, Cavalry, Tanks And Mobile Guns Pour Into Baranovka In Area West Of Kiev —Soviet Columns Advance 42 Miles Since Capture Of Zhitomir—First Ukrainian Army Still 150 Miles From 1941 Demarcation Line Through Poland

MASSES OF RED ARMY INFANTRY, CALVARY AND TANKS MOVING   POURING THROUGH HOLE IN GERMAN LINE. RUSSIANS NEARING BORDER

Soviets Pile Through Hole West of Kiev   Troops Now Within 35 Miles of Pre-wor Rus-Polond Border.

Seizure Of Town Would Halt Escape Of Nazis In North   Army In South Closes On Town Of Korosten, Big Rail Center, Bags 20 More Places On Dnieper Bend

Soviet Forces Push Ahead to Rechitsa Gate   Germans’ Defense Prevents Russians From Taking Town Itself So Far

Russians in A Broad 42Mile Plunge   Keds’ Ukrainian  - Armies Pour into Widening Heie  . West of Kiev

Infantry, Cavalry, Tanks and   Seif-Prepelied Guns Poured  Into the Hole West of Kiev to Baranovka.   A FORTY-TWO MILE ADVANCE RECORDED   Took the Plunging Soviet Columns Into Baranioka, Since Capture of the Raid Junetion, Zhitomir Saturday.

Russians Crack Dnieper Lines   Bitter Fighting In Crimea Still Raging, Say Nazis

POUR THROUGH HOLE IN LINES WEST QF KIEV   Gain of 42 Miles Sirce Saturday Made by Plunging Columns

Germans Report Russians Beaten Back At Rechitsa   Big Battle Raging In Dnieper Bend As Soviets Break Line

‘Huge Forces Pour Through Defense Gap   Soviets Plunge Into Baranovka Following Capture of Zhitmoir

Reds Drive To Rechitsa  Near Gomel   Still Unable to Capture The Town Itself, Due To Counter-Attacks

, soviets Only 35 Mi. From © Qld Poland   Reds Advance 42 Miles From Captured Zhitomir To Baranovka.

THREATEN TO CUT OFF LAST ESCAPE ROUTES OF NAZIS   RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON RAIL CENTERS OF RECHISTA, KOROSTEN

_REDS NOW CONTROL 50- MILE ‘ST RETCH OF LENINGRADODESSA RAILROAD LINE   Berlin Says Big Battle Raging in Dnieper Bend. 50 More Towns Shut Up in Continuing Drive Toward Old Polish Border, Moscow Reports

Troops In 35 Miles of OldLine   42-Mile Advance Reaches Baranovka Beyond Zhitomir.

RAIL CENTER OF LUINO BELIEVED ALLIED TARGET   Air Attack So Violent It Is Heard In Lugano, Switz-erland; Sofia Also Bombed   ITALY BATTLE LINES REMAIN UNCHANGED       Attack Un Bulgarian Capital Designed te Disleeate Traffic Over Whele Balkan Rail System

Reds Reach Point Only 35 Miles From Borders Of Russia and Poland

RUSSIAN FORCES GAIN 42 MILES   Soviets Take Baranovka, Only 35 Miles From Oid Polish Border

Reds Plunge 30 Miles West Of Zhitomi1   Broad Advance Is Made Toward Old Frontier Of Poland; Break In Line Told By Nazis

Russians Nearing  Poland   SOVIET ARMY MASSES POUR INTO NEW HOLE IN 42-MILE ADVANCE

NAZIS FLEEING FROM RECHITSA LINES TODAY   Germans Put Ur Stiff Battle Asainst Redc

TROOPS POUR INTO HOLE IN NAZI LINE   Gain Of 42 Miles Is Made Since Saturday; Korosten Next Goal Of Fast Moving Red Army

NAZIS REVEAL RED ADVANCES   Soviets Theaten Railway Connecting Gomel Line  To Poland

ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT IS NEAR MARSHES   Drive Toward Old Polish Border Continues

Allied Planes Travel Far To Pound Japanese   Enemy Installations Over 1,800-Mile Are Of Islands And Ships Attacked.

Allies Stage Air Raids in Pacific   Cover 1,800-Mile Arc And Attack 3 Vessels

Sailors Get On The Beam And Wipe Out Zoot Suit  Ganasters Of The Glad Plaid After Police Fail

Los Angeles Sharpies Hide in Terror as Navy Landing  Parties Titade Reet-Pleat East Side With Flyi ing Fists

Walker Lauds  Social “Gain:   Chairman -Of _Demoerats “Ts. Enthusiastic Over  ‘Provram Of FDR

Social Gains In Last 10 Years Are Greatest in History, Walker Asserts

! Radio Tokyo Reporis Heavy Figh!ing in Progress — Resistaace Strong at Tarawa   WARSHIPS COVER   Truk Seen as Objective in Nimitz’ Attack—Allies Advance on Bougainville, New Guinea

American Soldiers And Marines Land On Tarawa And Makin Isles In Gilbert Group In Twin Drives   Week-Long Series Of Aerial Sorties On Gilbert And Marshall Groups Paves Way For Invasion Of Strategic Bases Of Japs

Yanks Battle. Japs On Two. Gilbert Island   Troops Land ; On Beaches afMakin and -Torawe

UNITED STATES HAS BEGUN ITS PROMISED PACIFIC OFFENSIVE  - AMERICAN SOLDIERS ANE  MARINES LAND ON TWO - GILBERT ISLANDS

Battle Japs On Cen:ral Pacific Route To Foe’s  Big Naval Base At Truk

Fight Is Carried to the Japanese   American Soldiers and Ma. rines Move to Low Sandy Beaches of Tarawa.

FIERCE BATTLE IS RAGING IN PILBERT ISLES      Japs Desperately Oppose Yank Invasion Of Tarawa, Makin

CENTRAL PACIFIC DRIVE FLAMES INTO ACTION   American Forces Punch  Out Beachheads Against Jap Defenders of Small  Island

Lewis Says Operators Broke Pact   Hints Continued Work Agreement Ended By ‘Violation’

LEWIS THREATENS SOFT COAL MINES WORK STOPPAGE   Wage Dispute Certified To  War Labor Board; Labor Disputes Spread Over Home Front.

KISKA ISLAND — BASE BOMBED   U. S. Airmen Lash Jap Foothold 6 Times In One Day

SIX ASSAULTS ARE MADE ON JAP POSITIONS   Navy Reveals Latest Action In Series  Of Offensive Blows In North Pacific.

2,000-MILE RAID GARRIED OUT BY ). §, LIBERATORS   Cruiser, Cargo Ship Hit In Assault On  Japanese Islands ™

Yank Planes Bomb Macassar  First Bombing of   First Bombing of Celebes Area Since Battle of Java

BOMBERS FLY 2,000 IMILES TO BOMB ‘TAPS ON CELEBES.   Likerators, Dump 38 Tons of  Bombs on Foe at Macassar  —Hit Cruiser and -Cargo  Vescel

Yanks Pound JapJavaBase, Slam Cruiser   2,000-Mile Flight Fires Macassar; Aussies Beat Mubo Troops

Grim Warning Given Japs In 2,000-Mile Yank Raid   Cruiser, Cargo Vessel, Docks Smashed Iu First Macassar Visit Since Java’s Fall

YANKS ATTACK IN EAST INDIES   Americans Fly 2,000 Miles To Strike at Macassar In Celebes.   ONLY ONE BOMBER LOST

ATTACK UPON ENEMY ISLAND IS A WARNING   Thirty-Eight Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Macassar   In the Dutch Celebes Rv U. S. Airmen    CRUISER BELIEVED HIT

Isle of Conquest Blasted by Airmen   American Fliers Make 2000-Mile Roundtrip To Drop Bombs on Macassar, Hit Jap Cruiser:

AMERICAN AIRMEN FLY 2,000 MILES TO BOMB CRUISER   SERVE GRIM WARNING ON JAPS THAT DAY OF CONQUEST IS OVER

JAPANESE HAVE GRIM WARNING   38 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Macassar, Dutch Celebes, Where No Bombs Have Fallen Since Japs Won Battle for Java.

Undisturbed Jap Isle Is Attacked  Bombers Go 2.000 Miles  To Blast Cruiser   Two Crash Together

2,000 MILES. ~ TO BOMB JAPS   Grim Warning As 38 Tons of Bombs Drop on Macassar

Axis Frantic ToGet‘Inside’ Parley Facts   Papen Tries to Pump Turkish News Correspondenis on Churchill Visit

Investigation Of F.C. C. Is Decided Upon   House Directs Inquiry By Special Committee Headed by Rep. Cox   INDUCTIONS ATTACKED

FCC TO UNDERGO PROBE   House Votes To Investigate Radio Commission

House Orders Probe Of FCC “Bureaucracy”  Bill Extending Work Week Faces Waw Dea

Cox Plan To Clean “Nest ‘Of Rats” O.K.   Communications  Commission ToBe Investigated

House Orders  Study QF FCC   Rep. Cox Calls Chairman Fly ‘Worst Of All The  Bureaucrats In ‘Town.’

FCG PROBE ORDERED   Chalrman Fly Called Worst Bureaucrat by Congressman

YANKS GAIN 6 MILES IN PUSH TOWARD COAST   Germans Attack 8th Army In Desperats Atrempi to Escape Trap

AMERICANS REPULSE NEW AXIS ATTACK   Churchill Admits Nazis Have Almost Regained Ground

War Dads Will Meet On Thursday Night   Committee on Nomination Will Be Appointed by Presiident Joseph H. Warren.

Lady Astor Has One Of Roughest Days  Clashes With M. P.s And Warworkers

President Rios To Speak to People Tonight   Argentina Is Only Neutral Nation in This Hemisphere

Chile Breaks Relations with Axis Powers   Argentina Is Now the Only American Republic Maintaining melations with Germany, Italy and Japan

CHILEAN RELATIONS WITH AXIS. BROKER   Argentina Now Sole American Nation Out Of Fold

United States Is Notified Of Action Taken By South American Country

Chileans severing Relation   Break With Axis Leaves Only Argentina Neutral Among American Nations.   SEND DIPLOMATS BACK

CHILE BREAKS  RELATIONS WITH AXIS   Decree Signed After Approval By Senate

CHILE BREAKS RELATIONS WITH AXIS      Break Leaves Argentina Only Pro-Axis Nation In South America —

Chile Breaks Off With Axis   _ Argentina Remains Only American Nation Maintaining Relations

Chile Break With Axis By Tonight Seen   ‘Senate Gives Okay To President; Nation Cheers Action

CHILE SEVERS AXIS RELATIONS   Argentina Only Nation Still Friendly With Axis

GHILEANS BREAK AXIS RELATIONS   Argentina Only Latin To Be Neutral With Germans Now

Chile Completes Break   Axis Representatives Tule Relations Severed

ESCAPES FROM CRIPPLED BOMBER   Pfc. Earl C. Jacobs Drops Through Hole Blasted In Plane By Japanese Above Guadalcanal

TAKING SUSPECT BACK TO OREGON   Folkes, Accused Of Murdering Mrs. James In Sleeper Berth, Has Made Oral  Confession.

‘Men, Women! Old at 40, 50, 60! Get Pep  Feel Years Youncer.FullofVim

Gov. Martin Declaims vs  Govt. Trend      GREATEST EMPLOYER, BORROWER, LENDER, YET GOVERNMENT IS NOT SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS, HE ASSERTS.   5,000,000 On Payrolls

Record RAF Force Hits Nazi Capital; U. 8. Flying Forts Batter West Reich

Ludwigshafen Hit By Huge Armada   Russians Only 50 Miles From Polish Border; Weather Improves in Italy

Ickes Opens Way  For Miners To  Escape Fines Order Allows  Negotiation On Matter

President Saw Tough Training At Carson, Denver War Plant, Hospital, and Lowry Last Week

BATTLE-CONDITIONING OF ARMY _ TROOPS WATCHED WITH INTEREST BY ROOSEVELT AT CAMP CARSON

German Blows Force  British Back   Axis Resistance Stiffens as Allies Push Onward

COUNTER-BLOW BY DEFENDERS RECOVERS HILI   German Resistance Stiffens Along Tunisian Line

Counter Attacks Are Heavy   U.S. and British Converge on Tebura; British Forced Off Summit  of Tunis Plain.

BRICKER BACK HOME BUT TO LEAVE SOON   Governor Attends Convention Of American Legion

@ BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD  Army Doctors Work Miracles to Save Soldiers’ Lives

Miracles of Medical Science Bringing Back to Useful Lives Victims of Wat

@ PEI tio AMINE UY GOOD  Army Doctors Work Mi-acles to Save Soldiers’ Lives

 Greater. or Chance for Service Man in This War to Survive Under New Treatment

Threat fo . Balkans. Increased   Hitler Moves Fast Against Mounting Allied Menace to Several Areas   GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPY CORFU   . Port of Split Also Is Attacked; Fall of Foggia Snurs Action —

Germans Move To Safeguard Balkan Region  Conquered Area _ 3Ae  ae te rn.   Conquered Area Menaced As Allies Take Over Foggia

Front Endangerec  Allies’ Capture of Fog  , Germans Rout Ital  Corfu and Clain  pture of Split Fron y Guerrillas.

SPLIT ALSO. RE-CAPTURED ‘GERMANS SAY      Move To Offset Loss Of Foggio’s Strategic Base

Treasury Carries Fight On Rum! Plan to Senate   Favors Doughton Plan to Wipe Out Half of 1943 Taxes on Income

ITALY RECEIVES HARD POUNDING FROM BOMBERS   And There’s More to Come; Mediterranean Supply Lines Open to Allies

Fires Visible for 60 Miles Set.  at Civitavecchia, Terminal *  of a Ferry to i Sardinia,   MEDITERRANEAN OPEN  TO ALLIED SHIPPING   Supply Vessels Now Can  Move Length of Sea With ™ Little Risk, Air Com- ~' mander Tedder Says.

ALLIES BLAST REMAINS OF ITALIAN EMPIRE   Allied Shipping Moves Through Mediterranean

Allies Blast — Italian Ports ©   Mediterranean ‘Now Open-and Vessels Move at. Will. --

Air Warfare Striking At Italy s Heart   Bombers From Afri ean Bases Virtually LUnmolested

Fortresses Hit Port Near Rome; Sea Lane Opened   Italian Arsenal City Blasted in Heavy Raid 37 Miles From Capital ; Direct Hits Scored On Harbor Ships, Fuel Storages

Allies Batter Italv’s Ports   Rome Vicinity Is Pounded Mediterranean Now Oven

YANK BOMBERS POUND ITALIAN ARSENAL, SHIPS  Doolittle’s “Fliers Blast  Terminal Of Ferry To  Sardinia, 37 Miles   From Capital  OTHER DOCKS FIRED IN ABRIAL ATTACKS  British Navy's s Big Guns Badly Damaged Island Base And No Axis Planes Are Seen     Doolittle’s Fliers Blast Terminal Of Ferry To Sardinia, 37 Miles From Capital   British Navy's Big Guns Badly Damaged Island Base And No Axis Planes Are Seen

PORT BOMBED IN ROME AREA BY DOOLITTLE   MEDITERRANEAN SEA OPEN TO ALLIED SUPPLY SHIPS

Fortresses Attack Port Near Rome   Rain Bombs Upon Civitavecchia, Sardinia  And Sicily

Allied Airmen Swarming Over Italy, Germany   Bombs Dropped Near Rome And Yankees Score Heavily In Emden Day Raid

Realities of War Near to Rome  Allied Bombers Hit - Heavily at Italy

Mediterranean Is Opened To Allies   United Nations Shipping Moves Virtually Unmolested Through Vital Supply Lanes

Allied Planes Smashing At Duce’s Cities   Mediterranean Is Now Open To Ships, Says Air Official; Lauds

War Moves Close to Heart of Italy as Allies Attack by Skies   Thousands Worked Secretly Preparing For African Landing

U.S. Bombers Strike City  Close-to Rome   Allied Shipping Is - Virtually Unmolested in “Mare: Nostrum’?

Realities of War Move Closer to Heart (Of Italy With Continued Allied Bombings from African Bases

BOMBERS NOW STARTING HEAL WORK ON ITALY   Doolittle Fiying Forts Raid Ferry Terminal Part Close to Rome.   MEDITERRANEAN NOW OPEN TO ALLIED SHIPS

INDUCTED IN SERVICE FROM NEWTOWN BOARD   Local Draft Board No. 2 Makes Public List of Those  Going Into Service   GO INTO ARMY, NAVY

BOARD 2 SENDS MANY TO SERVICE BRANCHES   One To Coast Guard, 2 Tc Marine Corps; Several To Army, Navy  MAKE NAMES PUBLIC

MEN FROM BOARD 2 AREA ENTER FOUR SERVICE BRANCHES   Most Take Army Oath, With The Next Largest Number for Navy   MARINE CORPS, THREE   Inducted Several Days Ago; Leave Soon To Commence Training

INDUCT SELECTEES INTO ARMY, NAVY FROM BOARD No. 2   Eighteen Enter The Army and Ten Sign Up with Navy   LANGHORNE AREA   Those Entering Army Will Start Training Middle of Month

DRAFT OF FATHERS AFTER OCTOBER 1   Selective Service Hopes to Start at Same Time in ~All States   ADJUSTMENT IN CALLS

WILL EQUALIZE FATHER DRAFT   Will Be Started Same Time in All States

Draft to Be Made ~ Uniform      “Yall to Fathers Will Be Started at Same Time in All States   ADJUSTMENTS ARE TO BE MADE SOON   Sen, Wheeler Is Seeking Congressional Action to DP Delay Call to Fathers

Father Draft in All 48 States   Equalizing Calls ls Bureau’s Goal

Adjust Quotas To Use Supply Of Single Men   Drafting Of Fathers Will Start At Same Time In All 48 States, Says Headquarters

Adjusted Calls To Equalize Draft of Dads   Summons to Come at Same Time in Al! States Next Month

Sen. Caraway Pleads For Peace Measure   International Cooperation After War Might Banish Conflicts

“WILL END WARS’   Senate’s Only Woman Mem. bers Favor Connally  Resolution

Isolation Is Assailed As Archaic   Adoption . Of Connally Resolution Urged By Senator Caraway As Peace Insurance

Connally Bill  Banishes Wars   Only Woman In Senate Says Isolation Kor America Is Archaie.

WOMAN SENATOR 1 FAVOR OF PROPOSAL      Senator Caraway Speaks in Support of Post War Rasohitian.

PLAN 10 SEND LABOR LEADERS 10  SEE WAR FRONTS   industrial Leaders Would Sen How Badly Goods are Needed.

‘Hull Leaves for Vacation After Sudden Reorganization of Agencies ‘Dealing With Foreign Affairs

HARRIMAN 13 SLATED FOR MOSCOW PQDT   Lend-Lease ‘Expediter To Take Ambassadorship

State Department Now Top Agency  Among Foreigh Affairs Groups,  Harriman Tentative Envoy To USSR

HULL TOP MAN IN NEW FOREIGN AFFAIRS SET-UP   All Agencies Consolidated

Sec. Hull Takes Brief Vacation   Report That Harriman Is Tentative Choice as Standley's  Successor

Harriman Is Slated To Get  Moscow Post   Lend-Lease Expediter Is Chosen To Accompany Secretary Hull On Trip To Moscow Next Month

REDS WITHIN 40 MILES OF ODESSA   Armies Of Soviet Close Mouth Of Dnieper River

TIME CHANGE — AT COLUMBUS   STATE CAPITAL TO GG ON “FAST” TIME THIS SUNDAY~EFFECTIVE UNTIL. NEXT  OCTOBER ~

Dog Bites 20 Americans, but When He Sees Jap He Really Goes To Work

DOG OFFICIALLY CITED FOR ) AID AGAINST THE JAPANESE   “Hey” Helped Forces in the South Pacific to Dispose of a Bothersome Enemy Sniper and Mortar Firespotter

COOL FRONT IS ON WAY   To Force Temperature Down From Midsummer Levels

BOARD BANS MEAT PACKER WAGE BOOS]   Votes 7 to 4 Against Up In Rates; Union Head. Plans Fight

CHEROKEE SAD FOR WAR DEAD   Mourns Death of Two and - the Wounding of Another

FDR Making Second Trip of Inspection  of U.S. War Effort   Has Seen Thousands of Fit, Brenzed Troops Anxious to Fight   Roosevelt Loa

 12 To 20 Men Die In Army  Plane Grash   12) Bodies Found — at Wreehage of Plane that Crashed in Bad Weather Near Maxton Ear. ly Yesterday. One Official Report Placed ‘Voll JAt 19,

12 To 20 Men Dic In Army Plane Crash   12 Bodics Found. at Wreckage of Plane that Crashed in Bad Wea. ther Near Maxton Ear. ly Yesterday. One OFff. cal Report Placed Toll At 19.

Hoover To Confer With  Governors   NINE MIDWESTERN EXECUTIVES AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THREE OTHER CORNBELT STATES TO CONSULT ON FOOD.      Short 70,000 Workers

Cologne Plants Bombed Again by Swift RAF Fleet   rour German Fighter: Shot Down over Strait of Dover

RAF Again Pounds Great Enemy Points in France   All Planes Return  Safely After Givina Heavy Blow

COLOGHE POUNDED - BY BRITISH FLIERS   Attack Follows. Ruhr Valley Raid Thursday Night

RAF Bombers Hit Industrial Area In Cologne Raid   Ruhr Heavily Hit in Attack; 21 Bombers Fail to Return to Base

COLOGNE AREA AGAIN BOMBED   Daytime Offensive of RAF Blasts Supply: Trains:. Set In Frinte: ”

COLOGNE AREA IS BOMBED IN DUSK ASSAULT   SUPPLY TRAINS ARE SHOT UP IN RAID  OVER FRANCE

COLOGNE AREA AGAIN BOMBED   Daytime Offensive of RAF Blasts Supply Trains.  In France

Afrika Korps Retreats Toward Sfax and Gabes: Allies Reclaim Pass   Weather, Stronger German Resistance Slows Russian Drive; U.S. Airmen Raid Germany; British Hit Nurmberg

Allied Land And Air Forces Strike Axis In Tunisia, Europe   US Bombers Blast Northwest Germany In Daylight Attack; Rommel Forces Continue Flight In Central Tunisia

GUUNTER OnE FORGING NAZI TO YIELD GAINS   Fleeing Axis Forces Facing Encirclement Threat From Two Sectors

CITY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO AID IN TIN GAN DRIVE   FACTS ABOUT BIG TIN CAN DRIVE

TIN GAN DRIVE IN WAR PUSH WILL BE STAGED THURSDA)   FACTS ABOUT THE TIN SCRAP DRIVE

British Invasion Units  Land On Toe of Italy   Hundreds of Ships Carry Troops ~ Across Messina Straits To Mainland

NAZI TROOPS EVACUATING PENINSULE   Germans Fear To Be Cut O# By Further Troop Landing

Nazis Evacuate Southern Italy   Fear Other Allied Landinas Imminent

GERMANS EVACUATING   Nazis Fleeing From Tip Of Halian Boot, Reports Claim

8th Army Wins Mainland Foothald In ‘Vast Scale’ Crossing From Messina

German Troops Reported Fleeing Boot to Escape Being Trapped by New Landings

East Gels Less Gas, Fuel Oil   Motorists, Stores, Schools, Theaters Hit By OPA Rulin

NAZIS THREATEN REPRISALS AFTER KHARKOV. TRIAL   Hint British, American Airmen May Be Victims   ‘CRIMINAL’ ACTIONS OF AVIATORS DENOUNCED

REPRISAL ACTION IS INDICATED   Kharkov War Guilt Hangings Blamed In Report

Nazis Threaten Retaliation Against Anglo-Saxon Prisoners Because of War Guilt Trial at Kharkov

BOMBERS HALL JAP AIRFIELD IN SOLOMONS   Possible Hit On Transport Also Reported In Raid By Big Fortresses

Jap Airfields In Solomons  Are Attacked   Possible Hit  Qn Transnort

Jap Transport Reported Hit In Solomons   Two Other Enemy Vessels Attacked Near The Aleutians   Japan Masses Ships At Big Rabaul Base   Said To Be Larger Than Any Yet Formed In Southwest Pacific

Japs And Allies Spar In Pacific   Sanananda Objective  Of Next Thrust

Fortresses Make Two New Raids   Bomb Japanese Airfields And Score Possible Hit On Transport In Solomons Area

HUNTING JAPS IN NEW GUINEA MUD   PATROLS PROBING SWAMPS FOR WEAK SPOTS IN DEFENSE

Jap Airfields In Solomons Bombed  Two Enemy Vessels Are Alsou Under Attack In Aleutian Waters

NAVY REPORTS. TWO NEW RAIDS ON AIRFIELDS      Also Announce Possible Hit On Jap Trans-. port In Solomons

Seize 21 More Towns In South   sermans Recapture Hill Positions  New Tunisian Fighting, Report U.S. Paratroop Attack.

FLYING FORTRESSES BOMB TRANSPORT   Other Aircraft Aitack Airfields: More Nippon Ships _atRaboul

Allies. Menaced By New Jap Base   Foes From Munda Fielc Score Some Successes

‘Possible Hit’’ Made On a Jap Transport   American Fliers Also Stage Raids on Enemy Airfields at Munda and at Kahili, Near Buin on Bougainville Island.

Japs Massing More Ships   Forces Gathering at Rabaul Excel Those  In Previous Attacks

GAS PRODUCTS - FROM AMERIC   Essential Materials “Going to Franco, Haves Says

Spain Gets American Oil   Country Getting More Than The East Coast

FLU WAVE IS SPREADING IN PHILA. TODA’   Hospitals Ban Visitors; 200,000 Are Stricken

ALLIES GAIN IN DRIVE ON SALAMAUA   U. S. Troops Move Up Three Fourths Of a Mile

SEES BLACK MARKETS      Threaten to Equal Bootlegging of Twenties, Says Reed

WLB Grants Plane Workers Pay Boost   Labor Members Say Increase Too Small

WAGE INCREASE GRANTED BOEING PLANT WORKERS   Decision Of WLB Is Assail“ed By Five Members Of Board      250,000 AIRCRAFT EMPLOYES AFFECTED

Approval Given Wage Increases   Action Protested * By Five On Board

Grant Wage Increase Af Boeing Planf  8 Months Effort fo Stabilize Wages in Industry Ends

ORDER HOLLAND STATE OF SIEGE   ‘Serious Disturbances’ Follow Order to Former Soldiers.   HITLER SPEEDS DEFENSE

JITTERY HUNS AGAIN RESORT TO EXECUTIONS   Dutch Patriots Put to. Death As Result of Disorders Prefacing Genera! Strike   DISTURBANCES ARE ‘TERMED “SERIOUS”   Hitler Faces Double Task; Germany Dazed By Defeat In North Africa

Report Netherlands In State of Siege   As Result Of Serious Disturbances Following Reinternment Order

STATE OF SIEGE 15 DECREED THROUGHOUT NAZI NETHERLANDS  HITLER ALSO FACED WITE DEFENSE PROCRAM AND

Twenty-six Dutch Patriots Executed, 10 Others . Facing Death   DISORDERS GROW IN LOW COUNTRIES   Nazis Charge Attempts are Made to Organize General Strike

Netherlands Disturbances  Are Crushed   Stale of Siege Ordered as Result of Attempted - Strike

Germans Dazed By Defeat In Africa  State Of Siege Decreed In Holland As Germans Look To Their Defenses

STATE OF SIEGE IN HOLLAND, DUTCH EXECUTED; HITLER SENDS TRUSTED AIDES TO DEFENDITALY

State Of Siege In Holland: As  Nazis Worry   Disorders On Increase: Hitler Sends Goering.  Himmler To Handle Tralian Forces   Ja panese Gain Against British

REPORT STATE OF SIEGE DECREED IN ‘OCCUPIED HOLLAND   Claim 26 Dutch Patriots Executed May 2 and Ten Others Sentenced to Death as Result of Disorders

Nazi Guns Take Lives In Holland   Execute 26 Patriots In An Effort To Quell Disturbances Arising From Strike Move

DISORDERS IN DUTCH AREAS   State Of Siege Decreed And 26 Patriots Executed In Broad Strike Threat

Germans Execute 26 Dutch Patriots as State of Siege Proclaimed in Netherlands   10 Mere Are Sentenced to Death; News of Defeat in North Africa Hits Germans "Like Blow on Head"

Nazis Order All Holland Under Siege   sf Report 26 Dutch Patriots Already Exeeuted With 10 Others Facing Death

‘Holland Put Under State of Siege by German Authorities   7 Hitler, Facing Double Task, Fears Uprising in The Netherlands

SIEGE AFTER KEW DISORDER   26 Executed; 10 More To! Be Shot By Nazi  Conquerors    FOOD STRIKE LOOMS   Hitler Seeks To Cushion Blow of Defeat In Africa

NAZIS ACT TO HALT INCREASE IN DISORDERS   Invasion Threat Stirs Occupied Europe to New Violence

Axis Home Front Dealt Crushing Blow as Battle of Tunisia Draws Near

Rommel Resting Restlessly In Reich.   ‘Unrest In Occupied Lands, In Italy And At Home Gives Hitler Many New Headaches

STATE OF SIEGE DECREED THRU ‘OUT HOLLAND   26 Dutch Patriots Have Been Executed and Ten Others Sentenced to Death ::

State of Siege Decreec ‘In Holland    Nazi Propaganda Agencies   Having Difficulty Explaining Tunisian Affair to German People

Disorders Break Out Over Europe After African Win   Germans ‘Stunned’ By News; Army Leaders Amazed By Yank Fighting Ability

HOLLAND FACES NAZI SQUEEZE   DECREE STATE OF SIEGE, EXECUTE 26 PATRIOTS

Nazis Clamp Down Siege on Holland To Halt Uprisings   Enslaved Europe Straining at Nazi Chains as Hitler Feverishly Builds Defenses Against Inevitable Allied Invasion Dutch Patriots Executed; Axis Defeat in Tunisia Has  Serious Repercussions in Germany and Italy

GERMANS ORDER STATE OF SIEGE IN LOW COUNTRY   Nazis Execute 26 Hollanders Who Attempted To Stage Strike

Axis Decrees State Of Siege For Holland   Twenty-Six Dutch Patriots Executed As Result Of Disorders

HOLLAND UNDER STATE OF SIEGE   26 Dutch Patriots Executed, 10 Others Sentenced to Die as Disorders Spread

26 DUTCH PATRIOTS EXECUTED   State Of Siege Decreed By Nazi Authorities

New Unrest In Holland   State of Siege Proclaimed Throughout Nazi-Occupied Area

NAZIS EXECUTE 24 IN HOLLAND   State of Siege Ordered As Sequel to Disorders, Threatening a Strike

HITLER STARTS REORGANIZING ITALIAN ARMY   Goering and Himmler Said To Have Been Sent to The Aid of Mussolini   DEFEAT STUNS NAZIS

BUGLER’S CALL GETS YANKS UP SMILING   Americans in Europe Jitter-Bug Out of Bed as Swing Notes End Their Slumber.

I3 Below Reported Last Night   Spirit Lake Coldest Spot ir State in First Cold Wave  of New Year

Signs Of Trouble Between Germans And Italians; Nothing Super About Nazi Army, Americans Find

Germans Shoot Italian Soldiers; : Yanks Find Nazis not Super-men

SENATE OPPOSES BOOSTING TAXES   House Measure For $2,139,000,000 Highly Favored

SENATE BEGINS TAX BILL WORK   Little Boost In Revenues Is Looked For

German Planes Make Daylight Raid On London   Drop Bombs In Rrief Attack

Old Age Meeting Will Be Held At Courthouse Here Saturday, Nov. 6th

LOCKBOURNE BOMBER GRASHES IN INDIANA   Three of Crew Are Killed In Take-off Accident

SOVIET TROOPS ARE CLOSING IN ON NOVOROSSISK   Russian Artillery Taking Heavy Toll Of Enemy In Large-Scale Offen e eiwe

Jap Resistance Stiffening Before Munda   American Troops... -Make Steady Gains In Drive, However

JAP RESISTANCE STIFFER AS YANKS HAMMER MUNDI   Continued Advance, However, Is Slowly Closing Allied Death Tran.

JAP RESISTANCE STIFFENS TODAY IN MUNDA AREAS   Belief Held Out, However, That Death Trap Is Closing on New Georgia Base.

. Resistance ‘of Enemy " Stiffens as Americans'Seek to Take Last Defenses at Munda — Continued Advances Closing Death Trap on New Georgia Base. ‘

“TIGHTENING -DEATHTRAP   Airmen Score Hits On » Enemy Warship And Sink 200 Barges

Japs Stiffen MundaLines   Yankees Battle Way To Edve of Airfield

Jap Resistance At Munda Has Grown Stiffer   Yanks Hammer Against Enemy's Last Defenses

SAPS’. RESISTANCE STIFFENS AS U. 8.  LINES NEAR MUNDA   Allied Planes Score Bomb . Hits On Warship And Destroy 19 Or More Barges

Troops Pound Last Defenses  - Near Mund   Americans Are Making Gains Despite Stiff Resistance Put Up By Japanese Units

JAP RESISTANCE STIFFENS AT MUNDA BASE   American Troops Hammer at Last Jap Defenses

Japs Rush Troops To Manchuria For  Attack On Siberia   Chinese Newspapers Say Enemy Move Is Imminent

SIBERIA NEXT?   Chinese Say Nips Are Sending Troops To Manchuria

8 LIVES ARE LOST IN RAILROAD WRECK   x Persons Are in Critical State and Toll May Rise —Wreckage Finally Cleared.

CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED Wi DERAILED NEAR PHILADEL CAUSED BY A’ BU i

RAIL ACCIDENT IS WORST IN NATION IN PAST 25 YEARS   “Hot Box” In Front Axle Of Old- Type Day Coach Listed As Cause— — 60 Of Injured In Critical . Condition

DEATH TOLL IN WRECK NOW 78: TRACKS CLEARED   Physicians Are Battling To Keer Death Toll From Rising

Hot Box On Pennsylvania’s Crack Passenger Train Is  Blamed For R. R. Disaster   TRAIN WRECKS, HOTEL FIRE, ACCIDENTS OVER LABOR DAY  WEEK-END TAKES 310 LIVES

Blame “Hot Box’ for  One Mishap   60 Critically Hurt In Pileup at Philadelvhia. Pa.

Allies Gaining on Pacific Fronts   Salamaua, Munda  Both Are Menaced

ALLIES ADVANCE GN JAP POSITIONS   Americans and Australians Capture Mubo; Kiska Bombarded Again.

* PAW Reorganizes   Foreign Branch Aim For Wider Use Of  Reserves Abroad

PAW HAS ANNOUNCED  REORGANIZATION OF  FOREIGN OPERATIONS WILL MAKE WIDER USE OF  OIL RESERVES HELD . py anp altine

Act to Tap Foreign Oil      Ickes Issues Orders Aimed at Relieving Load on U. S. Supply

Military Points In Rome Suffer Bomber Attack   Heavy Raid Made On Rome Military Objectives By Allied Forces   TO HALT ROME AID TO SICILY

MUCH STUDY ~ DEVOTED 10 “RAND PLANS   CREWS. OF BOMBING PLANES THAT RAIDED ROME THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR — WITH OBJECTIVES

ONLY MILITARY OBJECTIVES ARE TARGETS   Steady Advances of Land Troops Continue in Sicily

REVEAL 35,000 AXIS PRISONERS TAKEN IN SICILY   Church and Cultural Shrines Spared in Raid Aimed at Troop Movement

GRAIN HIGH ON FOOD PLAN   Vegetables, Fruit Also Accorded First Priority on Ohio Program

FARM GROUPS LIST PROGRAW,   Organizations Claim Grain, Vegetables, Fruit Should Have First Priority

Sout On Eastern Front May Tnrn War Tide— —By Kirke L. §  Military Disaster For Hitler Is Possible

Nazi Crackup Looms: German Military Collapse May Follow Latest Russian Advance

HUN COLLAPSE IS DEVELOPING WEST OF KIE\   MORALE OF BEATEN TROOPS SEEMS CRACKED

SERVIGE FLAG SO.      Starred Banner To Be For: mally Dedicated Sunday

THAT INDIAN SITUATION AGAIN REVIEWED BY WAR ANALYST WHO DECLARES MATTER MOST SERIOUS

FRESH MOVEMENT IN INDIA TO GET QUICK SETTLEMENTS OF BRITISHINDIAN DIFFERENCES   Present Conditions There Are Dangerous for ' Allied War Effort, Especially Since Famine He  Descended on Country---MacKenzize

The War Today  a 26  India’s Problem of Serions Importance To The United States.

The War Today   India Famine Spurs Efforts To Solve Political Crisis

DRAFT GROUP ~” MEETS TODAY   HOBSE AND’. SENATE. -CON FEREES. START “DISCUS » BIONS OF BILLS CHANG-*  ING DRAFT SETUP

Action Affects Passenger Cars Light Trucks   Other Commercial Vehicle Rationings Continue as Usual

FLEEING HORDES OF GERMANS CUT TO BITS BY REDS   Nazis, After Rather Orderly Retreat, Now Facing Annihilation At Hands Of  Russians At Dnieper  Rend.

Million Men May Be Facing. Annihilation   Some London Sources Say 1,500,000 Germans May Be Trapped By Reds   THREAT INCREASES  IN SEVERAL SECTORS   Germans: Outgeneraled and Left With Little Time to Organize Defenses

1,500,000F ace Annihilation In Russ Traps   Red Army Columns Slash Way to Within 31 Miles of Dnepropetrovsk   RAIL LINE SEVERED.   Soviets Have Foe Backed Up to Northern Edge of Melitopol

Hitler Has Been Duped By Red Foe   War of Attrition Turned On Nazi Overlord—And It’s Succeeding

One Million Nazis Pouring Into Dnepropetrovsk Trap: Second Stalingrad Looms

Germans May Not Be Able To Recover   Reds May Push Them Entirely Out Of Land Before Relaxing Drive

Hitler’s Fleeing Hordes In Imminent Peril Of Suffering Their Biggest Disaster Since Red Army Launched Summer Offensive—Soviets Closing In On Dnieper Bend, At Kiev And Gomel, With Further Trouble Looming For Enemy When Melitopol Falls

German Troops In Peril   litler’s Fleeing Hordes Now Face Biggest Disaster

‘Hitler's Fleeing Hordes Are Being Cut To Pieces Along Enfire Eastern Front By Onrushing Reds: Melifopol ts Captiired

BEING CLOSED BY RUSSIANS   Red Army Within 31 Miles Of Dnepropetrovsk; Resistance In Melitopol Still Stubborn

Drive Launched Off Australia.   Details Of Drive Are Not Revealed

FORCEFUL SUBMARINE ATTACKS IN PACIFIC   Japanese U-Boats Are Attacking Allied Shipping In Packs,  Communique Savs

Japs Launch South Pacific Sub Campaign Lines ‘Of ‘Supply Slashing: Is  oA

Japs Open Sub Drive Against U.S. Shipping   Details Withheld in Communique Fron: Allied Headquarters

JAPS OPEN Blt SUBMARINE DRIVE   ATTACKS EAST OF AUSTRALIA INDICATE U-BOATS CRUISING IN PACKS.

Drive Launched Off Australia   “ Details: Of Drive” Are Not. Reventled

Jap Submarines Strike in Force East of Australia  MacArthur Reports New Activity But Withholds Details

Japs Open Sub Drive in Pacific   MacArthur Reports Australian Threat

Japs Open Sub War Against U.S.  In Pacific Region Attacks Are Modelled  _ After Germans’   “Wolf Pack’ Methods

Italy Can Be Fed Without Too Much : Food Being Taken From the Allies

CHECKING ON — TTALY’S FOOD   REPORT HUGE QUANTITIES OF. FOOD NOT NECESSARY WHEN ALLIES TAKE OVER COUNTRY

FLYING FORTS BATTER TUNIS   @U. Ss. Troops Capture Town Held by Axis as British Press Attack

NAZIS REPORI ATTEMPTS T0 TAKEISLAND      Claim.2 Attacks On Channel Isle Are Beaten Back

TESTING OF THE NAZI-HELD FRENCH COAST DEFENSES   Germans Said Two British Commando Assaults Made on Sark Island.   IS IN ENGLISH CHANNEL   Broadcast Said Sark Assaults Failed as Similar Attempts of This Kind.

The World Looks For Invasion Of Europe Soon: Nazis Report Commando Raids On Sark In Channel; Naval Chiel Named   pr aAVE WIRING

Nazis Report Commandos on Sark Isle   GERMANS SAY BRITISH PROBE LANDING FAILS IN RADIO BROADCAST

TWO COMMANDO RAIDS REPORTED   Germans Tell of Assaults On Island of Sark; No Al hed Confirmation   MAY BEINVASION PRELUDE IF TRUE

GERMANS REPORT COMMANDO RAIDS ON SARK ISLAND   Berlin Declares British Repulsed in Attempted Channel Landinas

Germans Say Commandos Have Made Two Attacks On English Channel Isle

Commando Raids  On Channel Isles   British Make Two Assaults on Sark, a Possible Invasion Path.

MARINES LAND ON NEW BRITAIN TIP WITHOUT BATTLE   Other Marines Occupy Long Island, Abies Complete Their Approaches to Rabaul Base.   REDS ADVANCE TO 75 MILES OF POLE LINE   Vatution’s Ukrainian Army Puts Four Tank; Six Infantry Divisions to Rout, 15.000 Men Killed.

MARINES HIT SHORES OF NEW BRITAIN   Landing Is Made Without Loss; 6] Jap Planes Downed

OEE oHOHE POSITIONS ON NEW BRITAIN   Get Beachheads Both Sides of Cape Gloucester and Occupy Island.

Marines, Tightening Blockade _ Of Rabaul, Complete Control Of Approaches To Japanese Base

NEW F OOTHOLDS WON athens OPPOSITION   Rabaul Supply Line Covered:

BLOCKADE OF RABAUL   Completes Allied Control of Southwest New Britain

SECOND LANDING. ON NEW BRITAIN 1S SUCCESSFU   No ‘Opposition Encountered. Japs Lose 61 Planes to , Seven U. $. Shins.

Marines Make New  Invasion   Land At Cape Gloucester, lake Important Points; Japs Lose 61 Planes.

LANDING MADE WITH SMALL LOSS; SHOOT DOWN 61 JAP PLANES   Second Invasion Of New Britain Preceded By 11Day Air-Sea Offensive; Allied Blockade Of Rabaul Tightened

Long Island ° Near Madang Also Seized   Opposition Is Slight as Leathernecks Land on New Britain Coast   BOMBS BLAST BASE:   Japs Lose 61 Planes in Desperate Attempt to Stem Invasion

61 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down   Little Opposition Encoun. tered by McArthur’s  Forces in Invasion

‘terial - Cover - Destroys 61 Jap Planes. While Guadalcanal Veterans  Establish Beachheads

Yanks Unopposed In Further Push Against Rabaul   61 Attacking Jap: Planes Shot Down In Initial Stages

Labor Unions Hit At Tax Measure   ““Sleeper’’ Provision Receives Criticism

JERSEY RACE RIOT BALKED BY TROOPS   Soldiers and Negro Girls Involved as Starter

Troops Prevent Riot At Passaic   Want To Know Why Po lice Left Scene Of Threatened Disorder.

PREVENT RACI RIOTINN. J.   Passaic Is Calm After Threatened Clash In City

AN AID TO HEALTH   Advisory Council Was Organized at Baldwin — Last Night

Soviets Moving On Orel   Counterattacks Smashed As Reds Seize Towns And Booty

Russian Forces Driving Toward Dnieper River   Relentless Offensives In Progress Along Whole Southern Front   HUGE SUPPLIES OF MATERIAL CAPTURED

OPERATORS HAVE ACCEDED T0 MINERS DEMANDS   Threat of Immediate . Stoppage of. Production Averted For Time

NO HALT IN APPALACHIAN COAL FIELDS   Operators and Miners Accede to Warning Is  sued by President   Two Days Ago  LEWIS IS SUBPOENAED

Agree to Keep Mines Qpen After April.   FDR's Proposal 'Heeded at Wage Conference

MINE oTOPPAGE THREAT EARotD AY AGREEMENT   Union And Operators Agree To Continue Negotiations Past Deadline Date

Avert Soft Coal Strike For Month   Northern Operators Accede To Demands of Union For 30-Day Continuance

SOFT COAL GROUP AVERTS STOPPAGE   Northern Operators Accede to Miners’ Demand to Continue Until May 1

MINE OWNERS, UNION EXTEND  NEGOTIATIONS   Threat of Stoppage Is Now Staved Off At Least One Month, Due to Joint Aoreement   DEADLINE LIFTED   Northern Group Accedes to President's Plea, While Southerners Delay Decision

Miners To Stay On Job Next Month   Additional Time Provided To Reach Wage Agreement

Coal Strike Is Averted Until May 1   Operators And Union Sign Agreement To Make Pay Adjustments Retroactive To April 7

Soft Coal Stoppage Is Averted   FR: Idea of 30:Days Mining on Retreactive Bosis Accepted By Opposing Sides

OWNERS MAKE CONCESSION IN MINE DISPUTE   Threat of Stoppage Is Staved Off Until May 1 in Appalachian Fields

30-DAY EXTENSION   Soft Coal Miners Hope to Reach An Agreement  by May 1

Mines Will Continue In Operation   Owners Accede To Union Demand For 30-Day Limit On Further Wage Negotiations

Northern Mines Will Work On   Northern Operators Acceded to Union 30-Day Limit Demand

MINE STRIKE THREAT EASED   Operators Accept Extension Of Time Limit for Contract Negotiations

APRIL SOFT COAL STRIKE AVERTED   Northern Operators Agree to Time Limit on Wage Negotiations.

Threat of Shutdown _ of Soft Coal Mines March 31st Avertec   Agreements to Continue Operations 30 Days Are Announced

Knows Beforehand   Solon Knows What Electorate’ Thinks of Lawmakers Who Vote ThemSelves Pay HUikes

Legislature Ends  Sessio   Labor Compensation Law Is‘Revised —   hegislators Vote - On Pay ‘Increase

AMERICANS HIT RUHRSAVAGELY FOR FIRST TIME   Also Pound Targets In Belgium Within Few Hours After British Pulverize Krefeld   OVER 700 BOMBERS IN ATTACK BY RAF   44 Missing In What London Describes “Very Heavy and Concentrated” Assault

44 PLANES LOST BY BRITISH; 700 GRAFT IN GROUP   Coastal Sections Also Bombarded By Yank Airmen

United States Bombers Follow in Swift Succession Pulverizing RAF Assault on Krefeld   44 LOST BY THE BRITISH

Fortresses Invade Ruhr   Fly Unescorted Into Ruhr For ,First Time

U.S. Bombers Make Their First Raids On Ruhr Centers   Sweep Over in Daylight After RAF Night Bombers In Huge Foray

Rubber Plant, Motor Works Bomb Targets   20 of Big Bombers Lost; Raid Follows Pulverizing RAF Smash

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANT ATTACKED AT RECKLINGHAUSEN   Flying Fortresses Flew Unescorted Into the Ruhr Industrial Area.   TWENTY BOMBERS LOST   The Fortresses Shot Down a “Considerable Number” of Enemy Piants.

AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACKED RUHR AREA IN DAYLIGHT TODAY  FOLLOWED PULVERIZING RAF RAID ON KREFELD

U.S. AirForce Smashes Ruhr City, Antwerp   RAF Night Raid Pulver. izes Krefeld With More Than 700 Heavy Bombers   BRITISH LOSE 44   Reconnaisance Discloses Heavy Damage To Le Creusot In Saturday Raid

Pulverizing RAF Blow Hits Krefeld  44 British Planes Are Reported Missing

RAF BLASTS KREFELD, CITY IN RHINELAND   In Mediterranean Theatre, Allied Planes Open Full Assault on Italian Mainland

20 Bombers Lost  In Daylight Raid On Vital Nazi Foundries in Ruhr

Fortresses batter rubber factory, Antwerp industry   Twenty U.S. bombers lost; British pulverize Krefeld

Lose 20 Craft in Blows; Which Follow RAF Raid at Krefeld—U. S. Assault Is First in Nazi Industrial Area. - “<4

US. Fliers Pound Ruhr: 100 Planes Raid Krefeld   German Industrie! Cities Suffer Heavy Blows; Nazi ‘Radar’ Works Damaged

RAF, AAF Batter Ruhr And Rhineland: Lose 64 Planes   Raiders Beat On Naples

Daylight Assaults on Huls Follows Raid of 700 RAF Bombers on Krefeld   ONE OF HEAVIEST   Germans Admit Many Blocks Levelled in Imporiant Railway and Arms Center

Atfack On Vital Industrial Area Is First By AEF   American Bombers Also Smash At Belgian Targets

HEAVY ASSAULT FIRST BY YANKS ON VITAL AREA   ae oe Foray Comes on eels of Night Stab By British Planes

Air Raids Hit ~ Wazi Ruhr Area   FIRST NIGHT ATTACK BY U.S. BOMBERS ON VALLEY

U. S. BOMBERS ATTACK VITAL AREAS IN RUHR   Action Follows Pulverizing Night Raids Staged by RAF on Krefeld, Railroad Cente   King George Visits Malta

Strong Fighter Support Sent  W ith ‘Americ an Craft In Their U nporecedented Air Assault   German News Agency Admits ‘Numerous Blocks Of Buildings’ Were Destroyed Last Night; Site Of Heavy Steel Industries, Coal Mines

Follow RAF ~ Pulverizing ©  Of Krefeld   RAF Reports Loss of 44 Bombers—Biggest Thus Far in Year

Yanks Raid Ruhr Area, Also Italy   First American. Blows on German Center Follow Big British Raid.   AERIAL ATTACKS ARE CONTINUING   Italy Also Is Heavily Damaged; 25 Great Fires Raging at Naples

Pulverizing Night Raid Carried Out By British Against Railway City

RAF and U.S. Bombers Hurl Huge Tonnage Of  Explosives On Germany

Follow RAF ahr  Of Krefeld   RAF Reports Loss of 4a Bombers—Big gest Thus Far in Year .

U.S.BOMBERS' ATTACK RUHR   Daylight Act  Swiftly Follows RAF Night Pulverizing

MASTRY OF AIR   Luftwaffe Losses In Past Five Weeks Are Placed At 2821 Planes

GERMAN PLANE LOSSES MOUNT ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Russians Destroy 2821 Nazi Planes in Five Weeks; Lose Only 740

Allied Planes Rule Sardinia Sea Lanes   Sky Armadas Slash At Approaches To Italy's Mediterranean Isles   STRIKE DEEP BLOW   Opening Of Ocean Route For United Nations Will Speed Up War

AIR FORCES STRIKE BLOW NEAR ROME   Mediterranean FReopened to Allied Shipping After Three Years

Reopen Mediterranean Sea To Allied Convoys After Three Years of Long Route

Uncontrolled Fires Sweeping Thousands of Acres in Michigan   Officials ‘See No End” Until it Rains or Snows, They Say

TOWNS PERILED BY ADVANCING FOREST FLAMES   Worst Fires Since 1936 Sweep Uncontrolled Thru Timberland

Rall GREAT IN AREA   One Smail Fire Checked East of Bergland Since Yesterday.   'BAN FIRES IN OTTAWA

North Michigan Flames Raging Out OF Contro!   Thousands Of Acres In Upper Peninsula Burned Over

Rain Needed  To Check Fires In Timberland   Thousands Of Acres In Upper Peninsula Of Michigan Laid Waste As Fires Spread

Forest Fires Hit Wisconsin  [And Michigan   Thousands of Acres Of Timberland Burned; Still Burning Uncuntrolled

ARRIER FLEET POISED FOR U.S, BLOW AT JAPAN   Than Seven-Ship Flotilla  i Armada More Powerful at Start of War

U S. CARRIER FLEET POISED FOR ACTION   iclieved More Power ful Than Force at Start of War

600 Coal Miners Walk Out in Ohio      Claim Willow Grove Operations Unsafe

PLIGHT OF AXIS SERIOUS, SAYS FRENCH RADIO   Vichy Asserts Infiltration Attempts Must Be Stopped

Sees Sicily In Serious Plight  Viche Thinks Avic   Vichy Thinks Axis Is In Tight Spot

Vichy Radio Views Sicilian Situation Highly ‘Serious’ For Defending Axis Troops

NAZI CAUCASIAN ATTACKS COSTLY   HUNDREDS KILLED IN FIGHTING ALONG REDS’ KUBAN RIVER VALLEY LINES,

Reds Mow Down Hundreds Of Germans in Furious Attacks in Kuban Valley

Nazi Hordes Fall In Bitter Fight With Reds  Soviet Airmen Make Mass Raids on Enemy’s Positions

Russians Slay Hundreds in Isuban Sector   Red Air Force Hits Enemy Positions In Massed Attacks

Soviets Mow Nazis Down   Red Air Force Makes Many Raids On Enemy

Reds Take High loll of Nazis   Hundreds Are Slain In Kuban Battle

Russians Repulse All Nazi Attacks In the Caucasus   Mow Down Hundreds of Germans in Kuban River Valley

SOVIETS GUT DOWN ATTACKING NAZIS   Germans Still Hammer at Red Kuban River Valley Lines Above Enemy Bridgehead at Novorossisk

RUSSIANS MOW DOWN GERMANS   Hundreds Of Nazis Die Trying To Take Hill In Kuban Valley

Russians Kill Hundreds of Nazi Troops   Mass Air Raids on German Areas Are Made by Reds

Schuschnige’s  Death Related   War Prisoner Says Former Austrian Chanceilor’s Son Was Beaten by Cerman:

WOULD AID BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY DRIVE   Sangro River Bridgehead Is Substantially Enlarged

British Crack Open German Winter Line Below Rome.   ALLIED FLIERS HIT BASES ABOVE ROME   Mosquito Bombers Hit Targets in Germany for Second Night.

REDS WITHIN 23 MILES OF KEY RAILROAD   Driving On. Kiev, Capital OF Ukraine In Current Push

RUSSIANS KEEP NAZIS ON AUN OVER STEPPES   Gigantic Soviet Offensive Frees 17 Large Towns in Rapid Advances

Reds Drive Nazis Back In Ukraine   Soviets Smash to Within 25 Miles Of Key Rail Line

Spotted Convoy— Last ‘‘Look-See”’ Disclosed  Presence of Enemy Vessel:

ONE LAST LOOK OF BOMBER'S CREX NETS JAP CONYO\   Reconnaissance Plane or Prowl When It Spots Enemy Group.

Reds Retreat for Third Successive Day in Kiev Bulge As Counterattacks Grow Homes of Hitler, Ribbentrop _ -and Goebbels Said Destroyed: :

NEW FIRES SWEEPING BERLIN          opped Pr Approached That oF 3 Sunday Night ¥

RAF Bombers Attack Berlin In Great Force   Gilbert Islands Now Securely in Allied Hands; Reds Retreat in Kiev Bulge, Gain in Other Sectiane

Nazi Capital Now Mass of Fire and Ruin   Berlin Devastated by Third Awful Pounding in Six Days by RAF

Allies Deliver Third Murderous Blow in 6 Days   Homes of Nazi Leaders Reported Destroyed; British Turn Enemy  Flank in Italy

Yanks Capture ‘Makin; Reds Retreat at Kiev   British Cross Sangro to Turn Left Flank of Germans; Weather Clears So Fighting Thickens, Situation Is Well in Hand in Gilberts

GERMAN CAPITAL 18 OBJECT OF ATTACK BY BRITISH BOMBERS  AMERICANS REPORTED MAKING GOOD PROGRES! IN GILBERT ISLANDS —

ODT OBJECTS TO VACATION GAS   Disapproves OPA Move In Easing East Coast Driving Ban

NO EXTRA GASOLINE ALLOWED FOR VACATIONS IN THE EAST   OPA HEAD’S REQUEST FOR MORE GAS FOR VACATIONERS HAS BEEN RE i JECTED

EIGHTH ARMY’S  FLANKING MOVE MENT WAS CAUSE   Three American Columns May Be Able To Cut Him Off

General Eisenhower's Communique Announees That English Veterans Now Are In Possession Of Matmata,  Terre — ma anvl MAanwath

Planes Keep Air Control   Knock Down Jap Planes Trying to Bomb Men On Land

Yanks Gain Mile In Arawe Sector; Jap Planes Downed   Action Is Brisk in Wide-Flung Southwest Pacific Area; Lord Mountbatten Warns Japs of Future

Picked Units of German Veterans — Are Beaten Back by Allied Troons   Eye-Witness Describes Fury Of Sth Armu’s Counter Rilaw

DR. M°DONALD PLANS TO RUN   Resigns Post At University Prior To Starting Campaigr

BELIEVE WLB MAY RELEASE REPORT TODAY      UMW Keeps Threat Of Court Action Over Coal Operators

285 SHIPS LOANED OTHER COUNTRIES   251 Small Crafts Also Provided By Navy, Valued At 127 Million Dollars.

U, S, GIVES 936 SHIPS TO ALLIES   Knox Reveals Large Number Of Vessels Transferred; Urges Continuance Of Lend-Lease Program.

LEND-LEASE ACT BACKED BY KNO)   Extension of Law Vital to Our War Plans, He Tells House Group.

Commercial Airlines Aid War Effort   Belated Credit Given For Flying War Freight All Over World

Papal Guardsmen Occupy Holy See Extraterritorial Buildings, Berlin Claims

ANTI-oT HIKE PLAN AgaAlltt BY BILL GREEN   Right To Strike Labor’s Only Defensive Weapon, Says AFL President

GREEN ASSAILS ANTI-STRIBING LEGISLATION   Tells Southern Labor Conference * ‘Right to Strike is Inherent, GodGiven Right”   WILL FIGHT MOVES   Holds it Labor’s Gun Now Voluntarily Placed Behind Door for Duration

Land and Water Assault Takes Novarossisk   Crimea Laid Open; Nazis Report Russian Leningrad Drive

Nazi Forces in Full Retr. at Toward Threatened City; Red Army Surges Steadily Forward

REDS’ BIG GUNS BOMBARD OREL AS NAZIS FLEE   Russians Pursue Germans in Full Retreat to City’s Outskirts   Reich Radio Report Admits Crushing Numerical Superiority

TRY TO SAVE. PART OF VAST ARMY ON LINE   While others hold, 200,000 Nazi troops attempt to escape \

AGerman Defense Forces Before Orel  Are Falling Back   Russians Move Up Big Artillery Pieces To Bombard City   STEADY GAINS ARE REPORTED BY REDS

NAZIS RETREAT IN QUTSKIRTS OF OREL   Russians Advance and Move Up Artillery to Bombard City

THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA SAID DEAD   Lin Sen, 81, Suffered A Stroke And Had Been In Coma

CHINA'S PRESIDENT IS REPORTED QEAL   Report Not Immediately Confirmed; Had Suffered Stroke.

President Of China Is Dead   Lin Sen, 81, Reported Dead In Chungking

CHINA PRESIDENT DIES   Report Is Not Immediately Con> firmed From Chungking

Death of Lin, China Leader, Is ‘Reported   PRESIDENT, 81, HAD RALLIED EARLIER WITH MEDICINES FROM U. S.

Melbourne Radio Quote: Chinese Communique A: Announcing Death of 81 Year Old Lin Sen; No Yet Confirmed By Cung king. -

SOVIET TROOPS ADVANCE IN UKRAINE —   Nazi Casualties in Last Four Months Set at 2,700,000 

Tells of Finding Burned Body of Sir Harry Oakes   Christie Denies He Left Westbourne Night of Murder

GUEST 1S WITNESS AT MURDER TRIAL   Harold G. Christie Knew Nothing of Slaying Until Morning

Cris ‘ie —enies Weaving U<<es =m” oe . cal we . Fe-a-e Vio1: Sir —arrv Vas § ain

DISCOVERY OF OAKES MURDER IS DESCRIBE   ‘House Guest Says He Was Unaware Of Host’s Death Until Morning

FIRST POLI CASE IN B. H   Infant Girl Is Taken Te Blodgett Hospital For Treatment

First B. H. Polio Case Reported   Highland Avenue Child Taken To Hospital

MINE FIRE DEATH TOLL FIXED AT 13.   No Hope OF Res Rescuing Alive Nine Men. Still Missing

65 Flee Blaze   Bodies Of Four Ar Taken Out-—9 Others Sull Missing

DEATH TOLL IN W. VA, MINE FIRE SET AT THIRTEEN   t Bodies Found Early Today With Nine Men Still Missing

MINE DEATH TOLL IN FIRE REACHES 17   Kleven of Twelve Bodies Are Recovered

Allied Advance In Burma Slow  Resistance Stronger Than Anticipated

American Troops Now Mopping Up Attu Island Japs   U. 8. Warships Patrol Sur. rounding Waters To Prevent Any Evacuation   JAPS ON KISKA MAY BE DOOMED  (BULLETIN)

U.S. Planes Wipe Out Attu Village; Battle for Island in Final Phase

Army Of Stevedores Being Trained On Dry Land Ships   Land-Lubbers “Heister ’er Down” As Lifting Booms   Drop And Blue Peter Goes Up On Flag Staffs 

France Tied More Closely To Axis   Laval Rumored njured After Leavine Hiiler

BALKANS WORRY NAZI COMMAND   Troop And Supply Trains Rushed; Fight Rages For Fiume Islands

SLAY FIGHTERS BATTLING HUNS FOR TWO ISLES      German Sea-borne Troops ' Gain Hold On Strategic ‘Islands Commanding Fiume Approach

BATTLE RAGING FOR TWO ISLES OFF YUGOSLAVIA   Hitler Fearing Allied Invasion OF Balkans

Yugoslavs Battle For Vital Island:  Nazis Land In Effort T« Guard Supply Lines  Be UIE TTA SAITE White   Fear Balkan Invasion

ANKS, FRENCH ENGAGE GERMANS IN NORTH AFRICE   Air Activity Accompanies . Ground Action In Valley”

PATROLS MEET UP WITH NAZIS AT QUSSELTIA   Only Light Ground Fighting Reported in Tunisia, Due to Weather.   ROME RADIO REPORTS " AMERICANS ON MOVE

WAR BOND QUOTA:   From the Ozarks to the Ever  glades Reports Pour in i _ ta U. S. Treasury.

WOULD-BE COP’ HELD IN DEATH   K. C. Man, Questioning “Officer’s” Authority Shot In Chest

Hun Fleet Refuses To Give Battle   Allied Naval Force Steams Close To Germans, But Gets No Action

GERMANY'S FLEET FAILS TO ACCEPT OPPONENTS BID   Task Force Steams to Within 200 Miles of Norway’s Coast

Passengers And Firemar Injured At Streamliner Crashes Into Freight

TRAINS COLLIDE   Fireman Injured As Fast Passenger Hits Freizht.

Stockholm Newspaper Reports 1,342 Persons Killed In Wuppertal Raid

Smolensk Defenses Crumble   Russians Have Also Cut Main Escape Railway.

NAZI DEFENSE AT SMOLENSK IS THREATENED   ‘Red Army Storms Ahead  . From Captured Velizh to Continue Amazing Triumphs Over Germans

REDS CUT MAIN — CRIMEA ESCAPE   Russians Trying To Trap Hundreds Of Thousands Of Germans  hore acta net hia enen ean

REDS READY 10 SMASH BOCHES AT SMOLENSK   Soviets Cut Main Germar Escape Route in Crimean Sector

Red Army Storms Over German Lines   Amazing List of Triumphs Marked Up +Be Russian Troops in New Offensive

GERMAN FRONT GRUMBLING AS REDS PUSH ON   More Than 1130 Towns Taken By Soviet

Reds Rip Into Smolensk Zone   Advance 65 Miles Northwest From Velizh; Slash Across  Kiev Highway.

ESCAPE LINE FROM CRIMEL 1S SEVERED   Soviet Communique Discloses Amazing List Of Triumphs

SOVIETS FLANK SMOLENSK, CUT CRIMEAN LINE   Russians Recapture 1,130 Towns in Mighty Advance While Nazi Defenses Crumble   MAY TRAP NAZIS   Reds’ Rapid Advance Near Poltave Rescues. 16,000 Civilians Rounded Up for Forced Labor

HARD-SLUGGING REDS SLASHING NAZI DEFENSES   CRIMEA ESCAPE LINE CUT, RUSS ONLY 115 MILES FROM POLAND

Yeds Outflank ‘molensk Base   Farther South, Cut Main Crimean Escape Railway

Soviets Biast into Smolensk Defense Zone   Reds Outflank Nazi Keystone Citadel on Central Front; Near White Russia

Nazis’ Defense — ‘Near Smolensk: Blasted By Reds   ‘eport Russian Forces “Storming Ahead Today From Captured Velizh

Reds Drive To Smolensk  _ Defense Zone   Central German Front Anchor Flanked; Reds Wheel Toward Dnieper

RUSSIAN FORCES EXTEND SWEEP   Soviets Continue Relentless Offensive After Seizing German Bastion

Reds Smash Ahead As Nazis Flee   Main Escape Railroac  From Crimea Is  Cut Off

Soviets Blast Way Into Zone Of Smolensk   Outflanking Nazi Central Anchor Reds Storm On

ESCAPE RAILWAY FOR NAZI FORCES SEIZED BY REDS   Smolensk Defense Zone Is Stormed by Russians as Dnieper River Neared   TRAP IN CAUCASUS HOLDS   Soviet Troops Succeed in Flanking Move in Drive Toward Polish Border

Part of Workers Slow To Accept Latest Order   Majority Expected, However, to Resume Production of Coal Within Féw Days

MAJORITY WILL RESUME WORK IN COAL FIELDS   UMW Chief Calls Off Latest Strike Until Oct. 31

FEW REBEL Al LEWIS’ ORDER OF NEW TRUCE   Show Resentment At Failure Of UMW To Reach Settlement On Pay Increase   COURT BATTLE INDICATED   Operators Protest Latest Move Merely Postpones Main Issues In Dispute

MOVE FOR A DIKE   North Lawrence Levee I Discussed By Local Governing Units.

ALLIES TRIUMPH ON NEW GUINEA   Smash Large Force; Tokio’s Losses in Pacific Campaign - Set at Thousands

Destroyers, Crippled * Four Others..." .-   LOSSES TO ENEMY EXCEEDINGLY HIGH

Blast Jap Troop Ship”   Three Sunk and at Least Four Others Damaged in Taking Troops Off Guadalcana

APO DUNKIRK UF SOLOMON COSTLY AEE AIR   Three Destroyers Sunk, Four Others Damaged By American Bombs

EVACUATION OF  Try ISLAND COSTLY   U. S. Bombers. Torpedo Pianes, Sank Three Jap Destroyers, Damaged Four

Ry DANIEL DE LUCE   Three Japanese Destroyers Sunk By U. S. Planes In Evacuation Move

U, 5. BOMBERS AND TORPEDO PLANES TAKE A BIG TOLL   Credited With Sinking Three Japanese Destroyers and Crippling 4 Others.   ENEMY WARSHIPS HIT   Were Desperately Attempting to Evacuate Troops From Guadalcanal.

THREE JAPANESE DESTROYERS ARE SUNK IN PACIFIC   Four Others Crippled by U.S. Bombers as Nips Abandoned (;uadalcanal

Foil Jap Plan to Evacuate Army Troops   Enemy Managed to Take Off Officers but Soldiers Were Rubbed Qut in Fighting

4 Others Crippled, 17 Zeros Downed   U. 5. Loses 10 Planes As Enemy ‘Escape: Flotilla’ of 20 Ships Is Attacked

THREE JAPANESE DESTROYERS SUNK OFF GUADALCANAL   Four Other Enemy Warships Crippled When U. 5. Airmen Attacked Evac eT ae o.. Sa

3 DESTROYERS LOST BY JAPS IN EVACUATION   ‘U.S. Discloses 4 Others Crippled in Guadalcanal Fighting

U.S. Chalks Up Victory Over Japs   Flying Warriors Sink hree Destroyers And Damace Four.   Air Score 17 to 10   ‘Guadal’ Evacuation Is Made Costly To Nips In Solomons,

FOUR ERIPPLED IN ATTACK ON GUADALCANAL   Navy Reveals Results Of Double - Barreled Attack During Early February   ENEMY LOSES 17 PLANES   Allied Troops Score’ Decisive Victory Over Nips On New Guinea Front

GUADALCANAL BVAGUATION I COSTLY TOJAPS      U.S. Bombers and Torpedo Planes Sink Three, Nippon Destroyers, Damage At Least:Four   TWO ATTACKS MADE   Japs Set Up Heavy Protection by. Zeros, Losing 17 to Ten: Ameriean Planes

ENEMY EFFORT EVACUATION PROVES COSTLY   Official Reports Tell of Sez Fight on February —

GUADALCANAL EVACUATION IS DESCRIBED   Double-Barreled Attack On Enemy Warships Staged By American Bombers and Torpedo Planes   15,000 ARE ANNIHILATED

U. S. Bombers Sink Three Japanese Destroyers In Guadalcanal Escape

Evacuation Flotilla of Foe Smashed  U. S. Bomber and Torpedo Planes Hit 7 Warships Off Pacific Island 3 PT CRAFT LOST  1,000 Japs Removed From  Guadalcanal on Barges  in Pre-Dawn Darkness   > P-T CRAFT LOST

FOUR OTHERS ARE BADLY DAMAGED   Attacked During Attempt To Evacuate Guadaleanal Troops   20 SHIPS IN GROUP   Seventeen Jap Zeros Shot. Down; 10 American Planes Missing

U.S. Flyers Crippled at Least 4 More    . ’ oe * . Allies Score Decisive Vic tory on New Guinea  i   Front, Too

Attack Fleet Taking Troops Off Island   Navy Reveals U. §. Airmen Made Jap Withdrawal Costly

U. S. PLANES SINK 3 JAP DESTROYERS, DAMAGE 4 OTHERS   Damage to Enemy Vessels Occurs in Two Altacks on Enemy Efforts to Evacuate Trcops From Guadalcanal °

AMERICAN FORCES SINK THREE JAP DESTROYERS. CRIPPLE A OTHER ENEMY WARSHIPS   Double-Barrelled Attack on Enemy Delivered When Japs Were Desperately attempting to Evacuate Troops From Guadalcanal Island

Yankee Planes Credited With  3 Destroyers   Fliers On Guadaleanal Damage Four More Attempting To Evacuate Enemy.

U.S. BOMBERS, TORPEDO GRAFT SINK 3 VESSELS   Four Other Jap Destroyers Are  Badly Damaged

Americans Sink Jap Destroyers   Three Sent Down and Four Others Damaged Off Guadalcanal

U. S. Planes Sink 3 Jap Ships In Solomons Flight   Damage Four Others In Action Off New Georgia

4. Others Crippled When Enemy Seeks To Evacuate Island   Bombers And Torpedo Craft Blast Big Fleet Of Warships But Foe Manages To Save 1000 Officers

TWENTY JAPANESE CRAFT iN ATTEMPT AT EVACUATION   50,000 OF The Enemy Believed Destroyed In Land ‘And Sea Action

RESCUE. ATTEMPT AT GUADALCANAL PROVED COSTLY   Destroyers Sent to the Bottom By Planes; Fleet of 20 Tried to Save 15,000 Army

Yanks sank 3 Jap ships crippled 4.   Enemy tried to evacuate troops

Japs Suffer Losses While Evacuating High Officers, Personnel off Guadalcanal

U.S. Flyers Crippled at Least 4 More   Allies Score Decisive Victory on New Guinea Front. Too

At Least Four Others Crippled  Off Guadalcanal   Attacked By American Planes While Evacuating Forces From Island

Sinking of 3 Jap Vessels Revealed  Sunk During Attempt to Evacuate  —

THREE JAPANESE DESTROYERS OUT   Four Others Damaged; Lose 80,000 Men in Landing Try

+ DESTROYERS OF JAPS SUNK BY U, S, GRAFT   Four Others Crippled While Attempting to Evacuate Troops from Guadalcanal Theatre

U.S. Bombers Sink 3 Jap Destroyers At Guadalcanal!   Delayed Dispatches Tell of Enemy’s Attempt to Escape

Also Credited With . Crippling At Least . Pour Others —   BELATED. .REPORY   Action .Took. Place ‘Off Guadaleanal > -Tast Week

0 JAP VESSELS      Bombers, Torpedo Planes Damage 4 Other Destroyers in Attack.   17 ZEROS SHOT DOWN

17 Enemy Planes Shot Down;  10 Of Ours Lost; Entire Enemy Army On Guadaleanal Gone   ‘Campaign Of Destruction’ Supported By * Powerful Artillery Praised By Gen. Patch: Enemy's Losses In Land Fighting Enormous

Three Jap Destroyers Sent Down   Four Others Hurt In Two Attacks Off Guadaleanal

REPORT 3 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK   Guadalcanal Action Costly To Foe, Officials Say

Three Japanese Destroyers Sunk      17 Zero Fighters Shot Down In Air Battle

ENEMY FORCE SEEKING 10 RELIEVE GUADALCANAL 1S INTERCEPTED BY PLANES      Delayed Dispatches Yell Of Action In First Week Of February; Island Is In U. S. Hands After Japanese Army of 15,000 Men Is Annihilated

JAPANESE BADLY BATTERED SEEKING EVACUATE TROOPS   " THREE ENEMY DESTROYERS SUNK AND AT LEAST FOUR OTHERS CRIPPLED

3 Jap Destroyers Sunk in Solomons   Four Others Damaged in Two Aerial Attacks During Enemy Evacuation of Troops From Guadalcanal, Delayed Report Shows.

Sink Three Destroyers, - Damage Four Others -In Gaudalcanal Fight

Early End Of Coal Row Seen   Rail Workers Want More Than 8-Cent Increase

EASING OF LABOR  SITUATION COMES  EVEN WITH STRIKES RAIL AND COAL WORKERS GET INCREASES; RUBBER  WOADYVCIDe CTDIVE

AS COAL AND RAIL PROBL SETTLED OVER 50,000 WORKERS IN RUBBER INDUSTRY QUIT   Labor Horizon in Nation Somewhat Clouded as New Trouble Develop of Nature Which Hinders Production of Most Essential War Goods

NAZI MOBILIZATION DRIVE UNDER WAY      GERMANY PREPARES FOR CRISIS ON EVE OF ANNIVERSARY OF HITLER RULE,

Germany Plan: Mobilization Of All Reserves   Approach of War's Climax. Apparent - on-Hifler Anniversary

Kscape Gap For Germans Is Narrowed   Another Red Column Cuts Past Steel City Toward Dnieper River

City Appears Doomed ag Russians Press On Relentlessly—Nazi Escape Gap Narrowed.   50 MORE VILLAGES  TAKEN IN DRIVE:   Sudden Wheeling Movement by Muscovites Puts Them Within 93 Miles of Dnieper River,

REDS A SHORT DISTANCE FROM KHARKOV   Sudden Wheeling Movement Carries Soviets With in 93 Miles Of Dnieper   NAZIS ACKNOWLEDGE BITTER FIGHTING

REDS ALMOSI AT KHARKOV; BLOCK ESCAPE      Sudden Movement Carries Them to Within 93 Miles of Dnieper Bend; Blast Nazi Held Stations.   East Of Bryansk

Foe Retreats As Escape Hone ls Dim   Kharkov Now Doomed Before Giant Move To Encircle Germans

Soviets Within 93 Miles of Dnieper Bend   Nazi Escape Railway To Poltava Cut by Reds; Airmen Blast Trains and Troops

Reds Storm On Nearer Kharkov   One Of Last Nazi  Escape Routes Cut _ By EDWARD D. BALL 

RAILWAY CUT IN ATTACK BY RUSS FORCES   Important Naxi Escape System Slashed From Kharkoy   IMPORTANT CENTER BELIEVED DOOMED   Germans Report Russians Are Driving on Smolenck

NAZI ESCAPE LANE NARROWS   Russians Dash South Of Kharkov To Cut Vital Railway; Smolensk Drive Opens

Germans in: Donets Basin Face Threat   Russian Airmen Busy Blasting Escape Routes ef Enemy

REDS WITHIN 11-2 MILES OF GERMAN BASE   NAZI FLIGHT ROUTE NARROWS; RAILWAY IN PINCERS

Reds Storm On Nearer Kharkov   One Of Last Nazi Escape Routes Cut

SOVIETS PUSH DRIVE 10 SHUT KHARKOV TRAP   Reds Smash to Within "Seven and One-Half  Miles of City

German Escape  Railway Is Slashed by Red:   Russian Troops Fan Out in Move That Would Trap Enemy in River Bend; Soviets Press Relentlessly on Kharkov

City Appears Doomed as Reds Crash Through Nazi Tank Divisions; Airmen Blast Supply Limes in Rear

SOVIET TROOPS SLASH RAILWAY?   Last German Escape Railways From City Kharkov   ‘MOVE AIMED AT   Dnieper River Beyd to Trap Large Force of Germans In the Donets Basin

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STABILIZATION PLAN JUNKED      Labor Groups Complain of Freeze Order Severity

JOB FREEZING DROPPED FOR REGIONAL PLAN   McNutt Preparing for Transition to System Permitting Transfers Under Stated Conditions

(S. PRODUGTION.01 (L WAR. MATERIE UP INMARCH UPPEI   (NUTT PLANS. MORE LIBERAL i ‘FREEZE’ SETUP I   War Manpower Commissioner Abandons Plans © For Strict.Employ ment:Stabilization ~.  LABOR COMPLAINS.   Nationwide Freeze Order ‘Of April 17 Prevented Transfers to Higher  ' Paid [obs

M'NUTT CREATES TEMPORARY PLAN FOR JOB CONTROL   REQUIRES ESSENTIAL WORKERS TO OBTAIN ADVISABILITY SLIPS

Leaders Speed War Decisions  At Quebec Meet   Roosevelt and Churchill Expedite Program for Battlefronts; Eden Arrives and Will Join Hull

Master Plan For Invasion Under Study   Anthony Eden Arrives For Canado Meetings; Hull Also Expected

Roosevelt, Churchill Work On Master Plan for Forcing, Taking the Europe Fortress

Solon Predicts Japs Will Not Last More Than Year After Nazis Fall

GASOLINE APLENTY ASSURED FARMERS   Transportation Boss Says Needs Wili Be Met

EASTMAN ADVISES FARMERS  TO PLAN CROPS FOR USE OW NPORSGARYV FAG

Americans Closing in on Munda. But Japs Entrenched There Behind  Strong Positions, Rows of Pillboxes   Army Fliers Report Jap Bases in Kuriles Still in Construction Stage

Legislature Will Return Thursday   Recessed Session  To be Concluded

Largest Russian  Air Force Sent  Against One Site   German-Held Bastion Turned Into Mass of Flames By Assault

320 RED PLANES  CONCENTRATE ON * NAZLHELD OREL   Soviets Gather Greatest Air Fleet Ever Sent Over Single Ghiective.

OREL TARGET OF MASS RED RAID   500 Planes Sct Fire To Germany's Only Southern Front Anchor

Uniforms No Bar To  Executions   Ja Up anese Spokesman “Contends Prisoners Will Be Executed For “Inhuman” Acts

IAPS TO EXTEND QUTLAWRY POLICY RADIO ANNOUNCES   Uniforms Not Sufficient, to Absolve Them From Responsibility of Committing “Inhuman Acts.”   REFERENCE NOT MADE ABOUT EXECUTIONS   Hori, In Broadcast Beamec to America, Says Treatment Will Depend -~ Upor Behavior of Enemy.

COMMENTING ON EXECUTIONS      Anncunce That Allied Fighting Men Falling into Jap Hands Can Not be Expected to be Treated as Prisoners of War,

Prisoners’ Acts Said Reason For Jap Executions   Wearing of Uniform Does Not Absolve Enemy, Say Nippons

Willkie Claims Republicans To ~ Upset New Dea  eal Gov. Dewey Anc _ Says G. O. P. Will Win Next Year

Head Of Farm Bureau Criticizes Wage Boosts And Opposes Subsidies

Farm Leader  Hits Subsidy   President Of Bureau Sees In Plan Effort To Increase  W aves.

VOTE ON RAIL STRIKE ENDED   Workers Finish Balloting; Result Not to Be Known For Several Days

Rail Strike Vote Has Been Finished   Results May Not Be Knowr for Several Days It Is Said. i

RAILROAD EMPLOYES FINISH STRIKE VOTE   Result Is Not Likely To Be Known For Several Days; Wrangle Over Wage Increase

HARRISBURG'S DRAFT CENTER “BURNS   All Records Saved at ‘Harrisburg; No Uniforms, Equipment ‘

Ickes Says U. S. Faces Prospect MM No Gasoline   Lack Of Transportation Facilities Puts Dark Outlook On Winter Coa! Situation

EASTMAN FEARS COAL SHORTAGE   Emergency Pooled Delivery Plans To Be Set Up To Meet Increased Calls for Fuel Over Nation.

Believe Sinking of the Scharnhorst In the Arctic Leaves Nazis Without A Battleship in Fighting Condition

SCHARNHORST SUNK IN-8 HOUR ARCTIC BATTLE   Nazis Reveal British Warships Closed in for Heavy Sea Attack

Big German Battleship  Sunk Sunday   Scharnhorst Sent To Bottom By British, After Violent Battle

Nazis Believed Left Without Orie Battleship   “British Report -Scharnhorst-—=Has-Been-Sun

German  Warship Is Sunk   LAST BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST IS LOST IN BARENTS SEA FIGHT

BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST : DESTROYED —   26,000 Ton Nazi Vessel Sunk By British

Friendliness Is Latest . Sugar Coating for Bitfer Income Tax Pill

British Bombers Smash at Turin In Northern Italy   ADVANCE OF ALLIES Far Better Than Expected

Allied Drive To Messina Is Termed Most Unlikely   American And British Forces Firmly Consolidate Ex: panding Grip On Corner Of Sicily

SIGNS MOUNTING ROME BREAKING WITH GERMAN)   Approaching Allies and De mocracy, Latter Being Country's Urgent Need,  Editor Says

ITALY BREAKS FROM GERMANY   Nazi War News “Buried ‘Ir Italian Newspapers

Democracy Needed, Says Ttalian Paper   Relations With Nazis No Longer Good, Press Ignores Hitler, Goering

Italy Watching Quebec Parley   Hope Means To Get It Out Of War Found; Ree Widen<

ltaly Looks To Allied Leaders  Hope Some Solution Toward Peace Will  Came Fram Meetina

New Peace Bid By Italy Seen   Sudden Turn Of Events Forecast In Bern

‘Signs Indicate Italians Are Stepping ‘Away Front ff Geitiany In Peace Hope”

MULTIPLYING SIGNS ITALY IS STEPPING AWAY FROM GERMAN!  ACTION EXPECTED IN TURN TO ALLIES AND DEMOCRACY

Italians Watch Conference Too   Hope Quebec Meeting Results in Getting Them Out

Subsidy Plan Gets Snubs In Congress   Another Word Needed; Production ‘Bonus’ Is_ Possibility

ELEPHANT BREAKS LOOSE   Judy Tears Up Fences and Bashes © a Bystander

IRATE FRENCH AMBUSH NAZI TROOP COLUMN   Ammunition Train - Blown Up; Riots  Spreading

Attempt Made On Life Of Collaborationist   Rioting And Guerrilla Clashes Are Continuing Throughout France.

Wickard, Brown  Sign Agreement  Food Rationing Clears Way F or   Clears Way For Expansion Of  Rationed Goods

Rationing Agreement Has Been Signed By Officials   Secretary Of Agriculture Wickard And OPA Director Brown Divide -Authority

sma NOW TOTAL 45,000   Shouted from Goodyear  We'll Work for Uncle Sam’ Picket Lines   Workers of Day Shift Join Pay Protest Walkout in Three Firms

WAR LABOR BOAR RECONSIDERAI WAGE DISPUTE UNTIL   WORK IS RESUMED

ALLIED FORCES PUSH ABOVE CAPTURED LAE   Airborne Troops Take Village 60 Miles To West

AERIAL TROOPS: SEIZE VILLAGE IN NEW GUINEA      American Bombers Wreck Airdromes Northwest Of Lac; Japs Lose 400 Planes In Arca

ALLIES ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur's Troops Seize Village 60 Miles: Northwest Of Lae In Two Day Drive.

AIRBORNE TROOPS PUSH G0 MILES NORTHWEST LAE   Japanese Counter Attacks Show No Effect Against Determined Advance; Kaiapit Seized By Australian Troops.

MacArthur Forces Roll Forward In New Guinea   Airborne Troops Seize Village With Bombers Wrecking Strategic Points

MacArthur's Troops Take Village 62 Miles Northwest Of Tae As Bombers Wreck Jap Installations In New Guinea

New Victory In Lae Area   Air-Borne Aussies Seize Koiapit, Rout Japs; Wide Strating

FLIERS SOFTENING JAPS’ DEFENSES . NORTHWEST OF. LAE        Nip Village, 60 Miles ‘Away, ; Taken Two Days ‘After Fall of" Lae—Bridges, Trucks,  : a oe fo 

ALLIES TAKE NEW JAP POS!   Air-Borne Troops Drive Nips Out of Positions Above Lae

MacArthur Pushes Swiftly Above Lae, While Allied Bombers Strew Ruins North

New Pacific Stroke Sprung By MacArthur   Airborne Aussies’ Seize Kaiapit, 60 Miles North of Lae; As MacArthii Moves To Capitalize on Fall of Lae ais Sala:  . matia.

Huge Army Foes Rely on Hoover   Ex-President Called By Senate Committee

Solons to Hear Hoover Today   Seek Views on Size Of Armed Forces

EXPECT HELP FROM HOOVER   Group Favoring Limit on Army Await Testimony  Of Ex-President

Hoover Will Testify on Army Problem Today  Some Senators Seek to Curb Expansion

Senators Look To Hoover for Advice on Army   -ormer President To Tes: tify on Needs of Armed Services

Hoover Appears Before Committee Today  MATIN Paewtifer am   Will Testify on Problem.of Arms and Supply

Senators Seek Hoover Aic In Move to Limit Draft  Think Ex-President Can Sway Couniry’s Opinion on Holding Army’s Size to Economic Seale

Hoover Appears Before  Committee Today Will Testify on Problem of Arms and Supply

Farm Bloc Moves To Cut Army Size: Hoover Aid Asked   Ex-President Will Testify On Problem of Supply: Stimson, Wickard, Knox Called

SENATORS SEEK CURB ON ARMY   Subcommittee Will Hear Hoover On Question  Of Food Supply

HOOVER SUPPORT HOPE OF SENATE   Curb on Size of Armed Forces Hinges Upon His Testimony

39.000 Join Walkouts in Akron Plants   Rubber Workers Halt Work in  Two Factories

32,000 MEN IDLE IN RUBBER STRIKE   General Tire Einplayes End Sympathy Strike And Return To Work

ANGLO- AMERICA BOMBING LULL CAUSES WONDER   May Augur Préparation for Great Blows On “Industrial ' Germany

AIR FORCES ARE REGROUPED FOR HFAVIER RAIDS   Churchill Congratulates Am: erican and British Flyers: for Bomb Results.

LULL IN BOMBINGS BY ALLIED CRAFT NOW IN SECOND DAY   Attack Tapered Off Sunday ‘After Americans Raided Poland And East ..

Regrouping of Air Force For New Blows Seen   Lull In Bombing Offensive of Nazi  Cities Continues

aecireal Pepends Vn Goniral Ui Ratis— — By Kirke L. Simpse  Nazis Await Rains To Slow Pace Of Russians

Worker Killed As Well Blows Wild   Struck In Head By Connection Which Blew Off

Roosevelt’s 10th Anniversary in White House Brings 4th Term Talk

FDR ENDING TEN YEARS AS CHIEF; MAY RUN IN 1944   Roosevelt's Future Depending on Progress Being Made in World Affairs

FDR’S ANNIVERSARY BRINGS FOURTH ‘TERM TALK   Party Leaders Think Candidacy Would  Depend on Outlook at War

Veteran Democrat Insist: No One Can Foretell Now About 1944   PARALLEL IS RECALLED

Roosevelt Completes Tenth Year - in White House With Fourth Term the Big Political Question Mark   President in Same Uncertain Position as That of Four Years Ago: Veteran Party Spokesman Gives Views on Situation. 

President Roosevelt Ends Ten Eventful Years of War and Peace in White House

Roosevelt Not Decided On Race      FOURTH TERM TALK IS REVIVED AGAIN IN CAPITAL

Henry L. Ward, Scientist And  Writer, Passes ..-- In Daughter’s Home

POPULATION JUMP NEARLY DOUBLES ’41   Prosperity, Anticipation o Conscription Reasons

Beef, Hamburger Go One to Four ‘Ration Points Higher Next Sunday

OPA Point Value Raised for Beef   Some Pork,  Lamb, Veal Cuts Lowered

PUINT VALUES ARE RAISED ON BEEF PRODUCTS  Boo sts Of One To To Four Points Will Become Effective fal  n Sinday   OTHER MEATS LOWERED   Increases Due To Lower Production, Increased Consumer Demand

MORE POINTS 10 BE REQUIRED FOR SOME MEATS NEXT SUNDA)   Beefsteaks, Roasts, Ham. burger, Dried Beef “Go Up"; Other Cuts Cost Fewer Points.

Point Values of Beef Increased ‘Starting Sunday   Boost Prompted By Lower Production, " Greater Demand

INCREASE IN POINT VALUES OF BEEF CUTS   Fewer Points Required For Pork, Lamb and Cuts Of Veal

T GAS BOOKS VOID JULY 1ST   Being Replaced By Newly Processed Series of ‘TT’ Coupons

German War Production  ls Hard Hit   American Bombing Attacks Deal Severe Blow To Nazi Industries  Ry PIWVIK Tic is

Probe of Race Riots Opens  Texas City Is Under — Strict Martial Law

Sen. Moore Will Oppose Disney Bill   Wants Oil Price Increase, Doesn’t Think Congress Should Legislate Prices

EXPECT FIGHT ON DISNEY OIL BILL   OPPOSITION MAY BE LED BY OKLAHOMA SENATOR MOORE

Believe Hitler’s No Longer Master Of Europe After Two Years Of Nazi Rule Fails To Break Resistance

Underground Leaders Say Guerilla Attack Looms When Invasion Starts; People’s Will to Resist Unimpaired

Report Nazis Fail  To Master Europe  Murder and Slavery Drivee Are Ei stile

POLICE HUNTING SLAYER OF WOMAN   Young Woman Is Found Dead Near Barn At Paterson,  New Jersey

Fifty-Fifty Tax Measure Held Likely   Middle Ground Between Rumi Plan and 6% Bill Studied

GOP BACKERS OF RUML PLAN FEEL SECURE   Daughton Thinks Bill Will Be Defeated

GOP Confident Of Rumi Bill  Chairman Doughton. Says Plan Beaten he Deknte Cantinuae

REPUBLICANS SEE HOUSE VICTORY FOR RUMI. TAX PLAN   Democrats Despair of Ability to Pass Ways and Means Group's Bill   WOULD ABATE NO TAXES

RUMI PLAN LOST, SAYS DOUGHTON:; GOP DISSENTS   Leader Claims Votes tc ‘Spare in New Tax Proposal

HOUSE MEMBERS SEE AUML TAX WIN   Clash of Backers Pushes Compromise Bloc to Renew Concilatory Efforts

REPUBLICANS FEEL RUML PLAN WILL WIN IN THE HOUSE   Chairman Doughton of Ways ; and Means Committee, Hiow-  ever, Declares “Plan Is Beaten” , 5

KNUTSON SEES 1) MAJORITY IN FAVOR OF BILL   Demos Hold Opposite View on Chances Of Passage

Advocates See  Ruml Victory   Foes Also Confident— Bloc Seeks Compromise

ASKS FROTECTION   Victory Seen For Rumi Plan   Republican Leader Martin Claims Votes To Pass Measure

RESUME DEBATES ON SKIP-A-YEAR TAX PROPOSALS   PROPONENTS PREDICT HOUSE VICTORY FOR TAX ABATEMENT PLAN

Predict House Victory For Ruml Plan; Doughton Takes Opposite .View.. ..

Passage Of Ruml Plan Predicted  Republicans Say House ~ Will Approve Measure

Compromise On Tax Bill Seen   G.O.P. CLAIMING ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS RUML PLAN

House Victory Seen As Ruml Supporters Gain New Strength   Democratic Leaders Admit Fear That Present Tax Bill Will Fail ——Pry Pass: Compromise Bloc Active

Fale \ vi See Win, Loss Kor Ruml Plan   Republicans Claim Victory By 12 Votes, Demos Say Program Defeated.

DOUGHTON SAYS RUML PLAN OUT   Solon’s Opinion Not Shared By G. O. P. Leaders, Who Insist It Will Pass

Both Sides In *Big Tax Fight Claim Victory   Result Is New Emphasis On Compromise In SkipYear Saquabble.

House Victory for Ruml Tax Plan Seen by Republican Bloc   Predicton Disputed by Democrats; New Food Program Ordered

Republicans See House Victory For Rumi Plan   Democratic Chiefs Fear Their Bill Will Fail to Win

KNUTSON ofY HE Aa VOTED FOR TRIUMPH   qT Leader Martin Forecasts Skipa-Year Idea to Pass in House.   REED CHARGES LOANS, INTEREST RUN HEAVY

McQueen Services  Are ileld Today   ‘Drnlel Bruce McQueen Succumbs  Following Long Hiness,

b e McQueen Services  Are Held Today      Deniel Bruce MeQuetn aceumbs Following Long I

U. S., BRITISH FLIERS RETURN TO BLAST REICH   Forts and Liberators Raid Wester Germany, Marauders Hit Northern France Today

Fortresses Hit Targets in S-West Germany   RAF Heavy Bombers Blast Inland Fort of Mannheim-ludwieshafen

U.S. BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACK   West German Targets Blasted by Americans

U.S. Fliers Hit Nazis, Follow — R. A. F. in Raids  Eight Million Homeless in  Reich, Say Swiss

WESTERN GERMAN TARGETS BLASTED BY THE AMERICANS   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightings.   MARAUDERS IN FRANCE   Five Aircraft Were Lost in the Operation; Mines Layed in Enemy Waters.

RETALIATORY BLOWS AIMED AT ENGLAND   London, Southeast Towns Hit By Sharpest Blows In Many Months, British Announce   MANY MINES ARE LAID

RAF, GERMANS EXCHANGE AIR BLOWS TCDA\   Three Nazi Cities Bombed While Enemy Retaliates On London

Yanks Press Air Pounding Against Reich   Heavy Bombers Blast ai Targets in Germany and France

F oriresses Hit Bremen  In Big Daylight Raic   RAF Blasts Stuttgart, Friedrichshaven, Munict In Renewed Aerial Offensive; Luftwaffe Retaliates With Attack On London

WESTERN GERMAN TARGETS BLASTED   Daylight Attack Follows . Night Raid on Same - General Area   MET FIERCE. DEFENSE

Marauders Attack France As Big Air Fleets Jar Enemy   American Assault Follows RAF Raid in Same General Area Last Night—Reich Reeling Under One of Hardest Blows of War.

BRITISH-GERMAN BOMBERS “SWAP” AERIAL ATTACKS   RAF Bomber Fleet Pounded  Three Important Cities In Germany Last Night While Nazis Retaliated With 33-Ton Bomb Attack On London.

Emden Catches Big Bombing   Fortresses Make Daylight Raid on Ship Center

GERMANY HAS LARGEST AIR RAID OF WAR   Allies Drop 2000 Tons Of Bombs In 27 Minutes

FLYING FORTS BLAST BREMEN, U-BOAT BASE   Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen and Munich Raided by RAF in New Burst of Aerial War   LONDON BOMBED   Casualties aad Damage Caused, Americans Newly Arrived Stand in Streets to See Show

YANKEES RAID NAZI SUB BASE INDAYLIGHT   Strike With Force After RAF Attack On Munich, Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen at Night   BERLIN RADIO SAYS DAMAGE EXTENSIVE   German Bombers Strike At London and Southeast England With Sharpest Blow In Months

FORTS’ HIT BREMEN IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK   City U-Boat, Shipbuilding Center

Flying Forts Raid Bremen  By Daylight   Americans Hit Bio Nazi Port

Daylight Air Aitack  on Bremen      Fortresses in Heavy Blow at German U-Boat and Ship Building. Center   THUNDERBOLTS GO. ALONG ON BAIL   British Smash at Stuttgart and Other Centers; Light Raid-on London

RAF Hammers: Industrial Cities. _ In Heavy Raid   Germans Raid England In Retaliation; London Hit Hardest Sinee 1942

U.S. AIRMEN HIT GERMANY AGAIN   Fortresses Follow Heavy RAF Night Attack

GERMANS CARRY ‘OUT HEAVY RAID AGAINST LONDON   RAF Strikes Deep Into Hitler’s Fortres:

AMERICANS BLAST GERMAN TARGETS   Another Huge Force Of U. 8. Bombers And Fighters Assail Nazis   REICH HARD HIT   Returning British Fliers Say Fires Still Burning In Duesseldorf

3 Nazi Cities Are Blasted in RAF Raids   Biggest Attack. Since May, 1942, Is Leveled at London ~ by Earn Bombers

BRITISH BOMBERS RANGE FAR OVER SOUTH GERMANY   NAZIS RETALIATE; HEAVIEST RAID ON LONDON SINCE 1942

YANKS BLAST GERMAN HUBS   BOMBERS HIT TARGETS IN NORTHERN FRANCE

Three German Cities Blasted By RAF Armada   German Bombs Hit At London In Sharp Retaiiatory Raid.

Allies Renew Raids on Reich after Most Devastating 24-Hour Attack of War

Flying Forts Pound Bremen. U-Boat Center   Yank Attack Follows Up R. A. F. Battering Of 3 South German Cities.

RAF Bombers Pound. Munich, Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen; Weak Nazi Force Hits London

FOLLOW NIGHT BRITIaH hala ON RAINELANG   Berlin Reports Heavy Battles Raging Over Baden, Wurthemberg.   OTHER AMERICANS ROAR TOWARD NORTH FRANCE

U.S: Bombers Again Blast: Germany In Daylight Raids   Targets In France Also Hit; Raids Follow Hardest Blows Yet Struck

HEAVY PLANE BLAST ENEMY   Daylight Assault on Germany Follows RAF Mosguito Attack.   RAF SECRET REVEALED

TRIO OF IMPORTANT GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITIES ARE BLASTED  SHARPEST RAID BY NAZ AIRMEN ON LONDON FOR MANY MONTHS

U, 3 DOMBtHo HIT GERMANY IN DAYLIGHT   American Raid Is Follow-Up Of British Night Attack On Hitler’s Domain

YANK BOMBERS FLAY GERMANY   Western Reich, Northern France Feel Might  Of U. S. Bombs 

Fortresses Stage Day Raid on Bremer      Attack on U-Boat Center Follows an RAF Night Assault in Force on Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen and Munich.

RAF BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN CITIES TODAY   Nazis Retaliate With Bombing Of London

THREE GERMAN CITIES BOMBED   Nazi Raiders Strike Lom don In Heaviest Raid Of Year

Forts Stage Heavy Raid On Bremen   Daylight Attack Follows British Assault on Three Nazi Cities   NEW AIR OUTBREAK   Germans Strike Sharpest Blow at London in Many Months

Renew Air Blows  On Nazis   American Bombers In Daylight Blast After Night Attack

U.S. ATTACKS WEST GERMANY   Fiving Fortresses And Liberators Again Blast Targets  HEAVY TOLL TAKEN

MOSQUITO RAID HITS GERMAN)   Fast Bombers  Follow Heav\ RAF And U. S. Attacks

LUFTWAFFE HITS BACK AT LONDON   Friedrichshafen, Munich, Stuttgart Main Targets; Nazi Raid Is Heaviest In Many Months

8 Million Pounds of Bombs Showered on  Reich in 24 Hour:   Most Devastating Day and-Night Punch is  Thrown at Germans

New Raids On Germany   RAF Mosquito Planes Hit Western Area In Night Assault

3 German Cities Hit By RAF; Nazis Over London   Stuttgart, Munich, Friedrichshafen Are Blasted In Widespread British Attacks

Nazi Raids On London Worst  ~ In Two Years   Streets Thronged A: Attack Launched RAF In 5th Raid O Month

Three German Cities Hitin Night Raids  London Subjected   London Subjected To Heaviest Raid In Many Months

—~AIR RAIDS—   GERMAN ASSAULT JOWEAVIEST IN CCUT DA ARNT I   Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen And Munich Are Allied Targets   DAMAGE REPORTED   Only 15 Of 60 German Raiders Are Able To Reach London

Fast Mosquitoes Strike In Wake Of Heavy Raid   Four Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Two German Cities.

Bremen Is Target Of Day Attack   Fortresses and P-47’s in Extensive Cross-Crannel Activity

RAFBombsGermany, Nazis Return Blow   Powerful RAF Fleet Pounds Three German  Cities; Sharp German Retaliation Blow Felt in Ee tend: No Military Targets.

Friederichshafen, Stuttgart, Munich, Bremen Are Targets   German Planes Strike at London and Southeastern England

BOMBERS RESUME BLOWS AT REICH   Daylight Assault Follows Devastating Punches.

Americans Hit With Bombers And Fighters   American Mission Comes After R. A. F Had Raided Same General Area

Nazi Bombers Attack London   RAF Air Armada Peunds Stutigart, Friedrichshafen. Munich.

FAST BRITISH BOMBERS HIT REICH CITIES   Fires Still Burning In Duesseldorf,  O\pl iin me

VATICAN’S HELP SOUGHT TO END . ALLIED BLOWS   Small Scale RAF Attack Made On Western Germany

U.S. FLIERS HIT REIGH, FRANCE   Assault Follows RAF Night Attack in Same Area

U. §. Bombers Are Over Reich Again   RAF Hit Same Area Last Night

FORTS ATTACK  BREMEN PORT   Night of Heavy Raids By RAF Followed By Daylight Smash.

Sth Air Force Blasts Bremer In Day Sweep   15 Nazi Raiders Cause 2 Hour London Alert, Leave Many Casualties   MUNICH IS HIT   Stuttgart, Friedrichshafer Also Feel Weight Of Brit: ish Offensive

FLYING FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS HI WESTERN GERMANY  DAYLIGHT ASSAULT FOLLOWED CLOSELY NIGHT  esmamTtIircrnt nA rarire, Ta 4 TF

Nazi Bombers Make Attack On England   Berlin Admits Extensive Damage By RAF Raid On Stuttgart

RAF Raids Reich As Nazis Strike British Canifal   London Hit Hardest In More Than Year; Damage Is Light

Germany Is Smashed By Bombs As Few Nazi Fliers Hit London   Many Civilians Killed in Naples By Time Bomb Left by Germans

Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen And Munich Are Among Targets; Germans Retaliate On London.

British Lash At Three Important Cities In Germany   Nazis Bomb London In Sharp Retalitory Blow During Night

AE PUSHES ITS ATTACKS “UPON ENEMY   Western Germany - Raided, Mines Are Laid

MEDIUM BOMBERS RAID FRANCE   Nazis Strike Back Weakly With Small Raids In England

Flying Fortresses Strike At Bremen   Attack Follows Heavy Night Assaults By RAF On Stuttgart, Freiderichshafen And Munich: London Hit

U.S. Fliers Bomb Bremen Port, RAP. Hits Nazis  Targets Include Friedrichshafen, Munich, Stuttgar

RAF POUNDS THREE IMPORTANT NAZI CITIES   German Radio Reports Extensive Damage Inflicted at Stuttgart

RAF RAIDS 3 NAZI CITIES IN FORCE   Berlin Says Damage Extensive; Germans Strike At London

USAF RETURNS T0 ATTACK ON REICH   4,000 TONS BOMBS FELL ON GERMANY WEDNESDAY NIGHT

U. S. FORTS BLAST AT BREMEN   German North Sea U-Boat and Shipbuildins Base by Daylight

British Bombers Roar Over Southern Germany, Blasting Plants; Nazi Answer Weak

England Has Worst Raid In Months..... British Bombers Rain  Destruction On Three Big Cities In Germany

FLYING FORTS BOMB BREMEN   YANKS FOLLOW BRITISH NIGHT BLOWS ON REICH

Western Reich Again Bombed By U.S. Plane:   Aerican Headquarters Also Reports Targets In Northern France Hit

Strike at Bremen After RAF Raids Southern Reich   Thunderbolts Support Flying Forts in New Burst of Air Activity.   German Bombers Hit  At Southeast England

Ickes Appeals for Speedy Settlement Of Coal Dispute   Negotiations Now Being Conducted By Lewis. Van Horn

MINERS AND LEWIS AGAIN THREATEN TO SLOW WAR EFFORT   Strike Truce Will Expir At Midnight and Boss Leaves Capital Guessing

Miners Strike Deadline Near   Ickes Issues Appeal For Speedy Settlement Of Wage Dispute.

MINE STRIKE TRUCE STILL NOT EXTENDED   Previous Deadline To Pass al Midnight Tonight.

ICKES APPEALS TO MINERS, OPERATORS TO REACH SPEEDY AGREEMENT   In Order That Uncertainty of Production of Coal for War Effort May Be Eliminated. Appeal Made in  Joint Telegrams to Lewis and Ezra Van Horn.

MINERS, OPERATORS SPEEDY SETTLEMENT  NEED FOR WAGE DISPUT! AGREEMENT STRESSED FOR WAR PURPOSES  IGKES APPEALED T0

SEEKING SOLUTION 10 PAY ISSUE OF U). MW. MINERS   Conferees At Bargaining Table Announce Recess For Few Hours Today But Will Make No Other Statement. Have Midnight Deadline.

Trace Extension Expires Tonight   Welles Outlines Principles For Post-War Peace

Coal Truce Deadline Over Tonight, Bargaining Opens   No Hint Given Another Extension Will B: Granted By Lewis; Salaries Aired

OPERATORS AND UNION LEADERS RESUME PARLEY   Will Seek Solution To Portal Pay  Iscne

ICKES GALLS ON MINERS TO END DISPUTE QUICKLY   Secretary Of Interior Urges Speedy Settlement Of Pay Issue As Midnight Deadline Nears; 800 Miners Already On Strike.

No Mine Pact In Sight With DeadlineNear   Operators Meet Union Leaders in Capital on Portal Pay Dispute      TRUCE ENDS TODAY   Ickes May Again Demand Fuli Production If Deadlock Holds

ICKES APPEALED TO MINERS, OPERATORS SPEEDY SETTLEMENT  NEED FOR WAGE DISPUT!   NEED FOR WAGE DISPUTE AGREEMENT STRESSED FOR WAR PURPOSES

Deadline Near In Dispute of Coal Workers   Portal-to-Portal Problem Remains Unsolved Today

Coal Conferees Busy As Strike Truce Nears End  Travel Pay Major Issue As UMW.

LAKE TWP. SCHOOL OPENS ON SEPT. 6   Teachers and Bus Drivers Are Selected; Only Half Day of School Opening Day.

Chemical Center At Ludwigshafen Attack Target   American, British Bombers Team In Daylight Assaults

NORWAY 1S HIT HEAVILY AGAIN BY YANK BOMBERS   British Meanwhile . Plaster Ludwigshaven In Rhine Santa.

Norway Raided By Liberators  Chemical Center of Ludwigshaf In Rhineland Struck hy Rritich   German Air Bases In Athens Area Are Also Attacked

HUGE BOMBERS RENEW EUROPE ‘AIR OFFENSIVE   Americans Again Hit Norway as RAF Lashes Ludwigshafen Plants

BTA Al FORGE BOMBS oMAGK NORWAY AGAIN   New Attack on Undesignated Points Follows Night Raid” on Germany.

U.S. Bombers In Big New Norway Raid   Other Planes Blast Tar. gets From Berlin to Athens   LUDWIGSHAFEN HIT   German Air Bases it Greece Attacked in New Campaign

AMERICAN FLYERS AGAIN HIT-NORWA\   Attack Follows 8. A. F. Raid  an ludwiashafen

Another Bomber Attack On Norway is Revealed         BRITISH ARMY PUSHES AHEAD FOR TWO MILES

ALLIED BOMBS SMACK RHINE, NORWAY AREAS   Western Front Aerial Offensiv Put Back On Running Basis

Ludwigshafen, Norway Raided By Allies Again  Yan Ks nd British. Tea n Day and

Farm Program Is Based On Growers Loans  Resale Prices: Difference  Borne by Nation

WFA SUBMITS NEW FARM PROGRAM ON LOANS TO GROWERS   New Policy Is  Called “Redemptions” —Resale Through Normal ss Channels. __

WFA Offers New Farm Program   Loans, Lower Resale Price Said Basis

New Farm Loan Setup Revealed   It's “Redemption” Instead of Subsidy

NEW FARM PROGRAM   {rep Leans Kased On One Price, For Hesale At Lower

GROWERS’ LOAN PLAN ADVANCED   New WFA Proposal Is De. signed To Boost Needed Food Production

WEA ADVANCES NEW PROGRAM OF FARM HELF   Loans To Growers Would Be Higher Than  Resale Price

New Agriculture Program Planned  By Food Officials   Would Loan To Growers, ‘Then Make Re-Sale _At Lower Prices .

Soviet Army Speeds Push   20 Additional Towns Fall Before Thrusts

Soviet Army Takes Sergo-lvanovka In Push on German Base at Vyazma   Nazis May be Trying to Evacuate Town

REDS CONTINUING ‘SUCCESSFUL DRIV   British Stage Big Bombing Expedition”on Industries: Over Germany.

Soviets Nearing Axis Anchor Base Of VyazmaToday   19 Other Towns - Fall to Red Army

Red Army Threatens Nazi Base   SOVIETS CAPTURE 20 TOWNS IN A DRIVE TOWARD VYAZMA

OA MILES FROM WAZMA TODAY   Nazi Spearhead Dissolves Before Onrushing Russians. Enemy Losses ‘High. *

Soviets Near Nazi Bastion Before Moscov   Central Front  Continues to Crumble Under Red Drive

NAZIS SEIZE RAIL CENTER OF BELGOROD   Increased aerial activity reported over northern  front

Two Indicted For Extortion  New York Union Leaders Accused Of $300.000 Graft

Fay and Bove Are Indicted For Extortion   Union Officials Charged With Jobbing Labor on N. Y¥. Aqueduct

Labor Chiefs Charged With  Extortion   Large Construction Syndicates Tapped For Huge Sum

Bove and Fay Indicted   Union Heads Face Extortion Charges, Attorney Says

Jury Indicts Officials Of Two Unions   Joseph Fay And James Bove Face Charges Of $300,000 Extortion In Delaware Project

INDICT TWO — UNION CHIEFS   Charged With Plot To Extort Million From Contractors

Andrews Directs European Action  Of U. S. Troops   Commander’s First Effort Will Be To Intensify Bombing Of The Enemy

LIEUT. GEN. FRANK I. ANDREWS ASSUMES (COMMAND IN BRITAIN   Says His First Duties i:   Says His First Duties is  _To Intensify Bombing Of The Fenemy

ANDREWS NOW IN COMMAND   Announces First Job Is To Increase And Intensify Bombing Of Enemy

To Step Up Bomb  Raids on Europe   General And rews, New  Commander, Says That Is Job Cut Out For Him.

Lieut. Gen. Andrews to Increase and Intensify  Air Bombing of Enemy

To European Command    Lieut. Gen. Andrews _ Appointed! to Succeed General Eisenhower

Andrews New ©  Aerial. Chief   Commander For Europe Forces Will Increase “ Raids On Nazis

Andrews Takes Command Of Forces Of U.S.   Placed In Charge In European Theater; To Step Up Bombings

His First Job Will Increase Bombing Raids   Veteran Airman Goes To London From Middle East To Succeed Eisenhower

ANDREWS HEADS EUROPEAN FORCE   s Firm Exponent of Air War Now Being Waged

AAF To Blast  European Aree   Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews Takes Command Of U. S. Forces In Britain.

Lieut. Gen. Says “My First Job Is to Increase and Intensify Bombing of Enemy”   TO CONFINE RAIDS TO DAYLIGHT HOURS   Veteran Airman Says Task Is to Be “Continued Softening Up of Germany”

New Commander - For U. S. Forces   GEN. FRANK W ANDREWS IN CHARGE FOR EUROPE

ANDREWS ISU. S. EUROPEAN CHIEF   General Andrews, Veteran Airman, Takes Command Of U. S. Forces In European Theater; To Give Enemy More Bombs.

“FOR TROOPS «IN EUROPE   Lt. Gen. +Andrews Named ‘Commander ;. Will Intensify -Air Attacks          TO LONDON FROM “.  THE-MIDDLE EAST   WSays, His First Job “Will Be : to: Go.All Out in ~ Aerial’ Warfare

Gen. Andrews Takes Commanc  Chief of All Forces In Europe Promises

Europe Theater Control Changes   And rews Replaces Gen: Eisenhower

Action Is — Spread Over Wide Area ©           FOURTH AND PERHAPS BIGGES ATTEMPT TO RETAKE : GUADALCANAL; CLIMAX  NOT YET REACHED ;

Big Battle  In Doubt   CLIMAX OF STRUGGLE Is BRE: LIEVED YET TO ARRIVE.

Nazi Planes Raid Scotland   Southeastern English Town Suffers Severe Bombing

German Bombers Raid Scotland; Damage Is Heavy   Bomb Demolishes Schoo Seconds after Pupils Take Shelter

SCOTLAND HIT IN NAZI RAID   Attack Follows Blasting School In South Of England

1? Killed in Raid On English Town RAF Retaliates With  Jolts for Nazi Areas

SCOTLAND BOMBED BY NAZI RAIDERS      German Plones Cut Thru Intense Anti. Aircraft

SCOTLAND BOMBED BY NAZI RAIDERS   German Planes Cut Thru Intense Anti-Aircraft Fire

WLB OFFERS  DAILY MINE WAGE OF $8.12   Issue of Peace or Ath General Strike Up to Workers

Major Fight Is Raging on Kuban Delta   Nazis Lose 51 Planes in Battle West of Krasnodar

BATTLEIN KUBAN DELTA UNDERWAY   Area Reaches From Novorosissk On Black Sea To Sea of Azov; May Be Beginning of Great Struggle of the Summer.

Battle for Kuban Delta Now Going on in Full Swing   May Be Beginning of Great Russian Front Struagle of the Summer

KUBAN BATTLE IN FULL SWING   Not Unlikely That Fighting In Russian Delta Region Is Beginning Of Great Struggle Of The Summer.

SUMMER CAMPAIGN MAY BE BIG KUBAN FIGHT NOW RAGING   Battle For the Delta Region, Which Extends Frem Novorossisk to Sea of Azov, New in Full Swing ,

Summer Drive Or Kuban Delta Is In Full Swing   Both Germans And Russians Battle Behind Fortifications.

THE KUBAN DELTA BATTLE REPORTED IN FULL SWING   Covers Area Reaching From Novorossisk to the Sea of Azov.   ARE WELL FORTIFIED   Not Unlikely This Is the Beginning of Great Summer Struggle.

SOVIETS FIGHT ~ TO WIN KUBAN   Fierce Struggle May Be Star Of Great Summer Campaign In Russia

AIR, GROUND FORCES CLASH IN KUBAN DELTA   Batile for Delta Reporied in Ful Swing with Neither Side Et fecting Change

RUSSO-NAZI SUMMER WAR ON BELIEF   Battle for Kuban Delta in Full Swing, With Both Sides Apparently Fighting Behind Strong For tyificatiana

BATTLE FOR KUBAN DELTA ISI WNFULL  ~_ ACTION, BELI VED; TO BE  “IBEGINNING2OF GREAT "SUMMER STRUECLE.:-

Reds Batter Kuban Sector   8,000 Germans Reported Killed as Battle Enters Full Swing

NAZIS FALLING BACK   “German Radio Reports Changes in the Western Caucasus

BATTLE FOR KUBAN DELTA IN PROGRESS   Fighting Raging From Novorossisk to Black Sea. Probably Beginnings of Great Summer Steuoocle.

REDS, NAZIS FIGHT ON IN KUBAN DELTA AREA   54 Axis Planes Shot Down In Gigantic Air Battle

Fighting Reaching From  Novorossisk On Black  Sea Northward to   Sea of Azov :   NEITHER SIDE GAINS   Both Reds and Nazis Fighting Behind Strong Fortifications, Manage to Hold Positions

Kuban Delta Batile Is in Full Swing   Both Sides Hold in Fierce Surface And Air Fichtine

Kuban Delta Battle Rages   lt Is Believed That This Is Beginning of Great Struggle

Kuban Battle In Full Swing   Nazis Sow Mines Like Wheat; Many Signs That End Is Near

FORCES HOLD GROUND IN KUBAN DELTA AREA   Reds Shoot Down 54 German Planes

ALLIES BLAST JAPANESE BASE   United Air Forces Attack Rabaul, All Planes Return

American and Alfie Allied Warplan Attack Jape. From Burma_ to'Se as °

RADAUL RAIDED WITH db TON OF EXPLOSIVES   American Flying Fortresses Participate In Attack On Japanese Base

PLANES POUND RABAUL AGAIN   Knox Says Subs Pressing Drive Against Japs

Allied Planes Lashing Jans   Enemy Positions From  Burma to South Seas Under Heavy Attacks

ALL OF JAPAN I$ VULNERABLE   Admiral Says Nipponese Are Doomed; lronwood Man Decorated

ELECTION GOES TO DE VALERA   Prime Minister Given Big Vote of Confidence

Axis Troops Evacuate Sychevka   Nazis Transfer Divisions from  Vrance to Ruesia

Reds Regain 100 Towns Ir 3-Way Drive   Germans Admit Loss of Vital Railway Center

COMETS TAKE 100 ORE TOWNS I SOLENSK RIE   Berlin Admits Vital Town Evacuated Near Vyazma   RUSSIANS SMASHING THROUGH AXIS LINES

Three Converging Soviet Drives Hammer Way Toward Smolensk  AXIS LINES TOTTER  More Than 100 Towns Recaptured in Last 24 Hours

GERMARY RUSHING TROOPS TO FRONT 10 HALT SOVIETS   Red Army Captures Over 100 Towns and Hamlets in Three Drives on Smolensk

Red Army Converging ‘On Smolensk   Pace Inereases and 100 More Villages  Fall to Russians

REDS CAPTURE 100 TOWNS IN SMOLENSK PUSH   German News Agency Admits Nazis Have Evacuated Sychevka On “Plan”   TROOPS REPORTED MOVED   Gzhatsk Falls To Soviets Now Pressing For Assault On Vyazma

RUSSIANS ARE SMASHING UP AXIS DEFENSES   Red Army Captures More Than100 Towns, Hamlets In Latest Sweep.

SOVIETS PLUNGE ON, CAPTURE 100  MORE VILLAGES   Say Hitler Is Moving Mort Troops from France.

REDS SMASH ON ONE WIDE. ARG   — Converge On Smolensk From Three Directions; Take 100 Towns,

Leaders Attempting To Gird Their Nation For Last-Ditch Stand On Do-Or-Die Basis

Tank Attack By Nazis Repulsed   French Beat Off Foe tn Africa; U. S. Troops Get There

French Forces Aided By American Planes, Anti-Tank Equipment  ACTION TAKES PLACE IN CENTRAL TUNISIA  - Some of Rommel Army May Be Digging In - 16 Miles from Tripoli

French Smash Back Nazi Tank Attacks   Allied Warplanes Strike at Armored Forces

FRENCH BLOCK AXIS TANKS IN NORTH AFRICA   AMERICAN GUNS ARE USED; NO NEWS OF ROMMEL YET

French Smash Back Heavy Tank Attack  U. 5. Ground Forces in Action; Thrusts in Madie7-al_-Rah

TANK ATTACK DEFEATED IN FONDOUK AREA   Allied Airmen Take Part In Central Tunisia Outbreak; Sousse  Is Pounded   New U.S. Unit Arrives

Heavy Axis Tank Attack Is Repulsed   American Equipment Used by Allies in’ Successful Defense; ‘Allied Airmen Active

French Stop Heavy Nazi Tank Aifack   U. S. Equipment Is Used To Blast Germans In Africc

FRENCH REPEL AXIS TANKS AT FONDOUK   Some American Tank Des: troying Equipment Aided In Beating Back Enemy After Initial Success.   Rommel Digs In

Foe Hurled Back After Early Gain In Tunisia Fight  American Planes

French Smash Heavy Assault By Nazis Tanks   U.S. Equipment Is Used And Airpowe: Plays Major Role 

French Repulse Heavy Tank Thrust of Axis   American Antitank Guns Are Used In Smashing Attack

Allied Bombers Give Effective Cover in Battle  ACDICA MENITEDDANEANW

FRENGH SOLDIERS IN TUNISIA BEAT BACK AXIS TANKS   Germans and Italians Lose Ground Gained at Outset of Heavy Attack in Fon douk Area.   ‘AMERICAN AIRMEN TAKE PART IN FIGHT   German Agency DNB Reports Arrival in Protectorate of New U. S. Ar ‘mored Division.

HEAVY ATTACK IN TUNISIA BY AXIS SMASHED   French Use U.S. Equipment to Repulse  Tank Assault

eA li ig  WPA TO QUIT JANUARY 20   Vocational Training Projects ‘to .Continue to Mid-February

beiak ce eae & Seale a % WPA TO QUIT JANUARY 20   Vocational Trainin Projects te Continue to Mid-February

Eisenhower Sees Victory in 1944   Forecasts Complete Defeat for Germany

EISENHOWER IS CONFIDENT OF 1944 VICTORY   New Invasion Chief Ask: Every Person To Do His Duty; Staff Being Formed

EISENHOWER PREDICTS  GERMAN DEFEAT IN 1944   Commander-in-Chief Of Allied Second Front Armies Breaks Precedent: Will Weld Directing Team Together

GENERAL “IKE SEES VICTORY NEXT YEAR   New Commander-In-Chief Of Allied Second Front Armies Makes First Prediction.   In Fine Spirits

Eisenhower Sees Victory in 1944   Predicts Complete Defeat of Nazis

EUROPEAN VICTORY ~ FORECAST IN 1944   General Eisenhower Sees Complete Nazi Defeat Next Year

Eisenhower Off to Head. Great invasion; ‘Sees Complete Defeat’ of Reich: in "4A

Registration . For. Ration ‘Book 2 Takes Place This Week—Point..  System   STOCKS FROZEN  Housewives  Must.  ‘Scala ‘Down Habits Of, Buying 7

Rationing Tough on Both Pocketbook . And Eating Habits, Schedule Reveals

RATIONING 10 BE TOUGH ON PAYCHECK   Registration to Be Conducted in U.S. This Week

Americans Learn Rationing Of Food To Be Tongh—Eack Family To Get Only Half Of Former Supply   MUST RELY ON FRESH FRUITS, VEGETABLES

'. S. Families Will Get Less Than Half Of 1942  Quotas Of Canned And Processed Foods; 48 Points Monthly Limit

Pocketbook Will Suffer In Rationing  Housewives Must Depend on Unrationed Fresh Fruits, Vegetables      PRICES CLIMBING   ‘Great Hardships’ Ahead ' for Some Americans, ’ Says Brown

Americans Learn Rationing of Canned Foods Wiil Be Tough on Pocketbook As Well as on Food Habits

Shortages, Hardships Seen Likely   Buying of Canned Goods is Reduced More Than Half

POINTS TO GUT FOOD oUPPLES IN SOME LINES   Price Controls Being: Studied for Fresh Fruits and Veqetables.   WARNS OF “SHORTAGES, GREATER HARDSHIPS”

CANNED GOODS SUPPLY HALVED BY RATIONING   High Point Values Effective March 1 To Slash Civilian Consumption   ALL STOCKS NOW FROZEN   New Books To Be Obtained During Week; Dried Foods Added To List

U.S. Leas That Food Rationing Will Be Tough .   Pocketbook and Habits to Get Severe Shock

Registration For War Book _ 2 Begins This Morning  Throughout Nation   LESS THAN HALF OF *42 SUPPLY IS AVAILABLE   48 Points Per Month Cuts Sharply Into Normal U. S. Consumption

Canned Goods Rationing To Be Hard on Bill-Fold  ee ll ee ee   Housewife Will Have to Depend on Sky High Fruits and Vegetables   Point Rationing Sign-Up Starts Throughout Nation

MORE THAN 50 PER CENT CUT FROM '49 MANE   How Housewife Will Use Point System in Purchases Is Explained

Each Family to Be © Allowed Less Than Half of 1942 Use   Housewives Will Have To Depend ‘More Henceforth On Unrationed Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Food

WAR WORKERS’ TIRES NEGLECTED, IS CLAIM   Survey Shows Third Not Properly Inflated

Entire Nozi 1941 Froat Threatened by Soviets.         JROMMEL'SRETREAT —~ MOT YET CHECKED   British Army Remains. ot the Heels of Fleeing  rray

Entire Nazi 1941 Front Threatened by Soviets  ROMMEL’S RETREAT NOT YET CHECKED  British Army Remains on the Heels of Fleeing Army

BYRNES INDICATES FARM LABOR MOVE   Suggests Pressure To Return Work. ers To Help Crop, Milk Production

BYRNES MAY SEND MEN BACK TO FARM   Hints at Cancellation of Thei Draft Deferment if They Refuse to Return.

30 OHIO COUNTIES GET BLACKOUT TEST   Only Industrial Plants Are Exempt from Participation

Berlin, Czechoslovakia And Other Points Hit By RAF and Fortresses

Aerial Offensives on Germany Reach Record Proportion   Non-Stop Assault Continues; Tunisian Victors Rest

Bombers Pound Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Ruhr Valley in Night Attack

R. A. F. Blasts At Berlin, Ruhr,  Czecho - Slovakia   British Lose 34 Bombers; Yanks Pound North  German Cnaet

Major Axis Cities Are Pasted Hard   Berlin, Slovakia, Ruhr And Italian Cities Are Hit

Berlin Is Included In Objectives   Heavy Concentration OF Bombs Unloaded By American Planes On Factory In France

ALLIES CONTINUE AIR ATTACKS ON NAZI TERRITORY   POUND INCESSANTLY FOR 48 HOURS AT INDUSTRIAL CENTERS

RA. F, LOSES 34 BOMBERS DURING NIGHT   Berlin, Cities In Rhur, Czechoslovakia Main Targets For “Softening Up” Allied Bombardiers

Stalin Absence Worries Press   Red Chief Calls in Our Ambassadors

Anticipate An Allied  Invasion   Propaganda Broadcasts Disclose Old and Young to  Form New Reserves

Second Corps   Nazis Admit Frantic War Draft of 18, 40-Year-Olds

No Shortage of Clothing Seen  Nelson and Browr Tees: Givin vesck

RAILWAY UNION DELAYS STRIKE INDEFINITELY   Work Stoppage Set For Tonight Postponed By Railroad Men At Urgent Request Of Mediation Board.

Rail walkout postponed at board request   Decision hinges on settlements

Postpone Strike Of Rail Trainmen  Heed ‘Urgent Request Of Mediation Board

THE ST RSINDY OLEFSTION   Trainmen’s Strike Set for Tonight Has Been Postponed

Ral Strike Call Delaved   Vice-President Of Brotherhood Of Railway ‘Trainmen Postpone Strike.

.rorces Dress Forward Toward Poland   Stop Counter-Attacks Of Germans on Lower Flank of Kiev Bulge In Western Ukraine

REDS’ CAPTURE OF GOMEL SEEN IN SHORT TIME   ‘Soviets Push Toward Old Poland After Overcoming Nazi Attacks

Counter-Drive By Nazis Halted On Kiev Bulge   Red Forces Push Forward Toward Old Poland After Richitsa, Korosten Fall

PUSH ONWARD AFTER TAKING -) KEY POINT!   Rechitsa and Korosten Fall to Russians; German Counterattacks Fail.

Reds Push Ahead From 2 New Bases           German Counter-Atte Brought to Standstill o on Lower Flank

GOMEL NEAR CAPTURE BY RED FORCES   Russians Also Crush Ger man Counterattacks on Lower Flank of Kiev.   Gain a Deep Wedge By Taking Korosten

Gomel’s Fall Expected at Any Moment   Twin Bases Protecting Poland Are Captured

RUSSIAN ARMIES PUSH TOWARD O10 POLAND POMEL CAPTURE. NEAR   Possession of Korosten and ~ Zhitomir Gite Reds Wedge In German Lines   HALF WAY TO BERLIN

Red Armies Push Toward Old Poland After Capturing Korosten And Rechitsa—Reoccupation Of Gomel Seems Near—Nazi Counter-Attacks In Western Ukraine Halted—Enemy, Despite Superior Numbers, Forced To Retreat Under Artillery Fire

Soviets Split Nazi Forces in Ukraine   Capture Korosten, 6 Miles From the Old Polish Border

EE SS UlUlUlml—ssS—SSSSSSCSsits  SOVIETS TAKE 2 NAZI BASES ANT) DRIVE QN   Korosten And _ Rechitsa Fall, Gomel Capture Near, Moscow Says; Nazi Counter Thrust Repelled.

Brought German Counterattacks to Standstill on Lower Flank of the Great Kiey  Bulge in Ukraine.   CAPTURE OF GOMEL BELIEVED NEAR   German Forces Which Attacked Three Times in Korostyshev Sector, 20 Miles  East of Zhitomir.

TWO BIG GERMAN BASES PAPTIIREL   Korosten And Rechitsa Fall Before Relentless Russian Drive   NEARING POLAND   Nazi Counterattacks On Great Kiev Bulge Also Halted

Gomel Capture  Near as Two Cities Fall   Nazi Gains Show Enemvy’s Strensth

Red Army Drives Threaten Gome!   German Counterattacks On Lower Part Of Kiev Bulge Brought To Standstill By Soviet Troops

Korosfen And Rechifsa Taken, Gomel Fall Due   Just Year Ago Today Russians Launched CounterOffensive From Stalingrad

SOVIETS RUS DRIVE TOWARD POLISH BORDER   Capture of Two Vital Cities Gives Bases  For New Attacks

Reds Push Closer To Polish Border   Capture of Gomel, White Russian Rail Center Appears Near   SPLIT GERMAN FORCES   Year Ago Russians Opened Counter-Offensive from  Stalingrad

 Moscow Celebrates Twin Victories Giving Russians Wedge Deep ia German Lines   NAZI FORCES SPLIT   Vatutin's Flank nk Guarded by Pripet Marshes as Troops Cu! North-South Railway

COUNTER-STABS «HALTED, NAZIS FAGE NEW ROUT   all of Gomel Near As Reds Crush German Thrusts In Ukraine

ounter Attacks by Hitlerites Fail and Trek Back To Polish Border Is Resumed   LOSSES ARE HEAVY

Reds Halt Nazi Drive In Ukraine   Then Soviets Push to Win Korosten, Vital Base In Kiev Wedge

‘SEIZURE OF GOMEL IS EXPECTED   @Korosten Rail Center And Rechitsa Taken In Single Day

FATE OF GOMEL VIRTUALLY SEALED   Russians Capture Rechitsa 25 Miles West of  Gomel in White Russia

GOMEL DOOMED BY RED GAINS   Advancing Soviets Take - Rechitsa; Nearing ) Polish Border

FATE OF GOMEL SEALED BY RED ARMY ADVANCE   Two Rail Centers” Seized By Russiai Forces As Annies Drive Toward Border of Poland   HUGE STORES TAKEN . AS NAZIS RETREAT   “Victory Guns” In Moscow Sound Salute to Mark New Triumps In Wake Of Minor Setback

GOMEL'S FALL APPEARS NEAR AS REDS GAIN   German Counterattacks Ir Kiev Bulge Turned Back: Stalin Honors Vatutin Ir Order Of Day

Russians Push On Toward Ol¢  Polish Border   American Bombers Complete Destruction Of Elevsis Airfield At Athens.   WEATHER IMPROVES

Reds Push Ahead From 2 New Bases   German Counter-Attacks Brought to Standstill on Lower Flank

NOW VIRTUALLY SEALED BY REDS   [win Victories In Russian Offensive Proclaimed By Stalin: Soviet Steamroller Surges Onward.

Russians Halt Attacks By Germans   Nazis Retreat Under Barrage From Reds’ Big Guns

DEPENDENTS OF SOLDIERS MUST FILE REQUESTS   New Allowances Are Being Figured.

PUSH TO POINT ONLY 75 MILES FROM KEY PORT   Expect Germans To Make Stand At Vital Base

KHARKOV FELL FROM PEOPLE   Rumors Continue of Dissension. Between Dictator and His Army Officers on War.

KHARKOV LOSS NOT TOLD NAZ ‘AOME FRONT’   Defeat ‘Unprecedented,’ German Military Man Quoted

Nazi People Are Not Told Of Big Loss   Fall of Kharkov Still Unreported By Adolf Hitler

NAZIS SILENT ABOUT KHARKOV   Home- Folks Uninformed On Fall of Industrial Metropolis

HITLER DELAYS TELLING GERMANS - OF KHARKOV LOSS   Germans Admit Defeat tr Foreign Broadcasts, But Not At Home.

ROUTED GERMANS IN FULL FLIGHT   Hitler Keeps News of Kharkov’s Fall trom German People Today

Nazis Intensify Work on Forts Fear Invasion   Norwegian Underground Organization Prepares for Revolt

NORWAY FORTIFIED BY JITTERY NAZIS   Germans Also Clamp Down on Revolt Plots

Aled Forces Push Ahead In Sicily Attacks   Three More Small Italian Islands Surrender To AIllied Troops   YANKS CAPTURE 500 MORE NAZIS

SHIPS, PLANES POUND CITIES ON MAINLAND   Allied Troops Make Steady Advances on Sicily

FLOOD OF CORN STARTS. MOVING   Is in Response to Increase in OPA Ceilings on

JUNE PRODUCTION BETTER THAN MAY   Lag Reported — Due te Switches in Military Program

June Production  Appears Better WPB Official Says “More Is Needed

JUNE OUTPUT SLIGHTLY UP   Nelson Says War Goods Slowed By Switching Of Demands

NELSON EXPLAINS WHY PRODUCTION DROPPED   WPB Chairman Says Change-Over: Due To Battle-Front Experience Slewed Output Of Plants

Nelson Explains Production Lag   Says May Figures Not Discouraging

Production Lag Not Discouraging, Nelson Explains '   “Change i in-Progeam      ‘Change i in. Program Based ‘on Experience Cause of Delay”

Largest Electric Motor in World Compleied by General Electric Co.

TOWNS WITHOUT CAFES   Smith Center § ns I Eating House First Time in 60 Years

Returns Verdiet Tn Firm’s Favor   Common Pleas Court Held Last Week

Australians Win /Series (f Battles In New Guinea   Japanese Falling Back Before Allied Forces In Wau District

STARVATION AND DISEASE HELP ALLIED CAUSE   Isolated Nip Garrisons Dying Off—Bombers Blast Enemy Bases   RUSSIANS CLOSING TRAP   Half Million Huns Facing Disaster—Rain And Snow Slow Tunisian Fight

HULL PRAISES RUSSIAN MOVE   Comintern End Will  Promote Greater Trust

RED INTERNATIONAL BREAKUP WELCOMED   Secretary Hull Hails Action As Step Toward Greater Trust.

Dissolution Of Comintern Said Aid  Act Will Promote  CF es eee ey ee eee

U.S. Officially Praises Ban On Comintern   Hull Hails Action As Promoting Greater Trust Amang United Nations   POST WAR AID   American [nfluence On Moscow Decision Is Not Revealed By Secretary

State Charges Co-Op. Burial Ass’ns. [legal      Action Filed In Sioux District. Court One a Seven Suits w hich fo.

FOOD ) SYSTEM 1S ASSAILED   EDITORS OF TRADE. PUBLICA  TIONS OF FOOD INDUSTRY BITTERLY CRITICIZE.   + ‘FEDERAL METHODS

FOOD SHORTAGE   Congressional Food Study Committee Takes Poill—Finds Washington Blamed for Nation's Difficulties.

EDITORS FLAY FOOD CONTROL   GOP Group Says ‘Bungling’ Blamed For Shortage

Place Blame In Food Shortages   Bungling And Regimentation At Washington Are Cause, Is Asserted

SNOW, RAIN HOLDS UP ALLIED MOVES ON TUNISIA FRONT   Nazis Admit Eighth Army Has Powerful Forces Now In. Lower ‘Tunisia

BAD WEATHER DELAYS ALLIED TUNISIAN BLOW   Patrols Fight Armored Axis Cars: Aerial Action Curbed

Rain, Snow Helping Axis  Tn Tunisia   Weather Permitting Germans To Build Strong Fortifications

Public Hearings On New Unemployment “Merit” Plan To Be Held Soon

FINAL BATTLE FOR KIROVOGRAD NOW UNDERWAY   Key German Base In Southern Ukraine Likely To Fall To Rus-

STRONGHOLD UNDER DIRECT ASSAULT   Soviet Troops Forge Ahead On All Sectors

INDICT SEVEN MEN ON MANN ACT VIOLATION   Charged With Transporting Girls from Ohio to Honolulu

Allies Squeeze Trap Tighter In North Africe   Repeated. ‘Axis: Efforts * To. Fight Way Out ‘“' End In Failure.

NoCashBenetits For Teachers In Military Service  High Court Ruling Alse Invalidates Payment  By School Boards

Condensed Milk to Be Rationed   Red Stamps Needea to Purchase Item

One Point Per Pound In Effect   Ample Supply Assured For Infants; Concession For Invalids.

party early Lines Uraun War y Senators Look Askance At 'Soldier’s Absentee Ballot Bill

Food Subsidy Looms Again   President Hints More Coming By Autumn

Roosevelt ay Tell ood Plan   lons Promised More Talk On  Subsidies

Annual Boy Scout Drive fo Open Here Tuesday Morn  Two Team ' Captains Are Named; Letters   oe   bo wimme be Baw Ceonmasba

Annual Boy Scout Drive to Open Here Tuesday Morn   Two Team Captains Are Named; Letters Delivered to Victorians by Boy Scouts

Churchill Predicted Collapse Of Mussolini In U.S. Two Months Ago

Two Months Ago Churchill Predicted Collapse of Mussolini’s Fascist Regime

CHURCHILL HAD FORECAST FALL OR MUSSOLINI   Prediction Two Months Ago In Secret Has Congress Convinced Allies Prepared For It   WAS WELL INFORMED   Senator Burton Sees Sicil  ian Campaign and Il   Duce’s Ouster Vindication Military Tactics ,

Charchill Warns Italy War Will Not Be Relaxed But Prosecuted   Orders Are Sent Out To Commanders To Exert The Utmost Rigor In War Despite Flight Of Duce.   America, BritianAreReady To Deal With Italy Since Downfall Was No Suprise

ALLIES READY FOR PEACE BID   Churchill’s Prediction Supports Views of Solons

Washington Studies’ Effect on War. oS ‘of Allied Victory Over Jap Convoy

Washington Elated over Success of F Air Triumph over Surface Vessels  ‘But Full War Value Not Yet Certain

Far-Reaching ‘Effect Seen ‘InSea Victory   Threat of Attack on  Australia Eased, Is Opinion in Washington

Historic Vietory of Land Planes Over Sea Force Elating To Exnerte

Japs Losing Grip On The South Front   U. S. Legation Tempered By Vague Reports

Pacific Front Worth Proven   Allied Victory ’ Stresses Guadalcanal Yalue

Liquor Laws, Finance Before Legislature   _ Baltimore Group, Opposes “Unnecessary” Changes in State  Liquor Laws

LIQUOR LAW REVISION UF   Proponents And Foes Of Projected Revision Before - Committees

Lewis Lets Strike Occur As Scheduled   Defies Ultimatum by President Roosevelt

MUSIC GROUP OFFER FALL PROGRAM   Vocal Concert Will : Be Given Tomorrow’ Evening .

Vocal Music Groups of LeMars Schools To Present Fall Concert   Varied Program Is Arranged Bv Directors

RUSSIANS IN KHARKOV AREA PUSH TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER   Adverse Weather Conditions Force Lullin Bomber Raids Over Europe

EUROPE GROWS TENSE OVER INVASION PLAN   Southern Section Especially Nervous As Pre-Invasion Lull Continues—London Believes That Opening of Second Front In Europe Is Now Imminent —lItaly Appears to Be the Logical —  Snot for Ouick Thruct,

Refurn fo Mine, Strikers Told   Committee Members Are Pessemistic

Texas Sheriff In Denial Of Charges   Accused of Helping Notori. ous Gene Norris Escape

AMERICANS MAKE LOCAL ADVANCE IN HARD FIGHT   Capture Small Hills As Fogs Prevent Major Action   BOTH SIDES BELIEVED EXHAUSTED BY BATTLE

U. §. 2nd Corps Reoccupie: Two Small Hills And Advances To Ket Rajal Tc Touila  HEAVY CASUALTIES  No Important Operations Take Place Over Week-End  BULLETIN

Japs Are Massing Another Armada   Assemble Transports, Supply and Warships

HUGE JAP FLEET [5 BEING MASSED, AUSTRALIA HEARS   High Official of Melbourne Government Reports Naval Concentration in Southwest Pacific.   POSSIBLE SOLOMONS ATTACK PREDICTED   Enemy Said to Be Building Great Airfield at Munda, 200 Miles Northeast of Guadalcanal.

COAT RIPS - - - DEATH   Woman Plunges. Six Stories As Maid Holds Remnant

Through German Lines  [Partisan Troops Break  Along Adriatic Coast

SENATE WILL STUDY COST OF PENALTY MAIL   Government Press Releases Called Propaganda

OPPOSE FRANKED MAIL   Committee Charges Bureaus Are  Wasting Paper on Propaganda

Composed of 21 Members   OPPOSE FRANKED MAIL   Committee Charges’ Bureaus Are Wasting Paper on Propaganda

‘Penalty’ Mail Is Criticized   Survey Is Asked © Of Franked Matter

bi SURVEY OF PERALTY MAIL COS)   Senate Subcommittee Votes to Reverse House Action in Appropriation

May Leave OWI's News Room Intact   Would Shear Domestic And Foreign Powers

DEMOCRATS NAME LIST OF DELEGATES   Meeting Was Held at City Hall Last Night; Name Ticket Friday.

SOP DELEGATES TO MEET FRIDAY   Named at Meeting Held in Circuit Court Room Last Night.

QUVIETS RESUME DANE TO POLAND   Reds Again Fighting Near  Korosten; Nazi Counterdrive Fails

Americans Open Push For Rome   Cross German Volturn River Line—Renewed Air  Raids on Germany

Sth Army Crosses Volturno River, Tanks, Heavy Guns Moved To Front In Support Of Big Allied Offensive

SOVIETS BID FOR NEW GAINS  OVER NAZIS  U. S. Bombers Raid Targets  [In Reich

Big Push For Rome On; U. S. Planes Raid Reich; Reds Deciding Kiev Fate

Ten Mile Bridgchead Secured: Tlalians Surrendering and Few Shots Fired

Reggio Calabria, San Giovanni, Gallico In Allied Pbssession; Berlin Radio Reports New Landine By Invaders P    OPPOSITION OF  ENEMY J8 LIGHT

REGGIO CALABRIA, GALLICO AND SAN GIOVANNI TAKEN   Italian Defense Forces Now Moving Northward Into Mountains In Face Of British 8th  . Army’s Heavy Drive

Only Light Opposition  Encountered   Entire Shoreline Along Straits in Hands of Allies

KEY PORTS OCCUPIED AS LIGHT OPPOSITION CONTINUES TO YIELD   Bridgehead Ten To Fifteen Miles Long Held By Invaders With Big Airfield; Friendly Civilians Encountered

Three Key Points Seized In First Day Of Fighting   Bridgehead Of 10 To 15 Miles Is Made Secure; Axis Opposition Is Light; New Landings Reported Along Coast To East

BTH ARMY TAKES ENTIRE SHORE ON MESSINA STRAITS   Montgomery’s Men Move Rapidly Up Both Sides of Peninsula.

MEET LITTLE ‘OPPOSITION FROM ENEMY   Air, Land And Sea Bombardment Smashed Defenses

Here Is the A, B, C of How Pay-As-Go Tax Hits Average Taxpayer   Lact Reppert Recalled

CHINA I$ JUBILANT AT DEFEAT OF JAPS   Sinking of Convoy Will Be ‘Headache for Tokyo’

ALLIED PLANES BLAST ~ ITALIAN ATR FIELDS   Continuous “Attacks. By: Air Co-érdinated With Drive « On Axis Bridgehead

Former St. James Student Revealed As Voice Hurling Insults At Kiska Japs

Bar Bill’s Status Up To Court   Decision May Be Given June 15 In Regard To Measure Setting Up State Organization

Russians Raid Nazi Positions Near Smolensk   New Nazi Attacks Southeast Of Kharkov Repulsed, Savs Moscow   REDS MAY MAKE SMOLENSK ATTACK

PFC. SHEEHAN DIES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   War Department Reports Death of Salem Boy Who Had Been IIl

Fair Office Is Now Open Daily   Plans Continue To Go Forward For Coming Exhibition.

Soviets Hurl Nazis Back In  Siege Pocket   Cornered Axis Army At Novorossisk  Is Barraged

Russians repulse nazis with heavy loss in Caucasus   Speculate on possibility soviets planning to’ launch big offensive

REDS BEAT OFF NAZIS IN KUBAN   Lull Settles ‘Over Russian Front; Speculation on Big Drive Heard

Reds Hurl Back German Attacks   ‘Day le Relatively Quiet Alona Front

G. 0. P. PRESIDENTIAL CANDI DATE IN 1910 HOPES TO OP. POSE McCORMICK IN ILLINOIS .

ILLINOIS RAGE TEMPTS WILLKIE   1946 Republican  Candidate Would Like to Test His Strength Against MeCormick:

ALL GREECE REPORTED IN NAZI HANDS   Occupy Zones Once Held By Italians; Warn Population

GERMANS TAKE OVER CONTROL OF ALL GREECE   Hellenic News Agency Says Ital ian Garrisons Disarmed Begin. ning Day Before Italy's Sur  render

NO JUMPS ANCAD IN MEAT RATION FOR U. 3. TABLES   Government Purchases Will Not Permit Increased  Rat on to Civilians.

Navy Secretary Reasserts No  Big Battle--Yet   Losses ‘Moderate’ on Both Sides; New. U. 5. Raid . OnrRiska Vala. ._

KNOX SAYS LOSSES ARE MODERATE   Reiterates No Major Clash Has Taken Place

Air-Sea Losses ‘Moderate’ For Both Sides in Solomons, Major Clash Looms, Says Knox   Navy Reports 3 New U. S. Raids On Jap Air Bases; Americans Retaliate in Attack on Aleutians

Both sides suffer moderate losses in Solomons—Knox   Navy reports three more U. S. air attacks on bases and Kiska

Goodland Ready With His Budget Legislature To Receive  Message Month Ahead Of Usual Time

Plans Cut In Budget   Goodland Prepares Statement Ahead of Schedule

Opposes Charter To UMW   Progressive Mine Workers Refuse Consent to AFL Re-instatement Of Lewis’s Union

‘BATTLE OF UNIONS’ LOOMS IN FUTURE   AFL To Fight UMW Charter Application

AFL Rival of Lewis’ Mine Workers Promises  Fight On UMW Re-Entry

CHARTER GAS   Decision on Lewis’ Application for Charter Expected Today.

Decision Due On Lewis Plea:   Protest Heard From Union Opposed to Leader’s Plea

APL MINERS FIGHT MW RETURN BI   Progressive Miners Claim Reinstatement Is Contrary to Constitution

AFL PONDERING UNION MERGER   BITTER FIGHT LOOMS OVER LEWIS PLAN TO REJOIN LABOR GROUP

BRIGKER URGES ° CURB ON TERMS   Advocates Republican Party @ submit Amendment Limitag President to One Term of Six Years

Bricker Urges Six-Year Limit On President   Proposes GOP Pledge Its 1944 Candidate To One 4-Year Term

ONE SIX-YEAR TERM PROPOSED FOR PRESIDENT   Bricker Makes First Statement. On Domestic Views

Fuel Oil and Gas Shortage Again Serious .in the East   Washington Rationing and Petroleum Officials Seek’ Way Out cf Heatine Problem

EASTERN FUEL CRISIS REVIVED   Officials in Conference to  Seek Solution

Congress Is Launched On A Busy Weel   House Leaders Build Program Around Churchill's Scheduled Talk   CONFLICT IS LOOMING

Busiest Week Since Pearl Harbor. ....  Fights Will Feature Busy Week In House

SPEED COLLAPSE      Tunisian Victory Said Due to Months of Raleiny Key ers

Bomb Attacks  P oint. Th r eat  Behind-Lines' Raids ‘Strategy Value.  pln aoe

AXIS LOST 2,008 PLANES IN AFRICA   WAR OFFLOE SAYS VICTORY WAS DUE IN LARGE MEASURE TO AIR ATTACK,

TOKIO HOLDS UP "REPATRIATIONS . FOR CAMP QUIZ   Japs Ask Spain to Make Inquiry Into American Relocation

JAPAN SEEKS SPANISH SURVEY OF DETENTION CAMPS IN U.S,   JAPANESE GOVERNMENT REFUSING. TO EXCHANGE PRISONERS UNTIL COMPLETE REPORT MADE

KEEP THE SAME HOURS   Merchants Bureau of C. of C. Held Meeting This Morning

CAPITAL’S BUS STRIKE ENDED   Settlement Too Late to Help Workers Saturday

LIFT THE CEILING   OPA to Permit Milk Price Increase in 3 Metro~ politan Areas ~

DISCARD SUBSIDIES IN ARILK PRIGE PLAN   OPA Permits Temporary Milk Increases) to Sévegu? Supply of Milk

TOKEN USE BY JAN. 1 18 SEEN   New Plan Will Extend Ration Book Life, Save Printing Costs

TOKENS WILL SLASH COSTS   PLASTIC TOKENS AS CHANGE FOR STAMPS-TO BE IN CIR-* CULATION BY FIRST - OF YEAR

Nominations Announced for "Oscar" Awards to Motion Picture Stars

MAXIMUM PRICES TOBE ANNOUNCEL   Number of Changes In Initia List Due For Lowering In-Sunday Order.

SOEBBELS GAINING FAVOR WITH GERMANS   Tass News Agency Reports He Has Steadily Risen in Favor Since Stralincrad Disaster.

RISE OF GOEBBELS CASTING SHADOWS ON FEUWRER HITLER   Unusual Honors Accorded Nazi Propaganda Boss Since Red Tide Turned

Goebbels Becomes  A Power in Reich   He Is Becoming No.  Man and Accorded Unusual   lonors.

HonorsPaid GoebbelsAmaze  Neutral WarCorrespondents   Emphasis by Swedish Newspapers on Steady Rise of Nazi Propaganda Minister as Germany’s “First Man” Since Axis Defeat at Stalingrad Noted hy Moscow Radio

Goebbel Star Is Ascending   Seen As Germany’s “First Man” Since Stalingrad Defeat

SERVICE HELD ~ FOR NATIVE OF CONCORD      Benjamin Franklin Blaisdell 72, Was Carlisle Town ‘ Official

: ee CONCORD   Benjamin Franklin Blaisdell 72, Was Carlisle Town — ; Official 7

ALLIES WITHHOLD DECISIONS MADE AT TRAN PARLE)   Axis and Neutrals Believe Stalin Approved Pians for Great Invasion of Kurrone.   F. D. R. AND CHURCHILL MAY BE ON WAY HOME   German Radio Says President Inonu of Turkey Is to Meet Them, Probably at Cairo.

Report On ‘Big Three’ Meet Near   Outcome Of Parley To Be Told Monday In Communique; Inonu  Of Turkev Involved

\Allies Silent Under German Propaganda Fire Pending iF.R., Churchill Return Home

UNREST IN ITALY SEEN IN SHAKE-UP   More Than 700 Anti-Fascists Reported Arrested

Two Post-War Social Plans Are Submitted   Congress Gets Social Documents From President

ECONOMY CUSHIONS ASKED BY FDR—  c Cradie-To-Grave Security Mapped   ees Congress Gets Planning Board Post-War Requests

Report 65,058 Axis Prisoners Interned In U. §.; Many More Will Be Sent Here

COST OF WAR      7. 8. to Build Internment Camps for %87.000 Axis Prisonere.

CAMPS FOR PRISONERS    New Construction in U. S. to House War Captives

British Shock = -* Troops Storm ” Axis Citadel   Civilians Evacuated;  Rommel’s Escape By  Sea Is Cut Off

KENNEDY INSISTS ON INCREASED PAY FOR COAL MINERS   $1.30 Per Day Advance Asked-of WLB.—John L. Lewis Agrees to Appear

ANTHRACITE MINERS’ PAY CASE ARGUEL   Kennedy, Introduced by Lewis at WLE Hearing, Presents Argumenis—Operaiors’ Statement

Kennedy Is Witness At WLB Hearing   Secretary - Treasurer of Mine Union Pleads for $1.30 a Day Increase  PRESENTED BY LEWIS

KENNEDY URGES MINE RAISES   FORMER WLB MEMBER SAYS JUMP JUSTIFIED

EX-WLB MEMBER DEFENDS MINERS   Thomas Kennedy Says That $1.30 Increase for Miners le Justified

NEED RAISE TO HOLD COAL MINERS, CLAIM   Kennedy, Former Member ol WLB, Addresses Board

SUPPORTS $1.30 MINE PAY RAISE   Kennedy Tells WLB_ Increase In Wages Fully Justified.

5 NEGESSARY   UMW Official Tells WLB In. cease Needed to Retain Manpower.

FR Nominates — Stettinius For - Welles Position   Also Asks Elevation of Eisenhower to MajorGeneral (Permanent)

NAMES TO THE SENATE      Stettinius and Eisenhower on Presidential List ;

Allied Forces Firmly Established on the North Shore  FIERCE RESISTANCE MADE BY GERMANS  Spectacular Battle Raged for Several Days, Communique Says

Nazi Winter Line Cracked to Depth Of Around Mile   Firm Bridgehead Is Established After Beating Off Bloody Counterattacks; Planes Help Eighth Consolidate Hold; Fifth Army Forces Bogged Down in Mud

Eighth Army Makes New Advances In Spite Of Serious Handicaps And Resistance Of Nazis

8th Army Drives Ahead Along Front Of Five Miles in Face of Heavy Counterattacks By Germans

British Smash Across the Sangro River   Advance Is Made in Face of Bloody Nazi Attacks

-fom-gomery’s “/e erans 4ig.1“av Across Saagro River i in %¥ ov Za-e: Zricse ear Tirm

8th Cuts Path Across Sangro In Winter Line   Wide Bridgehead Held Ry British Ponere

Britons Cross Sanaro River   Make Gain Despite Bitter Nazi Battle -

BRITISH HURDLE WATER BARRIER IN PUSH ON ROME   Eighth Army Crosses Sangro River on Five-Mile Front in Savage Battle With Germans.   NAZIS UNDER ORDERS TO HOLD AT ALL COSTS   Tommies, Moving in Mud, Penetrate Foe’s Strong Winter Line to Depth of 2,000 Yards.

Oth Crosses Sangro Near Adriatic Sea   Penetrates Winter Line On Five-Mile Front Despite Stiff Defense  REMARKABLE FEAT

BRIDGEHEAD Is ESTABLISHED ON SANGRO RIVER   Montgomery’s Troops Firmly Entrench Themselves On 5-Mile Front   FIFTH ARMY STILL STALLED BY RAIN

WINTER LINE’ OF NAZIS WEAKENS   Montgomery Gets Foothold Across Sangro River   BATTLES RAIN, MUD   Eighth Army Success Held Most Remarkable Feat of Italian Campaign

Establish Hold After Fierce Nazi Counter Attacks   Forces Entrenched on Last Barrier Before Rome

WATER BARRIER IS. PENETRATED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Crossing Made In Spite Of High Water And Furious Defense By Germans

british Army Holds North Bank of River   Bridgchead Declared by Montgomery To Be Firm and Secure

Nazis’ Winter Wall’ Cracked   .Long Stride Taken In Drive For’ Rome  el mmr aA Parc vw

Nazis’ Winter Wall” Cracked   Long Stride Taken In Drive For Rome

DuPont, Atlas ~ Companies Fined For Price-Fixing   Two Sales Executives Of DuPont, Atlas Firms Also Fined By Government

WILLKIE DUCKS ARBITRATOR JO8   Invitation Of. Michigan CLO Utilities Union Is Declined

HITLER TALKS WITH RUMANIA’S PREMIER      ficial Statement Says. Conversation Imbued With Spirit of Friendship

Hitler Soothes Rumanian Nerves   ‘Full Agreement? Reported After Meeting

Mail Soldiers’ Xmas Gifts .   Date Set Sept. 15 Tg Qctoher 15 Onlv

American Bombers Hurl New Type Bombs At Japs   Attack Made Last Saturday On Jap-Held Wake Island When New-Type — BlockBuster Bombs Were Used.

Treason Case Opened by Grand Jurors   Thirty-Three Are Indicted on Sedition Charges

War Plot Laid To Deatherage And 32 Others   Wartime Sedition Sutute Also Is Invoked Against  Newspaper in N. ¥. Women Listed

30 ARE CHARGED — WITH SEDITION   GROUP ACCUSED OF TRYING TO PROMOTE MUTINY IN ARMED FORCES.

Deatherage Among 33 ~ Named for Conspiracy   St. Albans Member Knights Of White Camelia Indicted Along With Others On Charges Of Impairing Morale Of U. S, Forces

Face Charges Of Sedition   33 Persons and Weekly New York Newspaper Named by Grand Jury

33 INDICTED ON CHARGES OF SEDITION   New York Weekly Also Is Named in Conspiracy Indictment   DEATHERAGE AGAIN WILL FACE CHARGE   Quotations From Litera ture of Organizations  Cited

33 PERSONS, PAPER INDICTED UNDER SEDITION ACT    Charged With Conspirac To Impair Morale, Promote Mutiny

33 Persons Face Charge Of Sedition  en Ratndinte   Jury Reindicts 28 With Five Added to List

U5. GRAND JURY CITES dd PERSONS   George E. Deatherage of St. Albans, Knight of White Camelia Leader, Among Group Facing Charges

23 Face Charge Of Anti-War Plot   New York Newspaper Among Indictees

33 PERSONS AND PAPER INDICTED   Conspiracy to Impair U.S. Army Morale Charged

Americans and British Destroy 84 Axis Planes In Raid on Airfields

Allies Reach Siege Ring of Tunis, Bizerte   84 More Axis Planes Destroyed; ‘Forts’ Blast 73 on Ground

'U. S. Airmen Destroy 73 Planes in Raids on ~ Sicilian Airfields as Ground Forces Close in for Final Drama in Tunisia

Flying Forts Lead Assaults On Airfields   Axis Units and Installations Given Tremendous Batter. ing From Air

DESTROY 73 IN 2 ATTACKS UPON SICILY   Feat Considered Crushing. Blow to Axis Mediterrean Strategy—Gr ound Forces Press Enemy in Tmisia.

Allies Probe Rommel’s Nev Defense Line  75 Axis Planes Destroyed In Sicilian Raids   Bombers Hit Air Bases

Allies Probe Rommel's New Defense Line  75 Axis Planes Destroyed In Sicilian Raidc

ALLIES PUSH 10 TUNG, BIZERTE DEFENSE AREA   Flying Forts Lead in Smashing Axis Planes on Sicilian Airfields

Allies in Tunisia Press Forward to Mountain Defenses   Tighten Ring on Axis; Batter Enemy Hard in Aerial Raids

Rommel Pulls Into Mountain Defense Area   Algiers Broadcast Says He’s Evacuating Nazi Technicians; Enemy’s Air Power Pounded

Yank And Britist Airmen Destroy 84 More Planes   Fortresses Lead In Mass Destruction _ As Armies Reach Tunis, Bizerte Defenses

/Shower Bombs On Axis Air Fields   Destruction of {84 Aircraft ‘Weakens Rommel Sup ply System   STAND IN MOUNTAINS   Allied Forces in Contact - With i Lines in  Tunisia

84 ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Nazis Make Stand In Hills About Enfidaville   Reports Local Successes; No Evacuation Of Men Is Anticipated

84 Axis Planes To Be of No Use to Rommel   Flying Fortresses *Spray Sicilian Airfields With Two Raids

THE MOUNTAIN DEFENSES OF ERWIN ROMMEL REACHED   Allied Forces in Tunisia Are Nearing Tunis and Bizerte.   AMERICANS ARE BUSY   With the British, They Destroved Eighty-Four Axis Planes.

Rommel’s Defense Lines Protecting Tunis And Bizerte Are Reached By Advancing Troops

AIRMEN BLAST WARPLANES AT STCILIAN BASE   Mass Destruction Knocks / More Axis Planes Out Of Action, Hampers  Rommel’s Defense   REPORTED GERMANS FLEEING TO ITALY   Berlin Asserts 200,000 Axis - Troops to Keep Qn Fighting; Denies Evacuation Plan

Allied Planes Shoot Down 84 Axis Aircraft   U. S. Flying Fortresses Destroy 73 Planes in Two Successful Raids On Sicilian Airfields

AMERICAN, BRITISH WARPLANES DESTROY MANY ENEMY PLANES  MASS DESTRUCTION OF AXIS AIR STRENGTH LED BY FORTRESSES

PURSUIT OF ROMMEL S CONTINUING,   8th Army Reported Have Reached Nazis  New Defense Lines)

84 More Enemy Planes Destroyed By U.S., British       Troops Now. at Mountain De

Allies Tightening Ring on Rommel’s Defenses; 84 . Axis Planes Are Destroyed

RAIDS ON ENEMY FIELDS BY YANK FORTS REPORTED   73 Axis Planes Smashed In Two  Sicilian Raids

American, British Air Forces Smash 84 Axis Airplanes   Allied Forces Advance to Hills Guarding Tunis, Bizerte; 8th Army Remains on Offensive

Reported Driving Into Rommel’s. Main. Defense ’ Line in North SOME TECHNICIANS BEING EVACUATED     ‘Heavy Battering ~ of Axis   Heavy Battering of Axis. From. Air Continues; © Many Planes Wrecked

84 More Axis Planes Are ‘Destroy ‘ed; 73 “Erased By ‘Fortress Raids On Airfields   Algiers And Reuters Hear Rommel Has Already Bern Evacuation: 1) Aireraft Found On Ground In One Raid On Base In Sicily

Mass Destruction Of Axis Airpower Is Still Continuing   Germans Reported Evacuating Some Troops Under Cover Of Darkness; 84 Planes Destroyed

B4 MORE AXIS PLANES. REPORTED DESTROYED   Reports indicate Rommel Is Evacuating Part of Tunisian Forces

Nazis Driven. Into Northern Defense Area   ' Enemy Air Mechanics Being Removed with Loss of Airports

British, French Tightening Ring Around Rommel   Flying Fortresses Smash 73 Planes On Sicilian Field

NAZI MOUNTAIN: DEFENSES FACE QUICK COLLAPSE   Gen, Eisenhower Announces 84 Planes Downed—Main Positions Menaced

REACH ROMMEL HEFENSE LINES   American, British © Fliers Destroy 84 More Axis Planes.   ‘FORTS’ ATTACK ITALY

lunis, Bizerte Defenses Undér Mighty Attack   84 More Axis Planes Lost; Evacuation Starts. Report

BRITISH PATROLS PROBING LINES OF ROMMEL DEFENSE   Montyomery Speeds Lip Preparations for New Attack on Afrika. Korps.

British Probe Afrika Korns  Misurata Defenses   Battles of Tunisia And 'Tripolitania Graduallv Merging

BRITISH 8TH ARMY PREPARES FOR NEW DRIVE ON ROMMEL   Battles of T Tansisla And : Tripolitania Are Now Merging Into’ One Fight

AFRICAN BATTLES MERGING   Mud, Rain, Wind Restrict Operations In Tunisia, Libya

Report Sth army nears Mi vate   Believe Rommel about to join  . oe . Tunisian force

RUTLEDGE TAKES PLACE ON BENC   Supreme Court Refuses to Review Conviction of Tawe Rachalter,

Air-Wac Officers At Emmetsburg Friday, Nov. 26  Palo Alto Girls Asked To Toin

WAC Seeking Recruits Here   Smith Urges Girls, Women To Join — Air Braneh Open

WAC Team in Emmetsburg This Friday   Looking for recruits to join the Air-WAC branch of service.

,RED ARMIES CLOSING TRAP ‘ON NAZI UNITS   Garrison Fleeing From Gomel May Be Cut Off

RERMAN ROUT GROWS AS REDS CONTINUE DRIVE   Nazis Seek to Avoid Closing Trap in Gomel Area   RUSSIANS POUNDING AT INVADERS’ HEELS

GERMANS ON RUN AS REDS CLOSE IN ON THREE SIDES   Battle at Gomel Developes Into Hare, Hounds Chase, Enemy Abandons Ail Prepared Positions.   AUSSIES PREPARE 10 WIPE OUT JAP ARMY   Knox Warns Heavy Losses In Successful Occupation of Tarawa, Fighting Was Very Bitter.

NAZIS, SOVIETS STAGING HARE, HOUNDS CHASE   Reds Driving For Bottigneck In Which To Annihilate Hated Hitlerite Troops

GERMANS FLEE SS THY “HEAR LOST COME   Nazis’ Continual Counterattacks Fail—Soviets 75 Miles West ot Gomel.

GERMANS FLEE GOMEL, USING AQ-MILE GAF   Fighting Flares Suddenly On American Front In Italy

RUSSIANS CLOSING TRAP ON GERMAN GOMEL GARRISON   Nazis, Routed From City, in  Wild Flight for Escape Piccet ba

COLANDER CALL LLL  St. Paul’s Bells Ring For Birthday of Queen Elizabeth

Railway Between Velikie Luki And ~ Moscow Cleared   Russian Threat To Key German Bases Increas_ ed As Reds Maintain Offensive; Two Forces  Advance On Salient West Of Capital

REDS CLEAR VITAL RAIL WAY LINK   “Recapture Scores -Of: Towns In Drive From Rzhev ‘

Reds Clear. Railway line West of Rrhey   Newest Advance ° Endangers Entire German Position

RUSSIANS HAVE RECAPTURED MANY TOWNS NEAR RZHEV   Completely Cleared 270-Mile Long Railway Between Moscow and Velikie Luki.

Russians Strike Out From Rzhev; Clear Strategic Railway.   KEY BASES THREATENED

Gains Are New Threat To Key Nazi Positions   Russians Recapture Scores Of Towns Southwest of Fortress City

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM WIDE ARES   Scores Of Towns Reeaptured In Latest Russian Offensive   NEAR FRONTIER   Railway Between Moscow And Velikie Luki Reported Cleared

Soviet Gains: Imperil Nazi Central Front   German Positions In Danger; Timoshenke Advances; Foe Claims Successes In Donets

RUSSIANS CLEARED RAILWAY LINE FROM MOSCOW WESTWARD   SOVIET SUCCESSES INCREASE THREATS TO GERMANS AT SEVERAL POINTS

Reds Clear Rail  Line to Moscow   Russians Drive Germans From Towns Southwest of Fortress City,

Russians Retake Scores of Towns   Railway Line Between Moscow and Velikie Luki Js Cleared   REDS MAINTAIN. DRIVE   Hot Pursuit of Retreating Germans Southwest  of Rzhev

Red Army Clears 270-Mile Railway Of German Troops   Occupies Olenino, 35 Miles West of Rzhev, Increasing Threat to Orel, Important German-Held Railroad Center

Juss Army Clears Rail iLine 270  Miles Long   Potential Menace To Smolensk Is Intensitied By Alen Udeameae

Russians Take More Villages In Rzhev Area  Germans Claim New Victories

Reds Recapfure Score of Towns, Clear Railroad   Timoshenko’s Forces Gain on Northwest Front

IMPORTANT NAZI ~~ POSITIONS MENACED   At Velikie Luki, Reds Are‘ Only 80 Miles From Latvian >) Bidiweser

Soviet Troops Clear Railway 0f Enemy   Advancing Hordes Increase Danger To German Bases On All Fronts

Scores of Towns Taken By Russians   Strike Out From Rzhev-—Clear Line From Moscow  To Velikie Luki

OREL - BRYANSK THREAT GROWS IN FRESH GAINS   Long Railway Line From Moscow To Velikie Luki Completely Cleared In Latest Soviet Operations.

Russians Recapture Scores of Towns Southwest of Rzhev   Soviets Control Railroad Between Moscow, Velikie Luki, Timoshenko’s Troops Gain Northwest of Kharkov

Many German Strong Points Cranbling   42 More Towns Fall Before Onrushine Red Arm

Russians Sweep: - Beyond Rrhe'   Hitler's Supply Line: Are Threatened

MOSCOW RAIL LINE CLEARED BY RUSSIANS   Intensify Drives On Orel, Other Vital Bases   Recaptured Southwest Of Rzhev; Enemy Blows Up Bridge Over Volga

Nazis Facing Pincer Move On Supplies  Soviet Treops Advance to Within 80 Miles of Latvian Border  42 TOWNS TAKEN Railway Between Mos:  cow and Velikie Luki Te (laarvaed

Russians Recapture Scores Of Communities Southwest Of Rzhev And Regain Full Control Of 270-Mile Transport Link Between Moscow And Velikie Luki —Timoshenko’s Forces Register New Triumphs  On Northwest Front—Other Successes Noted

Reds Clear 270 Miles of Vital Railway   Recapture Scores o Towns Southwest  Of Rzhev

SOVIET FORCES SWEEP AHEAD ON ALL FRONTS   Striking Out of Rzhev, Russians Recapture Scores of Towns, South west of Fortress City   MILES KEY RAILWAY CLEARED OF ENEMY   Successes Increase Immediate Threat to German Positions At Orel, Bryansk, Starava Russa

FORCES HEADED BY TIMOSHENKO RECORD GAINS   Orel, Bryansk, Gyazma, Smolensk And Staraya Russa Are Menaced   VITAL RAIL LINE CLEAREO   42 More Towns Seized As Reds Smash German Assaults Near Rzhev

Immediate Threat To Large German Bases Increased by Drives      Main Axis Base at Smolensk Being Threatened Scores Of German-Held Towns Taken By Onrushing Reds

Russian Advances by Timoshenko  and Northwest of Kharkov Threaten Nazis Salient   RED ARMIES NEAR VITAL SUPPLY LINE   Germans Claim Recapture of Lisichansk, Other Towus in Donets, Say Red Army Cut Off

Steady Advances imperil String Of German Bases   Railroad Linking Velikie Luki And Moscow Cleared

GERMAN KEY BASES FACING NEW THREAT   At Velikie Luki Red Army is Only Eighty Miles From the Latvian Border

Great Russian Gains. On The, Central Front Endanger The Entire German Positions

REDS RECAPTURE SCORES OF TOWNS AS ARMY MOVES ON   GAINS ON CENTRAL FRONT ENDANGERS GERMAN POSITIONS

REDS THREATEN NAZI POSITIONS ON A WIDE FRONT   New Soviet Successes Menace Axis at Orel; Key Bases Face Russian Push

Red Gains Are Threat  To Germans   Occupy Olenino, Clear R. R. Lines

CLEAR 270-MILE RAIL LINE LEADING TOWARD MOSCOW   Threat To GermanHeld Orel Is In creasing

 With Our Soldiers and Sailors e@ oe                    Cletus Steffes Wins Promotion

With Our Soldiers  and  Sailors           Cletus Steffes Wins Promotion

325 Scheduled To Receive Diplomas From Lubbock High  By OPAL McMAHON

REPORT-AXIS ~ PREPARED TO LOSE SICILY   RUMORS FROM. CONTINENT BAY “THAT GERMANY MAY BE KESIGNED TO LOSS  OF ITALY

PLANT. SEIZURE CHANGES ASKED   Pro-Labor Solons Seek Tc Modify Measure

LABOR BLOG MAY CHANGE ~ STRIKE BILL   PLANT SEIZURE MEASURE APPROVED BY SENATE 18 FAC. ~ ING BTRONG OF POSI& TION

HOUSE BATTLE LOOMING OVER BAN ON STRIKES   Mary Norton Urges Solons To Deal Only With Mine Strike    COMMITTEES AT ODDS   Unit Bitterly Opposed By Unions May Get Measure For Action

HOUSE BATTLE SEEN ON PLANT SEIZURE BILL   Pro-Labor Leaders Will Seek Modification Of SenatePassed Measure   WLB POWERS iNCREASED   Some Members Hope For Act Aimed Mainly At Lewis And Union Miners

Exchange Of War Prisoners Is Announced   Sick And Wounded Men OF Allies Board Ship For Home; Similar Exchanges To Follow

Yoakum Boy Among Freec Prisoners   First Exchange Of German and Allied Men Made

First Exchange of Prisoners of War Between Allies and Germany is Being Made Today in Sweden

C. M. SHARTEL DIES   Long Period of Failing Health Ends Career of Noted  Neoshoan

C. M. SHARTEL DIES IN NEOSHO AT 82   Former Congressman Widely Known in Southwest Missouri— Death Follows Long Illness.

Fear Prompts Most of Nazi Efforts   Invasion Threat Gives Impetus to Unrest; Pessimism Prevails

Senate Passes Rail Pay Bil  Overrides Vinson to Grant 8 Cent Raise

Senate Approves: Rail Pay Boost   Repudiation of F. D. R.’ Stabilization Men Seen in Solon Vote

Senate Favors 8-Cent Rail Wage Raise   Vote, 74-4, to Grant Raise; Michigan Senators Vote Against Resolution

HOUSE MUST NOW ACT ON RAILWAY PAY RAISE BILL   Senate Already Has Okehed Raise. for 1,100, ‘000 Workers. in Sum - 8 Cents An Hour 

Await Vote On Rail Pay Hike   Senate Votes For Increase Of  Wages For 1,100,000 Railroaders,

Senate Gives QO. K. to Rail Wage Boost   Legislation for 8-Cent Hourly . Raise Goes to The House Tada x

MEASURE T0-BOOST ~ RAIL WORKERS’ PAY - PASSED IN. SENATE      Vandenberg: - ; cand: . Ferguson SAniong Four, enators. Opposing’ ‘Bill .      THE VOTE WAS. 7470 4

OK Rail" Pay Hike   Resolution Passes in  Senate :by Big Major: ity: to House Today

Senate Passes Railway Clerk Pay Bill 74 to 4   Barkley Leads Proponents in Virtual Repudiation  of Administration's Stabilization Directors  — Measure Goes to House

Rail Wage Boost Goes fo Hance   Senate Repudiates Stabilization Chief

President Is Repudiated on Rail Pay Issue   Senate Votes 74 to 4 ir Favor of 8-Cent Hourly Wage Hike   IS BITTERLY. OPPOSED

SENATE APPROVES BOOST IN WAGES   House About Ready For Legislation To Act on Bill For Railroaders.

War Labor Board Prepares Final Decision On Soft Coal Contract Dispute

PEACE BASIS IN COAL REPORT   WLB Panel Leaves Door Open for Concession te Lewis

PREDICT WLB COMPROMISE IN COAL CASE   Panel — Paves Way For Concessions To Lewis

WAR LABOR BOARD PANEL REPORTS ON MINERS’ DISPUTE   Final Decision Being Prepar. ed on Basis of Coal Facts  Presented.

WLB IS PREPARING FINAL DECISION ON COAL WAGE FIGHT   Fact-Finding Panel Report Left Way Open For  Concessions To:  woh Tide? HB

Coal Strike Fact Report Given WLB   Board Will Remain In Session Sunday To Speed Decision

WLB PANEL HINTS AT CONCESSIONS FOR LEWIS, UMW  Oey ee parish to-Portal Pay Likely  FULL BOARD TO ME ET   FULL BOARD TO MEET FOR EARLY DECISION

Report Permits Concessions To Lewis In Dispute   WLB Preparing Final Decision on Basis of Panel’s Findings in Coal Industry Deadlock

Bee County Woman Gets Federal Term   Father, Daughter Convicted of Keeping Slave

MEDIATION OF DISPUTE FAILS   Railroad Issue May Be Settled By President's New Labor Panel

PEACE LOOMS ON RAIL, MINE LABOR FRONTS   Railroaders Pledged to Use FDR's Machinery For Arbitration

Railway Mediation Efforts Collapse   Refuse to Arbitrate Closed Shop Issue

NO AGREEMENT IN RAIL DISPUTE   President’s Labor Panel Gets Next Chance At Arbitration

PARLEY ON RAUL DISPUTE FAILS   CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO ON WORKERS’ WAGE DEMANDS COMES TO END.

Rail Labor Dispute Ends In Failure   Fail fo Agree on Arbitration; Union Spokesmen Silent

Accord Fails In Rail Dispute   Wage Issue To Be Up To New  Rail Labor Panel

DISCUSSION OF CURFEW LAW IS BEING PLANNED   City Officials Invite Service Clubs And Public To Offer Suggestions   DELINQUENCY HERE 1S GROWING SERIOUS

SFLF ON STEEL PAY FORMUL!   Assures Increases Be Retroactive; Murray Asks Compliance

WLB REVERSES RECENT BALLOT   Vote For Retroactive Pay Expected To End Steel Workers’ Strike

WLB ORDERS RETROACTIVE WAGE HOIST   Labor Members Reverse Action Of Last Week And Public Members Vote As As They Did Then.   Brophy Made Motion

WLB REVERSES SELF ON STEEL PAY FORMULA   Assures Increases Be Retroactive; Murray Asks Compliance

ALL ‘OFFENSES,          Russians, Ofatinuing to. Capture Inhabited: Villages — Many Prisoners Being: ‘Taken.

Thousands of Nazis Taken  Prisoner   Three Russian Armies Continue Smashine Drive

S-o> “Cai cisa Cver-o 9-imism” ‘forgeniau Varns, Goring, srave ~osses aie Lone. - arc. 20ac t..1eac

War Just Begun, Says Morgenthau   Lists Materiel Losses  In Sicily 54 Per Cent

Allied Material  Losses in Conquest  Of Sicily Great Conteh Victonn  oe ewes ES RS

Spangler Says Anti-New Deal  Feeling Mounts   Urges Women’s Federation to Meet Challenge Of ‘Resentment’

MUST FINISH PROBATION   Court Refuses to Change Pendergast Conditions .

ROMMEL FORCES ENTRENCHED IN DESERT HILLS   Eisenhower Is Optimistic; Russian Fighting Bogged in Heavy Mud

PATTON HURL VETERAN FORGE AGAINST ENEMY   Strongly Entrenched Nazis Barring American Path To Sea Coast Base —

Patton’s Infantry Moy es } On Nazis Entrenched in Desert Region of Tunisia

Code For Sale: Of Clothing Established   ‘Scarcity’ Ads, Other Practices Out For Duration

Bargain Sales Are Out For Duration   Excess Buying Discouraged; Clerks Told To Quit Warning Of Scarcities

Bargain Sales  On Clothes Out   Voluntary Plan To Be Tried in Nation’s Stores

CODE ADOPTED ON SALE OF CLOTHES   inferences About Scarcity to Be Prohibited In Helping Boost Sales.

Suggest Sales Practice Code lor Retailers   Program Takes Emphasis Off Promotion Of Quan. tity Purchases.   TO AVERT RATIONING

WPB PREPARES  SELLING CODE   Would Stop Clothes Rationing By Discouraging Excess Buvina.

WPB Sets. Up Textile Code   Selling Practices Specified To Discourage * Excess Buying and Head Off Rationing 

WARTIME SALES CODE BROACHED   WPB Asks Merchants to Discourage Excessive Buying

SALES PRACTICES CURBED BY NELSON   Code Would Discourage Excess Buying, Thus Head Off Clothes Rationing.

NEW POLICY 0 CLOTHING LAID DOWN BY NELSON   Excess Buying By Consumers Might Cause Rationing

WPB Halts — Bargain Sales For Clothing   Word “Sale” Must Be Avoided in Advertising; Government Says Idea Is to Halt Excess Buying.

“Scarcity” Ads Doomed   WPB Chief Nelson Lays Down a Wartime Code Of Selling Practices

Wartime Code for Clothing Trade   WPB’s Aim Is to Head Off Rationing

TEXTILE FIRMS GET SALES LAW   New WPB Code Designed To Head Off Clothes  Rationing

Clothing Stores  Asked. To. Adopt Wartime Code   Declaration Of Policy Hits pocareity” Advertising: Project Is. Voluntary

WPB Lays Down New Code For Clothing Men —   Aimed At Cutting Down Excess Buying To Head Off Rationing.

BARGAIN SALES MAY BEHALTED BY WPBRULING   Wartime Code of Selling Laid Down by Nelson Is Aimed At Elimination Of Excess Buying   RULES ARE LISTED   Stores to Be Requested to Comply Voluntarily and Policing System Is Not Planned

EXCESS BUYING IS. DISCOURAGED   Wartime Code Of Selling Prac tices Adopted To Head Off Clothes Rationing

CODE OF SELLING IS OUTLINED T0 BALK RATIONING   Compliance To Be Voluntary So Long as Plan Works, WPB Chief Says   SCARCITY TALK IS TABOO,   Textile Supply Adequate For Clothes Demands If Buying Kept to Normal

WPB Code Bans Clothing Stores ‘Bargain’ Sales   Textile Dealers Under Voluntary Plan To Slow Up Buying

WPB Lays Down New Wartime Code for Clothing Refailers, Minus Bargain Sales, to Cut Down Excess Buvina

SET NEW CODE FOR CLOTHING RETAILERS   ‘Scarcity’ Advertising Out for Duration of War

Bans ‘Scarcity Talk In Retail Clothing Sales   W. P. B. Lays Down Selling Practices Code To Avert Rationing.

GOVERNMENT TAKES PRACTICAL CONTROL CLOTHING BUSINESS  RULES LAID DOWN FOR  ADVERTISING AND OTHEE  STORE FEEFATIIRES

SELLING CODE IS LAID DOWN   Would Discourage Excessive Buying, Says Nelson

WE DEGRtta WARTIME CODE FUR RETAILERS   Plan Of Selling Practices Drafted To Avert Ration Set-Up For Clothes

WAR CODE FOR SELLING MADE FOR TEXTILERS   As Announced by Nelson, it Discourages Excess Buying and Thus Heads Off Rationing.

OCCASIONAL SHOWERS   Rains Slow the Harvest — Cool Weather Over State -

Jap Defense System Found on New Guinez   Recently Constructed Positions Apparently Built For Reception Of Slain Force; Rabaul Heavily Hit By Allies

Explosions And: Fires Indicate Heavy Damage   Other Areas Also. Lashed. As Airmen Ranee Lerritece

392 BOMBS DROPPED ON BASE AT RABAUL   Number Explosions And Fires Indicated Heavy Destruction Of Jap cAirérafe

Explosions And Fires Indicate Heavy Damage  Other Areas Also   Other Areas Also. Lashed As Airmen Ranae Territory

Retention Of Liquor Board Head Prospect   Gov. Expected to Make Early Announcement Regarding Posts   COLEGROVE MENTIONED

AXIS SAYS GARRISON WILL FIGHT   Invasion Of Island Is Ex pected Any Minute   PLANES, SHIPS   Join In Terrific Attack: Sicily, Sardinia, Greece Also Hammered

Island Bombed, Shelled Again When Garrison  Will Not Yield   Offer Made to Save Need less Suffering by Population

SURRENDER [a ALLIED DEMAND   Island Fortress In Mediterranean Blasted By Planes, Warships   BADLY BATTERED   Rome Radio Says Garrison Has Not Answered Allied Request

‘Tiny Island Bludgeoned By Allied Naval Units As Planes Drop Big Bombs

ROME REPORTS ALLIED NOTE WAS REJECTED   Demands Ordinarily Followed By Immediate Attack; Allies Do Not Confirm Reports

Germans Say Surrender ls Rejected   Italian Garrison Does Not Answer Requests Dropped From Plane

British Writer Says Landing May Have Been Already Made— Other Targets Hard Hit

AXIS BROADCASTS CLAIM ISLAND HAS IGNORED DEMANDS   IMMEDIATE AMPHIBIOUS ATTACK PROMISED BY ALLIED FORCES

Pantelleria Surrender  Demanded, Rome Says   Gen, Spaatz Tells Island Garrison To Capitulate; Another Heavy Atluck Made

PLANES, BRITISH WARSHIPS BLAST ENEMY FORTRESS   Leaflets Dropped Asking Italians To Give Up

Italy's Surrender of Less Value Than Hoped for, But Airfields Make Campaign Worth the Cost

Hallowe’en Vandalism Unpatriotic But Goblins Out Earlier This Year

Peacetime Hallowe’en Jokes Become Sabotage As Nation Is At War, Ohio Chiefs Find

Goblins Riding High  ++ + + Some Call It Fun, Others Say It’s Delinquency

Congress To Control Relief  Purse Strings   Crowley's Appointment To Simplify Dealings With House, Senate On Annpronpriations

— —— Ss ee ee 2957 ee  Crowley Will Direct  J, S. Foreiten Relief

SEE LEGISLATIVE  CONTROL FOREIGN POST WAR FUNDS   Roosevelt’s Delegation of Direction Over Foreign Economic Operations To Crowley Seen As Control Purse Strings By Congress; To Simplify Future Dealings.

CONGRESS HOLDS FOREIGN RELIEF PURSE STRINGS   CROWLEY AS HEAD SEEN AS MOVE TO SIMPLIFY DEALINGS

EXODUS FROM BERLIN   Citizens Defy Gestapo To Flee Bomb-Wracked City

Serliners Dety Nazi Edict By  Leaving Homes   Bombings Make City Shambles

Bombed-Out Berliners Defy Threats Of Punishment and Leave the City

THOUSANDS GO INSANE IN BERLIN   Many. Shot; Mass’ ~Exedus: Under: Way. Despite. Threats -

Defy Nazi Threats to Leave Berlin  Badly Wounded, Insane Being Killed, Repert

Mass Exodus of Bomb-Scored City lsUnder Way = *   Gestapo Is Reported Killing Hopelessly Wounded and Insane

British Planes Aéain Hit Berlin, Raid Frankfort   Refugees Continue Exodus ‘ From Reich Capital In Defiance Of Nazi Law

Berliners Flee Bombed Capital  Swiss Reports Feeding Of Bombed Families  A hAeniawe Deeklaw

mn aaone PADMED TA OLE PRARCCO FARE TU DE  GIVEN HER FREEDOM   Court Orders Release « Movie Actress From Sanitarium

‘SIX-SIDED PROBE  FOOD POISONING  IN NORTH AMERICAN APPROXIATELY 150  WORKERS IN DALLAS WAR PLANT AFFECTED

EDEN PLEASED OVER MISSION TOWASHINGTON   Tells House of Commons “Complete Agreement” Reached On “Future Policy Toward France”   POSTWAR AIMS AIRED   “Found Very Close Similarity of Outlook;” Invites Hull to Visit London

ANTHONY EDEN IN  REPORT TO COMMONS  ON AMERICAN TRIP SAYS THERE JS COMPLETE  . AGREEMENT WITH U_S. . AROTIT FRANCE ‘

SATISFIED WITH RESULT OF PARLEYS   Seys Britain And U. S. In Agreement On French Policy

U.S. and Britain in Complete Accord On Policy Toward France. Savs:Fden

Eden Invites Hull to Visit London Says U. S:, Britain Agree On Future  DCranek Dalievw

EDEN REPORTS TO COMMONS ON HIS /AMERICAN VISIT   Convinced That America Will Work With Other U.N. Nations In War And Peace

Eden Tells Commons That Hull Invited To Visi England; Complete Agreement On Future

Hull Invited To Britain By Anthony Eden   Foreign Secretary Pleased At Results Of His US. Visit

Eden Says US, England Are In Agreement   Misunderstanding in Britain Over US Maintaining Relations with Vichy Have Been “Smoothed Out

Eden Announces Hull Invited To Visit London   Complete Accord On French Policy Reported by Envoy

Britain-U. S. In Accord Says Eden.   Discloses Invitation  To Hull To Visit London In Report To Parliament On‘U. S. Visit

INVITES HULL TO ENGLAND   Eden Reports Close Similarity on U. S., British Approach To Post-War Problems.

HULL INVITED TO LONDON   Eden: Agreement on  French Policy Reached

TWO AGREED UPON FUTURE POLICIES FOR FRENCHMEN   Eden Discusses’ With Commons His Recent Conferences With Officials While In Washington.   HULL HAS BEEN ASK- ° ED TO VISIT ENGLAND   Foreign Secretary Announces That Policies on Other Neutral Countries Has Been Discussed.

Eden Invites Hull  To Visit London,  Commons Is Told Secretary Says U. S.,  : ed ee, a Ae ee   Secretary Says U. S., Britain in Agreement On Policy to France

Eden Asks Hull To Visit London   Found Britain And U. S&S. In Accord

Complete Agreement’ With U. §S. Policy Towards France Cited By Briton In Address To Commons

Britain and U. S. Agree on Future Policy to France   Eden Also Says That Secretary of State Hull Invited to Visit London.   Their Policy Toward  Neutrals Is the Same

EDEN SAYS TALKS WERE SATISFYING   TELLS COMMONS THAI U. S, IS IN ACCORD WITH GREAT BRITAIN

Eden Finds U. $.-British Views Alike   In Complete Agreement on Future Policy Toward France

Eden Reports On Trip To America   Britain And U. S. See Post-War Problems Alike   SEC. HULL INVITED TO VISIT LONDON

Eden Tells British Britain and United States See As One   Informs Commons’ He Has Invited Sec. Hull to  Visit in London

Hull Given Invitation To Make Visit To England  Eden Also Tells   Eden Also Tells Commons Of Accord In Policy Toward  BReanra

Eden Reports Full Accord On France Policy   Foreign Secretary Talks To Commons, Says Hull Invited Te England   CLEARS VICHY STAND   U. S. Relations With Petain Called Vital Te North Africa Invasion

EDEN PREDICTS ALLIED ACCORE   Secretary Hull Invited Te Visit England—French Stand Approved

EDEN INVITES HULL 10 VISIT   “COMPLETE AGREEMENT” ON FRANCE DISCLOSED

EDEN REPORTS AGREEMENT WITH AMERIC!   Tells Commons of ‘Complete Agree.  ment’ on Vichy—Hull Invited to London

EDEN REPORTS WOE ACCORD ON. STR   Tells Commons Agreement o7 Future War Policies, Full, Complete.   INVITES SEC’Y HULL TO - .COME OVER TO LONDON

Cordell Hull Is Invited To Visit Londor   Similarity Of Outlook On Postwar Problems Reported By Eden In ‘Address To Commons

Eden Discloses Hull Invited Te Visit England   Reports Complete U. S.. British Accord On Pol.  icv Toward France.

SAN FRANCISCO HAS 61-MINUTE ALERT   Army's Slatement Given Out After All Clear Omitted Usual     riend!y” Plane Phrase

Usual Phrase Omitted in Statement Unidentified Targets Cause Alert in San Franeiseo Area

Stage Air Alert  In San Francisco  Report Unidentified Targets Approachinc

San Francisco Area on Alert  For 61 Minutes   ‘Unidentified Targets, Army Explains But Admits Usual ‘Friendly’

RECORD BOMB. LOAD DROPPED. ON ENEMY   Allied Planes Give Support to New Guinea Operations -

JAPS BATTERED AT FINSCHHAFEN   Allied Planes Drop 221 Tons Of Bombs In Single Day

Japs Are Pounded By Bomb Loads Dumped by Allies  Foe Tries to Force Way to Sea in - New Guinea Region

221 TONS BOMBS BELABOR JAPS AT SATTELBERG   Attack Made In Attempt Tx Stall Enemy’s Over land Drive

NEW SUPPLY OF TAGS   —, Treasurer Receives 329  idget Licenses Plates

NEW SUPPLY OF TAGS   County Treasurer Receives 329 Midget Licenses Plates

ADOPTION OF RUML PLAN PREDICTED   Demo Bill Cailed “Loan Shark’s 7th Heaven” by G. O. VP.

CALL TAX BILL BOON TO SHARKS   G. 0. P. Says Administration Plan Would Force Borrowing To Pay Doubled-Up Levits

RUML PLAN TO WIN, GOP SAYS   Administration’s Program Hit As “Loan Shark’s Seventh Heaven”

GOP Members Assail New Tax Proposal   Call Administration Plan “Stepchild Of Pressure”

GOP CONGRESSMEN PREDICT PASSAGE OF RUME PLAN AND ATTACK ADMINIS ; - TRATION BILL :

GOP Group Hits New Pay-Go Plan   Says Act Stepchild  of Political Pressure

Administration's Tax Plan Assailec   Republicans Issue Minority Repert

REPUBLICANS IN ATTACK ON PLAN FOR TA)   Apply Number of Derogatory De scriptions to Administration's Pay-As-You-Go Scheme

Minority Group Blasts Tax Plan   Republican Members. Condemana Administration's Pay-as-you  g0 Income Tax Bill

TRINITY RIVER FLOO WATERS THREATEN TO INUNDATE LOWLANDS   SABINE AND NECHES BLOCK HIGHWAYS AND INTERRUPT RAIL SERVICE

GERMAN AIR CHIEF TO BOLSTER ITALY   aati een eeieend  Hitler Seeks To Encourage Bomb-shocked Country

RAID ON CRETE SPURS FEAR OF ALLIED THRUS   All Leaves Canceled For Italians In Arms. Germans Send Leader for Italo Defense

That Plan For Men, Women Leavy. ing Service After War Reportediy Has F. R. Approval

POSTWAR PLAN REPOR]   Promises To Men In Armed Services “Include Furlourhs

NOSEVELT PLANS “DEMOBILIZATION TO FOLLOW WAR   Would Give Service Men 3 Months’ Full Pay   CONGRESS TO HEAR BROAD PROGRAM

Three Months Pay For Service Men Favored After War    Tentative Program To Be Presented To Con gress For Transfering Service Men To Peace-time Tasks After War

BROAD POST-WAR PROGRAM WILL” BE SENT TO CONGRESS   FDR Plans Demobilization Policy To Be Used After Present War

Report: on Demobilization, Readjustment In Post-War Period Released by F. D. R.

Demobilization Objectives Released By FDR   Three Months’ Furlough At Base Pay One of Proposals

Post-War Demobilization Details Completed by FDR; Mustering-Out Plan Fixed

\dams Rodeo 8:30 I. MM. SATTIRNAYV   DEMOBILIZATION PLAN OUTLINED   President Approves Giving Returning Servicemen Pay For Three Months

U.S. Readjustment  Program Proposed F. R. Releases Report  Of Commitee

FD Outlines Veterans Aid After War   Also Proposes To Readjust War Workers

Roosevelt Gives Hand To Survey Post-War   Proposal Is Mad To Pay Service Men For Time

PRESIDENT PLANS POST-WAR AID FOR FORMER SOLDIERS   Chief Executive To Give Congress Six-point Program, Including Three Montha’ Compensation.

Three Months’ Demobilization Pay Proposed   F. D. R. Prepares Program for Getting Vets Into Civil Life

stwar Plan r Service ,Outlined   ‘de Three Months gh; Plan For Workers Too

“FDR DESCRIBES , POST-WAR PLAN   Returning Servicemen Would Get $100-a-month for Three Months

3-Months Furlough With Pay Is Proposed For Service Men By FDR Under Post-War Plan   President Announces Objectives _In Demobilizing, Readjusting U. S.

Report Seconds FDR Plan   Goes Into Greater -Detail On Demobiliza-tion Program In — Post-War Period _

POST-WAR PROGRAM FOR SERVICEMEN IS RELEASED FRIDAY  WOULD BE GIVEN THREE   WOULD BE GIVEN THREE MONTHS FOURLOUGH WITH BASE PAY

SOLDIERS’ AID PLAN FAVORED   Pay For Six Months After Discharge Reported Included in Program

Expect President To Recommend That! Pay Of AllMen, Women In Service Be Continued 6 Months After Discharge

SOLDIER CARE FOR POST-WAR      Three Months Base Pay, Plus Family Allowances Cited

President Will Ask Congress ‘For Compensation to Soldiers   Will Ask Pay for Three Months for Service Men Discharged.

Program Drafted For Service Men   nnubarehontheFurlough at Base Pay Offered To Helin Soldiers Get Settled in Civil Life

VETERANS’ PAY PLAN APPROVED BY ROOSEVELT   Would Be Continued  Months After Release Van Zandt Learns

Post-War Pay for Soldiers Proposed   President Releases Readjustment Plan

Weather Forecast   Program For Demobilization May Include Compensation Pay For Three Months

F.D.R.: Favors 3 Months’ Pay   After War Service Men Would Be Given Fur. lough With Pay.

Furlough Pay For Soldiers Is Proposed   Emphasis Placed on Rapid Conversion of Industry To Peacetime Uses

Released Soldiers To Gef 3 Months Pay, FDR Says In Explaining Latest Post-War Plans

Propose Plan of Aid for Soldiers At War’s Close   Outline of Program Announced by President Roosevelt at  Press Conterence

JEMCSILIZATION AND READJUSTMENT PROPCSAL MADE   ‘Vould Give Service Men & Months Furlough With Base Pay.   Report Was Released Today By President Roosevelt With His Approval.

A Post-War Furlough Proposed   Roosevelt Releases Planning Board Report on Demobilization and Readjustroent   §-POINT PROGRAM FOR WAR VETERANS   Rapid Conversion of Plants, While Providing for Full Employment, Sought

Congress To Get Six-Point Veterans Plan   Roosevelt Announces He'll Send Broad Program To Lawmakers

FDR Approves Plan Of Demobilization  Restoring Soldiers To Civilian Life After War Is Goal

FOR REPORTS ON POST-WAR AIMS   He Proposes Three Months Furlough for soldiers, Family Allowances

DETAILS PLA FOR POST-WAR DEMOBILIZING   Program Will Go to Congress

Urges $100 Bonus Upon Discharge   President Releases General Objectives of Readjustment Period.

DAY LEAVES TERWARFOR INKEES ATH   uld Get Base Pay, But ‘ot to Exceed’ $100 a Month, Plus Family Allowance   'TLINED IN RADIO ALK BY ROOSEVELT   ick Conversion of In ustry to Peace Basis  ii Planned; Accused of Plaving Politics

3 Months’ Mustering - Out Pay Proposed   Plan Part of Post-War Demobilization and Readjustment Report Released by F. D. R. With His Approval in Principle.

DISCHARGED MIEN TO GET FURLOWGE   Roosevelt Reveals Plans te Assist Soldiers When War Is Ended.

FDR RELEASES PROGRAM FOR SERVICEMEN   NLRB’s Recommendations Follow in General Outline Proposals Made by President

SIX-MONTHS PAY PLAN AFTER WAR PLANNED FRIDA\   Veterans’ Leaders in Congress to Ask FDR to Recommend the Proposal.

Veterans’ Program Is Submitted   Three Months’ Discharg: Pay Included In Plat For Readjustment O Men Leaving Service

Post-War Adjustment Program Is Outlined   Roosevelt Would Give Servicemen Three Months ’Furlough At Base Pay, But Not To Exceed $100 A Month: Other Proposals

Three-Month Furlough at Base Pay, Plus Family Allowances, Proposed for Service Men After War

Jack Didn't Hit Hannah, but Threw Her Around a Bit, She Says on Stand

ANOTHER STAY   Supreme Court Gives Time For Filing Appeal After Death Date is Set

TRAITOR GIVEN SECOND RESPITE   Detroit Man Sentenced To Hang April 27 Granted Stay

Ration Stamps Nos. 15, 16 Are Now Valid For Five Pounds of Sugar Each

REICH WARNS PEOPLE OF ‘DANGEROUS TURN’   Says War Demands Radica! Change In Private Life

8000 Killed By Soviets In Onslaught  310 Tanks, 22 Rail Locomotives Among Booly Captured

Reds Forcing Another  Nazi Base   Great Danger Now for Nazis Lies On Central Front; Soviets Push Forward in Northern Area

Vital Railway Center Taken by Russians   Impressive Pile of Booty Seized by Soviets

Rail Town Taken As Soviets Move On German Base   Ring Of Encirclement \ppears To Have Doomed City Of Vvazima.

SYCHEVKA FALLS TO RED TROOPS IN HARD BATTLE   Russians Are Forging Ring Of Encirclement Around Vyazma   CONSIDERABLE BOOTY REPORTED CAPTURED

Russians Capture  Nati Rail Center  In Two-Day Drive   ‘ight Thousand German: Killed in Furious Assault   Red Army Reported within 20 Miles of German Base of Vyazma

Reds Capture Town Midway To Vvazma   Sychevka Falls As Twe Soviet Columns Converge On Key Base   100 PLACES SEIZED   Sun Melts Northern Snow During Daytime, But Winter Grip Holds

Reds Pressing On in Drive  For Vyazma   Large Amount of Booty, Acquired Belies Nazi Claim of Withdrawal .

Reds Capture Sychey ka After Stubborn Fight   8.000 Germans Slain in Two-Day Battle; 11 Places Seized in Drive Near Gzhatsk

REDS FORGING RING AROUND VYAZMA NAZIS   Red Army Has Pushed To Within 20 Miles Of Vyazma from Captured Gzhatsk Savs Bulletin.   Victors In Tank Battle

Reds Forge Ahead In Drive to West   Rail Town Of Sychevka Captured Following Stubborn Battle: Fate Of Vyazma Believed Already Sealed

SOVIETS SEAL FATE OF NAZI BASE, VYAZMA   BOOTY IMPRESSIVE AS RAIL CENTER FALLS TO REDS

Russians Kill 8,000 Nazis, Take Rail Town in Forging Steel Ring Around Vyazma

Reds Encircle Vyazma After Stubborn Fight  Deritieh Ones   British Observers Say Fate Of Town Definitely Sealed

Ring of Encirclement Being Forced Around Vyazma  MUCH EQUIPMENT IS SEIZED BY ~SOVIETS  Furious Tank Battle Raging in the Donets  —Reein

Reds Encircle Vyazma After Stubborn Fight   . British Observers Say Fate Of Town Definitely Seafed

Soviets Seal Foe's Fate In Vyazma Area   jmpressive Amount of Booty Taken by Red Army at Gzhatsk; German Counterattacks Repulsed

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Hanover Attack Sets Record for Concentrated Bombing

U.S. POUNDS NAVAL BASE AT FRENCH CITY   R. A. F. in Reeord Raid on Nazi Rail and Industrial Center

Nazi Forces Flee Along Rome Road   Mounting Offensive Reported. by Allies. As Foe Retreats ©.

GermansHeac For New Line Below Rome   Nazis Hurriedly Fall Back Toward Garigliano River Positions   ADMITTED BY BERLIN      Allied Radio Tells O1 Fresh Leapfrog Landing Above Volturno Mouth

i  Berlin admits loss of towns, retreat north   British clip rail route; 5th gains

ALLIED GAINS ON VOLTURNO INCDEACED   Sth Army Advances On 70-Mile Front; Five Towns Taken

Nazis Headed For Stand Along River   Berlin Radio Acknowledges Retreats North Of Voalturno River Allies Take Many Towne

HEAD FOR NEW DEFENSE LINES ON GARICLIANG   Nazis Fall Back Toward Rome Before Mounting Fifth Army Offensive,

ENEMY HEADED FOR NEW LINES OUUTH OF CITY   Bitter Rear-Guard Actions Being Fought By Nazis — To Delay Allies

ALLIES ENGAGED IN DIPLOMACY AS INVASION STE   Offensive, Falling Inta Three Main Categories, Is New Underway.

Allied Offensive Of Diplomacy in Europe Launched   .Forms. Prelude Of Anticipated Invasion There

Demand May Force Action  On Payas-Go   Joseph Martin Says Bill _ Can Be Passed in Single Dav

Pay-as-Go Tax.. Clamor Renewed   House Committee May Reconsider .

Wi- Take Oniy Day, Contends   Republican Leader Favor: Enactment of Measure  Before Easter

Proposes Plan  To Pass Pay-Go   Would Act One Day Before Easter Recess

CONGRESS FUta GET [OGL THEA ON PAY-AS- GO   Democrats And Republicans Line Up For Early Vote Upon Tax Measure

SUGSESTS PLAN TO PASS PAY-60 TAX IN ONE DAY   Martin Says 44,000.000 Tax Payers Cannot Be Wrone

End Police Crack Down ‘On Pleasure?   OPA COMMISSAR BROWN ORDERS HIS SPIES TO EASE UP _ ON AUTOMOBILISTS ON EASi COAST.   Passes Buck To Ickes

Ban on Pleasure Driving May Be Lifted March 22   Brown Announces End o Police Enforcement in Eastern States

PLAN 10 END DRIVING BAN ANNOUNCED      Police Enforcement ‘Pleasure Driving Or- der Halted

Honor System For Drivers  Is Installed   Pleasure Driving Ban May Be Eliminated By March 22. OPA Say:   POLICE ENFORCEMENT OF BAN CALLED OFF

PLAN 10 END DRIVING BAN ANNOUNCED   Police Enforcement  o' Pleasure Driving Order Halted

POLICE ENFORCEMENT OF BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING IS OUT   OPA Administrator Brown Is Putting Motorists On “Honor System;” Restrictions May Be Lifted In Eastern States By March 22

Fun Drivi ing Ban  May End Mar. 22   OPA Head Orders End to Police Enforcement as ‘Honor System’ for Compliance Decreed

Ban on Pleasure Driving Is Put on ‘Honor System,’ May Be Ended March 22

Seven Die in  Plane Crash   Twin-Engined Army Craft Crashes and Burns; All Aboard Lost

Senate Farm  Bill Passes   Nullifies F, R. Order” Deduction of Farm Benefits In Setting Up Ceilings

FARM PRICES—   President Overruled On Parity   ,.. Senate Nullifies Order

FARM BENEFITS ARE OKAYED   F. R. DEDUCTION PLAN VETOED IN SENATE

Senate Votes to Exclude Subsidies in Arriving at Ceilings tor Farm Prices

Senate Votes Against FDR   Passes Bill Vetoing Deductions of Benefits From Price Ceilings .

Senate Kills Deduction of Crop Benefits   ‘Only.2 Oppose Move For Wulliveation’ Of F.D.R, Order

Pass Measure lor Increased Farm Ceiling:   * + ‘ .  Administration Believed Ready To Boost Limits In (Compromise.   AVOID LABOR COSTS

°A’ Gas Coupon: Suspension Being Studied   OPA Insists Move  Will Come Only As Last Resort — Ickes Sets July Allotment

EAST “A GAS CARD SUSPENSION. PLAN      Seen as Last Resort Threat By OPA to Save Sunnpties

MaySuspend A -Cards On East Coast   OPA ANNOUNCES THAT IS ONE OF STEPS BEING CONSIDERED AS SUPPLIES GET TIGHTER.   Agriculture Preferred

A-CARD SUSPENSION IN EAST PROBABLE   Aciion May Be Taken Because Of Increasingly Tight Gasoline Supply Situation

SUSPENSION OF A CARDS CONSIDERED   Step May Become Neces: sary to Gasoline Situation

OPA Officials Emphasize They Will Take Action Only as Last Resort

May Suspend A-Card Gas  Coupons   New Ration Cuts May Be Needed, Decides OPA

Labor Leaders Agree With State On Strike Ban   Governor Reveals Signed Pact Taking Place Of Oral Accord

‘TEXAS PLAN’   Labor Leaders Agree to End All Work Delays for Duration.

AGREEMENT IS REACHED WITH LABOR   Gov. Stevenson Makes Public New Agreement

STATE PACT WITH LABOR   Unions Sign Non-Strike Agreement  With State Of Texas

NEW TRAFFIC LAWS FOR K. U. CAMPUS   Limits for Automobiles Is Set at 15 Miles Per Hour —

NEW TRAFFIC LAWS FOR K. U. CAMPUS   Speed Limits for Automo~ biles Is pat 15 Miles -. Per! Hour   AS A SAFETY MEASURE

Formidable U.S.Armada Takes Form   ‘Japs Face Crushing: Power of Many Fine Aircraft Carriers

Lower Living Cost Promised    Price Rise Te Be Cut  In Half. Bowles Says

COST OF LIVING CUTBACK SEEN   Bowles Says Measures Already In Effect Are Resulting in Reductions

Living Costs to Hit Year-Ago Level-OPA   Bowles Says Measures Already Taken, Others Planned, Admits Restaurant Prices Not Yet Controlled.

COST OF LIVING CUT IS PLANNEL   Level of September of 1942 Is Goal—Many Problems Faced by OPA

GOST OF LIVING WILL 60 DOWN   OPA Expects Costs to Be Rolied Back te September ’42 Levels.

PRICE ROLL BACK ANTICIPATED SOON   OPA Reveals Fact In Letter to Rep. Sabath, Facts Just Announced.

ROLLBACK TO SEPTEMBER “42 BEING PLANNED   Measures Under Way To Halt Rising Prices, Bowles Says

OPA Hopes Cost of Living Will Be Rolled Back Soon To September, 1942, Levels

Living Costs To Reach “42  Levels Soon   Measures Already In Opera tion Expected To Elimin. ate Half Of Rise.   READY NEW PROGRAM

OPA Expects CostOf-Living Drop   Predicts Roll-Back To 1942 Level Soon

AIRPLANE IS BUILT BY 1,500 CONCERNS   Small Warplants Getting Orders from WPB

Mrs. Donald Of Amarillo Is Dead   Was ‘Mother’ of MotherIn-Law Day Observance

Mother-in-law Day Mother Dies   Mrs. Nellie Donald Passes at Amarillo After Lona Illness

Japs Suffer New Damage  To Shipping   Destroyer, Gunboat, Medium Cargo Vessel Sunk in Latest Raid  WMIChY Wroeeaerrsc OTrriw

Crowded N ip Troopship Hit Otf Kavieng   Japs Make Some Progress in Ground Fighting on New Guinea; Barges Sunk

Allies Destroy 60 Jap Planes In Rabaul Raid   Also Inflict Shipping Damage in Another Surprise Air Thrust

Jap Aircrafl and Shipping Suffer -Eytensive Losses   Destroyer, “Guphsat-.a Carge vere in. New Raid ~

Rabaul Again Pasted hy Allied Planes   Destroyer, Gunboat and Cargo Vessel Are Sunk

FIGHTING 1S RENEWED ON NEW GUINEA,   Japanese Effort to Retake Finschhafen Spurs Brisk Battle; New Raid On Rabaul Scores 60 Planes.   Lash Airdromes

24 of Enemy Craft Shot Down in Sky - Fights; Crowded Foe Troop Vessel Sunk Off Kavieng, New lreland

ers From Sot. Brandenburg Received By Father, Friends   »* High That He Ma Be Safe, Though ”  Tisonery

ets From Sgt.. Brandenburg Received ‘By Father, Friends   ‘'s High That He Ma; e Safe, Though  risoner

STILL MANY DEFECTS IN SYNTHETIC TIRES   State Police Conduct Tests in Past Two Months

Death Enters Several Palo Alto Homes   Unusual number of well-known’ persons called into eternity.

ALABAMIAN OOLE SURVIVOR OF CRASH   Birmingham Flier, Missing 67 Days, Returns

American Artillery Turns Faid Into ‘Suburb Of Hell   Enemy Stronghold In Tunisia Now Broker Ruins; Tanks Routed, Landslide Started

CHMASHES NATC   Large Guns of Americans Pound Enemy StrongHolds at Faid.

U.S. ARTILLERY TURNS FAID INTO SUBURB OF HELL   Several Hundred Shells Hurled Into Little French ‘Town Held by Axis

Greatest Night Show Of Tunisian Campaign . . Americans Turn Faid Into Suburb Of Hell

AMERICAN GUNS TURN FAID INTO ‘SUBURB OF HELL   REPORTER WATCHES GERMAN TANKS RUN FROM BIG SHELLS

Faid A ‘Suburb Of Hell’ After U. S. Artillery Delivers Smashing Blows

Ayis-Held Faid Suburb of Hell   U. S. Artillery Active In Tunisian Town

Two opposing armies ready  for big fight   Reinforcements moving in Italy

Nazi Defense Holds Fifth  ees ee ee ee    Patrol Actions By Eighth As Front  Ramainec Static

MANY VETERANS OF WORLD WAR 1 IN CRACK UNIT . THAT CRASHED GERMAN DEFENSE STRONGPOINT “GUARDING ROAD TO GABES AFTER SAVAGE BATTLE—EIGHTH ARMY TAKES MAIN ROAD —  ‘ JUNCTION DURING ADVANCE

Port of Sfax, 65 Miles North of Gabes Reported in Flames as Allies Pound Foe from Air

BRITISH HOT ON TRAIL OF AFRIKA KORPS   General Patton’s troops score victory east of El Guettar area

County Bought 10,836 Bonds   In Third War Loan: Drive Continues Thru Saturday

Grampian Woman, Burned While Fixing Kitchen ‘Fire, Dies In Hospital

AUSTRALIANS TAKE POINT IN JUNGLES   Of Northeastern New Guinea; Sattleberg Important . Lookcut Point For Enemy; Planes Assist Aussies.   Bombers Active

Australians Occupy Jap Jungle Plateau  Tanks And Planes Are Used In Support

Sattelberg Falls To Australians:  2 Japs Ships Hit   Plateau Strongpoint 10 Miles Northwest Of Finschhafen Is Important Position

Navy Determined To Get Decision In Our Favor. Yank Forces Land On Tarawa and Makin Islands.

Marines And Army Troops Battling Side By Side: Quick Decision Expected

Marines and Army Troops Fighting Hand to Hand Struggle.  EXPAND BEACHHEAD THEY ESTABLISHED  Final Decision May Not Be Long in Coming Apparently.

83 BOYS AND GIRIS PLAN T0 ATTEND 4HCLUBCAMP   28 Union County _ Clubs Send Members. “To Camp This Year

Each U-S. Soldier Needs 1. Tons. of ~~ - Supplies Every Month in North Africa

Each US. Soldier Needs 1% Tons of Supplies Every Month in North Africa

JUNGLE WARFARE IS FIENDISH, LODGE SAY!   Senator Declares African an  Italian Beach Fi  Cannst Com Cannot Lom

“Jungle Fighting Worse Than Desert Battle: It’s Fiendish, Horrible.” Lodae

Badoglio May Name His New Cabinet Today   Germans Report King's Fortune Has Been Confiscated

New Bill Would Let Cities Set Telephone Rates   Seeks Control Over This Utility Same as Gas Electricity

Bill Would Let Cities Regulate Telephone Fees   Control Measure _ Introduced In lowa House Of  Representatives.

Churchill Denies  Peace Forecast   Word He Sees War's End By Christmas ‘False’

SENSATIONAL STATEMENT IS REVEALED   Allies to Decide Rome's Fate By Wednesday

Churchill Denies Story   Does Not Predict War Will End In Six Months as Was Reported

Quebec Paper Quotes Rumor That Churchill Has Predicted End of European War Within Six Months

CHURCHILL DENIES FORECAST ON WAR   PRIME MINISTER SAYS HE DID NOT PREDICT VICTORY IN SIX MONTHS,

CAMPAIGN IN SICILY ABOUT CONCLUDED   American and British Troops Driving Forward Along Island Coasts.   BULLETIN

Churchill Denies Statement War to  End in 6 Months   Preliminary Of War Parley tu Quebec About Over

Believe Fate of Rome Will Be  Settled At Talks   Prediction Reported Made Before Quebec Cabinet In Past Week

Churchill Predicts End of War Against Hitler In 6 Months   Roosevelt Coming To Quebec Some Time This Week To Begin Sixth Formal wartime Conference With Churchill ©

DENIES EARLY PEACE TALK   Four Major Points on  Conference Agenda At Ouebec

JAPAN'S GRAND FLEET REFUSES TO MAKE FIGHT   American Battleships Strike Deeper Into Nipponese Waters With Attack On Nauru

U. S. Warships Jom Planes In  Nauru Assault      Big Battleships Throw Shells Into Island’s Installations

—f£ AL  JAPAN'S NA NNN li UTIL IN AIDING   Big American Battleships Aid In Attack On Nauru Island   CLOSE TO TRUK   Ten Jap Planes Destroyed In Aerial Combats Over ‘Nauru

U.S. Navy Set To Fight Japs   Nauru Tsland “Attack Is Aided By’ Big Guns Of: Battleships ;

Japanese Main Fleet Ignores New Challenge   U. S. Battleships Strike Deeper Into Nip Waters By Pounding Nauru.

Anxious for Tilt With Nippon Flee!  American Warships Pressing Closer

ACTION STILL DECLINED BY JAP WARSHIPS   American Navy's Invitation To Come Out and Fight Bears Postscript in Naura Attack   WEST OF THE GILBERTS

Japs Refuse To Risk Their Battle Fleet   Our Big Ships Hammer Nauru, Deez In Enemy Territory

Navy Adds P. S. To Invitation To Japs  Big U. S. Battleships Participated In The Nauru Island Assault

Japan’s Fleet Still Declines Action Despite Fact American Warships Strike Deep Into Nippon’s Waters

JAPAN'S FLEET STILL IGNORES U.S.CHALLERGE   Big Ships Pour Steel Onto Island Which Planes Bombed Earlier

INVASION IS BELIEVED NEAR   Absence of Ships at Gibraltar Similar to Situation Just Before African Invasion

ALLIED RAIDS REACH NONSTOP STAGE   Axis Aircraft Challenged Yanks, I Plane Lost

United Nations Planes Hit  Pantelleria in Cease  less Waves,    MEET STRONG AXIS RESISTANCE NOW  Eight More Axis Craft Probably Eleven Are Knocked Out.

JAP WARNING — GIVEN CHILE   Suggests “Consequences” in Breaking Off Rela tions.

THE WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE TO MEE}      College Hall Will He the Meeting Place of County Men Tomor. row Evening

14 Jap Planes Are Shot Down      Nips Attack Area in New Guinec .

CHIEF OF 8TAFF DECLARES  _ PROPOSAL BY SENATOR TAFT  : WOULD UPSET ARMY'S PLANS

‘War F und Day’ Set In Schools   HINT ARGENTINA NEAR BREAK WITH AX

Mine Operators Disagree Over UMW Signing   Pennsylvania Owners And Miners Will End Differences

SUUTHEAN GROUP EYES PACT TERMS   ‘Denounces Reported $1.30 Potal-portal Settlement in Central Pennsylvania Field As Inflationary

Some Operators Are Signing Up   Others Denounce the Pact a: Inflationary, and Will Not Sign.

‘State Split -On Pit Pact   Wyatt Company Will Sign Portal Contract

Halsey Pledges Tokios Ruin   FIGHTING ADMIRAL DECLARES AMERICANS WILL RETURN TO SEND JAP CAPITAL TO ASHES AND DUST; MUNDA VICTORY FIRST STEP ON ROUTE

CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED BY HALSEY   Admiral Pleased With Past Year's Pacific Campaign

RUSSIAN TROOPS CUTTING DOWN REMNANTS  OF NAZI TROOPS TRAPPED AT TAGANROG   ENTIRE GERMAN ARMY IN DONETS BASIN ON VERGE OF FLEEING TO THE WEST

RUSSIAN TROOPS PLUNGING — DEEPER INTO VAST UKRAINE   Cutting to Pieces the Ger~ man Army Trapped at Taganrog.

Russians Plow Deeper Into Ukraine   Blast Remnants of Defeated German Taganrog Garrison

Says Dads May Escape Service   Pierce Has Hopes For Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers

Direct Mit On Deck Sinks Sub   --. U. 8. Patrol Piane Scores A Bullseye

DEDICATE DRIVE TO STH ARMY   74 Million More for lowa Quota Needed

FUNERAL SATURDAY   Services for R. D. Broaddus From Presbyterian Church,

REDS CLOSE IN  ON VYAZNIA   Take 100 Towns and Villages In Past 24 Hours

BRIDGEHEAD 10 TO 15 MILES IN LENGTH SEIZED   Push Inland Against Light Opposition; Good Progress Made

EIGHTH ARMY MEETS LIGHT OPPOSITION   Good Progress, Communique Says

Widen Inquiry In-Effort To Identify Drowned Man   Body Found At Brownsville But Death Mzy Have Taken Place Flsewhere

Naval Forces O1U.S, ep Said Gathering   Tokyo Claims Are Denied by Secretary Knox

Interpreting  The War   Allies Have Hope Of Winning In Africa Now

SIX MORE YEARS OF WAR PROJECTED      Nevy Laying Plans for a Long Fight With the  Japoneca

Navy Is Planning For Long War Against Japan   Struggle May Last unt 1949, Vice Admiral Frederick J. Horne Warns

NAVY FORESEES SIX-YEAR WAR   Building Plans Call For Seven Times Present Strength; Plants Show Letdown

OPA REVISES HOME MEAT CONSUMPTION   Can Butcher Stock for Owr Use Without License

MERTING IN MOSCOW.   Davies Held Consultation With Stalin and Delivered Letter.

JIEETING IN MOSCOW:      Davies. Hela Consnitation  With: . ‘Stalin’/ and ‘Delivéred ‘Letter...

Nazis Battle To Elude Red  Pincer Move   Soviets Capture More Towns; Are  Closer to Rostov

ALLIED ATTACK AGAINST ENEMY IN AFRIGA NEAR   Improved Weather Conditions Indicate Long-Awaited Offensive Imminent

CANADA URGED TO SPEED PULP   Shortage Of Paper May Be Solved By New Manpower Plan

BLOOD TESTS TO 71 MEN   Group of Selectees Had First Screening 3 Months Ago

‘BLOOD TESTS ‘TO 71 MEN   Group of Selectees ’ ’ Had First Screening 3 Months Aga =~

GOP Postwar Planners Hear Sen. Austin   Vermonter Warns Against Isolationists In Partv

GOP ‘PRESSURE GROUP’ MEETS   Post-War Policy Association Threatens Party's Isolationists .

Republicans Urged to Support Plan. For Post-War United Nations Police

House Favors Post-War Era  Collaboration   Fulbright Bill Meets First Test

Congress Power  On Peace Voted  Amendment Attached To Fulbright Measure

VOTE DEBATE ON FULBRIGHT PLAN   Extend Time to Argue -Pest-War Resolution

LIQUOR COMMISSION GETS NEW MEMBER   Kelly Appoints William P. Edmonson, Pontiac City Manager, to Replace Dunn

STOP CANNING SUGAR   Temporary Halt. Here Pending “Word From State Office

Germans Killed Salerno People Before Fleeing   Rode Through Streets Machine-Gunning Civilians, Troops

GERMAN SOLDIERS SHOT ITALIANS IN SALERNO STREETS   Nazis Took Food Supplies and Murdered Civilians Be fore Retreating

Salerno Citizens Robbed And Shot  Nazis Fire On Italians Before Losing City

Civilians of Salerno Slain   Germans Attacked Italian Troops, Citizens When Truce Come

German Defeat in 1944 Predicted by Military Officials   But Two More Years May Be Required To Crush Japanese

Allies Press GermansBack on 2 Fronts   British Eighth and American Fifth Armies Carve Out Gains

Conquest of Japan May Take 2 More Years, Prediction   British Eighth Army Advances on Pescara; Russians Seize Prisoners and Equipment 

KEY POSITIONS ON ROME ROAD TAKEN IN FIGHT   Russians Press Fierce Attack On Several Sectors in Howling Blizzard   Bv RICHARD McMURRAY

Two More Years to Beat Japs   But Military Experts In Washington See  End of Conflict With Germany During 1944

UNNAMED MILITARY OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON FORESEEING BIG OFFENSIVES MAKE STATEMENTS   Balance. Sheet of Allied Strength: Now Believed Such That Nazis Will Be Crushed Within Year But. Two Years. Will Be Needed To Beat Japs

Nazis Defeat Within Year ls Predicted   Military and Naval Officials Say It Will  Take Two Years to Defeat Japan;  Minor Allied Military Successes Contribute to Final Victory Promised By Big Three

Group Urges Governmen Sell Housing Properties To Private Enterprise

City Is Under Martial Law; 2 Persons Have Been Killed   Negro Section ‘Looks Like Meuse-Argonne; Curfew Ordered; Many Stores Closed

Negro Area Trampled By White Mobs   Military Commander Says It Compared With the ‘Meuse Argonne’

Negro Homes Are Destroyed   Beaumont, Texas, Quiets Down After Wild. Rioting

Texas City Has Race Troubles  Big Part of Negro Section Destroyed

Riots Bring Martial Law To Beaumont   Negro Homes Burned; 2,400 State Troops, Law Enforcement Officers On Duty; Two Men Dead; Outbreak Prompted By Rape Of White Women

Quell Riots In Beaumont   Negro Section of City Literally “Stomped Into Ground’

TLOCAT, ORSFERVATIONG   A Negro Section Stomped to Bits   Part of Beaumont Destroyed During Disturbances Over Rape Cases.

TROOPS RULE CITY   Negro Section “Stomped Into Ground” by Beau mont Rioters

BEAUMONT NEGRO SECTION WRECKED   State Troops Enforcing Martial Law; Two Deaths Reported

RACE RIOTERS WREAK HAVOC   Negro Section‘of Beaumont ‘Literally Stomped Into Ground’

CONGRESS 10 IGNORE FORS DRAFT THREAT   No Substitute for AnttStrike Act, Leaders Report   WILL SHELVE DEMAND   Presidential Veto Expected On Connally-SmithHarness Bill

First Time That Woman Had Ever Been Convicted Of First Degree Murder In History Of Greene County   MRS. HOLT FACING # PRISON FOR LIFE

MRS. HOLT FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER      Jury Brings First Degree Verdict After 6 Hours’. Deliberation

‘SHIPPING LOSSES, LOW DURING JUNE, RISE THIS MONTH      Enemy Had More Targets To Shoot At Because _ OF Invasion  OF Sicily

Subs Raise Jap Ship Sinkings To Total of 210   10 Bagged In Latest  Report; Expect Allied. Losses To Show Gain

AMERICAN SUB TOLL OF JAP SHIPS RISING   Total Now Raised-To 210, Sinkings On Increase During July

 MAA RADA AAADADAAAAAADAAL “Secret’’ Weapon Is Said To Be Nothing But Posion Gas

Plans to Attack Axis in All Parts Of World May Be Announced Shortly

Allied Plans For Offensive Believed Near   Some Data May Be Given Within Few Days; See  Great Need For New  Front In Europe

Big News In The Making. London Says  World Offensive Against Axis Is Being Plotted

HULL ASSERTS LIBERTY RIGHT OF ALL NATIONS   Secretary. of State's Address tc Pan-American Union Reassur ring to Small Nations

LITTLE COUNTRIES ASSURED OF U. S. SUPPORT FOR ALL   Secretary Hull Makes U. S. Plans Clear in Address Before Pan AwmwAwtliAan I laran

Little Nations Reassured U.S. Still Champion   Hull Expounds Principles Of American Liberty As Best Ideal For World

SMALLER NATIONS ASSURED U!. §. T0 CHAMPION RIGHTS   SECRETARY OF STATE HULL DECLARES AMERICA TO CONTINUE ROLE OF COUNTRIES’ HELPER

Hull Says U. S. Will Continue To Champion Rights of Small Nations

‘BIG BROTHER’   J. S. Continues Good Neigh: bor Policy, Says Hull

TENSE CUROPE FEELO ALLIED AOOAULT NEAR   Invasion Reports Becoming Flood; Under-Belly Still Jittery.   RAF CHIEF PROMISES FULL FORCE TO FALL

Air Chief Sees Fiercer Blows ‘Very Quickly   Bombings of Europe Like hie rhenfeed”

MILL POISONING STILL MYSTERY   Many Alarmed Worker: Absent From Plants In Virginia

VISITS A HOSPITAL   Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Talks to  Soldiers in Melbourne

RAF Bombers Sow Mines in Axis Waters   Heavy Planes Take Rest After Ten-Day Offense

WEATHER HALTS STEADY BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES   RAF Sows Mines In -Enemy Waters While Other Crews Rest, .

Mines Sowed By AirForee  In Axis Seas   Weak Nazi Attempt At Bombing Britain Is Fought Off

WEAK GERMAN RAID ON LONDON REPELLED   Allied Attacks On Europe Held Up By Weather

Me K ‘Goodman ! - Called By Death   Funeral: : Services: Will Be Held “> ‘friday Afternoon From 74 Lukcen’«: Homa

Myrtle K. Goodman _ (Called By Death   Funeral Services Will Be Held > Friday Aftérnoon From Luken’s Home

Nazis Pillage. Burn Towns   Sharp Blow At Canadians Repulsed As They Draw In

Canadians Half German Thrust Toward Agnone   Nazis Destroy Towns, Vil lages in Scorched Earth Retreat

NAZI ATTACKS _ ARE REPULSED   Germans Strike Sharply At Eighth Army In  Agnone Section

GERMANS APPLY. TORCH IN PTALY   “SCORCHED EARTH" WITHDRAWAL UNDER WAY—CANADIANS BEAT OFF ATTACK,

German Attack on Sangro Line Repulsed by British After Hard 2-Hour Battle   Objective Three-feld

German Attack on Sangro Line Repulsed by British After Hard 2-Hour Battle

Governor Signs Time  Bill Today   Change to Become Effective Next Sunday Morning

Gov. Bricker To Sign Time Bill Today   Time Change Would Become Effective Sunday Morning

‘Mussolini, Denounced by Fascists, Arrested as He Leaves King’s: Presence: Whisked Away in Ambulance: Whereabouts Remains Mystery”

Mussolini Discredited In Eyes Of Italians  WAR CORRESPONDENT WRITES COMPLETE STORY OF EX-DICTATOR’S OVERTHROW

Civilian Supply Measure Passed   Bill Would Create Independent Office

New Office. Is Approved  Canata Warnuld Cara   Senate Would Care For Civilian Supply.

WOMAN PLEADS SHOOTING BOY WAS ACCIDENT   Attractive Mrs. Helen Randle of Annapolis Killed Youth and Wound“ed Husband   IN FAMILY SPAT   Woman In Home At:-Time Of Shooting Also Held; Says Boy Made Slur  ring Remark

3 MEN DROWN IN OHIO RIVER   Two Tug Boats Collide Near Marietta This Morning

MONDAY IS LAST FOR THREE BLUE STAMPS FOR FOOD   G. H. And J Stamps Expire In Ration Book No. 2; Had Been Extended

Riot Probe Airs Espionage Anale   Assault And Arson Charnec Prohoble

Riot Probe Airs. Espionage Angle   Assault And Arson Charoec Prahahtla

DOSS ELLA SSeS Eee Ee 8 Employers Encourage This Plan of Picketing

Russians Find Going Difficult   But Red Army Is Still Progressing

Rough Terrain Slows Russians      ‘DRIVES ON TWIN CITIES ENCOUNTER MANY DIFFICULTIES

RED OFFENSIVE LOSES IMPETUS NEAR BRYANSK   ‘Swamps, Forests Slow Soviet Forces, Inching Toward Key Bastions

Russian Drive On Kharkov, Bryansk, Slows   Reds Battle Through Swamps and Forests As They Near Goal

Forests, Swamps Delaying Reds   Drives On Bryansk. Kharkov Pushed

TERRAIN AIDS. NAZ DEFENSE AGAINST REDS   Russians’ Twin Drives for Bryansk and Kharkov Find Going Rough.   FORESTS AND SWAMPS HANDICAP ATTACKERS

Red Troops Slowed Dowr In 20 Drives:  Y i OE ee ee   Germans Aided by  Natural Obstacles  To Russian Drives; Wazi Planes Active

DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY RUSSIANS   Soviets Battle Way Through Forest, Swamps and Across Numerous Small wivers  2,400 ENEMIES KILLED

Soviets Move Ahead Despite Tough Terrain   Troops On Central Front Are Fighting Their Way Through Swamps And Across Rivers

Red Advance  Slows Down   Terrain Suitable to German Defenders Has Checked Twin Attacks

Russian Drives Slowed Down   Difficult Terrain Helping Germans In Their Defense. .

Nazi Air Forces Blast Red Supply Lines; Resistance Reported Growing

Terrain Makes Going Difficult Ba For. Red Army   Continues To. Press. Twin  Drives: Ow Axis: Bases. “At Bryansk, ° “Kharkov

DRIVE SLOWS DOWN   Reds Continue to ‘Battle Nazis Thru Forests and ~ Swamps

Terrain Making Difficult Drives Against Bryansk and Kharkov; Enemy Defense Favored

Red Army's Twin Drives Slowed By ‘Rugged Terrain   Fierce Battles Rage Alona Kharkov Front

TERRAIN SLOWS DOWN SOVIETS IN TWIN DRIVES   Nazis Throw Up Stiff Resist. ance in Attempt To Hold Kharkov ee:

Reds Slowed By Germans, Rough Terrain   Defenses on Hills Around Kharkov Proving Troublesome to Advance

RUSSIAN DRIVES ON BRYANSK, KHARKOV SLOWED BY TERRAIN  FORESTS, SWAMPS AND _ SMALL STREAMS. LEND SELVES TO DEFENSE

RUSSIAN TWIN DRIVES SLOWED   Terrain Aids Nazis In Their Defense Of Bryansk And Kharkov

TERRAIN SLOWS RUSS DRIVE ON NAZI BASTIONS   OPPOSING GOLIATHS ON RED FRONT WAGE BATTLE OF ATTRITION

Russians Hammer Nearer Bryansk, Encirclement of Kharkov Despite Counter-Atlacks   Germans Reported io have Ordered Fight to Death in Kharkov, Now Ringe on Three Sides

BAD TERRAIN SLOWS DRIVE OF RED ARMY      Columns Moving Toward Kharkov and Bryansk Encounter Ground Which Naturally Lends Itself to Nazi Defense.

REDS ADVANCE IN TWIN DRIVES      Going Is Slow, However. , As Troops Overcome Forests and Swamps

DIFFICULT GOING REPORTED SLOWING DOWN RED ARMY   ‘Russians Are Pressing Their Twin Drives on Bryansk and Kharkov.

TOUGH TERRAIN SLOWS RED PUSH   ‘Twin Drives Pressed Against  Bryansk And Kharkov.

SOVIET SLOWED UP BY TERRAIN   Army Battles Through Forests, Swamps, Rivers Toward Brvyansk.

—RUSSTA—  REDS SLOWED BY ROUGH TERRAIN   Meet Stiff Nazi Resistance In Drives On Kar- kov And Bryansk

Reds Encounter Stiff Resistance   Twin Drives on Nazis Slowed Down

Russian Drive Against Nazis Slowing Down   Difficult Terrain Hampers Attacks Of Reds on Enemy

Twin Red Drives On Nazi Bastions Are Slowing Up   Russians Find Going Hard Due to Difficult Terrain of Country.   Violent Fights Flare To West of Rostov

Rough Terrain Slowing Down Red Onslauaht   Violent Battles Rage In Rostov Area And On Belgorod Front

Difficulties and Enormous Strain Confront Reds   Russian Army Slowed Down By Difficult Going In Terrain Naturally Lending Itself To Defense; Push Twin Drives Toward Bryansk and Kharkov.

Strong Points Slow Up Twin Soviet Drives   Germans Take Full Advantage of Natural Defensive Positions To Resist Advances

Red Troops Slowed Dowr In 2 Drives   Germans Aided by  Natural Obstacles  To Russian Drives; Nazi Planes Active

TERRAIN SLOWS RUSSIAN DRIVES NEAR KHARKOV   Violent Fighting  Along Muis River Told In Report

Russian Drives Slowed Up By Rough Terrain Offering Many Advantages To Nazi Defenders   Reds Forced To Fight Way Through Swamps, Forests And Across Rivers

RED DRIVE ON NAZIBASTIONS SLOWED DOWN   Troops on Central Front Encountering Considerabl. Difficulty and Enormous Strain

LEGION POPPIES TO BE SOLD SATURDAY   Each Flower Is a Replica in Crepe Paper of World War I Battle Field Flower.

Tanks Hit Nazis   GIANT ARMORED UNITS CLASH FOR CONTROL OF VITAL DNIEPER BEND

Great Victories  In Sight for Reds   Russians Are Inside or on Threshhold of Four Large Cities.

Russian Army Outside Four Large Cities   Battle In Sireets Of Melitopol One Of Escape Routes From Crimea,

Russians On Way To Win Big Victories   Four Cities In Grasn OF Redc

JOVIETS NEAR 4 BIG CITIES   Red Army Appears Near to Winning Some of Greatest Victories.

REDS BATTLE WAY TO CENTER OF MELITOPOL   Kiev, Gomel, Zaporozhe Invested as Russians Advance AH Along Great Front   MAY TRAP NAZIS      Germans Main Rail Into Crimea Already Cut at Melitopol, Leaving One-Track Line

RED ARMY APPEARS ON WAY TO WINNING GREATEST VICTORIES   NOW INSIDE OR AT GATE! OF FOUR OF RUSSIA’S LARGEST CITIES

Red Army Makes New Gains Today   SOVIET FORCES SURGING ACROSS RIVER TO TAKE TOWNS

_ ARMY IS ON THRESHHOLD OF 4 RUSSIAN CITIES   Soviets Appeared on Way ta Winning Seme of Their (-reatest Vivtories.   REACHED MELITOPOL   This Was Accomplished After Breaking Germaa Hold on the Molochna River.

Reds Menace Four Major Nazi Bastions   Fighting Rages In Kiev; Pressure Is Put On Gomel _

FALL OF FOUR GERMAN-HELD STRONG POINTS ON RED  FRONT APPEARS IMMINENT   Russian Troops Already Fighting in Streets of  Melitopol and Are Battling on Outskirts of Three Other Cities. Rain and Mud Fail to Halt Drive ©

Reds Battle into Cities   Fighting Way Into Four Large, Key Positions

Reds Approach Great Victory  Vital Dictricts   Vital Districts Expected to Fall

Quadruple Red Victory Shapes Up In Russia   Soviets Fighting In Melitopol; More Are At Outskirts Of Kiev, Zaporozhe And Gomel

Reds Near Greatest - Victories   Now Inside or On or On Threshold of Four Great Gities Held by Germans   GOMEL BECOMES A BATTLEGROUND   Kiev, Zaporozhe and. Melitopol Other Great Prizes Almost in Grasp

NAT BASES   rreops Are Now Inside o1 On the Threshold of the Large Cities of Kiev Gomel, Zaporozhe and Melitopol.

RUSSIANS TAKING FOUR LARGE GI AT THE SAME TI      Capture Of Kiev Sho ly Will Be Prize  Oye We  Of First Order   DISASTER RACING. TOWARD GERMAI

Russian Forces Win Melitopol   Ukrainian Capital Of Kiev Appears About to Fal]

RED ARMY THREATENS FOUR CITIES   Kiev, Gomel, Melitopol And Zaporazhe May Fal

CAPTURE OF FOUR LARGE RUSSIAN CITIES IMMINENT   REDS WITHIN TWO MILES OF KIEV: ENTER MELITOPOL

ARMY BIDS ~ FOR SUCCESSES IN FOUR CITIES   Some of Russia’s Greatest Victories Lie Ahead, Moscow Reports

Reds Fight In Streets Of Melitopol, Also In Suburbs Of Burning Kiev And Gomel   Fall Of All Four Cities Imminent; Russians Appear Near Major Victories

Russians Battle Furiously To Ta City Before Germans Can Comple Demolitions: Fall Of Melitonol Ne   Soviets On Thresho!d Of Four Large Cities And Appear On Way To Winning Some Of Greatest Victories In Sweeping Advances

FOUR CITIES WITHIN GRASP OF RED ARMY   Russian Forces Appear on Way to Winning Some of the Greatest Victories of War   KIEY ABOUT TO FALL

"Wait And See” Attitude Greets Italy's Reversal  Probation Granted Italian ns Aft ter

Soviet Army Nearing New  Great Wins   Fight Way Into City Of Melitopol; Kiev And Gomel Doomed

Reds Close In On 4 Key Nazi Bases   Capture Of Kiev, Gomel, Zaporozhe And Melito pol Appears Imminent.

NAZI LINE NEAR COLLAPS! AS RED ARMY DRIVES ON   Four Large Cities Long Held by Germans Soon to Fall: Crimea Army in Peril

GERMAN HOLDS ONRIVER AREAS BROKENBY REDS   and Melitopol On Verge Of Falling to Russian Warriors   ENTIRE ENEMY ARMY MAY BE BOTTLED UP   Hitier Reported Throwing  New Divisions Into Kiev  Battle: City Already  In Flames

See Red Forces About To. Gain Maior Vi .   Rush To Take City of Kiev Before Germans - Can ‘Complete - Demolitions

CLEAR WAY TO PAGS “DRAFT LEGISLATION   Compromise Would Place Pre-Pear Harbor Dads At Foot of List.

Officials Warn Penalty Misuse Of Ration Stamy   Various Violations Listed; Throw Rationing Out of Bahince

Penalties for Misuse Ration Stamps Cited   Violations Not Deliberate, But Publie Is Harmed

FRANCO FADING, LONDON CLAIMS   Spanish Dictator, Like All Others, Is Losing His Grip on Nation

Franco Believed  Losing Ground  May Try To Save Setup Under Monarchy

ALLIES SEIZE FINSCHHAFEN   Yank Bombers Blast Jap Convey In Solomons

RK CHEST FUND TO $26,154 TODAY   ay hs in ee paign to Come — Next Week    UNTIL QUOTA IS MET

WAR CHEST FUND 70 $26,154 TODAY   Closing Licks in Community Campaign to Come — Next Week   UNTIL QUOTA IS MET

RATION BOOK THREE VALIC   First Brown Stanis Is Goot on September 12.

First Series Of Brown Points To  Be Valid Then   Books  And 2 Tc Be Used Still Fo: Various Items Now Rationed

DESIRES MECTING ON POSTWAR PLAN   Eden Makes Comments or Suggestion Recently Advanced By Welles.

Little Hope For Revision Of Rationing   No Change in Gasoline Sit_ uation in Area is Anticipated   STILL UNDER STUDY

DIPLOMATIC. REPORTS REVEAL ~ DUCE SEEKS PEACE CHANNELS      SHIFTS OF. CIANO AND ROSSO . SEEN AS MOVE TOWARD ESTABLISHING OUTSIDE CONTACTS

Soviet Offensive Pushes Deep Into Nazi Defenses ~ Around Poland, Rumania;  _ Allies Hit Germans In Italy

Russian Winter © Offensive Gains Greater Speed      Yanks Fight in Bitter Cold on Road to Rome; Knox Announces Loss of Destroyer In Pacific.

Nazis Have Heavy Loss In Attacks   Reds Battling Way Towaré Poland, Rumania—Allies  Gain in Italy

Two-Prong Drive Gains Momentum   Allies Bend Back  German Lines on Coast in Italy

‘Allies Move Slowly In Italy. Hampered By Weather, Furious Enemy

EXPECT RELIEF IN COLD WAVE   Weather Forecaster Says Slow Moderation Will: Begin Today.

SHOE RATIONING IS EXPLAINED BY ~ RATION BOARD   Plan Simple and Ration Is Liberal; Four Main Points

RATIONING OF SHOES IN EFFECT SINCE FEB, 7   Order Goes Into Effect On Sunday Without Advance Notice To General Public

CURFEW ORDINANCE   BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF BROWNING, MISSOURI. AS FOLLOWS:

U. S. Will Ask  Understanding      Welles Reveals Plan To Have Allies Confer On Peace Aims

CONFERENCE ON WAR AIMS NOW, WELLES URGES   Says U. S. Will Press Meeting Before Victory

‘Must Agree On Post-War Aims Now: .   Says Failure of Allies To Agree on Basic . Problems Now Might Work Havoc Later

CONFERENCES NOW ON COMMON AIMS IS WELLES’ IDEA   Claims U. S. Has Decided to Press United Nations For Post-War Program

a a  To Press for Conferences With United Nations on Common Aims

U.S. To Seek Agreement On Basic Issties   Welles Discloses Plans For “Early Discussion By United Nations Of Post-War Problems

WELLES URGES MERGER ON AIMS   Warns of Havoc Unless Allies Agree Upon Basic Problems ~

WELLES WANTS “COMMON AIMS’   Says in Toronto U.S. Will Frese for Conference af Alliae.

Common Aims Of Allies To Be Diseussec   U. S. To Lead Way In Conferences To Avoid Chaos, Welles Reveals In Canadian Speech

U.S. To Press War Aim Talks   Welles Declares Decision On Post War Problems Must  Come Now.

Washington to Initiate United Nations Talks on Post-War Problems

U.S. To Press At Once for Peace Aims   Welles Discloses Plan To Sound Out Nations On Post-War Status.

WAR AIMS WILL BE AIRED SOON   LU. S. to Call for Series of Talks With Other Allied Nations

U. $. Intends To Ask Allies For War Aims   Will Start Talks Now With United Nations To Uncover Basis

U.S. DECIDES T0 PRESS NOW FOR PRACEPROGRAM   To Open Preliminary Talks With Its Allies In Preparation For Con - ferences   WELLES CITES PLAN   Machinery to Assemble and Study All International Aspects of Problems  to Be Set Up -

U.S. TO PRESS FOR COMMON AIMS MEET   At Once Instead of Waiting Until After End of War For  Decision

RED AiR FORCE DESTROYS NAZI SUPPLY DUMPS   Heroic Deeds of Airmer Cited In Destruction of German Bombers  Raiding Gorki.   SEVEN ARE DOWNED      Long-Range Planes of Soviet Force Shatter Enemy’s Airdromes Near Bryansk

DEFEND MUNITION CITY   Red Fliers Have Shown Acts of Bravery in Meeting Axis)

Red-Airmen Busy Defending Gorki  Germans Report Tank Factory Destroyed

Seven Nazi Planes Downed At Gorki; Fighting On Land Front Still Quiet

RUSSIAN AIRMEN BATTLE GERMANPLANES AT GORKI   Reports From the ThriceBombed Vital Munitions City Tell of Heroism of the Soviet Fliers

Red Airmen Fend Off Nazi Raids on  Munition Plants   Perform Nightly Dramatic Acts of Heroism to Defend Gorki Plants.   Retaliate With Raids  On Nazi Airdromes

REDS BATTLE FIERCELY T0 SAVE GORKI   Make Retaliation Raids On German _Installations

SOVIET AIRMEN PROTECT GORK'   Heroic Acts Cited as Reds Turn Back Nazi Raiding Forces

Heroic Soviet Fliers Stage Grim Battle   Russians Fight to Protect Vital Munitions Center of Gorki

Russian Night Fighter Pilots Perform Dramatic Acts Of Heroism In Defending Munitions Center From Air Raids

DEFEND GORKI FROM BOMBING   Red Army Pilots Protect Munitions Center Nightly From Nazi Raids.

DRAMATIC ACTS OF HEROISM BY RED ARMY PILOTS   To Protect Gorki, Vital Muni. tions Center From German Raids.   CITY THRICE BOMBED   Seven Enemy Bombers Were Shot Down, Dispatches Stated.

NAZIS HAMMER AT RUSS WAR PLANT   DISPATCHES TELL OF THIRD RAID IN FIVE NIGHTS ON GORKI

‘RUSSIAN AIRMEN FIGHT TO PROTECT MUNITIONS CENTER  GERMANS CLAIM COMPLETE DESTRUCTION TANK FACTORY

With More Thiii 45,000 Coal Miners Out Immedi_ ate Action May Be Taken

AWAIT MINE WAGE RULING   45,000 Miners Continue On Strike Pending WLB Decis~n

OVER 45,000 MINERS IDLE IN EIGHT STATES   Report WLB Ready To Issue Wage Contract Offer

WLB Decision On Mine Pay  Believed Near   Chairman Finishes Tentative Decision For Presentation  Ta geet   START FRESH STRIKES

WLB MV May  Rule On Mine Wage      45, 00, Workers. Are Out Over Country ; Dutt Sharply Slashed

45,000 Miners Continue Idle In Eight States   WLBE Chairman Completes Tentative Opinion For _. Submission..To.. Board

CRISIS IS NEAR INCOAL STRIKE   Labor Board Decision on Wage Contract Possibility

'WLB Decision On-Coal Wage Expected Soon   45,000 Miners Remain Idle In Eight States

aes NOW OFF THE JOB      Fresh Walkouts Reported as WLB Prepares to Give Its Decision on a Proposed New Wage Contract for Men.

WLB Ruling On Coal Contract. Slated Today   In Meantime Strike Of -Miners Spreads: 45.000 Out.

45,000 MINERS STILL STRIKE   WLB Decision on Proposed Contract Is Possibility Today.

FRESH WALKOUTS IN COAL FIELDS   45,000 MINERS IDLE PENDING DECISION ON WAGE CONTRACT

WLB Decision Much Nearer   Fresh Walkouts of Miners Disregard UMW Pleas

More Than 45,000 Workers Now Out   “No Contract, No Work” Attitude Brings Fresh Walkouts; Davis Finishes Tentative Opinion

WLB Ruling On Miners’ Wages Likely   _ More Than > 45,000 Soft Coal Miners Out in  obs Ore

45,000 MINERS OUT ON STRIKE   Fresh Workouts Occur A Contract Negotiations Continue

Decision Near in Coal Wage War  WLB Expected to Act Late Tuesday

War Labor Board Discussing Proposed Coal Wage Contract—45,000 Miners Out

Late News. Bulletins   Rennes Decnrates Russian Officere in Moscow

Salary Decree. ’ Foes Increase   Byrd and Clark‘Added To ~Those Fighting’ FDR ~ *°.Karnines Limit .

DEMOCRATS MOVE. TO NULLIFY FDR'S $75,000 SALARY LAW   Senate Group Says It Will Support Rider Act

For Repeal Of Salary Limit   Growing Sentiment To Nullify FOR Order

Twenty-Eight Aliens Claim Their Work Is Of MoraleBuilding Nature, Essential to War Effort   NET STAR LISTED   “Bunny” Austin Among British Subjects Asking Deferment; All Recently Classified 1-A

JAPS MAY MOVE EMPIRE'S SEAT SENATOR SAY      Chandler Warns In Executive Session Core of Government May Be Located In Asia Mainland

Senate Told Japs May Move Seat of Empire   Need for Bases In Siberia Cited In Report Today

Senate Told Long War Is Facing Nation   Members Again Hear From Touring Senators in Executive Session

Sen. Chandler for More Aid fo MacArthur   Urges Additional Suppor' Be Given or the General Be Relieved of Command   LONG AND COSTLY PACIFIC WAR AHEAD   Senate Warned Jays May Move. Seat of Empire to _Asiatic Mainland

Urges More Help for MacArthur   Sen. Chandler Warns That Japs Might Move Government to Mainland: Sees Long War

SECRET REPORT GIVEN SENATE   Five Globe Girdling Members Say Pacific War Will Be Long.   CRITICIZE CONFUSION

SENATE GIVEN PICTURE JAPS GROWING MIGH]   Touring Solons Impress Mates Long, Costly War Ahead —Secret Session Continues

CHANDLER ASKS MORE SUPPORT FOR MARTHUR   Says General Should Be Backed or Relieved of Command in Area

Long War In Pacific, Say 5 Senators   Reporting Again Today in Closed Session — More Criticism

Solon Asks For All-Out Pacific War   Help Gen. MecArthur Or Replece Him, Seys Sen. Chandler

JAPANESE MAY MOVE SEAT OF GOVT. OPINES   Senator Chandler Sees Possibility Nippon Moving to Somewhere On Asiatic Mainland.

Chandler Is Reporting Or Battle Tour   Senate Closes Doors Again for Executive Session to Hear Findings   WARNING IS_ ISSUED

_ Home Islands Would Be Almost impregnable Wall to East, Says Brewster; Lodge Says British Ahead of Us On Postwar Planning.

Japs: May Move Core Of Empire To Asia Mainland, Senators Told   Long And Costly War Ahead In Pacific, Senators Are Told In Secret Session By Touring Group.

SENATE HEARS HARD FIGHT ‘AHEAD IN PACIFIC   Senator ‘Chandler Tells Body Japs May Move Seat of Government to  Asiatic Mamland

Japs May Move Seat Of Empire Onto Mainland   —SENATOR CHANDLER. Long, Costly War Ahead In Pacific, Touring So lons Warn Chamber.

Sen. Chandler Say Japs May Move to Asiatic Mainland   War Front Report To Closed Session @ontinuing Today

COAL LOADINGS ABOUT AVERAGE   Production Comes Back To Normal In State; Absenteeism 6 To 10 Per Cent

Miners Resume Normal Output      Average Loadings Are Reported in State

May Lower 4-F Standard   Senate Considers Move To Make More 4-F’s Eligible

FEDERAL ROLLS TO BE COMBED FOR SELECTEES   Wheeler’ Concedes Quick Acceptance of Substitute Measure

ENATE MAPS INDUCTION OF 4F DRAFTEES   Action Offered As Substitute to “Dont Draft Father’ Bill

REVEAL PATTERN FOR INVASION OF AXIS EUROPE      General Lines Of Contemplated Invasion Of Europe Forecast

Patten of New Allied Campaign Becomes Known   Enemy Will Be Surprised at Places. Strength

Attacks To Be Made © At Many Points After Greatest Air Battering

General Pattern For Invasion ~  Appears All Set   Element of Surprise As To Time, Place Essential Part of Plan

OVER ALL PATTERN OF INVASION -APPARENT; PLACE AND WEIGHT OF ATTACKS TO BE SURPRISE ELEMENT

(WAR PATTERN BECOMES CLEAR  Hard Surprise Blows 'To Bewilder Germanv

General Allied Plan for Invasion of Europe is Disclosed Todav  BY HARRISON SALISBURY

RAIL LINES AT SOFIA BLASTED IN HARD RAID   Direct Hits Si Scored On Locomotive Shops And Assembly Plants   FIFTH, EIGHTH ADVANCE   Americans Halt Germans In Three Counter-Blows— Reds Unhalted

MARIGNY FINED. ONGAS CHARGE, MAKES APPBAL   Niegal Possession Brings $42 Penalty; Reported Fuel Stolen; Figured In Murder Trial   Deportation Recommended   Figured in- Trial

De Marigny \Fined $420   Was Convicted of INegal Possession Of Gasoline

Fines De Marigny For Unlawfully Possessing Gas  Must Pay $420 Or Serve 3 Months

ALFRED DE MARIGNY AGAIN FACING JAIL   Found Guilty of Illegal Possession of Gasoline

Coal Shortage Shuts 13 Plants   Strike Effect Felt By Steel Firms

Flections Scheduled for Tuesday In Six States Attract Nation-Wide Interes

Elections In our States May Tell Story   People to Polls in N. Y., New Jersey and Pennsylvania

One Day Shows Great Peril Axis Must Face   Crushing Blows Qn All Fronts Prove In Single Day That Victory For Allies Is Coming Fast, Surely

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Week Of August 5 ‘garks Beginning Of End For Axis

Reds Down 43 Nazi Planes Over Caucasus   Concentrations All Along Front Are’ Targets for Bombers

Russians Blast Nazi Railroads   Mass Air Offensive Continued by Reds

RUSSIAN PLANES SPEED UP OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Blast Eleven More Key Rail Centers and Destroy 43 German Aircraft; Lose Seven Planes

Reds Bomb 11 Rail Centers Held by Nazis   43 Enemy Aircraft Downed in Rostov Area; Troops Reach Novorossisk Sector

BIGGEST AIR OFFENSIVE IN OND DAY   Russian Planes Blast More Key Rail Centers Behind Nazi Lines; Wreck Stations - And Troop Laden Trains   Repulse Attacks

German Rail Lines Struck By Russians   43 Nazi Planes Trying to Attack Red Base Bagged

Red Aircraft Blasts 11 Nazi Key Rail Centers   43 Planes Downed In Assault on * Caucasus Gateway

RAIL CENTERS ARE BLASTED BY RED ARMY   GERMAN AIR RAIDS DISPERSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES

Red Air Offensive Blasts 11 More  Nazi Rail Centers   Moscow Says 43 Of 200 Nazi Raiding Planes Shot Down

Reds Down 43 Raiding Navi   - Russians Blast 11. Nazi Rail Centers:

Airmen Prey On German  Rail Lines   Eleven Key Centers Behind Nazi Defense Lines Are Blasted.

Soviet air offensive continues   Hit rail points; down 43 planes

soviets Fush Air Offensive On All Fronts  Blast Railway Centers, Troop-Laden Trains   CHECK NAZI RAIDS, DOWN 43 PLANES

NAZI RAILROAD CENTERS RAIDED ‘BY RED AIRMEN   43 German Planes Shot Down In Raid On RostovRataiek Gataway   CONCENTRATING ON TROOP MOVEMENTS

Russ Airmen Pound Nazi Rail Centers   Five Key Junctions Suffer Under Widespread Raids

Russians Launch Widescale Aerial Attack on Nazis   Red Army Forces Break Through Outer Defenses O Novorossisk; 38 Enemy Batteries Silenced In Bitter Battle

Red Army Breaks Through Novorossisk Fortifications  930 AXIS PLANES REPORTED DOWN ED  Eleven Enemy Held Rail ) Junctions Are Attacked

RED AIR FORCE POUNDS NAZIS   Russian Planes Blast Foe Communications Along Whole of Front

Russians Blast  Nazis’ Key Rail Centers   Biggest Air Offensive of War Brings Ruin to Enemy Planes; German Attempt Upon Caucasus Is Failure

Soviet Bombers Raid 12 German ‘Rail Centers   Airdromes Are Battered In Russian Attacks

Soviets Heavily Bomb Nazi Rail Junctions   Russian Planes Continue Mass Offensive Against Enemy Communication Facilities.

GERMAN SHIPPIN BLASTED OFF NORw AY   Bomb Hits Scored on Large Number of Merchantmen—U, 8S. Carriar in Actinn.

WAG SAVES LIFE OF YORK SOLDIER   Pvt. Margaret H. Maloney, Rochester, N. Y., Receives Medal As Result Of Heroism In North Africa

\« “Outstanding Heroism” ‘WAC Who Braved Flames To Save Soldier Gets Medal

Small-Scale Jap Air Offensive into Third Day   Allied Planes Raic¢ Rabaul, New Britain. Heavily

JAP PLANES RAID DUTCH NEW GUINES   CAUSE “DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES’—ALLIED AIRMEN ATe TACK RABAUL.,

Giraud Repeals 62 Discrim inatory Laws’ tmposed , Against Jews.   DEGAULLE TO ALGIERS

De Gaulle GoesSoon  To Algiers   Signs Increase That Two Largest French Factions Will Unite To Liberate Nation

GIRAUD REPEALS TERMS AGAINST JEWS IN AFRIGA   General Restores Offices And Jobs to Leaders Vichy Ousted

Giraud Annuls Anti-Jew. Laws   DeGaulle to Go to Africa For Conference

Giraud Repeals  Discriminatory  Laws Against Jews Elective Municipal  Assemblies Restored, Offices Returned

GIRAUD VOIDS VICHY DECREES AGAINST JEWS   Restores Assemblies Ir Step Toward Cleaning Up North Africa  For Harmony   French Unity Foreseen

GIRAUD REPEALS VICHY IMPOSED LAWS IN ALGIERS   62 Discriminatory Laws Imposed By Vichy . Against Jews Repealed

MRS. C. E. STILL DIES   Husband a Veteran Member of the State Legislature.

NEW PRICE BOARD NAMED BY 0.P.A   Three Appointed -To- Serve * With Plymouth County. Ration Board. ©

NEW PRICE BOARD NAMED BY 0). PA      Three Appointed To Serve With Plymouth County. Ration Board

More Rain Predicted   Rivers in Eastern Kansas Already Out, Or Near te Overflow

E RAIN FOR KANSAS TODAY   Neosho Near Bankfull Stage At Parsons—Lake Rising 2 Inches Hourly

MAN HIT BY AUTO DIES OF INJURIES   William M. Williams, Aged 77 Years, Expires In Hospital —Was Run Down On Frederick Street

VOICED BELIEF = = THAT ROOSEVELT MIGHT NOT RUN   “If He Finds There Is ~ * arge Chance of Being ya.apped He Won't Run”, Says Nye.    WON’T WIN NOMINATION

No Fourth Term Seen for FR. by Two Solons  Senator Declare: He Won't Win  Dem. Nomination

HINT FDR MAY NOT SEEK FOURTH TERN   Nye Says Roosevelt Will Be Defeated If He Runs

Two Leaders Doubt Fourth  Term Chances   Republican and Democrat ~ Declare Roosevelt Will Not Be Re-Elected

FDR MIGHT NOT SEEK OR ACCEP! AFOURTH TERM   Senators Express Views Regarding 1944 Presidential Election Pros marte

Two Senators Say Roosevelt May Not Run   Nye Says If President Finds There’s Chance He'll Lose, He Will Step Aside; Smith Says He-Will Find It

Senators Voice Belief That President Will Not Seek A Fourth Term

Senators Doubt: Roosevell Will Seek Reelection   South Carolina ' Democrat Claims He Will Be Defeated

2: Senators to FDR Reign   Republican and Democratic Congressmen Team Up to Forecast President’s Defeat

FDR Won't Run, ) Senators Say   Can't Win Fourth Term Nye, Smith Assert

Reelection Of Roosevelt Out Senators Say   Nye, Smith Declares President Will Be Beaten If He  Runs Again.   BiViSION IN. GO. P.

Two Senators Say Roosevelt May Not Seek a FourthTerm   Senator Nye, Republican Asserts President Will “Pind! There Is Large Chance of Him Being Whipped,” While Senator Smith, Demeorrat, Declares He Will Net Win Nomination

SENATORS NYE, SMITH ASSERT HE CAN'T WIN   Nye Says He'll Consider His Chances Of Being “Whipped”’

Two Senators Predict FDR Either Won’t Run At All Or Will Be Facing Defeat

Two Senators Say Roosevelt May Not Run   Postwar Plans To be Discussed At Party Meeting

Missouri River Crests af 29 Fee! At Kansas City   Two Rivers Falling Above Junction; Damage Great

4exans In Alrica Teaching N atives That Texas Is The. United States, And Other States Are Satellite Areas

GOAL olTUATION BETTER Aa MEN RESUME MININE   West) Virginia and Illinois Miners Set Example Bul Many Remain Idle

BRIGHT ‘TODAY; . WORKERS RETURN   Pennsylvania Is Still Trouble Spot; West Virgmia Pits Going Full Tilt. 

‘SUB’ MISSED BY DESTROYER   British Ship Nearly Lost ir ‘La Sola Battle’

Committee Ends Hearings on Taxes; Slow Payments Worry Morgenthau

PAL. SCORES  y  “AT REARING   Says Higher Incomes ~Would Benefit-In Tax Draft

PUBLIC HEARINGS ON TAX PLAN ENDS   Treasury Counsel Cites Ruml Plan Benefits in Higher Brackets; Officials Urge Returns Be Filed Promptly

Hearings on Tax Plan End; People Are Very Slow in Paying Up This Year

Treasury Aid Sees Flaws  In Rumi Plan   Declared Help To Rich Only; Hearing Ends

Kline’s Trial Set By Court For July 13  Accused Of Being  Accessory To -Ber....3... sot Sti.

ROBERTSON 10 GET JURY TRIAL IN MURDER CASE   Man Indicted For Gillis Slaying Will Be Tried On June 14

PHILLIP MURRAY RAPS SALES TAX   WARNS LABOR WOULD DEMAND MORE WAGES IF LEVY IS ADOPTED

MURRAY SAYS SALES TAX IS CUT IN WAGE‘   CIO Chieftain Asserts If Levy En acied, Labor Will Demand In creases In Pay

Sales Tax A Military Loss; ~ Says Murray   CIO President Says Labor Would Demand Increase In Wages to Meet It

RETAIL SALES TAX’ ASSAILED BY C.LO.. PRESIDENT MURRAY   Declares Labor Will Demand Wage Raises to Make Up For the “Cut” If Such a Levy  De OP pa

MURRAY OF ClO HOTLY OPPOSES U.S, SALES TAX   abor Leader Says If Tax Is Passed Labor Will Demand More Pay To Take Care Of “Wage Cuts’; Outlines CIO Posi tion.

ClO Leader Hits Sales Tax Levy  Vinson Says 10% Tax Would Increase Livina Cact 8%

C10 PRESIDENT FOR REJECTION ORSALESLEYY   Murray Warns It Will Bring Wage Increase Demands and Create.  Inflation .

PROPOSED U. S. SALES TAX IS HIT BY MURRAY   Says Such Levy Would Make Labor Demand Increase in Wages

Murray Hits Proposal for  a Sales Tax  CIO President Says Labor Would Demand

Murray, C. 1. 0. Head, Rips Into Sales Tax Plan   Constitutes Wage Slash For Low-Income Group, Congressmen Told.

ClO Chief Opposes Federal Sales Tax  Before Committee   Says Proposed Levies Would Equal Severe Military Defeat

CIO Leader ‘Hurls Blast ai Sales Tax   Absolutely Opposed to Ht, Says Murray; Terms Plan ‘Unjustified Wage Cut’   WOULD FALL ON WORKING. PEOPLE   Opposition Expressed as the Proponents Claim More Streneth for Levy

C10 Chieftain Blasts Proposal For Sales Levy   Wage Increases To be Demanded Asserts Murray

Fights Sales    CIO’s President Says  It. Would Be “Unjustified Wage Cut” for the Average Working Man

Sales Tax Opposed By CIO Chief   Says Labor Will Demand Wage Raises If Tax Is Imposed

MURRAY BLASTS AT SALES LEW   ClO Head Warns If Tax Is Enacted Labor Will Ask Waae Boosts.

Murray Blasts U. S. Sales Tax   aes id ner i el  C. I. O. PRESIDENT WARNS LABOR TO DEMAND WAGE INCREASES “TO MAKE UP FOR THIS UNJUSTIFIED SALARY CUT” IF LEVY OKAYED

C. 1. O. President Blasts Away At Proposals For National Sales Tax

Murray Opposes Retail Sales Tax  ‘Would Make Pay Boosts  Necessarv. He Saves

Murray Hits Sales Tax as Unjustified   CIO ‘Absolutely Opposed’: —Calls It Blow at Workers, ‘Like War Defeat’

CIO Opposes Sales Tax to  Gain Revenue   President Murray Says Labor Will Demand Increase in Wages

PRESIDENT OF C10 OPPOSED NATIONAL RETAIL SALES TAX   CHARGES LEVY WOULD BE EQUIVALENT OF MILITARY DEFEAT

HENRY A. WALLACE SPEAKS TODAY Al CIO ANNUAL MEET      Says Labor, Management Must Not Enter Into Any Unholy  Alliance

Wallace Urges Support of FR   Says Labor Must Aid In Price Hold-Back

Rollbacks And Subsidies - Stir Farm Leaders   Major Battle Is Foreseen On Administration Program To Force Subsidies: «

 War Hopes Up With Victory On All Fronts   Speculation, continues on “momentous decisions”? now being made.  by Allied officials.

See Momentous War Move Soon   Many Speculations On Grand Strategy

Supreme Bid For Allied European Victory In Wind   Hopes Spurred By Persistent Talk Of Momentous Decisions In The Making Or Already Agreed Upon By United Nations

Allied Aim Seen As ‘Victory in'43   All-Front Offensive May Be New Strategy

Momentous Decisions by Allies Imminent, Reports Persist   Guessing Game in London Leans Toward Indication  Of Big Drive This Year

Presistent Talk Of Grea t Decisions Spurs Hope For Victory Bid In 1943

Grand Strateay Believed Being Planned   Axis Broadcasts Reflect State of Jitters

France to Deliver More Men fo Nazis   Laval Trades For More Power

Goodland Becomes Governor   Assumes Duties Without Fanfare; To Abolish Pardon Board

State Inaugural Ceremony Qilié!  Loomis Death Rules Out Pomp As Goodland Takes Over Reins

Curtin Demands All-Out Drive Against Japan   Nippon Is Consolidating Gains; MacArthur's Forces Handicapped

Australia’s Prime Minister Insists On Offensive Now   Japs Are Becoming Firmly Entrenched, Curtin Declares

Curtin Urges New Offensive against Japs   MacArthurmen Report Diffi-  culty in Cleaning Up Foe on Buna

Curtin Urges More Emphasis  On Pacific War   Aussie Leader Calls For Stronger Offensive Against Jans.

Curtin Asks Mere Aid For Alles In Pacific   Prime Minister Of Australia - Declares United Nations In Pacific Area Are Being Denied Resources For Their Total War Effort

More Help Needed Now In Pacific   Prime Minister Curtin Says Failure to Send Supplies Gives Japs Chance to Recoup

CURTIN WANTS MORE SUPPORT   Australian Prime Minister Wants Allied Pacific Forces Strengthened To Drive Japs Out Of Conquered Areas.

CURTIN APPEALS FOR ALLIED DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE   Australian Prime Minister Sees Enemy Consolidating Conquests; Nipponese Bases Bombed.

Australia Asks Allied Forces Be Reinforced   Curtin Says Allies in the ‘Pacific Are Denied Resources  BRIGHTING IS SAVAGE  MacArthur’s Airmen at ~ New Britain Hit Sub  And Ships

CURTIN.ASKS MORE AID IN ~ FAR PACIFIC   Japs Still Have Toehold In New Guinea, He Points «Out   /NIPS' BASES BOMBED   Chinese Recapture Area, Forcing Japanese to Flee Southward

CURTIN WANTS ACTION AGAINST JAPAN AT ONCE.   Australian Minister Says Japs Consolidating Gains  For Stronger Resistance 

Wants Pacific Allied Forces Strengthened   Difficulty of MacArthur’s Forces in Wiping Out Japs Bears Out Curtin’s Argument for Reinforcements

Australia Demands Allied Pacific Forces be Boosted      ‘Prime Minister John Curtin Makes Representations : “to Proper Quarters” for Concerted Drive Against : Japs; Warns Nips Consolidating Gains; Holds Policy of Dealing With Hiller First Overdone

CURTIN ASKS MORE POWER FOR PACIFIC   Australian Leader Asks More Strength in Order to Drive Out Jap Invasion Hordes.

Repatriates. Submitted to Questioning   Thitty Passengers Removed from Gripsholra - to Ellis  ‘ ‘island’ After Exchange’ Liner Docks in New York

REPATRIATES FROM JAPAN GUARDED IN TREATMENT STORIES  GENERAL IMPRESSION

Repatriates Are Being Held For Questioning  Gripsholm Passenger: Are Unwilling to Tell Much of Prison

ELEVATED RAILROAD TO ALASKA LOOMS   Interior Secretary Makes Suggestion at Hearing

SWARMS OF SIX TYPES OF ALLIED CRAFT JOIN IN ONE OF BUSIEST DAYTIME AIR OFFENSIVES.

HITLER’S EUROPEAN FORTRESS IS RAIDED   Beiween 460 And 500 Bombers Are Hurled Against Axis From Netherlands To Cherbouors

Swarms of Six Types of Craft Blast   Nazi War Installations, Airfields on French, Dutch, Belgian Coasts

President Warns That U. S. Still  Faces Reverses And Misfortunes

* FOR WARNS __ OF REVERSES AND ~ MISFORTUNES   Grim Disaster, Food Restrictions Give Words Emphasis   SCORES OPTIMISM   ” Still “At War;” Can’t Count on Miracles for Victory

REVERSES 10 BE EXPECTED, FDR ASSERTS   Americans Warned That Misfortunes Must be Faced

F.D.R. WARNS: OF REVERSES, MISFORTUNES   Wallace Asks for Unity; doings President in War Aid Pleas

FR. Punetures Easy Victory Buble For U. $.   Warns Of Grim Days; Strikes At Skeptics And Cynics

FDR Declares War Not Won   ROOSEVELT REBUKES OPTIMISTS OF NATION

War Not Over F.D.R. Warns   President Cautions Nation. ‘Cannot Count On Miracles For Win.’

Colleee Has No Word   Warns Of Misfortunes To Come During War   ‘Meecace To Stalin

Sea Disaster Echoes Peril  to America   President Likens ‘Present War and Problems to Revolutionary Period ,

President Warns Of New Setbacks   Nation Still Faced By Reverses, Misfortunes

America Faces More Reverses, President Says   Address Follows Wore f Naval Disaster  n Atlantic

FDR Warns Of Hazards Ahead  Nation Can’t Count On Miracles For Victory: Lauds Russian:

Roosevelt Repeats Grim Warning   Four Dead, 20 Missing After Clipper Crash

SAYS REVERSES, MISFORTUNES AHEAD FORU.S.   President Warns Of - Over Optimism In View Of Russian Gains

Sees More Reverses   President Roosevelt Warns People Not To Cansider The War Won

Roosevelt Warns U.S. To Expect More Reverses  President Speaks Out Against Too

F.R. Warns Of Further  Reverses   Grim Sea Disaster and New Food Structures Give Emphasis to His Words

‘REVERSES AND ALLIED CONVOY MISFORTUNES — BEATS OFF JAP STILL AHEAD-FDR NIGHT ATTACK

FD. R. Warns U. §. Must Face Reverses   Recalls Doubts of Skeptics, Cynics in Washinaton’s Time

Say 3,300 Dely Order to Work   May Get Orderi to © Fight if They : Disobey Second Beattie   FOR Warns of Further Reverses le Hitting Optimistic Reactions

FDR Warns Of Further  Reverses, Misfortunes   Sea Disaster, New Food. Strictures Give Em-  phasis To Words 

NATION TOLD TO GIRDSELF FOR WAR REVERSES   Roosevelt Says American People Still Face Misfor~ tunes As Result of Conflict   PRAISES RUSSIA   At Same Time He Seeks to Puncture Bubble of Optimistic Reaction to Red Victories

Victory Road Still Hard, —~Roosevelt   President Warns Against Optimism Over Soviet Achievements

President Warns of Further Reverses and Misfortunes Still Confronting Nation

Roosevelt Warns Americans They Face Reverses   Compares Present Times To Washington's War Troubles

REVERSES AHEAD FDR WARNS AS QUARRELS GO ON   Criticism of Bickering Fails To Keep Farm Bloc from Pressing Controversies   CEILING ON VEGETABLES   PresidentialAdmonitions Voiced Against Too Much Optimism in War

Roosevelt Warns  War Still to Win   Says the Nation Faces Reverses, Visfortunes

U.S. Optimism Is Punctured By FD Warming Monday   Reverses, Misfortune: Still Face U. S. Compares War Ic 1777 Days

"NATION OF MISFORTUNE   ‘Pricks Bubble of Optimism Over Red Victories  In Address.

President Clings To Social Reform  He Mentions Old Sneers ‘At Tl. & Tdesk

FDR Declares Reverses To  Come In War   Refers To Days Of Washincton

FOR WARNS OF MORE REVERSES, MISFORTUNES   Place Price Freeze on Five Previously Uncontrolled Fresh Vegetables

WORD FOLLOWS SEA DISASTER ANNOUNCEMENT   Says U. S. Cannot Count On Miracles For Victory   SOVIET GAINS   Should Not Cause Overoptimism; Wallace Asks All-Out Effort

FDR'S WARNING OF MORE REVERSES TO COME ECHOES AGAINST SEA DISASTER, AND FOOD REGULATIONS   President Seeking to Puncture American Optimism Over Russian Army Successes. Warns We Are ‘At War’ and Can’t Expect  Miracles

BE EXPECT ED, FDR ASSERTS      Americans Warned That ‘Misfortunes Must be Faced

PRESIDENT SEEKS TO FOREWARN THAT REVERSES TO COME  HIS TALK WAS PRECEDEL BY SEA DISASTER REPOR] AND NEW FOOD RULES

Pres. Roosevell Warns Nation Of Reverses   Not Enough That We Have Faith, Hope; Wallace in Address

SINGER SINATRA RATED AS 4  Crooner Disappointed: Hole In Ear Drum Found By Army

VOTE IS NEAR   Showdown in House Battle Expected Monday; Debate is Concluded

To Relax Regulations On Christmas Packages For Soldiers Overseas

O BELIEVED JAP STRATEGY HAG GHANGED   Reported Now That. Jap Move Is Defensive to Hold Gain.   NOT AN INVASION STEP   Have Lost Tco Many Ships in Recent Montks to Attempt Offensive.

id “i \ SATE HAS: GHANGEL   ‘Reported Now ‘That. Jap  Move. Is Defensive to :  Hold Gain. .   NOT AN INVASION STEP   Have Lost Too Many Bhipe  in Recent Montks to AtFempt Offensive. 

2 NAZI TOWNS AMDED BY BAF IN AIR SWEEP   Mannheim-Ludwigshafen: Hit  in Climax of 36-Hour Plane Offensive. ”

HIT MANNHEIM LUDWIGSHAFEN AT SAME TIME   Raid Follows by Few Hours U. S. Flyers’ . Bombing of. Axis Eurepe; Forty-Two Bombers Are Lost ‘

NAZI CHEMICAL CITY TARGET IN 2000-TON RAID   Massive Night Attacks Cost British 42 Planes

GIANT AERIAL FLEETS RAIN DESTRUCTION   Mighty Block-buster Assaults Hit Frankfurt and MannheimLudwigshafen.

AIR OFFENSIVE IS CONTINUED   Frankfurt and Mannheim-Ludwigs. hafen Hit Monday Night — Allied Planes Carrying Around-the-Cleck Aerial Drive into Third Day,

FRANKFURT IS BLASTED BY BRITISH   Climaxes 36 Hour Offensive Against Axis Europe

} Lerritic Rain of Bombs is Turned Loose on Wide Cerman Aranc   Supplies Abandoned in Russia by Nazi Troops

HEARINGS TO BEGIN (ON FLYNN'S FITNESS NEXT WEDNESDAY   Appointment Of Procedural Committee Announced By Sen Connally %

Vella Island Captured by Americans   New Thrust Flanks Japs’ Supply Line to Solomons

Three Idaho Sugar Plants Are Closed  Government Policy Ml... 2 td Tt.

Giraud Starts Cleanup: Bergeret First to Go   Former Vichy Air Chief Resigns From North Africa Civilian Affairs Deputyship

END OF COAL. ‘DISPUTE SEER   Lewis Calls Union Policy Committee to Consider WLB Decision

MINERS DISCUSS WAGE OUTLOOK   ae Operators Look for Compromise Basis As U. M. W. Committee Meets

UMW -OPERATOR CONFERENCE 1S OPENED AGAIN   Lewis Summons Meeting Of Policy Group For Saturday; Portal Pay Discussed   Early Pact Foreseen

UMW COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS NEW WACE CONTRACT      Must Decide Action If Mines Are Returned To The Operators

End of Mine Labor Dispute May Be Near   UMW Policy Body to Have Meet; Operators wand UMW Bareaining

UMW’s Policy Group Meets   Return of Seized Mines Foremast Prahlen

UMW POLICY GROUP CALLED TO PLAN NEW WAGE SET-UP   Meeting Comes Amid News That Operators Seek  To Satisfy Lewis  '. And WLB

WLB Offers $10 Mine Pay Raise   AGENCY REJECTS PROPOSED COAL CONTRACT; LEWIS MAY SUMMON U. M. W. POLICY COMMITTEE INTO SESSION THIS WEEK ON WAGE PROPOSAL

LEWIS, COMMITTEE TO CONVENE AGAIN   UMW Head Summons Henchmen for Another Conference on Wage Dispute.

U. M. W. POLICY BODY TO MEET   First Parley Of Group Since June 22 Mine Truce Is Set For Today

Coal Miners and Operators To Agree on Terms, Summoning UMW Policy Committee Shows

JOHN L. CALLS POLICY MEET AGAIN TODAY   To Discuss Outlook for New Mine Wage Agreement.

Lewis Calls Mine Policy Meeting   Portal-to-Portal Pay Talk Slated

MINERS DISCUSS NEW PAY PACT   Operators Seek Agreement Satisfying Both Lewis And War Labor Board

Lebanese End Protest Strike   Liberated Deputies Return To Offtees As French Move To Settle Crisis.

FARMERS FAR BEHIND ON CROP PLANTING   Only 15 Percent of Corn Out in Ohio

Group Searches For Fresh Levy On War Wages   Would Avoid Further Tax Qn Families Hit Heavily By Rising Living Costs

SEEK NEW MEANS TO TAX RATION   Senate Concerned ove Wage-Earners Who’s Income Has Not Been Boosted

Change in Tax Bill Unlikely   Senate Secks Means To Avoid Hitting

BUSINESS IS GOOD   Receipts From Police Court Have Doubled During the Year

Drive To ‘Draft Old Records’ Being Conducted By Leaion   Boys In Foreign  Service Want New Dine eek Doened-

YOUTH ORDERED TO PAY BACK MONEY   Boy Pleads Guilty.to Thef Before Justice — 5 Milter .

YOUTH ORDERED 10 PAY BACK MONEY   Boy Pleads Guilty to Theft Before Justice Miller

HOLIDAY TRIMMING TO DECORATE CITY   Trees and Red Candles Will ~ Line Massachusetts pret

HOLIDAY TRIMMING TO DECORATE CITY   Trees and Red Candles Will  Line Massachusetts . Street 2?   PLAN FOR A PARADE

THE PRESIDENT’S AUTHORITY VOTED   Senate Completed Legislative Action Extending It for Two More Years.

Trade Powers Bill Wins Final Okeh   Senate Gives Roosevel Authority To Adjust Tar iffs 50 Per Cent   VICTORY FOR HULL Proposed Amendments Giving Solons Ratification Privilege Refused

Senate Votes  Trade Pacts   Two Year Expansion Approved, 59 to 23; Amendments Rejected

Approve Trade Bill Unchanged   Restrictive Amendments Rejected; Senate Votes Yes, 230 To No, 59.

Trade Pact Authority ~ Extended   Senate Completes Legisla. tive Action on Measure Giv. ing Two More Years’ Life   VOTES APPROVAL WITHOUT CHANGE   Renewal Is Regarded as Victory for Secretary of State Hull

TRADE TREATY LAW EXTENDED 2 MORE YEARS   Senate Beats Off Attempts to Place Curbs on F. R. Powers

Thousands of Nazis Caught Below Nevel   Soviets Drive Forward to  naecs Bactions of Menace {tor  Vitebsk. Polotsk

SOVIETS CLOSING AGAINST ENEMY ~ BASES ON BALTIC    Vitebsk, Plotsk Are  Objectives of Red Campcaian   THOUSANDS OF NAZIS TRAPPED NEAR NEVEL

Hand-to-Hand Fight Raging i in Swamps" Below Nevel Front   Nazis’ Hurl Mass Tank Forces Into Efforts to Break Rings Around Bastions of Vitebsk and Poloisk ©

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS ENCIRCLED   Fierce Battle of Annihilation Now ls in Progress

REDS CLOSING IN ON VITEBSK AND POLOTSK   Germans Throw Huge Tank Forces into Brutal Counterattacks

RUSSIANS TRAP THOUSANDS OF NAZIS IN MARSH   Fierce Battles of Annihilation Reported Raging Below Nevel

REDS BEAT OFF NAZI COUNTER: ATTACKS, PUSH ON   Parachutists .Reported At ready Landed In the Baltie States.

MANY GERMANS IN TRAP REDS CLAINI   Allies Continue Unahated Offensive Against Japs, Supply Ship Sunk..

TRAP NAZIS BELOW NEVEL   Garrisons Are Being Wiped Out By Soviet Troops

Fast Ended By Gandhi  Indian Leader Weak   Indian Leader Weak And Shows Signs of Strain; Spirits Good

GANDHI ENDS HIS FAST TODAY   Takes Orange Juice After 21. Day Hunger Strike Against Imprisonment.

Gandhi’ S s Fast  Is Completed   Indian Leader Has Glass Of Orange Juice; All  Glamor Missing

Gandhi Ends Fast, Weary But Cheerfu.   ‘Something Higher Than Doctors’ Power Saved Me,’ Says Leader

Gandhi Sips Orange Juice  To End Fast   Fools Wise Ones Who Saw Death In Long Self Denial

GANDHI AT END OF 21-DAY FAST   Indian Ends Fast in- Good Spirits; Return Leader to Political Confinement

INDIAN LEADER ENDS HUNGER STRIKE TODAY   Gandhi Showed Signs of! Strain but Was in Good Spirits

GANDHIENDS HIS HUNGER STRIKE   He Sipped a Glass of Orange Juice at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday.

Gandhi Ends 21-Day Fast In Good Shape   . Indian Leader Cheated Death For 17th Time

Hunger Strike ~ Ended By Gandhi  Concessions Withdrawn, He’s Political Prisoner

GANDHI'S FAST IS UNAVAILING   Observers Feel British Government Scored Victory.

Little Gained By Long Fast   “Political Situation : Unchanged ‘as Ghandi Ends 21-day Fast .

Gandhi's Fast Comes to  End Today   Indian Nationalist Leader Sips Six Ounces of Orance Jnice

Gandhi's Hunger Strike ls Ended   Drinks Orange Juice, Ends 21-Day Fast

'Gandhi Ends 21-Day Old ‘Hunger Strike   Says He Feels There Must Have Been Something Higher Than the Doctors’ Power That Saved Him

Gandhi Ends Fast;  ~ Weak but Cheerfu   Only Members of Family Permitted at Ceremonious Orange Juice Sipping as Climax of Shriveled Indian Leader’s Hunger Strike Protesting British Internment

GANDHI ENDS HIS DAY FAST IN GOOD CONDITION   Mahatma Reverts to Status  of Political Prisoner; Brit ish Relieved at His Survival.

Gandhi Ends Fast After 21 Days   Prisoner Status Again Effective

Indian Leader Is Giver First Food Since He Quit Eating February 10 to Gain Release   NO TROUBLE SEEN      British Relieved That Aged Hindu Was Able to Survive Ordeal For the Tenth Tima

GANDHYS HUNGER “STRIKE 1S ENDED: GOOD SPIRITS         Mohandas Reported as Being ’ Weak After 2}-Day Fast; Ceremony Curbed

Gandhi s 21-Day Strike Is Ended   India Leader. Is Weak But Cheerful

GANDHI QUITS 21 ~ DAY HUNGER STRIKE   Status of Political Prisonel is Resumed

MAHATMA GANDHI ENDS 21-DAY FAST   SHOWS SIGNS OF STRAIN BUT IS IN GOOD SPIRITS

CANDHI ENDS HIS 21-DAY. FAST; 1S IN FAIR HEALTH   His Status Quo As a Prisoner:   Unchanged—In Good Sjirits:  But Weak

a a Gandhi Ends  21-Day Fast   Indian Leader Breaks unger Strike, But Not ‘Prison’ Bande

Gandhi Drinks Orange Juice, Ends Long Fast   WATIATATA. GANT DHE

Power Firm Sells Oil Interests   Glacier Production Transferred to Union Oil Co.

Power Firm Sells  Oil Interests Glacier Productio   Glacier Production Transferred to Union Oil Co.

' President Denounces Reports of » Government Being a Haven for Draft Dedaers; Submits Figures

} “ (Number of Federal Employes W ith Occupational Deferments Is Smal!, Roosevelt Declares

ROOSEVELT SAYS DRAFT DODGER REPORTS UNTRUE   Denies Government Jobs Are Haven for Those Avyeiding  Ps eee

DENOUNCES REPORT FEDERAL OFFICES SHELTER DODGERS   FDR Sends Congress Figures Showing Only 3.2% . Of Force Has Had.

Reports That Government Is Haven For Draft Dodgers “Groundless” Says Roosevelt

FEDERAL OFFICES NO HIDING PLACE TO ESCAPE DRAF   Roosevelt Denounces Re: ports as “Groundless” anc “Irresponsible” Gives Facts to Congress.   3.2 PER CENT OF WORK FORCE GET DEFERMENT   98,053 of 2,980,404 FullTime Government Employes on Occupational Deferments Executive Says.

GOVT. NO HAVEN FOR DODGERS OF THE DRAFT--F, R   }   Maintains Only 3.2 Per Cent of Gov't. Civilian Work Force Has Had Deferment

Federal Government Not Haven for Draft Evaders, Says Mr. Roosevelt

Roosevelt Denounces Charge Government Is Drait Dodger Haven   President Offers Figures Showing: Only 3.2 Per Cent of Civilian Workers Deferred: _ Because of Jobs 

Government No Haven for Draft Dodeers   President Denounce: Irresponsible Mudslinging

May Take Over  Klevator Corn   WEA Considers Requisition. ing Of Stocks To Supply Processors.

FLY MALARIA AlD OVER MOUNTAINS AFTER 5,000 DIE   Marine Corps Pilot Takes Doctors and Supplies Across Andes

U. S. Doctors Fly To Colombia To Aid In Epidemic   Rv SERGT. CHESTER D. PALMER U. S. Marine Corps Comba‘ Correspondent (Distributed By International  Aliacese Gawstriaga)

MAN FATALLY BURNED . IN BALTIMORE FIRE   Carl Brown. 30, 1. 30, Found ‘Neat Window Through W Thich He ‘Tried to Escape

County Men Leave For Camp Dodge   First Call For Month; Another  Is Received

Large Number Of Men In July Call   Many Married Men In Group Leaving This Morning

NAZIS STEP UP DRIVE WEST OF ROSTOV   Russians Claim All Attacks Successfully Halted

Moscow Reports Large Scale Air Victory Over Nazi   Hundred Sixteen ‘‘Nazi’’ Planes Shot Down In Two Days By Reds   HEAVY ATTACKS ON ' GROUND AT ROSTOV

Navy Accepts. Five;  Mari ines Take One -. ‘of County ‘Dr aftees

Hints Another 10 Per Cent Newsprint Cut   New Allocation  Is Due April 1

PLAN ANOTHER NEWSPRINT GUT   Additional Reduction Of 10 Per Cent In Prospect April 1

NEW NEWSPRINT CUT APRIL 1ST   WPB Says Reduction of 10 Pp. C. Sufficient Now

SECOND CUT IN NEWSPRINT APRIL 1   Forty Per Cent Cut Still Talked in ‘Washington

APER CUT DUE   Newspaper Allotments To Be Reduced 10 Per Cent Mare.

ANOTHER NEWSPRINT CUT BEING PLANNED   Additional Ten Per Cent Slash April 1 Expected

Fiying Forts BombAirBase At Hely City   Fragmentation Bombs Damage Planes on Ground

INDICT FIVE ON LYNCHING COUNT   Constitutional Rights Basis Of First Such Indictment Returned In South In 28 Years.

Late News Bulletins   British Renort Cirand’s Wife Seized by Nazis

LIONS CLUB TO HOLD TAG DAY TOMORROW   Proceeds Will Be Used Locally To * Aid: Under-Privileged Children And General Welfare Work

YANKS ADVANCE ON MUNDA BASE   Gains Made In Salamaua Area Also; Macassar Is Bomber After Long Flight

LIMITED GAIN BY AMERICANS. ONMUNDA BASE   Progress Also Made By Alhes On Salamaua After Sharn Fickting   2,000-MILE JOURNEY TO ATTACK MACASSAR

AMERICANS MAKE LIMITED ADVANCE   Enemy Positions in Vicinity of Munda Airbase Attacked

japanese Gird ‘or World's irimmest War   Cairo Statement Is Lash; Nippon Will Fight to Death

Vicious Finish Fight Sef By Cairo Meet   Promised Elimination Of Empire, Japs to Fight To Bitter End Now

“Finish” Fight Predicted To Defeat Japanese Empire   RY RUSSELL RURINFAR

RETIRED ARMY SERGEANT GIVES ALL BUT $1,000 OF ESTATE TO GOVERNMENT

Second World War Enters 1,567th Day   Dwarfs World War In Toll of Lives And Wealth

War Outlasts Conflict No.4   Cost in Blood-and Wealth. Mounting.

World Enters 1,567th Day.  Of War to Outlast. First Struggle Generation Ago

Hurepean Conflict Break: All First War Records   Exceeding It in Length Today, Jt Also Makes Its Cost Heavy in Lives and Treasure

War Enters 1,567th Day, Outlasting World War I; Military Casualties In Conflict Exceed 10,000,000 Deaths

World War  Is Already Outlasted   Today German Forces Fighting With Backs to Wall

REVENUE MEASURE PASSES HOUSE ON FINAL READING   All Efforts To Amend the $115,000,000 Bill Are Beaten Down; Measure to Alter School Amendment Also Passes Final Reading.

House Passes School Amendment   Passes on Final Reading. Appropriations Bill Passed.

RETURNING’ HOUSE AGAIN DEBATING ON INCOME TAX PLAN   cement And Ang GOP Argue Over: Total: Or. Partial Forgiveness’ OF  742 Taxes

Big Tax Debate  Due in Congress   Pay-as-Go Battle Is on This Week

CCC Corn Loans Must Be Paid By July 1st   Only 1988, 1939, 1950, amd 1941 Corsa _ peas And. 2 Flax And Soy- -

Surprise “Invasion” Fails—  Hold Bay Area Maneuvers   Oakland Bomloee By lenenay

British Secret Service Wizard Dies at Age 73   Service in World  War l Expires —

POST IN AUSTRALIA TO BROTHER OF KING   Duke of Gloucester to Succeed Lord Gowrie as GovernorGeneral in July, 1944,

State Hospital Attendants to Quit Unless Pay Is Increased   Gov. Donnell Receives Petition From St. Joseph Group Declaring Salaries Are Not Adequate to Meet Advancing Living Costs

Demand Pay Hike At Hospital No. 2   “Employes Numbering 125 Send a Petition to Governor Donnell.

ATTENDANTS IN A THREAT 10 QUIT   One Hundred Twenty-Five Employes at Hospital No. 2 Seek Pay Increase.

Reds Drive To Within 170 Miles Of Kiev   Columns Advance On _Four Key Sectors In Ukraine District

8 AMERICANS -ARE INDICTEDAS AIDING AXIS   Poet Ezra Pound, Seven Others, Including Two Women, Have Broadcast from Germany, Italy :

$ Americans Charged With  Treason Aets   2 Women Among Those In Germany, Italy Who Broadcast Regularly For Axis War Effort

TRAITORS INDICTED   Eight Americans Now Living Abroad Charged With Treason

U. S. Indiets Americans For Treason  Eight Accused Of Radio Use To Aid Enemy

“hi Charged . ‘Treason   ‘ericans: Who Have Broadcast for Axis Indicted in U. S.

8 Indicted © on Charges _ of Treason   Seven of Them Have Been Broadcasting From Germany, One From Italy   SIX ARE NATIVES OF THIS COUNTRY   Talks on Radio Were Designed to Persuade Citizers to Decline Supyort of War

2° WOMEN AMONG THOSE CHARGED IN PROPAGANDA CASE   None Of Group f Has Been la This Country Since War Started — All — Broadcast

Fight Are Indicted  For Treason   They Are Said to Have Aided VU. S. Enemies’ By Radio

Kight Americans, Broadcasting For Axis Cause, Indicted For Treason

BROADCAST EIGHT INDICTED      Treason Counts Include Two Women; All,in Germany

8 U. S. Traitors Indicted For Broadcasts From Axis Lands   Charge Carries Death Penalty; Two Women Involved: Ezra Pound, Bob Best Named

CHARGED WITh AIDING ENEMY IN RADIO JOBE   Group, Including 2 Women, Face Death Penalty When Caught.   KALTENBACH, ONCE OF WATERLOO, IS NAMED

8 Traitors ~ Indicted for Broadcasts   They Will Be Punished as Soon as Caught, Says Justice Department

All Will Face Death Penalty   List Includes 2 Women Broadcasting From Germany:   WOULD UNDERMINE AMERICAN MORALE

Indict Eight Americans ForTreason   Ezra Pound. Among Group To Face Hearing When . Caught, Asserts. Biddle 

U.§. Indicts 8 Axis Radio Voices   Native of Dubuque One Alleged Traitor

Eight Americans Treason-Indicted  Pro-Axis Broadcasts From Germany, Italy Claimed in Charnes

EIGHT INDICTED FOR AXIS TALKS   Six Men, Two Women, Al Americans, Made Talks For Enemy Purposes.

All Left To Do Is To Catch Them Eight Americans Face  The Death Penalty As Broadcasters For Axis

TREASON CHARGED TO 8 AMERICANS AIDING THE AXIS   Citizens of U. S. Living in Germany and Italy Are Indicted as Propagandists for Enemy.   ACCUSED OF ATTACKS ON WAR EFFORT BY RADIO   Attorney General Says Grand Jury Action Is Warning to Traitors at Home and Abroad.

U. 8, INDICTS EIGHT FOR BROADCASTING IN BEHALF OF AXIS   Americans Accused of Treason in European - Talks Face Death Penalty When Canaoht.

Eight Who Broadeast For Axis  Indicted   U_S. Grand Jury To Prosecute Them For Treason; State Dept. Saved One From Death

LIN EUROPE; LL BE TRIED WEN SEIZED   adcasts From Germany jltaly Designed to ‘ndermine U. S. Morale In War Effort   \RGE CARRIES DEATH PENALTIES   wney General Biddle  iys Government Will  ‘ot Tolerate Traitors, Home Or Abroad

ALLIES PREPARE T0 BURST ACROSS VOLTURNO RIVER   Massed Artillery g: Already Clearing Opposite Side of Division Line.

Fifth Army Cuts : Wedge In Nazi  ‘Defense Barrier   Northwest Africa Air Force Pounds Eastern Targets

Allies, Across Calore, Turn Volturno Line   Clark's Men Carve Out 50 Square Mile Pocket, Take Pontelandalfo   8TH ARMY GAINS   Artillery Pounds German Defenses; Airmen Raid Greece, Rhodes, Creta

YANKS SMASH OVER CALORE, GAIN 13 MILES   Wipe Out 50-Square-Mile Pocket In German Salient

SOHMILE WEDGE BLING OAIVEN INTO NAZI LINE   Main Barrier On Rome Road Turned By New Advance Of American Troops

‘LT. GEN. CLARK’S TROOPS TU] THE VOLTURNO LINE, MAIN GERMAN BARRIER ON ROAD TO ROME 

Yanks Begin To Get Across  Volturno Rive   Montgomery Moves North On Adriatic; Greece Rambed

ALLIES SLICE DEEP POCKE! IN NAZI LINE   Calore River Defenses Are Smashed by Fifth

HUGE POCKET IS SLICED OUT OF NAZI LINES   Gains From Five to 13 Miles Scored by Allied Forces

Fifth Army Erases Salient at Benevento   Pontelandolfo, Other Towns Taken Artillery Massing Alone Stream

5th Army Smashes Through ‘Defenses on Calore River   Wedge Driven Into Nazi Line in Italy; Mud Hampers Advance

09-SQUARE-AMILE POCKETS SLICED IN ENEMY FORCES   ‘Maximum Gain of 13 Miles ls Made In Benevento Area Where German Salient Is Rolled Back. :   LUFTWAFFE I$ BEING CHASED FROM SKIES   Two - Ton German Time Bomb Unobserved in Building at Inspection Blows Up, 50 Killed.

Wipe Out Salient At Benevento   Advance Of 13 Miles I: Made In One Secto: As Other Troops Mas: Along Volturno

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Karly Opening Of Allied Yattack Against Europe imdicated By Events

Jap Warplanes Blast Allied Cargo Vessel   Warplanes Active Over Wide Area in South Pacific

Japanese Bombers Sink American  Merchant Vessel Allied Warplanes Are Active Over Wide South Pacific Area

K. P. Duty Too Important’ for Misfits of Army. Nutrition Officer Tells Dietitians

JAPS ABANDON ~ ANOTHER BASE   Seven Ship Convoy Blasted By Yank Fliers as It Tries To Take Supplies

Seven-Ship Jap Supply Convoy — _ Destroyed By Allies At Wewak; Enemy Airforce Also Hit Heavil

Rekata Bay Base fs Abandoned by Japs Without Fighting   21,000 Tons Sunk In Allied Bombing at Wewak, New Guinea

Rekata’ Bay Abandoned Without Attempting Fanatq cal Death-Stand Defense  cos sities cman cm. iiiiailiatgeia  Splagiage spe   OUT-FLANKED BY AMERICAN FORCES   gialsey . Tells Developments Following MacArthur’s Re-   port of Attack on Convoy

Japs Abandon Another Base Without Fight  Fnemv Palle Oe   Enemy Pulls Out Of Rekala Bay Tn Solomone

Fourth Time in a Month Nips Have Abandoned Key Stronghold In Pacific Theater

Japs Evacuate Another Base   For Fourth Time in Month Nips Give Up Seaplane Base Without Struggle.

ENEMY MOVED OUT   Japanese Troops Fled a Key _ Stronghold Without A Battle

JAPANESE. GIVE UP REKATA BAY BASE WITHOUT A BATTLE   Nips Abandon Seaplane Base on Santa Isabel Island—Is Fourth Garrison ‘Given Up in a Month

REKATA BASE   Withdraw from Central Solomons Bay Without a Fioht.

JAPS ABANDO KEY BASE AT REKATA BAY   Seaplane Stronghold on Santa Isabel Island Is Fourth Major Holding Given Up in Month Without a Fight. :

JAP TROOPS FLEE ANOTHER PACIFIC BASE.   Enemy Abandons Impor. tant Seaplane Base At Rekata Bay —

JAPANESE FLEE PACIFIC BASE   Give Up Rekata Bay Seaplane Base With out Fight  '

—-PACIFIC—  /-SHIP SUPPLY CONVOY BLASTED   Important Seaplane Station North Of Guadalcanal Abandoned   NO DEATH-STAND   Fourth Time Japanese Have Fled Important Pacific Areas

SOVIET LINES HOLDING FIRM MOSCOW SAYS   German Command Mounts Powerful Counter- Attack Forces on the Kharkov Front   ‘NEW TACTICS REVEALED

Great German Offensives —  Ae Mounted      Red Lines Mee' Meet Tough + Going. But. Reported Hoiding Firm Before Powerful Nazi ~Goiin terattacks “At 2 “Points In Kharkov Sector Ant In Bryansk: And” ‘Spa: Demensk: Sectors:

Counterattacks At Kharkov Repulsed   Russian Lines Holding Firm, Says Moscow

Reds Firm On Kharkov Hold   German Command Mounts Powerful Counterattacks At Two Points.

Soviets Admit Opposition On The Increase   Germans Grudgingly Retreating At Bryansk

SOVIET TROOPS STAND AGAINST GERMAN BLOWS   Axis Seeks To Take Initiative  Near Kharkov

POWERFUL GERMAN COUNTERATTAGKS AT TWO POINTS   Russian Lines Held Firm Against Troops, Tanks and Planes.   BATTLE FOR KHARKOV   The Fourth Engagement Became a Tug of War for the Initiative.

Nazis Loose Atfack, Reds Holding Firm   Russian Drives On Kharkov And Bryansk Meet Toughening Resistance 

NAZIS RETREAT FROM BRYANSK DEFENSE. ZONES   Hammered By Red Troops And Air Force, Germans Are Driven Back In Savage Fighting

Red Lines Hold  Against Germans   Nazis Mount Powerful Counterattacks at Two Points on Kharkov Front

 ‘Germans Stage ‘Counter ~ Attack West Of Kharkov   Red Units In Bryansk And Spas: Demensk Sectors Also Meet Tough. Going

Nazis Mount Strong Attacks at Kharkov   Employ Troops, Tanks and Planes in Blows Against Reds in Two Sectors of the Front, but Russian Lines Hold Firm.

Nazis Batter Soviet Lines   Reich Army Probing For Reds’ Soft Spot

Soviets Hold On  Kharkov Front   NAZIS BEGIN STRONG COUNTER ATTACKS ON REDS

Germans in New Attacks At Kharkov   Powerful Counter Thrusts With Troops, Tanks and Planes; Reds Hold Lines

Reds Stave Off New Counter Push By Nazis   Germans Adopt New Tactics; Stubbornly Defend Bryansk Area

German Attack In Russia Fails To Stop Drive   Assaults by Reinforced Nazi Horde in Kharkov Sector Beaten Off—Soviets Declare Allies Failed To Take Advantage Of Chance To Invade Europe

RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO GAIN   Germans Retreating Grudingly Before Unrelenting Pressure of Red Army

GERMANS OPEN DRIVE ON REDS   Strong Counterattacks Fai To Halt Soviet Troops

Nazis Atlack At Kharkov   Counter-Drive Begun With Full Force To Check Russians

Reds Break Up Counter-Attacks   Roosevelt, Churchill Huddle in Quebec   xk k k * Russians Repeat  2nd Front Demands.

Nazis Launeh New Attacks At Kharkov   Fourth Battle For Big City Becomes Military Tug-Of-Wa1

RED LINES HOLDING   Stand: Against Powerful German Counter Attacks on East Front:

NAZIS STRIKE ~ AT RED LINES   Russian Drives Slow In Face of Bitter Resistance

Germans Strike West of City, Seeking Opening for Counter-offensive; Fourth Battle For Kharkov Becomes Tug-of-War.

GERMAN COMMAND MOUNTS POWERFUL COUNTER-ATTACKS   RUSSIAN LINES, HOWEVER HOLD FIRM ON KHARKOV FRONT

REDS ABSORB HEAVY BLOWS AT KHARKOV   Also Meet With ‘Stiffer Resistance In 2 Other Drives

NAZIS LAUNCH STRONG DRIVE   Mount Two Counterattacks But Recs Hold Firm on Kharkov Front.

Russian Lines Hold Firm in Face of Attack   Desperate Nazis Seek to Check Advance of Reds

Nazis Strike At Russians. Near Kharkov   Red Lines Hold Firn In Face of Strong Counter-Attacks

Nazis Fling” New Forces At Red Lines   Moscow. Claims Enemy Attacks Are Repulsed

RESISTANCE TO RUSSIAN DRIVES   Reds Hold Despite Fierce CounterAttacks at Kharkov, Striving to Complete Encirclement   CLOSE ON BRYANSK   Main Defense Line Breached ic East While Russians Advance from Northeast

Gen, Arnold Savs Greater Output Of Planes Needed   Had Barely Enough for Italy; More Required For Drive in Europe

More Airplanes Is Plea Made By Gen. Arnold   Says Invasion of Italy Could Not Have Been Done With Fewer Aircraft

Plea for More  Planes Made by  Air Force Chief .   invasion of Tialy “> Made With Minimum Possible. Arnold Say:

BUTTER IN STORAGE INCREASES STEADILY   Price Rollback Takes It Out Of Consumer Channels

ROLLBACK PILES UP THE BUTTER   Huge Increase In Cold Storage Butter Stocks Said To Be Result Of Price Roll hack.

Soldier Vote Shaping Legislation, May Be Decisive Factor in 1944   Congress Expected to Facilitate Army, Navy Rallating: OW! to Publicize Candidates

SOLDIER VOTE ‘BEING TALKED   Solons to Facilitate Balloting In Elections

Soldier Vote Already Makes Influence Felt, May Be Factor in Next Campaigr

Soldiers’ Mail to Congress Reveals Live Interest Among Men in Domestic Affairs, 1944 Election

U. §. Attackers Inch Forward _Joward Munde   Sea, Air Forces Pummel Japanese Defenders In New Georgia Area

AMERICAN TROOPS MOVED NEARER MUNDA AIR BASE FRIDAY  ENEMY SUPPLY LINE CUT TO BONE BY CEASELESS  POUNDINGS

Yanks Inch Closer Upon Munda Base      Push 200 Yards Closer’ to Base, Battle Going Sat. isfactorily.

YANKS NEARING MUNDA AIRBASE   Munda Pounded Ceaselessly By Sea and Air; Enemy Supplies Cut.   U.S. ADVANCE IS STEADY

PROGRESS IN SOUTH PACIFIC SATISFACTORY   American Troops, Inching Relentlessly Through Jungles, 200 Yards Nearer’ Munda   JAP DESTROYER IS SUNK

Yankees Inching Closer to Munds   Destroy 14 Jap Pillboxes Near Airfield

U.S. Troops Move Nearer  To Munda   Area Pounded From Sea Ceaselessly Cutting Off Supplies

Jap Positions At Munda Are Hit Heavil,   Satisfactory Progress Told By MacArthur In Communique On New Georgia Campaign

AMERICANS NEAR MUNDA OBJECTIVE   General MacArthur Says Ad: vance Satisfactory and Ac: cording to Plan

 . American Troops Draw Nearer To  Munda Airbase   Pound Area By Sea. Air

AMERICAN FORCES INCHING NEARER MUNDA AIRBASE   Enemy’s Supplies Cut FPrac tically to Nothing by Heavy  Air and Sea Pounding of the  Munda Area

AMERIGAN TROOPS ADVANGE INCH-BY-INCH AGAINST STRONG RESISTANGE NEAR MUNDA  MacArthur Says Push On Schedule For  Important New Georgia Island Base

Americans Edge Slowly Upon Munda   200 Yards Gained in Close Lighting

Americans Inch Closer To Munda Base   Pounding By Sea and Air Cuts Japs’ Supplies To Bons, Says MacArthur

INCH FORWARD AGAINST MUNDA   MacArthur Says Advance Proceeding Accord ing to Plan

INCH IN ON MUNDA   Jungle Drive on Japanese Base on New. Georgia Continues

‘According To Plan,” Says MacArthur  Americans Continue Drive Toward Munda  *e2e ef

YANKS ADVANCE 200 YARDS ON MUNDA BASTION   MacArthur Says Action Progressing “According To Plan”

RATIONING OF MILK LOOMING AS POSSIBILITY   WFA Officials and Banking Officials In Washington Consider Critical — Situation .

MARVIN ACTS _ IN MILK CRISIS   Unsolved, Might Lead to Rations, Higher Valves on Products

CRITICAL MILK SITUATION SEEN      War Food Administrator Hints Rationing May Be Necessary

ALLIES USED ALL  AVAILABLE PLANES TO INVADE ITALY   Gen. Arnold Says There ‘Like Not Have Been Enouvh

\Italian Invasion Would Have Been \Easier With More Planes --- Arnold   Air Forces Chief Says That Every Plane Allies Could Get Was Thrown Into Invasion And Yet It Was Not Nearly Enough.

‘ALL AVAILABLE PLANES  USED IN ITALIAN DRIVE, BUT WAS NOT. ENOUGH

EVERY AVAILABLE PLANE “COVERED” ITALY’S INVASION   Invasion Would Not Have Been Possible With Fewer Planes General Arnold Declares.

EVERY PLANE USED IN ITALY INVASION   Without Air Power. Allies Faced Annihilation

Every Plane Available Was Thrown Into Invasion, But It Wasn’t Enough—Arnold

ITALY’S INVASION   Invasion Would Not Have Been Possible With Fewer Planes General Arnold Declares.

Needed Every Plane In Italy   Chief Of U.S. Army Air Forces Appeals For 9,000 Plane Workers.

Big Battles Yet To Come But We Need More Planes, Guns And Ammunition.

Arnold Asks More Planes   Says Armies With “Heaviest Material Will Conquer

New Air Raids On Jap Bases  Deawmwk lLanan AanAin   Bomb Japan Again, Doolittle Promises

Japan Marked For New Bomber Attacks Soon   Widespread Air Blows In So. Pacifie Hint Biq Offensive

ALLIED FLIERS OPEN ‘REVENGE’ WAR UPON JAPS   Widespread Aerial Blows Smash At Japanese ~ In North Pacific

Airmen Raid 6 Jap Bases   Concentrate on Island Arc in Northern new Guinea; Japs Troops Unsupplied

ALLIES HIT JAP BASES IN BURMA   Airmen Inflict Heavy Damage in Southwest Pacific -

Allied Airmen Strike Anew At Japanese   Bases On Islands Above Australia  Are The Targete

ALLIES EXPAND PACIFIC RAIDS   Half Dozen Enemy Bases Pounded by Bombers

U.S. Airmen Step Up Drive In the Pacific   New Raids on Tokyo Decided Possibility, Washington Says

Gen. Doolittle  ‘Wants Another Crack At Nips   Prediction Followed By Widespread Aerial Blows Against Nips in Pacific And Burma

ALLIES RIP SIX JAPANESE BASES   Report Nipponese Ailing from Lack of Food, Medical Supplies

NEW TYPE NIP PLANES REPORTED   Widespread Air Blows Follow Prediction # By Doolittle

Russians Launch Smolensk Drive; Kharkov Totters   Three Offensives Now Under Way On Eastern Front

Battle Of Kharkov Nears Final Stage   Russians Batter Way To’ Within One Mile Of NaziHeld Bastion; Third Offensive Aimed At Vital Smolensk

Third Summer Offensive Opened by Reds   Russians Battle Within Mile of Kharkov

Smolensk Next Goal of (the  Onrushing Russions .   FALL OF KHARKOV . APPEARS IMMINENT   Troops Batter Way te ' Within One Mile of Cin

S RUSSIANS OPEN OFFENSIVE ON : VITAL SMOLENSK   Three Major Drives By Reds Now Raging On 500-Mile Front   FALL OF KHARKOV IS BELIEVED NEAR

Smolensk Next Goal of the Onrushing Russians  FALL OF KHARKOV APPEARS IMMINENT  Troops Batter Way to Within One Mile of City

S tatesville iad hothore  Saforma] Giizapsen of Peopi¢ ten amt Around Statesville!

Troops Called In Political Feud   Governor Seeks  To Install Sheriff

MOSCOW, PLEASE   Washington. Soviet Capital Linked By Telenhone_

50 Liberators Score Big Victory “Over 80 Nazis   Yankee Airmen Destroy Sixteen, List Three More Possibles And Return To Africa With Loss Of Only One Big Fortress.

Italian Bases Pasted From Air by Bomber:   Crushing Victory Is Scored Over Enemy’s Airforces

Allies Continue Aerial Pounding ft Italian Bases   Sixteen Planes Are Destroyed In Sunday's + Raid, Bringing Axis Losses Up To 483 Mark

MINES TO OWNERS   Ickes Expects Operators and Union to Increase  Coal Production

Ickes Turns Mines Back To Owner:   Way Cleared for Opera tors and Employes to Work Out Contract

ICKESRETURNS MINESINU.S. TO OPERATORS      Action-Seen As Indication Government, Believes Owners and Union Can’ - Work ‘Out Pact

FEDERAL CONTROL OF MINES ENDED   NATION'S COAL PITS RESTORED TO OWNERS BY SECRETARY ICKES

OAL MINES IN PRIVATE HANDS   Ickes Restores Properties to Owners; Five Mines Are Idle.

Return Mines r oy ° 'o Companies   Secretary Ickes Says Operators. Union Can Establish Contract.

Owners Get Mines Again   Ickes Yields-Reing As Overseer of Pits’

IGKES RETURNS PITS TO OWNERS   Next Step To Assure Coal Production Up To WLB

ENEMY 1 TOUGH, EISENHOWER WARNS   Yank Commander Stresses Training Importance

High Court Overturns  Draft Case   Finds Registrant Left Addresses With Board

British Took 600 Prisone ers In Day’s Fighting and French Bagged 400. Americans ing Rommel’s Air Fielde.

Over 30,000 German Prisoners Have Been Taken.  ONE-FIFTH OF THEM  ARE GERMANS  [British Eighth Army Is Massing Troops for New Assault.

CRACK GERMAN OUTFITS NOW FACING ALLIED ASSAULTS   Over 35,000 Axis Prisoners Have Been Taken To Date

‘Quite a Few’ Jap Subs Sunk - Around Kiska   Admiral Kinkaid Reveals Island Was Very Well Fortified

‘Quite a Few’ Jap Subs Sunk! In Aleutians, Jt is Revealed   lestroyed While Evacuating Garrison From Kiska, Vice Admiral Kinkaid Says; Commander Admits Nips Were Clever In Saving Troops, Says Americans Fooled by Evacuation

American Destroyer Pickec Off ‘Quite a Few’ Filled With Fleeing Troops

“QUITE A FEW” JAP SUBMARINES SUNK IN FVACUATION KISKA   REVIEW OF ALEUTIANS OPERATIONS BY ADMIRAI THOMAS KINKAID

EVACUATION OF KISKA COSTS NIPS MANY SUGS   Navy Commander of Ares Reveals Sinking by U. S. Destroyers

Kiska Cost Heavy Toll Of Jap Subs   Kinkaid Reveals American Destroyers Sank “Quite a Few”

U.S. DESTROYERS — SINK A NUMBER OF JAPANESE SUBS   This Action Took Place While Ienemy Evacuated Kiska  I. a Se On.   ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY   Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid Disclesed “Quite a Kew” Were Sunk.

Says ‘Quite A Few Jap Subs Sunk At Kiska   Adm. Kinkaid Discloses Toll Taken By American  Destrovers.

a DEALT BLOW ‘ATKISKA   "Quite A Few” Sunk During Evacuation Kinkaid Announces

Blows By U. S. Destroyers Disclosed Admiral Reveals Number Of Jap Subs Sunk When Enemy Abandoned Kiska

“Quite a Few” Jap Subs Sunk at Kiske   Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid Describes Blow Dealt by U. S. Destroyers During Enemy’s Evacuation of the Island.

Admiral Kinkaid Says ‘Quite A Few’: Jap Subs Were Sunk In Kiska Action:

“Quite A Few’ JapSubsSunk In Aleutians,  Kinkaid Says   Vice Admiral Reveals U.S. Forces Surprised To Find Enemy Had Evacuated Island Base

MANY ENEMY SUBS ~ DOWNED AT KISKE   Kinkaid Succeeds Downes at Great Lakes

Subs Evacuating Kiska Garrison —  Of Japs Sunk   Admiral Kinkaid Disclose: Our Destroyers Got Some.

TELL olNKING (IF MANY SUBS      ‘Quite a Few’ Sent to Bottom in Aleutians, Says Admiral.

Vice Admiral Reveals Nips Lost ‘Quite a Few’ Subs In Foe’s Lvacuation of Kiska

Virginia Farmers Say They Have Increased Production But Can't Get Dehydrators As Promised

100,000 AXIS PRISONERS IN ALLIED HANDS   Land, Sea and Air Forces Hammering Trapped Enemy Forces on Cap Bon,

AXIS FORGES PAY HEAVILY WITH LOSSES   Toll Of Axis Prisoners Estimated At Over 100,000

Remnants Of German, ltalian Troops Fight In Desperation On Cap Don

‘Surrender Forced On Northern Line   6 Generals Among Yank Roundup; Figshtine Furious at Peninsula Base

iammer L: esisting xis Forces   SIX GENERALS AMONG THOS! TAKEN PRISONERS; LAST  FIGHTINGISONCAP;_— RON PENINGIITA oO

1,300 DRIVERS ARE REPORTED TO OPA   Many Throughout Maryland Are Suspected Of Pleasure Driving, According To Report

Babies to Get Prior Consideration in Any  ‘Canned Milk Rationine

[FIVE JAP MERCHANTMEN HIT DURING ALLIED RAID 'ON NEW BRITAIN BASE

ALLIES LAND IN 3 AREAS   Turkey Reports Balkans Likely To Explode Over Week-End

British Bombers Affack Europe   Locomotives, Oil Tanks Bombarded

Day Marauders HitEnemyRails  TEA Bee dt Piceees   RAF SweepsAxis Targets In Oveunied Countries

British Bombers Attack Europe  Loacagmatives. Qi]   Locomotives, Oil Tanks Bombarded

European Sweeps Made by R. A. F.  Fighters, Bombers Smash at Targets

U.S. Units Yield To Nazi Attack   Violent Tunisian Fighting Flares

U.S. HELD GAFSA IS THREATENED BY AXIS ATTACK   German Tanks Have Brok   en Through 20 Miles In South Tunisia   PURSUING BRITISH 200 MILES SOUTH

FOE FORCES STRIKE HARD FOR 20-MILE ADVANCE IN TUNISIA   Part of Rommel’s Africa Corps Hits At American Tanks; Heavy Fighting Reported to Be Continuing

ENEMY MAKES 20-MILE GAIN IN TUNISIA   American Anchor Position at Gafsa Imperiled by Break-Through of Powerful Forces.   TANKS, ARTILLERY, — INFANTRY ENGAGED   Germans Attack in Two Columns With Dive-« Bombers Blasting at U. S. Lines.

German Desert Corps Believed Joined With  Von Arnim in Tunisia ELUDE THE BRITISH  Eighth Army Reported 200 Miles South of Scene of New Fighting

GERMAN DRIVE PENETRATES FOR 20 MILES   Part Of Rommel’s Afrika Korps Is  Thought Engaged With Americans.

Nazis Break ThruMore Than 20 Miles; Imperil U.S. Positions at Gafsa  Enemy Spearhead Cuts Road in Maknassy Area; Panzers Hurled Against American Tank Units

Nazis Punch Hole in U.S. Lines   American Anchor on African Front imperiled by Drive

Violent Fight Under Way  In Tunisia   Advance of 20 Miles Through U. 8. Position Laid to Rommel Army  ANCHOR IMPERILED

Marshal Rommel’s Forces Force American: To Retreat Affer Heavy Tank Engagement  @ attack Occurs Near Faid Pass In Central Tunisia Which Is Held By The Americans

VIOLENT FIGHTING ALONG SOUTHERN END OF AXIS CORRIDOR; 20-MILE GAP MADE IN UNITED STATES  LINES.

Struggle in Southern Tunisia Follows Germon Advance _ :  ELITE DIVISION IS-- :.  REPORTED IN FIGHT:  New Axis Tonks Thrown  Against American Units

Road Is Cut hy Nazi Drive in South Tunisia   Enemy Troops Gain 20 Miles in Initial Assault

Struggle in Southern Tunisia Follows German Advance  ELITE DIVISION IS REPORTED IN FIGHT  New Axis Tanks Thrown Against American Units

Nazi Thrust Nears Yank Base at Gafsa   Veterans of Rommel’s ‘Africa Corps Are 2 Opposing Americans ¢

Gafsa in Danger As Yanks Battle Panzer Division   Axis Hurling Newest Ger: man Tanks against Americans   Defenders Fight Valiantly To Stop Drive of Powerful Force

ENEMY PUSHES 20 MILES INTO GASFA SECTOR   Nazi Spearhead Lunges Forward, Backed By Rommel’s Africa Veterans   75 To 150 Tanks Used

American Anchor  At Gafsa Periled   Junction With Von Arnim Said Effected by Axis;  The else tsen faa ans

VETERAN NAZ TROOPS MAKE 20-MILE GAIN   BLITZKRIEG THRUST STAGED TO HELP ROMMEL’S MEN

THREATEN GAFOM ANCHOR POSITION   Portion of Africa Corps Takes Part in Lunge   NAZIS ATTACK   ‘With Tanks, Infantry and  Dive Bombers; Yank Tank Units Meet Thrust

Fiffe" Oklahomans Interned By Japan   Corp. Charles C. Wilburn Among Those Held

DONAY CONVICTED   Detroit Importer Is Found Guilty Of Treasenable Acts

Jury Convicts Shielder of Max Stephan  Man Who Knew Of Traitorous Act Weil Ba Tetlad

NAVY HEADS SEE 6 YEAR PACIFIC. WAR   Say Optimism Of Civilian: Is “Criminally Careless”

Call for Auto’. Safety Campaign   38.300 Fatalities Since Pearl Harbor

British Submarines Help. ing Clear Way for Invasion.   5 AXIS SHIPS SUNK IN ITALIAN WATERS   Preliminaries to Invasion Are Just About Complete.

oIGILY OUFFERS AU-TOUA ATTACK BY AIR RAIDERS   Fortresses Also. Make Daylight Assault On Palermo and Airfield

SAYS INVASION NEAR AT HAND   Allied Airmen Scourge _ Sicily From One End  To Other.

JAPAN FEARING ISLE INVASION   People Warned U. S. May Be Ready For Landings

JAPS WARNED OF POSSIBLE ATTACK   Jap Radio Urges People To Beware Surprise Landing By Yanks

CHILEAN PRESIDENT PICKS NEW CABINET   Navy Commander Pinto As: sumes Post of Minister Of the Interior.

Name New Cabine In Chilean Crisis  Navy Leader Gets Important Post

CRISIS DEVELOPS IN CHILE GOV'T   PRESIDENT RIOS NAMES NEW CABINET POSTPONES TRIP

New Chilean Cabinet Is Appointed   Governmental Crisis Is  Caused By Resignation  Of Morales

Chileans Have Cabinet Shift  - Julio Pinto Made Interior Minister

GOVERNMENT CHANGES IN CHILEMADE   ’ Naval Commander Made Minister Of Interior

Button Workers Meet Wednesday   Meeting to Be Held at Knights of Pythias Hall — Executive  Committee to Meet

Button Workers Plan Union Meeting   session to Re Held at Knights of Pythias Hall Thursday Eve ning, Announced

IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE OF ROMMEL NY TO DELAY FINAL SHOWDOWN WHEN TWO.  ALLIED ARMIES ARE JOINED IN TUNISIA

African Reverse Underscores Hard Fighting Ahead, Longer Axis Stand

CONTINUED PURSUIT OF ROMMEL BY EIGHTH BRITISH ARMY REASON OR HIS ATTACK ON AMERICANS

BRITISH CAPTURE BEN GRADANE FROM ROMMEL   Expilsins Sudden Thrust Against Americans on Central Tunisian Front

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Prommel’s Thrust At U.S. ‘orces Cannot Change Outcome In Tunisia.

Woman Shoots Iwo Children, One Fatally   ‘Rather Have Them Dead Than Taken From Me.” She Savs

Child Fatally Shot, Another Wounded By Dallas Mother   Youths Awarded to Custody of Father Were Going to Miami

Board One Issues Call For 33 More  To Service   Includes Those In First, Second And Third Categories; Names Are Listed

Board One Calls 30 More For  Induction.   Second July Call Announced; Includes Mostly Married Men; 17 From This Citv

AEGEAN ACTION PART OF PLAN   Primary Objective to Divert German Air Strength From Italy.

House Speaker Opposes New Tax Burdens   Nine Appropriation Introduced; Would Restore OAP Fund Cut

ELLIOTT OPPOSES STATE TAX BOOST   MISSOURI HOUSE SPEAKER WOULD BALANCE BUDGET ON ANTICIPATED REVENUE.

US.LIBERATORS * FLY 200 MILE TO DEAL BLOWS   Xe¢mote Messerschmitt Plants South of Vienna Pounded By Bombs *

MESSERSCHMITT FACTORIES IN SHAMBLES   Prove to Nazis That Bombs Can Reach All Europe

Waurika Man ls Decorated   Lieut. Beecher Snipes Gets Distinguished Flying Cross of Navy

‘Soviets in ‘New Thrust .At Germans   Positions at Krivoi Rog Are Menaced But Nazis Smash Back West of Kiev

Germans See Peril at  Krivoi Rog   Troops Gain 20 Miles in Dneiper Bend; Other Forces Make Deep Stabs; Enemy Suffers Heavy Loss of Soldiers

GERMAN POSITIONS AT KRIVO! ROG ARE REPORTED MENACED  RUSSIANS START NEW DRIVE TO DIVERT NAZIS  FROM ATTACK

Menace Nazi Positions at Krivoi Rog   Germans Press Attacks in Korostyshev Arca West of Kiev

REDS BATTLE GERMANS FOR UKRAINE HOLD   New Russian Offensive At Krivoi Rog Designed To Split Enemy

New Soviet Push Perils Krivol Rog   Seeks To Divert Nazi Forces Attacking West Of Kiev.

Krivoi Rog Menaced by Red Attack   Russians Launch” Strong Push to Divert Germans At. tacking on North   NAZIS HAMMERING  REDS NEAR KIEV   But. Russians Are Said to Be Absorbing Blows and Ad vancing Elsewhere - 

GERMAN POSITION AT KRIVOI ROG MENACED BY NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE INDNIEPER BEND   Latest Russian Assault Smashes Enemy Resistanc: At Eight German Defense Bases. 3,000 Troops Slain and 60 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out

Russians Open New Offensive In The Ukraine   Germans Press Attacks In Korostyshey Area Weact of Kiev

REDS MENACING AT KRIVOI AGE      Germans Continue te Push Attacks in Area West of Kiev.

Aussians Begin New Ottensive In Krivoi Rog      Reds Design To Divert Nazi Forces Fiercely Attacking Korosts shev.   CAPTURE 20 TOWNS

Krivoi Rog ls Menaced   Reds Strike Again to Relieve Nazi Attack in South

Russians Rally,  Score Gait   Moscow Concedes, However, German Attacks Are Intense

SOVIETS OPEN ~NEW ASSAULTS   German Positions At Kri voi Rog Are Threatened by Reds

German Positions at Krivoi Rog, Inside Dnieper Bend Seriously Menaced   MANY REPORTED SLAIN

GERMAN POSITIONS AT KRIVOI ROG ARE REPORTED MENACED  RUSSIANS START NEW

—RUSSIA—  GERMANS PRESS UKRAINE. ATTACK   Hitler’s Forces Fighting Fiercely In Korosty ghev Area   LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Soviet Dispatches Report ; Situation West Of Kiev  Js Serious

New Russian Drive Made At Krivoi Rog   German Positions at Key City Menaced; Soviets Halt Attacks

Nazi’s Key City In Dnieper Bend Menaced by Red   New Russian Offensive Thrust Is Made to Divert German Attack.   Germans Press Their Thrust in Kiev Area

New Red Drive Menace Nazis at Krivoi Rog   New. Gains Offset by Serious Situation in Korostyshev Sector

NEW RED DRIVE MENACES NAZIS AT KRIVOI ROG   Offensive Seeks To Divert Fierce Assaults In Northern Ukraine

Russian Forces Launch New Offensive Thrust at Dnieper Bend Stronghold

SEEK TO EASE NAZI DRIVE IN UKRAINE AREF   Germans Continue tc Press Assaults in Zhitomir Sector

Key City In Dnieper Bend Nnder Attack  ‘   Nazis Continue Fierce Assaults West of Kiev

Reds In Thrusts  To Divert Nazis   German Positions at Krivoi Rog Menaced by Soviet  Offensive   POWER IN NAZI DRIVE   Russians Admit Strength of German Assaults at Korostyshev

Thrust, Apparently Designed To Divert Nazis Attacking In Korostyshev Sector, Menaces German Positions —Enemy Resistance Reported Smashed South Of Kremenchug—Large Hitlerite Forces Continue Counter-Assaults In Area West Of Kiev

REDS ENDANGER NAZI POSITIONS AT KRIVO! ROG   Smash Eight German Defense Bases South of Kremenchug

Russians Seek To Divert German Forces  FIERCE ATTACK Nazis Press Their As sault West Of Kiev

At Krivoi Rog   ‘Dnieper Bend Also Goal In Renewed Soviet Offensive

Germans, Russians In Bitter Fighting   Soviets Menace Krivoi Rog Positions, Enemy Counterattacks Heavy, Korostyshev Situation Serious.

Strong Nazi Attacks Are Being Felt   Despite Heavy Losses, Germans Continue to Hurl Huge Forces at Soviet Armies

Eight German Bases Are Overrun  Nazi Positions At Krivoi Rog Are In Danger

German Positions At Krivoi Rog Menaced By Red! Thrusts; Situation At Korostyshev Be comin g More Serious As Nazi Strencth Grows. 

from China to Speak Here   Was Jap. prisoner after Pearl Harbor. Coming May 13.

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today,   owTaww Coal of Chairman.

TEN TRS rr   Three Others Damaged by U. 8. Subs, Bringing Toll to 487

U.S. Undersea Craft Sink 10 Cargo Ships, Damage 3 in Raids   LONE NAVY PLANE BAGS NIP FREIGHTER AFTER ALLY PACIFIC AIRMEN BLAST THREE DESTROYERS, EIGHT MERCHANT VESSELS

Ten Japanese Ships Are Sunk  By U.S. Suhs   Three Others Damaged By Submarines And One Freighter Sunk By  Reconnaissance Plane

MerchantmenSunk And Three More Damaged As Jap  Shinnino Tanes Hit

NAVY ANNOUNCES SINKING TEN JAP MERCHANT SHIPS  DAMAGING OF THREE OTHERS RY AMERICAN

NAVY REPORTS TEN MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK BY OUR SUBS   All Were Being Used te Bring Supplies to Nipnonese Bases *

roe Wessel Sent Down by Navy Plane   MacArthur's Planes Sink 11 Jap  Craft in Harbor  At Rabaul!

NAVY ANNOUNCES SINKING TEN JAP MERCHANT SHIPS   DAMAGING OF THREE OTHERS BY AMERICAN SUBMARINES REPORTED

U. S. Subs Sink 10 Japanese Supply Ships   In: Battle for Boughainville, Enemy Cruiser. and Two ‘Destroyers Sunk by Yanks

10 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S, SUBS   Vessels Were Taking Supplies To Forces on Solomons

BRINGS TOTAL OF DAMAGED, SUNK 10 487   Allied Air Forces Smash Enemy Shipping Massed In Rabaul Area

U.S. Submarines Sink 10 Jap Ships  Freighter Sunk By   Recannaiccance Plane

Navy Reconnaissance Plane Sinks Jap Freighter Off Ocean Island, 750 Miles Northeast Guadalcanal, Navy Reports

10 JAP.GARGO VESSELS SUNK   Sinkings Credited To U. S. Subs; Navy Plane Bags Freighter

10 Japanese.Merchant Ships" Are Sunk By American Subs;   Bougainville Forces Routed

New Navy Total Augments Eleven Sunk By Planes   Toll Ineludes 6 Freighters Used To Supply Enemy Bases In The Pacific

10 CARGO SHIPS SENT 0 BOTTON OFF NIP SHORES   Three Others Damaged   Bringing to 487 Toll Tak en by Undersea Craft In the Pacific   SIX ENEMY WARSHIPS SUNK BY AIRFORCE   Damaging Blows Struck At Rabaul Harbor and At Entrance to Impress Augusta Bay

Legislative Leaders Agree On Plan Aimed at Blocking ‘Avalanche of Worthless Bills

Seek to Block Worthless Bills   House Reconvenes Tonight; Senate Tomorrow

Parity Principle On Farm Prices Called Food Blow  ® Great Hindrance To Output,  Committee Avers

Whole Principle Of Farm Parity Prices Is Under Attack   Food Advisory Committee Calls It Outmoded, » Faulfy Mechanism

PARITY SYSTEM IS CRITICIZED   Special Government Food Advisory Committee Submits Report.

Report Crificises Parity Principle Of Farm Prices   Government Group Says It Retards Food Production

Parity Price Demands Hit   ;  Food Advisory Committee Declares Farm Prices On False Basis,

Vwhest wepencs Yn Tou,  QUITS FACTORY   Navy Pulls Out When Plant Output Falls Short

16-Year-Old Boy Buys Jail at Tax Sale and Seeks To Rent It to Towr

Naval Guns Hit Kiska Unopposed   Shelling Follows . Flying Fort Attack

PRESIDENT 10 TALK ON RADIO SUNDAY NIGHT   EXPECT IMPORTANT STATEMENT ON MINE WORK STOPPAGE

PRESIDENT ON AIR SUNDAY P. M.   Roosevelt To Speak To Nation On Coal Situation Sunday Night.

Virtually Dety The President        ROOSEVELT TO ADDRESS NATION: TOMORROW NIGHT AND WILL DEA ‘BLUNTLY’ WITH THE SITUA TIONZ

Ickes Directed To Take Action Seen Necessary   Stimson Instructed To Provide Armed Protection To Property And Workers If Desirable; President Plans Radio Talk

President Vill Make Statement          All Networks To Carry Message Sunday: Night

President Will Talk on Strike Sunday at 9 p. m.   He'll Probably Find Out.

F.R. to Talk Over Radio on Coal Crisis   Will “Deal Bluntly” With Situation In Address at 10 P.M.

Roosevelt Acts as Miners Defy Back-to-Work Order: Will Broadcast to Nation Sunday Night   OPA Plans to Cut Prices in  Answer to High Wage Demands

Army Restores Quiet At Tule Lake Internment Camp For Disloyal Japs

Tear Gas Quiets Japs at Tule Lake   Army Troops in Full Battle Dress Rule 16,000 Discontented Internees

Segregation Center at Tule Lake Under Strict Military Rule   Unruly Japanese Show ~ No Inclination to  Argue With Army

ARMY KEEPS PEACE AMONG. JAPANESE   Thousands of J. Japs Trans: ferred from Hawaii Have Strong Anti-American Feelings, Incite Riots

Riotous Japanese Docile Under Army Control   Tear Gas Breaks Up Gathering At Tule Lake  Internment Camp.

RIOTOUS JAPI DOCILE UNDER ARMY CONTROL   Tear Gas Breaks Up America’s First Serious Internment Camp Uprising of War

FRENCH HOLD “LINCOLN NOT POOPERATING   Governor Pro Tem Alleges Attacks by Negroes on Isiand Women.

U.S, TROOP CONDUCT ON NEW CALEDONIA BASIS OF CHARGES   French Governor There Bitter; Points Of Friction Cited

cHmncH ALFA   American Patrols Take Village Six Miles West of Tebourba.   GERMAN TANKS TRAPPED

Noise of Naval Battle Heard (a Spanish Coastal Town From Direction of Gibraltar

DORTMUND BLASTED WITH 1500 TONS OF BOMBS LAST NIGHT   Industrial Ruhr Valley City Near Essen Hit by the R. A. F.   “VERY HEAVY” ATTACK   The Attack Cost the British Thirty Bombers, the Air Ministry Said.

Nazis Insist Big Convoy Has Sailed From Gibraltar   Biggest Air Raid Yet Launched On Germany Bombs Dortmund; Tunis Climax Due

RUSSIANS BOMB 11 KEY RAIL GENTERS BEHIND NAZI LINES   Bag 43 of 200 German Planes That Attempt Assault on Rostov-Bataisk Gate . Way to Caucasus.   TROOP-LADEN ENEMY TRAINS ARE WRECKED   Both Sides Take to Air in Force to Get in First Blows of Imminent Summer Campaign.   RILLETIN.

Reds Strive To Prevent  Nazi Push   Enemy Railroads Are Pounded By Russian Planes.

Russian Bombers Wreck Railroads Behind Nazi Lines   7/2 German Planes  Shot Down During Raids

Russian Raiders Hit Hard   Nazi Offensive Preparations.  Slashed

SHIPS AND PLANES SENT TO PACIFIC   NIMITZ SAYS REINFORCE. MENTS INSURE RETENTION OF ALLIED INITIATIVE.

War Goods Flow To Pacific Area   Nimitz Says Allied  Offensive Assured Ry CHARIES MceMURTRY

War Goods Flow To Pacific Area   ‘Nimitz Says Allied Offanciva: Acc trad

PERFECT CRASH LANDING MADE   Lieutenant Sweeley Of Chicago Carries Out His Mission, Although It Was Entirely Unexpected.

DE MARIGNY QUOTED  AS DECLARING OAKES  SHOULD BEEN SLAIN DEFENSE IN MURDER CASE  SCORED SOME POINTS DURING WEEK

De Mariany’s Approval of Murder Told.   Defendant Said Ookes Should Heve Been Slain, Officer Testifies

SON-IN-LAW OF BARONET HELD IN HIS. DEATH   Body of Sir Harry Oakes to Be Brought to States From Bahamas

McGee To Speak At Noon Today  Boards Of Nearby  " Carintioe Invited

AMERICAN CASUALTY TOTAL NOW 129,422   Official Figures Show 28,187 Killed, ‘89,974 Wounded, 32,833 Missing. 28.428 Cantive.

U. §. Casualties Set at 129,47?  i as) ac gat   Army Reports 97,077 And Navy 32,345

TRANSPORT PLANES SOUGHT   Total Of 13 Men Reported Aboard Missing Planes.

GOOD HARVEST DAYS   Warm Weather Beginning a Slow Comeback in Kansas

Anti-Strike Bill Action Is Tabled By Conference;  Pastors Given Assignments

CHURCH CONFERENCE ENDS AT LAKESIDE   Fail To Act on Anti-Strike Proposal

PERFECT PLANS FOR OPERATION OF NEW TAX   Passage of Pay-asYou-Go Biil Next Week Likety

TAX DEDUCTION PLAN PREPARED   Senate-House Conferees Put Finishing Touches On PayAs-Go Measure

Argentina, Algiers Win Recognition      Relations Resumed By American Nations

Girl In Envied Position  ++ ++ bee + She's Only Female Among Hundreds Of Yank Fliers

One Girl Among Hundreds of Yanks In England Is Amazed By Kidding

QUICKLY DISPERSED  Navy Reports New Assaults on Kiska, Salamons Islands   Catholic Primate Of England Gravely Ill

—POWER BOARD—  Wisner Named  Director   .. + First Appointment Under New Measure

4 KNOWN DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK   Ninety-One_ Tnjure »d When Crack Pennsylvania  Train Is Derailed

More Thans 57,000 War Workers Protesting Policies of WLB — Manufacture of Jeeps Halted — Most Scrious Threat te War Pro duction Since Pearl Harbor.

Plants Idle At Toledo And Akron   Rubber Workers Still Out; Jeep Production Halted

Striking War Workers Halt Jeep Making   Threat Ils Most Serious to War Production Yet

War Workers Ignore “No. Strike” Pledge   Production Faces Worst Threat - Since Pearl Harbor

57,000 STRIKERS IN MIDWEST PARALYZE VITAL PRODUCTION   Peotest Against Policies Of WLB Halts Rubber Industry, Jeep Plant

Strikes Threaten War Production   Rubber, Jeep Walkouts Worst Blow Since War

57,000 Workers Join in Protest   LAYOFF PARALYZES AKRON RUBBER INDUSTRY, ARMY CAR MANUFACTURE; EMPLOYES SCORE POLICIES OF UNITED STATES WAR LABOR BOARD

57,000 Halt» Production  Of War Good:  Rubber Workers. On Sirike-—Coal

Can Bombs Do the Job?   ‘Rubber Workers’ Strike Stops Output of Jeeps

Rubber Industry Paralyzed As" Strikes Spread.   =. Manufacture of Army : Jeeps Halted By  “New Plant Walkout

ARMY TO PROBE PLANT BLAST   Several Killed, Others Injured By Explosion In Enamel Plant

GERMANS ARE TOLD IN NAZI PRESS OF SOVIET SUPERIORITY  HITLER’S OWN PAPER SAY: RUSSIANS HAVE MORE

Feed the Birds!   Press in Germany Admits Superiority Of Russian Resources and Materiel

Superior  Foe. ~ Seen In: Reds   Nazis. Press’ Attempts ‘To Explain Reverses: On _ Fastern: Front

Nazi Press in Endeavoring To Explain Reverses Admit Sa sertarity of the Russians   Authoritative Sources Tell Of The Superior Quantity and Quality of Russian Re: ‘sources and Material 

More Than 20 Divisions Lost At Stalingrad: Createst Nazi.Defeat; Germans OQuinumbered

German Press Admits Losses Suffered On Russian Front; Reds Have Superior Material

Nazis Admit Russians Have ‘More Soldiers, More Guns and More Tanks Than a Year Aqo’

NAZI PRESS SEEKS EXPLAIN. REVERSES ON EASTERN FRON]   Admits Superiority of Russian Resources and Material, Saying They Have More Soldiers, Guns and Tanks Than A Year Ago.

Hitler's Own Paper Wails of Eastern Front Diffi culties.   ADMIT DEFEAT AT STALINGRAD

NAZIS EXPLAIN WAR REVERSES   Germans Claim Reds Have More Men, Equipment Than Year Ago

Goebbels’ Press Hard Put To It To Explain Nazi Debacle in Russia

Nazis Admit Superiority of Red Supplies   Press Says Soviets Have More Soldiers, Guns Than Year Ago

‘German Press Has New Alibi: Reds Have More Men, Supplies To Throw Into Eastern Front

Russians Have More Soldiers, Tanks, Guns, Nazi Press Savs, Explaining Reverses in Russia

GERMAN PRESS SAYS RUSSIANS CAIN STRENGTH   Reds Have More Men and Material Than Nazis, Berlin Admits, to Explain Defeats   ALLIES OF HITLER TAKE HEAVY BLOWS   ‘Legions’ of Alleged Volunteers Punished In Russian Attacks On Axis Forces

Press of Germany Tries to Explain Reverses in Eas!   Hitler’s Paper Tells the People They Should Sense Difficulty

Nazis Paper Admits 20 Divisions Doomed   Hitler’s Own Organ Says Fighting Difficult on Eastern Front—Reds Conceded More Soldiers, Guns, Tanks Than a Year Ago.

Nazi Press Is Attempting To Explain Losses   Superiority Of Russian Resources And Material Admitted In Report On  German Reverses

WHAT AN ADMISSION!  Nazis Admit Reds Have  More Soldiers, Guns   German Press, in Attempting To Explain Reverses On Eastern Front, Says Russians Have Superiorify In Resources, Material

Nazis Explain Reverses By Telling Of Difficulties On Eastern Front

Nazis Explain Reverses On Soviet Front   Newspaper Says Russians Have ''More Soldiers and More Equipment''  260 DIVISIONS COs!

Nazis Admit Superiority Of Red Manpower, Supplies   Explain Reverses At Stalingrad, Warn That Maybe 20 Nazi Divisions Are Lost

Allied Fliers Smash Large Motor Convoy   30 Tank Trucks Fired, Others Are Damaged

AMERICAN FLIERS. START HUGE FIRES “IN RAID ON KIEL   Strike Heaviest Blow of War .in Four Co-Ordinated Attacks—15 Planes Fail to Return.   TARGETS IN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND BLASTED   More Ships Take Part Than on Any Previous Raid— Attack Follows Night Assaults by RAF.

Heavy Blows Delivered _ In Assaults Over Europe   Four Separate, Closely Coordinated Attacks on Noval Airfield and Factory Targets in Germany, Belgium and Holland Reported

Four Attacks  Made On  Three Nations Kiel’s Naval And   Kiel’s Naval And U-Boat Equipment Heavily Bombed

HEAVIEST BLOW OF WAR STRUCK BY AMERICANS   Targets In Germany, Bel gium And Holland Hit By U. S. Airmen   GREATEST DAMAGE REPORTED AT KIEI

Americans Lash Enemy In Four Vicious Forays   Heaviest Blows Of War To Date Side RAF Night: Raiders

Big U.S. Bombers Strike Heaviest Blow of War in Four Assaults in Europe

American Bombers Conduct Hardest Raid Upon Europe  Blasting Of German Defense Points Corried Out Immediately After Laraqect RAF Raids

KIEL IS DEALT HEAVY BLOWS BY AMERICANS   NUMBER OF PLANES IS LARGEST EVER SENT ON RAID

U.S. Bombers Strike Heavily In Nazi-Europe   Naval, Airfield and Factory Targets Hit . Over Wide Area

Great Raids Against Axis  Continue   Targets Are Attacked In Germany Proper, Beleium and Holland

Four Runs Made On Targets   U. S. Air Force Sends Out Record Number of Planes

AMERICANS STRIKE HEAVIEST BLOW OF WAR ON NAZI CITIES   Bombers Attack Vital Points in Germany, Belgium and Holland; Inflict Great Damage

U.S. Planes in Four Separate Attacks in Europe   Penetrate Deep Into Enemy Territory to Strike War Targets

Soviet Reports Heavy Activity On Kuban Fron   Red Army Striking In Ef. fort To Regain Control Of Novorossisk Area   BATTLES RAGING ON FIVE FRONTS

KUBAN VALLEY BATTLE RAGES   Soviet army moves to regain control of Novorossisk naval base

Post Office Officials Tell — About Mail for Services   Complaints Indicate Misun derstanding of Handling.

PQ. HEAD TELLS ABOUT MAIL T0 ARMED FORCES   Tells Public How Mail Is Distributed to Boys In Foreign Service

Postal Department Stresses the Use of V-Ma  for Men in Armed Forces Oversea:

Why Mail To Mea ia Service  ds Delayed, Lost   Post Office “Dept. Explains Irilo’ ppgular. Delivery -

Strong axis counter-blow drives British from hills   Von Arnim succeeds Nehring as nazi Tunisia commander

NAZI CHIEF IN AFRICA CHANGED   Hitler Replaces General Nehring; Axis Counterattack Near Mateur Successful

Hitler Shifts Command Of North African Army   Germans Drive British From Hard Won Hills in Heavy Fighting Around Tunis

HITLER SHIFTS ARMY HEAD IN TUNIS SECTOR   Gen. von Arnim Takes Place of Nehring, Berlin News Reel Reveals.   BRITISH WITHDRAW FROM HILL POSITION

Nehring Supplanted by Yon Arnim: Axis Counterattacks Near Mateur   British Units Are Driven from BZith Dacitianc

Wheeler Charges Labor Hoarding   Hits At Young Men  In War Factories

Wheeler Hopes To Gain Support For Draft Delay From  Baruch Testimony

Wheeler Claims Labor Hoarding  Uses Argument to Onnace Dad Draft

U.S. War Plants Charged With Waste, Labor Hoarding by Montana Solon -

LABOR WASTE CLAIM ENTERS DRAFT DISPUT   Hoarding In War Plants Charged By Sen. Wheeler

LABOR HOARDING IN WAR PLANTS MAY BE DELAY FOR FATHERS   Senator Wheeler Makes Charge in Effort to Delay Induction of “Dads.”

Russia Changes National Song  a a ee ae   ‘Internationale’ Dropped As Not Reflecting Victory

RUSSIANS BOMB GERMAN CITIES   Soviet Troops Capture Nazi Trenches Near  Kharkov

RED ATTENTION TURNS TO AIR; TRENCHES FALL   Bomber Flight Leader Once Wired Staling

RUSSIA TURKS ATTENTION 10 AIR OFFENSIVE   Capt. Melodchy Revealed  As Leader of Planes . Which Bombed Koen  igsbure Saturday   RAIDS TO CONTINUE   iSpring Thaw Brings Mud   and Slush and Halts Most Major Opera tions On Ground

RUSSIAN AIRMEN BOMBED NAZI TARGETS   Raid Led by Capt. Alexander Molodchy, Who Once Sent Messag:  To Stalin From Over bs fT? ws.

Russian Airmen Hit Koenigsberg  Spring Thaw Halts Ground Operations

RUSSIAN WARPLANES BOMBED KOENIGSBER( ON SATURDAY NIGHT   AS SPRING THAWS MIRE GROUND FIGHTING AIR ACTIVITY INCREASED

RUSSIANS LOOK TO AIR ACTION   Reds Turn Attention To Aerial Activity As Spring Thaw Slows Ground Activitv.

Molodchy Led Russian Raid   Red Army Planes Hit At Koenigsberg; Reds Attack Nazi Transport

Spring Thaw Halts Soviet Front Activity   Whole Front Generally Unchanged; Minor Operations Reported

Spring Thaw Halts Battles In Russia   Aerial Operations Continue Active

Russian Planes Raid Koenigsberg;  Aerial Action On Front Increase:

Spring Thaw Bogs Armies On Red Front   Mud and Slush Halts Most Major Operations Excepting in Air  i   KOENIGSBERG RAIDED

Reds Hitting Air  Blows At Nazis   Spring Thaw Halts The Major Operations On Ground   SOVIETS BELIEVED STRONGER IN AIR

EVELT  RETURN 5 T0 WASHINGTON   Last Official Stop of Trip Was at Trinidad

African Trip Reports Set By Roosevelt   Congressional Leaders and Bull Called to Conferences

FD Returns Home; Talks With Aides   May Tell Public Some of Plans  Made on Tour

WHITE HOUSE CONFERENG   President Meets Hull * Congress Leaders On His Return

FDR EXPECTE TO TELL MORE “ABOUT PARLEY   Returns to Washington After Making Final Stop of Trip at Trinidad.   KNOX BACK HOME. TOO   iNavy Secretary Optimistic on Progress of Nation’s War Efforts in Pacific.

President Back in White House FromLongTrip  Chief Executive May Report to Nation Shortly

EARLY REPORT EXPECTED ON PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO AFRICA, S. AMERICA

FDR Confers With Hull on African Trip   President to Meet  With Leaders of. Both Parties Today

NATION WAITS REPORT SOON BY PRESIDEN’   Roosevelt Returns '\ White House After 3-Week Trip

FR, CONFERS, ~ PLANS REPORT   ~~ President Meets Cabinet Members, Military. Leaders, Will Tell Nation Soon About  Daeahtanna _

Roosevelt Holds Series  ! Of Conferences Upor His Return From Trig Of 16,000 Miles

FMR CALLS ‘CONFERENCE OF PARTY LEADERS   Secretary Hull Included In Group to Hear of Trip to Africa

F.R. May Give Radio Talk on Africa Visit   Calls in Leaders to Tell o! Decisions Made at Casablanca

FDR TO MAKE REPORT ON TRIP TO NATION SOON   Back at White House After Three Weeks in Africa, South America and Elsewhere He Looks Fit.

Roosevelt Will Report on Trip   Summons Secretary Hull and Ccohigressional Leaders to White House Today

FDR EXPECTED. 10 REPORT TO NATION ON AIRPLANE TRIP         President. Returns “Ho me Last Night — History Written - During Trip Abroad

Expect FDR to Tell About Trip Shortly   PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BACK IN CAPITAL OF NATION NOW.

Nation Waits For Report From F.D.R.   Domestic Problems Sidetracked by War  Campaign Plans

President Is Home, Calls Aides Together   Hull, Congressional Chieftains Get Story Of Casablanca

Report on Conference To Be Given   Chief Executive Arrives in Capitol Late Sunday Night

FDR Expects To Report On Talks   President Calls Hull, Congressional Leaders In For Conference Today; May Make Radio Broadcast

BANK TURNS DOWN CITY ADDED LOAN     Council Head Directs Treasurer to Hold Funds     Moves fo Assure Payment of Salarles of Employes; Budget  Rade tn hfant

BANK TURNS DOWN  ) «CITY ADDED LOAN   Council Head Directs Treas-—urer to Hold Funds      Moves to Assure Payment of Salaries of Employes; Budget Body {o Ateet

Allies Take Hill Positions On Rome Road   Start Advances Down Slopes On Way To Capital   NAZIS ON DEFENSE   Enemy Losses Extremely Heavy As Yankees Push Ahead

LONG SHOREMEN FORGOTTEN MEN   Senate Committee Finds American Seamen Are “Heroes Doing A Magnificent Job.”

Longshoremen, Who Load the Ships, Are “Forgotten Men,” Probers Say

‘Office Of War Information Under Republican Fire For Power Abuse

CLAIM DAVIS IS ABUSING POWER AS HEAD OF OWI   Complain He Commandeered All Radio Stations For Broadcast

GOP Leaders Rake OWI Over Coals   Claim Agency Chief Uses His Powers To Further 4th Term Cause.

Taft Denounces Davis Broadcast   Senator Assails  OWI “Propaganda”

Jap Positions At Rabaul Hit In Heavy Raid  60 Per Cent Of Nip Air Power  Is Damaged

177 Planes, 141 Ships Destroyed In Surprise Raid   ‘Decisive Defeat For Enemy At Most Vital Point,”’ Says MacArthur. Every Available Plaze Used In Two-Day Bomb Raid.

Local Girl Graduates At WAAC School   ~ Helen Wiley Finishes _Course; Leaksville Girl Also Graduates”

Senate Group Approves Lee   Shreveport Attorney Checked to Judge 5th Circuit Court

FLOOD-RIDDEN TRAIN FINALLY MAKES PORT   Katy’s Texas Special Wallows Intc San Antonio After Wandering Five Davs.

AXIS STEPS UP ARTILLERY FIRE ON MARETH LINE   British Eighth Army Is Also Heavily Bombarding  Axis Fortifications

Rommel Steps Up Artillery Fire Against British   Field Guns of Eighth Army Attack Mareth Line

NAZIS STEP UP ARTILLERY FIRE   Mareth Line Under Air Attacks While Lull Develops Throvgh  Most Of Field

Big Guns Open Fire In Africa   Rommel May Try Trick to Force British Back

MAN, 58, GOES "BERGER KILS   Salesman: Murders. Two Partners . and Two: ° Women, Suicides ; °*

Bomber Crashes — ~ Near Sioux City   Ten Army: Airmen Killed at Sergeant Bluff.

10 Airmen Killed In Night Crash   Sioux City Based Bomber Falls Near Sergeant Bluff

YANKEE TROOPS IN SAN STEFANO ON NORTH COAST   Nazis Reported !nvading North Italy, Seizing Fleet Units

WARNING BY EISENHOWER IS IGNORED   Seemingly Authentic Reports Say Nazis Sweeping Mainland

Iowa Reaches Quota of “Kk” Bonds   lotal E Bond Sales Over Top By $2,700,000

Reds Unlimber Big Guns For Bombardment Of Key City White Russian Junction; Troops Seize Streshin   RUSSIANS ENCIRCLE SEVEN FOE GARRISONS

REDS WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF 7HLORIN   Russians Trying To Cut Escape Route of Germans

ATTACK NAZI “KEY POST TA BAR ESCAPE   Three Red Drives Converging an City from West Dnieper. Bank.

REDS THREATEN TO CUT OFF FLEEING NAZIS   Soviets Bombard Key White Russian Junction With Big Guns

Russians Within Range of Zhoblin   Big Guns Unlimbered To Blast Nazi Base

JAPANESE HIT IN VARIOUS ATTAGK'   Another Raid Is Staged or Marshal! Lslands   PLANES, SHIPS HIT   Only Patrol Activity Reported At Arawe, Where Yanks Landed Week Ago

FIFTH ARMY CRACKS LINES OF GERMANS   Retakes High Ground Previously Lost: British 40-57 Miles Away

THUNDERING FIFTH ARMY BLOW STARTS NAZI BREAK   Confident Troops Capture Lost Ground, Exs tend Depth of Bridgehead   GEN. CLARK ISSUES IST ORDER OF DAY,   UREN, ULARNA ISSURS TOL ORUVUEN UP DAT,  Says Salerno Area Safe—British Army Help Near— Record Air Coverage

TIDE OF BATTLE TURNS TOWARD CLARK’S FORCES   Fierce Fight Continuing Ag British Eighth Moves To © Area 57 Miles Away   NAVY, AIR AID VALUABLE   Berlin Hit; Aircraft Plants In Paris Raided; Allies Drive Close To Lae

DRIVE PIERCES SEVERAL MILES INTO NAZI LINE   Fifth Army Troops Regain Town Germans Captured in Tank Battle

QUOTA EXCEEDED. FOR THIRD TIME IN UNION COUNTY.   Chairman Fred Gabriel Extends Thanks To All Who Helped In Drive

BOND SALES OVER QUOTO   Loan Bond Drive Showed an Excess of Over $68,644.75 in Third War Loan Drive

DRIVE OFPICLALLY CLOSED SATURDAY: WITH RECORD OF 110 PER OBNT ANTICIPATED  By PINAL CHECKUP

ALLIES SMASH AT PANTELLARIA   Acriai Blows Extended As Last Axis Troops Surrender In Tunisia

Down-to-Earth Approach Sought to Complex Situation for Speedy Solution Before Fall

T- Rations May Be Cut Next as. Gas Shortaae Hits Food Production

“T” Ration Books May Be Cut Next As Gasoline Shortage Threatens Food Prodiction   East Faces Prospect Of More Walking Or Less Eating Later; Farms Suffer

‘Increasing Gas Shortage Menaces Food Production In Eastern States

Shortage Of Gas Stops Tractors,  Threatens Food   Police Here Will Aid OPA Enforcing Strict Ban On Pleasure Driving

Allied Bombers ‘Make Thrust At New Territory      Southwestern Corner of Reich Blasted; Sicily Struck Again ©

Attack Today Reported On Friedrichshafen Setting Big Fires; Continue SicYy Attack.

Allied Bombers  Pound Germany   Southwest Corner of Reich Hit By RAF; Sicily Again Battered

Swiss Report New Aerial Blow At Friedrichshaven Sicily Airdromes Smashed Anou:   Ry UNITEN PREse

Cap Series of * -Week-end Blows  ‘Upon Europe   RAK DELAYS ACCOUNTING OF SUCCESS, BUT WORD), GETS AROUND.

Allied bombers strike hard at Friedrichshafen   Battered Italian outpost of Sicily again pounded

Russian Vise Squeezes Orel   Stalin Announces German Offensive Smashed Completely

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN OREL THEATER.   Hitler Loses 70,000 Men In Futile Drive Against Reds

RED VISE ON OREL SQUEEZES TIGHTER AS GERMAN TROOPS  FALL BACK ON VITAL BASE   talin Triumphantly Announces German Summer Offensive } Has Been Smashed Completely With 70,000 Of : 500,000 Men Used By Hitler Killed

REDS SQUEEZE STEEL VISE ON NAZIS AT OREL   Russian Troops Gain From Three Toa Five Miles On Southern Flank; Smash  On Other Sides   GENERALS LAUDED   Stalin Asserts Offensive Of Germans Shattered, Claims 70,000 Men Lost By Enemy

Use of Military Savings Sought   Byrd Group Would Give Treasury Funds

Byrd Committee Calls for Cuts In Expenditures   $186,000,000,000 Held Unexpended   Investigation Ureed

UNEXPECTED FUND WILL BE RETURNED   Belt Tightening Is Called as Direct War Expense Goes to 8 Million Hourly.

UNIT TO RECOVER LINSPENT BILLIONS   War Agencies’ Balances Get Attention of Byrd Committee

UNSPENT FUNDS TO BE SOUGHT   Byrd Committee To Seek Return To Treasury  Of 186 Billions

Unspent War Fund May Be Returned   Byrd Committee Wants 186 Billior Sent Back to Treasury

New Conference  Being Planned   United Nations Relief Conference Likely At New England Resort In Mid-August  we. Wwyea'ts* i eee a? OU kOe eee

Donets Basin Battle Rages   Reds Battering Toward Orel, Dnieper River

CARRIERS JOIN AERIAL ATTACK UPON RABAUL   Jap Cruiser Is Sunk; Others Damaged By Allies

*Daring Naval Move Is Made Right Under Japanese Nose   © Novy And Army Planes Deliver Crippling “Blow To Installations And Ships At Base

LATEST NEWS: BULLETINS  Knox Confirms Renart Jananece Stenning In Activity

KNOX CONFIRMS JAPS SPEEDING AIR ACTIVITY   Secretary Of Navy Sees No _ Indication Of Blow At Aussies   ARMY SIZE DOUBTFUL   Pleasure Expressed Over Progress Of Drive In Tunisia

PERMANENT FEDERATION   ‘Program For United Nations Proposed By Gov. Stassen 

{Mitchell Bombers. Escorted by Lightning Fighters, Dump Tons  Of Explosives On Railroad  “Yards At Sofia     Jo   ITALIAN MUD, RAIN CATISE RPS STATRMWATR

18 DIE AS PLANE HITS MOUNTAIN   NAVAL TRANSPORT PLUNGES NEAR RIO—ALL BUT ONE OF DEAD AMERICANS.

17 Americans Die As Navy Plane Crashes Near Rio  One South American Among Dead When Craft Hits Mountain

Plane Crashes Over Week End Fatal to Over Score of Men   Army and Navy Enlisted Men, Congressman Among Victims

County Members  To Attend Meet   Annual State Farm Bureau Convention Begins Wednesday

2 Enemy Ships Sunk By Planes  Another Damaged In Brakch Chaaunnl

Explain Labor Rule To Union   Declare Organizations Can Give Money To Election Campaigns.

UNIONG CAN HELP IN ELECTION, DECISION   Counsel for CIO Says Smith-Connally Bill Stops Ht.

FIND FIRES FROM. U.S. DAY RAD STILL BURNING   Air Offensive Over Continent Enters ‘11th a Day in 21st Large Scale Attack Since Sent. 25 —.

Student Paper Scores Brandi   Declares He Had Ended ‘His Usefulness ot “Oklahoma University

Students Censure Prexy  Q.U. Daily Charges Brandt Tried to ‘Ku Klux’ Profs

* Passenger Train Hits Automobile   War Workers Killed After Leaving Plant

WAR WORKERS ~ DEE IN CRASE   Passenger Train Strikes Automobile Near Coshocton, Killing 7

1 DIE AS TRAIN SMASHES AUTO   War Workers Drive Into Patt Of Hurtling Passenger Train

After Joy Riders A gair   OPA Starts New Drive Against Misuse Of B Or C Gasoline Rations

OPA to Check On Motorists   Nation-Wide Campaign Against Pleasure Driving On Supplemental Rations

DRIVE AGAINST JOY RIDING 1S ORDERED   Campaign Aimed at NonEssential Use of B and C Gas Rations.

Brown Says East Coast Gas Supplies "Shorter Now Than at Any Other: Time"

National Drive Against Pleasure  Driving Planned, Says OPA Chief

TO RESTRICT USE OF BAND C CARDS   BROWN ANNOUNCES DRIVE TO BAN PLEASURE DRIVING ON EXTRA GAS RATIONS.

New Nation-Wide Campaign Against Pleasure Driving Planned by OPA

Will Seek Pleasure Drivers  Using Supplemental Ration:   New Campaign, However, Is Aimed Only At Non-Essential Use Of ““B” And “C”’ Gasoline Supplies,  OPA Says

OPA Launches Drive Against Pleasure Rides   Attacks Nonessential Use of Supplemental B and C Gas Rations

ACT TO CURB JOY DRIVING   New Nationwide Campaigt Aimed At B and C Card Helders

Pleasure Driving Curb Is Announced   Supplemental Gas Use Is Forbidden

Operators May Lose Extra ‘Gas’ Drive Against Non-Essential Use of B and C Cards Opens

New Nation-Wide Campaign Against Pleasure Driving Announced Today

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‘wo Fliers Herd 150 Italian Prisoners lo Allied Lines Without Leaving Plane

Navy Plane Herds 180 Italian Troops Who Had Surrendered to Place Where American Forces Await Them

2 FLIERS CAPTURE [a0 PRISONERS   TELL HOW THEY HERDED ITALIANS TO U. S. LINES DURING WAR IN SICILY,

RAIL PAY HIKE GETS APPROVAL   Senate Group OK’s Boost Over Vinson’s Offer

ALLIES CAPTURE FIVE MAJOR TOWNS FROM GERMANS ON ITALIAN FRONT   Fifth and Eighth Armies Push Spearheads Into Nazi Defenses Aiming At Mount Massico.

Allies Bearing Down On Nazi Defense At Mount Massico; 5 Towns Taken

The Western Hinge of the German Defense in Italy.   FIVE MAJOR TOWNS FALL TO THE ALLIES   Vital Viaduct Linking France and Italy Knocked Out.

Doolittle Sends 100 Flying Fortresses Over Supply Harbor in Shattering Raid

SANITARIUM AT NEVADA BURNS   Baby Missing; 40 Roon Structure Is Destroyed

‘No Contract, No Work’ Policy Effective; No Chance Is Seen For An  A ageaomont   VON ARNIM UNDER CARE OF PSYCHIATRIST IN BRITAN

FORMER PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS DEAD   Germans Report Death o Alexandre Millerand

Ex-President Of France Dies   Alexandre Millerand Passes Away at Home At Versailles, Aged 84

Two Charter Changes.   French Leader Millerand Dies  _.. Bee, Duwi dot ne iin te

Succumbs. At Versailles, At: Age of 84, According to Berlin Radio Broadcast.   WARNED GROWING MIGHT OF GERMANY   Publicly Proclaimed Necessity of Conscription Terms Against Reich Menace In 1935

FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT DIES   Alexandre Millerand Saw Nazi Menace Early

A. Millerand, Who Warned French of Nazi Menace, Dies   Former President of Republic Cited Need for Two-Year Army Conscription in '35 to Guard Against ‘The German Menace.’

Former French President Dies   Millerand Warned Of Hitlers’ Power

MANY LEADERS “SAY TAX GOAL SET T00 HIGH   DOUBT EXPRESSED THAT CON _GRESS WILL APPROVE BEX  TEEN BILLIONS IN NEW:  REVENUE. +,

‘LEADERS DOUBT ABILITY 'TO RAISE 16 BILLIONS MORE IN FEDERAL TAXES

] Germany Claims New Strength Abuilding  Re Mhe Acenniantal Peace

Wichlta Falls Area   HOURS OF SUN AND MOON FOR WICHITA FALLS AREA

Enemy Trying to Escape Through Jammed Pass of Randazzo.  ALLIED SHIPS BOMB NAPLES NAVY YARD  British and American Armies Make Contact Above Bronte.

Storm Iti Coastal Defenses   Pour Shells Into Gulf of Naples Mondav

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO GET $12,000,000   State Subsidy Continuance Approved by Senate

SENATE PASSES SUBSIDIES BILL   §  Hand-out To Local Govern: ments Would Stay at Vj) 12 Millions .

STATE SUBSIDY FUND APPROVED   12 Million Annual Appropriation For Local Governments Continued

U.S. Grand Jury Criticizes War Dept. for Crash   St. Louis Glider Tragedy Result of Negligence

GRANGE HEAD HITS CUT IN GASOLINE   neat latent ied  Fichter Says Farm Groups Should Be Consulted

PLAN FOR NAVY DAY   E. C. Buehler Will Again Head the Program in Douglas County

Plan to Shift 30 Million in Jobs in 1942   Fix 80 Billion to Supply Munitions for Army of $200,000

Cost To Be Huge   30 Million Citizens Te Shift Jobs; Rationing To Spread

EIGHT MILLION FOR ARMY BY END OF YEAR   80 Billion Dollars to Be Spent on Munitions, 30 Million to Be Shifted to New Jobs   By WILLIAM E. ZIMMERMAN (LN.S. Staff Correspondent)

BILLIONS. TO BE. APENT. Fo#: MUNITIONS AND MILLIONS  -OF PERSONS.TO ENTER  ’- VITAL INDUSTRIES

Government Will Transfer Thirty Million Citizens to New Jobs Essential For War

» GREAT AGENDA MADE PUBLIC AT * SENATE HEARING   48 Hour Week Accepted As Essential To Full War Effort   BILLIONS FOR MUNITIONS   ao eterna cmnetnteesnente  Shift Of 30,000,000 Workers And Expansion Of Food Rationing Studied

DRIVE STARTED ON CHUNGKING   Japanese Column Moves Up River; Gorges Are Barrier

Allies: To Strike At Sicily First And Then Invade Continent Later

Two Confer on Island North of New Guinea Day Sixth Army Units Landed at  Arawe, New Britain.   PURPOSE OF TRIP REMAINS UNDISCLOSED   Chief of Staff Goes to Scene From 3-Power Parley— Later Sees Nimitz and Other Leaders.

First Meeting Of Two Since War Opening   Conference Held as_ Allied Troops Invaded  New Britain Island

“Tist- <0 So. Sacizie Cuczos-. JOINCIC eS Wit] 4.rawe US 1; firs: fee: 0-7 “wo _ uring “Yar

‘New Angles’ Uncovered In Bizarre Killing to ‘Which Women Confessed

R.A. F, Pilots Flying American-Built Planes Heavily Raid Ranaoon

HUGE POSTWAR PROBLEM FACES UNITED STATES   Use of Productive Capacity Built Up During Conflict Must Be Dealt With   JONES OPTIMISTIC   Secretary of Commerce Sees Proposed Use for Government-Owned Manufacturing

RUSSIANS BATTLE DESPERATE NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS   General Mannstein Putting Everything In Do Or Die Thrust At Rus sian Dnieper Line.

Only Five Miles From the City on the North.  RED ARMY RETREATS AT CHERNYAKHOY  Nazis Attacking With Steadily Increasing Strength,

NAZIS IN DESPERATE LUNGE   RUSSIANS AGAIN PILING REINFORCEMENTS IN KIE\ BULGE TO STOP NEW NAZI COUNTER-OFFENSIVE ; GAIN IN DNIEPER BEND

Junior Class To” Present Comedy At High School  . Auditorium: Friday

RED FORCE OF HALF MILLION STRIKES AXIS   Soviets Drive Within 20 Miles Of Vital Rail Junction In  Ukraine

Reds Drive to Within 20 Miles Of Korosten Rail Junction; Crash Defenses in Dnieper Bend

ee ME, IAAT DU, SD. GENERAL eee ; Declares America’s Future Is First Upon The Pacific; Mountbatten Arrives In Wachinoter

"Tear Japan Apart Before She Organizes" Counsels Lt. ‘Gen. DeWitt After Inspection

Hit Japan Now, Plea Of Dewitt   U. S. Forces Must Wade In And Tear Japan Apart, Says General On Aleutians Trip

Japan Must Be Destroyed, Pacific Commander Says; Urged Drive From Alaska, Recapture Of Philippines

“We Must Tear Japan Apart” Says Commander of Western Defense Are

General DeWitt Says ‘We Must Tear Japan Apart And Gut Her With Incendiaries,’ Or His Refurn From Attu: Alaska As A Base

ALEUTIANS GENERAL  SAYS JAPAN MUST BE  TORN APART QUICKLY GEN. DEWITT SAYS MUST  NOT WAIT FOR ENEMY TC NRCANITE RESOTIRCES

OUR MORTAL FOE  AMERICAN GENERAL SAYS JAPAN MUST RE TORN APART WITH BOMBS.

MUST STRIKE JAPAN HARD, FAST GENERAL DEGLARES AFTER INSPECTION TOUR TO ISLE

Dewitt Calls for Quick Offensive Against F. oe  Declares Full Fury. of Allied   Declares Full Fury of Allied Attack Needed to Crush Tans

Must Tear Japan Apart, DeWitt Says   General Back From Attv Says Enemy Is Pillaging Rich Empire   MAKING BULLETS TO FIGHT US   Must Tear Her Apart and Gut Her With Incendiaries He Savs

DEWITT CLAIMS WAR MUST BE DRIVEN TO JAPS   Asserts Japan is Mortal Foe; Must Be Destroyed

UNITED STATES MUST WADE IN, SHATTER JAPAN   General DeWitt Asserts Now Is the Time to Deliver Crushing Blows to Nippon Empire   SAYS PHILIPPINES  MUST BE RETAKEN   Alaska Is Base For U. S. Offensive to Destroy Tokyo, Commander In West Declares

EARLY BLOWS AT JAPS ARE URGED   Army Chief Says “We Must Wade In And Tear Japan Apart™

Must Wade In And Tear Japan Apart. DeWitt Says   Nips Are Qur ‘Mortal Voe, Head Of Western Defense Command States: Enemy Building

DEWITT CITES NEED FOR QUICK DRIVE ATJAPS   Officer Advises Allies Use Alaska as Base To Launch Pacific Offensive

TO CONDEMN 78 ACRES    Tract in Johnson County Will Be  Used for 852 Housing Units

Roosevelt In Liberia After Conference   ® Reviews U. 5. Negro Troops; Inspects Big Rubber Plantation

ROOSEVELT PAYS VISIT TO LIBERIA   President Pauses to Pay Respects to President Barclay

Hold Crimea, Hitler Order   Swedish Report Also Seys Germans Plon To Evacuate Rome

War Fund Total Is Now $24,317.   Deadline Is Extended Indefinitely ©

Suicides After Informing} Germans of Italy’s Capit ulation Before Agreed   Time With Allies 

ITALIAN INFORMER COMMITS SUICIDE   But Report To Nazis Upset Allied Attack Plans

Williams Hits NYA  Death Sentence  Says Youth Trained To Aid War Effort

Enter Suburbs of Nazi Bastions Along Dnieper.   ‘Loss of Central Front Base May Force Hitler To Pull Into Poland

Russians Capture Smolensk   SOVIETS BLAZE INTO SUBURBS OF ZAPOROZKE, DENETPROPETROVSK

DEALERS POST POINTS, PRICES   Food Value Points Must Be . Displayed Chairman Says.

‘Signals Mixed ‘Baby Plus Christmas Bonus Befuddles Distraught Dad

He Can't Get Used to Army   ‘Jakie’ Webb, Playboy, Tries New Game, Reno Police Arrest Him

NAZIS REPORT EVACUATION OF ORTONA ‘RUINS’   Canadian and Indian Troops Drive Germans Out Affer Facing Flame Throwers   AMERICANS GAIN   : Capture ~TwoMoré “Heights te Tighten Hold on Range Over locking San Vittore

City of Ortona Evacuated by Nazi Troops   ‘Russians Advance Within 18 Miles of   Zhitomir in Sweeping Offensixe;  6,200 Germans Slain, Scores of Tanks Chewed Un 

Nazis Report. Ortonia, Vital Adriatic Port, Is Abandoned; ‘Yanks Seize Two More Heights   Withdrawal Of Germans Indicates Possible General Retreat In East   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

Germans Admit Evacuation Of Adriatic Port   Ortona Apparently Won  By Canadians In Week Of Bayonet Fighting.

Adriatic Port Seized After Week's Battle   ‘Little Stalingrad’ Fall: To Canadian And  Indian Forces

Germans Leaving Orfona, Ruined East Italy Town   Canadians Successfu In Week of Bloody Street Fighting

MORE HEIGHTS IN HANDS OF    YANKEE ARM}   Ortona, North Anchor for Nazi Line in Italy, Has Been Termed “Miniature Stalingrad”

POSTOFFICE AGAIN URGES EARLY XMAS MAILING THIS YEAR   Public Cooperation Is Vital In Handling Volume Expected

EUROPE BLASTED FROM END TO END   Swarms of RAF Planes In ; Continuous Day and Night Bombardment

MULTITUDE OF FOOD MATTERS AWAITINGDAVIS   Range From Farm. Labor Shortages and Price “Squabbles to Questions  ‘Limited Diets ;         NEED QUICK ACTION   Whether New Director Would Make Any Drastic Changes-in' Production Matter Speculation -

MORE TIRES ASSURED   — Quadrupled Supply Of Passenger Tires Predicted By Jeffers

Passenger Tires To Be Available   Jeffers Reports On Rubber Supply

Jeffers Reports Synthetic Rubber Program Should Begin Providing Enough Tires hy End of 1943 to Keep U. S. Cars on Road

PASSENGER CAR TIRE PROSPECTS IMPROVE   Jeffers Says 12,000,000 Will Be Available This Year as Against 3474000 in 1942.

Jeffers Says Synthetic Rubber Program Will Be on Schedule By End of Year: Predicts Ample Supply

12 Million New Tires in 1943   Jeffers Reveals Stepup ir Number Available

Victory Tax To Be Supplanted:.   Will Probably Put It With Normal Levy

Yanks 40 Miles  Above Palermo   Allies Report 125,000 Prisoners  Taken in Sicilian Campaign to Date

Key Defense Trap Closing   Allies Have. Taken 125,000 Prisoners Ii Sicilian Campaign

Big Italian Port PoundedHardin Allied Offensive   Big Force of ‘Fortresses’ { Sighted Over Channel En Route to Europe

Great Bomber Force ‘Roars Over Channel For French Targets   Fortresses Head in General Direction of Lorient and St. Nazaire; Six Enemy Gunboats Destroyed, Three Damaged

FLYING FORTS’ BOMB LEGHORN AND AIRDROMI   American Planes Make Long Range Twin Assault

Flying Fortresses Also Attack Leghorn, Third Largest Italian Island In Mediterranean Sea; Invasion Plans About Ready      _ SOVIET DESTROYS ' MORE AXIS PLANES

PLASTERED BY AIRMEN   Freighter, 45 Barges Smashed; Gains On Ground Reported

N ew Guinea Supply Base Left in Ruins   Gains by American Troops on New Georgia Reported

NO CANDIDATES FILE FOR MANY MINOR OFFICES      County .Board Fears ‘ Headaches In Write-Ins   Only 285 Persons File  Tn Over 400  Offieac

STH COLES CO. FAIR 10 OPEN MONDAY   First Day Youth Day; Racing, Horse Show Start Tuesday

German Lifeline to Taganrog Severed; Red Army Driving To Cut Off Foe in Caucasus

REY. J. A. HALL HAS RESIGNED   To Accept Call To Church In New Kensincton Pa

I, J. A. HALL TESIGNS AS PASTOR HERI   to New Kensington On t. 1, From Wellsboro reh of Chrict.

U.S. Troops In Tunisia  Pushing On   Weather Hampers Action As Long Awaited Drive Still Delayed

WAR LOAN TOTAL NOW $1,022.78)   Large Volume Of Sales Seen Necessary To Reach Goal Here

‘Convict Rudnick Of Conspiracy In Grove Case   James Welansky Among Trio Aequitted At Hub By Superior Court Jury

Plane Plants ‘Asked for Men   Col. Clive Murray Declares They Must Yield Youths to Army

Herman Seide, Labor Head In State, Is Dead   President Of Wisconsin State Federation. Of Labor Dies ..At His Home In Milwaukee

Seide, State's AFL Head Dies   Was Long Prominent In Labor Circles

4 Believed Dead By Drowning In Butte Lake  ages & ani nt ie ak I a   Fishermen on Shore Report Seeing Boat Upset North of Dam

Nighi, Day Bombings Continue   Tempo of Aerial Warfare Rises During Lulls in  Russia, Tunisia

American, British Planes ~ Join In Blasting German Objectives In Nazi Europe

British and U.S. Planes Stream From England   Cologne Hit Again After Wilhelmshaven Nurnberg Assaults

Irish Army Chief Challenges U.S.   Fugitive McAteer Appears in Public

Outla wed IRA Chief, With Price on His Head, Addr esses Movie Aundien cein Heart of Belfast.

Western Germany Attacked by U.S. Bombers   Unidentified Targets Are Hit  Sawe Headanarterse

AMERICAN PLANES STAGE ATTACK ON WESTERN GERMANY   First Announced Raid Since Pulverizing Blow On_ Roller Bearing  Plants —

Hart Sentence  Is Commuted  Tn Nebraska Faces Other Charge In Sioux and —

‘Hart Sentence Is Commuted ‘Tn Nebraska Faces Other Charges  In Sioux and Kossuth County .

Ribbentrop In Italy To Appeal Qusting Of Nazis From Country   Bern. (U.P) — Authoritative sources said today that Rome would be declared an open city.

German Line ‘Disjointed   AMERICANS WIN BITTER FIGHT FOR STRATEGIC SICILIAN TOWN; 125,000 AXIS PRISONERS NOW HELD IN ALLIED STOCKADES FROM BIG CAMPAIGN

Von Ribbentrop in Rome to Discuss Possible Withdrawal of German  Troons.

Confers With Italians on Removal of German Soldiers and Return of Italians to Homeland.

U.S. Troops Take Key City; Germans Face Encirclement; Martial Law in All Italy

Approach Messina, at Sicily’s Tip   American Naval Vessels Find Few Enemy Ships in Italian Waters

Striking Coal Miners Start Back to Work   Workers at Shipyard In Philadelphia  Decide to Return

Return to Mines Movement Starts   Alabama, Indiana Umon Men Vote to End Strike

NEW AIRPORTS “FOR LEBANON AND PALMYR;   Among 300 Pa. .Communities To Get Air “Corvice

Demand Is Made for U.S. Help   Recognition of Agricul. ture’s Claims Asked, Af ter Hoover Address

teenie aeeeneetinenmed ieiainiiieieie d  Demand That Agriculture Be Classed As Essential Ind., Workers Be Deferred

Farm Stale Governors Demand Deferment Of Essential Workers In Des Moines Conference

Governors Demand Farm Deferments   MIDWEST GOVERNORS, CROP EXPERTS DEMAND RECOGNITION OF AGRICULTURE AS AN ESSENTIAL U. S. WAR INDUSTRY

Demand Farming Be Recognized As Essential”   Governors of 12 States Meet For Artlan

Desperado To qht Removal S ‘ays He Will Lie  ae vyown and Die Before

Morticians Eye WPB Coffin Law   Funeral Directors Want Last Word

War Production Board Order Stirs Michigan Funeral Directos Today

Judge Ayers Will Take Evidence in Sulit Against Sheriff Hale _ ;

CIO Leader  Fights Draft Of Manpower   Brands It Scheme To Freeze Workers  In Sub-Standard Jobs  YyYyerewel Fwmmlroaw amnrrnet

LABOR DRAFT ATTACKED BY CIO OFFICIAL   Chief Bottleneck Termed  Shortage in Mo terials 

War Production Problem Blamed on Manpower Use   Lack of Planned _ Program Held as Bottleneck

Production Called War Bottleneck   Proper Use of Workers Solution ClO Chief Declares

Senate Committee Is Told  Manpower Is Not Problem  Proper Use Of Available Materials Would Put End To Bottleneck, CIO Chief Claims

Labor Leader Says Material Shortage Acute   R. J. Thomas Warns Large Scale Dismissals in War Plants Loom

C.1.0. OPPOSES WORKER DRAFT   Union Spokesman Asserts Full Use Of Labor Not Being Made

17 MILLION GOAL IN WAR BOND EFFORT   Quotas For Counties in Corn State Will be Somewhat Lower Than In Last Drive.

WAKEMAN WARNS OF NEWSPRINT GUT DUE ABOUT APRIL 1   WPB Official Sees 10 Per Cent Reduction Necessary ; Says Pulp Supplies Avra law.

Axis Corridor Bombed In Southeast Tunisia   Snow And Rain Hamper Activities In Ground Fighting Near Bizerte.

Allied Planes Attack  Axis Corridor   Snow, Rain Shrouds Battlefield West of Bizerte

2.12 Inches of — Rain Falls Here   Precipitation Will End Tonight, Forecast

ALLIES SMASH AT RABAUL AIR BASE      Heavy Bambers In: Raids On Lakunai Airdrome, . Buin Airfield

Allied Bombers Raid Rabaul, Buin; Skirmishes Continue Near Salamaua

State To Boost Milk Prices   Commission Boosts Milk 3 Cents A Quart Effect. Here Unknown

Reds Drive Foe Back From One Position On Donets Front   Berlin I Acksiawleages Thal. _ xis. Qn: i

Capture Of Salamaua Only Matter Of Days   May Be The Key Unlocking A Giant New Offensive Move Pointing Toward Japan And Tokyo

racitic balilc (UU DeCUIMe Dakiie Wi Japan— —By Hamilton W. Farx  Fall Of Salamaua Will Start New Offensive

Allied Airmen Rain Bombs On New Britain   Attackers Destroy Six Jap Planes At Cape Gloucester

Allies Strike  Many New Blows at Foe   Bombers Range Over Wide Area, Wrec' Many Planes, Hit Air Bases; New Britain Target Gets Worst Raid

Jap Air Bases Blasted by Allied Planes   Enemy Craft on Ground Are Wrecked in Attacks

Allies Batter Jap Air Bases   Destroy Warplanes, Set Large Fires

Complete Plans For Spectacle Here August 3   Soldiers Will Also Visit Twin City War Factories

PROGRAM FOR’ ARMY DAY FETE TAKING SHAPE   Industrial War Exhibit, Parade and Show Listed   COMMITTEES AT WORK   Soldiers To Visit Twin  City War Plants On  Visit Here

Russians Pound Leningrad Salient   Ancient Capital of Czars Frees Itself of Besiegers and Strikes For Baltie Coast Line

ON 1,250 MILE FRONT   Pound Vulnerable German Salient Outside Leningrad

Rommel May Give Up Tripolitania As Result Of British Moving Within 50 Miles Of Tripoli      REDS REPORT NAZIS ‘ THROWING DOWN GUNS

Russians Threaten To Isolate Germans On Northern Front   Anchor of Enemy's Salient Lost. As Leningrad Sicge Is Lifted; Reds May Thrust Toward Prussia

AXIS ARMIES ARENEARISOLATION ALONG ONE FRONT   Russians On 1250-Mile Front  Are In Smashing Offen give, Rivaled By Nazi Dur jing 1941.   NAVY REPORTS JAPS   LOST FIVE VESSELS   Allied Troops Take Final Two Jap Strongholds In Papuan, New Guinea, In Four Locations.

Reds Intensify Offensives All Along The Line   Press Advantage Relentlessly Against Retreating Germans

FOE IS THREATENED BY ISOLATION IN NORTHERN SECTOR   immiediate Peril To. Axis Army Lies At Narrow Corridor West Of Stalingrad

WTAL FORTRESS   General Retreat Seen Only Alternative For Nazis   RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON ALL MAJOR FRONTS

Reds Lift Siege Of Leningrad; Hit German Salient      Victorious Russians Threaten To Isolate the - Axis Armies On the Northern Front, Or Force Wide Retreat

GRIM TRAGEDY STRIKES TWICE   Sister Dies Following Word Of Soldier-Brother’s Death

OEE INCREASED U. & MEAT PRODUCTION   Civilians Will Not Be Given Greater Amounts, Army and Lend Lease ‘Needs Greater

AG UNIT SEES “43 MEAT HIKE   Civilian Supplies To Be ‘Smaller Despite Increase

EXPECT INCREASE IN MEAT PRODUCTION   Armed Services To Take All of Additional Supply

Boards Submit Broad Social Seeurity Plan   Roosevelt Expected To Give Program To Publie Shortly

EXPANSIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY MAY BE DRAFTED   American Beveridge Pian With Suggestions By Security Board May Become Public Shortly.   PRESENTATION MAY BE PRESIDENT’S ONLY MOVE   If Tax Is Increased to 8 Pe Cent the Employers Par Would Be 9.5 Per Cent Employes 2.5.

News Behind The News  Covymght MeClore Newspaper   WASHINGTON Ry Rav Tucher

PREMIER BADOGLIO TELLS COUNTRYMEN TO FIGHT IF FORMER ALLY ATTACKS

Eisenhower Urges ltalians To Turn On German Force:   Expects Nazi Army To Put Up Battle

Amistice-May Put Italians into War Against-Former “Ally, Traditional Enemy.      Allies Pledge Aid As Pamohlets Dronned

ETWEEN ITALY, ALLIES COMES TO ENE   Eisenhower Offers Aid — In Driving Germans From Country

Shell Airfield While British Defend Breach   8th Army Battles Rommel Fiercely In ‘Devil’s Cauldron’ as Americans Gain. In Maknassy Area; Soviets, Gain In Triple Smolensk Drive.

STIMSON WARNS OF U, S. LOSSES   Secretary Confident of Victory; Rommel  Will Fly

Stimson Says Americans To Lose Heavily   Secretary Has No Doubt of Outcome Of Tunisian Kale

Russian Baltic Army Scores In Nevel Drive   Has Torn Almost 1,000 Square Miles From Grasp of Foe

More Than 70 Villages and Hamlets Taken by Russians  GERMAN DEFENSES FACING COLLAPSE Shattered Nazi Divisions  Take Up New Positions

Dr. Seale Harris To Speak At First Baptist Church Here Sunday Morning

ALLIED ARMIES MARK TIME IN ITALY   Rainy Weather Catches Up With Mechanized Equipment

RAIN HALTING “ALLIED DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Mechanized movement halted entirely along front in Italy

Allies Advance Along Whole  Italian Front   20 Towns Captured By Allied Infantrymen U.S. Warships Shell Nazi Targets Again

Fifth and Eighth Armies Advancinc On 90-Mile Front   British, Americans, Making Progress

ALLIED ARMIES . GAIN ALL ALONG MOUNTAIN LINE   Military Installations At Genoa Are Hammered  hw Fartracese   WARSHIPS BOMBARD GERMAN POSITIONS

AIR AND SEA ARMS SPREAD TO NEW AC.  TIVITY AS LAND FORCES ADVANCE ALONG 90-MILE FRONT.

Fifth and Eighth Armies  Edge Forward During Day   BLOWS STRUCK BY AIR AND THE SEA   Industries on the Italian Riviera. Hard Hit by Bombers:

Heavy Bombers Smash at Genoa Riviera, as Warships Shell  Communications

Allied Armies Edge Ahead In Italy: Warships, Planes Smash at Riviera and Genoa

Advance Within 11 Miles Of Central Battresses Of Nazi Mountain Line

Troops Seize Many Towns  In Hard Fight   Air and Sea Units Help in Grim Battle; U. S., British Forces Make Advances Of Varvina Lenath: Bombers Hit Riviera

Allied forces edgeaheadon Italian front   Air, sea arms in new activity

Allied Forces  Score New Sains in Italy Some 20 More Towr  i a i a   Some 20 More Towns Are Enveloped by Ground Troops

Heavy Bombers Smash at Industries On Riviera, Genoa; Attacks ‘By : - Foe Torpedo Boats Repelled

Allied Air, Sea Forces Aid Drive   Advances Made All Along Front In Ltaly

New Position Taken By Dean Christensen   Resignation As Head Of Agriculture College At The State University Is Submitted To Dykstra

Belief Exists That Italian Report May Refer To Ambassado1 Winant's Son Shot Down Dur. ine Raid   LATTER NOW SAID To BE PRISONER

SON OF PRESIDENT CAPTIVE, SAYS NAZIS   FDR’s Son Shot Down In Raid Over Germany, Claim

Yanks Lead Cards 2 to 0   Cooper's Tight Game Ruined in Sixth by Bill Dickey’s Homer

OFFICE TERM BILL PASSED BY SENATORS   Upper house agrees to lengthen term of lowa state officers

Senate Passes Two Election Reform Bills   Would Lengthen Terms; Ap.  point Commissioners

HOUSE WOULD END SILVER PURCHASING   N. Y. Man‘s Amendment Carries On Vote Of 166 To 103

HOUSE VOTES U.S. SILVER — BUYING HALT   Continuance Would Aid ‘Only 60,000 Miners And Owners’

HOUSE VOTES HALT SILVER PURCHASES   Vote Is 166 To 103; Republicans Back Move

44 CROP GOALS TO SET RECORD   WFA Calls For Reductions In All Kinds Of Meat

MYSTERY MAN’ TO TALK, HE PROMISES   ‘Many’ Higher-Ups Won't Sleep Well ff He Tells All? Is Comment.

Mystery Man Of Washington To Tell His Story   Entertains For  Hich Officials

MYSTERY MAN OF “R” STREET TO TELL WAR CONTRACT PROBERS ABGUT PARTIES

MYSTERY MAN PROMISES TO TELL ALL   Many High-ups in Capitol Won't Sleep Well if Full - Details of War Contracts Tald

Swedes Warn Nazis Against Mine Laying   Blunt Note To Berlin Hints Navy Will Fire On Neutrality Violators   SUBMARINE [INCIDENT   Stockholm Reports Ger man Reply To Attack Unsatisfactory

Swedes Find Nazi Mines, Send Nofe  Also Dislike Answer To Protest Over Recent Incident

Navy to Fire On Intruders, Note Hints   German Mines Fouud _in Neutral Waters, Stockhohu Says

Sweden’s Navy Ordered To Take Action Against Nazis   Germany Warned in Note of Protest Fleet Would Fire on Any Belligerent Vessel Found Laying Mines in Territorial Waters, or Attacking Her Shipping

Sweden Warns Nazis To Quit Laying Of Mines   Blunt Protest Sent To Berlin; Answe1 To.Earlier Note Is Disliked .

Axis Gets Warning On Laying Mines In Swedish Waters   Sweden’s Navy Will Take Measures Against German Forces Laying Mines In Territorial Wate rs Or Firing On Ships

Sweden Issues Blunt Warning   “Nazi Mines Found: “In Nearby Waters

Sweden Issues Blunt Warning  ‘Nazi Mines Found   ‘Nazi Mines Found In Nearkhy Wotere

ALSO PROTEST FIRING UPON SWEDISH SUB   Mines Allegedly Found In Waters Of Sweden While Sub Is Hunted.

Swedish Navy ToResist Nazi Mine Laying   Alleged German Firing on Submarine Brings Warning Also

Sweden Send: Profest Note To Germany  Warns Against Further Violation

HOUSE HITS AT SALARY LIMIT   New Ceiling Formula Is Blow At President's Income Authority

House Nullifies FDR's $25,000 Limit on Wage   Pearl Harbor DayCeiling Substituted For That Of President

Pope Deplores Attack on Rome By Americans   Calls upon Catholics Te Pray for Speedy End of War

Pope Pius Deplores Bombing of Rome. Asks Christians to Pray for Peace   Cites Holy See's Neutrality and Its Pleas For Sparing Civilians and Monuments of Faith

Pope Deplores   Rome Bombing   Mentions Damage to San Lorenzo Basilica

Pope Bemoans RomeBombings.  Urges Prayers   Mentions..San: Lorenzo, In Great Part Destroyed By Monday Air Attack

Rome Claims Pope Deplored Bombing   Broadcast Tells Of Papal Letter

POPE DEPLORES ROME BOMBING   Calls Upon Catholics World Over to Pray for Peace;  - Mentions Damage to Basilica of San Lorenzo

POPE DEPLORES BOMBING OF ROME   CALLS ON CATHOLICS TO PRAY FOR PEACE — MENTIONS DAMAGE TO CHURCH.

“Ar acy Son-erence a~ 3aSa ) anca Siows 2 Jai ure o- . azi Sy7 “ore

Interpreting  The War   German Propaganda Attempt to Laugh Off Allied Parley

Beginning Of The End In — Sight For Adolph Hitler   ‘Nazi Generals Confronted With Blunt And Specific Warning Of Worse Events To Come

Dutch ‘Battle’ Nazis By Black Market In Food   Desperate steps .are being taken to stop the practice, Netherlands reports say,

REGISTRATION AT SCHOOLS STARTED   Total “Point Ration” En rollment Monday Estimated at 10,000

REGISTRATION AT ~ SCHOOLS STARTED      Totes “Point Ration” Enrollment Monday Estimeted at 10,000 - -

Oil Project ‘Boner May Be Bonanza   Canol Development In Canada Creates Controversy

Manpower Still Important Issue  With Congress   Nation’s Officials Have Military Demands for More Soldiers and Labor Wants More Workers.

Manpower Is Chief Capital Study Subjeet   Capitol Hill Seeks Compromises to Satis fy Military and Man power Demands

15 PER CENT OF STATE SAID ILL WITH FLU   Health Authorities Take Steps To Curb Spread Of Disease

 Between 15 and 20 Per Cent of State’s Population Stricken with Influenza

Bank Bandit Pair Caught . In. Oklahame   Heavily-Armed Gunmer Took $12,000 From Vault at Broken Arrow   WAITED 8 HOURS ON TIME LOCK   Bank President and Wife Held Captive; Six Persons Locked in Vault :

‘CAPTURE BANK: BANDITS   Tulsa Police Characters Rob Bank at Broken Arrow of $12,000

BANK BANDITS GET $12,000   Oklahoma President and Wife Held Captive Hight Hours

Bank Robbers Make Getaway   Hold Bank Head And Wife Captive Ustil Vault Opens.

Bandits Hold Gens. Giraud Banker, Wife, And DeGaulle Take $12,000 Get Together

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Up In House  Party Fight Seen On Renewal: Connally   Party Fight Seen  On Renewal; Connally Bill Faces Amendment Senate Votes On Taxe:

TRADE SQUABBLE AND TAX SCRAPS FACE CONGRESS   Legislators Fight To Keep Prerogatives and Power To Negotiate Treaties   BATTLE ON PARTY LINES   P a y-aS-you-go-s k i p-a-year Federal Financing Plan Ready in New Form

Trade Pacts Up in Party line Rattle   Two-Da\ Debate Starts ‘cday On Move to  Extend Power

Bitter Battle On Trade Pacts Now Forecast   Party Fight Loom: ' As Debate Starts

PARTY BATTLE DEVELOPS OVER TRADE ISSUE   Two-day Debate on Extension Powers Starts in House

Today In Washington: Reciprocal Trade Pact Battle Looming; Ruml Plan Moves Into Senate

Germans Claim 17 Allied Ships Sunk   Says U-Boats Made Attack In Atlantic

TOLL ON CONVOYS CLAIMED BY NAZIS   Broadcast Says Troop Ships Among Those Sunk

GERMANS CLAIM 17 SHIPS FROM CONVOY SUNK ~   Date of Attack Not  ’ Given and No Confirmation by Any Alhed Source

BERLIN CLAIMS 17 SHIPS SUNK      Says Attack By U-Boats In Atlantic Nets Many Ships Besides Three Steamers

e e °  F ight rising flood water of Missouri   Levels at Blair, Omaha up; Siow. City dike breaks

WAGE EARNER WITH FAMILY TO BENEFIT, WITHHOLDING TAX ANALYSIS REVEALS   Collector of Internal Revenue Explains New Income Tax Law Which Becomes Effective Thursday, July 1

Wage Earner With Family To Benefit, Analysis Of Withholding Tax Reveals

WOMAN ADMITS THEFT OF CHILD FROM HOSPITAI   Intense Longing for Baby Prompted Her to Take Gurney Infant.

WIFE OF SOLDIER HELD AS KIDNAPER OF OREGON BABY   Judith Gurney Found Alive and Well; Abductor Tells Police Story of Frustrated Motherhood.

Turkey Moving Closer Toward  Side Of Allies   Declaration Is Expected Soon

REVISED RUML TAX PLAN BILL ~ STILL OPPOSEL      Majotity of House Ways and Means Committee Holds Firm Against Abating Full Year's Tax

FORGIVENESS  TAX PLAN PROPOSED 1S HEAVILY OPPOSED   Substitute For Original Skip-aYear Plan Offered and Support Sought - -

Opposition To Skip-Year Tax Plan Unshaker   House Committee Cold To Modified Version Of Ruml Proposal.

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 STILL OPPOSED BY MAJORITY   Most Members of House Committee Remain Firm In Opposition Despite Modifications   MEASURE-REVISED   Carlson Proposal Would Skip Tax Year In Putting Collections On Current Basis

MOST MEMBERS Of COMMITTEE STILL SHOW OPPOSITICN   Carlson Sought New Support In Offering Substitute to Original Bill But Fails to   Make Gains.   MODIFICATION IS DIS-_ CUSSED PRIVATEL)   Committee ‘Turned Down Rum! Plan By Vote of 15 to 10, Carlson Offers Explanation. of Bill.

Good Preaching, Good Singing at Revival Meeting ee e   PASTOR OF FIRST METHODIS PUBPOCK, PREAC HING TWICE DWLY

Many Miners Still Idle    But UMW Officials Think Work Will Be. Normal By Monday

UMW Oragnizers Seeking To Get Men To Return To Mines   Production Spotty As Groups of Miners Switch To ‘No Contract—No Work’ Policy; Unresi Spreading

MINERS STAY OUT OF PITS   50 Per Cent Continue To Defy ‘Back to Work’ Order

Many Miners Idle in Big Penn Field   : New Holdouts Join the ‘No ® Contract-No Work’ Group; Some Picketing   HOPE FOR NORMAL OPERATION MONDAY   In Nation as a Whole About Half of the Miners Are erill Out -

NAZI POSITIONS   Heaviest Air r Blows of Mediterranean War Struck In Salerno Area

HUGE AIR FLEET POUNDS GERMANS   BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS BLAST ENEMY TROOPS AND SUPPLIES AT SALERNO.

Allies Pelt Nazis With Record Weight of Bombs  Deadly Airfleet Is Effective in Supporting Troops

Allies Pelt Nazis With Record Weight of Bombs  Deadly Airfleet Is Effective in :

GREAT FORCE OF AIRPLANES NOW MASSED   Huge Concentration of Air Power in the Mediterranean   SUPPORTING ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY   Thousands of Sorties Are Flown Over Battle Area

German Lines Battered By Allied Bombs  Troops And Suppl; Dumps Blasted In Forays

Airmen Blast Nazis From Salerno Hold  Vast Armada Gives Troops Great Support

HIGH-OFFICIAL QUITS OPA; “POLITICS” IS:        Nepored Official Terms Patronag “Moro Insidious Than Black Market.”

High Official Quits OPA; Terms Patronage Is Worse  Than Any Black Market

GREATEST FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS ATTACK GERMANY   BLOCKBUSTERS FALL ON GERMAN CAPITAL; 32 RAF PLANES LOST

Four-Ton Bomb: Rain On Berlin, Ludwigshaven —   '],000-Plane-Armada Sears Nazi Capital And Chemical City; 32: Raiders Are. Lost

Ludwigshafen. Also Battered By Explosives   U. S. Flying Fortresses Range Over Western Germany Today

BERLIN HIT BY LARGEST OF ALL RAIDS   700 Bombers Take Part In Attack Against Nazis

HUGE ARMADA OF RAF PLANES STAGES ATTACK   Large Fires Reported Started In German Capital Obscured By Clouds

Ludwigshaf'n Also Hit In Night Raid   American Flying Forts Follow Up With Big Daylight Sweep

Ludwigshafen, Berlin Targets   At Least 700 Heavy Bombers Participate In Raids; Two And Four-Ton Blockbusters Fire Capital; 32 Planes Fail To Return

—AIR RAIDS—   Ludwigshafen Also Target; More Than 700 Bombers Used

At Least 700 and Perhaps 1000 R. A. F. Planes Were Included in Greatest Force To Ever Strike Germany, London Says

Berlin Blasted By Big Force of Bombers As Second Attack Smashes Ludwigshafen

LUDWIGSHAFEN ALSO RIPPED IN FIERCE ATTACK   700 and Perhaps 1,000 Heavy Bombers Take Part in Twin Assault

JO PLANES LOST IN THIN ATTACKS ON GERMAN-HELD COUNTRIES ON YESTERDAY

Ludwigshaffen and Targets in Western Germany Also Suffer   Two and Four-Ton BlockBusters Dropped on Capital of Reich

1000 RAF Bombers Believed Involved;  Ludwigshafen Hit   Twin Aerial Mission Cost 32 Planes; Drop 2 And 4-Ton Blockbusters; U.S. Forts Attack West Germany

Greatest Blow Of War At Nazi Cities   Fortresses Continue Attacks On Targets In Germany

U. §. LIBERATORS IN. NORWAY RAID   British Lose 32 Planes and Americans Nine In  Ee es see eee ae

RAF AND FORTS IN ATTACK   Estimate 1,000. ‘Planes Hit Berlin, Ludwigshafen

Allies Shatter NaziHubs   U.S. FLYING FORTS SPLINTER TARGETS IN WEST GERMANY

Thirty-Two RAF Bombers Out of Perhaps Thousand Lost In Double Assault

Largest Air Armada Ever Sent To Germany Hits Capital And  Taiduiochaven Armee (Center

FORTS FOLLOW  RAF ATTACKS   Main Strength Hits Berlin; Ludwigshafen Also Bombed Heavily.   NEW OFFENSIVE IS SEEN

GREATEST ARMADA RAF BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN OBJECTIVES  BERLIN AND LUDWIGSHAFEN HARD HIT; FLYINC FORTRESS RETURN TODA’

Block-Busters Rain On Hitler's Capital   100 To 1,000 RAF Planes Blast City In Smashing Attack; Ludwigshaven Hit Again; Yanks Strike Continent Today

OF MISSILES HITS BERLIN   At Least 700 Craft Believed Used by R. A. F. ‘for Blow at Capital and at Ludwigshafen — 32 Planes Lost.

NAZI CAPITAL OATTERED BY AEGORD WAVE   Ludwigshafen Also Target of Great Armada; Fortresses Active by Day.-

EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES IN CAPITAL SEEN   Tons of Blockbusters Burst On German Cities As Raiders Circle Over Their Targets   FORTS OUT TOOAFT

RAF Puts On Biggest Raid Yet   Berlin Reported Chief Objective Jn Mass Attack

At Least 700 And Possibly 1,000 Huge Aircraft Take Part In Night Attacks, Dropping Incendiaries And High Explosives On Capital And Site Of Vast Chemical Works—Twin Mission Costs 32 Planes —U. S. Flying Forts Over Western Germany

Greatest Armada Of RAF Planes Followed by Forts   Ludwigshafen and Berlin Were Targets For British Assault

Incendiary Bombs and High Explosives Dumped on the German Capital, Started Large Fires.   LUDWIGSHAFEN ALSO BOMBED LAST NIGHT   At Least 700 Heavy Bombers and Perhaps a Full Thousand Took Part in Attacks by RAF LAST NIGHT.

Nazi Capital, Ludwigshafen  KAF Targets   U.S. Flying Fortresses With Fighter Support Attack Western Germany,   ATTACK OUTSKIRTS

‘Perhaps Thousand RAF Heavy Bombers Release Blockbusters On Nazis

Forts Bomb Germany In Day Raid   Explosives Leave Large Fires Raging In Reich Capital

Aerial Armada Causes Havoc in German Capital   Thousaid Planes Are Reported to Have Taken Part

U. S. Flying Fortresses Strike At Western Germany Following Record Attacks On Ludwigshafen, Berlin   British Lose Only 32 Of At Least 700 Planes Participating In Devastating New Offensive; Larae Fires Reported Started In Nazi Canita}

Berlin Is’ Target Of Allied Planes   Bombs and High Explosives Start Large Fires in Naz: Capital   700 BOMBERS IN RAID.   More Than 350 2-Ton Block Busters Were Dropped Last. Night

Big Bombers Heavily Blast Berlin, Hit Ludwigshafen Second Nighi in Succession   GREAT FIRES SET   Fortresses, Which Blasted Aircraft Depot in Norway Yeslerday, Attack Germany Todev

Berlin, Ludwigshafen Blasted By Perhaps A Thousand Heavy Bombers

Giant armada bombs Berlin   1,000 planes leave skies aglow; beat Ludwigshafen

Greatest Aerial Armada Ever Sent Over Reich; Blockbusters Blast Lud utwakatan Ame

Two Reich Cities Charred by Bombs   Greatest Armada of RAF Heavy Bombers Ever Sent to Germany Blasts — Night at Berlin and Ludwigshafen.   Twin Mission Costs the RAF 32 Planes; Larye Fires Are Started

74. Tons of Bombs A Minute Dropped   American Sky Battleships Follow RAF’s Fliers’ Night Attack bv Daylight Assault

U. &. Forts Lash Reich   Great Fires Are Started In Hitler's Capital; 700 To 1,000 Big Bombers Take Part; Ludwigshafen Pounded

German Skies Blaze of Red as Bombs Fall   Greatest RAF Armada of Entire War Hits Berlin, Ludwigshafen

Berlin Is’ Target Of Allied Planes   Bombs and High Explosives Start Large Fires in Nazi Capital   More Than 350 2-Ton Block Busters Were  Dropped Last. Night

Vast Areas Devastated By Raiders   Powerful Air Fleet Is Sent Out By British — Another Attack Made Today By Americans *

London Sees Start Of Biegest Air Offensive   32 British Planes Fail To Return From Mission Farts Over Continent

“Greatest” Air Fleet Rips Berlin   Ludwigshafen Also Hit by Massive RAF Assault; Forts Blast Reich.

Ludwigshafen Also Battered By Greatest Force of Heavy Bombers Ever to Hit Reich °   Fortresses Resume Assault After Night Attack hy More Than 700 Planes: RAF Loses 32 Big Bombers

1000 Bombers Smash Berlin, Ludwigshafen   Four-Ton Blockbusters Wreak Havoc; Fires Started by Incendiaries; Forts Renew Raids   By ROBERT N. STURDEVANT

Hundreds of RAF’s ‘Heavies’ Bomb Berlin and Ludwigshafen Forts Follow Up in Day Attack

BLOCKBUSTERS MAUL BERLIN, LUDWIGSHAFEN   Fortresses Carry Out Continued Assault During Daylight

Flying Forts Follow Up in Day Assault   Greatest Bomber Fleet Strikes German Capital; New Air Offensive Seen

That Old Income Tax Bugaboo Bobs Up To Plague You Aaain   You Try And Figure Out What Various Proposed Changes Will Mean: Payroll Checkoff Likely

ATTACK ON RENNES RAILWAY HUB HELD MOST DEVASTATING   Brig. Gen. Longfellow Tells of Flying Fortress Foray in France on March 8,

Reich Devastating   8th Air Force Chief Discloses the ‘Extent of Damage In Big Bomber Raids

Wiring Basis of State Grove Evidence  More Holocaust . Witnesses Take Stand Today  By ane Ehomas _ BOSTON, Ma (UP)—Th   U.S. Raid on. Rennes Mos! Devastating”   Greatest of Its’ Kind, Yank Air General Reports

300 Planes Hit Sardinian Ports   FOUR AXIS SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM AS 15 ARE HIT; HARBORS, AIRDROMES ARE ROCKED; NAZI BOMBERS TRY RAID ON BRITAIN

Bar Bill Goes To - State High Court  Supreme Body Accepts Jurisdiction

Kimmel Denies Asking Present Court Martial   N. Y. Congressman Demands Facts

KIMMEL DENIES REPORT   Immediate Courtmartial Not Demanded Says Naval Commander

Two Women Jurors Accused Of Having Expressed Opinions In Case   DECISION WILL BE GIVEN ON MONDAY

State’ s Attorney Asks Mistrial In Flynn Case   Women Jurors Accused Of Expressing Opinions Refore Start of Trial

Flynn Mistrial Sought; Women  Jurors Accused  Two Stated Opinions Before Hearing Began, Says District Attorney  AFFIDAVITS CITED  Move Interrupts Testimony by Blonde With Black Wig   Two Stated Opinions  Before Hearing Began Canoe Diseteict Attarnet

FEEDING WORLD AFTER THE WAR TO BE BIG JOB   American Resources To Be Strained But Cooperation To Relieve Burden

German Manpower So Shaky Losses In Russia Not Likely to Be Replaced

Reich Army Ts ‘Skeleton’   - Losses in Russia ., : \ Seen Irreplacéable.

MANPOWER Of NAZIS SAPPED   Doubtful If Germany Can  Replace Losses On Red Front

Nazi Losses In Manpower  Held Critical   Russian Campaign Casnaltic: Believed Terran laccs

Army Leaders Say Germany Is Exhausted   Little Chance It Can Replace Lost Manpower

Nazi Losses In Russia Can't Be Replaced, Army Men Aver   Manpower Blows So Severe Germany ‘Cannot Fill Gaps, Officers Believe

CLOSE LIVESTOCK MARKET   Okishoma City Action Caused by - Aeetls Crentng

CLOSE LIVESTOCK MARKET   Oklahoma City Action Caused by ' Cattle Surplus

Maurice Resident Dies In Chicago Union Station John Schreur Was On His Way To

UMW Heads Ignore Victory Plea, Charge   ‘Dempsey Divorce Trial is Postponed

WILLKIE SAYS GOP CAN WIN   LIBERAL, REALISTIC PLATFORM IS URGED FOR 1944 CAMPAIGN

WILLKIE PREDICTS GOP VICTORY IN °44   Can Win With Constructive, Liberal Domestic Platform

G.O.P. Gets Willkie Plan   Domestic, Foreign  Program Need Cited

WILL SING FOR. ARMY MEN   Thanksgiving Day Program at. Ft. anksgiving Da y K. U. Girls

WILL SING FOR ARMY MEN   Thanksgiving Day Pr sig fag Bed at Ft. Leavenworth by K

SEE NEW NIPPO PACIFIC TRY   AERIAL LULL, SHIPPING CHANGE MAY MEAN BLOW

U.S. Bonibers Blast Bases In Solomons   Kahili- and: Munda Raided;'. Jap ‘Patrol . Wiped - Out on Guadalcanal -*

U.S. FLIERS POUND JAPS IN SOLOMONS   Aerial Offensive Is Aimed At Keeping Enemy Behind Line

Four Jap Bases Pounded by TS. Fliers   Enemy Patrol Trying To Escape from Guadaleanal Destroved

R ALF. RAINS BOMBS ON BERLIN   Riots in Nazi Capital Reported in Unconfirmed Dispatches

TELLS HOW BONDS REALLY SAVE LIVES      ‘Ernie Pyle >yle Shows How It Works Out In Actual Battle

More Bonds Boughtat Ho: 1e Result In Lives Saved on the Battlefield

Ernie Pyle Writes of How War Bonds Aid . Soldiers in Taking German-Held Hillside

Taxpayers Back Home Capture Hill [In Sicily and Others Like It, Says Pyle

NEARLY : 10,000 WORKMEN AT RIVER .ROUGE PLANT IN . VOLVED IN WALKOUTS YESTERDAY

PAROLE RACKET RING IS BROKEN UP IN RALEIGH   Undetermined Number Of State's Prisoners Victimized; Several Held, But Names Not Disclosed.

State Parole Racket Ring  Is Uncovered   Three Persons Already Being Held and Other Arrests Expected — in Sensational Swindling -Set Up Uncovered in Investigation Ordered by Broughton.

SCHOOL CONCERT ANNOUNCED   Wellsboro Grade School Will _ Present Spring

DOUBLE ASSAULTS IN MEDITERRANEAN FFARED BY BERLIN.   Germans Tell of Strength of Balkan Defenses as Screen Hides Troop Action in Svria.   BUCHAREST REPORTED ‘ DEMANDING TERRITORY   Spain Says Allies Have Assembled Warships at Gibraltar as War of Nerves Goes On.

Axis Peace Feelers Are Reported  _ Nazis Betray Thei: Concern Over the Middlea Fret

Allied War of Nerves, Con. tinuing Unabated, Stings Berlin Into Bragging of Security of Balkan Bastions; Eves Are on Turkey

Peace Feeler Is Put Forth By Rumania   Germany Betrays Her Grave Concern Over  Middle East Events

Axis Peace Feelers Reported   Two Rumors Withou' Confirmation; Nerve War Raging

Ankara Reports Rumania Seeks . ‘Best Terms’ for Pulling Out; Berlin Raises Talk of Russ Quitting

Allied War of Nerves Continues Unahated And One ‘Feeler’ Called ‘Propaganda Plant’  AXIS CONCERNED REGARDING BALKANS Brags of Security Of Balkan Bastions; Russia Denies Talks

New Axis Peace Feelers Seen: War Of Nerves Persist   Rumania Sounds Out Allies; Report Red Negotiations

Axis Showing Increasing Alarm Over Middle East   German and Rumanian Peace Feelers Reported Extended to Russia—Possibility Seen of Double Allied Assaults in Mediterranean

Turks Admit Border Is Closed  PS 8  eee   War of Nerves, News From Syria Worry Berlin

PEACE KEEPING RESOLUTION GAINS SUPPORT   Some Senators Favor Strong Phraseology

FIGHTING JAP NAVAL FORCES   Nip Units Sighted in S. W. Pacific Have Had Time to Move Into Position to Challenge American Vessels.

Big Sea Fight Is in Prospect With Japanese   Nippons Trying to Halt Drive of Allied Forces Toward Rabaul.   Pour Reinforcements Into Northern Burma

RHINELAND AND ~ RUHR POUNDED   Night Operations Include Mining of Enemy Waters

‘Skip-a- Year’ Income Tax  Plan Urged   House Republican: Claim Support for Proposal Growing

GOP FIGHTS FOR TAX ABATEMENT   Leaders Claim Ample Support For “Skip-A-Year” Income Proposal

OPENING DRIVE FOR TAX PLAN   House Republicans Seek Euactment of “Skip-a-Year" Plan—Attempt to Strengthen Lines for Coming “Battle of Taxes.”

MARYLAND FIRST STATE OVER GOAL   Hard Pull Ahead in Third War-Loan Campaign, Officials Feel

SOVIET T STORM GOMEL AND MOGILEV   Russian Drives Overrun More Than 400 Nazi-Held Towns

Creation of Commission  Ic Urged   Conference on Food in Second Day in Virginia

Better Nutrition, Conférence Plea  World Food Commission Proposed

OPEN BIG FOOD CONFERENCE IN VIRGINIA TODAY      Begin Search For Way Toward Better Nourishment Of Mankind

World Nutrition Commission Ureed At Food Parley   American Delegation Seeks Promise Of Peace Responsibility

> Aussies Smnasi Jap Attack At Finschhafen  Nips Outnumber U.S. Fliers, > But Lose Fight

AUSSIES SMASH JAPATTAGK UN NEW GUINEA   Allied Forces In Position For Drive Upon Medang As Foe Beaten Back

New Manpower Program Likely To Be Presented   President Expected To Make Announcement Following Commission’s Move   MEN 38-45 WILL BE RE-CLASSIFIED

NEW PROGRAM ON MANPOWER BELIEVED NEAR   “Work Or Fight” Policy To Be Extended Over Those Between 38-45   ARMY MAY CALL OLDER MEN.   Senate And Specia! Committee Still At Odds On Armed Forces Size

MEN OVER 38 ARE TO GET ~NEW RATING   RECLASHIFICATION, ORDER 18 ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH FURTHER STUDY “OF MANPOWER PROBLEM 

BOAT FIRM’S SUIT RESUMED   B. H. Banker Is Called Te Give Testimony On Special Account

Dachel-Carter Suit Resumed: Banker Hearc   Testimony Introducec On Withdrawals Of Company Funds

‘BIG 3° AGREE ON GERMANY'S DISARMAMENT   Joint Understanding of U.S... Britain and Russia Reported

UNDERSTANDING ON POSTWAR ATTITUDE OF ALLIES SAID . TO HAVE BEEN ” AOnreven.

ON GERMANY'S DISARMAMENT   Joint Understanding of U.S., Britain and Russia Reported

NAZI SURRENDER POLICY ADOPTED   U.S., Britain, Russia Agree to Prevent Future Aggression

Tripower Agreement To Prevent Future German ‘Agaression Is Reported

BRIEF PERIOD WHISKY MAKING BEING WEIGHED   War Production Board Studying Plan for Distillers To Resume Manufacture for Brief Time

WHISKEY PLAN PROPOSED BY WPB DIVISION   _Chemieal Division Thinks Liquor Could Be Produced

Rheumatic Fever Is Major Enemy Of Child Health In U. S.   Louisiana Mortality Rate is Well Below Average For Country

WAR CONDITIONS MAY CAUSE RHEUMATIC FEVER INCREASE   WARN CROWDED HOUSING IN INDUBTRIAL CENTERS MAY “RESULT IN MANY MORE CASES - .

Senate Committee Adopts Postwar Resolution   Pledges United States Ic Join Free Nations To Preserve Peace

Foreign Policy Resolution Will Be Debated  Senate Committee Gives Approval to Short Measure

SENATE DRAFTS PEACE PLEDGE   Post-War U. S. Policies Defined In Discreet Resolution

Foreign Policy Resolution Will Be Debated  Senate Committee   Senate Committee Gives Approval to Short Measure

Senate Unit Approves Peace Poliey   Pledges U. S. To Join in Postwar Set-Up

CIVILIAN SACRIFICES NEARING END, IS TIP   Not Much — More Trimming Planned by WPB

Nelson Hints End Near for Civilian Cut   Limit Almost Reached. Says WPB Chairman; May Chance Set-un.

ol MPORTANT  PORT HIT **8TH TIME   Eight British Bombers ® Lost In Series Of Raids On Europe

DUISBERG GIVEN HEAVY BOMBING BY BRITISH RAIDERS   Other Sections of Ruhr Also Visited——Cologne Attacked Ry Gavlight.

BRITISH AIRMEN BOMB DUISBURG, RUHR STEEL CITY   ‘Other Objectives in Germany Raided Last Night; London Admits Loss of Eight Planes.

BRITISH POUR TONS OF BOMBS ON DUISBURG   Bight Planes Lost in Attack, Subsidiary Raids

RAF BOMBARDS STEEL CENTER   Raids Germany For Third Time In 24 Hours

BRIT PLANES AGAIN RAID © DUISBURG   Third Air Attack On Germany in Last 24 Hours

British Paste Duisburg Again   Block-Busters Pour on Industrial Area

BRITISH BOMBERS BOMBARD CITY AND PORT OF DUISBURG   Large River Docks Of Inland City Feel Weight Of “Block-Buster” ‘Demolition

BRITISH WAR HEADS ARRIVE AT CAPITAI   To Study Plans With U. S. in War Against Japs

BRITISH MISSION COMES TO U-S.   Confers In Washington On War Against Japan.

President Praises Labor for ‘Splendid Task’ in War Effort.   SENT LETTER TO GREEN

NATION'S CHIEF SENDS THANKS TO LABOR MEET   Offers Felicitations to AFL For Accomplishment of “Splendid Task™ by Wage Earners

FELICITATIONS SEN BY FDR TOLABOR CONFERENCE   President Thinks Labor Has Accomplished a “Splendid Task”

FDR URGES LABOR “INCREASE OUTPUT   aa Tirta  Messore to AFL Praises Contributions to

Would Disclose Finance Records  Of AFL Unions   Teamsters Offer Convention Plan

AFL Lauded By President   Sends Felicitations For Accomplishment Of “Splendid Task”

FDR Praises AFL Showing   President Tells Union Con vention Production “Mus! Be Increased.   Battle Being Wor

FDR Anticipates A Price Rollback   Makes Announcement in Sending Felicitations to Labor Federation.

FDR Commends Wage Earners  Sends Felicitations to AFL Convention

More Attacks Made Qn Kiska   Bombers Keep Up Blasting Of Jap Base In Steady Attacks   Attack Munda

NINE NEW RAIDS MADE ON KISKA   Navy Says Fighter Planes Crop 34,000 Pounds of Bombs

Allied Leaders To Name Head  Of Burma Invasion Forces Soon   Big Push Of Chinese, British And Indian Troops May Take Place This Autumn  Fiat

Predict Possible Allied Invasion Of Burma Next Fall; Gen. Stilwell Believed Likely to Lead Expedition

Severe Privations This Year for Folk at Home Are Foreseen by Nelson

New Privations ai Home Seen  Nelson Forecasts . . Se Sans Sey  Soe oeee ee

Production Head Foréesees Sevére Privations On Civilians In °43   Uredicis Further Restriction of ‘Lravel By Autonubile; Many  Merchaunts - ay Be Foreed  » Oat of Business

NELGON PREDICT: MORE SACRIFICES   WPB Chairman Says Trave'! By Automobile Due for Further Restriction; Little Business Men to Suffer

Less Auto Trips Seen By Nelson   Scarcity May Force Some Store: To Close in 1943

Nelson.Sees Increased Sacrifices  By Civilians   Much More Drastic Restrictions on Travel By Auto Predicted  By WPB Chieftain   ALL NECESSARY TO WINNING OF WAR  Possibility Foreseen Searcities May Close Many Businesses

Sea Blow: on Japan  Predicted   MARCUS, GILBERT RAIDS INDICATION OF FUTURE U. S. TACTICS: KING

(OWA FAR FROM WAR BOND QUOTA   Leaders Concerned by Apparent Slow Pace

ALLIED LOSSES HEAVY IN RAID   1,000 Casualties, 5 Ships Sunk At Bari

Secretary of War Stimson Gives Information Concerning German Air Raid on Bari, Italy — Cause Estimated 1,000 Casualties—Five American Ships Destroyed.

GERMAN AIR beanie peti       Occurred at at’ Bari, Italy; 1000 ‘Allied: Casualties

Claim 8,000 Americans Killed and 10,000 Were Taken Prisoners.   GMC F PISUHCIS,  CRITICAL STAGE OF INVASION AT HAND  Disorganized Front With No Lines and Constant Change of Position.

Tojo's Control Is Now Complete   Made Head Of Munitions Ministry

Tojo Heads New  Jap Ministry  Of Munitions Holds Wh Whiphand  Vs... Beet 2

“INURED IN SUDBURY :CRASE   George C. Revell, Operator of Car Has Broken Collar - Bone and in Hospital 

FOUR MEN ~ INJURED  SUDBURY: CRASH      George C. Revell, Operator of Car Has Broken Collar  Bone and in Hospital

IVE SENATORS 10 GATHER DATA ON US, WAR FRONTS   Information Sought to Guide Congress In Postwar Planning.

URGE FARMERS TO SUPPORT SCRAP DRIVE   Next to industry, farms best source of heavy scrap metal

URGES FARMERS TO FIND SCRA   New Steel Available In Pro portion To Amount Ot Scrap Collected

EXPANSION OF AIR OPERATIONS PLANNED      bout $2,500,000,000 Being Spen By Americans And British In England

 Airman Reveals Details  OFA ttack¢ on n Tokyo  —m™ s.r   First Eyewitness Account Relates How Pilots Were Chosen to Carry Out Dangerous Mission   (Eyewitness)

NEW OXFORD SOLDIER FIGURES IN DISPATCH   Pfe. Raymond J, Billman Referred To In A. P. Article Sent From Bomber Station In England

FOOD PRODUCTION IS DISCUSSED BY HOOVER-OVER Alf   Problem Is Taken Up. by Former President — American Farmer  Faces Real Task.

DOVER STRESSES FARMING PUZZLE   Ex-President Asserts Worle Fate May Depend on Acts of Production

HOOVER SCORES LIMITED CROPS   Feeding of Starving Held Secondary Only to Military

Woman Is Bludgeoned To Death   Robbery Is Believed Motive Of Slaying O! Widow In Home At Fond du Lac

Foogia Airdrome ls Bomb Pasted   American Liberators Pulverize Airdrome Eighty Miles Northwest Of  : Naples

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   American Bombers Pulverize Fogvia Airdrome

IRVATION CLUB,   J Dilicers for New! Year ta. Re’ in  statted tin Tonight.

CONSERVATION CLUB,   Dilicers for New Year to Be Installed At Cabin Tonight.

 Late News Bulletins   8 Billions Lend-Lease Bill Goes to Roosevelt

Feuding Blamed on Lines Extending From White House  OVER-ALL CHIEF OF PRODUCTION URGED  More Frequent  Consulta. tions by Nelson Are Demanded

Blame Confusion for Feuding  Lines of Authority Declared Unclear

Nelson Told To Get Tough By  Truman Group   Such Action Would Tend To   pecan FE peace)

FIXES BLAME FOR “FEUDING   Truman Group Finds Confusing Lines of Authority Leading from FDR

Truman Probers Place Blame for Capital Feudinc   Finds Confusing Lines of Authority Start at White House

Too Many ‘Czars, Committee Finds   ‘Wasteful Feuding’ Among War Leaders

BOOST IN R. R. WAGES URGED BY PRESIDENT   Hopes Conferees Able To Work Out Plan  For Compromise

President Asks Transport Pact   CHIEF EXECUTIVE REVEALS DISCUSSIONS UNDER WAY TOWARD SETTING UP SYSTEM TO GIVE TIME-AND-ONE HALF FOR OVERTIME

President Favors Increase in Wages  For Rail Workers   Chief Executive in Press-Radio Conference Expresses Hope Formulg for Hiking Pay Will Be Worked Out Soon   TIME AND HALF FOR OVERTIME OR EQUIVALENT

WAGE PACT FOR AIL MEN HOPE OF ROOSEVELT   Says Discussions Underway For Setting Up Sys   - tem For Time and — , Half Time Pay :   WOULD STAY WITHIN: STABILIZATION LAW   Meanwhile, Non-Operating Employes Lift Strike “Weapon to Enforce © -- Greater Pay Boost

Hopes R.R. Executives, Workers Can Reach Wage Jump Agreement And Hold Transportation Tieuy

SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DEMANDS   Advocates Time And Half Or Equivalent Pay Increases

CRISIS GROWS MORE ACUTE   Non-Operating - Brotherhoods Consider Joining Strike

Rail Wage Crisis Becomes More Acute As Non-operating Employes Prepare for Strike

President ‘Hopes’ for Wage Formula for Operating Men to Meet De mands and Objections   CITES LIVING COST   Says Feeling Exists Increases Pro posed by Emergency Boards No. Sufficient

F.D.R. Voices No-Strike Hope   Assurance of No Tie Up Best Christmas Gift, He Declares

Chiefs Confer Over Railroad Wage Dispute   President Says Assurance Of Transportation Best Christmas Gift.   DEC. 30 STRIKE DATE

RESUME TALKS ON RAIL ISSUE   Conferees Back at White House In Attempt To Avert Strike

Nonoperating Railway Goup Hoists Strike Weapon While  Mediation Parleys Continue

Rail Peace Hope Voiced By Roosevelt   Assurance of No Strike Called Best Christmas  ere Pn AT

ROQSEVELT:VIEWS: RATE’ STRIKE AS SETBACK IN WAR   Expects Decision on His Compromise Later Todey   WOULD GRANT BOOST OF EIGHT CENTS AN HOUR

President Greets Committee as Rail Wage Crisis Grows   Roosevelt Hopes for Assurance There'll be  No Strikes

RAIL CONFERENCES RESUMED TUESDAY EFFORT STOP STRIKE  PRESIDENT EXPRESSES DESIRE FOR SETTLEMENT TO GIVE WAGE HIKE

HOPES 0 RAIL SOLUT  a   Working On Plo} Give Rail Worke Overtime

FDR Hopes RR Row Settled As Xmas Gift   Working On Plan To Pay Workers Time and Half For Overtime

President Hopes There WillBe No Rail Strike   Tells Of Plans Being Discussed To Effect Settlement As Christmas Present To Nation

ANNOUNCEMEN] IS EXPECTED BY TONIGHT   Time And Half Overtime Pay May Be Solution   To American People Would Be Early Settlement, President States 

RAIL DISPUTE  HOPE iS HELD BY FDR   Brotherhood Chiefs Resume Conferences With Wr. Roosevelt   Seek Peace Formula

HOPE AGREEMENT _ GAN BE REACHED ON THE RAIL PROBLEM   President Roosevelt Said Assurance Said It Would Be Best Christmas Present.   FOR A WAGE INCREASE   Discussions Are Now Underway for Time and a Half for Overtime.

FDR Hopes For RR Wage Plan As Xmas Gift  Overtime Payments   Overtime Payments Probable Solution; Other Rail Unions Threaten Strike

ROOSEVELT HOPES FORFORMULATO  PREVENT STRIKES   Prevention of Transportation Stoppage Would Be Best Christmas Present Executive Declares.   PRESS CONFERENCE IS TOLD OF DISCUSSIONS   President Says He Learned Recently That Rail Workers Are Not Paid Time and One-Half.

Renew Rail Peace Talks   FDR Hopes for Plan Allowing Wage Hike; Suggests Compromise

Parley Resumed With Rail Union To Avert Strike   Discuss With President Possibility of Time and Half  Overtime   Are Not Prepared to Pledge Acceptance

RAIL CRISIS BECOMES MORE SERIOUS BAILY   Committee Pans To Set Strike Date Today

RAILWAY PAY NEGOTIATIONS ARE RESUMED   White House Hopes to Avert Strike Called by ' Operating Brotherhoods - ‘Non-ops” Also to Set Date for Walkout. 

NeW ORDER ON WAY Ko UNICN LEADERS MEET   Non-Operating Employes May Call 1,100,000 Men Out. Dec. 30.

NON-OPERATING UNIONS JOIN IN STRIKE THREAT   DECIDE TO CALL IN CHIEFS TO CONSIDER SETTING STRIKE DATE

FDR ‘Hoping’ For Railway Settlement   says It Would Be the Best Christmas Gift America (‘ould Receive

Would Be Best Christmas Present American People Could Get; Conferences Continuing

OVERTIME RAIL PAY PROPOSED BY FOR   House Leaves Before Uphold ‘ing Increase; Slummon Chiefs to Set Strike Date

Parley Fails, Railroad Wage Crisis Grow   Nation ‘Faces Crippling Blow To War Effort If Strike Comes

MURPHREE TAKES OATH AS GOVERNOR   Becomes the ,47th Mississippi  Chief Executive; Term Will Last for 19 Days; Appointment Made

DR Opposes IcKellar Bill On U.S. Hiring   *resident Asks Congress To Keep Hands Off In Em plove Selection.   YN HIGH SALARY JOBS

EMPORIA BOYS TO ~ HELP IN HARVEST   Group Moves in from Lyon County To Assist Local  Farmers f   VOLUNTEERS ARE BUSY

Group Moves in from Lyon County To ‘Assist Local  “Farmers a   VOLUNTEERS ARE BUSY.

Polish Envoy  Leaves Russia   Hope {fs Not Abandoned, However; for Repairing Breach Between Governments

Question Users ‘OfPhony Stamp:  Motorists Who Passed é Counterfeit Gos - . Couvons Called In

Planes Aid In Kiska   Coordinated Drive by Air and Naval Units; Canadian Fliers Help

Jap Instelletions Herd Hit by Attecks, Navy Indicotes; Canadians Assisting

Slugging Jap - Pesition. From.  ‘Air and Sea   Co-ordinated Drive. Against Kiska Is Disclosed by Navy Department   HEAVY DAMAGE TO ENEMY BASE   Violent Air Battles on New Guinea Front Give U.S. Score of 65 to 5

SEAAIR DRIVE ON KISKA REVEALED IN NAVY DISPATCH   Canadian Flyers Join U. S. Airmen in Attack; Believe Move May Be Prelude To

PREPARING 10 INVADE KISKA   U. §. Bombers Join War. _ Ships In Bombarding " Island 7

Prepare the Way For an Invasion  Of Kiska Outpost   U.S. Bombers Heavily Raid Defenses Before and After Navy Attack.   Numerous Fires Start  After Naval Bombings

Bows to Threats of Veto in 34-33 Vote, Clearing Way for House Bill   "PROGRAM LEAVES ROLLBACK IN EFFECT   Congressional Wrangle May @ Be Postponed Until Fall Session   pPrtr Ee TTA

Vote For Continuance Of Commodity Credit Corporation Without Ran On Subsidies

Congress Abandons Plans To Outlaw Subsidy Pay For Food Price Rollback

SUBSIDY PLAN PASSES SENATE AFTER BATTLE   Senate Bows to Threats of Veto and Agrees on Payment of  Food Subsidies   FEARED FDR WOULD PLACE VETO ON THEIR MEASURE

Subsidy Fight ls Won By White House   Both Houses Of Congres: Abandon Efforts To Out law Rollback Plan   cece =BILL IS .PASSED   Senate Bows.To Threats Of Veto, Drops Ban On Payments, 34 To 33

F.D.R, Urges Subsidy Plan  Be Continued   Sends 10,000 word mess age on food problem to congress today

DUE TO BE ‘GREATEST   President Also Asks Commodity Corp. Be Given New Life

SUBSIDY PLA DEMANDED BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Sends Congress Long Message on Food

‘KEEP SUBSIDIES’ ROOSEVELT PLEA   President’s Food Message Calls Food Important War Weapon

SUBSIDY MUST BE CONTINUED, CONGRESS TOLD   President Roosevelt Throws Down Gauntlet To Solons On Price Control Issue   “NECESSARY TO VICTORY”   Message Also Asks’ For Continuing Commodity Credit Corporation

President Makes Demand For Price  Control Subsidy   Throws Down Gauntlet To Congress On Food Subsidv Payment Program   SEE PRICE CEILING FOR MORE VEGETABLES

Roosevelt Demands That Subsidy Payments Be Continued   Chief Executive Says Food Production Must Increase To  Win War; Warns War Is Not Won

FOUR HUNTED IN ~ TRIPLE MURDER   Two Threatened Ohio Man, Probers Claim; Wife, Daughter Victims

STRIKE TOTAL GROWS IN AKRON   Estimated 44,000 Workers In Rubber Industry Now Are Idle

Wright Aircraft Plant Warned   Lockland Production Off 85 Per Cent

PLANT ot IZURE BY ARMY HINTED   Truman Warns That Atrplane Engine Production Must Be Increased

Bombs Fire Italy Fields   Middle East Flyers Aid Sicily Invasion

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST EUROPE MOUNTS IN FURY   BRITISH, AMERICAN AIRMEN ALTERNATE IN DAY AND NIGHT RAIDS

121 PLANES TO 37   U. Ss. Air Force Destroys 121 Nazi Planes In Three Days

Sikorski Death Unfortunate For Pending Ameliorations   Poles Find Themselves In Unenviable Position Be. tween Two Elements Of Anti-Hitler Alliance

Ridge Positions Taken By Allies   Routed On River; Leave Hundreds Of Dead

Artillery, Bodies Are Left Behind  Foe’s Troops At Lae In  Mare (ritical Snat

JAP SALAMAUA FORCES ROUTED   Fatetul Hour Js Nearer Foi Troops Trapped There And At Lae

JAPANESE ROUTED BELOW SALAMAUA   MIKADO'S TROOPS ARE DRIVEN FROM RIDGE POSITIONS ALONG COAST,

NPS BROUGHT CLOSER DOOM IN NEW CHINE A   American and Australian Jungle Fighters Drive Enemy From Ridge Reiow Salamaua   LEAVE HUNDREDS DEAD IN FLIGHT   Also Abandon Artillery in Panicky Get Away Toward Lae Where Perils  Aimear Greater

Allies Crack Jap Defenses At Salamaua   Trap Is Closing On 20,000 Japanese  On New Guinea   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday, Sept. 12

Japs Retreat Toward Base   Ridge Is Captured By Advance Of Americans

Japs Routed  In Jungles Of N. Guinea   Leave Artillery Behind as Defense Line is Shattered

ALLIES GET FIVE U-BOATS IN ATLANTIC   11 Undersea Croft Reported Sunk In Past Several Days

Founder Of Shrine Is Taken By Deatt  Rev. Fr. DePew Of Perry.  opolis ls Summoned

FARM RECRUIT FUND SLASHED   Committee Takes New Dea from Any Part in Picture

SOVIET ARMIES PLUNGE AHEAD   Four-Sided Squeeze On German Base Drawn Tighter As 70 Places Fall

MERCURY DROPS 31 DEGREES HERE   TEMVERATURE 39 AT 2 A. M.— COLDER WEATHER TODAY IS FORECAST,

Speculation — ~ Heaclined in’ All Papers   “Greatest. Naval: Operation In History: Is Imminent,’ News Chronicle. Says   “ALLIES TOLAND ~~~ ARMY ON CONTINENT!   Thousands .of Boats Are. Said: to Be Ready; Other..Papers Feature- Story

Ayis Sees Major. Invasion Blow As Matter Of Days   Rome Radio’ Says Allies Intend To Land In: Barges Under Huge Air Cover

Invasion News Dominates London Papers   Allied Blows Against Enemy Believed Near

‘Allied Army to Be Landed: on The Continent: NewsChroniele   Axis Reports of Looming  Blow Prominently Displayed

QUOTE AXIS FEAR OF BLOW IN FEW DAYS   News Chronicle Writer Says Greatest Naval Operation in History Is Imminent — Landing  Armey an Cantinoant

London Agos At Talk Of Invasion Of Continent   Rome Fears Thousand Of Barges Full Of Marines Under Huge Air Umbrella

INVASION TALK DOMINATES BRITISH NEWS   Front Page Stories Speculate On Imminence of Invasion. ‘

LONDON PRESS SPECULATES ON INVASION SOON   ‘The Navy is Ready,’ Landing Barges Built for Assault on Eu rope, Writers Declare

ondon Stirs NithRevived nvasion Talk   Attack on Nazi-Held Continent Neer, Newspaper Savs

INVASION TALK 1S HEARD IN LONDON   Headlines In London Papers Dominated By Hints Of Invasion Spurred By Conclusion of Roosevelt Churchill Talks.

\LLIED BLOW AT ‘ONTINENT IS SRLIEVED NEAR   \ilitary Writers Spurred ty Conclusion of Roosevelt-Churchill Talks in Washington   \XIS REPORTS HOLD MAJOR MOVE NEAR   tome Repeats Story of  Landing Craft Concentra tien in Tunisian Waters; Nazis Appear Jittery

Invasion Talk Leads British  Press Stories   Allied Blow “ecelieved Imminent; Navy Called Ready for Big Job.

TEACHER LOSES IN HIGH COURT   Rules Dismissal O. K. I Duty Neglected to Become Mother

Program Enlarged For Farm Output   100: Million More “Incentive Payments” “Tiaahed Bae [Hereaces Lia Bradetion

Wickard Outlines Great War Crop  ‘Bonus Program 100 Millions in Farm  ‘Incentive Payments’ ry,  See  —. e.e oF ae

Program Enlarged For Farm Output   100 Million More “Incentive Payments” Planned For Increases In Production

Wickard Would Increase Farm Production   Subsidies Planned for Surpassing Yearly Crop Quotas

WAR CROP PAY INCENTIVE 1S WICKARD AIM   Meeting or Exceeding Goals B ring Payments 

Wickard Would Increase  Farm Production Subsidies Planned   Subsidies Planned for Surpassing Yearly Crop Quotas

Farm Bonus Payments ToBe Made   Incentive to Produce More Vital War Crops Being Planned

FARMERS 10 GET OVER-QOUTA PAY   Wickard Outlines Board Pro gram to Increase Production of Vital Crops by Giv ing ‘Incentive Payments’  

U. S. Offers $100,000,000 To Overcome Deficiency Tu Oils. Proteins

PLAN OUTLINED T0 ~ BOOSTWAR CROPS   “Incentive Payments” for Farmers Announced by Wickard

EXPAND PROGRAM FOR PRODUCTION OF NEEDED CROPS   Deficiencies In Vegetable Oil to Be Overcome Through Arrangements Worked Out By Wickard.   GROWERS TO BE PAID EXTRA FOR GROWING   Extra Production to Require Labor and Materials Cost of Field Work Will Be Increased.

CASH PAYMENTS WILL BE GIVEN FOR PRODUCTION   $100,000,000 Is To Be Presented To Farmers Exceeding Quotas   HUGE LAND ARMY TO BE RECRUITED

LORS ME NSS. ca can aa aemca il  Mines To Owners, Alabamans Strike

INDIA SEEN AS FAR EAST BASE   Churchill and FDR, Aides Study That Sector for Drive on Japs

Indiaas Base for Operations Against Japs Believed Under Discussion af Capital Meeting

STRATEGIC USE OF INDIA FOR ATTACK ON JAPAN 15 SEEN  ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL _ AND WAR LEADERS CONTINUE CONFERENCES

Possible Use Of India — As Base For ‘Operations Aiseinat Japs ‘Discussed

Roosevelt-Churchill Conference Believed Planning Burme Campaign to Open Way To Chine and Expose Nippon’s Flank

India May Have Active Role   Possibilities May Be Discussed at Washington Meet

Leaders May Be Discussing India As Base For Jap Drive   /New Jap Drive Aims At Economic Squeeze

Enemy Control of  Burma Road Large  Problem to Allies Now. Britishers Who  Might Open it Are In Washington

Believe India May Be Named as Base for Attack on Japs   One of Main Questions to Be Determined by FDRChurchill Meetings

STRATEGIC USE OF INDIA FOR ATTACK ON JAPAN IS SEEN  ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILI  ' AND WAR LEADERS CON

ALLIES MAY USE INDIA AS BASE TC STRIKE AT JAPS   Control of Mediterranean Sea Shortens Supply Route To China

Reopening of Burma Road High On List Of Possible Moves   Japan Theoretically Encircled But Ring Needs To Be Drawn Much Tighter

INDIAMAY BEBASETO. SMASH JAPS   Important Decisions Are In ‘Making At Washington Parley

Aid to China Is Object of  Conference   Allied Leaders Discuss Using India as Base

INDIA MAY BE USED FOR BiG STAB AT JAPAN   Believed Under Consideration By Roosevelt And Churchill   BURMA ROAD IS KEY   Important Decisions Or War With Japan In Making

Observers Expect India To Be Base For Stab At Foe To Open Burma Road

say India Var Base *or Allies   outrol Of Mediterranean Means Short Route There With Matericl

Conferences Continued by  War Leaders   Possibilities of India as Base for Operations Against Japs  - Believed To Be One of Main Tihemn —

P ossibility Of Using India For Stab At  Japan Considered   Presence of British General Sir Archibald P. Wavell in Washington Leads to Speculation on War's Future   . TOP FLIGHT LEADERS TAKE PART IN CONFERENCE 

Military Chiefs Study Strategy At Washington   More Active Role Seen for India In Next Campaign

Consider India As A Base For Stab At Japan   Strategic Possibilities Apparently Studied By F. D. R. And Churchill.

India as Base For Affack on Janan Talked   Three Military Chiefs Who Would Direct Effort To Reopen Burma Road Are in Washington

Wavell’s Presence is Noted   Control Of Burma Road Seen As First Move.

Japanese Push British Back In Akyab Zone   Wavell Withdraws To Count* Threat By Out-Flank “ Enemy.   * AMERICANS HIT KISKA

BRITISH FORCED BACK IN BURMA   Wavell Pulls Men Out As Japs Outflank Position; Planes Keep Busy

BRITISH SUFFER NeW AEVERata IN BURMA EIGHT   Wavell Forced To Withdraw From Forward Positions Due To Flank Threat

New Setback for British in Burma Disclosed Today   Japanese Threaten To Flank Wavell’s Forces on North

British Suffer Bean Setback In Mayu Sector   Fall © Back . to. Counter Threat by. Outflanking Japs.

REVEAL SETBACK 10 BRITISH IN BURMA   Wavell’s Legions Fall Back On Mayu Peninsula, Alona Bay.

British Suffer Fresh Setback  In Burma Area   Wavell Troops Fall Back Along Bay Of Bengal To Counter Jap Threat

British Forced Back in Burma   Troops Withdraw When Infiltration Move _ Threatens Flank

Wavell Digs In For. Monsoon  Pulls Back Lines To Prevent Japs Eenam Infiltratina

BRITISH PULL BACK IN BURMA   Wavell’'s Army, Withdraws’ Tc Avoid Being “Qutflanked by Japanese,

JAPS TRY Te~ FLANK WAVELL   Nipponese Infiltrate Across Mayu River

BRITISH FALL BACK IN BURMA   Fail To Crack Jap Defense at Akyab in Four Attempts

POWERFUL JAP UNIT RALLIES NEAR DONBAIK   MacArthur’s Fliers Bomb Many Enemy Villages   Made In One Day On Positions On Kiska; Attu Also Attacked

Wavell Falling Back Along the Mayu Peninsula   Japs Threatened to Outflank Allies From Coastal Base

ARE REQUIRED T0 ASSUME NEW LINE   Withdrawal Necessary to Avoid Flanking Japs; Await Arrival of Rains

BRITISH PUSHED BACK IN BURMA   General Wavell’s Forces Withdraw As Japs Imperil Positions on Peninsula

WAVELL’S UNITS FAIL IN 4 TRYS TO GRAGK NIPS   Enemy Outflanks English Lines, Threatens Entire Communication System

Japs Throw British Back In Burma   Waveill’s Forces, Outflanked, Suffer  Reverse

BURMA LEGIONS FACING THREAT   Wavell’s Troops Fall Back Before Japanese Attack

BRITISH FALL BACK ON MAY PENINSULA   Withdrawal Caused By ‘Out-Flanking Japanese Troovs From North °

SETBACK IN BURMA AREA IS REPORTED   Wavell's Legions Fall Back  To Mayu Peninsula,  Along The Bay of Bengal  JAP DEFENSES HOLD

PETROLEUM SUPPLY SYSTEM — ~ CHANGES ARE WORKED OV   ICKES ANNOUNCES ARRANGEMENT DESIGNED TO BETTER USE AVAILABLE TRANS. PORTATION FACILITIES

ICKES RESHUFFLES OIL SUPPLY PLANS   Changes in Midwest Distribution Expected to Help Eastern Situation.

‘BIG BUSINESS" NAZI COMBINES RULE EUROPE   Huge Spoils Taken By German Concerns Cited By OW]

200 BILLS ARE PUT IN HOPPERS OF LEGISLATURE   Both Houses Adiourn Until Monday Despite Admin istration Opposition   SIX COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED

LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS UNTIL _ MONDAY AFTER BRIEF SESSION    Plans for “Jackrabbit” Start Hit Snag—More Than -200 Bills Introduced in the House and Senote —

Windy Explanations Offered by Jap Radio for Loss of Kiska Island

FOUR ATLARGEIN DELTA AFTER BREAK FROM PARCHMAN   Steat Suit, Car From Rosedale Man, Head Toward Creenville

‘I'm Through With Love!’  x * * x k *  He SHOULD Be—He’s Accused of Bigamy

CITY PROMISES AID IN BUILDING LEVEE   North Lawrence Dike; State to Aid, Too      LEGION MAKES A GIFT

CITY PROMISES AID. IN BUILDING LEVEE   Will Give $2,000 Toward _ North Lawrence Dike; State to Aid, Too   LEGION MAKES A GIFT

County Court News Of Sioux Count,   One Marriage License Issued; Estate Matters Are Taken Up And Settled By The Court

County Court News Of Sioux County   Court Ordered A Panel Of Fifty Petit Jurors Be Drawn For Janeary Term QO; Court

County Court News Of Sioux County   Henrietta and Case Elbers Appointed Administrators of the Johanna Yan Roekel Estate

Red Artillery Pounds Nazis In Northwest Caucasus as Prelude to New Offensive

AMERICAN FLIERS TANE BIG PART IN BOMBING GERMANY   Three Fail To Return, Withelmshaven Is The Tarvet

Attack on Wake Island Revealed   U. S. Naval Forces Strike Jap Base

WAKE RAIDED BY AMERICAN NAVAL FORCE   Carrier- Based Planes Also Attack JapHeld Island

NATION RUNNING QUT OF PETROL   End Of Gasoline Supply May Be Matter Of Davs In East

SAYS U.S. MAY BE OUT OF GAS   Ickes Appeals for Cut of All But Essential Driving of Cars

SHORTAGE OF 'GAS' REPORTED BY ICKES      Secretary Says Nation Is Fast Running Out of Fuel

SEC. ICKES SAYS NATION MAY RUN OUT OF GASOLINE   Declares in Radio Address East’s Supply May Be Exhausted in “Matter of Days.”   APPEALS TO DRIVERS TO CUT CONSUMPTION   Military Requirements to Increase, He Asserts, When Pacific War Is Stepped Up.

Nation Faces Gas Famine, Iekes Warns  €risis Only “Matter Of Days’ in East; Wreact Aren Warned

Gas Famine Faces  Nation, Says Ickes   East May Be Out of Gasoline in **Matter of Days” and Entire Country Faces Prospect At Present Consumption, Says PAW Head

Gasoline Famine Feared By Ickes.   Supply For Nation Facina Exhaustion

Ickes Warns All Nation © May Face Gas Shortage   Will Mean No Gas  In East’s Consumption It Will Have No Gas In ‘Matter of Days’   EXPLAINS LIFTING OF PLEASURE BAN

EAST WARNED ABOUT SHORTAGE OF GAS   Ickes Says This Section Of Country May Be Qut Within A Few Days

‘Unit Asks Price Hike For Flour   Want It To Assure Wheat Acreage Rise

Women s League Voices Support Of Food Subsidies   Anderson Announces Swing to Opposition; Vote Due Monday

LEAGUE WOMEN VOTERS FAVORS SUBSIDY PLA   Organization Charges Congress With Undermining Price Control Program   NO COMPROMISE IN FIGHT IS EXPECTED

Food Subsidies Receive Aid of Women's League   Showdown Monday On New Deal Plan   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin May Adopt Plan To Guard Peace

‘Women Voters Back Subsidies as House ‘Coalition Seeks Climactic Showdown’

Women’s Group Gives Support To Subsidies   League of Women Voters Reveals Stand as House Moves Toward Showdown

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDY PLAN SLATED MONDAY   Women Voters Join Row Over Payments In Anti-Inflation Program

GANGA ‘SEARCH FOR MISSING BOAT:   Six Aboard Cruiser, Unheard of Since it Left Tawas City Monday Morning

F.D.R. COMMENTS ON JAP BARBARISNV   Declares Beheading of Captured Aviator Shows a Lack of Civilization.

Senate Committee Approves 4 House Fund Measures  First Bills of Session Mav Go to Governor

Senate Committee Approves 4 House Fund Measures   ” First Bills of Session May Go to Governor Next Week

ALLIES AGREE ON SUB PLAN AGAINST AXIS   Coordinated Move Mapped Against U-Boats

ANTI-U-BOAT CAMPAIGN IS AGREED UPON   Steps to Be Taken Against Menace in Atlantic Formulated by American, British and Canadian High Commands.

ALLIES DlsGUS3 SUB CONTROLS   Reach Complete Agreement On policy of Protection Of Shipping.   GIVE JOINT DISCLOSURE

ANTI-OUB CAMPAIGI PLANS COMPLETED   U. S., Canada And Britain Agree On Methods

CompleteAgreement By Atlantic Powers Is Arrived At Here   Speculation Attends Statement Released Today At Capitals; ee Untication orces

UNIFIED PLA FOR DEFEAT OF AXIS SUBS   Complete Agreement Is Reached by High Commands on Methods to Be Pursued   COORDINATED ACTION

‘Complete ¥ Agreement’ On Defeating Sub Menace   American, British And Canadian High Commands In Accord, Navy Announces

U.S., Britain, Canada Agree On Sub Campaigr  Three Nations Map Determined Drive

HighCommands Re ae h Accord On Sub Menace   American, British. And Canadian Commands _Announce Complete Agreement, on Plans for Combatting Atlantic Sub Menace.

Methods to End Axis Sub Menace Found   Navy Announces “Complete Agreement” Reached and Decision Made At Conference Between American, _ British and Canadian High Commands, Under Chairmanship Admiral Ernest J. King

ALLIED ACCORD IS REACHED ON CURBING ‘SUBS   U. S., British and Canadian Officials Draft Plans for Atlantic Action

ALLIES AGREE ON U-BOAT WAR   U. S., Britain and Canada Confer on Method and Plan.

AGREEON METHOC OF COMBATTING U-BOAT MENACE   ALLIES DECIDE ON COORDINATED ACTION TO DEFEAT SUBS

ALLIES AGREE « ‘ON ANTISUB PLAN   British, American, Canadian Officials Decide on Best Methods

Plan To Whip Subs Mapped At Parley   American, British, Canadian Commands Reach Decision

Allies Unite Against Subs   America, Britain and  Canada Join Forces in Fighting U-boats —

est Methods For Defeating Nazi Subs Agreed on By U.S. British, Canadian Officials

Powers Agree On Methods Of Beating Subs   U. S., British, Canadian Naval Commands Fix Plans For Combatting 1-Boat Menace

FINLAND HAS: ~- TOUGH SPOT   U. 8. GOVERNMENT HOPES SMALL, NATION WILL, BE ABLE TO GET PEACE TREATY SOON

FARMERS TOP Lod IN oTATE INCOME TAXES   Take Lead from Executives with $2,000,000 Paid by 83,000.

HUNDREDS OF TROOPS DIE IN DNIEPER   Other Soviet Forces cngage in Bayonet Lattle in Melitopol

IN MARRIAGE   Miss Clara Wadworth Weds 2nd Lieut. Roger Wilcox of New York

WERE UNITED ~~ INMARRIAGE      Miss Clara Wadworth Weds 2nd Lieut. Roger Wilcox of New York

LAST DEFENSES OF GERMANS ARE UNDER ASSAULT   British Warships in Adriatic Hurl Shells Into Enemy To Aid Flank Attack

U.S. Task Force Bombards Wake; ‘At .: sies Within 50 Miles. of Madang—Red Report “No. Important: Change”; : Huns See Leningrad. Battle

British Warships Aid Montgomery   ... U.S. Bombers Hit Venice Rail Yard:

US Army Near Main Nazi Line In South Italy   British Destroyers Bombard Railway and Military Targets to Support 8th  Army; Nazis Capture Town of Coo

NEAR GERMAN MAIN DEFENSE LINE, §, ITAL)   Reported Only 3 Miles Out of Capua, Axis Strong Point on Hannibal Road to Rome

Germans Take Town of Coo and Airstrip   Red Army Consolidates Summer’s Gains in Preparing for Winter Free-Up

British Fleet Shells Foe On Adriatic Side   Yanks Batter Forward Close To Main Defenses On Volturno River.  “anon  pT ETN ae aeage he a ee SE EEL SHAM page oe OL REN

Three Miles From Capua, Radio Says   Germans Seize Coo, But Resistance Continues; Six Enemy Ships Sent to Bottom

Allies Battering Closer To Main Enemy Defenses   x «* «kk * British Admit Reverse on Coo   xk *k& wk Kk. Huns Are Spread Thin In Yugoslavia

BRITISH DESTROYERS SUPPORTING — GEN. MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY MORE THAN 200 MILES UP ADRIATIC   Entire Nazi Tank Division Opposing Advance of British Forces. , Germans Capture Town of Coo In Dadecanese lalands

French Report Yanks Only 3 Miles From  Capua  NAZIS HOLDING  Enemy Defenses ‘On River Bank  Intact

‘AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY BATTERING IN VOLTURNA AREA  2 BRITISH DESTROYERS - GIVING SUPPORT TO EIGHTH ARMY

Allies Slug Forward  In Italy   5th and 8th Armies in Slugging Match Against Stiffened Nazi Lines; Wake Island Bombed

BATTER WAY FORWARD ON ROME ROAD   British Naval Units Support Montgomery's Army Along the Adriatic.   Reverses on Island  Of Coo Are Admitted

Fifth Army Batters Close to Main Nazi Positions in Italy   British Destroyers in Foray of 200 Miles Into Adriatic

Germans Launch Powerful Attacks Against Invaders   Hitler Rushes Armored Force To Block Mont gomery’s Path; Volturno Line Battered

Nearing Main German Defenses   Destroyers Aid Montgomery’s Men — Germans Massing Strength Before Eighth Army—Nazi Strength in Italy Rising — Clark’s Men Cross Tributary of Volturno

Germany's Military Position Becomes Dubious as Nazis Fall fo Open Red Battle

CAPT. WM. DELAHAY AMONG PILOTS GIVEN PRAISE BY GENERAL   MANY OTHER TEXANS IN TENTH AIR FORCE MAKING “GLORIOUS RECORD”

Heavy Bomber Group Praised   Many Oklahomans Are Members of Group Which Made Record

Highee Man in Crew Given Hich Praise   Lt, Hackward Among Fliers With ‘Glorious Record’ Made Against Japs   CITATION TELLS  OF THEIR DEEDS   A Group That Will Always Be ‘Worthy of Emulation,’ President Says

Commander Would ‘Stack’ Group Against Any Heavy Bomber Group in World

CAPT. WM. DELAHAY AMONG PILOTS GIVEN PRAISE BY GENERAL  MANY OTHER TEXANS IN   MANY OTHER TEXANS IN TENTH AIR FORCE MAKING “GLORIOUS RECORD”

New Submachine Gun Army's Best   Will Replace Most Others, Harris Says

U.S. Bombers Rock Nips in Shortlands   Japs Lose 150 Men as Yanks Mop Up on Guadalcanal

Yanks Hammer Jap Bases in Solomons   Heavily Bomb Shortland Island Area, While Ground Forces on Guadaleanal Kill 150  More Enemies in Mopping-Up Operations.

American Bombers Go . Af. ter Japs Who Show Signs of New Drive   RAIDS ON ‘BASES NEAR GUADACANAI   Grourd Forces Also Strike Killing 150 of Enemy and Several Are Captured

Allied Forces Continue To Pound Japanese Shipping And  Air Bases In Pacific Theatre

Shortland Island Area Is Pounded  Ground Forces Kill 150 More Jap Defenders Of Guadalcanal

JAPS AIM ANEW AT GUADALCANAL   THREE AIR ATTACKS . LAUNCHED AGAINST AMERICAN POSITIONS

Shortland Island Area Heavily  Pounded By American Bombers   150 More Japs On Guadalcanal Killed And Number Of Others Taken Prisoners By U0 &.

Guadalcanal Forces Slay More Japs   Enemy Opens New Offensive From Base al Munda—U. S. Bombers Pound Shortland Island

GROUND FORGE KILLS 150 JAPS   Continue to Mop. Up Pockets Of Enemy Resistance On Guadalcanal.   FOE RENEWING ATTACKS

Japs Launch New Bout For  Guadaleanal   Campaign Cost Them Dearly In Men, Equipment

Flying Fortresses Pound Rabaul; Sink or Damage 5 Ships   Jap Footholds Over a Wide Area Blasted by  Yankee Airmen

U. S. BOMBERS HIT SHORTLAND ISLE AND AREA   Ground Forces on Guadalcanal Kill ‘150 More Javanese

Bombers Deliver Heavy Air Attacks at Jap Bases In Shortland Island Area

Japs Heavily Pounded By U.S. Bombers In Solomon Island As Ground Forces Take Tolls

150 MORE JAP THOUPS KILLED IN SOLOMONS   American Forces Continue Mopping Up Pockets Of Enemy Fighters

Japs Start New Bomb Attacks  In Guadalcanal   Make Three Onslaughts On U. S. Posts In 2 Days

U8. DOMBERD HEAVILY POUND SLAND OF REA   Jap Held Base Subjected to  _ Smashing Attack Navy  Department Reports In New Communique

Bombers Pound Jap-Held Isles   150 More Japs Killed on Ciiitdaleanal

Japs Launching New Offensive On Guadalcanal  Three Air Attacks On U. S. Positions Herald Stratecv

Yanks Set For New Jap Blow On Guadalcanal   Allied Airmen Pouns Enemy Bases In Burm And On Islands.

Allied Planes Batter Japs In Two Areas   Enemy Raids Airfield At Guadalcanal in New and Costly Assault

Axis Fights Delaying Action in Africa ~~ Without Hone of Turning Back Allies

CHINA’S FIRST LADY TO VISIT CONGRESS   Madame Chiang Kai-shek Speak First to Senate and Then to House.

Sth Army Units Gain New High Ground in Italy   American Bombers Complete Destruction Of Athens Airfield: Yanks Aid Yugoslavs

HEIGHTS WON BY STH ARMY DRIVE IN RAI   Yanik Plaines Complete Destriction of Elevsis Airfield

Eighth Army Gains Higher Ground Near Archi Village   Nazi Elevsis Airfield Near Athens Nearly  Destroyed By Yank Bombers In New Attacks

ALLIES SMASH NAZI AIRFIELD   Bombers Active During Lull On Italian  Ground Lines

Eighth Army Wins New High Ground   American Bombers Nearly Destroy Airfield in Greece

STH ARMY TAKES HIGH GROUND IN BITTER FIGHTING   Move Forward Through Rain and Rough Country — Can See Strong Nazi Defenses From Positions Won.   MOST OF FRONT QUIET DUE TO BAD WEATHER   American Bombers Complete Destruction of Germans’ Elevsis Airfield Near Athens.

‘ighth Army Wins District In Italy  Yank Bombers Destroy Athens Airport

Allies Gain New Ground In Italy; Troops Are Massing   Heavy Equipment Bogged Down by Mud as Floods Continue—Allies Win Improved Obser-  vation Points in ltaly

FRONT REMAINS QUIET IN ITALY   Eighth Army Wins High Ground On Adriatic End Of Line

British Slosh Way To High Ground As Floods Sweep Area    Italian Front Relatively Quiet, While Bombers Wreck Nazi Airfield At Athens

British Slosh Way To High Ground As Floods Sweep Area   « Italian Front Relatively Quiet, While Bombers Wreck Nazi Airfield At Athens  Be NAT ANN NOARCATGTY

Report Advance By Eighth Army   Weather Halts Mass Troop Movements

British Occupy ltalian Heights   Announce Advance In Rough Terrain

Hill County Has Raised One-Third  Of Its Quota   Only 10 Days Remain In Which to Go Over Tan in War Ioan Drive

‘Quota Exceeded By Over $50,000: Rubie Expresses His Appreciation

If Germans Want To Play Rough, Allies Are Ready   Says European War Can Be Ended In 30 Days If Nazis Use Gas

IF NAZIS USE. GAS, ALLIES CAN END WAR   Would Retaliate So Strongly: Tt... = Would All Be Over

May Postpone Court Martial   Pearl Harbor Chiefs May Not Be Tried Until ._ After War...

TRIAL OF MILITARY MEN IS POSTPONED   Hawaiian Cemmanders Are Retired

Nazis Get Fourth Raid in 36 Hours   Biggest Planes Used In ‘Heavy’ Assault

‘ALLIED BOMBERS SMASHING AGAIN AT NAZI PLANTS   } — Industrial Rhineland Latest Target in Campaign “To Bust Germany Wide Open”

Raid Nazi War Foundries and Danish Capital   Offensive Hailed Start of Campaign to ‘Bust Germany Open’

C00 ISLAND 1S SITE OF BIG BATTLE   Germans Claim A}! Major Points In Their Control

British May Be On Dozen Isles Situation On Coo Not Clear: Renart« Differ

Kx KR KK KK Fierce Fight   Rages on Coo   BRITISH SEIZE 12 ISLANDS HRY WiLLisam mn. KiNG:

ALLIES DESTROY 23 MORE JAP PLANES IN RAID ON WEWAK   Enemy Resistance Now Broken Around Finschhafen

JAP SHIPS ARE HIT BY AIRMEN   Destroyer And Cargo Vessel Set Afire By Raiders~

Jap Destroyer, Merchant Vessel Are Set On Fire   Aerial Raids Continue On Jap Positions

Allied Warplane: Bag 23 Enemy Craft At Wewak   Ship, Thought To Be Aircraft Carrier,  Bombed By Liberator

LONE LIBERATOR MAY HAVE SUNK ENEMY CARRIFT   23 Jap Aircraft Oestroyed on Ground In Smashing Raid on Wewak.

13 Japanese Barges Sunk; Destroyer Hit   New Britain Enemy Warship, Cargo Vessel Set Afire By Planes   BLAST SUPPLY LINES   Ground Action Lags At Munda; Bombers Con-. tinue Battering Defenses

Allied War Pianes Destroy 23 Japa. nese Aircraft in Low-level Rald on Wewak in New Guinea — Set Fire to Large Enemy Vessel in Northern Solomons.

Wewak Is Hit, Fnemy Carrier May Be Afire   23 Japanese Aircraft Are Destroyed; — Finschhafen Resistance Weakens   WITHDRAW TO HILLS   Backbone Of Japanese Drive Apparently Broker By Liberator Attack

ALLIES SCORE NEW SUCCESS IN RAIDS NEW BRITAIN AREA   Jap ‘Destroyer And Cargo - Ships Set Afire — - % Smaller Boats Destroyed.

3 Jap Planes Destroyed, Carrier Bombed  Nip Resistance Is Broken Up At Finschhafen

2 JAP SHIPS BOMBED OFF NEW BRITAIN   Seven Barges, Two Launches Sunk; Munda Bombed

JAP DESTROYER IS SET AFIRE BY U, S, PLANES IN SECTOF   Cargo Vessel Also Hard Hit; Seven Barges, Two Launches Destroyed.

MORE JAP SHIPS ARE DESTROYED   Destroyer, Cargo Ship Afire; Nine Smaller Ships Sunk

23 JAPANESE PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Wewak Is Attacked By Allied Bombers; Bia Shin Set Afire

Jap Destroyer, Cargo Ship Are Set Ablaze      Land Operations In South Pacific Remain Quiet Today

Planes Fire Nip Destroyer, 10° Other Vessels   Ground Action At Minimum On Both Ends of Pacific

Jap Destroyer, Cargo Vessel  Set Afire   Allied Planes Also  Destroy Barges in Nilaw Rritain Araa

Allied Bombers And Ground Forces Break Japanese Resistance Around Finschhafen; Destroy 23 Jap Planes

N egotiate F or French West Indies   John Hoover Confers With Admiral Robert

Negotiations Start Today To Put French — West Indies Under Allied Authority

MURRAY ASKS POSTWAR UNION   CIO And AFL Officials Express Sympathy With Anti-Nazis

Hints of Widespread Turmoil Within Kingdom Are Contained In Broadcasts Emanating Over Radio From Rome   MARSHAL BADOGLIO TAKES OVER FOR EMANUELE

King Appoints Long-Time Fascist Foe To Be Head Of New Italian Regime

DICTATORSHIP CRASH IN ITALY THREATENS END TO WAR EFFORTS  UNCONFIRMED REPORTS / SAY IL DUCE TAKEN  WHILE TRYING ESCAPE

Duce Reporteg ad Seized While” Trying To Flee      Badoglio, New Premier, Orders Troop: To Preserve Order, Forbids Public = Gatherinas: Developments Broadcast

‘Badoglio Puts Italy Under Martial Law   Orders 22 Divisions Home; Says War to Go On; People Say No

Ex-Dictator Sought To Flee From Italy   King Takes Over, Names Badeglio Premier; Fascist Shake-Up Promptly Ordered   ITALIAN PEACE BIDS. ARE EXPECTED   Badoglio Orders Army To Take Over, Clamps Curfew On Land; ‘War Continues’

Ousting Mussolint May Put Italy Out Of War Very Soon   Whole Peninsula Is Under Martial Law As Badoalio Rules

Mussolini’s 21-Year Regime Ends   King Emanuele Takes Over In Series Of Swift-Moving Events

‘Martial Law Proclaimed and New Premier Announces Blackshirts Are Integral Part of Italy’s Army

Other Leaders, Cabinet Members in Custody as Many ltalians Celebrate

Mussolini Arrested In Attempt to Flee To Reich, Is Report   Forbids All Public Gatherings and Decrees Curfew for All Italy

Italian Officers Reported To Have Seized Mussolini As He Attempted To Flee To °Germany; Replaced By Badoglio.    Seen As First Crack In Axis Front

Martial Law Is Declared   New Chief of State Says War to Continue but Peace Sians Evident

REPORTED CAPTURED BY OWN ARMY OFFICIALS IN TRYING TQ FLEE TQ GERMANY   Military Government Set Up With Marshal Badoglio as Head; May Fight on or Ask for Peace

Mussolini Out Badoglio Heads Italian People   THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF ITALY DEMANDED BY ALLIES

Report Mussolini Arrest As Badoglio, Fascist Foe Chosen Premier by King

Says Mussolini Attempted Escape But Was Captured   Stockholm Report Asserts I Duce Tried To Make His Way To Germany Ry STEN HEDVAN

Speculation Stirred As to Duce’s Fate; Reported Arrested   Badoglio, New Premier, Asserts War Against Allies to Continue; Swift Shift Mav Be Peace Prelude

Mussolini Reported Captured While Tryi To Escape From Italy To Germany: Bul Official Confirmation Ia Lacking — Cl otic Conditions Follow Fall Of Dictate

HARASSED ITALY 18 UNDER MARTIAL LAW MUSSOLINI OUSTED   KING VITTORIO EMANUELE NAMES MARSHAL BADOGLIO AS PREMIER

No Axis Announcement Has Been Made Of What Has Become of Mussolini; Unconfirmed Rumérs Tell-of Arrest _

SHAKEUP FIRST MAJOR BREAKIN AXISWARFRONT   Pro-Fascist and Conservative Marshal Pietro Takes Over Government Torn From Dictator   POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO PEACE REQUEST   New Premier Forbids Gatherines and Directs Army to Shoot Any One Violating Instructions

Crash Of 21-Year Dictatorship Threatens To Take Italy Out Of Conflict—Conviction Grows That New Premier May Ask For Peace Despite His Declaration That “War Continues’—Benito’s “Resignation” Announced By Kine

Il Duce and Other Leaders Try to Flee   Fall of Fascist Dictator May Topple Italy Out of the Axis Powers and Also Out of the World War.   People in Milan Shout for Peace And Demand German Forces Ousted

Martial Law Proc laimed; Bado glio Prohibits Public Gatherin os Throughout Italy   People Directed To Remain At Work; Violators Of Instructions To Be Shot: Fascist Militia Made Integral Part Of Armed Forces

fartial Law Is Proclaimed Throughout The Entire Country   PEACE MOVES BELIEVED IN MAKING

1 Duce Seized While Attempting To Flee To Germany; Italians Mill In Streets Shouting ‘Down With Hitler’ And “Out With The Germans

Sudden Upheaval In Italy Seen As First Major Break In Axis Front And Possible Prelude To Peace Gesture By Italians; Demonstration: Made By Italians

Marshal Badoglio Takes Over Reins At Behest of Diminutive King—dAllies Press On In Sicily, Taking Termini, 20 Miles from Palermo—Success es Claimed on All Fronts

London Expects Shakeup To Be Peace Prelude   Neutral Countries Hear Ex-Duce Arrest: ed Trying to Flee

First Major Break On Axis Front; Say Il Duce Captive of New Italian Government

Dispatches Claim Benito Arrested In Attempt To Flee Italy Into Germany

Badoglio Named Premier As King Fires Mussolini  Former Dictator Reported Arres

Rome Reports Hint at Turmoil Over Nation   Developments May Topple Italy Out of Fight; Despite Declaration to Continue War, London Sees Move Toward Peace.

Ex-Duce Caught In Attempt To Reach Germany   Ousted Dictator Tries To Run Away; People Demand Peace

DUCE IS FIRED BY KING TO PUT END TO FASCISM   Italians on Verge of Open Revolt as They Shout ‘Down With Hitler? sy   AXIS IN TRAP ON SICILY   Russians Continue Drive To Smash Nazis—Heavy Toll Taken of Invaders

Marshal Badoglio, New Pre~ mier, Declares Martial Law  END OF FASCIST RULE Public Meetings Banned;  Crowds Demonstrate for Peace

AROUSED ITALIAN PEOPLE SHOUTING DOWN WITH HITLER   Mussolini Said Arrested Trying To Flee To Germany   ITALIANS FED UP WITH THE GERMANS

Martial Law   Other Fascist Leaders Also Said to Be Under Arrest~-Reports Not Confirmed Italians Said To Be Comparatively Calm After Resignation of Mussolini

Badoglio Orders Martial Law   Other Fascist Leaders Also Said to Be Under Arrest-—Reports Not Confirmed Italians Said To Be Comparatively Calm After Resignation of Mussolini

Neutral Sources Say Mussolini Captured On Way To Germany   Berlin Radio Claims Fascist Chief's Health Reason for Resignation; _  Badoglio Takes Over

DICTATORSHIP CRASH IN ITALY THREATENS END TO WAR EFFORTS  UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY IL DUCE TAKEN

Badoglio Declares Martial Law   New Premier Acts to Curb Demonstrations; Fascists Deprived of Snecial Privileges

Shake-up a Possible Prelude to  Peace Bid   Mussolini Reported - Caught as He Tries to Escape After Resioning   NORTHERN ITALY CRIES FOR PEACE   King and Badoglio Take Over; Fascist Militia Made ' Bart of Army 

TRANSIT STRIKE THREAT FADES   Wage Demands To Be Re opened; Akron Workers Continue Walkout

Western Trainmen  Call Off Walkout  President Gives Promise To Reopen Issue

Strikers Refuse To Resume Work   Shout Down Plea to End Strike Against Freeze Order

CEMENT MEN DENY WLB PLE}   Shout ‘Down Leaders Proposal to End Their Strike

London Hears News With Much Delight  fie... gg... pg. 4°?   Allies Hope Nation Will Move for Peace, Quit Axis

London Hears News With Much Delight   Allies Hope Nation Will Move for Peace, Quit Axis

Thousands of Volunteers To Go Into Action Today In Great War Loan Drive

U.S. Launches Greatest  War Bond Drive  ..» ames Canine ta   Treasury Seeks to Raise Total of $13,000,000,000

All Americans Asked To Help In Bond Drive   Morgenthau To Open Grea Offensive in New York Today

Second Great War Loan Drive To Open Today   Goal Is 13 Billions, Citizens Asked To Buy Out of Current Income

Nation To Launch Great War Finance Drive Today   Thousands of Volunteer Workers on, the Home Front to Go Into Action From Coast to Coast— Wer Operations Cost Heavy 

All Americans Askec  ToJoin Bond Drive   Goal Is $13,000,000,000 as Greatest War Financ ing in History Gets Under Way and Investment Not Gift. Is Stressed

LARGE SUM IS ASKED IN WAR FUND CANVASS   Variety of Securities Offered in Gigantic Program

Greatest War Loan Drive Opens Today   } elanteers Go Into Avtion on Home Front to Borrow 13 Billion, Help Curb Inflation

GAS “CRITICALLY SHORT”   awiee Warns Citizens Of Possible Tightening Of Rations

‘New Cuts in Civilian Gasoline Are Foreseen; 17 Pct. Slash on West Coast ‘Is Indicated; 15 Pct. in the East

Bowles Sees New Civilian Gasoline Cut   TIGHTER RATION LOOMS; PRICE HEAD SAYS SUPPLY IS CRITICALLY SHORT

United States Marines Could Build Legend Around Major Marion Cai

Morale, Not Money Sefs Ship Record   Workers Build 24 Ships In Month For New Mark

BOMBERS TAKE WAR 10. aUbih AY HEAVY RAID   Extremely Accurate Attack ls Directed At Railway Targets In Bulgaria

YANK BOMBERS ATTACK SOFIA RAIL TARGETS   Three Nazi Counterattack: Smashed By U. §. Troops On Italian Line

‘SOFIA RAIDED BY MITCHELL BOMRERS   Railway Shops, Lines Hit By Attack

DAYLIGHT ASSAULT HITS SOFIA   U. S. Troops Beat Off Three Nazi Drives In Land Fighting

3 Nazi Counterattacks  On Trans- Italy Line Harled Back By Fifth

ALABAMA ACCIDENT: TAKE LIVES OF FOUR   Etowah County Woman Kill. ed In Automobile Crash

{OUSE PASSES ANTISTRIKE LAW   — ee tringent Measure Goes to Senate After 238 to 135 Vote

Anti-Strike Bill OK'd by House Ballot a) to Ll  wel) Ol.   Bill Cloaks WLB With Added Powers

Anti-Strike Bill Passed by House   Measure Might Curb Actions Of John L. Lewis

Hears Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Off Sept. 1   Bronx Rationing Chief Says. He Has Been Informed By O.P.A.

Red Cross Drive Reaches $7,132  Contributions Are Mounting Slowly

“ODDITIES”  {N THE DAY’S Newe   iby the Associated Prensa,  FOLLOWED oORDrrs.

Post-War Revival OF CCC Proposed  Plan Given as Way _— t eg Bag rh

Post-War Jobless May Revive CCC   Would Give Work To Six Millions

Reds Racing  To Cut Off Nazis   Enemy Divisions Fleeing Via Land Bridge As Russians Rush in From North, Tear at Thin Protective Shell in East

Germans Are Evacuating Crimean Area   Nazis Desperately Trying to Escape Soviet Trap

DNIEPER BEND MAY BE TRAP FOR GERMANS   SOVIETS THREATEN TO CLOSE LAST RAIL EXIT

Red Divisions Move Southward to Encircle the Enemy   NAZIS THREATENED  BY GREAT DEBACLE   Bitter Fighting Continues in Melitopol, Communique Savs

Germans Flee Crimea to Escape Trap  Begin Evacuation  ee ame   Begin Evacuation As Russians Race To Flank Peninsula

SENDING NEW DNISIONS 10 DNIEPER BEND   To Avert Greatest Eneirclement Since Stalingrad; Germans Also Making Large Crimea Evacuation.   Thick Gloom

Soviets Race To Outflank  Peninsula   Enemy Piles Reserves Into Bend of Dnieper But Russians Advance  1,500 NAZIS KILLED

Nazi hold in Crimea near: bitter finish   Soviet flanking  move continues

Nazi Forces Flee Crimea,  Reds Assert   _arge-Scale Evacuation Declared Underway; Germans Pile Reserves And Bombers Into Dnieper Bend Area

Russ Rushing To Outflank Peninsula From The North   Germans Desperately Piling Reserves And Bombers Into Dnieper River Bend In Fiaht

Nazis Facing New Disaster   Dnieper Bend Debacle May Exceed Stalinarad's Tol!

Germans Pour Reserves Into  Dnieper Bend   Soviets Clean Out New Districts of  Melitopol; Try to Trap for in Bulge

Pour Reserves in Dnieper Bend to Avert Red Trap   Russians Race to Peninsula, Sear at East Defenses

‘MYSTERY’ OF — PLANE ENDED   TRISH PRIESTS ON SHIP THAT  MADE SPECIAL TRIP FROM ROME TO PORTUGAL

Soldier Denies He’s Wounded  Cpl. G. H. Favorite Writes From China

Ickes Authorized To O perate Mines On 8-Hour-Day Basis   War Mobilization Director Byrnes Says FDR And WLB Have Authorized 8-Hour-Day, 48-Hour Week For Coal Mines

Secretary Ickes  Government Boss Of Coal Mining  Operations Will Go Or  pH i Ci 2 S ..   Operations Will Go On Basis Of 8-Hour Day, 48-Hour Week

46-HOUR WEEK IN MINES APPROVED      Government’s Action Gives Coal Miners Additional Pay

8-HOUR DAY I AUTHORIZED IN NATION'S MINES   Byrnes Announces F.D.R Has Authorized Step On Basis of 48 Hours A Week   Amounts To $9 Boost

To Operate Mines Upon A48-Hr. Basis   WLB AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AUTHORIZE SECRETARY ICKES TO PROCEED ON LONGER WORK WEEK.   FDR Sanction

Roosevelt Authorizes 48-Hour Week In Coal Mines To Speed Production

APPROVE 48-HOUR _-GOAL--MINE -WEEK   WLB AND ROOSEVELT AUTHORIZE 6-HOUR INCREASE WITH OVERTIME PAY.

Twe Billion Dollars, 10 Years of Work Needed te Put Farm Land Back on Feet

FACE BIG TASK   10 Years To Be Needed To Restore U. S. Farm Land

SOIL GONSERVATION PROJECT — ADVOGATED TO RESTORE LAND   EXPERT SAYS HUNDRED MILLION CROP ACRES DAMAGED   DURING THE PAST  15 YEARS

SEES HUGE COST TO REBUILD SOIL      Conservation Chief Predicts Billions and 10 Years Work Needed

AIR ATTACKS ON GERMANY.  STEPPED UP   ALLIED AIRMEN CONTINUE STEADY SERIES OF BOMB‘TN GB-RETALIATION RAID ON LONDON. :

PACKED LONDON DANCE HALL HIT BY NAZI BOMBS   British Planes Blast West @ Germany and Airfields ~ in France

AERIAL FORGES TRADE BLOWS   Nazi Raiders Smash London Dance Hall, Restaurant

British Bombers Batter Targets In Western Germany   Continue Aerial Assaults On Enemy Targets During Night   MANY ARE KILLED IN RAID ON LONDON

Yenks Cracked Buna Station With Bayonets   British Pilots Play Host To Escaping Nazi Fliers

Yanks Go Over The Top _ In New Victory At Burma   Action Is Described By U. P, Writer Hewlett Who Covered Bataan And Corregidor

Yankees Use Bayonets on Japs in Buna   Wireman Has Fine Time, Tossing Grenades At the Nips

WENDELL WILLKIE’S BOOK ‘ONE WORLD’ BEING SOLD RY NANICH TINDERGROALND

LE NL COO OCOD LETC AO  WENDELL WILLKIE’S BOOK DISTRIBUTED IN DENMARK

TWO ITALIAN VESSELS SUNK   Royal Navy Stands Ready To Create  Awis “Dunkerague.”’

MANY OPINIONS ABOUT END WAR   Good Chance It May End in ~ Europe in 5 to 8 Months,  Maybe Sooner, and Might ~ Go Through Another Year

WAR MAY END IN 8 MONTHS BERN IS TOLD   PARALLEL IS SEEN WITH SITUATION IN 1918

Increasing Signs War Will End Much Sooner than Recently Predicted, Seen By Neutral Listening Posts in Bern   Good Chance It Will Be Over in Five fo Eight Months Reported by European Observers

COAL MINE STRIKES SPREADING   Lewis’ Reply To President Is inconclusive

UMW, ASKS RENEWAL OF BARGAINING   More And More Miners Leaving Jobs As Deadline Nears For Ultimatum To Lewis

W.L.B,, LABOR GROW FARTHER APART, REVEAI   Sharp Criticism From A. F. L Head For Warning Issued To Labor From Board Members

@ PERSONALITY PICTURE  Big Chester Bowles Expects to Make Progress in Six Weeks

MORE BLACKOUTS NEEDED, IS CLAIM   State Defense Officials Look For Army To Call State-Wide Practice Dril! Seon

“BLACKOUT” « £ ~INTHEOFFING   State-Widé Practite Ait -Raid Drill “Very Soon”

HALF OR MINES AGREBON PACT, LEWIS REFUSES   Mine Union Leader Asserts He’s “Not Interested”  In Contract to Cover  30%-of Industry )

Half of Operators Offer Acceptable Contract But Lewis Wants All Included

WAGE CONTRACT IS TURNED DOWN BY LEWIS TODAY   Only Fifty Percent Of Operators In On Agreement

UNINTERESTED      Miners Don’t Want Contract With Half Of Owners

MINE OWNERS BROACH PACT   Lewis Says Contract Not Acceptable to Miners in UMW

SOUTHERN MINE OWNERS REFUSE PORTAL DEMAND   HALF OF NATION’S PRODUCERS READY TO SIGN CONTRACT

Miners Not Interested in Contract With Only Half of Mining Industry

50-PCT OPERATORS OFFER: ‘MINERS ICOAL CONTRACT   John L. Lewis Declares” Miners Not Interested in Signing With Half of  Industry

Southern Men Reiect Scale   Refuse to Agreement Accepted by Northern Group of Operators

LEWIS WANTS ALL OPERATORS IN COAL PACT   Half Of Owners Offer Acceptable Contract

EASTER OBSERVED BY U. S. SOLDIERS   All Over World America’s Service Men Celebrate Religious Holiday

PRESS FREEDOW PERIL 1S CITED   Bellamy Raps Present U. S. Censorship Program

FREEDOM OF PRESS IN PERIL, BELIEF   Cleveland Editor Objects Tc  Army-Navy Censorship

‘Navy Department Reveals How An Americar Battleship Destroyed 32 Jap Planes While Suffering Only One Minor Bomb Hit

32 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   American Battleship De stroys Whole Flight in the Pacific

Itself Hit Only Once, Repairs Dam. age Quickly, Takes Part in Later Guadalcanal Baitle

Got Only One Bomb Hit, Then Deliberately Drove Into Guadaleanal Trap

U. S. Battleship Downs 32 Jap Planes, Enemy Finally Gives Up Attacking It

Battleship Destroys Flight of 32 Plane   American Craft Bags Entire Jap Group Dur. ' ing October Battle In South Pacific; Ship Takes But 1 Bomb Hit

Destruction of 32 Jap Planes in Attacks On Battleship is Revealed

JAPS WARNED BY EX-ENVOY TO AMERICA   Admiral Nomura Says U.S. Will Increase Mounting Assaults

NOMURA WARNS OF U. S. MIGHT   jap Ex-Envoy Tells Nation American Blows Will ‘Steadily Swell’

ADMIRAL FEARS COMBINATION OF YANKS, BRITISH   Quebec Conference Seen As Starting Point Of Pacific Campaign   NIP PLANS IN JEOPARDY   Envoy To Washington At Time Of Sneak Punch Expects Trouble

HOISTED DRAFT AGE FAVORED      Solon Would Call Men 38 To 45 To Delay Use Of Nation’s Fathers

BOND GOAL NOW$65,000 AWAY   Greenville Total . Swells by Second $100,000 by C. B. & I. Company.

NEED $33,000  FOR BOND GOAI   q  ‘Greenville District Comes  Closer to Quota as Zero Hour Nears.

AT $70,000 MARK   House-to-House Canvass Begun Today, Expected to Swell Total.

U.S. Pincers Being Closed   General MacArthur Is Leading New Offense

Munda Virtually Is Surrounded By American Forces  General MacArthur Per sonally sic tiled Action  fo aa 6 Rl an a ae

Pincers Action Threatens Japs In New Georgia   Naval and Aerial Units Combine With Invading Troops

Nazis. Do Not Appear ‘Anxious to Come Out. For Round Two of Battle   BAD WEATHER HER HAMPERS R ACTIVITY IN. AREA

AFRICA CORPS IS HARASSED   British Eighth Army Begins Putting Pressure On Rommel Force.

British 8th Feels Out Mareth Line  Bad Weather Keep Other Fronts Quiet  . weno ASS

Germans Are Nof Eager fo Resume Battle   Montgomery's Eighth Army Seems to Have  Chilled Nazi Courage At Tunisian Front

BRITISH INVITE * NAZIS TO FIGHT   Eighth Army Launches Har: assing Activities All Along Mareth Line

EIGHTH ARMY PROBING ALON( MARETH LINE   French Advance In Central Sector

TWO MORE TANKS LOST BY ROMMEL   British Eighth Army Continues At. tack Along Mareth ine

CRIPPLING BLOW HAS BEEN DEALT ROMMEL ARMOR   ~ighth Army Carrying On Harassing And Probing Activities All Along Main German Fortification Line In Africa.

British Sharpen Patrol Activities Harass Rommel Forces In Tunisia

8th Army Harasses All of Mareth Line   Rommel’s Armored Losses Heavy With 52 Tanks Accounted For; Bad Weather Interferes With Air Activity.

British Harassing Rommel All Along Mareth Line; Little Activity Elsewhere

British Tommies Harass Action On Mareth Line   Rommel Reluctant To Appear For Second Round of Fight

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY DEALING. CRIPPLING BLOWS TO ROMMEL'S ARMOR; PROBING MARETH LINE: .   German General Has Last Fifty-Two Tanks in Thrusts.at British Lines in Past Few Days. _ British Say. He Has- Lost Moré Than He'Can

8TH ARMY PATROLS ARE ACTIVE   Bad Weather Grounds Planes; French  Stab At Gafsa

BRITISH 8TH ARMY BEGUN HARASSING ROMMEL AGAIN   Probing German Activities All Along the Mareth Line, It Is Said.   REPULSED SATURDAY   we Abandoned Fifty Tanks in Six Attempted Thrusts.

BRITISH POUND GERMAN FORCE MARETH LINE   Montgomery Is Putting Pressure On Rommel's orces, Réepulsed In OH Move         PATROLS ACTIVE   52 Axis Tanks Captured By - Allies In Southern Sec  tor; French Take   Tunisian Town

Rommel Loses Two More Tanks in Clashes — Little Activity Along Entire Tunisian Front   AIRMEN GROUNDED   Rommel’s Reluctance io Again Engage Montgomery Seen’ as Indicating Tank Lass Serious

British Begin Harassing And Probing Activities Along the Mareth Line

Axis Forces Harassed. By British: Patrols All. Along Mareth Line...

British Keep After Rommel   German General Badly Beaten In His Attack Against Eighth Army

British Harass Germans Along Mareth Line   Much Armor Lost When Rommel 1s Driven Back

Montgomery Men Harass Axis Forces   Attack Rommel On Mareth Line

Crippling Blows Dealt to Rommel By British Army   Allies Harass Axis Forces All Along the Mareth  Line in Tunisia.   Weather Restricts Warfare in the An

BRITISH HARASS CEAMAN FORGES   Allied Patrols Are Active in Northern Tunisian Sectors.

ALLIED FORCES REMAIN ACTIVE IN NORTH AREA   ~ RAF Bombers Hit  Three Places In Sicily, Cairo Says

Eighth Army Units Probe Mareth Line   Allied Patrols Active in North Tiinisian Region

ROMMEL LOSES ~ MORE MACHINES   French Complete Oceupation of Tozeur, Send Parties Toward Gafsa

8TH ARMY'S PRESSURE IS INCREASING   Probing Activities Along Entire Line Said In Progress

ALLIED SOURCE IS CLAIMING ROMMEL’S LOSSES VERY HEAVY   LIGHT OPERATIONS EVERYWHERE IN TUNISIA EXCEPT SOUTHERN PART

ROMMEL DOES NOT SHOW UP FOR A FIGHT   Meanwhile, Weather Halts Gperations Elsewhere, Except in North, Where Allied Patrols Are “Extremely Active.”

BRITISH HARASS MARETH LINE   Probing Activities Are Made by Eighth Army

Kighth Army Stabbing At Mareth Line   Rommel Lost ‘More Than He Can Afford In His Attacks

Kighth Army Probing at  Mareth Line   Rommel Licking Hi Wounds Behind Yortifications

BAD WEATHER REPORTED ON TUNISIA FRONT   Eighth Army Begins Harrassing and Probing Activities All Along Mareth Line   ONLY PATROLS FLYING

MANY ACRES: SWEPT BY FIRE      Tinder Dr y ~ Brush Endangers Western Pennsylvania

Sicilian. Invasion Seen. As Pattern. for Fr rance.   ‘Direct Assault on Europe. “From West Viewed ‘as’ Having ° Prospects of Success: i

VICTORY PROSPECTS IN SICILY INDICATE FRANCE VULNERABLE  SAME PATTERN OF AM. PHIBIOUS ASSAULT MAY ’ BE USED IN WEST

West Wall Can Be Cracked ‘Like Sicily   London Sources Believe Allies Can Invade Atlantic or French Coast on Same Pattern as Sicilian Attack

ALLIED PLAN FOR INVASION TESTED IN SICILIAN WAR   Same Program Might be Used Successfully Against Western Europe

‘Unusual Success Of Campaign In Sicily Indicates Allies Can Invade Western Europe In Same Manner

Allies Find Every Plan For Attack  Improving   Pattern For Sicily To Be Followed  In Europe

FORMULA USED IN INVASION OF SICILY LIKED   Some Observers Hold Same Pattern May be Employed Against Hitler’s Wall of Western France   GEROW TO MAP MOVE      Replaces Major Genera! Russell P. Hartle; Allied Control of .Skies Considered Key

Allied Formula Is Confirmed  Axis Can't Maintain an Adequate Front

Sicilian Success Suggests Allies Can Invade Europe, Some Believe

Sicilian  Landings Suggest Allies Can Invade Western Europe Successfully

Allied Formula Is Confirmed  ’ Axis Can't Maintaiy an Adenircite Front

OBSERVERS SAY INVASION OF FRANCE LIKELY   Sicilian. Formula Could Be Repeated Against Axis Bastions in Europe

Decision On Auto License Cut Awaited   Applications Withheld By Motorists Pending Governor’s Action On Reduction Of $5

No Action Taken Qn License Bill  Governor’s Decision May  Be Revealed Tonight

Motorists Hold License Forms   Await Goodland Action on Reduction Bill

HOPES TRAMPLED UPON   WPB Officials Pour Cold Water on His “More Civilian Goods” Statement.

BYRNES’ HOPE NOT UPHELD  BY THE WPE   WAR PRODUCTION BOARD OF  FICIALS SEE SLIM CHANCE  ‘POR BIG INCREASE IN CIVILIAN GOODS

1 MORE TOWNS FALL TO ALLIES IN TUNISIA   Sousse and Holy City if Kairouan Taken as Xomumel “Holes In”

Port Of Sousse Is Entered By Allies: Kairouan Also Falls   British And American Troops Continue Pursuit Of Retreating Axis Forces. Rommel Now Holed Up In 40x100 Mile Defense Box In  Northern Tunisia.

State Support of Ninth  School Month Makes - Reduction Possible.”

State Support of Ninth School Month, Makes  « ‘Reduction Possible. *

Controversy Over Rail Wage Boils   Strike Threat Gone But Non-Operating Unions In Bad Tangle   Fear VMawe Freeze

Railroad Pay Dispute Unsettled   Government Officials Refuse Commitment  On Wage Scale

Railroad Strike ls Not Settled   Trainmen, Engineers  Agree But 18 Others Arvo Still Dielbarina

Rail Wages Controversy  Unsettled   Strike Threat Removed As Government Takes Control of Systems

“Non-Op” Unions Accept Sliding ‘Seale Increases .   Strike Cancelation Orders Not Sent. Field Chairmen Until 9. P.M;

WAGE DEMANDS 18 RAIL UNIONS STILLUNSETTLED   CASE OF 15 ‘NONOPS’ SEEMS MORE TIGHTLY KNOTTED THAN EVER

STRIKE THREAT IS: GONE: CONTORVERSY OVER WAGES GOES-08   Wage Argument That -Provoked-Railroad Strike Threat Continues Although the’ Threat Itzelf.Is Gone

15 Nonoperating Rail Unions, Case More Tightly Knotted Than Ever.

RAIL WORKERS ROW OVER PAY   Army Still In Charge Bu Strike Is Averted

Rail Strike fs Definitely Off      HOWEVER PAY DISPUTE STILL REMAINS TO BE SETTLED

Control Of Roads Stull With Army; Pay Issue Growing More Complicated

Rail Wage Issue Still In Tangle   Strike Threat Over, But Pay Agreement Reached With Only 2 Of 20 Brotherhoods

BROTHERHOODS WAGE DEMANDS UNSATISFIED   Nolice Calling Off Strike Sent Out Belaiedly Without Commiliment an Pay   TWO GET RAISES   Trainmen and Engineers Sign Confracts Providing Nine Cents Hike, Vacations

RAILROAD PAY ISSUE GROWING MORE KNOTTY   Strike Threat Gone, But Wage Row Remains

ARMY CONTROLS RAILROADS BUT WAGES NOT SET   Some Members Of Unions Stiil Not Agreed

U.S. Army Controls  Throttle   .. AU Trains Running: Settlement Pending

Wage Dispute Still Unsettled - Railroad Strike Averted, but Pay  Demands Remain

U.S. Railroads Still Gripped By Pay Dispute   Strike Threat Is Removed But Controversy Holds

Controversy Over Rail Wage Boils   Strike Threat Gone Bu! Non-Operating Union: In Bad Tangle

DEMANDS OF 18 UNIONS REMAIN TO BE SETTLED   Conductors, Firemen, Switchmen Won't Challenge Government

Wage Dispute in Rail War Gill Issue   Strike Averted But Big Issue Remains to Be Compromised

RAILROAD STRIKE  THREAT OVER BUT  WAGE DISPUTE. HOLD TRAINMEN AND ENGINEERS, HOWEVER, HOLD

"ISSUE GROWS ~ MORE KNOTTY   Shake Off Threat of Strike, but Not’ Provoking Wage Row

Strike Averted But Matter Of  Wace Remains   Only Two Of Eighteen Railroad Brotherhoods Have Agreed To Terms With Carriers ~

INRAILROAD IS SHAKEN OF]   Wage Dispute -That Pro_voked Walkout Move Re-  — mains;Issue:Grows.  °° More Knotty

Rail Wage Issue Still Unsettled  Two Unions Reach Agreements——Other 18 Still at Issue

RailwayStrikeThreat Gone; Pay Row Knotty   _ Demands of 18 Groups Unsetiled; .. Pay Freeze for Duration Feared

WAGE RAT RAILROADERS STILL TO SOLVE   Demands of 18 Organizations Remain Unsettled Today

HOPE 10 SAVE SUBSIDY PLAN   LaGuardia, Others Asked to ‘Argue the Case for Consumer.’

27 Miners Sentenced As Sirikers   Coal Workers Put On Probation; Terms Suspended

BRITISH LAND FORCES RENEW FIGHT IN LIBYA   Axis High Commands Report At! tempt to Sweep Around Homme at Wadi Zem Zem   SAY MOVE NIPPED   Cairo Reports Only Increased Pa trol Action, Several Axis Cas. uallies in Libya

British Hit At Rommel! AtZem Zem   American and RAF Planes Down 23 Axis Aircraft

British Reported to Have Struck Out Again From East in Attack on Rommel

FOREIGN POLICY ACCORD I$ OUT   GOP and Democrats Won't Agree, Leaders of Both Parties Assert

FOREIGN POLICY ACCORD BELIEVED DOOMED TO FAIL   Congressional Members of Both Parties Say Idea Is Not Practical Enough to Work.   PARTY CONVENTIONS COULD BLOCK SCHEME   Political Leaders Think Removing the Issue From the Campaign Is Impossible.

BITTER BATTLE IS ‘SHAPING UP IN THE ~— ELGUETTAR AREA   Germans Bolstering Forces Facing Americans

Allied Airmen Step Up Operations on All Tunisian Fronts.   ENEMY SHIPS AFIRE IN TUNISIAN PORT   American, British Forces Are Within 40 Miles of Meeting.

Thomas Freed From Jail On Court’s Writ   C1O Official Flies To Washington To Keep Appointment

‘WONTINVEC On Page 6G) Woman Hides Lover Under Parlor Floor for Sixteen Months

Millers 3. Fall Rumored; ~ Italy’s: Withdrawal Seen    Sudden ‘Convening’ ‘OF: ‘German: Military - Leaders And _ High Nazi’ ‘Officials Presages Fuehrer’s _ Dislodgement From Power

Coup Rumored To Dislodge Adolph Hitler   Roosevelt, Churchill Considering Italy Peace Proposals, Report

MILITARY COUP MAY CHANGE GERMAN SETUP   Story Discredited in Some Sections—Italy’s _ Probable Withdrawal From War is Implied

Sudden Convening Of German Military Leaders Causes Rumor;  Diplomatic Moves Are Probable This Week. Said   GENERAL STRIKE THREAT IN ITALY

NEW TALK OF ITALY GIVING IN TO ALLIES   Coupled With Rumors That Hitler Will Be Disiodged From Power by Military Coup

Italy May Quit War This Week   Churchill and Roosevelt Said to  Be Considering New Peace Offers

Rumored Cou Seeins VX Wishful Thinking Only   - Conference May* ‘Mean Italy Will. Get Out ; Of War; However:

NEW ITALIAN PEACE OFFER CONSIDER EL   Roosevelt and Churchill Understood to Be Ready to Meet with Stalin.

Rumors Spread Of Army Coup  In Germany   Goering, Keitel and - Doenitz said:to ‘be. on ‘top, with Hitler only a figurehead now.

kurope seething With Stories That Dictator Has Been  Shorn of Some Powers—Informed Sources Say   Major Diplomatic Moves Probably Will  Develop This Week, Possibly Involving  Italy's Withdrawal from the Wear 

Rumors of Military Coup Relig Hitler’s ‘Downfall ~ Circulating in Europe

CONTEMPLATED IN NEAR FUTURE   Vague Possibility Of Ousting Hitler

RUMOR COUP” MAY DISLODGE ADOLF HITLER   High Military " And Nazi, Heiitls Met Last Week

Europe Reports Military Coup To Oust Hitler   Major Diplomatic Moves Expected This Week

Report Military Coup May Dislodge Hitler from Power; Believe Allies Considering New Italian Proposals

EDSELB. FORD - RITES FRIDAY   President of Auto Concert Dies at Michigan Home At Age of 49

Edsel Ford Dies Ai Home In Detroit:   Only Son OFF Ford-And Executive Of Ford Company

Edsel Ford Dies of  Undulant Fever   Head of Great Empire Had Been Serionsly Tl s Week

Edsel Ford Dies, Leaving Firm . Without Chief  Funeral Services -for Son of Henry Ford Will Be Tomorrow

Career of President of the World's Greatest FamilyOwned Enterprise Ends   PLANT RUNS AS USUA!

Edsel Ford, Motor Czar Dies at 49   Stomach Ailment And Fever Fatal To Industrialist

Edsel Ford, 49, President of Motor Company, Dies at Detroit Home

Edsel Ford, Auto Company Head, Dies   Famous Father’s Son Made a ~ Name for Himself

Edsel B. Ford Dies in Detroit   Stomach Malady anc Undulant Fever Fatal

ILLNESG FATAL TO EDSEL FORE   Only Son of Henry Ford Was Leading Industrial Executive.

DEATH CLAIMS EDSEL FORD, 45   Chief Executive ‘of Far-Flung Auto Empire Succumbs at Detroit Home.

Edsel Ford, Chief Vast. Industrial Empire, Is Dead   Only Son of Henry Ford Died Early Today From Stomach Malady.

STOMACH AILMENT 1S FATAL   Son Of Henry Ford Had Directed War Effort Of Firm

DEATH CLAIMS EDSEL B. FORD   Succumbs To Malady Of Stomach At Age Of 49; Headed Huge  Motor Works

EDSEL BRYANT FORD STRICKEN TODAY AT. DETROIT RESIDENCE   Only Son of Henry Ford and Head of Ford Motor  Ce., Undulant Feyer Victim,

Edsel Ford Dies After Illness Of Only Week   Head of Industrial Empire Passes; Father At Bedside

HIIness Fatal To Head Of Huge Motor Empire   Only Son Of Henry Ford Dies Early Today At Age Of 49 Years

Death Takes Edsel Ford At Age Of 49   Head Executive  Of Ford Company

HENRY FORDS ONLY SON, I DEATH VICTIM   Edsel Ford, Chief Executive Of Great Industrial Empire, Seriously Ill for 10 days.

EDSEL BRYANT FORD DIED EARLY TODAY   Death Came at His Home in Suburban Grosse Pointe Shores.

EDSEL FORD, HEAD OF FORD MOTOR CO., DIES: WAS AGED 49   Son Of Henry Ford, Motor Magnate, Sole Heir To Automobile Business

Edsel Ford Dies Today In Detroit   President of Vast Ford Industrial Empire Ill lor Ten Days

Edsel Ford Is Dead; Only Son Of Henry Ford   Undulant Fever Is Partial ly Responsible For Death Of Ford Coro. President.

EDSEL FORD, HEAD OF FORD FIRM, DIES   Undulant Fever Claims Son of ‘Tin Lizzie’ Man

EDSEL FORD DIES; ILL SIX WEEKS   CONDITION DEVELOPING FROM STOMACH AILMENT FATAL — TO MOTOR MAGNATE,

EDSEL B. FORD IS DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS   Head Of Vast Industrial Empire Was 49: Had Directed Firm For 24 Years   ONLY CHILD OF FOUNDER   ‘Directed Company’s Diversion To Production Of Planes, Tanks, Jeeps

EDSEL FORD DIES AT HIS HOME IN DETROIT SUBURB   Son of Founder of Gigantic Auto Empire He Headed Was 49 Years Old

Edsel Ford, motor head.  dead at 49   Stomach malady proves fatal

Successor to Henry Ford, He Turned Great Plant Into Production Lines for Many Needed Weapons.

Long Illness Fatal To Ford Motor Co. Head   idsel Bryant Ford, 49, Succumbs Early Today At Detroit Suburban Home; Son Of Famous Attomobile Manufacturer

FORD MOTOR CO. EXECUTIVE DIES   EDSEL FORD, SON OF HENRY FORD, VICTIM OF UNDULANT FEVER

Stomach Malady Hastens Death Of Edsel Ford   Only Son Of Henry Ford Was In His 50th Year; Gave Much To Charity

WAS ONLY SON OF FOUNDER OF MOTOR EMPIRE   Succumbs Te Condition Developing From Old ‘Stomach Malady   DIRECTED FORD PLANT   Supervised Conversion of Ford Plants To Huge War Program

Future of Huge Firm And Executive Personnel Subject of Conjecture

EDSEL FORD DIES AT AGE OF 49 YEARS   Henry Ford’s Only Son; Company’s Executive 24 Years

EDSEL FORD, PRESIDENT OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY, DIE!      Death of Son of Founder Leaves Concern Temporar. ily Without President, Treasurer and General Manacaer

Edsel B. Ford Passes After Lona Illness   . His Wife and Three Of Four Children  Were at His Bedside When the End Came

Edsel Ford Is Dead   President of Ford Motor Company Succumbs to Illness

EDSEL FORD DIED EARLY TODAY AT 49   Had Been Head Of Ford Motor Co. Since 1919

Edsel Ford Dies in Michigan After IIIness of Many Months  President of Great Automobile Corporatio: Sueeambs Durina ‘Early Hours of Mornina

EDSEL FORD DIES, SICK LONG TIME   Head of One of Greatest In: dustries, Was Leader In Other Activities.

EDSELFORD DIES: TODAY AT DETROIT: WAS 49 YEARS OLD   Only Son of Henry Ford Dies From Condition Developing From Former Stomach Malady; Undulant Fever Also Present.

Heir To Ford Empire Dead At His Home   Edsel Faithful To , His Great Task In Faee Of Ilness

Edsel Ford, 49, Dies At Home  Motor Magnate, Long II, Headed Firm

EDSEL FORD OF CAR EMPIRE ~— DIES IN HOME   Long’ Illness Fatal tc Executive at Grosse Point

Edsel Ford, Head Gf Motor Company Dies in Detroit   Sole Heir of Henry Fori Succumbs To Undulant Fever Early Today

EDSEL FORD DIED EARLY WEDNESDAY AT DETROIT HOME   CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF VAST FORD COMPANY WAS ONLY SON OF FOUNDER

Edsel Ford Dies At Detroit Home   Was Head of Vast Motor Car Company; Ill For Six Weeks. r

Edsel Ford Dies In Detroit Of Fever Attack  Son of President of Great Motor Concern Only 49

Death Takes Edsel Ford In His 49th Year   Only Son Of Henry Ford Dies At His Home In Detroit Suburb From Stomach Malady

EDSEL FORD IS DEAD AT AGE 49   Only Son Of Henry Ford Succumbs To Stomach Malady; Was Outstanding Executive.

Edsel Ford Dies After Brief Illness   Undulant Fever Fatal to Son of Company Founder

Edsel Ford Dies; Burial ToBeFriday   HIS PASSING LEAVES FORD MOTOR COMPANY WITHOUT PRESIDENT, TREASURER, GENERAL MANAGER; AGE 49 YEARS.   Ill Year And Half

Edsel Ford, Motor Pioneer's Only Son Died Early Today   President of Vast Industrial Empire Was Ill Long Time

SOLDIER VOTING ISSUE IN A MESS   Senator Lucas Says Only 15 Per Cent Of Service Men Would Be Able To Vote Inder Senate Plan.

Nazis in Major Retreat in East, Russians Claim  Eee a N.yth   Sumy in North Ukraine and Entire  Kursk Area to Reds

Hopes for Settlement of Rail Dispute   FDR Upholds Canol Project; Morgenthau Displeased with. Tax Bill; Senate Thinks  Army Promoations Can Wait!

ANOTHER HELD IN RATION BOOK CASE   Local Man -Apprehended for Questioning by City Officer

Postwar Plans Of FDR Studied   ROGER BABSON TELLS ABOUT AMBITIONS OF ROOSEVELT

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WINNING THE WAR IS MAIN CONCERN   Babson Says Roosevelt Neglects Domestic Problems, But Is Definitely Leading The War Strategy.

3ROWN TO HEAD SPA. RUTLEDGE IN HICH COURT      New OPA Head Former Senator From Michican, Justice ts Kertucky Man

FLYNN IS NAMED AS ENVOY TO AUSTRALIA   Senate Must Confirm List Of Appointments

RUTLEDGE NAMED TO SUP. COURT   Rooseyelt A Also —  Nominates. ‘Brown  As OPA Head

Vella Lavella Isle Attack Thrown Off, Halsey Says  Destroyer Probably Is Sunk; Numerous Barges Are Riddled

Yankees Grip Vella Lavella   Counter-Atlack by Japs Faile a: Icherd

THRUS” JOSTLY FOR NIPPONESE   Vella Lavella Invasion Fails; Men And Barges Are Wiped Out

GERMANY PROTESTS.   . ‘Tells Japan To Stop Allowing Free Passage of Ships.

Berlin Raided Fifth Time In Eight Days   Night Raid Was 72nd On Germar Capital Since Start Of War

HAMMERED 72ND TIME   50 Enemy Planes Fall Victims To Allied Daylight Attacks

Berlin Raided For Fifth Time in Week   Germany Strained Enough to Permit Invasion

British Bomb Berlin Again as invasion Pressure Continues   American Raiders Concentrate on Air Fields In Holland and France, Shooting Down Fiahters

Military Men Believe Germany Has Been Strained Sufficiently To Permit Invasion

RAF STAGES 72ND BOMBING OF WAR ‘ON CITY OF BERLIN      U. S. Big Planes Attack Two Dutch Airfields —Capital’s 5th Raid  - In Eight Days

Berlin Again Is Target: Other Allied Fliers Raid Airfields And Shoot Down Nazi Fighters.

Mosquitos Raid German Capital; Continent ‘Soft’   As Fast Bombers Hit 5th Time In 8 Days, Experts Term Invasion Possible

Berlin Raided Last Night For 72nd Time ~   Axis Airfields In France And Holland Are Bombed Again

BERLIN HT. BY BOMBERS IN TOND RAID      invasion . “Ot Western v Europe Prepared By Steady Bombing’

BRITISH BOMBERS RAID BERLIN AGAIN   American Flying Fortresses Blast Nazi-held Dutch Airhelde.

Congress Faces Tough Problems of War, Peace.   Wheeler's Measure To Be First Test In. Manpower Struggle

Congress Returns To Same Old Stand ‘Tuesday Faced With Many War Problems

CONGRESS TQ FACE WAR PROBLEMS ON RETURN TUESDAY   Question Of Peace May Possibly Get Into Discussions In Future

CONGRESS WILL BEGIN ITS FALL TERM TOMORROW   Problems Of War. Mossibly 0: Peace, Facing The Congress

BIG PROBLEMS FACE CONGRESS AFTER RECESS   Manpower, Foreign Policy, Taxes And Inflation Are On Agenda   DRAFT DECISION NEARS   Matter Of Using Force In Maintaining Peace May Take Spotlight

Congress to Face Many Big Problems   Manpower Must First Be Settled When Solons Mee

GONGREGG FACES PUZZLING TASK   Senate To Vote Wednesday On Wheeler Bill To Defer Drafting of Fathers

Congress Ends. Summer Recess On Tuesday   Many: Wartime Problems Are Facina Solons

VACATION FOR CONGRESS 10 END TUESDAY   Pressing Problems Of War And Peace On Docket

CONSIDERATION FLAVORED WITH ELECTION IN ‘44   Foreign Policy, Taxes, Manpower, Inflation Among Main Domestic Issues of Note

OPENING OF CONGRESS SEI FOR TUESDAY   War-Time Questions To Come Up; U. S. Peace Policy Also Due

ROBLEMS OF WEIGHT FACING CONGRESSMER   ar Program and Possible Peace: Plans. to Occupy Members‘on Their Return from Summer. Vacation .7zDomestic and International Issues .May Be  ‘Added As Well As International Peace Treaty.

Stale Polio Total Rises, Epidemic Growing Serious   Strain on Hospital Accommodations Reported When Total At 237 Children

Russians Stab at Germans South of Orel.   ‘Report/21! Nazi Planes Are Downed Last Week

Russians destroy 211 craft   “Reconnaissance in force’? made  south of Orel: —

Reds Claim 211 German Planes Are Destroyed   Admit 74 Aircraft Lost in Operations During Last Week

City’s Usefulness Dulled   REDS FEEL OUT OREL DEFENSES   Reconnaissance Made In Force South Of  Nazi Base

Soviet Troops Hit Vital Nazi Base, Down 74 Airplanes  Fliers Bomb Rails,. — Destroy Many Artillery Pieces

Hirchito Tells Jap  Diet Conditions In   ope .  Pacific Aré Serious

Emperor Hirohito Warns Diet in Tokyo That ‘War Situation Is Most Serious’

UMW, OPERATORS OLD EXECUTIVE PAGT SESSIONS   Two Separate Meets Between Miners, Northern, @ Southern Groups Held   LITTLE PROGRESS IS MADE BY NEGOTIATORS   ®perators Have Made No Counter - offers to Mine Workers Demand for Basic $2-a-Day Wage Increase; Expect Long Conferences

Mine Operators’ Representatives, Workers Confer At Two Sessions   No Announcement of Progress Made; Sub-Com_ miffees To Meet Today; Demands Discussed   WLB Flayed by Lewis

FINLAND ADVISED. TO CONTINUE FIGHT   President Sees No Sign Of Early End to War

FINNISH PRESIDENT SEES NO END TO WAR:   Calls on People to Bend Every Effort in Fight She Has Waged For  20 Months

NO PEACE FOR FINLAND SEEN   President Ryti Calls for Greater War Effort

Ryfi Sees No Peace Signs   Finnish President Calls on Nation To Continue War

FINNISH PRESIDENT PREDICTS LONG WAR   People Do Not Want To Fight He Says at Inauguration

FINLAND 10 STAY IN WAR, ~-SAYSTEADER   Finns’ President Denies Rumors Country Planning To . Ask For Peace

Security For Finland Asked By Risto Ryt   People Called Upon To Exert Every Effort Until Achievement Of Real Security

Finnish Leader Sees No Signs’ Of End To War  » Ba Bia   Country To Fight On With Germany, President Says

Finland To Continue To Fight, Pres, Ryti Says At Inaugural, ‘Spiking Rumor Of Peace Move   He Calls Upon Nation To Continue Effort; Sees No Sign Of End Of War   FAVORABLE NWS TO avis

Ryti Cannot See Signs of Finns Quitting   President Says Country Does Not Want to go Beyond Security

Ryti Sees No Sign Of Early Peace   Finns Seek Only Security, Their President Says

Finns Told War  To Be Continued President Ryti Call   President Ryti Calls On People to Keep Up Their Fight

CALL UPON FINNS TO CONTINUE WAR   FINNISH PRESIDENT SCOTCHES RUMORS OF SEPARATE PEACE

Finnish Leader Asks Continuation of War   President Ryti, at His Inauguration for a Second Term, Says “We Cannot See Any Signs of an End” to the Conflict.

Finland Will Fight On, Says Ryti  Finn President Nips Separate Peace Hint

Agreement Reached, Says Berlin Radio   We Must Keep on Fighting, Ryti Tells Finns

Seen Move In. Uniting AxisEurope   Ministers Asked To Carry On Until President Can Form New Government

FINLAND STAYING IN WAR   .,.Seeks Only Security   Finns’ Losses Heavy.

Ryti Tells Finns They Must Press War On Russia   Citea Sarrifirec

NAZIS ADMIT SICILY LOSS; MAY MOVE CAPITAL IN ITALY   Verona. Considered As Seat Of Government—Danger To Mainland  Increases

NAZIS CONSIDER SICILY BEATEN   Possibility of Italian Government Moving Is High

AXIS CONSIDERS SICILY LOST, REPORTS SA)   May Move Tt alian Government From Rome to Verona

PREPARE TO MOVE CAPITAL OF ITALY      Italian Gov’t Will Probably Be Moved to Verona.

ITALIAN REGIME MAY FLEE NORTH, SPANIARDS HEAR   Germany Concedes Sicily Lost, Reports Say, with Verona Picked for New ltahian Capital.

Texan One Of Heroes Of Air Raid—  Mortally Wounded. Finishes His Job

Mrs, E. G. Potter ~ Heads Campaign   Appointed Chairman of War Savings Staff

Mrs. E. 6. Pe E. G. Potter ~ Heads Campaign   Appointed Chairman of War Savings Staff

BOB HART --DROWNED. BOAT RIDE   Was a Welder In Shipyard At Sturgeon Bay, _ Wisconsin

BOB HART --DROWNED-.. — BOAT RIDE   Was a Welder In Shipyard At a eeneaan Bay, . Wisconsin

WOMAN IS STABBED; SLAYER CONFESSES   ‘ Had To Kill Somebody,’ He Blurts Out to Police

STUP-GAP REGIME SET UP IN GTALY   BADOGLIO REVAMPS GOVERNMENT AS KING STYMIES MOVES TO OUST HIM.

Anti-Fascists Refuse Any PartOf Badoglio Government So He -Forms Own ‘Technical Cabinet’

Makeshift Rule Formed in Italy   Badoglio Organizes Technical Regime; Germans  Hold Lines Firm.   No Policy Making

Marshal Badoglio Creates Makeshift Government  Italian Political Leaders Refuse To Cooperate With Marshal Until King Vittorio Emanuele Abdicates

Badoglio Sets “Technical” Government  WEARY GENERA! TAKES   WEARY GENERAL TAKES PREMIERSHIP, NAMES UNDERSECRETARIES

Badoglio Takes Over   Premier Has Formed Technical” Government; Cabinet Effort Fails

Bodogilo Organizes “Tochnleal” Geveremoe! la Hely, Nemleg Set Redogii Organizes “Teshnlesl” Gevernmont bx Haly, Namlog

Badoglio Revamps Government   Aged King Emanuele Becomes Member  Of New Setup

NEW TECHNICAL REGIME SET UP BY BADOGLIO   Political Leaders Refuse To Join New Body

EMANUELE LEFT OUT OF ‘DEAL’   Marshal Badoglio Organizes ‘Technical Government,’ Omits Name of Ruler

Italy Forms New Regime   Marshal Badoglio . Organizes Stop-Gap  Government in Naples

Badoglio Takes Politic Steps   Organizes “Technical Government Consisting Of Himself As Premier.

Badoglio Forms New \Government   Tahes Premier's Post in Makeshift: Regime in Italy

KING OF ITALY SITTING TIGHT   Badoglio Forms Stop-Gap Government; Ousting Of Ruler Demanded

WALLACE APOLOGIZES TO LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS   Says Good Neighbor Policies Wil Be Vindicated Officially

POISON IN FOOD, THREATS PROBED   Mother Of Nine Children Has Received Two Letters Threatenina Her Life

MILK PLANTS ~ NEED LABOR   THOUSANDS , OF GALLONS:. OF MILK SEING DUMPED IN ~NEW YORK AND NEW. 5. -) ENGLAND =

MUDDLE CAUSES MILK-DUMPINE   Drafting of Workers, ODT Reg ulations, Bring Huge Waste In New York Area.

Nazis Flee For Lives At Dnieper   Leap Into River Under Rain of Russian  Artillery Shells

NAZIS DIE BY THOUSANDS ON - DNIEPER’S BANKS   Red Air Force Rakes Demoralized Germans Continuanelw--Barrage Terrific.

Germans Flee Into Dnieper For Protection   Russian Drive Has Carried To River On Long Front.’

Battered: Germans Abandon East Bank Of Dneiper River.   Nazis Flee For Their Lives Into Dnieper River Under a Rain of Soviet Shells Killing Thousands

East Shore Yielded By Fleeing Nazis: Corpses Fill River.   Rain of Russian Shells and Bombs  » Pursues. Hitlerites to West Bank; Soviets Poised Alone 300-Mile lig

Nazis Flee From Last Toeholds on Rivers East Bank   ‘Russians Kill Thousands of: ‘Desperate Enemy Troops, Prepare for Mass Push Across 3,200-Foot: Stream

RED GUNS AND PLANES SASH BEATEN ENEMY   Thousands Killed by Storm of Shells or Drown in Turbulent Water.   RUSSIANS PREPARE TO CROSS ON 300-MILE LINE

NAZIS FLEE AS RUSS BLAST AT “WINTER LINE”   Some Soviet Units on West Bank in Test of Enemy Strength

RUSSIANS POUR LOAD OF DEATH UPON GERMANS   Thousands Of Nazis Killed Fleeing Across Dnieper, Moscow Reports

ABANDON LAST FOOTHOLDS ON EASTERN BANK   Red Troops Deploy For Decisive Smash Over River

ATTEMPTING Td CROSS DNIEPER   Batters: Cerman Army Fleeing, tor Lives — Russians Rain Shells and Bombs on Retreating Troops —Thousands Beine Killed.

Soviets Slay Fleeing Nazis: By Thousands   Battered Germans Flee into Rives Under Rain of Russian Shells

Germans Flee for Lives Into Dnieper River   Red Shells, Bombs Kill Thousands of Nazi Troops .

Thousands Of Nazi Soldiers Killed In Wild Dash Across Dneiper River, Red Airmen Blast Retreating Foe

THOUSANDS OF TROOPS ARE SLAIN   Fleeing Foe Abandons Toehold; River Is Filled With Dead

Red Army Will Close. Pincers On Kiev Which  Germans Cannot Defenc

HITLER-HELD CITIES FACE RED CAPTURE   Nazis Surrendering by Hundreds As Russian Juggernaut Rolls On, Unsiowed by Rains,

Red Air Force Planes Pursue German Survivors All Way To West Bank Of River—Seek To Breach Winter Line   RIVER IS FILLED BY SWARMS OF CORPSES

Germans Lose Last Foothold On East Bank   Russian Troops Gather Along Dnieper River For Drive To Sweep Nazis Into Poland

REDS POISED ON EAST BANI OF DNIEPER   Germans Flee to West Bank, Leave Much Materiel

F amine Takes Fr ightful Toll Daily i in India   Reporter Sees Bodies Collected In Calcutta -

Progress Being Made in Attempts To Secure Increase in Price of Oil

JESTER DECLARES PROGRESS 15 MADE IN OWL HIKE FIGHT  ‘REP. PATMAN HOPES HI! RESOLUTION TO RAISE OI! ' PRICE BE PASSED

Japanese Base  At Lae Bombed   Allied Drive Against Enemy Installations North Of Australia SteppedTIn   MADANG AGAIN BOMBERS TARGET

AA Nati tions Sign. Historic Pledge   Civilian ‘Victinis. Of War Provided For: :

44. Nations  Agree to Aid  War Victims Pact Signed  In Meet at White House

44 Nations Agree to Feed, Clothe, Shelter Civilian Victims of Nazi Aggression

AGREEMENT SIGNED BY UNITED POWERS   Roosevelt Hails the Pact Pledging Aid to War  Victims

ALLIES T0 FEED WAR'S VICTIMS   Agreement Signed By 4: Nations For Post-War Rehabilitation

M Nations Sign Historic Pledge   Civilian Victims O War Provided For

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President Hails Pact To Provide Relief for War's Civilian Victims   Agreement To Feed, Clothe and Shelier Peoples of Overrun Nations Signed at Historic Ceremony

REHABILITATION PACT SIGNED BY 44 NATIONS   Ceremony Takes Place With Presi. dent Roosevelt Presiding In White House

44 Nations Sign Pact to Feed, Clothe, And Shelter Axis Aggression Victims

 Representatives of United Nations Pledge Humanitarian Aid to ‘Lands Stricken by Nazi Brutality

United Mine Workers’ Chief Makes No Comment On His Failure To Comply With Request Of W. L. B.

JOHN L. LEWId SNUBS WAR L. B.   Strike of 450,000 Soft Coal Miners Becomes More Apparent.   LEWIS REFUSES TO NAME BOARD PANEL   Deadline Is Set by Board Passed With No Announcement.

PORTAL PAY BAN — ORDER WRT   Formal Touch Given Coal Refusal By WLB: Hours Are Rigid

MINE DECISION PUTIN WRITING   WLB Says Mine Workers Not Entitled To Pay Raise With 40 Hour Week

BOARD EXPLAINS PORTAL PAY RULE   Gives Three Reasons for Turning Down Agreement Between U, M. W. and Illinois Coal Operators

ankees Defeat cardinals Again  ‘0 Win Series   St. Louis Defeated, 2-0, In Fifth Game; ‘Players Split Rich Pot

YANKS WIN WORLD SERIES BALL GAME   New York Yankees Win Four Games Out of Five.

Chandler Often in Jam, But Gains Second Victory  Cooper Victim, Fans First Five and   Two Changes in Cardinals’ Lineup

Two Veterans Clinch Title for New York:  Attendance Mark Set For Five Contests

YANKS AGAIN CHAMPS; WIN 2-0 VICTORY   Homer by Dickey With Keller on Clinches World Series   CHANDLER TWIRLS FOR THE WINNERS   Star Right Hander Proves Effective in-the Pinchec

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Japs on New Guinea In Death Trap and Kurile Islands Hit   NEARING JAPAN

JAPANESE ARE CHASED FROM SALAMAUA BASE   Fleeing Troops Strive To Keep Open Lone Trail To Doomed Lae   SUPPLY CENTER BLASTED   Aleutian-Based Planes Believed Leading Attack On Kuriles

Allies Chase Japs Fleeing From Salamaua   Japs Abandoned Idea O: Saving Face, Simply Ran From City. Strive To Keep Open Trail O! Retreat Toward Doom: -ed [’ae. Fate Only Post poned.

Enemy Delaying Fate By Retreating Into Trap; Makassar Hit By Liberators

JAPANESE FLEE SALAMAUA AS AUSSIES COME   Give Up Town Without Fight as Airdrome Previously Surrendered, Fight for Path to Lae   FLIERS BLAST LAE   Gun Batteries Knocked Out, Bridge Destroyed, Defenses Blasted with 49 Tons of Bombs

ALLIED FORCES CLAMPING VISE ON FOE AT LAE   FLEEING PELL-MELL FROM SALAMAUA, NIP REMNANTS FACE TRAP

JAPS BATTLING AGAINST DOOM IN NEW GUINEA   Fight Rear Guard Action Against Swift Moving Australians Trapping Enemy At Lae

Fleeing Japs Quit Salamaua In New Guinea   Valuable War Equipment Left Behind by Foe

JAPANESE FLEE TO DOOMED LAE   Enemy Fights - Rearguard Action Against Swift Moving Australians.   ALLIES CLOSE JN ON LAE

Fleeing Japs Also Doomed  At Lea Base   Swiftly Moving Australians and Americans Are ' Clamping Vise There

Fleeing Japs Fight Rearguard  Against Aussies  Japs Try in Vain To Keep Way Open  T. lana Maw (liner

Japanese Flee Salamaua, Head For Lae Trap   Defense Collapses, Without Semblance Of Last Stand As. Australians Attack; Liberators Bomb Makassar

Salamaua's Fall Marks New Pacific Chapte   Key Japanese Base Taken By MacArthur's Mer Who Are Now Pushing Doomed Enemy Into Lae Trap: Foe’s Resistance Weakens

Japanese Flee From Salamaua   FIGHT REAR GUARD ACTION AGAINST AUSSIES

JAPS WITHDRAW FROM SALAMAUA   Fate of Enemy at Lae Certain Doom; Aussies Close in For Kill

Allies Threaten Jap Escape Path Leading To Lae   Salamaua Troops Face New Defeat At Doomed Base

Allies Clamping A Vise on Lae   Japs, Who Give Up Salamaua, Doomed in Rearguard Action.

Allies Get Salamaua; Hit Kuriles   Japanese Troops In Ragged Flight Toward Nearby Line

Australians Move Swiftly Against Foe Fleeing Japanese Give Up Salamaua; Fighting Rear Guard Action Now

FLEEING JAPS FIGHT KEEP JUNGLE TRAIL OPEN TOWARD LAE  SALAMAUA ABANDONED  AND ENEMY FALLS BACK TOWARD DOOM

REARGUARD ACTION FOUGHT BY JAPS — FLEEING SALAMAUA        Eiideavor to Keep Open Single Jungle Trail of. Retreat 'To-ward Doomed Lae

FLEEING JAPS ABANDON WAR EQUIPMENT —   New Bombings By U. S. Airmen Fool Enemy

Salamaua’s Fall Folds Up Southern Hinge Of Trapped Japanese Army

Fleeing Japs Try To Hold Trail To Lae   Australians Move Swiftly As Nips Are Pushed Back

BREAK AXIS SPY RING   Axis _Had Secret Radio in Sao Paulo, Brazil

YANK BOMBERS HIT SOFIA AND TOULON HARBOR   Striking at Same Time 1,00( Miles Apart, U. S. Blasts Foe Targets

CONTINENT BOMBED   American Planes Strike Simultaneously at Toulon  and Sophia

DOUBLED TAXES FOR WAR LIKELY   Pay-as-you-go Plan Urged By Treasury Counsel Who Predicts Skipping 1942

RATIONING OF CANNED FOOD T0 START MARCH 1   To Halt Sales Feb. 20 To Fill Shelves In Stores   TAXES GOING UP   Congress Moves To Delay Drafting Of Pathears

DOUBLING OF TAXES POSSIBLE   Nelson Says Arms Production Increases 14 Percent in — December s,

Cost of War on Homefront Hits Nation   WPB Chief Donald Nelson Reveals 14 Percent Hike in U. S. Arms Production

‘Cost of Total War Is Brought  Home to Public   Treasury Official Sees Double Income Taxes: ' Rood Rationed

Costco tal War . Broug: oHome With Two Announcements   BDoubled Taxes, Food Rationing Planned in Washington

PREDICT TAXES MAY BE RAISED IN NEAR FUTURE   Rationing of Canned Foods Will Start March 1; Shortage Acute

Cost Of ‘Total’ War Is Brought Home to Public   Bankhead Believes Acute Food Shortage At Hand; Food Authorities Say But. ter Will Become Scarcer; Arms Production inendae ed 14% In December.

Can’t Get Gas To  Summer Homes   O.P.A. Also Bans Gaso line For Use In Pleasure Boating.

‘GAS’ TO TRAVEL 10 SUMMER HOMES OUT   OPA Forbids Issuance; Alst Doubts Vacation Fuel

PENNSYLVANIA’S BROAD STREET STATION BURNS   Damage To Railroad’s Philadelphia Terminal Estimated At $250,000   MORE THAN 100 HURT DURING STUBBORN FIRF

AROUND 100 HURT IN DEPOT BLAZE AT PHILADEL PHI   Four-Hour, Eight Alarm Fire Does An Estimated $250,000 Damage; All 16 Tracks Leading Into Station Put Out of Service.

Pennsylvania Railroad's Philadelphia Station Badly Damaged by Fire

FireS weeps Penns y's Philadelphia Depot   Parts of Broad Street Depot Damaged To Extent of $250,000: 100 Persons Are  Injured; Blaze Starts in Boiler Room

Junge Budget Trims Donnell Estimate   4AE-Millian Clachad.   45 Million Slashed: “From. Recommended * Appropriations

Junge Budget Trims Donnell  15 Million Slashed From Recommended ~~ Annronriatione

Mrs. Roosevelt Declared Behind ‘Anti-Poll Tax Measure; Green ‘Protests WLB More-Power Plea

‘Green Hits WLB Plea  for Power   Says Suggestion ‘Undefiable;’ Board Members Point to UMW’s Record ‘as Proof

Green Says WLB Claim Unjustifiable   Smith Claims Mrs. FDR Behind Anti-Poll Tax Bill; GOP Publicity Agents Issue Pamphlets

MINE PAY ROW BREAKS OUT IN NEW ARGUMENT   Capital Also Buzzing Over Draft Controversy and Political Maneuvers

Protest Made by President Green   Coal Wage Dispute Drew Renewed Attention in the Capital Today.

‘Allies move to cut off nazi forces   Move ashore in northern Ttalv

LIFE MORE PRECIOUS   ee ER et  People of England Do Not Mourn Damage

Girl Scouts Will Collect Articles For Ashburn Hospital Sunday Afternoon December 12th At 2:00 o’ Clock

LEGION HEARS GOV. MARTIN      ee ee  Products Must Rise Regardless of Wages, Profits

Output Must Be Increased Regardless of Wages, Profits or Social Gains  RESOLUTIONS OFFERED

Red Armies Push Ahead Toward Kiev   Isolation of Nazi  Troops in South Threatened

REDS THREATEN TO ISOLATE » FOE IN UKRAINE   Russians Surge Onward Toward Kiev Bastion

Marshall Islands Attacked Again, Statement Says   11 More Japanese Vessels Destroyed

U.S. Carrier Task ‘Force Smashes At Marshall Islands   Attack May Be Preparation For Amphibious Operations; U. S. Submarines Sink 11 More Japanese Ships

NAVY SCORES AGAINST JAPS IN MADSHATIC   Another Big Chunk Bit Out of Japanese Shippina Supply   ELEVEN MORE CARGO VESSELS ARE SUNK:   United States May be Getting Ready for Amphibtous Attack

U. §. Puts Accent On Invasion As War In Pacific Enters Third Year

SUBMARNES aIN 1] CARGO SHIPS   Bite Big Chunk Out of Dwind} ling Jap Shipping   NEW AIR BLOWS   gBombs Blan ket Invasion. Threatened New Britain, Pound Bougainville

MARSHALL ISLES AGAIN ATTACKED 4 BY U.S, WARSHIPS   Navy Fails to Disclose Whether Shelling Was Preliminary ‘ to Early Amphibi ous Assault.   DETAILS ON RESULTS LACKING IN CAPITAL   Japanese Radio Says 20 Allied Planes Were Shot Down—Admits Damage  to Ground Facilities.

NAVY SCORES AGAINST JAPS IN MARSHALLS   Another Big Chunk Bit Out of Japanese Shipping Supply  —a. _ek. +s ae ‘ok >. ae _ i —_— ZS ae   ELEVEN MORE CARGO VESSELS ARE SUNK

Japs Report 100 U.S. Planes in Raid on Island   Submarines in  Strike at Enemy Shipping, Supplies

NoDunkerque. For Famous  Afrika Corps   Only a Few Days Left at Most for Hitler in AfNea

Ri ght Wing Of Germans On Southern F; ront Being Rolled Back By Fall Of Pont. Du Fahs   Many Prisoners Captured And Much Equipment Taken; Devistaling Air Atlach Made On Enemy Shipping; Destroyers, Cargo Vessels Sunk

Pont Du Fahs Is Taken In Coffin Corner Advance   Tunisian Campaign Entering Final Stage Sin Months Alter Americans Staged Notth  a  ate  Alncan Invasion

Abrupt Conquest of Bizerte and Tunis Comes Six Months After Landing in French Africa; Seek To Drive Remnants Into Sea. .

Advance Goes On,  Communique Says   Pont Du Fahs, Bir M’Cherga And Other Points Fall _ To Victorious United Nations Forces; Enemy  Troops Holding Out On Mountainous Cape Bon

Allies Poise for Invasion in Bizerte and Tunis—Bradley Sueceeds Gen. Patton

Battle Goes On to Free Africa of Last German    Axis Forces Flee into Cap Bon Peninsula and Beaches and Hills—French Capture Pont du Fahs to Threaten Flank

French Units Gain On Southern Front, Take Pont Du Fahs   Kisenhower Says Fight To Continue as Long as One Armed Enemy is on African Soil

Believe Few Axis Troops Are Rescued   Little or No Opportunity. for ‘Dunkirk Withdrawal,’ Say Pursuing Allied Leaders ©

French Take Pont du Fahs, Triumphant Forces Pursue Foe Fleeing Tunis, Bizerte

French Capture Hill to Roll up Enemy Lines on Soufhern Front ‘Advance Continues’ - Eisenhower   General Alexander Doesn’t Want Axis Troops to Achieve Even a Partial Dunkerque; Enemy Loses Vessels

Axis Are Fleeing To Cap Bon Under Heavy Allied Fire   Enemy Shipping and Ground Troops Remain Targets of Allies.   Germans Still Hold on  South Tunisia Front

- Air Forces Are Pounding Axis Troops   “MANY. PRISONERS INTO ALLIED HANDS   Germans Bewildered, Both Outfoxed and Overwhelmed By Alles

Many Cut Off in Retreat Into Cap Bon Peninsula   French Capture Pont Du-Fahs as Right Wing Rolls Back

GERMANS FLEE SO: FROM CONQUERED _ TUNIS, BIZERTE   Allied Troops Hammered at Scattered Pockets of Resistance.   BATTLE IS TO CONTINUE   Will Go On as Long as a Single Armed German Is on African Soil.

Will Sweep Armed  Germans From Soil   French Troops Capture Pont du Fahs and High Ground In South as Advance Continues; AxisTroop Heading for Mountainous Cap Bon Peninsula

HITLER HORDES TAKING REFUGE ON PENINSULA   Battle to Continue Until Every Armed German Is Subdued, General Eisenhower Declares   AXIS ARMIES ARE COMPLETELY ROUTED   With Fighting Continuing Beyond Tunis and Bizerte, Prisoners Stream to Rear

Many Give Up After Bizerte And Tunis Fall   Allies Determined . To Mop Up Remnants Of Defeated Enemy

(CAMPAIGN IN FINAL STAGES   ‘Southern Front —— Yielding To British And French Forces

STATE IS A HOT SPOT   Corn in Western Counties I: Burned by Heated Plasts

Weather To Remain Mild   Sli¢ght Chance Of Rain Or Snow In The Next 24 Hours

CERMANS QUIT CAUCASUS ZONE   Nazis Flee Krymskaya: 20 Miles Northeast Of Novorossisk

Uncle Sam Wants Morse Coders  $2,600 Salaries For Radio Monitors

Gandhi Fast “Critical” on Seventh Day   Official Report Has Indian Leader IlL With Chills and Nausea

ING IN FLOOD   Soldiers Look for 22 Persons in Rampaging Arkansas River

oeeemeranemmaeeomcmenanmmninn ye samsceeneencsnianmenessiete TWO SOLDIERS HLRT

STATE'S POST-WAR PLANS GO FORWARD      Gov. Bricker Says Work May Be Shifted to Development Commission

Los eutones Minaron Caminc Hacia Roma   T ropas Britanicas Avanzaban Desde Ortona. — Muchas Escaramuzas

Atacaron Deas Aerodromes En Grecia   Lanzabombas De Los Aliados Volaron Sobre Vasta Zona

Area Swept By Wintry Blasts   Train Sent To’ Aid Stranded Motorists

CHARGE FRAUD IN WHISKEY DEAL   INDICTMENT LISTS 600 INVESTORS WHO LOSE $1,000,000

Thirteen Indicted for Alleged Fraud in Whisky Company   Government Charges 600 Investors Lost About  Million Dollars

OHIO WELFARE EXPANSION SET   Post-War Projects Call {o1 $7,000,000 Program at Institutions.

STUDY PLANS FOR POST-WAR BUILDINGS   Seven Billion Program for Ohio Welfare Institutions

[LONDON PAPERS PLAY UP REPORTED ‘ITALIAN COLLAPSE     Daily Telegraph Says Ital; [On “Verge, of Invasion  i Panter”

Italians Peppered With Propaganda. .. .  Little Actual Support For Rumors That Italy Is On Rim Of Collapse

‘London Newspapers Point Up Rumors Of Italian Collapse   Striking Rubber Workers Vield To FDR's Ultimatum

Rumors of Italian Collapse Reported in London's Papers   Headlines Get Little Support, However, From Known Facts About Status of Country

‘Yanks Moving Rapidly After San Pietro Fight   Believe Road To Rom Will Be Reached Within Few Hours

Fortress Comes Home From War   Original Crew of “Belle” Is Intact

“MEMPHIS BELLE” RETURNS TODAY   Retired Flying Fortress, Crew Due Back from  Europe 

Allies Smash ai Japanese Base in Java   Direct Hits Are Scored on an Oil Refinery

Big Nip Base At Soerabaja ‘Hit By Bombs   Raging Fires Are Visible For 140 Miles

JAPS’ MAIN BASE IN EAST INDIES HEAVILY BOMBED   Allied Planes Fly 2,400 Miles to Make Surprise Raid on Great Seaport of Sourabaya.   FIVE LARGE FIRES SET BY EXPLOSIVES   Munda Area Again Under Air Attack—-Enemy Positions Machine-Gunned by Pilots.

ALLIES BLAST SOERABAJA 10 SURPRISE JAP   Main Enemy Base in Netherlands East Indies Suffers First Attack Since Japs Took Over.   2400 Mile Journey

Big Planes Fly 2400 Miles in Raic On Soerabaja   Munda Is Pounded Again With 135 Tons Of Aerial Bombs  YO GROUND REPORT  Three Jap Warships Attacked Off Buin  In North Solomons

BIG JAPANESE BASE IN JAVA iS HAMMEREL   MUNDA IN REACH OF CAPTURE BY ALLIES

Unexpected, Spectacular Raid a Success   Bombers Travel 240 Miles to Drop 135 Tons of Bombs

Allied Planes Raid Duteh East Indies   Heavy Bombers Fly Nearly 2,400 Miles To Hit at Soerabaja  GREAT FIRES Cr@r

Allied Heavy Bombers Hit Soerabaja In First Raid on One-Time Powerful Dutch Base in East Indies

SURPRISE RAID ON EAST JAV!   Big Planes in 2,400. Mile Round Trip To Soerabaja

Two Policemen, Bus Driver Wounded As Riot Breaks Ou: Between Negroes In Durham

Disorders In Black Belt At Durham   Tear Gas Used To Subdue Negroes In North Carolina

More About Control OI Food Prices   Transfer Of Functions To Chester C. Davis Not Answer

Late News Bulletins   . . ‘ab ‘ Davies in Cairo on Wav to Moscow

IN KUIBYSHEV   ‘Davies Lands in Russia With FOR Birccawea in Stalin

REACHES MOSCOW   Davies ‘Flies to Soviet Capital Feom Kuaihywehec.

PRICE SUPPORT PLAN REVISED   Program May Be Only Federal Contro Over ’44 Food, Feed Production

WAR FOOD PROGRAM NEEDS: MORE MONEY   Additional Biilion Dollars Likely to Take Care of Expanded Plan.

Expanded Price — Support Program Planned for 1944   Billion Dollars  May Be Required for Coming Year

'WFA May Need Another Billion For /Expanding The Farm Price Program

TANK BUILDERS STRIKE OVER GAMING RIGHTS   4,200 Ford Employes Quit Work When Plant Police Halt Craps Game   SYMPATHY MOVE SPREADS   Producers Of Anti-Aircraft Directors Swell Total Of Idle Men

FIGHTERS WING OVER CHANNEL   Berlin, Luxembourg Radio Staticns Silenced During Evening

Fighter Planes Hit Continent  Nazi Radio Station: Go Off the Air

WPB 10 PRESENT NEWSPRINT QUOTA   Nelson Denies Charges of Rep. Maas

WPB To Tell OF Its Proccedings   Rep. Maas Satisfied With Announcement

WILL EXPLAIN  PAPER QUOTAS   WPB Agrees To End Secrecy in Handling Newsprint.

Partisans Trapped on Adriatic, Ask  Evacuation Help   Resistance May cellapse Along Jugosiav Coast

PARTISANS IN DANGER   Yugoslavs Call Upon Allies To Aid In Evacuating Forces

NAZIS CLOSING IN ON SERBS   Jugoslav Partisans on  Adriatic Cal} for Aid

Nazi Armor Trapping ©  Partisans   Yugoslavs on Coast Ask Allies  For Rescue

Damage Caused By Heavy Rains   Forecast Crop Damage If Rain Continues

China's Leaders May Join Allies In Conferences   Russia May Soon Baltle Japanese

Stalin-Chiang Parley Seen As Master Military Stroke  Such A Gatherina Wi+h — FO Aus BO... 4.k   Such A Gathering With Churchill And President Suggests Soviets Ready For Nipponese

- Kai Shek At Conference May Stir Hoatilities— — By Elton C. Fay ¢  ‘ Russia Has Reason For War Against Japan

ESPER ELECTED LEGION CHIEF   MRS, R. C. WEBBER NAMED PRESIDENT OF VETERANS’ AUXILIARY

LOU ZAMPERINI, MILE CHAMPION, IS NOW MISSINE   Was in Siiath, Pacific as z Bombardier; Once Tore  Down German Flag

BUILD BALKAN DEFENSES   Germans Preparing /a Line to Fall Back on If Necessary

$3-DAY PAY BOOST URGED With CONTRACT   Daugherty Thinks Harmony In Coal Fields Is t.°" Possible

NEW COAL CONTRACT WOULD END STRIKES   Operators, Miners Need Pact to Assure Production

Nine Railroad Tank Cars Of Gas Burned  Freight Train Wrecks West Of Hancock

Cuba to Sell 4,000,000 Tons of Sugar to U. S. In 1944, Says Official ©

GROUND SINKING IN MINING TOWN   SCHOOL AND 150 HOMES IMPERILED—SEVERAL RESCUED FROM RESIDENCES.

Mine Settling Perils Scheel   150 Homes in Pittston  Area Rock, Tremble  in Subsidence ‘Pull’

Town: Menaced By Mine ‘Pull’   150. Homes, High School Crumbling

Mine Subsidence  Threatens Town  High School, Homes Damaaed by ‘Pull’

BILL LOWERS JOB INSURANCE RATES      Senate Passes; Homsher Bill Over To: House For Concurrence

Rives Matthews Opposed to Long Probation Plan   His Lawyer Wants Trial of Charges

TRIAL POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT YEAR   No “Technical Probation’ in Matthews Case, Attorney Says

‘De Gaulle Takes Over French Group   RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IN CONTROL; PAPERS PREDICT NEW PROGRAM

MERCURY HITS 95; SUMMER ARRIVES   Mercury Just Two Degrees Short of Season's Highest

MERCURY HITS 95; - SUMMER ARRIVES      Mercury Just Two Degrees _- Short of Season’s Hiahest ——

KEEP UP AERIAL BLOWS ON JAPS   Anti-Aircraft Fire Downs One American Bomber Over Kiska

Special Session. Decision Nears.   Governor Indicates _ Statement. Today

Republicans Take All but Two State Offices in Off-Year Kentucky Vote

TAKERS OF STAMPS LISTED AT WICHITA   Permits for Liquor and Coin Operated Gaming Devices

TAKERS OF STAMPS LISTED AT WICHITA   Permits for Liquor and Coin rated Gaming Devices    A LARGE COUNTY LIST

FLEEING GERMANS ACROSS UKRAINE   Nozis Face Greatest Disaster of the Entire Wer   GERMAN POSITION IS DETERIORATING HOURLY

NAZI ARMY FACES GREATEST CRISIS OF PRESENT WAR   Russian Occupation of Fastov Gives Red Army Control of Strategic Supply Line From Krivoi Rog.   ALLIES MAKE ASSAULT ON JAPANESE CONVOY   New Attack In New BritainNew Ireland Area Causes Sinking of Two Cruisers, Others Damaged.

SOVIETS POUND DEMORALIZED GERMAN ARMY   Ukrainian Plain May Become Slaughter Pen Unrivaled Since Stalingrad

RETREAT OF NAZIS FROM RED FRONT AMOUNTS: T0 ROUT   Russian Tanks, Motorized Infantry Pushing On In Three-Pronged Advance

NAZIS IN MAD FLIGHT, oft IN BARE FEET   Russian Army Spreading Out Over Plain Pursuing Demoralized Foe.

Junction  Of Fastov               FLEEING NAZI SOLDIERS AR DEMORALIZED; UKRAINE PL BECOMING A SLAUGHTER PE

ENEMY UNABLE TO) HALT oWetP OF RED FORGES   Slaughter’s Proportions May Rival Stalingrad, Observers Believe

SOVIETS ARE NOW 40 MILES BEYOND RUSSIA'S SRD CITY   Germans May Be Unable te Stop Rush Before Polish Border Is Reached.

NAZIS SUFFERING HEAVIEST LOSSES SINCE STALINGRAD   Russians Sweep Far Beyond Kiev; Enemy Retreat  BRaramac Rat

Aussies Slip Out To Knife Tobruk Nazis   Sergeant Tells Of Gorv Siege

75 Badly Hurt, Some Fatally   Crack D. L. & W. Passenger Train Sideswipes Engine At  Wayland, N.Y.

IS NEAR 30; 60 INJURED   Scalds From Steam Fatal to Some  Of Victims

Interpreting  The War   Russian Censor Is Withholding News on Drives

Tremendous New Drive To  Comb Out Nazi Manpower   Seen As Reason For Berlin Reports Of An Ever Widening Russian Winter Offensive

House Committee May Submit To Pressure And OFf fer Some New Form

U.S. Fliers Back Chinese In Attacks    Raid Three Towns Held By Japanese

AMERICAN PLANES STRIKE AT JAPS INTUNGTING AREA In Conjunction With Chinese Troops. Jap

Fighters Strafe JapHeld. Towns   Two Steamers Sunk By U. S. Planes

 ARE PLOWING GARDENS   County Tractor Started Working in West Lawrence Today

CELLOPHANE BAGS TO PROTECT YANKS   Precautions Taken Against Skin-burning Gas

Fioods. Threaten  An Air Terminal   Flood Crests Top Levees in i Some Areas Near Kansas City   SOME DIKES CRUMBLE.   Workers From Sunflower Plant Fight Flood at Loring

Rivers Roaring To New Crests And Top Levee:   Thousands of Acres of Crops in Missouri and Kansas Inundated.   Soldiers, Volunteers Piling Up Sand Bags

BRICKER PLANS WIDE CAMPAIGN   Will Enter Primaries In States Other Than Chio 

MAY USE THE NORMANDIE   Salvage Work on One-Time French Liner May Be Near Completion

NEW OPPOSITON TO EARLY DRAFTING PRE-WAR FATHERS   Arose in the House Today a: Hearings Were Continued on Subject.   MARSHALL UP MONDAY   Senate Military Committee Members Willing to Let Gen. Marshall Have Say.

WHEELER SEES FATHER DRAFT -BAN’S DEFEAT   But Reynolds Tells Montanan He Deserves Plaudits for Bringing Out the Facts

Wheeler Bill Fate Dubious   Author of Dad Draft Ben Concedes Defect Poasible in Senete

New Protest Of Father Draft Rises In House; Senators To Let Marshall Have Final Say   Upper Branch Won‘t Make Up Mind On Wheeler Bill Until Staff Chief Heard

NEW PROTEST ON DAD DRAFT ROUSES HOUSE   Senate Group Holds Up Views Pending Marshall Testimony   APPEARS ON MONDAY   Solons Assail Military Waste Of Manpower As Criminal

Congress otill Divided As To Father Dratt   Testimony from High Officials Recesses Until Monday When General Marshall Will Appear.

Wheeler Sees Possible Loss Of Draft Bil!   House Group, However, Is Not Convinced By the Army’s Testimony

fonnress Will Be Governed On Father Draft Issue Largely By General Marshall's Testimony 

Wheeler Bill Gains Favor   Many Senators Voice Opposition to Draft

New Profests On Father Draft Heard In House   Most Senators Await Marshall's Views On Issue

Marshall’s Views To Be Heard Monday.... New Opposition Heard To The Father-Drait

ADMITS oENATE MAY KILL BILL   Wheeler Says Action Would Be Blow at Morale, Defeat for Children.   HITS LABOR HOARDING

SOLON ADMITS BILL MAY FAIL   Wheeler's Draft Act Likely To Be Defeated in Senate Voting

Wheeler Admits Probable Defeat   Asserts Some War  Hoarding Manpow::

MILITARY AND NAVAL LEADERS MAY WIN IN DRAFTING OF FATHERS  SENATOR WHEELER socernTe WaD INNKTICTRIES   SENATOR WHEELER ASSERTS. WAR INDUSTRIES HAVE TOO MANY MEN

Anti-Draft Bill Faces  Rejection   Senator Wheeler Admits Senate Probably Will Defeat Bill To Block Draft Of Fathers

Wheeler Concedes Senate May Kill Bill  Node ontztrocrn   senator Says Action Would Be Blow To Morale

Await Views Of Marshall On Dad Draft   New Opposition Being Raised; Committec Likely To Abide By Militarw’s Need«

Senate Awaits Marshall View On Father Draft  Wheeler Concedes 5 Probable Defeat; .  Some House Member bhog Ween @..4°.f'

Fear Delerring  Of Fathers Out   Wheeler Says If Bill Doesn't Pass. It Will Be Blow To Morale.

FILE CHARGE. OF SABOTAGE         \ IRM) AND SEVED KEY OFFICIALS ACCUSED "OF MAKING DEFECTIVE _ CABTINGS

INDICT OHIOANS — FOR SABOTAGE   U.S. Jurors Name Seve: Officials of Cleveland Castings Firm

BLOCK BUSTERS HIT NAZIS, ITALY   R. A. F. Deals Double Blow At Cologne and Milan

Ttalian Naval Base at Spezia  Also Pounded   Rome Admits Heavy Damage; Lorient Suffers Heavy Raid

Block-Busters Plaster Milan And Cologne   Italian And German War Centers Blasted In Big RAF Raids

COLOGNE AND TWO ITALIAN CITIES RAIDED   RAF Bombers Deal Double Attack Against Axis

MILAN AND COLOGNE BOMBED   Strong Forces Of British Bombers Participate

Big Raids Carried Out Against Three Axis War Centers   Cologne, Milan and Spezia Are _ Subjected to RAF Block Busters

DOUBLE AERIAL ATTACK DEALT WAR CENTERS   Italian Naval Base At Spezia Also Hit; 11 Planes Lost

COLOGNE, TWO ITALIAN POINTS RAIDED BY RAI   ‘Milan and Spezia Feel Sting of Aerial Attack. Eleven British Planes Lost in Attacks

Phillips Is To Take Stand   Fireworks Expected When He Testifies In Textbook Probe

4 FARM GROUPS PUSH VETO VOTE   Congress Urged To Pass Bankhead Bill Over Presidential Disapproval

FARM GROUPS URGE PASSING BANKHEAD BILL DESPITE VETO   Senate Is In Reser: Now But Will Vote. On Over-Riding’ ,  Tomorrow

FARM GROUPS URGE CONGRESS TO PASS. BANKHEAD MEASURE   Organizations Unite to Exert Pressure to Carry Measure Over FDR’s Veto.

PASSAGE OF BILL OVER VETO ASKEL   Four Major Farm: Organizations Argue Basic Issue in Making Appeal.

Farm Groups Urge Defeat Of F.D. Veto   Claim Government By Law is Basic Issue at Stake

By HENRY C. CASSIDY   Rationalization of Industry To Be Attempted

DUPLICATION OF EFFORT WILLENT   Industry to Be Rationalized As Means of Speeding War Production.

REPORT GERMANS PREPARING T0 EVACUATE CRIMEA   Fate Of Kiev Is Being Decided Right Now In Big Battles Being Fought Near the Cite.

JAPS COUNTER ATTACK ATTU U. S. FORCES   If Second Drive From Air Came From Carriers, Naval Battle Is Possibly  2 =   5 Jap Bombers Downed

Japs May Try To Regain Vital Island   Bomb Attacks Fail; Enemy Meets Capable Opposition

New Jap Bomber AssaultonAttu Is Turned Back   Five Enemy Planes Shot Down From Flight O 16 Which Followed Up Sunday’s Raid; Island Defenders Are Pressed

‘Twice Enemy Bombers Roat  Into Area of Island, but : Are Turned Back by American Planes.       FIVE ARE SHOT DOWN, :  2 U.S. FIGHTERS LOS'         Nipponese Believed to Have  Flown From Base at Para mushiro or From Air-.  eraft Carriers,

Japs Iry Desperate  New Raid   Five Out OF I¢ Attu Bombers Shot Down

ENEMY RAIDS ON ALEUTIANS GET NOWHERE   FINAL MOPPING UP CONTINUES ON ATTU ISLAND

Japs in Desperate Effort to Regain Control of Attu  Raiders Turned ed Bact  as Fras a ae   Raiders Turned Back by Yankees; 2 U.S. Fighters Lost

Japs Attempting To Take Control Of Attu Island   Launch Desperate Count er-Attacks, but Without Results

Base of Enemy Aircraft Still Remains in Doubt, But May Be Jap Carrier

Enemy Planes Turned Back by Yanks   Americans Steadily Wiping Out Niv Forces on Isle

New Japanese Air Attack on Attu Repelled   Desparate Aliempt to Regain Control of Island Indicated

2 Counter-Attacks Beaten Off Island   Enemy Fleet Suspected ’ Near Aleutians

TO WIN BACK ATTU LOOMS   Enemy Makes Another Large-Scale Air Raid on Island

U.S. Bags 5 Jap  Planes on Attu   Second Large Scale Air Attack Made on Tiny Aleutian Island

JAP ATTEMPT TO WIN BACK ATTU LOOMS   Enemy Makes Anothe1 Large - Seale Air Raid on Island

Naval Engagement Is Also Possible   If Attacking Plenes Came From Carriers In North Pacific Other Navy Vessels Are Near

PLANS BEING MADE TO CRACK DOWN ON LOAFERS AND IDLERS   Chairman Rountree of Police Commitee Has Contacted Various Industries and Organizations Who Approve Taking Some Drastic Steps

POLICE COMMITTEE PLANS CAMPAIGN AGAINST LOAFERS AND IDLERS WITHIN CITY

Allies Launch New Campaign In New Guinea      MacArthur's ‘Troops Drive Toward Madang; An.nonnee Savcerak Fall.   FINSCHHAFEN TOTTERS

Madang New Goal Of Men Of M’ Arthur   Allies Batter At Finschhafen

MADANG, NEW PACIFIC GOAL   MacArthur Wins Control of 80 Miles of Coast-

MacArthur’s Men Thrust At Madang   Control Coastline From Salamaua to _ Finschhafen, 80 Miles

MacArthur Opens _ Thrust To Madang  Movement Is Overland In Markham Valley

WArthur Strikes Toward Madang   Troops Push Overland to 68 Miles N. W, of Lae

MacArthur Cpens Drive On Enemy Base Ai Madang   Fall Of Finschhafen Is Expected Shortly

MADANG 1S NEW PACIFIC GOAL   Aussies Begin Drive A: Finschhafen’s Fall  Nears

MACARTHUR'S FORCES CONTINUE DRIVES ON ENEMY   - Troops Have Won Con: trol of 80 Miles of Important Coastline

NEW THRUST IN PACIFIC BEGUN   MacArthur’s Men Start Drive To Madang

MAKE NEW THRUST   MacArthur’ s Land Troops Start Operations Against Madang Base

ADANG NEW OBJECTIVE OF LAE’S CAPTOR:   Thrust Northwest Opened With Capture of Markham Valley Village~—Finschhafen Totters

ALLIES OPEN DRIVE AGAINST MADANG   Japanese Send Up New Type of Fighter Planes but P-38’s Scatter Foe. Shoot Down 3

MacArthur Men Onen Drive For Madana Base   Capture Of Sagerak 70 Miles South Of Goal Aids Allies

MACARTHUR OPENS DRIVE UPON MADANG    Allied Commander Intent On Mopping Up Island

MACARTHUR’S TROOPS  OPEN THRUST TOWARD  OUTLYING MADANG AUSTRALIAN TROOPS  STILL BATTLING AT TOTTERING FINSCHAFEN

Gen. MacArthur In New Thrust   Drives Toward Madang  To Control Coast

MAKE NEW THRUST   MacArthur's Land Troops Start a Against adang Base

Gen. MacArthur In Land Drive Toward Madang   Develops New Overland Thrust In Markham Valley Above Lae.

New Pacifie Drive Aims At Madang   New Thrust is Overtanc Movement Developing 68 Miles Northwest o! Lae. Finschafen. Tot. ters Under Allied Bat. tering.

Control 80 Miles Of Coastline.  MacArthur’ S Troops Launch Madang Push

Communique Reporting Capture of Sagerak, 70 Miles South and East of Madang, Discloses First Hint of Land Drive In That Direction; Mansa Bay: Wewak Are Bombed.

Hourly Temperatures   Boy, 3, Tries Vainly for Recognition from Errant Father

INCLUDE CHIU Ii BARGE PROGRAM,   13 Percent of Parts To Be Made in State

JL. LEWIS DEFIES WAR LABOR BOARD IN GOAL DISPUTE   Miners’ Union Leader Fails To Appear at Washington; Soft Coal Strike Possible on May 1.

JOHN L. LEWIS 1d LIKELY 10 OTAGE STRIKE   Nation-wide Soft Coal Walkout Next Week Dan«crous Possiti'ity.   OVER WAGE DISPUTE   Means Showdswn Between Lewis, Roosevelt and Probably the Army.

CUTS ORDERED ON VEGETABLES   New Ceilings Directed For 7 Fresh Foods In This Area

Ist Army Pressing Retreating Nazis In Mateur Vicinity      Allied Planes Deal Death to Rommel’s’; Retreat. ing Cohimrg. Allied Junction Effected. Rom. mel Flying In Fresh Troops,

North Africa Escape Corridor Shut Today   Americans Reported To Have Completed Junction With British Eighth Army As First Army Drives Within Few Miles Of Bizerte

Anderson Only  18 Miles From *Bizerte; Patrol ' Activity Elsewhere

Smash Deep  Into German Defense Zone   British Ist Army Storms Toward _Mateur; Aussies Capture Hundreds of Wrecked Convoys; RAF Takes German Towns by Surprise

ROMMEL MAKES BATTLE OF IT TO VERY LAST   Junction of U. S., British Armies Reported to Have Been Made, But Confirmation Lacking.

Within 18 Miles  of Potential  Dunkirk Escape   Rommel Flying In Fresh Troops to Stave Off Defeat

Rommels Troops Resist Fiercely   - ++ No Sign Of Early Axis Collapse In Tunisia

Draw Near Escape Port At Bizerte   Yanks... Moving Eastward Said To Have Contacted _ Montgomery’s Forces

British Hit. Foe Defense  ‘In Tunisia   Junction of Americans And: English Teooaest ‘Is Reported

British Ist Army Drive Toward Coast   Less Activity On Most OF Tunisian Front Today

Northern Tunisia Forces Strike Deep Into Defense South Of Nazi Escape Port Of Bizerte

Tribal Warriors Aid Allies And Win Sedjenane Advance   Fresh Troops Being Flown To Aid Rommel; Yanks, Montgomery Join Forces

In South, Eighth Army Continues Rommel Pursuit; Juncture With Americans Reported.

Aigiers Reporis Junction of U.S, And British 8th   Tribal Warriors Spearhead Advance From Sedienane

Storming Toward Mateur After Taking Sedjenane; War Front Quiet Today

"FIRST ARRY » PUSHING ON TO MATEUR   . Lost Ground Is Repained by. British; No Signs of Imminent Axis Collapse   + JUNCTION-OF US., 8TH ARMY REPORTED   Front Generally Quiter But But Planes Continue to Bombard Axis Lines

Yankees Make Junetion With British Foree   Germans Continue To Send. New Troops, Supplies Into’ Tunisian War.   REDS SEIZE 3 TOWNS

BRITISH PUSH NEAR TO NAZI ESCAPE PORT   First Army Storms Within 18 Miles of Potential  “Dunkerque Escape.”   Maintain Pressure on  Lines North of Gabes   Moepping Un Operation«

ALLIED PATROLS SEE ACTION ON CENTRAL FRONT   Red Armies Gain in Mud, RAF Raids Towns in Germany

Junction Of Both Allied And Axis Armies Claimed   Algiers Report Is Denied: German Armor Counter  Attacks U.S. Forces

ESCAPE PORT THREATENED BY STRONG THRUST   U. S. Troops in Drive From Gafsa Meet Eighth Army

Africa Corps Resists Stoutly With No Signs Seen Of Imminent Collapse; Apparently To Take Death Stand

GEN. ANDERSON’S FORCES CONTINUED PUSH TOWARD BIZERTE   BRITISH IN NORTHERN TUNISIA REPORTED STORMING TOWARD MATEUR

Gen. Anderson’s Forces Knife Deep Into Nazi Defenses   Rommel Reinforced by Air; U. S. Troops From Gafsa Join British 8th Army

ALLIED SQUEEZE IS PUT ON AXIS ON THREE SIDES   Death and Destruction Is Dumped from Skies on Desperate Axis Forces   YANKS AND BRITISH MEET   Reds Tighten Net on Nazis At Black Sea Base But Mud Slows Drives

Ist Army Smashes Forward   British Troops Drive Deep Into Nazi Defense Zone Before Bizerte In Northern Tunisia

Eighth Reported To Have Reached Junction With U. S.   Russians Tell of Slight Gains in Western Caucasus

AXIS LOSES AIR WAR IN RUSSIA   Soviets Stage 520-Plane Attack On Orel Bastion

GILLETTE WON'T BE CANDIDATE   Announces He Will Not Seek Re-Election

Gillette Says He Will Retire   When Term Ends   Towa Senator Lashes Out At Officials With Set Notions

Gillette Hits At ‘Bullheaded Govt. Officials   lowan Will Not Seek Re-election To Senate Next Year.

Senator Gillette Criticizes Officials   lowa Member Says He Will Retire

Quake Rocks Mexico City   Temblor Linked With Volcano Eruption; Thousands Periled

Red Cross Drive Strategy to Be Manned Friday  Campaigners Urged to Interview  eee a J.

Red Cross Drive Strategy to Be Manned Friday —   Campaigners Urged to Interview Prospects Early

GOV.BRIGKER TOSIGN TIME MEASURE TODAY   Ohioans To Set Clocks Back Hour Next Sunday at 2 A. M.

Warships Pound German ‘Troops  Holding British   All Air Fields in Sicily Now Captured or Neutralized; 60.000 Prisoners

Island In Path Of Allied Invasion Attacked Friday By Three Hugh Vfaves Of Bomber Planes   CANADA GETS GOOD x NEWS FROM SICILY

News Behin The News Copyright McClure Nawapaner   WASHINGTON Ry Rav Tucker

PLANS FOR TRI-POWER CONF. ARE UNDERGOING REVISION   Reports Suggested That Meeting Be Held in London

Key Japanese Airfield in Burma Is Heavily Raided  Ee is Ds bg ee Ei

U6, PLINES BOMB JAPANESE IN BURMA   Important Jap Airdrome {s Used As Forward Attacking Base.

Americans Hit Japs in Burma  Successful Operatio Aaainst Airfield at

ALLIES BOMB CARGO VESSELS   Flames Shoot Up ‘Fron Wharf Areas at Former Dutch Naval Center

Heavy American Air Blows Dealt Jap Bases In Burma   Yanks Pour Explosives On Strategic Airfield, Storages And Supply Lines

Japanese Airdromes Are Raided In Burma   American Fliers Deal Heavy Blows

AMERICANS RAID KEY JAP BURMA AIR BASE   Attack Carried Out Tuesday Extended to Storage And Rail  - Districts

Senate Confirms Selection  Of Brown For O. P. A. Pos   WALKER NAMED DEMO CHAIRMAN

Nomination Of Brown To OPA Ts Confirmed   Former Michigan Senator Quickly Approved By Senate As Successor To Leon Henderson

Brown Approved As OPA Chief  epnate Waive« 1_Dav   Senate Waives 1-Day Rule; New Head to Take Post Immediately

CUSTOMARY. PROCEDURE -1f WAIVED TO RUSH CONFIRMATION OF NEW © HEAD O% AGENCY

SENATE: CONFIRMS BROWN WOMINATION   Republicans to Drop Lend ‘Lease Continuance Battle but Will Watcii Expenditures

FORMER MICHIGAN: SENATOR .. NAMED. TO SUCCEED HEN . -DERSON--SPEEDY. CON:  : FIRMATION SEEN

SENATE OKAYS APPOINTMENT OF OPA HEAL   Approval Is Given To Senator Prentiss M. Brown

BROWN (3 NEW CHIEF OF OPA   Former Michigan Senator Confirmed; GOP Leader Waives Waiting Bule.   SUCCEEDS L. HENDERSON

BROWN GETS PRICE POST   Former senator will succeed Leon Henderson as O. P. A. head

Brown Approvec As Henderson's OPA Successor   War Contract Fees and Profits To be Studied

Senate Confirms Roosevelt’s Nomination Of Prentiss M. Brown For Price Administrator

Senate Okays Browr Price Administrator   Battle Over Lend-Lease May Be Confined to Limitation of Cost

Brown Gets Senate 0. K.   New Federal Price Administrator Is  Not Afraid Of Job

SENATE CONFIRMS CHOICE OF BROW)   Fireworks Expected Wher Committee Takes Up Flynn Appointment

 ’ ’ ° Senate Confirms Prentiss Brown  Fireworks Expected To Pop When Hearings Start On Flynn

Senafe Approve: Brown For OPA Director's Job All Is Harmony In Congress, But Row

CONGRESS READY TO START THIRD WEEK OF CAREER   CONSIDERATION OF FDR NOMINATIONS HEADLINES ACTION

Senate Gives Approval To A p pointment   Nomination of Senator Prentiss Brown as OPA Chief is Confirmed

Approve Brown. As Price Chief   Senate Gives Speedy Approval Today

Confirm Brown  As OPA Director   Former Michigan Senator to Take Over His Job Im mediately.

BROWN GETS O.K. AS NEW O.P.A. HEAD   Republican Leader Me. Nary Joins for Quick Approval,  NEW CONGRESS IN THIRD WEEK

BROWN CONFIRMED   Former Senator Unanimously Confirmed As Price Administrator

SENATE CONFIRMED BROWN NOMINATION ‘AS NEW OPA HEAD  FORMER MICHIGAN SENAT. OR EXPECTED TAKE OVER  PRICE CONTROL REINS

Senate Confirns Brown Selection As Head Of OPA   Michigan Solon Expected To Take Over At Once Price Control Direction

Baccalaureate Sermon, Class Play, Alumni Dinner, Ex< Procrpammed.

W.HLS. ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT   Sixty-Sixth Class To Be . Graduated -—— Program Of Events Announced.

RUSSIANS DOWN 116 NAZI PLANES   Large-Scale Offensive Launched By Reds In Caucasus

Germans Report ‘Kuban Offensive   -Moscow Announce: ‘A5 Soviet Planes  YY note lia Twn Dave

Russian Airmen Shoot Down U 6 Nazi Planes in Two Days   Rommel Reported Sent to Balkans

Germans Report Kuban Offensive   Moscow Announces 45 Soviet Planes  Lancet IA Twa Dave

IRUSSIAN AIRMEN ‘SHOOT DOWN 116 GERMAN PLANES    Nazi Commentators ~ Say  Reds Have Launched Of  fensive In Caucasus      MOSCOW IS SILENT ON KUBAN FIGHTING

Red airmen down 116 nazi planes in fighting in Caucasus   “Russ forces launch fierce attacks to drive invaders into Black sea

Reds Bag 1164 Nazi Planes In Two Days   Germans Claim Big New Attack Fails To Surprise Them; Purpose Was To Hurl Foe Back Toward Black Sea

Reds Bag 116  German Planes   Soviets Silent About Drive in Caucasus Reported by Nazis

Invasion Takes Careful Planning   Canadian Premier Sees Much Work

Several Places Where Helicopter Could Land In LeMars   This Town Is Named In Application of Aerial « Bus Line

Several Places’ Where Helic- 2 . opter Could Land In In LeMars   This “Town Is Named hk Application of Aerial Bus. Line

DESCRIBES HAVOC IN BERLIN AFTER BIG ALLIED RAID   German Capital Not Same City, Grigg Says; Bombs Crashed Throughout Fachinnahle Dictrict.

SPEARHEADS ARE PERIL 10 ~ NAZI ANCHORS   Soviets Driving at Twin Citadels Guarding Approaches to Dnieper.   War Summary

Ally Planes Bag 24 Craft in New Raids   AIRMEN SCORE BiG TOLL IN OFFENSIVE OVER YUGOSLAVIA, ITALY

SOLDIER I$ JILTED BY GIRL’S FAMILY   Telephone - Offensive Fails With Surrender Near

YANK PRISONERS FREED AT TUNIS   Tales of Blasting of Prison Ship Which Could Not Get To Italy Are Told

Allied Prisoners of War Caught in Heavy Bombing Raic   "Three Days and Nights of Hell’ Reported. As Planes Batter Prison Ship Off Tunisia

Allied Prisoners Under go Hell Aboard Enemy Ship Before They Are Rescued

Prisoners Went  Through ‘Hell? Allies Pound Vessel On Which Were Own Men

Three Days And Nights of Hell On Prison Ship   Allied Prisoners Witness Accuracy Of Own Airplanes

Yank, British Captives Bombed By Own Aircraft Off Tunisia Coast.

Freed Men Tell Of Bombing Hell  Allied Men Aboard Italian Ship Bombed  @ TY\eere aval NMiehks.

Prisoners on Italian Ship Go Through “Three Days of Hell” Under Allied Aerial Attack

President Roosevelt Goes Through Most Eventful Year As He Becomes 61

Tosa: Oil: Refinery:   Roosevelt, 6 Years C Old. Today, Still Has Keen  »recedent-Smashing Moves

‘President, 61, Today Still Setting ‘Records: Directs ‘Biggest’ War

ROOSEVELT 15 61 BUT HE 15 STILL SETTING PRECEDENTS  RECENT EPOCHAL FLIGHT TO CASABLANCA SHOWS

ROOSEVELT, 61, IS STILL PILING UP PRECEDENTS   Eye Not Dimmed for Dramatic; Latest Trip Shows Vigor Continues

PRESIDENT IS 61 TODAY   HAIR GRAYER, FACE SHOWS DEEP SEAMS, ‘BUT HEALTH S GOOD

KEEN ON DRAMA   President at 61 Is Still Setting Precedents at Rapid Pace

Roosevelt's 61st Year Ends On Confident Note   War Plans Are Designed To Foree ‘Unconditional Surrender’ On Axis Nations

Still Breaking Precedents.  61st Birthday Finds F.D.R. in Good Health

President 61 Years Old Today   Continues to Set Precedents at A Rapid Pace

President, 61 Today, Sets US Fast Pace   Makes Precedents As War Director

F.D.R. IN FINE FETTLE ON HIS GIST BIRTHDAY   Executive Has Paced Him. _ self Well Despite Burdens of Presidency, In creased With His Coun* try Involved in War.

FDR OBSERVES © 61 STBIRTHDAY   Past Year Most Eventful o! Any of*His Colorful Career

FDR KEEPS UP FAST PACE ON 6151 BIRTHDAY   Nation Celebrates as Usual: Raises Funds For Health Drive

PRESIDENT BUSY WiTh WAR DUTIES -ONGIST BIRTHDAY   Chief Executive in Fine Health Despite Long Hours of Work; Nation  OWN i a

ROOSEVELT, 64 TODAY, SHOWS MARKS OF TIME   Hair fs Sparser and Grayet and Face Shows: Deeper Seams—Still Setting Precedents   HAD FEWER COLDS   Past Year Saw Development of United Nations —Celebrities to Attend  Celebration

PRESIDENT IS 61 YEARS OLD   ‘Lost Year Hos Been Eventful Period In Life

Roosevelt on 61st Birthday Still Sets Precedents at a Rapid Pace

The War If oday—  German Morale Not Likely To Crack Until We Invade Europe From West

ALLIED EDICT AS TO FUTURE OF JAPAN IS ALSO BAD NEWS FOR HITLER’S EUROPEAN ORDER

HITLER MUST BE CRUSHED BEFORE ALL-OUT DRIVE AGAINST JAPAN CAN BE CARRIED-0UT TO CONCLUSION      _Allied. Edict: ‘From, Cairo’ That Nippon Empire. Is “To o Be: Jismembered ‘Calls’for More Than Words, As ‘Exrop Jictory. Must-First Be Accomplished

anu War s0uay  Must Finish Off Nazis Before Staging Offensive In Orient.

No Crackup In Germany This‘ Winter, Travelers Reaching: Lisbon Say   THE WAR TODAY

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Second Front In Europe Is Major Requisite To Hitler Defeat

THE WAR TODAY  DAY OF DOOM HASTENED FOR HITLER AT CAIRO MEETING.

Allowances To Be Hiked   Dependency Pay Will Be Higher Under Bill

_--- Mabyn Gooch, Secretary Board of Education   NOTICE OF ELECTION April 6, 1943

GEN. MACARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Austalia, April 26 (UP).—A large Jap-

Jap Convoy Sails Out of Range   Wewak Airdrome hit By Allied Bombers

19 Forays Made by Allied Airmen In South Pacific Over Weekend; 15 Japanese Planes Destroyed

LARGE JAP CONVOY SHIFTS WESTWARD   Allied Bombers Set Big Fires In Attack On Guinea Coast

punty Quotas for WACs Are  Fixed for lowa   wahontas County to Enlist Nine Women

DRIVE TO RECRUIT WACS IS BEGUN IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY   George Pavlik, LeMars, Is Appointed Chairman— County Quota Is Twelve

GEORGE PAVLIK “HEADS WAC DRIVE   Named. County Chairman By Gov. Bourke B.  Hickenlooper

THANKSGIVING DAY OBSERVED   It. Took a: War to Do It, But Most of World Celebrated

ALL AGREED = OUR DIN-2UT WAS SUCCESS   First Test Here Went Off ~in-a Most Acceptable ~ Manner...   COUNTY TEST 13 NEXT   Organization of Over 200 People Functioned With Few Mistakes. ‘

ALL AGREED UG DUN -EUT WAS SUGCESO   First Test Here Went Off in a Most Acceptable Manner.    COUNTY TEST I3 NEXT   Organization of Over 200 People Functioned With Few Mistakes.

Berlin Reports  Allied Sicily  Losses Severe Claims Third Dead. Wounded

NAZIS REPORT HEAVY LOSSES FOR INVADERS   Report One Third Of Allied Troops Lost In Sicily

NAZIS GIVE, VERSION OF UJ. N. LOSSES   Claim One Third of Allied Troops Were Killed or Wounded in Sicily

Daily Washington Merry - Go-- Round  BY DREW PEARSON  (Trathamerk )

Japanese Celebrate Anniversary Of Sneak Attack Qn Pearl Harbor By  Broadcasting Fantastic Victory Claims

JAPS BROADCAST CLAIMS   Pearl Harbor Day Observed By Fantastic Broadcast

ENEMY FIGHTS DEATH BATTLE IN MELITOPOL   STRATEGIC CRIMEA GATEWAY UNDER RED ASSAULT

Germans Ordered To Stand Or Die In Hitler Order To Hold Melitopol

Reds Capture Rail Hub of Zhitomir   German Forces Virtually Split in Half

Russians Heading For Poland   Fall of Zhitomir Cuts North-South Railroad Tine

CAPTURE MAIN RAIL JUNCTION OF ZHITOMIR   Soviet Forces Now Are Within 60 Miles of Polish Border

Soviets Split Germans’ Ukraine Army   Russian Troops Speed Toward Old Polish Line; Many Nazis Fall

Russian Troops Speeding On Toward Qld Polish Border After Capturing Important Rail Junction Of Zhitomir   More Than 100 Towns Fall As Red Armies Continue Rapid Drives Against Germans; Enemy Losses In Men And Equipment Heavy

Soviets Smashing Forward Toward  Old Polish Line ’   Important Rail Center Of Zhitomir Taken; Heavy Fighting Rages At Fastov

KEY RAILWAY LINK SEVERED INRED SWEEP   NORTH AND SOUTH GERMAN FORCES ARE ISOLATED

verman Forces In Ukraine Splitin Two   Another Red Army Force Preparing to : Canlore Karnsten

Nazi Forces Split As Zhitomir Falls   Reds Now Within 60 Miles Of Pre-War Polish’ Border; Hard’ Wintér Moves In

Soviets Split German Forces  Zhitomir's Capture Hailed by Stalin

‘Reds Virtually . Split Germans’ . Ukraine Force:   Important Rail Junction Of Zhitomir Falls To Russians; Speed On Toward Polish Border

Nazi Ukraine Armies Split In Red Blov   Russians But 60 Miles From Former Polish Border; Foe’s Losses Called ‘Enormous’

VITAL RAILWAY JUNCTION LOST TO NAZI HORDES   ‘Soviets Smash Into City  On Leningrad-Odessa  Line From Three   Directions   HUNS BADLY BLED OF MEN AND EQUIPMENT   Other Russian Units Con-: verging on Korosten, While Third Force ' Prives Into Malin

Split by Zhitomir’s seizure, nazi armies ‘take big losses   Germans may soon have to route all traffic thru Pripet marshes

NAZI OFFICIALS AIDING ALLIES   Swedish Writer Declares United Nations Aided By High Rankers

AGENTS HELPED   Top Nazi Officials Aiding Allies, Reporter Hints

National Leaque   ‘American Leaque   High Nazi Officials Are Said To Be Cooperating WithAllies

RUSSIAN TROOPS NOW WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CITY OF OREL   Germans Continue to Use Reserves; Reds Take Coal Center of Bolkhov

Russians Storm To Within FiveMiles of Orel  D antl. £2... F*...      Battle for City Appears to Be In Final Staaes

OREL MAY COLLAPSE ANY TIME   ‘Red Armies Storm to Within Five Miles of German Bastion Todav.

Orel Battle Is Believed  Nearly Over   Fall of City to Russian Forces Expected Soon

FIERCEST BATTLE OF CAMPAIGN ROUTS GERMANS   Allie Have Taken 125,000 Prisoners—Italian Troops Have Been Completely Withdrawn From Front Lines

ANKEES SMASH EY STRONGHOLD OF AXIS DEFENSES   emy. Retreats to Hills North of Mount Etna Under Heavy Fire; Prisoners Total 125,000.

CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Axis Stronghold Taken After Bitter Fighting

Nazi Stronghold Taker In Fiercest Fighting 0 Sicilian Campaign —

[TALIANS SEEM T0 HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM FRONT LINES   Previous Battle Front of 170 Miles on July 20 Is Reduced to 45, Enemy Is Reforming Line.   MUNDA BEING PREPARED FOR AMERICAN USE   American Fliers Unload Bombs on Other Japanese Bases as First Heavy Lick In New Offensive.

NAZIS BATTLED HARD IN EFFORT TO STEM DEFEAT   Officer Calls Fighting “Most Say. age of Campaign”; Naples Again Is Plane Target.

“Sharp Action In Sicily Is Report: ed In Communique This Afternoon From Besieged Island    125.000 PRISONERS t HELD BY ALLIES NOW

Bastion Falls In — Hardest Clash Of Sicily Campaign   Principal Axis Troops Dropping Back To - Hills North Of Etna 

J. Bovingdon Is Removed By  Leo Crowley   Protagonist Of Rhythmic Dancing For Health : Ousted From Positior  By Director Of OEW

Government Labor Policy  ‘Put To Acid Test As Coal Strikes Begin To Spread

WLB Urges Union Chiefs To Help In Stopping Spread Of Miners’ Walkouts

Mine Strikes Spread, Fear All May Quit   Lewis Policy Group Meets in. N. Y. as U.S, Panel Is Organized   FRIDAY IS DEADLINE   7,500 Out in Alabama; WLB Appeals to Unions to Halt Walkouts

Thousands Of Miners Join  Coal Walkout   Nationwide Tieup Is Threatened By End OF Week

STRIKE ACTION MAY BE LEFT UP TO THE LOCALS THEMSELVES   Lewis to Meet Today With Policy Committee to Decide Contract Issue.

JOHN L. LEWIS MEETING WITH POLICY GROUF   17,000 Miners Already Have Left Pits In Western Pennsylvania.

WLB APPEALS TO CHIEFS OF COAL UNION   Government’s W artime Labor Policies at Crucial Stage.   MORE WALKOUTS; STRIKES THREATED   Situation Portends Possible Nation-wide Tieup Soft Coal Industry.

MORE THAN 50 MINES SHUT DOWN TODAY   In Spreading Coal Strike, Which Threatens To Halt Soft Coal ~  Production.

Nationwide Tie-up Of Soft Coal Mines  Looms Ever Nearer   Over 22,200 Miners Already On Strike Today With  More Following Almost Hourly

WLB Asks Lewis Help To Stop It   EMW Says He Did Not Call It But Has Not Forbidden. Walkout Of Gver 13.000

Government’s Wartime Labor Policies Face Crisis as John L. Lewis Refuses To Stop Spreading Wave of Strikes—Labor Board’s Efforts To Settle Squabble Spurned by Union

WARTIME LABOR POLIGIES ENTER CRUCIAL STAGE   WLB Appeals To Patriotism of Nation’s Miners

UMW POLICY GROUP MELTS AS MANY OF MINERS STOP WORK   Lewis Refuses Toe Comment On” Scattered Strikes In Mines Of 3 States

WLB Appeals To Union Leaders   22,200 Miners Already Out Of Coal Pits

THOUSANDS OF MINERS HAVE OUIT MINES   Entire Industry May Be Shut  Down Saturday

CRUCIAL TEST FOR WARTIME LABOR PLA FEDERAL GOVERNMEN}  WAR LABOR BOARD APPEALS TO UNION LEADER SHIP TO STOP STRIKES

NEW WALKOUTS THREATEN SOFT COAL INDUSTRY   Hint Nationwide Tieup; Ohic Miners to Join Strike Saturday °

Lewis Confers — With Leaders On  Mine Contracts”   Over 20,000 Workers: Have Already Left Work, Survey Shows 

UMW Policy Committee  Acts Today   Waves of Strikes Spreads to Alabama, Kentucky

Coal industry May Be Stalled By End of Week   22,200 Miners Idle in East as Other Strikes Threaten

‘About 10,000 Coal Miners Already Out and Appeal to Lewis Seems to Go Disreaarded.

UMW Forcing Labor Fight To Showdown   Government's Wartime Labor Policy Facing Critical Test In Mine Battle

CHIEFTAINS TODAY   Walkouts In Various Mining Areas Grow—Confab This Afternoon.

LEWIS MEETS WITH GFFICIALS   Deciding Upon What Action to ake if Soft’ Coat Mine Contract Controversy is Not Settled by Friday Nicht.

LEWIS CONFERS, STRIKES SPREAD   Coat Miners “Jump the Gun” Ot Truce; Army Denies Plans te Use Troops

NATIONWIDE TIE-UP NOW THREATENED   U. S. Labor Policy Enters A Crucial Stage; New Strikes

MILK - PRICE GOES UP 1 CENT A QUART   2,400,000 In State Te Pay Increase Ordered By *" Control Board

President Plans Public Works \After the War   Says It's Up to Congress to Provide Jobs as Cushion Against a Unemployment

Fleet Of Bombers Strikes   Attack Follows RAF Raid On Milan And Turin In North

Railway Yards Pounded Anew In Carefully-Planned Attack; Berlin Also Battered By RAF   Second Daylight Raid On Italy's Capital Brings Heavy Destruction: Beeard Ascault Hits Milan and Turin

HIT RAILROAD ° FREIGHT YARDS   RAF Mosquitos Strike at Berlin; Milan Heavily -  Attacked. F   TURIN ALSO IS BLASTED

DESTRUCTION STRESSES WARNING   Raid Said To Equa) First In Great Gtreneth

HUGE U.S. AIR FLEET BEARS AT WARNING   Railroad Yards Smashed By Fortresses, Low - Level Bombing Planes.   BERLIN ALSO HIT   RAF Mosquitoes Bite Hitler’s Capital; Turin and Milan Honvily Raided.

RAF BOMBERS BLAST NORTH ITALIAN AREA   RAIL YARDS CHIEF TARGETS IN ROME MISSION BY U. S. FORCES

Huge Fleet Of Yankee Planes  Blast At Rome   Second Raid Equals First In Scope; Only  Mulitary Targets Hit

Orel Taken By Soviets After 24-Day Drive   Germans Admit Troops Have Evacuated  Key City   NEW BLOWS ARE DUE   Russians Prepared For Further Offensives To Crush Nazis

Biggest Russian Offensive Victory of 1943 a Stunning Blow to Morale on German Home Fron

Reds Fighting Through Orel   Signs of Danger Appear At Other Places in Nazi Lines

Berlin Announces Evacuation Of Nazi Stronghold   Signs Of Danger In Other Exposed Sections Of German Lines Appear

RECONQUEST OF VITAL CITY IS COMPLETED   Battle for Stronghold On Soviet Front Reaches Blazing Climax Dur ing Early Morning   ALL STORES REMOVED

Other German Defense Points Are Threatened   Russians Improve Positions Around Belgorod For Possible Thrust; Nazis Flee

Red Offensive Speeds Up To Capture Ore!   German High Command Ad. mits City Evacuated ‘Ac. earding To Plan’   GO TOWARD KHARKOV

Nazi Rearguard Fights for Time   No Doubt That Red Army Will Strike Again After Cleaning Out Nazis from Anchor Base at Orel; Germans Admit Loss of City After 24 Days of Savage Fighting

_ Russians Sta..1 Down  From Hills, Cross Oka, Mop Up Rearguards in Orel ‘Block by Block .

Battle For Orel Reaches Climax Today   Red Army Fighting Its Way Through Streets; Danger to  German Lines Seen

LINES EXPOSED IN RED SUCCESS   Nazis Say Withdrawal From Bastion Planned ’ for “Quite Some Time’

signs of Danger to Other Exposed Sections of the German Lines Appear Immediately, Following: Fall of Bastion, the First Major Objective of 1943—Soviet Troops Mopping Up Enemy’s Rear Guards in the City Block by Block. .

German — Base Has Fallen ©   Victors Capture Vast Quantities. Of Equipment... ..

Red Army Crashes Into Orel   Key Bastion of German Line in Russia Falls After 24 Days Of Savage Fighting

Soviets Chase Nazis From Orel To Take First Major City In New Campaian

RUSSIAN ARMY IS FIGHTING ITS WAY THROUGH OREL   Red Forces Are Completing the Conquest of Its First Major Objective.   IN A BLAZING CLIMAX   Signs of Danger to Other Ex: posed Sections of German Lines Appear.

Russians Fight ° Thru Streets __ of City to Reoceupy . Nazi Base .  GERMAN LINES WAVER        Danger’ to Other Exposed Sections of Nazi Lines - Appears   GERMAN LINES WAVER

REDS COMPLETE RECONOUEST: OF MAJOR 43 GOAL   Signs of Danger to Other Exposed Sections of  German Lines Appear Immediately

REDS BATTER WAY THROUGH OREL STREETS   Battle for German Stronghold Reaches Blazing  Climax   EYE NEXT RED BLOW   Vast Quantities of Equipment Captured From  : Fleeing Nazis

Russians Fight Thru Streets of City to Reoccupy Nazi Base  GERMAN LINES WAVER  Danger to Other Exposed Sections of Nazi Lines Appears

Germans Cover Withdrawal With Bitter Fighting   LONDON. Aug. 3—(?P)—Orel and Belgorod both haye been captured by ‘the Russians, Moscow knnounced tonight.

_ ba ail —_— — bil — baal _ —  Reds Smash Into Orel, Germans Admit Its Fall   McAllister On Army Bomber

Soviet Army Fights Way Through City   Germans Admit Evacuation of Orel; City Was First Major Objective of of Russians Summer Campaign; Reds Advance Both Sides Kharkov Salient

Blazing Climax Reached By Reds In Street Battle   Moscow Sees Soviet Army Continuing Grest Drive Against Nazi Invaders

Nazis Declare Hinge City Evacuated Methodically But Reds Say Much Left Behind

Nazis Fall Back Upon Bryansk   Reconquest of Key Fortified City Perils Exposed Sections of Hitler Lines; Locale Of Next Red Army Smash Military Secret

Nazis Abandon Stronghold On Fastern Front   Hitler Suffers Another Major Disaster In Russian Wor

Allied Bombers Blast At Burma With No Losses   Successful In Hitting Targets

Review of Plans for Gom. ing Canned Goods Regulations.   CAN KEEP COFFEE  AND SUGAR BOOKS

TODAY ON THE HOME FRONT: RATIONING AND AMOUNT OF RATIONED GOODS YOU MAY HAVE WITHOUT OPA OBJECTIONS

Today On The Home Front  OPA Fixes “Par’’ For Your Pantry  Reviewing the Plan: For Canned Goods Rationing

UNION LABOR LOBBY UNDER FIRE SENATE'S PRESIDING OFFICER  LIEUT. GOV. SMITH SAYS MOST POWERFUL LOBBY 1S TINION LABOR LOBBY

ld RI MIs iri eg citi) ee RR iu a I ga  Anaconda Company Pleads Innocent

SOME COAL IN TOWN   Five or Six Carloads H Have Come In: Some by Truck

Crescendo Of Bombs On Nazis   INDUSTRIAL CITIES — EN RHINELAND AREA HAMMERED

\F Ends 4th ar of War ith Big Raid   Bombers Lost Heavy Attacks  Nazi Industry

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS POUND HOME HEAVY ATTACK ON RHINE   Britons Bring Fourth Year of War to A Thunderous Close

British Heavy  Bombers Blast  At Rhineland France  And Low Countries Hit

Third Heay y RAF Raid In 8 Days Made  On Germany   Muenchen-Gladbach And Rheydt Hammered In Last Night's  Strong Assault

Mighty Fleets of Heavy and Medium Bombers Cross Continent For Heavy Concentrated Attack.

State Senate Gets Measure  To Slice Tay   Repeal Of 60 Per Cent Income Surtax Levy Passed By Committee. Advanced For Action

ELEVEN SHIPS SUNK BY JAPS IN BIG BATTLE      Writer Tells Of Sinking Of Air. craft Carrier, Other ' Vessels

Sra ve OSG —_—_  U. S. LOSES AIRCRAFT CARRIER, 10 WARSHIPS IN BATTERING THE JAPS IN SOLOMONS LAST FALL

25 Japs Ships Sunk For 11 Named By U.S.   ‘Aircraft carrier Hornet one of fleet’s newest; skippers of lost Navy units’ given. ~~

U. S. Warships Lost in Three Separate Battles   Personal Losses ‘In Engagements  Not Revealed

U. 8. To Hold Japs To Accounting For Beheading Of American Flyer

TOKYO TO PAY FOR SAVAGERY   Beheading Of Aviator Cited As Example Of Criminal Barbarity

Caro! Louise Smith Married November 2   To Pri. Chrde ER. Cheretic at Denver. Gols.

Most Important of Land Fighting Is in Russ Ukrainian Plains.  ALLIED AIR DRIVES CRISS-CROSS EUROPE  Marshal Badoglio Will Lroadcast to the Italian People.

AIR WAR, SOVIET DRIVE AND LIKELY ASSAULT ON ITALY MERGE IN PICTURE   REDS IN IMPORTANT VICTORY AT KHARKOV AS AIRPLANES HIT ALL HITLER AREAS

MOSCOW ANNOUNCES VICTORY IN DRIVE TOWARD KHARKOV; AIR OFFENSIVE POUNDS EUROPE: ALLIES POISED AGAINST ITALY

Red Army Snape Whip At Kharkov; Badoglio To Address Sicilians Tonight.

SEIZURE OF JAP’ BASE, FINSCHHAFEN EXPECTED SHORTLY   Aussies Capture Airdrome, Reach North Bank Of Buni River 1,300 Yards Away

Capture Airfield At Finschhafen   Fall of Jap Port Expected Shortly

AUSSIES TAKE JAP AIRDROME   Fall Of New Guinea Base Ixpected Soon

Finschhafen Airdrome Falls To Australians   Seizure Of Base Is Expected Shortly, Despite Last Ditch Opposition   TAKEN IN 36 HOURS   Airfield Is Third Con. quered By MacArthur's Troops In Two Weeks

Jap Base at Finschhafen  Near Seizure   Aussies Take Ate Field;  Wrr4ets., 19. TY GLALLe 1306 ¥ ards  Of Base

Finschhafer Field Torn  From Japs   * Fall of Great Base ‘Before Allied Drive “Js Expected Shortly

BITTER STRUGGLE COULD BE AVERTED   Suggests Congress Be Taken Into Confidence of Administration.

Asks FDR To Confide In  Congressmen LaFollette Backs  Brewster's Views

Watch Those Lights Tonight! Blackout Hour Still Secret      It'll Be Sometime Between 9 and 11; Cooperation Is Asked by Civilian Defense Chief

Many Turning to Want Ads to Fill Weed for Goods Difficult to Obtain

Prelude Prelude to Berlin: Berlin: c Correspondent Tells Moments Before Takeoft

Felt Certain Of Success_   Story Written Before Takeoff for Berlin. Tells of High Morale’

Story Left Behind When Newsman Left On Raid   Bennett, Representing Combined American Press, On Trip to Berlin, Wrote of Imposing Power of Air Might

MISSING WRITER PREVIEWS" RAID   Described Attack-To-Come In Case He Didn’t Return

LAST STORY WRITTEN BY LOWELL BENNETT BEFORE BERLIN RAID   International News Corres pondent Gave Preview of Big Raid in Which He I.  Now Missing

A Correspondent Who Didn’t Come Back .... Bennett, Reporter Lost  In Berlin Attack, Left His Last Story Behind

Lowell Benneff's Last War Story  VY See ee   Wrote It Before Starting Fatal Flicht

TO PUBLISH FORMS   OPA Asks Newspapers to Help on Point Rationing Registration

NEED 15 MILLION IN SERVICE FOR VICTORY   Number of Men Estimated b\ Capt. Rickenbacker

15 MILLION SAYS RIGKENBACKER   U. S. Will Need Vast Army Because Of Many Theaters Of Operations Says Air Hero.

Rickenbacker Says U.S. Will Have To Put 15 Million Men In Uniform

ARMY OF 15,000,000 RICKENBACKER IDEA   World War Ace Hints U. $. Lagging Behind Allies

Grand Jurors Are Drawn for — Present Year   Petit Jurors Also Drawn for Next Term of District ° Court

Petit Jurors Are Drawn for Next ‘Term of Court   Have Been Summoned to Report April 6. Judge Fred  M. Hudson to Preside

Violent Attack By Nazi Forces Against Yanks   “Neavy Fighting Develops in Tunisian Area West Of Faid Pass   MOST SAVAGE OF TUNISIAN ATTACKS  Petr ePrr~,

Land Activity  Slow In Tunisia   Patrol Sorties Only Action __Aireraft Pounds Axis Bases   MANY ENEMY PLANES ARE LOST

F. H. Hungiville Dies Suddenly   Former Resident Victim Of Heart Attack

F.H. Hungiville Dies Suddenly   Life-Long Countian Succumbs at Hospital After Heart Attack

QUITS OPA POSITION   Man Resigns ‘Because He Was Not Permitted to Be Fair

Hungary No Longer Bound by Axis — Pact. Avows Deputy Amid Cheers

Red Cross Chairman Announces Plans For Nutrition Classes Coming Week   Standard Course Will Be Offered . To Ali Applicants 

Slayer Of Girl War Worker ls Held In Canada   High School Student, Seized In Montreal, Confesses Crime

HOUSE COMMITITEE MAJORITY OPPOSED TO PROPOSAL OF ‘THE TREASURY'S TAX PROGRAM ©

Villisca Cheers   Col. Moore, Iowa Soldier-Hero, Is Welcomed Home By Crowd of 2,600

BRITISH SOLVE FOOD PROBLEM   U.S. Might Profit By British Example Of Feeding War Workers.

U.S. Might Profit From British Experiments With Canteen Systems For Feeding Busy War Workers

“Spanish Masonic Plot’:  resem arene comet  Move To Overthrow Franco, Place Prince Juan on Throne, Reported

IT’S GERMANY’S WAR   ‘Italian Press Prepares People for  Further Losses

ltaly Contends Its Nazi Fight   Say Battle of Sicily Ils Germany's Fight

Reds Capture  Salsk, Key Rail Center   Last Obstacle in Drive Against Rostov Hurdled

SOVIET THREAT TO ROSTOV IS INTENSIFIED   Half Moon Arc Is Thrown Around Industrial City Of Voroshilovgrad.

SOVIET ARMY CAPTURES KEY RAIL JUNCTION   Last Major Obstacle To Rostov Moved In Drive

Russians Spur Rostov Push As Salsk Falls   Soviets Throw Arc Around: Donets Basin Factory City

BERLIN HEWBY DID TUEoDAY   Resident of Arcadia Had Been in Hospital Since Thanksgiving.

BERLIN NEWBY ~DHED TESOA   Resident of. Arcadia Ha¢ , "Been in Hospital Since: ‘Thanksgiving.

Bombardier Sole Survivor of  Crash in Park   Bomber was Enroute To Sub-Base  At Tewistawn

British Convoy Reaches Russia By North Route   German Battleship Drizen Off By Convoy Planes

Beat Off Four Nazi Attacks on Allied Convoy   Important Cargo Ships Reach Russia Without  Loss or Damage.   Germans Risk Prized Warship in Assault

Allied Convoy Reaches Russia Safely After British Beat Off Four Assaults

Convoy Reaches Russia   Pocket Battle Ship Leads Naval Attack Against British Fleet; Nazis Lose a Destroyer

Russia Bound Convoy Beats Off 4 Attacks   Supply Vessels Unhurt: British Repulse Pocket Battleship, Sink Destroyer

Convoy Smashes Through   ... WITHOUT LOSSES AFTER HOT BATTLE   BIiusn DCI Wii Foul Assaults By Superior Nazi Naval Force

North Cape Sea Battle Described   American Subs © Are Silently Busy

ALLIED SUCCESS IN SICILY BUILDING UP; GOOD PROPAGANDA   United Nations Soon Can Cash In On Record Of Victories Over Eight Months ~

SUCCESSES: OF ALLIES HAVE WIDE EFFECTS   Affect Attitude Of Turkey and  Balkan Countries

ANNOUNCE SUMMER HOURS   City Library Will Be Closed All Day Monday, July 5 7

ANNOUNCE SUMMER HOURS   ee ee  City Library Will Be! ‘closed All Day Monday. July 5

Neither Side Gets Credit  For Passage  Of Tax Bill   President Expected To Sign Legislation; Compromise Voids  Political Arguments   CONGRESS LOOKS TO EARLY VACATION   Hopes To Finish Work And Abandon Sessions During July. Aucust

Congress Points Toward Vacation   If Tax Bill Is Signed, Can Finish Other Work

TAX BILL NEAR FINAL ACTION   Bitter Battle May be Ended Without Victory for Either Party

TAX APPROVAL IS EXPECTED   Neither Party Claiming Political Victory In Compromise Form  Of Measure

FDR to Sign Pay-Go Levy, Leaders Hear   Compromise Tax Bill Due to Pass House, Sonate This Waal

ITSFARMER JONESAGAIN   Collapse of Wheat-Raising Componies Brings New Era

AXIS PLANTS IN FRANGE BLAGTEL BY YANK BOMBS   Airmen Stage Heavy ThreePronged Independence Day Assaults   AERO FACTORY AT LE MANS IS TARGE   Many Hits Scored on Aircraft Depot Near Nantes, One o! Largest Storage Spots ir France; La Lappice Instal. lations Damaged

RAF Smashes At Duce’s Rail Lines   Allied Planes Active In Other Areas Of Mediterranean

Salerno Again Under Assault Of Wellingtons   Three-Way Attack On Italy From Africa, Middle East; Royal Arsenal Damage High

Wellings on Night Shift Follow Forts   Photos Show 40 Per Cent Of Naples Arsenal Has Been Devastated

BLAST ITALIAN RAIL SYSTEM   Allied Planes Deal Heavy Blows to Mussolini's  Land Lifeline

RAF SMASHED AT  SALERNO FOLLOWING U.S. BOMBER RAIL   Continued Allied Efforts to Knock Out Mussolini’s Supply System.   ‘FREIGHT YARDS ARE HIT   Two-Ton Block-Busters Planted Squarely Near Barracks at Salerno.

Supply Bases Hit In Salerno Area   WELLINGTONS OF RAE SMASH AT SOUTHERN ITALY

Two-Ton Blockbusters Planted In Freight Yards At Salerno, Key Point In Railway System; Huge Fires Break Out

BOMB SALERNO FREIGHT YARDS   BLOCKBUSTERS HIT TARGETS; ARSENAL AT NAPLES DAMAGED

Allies Continue Efforts to Bomb Out Mussolini's Supply System for South Italy: Supply Depot Devastated

Bombers Hit At Italians’ Supply Lines   Salerno, Key Railway Point, Heavily Damaged

lfaly’s Rail Lines Bombed   Freight Yards Given Blockbuster Pounding

Two-Ton Bombs Pound Salerno   Italian Freight Yards Shattered By Direct Allied Hits

SALERNO JARRED BY RAF BOMBS; RAILS SMASHED   British Wellingtons Continue Round-the-Clock Pounding of Italian Areas

Mussolini's Supply Lines Dealt Heavy Blows When Allies Aitack Railroads

Huge Bombs Are Dropped On Salerno   Key Point on Main Railway South From Naples To Italian ‘Toe’

Italian Railways Hit By Allied Attackers   Bombers From North Africa and Malta Spread Havoc Over Rail Lines in Italy And Sicily; Many Fires Are Started

Allies Smash At Salerno   Seek to Knock Ort Underpinnings of Supply System

RAF Starts Fires in Raid ~ On Salerno   Blasts Railway Yards in Port Near Naples; All Allied Planes Safe

RAF Follows AE! With Heavy Air Raid On Salerno   Extensive Damage Reported At Key Railway Center

Italian Railroads  Pounded By Allies   Hits Scored On Yards At Salerno By RAF While Bombers From Malta Spread  Havoc In Sicily

Planes Fly 2000 Miles.  Damage Jap Cruiser   Italy's Railways; Ruhr’s Factories Biasted in Round-the-Clock Raids

NEW FORAY ISMADEON SOUTH ITALY   Numerous Fires Started In Town South Of Naples

QALERNO HIT BY AIR FORGE   RAF Attempts to Knock-Out Supply System for Southern Italy.   ARSENAL IS DESTROYED

Italian Railway Lines.  ‘Dealt Blow By Fliers   Yards at Salerno Smashed—Mosquito Bombers From Malta Spread Havoc Over Systems in _ Htaly and Sicily

Allies Smash at Rail Lines in Italy  Bullseye Hits Are  , —_ 7   Bullseye Hits Are Made on Vital Targets in Salerno

Smash at Italian Supply System   Alles Continue Day and Night Raidings in Sicily and Italy.

Havoc Is Spread Over Railways Of Italy, Sicily   Salerno Heavily Raided Aud Many Fires: Started; Blast at Rome Hinted

/RAF SMASHES SALERNO IN CONTINUATION OF ALLIED BLows at SOUTH ITALY

BLOCKBUSTERS PLANTED IN RAIL ‘YARDS AT SALERNO   In Allied Continuation o! Effort to Knock Underpinnings from Italy’s Sunvly Svstem

RAF WELLINGTONS USE BLOCKBUSTERS UPON ITALIAN CITY   SALERNO ATTACK FOLLOWS ONE ON SAME POINT BY AMERICAN BOMBERS

RAF ATTACKS KEY ITALIAN RAIL POINT   Wellingtons Drop TwoTon Block-Busters Squarely in Freight Yards at Salerno, 30 Miles From Naples.

Allies Smash at Rail Lines in Italy   Bullseye Hits Are Made on Vital “Taraets in Sclerno

[TALIAN CITTEa SMASHED AGAIN   Salerno, 30 Miles Southeast Of Naples, Allied Parget   HEAVY DAMAGE   Electric Railway Running To Italian Toe Is  Severely Battered

WFA MAPS NEW FOOD PROGRAM   All Phases Of Problem Studied To Provide Equitable Distribution

BalancedU.S. Food Supply  Is WEA Goal   Federal Agency to Keep Pledges to Farmers and -Reduce Waste

FOOD GROUP IS WORKING FOR DISTRIBUTION   Fresh vegetables and fruit are plentiful som: places, scarce others

FOOD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WILL GET AN OVERHAULING   EFFORT TO BE MADE TO COORDINATE' MARKETING OF NATION'S PERISHABLE Foobns

‘Destroyed’ Fortress Brings Crew  Safely Home Before Falling Apart.

Texas Pilot and Crew Bring Fortress [Home From Strange Battle Flight

NO OVERTIME IN JAIL   Prisoner Kefuses To Work Straight Time, Se Pays Fine

FRENCH FIGHT S$ TROOPERS   Patemts Warned Of Drastic Measures By Nazi Authorities.

French Guerrillas Battle Off Attacks of SS Troops  In Vosges Mountain Area    Drastic Measures Threatened by German Occupation e Authorities Unless Fight Against .  Conscrivtion Is Stopped

F rench Rebels  Clash With  Nazi Soldiers Patriot Forces Defy  Reich Threats Of Arrest. Desi

Today’s War Commentary  Crisis for Hitler  ltalv’s Surrender Puts Him On Sy

Interoreting  The War   Current Gains by Russians of First Importance

SHERIFE ADMITS HE HAS ISSUED PICKUP ORDER IN MURDERS  LITTLEFIEL CITIZENS RAISING LARGE REWARI FOR KILLER

Police Baffled In Murder Of  Dr. Hunt, Wife   Anaesthetic Believed Used In Killing $10,000 Reward Is Near

GERMANS TOLD TANKGITY IS NOW BIG TRAP   High Command States Troops Now Fight On Defensive   IS FIRST ADMISSION   People Told Beseigers Of Last Fall Now Are Trapped

RAILWAY WRECK KILLS HUNDRED   Another 100 Injured in North Carol'na

Report Fifty Persons Killed Tn Rail Wreck   Around 50 More Are Also Reported Injured In Crash In North Carolina   ATLANTIC COAST FAST TRAIN WRECKED  (BULLETIN )’

Bombers aim heavy blows  at nazi bases   Targets thruout France pounded

Allied Planes Smash at French Targets  11 Heavy Bomber:  Bea T aat in   11 Heavy Bombers Are Lost in Daylight Attacks

Yanks Lose 11 Heavy: Bombers; Mosquitos Hit West Germany   Raids Follow Big Attack By RAF Against Leipsig After Feinting at Berlin

Allied Planes Smash at French Targets   1l Heavy Bombers Are Lost in Davlighi Attacks

AirmenPounce Franeein — Heavy Assault  Big Bombers Blast Military Targets In Occupied Area

Bombers Blast French Targets   Allied Air Assault’ Almost Continuous

Allied Airmen Hit Targets in North France   Fliers Switch From Methodical Raiding Of German Cities

NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE HIT   American, British Fliers Pound At Occupied  Territory

Dad Drafting Starts Oct. 1   First Call in Oklahoma To Affect Few Boards

STATE TO BEGIN , DRAFTING DADS THIS WEEK-ENL   @ Selective Service Chief Bc. lieves Several Thousand Needed Before Jan. 1

Russian Drive Is Underway Along 50-Mile Front, Aimed At Polish, Baltic Borders

SOVIETS BLAST NAZI DEFENSES ON BALTIC LINE   American Troops, Tanks Sweep Into Valley On Rome Road

Yanks Reach Liri Valley in Italy   Air Fleets From Mediterranean And Britain Converge on Germany

Bazooka, America’s New Rocket Gun, Gives Soldiers’ Ingenuity A Chance

U.S. Army Casualties of War So Far Total 63,958   Heavy Development of U.S. Secret Weapons

Ordnance Officer Says Within Two Years Arms.Will Only Slightly Resemble Those in War Use. Now

Withholding News Bad Propaganda, Says OWI Man   wc Lye Ue BALOOURA=  Factories Pour Out New Secret Weapons  _ _        y ‘0 a oy Yy;  j

THOUSANDS OF NEW WEAPONS   Those Now In Use Will Be Qutmoded In Two Years,  General Says

Sicily’s Airports   Hit By Americans (Carry War To Italy’  Back Door

Allies Finish Occupation Of Invasion Route   250,000 Pounds Of Explosixes Dropped On Sicily Airports

‘Allies Turn Attacks To Sicily, Near Ttalian Coast   Airdromes At Gerbini And Catania Targets; Enemy Planes Caught Acround

ALLIES CARRY OFFENSIVE 10 GATEWAY ISLE   Axis Bases At Catania And Gerbini Smashed By 250,» 000 Pounds Of Bombs   LINOSA IS SURRENDERED   Tiny Island Added To Pantelleria And Lampedusa In Mediterranean Drive

J. 5. Air Forces Blast Italian Island Gateway   Gerbini And Catania Air Fields And Grounded Planes Smashed

Airdromes On Sicily Are Bomb Targets   U. S. Heavy Bombers Cause Great Damage; Third Island Surrenders

Big Offensive ls Carried to Italy's Door   Isle of Linosa Surrenders to Allied Forces

3RD ITALIAN ISLAND HOISTS WHITE FLAG   150 Axis Planes Are Caught On Ground in Saturday Raids On Sicily

ALLIES BLAST AT SICILY AS NEXT OBJECTIVE   LIST ISLAND OF LINOSA AS THIRD TO SURRENDER

Linosa Surrenders, Third Italian Island To Yield To Airmen   Latest Isle in Mediterranean To Give Up Lies 28 Miles Northeast of Lampedusa

U.S. Bombs Rip 2 Airfields at Gate of Italy   Smash Sicilian Airdromes At Gerbini And Catania As Third Mediterranean Island Gives Up Without Fight; Many Planes Caught On Ground.

Linosa Is Latest Island To Give In To Allied Forces   U. S. Heavy Bombers Blast Eastern Sicily Airdromes. Carrying Offensive to Italy‘s Island Gateway: Enemy Planes Hit On Ground

250,000 Pounds Explosives Ara Dropped on Gerbini and Catania Airfields   AXIS AIRCRAFT HIT   Little Island. of Linosa Yields Bloodlessly Aiter Lampedusa’s Fall

Three Italian Islands — In Mediterranean Have Surrendered, 3 Days

Airmen Now Seek Targets in Sicily   Tons of Explosive Dropped  ~ on Catania and Gerbini Airfields   NEXT INVASION STEP?   Malta-Based Planes Take Part in Attacks to _ the North

Big Airdromes Are Battered   Island Gateway to Italy Given Working Over By U. S. Airmen

Allies Turn Attention to Gate fo Italy   Isle of Linosa Fails, Third Taker In Latest Action

U. S. Units Smash At Airdromes Of Catania And Gerbini, Carrying Mediterranean Offensive To Southern Gateway To Italy—Three Stepping-Stones For Invasion Now In Hands Of United Nations— Smallest Isle Surrenders Without Fight

BIG UNITED STATES BOMBERS SMASHED A’ SICILIAN AIRDROMES  MEDITERRANEAN OFFENSIVE CARRIED TO ISLAND GATEWAY TO ITALY

EASTERN SICILY ~NIRDROMES WERE TARGETS FOR U.S   Heavy Bombers of the Middle East Command Conducted Raid.   TWO CITIES WERE HIT      Catania and Gerbini Were Victims of 250,000 Pounds of Explosives.

SICILY BOMBED BY BIG PLANES   Quarter Million Pounds of Explosives Drapped on Airfields.   LINOSA ISLE OCCUPIED

Explosives Rained ‘On Two Airdromes   Of Outpost Island   LLinosa, Third Island Outpost to Surrender in Three Days, Capitulates Yesterday Without A Shot.

250,000 Pounds Of Exp "Dropped. On Catania '  Cethian Ate Cexned

JROMES ON ISLAND GATE TO ITALY POUNDED   3 Other Stepping Stowe Islands Are Now in: Allied Forces’ Hands

SICILY 1S NEXT ISLAND TO FEEL BOMBERS’ MICHT   Airdromes Blasted at Catania And Gerdini—Spitfires Help Liberators

VITAL LANDING FIELDS CENTER OF U.S. RAIDS   White Flag Raised Without Fight On Tiny Linosa Isle

AIRDROMES IN RASTERN PART SICILY RAIDED   Approximately 250,000 Pounds of Explosives Dropped On Gerbini and Catania Fields   BURSTS BLANKET AIRCRAFT, RUNWAYS   Meanwhile, Three Other Island Stepping Stones For Invasion Already In Allied Hands

‘MAY BE TARGET IN NEXT PHASE OF OFFENSIVE   8 Planes Destroyed: Airdromes Are Chief Targets

Allies Pound Island Gate 'ToMainland   Axis Plane Nests Heavily Punished;  Linosa Surrenders

SICILY AIRFIELDS AT CATANIA AND  GERBIN! BLASTED   Yanks Carry Offensive. To Island Gateway To Italy   250,000 POUNDS OF BOMBS DROPPED

Middle East Fliers Show: er 250,000 Pounds ‘of Missiles on Airfields as  Northwest African Air  men Rest.

BADOGLIO SETS LIMIT ON RULE   Plans to Quit When Rome : Is Taken by Allies

BADOGLIO PLANS T0 RESIGN POST   Allied Occupation Of Rome Time Set For Action

HULL WILL MAKE REPORT ON TRIF   Senate Committee to Hold an Informal Session With- out Questioning.

Public Asked To Help Hold Down Prices   Coffee Will Be Freed Soon

To Take Coffee Off Ration List   Don’t See Much Hope For Sugar At Present 

O REMOVE COFFEE FROM RATION LIST   Improvement ii in Atlantic Shipping Recently Is Responsible.

Removal Date Awnits Final Approval Expected Momentarily by Office of Price Administration and War Food Administration,

TIRE QUOTA IN OHIO DOUBLED FOR MARCH   Increase Designed To Take Care of Old Applications

PASSENGER TIRE QUOTA DOUBLED   increase To Take Care of Accumulated Applications

bine ADMITS US. AIDTO REDS   Russian Premier Publicly Acknowledges Nation’s Lend-Lease

RUSSIA ADMITS GREAT U. S. AID   Acknowledgement Is Made By Stalin

Stalin Praises  Aid of U.S.   Statement Made In Form Of Bond Message

MINERS WALK ~ OUT ON COAL ~ PARLEY TODA)   NEW THREAT OF COAL STRIKE APPEARS AS CONFERENCE ig OF, OPERATORS. AND MINERS BREAKS UP

FINE BY ICKES BRINGS STORM OF CRITICISM      Mine owners accuse Lewis of “walking out” on conference

GOAL BARGAIN TALKS COLLAPSE   UMW, Operators Blame Each Other; Tension Grows Over Strike Fines.

ALL BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED.   Owners and Miners Blame Each Other for Newest Impasse

 BILL TO AID MID WEST FLOOD VICTIMS   Missouri Legislator Asks $15,000,001 Plus Priorities For Material

Jap Airplane Spotted Near Pearl Harbor   Believe Craft Was Launched -From Submarine To Make Reconnaissance Flight

THREE DROWNED   Tughoat Crew Members Love Lives In River Coltaian,

TRAINING IS FINISHED   Marauder Pilots Leave for Other Training Fields

HOLIDAY TRAFFIC TOLL SETS PACE   Twice as Large as Other Causes Combined Over Nation

SOVIETS ATTACK NAZI AIR BASES   Moscow Claims 752 Enemy Planes Were Destroyed  In Past Week

Many Nazi Planes Lost To Russians   New Raids Made On Ger. man. Airdromes Behind German Lines   OFFENSIVE DRIVE MAY BEGIN SOON

CADY FELLOWSHIP   Money Will Be Used for raduate Research at Kansas U.   BREWSTER IS CHAIRMAN

START DRIVE FOR CADY FELLOWSHIP   Money Will Be Used for Graduate Research at Kansas U.   IBREWSTER IS CHAIRMAN

Calls on Miner Chief To Order Strikers Back And Also Assails Few “Powerful Operators?  LEWIS, OPERATORS HURL ACCUSATIONS  Government Officials May Cut Train Travel, Order U. S. Dimout

RAGING OVER WAGE DISPUTE   ICKES TELLS LEWIS TO ORDER CREWS BACK TO WORK

Mine Union Chieftain Offers Compromise In Coal Wage Dispute   Vital Industry Paralyzed as 500,000 Men Are Idle; Operators Accused of Blocking Settlement in Statement by Fuel Administrator

W ord Battle Rages Over W ages   Ickes Calls Work Stoppage by Miners Strike Against Government, Asks 500.000 Men Be Ordered Back ta Pits

Nation is facing acute crisis as miners walk out   Government officials in conference; Ickes asks Lewis order men to work

Ickes Calls Upon Lewis To Order 500,000 Miners Back To Work   BITTER CONTROVERSY RAGES IN WASHINGTON

Iekes Asks That Lewis End Walkout   Conflicting Reports Are Issued By Lewis And Operators

Coal Indusiry of Nation Is Paralyzed   Stormy Word Battle Rages in” Capital Over Strike

Fuel Administrator Tells Lewis He Cannot Escape Responsibility for Tieup and Ca! On Him to Send Men Back to Work—] Also Lashes Out at Operators Opposin Compromise in Wage Dispute. 

Coal Industry Is Paralyzed: Ickes: Condemns Strike   Stormy-Word Battle Rages in-Washington While 500,000 Miners Remain tdle—No Hint Given of 2: What Steps Government Might Take

Ickes Blunfly Blames Lewis   Operators Flayed For Their Attitude

500,000 Quit And Paralyze Industry   Ickes Is Unable To Get Operators To End Walkout

Is ‘Strike Against Government,’ Says Fuel Administrator   Both Sides Blamed For Walkout, ‘Few Powerful’ Operators Denounced For Opposing All ~  Compremises Offered by UMW

Lewis Gets Call To Order Men Back Into Pits   Stormy Word Battle Rages on Moves To Negotiate Settlement: Operators Accused of Balking Plans

Strikers And Mine  Operators Scored   500,000 Joinsin Walkout When Contracts Are Net Signed By Deadline Monday At Midnight

/18 Indicted In Gigantic Lottery Case   Four Groups Accused of Securing ‘Take’ of §20,000,000 a Year

BiG AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID RENNES, ROUEN   FORTRESSES S TRIKE AT NAZI U-BOAT SUPPLY LINES

Allies Bomb French Towns   Rennes And Rouen Are Targets For Bombers

Score enemy fighter planes brought down by Yankee bombers   Allied escorts account for five more craft in numerous combats

AMERICAN AIRMEN RAID TWO POINTS   Daylight Attacks Against ' Nazi U-boat Menace Renewed 

RAF and Allied Fliers Resume Air Offensive   Numerous Battles Mark Attacks on German Positions   Allies Lose Four Bombers and Two Fighters in Day's Attacks

Nazi Railways Are Blasted By U.S. Bombers   More Than Score OF Enemy Fighter Planes Shot Down

American Bombers Hammer Nazi Railway Centers  More Than Score of   Enemy Fighter   DBlanmae Shat Down

American Bombers Hammer Nazi Railway Centers  More Than Score of Enemy Fighter

ws at U-Boat nace Struck aylight Raids        warms of German ‘raft Attempt o Protect Bases

U.S. and R. A. F Planes Renew European Attack   Flying Fortresses, Liberators Blast Germany's Sub Bases

FRENCH CITIES ARE RAIDED BY U, S$. BOMBERS   Fortresses And Liberators Meet Heavy German Opposition Over Targets

U.S. BOMBERS RENEW DRIVE AGAINST SUB   Danish Radios Go Off Air Suggesting RAF Has Taken Up Where Yanks Left Ore   New Aerial Activity

Yanks Hammer Rennes. Rouen   RAF Fliers Take Up Offensive Where U.S. Raiders Leave Off

CLARK INSPECTS SOLDIERS; HINTS ATTACK 18 NEAR   General’s Field Commanders Study Foe’s Positions From Observation Post on Volturno.   FLOODS HAVE DELAYED IMPENDING BATTLE   British Forces Gain Ground on Adriatic Coast—Airmen Rake Corfu Airfield and Harbor.

Wintry Blast Sweeps Sfate   Temperatures Expected To Reach 15 in North And 20 in South

NEW PRISONER EXCHANGE DUE   ‘Washington Dickering with To + kyo for Another Transfer of 1500 Civilians.

JAP EXCHANGE ~ DEAL PLANNED   EXPECT 1500 AMERICANS _ INTERNED BY JAPANESE WILL: BE EXCHANGED FOR JAPS HELD HERE

A: DIVISION OF LABOR   County Rationing Office Has Seven ifférent Panels

TodaveDon't Mice   Churchill Meets Roosevelt, Goes Back to Quebec   Premier Returns to Conference Scene After Three Days . At President’s Hyde Park Home

Roosevelt And Churchill Hold Talks: At Hyde Park   Pair Will Meet Again At Quebec This Week And Full Dress Show Gets Under Way Then   EDEN DUE TO JOIN IN CONVERSATIONS   Appearance Indicates Political Problems Will Be Discussed

Churchill Returns To Quebec After Hyde Park Visit  Roosevelt to Parley In Canada Following   Roosevelt to Parley In Canada Following Trip to Washington

Churchill Returns to Quebec After Visiting Roosevelt in U. S.; Conference in Canada This Week

Stage Is Set For Beginning Of War Parley   Churchill Returns To Quebec After Hyde Parl Visit

Churchill And Roosevelt Have  Hyde Park Talk   Prime minister and daughter ‘return to Quebec after seman visit in U.S.

Churchill Back In Quebec after Talks with F.D.R.   Spends Three Days with the President at Hyde Park, N. Y.

Churchill Back in Quebec After Talks at Hyde Park With President Roosevelt

Plan conference this week in Quebec; Eden’s presence indicates political session   Re-examination of military plans seems to be major consideration

hurchill Talks fith Roosevelt Hyde Park   friton Returns to After Seeing  President : Full Dress  fonference Nears

Churchill Returns to Quebec After Visit To FDR at Hyde Park   Access to Ocean Seen as Major Aim of Russia

FDR And Churchill Confer Quietly At Hyde Park Estate   Prime Minister And His Daughter Guests Of Presi dent And Mrs. Roosevelt: Will Meet In Quebec, Canada, Later

Truman Group Investigates Lag In War Production   Committee to Visit Aircraft Plants in South and Midwest

Production Lag Draws Attention Ot Truman   Committee To Seek To Determine Reason On Swing Through South and Mid-West   TO CHECK MORALE IN AIRPLANE PLANTS

Truman Group to Seek Causes for Production Slack  To Inquire Into Overconfidence . _. and Morale

Truman Committee Members To Probe  Plane Production   Inquiry Projected To Determine Whether Current Failure Due To Over-Confidence Or  Chanaeovers In Equinment

FIELD PROBE OF PRODUCTION LAG   Truman Committee To Visit Plants In Effort To   Determine Cause of Decline

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PROBEOF WAR PRODUCTION IS LAUNCHED   Truman Committee Starts Intensive Field Inquiry   SENATORS TO VISIT BIRMINGHAM TODAY   Aircraft Modification Plants to be In. spected

CONFESSES HE IS WANTED FOR MANLY MURDER   Mysterious Slaying of 1932 Cleared Up at Red Bluff. Cal,

SEEK DEGENERATE IN CHILD CRIMES   Cleveland Twins Missing After Police Find Boy Abducted Yesterday

MISSING BOY FOUND TWO MORE MISSING   Buchanan Boy Hospitalized; Link Disappearance of Twins To Case

TWINS MISSING AT CLEVELAND   Police Search Suburbs Where They Found 9-Year-Old Jack Buchanan

Bombers Raid Austria From Italian Bases   Berlin Radio Says Planes Strike, Proceed to Britain

“ighters Based on Italy Escort Bombers; Nazis Report Shuttle Attack

Yankee Bombers Blast Austria   ltalian-Based Planes Make Shuttle Raid

AUSTRIA ATTACKED BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Mediterranean-based Am erican Planes Deliver Assaults

TANK BOMBERS ATTACK AUSTRIA   Italy-Based Fighters Escort American Raiders   MARKS NEW METHOD   Germans Say Force Made up Of 300 Bombers and 200 Fighters

U.S. Bombers Strike Hard At Austria —   Mediterranean-Based_ ‘Planes Hit-at- Area Once Abnost Immune

Mediterranean - Based U.S. Bombers Attack Austria for the First Time

SHUTTLE RAIDS STRIKE AUSTRIA   Berlin Reports Bombers From Italy Wing On To Britain

Heavy Bombers Pound Austria   Berlin Says Blow Is On Shuttle Plan

U.S. Airmen Make Use of Bases In Italy for Raid  Fliers Smash Nazis In Austria With Merciless Rambing

Long-Hop Bomber Attack Is Started -From Allied Bases   Strike Austria, Hungary From New Mediterranear Fields; Blow Nervously Anticipated By Hitler's European Fortress

Allied Bombers From South Strike Austria   Berlin Says Big Planes As Well as Fighters  Fly from Italian Bases

Ickes fo Rule Denison Dam   President Roosevelt Gives Full Authority To Ickes in Order

£qualization Of Gas Rations ls Hinted at   ® Midwest Told Transportation Problems Licked

CUT IN MIDWEST GASOLINE SUPPLY HINTED AT KK. €.   Senate Group Told Transportation Facilities Now Are Available to Send Fuel to Fast.   WITNESS SAYS ICKES WON’T DECIDE POLICY   G. A. Wilson Asserts OPA Has Last Word on Any Rationing Change — Clark ‘Expresses Amazement.

Penna. Income Tax Payers Pour 50 Percent More Than In 1942 Into U. S. Win-The-War Chest

‘Decisive Battle (For Orel Said \Now: Under Way   “All German Reserves =< Thrown Into F ight As Reds Slowly Close In

Soviets Mop Up Nazi Forts In Orel Sector  Reds Closing in   Reds Closing in On City From Three Sides

RED TROOPS CLOSING IN AGAINST ORE!   Decisive Battle For Orel Has Begun, Savs Moscow

REDS TAKE 70 MORE TOWNS TO TIGHTEN ARC AROUND OREL   Fall Of Huge Nazi Bastion Now A “Foregone: Conclusion” —City Penetrated

“Decisive Battle for Orel Begun   Capture of Keystons Base is Foregone Conclusian

DECISIVE FIGHT FOR OREL NOW ON, 1S REPORT   Red Army “Mopping Up” Last German Strong Points; Capture of City Conclusion,

FINAL OREL FIGHT OPENED BY REDS   Americans Advance Lines at Munda By Use of Flame Throwers, Tanks.

REDS CUT THROUGH 70 MORE TOWNS IN QREL OFFENSIVE   ‘Moscow Fails to Confirm Nazi Report of Fighting In City’s Streets. 

“DECISIVE” BATTLE FOR OREL UNDERWAY   Russian Capture Of Cit) Termed Certain

Russians Say     Decisive’ Fight Beeun   Capture: Of Key Base Now Is A Foregone Conclusion

51 Service Men Die in Train Wreck   Enlisted Women Also Are Missing

Bodies Hunted in Train Wreckage   Workers Cut Way Into Last Coach

EXPEGT HIGHER TOLL IN WRECK   Workers Cutting Into ACL Coaches, Hunting Victims

RAF Mosquitoes Hit Objectives In Ruhr, Rhineland  Attacks Renewed On German Industry Wiehaut Lace

RAF Bomber: Hit German War Plants   Rhineland, Ruhr Targets In Raid

RAF BOMBERS RENEW ATTACK ON RHINELAND   Ruhe Objectives Also Are   Pounded As RAF Stages : Night Raids Without Loss

RAF Bombers In Raid On Germany   AIRCRAFT ALSO ATTACK NAZI FLOTILA OF SUBS

RUHR RHINELAND =~ OBJECTIVES HIT BY MOSQUITO BOMBERS   Not a Loss Was Checked Up Against RAF in Raid Last Night. oe   BRITISH WERE ACTIVE   Sank Three German “E” Boats of a Flotilla of 8 Off Calais.

RAF Bombers Renew Raids On Germany   Mosquitoes Hit — Objectives in Ruhr, Rhineland Last Night

RAF Renew Ruhr Attacks   Mosquito Bombers Hit Industriel Tergets; E-Boat Flotilla Raked .

RAF Planes Pound Ruhr, Rhineland   Heavies Stay At  Home; E-Boats Gant Dawn

ea aoe! F  SWIFT RAF HOSQ RF MOSQUITO BOMBERS ATTACKED RUHR, RHINELAND  BRITISH NAVAL AIRCRAFT ATTACKED GERMAN “E-BOATS”’

BRITISH RAID IN RHINELAND AND THE RUHR   Naval Aircraft Attack Eight Nazi “E-Boats,” Sinking Three and Damaging a Fourth—No Planes Lost.

ATH TERM INJECTED IN PARTY TURMOIL   Senate Democratic Tempers Flare In Bitter Row

Bourbons Are Embroiled in Intra-Party Squabble   Guffey Takes Pot Shot at  Qantharnare

Party Leader Predicts Passage of a Skip-Year Tax Measure by House

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan to Pass, Ramspeck Thinks  Prediction Is Made After Canvass OVE Maiiceo AAamkare

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan to Pass, Ramspeck Thinks  Prediction Is Made After Canvass OE Haues RAs bee

JAP DRIVE HALTED BY CHINESE   3,000 Nipponese Killed In Battle At Sinyeng

CHINESE KILL 3.000 JAPANESE IN BATTLE   Major Offensive Checked. Chungking Reports

Inflation In Nation? It’s Up To You   Publie Holds Answer To Black Market Threat

7,600 More State Miners Nut Today   Many Locals Call Meeting To Consider Ending Holiday

ORDER STRIKING ° MINERS BACK TO WORK ON MONDAY   Lewis Denounces Walkout As “Mad Enterprise.” Vote Taken Today

OUT OF MINES can CIYTH NAY   Drastic Cut In War-Vital Steel Production  Looms   CLOSE BIG FURNACES   Miners Continue To Defy Return Order of  FDR, Ickes 

100 VILLAGES CAPTURED IN GIANT SWEEF   German Positions in Grave Danger of Encirclement

Reds Advance Near Kharkov   Outflonking Drive Is Threatening Germans

‘No Reply To Requests For ‘Capitulation  'By Italy   Churchill Says Rome Will Be Bombed Again If Rail Yards Are Used For War

No Requests For Peace Received   Churchill Says No Reply To Demands Made

Churchill Denies Reply From Italy   Declares Demand ot Allies Ignored

Winston Churchill Hints Aqain That Allies Will Accent Malian Peace Offer :

Menace to Rommel’s Flank Grows; Axis  Forces at Mareth Line   Berlin Says Whole Russian Front Being Shortened And New Defenses Set Up; Allied Jabs Point To Possible Strong Action in North Africa

Stalin Personally Reports Routing Of 102 Axis Divisions In 2-Month Offensive

Flank of Rommel’s Army wv in Africa Is Threatened      HEAVY TOLL TAKEN  IN SOVIET BATTLES   Voronezh Is Re-occupied by the Russian Armie<«

Germans Aamit Voronezh Lost   Full Scale Africa * - Junecture Doubtful

APPEAL T0 WLB HIT BY UNION   UMW Group Calls Step A ‘Tragic Mistake’; Board Denounced

UMW voice protest of WLB intervention in coal-wage dispute   Asks government direct operators revert to collective bargaining

TEN- YEAR-OLD FACED MuRDER      Admits - Shooting Classmate Through Heart: Following Quarrel

Ten- Year-Old At Meadville Kills Friend   Lad Stands Charged With Murder Over ‘'Play Money"   SHOT THROUGH HEART

DENIES FLYNN REPAID COSTS   Ex-Commissioner Declares No Restitution Made

Russia Hurls U.S. Tanks At Nazi Foes   Fight to Smash Counierblows Of Reich Forces

Germans Hammer At Donets Line   Desperate Enemy Counter Attacks Being Held Off By Russians In Donets Basin Fiahtina

REDS LAUNCH STRONG DRIVE _ NEAR MOSCOW   Soviets Now. Using American Tanks On Front

Russians Oper Big Attack on Southwest   Desperate Germans Counterattack in Donets Basin .

TO BE NEAR FREEZING   No Rainfall for State of Kansas Is In the Forecast

Threatened Strike Now Is Canceled   Will Establish Committee To Investigate Dispute Of 2,600 Employes Over Present Wages

LOS ANGELES BUS DRIVERS END STRIKE   Walkout Set For 2 A. M. Is Canceled After F. R. Intervention

Sunday Transit Strike Off Wher IF.R. Intervene:   President Promises Investigation of Los Angeles Ware Dispute

Roosevelt Acts To Avert Strike   Los Angeles Trolley Walkout is Stopped

BUS OPERATORS CALL OFF STRIKE   F.D.R. Inervenes To Start Workers

AMERICAN PILOT FOOLS ENEMIES   Coloradoan, Flying Crippled Liberator, Manages to Bag Six Jap Planes

U. 8. Bomber Beats Zeros   American Reaches Base After Battle With Nine Jap Plane:

SENATE GIRDING FOR SHOWDOWN ON RACKET BILL   Labor Charges Measure ® Passed by House Hits Right to Strike

ANTI-RACKETS ACTION URGED   ee  House Passes Hobbs Bill By Vote Of 207 To 107

To Halt Draft Classification September 16      Local Boards Instructed to Take Inventory of All Males Under Jurisdictions

ORDER DRAFT ~ TNVENTORY   To Provide Complete Accounting Of Every Registered Man

OPA HEAD TO MEET KEY COMMITTEES   May Raise Ceiling Price on Corn

RUTLEDGE IS APPROVED   Four Senators Want to Know His Stand on Court Enlargemnt

WOMEN KILLED AT MARSEILLE   City’s Historie Port District Cleared By Jittery Nazis

250 INHABITANTS OF MARSEILLE SHOT   Eighty Women Among Those Wounded During State of Siege Ordered by Germans.

Two Japanese Ships Damaged In Heavy Raid   Allied Bombers Trave'! 2,000 Miles To Blast Macassar Straif

JAPANESE CRUISER BOMBED BY ALLIES   ENEMY MERCHANTMAN ALSO HIT IN 2,000-MILE RAID ON MACASSAR STRAIT.

ENROLLMENT IS UP   State Institutions Have 104 More Students Than Last Year

ARMED HELP  FOR SOVIETS: 18 PROMISED   @RACKEN ALSO DISCOUNTS RU' MORS THAY RUSSIA MAY ' MARE SEPARATE PEACE ‘ 99rTH OfRMANY

seeeeeninieeeeeeee  Fears Of Russian, German Peace Are Foolish   BRENDAN BRACKEN SHEDS LIGHT ON WHY HESS DROPPED OUT OF SKY OVER SCOTLAND 

Sth Army Troops Capture Citadel Near Enfidaville      First Army Opens New Assault in Bou Arada Sector; Air Activity Lessens

British Forces Push Forward In Twin Drives   20 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down in Aerial Engagement

HEIGHT TAKE IN SOUTH, LINES LASHED IN NORTH   Air Transports Are Biggest Knocked Down Yet; Spill Troops And Supplies

G-MILE GAIN IS REPORTED BY 8TH ARMY   First Army Also Advances On Three-Mile Front   20 TRANSPORTS   Lost By Nazis Over Tunis; Some Were Carrying Men, Others Freight

First Army Also Scores — Gain in Bou Arada Area   '20 Giant Messerschmitt Transports, Carrying Troops and Gasoline, Downed in ' 10-Minute Battle—Pincers Operate

British First, Eighth Armies Drive On Tunis   Take Takrouna, Push On Toward Coast; Savage Fighting Rages

26 Giant Axis Planes Downed   Montgomery's Men Push Six Miles From Enfidaville as Anderson's Forces Stab Ahead in North Despite Stubborn  Axis Resistance

British Ground T roops In Tunisia Advance In Dual Assaults Against Enemy

Allies Destroy 20GiantPlanes, Take Takrouna   Six Engined Messerschmitts Carrying Fuel, Troops To Tunisia Are Knocked Down: Land Drive Gains.

TROOPS ADVANCE AS REICH LOSES 70) TRANSPORTS   Giant Messerschmitts Blasted By Spitfires, Kittyhawks; Land Forces Roll on

Troop-Fuel Planes Shot Down in Gulf   ») Giant German Craft and Fighter Escorts Bageed at Tunis   TWIN LAND DRIVES   Tommies “ Take Takrouna in Bloody Struggle to Break Hill Lines

Allied Pincers Nios Rommel   First and Eighth Armies Take Strategic Hills, Advance on Tunis

10 Huge Nazi Air Transport Ships Downed   Attack Lasted Only 10 Minutes; RAF Drive Drops Off

20 Out Of 20 Huge Transport Planes Downed   Another Corner Of Slim Defense Sector Lost To Germans

Kighth Army Drives Cl  Yanks Take Maknassv iy   Close to Gabes; im Seaward Smash   Gen. Montgomery Outflanks Enemy and Gets Behind His Main Defenses

Aerial Fighters Continue To Take Heavy Toll Of German Planes Over  Gulf Of Tunis

Twin Thrust By First Army; Allies Down 20 Huge Transports Carrying Aid To Rommel.

20 Big Cargo Planes Are Shot Down   Air Victory Comes As Brits Advance On The Ground

Algiers Redio Reports Section of Line Smashed, 1700 Prisoners Taken; Whole... ‘Axis Position Threatened

Allies Down 20. Big 6-Engined: Nazi Aircraft   Bag 38 Planes In Day as Ground Troops   Stab Into Axis Mountain Defenses —  With Infantry Fighting Hard to 4 Make Yard-by-Yard Advances.

30 More Planes are Destroyed   Advance Made On Two Sides Against Fnemvy’'s Foothold.

20 Giant Air Transports Shot Down   10-Minute Attack Rivals Sunday’s Feat of Knocking Out 77 Planee

Double Victory Puts — Rommel’s Afrika Korp: In Bad Plight, Belief

NEW DRIVES AGAINST. ENTRENCHED GERMAN POSITIONS REPORTED  ENTIRE FORMATION OF TWENTY GIANT TRANS RAR TAC APrASTh AVRR

Allies Claim Axis Mountain Strong Point   Airmen Knock Out Every Plane Of Gesman 26. Transport Fleet.   NAZIS SHIP TO KUBAN

20 MORE NAZI TROOP, CARGO PLANES LOST   Eighth Army Units Advance Six Miles Along Coast; First Troops Go On

Mareth Line Broken At Strongest Point By British Righth Army Says North African Broadeax   MAKNASSY FELL5 A.M YESTERDAY TO U.S. FORC:

ae  Americans  Have Taken 1 Maknassy             EIGHTH ARMY WHEELED AROU MARETH LINE IN BRILLIANT __ MOVE IN BATTLE OF TUNISIA

20 Giant Messerschmitt Transports Shot Down by Allied Planes, Some Carrying Troops and Others Ladened With Freight

20 TRANSPORTS SMASHED OVER GULF OF TUNIS   British Capture Takrouna And Push Advance Beyond Enfidaville Line   AXi§S LOSES 38 PLAWES   Romimel Forces Offer Stiff Resistance As Allies Press Offensive

EIGHTH ARMY PUSHES TWIN DRIVE NORTH   rirst Army Scores New 3-Mile Gain Against Stubborn Defense

Yanks Get Maknassy; RommelPlightCritical   British Wheel Around Africa Corps Americans 31 Miles From Coast

20. Huge Axis Transport Planes Shot Down Over a Gulf of Tunis  HOT GROUND ACTIONS      Eighth Army Pushes Six  Miles in Twin Drives :  Northward

Allies Down 20 Giant Transports   TEN FIGHTERS CRASH TO EARTH AS ENEMY TAKES HUGE LOSS IN BATTLE OF TUNISIA; MONTGOMERY PUSHES TWIN DRIVES NORTHWARD

PUSH 6 MILES NORTH FROM:   Also Capture Takrouna‘ and Advance Fro West—Fliers Down: 20 Transport Planes Ca rying Supplies and Me

Montgomery's Men Six Miles North Of Enfidaville   Anderson's Forces Strike at Weak Spot in Axis Line

10 Nazi Escorts Down; Takrouna Token by Montgomery As Axis” Attacks Are Checked

20 Messerschmitt T ransports, 10 Fighters Downed   Eighth Army Pushes Past Captured Pahrouna First Army Advancing in West Against Stubborn Resistance.

NN Huge German  Transports Shot Down By Allies  Armies Continue Gains On Ground

British Troops Advance   Gain in Both North and South Sectors Against Stiff Resistance; Axis Air Convoy Wiped Out

Gains Firmly Held As Fierce Battle Rages   First Army Opens New Offensive; 38 Axis Planes Downed

Air Victory ‘Ranks With - the Bicoest   Planes Shot Down: Are: the ‘Largest’ Type, Capable of:Carrying 120. Men   SOME HELD: TROOPS,:*~ OTHERS GASOLINE   Ground. Forces’ Pushing Pincers Move, Battling-for: Every Inch of Ground

10 Transports Shot Down In Tunis Gulf   Planes Were Laden With Men, Freight; Twin Drives Begin

British, American Troops Make New Gains In Tunisia   Montgomery’s 8th Army Executes Brilliant Wheeling Movement Around Mareth Line: Yanks Pushing Past Maknassy

Bloodiest Ground Fighting of Campaign Takes Place As British First and Eighth Armies Launch Pincers Movement Against Stubborn Resist-  ance; 26 Huge Axis Cargo Plan Wiped Out Over Mediterranean.

WERE CARRYING GAS, TROOPS, 10 TUNISIA   British Take Takrouna; Advance 6 Miles From Enfidaville

First Army Makes GainsOnWestern Tunisian Front.   Allied Planes Shoot Down 20 Giant Transport Planes Over Gulf Of Tunis

Yanks Smash To 31 Miles From Coast   ‘British 8th Army Severs _Mareth Line, Strikes Toward Gabes Port   TAKE 1,700 CAPTIVE   American Tank Fighters Hold Maknassy Under Dive-Bomhb Attack

UJ. S.-BRITISH PUSH AHEAD IN TUNISIA   Americans Threaten to Cut Off Afrika Korps Retreat from Mareth Line.

Americans 31 .- A Miles From Sea: a On Tunisia Fron!      Take Important: Railroad Town  Of Maknassy.

BEF Gains Six Miles On Coast   “Juitial Objectives Taken,” Allied Headquarters Reperts fn Communique

Americans Capture Maknassy, 7 Prepare to Cut Rommel’s Avenue of Retreat

FIGHT WITH BIG PLANES LASTS BUT 10 MINUTES   Large Craft and 10 Axis Fighter Craft Drop Quickly {nto Gulf

TAKE TAKROUNA IN HARD BATTLE   First Army Moves Ahead Three Miles in Brive Against Rommel.   DOWN BIG TRANSPORTS

38 AXIS PLANES DOWNED; BRITISH 1ST ARMY GAINS   5 Allied Aircraft Lost In Tunisian Air Force Battle

Giant Messerschmitts, Capable ‘Of Carrying 120 Men, Sent Saline In nto Sparkling Sea   Many Fall In Flames; British Have Pushed Six Miles From Enfidaville; Anderson’s Forces Make Gain After Stubborn Fighting

Takrouna Falls To Montgomery   26 Mammoth German Transports Shot Down By Allies; Ground Fighting Rages

Citadel Falls As Navy Eyes Sea Lanes   Red Army Paper Says Hitler Feverishly Planning “New Adventures” in Soviet Campaign—RAF Offensive Slowed, Except for Mine-Sowing Forays

Land Armies  Push On In  Pincer Drive   Air Victory Compares With 77-Plane Bag of Sunday; Ring Tightens

Troop and Freight Transports Toll of African Air Force   British Take _ i Top Citadel; Royal Navy Guards Sea

20 Enemy Aircraft Laden With Troops, Freight Shot Down Over Gulf of Tunis

wot ORE LA  Takrouna Falls As British Advance In ‘Three New Drives

Meanwhile Allies Push Twin Drives in Tunisian Fight   In Fierce Battle British Armies Tighten Pressure on Rommel.   In Pincers Movement In Mountain District

Destroy Convoy DF 20 Big Nazi Air Transports  . Six-Motored Planes Which Can Carry 120 © Soldiers Shot: Down;  a ae ee Se

BRITISH DRIVES PIERCE TUNISIA DEFENSE LINES   Huge Planes Loaded With Troops and Supplies Are Wiped Out in 10 Minutes   ALLIED PINCERS TIGHTEN   Reds Crush New Assaults By Nazis - - Hitler Planning ‘Something New’, Claim

Americans Race Toward Coast to Complete Solid Trap As 8th Army Speeds Up From the South   Old “Blood and Guts” Patton and Yanks Only 30 Miles From Gabes; ‘Tommies 31 Miles From Sea.

Slice Carved fromRommel's Defense Zone   Eighth Army Captures Takrouna, First Army Advances Three Miles in New Offensive; Reds Crush Repeated German Attacks in Caucasus

Ground Forces Squeeze Ring Of Steel Tighter Around Hard Pressed Axis Armies.

ALLIED PILOTS DOWN ENTIRE AXIS AIR FLEET   ‘Montgomery’s Units Capture Takrouna in 6 Mile Gain, Ist Army Advances

EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS CAPTURED MOUNTAIN TOP STRONGPOINT   FIRST ARMY ADVANCED THREE MILES IN NEW OFFENSIVE

Achieve Gains on  2? Sides   20 Six-eugined German Transports Shot Out of Skies

ANNIVERSAR TONE SHOWS NAZI FEARS   German Pesple Told to Be Readv: Naval. Shakeup Made

London Notes Grim Tone  ‘Of Nazi Talks   Diplomatic Circles — Expect Hitler To Make Some Political Move  BOMBAST LEFT OUT

Nazi Triumvirate Show Their Dread  Believe Hitler Was Afraid of Bornbs

Hitler, Goering, Goebbels Sound Only Grim Notes for  Nazis in Berlin Speeches

Nation’s Crops. In General Okay   Drought Hits Southwest, Midwest Rain Excessive

FORCES “FEEL OUT” STRENCTH   Navy Declares Nippon Claims of Sinkings Are “Grossly Exapgerated”

‘No Pitched Battle Yet,’ Knox Says  Parlin Onerationa Stim.      Pacific Operations Simply ‘Feeling Out on Both Sides.’ He Asserts   DENIES JAP CLAIMS   Long. Tough Fight Ahead but Guadalcanal Is Safely Held

Greatest U. S. Naval Force Yet To Engage Japs Believed Moving Into Conflict.

Outcome of Sea-Air Fight May Mark Crucial Point for Control of South Pacific —Historic Siege of Stalingrad Ends with Complete German Defeat

(Heavy U. S. Fleet in Prelim! nary Skirmishes With - Japanese  NEW BID FOR CONTROL  Navy Announees That Both Sides Have Suffered  Losses

‘No Pitched Battle Yet’ Knox Tells Reporters   Tokyo Claims of Having Sunk Five American Warships, Damaged Others, Grossly Exaggerated, ‘Fishing Expedition’   JAP MOVE AT SOLOMONS SEEN   Jap Effort to Regain Entire Solomons _ Area Indicated but Moves and Dispositions Termed Preliminary   No Really Pitched Battle Yet

Believe Japs Attempting to  Retake Island   Knox Says Fighting Has Been a Feeling Out Process  MAY BE CRUCIAL  Jap Claims of Sinkings And Loss Called an Un heeeeth

Extent of Battle Not Revealed By Navy Department; Knox Says “Only Feeler Action so Far”   However, It Is Known That Both Sides Have Concentrated Large Forces in Solomon Area.

MAJOR CLASH NOT STARTED,   Outcome Of Sea-Air Battle May Mark Crucial Point In Drive For Control

Knox Reports “Main Conflict ~ Hasn't Started   Powerful Fleets Are Maneuvering For Best Positions

Major Clash Not Under Way, He Say:   Fighting is Process of Feeling Out On Both Sides

KNOX ASSERTS WAJOR ACTION NOT YET BEGUN   Large American Fleet Units Prepared To Join Battle Against Jap Armada

Knox Says Both Sides Feel Out  Rival’s Strength   Navy Discounts Japan's Claims Of Big Battle

Huge Sea. Battle In Making   Sec. Knox Reports ‘Jap U.S. Forces “Feeling Each Other Out” in  Solamons Skirmichec

Warns Public Not To Get Wrong Impression From Navy Communique OF Late Tuesday   ‘We Completely Dominate Guadalcanal Area, Navy Head Says; Jap Reports Are Termed ‘Fishing Expedition’

Preliminary Fight Of Big Sea Battle   I arge st U.S. Naval Force Yet to Fight Japs Is Indicated in Report of Skirmishes With An Enemy Fleet Of  the Solomons.   Secy. Knox Says There Is a Long, Tough Fight Ahead in Pacific Area

‘Knox Says Both Sides Engaging in Series of “Feeler’ Skirmishes   Tokyo Indicates That Action Ie Heavy

‘Heavy U. S. Fleet in Prelim! inary Skirmishes With Japanese   NEW BID FOR CONTROL   Navy Announces That Both Sides Have Suffered Losses   Starved Into Surrender

Says Japs Are On “Fishing Expedition” Action May Lead  To Major Battle

So Far It’s Not Pitched Battle-Knox   Losses To Both Sides Told By Navy; Report Enemy Attempting To  Cantral Salamons

KNOX REFUTES REPORT FIGHT IS UNDER WAY   Both Sides Engaged in Testing Power of Foe, Is Claim

Knox Denies Big Conflict Underway Now   Increased Activity Is Indication Japs To Try To Retake Vital Solomon Islands

KNOX DENIES MAJOR BATTLE IS UNDER WAY   Many Preliminary Moves Made, Secretary Says   JAP CLAIMS   Of Sinking 2 Battleships, 3 Cruisers Are Grossly Exaggerated

ENEMY. FORCES FEELING OUT HS STRENCTH   Major Clash For Control Of Solomons Refuted By Secretary   PLANES JOIN IN ATTACK   Cabinet Officer Tells Of Long, Hard Fight To Defeat Japs

Secretary Knox Says Major Battle Not In Progress   Clashes In Pacific Ara ‘‘Feeling Out Process’’ He Tells Reporters  ‘SOME LOSSES’ HAVE

No Pitched Battle Is In Progress   Navy Secretary Brands Jap Broadcasts as ““Fish ing Expeditions”

MAJOR U. S. SEA BATTLE IS INDICATED   Largest Force Yet to Fight Japs May Be Involved, Though Knox Says Action So Far Is Only a “Feeler.”

Increased Activity of Japs Indicates Major Effort To Regain Control of Entire Area; Both VU. S. and Enemy Have Suffered Loss es.

KNOX NAILS NAVY CLAIM AF CONTEST   Major Effort Seen To Regain Area By Japan

Knox Says Great Battle For the Solomons Hasn't Developed, But Both Sides Engaging in Feeler Skirmishes

Naval Forces Feel Each Other Out in Solomon Sea Fight   Indicates Japs Seek To Regain Control of Entire Area

Large Naval Forces May Be Involved   Knox Says Navies Still “Feeling Out’ Enemy Strength

Secy. Knox Denies Great Pacific Battle Has Yet Been Joined   Japs Aim To Retake Solomons; Action Believed Near Rennel; MacArthur Playing Vital Role

Knox Denies Pitched Fight  In Solomons   Declares Only Preliminary Moves Now Underway After Communique Reports Increased Activity, Losses on Both Sides In South Pacific.

Real Battle Nof Started as Yet, Knox Says   Navy Secretary Says Japanese on Fishing _ Expedition in Making  Report of All-Out Batti

Huge U. S. Forces Gird For Major Sea Engagements   Knox Reports Such Battle Indicated But No Pitched Fight Has Yet Broken

Big Guns Rumble In Solomons Area   Major Battle Not Begun, Declares Secretary Knox, Softening Navy's Communique Reaardina Tacc..

MAJOR ACTION HAS NOT YET STARTED, KNO?   Incorrect to Assume That Any Ma-   jor Engagement Yet Under Way, Navy Secretary Informs. 

Sec. Knox Says Battle Not At Climax   Describe Fichtine To Date As “Feelers”

Earlier Statement By Navy Had Said _ Losses Suffered ‘By Both Sides

Mighty Force Ready To Heac Off Japanese   Enemy Believed To Be Making A New Thrust At Islands

NIP EFFORT TO REGAIN SOLOMONS INDICATED   Knox Describes Actions As Preliminary Skirmishes   ‘NO SINGLE ENGAGEMENT’   Allied Airmen From Guinea Raid Enemy Bases

Japs Believed In Process Of Fresh Attack   Only Preliminary Sparring Has Taken Place, Says Knox

Fight of f Solomon Islands Only Process Of Feeling out Sides   Any Assumption in Navy’s Tuesday Night Communique of Large Conflict is Incorrect

MAJOR SEA BATTLE BELIEVED BE NEAR IN SOLOMONS AREA  NO MAJOR ENGAGEMENT YET, HOWEVER, SECRETARY KNOX DECLARES

Big Fleets J ockey  For Best Position   Knox Denies Full-Scale Battle — On—Navy Says Enemy Making  New Effort To Regain Solomons

Knox Says Fighting Has Been a Feeling Out Process  MAY BE CRUCIAL  Jap Claims of Sinkings And Loss Called an Untruth

ANCA GAYS U.. AND JAP FORGES STILL SPARRING   Declares That Assumption  That Major Engagement  Is Underway !s Wrong:   Tokyo Fishing Again

YANKS AND JAPS IN FIERCE FIGHT NEAR SOLOMONS   Naval and Aerial Battle Has Not Yet Reached Peak, Knox Says   NIP ASSAULT ANTICIPATED   Losses on Both Sides, But U. S. Casualties Not as Great as Japs Claim

Largest Force Yet Hurled Into Battle Involved   Head Off Japanese Who Launch Huge Offensive Against Solomons

Largest American Force Might Be Involved in Action   Enemy Claims of Sinking U. S. Ships ‘Grossly Exaggerated’

MAJOR FIGHT NOT YET JOINED, KNOX DECLARES   Secretary Denies That Big Conflict Rages In Solomons Area   RUSS SHELLING ROSTOV   British Eighth Army: Takes Zelten—Germans Halt Yank Combat Team

- Both Sides Suffer Losses but Jap Claims -Termed 'Grossly Exaggerated’: U. S. — In Complefe Control of Guadalcanal —

Major Battle  Developing In South Pacific   secretary Knox Says Ficets Have Not Met But Both Are Maneuverina For Positions

NAVY CHIEF CALLS PACIFIC CLASHES MERELY “FEELERS”   Wars Tokyo Announcements Are “Fishing Expeditions;” Says Ameri ee gt

SEA-AIR FIGHT OFF SOLOMONS -{S‘SPARRING   Navy Secretary Asserts Jap and U.S. Warships Making Preliminary   Moves for Fight   DECLARES NIPS ARE ON FISHING TRIP’   Communique Issued By Navy Says Japanese Seeking to Regain Control In Area

Action May Involve Largest United States Naval Fleet Yet To Fight Enemy In Pacific Waters, Report Of Preliminary Skirmishes Indicates — Nipponese Apparently Staging New Effort To Regain Important Islands

Hint That Big Naval Battle. MayBreak Out   dt ls Not True That a Great Big Fight Is Going On’ Knox Announces

Warships Open Preliminary To  Big Engagement   seretary Knox Describes Present Fighting As Process Of Feeling Out On Both Sides With Japs Indicating Intentions To Make Major Effort To Regain Control

Fight May Involve the Largest United States Naval Force Yet to Fight the Japanese.   SECRETARY OF NAVY KNOX GIVES REPORT   Told of Preliminary Skirmishes With an Enemy Fleet Off the Solomon Islands.

Knox Denies ‘Major Fight  In Solomons   “Some losses” reported in series of surface, air actions

Navy Reports Skirmishes With Jap Fleet; Effort To Regain Islands Indicated

Sea-Air Fleets In Contact Off Solomons   Navy Secretary Says ‘Feeling Out Process’ But No Big Battle  Has Yet Taken Place

No ‘Pitehed - Battle Yet Knox States   Secretary Of Navy Says Both Sides Now In ‘Process Of Feeling Out.’   HOLD GUADALCANAL

BOTH SIDES STIL MAKING INITIAL MOVE, HE STATES   Japs Described as “On  Fishing Expedition  For Information;”? New Effort to Retake Islands

KNOX SAYS NO MAJOR CLASH YET REPORTED   U. S. and Jap Fleets Engaged in “Skirmish” Action in Solomons.   NAVY SAYS BOTH SIDES HAVE SUFFERED LOSSES

NAVY EXECUTIVE * ASSERTS ENEMY — “FISHING AGAIN   (vExaggerated Reports of Vic tories Intended to Draw Out U. S. Positions

NO MAJOR FIGHT OFF SOLOMONS, * KNOX DECLARES   Only Feeling Out Process ® Says Navy Secretary in Washington

SEC. KNOX DENIES NAVAL BATTLE RAGES (FF THE SOLOMONS   Describes Engagement. As A Feeling: ‘Out On’ ?Both Sides         JAPS ON “FISHING TRIP’

Japs Sending Big Force to Regain Area   Secretary Knox Reveals Both Sides Conducting “Feeling Out Process”

KNOX oAYS FIGHT NOT YET JOINED   Japs Seen In Major Ef. fort To Recapture Solomons   LOSSES INDICATED   Preliminary Moves Indicated Major Conflict Is Near

Secretary avers pitched sea battle yet to come; Japs ashore on last legs

Only ‘Feeler’ Is Knox’ View of Report by Navy   Early Test of Strength Seen Tokyo Reports Heavy American Losses

Mozdok Has Fallen To Soviets   Russians Drive on In Series of Smashing Attacks

SOVIET ARMY TAKES IMPORTANT MOZDOK WITH “SUDDEN BLOW”   Soviets Push on Beyond Velikie Luki To Cut Rail Line to Leningrad; Nazis Rush Up Reinforcements

Russians Have Broken Nazi Right Spearhead Thrust Through Nalchik In Cauca  sus Front Advance.

German Push Info the Gaucasus Ends   Soviet Forces Cut ‘Railway Line Vital to Nazis

DENT CALLS FOR LIQUOR RATIONS   Urges “Quick and Thor: '- ough Study” - of State Policies

GERMANS ADMIT . THAT BERLIN MAY BEDESTROYED   . Admission Made by Naz Chief Correspondent of European Press 

Berlin May Be Destroyed   Germans Admit Possibility, Still Theaten Reprisals

German Chief Says Total Ruin May Overwhelm Berlin  Nazi Leader Claims New Weapon to Provide Vengeance

Nazis Foresee Destruction Of Reich Capital   German Writer Admit: That Berlin May Be :Made Useless Through Attacks From Air

But That Won’t © Defeat Hitler   Nazis Say Have Secret Weapon Which Will Destrey Britain   BRITISH CAN’T USE A SIMILAR WEAPON

GERMANS ADMIT POSSIBILITY ALLIED PLANES MAY COMPLETELY RUIN BERLIN

ine “i_ion a /on71 Sus “er'0 <0.¢ reac. JOS“s own % Ms _1-0 "-440SI-10N as _ssue GLOWS —07

WHEAT SUBSIDIES PLANNED T0 HOLD DOWN BREAD COSI   Proposal Calls for $9,000,000a-Month Payments to Millers With Ceiling on Hard Grain.   PROGRAM ASSAILED ON CAPITOL HILL   Sen. Reed Hits Scheme as Storm of Protest Against Price Rollbacks Rises to New Furv.

Nine-Million-a-month Plan Awaits Only Signature Of Vinson. Capitol Hears

Sweeping Wheat Subsidy Plan — Stirs Broadside   Program Slated to Cost Nine Million A Month Waits Vinson’s Name; Kansas Senator Leads Opposition

New Plan Adds Fuel To Fire In Subsidy Battle   Proposed Drive On Bread Prices Sets . OLE Haauwy Atteclec

Subsidy Storm NowRevolving  On Bread Plar   Alternative to Federal Financial Help Said Retail Price Hike

SUBSIDY PLAN BATTLE RISES “TO NEW FURY   Bread Price Program Stirs Up New Storm OF Protest

‘BREAD SUBSIDY UNDER ATTAGK OF LEGISLATORS   Administration Plan Calls For Expenditure Of $9,000,000 Monthly   FARM OFFICIALS IN STERN OPPOSITION

PRICE OF BREAD SUBSIDY FOUGHT   Storm Of Farm Protests Against Food Program Reaches New Fury

BREAD COST FOOD SIBSBY FURY RISES   Broad Program Hits Farm, Congrote Snags

Bread Subsidy Plan Meets Opposition   New Program Awaits Only Signature of Vinson; Protests Against Food Payment Idea Rise to New Fury on Capitol Hill

Subsidy Battle Fury Mounts   Bread Price Proposal Strongly Opposed

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Defeatism In Nazi Army Ranks Not Apparent Despite All Claims

Interoreting e War   Russian Stories of Surrenders by Nazis Significant

Allied Air Force Keeping Japs Off Balance in South   Surprise and Daring of Attackers Confuses Nipponese

Growers Pleased By 43 Cent Leaf  ‘Opening Average “Upening g   ‘Prices Soar 10 and 15  Cents Over Last Year's  Opening Average. Of ferings Light.

Geogia, Florida Tobacco Growers Elated As Prices Soar Above Prices In ’42

Deep South Tobacco Opening ‘Prices Soar From 10 To 15 ‘Cents Higher Than Last Year   Average For Day On Georgia-Florida Markets Exceeds Ceiling Of 41 Cents

SENATE MAY BACK UNIONS   WHEELER ENDORSES INCREASE FOR RAIL WORKERS AND COMMITTEE APPROVAL J. SEEN

SENATE TO BACK RAIL WORKERS   Approval Seen For Eight Cent Hourly Increase In Wage Scale

Flynn Alttests Honesty as Hearing Ends  Sonata Radw Gate   Senate Body Sets Wednesday Ballot on Envoy

HEARING ENDS IN FLYNN CASE   Former Demo Chairman Says Career Has Been Honorable

Flynn Upholds  His Selection   Envoy-Nominee Cites His Regard For FDR; Quiz Comes ‘To Close

Senafors Weigh Flynn's Fitness For Envoy Post  cae Admits He Is judiced’  Against Nets

Flynn Hearing Concluded; LaGuardia Refuses to Express His Opinion

FLYNN HEARING COMES TO END IN WASHINGTON      LaGuardia Declines To Express Opinion On Flynn’s Appointment

EDWARD FLINN HEARING END: DECISION HANGS   Political Foe, LaGuardia, Declines Any Opinion On Envoy Fitness

Flynn Tells Committee He Would Never Let : FDR Appoint Him If Any Dishonor Attached Him

Flynn Hearing Concluded By U.S. Senate  Democrat Defends His Appointment; Cheered Ry Anudianra

SENATE CLOSES FLYNN HEARING   Democratic Leader Avers His Past Life Free From Dishonorable Acts

Airfield Ready Within 4 Days   Secretary Of Navy Says Losses On Gilbert Not Received Yet.

Yank Air Field  On Tarawa   Four Days After Making First Landing

U. S. Planes Already Using Gilberts’ Bases; Shift in Wind Blamed fer Heavy Losses

Air Field In Use In 4 Days  A WinhiaAnwe Mnwocd Raat   Americans Moved Fast After Taking Tarawa

Four Perish as ~ Cottage Burns  At Rock Rapids   Believe Father Died in Attempt to Save Wife,  Two Children

4 IOWANS ARE FATALLY BURNED   Father Perished Trying  to Rescue Family

LABOR DEMANDS ACTION BY OPA   Leaders Call for Rollback of Prices or Removal Of Prentiss Brown

Labor Serves Ultimatum On Price Rollback   Will Demand Removal Of Brown, Scrapping Of Wage Formula

LABOR HEADS WARN THEYRE AFTER BROWN   Food Price Rollback Is Demanded

) Labor Leaders Serve Ultimatum On OPA Rollback   Seek Scalp Of Director Brown, "Little Steel" Wage Formula

musctare Get $8   Bob Hope Arrives in  se -¢ ew   Roll Back Prices or Scrap ‘Little Steel’ Plan—Murray

LABOR DEMANDS INFLATION CURB   UNION CHIEFS POINT TO, HIGHER COSTS OF LIVING, FROZEN PAY

LABOR DEMANDS CONGRESS ADOPT ROLL-BACK PLAN   CIO’s Murray Asks Approva Of Subsidy Program Before July 15

Labor Heads Seek Scalp of OPA Chieti   GREEN AND MURRY CONFER WITH PRESIDENT AND PRESENT DEMANDS.) FO ROLL BACK OF PRICES.   Prices Soaring

PRICE ULTIMATUM SERVED BY LABOR   AFL AND CIO’ WANT ¥OOD COSTS CUT OR CURB ON “WAGES REMOVED.

Labor Demands Cost Reduction  Murray Says Rollback Of Prices Mandatory

Green Issues Ultimatum or Food Prices   Says Unless Prices Are Brought Down Organized Labor Will Have to Demand Wage Increases

Union Heads Demand Roliback  Or The Removal Of OPA Chiet   Labor Leaders Confer With Roosevelt —- Demand Scrapping of “Little Steel” Formula to Prevent Waae Increases

ClO BACKS ROLLBACK LAN, SAYS MURRAY   Congress Warned Drastic Action Necessary

REL MAY SEEK HIGHER WAGES   Will Take Action If Prices of Food Are Not Decreased

Murray Says Labor Wants FoodPriceCut   Alternative Will Be Demand to Scrap Little Steel Pian, He Warns

Inflation Control Fails Says Green   Labor Chief Says Waaes Must Rise

Ultimatum Is Issued  By Labor   Price Rollbacks Are Demanded By Chiefs

Organized Labor to Demand Removal of OPA Brown and Scrapping Little Steel Plan

Union Leaders Demand Lower Cost of Living   Green and Murray Plan To Ask Scalp of Prentiss. Brown

Labor Men Serve Notice On Brown   Administrator And Little Steel To Be Invited Out-Unless

LABOR TO DEMAND BROWN’S REMOVAL    Union Heads Serve Notloe lt Prices Are Not Rolled Back

Rollback  Demanded hy Lakor   Green and Murray Issue Statement After Mecting With Roosevelt   MUST CUT PRICES  OR BOOST WAGES   Otherwise, Removal of OPA Head and Little Steel Pay Formula Is Demanded

LABOR TO DEMAND DUSTER OF BROWN IF PRICES STAY UP   Green and Murray Also Want Little Steel Formula Scrapped After White House Parley.

Labor Gives Price Control Ultimatum   CIO Threatens To Demand Scrapping Little Steel Formula

Threaten Labor Revolt   Will Demand Scrapping Of Little Steel For- .  mula Unless Steps Are Taken to Reduce Prices

LABOR FEDERATION HEAD IN ULTIMATUM TO ADMINISTRATION  UNLESS FOOD PRICES  LOWERED WAGE INCREASES RE DEMANDED

FOR THE ROLL BACK   CIO Serves Notice That Food Costs Must Be Lowered

Urges Price Plan Action   CIO President Gives Congress Until July 15 For  Roll-Back Program.

Murray Demands Price Roll-Back   Otherwise Wages ‘Must’ Be Increased

CUT FOOD PRICES,  AFL CHIEF WARNS   Wage Increases Needed to Offset Inflation, William Green Declares.

Munda Capture Not Far Away Halsey States   U. §. Bombers Batter Japanese With Heaviest Attack Of Pacific.   AUSSIES TURN ATTACK   Unions Demand Price Rollback   —  Will Want Removal Of Brown If Sept. 15, 1942 Level Is Not Taken.

Unions Demand Price Rollback   A.F.L. and C. 1. 0, Serve Ultimatum

2 Labor Chiefs Ask ‘Roll-Back’  Or Fire Brown   Green, Murray Confer With FDR, Protest

Labor to Seek Wace Boost   Demand Roll-back and Subsidy or Scrapping Of “Little Steel” Plan

Gust GPA Chief, Says Labor, Or Cut Prices  Notice Served  - Brown Has  Pe a ee ie eee ee

CIO Says Halt Prices Or Else—   Murray Demands Action -Or Union Will Seek to Scrap Agreements

Labor Ultimatum On Food Prices Served On OPA   ‘Brown’s Scalp And Little Steel Wage CArmil>n At Stalea

LABOR CHIEFS MAKE DEMANG   Will Ask Removal of Brown If Prices Are Not Rolled Back.   CONTEND WAGES FROZEN

LABOR MAY DEMAND THE REMOVAL OF PRENTISS BROWN   Will Ask Action If Prices Are Not Rolled Back to Sept. 15, 1942 Level.   HELD MEETING TODAY   Labor Heads Joined in the Statement After the Conference.

INSIST UPON CUT IN PRICES   To Demand Brown’s Removal, Scrapping of Little Steel Formula if Sept. 15, 1942, Level Is  -- Not Met.

LABOR CHIEFS DEMAND QUICK ‘CUT IN PRICES   May Ask Brown Oust. er and End of “Little Steel’? Formula   Big Reservoir of Buying  Power Created in U. §

Labor Issues.  ~ Two Demand:   Removal of Price Administrator and Scrapping of Little Steel Formula Sought

AFL, ClO Wants Brown's Scalp o1 Price Roll Back  Demand End of   Demand End of Little Steel Wage Curb Formula

Green, Murray Warn FDR on Price Boosts; Ask Rollbacks   Threaten Action Against ‘Little Steel’ Plan, OPA Chief

INFLATION HITS U. S. WORKERS   AFL MAY DEMAND HIGHER WAGES TO MEET RISING COSTS

Roll Back or Scrap Order tc Hold the Line   That Is Ultimatum Delivered Congr7:s By Philip Murray for Organized Labor

FOOD PRICES MUST BE LOWERED-GREEN   AFL Head Says That Am“erica Is Losing Fight Against Inflation.

UNION LEADERS WILL DEMAND BROWN’S SCALF   Green And Murray Tel President They Want Prices Rolle? Back   “LITTLE STEEL” PLAN ALSO UNDER ATTACK

BROWN’S REMOVAL   Union Heads Serve Notice If Prices Are Not Rolled  ck

Unions Demand Rollback Of Food Prices, Threaten To Get OPA Boss’ Scalp

ClO Head Urges Food Price Action   Will Demand Scrapping of Hold Line Order, Murray Warns

CIO DEMANDS ‘ROLLBACK’ OR PAY INCREASES   Murray Tells Congress Committee No Gther Course Possible I Price Line Not Held

Union Leaders to Demand Scalp of Prentiss Brown : Unless Nation’s Food Prices Undergo Prompt Rollback

National Leaque   Labor Demands Rollback Or Prentiss Brown's Head

SERVES NOTICE   ClO Chief Asks Subsidies o1 Scrapping of Wage Formula.

THREE BURNED. IN FOREST FIRE   Youths Trapped in Truck in New Jersey Out break.

ine Showing Is Made Here  unty Raises $1,584,075 Over ota in Second War Loan Drive

Currency In Post-War Era Based On Gold   Treasury Plans To Stabilize Exchange Revealed At Hearing

TELL SENATORS CURRENCY PLAN   ‘International Stabilization On Basis of Gold Is Proposed.   ‘TO BE BASED ON GOLD

Stabilization Plan Drafted   Morgenthaw Outlines Propesal te Senators; 34 Netions lacluded

Port Allegany Youth Killed   Sgt. Alfred O. Brockel Killed in Italy Oct. 3

Port Allegany Youth Killed   Sgt. Alfred O. Brocke Killed in Action in Italy on October 3

BOB FELLER ATTENDS FATHER’S FUNERAL   To Wed Miss Virginia Winther Saturday Evening

FINLAND ABOUT  READY TO DROP OUT OF WAR   Finns Hope United States Will Help Her Come to Terms With Her Enemy, Russia

‘FINLAND INDICATING PLAINLY THAT SHE IS TIRED OF WAR AND 'HOPES U. S. WILL AID IN TERMS

FINLAND IS READY TO DROP OUT OF WAR Would Make Terms With Russia

FINLAND READY TO QUIT FIGHT AGAINST REDS   Hopes United States Can Help Her Come to Terms With Her Chief En emv. Russia   NOT AXIS PARTNER   Spokesmen Insist She Is Having No Part In Hitler’s Megalomaniac Attempt for New Order

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Finland Ready To Quit War, Resting Peace Hopes On U.S.

Nazi Looting Of Europe Is Described As Most Ruthless Of All Time

NAZIS LOOT ALL OCCUPIED EUROPE   Warfare Board Estimates 36 Billion Dollar Vatue at Close of 1941.

BEW Condemns Nazi Looting   Germans Grab Wealtt of Occupied Europe

Surpasses in “Magnitude and Ruthlessness” All Previous Conquests. Board of Economic Warfare Declare; Estimated Germany Has Plindered $36.000,000,000 by End of 1941

Ruthless Looting Of Occupied Europe Has Already Netted Germany Many Billions

N azis Looting  Eur ope Of 36 Billions   Art Treasures, Money, Machinery, Feople, Sent Back To Germany

GERMANS LOOT TAKEN LANDS   Plunder - Surpasses All Previous History Conquests

German Looting of Occupied Europe Sur passes All Previous Conquests in History of World

GERMANY’S LOOT WORTH BILLIONS   BEW Figures Nazis Plundered 536 Billion by End Of "41 in Europe

NAZI ACTIVITY CALLED GREATEST -STEAL IN HISTORY   Europe Being Looted of Tens of Billions In Property Every Year.

NAZI GERMANY IS LOOTING EUROPE OF BILLIONS PER YEAR   Accumulated Wealth O£ Centuries Taken Back To Reich—Industries  Under Control]

Nazis Looting Of Europe Most Ruthless Of All In History   Magnitude Of Plunder Staggering, Say Report; Billions Are Stolen

REDS CONTINUE DON ADVANCES   13 More Towns Captured In Drive Towards Rostov

VITAL ENEMY JUNCTION IS THREATENED   Thirteen More Nazi-Held Settlements in North Caucasus Are Recaptured   VAST STORES TAKEN

Reds Retake 13 Towns in North Caueasus Area   Repel German Wedge Driven Into Central Front

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH DOWN DON   Other Units Threaten to En: circle German-Held Railroad Junction

Russians Score Fresh Triumphs   Gain In North Caucasus -And Central Fronts

Reds Capture 13 Villages In New Push   Encirclement Of Rostov Is New Russian Strategy

SOVIET FORCES SEIZE 13 MORE TOWNS FROMFOE   Recaptures From Germans  Take Place In North  Caucasus Area of Georgievsk   NAZISALIENT MOVE BROKEN BY RUSSIANS   Meanwhile, Advance of Reds Down Lower Don Continues Despite Counter-Attacks

Russian Advance Continues   Soviets Capture More Towns in Caucasus;. Nazi Counter Attack On Don:Front Repulsed

Russians Break German Thrust Moscow Reports   13 Settlements Taken From Enemy By Fighting Reds

Russians Take 13 Settlements  From Germans Rising Fury Of Defense Indicates Nazis Are Aware Of Disaster  e*aen  Theeateninea Th

SOVIETS SEIZE 13 SETTLEMENTS IN CAUCASUS   GERMANS IN SLIGHT GAIN ON CENTRAL FRONT, REDS ADMIT

German-Held Rail Junction ls Imperiled   Hitlerites Making Desperate Efforts To Block Drive On Rostov

CAPTURE 13 MORE TOWNS IN CAUCASUS   Railroad Junction Threatened; Nazis Beaten In North

Reds Take 13 Settlements in Caucasus; Continue Their Advance Toward Rosto\

13 SETTLEMENTS TAKEN BY THE RED ARMY IN ITS DRIVE   Continues Its Drive in the North Caucasus, It Is Said.   NAZI SALIENT BROKEN   Advance Down the Lower Don Continued Despite Efforts to Block it.

SOVIET ADVANCE BEING CONTINUED DOWN LOWER DONE   RED ARMIES SEIZED THIRTEEN ADDITIONAL TOWNS IN NORTH CAUCASUS

REDS SEIZE LARGE ARE FROM NAZIS   Georgievsk Facing Trap As Soviets” ~ Press Foe

REDS SUIZE 13 MORE. VILLAGES IN CAUCASUS   German Held Rail Junction At Georgievsk "Chreatened With  Encirclement

EDa Sele Wd SETTLEMENTS   Russians Break German Thrust Into Positions on Central Front.   I MOVE TOWARD KEY CITY

13 Additional Settlements Are Oceunied   Advance On Don Con. tinues Against Strong: er Resistance

WAR ANALYST EXPLAINS EIGHTH [ARMY'S SETBACK IN-ATTACK ON 'MARETH TINE IS NO SURPRISE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   General Patton Holding Key To Nazi Debacle On Tunisian Front

U.S. Guns Shell ‘Airfield Only 22 ‘Miles From Coast    The War Today  Patton’s Tank Troopers May Hold Key To Rommel’s Defeat In Tunisia

The War Today   2 2 ee we OR; oti ee cae I eee ee Oh     Montgomery’s Showing in Tanicia Considered Excellent

MONTOONIERY' sTBACK NOT xis vicTaR   Analyst Says It Is° Nothing To Be Alarmed at But That Developments on the Whole Encouraging

NANCY HOLT OPENS BATTLE FOR LIFE   Oklahoma Widow Charged With Poisoning Her Husband

HAVE 193 VOLUNTEERS   ae  Blood Donors  Will Be Enrolled in  Lawrence All Next W eck

HAVE 193 VOLUNTEERS   Blood Donors Will Be Enrolled in ! Lawrence All Next Week

‘ALL CANNED GOODS MUST BE REPORTED   Emergency Stocks Not Exempted.

Special Coupons For Restaurant  Small Eating Places To Have New System

USE BLOCK BUSTERS ON NAPLES      Follow Raid On Italian City with Others on Sicily

British Bombers Find Italian Port Defenses Weak   RAF Carries Out Hard Raid: On Nazi Rail Lines;  London Bombed

2-TON BOMBS tll ~ NAPLES, RAID IS WITHOUT CONTES!   Destruction of 77 Jap Planes Damaging of 12 Others fs Worst Air Beating to Be Given Enemy.   RED TROOPS SEIZE TRENCHES OF ENEM'   Japanese Medical Officer: End Lives of Their Wound ed Soldiers Whe Are Un fit For Fighting.

AIRDROMES IN SICILY   Blockbusters Result In Huge Damage To Italian Port

NAPLES ROCKED IN MOONLIGHT BY RAF BOMBER‘   Sicily Still Getting Brunt of Allied Air Blows, How aver

2-Ton Bombs Wreek Main Italy Harbor   No Opposition; Egypt Command Again BPiacte Qinthe

‘Naples is Rocked by Block Busters   Wellingtons Meet Little Onnosition

Nazis Threaten To Murder Our Fliers   Indicate Approval Of Jap Executions

NAZI WAY EXECUTE AMERICAN AIRMEN   Berlin Hints Punishment Probable For Captives

Germans May Also Punish Allied Fliers   Nazie Hint They May Follow Jap Tactics Of Captured Fliers

NAZIS THREATEN AMERICAN AIRMEN      Severe Punishment Or Even Execution Hinted For Prisoners

Train Derailed At Bluewater   Freight Cars Tear Up Track, Delay Service

AAA Committee For County Namec In Saturday Meet   Community Committeemen For Eight Areas In County Selected On November 19

COUNTY AND COMMUNITY AAA COMMITTEEMEN ELECTED FOR 1944   All County Committeemen Were Re-elected With Harry Eckhardt as Chairman

FORMER OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY   Accused of Taking Bribe For Clemency For Convicted Murderer

“Pick-Up” Girls Of Teen Age Are  Serious Problem   Growth of Juvenile Delinquency in U.  Reported by OWI

Refuse Release Of Documents to Probing Group   President Turns Down Congress Committee Investigating Com.  munications Commission

STATE SEEKS TO NULL AND Voip HART MARRIAGE   Attorney General wn File Actlor In the Cooper County Cir. “ewe Caurt,

OHIO IS OFFERED JAPANESE WORKERS   Evacuees May Be Placed ir Industry

List The Return Of Beaverbrook  To Government   Recall Seen Designed To Strengthen Direction Of Postwar Planning

Peer Named Privy Seal.   Britain Strengthens Hand for Peace Table

Ae. eel : Se, Rs  AIR BASE   Beaverbrook Back In British Cabinet

Beaverbrook ‘Gets War Jot   Churchill Names Him  © Ay Lord Privy Seal

Churchill Calls Beaverbrook To Cabinet Post   Publisher Is Friend Of Russia, Advocate Of ‘Second Front’

Beaverbrook Is Returned To Cabinet   Shakeup Places Advocate of 2nd Front in Office

Beaverbrook Is Back In  — Government   Critic Returns to British Cahinet After Being Out For 20 Months

BEAVERBRUOK IN CABINET   LORD PRIVY SEAL NAMED IN BRITISH RESHUFFLE

LORD BEAVERBROOK AGAIN BACK. IN BRITISH CABINET   Publisher - Returns After 2¢ Months in a Shuffle Intended to Strengthen Govern emcee: *

Beaverbrook Is Called Back To British Cabinet   Shuffle Is Designed To Strengthen Government For Postwar Planning.

PUT BEAVERBROOK BAGK IN GABINE]   PUBLISHER, A WARM FRIEND OF RUSSIA, RETURNS AS LORD PRIVY SEAL,

Beaverbrook Has Place In British Cabinet Again   Proponent For Second Front In Europe Lord Privy Seal

BRITAIN'S CABINET UNDERGOES CHANGE   Designed — To. _ Strengthen _ Setup. For Post- War ; *» “Planning (0°

Beaverbrook Back  In British Cabinet  ‘Becomes Lord Privy Seal  In Setup

BEAVERBROOK AGAIN ENTERS BRITISH REGIME   Returns After Twenty Months As Lord Privy Seal in Cabinet Shuffle

Beaverbrook s Returned To British Cabinet   Service Journal Urges  Wider MacArthur Command

BEAVERBROGK IN BRI FISH CABINE! AFTER 20 MONTHS   Most Vociferous Govern: ment Critic Returns Tc Cabinet of Churchill A: Lord Privy Seal; Will Help Prime Minister with Special Work.

Beaverbrook Returns to Cabinet; Is Noteworthy as Exponent of Second Front; Other Changes Made

BEAVERBROOK BACK IN WAR EABINET!=   Returns as Lord Privy Seal in Prime Minister, Churchill’s War Group

NEW SECURITY PLAN OUTLINED   Department of Labor Proposes Liberal Benefits

Broadened Social Security Plan  To Be Presented  Described By Secretary As Providing New and

DRAFT OFFERS MORE BENEFIT   Labor Secretary Will Submit Plan To President

BRAND NEW ‘ISTS’ REPLACE OLD ONES IN MACKINAC DELEGATES’ VOCABULARY

Opposition. Of Roosevelt To Incentive Pay Wanes From Position Year Ago

F.R. Dropping Fight Against  Incentive Pay   May Be Given A Trial In Nation’s Aircraft Plants; Production Of  Manitiane Viewed   Objected Year Ago

War Production Board to Confer With Labor and Industry to Work Out Scheme      TO SPEED OUTPUT   Inauguration of Program Studied After Roosevelt Drops His Opposition to Bonuses

Pay Incentive For Industry Seems Likely   Roosevelt Appears To Have Withdrawn His Objections

FDR DROPS HIS OPPOSITION TO INCENTIVE PAY   WPB Will Try to Work Out Plan For Increased Munitions Production

PLAN BONUS PRODUCTION “INCENTIVE”   President. Believed to Have Withdrawn Earl. ier Opposition.   PURPOSE TO BOOST MUNITION OUTPUT   Plan to Be Tried First on Aircraft Industry.

“BONUS” PAY TO BE GIVEN IN WAR WORK      Plan to Be Worked Out to Boost Munitions Output, Amid Signs F. D. R. Has Withdrawn His Objections to Idea.

FOR Reported Dropping Opposition To Bonus Pay Plan; May Be Triad

Report President Drops Resistance To Incentive Pay   Exnect Aircraft Factories fants Used In Trying Out Program

JAP TEXTILES TO BE MOVED INTO CHINA   TO USE NATURAL RESOURCES AND LABOR SUP PLY BERLIN SAYS

Report Japan Planning To Move Part Of Textile ‘Industry To China

SERVICE BANS   Congress Ponders Barrier: To Men in Uniform Running for Office

Soldiers’ Vote Poses Problems   Conaress Seeking Election System

Can Uniformed Men Run for Public Office? That's One of Tough Problems Facing Congress

U.S. Troops Head for  Messina   Axis Defenders Caught in Trap; Still Hold Catania

University Of lowa Professor Forum Speaker  Will Address Next Session To Be  Held Wednesday

SEVERE OTORM th ~GLEVELAND AREA   Two Persons Killed, Hund: reds Injured; Property : * Damaded.

STORM SLASHES THROUGH OHIO   > Killed, Many Hurt as Gale Lashes Northeastern Part of State

Ohio Wind Storm Kills 2, Causes Heavy Damage   Hundreds Of Others Injured; Worst Since 1942 Tornado.

TWO KILLED, MANY HURT IN STORM   Twister Sweeps Destructive Path In Part Of Ohio

t6@ Jen Pianes Dewned   Ohio Storm Kills 2, Injures Hundreds, Damages Plants

Two Killed In Ohio Wind Storm   Damage Estimated To Run Into Thousands

Two Orphans Killed in Barn Near Medina and Injured Pour Into Hospitals—Cleveland and Akron War Plants Suffer Heavy Damage—Homes Are Wrecked

NAZI FORCES TRAPPED IN BIG MARSHES   Germans Trying to Gain Initiative In White Russia

GERMANS IN MOVE TO SAVE FORGES TRAPPED BY REDS      Reds Retain : Initiative . In Lower White Russia But Advances Are Slowed Up By Enemy Forces.   OUTNUMBERED YANKS BEAT BACK GERMANS   British Eighth Army Forces Retreat of Nazi After Bitter Battle, 1000 Prisoners, Many Dea”

NAZIS ARE TRAPPED IN PRIPET AREA   Germans Swing Northward For Rescue Attempt

TRAPPED IN PRIPET AREA   Germans Swing Northward For Rescue Attempt

German Force: Try Rescue In White Russia   Troops In Kiev Sector Swing Northward To Hit Reds

MANY NAZIS ARE TRAPPED IN MARSHES   Troops Who Stalled Reds Near Kiev May Try Rescue

Germans Swing Northward To Stop Gomel Rout   Reds Consolidating Positions In Area of Pripet Marshes

NAZIS TO TRY RESCUE MOVE   Forces at Kiev Reported Swinging to North

REDS CAPTURE NOVOROSSISK   Sea Borne Troops  Take Base  Russians Advance on  Kiev

ARTHUR BAZ HED TUESDAY   Arcadia Man Vict'm of Ma. - lignant Trouble; Funeral Wednesday.

ARTHUR BAITZ icb TUESDAY   Arcadia Man Vict m of Malignant Trouble; Funeral Wednesday.

KRUPP WORKS SHATTERED   Accomplished In Six Bit Air Raids, Sinclair Reports

AXIS CONVOYS HIT BY YANK BOMBERS   Roads on Sicily Littered With Truck Wreckage

Allied Planes Riddle Axis “Rover Convoys”   Fly Low, Machine Gun Convoys Seeking To Move Suppiles Over Sicily

Ickes Chief of Solid Fuel Body   President Announces New Administration

llitary Parade  tarts Program Of ‘Victory Day Crowd Well Ahead  Of Year Ago; Big Parade Today

PRESIDENT ATTENDS. A MILITARY SCHOOL      Sees Base Where Teachers Are Experts in Murder, and Students Toss Grenades.

MOTHERS HAIL  OVERNIGHT  COLD MISERY      QUICK WELCOME RELIEF FOR UPSET STOMACH

Axis Line Trembles in Blows   SOVIET FORCES SWEEP THOUGH DEFENSES FOR HEART OF KEY CITY

URNS AGAIN VERY HEAVY RING NIGHT   's Rained on Devastated ;Other German Cities ry, American Heavy

HOUSE OVERRIDES NEELY'S VETO Of TAX REPEAL BILL   Senate Expected to Follow House Action Today; Make The Bill a Law   GOVERNOR SENDS STIFF NOTE TO LEGISLATORS   Delegate Ross Leads Vigorous Fight in House in Support of Governor's Stand; Neely Lists Alternative Tax Reducing Methods

House Overrides Tax  Repeal Veto 76 to 17   Senate Expected To Follow ‘Today By Voting Tc Abolish Personal Income Levy In Spite Of Governor’s Opposition

EIGHTH ARMY GROSSES THE SANGRO RIVER   ‘Troops Establish Bridgehead 9,000 Yards Wide and 2,000 Yards Deep  in Face of Ferocious  Enemv Fire.  t 

MONTGOMERY'S ARMY GROSSES SANGRO RIVER   British Forces Slash Part o Hitler’s Line in Italian Campaign

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S  EIGHTH ARMY FIGHTS  WAY ACROSS RIVER DETERMINED DRIVE  CRACKS PIECE OUT OF GERMAN WINTER LINE

British Retain Grip On Position In Furious Fight   Gains Made Despite Ferocious Fire And Rain-Swojlen Stream:

Dent' Is Carved in Nazi Winter ‘Line   Eighth Army Crosses San gro River Against Fierce Opposition.   DRIVE NEAR ADRIATIC   Montgomery Makes Progress in Opening “Back Door to Rome”

BRITISH BATTER ACROSS SANGRO RIVER DEFENSE   Crack Piece Out of Hitler's Winter Line in Italian Battles

8th Army Cracks Winter Defense  Line Of Germans   Cross Sangro River, Toughest Obstacle Yet; Bridgehead Is Established

British Slash Way Over Toughest Of Nazis’ Hurdles  Ferocious Fire Fails To Keep Forces From Crossing River

BRITISH GROS SANGRO RIVER   Advance Puts Crack In Nazi Defense Line

Allies Crack Nazi Line on Sanaro River   Eighth Army Breaks Through, Estoblishes Wide Bridgehead

Violence Spreads Through Holland:  Nazis Are Defied  Railroads Wrecked:. Fuel Dumps Are Set On Fire

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   How Our War Bonds Pave Road To Final Victory Is Fascinating Story

MACKENZIE URGES PURCHASE OF WAR BONDS   To Assure Necessary Equipment and Supplies For Fichting Men

WAR ANALYST TURNS TO TALK ABOUT GREAT VALUE TO U.S. AND WORTD OF BUYING BONDS

\Allied Troops Are Rushed 1To Victory on War Bonds  Equipment Needed to Win Battles

The War Today   — a eee  Bonds Buy Equipment Which Helps Fighting Men Reat Rammel

OUR TROOPS IN TUNISIA ARE RIDING TO VICTORY ON THE DOLLARS YOU INVEST IN WAR BONDS: MORE MONEY 1S NEEDED

1. he War 1 oday—  Mackenzie Tells From Battlefront - Experience Where Bond Money Goes

fhe War foday— Mackenzie Tells F rom Battlefront Experience Where Bond Money Goes

Aerial Offensive On Germany Into Fourth Day   American Operations Against Frankfur Other Targets Account for 75 Nazi Planes; Fighters Guard Forts

Aerial Offensive On Germany Into Fourth Day   American Operations Against Frankfurt, Other Targets Account for 75  Rien” Dilemmas: Dinhktare Ciumrd Fartce

Munda Fight Over As Yanks Occupy New Georgia Base   Organized Jap Resistance Ends, MacArthur Communique States; Jenlaited Remnants Hnnted Doun

Airport Fell Thursday, Base Today—Rest of Nips are Now Doomed.ta Die.

Japanese Garrison Of 5000 Japanese - Being Annihilated   MacArthur Announces Capture; 1,671 Japs Killed; Remnants Face Annihilation » As American Troops Close In

MARTHUR'S MEN SLAY 1,671 JAPS IN ISLAND BATTLE   Enemy Stronghold in Central Solomons Collapses  38 Days After Invasion  by Americans.

FURTHER JAP RESISTANCE IS SMASHEL   American Triumph Comes Year, Lacking Day, After Opening Campaign.

ORGANIZED JAP RESISTANCE AT END, IS REPORT   Yanks Mop Up Isolated Enemy Groups, Find 1.671 Dead

UTHER REMNANTS OF GARRISON ARE BEING DESTROVEE   American Jungle Troopt Opened Campaign Upoi Once Largest Jap Airbas: 38 Days Ago.   ENEMY ABANDONS BIG STORE OF SUPPLIE!   Tokyo Radio Says Planes Ar: “Latest and Best” Witl Ceaseless Bombardmen' on Position.

hemnants ot Carrison Being Destroyed   Announcement of ; Conquest Made by Cen. MaeArthur

BATTLE FOR VITAL ENEMY GARRISON 1S NOW COMPLETE      1,671 Jap Troops Of Estimated 5,090 Defenders Killed—All Organized Resistance At Base  Has Ceased

ANTERICAN TROOPS ULL 1.671 APS ~INTAKING MUNDA    Enemy “i tbhase Wes  Once Larges in Solomons  ION STARTED SEVERAL DAY S$ AGO

1,671 Japanese Killed In Assault On Air Base   RETREAT CUT OFF   Encircling Move Traps Remnants Of Enemy Defenders

‘Remnants of Garrison Cut Down   Airfield Seizure First Major Win In Roll-Back Drive

Japs Being Mopped Up And 1,671 Dead Found: Island Invaded Year Ago

Japanese ~ Resistarice Has Ceased              ‘MUNDA IS NOW IN OUR HAND:  SAYS SPECIAL COMMUNIQUE FROM MacARTHUR; GIVES ALLIES IMPORTANT AIRFIELD

Communique  Announces Fall Of Jap  Fort   “More Than 1,600 Enemy Dead: ‘Already. Counted By Yanks

KILL 1,671 NIPS; LAST DEFENDERS BEING CRUSHED   Prize Enemy Strong-hold Falls One Year After Americans Began Guadalcanal Campaign.

1,671 Japs Die In Defense of Strategic Base   Yanks Mopping Up Remnants of Central Solomons Garrison

YanksComplete Occupation Of Munda Airbase   "(671 Japanese Dead Are Countec p As Campaign Reaches Climax; All! Oraanized Resistance Ceases 

ALL ORGANIZED RE SISTANCE ENDS ON NEW GEORGIA   Action Now Limited to Destruction of Isolated Enemy Groups,-—1671 Jap Dead Colleeled, Communinne Save

Yanks Launch New Offensive Against Germans in Italy   Eighth Army Passes Sangro River Line; Russians Seize 80 More Towns Northwest of Gomel

Fifth Army Opens New Offensive   Red Army Captures 80 More. Towns Northwest of Gomel, Drives Nearer to Zhamenka

RUSSIANS SMASH OUT NEW ADVANCES WHILE FIGHTING GOES ON WITH GREAT FEROCITY

Grand Jury Probe Into Coal Strike May Close Today   International Board Mem. ber, Rank-And-File Yet To Testify

loday’s War Commentary  Bastille Day   French Keep Flame Of Liberty Burning

Warrants Issued At  La Crosse   Mrs. Kidder Hopes Tx Recover At Least Part Of $6,385 Turned Ove: To Ross Hastings

American Legion District Conference Here Thursday   Chariton Gun Club Site of Mecting; Several Hun- dred Expected.

FIFTH DISTRICT CONFERENCE OF LEGION CONVENES      Meet at Chariton Gun Club Quarters This Afternoon and Evening.

Delegates Vote $8 a Day Scale. To Clerical Staff   Vote Down Plan to Increase Number of Employees

MOVE TO CUT $8 CLERK PAY BEATEN   BUT ATTEMPTS TO ENLARGE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PAY ROLLE FAIL.

senators rlay Subsidy Plans, Price Rollback   Regimentation Of Farmers Seen As Outcome OF Plan

Battle Breaks Qut in Senate Over Subsidies   Byrd Savs Food Price Rollback Will Cost $5,.000.000,000 and  Lead to Regimentation

Prediction That Subsidy Payments Will Mean Complete Regimentation Of Farmer Heard on Senate Floor

Senate Battles Over Subsidies   Farmer Regimenutation , ae ao: oF

FOOD SUBSIDY PAYMENTS RAPPEL   CRITICISM FLARES IN SENATE DEBATE—BYRD PUTS COST AT 5 BILLION.

SUBSIDY PLANG DRAW GRITIGIoN   Battle Against Payment on Food Products Erupts in Senate; Rollback to Bring Regimentation, Declared

CONGRESS IO NAL SUBSIDY SATTLE BEING FOUGHT   Regimentation Of Farmers And Processors Is Be ing Predicted _

Senate Battles Against Subsidy Price Payments  Regimentation of Farmers Predicted in Rall Rack

Byrd Estimates Rollback Cost At Five Billion   Fears Regimentation; Opposition to Plan JTnecreases Rapidly

FOOD ROLLBACK PLAN ATTACKED   Rattle Against Subsidy Payments Erupts On Senate Floor; Cost Pointed Out

Farm Subsidy Battle Waxes Hot In Senate   Charge Of Hitlensn Hurled ‘In Bitter ~ FlonrDebate 

SENATORS HIT PRICE CUTTING BY SUBSIDIES   Rollback Policy is Attacked by Byrd And Others

Byrd Charges Rollback Leads To Regimentation   Senator Says Farm Subsidies Will Cost Nation Five Billion Dollars a Year—New Legislative Restrictions Will be Sought

Senafors Battle Rollback Plan   See Regimentation Of U.S. Producers

E. J. Kyle Says U.S. Plays Santa   Latin American Countries Will Not Respect Us. Says Dean

Troops Called To Ford Plant As Precaution   -ederal Soldiers Summon ed because of Disturbances

Troops Are Withdrawn From Ford Plant; Courts Act Swiftly on 500 Riot Cases

‘Army Moves Troops Out Of Ford Plant   Repercussions Hit Congress as Members Air Rioting

Remove Troops From Ford Plant   Had Been Stationed There as Precaution

Troops in Ford Plant as Riot Prosecutions Oper  Sentences Meted Out to Both Races; Dies

Federal Troop: Removed From Detroit Plant   Soldiers Prepare for Possibility of New Disorders: Rioters Get 90-Day Sentences

Federal Troops Guard Ford Engine Plant   Company Spokesman Cites ‘Certain Disturbances’  NO VIOLENCE  500 Face Courts In Detroit Riots; Inciters Sought

ORDER KEPT IN DETROIT PLANT BY U.S. TROOPS   Prosecution of 500 as Result of Rioting Is Started

TROOPS STAND GUARD IN BIG ROUGE PLANT   RENEWAL OF RIOTS FEARED; SCORES SENT TO JAIL

GUILTY SOUGHT IK DETRON RIOTING   Officials Move to Punish Real Inciters and Assaulters; Troops Stationed in Ford Motor Rouge Plant

Soldiers Pay 4-Hour Visit To Ford Plant   Action Taken To Guarc Against Possibility Of ‘Further Dicsarder<?   ONLY FOR SECURITY, GEN. GUTHNER SAYS

Federal Troops Placed in Ford Rouge Plants   To Guard Against Disorders; Rioters to Face Prosecution

US. Rubber Program In For Trouble   ‘Priorities Must Be Granted fo Stave Off Catastrophe’

Jetfers Warns Of ‘Catastrophe In Rubber Program  Demands Priorities Toa Sneed Building   Demands Priorities To Speed Building Of Svnthetic Plants   RESERVES DWINDLING

FOUR WARSHIPS GROSS ATLANTIC   No Enemy Craft Sighted On Ocean Trip, Says War Writer

UP Reporter Accompanies Flotilla of French Ships in Atlantic Crossing

Jap Air Fields Se On Kiska, Attu fp Threat Alaska    Addresses Zionist Group in New York

CONVOY FOUND   U. S. Forces Find Abandoned Installations After 22 Ships Were Destroyed: Continue Bombinas.

Elaborate Jap Bases In Guinea Found By Allies   Positions Prepared Fer Enemy Convoy That Didn’t Arrive

ELABORATE JAP POSITION TAKEN ABOVEBUNA   New Base Prepared by Japs to Accommodate Large Force That Never Arrived

Plans Of Japs" _ Are Frustered   Enemy Planned : or Stand In New Guinea Before Bismarck Battle.

ELABORATE ENEMY DEFENSE SYSTEN ON NEW GUINEA FUND  HAD BEEN PREPARED FOF ARMY THAT ALLIES BLASTED INTO SEA

SECRET BASE REVEALED BY JAP SETBACK   Elaborately Prepared Posts For Use In Invasion Of Australia Found

GARRISON PLAN BY JAPS ABOVE BUNA IS FOILED   Elaborately Prepared Positions In New Guinea Area Discovered By Allies   EVACUATED HASTILY   Apparently Intended For Use As Base for 15,000 Nips Killed In Bis marck Sea Battle

ALLIES DISCOVER ABANDONED BASE   Japs Had Made Elaborate Preparations North of Buna For New Offensive

Yanks find Well-Prepared Jap Positions Near Buna Intended For Men Killed in Naval Fight

SUB PACKS AWAIT SHIP CONVOYS      JAP INVASION BASE FOUND BY GROUND FORCES

ELABORATE ENEMY  DEFENSE SYSTEM ON  NEW GUINEA FOUND HAD BEEN PREPARED FO! ARMY THAT ALLIES  DI ACTEN INTO CRA

Abandoned Jap Base Is Found   Had Been Prepared for Jap Force Killed in Bismarck Sea Battle

Find Base Japs Intended To Use  15,000 Troops Never Got There, However

x kx W “ ix Www wt Elaborate Jap Positions Located North Of Buna   Were Ready For 15,000 Troops Killed By Allies When Convoy Was Blasted

British Force. Germans to Leave Fougia   Day Is One of Most Successful Since Invasion of Italy

Smash deep into enemy  defense line   U.S. tanks and infantry advance

British Are Closing in On Airfield   Allied Forces Face Sternest Kinds Of Nazi Resistance

American Troops Advance In Hard Fighting; British Menace Foggia Airfields

Tanks, Infantry Penetrate Nazi Defense Lines   Seize Important Inland Positions

British Gain ni Miles. Inltaly   Whole Allied Front Surges Forward As Solid Line

Allies Register Gains Across Italy From Tyrrhenian To Adriatic Sea

THIRTY MILE GAIN OF AMERICANS MADE  IN SIX DAYS AGAINST GERMAN MACHINE GUN AND ARTILLERY Fire

Day Gne of Most Successful Since Allied Inyasion Started   GAINS ARE SCORED IN EVERY SECTION   Initiative Fully in Hands of the Allies, Officer Declares

CATHOLICS RELAX FAST RULES IN ALL ~ PARTS OF NATION   Many Other Bishops Follow Pattern Set In Albany Diocese.

May Free Farm Girl in Killings   Police Believe  Storv bv Morell

TEMPERATURES:   Looking Back End Written -ToJap Hope At Midway   BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER phearsleted Prex Correspondent

Japs Unable To Launch New ‘Attacks In Pacific Since They Were Beat At Midway

ANNIVERSARY OF MIDWAY FINDS JAPS IN SLUMP   [Initiative Now So Thoroughly In American Hands No New Enemy Drive Like That Of Midway  Seeme Preanihle

Believe Japanese Unable To Launch New Attacks Now   Reverses Seen Prologue  To Final Defeat Of Foe

Ultimate Wreckage Seen of Japan's Scheme to Smash American Power in Pacific; Initiative Now With U. S.

WRECKING OF JAP AMBITIONS SEEN IN 12 MONTHS WAR   ‘Observers See Battle of Midway -ss' Actual Pacific Battle

JAPS UNABLE T0 TAKE OFFENSIVE SINCE MIDWAY   Summary of Pacific Warfare Last Year Shows Plan to Smash American Power Has Failed.

ULTIMATE WRECKING JAPANESE PROGRAM IN PAGIFIC SEEN  DOWNFALL STARTED YEAR AGO IN BATTLE OF MIDWAY ISLAND

Jap Strategy Misfired in Battle of Midway   Grand Pincers Thrust Is Nipped with Recapture of Attu. {sland 

History of Pacific Warfare Since Midway Seen as Prologue fo Jap Defeat

MIDWAY BATTLE HELD PROLOGUE TO JAP DEFEAT   Takyo Has Not,Been Able Or Willing to Launch Major New Offensive Since   LOSES INITIATIVE   Has Passed Thoroughly Into American Hands; Reconquest of Attu Dooms Foe On Kiska

Jap War Campaign Believed Wrecked   History of Pacific War Since Midway Seen as Prologue to Ultimate Defeat of Foe

Ultimate End Of Jap Fleet   DEFEATS AT MIDWAY AND ATTU HURT NIPS

U.S. Forces on Attu Now Within Striking Distance Of Japanese Territories   War History Since Midway Seen As Proloque To Japanese Defeat

Year Of Pacific War May Pattern Japanese Defeat  Another Nip Drive Of Big Proportions ha

FINAL DEFEAT  OF JAPS SEER   ‘Decisive Victory at Midway Island Started Jap Downfall.   U.S. HAS INITIATIVE NOW

JAP AMBITIONS BEING SMASHED   First Blow Dealt Year Ago at Midway and Attu And Solomons Later

— Claws Blunted by U. S.. Japan Is Believed Incapable of Launching Maior Offensive

Japan Fails To Indicate She Il Give  Peace Plan   Year After Battl At Midway Sees U. S. Strong

\Japan Unable To Launch Offensive Sinee Her. Crucial Defeat At Midway Has -Lost Initiative, Experts Contend

Battle of Midway The Turning Point   No Major Jap ] Drive Since, But Full Allied Victory Still Far Off

J.P. MORGAN SUFFERS ANOTHER HEART ATTACK   75-Y ear-Old International Banker Gravely Il} at Boca Grand Cottags«

FINNS BID FOR PEACE   Delegation Presses For Change Ip Government, End Te War

Optimistic Report By WLB Chairman   Trend Leading Tc To A_ United Nations Victory

NELSON SAYS TIDE TURNEL   WPR HEAD DECLARES: ONLY ix, SMALE PROPORTION © OF -ALLIED MIGHT YET  1 USED

UMW- OPERATOR  1 LUGUA LUE  NEGOTIATIONS ARE REOPENED   WLB Order, Approving Portal-to-Portal Pay Held Partial Victory for John L,  T awie

PARTIAL VICTORY FOR LEWIS NOTED IN NEGOTIATIONS   50-50 Chance for Settlement of Controversy Seen But Upsets May  Come, However.

MINERS OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH OWNERS   WLE Order Regarded as Partial Victory for John L. Lewis

WLB GRANTS MINERS PART OF DEMANDS   However, Request , For Basic Wage Increase Is Denied

UMW Agrees To Reopen Talks With Coal Operators After Decision Assuring At Least $1 4 Daily Pay Boost

SHIFT OF GERMAN TROOPS REPORTED   SUTLER SAID TO HAVE OR. DERED 50 DIVISIONS SENT _ FROM RUSSIA ‘LO WEST.

Report Germany Switching Many Crack Divisions   Iroops Believed Take from Russian Front fo French Coast   Others Reported Sent tc Balkans as Invasion lnome

Nazis Reported Shifting 90 Army Divisions Out of Russia to Western Areas

Nazis To Shit 50 Divisions West, Is Claim Abandoning Of Drive  Against Russia. Is Indicated

Army Bombers Make Preliminary Stabs In Promised U.S. Offensive In Mid-Pacific With Raids On Jap Bases

U.S. Blasts Japs On Marshall, Gilbert Islands . Nip Cruiser Ts Hit By 1000-Pound Boml

Cruiser Hit Near Rabanl   Fires Left Blazing on Enemy Bases After Liherator Raids

BOMBING RAIDS ON  MARSHALL, GILBERT  ISLANDS REPORTED BELIEVED BE PRELIMIN ARY STABS IN NEW MIN.-PACIFIC DRIVE

Stabs Made-in New Mid-Pacifie Offensive by Blasting Marshall ‘And Gilbert Islands: Warships Hit

OHIO’S REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN MEE}   Plan Cooperative Action o Legislative Matters

NAVAL BATTLE IS BEGINNING TO TAKE FORM   Germany Admits Los Of Auxiliary Cruiser And Destroyer; British Lose One.

Naval Battle Costs ‘Germans Loss Of - Cruiser, Destroyer   Britain Concedes Sinking of Corvette in Naval Engagement After Germans Attack Ships in Allied Convoy

Father Draft Scheduled To Start Today   Congress Refuses To Stay Induction

Father-Draft Starts Today   Senate Still Debates Bill to Delay Action

Congress inNo Mood to Check Fathers’ Draft  Officials “of -Selectiv   Officials “of Selective Service to Summon Dads at Once

Father Draft Is Due Today   Opposition Makes Nc Headway in Senate

Draft Board Now Arbiter IFor Fathers      Congress Fails to Hall Scheduled Induction Wat Tree Msn Thecle

FATHERS’ DRAFT NOW IN EFFECT   Induction Officials To Call 116,000 Between Ages Of 18 And 38

Ruston Draft Board Won't Call Married Men Immediately   Sufficient Number Of Single Men. Still Available

General Draft of Fathers Official Today  Children of Men of Draft Age No Longer Count

General Draft of Prewar Fathers Due to Begin Today; Congress — Shows No Signs of Stopping Order

Drafling Gf Fathers Due To ; ‘Begin Today; Many Face Call   Congress Shows no Signs of Heading Off Call of Men With Children—Wheeler Bill, Providing for bon, Expected to be Pigeonhoted

DRAFT OF FATHERS TO BEGIN TODAY   CONGRESS SHOWS NO SIGNS THAT 1T INTENDS TO BLOCK ARMY PLAN. _

FDR, CAMACHO MAY MEET AGAIN   Further Conferences — Or Collaboration Hoped For By Roosevelt

Leaders Of Two Nations Speak   President Of United States And Mexico Talk To World Over Radio

COAL SHORTAGE GROWING ACUTE PEOPLE WARNEL   Congress Told About Food Outlook as Many Other Controversies Go On

MILLIONS OF WAGE  EARNERS MAY FACE  INCOME TAX PAYMEN’ COLDER DAYS COMING  BUT SAVE THAT COAL  1S OWL PLEA

New Advances Are Made 'to the North   Last Resistance on South Bank of Don Is Wined Out

Take Avoz Across Don River   Mile Wide Strip Of Ice Remains lo Be Negotiated; Kursk Is Iso lated.

FULL OCCUPATION OF ISLE EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT   U. S. Forces Move Into Last Axis Key Center This Morning—Berlin Says All Nazi Troops:  . Evacuated

CRACK TROOPS  OF U.S, STORM INTO MESSINA   Official Announcement of Island’s Occupation Expected Momentarily.

Terrific Artillery Barrage Unleashed Yesterday Softens Outer Rim Of Axis Defenses For Successful American Thrust.   AXIS CLAIMS ALL TROOPS EVACUATED

AXIS OUTER RIM FIRST SOFTENED WITH HEAVY GUNS   American Artillery Shells Italian Mainland as Prelude to Next Important Offensive Move.   29 SHIPS, BARGES ARE DESTROYED, DAMAGED   600 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped on Italy With 42 Axis Fighters Being Destroyed.

Resistance Of Germans About Over   Nearly All of Axis Forces Flee to Italian Mainland, Is Reported

Gen. Eisenhower Says All of Sicily Will Be in the Allies’ Hands by Today   Meanwhile British Eighth Army Is Also About to Enter Battered City. - Artillery Duel Across Straits Goes On.

Yanks Pour Into Messina And Sicilian Campaign Is Virtually Completed

Americans Smash Into Messina; Axis Defenders Evacuate To Mainland

Crack Troops Of American Forces Capture Messina   Axis Forces Evacuated by Wholesale To the Italian Mainland; Only Clean-up Operations Remain For Allies

Jap Planes {n Tulagi Raid   U.S. Positions Twenty Miles North Of Guadalcanal Are Attacked   HENDERSON FIELD ATTACK ATTEMPTED

FIRST RAID ON TULAGI   U.S. Airmen Hammer Enemy Bases; Nip Warship Bombed

FRENGH BATTLE — LEBANESE MOBS   BOMBS AND GRENADES HURL. EP IN FIERCE STREET FIGHTING IN BEIRUT, ©

Chaplin to Wed Daughter Of Playwright   Comedian Elopes. With 18-Year-Old  Drama Protege

HAPLIN WILL WED O'NEILL'S. OMUGHTER   54-Year-Old Comedian Gets License This Morning

Chas. Chaplin, Oona O'Neill Get License   T_a@ Show Up at Santa  Barbara Court Wawsea

MANPOWER PLAN UNDER FIRE OF CONGRESSMEN   House Committee Is Opposed To Drafting Of Fathers Of Families   MIGHT USE TROOPS AS FARM LABORERS

M'NUTT'S PROGRAM FACES OPPOSITION      Hearings Called on Bill te Revise System of. Deatt

Father Draft Plan Opposed   Hearing Date Set on Kilday Proposal to Put Quotas On State Busis

Opposition  To Draft Plan  Grows in House   Military Committee Acts To Block Program To Call Family Men

WMC Draft Plan Draws Fire Of House Members   Solons Plan Bill Leaving Men With Children To Last

Draft of Fathers Stirs Opposition   House Committee Slates Hearings

Move to Draft Fathers Stirs Fight in House   Deferment Priority Demanded for Heads of Families

House Opposes Plan to Draft Fathers  Hearings on Bill   Hearings on Bill Are Scheduled for Next Week

SALARY LIMIT ORDER LIKELY TOBE UPSET   WMC Plan For Drafting Of Fathers Also To Be Fought   FEAR WAR DEMANDS   Hitlerism Costs World 400 Billion; Liable To Be 500

Drafting Fathers Of Families Will Be Opposed  While Deferment of Farm Laborers le ¢n Ra Sauehkt

House Opposes  Plan to  Draft Fathers Hearings on Bill  Are Scheduled for Next Week

WMP Plan on  Draft Draws  Opposition Members of Military  Affairs Committee Caak fa Black If

{Continued On Frage Four) ITALIANS TOLD ALLIES INVADE AS LIBERATORS

ITALY URGED 10 GREET INVADERS   Algiers Radio Broadcasts Appeal For Ouster Of German Forces

Ask Italians To Welcome Allies   Told Germans Trying To Keep War Far From Own Soil.

Nazi Spy Ring Suspects Held ’ Two More Taken   Detroit Shocked As Prom. inent Socialites Are Caught In FBI Net   HOOVER STYLES PLOT “RIVALLING FICTION’’   One Ex-Sailor, Now Mer. chant Mariner Arrested ~* In New York Waives Extradition

Axis Fears Allied Moves Hint  Invasions Of Sicily, Sardinia   German Commentators Suggest Attack May Be Opened Before Completion Of Campaigning In Tunisia

SICILY, SARDINIA SEEN AS TARGETS OF ALLIED ARMIES   Axis Fears Landings Will Be Tried There Before Tunisia Falls

Movements Of Allies’ Arouse  German Fears   Radio Reports Hige Al died Concentration. May Pounce. Imimediately or Sicily,. Sardinia; © Step. ping Stones to Europe’s Mainland.

Nazis Fear Invasion By Allied Troop:  Draws Near   Fear Mediterranean Islands May Be Seized As Stepping Stone To Europe

Axis Fears Island Grab   Invasion of Sicily  And Sardinia Likely

Nazi Spokesmen Say Yank Reserves Massed in Tunisia for Full-scale Assault and That Allied Ships, Including Landing Barges, Being Assembled at Gibraltar 

Axis Fears Invasion Attempt Is Imminent   Great Movements of Ships in Mediterranean Indicate Attack On Ttalian Telandsc

Islands Of Sicily _ And Sardina Seen Allied Objectives   German Commentators Believe Allies: May Pounce Before End Of Tunisian Campaign

EXPECT ALLIES TO STRIKE AT ANY TIME NOW   Vichy Radio Says Allied Movements At Gibraltar And In Algerian Waters Indicate Early Invasion Of Islands  Off Italy.

AXIS WATCHING GIBRALTAR AND ALGERIA AREAS      Vichy Says Movement In Both Waters May Point to Large Scale Invasion Attempt   BELIEVED ALLIES PLAN SWIFT STROKE   German Commentators Suggest Landings On Sicily, Sardinia Before  Africa Campaign Ends

Germans Fear New Landing   Hint Blow Against Sardinia Aud Sicily

Invasion Jitters Grip Axis Again   Fear Allies Intend To Attempt Immediate Blow At Italian Isles

Axis’ Fears of Invasion of Italy Mount as Allies Increase Activity

VICHY RADIO REPORTS INDICATE U.S ACTIVITY AGAINST SARDINIA, SICILY   Believe Allied Nations May Not Wait  For End Of Activities In N. Tunisia

~AXISSPOKESMEN _ JETTERY, FEARING INVASION CLOSE   Vichy Radio, Nazi Commentators Point to Shipping Activity at Gibraltar

GERMANS FEAR ANINVASION OF SICILY SARDINIA   Vichy Radio Says Allied Movements May Point to Attempted Invasion of Strategic Islands.

German Radio Vichy Broadcasts Say Allied Moves In Algerian Waters Hint Sicilian Invasion

Movements Of Allies Arouse  German Fears   Radio Reports [luge Alhed Concentration May Pounce Immediately on Sicily, Sardinia, Stepping Stones to Europe's Nlainland.

SENATE NEAR DECISION ON TAX PLAN   Movement for Partia: Forgiveness Gains Ground

THINKS CARRIER IS YANK VICTIM   Japanese Installations and Shipping Also Blasted at Wewak

JAP CARRIER BELIEVED SUNK BY BOMBER   Another Heavy Raid Staged on Enemy Base at Wewak

Towa Enthusiastically Launches Drive With  Slogan, “Do It Teday”

Winds up week of heavy attacks against enemy; St. Nazaire. Rennes hit   13 bombers lost in assault as Yankee crews blast axis cities

oT, NAZAIRE AND RENNES TARGETS   Liberators Pound Submarine Base at La Pallice   HEAVY ATTACKS   Americans Lose 13 Planes in Widespread Attack; Second Largest Loss

Winds up week of heavy attacks against enemy; St. Nazaire, Rennes hit   13 bombers lost in assault as Vankaco erawc hlact avic oties

Test Air Raid ‘Alert’ Brings Out Volunteer Workers  45 Minute Practice in West End Area Last Niaht: Others Plannec

Civilian Defense Volunteers Hold Test Practice   Second ‘Emergency’ Tryout for Areas 2, 5 6 Lasts 45 Minutes

WRECK INJURES {T ATKENOSHE   Milwaukee Road Express Crashes Into Local Repairing Airline

North-Boutid Limited Express Ploughs Into Stalled One-Car  Train

85 Persons Hurt In Train Crash  Express Plows Into Stalled Train

Ob ARE INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH   ‘Limited Plows into Stalled — Car in Wisconsin; Only One  Injured Seriously

Over 70 Persons fnjured in Train Accident Near Miles City   No Deaths Reported; Milwaukee Train Careense OFF Track

DAMAGE IN DARWIN   Train Collision Is Cause of Injury To 77 Passengers

09 INJURED IN TRAIN MISHA   Limited Express Hits Stalled One-Car Train of Milwaukee Road.

LIMITED ~ LOCAL GRASH HURTS 6   Waukegan. Kenosha Hospitals Get Injured; Occurs in Wisconsin

GEO, T. DICKINSON HI SCHOOL TEACHER, FOUND DEAD SUNDAY  ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR DIED OF NATURAL CAU.

GEO. T. DICKINSON Hl SCHOOL TEACHER, FOUND DEAD SUNDAY  ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR DIED OF NATURAL CAU. SES: BURIAL MONDAY

War Work Halis   ANTI-STRIKE LAW MAPPED   WarLabor Board Studies Wage Demands at Air Plants

WLB Rebukes Boeing Employees For Work Stoppage Threat; Decision on Demands Delayed Until Next Week

CRY GROWING FOR LAW 10 END STRIKES   WLB Refuses to Be Prodded in Study of Boeing Aircraft Wages.  WORK STOPPAGE HIT  Unions Pian to Paralyze All Plane Production Quashed Ry District Council.

Nazis Throw Strength To East Coast   Offering Stiff Resistance Near ) Catania

AMERICAN TROOPS CLOSING ON ENEMY STRONG. HOLD IN CENTRAL SICILY AS BRITISH BEAT OFF ’ COUNTER-ATTACKS—BIGGEST JAPANESE BASE IN THE NORTH PACIFIC HEAVILY - BOMBED BY RAIDERS

ARMY MUST HAVE MEN SAYS CHIEF   General Marshall Asks Congress Not To Stop Steady Flow Of Men Into Armed  Koreas.

Chief Opposes Postponement Of Dad Draft      Marshall Fears Changes Would Have To Be Made In Plans a

MARSHALL WARNS CONGRESS AGAINST POSTPONING DRAFT      Chief Of Staff Says Bill To Exempt Fathers '- Would Prolong , OT hee Wap occa?

Marshall Against Dad Draft] Ban  Due To Strategy   “Chief of Staff Says ~ Army: Just‘Ready To “Deploy Ground Forces

Ban Termed T hreat To Allied Victory      ~ General Marshall Claims Ban Would Dim Power of Offensive

‘Don't Dim "U.S. Power, - Congress  Is Warned   - Ben. Marshall Advises Against Forbidding, Even Delaying Draft of Fathers   @ ARMY NOW READY TO:DEPLOY FORCES   Need and Use of Vast Forces Explained by the , Chief of Staff

Marshall Asks Solons Not To Curb Induction   General Testifies Delay _ In Father Draft Would Weaken Offensive   PUZZLED AT REACTION   Need For Maintenance, Replacement Of Casualties Is Explained

MARSHALL ASKS CONGRESS FOR FATHER DRAFT   Warns: Against “Dimming the Power” of Great Al lied Offensives at This Ls

‘Marshall Asks Service Draft Be Unhampered   Continued Flow Of Men To Army Needed He Says

Postponement of Draft Quotas Would Seriously Interfere With Program

Says Hindrance To Draft Flow Will Hurt Cause   Anticipates Greater Loss, Change In U. S. Strategy _.. If... Congress... Interferes.

GEN. G. C. MARSHALL WARNED CONGRESS ON DRAFT PROBLEM   Urged Against “Dimming the Power” of Offensive at This Time.   ‘HEAVY FIGHTING AHEAD   The Drafting of Fathers Is a Matter for the ““Manpower People’, He Said.

ADCHATE Dao MARSHALL TUN   Warns Congress Agains “Dimming Power” Of treat Allied Offensives By Forbidding Move   WOULD SHOCK U.5., NEWSPAPER SAYS   Even Postponement of Draft For Three Months Serious, He Tells Joint Hearing

STAFF CHIEF SEES HEAVY FIGHT AHEAD   Failure to Draft Fathers Would Likely Mean Cutting Off Some Army Units, Declares

Marshall warns not to ‘dim power’ of allied offensives   Tells congress forbidding draft of  fathers would mean cutting of units

Marshall Warns Against “Dimming Power” Of  Great Allied Offensive

Gen. Marshall » Also Calls For Draft Of Dads   Don’t Dim Power Of AI. lied Offensive, Congress Is Warned.

Restrictions on Draft Would Increase Losses, Gen. Marshall Asserts

WHEELER BILL OPPOSED BY MARSHALL   Says it Would Mean Heavier Casualties

SAYS CUT NOW WOULD HAMPER U. §. OFFENSIVE   scure To Meet Draft Quotas Would Hurt Army, He Declares.

GEN. MARSHALL WARNS AGAINST AD-DRAFT BAN   ‘Tells Solons Not to Dim Power of New Allied   Offensives   STIFF FIGHT AHEAD   Postponement Would in terfere With Plans, Says Army Staff Chief

GEN, MARSHALL TO TESTIFY FOR FATHERS DRAFT   I Seeks Vote Of Confidence On Induction Of Fathers Into Service

~FATHER DRAFT—  Solons Sternly  Warned   Full Strength Army Needed For Fighting Ahead, Marshall Says

Gen. Marshall Warns Against Delaying Call   Delay Would Prolong War

MARSHALL PLEADS AGAINST HALTING DRAFT OF FATHERS   Warns Against “Dimming the Power” of the Allied Offensive — Says Postponement Would Force Redesigning Strategy

Ebb In Draft Now Would Mean Greater Loss Than Expected From Enemy, Marshall Opines   Staff Chief Says If Flow Of Men Is Cut, War Program Will Have To Be Curtailed

Reaction Comes In Face Of Victories   Will Suffer Much Greater Losses If We Slow Up Draft   ALL OUR ARMIES READY TO ATTACK

Marshall Says Delay Would Prolong War   ‘Businéss And Military Considerations Cited By General

Ban On Drafting Of Dads Would Hinder Army Plans Gen. Marshall Testifies

NON-DAD OnAtT GAN RUIN PLANG CONGRESS TOLD   Wheeler Proposal To Defer Fathers Serious Barrier Says Gen. Marshall

FATHERS NEEDED, MARSHALL SAYS   Induction Will Mean Shorter, Cheaper War, Chief Of Staff Testifies

CONGRESS WARNED NOT 10 MEDDLE IN AFFAIRS OF ARMY  GEN. MARSHALL SPEAKS AGAINST “DIMMING POW - ER” ALLIED OFFENSIVE

Army Chief Warns Congress Not To Dim Offensives   General Marshall Vigorously Opposes Father Draft Ban

Says Ban Would Dim Army Power   Military Chief Stresses Need For More Men

Gen. Marshall ‘Warns Against Curbing Draft   Will Suffer Greater Loss Than We Anticipate — From Axis.

Congress Told Vhat If Present Program Interrupted War Plan Will Suffer Worse Than  From Germans and The Japs

FATHER DRAFT — COMPROMISE      Senate  Group . Studies Plan Providing 30  . Day Delay

CONGRESS ON DRAFT DELAY      Chief of Staff Declares Postponement Dims Power of Allied Attack

Marshall Says Exempting Fathers “Will Dim Power" Of Allied Offensive

Sees Peril In Draft Clamp   Gen. Marshall Makes Strong Plea for Uninterrupted Flow of. Men for Armed Forees

Keep Enemies Reeling Back; ‘Is His Advice   ‘Chief of Staff Says We Are Just Now Ready to Man World Fronts

MARSHALL ASKS NO INTERFERENCE IN DRAFT PLANS   Changes Would Alter Basic Strategy, He Declares   JUST GETTING STARTED WITH GROUND FORCES

Marshall Warns Draft Delay Dims Offensive   Chief of Staff Emphasizes Time Needed to Train Troops, Commitments Made to Allies, Heavy Fighting Ahead

Army Chief Asks Draft of Fathers   Marshall Slated To Testify Today

Marshall Also Stresses Need For Big Army   General Marshall, Chief of Staff, Warns’ Congress Against Measure Banning Father Draft.

Marshall Is In Favor of Father Draft   General Warns Congress Against Dimming the Power of Great Allied Offensives by Forbidding Draft of Dads

MARSHALL SEES LIMITING DRAFT HARMFUL NOW   Would Hamper War Program, He Deelarese   GIVES HIS VIEWS   Chief Of Staff Heard By Military Committees

Marshall Says.” Army Now tan Use Trained Men   Opposes Cut in — Goals for Military.  Mannower

Cutting Flow Of Men Would Slow Allies   Marshall Says Allies On Offensive, Ready To Hit Enemy

Draft Dads Now, Marshall Plead:   Holds Delay Would Dim Allied Offensives

Marshall Warns Of Delaying Draft   Chief of Staff of American Forces Tells Conaress Not to Curb Strength

Marshall Warns Congress Against ‘Dimming Power’   Says Draft Delay Might Hamper Big Offensive Now Begun

Marshall Asks For No Cut in Supply of Men   Says U.S. Just Beginning to Use Ground Forces In Furane

Marshall Says Army Cut Would Hurt U. S.   Tells Solons Failure to Obtain Quotas Would Dim the Power of Allied Offensives by Emasculating Combat Units. —

Army Chief Wants Dads   On Offensive Now, Need Men To Keep It Rolling He Says

DRAFT TAMPER WILL BE COSTLY: MARSHALL SAYS   Chief Warns Against Forbidding Draft Of Fathers -

Warns Congress  On Father Draft   General Marshall Says Power of Allied Offense Shouldn't Be Dimmed.   Interieres With Prerram

DAD DRAFT BAT STRONGLY HIT BY MARSHALL   Chief of Staff Tells Con. gress Wheeler Bill Would “Dim Power” of Greai Allied Offensives. -

FINAL HEARING ON DRAFT DAD ISSUE OPENS   Gen. Marshall Seeks Confidence Vote In Army Plans

Army Chief Says Draft of Dads Can't Be Put Off   Warns Against Dimm  ing Power of Allied Offensive

WARNG AGAINST CUTTING DRAFT   Heavy. Fighting Ahead,  Chief of Staff Warns  Congress Today.   WOULD ADD TO LOSSES

Gov. Stassen Resigns Office To Enter Navy   Knox Minimizes Danger of Enemy Air Raids on U. S.

MacKenzie, Back InU.S. From Long Trip Abroad, Sees Nazi Doom In 1943

PREDICTS DEFEAT OF GERMANY BY END OF 1943   HITLER’S BACK IS BROKEN SAYS NOTED WRITER

Writer BackFrom War Zones Says Allies Can Whip Hitler This Year and Japs in 1944

Mackenzie Returns From Trip, Predicting Defeat Of Germany In 1943 And Japan Next Year

DEWITT MACKENZIE RETURNS FROM TOUR   Convinced That Hitler’s Back is Broken

VICTORY THIS YEAR PREDICTED BY MACKENZIE   Correspondent, Back From Lengthy Tour Of War Zones, Says Hitlers Back Is Rroken.

Mackenzie Sees Nazis Overcome  By End Of Year   Associated Press Analyst Returns From Abroad Confident Hitler Beaten

AP Writer Thinks Germany Will Be Beaten This Year   DeWitt Mackenzie, Back From World Tour, Says American Soldiers Are Doing A Fine Job

MKENZIE SEES CHANCE TO DEFEAT CERMANY IN’43   Returns From Lengthy Tour of World Battle Fronts With Conviction Germans Will Be . Beaten This Year

Germany Can Be Beaten In 1943’ War Correspondent Says After Trip

Mackenzie Predicts Nazi Defeat in ‘43  Returns From Tour; Says Janan Should

A. P. Weiter, Bock In  U. 5. After Tour Of . Warring Countries  Abroad, Says Hitler's ‘ Paek le Broken 2

Sees End To War In 1944   Germany’s Deniise Is Forecast «This -Year*

Defeat Of Hitler This Year And Japan In 1944 Seen By AP War Writer After Four-Month Tour Of Fronts

Dewitt MacKenzie, Veteran Corresspondent, Says Nazis To Lose In 1943; Japs To Fall In’44

‘Noted Writer Says Japan Should Fall by End : of 1944  IS CERTAIN OF VICTORY

MACKENZIE, A.P. WAR EXPERT, BELIEVES HITLER WILL BE BEATEN BY END OF YEAR: JAPS WILL FALL DURING 1944

War Analyst Sees Hitler’s Armies Crushed During ‘43   DeWitt Mackenzie, Associated Press Writer, Expresses Conviction On Return From Theatres of Conflict; Many Observers of Opinion Japs Will Fall by End of 1944 Or Sooner

WRITER SEES GERMAN DEFEAT THIS YE AR   DEWITT MACKENZIF SAVS HITIFR’S* RACK PRAWEN INN fFuncractic 1   DEWITT MACKENZIE SAYS HITLER’S BACK BROKEN IN CAUCASUS LAST FArT

Full Victory In 1944, Says AP Expert   Mackenzie Thinks Hitler Will Be Crushed This Year

Dewitt Mackenzie Returns, Predicts Germony Will Be Beaten In 1943

MACKENZIE, BACK FROM TOUR, SEES NAZIS. DEFEATED THIS YEAR, JAPS IN1944 —

NOTED REPORTEF SEES DEFEAT OF GERMANY IN ‘43   Says “‘Hitler’s Back Is Broken”’ On War Fronts

Mackenzie Home Again  “War Today” Predicts Defeat of Germany In 1943: Japan, 1944

ALLIES ARE PILING UP GREAT STRIKING POWER American Boys Doing Grand Job

Mackenzie, Back From Tour, Sees Germans Beaten in 43; Japs in’44

HITLER'S END THIS YEAR I PREDICTED   Dewitt Mackenzie, Back din UY a Forecasts Finish in ”   SAYS FUEHRER’S . “BACK IS BROKEN’®:   Impressed by United Nations’ Piling Up of Striking Power.

TOCA. HHEPHV ATIAN SG   MacKenzie Says Germany Can Be Defeated in °43   After World Tour He's Convinced Hitler's Back  Te a on

Vegetable Industry ” Is Granted Subsidy to Meet Wage Issue   "Unfavorable ‘Reaction Is Noted in Some Congressional Circles

Food Subsidy Called Road To Inflation   Vegetable Packers Get $5,000,000 to Meet — Wage Increases }

Subsidization of Canneries  Ts Debated   Congressional Battle over ‘Mathods of Rolling Back Prices Incites Arguments

NEW VEGETABLE SUBSIDY MEETS OPPOSITION   One Legislator Terms It Preliminary To Inflation Spiral

To Work Nights On a Farm Bill   Also, Unfavorable Reaction Is Sounded to Roll Back  Doinme:

Latest Subsidy Proposal Given Cool Reception   Vegetable Packers May Get Help to Pay Wage Increases

PITTSBURG ATTORNEY DIES   Leo Jerome McKenna Was Craw) ford County Prosecutor

Udo GHAOHING ANEAD: ADVANGE QM ALL PRONTO   Capture 60 Towns West of Kharkov and Crush 40 Nazi Attacks.

RED OFFENSIVE SWEEPS ENTIRE SOUTHERN LINE   Soviets Crush Nazi Counterattacks, Overrun Area West Of Kharkov   i WITHIN 165 MILES OF KIEV   Moscow Radio Says Ukraine Territory Will Be Regained By Russians

OHIO IS ROCKED BY EARTHQUAKE   No Damage and No Injuries Reported but Hundreds Bounced from Beds

SEVERE EARTH TREMOR FELT IN PARTS OF OHIO   Jarred Clevelanders, Felt as Far South as Dayton, Zanesville

Earthquake Shakes Ohio From Lake Erie to Dayton Slide Believed 20 Miles Under  Rasian Graiuthuract -f Men). 3

QUAKE SHAKES RESIDENTS IN NORTHERN OHIO   Shock Felt Thruout Lake District For Brief Period Before Midnight   NO DAMAGE IS REPORTED   Second Tremor Recorded Few Hours Later 5,500 Miles From New York

Conference At Casablanca Is  Lift To Allies  New Offensive   sirale _

COMBINATION OF MILITARY SUCCESSES AND INITIATIVE BOOSTS ALLIED MORALE: AS CONFERENCE RESULTS ARE AWAITED

The War Today _ “Crux Of Situation > Today--Hitler’s Back Undoubtedly Broken

CASABLANCA GIVES ALLIES NEWPRESTIGE   Increases Confidence That United Nations Are on Way to Victory.   OFFENSIVE LIKELY TO BE MAINTAINED   Mackenzie Says Successes Help Morale in India and China.

The War Today—  Allied Successes And Initiative Open Way For New Offensive Against Axi:

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ikely Against Japan  Fier Offensive Operations de Well As Hitler *

INITIATIVE AND SUCCESS ‘BOOST ALLIED MORALE  ’ Casablanca Conference Helps Too 

BRITISH FORCED BACK IN BURMA   No Contact With Enemy: Coming Of Monsoons Restricts Action

British and Indian Troops Again Fall Back in Burma  Men May Be Taker From Section Within Ten Days

British Retreat From Maungdaw   Empire Troops Only Few Miles From India  Frontier-Rains Due

Cologne Smashed As RAF Bombers  Raid Continent  ' Milan, Dunkerque Also Hit; Eleven Allied Planes Lost

AXIS FACTORY AREAS RAIDED BY RAF FORCE   COL OGNE AND MILAN HIT; U.S. BOMBERS AT DU NKERQUE

British Bombers Blast Heart of Axis Production   Atlack Cologne and Dror Bombs on Milan and Spezia, Italy

British, U.S. Bomb Axis Plants   Americans Blast Dunkerque, Sicily; Nazis Hit England

ENEMY CENTERS ‘BURN AND BLEED   Bombers Strike at Heart of Axis War Production at Cologne, Milan and Spezia: Large Force Attacks

RAF BOMBERS HIT COLOGNE, MILAN, SPEZIA   US. Liberators And Bostons Attack Dunkerque Docks; Eleven Bombers Lost; Tours  RR Sheds Suffer.   Axis Burned And Bled

Bombers Pound Germany, ltaly   Cologne, Milan And Dunkerque All Hit.

AMERICANS BOMB DUNKERQUE DOCKS; 2 PLANES MISSING   Allied Fighter Craft Cover  U.S. Liberators and Shoot Down 10 Challenging  Germans.   COLOGNE AND MILAN : ATTACKED BY RAR   Large-Scale Raids Made on Enemy Territory by British With Loss of Only 1lL Bombers.

Allies Blast Axis InGermany, Italy   Heart Of War Production At Cologne Pounded By Butish Bombers; Americans Stage Two Raids On Dunkerque

lect 7 New Teachers for Public Schools   School Board Accepts. Bid for * Jr. High. Repairs

Stockmen Assail U. S. Meat Program As “Bureaucratic Stupidity,” Recommend New, Independent Plan ©

Meat Raisers Blast U. S. Bureau Rule  Konene Civ Meet   Kansas City Meet Sees Supply Peril in Program

MACARTHUR NOW FEELS HE IS IN BACKGROUND   General Implies in Carefully. Worded Statement That He Has Been Given Secondary Place in the War Against Japan — Declares “Island Hopping” Campaign Involves Heavy Losses and Slow Pranrace

‘Island Hopping Cempaign Opposed By MacArthur   Hints Strategy Spurned Fears Secondary Pacifie Role

Implies That His Command and His Strategy of = Direct Strokes Against Japan Have Been Shoved into Backeround. .

MacArthur Hints Plans Opposed   Military Leader In Favor of More Direct Blows Against Japanese

Gen. MacArthur Implies His Strategy ‘Shoved Into Background in Favor Of Island Hopping Compaign   Eden Reveals Hess Trip to Britain ‘Aimed At Ousting Churchill Gov't.

MacArthur Statement Hints General Being: Sidetracked In: Pacific Plan.

Hints His Policy Pigeon-Holed   Fears Drive on Japan to Be Slow, Bloody

Gen. MacArthur Says He's Put Into Background   Command -{¢ Be’ Reduced to Secondary Role

RESCUE SHIP FINDS MANY PERSONS WHO ESCAPED CARGO VESSEL FROZEN TO DEATH  Army and Navy Personnel Found Dead In Lifeboats Floating in North Atlantic

North Atlantic U-Boat Attacks Take 850 Lives   Hundreds Of Froze n Bodies Found By Navy Rescuers

Cheerful Letters From Home Best Morale Builder, Army Doctors Say

SENATORS WARY OF CHARTER TALK   Some Members Skeptica! of An Early Enunciation

Senators Are Skeptical Of Treaty Move   Cautious Endorsement Given Proposal For Enunciation of War Aims  SOME URGING DELAY

Senators Want Atlantic Pact Announced   Want All Nations to Sign, Charter Now While Com-  mon Danger, Interests Exist

POLITICAL LEADERS WANT ENUNCIATION ALLIES WAR AIMS   Think United Nations Shoutd Be Bound By Treaty For Action At Peace Table

Urge War Aims In Treaty Form  Some Senators Favor United Nations Givin,  MNaesleceeo> Rinse

FLOOR FIGHTS THREATEN IN LEGISLATURE   Reapportionment and Tax Problems May Cause Battles

THREATIN IN ~ LEGISLATURE   Reapportionment an a Tax Problems May Cause Battles

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, SOUPS -/BQINT. VALUES ARE CHANGE!   Opal REPORTED  PREPARING TOF MAKE READIUSTMENT OF SOME MEAT POINTS  : NEXT WEEK

SOUP AND FRUIT POINTS ARE GUT   Black-Eyed Peas Off Lists: OPA Now to Readjust Meat Points

PONT VALUES REDUCED. W ~ MANY ITEMS   F4ozen Fruit and Vegetables and Rationed Soups Are ‘'Chegper.”   MEAT CHANGES NEXT   Readjustment ‘of, Meat Val “nes Will Be Announced * . . Next Week.

RATION VALUES BEING REVISED   Cuts Made For Frozen Foods, Soups; Readjustment Coming For Meats

POINT VALUED REDUCED OM MANY ITEM   F4ozen Fruit and Vegetables and Rationed Soups Are ‘‘Cheaper.”   MEAT CHANGES NEXT   Readjustment of Meat Val. ues Will Be Announced Next Week.

CHANGES MADE IN VALUES OF POINTS   Reductions Are Due Thurs: day on Frozen Fruits, Vegetables, Soups.

Point Values ~ In Rationing  Plan Changed   Reductions Made In Point Values Of Frozen Foods And Soups   SOME MEAT VALUES MAY BE CHANGED

TEAM) Auto Workers Strike  Chrysler Walkout  Con wm mala ban Ty oe ole ae

Japan Preparing To Sacrifice 5,000,000 Men  Australian Minister Pleads for Fast Action in Pacific

9,000,000 JAPS WILLING TO DIE   Curtin Says Japan Ready To Sacrifice Millions Of Men In War Of Attrition.

Wife’s Classroom Knitting Cost Him Job, Philosopher Bertrand Russell Says

Russian Forces Capture Another Important Towr  Large Concentration O' Nazi Aviation Thrown In  West Of Rostov

Interpreting  The War   Indications Point To Climax in Red Battle Soon

Germany's Drive To Defeat Reds May Open Soon   Hitler Believed Planning To Make One More Great Effort

KILLED NEAR MARSHATT   Pinned to Ground as Loaded Vehicle Falls Off Jack

J HALE IS KILLED NEAR MARSHALL   Pinned to Ground as Loaded Vehicle Falls Off Jack

a CRASHED —  “INTO A-TRAN   Paul Sharp e of Normanda,  Had an ‘arrow Escape ~ “From Death.

AUTO CRASHED INTO. A TRAN   Paul Sharpe of Normanda, Had a Narrow Escape © From Death.

Bla CONVOY  MOVING FROM GIBRALTAR   U. S. 2nd Corps, British Eighth Army Score Local Gains

AXIS TRIES OFFENSIVE IN TUNISIA   Nazis Say Big Allied Fleet In Mediterranean

Atlantic Charter Commemorated On Anniversary  FDR Reviews Aims To Assure Freedom From Want

Charter Has 2nd Birthday   Allies On Threshold Of Major Developments

Soviet Forces Storm and Seize Vital Railroad Centers, Deal Heavy Losses in Newest Advance

uLOBAL WAR’S CHALLENGE MET BY RED CROSS: HAS WITHSTOOD RIGID TESTS OF WARTIME IN THE MONTHS SINCE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

RED CROSS DRIVE OPENS   Indiana ~ County Asked to Give $50,000 to Worthy Cause

Global War's Challenge Met By Red Cross   Vast, Resources 7 Backing Nation's Efforte in War 

DAIRYMEN URGE PRICE HIKE TO” BAR SHORTAGE   Secretary of National Co-op Cites Herd Reductions as Due to Increasing Costs . :

Hugh Warren Is Home For Visit   Former Cage Coach Has Been in Alaska, Aleutians

—_—_—————- t —_______  Hugh Warren Is Home For Visit   Former Cage Coach Has Been in Alaska, Aleutians

RUBBER PLANT NEAR VICHY IS ALSO BLASTEL   Twin Raids Break 5-Day Lull In Blows On Continent

Administration Tags on Measures Taboo as Assembly Enters 5th Week

No Must’ Bills In State; OCD Ads On Rule   Boyd Hamilton Directs State Defense Council; Democrats For Repeal OF Pranertu Toy

Yanks Troops Account For at Least 12,000 of Total Bag . In Campaign; Messina Hit

Report 18,000 Are Captured   Axis Prisoners In Sicily In. creasing Steadily As Allies Advance   U. S. FORCES TAKE > BIG PROPORTION

Allies Near To Salamaua  Troops Reach Edge O1 Remnnmasen Aten Ce.’

CLIMAX NEAR AT SALAMAUA   Allied Ground Forces Advance To Outer Edge Of Enemy Airfield

Salamaua Au Base Battle Near Climax   Ground Forces Move To Outer Edge of Field—Vessel Sunk. 45 Barges Damaged

ALLIED DRIVE ON SALAMAUA NEARS CLIMAX   Land Forces Approach Outer Edge of Big Jap Airbase

Allies Gain Outer Edge Of Airfield   180 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Hansa Bay. Northwest of Drome  AT RPARCES CVUASHEN

Climax Near In Batfle for Vital Airdrome   Troops Reach Edge of Field At Salamauag

Climax Nears i Struggle For Salamaua   Allied Troops Reach Outer Edge of Airfield at Jap Base

Battle To Take Salamaua Draws Close fo Climax   Ground Forces Now Storming Airfield

BATTLE FOR SALAMAUA NEAR CLIMAX   Americans And Australians Increasing Pressure On Androme; Supply Depot Bembed; Sink Freighter   Strafe Dumps

DRIVEFOR AIRBASE REACHING CLIMAX   Australian and American Tréops Increasing Prescure 

Allies Advancing On New Guinea   Reach Edge Of Air Field At Salamnatiia

WMC Has Answers For All Fathers Who Think It Is Bright Move Io Gamble On New Draft Regulations

WMC Has Answer For Dads Who Think They Can Beat New Draft Regulations

SEVERAL HURT IN RAIL WRECK   Fast Train Derailed In Pennsylvania; None Believed Severely Injured.

‘Mock-Ups’ Aid Air Forces In Training Fliers   Should know. in flash what has happened when something goes wrong. wee)

CONFUSION ON INCOME FORMS CETTING WORS   Harried Taxpayers Ask What’s What as Harried Treasury Faces Deluge of Work.

TAX REPORT IS Ble HEADACHE   Public Shows Mounting Confusion In Filling Out Sept. 15 Declaration

WAR INFORMATION OFFICE. UNDER SEVERE CRITICISM      NON-PARTISAN GROUP IN CON_GRESS IS DEMANDING AN-_ OTHER DEASTIC CUT IN APPROPRIATION

Nazis Believed to Have Reached “Strategic Dead End”  Save Calaktinnav

Russians See War Changing Character  Think Germans Plan To Dig  Fete Pwewahos

SOVIETS SEIZE FOE'S TRENCHES NEAR LAKE ILMEA   Other Unils Hold Firmly Bridgehead Gained In Orel Sector.

Reds Attack In Lake Ilmen Area   Think Germans Will Adopt Positional War

RED ARMY GAINS AT ILMEN, OREL   Savage Ground Fighting Supported-by Russian Air Attack.

Forts Surprise Htalians, Smash Heavy Cuisers   Giant Formation  Strikes Ships In (ia eee eee SE ee eee

Forts Bombard ltalian Cruisers   Two Of Benny’s Heaviest Ships Hit

Two Ifalian Cruisers Hit   American Flying Fortresses Score Direct Hits

Huge Formation Of Big Planes Blasts ~ Harbor On Sardinia   Rommel Reported Running So Fast In Tunisia He Doesn’t Have Time To Plant Mines To Slow Advance Of British 8th Armv

FORTRESSES HIT ITALIAN CRUISERS   Direct Bomb Hits Scored on Trieste and Gorizia in Hideaway at La Maddelena Harbor of Sardini

Two Italian: Cruisers Hit      Yanks Use Massive Fortress Formation

BOTH STEAMED UP; SURPRISED BY BIG ATTACK   One of Largest Formations of Flying Fortresses Ever Used Anywhere Make Assault   INSTALLATIONS AND SUB BASE SMASHED   All Bombers, Unescorted, Return Safely; Meanwhile RAF Continues Raids on Germany

2 Htalian Heavy. Cruisers Are Hit By Fortresses.   Ships Said Knocked Out of Action For: ‘North Africa Fioht.

Forts Surprise Italians, Smash Heavy Cuisers   Giant Formation Strikes Ships In Harbor Hideaway

TWO ITALIAN CRUISERS HIT BY U.S. BOMBS   FORTRESSES SCORE BULLS-EYES IN HARBOR RAID

Fortress Planes Bombard Two Italian Cruisers   Large Formation Scores Direct Hits On 10,000-Ton Ships

Army Plane Rescues Four From Trading Post North Of Arctic Circle

Army Plane Rescues Four from Post  400 Miles North of Arctic Circle

Army Bomber Crashes Onto Seattle Plant   Five Men Known To Be Dead, Including Four Fliers, and Others Are Trapped in Flaming Structure

COUNCIL APPROVES TENTATIVE BUDGET   Proposed Levy Is About = Mills Less Than  the 1943 Rate  rT TU ewe et ee, OS wm, 42 irr™ are G& ©o<—e @&

COUNCIL APPROVES TENTATIVE BUDCET   aoe Levy Is About Mills Less Than the 1943 Rate   RESTORE BAND MONEY,

17 OHIOANS FINED IN BASEBALL POOL   Lottery Group Smashed In Chicago

NO ACTION IS TAKEN   United Mine Workers Policy Com< mittee Held Short Session

LEWIS POLICY GROUP FAILS 70 ACT ON TRUCE   Agreement by Which Miners Continue to Work Pending Contract Expires Monday Micnicht   ‘NEXT MOVE AWAITED   WLB Has Ordered Continued Production Without Interruption. Until  Contract is Made '

UMW COMMITTEE MEETS; NO ACTION TAKEN ON TRUCE   Committee Remaining in ‘Washington and Can Be Re-Convened on Short  Notice

Eighth Army And Americans Join  Hands At Chemsi   Air Forees Are Also Merged To Give Relentless Pursuit To Rommet.

JOIN IN PURSUIT OF FLEEING AXIS   Long - Anticipated Juncture Also Links Air Forces   ALLIED PLANES   Hammer Rommel’s Forces Fleeing Northward; Many Prisoners Taken

ON THE WOMANLESS WAR FRONT    Aleutian Soldiers Discover Girls Grow Fonder---O£ Some Other uv

lons      clat   And So His Girl Meets a a ‘Sailor First Class’  aero ¢€ What. Home tn. py AAS What doce Wat by

‘Men on Womanless Aleutian Isle Decide “Dames Are a Pain’ Anyway

FUNDS SOUGHT FOR SAVAGE RIVER DAM   Senator Radcliffe Would Use Fedcral Money To Complete Garrett County Project

OPA May Increase Value Of Food Stamps And Use Tokens In Connection

Wedding Takes Place At Drew Field Florida   Sergeant Robert Neubrand Weds Mary Agnes Crouchet

Wedding Takes Place At Drew Field Florida  Sergeant Robert   Sergeant Robert Neubrand Weds Mary Agnes Crouchet

Non-War Spending Cut.   City Is Without Lights, Water As Workers Strike

Moorhead Crippled By Strike   City Electric and Water Service Out As Workers Quit

EDEN ASSURES PLACE TO CHINA   Asks Council Now To Plan PostWar Organization

GREATEST AERIAL ‘ONSLAUGHT GIVES ARMY ASSISTANSE   Four Planes Each Minute For   Nine Hours Blast Four  Mile Front Along Tunis Annroaches.   LARGE AREA BLASTED DURING 2500 SORTIES   27 Ships In Mediterranean Hit By Bombs, 12 Being Sunk In Another Great Record Thursday.

Greatest Aerial Assault Ever —  Made Aids Drive   Four Planes Every ‘Minute Is Record Set By Allied Units

TERRIFIC ONSLAUGHT ON ENEMY CONTINUES   ‘Axis Blasted for Nine Solid Hours on Four-Mile Front Yesterday and Enabled the British Army to Smash Through Massicault and Roll Across the Approaches to Tunis.

Greatest Air Onslaught _  Supporting Ground Troop: Is Staged For First Army

GREATEST RAID IN WORLD HITS AXIS IN AFRICA   Four Planes a Minute For Nine Hours Hit  Tunis Nazis

RECORD AERIAL SUPPORT GIVEN ALLIED TROOPS   2,500 Sorties Darken Skies, Blasting Path for Ground Forces

ALLIED PLANES IN TUNISIA CARRY OUT GREATEST OFFENSE   Blast Path For British First Army — Sink Enemy Destroyer And Raid -Harbors

FINAL LINK PLACED IN FIRST SECTION OF BIG OIL PIPE LINE   Operation Today Completed the’ 24-Inck Line From Texas to Illinois.   OIL INTO THE LINE NOW   Head of Column Will Reach Norris City, Ill., Between Feb. 1 and 4.

OIL LINE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI   COMPLETE FINAL LINK IN SECTION TO NORRIS CITY

First Section Of Pipe Line   HUGE LINK IN FUEL SUPPLY IS NOW COMPLETED

British Close in on Tripoli   Oil Pipeline is Completed   Section Lowered to Bed of Mississippi Completes Project

NAZIS IN RETREAT AFTER MEETING MAJOR DISASTER   Taganrog : Defeat Cost Hitler 41,000 Troovs   NAZIS GETTING OUT OF DONETS BASIN

Victories of Red Armies Drive Germans Out of Entire Kursk Region, North o Kharkov and Push Gain Toward Kiev

Germans Reel on Broad Front; Taganrog Greatest Red Blow At Germans Since Stalingrad   General Flight of Hitlerites May Be Developing in South

Force Needed In West, Says Berlin Alibi   Russians Punch Out New Gains; 35,000 Enemy Troops Are Slain In Taganrog Struggle

Sumy Latest Victory In Reds’ Drive   Germans Admit Withdrawing Of Troops To Prepare For “Invasion”

RUSSIAN FORCES "GRAB SUMY, RAIL _ CITY IN UKRAINE   Triumph Announced by Joseph Stalin in Special Order of the Day

Germans Seek To Avoid Loss Of More Troops   40,100 Men Killed And Captured At Taganrog, Say Reds

Kursk Region _ Is Cleared of  Nazi Troops   Kursk Region—30 ‘mm m  Germans Attempt to Alibi  Retreat by Saying Truops Are Needed in West   NAZIS MAY SOON "ABANDON STALINO.   Russians Building Up an Overwhelming  Striking Force, Berlin Says

‘Nazis Admit Withdrawal From Once Strong Salient In  Southern Russia, Seemingly Fearful Of Entrapment Similar To That At Taganrog In Which Reds Claim Enemy Lost 41,000 Troops—-Sumy, Important Ukrainian Center, Recaptured By Soviets

SUMY FALLS TO RED   Important Ukranian Regional Center 100 Miles  Northwest of Kharkov Teo Lan

BERLIN HINTS LOSSES ON LONG FRONT   Russians Say 35,000 Nazi Soldiers Killed During Taganrog Capture; Power In Offensive Unchecked   RULLETIN

Russian Troops Driving Forward on Voronez Front Capture Vital Urkrainian Center

“UMY, THE IMPORTANT TOWN ALSO CAPTUREL   Moscow Radio Announced the Capture of Lisichansk and Many Other Populated Points.

Kursk Area Free of Nazis. Says Moscow   Important Towns in Ukraine end Donets Reteken by Russians

NAZIS ADMIT RETREAT FROM DONETS BASIN   Fear Greater Debacle Than Taganrog Which Cost Them 41,000 Troops   RED DRIVES SPREAD OUT   Prongs Reach Toward Stalin, Poltava, Bryansk And Smolensk  1

Berlin Attempts To Make Explanation By Saying Troops Needed In West

Powerful Soviet Avalanche Moves Into Vital Area   Taganrog Was Second Greatest Nazi Defeat

120,000 ROUTED AT TAGANROG   Russians Say 35,000 Germans Killed, 5,100 Captured  fA PP iirn aa 6-H

Nazis Fear Repetition _ Of Taganrog   Stalin Orders 124-Gun Salute to Divisions Which Cleared Sumy   EXTRA!

Reds Rout Nazis In Donets Basin   Hitler's Aides Attempt To Alibi Retreat

Stalin Issues Fourth Order In Four Days   Russians Drive: Within 185 Miles OF Kiev

SEIZE SUMY, “FREE ALL OF KURSK AREA   Also Capture Middle Donets Town of  Lisichansk in Widespread Gains—Sumy Was Vital Nazi Rail Center.

Russians, However, Say Hitler Hurling Forces from Other Fronts into South te Halt Debacle   CLAIM 35,000 GERMANS SLAIN ©   ight Divisions, Totalling 120,000 Men, Routed at Taganrog, Moscow Says— Sumy Capture Brings New Celebration

LATEST DEFEAT GREATER THAN AT STALINGRAD      Nazis Throwing Reserves Into Conflict Before Time for Rest After  Forced Marches   FEAR OF INVASION IN WEST PLAYS PART   Complete Withdrawal Of Germans From Donets Probable To Avoid  Bigger Defeat ‘

Germans Being Driven Out Of Donets Salient  Russians Continue Maul Nazi Wa

GERMANS REPORTED WITHDRAWING FROM DONETS BASIN AREA _ TAGANROG BATTLE DE. CLARED TO HAVE COST NA7IC 41 N90 TROOPS

Finish Drive To Clear Foe In Kursk Area   Heighten Flanking Hazard To Germans In Stalino Bulge Of Ukraine.   GAIN NEAR BRYANSK

GERMANS RETREAT TO SAVE DEBACLE   Red Aitack Routs, Mauls Eight Nazi Divisions In Donets Salient

SUMY CAPTURED AS REDS PUSH THEIR ADVANCE   Ukraine Being Wrested From Hit-' lerites as Russians Gain Momentum on Long Front   Ry ASSOCIATED PRESS

Red Armies Push Triumphant Drives  On 600 Mile Front   Berlin Military Circles Attempt to Alibi Retreat In Ukraine By Asserting Forces Are Needed To Meet Expected Invasion   NAZI TAGANROG LOSSES ARE OVER 40,100 DEAD   BULLETIN

LISICHANSK AND SUMY CAPTURED BY THE SOVIETS   Russians Have One of Most Successful Weeks of War; Germans Withdraw From Once Strong Donets Salient.

Germans Admit Withdrawa. And Alibi That They Are Needed On West Front

Berlin Claims Greater Force Needed In West To Meet Invasion Blow   Russians Rolling Ahead On Long Front; Tanganrog Losses For Hitler Set At 41,000

SUMY, BIG NAZI RAIL CENTER IS TAKEN BY REDS   35,000 Nazis Killed in The Taganrog Area Fighting

Russian Premier Issues Special Order Telling Of Capture Of Town In Central Ukraine

NAZIS LEAVING TH ONCESTRONG DONET BASIN AREA   Quitting Salient In Southern Russia Presumably In Fear of Even Greater Debacle Than At Taganrog Which Cost Them 41,000 Troops.

Russian Army Captures Vital Ukraine Center   Germany Exptains Reasons for Its Latest Withdrawal

LISICHANSK IN DONETS AREA IS ALSO CAPTURED   Germans Apparently Fear Another Debacle Like That of Taganrog

RUSSIANS DRIVE GERMANS BACK   Reds Announce Capture of Sumy, in Ukraine And Lisichansk.   NA2Zt ARMY WITHDRAWS

Swedish Newsmen Receive Report of Troops Needed To Meet Invasion Threat

Reds Capture Sumy, Clear Kursk Region   String Of Donets Towns Falls As Soviets Gain Or 30 Mile Front   LISICHANSK IS TAKEN   Seizure Of Important Ukraine Reil Hub Puts Army Closer To Kiev

Quitting Donets Sector To Avert Further Losses   Russian Power Sweep ing Over And Around Hitler Armies

REDS ADVANCING ON ENTIRE FRONT   Defeat At Taganrog Cost Nazis 41,000 Troops, Russians Claim   600-MILE FRONT   Berlin Says Withdrawal Necessary To Meet Western Invasion

Stalin Issues Fourth Victory Proclamation in Past Four Days   Taganrog Debacle Cost Nazis 41,000 Men,  Moscow Says

BOCHE LEGIONS CUT TO PIECES BY FIERY REDS   HITLER DEAD LITTER TAGANROG; AVENGING RUSS SURGE FORWARD

Capture Of Two Important Bases Ups Pressure On Bryansk’ & Stalino   Huns Claim Victory In Berlin Defense

NAZI RETREAT ADMITTED IN DONETS BASIN   Berlin Acknowledges FallBack in Southern Russia; Fear New Attack.   Reds Piling Up  Forces In South

Drive Nazis Out Of Entire Kursk Area   Ukrainian and Middle Donets Towns Fall To Russians, Germans Admit Withdrawing From Once Strong Donets Basin Salient

Loss Certain In Livestock Feeding Now   This Statement Made By Leaders of Movement to Withhold Stock

Reds Advance Despite Rains And Wet Snow   Counterattacks Of Nazis Broken By Tank-Led Army

Russian Officials Announce Capture Of 12 More Towns   Combine Units of Cossack Cavalry, Soviet Tanks Surround German Force in Caucasus

RED ARMY’S DRIVE THROUGH CAUCASUS NOW FANNING OUT   DESPITE ENEMY ATTEMPTS AT STAND RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. UNCHECKED

NAZIS FAIL T0 STOP RUSSIANS DRIVE IN SOUTH   New Offensives Listed By Nazi Unreported By Red Sources

Dozen-Towns Recaptured by Soviel Troops   Russians. Report Sharp Advance Toward Rostov

Reds Fanning Out in Drive In Caucasus   Germans Continue’ To Claim Ail ‘At-tacks Are Stopped

Reported Blow From Voronezh Not Confirmed   Despite German Efforts To Make Stand A Dozen More Towns Taken in Rolling Drive  By HENRY C. CASSIDY

Russians Broaden Offensive Front   Red Army’s Drive Through Caucasus Widen Out On Both Sides Of Rostov-Baku Trunk Line; More Towns Recaptured

RUSSIANS FAN OUT [oN BOTH SIDES OF ‘VITAL TRUNK LINE   Fighting Unchecked By Attempted Nazi Stand, iSteady Rains, Snow

OPENING OF NEW DRIVE IS UNCONFIRMED   German Reports Stating Soviets Had Launched Offensives Not Verified Ly Moscow   TANKS LEAD ADVANCES

Heavy Rains Fail To Cheek  Soviet Drive   Dozen More Towns Recaptured In Caucasus March

Red Drive Continues   Offensive Is Broadened In Unchecked Fighting

QUICK ADVANCE ALONG R. R. TO ROSTOV LISTED   British Hear German Officers Are Flying From Stalingrad Trap

Reds Drive On Toward Rostov; Allied Airmen Pound Axis In Africa.

BRUSH NAZIS ASIDE IN PUSH TOWARD TOWN   German News Agency Concedes Russian Tanks Have Broken Through Axis Main Line in the Cancagnuca

NAZIS MAKE DESPERATE -EFFORT 10  HALT REDS   Germans Say Soviets Open Leningrad Offensive  pDOZEN TOWNS CAPTURED  Fierce Fighting Is Raging At Stalingrad

re Caucasus  f = Attack Of 1 ~=Red Army ash Spreading   Liquor Store ( Robbed Of = More Than [ $100 In Cash §   Fertile Valley  Fields Are Bogged With Mud And Water, But Russ Plunge On

‘Russians Occupy  ‘12 More Towns In 50-Mile Gain  t ; Nazi Report of New   Nazi Report of New Offensive In North Ignored By Moscow

Soviet Drive Broadened In Caucasus   Nazi Attempts At Resistance ‘Proving Futile

Russians Win Baek  12 ‘Towns   Advance Along Rostov Despite Enemy Resistance

Soviet Drives Hard At Nazis In South Ares      Advancing Russians Fan Out Wider On Both Sides Of Rostov Railway.   QUIET ON NEW ATTACK

RED SPEARHEAD SPREADS WIDER IN CAUCASUS   NO Gone OF NEW OFFENSIVE FROM RUSSIANS

Russians Broaden Offensive   Nazi Counter Attacks Fail to Slow Soviet Advance in Caucasus And Toward Restov

DOZEN TOWNS RECAPTURED BY SOVIETS   “sharp Advances Are Made On Road To Rostov   RED PLANES   Raid Nazi Airfield At Stalingrad: High Ranking Officers Leave

12 TOWNS ARE CAPTURED; NEW FRONT OPENED   Large German Unit Surrounded By Soviet Troops

THE RED ARMY IN A COMEBACK DRIVE TO THE GAUGASUS   Reported Fanning Out Wider on Both Sides of RostovBaku Line.   SEPARATE SPEARHEADS   Despite German Attempts at a Stand, the Russians Broadened Front.

AEDS BROADEN FIGHTING LINE   Offensive Battles Uncheck. ed By Rain, Snow; Regain 12 Towns.

12 MORE-TOWNS CAPTURED BY SOVIET FORGES   Taken In North-Bound Drive Toward Great German Base At Rostov, Moscow Claims   RAIN AND SNOW FAIL TO STEM OFFENSIVE   Nazi Claim of New Drive Against Leningrad Siege Line Or On Voronezh Front Unconfirmed

8 Men Lost In Collision Of 2 Blimps   Mishap ‘in Dense Fog . Serids: One Airship Into N. Jersey Surf

GET READY FOR FREEZE WEEK   You Can't Buy Some Canned Goods Next Week

MORE MINES - CLOSED TODAY OVER COUNTRY   War Labor Board Considering Situation in Closed Hearing, Lewis Standing Pat

Says States Must Aid In — Airways, Toc   Resnonsibility Similar to Highway Assistance, Reports Thomas

Allies Capture Jungle Outpost   Australian Troops Drive on Enemy

AUSSIES DRAW NEARER BONGA ON NEW GUINE?   Assault, Which Began Sat urday, Brings Invaders   Within Mile of Objective by Sunday

AUSSIES CLOSE      Seasoned Troops, With Conquest of Sattelburg Behind Them, are Approaching Bonga   GAINS UNDISCLOSED

AUSTRALIANS PUSH TOWARD JAP OUTPOST   Americans Consolidate Bougainville Positions

AUSSIES ROLLING TOWARD BONGA   Enemy Positions Pounded From Air As Troops Strike At Japanese

SATTELBERG TAKEN   Australian Troops Closing in on Bonga, Jap Jungle Outpost

Aussies Close In On Bonga   Tanks Support Attack Of Allied Forces Pushing Through Juneles

‘AUSSIE TROOPS CLOSING IN» ON BONGA   Strong Force of Liberators Dump 94 Tons on Wewak: Jap Stronghold

Strategic Jap Position Is Threatened   Australians Close In on Enemy: Planes Aid Battle

Allies Close In On Bonga, Jap Base   New Guinea Assault Supported By Air Power And Tanks

Tanks, Planes Back Ground Troons in Move   U. S. Liberators  Drop 94 Tons of Bombs On Wewak, Jap New Guinea Stronghold

Japanese Wewak Base Is Pounded Heavily From Air   Foe Keeps Up Fight On End of Atoll In Gilbert Islands

Aided by Planes and Tanks They Close in on Bonga, Near Sattelberg

Aussie Tanks NearBonga in Jungle Drive   Jap New Guinea Outpost Next Goal After Fall of Satelberg

Continue Advances In New Guinea  Seasoned Australians Closing In On Bonga, Japs’ Jungle Outpost

Aussies Closing In On Bonga   ANOTHER JAP OUTPOST FACES ALLIED ATTACKS

Aussie Forees Closing in on  Japs at Bonga   Assault Intended to Take Out Bulge in Lines: Airdromes Hit

‘AUSSIES’ MOVE IN ON NIP POST IN NEW GUINEA   Australian Troops Within Mile ; of Jap Outpost on Bonga

PLAN CHECKUP. OF DEFERMENT   BILL. TO TIGHTEN SELECTIVE  . SERVICE SYSTEM MACHIN AEBY SF ECTED. FO: EASILY

Favorable Action in House on Move to . Strengthen Draft Deferments Probable

SOVIETS ALARMED AT GOAL STRIKES   Workers’ Publication Names Names in Comment on Dispute; Says Strikes Now Help Enemies of America

Markets Fight to Sell Big Supply  Meat ‘Point Wars’ Start in East

Meat Rationing Brings Over-Supply; ‘(Paint Wars’ Started On East Coast

P-38's Pave Route With Tree-Top Raid   Three Bigs Waves Of Bombers Roar In For Southern Italy Kill

BLAST RAIL YARDS AND AIRFIELDS I CAITTHERN ITA Y   Shoot Down 26 Planes And Destroy Others On Ground   THE ENEMY BADLY CRIPPLED IN AIR

The Crisis in India  Bloody Quarrel Micht Re Settled Tf Bath Sidec Wan!   Ry NEWIT)T MACKENZIE

SAYS GANDHI HAS CREATED GRAVE CRISIS   Writer Fears Consequences of His Death, Since Mahatma Is Considered ‘a Messiah by TInecounted Hosts.

——— ee ee  Gandhi's Son Thinks Father Willing To Make Fair Terms

Devadas Gandhi Declares Father Wants Free India  Leader's Son Says He Might Allow War Direction

GANDHI'S HUNGER STRIKE MATTER OF IMPORTANCE   Far Reaching Crisis Precipitated That May Hamper British-Indian Understanding

Gandhi’s Hunger Strike Brings Crisis In Indisz       Associated Press War) “Analyst, “After °¥ isit oT Country, Believes:‘Protracted And Bloody Qtar rel Is- Susceptible To Settlement

GandhiFi irmin His Demands \For India’s Independence   Son Says, However, Hindu Leader Is Ready to Make Concessions to Britain; Probable Terms for Set- — tlement Revealed to War Analyst; Hunger Strike Increases Crisis      ‘Ry DewWITT MACKENZIE

GANDHTI’S HUNGER STRIKE HAS PRECIPITATED MOST DANGEROUS CRISIS IN INDIAN CONTROVERSY

Dewitt Mackenzie oays:  Gandhi, If Out Of Jail, Would  Negotiate For Independence Now

WAR LABOR BOARD ASKS MINE HFANS, STRIKERS CONFER   Both Patties Ordered to Explain Why Anthracite Men Have Left Colleries Idle.

Court Martial Finds Air Base Officer Guilty   Colonel White's Dismissal From Service Suggested

REDS BURNING HEELS OF NZ BUINNINE ARMY   Germans Fleeing in Disorder from Captured City of Kharkov.   NEW TRAPS FOR AXIS _ DEVELOPED IN SOUTH

Major Nazi Force Beats Its Retreat   ‘ALL OF KHARKOV’ 1 GREATLY INCREASE FOF’S PERIL.

Routed Axis Troops Are Being Chased   Red Offensive Threatens Axis East of Dnieper

Defeated Germans In 250-Mile Flight To Dnieper. River   Reds Continue Rout Across Plains, Drive Southward to Tighten T rap Now Closing on Laree Axis Farce:

German Army. in Disorder Before. Attacking Reds   Remnants of . : Kharkov Troops ‘Are Routed

Nazis AreRouted By  Russians   Thousands Of Germar  Troops South O  Kharkov Imperilled B;  Fall Of City

‘Winter Offensive Of Red  . Army Threatens All - OF Adolf Hitler’s Main Armies  NAZI FORCES “ROUTED”  Peril Of ~ Hundreds Of . Thanenade OL Awete :

DEBATE BEGINS ONSERVICE PAY   Two - Front  Congressional Fight Over Father Draft Under Wzy

DRAFT DEBATED — ON TWO FRONTS   Action On Benefits, Fathers Will Keep House Busy

Fight Over Father Draft Is Launched   Full House Membership Begins Debate on New Allotment Allowance Proposal  CHANGING MEASURES

Flyers Saved After 16 Days in Icy ‘Wilds; Ate Woodpeckers, Squirrels

 Eden's. Visit to the U.S. Is Drawing  ta a Close and He Hae Been Sueresefiul

NO SECRET PACT EDEN TELLS U.S.      Hope Remains that Russia Will Give Autonomy to Baltic States

EDEN’S MISSION NEARING CLOSE   British Statesman Has Clarified Number Of Points On Foreign Policy

Eden’s Visit to the U. S. Is Drawing to a Close and He Has Been Successful

Selective Service Has Task Of Placing Manpower Where Nation at War Best Served

Nazis to Quit Rome, Says Press Reporl   Allies Win Battle For Volturna; Whole German Line Broken

TO FLEE ROME BY OCTOBER 31   Molitopol Street Fighting Rages Into Second Week

Yanks, British Sweep Forward Toward Rome   Marked Slackening Of German Resistance - Noted In ltaly   Germans Prepare To Evacuate Rome

Damages Sought From Air Firm   Electrical Company Officer Makes Charges

Utility Firm Is Sued for 21 Millions   second Damage Actio1 Started Against North  American Co.

W.L.B. HEADS SWIFTLY TOWARDS NEW CRISIS   A. F. L. Spoksman Says “It's Tottering on Last Legs"

LEWIS TALK ON RADIO IS URGEL   Mine Boss Asked To Presen Wage Dispute To Nation

CHANGE OFFICE HOURS   Rationing Officials Will etum to a Regular 8-Hour Day

NAZIS PLANNING TO EMPLOY POISON GAS   Churchill Warns That Use In Rus sia Will Bring Retaliatory Action By Allies

Churchill Thinks Germans Will Use Poison Gas Soon   But Prime Minister Warns Hitler British Will Refaliale

MANY GIVE BLOOD AT LOCAL CENTER   So Few Rejections That So ae Appointments Cancelled

MANY GIVEBLOOD AT LOCAL CENTER      So. Beir: Rejections That ne Appointments “Cancelled. -:

“Volts For Victory” Is War Slogan Of State’s 4-H Electrical Wivarde

CORPORATION TAKES OVER OHIO PLANT   Increased Efficiency Listed As Reason

MARTIN.DECLARES "PLANS DANGEROUS   Governor Tells Assembly Americans Shoul d: “Stop, Look, Listen.”    GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY MENACE

Reds Seize New Positions Near Smolensk   Break Up Axis Attack Preparations on Kharkov Front

REDS MAKE GAINS INBAYONET CHARGE IN SMOLENSK ARFA   Activity Is O1 On Reduced  Seale “Due To Mud  ' Bogging Down Eouisment

Charge with BayonetsNets Reds Big Gain   Artillery Breaks Up Preparations For New Assault

REDS SEIZE NEW FAVORABLE SPOTS   Japs Have Little Success Ir Attempts to Strengthen Their Positions,

RED BAYONETS RIP ADVANCE   SOVIET GUNS SMASH NAZI KHARKOV THRUST

REDS SEIZE MORE POSITIONS NEAR CITY OF SMOLENSK   Activity, However, Continues on Reduced Scale Because of Mud.

Italians Claim  Allies Captured   Tunisian Fi ghting Hits French

PRESIDENT MAY GIVE VETO TO THE ANTI-STRIKE BILL   On Grounds It Would Tend To Promote Work Stoppages   SHOWDOWN VOTES

Six Die as Army Plane Crashes Near Mosquero  oe... 44... Baud Bid   Searching Party Hunts Seventh Man, Reported Saved by Parachute  VICTIMS UNIDENTIFIED   VICTIMS UNIDENTIFIED  Witness Says Plane Appeared to Explode In Mid-Air Then Fall

Says Extensions in Filing Tax Returns Will Be Given Some   Iowa Senator Declares He Has Information from Revenue Collector

Tax Extensions Jn Some Cases   Will Be Granted in Justifiahle Cases, Benatar Told

Grant Delay In Payment Income Tax   Extensions Up to 6@ Days  > Will Be Made in Justifiable Cases, Says Senator Gilletta

Tax Extensions In Some Cases  Will Be Granted in Justifiable ‘Cones,  YR UNE, uc

Ruml Plan Vote Likely Today   Full House Group OK’ Withholding Levy   60-Day Extensions Ie *Inctifiahle Cases

BREAK DEADLOCK ON INCOME TAX   HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES PAY AS YOU GO SYSTEM

Unusual Situation Causes . Change to Be Made on  ~ Income Returns

60-Day Extension  In Filing Income  Returns Granted Justifiable Cases te  Get Consideration, - Senator Reports

20P.C. Income Tax Collected At Source Approvec   House Group Votes Later On Ruml Plan; Other Abatement Ideas Pavmente Due Mar 15

OKAY-INCOME TAX DELAYS   60-DAY EXTENSIONS IN FEW CASES APPROVED

Delays on Payment of Income Levies Will Be Permitted If Good Reasons  Are Given.

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Approved By Committee   Official Says Extensions May Be Granted

EXTENSIONS IN INCOME FILING TOBEGRANTED   Some Will Be Allowed 60  Days More To Turn  In Returns

EXTEND TAX TIME   Unusual Situation Causes _ Change to Be Made on  Income Returns

CAN'T SELL CANNED FOODS   To Grant Extension of Tax Deadline in Deserving Cases

DEADLINE FOR TAX RETURNS EXTENDED   Justifiable Cases May Apply For Extensions in Fling Statement.

Dismissal Sought In Thomas Appeal   Contends High Court  In Error 

STATE SEEKING TO HALT PLEA   Dismissal Of Appeal B Thomas To Be Asked

SURVIVAL CHANEE   Doctor Optimistic as Gir’ Passes Ninth Day in Incubator

Russian. Troops Reach Dnieper   Overrun Last German Defenses East of River—Berlin Admits Polttava Lost .

REDS DRIVE ARC . AROUND -KIEV,, NEAR’ DNEIPER   Smoiensk’s Fall Matter of Hours — Advance Alt Alona 700-mile Front.

Explosives Blow Up After Freight Wreck  One Man Killed, Twe Others Are Missing

Stalin Approves - Military Program  Turning Point In War Reached, He Says

Stalin Gives Indication of Satisfaction   Says Moscow Conference Laid Down Plans That Must Lead to Victory

French Innkeeper Put To Death For Sheltering U. §. Flier Overnight

New Tax Measure Goes fo President  Senate Approves Compromise Bill

TWO SCHOOLS, CHURCH ALSO AXIS TARGETS   Vichy Reports Town in Picardy Attacked While Paris Radio Claims Amiens Attacked

AXIS BOMBERS HIT HOSPITAL   50 Children Escape Injury; RAF Planes Hit At Nazi Airfields

POST-WAR BILL BEFORE HOUSE   Republicans Seek Amendment To Safeguard “Constitutional Processes”

FEW WORDS OF AMENDMENT TO BE ADDED BEFORE PASSAGE. ACCORDING  TO PLANS .

PROGRESS IN CAMPAIGN ON THE ADRIATIC   Secking to Turn Whole German Position on Read to Rome. Many Prisoners Taken.

British Launch Strong Attack Along Sangro   Drive To Turn German Position Before Rome

Attack Is Supported By Terrific Air Onslaught.   By RICHARD McMURRAY  ECS Shik Ths

VIOLENT ATTACK LAUNCHED NORTHWEST OF SANGRO RIVER ALONG ADRIATIC.   Allied Headquarters Announces Troops Are we ing Good Progress and Capturing Many Prisonegs Despite Stiff German Opposition id

Eighth Army Trying to Turn German Line   Allied Troops Making Good Progress and Taking Prisoners in Italy; Reds - Driving Toward Zhiobin Rail Center

EIGHTH ARMY MIEN DRIVING FORWARD ON ITALIAN FRONT   Warships Shell German Po. sitions; Planes Lead in Attack

Allies Open New Smash At Nazis   Seek To Turn Whole Foe Position Before Rome

Sth Army — in Blow on Adriatic   British Seek To Tum Ger} man Positions Before Rome$. Many Prisoners   REDS PUSH ON. IN WHITE RUSSIA.   Europe Buzzes With Peace Rumors and of Meeting * “of ‘Bio Three’

RED ARMY DRIVE NOW SHIFTED T0 WHITE RUSSIA   Rumor Factory in High Gear As Aerial Attacks on Germany Increase

‘BRITISH OPENED AN  ‘OFFENSIVE TO TURN  WHOLE GERMAN LINE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS REPORT  GOOD PROGRES  Bler RMRICALRCPHRe

Planes Pave Allied Road with Barrage   Report One-Third of Berlin Is in Ruins; Nazi Air Might Weaker

Sth Army Launches Attack —   Rush Offensive Along Adriatic; Europe Alive With Rumors of New Diplomatic Moves

BRITISH OPEN HEAVY ASSAULT ALONG ADRIATIC   Russian Forces Menace Rai Center. Beat Off Nazi Ukraine Blows

Nava! and Aerial! Bombardment Aids Drive Across Sangro   German-Held Rail Junction in White Russia Ils Menaced

Sangro River Is Bridged As Allies Launch Offensive   Germans Counterattack Stubbornly; Flame Throwers Employed By  Enemy

Europe Buzzes with Speculation “Ab New Tri-Partite Meeting and: Whol Unverified Reports of Peace: Ove _ tures; Bombers Renew. Assauli :

Fitth Seizes High Ground  Near Venafra      Russian Armies Emace Zhlohin From Positions 15-20 Miles Away.   TAKE MANY PRISONERS

Vice Admiral Greenslade, Bellevue, Sees Jap Dream Of Invasion As Nightmare

Vice Adm. Greenslade Says Japan's 5 Projected Conquest Of America Is Turning From Dream Into Nightmare

Bricker Advocates Strong Navy, Air Force to Preserve World Peace

ON KISKA RUN AGAIN   Hapless Japs In Aleutians Given Another Bomb Shower

Bombers Pound Jap Kiska Base   Allies Kill 700 Japs in Clearing New Guinea Valley

Allied Fighters Clear New Guinea Valley of Japs; Airmen Blast Ring of Bases

700 Japs Are Slain   Allies Clear Enemy Out Of Mambare River Val lay

Bombers Again Hit af Kiska   American Raiders Start Large Fire On Jap-Held Island

OPA Slashes Meat Points; Butter Raised   THIRTEEN PROCESSED FOODS SHIFTED HIGHER; SOME VEGETABLES DROP

POINTS FOR MEAT REVISED BY OPA, AFFECTS 35 CUTS   Some Vegetables Are Cheaper, Nearly All Processed Foods on Point Basis Are Increased.   NEW ORDER EFFEC TIVE UNTIL OCTOBER 2   While Butter Outlook Ap: pears Serious, Meat Pic: ture Is Bect Since Ration: ing Opened OPA Says.

Lower Point Values Set For Meats   More Coupons to Be Required for  Butter, However

OPA to Require More Ration Points for 13 Processed Foods Starting Sunday

REDUCE STAMP COST OF MEAT   Thirty.Five Cuts of Meat Reduced in Point Value—Creamery Butter Raised from 10 to 12 Points Per Pound,

WFA Suspends Slaughter Lid: Points Are Cut   Slash Is Made Possible By Estimated 20 Per Cent Increase in Supplies   BACON IS REDUCEL      Butter Ration Cost f: Boosted Ta 12; Blue Val. ues Are Revised

PROCESS FOOD POINTS HIGHER   @everal Types of Canned Vegetables and Frozen Fruits and Berries Will Cost More in Points.

35 Cuts of Meat Take Less Points   Point Cest of Butter and Some Processed Foods to  Be Increased Sunday

Many Cuts Of Meat Lowered; Butter Rises   Point Values Reduced For 35 Cuts Of Meat Effective Sunday   LAMB EMS DOWN   OPA Apprehensive Over Butter Outlook At This Time

U. S. Aircraft Firms Oppose Post-War Government Hand in Any Commercial Aviation

Nazis Probably Will Establish New Line Along Dnieper On East Front

NAZI NATION Ih HOURNIG OVE LOSS IN RUSSI!  ‘Sixth German Army Sacri   xth German Army Sacri ficed At Stalingrad to , Pride of Adolf  t —. Pitler --.      IFACES NEW DISASTER   Russians Promise to Pre  / sent Goebbels With Ad ditional Grief for Propaganda Purposes

NAZIS. MOURN SHCRIFICE AT STALINGRAD   Second Military Debacle May Come ‘Shortly in Caucasus.   ‘ARMY IN SOUTH TRIES TO ESCAPE   Reds Take Vital Rail! Junction, Hamper Retreat of Big Army.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Likely Will Lose All His 1942 Gains In Soviet Russia

RUSSIAN FORCES PLAN ANOTHER AXIS DISASTER   Willing To Furnish Facts for Goebbels Mourning Propaganda Machine

$108 Billion Budget Given  To Consress   Chief Advocates ‘Harsh Program’ to Raise War Needs

President Suggests Lower Salaries For Higher Ups And Part Pay-As-Go Plan

Calls For Forced Savings, New Taxes For More Revenue   Warns Nation to Prepare for Simpler: Life; Would Have Half of War Cost Borne  as Fight. Waged. ..

Hundred Billion Dollars Sought In Budget By FDR; ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Endorsed

FORCED SAVINGS, MORE TAXES TO ~ BOOST REVENUES   $108,903,407;923 Is Estimate For 1944 Fiscal Year—Outlines Plan To Raise - An Additional $16,000,000,000 Of  Revenue Annually   PRESIDENT FAVORS SOME ‘FORM OF “PAY-AS-YOU-GO"

New Taxes and Forced: Savings. Are Proposed      * Warns Americans: To Pull in Belts,. 2 ' Lead Simple Life: :

Asks New Taxes and Savings   Declares Tax Program ‘*‘Must Be Harsh’’—A  “Maximum Effort”

New Taxes, Forced Savings Are Urged   Roosevelt Warns Americans To Pull in Belts—Figure Based on Total Preduction Capacity

HIGHER TAXES, MORE SINGS SIMPLE LIVING   No Easy, Pleasant Way to Wage War, President Says in Message.   ASKS $108,903,047,923 FOR 1944 FISCAL YEAR

100 Billion Solely For War Effort   Esai caste  GIVES ANNUAL BUDGET MESSAGE TO CONGRESS; WOULD RAISE. . YEAR’S REVENUE TO 51 BILLIONS:

Warns Country to Prepare  For Simple Life, Minus Aeecustomed Frills

CONGRESS GIVEN HUGE BUDGET BY PRES, ROOSEVELT   Calls For Over 100 Billion Dollars — Also For New  Wagne

New Taxes, Plus Forced Savings Outlined For Congress By President

ROLL UP SLEEVES, TIGHTEN BELTS I “BUDGET THEME   Tax Program. Must Be Harsh to Successfully. Wage Total War.

‘Heavier Taxes Seen In New Budget. “Pay-As* You-Go” Plan Propos-

President Asks For New Taxes, Forced Savings      Present Generation To Bear Half “Ot War Cost; U.S. Must Cut Frills, Mr. Roosevelt Insists

PRESIDENT CALLS FOR NEW TAXES   Warns People Must Pull In Belts For Life Minus Frills

CALLS FOR 1944  MAXIMUM EFFORT     Again Endorses Pay-As-YouGo Plan As Far As Feasible.

To Increase Treasury 51 Billiona Year   President Calls For New Taxes, Forced Savings

NEW TAXES, FORCED SAVINGS TO RAISE 16 BILLION MORE ASKED   otal Revenue Of 51 Billion Annually Urged; Warns Americans To Prepare For ‘Simpler Life’; Favors Pay-As-You-Go Plan

RESIDENTS FLEE TO OUTSKIRTS AS RAF TAKES REST   People lam Freight Cars for Exodus—Goebbels Tries to Stir Flagging Morale.

Capital Free From. Night Bombing Raids For . First Night In 4 Days.  OFFENSIVE MOUNTING Airfield Target Is Vital  _ Base For German  Planes

Poix Airfield Is Attacked By U.S. Bombers   One Of Principal Bases In France For German Interceptors Is Target Of American Raiders

Chief Base Of Nazi Fighters Allied Target   Berlin Gets First Rest In Four Nights, Due To Bad Weather

GERMANS FLEEING BERLIN 10 ESCAPE ALLIED AIR BLITZ   uburban Districts Jammed with Refugees; Railways in Southern Italy Plas tered with Romhs.

RAF GROUNDED, BERLINERS GET BOMB RESPITE   Americans Take Over, Attack Airfield In France

Yank Medium Bombers Strike Poix Airfield   Batter French Field That Has  Been Haven for German Fighters

PANIC-STRICKEN BERLIN GETS ONE NIGHT OF RELIEF   J. S. Medium Bombers Center on Poix Airfield In North France to Smash German Air Power.   FOUR ITALIAN CITIES BLASTED BY BOMBERS   Thousands of Fragmentation Bombs, Tons of High Explosives Are Unloaded  l During Raids.

AMERICAN MED. BOMBERS RAID POIX AIRFIELD   Berlin is Bomb Fre For First Time In Four Nights

Medium Bombers Push Offensi In Northern France; Air Fiel And Railways In South Ita Hit By Allied Planes   RAF NIGHT RAIDERS GIVEN SHORT RES

American Bombers  Hit Nazi Airfield  In Northern France      Allied Night Raiders Rest To Give Battered ‘Panic-Stricken Berlin Its First BombFree Night in Four Nights

$1.25 REDUCTION IN HOG SUPPORT PRICE   Quotation From October 1, 194: To March 31, 1945 Will Be $12.50 Wundred Pounds

Support Prices For Hogs To Be Cut October 1   Government Acts To Save Supplies

SUPPORT PRICE FOR HOGS CUT   Livestock Brought Into Line With Reduced Feed Supplies

COUNTY GROUP TO  GET FINAL: EXAMS      Registrants Will Leave for Baltimore on Thurs-. ~ dow :

COUNTY GROUP T0 GET FINAL EXAMS   Registrants Will Leave for Baltimore on Thursdav

Patriotic Reputation of City Faces Crisis as Finish of War Loan Campaign Nears   Area Musi Raise $926,000 in Five Days to Reach Quote: Citizens’ Group ; Prepares to Match Butte’s Bond Dollars

Patriotic Reputation of City Faces Crisis as Finish  of War Loan Campaign Nears  Area Must Raise $926,000 in Five Days to Reach Quota: Citizens’ Group  so MN a

PICKETS STILL IGNORE ACTION BY PRESIDENT   Given Until Noon Monday to Comply With Ultimatum Issued From White House   LEWIS AND AIDES SENT TELEGRAMS   Unionists Have Indicated They Will Work Under Military Rule; Defy War Labor Board

NEWARK STRIKE END ORDERED BY ROOSEVELT   President Gives Celanese Workers Until Monday Before Government Reopens Plant

Celanese strikers ordered to work   President directs return to jobs; Lewis iqnores WLB call

President Sets Deadline For Plastics Strike   Celanese Company Pick ets ignore Warning Te End Walkout Monday   ARMY MAY TAKE OVER   WLB Recommends Whits House Move After UMW Refuses Appea!

'AN ULTIMATUM IS SENT TO STRIKERS BY ROOSEVELT   Ordered Workers at the Celanese Corporation Plant Back to Work.   MONDAY IS DEADLINE   Non-Compliance by Then Will Result in Government Steps to Reopen Plant.

President Gives Strikers Until Monday To Go Back To Work  Pickets Remain On Duty At Celanese Plant Despite Orders For Immediate Resumption

F.D.R. Orders Strikers Go Back on dot   Given Until Noon Monday to Resume Operations in Celanese Plant   STRIKE IN EFFECT. _ ABOUT TWO WEEKS   Regarded as a Clear. Violation of- Labor’s No-. Strike Policy

President Orders Strikers to Work   Celanese Corporation Plant Tied Up by Jurisdic tional Dispute’   DEADLINE. IS MONDAY   Strikers Continue Picketing After Receiving the — Order

NOON MONDAY DEADLINE FOR MEN TO RETURN   President Steps Into Long Dispute Between Unions On Bargaining Right

PRESIDENT:ORDERS STRIKE CALLED OFF   New Jeriey. Workers Ordered etuirn  by Monday. 3

FD. R. ORDERS STRIKERS 10 60 BACK BY MONDAY   President Takes Hand In Celanese Walkout; Union Leaders Have No Comment On Ultimatum.

CELANESE STRIKERS CONTINUE PICKETING AFTER FDR’S ORDER   To Return to Work Immediately. Police Maintain Heavy Guard  Outside Plant.

FR Demands Strikers Go Back to Work   Gives Celanese Workers - Until Monday to Obey Orders »

CHIEF EXECUTIVE DEMANDS ACTION BY MONDAY NOON   ‘Government Will Act If  Order Is Ignored; Juris. dictional Walkout Two Weeks Old.

‘GET BUSY!’   FOR Orders Strikers Back to Jobs: They Picket Anyhow.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S ORDER DISREGARDED CELANESE STRIKERS  WORKERS BIG PLASTIC PLANT CONTINUED PICKETING SATURDAY .

Strikers Ordered To Return; Given  Until Monday   F.D.R. Takes Action After Workers Quit At Newark Plant.

12 70 20 KILLED IN BRAGG CRASH   Big Army Transport Crashes Near Fort Bragg; Bad Weather Blamed.

British Make Slight Gain in North Africa   Tough German Defenses Still Unbroken; Nazis Report U. S. Attacks

CONCORD GIRL IS MARRIED IN POST CHAPEL   Miss Joyce § Stafford: Weds Lieut. John A. Dean at Coffeyville, Kansas

FACES TROUBLE   Union Angry With  Rodzinski, Threnajens Not ta PI

LABOR ASKS FOOD PRICES BE HELE   Repeats Plea to President Roosevelt That Prices Be Kept From ‘Running Riot’; Seeks Spot on Agencies

August Aircraft Building At Peak   Production Between 7,600, 7,800 Planes

SUPPLY ROUTES CUT NEAR ORCI   Russians Knock Out Main Supply Lines And Ad vance From 3 Directions

RED ARMY KNOCKS Al GATES OF OREL   Captured 70 Towns and Take 29,000 Nazi Prisoners.

RED ARMY KNOCKS AT GATES OF OREL   Have Knocked Out the Last German Supply Route

U.S., Britain, China, Russia In Agreement   Results Of Conference At Moscow Revealed; ‘European Advisory Commission’ Planned

FIRE ON BRITISH COAST   Buildings in Dover Area Were ’ Shaken by Explosions 

EPIDEMIC IS SPREAD OVER - WIDE AREAS   ALMOST ALL REGIONS. OF N. TION AFFECTED BY OUTBREAK OF FLU AND SIMILAR DISEASES

Governor Goodland Sounds Out Legislators on Proposal To ‘Reorganize Conservation Setup

~— TS SUGGESTED   MOVE STARTED TO CREATE JOINT COMMITTEE TO MAKE CHECKUP ON PROPOSED EXPENDITURES

AAG REPORTS TANK ATTACK BY OTH ARMY   Claim British Repulsed with Loss of 35 Tanks; Baitle Not Confirmed.   ALLIED BOMBERS HIT IN LIBYA AND TUNISIA

Axis Reports New Drive By British Tanks   Battle Of Armored Giant: 1s Believed Opening Of Allied Offensive :   REPULSE [IS CLAIMEL   Decisive Air Victory By American Led Forces In: dicated In Tunisia

CHEST DRIVE HITS $87 643   Drive To Close Next Monday With Victory Luncheon

$35,643 Raised In Chest Drive   Twin City Campaign Ir Closing Phase

Report 10,649 'U. S. Casualties   Eden Lists Losses In Fighting In Italy To Date

PATRICK YORE IS MISSING’   Unaccounted For After Sea Action, Navy Reports

Chiang Takes Oath Of Office   Me a soe IGeneralissimo Inaugurated President of China.

Chiang Kai-shek Assumes Office  Becomes President oat Chinaca Netian

Chiang Kai-Shek Becomes President of China and . ‘Gives Outline of Policy

Chiang Sworn As President, Hails Future   Generalissimo Declares Victory Is in Sight, Pledeos Efforts

Chiang Kai-shek Assumes Office  Becomes President of Chinese Nation

Writer Believes Harsh Punishment As a Lesson, Then Education for Peace, Best Treatment for Reich

The War Today   Reich’s Unconditional Surrender Held Essential for Stable Peace

The War .. Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Press War Analyst)

GERMANY MUST BE GROUND FINE IN MILLS OF WAR BEFORE PEACE CAN BE CONSIDERED BY ALLIES   Premature Peace Now Means New War Later on, It is Believed.  Nation’s Mind Must Be Changed And New National Psychology Developed

oo AR NEWS  ANALYSIS   Allied March Thru Reich Might Prevent Future Wars, Says MacKenzie

WOULD UNCONDITIONAL GERMAN SURRENDER PROVE BEST WAY TO ISOLVE EPOCHAL WORLD PROBLEM

The War Today— : Peace Now May Save Lives But Not In Long Run If Prussianism Exists

Would Immediate Peace With Nazis Solve Problem?  People Must Learn Meaning of War

Strike Spread In Midsouth Stops Freight   War Goods Pile Up In Warehouses as Trucks Cease Hauls

RECENT CHURCH  DEVELOPMENTS IN  MOSCOW WATCHED ONCE ANTI-RELIGIOUS  CENTER OF WORLD GETS BACK IN LINE

Religion Comes Back In Russia;  Church Is Formee   State (Church Eintec By Stalin

UNION SEEN OF STATE, CHURCH UNDER SOVIETS   WORLD EYES STALIN AS LEADER ACCEPTS ORTHODOX RELIGION

‘Powarps’ Are Busy In Washington To Prevent Another Depression   3,500,000 Workers Wanted For Farms

Post-War Planners Are Busy At Washington To  Meet Coming Situation

‘Powarps’ Have Offered to Take Care of Our Post-War Troubles; Seek Plan to Avoid Depression

WASHINGTON FULL OF “POWARPS” AND THEY ARE BUSY FOLK  POST-WAR PLANNERS ON EVERY SIDE LIKE TERMITES AND GREMELINS

Scores of Agencies at Work on Post War Plans to Block Depression

100 Experts Planning How To Avoid a Depression and Improve Post-War America

‘POWARPS’ INVADE WASHINGTON   THEY ARE OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL POST-WAR PLANERS

‘Senate Prepares to Vote On Roosevelt Farm Parity Veto   Administration Leaders Claim Increasing Support For Veto; Farm Bloc Leaders " Not Anxious For Quick Vote  ’

Sen. Barkley Says Chances Good That Senate Will Uphold Bankhead Act Veto

CHANCES LOOK FAIRLY GOOD,’ SAYS BARKLEY   Plans for Quick Vote In Senate Undergo Sudden Change

HEAVY GERMAN AIR LOSS   Approaches Staggering Proportions, Says General Spaatz —

ITALY GIVEN A TASTE iz BOMBING. WAR   Battered’ Port of Narles Is Attacked by the Allied  Air Forces..°.   MUCH DAMAGE DONE   Appears That Air Offensive Against Mussclini. Ncw Ts Starting. .-

ALY GIVER A TASTE OF BUNBING WAR   Battered Port of Narles Is Attacked by the Allied Air Forces,   MUCH DAMAGE DONE   Appears That Air Offensive Against Mussclini New Is Sta:t neg.

Russ Weather Plays Fickle   Little Snow, Rain Stil) Falling, Mud Is Deep :

ACTRESS SCORES PEEK-B00 BOBS   Too Many Workers Are Scalped By Using Only One Eye, U S. Says

WASHINGTON FINDS MUSKRA‘t SUBSTITUTE FOR SCARCE BEEK PORK AND VIEAL

Washington Finds Muskrat Tasty Substitute for Scarce Beef, Pork and Veal

CIO Revives Plan For $25,000 Salary Limit, Says Congress Propagandizing For Sales Tax

ClO Head Leads Fight Against Federal Sales Tax  Philip Murray Says Selfish Minority Advocates It

Federal Sales _ Tax Criticized  By CIO Chiel   Maryland Senator Sa ys  ‘Poor, Rich” Better Oeel Woe Face

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS URGE ‘FEDERAL ECONOMY   Report Charges America’s Burden Exceeds All United Nations

TAX INCREASE ~~ PLAN IS HIT   HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORTS THAT MAXIMUM TAXATION LEVEL 18 VIRTUALLY REACHED -

HOLD TAXATION AT SATURATION   Committee Asks Congres: to Cut Government Expenditures

U.S. Taxation Near Maximum   Committee Calls For Reduction In Expenditures

Maximum Taxation  Is Reached   House committee calls for cutting of government spending

@ THEY'RE GONNA EAT  Thirty Families Raising Gardens in Plots West of City

STUTTGART AND MUNICH AMONG RAIDED CITIES   Invasion Armies Hold 45 Miles of Coast Along Toe of Italy

Punished Hard on  All Fronts   Hears Report Leader  For European Army To Be Marshall.

GERMAN FEAR OF ALLIED INVASION GROWS.WITH — DEVELOPING “EVENTS   Relentless Aerial Attacks On. German Sinews of War and Appointment of-Gen. George C. Marshall as European Commander Sharpens Fea

Attack Hints Grow Broader as Marshall {s Groomed for Allied High Command 

Allied Armies In Italy Gain, Reds Advance   British and Canadian Beachhead or Italian Toe Now 60 Miles Wide; Russians Continue Drive in the Ukraine; Stalino Fall Expected

GEN. MARSHALL SEEN AS BOSS OF INVASION   RAF Blasts Munich Following Fortress Attacks on City of Stuttgart.   WIDEN HOLD ON ITALY   Allies Extend Bridgehead as Nazi Jitters Qver Blow  Dwar, thlan?t leannnan

GERMAN FEARS OF "INVASION GROW DUE NEW DEVELOPMENTS  ALLIES IN ITALY AND RUSSIANS CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCES

AERIAL ATTACKS BLAST NAZILAND IN MANY PLACES   British Forces Drive Deeper Into Italy on Widening Front - - Little Opposition   REDS SMASH NAZIS BACK   Gen. McArthur Leads Yanks In Springing Trap on Japs On Pacific Islands

May Be Aneel Allied Commander   Soviets Push Back Germans On 600 Mile Front; Kill 10,000  of Enemy

PLUNGE INLAND 10 MORE MILES TO DELIANUOVA   Fall Of Stalino To Reds Is Near; Allied Planes   Paste Germany

Invaders Widen Hold On Italy   Report Marshall Will Head Allied Armies In Europe Heightens Nazi Fears— Germans Falling Back Before  Dogged Russian Attacks

Aerial Assaults on ' Hifler’s Europe Are Reaching New High   Capture of Stalino Is Expected Soon In Russian Campaign

Allies Drive Axis Back In  Italy, Russia   German Invasion Fears Sharpened As Marshall Named Commander.   'BRITISH TAKE PALM!

JAP THREAT TO CHANGSHI INCREASING   Nips Establish Foothold On Shore Of Lake Tungting

Rationing of Train, Bus Travel Not in Sight Yet   ODT Director Eastman Warns, However, That Public May Soon Have to Obtain Priorities in Order to Travel by Train — Another Survey of Situation Will he Made Soon

TO HALT SABOTAGE   Report Holds Labor Chiefly _ to Blame for Plane Plant Failure

THREE NAZI BOATS SUNK OFF CALAIS   Other RAF Planes Attack Industrial Objectives in Ruhr and Rhineland.

Light Bombers Hammer Nazis   Ruhr And Rhineland Indus. trial Centers Are Attacked In Night   NAZI TORPEDO BOATS ATTACKED BY R.A.F

Floods From Broken Nazi Dams Spread   Morocco Radio Declares Riots Break Out at Duisburg and Dortmund Is Threatened. With Inundation—Toll of Dead Growing.

SPEED LIMITS OVER BY OHIO LAWMAKERS STATE ARE DEBATED   No Decision Yet Reached an Plan and Stormy Future Is Faced in Assembly.

To Withdraw ir North Africa   Americans Seek ° To Get Into Hign Ground

ATTACK BELIEVED MADE BY ROMMEL FEARING BRITISH   Yankees Evacuate Places to Take Strong Defensive Positions In 4000-Foot Hills Nearby.   EARLY ARRIVALS ARE PREPARING FOR FIGHT   Substantial Casualties Are Reported, Equipment fs Destroyed by Nazis Dive Bombers.

Eighth Army Smashes Medenine as Americans Fall Back Before Powerful Offensive of Rommel   German Push Regarded as Dangerous to British Army in North——AEF Re tires to New Positions in Hills.

Germans Within 14 Miles Of Algerian Border After Driving U. S. Forces Back

NAZIS GAIN 30 MILES IN TUNISIA   Drive Thru U. S. Forces To Within 14 Miles of Border   Stimson Says U.S. Forces Have Sustained Losses in Personnel And Equipment in Tunisia Fighting

Nazis Drive U.S. From 3 iMore Towns   Berlin Considers Tunisian Drive Now Completed

German Forces Within 14 Miles Of Algeria Now   Further Advance Not Expected in Face of Lighth Army Threat to South; U. S. Losses Heavy

AMERICANS DRIVEN FROM THREE TOWNS   German _ Armored Columns Penetrate to Within 14 Miles of Algeria.

Rommel Halts Central Drive as Eighth Army. Perils South Flank   YANKS HOLD HILLS   Tommies Fight Way Into Medenine, Outpost of Desert Forts

British Eighth Army Races Over Approaches To Mareth Line With More Momentum; Eussian Front Unchanged   NEW THREATS BUILT UP BY RED FORCES

Santa Claus Is 0.K. Now; Ban On Giving Rationed Food Rescinded by OPA

OPA LIFTS BAN ON GIFTS   Rationed Foods and Shoes May Now Be Put in Christmas Basketa

AFL LEADER TELLS LEGION JOB PLAN IS POST-WAR PROBLEM   Pledges Union’s Backing To Winning War — Democracy Must Be Preserved

No Sign of Breaks in  Flood Wall   Crest Near at Portsmouth As Engineers Reinforce  Dikes—Think City Safe

CREST IS. EXPECTED IN HOURS   High Water Mark May Be Reached Tomorrow— Portsmouth Flood Wall Protected.

Portsmouth Puts Sand Bags on Dike   River Continues Rising; Patrols  Watch for Break in Flood Wall _

FIFTH ARMY TAKES CAPUA AS SOVIETS _ CONVERGE ON KIEV   Eighth Army Along East Coast Repels _ Heavy Counter Blows Designed ~ To Stop March Of — Allies On Rome 

R edForces In Renewed Offensive   Plunge Across Dnieper, Threaten Kiev and Set  Trap for Germans

LEGION TO ELECT WARING SUCCESSOR   Admiral King to Address Convention; California Man May Win Post

Legion To Greet Admiral Kine   Heod Of Fleet Will Be Honored, Make Speech

TODAY'S WAR MOVES Hitler Striking Power on Trial  Ry ITC F WFEERAEE

GIVES 3 ADDRESSES   Journalism Students Hear President of Kansas Press Group

U. S. Fighter Planes Destroy Town In Burma Used As Japanese Base

FOUR MOTORED BOMBERS RAID GERMAN CITIES   Take Offensive Against Germany, RAF Hammers Frankfurt Objectives

Frankfurt, Berlin Assaulted by RAF   Mosquito Bombers Stab At Nazi Capital: German War Industries Tn Frankfurt Are Demolished

American Bombers Take Smash at Reich Secto;      UPPER DNIEPER AREA REACHED BY SOVIETS         Nauis Hard Hit in White Russia: Setback is Handed Out in Italy

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK NORTHWEST REICH   British Airmen Hammer Frankfurt; Berlin Aaain Raided

Slash Is Asked In Expenditures   Drive Coupled. With Sales Tax Proposal

Taber Proposes 40% Slash in New Tax Goal   Cut of 4 Billion in Federal Spending Is Urged; Need for U. S. Sales Tax Reiterated

ca Io. * ory Sugges: 4: Percen. Gu: in ax rogram ~ ‘rougi Gov’: Savings; & ec Tax -ronosa Zevivet.

40 PER CENT GUT IN TREASURY TAX GOAL SUGGESTED   Taber Says Reduction Can Be Made Through 4 Billion Dollar Slash in Federal Expenditures.   SENTIMENT DEVELOPS FOR A SALES LEVY   House Committee 'Lold Impeost Would Reach Part of Money Untouched by Income Rates.

Business Men Urge Sales Tax To Raise More Revenue   New York Board of Trade Urges Ten Per Cent Levy on Sales—-Morgenthau’s Program Given Chilly Reception

Four Billion Cut Demanded in U. §. Expenditures  Federal Sales Tax 2 ee. ee, ee   Federal Sales Tax Urged on House Ways, Means Group

40 Pet. Cut  In Tax Goal  Is Proposed By Rep. Taber   Would Make Reduction  Through Curtailing  Of Federal Spending  By $4,658,000,000 RETAIL SALES TAX AGAIN ADVOCATED  Urged by Spokesman  For N. Y. Businessmen Arnal Ves R on. Taher

Republican Urges 40 Per Cent Cut In New Tax Goal  Would Trim Needs by Reducing Expenses Of Federal Operation

Spending Cut Being Urged   Sales Tax Suggested As Revenue Measure

GOP Launches Cost Cut Move To Reduce Tax   Taber Demands 40 Per Cent Slash In Treasury Bill by Savings; N. Y. Trade Board Asks Sales Levy

Republican Urges 40 Per Cent Cut  In New Tax Goal  Would igi Needs b Dodurinn Fyrnencec   Would Trim Needs by Reducing Expenses Of Federal Operation

SAVING URGED TO HOLD DOWN NEW TAX BILL   Taber Asks Federal Costs Be Cut; Sales Tax Proposed

Tax To Raise More Revenue   New York Board of Trade Urges Ten Per Cent Levy or Sales—Morgenthau’s Program Given Chilly Reception

4) Pct. Cut in New Tax Goal Urged by GOP   Would Urge U.S. Curtailment of Gov't. Expenditures

Republicans To Stress Economy In New Tax Bill   - Taber Proposes 40  Per Cent Cut; Sales Toes bles A chown

SHARP SLASH PROPOSED FOR REVENUE GOAL   CUT IN GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES DEMANDED

NAZI EFFORTS 10 DEFEND CITY Full   Gen. Clark’s Men Crack Defenses and Stream Onto Plains

Nazi Forces In ltaly ‘Retreat Toward Naples   U. 8. Fifth Army Breaks Through Nazi Defense Out Into Naples Plain   NAPLES MAY FALL WITHOUT BIG BATTLE

Stream Out Onto Plain Near Naples   Germany’s Defense Around  City Fails To Hold

U.S Bombers Hit Hard at Jap Lines in Burma  Explosives Cause Great Damage To Vital Points

TRAINS AND BUSES JAMMED ‘AND ROADS FILLED WITR ---- GARS_ AS- WEEKEND HOLIDAY STARTS ~

Mansfield Says Canal Projects  Will Be Pushed.  ] nds ‘To Be Sought ’ ‘Construction Poacéiithle- Crann Tal?

‘Manstield ls Optimistic  (On Canal To Harlingen City Is Selected As Site Of Next Meeting Of Canal Association Scheduled January 1  7 

GROUND FORCES ON EQUAL WITH AIR   General Marshall Has Formally Established the Rule That Air and Ground Forces Are Co-Equal.

U.S. AIR FORCE GIVEN EQUALITY WITH ALL UNIS   Gen. Marshall Formally Establishes Principle Which Has Been In Force Some Time

Air Forces Get Equality With Ground Troops   Marshall’s Order Virtually Sets Up Separate Air Army.

AIR, GROUND — FORCES EQUAL   Marshall Calls for Separate Air Arm With-. - out Divorce

EQUALITY ARMY AIR FORCE S : ESTABLISHED   Step Employ, Principal Of Separate Air Arm Without Actual Divorce

Alf Landon Objects To Similar Party Platforms  Says FDR Does Not Stand Still On Any Program

‘BIG THREE’ CONFAB PUT UNDER CLOUD   Landon Apprehensive of Path Into Future

Landon Derides Foreign Policy Plank Proposal   Democrats Have No Definite Plan Asserts Republican

LANDON DEMANDS GOP STAND ON FOREIGN POLICY   DERIDES PROPOSAL FOR SIMILAR PLANKS BY MAJOR PARTIES

LANDON DERIDES “SINGLE PLANK” CAMPAIGN: PLAN:   Declares FDR “Doesn’t Stand Ser. Bong.) Enough” © For ” Demeeratic ‘Policy To” Be - Qutlmed oom.

FOREIGN POLICY PLANK IDBA HI BY ALF LANDO!   Derides Informal: Proposa ~ Both Parties. Adopt "Similar. ‘Planks. in * 41944 Platforms *

44 MILLION WILL PAY INCOME TA)   Treasury Agent Contrasts Figures With Two Million During 1932 Crisis.

Organized Labor Attacks Order .   Condemns Control  Of Wage Raises

FDR FACES FIRST MAJOR: REVOLT-OF ORGANIZED” LABOR   Congress Of Industrial Organizations Ready To Join AFL Today

MAJOR REVOLT BY _ ORGANIZED LABOR IS AHEAD OF FDR   ClO Organizations Pre‘pare to Join AFL in Protesting Alleged Injustices, -

ROOSEVELT  FACES MAJOR LABOR REVOLT   CIO Prepares to Join AFL In Protesting Order

CIO EXPECTED 10 JOIN AFL REVOLT OVER INFLATICN   Federation Members of WLE Denounce Roosevelt's “Hold - the - Line” Order Against Inflation.   LABOR CHARGES ORDER VIOLATES AGREEMENT   Labor Leaders Declare Wage Disputes Are Now to Be Settled By Board With Industry Voting.

UNIONS ATTACK FR, WAGE ORDER   CIO Ready To Join AFL In Revolt Against “Litule Steel” Formula.

Hold Fourth Annual High School Student Forum February 24 and 25   Five Local And Two Out-of-Town Leaders Listed

Student Forum At High School  Three Major Themes To Be Discussed

FOURTH ANNUAL STUDENT FORUM   Full Program For. Wednesday and Thursday  Afternoons

AMERICAN LEGION T0 TRAIN ¥. S. YOUTHS   Includes Marching, Manual of Arms Drill

ne 5 Sen 2 ene ae ae or LoL LUPE UGE Het CHIEU De  944 Election Is Caustic

LOOKS AT THE U. S.   Comm anise Party Paper Comments Caustically oa

@ DUD SHELL KILLS THREE   Camp Rucker Soldiers Are Victims Of Accidental Blast

ENGLISH TAKE SERIOUS VIEW   Resent “Constant” Passage Of Nazis Through Sweden.

President’s Report On Casablanca Conference Promises Bombing of Tokyo This Year, Invasion of Europe After Axis Forces Driven Into Sea In African Campaign.

Promises: To Bomb Japan This Year—Big Drives In Asia, Europe Planned  MUST FACE FACTS Triumphant — Allies Will March In Berlin,  i Rome, Tokyo:

Reports On Plans For  War In 1943      OFFENSIVES TO BE WAGED IN. BOTH EUROPE AND ASIA; TALK. IS VIBRANT WITH CONFIDENG

OW TO BOMB \P HOMELAND   t-Wave Carries Word 0 tig Offensive In Asia And Europe,   ESIDENT CONFIDENT   a Cheered by News o Plans to Drive Out Ninnon Invacere.

President Promises Japan Will Be Bombed, U.S. Troops Will March Thru Streets of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo

Powerful Allied Armies to March Triumphantly Through Berlin, Rome and Tokyo, He Says

WORLD RADIOS RING WITH BROADCASTS OF E> CONOUEST SPEECH   Promises Shortcut to Heart of - Japan, Help for China and  Inragan at Furone

Invasion of Europe, Planned At Casablanca, to Strike In Many Places

Axis’ Doom ‘Foretold  By President   Nature of United Nations’ Coming  Moves Is Told

Great Offensives Are Promised ‘in Europe; Japan to be Bombed; All Allies in Full Agreement   Rebroadcasts in 20 Languages of Presi dent’s Speech Are Being Beamed to   Every Nation Throughout  the World.

JAPAN WILL BE BOMBED THIS YEAR   Allies to March Triumphantly Through Streets of Berlin, Rome, Tokyo.

SAYS ALLIED ‘SHIPS MASS NEAR SICILY   Some London Experts See Pause In Operations   CONTINUE RAIDS   On Mediterranean Islands; Germans Claim Attacks On Allied Convoys

Troops Being Massed for  An Invasion   Axis Radios Report That Defenses of Europe Invulnerable

Invasion-Conscious Radio Announcers Still Harping About Forces Set To Move

Ankara Reports Turkish Border Open Again; Goebbels Hints That Mistakes Were Made

Axis Invasion Jitters Mount; Berlin Brags About Defenses   Meanwhile, Goebbels Orders’ “Our: Noisy Critice” Silenced; British Forces Near Turkey Increasing.

REPORTS INVASION SHIPS GATHERING OFF PANTELLERI:   Iraq Tells Troops to Stand Ready — Underground Moves in Rumania and Bulgaria Grow.   GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN RUSSIA DELAYED   Postponement Attributed to Supply Shortage Caused by Furious Allied Bombing Assaults.

Axis Boastful Of Methods to  Repel Invasion   They Report Large Alhied  Forces Gathering on the Turkish Frontier.   Pep Talks Given on Axis Invincibility

Rome Radio Sees Signs Of Invasion Starting From Turko-Syrian Line   Unconfirmed Report Taken To Explain Closing of Border and Recall of Turkish Ambassador from Nazi-Controlled Vichy; Hitler's Plans for Offensive Against Russia Believed Off

TELLS PEOPLE SHIPS MASS OFF SICILY   Radio Also Reports 3Day Battle With United Nations Convoys, Which “Has Lost None of Its Violence.”

Radio Says Guns Are Ready, Navy Ready And They Will  * Fight To Final Victory If ‘Attacked.

Axis Commentattors Talk of Enemy Concentrations. Boast About Defenses

ENEMY BRAGS ABOUT PLANS FOR INVASION   Allies Refuse To Comment On Story British Units Are Closing On SyrianTurkish Border

Italians Stand By For Invasion   Rome Radio Says Every Man Is on Watch For Approach of Allies.

ALLIED ARMADA IS REPORTED IN SICILIAN STRAIT   Meanwhile Turkey Closes Syrian Border But No Explanation Given   GERMANY SMASHED AGAIN   Reds Crush Tank-led Nazi Drive as Big Guns Boom At Leningrad and Rostov

REICH ANDROME SPECULATING ON THRUST POINTS   Tatk At Length About Great Concentrations In Mediterranean Area For Europe Invasion   GLIBLY BRAG ABOUT THEIR OWN DEFENSE   Large British Forces Reported Along Southern Frontier of Turkey; Goebbels Warns

AXIS RADIOS BLEAT TALES OF ALLIED SHIP CONCENTRATIONS, OWN STRENGTH

Allied Forces Said Gathering In African Area  Pm on ee eee Da mak   Germans Boast Of Their Plans For Defense

Troops Form Lines at Turk Border   Nazis Cancel Plans For Offensive On Russian Front

AIR ATTRITION PREVENTS BIG NAZI INVASION   JITTERY ITALY SEES NEW MENACE IN ALLIED FLEET

Landing Craft Are Being Concentrated   Germans Reportedly Coll Off Scheduled Red Offensive Due To Fron? Line Suonly Shortace

Axis Radios Bleat Tales Of Allied Invasion Plan:   Troop Concentrations In Mediterranean :  7 Reported; War Critics Warned

Allied, Red Air Raids Said To Have Prevented Drive Against Russia  NAZI COMMANDERS QUARREL OVER PLANS  Allies Concentrating Craft at Pantelleria, Rome Broadcast Says

BRITISH TROOPS ARE POISED ON TURKISH BORDER   No Confirmation Of Rome Broadcast Is Forthcom‘ing From London

ALLIED FLEET HAUNTS AXIS   Enemy Worried Over Concentration of Power In Mediterranean

NAZI MOVES AGAINST REDS REPORTED OFF   Shortage of Supplies Seen Because of Heavy Air Attacks   ITALIANS NERVOUSLY HEAR OF NEW THREATS

NAZI JITTERS OVER INVASION STILL SPREAD   Concentration of Troops Near Turkey Reported by Rome But Allies Are Saying Nothing.

Rome Tells People To Stand By For Invasion By Allies   Incendiaries Start Huge Fires At Messina; Photos Show Battleship Damaged At Spezia

Ankara Waits on Hour of Decision And Allied Action   Report Germans Give up Plan for Red Offensive

Nazi Commentators Boast Of Defenses; Jitters Continue  On Invasion Plans

Tell Italians To Stand By For  Early Invasion   London Hears Allied Warships Are Massing In Sicilian Strait

Invasion Rumors  To Peak   Axis Guesses Where Blow Will Fall, and Boasts of Ability  To Repel An Attack

Axis Spokesmen Figure Allies Will Strike There First —   Chinese Gain On Yangtze

Axis Boasts Of Holding Invasion   GOEBBELS. ‘URGES NAZI CRITICS TO KEEP SILENT

JITTERY NAZIS CONTINUE TALK OF INVASIONS   Brag About Plans To Repel Attempts; Speculate on Turkish Developments

Nazis Cancel Soviet Drive   Allied Air Assaults Cause Frontline Supply Shortage

Italians Told Invasion Near   ROME  RADIO WARNING BLARED TO ALL. NATIVES

REICH BRAGGING ABOUT PLAN 10 REPEL INVASION   Broadcasters Still Talking Of Troops Ready To Strike

AXIS BROADCASTERS CONTINUE TALK OF INVASION PROGRAM  LATEST REPORT IS THA ALLIES CONCENTRATING ON TURK BORDER

Italians Warned Invasion Is Near   Allied Warships and Transports Massing In Sicilian Strait Declares Rome Radio

Anybody Can Make Mistake, Says Goebbels . . Axis Broadcasters Mix  Preparedness Boasts With Invasion Prattle

Italy Reports Huge Allied: Invasion F orce   Says Landing Barge: Concentrated in Mediterranean

Axis Radios Bleat Talks Of New Allied Concentrations, Say Defenses Invulnerable   Goebbels Orders ‘Noisy Critics’ To Keep Quiet; Nerve War Continues

AXIS INSISTS CONTINENT IS INVULNERABLE   Broadcasters Glibly Brag About Own Plans to Repel Any Attempts of Enemy Landings  ZAERREIC DADC CRITIC Ee

Germans-Reported-Forced to Call Off Drive in. Russia iy.   SUPPLY SHORTAGES CAUSING ANXIETY   Htalion Reports Say Landing Craft Massing Off North Africa

NO NAZI DRIVE INTO RUSSIA THIS SUMMER   Supply Shortages Born Of Allied Air Attrition And Threat Of Invasion From Africa Causes   Rumanian Troubles

Raid Costs RAF 38 Bombers, But It Is Considered Worth Its  Cost In Damage Done.

OBLITERATION RAID IS MADE ON HANNOVER   60 Per Cent of the City Al ready Is In Ruins

HANOVER SAID 10: BE ALREADY 60 PCT. DESTROYEL   BRITISH RAF DROPPED 2,000 TONS OF BLOCK-BUSTERS ON INDUSTRIAL TARGETS LAST NIGHT.   LARGEST RUBBER PLANTS AT HANOVER   Raid Cost the RAF 88 Bombers, But Damaged Inflicted on Hitler’s War Machine Believed Worth Its Cost.

Fascist Purge ° Follows Threats   Suspend Party Members To Strengthen Morale

YOUTH LOSES LIFE IN THE WAKARUSA   12-Year Old Bobbv Haas — Into River While  Fishing

YOUTH LOSES LIFE INTHE WAKARUSA   12-Year Old Bobbv Haas _ Slips Into River While  Fishing   NEAR BROWN’S GROVE.

DRAFTING OF TEEN AGE LADS STARTS   January Quotas: In. - State To Be Filled By ’ New Groun

QUEBEC CONFERENCE 10 PLAN INVASION   Move Against Western Europe Probably Main Aim

Believe Military Staffs May Have Leng Since Completed Plans For Mediterranean Theatre And Now Consider Invasion   FRANCE, NORWAY MAY BE LIKELY POINT:

INVASION VIA ENGLISH CHANNEL ~ MAY BE DECISION   Quebec Awaits FDR’s Arrival. Churchill Denies He Said _ War Would End In 6 Manthe.

EUROPE’S INVASION VIA CHANNEL MAY FOLLOW.-CONCLAVE   Quebec Marking Time Ags It Awaits FDR’s Arrival— Churchill Denies Prediction

FROST OUT OF GROUND   Top Soil i in Western Counties Dries in Warm Weather

Ruthlessly Quit Italians In Mad Rush For Safety   Thousand A Day Sneaking Across Straits As Allies Tighten Squeeze On Island; Yankees Again Score Behind Lines Landing.

Yanks Cutting Off Northern Anchors   Eight-Mile Out Flanking Movement By Sea Catches Nazis By Surprise: Porte Taken

State Livestock Is Reported Healthy  Disease Outbreaks Quickly Isolated

Rumanians Write Off Entire Army in Soviet  More Than 300,000 Men Believed Given Up as Lost

Rumanians Write Off Entire ‘Army in Soviet  More Than 300,000 Men Believed

Army Officers Report That Sicily Wants to Be 49th Stafe in Union

SICILY VIES WITH HAWAll AS STATE   ~obbyists Practically Ready to Invade Washington for “Cause”

Bomber Crewman ls Killed by Fall  Glasgow Field Plane Figures in Accident

TO WORK OUT DETAILS TOMORROW   Production of All the World to Be Utilized, Says FDR

President Roosevelt Saye “One More Strong Link” Binding United Nations Has Been Made.

Threatens To Close Down Beth. Steel Co. Plant  1,500 WALKOUT  Dispute Started When Workman Is Diaecharoced

Steel Workers Quit Work At  Johnstown, Pa.   May Cause Plant To Be Shut Down

1500 MEN WALKOUT    Workmen. Quit Recanse One of _ Their Number Is Discharged

JOHNSTOWN: HAS NEW STRIKE   Walkout t Threatens t Shutdown Bethlehem Plant

RUSSIA SEEKING NO FOREIGN LANDS   Supreme Soviet Official Says Red Army is Fighting Patriotic War.

Better Prepared   Stalin Lauds End of Red Comintern as War “Must”   Bolster War

PORTUGUESE SUMMONED TO VATICAN   German Consuls Advise Germans In Italy To Leave

Nazi Consuls Call For Quick Action   Outbreaks Growing Greater Along Borders of: Switzerland; Potike,  Chief Slain ..- 7+

Dies Says U. S. Japs Eat Well   Report Shows Relocated Nips World’s Best Ped

DR. ALLAN DAFOE, ‘MIRACLE DOCTOR ~ DIES IN ONTARI   Attended Birth of Only Five Surviving Quintuplets {In Medical History.

Dr. Dafoe, Quins’ Physician, Dies   Gained International Prominence Nine Years Ago at Dionne Births.

DR. DAFOE I$ DEAD AT NORTH BAY, ONT,; SAVED QUINTUPLETS   Expires Few Minutes After Entering Hospital, Suffering from Pneumonia,

Dr. Dafoe’s Death Caused By Pneumonia   Physician Who Attended Birth Of Quintuplets Dies On Admission To North Bay Hospital

DOCTOR OF QUINTS’ DIES IN NORTH BAY   Allan Roy Dafoe, 60, stricken with Pneumonia, Succumbs In Hospital

Dr. Allan Dafoe Dies Suddenly  Famed ‘Quint’ Doctor Pneumonia Victim

Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, Quints Doctor, Dies   He Performed ‘Mircle of Science’

DR. DAFOE DIES. NT NORTHBAY   He Won International Fame When He Attended the Dionne Quintuplets at Birth

TO OR. A. R. DAFOE      Attended Birth of Quintuplets Nine Years Ago; Ill : Several Months

Death Claims Dr. Allan Dafoe   Former Physician of Dionne Quintuplets Dies in Hospital

QUINTS’ DOCTOR DIES   Famed Ir. Allan JPafee Passes At Age Of 60

Dr. Allan Dafoe Dies Wednesday   Former Physician to Dionne Quintuplets Was 60 Years Old

ILL ONLY A SHORT TIME IN HOSPITAL   Canadian Physician Was Obscure Before He Attended Births of . World Famous Babies

Succumbs to Pneumonia 5 Minutes After Being Admitted to Hosnjta}

DR. DAFOE, WHE DELIVERED THE QUINTS, DIES   Death Due To Pneumonia, Was 60 Years . Old

DR. ALLAN DAFOE TAKEN BY DEATH   Pneumonia Fatal To Canadian Doctor Who Attended Dionne Quintuplets At Rirth.

Famous Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 60, Dies Five Minutes After Being Taken to Ontario Hospital; Gained  World Fame 9 Years Ago When He Attended Dionne Quintuplets At Birth

Dr. Dafoe Of Dionne Quint  Fame Is Dead   Falls Victim To Pneumonia

DR, ALLAN DAFOE, 60, SUCCUMBS TODAY   Former Dionne Quintuplets Physician Dies of Pneumonia

Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, Dionne Doctor, Dies of Pneumonia  Death Deeply Moves Five World Famous Quintuplets

~ Report Rommell Himself Fled To Tunisia   Commando Raid Carried Out In Norway

GEAMAN DRIVE AGAINGT AtUs NOW GRAGKING   Furious Counter - Attacks Beginning To Crumble As Russians Hold

Soviets Hall Kiev Smash In Tank: Tilt   German Offensive Stalls-as Troops Crack Under Strain

Red Forces Parry Ferocious Nazi Thrust Near Kiev   Germans Admit Break-Through In Dnieper Bend

Japanese Attempts In Solomons Very Costly   Efforts To Drive U. S. Forces Out Of Islands Result In Loss Of 64 Ships.

Navy Reports Jap Losses in Solomons   64 Nip Ships Were Sunk During Islands Campaijan

U. S. Flag Will Be Given Relatives Men, Women Who Die In U. S. Service

BABY SUCCUMBS DESPITE EFFORTS   Upside-Down Stomach” Case Expires Before Knife : Measure Is Used

LOCAL ORSERVATIONS   County Draft Call Is Raised to 76 For Month of January

‘San Antonio Bombardier Puts Finishing Touch to Japanese ‘Convoy and Downs Two Zeros

U.S. Bombers Search Out Japs in Sea   Mopping up in Bismarck Baffle Continuing

(GRIM, CLOSE-MOUTHED BULGARIA MAY BE GETTING REAL TIRED OF BEING DOMINATED BY HITLERISM

KING REPORTED TO HAVE FLED FROM CAPITAL   Hungary Also Chafing Under Hitler’s Yoke.

BULGARIA IS IN GRIP OF MYSTERIOUS NAZI CRISIS NOW  Picture Gives: Idea of  Tews evenee ol eeey I ; a? Tees       Picture Gives: Idea of Impending Upheaval In Balkans——MacK en7i.

The War Today   Crisis Reports in Bulgaria Nav Re Prelude to Invasion

King Boris Reported to Have Fled as Bulgarian Crisis Grows Acute

The War Today   Bulgaria In Mysterious Crisis; Hot Developments Mav Follove.   Ry DEWITT MACKENZIE

Bulgaria Uneasy As Balkan Invasion Talk Spreads; Report King Fleeing

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Tired Of Playing Hitler's zame, Bulgaria Ready “a Revolt. selief

Betty Grable Receives Two Extortion Letters; Youth Held by: F.B.I:

Gandhi Weak; Hope for U.S. - To Intercede   Leader Scarcély Able to Talk on 10th Day of Fasting

INDIANS HOPE U.S. IU INTERCEDE FOR GANDHI'S RELEASE   Anxiety For the Frail Little Leader Continues To Grow As He Enters the Tenth Day of His Fast; Has Stopped Talking Almost Altogether.

Gandhi Grows Much Weaker   Friends Express Hopes United States Will  Intervene in Case

Stotesbury Man Held For Jury  Chargad With   Charged With Stabbing Soldier At Crab Orchard

Thomas Held In $25,000 Bail For U.S, Jury  Only One Witness  Heard In Preliminary ae, a i, a

Pilots Found Rome Targets Easily   Followed Tiber River, Had Lots of Landmarks

Landmarks ir Rome Clear To Pilots   Historic Rome Under Duce City of Eascist Tinsel on Ancient: Ruins

Japanese Army Is Driving Toward Wufeng   Chinese Prepare For Decisive Battle at Enshih

JAP FORCES DRIVE TOWARD. WUFENG   Chinese Prepare For Vital Battle To Protect : Enshth °

WEWAK IS HEAVILY BOMBED BY ALLIES   24 Tons of Bombs Are Loosed in Area—Fires and Explosions Result.

ALLIES MAKE HEAVY RAID ON WEWAK   Airmen Also Hit 3 Airdromes In That Vicinity

Altes Drop 24 Tons of  Bombs on Wewak   Total of 156 Tons Of “Eggs” in One Week Laid on Bases

BRICKER URGES FARM PROGRAM   Agriculture Should Be Put On War Basis Like Industry, Governor Declares

BRICKER SEES BIG DROP IN OHIO FARM OUTPUT   Governor Believes Agriculture Should Be Considered ® Basic Industry

ee A ee” oe ee ee se ee eT  Famed Author Tells of Trip to Sicily With Gen. Fisenhower

OREO AaKG CATA ON MINE RETURK   Managers to Suggest When Property Should Be Restored to Owners; Deficits Will Not Be Made Good

Private Control Of Mines May Be Restored Soon   Ickes Invites Managers  Suggest when Action Should Be Taken

FLAN BOARD TO MEET   BRITISH LOSF DESTROYER   Young Roosevelt Has Close Shave  In Sea Action, Slightly Wounded

AMERICAN GUNNER IS HAILED AS HERO OF BIG AIR BATTLE      Re 1LFO RRANHAM

lt. George Paris Skippered Fyling Fortress Which Was Shot Up Badly; Praises Heroic Sergeant.

Fortress Gunner Keeps Silent About Own Serious Wounds to Aid Pals on Nazi Raid

Lt. George : Paris: Skipered Fyling’ Fortress Which Was. Shot Up Badly; Praises Heroic Cergacn at” ag

14 Lose Lives And 9 Missing In Flash Flood   Waters Rage Through Two Central Counties In West Virginia

Report Ten Dead And Six Missing In Flash Floods   Sleeping Victims Trapped In Homes Among West Virginia Hills

14 Dead, 6 Missing In Mountain Flash Flood   Victims Caught in Sleep as Swollen Streams Sweey Down Hollows in Two Central West Virginia Counties

COMPLACENCY OF THE NATION ~QRITICIZED BY RICKENBACKE!   FAMOUS AVIATION ACE BAYS REAL BOTTLENECK 18 SMUG ‘ATTITUDE OF U.. 8. to. COP eENS

Bond Drive Past 10 Billion Mark   Hard Work Still Ahead in Campaign

Gen. Nogues Le. ves Post [pe Moroes   Resignation Is Presented to Giraud; He Defends His -Gonduct: in Office   OUSTER DEMANDED BY DE GAULLE   Formation of a French War Cabinet. Proceeds in. North Africa

Gen. Nogues Gives Up Post In Morocco   Resident General Resigns In Another Move To Promote Unity Among French Factions

NOGUES OUT OF POST IN AFRICA   Man Who Led Resistance To Allies Resigns

Presents Resignation As Resident General of French Morocco To General Giraud; Defends His Conduct In Office.

Nogues Puts  wm wre =  France £ rst Resident General Gives Resignation

Morocco General Resigns To Help French Get Unity   Rule In Office Defended As Nogues Submits His Resig nation To Giraud; Succeeded By Gabriel Puaux

NOGUES RESIGNS POST FOR UNITY      Steps Down As Resident General Of French Morocco In Interest Of French Solidarity; Puaux Is Suecesesanr.

French Unity Above All   Says Gen. Nogues, As He Resigns; Symbolic Session of Chamber of Deputies Meets Tonight

GEN. NOGUES QUITS POST IN moROcca   Resident General Defends Resistance to Allied Invasion and Says He Places French Unity Above All Else.

Nogues Quits As Morocco Chief   General Tells Giraud He Places French Unity Above All.

Nogues Out ~ Of Morocco  _ Government   [Resigned Governor General Explains Why His  Troops Resisted Allies

FRENCH LEADERS SRESS UNITY   NOGUES RESIGNS AS” RESIDENT GENERAL ~ OF FRENCH MOROCCO

Nogues Resigns Moroccan Post  Presents Resignation To General Giraud

ABSENTEEISM LEGISLATION IS APPROVED   Bill Requires Records Of Absentees Kept By Emplovers

MOVE 10 END WORK LOSoES UN WAR JOBS   House Committee Approves Legislation to Prevent  Ahonwtanvens   DRAFT BOARDS WOULD REFER TO THE REPORTS

MARTIAL LAW ~ ENDS RIOTING   TWO ARE. DEAD AND) HUN. DREDE INSURED AS RESULT OF RACE CLASHES IN.

TROOPS CHECK RAGE . RIOTING   Two Are Killed In Day-Long Attacks In Beaumont, Texas

Sertous Rioting in Peaumont, Texas, Ended With Martial Law in Effect

Martial Law In - Beaumont, Texas   Over A Day of Wild Race ) Rioting

News Behind The News  @enannmeht felines, Mewenaner   WASHINGTON Tye Baw Tueker

Ralph M. Chester Listed Among Those Who Landed Under Fire  ONE REPORTED KILLED

Red Cross Man Victim of War   Killed on Day of Invasion of Sicily

LAST DAY FOR OLD ‘A BOOK   New Books Mailed To All Motorists Who Applied By Yesterday

A Gas Coupons Ready On Time   Motorists To Get Nev Books Tomorrow

Thousands of Fresh U, 5. And Canadian Troops Arrive in Great Britain

Thousands of Yanks Arrive   Canadian Soldiers, Including Parachute ‘Troops, Reach England

Enemy Is Fleeing ToMt. Etna Area   Thousands Of Italians Coptured in Drive; 17 New Towns Taken: Big Air Base Seized

ON OUTSKIRTS OF MARSALA; GAIN 36 MILES   British Steam Into Messina Straits, Blast Italy

Town After Town Captured By Hard Hitting Troops   Thousands Of Italians Taken In 36-Mile Gain. Rest Of Defenders In Wild Flight Toward Last Defenses Around Mt. Etna.

WAR SHIPMENTS GET TO RUSSIANS   More Than. 2,900,000 Tons of Lend-Lease Supplies Go Through

HUNGRY PEOPLE TO GET WHEAT   Total Of 200,000,000 Bushels Earmarked By United States

U.S. Wheaf Is Earmarked For Hungry People   200,000 Bushels fo Go fo Lands Allies Fynect fo Take

WAAC OFFICER TO! SPEAK MONDAY AT CLUB LUNCHEON   Girls Interested in Becom. ing WAACs Invited to Attend Program.

Lieut. E. Adams WAAC Officer To Speak Here  At District Legion Couvention To Be  Held Monday

Bombers Blast 2 Jap Ships  Reativity Ractrintad   Activity Restricted by Bad Weather

Green Urges: Congress to  Confinue Subsidies  Washington Holds Breath for News OW!’ Bin A Cantarancasa

AFL Chief Favors Food Subsidies   FDR Vetoes Pearl Harbor Day —Government to Contro Southern Mines Until Con tract Signed

Your Today's Star   Omahan Taken To Mortuary While He Is Still Alive  ...DIES LATER IN HOSPITAL

150 ACRES OF VITAL DOCKS AT WILHELMSHAVEN ARE DESTROYED DURING RAIDS   War's 74th Attack Against German Naval and Sub Base Carried Out by RAF

FIVE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY BOMBS   Lull in Ground Fighting But Enemy Bases Are Blasted Over Wide Area

Yank Planes Batter Jan's Supply Ships   Five Vessels Hit In Raids; Japs Lose Ground in Battle On Burma Front

Punish The Jap  Invasion Forces   Japan’s Vital Supply Lines Under Constant Attack   JAP REVERSES IN BURMA AND CHINA

Strike Anew At Jap Supply Lin  Planes Hit Hard ~ At Jap Shipping

STRIKE JAPAN'S SUPPLY LINES NEAR SOLOMONS   RAF Continues Assault on Nipponese Invasion Forces in Burma

FIVE MERCHANT SHIPS HIT WN HEAVY ATTACKS   English Continue To Punish Nip Invasion Forces On Burma Front   'BASE AT AKYAB SMASHED   Chinese Reported To Have Blunted Pincer Across Yunnan Border

Allies Strike At Japanese Supply Lines   Credited with Destructive Attacks on Five Jap Merchant Ships; RAF Punishes In e wacian Barres

ALLIED PLANES SINK 5 SHIPS   No Reports Made on Fighting in New Guinea, Burma Sectors

Five Seamen Die  On Icy Raft at Sea   Survivors Spend Seven Hours Adrift

SHOT DOWN 14 FIGHTERS: SANK SEVERAL SHIPS   British First Army Is Progressing in the North  Toward Bizer. +a   GAP IS NARROWED   Russian Front Battles Continue Along Donets — River,

Eighth Army Hot On Axis’ Heels   Advancing Yanks Within 40 Miles Of Contacting Gen. Montgomery

Jury Indicts High Boston Officials in Connection With Night Club Holocaust

CITY OFFICIALS ARE ARRESTED   10 Men Indicted In Connection With Boston Fire.

Seek Four Men Who Hold Up, Search Soldier   Rifle Army Papers Of Disnatch Rider

FOUR MEN HOLD UP ARMY DISPATCHER   Search Official Papers, Return Them Unharmed

ARMY-COURIER HELD UP BY 4; RIFLE PAPERS   Apparently Failed To Finc What They Sought; Wide Search Made

Army Dispatch Rider Held Up; Documents Wanted Not Found   Unarmed Driver Abducted At Point Of Gun; Official Papers Ransacked

GUNMEN HOLD UP ARMY DISPATCH RIDER'S TRUCK   Rifle Through Officia Army Papers, Only to Return Them, and Escape   SOLDIER UNARMED      Forced to Drive to Seclud. ed Lane; One Gunman Remarks ‘It Isn’t.Here,’:  Documents’

ARMED MEN HOLD UP DISPATCH RIDER   Army Messenger Forced to Submit to Search of Documents.

ARMY DISPATCH RIDER HELD UP   R. 1. State Police After Four Who “Refused” Papers

ARMY DISPATCH RIDER HELD UP   Four Men Failed to Find Document Sought

Rifle Army Papers In Mystery Holdup   Four Men Halt U.S. Dispatch Rider

Dispatch Rider for Army Held Up in Mysterious Foray   Men Rifle Through Official Papers Carried By Private But Fail to Find What They Want

4 BANDITS SEIZE U.S. ARMY RIDER   Rifle Officials Papers in Dispatch Care

Army Dispatch Rider Held Up   Four Armed Men Wen Through Official Army Papers

Four Eseape After Hold-Up Of Army Man   Dispatch Rider's Papers Scanned But Nothing Is Taken

Men Search Army Papers   Bandits Fail to Find Documents for Which They Stop U. S. Rider

AG COMMITTEE OF HOUSE WINS -RULES SUPPORT   Comes Out Victor in Second Skirmish with Appropriations Group Over Appropriation Bill

~FAEM APPROPRIATIONS —  House Whields Knife   «.+ Senate May Restore Battered Measure

FSA Fate © On Floor Of House   Rules Committee Refuses Help Save Projected Farm Measure

HOUSE FARM BUDGET SAG THREATENED    Rules and Appropriation Committee at Odds over Features of Bill

WARTIME RENTS ‘ARE STABILIZED GROUP REPORTS   House Committee, However, Says OPA Department Exceeded Powers   DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LANDLORDS

RAN WILD ON RENTS   Report Says OPA Exceeds  Powers, Discriminates Against Owners

DROP B AND C GAS COUPONS * TO 2 GALLONS   A Stamps in Midwest Still ® Good for 3, Including 1 Occupational

A COUPON ROT CUT HERE £S   ‘“R” ana “C" Cut to wa Gallcns We2kly; ‘ A’ R.tion Raized in East.

‘BY AND ‘C’ GAS VALUE SLASHED   “A” Rations Unchanged, But Other Units Reduced To Two Gallons

COUPONS CUT  IN VALUE   East Gets More Generous Ration, Midwest Less

OPA ISSUES ORDER AFFECTING  MOTORISTS FROM. THE   ROCKY MOUNTAINS .TO   EASTERN SEABOARD

223 TONS OF BOMBS BLAST NIPS   Drive On Bougainville Ahead Of Schedule, Halsey Reports

Raid Leader Given Medal   Spaatz Decorates MacNicholl Without Usual Ceremony

GENERAL LAUDS ~ WAGNER’S FEATS   Aviator’s Acts Said Almost Unequalled in U.S. History

ARMY TAKES OVER AS F. D. R. ACTS ON GOVERNOR’S REQUEST.   Toll Is High   . Be City Counts 25 Dead, Mostly Negroes, 1236 Jailed, Hospital’ Full, ~

President’s Order Sends 2,300 Fully Armed Troops Into Detroit Streets   RIOTING DEATH E TOLL SET AT 25

22 NEGROES THREE WHITES LISTED KILLED   Army Ordered Into City B: President Roosevelt As Trouble Hits Peak   THOUSANDS ARE INJURED   Gun Battles Rage Near Downtown District; Cars Overturned And Burned

FEDERAL ACTION TAKEN TO QUELL OUTBREAKS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN 2% DEATHS

MARTIAL LAW On DETRG!] TO IN EFFECT   Motcr City’s Race Rioters Giving in to Fcrce of U. S. Troops.   IS ROOSEVELT ORDER   Death Total Mounts as the Whites and Blacks Battle © in Streets.

Moving Ahead To Tunis And ' Bizerte Area   AXIS. BEING SENT REELING BACKWARD TO STRONGS 5 HOLDS. oF

Sicily To Be Next Island For Attack   Last Of Mediterranean Stepping Stones On Invasion Route To Sicily Surrenders

Lampedusa Falls To Allied Forces   Terrific, 24-Hour Air and Naval Attack Reduces Island’s Defenses

Sicily, Sardinia Expected to Be Next on Program   Second of Mussolini’s “Unsinkable” Aircraft Carriers Capitulates After Terrific Allied Onslaucht

Nazi radio says British, French captured; attack on Sicily seen imminent

“Bottleneck Controlled by Democracies   AXIS BATTERED FROM 3 DIRECTIONS BY WARE LANES,

Second Island Lost To Allies by Duce   Bombardment Brings Surrender; Berlin Secs New Moves ‘Imminent’

ISLAND QUITS IN 24 HOURS OF POUNDING   Allies Gain Control Of Tunis-Sicily ‘Bottleneck’

15,000 Tons of Bombs Hit Continent in Record. Month of RAF Attacks

15,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazis in June   Tops Previous Record of Raids By British Planes

June Is Top Month In Air War; Nazis Hardest Hit  British Smash Europe With 15,000 Tons Of Bambe in Attacks

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B JUS CAMPAIGN O21 FU3 OENAlE ASTON JAN. 10   Twelve Billions Goal of Solons as Bonus for Service Men

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Commander, 16 Generals Taken By Red Forces   Russians Delivering Last Death Blows; 240,000 Nazis Slain, 46,000 Captured

Commander, 15 Generals Fall As Prisoners   German Invaders Lose 240,000 Men Killed And 46,000 Prisoners,  Soviet Cammiuniane Snvue

Germans Declare 330,000 Men Made Up Garrison Now Near Liquidation

‘Reds Seize 16 Enem) Generals in Cleanup   Siege Foreée Placed at 330,000; 240,000 Slain, 46,000 Captured

NAZI SIEGE ARMY ALMOST LIQUIDATED   Fifteen Generals in Stalingrad Area Taken Captives by Russians.   Worst German Defeat In Drive on Russia

lt uehrer Loses Field Marshal,  Many General:   Only 44,000 Of Proud German Army Hold On As Reds Clean Up Stalingrad.   GAIN FROM MAIKOP

Reds Crush Stalingrad remnants   Nab Marshal, 15 Generals in New Kill at City

240,000 MEN NOW DEAD AT STALINGRAD   Siege Army, Now Known ‘to Have Been 330,000 Troops, Soon Will Be Liquidated, Soviets Re nort.

Last of, Army of 330,000 Invaders Almost Liquidated  SOVIETS SWEEP ON More Gains Reported in      .More Gains Reported in Othe: Sectors of Vast Winter Front

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH AHEAD IN SOUTHERN DRIVE   Sixteen Generals Captured By Reds In Central Area

LIST 15 GERMAN GENERALS ALSO IN LATE ROUNDUP   Nazi Field Marshal Promoted Sunday, Prisoner of Russia Today

Powerful German Units Which Hitler Boasted Never Would Be Ousted From Stalingrad Almost Wiped Out—Field Marshal And Fifteen Generals Captured By Russians—44,000 Enemy Troops Still Cling To Part Of Wrecked Volga City

‘Russians Captured Field / Marshal and 15 Generals With Remnant   LOST 240,000 KILLED      Moscow Reports 46,000 Nazis Captured; People Return to City

Hitler Forces Liquidated By Soviet Might   Powerful German Force Of 330,000 Men Sacrificed By Hitler; Commander Captured

Huge Nazi Army Is Liquidated   OVER 300,000 GERMANS LOST IN STALINGRAD ARFA

16 Other Axis Generals Surrender; German Force Of 330,000 Trapped; Greatest Nazi Catastrophe; Only Small Group Still Resisting Russians

240,000 DEAD Lc UNDER oO AT OTALINGRAL   Russ Report 46,000 Prisoner, with Once-Proud Army’s ’ Head, Gen. Paulus.   44,000 LEFT IN BLASTED »RUINS FACE STARVATION

Reds Capture Field Marst al At Stalingrad   ‘240,000 of Axis. Summer Force Dead, 46,000 Prisoners

GERMAN  QIXTH ARMY BEATEN   Siege Force of 330,000 at Statingrad Is Almost Liquidated.   MARSHAL IS CAPTURED

Liquidation of Nazi Siege Force Of 330,000 Ended  ‘Russians Capture Field Marshal, 15 Generals

RUSSIANS SFIZE NAZIS’ GENERAL   Field Marshal Paulus Among 46,000 Prisoners—Death Toll to 240,000

Field Marshal And 15 Generals Surrender As Russians Continue Mopping Up

Field Marshal Paulus, 15 Generals Surrender  And Red Army Mops Uy

NAZI FIELD:  MARSHALIS: CAPTURED BY SOVIETS   Proud... German Tradition Broken “as: Stalingrad.” Disaster Worsens     240,000 -AXIS MEN... “KILLED. 46,000 HELD   15. Generals.’ Are“ Taken “Prisoner: Reds. Continue: “Advances Elsewhere.

GERMANS LEAVE za 000 BURIED AF STALINGRAD   Hitler Boasted Nazis Never Would Be Ousted   SIEGE ARMY OF @ 350.000 NO MORE

Nazi Marshal ls Captured At Stalingrad   15 Teuton Generals Ir Siege Foree Of 330,0C¢ Also Are Taken   RAIL TOWN FALLS   200,000 Other Germans Face Disaster East Of Krasnodar In Caucasus

eGerman Siege Army Around Stalingrad » Nearly Wiped Out   Field Marshal, 16 Gen. erals Captured by Triumphant Reds

240,000 NAZI SOLDIERS BURKED IR FROZEN SOD ©      44,009 Germans Still To Northern Sector Cut Off Fram Supplies”

Huge Force Wiped Out By Soviets   Few Remain Of Army Of 330,000 Which Hit At Stalingrad, Is Russians’ Report

FIELD MARSHAL AND 15 GENERAL OFFICERS TAKEN   Powerful Nazi Siege Army Of 330,000 Almost Completely Liquidated; Mopping Up Now; Vast Piles Of Equipment Captured.

HITLER’S FIELD GENERAL TAKEN RUSSIANS SAY   Frederick Paulus and Fifteen Generals Captured At Stalingrad, Red Communique Says   44,000 OTHER NAZIS IN AREA BOTTLED UP   Seizure of Field Marshal Breaks Tradition’ Generals Are Never Taken Prisoner

GERMAN STALINGRAD SIEGE ARMY 15 NEAR FULL LIQUIDATION  FIELD MARSHAL IN COMMAND AND 15 GENERALS

SIXTEEN HIGH NAZI TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Field Marshal Paulus With Fifteen Generals Captured, Moscow Announces   OTHERS FACE DISASTER

Nazi Field Marshal, 15 Generals Are Captured; Americans Surge Ahead In 3 Tunisian Sectors.

German Army, 330.000 Men, Is Annihilated   Field Marshal Paulus Is First Of His Rank Ever Captured; Many Other Generals Taken

REDS CAPTURE NAZI COMMANDER AT STALINGRAD   15 OTHER GENERALS TAKEN IN ROUT OF ‘UNBEATABLE’ ARMY

Enemy Aerial Opposition To Allied Invasion Forces Is Surprisingly Negligible

JAPS PAY HIGH PRIGE IN PLANES IN NEW BRITAIN   Allies Down Over 230 Nip Aircraft While Losing Only 30

Japan’s Air Arm Slipping?   Lack of Opposition  To Allied Operations Raises Query “Where Are Japanese Planes?’

ALLIED FORCES TIGHTEN GRIP ON KEY TO OFFENSE   Jap Air Force Reluctant To Attack After Heavy Losses At Hands of Yanks

Only 30 Allied Ships Listed - Destroyed In Like Period Of New Britain Fight

Japanese Air F orce Weak? Held Back?   New Britain Campaign Indicates Something Wrong

 New Britain Developments Show Japs Having Air Force Difficulties

YANKEES THROW BACK ATTACKS AT GLOUCESTER   Americans Only Mile And Half From Airdrome   Invasion Troop Ratio A Secret  Germans Won’t Learn It   Neéw Britain Developments Indicate Japs May Be Running Short Of Planes, Pilots

JAPS HAVE LOST 230 PLANES iN BRITAIN FIGHT   Developments In! Campaign Indicate Enemy Aerial Difficulties

Two Weeks’ Sccre Over New Britain: 230 To 30 For U.S..... Jap Air Force Running Short-Or Holding Out:

All Not Well With Nip Air Foree-- 230 Japs Downed Over New Britain

Enemy Plane Losses Reach 230)   Changes Noted in Jap Air Force; Fliers Have Avoided Fights

Substantial Violations’ of Maximum Price Regulations Found in Coal Fields

VIOLATIONS FOUND IN STUDY BY OPA      Maximum Price Viola. tions in the Coal Fields” Reported

~ PRICE CEILINGS N. ARE VIOLATE!   OPA Investigators Learn That Stores In Coal Towns Exceeded Limit

“CEEKED BY OPA   Prices Said “Not Out of Line” With Comparable Communities

“RETAIL STORES IN COAL FIELDS ARE VIOLATING PRICES   OPA Says Prices at Increase of 5 Per Cent Over Others In Nearby Cities Are Not Qut of Line.   CLAIMS BY LEWIS ARE INVESTIGATION CAUSE   Survey Carried Into 230 Mining Cities, West Virginia Worst, Kentucky Said to Be Best.

DONALD GORDON TC A SCHOOL COURSE   One of Forty-Five Missouri State Guard Officers Selected to Attend.

POLITICS BALKS FRENCH MERGER   Casablanca Agreement Not Carried Out Yet By Rival Leaders

Coloma Farmer Stricken, Die:   L.H. McCullough Expires In Doctor's Office

May Have To Ration U.S. Coal   Ickes Says Recent Strikes Have Aggravated the Fuel Shortage

COAL RATIONING SEEMS POSSIBLE   Three Coal Strikes Aggrevate Shortage of Fuel Ickes Declares.

, D. PROPOSAL MAY SLOW MINER'S BACKTO-WORK MOVEMENT   Coal Diggers Resentful, Many Congressmen Object To Raising Draft Limit To 65 To Meet Strike Threats

ANGERED OVER FOR CALL FOR DRAFT ‘CLUB’   War Production Hit as Men Protest WLB Denial of Wage Increase.   BLAST FURNACES DOWN   UMW Leaders Insist Strikers  Will Cool Gff and Go Back Tran Inhke Ganan

Mine Leaders, Congressmen Rap FDR Plan   ‘Return of Miners Delayed; Ickes Hints Rationing —

MAY BE RATIONED       Thousands of Miners Throughout Country Fail 10 Go Back to Work; Some Mines Tato Hara

Coal Rationing May Be Needed,  Ickes Declares   Says Recent Strikes Have Aggravated U. S. Fuel Shortage

Walkouts in coal fields may cause rationing---Ickes   Thousands of miners defy union orders, remain idle

Coal Rationing Seen as Result Of Mine Strike   Men Angry at F. R. Draft Threat; Many Vote to Stav Out

FBI PROBES ORI RAIL ACCIDENT   Only 10 of Injured Remain it Warren Hospitals

FBI PROBES TRAIN WRECK; TWO KILLED   Ten Persons Still Hospitalized Following Newton Falls Accident

DANGER ACUTE IN TWO AREAS   Six-State Floods Receding Slowly After 174,249 Homeless

FLOOD WATERS ~ ARE RECEDING   ESTIMATE 174240 ARE HOMELESS AND. NEARLY THREE MILLION. ACRES  FLOODED

FLOOD WATERS RECEDE SLOWLY   Two Danger Points Remain As 174,240 Persons Are Homeless In 6 States

Mid-West Floods Slowly Receding   Vast Property Damage And Threats Of Epidemics Left In Wake   ESTIMATE 174.000 MADE HOMELESS

Martin Favors Oil Price Boost to Spur Production   Governor Also Tells A. P. I. at Meeting in Pittsburgh “Cradle to the Grave” Security Plan Means Dictatorship

Governor Sees Oil Price Hike As Output Aid   Zook Tells Producers at Pittsburgh Meet That Nation Faces Shortage in 1944

New Agreement Must Be Approved By WLB;: Expect Board To Call  Hearings  —_— ———ee ees ce hUce C—O =

Jilinois Plan Pattern for Other Areas   Coal Agreement There a Ba. sis for Contracts in Other Fields   APPROVED BY UMW. — POLICY COMMITTEE   Labor Board Expected to Order Hearings Before Ruling on Pact

Coal Operators And Miners OK Wage Contrac!   Approval OF Illinois Agreement May End Long Fight

APPROVES COAL GONTRAGT   Agreement Between Illinois Coal Men’ Calis for Travel Pay.

Approve Coal Pay Contract   No Indication How Contract With New Powers Will Be Received By Labor Board.

Approve Illinois Contract   UMW Policy Committee To Use Agreement as Basis for All Others; WLB Must Approve

Badoglio Meets With Cabinet; Silent on Peace   Discuss Fascist Elements, Ways to Keep up War

Badoglio Regime Holds Meeting  Peace Discussions Are Not Mentioned

BADOGLIO CABINET IN LONG MEETING   No Mention Is Made After Four And A Half Wour Session Of Any Peace Discussion

Italian Cabinet Meets. No Mention Of Peace Talks   Concern Over Wiping Out Fascist Vestiges And Continuing War

ITALIAN CABINET HOLDS LONG MEET      No Mention of Peace Dis. cussion Made by Rome Radin

New Italian Rulers Wiping  Out Fascism   No Indication, of . Peace Plans Given _ Aficn Macting

CONGRESS 10° RISE AGAINST POLICIES OF ADMINISTRATION   Legislators Rebell On Wide ‘Domestic Front — Leaders Deplore’ Bureaticracy

Rebellion On Domestic Front Looms   Solons Rise Up Against What They Call ‘Bureaucracy’

CONGRESS REVOLT AGAINST NEW DEAL VIEWED SPREADING   Legislators, Thoroughly Aroused Over “Bureaueracy,” Have Landed Game Telling Rilows.

Americans Capture San Fratello and San Agata.   BRITISH 8TH ARMY CAPTURES ACIREALE   Allies Are Rapidly Crambling the Axis’ Defenses.

NAZIS SENT SCAMPERING   Head Toward Messina—The ~ End of Road For Enemy   TWO TOWNS ARE TAKEN   Usual Split-Second Timing  Marks New Action

SEND NAZIS 10 MESSINA IN CONFUSION   Break Up Columns of German Troops

Antwerp, Naples, Kiel, Paris Raid Targets   American Forces In Tunisia Driving Eastward; Jap Shipping In Pacific Bombed

Increasing Frequency Of Devastating Raids Stealing Headlines From Ground Battles JAPANESE HANDED MORE BOMBS, TOO Plane Repair Shops Near Antwerp Target Of American Bombers

FBI All Out In Search For Desneradoes   Heat Turned On For Thorneberry Brothers By Federa! Agents

FBI Is Affer Two Brothers   Throneberrys Described A: Wild-West Bad Men

FBI STARTS HUNT FOR DESPERADOES   Hunted Brothers Have Terrorized the West for Severa}] Months.

FBI HUNTS WILD PAIR   Western Bad Men, Murderers and Robbers, Sought by Federals

Great Surface Battle Sank Ship   Duke of York Played Leading Role

LAND BLOW AT RABAUL NEAR?   Aerial Offensive May Presage Invasion

NEW BRITAIN ISLE RAIDED BY AIRMEN   May Be Prelude To Land Attack On Rabaul

Aerial Drive Aimed at Coast Of New Britain   142 Ton Blow Delivered by Alliad Planec

GASMATA BATTERED AGAIN   MacArthur's Bombers Pound New Britain Third Straight Day

Russians Claim Yugoslavs Have Retaker One Third of Their Country From Foe

Yugoslav Army Retakes A Third Of Jugoslavia   Reconquers 41,000 Square Miles of Area; Moscow Reports Heavy Nazi Losses By Tito’s Partisans.

Slavs Occupy Large Areas  Quantities Of War hintarint Alen Tabkan:

Duke Center Man to Fill Vacaney Caused By Benson Death Term Ends January 3

John F. Boylan Named County  Commissioner   Duke Center Man Will Fill Vacancy Created By Benson’s Death

Ramage, Shroyer Names Withheld   Senate Democrats Refuse to Permit Confirmation

Appointees of Ex-Governo Will Function For Another Week  HOUSE TAKES A RECESS

Noted Theatrical Producer Dies   Max Reinhardt Had Been II] Three Week:

CHAPLIN AGREES TO SUPPORT BERRY CHILD   Film Comedian Denies Being Fathe: Of Unborn Infant; To Deter mine Paternity

Chaplin Agrees To Pay Girl for Support of Baby   But Comedian Refuses Tc Admit Paternity of Unborn Child

TWO BIRMINGHAM PAPERS ON STRIKE   News Expects To Print 4 Pages With Engraving

BIG BOMB LOADS SMASH LORIENT AND ST, NAZAIRE   Allies Maintain Pressure on All Sectors in Tunisia   Concentration of Jap Ships in Southwest Pacific Take Pounding

OLDER GROUP SUBJECT 10 CALL MAY I   Hershey Announces New Policy Designed to Swell Ranks of Those in Essential Industries.   HOPE MANY WILL GO INTO FARM WORK   Those 45 to64 With Dairy or Farm Experience to Be Urged to Return to Soil.

Must Leave ‘Non-Deferable’ Occupations  Men38 To 45 Face Induction Next Month

New Draft Rule Covers Men in 4-F Non - Deferrable Lis 1 Cleanup Goes Into Effect on May 1 FARM AID SOUGHT Men From 45 to 64, With Farm Experience, Asked to Return

Over-Age Men Are Told to Work or Fight   Official Warns Them to Leave Nondeferrable Jobs

Hershey Declares Men 38-45 Must Leave Non-Deferable Positions Or Face Induction

HERSHEY GIVES WARNINGTOMEN IN 88-44 GR OTP   Must Leave List of “Non. Deferable” Occupations or Face Possibility of Induction   EFFECTIVE MAY 1   New Policy Announced in Letter to Local Selective  - Boards; Essential Man - power Decreasing

Non-Deferables Of 38-45 Told To Change Jobs   Induction Faces Unessential Men Despite Dependenc:

Men are particularly urged to seek work in general or dairy farming

Men 38-45 Face Possible Draft Again On May 1   -Hershéy Says That -Deferable Jobs To

MEN 38 1045 GET NEW JOBS   Older Group Must Leave Non-Deferable Work Or Be Drafted

Men 38-45 Face Possible Draft Again On May t   Hershey Says That Deferable Jobs To  Ra Onlv Recniurce

Men 38-45 Must Find War Jobs   They Will Be Drafted If They Remain “In Non-Deferable Occupations

WORK OF Font WARNING GIVEN 8 10 45 GROUP   ‘“‘Non-Deferable” Jobholders Warned To Leave List Or Face Induction   INCREASE IN FARM LABOR MAIN OBJECT OF ACTION   Draft Officials Stressing Fact That Labor Needed For Food Production

6-49 AGED MEN MAY BE DRAFTED CTARTING MAY 1   elie catenin ememnneemnel  Must Leave ‘Non-Deferable' Occupations Or Face Induction   SELECTIVE SERVICE CHIEF ANNOUNCES NEW POLICY

38-45 Year Olds Hit In New Order   Must Leave Non-De ferable Jobs or Face  Induction

Men, 38 to 45, Face Induction On Job Grounds   Hershey Summarizes Efforts to Hike Farm Worker Ranks

‘Gen. Hershey Announces  New Policy    Back to Soil, ‘Former Farm  Workers Told

FINANCE BILL  JAM TIES UP F.D.R.’S FUND   Senate, House Deadlocked Over Passage of Appropriation   SEVERAL AGENCIES OPERATE ON CUFF   President Without Emergency Funds As Fiscal Years Begins

FDR Left Without Emergency Funds for First Time In Three Years.   BUREAUS ARE ON ‘CUFF’

House Delays Fund for FDR   Jam of Bills Holds Uj  Emergency Measure

CONGRESSLOG JAM HOLDING UP FEDERAL FUNDS   Leaves Roosevelt Withou Nickel of Emergency Fund for First Time In Three Years   OPERATING ON CUFF   Only Big Money Bil! En acted Was $71,500,000,~ 000 Win-the-War Army Supply Measure

UNGLE'S FLAT AS DEADLOCK BIICKS BILLS   President's Emergency Funds Tied Up by. Dispute Over a Men.   HOPE FOR PASSAGE OF MONEY BILL BY NIGHT

Tieup Cuts FDR Funds   War Agencies Forced To Operate ‘On Cuff?’

Congress Jam Cuts Off F.D.R.  Emergency Cash   Many War Agencies Are Operating Temporarily ‘On The Cuff.’

LOG JAM TIES UP MONEY BILLS   And Roosevelt Without Nickel of Emergency Funds

Money Bills In Log Jam Many Agencies Start The New Year Without Funds

Federal Agencies Operate on the Cuff   Failure of Congress To Pass Money Bills Keeps kinergency Fund From President

U. S. Agencies Without Funds   Jam In Congress Leaves Roosevelt Without Any Emergeney Funds.

AGENCIES LEFT WITHOUT FUNDS   Congress Neglects To Renew FDR’s Emergency War Fund

Money Bills In Congress Held in Jam   Many War Agencies In Fiscal Fix; F. R. Without Emergency Fund:

Legislative Jam Depletes: Funds -In War Agencies      re sident Roosevelt Left “No Emergency: Moneys Big Army Bill Passed

Money Bills ‘In Jam as ‘Year Ends   Congress Leaves President, Many War Agencies Without Funds, Temporarily at Least

NO EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR-FDR   Congress At Work Straightening Out Appropriation Tangle

Emergency  Cash Tied Up  In Congress   Jam of Appropriation Bills Puts Many Agencies “on the Cuff”

LOG JAM OF MONEY BILL IN CONGRESS LEAVES FDR BROKE  PRESIDENT WITHOUT. EMERGENCY FUNDS FIRS! TIME THREE YEARS

Jam in Congress  Ties Up War Funds   Numerous Agencies are Required to Work Temporarily “On the Cuff’ as a Result

Congressional Jangle Leaves  F.D.R Broke   Emergency Funds’ Exhausted as Fiscal Year Ends

RUSSIAN PLANES THROW FLEEING NAZI INTO CHAO  72 GERMAN PLANES ARE  CLAT NMWAl WECTEDMAY   72 GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN YESTERDAY

RED AIR FORGE BATTERS NAZIS FLEEING WEST   German Retreat Turns to Rout

SHIPS CRASH OFF VIRGINIA COAST   84 Lose Lives When Oil Tanker Collided With Freighter.

An Early Start For Legislature   Republican Caucus Is Held to Choose Officials of  Lower House.

TWO IN RACE FOR MISSOURI SPF AKERSHIP   Close Contest Anticipated in GOP Caucus, Called for Today, in Advance of Legislative Opening Wednesdav.

U.S. FORCES KEEP: PRESSURE ON ATTU JAPS   Seven Enemy Bombers ‘Probably Destroyed’ in Addition to Five ‘Definitely Destroyed’   FOUR FLED WEST   Communique Reveals New Details on Attempted Raid Sunday on American Forces q

A  aps In Suicide  Efforts   . «+ « MacArthur's Forces Range Wide Areas

Fighting Continues on Attu; Japanese Held on Peninsula   Allied Airmen Drop _l1¢ Tons of Bombs on Major Jap Base

Jap Air Raid On Attu Cost 12 of 16 Craft   5 Definitely De Destroyed, 7 Probably; Land Battle Continuing

U. S. Continue: Attu Pressure On Japanese   Enemy Compressed Into Northern Extre mity Of Island

Enemy Making Suicide Stand On Island Tip   12 Of 16 Bombers Believed Downed In Sunday Battle

Sleet, Snow Fail To Halt Attu Advance   Navy Raises Toll Of Enemy Bombers In Sunday Raid By 7 'Probables’   BOMB KISKA CAMP   Strong Formations Of U.S. Planes Attack Munda, Shortland Islands

U.S. Troops Tighten Jap Trap on Attu   Closing In on Last Of Enemy; Planes Watch for Bombers

Seven Of Sixteen Twin-Engine Bombers Which Ventured Into Aleutian Battle Zone Sunday Listed By Navy As “Probably Destroyed” In Addition To Five Originally Reported As Definitely Bagged— Enemy Resistance Pockets Being Eliminated

Navy Report Today Ampiifies Statement on Yesterday’s Air Batile.   ATTU BATTLE STILL ON

Report on Attu Island Battle  More Jap Planes ' Probably Destroyed

‘Attu Battle Continuing; Jap Forces  Are Cornered   ‘Seabees,’ Navy Construction Men, Were Landed With  Se gt Bee:

Six U.S. Army Planes Believed to Have Downed 12 of 16 Bombers Over Attu —

7 More Jap Planes Added To Attu Bag   This Number Above Those Originally Reported in Sunday Raid

Fight Continues On Attu Island  12 Jap Planes Listed Probably Destroved

NIP LOSSES iN RAIDS ARE HIKED   Pressure On Enemy Is Continued Despite ® Sleet And Snow

POCKET JAPS ON EXTREME TIP OF ATTU PENINSULA   KNOX DECLARES ENEMY RESISTANCE BEING LIQUIDATED

U. S. Forces Continue to Drive Land Attack to Wipe Out Last of Opposing Forces.

I Jap Bombers Probably Hit  12 OF 16 Attackers Destroyed; Japs On Attu Are Penned In

NAVY AMPLIFIES MONDAY’S ‘REPORT  ON: THE ‘AIR . FIGHT OVER SMALL ALEUTIAN ISLAND IN. WHICH _ FIVE NIPPONESE BOMBERS WERE. DOWNED—ISOLATED GROUND FIGHTING CONTINUING

Japs on Attu Are Pushed in Corner, Knox   Navy Claims 7 More Jap Plones Probably _ Destroyed on Sunday

SUNDAY FORMATION JAPANESE BOMBERS AT ATTU WHIPPED  _ FIVE KNOWN DESTROYED  SEVEN BELIEVED DE-

Japanese Air Loss Raised   Seven Probabtes Listed In Addition to Bombers Destroyed

Navy Says16JapBombers ‘Probably Destroyed in Mtack On Attu Sunday

{ ‘Probables’ Are Added To Yank Secre   Apparently Only -Four o! Jap Bombers Got Away From Attu   PROBABLY CAME FROM KURILES   Fighting Continues With Nips Corraled on the Rocky Shor’

ONLY SMALL POCKETS OF JAPS REMAIN   Believe Nip Raiders Came From Kurile Islands   RABAUL HIT   By Over 16 Tons Of Bombs: Gasmata Blasted Thirteenth Day In Row

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Work On Airfield Held Up Four Days Bv Union Racket

Kansas City Pilot Buried With Military Honors in China  Two Sons of News paper Men Rest in ue S. Base Cemetery

Enemy Flees As Allies Advance To Inner Works   New Air Victory At. Wewak Scored With 30 Planes Destroyed

hetreating Japs Seek Cover Behind Solomon Defenses   /MacArthur’s Communique Does Not Indieate Size of Garrison Under Pressure 15 Weeke

ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN ON SALAMAUA   Outer Defenses Abandoned By Nipponese

Salamaua Japs Retreat _ And Allies Prepare For Final Drive On Big Base

ALLIES PREPARING FOR FINAL ATTACK ON SALAMAUA BASE   U. 5., Australian Forces 'Move Ahead With Support Of Aerial  Offensive

Guinea Fortress Totters   PINCER MOVEMENT IS CLOSING ON JAPANESE KEY ISLAND BASE

Post-War Bill Is In  Committee   Foreign Relations Group Preparing to Hear What Proponents Want

SEE COMPROMISE — ON RUML PLAN   Support Grows For Half-and-Half Application of Pay-As-YouGo Tax Proposal

HOUSE GROUP AGREESON A204/TAX   Would ‘Cancel Last Half of ’42 Tax; ‘First Half of ’43

20 PER CENT PAY DEDUCTION TAX FAVORED   “Half-and - Half? Levy Would Fergive Income Tax From Mid-1942.   URGE NEW PLAN JULY 1   Legislators Propose Measure To Include Victory and Income Charaes.

Se ee ere oenneeiiiiemmmeattiities”itc esses  20% Withholding Tax Gets Tentative Okey

Rumi Tax Plan Given Approval   Tentative O.K. Given tor “Half and Half’ Application by House Committee

‘Half-and-Half’ Plan For Pay-as- You-Go Tax Wins Approval   Plan Proposes 20 Per Cent Paycheck With. holding On Income and Victory Taxes To Go Into Effect July 1

Tornado Hits In Oklahoma   Red Cross Workers Rush To Aid Town; 20 Homes Destroyed

Two Billions For Subsidies To Be Sought   President Finds Democrats Ready To Grant Request

BILLION SOUGHT ‘WITH PROGRAM   O’Neal Claims Labor Demands for Plan Are Method of Pay Boost

Roosevelt Urges Big Food Subsidy   Wants 1% to 2 Billion Dollars

War Crops Bonus Idea Stirs Again   Move To Get Incentives Back In Budget Forecast   (First of three articles on feceral farm incentive paymente \

SERVICE HELD -INROSLINDAL      Wife of F rank  Ss. ‘Mason. ‘Secretary of Boys’ Club -. Died in Concord.

SERVICE HELD ~ IN ROSLINDALE   Wife of Frank S, Mason: Secretary of Boys’ Club Died in Concord

SOLDIERS BUTIES NOT FO END WITH WAR   Servicemen To Participate in Post-War Plans

‘Allies Make New Gains In Drive Across Peninsula      Victim Of Four Baitles Kharkov Struggles Back   U. S. Flying Fortresses Raid Southwest Germany

U9, FORTRESota HIT REICH AREAS   Roar 500 Miles Into Southwestern Germany for First Daylight Assault; Follows RAF Night Raid

NAZI TARGETS HIT IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Flying Fortresses Thunde: Into Southwestern Germany

Says Mussolini Did Not Deliver Speech Credited To Him On Saturday

Marines Win First Tilts with Japanese   Political Considerations Take Note in Pacific Theater; Japs Land on Bougainville

Britain Promises Major Action In Asiatic Theater   More Japs Land To Face US Bougainville Marines

Britain To Play Larger Role In Japanese War   Pledge Made As Japs Land New Forces On Bougainville

Promise New Major Action In Asia Area   Chinese Give Way to Strong Forces in Central Yangtze River Valley; Jap Airfield in Burma Bombed

JAPANESE LAND REINFORCEMENTS ON BOUGAINVILLE   AMERICAN MARINES WIN FIRST CLASH; LULL IN FIGHTING

JAPS LAND IN BOUGAINVILLE AREA BY BARC   Seek to Squeeze Out American Bridgehead At Empress Augusta Bay

Polities Fill Gap In Pacific Fighting Lull   ‘Several Hundred Japs On  Bougainville Meet U. 8. Marines.  LIMITED AIR” ACTIVITY

MAJOR ACTION PROMISED IN PACIFIC WAR   British Envoy Compares Orient to Europe for "Attention” as Marines Battle on Birthday.

‘Briton pledees major Asiatic action as Japs iand on Bougainville

GERMAN ARMIES FACE ROLLBACK INTO MESSINA   German and French Radio Admit Eighth Army Under Montgomery Gain Important Positions   ALLIES MAKE GOOD THREAT OF BLITZ   Naples Blasted From Air While Warships Bombard Harbors Along ltaly’s Aching Foot

MAIN ATTU DEFENSE CAPTURED; YANKS BOMB JAPS ON WAKE   Big Army Ships Fly 1000 Miles To Attack

Yanks Bomb Wake Island On Saturday   Japanese Blasted From VU. S. Base tO00 Miles Away

U. 5. Bombs Jap: At Wake Island  Three Raids Blast Enemy Positions

JAP-HELD WAKE ISLAND BOMBED BY ARMY PLANES   Heavy Bombers Fly Over i, 000 Miles From Their Base to Smash at Jap Installations cn Former U. S. Isle

Main Jap Defense Position Captured, Troops Advance   Casualties Lighter Than Expected Says Knox; Mopping Up Work Remains « ,.   WAKE ISLAND ATTACKED BY PLANES   Army Bombers Range 1,000 Miles To Attack Jap Installations On Wake Island

PLANES TRAVEL 1000 MILES FOR RAID ON ISLAND  Heavy Bombers   Heavy Bombers Bombatd Wake Isle. Navy Says -

‘Americans Gain Against Strong Enemy Defense   Fall Of Key Point Clears Way For Two American Forces To Join, Navy Says,   In Revealing First Details Of  Fight For Aleutian Island.

Army Heavy Bombers In Attack On Wake Island   Jap Installations There And At Rekata Bay On Santa Isabel Island Bombed

Range More Than 1,000 Miles From Base To Raid Installations Of Enemy In Pacific

U. S. Losses Light In New Attacks Heavy U.S. Bombers Blast Japs On Wake

Heavy Bombers Raid Wake Island  Planes Range Over 1,000 Miles From Base for Attack

HOSPITAL READY   site for Treatment of War Casualties To Be Dedicated.

HOSPITAL IN OHIO TO TREAT WOUNDED   Dedication et Be Held 2 Cambridge Monday

AEVEAL RED STAMP VALIDITY DATES   ‘P? Stamps ~ “Become Valid Sunday; Stamps Good Now Expire Wednesdav

Nazi Terror - Leaves City:      Possession’ ‘of Port ‘a Gr           MORE AIRFIELDS. -TO-FALL TO: ALLIES:   ‘Germans: May. Seek: Ney De a fense: Line’ on‘: “River. “North ‘of ‘Naples: *

THIS VICTORY GREATEST OF ITALIAN DRIVE   Port City Will be Used as Base For Conquest of Rome, Next on List For Allies.

BATTERED GERMAN  TROOPS REPORTED  TO HAVE FLED NORTH GREAT ITALIAN PORT  _ FALLS AFTER DAYS OF BLOODY FIGHTING

Nazis Fall Back To New Line Below Rome   One of War's Most Critical Battles Rages Around Kiev; Hitler Tells Generals Not to Yield Another Foot  of Ground Beyond Dnieper

5th Army Occupies Battered Port; Germans Head For Rome   Critical Battle Rages At Kiev

Nazis Flee Toward Rome   Columns of Retreating Germans Attacked By Allied Planes; Battle Rages at Kiev

Nazis Fall Back  ito New Defenses   Germans Blame Destruction of ‘City to Re: nagade Communists but Eye Witnesses’ Tell Story of German Pillage and Slay-_  ing of Civilians for Revenge =

Planes Slash At Retreating German Arm   Enemy Falls Back Toward New Line Below Rome, 120 Miles North.   BOMB RAILS TO NORTH

NAZIS FLEE FROM DYNAMITE: TORN cry, TOWARDS ROME, 120 MILES TO THE NORTH      Allied Troops Capture Kev Road Hub of _Avellino, 30 Miles Ea:t of Naples and Seize » Torre Annunziata, Nine Miles From Port

Allied Planes Lashins Foe   _.. Great Port City Found Empty Of Nazis

American Fifth Army Enters Naples Today  As Nazis Fall Back To New Line Below  “Rome — Critical’ Battle Is Raging In  Russia As Reds Assail Ukraine Capital At Kiev

Nazis Falling Back To New Line 120 Miles toNorthward   One of War’s Most Critical Battles Rages Outside Kiev in Russian Ukraine

U.§. Subs Sink 10 More Jap Ships in Pacific   4 Others Damaged; Two Big Transports Among Destroyed

TEN MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK   Submarines Continue War Of Attrition On Enemy Ships

Another Jap Destroyer Sunk  In Solomons  MacArthur Says Munda Campaign Is Going Well  NEW ADVANCES  Enemy's Supply Cut to Bone by Air And Sea Attacks

UJ. 5. SUBS SINK 10 AND DAMAGE 4 JAPANESE SHIPS   Navy Announces Vessels Destroyed Were of Merchant Type—Included 2 Transports, 6 Cargoes.   29% NOW HAVE BEEN ATTACKED DURING WAR   Details of Sinkings Not Given But Are Believed to Be Evidence of Success of American Strategy in Pacific.

Subs in Pacific Sink Ten Enemy Vessels   Four Others Are Damaged in Attrition Plan

Rayburn Warns On Complacency   Speaker Recounts Eight Big Strides  _ By NELSON FULLER 

Rayburn Warns On Complacency   Speaker Recounts Eight Big Strides

French- alan Main Rail Link  Other Raids on Ruhr Cities  Are Revealed

Berlin, Hanover, Ruhr, Also Hit In Aerial Pincers Attack; Record Raids Continue To Pound Europe

Giant Pineer Air Attacks Hit  German Bases   Lines Between France and Italy Cut; Berlin Attacked

TWIN RAIDS MADE BY 4.S., RAF   Day-And-Night Aerial » Pincers Blast Nazi C a e ommunications

BERLIN GETS NEW DOSE OF RAF BLASTING   American Liberators In Successful Attack On Coastal Railway, All Return Safely

ITALIAN SUPPLY ROUTE BELIEVED KNOCKED OUT   Raiders Hit Germany, Too

Allies Blast Link to Italy   Assault Levels Rail Lines at Cannes

‘Allies Smash Last France-Italy Link   U. S., British Bombers Rip Last Direct Railway Connection in Pincers Assault

CAPITAL HEARS RUML TAX PLAN SUPPORT FADES   Bill Introduced to Deduct 20 Percent from Pay, None Forgiven

REPUBLICANS ARE SPLITTING , ON THE RUML TAXATION PLAN   SOME MEMBERS: OF PARTY SAID TO BE OPPOSING MOVE FOR SOLID BLOCK VOTE

; Mountain ps Ready ny Kvent   rotect Against  race Passes Attack

Axis Claim Allied Attack Is Nearing   Fresh British And American Troops Seid Massing In Svria For Invasion Of Europe

Axis Fears Attack In Near East   Crack Eighth Army Is Moved To Syria

Germans See Eastern Drive  Goebbels Admits   Goebbels Admits Landing Possible

WAR MISSIONARY AT PRESTON TWP. CHURCH JULY 4TH   Rev. A.C. Frerichs. Welcomed American Flyers —~Buried 2 of Them

WAR MISSIONARY “AT PRESTON TWP CHURCH JULY 4TH   Rev.. A. C. Frerichs., Wel comed American Flyers  — Buried 2.0f Them _.

COMFORT SAYS GRAVEN “QUT”   " Service-to Party Is” Stressed for Judgeshin

Age Is Bar ~ ToDiamond  Candidacy   Iowa Demo Chairman Told President Won’t Select Sheldon Attorney

Behind the Latest Advance of Reds May Be Found Nine German Divisions, Sealed in Trap.   ALLIES IN NORTH AFRICA PRESS AHEAD

BECOMES A HERO IN FIRST BATTLE   YANK LIEUTENANT RESCUES WOUNDED MAN UNDER FIRE

LS, Lieutenant Amputates ¢s Of Wounded Comrade   ‘forms Operation Under Fire in  Siege of Sened, North Africa, After Directing Abandonment of Wrecked Tank, Then Carries Victim to Safety as Nazis Withhold Fire

Nazis Spare American Officer Let Him Carry “Pal” to Safety   Enemy Halts Its Machine-Gun Fire as Lieutenant Crosses Tunisian Battlefield After Amputating Yank’s Leg With Pocketknife.

American Officer Amputates Leg Of Comrade Under Fire, Then Lugs Him Away While Enemy Guns Cease

Amputates Leg of Injured Buddy, Bears Him Across No Man’s Land to Safety

Yankee Courage Shows in Africa   Germans Cease Firing While Officer Carries Man Over Battlefield.

Courage Respected By Nazis   U. S. Officer Amputated Comrade’s Leg, Carried Him To Safety

SOvI MAKE BLISTERING AIR ATTACKS ON NAZI STRONGHOLD   Heavy Raids Are Part Of Russian Softening-Up Process Of Key Bases.

1500 Japanese Killed as Allies Blast Wewak Base   Heaviest Air Raid Of Southwest Pacific War Delivered  pA AnA NHKresc

Allied F lyers Destroy 170. Jap Planes   ‘Attack on Wewak Brings Smashing Victory Over Nippon

Allies Destroy 10 Jap Planes In Surprise Raid   50 More Damaged In Greatest Pacific Air Victory

Head Back To Capital   Congress Faces Issues Of Great Import When It Returns Tomorrow

Many Problems Await Congress After Recess   International Policies and Post-war Peace Loom as Major Items When Congress Convenes.

Lawmakers Are Facing  Vital Task   Congress Returns From Summer Recess Te Take Up Problems Of War And Peace

FATHER DRAFT, TAXES FIRST ON CAPIAL SLATE   Lawmakers Will Turn Attention to Foreign Policy” Later

CONGRESS SET TO RECONVENE   Solons Tomorrow Expected to Turn Attention To War Problems

CONGRESS RETURNS TO WORK TUESDAY AFTER LONG RECESS  INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC PROBLEMS OF HISTORIC IMPORT FACED

Congress Returns From Vacation Tomorrow  To Work For The War And Prepare For Peace

WAR AND PEACE PROBLEMS FACE RESTED SOLONS   SUMMER RECESS AT END, CONGRESS TO RECONVENE TUESDAY

Issues of Historic Import ‘Await Convening of Congress ‘With Peace Stand Foremost

Major Issues Face Congress   Both International, Domestic Problems Of High import

CONGRESS GOING BACK 10 WORK; ISSUES PILE UP   Father Draft and Taxes Among Controversial Subjects Awaiting Action

Congress Ready For Manpower, Draft Problems  Domestic Trend Revenues and Rations Tonies

Big War And Peace Problems Ahead Congress Reconvenes ‘Tomorrow With Heavy Calendar Of Business

Global Policy, Father Draft, Taxes On Schedule For Returning Congress

Congressmen Back Tomorrow  Drafting Of Fathers And Taxes Big Issues On Important List

CONGRESS RETURNS   Many Problems Confront Lawmakers as They Re sume Session _

Congress To ResumeWork On Tuesday   Historically Important Jobs Face Lawmakers On Their Return

Congress Recess Over; To Work Or War And Peace    More Revenue, Ration. ing, Father-Draft Amona Problems

CONGRESS WILL CONVENE TUES. MANY BILLS UP   Father Drafting To Get First Attention

Congress Back On Job Tuesday   Many Important Matters to Come Before Solons

CONGRESS WILL OPEN MOMENTOUS SESSION TUESDAY   International and Domestic Problems of First Magnitude Coming Up

Tax, Draft Task Faces Conzressinen   Legislative ‘Halls to Open Tuesday; War and Peace ‘Confronts Solons 

BILLY KENNARD DEAD   Former Motor Car r Car Salesman Died   Suddenly This Morning

BILLY KENNARD DEAD   Former Motor Car Salesman Died Suddenly This Morning

GUNS MASSED FOR BREAKING UP NAZI RINE   Tiny Russian Garrison Held Out 16 Months, Taking All That Germans Could Give.

[8-MONTH SIEGE OF GREAT RUSSIAN CITY IS LIFTED AND FOOD IS DELVERED

NAZIS TURNED BACK AFTER 18 MONTHS FIGHT   Soviet columns advance upon key cities of Kharkov and Rostov

James R. Law Heads State’s Highway Body   Goodland Names Madison Mayor Chairman Of Commission—Succeeds William Armstrong

‘Main New Britain Beachhead ‘Expanded to 2 Miles; Arawe Attack Made Landing Easier

Jap Planes Met Disaster   Lost 61 Planes in Furious Scrambles Over Landings

Aerial Scramble Over Gloucester   Every Type of U. S. Fighter Shares in Melee Covering Landing

Says Jap Planes Fell Like Sparks  From Pinwhee!   U.S. Fighters Down 61 Nip Ships In Furious Fight At Gloucester Bay

OL JAP PLANES KNOCKED DOWN IN BIG BATTLE   Furious Dogfights Cove! Cape Gloucester Marine Landing

American Marines’ Invasions of New Britain Expandec   Jungle - Tested Leathernecks Aided by Tanks on Gloucester Road

Reds Claim Advances Along 1,000 Mile Front; Last Jap In Buna Area Is Wiped Out

Reverses For Hitler & Co. On All Fronts   Fall Back From Deep Caucasus Footing And Reds Strike At Same Time In Other Areas; American Airmen Score Signal Successes

Grozny Oil Area, Mozdok Back In Russian Hands   American Anti-Tank Units, Planes Reverse Axis Attack On F renchmen.

Offensive Continues Unchecked   Germans Set Back On Both Ends Of Long Battlefield   Americans Help French Turn Back Nazi Attack   Allies Retain Control of Skies In North Africa

Offensive Reveals Strength Of Soviets,  Nazi Miscalculation:      Report American Ground Force Help To Beat Off Attack By Axis On French North African Lines

INVADING HORDE IS BEATEN FROM RICH OIL FIELDS   Nothing To Report from Land Fighting in Tunisia But Tunis Bombed   RAF SMASHES GERMANY   Yanks and Aussies Wiping Out Last of Japs at Buna; Nip Bases Blasted

STEADY GAINS ON ALL THREE SECTORS SEEN   Northern Force Within 70 Miles of Latvian Border, Is Claim

Rolls Nazis Back —  Across Caucast   Russians Keep German Hordes on Defensive Along 000-Mile Battlefield, Showing Reserve Powe  Premier Stalin's Armies.   Capture of Mozdok and jor Via Are Considered Major Vict

‘Russ Also Push Ahead On North End Of Long Front; Axis Tank Forces Beaten In Tunisia.

Russian Army Only 70 Miles  From ‘Latvia   Allied Counterattack Turns Back Axis Drive Against French In Africa,   1FORTS DOWN 17 NAZIS

British Tanks Raid Enemy African Lines   Allied Air Force Shoots: Down 28 Axis Air Craft in Renewal of Air War

Russians Show Reserve Power; Axis Positions in Libya Hit by Tank Forces

Russ Offensive Is Unchecked; Announce Gains   American Ground Forces - Mentioned First Time In Africa  IOWANS IN FIGHTING  Allied Air Might Shown In Tunisia as Planes Raid Bases

Offensive on 1000 Miles   Soviet Armies Showing Reserve Power in Attacks.

PUSHING NAZIS STEADILY BACK OVER CAUCASUS   Germans Set Back on Battlefield Which Measures 1,000 Miles From One End to Other

German Corridor  Of Escape Narrows   Russian Offensive in Caucasus Rolls On UncheckedWhole Line Advances 

Red Offensive Still Remains  Unchecked   Roll Nazis Steadily Back Across Caucasus; US and British Planes in Tunisia Shoot Down 28 Enemy Aircraft, Damage 34 Others

NAZIS UNABLE 10 CHECK SWEEP OF RUSSIAN ADVANCE   Red Smash Shows Huge Reserve Power; British Tanks Raid Axis Positions in North Africa.

Soviet Forces Are Backing Germans Out of Caucasus   Allies Making Slow Gains in Battle For North Africa

Reds In Advance On Both Flanks   Nazis Are .on Defensive Elsewheer, on Thousand  _> + Mile Front.   BATTLES - IN TUNISIA   Ameticdn Planes Take a Heavy Toll of Axis Air- . craft Over Front

French Army Advances Into Libya While Allies Score New Successes in Air Over Tunisia—Axis Tank Forces Beaten Off   Gains in No. Africa

REDS ANNOUNCE FURTHER GAINS ON OTHER LINES   Russian Armies Show Extent of Power and Nazis’ Miscalculation

Allied Tanks And Airpower Take Toll In North Africa   Japs Pocketed

ALLRED IS NAMED 10 li § BENCH   Former Governor Appointed to Court of Appeals

RAIL WORKERS 10 “VOTE STAKE BUT KFEP OPERATING   Officials Predict Decision I  Batlot of Mov. 25 Will Be  Mere Threat.

RAILWAY STRIKE IS PREDICTED   Belief Is Trains Will Keep Running

Union Spokesman Sees Vote to Strike in Rail Dispute   Cost of Raise«

RECORD BROKEN   YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX   No, 45 INCOME OF EARVIERS

25 Are Reported New Cold Wave Spreads; Missing In Fire  White Christmas Remote at quebec Hotel

Cold Wave Moves East,  No Christmas Snow Seer   Sub-Zero Temperatures Are Re corded In North And Central States

COUNTER-ATTACKS BY NAZIS SLOW RED OFFENSIVE   Mud, Blizzards Also Play Part In Slowing Up Russians On Southern Front.

WEATHER SLOWS AUDUIAN DRIVE   Germans Carry Out Fierce Counter-Attacks In Muc And Snow

Churchill Pledges Freedom for Albanian Nation  Minister Announces British Officers Aeetet Cuarriline

Churchill Pledges Freedom for Albanian Nation  Minister Announces British Officers  Pee ee.  ee

Independence of: Albania Pledged In British House   Guerrillas Counted Upon To Play Part in War Of Balke Area ©:

Camel Corps Of Allies Captures Tunisian Town  te, _ fe... FM... 24...  _   Italian Garrison Routed And 250 Of - Defenders Killed

ALLIES TAKE TUNISIA TOWN   French, American Camel Corps Strike About 200 Miles from Tripoli

CAMEL CORPS TAKES TOWN IN SO. TUNISIA   Desert Troops Put Tanout Maller’s 400 Italian Defenders To Flight Killing 250 Of Them.   Palermo Raided

Settlement Near Tiaret Is Taken Over Heavy Odds   Italian Defenders Put To Flight From Desert Post; 250 Are Killed

U. $.-French Camel Corps Takes Village  Atlack Against Heavy Odds: Weather Agair

French-American Camel Corps Capture: Italian Post in Southern Tunisia; Yank Bombers Blast Vital Sicily Port

Camel Corps Of Allies Captures Tunisian Town   italian Garrison Routed And 250 O; Defenders Killed

ASS REPULSE “ENEMY ATTACK “DN NEW FRONT   Moscow Reports Big Battle ‘Raging on East Side of Donets Basin.   STILL TIGHTENING. TRAP ON.GERMANS AT OREL

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN. RICH DONETS BASIN   Violent Counter-O ffensive By Nazis Fought To Standstill  TANKS REPULSED     Soviets Draw Ever-Tightening Ring Around Orel Bastion   TANKS REPULSED

PREDICTS SHORT MEAT SUPPLY BY NEXT SUMMER   FARMERS ARE PREPARING TO MARKET BIGGEST HOG CROP IN HISTORY DURING WIN. TER MONTHS.   OTHER KINDS OF MEAT TO BE SHORT   Chicago Statistician Says There Will Be Little Meat For Civilian Consumers by Next Summer.

43 Session Ot state Assembly Comes To Close   Last - Minute Dry Efforts to Revive Liquor ‘Ref. ‘ eréndum Fail.

43 LEGISLATURE ENDS AT 1:14PM,   More Money Appropriated For General Expenditure Than In Any Other Legislature In State’s History.

STEVENSON WANTS LEGISLATURE SPEED UP ITS AGTIVITIES   FOUR MAJOR APPROPRIA TION BILLS SUBMITTED AS EMERGENCY

GERMAN WARSHIP’ SABOTAGE REPORTED FROM STOCKHOLM   THREE NAZI SHIPS ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY THER OWN CREWS

Story Says Nazi Ships Sabotagec   Witness Credits Crews With Act

Reds Storming Across Dnieper In Big Advance   Soviets Drive Beyond Smolensk: Nazis Die In River

NAZIS FEARED ALL-OUT FIGHT WITH BRITISH   3 German Ships Reported Scuttled

Crews Destroy 3 German Ships   Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Luetzow Laid At Anchor Near Norway Harbor.

Report Sabotage On German Ships   Rebellious Crews Blamed in Dispatch From Stockholm

STOCKHOLM REPORT DECLARES GERMAN NAVY SABOTAGED  DECLARED THREE BIG NAZI CAPITAL SHIPS’ CREWS SCUTTLED THEM

Se ae eS a Oe Se     Three Nazi Battleships Sabotaged: by: Crews, -Stockholm-Report-Says*

Swedish Report Asserts Mutineers Sabotaged 3. German Capital Ships

Scharnhorst And Tirpitz Named In New Rumor:   Suicide Clash With British Feared?

Rebellious Nazi Crews Reportedly Sabotage Three Capital Ships In Norway Harbor After Fall Of Italy

Report Three German Capital Ships Sabotaged By Own Crews   Hear Rebellious Crews Act Following News Of Italy’s Surrender; Have Been At Anchor In Norwegian Fjord.

Reported Nazi Ship Sabotage Is Unconfirmec   Stories Of Mutiny Ir German Fleet Lack Authenticity

Mississippi Crest Goes Downstream   Red Wing Guardsmen Set To Aid Residents

BROTHER HELD   Linked to Scuttle In: Which One Was Killed, One Wounded.

REFUSE POLICE TO AID CHECKUP   Boroughs Near Pittsburgh Decline to Help  Out OPA Accents. _—

GOVERNOR 10 GIVE VIEWS GN 2: POINTS IN TALK TOMORROW   To Discuss" Parale System And’. Civil Service : Commission—Joint Session

MAD DICTATOR UNDER GUARD IN HIS VILLA   In ‘Fits of Childlike Babbling, Raves . Like Maniac’

HOUSE TO END HEARINGS ON LABOR CONTROL   Labor Given Chance To Speak Up By Group

TO RESUME ACTION CON NAT'L WORK BIL   Backers and Opponents to Be Given Hearings; Weigh Foreman Plea

SENATE CLEARS WAY TO DEFER FARMERS   Rejects Plan to Exempt From Draft Only Those Producing Specified Amounts of Crons.

Big Battleship Ready to Join U.S. Armada   New Dreadnaught Believed Match of Any Man-of-War Afloat

Describes Practice Cruise of New 41,000-ton U. S. Battleship -- Mightiest Fighting Craft on Oceans

New 41,000 Ton U. S. Battleship Nearly Ready to Join Fleet; It's Believed Most Powerful Warship

11,000 Tons of Sudden Death for Axis; New U.S. Warship Given Gunnery Tesi

Giant 41,000 Ton U.S. Dreadnaught — ‘Soon To Take Place In Battle Line

41 ,000-Ton U.S. Battleship, About Due for  Service, Called Match for Anything Afloa

THIRD WAR LOAN EXCEEDS QUOTA ~ BY OVER BILLION   TOTAL SALES ARE EXPECTED YO REACH NINETEEN BILLION DOLLAR MARK BY DEADLINE TONIGHT.   CLAIM INFLATION IS BEING CHECKED   Mexico Agrees to Pay Standard Oil Company Some $22,000,000 For Seizure of Company's Oil Properties in Mexico.

BOND CAMPAIGN “WELL VER TOP   Third War Loan Drive To End At Midnight; Sales Over 16 Billion

Allies Put Final Touch to Jap Convoy   Airmen Find and Sink Last Two of Enemy’s Destroyers

Jap Convoy - Is Entirely ~ Wiped Out   American: Fliers Finish-Off Last of Enemy ..Ships in Bismarck Sea"   '82 JAP PLANES  ARE SHOT DOWN   Some Warships in Big- Convoy May Have Been Laree: Destroyers

Pay-As-You-Go _ Legisla. tion Sidetracked by ' House   CARLSON TO RENEW . FIGHT FOR PROGRAM   Numerous Crossings of Party Lines in the Votina

Vote on Skip-a-Year Idea Is 215 to 198; Payment Proposals Go Back to Committee

RUMI INCOME PLAN TURNED DOWN, 215-198   ALL PAY-AS-YOU-GO LEGISLATION IS SIDETRACKED

Pay-as-Go Tax Legislation Sent Back to Committee   Democrats Score First Major Victory Of Present Session  BITTER FIGHT  Carlson to Renew Battle, Present Hic Plan Again

 Rum! Plan Is Rejected ‘By 215-198   ALL CURRENT TAX PAYMENT PROPOSALS GO BACK TO WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE; MAY NEVER COME UP AGAIN.   Spectacular Battle

House Rejects Ruml Tax Plan By 215 to 198   All Pay-as-You-Go, Withholding Levy Moves Sidetracked

All Pay-as-You-Go Tax Legislation Sidetracked Including Witholding Ta»   Current Tax Proposals Sent Back fo Ways and Means Committee; Republicans Will Renew Fight To Bring Skip-a-Tax-Year Plan Measure Back before the House   By FRANCIS M. LE MAY

House Turns Down  Ruml Plan —   Democrats in First Major Victory Sidetrack All Pay-as-You-Go Tay Measures. Withholding Plans

Pay-as-You-Go Legislation Is Side Tracked   Withholding Proposal Shelved as Democrats Win First Major Bout

RUML PLAN IS BEATEN, 215 10 198   Other Pay - as - You - Go Plans Sidetracked on Heels of Defeat of (;OP-Sponsored Bill.   FATE IN-COMMITTEE REMAINS IN DOUBT   Doughton Doubts They Will Be Revived—Pay Withholding Scheme Goes Way of Others.

Ruml Tax Plan Rejected by . 215 to 198   Demo Faction Though Unabieto Pass. *No-Abatement’ Bill

HOUSE REJECTS RUML TAX PLAN BY 215 TO 198   First Major Democratic Victory Sidetracks All Pay-As-You  Go Proposals   Committee To Act

HOUSE REJECTS PAY-AS-YOU-60 PLAN OF RUML   Democratic Representa tives Chalk Up First Vic tory In 78th Congress   TAX MUDDLE SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE

Run Tax Plan Loses, Pay-Go Bill Sent Back   Other Measures Rejected As Party Lines Fall In Ritter Fieht

rouse heyjects Ruml Plan And Other  Tax Schemes  All Current-Payment Revenue Proposals Return to Committee   INCLUDE 20 PERCENT WITHHOLDING IDEA

Pay-As-You-Go Plan Rejected By The House   Income tax collection change rejected by the House, 215 to 198; maybe revived.

RUSSIAN VIEWS ON POST-WAR FEATURE FOOD CONFERENCE   Tumult Of -First Week Over ' At United Nations  Meeting In Virginia

FOOD PARLEY  ANTICIPATING RUSSIAN PLAN   Hot Springs Conference Eagerly Awaits Results Of Dissolution Of The Comitern

ARMIES IN WEST CAUCASUS AIM AT ENEMY BASE   One Russian Unit Now Within 40 Miles Of Rostov; Zernovoy Captured; Find Hungarian Officers Slain By Germans.

Russians Drive Nazi Foe Back  Push One Wedge of Arc Around Rostdv

RUSSIANS LESS THAN 40 MILES FROM ROSTOV   MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN ADVANCES WEST OF VORONEZH

SOVIET PUSH AIMS AT NAVAL BASE   Pincers Close in on Area Held by About 200,000 Germans

Russians Push Wedge To Rostov   GERMAN RESISTANCE ON SOUTHERN FRONT BROKEN

Russ Tighten Trap. Around Rostov, Kursk   Armies in Western Caucasus Closing In on Krasnodar

Reds Are Less Than 40 Miles From Rostov   New Drives Develop Against Krasnodar, Kursk, and Kharkoy

REDS WITHIN 40 ~ MILES'OF GOAL   With Capture of Zernovoy. Russian Army Is Nearer Rostov City

Sharp Advance Made Toward Kharkov: Find Dead Officers   Isolation of 200,000 Germans Based at Rail Center is Threatened; Within 75 Miles of Kharkov

Russians Drive Wedge Closer To Rostov   Caucasus Armies Closing in on German Center

Capture of Zernovoy Pushes One Russian Wedge of Arc Within 40 Miles of Rostov

Reds Swinging Arm Around Rostov Area   Other Drives Threaten More German Bases

Soviets Push Nearer Rostov  One Wedge of Arc Less Than 40 Miles of City

Reds Push Neat Goal at Rostov   Enveloping Wedge 40 Mi. From City

Russian Army Pushes Wedge  AroundRoctny   Soviets Drive To Within 40 Miles Of Important City On Don River   THREE THRUSTS   Zernovoy Is Taken; Reds Advance On Kursk, Kharkav And Krasnodar

Reds Drive To 40 Miles  From Rostov   Other Thrusts Aiming At Kursk, Krasnodar: Nazis Admit Breach At Stalingrad

Reds Stab Within 45 Miles Of Rostov As Zernovoy Falls   Push Closer To Kharkov, Kurk, Krasnodar In Drive

Russians Are © Only 40 Miles  From Rostov   New Thrusts Under Way Against . Several ‘Other Important Bases Still Held By Germans _

Russians Draw Are Of Steel  Around Rostov  Some Forces Are Less   Some Forces Are Less Than 40 Miles From Big Base   TOWNS RECAPTURED   German Resistance On Southern Front Is Reported Broken

WIN NEW BASE AND PRESS ON THREE OTHERS   Russians In West Caucasus Close In On Krasnodar, Vital Nazi Position

RED ARMY TROOPS CONTINUE DRIVE 10 ENCIRCLE GERMANS   CAMPAIGN FOR ENCIRCLE MENT OF ROSTOV IS PROGRESSING

STUBBORN AXIS RESISTANCE IN SOUTH SMASHED   Capture Key City Of Zernovoy In Land Thrusts

Reds Closing . About Rostov   Wedge Pressed Deeper By Encireling Russians; Towtis Taken

Stubborn Nazis Defense Broken  By Red Troops   Russians Push One Wedge of Are to Within Forty Miles of Rostov.   Take More Towns in Drive Against Kursk

FOOD PROBLEM 1 UGGUPYING ~ A FRONT SEAT   OPA Going to Mcve Against Skyrocketine Prices on Fresh Fish.   POULTRY BLACK MART   Other Developments De. mand Attention on the Food Front.

MAY ESTABLISH PRICE CEILINGS ON FRESH FISH   Black Market In Poultry Also To Be Attacked By Food Czar

OPA PLANS T0 HIT ‘MARKETS   Rising Fresh Fish Prices Also Will Be Studied

NAPLES HIT THIRD. TIME. BY BOMBERS   Two-Ton Bombs Descend On Salerno, Italian War Center '

Salerno Is Blasted   Wellmgtons Set Many Fires in Block-Buster Assault Mondav

Many Fires Set In New Raids. In Naples Area   Railway Yards Suffer in BlockRictar AHack

NAPLES HEAVILY BOMBED, FIRES SEI IN RAILWAY YARDS   No Enemy Fighters Rise — tc Challenge Craft Carrying Block Busters

CUT IN VALUE OF OIL COUPON FOR PERIOD 3   Easterners Will Receive At Rate Of 90 Gallons Instead Of 100 In Next Six Weeks

EASTERNERS GET NEW FUEL OIL CUT   ‘OPA Order Reduces Gallon Value of Period 3 Ration  Counons._

Cut Is Made In Eastern  Oil Rations   Fuel Is Reduced By 10 Per Cent

Jap Bases Raided By Allied Bombers   MacARTHUR’S BOMBERS PLAY HAVOC ON SIX POINTS

6 Jap Strongholds North of Australia Heavily Bombed   MacArthur's Planes Take Advantage of Improved Weather

G KEY JAPANESE BASES BLASTED BY U.S. PLANES  Capital Of Timo  Left In Flames,

RAIDS RESUMED ON JAP BASES   Southwest Pacific Fliers Blast Ex emy at Koepang, Timor, and Ra haul, New Britain

RAIN HAVOC ON . JAP STRONGHOLD   MAC ARTHUR'S AIRMEN BOMB KOEPANG; LEAVE TIMOR IN FLAMES

‘Keepang A Mass Of Flames   MacArthur’s Bombers Blast Timor’s Capital  With 42 Tons of Explosives: Hit Other Bases

D JAP oTRONGHOLDS VISITED BY AIRMEN   Fourth-Two Tons of Bombs Dumped on Timor Base; Chinese Gain Upper Hand

BOMBERS HIT SIX JAP BASES INS. PACIFIC   Far Ranging American Liberators Strike At Timor and Rabaul

AMERICAN BOMBERS  RAIN HAVOC UPON  JAP STRONGHOLDS RAIDS ON SIX ENEMY  BASES HIGHLIGHTED BY VENDANG ATTACH

‘Grave,’ Says Fascist OF Italv’s Condition   Sicilian Mules Toted Shells, Helned U.S. at Acrivento

Americans Capture Key  Port, Advance To West   British. Gains Made In Heaviest Fighting To Date In Sicily; U. S. Forces Battle In Central Area   Sicilian Mules Had Share In Capture Of Agrigento

Labor Got Unfair Deal. [s Charge   CIO President Murray Calls for Action at The Polls

BELIEVE TRIAL OF U. S. FLIERS WAS A FARCE  FORMER PRISONER  CAVC IAD T111CTICC   FORMER PRISONER SAYS JAP JUSTICE DOESN’T EXIST

Prisoner of Japs Is Guilty Before His Trial, Hill Writes   AP Correspondent Tells of His Experiences in Sugamo Prison

Max Hill. Tells Of Exp  JAPANESE GENDARMES COULD TEACH GESTAPO SOMETHING

JAP BARBARISM DESCRIBED BY FREED PRISONER   Justice Only Mockery With Personal Encouragement Of Premier Tojo   BRUTALITY IS DIABOLICAL   Torture, Both Mental and Physical, Would Outdo Hitler’s Gestapo

 ‘Justice Doesn’t Exist ace eS TENE  rv re Could Teach Hitler’s Gestapo New Tricks

Justice as We Know It  Does Not Exist in Japan Trials Are Nothing but a Farce

Real Justice Doesn’t Exist In Japan; Police More Brutal Than Nazi Gestapo

WAITER TELLS OF NIPPON “JUSTIGE   Correspondent Relates His Own Experiences While Prisoner

Churchill fo Make Address  Speech Monday Is To Be Broadcast, lt le Annauneod

Churchill Plans Labor Day Speech   May Have No Political Significance

SENATOR WHEELER IN SHARP CRITICISM OF CONNALLY PROGRAM  SENATE IRRECONCILABLE  CAVE IT MICUT DAY   SENATE IRRECONCILABLE SAYS IT MIGHT BACK RUSSIAN DEMANDS

WHEELER HITS POST-WAR PLAN   Says Russia Would Construe Proposal As Backing Her Demands.   NO PROMISE BY ALLIES

WHEELER HITS POST-WAR PLAN   Declares Approval of Connally Scheme Would Let Reds Gain Power

CRITICIZES MOVE TOCOMMIT U.S.ON POST-WAR POLICY   SENATOR WHEELER DISLIKES PHRASING OF PEACE RESOLUTIO?

Wheeler Criticizes Connally © Peace Resolution As Support For Red Territorial Demands

BUN MAY HAVE @ATIGEN RITRNE   WHEELER OFPOSES PMWWATILY S@ESOLIITION

POST-WAR POLICIES SCORED BY WHEELER   Interpreted as Supporting Russia’s Demands

WHEELER SUGGESTS U.S. “GO SLOW” ON POST-WAR POLICIES   is Critical Of Moves To Commit This Nation At This Time On Post-War Decisions — Fears Russia Will  .) oe Seen a

Wheeler Hits New Postwar Connally Plan   SOLON SAYS RUSSIA WILL SEE MOVE AS OKAY ON AREA DEMANDS

Wheeler Is ~ Connally ~ Plan Foe   Says Proposal Would Be In-terpreted as Backing Russians’- Land Demands   OPPOSES FIXING ‘OUR COURSE NOW   What Will -We Do, What Is Best for U:S.? the Montanan ASKS ©

$614,078 Balance  In General Fund   Will Be Kept Intact For Post-War Needs

AMERICAN CASUALTIES  GIVEN AS 100,000   Only 20,000 of Number Are Listed As Dead, However

House Will Act On Impeachmen   Move Against Gogebic Judge To Be Studied

House to Hear Impeachment Proceedings   Gogebic County Probate: Judge May Find Defenders; Advance ‘New Plan 

White And Negro Leaders Found Council For Promotion Of Inter-Racial Crooperation

Racial Good-Will  Promotion Begun  White, Negro Leader: Meet in Atlanta to Oraanize Movement

BETTER RELATIONS AMONG RACES TO BE PLANNED BY BODY  PERMANENT ORGANIZA_ TION MAY COME FROM MEETING IN ATLANTIC

Guerrillas Also Strike in Balkans   Allies Urge Patriots in Europe To “Be Patienta Little Longer”

Fighting Reported In Paris Streets   Allies Urge Patriots ‘To Be Patient’

ENGINEERS PROTEST UNIONIZATION DRIVE   State Society Says Work Can't Be Regulated By Unions

Compile Data On Gambling For Bushnell   Boston Police  Act On Demand

Allied Planes — Hit Heavy Going   Increased Interception Reported In Raids

FAR-REACHING DECISIONS BY ROOSEVELT, CHURCH ILL AND STALIN EXPECTED TO FURTHER STRAIN GERMAN ‘WAR’ SPIRIT—ULTIMATUM TO BE PART OF OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE ON RE~” sULY OF CONFERENCE HELD IN TEHERAN

MAY ROCK NA MORALE TO ITS FOUNDATIONS   Blow Expected in Announcement on Teheran Conference

Report On Conference To Hit Morale   Await Word of Decisions  At Teheran

MOSCOW SAYS ‘BIG 3° AGREE ON WAR PLANS   Parley Expected to Bring Events Sealing Doom of Germany

Judge Refuses to Change Terms of Probation For Ex-Kansas City Boss

Judge Refuses To Aid in Pardon For T. J. Pendergas   Ten Prominent Missourians Had Made Appeal

Fathers Assured Delay In Draft —   Texas Chief Gives Orders To Boarde

WORKctio KECUED POR DE TASELING   Perscns Available for Work in Corn Sicu'd Reg'ster at Gnce,

WORKER REEDED FOR DETASSELING   Perscns’ Available for Work! in Corn Saculd Reg:s--.  ter at Once, , 

POSTWAR PLANS BEING EXAMINED BY LEGISLATORS   Building Program Is Outlined For  Improvements

STUDY PROPOSALS IN ILL. PUBLIC WORKS SPENDING   LARGEST ITEM CALLS FOR 15-YEAR PROGRAM OF ROAD IMPROVEMENT

New Babies Bombard Hospital   DIRECTOR REVEALS DAMAGE BY SQUADRONS OF STORKS IN EAST

Invasion Fever  Mounts; Allies Make More Plans   Speculation Is  That Allies To Strike Soon

UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN SEEK SOVIET UNDERSTANDING   OUTLINE GF MOSCOW'S ATTETUBE ON POST-WAR PROBLEMS SOUGHT BEFORE INVASION If LAUNCHED -

3 IMPORTANT = “TO GET VIEWS OF RUSSIANS   United States and England Must Arrive at Some : Understanding.    ON POLITICAL ISSUES   Effcrts to Reach an Agreement Are Now Actively Under Way.

LEWIS SENDS ANSWER TO FDR   Letter Contains No Threat 0! Strikes, But Nevertheless They Continue

MINERS TO RETURN TOJOBS TOMORROW   Chief John L. Lewis Gives His Answer to President’s Order.   APPROVED BY UNION POLICY COMMITTEE   Lewis Protests Miners Want Agreement and Want Work.

County Court News Of Sioux County   Reports in Johanna Yan Reekel Estate and Pearl Westra Guardjanship Filed in Court

WHIRLAWAY RETIRED BECAUSE OF INJURY   Greatest Money-winner of All Horses To Go Home

WHIRLAWAY IS. RETIRED   Race Horse (Has Not Recoverec ‘ m Injury

Revisited Scene of Crime  Within Three Hours; Mate Tired Of Supporting. Him

LONERGAN AN’ ~ ODD CRIMINAL   Returns to Murder Flat and Leaves Toy Elephant for Son

TOY ELEPHANT FOR BABY SON LEFT BY SLAYER   Police Say Lonergan Returned After Slaying Wife

ORDER LOWER MEAT PRICES   Ration Officials Rule A Cut on June 21.

Manpower Situation Shaping Up A One of Most Pressing Problems To Be Solved

MANPOWER SITUATION PRESSING PROBLEM FACING CONGRESS  NEEDS OF ARMED FORCES INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE UPPERMOST

Manpower ‘Bill First to Get Attention   Plans Already Under Way to Consider Proposals Affecting Armed Forces; Wants Larger Crous

Airmen Bag 7 Ships, 19 Planes in Raids  3rd Destroyer Knocked  O..2 tT Hh...

ALLIS DRIVE ANOTHER WEDGE IN JAP LINES —   Air Force Carries Out New Punishing Raids On Japanese Bases In New Britain

Jap Defenses Of Buna Are Again  Split By Allies   Bombers Blast Shipping Of Enemy In New Guinea

Japanese Bases in New Britain Under Punishing Attacks   Allies Drive Another Wedge Into Enemy’s Position at Buna

JAP DEFENSES AGAIN SPLIT BY ALLIED FORCES   Air Forces Carry Out New Punishing Raids on Enemy Bases in New Britain   JAP SUB STRUCK   ‘Fhree..Large Nipponese * Vessels Left Enveloped™  in Flames After   Dawn Bombing

NEW WEDGE IS DRIVEN IN BUNA   Allies Further — Strengthen Their Position In New Guinea.

COUNTY SOLDIER ‘MISSING’ A YEAR IS JAP PRISONER   Donald Ingle Is Still Alive Parents Hear In War Department Word.

FRED LARKIN DIES AFTER OPERATION   Had Been Resident Of This Vicinity All His Life—Funeral Monday.

Death Claims _ Fred Larkin  Life Long. Resident . ‘Of Akron Communit;

Launch Campaign For Waste Paper   All Citizens of Lawrence Can Help in This Worthy  Drive   Boy Scouts Will Make House to House Canvass, December  

Launch Campaign For Waste Paper   All Citizens of Lawrence —_ Help in This Worthy  rive   THE NEED IS URGENT   Boy Scouts Will Make House to House Canvass, December   

aks Before West _ Concord Group ~~  firs: Alice (Wallace) Troy ce

PANEL HOLDS GAS  RULES VIOLATED   Mrs. Herbert O’Conor Convicted by Four. Man Panel

C Book Revoked For Car Used by Governor's Wife   Panel Rules She Improp erly Used Occupational Gasoline Rations

MRS. O’CONOR LOSES HER RATION COUPONS   Special Panel Rules That Gover nor’s Wife Improperly Used Kations In South Carolina Trip

Two Gigantic Plane Concerns Merge in Wes!  Consolidated and Vultee   Consolidated and Vultee Corporations Become One Corporation

TWO AIRCRAFT FIRMS JOINED BY MERGER   Consolidated And Vultee Compan.  ies To Poni Facilities For  Greater Trodurtion

2 BIG AIRCRAFT PLANTS MERGED   Consolidated And Vultee Unite To Form One Of Largest

MARSHALLS MAY BE DUE FOR ATTACK   Yanks Mopping Up Jap Survivors  In Gilberts

Kharkov Set Afire Before Nazis Retreat   Russians Drive Through Smoking Ruins, Aim A\ ‘Famed Poltava Sector   MAKE DONETS GAINS   Offensive Near Taganrog Hints Important Phase Of Summer Campaign

LT. PAUL PITTMAN STRIGKEN IN TEXAS   Former Barium Boy Was Flying Instruct-. or In The Army

MOTORISTS MAY GET SINGLE TAG      ‘House Sotons’ Pass Measure To Senate For — Ratificatinn -

Manager, Chiel And Counselor  Out At Salina   City Politics In Neighboring City Is Seething

Threaten City Of Benevento, ‘Road to Rome’ Is Now Open   8th Army Takes San Severo, 18 Miles North . Of Foggia  ~~

STUDY COAL SITUATION   Goxernigr Schoeppel Fears Fuel Shortage in the State

ar Labor Board upports Lewis tand in Ruling   Demands Men Resume Work, Settle Dispute Under Their Contract

MINE WORKERS TO END STRIKE   Union Leaders Vote Te Return To Jobs Next Monday

BOARD ORDERS MINERS TO 60 BACK TO WORK   WLB Refuses To Pass On Merits Of Dues Row; Referred Back To Their Contract   Lewis Wins Victory

STRIKING MINERS AGAIN ORDERED TO RESUME WORK   Labor Board Calls On Pennsylvania Workers to Submit Grievances to Processes in Contract.   DECISION A VICTORY FOR JOHN L. LEWIS   Whether Men Will Obey Order or Defy Union Official and WLB Remains to Be Seen.   RIULLETIN.

LEADERS WILL URGE MINERS END WALKOUT   Union Heads Act After WLB Orders Return to Work

ORDERED TO WORK   Strikers Told to Submit Their Grievances Later   LEWIS WITNESS AT DRAMATIC HEARING!   Authority of Board Chal_ denged by Leader of Union

Will Urge Coal Miners To End Strike  ” Leaders Vote fo €and Man Rack ta   Leaders Vote fo Send Men Back fo Work Monday”

Will Urge : *Coal Miners Jotnd Strike   Leaders Vote fo. Send Men: Back: lo.

Labor Board Backs Lewis, Orders Men Back to Work   Strikers Ordered To Submit Grievances To Process Provided In Working Contract   IT’S EXACT STAND TAKEN BY LEWIS   Now Up to Strikers To Return to Mines ‘Or Defy Union, WLB

Union Chiefs Vote Coal Walkout Enc  Act After WLB Orders Men To Resume Jobs

UNION LEADERS URGING MINERS TO END STRIKE   Decision Is Reached By Officials At Washington  , Lt   LEWIS HURLS DEFI AT WAR LABOR BOARD

Measure Sent To House After  Hectic Session   Conference Committee Seeks to Work Out Compromise Bil  VOTE IS 36-28  Upper Chamber Reverses Self

Senate Votes Again To Ban Any Subsidies   Conference Committee Ordered To Work Out  Compromise on Issue

Ban on Retail Subsidies Voted   Senate Again Stages Revolt on Rollback

SENATE REVOLTS OVER PAYMENT OF SUBSIDIES   Administration’s Food Price “Roll Back” Program Js Handed Defeat   HOUSE POSTPONES IMMEDIATE ACTION

New Revolt Is Staged Against Roll-back Program  COMPROMISE MAY BE REACHED TODAY  Ban Written Into Bill Ex' tending Life of the ccc

Senate votes again to ban any subsidy   Bill referred to conference group

Senate Revolts On Subsidy Plan   Would Ban Funds On Price Rollback  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK Associated Press Staff Writer

Senate Again in Revolt on Price Roll Back Plan   Votes 36 to 28 to Ban Any Subsidies to Lower Food Price

Senate Again Balks At Government Roll Back Program  Votes to Ban Any, All Subsidies for Lowering Food Prices

EEE EEE WV PLA LLL ALALLLLAL LLL ALLL  SENATE ROLLS BACK PRICE “ROLL BACK”   Senator George Opposes Deferring Payment Of Grocery Bills, Then Paying Them From Treasury   Bill Goes To Conference

SENATE VOTES SUBSIDIES BAN   Rebels Anew Against Any Payments To Lower Retail Prices;  House To Act

SENATE VOTES AGAINST FOOD PRICE SUBSIDY   ROOSEVELT BEATEN AGAIN ON HIS ROLLBACKS

SENATE VOTES TO PUT BAN ON ALL SUBSIDIES   “rohibition is Placed In Measure to Ex tend CCC Life

Senate Revolts  Against Roll Back Plan   By Vote of 36 to 28 Upper House Bans Any Subsidies Whatsoever to Lower Retail Food Prices; Rider Attached to Bill

Measure Returned  For House Action Committee Will Try  Bar Catmairantimce

Senate Revolts Against Plans To Lower Prices   Takes Another Slap ¢ Roosevelt's Subsidy Program

Senate Renews Ban Against Food Subsidies   House Gets Measure After Voting To Prolong Life of CCC; Conferees Again Tackle Problem

VOTES 10 BAN PLAN 10 PUSH DOWN PRICES   Rejects Roosevelt Program, 36 to 28, After George Bitterly Assails It as Inflationary.   HOUSE SENDS BILL TO COMMITTEE   Group Representing Both Upper and Lower Branches Expected to Work Out Compromise.

Balkan Invasion Threat  Is Labeled Screen For  Real Allied Offensive

Airfield North Of Rome Bombed   Heavy Screen Of Enemy Fighters Encountered

WMC ORDERS USES TO “STREAMLINE   Speedup Placement of Work ers Needed Is Rnal

Roosevelt Says Jap Retreat s “Rea! Setback   Avers Home Front Forgetful Of MacArthur's Steady Moves

Littl Activity. Reported   Jap Weakness Indicated By Retreat in Central Solomons, FDR Asserts

FDL, SEES SIGNS OF JAP WEAKNESS    DECLARES RETREAT FROM  CENTRAL SOLOMONS I8 BLOW TO FOE'S PRESTIGE,

ROOSEVELT POINTS. TO JAP WEAKNESS   President Discusses Enemy Retreat From Céntral Solamons

Retreat of Japs" Seen as Defeat  Blow Delivered to Enemy’s Prestige

Air Attacks on City of Hamburg Are Significant   American.and . British Forces Are Near Goal

Hamburg Attacks Regarded as Most Striking Air Strategy Development

VACCINATION LAWS CHECK POX SPREAD      Epidemics’ In Mifflin. And Lancaster Counties Now Over

STRIKE ENDED, STEEL PLANTS "RESUME WORK   F eeling Grows Way to Be Found to Give Workers Boost

Steel Output Resumes  After Strike  125,000 Workers Return 1o Jobs On Earlier Shifts

WORKERS RETURN TO STEEL MILLS   Most of More Than 170,000 Workers Idle Since Dec. 24, Return to Jobs; 125,000 Tons Steel Lost

MOST OF STEEL WORKERS BACK   C1O Union Wins First Round In Fight For 17-Cent Raise

Benes Vows Rebuilding of ~ Torn Nation   Will Remain Faithful te Democratic Way of Tife

SENATOR HEAR TALK BY BENES   Czechoslovakia Awaits Return Of Democracy,  Leader Tells Solons

BENES SAY CZECHS WILL REMAIN TRUE TO UNITED NATIONS      Points Out Czechoslovakia’s Democratic Traditions, Come Mostly From U. §.

RECORD MEAT - SHORTAGE  BY _ 1 NEXT SPRING      Predictlon. Made B: y Spokesmen ° For “Live Stock and Poultry ; were " Jndustry. 8

38 ARE GRANTED DIVORCES HERE   May Term Of Raleigh Circuit Court Is Opened Monday

Stimson Praises  Yankees’ Part in Battle of Tunisia   Defends U. S. Army Against Criticism Of Newspapers

LOCHNER SEES NAZI STRENGTH   WARNS PARTY STILL IN POWER DESPITE SHIFTS   By LOUIS RB. LOCHNER

“The House Of Nazism Is Tottering”’      But No Change in Allied Strategy Indicated By Military Coup Reportedly Shelving Hitler

WAR NOT OVER, SAYS LOCHNER   Shelving of Hitler Does Not Mean Goal of Allies Is Reached.   GERMANY IS IN CRISIS

Artillery Duels On Soviet Front   Increase In Big Gun Actior Is Reported On Vast Red Front   GROUND LULL IN KUBAN DISTRICT

BIG GUND Oh UVIET FRONT VERY ACTIVE   Russian Report Says Huadreds of Nazis Have Been Killed.   KUBAN AREA I§ QUIET   Battle in the Mui Is Being Carried on Mostly by - the Artillery.

Thrust At Kharkov Being Intensified   Railroad Leading Into Rostov Is Captured By Russians: Grand Assoult Thoucht Near

YEISK ON SEA OF AZOV IS OCCUPIED   Thrust Toward Kharkov Is Now Being Intensified

Floods Menace Factories   RAMPAGING MISSISSIPPI THREATENS PLANTS, TOWNS IN WIDE AREA

FLOOD WATERS NEAR PLANTS   ‘Atlas Powder Plant In Path of Rising River

Floods Menace Two Big Plants  Places: In Southern Illinois Endangered

Floods Endanger Big Powder Plant  $9 Million Generating Proiect Threatened

2 Huge Plants Threatened AsRiver Rises   Coast. Guardsmen .Call Situation Critical °in.- Southern Illinois

Floods Threaten Ulinois Plants, East Missouri   Choked Mississippi River Shows No Decline As Waters Broach Levees

FLOOD BRINGS NEW MENACE IN MIDWEST   Two States Suffer Heavily; Other Areas Relieved

NO DROP YET INDICATED IN FLOOD WATERS   Several Industrial Plants and Towns Still Imperil. led by Torrents.   State Heads Plan  Quick Restoration

Floods Peril 2 Industrial Plants Today   . Sheen 1h ‘Swollen Rivers Continus  To Rise Along Lower  Reaches

NO DROP SEEN IN LOWER REACHES OF MISSISSIPPI   Missouri and Illinois Continue Relentlessly Along Paths of Destruction Over Wide Section; Many Plants Imperiled.

Floods Peril 2. Industrial Plants Today   Swollen Rivers Continue To Rise Alone Lower Reaches

F lood Menaces Big Industries  In “idwest :      Powder and’ Electric Plant. in Path Of Rising Water

MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOOD WATERS STILL THREATENING DAMAGE  CONDITIONS, HOWEVER, IMPROVED IN UPPER

FLOOD ENDANGERS 2 ILLINOIS PLANTS   Six Inches of Water Cover Town of Wolf Lake

FLOODS MENACE $0, ILLINOIS POWER PLANT  REGARD SITUATION CRITICAL AT GRAND   REGARD SITUATION CRITICAL AT GRAND TOWER, WOLF LAKE

Other Towns Hard Hit By Flood Waters   Areas Downstream Menaced By Great Overflov

Floods Menace Big War Plant   Mississippi River Continues Rampage

FLOOD WATERS THREATEN BIG MIDWEST AREA   Industrial Plants in Southern Illinois and Other Sections Face Crisis.

Flood Waters Menace Plants   Several in Southern lilinois Are Nearly isolated, Reported

POWER PLANTS   No Material Drop in Mississippi; Big Planis Are Menaced.

Flood Endangers Big Powder Plant   Mississippi River Shows no Drop In Lower Areas

WAR PLANTS — IMPERILLED BY FLOOD WATERS   Mississippi Drops In Some Flooded — Areas :

Huge Powder Plant, Generating Station Menaced By Flood Waters   But Tension Eases In Many Areas Bordering The Mississippi River; Wolf Lake Covered By Six Inches Of Water.

Huge Plants in Illinois  in Flood Path   Conditions ‘Upstream Improved But Rivers Continue Destructive Rampage

Some Improvement Noted Upstream.....  FLOODS MENACE BIG INDUSTRIAL PLANTS

FLOOD NEARING TWO BIG PLANTS   No Material Drop: Occurs in River Downstream; Big Powder Works Threatened

LEADERS STUDY FARMING GOALS   Milk Output, Feed Shortage. Price Supports Viewed

FARM CHIEFS OPEN FOOD CONFERENCE   Study Ohio Plans For Wartime Needs

OHIO FARM LEADERS TO SET CROP QUOTAS   Open Three-Day Conference at Columbus

Total Idle in Pittsburgh Area Now Over 30,000 With 57 Mines Closed; Anticipate End of Contract Frid : Midnight; Picketing Hastens Stel , Spread. : :

10,000 More Miners Strike   Scores of Locals Pledge Support To Lewis

58,000 Miners Are Now Idle; Troops May Be Used As Guards.  .WLB PREJUDICED—UMW

DISPUTE OVER AGREEMENT IS NEAR CLIMAX   Situation Leads to Talk of Subsequent Pit Operation Behind Bayonet Lines  PRESIDENT MAY ACT

Scores of West. Penna. Locals Say Miners Will Not Work After Friday

Move to Defer Father Draft Lacks Support   /Senators Reluctant Te * Oppose Requests Of Military Men

Bill to Prevent Draft ‘of Fathers Is Facing Defeat   ‘Solons Reluctant To Oppose Army ‘And Navy Chiefs

Defeat of Father Drafi Bill Seen as Likely   Senators Shy From Telling Army, Navy How to Run Armed Forces; See Plan as Aid to Essential Industries

PROSPECTIVE CROP AGREAGES FOR “43 10 BE ESTIMATED   Many Farm Leaders Are Forecasting Serious Slump In Food Production Due To Labor and Machinery Shortages.

BOARD TO ESTIMATE 43 ACREAGES FRIDAY   Will Show Serious Food Production Problem

‘PATRIOTIC STRIKE’ STAGED BY MINERS   Protest Draft Deferment of Unmarried Miner

MINE STRIKE ‘SAID “PATRIOTIC’   Workers Stage Walkout Against Draft Deferment of One

Strike Caused ‘By Defermenit   Union Refuses To’ Accept Decision Of Board On «Machine Operator

650 Miners Go on Strike   Protest Against Draft Deferment of Single Man Now at Work

MINERS STRIKE ON DEFERMENT OF SINGLE MAN   650 Idle Third Day; Refuse to Work ’ as Long as Coal Loader, Deferred for Firm, Remains

COAL MINERS REMAIN IDLE FOR THIRD DAY  AT MONTOUR MINE  _ Miners Won’t Work With Man Company Asked Deferment For

SICILY SUFFERS NEW BLOWS   16 Planes Shot Down in Latest Series of Attacks

ALLIED BOMBS SASH SICILY IN NEW RAIDS   Wreck Parked Axis Aircraft and Destroy Ground Installations,   16 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN DURING ATTACK

ITALY CALLING UP 2 MILLION OF HER WOMEN    Several Thousand More Men Also Summoned to Go Into War Work As Jitters Grow

Bombs Rain On Sicilian Airdromes   16 Enemy Airplanes Shot Down in New Blows Against Axis

New Tax Plan Given Approval By House Group   Over Two Billion Provided, Measure Heads For Debate

Tax Bill Approved By Committee   Levy on Liquor Is Changed Again

NEW TAX MEASURE. SENT TO HOUSE   LIQUOR LEVY CUT FROM $10 TO $9 BEFORE COMMITTEE VOTES APPROVAL.

$2 Billion Tax Bill Approved *By House Group   Cuts Liquor Tax to $9 Per Gallon; Ups Luxury Taxes

19 Dead, Many Missing in Flood   W. Virginia Creek  Goes on Rampage

TURN'AGAIN TO WESTERN AIR FIELDS   Raid Made Without Loss; London Hit’ 6th Straight Night

Americans Bomb Airport in France   No Enemy Planes Were Encountered

U. S. BOMBERS "AGAIN RAIDING _ NAZI AIR BASES   Evreux Fauville, France, Strafed Following RAF Raids on Reich —London Again Raided

New Spurl in Air War On Nazis   American Bombers Resume Attack on. Enemy Air Bases in France   “HEAVY BOMBERS — . ALSO HIT AGAIN   »Hour-Long “Procession  0 Planes Across Channel Follows Blow in France

AMERICANS HIT AT GERMAN AIR BASE IN FRANCE   Raid Follows Up RAF Night Attack On Western Germany; U. S. Attack Meets No Opposition Whatsoever.

MARAUDERS FOLLOW MOSQUITOES RAIDS   Americans Encounter Not a Single Enemy Fighter In Attack.

ALLIED ATTACKS AGAINST EUROPE ARE MAINTAINED   Small Force Of Enemy Raiders Strikes At London

Yanks Bomb a Nazi Airfield in France   Marauder Crews Attack Base at Evreux-Fauville, Following Night Raid by RAF Airmen on Targets in Western Germany.

NAZI RAIDERS VISIT LONDON SIXTH NIGHT   While Allies Keep Offensive Rolling Against Germany Enemy Planes Call on Capital   CASUALTIES REPORTED

YANK BOMBERS RAID AIRBASE   Marauders Pound Airport 4: Miles West ‘of Paris Without Loss

uu. 3 Bombers it At Nazi Air Bases   German Formations Fly Over London, But Are Driven Off.

NAZI AIR BASE BOMBED   Yanks in France on, Quick ‘Daylight Followree Un

YANKEE AIRMEN RAID NAZI AIR BASE IN FRANCE   Evreaux-Fauville Target Marauders Supported * By Allied Fighters In Attack

‘Marauder Ait HintsAt Rene Aerial Campai   Assault Follows U; RAF Raids Against Western Germany

U, 5, BOMBERS RAID AIRFIELD IN FRANCE   Nazis Attack London for Sixth Straight Night

Yanks Blast Nazi Air Base in New Raid   EVREUX-FAUVILLE ROCKS AFTER R.A.F. MOSQUITOES POUND WEST GERMANY

NAZI AIR BASE AT EVREUX-FAUVILLE , FRANCE, RAIDED   American Marauders Were Supported by Allied Fighters on Mission.   FOURTH RAID OF MONTH   Invaders Encountered No Enemy Fighters in Making the Raid.

Raid Nazi Air Base In France   Follow Up Night Raids On Germany By RAF Mosquitoes. 

15 MABAUDERS BATTER NRBASI   RAF Mosquitoes Conti nue Devastating Blows On Germany

Bombers Blast ‘Nazi Air Base   Enemy. Planes Are Again ‘Over Britain; Losses Reported Licht

MARAUDERS IN RAID ON NAZI BASE, FRANCS   Hit and Run Attacks Made or British Capital Again by German Raiding Warplanes.

Allies Launch Followup Raids On Nazi Bases   Day-Night Offensive Kept Up By Yank Fliers And RAF Fighter Planes

Sparta Soldier Killed In Blast  Pvt. Lyle Page Victim Of 75 Mm. Shell

Soviets Take Defense Point: in Caucasus   (Commanding Officer of Anti-Submarine ‘Wing From Miami Presents Air Medals To Members of Squadron Stafloned Here

RED ARMY SEIZES STRONG POINTS OF AXIS BRIDGEHEAD   Soviets are Seeking Contro! of Last Foothold of Hitler ' In Caurasus.

Red Army Takes  Defense Points   Assault Planes Carry Out Heavy Attacks

AWARD GIVEN IOWA FAMILY   REA Cites Increased Production of Food

REA’s First Award of Merit Presented Saturday to Farm Family at Manchester

Yank Bombers Blast Norway Metal Mines   Make 700-Mile Trip Through Snowstorm To Western Coast

Result upon vital targets ‘very good’   New air attacks are reported

German Bosnbers Attack Coastal Town in England, Kill Eight, Trap Others

METAL SUPPLY OF NAZIS HIT BY FORTRESSES   Molybdenum Mine And Power Station In Norway Are Bombed   PLANES ENCOUNTERED SLIGHT RESISTANCE

GERMAN METAL BASES BOMBED   Americans Strike Mine Centers In Norway;  England Raided

Germany's Metal Supply Blasted  AY awess aco , an oo ' 0" = eont   Norwegian Coast Hit by Bombs

Large Formations Strike at Meta! Supply and __ Power Station  LONG TRIPS MADE _ THROUGH STORMS  Two German Air Bases Near Athens Also '  Bombed

Aerial Blows Struck in Norway Area   Field of Attack on Hitler Dominions Extended by Allies

Chinese Report Japs Suffer  Heavy Losses   Much Booty Is Captured In Year's Time

‘Fats’ Waller Dies on Train Enroute East   Negro Orchestra Leader, Song Writer Stricken

Fats Waller Dies of Heart Attack   Famous Negro Musician Was Enroute Fast

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DRAFTING OF FATHERS DUE BY AUGUST 1. STANWOOD SAYS   ‘Supply of Single and Childless Married Men Seon to  be Exhausted—Plans Calf for Induction in pS Sequence of Order Numbers

WILL BEGIN TO CALL FATHERS VERY SHORTLY   State Draft Officials Sa: Single And Childless  . Men Running Low    MANY DEFERMENTS BEING LIQUIDATED

Maryland Father: Face Induction   Stanwood Says It Will Be Necessary To Call Them Then

OATH TO COUNTY OFFICIALS TODAY   Judge Hugh Means Appoints Milton Beach as County Attorney   BOB OYLER IN ARMY

OATH TO COUNTY OFFICIALS TODAY   Judge Hugh Means Appoints Milton Beach as County Attorney

Interoreting The War   Situation Is Grimly Critical for Allies in Tunisia

Zook Praises Congress for  Oil Price Move   223 Sign Petition To Bring Disney Bill To Floor of House

Hope Revived For Oil Group   Bradford Man Sees Aid From Conprress

Gripsholm Sails. In Exchange Trip   1,330 Jap Civilians To Be Returned Home

Franco Issues Peace Appeal   Says World Conflict Is at ‘Dead Point’

Generalissimo Franco, a Friend of Axis, Says Neither Side Can Destroy Other and That to Fight On Would Be “Senseless”-—Plea Comes at Time Hitler Is Telling of Hardships and Nazis Facing Destruction in Tunisia.

Franco Urges Peace at Once Spain's Dictator — Says  Nw. fe. £f... 1H

Franco s Appeal For World Peace Gets No Support   United States, Britain and Even Germany Unconvinced

APPEAL FOR WORLD PEACE § SOUNDED   Franco ‘Declares It I _"Senseless” to Delay Pence

BILL ON COUNTY ~ BUYER NOW LAY   Governor Lets It By Without ) His Signature

ITALIAN GENERAL NOW iN COMMAND   Hitler N ames Scapegoat To Face Disaster In Tunisia

NEW NAZI BOSS?   London Says Italian Is Now Commander In Tunisia

lalian Reported in Command inTunisia   Berlin Spokesman Says Von Arnim And Romme! Subordinntes

Third Mine Strike Threatened As WLB Rejects Pay Proposal   Lewis, UMW Committee Will Decide Today On Walkout

UMW DEMANDS FOR HIGHER PAY REJECTED   John L. Lewis and His Policy Board Meet to Decide the Next Step.

U5, BRITISH TROOPS REPEL NAZI THRUSTS   Crack German Armored Unit Being Hotly Pursued By Allied Forces

Gen. Spaats Threw All A railable Aircraft Into Battle To Pound Nazis Caught In Mountain Pass   Germans Suffer Heaviest Losses Yet Sustained In Tunisia; French And British Trap 1,000 Italians Near Siliana 

Allied Planes. Pound Fleeing Enemy Forces      Rommel Drops — Back 14 Miles . Toward Vital Gap

U. §. And British  Force In Pursuit   Germans Withdrawn At Least 14 Miles Toward Kasserine Gap; Yank Planes, Tanks, Infantry Join In Inflicting Heavy Damage On Enemy

Nazis Halted Three’ Miles From Tunisian Goal After Bitter Three-Day Battle

American and British Planes Rout Germans   Nazi Tunisian Army Headed For Kasserine Pass ‘ighth Army Reported Building Up Strength Before Mareth Line

Yanks, British Drive Armored Force to Hills   Chase Axis Army at Least 14 Miles Under Hail of Bombs From Allied . Planes Into Kasserine Gap; Heavy Damage Reported.

Germans Flee Toward Kasserine Under Hail Of Bursting Bombs   Retreat Started Yesterday After Allies Held Attacks In Three Days Of Fighting; Prisoners, Booty Taken

Enemy Fleeing Before Violent Allied Attacks   Battered Force Caught In Kasserine Gap Subjected To Terrific Punishment

Battered Nazi Army Falls Back 14 Miles Under Heavy  Pounding by Allied Planes

Additional Aerial Strength Assists in Turning Enemy Back   Battered Nazi Armor Units Attempting Stand Only Three Miles from Kasserine Gap

Allies Drive Axis Back To Gap In Hills   Americans And British Halt Enemy Near Thala

Germans Flee Steel From Sky And Land Guns   Foe Loses 14 Miles, Plans To Stand At Kasserine Gap; Italians Trapped.

HIS ARMY IS IN FULL RETREAT, IT IS SAID   German Tanks Had Surged ta  Within 3 Miles of Thala, Key Road Junction to   Kremamse.

AXIS DRIVE IS HALTED IN TUNISIA   Heaviest American Air Activity Of War Reported

AFRIKA KORPS PUSHED INTO KASSERINE GAP   Withdrawal Checks Advance Which Moved Within 3 Miles Of Thala    1,000 ITALIANS TRAPPED   Allies Take Initiative After Three-Day Battle In Tunisian Area

Nazis In Full Retreat  In Western Tunisia   American And British Forces Pursue Battered Axis Legions After Halting Foe’s Advance Through Kasserine Gap; Air Force Active

ALLIED FORCES POUND AT AXIS TANK COLUMNS   Hundreds of Planes Are Used In Assault, With Rommel Forced Into Full Retreat   AMERICAN TRC 9PS TAKING PRISONERS   Flying Fortresses Hurl Tons of Bombs On Axis Armored Units Fleeing Into Mountains

AMERICAN AND BRITISH UNITS PURSUE ENEMY   Heavy Losses Are Inflicted On Germans

HUNDREDS OF PLANES POUND AXIS. TROOPS   Field Reports Indicate Ger man Chieftain Is in Full Daseane

Many Prisoners And Booty Taken   Desert Fox Driven Back 14 Miles From Thala and His Teancnort Battered in Retreat

Germans Hurled Back After Three-Day Fight In Tunisia      Forced Back At Least 14 Miles Under Heavy Air And Land Attacks By Allies

Bolstered American And British Armies Pur sue Enemy Toward Pass, With Every Type Of Plane, Including Flying F ortresses, ‘ Batterme Fleeinc Fae.

Hundreds of Planes. Pour ‘Ht On Nazis   Road Walled by High Mountains Turned Into Hell of Bursting Bombs:   BOTH BOMBERS. AND. FIGHTERS USED   Improved -: Weather Brings Swarms: of Aircraft at. the: Critical Moment

AIR FORCES POUND AXIS ARMOR UNIT   1.000 Men Claimed ‘Trapped; Many Captured —

PHILLIPS STAKES POLITICAL LIFE IN PAYOFF CASE   Former Governor Summons Big Group to Prove Self Frameup Victim

DNB CLAIMS. NAZIS HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM - THIRD. CITY   Soviets’ Cut’ Al All Railroads And All: But. Two  Secondary Roads  Out Of City   4 4

BIGGEST PRIZE OF. THE WA) ON EASTERN FRONT; GERMA Ss QUIT CITY TOAVERT  ENCIRCLEMENT

German Garrison of 200,000 Flees to West—Nazi Forces Virtually Split in Two

Libyan Desert Battle Nearing In Tripoli Ares   Axis Forces May Attempt Stand 200 Miles From Tripoli   BRITISH MOVING UP HEAVY SUPPORT

DISCOVERED DEAD ALONG W. M. TRACKS   Body Of Richard R, Rutters, Aged 56, Found At Union Station—No Witnesses To His Death

Soviets Surge Nearer to  Dnieper Dam   Victorious Reds Kill 1900 Nazis On 500-Mile Front

Reds Threaien Stretch of Dnieper River   Major Victories Expected for Army Anniversary

COAL MINERS MEETING WITH MINE OWNERS   Wage Negotiations Underway; Lewis ye Sa

owls Confers With Coal Operators On Wage Pact After U. 5. Returns Mines

Eight Indicted  For Espionage   Four Leaders Head  List of Prisoners

Eight Accused Spies Indicted   Federal Grand Jury Acts at Detroit

CALIFORNIA VEGETABLE MEN HOPE 10 ELIMINATE JAP COMPETITION AFTER WAR

Postwar Ban on Japanese Farms Urgéd   VEGETABLE GROWERS SEEK ELIMINATION OF NIPPO COMPETITION

BOMBERS SEVER NAZI RAIL LINE   Supplies For Troops On Italian Front Cut Off By American Fliers

NX ON MARGARINE UPHELD BY CLARK   Repeal Proposal Flayed By Missouri Senator

HITS REPEAL OF OLEO TAX   Sen. Clark Says Removal  Would Fool Consumers

Apartment Fire Fatal to Two   12 Injured as Flames Sweep Building

Soviet Forces Smash Nearer To Nazi Forts   Nazis Admit Reds Have Forced River Defense Lines

LUT MACHINES TAKEN OUT HERE   Machines Dismantled Las' Night and Moved Out of Town Today.

SLOT MACHINES TAKEN OUT HERI   Machines Disimantied’ ‘Last Night and ‘Moved Out of Town Today. -

JAPS RAID AGAIN   Enemy Bombers Visit Guadalcanal For Second Straight Day

Nazis Reported Evacuating City   Reds Almost Half Way to Berlin In War’s Greatest Triumph

Russians Hold ‘150-Mile Front On the Dnieper   Stalin Announces Fall Of Smolensk In . Great Victory — 

Soviets at gates of Ukraine city, carve bridgehead   Lunge past fallen Smolensk; big: power cities threatened

Reds Hit 150 Planes In Raid  On Airdromes   Blow Struck'To Hal Preparations F or  Nazi Offensive

Germans Reel Under Growing Red Offensive   Belgorod Follows Orel; Nazis In General! Summer Retreat

Reds Capture Belgorod. Pursue Nazis Fleeing  From Fallen Orel Base

Red Victories Pry Loose Two Of Germans’ Most Important Strongholds

Russians Chase Hitler's Armies Into Minefields   Jab At Fleeing Nazis While Follow-Up Troops Take Cities

Hospital Train Unloaded in 24 Minutes Ae First Wounded Arrive at Cambridge

Japs Using New, Improved Planes   Increased Air ° Activity Noted

JAPS REPORTED AS HAVING NEW PLANE   U. S. Pilots Encounter New Craft, Possibly An Improved Zero 

JAPS IMPROVE FIGHTER PLANE   Nips Step Up Attacks On Islands Above Australia

JAPS SWELLING POWER IN AIR   NIPPOS BRING NEW FIGHTERS TO GUINEA

CHARGES ARM\ WiTH WASTE OF MANPOWER   Sen. Truman demands investigation before fathers are inducted

CHARGE ARMY I$ HOARDING   TRUMAN DECLARES BOTH ARMY AND NAVY COULD REDUCE THEIR DRAFT REQUIREMENTS

Texas Suffering From Drouth As Sun Beats Down   Crops Seared And Water Runs Short  leh Cavaral Aranc

lexas Suffering From Drouth As Sun Beats Down   ‘Crops Seared And Water.Runs Short In Severo! Arene

Texas Fields Beg For Rain; Drouth Grips All State   Crops Seared, Water Supplies Curtailed In Many Sections

Museum Exhibit Depicts a Street Of 33 Years Ago   Typical Scene of Gas- Lit Era Is Reproduced in Authentic Detail.

British Tr Oops Pour Thr ‘ough  German Lines  25-Mile Break Made On Adriatic

Nazis Italy Line Broken   Eighth Army Pouring Through 25-Mile Gap

YUGOSLAVIA FIGHTING ON MANY FRONTS   Also Mass Slaughters of NonCombatants By Nazis Reported; Guerrillas Busy Behind Attackers.   Beaten Back

SLAVS AND NAZIS IN BITTER FIGHTS      GERMANS SAID TO HAVE EXECUTED THOUSANDS OF NON-COMBATANTS,

CIVILIANS SLAIN IN YUGOSLAVIA   Heavy Fighting Rages Guerrilla Fighters Blow Up Bridges

Slavs Report Heavy Battle   Nozi Mass Slaughter Of Civilians Is Told

Balkan Defenders Battle Savage . German Butchers   New Terror Drive Means Slaughter of Noncombatants But Yugoslavs Fight With Renewed Fierceness for Freedom

Nazis Launch New Drive On Yugoslavs   Slaughter Thousand Of Civilians as Disciplinary Action

Wholesale Murder Of Non-Combatants   Cairo Reports Nazis Take Heavy Toll

FIGHT SPREADS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Nazis Slay Civilians As Fresh Drive Against Armies Begins

Nazis Open Drive Against Slovenia   Report Hard Fighting On Yugoslav Fronts

Nazis Slaughter Non-Combatants In Balkan Drive   Yugoslavs Killed for Pledging Allegiance To Mihailovic

MASS SLAUGHTERS OF NON-COMBAT ANTS   24 Villages Burned ‘To Ground And Residents Are Shot Or Sent  To Concentration Camps

aia i tililaie times  Mechanic Kills Wife, Five Children, Then  Turns Gun on Self

Crisis in Keeping Peoples of Conquered Lands in Line Faced by Axis

YOUNG FRENCH STILL HOLD OUT   Vichy Soldiers Lax, Germans and Italians May  Be Sent After Rebels.’

Ayis Threaten French Revolt  Warns Young French That Troops Will Be Sent To Mountains

GUERRILLAS IN FRANCE WARNED BY AXIS CHIEFS   Threaten To Send Troops Against Unit

French Draw Axis Troops to Hideouts   Occupation Officials Warn Young Frenchman to Surrender at Once

French Blast German Train From Tracks   250 Nazis Killed And Many Wounded In Latest Of Guerilla Actions

GERMANS TELL OF NEW THREAT   Suffer Heavily at Voronezh Soviet. Thrust Within 60 Miles of Rostoy

NAZI PRISONERS AT STALINGRAD RAVE AT HITLER   Russians Methodically Clean Up  Sector—Spring New Offensive  on Maikop :

Prisoners Are Denouncing Leaders   Other Points Taken By Reds In The Caucasus Sector

Russians Take 2 Towns Near Maikop Fields   Captured Germans at Stalingrad Accuse Their Officers of Abandoning Men

EXTERMINATION OF DOOMED GERMANS IN STALINGRAD SECTOR  CAUCASUS FRONT WIDEN. ED BY CAPTURE TWO CITIES NEAR OIL FIELD

Reds Continue Mopping Up At Stalinorad   -Rusians Capture. Two Cities Near Maikop Oil Fields

EXTERMINATING DOOMED NAZIS AT STALINGRAD   Captured Germans Denounce Hitler And “Officers Who Ran Away and Left Us;”’  New Russian Drive.

 =RhUSSTA—  CAPTURED NAZIS DENOUNCE HITLEF   Assail Officers Who Deserted Them At Stalin. grad, Reds Report   NEW OFFENSIVE   Russians Believed Launching Drive Toward Maikop Oil Fields

Reds Drive Near Maikor Oil Fields   Captured Nazis Denounce Hitler And Officers Who “Ran Away”

Nazi Losses In Russia  Still Sear™   Thousands Killed And Many Surrender, Moscow Reports

ALSO CENSURE OFFICERS FOR ‘LEAVING THEM   Report of Captives’ Remarks Comes as Reds Continue Extermination of Doomed Nazis Before Stalingrad.

REDS SAY GERMANS HELD DENOUNCING HITLER, OFFICERS   New Fighting In Westere Caucasus Made  i nAwn

High Nazi Officers Surrender During Night at Stalingrad   Russian ‘Troops Capture Two Cities _ Near Maikop Oil Fields, Germans Announce New Voronezh Retreat   

Nazis Are Butchered Befo Stalingrad; Priswners. Sa Hitler Has Deserted The

‘LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   Russians. Go Ahead :Vith Job of Exterminating:: — Trapped Nazis, Stalingrad

RUSSIANS WIDEN GAINS, TAKE TWO CITIES IN DRIVE   SSweeping Advance in Caucas us—Nazis at Stalingrad Assail Hitler, Officers

Stalingrad Nazis Closer to Finish   -Lose Tanks and Planes; Many (Officers and Men  Surrender   ADVANCE IN CAUCASUS   New Thrusts on Rostov; Germans Prepare Escape Barges

Fuehrer Ran Away, Nazis Tell Soviets   Trapped Troops Dwindle In Stalingrad Area: Reds Take Two Cities Near Maikop Fields

Jap Positions Overwhelmed   Two Salamaua Strongpoints ‘Crushed By Allied Troops

JUNGLE FORCES CLOSING IN ON SALAMAUA BASE   36 Out Of 60 Jap Planes Downed Over Kahili; 12 Enemy Barges Are Destroyed   Stiff Resistance Met

American Forces Closing In on Salamaua Field   MacArthur's Men’ Near Major Goal

ALLIED JUNGLE TROOPS CLOSING IN ON SALAMAUA   Japs Occupying Strong Positions South and Southeast of Base Finally Overwhelmed.   REARGUARDS CONTEST M’ARTHUR’S FORCES   ‘Sinking of Barges Continues, Further Sapping Nipponese Power to Resist. 

Allies Overwhelm Jap Positions In Jungle Fights  Closing in on Enemy Trying to Hold  Site Near Salamaua

Japanese Dislodged From Positions Near ‘Salamaue Airdrome By Yanks, Aussies

Allies Close in On Enemy Base At Salamaua  First Advance in More Than Week Along Coast

Nazi Transport Planes Shot  Down Were Evacuating Troop: Slangvghter Wace On Seale Never Refore

Axis Trying To Get Troops Out Of African Trap   American, British and South African Pilots Rout German Planes Over Mediterranean

MORE THAN 100 HUGE JUNKERS IN ARMADA   Whether It Was Beginning Of Rommel’s “Dunker-  que” Not Fully De-  termined 

Milifary Quarters Speculate on Reports 51 of Downed Planes Laden With Men From Tunisia

TO PUSH BILL   FDR Statement Encourages - Solons On ‘Police’ Act

Senators to Push Program   F. R.’s Disclosure of United Nations Conference Spurs Unity Efforts

Want Action on Post War   Senate Seeks to Win Approval of Peace Plans to Bolster FDR Position

Navy Reports Air Duel Over The Solomons   American Planes Down Four To Six Of Jap Planes In Clash   ONE AMERICAN PLANE IS LOST   Speedy U. S. Bombers Also Blast Jap Positions At Munda

*SOLOMONS FOE HIT BY GROWING " U.S. AIR POWER   Attacking Zeros Shot Down P While Bombers Blast Munda Base   Navy Identifies Carrier Lost Oct. 25 as Hornet, U. S. Newest

ICKES FREE TO ORDER 48-HOUR WEEK IN MINES   Move Approved By FDR; Seen Necessary To Avert Shortage

Band Excused From Service At Effingham   May Order Longer Mine Work Week

Sec. Ickes Orders48 Hr. Coal Week   Director Byrnes Sees Shortage Because of Strikes

ICKES HAS FREE HAND TO INCREASE IMINERS WORK WEEK   Byrnes Says Action Was Taken Because of Threatened Coal Shortage

ER HOURS FOR MINERS APPROVED   48-Hour Week Will Provide An Increase of $9 Weekly In Pay Checks.

JAPS ASSERT » DEADLY VAPOR IS EMPLOYED   Enemy Say American Reinforcements  Pour Ashore

Cairo Communique: Official Results of Important Sessions Announced in Statement

You Can’t ‘Charge It’ Now   Credit For Gasoline And Oil Illegal Soon

GASOLINE SALES ON CREDIT BANNED   Order By Petroleum Administration Effective Feb. 1—Private Motor Car Owners Affected

CREDIT BUYING OF GASOLINE BANNED   Petroleum Administration Order Also Affects Other Products.

OPA PROHIBITS ALL CREDIT BUYING OF GAS AFTER FEB. 1   Only Federal, State Cars, Commercial Motor Boats, Tracks Not Included

SCHOOL REPORTS FOR NOVEMBER   MANY PUPILS HAD GOOD RECORDS DURING THE PAST MONTH   Swanson

‘Army Cook, Engineer Walk 140 Miles Inside ‘Enemy-Held Territory

CHIEFTAINS PEG ROME'S ACTION   ITALY CO-BELLIGERENCY STUMPS LAW EXPERTS

Opposition Weak as Axis Awaits New Move; Yanks’ Whereabouts Still Mystery

Russians Keep Germans On Run, as Major Advances Continue   RAF Makes 1000 Ton Raid on Berlin In 20 Minutes; Planes From North Africa Keen Up Heavy Attacks on Italian Mainland

TWO CHILDREN SWEPT TO DEATH ‘IN FLASH FLOOD   Flood Waters Roll Through Mining Community In Indian Creek

SPIES OF ENEMY. ACTIVE IN US,   ADMIRAL TRAIN SAYS HITLER DEPENDS ON THEM FOR USEFUL INFORMATION.

Assembly Battle on Care Centers Looms   Measure Would Enable School Districts to Provide for War Workers’ Children

Expect Clash on Bill for Child Welfare Centers   Committee of Education in ' Assembly O.K.'s:

Patton Case Up To Eisenhower   Discipline  Rests With  Him—Stimson

EISENHOWER T0 GET FREE HAND   Secretary Stimson Declores Commander Alone Will Decide Patton Case

PATTON'S GAGE SUP TO ‘IKE   Stimson. Says Eisenhower Has Full Authority for Discipline.

Penalty for Patfon Up    Eisenhower   Cose in Hands of African Commander, Declares Stimson

ELSENWOWER SOLE JUOGE FOR PATTON   War Department Not Inter. ferring, Says Stimson

Navy Training Posts Sought  $800,000,000 Needed  To Carry Out Aviction  tte ee CM

Release Program for Men  Over 38 Changed by Army   Hearings Slated in House on Bill to Delay _ Drafting of Married Men. .

Charges Due To Come Out Of Race Riots   Arson, Assault Complaints May Be Filed  At Reaumoant

At Least Twelve Men To Be Turned Over To Authorities By Comniittee Investigating Race Riots At Beaumont

Military Court Probes Rioting   Beaumont Quiet; The Army Still In Charge

SEEK TD DETERMINE BLAME FOR RIOTS   200 Prisoners Are Held, 40 Released; ‘Hint Sabotage in Inciting Citizens

UAT OF INQUIRY PROBES. RAGE RIOT   Police Believe That Fiftt Columnists Are Behind Disturbances.

MILITARY.COURT WILL TURN DOZEN MEN OVER COINTY   CHARGES OF ARSON AND ASSAULT TO MURDER BE FILED IN BEAUMONT RIOTS

MILITARY COURTS REVIEW RACE-RIOT   Shipyard Workers Warned Tc Avoid Rash Action

Over Dozen Face Charges in Riot  About 200 of 300 Rounded Up During Clashes Released.

 Reich Pictured As Dispirited, With 7 Million Civil ians Bombed Out Of Their Homes Or Evacuated

That Many Civilians Dead or Missing Up to Oct. 1, Government Statistician Savs.

OVER ONE MILLION GERMAN CIVILIANS KILLED IN RAIDS   Allied Bombings On. Naz Cities Bring Heavy Toll Up To - Oct 1  ‘

MillionsFlee Target Area   Pessimism, Mistrust Replace Confidence

Washington Sees Ousting of Duce As Turning Point   Downfall of Mussolini Beginning of End, Officials Say

Il Duce Seen As Symbol By Capital  Hall Agserts Quster Se NE uae,   Hall Agserts Quster Marks End lo Fascism in World

WAR ON ITALY WILL CONTINUE   OFFICIAL WASHINGTON SAYS UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IS GOAL.

FALL OF DUCE IS VIEWED AS START OF END   Hull Says Allies Will Continue to Press on to Full Victory

SOVIETS PURSUE DEFEATED NAZIS WEST OF RZHEV   Reds Also Score Advance @ Toward Taganrog on Sea of Azov

RUSSIANS PASS RZHEV 10 TAKE TT MORE TOWNS   Berlin Radio Reports Reds Have Breached Nazi Defenses Around Orel   EVACUATION IS STARTED   Soviet Communiques Report Advances Being Recorded On All Fronts

Russian Forces Forge Ahead In Rzhev District   Push Steadily Westward After Capture Of Nazi Vital Base   “RED COLUMNS CONVERGE ON OREL

beh ET iT OF OREL BASE   Russians’ ‘Smashing Ahead Following a Great Vic. tory at Rzhey... So   ADVANCE “IS GENERAL   All Along the Battle Lines Russians Apparently . - Push Forward.

GERMANS ARE GETTING QUT UF OREL BAot   Russians Smashing Ahead Following a Great Victory at Rzhev.   ADVANCE IS GENERAL   All Along the Battle Lines Russians Apparently Push Forward.

LARGE RUN OF CATTLE   Kansas City Stockyards Handled 40,000 Head Today...

K. C. Stockyards In Heavy Caffle Run   Mostly Stockers, Feeders Headed for Fattening Lots

TERMS OF MINE PACT APPROVED BY SUB-GROUPS   Agreement Substantially «Matches Wages and Working Conditions. of ~ Ickes-Lewis Contract

MINE CONTRACT ACCORD REACHED   Proposal Must Meet Confer. ence And WLB Approval

Groups Agree On Coal Pact   - Agreement. Must : Pass In Conference Friday

New Agreement On Coal Made   Operators and Miners Reach Accord; It Must Win WLB Approval

Coal Operators, UMW Agree   Contract. Terms’ Match Those of Ickes-Lewis Plan

Germans Push On in Drive For Kharkov   Reds Withdraw West of City  -Repulse Attacks To the South

Russians Holding  Oin To Steel City   Reeds Concede Setbacks in -the Critical Battle of  arkov   -FICGHTING IN STREETS   Twwenty-Three Nazi Tanks ‘Are Destroyed South of the City

But Moscow Report Indicates German Claim Exaggerated   Soviet Says Vyazma Was Lost by Nazis In Stormy Fight

REDS ADMIT SETBACKS IN HARD BATTLE   Russians Driving on for Smolensk After Taking Vyazma Back From Hitlerite Troops

Fresh Sethack For Reds in Kharkov Area   But Soviet. Communique In. dicates Big Steel City Has Not: Fallen   STREET FIGHTING RAGES, NAZIS SAY   Russians Continue Push Toward Smolensk on Central Front

SAY MILLIONAIRE MURDER VICTIM   Police Refuse Details in  Oakes Death Case

SIR HARRY OAKES BELIEVED VICTIM OF ASSASSIN’S GUN   Authorities At Nassau, Ba_hamas, Withheld Details of Strange Death.

SECRECY ENFOLDS DEATH AT NASSAU   Sir Harry Oakes, 68, One Of World’s Richest Men, Died On Monday

Large Enemy Vessel Believed Sent Down Near New Britain  ARU ISLAND RAIDED

Enemy Cruiser Hit at Gasmata   Jap Vessel, Aflame After Torpedo Plane Biow, Relieved Sunk =;

Huge Jap Warship Is Wrecked   Cruiser Or Big Destroyer May Have Been Sunk

LARGE JAP WARSHIP IS BELIEVED SUNK   sel In Gasmata Harbor As Squeeze On Enemy Continues  Allied Torpedo Planes Attack Ves-

Nippon Warship Hit By Torpedc   Large Craft Is Believed Sunk Off New Britain

ENEMY VESSEL BELIEVED SUNK   Cruiser Or Destroyer Is Torpedoed Off New Britain Harbor

JAP WARSHIP IS BELIEVED DESTROYED   Hit By Aerial Torpedo In Raid Off New Britain

Typewriters Expendable In This War   Services Using More Than Total Arms Production

NOMINATED TO RANK OF GENERAL   Stimson Warns U. S. To Expect Heavy Casualties

FDR Promotes Eisenhower fo Full General   Stimson Warns Heavy American Casualties Coming

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Bomb ais.      Nazis Visit England As RAF Hits Airport And Enemy Shipping’

Nazis Hit Back At RAF Attack   Light Bombing Report. ed In East England

NAZI PLANES STRIKE BACK AT ENGLAND   Attack Coastal Areas Following Raids On France

Nazi Planes  Strike Back   ww SS £244 4" Ae We Ww ee  Attack Several Places In England After RAF Raid on France

NAZI PLANES ATTACK EAST ENGLAND =   ‘After RAF Bombed ‘German Airfields in France in Dusk -Raid

GERMAN PLANES BOMB ENGLISH COASTAL TOWNS   Five Enemy Raiders Shot Down By British

Mine Workers And Operator: Open Sessions   UMWA Asking For Wage Increase Of $2 Per Day

CATROUX BACKS GIRAUD'S VIEW   Emissary Says General Giraud Just As Interested In Unity As De Gaulle.

MRS. F. He SHAW HEADS CHILD WELFARE GROUP   War-Time Aspects Discussed. Reports Show 105 Cases in  Caro

Yanks Set Records In Attacking Japs’ Kiska Base  Huge Bomb Loads Fall On Enemy in Long Series of Air Raids

12.0, 5 PLANES BLAST AT KISKA   TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED IN RAIDS DESIGNED TO DRIVE ENEMY OUT,

Kiska Japs get 9-hour boinb raid.   Drop 47 tons in Sreatest attack

Jap Eradication Plan Stepped Up   Five Firsts Set In Day-Long Blasting

CONTINUE TO BOMB NAZIS   Large Formation of Allied Planes Continue Record-Breaking Offensive in Western Germany.

ids of Allies Continue  "Record Breaking Offensive Goes On  Air Raids

SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVANCE   Increased Costs Lead to Action By 75 Newspapers

Claimed German Discovery  Seen As “Shot In The Arm”    Alleged Operation Of Submarine’s Diesel Motor  While Submerged Most “Revolutionary”

Interpreting he War   Nazi Announcement On Subs’ Power May Be Only Wind

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CHIANG ADVISES SMASH AT JAPS   Leader Of China Says Nipponese Are At Weakest Point

Chiang Asserts Japs Are at Weakest, Urges Allies To Open Drive at Once

China asks allies hit  Japan now   Attack in force would be telling

Would Abolish Feed Subsidies   Senate Committee Would Annul Payments to Dairymen, Raise Price.

SENATE GETS BILL TO ABOLISH FEED SUBSIDY   Senate Ag Committee Would Substitute One Cent Increase in Milk Price for Federal Pay   FARM BLOC HEARD   Banking Committee Told Farmers Do Not Seek General Price Increases—Stamp Plan Urged

0.K. Ban On Feed Subsidy   -.- Ag Group Approves Increased Milk Price

Vatican City Is Damaged by Bombs; German Propagandists Blame Allies

GERMANS CLAIM VATICAN BOMBED   ALLIES OFFICIALLY DISCLAIM CHARGES OF PROPAGANDISTS

GERMANS SAY ALLIES BOMBED VATICAN CITY   Pope Again Offered Haven In Liechtensteir

TRICOLOR FLIES IN OLD ALGIERS   Bastille Day Festivities Curbed By Nazis In Occupied France

TRICOLOR WAVES ON BASTILLE DAY   Algiers Displays French Flag for First Time Since - 1940 Armistice :

DECREASE OF $9.500    Lowering of Valuation Will Not Change Any Local Levies

DIOCESE OPENS NEW PARISHES   Several Pastors Have Beet Assigned To New Field By Co-Adjutor

GOP Senator Blasts U.S. Spending In South America as ‘Sucker’ Act   Wallace Makes Quick Apology to Latin Neighbors for ‘Slur’ in Butler’s Report

LATIN AMERICA GETS APOLOGY   Good Neighbor Spending Plays Uncle Sam For Sucker, Say Solon

Uncle Sam Played for Sucker in Lend-Lease In Latin America, Senator Butler Says. . 

SPENDING POLICY SCORED BY SOLON      Senator Butler Attacks Latin American Expenditures

Butler Attack On Spending In S. America  Stirs Furore   Senator Says Spending Wild Extravagance  In Which Uncle Sam Is Played for ‘Sucker’  WALLACE APOLOGIZES FOR ‘SHOCKING SLUR’  Others Call Figure Of Six Billion Dollars  Fantastic and Untrue .

Latin America Spending Flayed   Nebraskan Says U. S Played for Sucker

Wallace Denies U.S. Is ‘Sucker’  In So. America   Vice President Resent: ‘Slur,’ Apologizes

SENATOR HITS UL S. OUTLAY IN LATIN AMERICA   a@Nallace Apologizes al Once for Attack By Butler

Water Level  er ee ee  Up Ta Lake   Raises Five Feet In  Ten Days _

LABOR MARKS MAY DAY IN WAR OUTPUT   Nazis Take Holiday, but Conquered People on  Jobs as Usual

Japan Preparing To Admit Loss of Attu Island ..   Nips Outnumbered By American Attackers, Tokyo Radio Declares

Jap Radio — Prepares for Defeat News   Fierce Fighting Still Going on for Key Nin Portin Aleutrane

Federal Income Tax Information  ARTICLE NO. @   WHO MUST FILE A RETURN.

‘Government Tax Policies Aimed At Preventing Post-War Inflation (Or Depression, Morgenthau Says

Food Subsidy Vote May Come Before House   Senate Suspends Business Today Because of Death of Senator Barbour of New Jersey.

SUBSIDY BATTLE GETTING HOTTER AS VOTE NEARS   WMC Chief ‘Steamed Up’ When Fathers Are Put at Bottom of Draft List

OAD CONGRESSMAN EXPIRES MONDAY   Senator W. Warren Barbour of New Jersey, Republican, Dies of Heart Disease

Third Member of  Congress Dies   Heart Attack Fatal To Senator Barbour In Washington Home

Soviet Ambassador  Ordered To Moscow  No Connection Witt Red-Polish Rupture

Soviet Ambassador To U. S. Called To Moscow; Polish  Envoy Leaves Red Canital .

R. A.F. Blasts Targets i in Low Couniries   Bombers Head for the Continent Early Friday Night

NAZI RAILWAYS RIPPED BY RAF   Bombers Raid Transport System In France And Holland In Latest Sweeps

ENEMY RAILWAY LINES WRECKEL   Sweeps Over France And Low Countries Made By RAF Bombers

RAF Smashes Nazi Tare ets   Rail And Supply Points’ !: France, Low Countries. ea &

French Targets  Ripped by RAF   Bombs Fire Oi] Storage Taste tn Halland

RAF HITS NAZI SUPPLY LINES   Blasts Rail and Communications Targets in France, Low Countries

RAF Smashes Nazi Targets   Rail And Supply Points : France. Low Countries Lit

RAIL, SUPPLY TARGETS HIT IN DAY RAIDS   Another St ron g Force Heads Across Channel at Night

U. S., RAF Repeat Assaults on European. Targets  _ New Attack Is Seen   As Planes Roar ~ Over Channel Again

LEIPZIG IS RAIDED BY BRITISH   Berlin Bombed By Mosquitoes Fifth Time This Month

omailer Force Of Mosquitoes Raid Berlin   Thirty German Planes Give London 5th Raid In As Many Nivchts

PLANES VISIT BERLIN, LONDON DURING NIGHT   Block Busters Fall on Leipzig, Great Fires Started

Blazes Left At Important Nazi Industrial Hub   Over 1,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped; 1!7 Planes Lost In Raid

BIG FLEET MAKES SATURATION RAID OVER DUSSELDORF   Other Targeis Attacked, With Total Loss of 27 Bombers; Dortmund Fires Still

RAF NIGHT RAIDERS DROP 1,000 TONS OF BOMBS ON LEIPZIG   Attack On Nazi Air Center And Rail Junction First In Three Years; Berliners Needled By Light Raid

Big British Flect Pushing Offensive to Cripple Axis  War-making Plants — Duszeldorf is Object of Block-Buster Saturation Raid Tuesday Night,

RAIL JUNCTION DEVASTATED BY RAF NIGHT CREWS   Smaller Force of Mosquitoes In Fifth Straight Raid on Berlin.

KEY NAZI CITY GETS 52ND RAID   27 Planes Reported Lost In New Saturation Raid

Leipzig Aircraft Center Blasted ©   Mosquitoes Strike Berlin Wednesday

BY 1000 TONS OF RAF BOMBS   British Lose Only 17 Planes in Blasting Rail and Factory Center; Fortresses Al. so Active.

British Bombs Blast Leipzig  1 ANN Tane Dean:   1,000 Tons Drop; 17 Attackers Lost

1,000 TONS OF GIANT BOMBS BLAST LEIPZIG   Seventeen Bombers Lost in ” Attack on ludustrial and Rail City.

RAF Armada Blasts Leipzig In Night Raid   1,000 Ton Assault Follows Fortress Daylight Attack On Duren Objectives   17 BOMBERS ARE LOST   Mosquito Fleet Smashes Berlin For Fifth Time During Month

RAF Makes Heavy Attack On Leipzig   Seventeen Bombers Are Lost During Raid On Railway Junction And Industrial Center

HUGE RAF FLEE ROCKS LEIPZIG, NAZI RAIL CITY   Flying Forts Tn 100th Raid

1000-Ton Raid Roeks Vital Reich City   Mosquitoes Sting Berlin—lL7 Planes Lost in 2 Foravs

More Than 900 Bombers Strike At Dusseldorf   Block-Buster Saturation Raid Staaed

Milan, Turin Also Blasted By Raiders   Planes From England, Africa Hit Italian Cities

MUST PUT DATA ON NEW GAS COUPONS   Stamps on Gasoline Rationing Books Must Carry identifica. tion Information.

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Third War Loan Drive Lagging   Efforts Concentrated On Individuals

Cool Weather Welcomed By  Pea Canners   Delay In Maturity Of Crop Gives Industry Time -In Which To Catch Up With Work

THREE DIE IN BRADDOCK FIRE, FOUR INJURED      Fire Destroys Three-Story House Find Bodies In Cellar

GAS SHORTAGE MAY CONTINUE FOR WEEKS   Only Good Results From Restrictions Will Improve Prospect, Davies Says

No Letup in  Gas Famine   Crisis to Last for  "haake ' Saves Daviag

No Relief In Gas Shortage For ““Weeks”’   Stocks Fall To 25 P. C. Normal

GERMANS LOOTING ROME, PAPER SAYS   Declares Nazis Are Confiscating Art Treasures and Old Manuscripts.

Rulings Prohibit Enlisted Men’s  Nominations   Small Parties, Which Aren't Eligible, Might Also Register Complaint

Great Swarms of Allied War Planes Batter Island Air Bases; Enemy Shipping in Aegean Pounded

Air Offensive Resumes in Mediterranean   Middle East Units Sweep Aegean _ Against Enemy Ships

Scarred Face of Italian Island Further Battered by Fliers From Africa and East

Bombers hit Six Axis Air Bases    Long-Range Fighters From Middle East Command Sweep Aegean Sea Against Any Enemy Shipping

AXIS AIR BASES IN SICILY RIPPED BY ALLIED BOMBS   Sixteen Enemy Planes Shot Down iz Widespread Raids —- Attacking Forces Lose Seven.   FOE’S COMMUNICATIONS ARE HEAVILY BLASTED   Long-Range fighters From Middle Kast Command Damage Shipping in Sweep of Aegean.

Six Axis Air Centers Targets Of Allied Planes   Fighter Craft in Aegean Sweep on Enemy Shipping

Six Centers Of Axis Power On Sicily Pounded   Swarms Of Allied Planes Smash At - Island Maintand

Allied Planes Cross Sicily  To Batter Axis   Raiders Speed From Africa, Malta on Tasks

Allied Planes Pound Sicily, Aegean Shipping   Six Centers of Axis Air Power Blasted From Malta, Africa

Sicily Pounded; Turkish-Syrian Border Closed   Allied Air Forces Resume Full Scale Offensive From North Africa and Malta—Cilosing of Border Officially Annaunced

DEMAND QUICK ACTION ON INCOME TAX PLANS   Pay-As-You-Go Program Is Backed While Adminis. tration Forces Lose Ground in Their Fight to Avoid Cancellation of a Year's Taxes and Block Limitation on Salaries.

New Dealers Lose  Ground In Fight To Avoid Year’s Tax Cancellatior

PLANE DISASTER ROUSES SWEDEN   Nazi Plane Traffic Over Country May Be Halted In Retaliation

THIRD WAR LOAN IS LAUNCHED AS ITALY GETS OUT OF WAR   PEOPLE WARNED BY PRESIDENT, HOWEVER, TOUGHEST TASKS AHEAD

“Bigger And Tougher” War Ahead Says FDR, Opening U.S. Third War Loan

Difficult Job Remains Ahead Says President   Time Not Here for Celebration Observes Executive

Biggest Job Is Still Ahead---FD   War Not Won. Warns In Radio Talk

FDR Says War Will Be Bigger And Tougher   Warns Americans Against Rocking Chair Philosophy That the War Is Won iz Omanines Rand Drive

Task Ahead is "Bigger and Tougher" Executive Warns In Bond Campaign Broadcast

TOUGH FIGHTING ‘AHEAD, SAYS FDR   Third War Loan Drive Is Launched With Warning Against Over-optimism

Tough Job Lies Ahead      No Time Now to Celebrate, Says FDR in Radio Speech Touching Off War Bond Drive -

Task Ahead Grows Bigger FDRTells U.S   President Hints of Other Action as He Officially Opens Nation-Wide Bond Drive

WAR WILL GET TOUGHER, FDR WARNS PEOPLE   Opens Third War Bond Drive: Warns Against Ontimism

F.D.R. Opens War Drive, Cautions People . . President Warns Task Ahead Is “Bigger And Tougher” Than Others

Italy Fallen But Defeat Of Nazis, Japs Yet To Come, Roosevelt Warns

War Will Get Bigger, Tougher, Says Roosevelt   Warns Against Rocking Chair Smugness:In © Opening Drive.

THIRD WAR LOAN IS LAUNCHED AS ITALY GETS OUT OF WAR  PEOPLE WARNED BY      PEOPLE WARNED BY PRESIDENT, HOWEVER, TOUGHEST TASKS AHEAD

President Opens War Loan Drive  With Radio Talk   Says Italy Fall  Not End Of War

PESSIMISTIC. ‘NOTE SOUNDED . BY PRESIDEN’   Says Task Ahead Is Hard As He Opens Bond Drive

THIRD WAR BOND DRIVE OPENED BY THE PRESIDEN]   In-Radio Address. Roose ‘ velt Predicted “Bigger and Tougher’ . Things To Come Following Ttalw’a Surrender   . JOB TO DO

Caution Against Optimism Urged by F.D.R. as Third War Loan Drive is Opened

‘Bigger, Tougher’ Task Ahead, Says FDR; No Time  Now To Celebrate

F. D. R. OPENS 3RD WAR LOAN   Roosevelt Warns Task Ahead ' Is Bigger And Tougher’

WAR WILL GROW WORSE, NATION ISCAUTIONED   Roosevelt Warns Against Rocking Chair Smugness In Opening Third ’ War Loan Drive

ALLIES CAPTURE MORE PRISONERS IN SICILY: FINAL STAGES ARE NEAR   Communique Reveals Allies Have Gained Several More Miles On All  Fiehtinge Fronts.

Several Miles Gain In Sicily   Bag of Axis Prisoners Jumps  To 130,000

Axis Prisoners In Sicily Total 130,000; AlliesGain On All Fighting Fronts

Navy Plane Crashes Near Bay Meadows   Racing Fans Watch Accident

35,000 Persons See Plane Crash   Navy Training Plane Crashes Outside of San Mateo Track

SILENT ON FDR EDICT   @ Any Deferred Worke: Loses Status When He Quits Job’

WORK MANDATE STIRS ANGER OF UNION DIGGERS   UNM'Y Leader Silent As Paralyzing Strike Enters Fourth Day   CONGRESS PLANS ACTION   Passage Of Connally Bill Would Set Stage For Drastic Moves

Jungle Veteran Taken By Japs.   Believed Captured As Guerrilla Chief

Patton’s Friends Think He Considers Shell - Shock Not A Real Wound

SAY PATTON DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SHOCK   Seventh Army Chief Unconvinced That Soldiers Can Become Nervous Casualties

MILLION SINGLE MEN HAVE DEFERMENTS   Officials Estimate Number De. fined for Iccupations ferred for Occupations

Workings of New Manpower Order Clarified as Fuss Over New Tax Plan Gathers Momentum and Adds To Confusion In Congress—Chief of Staff Gives Lawmakers ‘Inside Dope’ on Military Plans

Occupations Eliminate  Million Men   Gen. Marshall Tells SenateHouse Committee Army Plans, Gets Backing

Marshall's View On Army's Size Ends Opposition  Congressmen Hearing His Testimony Approve   Congressmen rearing  His Testimony Approve Army Manpower Goal; Hours. Taxes Discussed

Today In Washington:  Army Gains Home Front ‘Manpower Victory; 48-Hr ‘Week Leniency Indicated

GEN. MARSHALL EXPLAINS ARMY NEED FOR MEN   Millicn Single Men Still Under Deferment Is Report

Huge British Carrier Aids U.S. In Pacific   First Since ‘Prince Of Wales,’ ‘Repulse’ Downed

British Aircraft Carrier With U. S. Fleet In Pacific   First Major British Ship In Pacific Since Wales And Repulse

LOCAT, GRHEEBRVATIONS   Wintry March To Bring Snow   Weather Bureau Predicts Much Colder Weather For Tonight.

SNOW IN WEST, ~~ SOUTH: COLDER   Forecast ‘Says’ Wintry Weahter. Will Spread ‘Over ‘Entire State

Traffic Kills More Than War   Eeedless Americans Paying Heavy Price

TRAFFIC COSTS MORE IN LIVES THAN DOES WAI   Lower Death Trend of Early Months of This Year Being Repudiated, Qouncil Shows

Traffic Death ~ Toll Is Heavy   Figure’ Doubles * Nation’s Battle Losses Since Pearl Harbor

TRAFFIC DEATHS DOUBLE WAR TOLL   ROAD FATALITIES SINCE! PEARL HARBOR 46,000, BATTLE LOSSES 21,940,

Over Twice as Many Killed in Traffic As in Battle Since U. 8, Entered War

Restrictions Reduce Deaths   Total Since Pearl Harbor Double Battle Losses. It Is Said

Traffic Still More Deadly   Costing Twice As Many Lives As Battle Losses

FDR. Silent On Mussolini   Washington Makes No Official Comment on Dictator’s Ouster

‘More Than 500 _4-Engine Bombers  ln Month; Ship Output Increases

ICKES ADMITS NO CHANGE IN MINERS WAGES DEADLOCK   RUBBER DIRECTOR JERFERS SAYS AVIATION GAS. OLINE PRODUCTION AIDED

Senate Passes  Advertising Bill   Cuts Appropriation  Asked by One-Half

SOVIETS PUSH. NEARER OREL + ON TWO SIDES   Nazi Armies. Fighting Fiercely, As They Are Farced Back

REDS STORW NEAR 10 GREL PRESS NAZIS   4 ae cent matt iene  Who Fight Resolutely With Tanks and Infantry; Russians Seize 40 Populated Places.   70,000 Nazis Die

Russian armies storm to within 9 miles of Orel   Recapture over 90 towns as Germans counter desperately

RUSSIANS MOVE TO WITHIN NINE MILES OF OREL   Bryansk Is Also Threatened With Capture Of Buky By Soviets   GERMANS HARD PUT TO EXPLAIN DEFEATS

Desperate German Counter Attacks Fail To Halt Russians In Orel Sector

NEARER OREL ON TWO SIDES   Nazi Armies Fighting Fiercely As They Are Forced Back

PROBE PLANE CRASH OVER WRIGHT FIELD: 8 KILLED, 2 SAVED   Officer Living In Xenia Among Victims When Transport And Cargo Ship Collide In Mid-Air

Collision of Army Planes Kills Eight   Parachutes Save Two Civilians

INVESTIGATING PLANE CRASH   Two Army Airplanes Collide in Mid-Air Gyer Wright Field Res _ ervation — Eight Persons Killed and Two Civilians Injured.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Soviets Propose To Cut vf German Caucasian Army And Destroy It

CURTAIN ABOUT TO GO UP ON GREAT ALLIED DRIVE AGAINST HITLER FORTRESS  Churchill Returns to England   Churchill Returns to England After Dramatic Trip to Africa

Churchill Returr Points to New Blows by Allies   Zero Hour Nears With All Signs Looking to Mediterranean; Troops, Planes, Ships Readied

Final Orders Out, Allied Units Poised   Only Time, Place Remain Secret; Launching in Mediterranean Seen

Final Orders For  Invasion Issued   Troops, Planes and Ships Ready; Only Time and Place Are Secret

Curtain About To Go Up On Allies’ Drive. Against Axis  Final Attack Orders Issued; Troops, Planes And Invacion Flatillas Are All Accembled

Large Japanese Convoy Sighted, Attacked by U. §   Zeros Shot Down; Drop Bombs in Raid on Celebes Coast

AMBOINA NAVAL BASE S RAIDED   4 Jap Fighters Shot Down And Nip Ship Bombed

CONVOY OF JAP SHIPS ATTACKER   ALLIED AIRMEN POUNCE ON VESSELS OFF NEW GUINEA —DOWN FIVE ZEROS,

Hit Five Jap  Pacitie Bases   New Delhi Reports Japanese Bayoneted British, Indian Prisoners To Death.

Large Japanese Convoy Attacked:   Five Nipponese Planes Destroyed

ALLIES EXTEND RAID TO JAP-HELD AMBON   Dutch East Indies Base Pounded By Bombers

Political Payotf Charge Is Made   Schwartz, Allred Opposed in Senate

Oppose Two Appointees  New Deal Rubber Stamp “Uy dex Fire,OiElo 5

STR NSA ABOUT TO S     START IN ASIA AND EUROPE, EN. MARSHALL TELES LEGION

FULL STRENGTH ~ TO SAVEWORLD        Gen.., -MarshajhcE ‘Enyisi ‘Early: Offensives sto Lacion.

Great Offensives About To ‘Begin, Marshall Declares; (To Hit Foe With Full Fury   Tells Legion Convention America Now Ready To Strike With Great Strength

, Points Out That Allies  _ Are Now Ready To Corry The War To... The Enamy

BIG OFFENSIVE TO BEGIN SOON   Gen. Marshall Tells of Preparations in Address To Legion.   TO CARRY WAR TG ENEMY

GREAT OFFENSE ABOUT TO BEGIN, VETERANS TOLD   Legion Commander Asserts ‘Big Push’ Against Axis Not Yet Started   CONVENTION ON IN OMAHA   Message from President Urges Increase in Effort; Marshall Decorated

America to Throw Full Might at Foes” Tn. Europe and Asia   Ready to Carry War-to the Enemy, : Army Chief Tells American Legio Voices Hove for ‘Early Conclusion

‘Legion Told Past 172 Years Just Preparation  ‘Bia Europe. Asia Offenses Soon--Marshall

Great Offensives In Asia And Europe ‘Just About To Begin,’ Says Gen. Marshall

Asia And Europe Invasions Just  About To Besin   Gen. Marshall Says Full Strength Of  America’s Armies  To Be Used

Offensives Set For Europe, Asia, Legion Told   Inyasion Phase Just Begun, Marshall Reports

FULL POWER OF ANBRICA TO BE HURLED AT FOE   Gen. Marshall Tells Legionnaires Final Steps of War Have Not Yet Been Taken   DEFENDS ACTIONS OF PREPARATION   Says He Finds Himself Being Investigated Because J of Suggestion He Has Too Much Material

‘We Are Ready!’—Marshall  ‘America Set To Hurl ‘Full Power At Enemy

All Set — For Big Offensive   Gen. Marshall Tells American Legion Allie: Ready Now to Carry War to the Enemy

AMERICANS TO MEET AXIS IN FUROPE. ASIA   Past Successes Only Preparations for New Action, General Says   ABOUT TO COMMENCE   Army Staff Chief Tells  Legionaires Forces  Are Adequate

ON EUROPE ASIA SOO   Preparations Made General George Marshall Tells  T eoionnaires.   MENTIONS CRITICISM

Big Drives Coming Soon Marshall   Full Strength To Be Hurled Against Foe in Europe, Asia

GREAT OFFENSIVES ABOUT READY BEGIN DECLARES MARSHALL   LULL STRENGTH OF U. S ARMED FORCES TO COME INTO ACTION

General Marshal Says Offensives About To Begin   Great Drives In Asia And Europe Prepared

MASS ACTION PLEDGE FROM W. CHURCHILI   Mediterranean Called Third Front, Confident, Britisher Announces Stalin Meeting.

BIG OFFENSIVES ABOUT TO BEGIN   General Marshall Declares Allies Ready to ‘Carry Wear to Enemy’

At Last We Are Ready to Carry War to the Enemy, Gen. Marshall Says   “LARGE FORCES TO GO INTO ACTION   Public Appears to Have Mis» understood Recent Successes. He Sarvs

Great Offensive Just About To Begin, Gen. Marshall Tells AL Convention, _ Sees Full U.S. Might Hurled At Foe

BIG OFFENSIVES ABOUT TO BEGIN SAYS MARSHALL   Full Strength of America's Might To Be Hurled Against Enemy In Europe And Asia, Says Chief Of Staff.

People Must Remember That Drives Not Realiy Under Way   NEWS FOR NIPPONESE

Big Push Now About To Open   Full Strength to Be Hurled, Says Marshall

MARSHALL SEES BIG OFFENSIVES   Asserts Full Strength Of U.S. Forces To Be Used Soon

Speedy’ Goes Along in Liberator for Ride But Brinas Riddled Bomber and Crew Home

R.A.F. PILOT BRINGS PLANE DOWN SAFELY   After Plane and Most of Crew Were Almost Gone: Pilot in “Target For Tonight” Movie.   Rough Ride

British Flyer of Film Fame Pilots Shattered Yank Plane and Battered Crew Out of Battle Back to Africa

DOUBLE FLANK MOVEMENT BY YANKS, BRITISH   Double Quick Flight or circlement Faces Nazis Still Fighting on Italian Isle

AMERICAN BOYS BLOCK SICILIANS   Brilliant Landing” Breaks Axis Lines

Seek Motive In Slaying Of Aviator      Arraign Youth In Mass. Todav

Hull Soldier, Looking For A  Brother's Grave, Sees Friend's   Floyd Jansma Discovers Burial Place of Mar vin Kothe

WIDESPREAD “FIFTH COLUMN” WORK NIN ALLIES BEHALF IN EUROPE WILL SURPASS HITLER'S BEST EFFORTS

To Out-Sabotage Saboteurs-- Allied Fitth Column Ready         Seeret Group Set Assist lmvacers

ALLIED FIFTH COLUMN READY   Setup Under Refugee Rulers Dwarfs Nazi Efforts

Allied Fifth Column Paving the Way ~ For Invasion in Nazi-Held Countries

Allied Fifth Column to Go Into Action When Invasion Comes   Group Makes Anything Nazis Dreamed Of Look Like ''Schoolaie] Stuff!"

ALLIED FIFTH COLUMN READY FOR ACTIVITY   Will Make Nazis Activity Look Like Scheol Girl Stuff. Renort

FIFTH COLUMN OF ALLIES ABOUT 10 GO INTO SERVICE   Organization Held in Leash for Yeors Ready to Step In and Get Busy.

Condition Of Two Convicts Serious Today   Both Men Wounded Ir Attempt To Escape From Prison Have Chance To Recover

BRIBE “CHARGE IN MICHIGAN   GRAND ‘JuRY INQUIRY STARTED INTO CHARGES OF GRAFT BY MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE

Germans Have Built Giant Industry Rule   ‘Even Upset of Nazis or Reich Could Not. Break This Empire

- HELD IN GERMAN WEB   ‘Europe a Giant Industrial Empire Under Sure Hold

German Empire IS Welded Tight   Changes In Leadership Would Not Be Felt

Tm. & V. $. Pat, Dit.  ‘The WASHINGTON MERRY - GO:  PEARSON      RITISH AND FANRRICAN AIRWAYS DUEL

Northern Iowa In Grip of Blizzard   Telephone and Telegraph Lines In Minnesota Crippled

Italy Tottering On Third War  Anniversary   Possibility Of Early Collapse Indicated Savs Writer

Group Seeks Aid  For War Prisoners   Delegation’s [rip Financed by State

Furious Nazi Attacks Are Hurled Back   Town After Town Falls Before Soviets in Encirclement Move

POSSIBILITY OF IND STALINGRAD IN OREL REGION   Rupture of Bryansk Railroad Would Cut Off Sole German Line at Hard-pressed Base

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE ON OREL   Red Army Reaches Point  Three Miles From   Nazi Garrison

—RUSSLA—  SOVIETS WIDEN DRIVE ON ORE!   Fighting Spreads To Southern: Donets And Mius River Sectors

SOVIETS WIDEN OFFENSIVE AREA   BATTLE SPREADS TO DONETS SECTOR AS OREL DRIVE GAINS

Russians Press New Offensive  On Wide Front   Rip At Nazis From Orel To Southern Donets And  Mius River Sectors.

Red Army Is But 7 Miles Kast Of Key Point Of Orel   Ermolaeva Reached As Russians Carry Fighting To Enemy On Wide Front

RUSSIAN ARMY WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF OREL   Reds Widen Offensive, Altack on 450 Mile Front South Whils Closing on Qrel   ADVANCE RAPIDLY   German River Defenses Before Taganrog Breached as Fighling Spreads South

SOVIET FORCES TIGHTEN STEEL RING ON NAZIS   Reds Attacking On Entire 450-Mile Front South From Orel and Take Many More Towns.   BREACH DEFENSES IN TAGANROG AREA   ‘Germans Admit “Bloody’ Battles Near Orel, But Claim Russians Have Been Hurled Back

NAZIS ADMIT FIERCE FIGHT IN OREL AREA   Communique Claims Suc7 cess Against Bed Attacks South-of Bastion —Soviet Offensive Front Riraadanoead

NAZIS FALLING BACK FOR NEW DEFENSE LINES   Germans Prepare Major Stand From Mondragone to Venafro and Vasto

Allied Drive Captures 8 ltalian Towns   German Opposition to Fifth Army Letsens; Nexis Seek New Line

OPPOSITION OF NAZIS TO FIFTH ARMY LESSENS   Germans Apparently  Falling Back To  ew Positions:  Clark’s Forces Ad vance Four Or Five iles.

5th Army Smashes 5 Miles   GERMANS FALL BACK AS CLARK ROARS FORWARD; EIGHTH ARMY SPEEDS ON

ALLIED ARMIES GAPTURE MORE ITALIAN TOWNS   Enemy Opposition Diminishe:i; Nazis  Now Alarmed

GET 10 TOWNS N ADVANGE OF TOA MILES   Fifth and Eighth Armies Now Threatening Transport City of fsernia.

More Towns In ltaly Taken By Advancing Forces   Germans May Be Preparing to Retreat to Shorter, Stronger Line

Nazis Now. Fall Back To Set Up New  Positions   Will Make Major Stand From Mondragone On West ‘To Vaste, On Adrintie Coast

Eight More Towns Fall To British, American Forces Amid New Gains

Allies Pound Ahead With Less German Opposition: Gain Four to Five Miles

FIFTH ARMY MEETS LESS OPPOSITION   Indications Are That Ger mans Will Make Strong ‘Stand From Mondragone Across Italy to Vasto on Adriatic.

§ More Towns Taken By Allies In 4-Mile Gain:   Opposition To Fifth Army Diminishes As Germans Fall Back To New Lines

Germans Fall  Back In Italy   American. British Make Advances On Both Sides Of Peninsula.

GAIN 3 MILES AS NAZIS SEEK NEW POSITIONS   Germans Believed Preparing Major Stand Along Revamped Defense Line

TEN MORE TOWNS IN ITALY HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY ALLIES   German Opposition on the 5th Army Front Is Reported Diminishing.   GERMANS FALLING BACK   Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s oth Army Captured Raviscanina.

Allied Armies Capture Ten Towns in Drive   Germans Prepere For Major Stand Along New Lines

Cer man Army Taking Up  New. Positions   Fifth and Eighth Armies Feel Resistance Lichten

ALLIES TAKE 10 MORE TOWNS IN ITALIAN MARGH   Nazi Resistance Diminishes as Our Forces Gain Five to Six Miles

Yanks, British In Italy Capture Ten More Towns In Five To Six Mile Gains

Allies Capture Four More Italian Towns   Advance Four to Five Miles With  German Opposition Diminished; Bombers Attack in Italy and Yugoslavia.

Clark's Fifth Seizes Point Near Isernia   British Make Gains And Bombers, Fighters Blast Vital Taraets

Allied Force Resumes Its  Push On Rome  Several Towns Taker  eae Pet  pe Sameer T ano   Several Towns Taken In Offensive; Long Range Planes Strike  As Ween lowse

Ten More Towns Are Captured in Five-Mile Drive   Nazi Resistance Lessening; New Defense Line Being Formed by Germans.   Enemy Airdromes Hit; Many Planes Damaged

Ten More Cities Taken By Allies   Nazi Opposition Is Diminish“ing on the Fifth Army . _ Front   GERMANS FALLING BACK:   Axis Troops Reported To Be ‘Making ‘Plans for a  Major Stand

oth and 8th Advance All Along Front   Ten More Towns Captured by Allies in Drive for Rome .

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY HAVE TAKEN ADDITIONAL TOWNS  BOTH FIFTH AND EIGHTE

Nazis Retreat In Italy, Get Set For Stand   Ten Towns Fall To Twi Allied Armies As Fo Takes New Positions   BOMBERS STRIKE   Mitchells, P38's Span Adriatic To Hit Yugoslavia Airfield

Nazi Opposition ‘Has Vanished On Fifth Army Front   Germans Apparently Fall Back To. New Positiong. Clark’s Mén Take Raviscania, Only 15 Miles . From Isernia. Enemy Preparing Major Stand:

Germans Forced Back to New Positions After American and British Armies Push Four to Five Miles in Italy—Clark’s Forces Only 15 Miles From lIsernia, Big Transport City.

Both Fitih and Fighth Armies Row Only 15 Miles from isernia, Key Nazi Supply Point ~   RESISTANCE LESS   Airmen Siréfe Podg Podgorica Airfield in Yugoslavia, Road and Rail Targets-in Italy -

Allied Armies Captdre. 8 Towns And Villages; Gains Extend For Miles

ALLIES DRIVE ON IN ITALY   Overrun Ten Towns As Nazis Take Up New  Mountain Line

NAZIS RETREAT TO NEW LINES INITALIAN WAR   Allied Forces Gain Up To Five Miles as  Defense Eases

NAZIS FALLING ‘BACK TONEWER AREAS, BELIEF    Clark’ s Army Seizes Ravis cania, 15 Miles From   Large Transport City  i: of lsernia   BRITISH 8TH TAKES FOUR MORE TOWNS   ‘Some German Rearguards e Still ‘Offer Stubborn Resistance In Scattered Sectors

Allies Capture Eight Towns In New Advances   Germans Fall Back To Establish New Defense Positions

RESISTANCE TO STH ARMY IS LIGHTER   Gain Five To Six Miles; Germans Are Expected To Make Major Stand At Mondragone

AMERICANS GAIN AS NAZIS RETREAT TO NEW DEFENSES   CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY TAKES RAVISCANINA, SOUTH OF ISERNIA

Allied Advance Takes Eight More Towns   American And English Armies Drive Four Miles Into Nazi Line

Allies Resume Attacks In Italy: Take 8 Towns   Enemy Opposition On Fifth Army Front Diminishes; Hitler Forming New Defense Line

Germans Fall Back Before Fifth Army   Enemy Rearguards Still ring Stubborn Resistance

Allies Take 8 More Towns in New Advances   Germans in Italy Falling Back to Take Up New Positions

«Allied Push Engulfs 10 ‘More Towns   Nazis Fall Back Before 5th Army To New Positiens In Italy. .

RATIONING BOARD APPROVES ORDERS   Large Group Get  Purchase Slips

FOOD SPOILAGE IS PREDICTED   Sen. Aiken Says Needed Material Will Not Be Released

QUICK - FREEZING PLANTS NEEDED   “Millions Of Tons’ Of Food Is Threatened, Sen ator Says

REPORT CRASH NAZI PLANE WITHOUT PILO?   May Be Secret Weapon Abou Which Germans Have Been Boasting

Sets Big Reservoir in Chicago on Fire:  Twelve Men Killec   South Side Is Scene of _Spectacular Crash Late This Morn

Army Bomber Hits Gas Tank   Twelve Fliers from Fort Worth Believed To Have ‘Died’ in Chicago Tragedy

Twelve Occupants Of Army Plane Lose Lives In Crash Near Chicago Municipal Airport

GANDHI IN GOOD SPIRITS   21 Day Hunger Strike Ended Yes ; terday at Poona

SARRAT “ESCAPES’ FROM MARTINIQUE   Army Commander Said To  Be With Fighting French  Earcee.

MARTINIQUE CHIEF FLEES   Sarrat, Commander Of French Garrison, Joins Fighting French.

Auto Sticker Tax Called Unjust in East  Treasury To Be ‘ Asked To Withhold  -Enforcement

CONRGESS MAY DECIDE TO CALL OFF AUTO LEVY   $5 Sticker Called “Pay-As-YouDon’t-Go-Plan”   Raleigh to “Make Money” On School Building Fund

Labels 85 Federal Car Tax “‘Pay-As-You-Dowt-Go’ Plan   Mead Will Demand That Enforcement Await Decision On Repeal Of Law

Roval Air Force Plastered Cologne And Milan With Bombs; Strategy By Nazis May Be To Find Quarter   KHARKOV. KEY BASE OF NAZIS, IS NEXT

Heavy Blows Rock Hitler's Hordes; Rostov Falls: Cologne, Italy Bombed

RAF Plasters Cologne, Milan   Nazi Withdrawal in Russia May Not Stop Short of Dnieper River

RACE AHEAD AS ROSTOY FALLS TOHEAVY DRIVE   Nazis May Not Be Able to Stem Retreat Until Reaching Dnieper River

Reds Plan Assault on  Kharkov   German Citadel in Europe Rocks Under New Savage Blows

Home Front Crisis Here For America   Battle Against Inflation Will Be Won Or Lost In 1943

ENFMY INVADES AEGEAN ISLAND   Allied Reinforcements Engaged In Stiff Battle On Leros

Germans Pour Men In Leros   Make All-Out Attempt ‘To Capture Small Aegean Isle From Allies.

Aegean Island Being Attacked  British Trying Hard  forieansa fa oe

See Continued Raids Opening Of Offensive   Nineteen RAF Bombers Fail To Return From Mission Over Germany.   ‘OPPOSITION WEAKER

900 Tons Of Bombs Dumpec On Nazi City: Fires Started   “Preparing Way For United Nations Invasion” Declares British Undersecretary

Raid Described As Preparing Way For European Invasion  Fleet of Planes Drops 900 Tons of Bombs On Germon Copital

RAF Strikes Its Heaviest Blow To City   Weight Of Explosives Believed To Double Greatest Total Nazis Hurled On London

Bombs Shake  Berlin   19-Huge RAF Bombers Fail To Get Home   Non-stop Attacks Said Preliminary To Invading Europe

MUCH DAMAGE ADMITTED BY BERLIN RADIO   R.A.F. Continues Non-Stop Allied Aerial Offensive Against Western Europe

BERLIN HIT BYR.AF.IN HEAVY RAID   Thousands of Tons Crash On Targets During Clear Night

Fires Are Visible From Hannover And Bremen After Record Attack By RAF Bombers

HEAVIEST RAID EVER MADE ON GERMAN CAPITAL   Preparing Way for Invasions of Europe, Lose 19 Planes

Russia Opens Great New Offensive  RECORD BERLIN RAID INVASION PROLOGUE

RAID CALLED PRELUDE 10 AN INVASION   Load Includes Two and Four-Ton “Block-Busters” and Is Twice That Ever to Hit London— Great Wirec Started.

Waves of Britain’s Great Battlecraft Pound Nazi Capita!   Probably 900 Tons of Explosives Showered

Berlin Digs From Ruins Of Biggest Raid Yet On City   Nearly Thousand Tons Of Bombs Blast Nazi Capital; Heavier Blows Promised

Hannover and Bremen Also Attacked After Day's Letup in Daylight Raids by U. S. Bombers   INVASION PRELUDE   Berlin Broadcasts Admit Considerable Damage, Say 89 Persons Killed, 213 Injured

Raid Heralded As Prologue fo Europe Invasion   RAF’s Monster Bombers Drop Block-Busters

Berlin raids ‘sample’ of preparations   Capital treated to hardest blow

GERMAN CAPITAL GIVEN HEAVIEST POUNDING YET   Some 900 Tons Of Heavy Bombs Rained On Berlin; Described By British Air Official As Part Of Prelude To In vasion.

NON-STOP ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE 15 BEING CONTINUED  GERMAN CAPITAL WAS HEAVILY BLSSTED BY  DaAPRPrLACT wir

Nazi Capital Lashed by 900 Tons of Bombs   RAF Keeps Up Continued Assault; Clear Weather Brings Good Results

HEAVY AIR RAID MADE ON BERLIN   Nineteen Planes Fail to Return From Sorties Over Western Germany.   Results Are ‘Good’ In Raid on Capital

Bomb Berlin In Prologue  ta Inuacian   900 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Raid Heavier Than Any Before   19 PLANES LOST, THE BRITISH SAY   ‘Preparing Way for: United Nations’ Forces to Invade Europe -

RAF. Leaves Nazi Capital Mass of Fire   Undersecretary Says Planes Setting Stage For Armies to Move

19 Airplanes Missing After Heavy Raids  Nazi Capitol Gets Heaviest Pounding QE Aste Wlae

R.AF. Raid On Berlin Is Described As A Prologue  To Invasion Of Europe —

R. A. F. Stages Biggest Raid Yet On Berlin   Believed Prologue To Invasion Of Continent Soon   Twice As Many Bombs As Dropped On London   19 Planes Lost; United States Airmen Take Part

GERMAN-ITALIAN FIGHTS   AAF Assault Near Rome Gets 100 Nazi Planes.

Many Die In Turin Fights   Italian Organize Home Guard To Combat Germans: Rommel At Milan.

Nazis, Italians Battle At Turin   Pope Reported To Have Protested Treatment OF Italians.

Britain’s Biggest Planes Drop Heavy Bomb Weight In Terrific Half Hour Attack; 19 Bombers Are Lost

WEST GERMANY   American Bombers Blast Naples As Non-Stop Offensive Continues

Raids Seen ‘As Prelude  To Invasion   American Planes Attack Naples; Other Points Hit

Pilots See Fires 200 Miles Away   Flak from City’s  Defenses Reported kT, ha T iah¢

400 Planes In Great Assault On Capital   Heavy Damage Done Reich City; Yanks Hammer Naples

DAILY RAIDS MAKING WAY FOR INVASION   Great Offensive Carries into Its Seventh Day

PILOTS REPORT RESULTS GOOD: 19 PLANES LOST   Great Weight of Demolition, Incendiary Bombs Strike Nazis

Allies Lose 19 Aircraft   Nazi Capital Reels In Half-Hour Attack

NAZIS DIGGING OUT OF BOMB BLASTED RUI}   Heaviest Raid on War on German Capital Leaves Flaming Fires. Nineteen Bombers Lost

FOUR-TON BLOCK BUSTERS RAINED ON CITY TARGETS   Russian Army Liberates 302  Cities In Eight-Day Offensive That Smashed Entire German Line.   POLAND’S HOPES ON BOUNDRY IS ENDED   Mussolini Is Reported Ready to Provide Several Divisions to Help Germans Against Reds.

Non-Stop Air War Blasts Reich Capital  oss of 19 British Planes Indieates Attacking Force of 400  INVASION PRELUDE  “Luftwatfe Day” Broken Up as Allies Continue “Softening” Tactics         IXVASION PRELUDE

BRITISH MAKE HEAVY ASSAULT UPON CAPITAL   Greatest Aerial Offensive In History Goes Into Its Seventh Day.

POSTWAR PLANNING COMMITTEE ORDERS PROBE-OF “RESTRAINTS” ON BUSINESS

Say Flood Control ls Not Enough  National Reclamation Group Goes on Record

BATAAN BATTLE IS RECALLED _ BY MACARTHUR ANNIVERSAR)   BLACK DAYS OF YEAR AGO  CONTRASTED WITH PRES ENT SITUATION ON BIRTH: DAY ANNIVERSARY

Will Fend Off Russians Until City Evacuated   Fighting Now Termed The Bloddiest In Many Months.

Zaporozhe Also Doomed As Reds Push Advance   Ukraine Fighting Is Bloodiest Since Orel; Disaster Faces Nazis

Russians Tear New Holes In German Line:   Hitler Trying To Save Battered Remnants Of Kiev Garrison

Nazi Defense Russian Bases Nearing Fall   Collapse of Kiev, Melitopol, Zaporozne and Gomel Imminent

RUSS CAPTURE OF 4 KEY NAZI BASES IS NEAR   Fierce Battles Are Raging Near Kiev; Reds in Melitepol Streets

FALL IMMINENT OF THREE OTHER GERMAN BASES   Expect Russians To Retake Melitopol, Zaporozhe, Gomel Soon

Nazis Rush Fresh Troop: ToSave Army  Now In Kiev   Trying To Hold Off Russians Long Enough "To Evacuate Men And Equipment From City

NAZIS FIGHT ~ TO SAVE KIEV   Rush Fresh Troops To Flaming Ukranian Capital

Nazi Troops Flee From Flaming Kiev   Soviet Army Forces Tear New Gaps in Wavering Axis Defenses   Fall of Three Other German Defense Bases Seen Inevitable  jf

Soviets Fighting Way Into Melitopol After Routing Foe Qn Molochna Line

Germans Rush Reserves To Kiev Defense   Fall of Key Base Regarded as Inevitable — Soviets Gain Elsewhere

Kiev, Three Other Big German Bases  Expected To Fall   Fall Of Ukrainian Capital Believed Near; Germans [sing Fresh Divisions

Heavy Air Attack on Dortmund   Bombing of Steel Center and Battles in Russia  Share War Picture

Is Hitler Dead. As Reported? Veteran Writer Has Doubts, ‘But. Cites Queer Goinagc.An

= A  Hitler's Death Held Unlikely Despite Strange Nazi Goings-on   Ry TLOUIS P. LOCHNER

Is Hitler Dead?   There’s Something Queer About His Failure To Appear, But He May Be In A ‘Creative Pause’

Veteran AP Berlin Bureau Chief Says Hitler Sick Or Depressed   By LOUIS P. LOCHNER

Fewer Bills Expected At Session   Urgent Matters te Receive Top Consideration

Fewer Bills Expected in Leqislature   Members Declared More Serious Then in the Past

NEW RUSSIAN ADVANCES ON SOUTH FRONT   40 inhabited localities seized as Nazis fall back in north

9,900 NAZIS ARE KILLED IN 3-DAY BATTLE   Reds Claim German Counterattacks Repelled With Enemy Losses Heavy   RIVER ASSAULTS ROUTED   General Dietmar Admits Donets Basin Offensive Is Near Standstill

“Russian Troops Make Advance In  Smolensk Drive   Moscow Report Says 5,500 Nazis Killed In Past Three Davs   AERIAL WARFARE SHOWS INCREASE

OPA Director Awaits Report On Test Cheek   Carrying Out Of Tests In Other Cities Will Depend On Reports In Fond du Lac Case

SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC GROUP. “PLANS FIGHT ON ROOSEVELT   DETERMINED. OPPOStTiOn WITHIN RANKS OF HIS PARTY AGAINST FOURTH TERM “   NOMINATIONS

BELIEVES THAT PRESIDENT WILL BE A CANDIDATE BUT — OPPOSITION IS VERY GREAT

F. D.R. Signs Bill Aimed At Slowin Dads’ Draft   Move, However, Likely To Have Little Effect On Current Program For Elicible Fathers   McNUTT HAD ASKED PRESIDENTIAL VETO   WMC Head Stripped Of All Authority Over  Nekoptive Sarutnga

Orders Go Out From Washington To Draft Boards To Gear Procedure To The New Law:

Pre-War Dads" Go to Bottom Of Draft List   Medical Board Granted  Power io Reclassify AF Rosgicteantc

President Signs Father Draft Bill   Disregards Veto Request by McNutt

BOARDS GIVEN NEW ORDER ON FATHER DRAFI      Jershey Acts on Sign ing of Bill to Slow Calling of Dads

War-Working Fathers Get Draft ‘Break’  Order by Hershey Follows Roosevelt

DADS IN WAR JOBS GIVEN PREFERENCE   OTHERWISE BILL SIGNED BY F. D. R. MEANS LITTLE TO 1-A FATHERS.

. “oca. 2oar¢s 3e7) ew _ns-ruc-ions is -resicen: Signs 31. using T4-yers A- 3%07-0om 07 > faz: 200.

: President Signs Draft Bill, but Outlook for Fathers Appears to : Be Unchanged---When the Army Wants Them, They're Going

FDR Approves New Draft Bill   Little Change For Fathers Seen Yet

COUNTY BUSINESSMEN BEGIN PLANNING FOR POST-WAR JOBS THROUGH COMMUNITY EFFORTS

Mine Probe.  Is Continued   Billy Hynes Appears Before Grand Jury

UMW OFFICIAL TO TESTIFY IN STRIKE PROBE      Six Of Twelve Idle Blast Furnaces Are Scheduled For Resumption

NEW VICTORY WON, SAYS CHURCHILL   Announces That All Enemy Key ° Positions Taken

“FREEZE” ORDER ISSUED SUN: “DAY TO FORESTALL HOARD‘ ING-MEAT SITUATION GROWS WORSE

SALE OF BUTTER, LARD AND FATS BANNED BY OP)   o“Freeze” To Be Effective Until Rationing Begins Next Monday; Move to Curb Panic Buying.

SALE OF BUTTER AND EDIBLE FATS STOPS FOR WEEK   OPA Order Precedes Meat ® Rationing Which Starts Monday

FREEZE ORDER IS PLACED ON BUTTER, FATS   Restriction will remain until rationing begins next week

/BUTTERLESS BREAD WILL FACE PUBLIC FOR WEEK UNDER OPA FREEZE ORDER

INFANTRY AND TANK FORGES MAKE ATTACK   Forward Elements of British 8th Army Cross Border from Tripolitania.   BULLETIN

TROOPS DRIVE 2 COLUMNS ON WAKNASS'   Bypass Sened When Forced to Halt by Barrage of Divebombers.   SECOND UNIT BATTLING  iN CENTRAL TUNISIA

Combat Teams Strike Towards: Coast on Offensive   ENCOUNTER FIERCE AXIS RESISTANCE

Russians Join British and Americans in Hailing “Major Diplomatic Triumph”: Action to Follow.

Moscow Accord Draws Plaudits   Red Press Says Pact To Speed Nazi Defeat

Moscow Accord  Hailed by Allies   Nazis Shocked by Scope of Pact

KANSANS IN RAID      Two Participated in in Bombing of Sardinian Port '

Production © Of Planes Upped Again   Nelson Reports All Munitions

HEAVY BOMBER PRODUCTION UP   Munitions Output for April Shows 7 Fer Cent Increase

U.S, WARPLANE PRODUCTION UF   Seven Per Cent Increase in Munitions Reported

U.S. BOMBER PRODUCTION GOING UP   Increased 18% In April Over Month of March

U.S, HEAVY BOMBER QUTPUT UP 18 PCT,   April Arms Gain Above Expectations

American Bomber Production Up 18%  : In April Compared To March Output; Munitions Show Seven Per Cent Hike

Doughboys Write Heroism In Blood During Fierce Skirmish In Italy

A Il Officers Of Some Companies Lost In Bloody Battle Of ‘Death Valley

OAKES MURDER : DEFENSE RAPS MIAMI SLEUTH   DeMarigny’s Counsel Tears Into American Detec~ tive On Cross-Examination

CROSS EXAMINE MIAMI DETECTIVE   Youthful Attorney Starts Quiz on Burned Hairs on DeMarigny’s Arm

Stimson Satisfied With U. S. Progress On Attu   Secretary Of War S ays Americans Advance In Face Of Difficult Aleutian Conditions

Americans Seize Partially Completed ' Inaanaie Airbase in Battle of Attu

VALOR OF JAP SOLDIER TOLD IN BROADCAST   Nipponese Suffering Heavy Casualties In Fight

YANKS SURPRISED JAPS COMPLETELY   Already Have Captured Air Base Japs Had on Attu

Senate Prepares io Pass Bill  Battle Over Plans to Scrap NYA Seen

SENATE WILL ACT MONDAY ON WAR BILL, PROPOSAL FOR SCRAPPING OF NYA

SENATORS TRY TO RESCUE NYA   House Proposal To Wind Up Youth Agency Is Opposed

Fight Is Expected In Congress On NYA Finances  Senate Clears Way For Passage of loseme Besant Bit

Fight Is Expected In Congress On NYA Finances  Senate Clears Way For Passage of Large Budeaet Bill

Allied Chiefs Meet To Discuss New Events, Make Plan  Yank and Briton Are : Together, Compare

Allied Chiefs Meet To Discuss New Events, Make Plan  Yank and Briton Are Together, Compare  Riscses wesc belt: Petes

Yank Rangers Help French Drive Nazi Forces In Corsica   American Fifth Army Advancing Toward Naples; Germans Set Torch To City As Prelude To Evacuation: Other Towns Fall

Americans Reach Mountain Barrier Before Naples  U. S. Rangers, French  Pound Germans

ALLIED SUBS DAMAGE TWO JAP WARSHIPS   Several Rice-Laden Cargo Ships Sunk by Allied: Attacks 40 Miles off Shanghai

Deadly Damp Black Fume: Overcome Rescue Crews Seeking 18 Entombed Men

School Farm Aid Measure Up  Bill Would Let .  oa 8  oe re ee   Bill Would Let School Children Work on Farms

R VICTORY DOOMS EFFORT OF FARM BLOC   But Bankhead Tries ‘o Send Measure To Committee

Move To Recommit  Price Bill   Attempt lo Override Doomed To Defeat By New Administration Support.

UKE BLOCK IVER FLOOD FROM OMAHA   Troops Help: Civilians Throw Up Defense Against Raging Missouri.   RIVER THREAT LESSENS IN UPSTREAM SECTIONS

Crews Work All Night  Along Dikes   No Loss of Life But Much Livestock Is Swept Away

Omaha Flood Crest Close   Work Feverishly To Protect Airport, Carter Lake, City’s Industrial Area.

Workers Win A Round Against Flood At Omaha   Threat To Carter Lake And Omaha Airport Off.  set Temporarily.

Flood Imperils Nebraska Town  Sandbags Are Used To Bolster Dikes

BATTLE FLOOD   Omaha Airport, Suburb Threatened By High Missouri River.

Allied Pincers Closing In On Beleagured Japs At Lae  Main Australian Column Firmly Entrenched we Raamecdis Poedtd tosk Tina bithxs AE Taw

Exports By U.S.Continue To Increase   Wartime Foreign Trade Booms Despite Everything

COLUMBUS GETS WMC OFFICE   To Be Set Up Under .New Ruling Placing WMC Under State Offices

NEW WMC OFFICE TO BE SET UP IN OHIO   Board To Supervise USES in State

ANOTHER CARRIER BUILT   U. 8. Aireraft Carrier Intrepid Is Christened Today

Hitler’s Long-Expected Summer Drive Hits Buzz-Saw of Russian Resistance—Naval Battle Is Reported in Solomons as Axis Bases in Africa And Italy Get Heavy Pounding.

6,000 KILLED; BE TANKS DESTROYED   Russian People Feel This Is Last Supreme Test For Red Army

List 10,000. German Dead in New Drive   Russiang Claim 738 Tanks Destroyed; ‘Berlin Denies Major Thrust Planned

138 German Tanks Destroyed in First 36 Hours of Drive   Berlin Propaganda Denies Major Action On 165-Mile Front

Vicious Thrusts By Armored Divisions And Infantry Flung Back With Severe Losses All Along 165-Mile Orel-Belgorod Front, Moscow Reports—10,000 Enemy Troops Killed And 738 Tanks Destroyed In First 36 Hours Of Offensive, Russians Declare

Germans Lose Equipment And Lives At Start Of long Awaited Offensive

6,000 GERMANS KILLED AND 738 NAZI TANKS DESTROYED IN FIRST 24 HOURS OFFENSIVE   Every Major Thrust of Enemy Along Entire 165Mile Front Repulsed. Drive Launched at So-Called Hinge Sector 200 Miles South of Moscow

SOVIETS BLOCK OFFENSIVE ON 160-MILE LINE   Nazi Losses in Their Punches at Soviet Lines Run as High as 50 Percent of Attackers

More Than 10,000 Germans Slain In  36 Hours _ LOSSES -HIGH Red Defenses Block

Reds Block Nazis At All Key Points   Kill 10,000 Germans, Destroy 738 Tanks In First 36 Hours Of Hitler’s Bic New Push.

Soviets Block Major Thrusts Of Nazi Forces   Red Army Reports More Than 10,000 Germans, Killed and 738 Tanks  Destroyed in 36 Hours

Russians Smother Big Drive   Hitler’s Offensive Runs Into Buzzsaw

10,000 Germans Reported Killed; 738 Tanks Lost   UN Commandos Touch Off Axis Inyasion Alarms In The Mediterranean

German Losses High   Berlin Denies A Major Offetisive Underway,  Appafetitly Waiting to See How Fighting Goes

Germans Reported Thrust Back at Every Key Point   Every Major Assault Said to Have Been Violently Repulsed Along 165-Mile Front in So-Called “Hinge” Sector   ENEMY LOSES 738 TANKS IN FIRST 24 HOURS

738 German Tanks Smashed By Russians   More Than 10,000 Nazis Reported Killed in Axis Push  By ROGER GREENE (AP Wee WaAi¢ae\

BATTLE RAGING NEAR SOLOMONS JAP LOSS HEAVY   Allied Air Armada Blasts Italian Key Bases Again After Fierce Sky Fight   COMMANDOS RAID CRETE   Russians Destroy 738 Nazi Tanks When Nazis Try To Launch Drive

Hitler Drive Into Russia ~ Js Blocked   Every Maj or Thrust Stalled; Berlin Says Push Is. Only a Local Engagement   BUT GREAT POWER IS BEING. USEL   Heavy Mediterranean Raids Meet More Opposition, But Score Big Results

Long Awaited Push In Russia Starts; U.S. Hits Japs   British Commandos Stir Up Invasion Fears With Grecian Raids

Congress Plans fo Draw Up Post-War Economic Blueprint With Emphasis on Private Enterprise, Local Controls

NEW POST-WAR SET-UP LIKELY   Congress To Consider Plans When It Reconvenes In Seantember.

Congress to Think Of Postwar Plans  Private Enterprise, State Control to Be

Judge Studying Newfon Motion   Wife Of Physician Seeke Trial Delav

Judge Studying, Newton Motion   Wife OF Physician “Seake Trial Ralay

Legislature Okays High School Aid, Passes Income Tax Secrecy Bill

Next 60 Days Will Decide Whether Allies Can Wind Up War in Europe This Year

Forts Smash Heavily at Nazi Targets   Kiel U-Boat Base and Aircrait Factory Are Hit

U.S. Bombers Attack Kiel   Warnemunde Factory Area Is Also Taraet

Judgment to Free Standard Gas Patents   JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVEALS OPENING OF REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

Standard Frees Octane Process   Oil Firm to Lease  5   Patents to Rivals  a Te, a Saeee  ee

High-Octane_ Gas May Be Made by All   Standard Oil Must Release Process On Royalty

Brown Takes Over OPA; Asks Understanding  Makes No Promises But Stands for More Symnathetic Reaulatior

Brown Assumes OPA Duties  Says Price Rises   says Price Rises Will Be Slow

Brown Takes OPA Helm, Hoping For More Liberal Rationina: Food List Broadened

PRENTIS3 BROWN TAKES OVER OPA   Holds Out Hope For More Liberal Gas Ration   SUCCEEDS HENDERSON   Predicts Prices Will Rise Slowly and Well Ordered; Food Ration Expanded

Brown Vision: Less Drastie  Ration Set-Up   Takes OP A Control, Predicts Price Rises Will Be Slow

Loss Of Ortona Removes Last Major Barrier Bétween British Eighth Army and Pescara, .,

Germans Evacuate Town of Ortona After 10 Day Battle.   ALLIED BOMBERS HIT KNEMY RAIL SYSTEM   Loud Explosions Can Be Heard From French (Coast.

savage 10-Day Battle Ends   FALL UNHINGES EAST END OF GERMAN LINE   Americans Consolidate Positions For Battle at San Vittore

PORTUGAL MAY DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN   Japs Ambassador to Por. tugal Reported to Have Burned His Papers

Protest Timor Seizure   Premier Salazar In Con: ference With Cabinet At Lisbon

Portugal Angered At Japanese Move   Lisbon Aroused by Violation Of Neutrality of Her Colony

Portugal Set For Jap War   Premier Declared to Have Had Long Talk With Nippon’s Envoy

BELIEVE PORTUGAL MAY DECLARE WAR ON THE JAPANESE   Madrid Dispatches. Say Diplomats ‘There Predict Portuguese Move as Protest Reatnvet lew Pastncakscn ce

Porfuguese-Jap Break Said Nea   Timor Encroachment Arouses Country

ILL. OPERATORS ASK T0 NEGOTIATE   REQUEST MEETING WITH UNITED MINE WORKERS GROUP

COMMANDER OF ITALIAN ARMY HELD   Some of Hitler's Finest Fighting Unit Behind Prison Barricades in Nerth Afries

Third Jap Attempt Is Repelled   Chinese Troops Turn Back Japs At Salween River

Farmers, Needing Year-Round Workers For Essential War Crop And Livestock Production, Promised Help By F.S. A.   PAT N. ROBERTS, F. S. A. SUPERVISOR OF COLLIN COUNTY, TELLS OF LABOR  NOOR KM

JAP CONVOY  ~~ 18 SIGHTED   GREAT FIRES LEFT RAGING IN GERMAN CAPITAL BY RAF RAIDERS WHO DROPPED HUGE BOMBS IN © SHORT PERIOD OF TIME LAST NIGHT—ALoS ' LEES CONTINUE GAINS IN  CENTRAL TUNISIA   Ry INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICE

GOODS REACH PRISONERS   Material Sent on the Gripsholm Ar rives at Destination 

GOODS REACH PRISONERS   Material Sent on the ade egany Arrives at Destination

Mine Chief Says WLB Must Handle Dispute   Coal Pours Into Nation’s Furnaces; New . Strikes Seen At End of Truce

SEE EXTENSION DE MINE TRUCE   Government May Continue Operation Of Pits During War

See Extension Of  ‘5-Day Mine Truce  Ickes May Continue As Coal Field Boss

Ickes May Be Coal Boss For War’s Duration   “Neither Side Displays Any Yielding Signs In Tnriedictional Fuss.

Speculate on Possible Extension of 15 Day Coal Truce for the Duration Under Sec. Ickes

Coal Struggle Stalemated   Ickes May Remain Coal Czar for  The Duration

Coal Wage Struggle Stirs Much Speculation Over Nation As Coal Fills Bins   WLB IN THE PICTURE

Ickes Is Seen Holding Coal Job  Fer Long Period   Neither Side Involved In Wage Struggle Shows Signs Of Exding Dispute

Extension Of Coal Truce Is Expectec   Ickes May Be Boss For Duration; Mines Again Pouring Product Into War Material Furnaces

COAL TRUCE MAY STAY IN EFFECT   May Be Continued Indefinitely With Ickes As Min. ers’ Boss.

WLB RESUMES HEARINGS ON MINE DISPUTE   MINERS WORK UNDER 15-DAY TRUCE WITH ICKES AS BOSS

No Indication Dispute to Be Settled Soon, Leads to Belief U.S. Will Retain Ownership   QUTPUT INCREASED  AS MINERS RETURN  (   War Labor Board Slated to Resume Hearings Tomorrow, But Lewis Remains Silent

Coal Job May Be Given Ickes For Duration   Some Sources Feel New Walkout Would Follow Truce

May Continue 15-Day Truce Indefinitels   Neither Side Shows Any Signs Of Yielding In Their ‘Tug - Of - War Over New Contract

Ickes May Remain As  Coal Czar   Neither Side Shows Signs Of Settling Dispute.

MAY EXTEND COAL MINERS’ 15-DAYTRUGE   Officials Stand Pat, Informec Circles Fear Another Walkout

Coal Truce To Be Extended   OFFICIAL FORECAST IS ' MINERS TO STAY ON JOB

Ickes May Be Coal Boss For Duration With Truce Continuing Indefinitely

Coal Truce May Last Indefinitely   “Seen As Possible Out‘Come of Still Unbroken Deadlock Between Mine Operators and Workers

ICKES MAY HAVE COAL JOB FOR DURATION   Neither Side Showing Any Siqns of Settling Dispute

Coal Truce May Be For Duration   Ickes May Continue As Mine Boss

ICKE COAL INDUSTRY TILL WAR ENDS   5-Day Truce May Be Ex: tended Indefinitely to Continue Mine Activity

May Extend Ickes’ Rule  for Duration   Neither Administration 1 UMW Show Signs of Yield. ing to Each Other

Coal Truce May Extend for War's Duration   Harold Ickes May Have Job For Long Time

Ickes ‘Boss’ ForDuration   Indefinite Extension Of Coal Pact Seen

COAL DISPUTE MAY DRAG ON BEYOND TRUCE   Government And Lewis Are Far Apart On Issue Of Settlement By WLB

Coal Truce To Be Extended Indefinitely?   Washington Guesses Ickes May Continue As Boss Of Mines

EXTENSION OF MINE TRUCE I$ PREDICTED  Gov’t May Keep Its Control

COAL TRUCE MAY BE EXTENDED. INDEFINITELY   With Ickes Serving as Boss of Uncle Sam’s Coal Fields.

Italy Reels in Smashing Blow   100 DEATH-DEALING PLANES ROAR OVER MOST DISTANT OBJECTIVE YET HIT AS REFINERIES, DOCKS, SHIPYARDS ARE SHREDDED IN RAID

Drought Strikes Farms in State   Growth of All Farm Garden, Fruit Crops Is Seriously Retarded

OFFICIAL WASHINGTON LAUGHS AT MacARTHUR’S PLEA FOR AID   By SANDOR 8S, KLEIN

Knox Laughs at Report Big Nip Force at Truk   Davis Hits at ‘Exaggerated Stories’ Out of Santh Pacific

KNOX LAUGHS AT WARNINGS OF M’ARTHUR   Davis, OW! Director, Calls Reports From Far Pacific ‘Exaggerated  Stories.’  ADMITS PLANE NEED  Senators ‘Rally Behind Plea To Give General Support He Needs Against Japs.

Davis Declares Stories Exaggerated; Remnants Of Jap Convoy Fleeing

Wage Raise Power Again  Granted. WLB   Stabilization Chief Responds to Protest Made by Board

BYRNES GIVES WLB AUTHORITY TO ORDER WAGE ADJUSTMENTS   ‘Stabilization Director Paves Way To Go Beyond Little Steel Formula in Some Cases

Byrnes Permits Pay Hikes By WLB to Aid War Effort   Stabilisation Caar Says Crass Inequities May Be Hined Our But Pr fn t Bites

WLB IS GRANTED NEW AUTHORITY   Byrnes Restores Power Permitting Board To Raise Wages

POWER RESTORED T0 WAR LABOR BOARD   Authority Is Given t ‘Make Adjustments in Waqes

Stabilization‘ Director Byrnes Gives Board Authority to Change Rates of Pay to Cor rect “Gross Inequalities” or to Aid in Prosecution of War, Provided They Do Not Boost Prices or Stand in Way of Their Reduction. .

 Byrnes Gives WLB Wider Wage Powers  May Grant Raises In Addition to Tittle Sreel Hikec

War Labor Board Is Given More Power By Byrnes to Regulate Wage Disputes

REDS OPEX OFFENSIVE IN NORTH   302 Towns Recaptured In Drive; Soviets Gain In South

STARAYA RUSSA GOAL OF REDS; KEY FORTRESS   New Timoshenko Drive Kyees 302 Villages In Fight Days

STARAYA RUSSA DRIVE DIRECTED BY TIMOSHENK   Soviets Approach Key Fortress After Liberating 302 Villages   NAZ] OFFENSIVE HALTED   Reds Broaden Penetration Of Ukraine Area West Of Kharkov

Timoshenko’s Forces Pound  On Key City   Armies Slash Toward Staraya Russa; 302 Villages Liberated

Red Offensive Gains In North   Jimoshenko’s Army Frees 302 Villages On Lake Ilmen BFroant

Reds Advance On Key Fortress Of Starava Russa   302 Villages Are Liberated in R.Dav Offensive

Yamamoto Top Jap Strategist  Former U, P. Tokyo Newsman Believes hdmiral Ended lita

“EXPERTS” SAY WAR WILL END BY NEXT WINTER OR SPRING   Expect Allies to Make Balkar Lunge by Time of Winter Freeze-Up

BENE MADE   Former Italian “Premier Seems to Haye Vanished ; — Countless’ Ru. mors— Being Made.

Declare Agriculture A War Industry,  Committee Asks  J. P. Maxwell Says Dallas Meet ‘Against

Americans Win High Ground   Beat Off Six Japanese Counter-Attacks on Guadalcanal Island

U.S, TROOPS ON GUADALCANAL MAKE ADVANGE   Gain Strategic High Ground Over looking Airfield, Navy Communique Says   REPULSE JAPANESE   Kill Total of 150 Nipponese In Six Counter Attacks: Munda Area Raided

Americans Kill 150  Japanese   First Recent Action Reported—Enemy Lands Some Supplie:

U. S. Troops Gain High Ground Near  Airfield   Americans kill 150 Japs And Hold  Positions Against Giese Marsrntar atétaanl-;

Yanks Take High Ground On Island   Strategic High Area Above Airfield Seized— Kill 150 Japs

Yanks Occupy Height Over  Solomon Base   Troops Make Advance.  Repulse 6 Japanese Counterattacks; F o« Gets Some Supplies

AMERICANS GAIN STRATEGIC POINT ON GUADALCANAL   ‘Capture High Ground Overlooking Airfield; Six Attacks Repulsed and 150 Jans Killed.

Guadalcanal Yanks Seize Strateqic Hil   Six Japanese Counter Attacks Repulsed; Munda Suffers Worst Beating   RUNWAYS BLASTED   Knox Says Enemy Destroyers Floated Some Solomon Supplies Ashore

Important Gain In Island Fight   Americans on Guadalcana Take Strategic Hi gt Ground Near Airport.

American Troops Better Positions   Six Japanese Counter At_ tacks Beaten Off in  Solomons   NO PLANES ARE LOS?   British Legions From India _ Are Moving Near Jap Base:

AMERICANS HURL BACK SIX ENEMY ‘COUNTER ATTACKS   \Catalinas, Flying Fortresses Make Series Of Raids On Munda Area

U.S. Forces Repulse Six Japanese Counter - Attacks on Guadaleanal

AMERICANS ADVANCE ON BIIATAL CANAL   Occupy High Point Overth “Airfield, Re pulse Jans.’   ENEMY FAILS TO LAND SUPPLIES   Melbourne Fears Japs Preparing Large Scale Attack,

NEW POINTS OCCUPIED ON GUADALCANAL   American Troops Gain Strategic High Ground Dverlooking Their Airfield on Island   IMPORTANT ADVANCE

TANKS GAIN HIGH GROUND IN SOLOMONS  150 Japs Slain and Six Nip Counter-Attacks Repulsed        BURMA GAINS MADE  New Guinea Attack Is

Americans Gain Strategic Hill On Guadalcanal  U.S. Forees Hurl Back Six Japanese Counterattacks

American Fighters Wrest High Ground From Japs, Repulse Counterattacks

Yanks Advance In Guadaleanal Battle Region   Americans Capture High Ground Around Air Field In Latest Action,  WAVELL M AKE S GAINS

U.S. GAINS GROUND IN -SOLOMONS   Strategic High Point. Taken and Six Enemy’ Attacks. Repulsed   NEW PROTECTION ; FOR GUADALCANAL   New Positions Near U.S. Airfield Most Important: Advance in Weeks

Repulse Six Attacks by  Jap Forces   150 Enemy Killed in Battle; First Major Land Move in Weeks

U.S. Troops Gain Strategic Spot      Now In Position Overlook ing Guadalcanal Airfield: Kill Japs.

SANANADA POINT OBJECT OF DRIVE   Far-Ranging Air Activity Reported In South Pacifie Area   LAE BASE BOMBED   MacArthur Reports Troops Being Regrouped For New Attack

TROOPS REPULSE JAP ATTACKS   Hold Ground Near Airfield; Knox Tells of Blows at Enemy Destroyers

Six Thrusts By Japanese  Driven Back   Navy Reports New Bombing Attacks On Munda Fieid

Jap Counter Attacks Held Off Six Times   Knox Says Attempt To Land Supplies By Japs Is Broken Up

Repulse Six’ Japanese - Counter - Attacks And : Kill 150° — Planes ‘Bomb Munda Airbase

Says Japs Failed 6 Make Landing On Guadalcanal   Knox Thinks Supplies For Hard-Pressed Enemy Have Drifted Ashore

Yanks Gain Strategic High Ground Overlooking Their Airtield on Guadalcanal

HEARINGS SET ON DRAFT BILL   Senate Military Affairs Group Threatens “Work Or _ Fight” Edict

HEARINGS ON “LABOR DRAFT START SOON   BILL TO. GET CONSIDERATION ON. MARCH 2ND--OTHER MANPOWER PROBLEMS BEING STUDIED IN CONGRESS

Capital Is Jarred By Warning  ‘Of Enormous Casualties Ahead   Indicates Great Military Operations In 90 Days; Causes Excited Flurry

Great Casualty Lists Coming, Nation W arnec   Forecast Of Tremendous Battle Losses i Weeks To Conie Jdrs Nation Out Of Complacency Over Course Of War

Forecast of Heavy Casualties In 90 Days Stirs Washington; May Indicate Time of Invasion

CASUALTY HINT JARS CAPITAL   Tremendous Yank Battle Losses In 90 Days Predicted

Casualties To Mount in Next 80 Days   Americans Told To Get Ready For Battle Losses

WARNS NATION OF GASUALTIES EXPECTED SOON   Statement Jolts Washington And War Workers

Officials Seek to Jerk Nation — Out of Feeling War Is About Won; Big Losses Are Forecas

Talk Of Tremendous U. 5. Losses Within  Next 90 Days Sounds Like Hint That A  Corond Front Will Beain In The Soring

Predicts Tripled U.S. Casualties   Warns Tremendous Losses May Be Felt Within Ninety Days

Big Developments In 90 Days Hinted As America Warned Of Losses To Come

NATION TOLD 10 EXPECT BIG CASUALTY LIS)   Tremendous Losses I Next 90 Days Are Forecast

BiG CASUALTY LISTS DUE WITHIN 90 DAYS ~ NATION 1S WARNED   Washington Source Indicates Total Will. Pass © Half Million Mark   OFFICIAL MOVIES COMING

Sees 3-Fold Casualty Hike inNext90Days   Statement Intended to Jolt Home Front with Preview of Cost of Invasion

TREMENDOUS CASUALTIES PREDICTED   Anonymous Official Jars Washington with Forecast of Three-Fold Hise   IN NEXT 90 DAYS   Nould Boost Total to Over Hal! Million — Forecast Not Tied to Invasion

Warns Bloody News Likely Next 90 Days   Official Washington Jarred by Prediction of Greater Casualties

Prediction Of Tremendous Battle Casualties In Next 99 Days Jars Official Washineton To Its Heels

Casualties To Be Heavy, Says U. S. Official   Public Told To Expect Tremendous Losses In Next 90 Days As Pace Of Fighting Increases

GIVES WARNING (OF CASUALTIES   Anonymous Source Says Tremendous Losses to Come in 90 Days.   TO MOUNT THREE-FOLD

Washington Is Jarres By Official’s Warning Huge Casualties Are Expected

InvasionToll ToRun High   U. 8. Urged to Brace For Shockine News

Washington Jarred By Stiff Warning  High Official Says Battle: Casualties To Be Heavier Soon

Washington Jarred By Warning   High Official Predict: Losses To Mount Three-Fold

CAPITAL GIVEN. JAR BY CLAIMS OF CASUALTIE   Highly Placed Soure Warns Tremendous American-Losses Ex-. pected Within 90 Days .

NEWSMEN HEAR PREDICTION OF TRIPLED LOSSES   Next 90 Days May Take Tremendous Toll of Lives

HIGHER LOSSES SEEN IN NEXT THREEMONTH   Statement Expected to Jolt Increased Complacency

Prediction Of Heavy Losses Among U.S. Troops ‘Arouses  ‘Speculation Of Early Moves

Washington Jarred by Warning of Big Future Casualties   Prediction of Half a Mil. lion in 90 Days Stirs Capital

Expecting Large Battle Casualties   Washington Is Jarred by Warning U. S. Losses to Mount in 90 Days.

HINT OF FEARFUL u.S. LOSSES SOON JARS WASHINGTON   WARNING IS ISSUED BY HIGHLY-PLACED ANONYMOUS OFFICIAL

Warning Jars Washington   Tremendous Casualties Likely in Next 90 Days

Capital Rocked By Warning Of Huge Casualtie:   Apparently Intended As A Jolt To Civilian Com placency.

Washington Jarred By Warning Of Huge Casualties In Next Ninety Days Of Conflict

WARN OF HUGE CASUALTIES In NEXT SO DAYS   Predicts U. S$. Losses To Pass Half-Million Mark; Hint Invasion

Warns of Tremendous U.S. Losses   Casualties Will  Rise Three-Fold In Next 96 Days, Official Predicte

Fight Home Front Calm   Warning of Huge New Casualties to Come Sounded By Official

Long Casualty List Expected   Large Increase May Be Expected Within Next 90 Days

~ MAN SHOT   Second Son n of Granville ~ Woman Wounded: hh ;  - North Africe-:’:

~ MAN SHOT   Second Son n of ‘Granville Woman Wounded In North Africa:

Very Severe Fighting Is Reported   27 Enemy Planes Downed; Brings 3-Day Total to 15]

All Initial Objectives—Takrouna Heights  and 1,200-Foot Djebel Garci—Captured, Communique Says—Fighting Continues

British Crush All Enemy Counter-Attacks As Their New Drive On Foe Rolls On   Germans Defeated In Some Of Fiercest Fighting Since Axis Was Qusted From Egypt: Toll Of Planes Increases

Bombing Axis In Tunisia and Isles Speeded   ‘First Army Also in Slight Gain as Final Phase Now Apparent

British Take Enfidaville, : Smashing On N orthward As Other Columns Puch Foct -

McArthur Warns of Growing Jap Might — Doolittle’s Tokyo Raid Mild Foretaste of Things to Come As Full Story Told

Axis Citadel ‘Tr Mountains Is Stormed   Fierce Fighting in . Tunisia Continues

British Take Enfidaville Anchor Point   Four German Counte Attacks Repulsed In ‘Ver: Severe Fighting’   HEAVY BARRAGE      Air Activity Curbed By Sleet, Snow After Plane Toll Reaches 15!

Coastal Anchor Of Axis Defense Line Broken By Assault   Showdown Battle For Tunisia Believed To Be Shaping Up; Allied Advance Reported In Medjez-El-Bab Sector West Of Tunis

Heavy Fighting In Tunisia as Gains Continue   Enfidaville Captured; Enemy Counterattacks Are Repulsed

FIGHTING RAGES > TN MOUNTAINS   Eighth Army Storms Axis » Citadel of Takrouna   HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING:   @First Army Gains Slightly in Medjez-El-Bab Sector; Counter-Blows Stopped

Counter Assaults  Are Hurled Back   Drive Begins To Crack Rommel’s Last Defense Line; Air Activity Continues On Front

British Take Enfidaville, Smashing On Northward A: \Other Columns Push East

Clean-Up Offensive Opened By Allies   Four Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Repulsed Russians Hold, Air War Intensified

Birthday Bombs Fall On Berlin   Montgomery Takes Eafitas Mes Allies in

British Eighth Army Knifes Way Into Axis Mountain. Defenses, Gaining Along 10-Mile Front

ROMMEL LOSES ANCHOR OF HIS DEFENSE LINI   Fierce Axis Counter Attacks Beat en Off by Veterans of General Montgomery's Army

Montgomery Enters Lair of Desert Fox   British First Army Records Advance While Allied Airmen Batter Axis Force

BRITISH FORCE DRIVES THROUGH TUNIS DEFENSES   Enfidaville, Coastal Anchog Of Rommel’s Line, Taken In Fierce Fighting   BERLIN IS BOMBED AGAIR   Reds Stop Reinforced Naa@ Attacks in Caucasus; Battle Still Raging

th ah A Takes Coast Base tt Enfidaville   Nazis Harled Bac’ In Four Fierce Counterattacks

Four German Counterattacks Are Hurled Back   British First Army Moves Forward Slightly {n Medjez-El-Bab Sector

ENFIDAVILLE IS CAPTURED BY INFANTRY   English Swing Five Miles Northwest To Storm Citadel Of Takrouna.

Coastal Anchor of Rommel's Defense Line to Allies   Fury of Big Air Operations Has Been Increased

Enfidaville Captured By British 8th   Main Battle For Rommel Cage Opens Air War Expanding

ARTILLERY SOFTENS ROMMEL’S POSITIONS   German Counter-Attacks Are Hurled Back by Eighth Army

STH ARMY MOVES UP, BEATS OFF 4 ATTACKS   Captures’ Enfidaville,.. the Coastal Anchor’ of Nazi” ° Defense Zone   LIES 50. MILES © : SOUTH OF TUNIS.   First Army in Small. Advance; Sleet, -Snow Re." strict: Air Drive -

EIGHTH ARMY SWEEPS PAST ENFIDAVILLE   Very Severe Fighting Reported as Montgomery Moves To Clean Up Axis   ALLIED AIR FORCE POUNDS BATTERED ENEMY TROOPS

AXIS CITADEL CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY   SNOWSTORMS HOLD UP ALLIED PUSH IN MOUNTAINS

Heavy Battles Still Raging, British Sav   Eighth Army Advances Along 10-Mile F ‘ront Despite Counter-Blows  FIRST ARMY GAINS

Small First Army Gain West Of Tunis; 151 Axis Planes Destroyed In 3Day Air Blitz.

Full-Scale Allied Offensive Opens In Tunisia  pte itial Goals tured; Rus ssicns

HEAVY FIGHTING IS REPORTED ON 10 MILE FRONT   Sleet and Snow Storms Swirl Over Mountains as 8th Army Attacks

AXIS COASTAL ANCHOR IS PENETRATED   Four Counter-Afttacks Are Hurled Back in Some Of Fiercest Fight  VIOLENT AIR BATTLES

Fierce Battles Rage 45 Miles  South of Tunis   Kighth Army Seizes Enfidaville, Storms Citadel of Takrouna: More Planes Bagged

Mighty Allied Attack  Launched In Tunisia   Eighth Army Takes Enfidaville, Axis Coastal Anchor, After Terrific Artillery Barrage; Enemy’s Plane Losses Exceed 150

TWO ARMIES IN FURIOUS HILL BATIU   Montgomery’s Men Capture Enfidaville and Move On to Storm Takrouna Stronghold.   AXIS’ MOUNTAIN POSITIONS SCALED   Four Enemy Counter-Attacks Repulsed — Snow and Sleet Restrict Allied Aerial Offensive.

Fighting Continues After Enfidaville Fallsto Allied Army   Ground Troops ‘Swing Into Full-seale Offensive; RAF Raids Nazi Cities

RAF Still Hammering  At Reich   31 Planes Lost in Large Night Operations Over Europe

British Take Enfidaville;  Repulse Counterattacks   15 More Raids On Kiska

1st Army Moves Toward Bizerte   8th Army Infantrymen Scale Rommel’s Positions To Oust Units At Close Quarters After Barrage

Full-Scale Offensive By Ground Armies Believed Underway   Capture Of Key Coastal City Takes BEF Within 50 Miles Of Tunis: Warplanes Paralyze Axis Lines

FIERCE BATTLES RAGING; GERMAN DRIVES BLOCKED   Four Axis CounterAttacks Repulsed By British Troops  —“—7 TF FT PS Ts eT.

PUSH TO NORTH AFTER PIERCING ROMMEL LINE   Four Enemy Counterattacks Smashed In Drive Started Mdnday Night \   FLIERS BAG 27 PLANES   Allies Gain Heights Command: ing Plains On Road Leading To Tunis

Anchor Of Axis Defenses 50 Miles South Of Tunis Falls To Allied Offensive

Rommel Detense Pierced   --- Enfidaritile Captured and 8th Drires Forward

Bloody Fighting Is Reported in Battle for North Tunisia   Anchor Point for Axis Southern Li  = Line Pene- — trated by Allies

Anchor Point Seized After Heavy Attack   British First Army, 30 Miles From Tunis, Scores Small T geal Cain.   SOVIET FRONT ACTIVE

Eighth Army Troops Advance After Severe — Fighting  TAKING OF DJEBEL - GARCIIS REPORTED Coastal Road Leading ta Bou Ficha Is Opened

Gain Of Twe Miles North - Q£ Djebel Garci Told _ By British Following  Capture Of Enfidaville

Fiercest. Fighting Since Egyptian Battles Raging In Axis Tunisian Corner

ARMED WITH KNIVES FOR CLOSE-QUARTER FIGHTING, EIGHTH ARMY SCALES ENEMY’S MOUNTAIN POS! TIONS.

MONTGOMERY’S UNITS 50 MILES SOUTH OF TUNIS   Anderson’s Forces Only 30 Miles West of Axis Citadel

Enfidaville Is Captured by Eighth Army   British Ist Army Troops Attacking Within 30 Miles of Tunis; RAF Attacks Berlin, Stettin and Rostock; Red Armies Beat Off 12 Attacks

Axis Troops In Fight  For Survival   Montgomery’s Men Capture Coastal Pivot of Enfidaville, Storm Mauntain Eort Five Miles Beyond

Enfidaville Passed by 8th Army   Swirling Snow Handicaps Use of Allied Air Force.

GAIN 2 MILES AFTER TAKING ENFIDAVILLE               Advance Made 10 Mile West of Rommel’s South: ern Anchor Point. ai Montgomery Presse Battle to Bloody Pitch

OPEN DRIVE T0 CRACK ROMMEL’S TUNISIAN CORNER   AIM NEW ASSAULT AT MOUNTAIN RIM HELD BY AXIS FORCES

British Encircle Tokrouna, Five Miles. Northwest of Enfidaville in Effort to Capture Dominating Heights on Roac

British Capture Enfidaville and Head Northwest   \lso Gain Two Miles it Inland Area in Severe Fighting   ‘1! Counter-Attacks Re pulsed, Official British Statement Says

Ground Action Linked With Air Attacks   New Drive Brings Some Of Fiercest Fighting Of War

SEIZE NAZIS’ COAST ANCHOR   Four Enemy ‘Counterattacks Beaten Off By Montgomery's Men      DESTROY 27 PLANES

British Roar On to Enfidaville   YANKS, TOMMIES SLASH TOWARD MOUNTAIN RIM HELD BY ROMMEL AS AXIS LOSES MORE SKY BATTLES; 27 ENEMY PLANES RUINED

Rommel’s Coastal Anchor Captured   Air Pounding Continues—RAF Loses 31 Planes in Raids on Berlin and German Ports — First Army Makes  Small Local Advance

ON OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   Newest Assaults Against Enemy Meshed With Fierce Air Blows.   /LAND FIGHTING IS HEAVY

British Eighth Army Captures Enfidaville, Anchor  Pont os  : _ RESISTANCE IS STRONG      Sleet and Snow Storms in Mountains Prevent Air Activity

ENEMY COUNTER DRIVES FAIL IN FIERCE BATTLE   Four Counter Attacks Beaten Off By Montgomery's Men, Who Capture Coastal Anchor 50 Miles South Of Tunis.

ALLIED TROOPS BEAT OFF AXIS COUNTER-BLOWS   Montgomery Hammers Foe Relentlessly As Last Tunisian Battle Nears

‘Crack Line of Enemy During Fierce Battle   Gen. Montgomery Attacks During Night; Hurls Back  German Counter Attacks

Six-Day Week Act Suspended   Women's 8-Hour Law Is  Also Relaxed

Italy’s 3rd Largest ‘City Taken   Germans Pull Out In Night; Port To Serve As Vital Allied Base

Clark’s First ~ Goal in Italy: Accomplished   Italy’s Second Port Now In Allied Hands—Will Help Immensely

Yankees Prepare To Push to North On Appian Way   Naples Is Biggest City and ~ Port on Mainland Won by the Allies,   Allies Joyride Last 12 Miles Into City

American Troops Stil  Waging the Battle of  : Attu Island. “ALLIES CONTINUE  : ATTU ADVANCE    ‘Enemy Advances 30 Miles in All Out Blow to  : Central China.

AMERICAN TROOPS STILL WAGING BATTLE OF ATTU, NO SIGN OF FINISH SEEN

BOMBER RAIDS ARE CONTINUED   Maintaining Two-Way Air Offensive Against Axis in Mediterranean— Attack Naples Again Monday Night. °

Naples Bombed AsAllies Step Up  Aerial Offensive   Daylight Raid Is Made on Italian Port; Air Activity Increases in Tunisia

Striking at Many Spots: Regularly.   THUNDERING OFFENSIVE Is PROCEEDING AGAINST ROBBER NATIONS.

U.S. BOMBERS. STRIKE AGAIN AT NAPLES   One of Chief Ports of Axis Supply Shipping

Allied Planes Attack Naples By Daylight   Flying Forts Blast Italians in Sahara Desert; Bases Hit

ALLIES RAID AXIS BASE AT NAPLES   Air Offensive Continues In Tunisia

ALLIES, STRIKE AT NAPLES; .MAINTAIN 2-WAY OFFENSIVE   Axis. Air Activity -Above Tripolitania Grows Steadily—French _ Active   u. 5. PLANES 'R. ‘RAID CASTEL BENITO

MARINES, MOVING THROUGH JUNGLE, TOOK VIRU HARBOR   Two Companies, Marching Overland, Prepared Way for Invasion.

Fall Of Axis Base Imminent As Nazis Flee Into Tunisia, Leave City Lightly Defended

Tripoli Capture Matter of Hours   Retreating Forces Pounded; Red Armies Close in on Five Key Cities

British Drive On Tripoli From Two Directions, Capturing Tarhuna, Homs in Immediate Environment of Tripoli

RETREATING  AXIS FORCES STRAFED   Enemy Columns Under Constant Aertal Attack

Germans Fleeing to Tunisia   Only Light Rear Guard Defense of Nazi Base Pre.  venting Capture

Axis Troops Hasten Retreat To Tunisia   Axis Retreat Stretches 100 Miles Along Road That Runs West From Tripoli To Tunisia Border: Reds Advance

RAIN OF DEATH LOUotO ON FOE FHUM BOMBERS   Retreating Afrika Korps Under Incessant Attack Of Allied Planes

Mandalay Rail Yards Hombed  Numerous Hits In   Numerous Hits In Target Area Made

U. S. Liberators Drop Big Bomb Load On Burma   Mandalay Target Of Yank Raiders

LaGuardia Says FDR Knows Ships  Normandie Raised To 15 Decree Ancle

At Least Three Ships of Enemy Convoy Also Sunk  NO CHANGE IN RUSSIA  Axis Is Reported Flying More Troops To North Africa

‘SAFE RETURN MADE BY ALL-U. S. SHIPS   Allied Tunisian Advance Continues;  Bombing Raid Heaviest of North African Campaign

LINE GUARDING ROME DENTED BY OTH ARM)   ITALIAN OFFENSIVE RAGES FIERCELY FOR 4TH DAY

JS. STH ARMY SMASHES INTO GERMAN LINE   Montgomery's Forces ‘Alsé Gain in Bitter Fighting

Fifth Army Continues Furious ‘Offensive Against Massed Nazis Guarding Road. to Rome

Clark's Force Stabs at Nazi Defenses   Biggest Offensive Since Salerno Now Is Under Way

U.S. 5th Strikes Deener Info German Lines  Restich Qt Aremv   British 8th Army ¢in New Gains on Adriatic

Fifth Lashing Toward Rome   Greatest Offensive Since -Salerno Pushes Nazis Back

Clark's Men Stab Forward In Italy   Yanks, British Unite In Biggest Fight Since Salern:

‘RADIO ALGIERS SAYS RETREAT IS UNDER WAY   _Large Air Fleets Smash At Enemy Strongholds On Fourth Day Of Bitter Fight

(lark's Troops Gain on Germans in Great Battle   Force Nazis Back On Road to Rome

INew Assault On Berlin  Costs British 41 Bombers  But German Capital Blasted Hard Again And Now Is Believed At Least Half in Ruins   FIFTH MAJOR RAID DROPS 1,500 TONS

rifth Army Strikes at \gis Guarding Road Tp Rome; British Gain six Miles Along Coast

DRIVE DESCRIBED AS BIGGEST SINCE SALERNO BATTLE   Clouds of Smoke Hang Over Front as Enemy Entrenchments Are Biasted From Air.   GENERAL UNDER FIRE AS HE DIRECTS PUSH   Montgomery’s Troops Gain Six Miles in Equally Bitter Fighting Along Adriatic Coast.

Big Horn Blaze Is Uncontrolled   Burns Over 700 More Acres of Forest

’ PROTEST (IS  FILED   Spanish Ambassador Objects to Government Sponsored Broadcast

British Ships Blast Italy   Night-Striking Ships Shell Italian Bases

British Cruisers Bomb Italian Yards In Bay of Naples  Attack Only 20 Miles From Naples, Carrie Oar With Pracician

U. S. DESTROYERS RESCUE 150 SEAMEN   Sailors Spent Week on JapuaneseOccupied Island After American Cruiser Was Sunk,

Nazi Army Exhibits Progressive Loss of Strength  - Danish Revolt Gives New Test to German Efficiency

DANISH REVOLT AGAINST NAZIS HITS NEW PEAK   Observers Think German Power Is Spread Too Thinly to Retain Solid Grip   Sabotage Continues

Danish Revolt Said Spreading   Nazis Fail to Open Ruthless Campaign

BANISH REVOLT IS UNCHECKED   DISORDERS SPREAD IN COUNTRY—MANY INJURED IN CLASHES WITH NAZIS,

Importance of . Air Power Seen In Africa Fight.  Aerial Blows Pave   Aerial Blows Paved Way For Ultimate: Victory on’ Ground:

INSURANCE FOR CROPS REFUSED AGAIN BY HOUSE   Rejection of Senate Amendment Sends Deficiency Appropriation Bill Back 7

House Stubborn Over Crop Plan   Refuses to Budge From Its Position

ee ee et eee ee  House Is Adamant   - «+ Insurance Program Again Voted Down

House Sends FCIC Abolition Measure Back fo Senate   Representatives Won't Budge From Stand Against Bill

HOUSE STANDS PAT  FOR ABOLITION OF  CROP INSURANCE SENATE BACKERS OF PL!  SOUGHT TO SLIP THROU GUIPPI EMENTAL FUND

House Returns  CIC Measure   House Refuses To Approve Extension Of Crop Insur-. ance Program.

House Sticks to Insurance Stand  Won't Budge on   Won't Budge on Abolition of Crop  Insurance Program

 Crop Insurance  Plan Under Fire  House Stands Firm For Abolition Of System

Refuse To Grant Crop   Insurance   [Lower House Rejects Senate’s Amendment To Deficiency Bill By 123 To 52 Vote

House Sticks to Insurance Stand   Won't Budge on Abolition of Crop Insurance Program

HOUSE REJECTS CROP INSURANCE   Senate Amendment To Keep FCIC Alive Defeated By Vote Of 128 To 52.

House Insists on No Crop Insurance   Senate’s Newest Proposal Rejected

HOUSE REJECTS A _ SENATE PROPOSAL   Congress F ails to Reach An Agreement on Crop  Insurance

HOUSE BALKS AT INSURANGE ON U. S. CROF   Has Senate “By the Neck” in Connection With Action on Deficiency Appropriation

CROPS TARGET   House Refuses to Budge in Its Stand Against Crop Program.   SENATE BACKS PROGRAM

HOUSE REJECTS A SENATE PROPOSAL   Congress Fails to Reach An Agreement on Crop Insurance     Rew Se BB aes =-— a, oa eee 2 [ee Seer 46Sieeees ee,

House won't swerve on  FCIC pian   Deficiency bill  may be tied up

HOUSE REJECTS CROP INSURANCE   REFUSE TO BUDGE FROM STAND AGAINST CONTINUANCE OF FCIC

House Stands Firm Against FCIC Plans   Catch-All Amendment Is Up for Consideration Todav

HOUSE STANDS PAT ON ABOLITION OF CROP INSURANCE   Makes Senate Proposition of Backing Down From Insis.tence on Program of Tieing : Up Deficiency Bill

PROHIBITION OF SUBSIDIES IS UNSETTLED   ‘Chances of Starting Mid.summer Recess By Night fall Fades as Lawmakers Wrangle   ABOUT-FACE ON ISSUE

De Marigny To Live In-Cuba   Says His Wife Will Follow im Wherever LU. are

Slaughterers and feeders to maintain “equitable distribution: of available supplies.’

VAN WERT WOMAN'S BROTHER SUCCUMBS   Rev. Howard E. Brown Dies at Bridgeport, N. J.

WAR LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS LEAP UPWARDS   First Reports Through Nation Show Big Response

NETS $27,700 IN SALES FIRST DAY   Optimistic - Reports Coming In From Over Nation

THE BANKHEAL BILL MEETING WITH TROUBLE   War Department and Some Senators Opposed to Deferment of Farmer.   AN EARLY SHOWDOWN   Total Mobilization for War Would Settle the Man- power Question.

LABOR DRAFTING SHOWDOWN DUE   Battle Over Manpower Is In Critical Stage

ALLIES PUSH FORWARD ON ITALIAN FRONT   Drive for Positions Favorable to Attack on German Lines

» ALLIED ARMIES SMASHED OUT * FURTHER GAINS   Expect Nazis to counter attack from new mountain lines

ALLIES IN ITALY TAKE STRATEGIC ASSAULT BASES   Smash Out Further Gain: ® in Center of Battle Front

Songs, Cheering Missing At Port Of Embarkation   America’s Fighting Men Go To War Grimly And Silently -—— Description Of Soldiers Going. Aboard Transport Viyid—Equipment Is Big Phase Of Loading

PATIENT KILLS FAMILY, SELF   Man Had Been Released From Cleveland State Hospital Last December

INSANE MAN . KILLS THREE   OLEVELANDER RELEASED  ’ FROM HOSPITAL LAST-DE- : °° CEMBER “STRANGLES. ~. ” FAMILY AND HANGS SELF

NDW METHOD.   qreatment for Broken Jaw Used : successtully in Navy.

CALLS CABINET   FDR Provides First Chance For Wallace, Jones To Meet.

Viallace And Jones  T's Attend   Vice President and Com merce Secretary Will  Meet Today

r ‘Two Newsmen  ‘Are Killed   Were Accredited To Red Cross In New Guinea

Two U.S. Newsmen Killed in Crash   Plane Fall in New Guinea Fatal to Correspondents

Examine Pinch In Newsprint   Newspapers Cut While OW! Sheet Expands .

Lt. Gov. Herbert To Be Candidate   Indicates He'll Be  In Governor Race

INDIANA HARD HiT BY FLOOD WATERS   Hundreds Driven From Homes; at Least Four Persons Brown

HEAVY FLOODS SWAMP INDIANA   Four Known Dead While Hundreds Are Driven  From Homes

GET 6. TONS OF CANS   Another Collection Will Be Made in the City on August 13

Nazi Battleship Scharnhorst Sunk by British   Fight Rages Several Hours in Arctic Waters Off Northern Norway; Reich Left With Two Major Craft

Scharnhorst, 26000 Ton Vessel, Sunk By British Fleet Units   Was Broucht To Bay Saturday Off Northern Coast And Engaged In Battle. Finished Off In Short Order.

Nazi Industry Reorganized  Albert Speer Is   Albert Speer Is Placed in Charge Of All Production

Purple Heart To Remsen Soldier   Melvin Gramke Wins Award For Wounds Received in Action On African Front

Purple Heart To Remsen Soldier   Melvin Gramke Wins Award For Wounds Received in Action On Africun Front   Six Out Of Nine Children In — Service; One On Battle Front

PLANES UNABLE TO REACH SHIP “AFTER MISSION   Flight Of 800 Miles Required For Bombers To Reach Tokyo.

STATE BUDGET BILLUP FOR FINAL ACTION   State Liquor Bill Practically Rewritten

STATE BUDGET BILL AWAITING HOUSE ACTION   Assembly Adjournment By Saturday Or Sunday Is Sought by Leaders In House. Senate        111 BILLS PASSED   Budget Must Be Appraved  Today, Or Session Will  - Continue Until Next Monday, April 5

Air Power important Factor in Allied Fronts of Russia, Western Europe —

SETS RATIO IN SOUTH PACIFIC BATTLE 6 TO    Commarder U. 5. Heavy Bomberdment Force Says Quality Of Enemy Planes, Pilots  > Caine Dowt

Six Jap Planes Downed in South Pacific to One Allied Loss, Says General; Nip Losses Set at 800

NEW AIR GENERAL PROMISES TO SLAP JAPS IN PACIFIC   Saunders Says V Way To Lick The Japs Is To Knock Them Out Of Their . Home Land

PACIFIC WAR HERO PROMISES TO BOMB BASES IN SECTORS   Brig. Gen. Lavernne G. “Blondy” Saunders, Makes Plans, Hopes to Land in Tokyo.

SHUTDOWN IS THREATENED NEWTON AVERS   Former C. & O. Railway President, Now Coal Administrator, Talks

Compensation Coverage Ruled Upon by Court   Arkansas Law ‘Does Not Call for General Accident Insurance’

Pork Production Takes Big Drop   Curtailment Results From Small Shipments

Thousands of Coal Men Return to Work—tfor Government—Day in Advance of 15-Day Truce

Higher . Mine Wage Appears In the Making  Lewis and Ickes Believed To Have Devised Fornyla

OPERATIONS START UNDER STRIKE TRUCE   UMW Gradually Resume Jobs In Pits Now In Hands of U. S. Government.

HIGHER WEEKLY WAGES FOR MINERS BELIEVED ASSURED IN NEW UNDERSTANDING   John L. Lewis Calls 15-Day Truce After Contab with Ickes

WHITE HOUSE HAS NO WORD OF TRUCE FROM UMW CHIEF   Bituminous Miners In Many Areas Respond To President’s Plea Instead Of Waiting Until Tuesday, Time Fixed By John L. Lewis

Ickes, Lewis Have Reached Preliminary, Understanding; Other Concessions to Be Granted Under Tentative Plan

Believe coal chief to win  higher wage   Many workers not reporting until Tuesday

Government and Union Heads Reach Temporary Agreement, 15-Day Truce Is Ordered   War Labor Board Is By-passed for the Present —— Expect All Men to Be Working by Tuesday Morning.

Preliminary Pact Said Achieved — By Lewis, Ickes   UMW Chief Announces. 13-Day Truce, Many Coal Mines Reopened

Resumption.of Coal Mining. Starts Today.   -15:Day-Strike Truce Declared; © ‘Negotiate Again

SEE SOLUTION OF WAGE DEMAND DURING TRUCE   Thousands of Miners Back A Work As Government Takes Over

Fighting French Still Are Split  Leaders Duel For Power Is Resumed

French Chiefs Again Duel For Army Power   DeGdullists Term Terri. torial. Recruiting Order ‘Freeze Out Measure’   GIRAUD IS IN SADDLE   Feud Resumes After Compromise Settlement Was Announced Yesterday:

Giraud and DeGaulle Army Recruiting Feud Looms Again   ‘Duel for Power Expected To: Be Resumed After  Agreement: Each To Lead. Separate Factions.

Giraud, de Gaulle  To Resume Duel  Factions Begin Army Recruiting Drive

FRENCH DIVIDED IN ALLEGIANGE   De Gaulle And Giraud Continue Duel For Power In New Setup 

BOY BURGLARS ARE SENTENCED   Young Hoodiums Must Serve Time At Ris.

SENTENCE 7 FOR $28,000 THEFT   Cleveland Youths To Serve Terms at Lancaster Industrial School

Seven Boys Go To BIS For $24,000 Burglary; Only $7,500 Of It Left

LODGE URGES UNIFIED FORCE   Senator Finds Officers Favor Combining All Service Branches

SINGLE COMMAND GAINS IN FAVOR   LODGE SAYS OFFICERS LEAN TOWARD ARMY AND NAVY UNDER UNIFIED HEAD,

Lodge Attacks U.S. Picturing Allies Perfect   He Reports Sentimen  For Single War nh...

SOLON REPORTS ON UNITY TREND   Senator Lodge Gives Points Giean2d on Trip to Front

iitary field. \palers Prefer Sigle Command  4, Lodge Claim at Favoring

Senators Report Army, Navy Favo United Command   Single Department Of War Suggested

Wealthy Widow, 58 And Dog Found Beaten To Death in Home   Army, Navy Field Officers’ Favor Single Command, Lodge Reports

Commanders Said To Favor Single Head   Want Army and Navy Under One Department Senator Lodge Says   REPORTS ON RESULTS OF TOUR OF FRONTS  Contends Algerians _ Have More U. S. Gas Than Eastern States

Senator Lodge Says Officers in Field Show Sentiment for Uniting American Services Under One Head

Fighting Forces Said Leaning To Single Command   Lodge Outlines His Views On War Ills After Global Taney

AMERICAN OIL CONSERVATION URGED BY LODE!   Senator Says North Africans Have More Gas Than  Eastern Motorists   t = ,UNIFIED COMMAND IS ‘FAVORED BY OFFICERS

Druggists Identify Blonde _ As Buyer Of Poison; State Demanding Death Penalty   ‘Attractive Widow On Trial For Life In Mysterious Death Of District Pipeline Worker

State Closes Testimony  In Holt Trial   WITNESSES ASSERT MRS. HOLT BOUGHT POISON TO KILL RATS SHORTLY BEFORE HUSBAND'S DEATH.   Poison In Kitchen

ATTACK IS REPULSED   Japanese =% to Pog Bee Construction 4 of Supply

Japs Hack At New Line Into India   Chinese Win Clash With Enemy Patrols Near Route

BLASTS ROCK CALAIS AREA   Heavy Air Assault on Hitler’s Western Bases Pressed by Allies

RAF IN RAID OVERN.FRANCE LOSE 4 PLANES      Thunder Of Distant Explosicns From Well Inland Of Calais Heard From  Across Channel.   Enemy's Loss 2 Planes

Roar of Bombs Hints New Raids on Nazis   Daylight Explosions On Continent Jar  Houses in Britain

Allies Attack Objectives in Inland France   Powerful Explosions Heard Over Channel: Offensive Resumed  After Overnight Lull

AIR ATTACKS ARE BEING CONTINUED   Heavy Thunder of Distent Explosions Heard in England

Bombers Again Raiding Europe  Wee: BEE es Bialinesnc) Gee   New Blows Believed Set For Reieh. Ttaly

Allied Bombers Continue Air Blasts at Nazis   Distant Explosions And Gunfire Heard At Channel Points

Allies Blast Foe Again In Big Raids   French, Greek, Other Patriots Continue Bitter Guerrilla War

PROCLAMATION   DESIGNATING FEBRUARY 28 THROUGH MARCH 7  AC TTDWAC eww

Plane Crash: Fatal To Two. War Reporters   Two Other Writers ° injured In Covering ‘Gloucester Landings

REICH RAILWAY YARDS ORUBBED   Heavy Night — Assault Made On Munich By RAF Bombers

Bombers Batter FieldsinFrance   St. Omer, St. Pol, Poix. Abboville Pounded

OCCUPIED FRANCE, BELGIUM BOMBED   SUSTAINED AERIAL ATTACK CONTINUED BY ALLIES FOR SIXTH STRAIGHT DAY,

U. S. Bombers Hit Airports and Railways   Attacks Follow Heavy R.A.F. Raid on Munich

Americans Bom France, Belgium   Follow Up Big R. A. F Raid Upon Munich

POLICE TRACING WOMAN SUSPECT IN KIDNAP CASE      Nursing Supplies Bought At Portland Drug Ste: .

CLUES SOUGHT IN KIDNAPPING D-DAY-OLD-G!8!   Seek Trace of Woman Who Bought Infant’s Supplies

ICKES IN CHICAGO FOR GAS MEET   OREGON POLICE- SEEK KIDNAPED TOT

FAINT CLUE IN OREGON KIDNAP CASE   May Lead to Abductor of . 2-Day Old Child

Miss Ella Kigin. in Wins Perfect Cirele Essay ! Contest. ‘Describing. Work at Local. Plant

Miss Ella Kigin Wins Perfect Circle Essay - Contest Describing Work at Local Plant

CONGRESS PUTS STRONG EMPHASIS ONPOWERTO TALK   Problems Continue To Pile Up While Solons Mark Time   BUT DEADLINE FOR TAX RETURNS HERE

House Factions Fight On Taxes   G. O. P. MEMBERS WILI BACK RUML PLAN TQ LIMIT

Congress. to Set Course of  World Affairs   Republicans Hold Conference to Map Strategy to Push Pavy-as-You-Go

TAXES, POSTWAR PROBLEMS ARE CAPITAL TOPICS   Congress Still Arguing over Ruml Pay-as-you-go Plan

Lines Form Over Ruml  ‘Tax Program   GOP To Fight To Last. Ditch for Skip-a-Year Plan

Tax Deadline Is Tonight Midnight   GOP, Demos Clash On Tax Plans

Party Lines Followedin Pay-Go Battle   G.O.P. Caucus Called te Mobilize for Drive to Adopt Rum! Plan

Taxes And Post-War Problems Chief Capitol Issues As Millions File Income Tax Returns

Congress Is Still Arguing the Ruml Plan   Consider Renewal of Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act;  ' Bole of US in International Affairs Claims Attention

Tax Problem Being Studied By GOP Group   House Members Call for a Closed Conference To Map Plans for Presenting Rum! Plan.

Tax Battle ls Academic   Tonight’s Deadline For Mailing Returns Is Immediate Worry

TAXES MIXED WITH PEACE IN CAPITAL   Income Payers Rush In‘ Amidst Discussion of New Plan for July 1.   AFTER-WAR DEBATE DUE IN CONGRESS   Members Not Ready to Accept Ready - Made Plans, Considers Own.

RUSH TO.MEET TAX DEADLINE   Next Year’s Levies and PosiWar Problems Occupy Attention of Congress.

In Washington Today:  Taxes and Post-War Problems In Forefront As U. S. Files Returns

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS BATTLE OVER SKIPPING AN INCOME TAX YEAR TO GET ON PAY-AS-YOU-GO BASIS   Battle Doesn’t Affect Hundreds of Thousands. of Taxpayers Rushing to Try to Beat Deadline . For Returns Not Affected. Repubs Confident of Victory On Pay-As-Y ou-Go-Plan

SKIP-A-YEAR TAX BATTLE LOOMS   G 0 P House Members Cal Closed Conference on * Rum! Plan

Taxes, Post: War Problems Now Before Congress  Eden's Presence Stimulates Thinking

W ith Democrats  Over Tax Plan   ‘Par ley Called To Mobilize ) GOP Strength Behind  Ruml’s Skip~A- Year

St. Louis Fire Chief Killed   Dies In Collapse As He Warus His Men

PETAIN MAKES PLE 4 TO FRENCH PEOPL ;   Appeals For Support For His Collaboration With Germany

Adiniral Galls - For Separation Of Nazi States   Lord Keyes Hopes fo End to “Frightful Prussian Menace”

BROTHER OF JOHN BURKE 1S KILLED   Patrick Burke, 40, Dies From Injuries In Runawav Team

Oakes’ Guest Sticks to Story In Nassau Trial   Tells of Finding Body Of Wealthy Bahaman: When Ge Visits Bedroon

Guest of Slain Man Sticks to Original Story  Christie Testifies to Staying All Night

ENEMY HURLED BACK IN BURMA   British Stop Nipponese American Bombers Blast Bridge

British Repel Jap Attacks in Burma War Area   RAF Bombers Blast Enemy Rail Lines with Great Success

ALLIES POUND JAPSINBURMA   Vital Railhead Bombed While British Stop Flank Attack

BRITISH REPEL JAP DRIVE IN BURMABATILE   Viaduct On Railroad Between Mandalay And Lashio Principal Target For American Medium Bombers.   Jans Reinforced

DUNN RESIGNS LIQUOR POST   Kelly Seeks Experienced Business Man to Head Commission

CAME HERE IN 1863   Mrs. Sarah Harriett LeSuer Died Saturday Night at Her Home

Harriman Chosen Envoy to Russia  Senate Confirmation Declared Likely

Harriman Chosen Envoy to Russia  Gansta Cantiematnar   Senate Confirmation Declared Likely

Harriman Namec To Moscow Job   Railroad Financier Chosen as Envoy

Chas. Mclnfosh Held In Gotham On Check Charge   Wife Of A Prominent Chicagoan With Him In Hotel

EX-ST. JOE MAN NABBED BY FBI   McIntosh Apprehended In New York With Chi cago Socialite

Ordnance Officer Says U. S. Tanks Best Equipment In World To Fight Desert Fires

FRANK REPORT ON WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED   industrial, Labor and News: paper Executive Told Axis Powers Stronger Than at War's Start   EMPLOYMENT IS RISING

Assert Axis War Might Is  Greatest Now   Army Says End Not In Sicht

Despite Setbacks Military Chiefs Say Might of Jans. Nazis Greater Than At Start Of War

“Back the Attack” Axis Powers Held Stronger Than At Start of Conflic

Nazi U-Boat Pack Loser In Battle With Convoy, Allied Governments Say

Women’sArm . 2.  Unit Joins  Africa Forces  First Contingent Reports on Eisenhower Staff

WOMEN SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN AFRIC!   FIRST DETACHMENT OF WAACS TO GO OVERSEAS REPRESENTS 39 STATES.

East Gas Coupor Values Changed   . West, Pacific Coast Areas Not Affected

Value Of Gasoline Coupons Slashed; East Given Raise   "pil ‘BY And ‘C’ Coupons Are Reduced To Two Gallons In Area Eost Of The Rockies; tekes Says Treat All Citizens Same Way

Values of Gas Coupons Are — Changed by OPA  ' Action Affects Area   Action: Affscts Area East of Rocky Mountain States

Values of Gas Coupons Are Changed by OPA  _ Action Affects Area East of Rocky Mountain States

B’ And ‘C’ Gas oupons Now  orth 2 Gallons  ‘A’ Coupons Are Still At Old Value

Valley Girl's Engagement Told   Lola Hibbard Will Wed P.F.C. Robert Sebring

Valley Girl’s Engagement Told  Tala Withhard Will wid   Lola Hibbard Will Wed P.F.C. Robert Sebring

Critical of Demands Made on Him Ickes Makes No Commitment On Suggesting Oil Price Hike

Best Japanese Pilots Lost, Is  Kenney’s View   Japan Is Using Second TeamWhile American's First Team Is Just Getting Into Line

Desperate Situation On Russian Front Believed To Have Necessitated Emergency Measures

Reds Keep Up Advance   Krovoi Rog Encircled; Squeeze Mighty Dnieper Pincers

Reports Hint Nazi Collapse In Two Week:   Events Shaping Up Now In Munich, Reliable Sources Assert

CHANGES IN GERMANY   Far-Reaching Changes in Reich Imminent, Says Correspondent

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newaparer   WASHINGTON Ry Rav Tneler

Soviet Troops In Big Bend Of River, Are On Verge Of Scoring Another Great Victory.

Germans Momentarily Are Badly Disorganized in This Area.  FLEE IN DISORDER ON 90 MILE FRONT  The Red Army Has Invested Krivoi Rog From Three Sides.

Gestap 0 Heads For Germany  leah Tro nws   Italian Troops ~ Mutiny, Say Yugoslavs

PEOPLE GIVEN LAST CHANCE TO BACK OUT   FASCISM REJECTED} HITLER FORCED ’  ¥  INTO DEFENSE >

Report Says Italy Seeks Armistice   Italian Civilians Continue Demonstration Despite Badoglio Ban Against Gatherings

“Peace Feelers’ Regarding Italy Reported In Air   Bern hears Premier Badoglio and his aides are believed  to have: contacted. Allies. -

No Confirmation Given Swiss Report; Unconditional Surrender Demanded   FASCISM RENOUNCED BY ITALIAN PEOPLE

Radio States Populace Ousts Fascism   Badoglio Is Reported Conferring With Allies on Peace

Fascism Rejected by Populace, Rome Radio Tells Wor Id; ¥atican Seen Behind Overtures

Rome Radio Says Italians Have Rejected Fascism   RUMORS CONTINUE OF TRUCE EFFORTG   Italy's Foreign Minister Confers With Turkish Official

Hitler Tries to Hold Axis Partner in Line By Sending in Troops   Germans Resist Allied Advance in Northeast Sicily ; Air Power Smashes 21 Transport Planes Over Messina: Reds Within Few Miles of Orel

ITALIANS ARE SAID 10 HAVE MET ENVOYS   Dispatch to Bern States It Is “Generally Believed” Discussions Are Under Way in Rome.   NO CONFIRMATION FROM THE ALLIES   Story Declares Badoglio and Aides Established Contact With U.. S.British Representatives.

Talk of Peace Move Grow as News Filters in   74 Anti Fascist Prisoners Released; 9 Fascists Slain

Peace Parley Said Started   Badoglio-Allied Contact Is ~ Said Made Throuch Vatican

Bern Reports Armistice Discussions   But Allies Maintain Stand Any Surrender Must Be Unconditional  FASCISTS PARTY OUT

Roosevelt, Churchill Indicate No Lessening of Demands; Report Badoclio in Conferences

Defense Demands Put up to Hitler   — ee  Churchill, Roosevelt Reaffirm Unconditional Capitulation Terms; Foreign Minister  Confers With Turkish Official

Peace talk ‘persists as Vatican believed to be intermediary   Italian foreign minister confers at sea with Turkish minister

Stalin Meeting Thought Near   Hull Confers With Roosevelt On Return From Moscow Three-Nation Conference.

CONFERENCE NEARING   Events In Washington Indicate FDR, Churchill, Stalin Seen To Meet

TWO POLICIES — ARE FORECAST   BURPORTEE OF PLAN EOR IDENem TICAL FOREIGN POLICY \PLANKS- ADMITS HIS DEFEAT :-..;

FLOOD WATERS THREATEN OHIO COMMUNITIES   Portsmouth In Danger; Families  Moved To Safety

Ohio, Leaving 30,000 Homeless. Sweeps Alone   Army Engineers Join Fight Against Flood, Which Has Already Done Milians in Damace

Dhio River Out of Sanks 780 Miles   Army Engineers Pile Sandbags Along Fload Wall At Portsinouth

Army Rushes Aid to Areas Hit by Floods   Unseasonable High Water in Oregon Takes Six Lives; Damage {s High

Ohio River Is Out of Banks For 760 Miles   30,000 Driven from Their Homes: Damage May Reach $3.500.000

FLOOD THREATENS PORTSMOUTH, OK   City Bolsters 62-Foot Wall Waters Out of Banks Cause ‘Great Damage

Ohio River Flood Crest Rolls Toward Portsmouth   3 Die In Collision   Water 7 Feet Deep

Ohio River Flood Reaches  Portsmouth   40,000 to 50,000 Persons Driven From Homes; Loss  May Reach $3,500,000

Ohio Out of Banks for 760 Miles: 30,000 Homeless, With Damage Topping $3,500,000 Today.

PORTSMOUTH, 0. GETTING FORCE FLOOD WATERS   Ohio River Hurling - Its Full Fury Against Industrial City of 40,000  Inhabitants   HOMES EVACUATED   Damage May Reach $3,500,000; Army Engineers Sand-Bagging Sea Wall Against Current

FLOOD TOLL HIGH   Ohio River Continues to Rise; Many Driyen From Their. Homes

Portsmouth, Ohio, Gets Brunt Of Flood; Water Ebbs In Pennsylvania

Upstream Drops   Three Dead, Four Hur In Train Wreck On New Phile. Detaus

OHIO RVER GOES ON RAMPAGE: THOUSANDS ROUTED FROM HOMES   Army Engineers Help Hold Flood Waters Back At Portsmouth, 0.   WAR WORKERS MAROONED

30,000 Homeless in Upper Ohio Valley as Water Recedes   River Hurls Its Flood Ohio Today

40,000 Forced To Flee Homes   Ohio River, Out of Banks for 760 Miles, Causes Huge Damage.

FLOOD WATERS HIT PORTSMOUTH   Thousands. Driven From Homes Upstream; Damage May Reach $3,500,000

Ohio River Hurls Full Flood Fury rismiou   Report 30,000 Persons Forced To Flee Homes; Damage Over 3-Million

CREST OF OHIO RIVER FLOOD IS NEAR PORTSMOUTH   30,000 Made Homeless. River Out of Banks For 760 Miles

EASTERN FLOOD  CREST MOVING  DOWN THE OHIO RIVER RUNNING OUT  OF ITS BANKS FOR 760 MILES

Flood Drives 30,000 From  Their Homes   Ohio River Runs Out of Banks for 760 Miles; Damage Will Probably Reach $3,500,000; Crest at Point Pleasant

00,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD AREAS   Damage In Rampage Of Ohio River May Reach $3,500,000   PLANTS ARE HIT   Crest Of 61 Feet Is Expeeted At Portsmouth Late Today

Expected «to Go 11 Feet ‘Over Flood: Stage. at at Portsmouth, O. .  30,000: PERSONS  z

Portsmouth, O., Braces Against Full Impact Of Rising Flood With Crest Expected Tonight

30,000 People > Made Homeless   Ohio River Hurls Full Flood Fury at Industrial City of Portsmouth After Causing $3,500,000 Damage in Towns and Cities Upstream.   ARMY ENGINEERS HELP

Rampaging Ohio River ~ Surges at Portsmouth; Flood Drops Upstream   Southern Ohio Cities and Towns Cross Fingers and Hope Precautions Are Adequate—Farmers in Valley Suffer Big Losses and Industries Slowed—Roads Blocked

Portsmouth Awaits High Water; New Flood On   Ohio River Still  Running Rampant; Oregon Is Scene Of Parifie Coast Flood

Expect Crest Sunday   Thousands Are Evacuated From Lowlands Along Ohio River

ARMY ENGINEERS HELP TO BOLSTER HIGH WATER WAL   Damage Estimates Approximate $3,500,000; River Tops Banks fer Distance of 760 Miles.

Flood Dane May Reach $3 500.000.   Rerouted Trains” _ Collide, Three Men * Kilfed, Four ‘Hurt

1008 Homeless in Pi. Pleasant 10,000 at Wheeling—Porlsmouth Q., Prepares for Cresi

SEVENTH TAKES GARONA; PUSI GERMANS BACK   Americans Advance Six Miles and British Fight Way  Toward Catania.   AMERICAN CRUISERS _ SHELL COASTAL ROAD

ALLIED OFFENSE MOUNTS IN FURY ALL OVER SICILY   Battle for Possessicn of the Mediterranean Island Nears Decisicn.

Axis Under Fuil Allied Pressure as Offensive To Clear Sicily Begins

U.S. Warships * Join In Attack Against Sicily   Bombard Enemy’s Escape Route As Yanks Make New Advances   NAZIS ARE BEING DNRIVEN FIRTHEFR RACK

SEVENTH ARMY PUSHES NAZIS BACK IN SICILY   Americans Seize Caronia In Six-Mile Advance Along Northern Coast   ESCAPE ROUTE BLASTED   British Eighth Army Nearing Climax In Battle For Control Of Catania

Foe Suffers Setbacks Over Pacific   Allied Bombers Get Near Miss On Ship, Strafe Bases

NEAR MISS SCORED . ON JAPANESE SHIP   Liberator Bombers Down Two Fighters in New Britain

McNair Lauds U §. Artillery   Most Advanced in World, Fighting General Declares

Spain Apologizes For Valencia Raid  Falangist Offenders Will Face Triol

Spain Apologizes For Outburst   Spanish Foreign Ministry and Falange Party Apologize for Recent Incident At U. S. Consulate.

Argentine Cabinet Survives Crisis  Over U.S. Help   Army, Navy Leaders Still  Back Ramirez

DOOLITTLE IS = EMPHATIC JAP DEFEAT LOOMS   Waring Sees Long War Before Axis is Defeated

GOVERNOR MAY GALL MEETING   Special Session Of Solons On School Funds Looms

WLB To Consider Portal-to-Portal Pay Issue Today   May Modify $1.30 a Day Agreement or Appeal to Courts

Coal Issue Due For Early Ruling   WLB to Decide on Portal Pay This Week

PLEDGES MORE AID TO CHINA   Mme. Chiang’s Visit Puts Capitol In Mood To Strike Now At Japan.

F.D.R. PROMISES TO STEP UP. AID FOR:. _ PEOPLE OF CHINE   President Makes Declaration With Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at  His Side.

FDR Promises U. S. Aid To China Will Be Increased As Soon As Possible

More Aid For _ China Pledged   To Step Up Shipments As Soon As Lord Will Let Us, FDR Says In Joint Press Session With Mme. Chiang

Roosevelt Promises Madame Chiang U.S. fo Step Up-Supplies to China "Just as Soon as Lord Will Let Us’

MOUNTING AID IS PLEDGED TO CHINES   ladame Chiang Expresses Full Confidence In President Roosevelt.

Mme. Chiang Receives Press With Roosevelts   Gites Confidence in U. 5. Effort;  More Munitions Scen as First Need

China's Need for More Munitions Stressed by Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek

MORE U. o. HELP PLEDGED CHINESE   President Says Aid Coming for Weary Jap Foe.

FDR Promises to Step up American Aid to Chinese   Increase Promised Madame Chiang

JAIL THREE AS: DRUG PEDDLERS   Two Women, Man Nabbed In Benton Harbor; Hunt Others

Police: Hold 3. In Dope Expose   Two Women And A Man Arrested Here

Admits She Acted As Spy  For Germany   Espionage In Woman’s Home

WALLACE WARNS OF WAR NO.°3   Close Understanding With Russia Claimed Vital to Peace

Vice-President Cites Seeds of Another War  Allies Warned of Turning Against Russia

Only Full Understanding With Russia Can Prevent World War III --- Wallace   Democracy Is Final Hope Of All Civilization, Audience Told   Seeds For Future Peace Or War Will Be Sown This Year Or Next, He Asserts

Sees 3d War If Reds Betrayed   Wallace Warns Double-Cross of Soviet or Russian Attempts at Revulution Will Brine New Conflict

WALLACE GIVES WAYS TC AVOID ‘WORLD WAR 3   Allies, Russia Must Have Close Understanding, He Declares

ALLIES PRESS SQUEEZE’ ON AXIS FORCES   Troops Close In On Foe In Tunisia Campaign

Senate Votes 39-37 Against Subsidy Plan   Action Is Second Defeat for F. D. R. In Past 24 Hours

-On-Food Prices. Killed In Senate   FDR Dealt: Second. Blow In Period Of Two Days; Follows . House: “Action

SENATE VOTES TO BAN SUBSIDY PAYMENTS   By Government In Efort ‘To Roll Back Retail Food Prices

FOR SUFFERS SECOND BLOW IN TWO DAYS   ' Upper House Rejects Price Roll-Back at Expense Of Taxpayers.   PROTECTS FARMERS   Prohibits Forcing : Cuts Upon Agriculture; Votes on Two Proposals.

FDR Suffers dnd Setback In Two Days   Senate Turns Down Subsidies . By 2-Vote Margin

FLAMES LEVEL OLD LANDMARK   Hamilton Homestead Near House of David Burns  To Ground

GOP LEADERS. MEET MONDAY   Spangler, Others Confident Of Shaping Party Foreign Policy Declaration

HOPEFUL GOP HEADS GATHER AT MACKINAC   HARMONY EXPECTED ON ALL MAJOR POLICIES

GOP Leaders At Mackinac Island  or Conference  Spangler Hopeful Vanguard May Chart Way for ‘44

No Disagreement On Policies Seen By GOP Chairman   Spangler Confident of Merging ‘All Views Into One Plank

Russ Reported Massing for Spring Attack   Nazis Stopped at Donets; Soviets Moving on Smolensk

REDS HOLD FIRM IN SPITE OF WEEK OF BITTER BLOWS   Piles of Corpses Littering Right Bank of River Only Achievement of Foe, Says Red Star.

OFFENSIVE FRUSTRATED   Russian Positions Are  Everywhere Intact _ On Broad Arc East _ of Kharkov.

Sweeping Offensive From Leningrad To Caucasus In the Making, London Foars; Reds Push Closer To Smolensk

“ON DONETS LINE. FAILS   Enemy Fails To Cross River: Reds Hold All Positions

SOVIET LINES STILL UNBROKEN   Keds Hold Donets Defenses, Drive Germans From Smolensk Belt

German drive fails to carry across Donets, Russ report   Soviet positions intact on broad arc east of Kharkov; sap nazi strength

NAZI DONETS DRIVE FAILS   RUSSIAN LINES INTACT AFTER WEEK OF ATTACKS

Germans Fail To Cross River: Reds Hold Firm   Russians Deal Hard Blows at Defenses Before Smolensk

RED LINES UNBROKEN ON DONETS   Nazis Reduce Scale of Attacks tn South Russia

RED ARMY HOLDS UP ADVANCES   Positions Are Intact Every _ where on a Broad Are   Eost of Kharkoy, Moscow Savs.

German Donets Offensive Fails   Axis Legions Flop in Drive To Go Across Key River

STILL NOT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT: DEWEY ~~  a F°R2a 4&4 aes 7) at aw rs. ,

Party Heads See National Trend   VOTING HEAVIER THAN EXPECTED; REPUBLICANS GRAB MAJORITY OF STATE GOVERNOR POSTS; HANLEY, EDGE VICTORS IN NEW YORK, JERSEY

Dewey Denies 44 Candidacy   Declares Success Of Republican Aspirants Leaves Decision Unchanged.

STATE WIDE AIR ALERT TODAY TO TRY OUT CORPS   Black-Out In All Of Illinois As Part Of Sixth Corps Area Will Take Place As Practice For De. fense Groups,

, Leaving War's Worst Scenes — ~ of Desolation   "Civilians as Well as. Their ‘Homes and.Cattle Are Being Wipéed Out :   @THREE. TOWNS LEFT HORRIBLY SCARRED   Well-Organized. Withdrawal Under Way to New Mountain Line Nearer Rome

Partisans Smash Efforts of Nazis to Lan ; Troops on Dalmatian Coast—Ea  England Bombing_ Kills 4—Jap  from Provisiénal India.

3 Italian Towns: Fall Under Fury Of Heavy Assault   Intense Battle Rages In Melitopol As Enemy Lines ~

Germans Scorch Earth in Retreating Northward in ltaly   Towns Sacked, Food Stolen and Civilians Executed by Nazis

More Towns Fall to Allies   Bombers Range Far Up Adriatic Coast? To Blast Rail Line.

Three Towns Destroyed By Nazis   Slay Civilians, Wipe Out Buildings —Eighth ‘Army Pushes Ahead

Towns; Move   British Eighth Army « Captures Petacciato on Adriatic in Five-Mile Drive

Fifth Army Forces Enemy Into Scorched Farth Retreal; Civilians, CatleAnd ‘Homes Wined Out By Retreatina Germans

Nazis on Run Before Yanks on Volturno   Beating Scorched Earth Retreat to the Mountain Fastnesses of Venafro

Nazi ‘Scorched Earth’ Retreat Continues; Russians Nearing Rumania

AMERICAN FIFTH  ARMY FORCED NAZI  TROOPS NORTHWARD BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY  ADVANCES ALONG ADRIATIC COAST AREA

Lay Waste To Towns In Flight   Scorched Earth Plan Followed in Italy; Russians Imperil Whole Nazi Line

HITLER'S HORDE IN RUSSIA NOW FACES DISASTER   Nazis in Desperate Position On Two Major Fronts as Bloody Battles Rage

Nazis Retreat To Within 83  Miles of Rome   Eighth Army Makes 5-Mile Advance; Hundreds of Thousands of Nazi Troops Are Threatened by Russian Break-Through

" oer iy CAPTURED   British. Eighth Army Pushes Right Wing of Nazi Line Five Miles Farther to Occupy Petacciato on The Adriatic “

Germans May Withdraw to 1941 Lines   Being Forced Back to Line in Old Poland   NAZI CASTATROPHE 1S NOW INEVITABLE   500,000 to a Million Ger  mans Believed Doomed

SOVIETS FORCING NAZIS BACK 10 STARTING POINT OF RED CAMPAIGN   Military Observers Ir ‘London Say Fast Breaking Russian Ad. vance Will Force With  drawal.

Carlson Decries Rum! Criticism   Says Plan Means No Loss of Assets

FOES OF "PAY-G0" BILL ARE ACCUSED OF DEMAGOGUERY   Treasury Anology on Lost Assets Wholly Fdlse, Author of Skip-Year Propo gal Charges.

io Real Facts In Opposition Says Carlson   Claims Demogoguery In Attacks On Skip-A-Year Bill   Only Two Ways To Get Taxes On Current Basis   Speaker Doesn't Believe Taxpayer Can Pay Double

RUML TAX PLAN FOES CRITICIZED      Opposition Has No Facts On Which to Stand,  Says Kansan

Ruml Tax Plan Critics Seored  In The House   Author Of Skip-Year Measure Defends Bill In Heated Debate ~

IRUML BACKERS: SMEARED, SAYS GOF   Hoase Members Deman Proof of Accusation They Promised Support Funds

Ruml Plan Advantages Told House   Bill Sponsor Hits Foes’ ‘Demegoguery’ More Revenue Seen

ARGUMENT AGAINS1 RUML TAX PLAN IS NONSENSE   Rep. Carlson, (R-Kas.) Says Putting Tax Clock Ahead Year Won’t Cost  Government Anvthing

Flays Critics of Skip-a-Year Tax   Carlson Claims It Would Hike Revenue

REPUBLICAN SAYS DEMOS LACK REAL FACTS ON TAXING   Claims Government Will Not be Loser If Year's Income * Payments Skinned ‘

More money in Ruml plan says Carlson   Kansas solon defends program

Tax Proposal Is Defended by Author in House   Opponents Resort * To Demagoguery Declares Carlson

CARLSON SAYS RUML PLAN IS NOT FORGIVING   Author of Skip-Year Tax Bill Asserts Congress Has Authority to Raise or Lower Levies as It Sees Fit.

Tax Losses Not Involved, Says Carlson   Rumi Proponent Charges ‘Demogoguery’ by SkipYear Foes

PURE DEMAGOGUERY ‘CHARGED OPPONENTS ‘SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN   MERE NONSENSE, AUTHOR OF BILL SAYS, THAT GOVERNMENT TO LOSE

Claims Pay-Go Profits   - +» » Carlson Denies Loss By Skipping A Year

CARLSON HITS OPPOSITION 10 RUML TAX PLAN   Sees No Grounds for Declarations of Opponents

Rum Victory Assured,  GOP Claims   Jans Shortcut Sirategy to Pass Measure

GOP Predicts  Victory on Tax   House Republicans Say Senaté Bill tn Pace

HOUSE ADOPTION OF RUML TAX PLAN PREDICTED BY GOP   Republicans Claim Sufficient Strength to Send SenateApproved Bill to White House.   “NO WAY TO STOP IT,” REP. CARLSON SAYS   Showdown Expected to Come Tuesday—Hopes of Veto Held by Several Democratic Foes,

HOUSE 6. 0. P. ROUTES RUML PLAN TOF. 0.8   Foes of Skip-a-Year Taxes Pin Hopes On Veto

GOP Looks For Swift Passage Of Rumi Plan; Democrats Ready For Compromise Tax Fight

Rum! Advocates Are Confident Of Quick Victory   House Concurrence In Senate Measure Will Be Attempted

ratic DIOC ful of Veto ml Tax Plan  e Republicans ident of Quick roval of Bill

nd “Skip-a-year Tax  a Republicans Will Bill To The President”   _ EXPECT TO HAVE BILL READY FOR PRESIDENTS , DECK BY WEDNESDAY; SEREAL DEMOCRA ' HOPE FOR VETO.

FDR MAY VETO NEW TAX PLAN   G.O.P. Certain Measure Will Pass, Reach President's Desk by Wednesday

GOP Bloc in House Confident On Tax-Plan Bill   Republicans Strive to Keep Measure Out of Committee

Republicans Sure of Ruml Plan Victory   Democratic Foes of Measure Pin Their Hopes on Veto by  President Roosevelt

REPUBLICANS CLAIM VICTORY FOR RUML PLAN   Leaders Predict Modified Tax Measure Approved In Senate Will Be Sent To White House   SHORT CUT MAPPED   Democratic Foes Pinning  Hopes On Veto Of Act   By Roosevelt If It . _Is Ever Passed

Tax Bill May BeGivenF.R. By Mid-Week   GOP Shortcut Strategy Aims To Speed Vote: Showdown Is Expectec On Tuesday

Republicans Claim Strength to Pass Tax Measure  Believe House to Place Bill in White House by Wednesday

'GOP In House ‘Sees Swift Vote On Tax Skipping   Democrats Pinning Hopes On Veto By President

Spur Campaign For Party Slate   GOP and Demos Flood State With Sample Ballots of Delegates.

“TO BOLT ON “DELEGATES   ‘ Some Republicans Including a Central. Missouri Group, Ovnose: Slate   PARTY OFFICIALS CO INTO ACTION   Both “Committees Rushing Out Sample. Ballots; State Department Head Assailed

Ferguson Group ‘Opposed Slate From the Outset   Constitutional Convention Slate Supported-By Party Heads

Aching Men, After Taste Of Private’s Life, Promise To ‘Really Sweat’ At Own Jobs

Taste Buck Private’s Life--iO Le: War Lesson:      Shop Stewards to \Impart Teachings

Red Cross Opens Drive To Raise Large War Fund   Leaders Commend Mercy Crusade

Drive Opened ~ By Red Cross   FDR Lautiches War F und Campaign: ; Sees Nation “Racine. Crusade

FDR 'PROCLAIMS ~ MARCH RED CROSS MONTH   Americans Asked to Contribute at Least $125,000,000 For  Servicemen’s Needs

) March Proclaimed Red Cross Month in Radio Message by President

Red Cross Qvens Drive   $125,000,000 Sought During Month; Greatest Crusade in History

No-Strike Pledge Is Reiterated   New Assurances Are Given White House by Heads of A F.L. and C.7.0.   LEADERS ORITICIZE CONGRESS’ ACTION   ‘Will Do Everything to Make Anti-Strike Law Unnecessary, Green Says

AXIO PLANE LOSSES 4 10 1 OVER OURS   Enemy Cannot Stand Pace Forever, Says Stimson

 CONTINUOUS DAY. AND NIGHT ‘ATTACKS SMASHING TAR. GETS IN GERMANY AND  NORTHERN FRANCE

YANKEES BOMB WEST GERMANY   Occupied France Also Hit in Relentless Attack on Nazi Europe

U-Boat Toll Running High   Submarine Losses By Germans Reach Peak

Loss Is Heavy Blow To Nazis   Toll In November cv veeade Shin  nce

November Not Included  In Estimate   May, June and August Saw Prowlers Sunk At Rate of One a Day  FLEET IS CRIPPLED

Allied Ships, Planes Take Big Toll in Eight Months’ Period   Roosevelt and Churchill Make a Joint Announcement of Enemy Losses in Atlantic; Daily Sinkings Recorded in May and June

Report 300 Nazi Subs Destroyed   Roogevelt, Churchill Give Atlantic Data

CRIPPLE NAZI U-BOAT FLEET   Allies Destroy Nearly 300 Subs From March To November

300 U-Boats Believed Sunk: From March to November   Toll Deals Crippling Blow to Weapon Hitler Relied Upon to Thwart Invasion of Europe—German Raiders Blasted to Bottom Last Month Exceed Number of Their Victims— New Bases in Azores Contribute to Success.

Invasion Of Europe May Come Next   INDICATIONS MULTIPLY THIS ster MAY NOT BR LONG DELAYED.

Invasion Likely In Near Future   Czech Leader Tells People to be Ready for Military Action Soon

America Tops Axis  In War Productior  Nelson Tells British O: U. S. Achievement

PLANE EVERY 9 MINUTES SEEN   Nelson Says Production Of War Goods 1 1-2  Times Enemies’

PLANE TO BE MADE EVERY 9 MINUTES   és U. 8S. WAR OUTPUT ONE AND A HALF TIMES THAT OF AXIS, NELSON SAYS.

TURN OUT PLANE EVERY 5 MINUTES   Donald M. Nelson Says 110,000 ‘Planes Produced Since Jan. 1. 1942

Nelson Provides Tip for Germany   Production Rise Given as Warning

BUAGTEUL TOV HINT GAUSHING HLUW 1S READY   lites To Receive Terrific Setback In Pacific Area Claims Jap Premier

British Lose 22 Bombers In Second  Berlin Raid   “Great Load’ Of Explosives Dropped; Many Combats With Enemy Fighters

CHURCHILL PLEDGES CHINA _TO BE FREED      Promises Chiang Kai-Shek Jap Invader to be Driven Out—Confers with T. V. Soong   FDR KEEPS MUM   President at Press Conference Gives No Hint Tenor of Talks with Churchill

HINA TO GET HELP, PLEDGE BY CHURCHILL   Japanese Invaders Will Be Driven Out, Promise to Gen. Chiang   CHINESE ENVOY VISITS PREMIER   Talks With Soong Indicative of Possible Action In Western Pacific

\Churehill Asserts \Japs Will Be  iDriven From China   Message’ To. Chiaiig Kuishek Emphasizes Prospective Action Against Japan.

Balkan Provinces _ Seek Separation   Croats and Slovenes Demonstrate to Separate Istriar Peninsula From Italy and Axis Send in Troops.   Clashes Also Reported Among Two Fascists and Anti Group in Italy

ISTRIA CRISIS IS ~ THE RESULT OF A SEPARATION PLAN   :  Croats and Slovenes Would Take Istrian Peninsula Away From Italy.   SITUATION IS TENSE   Italian and German Troops Are Rushed to Fiume and Trieste.

Italian, German Troops In Armed Conflict Over Po Line, Madrid Hears   Croats Ask  Separation From Italy

Riots Rage as Eisenhower  Offers Peace   Rome Radio Says War, But People Fight Bitterly Against It

SLOVENES AND CROATS RIOT IN ITALY’S NORTH   Axis Troops Reported Rushed to Quell Demonstrations for Separation Istrian Peninsula   MILAN INDUSTRIES CLOSED BY STRIKES   Uprising Sweeps City As Well As Balkan Countries: Hundreds Reported Killed

Separation  Of Peninsula Is Demanded  Italian, Nazi Troops Sneed To Trieste And   Italian, Nazi Troops Speed To Trieste And Fiume; Public Still  Demonstrating

Axis Rush Troops To Cheek Riots in Fiume and Trieste   Report Italian Troops Battle Nazis in Northern Sector; Badoglio Dissolves Another Cabinet

Croats Want Separation From Italy   Nazi Troops Rushed To Meet Crisis In  Istrian Peninsula

EAST STATES CLAMOR FOR SEPARATION   Croates, Slovens Demonstrating To Quit italy

Italian, Nazi Troops Ordered To Istria Area  _ Croats, Slovenes  Demand Creation fies a a

Eisenhower Makes Proposal in Broadcast   os i Indicate More Unrest in Northeast Italy; Allied Forces Continue to Advance In Sicily Campaign.

MORE MASSES DEMONSTRATE AGAINST ITALY      Axis Troops Reported Sent to Quell Slovenes and Croats Demanding Separation of Istria From Kingdom.

Croats, Slovenes Reported Demonstratine-Avainst-Axis   German and {tahan Troops Are Rushed to  Fiume and Trieste

FIVE-POINT PROGRAM BY (EN, EISENHOWER MESSAGED T0 ROME  PRESENCE OF GERMAN  TROOPS ON ITALIAN SOIL  ONLY HANDICAP

BARRIER, CLAIM   Madrid Reports Say Italians Fighting Reinforcements Coming From Reich

Presence of Nazi Troops Obstacle To Settlement “   Restoration of Liberty Provided In Allied Terms

Fascists Flecing To Berlin; Political Prisoners Freed As Italians Fight Nazis

Croats And Slovenes In Separatist  Movements   Situation Reported Tense In Eastern Italy; Gayda Rumored Arrested And Killed

Eisenhower Offers Immediate Peace   War Prisoners Will Be Returned If Allied Prisoners Are Returned Safely, General Says — Report Demonstration for Sepa ration of Istrian Peninsula From Italy

Badoglio’s Determination To Continue War Causing Widespread Demonstration

Badoglio Strives Maintain Order As Chaos Grows   Troops Reported Rushed  Onto Istrian Peninsula

CIVIL WAR IN ISTRIA SEEN IN NEW RIOTING   News of Insurrection In Milan Blacked Out Today by Censorship

SLAVS UNDER ITALIAN RULE ASK LIBERTY   Italian and German Troops Report. ed Rushed ts Plume, Trieste as Upheavals Spread   STRIKES IN MILAN   Reporis from Center of Unrest Censored—Communists Demonstrate

Revolt Spreads Through Northern Peninsula; Slovenes, Croats Demand Independence

TROOPS RUSHED TO ISTRIA AS CRISIS GROWS   Croats And Slovenes Urge Separation Of Peninsula From Mainland   'FASCIST CLASHES SPREAD   Badoglio Seeks To Stem Flow Of German Troops Thru Brenner Pass

FIVE-POINT PROGRAM BY GEN, EISENHOWER MESSAGED T0 ROME  PRESENCE OF GERMAN   PRESENCE OF GERMAN TROOPS ON ITALIAN SOIL ONLY HANDICAP

Hundreds Killed In Italian Riots; Rush Troops To Fiume, Trieste   Mass Peace Demonstrations Continue, While Croats And Slovenes Reported Demanding Separation From KHalyv.

lfalians Trying To Block Nazi Reinforcements   General Broadcasts Five-Point Program; Reds Near Orel

INSURRECTION. AND BATTLING BRING CHANS   Both Nazi and Italian Troops Rushed to Stop Croat Demonstration.   BADOGLIO APPARENTLY. WILL CARRY ON WAR

German Troops Only Obstacle, Says General   Five-Point Program Set Up; Italy Rushes Forces To Frontier

SAYS GERMA ARE BLOCKING *PEACE MOVE   More Rioting Breaks Out As Slovenes And Croats Demonstrate: Cries Of “Peace” Continue

RIOTING RAGES IN MANY CITIES AS REVOLT NEAR   Terms of Surrender Given Mussolini’s Successor by Gen. Eisenhower   AXIS ON SICILY SQUEEZED   Meanwhile, Russians Drive Ahead and Yanks Bomb ~~~ Plants Near Berlin —

General Outlines A 5-Point Program To End Hostilities   Frontier Reports State That Axis Troops Are Being Rushed To Fiume and Triest Where Croates and Slovenes Are Demonstrating   SITUATION IN EASTERN SECTION CALLED TENSE

5-Point Offer Is Extended By Gen. Eisenhower   Honorable Settlement Pledged If Germans Are Expelled

Axis Troops Reported Being Used to Control Mass Demonstrations   Croats, Slovenes Demand Separation Of Peninsula From Italy; Tension Said Increasing

ITALIAN AND NAZ TROOPS RUSHED TO FIUME AND TRIESTE   The Istrian Peninsula ' Wants Separation From Italy   NEWS FROM MILAN IS BLOCKED OUT

SETBATIO IR ITALY TENGE   Slovenes And Creates Demonstrate Wer Separation

Hear Italians  Block Entry of Germans   Five-Point Peace Program Radioed to Riot-Torn Italy; Yanks Take More Towns

COURT TERM CLOSES   Judge Means Will Conduct Trial of Wichita: Sheriff at Ottawa

Freezing Of Prices To Be Ordered Under FDR’  Move Against Inflation

FARM PRICES, WAGES TO BE LEVELED OF   Overnight Order From FDR Aims at Livestock and Basic Commodities.   LEWIS TO CONTINUE MINERS’ WAGE FIGHT

More Ceilings On Prices, Wage: To Be Observed   FDR Issues Executive Orders to Freeze Market Prices and Other Basic Farm Commodities.

SRULE-DRAFTERS LAUNCH MOVES ON NEW REGULATIONS   WLB, OPA, WMC Each Taking Steps to - Prevent Boosts In Living, Congress Facing Tax Problem.   ADDITIONAL CEILING PRICES ARE POSSIBLE   Roosevelt, At Press Conference, Says Whole Problem Now Resembles Four-Legaged Stool.

Cannot Tolerate More Advances   Government Agencies Go into Action to Comply with Chief Executive’s Order That  Wage and Price Increases Be Halted ©

ORDER FREEZING LIVESTOCK SALE PRICE EXPECTED   Congress Facing New Demand For  Additional Taxes

President Takes Drastic Action  To Curb Inflation   Official Washington Mobilizes Army of Rule-drafters to Speed Compliance

AGENCIES ACT QUICKLY ON FREEZE ORDER   Small Army of Rule-Draft ers Speed Compliance Of President's Drastic Action   FARM PRICE CEILINGS

Rule Drafters Busy Workine Out Details  WLB Moves To Malet Waae MilLac   WLB Moves To Halt Wage Hikes In Industry

LABOR BOARD'S POWER LIMITED BY NEW ORDER   Increases May Be Granted Only In Two Cases

Washington Mobilizes to Speed . “Compliance :With Inflation Order

Rule Drafters Busy Speeding Compliance With President's Overnight Inflation Order   OPA fo Freeze Prices on Livestock and Other Basic Agricultural Commodities and WLB Will Halt Waae Increaces

ROOSEVELT TAKES DRASTIC STEP 10 STOP INFLATION   Overnight Order Virtually Pegs Farm Prices and -Wages at Rigid Levels; Urges Higher Taxes.

Quick Action OnFDR OverAll Freeze   Anti-Inflation Stroke Hits WLB Power

Nazis Move Out of Rzhev Stronghold   German High Command Ad“mits Withdrawal From Hedghog Position   LIFT MOSCOW THREAT   Second Strong Point in Nazi Line in Week Is —  Overthrown

WITHDRAW FROM ORE   ‘Red Army Occupies Village of Chotetovo Only. 20 Miles Away

Nazis Evacuate Rzhev: Soviets Continue Gains  Fled City ’ ‘According To Plan”

WAR PRODUCTION HIGH IN OHIO   Despite Shortages of Labor And Materials Many New Records Are Set

NEW INDUSTRY RECORDS IN 1942   Highest Marks in History Set Despite Material, Labor Shortages

Chilean Diplomat Thinks Germany _ Unlikely to Collapse Like Italy

BITTER FIGHT CONTINUES IK NEW GUINEA      Where Japs Are Attempting to Cut Through Australian 9th Division to Join Others On Coast.   U. S. Raid

Troops Locked In Battle North Of Finsehhafen   Australians hill 200 Japanese in Repulsing Attacks

Aussies Locked » In Fierce Battle   Japs Lash Back To Regain Finschhafen

JAP COUNTER-DRIVE AGAINST FINSCHHAFEN MAKES PROGRESS   Several Thousand Troops Are Locked In Bitter Fighting Along Song River; More Than 200 Of Enemy Slain; Aussies Moving On Madang

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U.S. Flyers Bag 17 Jap Planes  Over Solomons   Enemy Force Pushes On New Guinea Base Taken by Aussies   ALLIED HEADQUAR: TERS IN THE SOUTH. WEST PACIFIC, Thursday

Several Thousand Troops Locked in Bitter Battle With Japs on Offense

Allies and Japs Locked in Bitfer Battle North of Finschhafen Line

JAP OFFENSIVE GAINS HEADWAY   Some Progress Is Made Against Aussies At Song River

Jap Attempt to Cut Thru Aussies To Join Troops   Second Gain by Japs Reported; Take Offensive

JAPS ADVANCE ON FINSCHHAFEN   Several Thousand Troops Menace Base Taken By Australians

Bitter Battle Raging Along   Song River In New Guinea   Japdnese Attempting to Cut Through Elements of Australian Division to the Sea ta Join With Other Enemy Troops

JAPANESE GAIN IN NEW GUINEA   Several Thousand Men Are Locked in Bitter Battle   AUSSIES ADVANCE   Move up Ramu Valley to Ex.  tend Grip on Madang;  17 Planes Downed

Japanese Thrust At Finschhafen   “Enemy Seeks to Cut Through to Sea

MERCANTILE TAX REPEALER GETS TO ASSEMBL'   Last of Governor's 194345 Tax Recom-. mendations

Mercantile Tax Repeal Asked   Measure Placed Before Legislature For Action

Allied Bombers Rain Big Loads On Munda, Lae  Two Heavy Aerial Attacks Are Made On Bairoko, Boblo  BAD WEATHER  Japanese Flyers Strike at Two —_  Dawes shinee om Doa- 5

JAP POSITIONS ON NEW GEORGIA HEAVILY BOMBER   Eighty Tons Dropped on Bairoko-Munda Defenses-——Raid Also Made on Lae, New Guinea.   ONE U. 8S. PLANE LOST, CREW BELIEVED SAFE   Five Enemy Pesitions on Timor Isiand, 400 Miles Northwest of Darwin, Also Blasted.

Yankees Pound Enemy Bases in South Pacific   Drop 80 Tons of Bcmbs On Bairoko-Munda on New Georgia and 60 Tons on Lae New Guinec

Bombers Rain Death On Japs   140 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Bairoko-Munda And Lae

Halsey Strikes Munda With Big Air Force   80 Tons Of ' Explosives Hurled Against Enemy New Georgia Defenses   SIXTY TONS AT LAE   Five Different Japanese Positions On: Timor Battered By Allies

Allied Planes Hit Heavily at Jap Bases   Two Attacks Are Made on Nips in the Solomons

Allies Smash Japs With Tons of Bombs in Pacific  Fliers Report Success In Attacks Upon

Americans Block Sixth Jap Move To Assist Munda   Seaplane Tender Sunk, Four Other Shins Damaved

Allies Smash Japs With Tons of Bombs in Pacific  Fliers Report Success In Attacks Upon Important Objectives

Bairoko-Munda Defense Of Japs Hard Hit In Air Raid   Lae, On New Guinea, Feels Brunt Of Allied Bombers As Torpedo And Divebombers Raid

nox i Xpresses Belief Nips May  Evacuate Rabaul   Admits It Is A Remote Possibility

LABOR TURNOVER SHPYARD THREAT   Program Situation Critical, Rear Admiral Vickery Discloses

Labor Turnover In Shipyards Is Serious Problem   Goal of 18,000,000 Ton: of Shipping May Nof Be Reached

Labor Turnover In Shipyards Becomes So Serious It Threatens Ship Proaram

LABOR TURNOVER THREATENS U. S. SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM   Unless Situation Changes Tankers, Aircraft Carriers, Troop Transports And Escort Vessels Will Fall  Short Of Maritime Commission Goal

OPA WILL PERMIT MOTORISIS 10 GO TO SUMMER HOMES   Those In Eastern Shortagg Area Allowed To Uss “A” Stamps On July 15

OPA Permits. Vacation Trip On A Coupons      One Round-trip “Excur sion May. Be Made After Julv 15

ONE ROUND TRIP TO SUMMER HOMI TO BE ALLOWED      No Time Limit Will Be Placed On Excursion To Home Or Resort

Popular Spring Chapeaux In Detroit To Be Minus Bows, Birds, Ribbons And Veils

Women’s Hat Styles Minus Gadgets This Year   t Glamor, But Also De mand Safety: Contest Is Starte

Russians Capture Lhitomir   SOVIET FORCES GRAB VITAL RAIL JUNCTION ON UKRAINE FRONT

Fall Severs  Major Na ant (Rai lraad Line   Transportation Hub fs ' Only 60 Miles From Old Polish Border   KERCH Js) ABLAZE   ANTAINN TL Bed ADDR a Raha  Soviet Forces Battling Way Through Plaming suburb.

Imminent Collapse  Foreseen   Packard Says Meeting of Leaders Indicates Trouble

Gen. Marshall  Given Backing   Sen. Johnson Would Draft Commander-In-Chief For President:

Urges Drafting Of Gen. Marshall   Democratic Senator Says New Deal Ts Dead

New Deal is “Dead Corpse” Says Democrat Senator   Colorado Solon Urges His Party to Nominate Gen. Marshall Next Year

Coloradan Says New Deal ‘Through  _ Johnson Proposes Dea te £ MALL

Urge Demos To Run Marshall   Colorado Senator Says New Deal Is Dead; Wants Party To Wake Up.

JOHNSON BOOMS GEN. MARSHALL   Says New Deal Is Dead, GOP Landslide Looming

Draft Marshall, Senator Urges   New Deal Is Dead,  Tohnson Declares

Urges Dratting  : j  Of Gen. Marshall   Democratic Senator Says New Deal Is Dead

CALLS NEW DEAL A“DEAD CORPSE”   : DEMOCRATIC SENATOR JOHNSON URGES PARTY TO DRAFT GEN. MARSHALL.

URGE DEMOCRATS DRAFT MARSHALL   Senator Johnson, Colorado, Brings Marshall-for-President Talk Into Open; Says New Deal Is Through

New Deal “Dead Corpse” Demos Should Draft Gen  Marshall Demo Senator Sav:

Johnson Urges Marshall Draff   Democratic Senator Wants Chief of Staff Named for President

DE GAULLE AND GIRAUD IN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE   Move Toward Unity Of French Empire For Duration Seen

SEVEN MEN ARE NAMED 10 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AS GIRAUD, DE GAULLE CONFER   Effort Being Made to Iron Out Differences of Frenchmen

U.S. Civil Service Announces Opening At Hico Post Cffice   Examinations To Be Held In Ruston At Conclusion Of Year

An Examination for Rural Carrie1   For Purpose of Filling Position at Dawn; Will Be Held in This City.

RAF RAZES THREE BiG NAZI CITIES   Hamburg Hit 3 Times in Day; Cologne, Essen - Riasted

Woman Makes Error In Answering Radio Program (Question; Mail Starts Growing

Ignorance Of Tudor Family Pays Returns   Mullanes OF N.Y. Get Flood Of Mail, Carryins Cash

Housewife Deluged With Pennies as Result of Error She Made on Radio

In This Case, Ignorance Not Only Is Bliss, But Also Profitable /

New Sub Killer Bright News to Worried Capital   Officials Perplexed by Food Shortages and Black Markets   U-Boat Killers Made By Mass Production

Farm Production Spurs Congress Manpower Act   Wickard Urges People To Shun Black Market; Pay-Go Plan Approved;  Abatement Hannac Fire

CHEERING NEWS OF NEW SUB-KILLING VESSEL FOR NAVY  _ CAPITAL CLOUDED WITH WORRIES OVER FOOD SHORTAGE THREATS

Sub-Killer May Provide Extra Punch   Food Shortage Threats, Meat Black Markets and Income Taxes Claim Attention of Cangresamen

WLB Grants Wage Raise  : Order Is First   Order Is First Under New Rules.

Advocates Release Of “Cons” For Arm)  Would Free Prisoners Fo The Armed Services

Nazis Admit Reds Hold Before Kiev   Russians Regain Offensive In Area; Launch White Russia Drive

REDS AGAIN ON OFFENSIVE BEFORE KIEV      Nazis Admit Their Own Drive Slowed Down in Seesaw Battle of Bulge —Soviets Strike Hard in White Russia.

AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY STEPPED UP AGAIN   Industrial Area Hit Hard By British Bombers .—Naval Planes © Operate

Bombers Hit Axis Europe Last Nicht —   Wide Sweeps Made  ‘By Lighter Craft — Despite Bad Weather

War Factories Of Rhineland, Ruhr Pounded  : '   RAF Busy Over Europe; U. S. Fliers Wreck Shipyard, Hit Power House

Swift Mosquito Bombers Take Over Aerial Offensive, Raid Rhineland

FLEXIBLE WAGE POLICY ASKED   AFL, CIO Chiefs Desire Universal Ceilings  On All Goods

Universal Prices And  Rations Urged  AFL and ClO Ask Roosevelt to Check Dissatisfaction

Labor Leader: Ask Curb on  Rising Prices   President Hears — cio, AFL Plea For New Wage Plan

CIO-AFL Heads Urge Ceilings   Green, Murray Ask FDR To Apply ‘Universal? Teo on Prices

“UNIVERSAL” PRICE CEILINGS SOUGHT   Labor Leaders Also Call for Rationing of Alll Es gentia], Goods

26 SOLDIERS DROWN IN PONT CHARTRAN   Boat Flounders During Maneuvers Near New Orleans

Admission Ie Made At Berlin That Italians Are Fighting Nazis In Some Areas

Hitler Plans ‘Last Man’ Fight on Po   Fascist ‘Government ‘Set Up. for Nation, Nazis. Tell: Populace

GERMANS afY ITALIANG. TOOK BRENNER PASS   Admits Italians Are Fighting Nazis in Some Parts of Country.   CLAIM NORTHERN ITALY OCCUPIED BY GERMANS

Germans Claim They Hold The Northern Area   Reports Say Hitler Has Determined To Fight To The End

Bombers Smash Nazi Military Headquarters   Berlin Reports North And Central Italy Occupied By GermanTroops

Axis Troops Now In North Italy   GERMANS TAKE OVER AS ITALIANS . TURN IN ARMS

Berlin Announces Exile Government In Move To Block Revolt Of Italians

Set Up Puppet Fascist Government; Disarming Qf Italians Underway

GERMANS CLAIM PARTS OF ITALY UNDER NAZI RULE   Germany Is Upset Over Surrender  Of Their Ally

PASS SEIZED DAY BEFORE ITALY QUIT   In Making the Announce ment, Berlin Acknowledges Clashes With Former Ally in Some Parts of the Nation.

Nazis Take  Over North, Central Italy   Adolf Hitler Reported Ready To Fight To Last Man; Expected To Use Po Defense Line

NAZIS: CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ITALY OCCUPIED   Asssrt Most Italian Troops Allowed Selves Disarmed Without Fight

REICH REVEALS ITALIANS HOLD BRENNER PASS   ‘Occupation’ Occurred Day Be. fore Surrender—Fighting Aired by DNB

NAZIS REPORT PO RIVER LINE REINFORCED   Berlin Claims All North Italy Oc cupied by German Troops, Ital ian Treops Disarmed

Hitler Will Reinforce Nazi Po Line   German Spokesman Says North and Central Italy Have Been Occupied By  German Troops

NAZIS HOLD NORTH AND CENTER ITALY   Berlin Radio Tells Plan tc Resist Along Po River  Line

ALLIES MEET GERMANS NEAR NAPLES TODAY   Landings Made In Central Italy; Nazis Trapped

Germans Say They Occupy Nerth Italy   Hitler Determined To Make Baitiefrunt In That Section

Berlin Radio Claims Are Contradictory   Stream of Orders Issued Apparently to Confuse The People of Italy   WAR COUNCIL IS HELD

Germans Say ltalians Take Brenner Pass   Italians in Belgrade Are Disarmed Withouk Resistance

RESISTANCE IN ITALY CRUSHED. GERMANS CLAIM   Hitler Holds War Parley, Decides Stand At Po, Reuters Says

North, Central ltaly Occupied, Says Germany _. Hitler Holds War  Council, Decides To Hold Po Line

Italian Troops Occupy — Brenner Pass And Are Fighting The Germans   Berlin Charges This Action By Itaiy Constitutes A Betrayal

ASSERT ALLIES ENVELOPED IN EUFEMIA AREA   Ber’in Broadcast Declares Their Annihilation Is Imminent — Hitler to Strengthen Po Line, Reuters Declares.

Italians Occupy Brenner Pass In Surprise Action   Nazis Claim Forces I-lold Most Of ttaly

—NAZI STAND—  Hitler To Bolster Defenses Along Pa   German Military Spokesman Says North And Central italy Occupied By Nazis; Hitler Reported Ready To Fight To Last Man

Allied Bombers Blast Channel Coast   ‘Nazis Plan Last Stand At Po; Form New Fascist Government

GERMAN MILITARY OCCUPATION PARTS OF ITALY REPORTED   HITLER COUNCIL AF WAR DECIDES TO FIGHT FOR POSITION OF NATION

Brenner Pass Occupied By Italy, Repor   Enemy Claims Control Over North, Central Section; ‘Treachery’  Of Badoglio Assailed

Italian Troops Took Brenner Pass Tuesday, Nazis Assert   Berlin Admits Italian: Battle Nazis in Some Areas

ltalian Troops  Turn on Former Ally Says Berlin   North, Central Italy Claimed Held by Nazis

NAZI TROOPS OCCUPY NORTH, CENTRAL ITALY   Hitler Reported To Have De: cided on Defensive Stand Along Po. -

NAZIS REPORT iTALIANS HOLD BRENNER PASS   Concede ‘Local Resistance’ by Italian Troops, Charge Badoglia With Treachery aan   SWISS ON GUARD   Reinfotcements Rushed to ,Fronfiers as Tension Between Italy, Germany Nears Climax

AND CENTER TTALY   Berlin Radio Tells Plah to Resist Along Po River  Line    TENSION IN GERMANY

News Centers New Interest  On Balkans   3 Major Possibilities, Including Turks? Entry Into War, Rumored  TURKEY PIVOT erate

Agreement May Mean Help for United Nations   Possibility of Turkish Entry into the War Seen in London   Or Turks May Permit Use of Territory for Attack on the Axis

Turkey And Churchill In Agreement  Prime Minister Visits Neutral Ar Lh] aw» P aston

Prime Minister Churchill Confers With Turkish Leaders  BRITISH OFFICIAL IN JOVIAL SPIRITS  Roosevelt and Stalin Reported Apprised of  hbAnotina

CHURCHILL WINS NATION 70 TIS SIDE   Announcement Made of Important Agreement on Heels of Conference in Caaahlanrpa.   PARLEY ATTENDED BY WAR LEADERS   Stirs Speculation of Possible Use of Turkey as Springboard for Drive Into Balkans.

CHURCHILL GOES TO TURKEY; TALKS PRODUCE RESULTS   British and Turkish Wat Leaders Find Accord on ‘All Principle Points’   CENTERS ATTENTION ON ‘UNDERBELLY OF AXIS   Discuss Manner in Which Britain and U. 8. Would Be Able to Help Turkey Materially; Consideration Given Post -war Problems

IMPORTANT AGREEMENT ON WAR SITUATION IS REPORTED AT MEETING   Turkish Entry Into War Considered One of Major Possibilities in Speculation on Conference

Churchill in New Pact With Turkey   Nation Bordering Axis Balkans Comes to Impertent Agreement

CHURCHILL AND TURKEY REACH AN AGREEMENT   Prime Minister Met With President Inonu After  African Conference   PARLEY CAUSE FOR MUCH SPECULATION

CHURCHILL IN ACCORD WITH TURK LEADERS   One Point Only Named In Statement, Of Results Concerning Aid For Turkish  Seacuritv.   Much Surmising

Prime Minister Churchill: _ Confers With Turkish : Leaders *t   BRITISH OFFICIAL IN JOVIAL: SPIRITS   Roosevelt and Stalin Re ported Apprised of Meeting

BRITISH WAR LEADERS VISIT TURKISH HEADS   Agreements On All Principal Points Are Announced After Conferences,

THREE PENSION PLANS OFFERED   Settlement Of Texas-U. S$ Differences Is Seen

Women Help To Bring France’s Isles To Allies  Nae Rnahek Wete   One English Wife Of French Maior

BILL T0 SLASH STATE'S INCOME TAX IS OFFERED   Measure Introduced In Maryland Senate Would Cut Rate by One-Half to One Percent   214%. 0 N INVE ST ME NT   Third. Reduction: Proposed By O’Conor ‘Held’: NotEnough; $200 Teach ers’ Bonus Asked

WOULD HALVE INCOME TAX   Another Bil! Would Give School Teachers Under $3,000 A Bonus of $2700

Would Cut Md. Income Tax  Bill Also Provides -_ 8900 Teacher Ronus

DRYS WIN A VICTORY   Motion to Table Dry Dry Law Measure Is Voted Down

Orders Strikers to Resume Jobs  Walkouts in Rubber: Industry Scored

UNION CHIEF CONDEMNS. AKRON STRIKE   Mass Strike Affects 52,000 Workers In Rubber Plant

MEN ORDERED BACK 19 JOBS RY WRW HEAD   Three Major Plants, Lesser Ones Effected

Union Head Scores Strike Which Halts Rubber Plants  Mass Strike Involving 52,000 Workers Has Phe Bisdostee Iu Pinas Pakksy Dinkee

Union President Asks For Return To Jobs   Mass Strike Of 52,000 Rubber Workers In Three Major Plants Is Condemned.

Plan Recess In  Tax Bill Tangle   Conferees Fail To Agree On Compromise

HOUSE RECESS TO DELAY TAX    Pay-AsYou-Go Scheduled After Vacation

HOUSE VOTES TO RECESS UNTIL MAY 3   New Pay As You Go Tax Plan To Be Brought Up

ANOTHER FIGHT ON CARLSON TAX BILL IS ASSURED TODAY   Collapse Of Negotiations On Pay-As-You-Go Compromise Given  As Cause

NEW TAX VOTE SEEN IN HOUSE   Compromise Effort Is Killed But Solons Still At Work

Bitter Fight On Ruml Plan Is Due Again   Carlson Bill Will Be Voted On Once More; Agreement Fails   DOUBLE TAX ISSUE   Plan For 75 Per Cent Forgiveness Held In Abeyance

TAK PLAN PUT OFF TO-MAY 3   HOUSE LEADERS RECESS STUDY ON NEW BILL

Vote Assured For Pay-Go  Tax Measure   Dems Draft New Bill As GOP. Plans to Offer © Two Substitutes.

Tax Fight Ticketed for House Floor   Committee Fails To Agree on Compromise Bill

Air of Harmony Prevails Between Governor and Legislature  ADDRESS IS PRAISED

Japanese Radio Warns Of U.S. Counter Drive  Pacific Offensive Planned On Vast  Ganle Natinan TAA

JITTERY TOKYO WARNS PEOPLE UF UL 3. ATTAGK   Plea For Greater Efforts In War Production Made By Japan’s Rulers

NEW RULING ON SHOES   WPB Bans Stepup in Production of High-Priced Lines.

DAVIES TO PAY STALIN A VISIT   Former U. S. Ambassador To Russia Will Invite Stalin To Meet President Roosevelt.

DAVIES 10 LEAVE ON °2ND MISSION TO MOSCOW” SOON   Will Invite Stalin To Meet President Roosevelt for Discussion of Questions of Mutual Interest To Their Nations.

Roosevelt fo Invite Stalin   Joseph E. Davies To Carry Invitation To Moscow, Reported

TO ASK STALIN TO MEET FDR   Davies To Carry Invitation To Moscow, Says  N. Y. Times

TO ASK STALIN   FDR Reported Seeking Par ley With Russia’s Chief

Thunder Storms Are Forecast   Expected to Reach Southern Oklahoma Friday Night

Hawkeye Shorts   Plan Inquest Into °* Death of Children When Home Burned

More Easing Expected In Censorship   Relaxation Of Weather Forecast Restrictions Just A Starter

Navy Trains Men To Be Civilians, Says 0. W. I.   1 Out of 3 Military Skills Can Be Used In Post-War Work

Republicans Map Fight for Rum Pay-as-Go Plan  House Leader Martin Calls Conference  On Floor Battle

COMPROMISES QN TAX PLAN   House Group Makes Pay-asYou-Go Optional Without Any Abatement

RUML TAX PLAN BACKED BY GOP   House Republicans Will Try To Put Over Their Pay-As-You-Go Levy

House Fight On Tax Seen   Republicans To Back Tax Deferment Plans

opes To Pass Bill Providing for Skipping Last Year's Taxes; Expects Support of Democrats

GOP Marshak: Opposition to Taxation Plan   Martin Leads Fight On Compromise Scheme in House

REPUBLICANS CALL TAX CONFERENCE   GOP HOUSE LEADERS DECIDE TO MAKE FIGHT FOR RUML PROPOSAL.

JAP POSITIONS IN. NEW GUINEA TAKER   American Forces Press To. ward Salamaua Air Base

JAP ARTILLERY ON BAANGA IS CAPTURED BY ALLIED FORCES   Enemy Had Been Using Island To Shell Newly-Won Munda Positions; Ridge Pesitions Commanding Salamaua Airfield Also Taken

Salamua Foe  Flees Ridge   Jap Artillery on Baanga Jelanisd Alen T'nkan

ALLIES OCCUPY ISLAND RIDGE   Captured Position Over Airdrome Threatens Japanese, Now In Retreat

(apture Ridge Near Salamaua As Japs Retreat   Occupy Baanga Isle, Sink Enemy Barges

US. Pincers Closing’ On Tokyo   Allied Troops Capture Ridge Commanding Salamaua Field

After War Conversion Of Industry   State And City Planning Boards Tackle Big Problem

JEFFERS SLUT AT SUGGESTION HE SEEK OFFICE   Politics Far From His Mind: Not Interested In Post or What - They Think In Washington

Jeffers in Denial of Rumors   Only Interested in On Presidency, and He A!. ready Has That

JEFFERS DENIES AMBITIONS T0-BE. PRESIDENT OF LS   Says Presidency: of . Union Pacific {s Only Job He Cares About. we

Chinese Report Jap Atrocity   Civilians, Prisoners Said Slaughtered

BRIGKER IN LINE FOR PRESIDENCY   Ohio Governor Outlines Views On Post-War America’s Task

BISHOP SCORES RAID ON ROME   Former Vatican Aide De clares Attack Was a ‘Tragic Mistake’

78TH CONGRESS CUTS QUT NEW DEAL IDEAS   Anti-Administration Measures Enacted

CONGRESS HITTING HARD _ AT NEW DEAl   CONGRESS IN SIX MONTIIS HAS STAGED FIRST BIG “REVOLT” ’ SINCE NEW DEAL STARTED

RAPS RATIONING   Solon Would Eliminate Fuel Oil Program In Texas

WANT ARMY TROOPS UNTIL AFTER JULY 4   Official Police Tabulation Shows That 33 Persons Were Killed in Riots

US. Bombers Blast Bremen Plane Factory   Reid Follews Night Attacks by R.A.F. on Skede, Meanheim

YANKS ATTACK BREMEN; RAF ‘KODA WORKS   American Fliers Shoot Down 50 Nazi Planes  Enroute to Germany

GIANT PLANES OMUUT DOWN OD NAZI FIGHTERS   Bombers Fly Without Escort On 800-Mile Round Trip Attack On Germany

10 BOMBERS LOST: TOLL A NEW HIGt   Hits Scored On Assem“bly Line for German Planes — 100 Fighters Encountered.   BRITISH BLAST BIG SKODA WORKS   Six Hundred Craft Attack Pilsen and ‘Iwo Cities on Rhine—FiftyFive Fail to Return.

Yanks Bag 50 Nazis, Lose 16 Planes In Attack On Bremen   U.S Subs Sink Five Jap Ships

Yank Bombers Blast Bremen Plane Factory   R.A. F. Picks Skoda As Target, Both: Attacks Are Costly

J. §. Bombers Hit Focke-Wulf Plane Factory   Shoot Down 50 Enemy Planes Enroute to Bremen, But Lose 16 Four Engined Craft

16 U. S. Bombers Lost; British Lose 5D In Skoda Raid   Nazis Exploit Allied Losses With Claims _Of ‘Sensational German Defense Succace’

16 Big American Planes Are Lost In Daylight Blow  Focke-Wulf Factory Target of 800-Mile  Sweep Over Germany SCORE DIRECT HITS  Unescorted Raid Follows Great Night Attacke an ‘Skada’

Bold Attack Is Costly for U.S. Flyers   Action Follows Heavy British Night Blows to Czech Center

YANK HEAVY BOMBERS SMASH BREMEN PLANT; 16 BIG PLANES ARE LOST   Americans Shoot Down More Than 50 Enemy Planes En Route; Soviet Warplanes Raid Danzig, Koenigsberg

ALLIES ALSO REPORT LARGE PLANE LOSSES   16 American Heavy Bombers Lost In Attack On Bremen; British Lose 55.

FLYING FORTS, LIBERATORS IX RAID ON REICH   Fifty German Planes Are Shot Down, But 16 Big Bombers Of U. S. Are  Lost In Fights   HUGE PLANE PLANT AT BREMEN BLASTED   RAF Loses 50 In Large Scale Air Offensive To Flatten Nazis’ War Industry

U.S. Loses 16 Big Bombers: Britain Loses 55 In Most Devastating Raids of War

Down 50 Nazi Fighters: 16 U.S. Craft Are Lost   British Lose 55 Ships in Assault on Big Skoda Works at Pilsen

16 Big Yank Planes Gone; Nazis Lose 00  Heavy Day ‘Daylight Raid  Pes se py   Heavy ‘Daylight Raid Comes on Heels of Smashing RAF Assaults   BLAST SKODA PLANT   British Lose 55 Bombers in Heaviest Attack of This Year

Raids Prove More Costly Than Normal   50 Enemy Planes Shot Down By Ameri ean Airmen

U.S. AIRMEN B, OVER 50 ENEN PLANES ON TI   Yanks Lose 16 Four-Eng Craft—600 British Bom ers Jolt Pilsen

Allied Planes Blast Skoda,  Bremen Plants   55 Brit Bombers and 16 U. S. Aircraft Are Lost

5D AXIS SHIPS DOWNED DURING BOO-MILE HOF   16 Four-Engined Ameti. can Craft Lost In Daring Raid   PILSEN BOMBED   Soviets Diop “Eggs” On Danzig, Koenigsberg, Tilsit

American Bombers Smash German Airplane Factory   Heavy Plane Losses Accompany Yank Attack or  Bremen: Russians Report Air Raids . ij On Danzig Friday

EGISLATURE IS USHING NEARER TO FINAL ACTION   o Votes in First Saturday Session—School Aid Bill in Conference

Big School Aid Bill Is Rushed To Conference   Compromise With  School Bloc to Be Worked Out Over Weekend, Expected

School Aid Bill Gels Attention In Legislature  Wets and Drys Cool Off During

Red Star Sees Fascism’s Fall   Warn That German. Italian Alliance Still Exists

U. S. PLANES ARE BELIEVED AIDING RUSSIA   Air Battles Mount and Artiller Bombardments Keep Easter Front Active

SOVIET FLIERS IN U.S. PLANES RAID NAZI CITY   Aerial Activity Increases On Vast Russian Front As Ground Fighting Tempo Dwindles   AWAIT ATTACKS   ‘Moscow Warns People Of  Impending Raids and  Urges Precautions  t Against Bombing

U. S. Planes On  Russian Front   Are Being Piloted  By Soviet. Airmen

AERIAL OPERATIONS QN RUSSIAN FRONT INCREASING DAILY  NO ESSENTIAL CHANGES TOOK PLACE ON GROUND FRONTS

Aerial Battles Rage in Russia   Air Operations in East Include Scout and Heavy Bombing

Air Activity In Russia At Highest Peak   U. S. Planes Flown By Russians Believed Taking Part   FIGHTING IS FIERCE   Ground Lines Changing But Little Despite Many Assaults

Reds Ready For Spring Drive   Have Deep, Strong Front And Anticipate Early Aeeanlts.

SOVIET AERIAL ACTIVITY GROWS   Indicated Soviet - Flown American Planes Taking: Part In Many Operations; Ground Fighting At Standatill.   — RY EDDY GILMORE—

LARGE SCALE AIR ACTIVITY BEING WAGED   Little Ground Action Reported In Russia

Reds Send Planes Against German Foe   Russo-Nazi Front Remains Quiet

Air Activity Continuing In Russia; No Essential Changes on Battlefronts

RUSSIAN AERIAL WAR HEIGHTENS   U. S. Planes, Flown by Red Pilots, Believed Raining Blows on Nazis

Large-Scale Air Activity In Russia   U. S. Planes Believed Used In Widespread Fighting

CHANGES ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Large-Scale Air Activity Continuing In Many Sectors

Lisbon-London Plane Believed Shot Down Over Sea; Famous British Actor Reported Aboard

Noted Actor Is Among 17 Lost at Sea   Fears for Safety Of Leslie: Howard Voiced in London

Report Leslie Howard, Famous Actor, Aboard Missing Air Transport.

LESLIE HOWARD REPORTED ON MISSING PLANE   Lisbon Account Says Film Actor Was Among 13 Passengers on Overdue British Airliner Believed Attacked.

LESLIE HOWARD MAY BE MISSING ON BRITISH PLANE   Famous English Actor Reported on Transport Ship Enroute fram Lisbon.

Overseas Transport Plane Missing — With Leslie Howard, Actor, Aboard

Full Miner Surrender Is Dicclatued  Leaders Declare Time  Limit Set to Protect  Cnion   —_— TELEGRAMS SENT  Bituminous Operators,  Miners Return to Barns + oe ae

Coal Mines To Open \ionday; Union Limits Agreement To June 20   Lewis Rans WLB

LEWIS RELENTS, ADVISES MEN TC G0 BACK MONDAY      Action Comes After Letter From lekes; WLB Given Riasting For Action

Miners’ Work Order Limited To June 20   Resumption of Miners Will Save Shutdown Expected in Steel Mill Because of Lack of Coal

Time Limit Set For Agreement   Lewis Says Men Will Return To Mines for Two Weeks, Looking for Contract by Then

Time Set In Wire To Local Unions   Effect of June 20 Limitation Order By Policy Committee Seems to Be Equivalent of Truce—Action Taken T. Peotect Union, Message Said

END OF oTRIKE S ONLY TRUGE   Miners-and Operators Both Criticize War Labor Board Stand.   BACK TO WORK MONDAY

Strike Dangers Still Hangs Over Coal Situation   Order To Resume Work Is Only Truce, Union Chiefs Indicate

A String  To Lewis Surrender   Order Sent To Miners By Policy Committee . Authorizes Return To Work Only Till June 2(

Date Is Fixed  In Telegrams Sent Leaders  Union, Operators Back In Conference; See

‘M iners Ordered To Work Only Until June 20, Committee Says   Yesterday's Ketreat From Strike Stand Not An Unconditional Surrender To Government

LIMIT THE MINERS - WORKING PERIOD T0 “WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30   This Is the Authorization of the United Mine Workers Leadership.   WAS NOT A SURRENDER   Soft Coal Operators and Union Leaders Return to Bargaining Table.

MINERS WILL WORK UNTIL TUNE 20°   Lewis. Authorizes  . Return To. Work From. Moriday Through June 20

Coal Miners Ordered Back For Two Weeks   Authorization To Resume Work Beginning Monday Limited-To-Period Ending June 20; Home Front Disaster Averted. ©

Mere Truce in Wage Dispute   Operators, Union  Resume Efforts At Bargaining.

 Union Leadership Announcement Today, closes Miners’ Decision Yesterday To'}  sume Work Is Not: Unconditional S  render

Truce in Strike of Miners Will Expire June 20 Says Lewis   Men Authorized to Re. sume Work Monday for JustFertnicht—

TRUCE WITH GOVERNMENT EXTENDED 10 JUNE 20 BY UNION GZAR: ASKS MEN TO COOPERATE   ‘Reports From Coal Fields Indicate All Production Will Resume Early Next Week

UMW Sets June 20 as Truce End   Lewis Messuge Urges Miners to ‘Cooperate’ In Newest Decision

Rome Plastered By-U.S. Fliers:   Crews Specially Trained For Trin

Rome Plastered By-U.S. Fliers   Crews Specially TT oetom aed Cee oT pte

RAIL YARDS IN CITY SMASHEI   A ir f ield Installations Also Attacked; Leaflets Dropped

Only Military Objectives Hit In Mass Atflack   Littorio Freight Yards Blasted without. Fighter Opposition   Fliers Carry Out Instruc tions Not To Damage Sacred Spots

War Expected To Clean Politics   House Asks For Less Money To Enforce Hatch Act

Joh Switching Ban Believed To Apply To All Workers   Non-War Employment Thought Affected As Well As Var Jobs

Distribution Of Handhills Found Legal   High Court Finds Municipal Ordinances Invalid

Handbill Law Ruled Invalid   Supreme Court Sees Ordinance as Bill of Rights Violation

SUPREME COURT RULES ON HANDBILI   Holds Laws Passed By 2 Cities On Distribution Are Unconstitutional

GROUPS OF TORNADOES   Weather Bureau: Renorts on Storm Damage Near Fort Riley

May’s Wind Loss Great   More Than Half Million Damage Ry Tornadoes

SMOKING KISKA BOMBED AGAIN   ee  Smash At Japanese Base Delivered By 52 U.S. Warplanes

NEW TECHNIQUE IS CMPLOYED AGAINST AXIS OBJECTIVES  RAF LANCASTERS ATTA‘ NAZI TARGET. GO AFRIC.

Germany Hit » First, Italy on Way Home   huttle Technique Never Used Before on Big Scale at Lone Range   NEW HEAVY RAIDS ~ ARE BEGUN TODAY   Extraordinary RAF. Attack Somewhat Similar to U. S. Raid on Tokyo

Fliers Bomb German Targe On Way Down and Italiar Port On Run Home With out Loss of Single Plane Shuttle Technique Neve: Used Before On Largs Scale At Long Range.

'Germans Get OutboundLoad Italy Return   1250-Mile Run Is Made  Without Loss of Single Plane

Hammer German target, stop in Africa and lash at Italians enroute home

NEW TECHNIQUE OF AIR ATTACK TS SUCCESSFUL   Three Acres of Old Zeppe« lin Works At Friedrichshafen Devastated In Outgoing Run   ITALY’S NAVAL BASE OF LA SPBZIA FIRED   Daring Fliers Cover 2,500 Miles Round-Trip to Deliver Assault Without Loss of Plane

R. A. F. Demonstrates New Technique In Bombing; Hit Nazi, Italian Targets In Shuttle Roundtrip

Nazi, Italian Targets Hit On Same Trip   Big Lancasters Make Roundtrip From Bri. tain To Africa

Germany, Italy Blasted - In Roundtrip Flights” By British Planes

\E ngland to and Back  SS NE Re ete  British Use New Shuttle  System of Bombing Axis

Airmen Blast Italy and Germany On Round Trip From England to Africa

DROP LOAD ON MAY OUT, FLY UN TO AFRIC!   After Reservicing Planes Hit Italian Targets on Trip © Back to England.   15 NAZ PLANES RAID - PORT TOWN OF HULL

RAF Bombers Shuttle All Way To Africa, Back In New Raids   Bomb German Target On Way Down and Italian Port On Way Back to Bases in Great Britain

GERMANY BOMBED ON WAY DOWN AND ITALY ON RETURK   Shuttle Technique Started Between Africa And England   RUN MADE WITHOUT LOSS OF A PLANE

WITHOUT Loss OF A PLANE   Dramatic New Technique Takes Craft Over Germany, to Africa, and: Home by Way of Italjan Naval Bace. %

RAF Bombers Hit Tar gets In Germany, Fly To Mite And Pound Italy on Return

Dramatic Shuttle , Technique Used By  Bomber Squadrons   iSuccessful Trial Trip Made at Heavy Cost to Axis Centers, Without Loss of Single Plane.

GREAT FIRES LEFT BLAZING AT LA SPEZIA   Unprecedented Flight of 2,500 Miles With Stop Over Germany Enroute  Is Reported   ALL WARPLANES RETURN

Big Force In Day Raid: Shuttle Bombing Revealed   x KK K Losses Not High : Compared To Results

Reporter Eyewitness of Mayu Battle, But Suffers Embarrassing Wound

AXIS TRAPPED IN CONNER bY ALLIED DRIVE:   Sicilian Forces Squeezed Into Last Stand Defenses, Fight Bitterly.   AMERICANS MOP UP, TAKE 7,000 PRISONERS

AXIS LAST-STAND SICILIAN DEFENSE GROWS MORE BITTER  AMERICAN CAPTURE TERMINI WITH 7,000 ADDITIONAL PRISONERS

Six Generals Among 7,000 Prisoners   American Forces Capture Termini, 20 Miles From Palermo

Allies Tighten Squeeze On Foe In N. E. Sicily   Yanks Take Termini In Western Mop-Up; Seize 7,000 More Captives.

Allied Forces Converge on Las? Holdouts Against Sicilian Conauest, Mon Up in West   Admiral Also Among Additional 7,000 Axis Troops Taken by American Troops

CATANIA SHELLED BY BRITISH SHIPS   Thousands More Italian Troops Surrender as Allies Push Onward

Americans Turn to  Flank Nazis in East   Germans Still Fiercely ResistIng South Of Catania, After Much of Remainder Of Island And Many Prisoners Taken by Allies.

FINAL BLOW AGAINST AXIS IS EXPECTED   Marsala, Western Sicilian Port, Falls to Americans and Allied Toll of Prisoners to Date Rises to 60.000.

Axis Units Being Squeezed Into Tip of Island   Trapani, Big West. Coast Port 15 Miles To North Doomed:

Trapani, Last Important Axis Base In Western Sicily, Doomed By Fall Of Marsala; Italian Troops Quitting

ALLIED FORCES CAPTURE 7,000 MORE. IN. SICILY      ” Squeeze Tighter on Last Stand Defenses in N. E. Corner of Island

MARSALA, SICILY CAPTURED BY THE AMERICAN FORCES   Seventh Army Units Believ ed Swing Eastward to Join the British.   EXPECT FINAL BLOW   . Rapidly Diminishing Portion of Island All That Remains to Axis.

AXIS LAST-STAND SICILIAN DEFENSE GROWS MORE BITTER _ AMERICAN CAPTURE  : TERMINI WITH 7,000 ANDITIONAL PRISONERS   “BLOODLESS” SECOND FRONT IS EXPECTED AS RESULT DOWNFALL Il. DUCE. CORRESPONDENT SAYS

SONERS 10 60,000 DURING ISLAND CAMPIGN   Seizure of Marsala Has Sealed Trapani, Coast City With Good Harbor, Network of Airplanes.   ITALY ($ PREPARING FOR EARLY ASSAULT   Allies Bomb Installation on Crete to Test Defenses With 17 Allied Planes Being Lost.

yeni  bout Axis In Sicily   Termini Falls To Yanks, While Pressure Maintained As Allied Forces Close In On Key Catania Area.

AXIS FEELING FEELING ALLIES’ GRIP          ‘Squeeze Upon Axis: Defenses In Sicily Tightens: Capture Termini

Allies Continue To Pound Sicily   American Troops Capture 7,000 More Prisoners in the West   CANADIANS ADVANCING   Six Axis Divisions Reported to Be Bottled Up in a  Corner

Yanks Push East; Try to Join British   Combined Forces Would Then Attempt Knockout Blow Against Axis

Many U.S. Units Believed Already Swinging East to Aid British as Warships Shell Axis Forces Defending Catania   Warchins Pound Axis Troons

Yanks Overrun Western Sicily With Capture Of Marsala; Swing Eastward

U.S. Troops Using Mop In Western Sicily Area   Whole Allied Line Putting Pressure  On Defenders.

ALLIED TROOPS COUEEZE AXIS   Americans Take Termini, Six Italian Generals, and An Admiral.   CLOSE IN ON CATANIA

Allied Troops Squeeze Nazis Into Corner-And Take 70,000 Prisoners

Allies Squeeze Axis Tighter In Northeastern Sicily, as Yanks Mop Up Western Part

Axis Making Last-Stand Defense In Sicily   Allied Troops Putting On Tighter Squeeze:  Yanks Take Termini,  East Of Palermo

7.000 More Prisoners Taken; Nearly Seven Axis Divisions Caught In Pocket

AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE MARSALA, WEST SICILIAN PORT  SEVENTH ARMY SWINGS  EASTWARD TO JOIN  BRITISH AT CATANIA

Tighten Pressure In Northeastern Sicily Today  MANY PRISONERS  Aewaetenng Caton Taw.

Allies Seize  Termini City   Capture Seventy Thousand Prisoners In Sicilian War: — Continue Advance,

Yanks Swing To East For A Showdown   Rush To Help British Deliver Knockout Blow  At Axis Foe Herded InDion Dilantin 2 ie ind

Bitter Resistance Reported As Enemy Prepares Last  Ditch Stand j

Allies Continue To Pound ‘Sicily   American Troops Capture 7,000 More Prisoners ' in the West   Six Axis Divisions Reported to Be Bottled Up in a  ‘Corner.

Trapania Doomed; 60,000 Captured   Warships Shell German Troops Holding Off British at Catania

Western Sicilian Port Is Taken And Yanks Swing East   Patton’s 7th Army Cuts North Coast Road To _ Trap Foe In West; Guns Of Allied Warships Bombard Axis Forces Holding Catania

Axis Makes Biter Sicily Last Stand   7,000 More Prisoners, Si Generals Are Taken B Yanks In West   CANADIANS SLOWEL   Part Of U. 5. Force Pushes East Of Termini In Coast Drive For Messina

Axis Defenders Driven Into Pocket in Northeast Sicily; Nazis Still Hold at Catania   Peace Riots Reported in Italy As Populace Tires of Losing War; Alited Planeac Hammer Nazic on Crate

Allies Press Squeeze Upon Axis In Sicily   Six Italian Generals And An Admiral Cap tured By Americans

‘Cleanup Follows Fall of “Marsala at Wectern  wot  End of Island   TAKE MANY: PRISONERS   Flank Attack Is Expected ~~ “to End Resistance. at Catania —

Allies Apply More Power In Sicily   Defenders in Northeastern Corner Resist  Stubbornly

Yanks Seize Termini to Tighten Viss   Allied Grasp on Sicily’ Northern Coastal Area Conzolidated   Six Italian Generals and Admiral Included in 7.000 New Captives

60,000 GERMAN, ITALIAN TROOPS TAKEN IN SICILY   Expect 50,000 More Prisoners In West Section

— = bal =_— ape — baad = tal  Bitter Resistance Slows Allied Gains In Northeast Sicily   Six Generals, Admiral! Among 7,000 More~ Captured in Advance

Allied Troops Close In On Last of Sicily   Capture of 7,000 Prisoners Brings Total to 70,000 with 56,000 Taken by US Forces; More Heavy Bombing Blows

FALL OF SICILY ~-BELIEVED NEAR   Pattan’s Men Swing East to Join British for Final Drive.   ‘TAKE 60,000 PRISONERS

6 Divisions Bottled Up In N.E. Sicily   Termini Captured 70,000 Prisoners Taken By Allies

RESISTANCE STILL HEAVY AT CATANIA   Many Of Patton’s Men Believed Heading East To Join British; Prisoners Total 60,000

Western Section Of Sicily Taken By Allies As U. S. QOccupies Trapani

Capture 60,000 Prisoners   Americans Capture Marsala and Insure Taking of  Trapani, on West Coast

Cleanup Follows Fall of Marsala at Wectern End of Island   TAKE MANY PRISONERS   Flank Attack Is Expected to End Resistance at Catania.

AMERICANS CLEAN OUT WEST AND DRIVE EAST   ‘Six Italian Generals And Admiral Are Captured  AXIS HOLD NARROWING  British Meeting Strong Resistance In South   AXIS HOLD NARROWING

Tighten Vise on Axis Army in All Areas   Allies Have e Taken 70,000 Prisoners in Sicily; Ten Generals, Two Admirals

Capture of Trapani Expected Shortly   Little but Mopping-up Operations Leftto U.S. 7th Army in Sweep Throuch Western Area of Island

AMERICANS CAPTURE 7,000 MORE PRISONERS   6 Italian Generals And An Admiral Taken; Termini Saiond

Termini Taken as Allies Swing ‘Attack Eastward   * SULLETIN  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA — (®) — American forces have captured Termini, 20 miles east of Paler  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA—

Patton Army Preparing To Aid British   Knockout Blow Prepared. - For Remaining Defenders of Italian Island

HITLER FORCES STILL PUTTING UP STIFF FIGHT   Allied Warships Drawn Up Alongside Coast Pour Destructive Bombbardment Into Germans   ENEMY AIR POWER ON ISLAND NOW NIL   Total of 60,000 Prisoners Taken; Americans Hold 40,000; Expected to Round Up 50,000 More

YANKS SWEEP ON TOWARD ESCAPE PORT   Some Units of U. S. Seventh Army on Way to Messina Far to East of City  of Termini =’   ‘TAKE MANY PRISONERS

AMERICAN TROOPS ARE MOPPING UP. WESTERN SICILY   Yanks Have Captured 57,000 of the 70,000 Prisoners Held   TERNINI SEIZED BY AMERICAN TROOPS

ADD PRESSURE ON AXIS FORCES IN SICILY TODAY   U. S. Captures Termini, 7,000 More Prisoners in Western Part of Island

Patton's Armv.    ‘3 .wiGa TVVYU. Six Italian Generals And One Admiral Among Prisoners; Allies  — Inerease Pressure

Yanks Take Germini, Grab 7,000 Prisoners   Allies Turn Full Power on Last  Axis Strongholds in East Sicilv

ONLY NORTHEAST CORNER OF ISLAND STILL HOLDS OUT   All-out Assault imminent: In Decisive Drive Into Messina.

Turn Full Power On Strongholds In Western Sicily   Yanks Mopping Up Take 7,000 More Prisoners

Axis Defenses In Northeastern Sicily Squeezed   Several Towns East Of Palermo Are Seized And 7,000 More Axis Prisoners Captured

ALLIED TROOPS ARE SQUEEZING TIGHT ON ENEMY   Americans Mopping Up In Western Sicily; Bitter LastStand Resistance Reported In The North.  east.

Allies Clamp Squeeze On Last Stand Axis Defense In Northeastern Sicily

Western Sicilian Port Of Marsala Taken By Yanks   Americans To Join With British For Big Knockout

Patton's Troops Head for Battle In North Sicily   Capture Port of Marsala and Mopping Up in Western Sicily.   U. S. 7th Army Takes Over 40,000 Captives

U.S. Serenth Army Has Accounted For 40,000 Of Those Now In Allied Hands   Marsala Captured: Only Small Portion Of Island Remains To Enemy; Huge Quantities Gt Equipment And Men Captured

‘SWING EAST   Diminishing Part Of Island All That Remains To Axis

ALLIES IN SICILY CAPTURE TERMINI, SEIZE 7,000 MORE   Six Italian Generals and Ad miral Added to List of High Officers Taken Pris

YANKS ovat UPINWESTERN AREA OF ISLAND   Americans Have Captured Termini, 20 Miles East of Palermo, and Seize 7.00G Prisoners      6 ITALIAN GENERALS, ADMIRAL CAUGHT   Pressure Maintained.In All Sectors As Allies Close   tn On Catania-Etna Messina Aréa

M ARSALA, PUSH TOWARD MESSINA   General Eisenhower Reports Remaining Portion of Island Is Rapidly Diminishing; Sicily’s Doom Is Sealedi

Yanks Take Many Axis Prisoners: Catania Pounded   U. S. Forces Swing Eastward To Join British Troops In Knockout Blow At Axis; Germans Still Resist Fiercely South Of Catania

Americans Drive East from Palermo To Join 8th Army   Marsala Last Town To Fall To Invad  ers, Hold Over 60,000 Axis  Prisoners

Tons of Meat Hoarded in Food Lockers   Undetermined Amount o! Meat Held Estimated To Run in Millions

MEAT IN LOCKERS ADDS TO SHORTAGE   Millions of Tons ‘Hoarded’ Retail Spokesman Says

Hain, Traditional Easter Dish, to Retain Popularity   ‘ales Continue In Normal Volume Despite Rationing Restrictions, Butchers and Packers Agree; Origin of Ham For Easter Dates Back to  Medieval Times by Act of Peasant

Say Ham, Traditional Easter Dish, Will Retain Popularity This Year

idam, Traditional Easter Dish, to : Retain Popularity Despite Rations

State.Military Agencies to Be Reorganized   -Home Guard Emergency Duty “Is Emphasized

JONES URGES — PRICE SETUP   FOOD ADMINISTRATOR FREPICTS INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION UNDER SY¥58TEM OF GUARANTEES

MURDER CASE SET ~-FOR- FEBRUARY: 2   Only- One Cass Remains on February Criminal © es » eo See -

MURDER CASE SET FOR FEBRUARY 24   Only One Case Remains on February Criminal Docket

Witness Tells Of Quarrels  Says Mrs. Holt, or Trial for Murder, 4...) Rleck Dee

Plan To Hike Income Taxes By 8 Billion  Draws Fire   Would Raise to 30 Pet. Withholding Levy  On Taxable Portions Of Waoepc and Salaries   TREASURY PROPOSAL, SOME SOURCES HEAR   Congressmen Fear White Collar Workers Couldn’t Stand Burden

Plan Attributed to Treasury Calls for 8 Billion Dollar Boost,  Accompanied by 30 Per Cent Withholding Levy on Wages  - and Salaries—Opponents Declare Program Would Put Too Great a Burden on White Collar Workers.

Fight Opens in Congress On 8-Billion Tax Hike  a i 1, a - nn a oe   Ways and Means Committee Members, Assail Proposal for Increase; Called Unfair to White Collar Workers

Strong Opposition Develops For New Income Tax Boost   Plan Sets Eight Billion More Income Lavy Hikes Withholding Ten Per Cent.

Taber Urges Sales Tax, Rigid Saving   House Member Offers Solution for War Cost Problem

FEDERAL SALES. TAX 18 PROPOSED   TABOR CALLS FOR 10 PER CENT LEVY—SUGGESTION CREATES STIR.

Federal Retail Sales Tax Urged   Taber Also Seeks Expenditure Cuts

TAX ON RETAIL SALES OFFERED   Revenue Suggestion By Republican Stirs Up Capitol Hill

FEDERAL SALES TAX PROPOSED BY REP. TABER   Republican Leader Would Couple New Revenue With Curtailment Of Expenditures

SALES TAXIS GIVEN SUPPORT   Rep. Taber Proposes 10 Percent Levy; Would Also Cut Expenditures

HIGHER INCOME TAXES OPPOSEL   Additional Levy Of L Percent Proposed In First Bracket

VICHY INVOKES TERROR REIGN   Repressive Measures Taken to Curb Rising Tide of Sabotage

Nazis Invoke Stern Rules over France   Sabotage Against Germans Continues; Guards Given Permission to Shoot

Sahotage Increasing _In France   Germans and Vichy Regime Driven to the Sternest Repressive Measures   GUARDS ALLOWED TO SHOOT ON SIGHT   Stern Controls Planned for Use at’ Invasion. Time “Already in Effect j

SABOTAGE GAINS IN FRENCH AREA   Germans and Vichy Aide: Fighting to Control Destructive Acts

SABOTAGE INCREASES IN NAZI-RUN FRANCE   Patriots Wreck Rails, Trains Burn Harvest Fields

Rising Tide Of Sabotage In France Brings Nazi Action   Army Of Terrorists Is Moving Freely, Blowing Up Trains, Burning Harvests

Interference By Stale Depariment Leads To Resicnation Gf Government Official

Allied Bomber Scores Hit on Jap Vessel   Bombing, Strafing Missions Are Carried Out

LONE BOMBER HITS JAP SHIP   Pacific Aerial Action Covers Wide Territory

Lone bomber: scores hit, Jap vessel   Downs fighter on return home

CONGRESS IS PLANNING 70 RECESS SOON   Leaders Will Get Power tc Reconvene Session Under Resolution

Congress Seeks Early Recess   Hopes to Get Away By Next Saturday

PO ) () a Pe,  W I  A I ( N (i I tl i s   Will Reserve Right to Reconvene During Summer Recess.

Congressional Leaders Lay  Plans to Reconvene Without  Waiting for Call From FDR

Congress Leaders Plan to Hold Right to Reconvene at Any Time   Both Parties Agree to Proposal That Wall Make President's Call Un-Needed to End Recess

CONGRESS MAY RECONVENE ON QWN INITIATIVE   Reserve Right To Meet During Coming Recess Without Call From White House   Uncertainties Cited

Resolution Allows Extraordinary Power to Congress  eaesdh   Lawmakers Will Be Subject to Recall If Needed

ARE DRAFTED BY CONGRESS   Leaders Will Reserve Right to Reconvene On Own Call

RECESS PLANS ARE DRAFTED BY CONGRES!   Leaders Wili Reserve Right to Reconvene On Own Call

SOVIET FORCES CLOSING TRAP NEAR ZHLOBIN   Vital Rail Center Menaced As Scores Of Towns Fail To Red Armies

Move Indicates Attack Jitfers   U.S. Planes Range Wide Pacific Area  By LEONARD MILLIMAN  vee a

Foe Uncertain Where _ ~ Next Blow Will Fall   .20 Ships Found In Kwajalein In Raid On That Central Marehall Atoll

Move Indicates Attack Jitters ~   U.S. Planes Range Wide Pacific Area

Japs Uncertain Over Allied Blows Shift Their Forces   Heavy Enemy Concentration of Ships Found

Maxon Quits OPA; Assails Confusion and Red Tape’:   Detroit Advertising Executive Fires Parting Shot At! ‘ Federal Agency, Asserts “Houdini Himself ~ Couldn’t Untangle All the Legalistic Red Tape” Binding System

OPA’s Red Tape Gets Him Down   Dynamic Lou R. Maxon Quits In Disgqust

Adman Withdraws After Finding Himself in Sharp Conflict With ‘‘Professors’’ And “Slide - Rule Boys”

ADMAN MAXON QUITS AS OPA EXECUTIVE   Says Houdini Could Not Untangle Its Red Tane

MAXON OTEPS DOWK THOM OPA POSITION   Legalistic Red Tape Blasted In Farewell Statement

MAXON RESIGNS JOB WITH OPA   Asserts Houdini Couldn’t Untangle ‘Legalistic Red Tape’

Maxon Resigns From  OPA: Hits Red Tape   Declares Complete Reorganization Needed to Save Organization From Theorist Tactics

OPA Assistant Quits Red Tape  Lou Maxon Leaves Saying OPA Needs Bia Reorganization

Maxon Bounces  Out of the OPA   He's Convinced Houdini Couldn't Untangle Tape in Price Office.

SAYS HOUDINI HIMSELF COULD NOT DO THE JOB   ‘OPA Needs Transfusion ol Horse Sense” He Asserts

LOU R, MAXON QUITS 0, P. A.; CAN'T SEE END   Says Houdini Could Not Straighten Out Price Mess

With Paratroopers Brilliant Victory   Maxon Bounced Out Of OPA Ending Demand For Control

lt Would Even Baffle Houdini  Mason Quits OPA and Tells Of Confusion and Indecision

Maxon Blasts OPA, Severs All Relations      Manager’s Post Is Turned Down

Maxon Quits OPA ~When Offer To Run ~ Whole Show Denied   Departure, However, Marked by Bombastic Criticism of ‘Red Tape’ and Incompetence of ‘Professors and Slide-rule Boys’

OPA Publicity Chief Resions; Blasts Red Tane   Agency Hopelessly Muddled, Avers Lou Maxon

Maxon Quits OPA Because Of Red Tape   Houdini Couldn't Untangle It Says Deputy Manager

Bounces Out With a Blast  at Red Tane      Lon R. Maxon Believes, He  Says, That Houdini  Couldn't Untanele OPA   OFTEN IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER MEN

Says O.P.A. Needs More  Horse Sense   Retiring Director Calls for Ousting  Of Theorists from Policy Making Posts

MAXON ASSERTS OPA SHOULD BE REORGANIZED   Official Quits Because Of Legalistic Red Tape

‘OPA Needs A Houdini’   Ex-Chief Criticizes OPA Red Tape. Confusion

Maxon Bitter Over Red Tape In OPA Setup   Says OPA Must Not Fail, But Must Be Reorganized, Drop Theorists

ADVERTISING HEAD QUITS AS OPA CHIEF   Detroit Executive Steps Down Announcing That "Houdini Could Not Un tangle Red Tape"  @ppawe Mena anionr Ate rra Fr,

MAXON RESIGNS FROM OPA POST   Fiery Detroiter Bounces Out In Huff After Rapping Group

Another Jap Destroyer Sunk by Allied Planes And Cruiser Believed Hit

GAIN GRIP ON BOUGAINVILLE   U. S. Marines and Soldiers Win Firm Hold on Island Beachhead

Panics Strike in Ruhr   RIOTING FLARES IN DUISBURG AS WATER INUNDATES SHELTERS

Chaos Follows Destruction Of Huge Nazi Dams   British And American Bomber Fleets Return To Europe Today

MORE POINTS WILL BE RE _ QUIRED FOR MOST CANNED .  ‘-PRUITS—SOME MEAT POINTS CUT

CANNED FRUIT POINT VALUES T0 BE HIGHER   OPA Also Announces “Cost” of Jellies, Cuts Pork Points

POINT VALUES CHANGE SUNDAY   Canned Fruits Higher With Pumpkin, Squash, Beets Lower

STARTS MONDAY   Third Liquor Ration Period Near: Quota Unchanged.

JAPS WORRIED OVER ALLIED PACIFIC SUCCESS   Loss In Planes Slows Nipponese Action; Yanks and Aussies Score  Slight Gains.

Japs Expressing Growing Concern Over Allied Successes.   JAPAN FEELING EFFECTS OF LOSSES   Tokyo Says the Fighting Now Has Become Decisive.

JAPS CONCERNED  - OVER SUCCESSES OF THE ALLIES   Tokyo Says Fighting Now Has Become Decisive

MASS BOMBING OF BERLIN MAY BE CONSIDERED   Presence of British Mis. sion Wing Commander in Quebec Seen Possible Clue

U.N. MAY TRY TO BOMB NAZIS OUT OF WAR   High Allied Air Officials Express Belief Now Is Time While Nazis Are  PD aoal sence

moosevelt And Lnurcnili 10 begin Laiks Onortly  Large Scale Bombing Of Germany May Be Topic

Battle of Grain Fields and Rice  Paddies Almost Over; Ducks Ducking

SOLDIER VOTE PLAN REBUFFED   Justice Stone Will Not Appoint Umpire To Aid In Count

Poles Appeal For Russia To Free Soldiers   London Spokesmen Deny ‘Hitler Understanding’, Designs On Red Areas   SAY PACT UPHELD   Nazi Propaganda Hit, But Statement May Antagonize Soviets

Ask for  Release of Poles   CLAIM LACK OF NEED FOR DEFENSE AGAINST “PRO-HITLER ATTACKS

CHURCHILL TRYING 10 STRAIGHTEN OUT RUSSO-POLISH SPLIT  BELIEVED POLISH GOV. ERNMENT WILL WITHDRAW PROBE REQUEST

Pole. Demands Widen Breach  Exiled Government cela vite of Citize

Churchill Calls Talks To Settle Red-Polish Rift   Free Poland Group ' Mav Withdraw

RUSSIAN-POLISH ~ BREECH WIDENING, A PROBE IS SOUGHT   Germany Charges That 10,000 Polish Officers Had Been Slain.   ASK FOR COMMISSION   International Red Cross Says the Request Must Come From All Countries.

RUSSIA DEMANDS PURGE POLISH GOVT--IN-EXILE  Or a Rival Regime <7] ‘Fe Sct Li won   Or a Rival Regime Will Be Set Up on Soviet Soil.

CHURCHILL HAS TALKS WITH POLES   Devotes Practically All His Time to Breach Between Them and Russia   MOSCOW MAY SOON CALL FOR PURGE   Demand for a Military Polish Government in Russia Also Hinted

Asks Release Of Poles _   Polish Cabinet Answers Soviet Charges; Seeks Return Of Nationals

PARLEY OVER POLISH ISSUE RECONVENED   Churchill Calls Premier and Foreign Minister Into Conference Second  Day

Expect Russia To Seek Purge Of Polish Govt.   Rival Regime - In - Exile In Moscow Also Loom:  As Possibility.

VOTE ON FATHER DRAFT MAY WAIT ON DEBATE TREND   Leaders Confident Of Beating Hill And Proposed’ Amendments

DEBATE ON DRAFT OF FATHERS OPENS   Administration Leaders Feel Confident Bill Will Be Defeated -

Broken Button Traps 4 Boys   Youths Who Robbed Inn And School Tried In Juvenile Court.

ITALIANS MAY MAKE PRINCESS REGENT FOR SON   Times Says Marie Jose s Highly Regarded in - Liberal Circles

U. S. FLIERS ATTACK WAKE ISLAND AGAIN   American Airmen Take Pacific War Spotlight As They Soften Enemy For Troop Advances.

BIG LIBERATOR CARRY OUT RAID ON WAKE (SLANE   Knox Announces U, S. Attack On Japanese Held Pacific Base Saturday

American Airmen Blast Japs On Kiska and Wake Island   U. S. Forces Getting Set for Knockout Blow at Munda.

Italy Advises British, U. S. Of Open City   Swiss Government, Holy See Notified Of Demilitarization

Ttaly Formally Advises Allies Of Rome Status   Demilitarization Of Capital !s Underway

ITALY REPORTS STEP TAKEN TO QUST MILITARY   Formally Advises London and Washington Moves Under Way to Halt More Bombings   REPEATED ATTACKS CAUSE OF APPEALS   Vatican and Government Of Switzerland Asked to Notify Britain and U. S. of Decision

Defensive Installations Put Out Of Action, Broadcast Says:  Commands Being Transferred   Promise Made That Railway Center Will Not Be Used For Military Purposes; Arms, Munitions Factories To Be Moved, Says Statement

Formal Announcement Sent To Britain And America  Italy Advises That Rome Is Being Demilitarized

—ROME—  ITALIANS ACT 10 SAFEGUARD ROM   British And American Governments Advised Of Steps Taken

a  ITALY ADVISES BRITISH AND U.S. GOVERNMENTS OF STEPS TO MAKE ROME. OPEN CITY   NYiefense Halted

Italy to Demilitarize Rome; Yanks, British Are Asked to Treat It As An Open Cit)

Italy Advises Allies Rome Tc Be Open City   Badogllo Government Agrees To Demilitarize Zone, Stop Defense.   NO ANSWER RELEASED

HOPE TO HAVE CAPITAL HELD AS OPEN CITY   Claim Anti-Aircraft Batteries Ordered Not To Fire At Allied Planes; Rail Lines Down

2,000 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON NAZI CAPITAL   Fires Kindled In 42-Mime ute Raid Visible  250 Miles   REDS INCREASE GAINS   Italy Renews Efforts To Make Rome “Open City”

Italy Moves To Demilitarize Rome So It Can Be Declared Open City   Anti-Aircraft Batteries Ordered Not To Fire On Allied Fliers Over City, While Italian Planes Will Not Defend It.

Italy Acts fo Demilifarize Rome, ItSays   Installations Are  Put Out of - Action; Troops Being Removed From City, It Is Said

Rome Declared An Open City   ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO DEMILITARIZE ROME

Italy Informs Alliies Steps Being Taken To Demilifarize Rome To Make It An Onen City

Rome Is Being Demilitarized, Italy Declares   Efforts To Have Capital Recognized As Open City Are Renewed.

ITALTANS FORMALLY ADVISE ALLIES THAT ROME DEMILITARIZED   STEPS TAKEN TO NEUTRALIZE DEFENSE INSTALATIONS THERE

Italy Strips Rome Of Its Armaments  ye og —~wai ia —,   First Steps Taken to Put It On Open City Basis; Allies Notified .

Allies Advised Of Steps Taken  ‘To Disarm Rome   Move Made With View Of Having Italian Capital Treated As Open City.

TEMPERATURES:   Rome Open City Plea Answered By U. S., Britain   Allies: Agree To Spare Italian Capital If Terms Obeyed

ALLIES’ REPLY TO ROME OPEN CITY PLAN IN VATICAN   Rome Dispatch Says Replies “Asked a Vatiean Guarantee and_a- Swiss Commission. to -Execute -Demilitarization °

STEPS TAKEN 10 SAVE CITY FROM BOMBING FORAYS   CAPITAL NO LONGER TO BE WAR CENTER, BADOGLIO DECLARES

New Efforts. in Move for an Open City   Steps Already Taken to Neu. tralize Rome, Says an Italian Report   FORMAL REPORT TO THE ALLIES   Agreement, in Principle Said to Have Been Received‘ * atthe Vatican .>

Dispatch From _ Capital Says U. S. and Britain Agree in Principle .on City’s Status, Asking Papal Pledge of Move.   Italy Says Rome Reinn Demilitarized

Steps Are Taken By Italy to Make  Rome Open City   Stefani Says Allies Advised of Measures to Demilitarize Capital.   Anti-Aircraft Guns Will Be Kept Silent

ROME MOVES TOHAVECITY DECLARED OPEN      Bern Hears Allies Have Agreec ‘In Principle, Vatican to See Agresments Kept

Rome Not To Defend Self; Armies Moved   Swiss, Pope Asked To Intervené; Railways Shifted; Anti-Air Defense Ends

DEMILITARIZING OF ROME ($ PLANNED   [Rome Radio Broadcast Say: Immediate Steps Will Be Taken By Badoglio.

AXIS TROOPS LEAVE ROME. ITALY CLAIMS   Fascists and Nazi Commands Quit City, Military Rail Traffic Stopped to Halt Bombinc.

Italy Strips Rome Of Its  Armaments   First Steps Taken to Put It On Open City Basis; Allies Notified   Two Weeks

Guy Named Joe Won't Live So Well After Meeting Uncle’s New Demands

Labor Situation ls Now Brighter   W.M.C. Drastically Revises Its Figures On Manpower Needs.

CANNED MEAT, FISH FROZEN ON. STORE SHELVES BY OPA   Sales Are, Suspended Until _March 28 Or For 66 Days—Ordered By Wickard

OPA FREEZES CANNED FISH, MEAT STOCKS   Sales Suspended Until Rationing Of Meat Begins

Canned Meat, . Fish Frozen For 60 Days  All Sales Suspended at 12:01 A.M. Today Withoud Any Warning   ENDS PANIC BUYING   Salmon, Sardines, Tuna and Canned Meats All Included

Canned Meat. Fish Stocks  Are “Frozen”   Sales of Preducts Prohibited Effective Today

Canned Meat And Fish Sales Halted   Buying Ends Until Meat Rationing Goes Into Effect

Canned Meat. And Fish Are Frozen by OPA   Order. Effective At 12:01 o'Clock This Morning

New Order Will Remain in Effect Until Meat Rationing is Started   Sudden “Freeze” Comes After Conferences

Sudden Order Effective Until Meat Rationing Starts About March 28; Civilian Supply Small

Sales Are Halted for Time Being   ‘Freeze: Designed To Keep Hoarders From Overstocking

CANNED MEAT FISH SALES SUSPENDED      Stocks “Frozen” Uniil Meat Rationing On March 28   Registration For War Ration Book 2 Slated Feb. 23, 24, 25, 26 at Schools

OPA FREEZE HITS MEATS, FISH STOCKS   Crack Down on Panic Buying Ordered at 12:01 Today

Story Of Flanking Movement Told By U. P. Correspondent   Ry NED RUSSELL

Eighth Army's Flanking Move Against Mareth Line Most Daring Action Of British Offensive In North Africa

Allies Now Within Military Range of Messina.   FLEEING GERMANS ARE BOTTLED UP   Naval Units Are Joining in the Battle of Messina Strait.

American Advance Toward E. scape Port Termed “ 7 Airmen Pound Embarkation Craft OF Enamv.

Military Needs Decreased; Induction of Fathers May Be Delayed Until January

Fathers May Get Reprieve Until 1944   New Estimates Of Armed Forces Requirements Give  Indefinite Delay Hint   PEAK NEXT JUNE   Draft May Not Hit Family Heads Until First Of Year Or Later

Democrats and Republicans to Resume Their Bat- — tle On Floor of Congress   ABATEMENT CERTAIN   Its Extent Point At Issue, With Republicans [n-  sisting On Modified Ruml Plan

HOUSE VOTES RECESS, TAX PLAN SLOWED   Congress Plans Action On Ruml Levy On May 3

Democrats And Republicans Return To Battle Over Tax Plan After Compromise Talk Fails

ee  Rayburn sets final tax vote for May 3   House members leave for home after calling recess for Easter

Firing Resumed In Conaress on Tax Proposals   Compromise Plan Collapses; Fight On Levy Resumed

HOUSE VOTES RECESS   Final Showdown On Pay-As-YouGeo Delayed To May 3

OPPONENTS LINE UP FOR ANOTHER FIGHT OVER TAX   Attempts At Truce On Pay-Go Tax Legislation Fails; New “Do Or Die” Battle  Looms On _ House  Floor.

May Reach Tax Agreement After Recess; Inquiry Into Handling Government News

House Votes Recess Until After Easter   Showdown on Tax Bill Is Scheduled For May 3 as - Body Reconvenes

House Recess Voted As Tax  Meetings Fail   Final Showdown Of Pay-AsYou-Go Proposal Set kor Mav 3 In House.   RETURN TO OLD LINES

TAX ISSUE IS THROWN OPEN   Compromise Efforts On Abatement Collapses In Conference Yesterday

TAX PLAN IS STILL IN AIR   bi-Partisan House Negotiations Fail To Effect Agreement.

House Plans Yote May 3 On Taxes   Votes for  Easter Recess Until That Date

Tax Agreement Fails, Fight On Floor Planned   Party Lines Again Invoked As Early Crate Ciahe Cann

TAX. COMPROMISE CHAT COLLAPSES         Parties Agree to Take Issue in Finish Fight on House Floor

2 Democrais And Republicans Break Truce And Efforts To Devise Compromise Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Collapses

NO COMPROMISE ON TAX SCHEME   Two Parties Take Issue To House Floor For Finish Fight

Confab on Tax Plan Collapses   Parties Plan Finish Fight on House Floor

TAX BILL SHEWDOWN DEFERRED      House Will Vote May 3 Fol lowing Easter Recess;Members Start Leaving   RUML PLAN FIGHT TO BE RENEWED      All Truce Attempts Are Abandoned in Failure; 2 Measures Certain

House to Vote on — Tax May. ¢   Showalown Delayed By Adjournment for Easiet Hi

SULONG GIVE UP TAX COMPROMISE PLAN      50 Percent Abatement and 20 Percent Withholding Tax Still Remains

House to Take Up Tax Plan May 3   Members Leave For Homes After Lower House Votes For Recess.

BIPARTISAN TAX CONFERENCE FAILS   PAY-AS-YOU-GO ISSUE TO GO BACK TO HOUSE, FOR A FINISH FIGHT.

TAX COMPROMISE IN COMPLETE COLLAPSE   Two Parties Plan To Take Issue To House Floor For Another Finish Firht

Issue on Income Tax Abatement Including Rumi Plan To Go to House Floor for Finich Fight

To Fight Out Issue On Floor   Bipartisan Leaders Unable to Find Common Denominator for PayAs-Go Taxation.

Pay-Go Attempt ls Abandoned   Opponents Back Into Respective Trenches

Tax Agreement Fails, Fight On Floor Planned   Party Lines Again Invoked As Early Cinich Fiqht Seen

Showdown Vote On Tax Measure Again Delayed  Congress Decides To Take Recess Bae Dactar

REACH NO TAX COMPROMISE   Republicans and Democrats To Take Abatement Issue to House Floor

NEW FIGHT ON TAX PLAN SEEN   “Stip-A-Year” Proposal To Be Placed Before House Again

RIVAL PARTIES RESUME FIGHT OVER TAX PLAI      Tr ace Between: GO} “Democrats 2

RECESS HOLDS UP NEW FIGHT FOR TAX PLAN   House Members Leaving for Home; to Reconvene on May 3.   CANCELLATION, PAYROLL TAX REASONABLY SURE

Party Leaders _ Unable To Agree   Tax Bill Issue Again Centers Around Rum! Plan

TAX FACTIONS FAIL TO AGREE ON LEVY PLAN   Ruml Plan and Proposals For Abatement of Part of 1942 Taxes Whirling.

DECISION ON TAX PLAN IS IN ABEYANCE   Final Showdown Expected When Congress Convenes After Easter Recess   MEMBERS START HOME

COMPROMISE TAX PLANS COLLAPSE   Efforts to Devise a Sotisfactory Program “ Bad

House Vofes For Short Recess   Members Leaving For Thetr Barrens To Spend Easter

Treasury Department Finds Individual Bond Purchases  Still Laowine

DRAFT RULES REVAMPED 10 SPEED CALLS   Classes Changed as House Passes Kilday Deferment Bill

CHANGES ARE MADE IN DRAFT CLASSES; 3B 1S ELIMINATED   Thousands Added to Fathers Group, Dependency Deferments for Childless Married Men Halted.   SPECIAL HARDSHIP CLASS ESTABLISHED   Rules Revised as New Cry Goes Up in Congress to Put Off Taking Fam ily Men. .

Draft Classes Are Revamped   Changes Sweep Away 3-B Classification

Drafting Of Fathers Seen; Deferntent _ Reasons Deduced   Special: Class: Is Created For Cases Of  Ceetrame Hardehis.

Draft Classes Revamped by Federal Board   Induction of All Able-Bodied Men Between 18-37 Seen

REGISTRANT PUT IN NEW GLASSES   Thousands of Men Are Added To ‘Fathers Class’; Eliminates Altogether the 3-B Classification

All Men 18-37 Face Induction In New Classes   Farmers, Essential Workers Deferred; Fathers Redefined Under New Classifications

Selective Service Revamps  Classification For Men Objection Is Voiced To Kilday Bill Which Has Just Been Passed In The Lower House

Revamps Draft Classes Prior fo Army Inductions  Change Halts Dependency Deferments fae SOLS“: EA

U.S. Revamps Draft Classes   Speed Induction of 4,000,000 Men: Start Soon to Take Fathers

DRAFT STATUS REVAMPED ON MEN 18103)   EXCEPTIONS MADE FOR ESSENTIAL FARMERS

Revised Draft Ruling Defers  Three Classe:   Irreplaceable Workers.  Farmers, Privation ag en

Today’s War Commentary  Chinese Victory  Chuneking Defenders Show Streng

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RECORD MARKETING OF LIVESTOCK SEEN   Hogs and Cattle Expected To Pour in This Year

BOND QUOTA SET ~ FOR THIRD DRIVE   FIFTEEN: BILLION DOLLARS TO BE RAISED IN MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

THIRD WAR LOAN QUOTAS ARE GIVEN   Palo Alto County Will Be Called Upon to Subscribe $684,000 in Government Bonds.

ND QUOTA 1S $7,628,000   iL MANY BONDS  sins COUNTY MUST SEXT MONTH

Third War Loan Drive to Start ” September 9th   Nation’s Quota Set at Fifteen: Billion Dollars, Iowa’s Share Is $196,000,00, Winnebago County’s Share Is $600,00.

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE STARTS SOON   Taylor County’s Share Set At $378,000.00

Third War Loan Quota For lowa Is $196,000,000   Biggest Campaign Jéver Launehed by Treasury; House to House Canvass

COUNTY QUOTA IN NEW DRIVE JS $330,000.00        War Bond Drive to Begin September 9 and Con-_ tinue for the Month.

Pocahontas Co.  Quota $716,000   Sale Bonds Scheduled to Start September 9

lowa’s Share Is $196,000,000   To Raise $15,000,000,000 ‘In Nation

Plymouth County’ 8. ‘Quots of $15. Million Cane: paign, $990,000.

QUOTA SET FOR THIRD WAR LOAN   County Must Sell $838,000 During September

Palo Alto-Emmet Bond Quota Is $1,4006,000  Palo Alto $684,000 Rimmer £777 000

Great Victory Won by U.S. Airmen   Enemy Pays Ruinous Price in New Guinea Drive

Toll of 133 Enemy Planes Taken in 3-Day Battle Off New Guinea   Two More of Tokyo’s Transports Blasted Saturday in Effort to Reinforce Their Forces Holding Strong Base at Lae

HUGE RUBBER PLANT STARTS AT INSTITUTE   West §Virginia Operation Expected To Turn Out 15,000,000 Tires Each Year   Is World’s Largest

County Quota in Red Cross Drive Is Set at $7,950   STAMFORD IS ASSIGNED $2,500 TO RAISE IN WAR FUND CAMPAIGN

ROBERT CROSS, ANSON, IS NEWLY APPOINTED WAR FIINED DRIVE CHAIRMAN

East Kansas Floods Hurt  Rail Service   Trains Are Running Hours Late; Crest Passed At K.C.

DAMAGE FROM HIGH WATER TO BE HUGE   Kansas and Missouri Rivers  Were Falling Slowly  2 Today   MUCH LAND INUNDATED

ALABAMA STRIKE INTERRUPTS VITAL WAR PRODUCTION   WLB Urged to Settle Seven-Month-Old Dispute   CATASTROPHE FORESEEN IN COAL CRIS:S5

WLB. Pressed For Speedy Decision In Coal Dispute  Strike OF 22,000 Miners ‘Brings ,

WLB URGED T0 FIND SPEEDY..SOLUTION FOR UMW DISPUTE   Alabama Strike Causes New, Emphasis Placed On Seven Month’s Old  Issue

Ww LB Action Demanded in Mine Tieup   Board Studying Alabama Strike of 22,000 After —Wire to Lewis

WOOLLCOTT IS ATTACK VICTIM   Noted Commentator Dies Of Stroke Suffered During Broadcast

JAPS COUNTER ATTACK BRITISH — IN N'WEST BURMA   Wavell’s Small Scale Invasion is Some 25  Miles North of Akyab

Counter Blows Of Japs Beaten   British Repulse Sharp Series of Attacks In Donbail Area

JAPS LAUNCH NEW DRIVE IN AKYAB AREA   NEW DELHI REPGRTS THAT ALL OF SERIES ARE REPULSED

Jap Counterattacks In Burma Repulsed  bpi4’.k Brmsaln ‘   British Battle Enemy 25 Miles North of Akyab

Hull Sees Long War   Agrees With Eden’s Warning on Hasty Conclusions on Ending

Hull and Eden Warn Again Expectation of An Early Peace   Secretary of State Back in Capital From His Florida Vacation

LEN CONFERS * ITH WALLACE WAR AM   Briton Also Talks With Hull  and Both Agree War Will » Be Long Drawn Out; - Congress Talks

Marshal Badoaglio May Rally Army But Cannot Stand For Lona   John Evans

With Italy King’s Return to Power,  'Allies' Road to Berlin Made Easier

Oklahoma Farmer Works Nine Months In War Job Not Knowing About Pay

BLOCKBUSTERS SMASH DIESEL ENGINE PLANTS   Allied Aerial Offensive Against Reich Carried Into ~ Seventh Day   CONVOY HIT OFF COAST,   Third Largest Nazi City Becomes Most Frequently Bombed Target

.A.F.LOSES 14 PLANES IN ATTACK   Fighters Head for France; Cycle of Raids in 7th Day

Block-Buster Bombs Rained Down Upon Industrial City Ot Germany By The British

COLOGNE AGAIN TARGET OF RAF   Block-Busters Hit Plants  Making Diesel Engines for U-Boats

Land Purchase Bill Is Passed By Assembly   Sen. Buchen’s Measure   To Increase Fund For Kettle Moraine Area Goes To Goodland 

CHIEFS IGNORE PARTY CONFAB   Ferguson Plans Discussion On Patronage, ‘44 Convention Delegates

OHIO DEMS IN INFORMAL MEET   Sawyer,. Jaster Invited Te Ferguson’s Unofficial Conclave

FERGUSON FACTION FACES DIFFICULTIES   Squabble Over “Patronage ir Ohio at Showdown

FEAR OF INVASION IN 1941 REVEALED   Pacific Coast Had Little for Defense After Peari Harbor.

Approval of 37 Bills by Committee Seen as Good Sign for Peace Action

Germans Taking More Islands n The Dodecanese   One By One The Germans Are Occupying These Im portant Stepping Stones Away From the British.

Germans Try Invasion of Samos Island   NAZIS BEGIN ATTEMPTS TO GRAB GREEK BASE NORTH OF DODECANESE

GERMAN INVADERS ATTACKING SAMOS ISLAND IN AEGEAN, ANKARA REPORTS

Germans Start Samos Invasion   Last Of Greek Islands In Hands Of The PS 5 .

NAZIS TRY 10 INVADE SAMOS   Ankara Reports Nazi Attempts to Take Isle

U.S. Bombers Are Moved To  Africa Base $   Germany Will Ge  Winter Blasting’ Byam Qanth

American Transfer Of Planes to South Hints Siege  WinterAttack Seen Under Conditions Adverse to Germans

American Transfer Of Planes to South Hints Siege  WinterAttack Seen Under Conditions

Liberators Alter Base To Hit Foe   Mediterranean Weather Resdoubles Bombers’  Bidflantinonoaae

Yank Squadrons Move To Africa   Dual Blows Facing Nazis This Winter

Winter Aerial Siege Planned  U.S. Bombers Move _ to African Bases

GERMANS ADMIT HEAVY DAMAGE JO NURNBERG   Continental Radios Leave Air Again To Indicate Raids Are Continuing.

Move To Reaffirm Senate’s Right To Ratify Treaties Supported By G.O.P.

GOP Supports Proposai To Reaffirm Senates’ Right to Ratify Treaties

SENATE IN MOVE ON TREATY PLANS   Danaher Declares Conally’s Resolution Meaningless, Gives Definitions.

REPUBLICANS BUILD  SOME SUPPORT FOR  RIGHTS OF SENATE DO NOT WANT PASSAGE  CONNALLY PROGRAM TO RECOME MIST RADING

Give Away War: “Sond  July: 10   Scntest Swe < Today, Spon sored . Several Busi: ~ s Places

Berlin Claims Invasion Forces Massing, Thrust At France ‘Imminent’

‘Franco Makes Plea for Peace   Says Spain United With Pope Pius te _ Bring End of Hostilities

American Combat Team Storms Into City and Overwhelms Defending German Troops.

Today’s War Moves   Mail Floods Writer in Regard to “Fighting Faith”  Article

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MacKENZIE (Associated Press War Analyst)

FAITH, RELIGION VITAL PART FOR ALLIED VIETERY   Need For Moral And Spiritual Guidance Shown

The War Today: Religion Has Its Part In Our Victory   Rv De Witt Mackenzie

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES NEED FOR “FIGHTING FAITH” AMONG PEQPTF FOR WINNING OF WAR

Air and Navy Forces Pound Axis Defenses   AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN FORCES FROM AFRICA LAND ON ISLAND AT TOE OF ITALIAN BOOT.

First Stage of Liberation’ Gen. Eisenhower Tells French People   Allied Chief Calls on Them to Remain Calm Warns of Reprisals by Nazis for Premature Acts of Defiance: Naval Forces Form Escort

Htaly Makes Ready for Invasion.   ~ All-Over 17: Years To Be..Pressed:. Into ‘Service: 

BRASTICTTALIAN: RULES PROVIDED   Threat of Invasion Stresses Home Defenses: Fear Most In Sicily

Italians Now Under Military Rule   Men, Women 17 Years Old or Older  Prepare for Invasion

MINERS BACK IN PITS AFTER ICKES STRIKE   Nearly 1,600 Men At Windber Follow Lead Of 615 Alabama Miners ; Icke,  Reconsidered   Miners ¢tritated

Last of Striking Coal Miners Go  Baek to Their Jobs   Peace Restored to Fields for Time: Fine Order Modified

Sea Victory Perils Japs’ Rabaul Base   New Guinea Aussies -Driving on Madang;  Walker Wins: Praise

U. 8. Capital Ignores Anniversary Of Japanese Attack 2 Years Ago

GERMANS FLEEING TOWARD DNIEPER AS REDS ADVANCE   One Defense Line After Another Cracking, Rus. sians Say.

RED ARMY PLUNGES DEEPER INTO THE RICH DONETS BASIN   One German Defense Line  After Another Cracks

Gen.J.W. Anderson  Commands X Corps  Leader of Sub-Task Force in Africa Now in Sherman

Assails Oil Shipments to Spain   Sen. Reynolds Says Supply May Be Goina to Nazis

Advertisers Given Fines   ‘Boycott Is Charged in Fight Upon Rates

15 Stores Fined Total of $80,000 F or Boycott      Based on U. S. Charges Of Conspiracy in Fight Against Ad Rate Hike

TIMES BOYCOTT COSTS $80,000   New York Stores Fined Agreeing To Cancel Advertising

JAP ATTEMPT 10 MAKE LANDING ON GUADALCANAL FAILS   But Knox Says Some Supplies, In Metal Drums, Floated Ashore .   WARSHIPS DRIVEN OFF

JAPANESE DID NOT TRY LANDING   Knox Says No Landing Attempt Made On Guadal. canal Saturday, But Few Drums Of Supplies Probahly Cot Achare

BETTER DEFENSE ON BATTLESHIPS   U. S. Secretary of Navy Says Air Attacks Will Be Given ‘Hell of a Fight’

JAP WARSHIPS DROP SUPPLIES OFF SOLOMONS   Destroyers Balked In Attempt To Land Reinforcements   EIGHT FLEE TO SAFETY   U. S. Fliers: Destrey Metal Drums Containing Food, Other Material

NO NEW LANDING ~ BY JAP FORCES   Enemy Destroyers. Carry ing Supplies to Solomons Believed. Driven Off

JAP DESTROYERS FAILTOMAKE SHORE LANDING   PT Boats, Planes Drive Ships from Waters Near Guadalcanal

Japs Failed To Make Any Landing On Guadalcanal   Some Supplies May Have Drifted Ashore, Knox Says, But Others

No Landing For Jap Destroyers   Knox Says Metal Drums of Supplies Were Unloaded

Destroyers Did Not Make Any Landings   Knox Admits, However, That Japs Did Unload Drums of Supplies

JAPS FAILTO MAKE LANDING INSOLOMONS   Knox Says 8 Destroyers Driven Off By PT Motor Boats   Many Of Drums Blasted  By Planes, Torpedo Boats

Japs Fail to Make Landing   Enemy Destroyers Are Driven Off by U. S. Forces, Knox Says

Knemy Able To Unload Supplies   Nip Destroyers, However, Kept From  Making Landing

JAP DESTROYERS APPARENTLY FAILED MAKE ISLAND LANDINE   THEY UNLOADED METAL DRUMS OF SUPPLIES BUT THEY WERE DESTROYED

Knox Says Japs Unloaded Supplies At juan  Bvecwweace Pike:   Enemy Destroyers, However, Failed To Make Landine

Knox Asserts. Japs Made No New Landing   Insists Damage To Enemy Destroyers Was Extensive -

JAP DESTROYER FORCE DID NOT MAKE A LANDING   Knox Says Warships Did Unload Some Drums of Supplies, Many of Which Were Sunk by U. S. Boats

No Landing Made by Japs Knox Thinks   Unloaded Some Metal Drums Whic] May Have  Drifted Ashore

Knox. Says Japs Failed to Land On Guadalcanal   Dried Ashore fo from: ‘Sranded On Island, Navy Secretary Admits

‘Nip Vessels Dump Loads And Beat It   Knox Reports Some Supply Drums Sunk By Guadal Patrols.

MT MAKE LANDING   Unloaded Some Metal Drums of Supplies, Secretary Knox Stated.   WERE SOON DESTROYED   American Motor Torpedo Boats and Planes on the Job Early. -

Jap Destroyer Fleet Thwarter   Allies Foil Attempts Tc Reach Guadaicanai

JAPS STOPPED AT GAUDALCANAL   KNOX SAYS FLEET APPARENTLY FAILED TO MAKE LANDING

15 Tons Of Bombs Drop On Rabaul   Night, Day ‘Attacks Stagger Japs

Allies Set Fires That Light Entire Rabaul Harbor   Heavy Damage Is Inflicted' on Enemy At New Guinea Base

Shipping, Airdromes anc Motor Transports Hit in Burma and South Seas

ALLIED PLANES SMASH AT JAPS   Shipping, Airdromes Raided In Burma And South Seas

Destruction Is Rained On Nippon Bases  Allied Airmen Are Strafing Enemy On 24-Hour Basis

‘Allied Warplanes Rain Havoc ‘On Japanese Ships And Bases -Over Widespread Territories   Enemy Shipping, Airdromes, Transports Blasted; Rabaul Is Heavily Attacked

ALLIED PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON JAP WAR BASES   Attack Scattered Areas In Day And Night Assaults

ALLIED PLANES STRIKE HARD AT JAP SHIPPING   Hit Enemy Airdromes, Motor Transports in Burma, South Seas

GUERRILLAS ~ TOCONTINUE   Reject Leonard’s Directive to Disband and Join OCD

Ban Is Defied By Guerrillas   Berrien Group - Refuses Order To Disband

Divoreed Wife of Lubbock Man Held In Slaying of Tulsa, Okla, Woman

Divorce Is Held ‘After Shooting   Woman Dies From Gun-Shot Wounds in  Altercation of Tulea

Hold Divorcee In Fatal Shooting   Widely Known Horsewomar Victim During Altercation In Tulsa Hote! Room.

HORSEWOMAN SHOT IN TULSA HOSTELRY   Divorcee, Held in Slaying, Tells Strange Story

Tulsa Woman Shot To Death In Hofel Room   Divorcee Held In Death Of Noted  Horsewoman

Wealthy Oilman’s Wife Killed In Hotel Shooting   Struggled Over Gun

WOMAN KILLED; DIVORCEE HELD   Bizarre Self Defense Story Told Tulsa Police After Shooting in Hotel

War Is Making Lorgnette Clan Pot-Wallopers   Madame Reared on Monpisse Will Settle for Rice Pudding.

The Litthe Woman Redisco vers, Home  Bridget In War Plant, Jeeves In A- Jeep, Madame Learns Homely Arts

‘PAT-HURLEY OFFERED BETS THAT  CRIPPLED PLANE WOULD REACH -LAND- SAFELY:HUGE CRAFT DID

SOVIETS SWEEP NAZIS OUT OF WHITE RUSSIA   Railroad Yards Battered By Flying Forts

Powerful Red Columns In White Russia Converging In Sweeping Pincers To Trap Fleeing Enemy   British Advance Continues as Clark's  Fifth Gets Set for Full Offensive. Germans Mine Roads Leading  to Italian Capital.

Russians Race to Take Key Railroad Junction Used by Fleeing Nazis   Germans Continue Desperate Effort to Recapture Kiev; Fortresses Attack Bremen Second Time in Four Days

German Attempt to Land Troops on the Dalmatian Coast Nipped by Yugoslavs

Tito’s Partisans Smash Toward Zagreb, Capital Of Croatia; Germans Suffering Heavy Losses   RROADCAST LATE

TITO SMASHES NAZI LANDING ACTFROM SEA   Important Railway Lines Cut By Guerrillas

Yugoslavs Beat  Off Germans   Smash Attempts To Land On Dalmation Coast And Islands.

Yugoslas Break Nazi Tank Lines  Vital Railway Sector Cut at Many Points

German Dalmatian Thrust Fails  Yugoslavs Thwart Nazi Effort To Land Troops At Points In Adriatic

NAZI LANDING MOVE BROKEN UP BY SLAVS      Partisan Forces of General Tito Smash Attempt to Put Germans Ashore on Dalmatian Coast and Two Nearby Islands.

YUGOSLAV PARTISAN  FORCES SMASH NAZI  SEABORNE LANDING PATRIOTS FIGHTING ON  WIDE MAINLAND FRONTS WIN CUICCESSES

Nazi kffort To Land Troops Is Broken Up  Yugoslavs,Smash Qeaakn nun un bd

Partisans Nip Landing Plan   German .Seaborne ..Effor On Dalmatian “Coast Proves Failure

German Landine Attempt Halted By Yugoslavs   Partisan Forces Smash Landings On Dalmatian Coast

Nazi Sea Borne Landing Smashed   YUGOSLAV . PATRIOTS RUIN GERMAN NAVAL ATTEMPT ~

Smash German Landing Parties Along Dalmatia   Yugoslav Partisans Tell of Increased Activity in y  Balkan Area.   Attempt to Cripple Nazis’ Transportation

SLAV FORGES REPEL NAZI SEABORNE DRIVE   Germans Try to Invade Two Islands, Dalmation Coast

U.S. Thwarts Nazi Blow In Italy Hills   Enemy Counterattack: Three Times But Loses to Americans

Yankees Hurl Back Three Nazi Attacks   Nazis Seek to Wipe Out Threat to Their Winter Line

Nazis Continue Counter-Attacks In Mountains   But Allies Hold Firm And Maintain Threat To Enemy ‘Winter Line’

ATTACKS BY NAZIS ARE HURLED BACK   3 Sharp Drives Against Americans Made in ltaly

NAZI ATTACKS HURLED BACK BY AMERICANS   BOTH SIDES GETTING SET FOR CRUCIAL CLASH IN ITALY

‘Allies Repulse German Thrusts   Report Little Change Aground ‘in Italy

Clark's Troops Repulse Three German Attacks   Crack Nazi Units Unable To Advance

NAZI ATTACKS HURLED BACK   Refreshed German Force Makes Strong Effort  To Preserve Line

Yankees Near Mignano Repel Three Attacks   &th Army Reaches New High Ground; Allies on Leros Better Positions

NAZI CHARGES UP SLOPES AT MICGNANO FAIL   Crack Foe Troops Suffer Heavy Losses In Assaults

NAZI SUB BASE IN NORWAY I LEFT IN FLAMES   Force Of American Planes Makes 1,800 Mile Round Trip   DAMAGE HEAVY   Aluminum Plant Also Smashed; Only One Bomber Missing

TRONDHEIM NAVY BASE HAMMERED   1800-Mile Trip Made By Heavy Bombers From Britain

American Bombers Travel 1,800 Miles Round Trip to Carry Out Initial Assault on Norway—17 German Fighters Downed—One U. S. Force Batters Targets in Heroya.

U.S. Fortresses Pound Germans Trondheim Base  Attack Is First By Americans

American Forts Blast Two _ Norway Targets   German Base at Trondheim and Aluminur Plant at Heroya Are Attacked; 17 Enemy Fighters Downed: One Plane Lost

Americans Make 1800-Mile Round Trip To Edge of Arctic Circle to Smash at German “Gibraltar of North ”, Heroyo

American Forts Plaster U-Boat Base In Norway   Nazi ‘Gibraltar Of North’ Left Raging Mass Of Explosions  Re YAREFQ ww TeManwe

Day Raid Blasts Nazi Stronghold   Giant Bombers Dump Heavy Loads Of Explosives on Vital Munition Plant: Successful Trip Covered 1200 Miles

Norway Hit First Time By Yankee:   Trondheim Is Blastec By Fortresses

RAIDERS SET BIG FIRES AT U-BOAT — BASE IN NORWAY   Americans Rain Bombs on Trondheim, Lair of Warships That Prey on Route to Murmansk.   TRAVEL 1,800 MILES, DOWN 17 NAZI PLANES   Aluminum Plant at Heroya Smashed—QOne U., S. Bomber Lands in Sweden and Crew Is Interned.

Bombers Hit Norway Base   U.S. Bombers Leave - Nazi Docks Blazing

Forts Smash U Boat Base At Trondheim   Strong Force Of American Heavy Bombers Leave Nazi Norway Port Aflame   HEROYA ALSO BOMBED   One Yank Plane Forced Down, Crew Of 10 Interned In Sweden

FORTS MAKE. FIRST RAID ON NORWAY   _ U-Boat Base At Trondheim Hit; Meet Little Resistance

U. S. Flying Forts  Raid Norwegian  Town By Daylight Big German U-Boat  Base Left In Mass Of Flames. Smoke

American Forts Plaster U-Boat Base In Norway   Nazi ‘Gibraltar Of North’ Left Raging Mass OF Explosion?

Raid Shatters Nazi Sub Lair   Trondheim Docks, Naval Installations Hit Heavily In Raid

U-Boat Base Left Flaming   ‘Gibraltar of North’ Smashed, One Plane Down In Sweden

UNDERSEA SHIP CENTER LEFT IN SHEET OF FIRE   Flaming Oi Tanks and Black Smoke Mushroom Up Several Thousand Feet During Attack   ALUMINUM PLANT IN HEROYA DESTROYED   French Cojonel Wha Rode to Raid Savs Factory Went “Poof”? When Yanks Plant Bomb

GERMAN -HELD U-BOAT HAVEN IS PLASTERED   ONE RAIDER LANDS IN SWEDEN: CREW OF 10 INTERNED

Trondheim Lett Blazing After Big Daylight Raic   Fortresses Strike at Aluminum Plant at Heroya

‘Forts Pound German Base  At Trondheim   First Daylight Attack On Norway Is Longest For U. S. Forces In  This Conflict

U.S. Bombers Hit Trondheim   Blast Aluminum Plant At Heroya In Long Distance Raid On Finland,

HINT MONTGOMERY ALLIED CHIEFTAIN   ‘British Army Commander  Believed Likely Head of African Forces.

Rommel Sent to Balkan “Front”   Guerrilla Forces Threaten Germans

ROMMEL SENT 10 SOLVE TROUBLE IN STORMY BALKANS   Partisan and Patriot Faction. al Armies to Join Against Navic.

BALKANS LOOM AS NEW WIAJOR BATTLE FRONT   Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Has Been Shifted From Ttaly, Said

Ickes Tells Why Midwest Gasoline Consumption Has to Be Curtailed

Says Gas Cut  In Midwest Necessary   Ickes Gives Congressmen Four Reasons Why Supplies Must Be Diverted To The East

Explains " Plan for * Gas Cul   pckes Says Transportation Problem Has Been Whipped, Requiring Diversion   MUST CUT DOWN IN @ MIDWEST, SOUTHWEST   War. Requirements on the Increase, Other Factors in Situation Cited

ICKES EXPLAINS GAS RATIONING CUT PLAN BY REAL PARADOX  BIAMRMRS 64TRTAaaAtT ara   TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM WHIPPED SO MORE OIL WILL GO EAST

Oil. Gas Diversion Necessary—Ickes  Transportation Problem Licked, He Says

Ickes Explains Reasons Back Of Gas Slash   ‘Still Convinced, He Tells Congressmen, Midwest Must Do With Less

Te ee ener cement ns  Four Reasons Given By Ickes For Cut In Midwest Gas Rations

OIL CRISIS ABOUT OVER, SAYS.ICKES     Petroleum Products To Be  Diverted from West to East. He Declares.

Transportation Problem Is About Whipped, He Says   Facilities Equal to Job Of Supplying Eastern States Now

Ickes Tells Why Midwest Is Due For Cut In Gas   Says Diversion To The East Coast Is Necessary

Panlungkiao’ S_  Area Cleared   Chinese Continue Their -\Successes: Japs Are ‘ * - Reinforcing Army

CHINESE DRIVE JAPS 20 MILES FROM CHANGTER   Report Japs Using Cover Of Poison Gas

Senator Brown Charges Playing Of Politics Over Plans For New Defense Organization

‘Battle’ Raging On Defense Bill  Divergent Views Over State Program Come On Membership

LORIENT, ST. NAZAIRE RAF BOMB TARGETS   Continental Pounding Resumed After Lull Enforced by Weather. Nazi Damage Revealed.

RAF Again Starts Over Germany; Big Attack Seen  Fliers Cross Channel In Considerable

RAF Again Starts Over Germany; Big Attack Seen  Fliers Cross Channel In Considerable Farce Raenart Save

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT Realities And The OCD

V Nill Sweep Seas Of Ruthless Enemy   Secretary Knox Pledges End of Cruel - Ooponent in Navy Day Message

Group Urges Spending Cut  Save Puhlie Cem’   Says Public Can't Stand New Taxes

No More Taxes, Committee Warns   Tells Administration To Cut Expenditures

TAX BURDEN ALL PUBLIC CAN BEAK, HOUSE GROUP SAYS   Powerful Committee Suggests New Deal Put Brake on Spending if It Wants to Block Inflation.   MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES SIGN REPORT!   Declare They Will Listen te No More Pleas for Higher Levies Until Government Cuts Outlays.

HOUSE T0 URGE SPENDING CUT   Says 2 Billion New Taxes All Public Can Stand

Tax Burden On Citizens Hits Limit   Bi-partisan Committee In House Asserts Public Can’t Stand More Reyenue Levies   +ROUP DEMANDS CUTS IN SPENDING   New Measure Calling For Over Two Billions Will Be Last Bill To Get “Sinews of War”

, lax Committee Urges Deep Cut “In U. S. Spendine   Administration Told Public Can Stand No More

Committee Says Tax Limit Reached  Administration Told To Cut Spending

Limit of U.S. Tax Reached,  Group Avows   House Members Balk Suggest Economics Pach Tet

Bi-Party Chorus Demands —  Spending Curb - Public Can Bear  No More Taxes, Committee Cries

Russians Capture Sumy  Reds Gain Momentum in Drives Against Four German Strongholds

BiG VICTORY ANNOUNCED BY STALIN   Succession Of Soviet Triumphs Continues

NAVAL ACTION IN ALEUTIANS IS REPORTED   TASK FORCE INTERCEPTS JAP SIDPS, NAVY REVEALS— AERIAL ACTIVITIES ON INCREASE

Jap Squadron ls Routed Near The Aleutians   Navy Reports Jap Warships In North Pacific Forced To Flee   SHIPS INTERCEPTED NEAR ATTU ISLAND

Allies Drive To Cut Nazi Retreat Line   Axis Reports Say Big Troop Force Massing To Head Off Rommel

Yanks Massinc  to Cut Off Nazi Retreat   British Advance West of Tripoli: Capture Town

EIGHTH ARMY ON HEELS OF FLEEING NAZIS   American Drive Thought To Be Headed Toward Town Of Gabes.

Yanks May Cut Enemy Retreat   Americans Massing in Force; British Capture Zauia

TWO DEAD, 28 HURT IN BLAST   Leaking Hydrogen Tank Explosion Cause

Japs Make Plans For Big Alibi   Report Great U, S. Numerical Advantage To Pave Way For Reporting Heavy Loss.

Japs Intensity Guadaleana! Air Assaults  Opposing Forces Appear Girding For Crucial Test

Break-Througl in Italy Is Imminent   Germans Battle Frantically to Seal Breach

Fifth Army Wins 25 Square Miles Of Vital Heights   Russians Fall Back On Kiev Salient, Gain in Ukraine

1,000 BOMBERS. A MONTH SEEN   Peak Will Be Reached Year From Now, WPB Chief Predicts

PLANE PRODUCTION BEING INCREASED   Wilson Says More Than 1,000 A Month Will Be Turned Oui  From Now fin

‘Army Adds to Dogs’4-F List Only 18 Breeds Eligible for War Work

4.F Classifications Issued to Chows, Setter, Pointers, Poodle by Army

4-F Classifications for Others—  ARMY LIMITS DOG VOLUNTEERS 10 18 BREEDS

MINE STRIKES ARE SPREADING IN KENTUCKY   Approximately 3,500 Idle:  in Southeastern Fields,   According to Survey Made Today   TENSION MOUNTING   Miners in Alabama’ Serve Notice to Commercial Coal  Mine Operators Temporary Pact Being Cancelled

\ORTHWEST GERMANY HIT   3,500 Miners Idle As Coal Strikes Spread

Indiana Congressman Sharpens Up  His Knife With Eye on Slicing Ban

HOOSIER OPPOSES BREAD SLICING BAN   Going To Do Something About It In Congress

Hitler Preparing To Hold Continent By Ruthless Campaign Of Mobilization

Hitler Will See That All  Germans Eat   Combing Reich For More Men And Resources

Will Pauperize All Europe If Need Be to Get What He Requires to Hold His Fortress   PARLEY WITH STOOGE OF RUMANIA IS CITED   Meeting With Marshal An tonescu Seen As Move to  Quiet Clamor Over Blood-Spilling

HITLER CARRYING ON GREAT, RUTHLESS CAMPAIGN MOBILIZE ECONOMIC RESOURCES EUROPE

‘Expect Larger German Arms Output. ‘As Forced Labor Population Grows _

Hitler’s Gigantic And Ruthless Campaign May Pauperize All Europe

Food and Feed Crop Prospects In U. S. Improve   Aggregate Estimate However 9.5 Percent Below Last Year

U. S. Food, Feed Crops Prospects Are Improved   Improved Weather Conditions: Credit. -__ed_With : =     Near Last Year’s

June Improves Crop Prospects   Indicated Yields Less Than in 1942

FOOD OUTLOOK — 1S IMPROVED   AGRICULTURE  - DEPARTMENT SAYS THAT FOOD AND FEED CROP PROSPECTS IMs: PROVED IN JUNE.

U.S. Fliers Destroy Big Jap Base In South Pacific   Salamaua Is Ruined  By 177- Ton   aera are = _f eee, ee

Salamaua Is Laid In Ruin   Bombers Have Blasted Jap Garrison To Bits

BIG JAP AIR BASE LAID IN RUINS   PLANES DEAL SALAMAUWA SHATTERING BLOW—PUSH ON BAIROKO CONTINUES.

U.S. Fliers Destroy Big Jap Base In South Pacific  / Salamaua Is Ruined  By 177-Ton Downpour of Bombs

SALAMAUA BASE LEFT IN RUINS   Allied Airmen Drop 177 Tons Of Bombs On Enemy Airport

Japs’ Salamaua Base Devastated   Allied Flyers Dump 177 Tons of Bombs

Japs’ Salamaua Base Lett In Ruins; Troops Advance ‘One_Mile Toward Bairoko

Jap Air Base At Salamaua Laid in Ruins Allied Planes Drop  177-Tons of Bomb: ‘on Stronghold —

To Seek Repeal Of Cigaret Tax   Many Amendments To Budaet Bill Offered

Aussies Take Air, Sea Base at Finschhafer   Third Mojor: Jap Position to Fall in Less Than Month

MacArthur's Aussies Take Finschhafen   Major Jap Position Falls To Allies In Record Time

AUSSIES AIDED IN VICTORY BY YANKEE AIRMEN   Capture Gives Allies Complete Control of Huon Gulf, Overlooking JapHeld New Britain   FOES FLEE BEFORE GUNFIRE OF INVADER   Some Scatter to Hills and Jungle and Others Fai! on Field: Resisted Bitterly

Allies Capture Finsehhafen   Important Base Is Taken In Only Ten Days Of Fighting

JAPANESE ROUTED IN (0-DAY BATTLE AT FINSCHHAFEN   Australia’s Famed Ninth Division Captures Sea and Air Base in Northeast New Guinea.   U. S. DIVE-BOMBERS SUPPORT FINAL CHARGE   Nipponese Scatter to Hills and Jungle—Third Major Enemy Position Taken Since Sept. 12.

AUSSIES TARE JAPANESE AIR AND SEA BASE   ALLIES GAIN FULL CONTROL OF HUON GULF AREA

Japanese Defenders Routed By Powerful Charge; Big Aerial Show Aids Victory

JAPANEOL FLEE BEFORE GHARGE OF DIGGERS   Nippon’s Best Fighting Men Fail To Stave Off Rush Of Aussie Veterans

Triumph Is Third Big One Within Month   Awerican Flyers Give "Support to Attack of Land Forces

Fierce Charge By  Tough Australians Drives Japs Out   Nips Lose Another Attempt To Break Out Of Allied Solomon !s land Blockade; New Guinea Base Falls After Ten-Day Offensive

9th Division Drives Enemy From Position   Australian Veterans Attack Stronghold l From Two Directions!  Japs Finally Give Way

No Mention Made of Any Prisoners — Nips ® Run for Their Lives in Hills or Die on Field As Veteran Aussies Strike From Two Directions. 

AUSSIE GROUND TROOPS, US. FLIERS TAKE TOWN   Allies Control Huon Gulf in Advance For Over Water Thrust at New Britain

Australians Take  Big Jap Base Of Finschhafen    American Bombers Co-ordinate Heavy Attack With Ground Push; Huon Gulf Entirely Under Control

Aussies Seize Enemy Base In  Bloody Drive   No Mention Of Any Jap Prisoners Taken In Finsehhafen Campaign.   STRATEGIC POSITION

‘OF AFRICA ROUT NIPS   Japanese Stronghold Taken In 10 Days;  > Airmen Active

Australians Take Finschhafen Base   Famed Ninth Division Makes Final Charce That Ousts Jap Defenders

AUSTRALIANS TAKE OVER AIR AND SEA BASE   Famed 9th _ Division Captures Town After 10 Days Fighting

Damaging Aerial Assault By U. S. Fliers Paves Way   Vital Base Taken In Two-Pronaed Drive

‘American Aerial Attacks Support Charge ~ On Enemy Base; Some Japs Take To Hills, ) Others Fall On Field

‘Diggers Take Finschhafen In Ten Day Drive   Aussies, Supported By American Bombers, Wir Huon Gulf Control   JAPANESE SCATTER   El Alamein Veterans Give Allies Base Only 70 Miles From New Britain

Foe Gives Up New Guinea  Stronghold   Base Is Third To Be Captured Since Sept. 12

Famed Aussie * Ninth Division Turns Battle   Operation, Completed In 10 Days, MacArthur’s Shortest Against Any Jap Position

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rumanian Oil Fields Soon Gaming Within Range OY Allied Bombers

Pattern Of Disaster For Axis Unfolds On Every War Front       Kirke. " GT

NAVY TO TAKE MORE MEN IN DRAFT, REPORT   Ohio’s Boards Wil! Exhaust Supply of Single, Childless : Married Men Soon :

NAVY WILL TAKE LARGE SHARE OF NEW DRAFTEES   Supply of Single, Childless Married Men To Be Gone by August

JAPS SAY HISTORIC MEETING TO HELP PUBLIC OPINION   Germans Call Conference  “Hollywood Powhfe?

Axis Calls FDR Trip Example of U.S. Imperialism   70,000 Words Dispatched by Reporters on Conference

ANIFE SOLE GLEW TO GIRLS SLAYER   [Dorothy Huber Murdered  While En Route to Work   ain: Rran a

KNIFER IS HUNTED FOR KILLING GIRI   Pretty Blonde Is Stabbed in Back in New York

WISCONGIN MINE CAVE-IN KILLS 6   Would-Be Rescuers Die in Attempt to Reach First  Viatim

8 WORKERS KILLED IN MINE COLLAPSE   Two Seriously Injured in Wisconsin Disaster

Mine Cave-In Fatal To Eight At Shullsbure   Six Lose Lives When They Go To Rescue Of Two Caught In Original Collapse .

8 Wisconsin  Miners Die   Two Others Seriously Injured; Six of Victims Are Would-Be Rescuers

Renowned War Correspondent Visitor Here   William H. Stoneman Spends Week-End With Friends

U:. S. and ‘British Forces Swarm Over River in,  Night Attack   ‘NAZI COUNTER FAILS   Allied Tanks and Guns Rell +.” Over Bridges Built: _. Under Fire

Remove Horseshoes At Night To Save Wear, WPB Advises; Drop Unessential Styles!

Zippered Horseshoe Would Let Farmer: Follow WPB Advice   Shift Irons From One Hoof To Other As With Car Tires: Remove When Not In Use

Soviet Guns and Men Are Making New Holes in German Lines.  REDS TAKE TWO TRENCH LINES  Germans Are Preparing to Attack in the Northwest Caucasus.

RUSSIANS RESUME NORTHERN DRIVE   Gain Strongholds On Ap.  proaches To Staraya   Russa

GOVERNMENT TO POUR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO EFFORT END WAR   BIG DOMESTIC NEWS WAS THAT NON-ESSENTIAL DRIVING TO BE CUT

$29 Billion Navy Bill Approved   FDR Asks Congress to Make $72 Billion Available for Army; Ickes Says Gas Rations Will Re Reduced

U.S. ‘Clamors’ for Change: Hamilton   Terms Willkie Strength ‘Fictional’

Great Fleets Of U.S.Plane: Hit Northern France Hard   Swarms Of Marauders And Flying Fortresses Darken Sun As They Sweep Over Channel

Big Raid On France ‘Timed With Invasior   Paris Radio Reports Extensive Raid On That lmmediate Section

Northern France Heavily Bombed: Paris Is Raided, Axis Radio Says

PARIS POUNDED BY U.S, CRAFT IN DAY ATTACK   British Aircraft Strike Kev Canal In Holiand

Northern France Catches it From Big U. 5. Bombers  Rome Broadcast Says   Rome Broadcast Says Paris Is Target For Attack

U.S. Planes Blast Northern France   SIMULTANEOUS WITH ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY

Fleets Of U. S. Heavy Bombers Raid Continent   Paris Reported Hit In Widespread Raid By Fortresses

BOMB BARRAGE BLASTS FRANCE   Paris And Axis Airfields In Northern Area Are Main Targets

PLANES THUNDER DESTRUCTION ON NORTH FRANCE   Mighty Bomb-Barrage Unleashed By Heavyweights Of Air

Report Paris Bombed By American Raiders   Great Fleets Of United States ‘Heavy y And Medium Bombers Lay Down Strong Barrage On Northern France As Italian Invasion Opens

BOMBERS ROCK FRENCH CITIES   Axis Broadcast Claims Paris Bombed by Yank Raiders Early Today

Paris Reported Target Of Raid By U.S. Planes   Strong Barrage Laid Down On Northern France Early This Morning

PARIS BOMBED AS AERIALWAR ISSTEPPED UI   Great Fleets of British and American Bombers Continue Offensive On Continent

U.S. FLIERS RAID NORTHERN FRANCE   Extensive Raid Reported de In Paris Region ith The Left Bank of  The Seine The Main Target.

PLAN TO CHANGE DEFERMENT BILL   House Committee Assails Draft Measure of Senate

Scores Strike Vote Decision   CIO President Objects To Ruling Which Permits Strike Call By Minority.

Strike Vote Rule -Flayed By Murray  Means Labor Chaos, Say: President Of CIO

AIR AND NAVAL BATTLE RAGING IN SOLOMONS   ‘Conflict Now Only in First Stages, Reports Secretary of Navy   Losses Sustained by Both Sides, But Jap Claims ‘Exaggerated’

SEA BATTLE ‘UNDER WAY IN PACIFIC   ‘Navy. Withholds... Details: ‘No Great Big. Fight’ at ~ Present, Knox Sars   ‘NOW IN PROCESS OF: FEELING-OUT   Jap -Force of Considerable Size’ May Be Making New Bid for Solomons ~

Guadalcanal Area Fleets Skirmish, Suffer Losses In Major Batte Prelude

huge Sea Clash Is Raging   Fight Size Secret as Japs Try for Hold on Solomons

KHARKOV MENACED FROM THREE SIDES BY RUSSIAN FORCES   Reds, Closing in on Rostov, Fight Off Bitter German Tank Attacks   BELGOROD JS RETAKEN

TRYING TO MAKE ROME OPEN CITY   Rushing Military Material from City To Meet Conditions

TTALIANS RUSHING REMOVAL OF WAR GOODS FROM ROME!   Hurry Attempt To Make Capital An Open City—Statement  Soan

ALLIED PRONOUNCEMENT REGARDING ~ ROME AS OPEN CITY WILL BE MADE BY F.D.R.-CHURCHILL FROM TWE CITADEL

TROOPS OUT OF ROME   Moves to Make Italian Capital Open City Reported :

Italians Rush Preparations To Make Rome Open City; More Block-Busters Are Rained On Panic Stricken Milan

Seek to Prevent Bombing of Rome   Italians Speed Exodus of Military Material to Make it Open City

SENTENCE MANY WITNESSES -FOR DRAFT EVASION   Local Man Included Among 4  Given Terms In Prison.

Wayne Miller And Ek. bk. Sample Among 40) Jailed For  Draft Violations,

GERMANY. FEARFUL OVER MEETING BY BRITAIN, TURKEY   Nazis) Anxiously Awail Results .Of Conference Between Churchill And Turks:

Nazis Think ChurchillMay Visit Lisbon   Attempt Made to Learn Effect of Parley on Pact With Turkey

Inquiry Into FCC Ordered by House   Agency Called © ‘Nastiest Nest of Rats in This Entire Country’

ROBE INTO FCC - VOTED BY HOUSE   Rep. ..Cox Assails Agency, Placed at Head of Group By Speaker Rayburn

NEST OF RATS’ RAPPED IN FCC   House Orders Special In. vestigation of Big U.S. Agency

FCC WILL FACE INVESTIGATION   Representative Cox Says Commission ‘Nasty  Nest Of Rats”

COMMITTEE WILL INVESTIGATE FOC   Rep. Cox, Georgia, to Head Special House Group to Conduct Probe; May Embrace All Radio Industry

Australian jungle troops battle way to Nassau bay where Americans landed   Union makes more compact front possible for Salamaua activities

Forces Unite at Nassau Ba Japanese Retaliate With Bombing Raid on Territor

Aussies Join  Yanks In Vital Battle   Sweeping Victory Is Highly Important To U. S., British Cause; Japs Lose 145 Planes in Violent Fighting

Aussies Fight Way To Beach   Slash Through Japs, Join » Yanks; More Japs Downed-

123 Planes Previously Destroyed In Solomons Area; Rabaul Is  Pounded Third Day

AUSTRALIANS HIGHT WAY TO NASSAU BAY   Junction Effected With Yanks on Beaches to Form Compact Front Against Salamaua.   JAPANESE AIRMEN BLAST AT AREA   Twenty-two More Enemy Planes Shot Down in Central Solomons — Allies Bomb Rabaul.

Allies Make Progress on New Guinea   22 More Japanese Planes Shot Down in Salamone

Australian Jungle Fighters Score Win   More Compact Front Against Salamaua Set With Junction: Battle For Air Still Rages

Australians at Mubo Fight Way to Nassau, 12 Miles Down Coast, And Join Americans,  Who Landed June 30  JAP PLANES RAID YANKS’ BEACHHEAD  33 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Jap Fields  ec ee

Japanese Airmen Bomb Beachhead Set Up at Nassau Buy  22 MORE DOWNED  Navy Shells Enemy Bases in Challenge To His War Fleet

Progress on Salamava Battlefront ts Reported; Situation is Unchanged in Solomons: Nassau Bay Area Raided

Nazi Radio Hints Naval Batile Near   Japs Lose 123 Planes Fighting Over New Georgia

ALLIES MAKINE PROGRESS Ih SOUTH PACIFIC   Australian Jungle Troops Join Americans At Nassau Bay Making MoreCompactFront Against Salamana   Loose 23 Tons

Attacks in the Salamaua Area Are Success. ful  TO THE JAPANESE  Bombers Strike for thé Third Day at Rahaul

Compact Front Formed Against Salamaua; Japs Attack Nassau Bay   22 MORE JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN

Australian Jungle Troops Reach Yankees   22 Jap Planes Downed in Central Solomons

Attacks in the Salamaua Area Are Successful  ATTACK SURPRISE TO THE JAPANESE  Bombers Strike for the Third Day at Rahaul

FASCISTS ARE STILL PUTTING UP RESISTANCE   Sforza Ends American Exile To Native Land

Oneida Indian Tribe , Receives 52 Cents For Each Surviving Member

APPLY FOR FUEL OL RATIONS NOW   Occupants of Oil Heated omesg Advised to Act Promptly to Be As'.” sured of Fuel,   VALID ON JULY —   Customer May Fill up About - One-Third of Year's  Supply.

RAIDS, SABOTAGE LT AXIS RAILS   Disrupt Vital Nazi Railroad System; Wreck Engines, Power Plants

French Saboteurs Wrecking Nazi Trains, Locomotives   Combination of Allicd Air Raids, Daring Work Of Frenchmen Disrupting German System Of Transporting Troops, Supplies; Power Plants Are Also Targets

French Train Service Hit By Sabotage   Combined With Allied Air Raids—200 Trains Halted Daily

Raids, Sabotage . ‘Take Heavy Toll   In INaZ1 J rance   Report. mt. 200. Trains. Daily Put Out Of Commission     Hy French Guerrillas

French Rail System Hit by Sabotage   Allied Air Attacks and French Guerrillas immobilize 200 ‘Trains Daily

Allied Air Raids Carried To France      M U CH DESTRUCTION ACCOMPLISHED WITH FRENCH HELP

100 Trains Daily Knocked in France By Air, Sabotage  Guerrillas Active  In Wrecking Power Dinnte Wlator Wierarbec

FRENCH RAILROADS HIT BY SABOTAGE   Transportation Is Interfered With by Patriots

Air Raids And Sabotage Ruin French Trains  Put 200 Daily Out OF Order

Sabotage Halting 200 Trains Daily   French Guerrillas And , s Raids Helping -

ALLIED AIR RAIDS, FRENCH SABOTAGE IMMOBILIZES TRAINS  BOTH AIRMEN AND GUER RILLAS CONCENTRATE ON TRANSPORTATION

MILK CEILING IS 14 CENTS HERE   State OPA Announces New Prices — Rise Effects Most Cities, Towns

Ceiling Price On Milk Here UppedOne(ent   Ardmore Included in New Schedule of Prices for Sweet Milk, Hayes Says

Repor! 6,500 Captured in  Last Few Days   Germans Declared in Flight Up Caucasus Railrogd

6 U.S. Warships Lost In 2 Months  Submarine, Destroyer Included In List

Axis Losing Many U-boats  Submarines Sunk   Submarines Sunk At Speedy Rate

ul AXIO U-BOATS SUNK IN & MONTHS   Seven Jap ‘Ships Added t List by Navy; Six U. §  Ships Lost

SUBMARINE BAG NOW 5 AWEEK   Kill Of Enemy U-Boats Mounts To 150 For Last 6 Months

Allies Destroy 60 Nazi U-Boats In Three Months   Merchant Vessel Losses to Raiders Substantially Down

ONE AXIS SUB A DAY  TS ALLIES’ AVERAGE   ‘Past Three Months Have  Cut Worst Menace  j

Sub Sinking Reaches Peak   Five Are Destroyed Each Week In Month

U-BOATS BEING SUNK AT ONE PER DAY RATE   Navy Announces Loss Of Six American Ships In 60 Days

Allies Sink Five Subs Per Week   Kill for Six-Month Period Totals 150

AXIS SUBMARINES  BEEN DESTROYED AT  RATE OF ONE DAILY MORE THAN 90 ENEMY U.BOATS SENT TO BOTTOY  Rann erg

AXIS U-BOATS BEING SUNK AT RATE 1 A DAY   Six American Warships Lost During Last 60 Davs to Enemy Subs

60 U-BOATS SUNK IN THREE MONTHS   ALLIED SHIP LOSSES IN AUGUST LOWEST OF ANY MONTH OF WAR.

BAG 90 U-BOATS IN NINETY DAYS   Allied Sea Offensive Has Been Accounting For Enemy Subs At The Rate. Of About One A Davy. 

U-BOAT TOLL IS HIGH FDR SAYS   Axis Craft Destroyed At Rate -. Of One Per Day Communique Claims

BIG TOLL TAKEN OF ENEMY SUBS   90 U-BOATS SUNK IN PAST THREE MONTHS: YANKS LOSE 6 SHIPS

AXIS SUBMARINES BEEN DESTROYED AT RATE OF ONE DAILY  + Uasoas Sekt To BOTTON   pDaer TypCr MOANTUC

More Than 90 U-Boats Sunk In Three Months; Loss of Six U.S. Warships Revealed

Reveal 90 Axis Subs Are Sunk  Six U. S. Warships Reported Lost in Past 3 Months

ENEMY LOSS IN SUBS ONE A DAY   SIX U. S. WARSHIPS ARE LOST IN 60 DAYS

HAND MUST DIE IN CHAIR JAN, 14   Boy, 17, Grins as Trembling Judge Gives Sentence in Child Killing

17-YEAR-OLD BOY ‘SENTENCED TO DIE   Slayer of Child, 6, Smiles as Januuary 14 Is Set for His Death in Bilectrie Chair.

Eisenhower Blocks Attempt By Italians to Back Out of Agreement to Surrender

ltalians Tried to Renege, lt ls Now Revealed   Last Minute Incident Receives Only Stiffest Kind of Allied Threa:

ITALY TRIED TO BACK OUT OF ARMISTICE   Stiffest Kind Of Threat Is Given By Eisenhower, No Sympathy

REDS DRIVING ON ONLY OIL REGION: “TAKEN BY HITLER   Thousands of Cold And War-Weary German Arooya Give Up

OTHER SUCCESSES IN - CAUCASUS. REPORTED   Thousands Of Shivering, WarWeary Axis Troops Reported To Have Surrendered

2 CITIES NEAR OIL REGION ARE SEIZED BY REDS   New Spearhead Is Plunged Into Pincers Being Closed About Rostov   THOUSANDS SURRENDER   Officers Give Up As Nazi Force Trapped At Stalingrad Is Liguidated

Marked Action In Oil Region ls Reported   Drive From Tuapse Tied In With Other Successes Would Encircle Nazis In Maikop

BELIEVE BLACK SEA OFFENSIVE NOW UNDER WAY   Russians Drive New Spearhead Toward Rostov

Prectanz launch New Offensive   ANQTHER DRIVE REGUN - AS NAZIS GIVEN NO REST

Swift Thrust Cuts Vital Railhead   Nazis Taken by Surprise at  Zhitomir

KNOX PREDICTS NEW NAZI U-BOAT DRIVE   Fear Germans Changing Plans in Sub Warfare

U-BOATS NOT ~ LICKED-KNOX   Praises Anti-Sub Campaign: indicates

U-Boat Threat Is Not Licked-Knox  Navy Secretary Predicts New Sub Offensive

Knox Forecasts Axis Sub: Diive. “Tn Atlantic ‘Area   Says: Submarine® Menace . Persiats. Even Though .. Allied.. Sinkings. . Drop

New German Submarine Offensive in Atlantic Predicted by Navy Officer

WARN OF OUTBREAK OF U-BOAT WARFARE   Knox Says Germans Changing Plans; Nazis May Use Subs to Halt Invasion

Knox Warns U-Boat Is Not Licked   Germans Change  Plan Of Action

OUTLINES PLANS 70 RETURN MEN FOR FARM WORK   ‘WMC Will Reclassify Draft Eligibles Not in Essential Job Categories  t   Physically Unfit for Army Are Urged to Assist in Food Output

W OrKorFrignt Order in 35 Types of Jobs  WMC Set to Reclassify Draft Eligibles on Non DN sed eee Ve bee TT Fk   Man 38 to 45 in Armed Services Can Enter War Industries

FARN, WORKERS ARE ENPEGTED 10 STAY PUT   Many Farmers in Military Service Will Soon Be Released.   MUST PRODUCE FOOD   Farmers in 4-F Classification Must Farm or Go Into Service. .

NEW FOLICY ANNOUNCED IN EFFORT :TO SHIFT MEN FROM “NON-DEFERABLE” WORK

FORT AESoED TRY NEW TECHNIQUE   Emden U-Boat Bose Suffers 1060-Ton “Area Bombing’ Raid Today

U.S. TROOPS TAKE RIDGE ON ATTU   Major Center of Jap Resistance West of Chichagof

AmericansSeizeAll  Of Fish-Hook Ridge   Major Center Of Jap Resistance Now Confined To Small Section

TWO POCKETS OF JAPS LEFT ON ATTU ISLE   Another Enemy Position Along Ridge Is Wiped Out

FISH-HOOK RIDGE TAKEN BY YANKS   Allies Start Flames In New Guinea, Japs on Raids Near Chungking.

Japs Yield Stronghold in Bitter Fight   Nip Resistance Confined to Small Area West of Chichacof

Allies Capture Mubo; Kill 950 Nipponese   Attack by Enemy Defenders at Munda is Repulsed

Jowned in Vay  Over Solomons  Only Three of Our Flyers Lost in Fight With 80 of Enemy  SLAY 950 OF FOE  Secret Infiltration Brings Land Victory Near Salamaua Base   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday, duly 16

Allies Seore Air Victory  In Solomons   45 of 80 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Battle Over Rendova Island   MUBO ONLY 12 MILES FROM SALAMAUA   Los. of U. S. Destroyer After Second Battle Of Kula Announced

Allies Seize Important Jan Sector   U. S. Fliers Also Make Great Score in South Pacific Fiaht

Yanks Seize Stronghold in New Guinea   Coup Captures Mubo; 45 Nip Planes Bagged in Solomons

MUBO CAPTURED, G90 JAPS KILLED   ALLIES DOWN 45 PLANES AND LOSE 3 IN GREAT AIR BATTLE IN SOLOMONS.

U.S. Captures Big Jap Base   Great Air Victory Also Is Scored, 45 Nips Downed

Commander of Subs In Pacific on Lost Navy Plane  Widespread Search fo! Missing Transport Continues; No Trace

Adm. English — Still Missing   Pacific. Sub Chief Among - Passengers: On Plane Lost Over Sea

HIGH U. 5, NAVAL OFFICERS ABOARD MISSING SEAPIL ANE   Rear Adiniral Robert H. Einglish, Commander of Pacific Sub Force, One of Those on Craft.   LONG OVERDUE ON CROSS-OCEAN FLIGHT   Widespread Search Continues for Big Transport, Which Laft Pearl Harbor Carrying 19.

Missing Plane Bore Head of U.S. Sub Fleet   Admiral English One Of 19 on Navy Craft Lost Off S. F.

REAR ADMIRAL ABOARD PLANE LONG OVERDUE   ENGLISH AND OTHER NAVAL OFFICERS ON TRANSPORT

RUSSIANS WRECK 0 NAZI PLANES   Hit 18 Others In Raid On Stalino In The Donets Racin   LAND FIGHTING ON LONG FRONT IS SLOWING DOWN

REDS DESTROY 18. "GERMAN PLANES   NAZIS CEASE ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN POSITIONS IN NORTHWEST CAUCASUS.

Reds Destroy 20 German Planes InCaucasus   18 Others Damaged In Raid on Stalino Airdrome in Donets

Reds, Mud Play Havoc With Nazis   Soviets Take Seven Towns, But Lose Sevsk

Reds Cripple Weakening  Enemy Force   Struggle for Initiative Is Still Bitter Bu Soviets Report Continved Gains; Spring Weather Impedes All Movements

Losses Cheek Nazis Drive In Caueasus   Red Airmen Destroy Nearly A Score Of Enemy Planes

Losses Slacken Nazi Offensive In Kuban Valley   Russian Airmen Smash Grounded German Aircrafi

Soviet Airmen Hit 18 Others In Donets Basin   Germans Halt Efforts To Expand Bridgehead In Kuban Valley

Air Fight Grow: More Bitter On Red Fronts   Russians Destroy 20 Enemy Planes, Hit 18 Others; Nazi Attempt to Enlarge Defense Position Fails: Many Killed

Struggie for Initiative Is Still Bitter But Soviets Report Continued Gains; 7 Spring Weather Impedes All Movements

Thaws Slow Fighting on  Russian Front   Germans ‘Claim Sevsk but Reds Say Little . Chanee Has Occurred

: Heavy Losses Cause-Enemy to Halt Efforts to Expand. Bridgehead. An Caucasus

Land Fighting In Russia Dwindles  Soviet Airmen Active; - Destroy 18 Planes

Russians Down 18 More Planes   Red Army Planes Hit 18 Others in Raid on German Airdrome

REDS DESTROY BIGHTEEN MORE ENEMY PLANES   Eighteen Others Hit in Raid or Airdrome at Stalino i Northwestern Caucasus   LAND WAR SUBSIDES   German Efforts‘te Expand Narrow Bridgehead in Kuban Valley Ceases Temporarily

REDS DESTROY CERMAN PLANES   Nazis Halt Drive to Take Caucasus Area After Heavy Loss

RUSSIAN AIRMEN KNOCK DOWN 18 GERMAN PLANES   Aerial Conquest in Caucasus Feature of Reds’ Valiant Fight Against Hitler

PROMISE RELIEF FOOD SHORTACE   Wickard Says Scarcity Caused By Mal Distribution, Organizes Committees To Deal With Froblem

Food Shortage Relief Pledged  To Civilians   Wickard to Organize Stale Bodies to Handle

Wickard Promises Relief From Local Food Shortages Due to Maldistribution

PROMISE RELIEF FROM SHORTAGES OF SCARCE FOODS   Shortages In Most Places Are Caused By Maldistribution Of Food Supplies

Incoming State Executive Favors Eliminating Per' sonal Property Levy  !   -RAMAGE S APPOINTED

MARTIN HOPES. TO SLASH TAXES OVER 26 MILLION         Will Urge I ge Dr opping 4-Mill Personal Proj  ertu T evyv         ADDS TO CABINET.   Freeman Among Nine Named To State Posts

Martin Supports End Of Personal Property Tax © “Wal Be Retcineds  RNlaw Cavarnar Namac

LEBANON CRISIS SOLUTION NEARS   French Seek Reconciliation Of Battling Elements

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Another “Full Dress” Conference Under Way

Leaders Move From Scene of First Meeting   Germany’s Fate Likely Under Discussion

Japan Abolishes Draft Deferments of Nips in Indo-China, Burma, Malaya, Java   Tokio War Ministry Decrees Formation of "*Senpakuhei'"—Marine Service

Hamburg And Other German  ‘Cities Raided   All-American Attack Second In 8 Days; Big Sub Base Damagec   The War:

83 10 BE ELECTED APRIL 6 10 REVISE STATE'S GHARTER   Gov, Donne sets Date, Same 4s That for Other Balloting to Save Cost   15 ELECTED AT LARGE

Gov. Donnell sets Date, Same as That for Other csi a to Save Cost   15 ELECTED AT LARGE

’ SHOWERS MAY FALL   ‘Bastern Kansas'to Have Fluries of  > /Meisture: Heat Steady: _

iNUst UUTLAWS POLL TAX, 285-10   Southern Congressmen Look to Senate to Block Pass- age of Bill

HOUSE VOTES T0 KILL POLL TAX   Southern Congressmen Look To Senate To Talk Bill To Death.

Senate May Half Poll Tax Measure   House Passes Bill; Southerners Still Hope to Kill it

EXPECT POLL TAX SUPPORT FROM SENATE   Southern Solons See Good Chance Group Will Kill House Legislation Outlawing Assessment in Elections.

OVER 400 FOURMOTORED BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN   City Was Still Burning From _ Devastating Saturday Night Raid

Gun Breaks Up  Stranse Romance   Rancher Slays Man Whe Lived With Him, Wife

Confessions Of  Nesro Admitted   Defense Charges Admissions Obtained By Use Of Liauor.

Confessions In ‘Lower 13’ Case Protested   Defense Attorney Asserts Liquor and Third Degree Used on Folkes

Attorney Charges Third Degre Methods Used To Make Negro Confess To Lower 13 Slaying

No Further Deferments For Fathers   UNLESS THEY HAVE ESSENTIAI JOB: THEY MAY BE CALLE FOR MELITARY SERVICE THI  We Au?   Pharaoh McNutt Warns

Deferments To  Essential Job  Holders Only. Dependents Not fo  Be Considered fo Dhvcically fit 18-38

Essential Work Only Draft Bar   Dependents Not Factor In New Regulations

Many Married Men Involved   “Age, Essential Job “Only Défermente.”

DRAFT 10 DIG MUCH DEEPER IN MANPOWER   CHILDREN NO BAR ESSENTIAL JOBS MANDATORY

MOVES 10 COVE PRODUCTION NEED   Thousands Warned to Find More Essential Jobs   FACE INDUCTION   Regardless of Dependents, M’'Nutt Declares; 36 Businesses Listed

MEN IN NON-WAR JOBS IN. SPRING TO BE DRAFTED   Government Warns Those Between 18 and 38 Only Essential Work Willi Keep Them Out of Army.   ASSERTS DEPENDENCY WILL CUT NO FIGURE   McNutt Indicates 10 Out of Every 14 Will Be in Armed Forces by End of Year.

TEN OF FOURTEEN MEN IN NATION DUE TO GO TO ARMY   New Order Affects Married Men With Five, Six Children

Drastic Draft Ruling Will Hit Thousand:   Family Head Must Have Vital Job Or Face Induction

U. S. Govt. Warns Draft Deferments To End For Non-Essential Workers

U.S. Will Force Men Into Essential Jobs   Deferments to Be Limited After April 1

DEFERRED MEN MUST GET JOBS TO ASSIST WAR   Notice Served On Draft Exempted Workers To Get Into Essential Work By Spring   10 In 14 To Go

Nonessential Labor  ~ Hit In Sweeping Order   Men in 29 Occupations Must War Jobs By Spring Or Induction

Ten Out of Every 14 Able-Bodied To Be  In Service by Spring, Manpower Chief Says  DEPENDENTS OUT  AS DEFERMENT BASIS 38-Year Age Limit May Be Removed, MeNutt Also Warns

U.S. Acts To Force Men _To Go To Essential Jobs   Ten Out of Fourteen Able-Bodied Males to be in the Armed Forces by End of. the Year, Manpower os Cammiseian Mead Cave

Retreat Called ‘Disordered’ by Moscow; Much Booty Captured   Foe Heading for Bug River, 175 Miles to the West   Battle Deciding Fate of Russian Ware Ravlin

Farmers Have Big Part in Shifting From War fo Peace Economy; No BackTo-Farm Trek Needed, Committee Says

Farm Expansion Advocated After  ‘Heroes Are Home   Presidential Committee Advises Spending for Reclamation of Land.   Can Absorb Million After War Is Ended

Agriculture Has Difficult Future  Committee Suggests Plans For Absorbing Soldiers On Farms

Federal Experts Recommend Farms for Qualified Ex-Soldiers Under Dynamic Economy

Germans Threaten to Destroy Port   Marseilles Fights Stubbornly Against Evacuation Order

Blt JAP MERCHANT VESSEL BOMBED   FOUR INTERCEPTING ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN BY M’ARTHUR’S AIRMEN.

HIT SCORED ON JAPANESE SHIP   4 Intercepting Planes Are Brought Down In Ambon Attack

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT JAP VE SSE   Shoot Down Eight Intercept  ing Planes at Ambon; Harbor and Shore Instaliations Are Attacked

500-Pound Bomb Hits Japanese Shir   All Allied Planes Return From Raid

Allied airmen hit huge Jap  merehantman   Shoot down four enemy fighters

Rail Genter Beyond Kiev — Is Captured   Cuts Rail-Line Between. Germans in Northern Ukraine. and Krivoi Rog   FIERCE OPPOSITION ON ALL WAR FRONTS   But Allies. Are Unchecked and Bombers Add to Toll. Paid by Nazis and. Japs

Red Drive Gathers Speed.    Fresh Disaster Faces  German Troops Cut Off In Crimea and Dnieper Bend Advance in Italy

Mile-an-Hour Drive Pushed Past Fastov   Allied Successes Also in Southern Europe and Pacific Sectors

Fifth, Eighth  Kam  New Holes      Russians Seize Fastov; Shape Trap For Enormous Numbers Of Nazis.   CONTINUE AIR BLOWS

Soviet Forces Are Advancing Mile an Hour   Allies Push Ahead in Italy Against Fierce German Opposition; Nazis in Yugoslavia Bombed; Durazzo Underaoes Naval Shelling 

Allied Forces Push Forward in Italy; Opposition Fierce      70 Towns, Villages Fall to Rus “a an : Sunday; New Trap Set for — Nazis a

Russians Average Mile an Hour in Big Break-Througt   New Holes Knocked In Nazi Defenses In Central Italy

Big Plunge Aimed at Rumania   Mile-per-Hour Speed May Town Germans In Dnieper Bend. »

into German.   Jap Heavy Cruiser at ‘Rabaul Victim of Probable : Verte Hit: Forts Hit Duere

RUSSIANS DRIVING FORWARD AT MILE AN HOUR BREAKTHROUGH  _ ALLIED TROOPS KNOCK  NEW HOLES IN GERMAN   LINES IN ITALY

Fastov Is Taken As Soviets Gain   Germans Face New Threats In Russia As ‘Soviets Shape Trap In Dnieper Bend— Allied Troops Ram-Ahead In Italy

REDSDRIVINGFORWARD AT MILE A HOUR CLIP IN BREAK THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF KIEV   Fastov Seized and Trap Set for Huge Number of German Troops in Dnieper Bend. Allied Troop: Moving Ahead in Italy

Allied Troops Run Ahead in Italy, Knock ing New Holes in Stubborn Lines— Nazis Bomb Heavily i in Yugoslavia : —U:S. Gains i in Italy; New Sea-Air- : Battles in Pacific “=! -:

Big German Force Facing Debacle In Trying To Retreat   Another Stalingrad Looms For Nazis In Southern Ukraine And Crimea: Stalin Orders Salvoes For Hull, Eden; Berlin Admits "New Climax’

Furious Counterattacks By Germans Guarding Roads to Rome Fail   Allied Planes From Italy Strike Heavily At Enemy Plants in Austria; Draja’s Forces Report Capture of Important Harbor

Advances New Threat  To Nazis In Russia   Eisenhower At Italian Front As Allies Capture Sparanise; Japs Laat 192 Planes

ESSEN IS TARGET IN NEW RAID   Hamburg Hit 3rd Time As Mighty Offensive Sweeps On>

ESSEN MAIN TARGET RAF BOMB SQUADS   Americans Contribute tc Attacks on Germany With Longest Raid of War Over Sunday.

IN WEEK-END BOMB RAIDS   Allies Stage Heaviest Week-end Air Offensive of the War

Hundreds Of Planes In Raid On Vital Site . During Big . Week-End  RAF LOSES 2° ES 25 PLANES  Deadly Blow ow Dealt Nazi War Machine In Attack:

HUNDREDS UF PLANES HIT ESSEN   Krupp Works Smashed Again In Heaviest Weekend Raids

HeavyBomb Load Blasts Essen Area   Krupps Arms Works Target of Hundreds Of British Bombers

Allies in Great Air Raids Over German Areas   Round-the-Clock Schedule Kept Over Weekend

25 WARPLANES LOST IN NIGHT AAD ON ESSE!   Hitler’s War Machine Blasted “with Heaviest Pounding Over Weekend.   HAMBURG BOMBED THREE TIMES DURING 24 HOURS

MAJOR ATTACK ONFSSEN LAST NIGHT   Rounded Qut Heavy Week-End Of Bombing

MAJOR ATTACK BLASTS ESSEN SUNDAY NIGHT   Yollows Heaviest Attack of War on Hamburg Sat.

Wirt Franklin ‘Urges Drilling   Veritable Avalanche Of Wildcatting Is Needed, He Says

Navy Officer Speaks at Civic Center   No Bonds Sold Today: Sales Slated to Start on Thursday

State Meeting Is Slated September 8   Engineer Chief Will Give Details of Spirited Sea Fight

WASHINGTON WATCHES WLB MINE VERDICT   Taxes And PostWar Policies In Debate

NEW SHOWDOWN ON  WAGE DEMANDS OF  MINERS AWAITED SENATE DEBATE ON POST  WAR PARTICIPATION OF AMERICA CONTINIJES

Sets Monday as Deadline for Miners   President Writes WLB That He Will Take ‘Decisive Action’ if Issue Is Not Settled

Washington Roundup   New Showdown On Wage Demands  Of Miners Awaited: Half Liquor Tax

FDR Prepared To Act in Mine Dispute   Seys He Will Take Decisive Action of Issue Not Settled By Monday; Eccles’ Tax gram

Effort Started to Boost Ceilings  Move Designed to Assist Farmers

NEW EFFORT TO HIKE FARM PRICES. MADE   ‘Conservation Bonus  Forbidden In-Move q By Bankhead

Senator Bankhead to Offer Amendment to Agricultural Appropriations Bill Forbidding Executive Branch to Consider Soil Conservation Payments in Fixing Tops—Consideration Will Require Suspension of Rules. ,

Effort Started to Boost Ceilings  KA mem Mh ete ww ke   Move Designed to Assist Farmers

SEEKS HIKE IN FARM CEILINGS   Bankhead Starts Effort To Stop Considering Soil Payments

Fast Mosquito Bombers Hit  ~ German Capital; Round-clock Aerial Offensive Continuing

Reich Capital Suffers Third. Raidin aRow   Berlin Described As "City of Dead" After Rambinac

Berlin Again Heavily Hit   Fires From Monday * Roid Still Burning

bombers Hit At Berlin; Also Italy   Bombs Dropped Over Smould. ering City

One Plane Lost As RAF Smashes City Third Time   City Still Smoking From Tremendous Fires Started Monday Night   ROUND-THE-CLOCK BOMBING CONTINUES   Mosquito Bombers Get Through Heavy Barrage Of Anti-Aircraft Fire

Lt. E. W. Posey With 40th Service Group   The Chillicothean Is New Stationed at Avon Park Bomb«ing Range, florida.

Lt. Elgie W. Posey at Avon Park, Fla.   Chillicothe Youth Is Now Training to Be a Bombardier.

Russians Gain In Thrust to Free Leningrad   German Radio Report Admits Red Advance At Schlusselburg

SOVIET ARMIES ~GRUSH NAZIS IN NEW ADVANCES   Three Fronts Report Smeshing Gains —  During Night    VATUTIN’S ARMY IS CLOSING ON ROSTOV

WLB CAN HALT COAL WALKOUT   Only Wage Boost Can Prevent Strike  es  Decision Is Expected

NATIONWIDE COAL STRIKES - WAY HINGE ON PAY RULING   WALKOUTS IN ALABAMA AND INDIANA MAY SPREAD IF WLB REJECTS MINERS’ DEMANDS

Engage Germans In Increasingly Heavy Fighting...   Battle Nazis For Italy's Laraest Port

‘Battle With Germans Is Raging For Vital Port 115 Miles From Rome

Nazi Resistance Reported Stiff. At New Landing   Clark Leads Troops: In Bold Stroke To Capture Germans

ARMSTRONG SAYS ILLINOIS QUOTAS TO BE LARGER   DEPENDENCY CAN NO LONGER BE GIVEN CONSIDERATION

Members of Illinois Draft Boards Facing "Hardest Work You've Done’

TRAIN WRECK COST 27 LIVES; ~ NEARLY 100 OTHERS INJURED   8TEAM FLOODED COACH AFTER FAST PASSENGER . TRAIN SIDESWIPED SWITCH ENGINE —

27 Killed ‘In Train : Collision   Crash occurred near station at Wayland, N. Y. last night

Rail Wreck Toll Is 27   Rescue Workers Continue  Search In New York

Today’s War Commentary  German Morale  Soon Mav Face Its Greatest Te:

JUMPED TRO DEATH.   Young Mother Tired of Life After Death of Two Babies.

ALLIES SMASH 63 JAP PLANES   FLIERS RUIN NIPPO AIRCRAFT AT RABAUL

Allies Blast 63 Aircraft   34 Barges, 8 Ships Destroved in Ficht

ALLIED FLEETS WRECK MANY JAP PLANES, VESSELS      63 Planes Destroyed As Are Two Enemy Destroyers, Other Ships

Soe Meese  JS  Allien. Destroy ‘63 and _Piohably % More :-Enemy Afreraft — Also Sink of. Damage: Two Destroyers and -Several Other Ships. ._

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Air,  Sea Craft In Bolstering Solomons

MAIN STRENGTH OF U. S. FORCES IN PACIFIC AREA   So Declares President In Con. ference At Washington Today

Delay in Air Agreement Is - New Proposal   Anglo-American Pact to Consult Each Other Is Rumored Near

SHIP WELDER. UNDER ARRES]   Twenty-year-old Accused Of Doing Faulty Welding In Attempt To Increase Wanes

Berlin Officials Move Government   Take Offices Out Of Capital Area

Allies reach agreement with Inonu   Leaders stress firm friendship

HIGH OFFICIALS ~~ WEET IN CAIRO   Roosevelt, Churchill, Presldent Inonu Confer   THREE-DAY PARLEY   Believe Turkey Will Cooperate in Drive Against Balkans Backdoor

Statement Of Cairo Meeting Says Three Nations Bound By ‘‘The Closest Unity”   TURKISH ENTRY INTO WAR IS ANTICIPATED

CLOSEST UNITY WORKED OUT AT CAIRO MEETING   President Inonu Confers With Churchill And  Roosevelt After {  Stalin Parley »

HITLER'S BACK DOOR SOON 10 BE ASSAULTED   NATIONS BOUND BY ‘CLOSEST UNITY’ TO WHIP NAZIS

Otfoman Army Expected To Go into Action   Firm Friendship” Pledged by Inonu

F.D.R., Inonu And Churchill Conclude ‘Conference   Examine at Length Policy To Be Followed, Announcement Says . After Cairo Meetinge._.   RUSSIA REPRESENTED AT MOST OF TALKS.

 Genaral Political Situation Reviewed by Allied Leaders  “CLOSEST UNITY” IS AGREED UPON Fateful Conference Held  in Cairo on December: 4A Sand 6

Not Doubled Now That Turkey's ‘Two Million Men Army Ready to En ter Actively Into the War. Nations Bound By Clos est Unity

POLICY 1S SET AT SESSIONS HELD IN CAIR(   Turk Leaders, Churct ill, FDR Report “Closest Unity”

Axpec: ary “ursisa 2mcry no NV ar; 3a_<an Smas Seen Soon: _ azi —roors “ovine -

FDR, Churchill In 3-Day Parley With Pres. Inonu  Turkey, in Effect,   Turkey, in Effect, Moves Into Allied Camp

A NEW CHICAGO   Windy City Contributes 40 Million For Anothee Cruiser.

BOMBERS POUND ‘GERMANY AGAIN   U.S. Marauders Take to Air After RAF Raid

WILL SEEK TAX ON LIQUOR IN STORAGE   Chairman . George Says He Will Act to Break Up Shortage

Sen. George Asks Federal Tax on Storage Liquor   Seeks To Break Whiskey Shoriage

FEDERAL TAX ON STORED WHISKEY    Senate Will Be Asked* To Levy On That In Ware houses Four Years

130,000 REFUSE TO MINE COAL   That Number Ignore Appeals To Return To Jobs

Fleet Of B24s Drops 90 Per Cent Of Bomb Loac ‘On Wake Island Targets

SECOND ARMY RAID ON WAKE   Bombers Hit Jap-Held Island Heavi:y; Observe Scars Of First Raid.

Wake Island Is Bombed Second Time in 6 Weeks   At Least One Zero Plane Shot Down

U.S. PLANES IN NEW RAID       00. Per Gent.of .. ee Dropped on “Target Area’

Heisey, Benz Sentenced to 18 Months   Judge Scott Finds Two Guilty of Draft Dodge Charge

FRAUD CHARGES BY ARMY DENIED   Firm and Four Individuals Accused of Profiteering in Sales at Wright Field

Army Moves Into Detroit ©   Order Being Restored After 23 Killed, Over 700 Hurt

Federal Troops Arrive In City To Help Local Police in Grave Crisis   Soldiers Called in after Civil Authorities Admit Situation Is Out of Control; Several Battalions Reported on Duty; Censor Clamps Down on News; Hundreds Taken fo Hospitals. 

MORE THAN 400 ARRESTS; TWO OF THE DEAD ARE WHITE, ONE A PHYSICIAN PULLED FROM HIS CAR.

Civil Authorities Admit Inability To Control WhiteNegro Rioters   23 ARE ALREADY DEAD; CURFEW IS IGNORED

Army Moves Into Detroit When Death Toll Reaches 73- 500 Persons Iniured

Troops Ordered By President To Stop Violence   Crowds Begin Leaving Streets as Army IInite Mave In   BURN APARTMENTS

URGES RETAIL MILK PRICES BE INCREASED   Says Production Would Be Higher  In Dairies

STATE 5-DAY WEEK TO BE DISCONTINUED     Governor to Recommend Refurn to Normal Business     Sfate Defense Council WIM Get Proposal at Meeting Friday Morning

STATE 5-DAY WEEK — TO BE DISCONTINUED   Goverrior to Recommend. Return to Normal Business   Stato “Defuse Council Will Get Proposal at Meeting  Friday Morning

Hitler Admits Setbacks, but Challenges U. 8.   Invasion Coast Fortified and Ready, He Avers

nitler Gives New Year’s Broadcast   Repeats Same Old Line o Propaganda—Challenges  Allies to Invasion

CTheDAIY atts. WASHINGTON MERRY - GO: ROUND ( 4}  By DREW PEARSON

American Airmet Pound Japs  in Pacific Areas  Two U. S. Planes Are Lost in Widespread Raids

American Airmen Pound Japs  in Pacific Areas Two U. S. Planes   Two U.S. Planes Are Lost in Widespread Raids

War at Point Where Anything Can Happen in Europe, Says Halitax   But Ambassador, Just Back From London D. lave Cautions That Germans Are Tough

Halifax Rates Reich Brittle, Near Collapse   British Envoy -Expeets ‘Anything to Happen’

Halifax Visions German Collapse   But Cautions Nazi Army Remains Tough

POSSIBILITY OF NAZI COLLAPSE SEEN BY ENVOY   Halifax Says Anything Can  Happen In Europe bn...   BRITISH AMBASSADOR HIGHLY OPTIMISTIC

HALIFAX TALKS ON GERMAN SITUATION      Ambassador Declare s “Anything May Happen” Now

Halifax Hints At Nazi Collapse   British Envoy’s Tone Strongly Optimistic

Halifax Sketches Picture of Nazis Beset Everywnere   British Envoy Hints a Possibility of Gernian Collap¢e

Rumania Is Goal Of Onrushing Russians   Capture Of Vital Rail Junction Of Fastov Snapped Principal Rail Link Of Beleaguered Germans! Much Booty Seized. _

DRIVE AHEAD AT SPEED OF MILE AN HOUR      Lunge Follows Capture of Fastovy, Which Snaps Main Rail Link Between Nazis in North Ukraine and Krivoi Rog.

Drive 24 Miles A Day, Imperil  New Nazi Forces   Heavy . Fighting Rages Southwest Of Fallen Kiev, German Positions Grow More Dangerous, Casualties Mount.

Russians Drive on Beyond Kiev; Sever Line to Krivoi Rog   German Losses Mount as Soviet Advance Goes  Unchecked

Rail Junction Of Fastov Taken Over Week-End   24-Mile-A-Day Push Threatens To Crack Nazi Resistance  On All Fronts

Fastov Falls To Russians   Army Rolls: Swif tly: Toward: Rumania

Red Army Well Past Fastov, Captured Nazi Rail Link; Dnieper Bend Foe Crumbles

35-Mile Advance Made Beyond Kiev  Thrust Cuts Hitlerite Arnmics in Twain

Russians Push For Rumanian Frontier Area   Red Army Drives 10 Miles Beyond Newly Captured  Junction of Fastov

Nazis? Dnieper Resistance Threatens To Crumble - Under Fierce Assaults

RED ARMY IN SWIFT MOVEMENT TOWARD RUMANIAN BORDER   MIGHTY RUSSIAN PUSH   MIGHTY RUSSIAN PUSH AGAIN THREATENS TRAP LARGE ENEMY FORCE

Reds Gain 24: Miles In Day   Releutless Drive Threatens New Hortles of Gormans

Drive 35 Miles From Kiev: Take City Of Fastoy   Fall Of Rail Junction Threatens Foe With New Disaster

Red Troops Move Swiftly Toward  Rumanian Border   Fastoy Bastion Captured By Soviets: Muscovites Within 45 Miles of Latvian Border

RUSSIANS ROLL TO WESTWARD   Take Rail Junction of Fastov, Cutting Link of German Forces.   HEADING FOR RUMANIA

Soviets Race Far Beyond Fallen Kiev   Enemy Hordes Fac New Disaster On All Red Fronts

KEY JUNCTION OF FASTOV IS CAPTURED   Offensive Moves Along At 24 Miles A Day: TrainLoad Of German Equipment Is Taken

Red Army Rolis Toward Rumanian Border And  Nazis Yield Fastov Line

Rail Center   Threaten to Crumble Nazi Resistance in Dnieper Bend

Beleaguered Nazis Face Red Trap   Soviet Armies Drive 10 Miles Past Captured Fastov

Soviets Roll Near Border Of Rumania   Capture Vital Rail Junction of Fastov to Cut German Forces

Drive Beyond Fallen Fastov At Rate of 24 Miles Per Day   Northern Push Only 4 Miles from Border Of Latvia

TRAINLOADS OF EQUIPMENT AT FASTOV SEIZED   Russians 45 Miles From Latvian Border in Push Along North

Vital Railroad Junction Taken In Mighty Push   Russians Threaten To Crumple German Resistance In Bend

Mighty Push Covering 24 Miles a Dav   Vital Rail Junction 35 , Miles Southwest of  Kiev Captured   NAZIS CRUMBLING   Red Army Continues to Improve Positions in Crimea

MIGHTY RED PUSH NONGAT PED      Germans Battling ‘At Krivot Rog Are Cut Off   REDS TAKE VITAL RAIL JUNCTION

Mighty Push Threatens !o Break German Resistance in Dnieper Bend, Trap Large Forces   REDS NEAR POLAND   Capture Town after Town, Push Within 45 Miles of Old Polish and Latvian Borders

GAIN 35 MILES IN DRIVE FROM CAPTURED KIEV   Large Forces of Foe Face Possible Trap In New Advances

Reds Capture Fastov. Race For Rumania   70 Towns, Hamlets Swept Up by Advancing Russians; Big Losses Inflicted on Germans

RED ARMY IN SWIFT MOVEMENT TOWARD RUMANIAN BORDER  MIGHTY RUSSIAN PUSH

Reserves Sent Info Fight By Nazis   Numbers of Germans May Be Trapped By New Moves

RUSS ARMIES DRIVE TOWARD RUMANIA LINE   Break Through German Defenses Southwest  Of Kiev

Breakthrough Swiftly Followed up By Reds; Disaster Hangs Over Nazis in Ukraine

RUSSIANS HEAD TOWARD RUMANIE AS FASTOV FALLS   THREATEN TO TRAP HUGE NUMBERS OF BELEAGURED NAZIS

Large Amount Of Equipment Seized In Fall of Fastov   Captu'- >f Vital Rail Junction, 35 Miles Southwest of Kiev, Snaps Principal Link Between Large German Forces   1,000 ENEMIES DIE REPULSING COUNTER-ATTACKS

Russians Take Vital Rail Junction Of Fastov, 35 Miles Southwest, Snapping Link Between German Forces In Northern Ukraine And In Krivoi Rog Sector— Reds Only 45 Miles From Latvian And Old Polish Frontiers In North—Nazi Losses Heavy

Fastov, Vital Rail Point, Is Taken by Reds   Soviets Pushing on Toward Rumania at an Amarzina Pace

REDS LUNGE BEYOND KIEV; BLAODY FRAY      Germans Facing Catastrophe Overshadowing Kiev Disaster; Reds Take Key Railway Junction.   Happy Day

VITAL RAIL JUNCTION CAPTURED   eGerman Blood F lowing As Never Before; Agency Reports

May Trap Great Nazi Army in latest Drive   Swift Advance Nets ‘Reds Many Prisoners

Red Military Forces Advance 45 Miles Southwest of Kiev   Soviets Snap Main Railway Between Nazis in Northern Ukraine, Krivoi Rog in Capture of Fastoy

Russians Drive Beyond Kiev Upon Rumania   German Losses Mount  As Rail Link Is Cut

Red Army Heads  Toward Rumania   Takes Rail Junction of Fastov 35 Miles Southwest  ~ of Kiev   FIGHT IN THE CRIMEA   Russians Are Near Old Polish Borders on North Central Front

SOVIET ARMY NEAR RUMANIA BORDER TODAY   Troops Moving At Rate Of 24 Miles Daily

SHAPE TRAP FOR HUNS IN DNIEPER BEND   Russians Drive at Fast Pace Toward Rumanian Border to Take Fastov.   Reds Pushing Close To Old Latvian Border

Soviet Army Also Close to Old Poland   Mighty Advance Carries Visitors  94. Miles a Dav

Break Thru Scored In Kiev Sector   Russian Army Advances Being Scored Along Entire Battle Front

Mile-An-Hour Advance Rolls Toward Rumania  flarmpmean Bail 7 fel   German Rail Link

Reds Drive 10 Mi. Beyond Fastov, Shape Huge New Trap For Nazis In Dnieper Bend.

Reds Capture  Key Rail  Junction City Fastov, 35 Miles  Southwest of Kiev. Overwhelme.

RUSSIANSTEN MILES BEYOND SEIZED FASTOV   Engaged In Heavy Fighting With Nazis Armored Reserves Rushed Into Breach   [RAINLOADS ENEMY MATERIALS TAKEN   Mighty Red Push Threat_ ens to Crumble Enemy Resistance In Dnieper Bend

Reds Rolling On Toward Rumania Now   Cut Principal Rail Line Between Nazis in North Ukraine, Krivoi Rog

Rush Toward Rumania Border After Taking Fastov 35. “Milec Revand Kieu 

Day And Night Assault Pears Destruction On Rabaul And Marshalls   Marshall Visits Pacific War Front

AMERICANS HIT MARSHALL ISLES NINTH DAY IN ROW   For More Than Month Yank Bombers Have Been Blasting At Japa-

ACTION COMES AFTER CALL FOR cFCOND FRONT   Moscow Gives No Explanation for the Surprise Move

Litvinov is relieved as  U.S. envoy   Soviet appoints Andrei Gromyko

Disappointment On Second Front Probable Reason For Moscow Action

SOVIETS PULL SURPRISE BY RELIEVING LITVINOFF AS AMBASSADOR TO JU. S.

Litvinoff Is Recalled   Surprise Move Changes Red Ambassadors to U. S.

Russ Remove Litvinoif as Envoy to U.S   Action Comes As Surprise To U, S. Officials

Ambassador To United States Being Replaced   No Explanation Made For Surprise Action

Litvinoff Out, Gromyko Succeeds Him   No Explanation Given For Removal of Celebrated Diplomat

Soviet Replaces Envoy fo U. S.   Litvinov Has Been Anglo-Saxon Friend

MOSCOW CALLS BACK LITVINOFE   Washington Ambassador Of Soviet Union Is Replaced

Gromyko Will Be Ambassador To This Country   ‘May Emphasize the Second Front Call by the Russians

Litvinoff Relieved Of Post   Russia Names New Ambassador To United Starec

Moscow Relieves Maxim Litvinoff In Sudden Move   Russian Ambassador Advocated Closeness To Britain, U. 5S.

Litvinoff Loses os Job At Washinaton   Surprise Marks Removal Of Envoy Friendly To Allies

LITVINOFF IS RELIEVED OF POSTTOU.S.   Officials Caught By Surprise; Andrei Gromvyko Named

Russia Ousts Litvinoff As Envoy fo U. S.   Andrei A. Gromyko Replaces Litvinoff In Surprise Move by Soviet Government

HOUSE FIRM ON CHILD HELP BILL   Refuses to Recede From  Stand on U. S. Aid

CALL ON ITALIAN. KING 10 ABDIGATE   POWERFUL NEW ACTION PARTY DEMANDS ESTABLISHMENT OF REPUBLIC,

YANK FORCES ESTABLISH TWO FOOTHOLDS   Fighting Fierce on Betio, Less Intense on Butari

YETTER AGAIN HEADS P. 0. MEN      Indiana Woman Named State Organizer At Johnstown

WAR SPENDING . CHECKUP SEEN   CONGRESS INDICATES If WILt BEEK MORE DETAILED DATA ON EXPENDITURES

FLOODS DRIVE 82,000 FROM THEIR HOMES   Fear Levees On Mississippi Will Be Breached

MISSISSIPPI FLOOD WATERS HIT 6 STATES   82,000 in Flood Areas Homeless as Total Damage Mounts

OD WATE RISING OVER FARM LANDS   Six States Affected and 82,000 Said Homeless: Service Men Are Aiding in Ficht to Hold Dikes.

82,000 PERSONS IN 6 FLOODED STATES ARE LEFT HOMELESS   Crop Damage Mounting By Hour —- Emergency “Red Cross Units :  In. AcHopn-

Floods Rage Unabated in Six States      82,000 Homeless;  Crop Damage Mounts Hourly

Flood Waters Peril ‘Mississippi Dikes; ,82,000 Flee Homes   Streams Cover Vast Bottomlands In 6 States as Damage Mounts; Levees Below Missouri Threatened

82,000 DRIVEN FROM HOMES BY MIDWEST FLOODS   Vast Mississippi Tributary System Overtlows—Fear af Evidemic Mounts.

FLOODS DRIVE 82,000 FROM HOMES IN AREAS   Vast Mississippi Tributary System Backs Up Ove: ‘Wide Sections in Six Mid-Western States—Crop -- Damage Is Reported to Be Mounting Hourly —Armies Man the Dykes and Levees.

Floods Back Up over Bottomlands  Through Midwest   82,000 Residents Driven from Homes by Rising Waters -

Damage te Crops Is Mounting   Nine More Drownings Re ported Today in Indiana,  Missouri, Oklahoma

Flood Waters In Six States Continue to Rise   Mississippi Levees Endangered Below Mouth of Missouri

New Board Named To Study Rail Pay   Rationers Put a ‘Glow’ in New Tokens to Balk Counterfeiters

They Won’t Jingle, Jangle, Jingle. ....  Ration Tokens To Be  Counterfeit-Proof

RAF BOMBERS MAKE HEAVY RAID ON TWIN GERMAN CITIES LAST NIGHT   Mannheim and Ludwigshafen Feel Power Of British Block-Busters Dumped On Nazis.

TWIN CITIES OF GERMANY BOMBED BY RAFLAST NIGHT   IMPORTANT MANUFACTURING CITIES OF MANNHEIM AND LUDWIGSHAFEN HARD HIT BY BLOCK BUSTERS,   32 ALLIED PLANES FAILED TO RETURN   Germans Make Fantastic Claims of Having Sank 12 Destroyers and Nine Cargo Ships in Attack on Allied Convoy.

WRECK 95 MORE JAP PLANES AT WEWAK   Enemy Base in New Guinea About Wiped Out

SECOND RAID ON WEWAK DESCRIBED   Additional Heavy Damage Inflicted On Big Jap Base’

Increase Toll Of Planes In Wewak Area   Three Wisconsin Fliers Participate In Second Attack Against Ships And Airdromes

2000-Ton Raid Hurts Nazi Heads   German Leaders Whine About Damage To Cathedral  And Culture.

FIERCE AERIAL BATTLE OVER GERMAN CIT}   Mighty Attack Upon Cologne Hurled By RAF

American Planes  Hit Wake Island   Big U. S. Ships Fly From Midway Isle —

RESULT OF FORAY NOT OBSERVED   Heavy Army Bombers Fight Off 22 Jap  Planes; Down 2

Big American Liberators Fly From Midway, 1,190 Miles, Smash Island

Wake Island Attacked by Army Planes   Liberators Fly 1000 Miles To Bomb Japs

JAP ATTACK ON BOUGAINVILLE REPELLED BY U.S,   Australian Forces Kill 100 Enemy Soldiers in New Guinea

BO UGAYNVILLE ATTAGK BY JAPD OS REPULSED   American Troops Beat Of Enemy: U. S. Navy Still Hunting A Scrap

JAP ATTACK REPULSED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Aussies Advance On New Guinea's Huon Peninsula

REPINSE JAPS   Small But Sharp Japanese Counter. Attack on Bougainville Fails — Australian Forges Make New Advances .on New Guinea.

ATTACK OF JAPS I$ REPULSED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Japs Try To “Wedge Into U. S Lines In Northern Sclomons

Restaurant Closes And Gives Reasons   Drive-In Cafe Abandons Effort

ITALIANS PREPARE FOR ALLIED INVASION   Order Everybody To Stay Off Streets After Signal

‘Polio Situation Prompts Meeting 'Of Health Aides   All Officials In Eighth Service Command Will Meet In Dallas.

Health Folk — To Hold Meef   Infantile Paralysis Situation in 5-State Area to Be Discussed

DECLARE BETTER TYPES OF TOBACCO SELLING 100 LOW   Border Belt Markets Take First Holiday of 1943 Auction Season; Exceptionally Light Sales and Firm Prices Averaging Close To $42 Prevail.

CHRISTMAS TREE TO BE LUXURY THIS YEAR   Scarce and High—Tinsel, Lamp Bulbs, Other Decorations Hard to Replace

Christmas Tree Will Be Luxury This Year   Fir Trees Will Be Scarce, Prices To Be High, Survey  Shows

Rabaul Raid Called Pacific Turning Point   Japs Lose 117 Airplanes and Many Ships

Allies Break Back Of Japs at Rabaul, MacArthur States   Destroy or Damage 177 Enemy Planes and _ Sink at Least 17,600 Tons of Shipping, Including Three Destroyers, He Reports

“POE'S BACK BROKEN THERE:” MAC ARTHUR   177 Enemy Planes Destroyed or Damaged; Allied Loss: Five Planes

Key Base ” at Rabaul . Smashed   Biggest Air Armada Ever Amassed in South Pacific Bombards Japs   SURPRISE ATTACK “1S DEVASTATING   , ‘Marks Turning Point in the War in South Pacific,’. Says Gen: Kenney

Air Force Thrown  lato Rabaul Raid   MacArthur Makes Gigantic Smash at Japan’s Key -Air Base   ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY   Attack ‘Marks - Turning Point in War of South  Pacific”

Gigantic Air Smash Breaks Rabaul Base   Gen. MacArthur Believes Strong Jap Base Now Virtually Useless

Biggest Air Raid Of Pacifu War Wrecks 177 Planes, ‘Sinks 17,600 Tons Of Ships

Japanese Base Is Crushed by Allied Bombs  Rabaul Battered By Greatest Raid  PAL thse. 46 Dew L'a

SMASH RABAUL IN BIGGEST AIR RAID IN PACIFIC   Lt. Gen. Kenney Says Attack Turning Point of War in Area

MASS ASSAULT SMASHES JAPS BASE ATRABAUL   Generals Report New Britain Attack Is “Turning Point In Pacitic War”

IN BIG ATTACK   MacArthur Uses Every Available Plane in Surprise Smash.   ALLIES LOSE 5 PLANES

Back of Rabaul Believed Broken by Huge Smash Against Jap Planes and Shipping, Inflicting Severe Damage

Wreck 177 Planes, 123 Ships In Raid   Major Japanese Base Has ‘Back Broken’ As Result Of Heaviest Attack Ever Mounted ~~ In Southwest Pacific; 3 Destroyers Sunk

MacArthur Smashes At Rabaul   Big Air Armada Blasts 177 Jap Planes— ‘Turning Point In War’

177 PLANES, 119 SHIPS DESTROYED   Action Is Called Turning Point In South Pacific: Allies Lose 5 Bombers: Enemy Surprised

Rabaul Battered In Gigantic Raid   Largest Allied Air Armada Yet to Take Skies in Pacific Smashes Jap Base, Hitting 177 Enemy Planes and Sinksae Many Ships. , :    FOR’S “BACK BROKEN”

EVERY BOMBER PUT IN RAID BY MACARTHUR   General Says Back Of Japs’ Bastion Is Broken

Rabaul Smash “Turning Point”  177 Jap Planes  Downed, Six Foe Ships Sunk

Yank Fliers Give Japs “The Works’   MacArthur Feels This Titanic Blow Will Prove Decisive   [BACK OF LITTLE ’ NIPS IS BROKEN

Gigantic Air Armada Raids Rabaul Area   General MacArihur Says Back Believed Broken In Smashing Attack.   ‘DESTROY 117 PLANES

Rabaul Split Wide Open by Massive Allied Air Assault   Surprise Raid Is Called Turning Point In Southwest Pacific

MAJOR PACIFIC BASE OF ENEMY: BURNING RUINS   Biggest Air Armada Ever Amassed In Rabual Sector Takes Crushing Toil of Japanese   60% OF AIRFORCE OF FOES IS SMASHED   17,600 Tons Shipping Sunk; Wharves and Waterfront Installation Smoulder ing Gravevard .

Allied Bombers Blast Japan's Rabaul Base   Raid Declared To Be ‘Turning Point’ by Gen. George Kenney

Jan Air Power In Pactic Is ~ Broken In Rai   Biggest Air Armada Ever Massed In Pacific Wrecks 177  Planes

Allied Bombers And Fighters Also Sink At Least 17 600 Tons Of Shipping, Including Three Destroyers And Three Merchant Ships—113 Smaller Surface Craft! Sunk—350 Tons Of Explosives Poured Upon Rahaul Installations

Jap Air Power Smashed Again   MacARTHUR HURLS ALL HIS PLANES IN BIG BATTLE

G SHIPS SUNK AS BIG. ALLIED AIR FLEET ATTACKS   MacArthur Believes Back of Powerful Nippon Base Broken

Tremendous Losses In Planes, Ships Inflicted At Big Japanese Base

Hundreds of Flyers Smash 177 Planes, Wreck 123 Vessels   ‘Turning Point’ in South Pacific Marked by Area’s Biggest Attack; Japs’ Defense Perimeter Periled

Hundreds of Fighters and Bombers “Break Back” of Enemy ‘Pearl Harbor”. MacArthur Believes.

Japs Backbone On New Britain Thought Broker   Sea-Air Bastion Is Raided By Biggest Sky Armada “OF So: Pacific Cai

MAJOR BASE IS VIRTUALLY KNOCKED OU]   Commanders Hail Blow As Turning Point In Pacific

BACK OF RABAUL BROKEN IN RAID GENERAL THINKS   Biggest Air Armada Ever Amassed In South Pacific Smashes At Jap SeaAir Bastion On New Britain With Devastating Results.

MacArthur Hurls Every Available “Plane In Assault   Allies Destroy 177 . Planes And Sink 119 Vessels In Big Smash

Mighty Allied Aerial Armada Smashes Rabaul   177 Jap Planes K. O.’d, Many Ships Sunk In Devastating Attack.

60 PERCENT OF JAP AIR FORCE OUT OF ACTIO      17,600 Tons of Enemy Ship: ping Sent To’ ~ Bottom

Huge Raid Lays Waste To Jap Base   Rabaul Left Smouldering Graveyard Of 300 Nip Ships, Planes

GIGANTIC SMASH BREAKS BACK OF KEY JAP BASTION  177 EACMY DI ANCSC   177 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED IN RAID ON NIPS AT RABAUL

MacArthur And Kenney Pleased With Results Of Rabaul Raid   Terrific Destruction Is Left In Wake Of Tremendous Air Attack Of Tuesday.

i ap Planes Hrecked In Vast paid On Rabaul   Three Destroyers  fienk In Biggest Jn Area

Gen. MacArthur Says Rabaul’s Back Broker   Japs Lose 177 Planes In Heavy Raid; Three Destroyers Sent To Bottom By Allied Planes

177 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED OR SEVERELY DAMAGED AND 17,600 TONS SHIPPING SUMK   Biggeit Air Armada Ever Amassed in Pacific Dealt’ Exiemy Blow That Will Mark Turning Point in War. Lt. Gen. Kenney Thinks

Greatest Air Fleet of War Blasts Rabaul   Key Sea-air Bastion of Japs Practically Put Out of Business

CONCENTRATED AIR ‘OMADH AT JAPANESE AT RABAUL EFFECTIVI  GEN. MACARTHUR LOUD IN PRAISE OF RESULTS  GREAT BLASTING

3 Warships Sunk and 177 Aircraft Hit   ‘Turning ‘Point in Pacific War,’ Says Gen. Kenney o{ New Britain Raid   DOCKS SET ABLAZE   Giant Air Armada Hurls 350 Tons of Bombs at Japs’ Anchor Base

‘T Think We Heve Broken lis Back’ MacArthur Says—Kenney Sees Turning Point   MANY SHIPS SUNK   Destruction or Severe Damage of 177 Enemy Planes Extends Allied Air Suneriority

SMASHRABAUL ~— W BIG RAID   Gigantic Air Armada In. flicts Severe Damage On Jap Bastion

SMASH JAP’S AIR BASTION AT RABAUI   MacArthur Throws Every Bomber Available Into  Destructive Raid.   Biggest Air Armada Amassed in Pacific

Wreek 177  Koe Planes   Turning Point In South Pacific War Seen By General MacArthur's Command   Escorted By Fighters.

U. S. ARMADA DEVASTATES RABAUL BASE   Sinking of Three Destroyers and as Many Merchant Ships Claimed By MacArthur

Biggest Raid In Pacific Smashes 177 Jap Planes, Three Destroyer:

ati. Avac< on Coo “nvi-es Scar : “2 ) dec + ion in +.egean /.rea

Battle For Island Is Nazi Delaying Action  Ciaht For Coo. Off Turkish Mainland. Desiqned To   - Fight For Coo, Off Turkish Mainland, Designed To ; Upset Allied Offensive Plans  y

tat yg comm on-a-or “Warns erin * We-or - eavv /.eria. orudyine i

Berlin Marked for Further Raids byR.A.F   Nazi Capital Seen as Important Target for Planes

Berlin Soon To  Be Attacked, RAI  Spokesman Hints: Fleet of German:  E-Boats Attacked by Reitich Naval Planes

BERLIN DUE NEXT FOR BOMB RAIDS   Radio Commentator Says Long Nights Wilt Make City An Excellent Target.

MORE BOMBINGS NUE FOR BERLIN   Long Nights - To Afford Cover For Attacks On Reich Capital

RAF Commentator Hints Berlin s Next Big Target   Bombing of German Cap ital Coming Soon, He Says in London

BRITISH PLANES ATTACK RHINE   RENEW ASSAULTS ON NAZI INDUSTRIAL SPOTS

BERLIN DUE FOR AERIAL ATTACK   RAF Speaker Says City Watches Lengthening Nights With Fear; Ruhr Bombed

Bombers Blast Axis Shipping   Ship, Palermo Port Are Heavily Damaged —~

PLANES STRIKE AT SICILY   One Ship Sunk, Three Damaged in Harbor of Palermo

Allies Roll Through 1’ Towns and 5 Major Points.   NAZIS FORCED BACK TO GARIGIANO RIVER   Reported Murdering and Pillaging Ruthlessly as They Fall Back.

Enemy Using Scorched Earth Policy, Destroy« ing Everything Can’t Take With Thet

Homeless Total Up to 28,000 In Great Flood   Many Seek High Ground Along Lengthy Stretch Of Mississippi River

MORETROOPS RUSHED INTO FLOOD FIGHT   Seething Streams Ap. proach or Exceed Record Levels

‘Thousands More Are Homeless as Flood 'Swells Along Mississippi; ‘Army Men Help With Rescues, Repairs

Exodus Begins In Six-State Flood Sector   Soldiers Bolster Levees: 28,000 Are Homeless; m   th uu... ..... Fh...

Thousands In Path Of Flood Leaving Homes   More. Troops Sent into Areas; Crop  Diwaeaeee Ch aedaeere

Mississippi River Walls Menaced By High Waters   More Troops Rush Into Fight To Hold Threatened Levee Lines; More Than 28, Persons Are Already Homeless

Rush Fresh Troops to Battle Midwest Floods; 90,000 Saic  Homeless, Damage 30 Million

Thousands In Path Of Flood Leaving Homes   More Troops Sent Into Areas; Crop  Damana Ernarmniiec

FRESH TROOPS AID; DAMAGE IS GREAT   Death List Stands At 10; Field Work In Many Farm Regions. Said To Be At Standstill

More Troops Rushed in to  Battle Floods   28.000 Homeless in Six Midwest States:  Levees Threatened:  Crop Losses Grow

Homeless Reckoned At 28,000   Troops Hasten To Reinforce River Dikes

A COLUMN. ABOUT IOWA   Trucks in Collision; One Driver Is Killed

All Kinds of Cans Are Acceptable Now   Rusty Ones Are Good as the Bright Ones, Street Commissioner Dayton Says.

TO PICK UP CANS   Street Department Truck to Tour City This Week.

TO PICK UP CANS   City Truck Will Canvass City Thursday and Friday.

Kroger Firm Indicted in U.S. Court For Violation of Anti-Trust Laws...

BRICKER GIVES PLEDGE OF AID IN WAR EFFORT   Governor, Inaugurated For Third Time, Cites State's Responsibilities   " FANFARE IS ELIMINATED   Address And Biennial Report Will Be Delivered To Assembly At Night

SOLEMNLY PLEDGES SUPPORT TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT   Starts on Precedent-Breaking Third Term qs Republican Chief Executive of Ohio — Ceremony Treated as Simple Necessary Incident of Vlartime Administration.

New Program for Control Of Food Costs Scored By ~ Labor Federation Official

Food Cost Plan  Meets Protests   ‘Not Enough,” Says AFL Official; Subsidy Hit

Leader in AFL Hits OPA Plan As Inadequate   Wants Price Reduced Ou Every Staple Food To That of May. 1942

FOOD PLAN IS ATTACKED BY UNION CHIEE   Control Program’ Called Inadequate by George Meany

Labor Protests Food Cost Plan   AFL Official Urges Prices Be Rolled Back as of May 15. 1942~

A. F. L. Secretary Hits OPA Policy  Says Price Control  gee ee es seas

Food Cost Subsidy [s  Criticized   Program Allsc Is Declared  Inadequate’

Labor Official Derides Cuts In Food Prices   10 Per Cent Reduction Not Enough, Says AF L Leader; Congressmen Rap Subsidy Plan

New Food Cost Control Program Arouses Protests   Titicized by Congressmer and Labor Leaders as Inadequate

Food control measure hit  by AFL chief   Labor asks all food be cut-back

AFL Leader Says Subsidy Proposal Will Prove  Inadanuate   CONGRESS IS ALSO OPPOSED TO SCHEME

WPB Prepares fo Lift Secrecy Label From Records of American Production

WPB to Unveil Output Figures   Nelson Believes Facts Will Annoy Enemy

BROWN TAKES OPA FIGHT TO SENATE TODAY   Pres. Roosevelt Turvis Thumbs Down On Abolition Of Rollback

STARTS JUN!   Ohio Liquor Ration Schedule Set: Sales Stop May 17.

Bee-Bee Gun Gives Designers Idea for One of Army's Newest Weapons

BEE-BEE GUN GIVES ARMY IDEA FOR RIFLE   30-Caliber Weapon Weighs Less Than Six Pounds

British Cruisers and Destroyers Rain Shells on Italian Island; British Tell of Reconnaissance on Island of Lompedusa

Pantelleria Shelled By British Ships   Reuters Correspondent Says Offensive Is Already Underway

island Rocks From Air And. Sea Assaults   Italy Claims Garrison Refuses Demand To Surrender; Malta Report Says ‘Attack’ Of Lampedusa Merely Reconnaissance

Syncronized Attacks Pour Into Defense:   Other Raids on Europe’: Underside Revealed Ti Be Successful

Shells Poured Again Into Pantelleria   Allies Coordinate Attack By Air And Naval Forces

PAROLE BOARD ACT IS STUDIED   Martin Has Not Yet Made Decision, But Sees Need For Appeal Right

No Decision On New Parole Law Made By Martin   New Governor Is Opposed To Further Extension of Civil Service

PLANE HITS HOUSE BUT PILOT ESCAPES   Civilian Flier Climbs Out of Wreckage in Attic

Military Chiefs Expect Future Campaigns Against Axis to Take Heavy Toll of Lives

Invasions To Cost More: Tarawa Attack Well Planned, Says Vandergrift, bul Only Beginning         Partisans Defeat Nazis in Balkans

TARAWA LOSSES NOT EXCESSIVE   Marine Chief Says U. S. Must Expect Heavy Casualties

‘ay Cos7 ‘/i_ion ives ~o 3reac ‘a7 7es- Ma _ in: Doming _nvasion

Rickenbacker Demands a Change in the Wace-Hour Law for Duration of War

Rickenbacker Demands a Change in the . ' ° 'Wage-Hour Law for Duration of War

Soviets Knife Into Ukraine, Take Zenkov   Advance Passes Beyond  Far Point of Winter's Canim ht:

Soviet Troops Push Onward   Sixty. More Towns Fall To: Red Army In Kharkov Area

RED TROOPS TAKE ZENKOV; WIDEN BREACH   In Enemy’s Donets Basin Lines; 2,500 Germans Killed; Limited Gains Made Near  Rrvanek   Forest Defenses

Soviet Forces Take Zenkov,  Eclipsing Winter Offensive    Breach in Enemy’s Donets Basin Lines Widened by Ad. vancing Armies—Poltaya and Lozovaya Are Threatened

Russian Troops Capture Zenkov In Great Drive   Big German Army May Be Trapped

ZENKOV CAPTURED BY REDS IN WIDENING DONETS LINES   Russian Troops Eclipse Last Winter’s Counter-Of. fensive Mark In Bre aching Enemy’s De fenses; Soviet Airmen Are In Action

RUSSIANS WIDEN BREACH IN NAZI LINES ON DONETS   Reds Threaten Poltava and Lozovaya as They Push West and South of Fallen Kharkov.   STORM INTO ZENKOV DEEP IN UKRAINE   Germans Counter-Attack Fiercely in Unsuccessful ‘ Effort to Hait OnRushing Soviets.

GERMANS FAIL IN EFFORTS 10 HALT RUSSIANS   RED TROOPS NOW 85 MILES NORTHWEST OF KHARKOY

Soviets Take Zenkow, Deer In Ukraine   ‘Also Advance South And Forces Threaten Poltava and Lozovaya  MANY NAZIS KITT ED

Red Army Drives Deep Into Ukraine Threatening To Envelop Germans

OUVTETS FAN QUT TO WEST, SOUTE   Capture Zenkov, 85 Miles Northwest of Kharkov   AIR FORCE ACTIVE   Aids Russian Effort to Trap Thousands of Nazis in Donets Basin Salient

Reds Capture et Widen  nets Breach   Eclipse Last Winter’: Counter Offensive Mark 85 Miles to Kharkov Northwest

Ukraine Rail Town Captured Russians Widen Reearl IT. Nao:   Russians Widen Breach In Nazi Donets Line

Russians Capture Zenkov, Threaten Nazi Escape Line   Red Forces Eclipse Last Winter’s Offensive High Mark After Surging Through Kharkov: 2,500 Slaughtered

SOVIET SMASH WIDENS BREAK “IN NAZI LINES   Zenkov Taken as Reds Rush 85 Miles Past Fallen Kharkov

Reds surge past line reached in °4.2 drive   Overrun Zenkov deep in Ukraine, widen breach in Donets defenses

ALL TIES WITH PAST SEVERED, SAYS BADOGLIO   Former Enemy Accepted As Co-Belligerent By U. S., Britain And Russia

ALLIES ACCEPT WAR HELP OF GEN. BADOGLIO   “All Ties with Dreadful Past Broken,” Premier Says

Premier Marshal Badoglio Sends Fealty Message to Eisenhower; Officially Made Cobelligerent

ITALY RATED Aa COBELLIGERENT   Badoglio Says All Ties With Dreadful Past Broken   MARCH WITH ALLIES   Not Likely, However, Italy Will Be Able to Put Any Great Army in Field

TIES BROKEN WITHHITLER BY BADOGLIO   NATION WILL FIGHT NAZIS ON SIDE OF ALLIES

United Nations Accept Italy as a Co-bellig‘erent   TROOPS AND FLEET PLAN ACTIVE PART   Proclamation Issued te People by Marshal Badoalio

Italy Declares War Against Germany, Accepted by Allies In Status of Cobelligerent

Active Part Is Indicated By Badoglio   U. S., Britain, Russia Say Italy Accepted As Co-Belligerent

Country Goes To War Against Former Ally   Bodoglio Indicates Troops, Fleet Will Take Active Part in Fighting Germans

BADGOLIO INDICATES ITALIAN TROOPS AND FLEET WILL TAKE ACTIVE PART IN WAR: TIES BROKEN.

Badoglio Message Pledges Full Aid   Marshal Speaks For King in Urging People to Aid United Nations Win Victory   Badoglio Claims Italians Will Fight Erstwhile Ally

PLANNED. A BIEL   War-Hit Vacation . Spots Would Be Used to House War Casualties

OAKES HEIRESS TALKS TG HUSBAND IN PRISON   ‘ate Charged With Murder of '3-Year-Old Girl’s Father, Sir Harry Oakes

Nancy Oakes Sees Her Husband In  Bahama Prison   Greets Him  With A Kiss

Enemy Vessel Is Blasted by Bombers   Two Additional Points Taken by U. S.. Australians

Enemy Vessel Is Blasted by Bombers  HMw PB olaltél moe sol   Two Additional Points Taken by U. S., Australians

Paves Wavy For Attack On Messina   Getting Near Mainland of Italy

CAMP ELLIS SOLDIER IS HELD TODAY   Signs Confession After Arrest By Military Police

US. 5th Army Routs Nazis   Mt. Camino and High Ridge on Rome Road Taken by Storm

Senate Appropriations Committee and Truman Group Will Conduct Inquiry Jointly—Light Will Be Sought on Activities of RFC and Export-Import Bank in Foreign Fields to Show People How Their Dollars Are Being Used.

yenate to Frobe Lend-Lease, Other Foreign Spending  Investigation Widened  ie ¢ Seen eee See RE cs   Investigation Widened At Committee Parley: Will Start Nov. 

LEND-LEASE PROBE WILL BE WIDENED   Check Into Spending of Federal Agencies to be Made

INVESTIGATION INTO LEND-LEASE PLANNED   Congress Will Also Check Into Spending Of Other Federat Agencies

CHECK ORDERED ON LEND-LEASE   Inquiry Will Cover Al Spending Of Federal Agencies Abroad

Senators Apree To Investigate   Lend-Lease and Other Agencies Subject To Probe

Broaden Probe Into Spending   Lend-Lease, Other Agencies on Slate

Congressional Investigation For US Agencies   * Broaden Scope of Check Ups on Federal Spending

LABOR SHORTAGE GUTS TIRE OUTPUT   More Serious Than Rubber Supply, Report

C. OF C. TO NAME 7 NEW DIRECTORS   Fourteen Candidates Have Been Nominated for the Positions   IBALLOTS OUT SHORTLY,

C. OF C. TO NAME 7 NEW DIRECTORS   Fourteen Candidates Have Been Nominated for the  Positions   Composed of ?1 Members

LORIENT GIVEN ‘WORST POUNDINC   Targets in Industrial Rubi Attacked by R. A. F.

GERMAN SUB BASE IS HIT HARDEST YET   Worst Pounding Of War For Lorient; Ruhr Also Attacked

Nazi Sub Nest At Lorient Is Pounded Again   Worst Raid Of War Made Sunday

Lorient Given Worst Beating Of Whole War   Great Destruction Reported Inflicted

RAF Lashes At Lorient   Heavy Damage Reported Done at German Sub Base; Ruhr Area Raided

Lorient Is  Given Worst Pounding Of War By RAF   Great Destruction Indicated At Huge Nazi U-Boat Base; Huewa Fires Canced

Report Seven Bombers Lost In Raid; More Planes Roar Across Channel During Day

Heaviest Raid Pastes Lorient   RAF Leaves Sea of Fire Visible 100 Miles

Blasting Raids Strike Axis On Many Fronts   Lorient U-Boat. Nest Gets Worst Pounding Of War, While Naples And’Rangoon Come In For Attention Of Raiders.

RAF Turns French -Port ‘Into Sea of Flames Visible 100 Miles Away’   7 BOMBERS LOST   Spitfires Wing Over Dover to Continue Raids on Entope  in Daylight Today

RAF Batters German Sub Base At Lorjent   Canadian Airmen Who Took Part In Attack Say Port Turned Into Sea Of Flames Visible 160 - Miles Away

DESTRUCTION AT SUBMARINE YARDS IS GREAT   Pounding Given by British Airmen Described by Air Ministry As Heaviest of War   FIRE VISIBLE 100 MILES TO RAF FLIERS   Industrial Ruhr Also Lambasted; Raids Resumed Today; Germany Treats  Bombing Lightly

BIG BOMBERS RAID GERMAN U-BOAT BASE   Lorient Receives Heaviest Pounding Of War; Huge Fires Started

LORIENT GIVEN WORST BEATING   U-Boat Base Plastered With Block-Busters By RAF; Ruhr Is Also Target

65th Raid On Lorient Worst Yet   Seo of Flames Left After Latest R. A. F. Visit; 7 Planes Lost

ROYAL AIR FORCE RAIDS SUB BASE   Inflicts Heaviest Pounding of War on Nazis’ U-Boat Nest

HEAVIEST RAID HITS LORIENT   RAF Bombers Attack Sub Base and Ruhr Valley

Signal System Change Slated   Eastern Area Will »Have “Three. Audible, Sounds . Prior To Alerts:

UNIFORM AIR RAID. SIGNALS ARE ANNOUNCED   New Regulations Will Go Into Effect Feb. 17   Preliminary Audible “Blue” To- Be AQaundad .

BLACKOUT ALARM SYSTEM REVISED   New Rules, Effective On February 17 In Sixteen States Include Red And Blue Signals

PUSH THROUGH GERMAN LINES   Mass expulsion of enemy troops from Russia appears under way

SOVIETS PIERCE NAZI DEFENSES NEAR KHARKOV   High Command Says Armies Press Steadily Westward Thru Ukraine   COUNTERATTACKS HALTED   Russian Units Press Toward Orel; Enemy Seeks To Break Donets Trap

Aloo Ole NeW HOLES IN NAZI ~DEFENGE LINE   Mass Expulsion of Enemy in Red Territory Begun, Paper Says.   MORE TOWNS SEIZED, FOOD STORES CAPTURED

NEAR KHARKOU OUVIET ARTY lO ADVANCING   New Break Through Has Been Scored by Russian Forces.   BIG VICTORY COMING   Many Nazis Killed or Captured and Much War Material Taken.

NEWSPRINT CUT Is EXPECTED OCT. 151   Another 5 Per Cent Reduction, Recommended by Committee

KNOX REPORTS ENEMY FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL   Statement made as favorable reports come from southwest Pacific

Continue To Smash Japs In Rabaul Area   Enemy Suffers Heavy New Loss Of Planes And Ship Damage   SIXTY-THREE JAP PLANES DESTROYED

ADMIRAL NIMITZ SEES SON FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS ‘AS HE AWARDS SILVER STAR

Cullman County Receive: $74,585.95 In Revenue Under The A. B. C. Act

More Control For Badoglio Sought Allied Council Calls  For Action

COUNCIL UPHOLDS BADOGLIO'S RULE   Recommendations Would Put His Authority Over firaater italy

Radoglio Government Likely To Contrél All Of Occupied Territory.

SEEK BODY IN RIVER   Clarence Leroy Tate, 11, Sank in ; Deep Water -

FDR TO PRESS RAIL DECISION   ‘Yes-Or-No’ Answer Wanted On Arbitration Offer

President Seeks To Halt Moves For Rail Strike   Pressing For Decision On His Offer To Arbitrate Situation   NEW CONFERENCES SCHEDULED TODAY

Eighty-Four Tons of Explosives Are Dropped on Rabaul by Allied Aces

Heavy New Air Raids Are Made (n Rabaul Base   Smashing Attacks Are Made On Japs At New Britain Stronghold   AT LEAST 45 JAP PLANES DESTROYED

Pioneer Oyens Merchant Died Last Saturday  John Meis Stricken By Heart Attack While, At Home

Pioneer Oyens Merchant Died Last Saturday  J ohn Meis Stricken By Heart Attack  UE7L°*3 Aa FVT.....

Sub Menace Is Being Swept From Seas, Says Sorretary Qf Navy Knox

ARGENTINE OVERTHROW IS DENIED   Chilean Rumors Reported Revolt In Argentina

BOOK: ON WILLKIE CAUSES FURORE   Rankin Demands Congress Investigate Material in Publication

Rankin Demands Book Inquiry  Solon Makes Charge OF ‘Willkie Machine

SCANDAL BOOK ~ BLACKENS GOF   Cosgressman Calls For Investigation; Willkie Brands Story Bunk

TAKE TRAINS   Visitors Keep Attendance at Lakeside NeaHy Normal,

No Draft Change Planned—MeNutt  Advises Wheeler Dads Will Be Going Oct. 1

Still Od. 1, Says McNulf   Will Be Drafting Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads By Then

Seek Action By Congress To Stop Dad Dratt   McNutt Tells Wheeler Oct.  Date Stands

CALLED-W NUTT   Manpower Head Tells Senator Wheeler Boards Will Not Delay Draft.   [NEEDED TO FILL QUOTA

Airs. Harding's Funeral Saturday   Wheeler Asks Special Session On Father Draft After McNutt Turns Down His Delay Request

NO-DRAFT LAW TO BE ASKED   Wheeler Told old Induction of -Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Can’t Be Delayed

LD COMPANY Mi MEMBER MISSING IN UTALY FIGH   Corporal David W Peele, of Wilson Rt. 4, One of Original Members of Old Nation Guard Company Here

ks Missing in Action Since February 7th   Capt. Jim Brereton, son of Ellen K. Bre. reton, is war victim

OLD COMPANY M MEMBER MISSING » WN ITALY FIGH             al David W Peele, of son Rt. 4, One of Origi Members of Old Nas Guard Company Here

OFFICERS BAFFLED IN WARDENS. DEAT   Autopsy Fails to Reveal Cause of Death of Conservation Officer

FIND BODY OF ~ GAME OFFICER   Investigators Seek Solution To Strange Disappearance

/A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   Fewer Babies in 1942 Tn Towa Than in 1918

Birth Rate Increases in lowa During 1942   Jowa State Health Department Reports 47,857 Babies—Highest Since 1924

Pacific Bombinas Extend From Java To Gilbert Isles   Attacks May Mean General: Attack on Japs Comirig Soon

Allied Planes Hit Bases Of Japs   Nomura Warns Home Front of Coming Attacks

Allies’ Growing Air Power Felt On Nippon Bases   Bombers Complete Sixth Successive Day of Raiding Gilbert Island.   Carrier-Based Planes Pour Bombs on Nauru

Allies Spread Damaging Air Blows Against Japs Over Wide Pacific Area

Bomber Squadrons  Smash at Japanese  Growing Allied Air Power Felt Ry Fnomv Thrannhant Santh Canc

Mounting Air Blows Sting Jap   Sixth of the World Covered in Giant  Explosive Arc

Allies Expand Air Blows At Jap Bases As Nomura Warns Worse Yet To Come

ALLIED AIR POWER GROWS IN PACIFIC   Bombers Complete Sixth Successive Days’ Raid on Japanese Outer Defenses In Pacific

Allied Airforce Blasts Japanese  Outposts Attacked in . Great Explosive Blast

ALLIED HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST IAP DEFENSES   Growing Air Might Flays Nips From Java To Gilbert Isles

Speed Up Air Tempo In Pacific   Jap Bases from Java To Solomons Feel the Sting of Allied Bombs; Advance in New Guinea

GROWING ALLIED AIR POWER BLASTING JAP: OVER GREAT SECTOR   RAIDS MADE FROM JAVA TO MARSHALL AND GILBERT ISLANDS

Mid-Pacific Islands Raided Sixth Consecutive Day Australians One Mile From Major Nip Base At Sattelberg In New Guinea

ALLIED PLANES LASH SOUTHERN JAP DEFENSES   Raids Extend From Java to Outposts in Marshall, Gilbert Isles

SOERBAIA NAVAL BASE, NIPPONESE ISLES UNDER FIRE   Nomura Warns Japan of Steadily Growing Allied

Yanks Throw Many Bombs on Jap Base   35 Jap Planes Raid Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville, 18 Shot Down

GERMAN PRISONERS NOT HAPPY AT BEING SENT BACK HOME   First Exchange Made with Germany Includes 17 Americans

Gives Death To Kidnaper      Stoll Abductor Will Pay for His Crime In Eleetrie Chair

ROBINSON MUST: DIEFOR ALICE STOLL SEIZURE   Séjitenced to Eleetiic Chair March 10 After Convie- - :  - tion In $50,000 Ran-  ‘som Kidnaping

KIDNAPER WILL DIE      Abductor of Mrs. Stoll Convicted Saturday, Sentenced Today

Robinson to Die in Chair   Death Sentence Is Imposed for Kidnaping Of Mrs. Alice Stoll

Alice Stoll’s Kidnaper Gets Death Penalty   Sentence Of Death In ’ Electric .Chair On March 10 ile. Ordered For Thomas Robinson’

Kidnaper of Louisville Woman Is Sentenced to Die in Chair March I0

KIDNAPER WILL DIE IN CHAIR   Judge Rules Thomas Robin: son, Who Kidnaped Mrs. Stoll, Must Die

AUDINGON FACES DEATH IN CHAIR   Kidnapper Of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll Sentenced To Die

alia Soldiers In Hills Given — Nazi Ultimatum   Guerrillas Told To Stop Fighting By Saturday

Ravenna Plant Produces ‘Block-Buster’ Bombs: Reporters See How It’s Done

Phillip Murray Charges Badly Planned Contract Allocations Responsible For Manpower Problem

AFL Executive Asks Suspension Of Wagner Act   Lewis Blames Government In Impending Inflation; -NLRB Said-Aiding Raids

MURRAY SAYS LABOR DRAFT UNNECESSAR’   Criticises ‘Badly Planned’ Contract Allocations, Industry, Draft ‘ Boards-for Shortages ‘

Jap Plane Losses in Gilberts Seen As Indication They Are Trying to Recover From Powerful U. S. Attack

ORDERS LOWER FREIGHT RATES   ICC Revokes 1942 Increase in Charges, Leaves Passenger Fares at Present Levels,

FINAL RITES HELD FOR LATE SOLDIER   Funeral Of Pvt. Raymond Malcolm Moul Takes Place With Military Service At Graveside

FINAL RITES SUNDAY FOR YOUNG SOLDIER   Will Conduct Military Services For Raymond M. Moul, Following Obsequies At Parents’ Home

PREDICTS GREATER ECONOMIC STRIDES   U. S. Chamber President Says Restrictions Will Be Eased

Delay Showdown On DeGaulle Issue   Fighting Frenchman Wants Military Power

UNITED FRENCH TENSION AIRED   DeGaulle Demands Full Authority Over Military

State Head Bans Publication of Names of Men Called for Induction

SOME PUBLICITY ON DRAFT BANNED   Names And Number Of Men May Not Be Made Public Until After They Have Been Inducted

NAMES, NUMBER “OF MEN BANNED BY COL EVAN:   No Quota News Prior to Actual Induction Allowed

OWI, BEW Face Slashes Despite Committee Okay   Much-Attacked Agencies Face Close Scrutiny In House Consideration.

OWI, BEW TARGETS OF HOUSE DESPITE CONFIDENCE VOTI   Economy Bloc Likely To Reduce Budgets Of . 2 Agencies

American Subs Sink 12 More Jap Ships  Destroyer, 1] Cargo Veccole Blasted

U.S. SUBS SINK 12 MORE JAP SHIPS   VESSELS BAGGED IN RAIDS ON ENEMY SUPPLY LINES INCLUDE A DESTROYER.

U. S. SUBS SINK 12 MORE SHIPS   American  Underseas Boats Bring Their Toll of Jap Vessels to 536

Only Small Mopping Up Action ‘Remains in Corner of Isle; Knox Hails Campaign Success

Lightning Drive Recovers First  Jap-Taken Land   Highly Successful Operation Gives U. S. Control Of Land And Sea Approaches; Paves Way For Nut-Cracker On Kiska.

MOPPING-UP OPERATIONS CONTINUING   Remains of Garrison Trapped In Tiny Corner

Lightning Conquest Which Started May 11 Is Virtually Completed Friday, Knox Says  Capture Climaxes Lightning Conquest That Required But Eleven Days Of Hard Fighting

RUSSIANS PUSH BATTLELINES NEARER ROSTOV   Premier Stalin Calls for Drive To Rout Invading Germans

RECEIVE PRAISES FROM PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN   Calls On Red Army To Drive Nazis Entirely Out Of Soviet Lands

Stalin Exhorts Reds To Rout Invaders As  Winter Drives Gain   Russian Forces Press Closer To Rostov And Deeper Into Ukraine

RUSSIAN UNIT DESTROYS SS¥PLIES   Stalin Declares” German: Must be Thrown Entirely ” Out of Soviet Territory.

Russo-lurk Alliance Rumored In London   Premier Warns Turkey Must Be Ready To Fight To Pro tect Freedom

‘Actress’ Husband Hires Detective to Follow Detective Following Him

Russians Pursue Fleeing Germans After Capture of Orel   Kight Soviet Columns Are Narrowing Nazis Retreat.

GERMANS RETREAT AT OREL   Pour Through Escape Corridor Dogged by Reds   Today’s War Moves   BY CORNELIUS O'DEA tinted Dreee Analyvat

REMEMBER?   Britisher, 61, Told He Can't Recall War-Scarre Rananes<

WOULD GROUP MANY STATE DEPARTMENTS   Springfield Representa. tive Introduces Bills Providing for Drastic Changes in Governmental System.

Huge Losses Seen for Large Area   Delegations to Gather At Kalispell for Hearing on Thursday

RUSSIAN ARMY 15 OVERCOMING GERMAN DEFENSES AT OREL  NAZIS STARTED OFFENSIVE BUT ARE NOW REELING BACKWARD

REDS SLUG WAY CLOSER TO OREL   NAZI LOSSES SOAR AS RUSSIANS NEAR MAIN ENEMY BASE

Russians Are at Approaches to Ore   Nazis Report Soviet Offensive in North

Reds Near Orel, Main  Nazi Base   Counterattack Threatens German Hold on Rail Line

Soviet Army Approaching Mair Nazi Base Of Orel On Central  Front; German Losses Heavy

RUSSIANS ADVANCE TO NAZI OREL BASE   Germans Reel Under Red Army. Blows: Enemy Says Attack Fails

AED ARMY AT GATES OF NAZI QREL BASE   Russians Pile Up Huge Losses as Battle Continues for Serand Week

Red Anny Slugs Closer To Orel;  Germans Groggy   Main Enemy Bases In City Threatened

NAZIS SLUGGED BACK TO OREL BY RED ATTACK   Hitler’s Horde Rocked by Russian Assault After Starting Offense

SOVIETS REACH APPROACHES 10 BASE AT OREL   Nazis, Who Started Offensive, Being Rocked Back On Their Heels by Russian Power,

TO ENEMY BASE   Nazi Army Rocking Back Under Russian Blows Aimed at Grel.

RED ARMY IN QUISKIRTS OF OREL IS CLAIM   ‘Germans Beaten Back and  _ Main Base Is in Danger of  - Being Taken With Offensive Smashed.

RED ARMY NEARS OREL ENEMY BASE   Nazi Army, Initiators of Offensive, Rocking Under Sledge-Hammer Blows of Russian Counter-A ttack Which Threatens Base.

Soviet Troops Approach Ore!   Threaten German Base. Vital Orel-Bryansk — Rail road Line.

Russian Army Now Within 12 Miles Of Base At Orel   Red Troops Slug  Way To Approaches Of Main Enemy Position Oa Central Front

Reds Slug Way To Approaches ~ Of-Base-At-Ore   Close Of Second Week Of Fighting Finds Nazis Rocking Under Assault

RUSSIANS PUSH NEARER OREL   Reach Approaches to Important Nazi Base

Germans Rocking Under Sledge Hammer Blows Of Red Counterattack After Two Weeks

Reds Slug Way To Approaches Of Orel; Nazis Hurled Back Under Sledge-Hammer Blows   Russians Also Reported On Offensive In Vital Welikie Luki Sector To North

Russians Drive Deep Into Nazi Lines At Orel   Red Mechanized Attack Slowly Overcoming German Fluid Defense.

Reached Approaches of the Main Enemy Base on Central Russian Frent, Pravda Announced.   SLEDGEHAMMER BLOWS SENT NAZIS BACKWARD   The Soviet Counterattack Threatened the German Base and Hold on OrelBrvansk Railway.

New Offensives Launched =   ‘Russians Smash To Approaches Of Main German Base Of Orel After — Overcoming Fluid Enemy Defense

Russians Reach Orel Approaches   Destroy 157 Nazi Planes; Repel Nazis In South

CITY COUNCIL HEARS . OF BUDGET REPORT     Mayor Urges Members to Speak Up If-Not Satisfied     Boly Diseussés Ordinance - on  Waste Collections: Depart      ivten dt 2. i He

ITY COUNCIL HEARS OF BUDGET REPORT   ayor Urges Members tc Speak Up If Not Satisfied   ly Discusses Ordimance on Wuete Collections; Departals Asked te Curb Requests

Aleutians-Based Bombers Return Without Loss from Paramushiro   Delinquent Tax Law is Changed

RAID PARAMIUSHIRG WITHOUT ONE LOSS   Aleutian-Based Planes Return After Long Distance Bombinas.

Paramushiro Assaulted By Alaska Pilots   First Successful Raid On Nip Area Since Tokyo Blow

ALEUTIAN BOMBERS REPORT LITTLE OPPOSITION IN JAP NAVAL BASE RAID

Alaskan Pilots Bomb Jap Area   Stage Successful Paramushiro Raid

Not A Plane Is Lost In Raid On  Paramushiro Isle   2ilots Celebrating First Raid On Japan si Territory Since Tokyo

Paramushiro Bombed From Aleutians  ea Air Force Made   11th Air Force Made Raid On Jap Base Without Loss Of Plane

Paramushirc Bombers  All Safe   Not a Plane is Lost In First, Attack on Japanese Terrifory Since Raid on Tokyo

NO PLANES LOST IN PARAMUSHING RAID   American Airmen Celebrate Successful Attack

BENTON MAN LED PARAMUSHIROHOP   JAMES L. HUDELSON HEADS DARING FLIGHT ON NIPPON TERRITORY

PARAMUSHIRO RAIDERS BACK WITHOUT LOSS   Alaska Pilots Celebrate First Suc cessivl Raid on Jap Territors Leok to Tokyo

U. 5. PREPARES FOR EXPENSIVE HOLIDAY SPREE   Night Clubs Sold Ou For Celebrations Across Nation

RUSSIANS START BIG OFFENSIVE FROM LENINGRAD   Believe Long - Delayed Red Army Winter Campaign Now Underway.

Russians Major Offensive On the Leningrad Front   Have Broken German Lines in Several Places.

Russians Open New Offensive At Leningrad   SEEN AS START OF A MAJOR WINTER RED OFFENSIVE   Russians Also Retain Initiative On Other Fronts

Floods Slow Drive: Back At Old Stand   Eighth Army Continues Patrol Action At Mareth Line

Allied Forces’ Closing Lines Around Tunisia   U.S. Troops Advance Despite Heavy Weather

GO THROUGH HEAVY MUD ~IN PURSUIT OF ROMMEL   Americans Take Over El: guetar, 12 Miles Beyond Gafsa,; and Push On   ‘SOMETHING BIG’ MAY COME SOON   Double Blow May Fall Any Time, Possibly Within A. Week

U.S. Troops Occupy  New TownlnDrive El Guetor, 12 Miles Beyond Gafsa  oe) ee te  =6D ane

Positions Of A Month Ago Restored   Advance Maintained In The Face Of  Fload Conditions

Yanks Push Through Mud Chasing Nazis   Capture El Geutar, Twelve Miles East Of Gafsa Stronghold   Eighth Army Drive Doesn't Materialize   Only Patrol Activity On Southern End Of African Front

Press Through Rain Torrents; British Retreat From Tamera   London Reports Eight Axis Vessels Sunk By U-Boats

Pursue Nazis in Big Tunisia Offensive .   Patton's Yanks Enter Town.as — Axis Abandons It -

Patrol Fighting Forces Adjustment Along Mareth Line; Showdown Expected

Americans On Road to Coast   Drive May Split Forces of Rommel and Von Arnim; French Join Closing Trap

PURSUIT OF AXIS FORCES MAINTAINED DESPITE WEATHER   GEN. PATTON’S TROOPS ENTERED EL GUETAR, 12 MILES FROM GAFSA

Americans Push Their Advantage In North Africa  Occupy El Guetar  OS ok ak   Occupy El Guetar In Pursuit of Axis Forces

Patton Leads Force Beyond Gafsa Village   Americans Pursue Enemy In Effort To Cut Axis Retreat From Mareth; British With draw From Tamera In Northern Sector

Forces Advancing Seaward Despite Torrential Rain   Patton Presses Advantage In Face Of Floods; British Fall Back In North

British Eighth Army Make Local Adjustments While Bombers Continue to Harass Rommel   GABES U. S. GOAL   Pation’s Forces Advance Along Two Roads, French Forces Join in Closing Trap

Advance Despite Adverse Weather   U. S. Soldiers Wade Thru ater in Attack on  North Africa —   TO CLEAN UP TUNISIA   General George Patton Sent His ‘Armored Patrols Into Battle

Pursuit Maintained in Gafsa Area Despite Rain; El Getaur Is Occupied

12-Mile Advance ls Made Despite Rainy Weather.  British Ist Army Repulses Two Nazi

EIGHTH BRITISH ARMY REPULSES TWO AXIS RAIDS   Troops Take Up New Positions  On North Front

YANKS OCCUPY. EL GUBTAR IN TUNISIA MARCH   Pursuit of Enemy Maintained Despite Torrential Rains and Flood Conditions of Sector   BRITISH FIRST ARMY. LOSES SOME GROUND   Withdraws From Tamera and Repulses German Thrusts; Eighth Army's,  Activities Veiled

URGUE NAZIS THROUGH RAIN   Take El Guetar to Restore Approximate Lines of 2 Months Ago.   REPULSE AXIS INFANTRY

Heavy Rains, Floods Fail To Halt Army   Other Allied Columns Roll Across Central Tunisia, Aiming To Cut  300-Mile Corridor

Patton’s Yanks Chase Rommel 12 Miles in Heavy Rain in Tunisie   U. 8. Armored Forces Advance From Gafsa to El Guetar as French Troops Help Close Trap on Axis “Fox”

Yanks Advance Twelve Miles Toward Gabes  _ El Guetar Entered By U. S. Troops Under Patton

Maintain Pursuit of Axis Forces Despite Torrential Rains, Flood Conditions   Forward Elements Enter Town After Its Abandonment by Enemy—British In North Withdraw From Tamera— Repulse German Infantry Attacks

Americans Wade Flooded: Gullies In Pursuit Of  Axis Forces Toward Sea

Soldiers Wade Through Mud fo Press Advantage   British First Leaves Tamera; Little A@» tivity by Eighth

1st U. S. Armored Unit, 1st And 34th Infantry Divisions In Battle

AMERICANS TAKE EL GUETAR, NEAR REOCCUPIED CITY   Nazis Abandon Town As U. S. Troops Continue Advance In Tunisia

UNITED STATES TROOPS OCCUPY THE TOWN OF EL GUETAR   It Is Located 12 Miles Southeast of Gafsa on Road to Gabes.   MAINTAINED PURSUIT   This Was in Spite of Torrential Rains and Flood Conditions.

NAB KILLER OF CASS WOMAN   Slayer of Mrs. Carl Shick Jailed In Missouri On  Narcotics Count

SLURS DIRECTED AT U.S, TROOPS   Misbehavior Of Yanks In Noumea Denied By AP Writer

33 Jap Planes Downed at Wewak  Enemy Losses There   Enemy Losses There Since Tuesday Now Total More Than 300

JAP PLANES AT WEWAK BLASTED   Enemy Losses In New Guinea Since Tuesday Reach Total Of 300

‘Allies Destroy 6/ More Jap Planes In Wewak Sector   33 Are Shot Out of Sky and 34 Are Left in Flames on Ground to Increase Enemv Losses in That Area to Over 300

67 PLAN BLASTED IN HUGE RAID   33 Shot Down In Fighi And 34 Wrecked On Ground At Base

Airmen Smash 67 More Planes In Wewak Raid   Liberators Batter Jap Mining Center On Dutch Celebes

Another 67 Jap Planes ‘Are Destroyed  -Allies Do-Further ~   ‘Allies Do-Further ~ Damage. at Nipponese “Wewak Air Base

Most of Physically Fit Men 18 - 38 Will Be Drafted      Hershey Says 100,000 Will Be Inducted Monthly

Big Majority Of 18-38ers Will Be In Service Before End Of Year—Hershey

NEED 400,000 MEN A MONTH   Hershey says majority of 18 to 38 group will be called in 1943

DRAFT CHANGE HEARING OPENS   ‘Hershey Called To Testify On Kilday Bill Setting Up New Classes

NEW WALKOUTS IN BALTIMORE OVER NEGROES   Working Force At Big  - Sparrows Point Shipyard  Cut 20% As Operations Are Resumed    REACH AGREEMENT   Strictly Seniority Pact Put Into Effect to Quell Racial Dispute In Riveting School

GORY BORER Is ON THE INCREAS   This Message Given Tipton County Farmers at Two Schools.

U.S. Fighter Bombers Wreck Enemy  Motor Troop Transports on Sicily   New Mustang A-36s Pile Roads High With Broken  Trucks by Hundreds, Preventing Reintorcements

Axis Appears Apprehensive On Tunisia   British Continue To Push On After Retreating Romme! Forces   WEATHER HAMPERS AERIAL ACTIVITY

Turkey Dinner   Private Chrisman Has Sunday Dinner At The White House.

Dinner Guest   M. P. Eats at White House at First Lady’s Bidding

BLAZE CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM   Mrs. Chester Romick and Two Children Die

U. S. Troops Knockout 25 German Tanks In Counter - Attack After Quitting Tunis Base

2 JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK, 13 HIT   60 Jap and 22 U.S. Planes Are Lost; Casualties Few

Serious Riots Break Out in Greek Cities   Disorders Occur As Result of U. S, Raids on Airports Over Week-End

RIOTING REPORTED IN 4 GREEK CITIES   DISORDERS FOLLOW ALLIED AIR RAIDS—HUNDREDS ARRESTED, MANY SHOT.

HOPEFUL GREEK PATRIOTS FIGHT   American Leaflets Help Set Off Sentiment Against Nazis

MERCURY EXPECTED _. TOHIT ZERO MARK   Coldest Weather of the . Year Is Indicated . : Taday

MERCURY EXPECTED TO HIT ZERO MARK   Coldest Weather of the Year Is Indicated Today

NEW CAR CERTIFICATE      Baldwin ‘Farmer and Stockman Given Permit hy Board

A NEW CAR CERTIFI ‘ATE      City Panel of ‘Rationing Board Was in Session Yesterday

Railroads Ask Examination 0 Phone Usage   Carriers Concerned About Possibilities Of Public Safety

Study Of Radio Phones For Use On Trains Asked By Nation’s Railroads

Nation's Railroads Ask Examination of Possibilities of Radio ‘Phones

Railroads Ask Immediate Studv of Radio Telephones on Moving Trains

TELEGRAM ENDS PROPOSED TRIP   Mother Learns Hero Son Dies in Action: Medal Award Trip Planned

—RUSSIA—   GREAT HOLE TORN INTO NAZI LINES   Routed Remnants Of Gen.   Von Mannstein’s Leg  ions Split By Russians   SOVIETS HAPPY   ‘Break Through On Front Of 200 Miles Major De feat For Nazis

FLEEING NAZIS ARE POUNDED BY RED ARMY   Soviets Streaming Through Greatest Hole Yet Torn in Enemy Defenses In Bug River Sector   DRIVE NEARER BORDER

Disaster For Nazi Legions May Be Neat   Vatutin’s Army Only 43 Miles From Old Pole Border; Mannstein’s Forces Split

GERMAN LEGIONS IN FLIGHT AFTER STUNNING DEFEAT   Russians Smash Into Outer  —s Nazi Defenses on Buo River

Soviet Armies Slash  New German Lines   Outer Bug River Line Pierced As Hitler's Rautec Hordes Continue Mad Flight To Escape; Thitomir Reported Abandoned

GREATEST HOLE EVER TORN IN NAZI DEFENSES   Soviet Troop s Streaming Through Gap Break Into Outer Bug: River Lines of Enemy   STALIN DESCRIBES - RETREAT AS ROUT   Reds Reported Within 43 Miles Old Polish Border “and Within 90 Miles  ’ Rumania Frontier

RED ARMIES ACHIEVE MOST SPECTACULAR YEAR-END VICTORY ©  STAGGERING BLOW DEAL 22 GERMAN DIVISIONS

Red Army Breaking Through On Big Front Pounds Nazis  Retreating Toward Polanc

Russ Break Outer Defenses on Bug River Line   Russians Stream Through Broken Germai Barriers; Deep Wedge Driven By Soviets Into Reeling Nazi Forces

Russian Forces Break Into Outer Bug River Area in Driving Offensive.   NEARER TO POLISH LINE

Bug River Approachec By Soviets   Vatutin’s Vanguards Are ‘Within 43 Miles Of  Old Polish Border As - Gap In Lines Widens

Soviets Open Wide Wedge in Nazi Line   Yon Mannstein's Legion Split; Only Escape Line Seriously Threatened

Only One Supply Line Open For  Retreating Nazis      Soviet “Vanguards - Res ported 43 Miles From Old Polish Border.

‘Red Forces Rip Through Great Hole   Offensive Splits  Foe’s Defenses and Moves to within 30 Miles of Bue River

~-GERMANS ROUTED—  Defense Of Bug  Pierced   Reds Reach Point Only 30 Miles From River

‘Reds Reach Bug River Defenses; Germans Reeling   Von Mannestein’s Armies Split In Half; Eastern Front Threatened With Collapse

Russians Tear ‘Great Hole’ In Nazi Defenses   Soviets 40 Miles From Poland And 90 Miles From Dniester River In Offensive That Has Split And Routed German Army

Bari Radio Reports San Vittore Falls To Gen. Clark’s Men   Claim Soviet Troops Less Than 43 Miles Away From Old Polish Border ‘Today

/hitomir Rout Costs Nazis Men. Materiel   Allied Bombers Continue Day And Night Raids  Over Continent

stream Through Big Hole   Russians Dashing Toward Old Polish =  Frontier.

Bug River ° Defenses   Fast-Rolling Offensive Has ® Split Routed Remmazts of Von Mannstein's Army   ~ONLY ONE SUPPLY ‘LINE FOR NAZIS   Russians Nearing Old Polish Border and Rumania in Steady Advance

Dramatic Blow Dealt Germans Qn Wide Front   Berlin Admits Troops At Zhitomir Flee; Leapfrog Raid Made In Italy

Zhitomir May Fall Almost  Any Moment   Russians Now Within 30 Miles of Bue River, Next Nazi Line

22 Nazi Divisions Staggering Before Russian Advance   Berlin Admits Withdrawal From Zhitomir Front; Bombers Keep Up Attack On Germany

SOVIET FORCES SMASH GERMANS UNMERSIFULLY   Russians Capture 1300 Towns In Great Drive

Reds Crush Big  Nazi Force On Zhitomir Front   300,000 Germans In Retreat On Long Line

Russians Stream Through Vast Gap In German Defenses, Pressing Wedge Between Reeling Remnants Of 22 Nazi’ Divisions West Of Dnieper—Red Vanguards Only 43 Miles From Poland, 90 Miles From Dniester—Further Threats To Supply Lines Develop

Russians Smashing Near. Polish Border   Stalin’ Says German ‘Defeat as” Serious as Stalingrad—Huge Stores of Equipment Left Behind

Break Into Outer Bug River Line   Vatutin’s Vanguards Reported Within 43 Miles of Old Polish Border— Soviets Thrust Down Kiev-Zhmerinka Railway to Open Deep Wedge

SPLIT GERMAN FORCES NEAR BUG RIVER   Soviets Within 43 Miles Of Old Polish Border   1,300 TOWNS   Swept Up In Eight-Day Old Winter Drive: Victory Hailed By Stalin

FOES LINE  IS ERISHED “BYSOVITS      Mannstein’s s: “Aemiy Routed Losses — “Are Heavy. oa

Vatutin’s Russion Army Vanguards Are Within 30 Miles of River Itself in Hat  Pursuit of Routed Remnants of Nazi Army

Soviet Winter Offensive Bodes I é Nazi Arms; 3,000 Planes B European Fortress —

TIC YEAR-END VICTORY SIANS PUTS NAZISIN               a "Thresten Over. Half lon - A Th dende of Retreatiig Nazi Troops

Soviets Crash Through Defenses Of Faltering Nazi Army In Ukraine

Reeling Nazi Army Split By Onsurge   Soviets Smash Close To Old Borders In Dramatic Year-End Victory.

Reds Pounding Retreating Foe On Wide Front   Russian Forces Stream Through Great Hoie in Line

Vanguards  Of Vatutin’s — Army 43 Mis. From Poland   One Rail Supply Line Remains Open To Foe; Von Mannstein’s Divisions Shattered

ASSAULT HITS NAZI DEFENSE ON BUG RIVER   Vanguard of Russians Within 43 Miles of Old Polish Border

SOVIETS NEAR POLISHBORDER   Red Army Breaks Through On Wide Front, Routing German Armies

NAZI DEFENSES ARE WIPED OUT   Reds Drive to Within 30 Miles Of Bug River in Sweeping Victory

Break-Through on 185-Mile Front Sfagaers Germans   Success Is Pattern For Final Defeat of Nazis During 1944

BUG RIVER LINE IS PIERCED BY SOVIET LEGIONS   Fifth Army Grabs Initiative From Germans On Italian Battlefront

Great Withdrawal On Zhitomir Front ~ Admitted In Berlin   sth Army Troops Take Initiative From Enemy In Western Italy; Fliers Support Tito’s Operations

GREAT HOLE IN ENEMY’S LINE   Soviets Sweep Toward Bug In Huge Break-Through Of Some 200 Miles

SOVIET FORCES ARE  STREAMING THROUGH  GERMAN DEFENSES ROUTED REMNANTS OF  INVADING ARMIES SPLIT RY REN OFRFENCIVESC

TROOPS ARE IN ITS OUTER DEFENSE ARC   Offensive of First Ukrainian Army Splits Routed Remnants of Nazi Forces in Record Break-Through.

RUSSIANS 43 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER   Routed Remnants of Von Mannstein’s Forces Split by Soviet Forces.

22, Nazi Divisions seek NewDefenses      Allied Planes Smash Continent Today Following 24-Hour Assault; Fifth Army stages Raid North of Garigliano, Eighth  Army Moves on Pescara

STREAM THROUGH 185MILE BREACH IN GERMAN LINES   VON MANNSTEIN’S ARMY ROUTED IN MAJOR OFFENSIVE

Routed Remnants of von Mannstein's 22 Divisions Split by Wedge, Warsaw Railway Cut   PRISONERS MOUNT   Zhitomir and Berdichev in Sovtk By-Passed, Fall Expected Hourly, Reds Near Korosten

German Line 4 Bug River Under Attack   Swiets Stream Theugh Hole On 185Mile Front

Powerful Russtan Armies Lash Nazis  On 185-Mile Front   Soviet Achieves United Nations’ Most Dramatic Year-End Victory; Plunges Within 43 Miles Of Old Polish Border

Russians Tear Bus Nazi Line   REDS SPLIT ROUTED GERMAN REMNANTS AS 30-MILE GAP REMAINS

Defenses Spiif By Russian Forces  1... theta t.   Armies Now Withir 43 Miles of Old Polish Border

Russians Push On After Break  In Bug Defense   Fifth Army Troops Seize Initiative From Germans Near Garigliano,   NEAR POLISH BORDER

Russians Enter River Defenses In Offensive   Red Armies Stream Thru Greatest Hole Yet Torn In Nazis

SOVIET FORCES SPLIT REMNANTS OF NAZI LEGIONS   Great Hole Torn In German Lines As Vatutin's Vanguards Drive To Within 43 Miles Of Old Polish Border.

VITAL AIRFIELD ON NEW. BRITAIN TAKEN BY YANKS   Leapfrog Attack Is Made by Americans in Italy; Air Assault Roars On

Deep Hole Torn In German Line As Reds Push On   Done Supply Line Of Nazis Faces Severance

Zhitomir Is By-Passed; Open Big Gap   Stalin Terms Break Through Similar To That Of Stalingrad Victory

Italian General In Washington?   “Electric Whiskers,” Captured In 1941, Reported In Capital.

NEW BRIDGEHE ADS   Gen. Bergonzoli Reported Prisone In Washington

Contents of Leaflets Dropped on Rome Prior to Allied Bomb Attack

eafleis Are Dropped Over Rome to Explain Mission and Intent of the Allied Raiders

STRIKE TIES UP STRAITS BOATS   Carferry Crews Demand Higher Pay; Vital Supplies Delayed

FERRY STRIKE CLOGS STRAITS   Strike Ties Up Three Railroads On Both Sides Of Straits.

Ferry Workers Out on Strike   Shipping on Three Railroads Held Up

Japs Strike At Darwin In Australia   49-Plane Assault Gives Point to Menace of Enemy Concentration In Neighboring Islands

Ominous Jap Threat Lurks In New Area   Concentrations North Of Australia Brings Repeated Warnings   Air Raid Heavy On Australian Mainland   Forty-Nine Planes Hit Darwin With Heavy Bombing

NEW THREAT TO AUSTRALIA SEEN   Japs Strike Port Darwin With 49-Plane Attack

Jap Forces Moving to Australia   Troops Shifting to Ring of Islands North of Continent

SEE MENACE AS NIPPON SHIFTS STRIKING FORCE   Allied Planes Attack Apparent Change in Japanese Strategy

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST TWO JAP TROOP VESSELS   Enemy Still ‘Concentratin; Invasion Armies Noitl of Australia; Nipponess Romb Part Darwin

JAPS SHIFTING ABOVE AUSTRALIA, BOMB NORTH COASI   Allied Fliers Get Direct Hits On Two Enemy Convoys

Japs Shifting to Nearer Australia   Port Darwin Has Raid by 49 Planes

Australia Threatened From Nerth   ‘Allied Planes Score Hits In Combatting Change In Strategy Of Enemy

49 Jap Planes Attack Darwin   Allies Increase Number Of Attacks Against Shipping Near Australia.

Japs Poise New Threat To Australia   South Seas Invasion Ar. mies Appear to Shift Ominously

Heavy Air Fighting in  Far Pacifie      Darwin Raid Beaten Off—Ships Of Convoys Blasted

Port Darwin Is Object Of Jap Bombing   Australian City Eseapes With No  Serious Damage

BABSON OFFERS FOUR RULES FOR PURCHASING OF STOCKS   Small Investors With Only Few Thousand Dol lars Should Buy War Savings Bonds, Steer Clear of Market.

What Stocks To Buy And When   BABSON GIVES RULES ON PURCHASING SECURITY

BABSON'S 4 RULES FOR BUYING STOCKS   Noted Economist Discusses What and Why and When To Buy Under Existing And “Prosbective Conditions.   Copyright, 1948, Publishers Financial Bureau

HOTEL FIRE BLAZE ICES 10 18   Fire Marshal says Prelim-' inary Investigation Shows Fire Started in Storeroom

GAS SHORTAGE THREATENS ALL CITY SERVICES   May Affect Firemen, Police, Ambulance And Garbage Trusks,

ROMMEL FEELS HAW PRESSURE ON EVERY SIDE   Americans Speed Up Advance to Narrow “Fox’” Escape: Corridor.

GABES, AXIS BASE, NEXT ALLIED GOAL   British Army : Captures Matmata 22 Miles — From Geabes

GCOLUNNS NOW AGAINST NAZIS FOR PUSH 10 SEA   Montgomery Wins All Roads  “to Gabes, Important Base,  Forces Are Now 22 Miles  Epa City,   STAND THERE SEEMS AN IMPOSSIBILITY   Summary of Achievements Indicates American Army Taking An Active Part in Tunisia.

ROMMEL GIVES UP POSITIONS; MATMATA TAK   Six Allied Colutims Press Toward Sea in Tunisia; Mareth, Toujane on Roads to Gabes Fall

Americans Gain; Rommel Orders General Retreat   Axis Forces Being Driven Into Corner by Six Separate Aliied Cahimne

ROMMEL'S DEFENSES FALL APART, BRITISH ROLL TOWARD GABES   oe In Full Retreat Again, Racing To Escape Being Trapped By Yanks; Six Columns Press Knemy Toward Sea

Americans Racing Enemy for 12-Mile Gabes Bottleneck   Nazi Marshal Abandons Defenses; 6 Columns Press Axis Toward Sea; Mareth. Toujane. Matmata Scized 

22 Miles of -. Gabes After ..: Line Pierce   SMASH FORTIFICATIONS  A’ MATMATA TO GO ON TOWARD GABES.

RECORD AIR BATTLE WON OFF TUNIS   68 Big Junkers Transports Shot Down In 2 Days

58 Big Junkers Air Transports  Victims of Allie   Triumph Termed One of War's Greatest In Single Engagement

AMERICAN, BRITISH PLANES JOIN 10 SCORE ONE OF GREA! AERIAL TRIMBHS OF WAR   French Ground Troops Jab into Enemy Lines Before Major Cities

ALLIED AIRMEN IN RECORD BREAKING TWO-DAY BATTLE   Cairo Reports Indicate Possible Evacuation of Men, 185 Enemy Plane Downed Since April 1.      GOEBBELS SAYS WAR NOW HARDEST PHASE   RAF Bombs Italian Naval Base For Fourth Occasion, One Plane Lost In Making Lona Trip.

a SHOT DOWN IN SINGLE ENGAGEMENT   Allied Aerial: Pincers Clamped On Axis Europe

FEW JAP STRAGGLERS REMAIN ON TARAWA   Navy Department Reports Islands in Gilberts Being Developed According to Plan.

Huge Air Raid Hits  Dortmund  City Is Blasted By Two-Ton:  ~~ ~Bombs —

RAF Showers Blockbusters On Dortmund   Industrial Center Crumbles Under Mighty Air Attack

Japs Admit 4,500 Killed At Tarawa   Rear Admiral In Command There Was Among Those Slain

Ambassador Is Recalled From  Vichy, Is Sait   Neo Confirmation Is Given’ _ Elsewhere; Algiers Reports Action

Turkey Recalls Her  Vichy Ambassador   Action Taken in Protest Against Nasi Restrictions on Embassy; Move Not Yet Considered Rupture in Relations

Nation Recalls Envoy From French Capital   Algiers Account Cites No Details; Saracogelu Notes Red Friendship

TURKEY CALLS HOME VICHY AMBASSADOR   Protests Strong German  Restrictions On His Embassy  InVichy,EmbassyCounsellor Is Recalled Too

FRENCH-TURK  BREAK DENIED   Embassy Says Report by Radio Unconfirmed

Turkish Ambassador to France Called ‘Home as His Nation Protests 'Nazi Acts: Move Is Aid to Allies

TURKEY NEAR BREAK WITH AXIS POWERS   Ambassador Erkin Has Been Recalled From Vichy by the Turks.   Relations Strained Over Gestapo Activity

lurkish Embassy Counsellor Told lo Return Home  May Be Step to Rupture With

TURKEY RECALLS ENVOY TO FRANCE; MAY MEAN BREAK   Ambassador Ordered Home in Protest Against German Surveillance of Embassy.   ANKARA ANGERED AT VICHY GOVERNMENT   Representatives Had “Been Forbidden to Use Code Messages and Mail Had Been Examined.

Turkey Reported To Have Broken — Off Diplomatic Relations With Vichy

Turkey- France Relations Hit   Ambassador To Vichy Recalled In Protest Against Gestapo Activities.

TURKISH ENVOY TO VICHY GETS RECALL ORDERS   Ambassador Erkin Ordered Home By Turkey As Protest Over Gestapo Restrictions; Might  ean Diplomatic Break.

Algiers Claims. Turkey Recalls. Its Ambassador   Envoys to France, Salonika Going Home While Nazis Demand Consul Leave — Mytelene, Says Broadcast; Axis Fears Allied Blow at Balkans.

TURKS RECALL AMBASSADGR FROM VICHY   Move Made in Protest Against Gestapo Restrictions Upon Embas ~ sy, a Turkish Diplomatic Source Declares.

Step Toward Break In Relations With Vichy Seen In Recall Of Ambassador Erkin

Turkey Reported To Have Broken Vichy Relations   No Confirmation of Announcement by Algiers Radio.

Turkey Calls Ambassador Home From Vichy; Break In Relations Possible

TURKISH ENVOY TO VICHY IS RECALLED   Action Taken os Protest Against Gestapo Sur.  veillanca

Report Recall Of Envoy To Puppet Capital   Relations Between Two Governments Strained; Balkan Boiling Pot Is Becoming Hotter

‘Mighty-Events ~~ * re Shaping Up   Rumania And Hungary Seeking Peace.

TURKS RECALL ENVOY INVICHY   Move May be Step in Rupture of Relations of  Two Countries

Step Taken As Protest Against Gestapo Restrictions on Embassy,   ACTION ANGERS TURKEY

Turkey Recalls Her France Ambassador: Move Not Rupture   Protest Against Nazi Re.     ease ni

REPORT BREAK BETWEEN VICHY AND TURKEY   Report Doubted By Quarters In London

Turkey Recalls Ambassador to Vichy France   Move May Be Start of Break in Diplomatic Relations

REPORT TURKEY ENDS RELATIONS WITH PRO-NAZIS   Recalls Vichy Ambassador, No Official Acknowledgement of Break

lurkey-Vichy Break Is Near   Ambassador Recalled to Ankara as Protest Against Curb by Gestapo

Turks Call Envoy Back From Vichy   Action Believed to Be Step Toward Break With Regime

TURKEY BREAKS RELATIONS WITH VICHY FRANCE  RECALLS AMBASSADOI  Ac A DROATCCT OH   RECALLS AMBASSADOR AS A PROTEST OF GESTAPO OPERATIONS

TURKS RECALL VICHY DIPLOMAT   Withdrawal Seen ‘as Step Toward Rupture

Turkey Recalls. Her Ambassador To Vichy France   Protests Made. On Nazi Restrictions And Break Likely

SHARE-THE-RIDE © — BILL IS PRESSED   Measure Is Tagged ‘Emer @ gency’ By Solons

GRAIN PRICES HIGHER IN LAST SEVEN DAYS   Claim Elevators Hold Only Two Weeks’ Supply

Anthracite Coal Strike s Ended;  ale Dow  Miners Lo r $2, :   Miners Lose Over $2,000,000 Over Period Of Three-Weeks Strike

ANTHRACITE COAL FIELD STRIKE ENDS   Lona Walkout Over as Final 2 Union Holdouts Vote to Return -

Last Strike Holdouts Votetc Work   TWO UVLLIERIES ON STRIKE THREE WEEKS RESPOND TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S COMMAND TO WORK.

MIM NOT TO CALL ALABAMA PHYSICIANS   State Recruits Already Above Quota, Says Stimson

9,900 PHYSICIANS TO BE TAKEN IN SERVICE DURING 1943   None Will Be Taken However That Hasn’t Been Certified by War  Manpower Commissior

7000 ENEMIES MADE PRISONER BY AMERICANS   3000-Ship Armada Lands Tanks for Allies

Italians Unable To Destroy Their Port   Allied Penetration Into Island Reported To Be More Than 60 Miles Jn Some Sectors

Americans Have Captured 7,000 Nazi Prisoners   Axis Reports Ragusa and Augusta Already Lost But Reports Are Not Official. Americans And Canadians Link Bridgeheads.

LAMPIONE LATEST  ISLAND CAPTURED   ‘American Liberators Raid Sicilian “Air Bases; U.S: Subs Sink 12 More Jan Shins oe

Lampione Taken; Americans Blast  Two Plane Bases Middle East Craft  Pour Explosives On Sicilian Area QUIET IN RUSSIA  Reds Claim 3319  Nazi Aircraft Down in Six Weeks

ALLIED AIRMEN CAST DOWN QUARTER MILLION TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON S$'CILIAN CITIES INONWARD MARCH.

Sicily Stands in Line for Next Blosv As Air Force Masses Strength; Lampione Last of Fortresses to Go

TRAIN HITS AUTO: SEVEN ARE DEAL   Six Victims Of Pennsylvania Tragedy Members of Same Family

TO STOP BLACK MARKET    Government Plans to File Suits Against Several Firms

00,000 PERSON IN ARMED SERVICES   Four Million More Likely By End Of This Year

Mexican Towns Are Menaced By New Volcanc   Lava Breaks Through Northwest Side; Fear Property Loss

MOLTEN MASS POURS DOWN SIDE OF HILL   Loss of Property Is Feared; People Moved Out

Tons of Bombs Are Hurled on Jap Bases   Americans Soften Enemy Forces in the Solomons

ENGLISH WORKERS GIVEN VACATION   First Three-Day Holiday For 20 Million In Nearly ‘Four Years.

SPUDS CHEAPER   If You Can Get ’Em, OPA Says - Thev Should Cost Less.

ORDER ON - POTATOES   OPA Changes . Mark-Up to Grant Greater Sum ta the Grower   HOPES MORE SPUDS WILL. BE SHIPPED   Shopper Favored Slightly in New Schedules on the 1948 Crop 8

PRICE OF POTATOES SHUFFLED BY OPA’   Farmer and ‘Consumer Both To Get Break

Carrier Planes Smash at Nauru   MARSHALLS, GILBERTS POUNDED IN GIANT AIR OFFENSIVE; SWELLING OFFENSIVE SEEN AS TOKYO SAYS ATTACKS IN SEVENTH DAY

YANK PLANES BOMBARDED NAURU ISLAND   Non-Stop Air Offensive On Jap-Held Islands

MAKE 7-DAY RAID ON NAURU ISLANDS   Reds Declare Zhitomir Loss Temporary While Other Gains Are Made.

CARRIER FORCE HITS JAP MIDPACIFIC BASES   Joins Non-Stop Offensive Against Marshalls And Gilberts

YANKS PENETRATE JAPANESE SHIELD -OF PACIFIC BASES   Bombers Carry on Non-stop Offensive Against Marshalls, Gilberts.

U. 8. LIBERATORS  SMASH OBJECTIVES  AT TOE OF ITALY ACTION TAKEN IN AT TEMPT TO BLOCK AXIS REINFORCEMENTS

MANY YANK FLIERS MAY GET BACK HOME   Final Assault on Pantelleria Complete Assignment

British And French In Joint Movement Closing In On Rommel’s Corps

Indications Point To Rommel! Hastily Abas doning Burning City Of Tripoli: Toda As British 8th Army Storms Forward: Within 35: Miles Of Axis Stronghold.

Two Red Armies Converge On Kharkov As Other Russian Forces Close In On Rostov.

Collapse Of  Duce’s Africa Realm Nears   .. British Capture Tarhuna And Homs

Axis Lines. -of Retreat a Shambles   Ring Around Axis Sealed “in North Africa as British and -French Join Forces   TARHUNA AND HOMS-. TAKEN BY: BRITISH   Heavy Action. Expected Soon in Tunisia; Soviets --Are Tightening Clamp.

Enemy Units Leave Burning Nazi Base, Last Italian Citadel   Red Army Troops Forge New Pincers Threat After 17-Mile Advance Toward Kharkov

Russian Armies, Deep In Ukraine, Menace 500000   One Soviet Claw Near Kharkov As Another Perils Strategie Rosioy.

Believe Collapse of  LybiaOnly Hours Away   Enemy Troops Streaming From Tripoli, Now Reported Burning, Russians Forging New Pincers Around Kharkov.

Indications Given Axis Araies Are Evacuating; City Reported Burning

Italy’s African Empire ‘Is Said Near Collapse; Reds Drive 50 Miles Into Ukraine

Burning City Abandoned By Rommel   Mussolini’s Empire in Africa Near Collpase; Axis Fleeing to Tunisia

ROMMEL ARMY FLEEING FROM TRIPOLI, CLAIM   Defeated Axis Desert Leader in Full Flight for Tunisia, Harassby Allied Planes

Wild Retreat of Axis Forces Info Tunisia Reported   Russians Putting Pinchers on Kharkov And Nearing Rostov  Ry Asccociated Press

Il Duce Loses  Africa   British 8th Within 35 Miles of Last Citadel of Axis  a,  an

ALLIED PUSH FOR AFRICA EARS GOAL   Br ‘itish Reported ~ Within Miles © OF ity. 

LAST OF DUCE'S AFRICA EMPIRE IS NEARING END   ' Allied Planes Make - Shambles of Retreating Axis Force on Desert

Collapse of Mussolini's Empire Near       Tripoli Abandoned As Rommel Tries To Reach Tunisia; Reds Continue Close-in On Kharkov

MUSSOLINI’ AFRICA EMPIRE NEAR COLLAPSE   Rommel Continues Wild Flight Apparently Intending to Abandon   Pring]   BRITISH IN PURSUIT   Fighting French in Contact With Montgomery—Nazi Local Gains Makes Fluid Tunisian Front

Fall Of Tripoli Only Matter Of ~ Hours As Rommel Abandons City   City Is In Flames; Fighting French Army, After Sweeping Long Way Across Desert, Has Made Contact With British Eighth Army.

AFRICAN EMPIRE OF MUSSOLINI FALLS TO ALLIES   Axis Forces Battered from Land and Air as They Flee From Burning Tripoli   REDS SURGE ON TO ROSTOV   Russian Assault Sweeping Into Ukraine Against Demoralized Invaders

Full Collanse Of African Empire  Of Duce Is Near   Tripoli In Flames; Reds Drive Into Ukraine And Near Kharkov

 Tripoli Last Stronghold of Nation’s Realm   JUL VAIS AUR Uh Nation’s Realm  Rommel Reported Fleeing From Burning City of Axis Base  HEADED FOR TUNISIA Reds Forge New Pincers  Around Kharkov After 17 Milo Advanra

ROMMEL APPARENTLY ABANDONING BURNING CITY OF TRIPOLI  TRIPOLI IS LAST VESTIGE OF MUSSOLINIS

Soviet Pincers  Kharkov Threat   Japs Try To Break Out Of Allied Papuan Trap

Tripoli Last — Stronghold of Nation’s Realm   Rommel Reported Fleeing From Burning City of Axis Base  HEADED FOR TUNISIA  Reds Forge New Pincers Around Kharkov After 17 Mile Advance

Allies Pound Retreat Road of Axis Army      Russians Advance on Two Sides of Kharkov; London Counts Air Raid Victims —

LAST DAYS OF DUCE’S AFRICA EMPIRE NEAR   Reds Continue Gains On All Sectors of  Soviet Front

“AST CITADEL OF DUCE'S AFRICAN EMPIRE DOOMED   ‘Rommel Withdraws as British Approach City; Rus. sians Forge New Pincers on Kharkov.

Il Duce’s Empire Is Near Collapse   Eighth Army Only 35 Miles from Tripoli And Allied Planes Give Important Port A Verrifie Pounding

Rommel Deserting Duce’s Last Citadel ‘On Dark Continent      Reds Forge New Pincers Threat On Kharkov After 17-Mile Gain; Report 750,000 Nazi Casualties

Rommel May Be Quitting Burning City   Final Collapse Of Mussolini's African Empire  Thought Near

Fall of Duce’s — African Empire . Waited Hourly   British Eighth Army Drives to Within 85 Miles of Libyan Stronghold Abandoned by Rommel; Soviets  Forge New Kharkov Pincers.

Good neighbor fund cut by 25 percent   House committee reduces 3 departments’ appropriations

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES MONIES FOR DEPARTMENTS   State Department’s Request For Funds Fer Good Neighbor Program Slashed

G00D NEIGHBOR PROGRAM CUT BY HOUSE COMMITTEI   Approves An Appropriation For Three Governmert Departments Today

Good Neighbor Funds Slashed   House Unit Approves Money for Departments

Good Neighbor Fund Cut By House Group   Committee In Sympathy With Work But Cites Need For Reductions .

we PACTS >= BET SUPPORT   EXRENGION BILL GOES TO SEN. _ ATE AFTER: OVERWHELM.

Cattle Roundup Sets New Record   Ration Points Arrive on Hoof   several Alternatives

MINE NEGOTIATION MAY BE EXTENDED   UMW, Northern Operator Offer Counter-Proposals on Contract

UNION, OPERATORS OFFER PLANS 10 KEEP MINES OPEN   Principals in Coal Wage Dispute Move to Meet President’s Request to Continue Negotiations.

Ready For New Try At Wage Pact   Miners, Operators /Agree To Keep The Diggings Busy

OFFER TERMS FOR KEEPING MINES OPEN   Any Agreement Reached Must Be Made Retroactive to First Day Of April   ADJUSTMENT IS ASKED

Offer New Coal Mine  Proposals   Both Sides Submit Plans Under Which Operation Of Mines Would Not Stop On March 31

COAL MINE CRISIS MAY BE POSTPONED   FDR's Edict Gets Results in Contract Dispute

Counter Proposals At Parley   Miners Would Keep Mines Working for 30 Days

Americans Destroy 10 Jap Ships, Damage Four More  Small Submarines Do Great Harm to   ee oe, 7 ee

U.S, Subs Run Score to 283 Tokyo Vessels Torpedoed: Undersea War Stepped Up

SEVEN MORE NIP SH PS SUNK BY AMERICAN SUBS   Five Other Merchantmen Damaged: Large Transport and Freighters Victims

Submarines Sink 10 More Jap Vessels   Four Others Damaged By U. S. Submersibles Navy Announces  TOTAL NOW AT 283

Total of 309 Enemy Vessel: Knocked Out   Relentless: War. of Attrition Telling on’:  Jap Supply Movements

TEN ENEMY SHIPS SUNK, NAVY SAYS      Transport and Supply Vessels Reported Sent Down -

American Subs Destroy Ten Jap Vessels   Transports, Cargo ~ ‘Vessels and Supply Ships Are Destroyed

Seven More Japanese Ships Sent To Bottom   Total Of Nipponese Vessels Sent Down Reaches 309

Ten Japanese Vessels Sunk   Transport And Supply Ships Hit By Subs

Navy Announces U. S. Submarines Have Destroyed Seven More Jap Shins

U. 8. SUBS SINK TEN JAP SHIPS   BAG RAISES TO 283 TOTAL EN. EMY VESSELS SENT DOWN BY SUBMERSIBLES.

10 JAP VESSELS ADDED T0 TOLL   U. S. Subs Bring Total Ta 283 Damaged Or Sunk Since War Started

LONG RANGE UNDERSEA CRAFT BOOST TOTAL OF  SUNK AND DAMAGED SHIPS TO 487

JAPANESE LOSE 10 CARGO SHIPS   Destruction By American Submarines In Pacific Is Disclosed

Americans Destroy Seven Enemy  Merchant Vessels  Five Ships Are Said To Be Damaged, Supply Lines Feeble

NavysAnnounces Destruction Of Ter Jap Transport And Supply Vessels In The Pacific

U. §. Navy Subs Sink  Ten Japanese Ships  Also Damage Four Medium Sized Cargo Vessels

Americans Destroy 10 Jap Ships, Damage Four More  Small Submarines Do Great Harm to Enemy’s Pacific Arm

Former Western Union Students. ‘Are. Maxgied.. In Excelsior, Minnesota

Former Western Union Students Are Margjed  In Excelsior, Minnesota

Tojo Says Japs to Crush Allies   Nipponese Premier Visits Philippines

SAYS JAPAN IS POISED TO STRIKE   Vows ‘Annihilation of Americans and  British’

Tojo Says Blow Set For Allies   Premier Boasts To 400,000 - Filipinos

COUNTIAN ELECTED FARM BUREAU HEAD   Roy C. F. Weagley Nam. ed at Annual Convention

SUSPENSION OF 40-HOUR WEEK   Farm Bureau Resolution Also Opposes Govern ment Social Reforms

Korosten Is Among Many Places Taken   Germans Have Few Natural Defenses on Flat Steppeland

Germans Driven Back All along {10-Mile Front   Russians Approach Big Rail Junction

Soviets Break Nazi Defenses   Reds Surge To Within 48 Miles Of Poland

Rocls Within AB Miles of  Polish Bearcley   tut Ro oie. Rrive Weacks German Defense Along 110-Mile Arc and _ Offers Novis Few Natural Defenses

Spectacular 24-Hour Advance Made by Red Armies  TROOPS ARE NEARING OLD POLISH BORDER New Soviet Offensive Is  Lounched in the Ukraine °

Power Drive Gobbles Up 250 Hamlets   Reds Pierce Nazi Line Along 110-Mile Arc As Germans Fall Back  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

Germans reel as Russian forces surge forward on widespread battle fronts   Vatutin’s army captures Korosten; nazi Ukrainian defenses crumble

Soviets Surge fo Within 48 Miles Of Polish Border   Spectacular Break Through Along 110 Mile Arc; Take Vygov

Russians Drive to Within 48  Miles of Poland   Spectacular Break-Through West of Kiev Will Permit the Germans Few Natural Defenses Short of Bug River

NAZI DEFENSES OF RAIL CENTER ARE SHATTERED   Breakthrough On Arc Of 110 Miles Leaves Large Section Exposed

RELIGIOUS AUTHOR SUCCUMBS FRIDAY   Dies of Heart Attack While Delivering Lecture

Public, Shocked By Papa Naming New Son Adolf Hitler, Asked To Pick Another

Adolph Hitler Mittel’s Papa Will Appeal to Public for New Cognomen

by ‘Hitler’ F. inds Self Center Of Verbal Bar rage   her of 18-Day-Old Boy Asserts Naming of Infant Started As Joke, Wants Those Who Object to Hated Name Bestowed On His Offspring to Pick a Better One

Four Missing in Landing Of Army Boat   Capsizes After Going On Shoal

Hull Says Il Duce Takes First Step  Allies ‘Fighting Like The Devil’ Says gm gg _ pet F&F

HULL INDICATES MORE PRESSURE AGAINST ITAL’   Declares Increased Military Pressure To Insure Italian Capitulation to Allied Demand For Uncenditional Surrender Will Be U. S. Response.

Allies Will Press War for Downfall Of Italian Empire   Hull Says Unconditional Surrender to Be the AL hed Demand.   Doesn’t Anticipate Any Change in Terms

ALLIES TO KEEP WAR PRESSURE ON ITALY, CLAIM      To Insure Capitulation to Allied Demand For Unconditional Surren - der, Hull Says   WHITE HOUSE SILENT   Secretary of State Say: - Ousting of Mussolini  7 7 First Step Toward Destruction Fascism

Eradication Of Fascism Begun,  Hull Declares   Unconditional Surrender Policy Unchanged, He Asserts In Comment On Mussolini's Downfall

DUCE DOWNFALL END OF FASCISM   Hull Says That Japan Wil Take Due Notice of Kalian Events.   SHORTENS WAR. BELIEF

No Change » in Policy  * Demanding  , Surrender   Secretary Hull Emphasizes Importance of Military Developments   OTHER OFFICIALS SEMAIN SILENT   “ Unconditional Surrender stil the Allied Goal; Italy Needed as Air Base

Allies Step Up War To Get Full Italy Surrender   Hull Says New Military Pressure Will Be Answer To Duce's Downfall

HULL SAYS FASCISM SOON OUT   END OF MUSSOLINI’S RULE SEEN AS SiEP

Early Destruction of Fascism Seen by Hull   No Change in Unconditional Surrender Policy Due; Allies Continue ‘Fighting Like Devil”

SECRETARY HULL  PREDICTS FASCISM  TO BE DESTROYED STATE DEPARTMENT HEA!   MAKES FIRST OFFICIAL COMMENT ON SITITATION

 Sees End of Fascism in Mussolini but Says Allies Suill ‘Fighting Like Devil’

Hull Indicates That Increased Military Pressure Be Applied to Make Italy Withdraw

Allies To Keep Fighting Italy ‘Like the Devil, Secretary Hull Asserts

HULL CITES END OF FASCISM IN ITALY   Allies Still Only To Accept Unconditional surrender

‘Appropriate, Says Hull Reaction To Duce Ousting Proves Highly Favorable

CAPITAL MUM ON MUSSOLINI   High Officials Privately Elated But Make No Statement

Washington Mostly Silen On Duce; Speculation Rife That King Ready For Peace

U. S. Reaction On Duce Ouster Is Wait-And-See  Shake-Up As in t Break In Fascism

HULL SAYS TIME 10 FIGHT LIKE DEVIL   All Attention Should Be On Military Develapments

eactions  akan Cally Accent News Of Ousting OF Duce   ‘Axis Is Collapsing Says Mexico; U. S Optimistic; Aliens Jubilant

Peace Move Seen Result Of Change —  In War Command    ‘Bastogito Forbids Public Gathering, Tells People Remain At Work;  Claim Mussolini Tries Escape

NO CHANGE IN POLICY TOWARD ITALY SEEN   Unconditional Surrender } Still Allied Answer

COUNCIL BOWS TO DE GAULLE   Agrees to Army Purge but Plans To Scrutinize Each General's Record Individually

Accept Terms Of De Gaulle   French Committee Has Reached Agreement on Discharge of Officers

FRENCH LINE UP WITH DE GAULLE   INSIST ON PURGE OF ANTI-ALLIED ARMY OFFICERS

370 Loyal Japs Leave Tule Lake   Sent to Other Centers; Trouble-Makers Remain

GERMANS REMOVE AIR CHIEF IN ITALY   Mediterranean “Graveyard” of Luftwaffe Leaders

BERRIEN LAGS IN BOND SALES   June Total of $425,000 Is : Below Quota For Month

BRITISH RETAIL STUDY IS BASIS   Stores Show Greatest War Survival Value  -OPA.

SDAY BITTER ‘DEBATEENDED —BY APPROVAL      ‘Increases Included In ‘Measure Sent Back To House

SENATE IN APPROVAL OF FARM MEASURE   Wheeler Tells Democratic Colleagues That They Are Likely To See GOP President

aa ee ed  SENATE VOTES — BIG FARM FUND   Bitter Debate Finally Brings 0.K. to Items Rejected by House

Senate Passes Farm Bill Carrying Appropriations Reiected by House Action

SENATE PASSES FARM MEASURE   Senator Protests too Frequent Acceptances of FDR’s Demands; Says Pepole Losing Confidence in Congress

Senate Passes Bill Allowing Great Fund for Farmers  House Will Now Get Measure; Members Continue Arquments

DE GAULLE, GIRAUD PLEDGE FREEDOM: TO NATIVE LAND   Politica! Unity Indicated. By  Statement of Their Common Ohiective.

Grenadier Believed To Be One of Subs Which In. flicted Heavy Damage Or Jap Supply Line Through. out Pacific; Carried Crew of 65.

Chinese Bomb Base of Japs   Escorted Bombers Raid Ichang; Heavy Land Fighting In Progress

Chinese Bomb > Ichang   Strike at Jap Base On Yangtze River; -MacArthur’s Bomber: Wreak Havoc on Lae

CHINESE BOMBERS ATTACK JAP BASE   Much Damage Done to Riv. er Port of Enemy’s New Drive.

Chinese Bombers Attack Ichang  Military Installations Damaged In Raid

New Peak in Kiska Bombin; Is Reached:   Air Attacks and Sub Action Against Enemy Is Announced

JAPS PUNISHED BY U.S, PLANES AND PIG BOATS   Submarines Sank Five More Ships In- Forays Against Japanese In Pacific Area   13 RAIDS MADE IN ONE DAY ON KISKA   New Peak In U.S. Aerial Campaign Is Reached In Attacks On Base In Aleutian Chain

Navy Reports Two Others Were Damaged   American Bombers Strike 13 Times at Nip Base

13. Raids Made on Kiska; Five Japanese Ships Sunk   Two More Enemy Vessels Are Damaged by American Submarines, Navy Announced

KISKA POUNDED 13 TIMES A DAY   Five Japanese Vessels Sunk By American Submarines

Raids On Kiska Reach New Peat   Subs Report Five. More Shine Sink

KISKA POUNDED BY U.S. AIRMEN   13 Raids Carried Out in Day: Five Japanese Ships Sunk by U.S. Subs

Kiska Raided 13 Different Times in Day   Sinking of 5 Jap Ships by U. 8S. Subs in Pacific ‘Also Reported by Navy

FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS ARE SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   Kiska Pounded 13 Times In One Day .

SUBMARINES SINK FIVE JAP VESSELS   Damage of Two More in Pacific Reported; Jap Foothold at Kiska Raided 13 Times in Single Day

Germans Lose Heavily In Lake Ilmen Sector   Nazis Attack Suddenly To Occupy Town But Are Thrown Back By Reds.

German Attack in Force  Thrown Back   Enemy Denied Time to Consolidate New Won Positions

Reds Halt Sudden ‘Attack By Germans   Fighting Breaks Out In Lake Ilman Sector But Russians State All Attacks Are Halted

Navy Shatters Tojo Warships, Sinking Three   Outnumbered Americans Rout Evacuation Fleet; Kolombangara, Vella Lavella Are Abandoned

Fourth Ship May Have Been Sunk, Remainder Of Enemy Evacuation Fleet Limps North. ward tn Retreat   BATTLE CONTINUED ONLY FEW MINUTE:

FURIOUS NIGHT ACTION IN_ CENTRAL SOLOM@NS JAPAN ATTEMPT AT EVACUATIE nd

YANK DESTROYER FORCE WHIPPED * (AP WARSHIPC   Enemy Light Cruiser, Two Destroyers are Sunk In Pacifica.

Japs Leave Central Solomons  After Losing Three Warships   American Destrover Force Blasts Enemy Evacuation Fleet—Tokyo Admits Giving Up Two Island Bases

AMERICAN NAVY IN HEAVY BLOW AGAINST JAPAN   Three at Least, Probably Four. Nip Vessels Blasted in Night Battle in Solomons

Jap Warships Beaten in Battle      Several Damaged;  Others Turn, Run

Out-Gunnec Yank Force Traps Fleet   Liberator Bombers Attack. Remnants Of Enemy Arimada

U. § FORCES BLAST JAP WARSHIPS IN SOLOMONS SECTOR   Jap Radio Says 3-Months Battle To Hold Key: Islands Has Been  &bandoned-

U.S. Ships Sinks 3 Nippo Vessels   OUTNUMBERED, OUTGUNNED YANK DESTROYERS SEND ENEMY SOLOMONS FLEET INTO RETREAT; JAPS ADMIT ABANDONING CENTRAL SOLOMONS

CAUSE SERIOUS JAP DAMAGE   Amorican: Destroyer Force. Blasts: ' Three and Probably Four Japa. nese Warships — Furious Nig Action in Central Solomons  Re.’ ported... - i:

FOUR NIPPON DESTROYERS ARE SUNK   Outnumbered U. S. Forces Victorious In Naval Action

Russians Put German Losses At 1,193,525 Mer   Moscow Reports Great Winter Offensive At Successful End

Map Changed By Red Army Winter Campaign Soviet Radio Asserts   RV FDDV CILMORE

WINTER DRIVE COMPLETED, RUSSIANS SAY   Call Stalingrad Greatest Defeat In History    GERMANS LOST   1,193,525 Men, Including 850.000 Killed, Report Of Reds States

Reds At Novorossisk Gate; Report Lists Winter Gains   New Map Also Shows Troops Only 36 Outside Smolensk At One Point In Offensive; Heavy Toll Of Dead In German Ranks Claimed In Summary

REDS ANNOUNCE NAZI LOSSES IN WINTER DRIVE   Report Claims Over Millior Germans Either Killed or Captured

Winter Drive Ended   Special Communique List: Nazi Losses On  Russian Front

/FLOOD DAMAGE HEAVY   S. D. Flora Estimates the June , Losses at $1,510,663

AMERICANS IN: “OND BIG RAID -OVER GERMAN)   Daylight Attack Follows RAF Bombing Of Industrial Centers

Attack Follows Night Raid on Hamburg s Port   Yank Blow Second In Eight Days; Main Target Not Revealed

Targetfor Daylight Raid Not Revealed   Yanks Follow Up British Night Attack on Hamburg

Wartime Strikes Termed Treason  Legion Commande Bdadraceac A F T_

AFL Convention Listens. To Legion Chief and Then Hears Green's Respense

Wartime Strikes Like Treason, Says Atherton   Legion Commander Is A.F.L. Speaker

Legion lead Places Strikes With Treason  Charge by Commande:  Brinne Rantlv from   Charge by Commander ’ Brings Re ply from ~ AFL William Green

Wartime Strikes Termed Treason  Legion Commande: Addresses A. F. I..

J. S. and British Planes Deal Heavy Blows To Axis-Held Europe In Big Attacks. ;

Mosquito Raids Made Last Night   Allied Atlantic Fleet Whips Sub Pack; Eight Blasted   Tension in Sofia Heightened by Two-Hour Raid by  Americans

OATS AND Liga MAKE DAY RAIDS ON REICH CITIES   Americans Follow Up Night Attacks By RAF On  Western Germany

Renew  Smashing Air War   Not An Allied Plane Lost in Attacks on Targets in Germany And on Sofia, Bulgaria

Yanks Follow Up RAF. Blow   Big Bombers Fly Through Swirling Snow Over Channel; Mosquitos Rake Reich Without Less; England Bombed

RHINE CITY RAIDED IN DAYLIGHT   Yanks Attack Bonn; Nazis Hit Lightly At Britain

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES ATTACK INDUSTRIAL. TARGETS   THRUST ACROSS CHANNE! IN BRIGHT SUNLIGHT FOLLOWED NIGHT RAID

Americans Renew Aerial Blows on Shipping Fronts   Favorable Weather Enables Pilots to Sweep Over Northwest Germany.   Bulgaria’s Capital Is Damaged by Bombers

U. S. Bombers Raid 3 Cities In Rhineland   25 Fortrasses Lost; Gable Returns from Gelsenkirchen Trip

Industrial Targets Hit By Americans   Sth Air Force Follows Up Night Raids on Ruhr And Rhineland

U. S. Flying Forts Bomb Industries  In Reich  Cities   Bonn Target In Dav Raid

NEW AIR BLOWS AIMED AT REICH   RAF MOSQUITOES BLAST TRAGETS IN NORTHWEST GERMAN)

ALLIED AIR FORCES  IN RAIDS ON ENEMY  OBJECTIVES FRIDAY RAF MOSQUITOS HIT  GERMANY; LIBERATOR RLASTED SOFIA

U.S. AIR FORGE RAIDS GERMAN WAR FACTORIES      Attack Bonn, 15 Miles Southeast of Cologne, and Other Rhineland Sectors In Daylight

No Planes Lost: Targetsin N.W. Reich Attacked InU.S. Day Raid   Blow at Balkan Capital Seen as Warning to Satellites

U.S. Heavies  Over Germany   Targets In Northwest Under Daylight Attack

SOFIA ATTACK BY AMERICANS IS “EFFECTIVE”   Metropolis of Hitler's Wavering Balkan Satellite Rocks Under High  Explosives   RAILWAY YARDS AND TROOP BARRACKS HIT   Assaults Give 24-Hour Demonstration of Allied Aerial Supremacy; No RAF Plane Lost

Americans Blast Nazi War Plants   Daylight Blow At Reich Follows Raid From South On Bulgar Capital.

Sofia Rocks Under Explosives Dropped by American Planes   Favorable Weather Ends Respite Given Nazi War Industries

YankBombers Smash 3 Cities InRhineland   Bonn, Gelsenkirchen, Wesseling Targets Of First U.S. Raid This Month   25 FORTS LOST   Intense Fighter, Anti Aircraft Defense Takes Toll: 20 Nazis Shot Down

Hit Industrial Nazi Targets   Flying Fortresses Raid In Daylight

Flying Forts Hit Rhineland   Germans Say Railway Center Of Bonn: RAF Busy With Night Operations,

FLYING FORTS HIT GERMANY      American Attack Follows Night Raid on Ruhr and Rhineland.   25 BOMBERS ARE LOST

 FORTRESSES BLAST BONN ,FOLLOWING NIGHT RAIDS BY RAF ON RUHR VALLEY

U.S. FORTRESSES BLAST RHINELAND TIES ONCE MORE   Twenty-five Bombers Lost, 20 Enemy Fighters Shot Down Over Gelsenkirchen Weeseling. Bonn,

Massive.Fleet Of U. S. Forts Attacks Ruhr   25 Ships Lost In Raid On Three Important. Industrial Areas

Yank Planes Hit Germany   Northwestern Section Under Attack After Bad Weather Lifts

Fortresses  Raid Three Nazi Cilies   25 Fortresses Are Lost in Daylight Smash at Enemy Industrial Targets   GOOD RESULTS ON ALL THREE SMASHES   23 Enemy Fighters. Are Knocked Down in Heavy Air Battles

Eighth Army Fortresses In Daylight Raid   Industrial Targets in Germany Attacked By U. S. Bombers  EFORCE APPEARS LARGE

FATHERS ARE TO BE HELD UNTIL LAST GEN, HERSHEY SAYS   Draft Boards Notified to Use Every Possible Means to Defer Them.   IS INTENT OF CONGRESS   President Roosevelt Just Signed Legislation Designed to Halt Their Induction.

Yankees in New Raids  ‘on Germany   Big Daylight. Blow From Bases in England Follows: U.S. Attack on Sofia   AIR SUPREMACY . AGAIN DISPLAYED   ‘Accurate and’ and Effective’ Raids Are Carried Out Despite Fighter Opposition

U.S. Air Force Makes 3-Way Raid On Rhineland  25 Bombers Lost : a fo   25 Bombers Lost. . In Attack on German Industrial Centers

Fortresses Raid Rhineland in Daylight Sweep   25 of Big: Planes ° Lost; 23: German cighidts Destroyed

Bomb Rhineland Targets, Particularly Bonn, Nazi Radio Says — Attack Fellows RAF Night Mission Over Reich.

FORTRESSES ATTACK NAZIS BY DAYLIGHT   RAF Action During Night; Germans Stab At English Towns

VITAL RAILWAY CENTER NORTH OF ROME IS HIT   Terni, Italy, Bombed For First Time; Damage Is Severe; Bonn, Wesseling, And_ Gelsenkirchen In Germany Blasted By Daylight.

BONN MAIN TARGET OF U.S. FLIERS   Attack Follows Night Of Raiding By RAF Planes

RAID INDUSTRIAL TARGETS IN RUHR AND RHINELAND   The American Thrust Followed Night Raids by the RAF.   : ‘ATTACKED THREE CITIES   Twenty-Five of the Big FourEngined Bombers Were Lost in the Assault.

U. S. Hits Rhine in  Sky Raid   RANGING FLYING FORTS SHATTER GELSENKIRCHEN BONN, WESSELING

FORTRESOES POUNL NAZI WAR CENTERS   RAF Mosquitoes and Other Air ‘Units Attack Continental Points

ENDS RESPITE FOR GERMANS   Sofia, Bulgarian Capital, Bombed Heavily: Western Germany Hit

, Bombers   bing Raids From jland Renewed ; Stop Raid Over London

Air Offensive Resumed; Sofia Gets. Poundine   Bulgarian Capital Hit In Raid That Knocks _ Qut Rail Transport -

Nazi Targets Hit By U.S. Bombers In Day Raids   German Radio Says Attack Centered On Bonn, RAF Had Hit Rhine Last Nicht

‘U.S. Bombers Lash Targets "In Germany   Assault Follows’. RAF Raids and — Heavy American Blow at Sofia

FLYING FORTS RAID BONN AND GELSENKIRCHEN   Wesseling, Another Rhineland Center, also Blasted in Davligh! 25 Bombers Losi

Flying Forts Attack Vital  'Nazi Points   Gelsenkirchen and Bonn Among Points Hit During Daylight Raid

Eighth Airforce Makes Attack Day Following: "Raid: By Liberators, On Bulgarian Capital —

U.S. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS QVER CERMAN   Daylight Raid Follows. 4 Improved Bombing Wea: ther and Hitler’s Respite

Allied Air Superiority Convincing   Raid on Northwest Germany Follows Blow at Sofia

AAF Makes Daylight Raid On Germany   Eight Dead After Nazi Bombers Hit British Town

LARGE AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST REICH TARGETS   Ruhr Valley Hit In Night Attack By RAF Aircraft

U. S. BOMBERS RENEW RAIDS ON GERMANY   Daylight Aitacks Today Foliow Resumption of RAF Blows— Nazis Send over 20, Lose 4

Fortresses Attack Nazi Industrial Centers By Day   Bonn, Railway Center, Given Pounding; Germans Bomb Southeast England

ON BIG SCALE   Flying Fortresses Unleash Heavy Attack On Heart Of Hitler’s Reich

FORTS ATTACK NAZI TARGETS IN AHINELANE   Eighth Army Fliers Hit Bonn Following Raids by RAF on Ruhr.   NAZI PLANES KILL 8 IN COAST TOWN RAIL

FORTS’ BATTER NAZI PLANTS IN DAYLIGHT FORAY   Rhineland Targets Pounded by Yank Raiders—Ruhr Is Jolted by RAF

U.S. FLIERS HIT - EUROPE TODA)   Raid Village Near Cologne; Follows RAF Trip Over Ruhr, Rhineland

RHINELAND AREA HEAVILY BOMBED   U.S. AND BRITISH FLIERS RAIN DEATH ON GERMAN TARGETS

Bonn Is Given A  Heavy Pounding   Strong Force of FourEngined Bombers Do Good Job   BONN 15 MILES FROM COLOGNE

—AIR RAIDS—  BONN {5 BOMBED BY U.S. AIRMER   +~-On-Geeman- City Near  Daylight Raid Is Made Cologne

FLYING FORTS HIT RHINELAND   Three Industrial Targets Left In Flames; 25 Planes Lost

INDUSTRIAL . GERMANY HIT   Fortresses of U. S. 8th Cross Channel in Bright Sunlight

Miners To Start Work Tuesday ir All Coal Fields   Union President and Ickes Work Out Plan for Conferences   Lewis Makes It Plain He Will Continue Fight for Higher Wages

Union Makes Temporal Work Terms   Crisis Is Averted; Further Meetings Will Be Conducted

TOOK ENEMY SHIPS   Cruiser Helena Sank Two Cruisers and Two Destroyers

Helena Sank 4 Jap Ships  Crew Scored Heavily Kehoe Bow Blown Off,  tL... @_.t Pr. ........wk

Two Jap Cruisers And a Destroyer Sunk by Helena in Kula Gulf Fight

The Newspaper La Calle Charges Buildings Were Wrecked By Ad« herants of Former Government —One Guard Reported Killed,

PY TN  AP Writer Tells Story of Training Given Troops for Sicilian Operation

Allies Had Eye On Invasion Long Before ‘The Axis Was Smashed In Battles Of Tunisia   By Don Whitehead

Jap Planes Hit American Ships   First Night Raid By Nipponese In Weeks

Foe Struck After Dusk On Jan. 29  In Solomon:   Results Unknown; Tokyo Admits Loss Of Ten Torpedo Planes In Battle

Navy Verifies Jap Air Attack   SURFACE VESSELS ARE BOMBED IN SOLOMON AREA

Powerful New Offensive Opened on North Front  MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN FIERCE BATTLES  Drive Aimed at Breaking Through to Baltic  Can

Furious Fighting As Russians Start Winter Offensive   Soviets Drive Wedge 19 Miles Deep And 50 Miles Wide Into Nazi Lines Guarding Vital Baltic States, Says Moscow.

Heavy Casualties Reported In Eastern Front Battles  7Six Thousand Tanks Destroyed In Past 47 Days Of Fighting, Russian Report Claims

Reds put nazi loss at million   ‘Knock out 4.600 tanks since push opened July 5th’

Russ Driving For Baltic: Gain 18 Miles   Big Winter Attack Nets 20,000 Germans SInin. Moscow Says’ -

Huge Nazi Toll Claimed by Reds   300,000 Killed on Eastern Front, Many More Wounded, They Report

47-DAY FiGHT COSTS ENEMY 6000 TANKS   ‘Russ Claim 300,000 Nazis Die Since  July 5th

Russians List Nazi Losses This Summer   Declare German Casualties Total One Million

Donets Basin Drie Started By Red Forces Saturday Aqgainst Hitlerites

MONSOON NULLIFIES JAPS’ BURMA DRIVE   British Withdrawal’ From Akyab Completed To West, Northwest

nn. CL OAL te  Epidemic Of Rabies Causes Mayor To Issue Stern Warning

Speedy American-Built Aircraft Carriers Are Guarding Convoy Lanes

AT 1 Dy ar ge New Type of Carrier Fills Gap in Convoying   Speedy, Seven-Deck Warships, Bristling With Planes and  Guns, in Operation

CONVOYS PROTECTED BY GARRIER PLANES   New Ships Especially Built For Anti-sub Patrol

Mail Order Firm Rebuked   WLB Orders Montgomery Ward To Grant Union Checkoff, Security

GETS TITLE AS WORLD'S MOS1 BOMBED CITY   Apparently effort being made to obliteratae this war center

Keep Up Raids Upon Hamburg   Sixth Successive Attack In 72 Hours Is Made By Bombers   LATEST ATTACK IS MOST CONCENTRATED

‘LIQUIDATION’ OF HAMBURG ~ TS CONTINUED BY BOMBERS   EXPLOSIVES DUMPED ON BIG PORT AND INDUSTRIAL CENYER FOR SIXTH TIME IN 72 HOURS

Allied Ground and Air Forces Cracking N. Guinea Jap Defense   Tokyo's Jitters Growing Worse, Special Session of the Diet.

Nazis. blast. at. Red Spearheads =~ In-White Russi¢  Moscow Report lanores   Moscow Report Ignores All But Action on Central Front

NAZIS POUND RUSSIANS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Strong Counter-Attack Un. successful, No Gains Made, 1.800 Men Lost; “No Serious Changes” Is Reported   Form Semi-Circle

Nazi attacks White Russia  are repulsed   Germans suffer serious losses

SOVIETS TURN BACK STRONG NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Report New Red Drives Developing in North

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE HINTED AT LENINGRAT   COUNTER - ATTACKS OF NAZIS FAIL; LOSSES HEAVY

NAZIS HIT BAGK IN WHITE RUSSIA   ATTACK SOVIET SPEARHEADS, BUT MOSCOW SAYS THEY MADE NO GAINS.

Red Summer Offensive Appears Ended   Nazi Forces Attack the Soviets in White Russia

RAPS SPENDING IN SO. AMERICA   Senator Attacks U.S. ‘Dance Of The Billions’ 

SENATOR HIT SPENDING OF VAST AMOUNT   CHARGE MADE OF “BOONDOC GLING” AND CONFUSION IN  CENTRAL AND SOUTH . AMERICA POLICY

HITS U.S, OUTLAY IN SO, AMERICA      U. S. Sen. Butler Charges Dictators Being Armed to Attack Neighbors

STRONG MACHINERY FOR PEACE SOUGHT   New Republican Faction Is Against Isolation

GOP COMMITTEE ka POST-WAR PROGRAM   Want to Present Tentative Policy to Advisory Council at Mackinac:lsland.-Mectitig

New GOP Faction Plugs for World Peace System Plank in Platform; Pleads With Chairman Spangler for Vote of Support

ITALY, GERMANY NOW IN VIRTUAL STATE OF WAR   Hun Control Over Rome And Hitler’s Denunciation May Swing Nation   MAY FIGHT WITH ALLIES   Diplomatic And Official Quarters Await Word On Pope’s Welfare

State of Undeclared War Believed to Exist Between Italy and Germany as Result of Hitler’s Decision to Make Major Stand. .

NAZHITALIAN WAR CERTAIN   Badoglio Departs From Rome  Wait Word of Pope’s Welfare

Compulsory Military Training Urged by House Leader as Big Stick for U. 5. In Post-War World: To Seek Legislation

U.S. Peacetime Army Training  Program Asked      Representative Would Make Year Of Military Duty Compulsory

Urges Big Stick For Uncle Sam   Would Make Military Training Compulsory In U.S. A. After War

Bill Provides Year's Training For All Youths   Senator May Has Compulsory Military Measure

MAY PROPOSES YOUTH TRAINING   Solon Would Require Peacetime Army Program for Men 17 to 21

Military Year or All Youths   Chairman Of House Committtee Asks Compulsory Training After War.

TWO DEPARTMENTS MAY BE ABOLISHED BY STATE’S SOLONS   Elimination Of Commerca And Public Assistance Departments Called  . Economy Move

ASSEMBLY OPENS ITS SESSION AT HARRISBURG   Abolition Of Public Assistance Commerce Dept. Seem Certainty

Argentine Revolt Pro-Democratic Movement, View   BY FALL SANDERS News editor of La Prensa Asociatla, Associated Press affiliate ty Eatin America

Reports Indicate Military Revolt  Is Pro-Allied —   Insurgents Seize Strategic Points In Buenos Aires; Clash In Outskirts

REVOLT CONSIDERED  MOVEMENT AGAINST  NEUTRALITY POLICY ARGENTINES IN NEW YORI  INTERPRET REVOLT AS PRO.NEMNOCRATIC

Argentines In New York Interpret Uprising Aimed Against Isolationist President   DEMANDS FOR BREAK MOUNTING FOR DAYS   Entire Demonstration Helc Pro-Democratic Movement to End Dictatorial Methods of Castillo

New State Defense Plan Nears Okay   Assembly Battles on State Aid to Kin-Helped Persons

SENATOR BILBO 1S READY T0 CONDUCT SENATE FILIBUSTER  MICCICCIDDIAN CAVC CAN.

Bilbo Ready For One-Man Filibuster   Says 18 Months Would Be Barely Sufficient to Outline His Objections to Anti-Poll Tax Bill

Sen. Bilbo Ready   For A Filibuster ‘Threatens’ To Talk For 18 Months

Bilbo Is Ready To Stage 18-Month Filibuster To Kill Poll Tax Bill

Thousands Here Face Changes in Occupation   Men Must Take Heavier Work, Area Chief Of : WMC Declares

BIG JOB SHIFT NEAR AT HAND, WOODLEY SAYS   Declares Hundreds of Men Here to Be Called On To Make Change

Typhoid Fever Still Prevalent; Death Rate Very High   Immunity From Shots Lasts Orly A Year VaccinesNecessary

Typhoid Clinics To Be Held This Week In Rural Areas   Dr. E. J. Young Advises Shots Be Taken; Avoid: Danger Of Infection

AIR ACTIVITY < ‘CENTERS ONNAZI ~ BAIL TRANSPORT   Twenty Trains are Damaged In Wide-spread Strafing Sweens.

Schools to Get One-Third Share   But It’s by Narrow Margin That House Votes to Keep Up Fund.

BODIES OF 47 FOUND IN RUINS HOUSTON HOTEL   Searchers Seek Others Unaccounted For Among 133 Guests — Clerk Put Out First Fire

47 DIE IN FIRE AT MEN’S HOTEL; MANY TRAPPED   Only Three of Victims—Old Age Pensioners, Workers And Transients Identified   17 REMAIN IN HOSPITALS   Flames Discovered About Midnight in Two Places In Upper-floor Rooms

47 Men Die In  Houston Fire —   Midnight Fire Spreads Quickly Through Old Frame Structure

47. DIE IN HOUSTON FIRE   32 Taken to Hospitals, '15 of Which Were  Soon Released

45 Men Lose Lives In Texas Hotel Fire   Others of 133 War Workers, Transients and Old-Age Pensioners Listed on Register Are in a Critical Condition.

47 Are Known Dead After  Houston Blaze   Many Others Unaccounted fo as Fire Sweeps Throug Old Riuildine

War Workers And Transients Victims Of Holocaust; Many Men Leaped From W Solas   Heat So Intense Firemen Could Net Use Ladders; Flames Poured From Every Crevice Of Building, One Of Oldest In‘City

AT Perish In Texas Hotel Fire   Others of 133 Registered In Critical Condition

Many Die In Houston Fire   At Least 48 Perish When Old Hotel Is Destroyed

TEMPERATUKES:   Many Others Missing; Escape Blocked By Searing Flames

48 Die in Fast Spreading Blaze in Hotel at Houston.   Many Men Jump From Windows When Fire Ravages Building

47 Burned to Death in a Texas Hotel   Fire Ravaged Gulf Hotel at Houston; Many Others Were Injured.

47 Victims In Wreckage Of Hotel Fire   Others Among 133 Guests Have Not Yet Been Ac: counted For

far Workers nsioners nong Dead   lany Leap From findows as Fire uts OFF Eyite

48 Burned fo Death in Old Hotel At Houston Today   Exits Were Blocked By Fast Spread of Flames in Building

47 Perish in Texas Hotel Fire  Others of 133 Registered In Critical

48 Known Dead In Hotel Blaze  More Bodies Sought In  Hanstan Wreckage

48 DIE IN HOTEL FIRE AT HOUSTON   OTHERS INJURED AS BIG BLAZE RAVAGES ANCIENT STRUCTURE

4] Persons Die As Fire Sweeps Hotel In Texas   Many Among 133 Registered Guests Still Missing

HOTEL FIKE— AT Perish In. Houston  Hotel Fire   Searchers Digging Through Ruins For  More Bodies

47 DEAD IR HOTEL BLAZE IN HOUSTON   Flames in Rooming House Quickly Block Off Two Fire Escapes in Structure   MANY STILL MISSING

“47 FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL RUINS   “Small Houston Building Gutted By Blaze—More Bodies Are Sought

United States And Britain Foregc All Territorial Rights In China

HARMON SAFE AFTER CRASH INTO JUNGLE   FAMOUS FOOTBALL PLAYER REACHES SOUTH AMERICAN BASE AFTER BEING MIAS . ING OVER WEEK

FIND HARMON AFTER CRASH   Former grid star turns up at undisclosed U. S. base in South America

ALLIED COMMAND CONSIDERS RAID ON ROME ‘SUCCESSFUL’   Steel Plant, Chemical Works And Railroads Damaged  By Heavy Assault

Steel Plant and: Large Chemical Works Destroyed — Railway Instalations and. Rolling  Stocj also Damaged.

ROME RAID IS TERMED SUCCESSFUL   ‘Steel Plant,  Chemical Works, — Railroads Damaged

Americans And French Push Closer To Mateur   Take 600 Prisoners In Fresh Advances Over Razorback Hills In Northern Tunisia   LIGHT NAVAL FORCES TIGHTEN BLOCKADE Gen. Giraud Predicts _ Victory in Tunisia  By End of This Month

shting in Tunisia - Near Standstill; sees Gain      sh First Army Makes Another Slight Withdrawal. ud Sees Full African Victory This Month;  cow Reports More Success in Caucasus Fight

GIRAUD FORECASTS VICTORY IN MONTH   French Leader Sees Wz War End In 1944;

LOSES HIS APPEAL   High Court Refuses to Review Conviction On Sedition Count

Live Hogs Price Ceiling Planned  By Government  Washington Sources Say Top Will Be $14.75 cwt. Chicago  LICENSE BUTCHERS  Would Tighten Contre Over Meat; Beef Cattl Ceiling Unlikely Soon

Sends Mine Pay Case to _ Labor Board   Secretary Perkins Tells of Conferees’ Failure to Make Agreement   TELLS. OF PROPOSAL FOR NEGOTIATIONS   Guaranteed Six-Day Work Week Suggested as Basis of Settlement

Coal Dispute Goes To WLB   Seeretary Of Labor Taking No Chances As Truce Deadline Approaches.

eNMINE WAGE ISSUE [3 SENT TO WLB   Secretary Of Labor Certifies Dispute To War Labor Board

Soft Coal Wage Dispute Goes to WLB   Certified to That Body By Labor Secretary

Coal Wage Dispute Is Certified to War Labor Board  Miss Perkins Admits “Negotiations Since  RJ. LL YF es ee

ACKNOWLEDGES FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS   Says It Is Imperative That Matter Be Settled Soon

SECTY. PERKINS CERTIFIES COAL STRIKE TO WLB   Failure of Negotiations Acknowledged Which  Have Been Under Way Since March 10th.

WAGE DIOPUTE ON SOFT COAL GOES 10 WLB   Secretary Perkins Acknowledges Failure of Neontiatinnes.   AGREEMENT WILL EXPIRE NEXT WEEK   Wartime Conditions Cited as Urgency for “No Chances” by Delay.

COAL DISPUTE GOES TO WLE   Secretary Perkins Certifies Soft Coal Case to Board Today.

SOFT COAL WAGE ROW CERTIFIED 10 WAR LABOR BOARD   Secretary of Labor Perkins Takes Step Because Fue! Is Vital To War Effort, CL. Saux

BITUMINOUS WAGE DISPUTE SENT TO WLB   Perkins Certifies Soft Coal Case as Extended Time Nears End: Without Operators’ Proposal

WLB Given Coal Dispute   Secretary Perkins Certifies Wage Problem For Final Disposal

Board Enters Mine Dispute   Soft Coal Wage Controversy Certified to WLB and Sectetary of Labor Perkins

HIN DISPUTE CERTIFIED 10 NATIONAL WLE          secretary-of Labor. Ac knowledges Failure of Negotiations Between Tinion and Operators   ACTION PROMPTED BY WAR NECESSIT’   Mine Journal’s Editor Indicates Miners Will Strike May 1 Unless Agreement Reached

Soft Coal Fight Handed To WLE   Secretary Perkins Would Speed Action

CERTIFIES MINE DISPUTE TO WLB   SECRETARY OF LABOR ADMITS FAILURE OF WAGE NEGOTIATIONS

Take Steps To Keep Up  ‘Production   Negotiators Have Failed To Make Any Progress, Asserts Miss Perkins  .On.Wage Controversy

Coal Dispute Certified to Labor Board   Miss Perkins Acts  To Prevent Work Stoppage in Mines

MINE DIOPUTE GIVEN TO WAR LABOR BOAR      Miss Perkins Certifies Coal Row To WLB

Wage Dispute in Soft Coal Industry Is Sent Up to War Labor Board

FEMALE LABOR LAW CHANGE IS BALKED IN OHIO   Republican Revolt Against Administration Leaves Measure Stranded   LIQUOR RATIONING LOOMS   House Approves Regulatory Bill by Big Majority To Meet Public Demand

REVOLT HALTS LABOR MEASURE      GOP Leadership Withdraws Plans For Vote

NEW YORK OIL SHORTAGE HITS CITY’S SCHOOLS   Order Closes All Public Schools One Week Starting Feb. 1

ASTH DIVISION ‘ONE OF BEST’   State Outfit Lauded for Bril—* hiant Shels jy in Action On Sicily

45th Seized First Air Field Taken In Sicily, Did It Against Germans

Expects Solution To Lebanese Row  Catroux Says French  a Ey ot, kA they

“WOULD ABOLISH OWI   New York Democrat Would Tran fer Activities to State Dept.

ENEMY SLASHES THROUGH YANKS’ FAID PASS LINE   Positions at Cafsa Menaced— Rommel’s Troops Aid In Heavy Assault

Armored Forces of Gen. Rommel Break  Through Yank Line   U. S. Anchor at Gafsa I:  Threatened; German  Tanks in "hetion

50-Tank Thrust Gains 20 Miles, Threatens Gafsa   Anchor in South May Be Evacuated As Rommel Attacks

Nazis Score Penetration  Of 20 Miles   Smash Against American Positions West Of Faid Pass, _Endanger U. S.  . Anchor At Gafsa

Armored Unit Beafs Yanks At Faid Pass  by eg Break In epor  ry ge ae PS Sea ae oe 30

ENEMY BREAKS THROUGH YANK LINE FOR GAINS   Allied Headquarters Reveal Nazis Advance 20 Miles West of Faid  Dace   ENDANGERS GAFSA, AMERICAN ANCHOR   Germans Employe Armor Believed to Be From Rommel Forces; Battle 1s Continuing

DO-WNLE GAIN lo MADE Weal OF FALD PASD   Tanks Believed from Rom. mel’s Forces Threatening U. §. Anchor at Gafsa. —   COMMUNIQUE REPORTS HEAVY BATTLE CONTINUES

Atiack by Fifty Tanks Believed from Rommel's Forces Overwhelms American Artillery   THREATEN GAFSA    Allied Headquarters Expresses Belief Rail Town Will Be Evacuated

success Menaces Anchor   American Artillery Positions At Pass Overwhelmed.

Gafsa, Anchor of Position, Menaced   20-Mile Break-Through Made by Armored Forces West of Faid Pass In Central Tunisia — German Dive Bombers Play an Imporiant Role

Nazis Go ‘Through —ULS. Line   B Sudden Armored Attack Overwhelms Artillery At Faid Pass Exit .   A BREAK-THROUGH OF TWENTY MILES   American Anchor Town of Gafsa Threatened and May Soon Be Evacuated

ROMMEL’S FORCES BREAK THROUGH NEAR FAID PASS   Fifty Tanks Supported By Dive Bombers Drive 20 Miles   U.S. ANCHOR AT GAFSA IN PERIL

, §. POSITION SENOANGERED BY NAZI DRIVE   Heavy Fighting Still in Progress, Allied Report Says

Yankees Fall Back 20 Miles At Faid Pass   Tanks From Rommel! Corps Break Through Line, Peril Gafsa Anchor   OVERWHELM GUNS   Troops Begin Withdrawal From Sidi Bouzid After Heavy Loss From Stukas

Axis smashes thru American positions with Rommel armor   U.S. anchor at Gafsa in peril after 20 mile nazi break-thru

American Artillery Guarding Faid Pass Is Overwhelmed By Enemy Tanks In Heavy Battle

Nazi Tanks Smash U. S. Lines in Africa   Japs Saw Size of American Fleet in Solomons and Fled

Germans Overwhelm American Positions.   Heavy Fighting Rages as Nazis Try for ‘Complete Break-throuch in Tunisia

Rommel s Forces Believed Leading Faid Pass Attack   US Bombers Blasting Enemy As Yanks Forced To Retreat; Battle Continues

BELIEVED ROMMEL REINFORCEMENTS IN ACTION IN TUNISIA   UNITED STATES LINE AN. CHOR AT GAFSA ENDANGERED BY BREAK-THRU

Enemy Smashes Over American Artillery Post   British Sources Say Allies Have Situation In Tunisia Under Control.   MAY EVACUATE GAFSA

U. S. ANCHOR ENDANGERED BY AXIS PUSH   Artillery Positions Guarding West Exit of Faid Pass Overwhelmed by  Enemy Tanks   MAY EVACUATE GAFSA

Rommel Makes Gainfo Menace Yankee Anchor   Nazi Tanks Overwheln American Artillery Positions Guarding Exit to Faid Pass

Nazis Snap Yank Line  in Tunisia   Break-Through Gaines 20 Milec

Ropesville Farm Project Is Sold   Former Tenants Of U.S. Buying Land

Ropesville Farm Project Is Sold   Former Tenants Of U.S. Buying Land  + Be HaWwiTTr yY AMR

CHARITY GETS ~ HUGE AMOUNT   MOST .OF EDBEL FORD ESTATE WILL. GO TO CHARITABLE '  KOUNDATION. UNDER . WILE

RAIDERS MAY HIT BEYOND MARCUS   36 Out of 60 Jap War Planes Downed in Fierce Fight Over Kahili

NAVAL FORCE MAY STRIKE MORE BASES   TASK FORCE THAT BOMBARDED MARCUS ISLAND NOT FAR FROM OTHER ENEMY STRONG...  ' HOLDS ,

BOSTON BOMBERS IN RAIDS ON U-BOATS   France. Belgium And Holand Vis. ited By Allied Raiders In Daylight Attacks

U. S. BOMBERS JOIN BIG RAID   Airmen Strike At Rail Viaduct, Sub Base In Sweeps Over Continent

Vital Retreat For Nazis Is Cut By Sudden Red Victory  aRuss Forces Drive to Within 42 Miles Of  RM mc pees

House Rejects Bill To Repeal Income Tax   Senate Acts on Petition For  Making Rubber

HOUSE VOTES DOWN INCOME TAX REPEAL   Proposal made for suspension of tax this year and next

LIFT RESTRICTIONS IN DETROIT AREA   Normal Hours for Amusement Places Permitted; Ban Assembly and Carrvina Arms

KELLY REMOVES DETROIT BANS   U. S. Troops Will Remain As Precautionary Measure

Red Cross Will Meet Gripsholm  No Individual to   No Individual to Be Permitted to Meet Ship at Pier

Axis Invasion Jitters Spread Over Continent  Allied Parachute Force Said Fetahlhiched In      Allied Parachute Force Said Established In  Norway Base   ITALIANS NERVOUS   Making Plans To Defend Country From Drive Across Sea

Invasion Jitters In Axis Nations  Increasing   Nazis Alarmed By Parachutist Reports From Norway; Huns Demand French Ships

Allied Parachutists Are Reported in Norway as Axis Awaits Invasion

Reports of. Base Increase Axis Invasion Jitters from Balkan Frontier To Scandinavian Peninsula; Story Reaches London From Stockholm.

Nazis Described As Searching For Base; Italians Declare Sicily Ready If Invasion Comes; Tales From Turkey ° Say Axis On Alert For Thrust In That Theater

AXIS INVASION WORRIES “ARE MOUNTING   Say Fleet Being Prepared To Rescue Rommel   DISCUSSIONS   On Defense Of Continent Said To Be Started By Germans, Italians

REPORT GERMANS HAVE BAD CASE OF INVASION JITTERS   indicate Allied Parachute Troops Have Established Base in Norway   AXIS DEFENSES BOLSTERED

Invasion Jitters Sieze Axis   Official Nazidom On Edge From Norwegian Mountains To Balkans; Sicily Now A Fortress

Many Signs Show Axis  fe See ee ee  7 - * * * ~  “oe “ietea Jitters

News Gives Nazis Invasion Jitters  Trouble for Hitler Brew: ing from Balkans To   PEOPLE OF NORWAY ARE HITTING NAZIS

Allied Paratroops Reported Holding Norwegian Base   Axis Invasion Jitters Increase From Balkans To Scandinavia; French Shipping Summoned For Anticipated Rommel Dunkerque

Signs of Invasion Jitters Are Noted in Germany, Italy   Allied Chutists Reportec Operating From Base in Norway

AXIS FEARS OF INVASION INCREASING   Hitler Reported Trying to Safeguard All Points at Once.   ‘REPORT ALLIED “BASE IN- NORWAY   Points Reportedly Threatened Range Clear Around to Balkans.

INCREASING SIGNS OF AXIS INVASION JITTERS REPORTED  ONE STORY IS THAT BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS NOW IN NORWA’

Invasion Alarm Grows In Axis European Camp   8th Army Advances.   Axis Port Crippled.

Axis. Invasior Jitters Are Increasing   Allied Parachute Troops Are Reported to Have Establish'ed a Base in Norwegian Mountains , ~

Axis Jitters Over Invasion  At New Height   German Radio Says Nazis On Hunt For Paratrooper Foree In Mountains,  ITALY PEARS ATTACK

REPORT ALLIED PARACHUTISTS LAND IN NORWAY   Set Up Base in Mountains, Hit German-Occupied Industries

S INVASION ERS. SIGNS ~ REPORTED   + Allied "Chute ips Established  ‘in Norway

Invasion Jitters In Axis Nations More Apparen'   Highlighted by Report of Allied Parachute Troops in Norway.   Move French Shipping To Evacuate Rommel

Report Of Allied Parachute Base In Norway Gives Nazis Case Of Invasion Jitters

Invasion Jitters  Sweep Axis Amid Multiplying Signs Of Coming Attack

Axis Jitters Increased  By Reports   Say Allied Paratroops Have Established Base In Mountains Of Norway

Reports of Allied Paratroopers in Norway Highlight Signs of New, © Increasing Axis “Invasion Jitters’’

Nazis Hunt Parachutists In Norway   Reported to Have Base in Mountains — Stage Raids

TOM TYSON DECLINED APPOINTHENT HERE AS DISTRICT JUDGE  WAYNE HOWELL. RE  WAYNE HOWELL, RE., SIGNED, THURSDAY BECAME RAILROAD COUNSEL

TOM TYSON DECLINED APPOINTMENT HERE AS DISTRICT JUDGE   WAYNE HOWELL, RESIGNED, THURSDAY BECAME RAILROAD COUNSEL

DESTROYED DRAFT RECORDS, CHARGE   Woman Clerk Accused of Destroying Files of Fiance Three Times.

10 CLOSE STUDY OF THX PROGRAM DEVISE NEW ONE   Ways and Means Group Is Expected to Pigeonhole Treasury Plan.

TAX AMOUNT ~~ DFEPLY CUT   HOUSE COMMITTEE PLANS TAX PROGRAM. OF LESS, THAN HALF OF TREASURY ‘ PROPOSAL - :

Armstrong Labels State Penal System Among the Inefficient   Administrative Methods Make Good Prison Management Impossible; Punishment Like Medieval Torture Chamber Solon Finds

PENAL SYSTEM HOTLY ASSAILED      Management, Punishment Methods and Parole Setup Under Fire   CHARGES ARE MADE BY REP. ARMSTRONG

Rep. Armstrong Flays Missouri Penal Program   Claims Good Prison Management [Impossible Under Present Plan.   Asserts a Trained Personnel Needed

Address Is Made To British Guard   Conferences With Chinese And Australtion Leaders Point To Aid In The Pacific Area

CHURCHILL IN BROADCAST TO BRITISH PEOPLE   Prime Minister Confers With Number Of Officials In Washington

Churchill Says Allied Invasion ls Not Far Of   Declares Troops Now Con. gregated in England Will Start Soon

SAYS INVASION TIME IS NEAR   Churchill Says “March After March” Against Foes Being Charted

Early Invasion Indicated In Speech Of Churchill   Prime Minister Says He and Roosevelt Planning “Well Ahead of Armies Who Are Moving Swiftly For. ward’-—Confers With Chinese Envoy

Churchill Says Invasion Time  Approaching   Troops Concentrated In Britain To March Against Axis. He Says

Churchill Says Time Approaches For Continentat blow; Contforonres Held With Chinese. Australian Ministers

Invasion Time Near. Churchill Talk Indicates   Tells British Home Guard Time Draws Near When Troops Will Cross Seas

CHURCHILL HINTS INVASION PLANS   Time Nears When Troops Will Drive Across Seas   PROMISES CHINA   United Nations Will Surely Drive Jap Invader From Soil of China

Churchill Hints Of Invasion in Radio Broadcast   ‘Timé Approaching for Assault on Axis Strongholds He Says

CHURCHILL HINTS INVASION 15 NEAR   TIME APPROACHING, HE SAYS, WHEN TROOPS IN BRITAIN WILL STRIKE,

A Veteran Aid Program   President Outlines Plan To Ease Return To Civilian Life

FR. Presents Six-Point Post-War Plan   Education, Job, Equal Rights Mapped for U. Ss.

Six-Point Program Mapped To Take Care Of Soldiers When They Return Home

FDR OUTLINES POSTWAR PLAN FOR WAR VETS   SIX-POINT PROGRAM MAPPED TO PREPARE COUNTRY FOR PEACE

BLUE RIDGE LINES PLAN AIR SERVICE   Application Filed by Com. pany With Aeronautics Board

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Russians Giving Germans No Chance To Re-Group Forces For Defense

Lhe War lf oaay-Goal Of Russian Drive Jumping-Off Places For All-Out Winter Offensive

The War Today   Russian Pressure on Nazis May Go Rioht an Intyn Winter Camnaion

SUCCESS MARCHED WITH ALLIES IN THEIR OFFENSIVES AROUND MOST WORLD DURING WEEKEND

Reds. May Be Figuring on — Allied Blow   Prospects of Action Soon ix “Other Theaters. May: Be Sparking: Their. Drive   HITLERITES NOT:      Russians ‘Extending ‘Them selves to Keep-Offensive Go“ing” While. Foe.Is- Panicky:

Allied Staffs Are Ready For Invasion Hou   Gen. Eisenhower Aides Complete Plans For Blow At Hitler   The Lineup

HERE'S THE LINE-UP OF COMMANDERS WHO WILL LEAD INVASION OF FUROPE: ALL NAMED EXCEPT WAVAL LEADER

COLLEGE MAN IS ROTARY SPEAKER      Dr. Harley Smith Talks To Local Group Tuesday On Customs in Republic

SOUTH AMERICAN COLLEGE MAN IS ROTARY SPEAKER      Dr. Harley Smith Talks To Local Group Tuesday On Customs in Republic

Rift in Churchill Government Looms  Labor Members Vote Against Beveridge  an ,

CHURCHILL WINS SUPPORT VOTE   Move to Condemn - Security Plan Beaten

Flying ‘Forts’ Smash Rhinelanc And Ruhr Plants   Damage German Oil Re fineries in Two Large Cities   Iwenty-Five Fortresse Shot Down; German Losses Heavy

U.S. AIRMEN RAID VILA. SALAMAUA   Rains Delay Drive Toward Japs Aft Bairoko Harbor

BIG AIR RAIDS MAY BRING NEW GROUND ACTIONS   Allies Smash Again at Vila and Salamaua

New Air Attack In Southwest Pacific Seen   May Follow Ground Action Aaainst Japs

VILA AIRDROME IS BLASTED BY ALLIES: SALAMAUA RAIDED   Action Presages Imminent Ground Attacks On Japs In South Pacific

MORE ATTACKS ON APS IMMINENT -IN SOUTH. PAGIEK   Heavy Bombings Set Stage for New Advances By — Ground Troops.

South Pacific Air Smashes Hin New Land Blows   Vila) Salamaua Feel Weight Of Heaviest Allied Raids In War

Vila Airdrome Undergoes Its Heaviest Raid   Twenty-Two Tons Of U. S. Bombs Dumped at Bairoko

YANKS HAMMER PACIFIC JAPS   NEW DRIVE SEEN AS VILA, SALAMAUA HIT

Two Big Jap Bases Given  Heavy Raids   Vila Gets Worst Of War And Salamaua Is Again Hit Strong Blow

Move To Simplify U.S. Tax Payment  ‘Committee Votes Credit  On Victory Tax

Flooded Mississippi River Near Record38-FootPeak   Mighty Artery At 37.7 Ai St. Louis, Highest Since 1903

Women, Children Forced by Flood  To Leave Town   Mississippi and Illinois Rivers  Near New Records

ISSIPPI FLOOD MENACE IS WATCHED   Army Engineers, Soldiers and Civilian Workers Are Prepared to Build Up Dvykes.

Dike Fails Jo Keep Out Surging River   Many Hemeless In Mid-West;  Troops on Duty

Sea Wall Is Covered  By Floods   Mayor Tells Women and Children to Leave —  Fight a Losing Fight

SIRENS WARN ALL TOLEAVE TOWK   Most of Citizens Removed Te Three Nearby Cities, Red Cross, Militia Assisting.

FALL EXPOSES CENTRAL FRONT TO RED ARMY   Triumph, Unrevealed By Moscow, Important Strategic Success

Russians Re-take City Near Moscow   M’Arthur’s Bombers Pounce on Jap Convoy Headed for New Guinea

Germans Admit Evacuation Of Key Defense City Near  Moscow as Reds Advance

Reich Seeks Help from Vatican to Stop Raids   mportant Strategic Victory for Russians Won by Taking Rzhe

Reds Silent — On Capture Of Stronghold   Nazis Land Hard Blow in Donets Basin

Allies in Damaging  Air Raids   Jap Convoy Blasted in Pacific—Berlin Still Afire— Gandhi Ends Fast

Zoot-Suit Rioting Ends Today In Expressions Of Regret, Good Will

ZOOT SUITERS ASK WAR END   Carry Flag of Truce to Los Angeles Police

RIOTING IS — ENDED IN LOS ANGELES   Young People Express Regret Over Their Actions

r/ a OC oy FPN  Loot-esuit i ruce— Sharpies and Slick Chicks Wave Flare and Apologize

100T RIOTERS SUE FOR P2EGs   ‘Sherpies’ and ‘Slick Chicks’ €o Tell Police Thav’ll Cut Out Rough Stuff.

ZOGT RIOTING ENDED TODAY   Fifty-Three Representatives . of Los Angeles Zoot Suit Gangs Ask That “Rough Stuff” Be Ended.

ALLIED BOMBS HIT BASES IN FRANCE   Daylight Raids M ade on Naziland Targets

ITALIANS GIVEN SURRENDER OR FICUT EDICT   FDR-Churchill Offer Hon grable Terms To  Duce’s People   FACES ANNIHILATION   Nation Warned They Must Decide Between Fascism and Liberty

Allies Are Fast Surging Ahead Toward Catania   Twelve More Towns Are Captured; Enemy Appears On The Run.

Guards Halt Insurrection   Sam Jones Appointee Installed by Force

ROOSEVELT SAYS JAPS ARE LOSING   Asserts MacArthur Doing Splendid Job In War

FDR SAYS U, S, UNITS WINNING IN PACIFIC   Reproof To Critics Demanding More Aid for MacArthur

FDR SAYS JAPS ARE. BEING BEATEN   President’s Remarks Could {Have Been Reproof to Critics Demanding More Aid For MacArthur

Roosevelt haps  War Critics  In Nippon Fight Slave Nations Pix  Hopes on U. S. He Says in Talk

F. D, R. BELIEVES PACIFIC FORCES GETTING ENOUGH   President's Assertion Seen As Indirect Reproof To Critics Demanding More Aid For MacArthur.

acINE BEATEN   FDR’s Remarks Seen As Rebuke for Critics of Pacific Program.

President Asserts Japanese are Being Defeated in Pacific   Says MacArthur Seems to be Doing Pretty Well in Campaign

WHIPPING JAPS  IN SO. PACIFIC,  SAYS PRESIDENT ASSERTION VIEWED  AS SLAP AT CRITICS ON MAC ARTHUR AID

Stale Acts  Te Improve Old- Fashioned  System   Committees Named to Make An Investigation

COAL MINERS GO ON STRIKE   Estimated 17,000 anthra cite workers protest increased dues

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IS NOW IN CANADA   Allied Leaders Meeting for Sixth Time to Chart Next Moves for Allies.

HEAVY AIR BLOW ON NEW BRITAIN   ALLIED BOMBERS DROP 150 TONS MORE IN CAPE GLOUCESTER AREA.

BOMBS SHOWER ON NEW BRITAIN   Cape Gloucester Area Pounded; Japs Sneak Out Of Rabaul

New Deal’s Prolix And Esoteric Directwes Have Reed Tearing. Hair

Commonwealth’s Financial Statu Best In Years; Gov. Martin Give: James Administration Credit

‘State Finances on Firmest Basis iIn Years: See Surplus in 2 Years

Rotary Hears Talk On Post-War World   Interesting Talk Given By Prin. Stanley Bright

Rotarians Hear  Fr. Fitzgerald   Interesting Talk Given At Meeting Monday

LEGISLATORS TO LIFT VEIL OVER OUR TEXTBOOKS   Committee Votes to Resume Inquiry ot Request of Governor Kerr

Investigating Committee Votes to Resume Work At Once; Kerr Suggests Gilmer Have Witnesses For His Grand Jury Probe First

Prepared to toss changes at power bill   Peterson states four main topics to be given study   The legislature meets Monday at 10 a. m.   —_ i  FGISLATURE—

Prepared to toss changes at power bill   Peterson states four main topics to be given study

FRENCH MILITIA MAY AID NAZIS   BERLIN INDICATES GROUP LAVAL IS ORGANIZING WLLL FIGHT FOR REICH,

WILL AWARD THE “E”   The Public Ig Invited te Program Honoring Color Press .

Aur, Naval Power Bring Downfall   Ground Troops Land, Take Control After Italians Run Up White Flag; Hammered By 1,000 Planes, Says Axis Account

Forces Give Up After 19Day Attack   Greatest Aerial Attack In History Caps Assault; Troops Being Landed

R BOMBARDMENT UNEQUALLED RAINED UPON LITTLE ISLAND   SOME SLIGHT RESISTANC! MET AFTER WHITE FLAG WAS RAISED

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE OVER ISLE   Strategic ‘Stepping Stone Capitulates After Air and Sea Attacks.   IBREAKS FORTRESS RING

Battered Italian Isle Is Occupied   Most Concentrated Allied Air Attack Of War Brings Mediterranean Success

FIGHTERS BREAK UP NAZI AIR ATTACK   Attack on Landing Parties at Pan  telleria Frustrated

RESISTANCE ON BOMB-BLASTED ISLE I$ ENDED   Eisenhower's Soldiers Take Control After White Flag Raised

British Landing Troops Fight 22 Minutes Against Scattered Enemy Defenders of Island

Island Fortress Is Surrendered Unconditionall)   Allied Treops Occupy Island 20 Minutes After Display Of White Flags — It Is First Time In History That An Island Fortress Has Given In To Air Power

Fierce Air Attack  Forces Submissior   Italian Island Fortress Is Strategie Stepping Stone Fo Allies as It Is Only Sixty Miles From Sicily.   Stricken by Water Famine, Island Was Cut Off by Sea and by Air

ISLE GIVES UP AFTER FURIOUS AERIAL ATTACK   Destruction by Air © Reaches New High in History on Fortress

Beleaguered Isle Has Surrendered   Pantelleria Garison Shows White Flag and Bnitish Land »   HAD WATER SHORTAGE   Is First Stronghold Taken Primarily by Attack From Air

SCATTERED ENEMY DEFENDERS FOUGHT   The Strategic Stepping Stone Was Occupied at 12:22 p. m. (5:22 a.m. CWT) After Landing by Assault Forces.

Thundershowers In Hop-Skip Fashion   Not Expected to Have Much Effect on Heat

Approve Boost In Liquor Taxes   $6 To $9 Gallon Raise Given Okay

US.BiG GUNS BLAZE AWAY IN TUNISIAN HILLS   Rommel Tries Armored Counter-Attack on Gafsa-Gabes Road

Gen. Eisenhower Makes Visit To Gen. Montgomery   American Commander Also Visits Units In Front Line In Tunisia   ALLIED FORCES PUSH FORWARD

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   American Artillery Battles Nazi Tank Forces

Three Sent To Prison For Gas Rationing Violations   Five Local Men Ordered to Pay Fines Totaling $2,300 White Sentencirig of Youth, Accused of Buralary. Is Detaved F

Three Get Jail Terms for Gasoline Black Market’ Operations in State

CAMP BUILDINGS ARE DESTROYED   Cause Of Fire Which Swept 23 Buildings in Internment Came Unknown

23 BARRACKS ‘BUILDINGS BURN   None Injured in Fire at Internment Camp

Restrictions On Minors In Taverns Voted   Bill Clarifying Law On Tavern Loitering Is Approved In Senate By Vote Of 75 To 12

AMERICAN PLANES CONTINUE RAIDS ON ITALIAN OUTPOSTS   Thousands of Fragmentation Bombs Poured Qn Sardinia And Pantellerina

INVASION  OUTPOSTS BATTERED   High Explosives and Frag: mentation Bombs Are on Smashed Sectors.

SARDINIA ONCE MORE S TARGET  OF YANK PLANES   Raly’s Fear of Invasion Mounts Hourly—B-26’s In Fight Tao.

[talian Invasion ‘Outposts Blasted By U. S. Planes   Bases At Sardinia, Pantelleria Undergo Heavy’ Bombardment

Thirteen More Enemy Fighters  Are Shot Down   Axis Claims Bombing Of Invasion Barges At Tunisian Porte

Stalin Says He Didn’t Get A Bid   Announcement Taken As Hint Soviets Will Go Own War.

STALIN NOT INVITED 10 MEETING   Widely Divergent Speculation Follows Kussian Disclosure

OPEGULATE OVER POSSIBILITY Hit MAY FIGHT ALONE   Stirs Belief Russia Wants tc Wage Own War Upon the Germans.

Vv With Our Soldiers.  and Sailors          John Holley Is To Report for  Dutv April ¢

A OFFC NON AGAINGT NAZI GOING STRONG   Allied Fighters And Bombers Back Over Europe Today With New Attacks   73 ENEMY AIRCRAFT ARE DESTROYEDIN DAY   Giant Land Engagements Steadily Building Up Unon Eastern Front

LESS DRAFT DODGING NOW THAN IN 1917   Only 877 Convictions To Date Reported by FBI

CONGRESS LOOKING FORWARD TO EARLY VACATION TUESDA\   Three Remaining Bills Ar Still Pending and May Be Disposed of Before Thursday.

4 MONEY BILLS NEAR PASSAGE   Congress May Speed Actior In Desire For Recess

CONGRESS TQ SEEK PASSAGE OF THREE REMAINING. BILLS   Hopes To Recess Tomorrow For Summer-——Defiency Measure Also On Block

ADJOURNMENT 1S HELDUP BY THREE BiG MONEY BILLS   Congress Will Attempt To End Work Tomorrow, Then Recess

Draft Board "On Strike”’   Nashville Board Quits Inducting Men Till Strike Situation Settled

HUGE FORCE OF HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK-NAZIS   200 American Planes Used In Raids On Wilhelms haven And Cuxhaven   EIGHT FOUR-MOTORED AIRCRAFT MISSING

Wilhelmshaven U-Boat Yard 4. Target For Latest Raid   Mir Armada Makes Trip Without Escort And  ¢hants Down Large Number of Nazi Fighters

Allies Renew Air Attacks On Nazi-Europe   Wilhehnshaven and Cuxhaven Targets for 200 American Planes

Yankees Renew Offensive Against Europe   More Than 200 Bombers Smash Targets At Enemy Shipyards, Ports; Resistance Is Strona But Useless

200 U.S. Plane: Hit Cuxhaven. Wilhelmshaven   Nazi Port Installations And Ship Yards Are Smashed in 600-Mile Trip Over Europe

U. . BOMBERS RENEW RAIDS   200 Planes Take Part Ir Attacks On German Shipyards, Port Installations

OUDMAMNe Lysis. Shipyards Hit In Heavy Raids  Many Enemy Fighter Planes Shot Down   Planes Shot Down As Lull Is Ended WE LOSE EIGHT  Russia Sends 7(0 Planes Against Nazi Airdromes

200 AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID -WILHELMSHAVEN AND CUXHAVER   German Port Installations and Shipyards Heavily Bombed, Many Planes Shot Down

GERMAN SHIPYARDS RAIDED BY FLIERS   ‘American Heavy Bombers Renew Aerial Offen- ~  give

AMERICAN FLIERS RENEW OFFENSIVE ON WEST EUROPE   Yank Sky Fleet Smashes Nazi Shipyards at Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven   BOMBERS MAKE LONG FLIGHT UNESCORTED   Armada Smashes Through Swarms of Enemy Fighters Shooting Down Large Num. ber of Challenging Planes; Eight Fail to Return

100 Bombers In Raid Smash Af Nazi Shipyards   Wilhelmshaven And Cuxhaven Are Targets; 8 Craft Lost

Heavy U. S. Planes Bomb West Europe   Enemy Fighters Fail to Stop American Fliers

RAF Bombers Return For Accantt On Rubr   Found Sane, Trapper Faces Murder Charge   Prome District Under Heavy British Attack

‘AFTER TUNISIA WHERE DO WE. GO, WAR ANALYST ASKS, THEN DISCUSSES ALLIED PREPARATION

WHERE DU WE GO AFTER WE FINISH © IN TUNISIA  Is Question Posed By DeWitt MacKenzie in

The War Today   Victory in Africa to Signal ‘Allied Invasion of Europe

The War Today— Allies Studying Three Routes To Berlin: Via France, Italy, Greece

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Three Possible Avenues Of Invasion Are Open To Allies In Europe

The War Today:  After Tunisia, Three Spots Likely To Be Europe Invasion Points   By DEWITT MACKENZIE

JUSTICE MURPHY 5 IN HOSPITAL   Former State Governor Taken from Plane After Visiting Injured Brother on Coast

Justice Murphy in Dallas Hospital in State of Complete Nervous Collapse

Trobriand Islands, Seized by U. S. Troops, Famed for Their [mmorality

@ THE PICTURE CHANGES  Outlook for Victory in Pacific Much Brighter Than Year Ago

PLANES POUND ROMMEL'S LINES   Allies Bomb ‘Airfield at Tunis, Hit Two Ships ” in Axis Convoy:

Cairo Reports Clash in Zuara Coastal. Area   AHied-FightersRaid Axis-Held Port of Bizerte

BRITISH THRUST ACROSS BORDER INTO TUNISIA   MAIN BODY OF ARMY EXPECTED TO JOIN PATROLS SOON

British Units Cross Border Into Tunisia   London Quarters Expect Main Body to Sweep Into Action Soon—Fliers From West Bomb - Bizerte and a Covoy — Hit 3 Shins.

Thrust Across Tunisian Line  British Patrols Renew Ground Activity

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S ARMY THRUST HAS REACHED TUNISIA   RENEWED GROUND ACTIV ITY ACCOMPANIED BY SHARP AERIAL BLOWS

BRITISH UNITS CROSS BORDER   Renewed Ground Activity Is Accompanied By Sharp - Aerial Blows.

British Patrols Now in Tunisia   Rommel’s Army On Fortified Line

(LOSE ON ROMMEL IS   British Eighth Army Patrols in First Thrust Into Tunisia

BLAST IN WAR PLANT KILLS 2   28 Injured As Explosion Rocks N. Y. West Side

Yanks Regrouping Preparatory to Advancing on Sanananda Point   Buna Coconut Groves Yield Nip Stragg¢lers

Claim German. Lines Crumble At Key Points   Other Russian Troops Strike Within  70 Miles OF Latvian Border In   Advance Along Moscow-Riga   Railroad In North Sector.

CLOSING IN ON AXiS BASE   Reds Continue Gains Along 1000 Mile Front

Capture of Mozdok, Big Baku Oil Base, Eliminates Threat, Russians Advance Continues Without Let Up   Fall of Prokhadnaya Appears Imminent Picked SS Men of Hitler Are Be ing Slaughtered.

Threat of Divided Army Faces Nazis   Aenelisie:d tht E-aeiyared 28 Btha“After Takine Mozdok Stronzhold

REDS HAVE FOUR MAIOR VICTORIES ~~ WETHIN SIX BAYS   Fall of Prokhadnaya Certain. and Means General Retreat or Annihilation of Axis Forces.   GREAT STORES ARE BEING ABANDONED   Axis Broadcasts Reports of Russian’s Preparing For General Attack on Southern Front.

Successor to Federal “Judge Scott Not Yet  Named By Gillette   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent

Gorm Bureau  Gorm Union Fight Ouer J. S. C. Issue   Political Battle Looming On Academic Freedom

Anthony Eden  Promises No Rest For Enemy   British Official In Encouragement  To China, Too

Eden Says Britain Will Fight Until Japs Crushed  Declares There Shall Be No Rest Until   Declares There Shall Be No Rest Until ‘Every One of Our Enemies’ Has Been Forced to Surrender Unconditionall

Britain Out to Crush Japanese As Well as.Germans, Says Eden, will Smash Both Ends of Axis

BRITAIN OUT TO CRUSH JAP AND GERMAN   Foreign Minister Anthony Eden Assures Americans In Address Before Maryland State Assembly, Annapolis.   Word For China

PLEDGES HELP TO CRUSH JAPS   Eden Declares’ Britain Will Not Rest Until Both Ends Of Axis Are Defeated

BRITAIN WILL FIGHT 10 END AGAINST JAPS   BOTH ENDS OF AXIS MUST BE CRUSHED, EDEN SAYS

Briton Asserts Empire Is Out To Crush Japan   Eden Says Burma Road Will Once Again Be Opened

ritain Is Out o Crush Japan Too, Says Eden   Evil Growth in Pacific Must Be Cut Back, : He Avers, Lauding Chin SPEAKS IN MARYLAND  Visiting Envoy Seeks To Quiet Anxiety

No Rest Until Both Ends of Axis Crushed, He States   ADDRESS GIVEN TO MARYLAND SOLONS

With You to End British Official  Tells Americans   Foreign Secretary Also Offers Special Word Of Encouragement for China — Pleads for Unity in War and Peace Among Four Nations

EDEN PROMISES FIGHT TO FINISH AGAINST JAPAN   Declares Britain Will Stay in Conflict Until All Nations in Axis Have Surrendered Unconditionally.   SEES NECESSITY OF ENFORCING PEACE   Address Before Maryland Lawmakers Broadcast — Contains Word of Encouragement for China.

EDEN PLEDGES FIGHT TO END AGAINST JAPAN   British Official Calls 0 United Nations To En force Peace Hereafter   SAYS BRITAIN DOES NOT SEEK TERRITORY

No Rest Until Both Ends of Axis Crushed, He States  ADDRESS GIVEN TO MARYLAND SOLONS  British Minister Is Enthus , page. Seed «ES Senge eee SS .   British Minister Is Enthusiastically Greeted at Annapolis

Eden Says Britain Will Fight Until Japs Crushed   Declares There Shall Be No Rest Until ‘Every One of Our Enemies’ Has Been Forced to Surrender Unconditionally

Eden Pledges Aid to Chine   ‘Asserts Britain in Wai Acainst Taps ‘to End’

{Turh ‘to. MISSING, Page 9)   Archbishop Schrembe’ Comadition ‘ Coitival

TRYING 10 ALLOW SOLDIERS A VOTE   Eight Million Men Away From Home Next Year Should Have Opportunity To Vote.

SOLDIER VOTE UNDER FEDERAL RULE OPPOSED   Champions of State's Rights In Controversy . With Advocates U. S.  Ballot Control

SCOUT COURT OF Lien SET FOR TUESDAY NIGHT   One Eagle Award To Be Made. Paul Mattson In Charcee

SCOUT COURT OF HONOR SET HERE TONIGHT   95 Awards will Be Made At Affair Scheduled For City Building

NAZIS MOVING 70 DIVISIONS 10 NEW EUROPEAN FRONTS   Russian Front Reserves in Poland, Germany Are Grouped To Hit Allies

COURT ORDERS THOMAS SEATED   State Supreme Court Tells Wysong Vacate Office of Attorney-General; Welch Man Slated for Post

GERMAN OFFICERS   Generals Join In With Officers To Overthrow Nazi Government.

RURAL GROUPS HELD MEETINGS   SEVERAL GROUPS HELD REGULAR MEETINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK

Allied Flyers Destroyed or Damaged 42 Jap Ships, 151 Enemy Planes in Southwest Pacific in April

PROBE ASKED ON SHIPPING SPAIN FOODS   U.S. Sending Cotton, O§ And Chemicals, Says ‘ Ambassador

SPANISH TRADE. STIRS SENATE   'Probé. Talked as Hayes’. Disclo. sures Draw State Department Ex. planation: of Purpose

URGES PROBE OF AMERICAN AID TO SPAIN   Senator Russell Calls fo1 Congressional Inquiry Into Reports of U. S. Shipments of Food, Cotton and Oil.

DEMAND PROBE OF SPANISH A      State Department Upholds ' Actions, Helps Keep Spair } Neutral

 PROBE SOUGHT ON 'U. S. SHIPMENTS ITO SPAIN   Conflicting Views Taken By Congressmen on Possible Results of Shipments

SHIPRENTS U. 5. TO SPAIN STIRS CAPITAL   Demands Made for Investi gation of Exports of Oil, Cotton, Food, Chemicals to Fascist Government   ONE SENATOR SAYS “DAMNED OUTRAGE’   State Department Says Oil Is From Caribbean; Aimed to Keep Franco Neutral

EXPECTS APPEAL IN CHURCH ROW   Attorney Says Members Wil Carry Expulsion Fight To  Sonrama Cant

Rail Union Head  Condemns Byrnes   Accuses Director of  Unfair Labor Attack

AVAITION MEASURE KILLED IN HOUSE   Bill Would Have Created Independent Aviation Committee.

LL PANT TL  Berlin Claims Nazi Troops Occupy Island in Western Dodecanese

Gen. Eisenhower  May Lead  Big Invasion Publication Declares  Marshall Will Keep Present Job

Says Eiseullower To Direct Allied. Channel Crossing   Service Paper. Reports Marshall to Stay © As Staff Chief

Army And Navy Register Believ es Etsenhower Wiil Head Second Fro nt

“IKE” TO DIRECT INVASION, REPORT   ARMY AND NAVY REGISTER SAYS MARSHALL WILL STAY IN WASHINGTON.

Eisenhower Ay Head - Invasion   Revised” . Plans Reported -Made, Keeping Marshall as Chief ‘of Staff. ~   SEE. A GREAT NEED -FOR HIM AT HOME   Authoritative Journals Not Entirely in Accord. on Top Assionments

New Plans Put Ike at Head of  Invasion   Churehill Still Heads War Effort

Now Report Marshall To Retain Post   Army, Navy Pa per Says Eisenhower. ° To Lead. (Invasion

Report Change In  Invasion Command Believe Eisenhower Will Direct Operation

Lisenhower lo. Lead Invasion?   Marshall Scheduled To Retain His Job. -

Eisenhower To Direct Invasion From Britain   Rumor Marshall Will Remain as Chief of Staff

Revision Of Plans Hinted   Indicate Marshall Would Be More Valuable As Strategy Chief

Eisenhower May Head Invasion  Marshall to Continue In Present Post, Paper Believes

Gen. Eisenhower May Lead Big Invasion   Byblication Declare:   Publication Declares Marshall Will Keep Present Job

Say Eisenhower Slated To Lead Western Europ Allied Invasion Forces

EISENHOWER RUMORED CHIEI FOR INVASION   Army & Navy Register Hears Marshall to Remain Chief of Staff Under Revised Pians

Eisenhower May Lead   Reported Change in Plans ‘Would Put Him In Command of Western Europe Invasion

European Drive Seen Directed By Eisenhower   Army, Navy Register Views Marshall Continuing As  U.S. Army Chicf Of Staff

“Ike” May Lead  Invasion Force “Revised Plans” Would Continue  Marshall in Present Pact

EISENHOWER FOR INVASION   Revised Plans to Keep Gen. Marshall As Chief of Staff

Eisenhower Is Seen as Europe Chief   ARMY, NAVY REGISTER SAYS PLANS REVISED, MARSHALL TO KEEP POST

Navy Announces  Deadly New Craft   Destroyer Escorts  To Challenge Subs

Big Fleet Of New Sub ‘Destroyers In Making   60 Little Warships Already. Launched Te Battle Nazi U-boats

Vote Nearing  On Tax Means   Committee Attempting To Break Deadlock Upon "43. Obligations

10% Withholding Levy On Taxable Pay Is Approved   Rum! Plan To Skip: One Year Scheduled To ™ Come Up Today 

COMMITTEE'S. OK GIVEN PAY AS YOU GO TA   Adopt Collection at Source Tentatively; Will Vote on Ruml Plan.   EXTENSIONS PROVIDED FOR FILING RETURNS

Pay-as-go feature of  tax likely   Committee o.k.’s a 20 percent withholding levy

Abatement Deadlocks House Com.   Pay - As - ¥ou-Go Delayed ~<a *Forgiveness’ Fir Some Form Provided

side sonsaaniatancateinar emai team eiasmcammanemndl  SOURCE COLLECTION INDORSED IN PAY-60   20 Pct. Withholding Action Advanced By House Unit

House Committee Approves Source Collection of ‘Pay-as-You-Go Plan

House Committee’s  Report Will Be for   Will Vote Later in Day on Rum! Proposal to Abate 1942 Taxes

PLANEXTEND TAX TIM   Ways and Means Committee Passes on Pay as You Go System

Pay-As-You-Go Method Favored  ‘Solons Seek To Break Deadlock On Issue

PAY AS YOU 60 PLAN. APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   20 Per Cent Withholding Levy Against Salaries Adopted By Group

PAY-AS-EARN TAXIS UPHELD   House Unit Approves Plan to Withhold Levy Of 20 Per Cent

APPROVE TAX PLAN   Ways and Means Committee Passes on Pay as You Go System

Move to Break Pay-Go Tax Deadlock Renewed   Supporters of Ruml Plan for Full Year's Abatement Pressine Case In Cometh.

House Group Renews Debate On Tax Skipping  Deadlock Reported On Move To Forgive 1942 Liability

WOULD BREAK DEADLOCK ON TAX SKIPPINC   Even Opponents Of The Rum] Plan Are Willing To Can— eel Part

SOURCE COLLECTION FEATURE OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN GIVEN COMMITTEE APPROVAL

Approve Source Collection For  Pay-As-Go Plan   House Committee Due To Vote On Ruml Idez Later Today.

Income Tax Decision Due To Be Announced Shortly  What Future Has to Offer to  AAR ARK AAR, f**s*.... Po... /J

Committee Will Probably Vote Late Today on Ruml Skip A Year Tax Plan

‘PAY-AS-YOU-60" PARTLY ADOPTED   20 Percent Withholding Feature Is Approved by Ways  And Meane Crann

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX APPROVED   Committee Gives Tentative  O. K. to Proposal

Pay-as-You-Go_ Tax of 20 Per Cent Approved   House Committee Okays Source Collection Feature of New Tax.   Will Vote on Ruml Plan to Skip a Year

Provides 20 Per Cent Withholding Tax on Pay Envelopes and Salary Checks

0% Tax Ok’ dy In Committee   Withholding Feature Approved; Rumi Plon Test Nears

TAX COLLECTION AT SOURCE BACKEL   House Group For Pay-A: You-Go Feature; Runnl + Plan Vote Looms

PAY-AS-YOU-GO PLAN APPROVED — BY COMMITTEE   House Ways Means Committee Votes on Compromise, Takes Up Skip-Tax-Year Plan Nexi

HOUSE GROUP IN DEADLOCK ON TAX ISSUE   Decision Directly Affecting 44,000,000 Individual Taxpayers Still Awaited   PROPOSALS REOPENED

House Group Puts OK on  Tax Proposal   System as Tentatively Approved Includes Twenty Percent Withholding Levy

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES SOURCE COLLECTION TAXES  VOTE EYPECTEN TIATED   VOTE EXPECTED LATER IN DAY ON PROPOSALS TO SKIP SOME TAXES

HOUSE COMMITTEE  APPROVES SOURCE  COLLEGTION TAXES ~ VOTE EXPECTED. LATER:  IN DAY-ON PROPOSALS TC [ SKIP SOME TAYEC

Pay-As-Go Tax  Plan Advances   House Commiticee Approves 20 Pereent) Withholding. Tests Ruml Program.

TAX ‘TAKE’ AT SOURCE OKAYED BY —-COMMITTEF   20 Pet. Withholding Levy Would Stari On Julv 1   VOTE ON RUML PLAN DEFERRED   Mén in Armed Services and! Agricultural Labor Would Be- Exempt - 

Approach Action On Rum! Plan   Pay-As-You-Go System Of Tax Collection Receives Approval Of   Full Committee

4 PLANS UNDER CONSIDERATION   Early Decision On Question Held Possibility

Pay-As-You-Go At 20 Per Cent Wins Approval  tiara -t sh.   Extension of 60 Days May Be Allowed in Necessary Situations

FARM BLOG MAY TEST ABILITY OF PRENTISS BROWN   Passage Of Pace-Fulmer Bill In House Seen By Sponsors   MAY LIFT PRICE LID   Group Stands Firm Behind Demand To Include Labor Costs In Parity

TEST OF PARITY LOOMING   Farm Bloc Insists O1 Inclusion Of Labor Costs

FARM BLOC LEADERS CLAIM _ MORE THAN ENOUGH . VOTES FOR “LABOR , COST’ MEASURE

Three-Way Drive Aimedat Jap’s Air Base at Salamaua   American Units Continue to Blast Vital Nipponese Positions at Munda in Central Solomons

Yanks Stave Off Nip Navy Counterattack   Allied Junction Solidifies New Guinea Jungle Front

SALAMAUA AIRBASE WAS MENACED BY JUNGLE FIGHTERS   Action Was From Three Sides in Growing Pacific Offensive.   PRESSURE ON MUNDA   A Junction of Australian and Americans Was Made at Mudo.

3-WAY DRIVE IS LAUNCHED ON SALAMAUA   Continue To Add Pressure On Munda; No Additional Word On Naval Action Near Solomons

‘Allies Closing In On Jap Air Base   Field at Salamaua Is Menased by Attack From Three Sides   JUNCTION IN JUNGLE   U.S. and Australian Troops Together; More Fire on Munda

Allied Fighters Menace Salamaa   JAPANESE AIR BASE SCENE OF NEW ATTACKS

U.S., Aussie Troops Move On Salamaua   Advance From 3 Sides After Joining Forces Near Coast; Enemy Thrown Into Flight

American Troops Which Landed On Shores Of Nassau Bay June 30 Are In Contact With Australian Infantry Moving Along Mubo-Duali Track Toward Coast   ntenacad From Three Sides

American and® AuStralian: Patrols Meet   @ srs  Continue to Bombard Munda Air Base ~~

Allies Press Drives   Salamaua And Munda Attacked; Nip Air  Power Slashed

SALAMAUA BASE. “OFS nEMCED. FROM THREE SIDES   Pressure Maintained On Other End of 700- Mile Battle   14 JAP ZEROS DOWNED

Jungle Fighters Close In On Japs At Salamaua; Allies Bombard Munda

‘Allies Closing In On Jap Air Base   Field at Salamaua Is Men. aged: by Attack From’ Three: ‘Sides   (JUNCTION IN JUNGLE   U. S. and Australi ian Troops . Together; More Fire  “on Munda © :

U. S.-AUSTRALLAN JUNGLE FIGHTERS MENACE JAPANESE  FIRST PHASE OF NEW OF _ ERATIONS NOW COMPLET  ED SAYS MACARTHUR

Three-Sided Drive Pointed ‘At Salamaua  American, Australian Jungle Fighters Join Near Air’ Base MUNDA MENACED  Surface Units Shell Jag Positions on Approaches to Bouganviile

Drive on Salamaua  From Three Sides   Pressure Maintained Against Munda In Central Solomons; Australians Effect Juncture With American Forces.

ALLIED PATROLS MENACE ENEMY IN NEW GUIENA   JUNGLE FIGHTERS CONVERGE ON THREE SIDES OF JAP BASE

American and AuStralian Patrols Meet   Rendova Shore Batteries Continue to Bombard Munda Air Base

Allies Patrols Converge In Salamaua Pincers  ee * CATES WNEWTETS

SOVIET DRIVE PUSHES NEARER POLISH BORDER   Reds Increase Threat To German Forces Trapped In Crimean Area

SOVIETS SURGE NEARERBORDEE OF POLAND   Take 80 Additional Towns in Northern Ukraine

Russian Forces Drive Closer To  ~ Polish Borde   Burge Through 80 Additional North Ukrainian Towns In Steady Advance   NAZIS SUFFERING HEAVY LOSSES

AMERICAN LIGHT WARSHIPS BOMB JAP DEFENSES ON KISKA   This Followed a Bombing Mission of Single American Plane.   SHELLS INTO CAMP AREA   The Gertrude Cove Area Also Came In For Its Share of Attack.

Baltic Ports Assailed by RAF Bombers   Berlin and Railroads of France Also Attacked

Royal Air Force Attacks ~ Berlin, Two Baltic Ports, 31 Planes Fail To Returr

BRITAN’S BOMBS SHAKE 2 BALTIC PORTS AT NICHT   Mosquito Planes Scar Berlir As Heavy Bombers Blast Stettin, Rostock

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACK BALTIC PORTS, AS OTHERS HIT BERLIN. NAZI COMMUNICATIONS

Heavy British Bombers Rake Baltie Ports   Lighter Raid Strike: Berlin: Mines Are Laid Off Coast

RAF LASHES AT BALTIC, BERLIN   Attacks Believed Continued By Daviiaht

Baltic Ports Hard Hit by RAF Bombers   61st Raid on Berlin is Birthday Gift to Adolf Hitler

BRITISH BOMB BALTIC PORTS, RAID BERLIN   German Communiques Indicate Russian Raid on Tilsit—Nazi Transport Shot Up, Mines Laid

31 PLANES LOST IN NIGHT BLAST AT AXIS GITIES   Mines Placed In Enemy Waters  During Night

British Raid Two German Baltic Ports   Lose 31 Planes Against Steetin and Rostock; Berlin Also Attacked

British Hit Berlin And Baltic Ports   Night’s Operations Had Great Variety

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACK GERMAN BALTIC PORTS   CELEBRATE HITLER’S BIRTHDAY WITH RAIDS ON STETTIN, ROSTOCK

British Raid Nazi Capital   Attack German Ba. cic Ports of Stettin And Rostock Also

3 Germaa Cities Are (Bombed In RAF Attacks   Berlin, Stettin And Rostock ‘Visited’;  Daylight Raids On Enemy Continue

31 Craft Missing As RAF Bombs  Nazi Industries   Mosquito Planes Sweep Over Berlin In Raids Covering Large Areas

BRITISH RAID BERLIN AND BALTIC PORTS   Thirty-one Planes Missing in Operations, Which Also Include Attacks on Railways and Coastal Shipping.

Berlin, Stettin, Rostock Bombe   Raids Continue Today; 31 Planes Missing

Berlin, 2 Nazi Cities Bombed  Heaviest Attacks of Wer Made Against Axis Transnortation

ATTACK BALTIC PORTS, BERLIN   RAF Gives Hitler.a Birthday To Remember With Many Raids.   SHOOT UP RAIL LINES

RAF AIRMEN ALSO POUND AT BERLIN   Heavy British Bombers Visit Stettin,; Rostock; Enemy Waters Mined

Nice Birthday Present For Hitler  British Pound At Berlin And Baltic Ports

RAF BOMBS BERLIN AND BALTIC PORTS   31 Planes Missing From Operations, Air Ministry Announces.

Baltie Ports And Berlin Are Raided   Plane Factories Targets Of RAF’s Newest Attacks

WIDESPREAD RAIDS MADE OVER BERLIN   Settin and Rostok Are Targets of Aerial Assaulfs During the Night  921 DIL ANIEC AZI CCI N &

Ladies First’: Ask Steinbeck   It's Chivalrous War; Commandos to the Rescue on Island

OPA prepares to enforce new gasoline ration order   Special attention will be focused on suspected previous violators

POUND JITTERY NAZI SHORES NF FRANCE   Force of U.S. and Rn. A. F. Planes Mightiest Ever Seen

GREAT FLEETS STILL FILL AIR » OVER CHANNE!   All Types of British ane American Craft Join @ in Mighty Blows

Vast Armadas Of Allied Bombers  Hammer France   Invasion Coast Of France Is Blasted Hour After Hour By Allies   GRE .TEST ATTACKS OF WAR IN PROGRESS

Administration Picks Up Votes   39 Senators Reported Supporting Bill

Authorities Report Back to Farm Tide  Draft Deferment Is Said Reason

Army Of Ethiopia Would Like To Lead Invasion Of Italy As Repayment For Mussolini’s Attack Of 1936

AXIS BLOCKADE RUNNER CAUGHT   German Ship With Cargo Of Raw Materials Is Sent To Bottom

Blockade Runnet Sunk By British   Loaded Nazi Ship Lost Off France

a eS a ke, ESE . Si, Or. Ae rk cones OS LU ore. (i at sl ie, See OS Se) Sw lee ge we!) a) ee),  Soe, Fe 6, Nee) Ul a 0 Sah ea Mee OO  Yank Flier Dives 840 An Hour   Sets New Record For Speed During Air Battle Over Emder

P-47 Pilot Dives At 840 Miles An Hour In Airfight Over Emden; Paint Curls On His Elevators

NEW TOP AIR SPEED BELIEVED ACHIEVED IN P-47 DIVE   Norwich, N. Y. Lt. Dived Plane at 840 Miles Per Hour Over Emden

Attains Speed Of 14 Miles Minute   U. S. Flier Dives At Such Speed Paint Curled On Elevators.

DeGaullist Faction Rounded Up   Reign of Terror Is On in France On Eve of Parley

It’s the Truth That Will  Crack the Germans Morale Have No Idea of Huge Losses

The War Today  End Will Come Quickly, Says Eden, But Bitter Wight Is Ahead.

Today’s War Moves  ee ee  ~ oe a -_~   Halifax Predicts Germans To Crack All at Once

The War Today— Nazis Show Uneasiness Over Morale  At Home; Hide Losses From Public

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazi Morale Will Crack When German People Learn Full Truth

SENATE TO ACT ON STATE TREASURER   Members Take Action to Proceed Without Ad. vice of Governor -

STATE SENATE ANDGOVERNOR NEARING BREAK   Upper House Plans To Name State Treasurer  Without O’Conor’s Okay   BRICE UNINVITED TO INAUGURAL AFFAIR

Concentration To Aid Labor Problem   SOME INDUSTRIES HAVE PLENTY WORKERS WHILE OTHERS SHORT

Seeking More War Laborers   Concentrations Of Industries Wanes After Vigorous Start

WAYS TO GRANT PAY CONCESSIONS TO MINERS CITED   Labor Board’s -Panel Dis_ cusses Practices Abroad  -. and-6-Day. Week in Its Report:   FACT-FINDERS MAKE -. NO RECOMMENDATIONS   They Point Out That Increase in 1941 Was Only One Diggers Had Received Since 1937.

WLB Leaves Door Open For Miners Pay Concessions  Panel Report Notes ‘Portal to Portal’ Wages in England

Flier Gives Life To Save Children   Stays With Plane To Avoid School

U. $, BOMBERS RAID BURMA RAILROADS   Destroy Equipment, Start Large Fires

Railway Yards Of Japs Fired   Heavy U. S. Bombers In Raid On Mandalay In Burma Monday.

Fires Visible For 70 Miles  U.S. Bombers Raid Mandalav Rail Yards

STRIKE VICLENGE BILL a ALLEL IN COMMIT   Termed Another Discrimin: ation Against Labor; In: come Tax Experts Inte Small Loans

Greeks Riot Against Nazis: Await Invasion  Rebellion Touched Off By Approaching Allied Assault

RIOTS REPORTED INGREEK CITIES   Hatred Of Axis Occupa‘tion Forces Increasing, Dispatches Say

RIOTS BREAK OUT IN GREEK CITIES   INVASION THREAT KEEPS TENSION HIGH IN EUROPE

BLOODY BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS   Seething Hatred: Erupts In Athens, With Extensive Riots In Many Other Grecian Cities   HUNDREDS ARE SHOT BY GERMAN TROOPS   Patriots, Heartened By-Alfied Air Raids, Rise to  Revolt; , Invasion Ten ain; Marwntiong  OLE) Mounting

GREEKS START RIOTS ON INVASION HOPES   Subjugated People Revived by Allied Attacks

‘Red Airmen Hit Nazi-Held Tamin Double Blows   “Bloody Riots Reported Breakina Out In Greek Cities As Threat Of Invasion Spreads Over All Of Europe

Hatred Of Nazis Erupts —   Riots Break Out In Athens; Hundreds Of Greeks Jailed

Bloody Riots Are Reported in Greek Capital   Tension Mounts In Europe Over Invasion Threat

GREEKS RIOT + BEMINST AXIS   Joyed by Americans Raids, Turn On Invaders

Greeks Revolt: 65,000 Italian Workers Strike   Bloody Riots Occur In Athens; Rommel Sent To France

GREEKS RIOT AGAINST NAZIS   Turkish Dispatches Report Disorders Follow U. S. Raids On Airfields

Axis Troop: Feel Wrath Of Enemies   Athens Main Scene Of Bloody Fighting; Allied Tension Hizh

GREEKS REVOLT AGAINST AXIS, MANY KILLED   Enemy Prepares for Allied Invasion Attempt of Balkans

RIOTS REPORTED IN ATHENS; AXIS TAKES REVENGE   Many Shot Dewn After Outbreaks In Greek Cities

Bloody Riots Reported in Greek Cities   Hatred for Nazi Occupation Stirs Patriots

GREEKS RIOT AGAINST AXIS   Bloody Fights Reported In Several Cities

BLOODY RIOTING IS REPORTED IN CITIES IN GREECE   Seething Hatred Of Axis Occupation Forces Erupts In  reece As Promise Of Allied Invasion Keeps Tension High.

Street Rioting — Seen In Greece   Axis Hatred Shown  ~~ In Violence

Bloody Riots Take Place in Greek Cities   Seething Hatred of Axis Occupation Forces Causes Street Disorder; Unrest Pre valent in Italy

SAY GREEKS RIOT AGAINST GERMANS   Hatred of Occupation forces Shown After Raids by U. S. Planes

Rioting Breaks Out In Greece  - Street Disorders In -Athanc Oshar fC itiac

BLOODY RIOTS OCCURRING IN GREEK CITIES   Axis Take Ruthless Counter-Measures by Using Firing Squads to Sub due Disorders   INVASION ANTICIPATED

GREEKS RIOT AGAINST AXIS   Threats of Invasion Keep Both Berlin, Rome On Edge

: Greeks, Stirred by U. S. Air Raids on i Axis Bases Riot Against Invaders; ‘Invasion Threats Keep Axians Jittery

Seething Hatred Of Axis Forces Reported To Have Erupted Today Into Extensive Riots In Greece

RIOTS BREAK OUT IN GREEK CITIES   Disorders Believed Touched of By Effect iveness of Recent  Allied Air Raids

Axis Hatred Erupting in Greek Cities   Bloody Riots in Athens; Axis Defenses Rushed All Over Europe -

Seething Hatred of Axis Occupation Forces Flares Up   Axis Takes Ruthless Counter-Measure: to Suppress Demonstrations

Greeks’ Seething Hatred Of Axis Invaders, Erupts Into [Extensive And Bloody Riots.   Athens And Other Cities Scene Of Disorders; Axis Grows More Jittery

FIRST LADY PLANS NEW RADIO SERIES   Mrs. Roosevelt Starts Sunday On “Unity at Home—~ Victory Abroad”

Six-Month Drive In Africa Now Virtually Over  : Mopping Up of -—

Troops Continue Mopping Up of  Remaining Units   “French Division Forces Surrender. In Zaghouan Area

FEW STRAGGLERS FAIL IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT BY SEA   Jtalian Commander Reported Among Prisoners As Axis Debacle Is Complete

20 JAP PLANES DESTROYED AT GUINEA FIELD   Ground Troops Solidify Recent Gains In The Buna Area; Fight On Cape Opens   Corridor Mopped Up

PLANES BLAST AT JAP BASES   Yank Flyers Seek to Keep Reinforcements From Foe on Guadalcanal

BLASTED AT LAE   M’Arthur’s First Communique of New Year Shows Fighting Around Cape Sanananda, Northwest Buna

2) Jap Planes Destroyed in Allied Raid   Ground Forces in Funa Area Sonsolidate Gains

NAZI CAPITAL HARD hil BY BRITISH PLANES   1,500 Tons of Bombs Blast City; Thirty Planes Missing

D HIT BY BRITISH PLANES   1,500 Tons of Bombs Blast City; Thirty Planes Missing

Another Heavy Bomber Raid Is Made On Berl   R. A. F. Drops 1,500 Tons Of Bombs On German Capital During Night  ee ee ee es

THIRTY RAF PLANES LOST IN ATTACK DURING WHICH MANY TONS OF BOMBS . WERE DROPPED

ASKS THAT CONGRESS BLOCK FATHER DRAFT   Wheeler Urges Leaders to Call Ses. sion in Effort to Override Selective Service Authority.

WHEELER ASKS CONGRESS BACK   Leaders Are Requested To Call Session On Father Draft

CONGRESS ACTION ASKED BY WHEELER   Wheeler Wants Congress to Reconvene to Act on Father Drafting

Territory And Access To Natural Resources Should Be Demanded In Exchange For Lend-Lease, Says Nye

ISLANDS FOR LEND LEASE AID BEING SUGGESTED IN CONGRESS   NYE,'“COTTON ED" AND WILEY HEADING MOVEMENT TO HAVE REPAYMENT PROGRAM PREPARED .

State Congressmen Seek Road Progran   Want $60,000,000 Post-war Fund for Road Building

Time Change Bill  Is Back in Senate   Emergency Clause Center of Dispute

Reds Obviously Preparing For New Offensive   All Varieties Of Red “Army Equipment Are *. Being Massed

POST WAR PROGRAM EXPLANATION WILL BE GIVEN SHORTLY   ‘Administration Is Preparing Today to Present Detailed Plans to Citizens.

MOMENTOUS CONFERENCES BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA. U. §.. REPORTED

MOMENTOUS CONFERENCES BY ALLIES ARE REPORTED   BRITISH, U. S. AND SOVIET GOVERNMENTS DECLARED HOLDING PARLEYS

Nazis Meet, Also   Momentous Decisions Are In Making At Both Conclaves, Reports Say; New Italian Peace Moves Considered? _

Conferences Have Been Going on for Over Two Weeks.   ee Sa  REACHING FINAL IMPORTANT STAGES  One of the Questions Is Said to Be the Position of Italy.

ANOTHER CUT IN FUEL OIL RATIONS   No. 4 Coupons Now Are Worth Eight Gallons Each In Pennsylvania And Five Other States

43 BIG PLANES LOST IN ATTACK ON RUHR, RHINE   Dusseldorf and Munster Main Targets in RAF Assault   Capitulation of Lampedusa Seen Near as Pounding Continues

CAIRO AND TEHERAN DECISIONS OF ALLIED LEADERS HAS GIVEN ‘UNITED NATIONS GOOD POSITION

Recent ‘Conferetites. Leave Decisions Up to  ~ Aggressor Nations and Getman. Propagandists _ Caught Flat-Footed by Failure of Allies to Offer Peace

The War Today  United Nations Have Been Maneuvered Into Vital Position.

Carrying War Through to End Means Fighting Longe: Will Also Ensure Lasting Peace

VIEW ON LABOR DRAFT AWAITED   Manpower Plan Coolly Received By Congress

2,000 Tons of Bombs Rain on - Reich Capital es RAF Looses Heaviest Raid of War to Date

Will PUNISH VIOLATORS OF CORN CEILING   OPA officials declare investigations are now in progress

Corn “Situation Well In Hand”   To Prosecute In Over-Ceiling Cases

Air Base Garrison enaced from Twe Directions Now y U. 5. Troops   (ut Off from Supply Roufe, Pounded by  Bombers and Blasted by Heavy Artillery

HAMMER BLOWS CARVE CHUNKS IN NAZI LINES   Offensive Pointed Toward Vital Regions South Of German-Held Rostov   FLANK ATTACKS PUSHED   Turkey Reports Rumanians Write Off As Lost 300,000 Troops In Russia

Russian Army Now Has Are Circling Nazis At Rostovo   New Army Reported Carving Chunks Out Of Nazi Defense Lines Set Up in 1941 Along Don River Area

Russian Rostov-to-Don Arc Goes Ahead; Nazis Admit Stalingrad Break

REDS HANMER GERMAN UNITS   Soviets Attacking From West Through Lines at Stalingrad.

REDS SMASH AHEAD “IN GIGANTIC ARC THREATENING ROSTON      Rich Oil Regions South oO City Now Reported In Danger   AXIS LOSES 6,000. TANKS

Hammer Blows Carry  Reds Nearer Oil Are:   Red Army-Carving Out Chunks Of D i Germans Established In 1941, While Spearhead Poised Only 60 Miles From Rostov.

SOVIET TROOPS BREAK THROUGH AT STALINGRAD   German Leader Admits Danger Of Axis Units

Australians Battle Japs In New Guinea   Enemy On Offensive In Bitter Jungle Fighting Today

J aps Open New Guinea ‘Offensive   Several Thousand Troops En: gaged in Fierce Contest in Jur  gles Near Finschhafen   200 JAPS KILLED   Counter-Dffensive Indicates Enemy Determination Not to Make Fur. ther Withdrawals

Japs Continue Offensive Move   BITTER BATTLE IS BEING WAGED OVER PACIFIC  BASE

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS BATTLE JAPANESE IN FINSCHAFEN SECTOR  ~ ENEMY TAKES INITIATIVI   ’ ENEMY TAKES INITIATIVE AND GAINS SOME INITIAL SUCCESSES

Japs, Australians In Bloody Battle   Enemy Takes Offensive in Drive To Tighten New Guinea Position

Bloody Fighting Rages In Jungle Near Finschhafen   Japs Achieve Some Success In Drive On New Guinea Base

Aussies Engaging Nips {n Bloody Bartle In Jungles Short Distance From Finschhaten

'JAPS AND AUSTRALIANS IWAGING BLOODY BATTLE FOR FINSCHHAFEN BASE

Jap Offensive Gains Ground   Bloody Battle Being Waged In Jungle Near Finschhafen.

Bloody. Battle Being: Staged. _ For Finsehhafen With Enemy Forces Taking To Offensive

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS  BATTLE JAPANESE IN  FINSCHAFEN SECTOR ENEMY TAKES INITIATIVE  AND GAINS SOME INITIAL SUCCESSES

JAPS LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS IN NEW GUINES   Enemy Clashes With Australians In Bloody Jungle Fighting

JAP TROOPS TURN ON AUSTRALIANS   BLOODY BATTLE RAGES IN JUNGLE NEAR FINSCHAFFEN

Japs Gain Ground Near Finschhafen; Americans Shoot Down 17 More Planes

Japanese on Offensive in  Jungle Clash   Achieve Some Success in Drive to Unite Forces North ot Finschhafen

NIPS MOVE UP TO WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CITY   First Time in Months Enemy Has Been on Offensive in South Pacific

OFFENSIVE DRIVE LAUNCHED BY JAPS. NEAR FINSCHHAFEN   Several Thousand Australian and Jap: Troops Waging a. Fierce Jungle Battle—Nips' Achieve Some Success :

AUSSIES WAGE BLOODY FIGHT IN NEW GUINEA   Japs Achieve Some Success in Effort to Join Another Force to Form Line Along Song River

Japs on Drive in New Guinea  Fierce Battle Rages North of Finschhafen

JAPS AND AUSSIES IN BLOODY BATTLE   Enemy Is on Offensive in New Guinea North of Finsehhafen._

Japanese: ‘Gain: In Major Battle - At Finschaffen   Bloody Struggle Is Waged With Australian Troops In New Guinea Jungle

JAPS, AUSSIES WAGE GORY JUNGLE FIGHT   Enemy Launches Counter. Offensive at Sattelberg

Bloody Battle Raging Near Finschhafen   Thousands of Japs And Australians Engaged; Enemy Opens Offensive

AUSSIES AND JAPS WAGING IBLOODY BATTLE   Japanese Achieve Some Success‘ and Form Solid Line Along Song River

Japs Attack Australians   Fierce Battle Rages Short Distance North Of Finschhafen

AUOGIES, JAPS ARE LOCKED IN BATTLE   Fighting Takes Place Before Finschhafen as Japs Try to Hold River Front

Opponent Says  Flynn's  Testimony False Senate Hearing on  ppointment to Be Resumed Friday

FLYNN DEGLARES CHARGES UNTRUE   Opponents Cry of ‘Perjury’ Caps Senate Hearing; Committee to Get Views of Mayor La Guardia

New Yorker Claims Bronx Political Boss Lied To  Senate Groun   MAYOR LAGUARDIA TO TESTIFY ON FRIDAY

Flynn's Claims ° Called Perjury   Committee To Call  More New Yorkers

Opponent Says Flynn's Testimony False  — Hearing on ppointment to Be Resumed Friday

Edward Flynn. Makes Denial Of Wrongdoing   Foe Charges Perjury And Committee Decides On Further Testimony

‘Perj jury * Char we  Hurled at Fly:   Senute Committee to Cal LaGuardia When Inquiry  Resumes Tomorrow

OFFICIALS 10. BE CALLED IN FLYNNPROBI      LaGuardia and Others te Testify After Charges  Denied

Flynn Foe Hurls Perjury Charge   Senate Committee Calls More Witnesses

FLYNN ACCUSED OF PERJURY IN SENATE HEARING   New Yorker Volunteers To Produce Witnesses To Prove Ambassador  Nominee Lied   La Guardia May Testify

F lynn Tells Senate Politics Inspired Unfitness Charge  Opponent of Envoy Appointee Calls New Yorker’s Testimony Perjury; Cemmiittee Plans to Call LaGuardia

Flynn Denies "Political And Untrue Charge  Democrat Committed   Democrat Committed Perjury Baron Says; > Call LaGuardia In

More Witnesses to Be Called in Case Of Flynn: Critic Alleges Periury

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EDWARD J. FLYNN PERJURED SELF, SENATORS TOLL   Australian Minister-D es i gnate’s Denial of Wrongdoing Branded False by New Yorker.   APPOINTEE DECLARES CHARGES POLITICAL   La Guardia and Others Who May Know About Paving Case to Be Called as Witnesses.

Nazi Sub Base At St. Nazaire Bomb Target   Fifth Successive Night Raid Against Western Germany By R.A. F.   ROUND-THE-CLOCK ATTACKS CONTINUE

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   German “Sub” Bases at St. Nazaire Blasted

...BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Nazis’ St. Nazaire Sub Base Blasted; May Be Invasion Prelude  ’

RAIN BOMBS ()N SUB BASE   St. Nazaire attack by R. A. F. for fifth con secutive night

GERMANS STILL HAVE CONTROL OF FAID PASS   British Troops Take Important Hill; American Bombers Pound Gabes

{4 Axis Supply Ships Sunk In Mediterranear   Way Being Paved For Great Land Assault In North Africa

14To 16Axi: Supply Ships Sunk In Sea, Air Blows   American Forces Capture Italian General; Germans Bea' Of U.S. Attack

BRITISH TARE ANOTHER HILL AFTER BATTLE   Italian General Is Among American Prisoners   EIGHT PLANES   Lost By Allies To Six For Nazis; Giraud Speaks To People Of France

ALLIES PAVE WAY FOR BIG LAND ATTACK   Announce Destruction of at Least 14 Axis Ships in Mediterranean.   Strong German Force  Still Holds at Faid

14 SUPPLY _ SHIPS SUNK BY ALLIES   Sea and Air Blows in Mediterranean Paving Way for Bip Land Assault.   AMERICAN BOMBERS. . LAND HEAVY LICKS   British Subs Taking an. Increasing Toll;Little Change in Land Fighting

Allied Ships. Planes Soften Foe In Afric:   Fourteen Enemy Vessels Sent Down In Attack On Mediterranean Lines.   ‘8TH ARMY PREPARES

Allies Destroy 14 Axis Vessels   Allied Forces Test German-Italian Line For Weak Spots

Allied Subs And Planes Strike Blows   Americans and British Cling to Forward Positions

ALLIES PAVING WAY FOR DRIVE THRU TUNISIA   Sink Many Axis Supply Ships Nearing Tunisia; British Mass For Squeeze

Naval, Aerial Blows by Allies Paving Way for North African Assault

Axis Supply Ships Sent To The Bottom   Italian General Reported To Be Among  Yanks’ Prisoners

Sea, Air Blows Pave Wa) For Heavy Land Attacks In North Africa.   BRITISH SEIZE HEIGHT

FOURTEEN AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS DOWN IN MEDITERRANEAN   U. §. Forces Dig in Mile Beyond ; eee 

SEA, AIR FORCES DESTROY 14 AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS   American Troops Advance One Mile East of Captured Sened

AIR BLOWS PAVE WAY FOR ALLIED AND OFFENSIVE   British Forces Capture Hill In Jebel Mansour Sector; U. S. Liberator Bombers Blast Harbors At Palermo And Mes sina.

14 Vessels Sunk As Allies Strike By Air And Sea   Americans List Italian General Among Captives In Taking Sened

14 Axis Ships Sunk By Warplanes, Subs   Italian General Captured By Yankees A: Allied Forces Test Enemy Positions Ir Tunisia: Foe Still Holds Faid Pass

DEFENSE LINE IS TESTED FOR WEAK POINTS   British cighth Army Appears to Be Massing For Next Attack in Tunisia Squeee   PATROL MORE ACTIVE

14 or 16 Axis Ships Destroyed   British Take Tunisian Hil! Yanks Take  Prisoners

ALLIES DESTROY 14 AXIS SHIPS   Sea and Air Blows Sink Supply Ships; Messina and Palermo Hit

Destroy 14, Axis Ships Off Tunisisz   Sea And Air Blows Are Paving Way For Heavy Assaults By Troops In North Africa

ALLIED PLANES, SUBS BLAST AT AXIS IN TUNIS   American Forces Capture Italiar General, Attack on Both Sides Faid Pass

Britain's Subs Hit Enemy Hard Blows in Mediterranean   Americans and French Exchange Blows With  Axis in Tunisia

U-BOATS, BOMBERS BLAST ENEMY’S SUPPLY VESSELS   Sealanes Raided By Allied Units In  Mediterranean; Planes Raid Axis Bases

Sea, Air Blows Paving Way for African Assault   Axis Supply Ships Are Sunk; Land Forces Active

EAAND AIR BLOWS PAVING WAY FOR ~ BIE LAND BATTLE   mericans Take Sened And Dig In Mite East of Town   TAYIAN GENERAL ' TAKEN PRISONER

SEA AND AIR BLOWS: PAVE WAY FOR NORTH ARICAN ASSAULT  FROM. FOURTEEN TO

TRY TO CUSHION DRAFT OF DADS   Manpower Officials Draw Up Plan To Take Single Men, Childless Husbands First.

FATHER DRAFT DELAY ASKEL   i . ‘WHEELER PROTESTS OCTOBER DEADLINE AS NEW STATE ‘SYSTEM I8 CONSIDERED

REFUSALS LOOM   Neutral Nations Expected To Reject FDR Edict   PLAN FORMULATED TO CUSHION ‘DAD DRAFT’

PLAN EASING OF DADS’ DRAFTING   Administration Move  Disclosed As Congressional Recall Is Proposed

Tojo Tells Jap Diet of War News   Premier Admits Allied Counter -Offensive Real And Serious

Hirohito and Tojo Declare Climax Nears   Warn People Rise or Fall of Nation Soon Will Be Decided

T0J0 DECLARES PACIFIG WAR IN CRUCIAL STAGE   Says Allied “Counter - Of. fensive Has Become Real and Serious” to Jap ~ anese Armies

TOJO ADMITS U, 5, MENACE   Allied Counter Offensive Real and Serious, Premier Reports to Japanese Diet

JAP DIET HEARS WAR IS SERIOUS   Tojo Tells Upper House That “Allied Counter-Offensive Has Become Real And Serious.”

NATION SATE TOBE DEGIDEL   Tojo Telis Diet That Counter-Offensive Is Real And Serious.

ALLIED BLOWS WORRYING TOJ9   Premier Tells Diet War Is At Decisive Stage

Tojo Concedes. Allied Threat Is Real One   Fierce Fighting Raging On Various Fronts, Is Information Given. To Japanese Diet

Recent Operations To Determine Rise Or Fall Of Nippon, Diet Hears

Tojo Admits Crisis at Hand   Allied Drive Becomes Serious Problem, os Fierce Fighting Rages

  [Russ Renew Action on Finnish Front   Counterattack Cost Soviets 350 Troops, Report Says

CHURCHILL STATEMENT SHOWS UNITED NATIONS MEETING SUB CAMPAICN IN FEFECTIVE WAY

The War Today— U-Boat Menace Believed Partially \Eliminated; Nazis May Use Gas Next

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazi Morale Must Crack Pyut We Mustn't Bank @oo Much On It

Allied War-Machine Gathers Force on Way to Success U-Boat Destruction Gratifying

The War Today   Blows at U-Boats Raise Hopes Of Earlier Allied Victory

SOVIET AIRMEN ASSAULT PSKOV   Strategic Nazi Rail Junction Is Hit; Enemy Airfields Smashed

Russians Keep Up Heavy Air Raids Behind German [ines   HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED IS REPORT

ITALY MAY ADD JAPS AS ENEMY   Fleet May Go To Paaitigg Portugal Gets ‘Protests ~

ITALY MAY DECLARE WAR ON JAPANESE   Would Be Able to Send Warshipa Into the Pacific.

BERN REPORT SAYS ITALY MAY’ START WAR ON JAPANESE      Adm. Raeder In Budepest In Attempt To Force Hungary To War ~On Italy

Italy May Send Navy to Battle Japs   Swiss Report Declaration of War Against Japan Is Near

TOKYO FACING ROME NAVY  Italian Step Into War AsainstJaps Expected

"TIMES ARE HARD," IL DUCE'S LAMENT   Mussolini, in Interview, Admitted Italy Could Have i Avoided War.

TEMPERATURES:   Complains Of Hardships Under Prodigality Of Bombs Dropped By Americans But Declares Nation’s Entry Into Conflict Was ‘Honorable’

Report Duce Admitted Italy Could Have Kept Out Of World Conflict

Mussolini Admits Italy Could Have Kept Out of War, Reporter Says

Mussolini Admitted Italy Could Have Kept Out Of War   Il Duce Appeared Sad In Last Interview June 6, Told Correspondent That Conflict Would Be Long

BLOCK BUSTERS SEAR SUB BASE   RAF Delivers Heavy Load On Wilhemshaven; Communications  Also Bombed

NAZI SHIPYARD AREAS POUNDEL   Block - Busters Delivered By British On U-Boat Raiders Nests

R.A. F. Bombs Sub Base, Raids Ships  Wilhelmshaven Hit   Wilhelmshaven Hit Seventy-second Time

U-BOAT BASE HIT BY. BRITISH FLIERS   Another Heavy Assault Is Delivered on Wilhelm.  chaven

Crop Outlook ~ Good In State   State To Hold Seeond Ranking As Wheat Producer On June  Report.

AY age Ai B.- Dain Martay ES   (Reproduction in whole or in " part strictly prohibired.)

Bell Employes Get Wage Boost   14,000 Telephone Operators and Other Employes Affected

NOTICES MAILED FOR INCOME 1A}   Many U. S. Citizens In Upper Brackets Must Pay Additional Tax

UNCLE SAM SENDS INCOME TAX BILLS   Fifteen Million Citizens Will Receive Their Tax Bills Today,

Gas Ration Books Seized In Ban On Pleasure Driving   Thousands Of License Numbers Jotted Down: Ickes Fears Serious Hrarcdehiacg

sasoline Rationing Books Are Seized in East As Ban on Pleasure Driving Is Enforced

Nine Lose Gas Ration Books In New York As OPA Agents Are Active   Police Jot Down License Numbers Of 46,237 Violation Suspects.

Ration Books Seized, 46,237 License Numbers Listed in New Yark City

RATION BOOKS ARE SEIZED BY POLICE      Many License Numbers Jatted Down Result of Driving Ban

DRIVERS LOSE RATION BOOKS   Government Moves To Enforce Pleasure Motoring Ban

GAS RATION BOOKS SEIZED IN EAST   AUTHORITIES CRACK DOWN FOR VIOLATIONS OF BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING.

RATION BOOKS SEIZED BY OPA FOR VIOLATIONS   46,237 License Numbers Have Been Listed By New York Police   RESTRICTIONS WILL BE MORE STRINGENT

Hitler Believed Greatly Worried Over War Outlook   Associated Press Write Discusses His Sunday Address

Berlin Says Reds Driven Near Kharkov   Soviet Troops Pushing Forward With Utmost Speed

THE ENCIRCLEMENT OF VYAZMA IS ALL BUT COMPLETED   German Have Only a Narrow Corridor for Their Retreat.   TAKE MORE TERRITORY   Nazi Garrison South of Bryansk Has Been Wiped Out.

REDS CAPTURE ISAKOVA, DRAW VYAZMA NOOSE   Fierce but Still Indecisive Battle Rages South of Kharkov—Ruseiane Take Tol!   ADVANCE IN NORTH   Timoshenko’s Forces Take StaroRamushevko, 15 Miles from Staraya Russa

Reds Tighten Pincers Near Vyazma Front   ‘Moscow Reports Russians Gaining In Offensive in Important Sector

Vyazma Being Encircled By Russian Army  avinat kare ac   Soviet Forces Push Forward In Northern Areas

RUSSIANS ALL BUT ENCIRCLE VYAZMA BASE   Leave Germans Only a Narrow: Corridor for Retreat Toward Smolensk—Fighting Bitter tn the Kharkov Area.

Capture of lsakova Leaves Germans Little Space for Retreat Toward Smolensk

ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT TO WEST   South Of Bryansk Russians Take More Settlements

“Ferocious Engagement” Being Waged Near Kharkov; Nazis Throw in Big Units   Only Narrow Retreat Corridor Left For Germans at Vyazma —— Soviets Advancing Westward on Wide Front West of Gzhatsk

FURIOUS FIGHT SAID RAGING NEAR KHARKOV      Germans Using  Numerically Superior Forces

SOVIET UNITS GAIN: BELOW BRYANSK.   Other Forces Press Heavily Upon Invaders South Of Lake IImen

RED ARMY TROOPS ALMOST COMPLETED ENCIRCLEMENT MOVE   GERMANS HAVE ONLY NARROW RETREAT CORRI DOR TOWARD SMOLENSK

uss Hem Nazis In As Noose Closes At Vyazma   Retreat Corridor To Smolensk Reduced; Germans Claim To Be At Edges Of Kharkov

RED ARMY 19 MILES FROM CITY   Russians Claim Gains In Northern Area By Timoshenko

RUSSIANS SPEED TOWARD VYAZMA TO TRAP ENEMY   /Germans Have Only Narrow Corridor for Escape in Direction of Smolensk

Reds Cling To Kharkov, Circle Foe At Vyazma   Nazis Continue To Throw Tanks Into Donets Battle; Soviet Central Front Gain Leaves Narrow Corridor ©

TIGHTEN PINCERS AROUND GERMANS IN TAKING ISAKOVA      Nazi Forces (tn Superior Numbers Are Thrown Against Russians In Ukraine District Battle.   TIMOSHENKO TAKING ADDITIONAL PLACES   Field Observers Say Nazi Are Falling Back to Prepared Place Around Various Settlements.

Russians Draw Noose Tighter About Vyazma   Nazis Left Only Small Corridor of Retreat. West of Moscow; Soviet Shock Troops Are Within 15 Miles of Railway City

Reds Tighten Encirelement  Of Vyazma   Germans Left Only A Narrow Corridor Of Retreat

Offer Bill To Draft Striker   Rep. Colmer Reeommends Strong Action Be Taken To Limit Walkouts.

WORK-OR-FIGHT. BILL ADVOCATED TO HALT STRIKES   Colmer's Measure Provides Penalties For instigators Of Strikes, Slowdowns

FAVORS INDUCTION OF WAR PLANT STRIKERS   Congressman Would Make Men Flizible For Immediaic Military  Serviee;Favors 48-Hour Week

FREEDOM OF PRESS UPHELD BY JUDG!   Alabama Jurist Dismisses Contempt Of Court Action Against Publisher

Judge Uphois ‘Right of hess To Rantourts   Criticism of Ju icial Action Sustaied in Alabama (ise gj.

Two Key Men Quit OEW, Is Rumored   Counsel and Assistant Director Involved

SOVIET BIG GUNS STUP NAZI ATTACK   Fourteen German Planes Destroyed by Red Army Fliers.

RUSSIANS HURL BACK GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS   ‘Fighting Flares in District Southeast of Kharkov

Guerrillas Fight  Germans In Italy  Battle In Trieste Streets:  Threaten Fiume ~

YUGOSLAVS JOIN FIGHT IN ITALY   Guerillas Battling Geree ITNT OT Trieste 

Say Yugoslavs Fight Germans   Battling in Streets Of Trieste and Threatening Fiume

Yugoslav Guerrillas Battle ‘Germans In Trieste Streets, Threaten Fiume In New Drive   Join Italians In Fighting, Which is Believed To Bear Allied Approval.

Slav Guerrilas Fighting Nazis, Threaten Fiume   They Are Engaged in Battles in Trieste Streets in  New Flare-Ups.   Strike 25 Miles Into Italy From the Border

Yugoslav Guerrillas Battle Nazis in Fiume and Trieste   ‘Invade’ Italy And Attack Two Major Ports With Italian Aid; Nazi Control Totters

TRIESTE RAIDED BY GUERRILLAS   Yugoslav Forces Fight With Nazis In City’s Streate

YUGOSLAV GUERRILLA FORCE FIGHTING NAZIS IN TRIESTE AND MOVE ON ANOTHER CITY

Series Of New Flareups Against Nazis... . Strong Guerrilla Units Fighting Germans In The Streets Of Trieste

Yugoslav Patriots Reported Fighting  German Troops In Trieste And Fiume

Slav Guerilla Forces Clash  With Nazis   Street Fighting Reported In Fiume and Trieste— Also Other Actions

Yugoslav Guerrillas Battling Germans In Streets Of Trieste   Strong Forces. Threatening Fiume In Coordinated Drive Against Italian Ports On Adriatic.

FIGHTING RAGES AT TRIESTE IN NORTHERN ITALY      Port of F E iitne “Threatened by Partisan» fei _ Troops —

Slavs Launch Offensive On  German Forces   Guerillas Battling German Troops In Fiume and Trieste In Apparently Coordinated Effort, -

Guerrillas Threaten Port of Fiume. Strike at Several Points in Ttaly-

Guerrilla Forces  ~ Battling Nazis   Street Fights In Trieste; _--Fiume Seen Threatened In Coordinated Drive

Yugoslav Forces Threaten Fiume, Trieste Ports   Slovenes Joined By Partisans In Attack On Nazis

SLAVS FIGHT THE GERMANS IN TRIESTE      As Guerrillas Battle in Streets, Other Forces Threaten Fiume in Apparent. Joint Drive, Tondon Hears.

WAR RAGES IN TRIESTS    Yugesiay Guerrilla Forces Rattling : Germans In Sireets Of City

NEW RIOTING REPORTED IN THE BALKANS   Strong Yugoslav Guerrilla Forces Reported Fighting In Streets of Trieste and Threatening Fiume   APPROVED BY ALLIES

YUGOSLAV FORCES JOINING THE ALLIES AGAINST GERMANS   it Is Reported That Allies Have Sent Some of Their, Ufticers Into Yugoslavia To Coordinate the Efforts of Native Fighters With Plans of Allies.

YUGOSLAV FORCES FIGHTING GERMANS IN TRIESTE STREETS   Series of Flareups Reported Along 400 Miles of Adriatic

NAZIS BATTLED BY GUERRILLAS OF YUGOSLAVIA   Strang Force of Latter s Fighting Germans In  Streets of Trieste and Threatening Fiume

Pope Views HumanCode At Low Ebb:   Pontiff Warns AlFLaws Broken, Moral Barriers Exceeded ®

REDS FIGHT BACK GERMANS   Soviet Troops Absorb Full Impact of Most Powerful Counter-Offensive in Nearly Six Months,

JUVENILE VANDALS BLAMED FOR BLAZE   Cleveland Theater Damaged To Extent of $30,000

Democrats Relent; Permit Passage of Appropriation Bill   Measure for Welfare Institutions, Prisons Goes to Governor

HOUSE APPROVES DEFICIENCY BILLS   APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR STATE PRISONS AND INSTITUTIONS

COUNTY CLUBS “TO MEET HERE ON APRIL I   County Federation to Hold Convention at the Bap..  1 tist Church.   14TH ANNUAL EVENT   Morning and Afternoon Pro-gram of Real Interest _ . Is Arranged. -

COUNTY GLUED TO MEET Hent UN APRIL 16   County Federation to Hold Convention at the Baptist Church.   144TH ANNUAL EVENT   Morning and Afternoon Program of Real Interest Is Arranged.

EXTEND PERIOD FORBUYING OF AUTO STICKERS   Ask Ohio Police To Omit Action Until Next Monday

Withdraw To Alseria With Heavy Losse:   Considerable Portion Of U. S. Equipment Falls Into Hands Of  Rammel’s Forces

Ax's Troops Near Border. of Algeria      Three: Towns Occupied in _ 66-MileAdvance’.From < : Paid Since Sunday *   BRITISH THREATEN =: =: . (ROMMEL’S FLANK      American Losses May - Bé. . Too:Great. to Permit Counter ‘Blow Soon:

Nazis Gain 66 Miles in 4 Days   First Al-Out Armored Battle of War Against Germans Find Yanks Forced To Withdraw Into Mountain Strongholds

ROMMEL ARMY IN 66-MILE 4-DAY GAIN   Allies Evacuate  Sbeitla,  Feriana, Kasserine   MANY TANKS   Believed Captured By Axis Force; Huge Counterattack Held Unlikely

AMERICAN TANKS © AND GUNS NO MATCH FOR GERMAN TANKS   U.S. Forces Withdraw Into Mountains Of Algeria   HORT OF WEAPONS OR THEIR DEFENSE

Americans Forced Back Into Allgerian. Mountains, Defeat Termed Decisive

GERMANS ADVANCE 66 MILES   U. S. Units Withdraw  Following Fierce  Counterattacks

Rommel Gets Latest VU. 35. Equipment   Veteran German Tankmen Occupy Three Towns Follov ing 66-Mile Advance From Faid Pass In Central Tunisie Since Sunday; American Losses Heavy

Axis Formations Advance 66 Miles In 5-Day Drive   Americans Withdraw to Mountains in Algeria, Losing Much Materiel.   Montgomery’s Army in  Rapid Dash to Mareth

Lose3Towns on Tunisian Front   Nazis Advance 66 Miles, But Are Menaced: By British. 8th at Axis-Held Mareth Line.

Rommel Pauses After 66 Mile Tunisia Smash   Yanks Lose New Tanks: 8th And Ist Army May  Relieva Pressure

BY NAZI FORCE   U, S. Troops Withdraw Into Mountains; Germans Gain 66 Miles.   LOSE MUCH EQUIPMENT

Equipment Loss Is Considerable: Defeat Decisive   American Armored Strength Declared Knocked Out For The Time Being

AMERICAN ARMORED TROOPS WITHDREW INTO MOUNTAINS   This Followed a Severe Maul. ing at Hands of Marshal Rommel’s Tankmen.   IN A 66-MILE ADVANCE   The Axis Troops Had Wrested 4000 Square Miles of Territory From U. S.

Stimson Takes Middle Ground in His Estimate of Altied Disaster in Center

U.S. Armored Units Take Up Positions Near  _ Tebressa As Rommel Slows Up

LOSE d TOWNS TO DAWES BY SWIFT TANKS   Nazis Occupy Sbeitla, Feriana and Kasserine, Capture Sherman Tanks.   AMERICANS LOSE THREE AIRFIELDS, EQUIPMENT

Torn Armored Force Retreats To Algeria   Romme! Captures Many New American Tanks With Superior Gun Power; British 8th And Ist Armies Speeding To Aid

Yanks Retire To Position In Hills   Axis Forces Occupy Three ~ Towns After 66-Mile  Advance   TEBESSA ANCHOR NOW.   Much U. S. Armored Equipment Falls Into German  Hands

FOUR-DAY PUS CARRIES ENEMY NEARER ALCEPIA   Rommel’s Forces Threatened By British Troops

Three Towns Evacuated By U.S. Soldiers   Decisive Defeat Suffered In First Tilt With Nazis

Armored: Forces Severely Mauled   Much Equipment Lost and Casualties High, Stimson Says— Germans Capture Three Towns

ARMORED © VEHICLES LOST TO FOE   Rommel’s Expert — Desert Tankmen In 66-Mile Advance

Montgomery’s British 8th Army Reaches Mareth Line at Medenine and Foum Ta tahouine to Menace Axis Flank   MUCH U.S. EQUIPMENT LOST   Montgomery’s 45-Mile Dash to Old French Fortifications May Indicate Plan to Sweep Around End of Forts

RECEIVE SEVERE MAULING AT HANDS OF ROMMEL'S MEN IN CENTRAL TUNISIAN WARFARE

ASSISTANCE BEING SENT “BY ENGLISH   Sheitla,. Kasserine And Feriana Are ~ Captured —

ROMMEL'S FORCES ADVANCE 66 MILES   Germans Occupy Towns of Sbeitla, Kasserine and Feriana

U.S. Forces Fight Hard; Nazis Oceupy Three Towns   Montgomery's Eighth Army Becoming More Menacing To Germans BKiehting Rednred

Three Towns Taken By Axis In Tank Thrust   British 8th Army Moving Up To Aid American Allies

U.S. Armored Force  Hemmed by Nazi Veteran Tank Corps   AMERICANS WITHDRAW TO TEBESSA, 12 MILES INSIDE ALGERIA; ENEMY TAKES “CONSIDERABLE PORTION” OF EQUIPMENT

AMERICAN ARMORED FORMATIONS SENT REELING BACKWARD   U. S. TANK FORCES HAV! _ SUFFERED DECISIVE DEFEAT BY GERMANS

ROMMEL FLANK IS MENACED BY BRITISH FORCES   Defeat Suffered by Americans at Hands of Expert Desert Tankmen

Nazis Make Total Gain of 66 Miles   Yank Armored Formations Severely Mauled in Tank Battle in Tunisia— Three Towns Occupied by Germans— Capture Much U. S. Equipment

Russians Destroyed German Planes at Ratio of Four To One in the Last Seven Weeks

Friedrichshafen Rocked By Bombs From Allied Planes   RUSSIAN FLIERS STRIKE AT NAZI AIR STRENGTH

Rommel Still Retreating Near Tripoli   Nazis Believed to Be Jockeying to ECnvea Cammunicaton:

Doughton Looks Toward New Tax   Returns To Capital; Sales Tax Seen

Doughton Starts On Tax Planning  Returns To Confer With Treasury On  Increased Taoxec

Tax Measures Being Studied By Committee   Chairman Doughton Cuts Vacation Short To Return to Washington for Conferences.

SOLONS STUDY SALES TAX AS INCOME SOURCE   Congressman Doughton Is Back In Capital for  Conferences   FIGHT BUYING LEVY   Senator Byrd Calls For Scrutiny On Gov't  Expenditures

Returns to Capital to Discuss Taxes   Discussions Are Renewed for and Against Sales Tax as Source of Extra Money for War Effort

SOME VITAL DISCUSSIONS ARE REPORTED   ‘Account of Imminence of  ' Major Political and Military Decisions Causes Speculation on Possible Army Coup.

COUP FORECAST FOR OUSTER OF NAZI FURHRER   Landen Reports * ‘Some thing Big” About Toa  Happen: Hitler May  Re Civen Gate   BERIAN BROADCAST REVEALS MEETING   Signs Of Unrest Increasing Within Axis Eyrope As Street Fighting In  Paris ls Reported

Military Coup May Oust Adolf   Germany Hints Of Bia Things Comina

Report Berlin Nearing "State of Panic” Over Massed Air Raid Threat

Rising Crisis in icated in Broadcast. From. Reich: Berlin Seen 2

NAZIS WORK ON WAR PROBLEMS   Report Berlin in Near Panic Stage as People Fear Allied Air Raids

Mass Stampede Of Nazis From Berlin Worrying Leaders   Authorities At Wits End Trying To End People’s Flight; Army Man May Be Given Power

Jitters in Berlin Reflected by Nazis   Anti-Hitler Coup ls Not Impossible

FORESEF COUP TO DRIVE OUT HERR HITLER   German Big-Wigs Have Important Conference as Berliners Stampede.   They Fear City Will Be Made Bomb Target

Military Coup Against Hitler Is Possibility   ‘Authorities ‘At Berlin ‘Are ‘At Wits End  In Their Efforts To Control Stampede Of People From City — Speculation Over Military Dictatorship Increases 

See Important Political Events Within Germany   Rumor Hitler May Be Replaced by Army Veteran

Top Nazis Huddle with Rumors Of Military Coup as Berliners Flee, Peace Strikes Reported

‘We’ re Interested in That Specu lation  Something Big Abaca To Pop in Germany

Military Coup To Replace Hitler Hinted From Nazis  ‘Important Discussions’ Among All Chiefs Beina Held tn Fuehrer’s Headaquarterc

Rising Crisis In Germany Is Indicated   Important Discussions of Military and Political Nature Reported to Have Taken Place in Hitler’s Quarters

Axis Leaders Hold Vital Talks in Berlix   Speculation Grows Over Rumor of Political Upheaval

Berlin Tells Of Important Conferences   Hitler Meets Top Nazis In Military, Political Discussions

GERMAN BROADCASTS TELLING OF BERLIN CONFERENCES LEAD TO SPECULATION ABOUT CRISIS

Speculation — Qn Chance of Military Coup   Top Army and Nazi Party Heads Conferring on German Problems   ‘STATE OF PANIC’ OVER AIR RAIDS   Sivikes Demanding Peace Also Reported; Fall of Mussolini a Great Blow

NAZIS SAID AT ‘WITS END   Trying to Control Mas: Hysteria As Bombing More Intense

TATE OF PANIC * GRIPPING BERLIN   Massed Air Raid Fears Bring Strikes And Peace Demonstrations   MANY FLEE CITY   ‘Speculate On Military Coup Bringing About Removal Of Hitler

German Crisis Indicated as Nazis Tell of Conferences   Indirect Reports Say Berlin “Panicky” Over Air Raid Possibility

Hitler Facing Gravest Crisis As Panic Grow   Fuehrer Summons Nazi Leaders; Germans Nearing Revolt

Rising Crisis Is Indicated Through Reich   Threat Of Massed Air Raids Throws Fear In Germans

Military Coup To Oust Hitler  Being Rumored   Meetings in Germany Seen as Prelude to Big Developments  UNREST WIDESPREAD  Military Dictatorship Also Reported as Among Possibilities

Rising Crisis In-Reich   Hint Military Coup Ousting Hitler As Bomb-fearing Berliner: Near State of Panic

Military Coup Looms In Reich, London Hears   Army Group Plots To Replace Hitler, Reports Claim

Confab Of Nazi Bigwigs Hints Desperate Moves; Hitler’s Position Shaky

Ope Sees ere son: Sean eRe ee  War Crisis Hits — German Capital   Rumors that Hitler May be on Way Out Comes as High Nazi Officials Meet; Bomb-Dazed Berliners Flee as Fear That RAF May Come Spreads

BERLIN MEETING HINTS POSSIBILITY OF MILITARY COUP   Hitler May Be Ousted as ' Fuehrer; Capital Neer . Panic Over Threat of Air  Raids.

Important Sessions At Hitler’s Hideout Mark Turn in War   Mass Stampede From Berlin Begins Amid Strikes and Mounting Public Clamor for Peace: Many Arrested

Hitler and High Nazis Hold Important’ Parleys; Strikes ‘And Unrest Spread in Reich   SOVIET MAGAZINE CRITICIZES U.S. AND BRITAIN FOR ABSENCE OF 2ND FRONT

Military Coup To Down Hitler Is Discussed  Military-Political Meeting Is Held in Hitler Headquarters

Number Of Important Military, Political Sessions Said To Be Held In Hitler’s Headquarters; City Is Partially Evacuated, Goebbels Says

Near Panic Reported In Berlin As Fears Of Mass Aerial Raids Mount   German Capital’s Authorities Reported At Wits End To Control Mass Stampede From City; Many Arrests Made.

NAZI LEADERS IN CONFERENCE   ‘State Of Panic’ Grips Ber. lin As People Await Bombings

‘SOMETHING BIG TS BELIEVED BREWING INSIDE OF GERMANY   INDICATION OF, RISIN CRISIS COMES WITH . NEAR PANIC IN BERL

BERLIN FEARS ALLIED RAIDS   Report Near Panic Pre-» yails: Nazi-Heads — Meet Fuehrer ~

Important Military Talks Being Held There; London Hears Reports Of Panic

‘Important Discussions’ Under Way At Headquarters   Nazi Party Gangsters As Well As Military Leaders Present; Rumor Military Coup Likely

HITLER REGIME MAY BE OUSTED, REPORTS REVEAL   Fears of Mass Air Raids On Berlin Start Exodus And Peace Demonstrations   REFUGEES ARE ARRESTED   Military Coup in Making Is Belief, as Crisis-tnside Germany Develops

Fuehrer’s Future  In Berlin Huddle   Nazi Leaders Meet to Con. ~ sider Political and Mili tary Moves —   PANIC IN THE CAPITAL   Threat of Allied Air Raid: ’ May Lead to a Mass  Stampede 

MILITARY COUP HINTED TO GET HITLER OUSTED   NAZI WORKERS SAID DEMANDING PEACE AS BERLIN PANIC GROWS

Speculation Rife German Army Is Ousting Fuekrer   Radio Broadcasts About Conference Cause of Rumors

DISCUSSIONS HELD LAST FEW DAYS   Took Place in the Fuehrer’s Headquarters, It Was Announced Today.

German Sources Indicate Rising Crisis In Berlin As Reports Tell of ‘State of Panic’ Over Possibility of Mass Air Raids On Capi:

“BOMB BERLIN” THREAT STIRS PANIC FEARS   Nazis Admit Hitler in Busy Series ot Conferences: Evacuees Stampede.

iter Calls is Leaders to Parley   inrest Grows;  \verthrow of Cédian Winthad

RUMORED HITLER MAY BE DRIVEN OUT AS LEADER   ‘Important Discussions’ Under Wa At Hitler's hucd quarters: Fear Of Bombings Reaches State Of Panic In  German Capital.

(tn the absence of Dewitt Mack. onde. this column ts written today ts 2 M. Reberts, dri

The War Today Allies Would Put Future Italian Government Up To People’s Choice

AMERICAN LEADER ON POLITICAL SPOT AGAIN: EISENHOWER TELLS TTAT TANS THROW GERMANS OUT

CHICAGO TRADER SHOT TO DEATH   FIND OLIVER NICKLES DEAD AT SUMMER HOME WIFE BADLY WOUNDED

"Everything Will Be All Right Baby,” Welles Assures Rita Havworth

TEMPERATURES DROP   * Chilly Night, cht, But. No Frost : Forecast 

‘nators Whet tives for 1945 apropriations  'We Mean Business,’ Committee Tells

Senate Group To Insist On Economy   Government Agencies Given Notice of Cost Slashing Plan

MANPOWER CHIE! IS ON WELL WORN HOT SPOT   CONGRESS REFUSES MONEY TO CARRY OUT HIS PROGRAM

Tough Spot For McNutt   Manpower Chief Must Win Fight for Program Funds or Resign

McNutt on Hot Spot in _ Funds Fight   Manpower Chief Refused Funds to Reshuffle Work Plans

McNutt Put On Hot Spot By Congress   Legislators Out After Manpower Commissioner For Recent Orders

AVENGERS RAID MUNDA AIRBASE   Tokyo Warship Sunk By U.S. Submarine In Surface Battle

U.S. Torpedo Planes Set Fires On Japs’ Munda Base; Navy Recapitulates Guadalcanal Losse:

2 Jap Battleships Sunk In Solomons   Navy Tor nedo Planes Set Jap Bases On Fire

‘LJap Baifleships Sunk In Solomons      Navy Torpedo Planes Set Jap Bases On Fire

TORPEDO PLANES RAID JAP BASE AT MUNDA   Nipponese Anti-Submarine Patrol Ship Sunk by American Submersible in Surface Dipl.

JAP AIR BASE. AT MUNDA 1S RAIDED   Navy Says Two Jap Battleships Sunk in Battle of Guadalcanal Instead of One as Previously Reported

Navy Planes Work Havoc on Jap  Base in Pacific  Munda Is Struck for 90th Time; Enemy Vessel Is Sent Down

Navy Active in Attacking Japs Of Pacifie Area   Sinking of Another Nipponese Battleship Disclosed by U. S.

Butta wil  te bree  & id     rench Setup   Accord DeGaulle-Giraud . Committee Full Recognition

Reds Approve Newly-Named French Regime   Allied Decision Reached At Quebec Conference

Reds ApproveRecognition DeGaulle-Giraud Soap. As:New Freiich “Ti se?

Approval  To French Committee   Russia Grants Full Recognition; British, U. S., and Chinese  Impose Limitations

GOVERNMENT GETS FORMAL APPROVAL   De Gaulle-Giraud Group Is Called Representative Of All French People: Few Limitations

US: BRITAIN   DeGaulle-Giraud Committee Considered Trustees Of French Interests

French Group Recognized By  Major Power:   Russia J oins Britain. U. S. In Approval Of Committee As Body Ta Handle Interests

Soviets 6o Further Than Roosevelt hid” Churchill In Welcoming Giraud Committee As Representatives Of The French Natiaa

Russia Gives Recognition to French   DeGaulle-Giraud Committee Are Recognized as Trustees for French Interests

Russia Approves Recognition Of French Official:   United States Anc  Britain Formally OK Giraud Anc De Gaulle

Allies Give Recognition To French Leaders   Russians Also Approve DeGaulleGiraud Committee

RECOGNITION OF NEW FRENCH BODY APPROVED BY REDS   Apparently Going Even Step Further Than Roosevelt and Churchill In Welcoming French Committee Into Allied Fold.

First Announced Diplomatic Results Of Quebec Meeting   Soviet Union Move Gives Evidence of Political Cooperation Among United Nations

De Gaulle and Giraud Given Recognition   Russia Joins Britain And U. S. in Formal But Limited Approval

RUSSIAN APPROVAL OF FRENCH SET-UP HAS BEEN RECEIVED   - Recognition Given De Gaulle-Giraud Committee By Russia, U. S. and Britain

& etal fa  French Liberation Bod) Recognized By U. S.,  Britain, Russia   Committee Headed By Generals De Gaulle And Giraud Welcomed Into Allied Fold; One Of Results Of Quebec Parlev

RUSS APPROVAL GIVEN GIRAUD AND DEGAULLE   Soviet Follows Britain and U.S. In Action to Recognize Committee As Trustees”

soviet Russia Also Approves sl'rench Leaders   Joins U. S. And Britain In Formal Recognition Of ‘Trustee’ Regime.

SOVIET APPROVES RECOGNITION FOR DE GAULLE-GIRAUD   STALIN'S GOVERNMENT GOES STEP FURTHER THAN BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Russia Joins U.S, And Britain In  Recognizing French Committee   De Gaulle-Giraud Group Of National Liberation Recognized As “Trustees” Of French Interests.

Stalin Goes Further Than His Allie  French Committee Is Recognized By Reds

Russia Adds Recognition ToFrenchmen   De Gaulle-Giraud Group Hailed as ‘Trustees’ of French Interests

Russia Joins With U.S. andBritain. To Recognize French Committee

FRENCH SET-UP IS APPROVED BY ALL OF ALLIES   One of First Announced Results of War Council Is Endorsed by Russia   MOVE ONLY WAR MEASURE   No Attempt Made To Control France or Government After Liberation

French Regime Wins Recognition   De Gaulte-Giraud Committée Named “Trustees” of Interests of Country

Complete Red. Partial British. U.S. Approval Of Free French   Four Limitations Set Forth In Announcement by Roosevelt

RUSSIA JOINS IN RECOGNITION OF COMMITTEE   Unlimited Recognition Given; U.S. Britain Act First

ALLIES GRANT RECOGNITION TO FRENCH GROUP   U. S., Brilain Give Limited Status to Commilice, Russia Appears fo Grant Full Rights

Recognition Given French Committee   England, Russia and United States Welcome De GaulleGiraud Committee into  Allied Fold

SOVIET LEADERS APPROVE FRENCH ‘TRUSTEE’ GROUP   American, British O. K.. Given Giraud And De Gaulle

Russians Go Further Than U. $. and Britain in Recognizing French Body

LEGISLATURE MUST PUT STATE ON PAY AS YOU G0 BASIS   ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES CASH BASIS MANDATORY ON JAN. 1, 1945

USE OF JAP TROOP CONCENTRATIONS NOT YET CLEAR   Secretary Knox Says It’s Impossible to ‘Tell Whether They Are For Attack or Defense

Next Jap Move ls Uncertain, Knox Declares  Aleutian Activity Shrouded, Navy Chief Gave

SECRETARY KNOX IS UNABLE TO CLEARLY DEFINE ENEMY PLAN . ATTACK ON AUSTRALIA,  HE SAYS, WOULD TAKE MANY CHTpS

Jap Intentions In Pacific Not Clear: Sec. Knox   Says Strengthening Of Positions May Be For Attack Or Defense.

KNOXINDOUBT OF JAP MOTIVES   Would Need Enormous Sea Force to Start Offensive

200,000 ARE MASSED UPON ISLAND BASES   News of Smashing Air Victory in New Guinea Coupled With Official Warning

Comments On Jap Strength ‘In The Pacific   Knox Says It Is Not Known Whether Strong Points Are For Attack

Sec. Knox ‘Unaware Of ‘Foe’s Plans   Reports No Sign Of Concentration Of Enemy Fleet

At Least 14. Lose Lives As Big Plane Hits Building   Boeing Bomber Crashes Into Packing Plant  In South End Seattle, Causing Serious Fire   FAMED TEST PILOT ONE OF VICTIMS   Two Motors Burning When Plane Plunges, Eve-Witnesses Sav

er Explosion  s Plant Afire  amed Test Pilot mong Victims { Seattle Tragedy  RE INJURED  orkers Trapped Blazing Structure;

Bomber Hits Meat Plant: 14 Killed   Twenty ‘Are Missing. Others Badly Burned In: Seattle: Crash

14. die when bomber hits Seattle plant   Famed test pilot, 10 others aboard craft among dead

The War Today   au Eras eVudy see  Conquest of Italy Would Force Hitler To Re ge A ce rc

Today’s War Moves   li Duce Guesses Right for Once, Hints Allied Invasion Soon

The War Today—  Invasion Of Italy Might Work To Hitler's Advantage In Many Ways

IMUSSOLINI PREPARING DEFEND ITALY AGAINST ALLIED ATTACK EXPECTED AFTER TUNISIA FALLS

How Would Defeat of Italy Affect European Situation? Might Lengthen War Somewhat

Gestapo Chief Admits Killing   Telis Russian Accusers He Put 100 Soviet Citizens to Death

Thousands  Of Russians Were Killed AtKharkov   Atrocity Trials Of Germans Draw Large Crowds And Confession From Gestapo Officer

Reds Opening Atrocity Trial   Gestapo Agent Tells Of Killing Civilians, War Prisoners

RISSIAN PRESS DEVOTE 2 PAGES TO KHARKOV ATROCITY TRIAL OF NAZI LEADER

GESTAPO CAPTAIN TRIED AT MOSCOW   PLEADS GUILTY TO KHARKOV MURDERS, SAYS SOVIET PRESS

LANDIS OUSTS COKAS PROXY OF BALL CLUB   Head. of ° Phillies~ Barred: For Betting On Games; In Violation of Raling

Commissioner Landis Removes Head Of Phila: delphia Phillies Team

Head of Phils Is Ousted by Judge Landis   Ruled: Out of Holding Any Office in League for Betting on Games

Cox Banished From Baseball  Owner of Phillies Ousted for Betting On Baseball Games

PHILS PRESIDENT QUSTED BY LANDIS   William D, Cox Permanently Barred From Baseball For Bettina.

President of Phillies is Barred ' From Baseball Because of Betting

Landis Ousts President Of The Phillies   William D. Cox Ineligible to Hold Office in Major  Leagues  HAD BET ON GAMES

Landis Ousts Bill Cox Of Phils From Leacue Ball   Head Of Club Admitted Betting On Games In Violation Of Major Learue Rule

Jap Saboteurs Threaten’ Dam  Dynamite, Caps Stolen Says Probe Witness; tl A Water Menaced

Parker Dam Guards Tolc To Kill Japanese On Sigh Atter Theft Of Dynamite

MINERS AWAIT WLB DECISION   Policy Committee, Operators Ready To Act On Receipt Of Ruling

LEWIS AWAITS ~~ WLB DECISION   Deadline for New Coa Strike Only 72 Hours Distant

WLB Decision On Mine Fuss > Slated Today   Miners And Operators ‘Stand By’ As Coal . Truce Deadline Nears; FDR Signature On Anti-Strike Bill Awaited

‘American Plan’ Of Post War Security ls Received In Both Houses Of Congress

SALVAGE OF 115.8. LAFAYETTE BEGUN IN NEW YORK   Ex-Normandie Being Slowly Righted After Year, 5 Montha_ .

TITOFIGHTERS REPEL THRUSTS BY NAZI FORCES   Partisan Army Battling _ Force Twice Its Size In Yugoslavia, Still   -_ Holds Initiative

Yugoslays Battle German Army Despite Numbers  Partisans Scatter Enemy Forces On Every Sector

Tito’s Army Opens Drive   Germans on Defense : On‘ Jusoslav Front

Y ugoslav Army  On ‘Offensive   Battles With Force Two Times As Larve

Partisan Army, Opens Attacks   Eyery._ Sector . Offensive / Started By: Broz. Men — -. Acainst Germans ©

TITO’S PARTISAN YUGOSLAV FORCES ARE ON OFFENSIVE  MARSHALL JOSIP BROZ’ _ MEN BATTLING ARMIES  TWICE ITS SIZE

BROZ DRIVING AHEAD ON ALL SERB FRONTS   German Counterattack Smashed Back

Slavs on Offensive All Along the Front   Partisan Army Battles Enemy Forces Twice Its Size and Thwarts Nazi Attempts to Take Initiative in Croatia.

Yugoslavs Take To Offensive   Partisan Army ‘Seize Initiative From Foe Twice As Large.

JAP MERCHANT SHIP SUNK AT KAVIENG BASE   Americans Establish Base in Ellice Island Group

JAPANESE VESSEL HIT BY BOMBERS   Solo Excursions Are Made Over Southwest Pacitic Bases

JAPANESE VESSEL HIT BY BOMBERS      Solo Excursions Are Made  Over Southwest Paci_ fie Bacac

Jap Cargo Vessel Sunk Off Coast Of New Ireland  Lone Bomber Sinks  .- agers te

URGES NO FEAR   Industrialization Abroad Tc Be Desired, NAM Told

GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR ROCKED BY TEMBLOR   Cornices Tumble into Streets; Fear Some Casualties

ECUADOR I$ ROCKED BY VIOLENT ‘QUAKE   Details Meager But Some Casualties Feared

Bitterly Contested Texas Battle Seen   Gerald: Mann Hints New Dealism Wil! Be  leer re ley Bare Anaince! Gav Stovernenc

Bitterly Fought Gubernatorial . Race in Texas With New Deal as Chief issue Appears in Prospect

Claim Mussolini Conimitted Suicide  Latest Il Duce Yarn Is Not Confirmed

IL DUCE SUICIDE, REUTERS HEARS   Confirmation of  Dispatch Is Lacking From All Quarters

Mussolini Said To Have Taker His Own Life   Roundabout Report From Stockholm Is Not Confirmed

MUSSOLINI SAID TO HAVE ENDED LIFE   Former Dictator Reported to Have Killed Himself in a Fit of Depression.

Derry Chief Dies In Plane Crash   Commodore Logan, Head Of U.S. Naval Base In Ireland Killed

450-ACRE CITY IN GERMAN RUHR LEFT IN RUINS   Meanwhile in Russia, Reds Suffer Reverses as Nazis Battle for Kharkov   REDS ADVANCE ELSEWHERE   Rommel Withdraws Forees Again But Captured Nazis Still Reflect Cockiness

HEAVIEST RAF RAID OF YEAR   Great Krupp Works at Es“sen. Blasted Again in Big _ Night Assault   U.S. BOMBERS AGAIN FOLLOW UP ATTACK   Hundreds of. Tons of. Block Busters Rained on Ger° man Center

Big Raid On Essen: Reds  Hold Kharkov   No Confirmation of German Claim. Nazis Have Captured City; Soviet Forces Drive Toward Smolensk; Rommel Withdraws Armored Force For Second Time

Krupp Munitions Worl Heavily Attacked; Raid Reported Year’s Hardest

Rommel Withdraws Second Time In Week After Tilt With Montgomery's British 8th Army

Smashing Attack on Essen Called Biggest of Year; British Lose 23 Bombers   Fires From City Reach Height Of 15,000 Fee; More Planes Head Teward German Taraatc

British Lose D3 Planes in Dawn Attack   German Munitions Factory Suffers Crioplina Blows

KRUPP ARMAMENT PLANT BELIEVED CRIPPLED BY BLOW   Ruhr City Ablaze After Heavy Explosions; Ruse sians Battle Germans at Kharkov Gates.

HUNDREDS OF TONS OF BLOCKBUSTERS RAINED UPON ESSEN  GREAT KRUPP WORKS   GREAT KRUPP WORKS BLASTED IN ONE OF HEAV IEST RAIDS OF YEAR

Annihilation Of Axis On Tunisian. Fronts  Predicted By Allies   Assault On. Ruhr Industrial City ‘Called Greatest Attack Of Year; Krupp Works Heavily Damaged

23 Planes Are Lost in Raid; Yanks Return              Reds Suffer Setbacks. “ing Kharkov  Secturs; Krupi Munitions Works Crippled’

‘British Bomb Essen; Yanks Damage Rouer   Two Great Raids Damage Many Nazi Munitions Plants   Russians Deny Germans Have Re-Taken Kharkov   Rommel Withdraws Battle Scarred Troops In Tunisia

(Conquest of Tunisia Still Months Away   Most Violent Attack Of Year Delivered On Keupn Works

23 BOMBERS MISSING FROM THERAID   Krupp Works Blasted In Heaviest Bombing Of 1943 Raids

NEW SHIPS GAIN ON SUB SINKINGS   FDR Reveals U. S. Shifts to Faster Type Needed After War

6 SOLDIERS KILLED BY LIGHTNING BOLT   Tragedy At Ft, Belvoir, Va. At Conclusion Of Ball Game

Six Soldiers Playing Ball Killed By Lightning Bolt   Had Just Ended Game — Bodies! Scattered In All Directions :

LIGHTNING KILLS SOLDIERS   Baseball Game Interrupted By Fatal Storm

Nazis Re-Enter Kharkov, Claim   Berlin Reports German Armies Break Into Heart Of City; Soviet Admits Only New Ground Lost As Battle Climax Nears

REDS SAY CITY STILL BEING HELD   Soviet Army Exhorted To Resist To ‘Last Drop Of Blood’

GERMANS GAIN IN STRUGGLE 10 SEIZE KHARKOV   Reds Urged To Defend City To ‘Last Drop Of Blood’.   BERLIN CLAIMS NAZIS IN CENTER OF TOWN

NAZIS ARE NEARER TO KHARKOV   Battle for - Russian City Nears Climax

Nazi Losses At Kharkov Staggering   Hundreds of T anks Hurled Into Bloody Ukrainian Strugcle

NAZIS CLOSE ON KHARKOV      REDS STRIVE VALIANTLY TO HOLD GERMAN ATTACK

AXIS IN TERRIFIC FIGHT AT KHARKOV   Americans Bomb Jap Bases at Two Positions During Tropical Storm.

Berlin Claims Entrance Into Soviet City  ae   Moscow Admits Retreat, Reports Gains Elsewhere

Rail Junctions — AtSapri Struck, Damage ls Large   Axis Concentrates On Northern Defense, Abandon Hope Of Air Opposition   NAPLES BADLY HIT PRACTICALLY CUT OFF   Incessant American Bombing Paying Dividends In Wrecked Traffic Lanes

BOMB WIDE AREA ABOVE MESSINA   Deadly Yank Raiders Range 120 Miles North of Bases in Sicily

AXIS. DEFENSES STRENGTHENED AWAIT INVASICN   Enemy G.ves Up Hcpe of Challenging Allied Aerial Offensive in Italy.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   America’s Invaders Range Above Strait of Messina

ALLIES STAB AT ITALIAN COAST   Road And Rail Junctions Bombed: Steel Mills Near Naples Hit

Psychiatrist Believes Nazis Would Label Hitler Martyr If Health Failed

Legion Leader Urges Adoption Of Tax Plan   Pay-as-You-Go Program Debated Before Committee

Urges Runl Tax Program   Representative of N. Y. Bar Tax Committee for Skipping 1942 Income Ta:

INCOME TAN SUGGESTIONS   Legion Head Urges Pay-As-You Eam Legislation °

VOTE OW POST-WAR PEACE PLAN SEEN   Debate over Commitments Is Mounting but Final Action Is Expected This Week

Steel Workers Report Funds  Membership. 725,623; Assets $1,774,900

Steps Into Dispute on Rubber and Gasoline   Truman Committee Seeks to Settle Controversy Among Nation’s Top Production Chiefs.

African Campaign Cost Axis More Than 600,000 Men  Losses in Last Stages 200,000 Mostly In Troops Captured

North African Campaign Costs Nazis, Halians Total of 600,000 Men

STATE DUTPUT OF IRON, oT tL HITS WAR LOW   John L. Lewis Urges Miners To Return To Duties Without Delay

Steel, Iron Drop Output In Alabama   At Lowest Rate Since Pear! Harbor, Due to Strike

LC  EE™E —s—“SONSS~—T~—...LL.  TWO DIE, EIGHT MISSING. ‘AS RIVER TUG CAPSIZES

NO NAZI ROUT —— INRUSSIA YET   ‘Observers Think Germans  Withdraw to Planned  Defense Line

Allied Bombers Continue _ Heavy Attacks On Europe; Italy Is Being Softened Up  For The Coming Invasion

(ANK BOMBERS HAMMER PORT IN ROME ARE!   1.000 Tons Dropped On Germany In 48Hour Period

Shipping, Supplies Damaged   Report Mussolini Admits Outlook Is Dark—Soften  Italy for Invasion

\Christy Painting Is Symbol for Religious Crusade Sponsored key Methodist Bishops

PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC AND CABINET FLEE   Cries of “Viva  a democracia” Ring Out Through The Streets

Revolt Ousts Pres. Castillo  Of Argentine   Was Only S. A. Natior® Still Maintaining Relations with Axis   TROOPS ARREST PRO-AXIS PERSONS   General Rawson, 59, Old Cavalry Leader, Is Insurgent Leader

TROOPS SET: UP MILITARY GOVERNMENT   Castillo and His Cabinet Leave Aboard. Gunboat  as 7,000 Troops March Into Capital.   ONE SMALL CLASH > MARKS UPRISING   Ousted Group’ s Policy of Tsolationisnt Brought Criticism — Pro-Allied Leaders in Charge.

Army Seizes Power  In A rgentina Coup   Castillo and Cabinet Flee Aboard Gunboat To Lruguay: Generals Rawson and Ramirez  Lead Revolt; Crowds Cheer Troops’ Arrival

New Chief Is Friend of Allied Cause   President Castillo Flees; Rawson, Head Of Revolutionists, Declares State Of Martial Law: Move Is Made Suddenly

Pro-Allied Forces Rout Castillo, Jail Axis Sympathizers   Popular Demonstrations for Democracies Greet Revolt Leaders; 7000 Troops Tak Part in Practically Bloodless Coup

Rawson Sets Up Military Government   President Castillo And Cabinet Flee After Bloodless Coup

Government of !solationist President Castillo Ousted  REBELLION HEADED - BY GEN’L RAWSON  One of First ‘Acts Is Arrest of Pro-Axis Nistinnalice

Pro-Allied Gen. Rawson Sets Up Provisional Military Government   Y Castillo and Cabinet Flee; Defy Insurgents; Crowds Cheer Revolutionists; President of Supreme Court Indicates Recognition

ARMY UPSETS GOVERNMENT TN ARGENTINA      ilitary Rule Set Up After Coup by ProAllied Element

STAGE REVOLT IN ARGENTINE; NEW REGIME   Gen. Rawson, pro allies leader marches on Buenos Aires; President Castillo flee:  to gunboat in river   Planes Overhead

Castillo, Overthrown By Re volt Of Troops, Arrives At Colonia, Uruguay   PRO-AXIS NATIONALIST REPORTED IN CUSTODY

Revolting Army i Possession  Buenos Aires          astillo Flees as Bloodles: foup Dooms His Ad> ministration        Hincipal Supporter of

Troops Revolt In Argentina; Castillo Flee:   Army Rebels Against Isolationist Regime And Sets Up Provinsional Military Government; Relatively Bloodless Coup

Government of Isolationist President Castillo Ousted  REBELLION HEADED BY GEN’L RAWSON  One of First Acts Is Ar  One of First Acts Is Arrest of Pro-Axis Nationalist

NEW REGIME IS FORMED IN BUENOS AIRES   ISOLATION POLICIES OPPOSED; PRO-AXIS GROUP ARRESTED

Anti-Axis Regime Takes Over Affairs In Capitol  RS REN ME > IE a Rey Oe  COUN DOM 2 Renn aye purty   President Ramon Castillo !s Cruising In Estuary Of Rio De La Plat On Gunboat

Argentine Troops Revolt Against President Castillo’s Regime; N ation May Join United Nations

Farmers Get OPA Ration Report Forms  Information Fron Ratianing OMce

IN-LAW ADMITS M’COY SLAYING   Tells How He Shot Farmer: ‘Blank’ On Other Deaths

KIN CONFESSES IN MCOY CASE   Jameg Collet, Brother-In. Law. Breaks Down Under Questioning

Soviets Slash Into Crumpling Nazi Defenses   Reds Crushing Enemy Forces In Steady Advance Toward Kharkov And Bryansk

REDS DRIVE TO CUT RAIL ESCAPE FOR NAZIS AT KHARKOV      Axis Defenses South Of Big City Crumble — Enemy Fails To. Check Reds

LONG-EXPECTED DRIVE LAUNCHED BY SOVIET ARMY   Start Campaign  Betweer Leningrad, Moscow

RED ARMIES SLOWED DOWN ON 2 FRONTS   Lay of Land Obstacle for Soviets As Well As Increasing Resistance by Germans,

REDS SLOWLY CLOSE ENEMY ESCAPE ROAD   Corridor Only 13 Miles In Width South of © Ukrainian City

Russians Close  In On Kharkov   Decision Nearing For Great Center

AE Oo CLOSING NACI CORRIDOR FHUM KHARKOV   Escape Path From Russian City Reduced To 13 Miles By Soviets

40,000 Germans In Copenhagen As Riots Rage   Danes Demonstrate Against Authorities Carry American Flag

Nazis Seize. Danish Food To Nip Riots   3 Divisions: Sent To. Quell Rioting Copenhacen Crenawi:

Nazi Troops Into Denmark   People’s Revolt Grows, Nazis Balked of Trying Saboteurs

50.000 Nazis  To Copenhagen   German Forces i agri To Stamp Out Revolt Against Occupation Authorities.

RIOTS SPREAD IN DENMARK DESPITE ARRIVAL OF NAZI TROOPS TO HALT SABOTAGE

Cracks In ‘Fortress Europe’ Danes, Italians Give Trouble; Nazi Home Front Is Shaken   Himmler Appointment Seen As Effort Ti Stop Opposition Inside Germany

German Troops Go fo Denmark   Three Divisions Are ‘Reported to Be Held In Copenhagen

Three Nazi Divisions Take Over Danish City To End Riots. Strikes

GERMANS OCCUPY DANISH CAPITAL   Nozi Troops Seek to Stamp  Out Riots and Demon Pry Pee eee

Act to Quell Danish Riots   German Forces Move Into Copenhagen As Sabotage Increases

‘Three German Divisions Rushed to Capital As Riots Spread, People Stage Protests

RIOTS IN DENMARK   Three German Divisions Attempt Control in Copenhagen

Nazi Troops in Copenhagen   50,000 Quartered There To Stamp Out Strikes Riots and Demonstrations

GERMAN TROOPS TO COPENHAGEN   Nazis Trying to Quell Rioting In Denmark—New Demstrations Cited

BOMBERS POUND WESTERN REICH   Third Attack In 3 Days Made On Valley  Industries

 JAPS LOSING GRIP HUON PENINSULA OF NEW GUINEA   Australian Troops and Allied Naval Forces Bombarded the Harbor OFf Sio.

Japs Losing Their Grip on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea   Marshall Islands Next te Be Invadcd by the Allies.

Japs Losing Grip On Huon Peninsula In New Guinea; Tokyo Reports Hong Kong Raided   Marshall Next

Smaller Increase In Fall Pigs Urged Because of Feed   5% Gain Would Bring Year’s Total Up to 1943 Goal

FREEDOM FROM WANT IS GOAL   Keynote Sounded by FDR In Opening Session

Food Parley Settles Down To Its Task   Roosevelt Expresses Faith In Final Achievement of  Well Fed World

FOOD CONFERENC CONFERENCE DELEGATES DRAFT 7-POINT PLAN   To Create World Free From Want. Tentative Schedule to Provide Basis For 44 Nation  Diteriieeinn.

‘U.S. Drafts Tentative Plan, _ Embracing Seven Points, to  Solve World Food Problen

U.S. Delegates Offer 7-Point  Food Progran   Schedule Suggested As United Nations Representatives Open Talks,   INFORMAL ATTITUDE

World Food Parley Gets Under Way   Optimism, Tempered B; Realism, Keynote Of Initial Meeting; U. S. Delegate Is Chairman

FIGHTERS SWEEP ASHORE FROM RECORD FLEET   Offensive Seeks To Break Outer Nip Defenses In Gilbert Islands = *"   YANKS GIVE AIR COVER   Huns Fall Back In Italy And Russ Halt Fierce Nazi Counterblows   Isles Hard Hit

FANKS WA STIFF FIGHT ON * GILBERT ISLES   g'9 Invasion Fleet Challenge to Jap Navy from Truk for Battle

FIFTH ARMY DRIVES DOWN FROM PEAKS   Great Battle Of Tanks And Infantry Rages West Of Kiev

ALLIED FORCES BREACH NAZI MOUNTAIN. LINE   Germans Try Desperately Tc Push Soviets Back Across Onieper River

HIGHT RAGES NV NORTHERN AICHOR IT   Yanks, French Make Gains in Central, Southern Tunisia . Sectors.   AIR FORCES BATTER TRANSPORT COLUMNS

Allied Planes Pound Enemy Supply Lines   Battle Line Previously Held Is Regained

ENEMY CONVOY ISRAIDED BY FLYING FORTS   Heavy fighting rages in Sejenane, northern  Allied anchor

Hub Judge Acts Upon  Precedent   ‘Quashes Charges Which Contended 3 Union Men Got Devens ‘Kick Back?

Army to Release Men for Mines   Steps Taken on WPE Recommendations

Authorize Release of 4,500 Army Men For Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum Mining

Army Kelease Of 4,500 For Mines Ordered  Zinc, Molybdenum oo Ce wry

TROOPS AVAILABLE FOR MINING WORK   ARMY AUTHORIZES RELEASE OF 4,500 TO BOOST PRODUCTION OF METALS.

STANDS HERE   ‘Byrnes Declines to Permit  Correction Of Pay  Irregularities

C10 To Consider Mounting Prices   Federal Program Declared Failure

MURRAY GALLS Cl0'S LEADERS   Says Government Fails To Control Prices

Americans Atm For Control On Vital flighway—  -~—By Kirke L. Si  Crisis Apparenily Over In Salerno Baitle

Allied Air Power Aid  To Yanks In Salerno   Tide Of Conflict Now Appears Destined To Turn Against Strong Nazi Forces

1.138 "ave ‘Survivec. # Firs~ Srisis “n 2¢—- 2-0 -0.€ Saern) Stores

2 MINE GROUPS RECT MOTION   Lewis Insists Coal Men Must Have Higher Wages, Strike Allowable

Big Quota Set In Bond Drive   RUSH COUNTY EXPECTED TO RAISE $590,000 DURING SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE

PAPER ELIMINATES ADS   Miami Herald Foreed To Curtail Ad« Due To Paper Shortage

FOURTEEN MEN ‘WERE ABGEPTED WW ARMY. NAVY   Ten From This County Going Into Army and Four Into the Navy.   tf * PROBABLY. ONE MORE   One Man Failed to Appear for His Examination Wednesday - Morning.

FOURTEEN ME WERE ACCEPTED “TN ARN, NAM   Ten From This County Go ing Into Army and Four Into the Navy.   PROBABLY ONE MORE   One Man Failed to Appear for His Examination Wednesday Morning.

Mme. Kai-Shek Cites Dangers After the War   Crowd of 12,000 Hears Honored Woman Give  Impassioned Talk

Mme. Chiang Warns of Post War Peril   China Proud of ssociation with  Britain, She Says

SOLONS CHARGE BROWN DUCKING   Agriculture Committee Threatens to Subpoena Both : OPA Chief and Wickard 

FIGHT 10 UPHOLD FARM BILL VETO GAINS IN SENATE   Brown Appears Before Agriculture Committee for Testimony Under Threat  ef 2 §&£.....

sown And Wiekard Get In Trouble; Bankhead Bill strength Uncertain

BROWN APPEARS BUT IS EXCUSE   OPA Head Visits Senate Committee Under Threat Of Subpoena   VETO VOTE NEARS   Outcome Of Attempt To Override F.D.R.’s Veto Js In Doubt

OPA DIRECTOR BEFORE SENATE UNDER THREAT   Hurries to Hearing When Told He Would Be Subpoenaed; Wickard . Fails to Appear   POLITICS CHARGED   Belief Expressed Administration Afraid Testimeny Will Develop to Aid Bankhead Bill

TESTIMONY  BROWN ASKED   OPA Head Threatened With Subpoena, Then Is Excused. —

BROWN APPEARS IN COMMITTEE HEARING AND THEN EXCUSED  PRICE ADMINISTRATOR   PRICE ADMINISTRATOR HAD BEEN THREATENED WITH SUBPOENA

Excuse 8rown After Threat   Senate Committee To Hear Him Thursday On Pace Bill

"Senate Approaches Vote on Overriding * Bankhead Bill Vete   Meanwhile  Agriculture Committee Threatens  Wickard and Brown

BROWN APPEAR BEFORE SENATE AFTER THREAT   Committee Studying Pace Farm Measure

BROWN AND WICKARD BOTH AGREE TO APPEAR BEFORE SENATE AGRICULTURE. COMMITTEE   After Body Threatened to Issue Subpoenas For Their Appearance. Committee Studies Administration-Oporjos ed Farm Labor Cost Bill

SENATE NEARS VOTE ON VETO Or PRESIDENT   Morgenthau Will Give Details On Currency   On Reciprocal Trade Ac Is Favored By G. 0. P. Other Legislation

PRICE CHIEF FACES SUBPOENA THREAT      Brown Finally Excusec by Senate Committee

Brown Loses In His Tilt With  Quiz Committee   Brought In Under Sub. poena Threat, Then Ex. cused For 2 Days.

Committee excuses OPA chieftain after threat of subpoena   Want testimony on Pace measure; Brown, Wickard will appear later

Close Vote Seen On Overriding Parity Veto   Committee Approves Economy Measures; Republicans May Agree To Trade Pact Chaneae

Mr. Brown Mauled By Agriculture Committee Of Senate, Then Excused

WICKARD AND BROWN 10 BE QUESTIONED   Agricultural Committee Summoned Under Threat And Later Excused Until Thursday

Navy Reaches Record High Of 14,172 Ships   Strategy Of Attack Is Made Feasible Through Ability To Build At Present High Rate

PLAN STRATEGY OF ATTACK   Navy Department Announcing with Unconceaeled Pride © that U.S. Navy Has. Expanded to Greatest Sea and Airpower in History,   ‘By SANDOR 8. KLEIN

American Navy Now Greatest  Force In World   14,072 Vessels, (18,269-Planes Included-In “Fleet

Fleet And Air Arm Mightiest In History, Report Notes, But Size Of Job Ahead Also Kmnhasized

NAVY EXPANDS TO GREATEST POWER IN ALL HISTORY   24,072 Ships and 16,000  Planes Constitute Present Strenoth.

U.S. Manpower Study Slated   NEW SURVEY OF ENTIRE NEEDS OF MILITARY, WAR INDUSTRY SET WHEN CONGRESS RECONVENES ON TUESDAY; WHEELER BILL VOTING LOOMS

MANPOWER PROBE WILL BE FIRST ON CONGRESS’ AGENDA   McNary Puts Question on Top of List for Reconveningo Solons.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMER RECESS  TO END TUESDAY   Manpower and Draft Prob.. hems Expected to Take . the Floor

CONGRESS WILL PRESS SURVEY OF MANPOWE!   Review Of Military And War Plant Needs No. 1 Topie

Will Head Legislative Schedule   Members of Congress it Washington—To Recon.  vene Tuesday

Indicate Survey of Manpower Needs Will Be Given Priority Tuesday When Congress Reconvenes

State Legislature Convenes Today Following Recess   Remaining Committee Assignments Due During Second Week

State Legislature Convenes Today Following Recess  Ramainina Committet   Remaining Committe Assignments Due During Second Week

Hoover Charges Wallace And Green With Side Stepping Food Dispute

HOOVER ACCUSES WALLACE, GREEN   Vice-President and Senator Taken to Task for Alleged Misstatements.

Union Heads Trying to End  Mine Strike   iKennedy Tells WLB of Efforts to Get Men Back to Pits

AFL Slap At Lewis   Resolutions Committee - Rejects Re-admission_ : Bid; Leaves Door Open

Nazis Retreat Rapidly Along  Ukraine Front   Russians Chase Foe Abandoning Huge -Amounts of Material; Mariupol And Chaplino Are Captured

‘Nazis Fleeing In Near Rout   ‘Huge Stores Of Supplies And Many Dead Are Left

Russian Armies In Hot Pursuit Fleeing Germans   Race Through Ukraine Along 400-Mile. Front Storming inte Mariu. pol On Axoy Sea

heds Continue Wide Sweep,  Take Chaplino And Mariupol  Soviet Columns Pierce   Soviet Columns Pierce German Desna Line In Advance Pointed Apparently at Gomel  GERMAN COMMAND ADMITS BREACH  Fall of Two Cities Threatens Retreat Line  Raw Cle tmaon fClarrtcan

MARIUPOL IS. CAPTURED BY RUSS FORCES   Soviets Race Through the Ukraine in Pursuit of Germans   CHAPLINO SEIZED IN THE ADVANCE   Huge Stores of Material Abandoned by the Enemy

GERMAN UKRAINE ARMY IN FLIGHT   NAZIS FLEE PELL-MELL BEFORE RUSSIANS, LEAVING 6,300 DEAD UNBURIED,

German Retreat On Red Fronts Approaches Rout  300 Towns Fall as Soviets Rush Toward Dnieper

Russians Chase German Forces, Seize Supplies  Crack Nazi Lines In Dnieper Dash Retreat Near Rout

Germans Abandon Huge Stores in Flight from Reds   Leave 6,800 Dead On Battlefields

MARIUPOL FALLS TO VICTORIOUS RUSSIAN ARMY   Germans Abandoning Huge Stores Of Material In Speedy Retreat   NAZIS SUFFERING SEVERE CASUALTIES

Nazis Are in Full Flight In Ukraine   Sea’ of Azoy Port Taken; Vast  Stores, of Material Acaitred

Reds Regain Azov: Nazis In Near Rout   Russians Storm Into Mariupol In Surprise Attack; Germans In Near Rout In Ukraine, Abandon Supplies

Nazis Abandon Huge Stores  on East Front Retreat Approaches Da<cti we C ENN   Retreat Approaches Rout as 6,500 Men Are Left Dead

Nazi Retreat In Ukraine Near to Rout  300 More Villages, Huge Supplies Captured by Russ

Surprise Raid Gives Soviets  Azov Sea Port   Russians Get Vast Loot. Push Enemy Too Hard

vy, 15, Shoots other's Attacker   Army Officer's Son <ills Private

ARMY, OPA HIT BLACK MARKET   Requisition Poultry Trucks. Sell Chickens to Armed Forces

Supplies Are R e quisitioned By the Army   State Police Accompanied By OPA Inspectors, Halt Poultry Trucks   BY WAR POWERS ACT

AMY REQUISITIONS POULTRY ON TRUCKS   OPA Joins Blockade to Investigate for Black Market in Poultry Raising Center

POULTRY TRUCKS SEIZED BY ARMY   Drastic Action Is Taken Tc Hit Black Markets and Give Soldiers Chicken

Paultry Taken Over by Army   Seize Trucks With Supplies; Attempt to Break Black Market

ARMY SEEKS POULTRY QUOTA   . OPA Watches Highways Tc Requisition Any Supplies Showing Up

WAR ANALYST BELIEVES BETTER TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS RESULT OF FEAR OF RETRIBUTION

The War Today   Report Allied: War Prisoners * Receiving Better Treatment’.

The War Today—  Better Treatment Of War Prisoners By Axis Anti-Retribution Insurance

SUNDAY, JUNE 6 AT CEMETERY   Members Asked to Meet at the Fire Station at 7 a.m. to Gather Flowers.   LARIMER IS SPEAKER   Men Will Attend First Luth eran Church Services  in Morning.

CHARITON FIREMEN TO HAVE ANNUAL — SERVICE SUNDAY      Members Asked Meet at ‘ a. m.; Will Attend Church Services,

OPA Puts Specific Prices On Butter   Says Order Will Leave Prices Unchanged

OPA SETS SPECIFIC PRICES FOR BUTTER      Replaces ‘Freeze’ Method; New Prices Effective Feb. 16.

NEW PRICE CONTROL SET UP FOR BUTTER   New System Leaves It To Housewife

Most Miners To Resume Work Today   Coal Production Thrown Behind . By Walkouts

Yanks Bomb St. Nazaire U-Boat Pens   Forts Blister French Coast;  RAF Sinks Ships

merican Heavy ombers Attack azis in France   ontinue Raids on Ger man Positions for Tenth Straight Day   PAF Sinks Two Germa Ships, Forces Beaching of Third

Heavy U. S. Planes Hit French Base:   German Ships Blasted Oif Holland's Coast

Yanks Plastey U-Boat Bases   RAF: Heavies Roar Out. Into lith Day Of Big Onslaught

Nazi U-Boat Base, Fighter Airfield Targets   Strong Enemy Opposition; 6 U.S. Aircraft Lost .

Aerial Onslaught Enters 11th Day   Enemy Airdrome Pounded; Axis Convoy Unit Ie Hard Hit In Attack: Six Bombers Lost

PREDICTION FOR MEAT fo OPTIMISTIC   Normal Supply Seen in - Pittsburgh District By Week’s End.   RATIONED SALES .. STARTING SLOWLY   Market Proprietors Rest‘ing Up After Hectic ~Week:End Rush. 

MEAT SITUATION GLIGHTLY BETTE   Predictions for Future Optimistic; New York Disappointed.

Many Cities Report Short~ age on Opening Day of ~ Point Rationing

Scant Improvement in Meat Situation Throughout Nation   Beginning of Rationing Finds Many Markets Without Supplies

Many Stores ‘Bare as Meat RationBegins   sSlackenineg of Demand Gives Welcome Respite to Retailers   RELIEF EXPECTED   Federal Officials Predict Supplies Soon Will Be Equalized

Meat Counter Found Bare in Many Towns   But. Buying Rush Ends and Predictions Regarding Supply Are Optimistic   RATIONING TENDS TO EQUALIZE SALES   Consumers Show Little Desire to Yield Their Coupons Quickly

CORN MARKETING IS BEING URGEL   Farmers Promised Allowance in Events Ceilings Are Higher By Oct. 31.

FARMERS URGED TO MARKET CORN   Ceiling Prices Would be Paid, With Supple mentary Clause

AXIS FLIERS ARE CROWDED FROM THE SKY AS ALLIED AIRMEN BLANKET CORNER OF TUNISIA; SLASHINONSLAUGHT ROARS THROUGH FERRYVILLE TO CRASH LAST NAZI SURVIVORS INTO WATERS OF MEDITERRANEAN

Last Two Strongholds of The Axis Forces in North Africa Fall Late Today -

Yanks Battle Way Into Big Naval Base; British Seize Capital After Air Blows

SIX KILLED IN RACE RIOTING   150 Injured  and Martial Law May Come for Detroit

BERLIN ‘PLOWED UP’ BY ALLIED BOMBING   Travellers Report Many Sections Unrecognizable

Much of Berlin ‘Plowed Up’ By Intensive RAF Bombings   “Many Quarters Cannot Be Recognized,” Travelers From Reich Capital Are Quoted As Saying; ‘Jtalians Want to Get Out of War and  i Gain Relief From Allied Raids

PLANE LOSSES ~ AVERAGE LOW  DURING RAIDS   WAR BECRETARY REVEALS AMERICAN AND BRITISH. LOSSES ARE SELOW.  FIVE PER CENT

U.S. AIR LOSSES ~ REVEALED LOW   Less Than 5 Pct. of Comnat Planes Shot Down Says Stimson

FIGHT ON ARMY SIZE COLLAPSES   Proponents Hope Bills To Defer Farmers And Dads Will Attain Goal

ARMY LIMIT DRIVE ENDED IN CONGRESS   MOVEMENT TO SET TOP. LIMITATION FOR ARMED FORCES REPORTED TO HAVE  ' *) COLLAPSED

ARMY LIMIT EFFORT FAILS   Leading Senate Critics Drop Plans For Legislation; Aporopriation Stands.

Hitler Talks To Governors   Spirit of German People to Make Nation Invincible, He Soys

HITLER CALLS MEETING   Naz! Leader Receives a Group of German District Governors

Texas Will Defer 475.000 Fathers   Page Returns From Washington Meeting On New Reaulations

AXIS MOVES SICILY HEADQUARTERS 10 ITALIAN MAINLAND      Leaders Threaten Those Who Refuse To “Resist. And Die At Posts”

Day Raid Drill Wednesday  New Signal System To Be Tried Out In 3-State Test

DAYLIGHT AIR RAID DRILL IS ANNOUNCED   Will Take Place Next Wednesday Sometime After 10 A. M. In Three States

Political Factions In New French Committee Too Strong, Writer Says   By MAX HILI.

FRENCH COMMITTEE SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND END BICKERINGS IS GENERAL OPINION OF PEOPLE

The Basic Purpose of French Committee Is United France Compromise Urged by London Press

Unified Air Force Asked By Senator   Nevada’s McCarran Wants All Air Power Put Under One Head In War Effort

Great Allied Air Attack Hurled At Europe Friday  . Berlin. And Paris Radios Go.Off Air After. Swarm Of Planes Leave.On Their Missions

HUNDREDS OF PLANES RAAR OVER CHANNEL      Believe Berlin May Be Target of Bombers

U. S. INVASION FORCES BACKED BY STRONG FLEET   Hand-te-Hand Fighting Believed Raging ‘on Makin and Tarawa Atolls, 2400 Miles Southeast of Honolulu = °:

Hand-to-Hand Fighting Goes On in Gilberts; Attack Is Designed to Flank Enemy Grip   Resistance Slackens on Makin but Yanks Find Tough Fighting on Tarawa: Aerial Support Used.

Brooklynite Pleads Guilty To Espionage   Admits Gathering Data For Nazi Intelligence Department

GERMAN af], CAUGHT tY th PLEADS GUILTY   New York Air Raid Warder Admits Sending Defense Data To Germany

PLEA OF GUILTY MADE BY SPY   New York Air Raid Warden Confesses Informing Nazis Of Convoy Movements

Ernest F’. Lehmitz, 57, Pleads Guilty To Espionage Charges In Brooklyn; FBI Accuses Him of Helping Nazis

JAIL CD WARDEN AS GERMAN SP}   FBI Says Waterfront Waites Tried To Send Information on Troops To Enemy.

Ordered Held In $50,000 Bail... ..  Pleads Guilty To FBI Charge Of Espionage

ative of Germany Held n Espionage Charge by FBI   nest Frederick Lehmitz, New York, Charged With Salhering Information for Third Reich on Shipping Conditions In Harbor and Describing Troop and Convoy Movements 

MAN ARRESTED WN. BY FB ADMITS GUILT   Sent News of Troops, Convoys in Letters ‘Abroad with Invisible Ink.   ARREST CALLED “LESSON TO AMERICAN PEOPLE”

Raid Warden Confesses  Aid to Nazis   Naturalized U. S. Citizen Faces Death Penalty

New York Man Pleads Guilty To Spy Charge   FBI Declares Ernest Lehmit Specialized In Troop  MaAaGamantse.   USED INVISIBLE INK

NATURALIZED U, 8 CITIZEN HELD AS SPY INNEW YORK   E. F. Lehmitz Allegedly Reported to Nazis on Troop Movements, Convoys and Arms Output.   ENTERS GUILTY PLEA; TO FACE G&AND JURY   FBI Agent Says Prisoner Used Invisible Ink to Transmit War Information to Enemy.

Gave Data on Troops to Enemy   Naturalized U. 8. Citizen  From Germany in Plea of  Guilty of Espionage   SENT MESSAGES IN INVISIBLE INK   FBI Agent Terms. Case 4 Lesson for: American People: Activities Told

Allied Commander Will Not Let French  Politics Hamper Him   DeGaulle and Adherents Have Emphatic Notice of Allies’ Intent   United States Citizen Arrested in New York Today on Espionage Charaqes

Air Raid Warden Nabbed as Spy   Pleads Guilty to Assisting Nazis

PLEADS GUILTY TO GATHERING U, $, WAR DATE   Sent It Abroad In Invisible Ink Letters. U. S. Indictments Of Chemical Concerns

Gathered Data for Foe. (Man Admits   New York Man Pleads Guilty To Charges Filed by FBI

USED OCD POST AS COVER-UP FOR ESPIONAGE   Naturalized German Reported ‘Troop, Convey, Movements By Letter

Air Raid Warden Arrested as Spy   Staten Islander Makes Guilty Plea

GERMAN SPY 1S CAUGHT BY FBI IN NEW YORK GIT}   Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, Pieads Guilty—Was “\n_hocent” Air Raid War-_  dan

Nazi Spy Pleads Guilty To Charge   Naturalized Citizen Was Air Raid Warden

COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL IS DISSOLVED   Action -is Voluntary and _ Workers Urged to Join Hands in Common Fight Aaainst Hitlerism.

Russia Dissolves Comintern in Bid  For Allied Unity   World Revolution Plans Are Dropped; Reds Ordered . To Fight Hitler

Reds Scrap Comintern Revolt Plan   World Revolution Idea Given Up in Interest of Unity

Leaders of Comintern Dissolve Russian Revolutionary Group To Bolster Front Against Nazis

CLOSER ALLIED ACTION LOOMS   Group Organized To Foment Revolution Ends

COMMINTERN DISSOLVED AT MOSCOW.      " Solidarity of United Nations

Followers Told = To Join Fight On Hitlerism   Moscow Action Seen by Allied Sources as Ma jor Soviet Gesture Toward United Nations’ Solidarity

World Communist Organization Is Ordered Dissolved By Soviet Leaders

Communist International  Is Dissolved by Soviets   Organization for World Revolution  Ended to Promote Allied Harmony ’

ROUTE HITLERITES NOW SACRED DUTY -PESCLUTION SAYS   London Allied Sources Greet  Action as Russian Gesture  For Paving Way Towar~ ', Solidarity,   OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ARE WITHOUT LEADER   Comintern Organized In 1919 Known as Third International Created In Workers Interest.

‘Communist ‘International Js Dissolved   Moscow Comintern’s Action May Pave Way for Stalin Roosevelt Talk   AIDS WAR UNITY   Removes World Revolt Principle as Communist Theory

Lift Main Barrier To Solidarity   Comintern Committee Calls On Sections In Other Nations To Support War Effort

Moscow Reports Dissolution. — Of Communist International   Leaders Direct Followers To Join Hands In Common Fight. Against Hitlerism

LEAVES PARTY WITHOUT KEY MOSCOW TIES   Chief Object Of Attacks On Soviet Politics Is Removed

Moscow C Cuts  ull f Members S  Outside USSR      (Removes Source of U. S. ’ Trouble; Hand of FDR Sean

Germans Using Prisoners As Soldiers in African Army   Poles, Arabs, Frenchmen Forced Into Battle As ‘Volunteers,’ Captives Tell Americans

Political and Military Prisoners, Criminals Impressed Into Nazi Army

DRAFT OF DADS PLAYED BY MAY   House Military Committee Chairman Plans Action to Prevent Fathers Being Inducted

PLAN BILL 10 FREE FATHERS FROM ARM   Dads Already In May Be Discharged in Chairman Mav's Pill

WILL INTRODUCE BILL FORBIDDING FATHER DRAFT   Military Committee Takes Lead; To Scraps Barrel Clean

May Leads Campaign to Save Fathers   Rules Committee Chair man Says Advice of War Department Vital

Democratic Chairman May Of House Military Takes Leadership To Ficht Draft Of Fathers

Record Concentration of Aircraft Carriers Attacked Wake Island, Wrecking Jap Installations

Largest Massed Carrier \Force In History Left iWake Useless To Japan

a ae ee : vr 28828 wens ame tt!  2: 7 tne: yo~ a *: mk .   aMpoumn ge  mew a- CHW.

Fortresses Destroy 34 of Foe   Brilliant Raid on Axis Airfield South of Tripoli

Heavy Blow Is Dealt Germans  Raid Near Tripoli   Raid Near Tripoli Wrecks 34 Planes

Fortresses  Control African Sky  10 Other German Craft Are  Damaaced in Air

Hole Torn in Rommel’s Thit Air Umbrella.   No American Planes Loat in Heaviest Assault Yet Dealt  bee Bi newer des eanlt

BIG HOLE IS MADE IN THIN AFRIAL COVER   Axis Pilots Make Desperate Efforts To Down Huge  Bombing Planes.

BRILLIANT U.S. RAID MADE IN NORTH AFRICA   BIG HOLE IS TORN IN AIR COVER FOR ROMMEL

FORTRESSES DESTROY 34 AXIS PLANES   American Airships All Return After Hammering Castle Benite Airfield, Near Tri noir.   Blow to Rommel

U.S. Bombers In Africa Bag 34. Axis Planes  Salt Laker Gets Credit for Downing One

Heavy Blow Is Dealt Germans   Raid Near Tripoli - Wrecks 34 ‘Planes

34 Axis Plane: Lost as Allies Attack Base  Tear Hole in Air Cover Rommel! May Need in Retreat

34 FOE PLANES ARE WRECKED   Castel Benito Raid Blasts Hole in Rommel’s Thin  Aerial Covering

AIR COVER FOR AXIS RETREAT SERIOUSLY HIT   No Planes Are Lost In Heaviest Assault Delivered From  West Bases   Ground Action Light

Rommel Is Head Man In Balkans   Whereabouts of “retreating general” definitely  established

QUESTION FLICK IN WIFE'S DEATH   Wayne Lonergan Subjected To 13 Hours of Constant Questioning In Wife's Slaying Last Night; No Charges Made Against Him Yet.

SLAYING OF WEALTHY GIRL IS UNSOLVED   Wayne Lonergan Clings to His Story of Innosense Despite Long Grilling   NO CHARGES ARE FILED

CADET: ST 4 er SAYS NOT GUILTY   13-Hour “ Questioning Fails to Gain Admission of Murder

Tax Measure ~ Beconies Law   President Signs Bill Putting 44 Million Americans on Fayas-You-Go Basis

President Signs Pay-Go Tax Bil  20 Pct. Withholding Levy Effective July 1;

Pay As You Gc Tax Approved By President   Compromise Considered ‘75 Per Cent Ruml Plan’ Is Signed Into Law   END TO BATTLE   Millions Of Individual Taxpayers Are Converted Te New System

Signs Bill.   President’s. Signature On Pay-as-you-go Bill Puts 44,000,000 Taxpayers on Current Basis

President Signs Pay-As-You-Go Tax Legislation  20 Per Ce nt Levy On Wages To Start July 1

20 Per Gent Withholding Levy Goes Into Effect On July 1.   'ABATES SOME °43 TAX

Pay As You Go Tax Bill Is Made Lav   President Signs) Measure, Whick Becomes Effective on July 1   20 PCT. WITHHOLDING LEVY PROVIDED   75 To 100 Pet. of Que Year’s Taxes Also. Abated;. Action Ends Bitter Battle

WITHHOLDING LEVY TO BECOME OPERATIVESOON   EMPLOYERS TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT NEW TAX

PAY-AS-YOU-6O IN EFFECT TODAY: AS FDR SIGNS BILL’   New Measure Abates 75 to 100 Per Cent of One’ Year's  - ‘Taxes and Imposes a 20 Per Cent Withholding Tax.

2 OHIO FLIERS DIE IN WEST COAST CRASH   Two Others Killed in Wreck of B-25 Bomber

War Looks Dark For Japan, Says Nin Ai Offieer   Japs Supermen? Tripe, Says Yank Platoon Chief on Attu

BITTER COLD ~ HEADED HERE   ZERO. TEMPERATURES FORECAST FOR TONIGHT IN MANY PARTS OF THE STATE.

WINTER TO BRING NEW ZERO WAVE   Ohio Forecasters Predict Mark Tonight and Early Thursday

RETURNS TO AKRON JOBS   FDR Warns Strikers ‘Necessary Steps’ Are Imminent

Union Heads Call Men Back As FDR Asks Resumption   President Submits Ultimatum Effective At Noon Today But Unions Were Acting Favorably When His Order Was Issued.

STATE MINERS PUZZLED OVER WLB'S ACTION   Back-To-Work Sentiment Wholly Lacking; Men Thought Likely To Ignore Order   Few Pits Operate

Butter Raised To 16 Ration Points. Increase Of Four   Coupon Cost Now Twice Original Level; Five Canned Fruit Values Also Go Up Sunday

RAISE BUTTER RATION POINTS THIS WEEKEND      Butter To Cost Sixteen Ratior Points Per Pound, Announced

LUXURY ITEMS RAISED; BEANS, CORN LOWERED   \ieat Values to Remain Same With a Few Exceptions

BUTTER nike 1016 POINTS NEAT SUNDAY   ‘Production Down 10 Per Cent OPA Says; 8 Standard Pork Cuts Up.   LUXURY CANNED GOODS UP; BEANS, CORN DROP

Butter Jumps To 16 Points Next Sunday   Production Drop Given as Reason; Pork Increases

Butter Raised To 16 Ration Points Sunday   Canned Fruit Values Uj Also; Vegetables  Tawaread

OPA Boosts Butter Value By 4 Points’   - Corn and Beans Dip In New Tabulation Effective on Sunday

OPA Boosts Butter Ration or Sunday to 16 Points, Full ,Week’s Allotment to Person   Blame Production Drop in September; Canned Vegetables Take Less

OPA Also Raises Value of Cheese   Boosts ‘Luxury’ Fruit, Lowers Beans, Corn

BUTTER RATION VALUE BOOSTED TO 16 POINTS   Increases In Pork And Cheese Points Also To Be Effective Sunday

Butter Leaps to 16 Points Per Pound   OPA SETS INCREASE ON DAIRY PRODUCT AS SUPPLY DROPS

Butter Point Value Will Rise To 16 Points   Ration Cost OF Pork Te Go Up Sunday, But If Meat Items Are Removed   MARGARINE IS SAME   Canned Beans, Corn Will Be Lowered, Luxury Fruits Face Increase

16 Points for Pound of Butter   Oleo Stays at Four; Eight Standard Pork Cuts Up One, Two; Cheese Higher

Butter Raised To 16 Points OPAAnnounces   ) Four Points Increase . Te Be Effective Next Sunday

Butter Will Cost Sixteen Ration Points Per Pound Starting Sunday, Oct. 3rd, Point Values, Canned Foods Changed

Daylight Raiders Active in Pacific   Showers of Bombs Fall on Japanese

JAPS ON DUTCH NEWGUINEA ARE RAID TARCETS   Allied Bombers, Switching:  — to Risky Daylight At- :  tacks Pound Enemy, Constantly   BIG FIRES STARTED   ‘Most Recent Blow Struck  Yesterday Against Babo;  Flames Visible for   Seventy Miles

RAINING DEATH ON JAP FORCES   May Is Fast Becoming The “Month Of Bombs” For Japs In New Guinea.

Blast Japanese Airplane Bases .  Daily Death Rained o Enemy In Pacific

Nazt Generals And Admirals Called To Important Meeting   ‘Ideological And Home Political Subjects’ Thiseussed: Hitler Discusses Military Plinht

Powerful American For-’ ces Driving ‘On Axis  Stronghold Of Mak-

Poweriul Forces Advance On Maknassy and On Central Front   LIBYAN BATTLE TO A FORMAL CLOSE   Germans Hold Best Strategic Positions in Tunisia and Dislodgement Will  Be Difficult.

Outcropping of Peace Feelers From Axis Satellite Countries Expected Soon -

PEACE FEELERS ARE EXPECTED   Satellites Will Fee! Great Air Blows

Two-Ton Coal Limit Placed  On Purchases   New Controls Of Solid Fuels Go Into Effect

Tighten Rules For Delivery Of Hard Coal   Dealers Must Give Priority To Those Having Less Thon Ton

NEW CONTROL PUT ON DISTRIBUTION OF COAL   Stringent Anthracite Retail Regu. lations Will Become Effective Tomorrow At 12:01 A. M.

New Control Put on Coal   Limit Anthracite Supply to One Ton For Small Users

PRIGES SET ON GAANING CROPS   State Chairman of USDA Board Announces - -‘Mini- mums for Indiana. i

PAGES oT ON CANNING GhUPt   State Chairman of USDA Board Announces Minimums for Indiana.

how SCHOOLS ARE SET HER   Four to Be Held in County Tuesday. Morning and). a Afternoon. - af

PLOW oGHODLs ARE ET HERE   Four to Be Held in Ccun. ty Tuesday Morning and Afternoon.

Guadalcanal Flag Raised   President Roosevelt Commends Marine Corps in Letter

MARINE CORPS RAS TOBTH ANNIVERSAR)      Battle Flag From Guadalcanal Raised Over Capital For Event.

Guadalcanal Battle Flag Raised Over Capitol on 168th Derthdiey of Marines

Marine Battle Flag From Guadalcanal Hoisted Over Capital in Washington

YALE OF BONDS ~ SHOW INCREASE   “Tet’s. Put LeMars Or Map” Says Chairman Parker

SALE OF BONDS SHOW INCREASE   “Let's Put  LeMars O01 Map” Says Chairman Parker

LEGISLATURE PLANS FOR EARLY GLOSING   Appropriations Committee To Get, Busy on Bills Next Week.

SENATE, HOUSE TO DIVIDE WORK   Seek to Speed Session by Cutting Finance Bills in Half: School Aid Bill Ready

DEPENDENTS PAY BILL ADVANCES   Committee Decides Payment Should Be Made To Husbands Of Women In Service If Dependent

Committee Favors Higher Payments To Children   First Child of Service Met Would Receive $22 Monthly

UT OES DEPENDENCY BILL   All Seven Enlisted Grade: _Etigible Proposed Leg- _ islation ~~

PE: RRNA, NN NE ee LS  Dependent Husband of WAC May Draw Payments

Labor Bill To Senate   Compromise: Measure Has Features of Four Original Bills .

Finish Kansas Labor Measure   New Bill Submitted To Legislature By Special Committee

Milder Labor Bill Offered In The Senate   No Commission Is Provided "To Back Up New Regulations

Books to Be Renewed by Mail OPA Dampens East’s Hopes Of Boost in ‘A’ Gas Ration

ORGANIZED LABOR IS BACKING BRICKER SALES TAX DEMANDS   ClO, AFL AND RAIL BROTHERHOODS JOIN GOVERNOR IN URGING LIFTING OF RESTAURANT FOOD TAX

GRANGE HEAD ASKS OPA END   SEHLMEYER CALLS FOR PERMANENT BAN ON JAPS

EXPECT MUSSOLINI TO MAKE GRAZIANI HEAD OF FASCISTS   Benito, Il] With Nervous Affliction, Calls Loyal “Envoys Abroad... ‘To Berlin

Lae, New Guinea  Raid Damaged   Heavy Attack By Allied Bombers On Jap Base During Aerial Sweeps

‘Might G Continue Year After War   Manpower : Expert. ‘Sees . Gradual Demobilization, > €oriversion Ad’ Causes

Shortages of Labor Apt to Follow War   Manpower Expert Says Demands Will Exist for At Least a Year

PROPOSES 20 PCT. WITHHOLDING TAX ON ALL INCOMES    Member of House Ways and Means Committee Offers Compromise Pay-asYou Go Plan.   PROPOSAL CALLS FOR _ COMPULSORY SAVINGS   Would Wipe Out 1942 Obligations in Lower Brackets and $25,000 Salary Limitation.

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX EXPLAINED   Compromise Plan Would Erase 1942 Income Obligations

Brehm Proposes 'Pay-as-you-go Plan   Logan Man Suggests Cancellation of 1942 Taxes for Low-income Earners

9) Here As State Swelfers  Continued Warm Is Weather Forecast; River Crests, Falls

WHOLE STATE IN GRIP OF EARLY HEAT WAVE   Summer, Still 18 Days Away, Gives Realistic Preview Performance —Mercury Again At 92

U. S. Pilots Report Jap Positions On Cape Gloucester Are Devastated

Farmers Io bet Last of Tires   Food Producers Will Have First Choice of Decreasing Supply for Civilian Use.

Farmers To Gel First Choice Of Last Of Emergency Tires   Board To Entorce Stricter Rules On  SSPE: CORT eee (RR fr, ROE karen

Stevenson Asks Legislature For More Wartime Economy And Tighter Liguar Cantera}

Rail City of Zhitomir Captured   Loss of City Cuts Last German Held Rail East of Poland

Wedge Driven Into Entire Nazi Front   Southern Forces Of Nozis All But Isolated As Russians Continue Advance Toward Poland

Battles Racing In Yugoslavia  Severe Fighting In 4 Areas Reported

Will Make His Position Clear {n Message to Reassembled Congress On Friday In the First of Several Communications-tn Prospect. ‘Pax1 On List

FDR Reported As Supporting ‘Fathers’ Draft   Message Outlining War’s Progress to Be Sent

FATHER DRAFT BANS OPPOSED BY ROOSEVELT   MESSAGE E X PECTED FRIDAY ON WAR PROGRESS

Congress Disturbed By Draft   President Plan: Special Note Friday

FATHER DRAFT FIGHT STARTS   senate Calls on Army and Navy to Explain What Their Needs Are

FD to Oppose Move to Avert  Draft of Dads   Position to Be Made Clear in Message to Congress Friday: Tax Conference Is Held

Roosevelt Will Send War Repor! To Capitol Hill   President Is Reported Ready lo Oppose Ban on Father Draft

Report President Opposes Move fo Stop Dads’ Draft   President. to State Position in Message Reviewing War

Congress W aits Message On Draft of Fathers   President Will Oppose Moves on Foot To Cancel or Postpone Plan; Onnonents Readv to Push Measures

President Plans Messaqe Friday   Hearings On Plan Called For Today

F. D. R. Oppose Antidraft Move   Will Fight Attempt To Defer Fathers

ROOSEVELT T SEND MESSAGE TO CONGRESS   Executive Is Reported A Opposed To Banning Draft Of Fathers   MILITARY LEADERS TO SUBMIT TESTIMONY

Move to Prevent Draft of Fathers _ Will Be Opposee   President Ready —té State Position In Message

rresident May Oppose Ban on Draft Of Fathers  May Inform Congress Of Stand on Issue In Message to House  ' And Senate Friday  INFORMS LEADERS  gs es page a a   INFORMS LEADERS OF HIS POSITION

EDR. 10 OPPOSE MOVE TO PREVENT DRAFT OF FATHERS   Will Send Message to Congress—Wheeler and Others Demand Quick Action to Forbid Induction.   TAX CONFERENCE HELD AT WHITE HOUSE   Administration Said to Be Willing to Accept Program That Will Raise §8.000,.000,000.

Believed FDR  Opposed  To Deferment   Expected to Make His Position Clear In Message to Congress Friday; Wheeler Starts Fight Against Draft

FDR OPPOSED TODRAFI BAN, IT IS REPORTED   President Is Expected to Back Father Draft in Messaqe   REPORT ON WAR TO BE SENT CONGRESS   Hearings on Army and Nayy Needs to Start Today

 Ruhr Fires Start From RAF’s Bombs   Apparently Small Bomber Foree Assaults Reich Tudustrial Area

RUHR BLASTED AGAIN BY RAF   Second Raid Leaves Big Fires Burning In German Valley

Turkish President Back From Cairo Conference; Nazis Head For Border

INONU CONFERS WITH LEADERS IN CAIRO MEET   Calls Cabinet Session To Discuss Events Vital to Nation

TURKEY MOVES TOWARD ALLIES   Special Cabinet Meet Reported Reviewing Action

Nazis Reported Rushing Troops to Turkis Border Fearful of That Nation’s Entrance

INONU MEETS TWO LEADERS ON WAR ANS   Holds Conference at Cairo with Churchill and Roosevelt,

eae" aead = os Churchill And Roosevelt   President Inonu_ Calls Cabinet Meeting To Hear Report of Cairo Conference

TURKEY READY TO JOIN ALLIES   At Least That’s Nazi Fear of Reported Cairo Confab

Turkish Cabinet Called Into Session. ... .  German Troops Move foward Turk Border

Turkey's Cabinet Reported Holding ‘Special Session   Allies Reportedly Pressing Country To Enter Conflict

JAPAN READY FOR OFFFUSIVE TOO DECLARE!   Premier Boasts in Speech  at Manila But Germans Warn of U. S. Attacks From the Aleutians.

JAPAN PROMISES ALL-OUT ATTACK   ‘Premier Tojo Announce:  Offensive 1s Coming—  Allies Get All Set,

MORE JAPS LANDED ON ALEUTIANS, HINT   Evidence of Reinforcements Found in Attacks

Japs Toughen Hold on Kiska   Take Advantage of Long Arctic Nights to Send In Reinforcements

Japs Believed Strengthening Aleutian Bases   Arctic Nights Aid Nipponese To Sneak In Fresh Supplies -

JAPS. SUPPLY KISKA BASES   Believe Enemy’s Hold Has Not Been Strengthened Greatly.

TEMPERATURES:   Japs Improving Their Foothold On Kiska Islanc   Reinforcements, Supplies Brought In During Long Arctic Nights

JAPS RECEIVE FOOD, MATERIAL ON KISKA ISLAND   Authorities Doubt If They are Stronger Than Last Fall

JAPS GET SOME HELP TO KISK/   Take Advantage of Win. ter Darkness ‘to - Reinforce Island.

Jap Forces Reinforced In Aleutians   Positions Seen. No More Secure Than Last Fall

JAPS BELIEVED REINFORCING BASH AT KISKA   Appear to Be Receiving Supplies and Troops Under Cover of Long Arctic Nights   U.S. RAIDS HAMPERED      Belief Expressed, However, ae ld ie Aleu “““tians Little More  ~ Secure

SLIP SUPPLIES AND TROOPS IN AT NIGHT   American Raids Are Hampered By Bad Weather

Japs Landing   In Aleutians   Planes and Men Are Put * Ashore Under Cover . Of Arctie: Nicht

Jap Invaders of -. Kiska Reinforced Getting Supplies  Enemy's Hold on Islarid Is Said Still Insecure

Japs Tighten Their Hold on Kiska Island   Supplies Landed For Troops There Report Observers

JUppites BUC aACUE Japs At Kiska But Their Position Is  Unimproved; Pilots  Risrn Inta (amnetition

JAPS HAVE BEEN RE-INFORCED KISKA BASE   ‘Island is Little More Secure Than Before However

Jans Believed Reinforcing Kiska Under Cover of Long Arctic Nights

BODIES REMOVED IN PLANE WRECK   19 Aboard Navy Air Craft Killed in Crash Accident

WRECKAGE OF ~~ DLANE FOUND   NINETEEN ON BOARD NAVY TRANSPORT KILLED IN- STANTLY—-ADMIRAL AMONG VICTIMS

Remove Bodies Of Nineteen From Wrecked Plane   Ten Navy Officers And Nine Of Civilian Crew Killed In Plane Crash

ouncil Plans Decisive Blows   Attack on Germany Mapped at Quebec

Pe: EE ee SR. ee cow EeY ERIC hae EETE   Unrest Among Germans May Bring Revolt

Swift Action Now May Hasten Allied Victory   ‘Strategic War Council In Quebec Expected To  Produce Bold Action Against Axis

CAPITAL LEADERS TALK WITH FO.   War Conferences Follow Vacation; Meeting With Churchill Talked

BADOGLIO HELD READY TO QUIT   Tourists Say Premier Has Decided To Capitulate

Food Rationing Plan Becoming  Effective In U.§   Drastic Regulations Limit Consumers To Two To Four Cans Monthly   CIVILIAN USE OF CANNED FOOD CUT

POINT VALUES TO CUT USE OF CANNED FOODS   Citizens To Get Only Half As Much Processed Foods As In 1942   SOLDIERS COME FIRST   Each Citizen Entitled To 48  Units—Peas And Tomatoes Listed At 16

—2 To 4 Cans Per Person A Month—  Food Rati tioning Program Harsh   ..U.S. Learns Meaning Of ‘Belt Tightening’   Millions Register For Book No. 2; Civilian Canned Goods Quota Cut About 50%   Wo Fixed Averaace.

Point Rationing Limits Purchases  To 2 to 4 Cans of Food per Month

Use of Canned Foods Cut In Half By Edict   ‘Point’ Books Sharply Curtail Amount Of Processed Vegetables Available To Civilians; We Must Tighten Our Belts Brown Warne.

IF EVERYONE BUYS CANNED GOODS APRIL VALUES WILL HAVE TG BE STEPPED UP

POINT VALUES REVEALED IN HARSH RATIONING PROGRAM: CANNED FOODS CUT 50P. C

Army Officer Faces Trial Col. Colman Denies Court Martial Charge:

Preparations Far Along   Colonel Facing Court Martial   Seven Offenses Charged To Former Commander

State Tax Cut Bill Is  Introduced   Repeal Of 60 Per Cent Surtax Is Provided For In Measure Of Four Republicans

PROPOSE REDUCTION IN WISCONSIN. TAX   Committee Appointments For State Assembly Are  Announcer.

Seek Repeal Of Surtax  On Incomes   Estimate Saving Near $5 Million To State Citizens; Another Bill Would Cut Auto Fee

‘Surtax Repeal Opposes Plan Of Goodland   Measure Sponscred By Four Republicans; Will Save 5 Million

COLLAPSE OF THE NAZI HOME FRONT POSSIBLE   May Explode With Suddenness of Pricked Balloon But No Allied Plans Are Based on the Possibiilty— Hf lt Comes, It Will Be Gratefully Received But Not Exnected.

DAVIS PREDICTS MORE GAS HERE AFTER SPEEGH   Farther Statement Made By Senater Davis Following Senate Speech Deploring “Famine In Midst Of Plenty” Situation   CHARGES REFINERIES FORCED TO GIVE UP

PORTUGAL IS NEAR WAR AGAINST JAPS   National Assembly Reported In Special Session For Important Statement.

CONGRESS GETS LONG REPORT ON WRA ACTIVITIES   Normal Homes And Jobs Sought For Friendly Oriental Citizens   TROUBLE MAKERS HELD   Only Small Minority Of 112,000 Nip-Americans To Be Restricted

MINE OWNERS FACING CHARGE BY GOVERNMENT   Ickes Threatens to Assess Claims For Operating Properties If Operators Sue

SUITS SEEN IN MINE SEIZURES   Government Warns of Re taliation In the Event Operators Sue

MINE DAMAGE SUITS TALKED   Ickes Hints Government Might Charge Operators For 4 Running Pits

OPERATORS ASK HETURN OF MINES   Threaten to Sue Government for’ Damages; Ickés Counters with Operating Charge

ICKES REPLIES TO THREAT OF DAMAGE SUITS   Says Maybe Government Wil  __.Charge Operators For _ Running Mines

MINE OWNERS MAY BE CHARGED FOR GOVT, OPERATION   Talk Among Ovgners of Bringing Suit Against Government Brought Threat to Charge for.  Overation

COAL MINE OWNERS RUN INTO BOOMERANG   Hints of Damage Suit Brings Counter Threat

GRE GAtoKa aul AGTICN IN MINES   Government Might Charge Operators For Running Mines, Claim

Famous '’Susie-0" Crash Lands, Burns  21 Escape Serious ©, Injury Matar Catches

NEW TIME DISPUTE LOOMING IN OHIO   Rural Members of House To Fight “Fast” Time Proposal

TIME QUESTION "BEFORE SOLONS      Rural Members of House Pro: mise To Fight ‘Fast’ Time Bill Bitterly

VESSELS T0 BE REPAIRED JOIN ALLIES   Richelieu's Presence Revealed By Adm. Fenard

BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU IN PORT AT N.Y   Cruiser, Several Destroyers Also Sail to This Country From Harbor at Dakar

Battleship Richeliet Heads 4 Warships In Trip to America   ‘Three French Cruisers Also Arrive To Join Allies in U-Boat Campaign: Repairs Planned for Pride of Fleet

4 French Warships — Cross Atlantic To Fight Against Axis   Richelieu to Undego: epairs Before Joining Allied Fleet in A Grand Sea Campaign Against U-Boats

4 French Warships To Allies   Battleship, Cruiser and Two Destroyers Arrive in  U. 8.—To Fight Axis

VESSELS TO JOIN ALLIES AGAINST AXIS VERY SOOM   Admiral Fenard Plans To Fight Under French Flag But In Any Waters Where Services Are Needed.   60 THOUSAND TONS OF FOOD TO AFRICA   Heaviest Raid Made at Rabau! Area and Jap Bases Are Left In Flames Rising 7000 Feet.

RICHELIEU AND OTHERS TO JON ALLIED FLEET   Biggest Battleship. Now In New York Harbor, Will Undergo Repairs   AID IN SUB CAMPAIGN   Move Is Made Under Orders Of General Giraud, Admiral Reveals

The Giant Richelieu and Others Join Allied’ Fleet to Trump Hitler’ $ Dangerous. U-Boat. Ace   Thrée Cruisers Also Accompany 35,000Ton Vessel—aAll Will Be Made Readv far Rattle. ,

FRENCH. SHIPS NOW WAITING INN. Y. BA   Cruiser, Two  Destroyens Accompany Big Ship

Richelieu Heads Flotilla of Ships   Crews Anxious to Enter Fight After Men of War Are Repairedin U.S.

FR. BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU NOW IN NEW YORK HARBOR   Huge Vessel Part of Contingent of Vessels Which Will Be Refitted

BIG BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU AND CHULSER HERE   Will Join Allied Fleet, Fight U-Boat Menace After ‘’ Needed Repairs.   TWO FRENCH DESTROYERS. IN ACCOMPANYING CONVOY,

WILL BE USE TO HELP BLAST HITLER'S SUBS   Richelieu Docked in N. Y.  Harbor; Three Others In UY. S. Waters

Battleship Richelieu in   Other Ships Accompany Big French Craft on Perilous Atlantic Trip   TO JOIN U-BOAT WAR   Ships to Be Refitted in American Yards for Active Duty

Stool Pigeon’ Puts Finger On Losses   Shows Much Time Lost At Lunch, Shift-Changes

Ses terns See SP  ELECTRIC DETECTIVE REPORTS HOURS LOST IN WAR PRODUCTION

MARKET PRICE TRENDS MIXED   Investors Thought Paying More Attention to Congress Talk Than Quotations

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rommel’s Army To Crack In Final Showdown, Experts Believe

YOU CAN BUY ’ OR SELL IT   Nazis Facing Either Death Or Surrender

ONE OF BLOODIEST BATTLES OF Leis MAY BE FOUGHT IN TUNIS WHERE AXIS ARMIFS HEMMFT)

ONE OF BLOODIEST BATTLES OF WAR MAY BE FOUGHT IN TUNIS WHERE AXIS ARMIES HEMMED

The War Today   All Elements of Fierce Struggle Are Present  Tn Thnicia.

\The War Today  \Prospect Of Mass Suicide May Not Appeal To Rommel’s Fighting. Men

GAS SHORTAGE IS SERIOUS PROBLEM   USE OF SUBSTITUTE FUELS CONFRONTS LOCAL AREA IN MAY

CEILING OF $14.73 TO BE PUT ON HOGS   PRICE IS ABOVE PRESENT MARKET LEVELS — RETAIL PORK NOT AFFECTED.

OPA, WEA Set Ceiling Price  On Live Hogs   Will Become E-ffective In August

HOG CEILING WILL SOON BE ORDERED   Government to Act to Re duce Price Fluctuatance

PLAN TO PLACE CEILING ON HOGS   Favor $14.75 Per 100 Pounds for Pork Early in August

Hog Ceiling Price of $14.75 Fixed By Government To Halt Increases

Hog Ceiling Set At $14.75; New Licensing System For Meat Slauaghtering Planned

HOG CEILING OF $14.75 IS SET \BY GOVERNMENT   Price, First Placed On Live "Swine, Is $1 Above  Earlier Level   RETAIL PRICE WILL NOT BE AFFECTED

CEILING ON HOGS ISSETATSIAT:   Amount Is $1 Above Level Which Government Promised to Fix Price.

Hog Ceiling To Be Placed At $14.75   Government Seeks To Hold Down Price Fluctuations

To Put Ceiling On Live Hogs   Plan To Ease The Squeeze on Packers

Order Hog Price Ceiling at $14.75 Cwt. in August   To Hold Price Fluctuations to a Minimum

Retail Pork Cost Unaffected by Ceiling on Hogs   $14.75 Figure Is Set; New License System For Slaughterers

WFA Will Order Hog Ceiling  eae A Boe ee De   Price Action to Be Effective in August

O’Hare Went Down Fighting  “Butch... This Is Phil”. But No Answer Came From Navy Ace’s Plane

“BUTCH, THIS 15 PHIL,” BUT BUTCH FAILED TO ANSWER  FAMED NAVAL FIGHTIN   FAMED NAVAL FIGHTING FLIER HAD GONE DOWN FIGHTING IN THE NICHT

“BUTCH” O'HARE BELIEVED LOST INTHE PACIFIC   ‘Holder of Congressional ‘Medal of Honor.and Oth: er Feats F; alls Victim to

O'HARE IS LOST BATTLING JAPS   Planes Search in Vain ‘Over Area Near Tarawa

Goes Down Fighting   ‘ ‘Butch’ O’Hare, Hero Flying Ace, Lost In Gilberts Battle

‘Butch 0 Hara, Parific Air Hero, Lost While Meeting Jap Attack on Carriers

Deadline For Peti ‘tions Is Reached On Monday  SURPRISES SEEN  Last Minute. Candidates File Their  Paners

PANTELLERIA IS” BATTERED TWICE. IN NAVAL ATTACK   Invasion Stepping Stone T  - ttaly Is Relentlessly Bomb  ed on Two Visits In 4& Hours.   MAY RECORD MONTH IN U-BOAT LOSSES   Reds Dislodge Germans From Stronghold at Smolensk and Destroy Over 1200 Enemy Troops.

ALLIES HAVE ISOLATED ITALIAN ID.   Pantelleria Cut Off from All  Communication

WARSHIPS SHELL JTALIAN ISLAND; ATTACKS GROW   Nova! Guns Blast at Harbor, Barracks On Pantelleria   REPORT ITALIANS ARE AWAITING INVASION

Berlin Claims New Governing Body Runs Italy   Marshal Badoglio Thrown Out, Is  Germans’ Story

New Fascist Regime Is Rumored Set Up Today In Control Of Etaly .

Nazis Reported Taking Over Key Points In Northern and Central Italy; Claim Fascist Government Replacing Badoglio

BERLIN RADIO SAYS NAZIS OCCUPY KEY POINTS IN ITALY   Claims Badoglio Has Been Supplanted By New Regime In Name OFf Penita

Sen. O’Daniel Rebuffed By  Sooner Solons   Called Kansas Flour Salesman After Labor Speech

GETS PROMOTION   Howard D. Howe Is Now a Sergeant With the Service Command Unit.

Absence of ‘Unconditional Surrender’ In Teheran Declaration Wise Statesmanshin

‘SURRENDER’ ELIMINATED      Left Out Of Declarations Signed At Parley  In Iran

NO “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” CALLED FOR BY CONFERENCE   ASSOCIATED PRESS COMMENTATOR DISCUSSES BIG THREE PROGRAM

Because ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Omitted,  Pact Makes Goebbels Look Silly

REFUGEES SAY NAPLES IS CITY OF HORROR   Declare Nazis Are Looting, Burn ing and Killing Thousands of Ttalian Civilians.

Germans Loot, Kill And Burn   By RELMAN MORIN  (Associated Press Correspondent Representing The Combined ‘Ameriran Presa)   TH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY.

rescuers bring Men  ‘rom Pit   More Than 100 Trapped; Many Seriously Burned

BIAMINGHAM MINE BLAST TRAPS 125   Explosion Occurs In Sayreton No, 2 Mine

10 Men Trapped When Explosion Rocks Coal Mine   Blast Reported Two Miles From Opening Of Birmingham Pit

O'CONOR SIGNS WORK-OR-FIGHT   But Has Doubts About Constitutionality

Work Or Fight Bill Effective.   Meosure Signed By Governer Applies “T. Caunty

Austria Urged To Doff Yoke   Special Call to Revolt Issued at Moscow

Fall of Kiska Gives U.S. Vital Base   Japanese Pretend to Laugh at Americans’ Surprise

AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID ITALIAN CITIES   Hit Messina, Sicily Causing Considerable Destruction

Ground Forces Crush Jap Counter Attack at Salamaua.  JAPS MACHINE GUN YANK PARACHUTISTS  Liberator Planes Have Bagged 49 Enemy Aircraft.

ALLIED FORCES BREAK JAP COUNTERATTACK ATTEMPT   Make Heavy Bag of Japanese Planes at Wewak

Girl, a Poem Touch Hearts Of Soldiers   Buy Bond for Scribbler on Train Carrying Body of Her Mother. 

Shy Maid Writing Poetry About — Dead Mother Wins Soldier Friends

Urges Study Of State Tax Distribution   Assemblymen Request Shelving Of Township Allotment Plan For Period Of Two Years

Nazi Secret Weapons Are Expected   Rocket Attack on England Possible, Is Belief

Stratosphere Bombers 01 Gas Also Speculated Upon in London Since Churchill's Warning

MINE UNION LEADER HINTS ACTION DUI   War Labor Board to Meet Today; Will Study Dispute

British Advance In North; Nazis Throw Back Yank Gains In Mountain Area.

Red Armies Within 80 Miles of Kiev   Swift Gathering Momentum May Isolate Germans

REDS THREATEN 10 CUT GERMAN FORCES IN TWO   Russian Advance Units Push Fifty Miles Beyond Stalino

Maritpol Falls; Reds 47 Miles From Dnieper   Russians Cut Last German Rail Line Of Retreat

Note Missouri  Drop At Omaha   Engineers Say Hamburg. lowa, Dike Can Stand Any Amount Of Water.

Missour! receding at Omaha   Col. Hoass says dike at Hamburg will handle crest

2 Republicans Urge Post-War  Co-operation   Vandenberg and White Introduce Resolution To Give Congress Stand

GOP Senate Pair Map Postar Plan  a i Oe ue ae   Vandenberg Joins In Proposal To Be Studied

Senators Propose Plan of U.S. Postwar Activity  Solons Would Favor Aggression in Cace af Nececcityv

'American Co-operation With Other Nations to Prevent Future Aggression Proposed by Senators

U.S. Aid to Bar Ageression Urged By Vandenberg   Noninterventionist Joins Movement for Post-War Stability

Senators Propose Plan of U.S. Postwar Activity  Solons Would Favor Aaaression in

President Refuses To  'Comment On Change In 'Gen. Marshall’s Status _

PRESIDENT RAPS MARSHALL TALK   Refuses To Confirm Or Deny Rumors Of Staff Shift

Reports of Future of Gen. Marshall Left Un to 10 Per Cent of Govt. Personnel

FURTHER REPORTS ON MARSHALL HELD BACK   Future of General Left to Government Personnel Who “Talked Too Much.”

FDR SILENT ABOUT TRANSFER REPORTS AT NEWS CONCLAVE   Leaves Marshall Rumors Ta _ Government Personne] . 10 Per Cent Who Talk Too Much

FDR. Silent on Marshall Plans  _ New Command. Is Hinted, However 

FUTURE OF MARSHALL LEFT UNCLEAR BY F. 0.   General Denies Charge: Of High Command Disunity

DR. BIZZELL IS IMPROVED U. President Emeritus Is In ar Oklnhamen Cite Waeniial

DR. BIZZELL IS IMPROVED lL’. President Emeritus Is In an Obliahame (Cite PWnacniie?

MIDWEST FACES GAS CUT AUG, 15   Ordina ry Motorists In East Get Good News Of Ration Boost

Regrets Need For Bombing   Catholic Official Sees Italy At Fault

Raid Regrettable  Says Archbishop  ‘However, Fascists Could  Have Forestalled It

Pacific Fighter Squadron, With 54 Jap Plane: ~In-12 Days, Proved Value of ‘Buggy’ P-38's

YOUNG AMERICANS PROVE REAL WORTH OF P-38 FIGHTERS. WHEN LOCKHEED LIGHT_ NINGS TESTED YEAR AGC  weer ALTIICWVIY UIA PAME

French Pleased hy Recognition ©  Regard Steps Taker as Very Sound

Hull Says French Group Satisfied  Russia and China Also Take Action

STEP PLEASES FRENCH   U. S. Hears of Satisfaction at Recognition Move.

U. S., Britain, Russia Approve French Trustees  People Of France  Ls ins 0 Ven en   People Of France To Choose Own Government

Committee Accept: Recognition Of Allied Nations  French Chiefs Agree To Status Granted By U. S. and Britain

FRENCH LEADERS PLEASED   National Committee Is Recognised bv the LL S.

Denies Rumor Of Tax Installments Internal Revenue  Office Makes Public  Incamea Tay Rulec

Denies Rumor Of Tax Installments ” ineeeia: Revenue  Office: Makes Public  Incame Tay Rules

EISENHOWER RAISED TO FULL GENERAL   Senate Confirms His Nomination by Unanimous Vote Soon After Its Receipt.

Navy Reports Allies Suffered Net Loss of Million Tons Of Merchant Shipping Last Year

NetShippingLoss Last Year Set At Million Tons   Navy Department Seeks To Clear Up Conflict Of Previous Reports

Allied Net Shipping Loss Is One Million Net Tons  Figure Is Difference Between Sinkings And Only Parte OF Allied Shinknilding Ear Yonr   ‘Knox Admits Nuisance Raids Possible But Not Likely Because Of Hiah Cost

illion Tons Net 0 Is Reported rom Axis Subs   me Allied Ship Buildin 's Not Available in Figures

SHIPPING LOSS MILLION TONS   Navy Statement Made To Correct Conflict In Previous Reports

Net Allied Ship Losses Exceed Million Tons   Figures Based On Known Building Of Merchant Shinpina

Net Allied Ship Losses Exceed Million Tons.   _ Figures Based On © Known Building Of  RA wmeelh op opel

NET FIGURES GIVEN ON SHIP LOSSES   Navy Reoorts Allied Load Over Million Tons of Merchanimen

Subsidy Delayed On a Compromise  Until January 12   Chances Are Heightened to Modify Flat Ban Against  Price Control.   Soft Coal Operators Want to Boost Prices

Subsidy Bill Is Delayed: Temporarily   Hope for: Compromise On Hotly. Debated Food Price Measure; Bankhead Skeptical

Subsidy Bill Wins Delay   Senate Subcommittee To Seek Basis for Compromise

Japs Raked In 5 Raids   300-Mile Strip of North New Guinea Coast Blasted, Strafed

BOMB LARGE AREA HELD BY JAPANESE   Chinese Kill 3000 Japs Dur. ing Biggest Battle In Past Six Months.

ALLIED AIRMEN STRAFE BIG: AREA OF JAP POSITION’   Five Punishing Raids Carried Out By MacArthur’s Heavy Bonthers.

Great Enemy Base AtLae Is Hit Heavily   Allied Planes Of All Types Rake 300 Miles Of New Guinea Coast   SWEEP INLAND TRAILS   Sanananda Quagmire De. lays Annihilation Of Jap. anesa There

Allies Carry Out Five Raids  Tn New Guinea   U.S. Forces Ready To Drive All Japs From Guadaleanal

CRIMINOLOGIST SAYS PAROLE SYSTEM FAILS BECAUSE IT DEMANDS T00 MECH

France  Seethes  With Unrest   ‘Tension Mounting As. Search Is Made for Wel! Armed Youths Fleeing Nazi Forced Labor

MANHUNT ON IN ~ EAST FRANCE      Vichy Forces Attempt to Seize Guerrillas Re sisting Occupation. —

FRENCH FLEEING HITLER SLAVERY   Trouble Is Brewing on Big Sen'2 as Manhunt for Workers Pressed

GERMANS TO GUARD IMPORTANT FRENCH RAILWAY LINES   Berlin Reports Special Guards Will Patrol And Watch For  Saboteurs

French Resist Nazi Labor Draf  Well-Armed Guerillas Fight Vichy Police In Mountain Areas

Nazis Forced to Guard All   . French Trains   Well Armed Band of Guerillas Sought by Police as Sabotage Runs Rampant

Nazis Forced to Guard French Rails   Armed Guerrillas Hunted in East

OUTBREAKS IN NAZI - OCCUPIED ARRAS GROWING   Reich Seeks Means to Prevent Aid to Allies When Continent Is Crashed   SABOTAGE IN LOW COUNTRIES MOUNTS   Germans Held Panicky Over Fear of Invasion in Balkans; Executing Serbian Hostages

NAZIS GUARD _. FRENCH RAILS   800 Vichy ~ Guards in Search for Young Guerillas

CONFARS TOOAY BY RAIL UNIONS   Roosevelt. Due in Capital Then to Speed SoRstion

Rail Conferences Continue Today   FDR and Unions Plan Discussions

Resume Railroad Parleys Monday   Roosevelt Expected  To Take Hand

Hitler‘s Invincibles Drive Selves Unescorted to Rear; Inquire Way to Prison Pens

PAY AS YOU G0 TAXATION. PLAN GAINING FAVOR   Withholding Of 1943 Income Taxes From Paychecks Believed Certain   DEFERMENT OF 1942 LEVY NOT SO CERTAIN   Treasury Coolness To Idea Main Stumbling Block In “Skipping” Taxes

PAY ~ AS-YOU-60 INCOME TAX PLAN GAINING SUPPORT   Drive Started: To _ Combina Idea “With. Plan To Skip “In Theory’ * 1942 Levies

JEFFERS 10 RUN RUBBER IMPORTS   Administrator Will Assume Charge of All Shipments of Vital Material

lialian Ridge fs Held By British   YANKS ALSO MAKING GAINS IN MOUNTAIN AREA

IGH BARRIER S REACHED Y AMERICANS   ifth Army Pushes Down Slopes of Mt. Maggiore and Mt. Camino to Valley Leading to Rome   MOCKETS WIPED OUT

Storm Important Hill as Fifth Army Presses On In Better Weather; Eighth Also Advancina.

British Troops Capture Mt Croce Ridge as Fifth Army Clears Out Pockets

91X-Day Battle Near End   Final Triumphant Stage of Bitter Fight in Progress

British With Clark’s Army in New Gains   Storm and Capture Ridge of Mt. Croce end Press Forward

(British Drive INazt Forces   Off Mt. Croce   Yanks Capture High ‘Ground West of Venafro. Blast Pillboxes

Clark’s Men Pushing Into Rome Valley   Americans Capture Heights Wes: af Venalro Against Artillery Fire. Push Across Mountains   FLOODS SUBSIDING   British Advance on Adriatic Coast Threatens Pescara, Terminal of Road to Rome

BRITISH TROOPS ~ STORMED AND TOOK ~ MOUNT GROCE RIDGE   Are Pressing on Toward the Garigliano River, a Mile Beyond.   IS NEAR MOUNT CAMINO   Gen. Clark’s Troops Wiped Out All Bi-Passed Pockets Except One.

> Yanks Pour ‘Down Upon “Rome Road   Last of Mountain -Barriérs Passed By: 5th Soldiers

Germans Give Up Ridge To British   High Ground Captured By Americans On Italian Front

HIGH GROUND NEAR VENAFRO ALSO FALLS   American Planes Again Hit Elevsis, Tatoi Fields; Weather Improves Along Entire Front

BRITISH STORMED RIDGE OF MT. CROCE AND PRESS FORWARD  MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD: OF GERMANS BREACHED BY FIFTH ARMY

British Take Mt. Croce In Rome Drive   Fifth Army Pushes Down From Captured Heights; Eighth Nears Pescara.

CAPTURE RIDGE OF MT. ROE   British Troops Are Pressing   On Toward Garigliano River.

Mt. Croce’s Lofty Peaks Are Stormed By British   Attacking Americans Capture High Ground West Of Venafro: Face  Fierce Resistance

ALLIED FORCES CONTINUE GAINS TOWARD ROME   8th Takes Mt. Groce Ridge, Americans Advance West of Venafro

BRITISH SEIZE MT. CROCE AND PUSH FORWARN   Fight Through Rains to Improve Positions in Italian Campaign

PRESS UPON GARIGLIANO RIVER BEYOND   Tommies Seize Mt. Croce by Storm as Other Units Push Down Western Slopes of Mt. Maggiore and Mt. Camino.

British Forces Take Ridge OF Strategic Mt, Croce  _ To Help Clear Way To Plains

Yanks Drive Down Slopes Toward Rome   British Push Forwarc Seizing 3 German Sirone FPoints

Fifth Army Presses Into Valley Route to Italy’s Capital   Lookout Mountain Easy Compared With Battle of Mt. Magviore

British Take Vital Ridge in Coastal Drive   Yanks Move Ahead ir Steady Advance Toward Rome

ALL BY-PASSED: BNEMY POCKETS ARE WIPED OUT:   American Commanders Army Pouring Down Slopes. Into Valley -Leading to Rome   EIGHTH CLAWS WAY CLOSER TO PESCARA   Montgomery’s Forces Im-prove Positions and Are Locked In Heavy Bat- tle Near Orsogna

MT. CROCE CAPTURED BY BRITISH   Montgomery’s Troops Eight Miles From  Pescara, Report

Americans In.  Forward Push ‘to Reach Plain   New Crossing of Moro River Reported By AIlgiers Radio

Allies Push Down Slopes On Main Road Into Rome   Clark Units Mop Up Enemy Troops On Mountain Peaks

\llies Again Lash  \head in  talian Fighting Eighth, Fifth Advance  To Hillsites Against Hoanvy Nazi Resistance

U.S. SOLDIERS NEARING MAIN ROAD TO ROME   American Infantrymen Break Out of Steep Hills After Crushing Nazis.

Sth Army Opens  Down Hill Path  Toward Rome Strategic Height Of Mt. Groce   Occupied

"Toward Main Road f Rome   Summit. of Mount . Camino Taken — ‘By Gen. Clark

BRITISH, YANKS SEIZE CONTROL OF MOUNTAINS   Tommies capture Mt. Groce Ridge; Fifth Descends Mt. Maggiore Slopes

Mt. Croce Falls To Eighth As Fifth Army Push Down Slopes Of MountainWalls

British Forces Capture Mt. Croce And Press On Toward River One Mile Beyond—Americans Attack High Ground West Of Venafro And Wipe Out Lines Of Nazi Pill Boxes—Eighth Army Improves Its Positions Inland From Adriatic Coast

Yanks Racing For Plains on ‘Push to Rome      on Heights; Capture 3 Fortified Towns

BRITISH STORM, CAPTURE RIDGE OF MT. CROCE   Fifth Army Pushes Into Garigliano Valley, Rome Gateway

FIFTH ARMY {S DRIVING AHEAD, — NAZIS GIVE WAY   Yanks Drive Down Slopes of Mountains — Main Road te Rome In Sight. .

DEFENSES BREACHED   Eighth and Fifth Army Troops Cut Thru Mountain Line

Breach Mountain Walls of Valley Leading to Rome   Gen. Clark's Fifth Army Storms and Takes Ridge of Mount Croce.   Eighth Army Fights  In Downpours of Rain

‘Allied Forces Push Toward Road to Rome   British Storm Vital Ridge and Yanks Claw Down Mountain Slopes

Fifth Army Mopping up   Nears Victory in Hard Fight to Take Main Rome Road

Mt. Croce Ridge Falls To British   Clark’s Army Reaches Mountain Wall to Valley Leading to Rome

REDUCE GERMANS TOPOCKETS WITH MAKESHIFT LINE   All Highest Peaks Overlooking Lirt Valley and Key City of Cassino Now In Hands of Clark.   BULGARIA EXPECTED TO BREAK WITH AXIS   Germans Launch Great Offensive Against Jugo-Stav Liberation Army of Marshal Brozovich.

Cross the Ridges To Enemy’s Side   Fifth Army: Troops Force - Way Thru Mountains in  Better Weather   ‘EIGHTH FIGHTS IN RAIN   Much-Bonibed Airfields in Greece Hit Again by the Allies

-  —ITALY—  BATTLES RAGE IN MOUNTAIN ABER   U.S. Fifth Army Breaches Nazi. Defenses Leading To Rome   FLOODS SUBSIDE   Atrerican Heavy Bombers Renew Attacks On Athens’ Airfields

Fifth Army Moving Down Slopes to Valley Leading to Rome; British Battle Way To Point Eight Miles From Town of Pescara

UNT CROCE ‘ CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY   Eighth Army Claws Way To Within 8 Miles  Of Pescara

BRITISH TAKE  MT, CROCE IN NEWEST GAINS   Heavy Bombers Hit German Held Bases

OTH ARMY DRIVES GERMANS FROM ALL BUT ONE VILLAGE: ACI PILLBOXES WIPED OUT

CTH ARMY READY FR FINAL SPURT FROM MOUNTAINS   Win 6-Day Battle to Drive Germans From Peaks   GATEWAY TO ITALIAN CAPITAL IS REACHED

Nazis Yield All _ But One Village in Mt. Camino District Allies Push Ahead

Tenth Air Force Gets New Head   Davidson Succeeds  Bissell In India

71 Billions Is Amount For Army   More Than Third of ‘lota!  Is for Air Corps — For JY,/4U. Planes

MAJOR SHARE OF FUNDS FOR BATTLE PLANES   Will Provide 99,740 Craft For Blackening Skies Againist Enemies in Orbit Of Axis

HOUSE GROUP OKAYS GIGANTIC FUND FOR ARMY   Grants War Department over 7114 Billion for 1944

‘More Than Third to Go To Air Corps   Only $387,986,827 Cut from Budget Requests by Comm.

71 Billions Slated for Army Alone   House Committee Gives Approval to Astronomical Sum

More Than Third of Total Goes To Army Air Corps.   Measure Largest In History To Be Passed ‘In Any Country

Third Of Record Total For ‘Decisive’ 1944 Fiscal Year Earmarked For Air Corps; Includes 99,740 Planes

7 Bilions for Committee 0K      Appropriation Bill Largest ~ In History

Army Air. Gorps Takes One - Third of Record Appropriation - Total   House Appropriations Committee Approves Largest Bill in History of Any Coun_ try, Mostly.For Air Corps

GREAT SUM SET ASIDE IN NATION   Largest Appropriation Bill in All History Given O. K. at Noon Today.

MONEY BILL fo LARGEST IN HISTORY   More Than Third Of Total Was Por Army Air Gorps Including Money To Procure 99,740 Air- planes; “Cost Frightful,” ts House Group Comment      ENORMOUS SUM IS HELD AS NECESSARY

ARMY AIR CORPS WOULD GET THRO OF TOTAL FIGURE   99,740 Planes Provided for Among Multitude of Other Uses for War.

HOUSE COMM. APPROVES BIG ARMY BILL   ake ® Measure ives uWar Dept. 71 ‘Billion Dollars

NAZIS FLEEING RUSSIAN DRIVE IN KIEV BULGE   Soviets Enter Cherkassy’ Suburbs, Algiers Radio Reports

RUSSIANS TURN TIDE AT KIEV: ON OFFENSIVE   Take Initiative in One of Greatest Battles of Year

Long Columns Of Nazis In Retreat ~ From Kiev Area   Soviet Legions Have Turned Tide In Great Battle Says Moscow   GERMAN CASUALTIES CONTINUE TO MOUNT

Electric Company Workers Continue Baltimore Strike   W.L.B. Ultimatum Defied by Group

Australian Troops Occupy Town, 60 Miles From Madang      Forces Reach Headwaters of the Mamu Valley, General MacArthur Announces—More Enemy ° Barges Are Destroyed

AUSGIES ADVANCE ON MADANG BASE   Troops Reach Headwaters Of Ramu Valley   OCCUPY VILLAGE   Interceptors Down Six Jap Raiders Sent Against YankHeld Vella Lavalla

American Planes In Pacific Sink More Jap Barges   Australian Forces in New Guinea Push toward Madang

Aussies Reach Ramu in Drive  Upon Madang   Japs Send 50 Planes Against Vella Lavella; More Barges Destroyed

AUSTRALIANS ONLY 60 MILES FROM MADANG   Forty-four Japanese Barges Destroyed in Central Solomons; 2 Naval Units Also Destroyed.   Allies Raid Barge Depot

Allied Forces Move Against Madang Base  Fifty Planes Sent Against American Held Vella Laveila

Japs Pushed Back As Allies Press New Guinea Gains   Australians Reach Headquarters of Ramu Valley While Americans Take New Tolls in Solomon Theater

Aussies sain: amu Ta_ev rive on  “ac ang; .. S$. anes. ag ‘Fare a9 Sins in -1e So.omons

Acts to Prevent ‘Discontinuance Of Raid Drills   State Firmly Opposes Waynesboro Defense .- Corns Action

Civilians Told ToBe Ready On Air Raid Alert  tiset+ ce PY and idl fe Pt   Justice Dept. Given Odd Case Of One Town's  Complacency

Dissolution of Comintern Puts Axis on the Spot   Anticommunism Propaganda Is Out

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Dissolution Of Comintern te Of Greatest Steps Poward World Unity

THE WAR TODAY  Dissolution of Comintern One of War's Mos! Momentous Developments.

Dissolution of Red Comintern Is Seen as One of War’s Momentous Development:

The War Today— Moscow Suspension Of Comintern  Destroys Hitler Propaganda Value

EEE OE  Dissolution of Conimunist Internationale May Re Big Development.

NOON ALERT 10 BE HELD SEPTEMBER ¢   Lucas County Will Take Part in First State-Wide Daylight Air Raid Alart   ACTION SIGNAL 12:20   Defense Group Will Attend Meeting in Des Moines Friday,

PRACTICE ALERT TO START DRIVE   September 9 Is Selected for Air Raid Test

 A COLUMN SABOUT IOWA   Noon Air Raid Signal In State on Sept. 9

AIR RAID PRACTICE SET FOR SEPT. 9TH   Mid-day Air Raid Practice Drill Held to Start off September War Bond Sales.

Iowa Daylight Practice Raid Alert Noon Sept. 9   To Make Launching Of Third War Loan Drive In Iowa

DAYLIGHT AIR RAID ALERT SET FOR SEPT. 9.   Coordinator Issues Order for State-wide Practice.

‘Draft Expected To Nullify “Any Manpower Gains Made By Longer Work Week Order

43-HOUR WEEK GAINS HIT BY ARMY GROWTH   U.S. Drains Civilian Life More Rapidly, Say Work Experts

48-HOUR WEEK ONLY EASES SITUATION   By No Means Will ‘Votally Solve Manpower Problem

48-HOUR WEEK WILL DO NO MORE THAN EASE LABOR «ILLS      Week Will Be ‘Able To Replace oy

Axis Targets Are Pounded During Daylieht Hours   Only Six Planes [Lost In Day's Operations   Germans Report New Offensive Started By Allies

ITALIAN AIR CHIEF KILLED IN ACTION      Brig. Gen. Enrico Pezzl Loses Life While on Flight Over Russian Front.

All Operations Under Command Of MacArthur; Drive Appears Aimed At Key Base Of Rabaul   Re THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Reds Threaten Smolensk, Kie\ In New. Drive   Russion:: Drive Toward Dneiper,. the Old -Polish: Frontier

REDS DRIVE INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Plunge Closer To Dnieper And Polish Frontier

City Within Artillery Range Now   Reports Indicate Capture of Major City Near at Hand

. Break Through to Bank -Of Dnieper In South; Kiev Push Continued

REDS CLAMP ARC AGAINST KIEV: TWO MORE BIG BATTLES   Nazis Admit Poltava Hag Fallen ——- Move Ahead Today In Three..-"°"* . Geefarvk oc 7

Lockheed Launche: Monster Transport   Largest Land-Based Aircraft Takes to Sky in Maiden Flight at Burbank

Biggest Plane Takes to Air In First Test   Giant Craft Capable of Taking Light Tank and  Crew Across Ocean

Bellevue  Officials, Civic Leaders Protest Issuance Of Night Club Permit To Huron-Co. Tavern Owner

Tully Marshall Dies, 79: Veteran Screen Actor   It Seems the Girl Seared a Knockout

‘ Dwindling Supplies of Petroleum Reserves in U. S. Will Be Exhausted ‘/in 15 Years at Current Rate of Consumption, Committee Is Informed

NAZI OFFENSIVE STALLS AT KUBAN   ‘Moscow Says Enemy Has   Been “Bled White” by Heavy Losses.

NAZI DRIVE IN CAUCASUS ABANDONED   Losses Large In 14 Day Offensive, Russians Report

GERMANS ABANDON OFFENSE IN NORTH CAUCASUS SECTION   Apparently Have Been “Bled White” By Losses Of Equipment And Men

Nazi Kuban area drives ‘abandoned’   Foe ‘bled white’ trying to expanc positions—soviet

ENEMY IS BLED WHITE BY LOSSES   Red Airmen Active In Kuban Area With 36  Germans Downed

NAZIS ABANDON FUTILE DRIVE IN CAUCASUS AREA   Fail to -Enlarge Bridgehead Beyond Positions In Crimean Peninsula.

REV. JAMES C. MURPHY DIES IN BALTIMORE   Pastor of Thurmont Catholic Chereh Had Been Ul Several Wee     Funeral Wednesdarc

Roosevelt Into Third Year Of World Conflict   Must make. some of the most. difficult decisions of~his . careers “in good health.

FIGHT TO END IS EXPECTED IN TUNISIA   Although “Dunkerque” Attempt Is Possible, British Believe Nazis Have Orders to Die to the Last Man.

FEEL NAZIS WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH RATHER THAN TRY A ‘DUNKERQUE’ ESCAPE

Nazis Buying  Time To Save  Continent   Rommel, Von Arnim Now Expected To Fight Ty Last In Tunisia

Expect Fight To Death   Last Ditch Defense Of Tunisia Dictated By Axis Needs To Gain Time For Defense

AFRICAN FIGHT TO FINISH SEEN   Observers Suggest Hitler Will Seek Time to Defend Continent.   TO USE FRENCH SHIPS

Only Rommel Scheduled To Be Evacuated   He Will Assume Command Of The Shores Of Italy

Expect Fight To Last From Africa Corp:   Observers Think Rommel May Direct Defense Of European Coast.   SAY ‘DUNKEROUE’ OUT

Nazis Expected To Fight To Death In North Africa   Orders To Hold

ROMMEL NOT EXPECTED 10 QUIT AFRICA   Developments Point To Fight To The Death

RAID ON SARDINIA MAY DEGIDE FATE OF AXIS CAMPAIGN   Nazis May Fight To Death Under Orders From Hitler To Buy More Time for Defense of Continent; Rommel May Already Have Orders.

Fortress Attack On Sardinia May Hint Nazi Route   German Dunkerque [:  Thought Possible

Second Dunkerque Held Unlikely; Rommel Not To Be Sacrificed With His Men In Africa

Believe Nazis In Tunisia To  Fight To Death   Would Buy More Time For Hitler To Prepare Defense Of Europe.

NAZIS WANT MORE TIME FOR DEFENSE OF THE CONTINENT   Believe They Would Fight to the Death Under Hitler’s Orders.   SUCH A STAND POSSIBLE   Bern Report Indicates Rommel Has Been Ordered to Hold to Last Man.

Fortress Raid-- Seen Defining.  “Retreat Rout   Also Viewed Picturing Fate Of Any Axis Attempt To Duplicate .. Dunkerque

LONDONEXPECTS FIGHT TO DEATH   Evacuation Like Dunkerque Doubted; Time Needed To Prepare Continent

GERMANS SEEK ‘DEFENSE TIME   Want Stronger Barriers to Await Allied Invasion

Rommel to Hold Out Until Last   Germany Seeks Time Against Invasion Of Hitler’s Europe

British Anticipate Fight to Finish in Battle of Tunisia   Second Dunkerque There Held Unlikely; Fight to Death Expected

FORTRESSES GIVE LINE ON NAZI FLIGHT   Heavy Raid on Sardinia May Have Indicated Axis Plan of Escape.   REPORT ROMMEL IN “FINISH” FIGHT   Hitler Said to Have Ordered Sacrifice of Men to Gain Time.

Axis Retreat Route  Defined by Air Raic   Believe Nazis Will Fight to Death in Tunisia

‘Hitler Believed Ready To Sacrifice African Armies To Gain More Time

Hitler Believed to Have Ordered Rommel to Fight to the Death in Tunisia

Expect Germans toF ight to Death In Tunisia; Evacuation Untikely

BELIEVE GERMANS  TO FIGHT TO DEATH  IN NORTH AFRICA SMASHING ATTACK ON  SARDINIA MAY INDICATE DUNKEROUE ROUTE

HITLER TO LET BIG FORCE DIE   Allies Believe Adolf Has Ordered Tunisian Army to Fight to the Death

Stalingrad Defense, Not Dunkerque, German Plan   Italian Fleet Will Be Harbored - Against Day Allies Invade Europe, Is Belief in London

Marines Take  Cor al Island   Installation Near Big Japanese Base

MARINES LAND ~QNNEWISLAND   Troops Occupy Nanumea In .. Pacific September 4

House Approves Allotment Hike   Unanimously Adopts Senate’s Schedule

 DEPENDENTS AWARDED INCREASED PAYMENTS   House Unanimously Votes $5@ Fer Wife; $30 Fer First Child And $2@ Fer Each Other Chiid

=ouse Stanimcus on $5. “or "Nice C3" “gr s-. 82. facia Accec’ GIL

RAISE IS VOTED TO DEPENDENTS   Families Of Service Men Listed For 850-830-820 Allowances

Service Man's Pay  Increase Favored  Senate Action Holds Fate Of New Bill

HOUSE VOTES FOR INCREASE IN PAYMENTS      Dependents to Get Boost Under Approved Leaislation   MEASURE SOON TO REACH ROOSEVELT   Estimates on Additional Cost to the Government Vary

use Votes More y For Children Service Men  sill Nearly Ready ‘or White House; ‘ount is 389 to 0

Dwendency Bill leing Prepared For Enactinent   Peamgnts —9f..e9070, lasis Approved by _ - Both Houses

Search Caribbean For Missing Plane   Fate Of Nine Occupants Still - Undetermined; Two Were High A.A.F. Officers

CUT LOOMS IN NATION'S DEBI   11 Billion Dollars May Be Slashed From Deficit

Huge Saving Being Made In Budget For War Effort  “$11,000,000,000.Is Saved From Estimates On Federal Deficit For Fiscal Year 1944

Radar’s Crucial Moments—Actual Shipboard Tests   Rv John M. Hightower

STATE RESTS IN MURDER TRIAL   Judge Refuses Directed Ac quittal Verdict In Folkes Case

ClO SUSPENDS LOCAL LEADERS      District Direction Takes Over Timken Local Affairs —

PLACE LABOR HEADS UNDER SUSPENSION   District Leader Takes Over af Timken Plant

BERLIN ADMITS KHEROON LOO   American Fifth Army Drives Into Liri Valley Beyond San Pietro

Russians in Drive Take 500 Towns   American Bombers Blast Two Sections of Germany —Advance in Italy

Eight Die in Mid-States Blizzard   SNOWSTORM SWEEPS OVER MINNESOTA, DAKOTAS, NEBRASKA, IOWA

Move Against NYA Is Made By Committee   Training War Workers Should Be Left To Private Industry, Is Report To Congress

CHENNAULT'S OUTFIT TO PLAY MAJOR PART IN FIGHT WITH JAPS  Commander Tells Men Thev’ll Stuke Where   Commander Tells Men They’ll Strike Where Iev’ll Hurt Japs The Woret

ASSAULT ON JAPAN IS PROMISED AGAIN   ‘We'll Hit Him Where It Wil Hurt Most,’ Chennault

ITALY MAY MAKE. ROME OPEN CITY ON POPE'S APPF AI   Eire or Spain Expected ‘ t Suggest Action—717 Dead In Ralq

POPE’S TRY TO SAVE ROME WILL RENEW OPEN CITY DEMAND   No Immediate Comment Te Letter Is Made By United States Or  Britain ‘   BRITISH PLANE 1N _ ATTACK ON AIRDROME

SEE PRESSURE TO SPARE ROME   ET  : Pore’s Letler Expected To ‘Open Campaign Ta Declare Cily “Open”

Italy Urged To Make Rome An Open City   British Plane Shoots Up Airdrome— Pope Writes Letter

Pressure Put On Italy To Save Capital   Eire nd Spain May Intervene To Urge Request Be Granted

Pressure on Italy Increasing to Have Rome Declared an Open City; 'Pone Urges It Be Spared Further Raids

Fascist Editor Takes Crack At At Military Leadership Of Nation   First Open Assault Of Kind Only Adds To Stories Of Mounting Pessimism And Apathy Among The Ttalian People.

GOP SENATE GROUP LEADS ATTEMPT 10 END SUBSIDY FIGHT   Taft And Others Trying For Compromise By Weekend

Surrender Will Be Military Job   Hull Dodges Talk of Badoglio Regime

New Italian Cabinet Calls For Election 4. Months After Hostilities Cease

General Pledges Honorable Terms   German Aggressors on Italian  Soil Must Be Ousted, He Says

Bomb Jap Base  On New Guinea   Allies Wipe Out  Part of Salamaua

Coffee Ration Boost Is Seen  Prospects Bright For  An tincrease —

Prosnects Brighter For More Coffee   Increase Near Of Morning Brew

Push Nearer . Nazi Defenses On the Dnieper   Key Black Sea Port Ts Also Threatened in Southern Sector

Sform Info Western Area Of Caucasus   Additional Localities Taken Near Kharkov; Big Axis Casualties

REDS RIP HOLES IN NAZI DEFENSES WEST OF KHARKOV   Other Units Seize Town in Western Caucasus 35 Miles From Big Seaport of Novorossisk.   GAINS ALSO SCORED IN DONETS BASIN   Advance Toward Taganrog Made in Face of Strong Counter-Attacks and Muddy Weather.

Soviets Punch New Holes In German Lines   Reds Hammer Defenses West Of Kharkov; Storm And Capture Point In Western Caucasus Near Port Of Novorossisk

Reds Crash Deeper In The  Nazi Defenses   Muddy Terrain Slows Gaining In Some Areas

Soviets Poke New Holes In Nazi Line   Storm and Capture Post 33 Miles From Big Black Sea Port; German Counterattacks Strong

RUSSIANS GAIN MORE GROUND IN DONETS BASIN   Town Only 33 Miles From Black Sea Port Of Novorossisk Is Captured   NAZIS STIFFEN IN SECTOR AT STALINO

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN DONETS BASIN   GERMAN DEFENSES RIPPED IN PUSH TO DNEIPER

Russians Push On Towara Dnieper; Drive Within 33 Miles Of Black Sea Port

RAIDERS KILL 2   Others Trapped In Debris As Nazi Rombers Seore It.

New Schedules Of TaxesGiven  To Congress   No Specific Recommendation Of Actual Sum Needed Is Given

IG HIKE IN NCOME TAX S PROPOSED   Social Security Tax May Also Be Boosted

Strong Carrier Group Smashes At Jap Bastion   Nimitz Says He Lacks News Because Fleet Pos, Te Gtloant

Churchill Announced Today That Portugal Agrees to Such Bases, Contained in 1373 Treaty   PORTUGAL, HOWEVER, WILL REMAIN NEUTRAL

Bases To Give ‘xtra Defense lor Sea Lanes   Balkan Bases Held By Axis Hit For Seventh Day By Allied Bombers

OIL FLOWS THROUGH NEW PIPELINE TODAY   May Play Big Part in Defeat of Axis Powers

New Pipeline Finished Today  "Big Inch’ To Carry Oil For Military, Not Civilian Needs

Final Link In Big Inch Is Being Welded   Sec. Ickes, Sec. Jones and Other Notables Participate in Ceremony  MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE

BIG INCH READY FOR FINAL LINK      Dedication of 1,341-Mile Oil Pipeline Scheduled For This Atfernoon

OIL STARTS FLOW THROUGH “BIG INCH’   Precious Wartime Fluid Starts On Way

Big Oil Line Is Finishea   Built in‘ 350 Days It Is Designed to Deliver 12,000,000 Gals. a Day

Big Air Offensive Now In Bleventh Day; Red Army Closing Against Kiev And Expanding Bridgeheads West Of Dnieper   JUGOSLAV GUERILLA FIGHTING MOUNTING

I$. Heavy Bombers Go Across Polish Corridor For Smashing Attack fy Nazi Targets

: Tn Cassock and Mitre English Archbishop Visits  Russian Church Hierarchy

PLEDGES FIGHT IN SENATE ON DRAFT BILL   House Measure, If It Becomes Law, Would Delay Dads’ Draft

PROGRAM FOR U. 1. U. ~ COMMENCEMENT TIME   Events of the Period from May 7 te May 17 Includes Much of Public Interest

AIRMEN HAVE BEEN REPORTING CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL CATEGORIES FOR LAST WEEK   Japanese Preparations May Be Either Offensive Or Defensive. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Tells Radio Audience America is at Crossroads OL Pacific Campaion

Says Japs . Grouping on   Island Ring   Navy Informed of En-emy’s Action, Admiral  Nimitz Announces

Ready For Defense Or Offense; Nimitz Hints Big Drive By American  Navy Imminent.

MacArthur Warns ~ Of Possible  ' Offensive NEAR AUSTRALIA  Meanwhile, Japs Are Driven Back On  New Guinea

ALLIES ARE PUT ON NOTICE      ‘Mae Agaur Tells of New Concentration of Strength

MacArthur Says Jops Concentrating arae Forces North Of Australia

JAPS ACTIVE IN AREANORTH OF AUSTRALIA   Ring of Islands Being Reinforced in All Categories of Enemy Strenght   THE FAR PACIFIC FRONT

FEAR INVASION ATTEMPT BEING PREPARED NOW   Reenforcement for All Categeries of Defense Forces in Broad Arc For Major Move.

Allies, Japs Prepa e               Enemy Massing: All. Available Power -North. Of Australia As‘ Admiral Nimitz Points To Assault On Nipponese “Mainland :

Japs Massing Forces in Isles  MacArthur Reports On Reinforcements  In Ring of Islands

YANKS ALL SET TO MEET ATTACK   Crossroads Is Reached ji Campaign, Americ: Leaders Intimate

Enemy May Plan Assault on Australia Or Be Awaiting Expected Large-Scale Allied Offensive Operations

JAPS MASSING LARGE FORGES OFF AUSTRALI   Huge Enemy Concentrations Reported By MacArthur In Warning To Allies

MacArthur Tells Of Jap Threat To Australia   Nimitz Hints U. S. May Also Have Soms Big Cards to Play

UNITED NATIONS ARE WARNED THAT JAPAN PLANNING OFFENSIVE   MACARTHUR SAYS ENEMY _ GATHERING STRENGTH NORTH AUSTRALIA

United Nations Given Notice By Gen. MacArthur That Japanese Are Concentrating Main Strength In Ring Of Islands Above Australia—Constant And Growing Reinforcement In All Categories Reported By Air Reconnaissance

MecARTHUR SEES DRIVE POSSIBILITY   Nimitz Hints American Nav, Might Have Tricks Up Its Sleeve

McArthur Also _ Hints U. S. Navy Ready For Action   Reports Japs Marshalling ' Big Reinforcements,  ‘Hints Coming U.S, Of . fensive to Secure Base’ : For. Attack On. Jap  Mainland:

Japan Builds New Strength Otf Australia   MacArthur Warns Of Ship. Troop, Plane Concentra: tion In Island Group.   OFFENSE OR DEFENSE?

Sees Break Of Lull © In Pacific   MacArthur Rey Reports J ap Troop -Concentrations  On Ring of Islands to “The North of Australia

MacArthur Puts Allies On Notice   But Admiral Nimitz May Have Some Cards to Play   JAPS MAY BE ON THE DEFENSIVE

ENEMY MAY BE SETTING STAGE FOR OFFENSIVE   Admiral Nimitz Hints U. S. Navy Has Ideas, Too

Air Reconnaissance Shows Japs Assembling Powerful Force In Islands To North Of Australia; Taking Up Position In Readiness.

Japs Occupy Many Islands Off Australia   General MacArthur Warns United Nations Of Secret Movements   Indicates Plan To Renew Offensives?   American Airmen Report Concentrations  Over 2,000-Mile Area

MARTHUR SAYS ENEMY FORCES CONCENTRATED   Statement by Nimitz Hints at Action by U. S. Fleet

MacArthur Warns ot New Threat as Japanese Forces Masson Pacific Islands   Allied Airmen Step Up Offensive On Enemy Positions; Nimitz Savs Navy is Ready

Japs Assemble Strengtl North of Australia   MacArthur Reports Enemy’s Growing Reinforcements In Islands Stretching for.2,000 Miles to the North

SINK JAPANESE CARGO SHIP-IN SOLOMON AREA   Hint U. S. Navy May Have Some Tricks up Its Sleeve

AirmenReport Growing Size of Nip Force   Nimitz Hints of New Naval Action to Put Yanks Close to Japan; Aircraft Busy

Japanese Force Gather Strength Above Australia  Concentrate On Ring Of Islands; Nimitz Hints

11 Fliers Dead, Five Missing As Fortresses Crash   All Planes In Accident: Were From Dyersburg, Tenn... Bace

Airpower Could Knock Japs Out   Yank Commander In China Issues Statement

Allies Watch Ambon-Dobo lavader Threat   Bombers Destroy Four O Eight Ships In Cenvay Hunt Remainder   DAMAGE DESTROYER   Growing Concentration OF Ships North Of Aus tralia Is Reported

MacArthur's Aerial Forces Watching Concentration of Ships Off Wewak and  Damace Four.

ALLIES SHATTER: Q-SHlIP CONVOY IN NEW GUINEA AREA   Airmen Keeping Watchfu ‘Eye on Every Movement , of Reinforcements.

Of pei Fates Being. Watched   Transports and Cargo Ships North . Of Australia \—

Noose Tightens Around Enemy In Norfh Africa   Fleeing Soldiers Lost as Ships are Sunk by Bombers

GERMAN RESISTANCE IN TUNIS AREA CONTINUES   But No Sizeable Number Can _  Eseape the Powerful Allied Pincher.  Drive.

Some Troops Surrender Unconditionally To U. S. Tank Forces Near Bizerte

42,000 Enemy Killed, Wounded, 75,000 Captured; Battle Rages at Escape Gateway; ‘Nazis Surrender to U.S.; Six Generals Taken

Berlin and Rome Admit  Defeat—British Slaughtering Final Resisting Remnants

BOATS ARE SUNK AS AXIS TROOPS TRY TO ESCAPE   All Axis Forces in Bizerte Area Surrender to Yanks; Give Up Equipment, Too   EVACUATION IMPOSSIBLE   Soldiers Deserted by High Officers Are Cornered on Cap Bon Peninsula

25,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDER. -. . ‘OQ THE YANKS   80,000 Axis Soldiers Cannot Escape On Cape Bon—Unconditional Surrender Required.

Unconditional Surrender fo Yankees Made   Gen. Bradley Rejects German Proposal to  Negotiate and, Nazis Surrender-at Once

50,000 Prisoners Fall To Avenging Allied Steamroller   Unconditional Surrender Of Enemy Is De manded; Nazi Troops Lay Down Arms All Along American Front; Von Arnim Flees  Africa

— oom, Fate Of Remaining Axis Troops (fn Tunisia Sealed; Situation For ‘Them ‘Worse Than Desperate’   Allied Headquarters Says It Is Certain That No Important Numbers Of Enemy Will Escape Subjected To Land. Sea And Air Attack

ALLIED NAVY AND AIR FORCE THROWS BLOCKADE AROUND CAP BON PENINSUL/

LOADED SHIPS SUNK TRYING TO ESCAPE   Yanks Get Full Surrender Of Nazis Near Bizerte   Captured By U. S., British; 40,000 Killed Or Hurt, Algiers Reports

Nazis Give In To Americans Near Bizerte   Unconditional Surrender Of German Forces Received By U. S. General As Enemy Resistance Is Ended In Sector f/f

ALLIED FORCES BLOCKADING CAPE BON AREA   Enemy Units Southeast Of Bizerte Surrender To American Second Corps   50,000 PRISONERS TAKEN   Axis Resistance Weakens Over Entire Front: Palermo Harbor Sombed

Defeat of Axis in Tunisia Approaches Debacle in _ Final Act      IN DESPERATE SHAPE   Roundup of Prisoners Goes on as Some’ Detach ments Fight

Blockade Placed on Peninsula   Axis Position ‘Desperate’; Many Troops Surrender.

Blockade Ruins Try tor Escape   80,000 ENEMY TROOPS ARE TRAPPED ON PENINSULA; YANKS, BRITISH TAKE 50,000 PRISONERS, 6 GENERALS IN STUNNING COUP

RESISTANCE BY FOE ELSEWHERE IS COLLAPSING      Sea and Air Blockade Clamped Down On Cap Bon Where 80,000 Axis Are Trapped   SMALL BOATS LADEN WITH ENEMIES SUNK   Terror-Stricken Soidiers Caught Attempting to Escape Allied Pincer; British Beat Down Defense

NAVAL-AIR BLOCKADE IS THROWN AROUND CAP BON PENINSULA   UNCONDITIONAL SURREN. DER OF REMAINING FORCES IN BIZERTE SECTOR

Allies Seal Up — Cap Bon With Ships, Planes   Sink Many Small Craft Attempting To Flee Tunisia Inferno As Enemy Near Bizerte Gives Up Unconditionally..

BLOCKADE HOLDS FRANTIC FOE ON CAP BON TODAY   All Enemy Units South of Bizerte Surrender—Over 50,000 Prisoners

Foe Surrenders Unconditionally In U.S. Sector    Blockade Thrown Around Cap Bon; Many Boats With Fleeing Nazis Sunk

Axis Resistance Is Collapsing in Northern Tunisia   25,000 Troops Southeast of Bizerte Surrender Unconditionally.   Blast Those Trying To Escape in Boats

BATTLE FOR AFRICA NOW NEARING FINAL CHAPTER   Enemy Units South Of Bizerte Surrender To Yanks; Thousands Of Prisoners Taken

Six Generals Among Captives as 25,000 Surrender to Gen. Omar N. Bradley

80,000 Troops Trapped by Sea, Air Force   Situation Reported Serious: 25,000 in Unconditional Surrender to Allies

Naval-Air Forces Sink Axis Boats Trying Dunkerque   Enemy Troops, Many Near Panic, Wave White Flag When Bombed as They Try to Flee From Encircled Cape Bon

Axis Units Southeast Of Bizerte Give In To Americans; Fate Of Those Still Battling Called Worse Than Desperate

Cape Bon Blockade Prevents Enemy From Getting To Safety In Small Boats

Germans On AEF Front Surrender Uncondifionally   Naval, Air Forces Throw Blockade Around Cap Bon

Forces Southeast of Bizerte Agree to Terms, Blockade Thrown Around Cap Bon

Northern Nazi Units Give Up  To Americans   ‘oe Fast Being Bottled Up In Cap Bon Sector As Troops Flee For Coast In Panic

Allies Gne Mile From  Salamaua   Prized Airdrome Almost In Grasp of Jungle Troops in Steady Drive

ALLIED FORCES NEAR SALAMAUA   MacArthur Spokesman Says American and Australian Jungle Troops Are Only A Mile From The New Guinea Airdrome.

YANKS WITHIN MILE OF BASE   Advance Continue Onto Salamaua In New Guinea; Troops At Crossing

‘Allied Forces Near Victory In New Guinea   Within Mile Of Jap Airbase As Enemy Resistance Grows Weaker

Allies Mile From Salamaua Airport   Capture Would Give Important Base

U. §. AND AUSTRALIAN TROOPS NOW WITHIN MILE OF SALAMAUA  TODAY’S COMMUNIQUE STATES BAD WEATHER - BINDERS AIR ACTIVITY

Allies Reported Only Mile Away From Salamaua   Capture of Great Base Seems Near

QUR JUNGLE TROOPS ARE ONE MILE FROM CATAMATIA, AIRFIELD   Capture Will Place The Allies In Easy Reach  Noaw Rritain Rases   PLANES GROUNDED BY BAD WEATHER

Salamaua Trap Drawn Tightey   Allied Forces Within Mile Of Airdrome

ALLIED TROOPS ONE MILE FROM SALAMAUA PORT   Capture Of ’Drome To Give Allies Good Fighter Base.

Allied Troops Within Mile O: Jap Airdrome   Fight Way Closer To Salamaua, Says Headquarters

ONE MILE OUT OF SALAMAUA   Capture of Jap Base in New Guinea Would Put Allies Next to New Britain Enemy Sites,

Allied Fliers Hit Japs In Rising Tempc   Ground Forces Tighten Ring Around Trapped Foe In New Guinea.   Hy The Associated Press

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Three Die In Trailer- Type Bus Accident   Vehicle Loaded With 80 Soldiers and Nurses In Crash  CAREENS DOWN A HILL

THREE DIE IN FLAMING CAB   Bus Full of of Soldjers ang "Nurses Crashes and Burns

TWENTY-ONE PASSENGERS ARE INJURED  Capital Bus Co. Ve-hicle*Smashes Into : _ Field  MACHINE _ BURNS Driver, His Wite And  Conductor Are .  > «Killed      Driver, His Wife And Conductor Are -Killod —

3 Burn To Death In Bus Crash   Soldiers Escape From Burning Bus En Route To Indiantawn Gan

HOPE FOR MINERS ALMOST ABANDONED   12 Men Are Trapped In West Virginia.

France Will Soon Be Fighting Beside U. S. Forces Declares Giraud

FRENCH CELEBRATE “BASTILLE DAY’   Patriots Proclaim This the “Last July 14th of Oppres sion’’

Frenchmen  Observe Bastille Day   Martinique and Guadaloupe in  Allied Fold

OF PRISONERS   MOSE. SEVERELY WOUNDED IN: " CLUDED IN EXCHANGE UNDER ‘SWEDISH RED . : . .  Ohess = -

Bomb Berlin Fourth Time Within Week   FURIOUS BLASTING oF AXI? STRONGHOLTS TAKING STEADY TOLL

BERLIN RAIDED FOR 4TH TIME IN LAST WEEK   American Fliers Destroy 73 Axis Planes Over Mediterranean

Attacks Continue Today; Italian Islands Blasted        Air Campaign on Russian Front at Climax: Nazis Warn of “Ching’s to Come” in  Attacks on England

AERIAL OFFENSIVE SHOWS NO LETUP   Germans and Italians Feel Effects of Severe Pounding Over Large Area

Battle Still Rages near Gateway to Kremamsa Plateau with Final Issue Still in Doubt— Airmen Hit Effective Blows

‘Block Thrust F our Miles From Thala   Eisenhower Reports Much Brighter Picture in Sections of Front

British And American Tanks, Infantry Inflict Heavy Losses ‘On Enemy In Furious Fighting   U.S. Air Force Beats Back Another Attack Ry Nazis In Central Tunisia: Foe Now Held At All Points, Headquarters Announces

Bitter Battle Sti Raging Near Thala   American Guns  And Planes Rout Nazi Tank Column

Fighting Dies Down, Rommel Army Checked  German General Within   @ 2S S2S5 ee SS See ore  German General Within Four Miles Of Thala Before Being Halted By Yanks, British

BITTER BATTLE STILL RAGING IN THALA AREA   Nazi Armored Column Is Blast ed In Effort To Gain Road Junction   'U. $. PLANES POUND ENEMY   Axis Leader May Be Forced To Establish Line In Kasserine Pass

AXIS HURLED BACK IN ONE VITAL SECTOR   AMERICAN GUNNERS TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF GERMANS

' Bitter Battle Still Raging Near Than, Gateway To Kremansa Plateau .

Lull Comes After Fight In Africa   Rommel Relaxes Pressure; Both Sides Get Supplies

Bitter Battle Is Still Raging   Most Dangerous Push Toward Thala “Checked by ‘Allied Tanks and Infantry Allies Also Beat Back Attack Toward West in Central Tunisia

NAZI SPEARHEADS HAMMERED BY BIG GUNS AND PLANES   One of Fiercest Battles of War Fought Near Kasserine With Strategic Thala as Stake.   ENEMY ALSO HALTED NEAR ALGERIAN BORDER   German Guns, Trucks and Troops Mauled as Marshal Makes Third Bid for U. S. Base.

Germans Hurled Back Along One Tunisian Sector  Both Sides Make Mos Of Lull By ine hag And  Oe a Oa ae oe © ... 3 en

GERMANS FAIL TO PENETRATE ALLIED LINES   Lull in Three-Day Battle Comes With Yanks and British Holding Solidly Near Thala and on the Road to Tehessa.

Nazis Relax  Pressure In Tunisia   Stubborn Allied Defense Forces Still Hold After Three Davs of Turning Axis Thrusts

Rommel’s Spearhead Is Halted   Allied Forces Are Aided By Strong Air Support In Protecting Gateway To Kremamsa Plateau

Rommel Stalled After 3 Day Thala Conflict   New 40 Ton British Churchill Tanks Hit Nazis For First Time, Foil Attempt Te Break Through Allied Lines

Allied Troops. With Strong American Air Support Beat Back Rommel’s Attack in Central Tunisia

Nazis Repulsed By Murderous Fire Of Yanks   Germans’ Most Dangerous Thrust Sent Back With “Considerable” Casualties

AS ROMMEL RELAXES PRESSURE, ALLIES REST FROM BITTER THREE - DAY, STRUGGLE IN TUNISIA.

Hold Off Desperate Nazi Attempts to Take Road Junction.   STRONG AERIAL SUPPORT

Bitter Battle Still Raging   Desperate German Assaults Frustrated

Rommel Forces Fail To Gain Thala; Fight Lulls As Axis is Beaten Back  Dangerous Thrust Halted North of Kasserine Gap; Enemy Thrust in Central Tunisia Is Beaten Back

ROMMEL’S ARMORED TROOPS RELAXED THEIR PRESSURE   Were Unable to Crack Stout American and British Defenses.   IN HILLS NEAR THALA   Were Also Balked by Massed American Guns Guarding Tebessa.

Nazi Thrust Beaten Back At Kasserine   Hot Battle Raging Near Thala, Gate to Vital Tunisian Plateau   PLANES BLAST AXIS   Nazis Run Into Deadly Yankee Fire in New Stab at Tebessa

MARSHAL ROMMEL’S MOST DANGEROUS THRUST 1S HALTED   ALLIED TROOPS WITH U. S. AIR SUPPORT ALSO BEAT ANOTHER ATTACK BACK

Rommel’s Corps Driven Back at Thala; Attack On Tebessa Frustrated   Russians Take Three Important Strongholds In Advance on Moscow-Kiev Railway Line; Opening of New European Front Urged in Britain

AMERICAN AIR SUPPORT BEATS BACK NAZI PUSH   Bitterest Battle of Tunisian War Still Raging Near Thala

British Tanks, U. $. Guns Hold Rommel Back From Gaining Strategic Area

Altied Defense Forces Are Given First Rest in __. Three Days   DANGEROUS THRUST . OF ROMMEL HALTED   Nazi General May be Forced to Abandon w His Proaram

U.S.and British Tanks, Infantry Hold Foe Just Outside Thala   Bitter Battle Still Rages at Gate to Kremamsa Plateau   Rey HANIF. fhe Lier

ENEMY BEING HELD AT ALL POINTS   Drive on Thala Stopped Four  Miles From City

Pressure Eased On Tunisian Line   Both Sides Prepare To Regroup Forces During  Lull In Struggle To Prevent Rommel From Cracking Advance Front

HEAVY LOSSES ARE INFLICTED ON AXIS UNITS   Allied Aircraft Carry Out Raids On Nazi Forces

ENEMY FORCES RELAX PRESSURE   Allies Get First Rest of Three-day Struggle   WARPLANES ACTIVE   Believe Rommel Will Aban.don Plans to Establish * Kasserine Pass Line

“top Rommel out Battles Still Rage   German Column Gets Within Four Miles of Thala   Murderous American Fire Covers Highway   Yank Warplanes Help Delay Big  Tunisian Drive

Heavy Nazi Casualties Reported   Success In The Air Recounted In The  Communiaues

Fighting Dies Down After Three-Day Baitle  On Tunisian Front  NAZIS HURLED BACK IN ONE POSITION  Most Dangerous Push Stopped Four Miles From Strategic Thala

ENEMY DRIVES WITHIN 4 MILES OF OBJECTIVE   elted Troops, ops, With Strong  American Air Support,  Beat Back Nazis West Central Tunisia   BITTER BATTLE FOR THALA STILL RAGES   German Force of 40 Tanks, Motorized Infantry and Mobile Guns Run Into American Fire

Allied Tanks Smash Thrust In Thala Area   Axis Attack In Central Sector Beaten Back By American Warplanes; Final Outcome Of  Action Is Still Held Uncertain

Tommies Bring Up Huge Tanks To Match Foe   Allies Hold Marshal Rommel’s Troops Driving For Kremamsa Plateau,   REDS CONTINUE GAINS

ALLIES BEAT BACK ATTACK IN TUNISIA   Ground Forces Supported By Yank Air Arm   is In Progress North Of Kasserine; Many Nazi Tanks Disabled

Stubborn Defensive Stalls Nazis Four Miles From Goal   American Planes Play Prime Role in Keeping Enemy From Gaining  Riarthate nn Mekhi Dinka,

HILLS REGION THRUST HALTED BY U.S., BRITISH   Battle in Tunisia Takes Brighter’ Turn After Furious Fighting Against Rommel

FIGHTING DIES DOWN AFTER 3-DAY BATTLE   Axis Forces Fail to Gain Thala Road  Junction

Rommel Makes Desperate Try To Crack Line   Continuous Relays Of American Warplanes Being Utilized To Balk Germans

Rommel's Thrust Is Halted by Tanks, Infantry   Outcome Still Undecided At Vital Gateway

,Smash Back at Armored - Columns North of Kas serine Gap   COLUMN TURNED BACK   German Smash at Tebessa Is Repul sed With Heavy  ] oOssesc

Axis Thrust Halted Four Miles From Ally Base at Thala   DESPERATE GERMAN PUSH IN CENTRAL TUNISIA BLOCKED BY YANKS, BRITISH AS UNITED STATES PLANES SEIZE SKY CONTROL

Stubborn 3-Day Battle In Lull   _Both Sides Moving Up Reinforcements

Germans Are Battered by S$. Planee   Bitter. Battle Continues’ But Enemy. Is. Pounded Heavier Than Ever. Before   ES  MAY ABANDON DARING: DRIVE       British: Tanks and Yankee  Gunners Stubhornly Hold  Vital: Junction

ALLIED PLANES HARASS GERMAR AFRICAN CORPS   Germans May Be Forced To Abandon Drive Into Algeria

U. S., British Hurl Back Germans Within Four Miles of Goals American Planes Help Check Thrust

Fierce Shelling By Americans Repulses Tanks   Strong Air Support Helps Beat Assault In Central Tunisia

GEORGE W. PATTISON PASSED AWAY JUNE 2   Funeral Services Were Held Sun. day, Conducted by Rey. Mae rion L. Sanderlin

Thousands See “Gibraltar in Norway   ROCK, BAY, SHRUBS, BUILDINGS APPEAR IN HEAT WAVE MIRAGE

ANTI-SUBSIDY FORCES LOOK FOR VICTORY   Predicts bill will pass in House by overwhelming majority

REVOLT STAGED BY DEMOCRATS ON BREAD GIFT   Georgian Declares Prices Should Reflect Parity To Wheat Growers   CERTAIN VETO IGNORED

NEARLY TWO-TO-ONE VOTE EXPECTED MONDAY—FLOUR SUBSIDY PLAN ANNOUNCED

PRELIs} olbolDY DOOMED 2 10  DEFEAT IN HAUOE   Anti-Subsidy Leaders Foresee Big Majority in Vote Monday

PRELIST SUBSIDY DOOMED 2 10 DEFEAT IN-HOUSE   Anti-Subsidy Leaders Foresee Big Majority  ‘in Vote Monday.

MINERS WARN OPERATORS IN WACK PARLEY   ‘Great Monumental Blunder” Predicted if They Feel Contract Can Be  - Made by Outsiders   PROPOSALS REFUSED   Owners Told old Workers. Will Not pane bighs Ar Paling 81.2 Ls lithout Fight

Miners Tell Operators To Dodge Outside Help   Say If Owners Expect Uncle Sam Or Somebody Else To Negotia te Wage Contract It Will Be ‘Great Mo nuriental Blunder’

DOWNTOWN THEATER BURNS IN DAYTON   RKO-Strand Loss Estimated At $100,000

PORTER DIES IN FIRE OF DAYTON THEATER   Two Firemen Injured in $100,000 Blaze

LIBERATION HOUR NEAR IN FRANCE   French Radio Stations j ‘Africa Call on People t Show Contempt of Foe

Stinging Blow Is Dealt Jans   P-38s Down Nine Zeros; 11 Wrecked On Ground.

20 OF JAPS' AIRPLANES DESTROYED   Fast P-38’s Do Great Damage In New Guinea Action

Soviets BP On 22 Div The Enem   Smashing Air Attack On Japs At Airdrome   Nine Planes Are Downed In Flight ll Others Wrecked

ALLIED AIRMEN DOWN NINE JAPS IN SHARP FIGHT   Destroy JL Other Enemy Planes on Ground in Series of Raids on Lac, New Guinea.   GROUND SOLDIERS LOCKED IN STRUGGLE   Australians and Americans Battle Foe on Trail Leading From Sanananda to Runa.

MacArthur’s Airmen Bag 20 Jap Planes in Attacks   Allied Troops Close In On Japanese In Heavy Fighting On New Guinea

P-38s Knock 9 Jap Zeros, 11  Bombers Out  MacArthur's Ground Troops Close in on Enemy Inland

20 Jap Planes Are Destroyed  By Americans   9 Zeros Knocked Down And 11 Jap Bombers Smashed in New Cuinen

30 German Planes In Surprise Blow; Say 1,000 killed, Hurt In Air Attack

ALLIES LOSE 17 SHIPS AT BARI   Sunk In Surprise Raid By Nazis On Adriatic Port

17 Merchant Ships Sunk by  Nazi Bombers   1,000 Persons, Including 37 American  Naval Men Killed or Injured; US Heavy Bombers Strike Hard at the Brenner Pass Lifeline Between Italy and Germany

Caught in Surprise  Nazi Bomber Raid   Five American Vessels Lost in Serious Blow Dealt Dec. 2 on Allied Port at Bari, Italy

,000 KILLED OR INJURED IN BARI ATTACK   Five American Ships Among Those Lost In Air Radi On Italian Harbor

Five Of Lost Cargo Vessels U. S. Owned   30 Nazi Bombers Stage Successful Surprise Raid At Bari

NAZI BOMBERS SMACK CONVOY IN BAR! PORT   5 American Vessels Lost: 1, 000 Casualties Reported By Stimson

1,000 Killed Or Injured in Bomber Raid  Stimson Says 1 List Includes 37 American Naval Men  VESSELS EXPLODE  Two Ammunition Ships Spread Fires Over Harbor

17 Allied Merchant Ships, Including Five U. S. Vessels, Sunk By Germans

17 United Nations Vessels Sunk in Protected Harbor   Five U. S. Merchant Ships Lost; 1,000 Lives Lost Including 37 American Naval Personnel

FIVE ARE U. 5. VESSELS; THOUSAND KILLED, HURT   Worst Loss In Protected Port Since Pearl Harbor; City’s Defenses Taken By Surprise When Fleet Force Of German Bombers Strikes

Nazis Sink 17 Vessels DuringRaid   German Bombers Make Surprise Attack On Harbor Of Bari At Dawn December 2

Italian Port Hit Hard in Surprise Raid   1,000 Killed or Injured in Blow By Nazi Bombers On December 2

Surprise Raid By Bombers on Cargo Vessels  In Bari Harbor   > American Merchantmen Lost — Blow Is ‘Serious’

17 UNITED NATIONS MERGHANTSHIPS SUNK DECEMBER 3   Approximately 1000 Persons Were Killed or Injured During Bombing.   37 WERE AMERICANS   This Was Disclosed at a Press Conference Today by Sec. Stimson.

Allied Vessels Sunk, Hundreds Killed af Bari   German Bombers Stage Air Raid On Port in Italy

Five American Vessels Among Bomb Victims    1,000 Killed or yr Injured i in-German Surprise Raid.on Supply Port in Italy

Bombers Sweep in Low Over Port Loaded With Thirty Merchant Ships; of Seventeen Ships Sunk, Five Are  American Vessels.   Most of Cargo Discharged Before Serious Damage Done on Dec. 2

FIVE AMERICAN VESSELS SENT DOWN AT BAR   Approximately 1,000 Casualties. From German Bombers in Attack at Italian Port

Washington Admits Blow Serious And Similar to American Attacks Awainct Tananece

Stimson Tells Of Air Assault On Bari Dec. 2   37 Yanks Among 1000 Casualties Suffered In Attack On Italian Port

STIMSON SAYS CASUALTY LIST FIXED AT 1,000   Bombers Struck Ships In Italian Port on  December 2nd

Raid on Bari Inflicts 1000 Casualties   Five American Craft Bagged as Supply Harbor Is Devastoted

17 Allied Ships Sunk  by Germans   30 Nazi Raiders Make Surprise Attack at Bari, Italy Two Weeks Ago

Nazi Bombers Sink 17 Allied Ships   Surprise Raid Hits Serious Blow; 1,000 Casualties

Surprise Raid Sinks 17 Allied Merchant Ships   1000 Killed Or Injured in Dawn Attack   Five American Vessels in Bari Harbor When the Nazi Planes Struck

Allies Lose 17 Merchant Ships At Bari   Approximately !,000 Persons Killed or Injured  REPORT BY STIMSON

Bombers hit port of Bari with success   Casualty list is near 1.000 mark

Blow Struck Hard At Supplies For British In Italy   Raiders Came in Low And Fast At Dawn and Went Only For Shipping  THOUSAND CASUALTIES  Two Ammunition Ships Hit, Explode and Spread  Weed ees pret ih seer ie Pg Saaaena ; 7. oe, Gee

GERMAN SURPRISE ASSAULT RESULTS IN 17 SHIPS SUNK   Five American Vessels In Port at Bari, ttaly, on December 1 When 30 Enemy Bombers Arrived.   TVO AMMUNITION VESSELS ARE BLOWN UP   37 American Naval Men Are Among 1700 Persons Killed or Injured. Blow Is Reported as Serious One.

1000 Killed In Nazi Surprise Blow In Italy      30 Bombers Sweep In At Low Level] Dec. 2 To Send Half Of Supply Vessels Down; 5 U. S. Boats Among Victims

) U, S, VESSELS IN GROUP; 1,000 KILLED OR HURT   Most of Cargo Unloaded Before Surprise Attack

zi Bombers k 17 lied Ships   srprise Raid Hits arious Blow; 000 Casualties

Germans Raid Allied Convoy At Bari, Italy   Nazi Bombers Came In Fast and Low, Catching City by Complete Surprise

One Of Worst Blows Of War  To Our Shipping Dealt By { Enemy: Over 1,000 Casualties '   Thirty Vessels Caught In Harbor Used As Supply Port Kor Allied Forces In Italy; Wave Of Foe Planes Came Over Fast And Low At Dawn

Five U.S, Merchant Ships Lost   1000, INCLUDING 37 U. S. NAVY MEN, KILLED, HURT IN ENEMY BLOW

HIPS—  sIRPRISE BAD STAGED DEC,   Five U. S. Ships Among Merchant Vessels Sunk  Jn Harbor   1,000 CASUALTIES   Secretary Of War Stimson Discloses Details Of Attack

GERMAN BOMBERS IN DEVASTATING RAID GN ITALIAN HARBOR   SEVENTEEN MERCHANT SHIPS SUNK AND 1,000 PERSONS WERE LOST

37 AMERICAN NAVAL MEN ARE ‘AMONG VICTIMS   Attack, In Some Respects,  Worst Defeat Inside Pro-:  tected Harbor Since * Pearl Harbor   CITY'S DEFENSES TAKEN BY SURPRISE   Most of Supplies Unloaded  - When Germans Strike.  At Low Altitude Be- fore Dawn Dec. 2

1,000 Casualties In German Air Raid on Dec. 2   No Explanation Given for Success Of Enemy Attack

NAZIG SINK 17 ALLIEDVESSELS BY AIR ATTACK   s Worst Port Disaster Since Pearl Harbor; 37 U.S. Naval Men Listed. :

ABOUT 30 GERMAN. -BOMBE 0S MAKE A re SIIRPRICE RA       Swoop Down Low Over Allies Supply Port  Of Bari, Italy   THIS DISASTER ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO

Nazi Surprise Raid Sinks 17 Allied Vessels   1,000 Perish In Heavy Aifack On Buri Supply Pert

SINK SEVENTEEN ALLIED SHIPS  NAL BOMBERS   Surprise Raid At Port Of Bari Is Revealed

NAZI-BOMBERS SINK 17 ALLIED SHIPS AT BARI   Surprise Dawn Raid Caugh! Ital ian Port Unprepared With 30 Ship Convoy in Harbor   1.000 CASUALTIES   Five U. S. Vessels, 37 Americas Neval Men Reporied Included Among Losses

STIMSON: REPORTS L000 CASUALTIES   Two: Ammunition Ships Ex. plode in Harbor After Be- “ing Hit By Bombs

FIVE AMERICAN VESSELS INCLUDED AMONG VICTIMS SURPRISE ATTACK; 1.000 CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED   30 German Bombers Catch Ground Defenses Unawares and in Few Moments Blast Cargo ‘Ships to Bottom. Was Temporarily Serious Se back to British Eighth Army

German Raid On Bari Port Kills 1,000   Surprise Attack Catches Allied Defenses Flatfooted  ~_ tierra Ae weev7v* 8 oe reer ee eee ee

BOMBERS RAID PORT IN ITALY AT LOW LEVEL   Defenses Are Caught Completely Off Guard for Tragic Few Minutes

WORST RAID SUFFERED YET BY ALLIES   Enemy Caught City By Surprise On December 2

Germans Sink 17 Merchant Ships At Bari   Merchant Ships at Allied Supply Port Sunk in Surprise Raid by 30 German Bombers Within Space of Few Minutes.

SURPRISE RAID TAKES BIG TOLL OF LIFE ALSO   Worst Disaster for Allies Since Pearl Harbor at Bari, Italy, Dec. 2

30 NAZi BOMBERS BLAST CONVOY IN THE PORT OF BARI   RAID OCCURRED TWO WEEKS AGO; CONVOY HAD JUST ARRIVED

Clean Out Japanese Or  Guadalcanal   Formal notification of victory from Admiral Halsey

TODAY IS 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST SUCESSFUL FLIGHT   CELEBRATION STAGED At WRIGHT FIELD IN HONOR OF ACHIEVEMENT OF  WRIGHT BROTHERS ¢

HONOR IS PAID FIRST AIRMEN   Tributes To Wrights Mark Aviation’s Birthday

FRENCH WAR OHIPS COME TO AMERICA   Battleship Richelieu and Cruiser Montcalm Make Crossing from Dakar.   DODGED HUNTING GERMAN SUBS   Modern Type Vessels Add to Power of United Nations’ Fleet.

Big French Battleship Here   Richelieu, Cruiser, And Destroyers Evade U-Boats

FRENCH WARSHIP RICHELIEU IN U.S. FOR REPAIRS   Big 35-000-Ton Battleship and Cruiser Montcalm Make Dangerous Atlantic Crossing; In Safety ‘ : 

Huge French Battleship ‘ Berthed At New York   Richelieu. Crippled But Powerful, Comes In Under Escort  Of Destroyers

French Warship Richelieu Is in  A U. S. Harbor   Rides Out a Tough Gale and Submarine Pack to  Reach New York.   Other French Ships Here to Get Repairs

Richelieu AT N. Y.   Mighty French Battleship Limps Across Atlantic ‘From Dakar To Join United Nations Fighting Force; Cruiser and Two Large Destroyers Also Réach U.S.   Modern Type Vessels.

Huge French Battleship _ Reaches U.S.   35,000 Ton Richelieu ~ Will Be Repaired and. Sent Back to Do Serv jee for the Allies

Giant French Warships Are In U. S. Ports   35,000 - Ton Battleship Richelieu Now in New York Harbor   HAS EXCITING VOYAGE

BIG FRENCH VARSHIPS RFACHT S   The Battleship Richelieu  and Cruiser Montcalm to doin Allied Forces   OTHER WARSHIPS  - MAKE CROSSING   They Will Make Important Addition to Fleet After They Are Repaired

RICHELIEU AND OTHER WARSHIPS JOIN THE ALLIES   Big 35,000-Ton Battleshin Makes Trip Safely From Dakar; Cruiser And Several  Destroyers Accom panv Her To U. S.

Two French Battleships Arrive in U.S   35,000-Ton Richelieu and Cruiser Montcalm Here for Renairs

BIG MEN 0° WAR BEING REFITTED TO HELP ALLIES   Several French Destroyers Also at Unnamed Yards To Have Repairs Made   ESCORTED OVER ATLANTIC   Heavy Storms Batter Them On Way Across from Base at Dakar

French Naval Pride Slides Into New York   Crippled Battleship Arrives in American Port After Eluding Large U-Boat Attack

39,060 TON FRENCH BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU REACHES NEW YORK PORT AFTER STORMY CROSSING   Pierced Hull, Damage 1 Guns and Useless Propeller Among Damages To Be Repaired Before Powerful Ship Joins Allied Battle Fleet

The 35,000-Ton Vessel, Crip: pled But Still Far From Im-, potent, Arrived Last Thursday.   DODGED SUBMARINES IN THE MID-ATLANTIC   7600-Ton French Cruiser, Montcalm, a 6-Inch Gun Vessel, Is Berthed at Philadelphia.

Richelieu Makes Escape From Sui Pack, Heavy Gaie   ‘U.S. Destroyers Escort Battleshie From Bakar

39,000 - TON BATTLESHIP LEADS UNIT   Cruiser And_ Several Destroyers Here  : For Repairs

39,000-T0N RICHELIEU IN N.Y. HARBOR   Cruiser ‘Montcalm’ Is Also Reported in  American Port

French Battleship \nd Cruiser  Reach U.S. Ports   Crippled Members Of French Fleet Reach America After Escape Bram Dakar «-

RICHELIEU MAKES PORT AFTER DASH ACROSS ATLANTIC   CRUISER ARRIVES IN PHILADELPHIA; ESCAPED GERMANS

[French Ships Arrive in United States   Battleship Richelieu Anchors in New York Harbor; Cruiser Montcalm Berths at Philadelphia

Battleship Richelieu, Cruiser From French Navy In U. S. Ports For Repairs

French Warships Dock In America   RICHELIET’ AND LARGE CRUISER CROSS ATLANTIC

Cruiser And Destroyers Also Arrive   Dodge A U-Boat Pack, Ride Out Great Storm On Trip From Dakar.

Huge F rench Battleship : Reaches U. 8.  i The Rithelien To:   The Richelien To Be Recommissioned; . Others Also Here.

French Battleship Richelieu, Cruiser Montcalm and Two New Destroyers in American Ports

ICHELIEU IS ROUGHT FROM PORTOF DAKAR   lides Into American Har bor After Dodging Pack of Subs In MidAtlantic   IDES OUT WORST ALE CREW RECALLS      ccompanied by Frenct Cruiser Montcalm, and Escorted by U.S. Destroyers

LEAVE DAKAR FOR REPAIRS   35,000 Battieship Richelieu, Crusier, Others Make Crossing.   TO FIGHT FOR ALLIES

Ships Under Orders Of General Giraud: To Undergo Repairs   35,000 - Ton Battleship Pulls into Nev York Harbor, Montcalm Berthed at Philadelphia, Others Undisclosed

35,000 Ton Richelieu, Other French Vessels [Reach U. S. For Repair

French Warship Richelieu af New York Harho   Other Naval Units Arrive for Service With Allied Fleets

Fleet Headed By Richelieu To Fight Axis   Battleship, Cruiser And Destroyers Elude Pack  Of Submarines

Battleship Richelieu — AtNew York   Cruiser Monicalm and Number of Destroyers Also Cross from Dakar to America   DODGE SUB PACK   Damaged French Batile Wagor Outrides Storm—Vessels to be Refitted Here for War —

Crippled French Battleship Here   Richelieu Arrives With  Cruiser

THE WEATHER   yer Montcalm And fvo New Destroyers iyo Arrive Safely At _§, Ports

French Batfleshin Richelieu Arrives In N.Y. Kfler Dedsing Submarines, Riding Out a Gale

4 FRENCH SHIPS JONN ALLIES IN FIGHT ON NAZIS   Battleship Richelieu, One of Most Powerful in World, Reaches N. Y

LARGE FRENGH BATTLESHIP IN HARBOR ATN, Y.   U. S. Destroyers Convoy 35,000Ton Richelieu

Richelieu to Help Allies  39,000-Ton French Warship Reaches New York Harbor

HUGE FRENCH BATTLESHIP IS IN NEW YORK      Crippled Richelieu Dodges Packs Of U-boats And Rides Out Tough Gale

FRENCH WARSHIPS ~ REACH AMERICA   35,000-Ton  RichBeu. a ‘New York; Craise: Moat calm;-2:Destroyers Arrive

Richelieu, Montcalm Come Over   Several Destroyers Alsc Revealed Here To Join Allies.   Fleet Fear Ends

FRENCH BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU IS IN NEW YORK HARBOR   Crippled But Not impotent She Will Join Allied Fleet Soon

Allies Capture Sanananda Point   Remnants of Japanese Force is Encircled On Coastal End of New Guinea; Three Pockets of Resistance Remain

TRY TO REACH WAGE AGREEMENT   Union and Rail Operators Press Government for Pay Hike

Nali UNION Meads Prepared to Call Strike Vote Today  Step Might Mean Government Control  Of Rails During War IRKED AT PAY FREEZE   IRKED AT PAY FREEZE

Meeting To Pass On Railway Wage   Management Expected To Join Men In Agreeing On Eight Cent Boost.

REDS’ ACTIVITY AT BOTH ENDS OF LINE INCREASES   May Be Preparing New Drive To Turn Flanks Of Germans In One Or _ Both Widely Separated Sectors.

Reds May Plan ‘Flank Attack   Activity Indicates Impending Blow at Both Ends of Front

SOVIET MOVES SUGGEST NEW _ BIG OFFENSIVE   Drive In Center Of Long Line Bogs Down In Autumn Rains

RUSSIAN MOVES ‘HINT NEW DRIVE   Growing Activity Flares On Both Ends Of East Front

} MAY TRY TO FLANK NAZIS   Opinion of London Ob. servers Based on Re ports of Renewed Soviet Activity at Botk Ends of Long Front.

Activity Grows On Ends Of Soviet Eastern Front; New Drive Reported

Reds Believed Planning Drive     On Nazi Flanks   Central Front Inactive As Bad Weather Slows Both Sides At Dnieper

REDS BELIEVED PLANNING FOR NEW THRUSTS   Reports of Growing Activity on Both Ends of Long © Front Suqgest Offensive   KEEPING THE INITIATIVE   Five Billion Tax Plan is New Demand

Reports Of Growing Activity Of Mobile Columns On Both Ends Of Long Eastern Front Suggest Preparation Of Drive In Force To Turn German Flanks—Red Army Retains Initiative In White Russia Despite Heavy Rains—Central Area Remains Quiet

Unofficial Precinct Totals   Reds Believed To Be Preparing For New Flank Attack   New Activity Among Russian Mobile Columns Reported; Dnieper Front Remains Quiet

Reports of Growing Activity of Russian Mobile Columns Suggest New Flank Move.

RUSSIANS PLAN NEW ATTACKS   Ends of Long Line Expected To Be Scene

Reds Still Driving On  Soggy Trails   46 Towns Recaptured in Vitebsk Sector, Also Rail Line

New Drive By Russian Army Expected Soon   Growing Activity Noticed At Both Ends Of Long Eastern Front; Weather Still Is Unfavorable

Russia Massing Armies To Turn German Flanks   Despite Mud And Rain Soviets Continue Advancing.

Soviets Map New Drive to  Flank Nazis   Initiative Kept Despite Soggy Marshlands and  Counteratlacks   RUSS PILOTS ACTIVE   Barges Sunk, Batteries  Silenced and Trucks Destroved

REDS PREPARING FOR NEW STABS AT FOE TROOPS   Despite Bed Weather Condi. tions, Soviets Are Making Steady Progress

SOVIET FORCES TAKE 46 TOWNS IN NORTH ZONE   Red Armies Keep Pushing  Ahead On Both Ends of Vast Front: Central  : Area Is Quiet   NEW DRIVE IS SEEN IN FLANK MANEUVER   Russians Menace Vitersk As Forces Reach Point 140 Miles From Latvia In Baltic Region

RENEWED ACTIVITY  REPORTED AT BOTH  ENDS RUSSIAN LINE CENTRAL FRONT AROUNI  KIEV, HOWEVER, REMAINED INACTIVE

Russians Active Along Rainy Fastern Front   Drive Aimed to Turn German Flank Before Winter Sets In

_  —RUSSTA~  AEDS WAY OPEN NEW OFFENSIV   Drive To Turn Germar Flanks On Both End: Of Line Seen

RUSSIANS MAY BE. PREPARING TO TURN NAZI FLANKS.   This Movement. Suggested By Reports of Growing Soviet Activity at Both Ends of the Long Front q

Signs Of New Flanking Move By Reds Appear   Fresh Activity On Both Ends Of Long Front; Central Sector Static.

Soviets Map New Attacks   Believed Planning on Drive in Force on  Both German Flanks

Red Activity May Mean New Maior Drive   Growing Mobile Columns Seen At Both Ends Of Front

ACTION GROWS ON BOTH ENDS OF LONG LINE   Soviets Capture 46 Villages Around Vitebsk: All Remains Quiet On Central Front

RED ARMY FORGES PREPARING FOR NEW DRIVE ON GERMANS   Reports of Growing Activity of Russian Mobile Columns on Eastern Front.   Planning Campaign to Turn the Flank of Germans on These Sectors.

I'wo Girls Walking On Road Killed   Were In Party of Four Return. ing From Halloween Party

2 Des Moines Girls Killed -On Highway   Struck By Car While On  Way Home From School ; Function

LARGE INCREASE IN PRODUCTION OF INVASION WEAPONS   Output Of Planes Still Lags Behind Schedule; August Produce. Up Four Percent.

War Equipment Production in Hs Biggest Gain   But Output of Planes Still Lags, @ WPB Reports

War Production Shows Big Gain   Output Of Planes “Still Under Gaal}

WPB Optimistic _ Over‘Ametican War Production “Army ‘Reported To B Concerned. by Tone  of Agencies Report ~

U.S. Munitions Output Gains During August Plane Productior  Lags Behind Schedule

{f Die as Plane Hifs Mountain  Fortress. Was From he atid ®: +. ££ 22   Fortress. Was From Rattlesnake Army Base at Pyote

Will Release Fruits, Vegetables   More Canned Foods To Be Made Available

Civilian Supplies to Be Ausmented   More Than Two Million Cases of Canned Goods Will be Released Soon

VIGHY RELATIONS BROKEN BY URUGUAY   Legation Staff Had Been Held Since Last November

Foresee Many Resignations Of Ration Officials   Solons Rap ‘Chopping Up’ Of States Under District Setup.

Knockout Stage Of Allied Drive Still Far Away   Nazi War Machine Remains Powerful

Knockout Stage of Allied Air Offensive Against Germans Not Yet Reachec

WILL REVIEW BOOK   ‘Mrs. John Hanking To Help in Obi gervance of Book Week 

WILL REVIEW BOOK   ‘Mrs. John Hankins Tc To Help in Ob servance of k Week

SEE DIVERSION OF FRUITS TO OPEN MARKET   May Be Halted By Ceilings  Proposed for Retail  Outlets   SETS PRICE ‘FLOOR’   Lower Market Price Would Cause Quick Shift To Canneries

Corn Stocks of 96 Elevators Requisitioned   Further Effort To Break Jam  In Distribution

Appeal Is Unheeded In Pennsylvania   Leaders of Locals in Pittsburgh Area Refuse to Go Back to Work  VOTE TO REMAIN IDLE

F.D.R. BACK AT DESK T0 FACE LABOR CRISES   Cuts Holiday Short To Wrestle With Two Strike Threats

Appeal By President-Goes-Unheeded As Pennsy Miners Remain Off Job   Leaders Say They Won’t Go Back Until Lewis Tells Them; Ohio Mine Operators Predict All Of 20,000 Miners Will Join Work Stoppage.

President's Work Appeal Is Unheeded In District   At Least 38,000 Steel Workers In Pittsburgh Area Are On Strike

Western Fenna. Striking Miner Say Only Word From Lewis Will Get Them Back To Their Jobs

UMW Sees Bargaining As Solution   F. D. Told Such 4 Move Is Logical Way To Provide Justice. Equit. For All

Plan Amphibious Landing Behind Nazi Line, Report   Berlin Says U. S. Left Wing “Quiet for a Week”

NAZI ANNOUNCER EXPECTS LANDING   Says Large Concentration of Allied Vessels at Wanles

Stassen Called. To Active Naval Duty April 29 ~   Will Turn Reins of State Over To Thye, Lieutenant Governor

RATIONING OF MEAT OPPOSED BY OHIQANS   Cincinnati Retailers Charge Ignorance in OPA

MEAT DEALERS HIT RATIONING   Drive To Half Program !s Started in Cincinnati

MAN EVADES DRAFT BY SENDING BROTHER   At Least That's: Charge as Boy, 14, Goes AWOL

Hitler And Company Guess Wrong Again Territorial Demand Claimed Made On Britain By America

Axis Guesses Wrong Again, Says Churchill Visits U. S.   Radio Broadcast, “American Territorial Demands’ on Britain

Senate Unit Speeds Up  Postwar Plan   Seeks President's Approval; Battle Foreseen

NO CERTIFICATES NEEDED         Farmers Can Now Purchase Fence WPB Reports

BOMB WRECKS NAPLES BUILDING   50 Citizens Killed by . Nazi Blast

ANOTCR TAZ BOMB EXPLODES IN NAPLES   100 Persons Killed, Injured By Time Blast

FDR veneer     'ATBENNING”   Seated A Scant Hundred Yards From Where Shells Were Spewing  On ‘Fnemy’ Position.

Special Election Set For April 6   To Choose State Constitutional Revision Convention Delevates.

DECREASE NOTED TNENROLLMENT   890. Students Report  Fo First Day—1008 Last : Vear —

Ten Per Cent Decrease In Public  School’ Enrollment For Present Year   Faculty Complete For Opening Day Of New Term This Week

Yugoslays  Wreck Big ~ Tron Mines      Cripple Hitler’s 2d Best Ore Source, Cross Danube Into Hungary

Jugoslavs Wreck lron Ore Mine. Used by Nazis   Follows Bitter Battle in Bosnian Hills

Guerrillas Ruin Key lron Mine   HUNGARY WAR FLARES AS PARTISAN BANDS SLASH ACROSS DANUBE

REPORT SLAVS CROSS DANUBE INTO HUNGARY   Guerrilla Bands Wreck One Of Biggest Iron Ore Mines

JUGOSLAVS WRECK VITAL IRON MINES      Partisans Battle Mountains Bosnia  Axis Of

JUGOSLAVS WRECK NAZI TRON MINE   Others Break,  Across Danube ‘Into. Hungary.»

Band of Jugoslav Partisans Wreck Great Iron Ore Mine for Axis   Allies Aim for Venafro With Added Aerial Aid

Partisans Knock Out Important Tron Ore Mine   Swiss Reports Say Some Forces Burning Hungary Installations

May Give Names Of Guests At Mystery House   House Ready To Resume Probe Into Social Activities There.

Knox Reminds Of Jap War   Says English Need Education in Its Importance

Allies Destroy 58 More Jap Planes at Rabau   Total Wiped Out at Enemy Base Since October 12 Nears 40

58 More Jap Planes Are Destroyed  43 Others Suffer Damage in New

More Jap Planes Are Destroyed In South Pacific  Total Since Oct. 12 Nearly 400 as  Allies Drive Ahead

SHARE-T HE-RIDE PROVES WORTH   Bus and Street Car Strike In Akron Fails To Slow War Production

FACTORIES RUN DESPITE STRIKE   Share-the-Ride Plan Works in Akron, Walkout Enters Third Day

SOLDIERS AT WORK ON DIKES OF KAW   Groups Reported to Be Busy Near Perry and Bonner Springs   SURVEY LOCAL DAMAGE

ON DIKES OF KAW.   Groups Reported to Be Busy Near Perry and Bonner Springs:   ISURVEY LOCAL DAMAGE,

Much Greater Food Production Will Be Needed   Measures to Aid Farmers Included In WFA‘s Program

Jones Calls On U. S. Farmers For  Record Harvest   More Acreage Is  743 Goal of WEA

SFEK HIGHER FOOD PRODUCTION IN 1944   Raise Acreage by 16 Million; Quota Issued by WFA

FOOD DIRECTOR ENVISIONS “44 FOOD RECORD   Jones Calls On Farmers To Mobilize Every Acre for Production

Record Harvest In ‘Mf Sought By Government  Jones Hints Food Problem To Extend Over Several Years

JONES CALLS UPON NATION'S FARMERS FOR ALL-OUT EFFORT  WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION HEAD PLEADS FOR INCREASED CROPS

Farmers Urged  To Raise Record Crop Next Year   More Equipment, Less Red Tape Seen

RECORD HARVEST SOUGHT IN 1944 FOR WAR NEEDS   WFA CZAR PLEDGES AID TO FARMERS IN HUGE FOOD PROGRAM

Jones Calls For Record  1944 Harvest   Government Wants High Levels In Meat, Egg, Dairy Production.   INCREASE CROP ACRES

Jones Calls For Record 1944 Harvest   WFA Head Wants Farmers To Raise Largest Pe<sible Crops

Huge Farm Goals Set For 1944   Call for Crop Acreage - Of 380,000,000, and . _ High Level of Meat And Dairy Production

1944 HARVEST GOAL IS SET   War Food Boss Jones Ask: Farmers To Mobilize For Record Crops

PLANS BEING LAID FOR EXPANSION IN FOOD DURING 194   Jones Announces 380 Million Acres of Crops, Levels of Meat, Milk and Eggs Must Be High.   MACHINES, FERTILIZER ARE BEING PROMISED   Wheat Goal Boosted to 68 Million Acras; Slaughter of Meat To Be Increased 50 Per Cent.

Marvin Jones In Plea To U. §. Farmers   Calls For Mobilization Over Every Crop Acre In 1944

Asks Farmers to Mobilize Every Acre for Crops   Wants 380 Million Acres Plan ted, and High Levels of Meat, Milk and Eggs Maintained

Record Harves! Next Year Asked Of U. §. Farmers   380,000,000 Acres Of Crops Wanted, WFA Announces

FARM GOALS FOR 1944 T0 BE HIGHER   Government Wants 380,000,000 Acres Under Cultivation During Next Year   TO AID FARMERS

HIGHER FARM GOAL: FOR 44 ANNOUNCED   16 Million Acre Increase Souglit For Next Year

LONERGAN NAMED RULER OF B,P.O.E   Order Pledges Support to War Program

_ Action Is Expected -To Freeze Millions To War Plant Jobs Or Essential Work   EMPLOYERS DUE -TO GET PRIORITIES

War Manpower Commission Will Control Hiring Of Labor in Areas Where Shortace Is Critical

MANPOWER BOARD TO TAKE CONTROL OF HIRING LABOR   Workers to Be Furnished Employers on a Priority Basis in Areas Where Shortages Exist.   MAY MEAN FREEZING OF MILLIONS TO JOBS   Limits to Be Placed on Authority of Firms to Discharge Those Assigned to Them.

Hire Labor In  Shortage Areas   War Manpower Commission To Take Control

GOVERNMENT TO HIRE LABOR IN CERTAIN AREAS   New System Designed To Freeze War Workers Announced By McNutt   TO PROVIDE WORKERS ON PRIORITY BASIS

WMC to Hire Labor in Many Areas   Workers Will Be Furnished on Priority Basis

PLAN CONTROL QF LABOR FOR SCARCE AREAS   WMC to Place Work. ers on Priority Basis,  McNutt Says

MeNutt Places Workers Under Priority Plan   WarManpowerCommission To Control Employment Jn Labor Shortage  A oa       Most Important War Firms Get First Call   Limits WH He Placed On Authority Work  to Fire Assiened

Manpower Board Moves to Freeze  Millions to Jobs  WMC Takes Control Of Hiring Labor In Shortage Areas  PRIORITY SYSTEM   Employe’s Importance To War Program T, Re Cancidered

WMC to Hire Labor in Many Areas  ART male nun UX Dp.   Workers Will Be Furnished  on Prioritv Rercie

W MCTakes Over Hiring In Labor Shortage Areas  Control Move Expected to Freeze Millions in War-Vital Jobs; Ogden Listed Among Cities Affectes

MPC fo Take «Over Labor Hiring Control  To Ad in Shortage Areas; Move Freezes . Workerc in lohs —

M Nutt Takes Over In Hiring Of Labor   Step Expected to Freeze Millions to War Industries or Other Essential Tasks—New Barriers Will he Raised

War Manpower Commissior Controls Hiring Of Labor   Millions Of Persons To Be Frozen To War Industries Or Other TFacke Snid Escantial

MILLIONS WILL BE FROZEN 10 WARTIME JOBS   McNutt Announces Plan To Put Hiring Under WMC Control In 131 Regions   Shortages Critical

STEPS TAKEN FOR FREEZING OF WAR JOBS   HIRING IN SHORTAGE AREAS TAKEN OVER BY McNUTT

W MCto Contre  Hiring i in Shortage Areas   Step Expected to Freeze Millions Of Persons to War Industries Or Other Tasks Deamed Essential

McNutt To Take Charge of Labor Shortage Areas   Will Furnish Workers fo Employers on Priority System

Allies Bag 52 Jap Aireraft  In New Guinea   100 Enemy Planes Hit Port Moresby in War's Heaviest Raid: Allied Planes Busy

100 PLANES ii JAP RAID Oh PT. MORESBY   Fifty-Two Enemy Planes Shoji Uut at Port Moresby and Other New Guinea Anh Battles   Second Successive Raid

Japs Beaten In Air Fight   Port Moresby Raid ls  Disastrous For Japs

{00 Jap Planes Raid Moresby: 2 Shot Down   37 Craft Blasted in Air Fight, 15 Others In Allied Forays

Hundred Jap Planes Conduct Heayiest Raid Of Southwest Pacific War On Port Moresby   52 Enemy Planes Shot Out Of Action In Fights In New  - Guinea Area; Nipponese Air Offensive Is Be- lieved Blunted And Plans Dislocated

52. Jap Planes Wrecked _ In Port Moresby Attack   Heavy Enemy Raid Staged in New Guinea on Allied Positions—Allied Air Fighters Score Complete Victory

Invaders Launch Heaviest Attack On Pacific Port   But Raid, Like That of Sunday, Is Repulsed by Allies   Enemy Completely Defeated in Series of Air Battles

JAPS HURL 100 PLANES AGAINST PORT MORESBY   52 Enemy Planes Are Shot Out Of Action In Port Moresby And Other Fights In The New Guinea Area

[Heaviest Raid Of War By Nips Ends In Complete Rout   /Mlied Planes Protect Port Moresby And Strike Devastatinaly In Other Sectors

4H SHORT COURSE AT AMES SUSPEND   District Events V Will Replace ‘Annual 4-H Club  Affair :

District Events. Will Replace Annual 4-H Club Affair At State College   Suspend Short Course Owing: To Conditions

WAU'S SLAYING STILL UNSOLVED   1k-year-old Boy Who Confessed Murder Is Deranged.

ORCHARD WORK TO BE SHOWN   4 Harticulturlst Coming for One Bay in County.

Aerial Might — Is Conceded   Japanese Declare Need Of Planes In Mid-Pacifie Areas [s Vital

Japs Bemoan Plane Shortage   Say They Must Cut American Supply Line

Showdown Coming  For Mine Workers  Willing to Work, Some Miners Meet Insuraents’ Pickets

Stage Sel for Showdown Between Soff Coal ‘Insurgent’ Strikers and. ‘Miners Who Are Ready to Go to Work

EXPECT SHOWDOWN TODAY WW COAL AREA      Many Union Men Plan to Cross ‘Insurgent? Picket Lines; Violence Predicted

Stage Sets Showdown  Coal Area   Miners Now Refuse to Cross Insurgent Picket Lines

OHIO EXPENSES OCCUPY SOLONS   State Auditor on Griddle As Adjournment Next Week Hoped For

M AY CONTINUE   @Whittemore Expresses Doubt Group Can Finish By May 28

McKeldin GOP Mayoralty Nominee; Conlon Beats  O’Connell      KELLY RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGO

Japan Ships North China Troops South   Chuugking Reports Destination te Be  Southwest Pacific

TROOP MOVEMENTS BY JAPS OBSERVED   Chinese Say Enemy Is Moving From Manchukuo And North China To Southwest Pacific

Report Japanese Shifting Troops  Fighting in China Te Wideenreand

CHINESE BLOCK SALWEEN DRIVE   American Airmen Help; Jap Troops Moving From Manchukuo

Japanese Troops Advance in China   Chungking Reports Furious Fighting

Report Japanese Shifting Troops  _ Fighting in China Is Widespread

§ AIRMEN KILLED IN DAYTON CRASH   a  One Is War Hero—Two Leap  To Safety in Chutes

Speculation That General Marshall Might Be Appointed Chief Allied Forces In Europe Rises

Hint General Marshall May Be Appointed Commander-In-Chief Of Allied Forces In European Theater; Anti-U-Boat Plans Discussed

igportant Announcement  will Be Issued Soon On Supreme Council To Direct Campaign

Attain Formula  For War Council   Gen. George Marshall May Be Named Supreme Commander of Allies.

FOR ALLIES HINTED   Talk of Appointment of General Marshall as Allied  i Commander   IN THE BRITISH PRESS

Gen. Marshall Is Hinted As Allied  Supreme Leader   London Studies Strate For Coming Year

Allied Chiefs Agree  On Supreme Council   Reports Say Formula For Unified Effort. To Win War This Year Definitely Drawn

Speculate on Allied Chief   Marshall's Name Printed in London Newspapers

A Supreme Council to Direct and Unify the United Nations Drive tor Victory In 1943, to Be Named?

Report United Nations Have  Agreed on Plat   Extremely Important Announcement on War Is imminent. -

Marshall May be Made Europe Generalissimo   British Commentators Think Final Plans for Allied Victory Offensive Are Already Drafted

OAY MARSHALL MAY LEAD NEW VICTORY DANE   Agreement on. Some Formula for Unified War Effort Reported in London.   EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT COMING

United Nations Said To Possess Victory Formula  Four Great Power Leadace Ramain Sian? (in   Four Great Power Leaders Remain Silent On Grand Strategy Talks

MARSHALL MAY BE NAMED FOR NEW WAR POST   Believe General To Be Supreme Allied Chief

MARSHALL MAY BECOME ALLIED HEAD IN EUROPE   United States Army Gen: eral Speculated On As Commander-In-Chief British Newspapers   OFFENSIVE MAPPED   Believed “Win the War” Plans Announcement Imminent; Noble May Head U-Boat Drive

GENERAL MARSHALL MAY LEAD ALLIED FORGES IN EUROPE  LONDON EXPECTS ANNOUNCEMENT “WIN THE

Agreement on Unitied Wor Strategy Reached, Say Foreign Observers

ON STRATEGY, LONDON HEARS   Speculation Centers on General Marshall  For Commander

Gen. Marshall *May Be Allied  Generalissimo   Agreement Is Reported Reached On Formula For Unified Command.

London Hears U.S. Commander Chosen Leader   Mighty Drive To Smash Axis This Year Is Taking Shape

Gen. Marshall May Command All Allied Forces In Europe   United Nations Mapping Great Offensive for 1943; Speculate Over Moves of Hitler

Assignment Anticipated In Britain   United Nation Strategists Are Reported Mapping Offensive For 1943

Allies Reported Agreec On Council to Direct, Win the War This Year

Gen. Marshall May Be Namec Generalissimo  age   Developments Of Importance Soon In Allied War Stratecy

Marshall May Be Made Allied  Generalissimo   London Hears American General to Be Named Commander-in-C hief

Agreement for Plan for Council to Direct the Allies Claimed Attained

GEN. MARSHALL MENTIONED FOR CHIEFTAIN POS!   Part of Speculation Going on in Respect to Allied Strategy for Europe This Year.

Marshall Is Mentioned To Head Forces   London Press Places Emphasis on Allied Strategy For Present Year   ARE DRAFTING PLANS

Allies Reported Favoring 1 Head   UNIFIED COMMAND FOR ALL MILITARY WORK PLANNED

U NAME SUPREME COUNCIL   GROUP WILL UNIFY AND DIRECT EFFORTS TO DEFEAT AXIS THIS YEAR.

MARSHALEMAY BE APPOINTED   Allied Spokesmen Silent on Supreme War Council Plans.

MARSHALL SEEN AS WAR LEADER   'Win War’ Plans Soon To Be Announced By U. S., London

° ° Speculation in England as to War Plans Rife   Unofficial Commentators Believe Plans Made or — Soon Ready

Reports Say United Nations Are Preparing for Invasion of Europe After African Campaign.

MARORALL SEMA LATED 10 HEAL ARMIES IN EUROPE   United Nations Said Agreed On Formula for Some Kind Of Supreme Council   WILL DIRECT EFFORTS WIN THE WAR IN ’43   London Says Some Extremely Important Announce. ment on Allied Conduct of War Is Imminent; Ory for Offensives Is Increasing

Expect Big News Soon      Unofficial Observers Say Allies Agreed On Victory Drive Plans

FORMULA FOR HIGH COUNCIL TO WIN WAR   British, United States, Russian And Chinese Officials Remain Silent On Strategy Talks Current.   Marshall Top?

Marshall May Be Appointed Allied Chief   Important United Nation Planning Seeks to Streamline Offensive to Win in ’43

UNITED NATIONS STRATEGISTS MAP OFFENSIVE   “Win War” Plans Believed To Be in Final Construction Stages

London Hears That Gen. Marshall Will Be Chosen  To Head European Force

GENERAL MARSHALL MAY LEAD ALLIED FORGES IN EUROPE   LONDON EXPECTS ANNOUNCEMENT “WIN THE WAR” STRATEGY SOON

Supreme Council Of War Predicted   May Name Marshall As Generalissimo

POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF MARSH ALL AS COMMANDER FOR ALLIES TALKED IN BRITIAN

GEN. MARSHALL MAY BE CHOSEN TO HEAD ALLIES   United Nations Reported Working Out Formula For High Council To Direct War   Statement Expected

Allies Set Up High Council   Gen. George €, Marshall May Be Named Commander-In-Chief In Europe.

Marshall Hinted ‘As Allied Chief In European War   Developments Due As Grand Strategy For 1943 Mapped

Agree on Formula to Unify Allied Drive for Victorv    Conferees Will Make Important Statenfent Soon on New Policies

HAP OFFENSIVE   Development Expected Soon; Marsbail May be Chief ie Eoropeait Theatre

GEN. MARSHALL SEEN AS NEW EUROPE CHIEF   Reported As Possible Allied Leader of Strategy

WIN THE WAR’ PLANS DRAFTED   Selection of All Commanders For Allied Drives To Be Made Soon, Belief

VICTORY FORMULA FOR ALLIES HINTED   Talk of Appointment of General Marshall as Allied  Commander   IN THE BRITISH PRESS

Gen. Marshall May Head Allied Forces In European War   London Speculates ! On Appointment as

An Agreement: On Strategy Is Reported   London Diplomatic Circles Buzz With Reports; An Annowncement Expected   GEN, MARSHALL MAY-HEAD ARMIES   British Admiral Said to Be Slated for Chief of Drive on U-Boats   German Propaganda Seeks --To Weaken French Resistance

United Nations Strategists Reported _ ‘Mapping 1943 Offensive, British Papers ‘Name:Marshall as-Possibie Lommander:

ALLIES DRAFT WAR STRATEGY   Believe Extremely Jmportan Announcement Will Be ~}ssned,

1943 Victory Drive — Council Is Reported   Diplomatic Circles Say Formula for Supreme Command i¢ Agreed On—Marshall Rumored Choice for Commander-in-Chief in Europe.

RAID MADE ON SPEZIA HARBOR   Allied Bombers Also Attack Messina And Palermo

BLOCK-BUSTERS ROCK SHIPYARD   Italian Base Of Spezia Shows Little Defense; Messina, Palermo  Also Blasted

ODT IS GIVEN NEW POWERS   Procedure for Requisitioning Transportation Equipment is Changed

Broad New Authority Given 0. D.T. Over Transportation Under New Executive Order

Stalingrad Resistance Collapses   Battle May Prove Turning Point in  The War

Kupyansk Falls, Kursk Railway Cut: Hitler Admits Volga Army Loss   ‘Stalingrad Battle Ends With 503,650 Germans Sacrificed; 16 More Towns Taken In Rostov Squeeze

TURNING POINT OF WAR SEEN AS POSSIBILIT)   German Toll May Surpass That of Verdun. Rostov Now Under Fire of Soviet Guns

GERMANS SUFFER BIGGEST DISASTER IN REICH HISTORY   Moscow Reports 503,650 Nazis Killed or Captured; Berlin Theaters Close in Mourning Fdict.

Half Million Germans Die at Stalingrad   Blood Bath at Soviet City Is Worse Than Battle of Verdun in First World War

GERMANS GET OHOGK WHEN NEWS 15 TOLD   503,650 Reported Killed, Captured i in Worst German Defeat.   FIGHTING PACE IN TUNISIA GROWS   R. A. F. Makes Another Heavy Bomb Attack on Cologne.

RUSSIAN FORCES FREE TO ENTER ROSTOV BATTLE   J. S. Troops Change Strategy, Hold Advance Points, Fail To Withdraw

Enemy Loses 503,650 Men In Strugel   Disaster Is Greates! In German History: Foe Puts Red Losses At 300.000

903,650 DEAD AND CAPTURED AS SIEGE ENDS   Cleanup Frees Red Troops To Help Drives Against Germans Elsewhere

Nazis Admit Destruction Sixth Army   German Communique Says That Sacrifice of Army at  Stalingrad Was Not in Watn

GERMANS ADMIT RUSSIAN DEFEAT   HIGH COMMAND SAYS STALINGRAD ARMY ‘HAS SUCCUMBED"

Up Nazi Loss At Stalingrad   Russians Officially Announce Recapture Of City, Advance On Rostov.

Cleanup Frees Russian Armies for New Attacks as Voronezh, Rostov Drives Continue   YANKS HOLD SENED   Dig In Mile East of Town in Thrust to Cut Axis Forces in Tunisia in Twe

Alhes Turning More  Strongly to Offensive  in Tunisian Campaign By JAMES an LONG

Soviet Leader Praises Army For Its Vietory At Stalingrad   Moseow Lists 275.000 df : Foe Killed, 228,650 : Captured   ‘Volga Verdun’   Seasoned Red Troops Freed for Duty on Other Fronts   ‘The Fight Is Over.’   Germans Concede  Rye saAsSeenwIATERD PRESMA

U.S. Forces Capture Town In Tunisia’   British Bombers Drop Block Busters On Cologne Factories

It's All Over! End Long Siege Of Stalingrad   Remnants of 503,650 Germans Surrender; Russians Push Ahead

COSTS FOE 500,000   Disaster is Greater Than Verdun; North Africa Fighting Grows ~.

503,650 NAZIS COUNTED AMONG DEAD, CAPTIVES   RAF Pounds Rhineland With ‘Black Busters’, incendiaries

Russian Victory Growing   ...Germans’ Stalingrad Loss Half A Million

Soviet Squeeze On Other Strong Points Continue:   Berlin Admits — Loss of Army In Russian Battle

Last Nazis Surrender At Stalingrad   Long Siege Ends With Over 500,000 Germans Killed Or Captured.

Stalingrad Cost Nazis 503,650 Men   Last Nazi Resistance in Russian City Collapses; RAF Bombs Cologne; Allied Forces Turn More Strongly to Offensive in Tunisia

German People Told Their Sixth Army Is Destroyed   Nazis Had 503,650 Casualties From Stalingrad Battle

Losses At Stalingrad Are Over Half Million; RAF Again Strikes At Cologne

BERLIN ADMITS STALINGRAD FIGHT AT END   Fate of - “Faithful” Soldiers Shared by Luftwaffe Unit. Two Rumanian Divisions and Croat Revriment.

Nazi Losses On Volga Top ~~ Half Millior   Toll: at Stalingrad'Is Great. ver Than: That . at. -- Verdun :   ALT RESISTANCE : : “HAS COLLAPSED   Cleanup Frees: “Russian - Troops for-Other  Fronts; ‘Advance . Proceeds

Stalingrad s Believed War Turning Point   Russians Clean Up Remaining Germans In Greatest Victory   Americans Continue Tunisian Advances   Germans Fail To Dislod~e Yanks  Beam BPactdiames

Nazi Losses Of 700,000 Seen Likely   American Combat Force Said Holding Advance Positions by Tunisia

WORST DISASTER IN HISTORY HITS HITLER'S HORDE   More than 650,000 Nazis Are Killed or Captured During Siege and Defeat   ‘TURNING POINT IN WAR   Cologne Blasted Again as Allied Forces Intensify Offense in Africa

Stalingrad Fall May Be Turning Point Of War?   Resistance Ends, And Reds Push On

Seeks To Gain Power, Charge Leftist Solon:   Steps Demanded To Halt All Meets Except Those In Churches

CONGRESS MAY 0. K. NO-STRIKE BILL TODAY   Action Will Strength. en Hand of WLB in Mine Dispute   Mav Predicts Passage.

LABOR DISPUTES ON HOME FRUNTS   Showdown Between War Labor Board and Lewis Tomorrow.

Labor Disputes, Threatening To Reach Critical Stages, Spread To Canada: Ford Plant Closed

_ SHOWDOWN   Labor Disputes _ Reach Canada: Ford Motor © Plant Shut Down

FOOD PROGRAM GIVEN BACKING OF CATHOLICS   Bishops Urge Feeding Of Axis - Occupied  Nattons

Subs ls Worked Out by Allies   Plan Announced as Hitler Prepares for Supreme Bid To Disrupt Supply Lines

Plan Policy To Destroy U Boat Menace   U. S., Brifain, Canada Complete Program fo End Threat

Three Countries Unite to Battle U-Boat Threats   U.S., Canada, Britain Seek to Prevent Sub Menace to Invasion

Allies Announce Drive To Beat U-Boat Menace   U. S., Britain and Canada Work Out Master Policy of Anti-Submarine Warfare; lose Cooperation Stressed

Allies Map big Anti-Sub Drive   Policy Is Outlined as Hitler Prep tres to Disrupt Supply Ligts

HITLER BELIEVED RELYING ON SUBS TO BALK INVASION   United States, England and Canada to Co-Operate in Protecting Suppniy Lines.   POLICY WORKED OUT AT WASHINGTON PARLEY   Three Ways to Beat Raiders Seen—Nazis Building Submersibles Faster Than They Are Sunk.

OUT TO FIGHT U-BOAT PERIL   Master Policy Agreed On by U. S., Britain And Canada

Master Policy Is Worked Out Against Hitler’s Sub Offensive   JAP ACTION IN BURMA Probably Only Defensive Move

ALLIES WILL SMASH PERIL OF SEA LANES   GERMAN SUBMARINE OFFENSIVE DUE TO HIT SOON

Walkout Stops Plane Output  Thousands Leave Jobs In Protest Action

Production In Aircraft Building Of Ford Rouge Plant Halted By Walkout

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Mediterranean Supply Route Free Of Foe After Sicily’s Fall

WAR ANALYST PUTS DOWNFALL \OF MUSSOLINI AT TOP RESULTS (OF ALLIED SICILTAN CAMPAIGN

Giles Brings Title Data To Ellis County   STATE LAND COMMISSIONER DELIVERS VOLUME TO ORR.

PACIFIC RAIL CREWS STRIKE   Committee Disregards President’s Peace Efforts

ROOSEVELT BID FAILS TO STOP RAIL STRIKE   2,600 Leave Jobs On Coast Despite President’s Plea

A§-HOUR WORK WEEK FOR WAR WORKERS NOW   To Go into Effect in Labor Shortage Cities, Receive Overtime Pay

Today In Washington:  Blueprint For Victory: “Spartan Living,” 48-Hour Work Week, Higher Taxes

‘SPARTAN LIVING’ UNTIL WAR WON FACES CIVILIANS   Strict Conformity To Farm Parity Levels Sought To Block Inflation   TAXES BOOSTS LOOM TOO   Whole Program Outlined by Administration Arouses Mixed Impressions

NORMAL LIVING STANDARD OUT, BYRNES INSISTS    Higher Taxes, Cost Controls Promised at Washington

LONGER WORK PLAN IS SET BY PRESIDENT   » Order In Effect In Only 32 j Sections At First   ANTI-INFLATION   Action Pledged By Byrnes: Program To Make Full Use Of All Manpower

Critical Areas Ordered On Job 48 Hours Week   Minimum Work Week for Millions of People Is Lengthened in Defense Sections by New Ruling.

BYRD ASSERTS NATION NEEDS WORK SPERDUI   Virginia Senator Urges 48Hour Week Be Put In Effect All Qver the  United’ States.   Democrats Jolted When GOP Scores Victory By Defeating Major Bill Amendment

Blueprint for Victory Drawn   18-Hour-W eek, Spar. tan Living Called for By Officials

‘Spartan Living’ Called For in Program Outlined By Byrnes To Help Combai Dangers of Inflation

Extra Day Calling for Overtime   Price-Pay Struggle Precipitated By Rurnes Sintaman}   More Tax Looms   Congress Rushing To Perfect Pay-Go As Inflation Bars Rise.

32 Labor-Shy Sections in US  Are Affected:   Plan to Speed War Production Is Ordered as Nation Girds tor All-Out War :

TREASURY HOLDS LINE ON DEFICIT DESPITE SPENDING   Shortage Thus Far In Fiscal Year Actually Less Than 1942 By $100,000,000

Holding Line on Treasury Deficit  Spending at Rate  Nha war Dararead

TREASURY HOLDING LINE ON DEFICIT DESPITE SPENDING AT RECORD RATE

Mrs. Roosevelt  Keens ‘Gadding   Eleanor Refuses To Curtail Travels

AAA Township Officers Elected On Last Friday  County Officers Wer« -Reelected At Meetin Held Saturday

AAA Township Officers Elected On Last Friday  _.County Officers Wer .Reelected At Meetin

Canadian Cadet Held In Murder      Body of His Wife, Heiress, Found Sunday Night

CAFE SOCIETY “HAS MYSTERY   HUSBAND OF MURDERED HEIRE88 BEING QUESTIONED IN , CONNECTION WITH VISTE POSE NEW YORE ° 7

PLEASANT WEEK END   Forecast Ig For Good Good Victory Gar '  dening Weather

Nazis Bring Reserves From France   Soviets’ Cavalry Rout Germans From 40 Villages

RED ARTILLERY POUNDS NAZIS’ OREL DEFENSES   Germans Are Pushed Back Another Six Miles,  Soviets Declare   HEAVY RAINS ARE HAMPERING ACTION

New Nazi Units Rushed to Front As Reds Advance   ‘ntire German Defenses in Russia Declared in Danger   Heavy Artillery Fighting Reported from Leningrad Front 32s *

NAZIS RUSHING HELP TO OREL   Reds Make Gains While Foe Brings Troops From France and Germany

Jted troops advance, capturing 40 towns, Orel noose tightens   Report Russian forces have moved forward six miles. many nazis dead

"March Battalions” Dispatched as Soviets Continue Gains   MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN OREL FIGHTING   Troops Taken From Other Fronts to Prevent Maior Debacle

Nazis Pushed Back At Orel   Reinforcements Fail To Halt Soviet Drive

Nazis Rush More Men  To Russia   Russians March Through Mud Toward Orel

Nazis Rush New Troops fo Aid Orel Defenders   Russians Push Enemy Back Six Miles, Take 40 Villages

Reds Take 40 More Villages   Nazis Reinforce  Troops, Fear Deha cle

REDS BATTLE FOR SECTOR AROUND OREL   Fight In Knee-Deep Mud To Batter Weary German Defenders; Pushed Back Six Miies   Heaviest Rains

Germany Rushes New Forces to Orel Sector  Russians Charge Through Mud

Congress to End Session Tuesday  Reconvening Is Set fall an i rial

DRIVE SOUTH IN TUNISIA   Losses Suffered Ax Counter-Attack Is Hurled

Heavy Losses Recorded On Both Sides With Blue Chips Down For First Time.

Blast Third Transport In  Wewak Raids   Only Two Supply Ships Are Believed To Have Escaped Safely From Allied Bombers

AIRMEN HIT 4 JAP SHIPS OFF WEWAK   Only 2 of 6 Supply Ships Escape Bombers

ONLY 2 JAP SHIPS OF WEWAK CONVOY ESCAPE M’ARTHUR   Despite Heavy Losses Enemy Probably Did Succeed _ In Landing ., . Supplies

FOUR VESSELS SANK DAMAGEL            Despite He: Spokesman, 3 Possibly $ Supplies: at: Wewa’  MacArthur hat Convoy fin Landing

Only Two Ships In Jap Convoy Escape Bombs  Or Damaged Off  New Guinea  LANDINGS ARE MADE           Flying Fortresses And Liberators Pound Enemy Group   Four Vessels Are Sunk Or Damaged Off  New Guinea   LANDINGS ARE MADE)

Battered Renmant Of Jan Convey In Flight Nerthward  Only Two Ships Escape Bombs Of

ONLY TWOLENEMY AHS MANAGE TC ESCAPE BOMBER   Four Other Craft Sunk o Damaged—Some Forces Landed At Wewak,.

TWO JAP SHIPS ESCAPE BOMBS   Knox, OWL Chief Davis Refuse To Become Alarmed at Reporis of Enemy Strength.

Wewak Aid Mission Costs Enemy Heavily   Nipponese Believed to Have Landed Supplies Despite Efforts of Allies

4 VESSELS POUNDED BY AIRMEN   Allies Lash At Enemy Bases Throughout Guinea Area

SOFT COAL MINERS THREATEN WALKOUT   Spokesmen for Union Districts Sa; Men Will Quit Unless Given Warea Increase.

Japs Repulsed as Allied Units Advance   95 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Nippon Positions

AAO. DESIGNED TO HALT. AX OUPPLY FLOW   Air War Continues At Peak In Tunisia As Bombers Smash At Germans

Red Army Chalks Up Vast 13 - Mile Gain In Caucasus Drive   Entire Caucasus Railroad System Falls To Russians With the Capture of Georgievsk; Ruhr is Raided

Seek to Break up Axis Supply Line   Russians Capture Caucasus Railroad As Nazis Admit Position Is Serious

Draft Officials Seek to Kill Bil   Might Require War  Plan Modifications

Draft Headquarters Fires Opening Gin to Kill Bill Deferrina Fathers

Marines On Guadalcanal Trading Candy With Natives For Killing Jap Troops

Solomon Islanders Have New Game:  Trade Dead Japs for Yankee Candy

COLLECT CANDY FOR DEAD JAPS   Natives on Guadalcanal Are  Pleased With ‘Game’

NATIVES KILL JAP TROOPS FOR CAND)   Guadalcanal Islanders Closely Cooperating With U.S. Marimes_

Congress Hits Labor Rackets      Alabaman’s Bill Passed by House

Drifted For 83 Days On A Raft   Young Seaman, One Of Three Survivors, Tells Of Epic Struggle.

Young Seaman Describes Record Journey on Raft   Basil D. Izzi, of South Barre, Mass., One of Three Men Who Drifted 88 Days After Ship Was Torpedoed In South Atlantic; Says Daily Prayers Answered by Showers, Birds, Fish

Three Men Survive 83 Days in Raft in Southern Atlantic   Arrive in Miami; Tell of Their Epic Struggle Against Sea

KAY KYSER WANTS PLAIN’ ARMY LIFE   No Draft Favors Fo: Entertainers, Tip

Yanks Advance Tn Jungle Area   Push Toward Doomed Japs In Baikoro Harbor In New Georgia

CIVILIAN DEFENSE WORK MAY BE MADE MANDATORY IN-U, S      Relaxation Following  Every Allicd Victory  Brings on Warning Today.

OCD May Draft. Needed Workers   - -Lack of Interest Is Criticized ° —

Hitler to Send Bombers Here?   Landis Warns Danger of Air Raids on America by Nazis Not Yet Past

Members Of — Staff Seleeted _ By Goodland   Kerwin, Brecke, Frank   Graase Will Serve Ac Secretaries — Abolish State Pardon Board -

AXIS ARMIES IN CAUCASUS THREATENED   Russians Achieve Un. broken Series Ot Military Gains

Reds Pushing Forward To  German Base   Caucasian Oil Is Now Safé From The ‘Tnvaders——Moascow

Vast Caucasus  Oil Supply Safe   Hitler’s Last Chance to Gain Badly Needed Fuel Vanishes

RUSSIA’S VAST OIL SUPPLY IN CAUCASUS APPEARS TO'BE, SAFE AS REDS CONTINUE GAIN

TOKYO’ ALARMED, AFTER FAD OH ° MIBRCLS ISLANI   Radio Warns J aps Mainland Will Be Raided; Calls for Greater Efforts. ~

Red Lines Form A Solid Front   Spearheads Overrun Intervening Areas to Form Juncture of Forces; Nazis oo at Stalingrad About Annihilate

ACTION IN RUSSIA SHIFTING 10 AIR   Land Fighting Is Slowed Down by Spring ;  awe

(. 0. P. Urged to Back Russia Post-War Plans   Future Peaceful Relations of World Stressed

Soviet Reports Say Nazi Troops Refusing To Keep Up Hopeless Fighting

ENCIRCLED NAZIS ARE SURRENDERING TO REDS IN GROUPS      Germans’ Mutiny And Give Up’. Before Russian. Assault Units At. Stalingrad

Hordes of German Troops Surrender  Under Red Assault   Nazi General, Three Colonels, Other High Officers Surrender Near Stalingrad; Reds Capture New Oil Center

MUTINY OF TROOPS IS REPORTED   Red Armies Make New Advances On All Battlefronts

Men Giving Up In Large Force Savs Moscow   Demoralization Found in German Ranks, Russ Claim_

NAZI TROOPS MUTINY IN RUSSIA   Many Officers In Stalingrad Trap Surrender

REMAINING FEW REFUSE TO OBEY.  ORDERS 10 FIGHT   Honelessness of Situation Causes One General, Others to Quit Cold.

SURRENDER IN LARGE NUMBERS TO THE SOVIETS   High Officers Among Those Who. Are Refusing to Continue With Hopeless Fight

Over 200,000 German Troop:  Wiped Out   Forces At Stalingrad Mutiny, Surrender; Only Few Left

General And Other High Officers Give Up Their Fight Against Russian Assault Units

GERMANS DEFY OFFICERS AT STALINGRAD   Mutiny and Surrender Rather Than Continue Hopeless Fight

EERMAN TROOPS CURRENDERING IN ATA INGRAD AREA   General, Colonels Are Among Captives Of Soviets   ONLY SMALL FORCE LEFT OF VAST ARMY

Reds. Hauling In German Prisoners   Stalingrad Area Being Mopped Up by Russians

Jemoralized German Forces At Stalingrad Surrendering In Large Groups As Red Siege Nears End

‘Senate Rescinds  Salary Limit Order   Measure Goes to House For Uniform Action

Senate Scraps Salary Ceiling   Votes 74-3 to Repea Presidential Order

$75,000 Salary. Limit Defeated  penn cena   Senate Action Parallel: Course Taken in Houce

APPROVES REPEAL OF SALARY LIMIT   SENATE VOTES 74 TO 3 TO SCRAP ROOSEVELT’S 825,000 CEILING.

Senate Seraps Salary Limit   Only Three Senators Vote Against Repeal of FD's Limitation

SALARY RY CEILING. ~ ORDER SCRAPPED   Senate Repealer Prolite Wage Reductions Durina Period

VOTES TO KILL SALARY LIMIT   Senate Favors Scrapping $25,000 Ceiling After Taxes: House Bill Differs

 Senate Joins Lower House in Scrapping Precsident’s Order on Salaries Limit

Senate Votes toScrap Salary ¢ Ceilings  House Approves Same Objective in Another Bill

SALARY CEILING PLAN SCRAPPED   Senate Kills Roosevelt Order For $25,000 Limit, 74 to 3

FLEET UNITS: » OF THE NAW ARE DOUBLED   POWERFUL UNITS OF NAVY NOW. ATTEMPTING TO GET INTO SHOWDOWN BAT TLE WITH JAPANESE ,

Fleet Doubled in 11 Months, Knox Says- ‘$17 U.S. Warships Hunting Enemy

Japs Step Up Air Defense Of Rabaul. Marshall Isles   Nips Put Up Heavy Interceptor Sereen Against Attacking U. 5. Bombers; Bomb Yank Posts in Gilbert Islands

i PLANES LOST IN DEFENSE OF RABAUL BASE   Nips Make Persistent Attacks On Tarawa,  Makin

Thirty Jap Planes Shot Down in Raid on Rabaul  _ Enemy Increases Ai Activity as U. S.

Forward  Northw:   Japs Increase Air Activity In Pacific War Areas   135 Enemy Planes Strike at Rabaul; Strike at Gilberts

30 Enemy Planes Downed in Attack On Rabaul Base  Japs Strike Gilberts, Boost Air Defenses  Of Pacific Holdings

Increased Japanese Aerial Action Reported At Rabaul  At Least 30 Enemy Fighters Are Downed In Aire Warfare With Amoricane In New Rritain

Japs In Blows At Gilberts   Also Lost 30 Fighters Over Rabaul; Yanks Bomb Nauru

French Commander in Martinique Will Join Allies if Terms Fulfilled

Martinique Commissioner  Outlines His Stand on War   Admiral Robert Apparently Awaits Agreement Between De Gaulle and Giraud Before Joming Alle

With Tripoli Fallen, Time Is Near For New Grouping of Alllied Forces

WHO WILL BE COMMANDER IN AFRICA?   Question Comes Up As British Eighth Army  Neare Tunisia.   MONTGOMERY HAS BRILLIANT RECORD   Leadership by Americans or British Must Be Decided. .

Plans For New Phase Of Offensive Taking Form, To Be Put Into Effect When Axis Leaves Africc

WITH CAPTURE OF TRIPOLI NEW PHASE OF NORTH AFRICAN DRIVE WILL BE TAKEN UP BY ALLIES

Tripoli’s Capture Only Part Of — Master Strategy Plan Of Allies   Only Three Months Ago Axis Held Nearly 3,000 Miles Of Africa’s Northern Coast; Junction Of British Eighth-Eisenhower Armies Near.

Fall of Tripoli Ends Major Phaseof World-Shaking War   ‘With Expulsion of Axis From Libya Only Question of Days Time is Considered at Hand for New Grouping of Aled Forces and Assignments of Commands

-A-MAJOR PHASE OF ‘THE WAR IS ENDING  Plan New Groupings of Forces

SECOND PHASE OF WAR LOOMS   Three-Month Africa Wir Hailed as Brilliant Campaign

‘Question Of British-U. $. Command  Arises As Armies Approach Junction

STEEL PLANTS FACE SHORTAGE   Coal Strike Will Cause Curtailment In Big Mills Within Few Days

Miners’ Walkout Causes Concern Among Nation's Steel Producer:   . §. Steel Corporation Predicts Early Curtailment of Output

Draft Evader Gets Choice of Prison Or Being ‘Man Without-a Country’

GET OUT OF U.S. OR GO TO PRISON:   That's Edict for Man Who Won't  Fight for America Because It —  “Never Did Anything” 

British Boost Pacific Fleet   More Pressure. Ts: Being Placed Against. Japs. Ag Nazis’ Fade. -.-

British Navy Had Good Year   Much OF Fleet Being Moved Into The Pacific

British Move Into Pacific   Atlantic War Won, Royal Navy Turns on Japs

BRITISH ARE REINFORCING PACIFIC NAVY   No Capital Ships Lost During Past Yea

Build British Navy In Pacific   Review Says Number Of Allied Cargo Carriers Sunked Below Nazis Losses.

Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest Worth) Newe Tadav   Aclza Hansevelt ton Intervene.

Inactivity At Mines  Continues   No Direct Action Yet Tak en by Administration to Settle Strike

Continue Push Over Sicily; Riot In Italy   talian Troops Said Locked In Fighting With Nazi Forces In North.   TROUBLE IN BALKANS   Franeo Cancels Plans To Leave For Galicia

BORIS'S MURDER BEIIFVED SOLVEI   Well Informed Turkish Sources Say He Was Put en Spot by Hitler.

STRONG EVIDENCE OF U-BOAT ACTIVITY      Germans Thought To Have Submarine Bases In Italy, France

NAZI SUBS ON ITALIAN LINES   Probability Seen as Result of Announcement of Sinking of U. 8S. Destroyer Rowan,

Truck Driver Strike Seems To Be Ending   Labor Conciliators and Union Spokesmen Hold Peace Parley; Back-to-Work Movement in St. Louis

GRAND JURY FOR OCTOBER TERM WAS EMPANELLED MONDA\  FOLLOWING ORGANI7A.   FOLLOWING ORGANIZA. TION BODY RECESSED SUBJECT TO CALL

GRAND JURY FOR OCTOBER TERM WAS: EMPANELLED MONDAI   FOLLOWING ORGANIZA. TION BODY RECESSED SUBJECT TO CALL

3 WOMEN DIE IN FACTORY FIRE   6 Other Persons Are Hurt at Wapun, Wis.

RAIL WAGE ROW SENT TO EDR   BOARD REFUSES TO RECONSIDER ITS RECOMMENDATION FOR PAY INCREASE.

Railroad Wage Appeal Rejectec   Board Chief Refuses To Reconsider Case

Railroad Wage Dispute Dumped On Roosevelt   Emergency Board   Chairman Rejects . eae

New Fuss To White House   Vinson, Railroad Board Split Over Who Has Authority

Dispute Heaped On White House  ce i   Vinson’s Request Is Turned Down

RAIL DISPUTE IS HANDED TO FOR   Emergency Board Chairman Rejects Request to Reconsider Wage Hike

U.S. Fliers Go Far to Hit  Jape i in South   Liberators Cover More Than 1,000 Miles To Bomb Enemy Ships, Air Bases At Sumatra, Borneo, Java; Score High

Yank Planes Batter Japs   Liberators Go Far To Bomb Japa se Bases

1,000-Mile Raid Made In Pacific   MacArthur Extends ‘Safety Margin’

Planes Range  Long Distanee  To Smash Japs   “Margin Of Safety” Extended In New Allied Bombings

Allied Bombers Hit Jap Bases’  Go Over 1,000 Miles From Australia

African Showdown  Believed Speeded   Both Sides Receive Heavy Losses in American Cannter-Attaek

Signs nazis may strike down valley   Eisenhower back at headquarters after front visit

Nazi Forces Hurled Back By Americans In Africa   Tank Forces Rise to Their First Great Test of the War and Throw Back Troops of Rommei for Six Miles

American Units Meet Great Test   Africa Decision _ Is Hastened . By Battle

U. S. Forces Nazis Back With Tanks   Rommel's Vets Lose Six Miles West of Faid Pass

SIX-MILE GAIN MADE BY U. 8. AFRICAN ARM}   SHOW DOWN SPEEDED UP IN BATTLE OF TUNISIA

U.S. Smashes Rommel Lines  Baek Six Miles   Americans Strike Hard in First Great Test

Americans Hur! Rommel Forces Back Six Miles   Yanks Meet First Big Test Against Seasoned Fighters

Yield Gafsa To Enemy In the South  Believe Nazis Will Renew Attacks af Oucseltia Valley

Americans Hurl Rommel Forces Back Six Miles   Yanks Meet First Big Test Against  ee es

HEAVY FIGHTING MARKS ADVANGE AGAINST ROMMEL   Yanks Move Forward Under Umbreila of Planes After Recovering From Shock of First Setback.   “DESERT FOX” USING BULK OF HIS TANKS   Battle May Hasten Showdown in North Africa—Decisive Action Being Fought Near Sidi Bouzid.

Yanks Throw Back Nazi Tank Force   Americans Rise to First Great Test in Africa

Americans Rise to First Great Test in Battle   Heavy Action May Hasten Showdown in North Africa

COUNTER ATTACK WEST OF FAID PASS. ON CENTRAL PLATEAU FOR SIX MILES GAIN; ALLIES QUIT GAFSA. 4

BRITISH WARSHIPS GET 4 SUBS, HIT 7   30 Enemy U-Boats “Attach _ Convoy Off East ‘Anglia Coast Sunday.

HeStalkstheStukas   British Thwart Convoy Raid, Get 4 E-Boats   BeatenGermans Withdraw After Long Battle Off Enclish Coast

British Ships Ruin Enemy Torpedoboats   ALLIES BLAST TRY FOR ATTACK ON CONVOY OFF EAST ANGLIA COAST

8,000-TON JAP SHIP IS SUNK   Vessel Sent To Bottom In Bismark Sea; 2 Ground Points Taken

JAP CARGO VESSEL IS REPORTED SUNK   Two Direct. Hits Scored on Ship in the Bis- © marck Sea

8,000-Ton Enemy Cargo Ship Sunk   Allied Troops Seize Two Points at Sanananda ¥u Guinea Push

Foundation for Reconstruction  Prevention of Depression May Evaporate Causes for Wars

Peterson, Cave Speak To Group Entering Service   Clay County Contingent Leaving For Army Honored At Breakfast

Clay Contingent Leaves Here For Military Service   Group Honored By Legion Posts Before Snelling Departure

Knox Pledges U.S. Navy To Go Into Tokyo   ‘Will Ultimately Sail Into Harbor, Chieftain Declares

‘Heavy Fighting Subsides For Present As Allies, Axis  Gather New Strength; French Leader Sees End Of War In 1944

PARATROOPS CLOSE TRAP ON JAP FORCE   Gen. MacArthur Directs Battle From Bomber

ALLIES CLOSE ‘TRAP-ON JAPS   Paratroopers Cage 20,000 in New Guinea Coast —- Capture Airport in Markham Valley Deep in Ene. niy-Hold Territory.

MPARTHUR SEES PARTICIPATION IN BIG AIR ARMADA   Enemy Caught In Two Strongholds at Salamaua and Lae Lose Chance of Escane By Land.   REDS SMASH GERMAN DONETS RESISTANCE   Warships and Navy Aircraft Takes Claim For Sinking of 29 Subs In Past Three Months.

TRAP IS CLOSED ON JAPANESE FORCE IN NEW GUINEA SECTOR   20,000 Enemy Troops Netted: When Allied Paratroopers Make  Lightning Stroke.

CLOSE TRAP : 20,000      - Are Hemmed in Along Strip of New Guinea Coast

ARATROOPERS CATCH 20,000 JAPS IN TRAP   Seize Valley West O Lae, Cutting Off Foe’s Escape

ALLIED PARACHUTE TROOPS TAKE FIELD BEHIND JAP LINES   Close Trap On. 20, 000 Enemy Fighters: ‘On New Guinea Coast-—MacArthur  Supervised’

Paratroopers Capture Jap Field at Lae   MacArthur Closing Trap On 20,000 Enemy In  Now Cuinea

AIRPORT DEEP IN ENEMY-HELD AREA CAPTURED   Nipponese In Lea And Salamaua Strongholds Cut Off From Escape By Land   AIR ATTACKS SET RECORD   Gasmata In New Britain And Kahili On Bougainville Are Plastered

Allied Paratroopers — Trap 20,000 Japanese On New Guinea Coast   Paratroopers Capture An Airport in Mark ham Valley in Enemy-held Territory, MacArthur Announces

PETRILLO SEES  BAN LIFTING   ‘Declares Negotintions Under Way ‘To Resume Making of Recordings.

COURT UPHOLDS ‘SUIT DISMISSAL   Victory’ For Petrillo In Record Ran

SHIPS BEGIN TO WIN RACE AGAINST SUBS   U. S. Fleet Expected To Be Larger Than Britain’s

LOMIATO AGREAGE SHURE IN COUNT   County Agent Estimates th Need at 400 Acres; Sw eet. Corn, 209.

TOMATO ACREAGE. “SHORT IN GOUNT)   County: Agent Estimates. ithe ‘Need at 400 Acres: ‘Sweet, ‘Gorn, 260.

ANALYSIS OF © BOND. SALES   FISCAL EXPERT DECLARES MORE BONDS MUST BE SOLD TO INDIVIDUALS IN NATION

Light Cruiser, Two Destroyers, Sub-Chaser, Tanker and Two Cargo Vessels Destroyed  49 NIPPON FIGHTER      19 NIPPON FIGHTER PLANES SHOT DOWN   Air Action Covers 20 Minutes; Sea Engagements in Buin and Faisi Waters

SEVEN NIP SHIPS SUNK BY YANKS   Heavy Enemy Losses Reported in Solomons Area Of Buin, Faisi

Cruiser, 6 More Jap Ships Sunk  oh. Jap I Fighters Downe d  £* Bast.

U. S. Planes Destroy Seven Jap Wearshins   Leaves Before Shipping Due

A} JAP PLANES  ARE SHOT DOWN   ight Cruiser, Two Destroyers, Subchaser Among Vessels Sunk; Dive-bombers Hammer at Munda Base

U.S. Fliers Sink  Seven Enemy  Ships in Pacific Air Battle Brings  49 Jap Planes Down Over Islands

Four Warships 10 to Bottom       “49: Enemy. Fighters Shot Down " During 20:Minute ‘Aérial Battle

Russians Sever German Escape In Crimea Arec  =   Fast-Moving Reds Hear Word Of Moscow Parley Results

Hitler Places Gestapo in Full Control   ‘Himmler Assumes New Powers As Unrest Grows

EXTREME NAZI MEMBERS GET TOP POSITIONS   Czechs Placed Under Rule of Ruthless Officers

35 INSPECT TIRES   Most of Douglas County’s Inspectors in Lawrence

MARIGNY WILL REMARRY. WiFi   Ceremony in Catholic Church Postponed

Disorders In Holland Reported   Germans Shoot Down Many Patriots, With Martial  Law Enforced

Cattlemen Seek National Meet   Goal Announced As Heavier Production

Nationwide Meat Conference Urged  By Stock Leaders   New Mexico Men Attend Meeting On Production

Cattlemen Seek National Meet   Goal Announced As Hagvier Prachictinn

HEROISMY MARKS 5, SEA DISASTER   185 of 750 Passengers Reported Saved in Sinking of Ship in North Atlantic

678 Perish in  Sea Disaster   Passenger-Cargo Ship Struck by Torpedo In Inky Night Sank Quickly

ACTS OF HEROISM MARKED SINKING OF U.S. CARGO VESSEL ~  ‘One of Survivors Said   One of Survivors Said It Was Finest Behaved Bunch of Service Men He Ever Saw

Survivors’ Worst Sea  Disaster   Countless Acts o Heroism As 678  Lose Lives

U. S, SEA DISASTER MARKED BY HEROISM   Sinks 25 Minutes After Single Torpedo Hit

DeweyHolds ToPledgeTo Hold Office   + eee  JAMES A. FARLEY SAYS AMERI. CAN PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED WITH BEING “KICKED AROUND’ AND SHOW IT.   No Presidency For Dewey

Hunt Suspect Refuses To Sign His Statement   Tough Criminal Held In Lubbock

Officers Checking Other Clues In Littlefield Murder After Questioning Former Convict

Drattees Win  Freedom Plea   Married Men Inducted While Single Men Available Granted Decision.

Claim Capture of Additional 343,525 Troops   @ BIG BOOTY TAKEN   Bpring Thaws and Transport Problems Reduce Fighta ing on All Fronts

Reds Say 850,000 Of Axis Slain In Winter Offensive   943,029 Reported Captured, With 5,090 tel press And 9.390 Tanke  act Bu Carmane

Reds Say 850,000 Of Axis Slain In \Winter Offensive   343,525 Reported Captured, With 5,090 Planes And 9.190 Tanks Lost By Germans

Germans Flee Ukraine, Clog Roads to West   Capture of Fastov Makea  Position More Perilous Tn South

'To Ask House Oust Solon for Perjury   Delay Transfer of Detroit Lawmaker to Prison After Conflicting Stories

DOMBROWSKI FACES DUSTER   Removal To Be Asked At Special Session of Legislature

British May Inducl American Citizens   War Pact May Be Applied To Yanks

SERB REGIME NEW PROBLEM FOR ALLIES   Provisional Government Formed By Tito

Free Yugoslav Group Ready To Govern   {0 Delegates Create Par lament in Opposition tu Exiled Ruler~

Oppose Exiled Rulers Now In Cairo: Reveal Tito Once Fought In Spain Against Franco

Yugoslav Partisans Set Up Regime In Opposition To Exiled Government

PROBLEM CROPS UP IN BALKANS   Pro-Russian Group Sets Up Government, Rival To Cairo Regime

Yugoslavs Form New Government  Partisans Announce Provisional Regime

ALLIES FACING RIVAL REGIME INJUGOSLAVIF   Partisans Organize an Independent Government

Partisans Leer  At Cairo Set-Up   Tito’s Group Opposes King Peters Government In Exile At Cairo,

You Figure it Out Pro-Russian Yugoslavs Set Up Provisional Regime      Balkan Political Problems of Allies Increasingly Sharp

Yugoslav Group Announces New Regime Formed   Development Seen As Creating Allied Problem

YUGOSLAV REGIME IS ORGANIZED   Partisan Government Is In Opposition To King Peter

Warren Monfort Again in 1942 Leads Nation’s Cattle Feeders In Topping Market at Chicago

PLYMOUTH FIFTH . IN TOP SELLERS   This Is Report of Chicago Stock Yards Press Bu reau for Year

FORTS DESTROY 100 MORE NAZI FIGHTER GRAFT   RAF Hits Ruhr Seventh Straight Night; Raid Messina Again

RAF In Seventh Straight Night Of Attacks On European Objectives, Raid Ruhr Valley; U. 8S. Planes Hit At Messina   NEW FIGHTING STIRS ON RUSSIAN FRONT

ALL SECTIONS OF AXIS LANDS HIT BY RAIDS   Land Fighting In Russia  Shows Gain

ANOTHER RUHR CITY BLASTED AGAIN BY RAK   [ron and Steel Center of Bochum Is Deyastated

Sicily Is Heavily Bombed   American Ships in Record Number in Attack  at Messina

Another Devastating Raid. Made On Ruhr Vortresses Get 100 Nazi Planes

Fortresses Bag 100 Nazi Fighter Planes in Europe   Germany's Ability To Resist Attack Steadily Cut Down

100 Nazi Fighter Planes Destroyed By Flying Forts In Raids Over Ge~man*

THE WOMAN'S ANGLE!   Rep. Bolton Asks Congress for Diapers and Pins

No Substitutes Will Do Lack of Diapers, Safety Pins Poses Baby Problem

land Attacks On New Guinea Have Quieted Down As Air War Picks Up

REGENTS IN MOVE ~ FOR AIRPORT AID   Plan for Improvement Is Approved If Contract Is Agreed Upon   CITY WORKING ON DEAL

REGENTS IN MOVE FOR AIRPORT AID   Plan for Improvement Is Approved If Contract Is Agreed Upon  SRLS RR ANE ARRON

Abolition of State OPA Office Will Be Countermanded   Congressmen Say McCullough Acted Without Authority

U.S. Planes Blast Foggia, Rail Hub; RAF at Taranto    Leader Decorated After One of Most Damaging Raids   Against Italy

President Assailed By Wheeler   Senator Says He’s Responsible for Manpower Wastage

Wheeler Opens Debate To Defer Drafting Fathers   Military Affairs Com.  To Conduc? Hearings te Increase Allotments

CKERS ARE AKING UP HOMES   Blame For le Situation  § Administration

ARREST 2 IN SHOTGUN DEATH   Jackson County Man Confesses; Implicates Another

TWO MEN ARE HELD FOR FARM KILLING   Confession Says They Feared  Exposure for Thefts

Governor Defends His Reorganization Program in Biennial Message to Legislature: Proposes 12 Amendments

NAVAL INSPECTOR HURT AT CROSSING      Jos. R. Nobel Badly Injured When Auto Struck by Train

NAVAL INSPECTOR . "HURT AT CROSSING   Jos. R. Nobel ‘Badly tnjured When‘ Auto Struck - te: by Train ~

Week Sets New Bombing Record   Naziland Is Lashed By Unceasing Raids  Ry RICE VYVAUHNER

Furope Subjected  To Week of  Worst Bombings Sustained Attack  Brings Ruin to Industrial Areas

DAYLIGHT nAID ENDS WEEK OF  BOMBING AXI?   U. S. Bombers Blast Airfields in Northern. France in Heavy Attacks.   FIRES STILL BURNING IN PORT OF HAMBURG

Germans Mark End Of Worst Week On Third Front  - Allies Work Havoc  On Many Vital European Taraets

Germans Mark End Of Worst Week On Third Front  Allies Work Havoc On Many Vital  Bike wana “were

Allies Complete eek Of Record Raids On Reich   Hundreds Of Planes Roar Over Europe’s “Third Front”

RECORD WEEK IN AERIAL WAR ENDS   Daylight Attacks ‘On Europe _ Continue As Continent Dias Out Of Ruins

Allies Stil Pound Europe   Axis-Held Points Are Herd Hit In Attacks

ALLIES ROUND OUT WEEK OF BIG AIR BLOWS   Week Of Most Concentrated Air Attacks On Hitler Made

Lash Airfields In Day Attacks  Great Fires Raging In Hamburg After Blows

End Week Of Heavy Raids   RAF Bombers Blast Hamburg; Fires Still Burn After 36 Hours.

French Bases Bombed   Hundreds Of Allied Bombers Roar Over Axis-Held Europe Saturday To Continue Devastating Assault

Week Sets New Bombing Record   Naziland Is Lashed By Unceasing Raids

Fliers Finish Their Most Concentrated, Sustained Period of Attacks With Joint British and American Assaults on’ German Airfields in France, Following RAF Night Blow at Nazi Steel Center.

U.S. Planes Bomb Nazi  Homeland First Time: Reds Continue March   Allied Armies Hit At Axis On Both Sides On Tunisian Front; Entire German Regiment Surrenders

‘Unconditional Surrender’ of Axis Allies’ Goal   Squeeze of Nazis Is Continuing in Russia and Tunisia

Germans Bitter As Hope Surges In Allied World   Hitler Plans Caucasus Sea Rescue Alexander Steps Up Tunisia Chace

Gloomy Day For Axis On All Fronts.   Russians, British, Yanks All Score Gains In Battles

Berlin Has Jitters; U. S. Planes Bomb Reich; Reds Deliver Staggering Blows

Giraud Note States Substantial Results Obtained For France   Chart European Invasion Moves; Conference Effects Said Near; Nazis Reply With Nervous Jibes

Reds Press Foe _ As Yank Airmen Attack Germany   News Spotlight Remains On Roosevelt Meeting With Churchill  INVASION EXPECTED British Army Said To Be  30 Miles Beyond City Of Tripoli

12,000 GERMANS FACE LIQUIDATION   German Armies At Stalingrad Almost Wiped Out, Reds Claim   GAINS IN AFRICA   Americans Drive Through Axis Forces Toward Gulf - Coast

Plans For European Invasion Believed Laid. At Historic 10-Day Conference. In Africa   in to Hold. Initiative, cept’ Only Uncondi‘tional Surrender.: '.

European Invasion Courses Planned in ~ 10-Day Conference   One WAAC Present, Capt. Anderson; Canadian Reporter Shot in Plane Lost Over Morocco

©Great Hopes Stirred In United Nations; Nervous Jibes Come From Berlin

Forces Active On All Fronts   Turkey Hears Nazis May Withdraw by Sea From Caucasus.

Little Doubt Invasion Courses. .F Been Fixed and Allied Comm v Chosen; Nazis Say Roosevelt Wan to “Bleed” Europe; Hitler Repo Worse Outlook in Russia, ‘Sor Drive “Spreading”.

United States Army in First Attack on German Fatherland   Red Armies Deal Out Staggering Blows Against Invaders

WAR IN AFRICA STEPPED UP 10 SQUEEZE AXIS   British Make Contact with Rommel’s Rear Guard Protecting Flight   YANKS HOLDING OUSSELTIA   Hitler Reported Planning To Try To Rescue Caucasus Army by Black Sea

Allied Gains Continue On Maior Fronts   Germany “Whistles In Dark” Concerning Casablanca Meeting   U. S. Infantry And Tanks In Advance   Americans Threaten Rommel Retreat In Tunisian Attacks

ALLIED CONFERENCE DREW NERVOUS JIBES AND STIRRED HOPES   SECRECY SHROUDED EXACT PLANS BUT INVASION COURSES CHARTED

Albes Continue ta  Advance on Russian,  North African Fronts By ROGER GREENE

Allied Hopes High; Berlin Has Jitters   Trapped Nazis _ Before Stalingrad Whittled To 12,000; Yanks Take  Vital Tunisian Pass.

Gloomy Day For Axis On. All Fronts  Russians, British, Yon aks Ail  Score

Meet Stirs Great Hope: In Capitals   Results Obtained For France, Giraud Says— Berlin Jibes

Reaction To Casablanca Meeting Brings Both Praise And Belittlement

NAZIS JIBE AT FDR - CHURCHILL STRATEGY TALK   Liquidation of 12,000 Enemy Troops Goes Forward

Allied Leaders Separate to Begin Strategy   European Invasion Course Believed to Have Been Charted

JAP RAID SMASHED BY 15 YANK FLIERS   Disaster Befalls Air Attack On Northeast India

AMERICAN PILOTS IN RAID ON JAP AIR BASE   Shot Down or Destroyed 28 Japanese Planes

ORDERS DANES 10 SURRENDER GUNS   All Weapons And Ammunitions To Be Taken By Nazis Sept. 7

Order Danes To Surrender Guns   Germans Threaten Severe Punishment

DANES ORDERED 10 GIVETHEIR GUNS TO NAZIS   German Military Dictator   Issues Decree, Warning   Of Severe Measures For Violations

NAZIS DEMAND DANES GIVE UP ALL WEAPONS      Order Rescinds Recent Modifica tion of Military Law, Establish ments Close at 8

< 7 Give Up Weapons And Ammunition   Most Severe Punishment Teo: Be Meted Violators By .German Overlords

DANES ORDERED TO GIVE UP ALL THEIR WEAPONS   Nazi Military Dictator Calls In All Danish Arms And Ammunition By September 7; Offenders Face  Punishment.

Dachel-Carter Men Choose AFI   Vote 228 To 176 Agains! : ClO Union

D-€ ELECTION   Jurisdictional Dispute At Boat Plant Settled By Ballot

REPORT MARSHALL'S QUARTERS ~ BEING PREPARED IN LONDON   REPORTS PERSIST IN BRITISH CAPITAL U. 8. CHIEF . OF STAFF TO BE SUPREME COMMANDER

Americans Join British Forces To Trap Germans   Reported in Genoa In Northern Haly

Outline Details  To Press   ' Newspaper and Radio iMen Gather at Closely ' Guarded Villa in Casa‘blanea to Hear News 

UcNutt Predicts Sufficient Labor lo Take Care Of Crops This Year

Hed Army “Bearing Full Brunt in Absence of Second Front” AXIS IS WEAKENING Premier Says 9,000,000  —

STALIN SAYS REDS FIGHT. WAR ALONE: PRAISES SUCCESSES   States Soviets Have Put Out Nine Million Axis Soldiers—-Warns ; . War Not Over

REDS BEARING WAR BURDEN, STALIN AYERS   Second Front in Europe Still Lacking, Says Russ Premier

Stalin Says Russia — Bears Whole Weight Of the War Alone      Renews Need For Second Front; Reds Put Out of Action 9,000,000 Axis Soldiers, Premier Says On Red Anniversary

Stalin Asserts Red Army  Has Put 9,000,000 Axis  ~ Soldiers Out Of Action Carried Full Load Of War   Roosevelt Pays Tribute To Soviets — For Brilliant Drives Against The Axis

[Russia Bears Full Weight Of War --Stalir   9 Million Enemy Soldiers Put Out Of Action, Says He

Stalin Claims Reds Bear Full BurdenOfWar   Dictator Says 9,000,000 Foe Immobilized Without Help Of Second Front   FIGHT 'NOT FINISHED’   Premier Credits Winter Campaign Success To Maneuvering Policy

STALIN CLAIMS ENEMY LOSSES ARE 9 MILLION   Says Soviet Army Left To Bear Full Brunt Of War Effort

RECRUIT FARM LABOR BEGINS   ALL AVAILABLE FOR WORK ON FARMS ASKED TO APPLY AT COUNTY AGENT'S OFFICE

_ PROCLAMATION. : BY THE." ° GOVERNOR: OF THE STATE “2. OF: TEXAS TO ‘ALL TO: WHOM. THESE

Solomon Bases  Feel Yank Blow   Bombers, Subs Active In Recent Attacks —

SUBS ATTACKED   U. S$. Navy Bomber Probably Sinks One Jap Vessel

‘Accused On Capital Offense   FBI Arrests U. S. Citizen On Espionage Charge

GERMAN BORN U.S. CITIZEN AIDED ENEMY   Ernest Frederick Lehmit: used secret ink;  sensational case

Sensational Spy Case May Be Developed   F. B. I. Announces Arrest Of One-Time Employe Of German Consulate   CHARGE ESPIONAGE INFORMATION MOVES

Yank Fliers Damage Jap Burma Sites   Heavy Forces  Conduct Raids

Bombs Hit 140 Japanese Freight Cars... .  Americans Blast At Jap Areas In Burmz

DESTRUCTIVE AIR RAIDS ARE MADE ON BURMA   140 Freight Cars And Enemy Barracks And Storace Dumps Hard Hi

U.S. Bombers Destroy Jap Burma Posts   Barracks and Storage Dumps Hit, Freight Cars Set Afire

Allies Base Summary on Axis Figures   Number of Deaths at Hands of Gestapo Never Revealed

REPORT 3,000,000 SLAIN IN EUROPE   Tol of Outrages Under Nazi  Gestapo Regime Partly  Revealed.

De Marigny Giver Gruelling Test  Admits Living With Wife After Divorce

De Marigny Is Subjected To Hard Grilling   .-- Admits Living With Wife After Divorce

Accused Killer Cross-Examined  De Marigny Asked About Former Wife

STALIN LAUDS ROOSEVELT   DAVIES AT HUGE FEAST TO HONOR U. S., BRITISH

STALIN CONFERS WITH AMERICAN   Soviet Toasts Roosevelt, Churchill and United Nations

DAVIES FETED BY STALIN AT DINNER   Premier Gives Toast To FDR, Churchill And United  ‘ Nations 

Mitchell Bomber: Atfack Japanese Field at Canton   Tien Ho Airdrome ls Badly Damaged

MONDAY MART LEVELS WILL RULE 60 DAYS   Action Taken by OPA to Halt Sharp Price Advance. Local Sales Will Be Permitted

OPA’S ACTION WILL PREVENT FURTHER RISE   Order Designed to Maintain Grain-Feeding Ratio, Officials Say

DRUNKEN DRIVER RAMS TWO CARS   Donaid Linebrink, Route 1 Fined $50 and Costs in Court of Mayor

SY MOTORIST IN CRASH, FINED   John Ullinsky Admits Guilt After Glen Miller Car Rammed

MAY “KEEP” DRIVING BAN   Liable to Remain on During Summer. National Fuel Rationin Seen for U. 8.

PREDICTS THAT BAN ON GAS WILL LAST THROUGH . SUMMER   er Says’ Fuel -Oil Rationed'Over2"* Nation ln Near  . ‘Future .

Continue Ban In 17 States On Joy Riding   Lifting Of Restrictions In Summer Unlikely, Asserts Official During Baltimore Meeting

_ Increases E ffective Saturday OPA Hikes Prices for Crude  Oil in Four Southern States

REFERENCE 10 HESS NOT A REFLECTION ON BOY SCOUTS   British Minister Bracken Explains to British Boy © Scouts His Reference 

MOSCOW BRIGHTEST SINCE WAR’S START   Entertainment Houses Going Ful Blast and Diplomatic Parties Are Numerous.

OUARANTINE IS BROKEN   Sunflower Ordnance Worker Wag lil With Scarlet Fever :

Anti-Invasion Moves Made by Axis As Tunisian Campaign Nears Close

Axis Intensifies Anti Invasion Preparations on European Continent

64000 GERMA “WAR PRISONERS TAKEN IN TIINISIA   Axis Dead and Wounded Is Placed At —42.000-—*r   OTHER THOUSANDS BEING RUN DOWN

Prepare Against Allied Inavsion In South Europe   Axis Is Not Overlooking Possibility of Assault Across Channel.   All of Holland Put Under Martial Law

Intensive Axis Anti-Invasion Preparations In Progress As Tunisian Conflict Nears End   All Holland Under Martial Law As German, Italian Fears Heighten

Martial Law Declar etherlan  AXIS FEVERISHLY PREPARING AGAINST INVASION THRUSTS

FEARFUL AXIS GIRDS BALKANS FOR INVASION   Rommel Put in Charge of Balkan Defenses, All Holland Pui Under Martial Taw   PALERMO RAIDED   U.S. Bombers Also Hit Messina in Pounding Sicilian Cities from Air

AXIS FEVERISHLY PREPARING REPEL INVASION FIIROPE   WHILE MEDITERRANEAN BEING PROTECTED, WESf SECTOR NOT NEGLECTED

Anti-Invasion Preparations Rushed By Axis Forces Throughout Europe

Nazis Speed Up Barriers On Continent   Allies Mop Up Axis  Remnant In Tunisia

Reds Sweep Novorossisk and Rain Death on Hitler's Elite Troops--Many Small Craft Loaded With Hun Soldiers Sunk as They Fled Africa--Many High German Officers Are Taken   PALERMO BLASTED BY HUNDREDS OF PLANES

AAG PREPARES FOR INVASION   Martial Law Declared in Holland; Mave Troops In Balkans.    BUILD FORTIFICATIONS

Axis Meps Up Anti-Invasion Preparations  Reds Report   Reds Report Gestapo Chief Sent to Balkans

AXIS DEFENSE WORK SPURRED   Fear of Allied Invasion In creases In MussoliniHitler Circles

HITLER ORDERS HOLLAND UNDER MILITARY LAW   Nazi Troops Hurry South: ward Through Balkans

Over Invasion   Holland Placed Under Martial Law; 400 Allied Planes Raid Sicily.

Jittery Nazis Rush All European Defenses Anc Look For Early Invasiot

Axis Speed Up Defense Of Europe For Attack   Preparations Are Extended From France To Sea

All Holland Is Placed Under Martial Law As Germans Guess At Site Of Attack

WAR'S TIDE HAS TURNED ‘Axis Bolsters Defenses ' For Attack and Revol

Intensive Preparations Made By Axis To Halt Allied Moves To Invade Europe As Campaign In Tunisia Nears Close

AXIS PREPARING TO BLOCK DRIVE FOR CONTINENT   Activity Along Entire European Coast Reported

Axis Intensively Prepares for Any Invasion Attempts   .. Worned Particularly in South Europe; Also Study Other Threats

Axis Putting Last Touches On Defenses   Rommel in Balkans; Holland Put Under Martial Law

GERMANS SPEED TASK IN EUROPE   Fearing Allied Drive Along Southern Coast’ Nazis Hasten Preparations

Anti-Invasion Work Is Hastened by the Axis Along European Shores

Axis Speeds Fortification Of Europe   Tunisian Victory Spurs Desperate Attempt To Ward' Off Allied Invasion From The South

AXIS INTENSIFY ANTI-INYASION PREPARATIONS   Bolstering Defenses From South Coast of France to Black Sea In Face  + African Debacle   BOAST ALLIES WILL BE QUICKLY STOPPED   Holland Under Martial Law to Forestall Armed Outbreak; Mass Arrests Being Made

Axis R ush Defenses  For Europe Invasion      Hitler, Mussolini Expect Southern Attack, But Other Fronts Not Overlooked

AXIS RUSHES ITS EUROPEAN DEFENSE WORK   Intensive Preparations to Meet Invasion Reported Under Way From South Coast of France to the Black Sea.

TUNISIAN WAR APPEARS TO BE ALL BUT FINISHED. INVASION OF EUROPE SEEMS IMMINENT   Allied Steam Roller Continuing to Flatten Pockets of Axis Resistance. All Resistance Has Collapsed Between Tunis and Bizerte.

Frantic Axis Preparing for Allied Offensive   Drive Expected Through Southern Europe by Enemy

AXIS PREPARING, FEAR INVASIONS   Points In Southern Europe. Holland Seem Places For Entrances.

Thousands Trying To Escape In Small Boats Blasted To Bits; 25,000 Give Selves Up

Axis Intensifies Plans to Ward Off Invasion   Nazis Rush Preparations From French Crnact ta Rlack Sea Today

ADE CAP BON PENINSULA   Enemy Units Near Bizerté Surrender to American 2nd Corps.   ITALIAN BASES BOMBED

Germans Declare Martial Law In Holland; Work Feverishly On Defenses

Busmen Strike In L. A. War Plants Hit  Million Wait in Vain for  Cars and Buses

STRIKE CRIPPLES KEY WAR REGION   TRANSPORT WORKERS IN LOS ANGELES ASK INCREASE IN WAGES

‘Believe It or Not, I'm Waiting for a Streetcar,’ Say Thousands of Los Angeles War Workers

MEN WALK TO WORK IN LOS ANGELES ARE   Army Can’t interfere, Says Sector Commander, in Stoppage.   MEN QUIT IN PROTEST OF PAY HIKE REFUSAL

ALKOUT is AR CONCERNS   lion Workers Are Late eaching Jobs In Los Anseles When Transporta i tion System Is Tied Up   FORKERS PROTEST PAY RULE BY WLB   cderal Agency Refuses to  Approve Increase of 10c Hour; Plants Send  Trucks for Employes

Los Angeles Tied Up by Bus Strike   War Plants Are Affected by the Operators’ Work Stoppage.

LOS ANGELES CARMEN STRIKE   Commissioners Go to Falis for In. quiry, Continue Batlsls Hearings Next Week

STRIKE TIES — LOS ANGELES   Million War Workers Walk To Work As Transport Operators Walkout

Los Angeles Bus Service Tied Up   Thousands of War Workers Stranded

Los Angeles Tied Up By A Strike Operators Halt Traffic To Protest Pay Ruling

One-Day Tie-Up » Of Los Angeles  Transportation   Bus And Tram Workers Protest W. L. B. Denial  OF Pav Increase.

A TRAFFIC TIE-UF   Los Angeles Car and Bus Operators Protest WLB’s Action 

Los Angeles Has No Transportation  Workers Strike, War Plants Affected

POWER COMPANY 10 BE SUED BY STATE   State Wants to Halt Diversion of Falls By Copper Country Firm.

Ciano Captured By Nazi Forces  Taken Before ‘Benito In Stormy Session

Unionists To  Back Fighters   To Spread Gospel Of Speed-Up In Plants

PAY-AS-YOU:GO TAX BILL PASSES HOUSE   Senate Is Expected to Follow Suit as Will the President.

County Court News Of Sioux Count,   Four Warriage Licenses Issned By Clerk Of Court; Verdict Given In The McCrory Case

County Court News Of Sioux County   ASks Foreclosure Of Mortgage On Property; Other Estate Matters Come Before The Court

BALTIMORE FACING GASOLINE SHORTAGE   Situation Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better, One Dealer De rlarps

PLEASURE DRIVING. BAN AGAIN HINTED      Supply of Fuel Reported Short in Eastern Sintec

FOUR ENEMY BASES ATTACKED BY ALLIES   Raids Are Carried Out In Southwest Pacific Despite Unfavor able Weather

REPORT ANTI-NAZI RIOTS IN HOLLAND   GERMAN-HELD RADIO HINTS AT OUTBREAKS QUELLED WITH MACHINE GUNS,

GREATER PLEDGE NN LOAN SOUGH   Morgenthau Urges 15 or 20 Per Cent Investment; Total Sales Over 4 Billions

$4 000,000,000 In Bonds Sold In Three Days   Secretary Morgenthau Pleased with Success of New Drive

Nation’s Bond Sales Mount To 4 Billions   Public Rallies To Support Of Enterprise

PUBLIC URGED 10 HIKE BOND BUYING   Morgenthau Asks That 15 to 20 Per Cent of Earnings Be invested; Nation Passes $4,000,000,000 Mark

Nation Has Passed Four Billion Mark   Morgenthau Suggests That Individuals Now Should Invest More Of Earninos In Bonde

FOUR BILLION MARK PASSED   Morgenthau Asks People To Invest 15 To 20 Per Cent In Bonds

Subsidy Plan Wins Out In Final Poll   Senate Rescinds Kill Action By 34-33 Vote:

Canadians Out Of Sicily Fight   Report Dominion Wants Separate Army

CANADIANS OUT OF SICILY NOW   Authorities Hope Troops’ Will Be Formed Into Complete Army.

ALL READY FOR FIRST INU   Tipton’s First Test ih Pre paration for ‘Statewide Blackout. :

ALL REAUY FUh Ffiol OIN-OUI   Tipton’s First Tsst in Preparation for tatewide Blackout.

48 Japs Slain In New Zealand   Met Death in Mutiny in War Prisoners’ Camn Annnunced

STRIKES SPREAD ~ ACROSS DENMARK   Nine Sabstage Cases in Singic Night Reported from Copenhagen.

DANISH SITUATION GROWS MORE TENSE AS STRIKES FLARE   Unrest Reaches Dangerous Stage — King Might Be Interned By Nazis

DANISH SITUATION — “JS GROWING TENS!      Strikes: Are Started and .'Nirie Sabotage Cases in “One Night Are  ’ "Reported.

State Service Caused Giff, Moore Asserts   Senator Says He Gave $5000 in Appreciation Of Phillips’ Check of Political Oligarchy

” $5,000 WAS A GIFT   Oklahoma Senator Tells of Giving ‘Money to Governor Phillips

Senator Moore Asserts He Mailed Phillips $5,000 As  ‘Expression of Gratitude’

JAPS BUILDING NEW AIR BASE. AN SOUTHWES]   Making a Great Base at We. wak After Rabaul Is . . Destroyed.   IN NORTH NEW GUINEA   In’ Mearti ime “Allies Are Giving J. apanese Round: the: Clee! ‘4 Bombing. .

JAPS BUILDING ~HEW AIR BESE iN SOUTAWES   Making a Great Base at Wewak After Rabaul Is LTestrcyed.   IN NORTH NEW GUINEA   In Meart:me Allies Are Giving Japa rnese Round-theClock Eombing.

Today’s War Commentary  Axis Expendables  Rommel Fighting Himself To Death

REDS BREAK NAZI DRIVE   Russans Chargé Out from. Defense Lines West .of Hiev and Recapture Several Villages,

thousands of Moscow Citizens Crowd Churches Easter Sunday   US, Army Men Observe Easter  At Sunrise Service in London

Observance of Ecster in Moscew Greatest Since Pre-Revolutionary Days

MARK-EASTER   Moscow Has Biggest Crush Of Worshippers Since  Before Revolution

IR CHIEF IS FORCED TO WAIT BY RAF BOMBS   ‘Timely’ Attack Defers Tall For One Hour   Goering Pledges Ultimate Victory To Germans

Marshal Says Hitler Is At Battle Front   German People Are Again Promised Victory; Air Leader Says Russians Fooled Nazis; Second Time Hitler Has Failed to Speak in Ten Years

ATTACK DELAYS CELEBRATION IN GERMAN CAPITAL   Assault Timed To Halt Anniversary  Talk By Goering

Goerings Talk Is Delayed By British Bombs   Air Chief Boasts Of Ultimate Victory After Berlin Attack; Promises New Offensive By Nazis In Spring   ENGLAND'S RAIDERS RETURN SAFELY

Nazis Gathered For Hitler Fete Rush To Gellars   First Daylight Raid Of War Halts Goering Talk

Explosions Heard By Listeners in Period of Delay   Air Marshal Tells Germans Reich Is Certain of Victory

BRITISH AUR / RAID DELAYS GOERING SPEECH   Doring DayHehbt Raid Times fo De lay ‘Ronth Anniversary Celebralion by Navas,

- Planes Return Safely fo England, German Air Marshal Promises Revenge For Assault, Harps on Need for Unity —

First Daylight Raid On Capital   Goering’s Talk To German People Delayed For Hour; No. 2 Nazi Says Fuehrer Deceived By Strength Of Russians; Victory Promised

Berlin Smacked On Anniversary Of Nazi Regime   Hitler ‘Out of Town,’ Air Marshal Shouts Vengeance. Prods Peonle

‘Bomb Explosions Heard Before Broadcast Is Shut Off; Planes Strike Suddenly And Swiftly   Reichsmarshal’s Address Delayed; Report Hitler At Front; Germans Told Strength Of Russians Was, And Was Not, Known

Goering Talk On Tenth Anniversary of Hitler’s Rise To Power Delayed When RAF Makes Daylight Attack On Berlin

Goering Predicting Eventual Victory for Germany, Promises to Remember RAF When Russia Disposed of

RADIO CARRIES EXPLOSIONS OF FALLING BOMBS   First Daylight Assault on German Capital Timed to Coincide With Hit Hitler Celebration   APDIENCE FORCED TO BOMB SHELTERS   All Mosquito Bombers Re. turn Safely From 400 Mile Expedition Into Hostile Territory

ADOLPH HITLER WITH SOLDIERS   Fuehrer Not To Broadcast on Tenth Anniversary of Power

GOERING ‘WON'T FORGET WHAT RAF HAS DONE’   BUT BRITISH SAY PFFT! ‘RIGHT IN DER FUEHRER’S FACE’

English Bombers Strike As Goering Prepares To Talk   Swift Mosquito-Type Planes Return Safely From Raid On Reich Capital; Hitler, ‘At Front With Army,’ Fails To Speak On 10th Anniversary Fete

Time Attack on Berlin to Talk Of Air Marshal   Goering Says British To Be Repaid For Raids “One Day’  -FUEHRER IS ABSENT  ‘Muf fled Shouts and Other  Noises Reach Radio Listeners

Mosquito Bombers Pour Explosives On German Capital, Forcing Delay In Goering’s Address Celebrating Tenth Anniversary Of Hitler’s Rise To Power— Air Marshal Promises “Ultimate Victory” —Fuehrer Reported To Be “With His Soldiers”

GOERING IN SOMBER BROADCAST WHICH 15 DELAYED BY BOMBING   TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HITLER’S RISE TO POWER FINDS REICH WORRIED

DAYLIGHT RAID INTERRUPTS NAZI SOP FOR PEOPLE   Chief Propagandist Goering Again Promises Ultimate Victory to Germans   HITLER FAILS TO SHOW UP   Flags Missing and Bands Silent as Bombs Provide Noise for Celebration

All of Swift Mosquito Planes Return Safely From Daring Daylight Raid —London Listeners Hear Muffled Shouts,  Exn'osion-Like Noises

Goering lalk  Held Up Hour By Day Attack   Anniversary Of Hitler's Rise To Power Is Spoiled By 400-Mile-An-Hour Mosquito Bombers; Reichmarshal Promises Victory To Germans; Hitler At Front

REDS. DECEIVED. ‘THE GERMANS   But He Declares: : Germany Will Beat. : the -Bolshevists

British Raid Berlin, Delay Goering Speech   Reichsmarshal, In Fuehrer’s Absence, Promises New Nazi Spring Offensive And Vaguely Pledges Ultimate Victory As German Armies Continue Retreats In Russia And North Africa.

HOLDS RUSSIAN DBBAGLE DUETO WEAKGENERALS   Shouts Calamity at Stalingrad Was Masterstroke Insuring Germany ~ Victory   CREDITS REDS WITH CLEVER CAMOUFLAGE   Says Russia's Apparent Weakness Against Finland Deceived Hitter; Pleads for German Unity

HITLER WITH SOLDIERS, WHILE GOERING ADMITS GERMANY IN TROUBLE FIGHTING RUSSIANS   Attack Delays for Hou Goering’s Address   First Daylight Assault on Capital Timed On 10th Anniversary of Hitler's Accession To Power; Marshal Promises Victory.

Momentous Developments Follow FDR and - Churchill Meetings: 1943 May Be Greatest

Crises, And Almost Immediate Action: Have Marked Former Meetings Of World leadare

BUFFALO POLICE OFFICIAL OUSTED   Commissioner Removed in Midst of Probe Over Death of Youth.

BIG AERIAL ONSLAUGHT CONTINUING   Every Available Plane Hits Nazis Second Day In Row

Sth Army Lashes Out In Offensive: Makes Advances   Foothold In Italy Clinched, Gen. Clark Declares; Germans Flee For First Time

Reinforcement Being Landed For 5th Army      Air and Sea Forces Are iit Undisputed Control; ‘ Pour in Heavy Fire  ee See

Air Attack At New Peal   Heaviest Assault of Mediterranean War Hits Selerno Enemy

Allies Drive Germans Back From Foothold   “Here to Stay,” Asserts General As Furious Fighting Continues

‘Our Bridgehead (in Italy) Is Secure,’ General Clark Declares in Order of Day to His Troops—Military Leader Asserts ‘We Are Here to Stay’ — Reinforcements Make Offensive Possible.

Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark Said His Soldiers Had Clinched Their Foothold in Italy as They Lashed Out Against the Germans. in Order of Day.   HE LAUNCHED HIS OFFENSIVE THIS MORNING   Teday Is the Eighth Day of the Biggest Battle Yet Fought in the Mediterranean and Threw German Armored Forces Back in Central Sector.

NAZIS DRIVEN BACK BY STIF ALLIED ATTACK   Additional Reinforcements  Land To Aid Troops At Salerno   ‘AWAIT EIGHTH ARMY   Will Not Yield One Foot of Ground, Says Vet eran Commandant

All Available Planes Thrown Into Battle By Allied Command   Biggest Bridgehead Action Since Dunkerque At Critical Stage; 8th Army Racing Toward Sapri

German Forces Thrown At Bridgehead   Foothold In Italy Now Secure, Says Gen. Clark

"We Are Here To Stay. Gen. Clark Pledges   Warships. Planes Aid.

Germans Flee As Offensive Gets Underway   Eighth Army Only Few.Hours Away, General Clark Says; Reinforcements Pour In-as Foothold Declared Secure

Americans and British Lash Out at Germans on High  Ground   FOOTHOLD IS CLINCHED   Enemy in Flight From Thrust in Central Sector of Beachhead

NAZIS DRIVEN BACK BY NEW ALLIED BLOWS   General Clark Says * Italian Bridgehead Is Secure Now

HOLD ON BEACH CLINCHED AFTER BLOODY BATTLE   ‘Bridgehead Secure, Not One Foot of Ground Will Be Given Up,’ Says Clark   TROOPS LANDING DAILY   British Armies Pushing on For Junction With Yanks With Little Opposition

‘Predicts Advance by Americans and Brit ish ‘to Occupy Naples, Rome and Other Cities to the North’ and ‘Free Italy’   BRITISH ADVANCING RAPIDLY   Clark in Order of Day Says British Eighth ‘in a Matter of Hours’ Will Make Its Presence Felt   ‘Bridgehead is Secure’

Terrific Air Attack Made On Germans  Bomb Tonnage, Greatest Dropped

Launching an Offensive on Eighth Day of Biggest Battle Yet Fought in the Mediterranean, Yanks and Tom ’ pies Rout German Armor in Central Sector of Salerno Front, Forcing Enemy Back 8 Miles—Eighth Army Aid to Be Feit in Matter of Hours.

‘Our Bridgehead Is Secure,’ Says Gen. Clark; ‘We'll Take Naples, Rome and Free Italy’

Allied Aerial Might Playing Key Role In Furious Battle At Salerno   Devastating Assaults Have Bebn In Progress For Two Days In Battle For Bridgehead In Greatest Air Assault.

HERE TOSTAY,” LT. GEN. CLARK. TELLS TROOPS   Fifth Army Throws German Armored Forces. Back . at River Junction. :   EIGHTH ARMY RACES — TO JOIN SHORE BATTLE

Genera Cllark Launches Offensive on Eighth Day o Biggest Battle Yet Fought in Mediterranean and Throws Back German Forces  SAYS ADDITIONAL TROOPS LANDING EVERY DA’

Offense Started As Nazis Driven  From Bridgehead   Germans Are Forced to Retreat Eight Miles From Sea at Salerno.   More Allied Troops Are Landed Every Day

Offensive Puts Foe T: Flight For First Tim Since Original Landing Eight Davs Ago.

American And British Troops Lash Out To Drive Germans From Salerno Bridgehead: 8th Army Races North   General Clark Declares Beachhead Secure; Additional Troops Being Landed Each Day

Bridgehead At Salerno Secure, Gen. Clark Tells Troops; British Nearing

Ships, Planes Blast German  Hill Defenses   8th Army Speeding To 5th. Captures Scalea

Huns Forced Back By Bitter Assault   x *k& «kk * Giant Air Operation Supports Invasion Force

Reinforced Allies Cling Tightly To  Salerno Positions   Battle For Beachhead Is Biggest Since Dunkerque; British E ighth Army Races For Junction With Ameri can Fifth Army Forces

ATR ATTACK ON) FOE AT SALERNO HELD TERRIFIC   Every Available Fighter and Bomber Thrown Into Battle For Italian Bridgehead   SUPPLY DUMPS BLOW UP IN AERIAL ATTACK,   Nazi Troops Unable to Escape Devastating Blows; Motor Transports Wrecked

Reinforcement Being Landed For 5th Army   Air and Sea Forces Are in Undisputed Control; Pour in Heavy Fire

EVERY AVAILABLE FORM OF AIR MACHINE THROWN AGAINST. NAZIS AT SALERNO BRIDGEHEAD   Flying Fortresses, Fighters and Others On Vast  Scale Throw Weight Against Germans—Germans Claim Heavy Losses In ‘Warships and Transnorte by Allies -

Heavy Attack Pushes Enemy Troops Baek   Germans Soon To Feel ‘Presence’ Of British Sth, Clark Reveals; More Troops Arriving

Terrific Air Attack Made On Germans   Bomb Tonnage Greatest Dropped On Single Area In Mediterranean

FIFTH ARMY HOLDS FAST AS FIGHTING EIGHTH RACES UP   SWEATING BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS CLINCH HOLD IN ITALY

Dive Bombers and Heavy Guns Hammer Jap Base at Munda; 123 Nip Planes Are Shot Down   By MURLIN SPENCER

PLANE LOSSES MOUNT 10 123 IN TWO DAYS   25 U. S. Planes Missing; Land Troops Mopping Up On Island Of Rendova; Enemy Upset

and surprise struck by the navy, ground troops and airplanes under the supreme command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Early News  Of Offensive: Ts Cheering   Key . Jap. Bases Under New Threat as Speedy ~ Yanks Clinch Gains © .“°

SPEED OF ALLIED THRUSTS CATCH JAPS NAPPING   U. S. BATTERIES ON RENDOVA BLAZE AWAY AT MUNDA AIR BASE

BatteriesonRendova  Shell Jap MundaBase   123 Jap Planes Shot Down Against American Losses of 25 Planes, 15 Pilots—Rendova Garrison Destroyed

U.S, CASUALTIES LIGHT IN DRIVE THRU SOLOMONS   Campaien Moving On Schedule In Surprise Raids

1B Jap Planes Shot Down in Solomons Battle   Gains Reported By Allies Along Pacific Front

MacArthur, Halsey Push Pacific Drive   Enemy Aircraft Losses Five To One As Allies  Pursue Campaign To Conquer Solomons And Destroy Enemy’s Major Bases

123 Enemy Planes Down In First Two Days of Bic Battle Over New Georg   Allied Nava! Units Advance Farther. North to Continue Attack On Jan-Held iciands

GUNS SET UP ON RENDOVA IN ACTION   American Forces Are Consolidated With Great Speed

Coordinated Biows Combine Speed, Power and Surprise As 123 Enemy Planes Fall

Japs Hurling ‘In Warplanes   American Advances Well Protected By Air Umbrella

American Guns Blast Jap Air Base af Munda   Yankees Consolidat Gains in Solome:  As Toll of Er: Planes-Reach <*

Pacific Drive Shows Success   MANY JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN BY YANKS

mn nnonm  OTHER DEFENSE POSTS OF FORS BEING SHELLED   Meanwhile, Victorious U. S. Forces Completing Conquest of * Rendova Island   ‘COMPLETELY WIPE  OUT JAP. GARRISON   Allied Casurafties In Yer Young Pacific Offensive Are Reported to Be Light

AMERICAN SHORE BATTERIES ON RENDOVA SHELLAIR BASE AT MUNDA N.G. ISLAND   123 Japanese Planes Blasted Out of Skies Over New Georgia Islands Wednesday and Thursday,  Admiral Haleey Announces

U. S. Warships Steam In Battle Area To Shell Enemy Strongholds; Rendova Mopped Up

SKY WARFARE. GOST 129 SAP CHAT: HALSEY   Landing Forces Consolidate Gains Along 700-Mile Solomon Front =<   AMERICAN LOSSES IN PLANES FIXED AT:25

Early News Of Offensive Is Cheering   Key Jap Bases Under New Threat as Speedy Yanks Clinch Gains

Teacher ‘s Pay Increase Now  Major Legislative Problem   Demands For Cost-Of-Living. Increases. A. -centuated "By we Strike Of Rankin Teachers

30 FACTORIES DESTROYED IN RAID ONBERLIN   Reconnaissance Photographs Of Area Affected By March 1 RAF Raid Are Shown  In London.   Most Successful Ever

Berlin Hit Hard By RAF, Photos Of Raid Reveal   Ihirty Factories Destroyed or Damaged in March 1 Attack

Review Of Berlin Raid Shows 30 Plants Ruined   Air Ministry Says Recent Raid Was One Of Most Successful On Germany.

30 Berlin Factories Hit in March I Raid   Business Buildings, Templehof Freight Yards Hit by RAF, Reconnaissance Photos Show

BERLIN'S RAID DAMAGE VAST   Reconnaissance Pictures Reveal 20 Plants ard Rail Shops Siiasbed

AIK RAID DAMAGE HEAVY IN BERLIN   PICTURES SHOW RAIL REPAIR SHOPS AND 30 FACTORIES HIT BY BOMBS.

Big Sea Victory Will Change Jap Pacific Strategy   U.S. Planes F ollow Up Convoy Attack With Raids in Solomons Area

. BILL SQUEEZES B’   Measure Cutting Highway Payments to Counties Goes to House

AXIS HARASSED BY FORCES OF ALLIES   Short Jabs by Land and Air Reported in Dispatches

Allied Forces In Tunisia Harass Axis   British Eighth Army Poises for Assault On Rommel Troops

ALLIES WORRY AX BY LAND AND AIR JABS   British And American Ground Patrols Continue Small Sorties All Along Western Tu ni ian Front.   8th Army Poised

ALLIES CLOSE ON ROMMEL 5 AFRICA CORPS   Eighth Army Believed Readying for The Knockout Blow

Allied Forces Harass Axis bv Land. Air   British 8th Army Gets Ready for Knockout Blow

Crucial Blow To Nazis Coming Up   Forces of Rommel Menaced by Advance From East

ROMMEL'S AFRICAN FORCES FACE FINAL KNOCKOUT BLOW   Ry GORDON TAIT

ALLIES HARASS AXIS BY LAND, ATR IN TUNISIA   British Dig In To Check German Advance Near Vital Height; Bad Weather Returns   Patrols Are Active

Rains May Delay  Blow in Tunisia   German Surprise Sortie Repulsed by Allics At Kef el-Arala   British Troops Dig In, Hold Foe at Mansour   American Fighter Pianes Silence Axis Cannon At Faid Pass

ALLIED BOMBERS RAID MARSEILLE   SMASH ENEMY AIRDROMES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE AND IN ATHENS AREA.

Nazi Airdromes In France, Greece  Lashed by Allies   Ground Operations In Italy Are Bogged Down By Weather; Small Gains Made By American Fifth Army

LANES BLAST FOE AIRFIELDS AT MARSEILLE   Dismal Weather Holds Up Land Action on Italian Front

AIA BLOWS FALL ON WIDE FRONT   Make Futile Effort to Aid Leros Isle Defenders   GROUND ACTIVITY   In Italy Bogged Down by Bad Weather; Only Patrol Actions Reported

German Bombers Smashed Aground      s Regain xy: Fess bax  ran Fore ew? Pa

Allied Bombers Hit Marseille.  Athens Sectors   Ground Operations In Italy Hampered By Bad Weather;  Yanks Regain Land

FOE AIRFIELDS AT MARSEILLE   Dismal Weather Holds Up Land Action on Italian Front

Allies Hit Athens,  Marseille   Forts, Marauders Batter Big Nazi Airfields

Enemy Bases Suffer Heavy Blows   Mediterranean Ships Made Safer by Pounding Airdromes

Atrican Force Drops Bombs On Airdromes   Balkans Struck by American Planes Based in Ttaly

Heavy Air Blows Rained On Nazis   Weather Hampers  Ground Operations By NOLAND NORGAARD

Allied Planes Smash at Nazi Air Force   Blows Are Struck at Marseille and: Athens Area

FRENCH AIRDROMES BOMBED BY FLIERS   Bases Near Marseille and Athens Attacked by Heavy Bombers

ITALIAN FRONT HAMPERED BY BAD WEATHER   ENEMY BASES NEAR MARSEILLES AND ATHENS BOMBED

Destruction of Nazi Air Fleets Are Obiectives   Ground Forces in Italy Hampered by Bad Weather

North African Airmen Blast At Nazi Bases   Ground Operations In Italy Hampered By Dismal Weather

SAILOR ALIVE, WELL AFTER 132 DAYS AT SEA ON LIFE RAFT   Believed To Be Lone Survivor Of English Ship Sunk By Italian Sub In November

Chinese Sets Record for Sea Raft Trip   165 DAYS ALONE ON OCEAN GIVE SURVIVOR LIFETIME FILL OF FISH

Sabotage Is Charged To Gandhi, Followers   _.by British News Agency

Price Ceilings To Be Revised   Mechanics Of Revised Plan For Grocery Ceilings Dis wile

REVISION OF PRICE CEILINGS PLANNED   ‘Uniform Limits On Grocery Prices To Be Decreed

GROCERY PRICES TO BE DISPLAYED   OPA DISCLOSES HOW CEILING REVISION WILL OPERATE

Customers To Get Chance  To Check Prices of Food   New Plan Revises Wholesale . And Retail Grocery Price Ceilings. OPA Discloses

REVISED PLAN, ON FOOD PRICE CONTROL COMING   Four Features To-Be Incorporated In hdarch

OPA Formulates Pricing Plans   Will Enable Customer To Check Correct Prices

OPA Discloses Plan To Revise Ceilings   Grocery Wholesale and Retailers Program to Be Reestablished

ESSEN IS HARD HIT IN RAID   Fourteen R. A. F. Airplanes Missing From  Nicht Raid.

Essen Ripped By Heavy Raid   14 RAF Bombers Fail to Make It Home

RAF STAGES HEAVY RAID ON HAMBURG      Attack Believed Almostas Great as Blows Against Cologne, St. Nazaire and Berlin in the Last Week.

ALLIED PLANES fll FUROPE AGAIN TODAY   Heavyweights Grounded, But Others Carry On

RAF HEAVILY RAPS ESSEN, ARMS CENTER      Fourteen Planes Missing From Raid on Big Industrial Area, Indicat‘ing Attack Force of Perhaps 300 Craft.

14 BRITISH BOMBERS  FAILED TO RETURN FROM ESSEN RAID   Perhaps 300. Planes Took Part in Raid on Important German Induatrial Canter

Flying Forts Attack Holland   NAZI TARGETS BOMBED IN OCCUPIED COUNTRY

UHR INDUSTRIAL CITY PLASTERED WITH HUGE BOMBS   Russians Capture 144 Towns in Two Days of  Fighting; Allies _ Occupy Dik. to Dee

R.A.F. Bombards Hamburg: Nazi Planes Over London  In Weak Reprisal Raids

R. A. F. Hits af German Targets   Mines Are Laid in Enemy Woters; One Plane Is Missina

U.S, BOMBERS RAID GERMAN)   Attack Follows Heavy RAF , Smash At Hamburg °

Hamburg Pasted As RAF Keeps Up Raids On Reich   Germans Stab Twice At London With Poor Results

HAMBURG HIT BY RAF AFTER LONDON RAID   10 British Planes Missing After Big Raid :

Fortresses Raid Rotterdam Docks  RAF Makes Heavy Attack on Hamburg, Other Tarvets

RAF Bombs Blast Essen   Heavy Assault on Great Industrial Center 10th Consecutive Night Raid

ERLIN ADMITS GREAT DAMAGE PO REICH CITY   tion to Residential Quarters and on Public Buildings  feat Re Most Devasta     14 BIG BOMBERS BAIL TO RETURX   arget; Tenth Consecutive Night Attack on German and Nazi-Occupied Areas  ce Armament Works

Germany Feels Ninth Night Of RAF Raids   Round-The-Clock Offensive Costs Only One Bomber

Allied Bombers Hit af Europe   Pound Enemy-Held Airfields, Railways In France, Belaium

LONDON BOMBED; RAF PLANES RAID HAMBURG, OTHER GERMAN TARGETS  Only Few Nazi Raiders Reach City In Two Attempts, British Officials Say

RAF BOMBERS POUND WESTERN GERMANY AGAIN   Mines Dropped In Enemy Waters By Planes

Heavy Damage Reported; Germans Stage Retaliation Raid Aginst London

RAF Displays New Plane in Bombing Raid During Night   Essen, Home of Krupp Works, Hit Heavily in Night Assault

BRITISH BLAST FRENCH COAST   New Typhoon Planes Team Up With Spitfire in Attacks

Heavy Attack Made by RAF On Essen   14 Planes Fail To Return— 10th Straight Night Of Air Attack

A CONCENTRATED ATTAGK ON ESSEN MADE LAST NIGH]   Was Tenth Consecutive Night of Assaults Against Enemy Targets.   15 BOMBERS WERE LOST   This Indicated That Perhaps 300 Planes Took Part in the Raid.

GERMAN PLANTS BOMBED BY RAF IN HEAVY RAID   Fourteen Planes Fail To Return  From Mission

14 BOMBERS LOST AS RAF CONTINUES: ~ONTINENTAE RAINS   Make Very: Heavy Attack On "German Industrial Cen-~ 2. ter. of Essen      THER TOWNS ARE- HIT

und-The-Clock Bombings Continu  RAF Blasts At. Germany Ninth Night Running

HEAVY ATTAG MADE AGAINST CITY OF ESSEN   RAF Strikes At Germany Again, Completing Tenth Suc  cessive Night Of Air  ey

YANKS BATTER REICH FIELDS   French Area Hammered In Wide-Scale Raids By Marauders; Fighters Hit Other Areas

NAZIS RAID-LONDON; HAMBURG POUNDED - BY PAF BOMBERS   Damage in Britain Not Extensive; Other German Targets Hit   JO RAF PLANES MISSING

RAF Bombers Blasted Essé       OVER _ 300 0 PLANES In RAID ON NAZI ~ CENTER

Krupp Works Objective Of RAF Raid   14 Bombers Lost; New Fighter Plane In Action

ALLIED BOMBERS POUNDING AXIS STRONGHOLDS   Amiens and Abbeville Hit In Daylight Raids -— Today.—RAF Idle

Hamburg Gets Load of Bomb: During Night   RAF and Germans Resort To Aerial: Attacks On : ‘Bapee -Sealew 2

RAF Pounds Germany for  Tenth Night   Strike at Essen and Other Targets; 14 Bombers Admitted Lost

RAF Makes Concentrated Air Raid on Industrial Center   German Radio Indicates Blows on Essen Heavy;  14 Bombers Missing

RAF Pounds Essen; Nazis Admit Loss   Round-the-Clock Raids Carried Out For Tenth Niaht+ 

RAF BOMBERS Ald ESSEN LAST NIGHT   Industrial Center Hit in 10th Consecutive Night of Assautts. —

FLEETS OF ALLIED BOMBERS STRUCK AT EUROPE TODAY   The Paris Radio Said _ the Daylight Attack Was a “Violent One.”   HIT AMIENS, ABBEVILLE   Mosquito Bombers Pounded Airfields in France and Belgium.

‘PLANT HIT BY BOMBS   “A Golossal Explosion’? Reported :by RAF Fliers Tn Raid. on Essen   14 BOMBERS Lost IN HEAVY. ATTACK   300 Planes Take Part in-the Tenth Consecutive.Night Raid on Germany

RAF Hits At Targets In Nazi Domain   Western Reich Scene Of Raids

ROTTERDAM DOCK AREA ATTACKED BY U, S, FLYERS   Switching Yards at Hamburg, Germany, Are Also Raided.   ATTACK IN DAYLIGHT   Flyers Said They Encountered Only Short, Weak Attacks From Enemy.

ATTACK DOCKS AT ROTTERDAM   Switching Yards At Hamm, Germany, Also Bombed in Daylight Raid

Western Germany  _ Attacked By RAF  ‘Targets Not Revealed In British Reports

RAF CARRIES RAIDING INTO NINTH NIGHT   Details Of Latest Foray Not Given; Only 1 Plane Lost

Allied Planes Hammer At European Targets, Bombing Amiens, Abbeville Twice

Heavy Attack Hits Hamburg   RAF Raid Follows Nazi Blow at London

Essen Bombed In Tenth Night Raid on Reich   Fourteen Big British Ships Fail to Return From the Trin.   Cause Great Damage  To Public Building:

LATE NEWS DEVELOPMENTS   AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES OVER ROTTERDAM

Germany Again  Pounded By RAF   Ninth, Successive Night Ir Round-The-Clock Air Offensive.

Essen Pounded In RAF Attack  14 Planes Lost From Possible 300 On Raid

WAR PLANTS OF ESSEN BOMBARDED   14 Planes Fail To Return From Evening’s Work   Are Shown For First Time: Daylight Sweep Made Over Netherlands

BOMBERS STRIKE FRENCH TARGETS   Airfields, Railroacls Hit On An. niversary Of London Blitz Opening

RAF Keeps Up Air Assaults   Ninth Straight Night That Germany Has Been Under Bomb Raids

Great Damage Reported To Public Places   Fourteen Big British Bombers Fail To Return From Trip

Heavy Bombs Hil City of Essen   Air Forces Sweep Over Germany Again

Yanks Recover Ground Lost In Central Tunisia   Rommel Turns Toward 8th Army: Reds Roll More Back From Moecow

ESSEN BEARS BRUNT OF 10TH NIGHT’S RAIDS   Great Fires Visible 160 Miles Away Set, Powder Factory or Munitions Dump Believed Hit

Full Force RAF Raid At Hamburg   10 British Bombers Fail  To Return

RAIDED BY RAF   Tenth Consecutive Night of Assaults Against Targets Either In Germany Or Nazi-Held Europe.

ROTTERDAM AND HAMM ATTACKED   Flying Fortresses Raid Docks In Netherlands And Switching Yards In Germany.

300 PLANES IN MAJOR ATTACK ON NAZI EUROPE   14 British Bombers Fail To Return from Continent

RAF CONTINUES NIGHTLY RAIDS ONNAZI AREAS   British Airmen Smash At Targets .In Western Germany, Presumably the Ruhr Valley   ONE PLANE MISSING   Mosquito Bombers Blast Railway Center-Near LeMans and Valenciennes In France

ROYAL AIR FORCE BLASTS ESSEN, LOSE 14 PLANES   10th Straight Night Attack on German Industrial Targets

RAF CONTINUE RAIDS ON GERMAN PLANTS   British Lose One Plane in Operations

Heavy Attack Made by RAF On Essen   14 Planes Fail To Retutn—10th Straight Night Gf Air Attack   Navy Men Hopeful New Sub Killers Will Be Able to Crush O-Boats

Intensive Raid Made On Essen   RAF Bombers Carry Ou Fifty - Second Attact On Krupp Plant A Industrial Center

‘Very v Heavy’ Attack Made On Essen By British   Concentrated Blow Struck At Great  German Industrial Center Last Night

ROYAL AIR FORCE STRIKES AT ESSEN   UNLEASH HEAVY BLOWS ON GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITY

HAMBURG HIT HARD IN RAID   RAF Continues Daily Pounding Of Germany; Strong Attack On London

British Make Heavy Raid Upon Essen   10th Consecutive Attack At Night

RAF Drops 2-Ton Block-Busters On Cologne   Battered City ls Blasted Again

Avother Blitz Raid Does Heavy Damage   Biggest Assault In Recent Months Hits German City

Thousands of Explosives, Bombs Dropped on Cologne In RAF Blitz Raid on City —

CITY OF COLOGNE HEAVILY BLASTED BY RAF. AT NIGHT      Great English Four-Motored Bombers Drop 100 Two-Ton Block Bust ers in Areas.

BLOCK-BUSTER BOMBS RAINED BY 100 PLANES   RAF Waits For Factory Repairs, Then Strikes City Again

COLOGNE POUNDED BY GIANT BOMBS IN BRITISH RAID   Royal Air Force Drops 200 Tons of Block-busters on Shattered Rhineland

Steam Engine for Aircraft Called  Possible and Practical by Inventor

EN. YOUNG IS CRUSHED BY TRUCK   Mattoon Man Critical ly Injured in Accident at Fairgrange

GOOD CROP WEATHER   Muggy Atmosphere Holds, Thun_derstorms Are Forecast

Lend-Lease _ Bill Goes to * House Fleor  Committee Says Mutual Aid Plan Will Shorten a March to Victory §6 BILLIONS ASKED Amount Boosts Total of Aid to America’s Allies to $2.4 Billions

$6 Billion Lend Bill Is Submitted  Mass Of Testimony Goes Before House

House To Vote On $6,273,629,000 Lena. lease Bill To Aid In Completing Victory

SIX BILLIONS IN LEND-LEASE BILL BEFORE SOLONS   With Plea for More Funds, Promise Made Cash Will Hasten Victory

Lend-Lease Measure Up   $6,273,629,000 Is Asked to Assist United Nations

TO BE FELT - HERE   Increase of Lease Lend Will - Effect Dinner Plates of  Americans

Lend-Lease A Potent. Weapon   House Committee Send: Appropriation Bill To Floor of House With Plea For Approval

House Handed 6 Billion Bill  On Lend-Lease   Appropriations Committee Presents ‘Testimony On Need For Funds.   FACTS BY STETIINIUS

It's Home Front Self-Denial Contribution To Wor Effort, Stettinius Tells Solons

$6 Billion  Lend-Léase ~ Bill Asked   Committee Submits Measure On House Floor Today; Stettinius Speaks

More US. Food Going Overseas  Increased Denial   Increased Denial On Home Front Is In Prospect

HOUSE STUDIES LEND-LEASE   $6,273,629,000 BILL IS PRESENTED U. S.

Six Billion More For Lend-Lease Asked in Measure   Bill, Called Aid. to Victory, Is Sent. To House Floor

SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES CARGO SHIP CONSTRUCTION  _ Bill Carrying $6,280,- 000 For Maritime Com - mission’s Ship Buildin:

Downtown El Reno Hit By Big Fire   Five Business Buildings Go Up in Flames

EL RENO HAS BIG FIRE LOSS   Damage from Blaze Which Destroys Five Buildings Estimated at $150,000

Five Business Buildings af FI Reno Burn   Loss Estimated at $150,000, Heaviest Fire Damage in Recent History at El Reno

Green Recruits Flew Jap Planes In Solomons Scray   Nips Hold Out Regulars  In Big Fight

Defenses Breached, Nazis Reel Back Toward Polish,  Rumanian Borders   BAD TACTICAL ERROR COMMITTED BY ENEMY

Great Disaster Facine Nazis   Routed Nazis Reel Toward Poland Under Red Assaults.

300,000 MEN FALLING BACK BEFORE REDS   Soviet Army Pours Through 185-Mile Gap in Enemy Lines Toward Poland and Rumania.   300 MORE VILLAGES TAKEN BY VICTORS   Nazis Abandon Thousands of Vehicles as Blunder Brings on Disastrous Defeat in Ukraine.

Germany s East Wall Collapses   Russian Offensive  Sweeps Up Many ,Guns And Vehicle:

Red Forces Pursue Nazis Throuh 185-Mile Breach  STALIN SUMMARIZES CAMPAIGN RESULTS German Command Has  Fallen Victim to Great Blunder

(Great Rout Announced iBy Moscow   Soviets Pour Througl Breach of 185 Miles  In German Defenses  NAZI LOSSES HIGH

22 Divisions Reel Back From Attacks   Thousands Of Vehicles And Over 100 Large Gunc Abandoned Ac Nazi Forces Are Fleeina

Nazis Abandon Big Guns, Flee In Wild Disorder   300 Communities Taken by Soviets

550 Russian Communities Retaken In 2 Days by Red Hordes Plunging Toward Polish, Rumanian Borders   Kazatin’s Fall Major Blow to Enemy Communications in Southern Ukraine; Stalin Says Nazis Routed; Armies Take 1300 Towns

Triumphant soviet army  rolls ahead   Gain 30-60 miles on 120-mile front

Reds Create Wide Breach  In Nazi Line   Soviet Army Speeding Toward Frontiers in Pursuit of Enemy

STALIN SUMMARIZES CAMPAIGN RESULTS   German Command Has Fallen Victim to Great Blunder

SOVIETS POUR THROUGH GAP OF 185 MILES   Reds Report Collapse Of Nazis on Whole Zhitomir Front

‘Russians Push Through 180-Mile Hole   Nazi Disaster Is Greatest Since Dniener Was Crossed

RAF Bombers Drop Over 1,200 Tons Of Bombs On Berlin In Night Raid Leaving City Burnano Anew   SWARMS OF GERMAN FIGHTERS HIT BACE

NAB ESCAPED NAZI   German Prisoner Captured In Louisiana Just Ahead Of Dogs

WILLKIE. VICTORY      Naturalized Alien’s Citizenship, War Curfew Opinions Wind Up Term

WILLKIE WINS FIGHT = TO SAVE CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS OF COMMUNIST   He’s Somewhat of a Hero to American Commies— and Ta Riuecanc

NAVY MUTE ON KISKA LANDING   Report from Vichy May Fist for Information If Radio Knocked Out

“NO COMMENT' ON VICHY CLAIM THAT INVASION OF ISLAND IS NOW . UNDERWAY

No Confirmation Here cf Axis Claims That U.S. Forces Have. Invaded Jazan’s Aleutian Island

No, a Thousand Times No   Those Panties Not Mine, Snaps Lady Astor

FIVE PROMINENT FRENCH ARE HELD   \Warrants Charging Treason lissued on Recommenda' tions of Purge Committee.

NAZIS REPORT STATE OF SIEGE IN MARSEILLES   Fighting Reported To Have Broken Out Between French Civilians, German Troops

FRENGH CIVILIANS BATTLE NAZIS IN MARSEILLES PORT   Germans Proclaim State of Siege When Residents Resist Attempt to Evacuate  40,000 People.

FMILIE MAY  S THE BOAT   Quints Visit U. S. First Time To Christen 5 Cargo Ships On Mother’s Davy

STRIKE TEo UP BIG NEWSPAPERS   Washington Papers Take To Air As Typographers Stage Walkout

Marshal Petain ts ‘Prisoner’ of Laval After Plot to Remove Traitor Fails

DUTCH SEIZE DAUGHTER OF NAZI LEADER   Gestapo agents search for kidnapped child;  tension mounts

NAZHAIT BY. KIDNAP: PLaT   DAUGHTER OF HIGHEST NAZI " OFFICIAL IN NETRERLANDS:  HIDNAPED BY PATRIOTS

Dutch Snatch Seysz-Inquart Daughter   FRENCH PAPER REPORTS KIDNAPING OF CHILD OF HIGH NAZI OFFICIAL

Capture Daughter of Nazi Commisar      Netherlands Patriots Hold Her As Hostage

Girl Seized As Hostage   Daughter Of Traitor Is Held By Patriots.

Nazi Official’s Girl Abducted   Dutch Hold Daughter of Seysz-Inquart

NAZIS DAUGHTER HELD BY DUTCH   Hostage Is Kidnapped as Patriots Mark 47 Traitors in Holland for Death

Nazi Official’s Daughter Held As Hostage By Dutch   Patriots charged With Kidnaping; Traitors Said Killed

Dutch Kidnap, Hold Nazi Girl Hostage      Daughter Of Seysz-Inquart, Commissioner Of Netherlands, Is Being Held

Merchant Ship Sinkings  Diminishing   Sub Menace Still Great  Gaca Uunne

Knox Warns U-Boat Peril Still Great   Statement Follows Announcement Of 2 Sea Disasters

Knox Reveals Merchant Ship Sinkings In Past Three Months Have Been at Lower Rate, But U-Boat Still a Menace

Knox Stresses U-Boat Threat   Navy Tells of Sinking Two Axis Submarines

YANKS SINK: TWO GERMAN - SUBMARINES   ‘Knox Says Submarine - Ts Still a Very Grave Menace

Subriarine Is. Still G rave _ Menace, Secretary » Bays—-2 U, Ships Sunk  850 LIVES LOST  Germans Building. Subs Faster Than Allies Destroy Them

690 Lives Lost as Subs Sink Two American Ships   Vessels Torpedoed in North Atlantic; Army, Navy, Marines Suffer Losses

850 ARE LOST , AS SUBS SINK 2 U. $. SHIPS   Emphasize Grave Threat Of U-Boats, Knox Declares

850 ARE LOST AS U. S. SHIPS G0 TO BOTTOM   Two Merchant Vessels Involved In Worst Disaster of Present War.

U-BOATS STILL GRAVE MENACE, KNOX DECLARES   Jap Losses in 1942, 1600 Planes 525 Ships, Navy Air Chief Says.

800 LIVES LOST IN2 SHIPS SUNK BY SUBMARINES   Were Cargo-Transport Boats  Went Down Early This Month, Navy Says.

Warnings Recalled as Loss of 850 Lives on 2 Torpedoed Ships Revealed

Native of Switzerland Had hp ate at Middlesex and “Conc 7  ord Academies —

SERVICE FOR  ‘MRS. BOURQUIN IN CONCORE   Native of Switzerland Had -. Taught at Middlesex and Concord Academies

U.S. Force May Push To Coast of Tunisia And Cut Off Rommel   Axis Armies May Be Trapped Behind The Mareth Line; Rain Impedes Fighting And Air Activity

RAINY WEATHER CHECKS FIGHTING IN NORTH AFRICA   Germans Claim Rommel’s Mer Gain Contact with Axis Forces

DeGaulle, Girauc In Conference Over Problems   Rommel’s Forces May Have Joined Army in Tunisia

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Politics Still With Us, Despite New Deal Pose

Russians Plunge  On Toward Orel   7wains Unbroken As Soviet Troops Reach Open Terrain

Surprise Landing Moves Nazis  To Position Within 30  Miles of Messina   Wer in Brief:

SURPRISE RAID ON ITALY SUCCESSFUL   American Airmen Caught Defenders Flat-footed in Daring Sweep.

SA RRe RRR  Remember = Pearl Harbor!  BARRA RARE   Willing To Go Double

Remember Ba Pearl Harbor! By  = RARRARB  RRSRRRRE = Ee   Willing To Go Double

Allies Push Forward on Italian Front   Mountain Highway Town Captured; 30 Miles Gained

YANKS LAUNG BIG ATTACK IN SALERNO ARE   Seven Nazi Evacuation Planes Shot Down Off Corsica

Take Mountair Highway Town in Fierce Drive   Biast Four Enemy.  Ships at Veluna, Down Seven Nazi Transports By Richard D. McMillan:

Mountain Highway Town Captured by Allied Forees   British 8th Army Moves Up Rapidly From South

Planes Blasting Ships Trying To Evacuate Corsica      Four Enemy Vessels Destroyed. In Bold ~ “Forpedo Boat Raid

ENEMY IS BATTERED BACKWARD   Gain of Over 30 Mile: Scored As Mountain Highway Town of Oliveto Citra Is Captured.

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES AS NAZIS PUSHED BACK   Gain of 30 Miles Reported; Nazis on Corsica Flee

Yankees Capture Town In Mountains; British Gain: Down Transports

Storm Death Toll in State Rises to Ten   Southern California Hit By Floods; Many ei

OHIO DEMOCRATS FIGHT OVER JOBS   State Chairman Jones ‘Under Fire On Federal Patronage

OHIO DEMOCRATS FACE SHOWDOWN   State Chairman Under Fire Again as Party Leaders Seek To Oust Him

Nippon Passed Up Sea Battle   Expected Action Close Te ‘Guadalcanal Saw Japs ‘ Quit Area

JAP FLEET REFUSED 10 ACCEPT BATTLE IN. GUADALCANAL AREA   After. Finding American Out In Force Also Japs Withdrew Instead of Trying io Kemforce Guadalcanal. Only Important Action Was Night Attack by Jap Planes on U. S. Surrace Units 

YANKS SCARED JAPANESE OFF   Fleet Units in Guadalcanal Area Loom Too Impressive for Nip Forees

JAP FLEET REFUSES BATTLE   U.S. Fleet Stops Niopponse By Showing Strencth

Jap Fleet Refuses To Fight   Naval Battle in Solomons Fails to Develope As Japanese See Strencth of U.S. Force:

Writer Says Japanese Navy Refused to Battle in Final Stage of Guadalcanal Fight

Japs Refused to Battle U.S. Fleet Off Guadalcanal  ‘Americans Stopped Isle Reinforcement By Show of Strenatl

After Learning Size of U.S. Fleet  Jap Navy Turns Back, Refuses Battle

EXPLAIN WHY NAVAL BATTLE FAILED TO JELL   Allied Planes Drop 50 Tons of Explosives on Rabaul

Japanese Fleet Scared Off At Guadalcanal   Enemy Hides Within Island Barricades After Extensive Air Snnoping   FIGHT SMALL BATTLES   I5 Nipponese Planes Are Downed, Cargo Ship Hit  In Solomons, Aleutians

J ap Fleet Refused To Give Battle   Bulletin Tells Why Expected Engagement Failed To Take Place

Nippon Fleet Refused Battle After Scouting Big American Task Force Off Guadalcanal

Jap War Fleet Refuses Battle   Keeps to Protection Of Bases in New Britain And Shortland

Honorable Jap Navy Chooses Not To F ight   JS Says Enemy Refused To Com e Out for Last Round at Solomon

RAF Smashes Nazis In Heavy Raid On Low Countries  Air Fields Are Hit; ' Damage ts Said To Be Devastating

‘Scientist Says Price to Be Low- Television fer All at End of War

GARDENS ARE HELPED      Moisture. Now Has Covered Vir‘tually All of Kansas

ALL OHIO MINES RESUME WORK   Lagging Miners Vote Monda\ Night To Return To Jobs

OHIO COAL MINERS RETURN TO WORK   But, Union Leader Says They Are Not Happy About It

PILOT. SAVED “AS SHIP BLAZES   Lieutenant’ and’ Private Do -Heroic Job at County Airport

HITS SCORED BY AIRMEN ON AXIS POINTS   Submarine Yards ot Kie ' and Flensburg At. tacked

U.S. Bombers Batter Nazis   U-Boat Bases Blasted By Flying Fortresses

AMERICAN PLANES: HIT U-BOAT BASES   KIEL AND FLENSBURG LEFT IN FLAMES AFTER ONE OF LARGEST ATTACKS.’

Two Bases In Germany  Are Pounded   Heavy Enemy Fighter Screen Is Unavailing.

SUB YA HEAVILY RAIDED BY FORTRESSES   Bombing Results Were Good At Kiel And Flensburg, Headquarters Says   NAZI SMOKE SCREEN PROVES INEFFECTIVE

Flensburg and Kiel Targets Of Fortresses   Big U. §. Planes ‘Go on 1000-Mile Trip Withont Escorts

American Bombs  Blast Sub Yards   Flying Fortresses Set Fires In Kiel And Flens: burg; Big Bombers Knock Down Fighters In Two-Hour Battle

American Fortresses Smash At Kiel and Flensburg Sub Yards; Fly 1,000 Miles Unescorted; Results Reported “Good”

Flying Fortress  Units Bomb U-Boat Yards   Flood Waters Still Are Rolling Dowr Valleys Into Fields, Slowing Transport. Haltina Industries

Heavy Raid Blasts Two U-Boat Bases.   Reinforced Fortress Units Smash Through Fighter Opposition And Fire Sub Centere ~

Bombers Ram Fire  On Nazis   Fortress Units In England Reinforced

GERMAN U-BOAT CENTERS RAKED   Reinforced Fortresses Start Fires In Kiel, Flensburg After Long Flight

NAZIS SCREEN SMASHING BY FORTRESSES   Flying 1,000 Miles Unescorted, Big Bombers Knock Down Challenging Fighters; Tweo-Hour Battle   Spray Explosives

TARGETS LEFT IN FLAMES BY U!. §. BOMBERS   FORTRESSES SMASH THROUGH GERMAN FIGHTER SCREEN

Kiel, Flensburg bases hit by big bombers and  left in consuming blaze   Destroy many German fighters in 2 hour running battle: 6 fail return

U.S. Fliers Bomb Kiel, F lensburg Submarine Y avidls   Flying Fortresses Knock Down Number of! Enemy Fighters in Running Battle; Six Bombers Lost; Fliers Report Good Hits

American Flying Fortress Bombers Sef Fire to German U-Boat Yards

Allied Bombers Sink Possibly 10 Jap Ships   Enemy Reported To Be Massing Huge Armada At Major Base Of Rabaul.

Fifty Thousand Tons O! Cargo Ships, Destroyer And Tender Sent To Rottom.

Jeffers Asserts Rubber Program Spurs Gas Output   ays Further Curtailmen Now Would Be a “Tragic Error

Jeffers Concludes Senate Probe Rubber Program Has Spurred, Not Retarded. Gasoline Output

JEFFERS CHEERED AFTER TESTIFYING   Curtain Rung Down On Probe by Thexean Unit Over Ow

JEFFERS DEFENDS — RUBBER PROGRAM   Director Cheered After Testifying on Priorities Squabble

U.S. NAVY NOW WANTS BIGGER SHIPS AND PLANES   Battleship Iowa Will Be Fitted For Action Many Months Ahead Of Schedule

Bomber Production At Ford Plant Proves Disappointing      Output Increasing;-Manpower Most Serious Prob_lem; Detroit Presents Fantastic Picture of Wartime Prosperity and Social Tension; Stirred Over Growth Negro Population

Heavy Gunfire Heard In France   German Batteries May Be Practicing

HANNEL, OCKED BY Bla UNS OF NAZIS   ndon Unable to Explain  ombardment In Vicin ity of Boulogne and  Cape Gris Nez   rEAVY EXPLOSIONS  AT CALAIS MYSTERY   pservers Speculate They  fight Have Been Caused  By New Outburst. of French Resistance

5 NATION'S WAR PRODUCTION GAINS 1%   April Output Still Under Goal, WPB Chief Nelson Reports

WAR OUTPUT IS BEING BOOSTED   Nelson Says April Produc tion Was Paced By Heavy Bombers

STEADY GAIN ~ REPORTED IN ‘WAR OUTPUT   MORE THAN 500 HEAVY BOMB  ERS.CAME OFF ASSEMBLY LINES IN MARCH, NEL8ON DISCLOSES

Appalachian Negotiator: Arrange Meeting  For 10:30 A. M. Wednesday.

Tokyo Admits Pacific Setback  Japanese Complain Forces Overwhelmed By Allied Air Power

Air Power Of Allies Too Great   Jap Supply Lines Cut One After Another, Says Tokyo Report Heard At Chungking

Japs Bemoan Heavy Allied Air Offensive   Admit Supply Lines Are Cut And Apologize For Losses In Pacific Area

Japs Admait Setbacks In Pacifics Recognize  Allied Air Successes

Tokyo Broadcast Admits Series of Jap Defeats in South Pacific, Attributed to Allied Air Superiority

Complain of great allied  air streneth   Nips say supply lines being cut

Tokyo Admits Pacific Defeats  Blames. Superior... “Ata, Ale Deawsar

CLOSE SCHOOLS “DWE TO STRIKE   THIRTY THOUSAND ‘PUPILS SENT HOME WHEN MAIN. TENANCE WORKERS STOP. WORK

Americans Increase Attacks on Foe  In Aleutian Area  Kiska Is Subjected To Heavy Raid; Invasion May Start

KISKA SOFTENING: BELIEVED BEGUN   YANK FLIERS MORE ACTIVE THURSDAY THAN ANY DAY SINCE ATTU DRIVE.

AERIAL ATTACKS MADE ON KISKA   Third Phase of € ampaign To Oust Japs Begun In Aleutians

NEW ATTACKS AIMED AT KISKA   Bombers Hit Installations In Drive To Oust Japs From Aleutians’

BIG JAP CONVOYS BOUND FOR RABAUL BLASTED FROM AIR   Toll Of Enemy Ship Struck ‘By Allied Bombs In Past 24 Hours Mounts

Allied Planes Maul — Convoy Off Rabaul: Ship Toll Mounting   - Total “of 26 Japanese. Ships Sunk, Damaged i in 24-Hour Running Fight; Beanforts Deliver Crushine Blow

HEAVY AERIAL ASSAULT MADE ON JAP CONVOYS   Damage to, Ships a Rabaul Is Reported in- Communigie

RABAUL-BOUND CONVOYS UNDER ALLIED ATTACK   Two More Jap Warships Hit In New Raid On Big Base

ALLIED ATR ASSAULTS ON JAP CONVOY   Attack Enemy © Ships En Route To Rabaul

Rommel to Wage Last-Ditch Fight   Mediterranean Dunkirk Faced By Nazis; Mareth Line Attacked

4 Armies Attacking Germans   British, American and French Forcing Rommel Back Toward Sea

British Plow On Against © Mareth Line   FINAL OFFENSIVE UNDER WAY: EXPECTED TO END IN OUSTING ALL GERMANS FROM AFRICA. .

Will Warm Up Slowly-Flora   But Weatherman Says Cold Spell Is Definitely Past

TO WARM UP SLOWLY   Temperatures Around’ Freezing Forecast for Tonight

Martin Outlines Plar In Message To Assembly ASKS TRANSFERS Major Réecommendations Made By New  a G2 er Coe

Assembly Hears Executive’s Proposals for Two-Year Savings, Road Program, Flood Control and Revision of Teach er Salaries, “Where Necessary”

ASK RELIEF BE RETURKED TO COUNTIES   Governor Martin Asks Transfer of Assistance te Welfare Dent.   CALLS FOR LESS GOVERNMENT   Creation of Post-War - Commission Sought by . New Administration.

Governor Suggests Various Proposals  In First Message  To Legislature

SIX JAP VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN HEAVY ATTACKS   Ambon Base In EnemyHeld Netherlands Indies Shelled—5 Planes  Downed

AIRMEN HIT 6 JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC   Series of Raids Covers 1800 Mile Front

Allied Bombers Smash 6 Nippon Cargo Vessels   Rabaul, Gasmata, Ney Guinea Coast Are Hi In War's Toughest Raids

One Of Greatest Air Assaults Of War In Pacific   American and Dutch Planes Smash Vessels, Leave Harbors in Flames Along 1,800 Mile Front -

Dutch Indies Raiders Set Great Fires   Flames Seen 100 Miles After Smash at Japs on 1.800-Mile Front   POUND AMBON BASE   Netherlands Airmen Aid in Attacks; New Guinea Bases Struck Again

SHATTERING ATTACKS IN PACIFIC ZONE   General MacArthur Reports Big Fires Started by Allied Pilots.

Italy Is Excited But Puzzled By Cabinet Shakeup   Washington Says Cianc And Grandi Will Not Es  cape Final Reckoning

BELGIAN ARMY MEN SENTENCEL   Intellectuals Charged with Revolt . Moaninst Officers

CAN LOSE WAR THROUGH WASTE   Sen. George Calls Upen Army and. Navy to End Unnecessary Spending

HURL BACK AXIS FOES IN AFRICA   Americans Have Success ful Day in Air, Downing 25 P lane Ss.

TAKE SBEITLA IN CONTINUED TUNISIAN PUSK   Troops Also Enter Kas: serine and Feriana—-24 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out, 600 Axis Troops Killed in North.

Take Sbeitla, Repulse All Axis Attacks   Destroy 24 Tanks, Kill Hundreds Enemy Troops

NAZI LOSSES INCLUDE OVER "600 TROOPS   Sbeitla Is Recaptured In Central Offensive   25 PLANES   Of Enemy Shot Down During Major Aerial Battle; 8th Army Silent

Allies Hurl Back Drives In North, Gain In Center   Beat Off All Attacks Of Von Arnim: Capture Sbeitla, Drive On 3 Miles

MORE CAINS REELED OFF AN TUNISIA   Allies Have Taken Sheitla; Eighth Army Moves -

In Tunisia   Heavy Air Defeat ‘Administered By American Fighters

Allies Beat Back  All Axis Blows in Northern Tunisia   Knock Out 24 German Tanks in Three Days and Kill at Least 600 Nazis; Allie Air Forces Shoot Down 25 Axis Planes

Sbeitla and. Other Towns Are Occupied   24: German.°.Tanks  Are Knocked Out, 25 of Their: . . Planes-Shot Down.   ONE OF THE ALLIES’ = BEST DAYS IN’ AIR   At Least 600 “Nazis Are Kill. “ed;~.Fortresses. Cutting Deeper Into ‘Italy

25 Axis Planes Destroyed In Successful Fighting Monday In Tunisia, Headquarters Reports   Heavy Losses Inflicted On Enemy; U. 8, Takes Sheitla; Allied Forces Drive On To Three Miles From Town

 Six Hundred Axis Killed: Allies Get. Back Sheitle tn Centre! Sector

24 NAZI TANKS DESTROYED IN 3-DAY BATTLE   U.S. And British Planes Bag 25 Planes Monday As  Air Fighting Goes On

Allied Troops Are Advancing  Past Shbeitla   Germans. And Italians Paid Big Price For Thrusts In Tunisia, Communiques Report

THREE TOWNS - OCCUPIED BY U.S. FORCES   Sbeitla, Kasserine and Ferianz Taken as Americans Continue on Trail of Rommel   PALERMO RAIDED   Flying Fortresses Hit Five Ships in Harbor, Damage Warehouses and Drydocks

All Axis Stabs In North Tunisia Are Hurled Back   Sbeitla on Central Front Is Recaptured; 25 Planes Downed

29 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Sbeitla, Feriana Are Entered; Palermo  Heavily Raided

Allies Again Hold Sheitla; Pound Axi:   Germans Hurled Back In North Tunisia As Rommel Gives Up 3 Towns Without Fight

Allied Troops Hurl Back Gen. Von Arm’s  Tunisian Attacks   24 German Tanks Knocked Out in Three Days and 600 Axis Troops Killed. Allies Capture Sbeitla in Central Tunisia

‘Allies Hurl Back Thrusts; Take Sbeitla   24 Nazi Tanks Smashed And 600 Axis Killed; 25 Planes Shot Down

OBJECTIVES IN IMARETH AREA ‘ARE ATTACKED   Capture of Sbeitla, 18 Miles From Town of Kasserine, is Announced In Communique   AIR ACTIVITY INCREASES

All Enemy Attacks In Northern Tunisia Are Hurled Back   Air Forces Down 25 Axis Planes in Most Successful Day

HALT NAZIS IN NORTH TUNISIA   24 German Tanks Knocked Out in Past Three Days

GEN. VON ARNIM’S NORTHERN TUNISIA ATTACKS CHECKED   Allied Troops Knocked Out 2: German Tanks in Three Days.   KILL 600 AXIS TROOPS   The Allies Have Captured Sbeitla and Are Driving on Farther East.

Follow Rommel's Army in Central Tunisia as Eighth Army Shows More Activ. itv in South.

‘ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE TOWN, ADVANCE AHEAD   Twenty-Five Axis Planes Downed In Central Tunisia

U.S. Marches Into Sbeitla   Allies Hurl Bock Gen. Arnim's Army; 600 Nazis Killed

Tunisian. Gains Made. By. Allies   Sbeitla ‘Taken; Axi: Thrusts. Blocked - -

Sheitla in Central Tunisia Captured by Allied Troops: Drive 3 Miles Farther East   600 Axis Troops Taken in North Tunisia—24 German Tanks Knocked Out—Air Force Shoots Down 25 Axis Planes—Palmero Raided

Nazi Attacks In N. Tunisia  Hurled Baek   24 Tanks Smashed, 600 Men Taken, 25 Planes Shot Down

Americans Drive Beyond Sheitla   Axis Loses Heavily Iu North Tunisian Fighting

REICH’S THRUSTS ARE CRUSHED By ALLIED LEGIONS   U.S., British Air Forces De stroy 24 Axis Tanks in Tunisian Fighting

Von Arnim’s Attacks Hurled Back With Loss of 600 Troops.   25 PLANES ARE DOWNED

ALLIED FORCES ADVANCE ALONG CENTRAL FRONT   25 Axis Planes Shot Down In Wide Spread Operations

German Attacks in Tunisia Are Futile:  600 Germans Killed   Allied Planes Have Big Day; News of War in Africa Summarized

AXIS STOPPED WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF BEJA   Twenty-four Enemy Tanks  Knocked Out and Six  tlundred Men  _ Killed   SBEITLA WRESTED FROM ROMMEL FORCE   Allies Have Big Day In Air; 26 Enemy Planes Shot Down; Local Flier Aids

Allies Hurl Enemy Back ‘In Tunisia   Knock 24 Tanks Out And Kill 600 Axis Troops   ‘Germans Lose Sheitla As Allies Go Forward   Americans Occupy Three Towns Without Serious Opposition

DOWN 25 ENEMY PLANES, UNITS RECAPTURE CITY   Take Sbeitia on Central Front, Continue Air Attacks on Rommel

TWENTY-FOUR NAZI TANKS KNOCKED OUT IN NORTHERN AREA  ALLIED AIR FORCES SHOT DOWN 25 AXIS PLANES ON MONDAY

Allies Hurl Back German Troops In North Tunisia  Sbeitla pred. As nited Nations Crust 41MM) Ena ne

AMERICANS AID IN TAKING SBEITLA   Air Forces Shoot Down 2¢ Axis Planes in Africa Campaign

LLIES CRACK [AZ] DRIVES IN TUNISIE   ock Out 24 Tanks and Kill 300 Axis Troops in North African Successes.   THREE TOWNS TAKEN   atinue on Rommel’s Trail i Central Sector as Planes Strike ‘Hard.

“4 German Tanks - Are Knocked Out in Three Days’ Fighting      \LLIES TAKE SBEITLA   “own 18 Miles Northeast of Kasserine Falls to Americans ©

24 German Tanks Are ‘© Knocked Out in Three Days’ Fighting  AITIES TAKE SRETTITA   ALLIES TAKE SBEITLA   Town 18 Miles Northeast’ of Kasserine Falls to Americans

Allies Knock Down 25 Axis Warplanes   GenO Von Arnim’s Assaults Fully; Twenty-Four German Tanks Are Destroyed

Allies Take Sbeitla, Repel Arnim Attacks   24 Axis Tanks Smashed, 600 Men Killed, 25 Enemy Planes Downed   OTHER GAINS MADE   Yanks Occupy Kasserine Feriana; Bombers Blast Five Big Palermo Ships

PLANE BEING HUNTED IN SOUTHERN OHIO   War Plant Executive Feared Killed in Crash

Senate Moves to Change School Bill   Modified Child Aid Law Passed

THEY SQUEEZE GERMANS BACK ON ROME ROAL   Three More Towns Fall To American And British Troops

YANKS TAKE TOWNS NORTH OF VOLTURNO   2 Key Cities Seized; British Take A Third

U. S., British Troops Turn  New Pressure On Slowly Yielding Enemy Defenses

3 Key Cities Fail to Allies   New Gains Scored North of Volturno

Clark Forces Capture Two Key Towns   German Line Unhinged by  Pincers Assaults

GERMAN DEFENSES ‘SLOWLY YIELDING INVOLTURNO AREA   Americans Beat Off Three Powerful ~. Counter-Attacks While British Along Sea Unhinge Enemy ~ Positions At River Mouth

Yanks Get. British One   ALL THREE ARE NORTH OF  VOLTURNO RIVER AS PINCERS ARE PUT ON NAZIS ON ROAD  TOWARD ROME

PINGER ARMS DRAW TIGhTth ON NAZI FORGE   Infantrymen Carrying Weight Of Fight Against Enemy North Of Volturno

American Troops Take Two Sites, British Another   New Pressure Turned On Slowly Yielding  German Defense Line

2 KEY TOWNS SEIZED NORTH OF VOLTURNO   Americans And British Turr New Pressure On SlowlyYielding Germans

STRONG POINTS ON ROME ROAD FALL TO YANKS   Nazis Fail in Counterattacks

Pincers Are Tightened On Germans   Morrone and Ruviano Are Captured by U. S.

NAZI RESISTANCE YIELDS AS FIFTH, EIGHTH MOVE ON   Battle of Voiturno Is Nearly Over—-Tedious Routing of Snipers Continues.

HEARINGS ENPECTED   Dry Throats Loom For Beer Drinkers As War Hits Brewers

TOLL OF HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS 16 LESS   Gas Rationing, Reduced Speeds Factors in Sav ing Lives.

CURTAILED TRAVEL CUTS FRAFFIC TOLL   New Year's Holiday Ends With Two Hundred Thirty-Two Fatalities

Presideat Warns Of Drastic Steps In Coal Walkout   Lewis Statement Refuted by FDR in Letter to Davis

Lewis ‘Pressured’ By F. D.   ‘Warns Of Drastic Action To Head Off New Coal Strike

Most Serious Curtailment Of Co Production In War Period Seen As Miners Stand For I crease In Wares

Irate FDR Directs End To Pit Tieup   Threatens Drastic Action by Monday To Prevent Strike

BOARD’S FORMULA. ENDORSED; CHIEF OF UMW IS WARNED   resident Will Not Hesitate To Take Steps To Make Certain That Coal — ~ "Js Mined—-75,009 Now.   ~ Join In Movement 

AT LEAST 2000 MINERS ARE ON , STRIKE IN BEL   Absentecism Preyails in Local Mines Trying to Onerate Today; Monday Wilt Re a Tr. 1) eer Gee

F.R. Applies Pressure on Lewis to Break Another Prospective Coal Strike   ‘President's Move Follows Letter From  WLB Indicating Fast Spread of Wildeat Walkouts.

Nazis Pour Reserves Into Melitopol Area   Make Desperate Attempt to Hold South Ukrainian Stronghold — Some of War’s Bitterest Fighting Rages Inside City.   Nazi Bombers Preying on Atlantic Convoys  Yank Airmen Down 2 in Blazing Doofichts

Two Nazi Planes Downed Over Sea   Sulphur Officer Survives Crash of Liberator Bomber

American And Nazi Bombers In F ight Over Atlantic Convoy--Four Downed

Tar Heel Takes Part In Action Nazi Bombers Downed  By Yanks In Blazing Dogfights Over Atlantic

Nazis Beaten In New Air Battle      U. S. BOMBERS SHOOT DOWN MANY MORE PLANES

GERMAN BOMBERS ATTACKING CONVOYS ARE GIVEN WHIPPING   epee WATT CRAET   THREE NAZI CRAFT DOWNED AND FOURTH DAMACED BY LIBERATOR:

Hitler Orders Lines fo Hold In North Italy   Streets of Naples “Heavily Mined by Retreating Enemy

Hitler Orders Wall Of Blot Across Italy   Orders Troops To Give Last Drop Of Blood To Save Germany

Hitler Orders Generals To Hold ‘Blood Wall’ In-Italy   Line To Keep Allies From Borders _Many Years If Necessary Is Formed

HITLER CALLS FOR STAND IN NORTH ITALY   Swedish Press Says Nazi Generals Told to Set Up “Blood Wall” to Keep Allies From Borders of Reich.

Hitler Orders “Blood Wall’   Rommel and Kesselring Ordered to Fight ln Narthern ltaly

‘Blood Wall In Italy   Hitler Orders Nazi Generals to Defend European Fortress to “Last Drop of Blood”

Road Is Open To Next Nazi  Defense Line   Town Of Benevento Is Directly Threatened

NAZI GENERALS TOLD TOFIGHT FOES 10 DEATH   Rommel and Kesselring  Commanded to Keep Al-   lied Arraies From Bor-  ders of Germany   POINT OF NEXT NAZI STAND IS UNCERTAIN   One Dispatch Says. Germans Apparently Preparing to Defend Rome in Hills to South

“Blood Wal? Ordered By Adolf Hitler  Halian Commanders Ordarad ta Kaan   Htalian Commanders Ordered to Keep Allies in italy

Hitler Orders ‘Blood Wall’ In North Italy, Says Reports To Swedish Press

Nazi Dictator Desperate As Allies Advance   Last-Ditch Fight Due Along Po; Road To Rome Is Open

Hitler Orders ‘Blood Wall   Commands Rommel. Nesselring To Hold Northern Italy From Allies.

ROMMEL, KESSELRING ARE ORDERED TO HOLD “BLOOD WALL” IN NORTH ITALY

FIFTH ARMY WELL NORTH FROM NAPLES   Acrial Forces Pour It on Retreating Germans Who Head for New Stand at Rome   “RLOOD WALL’

Fuehrer Commands Army Chiefs to Keep Foe Away From Germany's Borders

HITLER ORDERS ‘BLOOD WALL’ IN NO. ITAL}   Reported Delermined to Hold Line ‘Until Allies Are Convinced Wa: is Futile’

PRESIDENT GAVE  GEN. EISENHOWER  CONFERENCE REPORT ROOSEVELT STOPS OVER  AT ANCIENT CARTHAGE ON WAY WOME

Gen. Eisenhower Sees Roosevelt   U. S. Commander Told Of Victory Strategy

President, North Africa Leader Meet To Plan  Mediterranean Drive

Congressmam Calls For Investigation Of Bureaucracies   Representative Shafer Charges An Attack Upon "Our Free Press’ And "An Attempt Against" Life Of Entire "Body Politic’

Gives Employes Three Millions   Lincoln Ignores  Demands of U. S.

Tells of Food Hoarding At Wyoming Camp for Japs   Former Steward Threatened With Cleaver For Investigation, Dies Probers Told

Ex-Steward at Heart Mountain Says Japs Threatened Him for Investigating Stores

FINAL BATTLE OF SOLOMONS LOOMS   ALLIES POISED ON THRESHOLD OF JAP BOUGAINVILLE BASE

YANKS MASS AT BOUGAINVILLE   Japs Evacuate Key Base East of Nanking In  hina

Final Battle for Solomons Is at Hand   Two Jap Ships 7 Torpedoed in China Sea; Allies Land on Two Islands

Allied Forces Poised For Thrust At Jap-Held Bougainville On Solomons

New Landings by Allies Flank Last Jap Stronghold   Chungking Believes Enemy’s Hold on China Is Weakening

ALLIED AMPHIBIOUS  FORCES CLOSING IN  ON LAST STRONGHOLD BOUGAINVILLE, LAST SOL.  OMONS HOLD OF JAPANECE ENDANCERED

VOTE TODAY ON DEFERMENT BILL   Farm Labor Measure Up for Committee Vote; Fight Developing Over “Labor Draft Measure

3 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN TRUMBULL COUNTY   Another Injured Fatally as Automobile Overturns

MPERIAL ARMY 0 COME UNDER IS DIRECTION      ppointment Seen.as Further Result of “Uncondi-, tional Surrender” Conference at Casablanca   BRITS 60 MILES WITHIN TUNISIA   ndicates Further Allied ‘Efforts to Drive Enemy From Africa Fast Anproaching

BECK IS CHAIRMAN   Douglas County PolioChap ter Enlarges Its Membership

RAIL MEN 10 ASK FOR STEEL   Group Meets in Cleveland to Study Problems of Equipment

, Tripartite Meeting Is , Discussed   Roosevelt and Churchill  working on plans  at Washington

STATE BLACKOUT WILL NOT BE HELD   Radio Test Drill Scheduled For Tomorrow Night Called Off By Order Of Censorship Office

F. D. Approves Plan To Organize Allies   Six Senators Confer With Executive on Proposal to Form United Nations Order

Senators Confer With President   Reach Agreement on War-Peace Program

Solons Confer With F. RB.  on War, Peace   Report Agreement Reached on Broad - Objectives

FDR Approves Solons Plan For Policy   Texas Senator Object to Making Specific World Commitments

Accord upon broad goals  said reached   Senators’ plan given tentative FDR approval

Senate Group Presses Plan For Allied Organization  Tentalive Approval Of Move To Draft War and Peace Plans Given by President  SENATOR CONNALLY ADVISES CAUTION  Fears Dissension Amano Iinitad Meattnn.

United War, Peace Plan Runs Into Difficulties  Roosevelt Approves Generally ; Connally

National Capitol's Commando Rats Now in Full but Organized Retrea

Tough Rats, Real Ones, Raid Capitol. Slay Cat, Damage Presidential Door

ANTHONY TREAT TO DIE TONIGHT   Faces Death in Chair for SexSlaying of Cincinnati Girl

RAPE-KILLER TO DIE WEDNESDAY NIGHT   Ohio Governor Refuses Te Grant Execution Stay

ITALIAN COLLAPSE TO FREE BALKANS   At Least That’s Opinion of British Commander

Flag Salute ‘Issue In Country’s Top Tribunal In New Issue.   ONCE HELD TO BE ~~ CONSTITUTIONAL

FLAGSALUTE QUESTIONED   Bar Association Urges Supreme Court To Overrule Present Decision

OVERRULING OF FLAGSALUTIN DECISION ASKED   High Court Urged to Reverse Judgment Holding Constitutional Compulsory Saluting   WILL ARGUE CASE   Regulations In Two Cases Involving School. Children  Challenged by “Jeho-  vah’s Witnesses”

Two More Britons Added To Invasion Command   Ramsay Named Naval Commander-in-Chief, Leigh-Mallory to Head Air Arm

NAME MORE AIDESTO EISENHOWER   Invasion Staff  Is Nearing ‘Completion

Two Britons All But Complete Invasion Lineup   Leigh-Mallory, Ramsay Named To Air, Sea  Command Positions

Eisenhower Completing His Staff   Ramsey, LeighMallory, Britons, Picked

Two Britishers Are Named To  Invasion Staff   Eisenhower’s Command Is Near Completion As Attack Planned   TWO GAPS REMAIN   English Experts Will Direct Naval And Air Activity

EISENHOWER HAS. NAMED NAVAL AND AIR LEADERS   Ramsay and  Leigh-Mallory Appointed—Doolittle and Snaatz Also Named.

Liberators Down Two Intercepting Jap Planes Over Timor, New Guineg

Russian Guns Shell Rostov As Nazis Flee Fall Of City Believed  Near As Soviets Advance  TRAP IS CLOSING      TRAP IS CLOSING   Rail Centers Captured As General Drive . Continues

REDS EXPECT ROSTOY 10 FALL SOON   Rich Prize Is Within Sight of Advancing Army

Rostov Again Under Fire Of  Russian Gun:   Fourth Battle For City Opened When Troops Seize Town 15 Miles Away On Doni River

lowa Bond Goal At 215 Million   Increase of 35 Million Over 1942 Pledge Quota

Weeds Trouble State Farmers ’ Weather Cenarcall:   Weather Generally Delays Work.”

MAX STEPHAN TD ~ DIE, HELPED NAZ   Naturalized Citizen, Germar Soldier in First War, Aided Aviator.

Uphold Death Sentence on Max Stephar   Must Die for Allegedly Aiding Germ>i  Aviator

STEPHAN LOSES COURT APPEAL   Sentenced to Death for Alleged Aid to Nazi Aviator

Sentence Of — Death Upheld  Max Stephan Aided Fleeing Nazi Flyer

TRAITOR LOSES FIGHT FOR LIFE   Court Of Appeals Upholds Death Sentence Imposed On Max Stephan.

Detroit Restaurant Owner Doomed to Hang for. Giving Aid To Escapee   SHOWS NO EMOTION WHEN-GIVEN RULING   Attorney for Max Stephar Says He Plans To Carry Case to Supreme Court;  Musi Be Re-Sentenced

} Uphold Death Sentence For Detroit Man Who   Aided Nazi War Prisoner

STEPHAN DENIED REVIEW BY COUR!   Decision, in Effect, Upholds  Death Sentence Against  Detroit Man.

A DEATH SENTENCE WAS UPHELD TODAY   U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Sentence Against Max Stephens.

Death Sentence of Detroit Traitor Upheld by Circuit Court of Appeals

STEPHAN 10 DIE FOR AIDING NAZI   COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS SENTENCE BASED ON TREASON

U0. COURT UPHOLDS STEPHAN SENTENCE   New Date for Execution for Detroiter to Be Set; Appeal to Supreme Court Planned

Penalty of Death Upheld   U. S. Circuit Court Rules Stephan Must Die for Aiding German

TRAITOR LOSES APPEAL; TO DIE   U.S: Court Upholds Death ‘Sentence For Aiding Nazi Fugitive.

Stephan Death Senfence Upheld   Court Of Appeals Rules Detroiter Guilty

Death Sentence for Traitor Is Upheld   Supreme Court Refuses to Review Stephan Case

STEPHAN TREASON SENTENCE UPHELD   Detroit Restaurant Owner Loses Appeal in Federal Court.

UPHOLD TREASON DEATH PENALTY   Supreme Court Refuses tc Review Stephan Case

Milk Producers Ask  For Price Boost’  Group Makes Attack On Subsidy Poticy

HUNT RUNYON AFTER FLEEING IN STOLEN CAR   Family Forced to Give Him Food, Clothing, And Shotgun

Jap Casualties Mount in Testing Limes   Nips Lose 204 Men In Feeling Out  New Guinea Force

Nips Lose Many Men In Ground Action At Mubo  Allied Bombers   Allied Bombers Range Far To Harass [aps

Admiral Robert Dispatches Note To State Dept.   Protests U. S. Action  In Breaking Relations, Wants Note Diahlichad -

MARTINIQUE CHIEF BEGINS TO SQUAWK   Protest Against Pressure by U. S. Made to A. P.

ROBERT PROTESTS MARTINIQUE BREAK   French Head Wants to “Patch Up” Trouble With U. S.

ROBERT SCORES BREAK BY U.S,   Martinique’s Head Protests State Department Move

U.S. CAPITOL PROTEST NOTE   Martinique Official Urges His Note ished

ROBERT VOICES BREAK PROTES]   Antilles Official Asks Publication Of Note Stating Views

French Leader Profests Break With Martinique   Admiral Robert Says U.S, Barring Renewed Relations

BOARD 10 PROBE COST OF LIVING   ROOSEVELT NAMES GROUP TO MAKE INQUIRY AFTER LABOR COMPLAINTS.

President Names Board to Study Living Cost After Labor Complains of Soaring Prices _

President Calls For New Report On Living Costs   Appoints Probe Board, Agrees Toll Varies Amone Fraonihbioc

HCL PROBERS APPOINTED; START SOO}   Roorevelt' Nominees Will Gather Monday

SEES TEST SOON ~ OF RED POSITION   ‘Glacier Priest’ Regards Russo-Jap- Treaty as Sign of Stalin’s Attitude’ .

Stalin's Friendship With U.S. To Be Tested Soon Says ‘Glacier Priest’

LEMERT DISBARRED AFTER CONVICTION   Former Judge Charges ‘Political Trick’

AREA FLAG   ; Leave Hamburg Alone After City is Virtually Destroyed

British Cross Hamburg Off Target List—Hit Seven Times In  Lad 4 Hours . - RECORD MONTH  Big Production Center Of Renischeid Is Heavily Hit

British Bomb Rensheid Tool Factories   Hamburg Burning With Mass  Evacuation Scen

HAMBURG TAKEN (FF LIST, FLIERS ANT REMSCHEID   qeat Machine Tool Factories fiacked by Four-engined Bombers.

Three More Small Italian Isles Surrender   RAF Back Over Bomb-Pocked RuhrA Happy 104th Birthday

City Is Supply Center   Hamburg In Ruins After Seven Raids In 120 Hours

REMSCHEID HIT BY RAF IN NEW RUHR ATTACK   German Machine Tool Center Is Heavily Attacked

Yankees Push Advance on Bairoko Port   Seek to Capture Jap Stronghold On New. Georgia

U.S. Advance on Japs Is Continued   Weather Hampers Operations of Huge Bombers

YANKS CONTINUE IN SLOW ADVANCE ON JAPS AT. BAIROKO      Adverse Weather Hampers Air Operations In South And Southwest, _ Pacific

Allied Troops Drive Toward  Jap Mubo Bass   MacArthur Declares Main Enemy Forces Withdrawing Near Salamaua.   U. S. BOMBERS 8USY

ENEMY TROOPS RETREATING ON ISLAND FRONT   Airmen Raid Salamaua, Timor and Burma

ALLIED TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA DRIVE JAPS BACK ON MUBO  UNITED NATIONS WAR. PLANES BLAST ENEMY OVER WIDE SECTORS

DRIVE JAPS BACK   Alhed Troops Are on the ffensive in New Guinea Area

Nips Driven Back at New  Guinea Base   Akyab Island, On Bay of Bengal, Raided Again By Allies

Allies Drive Japs Back  ‘on New Guines   Warplanes Deliver Huge Load of Bombs over Wide Areas  in South Pacific -

Allies Threaten Big Nippon Base   Troops Near Striking Distance Of Salamaua

Allies Push Japs Back  Whew Gistsianm Racca   New Guinea Forces Gain New Ground

MacArthur's Men Are Only 12 Miles From Salamaua   Details of Latest Advance on Land Are Not Revealed

Davies Prepares. To Present Letter  Envoy Arrives On Russ Mission

DAVIES REACHES MOSCOW   Will Deliver Letter From Roosevelt To Joseph Stalin

eased Wire Bulletins on Latest “World News Today,   Rharp Exchanrce.

Oklahoma Governor Answers Dewey On Killing Pigs In Cornbelt States So That Eastern Cows May Have Feed

40,000 Men Idle As ClO Contracts End at Midnight   Increase Against “Little Steel’ Formula Demanded

Nation Sees Crisis In Steel Plants; Workers Leave Job  Four Plants Close,  Others May  Follow Next Week

4 Mills Down in Ohio Area   PLANT CONTRACTS WITH C. . O. EXPIRE 350,000 EMPLOYES INVOLVED IN ACTION; RAIL DISPUTE LULLS DURING HOLIDAY

Steel Strike Begins; Four Mills Down   U.S. Faces Walkout Of 350,000 es €.1.0. Demands Pay Boost

CONTRACTS IN 4 OHIO PLANTS HAVE EXPIREL   40,000 Employes Idle In New Threat to War Effort

Fight Widen: On Nation’s Food Policy   Measure Pends As President Backs OPA Plan

Eisenhower To Command All Allied Forces   Montgomery To Serve As Chief Deputy In African Theatre

ALL OPERATIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN UNDER U.S. CHIEF   Eisenhower In Command As -Area Becomes American Sphere of Activity.

Highest Post Goes to ‘Ike’   Over-AlL Commander On Land, Sea, Air

‘HUGGING AND KISSING GIRL IS MISCONDUCT - - IF IT’S IN SPEEDING CAR

KENTUCKY GOES GOP    Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Apparent Winner Today

Republican Leads In Kentucky Race   Willis Ahead in  Governor Election

Congress Foes to Subsidy Payments Seok to Torpedo Food Price Rellback

CONGRESSIONAL FOES HINT OF COMING FIGHT   Grange and Grocers’ Heads Say Subsidy Plan Would Cause Bankruptcy

Opposition Te Price Rollback Is Increasing   Brace of Torpedoes Aimed At Plan to Lower Levels On Meats and Butter   OPA DRAWS MORE FIRE

Reds Storm Nazi Krivoi Rog Base   Allied Planes Blast Europe From Mediterranean, England Bases

CONGRESS IN ACCORD WITH FDR POLICY   President’s Suggestion of Extending Good Neighbor Plan Gets Backing.   HOUSE ACTION DUE   Senate Expected to Follow Up Lower Chamber’s Study Of Fulbright Resolution.

U.S. Bombers Hit Targets In Heavy Bombing Of Rome  Historical, Cultural And Religious Centers enki th, Auntdead Bu Meas [IC Bambdte 9 7”

Jap Attempt fo Start Fire Told   Plane Believed From ‘Submarine, Drops Bomb In Oregon Forest

Sth Jap Attack on West Coast Told  Lone Airplane Made Sneak incendiary:

PUBLIC TOLD OF SNEAK AIR RAID ON WEST COAST   Believe Plane Launched From Jap Submarine

U.S. Forest Fired By Jap Airplane   —e eee  Futile Sneak Raid Is Now Reported

JAPS ATTEMPT COAST ATTACK WITHOUT LUCK   Public Learns It Was 5th Unsuccessful Attempt

PUBLIC LEARNS OF FIFTH ENEMY ~ ATTACK ON COAST   ‘Small, Unseen Plane Dropped . Fire Bomb in Oregon Woods : More Than Eight Months  Apo—No Damage Done:

JAP ATTACK FOILED   Efforts To Set Oregon Forest Afire foiled By Rangers

Fifth Enemy Attack On West Coast Last Year Is Disclosed By Foresters

Futile Incendiary Attempt On West Coast By Jap Plane Is Revealed   Believed To Have Come From Enemy Submarine Off Coast During Heavy Fog Over Oregon; Was The Fifth Attempt.

Five Attacks Made by Japs On West Coast   All Prove Futile; Plane Attempted to Start Forest Fire

Sneak Raid Is Revealed   Lone Jap Plane Dropped  Fire Bomb on Coast Cans Of

STATE WITHIN “12P.C-OF ITS ~ BOND GOAL   Belated - Phila, Rally Brings Total Today to $938,710,000

TAGANROG FALLS TO RUSSIANS IN SURPRISE DRIVE   Occupation Of City Leaves Entire Southern Ger man Line Crumbling   OTHER ADVANCES ARE REPORTED BY SOVIETS

Soviets Make Sudden New Advance   Enemy’s South Line Is About to Crumble; Reds Take Vital City

Taganrog Has Been Refaken   Stalin Announces The Nazi Base Has Fallen

28-mile gain to Mariupol on Azov sea   Smash defenses south of Bryansk

Southern End ‘of German Line Crumbles   Taganrog, Anchor Point, Falls in Surprise Red Attack

Nazi Anchor City Taken in Advance of 28 Miles  SOUTHERN LINE OF NAZIS CRUMBLING Another Soviet Column  Advances in Bryansk Sector

Governor Jettisons Timilty   Bushnell Charged Anti-Semitism, Lawlessness

Gov. Saltonstall Names Sullivan  Hub Police Com   Fuel, Food Administrator Will Succeed Timilty; Imniediately Confirmed

ICLASSES START. MONDAY   -Courses“in W ar Training Program to Be Given by Government

FD Orders Navy To Take Plant   No Reason for Action Given by Executive

PLANS COMPLETED FOR MASS PRAYER      Impressive Program to be  PFesétited at Park™ Monday

Flew Within: : 250 Miles of Jap Navy Base   B-24-Neared  Truk, Despite Very R.A: ly ne

Connally Defends Anti-Strike Bill   Labor Hasn’t Right To Claim Privileges, Senator Declares

Celebrate FDR’s6I1st Birthday   Star Studded Program In Washington Adds Many .More Dollars To Anti-Paralysis Fund

FAMILY POISONED BY MUSHROOM SOUF   Father and Son Dead and Two Others in Hospital

Alhed Air Attack Drives Enemy Back   Americans and British Armies  Make Gains

MAKNASSY [8 TAKEN, MARETH LINE FLANKED   ‘American Forces Under Pats  ton Are Within 30 Miles  Of Sea Coast   ENEMY IS ON DEFENSIVE   ltalians, Germans Stagger Back Under Terrific Air Offensive

RAPID DRIVE TO SEACOAST BY U.S. ARMY   Combined Allied offensive tightens circle around Rommel

U.S. Has Informed Britain and Russia Post-War Political Freedom Necessary

UPPED COSTS OF ANTI - AIRCRAFT SHELLS - PROBED            se ane Go ‘ernment ‘Selzeg Plant 

President Hopes Ultimate Level Sufficient for Victory in 1944, but Will Fall Somewhat Short of Needs Expressed by Army and Navy Leaders

Budget Reveals U.S. Is Nearing Output Capacity   Ultimate Production Level Said Still Short of Need

U.S. Nearing Limit In Its Output Of War Material   Even Then It Will  Be Somewhat Short  Of Giving Army,  Navy What They Want

U.S. Now Nearing Production Capacity   Can't Provide All Munitions Needed, But President Expects to Be Sufficient to Win War; Huge War Budget.

'U. S. NEARS LIMIT OF CAPACITY 10 PRODUCE WEAPONS   {Level Will Fall Short Of Requests Of Armed Forces, President Reveals

U.S. Nearing Full Capacity Of Production   Roosevelt Points Out UItimate Level Points To Victory In 1944

President Says U. S. Arms Output Nears Capacity, but Will Be Enough for Victor)

Nearing Peak In Production Of Munitions   Ultimate Level Will Be Sufficient to Bear Out Hopes Of Victory in 1944  PROVISIONS EXPLAINED

U3, NEARING LIMIT OF WAR PRODUCTION   FDR Budget Reveals Capacity Almost At Hand

U.§. Nears Limit Of Capacity To Produce For War   President Says It Is Plenty For Victory; Production Now lo Level Off

UJ,5, GRADUALLY NEARING LIMIT QF PRODUCTION   ‘Disclosure Made In Roose velt’s Budget Message to Congress; Declines to Give Details   CALLS FOR UNITY   Ultimate Production Level Will Be Sufficient to Bear Out Hopes For Victory In 1944

U. 5. NEARNG ARMS CAPACITY, SAYS PRESIDENT   Budget Calls for Seven Billion Decrease In Industrial And  Oiher Construction

Nation Rapidly Nearing Limit In Production Of: Armaments,  Says FDR In Budget Message

U. S. Nearing Production Limit Of Guns, Ships, Planes Says F.D.R      But Uitimate-Production Level Will Be Sufficient To Bear Out Hopes For Victory In 1944, But Short Of Strategical Requirements.

Assembly Passes Record Smashing State Fund Bill   Although Above Last Biennium It Won't Mean Any  New Taxes.   Missouri to Dip Into Its 1941-32 Eurplus

Debate To Start ‘Tomorrow   Popularity Of The Skip-A-Year Pian Grows: Measure  Faces Veto,

Senate Opens Debate On Ruml Tax Scheme   Republicans Confident Measure Will Pass After Comparatively Brief Debate.

Gandhi Starts 21-Day Fast In Protest Against Refusal To Grant Him Full Freedom

Gandhi. Plans... 3-Week Fast   To Take No Food If Net Released .

Another Fast For Gandhi   Will Refuse Food for Twenty-one Days in Protesi of Confinement

Gandhi Begins A 21-Day Fast   Is Refused His Unconditional Release

Chandi Starts Freedom Fast   Indian Political Leader Acts As Government Refuses Unconditional Release.

Gandhi Begins 21 Day Fast   Government Won't Grant Unconditional Release

GANDHI WILL BEGIN A FAST   AllIndia Watches Attempt Of Leader To Force His Release From Prison

NEW HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY GANDHI      Indian Leader Won’t Ea For 21 Days, He Says

Gandhi Starts 21-Day Fast In  Indian Palace   Protest Against Reino Confined

GANDHI OPENS 21-DAY FAST; IS INPRISON   IS PROTEST ON REFUSAL TO RELEASE HIM FROM PALACE PRISON

GANDHI STARTS 21-DAY FAST   FOLLOWS REFUSAL OF GOVERNMENT 10 GRANT RELEASE

Denied Release, Gandhi Decides ~Fo Fast 2t Days   Report All India Watches For Any Disturbance Which Might Follow

GANDHI IS ON ANOTHER FAST   Government of India Refused to Grant His Unconditional Release.

FLOOD DANGER HELD PASSING   Midwest Farm Families Are Returning To Homes

Flood Damage Toll Surveyed   High Waters Receding In Six Mid-West States Huge Loss Revealed

MIDWEST SEEKS AID TQ CLEAR FLOOD DAMAGE   Farm Families, Returning To Homes. Start Task Of Replanting Crops   DANGERS ARE RECEDING   Four New Deaths Reported; Day And Night Crews Protect War Factories

DEPORT BUTCH STUDENTS   Nazis Send 4, 000 to Germany to De Forced Labor

INJURED AT THE PLANT   SOW Worker Suffers Second Degree Burns in an Explosion

Moscow Reports  Five-Mile Gain   Soviets Announce 58 Enemy Tanks And 62 Planes Destroyed in Drive

HEAVY BATTLE ARE REPORTED AROUND SEVOK   Knock Qut Tanks and Destroy Planes; Threaten Rail Line Held by Nazis.   BOMB RAIL JUNCTIONS AT THREE-ENEMY BASES

RECAPTURE 50 TOWNS   Soviets Report Gains # Of Five Miles From Recaptured Sevsk

“5200 NAZIS “WONE DAY   Red Army ( Gains Five : Mies From, Sevsk. Néwly Captured

OUET DAVE AGAINOT NAZI GAIN STEADILY   Important Kiev - Bryansk Rail Line Now Threatened By Russian Forces

PRAISES WRA FOR DOING GOOD WORK WITH JAPS IN U.S   Rep. Eberharter, Pa. Of Dies Subcommittee Says Fine’ Job Being Done

MANY HURT IN CUMBERLAND PLANT BLAST      One Building of Celanese Plant Reported as Wrecked

40 Hurt as Blast Wrecks Building Of Celanese Plant   At Least Five Injured Seriously by Explosion,  No Deaths Reported CALLED SHAMBLES  All Available  Ambulances Rush ; 7 - antmant Oe

40 Injured In Blast At Cumberland   WRECKS ONE BUILDING AT CELANESE PLANT; NO CAUSE GIVEN; INJURED ARE TAKEN TO HOSPITALS.   Two From Hyndman   Two Pennsviveniang

GLAST OCCURS AT CELANESE PLANT   30 or 40 Persons Injured in Explosion at Cumberland; Six Buildings of Plant Are Damaged

BLAST SHATTERS ONE SECTION OF CELANESE PLANT   Between 35 And 40 Employes Injured In Cum berland Explosion   DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT $200,000

OVER 35 HURT BY EXPLOSION   Blast Wrecks Building o! Celanese Corporation Plant at Cumberland

U.S. and RAF Drop  Huge Tonnage  Of Bombs on Axis Total Exceeds Weight  Of Explosives Ever to Hit British

BOND SALES MOUNT BY WOMEN’S WORK      Total Stood at $1,442,933 at Close of Work ’ Yesterday   BOOTH SALES REPORT

BOND SALES RISING   County Total Stood al ~ $1,350,808.25 After  Canvass Yesterday

Ceilings on Eggs; Five Vegetables   Maximum Wholesale Prices On : Sale of Eggs

PRICE CEILING SET FOR EGGS, © 5 VEGETABLES   Wholesale Curb Followed @ 200n by Fixed Mark-up Regulation

OPA ORDERS CEILING ON EGG PRICES      » New move follows pric ceilings on five major vegetables

Todav—Don't Miss:   Fight Loom: On Fathers’ Draft Set-Up  WMC Rulings Stir Ire Of Congressmen

Solons Stirred By Draft Order   Policy on Children Brings Opposition

FATHER DRAFT IS PROTESTED   Congress May Take Issue With Order to Induct Family Heads

MeNutt’s Call For Drafting Of Fathers Stirs Capital   Some Congressmen Sa: Number of Children Supported by Draftee Should Be Considered   CONGRESS TO END RECESS ON SEPT. 14.  Order Is Contrary To Will of People,  Lawmakers Claim

Fight On Draft Plan Indicated   Unqualified Calls On Eatherc FElaved

Congress May Oppose Draft of Fathers Several Members See Flaws In Rule Regarding Dependents’ Need

FATHERS DRAFT RULE FAGES FIGHT   Legislators May Take Issue With WMC on Disregarding Number or Ages of Dependent Children

Congressional Opposition To McNutt Ruling on Draft Of Fathers Now Indicated

Congressmen Object to Boards Drafting Fathers   Rep. Gosseit Says McNutt’: Order Is Contrary fo Will of Congress

French Patriots Get Land Mines  From Nazi Store  Vichy ‘Minister  DCU ee Se ee ee

More Inferest In War Forecast  Wants Fleactian On   Wants Election On Domestic Issues

SUBSIDY PLAN IS ATTACKED ANEW   Farm Bureau Chief Asserts Farmers Opposed to FDR’s Program

3 Killed, Many Injured in New Jersey Explosion   8 Others Missing in Tragedy at Linoleum Plant

3 Die, 15 Hurt, Others Missing In Jersey Blast   Explosion in Congoleum Plant Caves in Walls, Haard Far Uilec

Factory Explosion lakes Three Lives  Estimates Place Se ee re a:

Three Dead, Man) Missing, in Blast In Jersey Plant   Eight Critically Injured al Kearny

Three Dead, Fight Missing In New Jersey  Plant Blast   1S Hurt, 8 Critically, And Fire Chief Says Number of Missing May Hit Total of 49   BLAST, FIRE LEVELS THREE BUILDINGS

3 KILLED, 15 HURT AND 49 MISSING IN TERRIFIC BLAST   Explosion And Fire, Believed Caused By Cork And Linoleum Dust, Destroy Three Buildings Of Huge  Congoleum-Nairn P lant In New Jersey

New Jersey Plant Is Ripped by Blast and Fire  Three Are Known Dead And Perhaps 49  Se eh hCU

Great Explosion And Fire Wrecks Units ef Plant  Three Known To Be Dead at New Jersey Fadétery: 49 Missing:

THREE KNOWN DEAD IN BLAST   Eight Missing and Many _ Hurt in Kearney, N. J. . Explosion

Three Known Dead, Eight  Missing in Kearny Blast   Three Buildings of Huge Congoleum Plant Destroyed by Explosion, Fire; Fire Chief Estimates Missing at 49

Loss Of Life In Explosion Heavy   Three Big Factory Buildinas Wrecked

3 DEAD, 15 HURT IN BLAST, BLAZE   Cork, Linoleum Dust Be lieved Cause of Explosion

3 Buildings Destroyed 3 Die In Biast   CONGOLEUM-NAIRN PLANT IN NEW JERSEY; TERRIFIC EX PLOSION ROCKS COUNTRY SIDE; FBI ON JOB.   Working War Crders

3 KNOWN DEAD IN JERSEY FIRE   CREWS DIG FOR MISSING IN WRECKAGE OF PLANT—8 UNACCOUNTED FOR.

New Jersey Plant Is Ripped by Blast and Fire  Three Are Known Dea And Perhans 49

SIX ITALIAN WARSHIPS INTO GIBRALTAR   Were Fleeing Germans; Now in Allied Hands

Russians Seize Huge Amounts Of Booty   At Suburbs of Kharkov: Make Other Gains

QUAGING auvicl Anco TMnloT UN 10 KRARKO   Steam Roller Drive Toward Dnieper River Rells Up Nati De‘enses.

REDS PILE UP MORE GAINS ON S00-MILE FRONT   Drive for Bryansk, Kharkov and Dneiper River

Russian Steam Roller Drive Is  Moving Forward   New Advances Scored Along 300 Mile Line In Kharkov And Bryansk Sectors   RUSSIAN FORCES IN KHARKOV SUBURBS

50% Income Tax Slash, Child Aid Assembly's Best   War Was Theme of Much of Action In Legislature

CUT IN TAXES, CHILD AID IN “BIG LETTERS”   Main Accomplishments Of 50th Iowa General Assembly In Session At Capital City

BERLIN GETS “NEW HEAVY BOMB ATTACK   RAF Fliers Report Few Enemy Fighters Met On Latest Raid

Strong Force of British Bombers Gives Berlin Its Most Concentrated Pasting of War

Berlin Attack Involves New R AF Tactics   Friday Night Raid Is Followed By Daylight Activity

PERMIT CAR OWNERS TO REPAINT PLATES   Police Officials To Issue Grants After July 21

OLD OHIO AUTO TAGS MAY BE PAINTED UF   Work To Be Done on One at A Time During Week

SOAP PRICE SET   Dollars-Cents Charge Fixed By OPA Effective May 24.

(944 Acreage Hike Favored  Committee Makes   Committee Makes Beet Suggestion

China May Be Base for New Jap Bombing   Knox, Glasgow and Soong Arrive in ‘Quebec For Conferences

Allied Leaders Plot New Blow Against Italy   Master Plans For Carrying On War Believed Ready After Conference

Knox Arrives In Quebec for Conference   Australian High Commissioner Expected Soon; Chinese Foreign Minister Confers With Roosevelt

See New Air Blows Aimed At Japanese  Knox at Quebec; Australian Envoy

KNOX, GLASGOW FOLLOW SOONG TO WAR MEET      Evidence Increases Roosevelt_and. Churchill Plaming Heavy New Blows at Japan

HEFTY BLOWS AIMED AT JAPAN INDICATED BY WAR CONFERENCE  PLANS BEING MADE BLAST ENEMY LIFELINES AND JAPANESE MAINLAND

Fer —CONFERENCE = =" Soong’s: ‘Quebec Visit Stirs Jap War. Moves   Arrival Of Chinese Foreign Minister Indicated Im portant Decisions Have Been Made Regardins Struggle With Japan

Allied Parley At Quebec Plot Blows   Secretary Knox and Chinese Official Arrives To Help on Plans

HEFTY BLOWS AIMED AT JAPAN INDICATED BY WAR CONFERENCE  PLANS BEING MADE BLAST ENEMY LIFELINES AND

we PP eee eT OF ee  Attacks FROM CHINA  Likely   -++ T. V. Soong of China Joins Quebec Talks

Plan Hefty Blows  Against Japanese   Quebec Conference — Is Thought to Decide on  Big Air Force in China.

Quebec Plans Japan Blows   SEE POSSIBLE BOMBER CONCENTRATION AGAINST NIP MAINLAND IN ARRIVAL OF KNOX, GLASGOW AT VITAL CONFERENCE

‘Clear Way -For Blows > At Japan   Capture of Kiska Opens the Northern Route; Allies Mapping Strategy   ' JAPS ON THE RUN GEN. DE WITT SAYS   Siege Guns Are Blasting at » Salamaua; Quebec Talks Include Pacific

Knox at Quebec: As Blows on Japan Planned  Nip Lifelines in China Sea Hinted Targets

CHINESE LEADER BELATED -ARRIVAL AT CONFERENCE   Foreign Minister Soong Flies from Washington to Quebec at Request of FDR

KNOX FLIES TO JOIN QUEBEC WAR COUNCIL   Belated Arrival of Foreign Minister Soong May Mean Plans for New Blows Against Japs   PARLEY NEARING END

NEW BLOWS AT JAPS HINTED FROM QUEBEC   Sec. Knox Reaches Parley Scene Shortly After China’s Foreign Minister Arrives.

KNOX ARRIVES IN QUEBEC 10 TAKE COUNCIL PLACE   Navy Secretary to Dine With FDR, Churchill Tonight; More Dramatics

Decisions To Build Up Aerial Strength In China Reported  Near At Conference

Spotlight Shifts To Pacific   Possibility of Early Blow Against Japan Seen As Knox, Soong *Arrive in Quebec

SEC. KNOX ARRIVED IN QUEBEC TODAY   Was Indicated the War Conference Was Planning New Blows for Japan.

F, R- CHURCHILL PLANS FOR WAR NEARLY FINISHEL   Leaders From Other Nations Arriving In Quebec. Expect Healthy Swing Against Japanese

SOONG ARRIVES AT QUEBEC FOR WAR COUNCIL   Has To Do With Plans For War On Japan

Massed Bomber Strength on Bulge of China Indicated   Secretary Knox Arnves in Quebec; Australian  . Official to Attend

Soong Called To Quebec Parley To Discuss New Moves On Japs; Washington Silent On Litvinoft

IERIAL BLOWS IN JAPAN SEEN (S ALLIED PLAN   Arrival of Chinese Envoy _At Quebec Conference -Brings Speculation  ' On Bombing Raids   JAP SUPPLY LINES  DUEFOR ATTACKS   Secretary Knox Arrives As Roosevelt and Churchill Parley Gn Strategy   Nears Its Close

Believe Allies To Strengthen China’s Foree   Arrival Of Soong In Quebee Suggests Bombing OF Japan From China,   CONFERENCE NEAR END

CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER PRESENT AT QUEBEC PARLEY   His Belated Arrival Suggests Decisions To Build Up Ajir Squadrons In China To Bomb Enemy Lifelines In China Sea and Jap Mainland.

1942  By ASHER R. JOHNSON   January llth, 1943—8 P. M. Wattineae

U.S. cutter Campbell rams enemy vessel, attacks six others in pack

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Rams and Sinks Nazi U-Boat in Battle With Wolf Pack

CUTTER WRECKS GERMAN U-BOAT   American Vessel Rams Raider After Fight With Wolf-Pack

Cutter Rams, Shells  Enemy   One of Hitler’s Finest Pig Boats Sent Down

American Coast Guard Cutter Rams and Sinks Large German Submarine as Conclusion to 12-Hour Running Fight Againsi Wolf Pack

HONOR OLD GLORY By Flying the Flag Next Monday June 14— Flag Day   New Observances of Respect for the Flag

Cape Gloucester Pounded As Prelude To New Brit ain Invacion   AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CONTINUE TO GAIN

NKomme! Menaced  By Yanks  Allies Advance   Allies Advance “Nearer Base Ohl Bisarte o:

British First Army in the North Recaptures Sedjanane  U. S. FORCES MAKE FURTHER ADVANCES  Progress ls Hampered by Extensive Mine Fields

BRITISH FIRST ARMY GAINING NEAR BIZERTE   AMERICAN FORCES BORE INTO AXIS COASTAL FLANK

AMERICANS BORE FARTHER INTO FLANK OF ROMMEL’S COASTAL BELT; GERMANS MAKE HASTY FLIGHT  FROM SFAX.

American Army Bores Into Flank Of Retreating German Force On Central Sector

JUNCTION OF ALLIED FORCES 1S IMMINENT   Eighth Army Fans Out Over Coastal Plains More Than 12 Miles Above Gabes.

American Forces Bore Deeper Into Enemy’s Coastal Flank; Foe Suffers Constant Bombing

British Armies And Americans Close to Romme'!   Patton's Forces Only 45 Miles from Junction with Tommies   German Bodies and Ma. chines Strewn over Wide Section

Nazis speed flight; Americansboredeep into Rommel’s flank   British First army advances within 35 miles of naval hase at Biverte

Coastal Road Strewn  With Debris   Americans Bore Farther into Flank Of Rommel’s Escape Corridor; Allied Airmen Pound Retreating Men

FIAT ARMY GAIND INNORTHERN AREA   Press 35 Miles Southwest of Bizerte Naval Base   AMERICAN ARMY   Bores Deeper Into Flank of Rommel’s Coastal Belt; Mines Delay Progress

Anderson Gets 35 Miles From  Base at Bizerte   Americans Bore Into Flank of Rommel’s Coastal Belt; Troops Closer to Junction

Nazi Squeeze Is Ticvhtened   British Advance In North And South: Yanks Close-In.

American Force Bores Farther Into Flank Of Axis Coastal Belt   ENEMY IS RETREATING NORTHWARD TO SFAX

ALABAMA-INDIANA MINERS JOIN IN WORK STOPPAGE   “No Contract—No Work” Miners’ Old Slogan Was Expressed Reason For Quittiang; Lewis Refuses Comment On WLB’s Appeal To Miners.

‘Miners in Alabama, ‘Indiana ¢ Quit Because Unions Have No Contract

FEAR NATION TO HAVE COAL MINE STRIKE   War Labor Board Appeals To Lewis On Stoppages

Lewis Calls Coal Miners Back to W ork   Requests Strikers Be at Their Jobs Monday Morning

New. Stoppages In Coal Fields. Are Anticipated   Claim Lack Of Contracts Cause Of Walkouts In Alabama And Indiana

Lewis Tells Miners fo Resume Work   Alabama ond Iilinois Union Men Stay Home As Contrect Expires

Labor Board Calls Meeting in Hope Of Averting General Coal Strike

Lewis Silent On WLB Plea To Miners   Labor Board ta Meet Today to Discuss Mine Situation

LEWIS ASKS MINERS T0 END STRIKE   Urges Coal Miners In Alabama And Indiana To Work

Union Workers Strike Last Night In Two Stafes   United Mine Workers Walk Out As Mine Owners Take Over

THOUSANDS IDLE IN INDIANA AND ALABAMA MINES   MINERS QUIT WORK BECAUSE UNION HAS NO CONTRACT

OFFICIALS FEAR GOAL WALKOUT TO SPREAD   Lewis Refuses To Comment on WLB Appeal

WAR INDUSTRY ENDANGERED BY STRIKES AGAIN   Work Stoppages in Mines of Alabama and Indiana First Indication

Fear Spread. Of Strike   Urge WLB to Speed . Settlement of Coal Row As Miners Quit

Lewis in a Plea to Coal Miners   Called Upon Men on Strike in Alabama and Indiana to Return to Work.

Hold Parley To Avert Coal Strike   WLB Asks Lewis To Call It Off

New Work Stoppages Threaten Coal Supply!   WIDOW OF HERO WEDS QUIETLY

WLB Plans New Parley on Dispute   Another General Mine Walkout Feared as Alabama and Indiana Miners Stop Work

WLB ASKS LEWIS TO CALL OFF STRIKES   Schedules New Pariey to Avert General “~Walkout

GENERAL COAL  STRIKE SEEN INSTOPPAGES   20,000 Workers Idle Af. ter Walkouts In Alabama and Indiana

Action On Contract Is Promised   Miners In Alabama And Indiana Are. Assured Of Early Decision By War Labor Board

WLB Asks Lewis to Put End to Growing Walkout of Miners   “No Contract-No Work” Slogan is Revived by Soft Coal Diggers

LEWIS-CALLS ON MINERS T0-END THEIRWALK OUT   Alabama and ‘Indiana Workers’ Urged to “Call.  _ Meeting and ‘Vote. to’  Resume Work”

LEWIS ASKS MINERS TO GO BACK ON JOB   Telegraphs His Appeal to Unions of Thousands Who Are Idle in the Coal Fields of Alabama and Indiana. 

MATERNITY AID BILL GIVEN 0.K   $18,620,000 to Assist Enlisted: Wives, Mother's, ' by June 30

Nazis Raid on Kursk Costly   Russians Claim 162 German Planes Shot Down in Big Battie

162 Nazi Planes  Downed By Reds  During Kursk Raid Russ Victorious  In Greatest of all soa ..2..] BRasttlac

RUSSIAN AERIAL WAR INTENSIFIES   FIERCE FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS; LAND ACTION DESULTORY

Russ Smash New German Air Strategy   Star Formation Attack on Kursk Cost Nazis 162 Planes

GERMAN AIR FORCE  LOST MANY PLANES  IN KURSK ATTEMPT AIR BATTLE OVER RUS SIAN CITY BRINGS 162 - NAJI PLANES DOWN

Nazis Lost 162 Planes In Raid  Full Story of Battle Over Kursk Told

GERMAN AIR FORCE LOST 162 PLANES IN KURSK BATTLE   This Announcement Came as the Full Story of the Raid Unfolded.   Germans Attempted an Elaborate New Plan of Attack.

New Allied ‘Air Victory At Moresby   But Ominous Threats To Australia And Alaska Disclosed.

Jap 105-Plane Raiding Force Strikes At New Guinea Port; Allied Airmen Destroy 25

ORTONA BATTLE STILL I$ RAGING HOUSE TO HOUSE   Fifth Army Takes New Hil! Positions: French Help in Allied Gains

REPELS ENEMY IN CENTER OF ITALIAN FRONT   German Counter-Attack in Mountains Also Repulsed .

Eighth Army {s Driving Germans  Back In Italy   Smashing Gains By Indian Troops Of Gen. Montgomery’s Forces Reported   FIERCE BATTLE IS RAGING IN ORTONA

NEW TAX FIGHT SEEN BREWING   Treasury Favors Spending Levy, Congress Wants National Sales Tax

Fight Looms On Tax Plans For New Levy   ‘House Favors Sales Tax;  Believe $16 Billion Figure Low

TAX FIGHT LOOMS IN WAR DEMANDS   Treasury, House Committee Have Different tdeas on Securing Funds.

FIGHT LOOMS IN CONGRESS ON NEW TAX   Opinions Divided On How To Raise Huge Funds Needed’

NEW TAX ROW SHAPING UP ON NEXT TAX PLA   Spending Vs. Sales Levy  Issue In Obtaining  Extra Revenue

President Opposes Former and Treasury Department Favors Latter Form of Raising Money.

NEW TAX FIGHT IS LOOMING-TODAY AS FOR MAKES DEMAND   Request for 16 Billions in Additional! Revenue Brings on Dissention.

Tax Fight Shapes Up In Congress   EXPECTED DWARF EVEN PAY-AS-GO B ATTLE OF LATE.

REGISTRATION IN COUNTY ON 3 DAYS   Registrants Must Have Fill. ed Out Declaration, Book No.3.

Army Has: First $190 Mo. Private   Found to Have « Wife. 11 Children

Start War Tour Soon   5 Uniformed Senators Ready to Take Off on Trek to Battlefronts

Solons To Get ~ Gottlier’s Slant   SENATORS TO TOUR U. S. WAR FRONTS THIS YEAR 

( ‘ceremonies Held at B. & O. Depot  Three Local Men Leave Here Today for Active Duty in Navy

IAPS LOSE 263 PLANES, 35 SHIPS   During Month of March the Japs Come Out Second Best.

JAPS OPEN DRIVE _IN CHINA THEATER      Russia Only Ally To Hold Success; Bebe "tg Aid Yankees

Land Army For Food Is Planned   Hold Conferences on Plan: —Sixty Percent of Food Under Rationing

Davis Begins Organization of Land Armv to Assist in Food Productior

AFL Readmits Machinists And Indications Are That Lewis Would Be Welcome

URGE MOTORISTS 10 HAVE CHECK ON TIRES EARLY      Serious Bottleneck Will Result Unless Many Drivers Act At Once

SERIOUS JAMS ON INSPECTION OF TIRES SEEN   Motorists Should Apply To Their Examination Stations Now Por Checkup

EX-INSPECTION ‘MAY LEAD TO JAN   Maloney Calls ls Attention of Drivers to Jan. 31

GET YOUR TIRES INSPECTED NOW   Your Gas Coupons Will Not Be Good Unless  You Cooperate.

Rationers' Fear There May Be Tieup Getting Tires Examined.   BASIC FEE TO BE. 25 CENTS EACH CAR

JAM FEARED AT TIRE INSPECTION STATIONS   January 31 Is Deadline For Motor. ists To Attend To This Matter —Only Few Have Acted

BITTERNESS MARKS APPROVAL OF BIL!      Measure Permitting Minors to Work in Canner‘es Passed — New Fight Looms.

Labor Bill, Introduced In Ohio House By Huron-Co. Representative Peirce, Passes After Bitter Fight

Soviets Near Trunk Line  To Crimea   Press Move To Trap Thousands of Enemy In Southern Russia

erlits Aclmits: Retreat Be fesre , > Soviet Misses   mans Giving round Under Impact  Of 300,000 Russians Attacking Southward Toward Main Lifeline of Ayis Troops. . 

GERMAN DNTEPER LINE CRUMBLING UNDER ONSLAUGHT   Huge Enemy Force Flanked as Russians Drive Four Miles Deeper Into River Loop.   SOVIETS KILL 4,000, SEIZE 23 VILLAGES   Moscow Reports Forces Below Gomel, North of Kiev and at Melitopol Also Scored Gains.

German 2osi-ion “1 Crimea Srows ‘fore A.cuce as Zussians S-L. 3ain«

GENERAL MARSHALL — VISITS MEXICO CITY   Army Chief of Staff and Wife Ar. rive Unexpectedly—Says Heavy Kichtine Has Berun.

Pilot and Infant Killed When Plane Crashes Hn Virginia Mountains

Labor Dratt Attacked By AF OF L Boss   Green Charges Proposed Measure Pits Free Against Slave Worker.   SHOWS UNION RECORD

LABOR DRAFT OPPOSED BY  AFLCHIEFTAIN   Green Says Austin-Wadsworth Bil Involuntary Servitude, Is Ua constitutional

Green Attacks Manpower Bill   Terms It Free Labor Versus Slave Labor

Violation of 13th Amendment, Says Leader; : Blames Conflicting U.5. Policies for Delays

GREEN OPPOSED 10 DRAFT OF WORKERS   Says Austin- Wadsworth Bil Provides ‘Involuntary Servitude.’

MEASURE TO DRAFT CIVILIAN. WORKERS OPPOSED BY GREEN   Opposes the Legislation As Imposing ‘Involuntary Servitude’ On _ Nation's Man and Woman Power.

U.S. FLIERS BLAST JAP ~ TRANSPORT   Americans Strike... Ai Enemy Air Bases : In Solomons... i

U. §. Planes Attack Airfields ‘In Solomons, Claim Possible 'Hif on Japanese Transport

CRUISER HIT BY AMERICANS   Stern Of Italian Craft Blown Off; Dwindling Rail Facilities Blasted

frenc2 Ixpec’ cionacy +orce 0. C —our 2or Assal. 8 _ ear; * @ Daan Gtale a ian Caiy

Bombs KuinVenturesome Italy Cruises Heavy Raid Keep Naples Railroad Bottled

italian Cruiser  Probab y Sunk   J. S. Fighter-Bomber Blows Stern Off Enemy Ship; Dwindling Rail. Lines In Italy Ripped In Heavy Raids

ITALIAN CRUISER BELIEVED SUNK   STERN BLOWN OFF VESSEL BY BOMB DROPPED BY AMERICAN AIRMAN.

American Fighter-Bomber Blasts Italian Cruiser: Allied Warplanes Pound Naples

BLAST STERN OFF ITALIAN MAN - OF - WAR   Single U.S. Plane Makes Hit While Others Rip Rail Links South Of   Naples   Rescue Crew

ltalian Cruiser Struck by Bomb   Sern Is Blown Off; Ship Believed Sunk

DESTROVS STERN OF AXIS CRUISER   Single U Ss. AS 36 Invader Fil Bone Does  at -

BIG ITALIAN CRUISER HIT BY BOMBERS   First Venture Out By Any Unit of Enemy Fleet

Routine Bombing ls Given Italy   French Army Told Invasion Loomina

Reds and Czechsin  Alliance   Poland Invited To Join Defensive Move Against Nazis

Withholding Income Tax Bill Is Placed in Senate's Hoppet   Clark of Missouri Is the Author of ‘“‘Pay-As~~“"You-Go” Measure

PROPOSES PAY AS-GO TAX   Sen. Clark of Missouri Introduces Ruml Syovgestion Bill

Reds Roll On. Take Vyazma   Defenders Give’ Ground In ‘Bitter Kharkov Struaale

BITTER OT ALET STRUGGLE RAGES   Moscow Admits Fall - Back West of Kharkov   MENACE TO SMOLENSK   Held by Observers to Mean Entire Nazi Eastern Front Setup Is in Peril

RED POSITION AT KHARKOV IS REPORTED GRAVE   ‘Outnumbered Soviet    Troops Are Fighting From  House-To-House      VYAZMA RECAPTURED BY RUSSIAN. ARMIES

Red Army Takes Vyazma, But Is Losing in South   Moscow Announces With drawal in Third Battle for Kharkov   Germans Report Their Troops Are Fighting within the City

Soviets Seize Vyazma, Kall 9 000 Nazis   Germans Say Bitter Street Struggle Is Raging in Kharkov: Smolensk Threatenec

Capture of Vyazma by the Red Armies Ix_An. nounced 2  1000 GERMANS ARE -KILLED IN BATTLE  Russians Fall Back to New Positions West of Kharkov

RED ARMY ADMITS NEW WITHDRAW Al   Berlin Says Nazis Hold Northern and Western Parts of City and Soviets South.   MUSCOVITES SEIZE VYAZMA, KILL 9,000   Declare Central Front Base Fell Under Attack —Germans Say They Abandoned Town.

Reds Capture. Vyazma, Face  Kharkov Peril   Germans Report Fight Rages in Steel City Streets

9,000 German: Are Slain by Russians   OQuinumbered Reds Fall Back to New Positions

Reds Capture Vyazma, Kill 9,000 Nazis   German High Command Claims Battle Rages in Streets of Kharkov; Russians Imperil Smolensk

In south Soviets Fall Back Before  Nazi Onslaught   German Re ‘port Bitter Street Struggles In Battle For Kharkov.

RUSSIANS TAKE VYAZMA AFTER HARD STRUGGLE   Central Front Advances Offset By Withdrawal At Ukraine Center; Orel ‘Drome Hit   Donets Line Pressed

NINE THOUSAND GERMANS SLAIN: 1X POWERFUL CENTRAL FRONT SWEEP TOWARDS’ SMOLENSK, NAZI AN CHOR.

Germans Lose 9000 Men as Vyaama Taken  Southern City Shows Signs of Becoming Another Stalingrad

Outnumbered Reds. Fall Back; Vyazma Taken in Biq Sweep   Furious Battle Raging. for Vital City Approaches Magnitude of Bitter. Fight for Stalingrad.

Bitter Fight Rages for Ukraine City   Attack at Kharkov Is Counteracted As Vyazma 1's Taken

UKRAINE CITY IS SCENE OF BITTER FIGHT   SOVIETS KILL 9000 IN SWEEP TOWARD SMOLENSK

Stranger Goes Around Giving Away Hundred Dollar Bills   Passes Out $4,300 While Strolling Through Hospital, Smoking Cigars

Nazi Divisions in South Italy Face Retreat or Death   First Line of Defense fo Rome Outflanked by  Montgomery

Leapfrog Up West Coast, By Volturno   Fifth Army Forces Are Surging Across Vital Volturno River Line

ALLIES PUSH FORWARD ALL ALONG FRONT      British Unit Rolls Up Nazi Coastal Anchor as Other Troops Advance in Frontal Assault Against River Line.

British Open Way Through  German Lines   Nazis Must Retreat Or Face Utter Destruction

RITISH MAKE (EW LANDING iT VOLTURNO   Jain Forces of Fifth Army Pour Across River Into  _ Newly Won Bridgeheads

Germans Get No. Respite   Rhineland Scourged By Night, With Americans Over Southern Ger many Today.

AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK INDUSTRIAL GERMANY TODAY   R.A.F. Blasts Targets in Northern France and Belgium.

— Surge In  Around Messina   Conclusion of Campaign at Hand  Less Than Six Weeks After Start

Bloody Clashes Plague Germans   Resistance Groups Active On Border<

Tojo Says Allies Are Presumptuous   Says Allies Trying To Hide Weaknesses

SIGNS POINT TO DRIVE IN BURMA   Change In_ British Asiatic Com: mand Indicates Big Push by Fall.

Preparations for Burma Offensive Seen in Choice of  Wavell as Viceroy of India

ALLIED DRIVE ON BURMA SEEN   Wavell Becomes Viceroy of India, Auchinleck Takes Over Eastern Army.

STILWELL MAY BE IN HIGH COMMAND OF BURMA DRIVE   Wavell Appointment As Viceroy Indicates Stress on Campaign.

Appointment Of Gen. ‘Wavall As Viceroy Of India Is Carrying Out PlangMade In ‘Washington.

Churchill Names British Marshal  Indian Viceroy    Stilwell May Get Command of Allied Forces In East Asia

PLASTIC TOKENS TD GET RATIONS TO APPEAR SOOK   Disc, Smaller Than Dime With One Point Value to Be Used as Change In Making Purchases.   2 BILLION APPEARING DURING LATE FEBRUAR'   Stamps to Have Uniform Value of 10 Points, Tokens to Have Colors to Match Cottpons. .

Ration Tokens Will Bring C hanges  In Mechanics of Distribution of Food

RATION TOKENS IN USE FEB. 27   To Bring Several Changes In Mechanics Of  Rationing

New Ration  Tokens Will Change Plan   All Coupons to Be Worth 10 Points, Fiber Tokens Will Be Used as Channe

RATION TOKENS WILL BE PUT IN USE FEB. 27   Validation Plan To Be Boosted On Processed Foods. Lowered On Meats

DISAGREE ON ~ FOOD SUPPLY   MAJORITY OF SENATE. AGRICULTURE. COMMITTEE SEE -, "MORE THAN SIX PER  CENT DECREASE

SUBSIDY FOR MINERS’ PAY ~~ 1S PROPOSEL   LEWIS SUGGESTS GOVERNMENT SURBSIDIZE HARD COAL. INDUSTRY TO PROVIDE FOR PAY RAISES

Many Counties Pass Bond Quotas in First Few Minutes  Treasury Says Money Is Pouring in As Campaign Opens

Tax Deduction Bill Introduced In Legislature   Would Grant Individuals Right To Deduct All Federal Taxes From   State Computations

Rule by Appointed Bureaucracy Scored by GOP's  Western Republicans : om id ceman Al

Rule by Appointed Bureaucracy Scored by GOP's  Western Republicans Ask for Secretary Of Veterans’ Affairs

REDS BATTLING TO STEM NAZIS’ KHARKOV DRIVE   Allied Air Power Forces Axis Retreat Beyond Mareth Line

SNOW FALLS IN WEST   ' Moisture May Extend to Eastern  Sections of Kansas

No Let-Up In Cold Weather   Eastern Kansas May Get Snow  Sometime Tonich:’

Finds Reason Next Gunne1 Not Shooting      Lieut. Harrington Discovers He Is Standing Right On Ammunition Belt

U.S.-British ‘Parley With ChiangLikely   President and Churchill Would Meet Chinese Leader After Stalin

Big Three Meeting Hints Are Stronger   Announcement Expected Soon of Plans for Meet

‘EXPECT ANNOUNCEMENT SOON OF CONFERENCE BY THREE ALLIED CHIEFTAINS

Move To Shake Morale Slated   Allied Leaders May: Have Psychological Move Up Sleeve For Nazis

S-POWER LEADERS MAY SOON REVEAL PLANS FOR TALKS   Dispatch to London Says Announcement Is Expected Soon on F.D.R.-Churchill-Stalin Meeting.   AXIS SUGGESTS CAIRO AS CONFERENCE SPOT   British Look for Trio to Launch Psychological Drive to Hasten Surrender of Germany.

Axis Sources for Several Days Have Hinted o Meeting of the Three Was Imminent and Suaaestina Cairo as Sno’

Chiang Kai-shek Expected to Figure In Conferences of Allied Leaders

EXPECT CHIANG TO FIGURE IN WAR CONFERENCE   Axincuncement Of Meeting 0 “Big Three” May Be Made Soon

Railroad City Is Taken Over By Russians   Another Advance Made Toward Rostov While Nazis Abandon Hold In Voronezh Area

Penetrate Deeply Into Nazi Lines   Germans Admit Serious Plight Of Troops That Were Cut Off In The Stalingrad Area

Soviets Take Salsk, Vital  Rail Junction   German Command Hints Stalingrad Disaster; End Near For Trapped Army; Force Reduced  atin te eee,

Red Army Legions  Continue Advance   German High Command Admits Lines Split Tn Stalinerad   Reds Driving Nearer To Kharkov, Rostov   Hungarian Chief Discloses His Country’s Losses ‘Highest of War’

Nazis Fear U. §. Bombers Will Use Russian Bases To Pound Reich As Conference Result

Nazis Fear Air Attacks  From East   Believe Americans Will Use Bases In Ruasia — Revive Old Story About Bolshevism

Germans Now Fear Bombing from Russia   Assert no Military Agreement Made at Moscow but Apprehension Manifest in Berlin; Declares Concessions Made.

Say Nazis Fear Allied Bombings From Red Bases   Capital Views- Agreement At Moscow As Greatest Blow To.German Hopes

RED AIR BASES GIVEN 10 U. S.   Germans Fear New Siege Of Heavy Bombings From Russia

'U.S. Raids From  Russia Forecast  ‘Germans Fear Daylight  Blows May Be Coming

GERMANS FEAR 4-POWER PACT   BELIEVE AMERICANS MAY BOMB REICH FROM RUSSIAN BASES

KRIVOI ROG INCREASES   Soviets List Gains In Dnieper Bend And White Russia

NAZIS STIFFEN, BUT FAIL 10 HALT REDS   Russians Kill 6,000 German Officers and Men in Day

Fierce Nazi Drive Fails To Stem Advance   Nazis Hurl Vast Forces Into Battle

FIERCE FIGHTING FAILS TO CHECK SOVIET ADVANCE   Reds Pound Out New Gains in Dnieper Bend and White Russia

WAGE DISPUTE IS TRANSFERRED TO WASHINGTON   Northern Operators Walk Out On New York Parley With Miners   WORK STOPPAGE IS FREELY PREDICTED

MINE WAGE TALKS COME TO CLIMAX; OPERATORS LEAVE   Possibility of Work Stoppage Seen as Negotiators for Northern Owners Head for Washington.   JOHN LEWIS CHARGES PARLEY DISRUPTED   Union Head Says Operators, in Taking “French Leave,’ Violated Extension of Old Contract.

Lewis Asserts Coal Men Took  ‘French Leave’   Operators Off to Attend WLB’s Arbitrament Of Wace Thisnnte

Lewis Says 30-Day  AgreementBroken   Possibility Of Work Stoppage In Mines Is Seen As Negotiators Leave For Appearance  Before WLB

Work Stoppage In Coal Mines Again s Threat   Lewis Says Joint Wage Conference Has Been Disrupted

NATION FACES AGAIN THREAT OF MINE TIEUE   Operators. Leave Parley for Hearing Before WLB

Work Stoppage In Coal Fields Threatens Anew   ‘Mine Operators Leave To Appear Before WLB, But Lewis Holds Back

Soviets Take Another Important Dnieper City From Faltering Foe   Two More Jap Ships, 12 Zeros Destroyed in Pacific; Schweinfurt Raid Costs 600 Men, 20 Million Dollars In Planes, Germans Lose 91 Fighter Craft

City Was Ir Nazi Hands 22, Months.  RUSS TROOPS SMASH ON THRU If EFFORT TO TRAP FLEEING  WHICH EVACUATED

REDS ATTEMPT 10 TRAP GERMANS AS -ORELIS CAPTURED   Eight Soviet ‘Columns Con: verging as-Frantic Enem\ Attempts Escape Ovet  - Two Dirt Roads. ;   2000 JAP GARRISONS SLOWLY CUT TO PIECES   Unfavorable Weather Delaying Another Bomb Attack on Rome, First Siciliar Casualties Out.

Reds Occupy Orel on 23rd Day of Drive   Seek to Trap Remnants of Ria Garricon 

SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN LINES IN TAKING GREL   Nozi Losses Include 6,000 Killed, 236 Tanks Destroyed   ciTY FALLS AFTER BLOODY BATTLE IN STREETS

BASTION CITY SEIZED AFTER BLOODY BATTLE   Germans Race Westward As 8 Red Colunins Steadily Narrow Escape Route   TOWN FOUND IN RUINS   Russian Troops Continue Acvances In Belgorod And Mius River Areas

250,000 Nazi Treops Fleein;  Russian Trap   Red Army Speeds Through Crumbling German Defenses ~

AAZIS FLEE AAS RUSSIANS TIGHTEN TRA   Orel Falls, Boosting German Losses To 6,000 Killed

RED ARMY RACES TO BAG GERMANS SEEKING ESCAPE   Only Two Narrow Dirt Roads Remain for Escape of 250,000-Man German Garrison

Soviets Take Orel From Routed Nazis   City in Ruins As Reds Chae Fleeing Enemy

RETREATING FROM BASE   Reds Smash Forward In Effort To Trap — Fleeing Foes

SOVIETS RACE TO TRAP REMNANTS OF GERMAN GARRISON   New Russian Gains Direct Threat To Bryansk,. Big Nazi Base On  . Central Front

FLAMING OREL FALLS AFTER STREET BATTLE   250,000 Nazis Run for Safety

RED ARMIES RACE ON 10 TRAP NATIS   Germans Trying To Escape Over Two Dirt Roads

SEEK T0 TRAP RETREATING GARRISON   Red Avalanche Poses Threat To Bryansk

DEFENSE HINGE OF NAZIS LOST AS ARMY FLEES   Captive City Since Oct., 1941, Free; Red Juggernaut of Vengeance Presses Forward.

TIME MEASURE'S FUTURE CLOUDY   Senate Gets Bill Today But Leader Doubts if Enough Votes Can Be Mustered.

Time Change Up In Senate Today, : Bat Confused Phrasing May Delay It

SENATE TO PASS ON TIME CHANGE   Phrasing Questioned As Proponents Seek 22 Votes For Emergency Passage

4-Point Defeat ‘Rocks Position   Loss of Bases, Troops, Planes and Material Brings Home Wor to Janan

Japs Lose 5,000 Men, Materiel In Solomons War  Air Bases Seized By U.S., Tojo  Warns Homelanc

Pacific Roundup Explains Why Tojo Has Warned: ‘Situation ‘Ie Gaining In Ferocity,’ Eneny Has Suffered Great Reverses

Japs Lose 5,000 Men While Clearing Out of  Central Solomons Area

Japs Suffer Heavy Losses In Solomons   5,000 Nips Lost im Clearing Out of Central Solomons Area; 61 Planes Lost at Wake Island

JAP ODLOMONS (H55E5 5,000   Stream of Yank Successes Brings Clarity to Tojo’s ~ Warning.

Yankees Score New Successes  Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses in Pacific

Jap’s Reeent Losses Great   American Successes In Pacifie Clarifies Tojo’s Recent Warning.

YANK SUCCESSES CLEAR ROAD FOR DRIVE ON RABUAL  Pa Caavy Dac ay thiave   ENEMY BASE AT WAKE ISLAND KNOCKED OUT BY AMERICAN FLEET

‘Admiral Halsey Places Jap Casualties in Clearing -.Out of Central Solomons at 5,000 Men and Large  Stock of Supplies and Material Left Behind

Solomon Blows Cost Japs 5,000 Men; U.S. Raids Wreck Enemy-Held Wake

South Pacific Victories Grow   American. Successes =Write Tojo’s Doom

U.S. Nabs  Key Bases in Pacific   YANKS TAKE OVER AT VILA, KOLOMBANGARA AS NIP FORCES FLEE

U. S. SUCCESSES STUN JAPANESE   Yanks Mop Up Central Solomons After Taking  Kolobangara

KOLOMBANGARA TAKEN BY YANKS   Jap Forces Cleared Qut Of Central Solomons Area

String of Stunning Yankee Successes in Pacific Revealec   Central Solomons Area Cleared of Japanese Halsey Reports

JAPANESE SUFFER  SEVERE REVERSES   Strategic Control Of Central Solomons Now Held By U. S.   WAKE IS BATTERED   ‘U.S. Fliers Drop 320 Tons Of Bombs On Small Island

Pacific Successes Of Allies Bring Worry for Tojo   Central Solomons Gain Important to American Strategy

Severe Jap Reverses In Pacific Area   Four Major Setbacks Give Truth to Tojo’s Warn: ing of War’s Ferocity

JAP CASUALTIES IN SOLOMONS 5,000 GREATER   New Victories Bring Clarity To Premier Tojo’s Warning

MID-SOLOMONS IN FIRM GRASP OF THE ALLIES   Jap Casualties in That Area of Pacific War Theatre Estimated at About 5,000

Japs On Wake Battered As Allied Successes In Pacific War Are Piling Up

30 Per Cent Pay Hike Asked For Rail Employes  Edward J. Flynn {. CopLaee an Cae   Edward J. Flynn Is Spokesman For Reatherhoods

Metal Supplies In Norway "Heavily Hit By Allied Raids  Germans Retaliate By Raid On \ South Britain

Bombers Pound Big Nazi Metal Supply Center   Large Formations -.  Hit Norway, Others lack Adkbnc Decx-

Bombers Pound Big Nazi Metal Supply Center   Large Formations Hit Norway, Others Lash Athens Bases

Byrnes Disclaims Any Ambition fo Be Vice-President   He seeks Meetings With Senate, House War Committees

BYRNES DENIES AMBITION TO BE ICE PRESIDENT   Eschews Politics to Do Job ix Hand, Seeks Co-operation of Con. gressional Committees

BYRNES HAS NO AMBITION 10 Bt VICE PRESIDENT   Declares That Under no Circumstances Would He Seek Nomination For That Post In First Press Conference As War Mobilization Director.

No Politics For Byrnes   Just Wants to Be Let Alone to Do His Job; Says Baruch to Assist

Byrnes Not After Vice Presidency   Will Not Seek That Nomination, Director of War Mobilization Says

J, F. BYRNES DENIES POLITICAL AMBITION      Has No Desire To Become Vice President

Wouldn’t Have It, Says War Czar. ....  Byrnes Denies Eyes On Vice-Presidency

NOT AFTER OFFICE   Byrnes Tells Reporters He Does Not Aspire to Vice Presidency

BYRNES DENIES POLITICAL AIMS   OWM Director Says Baruch Will Assist Board

BYRNES DENIES POLITICAL AlN   War Mobilization Chief Not Candidate for Vice President, He Says.   BARUCH IS AN ADVISOR

BYRNES HAS NO POLITICAL AIMS   BEW Director Denies Hold_ ing Ambition of Becoming Vice President

Byrnes Not a Candidate, — Press Told   Has No Ambition to Be Vice   President, He Says at ) Conference   WORKS ON HOME FRONT PROBLEMS   Discloses That Baruch Will Assist Him in Advisory Capacity Without Pay

NO CANDIDATE, BYRNES SAYS   No Ambition To Become Vice President, He Asserts

JAPSRAIDU.S. BASE IN INDIA   But Cause Little Damage Because Aerial Sortie Made From High Altitude

DANIEL-iISSING; INQUIRY. SLOWEL   Ex-House Speaker, - Released At Tulsa, Fails to Appear at O, C,

J. T’Daniel Didn't Appear at Either   Neither Grand Jury or Committee Got Him

DANIEL WiSSING, INQUIRY SLOWED   Ex-House Speaker, Released At Tulsa, Fails to Appeor at O. C.

REGISTRANT'S LETTER FLOORS DRAFT BOARD   Although Not Written In Best Form of Grammar, Note Brings Wanted Results

ANTI-LAND BOOM TAX IS PROPOSED   Wallace Suggests Stiff Levy On Profit from Resales

Would Place Curb Ona Land Boom   Secretary Wickard Proposes a Stiff Special Tax nn Peabite

Wickard Urges Grange Support  Would Tax Profits on Resale of Farm Land

ASK SUPPORT FOR LAND BOOM GURE   Wickard Seeks Grange’s Support For Stiff Special Tax On Profits From Resale of Farm Land To Block Boom.

PLAN BILL TO GUARD MEN FROM UNIONS   NO OBLIGATION ON PART OF DRAFTED WORKERS TO JOIN UP

DRAFT AMENDMENT  TO BE INTRODUCED   Women Between 18 and 5( Would Take War Jobs Under Proposed Measure

Price Rollback Given New Life   House Sustains Veto by FDR Of ‘Inflation Measure’

Falls 27 Votes Short Of Enough For Overriding   Presdient Calls Measure “Inflation Bill, High Cost Of Living Bill And Food Shortage Bill” In Stinging Message To Congress.

Anti-Subsidy Velo Upheld   President Calls Bill An Inflation Measure

USE SUSTAINS VETO   Chief Executive Describes Measure As “Inflation Rill’

HOUSE VOTES TO SUSTAIN F.D. R. VETO   Describes It As An “Inflation Bill” . In Message

* Fleeing With Little More Than Skins  Japs Leave Kiska Well Fortified

COURT TO REVIEW FLAG SALUTE CASE         Supreme .. Court. Jurists Agree to Pass on Question

GOURT 10 REVIEW FLAG SALUTE GAOL   Will Study Lower Court’s Decision Children Cannot Be Forced Salute Flag in Violation Religious Scruples

Case Reopened  Ont lag Sallie   Court May Reverse Farmer Decision

COURT TO SCAN FLAG DECISION   High Tribunal Will Get Salute Case From West Virginia

Supreme Court To Review Decision Governing Salute  Possibility High Tribunal   Possibility High Tribunal - Might Reverse Its Own  Decision Of 1940

COURT TO REVIEW FLAG SALUTE CASE   Supreme Court Jurist: Agree to Pass on Question

Supreme ‘Court  To Review Flag  Saluting ‘Case Circuit Judgé Holds Majority. Did Not Pass on Ruling:

SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW DECISION ON FLAG SALUTE   Case Involving Jehovah Witnesses Refusal to Salut Flag at School to be Reconsidered

SUPREME COURT TO RECONSIDER SALUTETOFLAG   Sigh Tribunal Agrees Ti Review Judge Parker’s ~ Holding

SCHOOL GROUPS DELUGE SOLON WITH TELEGRAMS   ‘Want to Be Sure of One  ‘Third o f All, Revenues Perpetual Session Mea: sure Is Adopted

Sixth Army Makes Landing at Arawe Following. Heavy Naval Sheliing; Jap Resistance Ends Quickly

Surprise Atfack ls Big Success, MacArthur Says   Jap Resistance Quickly Broken

Enemy Surprise Complete and Resistance Quickly Overcome  CASUALTIES ARE EXTREMELY LIGHT  American's Hold Corner Stone of Jep Defenses in Pacific

Key Jap Base Under Attack   Sixth Army Swarms Ashore After Big Naval Bombardment; Losses Light; Beachhead Won In Few Hours

Japs Surprised, Offer Little Resistance at Arawe Island   Other stories on the Arawe Jauding will he found on narec 9 and —_

Japs Caught Flat Footed    Resistance Quickly Crushed And American Losses Light

Enemy Surprise Complete and Resistance Quickly Overcome  CASUALTIES ARE   CASUALTIES ARE EXTREMELY LIGHT   American’s Hold Corner Stone of Jap Defenses in Pacific

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Surprised Japs Offer Little Resistance As Yanks Secure Pacific Defense Base   GROUND CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED LIGHT

Jap Surprise Is Complete, MacArthur  Announces  American 6th Army Complet Landing After Big Air Raid And Shelling by Navy GROUND CASUAI TIES “EXTREMELY LIGHT?  Tiwa sinn Aprthia<:a,)

U.S. 6th Army Smashes Ashore, Captures Arawe   Invasion Is the Greatest Undertaking Against Japanese

LABOR, FARMER ‘AT ODDS OVER 'PAY-AS-GO PLAN    National Grange In Support As CIO Calls It “Spe\cial Favor” To Rich

Farm Bloc Wants Rumi Tax Plan, ClO Opposes It   Pay-as-You-Go System Criticized Before Committee

Keep farm prices down for farm welfare, urges Davis   Says general use of subsidies to check food prices is unnecessary

mers Warned Danger From ‘sing Prices   tester Davis, Former FA Chief, Also Urges ‘mited Subsidy Use

DAVIS OPPOSES FOOD SUBSIDIES   Former WFA Head Is Against Any Marked Rise  In Farm Prices

Davis Opposes Farm Price Hike   Also Hits General Food Subsidies Use

Marked Hike In Farm Price Levels Opposed   Undesirable ‘to Longtime Farm Welfare Davis Says

Big-Scale Nazi ‘§ Drive Repulsed }   Movement Stopped 4 Northwest of Kursk 

REDS BREAK UP LARGE-SCALE NAZI TROOP MOVEMENTS   Use Artillery To Blast Two Battalions Near Kursk

SOVIET ARTILLERY. FIRE STOPS NAZI TROOP MOVEMENTS   Hundreds Of Germans Are Killed In Attack 80 Miles Northwest Of Kursk

BADGER ASSEMBLY PASSES TIME BIL      Suspend Rules; Vote to Adopt Mountain War Time for State.

'Time-Change Bill Is Passed By Assembly      Mountain War Time For State Would Be Put In Effect As Aid To  re. fe. _Watawe

Honesty Best st Policy; Boy Returns Jewelry, Gets A $1,000 Reward

CAPITAL OF REICH IS LEFT IN RUINS   Administrative Center o! Germany Almost Wiped Out

Great sprawling tourist center is devastated by allied air might

Travelers Tell Of Berlin Ruins   Bombs, Fires Wiped Out ManyLandmarks

Three More Hit; Pummel Relief  Fleet In Vella   Airfleet Intercepts Convoy Trying To Sneak Reinforcements To Beleaguered Garrisons In Central Solomon Island Areas.

Three Nip Fighting Craft Destroyed, Two Damaged, Transport Hit During Action in Solomons. Area

AT COST OF FOUR PLANES   Another Destroyer Probably Sunk; Transport Hit

Japs Lose In Another Effort Reinforee Munda   Three Warships Sent To Bottom By U. S. Bombers

Allies Open New Assault For Rabaul   Fierce Jungle Fighting On Flanks; U. S. Warships Helping in Attacks

Naval. “Guns; . _ Bombing Planes Used ‘in New. Guinea, Solomons: ~

Review Of Develop  FIERCE JUNGLE FIGHTING IN ALLIED PUSH TOWARD RABAUL

ALLIES STEP UP GROUND BATTLE TOWARD RABAUL      Americans Hurl Japanese Forces Back on Bougainville

Allied Ground Battles Expand In New Guinea And Solomons Islands   Naval Guns And Bombing Planes Back Rabaui Push

New Fierce Miehtiag In Rabau! Drive   Bloody Jungle Fighting Flares in Solomons anc New Guinea Flank. Warships, Planes Strike.

GROUND FIGHTS GROW IN SOUTH PACIFIC SECTOR   Buka Shelled By Roving American Warships

Drive On Rabaul Develons Into Fierce Battle   Land, Sea, Air Action Driving Japs From Northern Solomons

Yanks Pushing Japs Deeper Into Bougainville Jungles. US Warships Shell Naval Base On Buka.

Allies Resume Their Advance Toward Rabaul   Japanese Pushed Far into Jungle By U.S. Fighters

Ground Battles Grow In New Guinea And Solomons; Navy Supports Allies

Allies Drive On To Rabaul   Fierce Jungle Fighting Breaks Out While UU. S$. Ships 200 Miles Aw ay.

WARSHIPS HIT NIP AIR BASES WITHOUT LOSS   Marines Fight In Jungiles Southeast of Rabaul As Air Attacks On Jap Shipping Increase

—PA ACIFIC —  FIERCE JUNGLE BATTLE RAGING   Allies Stepup Campaign Directed Toward Cap. ture Of Rabaul   BOMBERS BUSY   Marines And Australians Gain In Pacific Island Fighting

Fierce Jungle Fights Blaze as Warships, Planes Attack in Advance Toward Rahaul

Allied Fifth Army Massing for Drive on Enemy’s Defense Line.   3 ALLIED COLUMNS CLOSE IN ON ENEMY   American Airmen Taking Full Advantage of Air Mastery.

THREE SEPARATE COLUMNS CLOSING IN ON ENEMY   Stream of Allied Remforcements and Supplies Pouring into Area

General Clark Massing Main Fifth Army Fors ces For Frontal Attae! ‘On Enemy. ae

Senate: Approves: Bill fo Raise Corn Price Top to $1.40:  ca om. Ringe Firmly

Senate Raises New Threat to Hold Line Order  Approves Raising Corn Ceiling Price  From $1.07 to $1.40

Prayer Written On Bomber May Have Saved It   ‘Something Above and Beyond Pulled Us Through,’ Marvels Pilot After Return to Base

Crewmen Think PrayerScribbled on Plane Takes Them Safely Through 19 Missions

Nazis Admit Reds Gain on Vital Front ai Moscow  German Troops Fail In Grim Effort To Reaain Position

Nazi troops fall baek on  Moscow front   German radio tells of new positions

GERMANS ADMIT FALLING BACK   Axis Troops Take Up New Positions 50 Miles  _ From Smolensk

NAZIS FALL BACK ON MOSCOW FRON   RUSSIANS TELL OF INFANTRY CHARGES AS FIGHTING FLARES IN SECTOR.

RUSSIANS PUSH GERMANS BACK   Retreat Occurs About 50 Miles Of Smolensk; Attacks Foiled

LOSS ADMITTED BY NAZI FORCES   Soviet A tt a ¢ ks Force Germans Back On Moscow Front

Chairmen Two War Boards File Resignations _  Lloyd Mauer, Ratior Board, and Sievers Draft Board Resign

Chairmen Two War Boards File Resignations _  Llaud Mawer Retin:   Lloyd Mauer, Ration Board, and Sievers Draft Board Resign

PRESIDENT VETOES ANTLSUBSIDY BILL AS INFLATIONARY    Roosevelt Says Measure 4 Hamstrings” Nationa Program to Stabilize Cos  of Living.

SAYS MEASURE RUINS CONTROL OF LIVING COST   Tells Congress Awages Can Not Be Held Down If Bill Passes.

Terms Measure Inflationary In Refusing Okay   Says Act Would make It Impossible To Stop Living Cost Rise

Today On the Home Front  Rapid Developments Confuse Even Washington Officials

Married, with Children May Be Deferred   House Military Committee Approves Bill 25 to 2 Putting Quotas on State-Wide Instead of Local Basis

SECRETARY STIMSON  SAYS NORTH AFRICA  SETBACK 15 LOCAL CHINA’S FIRST LADY TELLS CONGRESS JAPAN  fl” DORAL THDCAT

SECRETARY STIMSON SAYS NORTH AFRICA SETBACK 15 LOCAL   CHINA’S FIRST LADY TELLS CONGRESS JAPAN IS REAL THREAT

HAMBURG BLASTED FOR SIXTH TIME IN PAST 72 HOURS   Allies Seek to Wipe Out German Rhineland Seaport

2,000 Tons Hit Hamburg   Bombers Pierce Smoke in 6th Close Attack .

British Bombers Again Blast Still-Smouldering Nazi City of Hamburg

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY TROOPS ARE DRIVING UP ADRIATIC COAST  GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE ABANDONED FOGGIA AIR BASE SYSTEM

British Advance On Foggia Airbase; Yanks Push Ahead   Reds Batter at Gates of Kiev, Air _... War over Europe Gains Momentum

Germans Claim All Axis Troops Escaped to Italy   Eisenhower Expects Victory to Be Complete Today With Last Mopping Up

SUICIDE COMMITTED BY ELDERLY COUPLE   Specific Instructions Left for Disposing of Everything

Tuberculosis In  Poultry and Swine To Be Studied In  Series of Meetings

Air Corps Relaxes Physical Requirements   eV ae  it “One. “Eye Is Is Good, ‘The . Othe: _ One May Be- Somewhat ©... Below Par.

Air Corps Relaxes ~ Physical Requirements   If One ‘Eye Is Good; The. Othe “a6 May Be: Somewhat Relow Par.

GOP RAPS NEW DEAL TACTICS   Federal Agency to Handle _ Food Advocated

Archbishop Spellman in Vatican Cit)   Four Prelates Welcome American Slated for Talk With Pope

SPELLMAN AT VATICAN CITY   Archbishop Later To Visit U. S. Troops In N. Africa And Britain

LARGE ENROLLMENT EXPECTED AT K: U.   Registration for Annual Summer Session Starts Tomorrow

LARGE ENROLLMENT EXPECTED AT K: U.   Registration for Annual Summer Session Starts Tomorrow   HAVE PLENTY OF ROOMS

Union Schism May Follow Detroit Strike   Over 28,000 Men Out; Executive Blames Tinian Head

Chrysler Workers Are Ordered Back On Jobs   Indications Increase That Breach Is Imminent Among Top-Ranking CIO Leaders.

WLB Tell: Unions to  EndRow   DIVISION CHIEF SAYS WALKOUTS STIRRED BY HIGH U. A. W. OFFICIALS

ITALIAN LOSSES INWAR 633 251   Roosevelt Says Italy !s Now on Front Line, Facing Difficult Problem.

ltaly Reports 633,251 Lost   58,000 Dead, 131,000 Wounded and More Than 444,000 Missing

Three Years of War Find Mussolini __  and Italians Fearful of Invasior

Chest Thumper Bows Head As Reviews War   ltaly In 3 Years   Nialy In 3 Years And Silver Lining Is Hard To Find

ITALY ADMITS BEING ON THE “FRONT LINE”   Says Casualties in3 Years of War Are 633,251, Including 58,000° Killed, 131,000 Wounded, 444, - 000 Missing.

Rome Admits Losses Heavy In Three Years Of Battle ‘And Facing Fight At Home

ITALY DISCLOSES WAR CASUALTIES   Italians Count 633,251 Dead. Injured in Three Years Of Combat

TWO SHIPS SUNK BY YANKS, SEVEN OTHERS ARE HIT   11 Axis Aircraft Downed; 4 Allied Planes Are Lost  HLL cCTihi

CAPTURE LAST HEIGHT BEFORE alg AXIS PORT   Decisive Battle Expected ‘to Develop Swiftly with Barrier Gone.   BOMBERS. AND ARTILLERY BLAST AT NAVAL BASE

INFANTRY WING QUEBEL CHENIT!   Other American Troops Push Eastward in Direction of Tebourba.   ARMORED FORCES FIGHT

Enemy Troops Counter-Attack To Save Port   British Forces Open the Door to Plain of Tunis

Officially Announced It Was Begun on Both the 2nd U. S. Army Corps and British  Ist Army Fronts of Tunis.   “THE PAY-OFF BATTLE” IS NOW UNDERWAY   American and British Troops Advanced on a Broad Front Against the Axis Last Mountain Defense.

Offensive Begun By U. S. And . British First Armies   American and British ‘Troops Advance on Broad Front in Axis Final Mountain Defenses Before Tinie and Riverte

Bombers and ‘Big Guns Aid Foot Troon:   Armored Columns Also Roaring Forward; Axis Counter Blows Smashed   ENEMY SHIPPING . HEAVILY BLASTED   American Columns. ‘Break Biggest Barrier Guarding Route to Bizerte

Allied Vise Is Tightened In Africa   Red Armies Are Within Nine Miles Of Novorossisk

Well-Bottled In Caucasus And Tunisia   Russ Within 9 Miles Of Novorossisk As_ Allies Launch Payoff Push On  Tunis. Bizerte.

Allied Troops Force Foe To  Put Up Fight   American Infantrymen Capture Strategic Height In Drive Toward Bizerte.  HEAVY AIR SUPPORT

British Army Opens Door fo Plains of Tunis      Americans Captur

Allied Infantry and Armor Attack on Wide Front Today  DRIVING ON BIZERTE   Ait Forces Sink More Ves: sels in the Sicilian Straits

Russians Force Germans Back At Norovossisk  Allies Make Smashing Gains All Along Tunisian Front

Advance Along Wide Front as Planes Batter Hill Defenses   U. S. Troops Seize Two Hills Bordering Lake Achkel

Caucasus and Tunisia May Spell Disaster   ’ Soviet Naval Forces Ready to Pounce; Gain In Africa

JAKE'S ‘SAFE’   Factor Wilk Spend 10 Years In Privon—Away From Tovurhs.

FACTOR GETS TEN YEARS FOR FRAUD   “Jake The Barber” Sentenced for Whisky Bottling Swindle.

VETO HINTED ~ IN TAX Flot   RUMOR’ CIRCULATED ROOSEVELT WOULD REJECT RUML_ CARLSON BILL. IF IT “I PASSED

RUML PLAN, IF PASSED, MIGHT BE VETOED   Senate Gets Set for -Floor. Battle Over. ... Tax Issue

26 Dead, 700 Injured In Riots; Production Slumps in War Plants   Order Restored After 25 Killed in 24-Hour Reign of Terror, Worst Disturbance Sinee the First World War

26 DIE, 700 HURT BEFORE ARMORED TROOPS ARRIVE   LEADERS SAY FIFTH COLUMN RESPONSIBLE

96 Dead, 700 Hurt as Army Quells Detroit Riots: War Output Slumps

TROOPS ORDERED INTO: ACTION BY PRESIDENT UPON REQUEST OF GOVERNOR; 700 INJURED 

Soldiers Bring Detroit Peace;  26 Now Dead   Production Hit in War Plants; Troops Camp In Streets _

26 Deaths Toll ' Before Soldiers Assume Control   Army Detachments In Full Battle Dress Move Into Motor City

Tension Vanishes With Arrival of Khaki-Clad Soldiers Armed With Bayonets and Machine Guns

VIOLENCE ENDS WITH 25 DEAD AND 700 HURT   Soldiers Restore Order After Roosevelt Takes Action

RAGE RIOTS IN DETROIT ENDED BY ARMY TROOPS   Production Slumps In War Plants With 25 Deaths — Reported

25 Killed In Rioting; 700 Hurt   Order Restored by Motor ized Units—Race Riots  Cut War Production

LAW, ORDER IS RESTORED BY SOLDIERS   700 Are Injured . And Damage Heavy in Race Rioting

POST-WAR FUND BILLS OFFERED IN LEGISLATURE   House And Senate Both Get Bills To Set Up $20,000,000 Reserve; Hear Governors Message; Solons Lose No Time  Getting To Work.

Administration-Backed Bills To Establish Post-War Fund For State Given Senate And House

CAUSTIC CRITIC RAPS CONGRESS   People Being Taken For Financial Sled Ride, Solon Charges

People Being Taken for Damndest Financiall Sled Ride," Says Johnson

Congress Chided for Letting U. S. Be ‘Taken for Damnedest Financial Sled Ride the World Has Ever Known”’

PROFLE BEING_ Pe SLEIGH RIDE         Rep. ‘Johnson of Hiinois Says At _ tempt. Being: Made. to. Bank: : “runt Country. &

“Financial Sled Ride”:  Rep. Johnson Says We Supply World While American People Are in Need

CONGRESS TOLD TO HOLD POWER   Solon Warns Abdication Of Rights Will Result In Great Defeat

DRIVE CONTINUES WITH CAPTURE OF CASTELVETRANO FIELD.   Mt. Etna Defended   : Germans Put Up Up Stiffest Fight at Catania, But Are Ready  : with New Lines.

AXIS AIRFIELDS TAKEN QVER IN NEW ADVANCES   Americans. Get- Castelvetrano  and Half Dozen Other... - Smaller Towns...   EIGHTH ARMY $ STILL POUNDS AT: CATANIA

Total rural area $389,242 $515,600 Grand total ... $816,909 $813,800  Safest Investment For $32 000 000

Cleveland Financier Buys: $32,000,000,000 War Bonds      Harry W. Hesford, 58, Shy and Extremely Opposed to Newspaper Publicity, Rose to Wealth From Cabin  Boy On Great Lakes Vessels; Made For- 3  tune In Market In 1928 and 1929 

Seven U. S. Ships Sunk, Japs Claim   Tokyo's Report on Attu Fighting Heard

@ralt Fathers Plan Slowed Until October 1  Key Positions za Needed to Get Deferment

Draft Deferment Depends on Job   Family Status Not Guide Hereafter

Fathers Given To October 1, Savs Hershey   Gov. Warren Tells Industry of State to Comb Single Men

FATHERS GIVEN DRAFT RESPITE   Dads, This Week’s Guess Puts Date Oct. 1

Fathers Granted New Draft Delay   ‘General’ Induction Postponed T o October 1

FATHERS’ DRAFT [S DELAYED NOW UNTIL OCTOBER   To Limit. Deferments For Single Men To 6 Months   OCCUPATIONS WILL DETERMINE ORDER

FATHERS MUST BE READY BY. OCTOBER1   Gener 1 1 Drafting Of. Them Will Not; Start Before. Then:

FATHERS’ DRAFT MAY BE DELAYED UNTIL OCTOBER   No Date Set By McNutt For General Drafting Of Pathers

Draft of Fathers: To Be Postponed Until October 1.   Then Deferment . To Be Based Upon Occupation

Republicans Draft Bill to Bar Use of Big Treasury Fund   Gov. Green’s Aides Will Try to Preserve Fine General Balance

ASSEMBLY EYES SURPLUS FUNDS   REPUBLICANS TO ASK HEAVIER PURCHASE OF U. S, SECURITIES

FARM PRICES BILL RETURNS TO COMMITTEL   Used as ‘Club’ If Coal Miners Win Wage  Increase

Bankhead Farm Bill Is Retuined To Commitiee   Senate Holds Club-In-The-Closet For Use Against Letting Down Wage Bars.

' Yugoslavs Rout German Force  Nazi Retreat in Western Bosnia  Ts Dicardarls;

Yugoslavs Repulse Strong Nazi Force in Bosnia  German Thrusts Fail As Partisans  C anamm © ocimen f® ont me

TITO'S TROOPS HURL GERMANS BACK IN BOSNIA   Hard-Hitting Nazi Units Thrown Back In Savage Battles; Patriots Free Italians

Yugoslays Repulse Strong Nazi Force in Bosnia  German Thrusts Fail As Partisans Score Several Gains

930,000 WORKMEN QUIT PITS   ‘Next Move Left Up Tx  Ickes As Walkouts Sweep Nation

LEWIS LEAVES NEXT MOVE UP TO ICKES AS ARMISTICE ENDS   Anti-Strike Bill Awaiting Roosevelt's Signature May Prove Club Over Miners’ Heads

Says Production Must Be Speeded  Somervell Predicts Serious Failures

Somervell Warns Production Must  Be Brought Up   Failure To Meet  Goals Hampers Military Plans

Auditor General Helds UpP ayroll Of Game Group   Ross Says Commission Does Not Legally Exist With Only Three Member:

Allies Battling ‘Again in Europe   Two Years After Ousting of British From Greece, Troops Regain Foothold

At Last, Western Allies Fighting Again on Continent; Hitler Caught In Squeeze Between Russian Armies And British-American Combination

WESTERN ALLIES FIGHT AGAIN ON EUROPEAN SOIL   “ourth Anniversary of Britain's Declaration Of War Against Germany Brings Invasion; Background Examined.

Hitler Caught In Merciless Squeeze By American, British And Russian Armies

AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS ALLIES RETURN TO EUROPE  BATTLE-TESTED EIGHTH BRITISH ARMY SPEAR-

Explosion Fatal To 17 Soldiers   Accident Injures 51 Others At Elgin Field, Fla.

17 Army Men Die in Blast   Accidental Explosion At Army Air Base at Elain Field, Fla.

17 SOLDIERS DIE IN EXPLOSION   Cause of Accidental Blas' in Florida Today Undetermined

MOTORISTS PUT ON THEIR HONOR   Police Enforcement Of Pleasure Driving Ban Is Ordered Stopped By Administrator Prentiss Brown

SCORE HURT WHEN 10 CARS, TRUCKS CRASH   Four in Serious Condition: Accident Near Bordentown, N. J.   HOUR TO UNSNARL JAM

U- Boats Return to North Atlantic Canadian Planes i in Fight With Pack

Submarine Triton Lost: In Pacifie, Navy Reports  Craeahitad airtel. Cr. Te.   Credited with Sinking Dozen Jap Warships And Merchant Vessels Since Start of War   TWO DESTROYERS AND SUB VICTIMS   EINE ON MN ALY EOD  283 Japanese Ships Successfully Raided By U. S. Submarijnec

U. 5. SUB LOST, NAVY REPORTS   Triton Which Bagged Many Foe Ships Fails to Re turn From Patrol

U-BOAT TRITON REPORTED LOST   American Raider Fails To Return: Has Long Record Of kills

Submersible Triton “Fails.to Return From Patrol Operations” — Whether Craft Fell Victim to Accident or to Attack May Never Be Known — Raider’s Bag Included Destroyer Leader, Destroyer and Undersea Boat.

Supreme Commander of North Africain ‘Eheatre Makes Order of Day Public — Believe Allies Have Finally Mustered Strength for All-Out Assault,

ORDER OF DAY HINTS TUNISIA ASSAULT NEAT   Gen. Eisenhower Predicts ‘Destruction’ Of Axis Army

Great Allied Drive On Tunisia Enemy Appears Imminent   Gen. Eisenhower Sees Land Air, Sea Drive Pushing Axis Jato the Sea. and Destruction

GEN. EISENHOWER ALSO GREETS GEN. SIR MONTGOMERY   Order Indicates Allies Have ' Mustered Their Strength and Are. Ready For AllOut Assault.      GREAT KRUPP WORKS ARE AGAIN. BOMBED   American Machines of War Are Now Being Furnished to French Who Are Engaged In Sabotage.

Big allied push in Tunisia seems near   Eisenhower in order of day says troops to destroy axis

Attack Order By Eisenhower Hints Big Push   French Troops Break Trap, Pursue Nazis Near Mareth Line

Eisenhower Musters Forces to Push Axis From Tunisia Soil   FIGHTING FRENCH SLASH NORTHWARD IN PURSUIT OF FLEEING GERMANS AFTER AXIS SETBACK IN ATTACK ON BRITISH

Eisenhower Planning to Smash Nazis   Big Allied Push In Tunisia Slated For Near Future

Eisenhower Hints Start Of ‘Big Push   ‘Will Push Foe Into Sea!’ He Tells Troops; Air Raiders Hit Tunis

General Says Axis Tunisia  Hold Doomed   LeClere Freed From Trap, Pursues Nazi Forces: North

Eisenhower Hints Big Push Is Imminent  Offensive in Tunisia Presaged in Order To Troops

Shatter Defense Lines: Converge. On River Position   Pound: Demoralized Germans Back ‘to. . Crimea’ Approaches

Cossacks Put Pressure On Rearguard   Enemy Is Battered From All Sides By Russian Troops

Russians Shatter German Defenses   Cossacks Slash Nazi Positions

RUSSIANS POUND NAZIS FLEEING TOWARD CRIME!   Overrun 80 Villages in 15Mile Gains—Airmen Drop Bombs on Demoralized Germans,   DNIEPER STRONGHOLD OF NIKOPOL MENACED   Three-Way Threat to City Bevelops—Heavy Enemy Attacks at MKrivoi Rog Beaten Off.

Soviet Troops Advance  Up to 15 Miles   Russians Converge on Nikopol, Dnieper Stronghold

Soviels Rush To Close Death Trap   Reds March Over Smashed German Armor And Dead

NIXOPOL BEING THREATENED BY SOVIET TROOPS   German Defense Line In Southeast Is Shattered By Red Army   NAZIS ARE LEAVING EQUIPMENT BEHIND

Russ Crumple Nazi Crimea Defense Line   Sweep Through 80 More Towns; Near Perekop

Red Cossacks Pursue Nazis   Roads Strewn With German Dead And Wrecked Armor -

BEGINS TOUR   Brazilian War Minister to Inspect i Siltitary Canter«,

PHANTOM KILLER DIES OF WOUNDS   Fatally Shot After Eluding Officers 20 Years

RAF Follows  U.S. to Blast Sicily   Messina Strait Gets Severe Attack For Third Tie in 36 Hours; Bia Railroad Terminal Is Struck

Airmen Sweep A Across the Mediterranean From _.Africa  RAILWAY TER: TERMINALREPORTED TED DAMAGED Entire City ‘ ‘Seemed to  Erupt,” American Fliers Say

Sicilian City Raided 3 Time: In 36 Hours   Airmen Say Port's Usefulness to Axis About Ended; Italy Savs Convoy Attacke?

Raids Prove  Cr crippling  essina   Bombs Start Fires Near Oil Tanks, Vital Railroad Station

Axis Looks For Blow  A ltaly   Convoys Reported In Mediterranean; Messina Wrecked

Invasion Prelude, Fascists Believe  Flames From Previous Attacks Guide Planes

Messina Is Pounded for Third Time   Tatensified Atiacks Ronse Invasion Fears Of Talians. Nazis:

British Smack Messina in  Third Attack  City’s Usefulness jo Italians ©

MESSINA AGAIN ALLIED TARGET ; NAPLES RAIDED   Vital Railroad Ferry Terminal’s Usefulness Is About Over   ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS WARN OF INVASION

British Smack Messina in Third Attack  City’s Usefulness to Italians Is About Ended

Allied Planes Bombing Sicily  Into Inferno   Tell of convoy fight; German - Italian —_reports are not confirm ed by Allies.

Berlin and Rome Hint Force is Massed For Blow on Italy; Third Raid in 36 Hours

ALLIES AGAIN RAID MESSINA   Italian Port is Battered by _ Big Bombers Third Time In 36 Hours

Raid Messina 3d Time In 36 Hrs; Set Fires   Allied Bombers Heap Explosives On Sicilian City, Drawn By Fires Of Previous Attack   Not A Bomber Lost

STIMSON LAUDS ROLE OF STALIN   Secretary Warns that U. S Just Coming to Grips With Enemies

Japs Use Elephants _ ( In Try to Stop U. S. Trained Chinese Army

FRESH JAP FORCES SENT INTO BURMA   Chinese Advance Is Called Satisfactory, However

INVASION TALK LIFTED BY DRIVE   NAZI THRUST AT REDS STIRS SPECULATION ON EHARLY ALLIED BLOW.

Nazi Drive Stirs Invasion Talk   Seen as Possibility  To Keep Russian Ally

New German March Stirs Invasion Talk  Loss Of Soviet: All At Last Minute Considered

Eisenhower Eliminated Friction Between Allied Soldiers, Scribe Says

Eddie Peters, Victim Of ‘Many Rumors. Writes Home.He'’s Well   Reported Blown To Pieces, Captured, and, Shot

Eddie Peters, Victim Of Many Rumors, Writes Home. He's Wel! Well   Reported Blown To Pieces, 7 Captured, and, wr Shot

FIFTEEN DIE IN ACCIDENTS   State’s Weekend Toll Include. Seven Traffic Fatalities.

Nimitz Sees Grief Ahead for Japan  Pacific Admiral Home For War Conference

WEEKLY BASIS WILL CONTINUE FOR WHIL ae  one + Ae @oee eo. 6 2s oe, oe

Six of Donnell’s  Tax Bills Passed   But Democrat Debate Slows Down Passage of Consolidation Plan.

Debate Slows Down Passage Of Tax Bills.   Democrats Argue But Republicans. Kill Off Amendments

Allied Flyers Keep Up Ceaseless Pounding Of Japanese Positions Throughout Islands  ‘North OF Australia.

Cullman Business Men Supporting Farmers Through The Cullman County Bureau

‘New Technique’  Won In Tunisia   McNair Explains How Tanks Routed

WAIT DETAILS ON FATAL CRASH   Army Reveals Gen. Andrews, U.S. Commander in Europe, Bishan Leonard Killed.

Term ‘New Deal’  ~ Now Is Outmoded  Its Old Stuff, F. R. Prefers Change

—_—— a nna eat eR ies ced ab ltl anata sein  President Is Seeking Some Title To Replace New Deal

Na iil aie  Term ‘New Deal’ Outmoded, FDR  Tells Newsman __ Win the War” Bette

HAPPY HEART CONTRIBUTIONS   ‘New Deal’ Is Old-Fashioned Slogan Now—F. R.   “Win The War” Label Better Title For Administration, He Observes

Will Not Permit Hitler To Move “Slaves” To Reich  Through Sweder

Allied Planes Attack Enemy Pacific Bases   Twenty-Three Japanese Aircraft Destroyed or Damaged ‘in Widely Scattered Points i Southwest Pacific

MINE SUIT IS GRANTED DELAY   Month’s Time Is Given Semet Solvay, New River In Portal Pay Demands

NAZIS SEEKING TO EXTRICATE BULK OF ARMY   Soviet Forces Also Cross Kerchenskj Straits From Caucasus; Fifth Army Breaks Through Western Flank In Italy    HEAVY BOMBERS STILL GROUNDED

REQUIREMENTS FR FUTURE WORLD PEACE   Babson Suggests Four Things He Regards As Essential If There Is To Be Any Permanent Peace.

World Peace Plan Discussed   ROGER BABSON’ SAYS TWO SIDES TO WAR POLICY

Babson Prefers Military Officials to Diplomats for Writing of Peace Treaty

OPA PRACTICES  FLAYED BY SEN. THOMAS, OF OKLA.   Declares They Are Contrary to American Way of Life and Will Bring  “Revolt” Among Demos

OPA Warned Revolt Against  = <a ewe cs s.¢ a FB. it BLF A Dpemocrats 11 44 FOSStULE

Oklahoman ~ Forsees An  OPA Revolt   Writes That People Won't Tolerate Un-American Ways of Price Control

Solon Sees Mutiny Against OPA Rule   Oklahoman ‘Expects Democrat Defeat

OPA Advised By Senator To Change Tactics   Wave Of Resentment Is Almost Universal, Says Sen. Thomas [n Letter To Chester Bowles

0.P.A. Warned Revolt Due in °44 If Un-American Practices Not Halted

WARNS. DEMOS OF OPA REVOLT   To Backfire Against Party  In 1944 Senator  Asserts

WARNING ISSUED TO OPA TODAY BY SENATOR THOMAS   A Revolt Against Democrats in 1944 Is Liable if Praectice Is Not Changed.   IS UNPOPULAR OFFICE   Wave of Reseniment in Oklahoma Is Almost Universal, Thomas Said.

THOMAS WARNS OPA ‘REVOLT” STIRS IN WEST   Oklahoman Tells Bowles Democrats Will Lose in 1944 Unless Unpopular Practices Abandoned

Predicts Revolt ~ Over OPA Action:  Oklahoma Demo Assail:  Agency's Practices

Arrests Are Near In ‘Black Market’  Gasoline Probe   One Washington Official And Perhaps Two Are Reported As Suspects

ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT BY POLICE   Four of the 21 Who Es‘caped Friday Returned $9 Prison :

NAZI BLOWS FAIL IN OREL SECTOR   Thousands of Germans Attacking for Third Straight Day Beat Back by Reds; Suffer Severe Losses

Nazis Claim Red Drive imminent  ' Orel Area Flares ~ Tata Naw Activin;

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS   Heavy Movements Foiled On Orel Sector With  Serious Losses

Thousands of Nazi Troops in Orel Sector Repulsed   Russian Airmen Pound German Depots Behind Active Line

Reds Again Hurl Back Nazi Thrust  Axis Says Russian Offensive Near

SERIOUS LOSSES ARE GIVEN NAZIS BY REDS:   Germans Claim Russian Summer Offensive Is imminent; Fighting Around Orel

Russians throw back nazi attacking horde in Orel battle area   Fight spreading to both sides of  city; summer offensive imminent

Ration News Of Special  Interest Now   Clip This Item For Reference

TWO LIVES LOST IN HIGH WATERS AT CHILLICOTHE   River One Foot Above Flood Stage at Cincinnati Now

Nimitz Visits Scene Of Battle   Warns Tarawa Shows That Japs Still Full OF Ficht.

J ap Ability To Build Up ‘Islands For War Is Noted   Nimitz, At Tarawa, Hears Every Yard Of Area Was Covered With American Dead

sapemese gear: And Is Found On Tarawa  Se - © , Ft fF  @. ee. . FF 2 ee te ee SS

More Rain Needed For Crevs, Pasture Lands, Experts Say  Not Sufficient To Replen: ish Wells: East Is Hard Hit

DESTINY HAS CHOSEN HITLER, DER FUEHRER SAYS SO HIMSELF   Adolf Promises a Mobilization of the Spiritual and Material Values of Europe’

HITLER PREDICTS AN AXIS VICTORY, SEES LONG FIGHT   Admits Nazis Face Opposition on Home Front and Threatens Drastic Action to Curb Foes.   PROCLAMATION READ AT MUNICH MEETING   Indicates France Will Be Called On to Help Germany— Attributes Russian Gains to Weather.

He’s “Still With Soldiers,”” But— Hitler Reasseris Confidence To Boost Homefront Morale

He’s “Still With Soldiers, ” But— - : oe Hitler Reasserts Contidence To Boost Homefront Morale

Hitler Voices Threat ‘Of.Added Terrorism      «Message “Read at. Munich Hints That Nazis Having Troublé in Occupied Europe; Fuchrer on East Front

HITLER REPEATS VICTORY BOASTS   Troubles On Home Front Hinted; Fuehrer Still “With Soldiers”

ABDUCTOR OF  BABY CAUGHT   WOMAN. HELD FOR TAKING TWO-DAY-OLD INFANT. FROM HOSPITAL-—BABY NOT HARMED

DUE 10 MEET FILIBUSTER   Southern Senators - Plan Anti - Poll Tax Fight

Antipoll Tax Bill” Faces Filibust ters.   Southerners to Offer Many Amendments

La Southern Senators To Add ‘Several Hundred Amendments’ To Anti-Poll Tax Bill

Fate of Rome Hangs on Meet   WEDNESDAY DECISION SEEN AS U. S., BRITISH STAFF CHIEFS DECIDE AGAINST OPEN CITY EDICT; HOLD OUT FOR UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

Soon Credited To Churchill  End Of War   Canadian Paper Quotes Prime Minister Fighting Will Cease In & Months   REFERS TO EUROPE   Roosevelt Returns. To Washington, Begins Conferences ‘With Advisers

FATE OF ROME TO BE FIXED BY CONFERENCI      Roosevelt, Churchill Will Issue Joint  Statement

Urge Nine-Foot Channel Of Mississippi River Be Deepened Three Feet

» pk eeneeeneanttenttedetensmnsmenencscenensemeenen tio flood Will Engult  Babson Advises Cinaens To Tighten Up Belts For 43Half Of Marietta   COMMODITY PRICES AND  eeestanin Ae Te

1943. OUTLOOK FOR AMERICA'S BUSINESS   Roger Babson Makes Annual Forecast of Prospect For Business Finance, Farming And War Outlook. -

Vast Changes in ‘43 Foreseen by Babson   THUMBNAIL OUTLOOK FOR 1948

Mines Not Working Six _ Days, Blizzard Charges   Operators Claim 96 Percent of Pits Have Been ’ On Overtime Sinro Fehruneyv Aoracmont

DISAGREE ON SIX-DAY WEEK   Union And Operators At Odds About Number Working Over 5 Shifts

HOUSEWIVES GET — SAME POINT QUOTA   48 Points Are Alloted By OPA For April

APRIL’S FOOD RATION QUOTA TO BE 48 POINTS   Total For Month Will Be Same As In March, OPA Announces— Stamps D, E And F Valid

APRIL POINTS WILL TOTAL 4   Overlap to Make Use o Stamps of Small Denominations,

POINTS FOR APRIL TO REMAIN AT 4g   New Series of D, E and F ~ to Go into Effect Thursday, March 25

3 PLANES MAKE CRASH LANDING   Five Cadet Airmen Hurt Slightly, Two In Landing Near Alliance

) INJURED AS 3 PLANES CRASH   Army Trainers Forced Down by Snow Storm

Mr. and Mrs. Max Naylor  Mourn Loss of Their Son yeuvss Sin Falirv2, /(90Y>

Halsey Returns To Post After Dangerous Trip  Lodge Makes Tour OF Santh Pacific

Halsey, Lodge Return to South Pacific Quarters After Hazardous Trip

Ireton Man Hurt 7 As Truck Upsets   GATTLE .KILLED WHEN VEHICLE (GOES OFF ROAD

lreton Trucker Kicks Way Out Of Overturned Vehicle   Herbert Reinking Staggers For Help in Gas-Soaked Clothing

WALLACE SEEKS PARTY SUPPORT   Vice President, Aware of Keen Opposition, Would Stay On Ticket

Wallace Starts Next Campaign   Vice President Claims To Be Labor, Liberal Representative,

Henry Wallace Out Stumping   Vice President Is. Seeking _ To Retain: His Place On Deme. Ticket

OF ROSTOV LIBERATED   Remnants Of Germans’ Taganrog Garrison Being Mopped Up

Reds Unchecked n Drive From Fallen Taganrog   Nearing Moriupol In Major Offensive: All Russia Is Now  Celebrating

Marion Rhodes Becomes Bride  Of Akron Man  Weds George E. . Thorberg Well  Known Merchant

Marion Rhodes Becomes Bride  Of Akron Man  Weds George F.   Weds George E. Thorberg Well  Known Merchant

YANK WARSHIPS BOMBARD KISKA WITHOUT REPLY   Allies Keep Up Night and Day Pounding of Bases in Sicily

Kiska Bombed By U. S. Ships   Navy Reveals Cruiser He. lena Lost In Battle In  Central Solomons By JOSEPH A. BORS

HUH VALLEY DBVEGTIVE oF biG BUNBERD   British Send Huze Air Fleet tc Blast Away at Muelheim.   MANY BOMBS DROPPED   Americans Invaded Ruhr and Bombed Germany’s Big Rubber Plant.

OBERHAUSEN, MUELHEM HIT BY RAF BOMBS   35 Planes Reported Lost As Steel City Is Turned Into Blazing Inferno   FORTRESSES SMASH HULS   4,000 Tons Of Missiles Dropped On Reich Industrial Area Since Tuesday

R. A. F. Bombers Blast Muelheim In Rubr Valley   Nazi War Industrial Center Is Latest Victim Of Huge Bomb Raid   ALLIES KEEP UP RECORD ATTACKS

U.S, PLANES HIT TWO JAP BASES   Dive Bomber and Torpedo Aircraft Raid Munda and Vangabanga

AMERICAN PLANES HIT ISLAND BASES   Two Japanese Craft Drop Bombs on U. S. Positions On Guadaleanal.

NAVY SILENCE ADDS TENSION IN PACIFIC   Capital Speculation Points to Offensive Against Japs

Munda Base Is Avain Bombet   Vangavanga In Central Solo. mons Also Hit Bv U.S Bombers

U.S. PLANES RAID JAPANESE BASE’   Enemy Airmen Attack American Positions on  “Guadalcanal.

HEAVY RAIDS ()N JAP BASES   Dive bombers blast two Solomons strongholds; Babo undergoes attack

HOUSE ADOPTS CURB ON STATE APPOINTMENTS   Approves Senate Bill To Bar Officials Once Rejected From Other Posts   Amendment Tacked On

DELEGATES VOTE TO GURB POWERS ON APPOINTMENTS   Probably Starts Another Bill On Way to Governor Neely To Be Vetoed   PROHIBITION DEBATE IS HEARD IN HOUSE   Ritchie Delegate Fails Get Beer Bill Returned From Committee; Senate Delays Until Monday Consideration Of Neely’s Appointments

MORE STEAKS IN YOUR SKILLET INNEAR FUTURE   FEDERAL FOOD AGENCY ANNOUNCES INCREASED NUMBER OF CATTLE BEING SENT TO MARKET NOW.   MAY BE FOLLOWED BY MEAT SHORTAGE   Price Administrator Brown Believes Ickes Has Been Holding Back Supplies of Gasoline Which Should Go to Civilians,

DAVIS. PROMISES ~ JUST. VENGEANEE   Algiers Broadcast Stresses Continued Allied Offensive

Invasion Army in Great Britain s Ready For Attack  OWI Director Warns Al ~~ 1 So 2 ee.   OWI Director Warns Al Europe In Broadcast From Algiers

Tokyo Expects All-Out Naval, Air Offensive   Australian-Based U. S. Bombers Devastate Dutch Celebes

Axis Planned Attack On U. S. Years Ago, State Department White Book Reveals

State Dept. White Book Says U. S. Sensed War 12 Years Ago  Every Effort To Reason With Japan Failed;

Jap Base At Lae Blasted Again   28 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Site

FARM PROBLEMS BECOME MAJOR CONRRESS FRET   Ceiling on Livestock Prices Considered as Way To Halt ‘Black Markets’   FARM SUBSIDIES IN JAM   Meanwhile, Fights Develop Over New Oil Pipe Line And Tax Program

CONGRESSME WORRIED OVER WARTIME PAINS   Lease-lend, Pipeline Issue on Legislative Program

Plan to Limi Meat Prices  Are Studied   New Plan for Pay-as-You-Go Tax Offered as Treasury Renorts Confusion

Food Problem and Income Tax Setup Give Capital Pains   Subsidy Scrap Is Threat to Food Production Program for Year

Today In Washington:  Food Troubles, Lend-Lease, Manpower, New Pay-As-Gc Tax Plan In Spotlight

Anti- Submarine Patrol Plane Crew Blasts Enemy With Direct Bomb Hit

TEACHER PAY BILL RESTING ON METHOD   Solons Seek Answer to Financing of $2,000,000 Plan   Cost-of-Living Increases Financing of $20,to $600

45-Foot Rocket Shell Described As Germany's Latest Secret Weapon

SHORTAGE OF WATER THREATENS   One Dead And 40 Hurt As Hurricane Wind Hits 132 MPH

Japs Take Vital Rice Bow! Town   Japs Using Gas Against Chinese; Bloody Street Fighting Causes Heavy Casualties.

Japanese Capture City of Changteh  Chinese Claim Poisor Gas Usecl by Enemy

NAVY WILL PROBE AIRPLANE TRAGEDY   Crash In Alaska Took Lives Of Marine Officer And Aide

General Upshur; Charlie Paddock Killed In Crash   Navy Presses Probe of Alaskan Accident Taking Six Lives

MARINE GENERAL DIES IN ALASKA PLANE CRASH   Capt. Paddock, ‘World’s Fastest Human,’ Also Killed

‘Nazis Smash Through U. S. Forces   British Are Rushed to Help the Hard-Hit Americans

Smash Through Green American Troops fo Gain Key Gateway Into Battered Allied Line Along Algerian Border; British Rush Aid to Bolster Threatened Secor

Germans plunge into allied front after taking pass   Rommel’s strategy hands new reverse to creen Americans

German Smash Captures Vital Pass in Tunisia   Tank-Supported Troops Assault Allied Lines on Algerian Front; British Armored Units Join Battle

GERMAN TANK FORCE GAINS KEY GATEWAY ON ALGERIAN BORDER   Nazis Smash Through Green American Troops; British Armored Units Aid; Eighth Army Advances

Kasserine Pass Captured in Smash of Nazis  BRITISH UNITS ARE HURLED IN ACTION  Germans Gain Control of Mountainous Defile

Alllied Front  Broken By Germans   Kasserine Pass Captured by Rommel! In Fresh Offensive; Entire Allv Pasition in Tunisia in Peril

GERMANS CRASH AMERICAN LINE NEAR ALGERIA   Kasserine Pass Is Held By Axis Forces After  Fierce Assault   ATTACK AT SBIBA REPORTED HALTED

Nazi Columns Capture Pass Held by Americans And Approach Algeria  J. S. ARMORED FORCES AGAIN POUNDED HARD British Armored Units  Are Rushed Southward To Help Check Germans

NEW SETBACK COMES SWIFTLY AFTER ROMMEL SENDS VETERAN INFANTRY UP MOUNTAINS TO CLEAR WAY, FOR TANKS.

British m Push Toward Mareth Take Medenine   Americans Said ‘lo Be Hard Pressed

Kosserine.. Pass Captured im Smash of Naxis = :  BRITISH. UNITS ARE JHURLED IN ACTION  Garmin Gain Control of Mountainows De... if hen     

Yugoslav Unit Battles Nazis at Fiume  : fi Sa ff _ ze   Germans Rush More Artillery to Shell Guerrillas  Re TOW A PAPRPRITC<

Yugoslav Unit Battles Nazis at Fiume   Germans Rush Mors Artillery to Shell Guerrillas  we TATYAT & DOATDIZ

NEW SUBSIDY BILL PROPOSED BY SEN. TAFT   Would Cut Pay-Out To $700,000.000 :

laft Criticizes Subsidy Bill; To Offer New Plar   Substitute To Guarantee Fixed Prices and Still Retain Most Controls.

Food Subsidy Plan Attacked   Sen. Taft Sees Rollback System‘as Worst Types Plans Substitute

PLANS 10 SUBMIT NEW SUBSIDY PLAN   Senate Considers Taft Substitute Plan as Only Modification of House Bill

FOR FRENCH UNITY   Gen. Catroux in Algiers From Syria to Arrange Conferences -

Two French Generals Talk War Merger   Catroux Opens Parley With Giraud After Flight To Algiers From Syria   SHAKEUP IN VICHY      Attempt By Laval To Re. build Fleat And Air Force is Seen

CATROUX AND -GIRAUD MEET   French Leaders Make Plans for Conference  . With Gen. DeGaulle.

Cafroux and Giraud Confer   Ouster of Nogues, Boisson Believed to Be Unity Prerequisite

CATROUX TALKS TO GEN. GIRAUD   Confer On Formula For Merging De Gaulle’s Forees With North African French.

 Soviet Victories Should Remind Hitler Of What Happened To Napoleon Bonaparie's‘Grand Army’ 13] Years Aqo

Red Victories Awaken 131-Year-Old Echoe:   (Reminiscent Of Napoleon's Army Reeling Back ‘Westward, Dying Of Cold And Russian Attack

Interpreting  The War   Fate of Napoleon Faces Hitler in Russian Campaign

Call Jeffers  For Hearings   Senate Group Seeks To Learn Of Differences Between Officials.

RUBBER SITUATION MORE COMPLICATED AS DAYS PASS BY   LATEST DEVELOPMENT 1 CANCELLATION GRAIN ALCOHOL PLANTS

Deferment Of Projects ~ Protested   Rubber Director Jeffers Is Not In Agreement With Pian To Hold Up Alcoho] Plant Program

WPB DEFERS BUILDING FIVE ALCOHOL MILLS   Jeffers-Davis Dispuie Over Publicity Given Rubber Program Will Be Investigated

DECISION TO DEFER CONSTRUCTION OF ALCOHOL PLANTS AROUSES SOLONS’ IRE

DEFER PLANS FOR ALCOHOL PLANTS   ABANDON PROJECTS AS UNNECESSARY AT THIS TIME

WPB Ban On Alcohol Plants Is Protested   Senate Sub Committee Will Call Jeffers, Davis To Explain. Row   NELSON UNINFORMEL   Chemicals Chief Says Rubber Program Will Not Suffer By Curtailment

Thousands Of Russians Sent Into Slavery, Molotov Charges   Note To All Foreign Diplomats In Moscow Claims Beastful Exploitation Of Citizens

Imperil Nazi Oil Supply   Air Bases in Italy Would Put Rumanian Fields Within Easy Reach of Allied Planes

Southern Germany to Be in Range of Air Offensive That Would Hasten Breakup Of German Air Force, Destroy War Industries

ITALY AIR BASES OF IMPORTANCE TO ALLIED PLANS   Destruction of Rumanian and Hungarian Oil Fields from Italy the Prime Objective of  ~ Conquest of Country .   FLEET A PROBLEM

PRIME AIM OF DRIVE MAY BE OIL CENTERS   Occupation of Air Bases From Which to Destroy Axis Fuel Sources Believed Objective   FLEET'S FATE UNKNOWN

Nazi Oil Fields Will Be Pounded From New Bases   Occupation of Airfields in Italy to Enable Allied Bombers to Reach Objectives Easily in Hungary end Rumania.

Nazi Sources Of Oil To Be Raided From Italy’s Bases   British Warships Now In Mediterranean May Be Sent To Indian  Waters For Burma Stat

 Air Bases From Which To Destroy Oil Fields In Rumania, Hungary Goal Of Allies In Italy

Allies Could Destroy Germany’s Vital Sources Of Oil From Italian Air Bases

Air Bases Pointing Toward Nazi 0i Fields Believed Prime Allied Aim

Germany's Oil Fields. Allied Goal   Italian ‘Bases Near Reich Fortress: May ‘Be Used’ by Bomber:

This Means Attack; We’]l Have To Back It-- ALLIED PRIME MILITARY OBJECTIVI BELIEVED DESTRUCTION OF OIL FIELD!

Air Bases Are Ally Military Objective   Bases Within Easy Bombing Reach of Oil Fields May Be Key to Hitler’s European Fortress

Excess Profits Yield 5 Billion   Industry Paid More That ‘Double What It Did Last Year.

U.S. Taxes in Illinois Total 1.8 Billions; Third State in Nation

CANNING AT HOME. SAVES MUCH STEEL   Can Per Week Means . 12.2 Pounds Metal In Year

PREPARES PLAN TO GUT PRICES   Congress to Get Proposais After Labor Protest FDR Discloses

De Gaulle Turns Toward Russia   Soviet Reciprocates Friendly Gesture

De Gaulle Moves to Bring Followers and Post-War France Closer to Russia

YANKEE MAJOR BOMBS BERLIN   Englishman Passes Up His Favorite Target To Honor Observer

FIRST AMERICAN.   To Drop Bomb On Berlin Was Major “Cy” Bartlett.

American Deaths  Less Than One Thirc  Of World War One 16,556 Have Died  in Action or From Wounds of Battle

American Deaths From Battle Action Light   Reported Less Than One-Third Total For Entire Period Of The First World War

Yank Casualties Are Not Heavy   Léss Than One Third Of First World War

WAR TAKES ON SPEEDIER PACE   Battle Action Deaths Low Now, Expected To Increase

War Casualty Total Licht   Americans Lose Less Than In World War 

AXIo Dett Noto BADLY GHAGKED, WRITER FINDS   Tour Of Front Reveals Enemy Lines Fully Shattered By Allied Attacks

Axis Defense in Tunisia Crackine   United Press War Correspondent Writes of !80-Mile Tour of Battle Positions

Entire North Wing Begins to Collapse; Yanks Near Bizerte   Mediterranean Port Faces Shelling From Batteries Only 10 Miles Off; British Knock Out 12 Nazi Tanks

CHANGE IN WEATHER   Showers Are Forecast for This Section of the State

SIX DEAD IN” “HUNTING AREAS               , Ki leds: “Phree ‘of Heart Attacks in Pennsvlvania™ *

Arnold Farber, Bank of Neosho, Points Out the Need For Support of Second War Loan

BITTER FIGHT SEEN ALREADY, WIDE FRONT   Producers and distribut ors declare serious  crisis looms   CRISIS NEAR

FOOD CRISIS MORE SERIOUS   Pleas For Food Czar Fall On Deaf Ears

FAIL TO REPORT WHEN NEW PACT IS NOT SIGNED   ‘No Contract, No Work Sign: Posted as Thousands Leave Jobs

Unprecedented Crisis  In Federal Operation - Of Mines Precipitated  By Widespread Strike  THOUSANDS QUIT BEFORE DEADLINE  Union Holds Demands For $2 Wage Increase Portal-to-Portal Pav

Production of Coal Ends as  Miners Strike   Unprecedented Crisis Is the Result

Government Gives No Indication Of Next Move in Situation; UMW Leaders Remain Silent

WALKOUTS BEGIN AS 15-DAY-OLD  TRUCE EXPIRES   Government Operation of Pits: Brought to Unprecedent- . ed Crisis by Development.   APPEAL FOR ACCORD . IS ISSUED BY ICKES.   Union Stands Firm on’ Demands for $2-a-Day Wage ‘Boost—Conferences to Be Resumed Today, —

Coal Wage Truce Ends After Operators, Lewis Can't Reach Agreement   Negotiators to Meet Again Today, But Meanwhile, Unions Say ‘No Contract, No Work’; Situation Puts First Severe Test to Government Control

Miners Quit Work As lruce Expires In Wage Dispute   Walkouts Begin as John L. Lewis and Operators Fai to Agree on Contract—No Report Given on Neaotiations

Widespread Strike Brings Crisis To Federal Operation      Lewis, Operators Adjourn Without Agreement; Lack Of Statement Leaves Work Up To individuals

Mine Owners, Union Recess Wage Parley   Another Contract Conference Scheduled. Today; Government's Altitude Remains Undisclosed; Workers Begin Checking in Equipment;  Lekag Ve eee Canstinanil Deaslttantigs

Walkcuts Bring Government Operation Of Mines To Unprecedented Crisis   ‘LEWIS AND OPERATORS ARE UNABLE TO AGREE

Operators And Miners  Can't Acree   No Plans Revealed For Extension Of Expiring Truce.

thousands of miners idle as 15-day truce in coal strike ends   Walkouts begin when Lewis and mine operators unable to reach agreement

TRUCE ENDED, COAL MINERS "AGAIN STRIKE   Thousands Stop Work As No Settlement Is Reached

MINERS FAIL 10 REPORT FOR WORK   Thousands Lay Down Tools Before Deadline Reached   NIGHT SHIFTS OUT   Whistles to Blow for Work This Morning; Conference Resumes at 10 a. m.

Coal Miners Leave Jobs in Droves; ‘Strike Truce Ends   Lewis Fails to Find _ Agreement With  Negotiating Group

ALLIES SMAS RESISTANCE IN PAPUA SECTION   Four Japanese Ships Are Sunk In Bomber Raid On Rabaul.

FIRST MAJOR GROUND DRIVE IS COMPLETE!   Mop Up Operations Now in Progress At Sanananca

JAPANESE ON SANANANDA WIPED OUT   Four Ships Are Sunk In Harbor At Rabaul

Jap Resistance Is Overcome iat Sanananda   725 Nipponese Badies Are Counted Alter Final Cleanup: Four Enemy Ships Ripa Sunk in Air Reid an Reoee ot Daher)

Prospects Of Ohio Legislature Changing Time Appear Slim   Strong In House

WPB STAND ON TIME CHANGING MAY HALT PLAN   Introduction Of 18 Bills Shows, However. Sentiment tn Favor Of Idea   ‘STUDY NATIONAL EFFECT   Seibert Moves To Wipe Qut School Debt; Cut In Gas Tax Proposed

CHANGE OF TIME BY LEGISLATURE SEEMS UNLIKELY   House Passes Resolution To Ask WPB Head To Explain Policy   SENTIMENT FOR CHANGE   Bills To Cut Speed Limit And Pay School Debt Are Introduced

SENTIMENT FOR SWITCHOVER IS STILL STRONG   Final Decision May Be Predicated on WPB’s Suggestion

 Find the End, Not the Means Giraud, DeGaulle Together Two Days; To Fight Together

FRENCH HAVE FAR TO GO TO ACHIEVE UNIT}   Giraud, De Gaulle Believed Likel io Maintain Separate Status, Ex change Ambassadors

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Russian Attack In North Poses New Manpower Problem For Axis

SALES SOAR TO S777. 016, 131. OF GOAL   Drive to Continue All Week, With “Shy as the Limit”   $990,000 New Goal.

John L. Lewis to Abandon Efforts to Organize the Nations Dairy Farmers

DAIRY FARMERS ESCAPE LEWIS   John L. Believed To Have Giv: en Up Attempt To Get Hands In U. S. Milk Pail.

LEWIS DROPS DAIRY UNION   FARMERS UNION HEAD “BAYS UMW LEADER HAS SPENT $1,800,000 IN “FUTILE-——"=  ‘EFFORT

Four Engined Planes Again Rip Hannover   Mosquitos Hit Berlin Sec: ond Time p 24 Hours Tc Divert Defenses   LONDON JS RAIDED   Heavy Attack On Arms Center May Reduce City To 'Hamburg' Ruins

Hannover Is Again Hit By Bombers   RAF, Resumes Block-Buster Raids Over Europe

HANNOVER, BERLIN AGAIN SUBJECTED TO RAF BOMBINGS   17 Bombers. Lost In Twe Attacks—9-Day Lull Of British Fliers Ended.

HANNOVER ONCE MORE SMASHED BY BLOCK BUSTER:   Berlin Aliso Raided—17 Big Bombers Lost In the Newest Action.

RAF Continues Hitting Hanover   Berlin Also Gets Share of Pounding

Heavy Assault on Hannover Made Monday Night.— Bombers Also Hit Berlin for Becond Time in 24 Hours, *

IS RAIDED BY BRITISH   Mosquito Planes Attack Berlin For 85th Time

WAR DEPARTMENT MAY CALL 300,000 MEN IN JANUARY   QUOTA STEPPED UP AS ENLISTMENTS IN WACS FALL BEHIND

DRAFT CALL IN JANUARY TO BE LARGE   Requirements Far Above Estimates For Next Year

00 QUOTA ‘ ORAFTERS 10 BE CONTINUED      Will Be Called. During Jan uary, War Manpower _ Commission, Announces

Large January Draft Expected   About 300,000 Men May Be Inducted

High Induction Rate Indicated For January   Failure Of Girls Tc Enlist In Wac Is One Reason For Large Draft Quota

Army, Navy Call 300,000 Men  For January   Manpower Commission Had Expected Needs To Drop First of Year

January Draft Call Is Twice Expected Size   Slowness Of Women To Enlist In WAC’s Forces Army To Enlarge Its Call

CALL 300,000 FOR SERVICES   January Draft Quetas Tc Exceed Expectations; Davis Raps McNutt

JANUARY CALL TO BE DOUBLE   Combined Demand to Boost First Month of ’44 List to 290,000

300,000 May Be Dratted In  January Cal   WMC Savs Requirements Would Drop Sharply After First OF ,J ear.   FAIL OCTOBER QUOTAS

ng O08 May Be Called Up For Service ln Janwery: Move Than Expected By W. M. 6.

JANUARY ARMY CALL PLACED AT 300,000   Expected Decline After First OF Year Not Materializing; WAC Recrui     ing Drive Lags

Lagging Totals For Army Duties   MORE MEN WILL BE CALLED AFTER JAN. 1

BIG DRAFT CALL SET IN JANUAR)   Failure Of Women To Joir WAC Is Factor

New Draft Call for January Is Put At 300,000   WAC Enlistment Effort Is Disappointing; Boards Are Puzzled

ARMY, NAVY WANT 300,000 MEN JANUARY   Army Quota Nearly Double Num. ber Expected, Parily Due to Low WAC Enrollment

300,000 WILL BE INDUCTED NEXT MONTH   War Departmert Certifies January Call Twice as Large as Expected   WAC RECRUITS LAG

Army Draft Call for January Double Estimate as Draft Boards Defer Dads

Uncle Sam Ready To Tap 300,000 Men For Draft In January As Need Doubles

January Draft Call To Be Heavy   WMC Expectations O1 Reduction Upset

Uncle Sam to Call 300,000  In January War Department Has Doubled It’s Estimate For Mannower Needs

January Draft Call to 300,000   Army Defnands Higher Than Expected As Draft Boards Fail  To Meet Oct. Quotas

January Draft  Call Is Double Total Expected   McNutt Had Predicted Drop In '44

300,000 MEN MAY BE CALLED INTO SERVICE IN JANUARY   War Department Increas  es January Call by About 50.000

300,000 Face In J anwar)   War Department In. creases Quota by More Than 50.000

To Call 300,000 Into Service in January Drafts   Failure of Draft Boards to Meet October Quota Reason For Larger Calls.   WMC Hit For “Press Hostility” by Davis

JANUARY CALL  TOBE LARGER   Far More Than Commission Expected May Be Drafted in 1944.

FOR JANUARY I$ DOUBLE   REVISED QUOTA’ CALLS FoR 290,000 FOR ARMY AND NAVY ~-FUTURE QUOTAS NOT YET SET

NO CUT EXPECTED IN JANUARY GALL   Lagging WAC Enlistments, Low October Draft to Keep Service Demand Up

300,000 MEN MAY BE CALLED IN ‘JANUARY DRAFT   ‘Many More Than War Manpower Commission Expected to Be Called—-New Big Call Certified By War Depart-

War Department Changes Its Mind... .  January Draft Twice As Large As Planned

January Dratt Quota Is Twice Expected Total   300,000 Will Be Called By Armed Services, WC Tivenawans

ARMY-NAVY WANT 300,000 IN JAN'Y   Army's Call About Twice Figure the WMC Expected

U.S. May Drait  300,000 Men  During January Draft Boards  Fail to Meet October Quotas

UNCLE SAM: TAPS 300,000 IN JANUARY   War Department Has Doubled Estimate of Manpower Need

300,000 MAY BE CALLED FOR ARMY DURING JANUARY   WMC Previously Indicated Decrease During Coming Year, Army Certified For Twice Expectations.   WAC ENLISTMENTS LAG, MAIN REASON   No Announcements Yet Made on Effects of Stepped-Up Program on Dads, February Uncertain.

JANUARY. DRAFT. QUOTAS DOUBLED; TD Call 30000   Lagging WAC Enlistments, Inability to Meet October =: Quotas, Responsible      FATHER STATUS UNKNOWN

ADDITIONAL WAR CHEST CONTRIBUTIONS   JANUARY DRAFT CALL IS PLACED: AT 300,000

Draft Quota Over W.M.C. Estimate   Army’s January Call Is Twice The Manpower Commission Expectancy.

Some 300 Thousand Men to Get Call to Colors in January   War Department’s Call Twice as Large as Was Expected

Cedar Rapids Merchants Will Invest April 13 Receipts In War Bonds

PANTELLERIA BOMBARDED TWICE AGAIN   Duce’s Ships Stay In Hiding: Yank Fliers Slaughter Fleeing Japs In China.   SOVIET AIR WAR FLARES   London Hears 5,000 Jews Are Killed By Nazis In Battle of Warsaw Ghetto.

Italy. Blasting Is Carried Oh Without Mercy  Pantelleria, Naples ‘Endure Weight Of * “Bombs: Shells

SHORTAGE OF COLD STORAGE MAY GUT MEAT PRODUCTION   U.S. Stockpile So Great Little Space Is Left for ._ New Slaughter. —

Food Storage Bins:Bulging.  ‘Slaughterérs :  aed: Decne wl cc ks ccm

Hint Chutist Story a Blind      May Be Nazi Attempt To Cover Up Spread Of Native Sabotage

TALES OF ’CHUTE TROOPS MAY BE NEW NAZI TRICK   London Sees Tips Floated As Excuse To Impose Stricter Control

Sabotage Stirs Nazi Invaders   Increasing Reports Are Heard of Unrest Within  Occupied Countries.

‘Germans Reported Trying To Cover Up Native Sabotage In Occupied Countries

Nazis Worried Over Increasing Sabotage, Unrest   Report. British Chutists Active In Norway, Denmark

Sabotage Increasing   Activities Reported From Denmark, Norway and Greece by Dispatches

BRITISH CHUTISTS ARE VERY ACTIVE IN DENMARK. NORWAY   German Radios Told How the Armed Men Blew Up a Factory.   ENTER DANISH PLANTS   Persuade the Guard to Be Quiet as the Chutists Plant Bombs.

Congress Backs F. R. Coal Stand   Solons Ready to Vote Legislation To Control Strikes

GOP OFFERS TOBACKFDR ON STIRKE   Taft Would Jail Strike-Calling Labor Leaders 

Republicans Offer To Support F DR. In Coal Crisis: Would Jail Leaders   Taft Doesn’t Think Army Will Be Able To Operate Mines If They Are Taken Over; Would Provide For Penalties For Labor Leaders.

TAFT OFFERS TO VOTE FDR. STRIKE POWER   Republican Senator Objects to Immediate Action on Connally Bill Pending President's Word

REPUBLICANS GIVE SUPPORT TO ROOSEVELT   GOP Leaders Offer Aid - To Enact Measures To  Strengthen Hands  ) in Mine Dispute   TAFT BACKS PLANS TO JAIL LEADERS   Ohio Senator Declares Union Heads Should be Punished For War Industry Strikes

G.O.P. WILLING TO —  BACK PRESIDENT   Will Aid Legislation to Aid in Control of Coal Mine Situation.   MINES WOULD BE PROBLEM FOR ARMY

GOP Offers To Aid President  In Coal Crisis   Would Imprison Strike Callers

Rome Bombing ‘Extent Revealed   Only Military Targets Hit, Photographs Show

ROME BOMBING PERFECT   Photographs Show Military Tare ts Hit Squately By Bombs

Rome Damage Is Confined Ta Military Area   Photographs Show Wha! Was Hit — Railways In Rome Got Worst Of It, Pictures Indicate

Defends OPA  Gas Measures   Brown Says In A’ Formal Statement That AAA <Ae cusation Untrue.

AXIS JITTERY Ad INVAGTON TALK oPREADS   Gen. Eisenhower Reports His Forces Prepared For New Tasks

Giant Armada Of Big Planes Blackens Sky   Largest Yank Force Ever To Be Sent Against Europe Blasts St. Nazaire, Rennes And ~ La Pallice; 13 Aircraft Are Missing

:) Towns Taker ‘rive Toward obsk Bastion   fankfurt Hit Hard * Allied Bombers ; orth Italy Revolts

ecret Transcription of Mussolini’s  ‘alk With Hitier Led to His Downfall

IL DUCE LIED ABOUT HELP FROM REICH   Expose by Count Dino Grandi Led to Mussolini’'s Downfall

Cause of Mussolini’s Downfall Told      Duplicity of Report To His Own People

HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR WAR AID EXTENSION   Final Vote 407 to 6 Rider to Measure Is Rejected

LEASE-LEND BILL PASSED BY HOUSI   Yeor's Extension of Act : Voted Overwhelm. analy

Lend-Lease Bill Overwhelmingly Passed by House   Measure for Year's Extension Is Voted By Count of 407-6

LEND- LEASE ACT EXTENSION VOTED   #ouse Sends to Senate After Blocking Riders to Measure; Senate Committee Approves Companion Bill

HOUSE EXTENDS LEND PROGRAM   Approves Extension For Year By Vote Of 407 To 6; Rider Killed

LEND-LEASE ACT EXTENSION VOTED   House Overwhelmingly Votes It But Blocks G. 0. P, idee ° aca!  Faw nate ag

HOUSE APPROVES LEND-LEASE ACT   Vote of 407 to 6 Now Sends Measure to Senate For Final Action.

YEAR EXTENSION $2 DAILY WAGE FOR LEND-LEASE INCREASE ASKED VOTED BY HOUSE BY JOHN LEWIS         ‘Continued Assistance To Little Steel Formula Of Allies Passes By Over- WLB Is Attacked By whelming Majority— ~--------Herd-@+Mimers) =:

Move to Give Congress Veto Power Rejected   Senate Committee Approves Companion Measure: House Vote on Bill Is 407 to 6

Lend-Lease Act Backed by House By Vote 40/ to ¢   Goes to Senate Where Drastic Amendments Seem Likely

BOND SALES AT $750,000 MARK   $171,000 Yet To Go; Only S Days Left To Meet Quota

BOND DRIVE IS $200,000 SHORT   Hooking County Sales Barely Over Halfway Mark

HOCKING COUNTY BOND SALES ARE $126,366 SHY   Total To Date. Is $294,634; Efforts Redoubled

New Victory Celebrated ‘In Moseow   Deep Break-Through On Donets River Front Adds to German Woes  TAGANROG CUT OFF

Reds Overrun 30 Villages in 22-Mile Drive   New Victory Comes On Heels of Fall of  Kharkov—Fireworks Display for Moscow

Red Army Sweeps Into Nazi-Evacuated City After Major Triumph   London Opinion Says Defeat Might Cost Hitler . Whole Of South Russia; Gains Of 19  To 22 Miles Made On River

Germans Hurled Back 19 to 22 Miles in 3 Days of Savage Fighting: Moceow Celebrated Victory

GERMANS DEFENDING GREAT INDUSTRIAL AREA NORTH OF AZOV SENT REELING BACK 22 MILES.

German Forces Shatter Under  Sweeping Drive   Ourushing Russ Armies Strike Straight for Sea of Azov; Moscow Celebrates New Victories

Red Forces Take Kharkov  From Nazis   Russians Driving Ahead to Free the Donets Basin

Nazis Hurled Back 20 Miles as Reds Smash Forward in Effort to Drive Foe From Rich Basin.   MOSCOW CELEBRATES CAPTURE OF KHARKOV   Cannon Roars Victory Salute Ordered by Stalin—Great Ukraine City Taken by Storm.

PRIORITY IS GIVEN WAR ON U-BOATS   Tells Commons Of Casablanca Conferences

Dominating aim is to engage enemy at earliest moment; to give U-boats ‘first priority’

CHURCHILL - GIVES COMMONS DETAILS OF STRATEGY TOUR   “More Than Holding Own, He Declares—Pian To. Crush Axis On  All Fronts

DEMPSEYS DIVORCED.   Jack Gets Verdict: Hannah I. Found Guilty of Adultery.

Can Badoglio Get. Away FromHitler,Expert Asks   Next Moves Depend on Whether. Italy Can i Make a Clean Break

Fall of Mussolini Seen as Most Momentous Event In War Up to This Time   Greatest Question Confronting Badog~ lio Is How to Find a Way to Break With Germany.   By REYNOLDS PACKARD

Y everan Amertcan Correspondent From Rome Says Fall . Of Musso Most Momentous Develonment Of War Tn Nato

Duce’s Arch Foe, Badoglio, Assumes Premiership Under Italian King   Nazi Reaction To Mussolini Ouster Remains Big Question

WRITER — BELIEVES NEW PREMIER WILL BREAK WITH NAZIS   Badoglio, Known Enemy Of Mussolini And Fascism, Is Against Nazi Ideas

Jado¢lio Must Find Way to Break  With Hitler In His Next Move   - BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Pree Steff Coreenrnnntian

Large Navy After War Is Demanded   Admiral King Tells Legion + Convention That Huge Navy Is Needed

SENATE GETS VIEW OF BATTLE FRONTS IN SECRET SESSION   Lodge Says Opening of Air Bases in Siberia to Allies Would Save Million American Lives.   2 OTHERS ON WORLD TOUR ADDRESS CHAMBER   Russell Criticizes British for Failing to Launch Offensize Against Foe in Burma.

Senators Told Siberian Bases for Allies Could Save Lives of Million

» senators Hold Secret Session "On Trip to Fronts   Say Russia Can Aid in Saving Million American Lives

SENATORS GIVE VIEWS ON WAR   Siberian Bases Needed  To Save U.S. Lives,  Lodge Believes

Senator Lodge Estimates Million American Lives Can Be Saved If Soviels Open Siberian Base«. Geurgia Senator Dlasts British in Secret Senate Secsian.

Senators Give War Data af Secret Session   Lodge Says Million Lives Can Be Saved lf Reds Grant Bases

SANTA WITH U. §. STUFFS   Senator Russell, Georgia, Democrat, Criticizes British for Being Generous With Lend-Lease Materials.   Gives To Other Allies

SENATORS REPORT AT SECRET PARLEY   Lodge Calls for Opening of Siberian Bases to Allies

‘Solon Estimates Million American Lives Can Be Saved in Beating ‘ Japan If Russia Will Open Siberian Bases to Allied Bombers

Siberian Bases Greatly Needed Senator Asserts   Globe-Girdling Members Report

Russian Bases To Attack Japan Asked by Lodge   British Criticized As Senators Report On War Fronts Tour

SENATORS HEAR VIEW OF WAR IN SECRET SESSION   Lodge Reports From Locked Doors That Million Americans May Be Saved If Siberian Bases Opened To Allies.

Labor Puts On  Wage Pressure   Nation’s Railroad Tiff Nears Showdown

COAL STRIKE SPREADS IN FIVE STATES   Organized Labor Seeks More Liberai Wage Restrictions

RED ARMY SWEEPS TOWARD PORT CITY   More Towns Are Taken in Ten Mile Gain by  Russians

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE ROLLING ON AGAINST NAZIS   Kherson, Black Sea Port At Mouth Of Dnieper Is Next Soviet Obiective   COSSACKS POUNDING GERMAN REMNANTS

\Reds Near Black Sea Port And Clear Jittery Nazis From Steppes Neary Dnicnery

Russians Mop Up  Shattered Enemy  Soviet Push By-Passes Reacdiead Peteannd: Tien

Soviets Gain  10 Miles In 24 Hours   Red Army Presses Close to Mouth of Dnieper River, Clearing Nazis From Vast Steppes in Surging Drive

\Reds Near Black Sea Port — [And Clear Jittery Nazis \From Stepves Near Dnieper

Warren Asks for Draft Fairness   Governor Charges Heavy California Service Drain

Real Estate Rise Called Inflation   Housing Officials Warn Rising Prices Peril Inflation Curb

Jap Air Strength Steadily Dwindles   Will To Fight Also Diminishes; Nimitz Save Carrier Graun Downe 46 Nin Planec

~S. .#.irmen Score “/iccory oper “a: > anes _n Siders JeallSoo1 A--er Sin cing 4 ~ rowers

Yanks Down 46 Jap Planes, Report Few Live Nipponese Remain in Gilberts Sector

Jap Air Strength Steadily Dwindles .       tAiso Diminishess Nimitz” Says Carrier Group Downe 46: Nin: Planee

JAP AIR LOSSES IN GILBERTS HEAVY   ONE U.S. CARRIER DIVISION DOWNED 46 PLANES DURING INVASION,

YANKS SCORE ANOTHER AIR VICTORY IN MOPUP OF THE GILBERT ISLES   Jap Air Strength Drops Steadily Along Witt Will To Fight; Few Live Japanese Remain In The Gilberts

Air Strength Of Japanese In Islands Greatly Diminished      Admiral Nimitz Reports Shooting Down of 34 Enemy Fighters, Nine Bombers and Three Patrol Planes by One Garrier Division

JAP SHIPS on DOWN BY CARRIER A.   \Division’s  3 —- Triumph Aerial Boon Tree

Must Solve Complex Milk Problems To Aid War In 1944. Savs Dairy Leader —

WAR BOND QUOTA WILL BE MISSED   County $30,000 Below Goal for December   Must Solve Complex Milk Problems as  Aid to War in 1944, Says Dairy Leader

GEN. EISENHOWER SAYS ALL AXIS RESISTANCE IN NORTH ENDED: REDS STOP GERMANS

Allied Planes Sink Barges Off Tunisia   Enemy Forces Surrender Sauth of Bizerte

Some (f Trapped Germans Seek To Escape Tunisia   Small Boats Used Are Targets For Host Of Allied Planes   PART OF GERMAN ARMY SURRENDERS

Board Notifies Those Who Haven‘t Completed Occup. Questionnaires

CLAIM FAILURE TO FLAG TRAIN CAUSED WRECK   Engineer Blames Lack Of Signals For Rail Tragedy, 72 Dead

Train Tragedy Unavoidable, Engineer Says   Warning Flags Missing on Track, He Reported

Engineer Says No Signal:  Set To Warn His Train   Belknap, J) With Fla at Time of Weeck, Was Also ’ Biro dod he Headhichis

Dead in Rail Wreck Now Number 72; Bodies of 10 Missing WAVES Sought   Crew of One Train Charged With Laxity: Engineer of Other Unwarned, He Says

Axis Prisoners May Aid Farming Labor   Food Worker Chieftain Says Volunteer Captives May Become Agrarian Helpers

AXIS PRISONERS MAY  WORK ON U.S. FARMS   Possible Solution of Labor Shortage is Seen by Plan Revealed by Chief of the Food Production Administration’s Labor Division—-Would Be  ] on Volunteer Basis. j

Farmers Will Need Much Help   Food Production Officia. Says Prisoners Might Be of Aid

CONSIDER WAR PRISONER USE ON U. S. FARMS   Have ‘lo Get Some First. Would Ease Labor Shortage

MAY USE AXIS-WAR PRISONERS. TO. AID FARM LABOR NEEDS   Farms Could Use Prisoners If They: Volunteer ‘— Plan “Used In “En glandecnt (geet

WAR PRISONERS MAY GOON FARW   Discuss 3-Point Program to Get 3 1-2 Million Workers

May Use War. Prisoners  On U. S. Farm:   Men Would Be Put to Work on Volunteer Basis

WAR PRISONERS ‘LABOR SOURCE?   Farm Labor Chief Suggests Mcthods of Recruiting Neces- . sary Help For Food Production.

OPEN. FRIDAY NIGHT   City School Art Display Ts in Bases ment of Community Building

Will Force Sheriff Out   Wichita Officer Must Resign Or Face An Ouster

Resignation Of Sheriff Demanded   Sedgwick County Officer Is Given Dnt) Manday

More Gas Soon, Ickes Asserts   Secretary Says Larger Sup: ply Will ‘Positively’ Be Available

MORE GASOLINE AS AVAILABLE FOR MOTORISTS   Tekes Is Not So Optimistic About Lifting Driving  Ban, However   SAME HEATING OIL QUOTAS AS BEFORE

Larger Gas Supply For East Forecast In Ickes’ Statement   Petroleum Administrator Optimistic, Giving Rise to Belief Pleasure Ban May be Eased——Stocks in Eastern Area Gain Slightly

FLOOD DANGER EASED AS OHIO REACHES CREST   Peak of Rise Expected at Portsmouth Monday Afternoon   RED CROSS HELPS   Newport, Ky., Hardest Hit River Valley Towns

FLOODS FORCE HUNDREDS OUT INS. E. STATES   Property Damage Threatened As Rain-gorged Rivers Near Dangerous Crests

COUNTY COUNCILS IN STATE DEBATED   Legislators Disc Discuss Plar for Handling Local Measures

FUNK RENAMED TO COUNCIL TO SUCCEED BRIC!   Suggestion Made That 23 County Councils Handle Local Bills   LITTLE ENTHUSIASM .~ FOR PLAN MANIFEST

TWELVE REGIONAL OW! OFFICES CLOSED   Personnel To Remain in Each of Offices for Few Days to Liquidate Affairs

Young People Are Defended   Delinquency Charges Are Exaggerated .

RATION BOOK ~ABYJAN.1S]   Red and Blue Stamps Like No. 2 and for Same Purposes

Soviets Lose Two Towns in Donets Area   Reds Continue to Advance in Northern Sectors

‘BRAZIL JOINS UP   '. S. Seuthern Neighbor Becomes Full United Nations Partner

Brazil is Now Full Partner   Signing Of Pact Comes After Natal Conference

Brazil Full  War Partner   Top Sonth, American Nation Fights Japa

Brazil. Now Full. Partner in War   Joins United Nations in Pact-Placing Her. Aaainst Japan

Ally Push 60 Miles Into Tunis   U. S. General Will Head War Theater in Desert Area

BRAZIL JOINS IN WAR ON JAPAN   South American Nation Signs Pact Of United Nations Against Axis

Brazil Joins War on Jap:   U.S, Neighbor Signs United Nations Pact * In Stroteaic Move

Brazil Wars on Japs   Joins United Nations Fully After FDR Parley

BRAZIL T0 JOIN IN FIGHT ON JAPAN   RIO BECOMES A FULL PARTNER OF ALLIES AGAINST AXIS NATIONS.

Brazil Joins United Nations As Full-Scale Partner In War Against Axis; Signs Charter

Axis Prepared For Invasion,  Says Goebbels   Confident Allies Can Be Repulsed

Meet The Cadets - Heavy Course Of Study And Flight Training Pursued

Meet The Cadets Navy Fliers In Training Have Stiff Athletic Program

LeMers Churches to Join In  World C ummunion Servi Services   Power of Christianity To Go Beyond Boundaries of War 

Action On Rea Front Shits To Northwest   Bitter Engagements Result From Fresh Nazi Attacks On Soviet Positions   MUCH AIR ACTION NEAR NOVOROSSISK

NEW ATTACKS BY NAZIS ON NORTH FRONT   Action breaks out on  Lake Ilmen and Volkho\  river sectors

HOW AMERICA BOMBS THE AXIS: TREE-TOP TRICKS TAKE WAR CLOSER HOME

QGHOCL FUND FOC CLAIMING VICTOR}   Debate On Bill Resumed Today With Vote Nearing

Front Line Defenses — ; Destroved. L           HEAVY JAP CASUALTIES ARE  ANNOUNCED AS ALLIES TAKE

TOO LATE FOR WAR ECONOMY SOLON CLAIMS   tobertson Challenge: GOP Suggestions To Cut Budget

Northern Troops Break German “Iron Wall” In Nevel Area, Then Swing Southwestward

Allied Drive In italy At Virtua! Standstill; Razis Demolish Port

Inching Over Hills Packing Supplies on Shoulders.  YANK TROOPS GAIN MOUNTAIN SLOPE  On the West Coast the Fifth Army Makes Minor Gains.

Frank C. Walker New Chairman  of Democrats  Republican Party Asked to Stop Its ‘Quibbling’

Party Names Walker as  New Chairmar   Committee Asks G OP to Stop Quibbling Tactics

Frank C. Walker New Chairman  of Democrais  Republican Party Asked io Stop

FEDERAL EMPLOYE CONTROL _. MAY WIN HOUSE APPROVAL   OUNCOME OF HOUSE VOTE ON BILL, REQUIRING CONFIEMATION OF APPOINTMENTS  19 IN DOUBT

RED CAPTURE OF OREL IS IMMINENT   Soviets Advance Two to Five Miles, Liberate 30 More Towns

Capture Of Orel By Russians Is Believed Neat   Red Army Presses On German Base From Three Sides Today   GERMAN FORCE FACES CAPTURE

 PeESRET YY Be oPNeRRMA SAE AEE SOPUD 2eam VE Pilotis— —By Glenn Bal   Yank Flyers Are Masters Of Nazis And Tans

American Airpower Is Greatest Sign That Allies Will Win; Fights On Both Sides of World Give Proof

ALCOHOL TAX MIEN BEFORE RUM PROBE   Boom in Moonshining and  False Reports Indicate More Whiskey in Circulation

SENATE HEARS THERE IS MORE WHISKY READY   Federal Alcohol Tax Unit Reports ‘Boom’ in Moonshining

More Liquor Circulated, But Y ou Must Be In Right Place, And First

PAYST  AIBUTE TO AP STAR   General Manager Says War  Is Reported ‘Graphical Wy. Truthfully”

Reveals Half A’. Million - Allied Troops Have -.,; Been Landed ¢  In Africa  STRESSES SUB WARFARE Expect Allies To’ Strike  At Several Points At Once

Military Observers Believe That Allies Have Picked Invasion Points

Blueprint Stage Said Be Begun   MOST DIFFICULT DRIVE EVER ESSAYED WILL BE UNDERTAKEN.

Strategy . : Now Being 4      SELECTED POINTS OF COURSE ARE NOT DISCLOSED; MILITARY EXPERTS LIST SEVEN POSSIBILITIES

Map Drive of Ally Armies   Possible Points of Attack Picked by Observers

Blueprints for Allied! Offensive on Europe in ’ Making, Observers Think After Churchill! Speech

Congressional Group To Try Pass Appropriations Amendment Finance Construction 25 Partially Built Airports, Including One Here; Army-Navy to Take Over Projects.

TRADE LAW GETS COMMITTEE 0.{K.    } House Group Opposes 8-Year Ex  tension of Power To Make ; Reciprocal Agrecments

Reciprocal Trade _ Agreements Favored By House Committee   House Ways and Means Committee Votes 14 To 11 For a Three-year Extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreement

Okay Extension of Trade Pacts —   House Committee Puts Approval On Program

House Committee Approves 3-Year Extension of Reciprocal Trade Act

SOLONS VOTE INFAVOR OF TRADE PACTS   Reciprocal Law Extension Supported by Vote Of 14 to Il

ORDER WRITTEN ON GAS RATION   Report Says  Coupons To Be Worth 3 Gallons

SEE NO NEED FOR FURTHER GAS CUT   Additional Rationing In Ohio Is Not Necessary, Committee Declares

One Thousand British Planes Drop 2,000 Tons of Bombs.  38 R.A.F. BOMBERS FAILED TO RETURN  Many Hits Were Made on Shipping and Parked Aircraft.

Big RAF Armada Devastated Key German Industrial Center With More Than 2,000 Tons Of Explosives. :

KEY NAZI CENTER IS DEVASTATED   38 Bombers Out of 1,000 Do Not Return

Pope Intensifies Peace Efforts  Catholic Bishops  Dessesrrns: Wed xece

POPE PIUS RENEWS PEACE OFFENSIVE   Talks with British, American and French Envoys at Holy See in Search of Peace

Pope Intensifies Peace Efforts  Catholic Bishops Prepare Parleys

POPE MAKES NEW PEACE EFFORTS   TALKS WITH ALLIED ENVOYS TO HOLY SEE—BISHOPS PREPARING PARLEY.

Pope Increases Efforts For Peace; Is Reported. Planning to Leave Rome

Pope Renews World Wide Peace. Effort   Vatican Radio Reveals Renewed Action Being Taken

Catholics Move for Peace: Pope, Bishops, Intensify Efforts To Bring European Strife fo End

Pone Reported to Be fntensifying Peace Overtures   Vatican Reports -Germun And Italian Bishops Prepare Meetinas

NOTICE TO REPORTER READERS  ® Will Be No Reporter Published Next Week Ug. 25) and the Office Will Be Closed Aug. 20-27

NOTICE TO REPORTER SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS   There Will Be No Reporter Published August 25, And the Office Will be Closed Aug./20 to 97

OUTMATCHED NAZIS IN RETREAT NORTH OF KEY CITY, KIEV   Battle For Melitopol In Eighth Day — Bioodiest Engagement Since Stalingrad

FALLING BACK IN AREA NORTH OF KIEV BAS!   Taken as Evidence That Germans Are Conceding Defeat in Struggie for Ukraine Capital   In Bloody Battle Re ASSROCTATEHY PRESS

; Major Advance In Italy Show By Fifth Army Of United State:  Today — Pincers Movement 1: Seen   TALK OF BALKANS INVASION CONTINUE!

BEATEN NAZIS FALDING BACK ARQUIND KIEV   Threw Everything They Had Into Attempi to Stop Russians Without Success Moscow Reports.

Nazis Lose Most Ferocious Battle of Dnieper River Line   German Troops Have Be gun Retreat North of Kiev.

DEFEAT NORTH OF KIEV BASE.   Nazi Troops Began Retreat North Of City After Losing Ferocious Battle.

SOVIETS CRACK UKRAINE CITY DEFENSE LINES   Threaten Dnepropetrovsk Sec. tor; Fierce Battle Rages In Melitopol

NAZIS ROUTED IN KIEV FIGHT   REDS VICTORIOUS IN HUGE BLOODY BATTLE

Hannover Put On Ruined City List After New Blow   Berlin Gets Another Raid; Retreat Begun By German Troops North Of Kiev After Losing Dnieper Line Battle   (RULLETIN)

Nazis Are Retreating Near Kiev   ~ Northern Defense Ot City Abandoned Before. Sovicts

ON SQUTHERN AREA   Germans Admit Russians are Advancing Steadily on All Sectars Now.

NAZIS ON AUN BEFORE Alloa IN KIEV AREA   Retreat After Losing Bloody Baitle to Hold Base on Dnieper.

QUIT NORTHERN DEFENSES OF KIEV BASTION   Flee West and Southwest After Bloodiest Battle of The Campaienr

KIEV RETREAT BEGUN TODAY BY NAZI FORGES   One Of Bloodiest Battles Of Dnieper Front Lost, Nazis Falling Back 

Soviet Newspaper Reports Nazi Retreat: Surrender Northern Defenses OF Kiev

  AZIS RETREAT NORTH OF KIEV   First Meeting of Tri-Power Conference Nears End in Moscow

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY  AT CORSICANA FIELD  ATTRAGTS. HUNDREDS CONDUCTED TOUR AND FLYING DEMONSTRATION  LCaATIID er Crirocar

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY AT CORSICANA FIELD  ATTRACTS HUNDREDS CONDUCTED TOUR AND  aE ere ten

First Army Advances In Tunisia   Bodies of Hundreds of German Dead Found in Mountains Near Sedjenane

Slight Activity In Tunisia   Giraud Kicks Out Vichy Influence In Africa

BRITISH CHARGE OVER HUNDREDS ~ OF BERMAN DEAL   Bodies Of 100 Germans Found In Machine Gun Post   ADVANCE IS OF A aVIMITED NATURE

LEADING STOCKS SHIFT IRREGULARLY   Several New Highs in Evi dence; Street Awaits Outcomé of Africa Parley

Allied Troops Take El Guettar On Road To Gabes   Yanks Leading Drive To Tunisian Coast To Cut Off Rommel’s Army   ADVANCE NOW ONLY 73 MILES FROM COAST

KURILE RAID ~- LOSS IS TOLD   TEN OF THE BOMBERS THAT . HIT BIG JAP NAVAL BASE FAILED TO RETURN

U.S. Raid on  Paramushiru is Costly   Knox Says Four Of 10 Missing Planes May Have Been Lost By Enemy Action

Kurile Raid Is Costly To  U.S. Planes   Ten Of 18 Planes Are Missing After Attack On Jap Naval Base Of Paramushiru

U. S$. Bombers in Third Raid on Jap Base in Kuriles; Five Ships Hit

PARAMUSHIRI RAID COSTS 10 BOMBERS   Hits Reported On Five Enemy Ships; 10 Jap Fighters Downed

Detective Tells Story of Death Of Harry Oakes   Capt. E. W. Melchen Says De Marigny Hated His Father-in-Law

OAKES HATED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW EVIDENCE SHOWS   American Detective Says Multi-Millionaire Disapproved Of Marriage   DE MARIGNY DENIES MURDERING BARONET

De Marigny Hated His Father in Law  Detective Testifies  Tells of Talk With Count Laaw RAeewcdlau

2e: ec ive 4e90-7S  ‘Farigny v Oe °2 Ta =a¢ “or Sir <arrv “axes”

SLACKS MANDATE.  GAUSES REBELLION   Office Girls Return To Work _. Under Truce

FORD OFFICE GIRLS BACK, WEAR SLACKS   Will Make Appeal to Firm’s Union Officials

UNITED NATIONS GRANT ITALY STATUS OF CO-BELLIGERENT: BADOGLIO ISSUES MESSAGE   ‘There Will Be No Peace in Italy As Lona as German Remains

Badoglio Informs the Nazi Government Ex-Ally Is Now Tn State of War With Hitler   Italian General Says “No Peace for His Country While Single German Remains on Italian Soil.”’

DECLARATION ISSUED BY BADOGLIO REGIME AGAINST EX-PARTNER   Allies Grant One-Time Ally Of Hitler Co-Belligerent Status; Italian Leader Bitterly Assails Nazis

Act Fails To Affect ‘Terms Of Armistice  As Granted By Allies   Badoglio Proclamation Bitterly Denounces German “Arrogance And Ferocity” Since Italians Quit Conflict Over Month Ago

BRITAIN, U.S. ACCEPT HER AS 00-BELLIGERENT   No Change in Armistice Terms

GERMANS RUSH RESERVES 10 SOVIET FRONT   Frantically Try to Stop Russian Drive Toward Poland

Nazi Reserves Seeking To Halt  Russian Drive   German High Command Throwing In Vast Reserves On Front   FALL OF KOROSTEN APPEARS PROBABLE

Attempt To Stop Advance of Russians   Weather Hinders Cprations In Italy

RAF BOMBERS HIT NAZI SUPPLY LINE AND RAID BERLIN      Concentrate. Heavy ‘Blows On. Alpine Tunnel ' Route At ' Modane

British Attack Alpine Tunnel   Modane Hit With 1,000 Tons of Bombs

Bombers Blast German Supply Line To Italy _   Alpine. Tunnel Lines . Target For Fleets Of RAF Bombers

Night Bombers Of British Join Battle for Italy   Berlin Also Given Another Bombina Attack

BuilIOH-DASED BOMBERS STRIKE RAILS INTO ITALY  Medane, Rail Center   Medane, Rail Center On Italian Border, Is Blasted   BERLIN !S BOMBED 2nd STRAIGHT NIGHT

RA. E Fleets R Rip Nazi Supply Line   Concentrate Heavy Blow on Alpine Tunnel Wav Rater Routes From France "i

BRITISH RAID NAZI SUPPLY LINE IN ALPS   Mosquito Bombers Again Attack Berlin

OHIOANS TO GET  HOLIDAY TURKEY   Freeze Order Seen as Not Affecting Stair Viarket«.

ENEMY WRECKING ITALIAN SEAPORT AS DEFEAT LOOMS   YANK RANGERS AND FRENCH COMMANDOS ADVANCE IN CORSICA

RUSSIANS BLAST 125 NAZI TANKS   Kirovograd  Threatened By Soviets; German Drive Halted

German Tank-Led Thrusts  Into Kiev Salient Broken  . Fluctuating Battle Being Fought By Russ And GCarmane OQwar Dnianar City OF Chackacey

STEEL HEAD WANTS ANSWER   Says Government Should Declare Intentions on Free Enterprise

FEDERAL CURBS SCORED BEFORE MANUFACTURERS   Association Threatens To Get Into Politics To Assure Free Enterprise

INDUSTRY HEADS HOLD POST-WAR MEETING   Ask Political Parties Demand Free Enterprise

ED DRIVE IN BURMA SEEN   CHINA LAND ROUTE SEEN AS SUBJECT OF CONFAB

Youth Accused of Pushing Two Yor Boys Off Cliff Faces Muriey Charge

Raids to Quickly Soften The Reich up For Allied Invasion.  12-THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED IN DAY RAID  Fifty Thousand Wounded and Half Million Homeless.

Inland Road Junction of Nicosia Taken by Americans   COLLAPSE OF AXIS FLANKS EXPECTED   Seizure of Towns Is Im. portant Strategical Development

Pacific Strategy Is Same As Gen. MacArthur Himsel: Proposed, Officials Say

Stimson Denies MacArthur Has Less Authority  Hero Of Bataan Is Giver Y Full — For War  Wil” cCceaACcC AS

Maca thur Not Working Under Burma Commane  Pacific War Campaigr _ Mapped, Directed by

BLIND WOMAN 10 AGAIN GIVE BLOO   Miss Georgia Norfor Signs Up for the Second Time

BLIND WOMAN T0_ AGAIN GIVE BLOO:   Miss Georgia Norfor - Signs Up for the Sec- ° ond Time ~~

KISKA DEFENSE BEING SOFTENED   Naval Guns Emphasize Knox Promise To Drive Out Japs

MORE SHELLS FALL ON KISKA   U. S. Ship Again Bombards Island; Knox Says Japs To Be Driven Out

Henderson Claims Saving  Of 31 Billions   Says Control On Prices Did It For The People

Control Saves $31,000,000, 000   Leon Henderson Says He Believes We Will Moke Price Control Work

OPA Chief Cites Gigantic Saving  Says Control Over Prices Necessary

Ht BILLIONS OAVED OY Patt CONTROL, GLAIM   Henderson Claims Gigantic - Saving, Bar To Inflation Brought About By OPA

Cost Control" Held Sticcess   Henderson Seés Billions _ Saved By. Safeguards ' “Of His: Offiée ”

‘Miners W ont ‘Work Unless ‘They've Pact    MAY 1 SET AS DEADLINE SAYS ; ADAMS; CLAIM OPERATORS i “WERE STALLING;” OPPOSE  FURTHER EXTENSION   NO COMMENT

MINERS INDICATE NO PALT, NO WORK   Also Oppose Further Extension of Present Contract,  _ Editor of Mine Workers Journal Declares

Yanks Win Series Opener; Benham ['o Oppose Cooper or Brazle Today   Chandler Holds Cardinals to Seven Hits; Gordon, Last Year's ‘Goat,’ Is Star

Yankees Win First Series Game, 4 to 2   68,676 Fans Pack Stadium for Contest Wild Pitch Proves Costly for Lanier

YANKS TAKE FIRST GAME OFF CARDS   Spud Chandler Bests Max Lanier in Opening Game of Series   JOE GORDON HERO IN YANKEES WIN   Bonham Slated to Face Cardinals With Cooper Opposing Him

“FIRST GAME: OFF CADNS   Spud Chandler Bests Max Lanier in Opening Giana af. Sariae   JOE GORDON HERO IN YANKEES WIN   Bonham Slated to Face - Cardinals With Cooper Opposina Him

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Yankees Cop _ First Tilt. OF  World Series   "American Leaguers Defeat St. Louis Carainals 4-2 In One Of Oddest Games !n History: Stadium Packed For Opener

Yanks Win Opener Of Series. 4 to 2   68,776 Fans Crowd in N.Y. Stadiums To See Chandler Take Weird Game; Gordon Knocks Out Homer ‘in ‘Fourth

Council American Legion And Auxiliary To Meet At East St. Louis. Feb. 15

St. Clair-Monroe County Council and Auxiliary To Meet At New Athens

St. Clair-Monroe County Council of Legion to Meet In Columbia Mondav

“TAKEN FOR RIDE’   Elmer ‘Davis 3 Suggests Admiral “Bumped Off by Mob”

Japanese Soldiers ‘Entranced at Sight of Yanks   Few Nips Left on Far Side of Rendova

Japanese Soldiers Entranced at Sight of Yanks   Few Nips Left on Fa  Side of Rendova  Initiel Landine Snat

ylapanese Watch Entranced as Yanks Wade Ashore From Invasion Boats

LORIENT BASE IS HiT HARD, LONDON SAYS   RAF BBOMBERS DEVASTATE 10 ACRES IN NAVAL ARSENAL

U-BOAT NEST IS HARD HIT   Terrific Damage At Lorient After Allied Attacks Revealed By Aerial Photos

Lady Asks Jeffers For Aid in Crisis   Needs Elastic To Prevent Tragedy and Can't Purchase If

MILK GOES UP CENT DEC. 1ST   OPA Approves Increase to Halt Diversion to  Other Areas

TO BLOW HAMBURG OFF OF THE MAP   Sun There  Constantly Ob secured by Smoke From  _. New Raids

CRUMBLING CITY — OF HAMBURG HIT BY 105TH RAID   Airmen Practically Wipe Metropolis Off Map.

INSIDE REPORTS  ——— in Germany ~Grows---Axis Unity  Beginning to Crack

Many Bombed Out in Berlin   Travellers Report Thousands Homeless

Last RAF Raid On Berlin Started Thousands Of Fires Aerial Torpedves Blasted Windows, Lifted  OM BDanfo: Wlaemnc Dacn A Wie Mh... h.c

Last Raid Is Said Berlin's Worst  Travelers Report Fires Started By

TRAVELERS SAY BERLIN RAZED   Report RAF Raids Start ‘Thousands of Fires’, Morale Bad

BERLIN MORALE LOW FOLLOWING RAF BOMBING   German City Suffers Worst Fire In History; Thousands Homeless

Nuteracker Is Closing  In Tunisia   Big Battles Must Be Won by Allies  Before Invasion

Theaters of War Scenes Harder Fight   TUNISIA AND ACROSS ATLANTIC SCENES OF FASTER TEMPO.

EIGHT FIRES AS ~ CHURCH BURNS   Flames Destroy Ashville Catholic Edifice; Loss High

Beer Ban, Convict  Labor Use Studied   Final Vote In Texas House Is Due

Food Control Responsibility. . And Policy Among Problems Facing War Mobilization Heac

LEE INJURED IN GLIDER MISHAP   Major General William C. Lee Hurt In Tennessee Maneuvers.

KELLY APPOINTS. STATE OFFICERS   New Governor Makes Appointments; Prepares Message for Legislature

BOY, 14, DISCHARGED BUT BROTHER HELD   commneninedl  Substitution in Draft for Older Man Revealed

NATIONAL DEBT $140,000,000   Tax Plaus Uncertain As RecordBreaking Fiscal Year Ends

Treasury Starts New Fiscal Ye r July Ist; U.S. Debt Near i) Billion

Treasury Opens Fiscal Year With National Debt of $140,000,000,000

Fulmer To Investigate Profits Of Middlemen   Chairman of House Agriculture Committee Has Asked OPA for Copy of Confidential Study Showing Profits Said to Range From 200 to 500 percent on Farm Products.

BIDDLE URGES JAP QUSTER   ASKS LAW ENDING JU. S. NiIPPO CITIZENSHIP

REVOKE JAP CITIZENSHIP   Biddle Urges Congress Te Take Away U. 8. Kights

CARE RENKEN IS. CALLED BY DEATH   Funeral . Services Wednes day For Well Known  Grant Farmer

Allied Mastery of Air Over Sicily And South Italy Almost Complete

Allied Mastery Of Air Gives Italy Pounding   Troops, Trains, Bridges And Ports Blasted Steadily

MASTERY OF ‘SKIES OVER SICILY SHOWN BY ALLIED PLANES   African Air Force Hits  ‘ Every Phase Of Axis Operations In War Channels

POST-WAR CURRENCY STABILIZATION -PLAN- HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO : THIRTY-SEVEN NATIONS   Program Calls For $5,000,000,000 Stabilization - Fund. _ $2,000,000,000, or 40 Per Cent To Be Furnished by United Nations

World Currency Scheme To Cost U.S. Nothing  American Share   American Share In Program Already Put Up

World Currency Stabilization  Plan Submitted   Treasury Program Apparently Would Cost U. S. Nothing Extra.

* PUPRENCY PROGRAN   Would Contribute 2 Billions te 5 Billion-Dollar Stabilization Fund .   PROPOSALS ARE TENTATIVE

Treasury’s Stabilization ‘Program Apparently Will Cost U. S. Nothing; Ante In

MORGENTHAUWAITS OK OF WORLD BANK   U. 5. Domestic Stabilization Fund Would Provide Country's Quofa in World Plan, Belief

New Monetary Plan to Cost U.S. Nothing   Treasury Had Two Billions Ready for Fund; Full Plan Made Public

Details of Postwar Stabilization Fund Told by Morgenthau   it Probably Would Cost United States Little To Participate

Treasury’s Program for Stabilization Costs Nothine: Veto Power Retained   MORGENTHAU FOR ACTION BY CONGRESS

World Stabilization Fund to Aid Economic Stability   U. S. Will Have Cash on Hand to Contribute to Program Offered by Treasury

Treasury's Stabilization Program Apparently Will Cost U.S. Nothing

Course Laid For Permanent Peace,  Belief Of Hull   Recent Moscow Conference Laid Foundation lor World reed Of Destructive Forces Of International Anarchy, Secretary Of State Tells Members Of Congress

Successes At Moseow Hailed By See. Hull   ‘Must Make Sure Future Peace, Security Shall Not Be Lost, Congress Told By Official

Agreements Reached At Conference Point Way “Toward Enabling All Nations To Live In Peace And Security” In Post-War World, Secretary Of State Says In Address Before Congress—Sovereign Equality Termed Foundation Stone

Hull Is Accorded Ovation —   Secretary of State Reports on Tri-Power Conference to Joint. Session of Congress

Says We Can - Be Masters of Our Own Fate    World Free of. Destructive.  Forces, Anarchy If We Co'.. operate With Others   CHEERED AS HE PRAISES RUSSIA   Stalin One  of of Greatest’ Statesmen, He Declares; Praise for Congress, Too

‘Triumph Only Possible by Unified Efforts of Allies; ‘They Must Continue, He Avers

DECLARES EVERY NATION SECURED BY MOSCOW PACT   SECRETARY OF STATE SPEAKS BEFORE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS

Appears in Hero’s Role in Congress   Secretary Hull Says Moscow Conference Lays Foundation For a World Freed of Destructive Anarchy.   Secretary of State Given Great Ovation by Members of Conoress

Hull Is Hero As He Speaks To Congress   U. S. Secretary Hails Mos cow Pact As Peace Foundation

Secretary Hails Moscow Pact   U. S. STATE DEPARTMENT CHIEF SAYS RECENT AGREEMENT HAS LAID FOUNDATION FOR WORLD FREED “OF DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF ANARCHY”

POINTS WAY TC FUTURE PEACE   Secretary of State Given Great Ovation By Congress, Public. #

SECRETARY STATE.  MAKES PRECEDENT  BREAKING ADDRESS WAY POINTED FOR ALL  PEACE LOVING NATIONS EIVE IN SECURITY

Congress Hears Moscow Report   Must Accept Principles Or Fruits Of Victory Will Be Lost, Secretary Says; Cooperation Among _ All Peace-Loving Nations Urged

Foundation For World Freedom   Moscow Parley Paved Way for Security, Hull  Tells Congress

‘World Peace And Security To Be Result   Secretary Says Foundation Laid for World Freed Of International Anarchy

HULL SPEAKS TO CONGRESS   Gives First-Hand Account Of Conference In Moscow

Sally. Seeks. Shoes— 50: "Pairs — Rationing. Rajahs: Raise Rumpus’

Congress Meddling  In Executive Affairs--Roosevelt   President Uses Strong Language in Condemning Proposal of Senate to Approve Appointees

Roosevelt Asserts Senate ‘Meddling’         McKellar Lists Ten Officials Not Confirmed By Senate; Investigation Would Affect 33,000 Persons

CONFIRMATION PROPOSAL HIT BY PRESIDENT   WRITES WALLACE!   Proponents Expect Bill Will Be Reported Out Thursday

SENATE GIVEN  SHARP REBUKE BY ROOSEVELT   President Accuses:-Solon: “Of “Meddling” in Move To Have Appointees To Jobs Confirmed   SENATORS REPLY   Roosevelt Asserts Time Of Congress Would Be Wasted and‘U, S. War Effort Slowed

Congress Told Not To. Meddle   Strong Language. Is Used By FDR.:In: Squabble ’.. On Confirmations

FDR Charges Congress May Be Meddling   President Uses Strong Language In Denying Senate Right Of Confirmation

FOR TELLS SENATE TO QUIT MEDDLING   President Strongly Opposes Confirmation Measure

CONGRESS TOLD NOT 10 MEDDLE   President Doesn't Like Senate Measure On Confirmations

Congress Meddling  In Executive Affairs--Roosevelt   President Uses Strong Language in Condemning Proposal of  Rannta ta Annrnua Annaliatasc

IN CONFERENCE WITH ADMIRAL ~— OF U.S. FLEET   Plans Talk to Knox, General Marshall At Once

MOUNTBATTEN REACHES INDIA   Commander Of Southeast Asia Takes Past

Remember   Allies Sparring For Big Smash At Jap Center   Four Other Moves Ir Pacific Hint Ai Developments Ir Future

Mountbatten Is Now On Job In Southeast Asia   Arrives At New Delhi To Take Over New Command; Geis Official . Welcome

Mountbatten Is In New Delhi   Allied Chief In Southeast  Asia Takes Over Ree: Binek

MOUNTBATTEN TO TAKE OVER NEW COMMAND   Arrives At New Delhi. India

MOUNTBATTEN Ih NEW DELHI FOR DRIVE ON JAPS   British Officer Takes Over Allied Command of Southeast Asia War

SOUTHEAST ASIA CHIEF TAKES OVER   Arrives In India To Direct Allied Drive In That Area

Mountbatten In New Delhi To Take Ove  Command   Will Be In Supreme Charge In Southeast Asia Fer War On Japs Through Burma

Late News Bulletins   Mountbatten Reaches India to Take New Command

New Allied Post Assumed Today  By Mountbatten   Commander-In- Chief Of Southeast Asia Reaches New Delhi By Plane

LORD MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES IN INDIA 10 LEAD DRIVE ON JAPS IN BURMA

ADMIRAL ASSUMES daha   Mou nthe attel 1 A rrives   Mounthatten Arrives In India By  Plane

British Smashing Nazi-Held Land From Air   Round-the-Clock Attacks Continue to Hit Vital U-Boat Bases, Other Targets; Spitfires Send Five German Planes Down

Allied Planes  Pound Franee   RAF Follows Saturday Daylight Sweeps Across Oceupied Territory.

RAF. Keeps Raids Going   Channel Bases Raked Following Blasting Of U-Boot Ports

RAF Pours More Bombs Over France   Heavy Explosives Heard After Bombers Cress Channel

AF Maintains aids On Axis -Boat Bases   Germans Make Reprisal Attack On English Coast Town

ENEMY JOLTED ANEW BY RAF   Heavy Attack Indicated As Explosions Follow Sweeps Across English Channel

BRITISH POUND NAZI AIRDROME   Docks At Brest Visited In Daylight Sweep Of RAF Bombers

Occupied France Under Air Raids  Heavy Explosions Are Heard Across Channel

RAF CONTINUES 24-HOUR RAIDS AGAINST ENEMY   Heavy Explosions and _ Anti-Aircraft Fire Heard  Across English Chan  nel Last Night   DAY RAIDS ARE MADE      Nazi-Held Airfields at Abbeville and Docks at Brest Hammered; Sub  Nests Blasted

24 Hour Assault On Nazi France: Hit Rail Targets   Heavy Explosions and Anti-Aircraft Fire Are Heard Across Channel

YANKS POUND SECOND JAP DEFENSE LINE   One of Three Attu Resistance Zones Wiped Out

Jap Pocket on Attu Wiped Out. by Yanks   ‘Ground Forces Are ' Rided by Army Bombers, Fichters

U.S.. Mexican Officials Meet  In Monterrey   Common Aims of Two Countries Discussed by Chiefs; Good Neighbor Idea Hailed

Roosevelt And Avila Ca macho Proclaim Solidarity Of Adjoining Republics   MONTERREY SCENE OF EXECUTIVES’ MEETING

FD, AVILA CAMACHO HAIL DOCTRINE OF ®>GOOD NEIGHBORS   Heads of Two American Nations Meet at Monterrey for First Conference in 34 Years

Proclaim Solidarity of Nations in War. 3 Against Foe; Urge Good Neighbor Policy

Presidents Of Mexico. And U.S. Proclaim Solidarity   Roosevelt and Camacho Speak at Banquet at’ Monterrey, Mexico, on the Doctrine of ‘ *‘  Geod Neichbors

U.S., Mexican Presidents Clasp Hands   Each Gives Unstinting Praise of Good Neighbor Policy

Parley Held In Monterrey By Officials   Solidarity Of Two Nations Proctaimed In Radio Addresses

Proclaim Brotherhoood in Arms Of United States and Mexico   Both Leaders Express Mutual Desire for Peace in First Meeting of Chief Executives of Two Nations in 34 Years at Monterrey

ecutives of Neighbor tions Stress Unity War and Peace Aim:   oclaim Resolution Not to Allow Any Group One Country to Exploit Resources of Other; . 8. Chief Reveals Visits to American Army Units

Executives of Neighboring Nations Meet   Matters of State Not Contained in Talks Broadcast

2 EXECUTIVES TELL OF WAR CO-OPERATION   Both Express the Hope at Banquet in Monterrey for a Peace Free From Exploitation.

U.S., Mexico Sea Solidarity on Roosevelt Visit   Nations’ Chiefs Meet at Monterrey To Discuss Economic, War Needs; Pledge Full Cooperation in Victory

FDR Visits Deep In Mexico, Lauds Latins’ Attitude      Via. Fresident And’Comacho Proclaim’. Brotherhood In Arms, Desire For Peace

ROOSEVELT ON MEXICAN TOUR OF GOOD WILL   PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH CAMACHO AT MONTERREY

BROTHERHOOD IS PROCLAIMED IN ADDRESSES   Meeting Is First  For Chief Executives Of Two Countries  In 34 Years.

CAG FAILS 10 HALT FCC PROBE   Cox Committee Turns T Civilians To Obtain Bureau Data

INQUIRY OF FC IS PROGRESSING   Committee Says Fund Used To Boost Salaries

NEW ATTENDANCE “OFFICER CHOSE   Mrs, 0. P, Green. Will Suc. ceed Miss “Elizabeth ~ - ‘Romack.. .

NEW ATTENDANGE UrrGEH GHUoth   Mrs, O. P. Green. Wiil Suc. ceed Miss Elizabeth Romack,

LL JONES WILL» - QUITFOR WEL. EARNED REST   Worked For Illinois: Centra * Almost ht Continuous 7 enre: &,

JONES WILL QUIT FOR WELL. EARNED REST   Worked For Illinois Central Almost 45 Continuous Vearse: :

ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY AS 8TH ARMY ADVANCES   U.S. Forces Inch Ahead

ALLIED THRUST TAKES PERANO   BRITISH GRAB BASE; YANKS INCH AHEAD

Capture Perano Despite Fierce — Nazi Resistance   Marks First Real Gain In Over Week of Rainy Weather * z

BRITISH TAKE A TOWN ALONG ITALIAN FRONT   Slight Gains Scored at Same Time By American Fifth on Opposite End of Front.

Mopping Up Isolated Japanese Pockets of Resistance.   SMALL U.S. WARSHIPS SINK 3 OF JAPS SHIPS   However, the Battle for New Georgia Is Not Over.

Jungle rYroops Victors   Battle Turns Into Rout For Japanese; Campaign Lasted 35 Days.

Crash Through Jap Lines   Stormed Onto Field Yesterday, - Mop Up Pockets

Maximum Pay Rates Fixed For Sandusky And Other Ohio Cities Listed By WLB

—WAGES—  MAXIMUM WAGE RATES ARE SE]   WLB Establishes Scales For Key Jobs In 38 Ohio Cities

MAXIMUM PAY “RATES ARE SE   Salem One of 38 Cities Included In War Labor Board Schedule

Rail Unions Hope to Reach Pay Agreement   Representatives Decide To Hold Up Ballot On Calling StetLa

RAILROAD EMPLOYES TO SEEK AGREEMENT   Representatives Of 15 Unions Deal Direc ly With Companies To Avoid Strike

RAILWAY STRIKE VOTING HELD UP   Non - Operating Unions Seek Agreement On Wage Increases

BOMBERS BACK INTO ACTION, HIT NURNBERG   Offensive on Europe Resumed With Widespread Raids

Messerschmitt Plane  Works Are Blasted   RAF RESUMES ROUND-THE-CLOCK OFFENSIVE, SCATTERS DESTRUCTION OVER HUNDREDS OF MILES; NURNBERG HEAVILY HIT

R.A.F. Spreads Ruin In Key Nazi Plants On Nurnberg Raid   Hundreds of Tons of Incendiary and Demolition Bombs Dumped on U-boat Motor Works and Warplane Factories

NURNBERG HIT MONDAY NIGHT   British Bombers Strike Again at Important German , Industrial Center — Seven Bombers Lost in Operutions.

British Bombers Attack Nurnberg   In Action: After * Two Nicht Rest

RAF Resumes Night Raids On Reich, Blasts Nurnberg, Important Industrial City

Nuremberg ls Rocked By BigBombs   Messerschmitt Factory Among Major Taraets

RAF, GETS BACK IN ACTION AGAIN AND BLASTS THE NAZIS   Britain's Biggest Bombers Strike in Force at Great Industrial Centers.

RAF Bombers Strike Again At Nurnberg   British Air Offensive Tle Widespread

BRIT. RESUME AIR ATTACKS. ON GERMANY   Nurnberg Was Victim of Last Night’s Raids

BACK IN ACTION, BRITISH BOMBERS - BLAST NURNBERE   Other Western and Souther German Targets are Attacked By RAF.

East Indies Raid Staged   Liberators Make Long Trip To Hit Macassar

Macassar Hit By 25 Tons Of Bombs Saturday  Rio Fires Area   Big Fires Are Left Burning In Oil Center

PARIS REGION LASHED IN NEW ALLIED RAIDS   France And Low Countries Struck In Aerial Blows

Allied Pilots See Paris In  French Raids   Continue Attack On Low Countries

ALLIED PLANES BOMB GERMANS   Targets in France and Lov Countries Ripped by Attacking Forces

German-Held Europe Raided   Allied Aircraft Hit Targets in Low Countries, France

Allied Airmen In Continuing Blows   Sweep Across France And Low Countries in Raids

Senate Group Virtually Ends Fulbright Plan   Subcommittce Instead Will Draw Up Own Ideas On Postwar Policies

Senate fo Draft Own Peace Plan   Fulbright Proposal ‘Virtually Killed’ 

Senate To Draft Own Peace Bill   Virtually Kills . Fulbright Measure

TWO SOLDIERS DIE IN WESTERN DESERT   Platoon Lost on Maneuvers To Toughen Troops

SOLOIERS RESCUED AFTER DESERT TREK   Two Dead, Third Missing as Platoon Becomes Lost in California-Arizona Area

Three Soldiers Die Of Thirst   Were Members Of Company Lost On Endurance Test In Desert.

‘PLATOON LOST IN ‘DESERT, SOLDIERS DIE FROM THIRST   17,480 PERSONS DISCHARGED FROM ARMY RESUME NORMAL CIVILIAN LIFE IN STATE

Soldiers Perish on Desert During Endurance Tests   Platoon Becomes Lost, Wanders On Arizona-Califor. nia Wastelands Without Water; Two Men Dead, One Is Missing After Trek On Burning  Sands: Mercury Passes 100

Lost Desert ‘Unit Found   Two Dead, Third Man Missing After ‘Ordeal

Three Soldiers Die On Army Maneuver:  Endurance of Desert Hardships Causes Death From Thirst

DESERT HEAT IS FATAL TO THREE U.S. SOLDIERS   OTHERS IN PLATOON ON MANEUVERS ARE RESCUED EXHAUSTED

DEATH IN DESERT   Platoon of Soldierson Maneuvers Lost in Searing Heat 

PLATOON 15 LOST ON SOUTHWEST. DESERT   Group Loses W Way During Six-Day Endurance Man- , euvers on Desert.

THREE MEMBERS OF LOST PLATOON DIE IN CALIFORNIA DESERT; FOURTH MISSING AFTER ENDURANCE TEST

Too-Realistic War Maneuvers Fatal   California Desert Traps Platoon; Men Ge Lost, Die Of Thirst, Hunger And Heat

Enemy Defense System Is Broken Into   Fresh Troops Are Thrown Into Battle by Germans

TIMOSHENKOIS PRESSING 16 GERMAN ARMY   Soviets Intensify Drive Along Sea Of Azov Below Donets Basin.

DRAFT AGE MEN FAGING SERVICE   All Fit For Duty To Be Called, Says Selective Service Official

ALL OF DRAFT AGE LIKELY TO SERVE   Industry Given Tip To Get Replacements Ready

COUNTY LEGION PICNIC, AUG. 22  More. Old — Rec —s we ‘Wan ed, Say ander Plur mme

COUNTY LEGION ~ PICNIC, AUG, 2   More Old Record Are Wanted, Says Commander’ Plummer

Americans [look Up Attack Today After R.A.F. Night Attack.  B ERL IN pabcied wei “ty  Allied Air Force Has Biggest Day So Far in Italy.

Air War In Italy Also Gaining Momentum, Fifth Army Strikes Across  Garigliane River. :

STATE BOND ISSUE IS SOLD TO NEW YORKERS   Clark, Dodge And Company Purchase 5451.000 With A Bid Of 101.46

Maj. Gen. Brant New Commander   Heads Gulf Coast  Training Center

New Confidence Surges Through Great Britain   Press Hints Furthe Surprises May Be Expected Soon

New Attempt to Pass Road Bill Is Made   Attack on State Purchasing System is Made by Rockford Republican

SENATE PUSHES ROAD JOB BILI   Move to Abolish Elective Of. fice of Commissioner Gains Support.

Reds Drive to Within 27 Miles Of Krivoi Rog   Battle for City  Of Melitopol In 10th Daw

Nazis Rush Reinforcements From France In Attempt To Stop Soviet Offensive

Berlin Indicates Nazis Evacuating Dnepropetrovsk   Acknowledge Big Scale Russian Assault Has  Made Big Gap In Line

OOVIETS THIRD UF WAY AGROSa UMEPER BULGE   Battles For Melitopol, Kie\ Raging Unabated Today; azis On Defensive

Bracken Denies British-American Africa Discord   Minister Says  Neithe: Nation Backs DeGaulle Or Giraud Regimes

CEILING RAISED ON YELLOW CORN   Horse Meat Placed Under Price Control as Latest Anti-inflation Moves

Single British Fighter ‘Downs Three Japanese Bombers Over Calcutta

Single Fighter Bags 3 Bombers  All Japanese Warplanes Attempting Raid On  i En ——E

a,000 COUNTERFEMT GAS STAMPS SEIZED   Thirty Men Ar Arrested In ~ New York City nae  Area

Soviets Break Through Nazi  Defense Lines West Of Kiev   Smashing Attacks Launched Against German forces —Communique Tells of Powerful New Russian Offensive

15,000 NAZIS ARE SLAIN IN FIERCE FIGH   3,600 Others hers Killed as Reds Push Within 8 Miles of Vitebsk

Push Ahead 25 Miles; Kight Miles from Vitebsk In Balie Front Drive

Russ Advance 25 Miles on Road to Poland   Kills 15,000 Nazis, Kiev Salient Drive Routs Ten Divisions

15,000 NAZIS ARE SLAIN IN FIERCE FIGH]   3,600 Others Killed as Reds Push Within 8 Miles of Vitebsk  mp... TINCSON CYOLUNAN

Smashing Drive Made Toward Polish Border   First Ukraine Army Is Now Within Striking Distance Of Vital Supply Line; 150 Towns Are Captured

SOVIET ALREADY BEARS BRUNT OF WAR, IS CLAIM   American Red Claims Allies Have No Right To Ask More Of Stalin   BASES NOT FORTHCOMING   Churchill Attacked As Unwilling To Open Second Front

BROWDER HITS ‘WAR STRATEGY   COMMUNIST ° LEADER CRITI * CIZES. CHURCHILL AND DECLARES SOVIET WILL NOQY ATTACK JAPAN,

WHS STUDENTS’ CRAFTSMANSHIP IS EXHIBITED   ndustrial Arts and Home Ee. Departments Display Projects at Dunham Store.

“SCHOOL SHOW   Home Economics Depart: ment And Industrial Arts Department To Display Projects in Dunham’s Windaw.

Commander Of Training Center Says Americans Too Complacent When Called Into Armed Forces

‘Too Damned Complacent’   Americans Think Soldier Life ‘Boy Scout Stuff’

‘STORK HAD BUSIEST YEAR   History Broken with - 2,800,000 Babies in 1942 ,

Storks Had Busiest Year In Nation's History In 1942: 2,800,000 Babies

\Russian Bases For Bombing (May Result From Conference   Advantage Would Be Gained For Angilo-Americans With Such Bases

ONE OF USES MADE OF XMAS SEAL FUNDS   Money From Sale Of Stamps Helps Maintain The Finé Anti-Tuberculosis Work Being Done In Hamilton Co.

CHEST X-RAYS ARE EYTRA PRECAUTION   When They ; Say ‘No’, There Is No Serious Infection

Daylight Raiders Over France After Night Lull In Bombings   Fighters On Offensive Patrol; Axis Merchantman In Bay Of Biscay Hit

WOUND SAID NOT CRITICAL   Commander of American Ground Armies Was Inspecting Troops at Front in Africa When Hit.

Licutenant-General Suffers Injuries in Action in Tunisia—Temporary Successor is Lieut.-Gen. Ben Lear, Commander of the Second Army— McNair’s Condition Held As Not Grave.

Gen. Ben Lea Will Succeed Gen. McNair   McNair Wounded In Action In Tunisia

MNAIR’S ABSENCE WILL NOT CHANGE PROGRAM-OF ARMY   Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, His ‘Temporary Successor,. To Direct Ground Forces

Making Bid * To Beat The Spring Thaw   HOWEVER, SAVAGE RUSSIAN _ COUNTER-ATTACK WIPES OUT. LATEST ADVANCE BY GERMANS

KHARKOV FIGHTING IS HEAVY   Mud And Slush Slows Red Drive Towards  Smolensk Base

RUSSIANS PREVENT ADVANCE OF AXIS   Mud and Slush Slewing Drive of Reds Toward Smolensk on Central Front.

Tens of Thousands of Axis Troops Battle Russ Lines SEE-SAW BATTLE  Russians Regroup to Win Back Ground

5  SLOW DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   Soviet Counter-attack Wipes Out Nazi Advance on Upper Donets Front.

Fierce Battle Raging   Mud And Slush Slow Reds In Drive On Smolensk

Nazis Take Gigantic Losses in Attempt to Gain Foothold   HITLER ARMIES LOSE 500 MEN IN SINGLE DESPERATE THRUST AS MUD SLOWS SWIFT SOVIET DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK   Donets Try

WARNING SERVICE TO BE CURTAILED   Threat Of Daily Bombings Reduced. By Change In Europe Situation

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   (By County Extension Direetor)   Beef Breeders Discuss Problems  ey a ee a Pees ee

a ee   Officers Were Eiedied ‘at the Annual Meeting Whit Was Held Last @iturdey

Place Lebanon  Under Orders   Prime Minister. President. Cabinet Members Under Arrest By French.

Martial Law Declared in Lebanon   French Place President Under Arrest.

Soldiers Rule’ Over Lebanon   French Committee Takes - Action; Leaders Have Been Arrested _

LEBANON GETS MARTIAL RULE   French Group Acts, Arrest: Republic’s Officials

WILL 6. IRWIN DIES: SUDDENLY   Columbus Millionairé and Philanthropist Collapses In Indianapolis.

NAZIS FAIL 10 GET GROUND THEY GAVE UP   Russians are able to meet air assaults with equal plane force

AIR BATTLES. ~~ OVER RUSSIA   AERIAL ACTIVITY STEADILY INCREASING AS ONLY _  . MINOR GROUND AC-  TION I8 REPORTED :

LOSSES IN STRUGGLE ARE HEAVY   Air Warfare Continues Undiminished In Orel Sector

Nazis Repelled In Move To Take  Lost Territory   Counter - Attacks Of Germans Fail To Retake The ‘‘Orel Bulge’’   AIR WAR SHOWS STEADY ACTION

Russians Are Convinced They Have Mastered Technique Of Halting 60-Ton Tiger Tanks

SOVIETS GAIN IN BELGOROD ARMOR GLASt   Russ Report Troops Along Southern Front Are “Taming Tigers.”   SHOWDOWN FIGHT IS BELIEVED IMPENDING

HUNDREDS OF AXIS G9 TON TANKS ARE REPORTED ON FIRE   Russian “Tiger - Hunters” Average Daily Bag of About 500 German Tanks Early Reports Show.   ENEMY CONTINUES TO STEP UP FIGHT TEMPO   Bombing of Cologne, Experts Believe, May Be Coupe de Grace of Important Rhineland City.

NaziDrive Moves Ahead AtBelgorod   Soviet Hold Firm Against Strong Attack in North

Hundreds of Giant 60-Tonners Ablaze In Awesome Battle   Cries of Exultation Rise as Reds Smash Record Armored Onslaught; Two-Thirds of Reich Micht Is Lost

Soviets Hurling  Armor Into Fight   Germans Penetrate Russian Lines but Soviets Fighting It Out on Kursk Plains

Biggest Armored. Battle of All Time Under Way   Red Army Belicved Gaining Upper Hand As Hundreds of Big Nazi ‘Tiger’ . Tanks Set Afice'on Belacrod Sector

Biggest Armored Battle of All  ‘Time Rages As Nazis Pound Red Lines

HUNDREDS OF NAZI TANKS ABLAZE IN BELGOROD SECTOR   Russians Believed To Be Gaining Upper Hand In Armored Struggle Outcome May Decide Course  ’ Of War On East Front

Soviets Claim That Hundreds Of Nazis 60-Ton Tigers Tanks Ablaze On Belgo~od Front   Gasoline-Filled Pop Bottles Singe Tigers   Say Soviet Position Appears “‘Precarious’’   Huge Air Force Supporting German Drive

Hundreds of 60-Ton German Tanks Ablaze; Soviets Send in Grenade Throwers, Tanks   Full Impact of Tremendous Nazi Push Believed Met and Overcome. Expect Climax in 48 Hours. .

BELIEVED STIFFENING   Showdown In Greatest Armored Battle Of  >» War Seen Soon

NAZIS MET BY GIGANTIC RED ARMORED RUSH   Russians Shout ‘We’ve Tamed Tiger’ As Hundreds of Enemy Units Blaze.   TRY TO STEM ASSAULT   Observers See Defenders In Precarious Position Near Belooorod.

TO BE DEFEATING GERMANS   Armored Fight May Be Biggest Of Its Kind

Teutons Claim Crossing Of Donets River   Reds Hurl Giant Tanks At 60 Tanners, Halil ‘Taming Of Tiger’   BATTLE INCREASES   Hitler's Heavy Armor Pounds Harder At Wedge Driven Yesterday

REDS BELIEVED WINNING FIERCE ARMORED FIGHT   Hundreds of German Tiger Tanks Ablaze in Belgorod Sector

Reds Believed Getting Upper Hand In East   Hundreds Of German Tanks Destroyed In Furious Engagement

GERMAN TIGER TANKS ABLAZE ‘BY HUNDREDS   Armored Fight Called Greatest In War History

TITANIC BATTLE RAGES IN AREA NEAR BELGOROD   Moscow Expects Climax Of Atm  ored Battle Within 48 ! Hours

HUGE BOMBERS SMASH EMDEN   U.S. Pilots Stage Big Assault Fortresses On Wide Range Raids

FORTRESSES SMASH AT EMDEN AFTER RAF PLANES HIT RHINELAND TARGETS

Fortresses Hit Shipyards At Emden; Rhineland Is Attacked by RAF Fliers

FLYING FORTS IN RAID ON EMDEN   U.S. Bombers Follow Up Attac ks by R.A, F. Mosquito Planes

German Naval Base Of Emden Hit By Bombers   Giant American Flying Fortresses Smash At German Shipbuilding  Center   ATTACK FOLLOWS HUGE NIGHT RAID

Oakland Area Badly Shaken   Series of Earth Tremors Are Strong Enough To Knock Dishes from Shelves

WEATHER HITS ~ BARDENS BLOW   State Farmers Count Cost of : Two Day Frigid Spell; Cold About Over

Cold Causes Garden Losses   Fruit Crop Damaged Also, State Weather Bureau Believes

NEUTRALS ARE BERLIN'S HOPE   Germany Fears Turkey May Go Over To Allied Side

Ger mans Rely On Neutrals Staving in Line   Reich Politicians Hinge Hopes on Steadfast Policies

CIVILIAN SUPPLY AGENCY ENDORSED   Jeffers Backs Plan Which Is Opposed by WPB Choirman

Jury Acquits Defendants In Cannon Case  ' Deliberafe 30 Minute:  In Case Involving Mack Alenateh Edilas

Acquit Three  In Cannon Dea!   Judge Blair In Assertion Action Was “Ridiculous”

THREE ACQUITTED IN CANNON CASE   EDITOR AND 2 OTHERS FREED OF CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO STEAL GUN.

Flynn Defense Outlined to Jury   Denies Attacking Two Young Girls

News Behind The News  Copyright Motlura Newspaper   WASHINGTON Te Rav Treker

Senate May Not Back House in Curtailing OPA   Many Apparently Opposec To Killing Food Subsidy Program

SUBSIDY BILL UNDER STUDY BY SENATORS   Some Balk at Drastic OPA Cuts Provided by  Houce

Senators Study OPA Subsidies   Many Attack Drastic Action of House

Senators May Save Subsidies   Leaders. Declare House Action Too Severe

Senate loath to kill OPA food subsidy   Expected to take action this week

Senators Deer) Move to Strip. OPA of Powers   Decision Expected. This Week as New Meat Subsidy Goes Into Effect Today

MEAT SUBSIDY STARTS. TODAY   OPA Takes Step To Roll Back Prices; Senators Cool Toward House  Fund Slashes

MAY NOT VOTE SUBSIDIES BAN   Senators Hesitate in Follow. ing House in Blow at  OPA Program

House Action OnOPA Callec  ‘Too Severe’  Some Senators Assail Slashing of Budget, Rollback Restrictions  TO MAKE DECISION LATER THIS WEEK .  Retail Price Slash On Meat Scheduled  kT WD. Werer._..* ._

ITALY PEACE EFFORT SEEN   NEUTRAL SOURCES SAY CIANO MAY TRY THROUGH VATICAN

Ciano Is Named Envoy To Vatican  Appointment Seen As  Possible Peace Move > rs... _ 9  ®

MONTHLY DRAFT CALLS REDUCED   Supply of Single Men About Exhausted, Says Hershey

Back To Work Move Begins As W. L. B. Votes A Guaran tee of Pay Retroactivity To Union In Expiring : Contracts; Reverses Labor Stand.

CRISIS IN STEEL STRIKE AVERTED   President Murray Tells Men To Comply With WLB Directive

Striking Steel Workers Return to Work As Labor Outlook Brightens

End Steel Deadlock   Start Back to ‘Mills After WLB Guarantees Pay Retroactivity

bor Board Vote: etroactive Pay  sr Ends As   Riad Been ladle In 214  Companies.  Me 170,000) Workers

Steel Workers Return to Mills As CIO President Orders Walkout to Halt

Steel Workers ‘End Walkout   Back to Work Movement in Effect After WLB Guarantees Wage Retroactivity

ENDS AS WLB REVERSES SEL   Four Labor Members Shili Votes fo Retroactive Pay Proposed by Public Members Backed By FDR   PRODUCTION DROPS   £1,000 Men of 500,000 Affected by Expiring Contracts Quit Work in Protest

Striking Steel Workers Going Back To Jobs   Union Officials Hurry Them Back After WLB Guarantees Retroactive Pa:

STRIKERS BACK TO STEEL JOBS   Crisis to War Production Passes After WLB Votes . Pay Retroactivity

STEEL WORKERS RETURNING   Signal End To Threatened Big Steel Strike

Back To Work Movement Today Points To End Of Steel Strike —   War Labor Board Votes Guarantee Of Pay Retroactivity To Union In Expiring Contracts Affecting 500,000 Workers.

Steel Workers Are Returning   WLB Votes Guarantee .Of Pay Retroactivity To End’ Walkouts

Steel Workers Return fo Mills   War Labor Board _ Grants Retroactive Pay to Send Men Back

Steel Strike Ends; Men Go Back to Work   WLB Guarantees Pay Retroactivity In a Reversal  Of Former Stand

Walk-Out Ends As Labor Board Votes  Retroactive Pay    Jad Been Idle Lo a  ee 170,000 Workers Companies.

REDS CUT STRONG NAZI DEFENSE LINE OUTSIDE POLTAVA   Soviets Laying Plans To Clese In On Orel —~  U.S. Tanks Prove Effertivea.

U.S. TANKS LEAD RUSS ATTACK   AMERICAN EQUIPMENT IS PRAISED AT OREL

ALLIED TANKS: LEAD ADVANCE BY RED ARMY   Russians A Ppro aching  Poltava’ As. Nazi . Defenses Leak

Russian Troops, Led By U.S. Tanks, Seize Towns South of Orel   American-Made Tanks Are Giving Good Account of Themselves, Reports State

AMERICAN TANKS ARE BEING USED —INRED VICTOR   Equipment Makes Very Goss Showing Against Powerfui 52-Ton German Tanks = In Orel Close-in.   THIRD RABAUL RAID BRINGS BIG SUCCESS   Soviet-Finnish Negotiaticz: For Separate Peace to Begin Shortly Swedish Sources Say.

US. ‘MADE TANKS USED BY RUSSIANS   Thrown Into Fight Near Orel And On Central Front

Bad Split With Hull  Is Cause   Widely Diverging Views On PostWar Planning Develops Break.

Welles Said Out Of Post   State Department No. Two Man Quits Office

Report Welles Has Resigned   Friends Say F. D. R Requested Action

SUMNER WELLES RESIGNATION I$ REPORTED   State Department Refuses to Comment

U. S. Warplanes Bomb Japanese On China Front   Help Chinese Drive Enem Back in One of Major Drives   Mitchell Bombers ane Warhawks Blast Plane Runways

USWARPLANES LASH AT JAP IN CHINA   Supporting Chinesee troops hurling enemy back in one of his biggest defeats *n China   1000 Japs Killed

More Troops Of Mikado Are Mopped Up   American Flyers Are in Action All Along River Batilefront

CHINESE PUSH FORWARD AFTER FLEEING ENEMY   U. S. Warplanes Lash Out On Yangtze Front As Japanese Suffer  More Setbacks   Vital Points Taken

U.S. Fliers Lash Fleeing Jap ‘Army i in China   Enemy Takes Heavy Loss During Flight And Americans, Chinese Continue Mopping Up: Great Drive Presses On

Chinese Gain New Ground Along Yangtze  Steady Advances Leave 1000

Chinese and. American ‘Airmen Continue to Hurl'‘Back:Japs iIn One of Biggest.Defeats

JAPS RETREAT ALONG YANGTZE   Chinese Hurl Invader Back With Help Of U.S. Warplanes

FULL TEXT OF REMARKS ARE AWAITED HERE   Ambassador Says Soviet People Not Told of U.S. Aid

Admiral’s Remarks Not Government's   Welles Says Ambassador Criticized Soviet Policy Without Consultine Canttal

State Dept. 2 owns fi Statements         AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA SAYS SOVIET IS WITHHOLDING NEWS OF U.S. AID FROM RUSS PEOPLE

GERMAN RAIDERS AMBUSHED BY RAE   POUNCED ON BEFORE REACH ING ENGLISH SHORE— ' FOUR SHOT DOWN,

INVASION OF -TTALY NEARS   Controls on Disillusioned ‘Italian People Are : Tiahtened

Troops Stand On Guard Over Nation   Italy Is Imperilled Gravely; People Expect More Attack:

IL DUCE TIGHTENS CONTROLS ON DISILLUSIONED ITALIANS   ‘People Are Accepting Tunisian Defeat More Realisti‘cally Than Germans; Italy’s Defense Against Invasion Rests With Potent But Vulnerable Fleet

MUSSOLINI'S CONTROLS ON ITALY TIGHTER   But Aerial Defenses Are Weak And Naval Is_ Uncertain;  Fall Of Bizerte Heavy  ) =) Seem   Economic Stringency

1] Duce Tightens Controls of ltaly  a yy * a> TT nen tane   People Take Tunisia Loss Realistically

Strains To Unite People For Defense of Homeland Against Allied Invasion

Mussolini Seeks To Prepare for Allied Invasion   Attempts To Tighten Control of Fascists He Once Dominated

DUCE ACTS AS INVASION OF ITALY NEARS   Controls on Disillusioned Italian People Are Tightened

ll Duce Tightens Grip On Disillusioned Italy   Tunisian Defeat Accepted Realistically A Preparations Are Made To Meet Expected Invasion   Proud Hopes Vanish

Fall Back In North  Tunisia   French Army Takes Mountains  With Little Fighting

American Victory ‘Is in North and Reports In: dicate Axis Move t “Fight It Out’ Witt British Farther South.

YANKS TAKE STRONGHOLDS IN MOUNTAINS   German Salient Wiped Out By French Units   IMPORTANT HILL   Captured By U. S. Troops In Another Action In Northern Tunisia

French 19th Army Corps, Serving as “Hinge” Between British First and Eighth Armies, Wins Five Mountain Positions

Allies Capture Vital Positions On Western Wall   French Capture Five Mountains; Axis Concentrates Against First Army Drive

U.S. Forces Take Strategic Tunisian Hill   French Forces Capture Five Mountains In Hard Fighting

French Score Gains In Hills Heavily  Defended By Axis; 8th Army Advances

French Troops Take Five Mountains in Northern Tunisia   Nazis Fail To Attempt Stand Against American Units, 8th Army Takes More Prisoners

Axis Retreats Before Attack . Of Americans   French Also Report Advance, Capture Of Five Mountains With Slight Opposition; Von Arnim Tries To Block British Tanks.

GERMANS AREAN RETREAT, NORTHERN SECTOR, TUNISIA   Yielded Mountain § Strongholds at Southern End of West Wall.   LITTLE RESISTANCE   Germans Had Begun Withdrawing From Positions Before 2nd U.S. Army.

GERMANS REPORTED IN RETREAT ALONG U. 5. MANNED SECTOR  _ INDICATIONS THAT MOUN

Alexander’s British 18th Army Group Continues Steady Progress.   NAZI FLANK THREATENED

Yield Mountain Strongholds at Southern End of West Wall — French Win Five Mountains at “Hinge — Yanks 10 Miles Southwest of Mateur

BRITISH, ENEMY ARMORED UNITS READY IN SOUTH   Sixty-Four Axis Tanks Knocked Out In Battle

Armored Strength Being Concentrated in Center Of Tunisian Defense Line

British Tanks Penetrate Narrow Plain Between U. S.-French Sector

Von Arnim’s Forces Reported ‘in Full Retreat’ Before Americans After Yielding Five Hills to French at Southern End   BRITISH HOLD STRATEGIC HILLS   Allies Lose 12 Aircraft as Fliers Support Ground Forces — Axis Air Resistance Weak but Seven Planes Downed   Reritiech Threaten Breakthrough

fermen Armored Units Ave Concentrated In Narrow Plain East Of Town OF Goubellat

Nazis Withdraw On All 5 Main  Tunisian Front   Heavy Fortifications In North Smashed By Patton's U. S.  Tr OODS

‘rench and British Also Surge Forward in Fight ing in Tunisia   NAZI TANKS TO CENTER   Axis Flanks Are Drawn in as Fierce Allied Attacks  Continue

Nazis Said Retreating Before Yankee Troops   American Forces Converging On Mateur; British and French Made New Gains

ALSO YIELD AT SOUTH OF LINE   French Win Five Mountains With Little Opposition

 MADD ADAAAAADAAARAAAAAAL OPA Decides Not  To Ration Poultry And Fish at Present

Outbreaks Of Fighting In No. Italy   Italians and Nazis Clash as Occupation  Of Istria Continues

ITALIANS FIGHT GERMAN TROOPS. REPORTS: STATE   Nazis Place Guard Over Five Submarines Found At Fiume

Germans Fight Italians Anew   MADRID REPORTS MORE ACTION IN NORTH OF ITALY.

Nazis Guarding 5 Italian Subs   “Report Crews Enroute To Take Over Craft

New Nazi-ltalian Fighting Reported   Madrid Also Hears Germans Have Established a Guard Over 5 Italian Submarines Found at Fiume and Plan to Man the Craft. -

ALLIED OFFERS FOR PEACE NOT YET ANSWERED   Yanks Outsmart Best Axis Troops To Narrow Escape Path from Sicily   CRISIS IS BELIEVED NEAR   British War Cabinet Called Into Special Night Session; Revolts Spread in Italy

ITALIAN, BOCHE SOLDIERS CLASH   HUNS REPORTED ON {ARCH TO OCCUPY NORTH ITALY AREA

MANY WAR AGENCIES TEMPORARILY BROKE FISCAL YEAR ENDS   UNPRECEDENTED SUM OF 109 BILLION DOLLARS BE SPENT THIS YEAR

Chief New Deal Agencies Leff Without Fund:   Congress Neglects .To Renew President's Emergency Fund

Senate, House Discord Holds Up MoneyBills   Wallace-Jones Feud Breaks Out Anew After Byrnes Calls for Peace Talk

Allies May Recognize King, Badoglio In Attempt To Rally The Italian People

Recognition Of Badoglio Is Predicted   Campaign to Rally Italian People Against Fascist Republic Mapped

Allied Nations May Recognize Badoglio Regime   Move May Precede Effort To Enlist Italians In War

Allied Hand To Badoglio Government   Spokesman Sees Campaign to Rally Italian People Against Mussolin’sa Fascist State

ALLIES PROBABLY WILL RECOGNIZE TTALIAN REGIME.  GOVERNMENT OF BA. DOGLIO AND VICTOR EN

Badoglio Will Be Recognized, Capitol Belief   Hope To Rally Italians Against Mussolini's Fascists; Statement Reply To Soldiers

Diplomatic Offensive  Allies Are Likely To Recognize Badoglio Regime

Allies To Recognize  Badoglio   Plan Campaign to Rally Italy Against Nazis

Allies Will Back Badoglio   Plan Campaign to Rally Italian People Under New Government

ALLIES MAY RECOGNIZE BADOGLIO GOVT   Campaign May Be Launchjed to Rally Italians Against ‘Nazi-Fostered Republic °

BADOGLIO AND KING EMMANUEL ARE APPROVED   Allies Probably To Recognize Two Leaders

Favor Accepting Badoglio Regime  Seen as Blow to bAuscolini Anneal

May Recognize Badoglio, King   May Launch Campaign To Rally Italians Against Germans

To Recognize Badoglio   See Recognition As Move To Rally Italians Against Nazis  BY WILL:AM FRYE

Predict Allied Recognition Of  Badoglio Rule   Gen. Eisenhower Negotiates With Italian Government As Co-Belligerent.   AMG DISGRUNTLED

MAY RECOGNIZE BADOGLIO, KING   Campaign to Rally Italians Against Mussolini Forepact.

Red Premier Says Raids Foreshadow Second Front   Tells Nation Blows From East and West Shake German Army ‘To Its Foundation’   STALIN RULES OUT ANY COMPROMISE

STALIN SEES AIR RAIDS AS PRELUDE TO SECOND FRONT   Declares Nazis Face Crisis as Result of Anglo-American Attacks and Russian Suecesses.   DEMANDS DESTRUCTION OF HITLERITE GERMANY   Asserts Only Unconditional Surrender of Fuehrer’s Armies Can Bring Peace to Europe.

Ridicules Any Hitler Peace Talk   Russian Premier Lines Up Solidly With His Allies

JANE S, CLARKE WED TO ELBERT P. HOLBROOK   Double Ring Ceremony Takes Place ni St. Paul's Meth\. odist Church

JEFFERS STICKS TO RUBBER JOB   Director ‘Wants To Be Sure That Program Is Success

Battle Looms Over Money Demands For War Agencies   By ALEX H. SINGLETON

ITALY PROMISED HELP BY GERMANY   IL DUCE REPORTED CALLING TROOPS HOME TO DEFEND COUNTRY.

STATE ESCAPES FRIGID BLAST   Sub-Zero Temperatures Fail to Arrive

NEW SECURITY OUTLINE SENT TO CONGRESS   PROGRAM MAPPED FOR POST-WAR AMERICA

Hair-Raising Experience   Officer Catches WACs with Hair Up During Ai Raid in Italy — Waitresses Embarrass Captain Who Gave Them Jobs

German U-Boat Reported Sunk In Caribbean   Caught Cruising on Sur face and Destroyed; Crewman Rescued

\Nazis Pressed  20 More Miles Toward Rostov   Tanks Lead Infantry in Desperate Attempt on Lower Don  ALLIES BOMB NAPLES  British Infantry Oust - Germans on Road to ~ Tunis

Ruhr Valley Gets Sixth Air Assault in Nine Months—“Nothing to Report” in Libya—RAF Bombs Road Between  Misurata and Tripoli

Reds Continue to Dominate  All 3 Fronts   Axis Radio Acknowledges. Bit‘ter Russian Attacks; African Front Quiet, RAF Busy

SOVIET DISPATCHES ANNOUNCE WAVERINC NAZIS FALLING BACK   INVADERS THROWING MASSES OF TANK-LED INFANTRY INTO FRAY

Reds Drive Nazis Back to Kuban Area —   Cossacks Lead Russian Armies in Return to Their Devastated Homeland; British Drive Nazis from Hill  _ Positions in Tunisia; Naples and The Ruhr Again Bombed

German Base  Enemy Admits Pressure Is Heavy On Three Fronts; Hitteries a  ree 5 F FT Ff. Steere

Yankee Planes Hammer Enemy  On All Fronts   French Foree Captures Im. portant Pass From Gers man Troops In Tunisia,   BRITISH CAPTURE HILL

Brilliant Russian Drive Overshadows  All War News Today   Swift-Moving Offensive Engulfs Six Cities in Manner Day

Russians Aavance 20 Miles   Germans Gloomily Admit Reds On Offensive In Three Main Sectors   38th Raid On Naples.

Fresh Tank-Led Germans On Don Try To Stem Red Tide; Raid Italy And The Rabr

Allied Planes Blast Shore Installations, Shipping at Naples   Nazis Throw Masses of Tank-Led Infantry in Desperate Attempt To Halt Russians

TANKS THROWN INTO BATTLE T0 BLOCK ADVANGE   Axis Forces In Caucasus Hurled  Back By Reds

New 20-Mi. Nazi Retreat Near Rostov   Russ Continue Offensives On 3 Major Sectors; Naples Target For  Allied Bombers.

In Caucasus And Along Don Germans Yield; African Fighting Confined Largely To Air With Daylight Bombing Given Naples

Germans Fall Back 20 Miles Before Reds   Masses Of Tanks And Infantry Fail To Stop Advance   Allied Airplanes Bomb Naples And Ruhr Area   Fighting French Take More Towns In Advance North

Nazis Attempt To Halt Drive   German Foreign Office Admits Strength of Soviets

Cossacks Lead New Advance  By Russians  Dt Aces Teel“   Red Army Closing Rapidly In Qn Rostov

RUSSIAN DRIVE DAY'S HIGHLIGHT OF GLOBAL WAR   Cossack-led Soviet Forces Recapture More Towns as They Crush Germans   ‘NAZI DEFENSES SMASHED   Allies Carry Air Attacks To Germany and Italy; Advance in Africa

 Score 20 Mile Advance oa Eastern Approaches to Rostov — Cther Columns Closing In   NAZI TANKS FAIL TO STEM ADVANCE   Georgievsk Taken, German Reserves Surprise Entrained ai Mineralnye Vody

i Wavering Nazis Retreat Another 20 Miles Before Reds     ALLIES BOMB NAPLES     Axis Loses Murzuk When French Advance in  Southern Libya

FURTHER GAINS ON LOWER DON ALSO CLAIMED   Allied Bombers Strike In Raids on German  And Italian Areas

REDS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE IN CAUCASUS AREA   Series of Brilliant Russian Strokes Along Many Fronts Revealed

Germans Desperate In Trying to Stop Reds in Don Sector   Naples and German Ruhr Again Targets Of Allied Bombers

‘Germans Driven Back  20 Miles Near Rostov   Cossack-Led Russian Armies Roll Steadily Forward In Caucasus; Recapture Of Maikop Oil Fields Likely; Axis Leaders Glum

Germans Again Try To Halt Soviet Drive On Lower Don Front   Naples Bombed By U. S. Liberators; Axis Troops Snared Near Sousse; Aerial Activity Grows In Libya

Allied Planes Batter Naples. In Day Attack   Russians Sweep Foe Back Toward Rostov As Germans Throw Masses Of Tanks Into Don Battle In Attempt To Stem Sweeping Red Offensive.

GERMANS HURL MASSED TROOPS IN DESPERATION   Berlin Admits That Russians Are Keeping Up Their Offensive With Strong Forces

Steady Advancels Claimed for Reds   Germans Retire 20 Miles on ' Eastern Approaches to Rostov   DRIVE OVER STEPPES   Russian (Forces Make Dramatic Capture of Nazi ~~ Troop Train

DEATH TOLL. LIGHT   Holiday Deaths on: Home _ Front Are Fewer Than. Usual This Year 3

Holiday Death Toll Rises to 144 Mark   One of Smallest Totals on Record

HOLIDAY TOLL OF LIVES LOW   War Industries Keep Down Number of Accidents In Celebrating Fourth

Fatal Accidents Few This Holiday   Up to Sunday Night Only 96 Reported

Violent Death: Over Holiday Hit New Low   Lives Lost to Date Reach Only 745 Traffic Claims 35

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL IN NATION HITS NEW LOW   Less Than 200 Killec During Three-Day  Vacation

HOLIDAY TOLL DROPS TO 96   Traffic Accidents Claim Only 42; 23 Persons Are Drowned

Little Town Of Caldwell  But No Complaints Heard  ee fake fee ee Sa Pee See ee ee, ee,

LITTLE TEXAS CITY OF CALDWELL 15 HARI HIT BY CASUALTIES  HADNIYV DWAwr ic i trr   HARDLY HOME IS LEFT UNTOUCHED AFTER INVASION OF ITALY

People of Caldwell Do Not Complain O50 War CasualtiesinRecentWeeks

l-Cent Average Coal Price Hike  : Increase Approved By  - Stabilization Chief

TIN SOFT OAL PRICES   abilization Director Aw orizes OPA To Increase  Cost an Average of 17: Cents a Ton   ETAIL OF PRICES BY DISTRICTS AWAITED   epresents Compromise etween Proposals by OPA-and Solid Fuels: Administration

BOOST GRANTED   Vinson Hikes Price Of Sof » Coal 17 Cents Per Ton

17-Cent Coal Hike Granted   Boost Authorized As Result of Wage Increase to Miners

  Increase in Soft Coal Prices of 17 Cents   Authorized by Vinson

YANKS UNHINGE ‘NEW NAZI LINE BY HARD FIGHT   Smash First Defense Rin Based on 2529-Foot Mt. Massico

TAKE TOWN OF MONDRAGONE, WEST ANCHOR   Smash First Rim of Defenses, Threaten Other Positions

ABOENTEEIOM CURB ADVOCATED BY LAND   Maritime Commission Head Cites Huge Costs

[Duisburg Target ‘Of RAF Bombs ‘Ror Sth Time   Germans Admit Damage To Some Small Towns; ~ Foiir “Planes” ~ Mis:

Duisberg Gets Another Dose Of RAF Bombs   Four Bombers Missing After Raid on Big Ruhr  Rail Junction

RAF Bombs Ruhr Targets   Four Bombers Missing —~Duisburg, Rail Center, Blasted

Strong Force Of Bombers Hits Duisburg   Other Targets In Ruhr Area Are Also Attacked

RAF. Blasts Ruhr Cities   Duisburg Raided 57th Time; Other Targets Hammered by Bombs

Belin Acknowledges High Explosive and Incendiary Bombs Inflict Casualties During Raid; Area Vital in Hitler’s War Production;  Four British Bombers Lost

RAF FORCE ATTACKS DUISBURG   Naziland’s Largest Inland Port and Railroad Center Hit For 57th Time of War

DUISBURG HIT INR. A. F. RAID   Other Targets In Ruhr Blasted; Duisburg Important Rail Junction.

DUISBURG HIT IN RAF RAID   Four War Planes Missing fron Strong Force Over Targets in Rubr Valley,

RAF Bomber: Hit Duisburg, Ruhr Points   Germans Admit Damage In Raids

RAF BOMBERS HIT TARGETS IN RUHR   No Enemy Planes over Britain for 36 Hours

RUHR BLASTED BY RAF BOMBS   Duisburg Industries Are Hit By High Explosives and Incendiaries

AIRMEN ATTACK . TARGETS IN REICH   Berlin Admits Casualties i Raids on Towns in Western Areas

Bombs Fall Over Ruhr   Strong Force of RAF Planes Attack; Berlin Admits Damage

FRENCH OCCUPY CORSICAN PORT    Important Point Is Taker From Nazis

JAPANESE ARE DUCKING FIGHT   Enemy Airmen Are Refusing To Meet American Fliers In Aerial Combat

JAPANESE AIRMEN AVOIDING BATTLES   American Air Force Unable to Get Planes in Combat

COMMONS TOLD DRIVE 10 COME IN NEAR FUTURE   Prime Minister Reveals HalfMillion Men in Africa; Early Assault Stressed

PLAN OFFENSIVE ON LARGE SCALE AT AN EARLY DATE   Prime Minister Declares Duty Is to Draw Enemy From Russia With U-Boat Problerns Solved.      UNUSUAL OPTIMISM IN HIS WAR REVIEW   Shipping Increases Over Million Tons During Past Six Months Mentioned In High Points.

Optimism Keynote Of Speech   Prime Minister Tells [Basic Plans of Allied Nations for Offensive Action Against Axis

PlanComplete For Action in Next9 Months  “More Than Holding Qur Own’ Against U-Boats, Commons Is Told  TO BLOT OUT AXIS   TO BLOT OUT ANIS

Churchill Sees Push — ‘At Earliest Moment’  Will Mcet With FDR Again in °43;

Plans Ready for Invasion — “in 9 Months   Churchill Says Everything Is Being Done to Work. Out. the Details   TO MAKE ENEMY : - =<" BIPN AND BLEED   An... Optimistic Report. on War. Is Made to’ Cheering House. of Commons

i 5: ‘Eisenhower Tops African   Mediterranean War, Says Minister  TO MEET WITH F. R. Allies More Than Hold ing Own Against Subs, He Says

Unconditional Surrender Doesn't Mean Cruelty to Vanquished, Prime Minister States

“THE ALLIES ARE HOLDING OWN IN U-BOAT BATTLES”   Churchill Reviews War For Commons; Says United Nations Have Complete Plan of Action DIC aAgpwpica EAVES

LARGEST POSSIBLE SCALE IS THE GOAL   He Declared That the United Nations Had a “Complete Plan of Action to Be Carried Out.

Hints Invasion of European Continent Within Nine Months   Allies More Than Holding Their Own in U-Boat Warfare, Eisenhower Heads African Command

Unusual Optimism Seen In Speech To His Parliament      Says Half Million Men Are Now In Africa; Unified Command Is Announced

Allies More Than Hold Own in U-Boat Warfare With Losses Decreasing, Sinking of Enemy Boats Increasing, He Says

)perations On Largest Possible Scale’ Promised   {nification Of Command In North ‘Afriea 4nd Landing Of Nearly Haif-Million Men Is Told By Churchill In Optimistic Review Of War Situation

Eisenhower to Take Command When British Army Enters Tunisia Area

Says Allies Plan To Attack Europe Soon   Churchill In Optimistic Mood In Speech To Commons; Clarifies Conference With Turk Officials

Half Million  In Africa For Climax Attack   Churchill Tells Commons That Allies Will Assault Enemy “On The Largest Possible Scale And At The Earliest Possible Moment’: Eisenhower Named Chief

ENEMY WILL BE ENGAGED AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT ON LARGEST SCALE POSSIBLE   Prime Minister’s War Review Vibrant With Optimism. _ Nearly Half Million Men Are In Africa For Planned Offensive Against Nazi

Prepared To Strike At Earliest Moment On Enormous Seale   Reveals Unification Of Command Planned At Casablanca Parley; Will Meet FDR Again This Year

Churchill Gives Review of War   Reveals Unification of Command in North Africa With Eisenhower in Charge —Allies More Than Holding Own in U-Boat Warfare, Commons Told

Churchill Says In Commons Talk   Reports All-Out Offensive Campaign To Be Staged During Next Nine Months With European Invasion To Come At Earliest Possible Date

United Nations Will Strike With Full Fury Within 1943   Prime Minister Is Very Optimistic In Address Today

FIGHTING ON WIDER FRONT IS PROMISED   War Report Brightened By Unusual Optimism Of Prime Minister

Half-Million Men Now At Battle Front   Plans For Mighty Offensive Revealed By Churchill

Prime Minister Optimistic, Reveals Plans ‘of United Nations in North Afric:   Says the Enemy Will Be Engaged on the Largest Possible Scale at Earliest Possible Moment; To See Roosevelt Soon

Churchill Reveals Big Allied Edge In U Boat War   United Nations Shipping Swells: Submarine Toll : Lowest In Over Year

Bright Report On War Given By Churehil!   Allied Shipping Gains On Nazi Submarines Commons Told In Report.   CONTINUE JAP BATTLE

“Enemy to Burn, Bleed’ Is British Chief’s Vow   Prime Minister Says United Nations Have “A Complete Plan of Action”

ALLIES HAVE LANDED NEARLY HALF MILLION MEN IN NORTH AFRICA  AVITIND OWT Brawre mpar

Pledges Invasion  Of Europe at  Earliest Moment: Declares United  Nations Hold: Own. Aaainct U_Raate

TO ENGAGE AXIS ON LARGE SCALE IN NEAR FUTURE   Prime Minister Reports Goals For This Year

Report Made to Commons in Ch seh ful: Mood; Says U-Boats Are Being Ov come; Praises General. Eisenh As Chief Commander ‘of Ur Forces; Pledges to Stand with Finish of Japan. cae

SAYS ALLIES MORE THAN HOLDING OWN IN U-BOAT STRUGGLE   Discloses Chiang Satisfied  With Plans for Stepping IlIn Ate ta China

iC hurchill Tells Commons Of Atm For Offensive Campaign iTo Open Within Nine Months   Allies More Than Holding Own In U-Boat Warfare; Generals Confer With Chinese Leader: Stern Justice For Foec’ Taaderc

President Makes Him Full General—Tedder, Alexander,  Cunninsham Princinal Aides

To Invade Europe ‘As Soon As We’re Ready’   Reveals Nearly Half Million Men Landed In Africa And Now Under Unified Command Of Eisenhower; ‘More Than Holding Our Own Against U-Boats.’

Tells Commons N. African Command Unified Under Eisenhower; Holding More than Own in U-Boat Warfare; Will Meet FDR Again Soon   WILL BATTLE JAPS TO FINISH   Prime Minister Offered to Put Pledge to Fight Tokyo to Unconditional Surrender Into Treaty; FDR Said Word Enough

Allies Land Half Million Men In Africa, Churchill Tells Cheering Commons   Offensive Campaign Planned For Next Nine Months to Hit the Enemy on Largest Possible Scale At Earliest Possible Moment

Churchill Gives Review of War   Reveals Unification of Command i in, ‘North Africa \ Wi th Eisenhower i in Charge       U-Boat Warfare,: Comindna Told

Allies To Strike On A Vast Scale Within 9 Months   Reveals Half Million Men In Africa; More Ships Available Than 6 Months Ago

CHURCHILL GIVES. HINTS OFFENSIE PAMDATCN (IN WAY   To Engage Enemy On A Big Scale at Early Moment   PLANS MADE FOR NEXT 9 MONTHS

ACTS CHARTE FOR THE NEXT NINE MONTHS   Churchill Tells Commons Allies Have 500,000 Men in Africa—Will Invade Europe as Soon as They Aye Ready.

Nesay Half-Million United Nations Men Now In Africa,   Prime Minister Discloses In War Review In Commons—Eisenhower Heads Unified Command For Offensive—British Leader’s Speech Emphasizes Complete Plan Of Action Is Ready

Churchill Presents War Review; Asserts Menace Of Subs Being Curtailed

Churchill... Announces Eisenhower. Supreme — * Leader  TELLS OF  PLANS      Sees. Allied Offense - Within Next’ Nine  ” NAGathe 

LF MILLION NN. AFRICA   Allied Troops Ready for Big Offensive, Says Churchill,   REPORTS TO COMMONS

PLAN OF ACTION COMPLETED AT AFRICA PARLEY   United Nations, He Says, to Engage Enemy “On Largest Possible Seale”   ENEMY SUBMARINE MENACE BEING MET   New Shipping Far Ahead Of Sinkings; Half-Million Men Landed In Africa

BLUEPRINTS FOR ALLIED VICTORY POP 12 BEST STORIES OF 1943; RED OFFENSIVE CLOSE SECOND

AP News Editor Also Lists Year-Long Red Offensive, Record Air Raids On Reich

Returning Vets Placed in Jobs   Selective Service . Works in Reverse

APPROVES COAL ACT EXTENSION   House Group Favors Four Months Continuance  Of Measure

GREAT THAW FLOODING UKRAINE   Slowing Up Military Operations But Is Not Halting Russian Winter Drive

Great Thaw Is . Slowing Saviat. Puch   Motor Transport Made Very Difficult, But Reds Are Not Stopping .   SCENES OF RUIN LEFT BY NAZIS   Germans. Have Attempted to Destroy Everything as They Retreat

RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSAL GAINS SUPPORT   Robertson Backs Vote On Plan As Substitute For Treasury's Program   Passage Doubtful

ROBERTSON TAKES SALES TAX STAND   Public Supnort First Such Action Taken By Unit 7 Mamiar

Sales Tax Plan Wins Supporter On Committee   Robertson of House Ways and Means Sets Stage for Showdown

SOME SUPPORT TS DEVELOPING FOR SALES TAX   Rep. Robertson In Favor Of 10 Percent Levy On Retail Sales   ADMINISTRATION IN BITTER OPPOSITION

SHOWDOWN ON SALES LEVY IS =NOW CERTAIN   Member of Ways and « Means Group Supporis Proposal

RETAIL SALES TAX SENTIMENT GROWS      Representative Robertson Comes Out Flatly for Levy

House Leader Urges U.S. Tax on Sales  Robertson Asserts  Plan Would Raise Cl. Ras Veoxle:

House Revenue Member Okays Levy on Sales   Robertson Argues Tax’: Unpopularity Shows It to Be Fair One

Rep. Robertson Joins Backers Of a Sales Tax   Virginian Takes Determined Stand

JapLosses Increase in Solomons   Earlier Reports Of Furious Battle Are Amplified

OWI Uraes Aid Be Given Farme   Townspéople Asked To Help in Harvest

Jownspeople Called to Aid Food Harvest   730,000 Volunteers Said Needed to Garner . Cran This Fall

CALL 1S MADE FOR FARM AID   OWI Appeals for 750,00 To Join Country's Harvest Force

Call for 750,000 Townspeople to Aid Farmers Sather Fall Crops Sent Out bv O.W.I

JOWNSPEOPLE ARE BEING RECRUITED   Men to Stack Hay, Girls t Pick Beans Are Now In Great Domand.

OWI Calls for 750,000 City Dwellers To Help Bring in Farm Crops; Cites Great Work Already Achieved

Pound Notes Her- Gift To Soldiers.on Birthday Of War Prisoner Son

WAR AbAINO! INFLATION ta SPEEDING UP   Revision of Meat Prices and Ceiling on Vegetables Are Coming.   NATION - WIDE STUDY   Rent Control Held Successful and This Will. Not Be Changed.

OPA STUDIES MEAT PRICES OVER NATION   Narrowly Averts Break Ih Anti-Inflation Program, Cancels Order,   CEILINGS TOO HIGH   Planned Maximums Would Have Brought Increase of 7 Per Cent.

GOP POSTPONES GROUP MEETING   Republican Governors Too Busy To Hold Conference at Present

GOP PLATFORM MEET DROPPED   Spangler Unable To Be In Columbus; Democratic Confab Listed

ESCAPE AOUTE GAN BE GUT IN OWY'S, MARC   Red Army Crosses Southern Russia for Advances Up to 22 Miles.

Allied Ministers Again Meet With Military Leaders   Conferees Nearing End _ OF Discussions on 7" Bivet Topics

Tripower Policies Dealt With in  Frank Discussions peas benders and   Military Leaders and Foreign Ministers Review War Problem:

Iripower Policies Dealt With in  Frank Discussions  Military Leaders and Foreign Ministers Review War Problem

Perfect Accord in Moscow: Americans, British and Soviets Near End of Military Parleys   Relations between Three Nations Most Cordial Of Any Time in History of Stalin's Government

SPOWER GROUPS MILITARY TALKS ARE NEARING END   Discussions Described as “Frank and Full”—Eden Pleased Over Progress to Date.   LATTER RECEIVED BY PREMIER STALIN   Friendly Atmosphere Continues to Prev ail—Russian Commentator Touches on Second Front.

MINISTERS IN CONFERENCE THIRD DAY      Nearing End of Discussions First Topics of Agreed Agenda; Military Men Again Attend Parley.   Divulge Nothing

3-Power Group Discussion Qf Military Ends  High- Ranking Officer Also — Moscow  AAFrFAroanr atc

American, British and Russian Foreign Minister Near End Of First Phase of Conference

American, British and Russian Foreign Ministers Near End of Frank {Discussions of First Topic on Agenda---Believed to Be War Plans

Moscow Parley Nearing End Of Initial Subject   Complete Harmony Marks Discussion Of War Probleme

Friendliness Is Key Note In Parleys Now Af Moscow  Discussions Said ‘Very ‘Frank And Full’ By British Spokesman; Eden Said Pleased

MISSING SOLDIER DECLARED DEAD   Parents Of S. Sgt. Vernon R. Sentz, Littlestown, R. D. 2, Receive Word From War Department

Sgt. A. J. Roy,  Gunner On Fort Is Listed Missing   Reported Missing In Action  In European Area Since ! April 17,. Arnry Says!

Nippon Fleet ls Shatfered By Bomber. Atfack   Running: Battle: Still , Going On;’U-S. Subs Take Heavy Toll Se

U.S. Subs Sink 5 More Ships    Score Of American Subs Against Japs Now 191 Vessels Sunk.

The Last Major Base Has Fallen to the Chinese Armies.   AMERICAN CRAFT AID CHINESE IN BIG RAID   Tojo Warns Japanese the Situation Has Become Serious.

CHINESE TROOPS © WIPING OUT JAP STRONGHOLDS   American Planes Strafe Japanese Soldiers As They Tried To Retreat  Across Yangtze River.

Nazis Are Looting Italian Villages   They Are Carrying Out Systematic Campaign of Killing. Terrorism.

Nazis Loot All Italian Sectors   REIGN OF TERROR START ED BY GERMANS IN ITALY

Nazis Carry Out Systematic _ Campaign Of Looting, Killing      Two Fliers Watch Terrorism From Hiding Place In Hills; Make Way Back To Lines

GERMAN TERROR DOGS ITALIANS   Nazis Carrying Out Systematic Looting, Killing And Terrorism In Italian Villages Northeast of Naples.

100,000 Prisoners Taken; Americans Capture 37,998      80,000 Enemy Troops Still Believed Hiding in Hills of North African Peninsula

Pocket Force In Bou Ficha Area   Planes Stop Bombing Area to Avoid Hitting Allied Soldiers — Axis Prisoners Mount to 100,000 — Planes  Blast Italian Island of Pantelleria

Pocket’ Force In Bou Ficha Area.   Planes Stop Bombing Area'to Aveid Hitting. Allied Soldiers ~ -- Axis: Prieaners Mount-to 100,000 — Planes “Blast-Italian’ Island of Pantelleria’-

Axis Admits Next Phase Is The ‘Battle For Germany’   ‘Hitler Suddenly Moves Headquarters From East To West; Russians Smash Ahead

HITLER SUDDENLY MOVES FROM EAST TO WESTERN FRONT  AVIC TEDMEN NOVT DUASI      AXIS TERMED NEXT PHASE OF WAR “THE BATTLE ° FOR GERMANY”

British Ring Cap Bon Trap; 80,000 Left   100,000 Prisoners I's Toll of Allied Armies; Reds Mass Troops

HITLER SHIFTS CAMP 10 MEET ALLIED THREAT   Tunisian Battle Runs Out In Crushing Defeat For Axis   CAP BON IS ISOLATED   Red Armies Smash German Thrusts On Leningrad Front

French Force AxisGive-up At Zaghoun   Long Dormant Front in New Guinea Astir with New Development Signs—Reds Hammer Away in Kuban

Hitler Moves Headquarters  To the West   First Army Patrols Have Completely Ringed Cap Bon; Capture 100,000 Axis Prisoners; Russians Say War with Germany in Decisive Stage 

Hitler Girds for Batile of Germany   Invasion Moves Expected by Axis as Churchill and Roosevelt Confer   CLEANUP GOES FORWARD IN AFRICA   Russia Also Gives Hint of New Offensive; Itahan Island Heavily Bombed

@ CARGO OF CHEER  Red Cross Sends Parcels to 3.000 War Prisoners

NEW LIQUOR RATION PERIOD LENGTHENED   Calendar Month Basis For System Desired

Woman Bombed Hornet   Petty Officer Says Nasi Swastika on Planes

WOMAN AT THE CONTROLS   Officer Makes Report of Attack by Japa on the Hornet ~

House Leaves Tax Bill to Committee   Demos Reserve Right — To Offer Own Bill In House Debate

Mobs Stone 'PhilaPoultry Laden Vans   RETAIL POULTRY SHOPS CLOSE AND STOCKS ARE SHIPPED TO NEW YORK MID DEMONSTRATION.   New York Prices Higher

‘(Many Areas ‘Completely Isolated   Deaths Occur at Hibbing. Duluth and Aberdeen; Wind Piles Up Drifts

TWO ALLIED ARMIES  ADVANCE SLIGHTLY  IN RAIN AND MUD SPECTACULAR SEA AND LAND VICTORY IN SOUTE  , mAMIETS HY!

Smash Across Volturno River   Kk «* KK OK How the 8th  Saved Termoli

TANKS DRIVING ENEMY NORTH   Allies Report Only Patrols Have Crossed Voiturno River.   EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCING

Na IS DRIVEN BACK 15 10 20 MILES   British and American  Forces Advance Along Mediterranean and Adriatic

EXPECT GOP BATTLE OVER COMPROMISE   Members Would Preserve World Peace By Any Means

FIGHT LOOMS AT GOP MEET   Foreign Policy Issue Evokes Opposition From Members 

act wine PL ANP pquicy   Full Council Expected to Debate Party’s Foreign Policy Declaration

WALKER 10 START PULSE -FEELING TRIP THROUGH U.S.   Believed He Will Sound Out Sentiment Regarding 4th  Tarm_

WALKER MAKING SHING IN FOURTH TERM MISSION   The Postmaster General is; Following in the Cooling; Tracks of that Old Fox! dim Farley 

MUNDA IS BATTERED BY BLOWS   Guns from Rendoya Island Trained Upon Ob jective—Viru Harbor Is Occupied. .

German Siege Armies of 220,000 Whittled Down to Less Than 50 ,000—Two-Way Squeeze of Axis in North Africa Imminent — 10-Inch Rain Doesn’t Stop General MacArthur

NAZI CO ADMITS SOVIETS BREAKING LINES   Russians Estimate German Siege Armies At Stalingrad Whittleed Down From 220,000 To 50,000; Rostov Drive Progresses.

Torn, Tattered Army of Rommel Enters Tunisia   . . - Ceaseless Bombing By Allied Fliers

Civilians Reported Taking Flight as British Train Heavy Guns AgainstcSity —

BERLIN SAYS LINES BROKEN AT STALINGRAD   Offensive Takes Red Army Into Voroshilovsk   Enemy Troops Killed Since Start Of Winter Drive; Other Advances

London Reports Allies Planning 1943-4 Cleanup   British Block Citadel Sea Front: Germans Admit Stalingrad Losses

PATE OF TRIPOL SEALED AS BATTLE OF LIBYA TURNING IN FAVOR OF ALUES: REDS GAIN

BIG GUNS SET TO PUT DEATH ON AXIS CITY   Heavy Fighting Also Reported in Tunisia, Indicating Showdown for Africa Foothold

Guns in Place to Destroy Blasted Port   British Eighth Army Ring Axis Stronghold; First Army Rushes to Aid French

NAZIS SETBACK : BOTH IN AFRICA AND IN-RUSSIA   Germans Admit Se viousness Of Stalin-. ce gl CREASES Jan.   TRIPOLI] TOTTERS   British ‘Shock ‘Troops Sweep ‘Through:-Main Defenses 

CAPTURE IS NEAR; NAZIS SQUIRM IN STALINGRAD TRAP   Berlin Admits Plight Of Troops Left   fa Pocket ls Desperate; Fighting In TFanisia Turns Heavy With Rommel Fleeme Toward Haven

British Storm at Gates Fall Expected Hourly   Decisive Battle in North Africa Looms; End Believed Near for Beleagured German Army At Stalingrad.

British At Outskirts Of Tripoli Today While Russians Draw Tighter Net About * Remnants Of Once Great Stalingrad Army

ROMMEL'S ARMY MAY BE CUT OFF FROM TUNISIA   Showdown Battle for All of Africa Believed Near as Air Attacks Continues   REOS SLAUGHTER NAZIS   Allied Forces Wipe Out Another Jap Pocket in Jungle Fighting

Fall of City Expected at Any Moment   Rommel’s Forces Rushin For Tunisia; Germans  Make Gains in Battles

Destruction Faces Citadel In Africa; Reich Admits Plight   American And British Warplanes Assault Retreating Germans; Report Italian Submarine Sunk

Showdown Fight Seems Going On In North Africa    ee  Parts of Tripoli Said To Be Burning; Field Guns Placed  ALLIES IN SUBURBS Heavy Fighting Reported  In Central Tunisia as Axis Flees

CLIMACTIC BATTLE FOR LIBYA WAGED BY BRITISH TROOPS  END FOR GERMANS IN

British Storming At Tripoli; Nazis Admit Desperate Plight Of Troops At Stalingrad

Admit Plight of Men Cut Of} At Stalingrad   German High Command Indicates End Is Near for Nazi Divisions Trapped Before Stalingrad; British  Shock Troops Sweep Through the  Defense Works of Tripoli 2

Fall Of North African City Is Expected Soon   Flames Spread Over City As Russians Clean Up 22 Trapped German Divisions

TonsOtMeat go to Sewers Each Week   REP. PLOESER, MISSOURI, TELLS OF LOSSES GCCASIONED SMALL MEAT DEALERS BY OPA REGULATIONS.   Sausage Points Too High

REYNOLDS SAYS U. S. NEGLECTS WAR IN. PACIFIC   Senator Chandler Joins - Attempt To Prod a Lawmakers

War in Pacific May Last ‘Forever’ If Japanese Are Permitted to Dig In

Long War Seen If Japs Tighten Grip  Congress Warned as New Try Made to Bolster U. S$. Power

Solons Call For Action Against Japs   - Tightening Of Grip On Pacific Islands Termed ‘Grave’

SENATORS URGE BOLSTERING OF PACIFIC POWER   Doubt Military Leaders Recognize Seriousness Of Japanese Menace   RUBBER-GAS TALKS ASKED   WMC May Allow Workers To Shift Essential Jobs For Higher Pay

Demands for More Power Avainst Jans   Senators Reynolds and Chandler Caution Against Letting Them Go   SEE THREAT OF A LONGER WAR   ‘Suicide to Let Them Dig In’ Chandler Says in Radio Address

ISenators Demand All-Out Warfare Against Japar   Warn Conflict In Pacific May Drag On For Year Unless Aggressive Steps Are Taken To Drive _. Nipponese Out: See U. 5. Fighting-Alone

HURRY-UP ACTION -IN PACIFIC URGEL   [Senators Fear Time War Japs May Make War  Longer.    CALL ON PUBLIC TO PRESS SUBJECT

Senator Chandler Says it! May Go on Forever Un-  less Nation Acts .  Quickly .    WANTS CONGRESS AROUSED TO DANGER   Senator Reynolds Declares.  Japs “Making a Tokyo   of Every Island  They’ve Captured”

nimi  MORE HELP FOR PACIFIC IS GRY   Congress Points Out Peril Of Neglecting Janus

JAP CONQUESTS STIR CONGRESS   ‘Heart-to-heart Talk’ Urged To End Row Over Synthetic Rubber and Gasoline

Bolstering Of Striking Power Urged   Lawmakers Warn War In Pacific May Go On Forever’  t,zAare aARm prism s™ PRI 8 TAT

‘x-Students Salute Major Ross Wilder   S. U. Broadcast Friday Will Honor Noted Tokyo Raider

BISHOP'S FUNERAL WILL BE TUESDAY   Catholics to Pay Solemn Tribute ta Most Rev. jos. Plagens.

Bad Weather Fails To Halt Allies In Raid on Japs  Fliers Dump 19 Tons Of Bombs Upon Airdrome at Wewak

Allied Bombers Blast at Wewak Airports  19 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Supplv Base

BIG JAP SUPPLY BASE I$ BASHED   Nearly 19 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Airdromes In Wewak Area

Allied Bombers Blast at Wewak Airports  19 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped  wen: Qesemecdes Tess

NEAR MINE TIE-UP   Kansas Miners Expected To Quit When Contract  Expires

DE GAULLE-GIRAUD TALKS ON-FRENCH UNION POSTPONED   Scheduled North African Conferences: Put Off Indefinite-. y at Eisenhower's —_ - Request.   REASONS FOR DELAY .. BELIEVED MILITARY   Plan. Seen by Some to An‘nounce Accor d' Between ‘Time of. Tunisian Cleanup and Invasion of Europe.

DeGaulle-Girauc Parley Delayed   ‘Eisenhower Asks ° For Postponement

DeGaulle-Girauc Parley Delayed   Eisenhower Asks For Postponement  Ree TRRLETOS BaF FANS.

Defends Stand  By Musicians      Counsel For Union Defends Ban Against Recorded Muaic.

Consul! for AFL Defends Recording Plan   Padway Appears On Behalf of AFM Chief Petrillo

HULL ASSISTANT SEEKS TO DEFEND POLICY OF STATE DEPARTMENT   Berle Says U. S Foreign Policy Is Sound; Charges Criticism Not  Eectual:

Army Holds Inquiry Into Race Rioting   Beaumont Quiet After Two Killed During Mob Violence

Troop Massing Reports Lacking In Confirmation   No Substantiation Of Re. ports Of Troop Movements To Turkish Border   REPORT GERMANY ‘WARNS’ TURKEY

GOV. JOHN BRICKER SIGNS NUMBERS BILL   Provides Large Fines, Per Terms for Violators

‘NUMBERS’ HIT   Bricker Signs Bill Providing Penalties For Racket.

MOVE TO - PREVENT UNFAIR ADVANTAGE IN INDUCTION CALLS.   Draft-Age Non-Deferrables Placed Under Limits In Search For ~  age War Jobs

Draft-Age Men in Non-Deferrable  -... sWork.Placed Under Limitations

DRAFT DEADLINE FOR FATHERS SE] FOR NEXT WEEK   Limitation Placed On Search For War Jobs, Get Until September 15

OCTOBER 15 FINAL JOB CHANGE DATE   Non - Deferrable DraftAge Men Affected

Set Deadline on Shifts to Vital Jobs   DRAFT HEADS SAY NEW MOVE BLOCKS ADVANTAGE FOR NONDEFERRABLE MEN   26.Dav Period

Waves of RAF Bombers Roar Toward Germany   Radio Stations Become Silent in Midst Of Program as Air Armada Hews Invasion Path Across Western Europe

Waves of Big. Bombers Go  Over Channel   Nazi Air Force Makes Feeble Attempt to Retatate

RAF Batters Nazis Again   Radios Go Silent As Heavies Thunder Out

Aim at axis airfields and. transportation systems in: continuous daytime sweep   German air force sends few planes over England but without results

HAVOC HEAPE UPON RUHR IN RAF ASSAULT   TARGETS HAMMERED IN STEEL AND COAL CENTER

RAF Bombers Continue Attacks On Axis Centers   Waves of Fliers Heard Thundering Toward Germony as Nazi Radio Goes Dead-——Oberhausen Hard Hit hv Airman

Fresh Havoc Wreaked Alone Ruhr   Steel, Communications Center Hit; Night, Day Drive Continues

SEEK BLOOD DONORS   Lawrence Citizens May Get Chanee To Help Out In This Cause

-Germans-At_Home Shocked On Learning Sicily Evacuated; Axis Troops Clash —   Final Hours Before Messina Taken Marked By Few Stray Snipers’ Shots   Yanks Find Port City, With Peacetime Population Of 125,000 Virtually Deserted, With Buildings -Bomb-Wrecked When They Arrived.

Debacle In Sicily Gives Berlin Shock   Strategic Masterpiece, Nazis Say Of Messina Strait Withdrawal

Heavy Fighting Near Leningrad   Moscow Reports Germans Lose 2,000 As Attack Is Smashed By Russians   GERMAN PLANES MAKE ATTACKS

REDS GAIN IN VOLKHOV AREA   German attacks smashed by Soviets southeast of Leningrad

VOLKHOV FRONT BATTLE FLARES   Russians Smash Number Ot Enemy Attacks And Kill 2,000 Nazis

(Continuing Body to Carry [Out Food Policies Plan ‘Of Americans at Parley

Food Parley JoHear Plan   United States Group Agreed On Proposal

SENATE oTANDS ON ITS RIGHTS   ‘Desk Slamming Conducive To Emphasis,’ Says Senator Hill.

U. S. Senate Stands On Its Right to Sit in Semi-Circle and Bang on Desk

SENATOR FAVORS DESK SLAMMING   U, S. NEEDS EMPHASIS, SAYS SEN, HILL IN REPLY TO CHURCHILL

‘ Cabinet Of Premier Badoglio Ore ers Dissolution Of Fascist Part In Italy; Spellman Left Pretori i By Plane.   ,HAD CONFERENCE i WITH POPE, SAL!

Stutisart Hammered   ... Nearly 1,000 U. S. Planes Strike Bremen   Move Toward Armistice Rumored

?  New Deluge 'Of Bombs Has ‘Set Record      Allies Attempting to Wipe Out Capital; Nazi Defenders Bag 32 Planes

British Smash At Berlin 3rd Time in Week, Rip Stuttgart   32 Planes Lost: Thousand U.S. Craft in Raid on Bremen   UNRRA Men Credit  i Se

Taft Urges Use of League To Keep Down Aggression affer World War

Alarmed by Scant Food   Farm Chairman Sees Shortest Crop In Nation's History.

RUMANIAN: UNREST MAY FORCE NAZIS TO OCCUPY NATION   People Angry: ~ Because - :O: Heavy Troop Losses . ‘In Russian Battle

Enemy Prepares For Last Stand   Retreat to Catania-Mount Etna Line as Enna Capitulates

Germans Fleeing In Italian Transports   Despite Heavy Resistance Fall Of Catania Is Expected As British Press Offensive

7 AMERICAN FLEETS ARE IN OPERATION   Secretary Knox Assigns Newlyelevated Commodores To  Various Commands

Watch Your Step Hitler, Tojo Et Al— a Knox Says Seven U. S. Fleets Now Operating Against A xis

KNOX SAYS U.S. HAS 7 FLEETS   All Disclosed in Operation Against the Axis

Seven American Fleets Operating Against the Enemy, Sec. Knox Says

Knox Reveals Seven Fleets   Secretary Does Not Say Where Ships Are

SEVEN U. S. NAVAL FLEETS OPERATING IN COMBAT AREAS   Secretary Knox Reveals 7th Fleet In Southwest And 3rd In South  Pacific

(U.S. FLEETS IN OPERATION   Knox Reveais Number In Announcing Names Of Commodores

7 U. 8, FLEETS FIGHTING IN WAR   ONE OPERATING IN AUSTRALIAN AREA, ANOTHER IN ‘SOUTH PACIFIC.

7 U.S. Fleets In Operation   Knox Reveals Extent Of Operations — Not Necessarily.on 7 Seas

SEVEN FLEETS BATTLING AXIS   Four Officers Nominated For Revived Rank Of Commodore

Soldiers and Townsmen Battle To Hold Levees against Floods   Devasting Waters Sweeping down Mississippi and Illinois River Valleys

SOLDIERS AID IN BATTLE ON FLOOD   Many Fight to Hold Levees Against Raging Waters

Levees on Hlinois  Side Broken  For Ninety Miles 3,000,000 Acres Are  Covered, 160,000 Persons Homeless

ON ILLINOIS SIDE OF RIVER   Waters Are Sweeping Down 2 Valleys; Troops Aid

Great Battle Against Flood  Continues   State, Federal Agents Work To Speed Aid . To 160,000 Victims  SOME LEVEES HOTND

SOLDIERS AID. IN BATTLE ON FLOOD   ‘Many Fight to Hold Ley ees Against Raging po, Woters

Plan Replanting Of Flooded Areas   Meantime Fight Agains High Water Continues

YOUTHS HELD FOR STEALING AT POOL   Wave of Stealing From Lockers Believed Broken

YOUTHS HELD FOR ' STEALING AT POO      Wave of Stealing From ‘ Lockers Believed Pe Broken’

BE ISSUED THIS MONTH   137.Grade One Tires ‘Available for-September

500 Ford Company Foremen On Strike   Action May Disrupt Plant-Produetion

Americans Extend Beach‘heads On Tarawa And Ma  kin Despite Resistance   AUSTRALIANS MOVE ~ ON HUON PENINSULA

Third Afollls Grabbed In Yank Drive For Truk   Other Beachheads Extended; Push On  Giiinan Cantiniiae

Marines Make New Landing; Expand Outposts In Pacific   Beachheads on Tarawa and Makin Extended While Australians Gain in New Guinea—-Col., Roosevelt Goes Ashore at Makin

Declares “Palace Guard”’  Must Be Demobilized Soon   Vandenberg Calls For Forming Of War Cabinet To Help Roosevelt Direct Activi ties On Home Front

War Cabinet To Aid FOR Urged   Vandenberg Says Palace Guards Must Go

Would Eliminate “Palace Guard,” Set. Up Cabinet   Group To. Aid President Direct The Home. Front ‘ Advocated. By Senator

PALACE GUARD CHANGE IS URGED   Senator Vandenburg Declares War Cabinet Is Badly Needed Now

Sen. Vandenberg Wants War Board Established fo Help Roosevelt (Direct Activities on Home Front

VANDENBERG CALLS FOR WAR CABINE!   Asserts That ‘Palace Guard Has Got to Be Demobilized Soon.’

VANDENBERG MKD FAR WAR CABINET   Thinks It Is Time to Demoblize ‘Palace Guard’ and Form Non-Partisan Front

WAR CABINET NEED FORESEEN   Senator Vandenberg Says FDR Should Set Up “Palace Guard’ of Advisers

Palace Guard  Target Of Solon   Country Wants Real War Cabinet, Claim

SENATOR IN DRIVE FOR WAR CABINET   Vandenberg Smacks Palace Guard of Roosevelt's Urging It Be Demobilized Soon   WAXES CAUSTIC

VANDENBERG ASKS NEW WAR CABINET AND EXPULSION OF “PALACE GUARDS”

‘CREATE NEW WAR CABINET’ — VANDENBERG   Demands Dem obilization Of ‘Palace Guard’ Surrounding FDR   FORECASTS SHAKEUP   Urges Roosevelt To Sepa: rate Himself From Fourth Term

Calls For New War Cabinet   Urges Demobilization Of “Palace Guard”

Four Yank Soldiers Trapped 60 Hours In Ship Compartment Are Rescued.

Ingenuity and Courage Saves Lives of Four American Soldiers  Trapped in Radio Room of Warship After Bomb Shatters Vessel

STORM BREAKS 130 WINDOWS   Wind Carries 15 Steet  Corn Bins at Malvern

Vinson’s Veto Of Railway Pay Boost Causes Problem   'D. C. Speaker,. Mythical Government Spokesman,   States Administration Trying to Find Thernless Track for Stabilization Director to Follow  In Backtracking On Unpopular Veto

Boeing Workers Protest to WLB   Demand Quick Decision On Pav Request

Plane Plants Closed As  Workers Go To Meeting   Work Halted for Severa! Hours at Boeing Plants os Employes Quit to Attend Meeting—Boost — : in Wages Being Sought :

Two Flying Fortress Bomber Plants Are Closed By Walkout   Twenty Thousand Workers Participate In Demonstra tion; Demand Immediate Action By WLB On Request For Wage Boost

Bombers Wait While Workers Are In Meeting   Fo call all nation’s airraft employees, into general ‘eonfererices ; wage scale low.

UNION WORKERS CAUSE CLOSING OF TWO PLANTS   Employes Of Boeing Factories Threaten To Tie Up Entire Aviation Industry   IRKED OVER DELAY ON WAGE INCREASE

FLYING FORTRESS WORK 1S DELAYED   Boeing Employes Stop Work To Attend Mass Meet; Seek Compel WLB Act on Pay Increase Requests

Ertswhile Triumphant Germans Now Are Beaten Bedragaled :Priennovre

Nazi Soldiers Are Sad as Glamor of Their Army Fades  Troopers Are Sullen As Early Victory Grows Meaningless

SELL 886.883 IN A DAY   War Department Caravan Is Help: ing Bond Sale at Fredonia

SELL $86,383 IN A DAY   War Department Cara Caravan Is Help. ing Bond Sale at Fredonia

YANK CASUALTIES IN ITALY MOUNT   Total Reaches 10,659, Stim‘son Rerorts Since Sept. 9 Landings

CASUALTIES IN ITALY RISING   1,613 Americans Have Been Killed Since Landings At Salerno

U, 8, CASUALTIES IN ITALY RISING   STIMSON ANNOUNCES WOUNDED, MISSING AND KILLED NUMBER 10,659.

ITALIAN LOSSES ARE ON INCREASE   ‘Stimson Says Heavy Resistance From German Army Is Showing Up.

Byrnes Implies Imminence Of Big New Blows Against Nazi-Held Europe

"Major Battles Lie Ahead of Us" Byrnes Warns In Address   Director of War Mobilization Calls For Greater Effor' And Sacrifice on the Home Front to Capitalize On Initiative Gained   ASSURANCES GIVEN OF ULTIMATE VICTORY

‘Major Battles — Lie Ahead   Byrnes Hints Air Off. fensive Key to Present Allied Strategy; Promises Living Cost Cut

Allied Push _ Must Be Kept Going Strong   ‘Major Battles Lie Ahead Not Behind Us,’ Byrnes Says in Address   AIR ATTACK MAY CONTINUE FOREMOST      Greater Effort, Sacrifice Asked of Home Front;  98757 Cyt Living Costs

Immediate Strategy Calls For Carrying War To Germany By Air, Byrnes Ilmplies

Initiative Must Be Backed With Great Forces   Byrnes Says That We Must Use Initiative While We Have It

Major Battles Face Allies in  Global Warfare   Initiative of No Value Unless Followed Vigorously by Big Forces.   Big-Scale Operation In Europe Is Hinted

BYRNES WARNS OF HARD FIGHT FACING ALLIES   Attack By Air Rather Than By Land Indicated In Address   PRICE CONTROL PROMISED   Greater Civilian Supplies Pledged; Shortage Of Coal Seen

Strategy Now To Hit Nazis By Air. Claim   Enemy Land Forces Too Strong, Says Byrnes: Allies Have Met Bui Small Part Of Troops

ALLIED AIR WAR TO HIT GERMANY FIRST, IS HINT   America Warned, However, That Big Battles Ahead Will Mean Sacrifice

Byrnes Hints At Major Moves Of Allied Forces  Warns Great Battles Are Still Ahead; Says Air Attack Must Be

BYANEo HINT NeW ACTIONS IN EUROPE NEAR   FDR’s Aide Implies Gigantic Attacks Against Nazis Are Coming Soon

MAJOR BATTLES AHEAD BYRNES   FDR’s Confidant Say:  Allies Must Keep   Initiative

Continue War  — By Air Power  Byrnes Inters   War Mobilization Director Calls For Greater Sacrifice On Home Front.   AXIS STRONG ON LAND

Byrnes Hints Major Drives Set To Start   Points Out Initiative Is Of No Value Unless It Is Vigorously Used

tlimmy Byrnes In Strafeay Hint. Says Axis Will Get More And More Allied Bombs Soon

BYRNES PROMISES SUBSTANTIAL CUT IN COST OF LIVING   Calls for Greater Effort on Home Front; Sees Air War Against Europe Stra terv for Present.

To Berlin Is Bloody Highway “Byrnes”   Major Battles Are Still, Ahead, Raps  Roosevelt Critics

VANES HINTS NEW MILITARY MOVES   Continued Air Attacks Are Stressed by Presidential Aide in Speech

BYRNES PUTS STRESS ON AIR WAR DEMANDS   Capital Observers See Hint in Ad dress No Land Offensive Likely ai This Time ~~   FDR UNDERSCORES   Byrnes Promises ‘Substantial’ Cu in Costs of Necessities, Calls fo: Unity at Home

ALLIES AIM TO! WEAKEN ENEMY ON LAND FIRST   James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt Confidant, Indicates  Enemy Forees Too   Strong for Invasion   PRESIDENT IMPLIES SIMILAR PLANNING   Underscored in Message to king of England Dealing With Raids on Rumanian Oil Fields

Stress Success Against Enemy of War In Air   Byres Hints At Grand Scale Attack Aaqainst Europe

SEA AND LAND INVASION FACES FURTHER DELAY   Byrnes Lays Stress on Ger: many’s Land Strength

BYRNES HINTS WAR AGAINST NAZIS TO BE BY AIR ATTACK   Aerial Bombardment, Not Land or Sea Attack, to Be Strategy. “for Time’ Being, FDR's: Confidant Hints 2°.

BIGGEST TASK STILL AHEAD, BYRNES WARNS   Alfies Hold Initiative But Mus Deal Vigorous Blows, FDR’s Aide Asserts.  HINTS AT MAJOR MOVES  Observers Believe His Remarks Mean Air Assault Will Be Princinal Weannn.   HINTS AT MAJOR MOVES

Byrnes Offers Inkling Into Cormng Strategy By Citing Numerically Superior’ Land Forces Of Enemy 

increased Air Drive on Nazis Seen By Byrnes   Major Battles Lie Ahead Says Aide to President

AT STRATEGY   Suggests War Against Nazi Europe Will Continue to Be By Air.   ASKS GREATER EFFORTS

Immediate Strategy Calls for Carrying War fo Germany by Air, Byrnes ‘Implies: Enemy Land Forces Too Strong

All Signs Point To Early Opening ()f Another Front   Immediate Allied Strategy Calls For Carrying War To Germany By Aerial Bombardment, Byrnes Implies   Better Than Honed

Superiority In Air Chief  Allied Hope   I Byrnes Points Out Axis Has More Land Troops ( In Europe As Yet

Byrnes Urges Greater Effort and Sacrifice On  Americas Home Front

MAJOR BATTLE OF EUROPE IS STILL AHEAD   Allied Initiate Is of No Value Unless It Is Followed With Great  Foarcas

BYRNES PROMISES SUBSTANTIAL CUT  IN LIVING COSTS   Outlines Home Front Program Geared To Major Fighting Which He Says Still Lies Ahead.

APPARENT INTENTION OF ALLIES 18 STICK TOSTRATEGY OF AIR  THIS IS INFERENCE OBSERVERS DREW FROM  ARADECC NE DYDACC

AIR BLOWS NEXT OFFENSIVE MOVE, BYRNES ASSERTS   Calls For Greater Sacrifices On — Home Front

Red Push  Swells on Dnieper   SOVIET PLANES, GUNS CRUSH NAZI REMNANTS ON BANKS OF RIVER

GERMANS BATTLE TENACIOUSLY FOR DNIEPER RIVER   STRIKE BACK IN STRONG BID TO HOLD BRIDGEHEADS

df TAnut lS IN RANGE SPEDE IED   Axis Industrial Centers Hard Hit   SWE O BRAM AAG  REVEAL PATTERN  ee eee  Berlin Is Assaulted Last Night

Resident Here :  His Lifetime -Richard Giffrow' © Succumbs To IIness

BAAMbAAERAAAADAAALLAAAAD  Certificates For Tires Returned to Rationing Office

APPROVE SCHOOLING   But Where to Get Money Is Ques: tion Not Yet Solved

School Plan Wins Acclaim   Congressmen Approve Suggestion Mode by President Roosevelt

CONGRESS APPLAUDS FDR’S SUGGESTION FOR SERVICE MEN   Lawmakers Favor Plan _ That Government Help Demobilize Service Mer

MALARIA LOOMS OVER WACHIGAN   Control of Mosquitees Vital, Experts  Report

QAKESQUARREL WITH MARIGNY BITTER, CLAIM   Slain Millionaire Accused Son-In-Law of Being “A Sex Maniac.” Witness Tells Court

CHAPLIN HAS ~18-YEAR BRIDE   COMEDIAN MARRIED TODAY TO DAUGHTER OF EUGENE O'NEILL—WAS FOURTH  . MARRIAGE .

Oona O’Neill, Daughter Of Playwright, Will Be Wife No. 4 For Film Comedian

KENNAMER WILL SEEK INDUCTION   Phil, Released on Parole After One-Day Hearing, Is Denied Pardon

U. S. Judge’s Son Paroled In Oklahoma   Long Fight For Kennemer Freedom  Finally Wins

Indicates Nazi Defense System Is Breaking Up   Removes Final Barrier Toward Dnieper River

Big Merchant Fleet Planned  "44 Ship Program Calls Rar 30 000 O00 Tans

MERCHANT SHIP GOAL i$ KAISEL   Designs Standardized In Cooperation With Canadian Firms

Plan More Ships For Coming Year   Allies To Standardize Ship Designs

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM ‘BU REAU ‘NEWS LETTER  Fe ee ee pat a   (By County Extension Director)   Phosphate Fertilizer Will Help  Roasarh faale

49 Killed In Revenge Raid On London   24 Children Die When Bomber Hits Suburbar Schoolhouse   STREETS STRAFED   13 Of 30 Attacking German Planes Shot Down By British Defenses

HOUSE: PASSES 185-PAGE BILL   Measure Called Answer Te - Ohio’s School. © Problem

Japs Expect — MoureBombing:  Think Burma Drive   Think Burma Drive Coming In October °

PACIFIC MARINE CHIEF IS KILLED   Companion In Death Crash Was Charlie Paddock of  Racing Fame

UPOrUR, PADDUCK KILLED IN CRASH   Accident Occurs Near Sitka, Alaska: Five Others Die.

MacAvoy to be tried in civil courts   Army turns case aver to state

Congresswomen Can Out-Sp ell Men, — Old Fashioned Spelling Bee Shows

Nazi Prisoner’ Train Wrecked  Trainmen Killed, 2 Germans, 6, Guards Amona Iniured

GROWING UNREST FILLS RUMANIA   Government Forced To Create New Troops For Internal Security.

Rumanian Unrest  At Boiling Point   Antonescu Forms New Defense Troops

NEW POLICY ON LABOR DRASTIC   Unions, Employers Must Comply With WLB Decisions, FDR Warns

New Policy vives WLB ‘New Teeth’   FDR Announces Drastic Plan to t Force Unions to  Obey Orders

F.R. Issues New, Drastic  Labor Policy   Forces Compliance With WLB Decisions by  Unions and Employers

Drastic Policy Puts ‘Teeth In W.L. B. Rulings   F. R. Authorizes Punish ment For Balky Uitons 7 ae Wee dis Gas Bi i ain

FDR Decrees Drastic New Labor Policy   President Autherizes Withdrawal Of Union’s Contractual Rights, Privileges For Disobeying. W.L.B. Decisions.

NEW, DRASTIC LABOR POLICY NOW IN EFFECT   Government Now Holds Stick Over Employees And Employer Alike

WLB Is Given Power To Enforce Orders   F.D.R. Authorizes Withdrawal of Union’s or Employer’s Privileges for Ignoring or Disobeying a Board Decision.

New Policy Gives WLB ‘New Teeth’  * Force Unions to  Obev Orders

President Clamps Down On Labor, Management For Wartime Production

FDR Puts New Labor Policy Into Effect   Withdrawal of Union’s Con tractual Rights. Privileges =: Authorized to Force Com. pliance with WLB Decisions

Government Will Enforce Labor Board Rulings   Food Boss Praises Farm Price Support Program

FDR Orders Penalties For lonoring WLB   Labor's Contractual Rights Forfeited; Employers To Lose  : Priorities. Contracts

FA TO ENFORCE WLB DECISIONS   Unions to Be Penalized for Ignoring WLB Decrees In Future.   POLICY EFFECTIVE .NOW

Force Compliance  On WLB Verdicts  Drastic Policy Set Up By President

New Policy Puts Teeth  In Labor Law   President Gives WLB  Right To Crack Down On Unions

Gives . Teeth To WLB   Drastic Policy Put Into Effect Under Anti-Strike Law Enforces WLB Decisions

Withdrawal of Union’s Rights Authorized To Force Compliance with Decisions of WLE

UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS MUST OBEY   Draft Of Strikers Or Penalties On Firms  In FDR Edict

ADMINISTRATION IN DRASTIC MOVE FORCE OBEDIENCE TO WLB  BOTH UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS WILL BE PENALIZED IF NECESSARY

Employers, Unions Must  Obey Orders   meee ee  Unions Can Lose Privileges, Management Its Contracts Under New Rules

Roosevelt To Enforce  WLB Order   New and Drastic Policy Designed to Put Teeth into Decisions Of  War Labor Board   TO AFFECT UNIONS, EMPLOYERS ALIKE   Speculate Whether Lewis And Gypsum. Company To Be Cited By Board  In New Program

FORCE COMPLIANCE WITH WAR LABOR BOARD DECISIONS   Unions and Employers, Alike, Are Affected by the Policy.   INTO EFFECT TODAY   Withdrawal of a Union’s Contractural Rights and Priv* jleges Is Authorized.

Drasic Rulings Against Unions Put Into Effect   FDR Authorizes WLB to Withdraw Union's Contractural Rights.   A Move to Penalize For Disobeying WLB

New, Drastic Policy to Force Compliance With War Labor Board Decisions by ‘Unions and Employers Is Placed in Effect

Drastic Policy Placed in Effect For Work Troubles   Unions, Employers Alike to Be Forced To Comply With WLB

DRASTIC NEW LABOR POLICY IS OUTLINED   President Moves to Force Compliance With WLB Decisions by Unions And Employers  a a a ena, er ~~

F. R. Outline: New Drastic WLB Policy   “Sanctions” To Enforce WLB By Unions And Employers Alike

Will Force * Compliance  - With WL   Drastic New Policy, Made Effective Today, Outlined * by White House   ‘TEETH IN UPPER AND LOWER JAWS’   ‘eWill Penalize Unions or Employers Who Disobey Board Decisions

FDR Announces Drastic Policy Forcing Unions to Comply with WLB Decisions

FIRST ACT BY FOR AGAINST LABOR UNIONS   Told They Must Obey WLB Decisions Same As Employers   WOULD CUT OFF DUES   ‘Puts Teeth In Both Upper and Lower Jaws,’ WLB  Spokesman Says

iNew Policy To Compel Complianes  With WLB   President Places Plan In Effect Under Which Unions Could Be Penalized

WLB GIVEN NEW POWERS OVER UNIONS, FIRMS   Presidential Order Effectuating Smith-Connally Act Provides Penalties

F.R. CRACKS DOWN 10 HALT DEFIANCE OF WLB   Leber-Menegoment Warned Theat Pensities WIM Be Ordered; Lewis’ Status in Doubt

REPULSED IN DONETS BASIN   Russians Capture Important Height, Kill 400 Germans

REPORT SOVIET ‘NON-STOP’ AIR DRIVE STARTED   Offensive Intended To Disrupt German Land Strategy

Russian Air Force to Cut Off Any New Axis-Planned Moves; Battle Keens Up in Donets Basin

Red Flyers Seek To Nip Nazi Drive   Fighting in Donets Area Gains in Fury

Non-Stop Air Drive Opened By Russians   Large Soviet Forces Hit Nazi Targets Over Wide Area

Soviet Air Ferce ls on Offensive   Fighting in One Sector Growing More Intense

RUSSIANS LAUNCH GREAT OFFENSIVE   Three Patrol Clashes Occu In Jungle Trails of Mubo ° and Salamana.

NON-STOP OFFENSIVE OPENED BY RUSSIANS   Red Air Force Opens Program Designed to Disrupt ‘Any Nazi Plans for New Offensives—Fighting in Lisichansk Sector of Donet‘s Basin Grows . More Intense Hourly.

Red Airmen Strike at Nazi Bases   Endeavor To Block Growing Threat  Of Offensive

Wire, Mine: Fail to Halt Yank Drive   Nazis Hurled Back. For 2 Miles Along West Italy Front

PART OF NAZI LINE SMASHED   Drive Being Operated Under Record Acrial Cover — Sudden Push Apparently Coordinated with Bri Eighth Army's Attack.

OFFENSIVE ALONG ENTIRE 80 MILES 1S DUE SHORTLY   Clark’s Army Drives Through Barbed Wire Barriers In. Italy arid Encounter Nazi Mine Fields.   ANOTHER MONTH OF RECORD ATTACK OPENS   Mine Laying Operations Fea: ture Night Work, 24,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped In November.

FIFTH ARMY GAINS TWO MORE MILFS   British Mopping Up on Front 15 Miles trom Sea

EIGHTH MOVING ON AS YANKEES ALSO LEAP AWEAL   Both Offensives are Gaining Steadily Toward Goal Which Is Rome.

Showdown Battle For Kiev Bulge  Roars Toward Climax As Red Army Pours In Reinforcements; Flying Forts Hit Europe   MANY REPORTS OF . BIG THRER MEETING

Allies Smash Deep in Italy “Winter Line   5th Army Rams Through German Mine Fields Near Montaquila

General Offensive Against Germans Expected to Open In Big Push for Rome.

ALLIES ATTACK ON BOTH ENDS UF NAZI LINE   Bitter Resistance Is Met By Allies In Advance Against Germans

MARTINIQUE’S SUPPLIES FROM U, S. CUT DOWN   High Commissioner of French West Indies Remains Non-Cooperative in Allied Cause.

CAPITAL FROWNS ON MARTINIQUE   Stubborn Attitude 0 French General Brings Cut In Relief

FHUNDER GUSTS HERE FORECAST   Mercury Hoversz Around 70 Degrees Today; Lowest Temperature During Night 54

British Stabbing AtGermanForces In Mareth Line   Rommel, Yon Arnim Expected to Fight To Bitter End

Bloody Battle Of Stalingrad Due in Tunisia  Aga Says Allies  pitied Cliabieanae fan   Stimson Says Allies Fought Better Last Week; Cites Losses

TUNISIAN FIGHTING — SLOWED DOWN BUT Ble EVENTS ANTICIPATED   ONLY THING FOR AXIS TO DO IS FIGHT TO FINISH IN NORTH AFRICA

Dunkerque for Nazis Unlikely with Statingrad finish of Cam poign Held Probable

Eighth Army Is Feeling Out Rommel Forces And  First Army Is On Flank   RV WES GATT AGHER

Vital Battle Seen Near at _ Mareth Line   8th Army ‘Stabbing -at Desert Forts ; Rommel Hit Hard by Ai;

AXIS AFRICAN  FORCE IS ON DOWN GRADE   Failure to Cripple British 8th Army Is Blow to  ee   Britons Make Stabs At the Mareth Line

AXIS STRENGTH IN TUNISIA IS ON DECLINE      U. S. Planes Meet Little Resistance In Raids

NAZIS FACE SAME. -FATEINAFRICA THEY. ~ SUFFERED IN RUSSIE      Battle Rivalling That of Stalingrad in Bitterness and Intensity Forecast    AXIS PEAK 1S FELT PAST

NAZIS FACED WITH BATTLE 10 BITTER * END IN TUNISIA   Germans In Africa Are Marked For Complete Slaughter   THEIR MISSION TO DELAY THE ALLIES

Great Battle Shaping Up on Mareth Line   Duplicate of Siege Of Stalingrad Seen As Rommel and Allies Shape Up Forces

BRITISH FORGES MAKE STABS AT ROMMEL’S LINE   German Forces On Down Hill Grade In Africa

Fierce Battle Near As Weakening Axi: Waits Tunisian Blow   3 Rommel Passes Peak of Strength; . Fight Seen. Rivalling Stalingrad;  No German ‘Dunkirk’ Expected .

Forces in Africa Shape Up  for Bitter Fight To Finish   Germans, Beaten Back on Every Side, Now Must Hold To Delay Allied Blow at Europe.

French Seal Trap Around 250,000 Nazis   Cut Off From Sea Escape, Germans Must Fight To Finish

‘THE MARETH LINE BATTLE MAY EQUAL  STALINGRAD FIGHT   Rivals That Struggle in Bitterness and Intensity, It Is Said.   BRITISH 8TH ARMY BUSY   Rommel’s Failure to Cripple the Eighth Army Over Week-End, Serious Blow.

SHAPING UP _ IN TUNISIA   May. Rival the Struggle: at Stalingrad -Both in* Bit--“terness and Intensity   “RXIS:- FORCES ON =: oe PHE. DOWNGRADE   But’'No Dunkerque Is Possi. > ple-and Fight to. Bitter -Wrd Is Ordered

Tokio Raiders Rehearsed Weeks in Florida, One of Officers Reveals

DANES CONTINUE  REVOLT AGAINST  HITLERITE RULE WHOLESALE ARRESTS  FAIL TO HALT WAVE NF NEADLY SABOTAGE

Danes Fight Nazi Troops  InRebellion   Strikes Spreading, Many Clashes Reported As Unrest Mounts; 120 Danes Arrested    SWEDEN AROUSED i OVER BOAT SINKING   Sabotage Increases As Ger: mans Rush Troops Into Denmark; Report Scores Injured

DANISH REVOLT HARRIES NAZIS   New Rioting, Sabotage Reported as Germons Try To Restore Order

Revolt Mounts In Denmark As Rioting Gains   Demonstration Broken Up By Nazi Troops; Strikes Erupting In  Several Places

DANES UNREST MORE INTENSE   Danish and German Authorities Fail to Halt Riots, Sabotage.   RIOTING IN COPENHAGEN

Denmark’s Revolt  To New Heights   Strikes, Clashes With Police, Sabotage Continue Throughout Nation.

PUBLIC REVOLT INDENMARK IS ATFEVERPITCH   Officials, Unable to Quell Rioting, Place 230 Persons Under Arrest

Dane Revolt Still Rising.   Crowds Demonstrate, Sabo. teurs Get in Heavy Biows

“People’s Revolt” Grows in Denmark   Meanwhile, German Authorities and Danish Government Reach Stalemate in Talks on How to Halt Riots and Sabotage.

GERMAN, DANISH OFFICIALS SEEK TO CURB RIOTS   120 Arrested’ After Demonstration in Copenhagan

Sweden Takes Critical View Of Sinkings  Revolt Reaches New Heights In Denmark

REVOLT SOARS AMONG DANES   Government And Nazi Officials Stumped On Plans To Halt Riots. Sabotage

120 ARRESTED IN DENMARK AS ~ RIOTS SPREAD      Danish Government end Nazi Mil itery af Stalemate, Damage fron  Sabotage Mounts

TALKS BETWEEN TWO NATIONS IN STALEMATE   120 Danes Arrested; Saboteurs Continue Wrecking Work

Discussions Stalemated —   Denmark's People's Revolt Reaches New Peak Of Fury

Germans Unable To Suppress Disturbances In Denmark As  Revolt Soars To New Heights   Authorities Reach Stalemate In Talks On How To Put Down Growing Disorders

Danish Revolt Mounts Higher   Saboteurs Bomb Electric Appliance Works

‘People's Revolt’ Growing In Denmark; Police, Nazis Fight Copenhagen Rioters   Sy Tht CAT RIP!

RENE AEE wee  —_re  120 ARE HELI IN COPENHAGEN   General Strikes And Clashes With Nazi Soldiers Continue   REACH STALEMATE   Conferences Fail To Determine On Plan To Halt Disorders

“PEOPLE'S REVOLT” IN DENMARK BRINGS CRISIS TO NATION  » DANES AND GERMANS  REACH STALEMATE ON  HOW TO HALT SAROTAG!

Denmark Staging Peoples Revolt   Riots, Sabotage Are Still Growing

MOVE IS INTENDED TO DISRUPT WHOLE NAZI SUPPLY PLAN   Gains On Every Main Front Of -1200-Mile Battle Line Reported  * Today

Reds Smash Toward Kharkov In Drive Aimed af Unhinging German Positions inDonets

RAIL JUNCTION SEIZURE WOULD CUT NAZI LINE   Drive Will Relieve Kharkov And Smash Enemy Supply Route To Donets   ITALIAN TROOPS QUIT   Soviets Report Gains On Every Main Front OF 1.250 Mile Battleline

Aim Is To Relieve Kharkov      DRIVE WOULD UNHINGE ENTIRE: GERMAN SYSTEM OF SUPPLY T THOUNSANDS OF TROOPS IN.’ DONETS AREA

CLOSE A PROJECT   Colonel Taylor Announces End of “Trailer Town” on July 15

Nazis Building Major Fortified Lines  : To Meet Invasion Threat From Allie

3 FORTIFIED LINES RUSHED BY GERMAN)   Reported Object to Counter Allied Invasion of Western Europe

OO EE oOo  Nazis Rush 3 Fortified Lines To Repulse Allied Invaders

No Signs of Evacuation, Stimson Says   Praises Almost  Parfect  Co-ordination Of All Units   Array Develops Portable Pipelines To Carry Gas to Motorized Units

No Signs of Evacuation, Stimson Says   Praises Almost Perfect Co-ordination  Of All Units

Axis Fights on In North Africa  Stimson Sees Nothin   Stimson Sees Nothing of Large Evacuation

Stimson Says Noose Tiahfens   There Is Indication Enemy to Continue To Fiaht. He Says

TIGHTEN NODOE ON AXiS IN TUNIGI      No Evidence of Attempted Evacuation, Says Secretary of War.

HOUSE GROUP HIT REQUEST ~~ OF THE NAV)   CUT IN AMOUNT ASKED BY NAVY Is SLAP AT GROWING ‘SIZE OF ARMED FORCES

NAVAL SUPPLY BILL REDUCED BY COMMITTEE   House appropriations group lops off 54 million dollars

aDVETS POUND FUE ON FRONT OF O00 MILES   Red Armies Within 30 Miles of Dnieper River, 300 from Rumania.   CONTINUING ADVANCES REPORTED BELOW OREL

REDS ONLY THIRTY MILES FROM ONIEPEF   Advance - Along 500Mile Front; Menace Strong Point

More Towns Recaptured By Soviets   Nazis Being Pushed Back On Entire Front

REDS WITHIN 30 MILES OF DNIEPER RIVER   Red Armies Pounding Westward Along 500-Mile Front—  Germans Flee.

REDS ADVANCE ALONG 500MILE FRONT   - Only 30 Miles From Dnieper River At One Point

Lines Now Only 30 Miles from River and 300 Miles from Rumania. Estonia ‘May Be Evacuated.

Pleasure Riding In Taxicabs Ou   ODT Calls On Operators To Help Enforce Ban

EASTMAN URGES CO-OPERATION OF RIDING PUBLIC   Asks That All Uses of Cars For Pleasure Be Halted In 17 Eastern States; Warns Against Use of Taxi Cabs For Pleasure.

Ban Taxis for Pleasure Use   Eastman Calls On Operators to Halt Such Use

NO TAXICABS FOR “PLEASURE’   Put Under Same Ban As Private Cars by Eastman

No Pleasure Rides In Taxis  Would Defeat Purpose Of Private Car Ban

Death Awaiting Nazis On Messina Peninsula   Similar Fate Is Pending For Germans In Orel Salient Of Russia; Doom Seems Sealed

Enemy Soon Will Be Fleeing Before Allies’ Onslaught  Sicilian Forces Are In Stalemate, Escane Hone Is Slim

N¥AaSion  jon GF italy Unty Matter Of Days— ~~By Kirk 2+  Short, Snappy Battle Expecied At Messina

MANY INJURED BY EXPLOSION   Half Million Dollars Damage Caused By Chemical Plant Blast.

Bricker To Make Appeal For Tax Repeal Tonight   GOVERNOR TALKS AT U. OF DAYTON

BRICKER MOVE DISTURBING 10 PARTY LEADERS   Governor To Test Power of House Speaker

STATE LEGISLATURE SHOWDOWN IS NEAR      Governor To Defy Solons or Sales Tax Issue

inhabitants of One Italian Town Burn Esccict Records as Americans Arrive

Sifts New Angle In Murder Case   Sheriff Has “Tip” In Kiger Killings

2 KILLED IN RACE RIOTING IN TEXAS   BEAUMONT PUT UNDER MARTIAL LAW AS NEGROES AND WHITES BATTLE.

RACES CLASH IN SHIPYARD TOWN   Negroes, Whites Riot In Beaumont, Tex., After Woman Is Raped

ar Plants Plan 'asy Labor Day   'Workers Ave Urged To Forego Holiday

Workers Are Askec To Forego Holiday   Urge War Productior Over Labor Day

ANNOUNCE ADVENT OF ARMY’S. SUPER BATTLESHIP, OF AIR   Notice Considered Warning To Japanese That Their ‘Freedom From: Raids . Runs Out

ACTION IS NEAR FOR NEW ‘B-29   Arnold Says Super-Bombet To Get Final Test Soon

PANTELLERIA AIR ASSAULT WON VICTORY   Only 40 Allied lives were lost; Lampedusa next on Allied list

Nazi Garrison Smashed by Yank Columns  Britain's Big Claance Fiaerks   Britain's Big Guns Fight Duel With Axis

"ALLIES FAIL , 10 MAKE GAIN AT FAID PASS   U. S. Troops Are Making Forays On Three Sectors Of Tunisian Front.

Nazi Garrison Smashed hy Yank Columns   Britain’s Big Guns Fight Duel With Axis

AGREEMENT DESIRARLE   Problem in West Africa Should Be ' Covered “in Entirety”

West African Governor Takes Stand.....  Boisson Would Leave Everything To Giraud

NO TRACE OF LT. GLARK’S BOD\   Engagement of. Officer Made. Known Day Before Accident

Patterns In Furniture To Undergo Cut   WPB Says Firms May Make Most Desired And Profitable Styles

Furniture Styles  — Cut Two-Thirds   Fewer Knick-Knacks  To Be Made

100,0¢0 Tons of Bombs Poured on Reick By RAF Planes in Past Seven Months

50% Tax Boost, New Proposal   It Would Take Nearly Third of Income

FAVORABLE REPORT ON PURSUIT BILL   Sheriffs May Appoint Special Deputies To Meet War Conditions and Lawbreakers May Be Pursued > Acr ounty Lines In Certain

2 Seaports On Island Occupied   Allied Planes Taking Heavy Toll of Vessels

Armies Hold Two Seaports   Patriots and American: Help French Drive Ger mans from Island

FRENCH TROOPS SURGE ONWARD UPON GORSIGA   Allied Planes Shoot Down Seven Nazi Transports Loaded With Troops

Naval And Air. Craft Pounding Enemy Retreat   French, Yank And Italian Patriot Forces Advancing

French Get Two  Corsican Ports.   Germans Being Driven Into Corner of Isle

BARRY CO, DEFEATS PROWIBITION TEST   Wets Declare Outright Prohibition Not Answer to Liquor Traffic Evils

CIRCUIT ( CONVENES IN BROOK FIFLD MONDAY FEB.15   Cc. B. Burns, Prosecuting Attorney Circuit Clerk Maxine Perkins and Anna Beele Walker, Deputy, New Officials   JUDGE GREEN ON BENCH

ITALIAN RAIL SYSTEMS: HIT IN AIR RAIDS   German Fighters Fail to Turn Back Allied Bombers —   SEVENTEEN EN ENEMY PLANES SMASHED   Invasion Fleets Reported -‘Massing for Crivex

AXIS FIGHTERS FAIL TO HALT RAIDS ON ITALY; GIVE STIFF OPPOSITION   Seventeen Enemy Attackers Shot Down As Flying Fortresses Rip Airdromes; Aversa Freight Yards Blasted

11 Nazi Planes Bagged by Allies In Italian Raids   Swarms of Reinforced En emy Fighters To Halt Aversa Attack

ALLIES DOWN 21 PLANES IN ITALY, LOSE 13 OF OWN   Reinforced German Fighters Put Up Fierce Resistance as Raid Is Made on  Awvoaraa   BATTLE SWIRLS 100 MILES OUT TO SEA   Nazi Broadcast Reports 400 British Troops Landed on Mainland and Were Rounded Up.

Italian Railway Junction Raided   Reinforced Germans Fail to Stop Allies

STIFF BATTLE FOUGHT IN AIR   Swarms Of Enemy Planes Overcome In Attack On Italian Rail  Junctions

Reinforced Nazi Fighters Fail fo Halt Bombers   21 Axis Planes Destroyed in Bitter Battle

NAZI FIGHTERS FAIL 10 HALT NAPLES RAIDS   AIR BATTLE SWIRLS OUT TO SEA; RAIL YARDS HIT

Air Opposition Grows in Italy   Heavy Forees of German Planes Attuek Rombers

Nazis Frustrated In Air Defense Off Italy Coast   Allies Continue Bomb Attacks on Rail Points Near Naples

New Regulations Give Government Control over Some Job Transfers   WMC Announces Tighte: Rein over Labor Migration in Region Four

STRINGENT JOB RULES APPLIED   Tighter Rein Placed Or Labor Migration In This Region

Former Gov. Dan Moody Favored by Stevenson  As New A&M President

Vinson Tries To Salvage Wage Ceiling   Mine, Railway Disputes Menace Steel ‘Formula

VINSON FIGHTS RAIL PAY BOOST   Says Congressional Approval Will Scrap Stee! Formula

Vinson Tries To Salvage ‘Little Steel   Tells Congress Group Rail Pay Rise Would Scrap Wage Program

QUIET SETTLES OVER MINES AS MEN STOP WORK   Union Halls Keep Watch At Telephones For Word To Return To Coal Pits   Delegates Seek Facts

Five Warships Launched in NJ Shipyards   Four Destroyers and One Aircraft Carrier Go Down in Two Days at Camden and Kearny

Cold Wave Hits Central States   Sweeps Down From  Canadian Border

Frigid Wave Hits Nation  First Day Of Winter Starts Off Blustery

ar Department Action-—  ARMY 10 PROTECT BUSINESS AGAINST SUDDEN END OF WAR

PROTECTS THEM   Army Has Pian To Reimburse Contractors, lf War Ends.

Autoists in East Get No More Gas      Mid-West Cut Doesn't Help Them

ONE-HALF GALLON BOOST IN GASOLINE IS SEEN FOR EAST      Motorists Urged To Abide By Pleasure Driving Ban Rest Of Month

Predict Only Half-Gallon Gas increase For ‘A’ Cards   Limited Increase May Be Made Some Time Early In   September 

County Schools Lend $266,005   1.185 Students Pledged To Buy Stamps Regularly

Mosquitoes Raid Berlin With Main Blow At Frankfurt   Tokyo Reports  Allied Planes “Attacked Island  Off China Coast

REDS TAKE PRINCIPAL NAZI BASE IN WHITE RUSSIA: BERLIN BOMBED FOR 4TH NIGH   Tokyo Announces 20 Allied Planes Attacked Shinchiku on: Northwest Coast of Formosa. Claim Three of Planes Were Shot Down 

NAZI DEFENSES CRACKED AGAIN AS GOMEL FALLS   Yanks Advance in Italy and Battering of Japs Now Being Stepped Up

Yanks Stage First Large: scale Bayonet Attack   FIERCE OPPOSITION   Allied Airmen Strike Deadly Blow at Axis Shipping in Mediterranean

BOTH HEIGHTS DEFENDED BY GRAGK NAZIS   Charge Made Up Slopes in Face of Fierce Opposition — Big U. S. Guns Shell Mateur,   AXIS GAIN SLIGHTLY AGAINST BRITISH   First and Eighth Armies Pushed Back— Allied Airmen Sink Seven  ' Ships Off Sicily.

Long-Range Guns Now Can Throw Shells Into The Vital Enemy Railroad Junction Of Moteur

Allied Airmen Blast Seven Enemy Ships   British First Army Yields Ground In Medjez-El-Bab Arec

19 Axis Ships Are Hitin  Mediterranean   Fighting Doughboys Take Two Hills in Bitter Fichting

USE BAYONETS AS HUGE GUNS SHELL MATEUR   Bitter Fighting in Progress on All Fronts; Axis Attacks: Halted.   ALLIED AiR FORCE HITS STRONG BLOW AT SHIPS

BOMBERS SINK SEVEN VESSELS IN BIG CONVOY   _ American Artillery “Sending Shells Into Mateur

Yankees Gain In Bayonet Charge   Capture Two Important Hills Before Plair Leading To Tunis; Deadly Aerial Blow: Dealt Axis Shipping In Mediterranean

Fliers Sink Seven Ships  In Convoy   U. S. Troops Get Their First Taste Of Close Fighting.

American Push Carries To Edge Of Bridgehead   Seven Of Enemy’s Ships Are Sunk In Convoy Attack

AIRMEN SINK 7 AXIS SHIPS NEAR SICILY   Bayonet- Wielding Troop Stab Edge Of Enemy Bridgehead   MATEUR SHELLED   Bitter Fighting Is Raging Along Entire Tunisian Front

Soldiers Use Dayonets For Success      Enemy Suffers Severest Aerial Blow As Allies Sink Seven Ships; Rittar Countermove Is Attempted

Yanks Capture Two Strategic Hills in First Large-Scale Bavonet Assault of Campaign

US Soldiers Use Bayonets In Advance   Allied Airmen Hit Hardest Blow At Axis Shipping

War's. Deadliest Blow Struck By Allies At Axis Shipping in The Mediterranean

19 Axis Ships Are Hit in  Mediterranean  We aeletiecace Tiseccsn le ke. mens   Fighting Doughboy: Take Two Hills in Bitter Fighting

First Large Scale Bayonet Atfacks * Assault Axis Ship   Bitter Fight Along Tunisian Front; Two Destroyers Sunk

Airmen Sink 7-Axis Shins   Tanks !ake  wo strategic Hills In Bayonet Assault.

Infantrymen Push Out Crack German Troops   Allied Air Forces Concentrate on Enemy Ships in Straits, Sinking at Least Seven

Infantrymen Storm Heights, Artillery Shelling Mateur; Airmen Smash Enemy Convoy   Patton’s Men Charge Up Slopes Under Heavy Fire, Capiure High Points; Axis Shipping Suffers Heavily

$2,900,000,000 FUND PROPOSED   Post-war Rehabilitation Plans Take Form

Fifty Million Will Be Destitute Following Close of War in Europe   (Vs) 10 8E& REAVY

Nation Has Safe  And Sane July 4;  138 Fatalities Traffic Deaths  Are Lowest In  Manv Years

DISPUTE MAY CAUSE DELAY IN ADJOURNMENT   Senate, House, Agreed On All items of Bill Except One Item 

FIGHT ON PARKS —-FAGES ASSEMBL   Delays Action On Appropriation And Assembly Adjournment

PATRIOTIC ORDER HOLDS BIG RALLY   Will Push Twin Drive For War Bond Sales And New Members

Officials Hope Uniform Will Induce 14-Year-Old Not to Seek Enlistment

For Aid . To China AtOnee   Says Britain’s Interests In Pacific as Great As Amerien’a

SAYS BRITAIN WILL BATTLE JAPS TO END      Churchill, in Address to Congress, Declares Immediate Aid to China Also Is a Common U. S.-British Goal.

Promises Fight Side By Side With US To End   Tells Congress Aid To China Is Urgent Need

‘Immediate Aid to China’ Most Urgent  Prime Minister Tells Congress Britain Has Own Score io Settle  SPEAKS IN HOUSE  WindsorsinDistinguished Party Briton Takes to  Cantitol   SPEAKS IN HOUSE

British Leader Outlines Future Tasks of United Nations in Memorable Address to Congress

CALLS AID 10 CHINA ONE OF THE ALLIES MOST URGENT TASKS   Says British Interest in Paci. fic Is as Great as That of Liga ears

Address to Congress Probably. Influences By Advocacy Here of Emphasis on Pacific

CHURCHILL PLEDGES AID IN JAP WAR   British Will Stand Side By Side With United States In Far East Campaigns   CHEERS GREET SPEAKER

U. S. Soldiers in Britain Providing Christmas Dinners for C hildret

American Troops in Britain Begin Holiday Parties: Giving Emphasized

12 Bodies Taken From W. Va. Mine  One Pursglove Victim Stil Unaccounted For

ALLIES GAIN GROUND ALONG ROAD TO ROME   Fall Of Perano Is Hard Blow  To Germans

British Forces Capture Perano In 5-Mile Push   Gain At Several Points Despite Mud, Flood And Strong Nazi Opposition

Allies Make Gain On Italian Front   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance Against the Axis  - Forces .      BIG GUNS INTO ACTION   Break in Clouds Allows : Planes to Attack Nazi - Communications

EIGHTH AND FIFTH ARMIES IN SLIGHT CAINS ITALY FRONT   BRITISH CAPTURE TOWN ON ADRIATIC SIDE OF BATTLE FRONT

ALLIED FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES. GAIN SOME GROUND   Capture Several Points on the Italian Front Despite Stiff Nazi Opposition and Mud and Floods

ALLIES BREAK LULL IN ITALY   Gain in Several Points Despite  Weather, Heavy Opposition

SANGRO CITY CAPTURED BY FIGHTH ARMY   Yanks Also Push Ahead At Venafro Despite : Weather

Britis Eighth and American Fifth Armies Advance Despite Handicaps

Weather Helps Enemy To Slow Allied Advance   However, Both. Fifth And Eighth Armies Report Gains.

Slight Gains Made By Both Eighth And Fifth Armies   Allies Make Some Advances Despite Mud, Flood And  Enemy Opposition

ALLIED 5TH AND 8TH ARMIES GAINED ON THE ITALIAN FRONT   Advances Made Despite Mud. Flood and Fierce Enemy Opposition.   CROSS SANGRO RIVER   Eighth Army Patrols Inflicted Numerous Casualties  It Is Announced.

ALLIED TROOPS FORGING AHEAD   Fifth and Eighth Armies Gain Despite Mud, Flood, Enemy.

ALLIES SLOWLY GAIN GROUND   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance In Italy Despite Mud and Rain

Fifth And Eighth Armies Gain Ground In Italy; Perano Captured; Airmen Strike At Yugoslavia

Allies Make Gains in Italy  Fifth and Fighth Armies   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance Despite Weather And Nazi Resistance

Some Gains Recorded on - Italy Front   Both 5th and ‘8th Armies Surmount Mud, Floods And Fierce Resistance

Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance Tn Face Of Mud, Flood And Bullets

Allies Fight Through Mud to New Posts   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance on the Italian Front

Mud Fails To Halt © Allies .   Both 5th and 8th Score Advances ot Ttalian Front

Allies Gain Despite Mud And Germans   Fifth and Eighth Armies Manage  To Push Ahead

ALLIES GAIN IN FACE OF DIFFICULTIES   Tommies and Yanks Advance at Several Points on Italian Front Despite Mud, Flood and Fierce Opposition.

ARMIES GAIN IN SPITE OF MUD   British Take Perano In New Thrust Along Adriatic

FIFTH AND EIGHT ARMIES ADVANCE AGAINST NAZIS   Successes Scored In Past 24 Hours Despite Bad Weather And Stiff Enemy Opposition; Mussolini Regains Health With Amazing Rapidity.

Allies Forging Ahead In Italy  Advance Despite Mud, Stiff Opposition

Allies Move Up in Haly   Both Armies Gain; Eighth Advances Five Miles to Toke Town

Advance in Italy Despite Floods   Both American and British Forces Overcome Counterattacks,

Allied Armies Gain Ground In Italy   Perano Captured By British Eighth As Fifth Advances

ALLIED ARMIES MAKE GAINS Ob ITALIAN FRONT   Mud, Floods and Savage  Hun Resistance Fail to  Halt Americans and British; One Town Taken

Yanks Drive On Through Fierce Nazi Opposition   British Goin Five Miles, Seize Sangro River Town

ALLIES SCORE  ADVANCES ON  ITALIAN FRONT   British Capture Perano Alter Five Mile Advance, Patrols Cross Flooded Sangro   AMERICANS GAIN   Fifth Army Gains Ground Above Venairo in Face of Heavy Ar Hillery Fire

Allies Battle Mud, Flood and Fiercer Opposition in Italy   Gain Ground at Several Points Despite Many Difficulties

CLUB WOMEN TO HEAR MISS CRALL   MUSIC NARRATOR TO ENTERTAIN ON WEDNESDAY

Woman's Club Hears Fine Music Program   Beatrice Crall Entertains Club Women

Australians Are Pressing Japs  Back In Jungle   Coastal Units Battling Way Toward Lakona On Huon Peninsula   ALLIED BOMBERS ~— AID IN CAMPAIGN

MEN STILL SORE, SAYS MINE HEAD   ILLINOIS MINERS ¢ RETURN TO WORK IN RESENTFUL MOOD

EXPECT ALL STATE MINERS TO RETURN TO JOBS BY MONDAY, UMW CHIEF SAYS

Elevator Operator Suffers 3 Hours As Workmen Strive To Free Trapped Leg

‘Australian Commandos Employ Novel Method to Win Natives’ Friendship

Eighth Army ‘Amassing All For Victory   Montgomery Will Not Attack Be fore Mareth Line Until Sure He Can Hit Hard

War Correspondent With Russians in Successful Drive Reveals—  ‘Soviet Armv Has What It Takes

Russ Have Magnificent Equipment And Morale   Superbly Armed, Clothed And Fed, Red Army Drives Pick Of Hitler’s Army Before It; . Soviet Guns Are Unsurpassed

 Young, Strong Russ Army Now On Offensive Has Learned Much  Operation Along Entire Front Is One Of PRasntifnily. Timed Encirclamentc (HY Enemy

Get Their Vodka Dail.  Cocky, Young Russian Army Captivates U. S. Newsman

Victorious Russian Army Has Learned Lot From Nazis; Use Their Tactics on Improved Scale

Russian Army Has Learned Much From German Troops         Reds Scout and Then Begin Encirclements With FastMoving Units Which Include Planes, Air Sledges Capable of Going 100 Miles An Hour; Cavalry and Motorized Infantry; Sure of Victory

Young Russian Army Learns Much As it Battles Germans: Strangely Enough, Some Of Thal Knowledge Comes From Enemy

Chinese Recapture Another Jap Base   Important Point At Ichang Taken

Chinese Army  ‘Takes Kungan j   Was OneOf Bases From  ' Which Japs Started

CHINESE TAKE KUNGAN BASE   Continued Advances Against Japs Reported

Chinese Take Japanese  Invasion Base  Enemy Lose Half of Soldiers in Kungan

JAPS ROUT IN CHINA COSTLY TO INVADERS   Half of Enemy Killed and Rest Put To Flight

CHINESE TAKE KUNGAN, STAGE RAID IN ICHANC   Report Important Point in Outer De fenses of Jap Base Captured— 4,000 Japs Trapped

ee 0 et a  UNCHECKED CHIN CHINESE OFFENSIVE RETAKES ONE JAPANESE BASE  ENEMY INVADERS REPORTED ABANDONING MUCH MATERIAL

Chinese Take Kungan, Hem In 4,000 Japs   Rout of Nip Yangtse Force Yields Vast War Booty

WAR PLANTS ARE DAMAGED BY FIRE   Philadelphia Building Swept B; Quarter-Million Dollar Blaze Today

THE WELLSBORO — SCHOOLS OPEN   'Next Wednesday Morning — New Faculty Members.

W.HLS. FACULTY IS COMPLETE   Wellsboro Schools Will Open The First Day Of September.

Permits Ready For Butchering      New Regulations Legalize Butchering Of “Back. yard” Stock.

Ruth Simonsen Becomes A Bride At Home Wedding  Weds Wallace Sallee Teacher In State Collece At .Amec

Ruth Simonsen Becomes A Bride At Home Wedding  Weds Wallace Sallec   Weds Wallace Sallee, _ Teacher In State College At-Ames

PARRIS ISLAND IMPRESSED F. R,   President Praised Work Of Marines At South Carolina Base After Reviewing Troops.   ~—~RY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL—

Marine Corps Boot Camp Is Host To FDR   Raw Recruits Learning To Be Marines See President

Kharkov Encircled _ As Russians Press Germans Backward   Allies Make Slow, Unspectacular Progress C Sicily; Nazis Compressed Further Inro Contracting Messina Bridgehead

Briton’s Trip to Confer With President Stirs  Talk of New Invasion   Favorable Developments in Fight Against Axis Brings Need to Revise Strategy ; Prime Minister. Goes te Canada First

Grand Strategy Talks — To Lack Soviet Envoy   Threaten Kharkov In Six Directions; Allies Progress is Sip, Faciic  Front

Many Assembly Bills Killed   Seek to Clear Way Fer Adjournment  This Weekend

Salamaua Final Assault Nears   Allied Commander Ready for ‘Kill’

Allied Leader Is in War Zone to Direct Last Stab   Fighters Soon Will Be Through With Big Battle for Salamaua

NEAR VICTORY AT SALAMAUA   General Blamey Takes Field For Final Blow Against Jap Airdrome

Salamaua’s Fall To Allies near, MacArthur Says   Japs Being Driven Off of Airfield

ALLIED FORCES MOVING IN FOR SALAMAUA KILL   Allied Troops Now Stanc At Edge Of Airdrome After Driving Japs From Mountains   Supply Barges Blasted

SEVEN KILLED _ INPLANE CRASH      Five in Navy Transport Ship ’Chute to Safety

Navy Plane Falls, Burns; 7-Reported To Have Died   Five Aboard Transport Parachute to Safety Before Ship Crashes Near Flemington, N. J.   ALL BELIEVED TO BE NAVY MEN

PLANE CRASH KILLS SEVEN   iowan Used Parachute to Escape in Accident

NAVY TRANSPORT PLANE CRASHES   Seven Men Reported Killed In Crackup in New Jersey; Five Aboard Said to Have Jumped to Safety

SEVEN KILLED INPLANE CRASH   Navy Transport Goes Down in New Jersey Cornfield.

SEVEN ARE KILLED IN AIRPLANE FALL   Naval Transport Crashes Into Cornfield in New Jersey

Crash of Navy Plane Fatal fo At Least Seven   Five Others May Have Taken fo ‘Chutes in New Jersey   Two Survivors Believed To Be U. S. Navy Officers

CRASH OF NAVY PLANE KILLS 7   5 Other Men Said to Have Parachuted to Safety In New Jersey

By-Gone Era  Returns   Automobile, Horse and Buggy Involved In Accident: Two Injured

RAF Planes “Over Rome In Short Foray   Trains Strafed !n Area Beyond The City

R.A. F, Planes Make Hop Over Rome Pilot Regrets Missing ‘Big Bullfrog’

MALTA AIRMEN FLY OVER ROME   Italian Capital Proven As Easy Target For British Planes

BRITISH AIRMEN FLY OVER ROME: DROP NO BOMBS   Visit Is First to Italian Cap. ital—Lights of Electric Trams and Buildings Visible.   STRAFING ATTACK MADE ON TRAIN OUTSIDE CITY   Flight Recalls Churchill’s Threat to Bomb Rome if Air Attacks Were Made on Athens or Cairo.

British Airmen  Fly Over Rome   Italian Trains Gunoned Baan (anital

ENGLISH PLANES FLY OVER ITALIAN CAPITAL   Trains Serving Rome And Qutlying Suburbs Are Strafed, Pilot. Reports

ltalian Trains And Outlying Points Strafed   Mussolini Gets Warning of What He Can Expect at Any Time   sritish Prove That Malta Can Easily Be Used for Base

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT AT FRANKFUR   RAIDERS WIPE OUT 75 NAZI PLANES, BLAST KASSEL

U. 5. Warplanes Down 75 Nazi Craft on Raids   15 Bombers Are Lost la Frankfurt, West German Air Attacks

75 German Planes Downed As Yanks Raid Frankfurt And Other Reich Targets

FORTRESSES BAG 75 NAZI PLANES   German Industrial Cities Blasted by U. S. and British Airmen

AMERICANS oTAGt HEAVY ATTAGK UN GERMAN TARGETS   Operations Described as Biggest Yet Carried Out by Eighth Air Force   INDUSTRIAL CITY OF FRANKFURT POUNDED   RAF Night Raiders Gut Kas. sel With Tons of Kxplo. sives; Combined Operations Result in Destruction of 75 German Planes

Nazi Industrial City Hammered  Frankfurt Blasted by U. S. Bombers

Americans Raid Western Germany On Large Scale   72 Nazi Planes Bagged in Day

Gas Ration Board Accepts Lewis’ Explanation Of Trips      United Mine Worker Chieftain Gives Categorical Reply To Questions

Contributions   100°, Club   DRAFTING OF FATHERS 1S BEING DELAYED — M'NUTT   Order Prohibiting Draft of Pre-Pearl Harbor Family Men Is Still in Effect

DRAFTING OF FATHERS !S BEING DELAYED —M'NUIT   . Order Prohibiting Draft of Pre-Pearl Harbor Family Men ts Still in Effect

Death Penalty Is Asked In Murder. Trial   Special Prosecutor JE. Isherwood Opens ‘For Commonwealth

POISON MURDER TRIAL STARTED IN WAYNESBURG      Hearing Attracts Scores Of People To Greene County Saot

Newsprint Shortages Grow Acute   52 P. C. Reduction tn Prospect; Tariff Amendment Sought

Paper May Be Cut 52 Per Cent   Publishers Appeal For Tariff Revision To Meet Situation

May Cut Use Of Newsprint 52 Per Cent   Tariff Act Revisions Are Urged As One Means Of Relieving Shortage In The United States

ea  STATUS ACUTE       aa ts Pp. P, Cee : ween ANPAS ‘Asks'”  “Moye Ravicinn ©

a2 Per Cent __ ‘Newsprint Cut Ts Threatened:   Equal Reduction in Wrapping. Paper Mav Be Forced Unless 38,500 Pulpwood Cutters Can be Found.

FURTHER PULP AND PAPER SHORTACE IFORESEEN FOR ‘44   Special Committee Makes Forecast Unless Additions! Cutters Can Be Found

32 Per Cent ‘Newsprint Cut ~ Is Threatened   Jiqual Reduction in Wrapping Paper Muay Be Forced Unless 35, S00) Pulpwood Cutters Cian be Found,

Heavy U.S. Bombers Raid Rouen   Second Attack In Week Smashes Axis Supply Cente:

American Heavy Bombers Blast Nazi Centers   Blast Rouen and Wreck German Rail Yards and Oil Tanks

BOMBERS BLAST BIG NAZI CENTERS   Yanks Attack Supply City of Rouen, France; RAF Stages Heavy Night Assault on Stuttgart, Germany

AMERICANS IN RAID ON ROUEN DURING NIGHT   Railroad Yards Are Given Heavy Blasting; RAF Attacks Stuttgart

ROUEN RAILWAY YARDS BLASTED   American Bombers Make Direct Hits On Big Concentration Of Freight Cars

YANK RAID ON ROUEN; RAF ON STUTTGART   Oil Tanks And Railroad Yards Pounded To Wreck Vital German Railroad Commu nications.   No Yank Plane Lost

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST FRENCH RAILROAD CITY   Daytime Raid Follows Assault by RAF On Stuttgart

ROUEN BOMBED BY AMERICAN AIRMEN   Daylight Assault by Heavy Bombers Follows Stutt. agart Raid

Americans Hit Rouen In Daylight Assault .And Lose No Planes  11 BRITISH BOMBERS LOST OVER GERMANY  Great Damage Done To Industrial City, Germans Acknowledse

Yanks Bomb Rouen: RAF Raids Reich   Fortresses Pound Oil Tanks, Railroad Yards In France: Stuttgart  Hammered by British

44 NATIONS ARE REPRESENTED IN AMERICAN MEE]   President Roosevelt Presidés at Ceremonies Climaxing Proceedines

Final Struggle For Kiev Believed Under Way; Germans Reported Firing City In Preparaticn For Evacuation   WESTERN PART OF  ZAGREB CAPTURED

Churchill Says Agreements Not to Affect Portugal’s Neutrality Posilion

Testimony In Murder Case Is Changed   American Detective Tells Different Story Today About Vitally Important Fingerorint

IDLE DESPITE ORDER TO WORK   UMW, WLB, Lewis and_ Local Miners Union Heads . Have ‘Tried: to Get Men ‘Rack an Iahe

WARNS COAL CASE MAY GO TQ PRESIDENT   WLB Tells UMW Chiefs Such Action Appears Necessary Unless Striking Alabama Miners Return to Work.

Coal Miners Called On To Resume Work   Intensive Effort Made By Officials Of UMW Tc Get Strikers Back Te Work Monday

White House Threat : Used to Hurry Striking Miners Back Into Pits

WLB TURNS T0 ALABAMA COAL MINER STRIKE   Union Officials Ca'led On To Show Cause Why Strike Continues Despite WLB Orders

Coal Case May Go To Roosevell   Showdown Appears Near As  Resumption of Work . Wonday Is Asked   UNION TO MAKE INTENSIVE. EFFORT   Thousands Reported Idle; Decision Expected Soon On linois Contract

UMW Now Making Every Effort To Get Coal Miners Back ; Case May Go To President

Labor Front Tense   Operating Railroad Union Strike Vote Expected Hourly; 35,000 Coal Miners Ate Idle

Union Leaders Told Case Would be Referred to White House Unless Strikes Are Ended

UMW CHIEFS  AGREE TO TRY TO END STRIKE   WLB Tells Union Officials If Min ers Do Not Return Case Will Be Referred to FDR   STRIKES SPREAD   20,000 Ont in Alabama, 7,700 in Kentucky, 3,000 in Indiana —~ Lack of Contract Cited

CHINESE WIN VICTORY   Japs Driven From Mengting. Forced Into General Retreat

JAPS ARE RETREATING   Chinese Have Driven the Enemy  from a Border Town  2

THE JAPANESE ARE DRIVEN FROM THE TOWN OF MENGTING   Was Occupied by the Invaders a Week Ago, It Is Announced.   IN RETREAT WESTWARD   Several Hundred Casualties Were Reported Inflicted.

BENES MAY ACT AS A MEDIATOR   “zech President May Serve As Russian-Polish Go-Between,

Poles, Russians May Use Benes As Go-Between   Presence At Conference Of Big 3 Suggested In Responsible Quarters

Czech President May Be Mediafing Russo-Polish Dispute at Conference   Relations Improve in Advance.

Benes May Mediate For Poles, Reds   Czech President Reported in Moscow About Conference

Russo-Polish Dispute May Be Mediated   Czech President Benes s Mentioned as Possible GoBetween For Countries   RELATIONS ARE SEVERED

Benes May Be Mediator For Poles, Soviets   Missing From London, He Is Perhaps Attending War Conference Now

JOIN WAGS NOW 10 WEAR AN INDIANA SLEEVE INSIGNIA   YWO MEMBERS OF WACS RECRUITING STAFF VISIT BRAZiL HOPING TO INTEREST LOCAL YOUNG WOMEN.   POINT TO ADVANTAGES OF WOMEN IN SERVICE   Indiana Hopes to Surpass Other States in Enlistment of Women For Axumy Duty. Age Limit is 20 to 50 Inclusive,

Two Transports Hit, Set Afire 39 Zeros Shot Down, 17  Others ‘Probable’ In Rauttle Qhwar Shine

17 Others Probably Shot Down In Most Bitter Southwest Pacitic Battle

Allied Planes Shoot Down 35 Jap Fighters   Seventeen Others Are Probably Shot From Skies Over New Guinea Convoy of Enemy

Nips Reinforce Anti-Aircraft  In Face Of U. 5S. Attacks From Air

39 Jap Planes Reported Knocked Down   17 Others Probably Are Destroyed by Allied Airmen

77 Zeros Are Knocked Dow: In Bie Fight   17 Other Probable Victories Reported Other Nazi Bases

ALLIES DISCUSSING STRATEGY FOR ’43 BLOW ‘AT GERMANY   Relaxed Censorship Permits Telling Some Of New Developments In Africa

Allied Powers Plan Grand Strategy For Smashing Axis Blow   Prickly North African Situation Believed Straightened Out; Important Announcement Expected At Any Moment

Allies Plan Hard Smash At Germany   Grand Strategy For 1943 Mapped By United Nations

Allies Plan Big Drive on Nazis in ’43   Censorship Barrier Is Lowered to Permit Strategy Report

Allies Permit Reports Of ‘Beat Hitler, Settle Africa Crisis’ Talks

Allies plan death blow at Germany   Also reports discussion of  North Africa

PLAN SMASHING BLOW AT NAZI LANO THIS YEAS       Censcre ‘ip Relaxed to Let Strategy Reports Be Told

GRAND STRATEGY OF ALLIES SOON 10 BE REVEALED   Announcements This Week May Clear Up Confusing African Situation.

United Nations Discuss Pans —: For 1943 Blows: :   Ce nsorship Restrictions Ara Ralaved

Important Developments Pending In North African Set-up; Hint Campaign  Underway To Replace Eisenhower

Award Farmer Damages For  False Arrest  John Wiedenfeld o Merrill Wins Suit.

Award Farmer  Damages For  False Arrest John, Wiedenfeld «  RA... 95 UEP* =: ge te

NO AGREEMENT SIGNED, REPORT FROM ANKARA   Official Statement Is Damper On Talk Of War Entry

War Moves Of Turkey Dampened   Turkey-Bulgaria Border, However, Remains Closed

WAR SPEEDS te a      Rati S Bie  High School Grad uation: Be Largest. In

War Bond Drive Seeks to Divert Surplus Cash From Scarce Goods, Black Marts

Berlin Embers Still Glowing   Mosquitos Harass City’s Nerves Again

Bomb Silly Germans Find New Planet Heading For Sun, And Predict Coming Crash Will Destroy World

SENATE PASSES MVVELLAR BILL   President Terms Measure ‘Mistake’: Cut NYA Appropriation

No New Taxes Are Expected Before Fall   Senate Passes McKellar Bill; NYA Appropriations Slashed; House Urges Creation of One-Man Food Boss

‘Gun Capable of Blasting Turret Off Tank at 1.500 Yards Developed

--Bond Drive Near Quota - Fayette Needs $400,000 To Put Over Another Victory Effort; Big Purchases

SOVIET FORCES CHASE GERMANS FROM GZHATSK   FROM GZHATSK  Enemy Dagger Aimed At » Russian Capital Is Removed        PUSH ON VYAZMA     Nazi Defense Zone On Central Front Is Being Smashed

Gzhatsk Fortress Taken by Soviets  Muscovite Shock Units Hit Napoleon Trail

Labor Attacks Absentee Bill   Union Leader Says Program Would Turn Nation Into Penal Institution.

UNION LEADERS OPPOSE ABSENTEE WORKERS BILL   Leader Tells Committe: Bill is Step Towards Turning Country Into Penal Institution

THREATENS TO EXPOSE BIG POLITICIAN   Tavern owner says he  “protection”

Two Officers Left Off List   Senate Balks on Promotions of Patton, Somervell

14 Promotions  Being Delayed   Senate Fails To Act Upon FDR Move To Elevate   - 3°Star Generals.

EIGHTH ARMY ‘GAINS ALONG “FINA SLOPES   Two Axis Strongholds Taken; Foe Driven Toward Trap

Yankee Fliers Blast Randazzo Continuously   Americans Push to East After Crashing Into Troina: Messina Sector Is Bombed

JUNCTION, WON BY STH ARMY   Russians ~ Press Ahead To Seize Last Nazi Escape Line

Germans Face Disaster in.  Inland Sicily   British Seize Two Strongholds, Threaten Escape

Americans Paralyze Junction at Randazzo   . S. Forces Push Eastward After Occupying he Despite Bitter Resistance; Mainland Points Lambasted

British Sweep Around Etna, Take Cities  Escape Avenue for German Forces in Sicily Threatened

Eighth Army Takes Two Strongholds   Last Road Out of  Interior of Sicily. Menaced-by Move

British Eighth Army Advancing In North Sicily   Escape Avenue for Ger mans May Soon Be Taken by Allies

Escape Avenue for Gers man Forces Believed Under Fire   AMERICAN FORCES PUSHING EASTWARD   American Airmen: Con. tinue Punishing Raids . on Randazzo

British Drive Threatens  Nazi Retreat   Take Adrano, Bronte And Menace Highway North of Mount Etna  YANKS TAKE TROINA

Threaten Troina-Randazzo road, escape avenue for Germans facing Amerieans   Believed within five miles of vital artery; road under artillery fire

Fleeing Nazis Are Virtually Trapped Above Troina City   Only Other Possible Escape Left To Germans :  Through Roadless Mountain Country; Fall Back On All Sectors

BRITISH CAPTURE ADRANO, BRONTE IN NEW ADVANCE   Troina -Randazzo Escape Route Is Now Threatened   ALLIES IN FORAYS OVER MESSINA STRAIT

CALL BLACKOUT GREAT SUCCESS   State CD Director Terms It ‘Best I’ve Seen’ In 50-60 Places

BLACKOUT TEST HAILED SUCCESS   Rural. Urban Areas Jn 21 Counties Participate; Few Violators Noted

BLACKOUT IN OHIO IS CALLED SUCCESS   21 Counties Win Praise or Thursday Night Test

Eisenhower Says “Team Is Ready For More Tasks   Harmony Of Allied Commanders Lauded By U. S. Chief

Eisenhower Is: Ready for Any Task, He Says   American Commander Determined to Fight To Bring Axis to Its, Inevitable Tunicia..

Eisenhower Says  His Allied Team  Ready for Any Task Will Fight Together  Until Axis Last _ Army Meets Defeat

Eisenhower Ready for Next Task   Says Inevitable “Tunisia” Ahead For All af Fnemv

EISENHOWER ARMY AWAITS NEW. TASK   GENERAL SAYS HIS. FORCES WILL FIGHT IN CONCERT TO FINAL VICTORY..

EISENHOWER SET FOR ANY TASKS   Declares His Team of American, British and French Forces Ready for Any Further Assignments

SCRIVNER SPEAKS TO PARTY WORKERS   G.0.P. Congressional Candidate Sees But One  Issue "hea

SCRIVNER SPEAKS TO PARTY WORKERS   G.OP. Congressional Can_didate Sees ButOne  a an Issue ,   ELECTION IS SEPT. 14

Interoreti ng  The War   New Japanese Drive In China Holds Additional Threat

Controversy Looms Over Renewal LendLease Law in June   Criticism of Gigantic Scheme Comes from BiPartisan Sources

EXPECT BATTLE ON LEND-LEASE      Criticism Comes From BiPartisan Sources in Congress.   MAY SEEK AN INQUIRY

LEND-LEASE MAY BE SCRUTINIZED   SENATORS PROPOSE INVESTIGATION OF BUYING METHODS

CONGHEoS HTD LEND-LEASE POWER   Criticize Handling of Funds to Aid Allies, Congressmen Want Probe

AIRMEN BATTLE AT FINSCHHAFED   Not Revealed If Fightinc Is to Escape Trap or Retake Base

FOUR SHIPYARD WORKERS KILLED   Auto And Train In Collision At Crossing In Gloucester. N. J

Weather in Helena   Destruction of Nazi Destroyer Crippling of Cruiser Told

STATE SETS UP PLAN 10 INDUCT SKILLED LABOR   Fathers Will Enter Service. Starting April 1—Employers Given Advice

New Plant Job Inventory Plan  Is to Be Used  System Arranges for Orderly Withdrawal

BULGARIAN CAPITALIS HAMMERED   American Bombers Get 11 Enemy Planes In Heavy Assault

BULGARIAN CAPITAL HIT IN FORCE   All Planes Return From: Mighty Attack, Crisis Heightéened

Czechs to Face New Blood Batt   Nazis Sentence 519 Patriots to Death

Ruthless Nazis Order New Blood Bath for Czechs   Horror of Lidice May Be Repeated

519 Czechs Stain By Shaky Nazis   New ‘Blood Bath’ Reported in Nation

BABSON DISCUSSES OUTLOOK OF BANKS WITH INFLATION   Fails to See Changes In Commercial Banking Policies, Changing Conditions Affect Sources of Revenue.

Outlook For U. S. Banks Discussed   ROGER BABSON SEES CHANGES IN MONEY POLICIES

BRITISH INCOME TAX REMAINS   LUXURY LEVIES TO BE RAISED UNDER BUDGET

Luxuries Tax Boosts Cost For British  Cigarettes, Beer et ae a ee a   Cigarettes, Beer Levies Increased In New Budget

BRITAIN GIVEN ANNUAL BUDGET   income Tax To Remain Same But Other Levies To Increase

BLUE NETWORK SYSTEM SOLD   Edward Noble Purchases Radio System For $8,000,000

Nazis Defense Line Also Collapsing, Opening Path For Red Army Into Poland

Battered Germans Withdraw   Nazis Admit Capture City—Allies Make Ad  vances in Italy

Question Raised Whether Red Front Is First  Punishing Air Blows On Reich Held  Ba anes lees em rbeeet Blea:

Question Raised Whether Red Front Is First   Punishing Air Blows On Reich Held More Important Now

U.S. Sends Goods To Reds _ Faster Than They Use It   War Material Piling Up In Warehouses And Freight Yards, Reporters Claim

Quisling Builds a “Berchtesgaden” Near  ~ Oslo and Puts Machine Guns on Guard

Norwegian Nazi Puppet Under Guard; In Constant Fear of Assassination

DISGUISED GERMAN SOLDIERS IN ROME   Ready To Seize Government When Allies Start,  Invasion

NAZI TROOPS REFUSETO. LEAVE ROME   7 Remain There, Disguised As  ' Civilians

Disguised Nazi Soldiers in Rome to  Help Fascist Plot, Traveler Claim:

NAZI SOLDIERS STAY IN ROME AS ‘CIVILIANS   Disguised Troops Will Aid Plot To Oust Badoglio, Said

GERMAN SOLDIERS — REMAIN IN ROME TO AID IN PLOTS   Troopers Dressed as Civiljans Lurk About to Help Fascist Cause.

U.S. FLIERS CONTINUE ASSAULTS AGAINST JAP FORCES IN SOLOMONS  Air Field At Munda Bombed and Two

US. Flyers Pound Munda’ Field, Hit  Two Destroyer 5   Buna Mission in New Guinea Falls to Allies; Treops Move Up. for Kill of Remaining Japs.

TWO. CARLOADS MUNITIONS GO UP IN FLAME:   Fire‘on Freight Train Touches Of! Shrapnel—Fire Chief Seriously Hurt by Fragments

COLORADO CITY GETS TASTE OF SHELLING   Munitions Train Blows Up, Pours Over City

Colorado Town Terrorized ‘ When Train Fire Sets Off  2 Carloads of Ammunition»

Train Fire Sets Off Two Carloads Of Munitions   Blasts Jar Colorado City for Four Hours: Fire Chief Injured

Colorado Town Terrorizea When Train Fire Sets Sif 9 Carloads of fmmunition

Colorado City, Gets Real Taste of Warfare as Fire Touches  Off Two Carloads of Munitions   Shrapnel Spatters Over West End of Grand Junction a: Explosions Terrorize Residents for More Than 3 Four Hours: Fire Chief Suffers an Arm Amputation

Fire Sets Off Two Carloads Of Munitions   Grand Junction, Colo., Residents Terrorized By Series of Blasts   FIRE CHIEF CONE SERIOUS CASUALTY

Intensive Nazi Push Fades Ou   Red Army In ‘Caucasu: Halts Enemy Attacks

Hitler's First Russian Spring Offense Sags   Soviets Say Germans ‘Bled White’ Through Heavy Losses

FURIOUS GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS IN KUBAN AREA WEAKER  . GERMANS LOST ALMOST: 4,000 MEN AND NEAR 200 PLANES IN WEEK

GERMAN DRIVE IN THE KUBAN AREA SLACKENS TODAY   In Addition to a Heavy Loss in Planes, Tanks and Munitions Nazis Also Count Several Thousand Dead

Furious German Drive Slackens— To Lick Wounds   Enemy Lost About 5;00€ Men, 200 Planes In Futile Attacks.

GERMAN DRIVE IN KUBAN REGION OF CAUCASUS SLOWS   Nazis Count Several Thousand of Their Dead In Addition To Heavy Loss In Air Planes, Tanks, Guns and Munitions.

Nazi Attacks Slacken Off   Fury of Air Fights Continue in Kuban Region

CERMAN BLOWS IN RUSSIA AREA TAPERING OF}   Counter-Attacks in Kuban Sector of Caucasus Had Approached Intensity   of An Offensive   LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Thousands of Nazis Killed; Reason for Cessation of Attacks Not -Immediately Explained

Russians Blunt  German Assault  Thousands Of Nazis Are Dead On Battlefield

NAZIS SLACKEN BLOWS AT REDS   Germans Have Heavy Troop And Equipment Losses

GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS IN KUBAN REGION OF CAUCASUS SLACKENING: MEN AND MATERIAL LOSSES HEAVY   Nazis Lost 5,000 Men and 200 Planes in Less Than Week’s Fighting. Fury of Air Fight In Sector of Front Has Not Slackened However.

NAZIS EASE DRIVE ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Heavy Losses Check Push in Kuban Sector

KISKA OUTPOST IS BOMBARDED   North Pacifie Command Increases Pressure For Landing

Warship, Planes Lambaste Kiska  Joep Aleution Bese Attecked Four Times,

PRESSURE ON KISKA BASE IS INCREASED   Warships Shell Island; Liberators Blast Japanese

U.S. Bombers Joir Attacks on Kiska  Fires Are Reported Near Jap Batteries

MUNDA SUPPLY DUMPS BLASTED   Divebombers Loose 27 Tons on Enemy Base  During Week-End

Deluge of Bombs Loosed on Munda   Bad Weather Slows Up  Action on Ground

Bombers Retain Job Of Softening Japanese on Munda  Fliers Score Hits On Many Enemy Targets in Pacific

GERMAN BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST SUNK!   Sent to Bottom Off Norway by Naval Engagement With the British Home Fleet; Germans Admit Loss

RAID ON CONVOY a FUNAL AGTION OF SCHARNHORST   Spectacular Battle Off Norway Ends In Victory For  British Home Fleet

British Sink German Battleship scharnhorst Off Norway Coast   Is Greatest Naval Victory Since Sinking ef Bismarck in 1941,

FIRE DESTROYS INSANE ASYLUM   Most Of 1,200 Inmates Believed To Have Escaped.

1,200 FLEE AS ASYLUM BURNS   Fire Destroys State Hospita At Evanston,

Hospital For Insane Burns;  1.200 Saved   " Patients Flee In Night Clothes And Strait Jackets

1200 Insane Men and Women Saved From Asylum Fire - Many Barefooted

ERE DESTROYS INSANE HOSPITAL   Twelve Hundred Escape ’ As Flames Sweep Indiana Institution

£vansville, Ind., State Institution Destroyed: No Known Loss of Life Guards, Police, Legion Rush in.

Insane Hospital Leveled By Fire, Inmates Escape   1,200 Flee In Night As Fire Spreads

1,200 Inmates Saved As Fire Devours Hospital For Insane   No Loss Of Life Occurs; Most Of Men, Women Routed In Nightclothes

FIRE TURNS OUT HOSPITAL INMATES   1,260 Insane Flee Burnine Evansville Hospital During Night Blaze

FIRE DESTROYS STATE HOSPITAL   Evansville Home for Insane Burns, 1200 Inmates Escape

FIREDESTROYS INSANE ASYLUM AT RVANSVILLE   Most of Approximately 1200 Inmates Escape and Are Herded Into Outdoor Stockade   FEW FULLY CLOTHED   Most Barefooted and In Night Shirts; Many. In Strait Jackets; Origin Not Determined

HOSPITAL FOR _ INSANE BURNS   Twelve. Hundred Patients In Indiana Institution Believed Regcued

SOLDIER HELD AS SEX SLAYER   Armed Guard Watches Killer Of 3-Year-Old Girl

GUARD PROTECTS SEX MURDERER   Mob Violence Feared Against Soldier Held In Slaying Of Girl, Age Three

Russians Renew Attacks Against Nazis In Kuban   18 Axis Planes Downed; Ground  Action Grows

Reds Resume Thrusts in Kuban Area   Big Bombardment Against Enemy Airdromes Opened

‘Small Boy Sulfocated in Old Ice Box; Think Dog Caused His Death

Farm Bloc Squares Off For Subsidy Battle   WEA Chief’s Demand for $1,000, 000,006 To Keep Retail Prices Down, And Extension of CCC Draws Blasts

Billion Dollar Food Subsidy Asked in U.S   Farm Bloe Will Demand Opportunity to Say Wihycwos Worasrl-

Farm Bloc Girds for New Battle  ' Subsidy Program Again Flares Up

BATTLE LOOMS OVER REQUESTS FOR SUBSIDIES   Upwards Of Billion I: Wanted To Keep Food Prices Down; Draft  Fight Weakens   Mav Shelve Dra@ Rill

FOOD SUBSIDY FIGHT LOOMS INCONGRESS   Administration Plans Big Outlay to Keep Prices Down   DRAFT QUESTION TO COME UP TUESDAY   Wheeler Measure Expected to be Pigeon-Holed This Week

mb ais Subsidies Looms In Congress   Farm Bloc Prepares Oppesition in Senate, House to Food Program

GORGES CAUSE IOWA FLOODS   Lowland Areas Are Inundated as Ice Pites Un in Streams

ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS MAY GET MORE MONEY   Appropriations Committee Asking for Increase of $540,000.   ALREADY A LARGE ONE   Employees Threatened tc Resign Unless Given More Pay.

Churchill Says RAF Will Help To Defeat Japs   Prime Minister Promises To Help Americans Bomb Tokyo

‘RAF Will Aid In Retaliation lo — Tokyo --Churchill  Japs Fear Bombing  of War Plants, Prime Minieter Declarec

KILLING OF FLIERS HIT BY. CHURCHILL      Prime Minister Denounces "Cold Blooded” Exe.  cution

CHURCHILL ASSAILS EXECUTION OF AIRMEN   Declares RAF Looks* Forward to Flying With Americans to Attack Japanese Cities.

NEW AMERICAN OIL FIELD IN ARCTIC   Alaskan Refineries Will Convert Oil to War Form From Pipe Line

Will Cronin Of Remsen Weds Miss McIntire   Wedding Takes Place At Holy Name Church, Marcus

Pretty Wedding Held At Marcus Charles Nielsen and  Thelma Addy Wed

MISS JUDITH PETERSON BECOMES BRIDE OF MR. MAX STEIN   Beautiful Church Wedding Sunday Afternoon

02 PROMOTIONS FOR OFFICERS ORDERED HERE   New Appointments Include 3 Majors, 15 Captains, 34 Ist Lts.

Mediterranean Reported Alive With Shipping   Germans in Italy Fight Two Wars; Many Claims Made

NAZIS FIGHT EISENHOWER AND. {TALIANS   Two Wars On The Hands In Several Parts Of Italy; German Propagandists Are  Busy   No Action

General Eisenhower's Columns Reported Advancing; Allied Landinas in Greece Expected

Two Wars Being Fought By - Forces Of Germany In Italy   Troops Battle Against Allied Columns and Former {italian Allies—Mediterranean Reported Alive With Ship Movements

Navis in ttaly Have Two Wars On Their Hants  [ cere    Italian Enemies Lurking Everywhere; Allied ’ Landinas Feared

Russ Break Salient Held By Nazis For  Four Months   Moscow Hears Enem) Lines Are Crumbling In Most Important Sectors Of Front

Battles Raging fi.za» 4 ANN MAA VUVCI 1 ,WUUTTIIG  Russian Front   Soviet Offensive — Also Within 70 Miles OF Latvia In North

REDS HURL NAZIS BACK IN ADVANCE TO SOUTH   @Caucasus Railroad Center Next Goal Of Soviets  RAINS SLOW CAMPAIGN  ¢ Axis Resists Stubbornly In Middle Don Region

GERMANS IN CAUCASUS  IMPERILED   Maintain Fierce Resistance: In All Sectors Attacked

Nazis Driven Back From Mozdok as Lines Crumble     MAY SPLIT ARMIES     Dred Win Over Tank Corps in Drive For Elista

Reds Break Salient Nazis Had Held for More Than 4 Months   German Lines Appear to Be Crumbling as Russians Advance

Hard-Driving Red Army Hurls back ‘Crumbling Nazis in Mozdok Area

GERMAN LINES CRUMBLE UNDER NEW ATTACKS   Vital Railway Junction Next Goal of Reds West of Mozdok

RECAPTURE MALGOBEK AND MOZDOK   ‘German Lines Crumbling. According To Russians   MOSCOW REPORT   Refutes Claim Enemy Garrison At Velikie Luki Is Still Holding Out

REDS ADVANGE AFTER VICTORY   Report German Lines Appear to Be Crumbjing in Some Sectors.   CAUCASUS DRIVE SLOWS

SOVIET ADVANCE FORCES GERMANS AWAY FROM OIL   CAUCASUS FIGHTING SLOWED BY RAINS; 2 DRIVES PRESSED

Russians Reaffirm Claim Of Holding Velikie Luki, Say Garrison Viped Out

MOZOOK RETAKEN BY RED ARMIES   Smashing Of German Salient Is Considered Ma. jor Victory   Z DRIVE CONTINUES   Hitler Facing Most Serious Fuel Bottleneck Since War’s Start

Russian Armies _ Take New Sector   IMPORTANT GAIN MADI AS GERMANS DRIVEN BACK

CONSIDERED MAIOR VICTORY. FOR REDS   German Lines Appear To Be Crumbling In Most. Imnortant Sectors

Nazi Bid for Oil Cut Off   Russ Smash Salient With Mozdok Capture, Gein on Other Fronts

Russian Army Now 15 Miles Southeast Of Captured Mozdok   French Forces Backed by U.S. AniiTank Gunners, Planes Hurl Back Axis Armored Attack

BREAK SALIENT THE GERMANS HAD DRIVEN FORWARD OVER FOUR MONTHS AGO TOWARD THE RICH GROZNY OILFIELDS—SOVIETS SAY IMPORTANT NAZI LINES APPEAR TO BE CRUMBLING   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

German Lines Crumbling In Vital Sectors   Soviet Forces Rolling Nazis Steadily Back From Caucasus Area And Oil Fields  :

Recapture of Mozdok and Malgobek Is Considered Victory by Russia Like That Of Stalingrad and Velikie Luki

New Soviet Drive Rolls Foe From Big Oil Fields   Reds Advancing In All Sectors, Nazis Seem Crumbling In Most Important Areas

Major Rail Junction New Soviet Goal   Swift Russian’ March: .-Engulfs Many Towns, But Rains May Slow Drive   ENTIRE GERMAN . POSITION MENACED   Reds Show Amazing Power and Generalship: in Widening. Offensive

CAUCASUS DEFENSE ARMY ADVANCES ON BOTH SIDES RIVER   RECAPTURE OF MOZDOK AND MALGOBEK CONSIDERED MAJOR VICTORY

Russ Armies Drive West From Mozdok   Major Victory Seen in Capture Of Velikie Luki

Nazi Threat To.Grozny Oil Is Removed:   German Lines © in Important: _ Sectors Crumble

Reds Continue Caucasus Advance Along Terek River   Germans Hurled Back from Newly Recaptured Mozdok

AXIS DEFENSES RUMBLING, RED FORCES REPORT   German Salient Into Grozny Oil Fields Broken

REUS ANNVUNUE FURTHER GAINS IN OTHER AREAS  Germans Set Back At Both Cats of Busciafrate Alawe   1 ne iGermans Set Back At Both Ends of Battlefield More Than One Thousand  Miles Long   NOZDOK’S CAPTURE MAJOR VICTORY   Enemy Lines Appear to Be Crumbling In Most Important Sectors, Moscow Reports

SOVIETS PUSH SALIENT BACK IN CAUCASUS   Move North, West Fron Recaptured Mozdot Against Arc Formed by Enemy in Drive To ward Oil Fields.

Oil Fields Kept From Nazi Hands   German Lines Crumbling In The: Caucasus As  '. Well As In Sectors Farther North ,

RUSSIANS BREAK THROUGH REICH'S WEAKENED LINES   Advance Gains Momentum With Recapture of Two Towns In Caucasus  Re UEPNPY C CASSIDY

Victory Equal To Stalingrad Won By Reds   German Lines Being Crumbled As New Attacks Launched

Red Army Breaks Salient Germans Hod Thrust Toward Grozny Oil Fields

MARCH ALONG TWO BANKS OF TEREK RIVER   German Lines Crumble In Important Sectors Soviet Says   RESISTENGE S FIERCE   Mozdok Recapture Gives Nazis Serious Oil Problem

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES POUND BIZERTE, TRIPOLI AND AXIS SUPPLY LINES

Heavy Blow On Bizerte From Air   Waves Of Flying Fortresses In Raid—Attack Is Made On Tripoli

Far-flung Blows Cost Allies Six Planes and Germans Nine; Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz Named Commander of Air  % Operations in Tunisia

THEE WAVED UF BOMBCKG HAID BIZERTE   Other Allied Planes Attack Tripoli, Tunis, Sfax and Supply Routes.   TERRIFIC AIR BATTLES TO COME WHEN RAINS END

Bizerte Gets Hard Blows From The Air   Other Nai Bases Pasted; Allies Lose Six Planes

Fortresses bomb naval  base Bizerte   One of fiercest attacks of war

AXIS AFRICAN SUPPLY LINES ARE POUNDED   TOUGHY SPAATZ IS NEW U.S. CHIEF OF AIR FORCE

Heaviest Air Blows Of War   Allies Also Attack Supply Routes to South, Tunis And Sfax  so... Una: sia & AIEEE OB

Huge Raids Batter Bizerte French Gain   4 Axis Beses Attecked; LeClere Coptures 2 More Libye Towns

BIZERTE BOMBED FOR MANY HOURS ~ BY UL 8, AIRMEN   Airdromes, Docks and Shipping Hit in One of Fiercest Onslaughts of War.   TRiPOLI AND TUNIS ALSO HAMMERED   Raids Designed to Disrupt Axis Communications— Allies Lose Six Planes,  Down Nine.

Big Bombers Hammer at Bizerte   Far-Flung Air Blow: Cost Allies Six Planes, Axis Nine

Other Planes Strike Widely; Spaatz Made Air  Generalissimo      Only © Patrols  Venture Through Mud On Cun: isian Vront;. Vreneh  Camel Corps Active

AXIS-OCCUPIED SUPPLY BASES BADLY RAIDED   Flying Fortresses Hammer Naval Base of Bizerte ° in Fiercest Attack of War   TRIPOLI IS TARGET OF ALLIED FLIERS   Attacks Made as Maj. Gen. Spaatz Takes Command of American and RAF. Air Operations

GEN. SPATZ LEADS ALLIED AIR FIGHTERS   Enemy Routed By Fighting French Moving Northward From Equatorial Africa

AXIS BASES ARE POUNDED IN BIG ALLIED ASSAULI   Bizerte, Tripoli, Tunis And Sfax All Subjected to Terrific Bombings

Bombers Pound Axis Naval Base   Fiercest Raid Of ~ War Is Reported

SPAATZ HEADS AERIAL FORGES   Fortresses Attack Bizerte Base in Waves

Axis Given A Hard Day By Bombers      hd a Fortresses Range Tunisian Front To Soften The Enemy

Bizerte Base Hit By U. S. Fortresses  Six Planes Lost In All Day Raid   Six Planes Lost In All Day Raid On Nazi Docks

Three Waves o Allied Planes Hit Axis Base   Other Allied Planes Attack Tripoli, Supply Routes to South and Tunis and Sfax —

ONE MORE DAY   Car Owners Get Unti! Tomor row To Obtain Stickers.

Kharkov Fall ls Imminent   Ring Of Steel Around Germans !s Tightened

Reds Drive Aheac In Kharkov Rout   Soviets Report Street Fighting

FARM SUBSIDY GAINS BACKING   Congressional Mail Runs Heavily In Favor Of Incentive Fund

SUBSIDY PLA GAINING FAVOR   Passage Of Farm Incentive Program Predicted

‘INCENTIVE’ SUBSIDY PROGAM = REPORTED GAINING IN HOUSE:   CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE CHANGES MIND ON PROPOSAL AND OTHERS RECONSIDERING STAND

Lie Detector Rescues Man At Prison Gate   Judge Upsets Jury Verdict in Dramatic Courtroom Scene

SAYS HE FOUND NO BURNED HAIR ON DE -MARIGNY   Bacteriologist - ‘'Testifies In Oakes Mur‘dor Trial.

Denies Burned Hair Found On De Marigny   Bacteriologist Strikes At Crown's Contention

Doctor Found No Burns on DeMarigny   Hits Prosecution Point; Oakes Asleep When Killed,. Evidence Shows

ALFRED DE MARIGNY HAS BREAK IN TRIAL   No Burned Hairs Found, Says Murder Case Witness

ADMIT ‘FAKE STEEL TESTS WERE MADE   Senate Truman commit: tee investigates CarnegieIllinois firm

China Admit: Jap Gains In Yunnan   Nipponese Push Shows Strength In Four Provinces

The War Today   Second Great Russian Drive Multiplies Peril of Germans

AMERICANS HELO IN PRISON CAMPS   News From Prisoners of War, Held by Italians, Gathered From British Prisoners Exchanged for Axis

Associated Press Correspondent, Former Mt. Savage Boy, Coming Home

rORTHEOoES POUND DUCES BATTLESHIPS   ltaly’s Big Battlewagons Given Plastering

Fortresses Roar Over Italy, Hit Ships At Spezia   Three Battleships, Cruiser Blasted; Many Fires Set

American Fortresses Strike Devastating Blow At Spezia Naval Base   Trio of 35,000-Ton Craft, Pride of Duce’s Fleet, Targets of Great Daylight Attack; Cruiser and Big Cargo Vessel Also Are Hit

FLYING FORTS IN BIG ATTACK ON NAVAL BASE   Three of the Powerful Ships Hit Are of 35,000 Ton Class

Daring Daylight Raid Hits Spezia   Yanks Cripple Duce’s Hiding Navy

3 Big Battleships Damaged In Raid on Spezia   Heavy Cruiser and Merchant Ship Hit; Fires Left Raging

BIG PLANES HIT SPEZIA WAVY BASE   @ruiser And Merchant Vessel Attacked In Daylight Sweep

Heavy Cruiser,  Merchant Vessel Are Hit   Heavy Flying Fortress Raid Also Leaves Great Fires Burning in Oil Depots and Other Installations at Spezia Harbor

Scores of Flying Fortresses Damage Three 35,0600Ton Battleships in Pow erful Attack   HEAVY CRUISER AND CARGO SHIP ARE HY   Battleships Damaged Were All of Littorio Class, Pride of Mussolini's Fleet

Hits Scored On Enemy Battleships With Blockbusters   Great Fires Left Raging in Oil Depots, Harbo Installations in Daring American Raid on Spezia and Italian N avy

Big Yankee planes rock Italian navy   Trio battleships struck in daring attack on Spezia

Bombers Lash 3 Battleships   U. S. Forts Blast Pride Of Musso’s Fleet In Harbor

Yankees Batter Four Warships Of Duce’s Navy   Three 35,000 Ton Battleships, Italy's Largest, Cruiser Damaged In Daring Raid On Spezia: All Americans Safe

Americans Hif Three Italian Battleships   Flying Fortresses Also Bomb Cruiser And Merchant Ship In Spezia Harbor

Big Cruiser, Merchantman Also Suffer   Daring Daylight Attack On Spezia By Yankees ‘Made Without Loss Of A Single Bomber

Bombs Damage Three Italian Battlewagons   Goebbels Tells Of Coming Nazi Offensive In Try To Bolster Morale,   RUSSIANS BOMB OREL

Fliers Blast. Five Big Enemy Ships   Fortresses Journey Far Afield to Rake Spezia Harbor

Three Warships Damaged In Raids   Daring Daylight Raid On Spezia Also Gets Heavy Cruiser And: Merchant Shin In Harbor

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS      Length Of War In Europe Ipepends On Home Front action Effort

COAL PRODUCTION — ONE OF VITAL IFACTORS IN WAR   Trend of Operations in All War Theatres Depends on Production And Transportation

The War Today Return Of Miners Biggest News, Scribe Back From Vacation Finds

ALLIED FLYERS ON WIDE SWEEP OF AXIS CITIES   Raid on Rome Staged in Daylight; Others Thursday Night

AXIS BEGINNING TO LEAVE SICIL' “ALLIES PRESS 0)   Yanks ‘Within Four Miles of Randazzo; Messine De- ' fense Penetrated. -

AXIS. BEGINNING 10 LEAVE SIILY ~ ALLIES PRESS ON   Yanks Within Four Miles of Randazzo; Messine Defense Penetrated.

PEACE: FOR. THIS ERA MAY COME FROM MEETINCS   Roosevelt Says Caivo-Teheran Conferences May Be Birth« place of Peace for This Generation — Tells of Enemy Plo 

Roosevelt Tells Plot On Allied Leaders’ Lives      President Back At White House Desk After 36-Day Trip; Stalin Wise To Axis Plot.

HOPES OF PEACE FOR A GENERATION   Roosevelt. Gives Reporter: » Sketchy Glimpse of the Recent Global Talks   NAZI PLOT AGAINST BIG THREE REVEALED

Reign of Terror Blamed on Hitler By Nazi Officer on Trial in Russia   Nazi Plot to Assassinate Big Three  In Iran is Revealed by Roosevelt

President Plans Early Report On War Conference   Radio Broadcast Scheduled for Friday Afternoon

Conferences May Bring Peace Move   For This Generation, at Least, President Roosevelt Said Today.

GENERATION OF PEACE. IS. SEEN BF ROOSEVELT   To Evolve From Catro And Teheran Talks, Says  President

Long Peace May Evolve From Meets   President Plans For Christmas Eve Talk To Nation; Report To Congress Later

GENERATION OF PEACE HOPE OF ROOSEVELT   President Promises More Detail or Conferences in Broadcasl Day Before Chrisimas   LIFE THREATENED   Moved to Russian Embassy in Teheran for Safety Reasons—Big Three May Meet Again

FDR Confident Of Peace for’  1A Generation   Will Confer with Vinson Over Tiircatened Rail Strike ~*~

President Declares CairoTeheran Conferences Promise World Peace For "Our Generation”.

'FDR Believes Peace For This. Generation May Evolve From Parleys With Other Leaders   Promises More Details On Talks In Christmas Eve Broadcast To Natian

Trip Spiced By Danger      Nazi Plot Against Allied Chiefs in Iran Zevealed By F. D. R.

President Gives Sketchy Impressions of Conferences.   TELLS ABOUT NAZ} PLOT

Nazis Plotted To Slay Big 3   *‘Munchausen Story,’ Rorlin Radin Snae

Reveals Plot Against Life At Teheran   Further Parley Details To Be Revealed in World Message Dec. 24

I’. R. Reports To Newsmen On Conference   Savs Peace for Generatior May Be Outcome ol These Wiscussions

GIVES REASO FOR STAYING WITH STALIN   Says Confab Will Lead To Peace For Generation   MODE OF TRAVEL   Kept Secret By Roosevelt; Plans 3 O’Clock Broadcast Christmas Eve

Peace For This Generation.Is  Seen By F.D.R.   President, On Return, Tells Of Plot Against “Rie Thee.”

PRESIDENT SEES PEACE AHEAD   Believes Big Three Pacleys Will End War, at Least for Generation.

Roosevelt To Make Report On Journey   Broadcast Scheduled For Afternoon of Christmas Eve

GENERATION OF PEAGEIS SEEN BY ROOSEVELT   ‘Reveals, With Usual Flair  for Unexpected, Nazis  Plotted Against War - Leadersin Teheran 

FDR Sees Peace for Generation  Comemnts on Result of Teheran Parley

Reveals Nazi Plot Against Allied Heads   FDR Says Talks  Assure Peace

Promises Details  Of Conference at Dec. 24 Broadcast   Roosevelt Says Peace May Evolve From Epic Par leys in Mid-East.   Tells of Threat on His Life at Teheran

FDR HOPEFUL OF PEACE AT LEAST FOR GENERATION  SAYS FOUNDATION AINA CAD HACT UIAD   SAYS FOUNDATION LAID FOR POST-WAR ERA AT CONFERENCES

NAZIS PLOTTED AGAINST THREE WORLD LEADERS   President Back in Washington, At Press Conference, Tells of Plot on “Big Three” Lives.

F.D.R. Says Parleys May Bring Peace For Next Generation   President Reveals Plot Against His Safety in Teheran

PRESIDENT SEES PEACE EVOLVING FROM CONFERENCE  ROOSEVELT GAVE REPORTERS GLIMPSE OF EPOCHAL MEETING

Peace May Evolve From Cairo-Teheran  Talk Says President      Allied Leaders’ Trip - Spiced by Threat to Personal Safety

F. R. Tells Of Teheran   Reveals Stalin Feared Plot Of Nazi Terrorists To Get Three Leaders

FDR Bares Nazi Plot At Teheran   Death Conspiracy At ‘Conference Foiled

REVEALS PLOT TO KILL BIG THREE AT MEET   Roosevelt To Tell Nation Of Trip December 24

Peace for a Generation, PF. D.R. Says   President Also Reveals German Plot Against Allied Leaders

Red Army Goes Ahead In Wide Area   ‘Breaks Through Heavy Ger man Defenses

U.S. and british Hurl Everything Into Campaign  American Forces Capture Fondouk,   American Forces Capture Fondouk, Move on Kairouan   STRIKE IN NORTH, TOO  Rommel Escape Lane Cut to 15 Miles;  No Changes in Russia

Drivish lake El Hamma. Back of Mareth Line, In Tunisian Struggle  YANKS ADVANCE BEYOND FONDOUK  British Northern Army Also Continues Push In Djebel Aboid Area

Berlin Bombed; Africa ~ Ground Troops Active   Rommel’s Position In Mareth Line Appears All But Hopeless As British Flanking Move Succeeds 

The War Today—  Burma Life-Line To Outside World Key Of Fighting In Yunnan Province

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   “War In Yunnan Provinces Of China Real Battle For New Burma Road

Key to Military Operations In China Is a Visionary Road Allies Trying to Make It an Actuality

KEY 10 MILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA’S BORDER PROVINCE OF YUNNAN IS VISIONARY ROAD

Flood Cripples City But Emergency Crews Bring Help  Water Recedes; Work In War Plants Returns to Normal

TO FACILITATE INDUGTING MEN   Few Grounds for Deferment Will Remain Under New Rules.   RULINGS ARE EXPLAINED

ECONOMY MOVE ~~ GAINS GROUND        COMMITTEE SEMERS MAY  WRITE - LIMITATION“ ON: : SPENDING INTO ANY TAX BILL © *

See Little Hope of Finns Quitting   Unconditional Surrender  Would Apply In Case:

‘Kenton Sets I Below Mark   Panhandle Town Is Reported Coldest Spot in Oklahoma

EASTERN WAR PLANT CLOSED BY WALKOUT   Thousand Employes Idle Af. ter Unauthorized Strike Today.

Calls Action Of UMW Intolerable   Veto Believed Ready For Anti-Strike Bill Already Passed

U.M.W. WARNS « STRIKING MINERS   Threatens Expulsion President's Work Order ~~ Es Not Obeyed

LET TROOPS © COME,” GROWL ANGRY MINERS   UMW Warns Men They Faee Expulsion From Union For Failure to Obey.   VOTE TO STAY OUT   Workers Resentful Because U. S. Refuses to Act on Wage Dunes Complaint.

Miners Face Expulsion   UMW Serves Notice On Men Defying Order of President

MINE WORKERS REFUSE TO OBEY FDR'S DEMAND   Coal Miners Vote To Continue 21-Day Wildcat Walkout

12,000 STILL IGNORE BACK-T0-WORK ORDEE   Growing Resentment Reported Over Government's Failure To Act At Once

Thousands Ignore Roosevelt’s Order  To Mine Strikers   Idle Coal Workers Cry ‘Let [The Troops Come”

F.D.R. Would Induct 65Year-Qlds   Leadership of UMW Termed “Intolerable” So Draft Miners

Authority To Draft Men Up To 65 Asked From Congress   ’ Anti-Strike Bill Veto ‘Seen Likely; Chief Executive Seeks Powerful Weapon On Labor

Roosevelt Gives Miners 48   Hours To Terminate Strike)  In Anthracite Coal Fields,   Although 6,000 Return To Jobs, Members Of Two  Locals Vote To Continue Three-Weeks Old   Walkout; Troops Likely To Be Used

President’s Order to Miners Icnored as Deadline Nears   ‘Let Troops” Come” Say Strikers in Hard. Coal Fields

Warning of Expulsion by Mine‘ Union   Union May Act-if the Striking Miners Do: No Heed Federal: Order   MUCH RESENTMENT . BEING. SHOWN   Many Favor:Immediate Assurance of Federal Action’ on Grievances

UMW Tells Men to Obey FDR’s Edict   Miner’s Resent Refusal of WEB To Air Troubles

OVER 12,000 IDLE IN COAL FIELD STRIKE   CALLING OF TROOPS IS HINTED BY ROOSEVELT

Rebel Miners To Be Ousted  From Union  Warned To Returt  kT we rh. Dp.

F.D.R. to Seek Stronger Coal Strike Weapon   Wants Authority To Draft Workers Up to Age of 65

UMW to Kick Out Striking Miners Wio Buck FDR   “Let the Troops Come!” Shout Anthracite Miner Who Refuse to Return to Jobs e

MINERS TOLD BY PRESIDENT TOEND STRIKE   Strikers Given 48 Hours to Return to Their Jobs

Await Result Of F. R.’s Ultimatum  Striking Miners Warned They Face Discharge From UMW

Threatens To  Expel Miners UMW Serves Notice On Remaining Strikers

Would draft men up to age 65 for non-combat service:  ‘UMW action intolerable’ —   Interpret statement as indicating veto of congress’ anti-strike bill

FDR_Directive Orders Miners  Back to Shafts   Anthracite Strikers Must Resume Work Within 2 Days or Invite Steps To ‘Protect’ U. S.   Chief Executive Fears ‘Injury to War Effort   Union Officials Described As Confident Walkout’s Backbone Broken

PROVIDES WEAPON TO HALT STRIKES   Presidertt Describes UMW Actions as Intolerable   OBSERVERS BELIEVE   Action Indicates Chief Exeou. tive Wilk Veto AntiStrike Measure

GIVES NOTICE HE WILL SEEK SUCH POWERS   Hopes Weapon Will Be in His Hands to Wield in Event of Another Mine Walkout.   WOULD TAKE ALL. . UP TO 65 YEARS OLD   ‘Statement Indicates to Lawmakers President Will Veto Anti-Strike Bill Before Him.

U. M. W. Warns Strikers They  Face Expulsion   12.000 Hard Coal Miners Remain Out, Despite FDR Order

Actions of Mine Union Leaders ‘Intolerable,’ Roosevelt Declares   Plans Ready to Induct Strikers When Lewis Sent Miners Back to Work; Coal  Operators Denounce Union’s Terms

FDR ORDERS STRIKING MINERS TO RETURN TO JOBS WITHIN 48 HOURS   Otherwise ‘Necessary Steps’ To Protect the Nation Against Injury To the War Effort Will Be Taken, Declares

ROUSEVELT WARNS STRIKING MINERS   PRESIDENT TO ACT LE MEN VAIL. TO RETURN TO JOBS WITHIN 24 HOURS, *

MANY MINERS JGNORE ORDER BYROOSEVELT   Thousands Vote to Stay Away From Pits, Defy President’s Command — to Resume Work   ET TROOPS COME’ STRIKERS DECLARE   p ott Against Lewis I Marked by Ultimatum By Government For  Men to Return -

EXPULSION iS NOW FACED BY COAL MINERS   ALTERNATIVE IS TO OBEY FDR’S WORK RETURN ORDER

U. M. W. will expel ‘disobedient miners   Resentful workers vote to stay out of anthracite pits

F.D.R. Plans To Take ‘Necessary Steps’ Unless Coal Workers Return in 48 Hours  6,000 GO TO WORK AND TREND IS SEEN Some UMW Officials  Think Federal Action Will Not Be Necessary

Asks Powerful Weapon To Use To End Strikes   Attitude Taken To Indicate He Will Veto AntiStrike Bill   Praises Organized Labor as a Group, but Scores Miners

Miners Are Told To Obey Order   Face Expulsion From Union If They Don’t Return to Coal Mines.

Ready to Call irs to Army, He Declares   Connally Bill Veto Expected; Opposition Seen in Conpress

PRESIDENT 10 SEEK WEAPON VS. STRIKES   Describes Actions Of United Mine W orkersLeadershipAs Intolerable; Would Draft Strikers Up To 65

'UMW Union To Expel Striking Coal Miners If They Refuse ‘FDR‘s Return-To-Work Order   Warning Issued As Thousands Ignore President; Show Increasing Resentment

F.D.R. Asks Draft Threat To Stop Strikes, Would Take Men Up to 65

President fo Ask For Weapon to Use in Strikes  @ Wants Power to ®»D raft Men to 65;

Statement Interpreted as Meaning Anti-Strike Bill Veto  STATEMENT SCORES MINE UNION HEADS  Mines to Continue Under Ickes for the Time Reina

Coal Miners Face Ejection From Union   Union Promises -Expulsion If Miners Fail to . Return to Work:

UMW ACTIONS INTOLERABLE, FDR DECLARES   Steps Taken To Induct Men Up To 65 Years For Non-Combat Service   Action Criticized

UNION TO EXPEL MINERS WHO 00 NOT GO TO WORK   Workers In Five Collieries Vote To Ignore President's 48- Hour - Get-BackTo - Work Order, But U. M. W. Injects Threat.

STRIKING MINERS DEFY FOR AND SAY ‘LET TROOPS COME’ AS THEY REFUSE T0 GO BACK   President, as Chief of Armed Forces, Has Issued Ultimatum For Strikers To Return To Work by Thursday Noon; Fight Is with Union Leaders Over Raising Dues

MEN UP 10 65 AFFECTED BY FDR PROPOSAL   Congress Okeh Hope Bill Veto >

Raising Of Age To 65 ts Asked   Anti-Strike Bill Vato Said Likely

MINERS WARNED BY UMW TO OBEY ROOSEVELT   FACE ‘DISHONORABLE EXPULSION’ UNLESS THEY GO BACK TO WORK

ORDERED TO WORK   Striking Miners Face “Dis. honorable Expulsion  Forthwith”’

STRIKING MINERS FACING EXPULSION BY MINERS UNION   Told That They Face ‘Dishonorable Expulsion Forthwith’ If They Refuse President’s Order To Return To Work By Noon Thursday.

Two Large Collieries Vote To Continue Three-Weeks Old Walkout; 12,000 Still Idle

BY PRESIDENT TO END STRIKE   Will Act If Men are Not Back on Job  By Tomorrow

) Request Is Seen As Indication  Executive Will Veto Anti-Strike Measure   PROPOSAL CALLED AN _AFFRONT TO SOLDIERS

COMMITTEE WARNS STRIKING MINERS   Men Resentful of Govern: ment’s Unwillingness to Negotiate.

WORKERS VOTE 10 REMAIN IDLE JESPITE ORDER   President's Time Limit For Agreement Ends Thursday Noon

Statement Interpreted As Meaning Probable Veto of Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Measure Passed by Congress  CO-AUTHOR OF BILL ASSAILS PRINCIPLE  Older Men Would See Non-Combat Service, Possibly in Mines

Union Warns Strikers of Expulsion   Miners Vote To Continue Strike Despite Order of FDR

Miners Mus! End Strike Or ‘Else’   President Warns Men To Resume Work In 48 Hours

“Let Troops Come," Shout  Thousands ‘Ignore FDR -Back-To-Work Ultimatum

“Let Troops Come” Is Cry Of Strikers In Anthracite Area   Claim Intervention By Government Will Be Welcomed By Officials Who Want Problems Exposed

U.MW. Tells Striking Miners. to Go Back to Work or Faee Expalsion

Roosevelt Orders  Strike Ended   Gives Miners Two  Days to Comply

UMW Warns Striking Miners On Expulsion  Many Vote To Stay _ Away From Work  Despite President’ s  Order To End Strike

Striking Miners Are Ordered to Return to Work   48-Hour Deadline Is Established by the President

Welcome Intervention Leaders Say   Interpret Pres, Roosevelt’s 48-Hour Warning to Mean; Troops Will Be Dispatched

MINERS VOTE TO CONTINUE REVOLT STRIKE   ‘Many Would Welcome Federal In tervention Despite Lewis Argu- tent WLB Without Authorily   Will Expel Men Refusing to Return, Thus Barring Them trom Work Under Closed Shop

Roosevelt Will Seek Change In Draft Act to Use as Weapon In Case of New Coal Walkout   Executive's Statement Interpreted as Meaning He'll Veto Anti-Strike Measure Industry to Be Near Normal by Monday

STRIKERS FAGE EXPULSION FROM NATIONAL UNION   Angry Muherings Heard At Local Meetings

FDR Gives Miners 48  Hours to Return to Job:   Government Will Protect “Security -of Na - tion” Unless Wildcat Strike Ends, President States

UMW BACKS: UP APPEALS FOR ACTION   Men Must Be Back “On Job Within _: Few Hours

Miners Ordered Back to W ork Within 48 Hours   President Will Take “Necessary Steps” To Protect Nation Against Injury To War Effort if Men Refuse to Return

MUST RETURN, UNION WARNS _COAL MINERS   Resentful Strikers Warned They’ll Be “Dishonorably” Expelled From Union

UNION C ISSUE THREAT OF EXPULSION   Executive Committee Of District 1 Warn Men As Thousands Remain Idle   WELCOME INTERVENTION

ORDERS END TO HARD COAL MINE TiEUP   President Serves Notic>: Oa Anthracite Strikers To Return To Work In “43  Mimnire.   12,000 Yet Idie

RAP IS TAKEN AT UMW BOSS BY ROOSEVELT   POWERFUL WEAPON SOUGHT AGAINST COAL STRIKERS

FDR Says Miners Must Be Back On Job In 48 Hours   If Not, ‘Necessary Steps’ To Protect Against “Injury To War Effort’’ Planned

Statement Interpreted as Meaning Anti-Strike Bill Veto   STATEMENT SCORES MINE UNION HEADS

Striking Miners May Be Expelled Is Union Warning   Use of Troops May be Necessary Is Report

Mine Strikers Face Expulsion  From U.M.W.A.   Dishonorable Ouster If They Ignore Back-ToWork Order.

Union Stands Back OFF DR Strike Order   UMW Threatens Expulsion Of 12,000 Miners Unless Walkout Broken,   INTERVENTION SOUGHT

CUAL STRIKERS GET ULTIMATUM   Union Warns Miners to Obey Roosevelt) Back-to-Work Order or Get Out

Drop 132 Tons of Bombs on Lae and Wewak and Japs Remain Away: Recent Fight Explains.

Bombs Rain On Jap Bases In New Guinec   Lae and Wewak Are Raided by Fortresses Without Being Challenged   FOUR ZEROS DOWNED

Allied Bombers Are Unchallenged   Lone Fortress Downs Seven Zeros

ALLIED WARPLANES. . HIT 2 JAP BASES   Heavy Damage Reported By Bomber Pilots ;

Rationing of Coal Believed Unlikely   Nelson Convinced  It Can be Avoided

Sec. Morgenthau Endorses Pay-asYou-Go Tax Bill   Treasury Will Aid in Putting Measure Into Effect by July 1

“PAY-AS~YOU+G0" TAX PLAN OKEHED   Treasury Endorses Bill That Would Keep 1941 Level, Add Withhoider

Morgenthau Has Tax Plan   Withholding Tax And Deferred Paying Uraed

Mr. Morgenthau Places Okay On Pav-As-You-Go   Proposal is termed a benefit ' for both. payer and government; debate it next week,

SPY FOR NAZIS NABBED BY FBI   Portuguese Provides Berlin With Information On Pacific Coast Bases

SEE CHANCES FOR 7 PER CENT RISE > INFOOD PRICES   OPA Administrator Bowles In Statement Predicts An Increase With Termination of Subsidies.   BECOND PRICE LINE APPEARS IMPOSSIBLE   Several Prospects Loom While Labor Groups, Mine Uperators and O)th ejrs Show Interest.

RADIO REPORT BY PRESIDENT “JS ANNOUNCE!   ROOSEVELT TO MARE WORLD: WIDE BROADCAST CHRIST-  MAS EVE ON WAR AND PEACE PLANS '

PRESIDENT BACK AT WHITE HOUSE “AFTER PARLEYS   groosevelt Will Broadcast War and Peace Plans Christmas Eve

President Back At White House   Will Make Christmas Eve Re port on Plans

Raff Says Mere Handful Of Allies Involved In German Attack In Central Tunisia

Raft Says. Mere-Handful Of Allies Involved In German ‘Attack In Contyral Tamiein

HANDFUL OF BLUFFING YANKS Hit-Run Tactic Kept Germans Out 2 Months

Handful of Allied Forces Rule By Sheer Dash  Colonel Raff Leads Small Unit in

Only a Small Force Of Americans Held Tunisian Area   Col. Raff Sums Up Situation, Fantastic Warfare Was Waged

Handful of Allied Forces Rule By Sheer Dash  Colonel Raff Leads Small Unit in Free-Wheeling War

Mrs. Annie Young Claimed By Death  Resident of LeMars Since The Eighties

ARNOLD PREDICTS NAZIS WILL BE KNOCKED GROGGY   if Not Completely Knocked Out by Air War and Will Give Little Resist ance to New Invasion

Germany Will Be Groggy Wher  Invasion Comes   —GENERAL ARNOLD,  Army Air Chief Makes Fast Tour Of Fighting Front In Italy.

[ARNOLD TOURS FRONT, SEES VICTORY IN AIR   General Asserts Bombing Attacks Are Moakina the Germane Graney

Confident of Aerial Offensive   Gen. Arnold Says Germany Will Be K.O.’d ‘or Made ‘Too Groggy’ to Resist   TOURS ITALIAN FIGHTING FRONT   Plans Under Way for Bombing Germany. From _ Every. Side

Latest Communique Reveals Red Armies Have Advanced to Within 75   Miles of Rostov.   NAZIS NOT TOLD OF REVERSES IN RUSSIA

Hitler's Oil Dreams Turn To Nightmare   Exhultant Red Communique Says Russian Within 75 Miles  Of Rostov

RCAF AIRMEN ATTACK FRANGE   Blast Railway Facilities; RAF Places Mines in Enemy Waters

Subs Sink Eight Jap Ships; Planes -Attack 13 Times   Increasing Poundings Force Japs To Pull In Outposts, Gen. McNarney Tells Congress. Kiska Feels Brunt Of Vicious Air Attacks.

Pacific Fight i Increasing   Eight More Jap Ships Sunk: isles Pounded

U.S. Subs Sink 8 Jap Vessels   Destroyer Among Victims of Widespread Yank Forays

UNOPPOSED IN SURPRISE RAID ON BARI PORT   Report 1,000 Casualties

Air Blow Surprise To Allies   Raid, December 2, Occurs at Italian East Coast Port

GERMAN BOMBERS KILL 1,000 MEN IN DECEMBER 2 RAID   Casualties Include 37 U. S. Navy Men and Five  Amarcan Shins

Stimson Reveals Allies Sustained 1,000 Casualties, Lost 5 U. S. Ships ‘In Nazi Air Raid on Port of Bari, Italy

Five American Ships Are Sunk In Nazi Raid   Casualties Estimated At 1,000 In Attack At Port of Bari, Italy

BUS STRIKE HITS LINES AT WARREN      Transportation Crippled As Some Drivers Fail To Report For Work

WALKOUT NOT AUTHORIZED BY ONION LOCAL   Union Chief Says Walkout Not Strike Just “Vacation”

NOMINATED ON 1ST BALLOT AT C 0.P CAUCHS   Knudson Wins Proposal That Nominating Talks Be Omitted at Session

Burma Nominated For Speakership   Choice Assures His Election Monday

Placing Crime in Missouri and Claiming It Had Been Solved Brings Denial From Sheriff That Such a Killing Occurred; Purported Picture of Slayer Was One of Author

Fake Story Backfires   St. Joe Writer Accused of Using Mails To Defraud

LONDON HAS ALARMS    No Enemy Planes Appear As British ) Capital On Alert

Dispute fe Flares On Service Vote  Pennsylvania Senato! f"heapeee TA aaa?

Hot Debate On Soldiers’ Vote   Senate Democrats Broke Into Open With Charge By Senator Guffey.

‘UNHOLY’ ALLIES JUNKED BILL, SAYS SENATOR   3lames Republicans And Southern  Democrats

Democrats in Senate in Row.  Northern Members Attack Southerners .

GURFEY IRKED OVER FATE OF ~ SOLDIER BIL!   Charges’ Southern ° -Demo‘crats Joined:in “Unholy -Alliance” With Repub : Heans on Vote

Democrats Row  Over Vote Bill   “Unholy Alliance’ Charged by Guffey

Controversy Splits Senate Democrats  Soldier Vote Draws  Cu.5k.. O'°.bLi BD.

Soldier vote controversy now in open   Guffey charges  ‘unholy alliance’

Captain Fahrion to Send Check te Local Chairman   Torpedo Plant-Startet Collections January 22; March of Dimes  Teturns Awaited

STATION GIVES $3,800 TO PARALYSIS FUND   Captain Fahrion to Send Check to Local Chairman   Torpeda Plant Started Collections January 32; March of Dimes  Returns Awalted

Candidacy Is Announced By _ D. J. Kenny   West Bend Man Will Seek  - Nomination For Office Of. Governor On. The Republican Ticket

Asks Government Resume Control;  -Raise Hard Coal   General Strike Looms For Sunday As Lewis Denounces Rejection Of Soft Coal Wage Proposal As A Decrease.

Commissioned Lieutenants; Report for Duty Jan. 21 at Miami; Six of Faculty Now in Service 

‘Good Neighbor’ Policy Is Aired  Complet e Accounting Asked By Byrd

AOK FOR COST PROBE OF GOOD NEIGHBORS   Complete Accounting from Rockfeller Asked; Discredit Butler’s Claims in Senate

Ask Inquiry Into Charges By Butler   Detailed Examination Of ‘Good Neighbor’ Spending Sought

SENATE CALLS FOR PROBE OF “GOOD NEIGHBOR” POLICY   Senior Congressional ‘Group Wants Detailed Examination of U. S. Activities and Spending Following Butler’s Charges

SENATE CALLS FOR COMPLETE REPORT OF LATIN SPENDING  CRPRIATAD PDITTI rp MAYVTE   SENATOR BUTLER MAKES CHARGES OF U. S. BEING PLAYED FOR SUCKER

Senator’s Charge $6,000, 000,000: Has Been Spent for “Boondogglirig”  Kent Alive . -  WALLACE DEFENDS NATION’S POLICY   Terms Charge “Shocking Slur;” Rogkefeller Holds  Figure Too High and  . Misrepresentation

GOOD NEIGHBOR DETAILS ASKED      Senators Cali for Full Inquiry nto Spending in South America.   BUTLER STORY ASSAILED

Butler Prompts Inquiry   . « « Nebraska Senator's Charges Held False

INVESTIGATORS EXAMINE LATIN AMERICA FUNDS   Sen. Butler Says U. S. Cash Used ‘““‘Boondoggling”’

SENATE CALLS FOR PROBE ON US. SPENDING      Good Neighbor Activities To Be ae ‘vestigated —

Full Investigation Of Butler’s Charges Sought  Rockefeller Is Asked For Report on Agency’s Spending

Butler Expose Brings Action by Senators   "Good Neighbor” Activities to Have Detaijed Examination

Allies Mop Up Sicily; Artillery Duel Rages Across Messina Strait   Flying Fortresses Blast Air Bases In France, Pound Italian Cities ; Russians Gain in Drive on Bryansk

Army Gives Blow-By-Blow Description Of Fighting When Sicily Was Invaded

Forays Ov Continent Are Carried Ow   Blow-By-Blow Account of Ai Activities of Army In Sicily

Army Reveals How Airmen Cleared Mediterranean Skies of Axis Craft

MADAME CHIANG PLANS FIVE-WEEK TOUR OF COUNTRY   First Lady of China Will Address Mass Meeting Tonight at Madison Sauaie Carden.

Marshalls Bombed Again: Mid-Pacific Islands Subjected  To Terrific Raids by Americans

Eden’s Next Stop Will Be Canada   ‘Ends War Talks In United States

Pact Mum or Hong Kong   Extraterritoriol Pact With Chino Ignores British Colony

CHINA NOW ON EQUAL FOOTING WITH ALLIES   Legitimate Diplomatic Aspirations Satisfied By Yesterday's Treaties

China Now On Kqual Footing  Leaders Satisfied   Leaders Satisfied With Terms Of  New Treaties Signed

N ew Treaties  Please China   Some Matters Remain for Post-War Period

China Is Generally Satisfied With Treaties Signed By U.S. And Britain Freeing Territory

THOMAS GUILT) ON FOUR COUNTS JURY DECLARES   Adamstown Man Will Be Sentenced Monday For Sabotaging Planes   WAS INSPECTOR IN GLENN MARTIN PLANT

YOUTH CONVICTED IN SABOTAGE (ASE   Harvey Lee Thomas, of Frederick County, Is : Found Guilty

Prime Minister at White House for Fifth Conference; Axis Force without Planes, Supplies, Food   Clearing of Enemy in Africa Causes President-Churchill to Map Grand Plan —— Believe Nazis, Italians Will Raise White Flag Shortly.

PANTELLERIA SURRENDER IMMINENT   Europe Tense With Expectancy As Zero Hour Nears   Rutletin

6,066 JAPS DIE IN ISLE BATTLE   Navy Reports of Guadalcanal Fight; Foe Bolsters Bases to Northwest

6,066 ENEMY DEAD COUNTED   Only 126 Taken Alive In Smashing Campaign On Guadalcanal Island

6,066 JAPS ON GUADALCANAL SLAININ4 WKS   Some Japanese Stragglers Are Yet Probably Hiding Out In Jungles, Ridges And  k awmne .   20,000 In Campaign

American Troops Killed 6,066 Japs in Their Final Smashing Camnaian to Gain Control of Guadalcanal

6,066 Japs killed in climax of struggle for Guadalcanal   Enemy bolstering Shortland island nositions. navv’s report indicates

Americans Killed 6,066 Japs  on Guadalcanal U.S. Casualties   Not Given in Navy Communiaue

Japanese Losses May Be 20,000 On Guadalcanal   More Than 6,000 Nipponese Killed in Final Smashing Drive by Yanks; Air Activity Marks Recent Fighting

U. S. Forces Wipe Out 6,066 Japs  In Last Furious Guadalcanal Lunge

Jap Toll 6,066 On Guadalcanal   Report Indicates Enemy Bulwarking Positions

MANY JAPS KILLED — IN FINAL ASSAULTS   Enemy Reported Bulwark. ing Positions Northwest of Guadaleanal

Russ Capture Nazi Bastion   Grhotsk Token in Sweep Toward Vyoxmo, Smolensk Objectives

Reds Remove Threat To Moscow   Russians Storm Nazi Post 100 Miles West of Capital City

WIN GZIATSK IN PUSH ON ENEMY BASE   Fall of City Releases: Troops for Drive on Vyazma, Next Objective, and Smolensk.   REDS OCCUPY 30 TOWNS NEAR RZHEV   More Than 1,000 Germans Killed in Fighting — Soviet Forces Make New Gains in South.

DEWEY WARNS ALBANY. OBEY ELECTION LAW   Cails on District Alforney, Sheriff, Enlorce Law After Violations Charced   WRITES MAYORS   Non-Use of Booths, Interference of Inspectors at Registration Charced

SURVIVOR OF RARE MALADY OFFERS BLOOD TO BOY GIVEN ONLY TWO WEEKS TO LIVE

REPORTS SAY MAJOR ‘QUAKE SHAKES JAPAN   Tokyo Admits “Rather Severe” Shock.

Inflation Is Worrying US Treasury   $45,000,000,000 More Money To Be Available This Year Than Goods and Services,  Officials Say

WASHINGTON HAS INFLATION FEARS   Treasury Wants Further Taxes to Prevent Too Much Spending.  a me me go w)hOUlUREE UU Ee

NEW CONCERN OVER DANGER OF INFLATION   Need To Reduce Purchasing Power Declared Uraent

FEARS GROWING OVER INFLATION   Treasury Is Considering Ways To Reduce Public Purchasing Power

TREASUAY WORRIES ABOUT INELATION   Asks Increased Taxation, Government Borrowing Of Publie’s Funds.

TREASURY FEARS INFLATION PERIL   Sees Need For More Taxes And Federal Borrowing

CRUDE PRICES NOT HIKED AT PRESENT TIME   O.P.A. SAYS PRICES TO GIVE ENOUGH PROFIT FOR WAR TIME

Eden Is Enthusiastic on Suggestion That Axis Be Bombed Out; Lauds U.S. Fliers Highly; Predicts Victory

Eden Urges Axis Scourge  By Bombers  Defeat Of Germany Italy In 1943  Dascenaes *

Eden Keynotes Determination To Bomb Germany Out of War   RUSSIAN THEATRE VITAL Despite Plans for Second Front

Churchill's Idea That Axis May, Be. Bombed From War Well Received in Enqland

Italian Citizens Call on Allies To Save Europe Fram Hitler Museolini

VACATION IS CONTINUED   Welles Cancels Is Reservation for Return to Washington

 YACETION IS CONTINUED   - Welles Cancels Reservation for Rei “turn te Washington

COMPLETE PLANS TO MAINTAIN NATION'S PRODUCTION INTACT   Manpower Chief McNutt and Production Chief Nelson Announce the  Proaram. 5

ARMED FORCES OF 10,800,000 SEEMS ~DEFINTELY XE   High Officials Are Reported to Have Reached Agreement on Needs of Different Branches.      5-MAN COMMITTEE HAS ALSO APPROVED      McNutt Optimistic In His Belief on Filling Needs and Time of Compulsion is Not Here.

SEEK T0 KEEP PRODUCTION OF NATION INTACT   teach Final Agreement On 10,800,000-Man Armed Force

WAKE ISLAND ONLY SAMPLE’ FOR JAPS   Admiral Nimiée Decorates Crews Of Bombers

Attack On Wake Only A Sample      Nimitz Warns That There's More to Come

OHIOAN IS LONE CRASH SURVIVOR   Two Generals And Bishop Among 14 Killed [n IceJand Plane Smash-Up

» FORGIVENESS OF ALL 1942 TAX "BELIEVED LIKELY   , Approval Contingent Or Anti-Windfall Plans Being Adopted   TEST INDICATES VICTORY   Senator Connally Declares Measure Is_ Highly Inflationary

SENATE G TO VOTE FOR RUMI PLAN   Favorable Action by Finance Committee Is Predicted

FINANCE OMMITTEE EX * PECTED. TO ‘RECOMMEND :  THAT SYSTEM TO SEN: ATE TODAY

New Rules © Slapped -On: Oversea Mail   Volume To Be Kept At Minimum, Says War Department

Restrictions On Soldier Mail   NO MORE PARCELS FOR OVERSEAS GROUP AFTER 15TH

Filvinag Cadet Killed   35,000 Jews Stain by Nazi Secret Police In Purges of Five Towns in Poland

EXPECT NEW BLOW   Allied Assaults on Airfield: Viewed as Prelude to. Invasion .

Nazis See Raids As Invasion Tip  Sicily Evacuation Came As Shock To German People

View Assaults As Prelude ‘Lo French Thrust   Germans Think Recent Air Field Attacks Tied In With Strategy

YANK BOMBING AIR FIELDS IN FRANCE CITED   “Prelude To Invasion” s Seen By Germans, Says Swedish Writer, [In Massive Attacks   (BIG GUNS POUNDING  ITALIAN MAINLAND  {   Battle for Sicily Ended Ahead of Schedule; Huge  Aerial Fleets Blast  Ports In Italy

RURAL PEOPLE GO TO NEAREST SCHOOL HOUSE   Chariton Residents Will Register in Afternoons  During Five Days.   War Ration Book No, 1 Must Be Brought With Registrant.

SET DATES FOR RATION BOOK 2 REGISTRATION   ‘Chariton Residents Will Register in Afterncons  ! During Five  i   Days.   Rural People to go to Near est School House Mon. day and Tuesday,

Ocuparon Nueva Posiciones En  Dos Sectores   Las Tropas Del Gral. Clark Y De Montgomery En Italia

i Cayo En Poder De Los Ingleses   Las Tropas Aliadas Fusionaron Sus Posiciones En  EI] Rio Moro

GOP Names Post War Committees  TT .0ntanhawg IIlaade   Vandenberg Heads Foreign Affairs Group

Japan’s Fate Sealed By  Terms of Cairo Pact   Declaration Resolves To Restore Stolen Lands, Qvarantine Islands As International Leper

With Defeat, Japanese Nation To Face International Exile Under Declaration of Cairo   Non-Colonial Nations Look To Meeting Involving Stalin

he Cairo Conference Tacks Up Quarantine Signs— —By Kirke L. Simpson  " Japan To Be Isolated On Islands As Lepers

O’Mahoney Gives Post-War Plans   Preserve Traditional ‘Principles, Is Plea

YUGOSLAV FORGES FIGHTING WHTHOUT TANKS OR PLANES   Notable Temporary Victories Won by Rifle and MachineGun Companies Opposing Germans.   HELP IS AWAITED FROM U. S., BRITAIN   Writer Visiting Country Describes Troops as Determined—Rely on Their Guerrilla Skill.

A PLEASANT WEEK END      Light Freeze May Be Felt in Westeen Kansas Tonight .

Germans Bomh English Town   Moscow Reports Russian Planes Make Attack In Bast Prussia

SINGLE GERMAN RAIDS ENGLAND   Reds Renort Heavy Attack On East Prussia City

‘SOFTENING - UP’ RAIDS CONTINUE OVER WIDE AREA   Grottaglie Network And Naples Feel Brunt Of Bomber Assault   BERLIN STILL IN FLAMES   Russians Nearing Smolensk; Washington Silent About Marcus Attack Results

CEILINGS FIXED FOR LIVE HOGS   Trade Fears There Will Not Be Enough Pork To Go Around

CEILING ON HOGS   Who Is Going To Get The Pork At Government Price?

HOG CEILINGS TO GO INTO EFFECT   Livestock Industry Believes Illegal Markets Will Receive Boost When Maximums Go Into Operation

Ceilings Cut Prices Of Meats   Store-hy-store Maximums to Be Wiped Ont April 15, OPA Rules

Europe Invasion Fever Spreading   Sample Prices Given For Some Of Popular Meat Cuts’ New Rate   ow 6 Sr  Big Cut In Hambhuroocr

Nazi Berlin Radio Sets Up Big Claim Of Damage To An Allied Convoy

SUBS SIGHTED IN CARIBBEAN   Believed Germans Making Effort to Divert Allied Escort Strength — German Submarine Campaign Gaining Momentum.

House Kills Ruml Skip-a- Year Tax Bill, 215 to 198   House Earlier Rejects Luce Amendment To Forgive Taxes Only On the First $25,000 of the 1942 Income

Solons Reject Plan in Reversal of Okay on Pay-as-Go Scheme   REPRESENTATIVES DOWN CARLSON AMENDMENT BY ROLL CALL VOTE OF 215 TO 198; EARLIER POLL HAD ACCEPTED PROPOSAL 199 TO 188

New War Plans Submitted Today   Final Decisions Due  é Within Week ,

HNAL Grol UPON oT HAT EGY EXPEGTED SOON   Roosevelt. Churchill Ready To Draft Future Plans Of Allied Attacks   OFFENSIVE UPON JAPS TO BE MAIN FEATURE   ncreased ‘Help For China Also Being Developed, President Reveals

ij. S-BRITISH CHIEFS OF STAFF 19 SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STUDY

Vital War Decisions  Next Week  FDR And Charchi  IN (as Vlawe (i

President and Churchill To Discuss Tentative Plans of Military Officials Tonight

WAR STRATEGY BEING SHAPED BY MILITARISTS   British and American ‘Chief of Staffs to Submit Recommendations’ to Roosevelt and Churchill   SILENT ON AIMS   Majority of American Forces Outside U. S. in ‘Pacific; Lauds Shipbuilding Progress

Staff Heads Will Report To Leaders   FDR, Churchill Meet Tonicht

WILL SUBMIT ALLIED WAR PLAN TONIGHT   EF. D. R., Churchill to Study Proposals of Staff. Chiefs Over Week-end—Final Decision May Be Next Week.

WAR SUPPLIES MOVE TO CHINA   FDR Plans Final Decisions With Churchill Soon

FD, Churchill Get Recommendations Of Staffs Tonight ;   Final Decisions “2 Will Be Made on # Strategy Next Week

SUPPLIES 10 CHINA MOVE, SAYS FOR   Final Decisions On Basic Allied Strateqy Seen

WAR CHIEFS TO SUBMIT REPORT   Roosevelt And Churchill To Make Fina] Decision Next Week

Preliminary Strategy Plans Up Next Week   Roosevelt, Churchill To Begin Study Of Recommendations Tc Them Tonight

F.R.1O STUDY ALLIED MOVES   CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT WAR DECISIONS LOOM

Allied Leaders Face Decisions  Roosevelt Reviews Plans For Attack

Disposition Of Army Told By Roosevelt   Most U. 5. Soldters See Action In Pacific

WAR OTAFFO 10 MAP STRATEGY   Recommendations Wil] Be Made To F.D.R,, Churchill Tonight

To Get Recommendations Tonight. ....  F.D.R. And Churchill Near Final Decisions

STAFF CHIEFS TO  MAKE REPORTS TO _ LEADERS TONIGHT   No Hint On F inal Decisions Announced —President Reveals Bulk Of Forces Outside U.S. Are Now  In Pacific

Progress — Is Made In War Talks   Roosevelt And Churchill Will Receive Reports Tonight — Expect To Reach Early Decision

Chiefs of Staff To Submit Plans   President Roosevelt And Churchill to Make Decisions

Most U.S. Troops In Pacific Area   FDR Says Churchill’s Statement True; Decision On Strategy Soon

BRITISH-AMERICAN CHIEFS OF STAFF TO SUBMIT PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS TONIGHT   President Roosevelt Tells Reporters Final Decision on Plans Will Be Made Next Week After ‘Kinks’ are Ironed Out.

Bulk Of U.S. ‘Oversea Forces -Are In Pacific   —PAES. RUUSENV ELE,  Strategy Advisers Will Submit Ideas To F. D. R. And Churchill Tonight.

FDR, Churchill To Hear Allied Strategy Plans   American-British Chiefs Of Staff To Make Report

To Outline New  Blows on Axis at Meeting Tonight   Japan Appears High Among Targets, as Many Americans Are in Pacific.  F   Japanese Evacuating  Attu in 11-Day Fight

FDR REPORTS PROGRESS IN CONFERENCES   British and American Chiefs of Staff to Report Preliminary Recommendations Toniahi   DECISIONS FOLLOW   President Confirms Large Part o U.S. Forces Outside Continent are in Pacific

CHURCHILL, F.R. NEAR DECISIONS IN CONFERENCE   Will Get Preliminary Proposals From Staffs on Friday Evening

Japan Believed Marked For Big Drive—And Soon   Foe’s Escape From Attu Barred; Bulk Of Yank ° Forces In Pacific.

BRITISH-AMERICAN CHIEFS OF STATE 10 SUBMIT PLANS   Will Submit Preliminary Recommendations to President and British Premier Tonight; Final Decisions Expected Next Week.

Chiefs Of Staff To Submit Some Of Recommendations  To FDR, Churchill Tonight   President Says Majority Of Americans Outside U.S. Are In Pacific Sector

Strategy For New Blows A gainst Axis ~ Is In The Making   British-American Chiefs of Staff Submit Recommendations to Roosevelt and Churchill For Final Decisions

ARY CLUB HEARS SPEAKER   “Tony” Lupien, Red Sox First Baseman, Tells How To Keep Fit

SEVEN PERISH IN BLAZE   Children Were Trapped in Two Story Farm Home in East

SEVEN CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE   Eleven Others and Parents Escape From Home Near Malone. N. ¥.

Carlsbad Loses Flying School   Instructors. Course  Moving to Midland

MORE SOFT DRINKS, CANDY ASSURED U. S$   Sugar Allowances of Commercial Users Soon to Be Increased 10% Per Cent.

More Candy And Soft Drinks Seen   Commercial Users To Get More Sugar

More Sugar for Commercial Use   Sugar Rationing May Be Lifted, Hints Prentiss Brown

‘ARCH PUSHED R SURVIVORS: KNOWN DEAD      sels Crash In Dense og 58 Miles From Cape Henlopen .

4 MEN DIE AS 2 TANKERS Hil   39 Seamen Survive Easterr Mishap; Many Missing

Two Tankers Crash in Fog   Coast Guard Keeps Up Search for Survivors; Toll Not Known

TANKERS IN CRASH; 39 OF CREW SAVED   Four Charred Bodies Found: Others Feared Lost

Leader Named By Farm Group   Organization Will Serve As Pressure Group

BROWN HEADS FARM GROUP   National Agricultural Mobilization committee is organized

CATROUX TO LONDON   French General to- Report t ! Gaulle on Conference

i Fighting German Divisions _ Are Backed Into Sicily’s “Cap Bon”   BREACH MT. ETNA LINE   “Americans Battle Within 5 Miles of Troina, Strategic Junction

NAZIS LOSING MORE TOWNS, MORE TRODES   Canadians Take Regalbuto as Yanks Push Nazis from Canizzi..Cerami.   EIGHTH ARMY ENTERS — END OF CATANIA PLAIN

NAZIS ROUTED FROM ~~ APIZ7 AND CERAM   Montgomery's Army  Enters - Western End of Catania Dlatn:

Americans Rout Enemy in North   GERMAN BROADCAST REPORTS SEVEN-POINT PEACE PROPOSAL ADVANCED ITALY BY F. R.; AXIS DEFENDERS BACK INTO SICILY CORNER

Nazis Reeling Backward as Allies Break Mt. Etna Line   Regalbuto Falls to Canadians: Yanks Capture Capizzi, Cerami

This Action Took Place as the Americans Routed the Germans from Capizzi and Cerami.   THE GERMANS REELED, UNDER FIERY ATTACKS   Gen. Montgomery’s Men Established a Substantial Bridgehead North of Dittaino River.

Strong Air Forces Support Advancing Ground Units on Isle   Report Fierce Battle Between Amerticans, Germans in Northern Sector, Canadians Gain Near Mt. Etna

Allies Roll To West End Of  Catania Plain   Regalbuto and Centuripe Taken As Allies Roar Almost To Shadow Of Axis Anchor, Mount Etna, In Sicily

GERMANS WITH HEAVY ATTACKS   Canadians Breach Mt. Etna Line; British Enter Catania Plain

Breakthrough Before Catania   Americans, Canadiens Capture Five More Sicily Cities, Pierce Main Etna Defenses; Montgomery Establishes New Brideeheed

CANADIANS CAPTURE REGALBUTO TO CUT MOUNT ETNA LINE   AMERICANS ROUTE GERMANS FROM TWO IM. PORTANT POSITIONS

Canadians Take Resalbuto While Yanks Take Two   Decisive Offensive In Sicily Is Opened; 8th Army Enters  Catania Area

Mighty . Ground— Drive On   Town On Edge Of Cantania Plain Is Captured. ;

Five More Strategic — Towns Fail   70-Mile Square Is Taken ix American Drive; Allies Hold 90,000 Prisoners   BRITISH ENTER CATANIA PLAIN   Yanks, Canadians and the British Overcome Fierce Foe; Many German Dead   PROTITrrres:

Enemy Reels Under Blows of United Armies   Regalbuto Falls To Canadians as Yanks Rout Nazis

TROINA 1S TAKEN BY THE YANKEES IN SICILY ADVANCE   Allies Now Dominate Last ' Axis Escape Corridor Hear Mt. Etna.

Mountain-Top Stronghold, . Island Taken   Week-Long Siege Marked By Hardest Fighting Of Campaign

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLING IN FACE OF ATTACK   American, Canadian and British Armies Capture Five Strategic Towns In Steady Advance   FOES REELING UNDER SEVERITY OF BLOWS   Yankees Reported to Have Entered Troina, 5 Miles Between Sea and Mount Etna

CANADIAN FORCE KNIFES THROUGH NAZI ETNA LINE   Meanwhile, Yanks Drive Germans From Capizzi, Cerami—British Roll

GERMANS REEL UNDER SAVAGE ALLIED ATTACK   STRUGGLE AT PEAK TO HURL AXIS INTO STRAIT OF MESSINA

Americans Wir Decisively Over Germans   Axis Loses Regalbuto; Germans Driven from Capizzi, Cerami

British Eighih Establishes Bridgehead North of Ditlaino River, Enfers Plain   CENTURIPE TAKEN   British and Canadians Now Command Crucial Angle of Line— Naples Bombed Again

— eee ee  \VICIOUS ALLIED JABS AT AXIS JMARK CONCERTED ATTACKS BY ‘GROUND FORCES WITH AIR HELP   On Other Fronts

THREE MORE KEY CITIES CAPTURED   Nazi Forces Are Reported Reeling: Canadian Units Take Regalbuto;: Yanks In Capizzi, Cerami

Smash Through Center Line of Axis on Sicily   Nazis Reel Under Fiery Attacks By Allied Troops

German Divisions Being Forced :. Into Sicily’s Corner Pocket Are ~ Stubbornly Resisting Offensive. 

Yanks Rout Germans From Two Centers   Germans Being Driven Back Into Messina Corner Of Sicily, British Make Progress on Nazi Left Flank   YANKS TAKE TRINA

HEAVY L FOR AXIS TOLD IN DISPATCHES   General Advances Are Reported In Island Fighting

Axis Defenses Crumble Rapidly; Wipe Out 70 Mile Bulge In Line; 8th Armvy Striking

VICIOUS STABS PUSH AXIS BACK NEAR CATANIA   Concerted Attacks Supported From Air Indicate Decisive Offensive   7TH ARMY TAKES 2 TOWNS   Rumanians And Germans Fight Furious Fires Raging In Ploesti Area

SMASH CENTER OF LINE; TAKE 0 MORE TOWNS   Axis Prisoners Pass 90,000-Mark as Knock-Out Blow Impends Along Mt. Etna Sector

Yankees Rout Nazis From Two Other Cities   Germans Backed Into Sicily’s “Coffin Corner” Reel Under Assaults of Allies

ENEMY REELS UNDER CONCERTED ATTACKS   Montgomery’s Men Estab lish Substantial Bridge. head North of Dittain<  River and Eniter Westerr End of Catania Plain: Germans Lose Many Men

Re galbuto, Capizst, Cerami Taken; Montgomery's Men Fieht Way Onto Cantania Plain   British Artillery Outshvots Germans On Southern Approaches Tu Catania; Centuripe  Taken By Eighth Army, Churchill Announces

Americans Rout Germans From Capizzi, Cerami   British Eighth Army Enters Western End Of Catania Plain; Nazis Lose Heavily

Nazis Backed Into Sicily’s “Cap Bon”   Allies Tear Through Center of Mt. Etna Line; Take 3 Towns

GERMANS REEL UNDER HEAVY, NEW ATTACKS   Smashing New Offensive Aimed At Clearing Island Continues

Drive Underway To Smash Last Axis Resistance   British Advance Into Catania Plain In Heavy Fighting

Japanese Fighting in Italy Praised by Sec’y. of War   Honolulu Veteran Leads Battalion of Jap-Americans

Large Industrial Areas Of Italy, Germany Blasted   Bases Heavily Damaged As Record-Shattering Bomb Attack Continues

AIR WAR CARRIED ON CONTINUOUSLY 3 DAYS, 2 NIGHTS   Naval Base At Kiel, War Plants At Antwerp, Power Plants Targets

All Europe.   4000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED. IN 14 RAIDS WITHIN 48 HOURS: ON GERMANY, ITALY, ANI SEA BASES Ve

Allies Press ‘Sweeping Air _ War on-Axis   U. S. Planes Blast Kiel. Antwerp, Yelsen and * Courtrai

OTHER POINTS IN 14 LARGE RAIDS HEAVILY BLASTED   400 Tons of Bombs Unloaded In 48 Hours, Worst Than Axis 7500 Tons In 30 Nights in 1940.   AMERICANS IN AFRICA BOMB ITALIAN CITIES   Reds Do Their Part In Aerial Operations With. Steady Bombardment on Railroad Facilities.

BOY, GIRL FREEZE TO DEATH IN AUTO   Bodies Found in Car Parked  in Main Street of Hlinois Le i?

YOUNG COUPLE FOUND FROZEN   Third Youth In Critical Condition In Tragedy On Main Street Of Town

Boy, Girl Freeze to Death in Parked Automobile on Town's Main Street

Red Forces Hammer Ou  Slight Gains   Seize Villages, Strong Points, South of Kharkov

RUSSIANS SEIZE NUMBER VILLAGES FROM GERMANS NEAR KHARKOV   Soviet Soldiers Fighting Nazis To Standstill At Donets River Bridgeheads

ASKS RENEWAL OF TRADE PACT   Jones Contends Agreements Helped Restore Trade Lost In Depression.

SENATE SEEN AS FIRMLY  OPPOSING FATHER DEFERMENT   Rep. Clare Luce Introduces  Pear: To ‘Create. Pool .  “8. OF Men ‘Now: sins ae Industry:

Bill To Delay Draft Of Dads Sent To Senate   Administration Leaders In Upper House Claim Present Measure Is Not Practical

FIGHT LOOMS ON NEW DRAFT BILL   ;  House Measure Places Fathers At Bottom Of List

SENATE PROBABLY “AGAINST PLAN T0 DEFER ALL DADS   Administration Leaders Comment Upon House-Approved Deferment Bill as Impractical,   MEDICAL BOARD MAY PASS ON 4-F GROUP   Plans Are Also Considered to Shift Final Authority on Draft From McNutt to Hershey.

Draft Deferment Bill Rewritten, Passed by House   President Signs New Dependency Allowances Act

Senate Opposed To House Draft Deferment Bill   Move Is Made to Give MeNutt’s Authoritv to Hershey

DADS PUT LAST BY HOUSE BILL ON DRAFT CALL   ‘Impractical’ Is Senate’s View Of Latest Draft Plan

HOUSE-PASSED BILL IS CALLED IMPRACTICAL   Would Defer Fathers Until Non-Dads Are  All in Service

Dad Deferment Likely To Meet With Opposition      Administration Heads Say Measure Would Not Prove Practical

LIONS CLUB br SUPPER      Motion Picture Program Follows Meeting; Guests Present

LIONS CLUB WILL ATTEND. TONE MEETING   Session in - Arlington, November 15 for Clubs in.This Section .

RUSSIANS SEIZE 17 TOWNS IN CAUCASUS; TAKE ANOTHER VILLAGE IN ROSTOV DRIVE   GERMANS FAIL TO STOP RED OFFENSIVES ON ALL MAJOR BATTLE FRONTS

Reds Bypass Key Railroad  Junction  Seize 60   Villages in  36 Hours

American Tanks ‘Helped Break  (German Drive    Russians Slash . More Than -Half-Way Thru German Esrape Corridor.

iis Operations Tape ‘Of To Skirmishing h Feriana Sectors Southwest Of Tunis

LINES ADJUSTED IN ANTICIPATION OF NEXT SMASH   Rommel’s Troops Near Algerian Border—Yank Armored Forces in Mountains

Yank Forces Regroup to Battle Foe   Tanks and British Artillery Halt Offense; Rommel Attains Objective

BRITISH BEGIN ACTION AGAINST SOUTHERN LINE   score Gains in Mareth  Sector With Little Opposition

British 1st, 8th Armies Move Up On Enemy Flanks   Allied Lines Being Readjusted To Meet  New Threat In Tunisia; Axis Is Raided

Allies Form New Fronts In Tunisia   French Withdraw From Pichon To Straighten Lines   Americans Stabilize Mountain Positions   Rommel Drive Tapers Off To Skirmishes Southwest Of Tunis

Allied Lines In North Are  Readjusted   German Marshal Apparently Has Gained His Objective

U.S. Lines Stabilized In Mountains Overlooking New German Positions; Germans Pause To Regroup Forces

Nazi Drive Halts Close To Algeria   Pause May Be Temporary;  Allied Lines to North  Readjusted   ‘(PUSH BY MONTGOMERY   ‘Heavy Assault on Rommel , From — Expected

ALLIES MAKE ADJUSTMENTS 10 THE NORTH   Withdraw Units From Pinchon to Meet New Situation Created by Losses in Faid Area — Yanks Stabilize Lines.

Nazi Drive Halts Close To Algeria   iPause May Be Temporary; 1 Allied Lines to North  4 ‘Readjusted   ‘PUSH BY MONTGOMERY   Heavy Assault on Rommel  From South Is Expected  Soon

American Forces Stabilize Line In Mountains   Montgomery's Army Pushing From South

French Shift Positions To  Protect Flank   Americans Getting Set In High Mountains Of Border Area; Planes Pound Axis Columns

French Commander Reports U. S. Troops Regroups on Border, Anxious to Renew Fray   BRITISH MOVE UP   Threaten Northern Wing of Axis as Monigomery Prods Main Foris ~of Mareth Line in South

German Attack Shattered By American Tank Offensive   ‘Local Operations’ Still Reported In Africa;  Russians Continue To Advance

Axis Drive In Tunisia Tapers Off   Allies Adjust Lines;  British &th Army May Launch Assault on Rommel’s Army from South

Allies Regroup LinesAsRomme  Push Is Halted   French Yield Pichon To Cover Flank; British 8th Army Takes Key Point; Yanks Stabilize Positions

Central FrontIn Tunisia (Now Quiet   But Sweeping Axis Gains Were Made Ie Four-Day Drive

ALLIES ADJUST DEFENGE LINES   American Armored Forces Stabilize Lines in Mountains.   BRITISH PREPARE FIGHT

ALLIES ADJUST NORTH LINES 10 NEW SITUATION   Montgomery Seizes Key Point in German Defenses on South

ROMMEL'S DRIVE THROUGH CENTRAL TUNISIA HALTED   Stopped at Least Temporarily, Near the Algerian Frontier.   READJUSTING TROOPS   North Allied Lines Being Fixed to Meet the New Situation.

~ LINES ARE REFORMED   Rommel Drive Halsed ‘and Alles Make Adjustments to Meet Situation   BRITISH THREATEN THE AXIS FLANE   Little Activity Reported Today, But Montgomery Marvy Strike: Soon

Americans Finally Stabilize Defense; Lines In Several  Areas Readjusted

American Armored Forces Stabilize Line in No. Africa   Action Tapers Off ta Mere Skirmishing to Southwest of Tunis

Shot lage of Gas To Become More ~ Acute, OWI Says  Further ‘Curtailment Of Civilian Use Pradictad

burther Cuts 1 Gas Rations  een by OWI  Civilians to Get , Poorer Quality,

Sharp Reductior Of Civilian Car Driving Seen  OWI Points to Big — Demand for Gas;   OWI Points to Big Demand for Gas; Quality Poorer

CIVILIAN DRIVERS FACING NEW CUTS   Less and Poorer Gasoline Is in Store, OWI Declares

Gloomy Picture For Motorists Painted by OWI   Further Sharp Curtailment of Civilian Driving Forecast

Further Sharp Cut in Gas For Civilian Auto Driving Indicated By OWI Survey

Outlook on Gas ls Said Gloomy   See Further Slash In Civilian Driving

Office of War Information Believes Motor Fuel Shortage Will Grow Worse as Military Operations Expand and Quality of That Available Will Deteriorate—Holds Out No Hope of Improvement for Duration.

Supply of Gasoline Not Only Dwindling, But Quality Becoming Progressively Poorer MILITARY FORCES USING MORE FUEL  Foreign Operations Of PAW To Change, Ickes’ Office Renorte

RENT DIRECTOR EXPLAINS PLAN IN CARBONDALE   Most Landlords Have Registered, Bowen Announces

ALLIED AIRMEN, GROUND TROOPS HIT NIP HOLDS   Fliers Blast Oil Fields at Makassar: ‘Aussies’ Gain in Ramu Valley

A RED GROSS ~~ BOOK REVI   Miss Katherine. Crozall ‘tc  Review ‘‘The Robe’ Sun day Evening. —

A RED Choo BOOK REVIEW   Miss Katherine Croxall tc Review ‘‘The Robe” Sunday Evening.

‘FIRST TO LAND IN ITALY   Capt. L. V. Gossick of Meadville Sets Plane Down on Mainland.

GENERAL STRIKE ‘BY COAL MINERS SEEMS CERTAIN   epetiant Wildcat Walkout ~ Make 70,009 Idle in , _ 11 States

PLANE EXHIBITION AT LOCAL AIRPORT   Program Sunday Afternoon  Sponsored by Law- rence C.A.P.    INOTED FLIER COMING

EXHIBITION AT LOCAL AIRPORT   Program Sunday Afternoon Sponsored by Law- rence C.A.P,  NOTED FLIER COMING

Correspondent Watches Mass Slaughter by U.S. Navy of Japs in Fleet of Evacuation Barges

U. $. Warships Deal Heavy Blow   OVER 50 OF JAPS’ BARGES SUNK BY NAVY

How Evacuation  Was Broken Up  Writer Tells Of Naval - Action Against Japs

MEAT SUBSIDY RATES LISTED   Payments To Packers To Roll Back Prices  Are Announced

High Court Upholds Draft Registrant In Address Case   Body Also Makes Ruling on Soldiers, Sailors Relief Act

AAA PENALTIES SUSTAINED BY SUPREME COUR]   Tribunal Reaffirms Previous Ruling On Legality Of Wheat Penalty   DRAFT REGISTRANT IS GIVEN FREEDOM

COURT FREES INDUCTEE IN ADDRESS CASE   Forwarding of Mail Conviction Case Is Upset

Hitler’s Visit to Russian Front Believed to Indicate Final Stand

AMERICANS NOW N POSITION T HITOTHERPONTS   Probably 6000 Japanese Kill_ed or Transferred Within Recent Days, Six Months Campaign Ends.   BOMBS WRECK SHIP IN RAID UPON BUIN   American Sub Wahoo Navigated With Aid of 25 Cent Map But Bagged Jap Cruiser, Other Vessels.

Secretary Knox Announces Jap Forces On Island Are Evacuating   U.S. VICTORIOUS IN SIX MONTHS

RESISTANCE ON GUADALCANAL VIRTUALLY ENDED  " AND ENEMY ‘ALSO REPORTED WITHDRAWING ©  FROM NEW GUINEA~-RED. ARMY CLEARS NAZIS OUT OF GERMAN ANCHOR BASE OF _KURSK IN SAVAGE ATTACK

THE dAPS ON ‘GUADALCANAL “ARE. EVACUATED   Nipponese Havé Moved Out and Americans Are New ‘in Sole Contrel.   NO MORE RESISTANCE   This Is Just ‘Another Step in'the Allied Advance Against Tokyo.

U.S. Forces Are Vietors Qn Island   American Marines Landed  There Six Months Ago

SEEK YOUTH IN MURDER OF 5   Son Of Victims Hunted As Sheriff Reconstructs Crime.

YOUTH NOW HUNTED AS KILLER OF FIVE   Mystery of Ranch Murder Still Unsolved, However

Ranch Deaths Being Probed   ‘Sheriff Seeking’ Son: Of _Latshaw Who is AWOL -From Draft- Board

Youth ls Sought In Loomis Death:   Four Were Slain Sheriff Believes

DEFAULT AWARDED IN GUNDRY CASE   Mrs. Marjorie Gundry, Great Granddaughter of Jay Gould Is Defendant In $100,000 Alienation of Affection Suit.

BIG PLANE FALLS IN DUTCH GUINEE   Thirty Five Die When Giant Transport Craft Crashes On Jan. 15

DAYLIGHT RAID MADE ON CRETE   Greek And British Planes Blast Stepping-Stone Island Positions

GREEK PILOTS” JOIN ATTACK AGAINST CRETE   Airfields, Radio Stations, Communitions: Blasted

British, Greek Planes Bomb Crete   Seventeen Allied Planes Lost In Daring Daylight Raid

Great Allied Aerial Force Bombs Crete   More Than 100 Plane: of British and Grecks Strike Island 

Scrivner Elected   Big Margin to Republican in Special Election: the Vote Licht

Scrivner Elected By Decisive Yote   Will Sucteed Late U. 5, Guyer as Representative in Congress   Third of 1942 Total

GOP VOTE TREND FELT IN KANSAS   Errett P. Scrivner, Attorney, Easy Victor in Race For Congress

Heavy Aerial Blows Strike Jap Shipping  14 Enemy Planes  Destroyed and rh Oe 8 ee

STRUCK AT JAP SHIPS, PLANES   Seven Foe Cargo Vessels Hit, One Sunk,  In Kavieng Area

JAPANESE LOSE 20 WARPLANES   Attacks On Shipping Are Costly: 7 Freighters Hit By Bombs

20 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   ALLIES LOSE SIX FIGHTERS IN PACIFIC—7 ENEMY MERCHANTMEN BOMBED.

20 Nipponese Planes  Are Shot Down   One 200-Ton Allied Cargo Ship Is Reported Destroyed

Jap Shipping Heavily Hit    One Vessel Sunk, Six More Lashed, 20. Planes Downed

New Argentina President Quits After 28 Hours   Gen..Arturo Rawson Is Unable to Form Cabinet

New Argentine President Resigns _ After 28 Hours In Office, Unable To Organize Satisfactory Cabinet  i

»President Resigns, Second Argentine Government Set Ur   Gen. Ramirez Becomes New Leade! As Rawson Quits in Cabinet Tiff; Closer Leanines ta Allies Seen

NEW CABINET IS CHOSEN BY GEN. RAMIREZ   Names Army and Navy Officers to Posts In Government

Ramirez Sets Up New Rule In Argentina   Revolutionary Government Finds Difficulty Over Pro Fascist Ministers   RAWSON RESIGNS   New Cabinet Is More Favorable Towards Democratic Allied Nafions

NEW PRESIDENT  IN ARGENTINA    Rawson Resigns In Squahble Over Cabinet Personnel

NCW ARGENTINA PRESIDENT QUITS, RAMIRE7 NAMEL   Inclusion of Pro-Axis Cabinet Members Causes Rawson to Resian.

RAMIREZ TO . TAKE OVER - IN-ARGENTINE   Rawson Hands Provisio nal. Government Over To Gen. Ramirez ’

GEN. HAMINGE/ NEW LEADER Ut ARGENTINA   Military Men Are Chosen To Fill Cabinet Posts In New Government

UP PRESIDENCY OF ARGENTINA   Turns Helm of Government Over To Ramirez, Co-Leader  of Successful Revolt.   WERE UNABLE TO AGREE   Second Rapid Change Comes: Soon After Dissolution of  Nation’s Congress.

TAKES OFFICE WATH ANABNY, NAVY CABINET   General Rawson Resigns from Presidency on Failure’ ~ to Form Gov't,   NEW GROUP BELIEVED TO FAVOR DEMOCRACIES

Army Men Fill Posts In Cabine   Rawson Resigns Afte Failure To Include Twe Civilians With Fascist Tendencies

RAWSON QUITS AS PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINE   Unable To Form Cabinet Co-Revolt Leader Takes Over

Argentina Wels Second President After Revolt  New Cabinet Named   New Cabinet Namec Consisting Entirely Of Military Men

Co-Leader in Argentine Revolt Takes Over Post When First Named Fails to Form Cabinet.

LEADERS THREE BiG  UNITED NATIONS IN  EPIC CONFERENCE PLANS LAID FOR DESTROYING GERMAN ARM!  QLoAM TUDEE ciInrce

LEADERS THREE BiG UNITED NATIONS IN EPIC CONFERENCE  PLANS LAID FOR DESTROYING GERMAN ARM} FROM THREE SIDES

Tokyo Fears Bombing Raids, City Warned   Japanese Radio Broadcast Shows Fresh Aitack of ‘Bomb Jitters’   DOOLITTLE RAID MADE A YEAR AGO   New Bomb-Japan Fields Have Been Built. Recently In China

Fresh Attack Of ‘Bomb Jitters’ Strikes Japanese As Radio Warns New American Assault Is Near

TOKYO RADIO SHOWS. SIGNS OF ‘JITTERS   For Second Time in 24 Hours Japanese Are Warned of New Aim erican Bombings   SITUATION IN PACIFIC

Tokyo Fears Bombing Raid   Japs Warned Raid May Come from China,  Aleutians, or Carriers

‘Bomb Jitters’ Noted In Japan  ‘Nippon Is Warned To - Expect Air Raids

BOMB JITTERS GETTING TOKYU WORRIED AGAIN   American Attack May Come At Any Time, Japanese People Are Warned

JAPS TOLD YANK PLANES MAY HIT      Two Warnings Given People In 24 Hours

Tokyo Radio For Second Time In 24 Hours Warns Japanese People That New American Bombing Assault May Come At Any Time.

Japan Again Worried By Bomb Jitters   Tokyo: Radio Warn:  ‘American Bombing As.  Sauilt.May, Come “Al Beg, sae

Japs Have Case of Bomb Jitters  Warn People To Expect U. S. Assault

Japs Fear New U.S. Raids Soon   Tokyo Radio Warns People Ta Eyvnect Attack

JAPAN HAD FRESH ATTACK OF BOMB JITTERS TODAY   For Second Time in 24 Hour: Tokyo Radio Warned Japs of Pending Assault.   EXPECTED AT ANY TIME   May Come From China, the Aleutians, or From Aircraft Carriers.

‘Bomb Jitters Again Play On Tokyo Nerves   Japan Fears Americans Are About To Make Fresh Raids On Capital

JAPAN IS ‘BOMB JITTERY’ AGAIN   Tokyo Warns People That ) American Fliers Might Attack At Any Time

TOKYO JITTERY OVER POSSIBLE U.S. AIR RAIDS   RECALL DOOLITTLE’S SMASHING ASSAULT IN RADIO BROADCAST

JAPANESE HAVE o BOMB JITTERS   Radio Warns Nipponese Te - Expect Fresh American ™ Assault at any Time

JAPAN MAY BE BOMBED ANY TIME   Tokyo Radio Warns People For Second Time Within 24 Hour;

AMERICAN LANDINGS IN GILBERT ISLANDS IS DIRECT CHALLENGE TO JAP FLEET COME OUT FIGHT

The War Today— Battle Of Gilberts Indicates U. S. ‘Fleet Ready To Deal Decisive Blow

‘US Landings in G'Iberts Are ‘Challenge to Japanese Navy ‘Nips Are Unwilling To Risk Fleet

FIGHT LOOMS   11 Senators Call on Com mittee to Strengthen Postwar Resolution

LI Senators Ask Stronger Peace Policy   Internationalist Bo ¢ Challenges Forrign Relais fies

Bloc Demands Stronger Peace Policy   11 Senators Promise Fight Unless  Resolution Clarified

Hatch Bloc Asks Stronger Stand   Threatens Fight On Post-War Statement

ci aeanin armament animal  President and Madame Chiang  visit at tomh

HONORS DIRTHOAY OF WASHINGTON   F.D.R. And China's First Lady Visit Tomb Of Our  First President

WILL ASK PARDON IN “HEX” MURDER CASE   John Blymire, Serving Life Term As Result Of Slaying In 1929, Will Seek His Freedom

Jeep Used In Rescue   Soldier Made 15 Trips To Bring Back Wounded

REDS SMASH ACROSS JHE OSUGA -RIVER   Many Germans Killed or Captured As Russian Drive Rolls On

WEATHER   Hundreds of Nazis Slain and Captured During i Fierce Drive AIM AT SMOLENSK  SE: Pe eT:      Villages Change Hands Several Times in Hard Fighting

MUCH MATERIAL IS TAKEN FROM NAZIS AT OSUGA   Russians Capture 3( Towns In One Night Hundreds Of Ger. mans Killed; Rzhey Army Moves To ward Vyazma.

Allied Planes Raid Palermo   Convoy In Mediterranean Also Hit In Night Operations —- ..

GLASS CALLS FOR BAN ON POLITICS   Senator Urges Leaders te Devote Energies to Win: ning of War.

CONGRESS SHOWING CAUTION ON SPENDINC OF BIG SUMS VOTED  ‘HOUSE HEARD CHARGES

WAR ECONOMY WAVE SUDDENLY HITS CONGRESS   Reports of Big Profits Made By War Contractors Inspire Probes   INTERNAL FEUDS GO ON   Lawmakers Grow Reluctant To Override Expected Food Subsidy Ban

NNTe Mi. SMITH “DED SATURDAY   Pioneer Resident Dies At Home of Daughter At Age of 93 ‘

ANNIE Ml SANTH DIED SATURDAY   Pioneer Resident Dies At Home of Daughter At Age of 93

U. 5. FORCES GET RESERVES, HOWEVER   American CounterAttack Reported; Nazis Modify Claims

TERRIFIC AIR, NAVAL ATTACKS STRIKE NAZIS      Record Number Of Planeg Engaged In Effort To Aid Ground Troops   REINFORCEMENTS POUR IN   Germans Quit Claims Of Great Victory—London Remains Cautious

COMEBACK OF U-BOAT EXPECTED BY NAVY   Nazi, "Tis Said, Are Refitting Them To Shoot Planes

THINKS NAZIS REFITTING SUBS   Knox Believes U-Boats Get Anti-Aircraft Guns

Nazi U-Boats Get More AA Armamen   Blimps, Helicopters Useless for Patrol

New Bond Drive Starts In April  16-Billion Goal ~ Set For Attempt To Halt Inflation

WORKERS ORDERED TO RETURN 10 JOBS   Bethlehem Steel Yards Closed Due to Racial Disputes

UNION ORDERS END OF STRIKE   Ship Workers Are Told to Return to Jobs This This Morning

WORK oTOPPAGE BELIEVED HALTEL   Ickes’ Qualification of Plan te Fine Miners Believed t Have Averted Mine Stop. page, Observers Say

WORK STOPPAGE SAID AVERTED   UMW Official Believes Ickes’ Decision Will Prevent Potential  Walkout

EMPEROR ‘GOD’ TO JAP SOLDIER   GIRL INTERNED BY NIPS LIKENS THEM TO SMALL MONKEYS

'WLB May Order Lewis To Appear   Board Could Take Such Action To Ask Mine Chief Why He Should Not Sign No-Strike Agreement

JNKL. LENO WAY BE GALLED   War Labor Board May Exercis2 Powers Under New Anti-Stike Law.

2-HOUR UPSET OF FDR'S VETO IS U. S$. RECORD   Congress Takes Initiative; Justice Department Faces Big Task

May Subpoena John L. Lewis  Before Board   Passage Of Anti-Strike Bill May Occasion New W.L. B. Action   WANT COMPLIANCE WITH W. L. B. ORDER

French Coast Is Raided By Bomber Fleet   Airfields At Poix And Amiens Are Included In Targets Of Large Fleet. Of Raiders

 The  WarToday Be \Generalissimo’s Words May Bring /Complacency Instead Of War Aid   By DEWITT MACKENZIE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Over-Confidence Inspired Ry Chiang Prediction Litkely In America

The War Today.  Chiang Kai-Shek Declares Faith In Allied Vietory Over Japan.

Major Offensive Operations By China Depend on Allies  Has Comparatively Few Resources

Spangler Sees FDR Desire To Drop ‘New Beal’ Slogan As Effort To Escane ‘Political Load’

Wishes To Abandon “New Deal” As A Slogan and Replace It With * ‘= the  War’

FDR WOULD SCRAP "NEW DEAL” LABEL      Decision Stirs Predictions President Will Run Aaain

President Wants To Abandon ‘New ~ Deal’ as Slogan   Desire to. Scrap. Label Stirs Prediction of  Fourth Term Trv .

Roosevelt Wants ‘New Deal’ Tag Replaced by ‘Win the War’ Slogan   Republicans Gleefully Seize on Froposat, Democrats Claim ‘New Deal Aims Won

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ROOSEVELT IS TRYING TO END NEW DEAL LABEL   Republicans Ciaim Executive Is Trying To Shake “Political Load”

FDR Is Sick Of Old Deal Stuff; Wants New One   President Angling ‘Round To Pick Up Another Slogan

Roosevelt Wants To Get Rid Of ‘New Deal’ Label; Fourth Term Move Seen

REW FDR SLOGAN IS ‘WIN THE WAR’   Wants ‘New Deal’ Phase Scrapped With Change os in Times

PRESIDENT MAKES REPORT TO CONGRESS ON PROGRESS OF WAR   Roosevelt Message Read Before Congress This Morning.

PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS   Complete Destruction Of the Axis Pictured

‘Russ No Help Against Japs’   Browder Says Soviet Won't Give Air Bases

Vessel Sinks Within Two Minutes   Attack Described as One of Limitless Savaceryv

20,000 State Fathers Face Jan. 1 Draft   Pearson Says N None to Be Called Before Oct. 1; State Fell Below Quota

20,000 FATHERS TO BE DRAFTED BEFORE JAN. 1   To Start. Calling Them From Every Board tn State After Oct. 1   STATE’S QUOTA NOT MET

LOCAL BOARDS GET ORDERS T0 DRAFT FATHERS   Told To Prepare 20,000 : For Call Before January 1   FALL SHY OF QUOTAS   Michigan 40 Per Cent Short of Meeting Its July Allottment

DRAFT 20,000 DADS BY 1942   Michigan Falls 40 Per Cent Below Meeting July Draft Guota.

Lewis. Operators Reeess Bargai aining Conferences With No Sion of Results   Await Action on Labor Bill

Vital Decision Faces Coal Men: Deadline Nears   Joint Bargaining Conferences Recessed Until 11 A. M. This Morning; Alabama Steel Mills Face Immediate Crisis Over Coal Walkout

67,000 Men (QuitJbsas Deadline Near:   General Tieup OL Nation’s Mines. May Begin Tonight

No Settlement In Coal Case; Deadline Near   Lewis, Operators Meet This Morning In Attempt To Reach Terms,   COAL STRIKE SPREADS

Lewis, Operators Adjourn Meeting Until Sunday As Walkouts Spread Again

OPERATORS AND UMW 10 HOLD MEETING TODAY   Truce Declared by John L. Lewis to End at Midnight

Conference to Be Reconvened  This Forenoon  Nn Inditeatians Given   No Indications Given Of What Transpired  During Sessions Held Tie Te The Precent

Lewis, Operators ecess Parleys; Many Quit Mines      50,000 Strike Now Defiance Of WLE Seen; FDR May Act

LEWIS AGREES TO CONFERENCE THIS MORNING   Thousands Of Miners In Soft Coal Fields Have Already Quit Before Truce Is Ended   ‘ARMISTICE’ DUE TO EYPIRE AT MIDNIGHT   Refusal Of Union Plea By ‘War Labor Board Is Cited As Barrier To Settlement

50,000 Miners Jumping Gun On Truce’s End Tonight With Early Walkout   ANOTHER CONFERENCE IS SCHEDULED TODA)   Lewis And Operators Plan Meeting This Morning For Negotiations

Coal Conferees in Recess As Wildeat Strikes Grow. 50,000 Miners Leave J ob:   Hearings to Be Resumed This Morning Between Lewis Union and Gperaiors;  Truce Deadline Comes at Midnizcht

OPERATORS 10 MEET MINERS AGAIN SUNDAY   No Indication of Any Result from Saturday's Pay Conferences, .   WALKOUT SPREADING: - ~~ WITH. 57,000: IDLE:

Union's Policy Committee to Decide Fateful Question Whether They Will Defy WLB’s Order to Sign New Contract

Coal Conference Is Recessed’  Another Strike te: Already Surandineg

Coal Conference Is Recessed  Another Strike Is - Already Spreadine

50,000 Workers Idle As Operators, Union Leaders Fail to Agree   Two Joint Conferences Held Saturday But Produce No Results; Stoppages Spread as Truce Expires at Midnight

John L.. LewisCoal Operators Jo Conter Today   Bargaining Conferences May Stop New Mine Strikes

TRUCE ENDS; SOME 99,000 MINERS IDLE   JOHN L. LEWIS AND OPERATORS RENEW TALKS TODAY

STRIKE OF COAL MINERS SPREADS: 55000 MEN IDLE   Bargaining Conference Between Lewis and Operators Recesses With No Agreement Reached.   UNION TO TAKE UP WLB RULING TODAY   Whether It Will Comply With Order to Sign New Contract to Come Up for Decision.

No Progress Toward Ending Coal Deadlock   Conference Of Lewis And Operators To Reconvene Today

Another Coal Tieup Feared   Strikes Spread And Trucé In Dispute Nears Deadline

Operators And Union Chiefs In Parleys.   Trtice Called By  John L. Lewis Ends At Midniaoht

No Deal Made With Miners  hAanw Alraadw   Many Already Quitting Work Before Truce Ends

Lewis, Mine Heads Renew Parley Today   Reosevelt Signature Of Me-Strike Bit Depends on Result

Operators and Lewis To Meet Again Today   50,000 Miners Already Out Of Pits; UMW May Defy Board And Refuse To Sign Pact

UMW, Operator: Schedule Talks; Truce Nears End  Midnight Walkout Expected If WLB Decree Unaccepted

Deadline Coal Bargaining. Talks Continue   First Joint Session's Re sults Unrevealed; 57,00¢ Miners Walk Out   TRUCE ENDS TONIGH’   Union's Policy Committen Will Meet Following  Operator Session

WORK STOPPAGES BEGIN 10 SPREAL   Some 55,000 Workers Fail  to Enter Mines   POLICY COMMITTEE   Also Schedules Meet for This Afternoon; Tie-up of Coal Production Looms

On Threshold of Mighty Events in Air, : Jane’s New Handbook on Planes Asserts

On Threshold Of Mighty Events In Aerial Warfare  Russia Builds 2,000 Plane: Monthly To Add To U.  © 8. ta° tl. FX 44d

U. S. Production Turned the Tide Against Axis  ® Jlanee Pradicte

Big Events in Air War Due Soon, Authoritative ‘Publication Declares

PREDICTS GREAT EVENTS IN AIR   Volume Says American Production Turned  Tide Of War

U. S. Production Turns Tide of War on Axis  Air Arm Is Held Indispensable in Great Conflict

U. S. Production Turns Tide of War on Axis  Air Arm Is Held Indispensable

Interpreting e War   Allied Plane Losses Over Darwin Fluke in Jap Favor

NORTHERN ITALIAN CITIES SCENES OF   Fascist Militiamen Appear or Swiss Frontier; Unrest Believed Growing

Some Assume Former Duties— Miniature Civil War. Be' tween Fascists and AntiFaacists Reported in North  Teale:

VICTORY TAX WILL BE REDUCED JULY 1   VWaxpayers Still Te Have Compli cated Task In Figuring Returns Under C‘ompromise

“Pay-as-You-Go’ Income Tax  Measure Probed  1942 Payments May  _ Be Deferred - Until After War

Governor of Martinique Lists Terms Under Which Island Would Join Allies

Robert Wants No Rebellion  AgainstFrance    Apparently : Awaiting Union Between Forces  Of Giraud, de Gaulle

ROBERT STATES CONDITIONS FOR JOINING ALLIES   Martinique Commissioner Appears To Be Waiting For Union Of French Fighting Forces   Safeguards Demandec

Admiral Robert Gives Terms Under Which Martinique Will Join Allies

French Admiral Lists Terms  Would Join Allies Under 3 Conditions

Survey First On Newton ‘Acute’ Area   Survey To Determine Whether Group 1 Restrictions To Be Ordered

 The War Today—  Chief Of Staff’s Military Report ~ On “Required Reading” List Of U. S.

Hope To Avert Milk Slump   Urge Farmers Adopt 8-Point Production Program

WAR INDUSTRY WALKOUTS HIT BY GOVERNORS   Nation’s Farmers are Commended for  Food Program

Governors Hii Strikes During War   Walkouts Said To Hurt Security Of This Country

STRIKESHIT ATPARLEY OF GOVERNORS   Resolution Strongly Con. demns Walkouts During War

Governors Condemn ‘Any Strike Anywhere Affecting War’. And Defend State Rights

GOVERNORS RAP WORK STOPPAGE   Resolution Adopted At Convention Deplores Frequent Strikes

14 SHIPS JOIN U.S, WAR FLEET   Nine Fighting Ships Leave _ Yards, Five Cargo Vessels ’ Launched Sunday

sai ae i tic a ais ene en muaie mia see cairn  Nine Fighting Ships and Five Cargo Vessels Are Launched

Henry Ford, On His 80th Birthday Gives Views on Way-to Get Ahead

REDS NEAR FINAL ESCAPE RAILROAD IN GERMAN HANDS   Military Observers Say Nazi Garrison Must: Abandon Big Ukraine Industrial City At Once — Or Face Annihilation

REDS HAVE ~ QUTFLANKED NAZI TROQPS   Fall of Leading Industrial City In Ukraine Near

Colder Weather To Hit Tonight   Low of 15 Degrees Below Zero Predicted For This Part of State.

Plenty For All To Eat Don't Work-Y ourself Into Lather Over. Curtailment Of Foodstuffs

RATIONING WON'T CUT WAISTLNES   John Hopkins Nutritionist Declares Health of Nation to Be Unimpaired

Sees No Danger of Nation’s Health Being Impaired by Food Rationing

HEALTH OF NATION WILL BE UNIMPAIRED BY RATIONING PLAN  JOHNS HOPKINS NUTRITIONIST SAYS WR HAVE

Rationing of Food Need Not Warm Health, Expert Says   ohns Hopkins University Nutritionist Claims People Need Not Even -Lose Weight; Contends Americans Pampered by Great Abundance and It Will Not Hurt to Simplify Standards

Ample Supplies Milk, Cereals, Potatoes, Pouliry, Eggs, Sea Food Are Forecast

Advancels Meeting Little Resistance   British Forces Who Aided American Stand Have Withdrawn To Their Former Positions

U.S. Forces Fan Out From Kasserine Pass   Sharp Fighting Continues in Northeast Sector

Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan Given Religious Medal By Archbishop Spellman

RECAPPING OF AUTO TIRES PERMITTED   Rationing Board Control Eliminated Today By O.P.A.— Those Light Trucks Included In Order

RECAPPING OF CAR TIRES 1S PERMITTED   Contro! by 7 Rationing Board Eliminated by the OPA

RUSSIANS SEVER KURSK, KHARKOV RAILROAD LINES   Columns of Nazis Reported Streaming West from Key to Caucasus

Transports Overdue In California   Twenty-Five Officers And_ Enlisted Men Aboard Navy Planes Missing Three Days

Search Pacific Coast And Mountains For Two Transport Planes Lost

Army And Navy Aircraft, Coastal Vessels, Ground Parties Seek Trace Of Missing Planes In West   BOTH PLANES ARE LONG OVER DUE

AERIAL SHUTTLE SERVICE   Joint Efferts Of Americans And . RAF Paying Off In Tunisia

NAZIS BOMBED WITH PRECISION   Fighters Cover Bombers Over Target, Then Refuel, Return

LA GUARDIA IS FACING INQUIRY   N. Y. Council Votes for In. vestigation of Departments Under Mayor

New York City’s Departments fo Be Investigated   “Council Votes Probe Of All. Those Under LaGuardia’s Rule

Council Probes LaGuardia Act   New-York City Scanda Reported Brewing

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SEEKS INVESTIGATION   Votes Resolution For Probe Into All Departments Under La Guardia -

New York City Council Calls for Full  Investigation of LaGuardia Government

N. Y. City Council Votes Sweeping Investigation Of All Departments

Order NY City  Investigation   Name Committee To Cheek Departments Under La(,uardia Administration.

COUNCIL ASKS PROBE IN N. Y, OF LAGUARDIA   Heated Midnight Session Before  18 To 5 Vote

New York To Investigate La Guardia Administratior   Sweeping Probe Demanded By City Council; Bitter Political Battle Looming

N. Y. Couneil Votes Prebe Of City Affairs   Early Morning Meeting Censures Newhold Morris

LAGUARDIA IS UNDER PROBE   New York City Council To Start Investigation  On All Dep’ts

COUNCIL ORDERS NEW YORK PROBE   ‘All Departments Under Mayor La Guardia Fac_ ing Investigation

LA GUARDIA’S NEW YORK CITY DEPTS. UNDER QUESTION   Resolution Calling For a ‘ Sweeping Probe of City Affairs Voted by New York City Council] Members

N.Y. COUNCIL VOTES PROBE  OF LAGUARDIA   Power to Investigate AN Depart ments Given in Session Just Af ter Midnicht   APPROVED 18-5   Brooklyn Democrat Hart Sponsors Probe, is Named Head of Invesligating Commilice

New York Orders Drastic Inquiry  City Departments Are Now Under Fire

DONNELL WILL STAND ON BIG STATE BUDGET   Makes No Change in Orig inal Requests, Whicl Are $13,000,000 More Than Anticipated In come for Biennium.

THE LARGEST STATE BUDGET IN HISTORY ANNOUNGED TODAY   Gov. Forrest C. Donnel —. it at $269, 905,076.   FIGURES TENTATIVE   The Record High Budget Will Call for $82.938,537 Gen ) eral Tax Revenue.

Donnell Submits  Budget   Sum Needed Is $269.550.076, $13.000.000  Out Of Balance

Donnell Sets Up A Record Budget For This State   Requests For $269,550, 076 Goes to Assembly Out of Balance.   Is 20 Millions Higher Than Two Years Ago

DUTCH KIDNAP GERMAN GIRL   Commissar’s Child Held Hostage; 14 Traitors Executed

KIDNAP KIN OF NAZI COMMISSAR   Netherland Patriots Responsible for the Kidnaping.

Name Is Magic, Wallace Asserts   Savs FDR Should Pe Peace Chairman

Wants Roosevelt At Peace Table   Wallace Suggests He Be Chairman

WANTS FR AT READ (F PEAGE TABLE   Wallace Thinks President Should Preside at Peace Conference.

FURTHER SLASH IN NEWSPRINT: HINTED   Shortage Of Pulpwood May Force 30 Per Cut In Supplies

AXIS CLAIMS ALLIED MAJOR OFFENSIVE IN ITALY NOW STARTED   Russian Forces Swarming Through Great Gaps In German Lines, Ready To Slam Door On Crimea; Nazi Retreat Becomes Rout

Small Gains Reported by Yank Army   War Planes and Navy Ves. sels Taking Part in At. .  tacks Reported

General Offensive Begun, Axis Says   Nazi Escape Corridor in Russia Narrowed by Smashing Red Drive

Roosevelt, Churchill Give Choice: “Surrender Honorably” or “Be Blasted Out nt Wa y?

KIEL U-BOAT YARDS HIT BY FORTRESSES   Heinkel Aircraft Factory Also Blasted by U. S.. . Fliers   TEN PLANES LOST ____ DURING THE RAID   Other. Air Assaults on French Targets Re. ported

U. §. Makes Recore Cuban Sugar Deal  Will Buy 4,000,000 Short Tons in 1944

FIRST ROCK. ARRIVES      City Is “Making Teptoyementa at ; Makin ipal Airpért 7

Rule Goodland Is Entitled To $6,000 Salary   Davidson Case Of 1905 Cited By Martin In Official Opinion On  Governor’s Salary

German-Italian Clashes Reported  Nazis On Crete, In Greece Attempt Disarming Italians

Nazis, ltalians Clash in Crete   Attempts to Diserm Sevey Troops Fought; Greece Tension Grows

GERMAN, ITALIAN: SOLDIERS CLASH IN CRETE, GREECE   British Receive Evidence of Nazi Plan to Disarm Italian Troops in Crete and Arrest Commanding Staff ©

Guilt of Axis Reviewed in  White Book   Germany Fumes at Indictment by U.S War Department

U.S. Publishes: Record of War Guilf of Axis”   “Official White: Book Issued by State Department

STATE DEPT. WHITE BOOK RELEASED —   Reveals Much Which Places War Blame On Axis.

PRE: PRE-WAR DIPLOMATIC PAPERS ARE PUT ON PUBLIC REGORI   BERLIN CONSUL WARNED OF “NAZL ANTSTUDE IN 188%,  GREW PREDICTED JAPANEBE ATTACK

Unrest Stirring On Labor Front Is Bubbling Around ‘Little Steel’ Formula

Must Remove Snakes’ Fangs   Disarmament Of Axis Necessary Says Eden

TWO VESSELS BURN OFF FLORIDA   Explosion One of Worst Off Coast In Recent Years

88 Men Are Killed When Tankers Collide and Burn Off East Coast of Florida

Two Oil Tankers Explode OFF Florida Coast; Killing. W ounding More Than 100

88 Die as Two Tankers Hit, Explode   Many Trapped Below Decks in Disaster Off Florida; 28 Live

BIG EXPLOSION HURLS BODIES HICH IN AIR   High-Octane Gasoline Cremates Victims Below Decks

Only 28 Men Survive Holocaust Off Florida Coast on Wednesday Night

Men Hurled Skyward As Blast Rips Ships  Charred Skeletons Fill Bunks;   Charred Skeletons Fill Bunks;  Sareamino Crews Litter Decks

Blast Follows Crash Off Florida Coast   . Most of Victims Burned to Death As Rescuers Were Helpless;  Twentv-Eight Crewmen Survive

PEROn WHEN TWO TANKERS CRASH AT SEA   Many Trapped Below Decks; Skeletons Found ~ in Charred Bunks.

Two Ships Hit Off Coast Of Florida   Collision Causes Explosion Burning Scores Of Men To Death And Hurtlina Bodies In Air

HOUSE GROUP OPPOSED 10 RUML PLAN   Sales Tax, Enforced Savings Needed To Produce Funds

Oppose Plan to Skip 1942 Taxes   Congressmen Point  To 16-Billion Riddle

REASON GIVEN   Need For Increased Revenue Delays ‘Skip Year’ Tax

Tax Demanas Impossible Solons Say   Reduction Of Buying Power Controversial

TAX MEN SEE F.D.R. REQUEST AS IMPOSSIBLE   President Asks Buying Power Be Reduced By  More Taxes.

F:D.R. Demand for 16-Billions In Forced Savings and Taxes Held Virtually Impossible.

Boards Ordered To Ignore OPA Ruling  Congressman Weiss Favoring Service Men

3-DAY FIGHT CLIMAXED AS ENEMY CRACKS   Flame Throwers Sear Nips From Jungle Defenses

Ceiling Prices  On Pork Given   Become Effective  In-Ohio April 

CEILING PRICE   OS  Office of Price. Administration Announces Change Which will be Effective on April 1.

'WANT. WOMEN MARINES   Party of Three From U.S.M.C. Stationed at Eldridge

REMOVES HALF OF INCOME TAX LOAD IN IOWA   House Passed Measure During Long Session Wednesday

Hickenlooper Signs Income Tax Cut Bill   50 Per Cent Reduction For Iowans Is Put Into  Effect Ouickly.

SIGNS BILL T CUT IOWA PAY TAXES IN HALF   Hickenlooper Complete Action on Reducing State Income Levy

Many Problems Face Congress After Return   Taxes. Subsidies. Corn Ceil ing, Manpower Question: Left ‘Unfinished.’   ‘NINE WEEK VACATION

High Commissioner Georges Robert Given Chance To Ouit Stalling And Help United Nations Free France

AUGUST COLD HERE NOT QUITE RECORD   But Morning Low of 54 Gives Out An Unaccus tomed Chill -

AUGUST COLD HERE NOT QUITE RECORD   But Morning Low of 54 Gives Out An Unaccustomed Chill   ICOATS DONNED AGAIN

Chinese Fight Artillery With Side Arms; Laugh Through Their Tears

Today’s War Moves   China Never To Quit Until  Japanese Are Cuintad

ASSURANCE THAT CHINA WILL FIGHT ON IS GOOD NEWS TO UNITED NATIONS’ WAR FFFORT

The War Today   China’s Strength Lies In. Her Vast Spaces To Trade For Jap Time.

MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK ASSURES US CHINA WON'T GIVE UP   Chinese Army Swaps Space For Time Hoping That They Will Finally Get Necessary Equipment to Drive Japs Out

THE WAR TODAY   Rv DEWITT MacKENZIE   (Associated Press War Analyst)

The War Today—  Chinese Will Continue Struggle Until ‘Last Jap Is Evicted, Leaders Promise

AMERICAN TROOPS MOPPING UP JAPS ON RENDOVA ISLE   _ JAPANESE SUFFER HEAVY » LOSSES IN AIR FIGHTING OVER SOLOMONS

American Losses 15 Pilots And 25 Aircraft, Says Report From Admiral Halsey’s Ship   Enemy Defense Positions In Munda Area Assaulted By Our Dive Bombers: Two-Pronged Otfensive in South Pactlie Continues

THE JAPANESE LOST 125 PLANES IN TWO DAYS OF FIGHTING   Were Shot Down Over New Georgia Island Wednesday and Thursday.   AMERICANS LOSS WAS 25   Ten Pilots, However, Landed Safely, South Pacific Headquarters Announced.

1B Jap Planes Downed As Driv Rolls Forward  Gains On 700-Mile Front In Pacific Told By Allies

REVEAL BLISTERING NIP OPPOSITION TO RENDOVA LANDINGS; JAPS LOSE 123 PLANES IN TWO DAYS AS ALLY TOTAL STANDS AT 25

MARINE FORCES OCCUPY HARBOR ON MAIN ISLAND   Only 15 Pilots ‘Lost, Officials Report Today

123 NIP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN WITHIN 2 DAYS   Admiral Halsey Reveals Only 25 U.S. Craft Lost in Pacific Air Duels

Dive Bombers, Artillery Plaster Munda Air Base; Other Gains Consolidated

123 JAPANESE PLANES LOST; YANKS LOSE 25   Admiral Halsey Gives Report of Fighting Over - New Georgia Islands   FIGHTING COVERS TWO-DAY PERIOD   U. S. Pilots Practically Repeat Recent Guadalcanal Feats

ALLIES T0 ROW] ENEMY FROM ISLAND AREAS   Jap Garrison on Rendova Destroyed; Pound Munda Airfield

NO TRANSFUSION SEEN FOR CHILD   Gypsy Girl Unable te Aid Youth Stricken In Chicago

Has Rommel Fled Africa? Allies Suggest He Has   -Captured Document Is Signed By Yon Arnim As General Officer

Rommel Leaves Cornered Trocps With Von Arnim?   Official Credence Given Rumors’ That Rommel Has Disappeared

OUT OF TUNISIA   Three Possible Causes For His Absence Are Concidorad   GENERAL VON ARNIM IS IN COMMAND OF AXIS TROOPS

Report Hints Removal of Gen. Rommel   Captured Document Enhances Belief  Yon Arnim iy Charge

Rommel Missing Again   Captured Evidence Indicates Desert Fox Not In Africa; May Have Been Recalled or May Have Been Wounded or Killed

Allies Now Believe General Rommel To Have Run Away  Document Indicates Von Arnim Is in Command of Forces

Captured Document Reveals Rommel Has Relinauished African Command

HOUSE VOTES 1944 CASH TO ~OPAAND OW   Adopts Conference: Report on Big Supply Bill for War Agencies.   SENATE AGREES TO KILL FUNDS TO KEEP UP NYA

Lower House Clears Way For Brief Rest   Chamber Okehs Conference Report On War Agencies Supply Bill; Measure Includes OPA, OWI Funds

HOUSE OK'S OPA FUNDS   Gives OWI's Domestic Branch $2,750,000 for the Fiscal Year

Congress Clears Decks for Early  Summer Recess   House Relents on ( OPA, A, OWI Appropriations, While Senate Gives in Again to: House Demands on NYA Liquidation

State Assembly Will Be Asked To Quit Early   If Members Cooperate Indiana’s Legislature Will Be Able To Cut Week off of Its Schedule.

Assembly Vay  Quit March    Lieutenant Governor Says Assembly Could Beat Deadline

BATTER EUROPEAN CONTINENT   Hamburg Sea of Flames After 5 Raids in 60 Hours

Daylight Raids Continue Over Hitler’s Europe; Hamburg Hit   Attacks Double and Triple Their Terror With Each Blow.

Srvyvyyyyrry ry rere ee eee West Coast Women Built Differently, Says Manufacturer

WACS BELOW GOAL   Net Loss Of 5,000 Since July, Secretary Of War Says

WAC Has 60,000 Members   Secretary Stimson Reports Number Is Far Below Expectations

NINE MORE JAP SHIPS ARE SUNK   Japs Also Report Formosa Bombed For First Time in the War

Seven Freighters, a Plane Transport and a Tanker.   AMERICAN AIR RAID JAP BASE FORMOSA   Our Planes Also Strike at Gasmata for Five Straight Days.

WALLACE HITS ISOLATIONISM   Says Americans Can Raise Living Standard Helping Others

CAN RAISE STANDARD BY HELPING OTHERS   Security Important in PostWar Planning

Vacation Travel Held Essential To War Effor   Tells Eastman Workers Must Relax From ~ Stress OF Jobs

AMERICANS FACING LOW ROAD TO ROME ON WESTERN COAST  RUSSIANS FORCED INTO

Fifth Seizes Road Leading For Cassino   Kighth Army Makes Progress Along Moro River Line;  Reds Fall Back.   RAID CIVIFAVECCHIA

U.S. Fifth Army Takes Peak Of  Mount Camino   Presses Forward Upon  Key Town Of Cassino

Height Is Above Cassino, Key in Route to Rome   Russians Receive New Setback as Turkey Moves Closer

5th Army Captures Heights   Advance Made Against Bitter Resistance; Reds Fall Back Before Nazis West of Kiev

Reds Retreat Before 1,700 Nazi Tanks   Turkey Edges as Closer, to. Allied Side and Declaration Is Expected in Few Days = —y

HIGHLIGHTS OF EUROPEAN WAR ARE PRESENTED   Germany Is Facing Enemy From Three Directions Now

Russians Forced Into Retreat In Ukraine Secto   1.700 German Tank Hurled At Reds Chetnike War Or:  Partisans

“Keep Punching, God Is with Us", Patton Tells Men   General Issues an Orde of the Day to Men aboard Ship

FOUR U. S. BOMBERS DOWNEL   ‘In Brush With ith German Fighters f Over Swiss Territory

4 BOMBERS FALL IN SWITZERLAND   One ts Brought Down b Swiss Anti-Craft, Other: Victims in Dog Fight

FOUR U. S BOMBERS DOWNE!   [In Brush With German Fighters : -- Over Swiss Territory

AN EVENING SERVICE   To Be Held at North. Lawrence Christian Church

BARUCH DRAFTED BYRNES’ ADVISER   In Announcing Drafting of Famed Economist Brynes Also Renounces All Political Aspirations.

Byrnes Drafts Baruch AsTop AidmOWM   Mobilization Director Denies Political Ambitions, Asks Streamlining of Conperessional Probes of War Bureaus

New Draft System is Announced   Married Men With No Children Face Early Induction

Selective Service Order Wipes Out Dependency Deferments of 2,880,000

DEFERMENTS FOR DEPENDENCY ARE WIPED OUI   3-B Classification Eliminated; Only Fathers  to Remain in 3-A When Revision Paws asdatad

Classification Of Fathers Put On New Basis   Selective Service Revision Ordered; Millions Affected

Millions Lose Dependency Deferments   Classification Revision Helps Stave Off Draft Of U. S. Fathers   38 BRACKET ERASED   ‘Necessary’ Test Faces All But Men With Children Before September

FATHER STATUS REVISED IN NEW SERVICE ORDER   ccupation Considerec First in Deferment Classification

F urther Parleys With UMW Representatives Useless, Coal Operators Assert

Patricts Battle ~ Gestapo   Oppose Shipment Of French Workers To Germany.

CIVIL WAR VETS (MEN OF ACTION’   Two Sessions Telescoped Into One

“ REFUSE TO REVIEW CASE   Trio Are Under Sentence to Die at Sing Sing Prison

Review of Trio's Conviction Refused  Bey phew: Edu Baw:   Execution Stay for Alleged Members of ‘Murder, Inc.’ Vacated

Governor Urges local Planning  Warns of Federal Post-War Control

German Offer for Peace Said To Be Framing  It Would Follow  Seizure of Pawaer hv Junta

Military Junta Awaits Critical Turn In Reich   Stockholm Hears Germar Officers May Make Peace Offer To Allies

Start Great Berlin Fires In Air Raid   Nazi Capital to Have Black. est Christmas — Allies”  Attack in Italy

Flynn Gives Up; Asks Withdrawal Of Appointment  Wants ‘No Partisan Debate in Senate’ On Envoy to Australia  FELT SURE OF VOTE  Ex-Democratic Chief Says Committee Had Vindicated Him

Flynn Announces He Will Ask That His Nomination as Minister to Australia Be Withdrawn by F.D RB

Yields To Opposition In Senate   Opponents Claim Defea Faced Ex-Dem Leader Seeking — Australian Diplomatic Post.

FLYNN ASKS WITHDRAWAL   President Asked fo. With. draw. Name, He Dectarec

FLYNN DECLINES PACIFIC HONOR   Will Ask President To Withdraw Name For  Australian Post

FLYNN TO ASK WITHDRAWAL OF HIS NOMINATION   Former Democratic Polltical Boss Doesn’t Want Senate Political Debate   CONFIRMATION IS MATTER OF DOUBT

FLYNN ASKS WITHDRAWAL   President Asked to Withdraw Name, He Declares

idward Flynn Asks F.D.R. To Withdraw Nomination Says He Is Not Willing: To Allow Candidacy  re ae ™ a — ww   Says He Is Not Willing To Allow Candidacy To Be Made Excuse For Political Debate  HAD BEEN NAMED AUSTRALIAN ENVOY  Had Not Conferred With Chief Executive, Appointee Declares

Flynn Asks Nomination Be Re-called   FRIENLS IN SENATE ASSURED HIM CONFIRMATION, EXCHAIRMAN OF DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE SAYS.

U. §. BEGINS DRIVE TO OUST JAPS FROM ALEUTIAN ISLANDS   U. S. Forces Land On Attu, ~ And Battle Is Now In ' Progress——Route ~ To Tokyo

YANKS IN ALEUTIAN AREA NOW   Land on Attu Island, U. S. Government Reveals After Tokyo Releases News.

~ FROM AL NEUTINS   Fighting in Progress  Since Tuesday,  Navy Says   ATTACKERS STRIVE TO ISOLATE KISKA BASE

FORCES LAND, ENGAGE JAPS ON ATTU ISLE   Navy Atmounces Operation, Kiska ByPassed

LANGING MADE [AGT TUEaDM, BATTLE AAGING   Navy Promises More Details When Battle Situation Becomes Clarified

Forces Locked In Battle With. Jap Defenders   Long-Awaited Drive To Oust Nipponese From Aleutians Starts

YANKS LAND ON ATTUISLE: RATTLE RAGES   No Details of New ‘Invasion’ Are Announced

he United States has begun its long from the Aleutians and clear the Northern route to Tokvo.

Fighting Now In Progress In Aleutian Area   Long-Awaited Drive To Oust Japs Is Begun, Although Navy Announcement Does Not Give Details Of New Offensive

YANKS. ORIENTALS LOCKED IN BATTLE COMMUNIQUE SAYS   Navy Reports 223 Bombings On Islands Since March 1, Landings Were Made on Tuesday.   AMERICANS PLAN. TO CUT OFF SUPPLIES   Land Clashes In New Guinea, . While Airmen Destroy Six Airplanes -In New  Britain.

LAND FORCES FIGHT JAPS ON —— ATTU ISLAND   Drive to Clear North Pacific Opens on Rocky Western Isle

DENMARK REMOVED FROM MARTIAL LAW   Sermans Also Reported te Have Ended Nationwide Curfew Against Danes

Representative Russell Deplores Army ‘Morate Builders’ In Speech In House

Asia Drive Mapped by New Leadet   Mountbatten, Chiang Kai_ shek, Stilwell and Aids ‘Meet in Chungking

MOUNTBATTEN, STILWELL AND CHIANG CONFER      ‘Chungking Predicis Closely Co-or— dinaled Allied Action as Lord Louis Ends Visit

China ro Play Important Role: Strategy Talks With Mountbatten Are Concluded

Strategy Meeting  In China Closes  Mountbatten Confers  With Chiang, Stilwell

U.S. BRITAIN, CHINA JOIN TO HIT JAPS   Squeeze on Foe in Burma May Be First Move

Gigantic Pincer Move Against Burma Forecast   Mountbatten, Stillwell, Chiang Conclude ~ Strategy Talks.

Plans Drawn For Burma ~ Offensive Against Japs   Lord Mountbatten And High American, British And Chinése Officers Map Strategy At Conference In Chunking

CHINA TO PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE AGAINST ENEMY   Three Nations To Throw Forces At Japanese

China Warlords Map Pincer Move on Nips   Mountbatten Ends Confab and Returns to India

PLANS LAID FOR BURMA INVASION   MOUNTBATTEN TALKS WITH KAI-SHEK AND ~ MILITARY LEADERS

CHINESE PREDICT NEW ALLIED MOVE AGAINST THE JAPS   Chunking Press Views Mountbatten’s Visit With Chinese War Leaders as Sign of Impending Campaign

NEW ACTION BY ALLIES AGAINST JAPS FORESEEN   Mountbatten, Stilwell, Chiang End Conferences

Mountbatten, Stilwell, Chiang Conclude Strategy Talks In Chinese Capital City

Strike Isle of Lampedusa,  As Stepstone   CHURCHID: TELLS ABOUT AMPHIBIOUS PLANS COMPLETED.

LAMPEDUSA LANDING DISCLOSED; MAY BE FIRST INVASION STAB   Allied Hit-And-Run Attack Indicated, With Axis Claiming Attempt Failed; Pantelleria Still Takes Beating   Ry UNITEN PRESS

AERIAL ASSAULT MOVING INTO HIGH GEAR   1,000 Tons Unloaded; Flames Seen 100 Miles

Fires Seen 100 Miles Away Left By RAF And U.S. Flying Fortresses

Big Pounding Being Given to Axis Powers   SERIES OF ASSAULTS BY WARPLANES GROWS IN FURY. 

VITAL NAZI WAR FACTORY CITY 1S ATTACKED BY RAE   A Thousand Tons of Bomb: Were Dropped—City Is Sat Ablaze.

British Blast Mulheim in  West Germany R.A.F. Also Hits Oberhausen,  35 Bombers Lost

War Plants at Mulheim Bombed  Western Germany — Oblect of Attack —

RAF Rains Fiery Havoc OnMuelheim   Ruhr Steel Center _ Blazing Mass After Intensified Poundins

All Homes Will Feel Impact Of - War: Decision:   Use Of Manpower Is Major Factor In U.S. Strateay

Casablanea will affect every American home   Think decision made whether emphasis on army or supplies

Historic Meeting Of Churchill And Roosevelt Will Affect Every Home

Casablanca Agreeinents Will Be Fel In Every American Home In Future  Wii Affect Manpower Allocation, Amount Of Food Available And Size Of Taxes —

Parley Decisions To Touch Every U. 5. Home   Use Of Manpower A Top Factor

Roosevelt-C hurchill Decisions  To Have Far-Reaching Effect   Every Home To Directly Or Indirectly   Deon) Dacuhts Alaanawar 2: Tan Denhlom

SLAVE LABOR HIT BY VATICAN RADIC   Enslavement of Freedom and Slaying of Innocent Hostages Denounced.

Vatican Condemns Nazi Outrages; Pope Protests Treatment of Conquered Peoples

Vatican Radio Hits At Nazis   niaiake: Tails Condemns “Commandecering 0 rman Beings “In Speech Aimed at Germany

PANIC BUYING RAISES DANGER   Retail Federation Officer Says Rush Now Will Bring More Rationing

RUSSIAN AND NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS MUST BE TAKEN AS ONLY PREPARATORY TO BIG PUSH

Tide of Allied Success in Russia And Africa Swelling   But Despite the Temptation to Over-Optimism It Is Cited That In Both These Campaigns the Vietories Now Being Won Are Only Toninorary

Preparing  For Invasion Of Europe  - Tide Of Allies Success  Swells Daily

ALLIED FORCES CONTINUE TIDE   Each News Dispatch Con tinues Spelling of Disaster for Hitler

NACI RIVER PORT UF DUISBURG HIT BY BLOCKBUSTERS   British Lose 17 Planes In Mass Raid: Terrific Damage Reported

NAZIS GIVEN MOST SEVERE AIR RAID   Two-pound Incendiaries to Four-ton Block Bust ers Dropped.

Whiskey Front Seething: Increased Hoarding, Black Markets Bring Demand for New Legislation

Action to Force Great Stocks of Whisky Out Of Storage is Proposed

SPEEDY RUM TAX ~ ACTION 1S URGED   Van Nuys , Also Proposes  WwPB Relaxation of

Seek to Force Whisky Selling   Say Quick Tax Actior May Solve Problem

MAY FORCE LIQUOR FROM WAREHOUSES   Legislation Urged by Com. mittee Investigating Shortages

See” ax A.C ‘ion <0 or 2e - “oarcec “TT yis<c Ouro: "Ware 10uses

Great Amount OfLiquorStored Senators Told   Van Nuys Hits ‘Hoarding, Suggests Tax Action, Relaxing Distilling Rules

Large Crowd Present For Ceremonies  Phillips Walks  Out On Platform -— Ft 5. ..

Robert S. Kerr ls Inaugurated  Simple Ceremony Is Carried Out os New Governor Takee Onth

Bil Postponing. ‘hike in Payroll ~ Levy Suppor led   Both Houses. Swiftly i Pass Measure to” Defer Action

Vote to Postpone Security Tax Hike  House, Sénate Pass a ns es re Or cs

Road to Rome Long. Hard and Wet —  Italy Fiacht Toughest Yet for Yanks

Road to Rome Proves Tough One  Terrain and Weather Both Fayor Germans

Road To Rome Tougher Now   Weather, Terrain, Enemy Combine to Slow Advance

—ITALY— .   FACE FORMIDABLE FOE IN DIFFICULT ITALIAN TERRAIN   Advances In Italy Now Measured In Yards Instead Of Miles ‘   “WEATHER IS BAD   Roads Are Strips Of Mud, Streams Form Traffic Bottlenecks

ROAD TO ROME IS BESET BY THREE BIG OBSTACLES   Bad Weather, Terrific Terrain, Well - Disciplined Enemy Forces Make This Hardest Of All lights.

HARD WAY TO ROME   Yanks Fight Mud, Rain, and Great German Concentration

Road fo Rome” Becomes Tough  Allied Tranane AA   Allied Troops Must Overcome Obstacles In Drive to North

Yanks At Disadvantage On Rough Road To Rome   Cost in Blood Will Be Heavy as They Face Uphill Fighting In Mud and Cold Without Cover

American Troops Face Bitter And Costly Fighting In Italy   Battle Tougher Than In Tunisia Or Sicily; Difficulties Are Great

March on Rome Slows to Yards   Road to Capital Beecenes Toughest Route, of Battle of U. S. Troops.

DANE TO GOST ALLIES HEAVILY   Tunisia and Sicily Did Not Present Difficulties Found In Italy.   TERRAIN FAVORS ENEMY

\Road to Rome Most Difficult ‘Yet for Yanks   Bad Weather Deprives Fifth of Smashing Support of Air Legions

ROME ROAD BESET WITH HARDSHIPS   American Army in Italy Finds Going Tough Due To Weather, Terrain  and Battling Enemy   ADVANCE BY YARDS

Pearl Harbor Changes In 2 Years   Only Two Ships Remain As Visible Scars of Attack

Rust-Covered Hulks Of ‘Oklahoma’ And ‘Utah’ Are Only Visible Scars Left By Pearl Harbor Attack

REPORTS MADE BY COUNTY SECTIONS   Splendid Progress Made in - Red Cross War Fund  Phaeton

REPORTS MADE BY COUNTY SECTIONS   Splendid Progress Made in Red Cross War Fund Drive

10 Jap Ships Are Destroyed [By Allied Aerial Attack On \Vessels In Harbor At Rabaul   Thousand-Pound Bombs Scored Hits Which Left An Estimated 50,000 Tons Of Enemy Shipping Ablaze And Sinking ; Six Jap Fighters Bagged

NORTHERN ITALY ATTACKED BY RAF AXIS "DROMES Hi   Daylight Raiders Sweep Over Channel As Night Bombers Return.

AERIAL: BLAST HVER EUROPE 5 INGREASEL   Swarms of Allied Craft Pound North !taly, France, Lowlands.   DAY SHIFT BOMBERS FOLLOW, UP ASSAULT

ALLIES HIT NORTH ITALY IN SECOND RAID IN 4 NIGHTS      Offensive Against Axis Dromes In Western Europe Stepped Up Also

GERMAN LINES FAIL T0 HOLD   42 localities r recaptured; furious fighting in Donets basin

-ierce Red Assaults Force Germans to Give Ground  ~ Near Rzhev and Elsewhere

Absenteeisms  May Be Ended   Vinson Predicts Action This Week To. Retain Ww orkers Ou Job

Move to Curb Absenteeism Is Coming And Prohibition Advocates Mav Irv to Put Dry Bill Across

VINSON FIGHTS DRY LAW MOVE   Prohib ition Advocates Blame Liquor For Absenteeism

Drys Can’t Thumb Ride, Says Vinson   No Prohibition Rider Wanted On Absenteeism Curb

Move to Curb Absenteeism Is Coming And Prohibition Advocates Mav Irv to Put Drv Bill Across   Sweeping Changes in Policies of OPA Are to Be Urged on Chief Brown

VINSON EXPECTS ABSENTEEISM BILL TO PASS   Will Fight Dry Rider Which May Be Attached

Advanced Two and One-Half to Five and One-Half Miles On the Orel Front Yesterday   WITHIN SIX MILE OF BRYANST RAILWAY   Thirty More Populated Places Were Swept Up Sunday and German Positions Became Precarious.

Many Villages Fall In Drive Of Russians   Troops Inspired By Personal Visits of Premier Joseph Stalin   NEAR VITAL RAILWAY

Inspired By Stalin, Reds Push Forward   Within Six Miles Of Important German Supply Base

Red Troops In Six Miles Of Railway   Advance 24 to 54 Miles While Stalin Visits Troops at Front; Encirclement of Orel Draws Nearer

Stalin Visits His Soldiers af Front   Pepped Up Reds Smash To Six Miles of Vital Railway,

Reds Advance In Orel Region   Now Within Six Miles Of Bryansk Railroad

Stalin Visit Spurs Russ To New Gains   Soviet Leader Revealed to Be Passing Much Time at Front

Soviets Slash Ahead At Orel   Russian Troops Draw Near Bryansk Railway As Stelin Visits Front.

REDS ADVANCE IN OREL DRIVE   Russians Retake 30 More Towns Despite Nazi Attacks   RAILWAY THREATENED

Inspired Red Army Slashes Nearer Orel   Advance as Much as 5 “Miles Yesterday, Now Within.6 Miles of Vital Bryansk Railway Sup. plying Base.

Soviets Slash Through Nazis On Orel Front   Russian Troops Are Within Six Miles of Bryansk Railway

Russians Slash Into Nazi Ranks   German Positions Are Becoming More Precarious Near Orel

REDS CONTINUE AAPIO ADVANGE   Russian Troops Now Within Six Miles of Nazi Suppiv Railroad.

Red Armies _ Cheered By Stalin Visit   Advances Against German Resistance Continue Steadily

RUSSIANS BEAR DOWN ON NAZI FORCES AT OREL   Spearhead of Red Attack Within Six Miles of Important German-Held Stronghold   STALIN AT FRONT   Soviet Gains Registered In Face of Stubborn Opposition by Defenders, Moscow Says

STALIN DWMEETS COREL OFFENSIVE   Russians Sweep Up 39 Towns, Six Miles from Nazis’ Supply Line

RUSSIANS MAKE SLOW, BLOODY OREL ADVANCE   Red Troops Cui Way 2 } fo 5 $ Miles to Within Six Miles of Vi ts} Rails   Register Gains in Face of Stubborn and Repeated German CounterAttacks

Army Planes Collide; Ten: Dead, 9 Hurt   One Ship Falls in Flames Near Fedosa, S. D. Farmer Witnesses Crash

Eleven Killed ~ [In Collision   Of Bombers   4-Engined Craft Collide In Midair Near Fedora, South Dakota

1] KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH   Warplanes Crash Near Howard, §. Dakota While They Were Flying In Training Formation

20,8, BOMBERS COLLIDE IN AIR   10 or 11 Airmen Die in South Dakota Crash

Young Mother — Calied By Death  Mrs. Tony Hoff Dies After Long [Illness

DEATH SUMMONS ~ YOUNG MOTHER   Mrs, Tony-Van Hoff To Be Laid To Rest Tuesday Mornine ©

Admiral Believes Enemy Evacuation Shios Are Sunk   "Attu ls Only 630 Miles From Paramushiro; U. §, Saved Heavy Casualties

North Road To Japan Is Completed   Admiral Says Disappointec Couldn’t Kill More Japs In Kiska Foray

Admiral Says Recapture Of — Kiska Changes Picture And Completes Road Inte Tangan

Recapture of Kiska Means That We Have Captured North Road to Japan, Admiral Declares  Officials Believe Some of Ships Which Were Evacuating Nipponese Were Sunk by United States Surface Cratt

Says Kiska Battle Fought on Attu  Admiral Stresses Bets gf Bee ee

GERMANY’S PLANS TO CROSS CHANNEL IN 1940 REVEALED   Hitler Massed 2,500 Barges That Were to Set Out as Climax to Five-Week Program.   SCHEDULE GEARED TO TIDES, WEATHER   First Preliminary Step Was to Knock Out Out-Numbered RAF, but Efforts Met With Failure.

British Reveal Inside Facts of Blitz of 1940   Nazi Raids Intended As Invasion Prelude But Fizzled: RAF  Out-numbered 4 to

HITLER LOST THE WAR 3 YEARS ACE   When Plans To Invade England Were Smashed

1940 BLITZ WAS INTENDED AS INVASION PRELUDE BUT FAILED   British Air Force Was Outnumbered 4-To-1 Fellowing Fall Of France; Germans Blundered In Methods Of Softening Up England, Inside Facts Reveal

Condition Of Radio  Singer Is Improvec  Confined To Bed With Abdominal Ailment

MORE JAP LOSSES REVEALED TODAY   In Battle of Marine Landing on Island of Bougainville.

JAPANESE LOSSES IN BATTLE NORTH SOLOMONS GROWS   Communique Reveals Five   Jap War Ships Sunk  - and Four Damaged.

Draft Of Older Men In Place Of Fathers Sought   Many Above 38 Could Be Used To Fill Army Need. Senator Says

Higher Dratt Age Of Childless Men Demanded   Wheeler Sees Need Of Older Brackets To Save Fathers

Would Draft Older Men Before Calling Fathers   Wheeler Wants. to Ex. empt All. Fathers Living With Families, Would Draft Physically  _ Fit Single and Childless Men Above 38. .

Exams at Central High School April 2 for Prospective Army-Navy Specialized Training Ctudenta

BRISTOL STUDENTS TO TAKE SPECIAL “EXAMS’   For Army and Navy Specialized Training Course;   On April 2nd IEFAD TO. CanwMiccianc

Settlement Is Believed Near   British) Minister — Issues Statement

GIRAUD-DE GAULLE ACCORD PREDICTED BY BRITISH ENVOY   Harold MacMillan Looks for Housecleaning in Africa and Establishment of De Facto Rerime.   UPHOLDS EISENHOWER’S DEAL WITH DARLAN   Admiral’s Death, He Believes, Resulted From Efforts of Unscrupulous Persons to Gain Power.

Hitler Is Apparently Doomed To Yield All Ground Gained At Such Heavy Costs

Holiday Toll Rises Slowly but Figures Show Total as Lowest in Two Decades

Tunis Foe Batters  Yank Line   Fierce Nazi Drive Endangers Allied Faid Pass Forces

DEADLINE IS NEAR ON MINING TRUCE   No Permanent Solution Seen To Operator, Worker Dispute

SOLUTION NOT IN SIGHT FOR COAL DISPUTE   Deadlock Unbroken As End Of Current Truce Ay }troaches

Hopefal Review of War Froats Made to World! By President Roosevelt:

President Reiterates Casablanca Terms In World-Wide Broadeast In Which He Optimistically Reviews War Progress

MUSSO AND GANG MUST BE HELI EOR TRIAL--FDR      Makes P ur shment of Italian Leaders Part of Surrender Terms

PRESIDENT IN TALK PROMISES FINAL VICTORY      Says Mussolini. Hitler And Tojc Must Be Tried. Punished

Tojo, Hitler Seen Taking Duce’s Path   Roosevelt Repeats Casablanca Terma, Reviews Fichting

Mussolini And His Gang To Be Punished, FDR; War Signs Now Hopeful

Must Face Trial For War Guilt   NOTICE SERVED DURING TALK LAST NIGHT; GIVES HOPEFUL REVIEW OF WAR FRONTS, ; PLANS FOR VETERANS oo

Italy Warned to Hold Mussolini For Punishment  _ Broadcast of Pracident Sent ~~ ~-

Roosevelt Demands  Trial, Punishment  Of Fascist Leaders   render Terms Expected Soon; Peace  alian Acceptance of Unconditional Sur’ Feelers Reported on the Way

FOR TALKED 10 WORLD AT LARGE ON WAR PROGRESS   italy Given to Understand Just What Will Happen It Fight Is Kept Up.

FDR Asks Italy To Hold ~ Mussolini And Gang For Trial By United Nations   President Reiterates Unconditional Surrender Terms— "First Italian Peace Feelers En Route To London And Washington—Review Of War Fronts’

President Gives  World Radio Talk   Fascist Gang Must be Punished, He Says; Cites Surrender Terms

President Reiterates Casablanca Surrender Terms   Proposed Program for Veteran Benefits Outlined in Radio Talk

Tanks Landed At Gloucester, Drive Inland   Airdrome Immediate Goa’ Of Light and Medium Craft

American Tanks Roll Toward Cape Gloucester Drome   Marines Spread Out Two Beachheads in  Western New Britain

MARINES MOVE TANKS IN BATTLE ON NEW BRITAIN   Americans Stop Japanese at Arawe After Temporary Retreat

LEATHERNECKS WIDEN FRONTS AGAINST NIPS   Meanwhile Light and. iMe‘ditim Tanks Are Moving   Along Road to Cape   = Gloucester Airdromeé   ENEMY DRIVEN FROM TARGET HILL FORTS   Resistance Fails-First Day  _ Of Marine Attack; U.S.  Forces Withdraw In Arawe Battle .

Yanks Rush Tanks,       Guns Into Fray At Cape ¢ loucester   Spread Invasion Front In Western New Britain

AMERICANS ON ARAWE FRONT FORCED BACK   Tanks Leading Way Toward Important Airstrip

IN NEW BRITAIN   Light and Medium Tanks Used in Drive to Cape Gloucester Airdrome.”   JAPS DRIVEN FROM HILL

MARINES WIDEN BRITAIN HOLD   Americans Closing In On Twin Airfields Behind Cape Gloucester

TANKS ROLL ON TOWARD AIRDROME.   Enemy Opposition Driven From Target Hill By Marines: .

TANKS ROLL TOWARD CAPE GLOUCESTER   Objective Is Airdrome, Already Under Artillery Fire, Along With Borgen Bay — Devil-Dogs Capture Target Hill.

U.S. Marines Advancing On Jap Air Base   Tanks Move Along Road To Cape Gloucester Airdrome; Target Hill Is Captured

U. S. Troops Aim Drive Toward Jap Airport; Patrols Repulsed At Arawe

Marines Move On Field At Gloucester   Tanks Head for Air Base As Invasion Front Is Spread

American Tanks Drive  Toward Cape Gloucester Airdrome; Japs Retreat   Jans Are Stalked.

U.S Spreads Over Beachheads   Tanks Move Toward Cape Gloucester Airdrome in Pacifie

Expand Front On New Britain   Marines Move Light. Medium Tanks Toward Cape Gloucester Airdrome.

Devil Dogs Moving on _ Airdrome   Japanese Are Driven From Target Hill as Marines Push On in New Britain   ARTILLERY NOW — SHELLING AIRFIELL   Tanks Also Brought Into Use; Sixth Army Holding After Three Counter Blows

U.S. Tanks Moving Up On Airdrome At Gloucester   Japs Driven From Target Hill By Marines; Patrols On Arawe Forced Back

Marines Advance Against Airdrome   Light and Medium Tanks Used In Gains Reported in New Britain

Eisenhower Is\Mrs. Chiang  Carrying Old Lost On Trip Pocket Coins Momentarils

VARIOUS RUMOR S ARE CURRENT AS TQ WHERE ABOUTS OF DUCE   ONE REPORT 18 EX-DICTATOR AND MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET ARE PRISONERS NEAR ROME

BROAD RUSSIAN DRIVE AIMS AT TWO BIG CITIES   [wo Russian Army Groups Threaten Rear Of German Positions Around Kharkov; Bryansk Also Menaced By New Push.

Evacuating Civilians In Smolensk Region   City Would be Endangered by Complete Deflation of Orel Salient; Russians Making Flank Attack At Kharkov

RUSSIAN FORCES THREATEN KHARKOV HELD BY GERMANS  BRYANSK, 275 MILES TO NORTHEAST, IS ALSO THREATENED

THREATENS BIG CERMAN BASES   Civilians Reported Being Evacuated From _ Smolensk by Nazis

Teutons Clear Civilians From Smolensk Area   Threat To Important Base Seen; Russians Outflank Kharkov, Peril Rear   SEE BRYANSK PUSH!   Drive Through Belgorod Hints Operation Similarity To That In Orel Yictary —

GENERAL CIVILIAN EVACUATION OF SMOLENSK IS ON   This Information Received From’ Russian Guerillas   Behind German Lines.     IMPORTANT NAZI BASE   The Area Would Be Endangered by Complete Depletion of Orel Salient.

Nazis Moving Civilians Out of Smolensk   Russian Guerrillas: Tell ‘of Evacuation as Germans Face New Dancer   ‘OREL DRIVE RAISES GREAT NEW THREAT   Sroad = AaVENCe InendCIns Kharkov and Bryanusk; New Pincers Forming

BROAD ADVANCE ~ MADE BY REDS   Soviets Threaten To Retake Kharkov And Bryansk From Enemy   120,000 NAZI DEAD   Russian Troops Batter Way Forward Distance Of 37 Miles

GERMANS LEAVE SMOLENSK AREA   Evacuate All Civilians  From Key Russian  Position

Germans Moving Civilians From Smolensk Region   Orel Success and Flanking of Kharkov Major Russian Threat

Hear Fleeing Germans Evacuating Great Base   Russian Guerillas Report General Civilian Evacuation Under Way In Smolensk Region; German Rear Menaced.

Red. Guerrillas. Report Actions Behind Line’   Russian Troops Threaten ' Bases Held By Enemy In Vicinity Of Kharkov

BELGOROD 18 RED TARGET   Nazi Rear r Positions Art Threatened By Red Flanking Attack

Nazi Flank at Kharkov in Danger   Soviets to Continue Offensive; Says Germans Lost 120,000 in Campaign

20 MILES FROM CITY   No Letup In Offensive Is Seen; Bryansk In Path Of Advance: Nazi Dead Set At 120,000

Germans Moving Civilians From Smolensk Arez   Nazi Intruders Fear Deflation of Salient as Russians Advance.   2 Red Armies Flank Kharkov From North

REDS OUTFLANK KHARKOV WITH SWIFT ADVANCE   Bryansk Also Threatened, Railway Line io Kharkov Cut, by Broad Offensive   150 TOWNS TAKEN   German Dead in Orel Fighting Pui at 120,000, 4,605 Tanks, 2,492 Planes Destroyed

Civilians Are Removed From Smolensk Area   Kharkov Threatened By Red Army Pouring Over 43-Mile Front.

EVACUATION OF SMOLENSK AREA BEGUN BY NAZIS      Meanwhile, Reds, Driving Through Belgorod,  Threaten Germany's  - Rear Around Kharkov

MOVING OUT GWILAN:      Evacuate Smolensk Region; _ Reds Threaten Foe’s Rear.

THREATEN REAR ATTACK ON BIG CITY. NAZI BASE   Russians Indicate No ‘Letup te Be Shown in Pushing Germans Back

Reds Advance To Out-Flank Vital Kharkov   Civilian Evacuation Of Smolensk Begun, Says Report; Population Being Moved West

Evacuation Of Nazis Begins At Smolensk   German Positions Around Kharkov Are Threatened

SOVIETS BEGIN KHARKOV DRIVE   Russia’s Third Largest City Expected To Get “Pincers” Treatment Next.

Begin Moving Civilians From Smolensk Arez   Important German Base Threatened Together With Kharkov, Russia’s Third Largest City

Reds Threaten Smolensk and Kharkov Areas   Nazis Carry Out General Civilian Evacuation

Threaten Nazis in Kharkov   Soviets Advance; Outflank Red City And Threaten Rear Of Nazi Positions

REDS MENACING KEY NAZI BASES   KHARKOV, BRYANSK AND SMOLENSK ARE TARGETS OF SOVIET

PEOPLE MOVED FROM REGION OF SMOLENSK   Red Guerrillas Report _ General Nazi Evacuation of Civilians, Along With Removal of Potential War Materials.

NAZIS REPORTED MOVING SMOLENSK CIVILIANS   Importont Bose Believed Next Striking Point of Russian Army in Oral Salient

Russian Forces Continue After Taking Belgorod and Now Menace Another Great German Salient.

Let's Get af ‘Em, Yanks Shouted   Heroism, Air Power Turned Nazis Back

Team work won battle  of Salerno   ‘Let’s get at’ em’ ery Americans

Fighting Yanks Charged Beach ToHold Salerno   Today is “Back Salerno” Day in the third war loan drive now in progress. See story on page 4.

Writer Reveals How Allies Smashed. - Furious German Attack Near Salerno

“Russians Pursue German Forces In  Flight From Orel   Desperate Rear Guard Bat tle Being Fought By Nazis To Protect Flight   CAPTURE OF OREL BIG RED VICTORY

Russian Soldiers. Oust Invaders In Blazing Triumph   Soviet Forces Attain First Major Objective of 1943 Cam paign with Signs of Danger to Other Exposec Sectors of Nazi Lines Appearing Immediately Mrcenw Evnacte Naw Thriuct Sann,

‘SMASH RABAUL’ RAIDS CONTINUE   More Than 100 Japanese Planes Destroyed In Five Air Attacks

Drop 151 = Tons of Bombs On Rabaul Des“{voying 21 Airerafi On Ground and 37 Out of the Air With Loss ot Only One Raider

Total Wiped Out at: Rabaul Since Oct. 12 Raised to 400   BOMES ARE RAINED IN ATTACK MONDAY   Enemy Destroyer Damaged Just North of Bougainville

Smash 58 Jap Planes in New  Rabaul Attack   Key Enemy Base on New Britain is Blasted for Third Successive Day; Foe Destroyer Damaged

October Raids Have Smashed 400 Aircraft   21 Are Hit on Ground, 37 Fighters Downed In Monday’s Assault  A2® ARE NHnHAMACEN

HABAUL SMASHED AGAIN FROM AIR; OB PLANES BAGGE!   Thirty-Seven Knocked From Sky and 21 Destroyed on Ground—Allies Lose Only One Craft.   LIBERATORS SWEEP OVER IN SIX WAVES   Anti-Aircraft Fire Heavy— 70 Jap Interceptors Try in Vain to Break Up Formations.

Rabaul Attacked For Fifth Time; Damage Is Heavy   43 Planes Smashed In Terrific Raid

Japanese drome at Rabaul hammered by allied planes  for third consecutive day   151 tons of destruction dropped as devastation camnaicn continues

CRUSH RABAUL CAMPAIGN CONTINUING   Fifth Raid of Month During Which 400 Enemy Planes Have Been Destroyed: Drop 150 Tons.   No Jap Planes

Fliers Damage 43 Other Craft In Great Raid   151 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Key New Britain Base; Enemy Destroyer Damaged

98 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN RABAUL ATTACK   Fifth Assault Of Month Raises Toll To 400 Craft Smashed;  43 Damaged

MacArthur Repeats Smashing Of Base  Bombers Raid Key Japanese Fortifications

58 JAP AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN LATEST RAID ON RABAUL   Total Number Of Enemy Planes Knocked Out At New Britain Base Since October 12 Raised To Nearly 400; 151 Tons Of Bombs Dropped By Allies

Japs Lose 58 More Planes   Bombers Lash Rabaul, And Recent Losses Exceed 400

Germans Feel Force of Soviet Power   Berlin Admits “Extremely Dangerous” Position as Russians Push Ahead At Dnieper Elbow to Stagger Enemy

GERMAN ARMY TRIES 10 GET OUT OF TRAP   SOVIETS TAKE 535 MORE TOWNS IN RIVER ELBOW

VchN fi oTEVENG EAPIRED Al niUlit   Local Man, 44 Years Old. Died of Heart Trouble; Services Sunday.

VERN STEVENS “EXPIRED AT HOME   Local Man, 44 Years Old; ‘Died of Heart Trouble; _ Services Sunday. ©

Colorado Town Has Barrage As Munition Burns   Two Cars Loaded With Shells Ravn In Yarde

GAS, OIL STILL SHORT INEAST   Further Cuts Hinted to ~ Avert “Serious Hardships. es

CONCERT GOERS LOSE RATIONS IN ROCHESTER   Agents Seize Gas Slips of Several, Investigate Oihers in Pleasure Driving Ban   ‘PLEASUREDRIVING’ DEFINED BY OPA   Visiting the Sick’ Out, Revised Regulations Declare; Emergency Use Allowed

HARDSHIP IS FEARED FROM . OIL SHORTAGE   EAST NEEDS RELIEF, SAYS PETROLEUM WAR COUNCIL

Unpaid Salary Increases Present New Tax Question   Undecided Whether Money Is Subject to Five Per Cent  Withholding Tax On 1943 Payrolls; WLB Has No Control But Considers Recomdation to Tax Collector

SALARY INCREASES PRESENT PROBLEW   New Question for Internal Revenue Bureau

Thermopylae Pass Again In History  Greeks Wreck German Train, Equipment

eek Cuerrillas reck Nazi Train   Army Men Reported slain in Ambush

BLOGK-BUSTER BONES TRRCWA UPON KREFELD   Rhineland Industrial Cty Is Devastated by Gigantic Raid.   MANY PLANES MISSING   Amer.can Fly:ng Fortresses ‘Set Out to Bombard the Coniinent.

BLOCKBUSTER BOMBS THROWN UPON KREFELD   Rhineland Industrial ‘ C.ty Is Devastated by Gigan-.- tie Raid.   MANY PLANES MISSING   American Flying Fortresses “Set-Out to Bombard the Continent.

SOVIET DEMANDING ADDITIONAL FOOD   Food Delegates Confronted - Foday With Immediate  Problem.

More Food Is Soviet Plea At Hot Springs   Need For Relief Will Be Urgent During Period Of Restoration   FRENCH URGE ACTION

Reds Say More Food Is Needed   Immediate Needs Are Stressed At Parley

BORDER STITT. CTINO<cEN   RE-EDUCATION NEEDED For Japanese as Well as Nazis

BOMBING ATTACKS ON TOKIO ~ EXPECTED DURING THIS YEAR   POWERFUL AERIAL OFFENSIVE +, AGAINST HEART OF FAPANESE EMPIRE Is NOW REING PLANNED

BIG STRATEGY FOR 2 OCEANS  JAPAN IS REMEMBERED IN PRESENT PARLEY

New Dealers Concerned ©’er Control      COALITION OF DEMOCRATS OND R&EAUBLICAIS UPSET SEVERAL AUMiNiSt*RATION PLANS IN HOUSE LAST WEEK.   Labor Measures Up

Democratic Leaders: Begin to. Worry:as House, Senate Show Signs of Resuming Independence

PARTY HEADS DISTURBED BY HOUSE VOTES   Administration Concern. ed Over Waning Control in Congress   CAUCUS IS SOUGHT IN UNITY PROGRAM   Democrats Join in Defeat. ing Some Administration Measures

Democrats Seek Unity, to Hold Congress in Line  Party Leaders Worried By House Defections And Absent Votes  ‘MAY CALL CAUCUS   Try to Bind Party’s  Members Against More Co-Operation With GO!   Party Leaders Worried By House Defections And Absent Votes

VOTES ALARM PARTY CHIEFS   Democratic Unity Sought as Administration Congress  Control is Reduced

DISTURBEDBY HOUSE VOTES      Administration’ ConcernBa Over Waning Con- — “ awel in Concress   CAUCUS 1S SOUGHT. - JN UNITY PROGRAM    Democrats Join in Defeat: ing Some Administra‘ton Measures

nnn ea senate dieeenelinnineemneanemnennemnenntnienamnenindiemnmetenenenenemnsmniameienmematenmmnaeneat  McNutt May Ask President To Veto Coming Father-Draft Legislation

McNutt May  Ask Veto of Draft Bill   Pending Measure Bars Father Induction. Strip WMC Head’s Power

MCNUTT MAY ASK FDR T0 VETO FATHER DRAFT   Capital Sources Hear Report After Bill Was Passed Puting Pre-War Fathers at Bottom of List

May Seek Veto Of Dad Dratt   Paul V. McNutt May Ask FDR To Veto Fathers Legislation.

3 DIE IN CRASH   Heavy Romber Falls In Idaho; Theee of Crew Inhkored_

MINE OWNERS ASK WLB HELP   Will Ask Board To Take Jurisdiction If Dr. , Steelman Doesn't, Operators Say

Steelman Asked To Submit Coal Dispute to WLB   Southern Operators Tell Conciliator to Act Or Thev Will

‘Father Of Seven Who Refuses To ‘Run For War Job’ is Sfep Nearer Milifary Induction

Father of Seven Declares He's ‘Cinch’ To Pass Army Lxamination for Induction

Father of Seven Nears Service   Bank Accountant Refused to Run for Cover in War Plant

‘Safeguard Social Security Cards As Conservation ltem   Statement Of Facts On Need To Safeguard Account Cards

41 Jap Planes Are Blasted in Pacific   Destroyed Or Damaged In Repulsing Attack On Wau Airdrome In New Guinea: Allies Come Through Without Injuries

Forty-One Jap Planes Bagged In New Guinea   Enemy Attack on Wau Re sults in Crushing Defeat

JAPS BEATEN IN RAID ON Wau AIRDROME   Not One Of Large Allied Defending Force Was Lost;  No Crewman Was InjurFae:    41 Jap Planes Lost

SECRECY SURROUNDS MISSION _.OF THOSE ON BOARD SPE-  CIAL PLANE ENROUTE TO PORTUGAL

Russians Score New Gains On Donets River  Caucasus Battle Also Goes In  a re se

Russians Unofficially Reported to be Fighting In Suburbs of Novorossisk, Black Sea Port. Glue-Like Mud and Swollen Streams Fail to Stop Russian Troops

“FIERCE FIGHTING , BREAKS OUT AS REDS SLASH FOE   Russians Retain Upper Hand — In Battles Along Donets River, in Kuban Delta

SHARP FIGHTING FLARES ALONG DONETS RIVER   Russians Report Better -Weather, Increased German Aerial Attacks—Reds Hold Ground .

Reds Renew Offensive on Donets Front   Hard Fighting Reported at  Navarnaceick

SHARP FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRONT   REDS CLAIM REPULSE OF GERMAN ATTACKS ALONG DONETS RIVER

Better Weather Sharpens Battle On Soviet Front   Red Army Keeps Up Offensive Near Novorossisk

Russians Report Sharp Fighting In Caucasus   Germans Are Putting Up Strong Resistance Around Naval Base.

REDS’ LINES ON DONETS HOLD UP   Reports Tell Of Fresh Nazi Attacks Beaten Back

Report Sharp Fighting On Donets River   Fierce Battling In Kuban Delta in the  Caucasus

REDS SUSTAIN PUSH TOWARD NOVOROSSISK   Troops Unofficially Reported Fighting in Suburbs of Black Sea Base — Tempo Increases Along the Donets River.

Russians Report Sharp Fighting   Battle Is Fight In Glue-Like Mud

SHARP FIGHTING  ALONG THE DONETS RIVER IS REPORTED   Better Weather Experienced Along the Soviet-German Battlefront.   SOVIET IN NOVOROSSISK   Drove Doggedly Into the Germans Against Strong Resistance.

Russians Fight Haid To Regain Black Sea Port   Novorossisk Center Of Great Attack By Soviets; Nazis Strongly Oppose Them

Better Russia Weather Steps Up Fighting   Fresh Jabs Cost Nazis Heavy Losses In Donets, Leningrad Areas    SKIES BRIGHTEN   HR TER A ONT T N  Sharp Battles Flare In Glue Like Mud, Flooded Streams Of Caucasus

Russian Drive Gains Despite Stiff Defense   They Fall on Flank of Nazis in Some Areas ant Surround Enemy in Other Districts

SHARP FIGHTING ALONG DONETS RIVER REPORTED   Russians Keeping Offensive Along Black Sea Ports

F ighting Flares On Soviet Fronts  Improved Weather Aids War Machines

Russians Report Sharp Fichtineg   DONETS RIVER BASIN IS SCENE OF SEVERE BATTLING

Attack Nazis On Black Sea Front   Sharp Fighting i in Kuban Delta and Along Donets Reported   TROOPS ON THRU MUD   But Germans Still . Hold . Novorossisk, Prize Black © Sea Port:

SHARP FIGHTING [5 REPORTED ON TWO SOVIET FRONTS   RED ARMY CONTINUES ADVANCE AGAINST “NAZIS IN SOUTH

‘Sharp Fighting Renewed On Donets River In Russia As Weather Betters

SOVIETS REPORT NEW FIGHTING IN LOWER RUSSIA   Large Battles Along Donets River, in Kuban Delta; Weather Clears

Sharp Battles Develop Along  Soviet Front   Reds Said To Be Mov ing In To Suburbs Of Navarossick

INCREASES SN DONETS   ‘Unofficial Claim Puts eRussian Army Inside  Black Sea Port

HARD FIGHTING ALONG DONETS   Russians Keep Up Offensive In Kuban Detta Mud, Floods.

Fighting Quickens In Russia   Soviets Drive On In Battle For Black Sea Port.

MeatPackers Appeal to Director Byrnes   Developments. Within Industry Termed “Alarming”

To Dedicate Honor Roll Armistice Day; Most Business Firms To Close

WORD FROM FOR TO PRECIPITATE PRICE ARGUMENT   Vinson ‘Says Congress Can not Afford To Ban Federal Help Plan

MESSAGE AWAITED FROM PRESIDENT ON MATTER OF SUBSIDIES  SHOWDOWN BATTLE BETWEEN FARM BLOC AND ADMINISTRATION DUE

MESSAGE AWAITED FROM PRESIDENT ON MATTER OF SUBSIDIES  . SHOWDOWN BATTLE BE-

BATTLE BREWS BETWEEN FOR ANP FARM BLOC   Food Subsidies Center of Chief Argument as Other Problems Face Congress

Food Subsidy Fight Looms in Congress   Await, President. Roosevelt’s   Message; May Signal Showdow

A FARM MACHINE BOOS1   WPB Chairman Announces Release of Materials,

HEARINGS OPEN ON RECIPROCAL TRADE ISSUES   Secretary of State Hull and Commerce Secretary Jones Called Before  Concressional Group   MAY BARE U.S. AIMS      Expected to Reveal Administration’s Views On America’s Part In Post war World Trade

HULL, JONES 10 TELL (F POST-WAR TRADE   Cabinet Members Are Called by House Committee on Tariffs

Reds Close Pincers At Stalingrad   Caucasus Advance le Cantinned

Five Fronts Roaring In Russia   Battles Imperil Germans On 1,000-Mile Line; Two Red Forces Lack Only 30 Miles of Forging Final Link in New Ring Around Nazis

NEW TRAP THREATENS NAZIS ON DON FRONT   17 Axis Planes Are Takén » West Of Stalingrad

30 Miles Separate Russian Units From  Closing Don Pincers   Weather Conditions in Tunisia Will Prevent Tank Warfare Until Sometime Late in February

Heavy Battles Rage on 5 Fronts   Russians Lack Only 30 Miles of Forging New Ring Around Germans After Capture of Nazi Air Base ‘  In Don Rend Region

9-Front Battle Rages As Hitler Loses Air Base   RAF Smashes Ruhr Plants Again: Sandstorms, Mud Bog N. Africa.

Whole Nazi Line Put in Jeopardy   Red Army Continues Advance On Five Fronts; British Say Great German Disaster Looms

MORE GERMANS ARE TRAPPED BY RUSSIAN DRIVE   Nazis Beaten Back in Fierce Bayonet and Gunbutt Battle In Northern Caucasus   MUD SLOWS AFRICA WAR   Yanks and Aussies Mop Up Japs in Jungle as Finale Looms in New Guinea

New Red Trap Faces German Garrisons  West Of Stalingrad   Nazis Periled On 1000-Mile Line; RAF Bombs Rei¢h War Plants; Report Lull In African Sectors

AZARDS. OF AXIS FORCES INGREASING   Red Forces Forging New. Ring About Nazis Don Bend. . -% 2       WAR IN TUNISIA’. IN TRENCH SiacE            London Says Nazi ‘Airtnesi Try New ' Methed Fighting Fortresses..

JAP BOMBERS FAIL IN RAID   Unsuccessful Attempt Made to Aid Trapped Men at Sanananda— Allies Bomb Jap Bases

LAST GARRISON OF JAPANESE ON PAPUA SEVERED   Force Cut Into Four Isolated Groups By Allied Ground Troops After Capturing Village and Point of Sanananda.

ont Jap Garrison In Papua Is Cut  Into Four Groups   Allies Inffict Heavy Cas. ualties on Japs in Bitter Fighting.

DRAFT JUMBLE IS WIDESPREAD   Misunderstanding of New Regulations is Said. to Byist.

New Regulations On Draft Monday   Stay Urged for Those Entitled  To Deferments

Religious, Historic Centers Unharmed as U.S Bombs Rained on Mussolini's Capitol

Raymond Clapper, Bomber Passenger Over Rome, Says Vatican Given a Wide orth

Jap Strength For Solomons ls Indicated   Pair Of U. S. Planes Lost In Raid On Enemy Bases At Rekata Bay

Japanese in Solomons Reinforced   Bases There Strong Despite American Attack

NEGROES ARE HELD RESULT OF ATTACK   Two Arrested Following Robbery Attempt Saturday

NEGROES ARE HELD RESULT OF ATTACK   Two. ‘Arrested - - Following -. Robbery Attempt Sat-. urdayv -

New Tax Bill Fight Goes to - House Today   Party Lines Unbroken as Committee Winds Up Tts Work

Parly Lines . Drawn Up In Tax Battle   Rum! Plan Scrap May Echo in 1944 Political Campaigns.   G.O.P. TO SUPPORT TAY SKIP IDEA   But Democrats ‘Will Gc Against Any Abatement in War. Times

HOUSE MEMBERS ARE READY FOR PAY-GO BATTLE   Both Sides Predict Finish Fight On Floor

ASK ESPIONAGE CHAREES PUSHED   Return .One fror fron Meichant Ship: Death. Penalty’ Possible for Spy Activities  °

DECREE BY HITLER   Russians Report More Control Is   Given to Himmler

‘A NEW MINISTRY  OF JUSTIGE NAMED '-. BY ADOLF HITLER   Reichsminister Heinrich Him ler Given Control of the Ministry.   PURGING IS UNDERWAY   More Than 40 Persons Have Been Dismissed From the Ministry of Interior. ]  i 7

House, Senate Override FDR On Strike Act  Lt" Fi 7HGHe 4 Oe   Pass Measure Over His Veto On Friday

Congress Hands Stunning Upset “To President   Both Houses Override Administration Within Two Hours In Determined Effort To Grab Control Of The Troublesome Labor Situation

CONGRESS ACTS IN TWO HOURS; VOTE DECISIVE      Blame John L. Lewis For Necessity Of Action

Bill Is Effective Immediately But Will Be Delayed Until Proper instructions Ordered

WELFARE DEPI IQ FE PROBED BY: ASSEMBLY   Possibly Other Divisions of State Government May Be Investigated.   AN AIR OF PROBING   Bill to Increase Terms of Some County Officias Is in Hopper.

WELFARE DEPT. “TOBE PROBED ~ BY ASSEMBLY   Possibly Other Divisions ‘of State ‘Government May: Be Investigated.   AN :-AIR OF PROBING   Bill to’ Increase “Terms: of Some County. Officia’s  Is in Hopper.

FOOD CONFERENCE NOT CHARITY IDEA   Post War Relief Net On Agenda Of Important Meeting

ERRONEOUS.IDEAS - . ON FOOD PROGRAM EXPLAINED TODAY   International Food Con. ference Delegates Reject the Charity Theory,

THEORY OF WORLD CHARITY REJECTED AT FOOD MEETING   Delegates Spurn Idea U S. Will Be Asked To Feed All Nations

SECRETARY KNOX EXPECTS MOVE 10 GET OUT OF WAR   Churchill Warns Italy That. Country Will Be Invaded Unless She Surrenders Immediately.   HITLER NOW FACING GREATEST WAR CRISIS   Many Reports Are Current in Europe of Badoglio’s Hopes to Find Way Out of Conflict.

ARMISTICE MOVE DUE IN 43 HOURS, LONDON REPORTS   Whereabouts of Mussolini Still Uncertain; Fascist Party Declared to Have Been Dissolved.

Look For To Come: Switzerlanc         CHURCHILL CALLS FOR “ IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL. SURRENDER OR ITALY WILL BI ‘SEARED, SCARRED AND BLACKENED’ a

Italian Peace Move Is Hinted   May Come Within ~Next 48 Hours ~~~”

First Peace Overture (){ Ltaly Likely Soon   London Expects First Négotiations Within 18 Hours, Via Neutral Switzerland

Churchill Sounds Warning to Nation   Quit or Be Desolated, Foe Told; No Move Yet Made by Badoslio

Here Is Text Of Teheran Declaration   Big Three Pledge Co operation in War  And Peace

HERE'S TEXT OF TEHERAN DECLARATION BY LEADERS   Three Leaders Pledge Nations to Work Together in War and Peace Aims

RESERVATION   Text Of ‘Big Three’ Declaration At End Of Teheran Conference :

Text Of Pronouncement Signed By “Big Three” At Conference In Iran

Full Text of Declaration Signed by Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin in Tran

SEES RELAXATION PLEASURE DRIVING BAN IN 10 WEEKS   OPA Rationing Official Believes Fuel Oil Crisis Will Be Over In 65 To 70 Days Unless Weather Prevents Shipments of Oil

Social Call Made on Route Of Permitted Driving OK, May Ease Ban in 10 Weeks

Relaxation In Ten Weeks Of Pleasure  Dri iving Ban Seen   OPA Official Estimates Fue! Oil Crisis Will Be Over in 65-70 Days,

\Children in War Zone Found Pathetic, \Gallant, Eager and Tragic About War

WLB IS ASKED TO NEGOTIATE   Hope Is Abandoned For Agreement In Coal Conferences.

MOVE ALONG ON “emu SH VAR   Vincennes Workers Givin g Around 36 Carloads a. Bath, Federal Bureau Says

The War Today— Hitlerites Ride Tiger. lit Balkans; , Bulgaria May Join United Nations

Hiller May Find Batkan Tiger Hard fo Dismount   Fuehrer Would Keep War Out of Germany Long as Possible

CHINESE PROVERB ABOUT TIGER RIDER DESCRIBES HITLER AND LINTAMAPT FE BATKANS CONTROT.

lke War 1 oday— Hitlerites Ride Tiger In Balkans: Bulgaria May Join United Nations

The War Teday   Nazi Position In Balkans Is More Grave With Teach Passing Hour.

REDS 30 MILES FROM SMOLENSK, ~ VILLAGES TAKER   Moscow Radio Says 52,000 Germans Killed In Recent Fighting.   Hy HENRY SHAPIRO

Germans Lose Important Position 30 Miles From Smolensk Bastion   Enemy Launches Two Futile

RED SWEEP NEARS SMOLENSK AS VITAL DEFENSE LINE FALLS   FIFTY-TWO THOUSAND NAZIS DIE; RUSS CRUSH TWO FUTILE GERMAN COUNTERDRIVES

Russians Ganture Strategic Point  Area Northeast Of Smolensk Falls

REDS CAPTURE STRONG POINT, MOSCOW SAYS   Report 52,000 Germans Killed In Recent Fighting

RUSSIANS STORM IMPORTANT LINE   ‘Devastating Raid Made On 250 Grounded Jap Planes / In New Guinea Area.

NAZI DEFENSE LINE SMASHED NEAR SMOLENSK   German Counterattacks To Regain Lost Position . Thrown Back By Reds   WIDEN RIVER BRIDGEHEAD   Enemy Gives Up Zhizdra Oftensive; Soviets Push Toward Black Sea

Reds Capture Vital Nazi Line  Near Smolensk   Mastow Claims 52,000 Germans Killed tn Recent Donets Battle

REDS SEIZE IMPORTANT [DEFENSE LINE   Take Point’ 30 Miles. Nottheast Of Smolensk

NAZIS DISLODGED AROUND SMOLENSK   MOSCOW ANNOUNCES CAPTURE OF “IMPORTANT” FORTIFIED POSITIONS.

Reds Carry Fight To Enemy   Patrols Thrust Ahead Near Smolensk; Turn Back Attack

REDS REPORT BATILE GAINS   Patrols Push Ahead Along Central Front, Repel Nazis in North

NAZI ASSAULT IS REPULSED   Tank, Infantry Attacks Turned Back North Of Leningrad  Sector

QUAGMIRE BOGS FIGHTING ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT   German Planes Use Lull In Ground Action To Bomb Red Cities

Nazi Attacks Turned Back  Near Smolensk   Strategic Positions Are Seized as River Is Crossed

Nazi and Soviet Bombing Planes Exchange Raids   Russian Aircraft Concen trate on German Supply Columns

Smolensk Line Strong Points Taken by Red:   Leningrad Front Attack: i Eien n Back;

GERMANS FAIL IN SMOLENSK FRONT THRUST   NAZI LOSSES HEAVY AS REDS SEIZE POSITIONS

REDS FORCE NAZIS OUT OF VITAL POSTS   Patrols Thrust Forward on Smolensk Front, Reds Turn Nazis Back North of Len inerad   German Losses Heavy

WHERRY SAYS CORN-FED BEEF SCARCE, JAN, 1   Nebraskan predicts civilians get light weight grass-fed animals

Senator Wherry Savs Talk of Plenty of Reef fer'Civilian Use Is “Nonsensical”

YOUTH CONFESSES SLAYING NEIGHBOR   14-Year-Old) Lock Haven Boy Says Shooting An Accident -

NAZI SLAYING ORGY AT KIEV IS DESCRIBED   Witness Says Hundreds of Civilians Were Stripped and Shot at Edge of Mass Grave— Children Hurled in Alive.

Eyewitness Of Massacre Of Jews At Kiev Describes How Men And Women Were Stripped Naked And Put To Death At Edge Of Gulley Into Which Bodies Dropned 

‘Hundreds of Russian Jews Are Slain  By Nazis Following Capture of Kiev

SLAUGHTER OF JEWS REVEALED   Details Of Massacres In Kiev Furnished By Eye witnesses.

JEWS KILLED IN DROVES AT KIEV   EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF MASSACRE EARLY IN WAR BY GERMANS

Eye Witness Account of How Nazis ¥ XM KX HX Kw & Murder Russian Jews is Given

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT JEWISH MASSACRES BY GERMANS; SAW HUNDREDS MEN. WOMEN KITT FED

Eyewitness Account Of Jewish Massacres In Kiev Tells Of Brutality Of Nazi Conquerors

Nazis Hurled Kiev Children Alive Inte Gulley With Bodies Of Men,  Women Shot In Mass Executions

Massacre Of Kiev Is Described   JEWISH VICTIMS HERDED TO EDGE OF GULLEY, STRIPPED OF CLOTHES AND THEN SHOT

Jewish Massacres In Kiev Horrify   Eyewitness Sees Hundreds Stripped and Shot By Mass Grave

WITNESS TELLS OF JEWISH MASSACRE   Nazis Stripped Victims Be fore Executions

Lottery Raid May. Involve Officials   Insurance Policy on Life of Prominent Man Found

Bay State Cops Smash Big N. E. Lottery Combine  Arrest Score In Raids In Boston

Free Sicilians Of   Faseist Hookups Lift’ Financial Levies,  Restore Legal Rights

MILITARY RULE IS SET UP IN SICILY   Gen. J. C. Holmes Chief of Section to Supplant Fascist Regime

Hitler Break  Draws Closer   ‘Neutral: Observers Believe End of Germany Not Far Off.

COAL MINERS ARE AWAITING ACTION   The Vast Bulk of the Nation’s 374,000 Soft Coal Workers Are Idle.

COAL MINERS STRIKE; HAVE rNO CONTRACT  Will a et Today In Session To  ee —_

Action By Mine Union Is Awaited   Production  of Soft Coal In. U. S. Virtually At Standstill

IN CHIEFS GATHER FOR POLIGY MEET      Face Choice of Ordering Min-  ers Back to Work or nee cisive Action by Presiderit

374, 374,000 Coal Miners Idle Today  Ton es afi 1 ale “ibe etercee Ne Thic Affarone..

BACK TO WORK PLAN FAVORED BY COMMITTEE   Delivery of Anthracite Coal ‘ts Curtailed By Fuel . Administrator

COAL OUTPUT HALTS: UMW GROUP MEETS   Momentous Decision Said in Offing AsCommittee Gathers

Developments Awaited With Mines Closed   Union Policy Committee Meets In Washington To Discuss Plans; U. S. Mav Take Over Again

Bulk of 374,000 Miners Waiting For Development:   U. M. W.'s Policy Committee Meets In Washington

UNION LEADERS HOLD POLICY MEETING TODAY   Outlook Favors Return Ti Work Order: Mines Closed in Ohio

Problem Now is Whether Men Will Obey Work Order, Pres. Will Act  if Committee Fails   DELIVERIES ARE LIMITED

Coal Miners Await Action Policy Group   Bulk of 374,000 Soft Coal Miners Lav Down Their Tools

Vast Bulk of Coal Miners of America  Stay Out of Pits   Await Developments in Washington; Policy Committee Meets

UMW Leaders Delay Meeting "Til3 P.M.   Must Order Return of Miners or ‘Face ‘Decisive Action’ bv. FDR.

Await U.M.W.  Move   Bulk of Nation’s Coal Miners Idle As Union Leaders Meet to Make Decision on Action

MINE LEADERS MEET: PONDER STRIKE. TRUCE   Miners Must Return 0: Face Decisive Action,  FDR Declares

MOST OF NATION'S COAL MINERS QUIT WORKING MONDAY  SURVEY INDICATES VIRTUALLY COMPLETE SHUT DOWN OF COAL MINES

Miners “Sitting Tight”  Awaiting Report From  Policy Committee On  a Ware Demand

M ; 1 0 D lee vege 7 n  Pol 1¢ vi od ay   Roosevelt’ Awaits Results Before Invoking Any  Decisive Action

Miners Await Move of Their Policy Group   Committee to Make Decision Between  Strike and Ordering Men Back to Work

Estimate Most of 374,000 Await Developments in Dispute.   POLICY GROUP MEETING

"WILDCAT" STRIKES ARE NOW FEARED   Smith-Connally Act May Be Invoked If Government Seizes Mines

UMW Leaders Meeting In Capital Today   Nearly All of Nation’s 374,000 Miners Las Down ‘Tools Today Await Momentous De: cisions From UMW Policy Meeting.

Mining shutdown nearly complete   370,000 workers strike; UMW committee meeting

UMW Policy Group Meets   Roosevelt Awaits Action Of Committee; Says He Will Get Coal Mined

Most of Nation’s Miners Lacking Contract, Quit   Policy Committee Meets in Washington as _ President’s Deadline Nears—WPB Talks  Cut in Electric Power

Coal Mines Are Idle In Most Areas   Bulk of Nation’s Miners Await Developments in Contract Row

Idle Coal Miners Await Verdict Of Policy Group In Wage Dispute   Bulk Of Nation’s 374,000 Soft Coal Miners: Quit; Policy Group Must Order Miners’ Return Or Face “Decisive Action” By F. D. R.

District Mine Leaders Meet to Make Decision On Back to Work Orde

Miners Must Return to Work or Face ‘Decisive’ Action by President

Survey Indicates Almost Complete ‘Production Halt   - Strikers Awaiting - Developments From ‘Committee Meeting

Virtually All Of U.S. Mines Are Closed Monday   Important Meetings ‘Held Today, May Solve Situation In ’ Mines

UNION’S CHIEFS TALK, MEN IDLE   Most of Nation’s 374,000 Coal Miners Wait on Lewis’ Action

SOFT COAL MINERS LAY DOWN TOOLS   Most Of 374,000 Miners Stop Work

374,000 Workmen  Awaitine Orders   Lewis Expected To Send Men Back Rather Than Allow President To Seize Pits

FDR Warns Union Work Must Resume: Federal Operation OF Pits Probable

MINERS FACING CHOICEOR TWO ~ ALTERNATIVES   Policy Group Must Order Men Back Or Accept “Decisive Aciion™ by President Roosevelt

Bulk of Miners Lay Down Tools   They Await Fresh Devolopments in Dispute Over Working Contract.

Coal-Mining Halts in US.   374,000 Quit Pits, Wait Parley Outcome. U.S. Seizure Possible

District UMW Chieftains Confer As Roosevelt Gets (Set To End Mine Strikes

—SMUIDOWN COMPLETE—  Miners Await Action   ...Policy Group Meets in Face of FDR’s Threat

BULK OF 374,000 U. S. COAL MINER "IDLE: UMW CHIEFS TO PLAN NEXT MOVE

Lions Play Leapfrog With Cop During  Hour of Freedom in New Jersey

Women’s Clubs To Buy Fleet Of Bombers To Blast Ja pan   ‘Women Alarmed Because We Haven't Gotten After Nips, Mes. Whitehurst Declares

Women To Provide 50 Heavy Bombers To Attack Japan   Federation Plans Drive Tc Send Blockbusters into Enemy Territory

DISTRICT COURT  MON, NOV. FIRST.   FCUR MURDER CASES ARE DOCKETED.FOR TRIAL JUDGE HIGGINS TO PRESIDE 

MURDER CASES — CROWD DOCKET “IN COURT TERM   Fall Session To Oper In Eufaula Mon~ " day Morning. ~~

- IN MASON CITY   Circus Actor Meets Death in “Hanging Himself” Act

Frank Liddy Of Elkader-Dies ©  Father of Mre.J.F F.  Rogers of LeMars

Frank Liddy Of Elkader Dies  Father of Mrs..J. F.  Rovers of LeMars

Lela V. Roberts  Dies in  Washington City Beloved Pioneer, 81,  Crossed Plains Tan Kintco in TRA

Lela V. Roberts Dies in Washington City  Beloved Pioneer, 81,  Crossed Plains T. Cente te 1OLA

Vital Points Retaken : Nazi Claim   Counteroffensive Against Russians Is Opened on Great Scale, It Is Said, and Rail Centers Are Recaptured

Recopture of .Important Rail Centers Are Announced  SOVIET OFFENSIVE REPORTED CHECKED Claims of the Nazis Not  Admitted in Moscow Dispatches

TWO RED RAIL TOWNS TAKEN   Soviet Drive Checked In Donetz Basin, Gains Elsewhere

Germans Stop Red Army in South Russia      Reich Claims Two Points Taken; Soviets ‘Admit Difficultjes-

RUSSIANS ADMIT SERIOUS COUNTER ATTACKS IN THIS AREA AGAINST DRIVE TO SEA. OF AZOV.

Enemy Reports Capture Of Two Rail Centers On Edge of Donets Basin  RUSSIANS ADMIT ‘SERIOUS’ ATTACKS  Reds Maintain Drive West of Kharkov Area, Mud Problem in South

SOVIET ADVANCE IS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWN   Germans Claim Recapture Of Two Important Russian Rail Junctions   COUNTER-ATTACKS ADMITTED BY REDS

Thaws Help Nazis Halt Red Drive   Germans Seize Two Rail Towns Below Kharkov

Nazi Atfacks Check Reds After 100-Day Advance   Firm Resistance of Germans and Spring Thaws Stoo Russian Drive

Russians Advance ~ West of Kharkov  Foe Avows Donets Drive Definitely Halied

RUSSIAN WINTER OFFENSIVE SEEMS DEFINITELY CHECKED   Germany Announces Recapture of Two Important Railway Centers below Kharkov

LIGHT IN THE CAMPS   Speaker Decribes Uses of World Student Service Fund

Bolivia May Declare War On Germany   War Decree Will Be Made Known Today At Noon; Congress Will Be Summoned

SLASH AT REARGUARD   Interpreting e \War   Hitler Soon May Have Little to Show for Trouble

NO 4-H STATUS FOR MEN OF 38   Older Men Reclassified By Boards, But Not for Immediate Draft

Men Over 38 Lose Special Draft Class   SELECLIVE SERV iLE BOARDS ARE ORDERED INTO 1A, 3A CLASSES ev CHEER FLLUORE JS UNAN: NOUNCED.   New Farm Regulations

Men Over 38 Affected By Decision   Are to Lose Special Classifications; May Go on Farms

OLDER MEN T0 BE RECLASSED   Registrants Over 38 Tc Be Put in ‘A’ Groups; Aim Is to Help Farming

Boards Ordered to Reclassify ‘But Not to Draft Men 38 to 45  ‘Idea Is to Make Them Farm

Men Over 38 Lese Special. Draft Status          otive Service to gest Men, Enter. CA Ticuliire: Boards “Order: Reclassificatior

38 to 45. Year Men Put Into New Category   Ready for. induction “if and when”. needed; urge men to turn to farming. ,

Order men over 38 reclassified in step to keep farms going   Will be deferred if agricultural work is entered by fir st of May

New Draft Order Is ‘Farm or Fight For Men Over 38  Reclassification of ‘H’ Registrants Designed To Help Agriculture  aid 1 IS DEADLINE ~ Crop Workers on That Date Will Be Eligible  : For Deferment

MEN OVER 38 LOSE SPECIAL DRAFT STATUS   Chief Aim of Order is To Induce Them to Go Into Farming

MEN 38-45 IN NEW STATUS. DRAFT BOARD   Farm help shortage prompts new rating for over-age men

Ordered Reelassified By Selective Service, Exact Status, However, Not Yet Made Clear  MAY BE DRAFTED IF THEY ARE NEEDED  Chief Aim of Order To Induce Older Men To Take Farming Jobs

Order Aims To Put Men  Into Farming   Local Boards Told To Transfer 4-H Me: But Not Actually To Draft Them

Men Over 38 Again Subiect To Draft   No More 38 to 45 Year Olds In Clsas 4-H

 Selective Service Orders 'Men Over 38 Reclassified: _Aims To Put Them On Farm:   Special Treatment For Registrants Up To 45 Years Of Age Is Eliminated; Blanket Deferments Are Being Given Agricultural Workers

Men over 38 Stepped Up in Classification   Many Will Be Placed i 1-A, but Will Not Be Called Soon

Men Over 38 May Be . Taken by Arm   Selective Service Orders ; Reclassification

Order Established to Induct Men If and When Age Limit Is Raised— Aim Is to Induce Men  _ ¢6 Go Into Farming”

Europe Invasion — May Be Led By Several Chiefs   Speculation Rife Over New Commanders 4

EVERAL LEADERS AAAY BESELECTED   Discussion Centers On Al. lied Command For Eur opean Invasion

{Clai To Be Directed By Several Mer   Think Churchill, FD Agree On Commanders For Multiple Europe Attack

Several Commanders to  Handle Allied Invasion   Strategy Actually to Be Followed Mav Be Multiple A#tack

ALLIED INVASION  OF EUROPE MAY BE  DIVIDED COMMAND THREE GENERALS STAND  OUT IF AFFAIR IS MADE - GINCLE SMASH

Severai May Direct European Invasion   Commanders for Each Sphere of Operation Seen

ALLIED PLANS FOR INVASION SPRCULATED ON   Thrust Into Continent Of Europe May Be Under Direction of Several Commanders   COURSE HELD SET   In Event One All-Out Smash 1s Decided Upon Alexander, Eisenhower  _ Or Marshall May Lead

Several Chiefs May Direct Invasion Of European Area When Hour Comes ToDrive

QVER NEW GUINEA   Great Jap Convoy ts  . Now Destroyed Completely   LAST 2 DESTROYERS SUNK BY BOMBERS

POLISH OFF JAP CONVOY SHREDS   Allied Fliers Sink Last Two Destroyers, Boost Enemy’s Plane Toll to 82.

Jap Internees At Tule Lake Bul Bombs  hed cree   Two National Investigations Ordered Made

Injured Officer Orders Sub to Dive, Leave Him In Fight With Jap Ship   Crew Obeys Last Order to ‘Take Her Down’ And Brave Commander Is Washed Into Sea

Remnants of Africa Corps Face Death or Captur > as Allied Forees Sweep Ahead

No Indication Of Evacuation In Tunis Area   Eisenhower Pledges All Axis Soldiers To Be ‘In Graves Or Prison Camps.’   ENEMY DEMORALIZED

“Destroy Or Capture All Foes”’ Is Eisenhower’s Command To Victorious Army

Africa Campaign . Nears End Atter 6- Months Fight   Thousands Prisoners Taken; No Effort At Evacuation I4 Made rer

AMERICANS LAND BACK OF AXIS-LINE   U.S. Force Fighting To Break Through, Join 7th Army

URGES SUPPORT FOR MACARTHUR FOR PRESIDENT ,  Wants Jim Farley Named Vice President Also In 1944 Election

JOHNSTOWN STRIKE HALTS PRODUCTION;   Allotment . OF . Time’ fk Foundry ‘Results In Walk-Out

1,700 Steelmen Strike, Halt Work Of 'E' Factory   JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — U.P)— Union employes voted this afternoon to return to work on the 3 p. m. shift.

STRIKES .CLOSE 2 WAR PLANTS   Production Halted At Johnstown Steel Mill, Cleveland Aluminum Factory

NEARING LAST RAILWAY HELD BY GERMANS   Moscow reports 8000 Nazis killed in yesterday’s fighting

RUSSIANS THREATEN ZHITOMIR   100 Towns Liberated As Reds Near Last Main Railway

RUSSIANS PERIL LAST RAIL POINT EAST OF POLAND   Zhitomir, Vital Junction, and Kerch Terminus Threatened

ROB GROCERY STORE   Merchandise and Money Taken From J. R. Cole Establishment

; CKOFF OF QUES BANNED   SERIES OF “QUICKIE” STRIKES IN CHRYSLER PLANTS — BRINGS. UNPRECE-. DENTED ACTION

$300 PROPOSAL FOR MUSTERING-OUT PAY CALLED INADEQUATE   Benefits Up To $500 For Enlisted Men Are Suggested

Claim Ciano Captured Nea French Borden   Italy’s Former Foreigr Minister Failed In His Efforts To Escape, I: Switzerland Report

Say Ciano Taken In Escape Try —   Report States Italian Official Sought Spain

PUSH NEARER ROSTOV AS GERMANS SPEED CAUCASIAN RETREAT   Soviet Armies Take Three More Towns In Night Fighting In Don Bend And 40 Trenches Near Stalingrad   Ry HENRY SHAPIRO

OF RED DRIVE INCREASING   Russians Push On Toward Rostov And Salsk

RUSSIANS ADD TO MOMENTUM IN DRIVE   Draw Nearer to Rostov, Salsk During Night

SOVIETS CLOSE IN ON 2 KEY CAUCASUS RAILROAD CENTERS   Germans Suffering Heavy “Losses As Striking . Power OF Russians Increases

GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN CAUCASUS AREAS   American Bombers Conduct Big Raid In Tunisian Fight. Bombs Are Dropped From Above Clouds.   MAJ. GEN. ‘SPAATZ 1s AFRICAN COMMANDER   German Planes Bomb Two Coastal Towns In England With Three Killed, Places Are Not Revealed.

Pilot Downs Seven Japs in Single Raid   SAN MATEO LIEUTENANT SETS NEW RECORD IN SOLOMON AIR ATTACK

Forget Diets, Sleek Curves, Women Told   You're Doing Man's Job Now, So Eat Enough, War Workers Urged:

FOOD CONFERENCE IMPRESSIONS ARE TOLD OF TUESDAY   ‘Lone Congressman on  Guard at Hot Springs  Reports An Alleged  Ping

SEES “THREAT” IN CONFERENCE ON WORLD FOO   Congressman Claims Plot Being Hatched to Set Up Sovereign Power to Enforce Its Will

FOOD CONFERENCE ACCUSED OF POLICY OF WORLD POWER   Rep. - Smith Repo.ts Plot ' To Substitute Coercion For Voluntary — Cooperation

FINDS ‘PLOT IN FOOD TALKS   Suspicious Congressman Sees “World Power Policy” Bogey At Conference

Military Observers Doubt If Japs Risk Their Fleet   Nipponese Failure To Halt Allied Advances In The South Pacific May Tell The Story

4 apanese Shipping Would Be At Mercy Of U. $.— —HBy Kirke L, Simps  Gilbert Islands Provide Ideal Sub Bases

REDUCTION IN FEDERAL FRUIT CURBS HINTED   Prediction Based On Normal Or Better Crops Next Year

Fruit Growers Promised Less Gev't Contro   Relaxation Of Many Regulations Next Year Indicated

Two Physicians Announce Successful Use of New ~ Method Providing Painless and Safe. Childbirtl

HOUSE MEMBERS SAY GONDEMN S, 0, PROPERTY   Standard Oil Co. of California May Lose Rich Oil Reserve

MAY CONDEMN OIL PROPERTY   —— Te  House Committee May Ask Congress tu Buy Standard’s Interest in Elk Hill

‘Biggest Shoe Buying Wave In History Reported On Eve ‘Of Expiration Of Stamn No. 77: Near Stamnedes Result   Stamp 18 Becomes Valid Wednesday   Booming Business lc Reported Here

Slggest shoe Buying Wave In History Reported On Eve Of Expiration Of Stamp No. 17: Noay Stamos oc Poe It   Stamp 18 Becomes Valid Wednesday   Booming Business ls Reperted Here

~ ORGANIZING FOR ATTACK   Rains Keep Forces Inactive Today But They Look Ahead to Major Engagement Soon

NIPPON CONVOY BADLY CRIPPLED   Some Supplies Believed Landed For Enemy Base At Lae

Asks For Ouster of Legion Post   Waring Will Resign if Post Continues

Waring Threatens To Resign Over Lewis Episode   Legion Commander De mands Johnstown, Pa., Post Be Fired’

LEGION FACES INNER CRISIS   Waring Will Resign ’ If South Fork Post Not Ousted

LEGION IN QUARREL OVER JOHN L, LEWIS   Commander ‘Who Criticized Him Threatens To Quit

T. ¥. Soong Tells China's Vital Need for Planes; Says Few Hundreds Would Enable Her to Start Offensive

Se steineed  Says ( China Could Start Offensive If They Had A Few Hundred Planes

CHINESE SEEKS TO BOMB JAPS   Bases for Yankee Planes Ready in China, Says Soong

Soong Pleads For US. Plane   Few Hundred From U.S. Would Help Rout Japs, Hull Told

Puts China plane needs  under 1,000   Soong estimates few needed to drive out Japs

Coffee Rations To Be Increased  Amount Goes Back To One Pound - For Five Weeks

Coffee Ration - Will Be Upped   Pound Every Five Week: To Be Restored Upon March 22 Coupon

You'll Get More Coffee;  Ration Boost Announced   Improved Conditions Bring Welcome News  Army Co-Operates To Bring Aid

Next Coffee Ration Good For 5 Weeks   Allowance. Tiicreas e s March 22 as Import Sit‘uation Improves:

Ease Coffee Ration Soon   One Pound Each Five Weeks After Monday. March 22

Coffee Ration Will Increase Next Perioc   Import Situation Has Improved Sufficiently To Permit Ration Of Pound For Five Weeks

Coffee Ration for Next Period Increased by OPA  Stamp No. 26 Will Allow One Pound For Five Weeks; Supply Is Increased

MORE COFFEE IS APPROVED   One Pound Per Person Every Five Weeks, Represents 16 Percent Increase

CUT PERIOD OF COFFEE COUPON   Rations To Go Back to One Pound for Five Weeks

Coffee Back on A5-Week Basis   Situation Improves, First System Returns

~ RAISED LITTLE   Whole Pound Allowed for Five Weeks Beginning March 22.

U, 6. COFFEE RATION WILL BE INCREASED   One Pound Per Five Weeks  Again Proclaimed

‘More Coffee Coming  Rations Will Return to One Pound For Five Weeks

WILL INCREASE COFFEE RATIONS   One Pound for Every 5 Weeks Provided

POUND OF COFFEE.  FOR FIVE WEEKS   Import’ Situation Improved, . OPA Says, Announcing Tnerease in Rations

Brown Announces Coffee Ration Increase Mar. 22   One Pound For Each Five Weeks

OPA Orders Coffee Ration Increased on March 22   Brown Says Inport Improvement Allows Pound Every Five Instead of Six Weeks

Ryti Re-elected Finland's Pres   Nation’s Chief Named  On Firct Ballot

Finland Reelects President Ryti  Meantime, Russian ’ Planes Drop Bombs ee © ee eee ee een

FINNS RE-ELECT PRESIDENT RYT!   Name of Field Marshal Hac Been Mentioned—Decision  Virtually Unanimous

RYT] RE-CLECTED FINN PRESIDENT   Decision Made In Practically Unanimous Vote Today; Bombs Dropped Last Night In ‘Vicinity of Helsinki Without Causing Damage.

FINNS REELECT RYTI PRESIDENT   Wartime Chief Retained hy Almost Unanimous Vote—Russians Raid Helsinki Area

FINNS RE-ELECT RYT! PRESIDENT   MANNERHEIM'S NAME MENTIONED; VOTE CALLED ‘PUZZLING’ _

FINLAND REELECTS BYTI AS PRESIDENT   Chief Executive Succeeded Kyosti Kaliio in December, 1940.

FRANCES FARMER TO — GET SANITY HEARING   Movie Actress Who Was Senten. ced To Six-Month Jai! Term Has  Poisan-Food Complex

Sanity Hearing Sought for Actress   _ Frances Farmer Moved to Ward

REBELLIOUS ACTRESS FACES SANITY TEST   Jailed as. Drunk, Frances Farmer Gets to Hospital

Petition Filed by Psychiatrist for Examination of Francis Farmer, Now Jailed   IN COUNTY HOSPITAL PSYCHOPATHIC WARD   Reported Telling Doctor “J Hear Voices Day and Night and They Bother Me”

Nazi War With  Reds Fatlure   Economics Point Of View Shows Little (sain By (,ermans From Reds,

Nasi War Economic Failure   ..Russ Campaign ‘Total Loss,’ Briton Declares

JUNGLE IS WORSE THAN JAP FIGHTERS   Returning Yanks: Pooh-pooh Nip Fanaticism

Show No Regard For Raid Alarm   Los Angeles People Can't Get Excited 

Publie Apathy Seen In Alert   Les’ Angeles Folks. Fail « To Observe Rules In. . Netual Blackout

NOT ENOUGH STIR   Low Angeles Citizens Disappointed With Aire Raid Practice

Shucks, Action Wanted   Los Angeles’ Millions Scorn Shelters and Turn Sky-gazers During First Daylight Air Raid Alarm

Los Angeles Gets Taste Of Daylight Air Raid Alert: No Excitement

Los Angeles’ First Daylight Alert Finds Most of Citizens Undisturbed

4 Associated Press )   Heavily Damaged   Air Raid Precautions Ignored In Los Angeles Daylight Alert

Arrange Another Tax Discussion   No Compromise Yet Reached, Rayburn Declares

Efforts For A Tax Compromise  Hit A New Snas   Reported Agreement On 50 Pct. Abatement Not Yet Confirmed.

Pay-As-Go Plan To Be Discussed  Further Today   Bi- Partisan Compromise Group Sees New Move Toward Middle Ground

 Another Pay-As-You-Go ‘Discussion Arranged; New Deadlock Reported

PAY-AS-YOU-CO_ TAX DISCUSSION ARRANGED   By Republicans and Democrats After Earlier Report of Compromise.

HITCH CCCURS IN TAX COMPROMISE   New Deadlock Follows A Get-Together Meeting

Compromise Tax Program  Hopes Dim   Deadlock Again Holds Democrats And Republicaas

Compromise Tax Measure Is Attempted   Bi-Partisan Conference Today Seeking to Find Suitable Compromise

Still Apart On New Tax Paying Plan   Leaders Of Both Parties At Work On Compromise:

PAY-A3-GO PLAN HITS ANOTHER SNAG   No Compromise Yet Reached On Revenue Measure

Pay-As-Go Tax  ‘Peace’ Fails   Democratic, Republican Leaders Meet Again As Compromise Fall Through

STETTINIUS MOVES INTO. NEW POSITION.   Appointment Bound to Be Favorably Received By Russians

NEW HULL AIDE 10 PLEASEREDS CAPITAL HOLDS   Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Won Confidence of Moscow As Result LendLease Administration:

STETTINUS TO SOOTHE ~ RUSSIA      ‘Big Business” Man Now in No. 2 Post in State Dept.

Stettinius Appointment Believed Restoring U. S. Diplomatic Front Harmony

STETTINIUS T0 BRING HARMONY   New Undersecretary of State Well Liked

STETTINUS WILL MELT APPROVAL IN WAR CIRCLES   42-Year-Old Administrator Is Moved to No. 2 Place as Indication of Harmony Restoration   PROVIDED SUPPLIES TO REDS IN GLOOMY DAYS   /Harriman’s Expected Nam ing ts Another Favorable Move After Sumner Welles  Quit.

Appointment May Soothe Russians   Stettinius No. 2 Man In State Department

Stettinius Succeeds Welles   Restoration of Harmony on Diplomatic Front Seen

elles Is ucceeded y Stettinius   New Undersecretary Is Well Liked in Congressional Circles; Moscow Expected to Welcome Selection

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates' World News Today.   Armstrong Leads Fortresses.

Acceleration Ot Advance Toward Rome Forecast   Capture By Allies Of Camino-Maggiore Mountain Passes By Allies Reported   BATTLE FOR HIGH GROUND IS WON

VITAL MOUNTAIN PASSES TAKEN BY FIFTH ARMY      Accelerated Advance in Italy Looms Following Hun Withdrawal  os  BRITISH MOVING AHEAD  a ceensae e  World Attention Centers On Role Turkey May Play In War

CONTROL OF POULTRY PRICES PLANNED BY OPA OFFICIALS   "ROLL BACK” IN COST TO CONSUMER COMING SOON— PRICE OF CORN IS  RAISED

NEW REGULATIONS TO GHECK RISES   Poultry Prices to Roll Back, Horse Meat, Apples Are Also Affected.

Congressional Committee  Tests Gas Made From Coal   Demonstration in Pittsburgh Said to Have Proved Practicability of Synthesizing ‘Gas’ From Coal—W ould Cost 15 to 19 Cents Gal.

FATHER SLAIN, YOUTHFUL RAIL FIREMAN HELD   Robert Barber, 23, of Waverly,   Also Wounded Sister, Charge, In   Dispute Over Money

Some Miners Remain Idle   Ifinois Section Has Reached An Aareement

BULK OF COAL MINERS COME BACK 10 JOBS   SCATTERED S TRIKES REMAIN; LOSS 11 MILLION TONS

Some Miners Remain Idle   ‘Ickes Demands Work; Hike In Iflinois Pay Offered

SCRAP NEED IS CRITICAL   Chairman Wassman Declar. es Junk Yards Cleaned . Mid :

SCRAP NEED IS CRITICAL   Chairman Wassman Declares Junk Yords Cleaned s OV

STATE'S MILK BOARD BOWS IN PRICE DISPUTE   ‘Says It Can’t Force Price: Boost Without OPA: Consent

Five-Day Controversy Ends th te tt iwi sete” Basten,  Milk Board Says Price Can't Be Hiked Without OPA Approval

American Leaque   National Leaaque   Marine Pilot Shoots Down 7 Enemies In First Battle

Shoots Down 7 Enemv Planes Th °° 8 antes   Californian’s Guns Claim First Jap Ships He Sees

BROWN AGAINST TWO FARM BILL!   Measures Menace Stabilization of Price and Wages, He Save.

Brown Opposes Farm Measures   Says Bills Would End Stabilization

FARM BlLLo WOULD WRECK ECONOMY   Brown Opposes Bankheat and Brice Bills on Rising Cost Basis

Says Enactnient of Pacé; Bankhead: Bills. Would End Stabilization: -

Stabilization Jf Prices Is Threatened   Brown Opposes Two Parity Bills Now Before Congress

BROWN OPPOSE! BANKHEAD AND PACE MEASURES   Says Bills Would Ruin “Little Steel” Formula

PRENTISS BROWN. MUCH OPPOSED T0 TWO FARM BILLS   Price Administrator Feels that Bankhead and, Pace Measures Would Halt Stabilization of Prices and Wages:

Brown Opposes Bankhead, Pace  Farm Measures   Fears Inflation  Micht Be Result

PREDICTS HITLER         Ludwig Says Junkers Will Kowtow To U.S. &

VISIONS HITLER ASSASSINATION   Fuchrer To Be Killed By Own Men, Ludwig Asserts

HITLER’S ASSASSINATION BY OWN MEN PREDICTED BY GERMAN BIOGRAPHER

Says Hitler Will Be Slain   Emil Ludwig Warns Congress of German Ruse to Win Peace

Ludwig Says Nazis Will Kowtow To U.S. After  -Hitler’s Assassination

Emil Ludwig Believes the Fuehrer Will Be Done Away With By Own Generals   DISARMAMENT OF ALL GERMANS URGED   Also Calls Far Destruction Of All Generals of Reich toMake World Safe

Ludwig, German Biographer, Predicts Hitler To Be Assassinated By Own Men

{mil Ludwig, German Biographer, Believes Der Fuehrer Will Be Assassinated ‘By His Own Men

Then, He Warns, Wiil Come Old Style Friendly Overtures From Junkers

German Generals Must Also Be Destroyed, Emil Ludwig Says —  ‘Not One Whit Better Than The Hitlers. He  Tie nlewacs Waste Ut atcctwet Phale Dawa. Die einnciee

Sylvan Pauly Is Elected President of Woolmen; Endorsement of State Reorsanization Plan Is Rejected

Sylvan Pauly Is Elected President of ‘Woolmen; Endorsement of State Reorganization Plan Is Rejected   POSITION OF GRAY

Members of "Bataan Clan" Observe Fall of Island in Prayer and Work

Bataan Clan _.   Bs, ne qe Va  9 KEN? 41 31‘ yf Yo ontays yor" oh’ s 08 * ee) .vuuction  Line Climbing

Jap Bases In Solomons Hit   Japs Counterattack Lesing One Airplane

Ersatz Tires Give Service in 1-Year Of Traffic Test   37,000-Mile Capacity Is Reported For Buna-S ‘Rubber’ On Bus.

Synthetic Rubber Treads Stand Up   Take Punishing Tests On Buses in New Jersey

Kerr Isn't ter Bennett   Grand Jury Indictment No Affecting His Attitude

KERR DISCUSSES BENNETT CASE   Governor Says Indictment Not To Mean His Dismissal From A. & M.,

Finnish Press Hopes U. S.  Relations Remain [ntact   Two More Members of 5 §. Legation Staff Leave Helsinki for ‘. Ene

Rumania Acts to Prevent Revolt  - Order All Civilians to Turn In Arms

FLAMES. ROLLING TOWARD OIL FIELO   Residential Venture Distric!  Touched Before Turn Mads

PLAN MEETING 10 DISCUSS POSTWAR   Member’ of Parliament Says An Early Conference Will Be Arranged.

VIERECK FREED ON ONE CHARGE, FACED ANOTHER   Appears With Large Group Of Co-Defenders

Hitler's European Fortress Seething With New Unrest As Rebellion Spreads

Germans Retreat In Donets Area   General Nazi Withdrawal is Seen  With Evacuation of Tanganrog

EVACUATE SOUTHERN ANCHOR BECAUSE OF RED ARMY PRESSURE   May Fall Back To Dnieper; Revolt Of Danes Adda To Nazi Troubles And Bulgaria Situation Is Alarming

BADOGLIO ‘BUM’ NOW, NAZIS GRY   German Press Labels Italian Premier a ‘Gangster’ After Quitting War

Goebbels Men Turned Loose   Italian Surrender Didn’t Give Time For Conferring

London Takes Precautions To Guard Against Any Future Mishap In Rush To Air Raid Shelters

RAILROAD STRIKE SHUTS DOWN MILL!   Copper Mills Forced te Close When 125 Railroad Men Walkout.

November Term of District! Court To Open Monday orning  JURORS ARE CALLED

A CRIMINAL CASES — ARE UP FOR TRIAL   November Term of District ~ Court To Open Monday » Morning   JURORS ARE CALLED

CLOTHES RATION SEEN AS UNLIKELY   Nelson Announces Program Designed To Make Rationing of Clothes Unnec essary for the Duration of : the War.

NO RATIONING IS EXPECTED FOR CLOTHING   OUTPUT AND SALES POLICIES MAPPED FOR DURATION

Clothes Rationing Said Unnecessary  Nelson Gives Data On WPB Program

Distribution of Clothing Urged   ‘Rationing Held to ‘Be Unnecessary ©

Plan to Make Rationing Of Clothing Unnecessary Outlined by Head of WPB

Nelson Announces Program To Make Rationing of Clothes Unnecessary

Wall Saves Porismouth, Ohio From Rampaging River   Flood Waters Lap One Foot From Top Of Five-Mile Conercte Barrier; Willamette Torrent Surges Into Portland

OHIO CITY IS. AGAIN SAVED BY HIGH WAIL   Portsmouth Spared Dam. age From Raging Flood Waters   CREST 1S MOVING NEAR CINCINNAT   No Serious Damage, How.ever, Expected in the City

ARMY TAKES TIGHT GAIN RAILWAYS 10 STUDY PROBLEM   Two Unions Merely Postponed Strikes, Government Finds

RAIL DISPUTE 1S IN MUDDLE   OFFICIALS: OF TAREE UNIONS REVEAL THEY RAVE ..NOT CANCELLED STRIKE ORDER

Allies Bait Big Trap For Germans In Italy   British 8th And Yankee 5th Armies Appear Aimec At Pulling Neat Pincer Strategy

Russians Make Surprise Raid   Destroy 100 Germans In Belogorod Area

RED ARMY SEIZES SEVERAL TRENCHES NORTH OF KHARKOV   Repulse Axis -Attacks In Region Below Kharkov— ~ Advance. Near Smolensk

REDS LAUNCH TRENCH DRIVE   BITTER BATTLE MARKS BELGOROD CAMPAIGN

atid ie ae tT a P28 Pa Ke K Chronology Of Events In North Afrin.

SUPERVISORS MEET AND MAP PROGRAM      Conservation Board Hears Reports at Thursday's Gathering

SUPERVISORS MEET “AND MAD PROGRAM   Conservation Board Hears Revers ot Thursday's Gatherina

Subsidy plan violation of price control   Opposition voiced by Senator Butler

Solon Scores New Beef Subsidy Plan   Declares It Is in Violation of Price Control Act

List Costly Mistakes In Production   Home Front Errors Are Many In War Supply Procurement   (First of three articles on mistakes in our war production effart i

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Soviet Armies Clamp Siege Upon Korosten.  Gateway lo Poland   150 Miles To Northeast, Fall Of Gomel Imminent With Neutral Sources Reporting Nazi Position There “Honelescs”

RUSSIANS EXTEND THEIR GRIP UPON NEEDED RAILROAD   Plans of Ambitious Japanese to Establish Major Naval Base at Rabaul Are Foiled By Airmen.   HARBOR BIG ENOUGH FOR ENTIRE FLEET   Japs Lose 20 Airplanes When They Make Assaults Upon Airdromes Over Nadzab and Gusap.

Korosten, Gateway to Poland, About to Fall   Soviets Clamp Arc Around Key Railroac City, Also Close in on Gomel

RAIL JUNCTION IS GATEWAY TO POLISH BORDER   Soviet Column Bypasses Gomel. Presses Heavily Against Nazi Flank

Polish‘Gate Of Korosten Going Dowr   Russians Clamp Siege Around Key Rail Town

BESIEGING KOROSTEN   Key Rail Junction Surrounded; Fall Expected Soon

RED TROOPS ON ALL SIDES: OF CITY; ASSAULT ON GOM:) 150 MILES NORTHEAST, CON

Chopping Through. Germari Trdnsport Network in West. ert. . Ukraitie.— Korosten, Key Railroad Junction, Gateway to Poland, About to Fall,

CAPTURE OF KEROSTEN AND GOMEL NEAR      Russians Continue Uk raine Advances and Ex: pect Two Important Cit ies to Fall Soon.

POLISH GATEWAY JUNCTION IS ABOUT TO FALL 10 REDS   Gomel Under Heavy Seige and Situation Is Reported By  Sweden As “Honeless.”

Nazi Radio Admits Withedrawell tm  M7 mpopmedthary /\ pam   By HENRY SHAPIRO

REDS GHOPPING THROUGH ENEMY TRANSPORT LINES  Fall cf Korosten (ts   Fall of Korosten Is Near; Key Rail Junction

Korosten Fall Expected To Come Shortly   New Gomel Threat ° May Cut Off Nazis Resisting Above Kiev

Reds About to Take Rail Center   Expect Fall of ‘Gateway to Poland.

Enemy Reports Parachutists In Rumania   But They May Have Been U.S. Bomber Crewmen From Damaged Planes

HOUSE GROUP IS SIVEN TAXPAYER INSURANCE PLAN   Says Insurance Must Be An In ; tegral Part Of Pay As t You Go

WILLKIE CALLS FOR COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS   Working Group to Form Military Strategy and Post-War Plans Urged

GRANDSON OF * + PRES. ROOSEVELT KILLS PLAYMATE   Accidentally Kic! Kicked . Over Loaded Gun—Smail Bul- ~ let Went Into: Chest;

FATAL SHOT BY FR, GRANDSON   Police Probing Death of Lewis Hutchinson, 11, at Philadelphia. Appears Accidental

Probe Death of Boy by Gunshot   Grandson ot President Roosevelt Accidentally Shoots Phila deiphia Playmate

Roosevelt Grandson Figures In _ Accidental Shooting of Schoolmate

INVESTIGATE FATAL SHOOTING OF YOUTH BY F, D,'S GRANDSON   Gun Goes Off By Accident While Boys, 10 And 11, At Play

Remnants Of Nine-Ship Jap Convoy Flee   Four Of Nine Ships Are De. stroyed—-Five Others In Hasty Flight   U. S. BOMBERS ROUT CONVOY

REMNANTS OF CONVOY FLEE AFTER 2 SHIPS SUNK, 1 DAMAGED AND 1 BEACHED   One 8,000-Ton Merchantman Blown Higl Enough, Out of Water To See Rudder, By Hits From 1,000 Pound Bombs Dropped From Flvine Fortresses.

 Remnants of Jap Convoy Are Fleeing  ‘From Allied Bombers Off New Guinea

10 Per Cent Cut In Meat Prices Set  Subsidies, Wage Control Problems Face New Deal

Meat Price Cuts Ordered in June; Subsidies Likel}   Brown Announces !() Per Cent Slash Also Applies To Butter And Coffee In Rolling Back Costs; WLB Asks Clarification

FOOD POLICY CHANGE MADE FOR JUNE 1   Meats, Coffee, Butter Price Reductions Ordered

10 Per Cent Price Cut on Meats, Coffee, Butter, Ordered by Browr   Subsidies to Be Paid to Producers OPA Head Announces as Government Abandons Policy to Control Retail Prices Solely by Ceilings

MEAT, BUTTER, COFFEE 10 BE CUT IN PRICE   GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR 10 PERCENT REDUCTION

Subsidies To Be Granted To Producers   WLB Request to FDR Auother Development -on Economic Front

Reduce prices of meat and coffee   Pian will subsidize production if necessary to maintain low prices

OPA Orders Slash in Food Prices   Butter, Coffee, Meats Listed; Subsidy Planned

GOVERNMENT CUTS BUTTER, MEAT PRICES   Ten Percent Reduction Made in War Policy Move, Effective June 1   PRODUCTION SUBSIDATION PROMISED IF NECESSARY

Government; in Sweeping Move, Plans to Subsidize ; Production  REDUCTIONS GO IN EFFECT JUNE IST  Hold-the-Line Order Clari. fication Sought by WLR

Producers May Get Subsidies Under New Plan   Brown Announces End of Entire Control by Price Ceilings

U.S. Orders Reduction of 10 Per Cent In Meat, Coffee, Butter Prices: WLEB Asks Hold-Line Clarification

Meat, Coffee, Butter to Cost Less   Government Orders Reduction of 10 Per Cent

10% Price Cut Ordered For Meat, Butter, Cottee; ~ Subsidization is Planned   Efforts to Control Living Costs By Ceilings Alone Given Up; WLB Asks “Hold - the - Line” Clarification

Affects Meats, Coffee and Butter Starting June 1 — Arrangements Made to Subsidize Their Production If Necessary—Represents Change in Policy of OPA Control

Meat, Butter And Coffee Prices Are Ordered Reduced   Ten Per Cent Reduction To Be Effective June 

Subsidies To Hold Prices offFoodDown   TEN PER CENT. CUT IN MEAT ralCns AND TREASURY RAID TO INCITE PRODUCTION; COFFEE AND BUTTER INCLUDED.   Pavments By RFC

Production Subsidizing Arranged  If Necessary   Meat Price Reduction Effective June 1, Government Declares In Surnrise Order   WLB MAKES APPEAL TO WHITE HOUSE

U.S. ORDERS MEAT PRICES GUT LO PUT   Abandons Efforts to Control Charges Solely by Ceilings — Coffee and Butter Also Lowered.   PRODUCERS MAY BE PAID SUBSIDIES   Action in Line With Announced Plans of Prentiss Brown to Roll Back Cost of Living.

MEATS, BUTTER AND COFFEE CUT FIRST OF JUNE   Subsidies Will Be Paid To Keep Prices From Getting Out Of Hand   HOLD - THE - LINE ORDER IS HELD UNWORKABLE

Meats And Coffee Are  Main Items   Government Is Also  Ready To Subsidize Productions.

Flays House Tax Bill as Partial   Treasury Counsel Asks For Simplification of Tax Plan; Hits Employes.

OFFICIALS RAP TAX PROPOSAL   Qe a  Paul Flays House Measure; Morgenthau Renews Plea

Seek Slayer Of Bride In Lower 13;Cook Held   Had Consumed 16 Drinks A Steward’s Party. He Told Police

Negro Cook's Story in Oregon Murder Checked   Man is Booked On Suspicion Of Murder

REPORT JEWS ARE SLAIN   Polish Telegraph Agency Tells of Killings in Streets

Angered Men Seek  Slayer of  Wyoming Couple One Man Is Jailed  But Big Posse Continues Search

LAW AIMED AT CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING   Measure Provides For Abolition of Congress: AtLarge Office   SHEPPARD BACKS BILL   Fairfield, Perry Counties Would Be Transferred From 11th to 15th

Coming Allied Strategy In The Pacific. .. . Gigantic New Campaign Against Japs Expected To Begin Momentarily

Hundreds Of ThousandsOf U.S. Troops  Ready To Go   American Concentration Of Warships Also Heralds Coming Blows At Japs In Pacific

Largest Sea Force In History Now Awaits Orders: To Attack Japanese

MORE RATIONING — SEEMS POSSIBLI   More Commodities in Book 3 But Authorities Are Not Telling Nature.

Preparations £ Being  Made For Rationing More Commodities   OPA Says Ration Book Number 3 To Follow Ration Of Meat. Etc.

Third Ration Book Is Being Prepared   Officials Do Not Know to What Goods It Applies

OPA PREPARES RATION BOOK NO. 3 ALREADY   Milk. Clething Usage Likely: Public ~ Awaits No. 2

Minor Peralusits Epidemic Streeping  ‘riled States, Health Service Ri ports 

Bill to Empower Government to Seize War Work Plants Is Revived in Senate

PLANT SEIZURE BILL REVIVED   Measure Would Empower U. S. To Take Over If War Work Stops For Any Cause

Privileged Deferred Under Fire   House Group Probing Favoritism In Draft System

Chief of U. S. Air Force Calls on  Fliers to Avenge Jap Executions

Gen. Arnold Calls on Air Forces to Destroy ‘Inhuman Jap Warlords’

ARNOLD CALLS FOR VENGEANCE   Tells American Air Forces To Redouble Efforts.

ARNOLD CALLS UPON AIRMEN TO DESTROY JAP WAR LORDS   Commander of American Air Forces To Redouble Their Efforts against Enemy in Pacific

EIGHT ARE FOUND GUILTY BY PANEI   Motorists, Convicted . of OPA Violations, Wil! be Penalized :

17 CONVICTED OF OPA VIOLATIONS   Legal Panel Hears Cases of 25 Accused of Speeding

FBI BLAMES BOYS FOR RAIL MISHAP      Place Obstruction on Tracks ‘Saturday, Causing Wreck, Charge

WIFE OF PIPELINER CONVICTED BY JURY   ‘Accused of Poisoning Mate  Because of Jealousy

EMNED T0 ASK NEW TRIAL   Nancy Holt Declared Guilty in First Devree

Language Of Mr. Higgins Too Original   Stenog Unable To Find Symbols For His Racy Words

CONGRESS 10 BE HOME CHRISTMAS, WORK IS SPEEDED   Special Sessions Today May Even Lead to Recess By Tonight.

R.A.F. TURNS BERLIN INTO BLAZING CAULDRON; NAZIS ARE CAUGHT OFF GUARD   Supply Lines to Cape Gloucester Cut: Japs Face Food Shortage

CHURCHILL SACK COMMONS TODAY   Present for First Time Since Stricken With Pneumonia; Says Current Drive Against U-boats Inures Full Allied Cooperation.

Churchill Speaks Before Commons   Says U-Boat Battle Progressing

1000 Planes In Staggerinc Raidon France   Paris Is Chief Target Of Yank Bombers; Northern France Hit

MILK OUTPUT. “DROPS LOWER   MANY FARM AUTHORITIES PREDICT THAT RATIONING _ IN LARGE CITIES I8 f - “INEVITABLE"

MILK RATION MOVES CLOSER   Sharp Production Decline Reported—High Protein Feeds Lacking

GOP's Agree To Short Campaign If FDR Will Renounce 4th Term   RENEWED TAX TALK REFUSED

ANSWER-ON-4TH TERM AWAITED   GOP Offers Short Campaign If Roosevelt Renounces "44 Ambition

al TERM ~ QUESTION UF   Gor CHAIRMAN BERKS. ‘TO LEARN WHETHER BOOeEs, ’ VELT, WELL AGAIN BE . CANDIDATE =

Maximum Production of Food  And Feed to Mean Thousands OF Dollars to Texas Farmers

Incentive Payment Plan To Bring More Money To Farmers Who Meet Goals Of Maximum Production

FLYNN QUITS      Bronx Counts ive Committees  Leaves Post) On Beech

Allied Bombers Turn To New Assault Following Pantelleria Surrender

Tiny Fortress Offers Perfect Bombing Target   Assault Opens Only Few Hours Following Pantelleria Seizure _   Allied headquarters, North Africa, June 12 (UP) — The -rocky Italian island of Lampedusa surrendered today.

LAMPEDUSA IS BEING BOMBED   Northwest! African Air Force Seek. ing to Batter Tiny Island Fortress into Surrender — Pantellerla Surrender Spurs Actiou.

SMALL NEW GAIN MADE BY ENEMY   Axis Makes Slight Additional Advance Southwest Of Pont Du Fahs.

Libyan Drive Nearing Close: Tunisia Next   Tripoli. Should. Fall. Soon. British. Say, Looking © ‘Ahead to Next Battle   AXIS-TRYING TO. i KEEP PATH OPE   Big Task Now Is to Head Off. Bulk of .Rommel’s Army; Heavy Air. Blasts.

Official Berlin Stunned by News  Radio Voice Silent After Il Duce Quits

SAYS LEWIS IS HURTING LABOR   CIO. Official Declares UMW Chief Conspires With Capital To Discredit FDR

YUGOSLAV PARTISAN ARMY ON OFFENSIVE   Seize Initiative After Break: ing Heavy German Kscartte 

Berlin Radios Silent as Bombers Again on Prowl  RAIN FALLING ON STRICKEN CAPITAL  Germans Threaten to Use Secret Reprisal Weapon

Bombers Go Back Third Night in Koy To Flaming City   Reds Hold Own in Big Fight West of Kiev; Little Doing in Italy

Berlin Cries For Revenge   Use Of ‘Reprisal Weapon’ Urged: Squeeze Under Way

30 Axis Divisions Reported In Italy   Bulk of Troops Said To Be In Far North

QUEZON SAYS HEAVY BLOWS COMING SOON IN PACIFIC   PRESIDENT OF PHILIPPINES INTIMATES ALLIED PLANS INCLUDE MAJOR THRUSTS BEING PREPARED

Red Warplanes Deal Heavy Blow to Nazis   Selected Sectors Are Hard Hit, Russians Report

REDS POUND NAZI LINES   Soviet Planes And Guns Engage In Sudden Attacks.

CONGRESSMEN, IRKED BY CONDITIONS IN HOUSE CAFE, BAN BUREAU OFFICIALS

AMERICAN AND BRYKISH  ACTION BASED ON RIGHT OF FRENCH TO CHOOSE GOVERNMENT LATER

Allies Recognize French Committee  In North Africa   Does Not Include Recogni— tion Of French Government Or France   WILL BE PATTERN FOR FUTURE ACTION

MARINES SUFFER SEVERE LOSSES IN TARAWA RAID   Knox Says Public Can Be Prepared For Heavy  Casualties   FEROCIOUS DEFENSE MADE BY JAPANESE

Marine Losses On Tarawa Heavy Reports Reveal   Cost of Victory At Record Price

Ameican Losses In larawa Fight Heay, Says Knox   Urges Public Prepared ’ For News of Large (asualty - List

Lesson at Tarawa May Result  In Entirely New Methods of Assault   2 TANKS. MADE IT TOUGH FOR JAPS ON TARAWA By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON

Tarawa Fight May Result In New Methods  Difficulties Described By Knox; Increased Softening Up Process Required In Landings

Tarawa Battle May Bring New Plan Of Assault; Knox Cites Difficulties

Tarawa Battle May Necessitate Change in Assault Method:   Knox Tells of Unexpected Difficulties Encountered There

Lessons Of Tarawa Indicate That New Landing Techniques Are Needed

New Technique Considered in Island Warfare   Tarawa Action Costs Were High Officials Learn

TARAWA LESSON MAY BRING NEW ASSAULT TACTICS   COST OF DISLODGING FIRMLY ENTRENCHED REVEALED BY KNOX

POLICE BAFFLED BY MYSTERIOUS TRAIN MURDER   Beautiful Wife Of Naval Officer Slain In Pullman Berth In Oregon

Murder of Girl Aboard Train Baffles Police      Throat of Young Bride Cut in Berth No. 13 Of Limited in Oregon

Sir Grigg Calls Fall of Tripoli Turning Point   Italian Empire in Africa Gone, Says British War Minister

Eats Beside Two Bodies He Murdered   Mother and Daughter Killed, Raped: Slayer Then Cooks Breakfast of Eggs and Toast

2 More Tulsa Women Victims  Of Sex Slayer   Mother And Daughter Are Found Hacked To Death In Bed.

Slayer Breakfasts on Eggs and Toast After Hacking Two Women to Death

TWO WOMEN ARE SLAIN BY FIEND   Hacked Bodies Of Moth er, Daughter Found Ir Tulsa Home

MURDERER EATS BESIDE VICTIMS   Find Slain-Raped Bodies o Women in Tulsa Apartment

MOTHER, DAUGHTER RAPED, BLUDGEONED   Killer Eats Breakfast o Death Bed

Sex Slayer Is Sought ForTwo Brutal Murders   Kills And Rapes Twe Women, Then Eat: Breakfast Nea: Bodies

Hacked Bodies Found In Home   Mother, Daughter Killed By Hungry: Sex. Maniac’. At. Tulsa.: Okla.

2 WOMEN ARE FOUND SLAIN   Sex Slayer Sought In Oklahoma Murders Of Mother And Daurchter

‘THREE ARE HELD FOR QUESTIONING IN AX MURDERS   ,Mother And Daughter Found Slain at Tulsa—Sex Slaver Is Sought

Two Women  Found Slain   Savagely Hacked Bodies Of Mother and Daughter  Discovered in Tulsa

TWO WOMEN ARE KILLED BY AXE IN THEIR HOME      Mother and Daughter Savagely Hacked and Raped   By Slayer, Tulsa, Okla homa. Police Report    SECOND SUCH.CRIME   Killer Prepares Breakfast and Eats It On Bloody Bed Beside Bodies --of His Victims - —

PAIR MURDERED   Bodies of Mother, Daughter Found in Blood-Soaked Bed.

Tulsa Women Slain, Raped   Murderer Cooks Breakfast And Eats It On Bed

Gas Consumption Is  Down In Northeas'  District Now Using One Third Of Normal

‘Americans Capture Eddkhila   Two Desperate Axis Counterattacks Are Halted  French and British  Make Good Gains W ect af Tinice

DRIVE TOWARD NAVAL BASE AT HIGH SPEED   French Co-operate .With Americans and British Armies Pound Hill Positions and Stop Tanks.

FIGHT PLAN TO HALT VITAL OHIO FLOOD PROGRAM   FDR in His Budget Message Urged Congress To Limit Flood Control

FLOOD GONTROL WORTH IS CITED   Ohio Congressmen Urge Continuation Of Program On National Scale

NAZIS FALLING BACK ALL ALONG 500-MILE FRONT   Reds Advance Within 45 Miles Of Main Axis Base Of Kharkov   TUNISIAN FRONT QUIET   RAF Gives Huns Respite On Continent—Americans Bomb Japanese

Russian Forces Only 45 Miles From Kharkov   Soviet Forces Converging On Kharkov Are Making Steady Advance   RUSSIANS NEAR TO GERMAN 1942 LINE

Soviets Speed Encirclement Of North Key   Red Spearheads Swing Around Kursk As Southern Armies Push Toward Sea of Azov to Shut Giant Trap Around Invaders.

Chinese Regain City of Changteh   Defeated Japs Being Driven Northward

Changteh Is Recaptured By Chinese Force   ae 4 City ity Changes Hands Six Days After Falling To Japs

CHANGTEH IS ne BY CHINESE   U. S. Bombers Are In Battle For Rice Bow! City

Chinese Wrest Changteh From Jap Foe   Recapture of City Biggest Victory In Recent Months

CHANGTEH IS RECAPTURED BY CHINESE   U. S. Bombers Are in Battle For Rice Bowl City

NEAR FREEZING POINT   S. D. Flora Reports  No Indication of Rain in Kansas

Russian Relations Continue to Create Interest in Capita   Flurry Over Standley’s Statement Subsides; Other Capital News

ATTENTION OF CAPITAL SHIFTS TO U. S. PANTRY   Russian Relations Continue Tc Attract Major Interest

'U. 5. SUBS SINK ENEMY DESTROYER, FOUR OTHER SHIPS   MacArthur's Men Take Sanananda Point, Village in New Guinea

Allied Forces Win Sanananda   Wipe Out All But Thre Small Pockets of Jap Resistance

Sanananda Point Falls To Allies   Only Three Small Pockets of Jap Army Of 15,000 Remaining

U. S. U-Boats Slash At Jap Supply Lines   Navy Statement Reports Destroyer and Four Other Ships Sunk   2 CLAIMED DAMAGED

Allies Clear > Japanese Out Of Sanananda   Seize Point And _ Village; Only 3 Pockets Of Foe Remain.

U.S. SUBS SINK FIVE JAP SHIPS   Sanananda Captured, Says Report by MacArthur

SANANANDA POINT AND VILLAGE TAKEN BY ALLIED FORGES   FRESH GAINS ALSO REPORTED BY WAVELL’S LEGIONS IN BURMA

More Knemy Points Taken In N. Guinea   Only Three Pockets Of Nips Left In  Woamtenen Gastsam

British Forces In Burma Make Fresh Gains   Planes Attack  Enemy Bases, Sink Cargo Ship

Alties In  New Gains In Pacific   New Guinea Nearly Cleared, British  Advance in Burma.

Clean-Up of Japs Going on in Papuan End of New Guinea.   WAVELL GAINS ‘IN BURMA DRIVE

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE VITAL JAP POSITION   New Guinea Area Rapid. ly Being Cleared Of Nipponese Forces

Last Of Japs In New Guinea Are Wiped Out   Only Three Small Pockets Remain At Sanananda Village   American Submarines Sink Five Jap Ships   British Report New Gains In Wavell’s Campaign In Burma

2 SMALL POCKETS OF JAPS REMAIN   British Report New Successes from Wavell in Burma; Allied Planes Blast Jan Bases

Japs Being Wiped Out In New Guinea Jungle; Only 3 ‘Pockets’ Left

More Gains Made in New Guinea   Wipe Out All But Three Small Pockets Of Resistance

ALLIED TROOPS GET SANANANDA   Wavell Pushes Ahead in Burma Campaign. Rv THF ASSNCLATEN PREcK

NIPPONESE LOSE THEIR POSITONS ON NEW GUINES   MacArthur Reports Sananada Point, Village Taken; Few Japs Escape

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE POINTS IN NEW GUINEA   Take Sanananda Village, Japs Still Hold Three Small Pockets

ALLIES CAPTURE JAP POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA ZONE   British Report Fresh Gains by General Wavell’s ' Forces in Burma. Offen-

Sanananda Point Taken By Allies   Wipe Out All But Three Small Pockets of Jap Resistance  - in Papuan Jungles of New Guinea

GERMAN ARMORED UNS ATTACKING FRENCH IN AFRICA   French Forces Given. Support By American . Planes’ and Anti-Tank Guns: . uring ». Attank.      BELIEVE ROMMEL "IN FINAL STAND   Allies Make Move Against Final Jap Stronghold  fn Papuan Area, Only Few Now Remain. .

AXIS FORCE ATTACKING IN TUNISIA   Returns Today After Being Repulsed Sunday

Three Days Left ir Red Cross Drive  $39,052 Collected in Local Campaign

TANK PRODUCTION CUT 40 PER GENT   RUSSIAN AND BRITISH ORDERS DROP—FEW, IF ANY, PLANTS SHUT DOWN.

TANK OUTPUT IS CUT 40 PERCENT   Reduction Occurs After Russia And Britain Cancel Large Orders

AMERICAN TANK OUTPUT IS CUT   British And Russians Cancel Orders By One-Third

RICKENBACKER SAYS HIS FOES ARE LABOR’S   Heroi¢ Flier Scores Aristocracy Of Labor Unionism Before New Yorks Two Legislative Houses.   Opposes Overtime

UNITY. STRESSED BY RICKENBACKER   Urges ‘National Leadershp of Industry. Labor, , Government —

Rickenbacker Again Assails ‘Aristoeracy’ Of Unionism   Declares in Address To N. Y. Legislature . Men Who Attack Him  Arp J Gg hare TR marntac   CALLS FOR UNITY ON INDUSTRY FRONT

Kesselring Loses And Is Recalled   Gets Worst of Dispute, Rommel Left in Charge

DEFEAT BLAMED ON KESSELRING   Field Marshal Recalled In Italy After Clash With Rommel

Recalled to Berlin anc Transferred to Unannounced Post Following Quarrel With Rommel

Burglars Take Two Million Gallons Worth of Gasoline ‘Coupons From Racine Office

Gasoline Ration  Coupons Stolen  Racine Board’s Office Entered By Gunmen

Coupons Having Value Of 1,809,076 Gallons Are Taken From Safe In Downtown Building

Dead Officer's Letter to Kin   Happy to Die for Great Cause, Says Posthumous Messoge

Fought for Those He Held Dear...  Flier's Farewell Letter to His Parents

‘Do Not Be Bitter’ Hero's Last Appeal to Parents and Wife   Naval Lieutenant Author of Unusual Letter befor He Met Death

‘What I Fight For’   Young Naval Lieutenant’s Posthumus Letter Reveals His Thouchts Before Death.

Posthumous Letter of Young Naval Officer Tells His Parents What He Fought For

Norvaus Reports   Good Morning  A Little Chuckle To Start the Day

The War "Poday ;   By DE_WITT MACKENZIE  sAcenpinted Presse War Analvsi

BALKAN THORN PRESSED DEEPER INTO HITLER'S SIDE   Situation In Italy Poses Danger to Nazi Right Flanx—MacKenzie

BALKAN THORN IN HITLER’S SIDE BEING STEADILY PRESSED DEEPER BY ALLIED CONOUEST OF ITALY

LABOR LEADERS RENEW PLEDGE   a Grecr and Murray Tell President Disappointment Over Bill Docs Not Break NaStrike Promise.

Gelsenkirchen, Muenster Are Targets  More Than 1,000 Bombers and Fighters Take Part

Nazi Synthetic Oil Center Hit 'By U. S. Bombers   Railroad Center Also Blasted In Day Raids

Nazi Centers Are Hard Hit   Oil Installations At Gelshenkirchen Raided

Armada of 1000 Planes Sweeps Gelsenkirchen and Muenster; Other Units Batter French Centers

U.S. Ready For Heavier Raids  On Germany   American Flyers Set For Inereased Offensive

YANKS PREPARED TO RAIN BOMBS ON NAZI AREAS   Gen. Henry Miller Declare: Fliers Set for New Series of Blows

Greek Targets Are Attacked By Yankee Planes   Athens, Salonika And Naples Bombed By Allies; I talian Fleet Sails

Yanks Plan New Blow at Nazis   Increased Offensive _ Against Germany Is Predicted

RAF Again Launches  Widespread  Sweep Over Europe Fliers Smash Nazis Fiercely, Cause Extensive Damages

RAF Bombers Blast Europe   Night Sweeps Follow Attacks By Doviiaht

MAIL IS FULL OF LATE TAX FILINGS   Income Returns for This Year Expected to Set a Record

MAILS ARE JAMMED   Income Tax Returns Overcrowd Federal Agencies

Tax Returns Are 50% Over 1942 Reports   Total of $157,000,000 Pours Into Coffers of Uncle Sam in Penn'a   MANY WITHHOLDING

INCOME TAX FLOOD POURS INTO OFFICE   Early Reports Leave: No Doubt of Heaviest Collection in History.   STATE FIGURES _.. HIGHEST EVER   One Check for 12 Millions Carries Pittsburgh Total to $95,716,304. -

YANK PLANES HIT AIRPORTS NEAR ATHENS   RAF Bombers Stage New Assault on Italian Port of Naples

ITALIAN INVASION FEARS MOUNT AS ALLIES BOOST FLEET IN MEDITERRANEAN

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING AROUND UKRANIAN CITY   Russians Claim to Have Pierced German Defense Line Stretched Across White Russia,

Michigan G. 0. P. Convenes Today   Name Candidates Fol Aoril Election

DR. J. L. CURRY Ti HEAD RED CROSS BELTON BRANCH   Judge Wesley Dice Is Relieved; Committees Appointed to Serve

HEAD RED CROSS BELTON BRANCH   Judge Wesley Dice Is Relieved; Committees Appointed to Serve

U.S, AND FINLAND NOW NEAR BREAK   All But Two of American Staff Are Withdrawn from Helsinki

U.S. NEARING BREAK WITH FINLAND   All But Two Members of Legation in Helsinki Withdrawn

‘Pay as You Go’ Tax Plan Given Approval by FDR   But President Qualifies Endorsement by Saying It’s Big Problem.   Present, Future Taxes  Would Cause Hardship

FDR Approves Pay-as-You-Go Tax Principle   Sees Big Problem In. volved in Switch, However

United War Chest Te Open Drive In  Radio Program  30-Minute Progreso Is Slated On

AMERICANS HELD 2 YEARS IN FAR y EAST BACK HOMI   Cheer and Sing “God Bless America” as Liner Gripsholm Nears New Jersey Shore.   MANY GAIN WEIGHT ON RETURN JOURNEY   Repatriates Report Former Carthage Editor Is Alive and in Fair Health in Manila Camp.

1500 REPATRIATES BACK IN AMERICA      Cheers Mark Docking of Exchange Liner Gripsholm =...

Bombers Hit Sicily, Mainland Fifteen Junker  Transports  Shot Down 

Junkers-52 Transports Headed for Battle Area Attacked by Americans Off Coast of Sardinia—Axis Airfields and Communications on Sicily and Italian Mainland Pounded —Allies Destroy 18 Enemy Planes and Lose 4.

Big Junkers-52 Convoy Downed   Enti re Formation -Of 15 Destroyed

BOMBS RAINED ON HANNOVER BY RAF FLEET   TOWN MARKED FOR DEATH LIKE HAMBURG

Honnover Is: Bombed for the Second Time in’ a Week   30 ALLIED PLANES LOST IN ASSAULTS   Machinery Center of Brunswick Also Target: for Airmen

R.A. F. Smashes Three Targets   Hanover, Brunswick, Emden Are Bombed

RAF Bombers Pound Emden  And Hannover   Attacks Made With “Great Power’ and Devastating Results

Giant RAF Fleet: Lashes Hanover   Tremendous Flames Eat Through City

Bombs Rain On German War Center   Hannover Target of RAF Air Fleet; Other Cities Hit

Hannover's War Plants AreSmashed   38 Big Planes Lost In Raid By British

TANNOVERIN FLAMES; RAID THER CITIES   J-Boat Base of. Emden and Brunswick Also Raided: Three Attacks in “Very Great Strength.”   2,000 Long Tons

PLAN WAC PARADE   rh : ‘  Drive for Recruits Will Be  Part of Homecoming Festivities

PLAN WAC PARADE   Drive for Recruits Will Be Part of Homecoming Festivities

Stalin Receives  U. S. Ambassador   Kremlin Conference  Attended By Molotov

Three Die When Train Hits Car   Oklahoma City Couple And Infant Meet Death in Crash

LEGISLATURE NEARS: END OF SESSION   Controversial Measures Before House And Senate

2 Weeks Left For Assembly  Major Matters Still Await Final Action

“Fathers” Will Be Drafted Not Later Than August   According To Announcement Made By Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, National Draft Director.

HERSHEY CALLS FOR FATHERS   DRAFT CHIEF SEES END OF POOL BY AUGUST 1

Army May Call Many 4-F Men   War, Navy Departmen ._ Rap Kilday Bill "

SEES AUGUST FATHER DRAFT   Can’t Delay Call Beyond That Time, Is Claim

Say Many 4-F's May Be Taken  Hershey Opposes Plan - To Defer Fathers

HERSHEY OPPOSES PROHIBITING  INDUCTION FATHERS “A Good Many” Mer   “A Good Many” Men  Formerly Classed 4-F Mak Be Taken to Meet Rao ,

Must Induct Some Fathers  maiFRSHEY   We May Run Out’ Of Other Registrants About August 1 Director Says.

FIGHTS BILL T0 DEFER FATHERS   MAY RUN OUT OF REGISTRANTS BY AUG, 1: HERSHEY

U.S. Technical Troops Arrive in Britain      :Mershey Foresees Exhausted Draft Lists by Auaqust 1

3) ARMY TANKS SIDETRACKED   Shipment to Be Examined on Reports It Was Tampered With. .

Army Tank Sabofage Probed   Conning Tower Seals Of 35 Found  Renloen

ARMY TANKS BEING EXAMINED, WERE TAMPERED WITH   ‘Thirty-Fiva Entered While: Thay Were On Rail wes Widnes

Army Investigates Tank Tampering   Seals Broken on 35 on West Coast

TANKS SABOTAGED ON TRAIN, BELIEF   Army Intelligence Officers i: California Investigate

35 ARMY TANKS TAMPERED WITH   SEVERAL MEN SEEN PROWLING AROUND RAILROAD SIDING ©

Intensive Inquiry Opens After Discovery That Shipment Of Tanks Is Tampered With

WOMAN CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER   Helen Aileen Randle, An. napolis Socialite, Is Found Guilty

MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT GIVEN IN RANDLE CASE   Woman Whe Killed High School Youth Will Be Sentenced Next Tuesday

Secret Out On American Island Base   U.S. Air Station On Tiny British Isle Now Free Debate Topic

Hitler Still Has Big Army In Europe   Natural Barriers Wiji Make Invasion of Occupied Countries Difficult Task for Allied Forces .

Observers Doubt It Hitler Will Ever Again Muster Power Shown In Past

Japanese to Suffer Heavy Losses for Their Cowardly Act.  TOKYO SAYS OTHERS WILL RECEIVE SAME  Japs Plea to Allies for Fairer Treatment to Prisoners.

U.S. ARTILLERY PLAYING Bit PART IN WAR   Enemy Handed Severe Pounding By Our Guns

‘Most Terrible Of All Were Guns’ Prisoner Says Of Yank Artillery

Speedy Senate Confirmation Expected, Making Him Fourth in U. S. Forces to Wear Four Stars.

‘Eisenhower Made Full General All Allied Forces. Including Brit ish. Under Fourth U. S. General   SOME FRENCH TROOPS WITHDRAW FROW FRONT

British 8th Army To Be Commander By Eisenhower  Gen. Alexander to Be His Deputy, Says Prime Minister

EDR Nominates Eisenhower To A Full Genera   Promotion Expected To Re ceive Prompt Approval by Senate; Would Make Hir Fourth Full General Ir American Forces.

Nomination Submitted To Senate   Upper House Expected To Quickly Approve Dwight Eisenhower As Full General

British 8th Army Under Orders Of  Eisenhower   Gen. Alexander To Be Deputy; American Controls Fleet And Air Forces

‘FDR NOMINATES EISENHOWER FOR 4-STAR GENERAL   British Eighth Army Twenty Miles Inside  Se

EISENHOWER IS NAMED TO BE FULL GENERAL   British Force Entering Tunisia to Be Under Command of American

‘Eisenhower Will Command Allied Troops   General Alexander to Become Deputy in U. S. Sphere in Tunisia

Eisenhower Is Nominated To Be Four-Star General; Given Free Hand In Africa

Chief British Officers Rank Under US Boss   Gen. Alexander, British Kighth Army Under Eisenhower In Tunisia.   TO BE FULL GENERAL

Eisenhower Is Made Full General: Alexander Comes  Under U.S. Command

COMMAND SHIFT SEEN AT BORDER   Eisenhower to take Over When British Eighth Army in Americans’ Zone

Eisenhower May Be Promoted   Nominated By President To Be Full General

EISENHOWER IS NOMINATED FULL GENERAL   THURMAN ARNOLD NAMED TO DISTRICT COLUMBIA APPEALS COURT

Allied Forces in North Africa to Be Under His  a Command   BRITISH HIS DEPUTIES      Charchill Tells Commons of _. the Plans for North  frica

EISENHOWER IS PROMOTED. » JO TOP RANK   NOMINATION PLACED BEFORE BENATE. AS PRELIMINARY.  TO UNIFIED COMMAND : 9M APRICA

American General Picked, Churchill  States in Commons   British Prime Minister Says Invasion on Big Scale Determined

Alexander Made Deputy To American   Sir Arthur Tedder Chief in Air, Sir Andrew Cunningham of Fleet   IWILSON MOVES Up   Briton, in Iraq, to Take Over Alexander’s Old Command

K «*« OK Y¥ New Command Lineup Detailed   Battle Rages In Tunisia

NAME EISENHOWER AS FULL GENERAL   Senate Expected to Approve Promptly Nomination Made by President.

BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRIGA NOW UNDER EISENHOWER  PRIME MINISTER CHURCH TILT ANNOTINCES CHANGES

Allied Military Set-Up Is Outlined. ....  Eisenhower To Lead British In Tunisia

Fourth Star Proposed For Eisenhower   * American In Full Command Of North African Fighting

General's Rank For Eisenhower  ~ Commands Allies in North Africa

Eisenhower Is Made Full General By President   Promotion Comes With Announcement Of Tinifiled Command On African Front

Eisenhower to Be Full General   Nomination Sent To Senate by President

PROMOTED TO RANK OF FULL GENERAL   Joins MacArthur and Mar. shall to Wear Four Stars.

COMMONS TOLD RISENHOWER’S STATUS INWAR   Prinre Minister’ Churchil Says British Eighth Army Comes Under His Com mand In:Tunisia..".::.   ALEXANDER DEPUTY   Has Wealth of. Experience In Fighting Germans; Both Favor Direct Action

ALLIED CHIEF ~ ISNOMINATED   Senate Asked to Promote _ Eisenhower to’ Full General. ;

INN. AFRICA   Nominated to Be Full Gen~ eral By President Roosevelt Today.   PLACED OVER BRITISH

GENERAL'S RANK FOR EISENHOWER   American to Be Supreme Commander in African Theater

Roosevelt Nominates Eisenhower Ror Full General. Fourth in U. 8S.

Eisenhower Will  Be Full General  Nominated By FD As Churchill Tells Of New Command

Eisenhower to Head Ally Africa as Full General   American Commander Will Be Fourth of His Rank in Army of the United States

EISENHOWER T0 LEAD IN AFRICA   American Is Named Commander-In-Chief, With Alexander As Deputy

GEN. ALEXANDER ASSUMES ROLE OF; DEPUTY CHIEF   EIGHTH ARMY NOW 20 MILES INSIDE SUUTHERN TUNISIA

NAMED FULL GENERAL   Lisenhower Nominated Fer Prometion To Top Rank Teday

EISENHOWER A FULL GENERAL   United Nations Commander In North Africa Named By F. D. R.

FDR NOMINATES EISENHOWER FOR FULL GENERAL   Nomination Made Coincident With Churchill’s Announcement of Allied Forces Being Under Eisenhower’s Command  In Africa

Eisenhower Is Made General: Stimson Warne   Russian Trident Spearing Kharkov; 250,000 Germans in Rostov Cirrle

President Roosevelt Nominates American to be Full General— Quick Action Expected   BRITISH LAUDED   Eisenhower Says Best of Britain's Commanders His Aides — Stal Announced

Miners Vote To Resume  Work Study   5000 UMW Agree To Enter Pits In Keystone State

MINERS TO REFURE   5,000 Vote  to Resume ork Today in Pits in Perm ©

Roads ——— Railraads+-+.   [Miners Prepare To Resume Work Lf Possible

WEATHER.   Three Half-Starved Chinese Soldiers Reach Allied Base After Being Bayoneted In Hospital Beds By Japanese’

Chinese, Bayoneted in Hospital Beds by Japs, Live to Fight Again

Chinese, Bayoneted in Hospital by Atrocious Japanese, Manage Escape

Italy , Nazis Draw Closer,  Assail Russia   Report German Troops Have Been Moved From Spanish Frontier

TQ PROLONG FIGHT   Germany and Italy Draw Closer Together to Put Up Battle

Amid Mutual Cries Both See Stalin’s Absence From Impending Churchill-Roosevelt Meeting as Propaganda Ma Paes a 

Italy Draws Closer to  Germany   Ally Pouring Troops Through Brenner Pass. Is Report

Germany, Italy Closely Bound   Draw Closer Together, Turn Propaganda Against Reds

Axis Plays Up ‘Allied Split   Germany. Ltaly Gaining Confidence Be hind Propaganda Blast Against Russia

Propaganda Plays Same Tune  Axis Gives Old Story Of Russia Wanting To Rule World

Axis Rift Narrows   German Troops Move in Stream Toward North; Italy Playing for Time

ITALIANS, NAZIS ‘KISS, MAKE UP’   Two Axis Partners Getting Thick Once More, Press Dispatches Reveal

170 PLANES OF JAPS DOWNED   1,500 Japanese Killed in Big Air Raid on Wewak

170 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYEL   And 1,506 Japanese Killed In Big Allied Air Raid on Wewak, New Guinea; 10,000 Bombs Dropped

ALLIES. DESTROY 170 JAP PLANES      Also Kill 1,500 Nips In Sur: prise Air Raid On Wewak

10,000 Bombs Dropped as Crippling ~ Blow is Struck on New Guinea; "Yanks Gain in Bairoko Area

Surprise Action Costs Japs 175 Aii Craft, 1500 Men   10,000 Bombs Are Dropped on Air Base in New Guinea

170 Enemy Planes Downed at Wewak   1,900 Japanese Killed In Largest Air Raid In Southwest Pacific Area; Gains At Vella Lavella Consolidated

170 Jap Planes Destroyed; 1,500 Enemy Troops Killed In Raid   GROUND ADVANCE ON BAIROKO CONTINUES

New Invasion  Thrusts Near   Foreseen As Result Of Suc. cess Of Allied Invasion Of Sicily

Anglo-American Offensive Plans  Are Speeded Up   Smashing Defeat Of U-Boat Campaign Allows Increased Operations

CHINESE SMACK JAPS   Invading Column In Central China Suffers Heavy Losses

12 Believed Deadin W.Va Mine Fire      NO. 15 MINE OF PURSGLOVE MIN. ING CO. NEAR MORGANTOWN SCENE OF DISASTER; 6: SAFE,   ‘Rescue Work Slow

12 Trapped By Mine Fire Feared Dead   Night Foreman at Northern West Virginia Working Loses Life Trying Vo Save Others      65 Pursglove Miners Eseape Blast Blaze   Reseue Crews Hampered  By Extreme Heat, : Dense Smoke

Hope Wanes For - Trapped Miners   Caught By Underground Fire In No. 15 Mine Of Purseglove Mining Company Near Morgantown; 65 Men Escape

MINERS CAUGHT BEHIND FLAMES   Little Hope Held For 12 At Morgantown; One Body Recovered

IT’S RAT TRAP    Priest Says U.S. Should Let Japs Keep On Losing Men At Kiska.

KISKA AS JAP TRAP, PROPOSED BY PRIEST   Could Keep Knocking Of Ships, He Believes

FARM PROBLEMS GET COUPLE OF AIDS IN TWO FRONTS TUESDAY  SERVICE MEN TO PICK COTTON AND WHEAT MAR.

FDR’s Speech Fails ‘to Halt Senate Action   Farm Bloc and Agriculture Committee Continue Op- position to Administration

TROOPS ORDERED TO PICK COTTON   Agriculture Departmen Suspends Marketing Restrictions on Wheat

' Washington Today  Army Is Ready to Furlougt   Troops to Aid U.S. Farmer:   Some Already Assigned to Arizona to Pick Cotton; Seek Chain of Islands In Pacific; Tells of Dummy Guns -and Soldiers

WHITE HOUSE WELCOME FOR TRAVELER F. R   Report of Conference Abroad Will Be Made to Congress Some Time During January.

Roosevelt Returns to  White House   Leaders of Both Parties Welcome  Him Back Home

Roosevelt Gets Big Welcome   Won't Report To Solons Until First of Year

Roosevelt Returns to  White House   Leaders of Both Parties Cheer President

PRESIDENT BACK: WILL REPORT ON TRIP 10 PEOPLE   Chief Executive Returns After Absence of Five Weeks for Conferences. -

GIVE WELCOME TO F..R, BACK IN WASHINGTON   Congressional Chiefs Hear President Won’t Report Soon on Parley

PRESIDENT RETURNS 10 WHITE HOUSE   Will Report On Parleys Early in January

Roosevelt Again At His Desk   Tumultuous Welcome Is Given President As He Returns From His Trip Abroad

AMBRICANAVAL AND MILITARY PEED LAUDED   Secretary Knox Terms: “Miraculous” Develop- — ment In Eighteen Months of War   HOLD INITIATIVE IN ALL WAR ZONES   ‘War Lords af Tokyo,” He! Says, “Know Not When — Or Where the Next  Blow Will Fall” 

Wallace Suggests EDR Preside at Peace Sessions  Wants President  . oer Sat i Se

WALLACE, SEES TABLE LEADER   Feels Chief Best One To Preside At  Diecussions

Wallace Urges F DLR. Preside At Peace Table   Name Magic All Over World, He Declares  In Chicago Interview

Over 13.000 Men Idle in Walkouts  In State’s Mines   General Sentiment Is ‘No Pact—No Work’ As Issue Discussed

West Penna Situation More ‘Tense   MORE THAN 13,000 IDLE IN WALKOUTS IN ADVANCE OF MIDNIGHT END OF TRUCE,

SITUATION IN STATE'S COAL - FIBLDS TENSE   General Walkout is Ex: pected with Expiration of Truce

Pravda Says Win Nof An Accident  Thinks Eastern Front   Thinks Eastern Fron Partly Responsible

NEAR AN AGREEMENT   Lewis and Operators Confer on Coal Wage Settlement

APPLICANTS FOF NAVAL COLLEGE TESTS APRIL 9   Those Accepted Will Get College Training While On Active Duty

HOW EMPLOYES OF U.S. BOOST PAY REVEALED   House Committee Re: ports on Investigation of Payrolls

BUILDING UP OF PERSONAL MACHINES HIT   Congress Told Of Hoisted Wages Attained. By Misrepresentation   CORRECTIONS DEMANDED   Ramspeck Committee Gives Detailed Information On_ Investigation

BUREAU HEADS “CRITICIZED IN SALARY PROBE   COMMITTEE CHARGES FED. ERAL PAY INCREASES GNANTED BY MISREPRESENTATION OF EM- ~  PLOYES DUTIES

RAF HEADS FOR EUROPE   Heavs weights Get Back Upon Job Of Reducing Axis Fortress

B.A. F. Attacks the Lowlands  Communications Ar   Communications Are Devlight Tarcets

R.A. F. Attacks the Lowlands  Communications Ars ™/~_, te 9 g We... ._. _g.

COMPLICATIONS IN SIGHT = IN FILING NEW TAX FORMS   AVERAGE TAXPAYER IS EXPECTED TO HAVE MUCH DIFFICULTY WITH NEW INeCOME TAX FORMS

INCOME FORMS TO BE WORSt   Taxpayer Who Was Floored by Old Returns Will Pull Hair - Out With New Ones.

NIPPON INVASION ARMIES SHIFTING   United Nations Fliers Hi Two Transports aden With Troops

Port Darwin Hit by  49-Plane Raid as Nips Try New Blow   WAVELL BEATS OFF FIERCE ENEMY THRUSTS AS BRITISH DRIVE FURTHER INTO BURMA; CHENNAULT PROMISES CHINA EQUIPMENT

U. S. Dive Bombers Hit Japanese Positions At Vila, Munda In Solomons

JAP FORCES SHIFTING TO ISLAND RING   New Menace Emphasized With Raid on Darwin.—Allied Planes Bombing Convoy Vessels.

DIVE BOMBERS HIT JAP ISLAND BASES   Raid Is 93rd of Campaign Against Enemy’ Airbase~” At Munda. -

 Russia Is Invited to Par ticipate. in . -: Géneral United Nations Food Parley

Russia Is Invited to Participate in  General United Nations Food Parley

RUSSIA INVITED TO ATTEND CONFERENCE ON FOOD SETUI   MEETING OF (UNITED NATIONS REPRESENTATIVES ON POST. WAR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS BEING AR-  ©  RANGED

U.S. ASKS REDS -TOFOOD PARLEY   Invitation First Move to Gain Russia’s Aid in Post-War Planning

LEGISLATURE PROBE ASKED   Charges of Graft Raised By Detroit Citizens League

Wy os ¥ Li ‘0b€ of Us 5. Employes lo  Continue; ‘Rebuke’ Ignored

Yanks Drive For Messina   Shakeup At Home-Causes Nc Halt In Wild Italian Flight

Yank Unit Heads For  Messina   Axis Remnant: Continueln  Wild Flieht .

Defenders F alling Back In N. Sicily   Fall of Mussolini Fails To Temper Drive Of Allied Divisions   YANKS TAKE TERMINI ON NORTHERN COAST

Americans in Onward Sweep Toward Messina   City May Become Another Cape Bon; Axis in Trap

Yankees Sweep Along Northern Coast of Sicily   Messina Bridgehead May Become Another Cap Bon; 7,000 More Prisoners Captured

Se  Yanks Drive For Messina   Shakeup At Home. Causes Nc Halt In Wild Italian Flight      Yanks Forces Push Closer To Munda   meayy Sea And Air Bombardments Aid Ir First General Craumd Adunancn Mn Been:

YANKS SWEEP ALONG NORTH SICILY COAST   Take 7,000 Prisoners In Swift Advance East From Palermo

Hialians Are Fleeing To Messina   Allied Forces Close Behind In Sicily Chase

Yankees Chase Htalians Along Sicilian Coast   Military Continues Flight Despite Fail Of Fascist Leader

sJermini Has Been Taken   ¥ More Prisoners Are Taken By U.S. Troops

ALONG NORTH SICILY COAS)   Take 7,000 Prisoners In Swift Advance East From Palermo

AMERICAN FORCES IN HOT PURSUIT IN NORTH SICILY   ‘Seven Thousand More Prisoners Taken as Yank Infantry and Tanks Chase Italians Along Coast.   TERMINI NEAR PALERMO CAPTURED BY 7TH ARMY   Nazi General Hurls Resurrected Motorized Division Into Hopeless Struggle in East.

AXIS ARMIES IN FLIGHT ON SICILY COAST   AMERICANS PURSUE REMNANTS; ESCAPE HOPES SLIM

Seventh Army Takes 7,000  More Prisoners   Italian Military Rabble Offers Little Resistanée

American Forces Continue .  Sweep Along Coast Of Sicily   Infantry and Tank Troops in Close Pursuit of Italians —Termini Is Captured in Advance To: ward Meccing

Yankees Sweep Forward  Over Sicily   Ktalian Forces Reel Back, Fighting Feebly; American Dash Toward Messina Is Rapid; British Gain

AMERICANS DRIVING GN IN SICILY   Messina Bridgehead May Become AnotherCapBon;7000 More Prisoners Taken Including Six Generals   Two Admirals

Italians Fall Back On Messina Strait   Americans In Close Pursuit After Capturing Termini; Six Generals Among 7,000 Prisoners Rounded Up

U, S. Forees Sweeping On  To Messina   Demoralized Italians Offer but Little Resistance in Sicily

LEADERS SCORE DASTARDLY SLAYING OF AMERICAN FLIERS CAPTURED IN RAID ON JAPANESE CAPITAL WITH DOOLITTLE

Messina Again  Heavily Bombec   British Heavy Bombers Strike New Blows At Life Line Of ItalySicilv   TOE OF ITALIAN BOOT IS ALSO HAMMERED

British Bombers Strike New Blows To The Communication: Between Italy And Sicily

TRI-POWER PARLEY ENTERS NINTH DAY   New Era Of Understanding And Good Will Should Expedite Victory 

NEW GOOD - WILL ERA INDICATED IN MOSCOW MEET   Hull, Eden, Molotov Hold Eight Tripartite Sessions in  : Conference

Moscow Parleys Said Successful    Full Exchange On All Views Reported

OWNER OF GROVE STARTS SENTENCE      12 to 15 Year Term Is Handed Welansky as Result _ of Holocaust

Italian Fleet Escorted to _ Malta by British in “V”   Formation ~

President WAVE-d at WAACs and WOW-ed 'Them During His Visit to Fort Oglethorpe

WAACS Are Wowed by President   DISCIPLINE FORGOTTEN AS WOMEN’S ARMY SEES CHIEF OF THE NATION

U.S.-Argentina Rift Widens Over Jew Ban   Order Suspending Newspapers Lifted After F. D. R. Attack

NEW THREAT TO WEST END OF DEFENSES   British, Polish Ships Bombard Port Of Gaeta

Yank Troops Smash Wedge  Into German's Winter Line  Flanking Threat To Enemy Positions On West End OF Italian Front Is Increased By Move

U. S. Troops Crack Line In Italy   Smash New Wedg Into Nazi-Held  Venafro Sector

Reds Pulverizing Nazi Defenses in Dnieper Bend Area   Capture of Mountain Barrier Helps Open Way to Rome; Eighth Army Nearing Pescara

Americans Score Smashing Victory In Western Italy   Sweep Nazis From East  Bank Of Garigliano River

YANKEES CLEA GERMANS FROM RIVER DISTRICT   Soviets Record Pulverizing  Gains As German Defenses Fold Up

CLEARING OUT GERMANS FROM ROME APPROACH   While Russians Have Wrested Important Rail Center in Ukraine From Hitlerites

MORGAN FUNERAL SERVICES SIMPLE   Noted Financiers Attend Rites in St. George’s Chorch. New York.

MORE ISLES IN AEGEAN TAKEN   Reported Pressing Air Attacks on Samos, Last Suill Held by Allies

Nazis Occupy Three More Of Aeqean Islands   Ikaria, Lipsos And Patmos Claimed By Boche As Captured

GERMANS CLAIM 3 MORE ISLANDS IN AEGEAN SEA   BERLIN SAYS NAZIS HAVE TAKEN IKARIA, LIPSOS AND PATMOS

Seize Three More Islands   Nazis Strengthen Hold On Dodeconese; Repeat Air Attacks on Samos

GERMANS CAPTURE a MORE ISLANDS   Action s Sequel to Loss By British of Leros Island,

GERMANS OCCUPIED THREE ADDITIONAL AEGEAN ISLANDS  NAZIS REPORTED PRESSING AERIAL ATTACK OF SAMOS ISLAND

Nazis Take 3 Aegean Isles   Ikaria, Lipsos. Patmos Fall As Sequel To British Loss: Of Leros.

Nazis Hitting More Aegean Isles; ‘Sheer Audacity’ Won Leros, Claim   Had Natural Defenses   By MARSLAND GANDEER

Germans Claim 3 New Isles   ENEMY SAYS TROOPS TOOK OVER IKARIA, LIPSOS, PATMOS BASES

Germans Take  3 More Islands   Ikaria, Lipsos and Patmo: Claimed Occupied As Halians Surretider

CLAIM THREE ISLANDS   Germans Make Fresh Acrial Attacks on Samos :

Germans Claim Three Islands  Captur re Ikaria,  I Sooner anal Daxiwane   Capture Ikaria, Lipsos and Patmos, Berlin. Declares

New Board Starts Post-War Plans   Highways to Provide Employment for Many

2. FIERCE BATTLES RAGING IN SOUTH CENTRAL TUNISIA   Allies Open Campaign To “Fake Key Mountain Passes — Enemy’s Twice Plwsaia   EIGHTH ARMY READY ., FOR CLIMACTIC PUSH 

2 BATTLES RAGING IN TUNISIA   Mountain Passes Are Prizes At Stake

TWO BIG VITAL BATTLES ARE NOW RACING IN AFRICA   Are important fo Entire Allied Campaign In Tue,

Three-Fourths Will Come  From America   Senator Says Lack of British Reserves Will Put Burden on This Nation; Anpointment of Eisenhower Applauded

U.S. to Supply 73 Per Cent of Men In Invasion, Says Senator Johnson

ESTIMATE GIVEN BY SENATOR CLOSE TO ARMY AFFAIRS   Johnson of Colorado Says England Is Not Able to Pour Unlimited Number  Into Force.   FIELD MARSHAL JOB FACING EISENHOWER   Commander, However, Will Be Subordinate to General Marshall, Chief of Staff.

Reveal Invasion Decision   SOLON JOHNSON SAYS U. S$. TO FURNISH 73 PER CENT OF TROOPS

More Capone Aids Hunted In Cleanup   ‘Enforcer’ Nitti’s Suicide Spurs U. 8. Search for Other Higherups

Both Congressional and Treasury Experts Are Considering Simplification Plans.

Even Washington Feels Income Tax Is In Need Of Some Simplification

ESTIMATE? 21,000 MINERS NOW XDLE IN FOUR.STATES AS NEW WALKOUTS -. " ocowu,

iia: ies  FILIBUSTER AGAINST ANTI-USURY BILE 15 ENDED EARLY TODAY   SENATOR MARTIN FINALLY ABANDONS EFFORT TO DELAY PASSAGE

Robert Folkes. Is Convicted In ~ Lower 13 Case   Mandatory Sentence 0! : Death Is Provided Ir  Verdict ° Returned B; . Jury In Oregon

Indians Doomed to Live Lives as Pariahs Have. Have Done For Hundreds of Years Ir Past

Today’s War Moves   India’s 60,000,000 Untouchables, Condemned to Live as Pariahe

The War Today Tragedy Of India’s Untouchables ‘Told By Learned Member Of Clas:

HISTORY REVEALS FEW HUMAN TRAGEDIFS SO AWFUL AS INDIA’S SIXTY MILLION “UNTOUCHABLES”

Question Mark i in Capitol   Administration Anti-Inflation Plan Threatened

ANT INFLATION PROGRAM FACING NOUBLE THREAT   Farm Bloc Seeks Highe: Parity Prices; Union: Fight Wage Ceiling

LAGUIT GOunl PROGEEDING 3 UF LiEnco   Several Civil Suits Were Up for Notation Thursday Morning.   WAS SHORT SESION

CIRCUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS “OF WWTEREST   ‘Several Civil Suits .Were Up for Notation Thurs_day Morning.”   WAS SHORT SESSION   Damage Suit Aga‘rst Tiptcn Woman Has Been :  Dismissed. . :

Eight Government Agencies, Red Cross and Civic Leaders of Every Town in the Nation Will Have a Hand in Returning War Veterans fo Civilian Jobs and Life, Re-employment Bulletin Says

Government Agencies, Red Cross, Civic Heads to Aid in Getting Vets Johs

TAX ON SALES. I$ NOT LIKEL'   SENATE SUPPORT OF FEDERAL RETAIL TAX WEAKENING HOUSE ACTION GAINS BACKING, ~

ON GUADALCANAL IS BELIEVED SET FOR BIG OFFENSIVE   Japs Admit That Everything Isn’t Going Their Way. U. S. Flyers Deal Out Heavy Blows.

CONGRESS PUTS END TO AYA PROGRAM   Senate Gives Up Efforts To Save Agency

DEATH OF NYA AGENCY VOTED   Three Million Allowed For Liquidation By Congress

DEMANDS OF HOUSE ACCEPTED   Compromise Reached On Funds For OWI And OPA Groups

Congress Agrees To Death of NYA   House Demand For Death Blow Accepted By Senaie

CONGRESS KILLS NATIONAL YOUTI ADMINISTRATION   Rep. Shert Says NYA’s Plan “Silly, Crazy And Cock-Evyed’

Congress Agrees to Kill NYA, Makes Progress on Several Other Appropriation Bills During Session

Congress. Agrees to Kill-NYA "  “Action on Farm: “Bill Delaved -

YA VOTEDOUT F EXISTENCE Y END OF 1943   Benate Yields to Demand:  af House Which Had   Previously Pronounced Death Sentence   ACTIVITIES TERMED “SILLY, COCK-EYED’   Touse-Enacted Bill Passed  by Vote of 39 to 33;  Action of Farm Fund Postponed

Congress Knifes NYA, Grants Closing Funds  Opponents Clain Agency Engaged In ‘Silly’ Work

Congress Votes  Death for NYA   Approj yriations Agreements Neat

Congress Agrees To Kill NYA   Senote Votes House Liquidation Demand

NYA KILLED BY VOTE OF SENATE   Funds Lopped Off, ‘Perpetual Youth’ Organization To Fold in Year

Solons Put End To NYA Project   8- Year-Old Depression Agency Killed

DEMOBILIZATION OF WAR INDUSTRY PLAN IS STUDIED  EARLY START URGED   EARLY START URGED ON RETURNING PLANTS TO CIVILIAN WORK

PEACE PLANT PLANS URGED   CONGRESS DEMANDS END TO BLANK CHECK METHOD

Post-War Plan for Industry Is Advocated   Early Start to Guard Against Post-War Collapse ts Urged by Administration

CONGRESS DEMANDS  AN END TO BLANK  CHECK WAR PAYMENTS EARLY START ON DEMO.  BILIZATION OF INDUSTR' AICO BEING TIRCEN

POST-WAR PLAN BEFORE SOLONS   Guard Against Economic Collapse Is Sought By Congress

GREEKS TOLD TO GIVE UP QUARRELING      (COmmander of British Ninth Army Says Strife Between ‘Iwo Fighting Groups Is a Detriment to Allies.

Red Cross Drive Early Results Are Disannointing  Planning Group of Campaign to Hold Meet Today

Red Cross Drive Early Results Are Disannointiny  Planning Group of Campaign to

Tilo Announces Important Gains   Balkan Offensive Covers Wide Area

Yugoslavs Battle In Croatia, Bosnia  Political Quarrels tend beetle -d

MILAN AGAIN SUBJECTED T0 RAF BOMBING   Population Thrown Into Panic by Third Heavy Attack In 72 Hours.

Block-Busters Rock Peace-Crying Milan; Berlin Also Raided   Attack on Italy’s Second City Termed Heaviest So Far in War; Town Hinted on Revolution Brink

Mosquitos Hit Berlin For 3rd Time in 72 Hours   WAR CHIEFS PLANNING INVASIONS AT QUEBEC

BAITIGH NIGHT ATTACK THRO N72 HOURS  Blockbusters Catse Heavy   Biockbusters Cause Heavy Casualties in Italy’s Second City.   BERLIN ALSO RAIDED BY MOSQUITO BOMBERS

RAH POUNDS MILAN WITH WORST RAID   Italy’s Second City Near Revolution; Berlin Hit  _ and Fortresses Carry on Offensive Today.

City Reported in State Near Revolution; People Cry For Peace, Enraged at Rome Chiefs   British Don't Divulge Weight of Bombs Casualties High — War Plants in ’. Shambles: Berlin Also Attacked.

Air Offensive Is Continuing  Day And Night   Northern Italian... City Bordering On State Of Revolution

Saturation Raids Hit  — Stricken Milan   British Mosquito, Bombers Blast Berlin — American Flying Fortresses Escorted By Thunderbolts Roar Over Channel This Morning

FATHER DRAFT ~~ 18 CONCEDED   ROUSE MILITARY AFFAIRS “CHAIRMAN SEES DEFEAT OF ANY BIL. DEFERRING. INDUCTIONS

Conquering British Army Marched Into Capital of Tunisia   Takes Possession of Burn: ing City at 5:00 O'clock This Morning

English Overwhelm Rear Guards Left Behind By Marshal Rommel.   ENTER CITY AT 5A. M.

PURSUE ROUTED ROMMEL FORCE NEARER TUNISIA   Axis Rear Guards Left Behind in Burning City Are Overwhelmed

British Overwhelm Rear Guard, Take Possession * of Burning City      ROMMEL IN TUNISIA   Is Believed in Contact With Von Armin’s Forces on  Mareth Line

City Burning As Tommies Move In   Conquest of Mussolini’s African Empire All But Complete— Believe Good Part of Rommel’s Men in Contact With Von Arnim’s Forces

 British: Overwhelm Rear (Gane, Take Possession. of Burning City —   ROMMEL IN ~ TUNISIA   Is Believed in Contact With .Von Armin’s Forces on   . . Mareth Line

‘Rommel’s Rear Guard Overwhe'me®, ‘Eighth Army Chases Nazis In Tunisia:

ENEMY DEFENSE OF VITAL CITY WASN'T STRONG   Last Outpost Of Mussolini’s African Empire Now In Allied Hands; Great Damage Inflicted.

PLEDGE IN 1940 BY CHURCHILL ON AFRIGA KEPT   British Prime Minister Promised Mussolini’s Empire Would be Torn “To Shreds and Tatters”   ROME SAYS TROCPS EVACUATED TRIPOL   Rommel Abandoned Capital of Tripolitania Without Making Determined Stand

CHURCHILL'S PLEDGE ITALIAN AFRICAN EMPIRE WOULD BE TORN TO THREADS ALL BUT COMPLETE

CONQUERING BRITISH ENGHTH ARMY WREST BASE FROM GERMANS  CITY OF TRIPOLI TAKEN IN CHARGE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING

Yussolini’s Dream Of Creat African Empire Shattered With Fall Of Libyan Capital

Rome, Berlin Admit Libyan City Is Lost   Campaign Pressing Forward To Tunisia In Pursuit Of Rommel’s Forces

Union Jack ‘Flies In Libyan Capital   Rommel, Punished by Air, Quits Flaming. City and Dashes Into Tuntsia

ROMMEL SAVES HALF. OF ARMY OF 126,000   Joins Forces With Von Arnim  Behind Mareth Line  Incidse Triniela

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY MARCHES INTO TRIPOLI   Last Outpost Of Italians Taken  Officially Teday

Rommel’s Troops Racing To Meet Forces in Tunisia   African Empire OF Mussolini Is Conquered

25 Are Missing In Hotel Blaze   Two Other Buildings Lost in Quebec Fire

End Of War In Europe Could Dent 44 Vote   Migrating War Workers May Encounter Many Franchise Difficulties

Stabbing Inland, Allies Penetrate Ragusa Outskirts   Pacific Offensive Continues, Costins Japs Four Transports; Soviet Lines Hold

ARMY'S NEW BANK SYSTEM IS A SUCCESS   New Flyine Service Gives Soldiers  Pay On Time

ALLIED PLANES HIT 6 MORE AXIS SHIPS   Rommel Supply Lines Blasted As Allies Prepare New Drive

Six More Vessels, 38 Aircraft Bagged in War of Attrition; Ground Forces Gird for Assault

Six Axis Ships Are Sunk in  Mediterranean   Allies Destroy 38 Enemy Planes in African Fight

Alties Get Prepared to Attack Bases   Alexander’s Forces Gather for Assault on Tunis and Bizerte

Troops Get Set For Assault on Foe’s Defenses   French Capture 70 Prisoners in Local Skirmishes; German Fliers Raid Algiers

Bridgehead Raked From All Angles   Ground Fighting In North Africa In Lull As Alexander's Forces Get Set For Assault On Tunis, Bizerte

Ceaseless Wor of Attrition Continues in the Medi. terranean.  GROUND FORCES ARE SET FOR ASSAULT Prolonged Artillery Duels  Reported Taking Place

Axis Supply Lines Raked  By Allies Six Ships Sunk 20 DI. OA   Six Ships Sunk, 38 Planes Are Destroyed

Fortresses and British Planes Hit Hard at Rommel’s Supply Lines; Foe in Brief Raid on Algiers

Armies Get Set for Final Campaign to Sweep Foe From Tunis and Bizerte   Italians Report Intense and Lengthy Artillery Duels in Heights; Reds Continue Efforts to Run Nazis From Caucasus; Air Blows at Europe Go On

SIX AXIS SHIPS HIT; 38 ENEMY PLANES BAGGED   Ceaseless War Of Attrition Being Waged In Medi terranaan Aras   ONLY PATROL ACTIVITY MARKS GROUND ACTION

Axis Counter-A Atia          Falls On Algier: * vent arid Kill. 15 N;

Air Battles Mark War of Attrition In Mediterranear   Thirty-eight German Planes Destroyed by RAF and Americans   Ground Forces Preparing for Assault on Tunis and Bizerte

Royal Navy Raids.  Rommel Sea Lane  ieee: Palmero Ports, Airfielde Pounded

WHILE GENERAL ALEXANDER’S GROUND FORCES GET SET FOR ASSAULT ON DEFENSES OF TUNIS AND BIZERTE.

Axis Ships Attacked By Flying Fortresses, British Torpedo Boats And Torpedo Planes  GROUND FIGHTING LIGHT ON WEEK-END Alexander’s Forees  Consolidate for Push On Tunis and Bizerte

Allies Cause Havocon Tunis Front   American Planes Take Leading Part in Many Attacks on Foe

Dollar Volume Under 1942 Record Morgenthau Declares Income Tax Collections Satistactory

TAK COLLECTIONS ARE ENCOURAGING   Morgenthau Fails to Find Evidence of Large Scale Defaults Anywhere; Thousands Not Tabulated

INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS HELD SATISFACTORY BY MORGENTHAU      Picture Encouraging Although Dollar Value af March Collections Reported So Far Under Last Year, Treasury Head Sov:

Tax Picture Pleases U.S Despite Lag in Returns   Decision of Many to Adopt Quarterly Payments Reduces Dollar Volume; Collectors Still Counting in Some Areas

Students In Vital War Study Given Extra Semester   Enlistees Taking Medical Courses Will Continue Under Army Direction

“The Bitter Struggle Is Over.”’.... Canadians Storm Along  Toward Pescara After The Capture Of Ortona

Eighth Pushes Toward Pescara  Canadians Follow Up Capture of Ortona

anadians, Who Captured Ortona, Smash Toward . Rome’ s Adriatic Port Of Pescara      OME FIELDS BOMBED

Germans Flee Orfona Ruins   Nazis Are Pursued By Canadiens After House-to-House Fight

Nazis Launch Offensive On Fifth Army   Town Is Left In Ruin: After Bitter Struggle With Germans

Allies Announce End Of Eight-Day Bitter Struggle   Adriatic Vir’ tually Closed ‘To German Shipping By Allied Air Patrols..

Eight Day Ortona Battle Ends With Town In Ruins French Capture Heights

Important Port City I Captured After Eight Day Ritter Stricole With Nazis :

Ortona Falls;  Canadians  Drive North   Smash Toward Pescara on Adriatic: French Take High Peak

ALLIES DRIVE PAST ORTONA   Smash Northward Along Adriatic Toward Pescara

ORTONA FALLS TO CANADIANS   Allied Forces Push on After Conquest—Airfields Near Rome Are bombed

AIRFIELDS NEAR ROME ATTACKED   French Seize Peaks In Center Area; Fifth  Army Advances

Canadian Troops Advance in Italy   Army Drives Along Adriatic Coast After Ortona Falls in Mighty Struggle

ORTONA BATTLE ENDS TUESDAY   Allied Communique Says 8Day Bitter Struggle Is Over.

Ortona Struggle Ended; Allied Bombs Dropped Close to Italian Capital

BRITISH DRIVE NORTHWARD IN ADRIATIC AREA   Canadian Forces Captured Ortona After Fighting Eight Days In Houseto-House Battle

Marines In New Britain And Aussies On Guinea Closing Pincers On Japs   Allies Drive On Pescara, Ortona Falls

Ortona Captured By Canadian Army  Allied Bombers Strike At Nazi Airfields

CANADIAN UNITS AIM AT PORT OF PESCARA   Drive Ahead In Snow, Sleet Along Adriatic Coast

Snow And Sleet Hamper Activity On Coast Roac   British Eighth Army Units Reported 9 Miles From Important City Of Chieti

Canadians Push On for Pescara   ALLIED TROOPS WIN BITTER FIGHT FOR ORTONA; GERMANS LAUNCH FULL-SCALE ATTACK ON EAST COAST TOWN OF PONTE DI GARIGLIANO IN DRIVE

U. §. BOMBERS HIT AIRFIELDS IN ROME AREF   Germans Launch Drive Against U. S. Forces On Eastern Coast

Canadians Move Toward Pescara   ' Their Capture of Ortona Is Announced By Allied Communique

Canadians Smash North Along Coast   Bitter Eight Day Struggle For Ortona

Canadians Forge Ahead In Sleet And Snow In Italy   Oriona Captured; Foe Airfields Near Rome  Bombed: Eighth Army Moves Toward Pescara

Canadians Are Driving From Captured Ortona Toward Port Of Pescara On Adriatic Coast   Allies Confirm Capture Of Town, As Nazis Counter-Attack Fifth Army

Canadians Pressing On Toward Pescara   Smash North Through Sleet and Snow Following Capture of Ortona—Nazis Open Attack on the Fifth Army.

STRUGGLE FOR ORTONA ENDS; ROME I$ NEXT   Report Bombing Of Capital By Allied Forces

Ortona Falls To Canadian Troops   Forces Advance In Heavy Storm After Capturing Port

Canadians Go Beyond Orfona   Fight Forward Through Snow, Sleet; Rome Airfield Bombed

Rail Junction Of Korosten In Ukraine Seizec   Canadians Advance After Hand-To-Hand Battle Of Qrtona Over.   AIRFIELDS BOMBED

Eight-Day Bitter Struggle For Ortona Is Over With Allied Victory

Ortona Taken By Allies in Bitter Battle   Violent House-to-House Fighting Climaxes Struggle Lasting Eight Days

BERIIN HOUSING SHORTAGE FELT   Families Bombed Out Ot Apartments Take Over Vacant Homes

Berlin Admits  Heavy Damage   Housing Shortage Caused by Bombings

DESPERADOES ARE OUT AGAIN   Leland Harvey And D. C. Black Escape From Georgia Jail.

Sweater Taboo In War Plant Irks Union Pointing To No Ban For Office Girls

Union Officials Take Side Of Sweater Girls at War Plant   if Gffice Girls Can Wear ‘Em Why Can’t Workers Is Debated

TOWN IN ROME AREA SMASHED   Fortresses Destroy Nazis’ Military Headquarters At Frascati

Yanks Smash German Staff Headquarters Villas , Housing Naz  - Chiefs Blasted; 28 ‘ Huns Downed -

“OPERATORS 10 FORGIVE FINES   "Move May Be General Tc Avert New Mine Rift

Five Vital Junctions Captured   2,500 Enemy Troops Reported Killed In Swift Russian Drive  By JAMES MVM. LONG

NAZIS’ RAIL SUPPLY LINES ARE SEIZED   Ninety Villages Overrun, 2,500 Germans Killed and Threat to Stalino Increased.   REDS SPEED UP SURGE IN UKRAINE   Begin Encircling Move on Enemy Base of Konotop—Rip Foe’s Defenses Near Smolensk.

Russians Take ‘Heart Of Rail * Net In Donet:   g-rushing Drive Puts Reds Astride < Railways Leading to Stalino; Nazis Face Another Encirclement

Soviets Capture Major Nazi Base In Donets Basin   Heart Of Germany’s Supply Network Falls

Soviets Crush Vital Nazi Rail System  Great Steel Cente:   Great Steel Center of Stalin May Be Taken Soon

Russian Plunge Snares Nazi Heart of Supply  Soviets Astride Railways Into City of Stalino

Nazi Network Of Supply Lines In Donets Captured   Fall Of Stalino Nea  Claim Russians

Russians Gain Three Railway Lines in Basin   Capture Ilovaiskaya, Only 18 Miles From Steel City of Stalino, Whose Fall Seems Nea

Slaughter 5,000 Germans As 15 Mile Push Gains Three: Rail Lines Stalino Neared

Soviets Crush Nazi Rail System In Donets Basin As Stalino Nears Capture

EARLY CAPTURE OF BiG STEEL CITY INMINENT   Swift Gains May Hasten Nazi Withdrawal  From Donets   Hard-Hitting Soviets Prevent Efforts To Con solidate Lines

Heart Of German Rail System Crushed; Reds Near Stalino Bastion   Soviet Steamroller Rolls Ahead On 600-Mile Front: Berlin Reports New Attacks In Donets

REDS CONTROL DONETS BASIN SUPPLY LINES   FALL OF STALINO, GERMAN BASTION, BELIEVED NEAR

46 KILLED IN HOUSTON HOTEL FIRE   Unknown Number Injured In Worst Hotel Fire In Houston History

Many Burned To Deatl While Others Die n Jumping From   Windows 20 IN HOSPITALS Firemen Search Debris For Additional Bodies

46 Persons Killed In Hotel Fire In Texas   Worst Hotel Fire In History 0 Houston Early Today

AGED MEN AND TRANGIENTS IN BLAZING DEATH   Are Trapped on Top Floors When Flames Sweep Up in Night.   CROWD SEES VICTIM BURNED AT WINDOW

46 Men Perish as Hotel Burns   Score in Hospitals After Houston Fire

TRAPPED ON TOP FLOORS OF BUILDING   All Victims Are Elderly Residents

4G Men Die* When Houston Hotel Burns   Spectators Watch Elderly Transients Jump To Deaths

Hotel Fire Fatal To 46 At Houston   Aged Men Are Among Victims Of Fire Whicl Swept Through Hote During Night

Kerr Abandons Home Guard Plan   Auxiliary Patrolmen Can Do the Job

Kerr Gives Up Home Guard Plan   Auxiliary Highway Patrolmen Are to Handle State Job

Ohio Dubious of Jap Farm Labor   Use of Internees In State Proposed

UIL MEN URGE HIGHER PRICES   F. R. FREEZING ORDER SLOWS PETROLEUM PLEA

Oil Men Ask Aid in Move To Up Price   Question If FD’s Recent Order May Block Boost Raised At House Hearing

DAMAGING FLOODS  COVER WIDE SECTION  INDIANA WEDNESDAY AT LEAST FOUR PERSONS  DROWN AND 10,000 NOW HOMEI Ecc

DEPT. OFFICIALS WARN CITIZENS AS HEALTH MOVE   Heavy Damage Is Reported In Hlinois

PIHLBLAD RITES MONDAY   To Be at Bethany, Where He Was ) President 37 Years

11 BILLIONS IN SUPPLIES SENT   Lend-Lease Deliveries Are 790 Millions In May

WLB Again Demands Compliance With Back-to-Job Order  Miners Still Strike; New Snags Face Settlement

Coal Troubles Hit New Snag   WLB Demands Compliance; Many Strikers Still Out

Tokyo Broadcast Asserts U. S. Makes Preparations To Launch -Counter-Offensive In Pacific

Allies Make  Aerial Sweep In South Seas   Blast Strongholds In Ring Of Island Bases

Japs Predicting U. S. Offensives   Allied Airmen Blast Jap Island Ring

Tokyo Expects Allied Offensive   Many Jap Bases Smashed from Air

TOKYO 1S SECOND GUESSING AS ALLIED PLANES BLAST JAPS  NIP BROADCAST DECLARE, UNITED STATES PLANS  LiOATIAT EH OFPCCRICIUE?

JAPAN FEARS OFFENSIVE BY YANK FORCES    Meanwhile Allied Airmen Make It Hot for Nipponese in South  Sea Battle Area.

‘Mac/irthur’s Headquarters  4 Report Greatest Allied  ; Aerial Sweep Ever Undertaken In South Sea Battle Theatre; Bombers Range Across 2000 Mile Arc.

TOKYO EXPECTS U.S, OFFENSIVE   Preparation Under Way, Broadcast Reports

Tokyo Warns Of American Offensive   MacArthur’s Fliers Make Biggest Air Sweep of War

TOKYO ASSERTS U.S. PLANNING PACIFIC: DRIVE      ‘Counter-Offensive Against Nippon Predicted as Allies Blast South  Sea Bases

ALLIES BOMB 14 JAP BASES NEAR AUSSIES   Tokyo Warns of Raids In South Seas by Yankees

Japs Warned 0.8. Offensive Ready   U.%&. Fortis, Dive Bombers Hit Jans

ALLIED AIRMEN SPREAD - EAGLE ENEMY’S BASES   British Report ‘New Flare-up on Burma Front

U.S. Planning An Offensive, Tokyo Says   Broadcast Goes Out As MacArthur. Reporis Big Aerial Sweep   JAP ISLAND BASES HEAVILY ATTACKED   Greatest Assatlt in the Area Sees 38 “Tons of Bombs. ‘Dropped On Enemy

Japs Expect U. 5. Drive in Pacific   Allied Planes Bomb ‘14 enemy Targets  c[ ar ees Se Se eee

JAPANESE FEAR BIC OFFENSIVE   Tokyo Reports Americans Already Launching CounterAttack Against Nippon

MacArthur's Airmen Busy   Tokyo Radio Expects Counter Offensive From U. S. Forces

Tokyo Predicts U. S. Pacific   Offensive rae   Allied Bombers Rarige 2,000.) Miles in Greatest Aerial, Sweep Yet in ~ South Sea: Battle Thea tow -

Japanese Fear An  Allied Offensive   “Broadcast’ a Warning as MacArthur Planes Sweep Island Bases   OVER 2,000-MILE ARC   14 Enemy Strongholds Are Attacked in Heavy Air  Assaults

Enemy Is Expected Teo Fight Until Last Man Goes Down. U. S. Troops Doing Good

Small Steady Gains Over Fortified Axis Forces.  BRITISH ADVANCE TO 20 MILES FROM TUNIS  Two German Tankers Are Sunk in Gulf of Tunis.

AMERICANS TAKE TWO MORE HILLS ON ROUTE TO BIZERTE; FRENCH SMASH TO OUTSKIRTS OF PONT DU FAHS IN SOUTH

FEDERAL WORKERS TO MEET MR. DIES   1,100 To Be Investigated By Committee On UnAmerican Activities

Dies Committee, Renewed for 2 More Years, to Investigate 1,000 Workers

DIES INQUIRIES WILL CONTINUE   Rep. Clarence Brown Votes To Carry on Probe of Un-American Acts

Dies Checks on U.S. Employes  Committee Given 2 More Years of Life

Dies To Purge  U.S. Employes   Turning Over: Full Lists : To Committee; Group. * Gains Extension

CONTINUE Dts GROUP 2 YEARS   Committee on Un-American Activities Studies Federal List,

DIES COMMITTEE EVES FED WORKERS   1,000 On Government Payrol Investigated

 Bitterest Fighting of Italian War Marks Anchoring of Second Moro River Foothold By Eighth

Allies Seize More Italian  Strongholds   Both U. S. and Britis! Forces Gain Despite Nazi Resistance

CLARK'S FORCES TARE VITAL HILL IN MILE ADVANGE   Army Slashing Way Toward Cassino, One Section From South and Another From East,   MONTGOMERY’S TROOPS TAKE SAN LEONARDO   Establish Another Bridgehead on Moro River—Canadians in Bloody Battle for Pescara.

MILE GAINED BY OTH ARMY NEAR CASSING   ITALIANS FIGHTING WITH ALLIES ARE HURLED BACK

CLARK'S FORCES GAIN MILE, TAKE ITALIAN HEIGHT   British Also Advance in Fierce Fighting Against Germon Troops

Clark's Fifth Army Seeks fo Reach Cassino   British Eighth Army Captures San Leonardo After Desperate Battle

War Bond Score   Threat Increased To Nazi Block On Pathway To Rome

Yanks Smash On Toward Cassino   Eighth Takes Town In Bitter Fighting

Allies Hammer Toward Cassino   Increases Threat To Germans Blocking Rome Road; Eighth Army Takes San Leonardo 6n North Bank Of Moro

8th Bridges Moro In Bloody Battle   San Leonardy Captured Ry Cowen k TVisette

5th Pushes Nazis On Road to Rome   British 8th Takes San Leonardo on North Bank of Moro

Yanks Smash On Toward Cassino   Eighth Takes Town In Bitter Fighting  RP. FAVA BWrararecras

Eighth Army Gets New Bridgehead Across Moro River   Italians Turned Back By German Attack in First Biow on Allied Side

ARGENTINE REQUEST FOR RECALL OF NAZI SEEN AS WARNING    Raich Refuses To Surrender Naval Attache For Trial Ac Avont

ARGENTINA ASKS GERMAN TO LEAVE   REQUEST TAKEN AS WARNING TO BERLIN AGAINST SPYING

Axis Hauls Big Guns To Alps: To ) Nip Revolt   Frequent Clashes Between French And {talians Reported

Haul Big Guns Into Alps to. Attack Patriots   Seek to Blast ‘Thousands From Hiding Places

FRENCH HIDING IN HILLS FACE BIG SEIGE GUNS   Patriots Told By Radio Time Not Ripe For Open Revolt

French Alps Fight Looms   Patriots Will Face Bie Axis Siege Guns

Axis to Use Siege Guns Against Patriots   French Mobile Guards Fail to  TDicladosn Conntrvumen

ltalians Move Big Guns Into French Alps .   Prepare to Blast Resisting French Patriot Armies

\XIS HAULS BIG BUNS INTO ALPS   ermany Threatens Use Of Troops To Round Up French For Slave Labor

AXIS ARMY SEEKS 70 QUELL REVOLT IN HAUTE-SAVOIE   Martial Law Proclaimed Throughout Province; French Patriots Attack Italian Sentries.

Two Berrien Men Indicted By U. 5.   Accuséd Of Breaking Lottery Laws

CONGRESS TOLD THAT AMERICA FIGHTING MAD’   Arsenal of Democracy Is Producing Equipment

FDR: We'll hit hard   Victory possible in 1944—calls for post-war unity among allies; demands disarmament of aggressors, job and security for everyone   Act to settle differences with farm bloc   Senators hope to avert split on parity, labor

Long and Costly Job Lies Ahead, Conaress Told.   “Hall Rings With _ Cheers as President Gives Messaade

CONGRESS HEARS WARNING TO AXIo IN UNION ADDRESS   President In Spirited Talk Today Predicts Allied  Offensives

State Of The Union Address By FDR Today   SAYS MEN NOW AT WAR WILL COME HOME EXPECT. ING SECURITY FOR FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS

Strong Allied Program May Bring Victory by 1944 President Hints in Message.

STATE OF UNION TALK CONTAINS SECURITY PLEA   Seer  Insistence On “Third Freedom’ Expected To Have Political Repercussions.

Allies May Need India As War Base   Nation Is Safe  From Invasion

WAR ANALYST PREDICTS INDIA TO BE MAIOR BASE IN WINNING WAR AGAINST ORIENTAL HUNS

Declining Manpower Requirements Slash Production Costs   Attributed To Better _ Industrial Facilities And Technique

NAZIS THROWN BACK ON 400 MILE FRONT   Retreat Becomes Rout At Many Places; Airborne Troops Join In Taking Mariupol, Chaplino :

INaz1 Armies on  400-Mile Front  Sledge-Hammer Attacks  Turn German Retreat : Teta D vnasé

-Nazi Retreat On Red Line “Almost Rout   Escape Corridor In Crimea Periled “By Soviet Thrusts

BEATEN NAZIS FLEE RED ARMY   Lone German Escape Cor_ rider Threatened By  Mariupol Fall

Threaten Nazi Escape Corridor   Russians Are Battering Fleeing Germans Along  400 Mile Front.

Fleeing German Legions Battered. ....  All Nazi Lines East Of Dnieper In Peril

Reds Batter Fleeing Nazis   Continued Retreat in ‘South Imperils Escape Corridor from Crimea

2 Vital Cities Seized   Soviet Blows Turning German Retreat Into Rout

NAZIS ON  A 400 MILE FRONT   Entire German Defense in Eastern Russia Is  mapersion ) AR ANDON MAN MANY TOWNS

German Escape Corridor From Crimea Periled   Red Blows Turning Nazi Retreat Into A Rout In Many Places.

Reds Imperil Entire German Army As They Close on Escape Corridor

HANMER NAZIS ON: A 400 MILE FRONT   Entire German Defense in tern Russia Is  Imperiled

Nazis" Eseape  Periled   Entire Axis Defense East of the Dneiper River Is Threatened

LINES EAST OF DNIEPER RIVER   Escape Corridor of Nazis in Crimea Is hnperiled by Advance

NAZI RETREAT FROM RUSSIANS BECOMING ROUT   Entire German Defense System East of Dnieper River Imperiled, Moscow Reports

Nazi Retreat  Appears Close To a Rout   Russians Pursue Germans Along 4.00-Mile Front

Reds Battering Nazi Armies on  400-Mile Front   400-Mile Front  Sledge-Hammer Attacks  Turn German Retreat Intan Rant

THE ENTIRE NAZI DEFENSE SYSTEM IS IMPERILED   Sole Remaining Escape Corridor of Crimean Garrison Is Threatened.   RETREAT INTO A ROUT   The Enemy Abandoned Vast Stores of Material; 6,800 Officers and Men Killed.

NAZI RETREAT TURNS TO ROUT   Marinpol, Port on Sea’ 0 Azov, Seized By Soviets

Soviets Turn Nazi Retreat into A Rout   Entire German Defense System East of Dnieper River Is Threatened

TRAVEL RATIONING NOT NOW PLANNED   Christmas Holidays May Be Brief Exception

SERVANTS GALLED TO STAND IN TRIAL OF COUNT MARIGNY   Testimony Of Christie, Star Witness, Is Unshaken

BERLIN ADMITS MUSSOLINI OUI   German Radio Hard Put To See Silver Lining

Surrender Will Have Effect in Balkan States   ‘Conquest of Whole Agea: Mayy)-s Not Be Necessary

Burnquist Rules on 35Mile Speed   Declares Governor Ha: Power to Issue Order Setting Speed Limit

PLANT EMPLOYE DIES   Fred S. Clark Injured Friday Night in Sunflower Explosion

BRITISH 187 ARMY DRIVE IS HELD UE   Germans Launch Fierce Counter-attacks That Delay Allied Advance.

MAKE GAINS IN TUNISIA   British Force Checked By Nazi Counterattack

YANKS GAIN IN HARD FIGHTING ~ ON NORTH FRONT   Nazis Making Strong Counter-Attacks On British   FIRST ARMY NEARING PLAINS BEFORE TUNIS

Desperate Bid flo Halt Advance   » Axis Counter-Attacks eStall British Troops. _ _ On Edge of Tunis Plain

ALLIES DASH INTO GERMANS’ FINAL DEFENSES   U. S. Forces Continue To Gain British Checked By Fierce Counterattacks

YANKS GAIN IN SAVAGE BATTLE AROUND JEFNA   British Checked by 2 Fierce Counter-Attacks in Last Range of Hills

AMERICANS . MAKE IMPORTANT GAINS IN NORTH TUNISIA      2 Fierce Axis Drives Halt First -Army’s Match In Hills Guarding Tunis Plain

YANKEE INFANTRY GAINS IMPORTANT ENEMY POSITIONS   Bitterest Fighting Centers Approximately 21 Miles From Tunis, Axis Tanks firpa Rastan Mitt, ‘   GERMANS REPORTED AS HAVING GREAT LOSSES   Britain's Biggest. Bombers. Others From Russia Strike  #* Hard Blows at Points Ir Germany.

Sgt Roy H. Reinhardt Is Witness Of “One-Man Riot In London, England

Cullman Boy Present When Birmingham Boy Meets B’ham . Girl In England

Compromise Reached by Legislature   Appropriations Bill Approved to Snap 10-Hour Impasse

‘House Compromise Sends Last Major Appropriation Bill to Governor as State Legislature Adjourns Session

Last Major Bill Approved And {s Sent Governor   Senate -And House Snipe At Each Other All Night  Tuesdav

LEGISLATURE QUITS  WEDNESDAY MORNING AFTER COMPROMISE  APPROPRIATION BILL HAE TRrARTACYER THh want   APPROPRIATION BILL HAD DEADLOCKED TWO HOUSES FOR MANY HOURS’:

) MORE DAYS OF COLD WILL BLANKET U, $   21 Degrees Below Zero at Min. nesota Town. Weather Toll of 13 in New England States

COLD WAVE GRIPS THE NORTHEAST   Mercury Falls to 21 Below At Rosseau, Minn. 

cee CL ELL AL LLL LLL! AAO LL LD  13-Year-Old Murderer Given Term in Prison

Britons Talk of Early Armistice, But Military Chiefs Are Not Optimistic

English Vision War's Early End  Some See Nazi Break by First of the Year

Prepare New Stand   Good News From Fighting Fronts Starts Wave of Betting on Possible Peace Date

BRITISHERS LAYING  WAGERS ON ENDING  PRESENT CONFLICT GOVERNMENT AND WAR   LEADERS, HOWEVER, NO’ THO OPTIMISTIC

London Betting War Will End Before 1944 Arrives   Good News From Fronts Inspires Wagering, But British Leaders Not So Optimistic

Optimism Now Seen In Britain   GOOD WAR NE WS HAS BRITONS HOPING FOR QUICK VICTORY

Britons Are Talking and Betting on Possibility of An Early End to War

British Sporting Blood Stirred by Chance To Bet on Early End to War

BRITONS BETTING WAR TO END SOON   CHURCHILL, ATTLEE WARN AGAINST WAVE OF OVER-OPTIMISM

Londoners Bet On Peace Date   Lloyd’s Odds 4 To One Against Armistice ooo By Christmas >

MANY BRITONS ARE BETTING ON AN EARLY END TO WAR   Their Predictions, However, . Are Based on Rather Slender: Information — W a r Leaders Discourage Opti-

Good News Causes Britons to Hope For Early Peace, But Officials Warn Against Optimistic Feeling

Britishers See Karly End of War in Europe   Lloyds Bet 4 to J War Won't End By Christmas Day

BRITISHERS _ WAGER ON PEACE   View Early Armistice, but Leaders Not ’ Optimistic

FOOUSH TO TRY        Increasingly Large’Num ber of People in Britain  Expect War to: End This

LONDONERS TALK ABOUT QUICK PEACE   Churchill Tells People Not To Be Foolish

British Civilian Optimism Grows  Londoners Bet on Early End. of War

End Of War This Year Foreseen By Britishers Despite Warning   Don Power Resigns Unexpectedly As Secretary To Governor Bricker

British People Speculate On _ Early ‘End To War--Despite Encouragement

ARGENTINA ASKS NIEBUHR RECALL   Step Necessary As Axis Tie Still Exists; Information Supplied By U.S.

F.D.R. to Honor Unknown Soldier's Tomb  First World War   Ended Just  9 Vanre Baan Tadaw

President to Participate In Armistice Ceremony At Arlington Cemetery

F.D.R. to Honor Unknown. Soldier's Tomb  First World War Ended Just  25 Years Ago Today

TOKYO CLAIMS SUCCESSES ON CHINESE FRONT   Radio Broadcast Says 10,500 Killed, 25,300 Prisoners “aken and 26,500 Have Surrendered This Year

DIMMED OUT   Ohio City Saves Electricity After Power Breakdown. 

Axis Forces Cornered In Northeast   Are Expected to Rally for Stand At Mount Etna

Four-Fifths Of Island Taken By Allied Forces; Speed Of Advarice So Fast Italians Had No Time To Destroy Installations   ISLAND CUT IN TWO BY ALLIES

PALERMO SEIZED IN QUICK THRUST. TO NORTH COAST   Many Axis Tanks Knocked Out In Drive Northward Cutting Sicily ©  In Two—Advance _ ye R yy wis   ALLIES GET FULL CONTROL. OF ALL PRINCIPAL PORTS

Capital of Sicily Yields As Axis Forces Retreat   _ Four-Fifths of Island In Hands of Allies; Battle Rages Around Catania

FOURFIFTHS OF SIOLY IN HANDS OF ALLIED ARMY   Mezzojuso Also Captured, 14 Big Tiger Tanks Knocked Out, Enemy Prisoners Now 70,000.   ASSAULTS MADE UPON NAZIS OUTSIDE OREL   Reds Claim Enemy Lost 50,000 In 10 Days, indicating Final Stage of Battle Is Apparent.

SICILY CAPITAL TAKEN INTACT: ENEMY SPLIT   All But Northeastern Part Of Island In Allied Control

Four Fifths' Of Island  y Is Osa ied         ISLAND IS VIRTUALLY CUT IN. TWO; HARD FIGHTING IS'STIL CONTINUING AT CATANIA .

PALERMO CAPTURED IN SWIFT THRUST NORTH: FOE CORNERED ON ISLE   Four-Fifths of Sicily Now Held bv Allied Armies   ALLIED HEADOUARTERS. Nortt

Palermo Taken By U.S. Forces   Capital And Largest City Of Island Taken By American 13 Days After Invasion Began; Allies Now Control Four-Fifths Of Island

iF our-Fifths of Sicily Seized;  Palermo Facilities Are : Captured Intact

West Sicily Believed Trap for Thousands   Swift Drive Takes Capital Intact As Allies Split Capture Manv

CHOPPING ISLE IN TWO PIECES BRINGS RESULT   Although Enemy Is Still Scrappy Sicily Seems Defeated

LIGHTNING THRUST TO NORTH COAST SWEEPS ENEMY BACK T0 DEFENSIVE LINE AROUND BASE OF MOUNT ETNA   Four-fifths of Island Now in Allied Hands, North Coast Port Installations Intact for Use by

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK AXIS CONVOYS, AIRFIELDS ALONG TUNISIAN FRONT

NAZIS REPORT REDS OPEN STH BIG DRIVE IN VORONEZH SECTOR   Soviet Armies Push Through Sagging Enemy Lines in Caucasus; German Resistance on Don Stiffens

Heavy Damage Dealt German War Industries In France and Holland   34 Enemy Planes Destroyed at Castel Benito, Near Tripoli, in Vital Move for Libya-Tunis ; Russians Take 12 Towns, But Held Back on Don

German Agency Curiously Broadcasts Report Russian Tanks Had Breached Main Nazi Line

Flying Fortresses Destroy 34 Enemy Fianes in Attack Upon Tripoli _ Without Loss

TREASURY MAY AGREE JO CUT TAX FOR 1942   Plan To Levy On Last Year’s Income At 1941 Rate Given  Consideration   Would Ease Burden

Treasury — Studies Idea Of Lightening 1942 Taxes   Considers Scheme In Effort To Speed Pay-as-You-Go Plan For 1943 Income Tay   STILL REJECTS MOVE TO SKIP 1942 LEVY   Taxpayer Facing Biggest Tax Burden In American History

U. S. Weighs Plan to Ease Mareh 15 Tax   Payment Would Be Based on Year 1941 Rates

Doughton Offers New Tax Proposa   Would Tax 1942  Income by “41 Rates

NEW TAX PLAN IS LAID BEFORE HOUSE GROUP      Proposal to Tax 1942 Toxes at Rates of 1941 Studied

LEADERS CONSIDER PLAN TO LIGHTEN ‘#2 INCOME TAXES   Proposal Made to'Turn Back Calendar and Collect at Rates Prevailing Year Ago.   TREASURY SUPPORT . NOT YET FORTHCOMING   Scheme Would Enable Government to Put Levies on Pay-as-You-Earn Basis This Year.

Congress Eyes Lower Income Tax Rate Plan   Doughton Suggests 1942 Levy at 1941) Rate To Lighten Burden  OF Pay-Go   Arguments of Ruml Advocates Partly Met   Outright Skipping of °42 - Levies Seen Causing . Inflationary Spiral

New Proposal! to Lighten Taxes Given to Solons   Plan Would Soften Rate on 1942 Individual Incomes

Pepper, Vandenberg Ready for Contest   Florida Canal Fight in Sight

U.S. Airborne Troops Proved   In First Fight Hold Off Armor Attack Till Support Comes

PARATROOPERS  Success In Sicily Wins High Praise   Largest Airborne Force Ever Set Down In Single Operation

Airborn Troops Prove Worthy   INVASION OF SICILY GREATLY AIDED BY THESE

AIRBORNE FORCE IS PROVEN WHEN SICILY INVADED   Young Yanks, Under Fire for First Time, Beat Back Nazis To Assure Landing   MORE BIG JOBS ARE AHEAD   British Troops Also Pave Way for Assault Against Other Side of Island

AIRBORNE UNIT PROVES WORTH INSICILY MOVE      Close to Whole Personne of U. S. 82nd Airborne Division Employed In Invasion   CASUALTIES LIGHT   Spirit of Young Soldiers Who Had Never Before Been Shot At Lauded by General

Airborne Troops Prove Their Worth In Smashing Axis Armor in Sicily

AIRBORNE ARMY INVASION SPARK   Troops Set Bown on Sicily Larger Than in Any Oth-er Operation.

Merchant’s League   STANDINGS   City League   Tnesdav. Fehruaryv 22

Enemy Sets Saturday As Invasion Deadline   Axis Reports Immense Allied Fleet Gathered Along North Africa Coast

SATURDAY 18 DATE SET FOR BIG INVASION   Immense Allied Fleet Gathered For Push—Axis

Axis Claim Counter - Attacks Launched Against Allies 'n Attempt To Stall Invasion

Invasion Fleet Concentrated Off North Airica   Germans Claim Blow Slated Next Saturday

GIVES MORE.. TELS OF HOW: BLOW IS T0 COM   Sicily Most” it” Likely Point: En - emy: Thinks: — Invasion : Fiset. Ig Ready, They: :  “ALaim

Invasion Comes Saturday, Axis Reports State   Hoge Fleet ls ‘Concentrated In No. Africa, Claim

AXIS EXPECTS INVASION WILL COME JULY 3RD   Allied Invasion Fleet Assembled Along North African Coast, Enemy Reports Say

FOE SPECULATES THAT ALLIES WILL STRIKE BIG BLOW SATURDAY   American Men-of-War Said To Be In Mediterranean; Many Barges Are Being Assembled on African Coast

Axis Reports Huge Invasion Fleet In African Harbors  Sicily Expected To   Sicily Expected To Be First Objective Of Allied Landings

May Cut Points On Sausage and Scrapple Soon   Midwest Housewives Boycott Products; Reductions Hinted

OniO RIVER FLOOG BEGINS 10 RECEDE AT DANGER POINTS   Portsmouth Escapes Inundation; More Than 50,000 Evacuated from Homes Along Stream.

Crest Of Flood  At Cincmnat   Sixty-One Foot Stage Is Reached—-No Extensive Damage Expected   ‘FLOOD WALL SAVES ' PORTSMQUTH, OHIO

Nazis Striving To Regain Old Lines   However Other Russ Forces Push On To Take Ovruch, Another Important Junction To North

Reds Win Ovruch When Nazi Force  ‘Claims Junction   Russians Press Forward Confidently At Other Points After Retiring From Heavily Attacked City To Occupy More Tenable Positions.

NAZI TOWN RAIDED. BY SOVIET AIRMEN   Koenigsburg At! Attacked as RAF Fliers Sow Many Mine«

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Must Withdraw ‘rom Caucasus Area ‘To Avert Disaster

BATTERS AT BEN! OULID   Battle for Terminal Which Leads to Capital

19 Miles From  Maikop Oil In Surprise Push   Cold And Hungry Nazis Surrender At Stalingrad

NAZIS TOSS DOWN ARMS, 1 ACH TIME   General: Is Taken As. Thousands _ Surrender

Soviets Near  Oil Fields   Surprise Thrust Brings Troops 19 Miles From German-Held Maikop

REDS ADVANCE IN NEW DRIVE TOBLACK SEE   British Eighth Army in Contact With Nazi Rear Guard

Russians Drive Within 19 Miles Of Nazi-Held Maikop Oil Fields   Hitler May Not Make ‘Pesre Riits’

Axis Prepares To Withdraw On Two Fronts   Escape Boats Brought To Novorossisk To Carry Troops From Caucasus.   HITLER STEPS DOWX

Soviets Still Drive Ahead   Smash Into Three More Strongly Fortified Towns Near Rostov

SOVIET ARMIES IN PURSUIT — OF 250,000 FLEEING NAZIS   Smash Into Three More Strongly-Fortified Towns West Of Rostov While Rolling Up Other ——--———Gains On A 400-Mile Battleline.

BITTER FIGHT IS RAGING AT MIDDLE DON   Masses Of Nazi Tanks And Infantry Hurl Counter-Attack: Against Russians.

Answer Received To FDR Ultimatum   Operators Blocked Accord, Union Policy Committee Asserts in Reply

No Strike Threat In Reply to Order   . Mine Workers’ Leader Repeats Contention That WLB Has “Proeindoced” Cace af TTMW

CLAIMS WLB HAS “PREJUDGED' CASE OF MINE WORKERS   UMW Chief Says Operators Have Blocked Making Of Agreement— Sidetracks Strike By Declaring  _- Miners Are Anxious To Work

CHARGES WLB HAS PREJUDGED CASE FOR COAL MINER‘   Letter Says Men Want Agreement, Want to Work  _ But Operators Have Blocked Their Plans.   LEWIS FAILS TO MAKE CHANGE IN ATTITUDE   Executive of Miners Refuses to Answer Questions, Says Letter “States Our Position.”

House Votes to Abolish NYA; Cuts FSA, WMP   Senate Increases Funds for Three Departments

Solons Slash Bureau Funds,  Wipe Out NYA   Economy Onslaught By House Cuts Budgets

House Group Votes to End NYA Program   Appropriation Cut Of $35,000,000 Stops Year’s Activity

House Group Votes 17-16 to Abolish NYA   Economy Onslaught Cuts $117,468.611 From Budget Estimate Of Several Agencies

HOUSE VOTES TO ELIMINATE WORK OF NYA   BUDGET IS SLICED 33 MILLION IN ECONOMY MOVE

Axis-Loving Nations Expected to Receive ‘Yield or Die’ Order   Historic Conference at Teheran Conclusion Likely to-Touch Off Exoplosive Crisis in Balkans «

‘BIG THREE? END TALKS ON EUROPEAN WAR   Balkan Crisis Seen As Result

CONFERENCE OF BIG 3 CONCLUDED   Believe Plans Made For West Europe Invasion

SERCO RHER REAR ERE THREE EES  Here’s New Way to End Absenteeism

Micsissiant Takes Second Place To None For Heroes In Pacific War'   The Weather   uD aanrting For Duty. “Sir!” ..». After 66 Days Of Hardships  Aver

Birth Rate Doubled Death Rate During 1942.....  America Is Healthy And Fat In Spite Of The War

Births Double 1942 Death Rate __ Which Is Lowest in Medical History

LOST FLYERS ~. ARE RESCUED   Pilot, Aide, Latter - of Blairsville, Slept in Hunting Lodge

Prof. Lowman Is Dead At Madison   Coached, Scouted For Many Years

Eleven Persons Injured [As Union Pacific Train Hits Helper Engine

Marines Take Island Bay To Flank Japs   25,000 Nippons In Latest  Pincer Movement

South Half of Bougainville  Is Outflanked   American Air and Sea Power Makes Landing Possible

YANKS SEIZE BEACHHEAD ON ISLAND   Threaten to Split Jap Forces On Bougainville

LULL IN THE TUNISIAN WAR   Battles Reduced To Skirmishes As Both Sides Pause To Rest

“Action Confined To Local Skirmishes As Fog and Mist Cover the Battlefield.

Allied Advance Has Netted 641 Prisoners; 66 Are Germans.  5 ENEMY BOMBERS DOWNED SATURDAY  American Intantrymen Using Long Knives to Great Advantage.

KERR 10 SEEK AID. IN FLOOD PROBLEM   UKLAHOMA GOVERNOR TO GO TO WASHINGTON TO ASK  FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.

Governor Abandons Plans For Special Session; Tax Rate of State Decreased .

Plans For Special Session Abandoned, Tax Rate Slashed   28-Cent Reduction In State Levy Will Save Taxpayers Of State $9.100.000

SUGGEST VETERANS MUSTER - WUT PAY   $300 for Soldiers and Sailors in Service 90 Days.

WOULD PAY S300 WITH DISCHARGt   General Hines Suggests Flat Sum For All Dis charged Veterans

Five Children Die  In Carlisle Blaze  Negro Youngsters Are Trapped In Bedroom

Gigantic Tank Engagement lr Donets Valles   Nazi Dive Bombers. Russian Stormoviks Fill Skies Over Battleground,  PLC REYPITCE OCONEE Y

DIVE BOMBERS IN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SOVIE}   Germans Increase Fury of Their Comeback Offensive But Reds Holding, They Claim

TANK, AIRPLANE FIGHTS RAGE IN DONETS VALLEY   Russians Declare Red Armies Stubbornly Hold Blazing Lines

Reds Report — Gigantic Tank and Air Clash   Germans Stepping Up. Fury of Their ‘Come-Back Drive in Kharkov Area   SOVIETS DECLARE LINES HOLDING   Both Sides Reporting Heavy Losses Inflicted; Red Gains Elsewhere «

Huge Tank Battle On  In Donets   Russians Resist German Assaults

Great Tank Fight Rages In Donets   Skies Filled With Nazi and Russian Planes Cover Battle

Great Tank Battle Raging Reds Report   Nazis Increase Fury Of Counter-Attack  In Donets Basin

Gigantic Battle of Tanks Is Raging in Valley of Donets   Germans Step Up Fury at Come-Back Offensive in South

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Base:at Rabaul   Two Ships Reported Damaged: Huge =: Fires Are Started-

ODT HITS SCHOOL BUS SCHEDULES   Cancellation Or Reduction In Gas Allowances May Force Pupils To Walk

Sees Sea Might Winning Battle   Congressman Says Tanan Stands Alone

TOKYO'S SUPPLY LINES CRIPPLED   Allied Sea Might Keeps Food And Ammunition From Jap Outposts

Navy Cutting Jap Supply   Island Garrisons Can’t Long Resist, Says Congressman

Naval Power Putting Japs In A Squeeze   Foe Has Lost Heavi ly, Cannot Supply His Garrisons

Group of Ships Fights Off Sustained Jap Air Attack   Losses Small; From 8 to 12 Enemy Dianac Ghnt Dawn

Slavs Launch New Smash Against Nazis   TITO’S FORCES RUIN GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN SLOVENIA AREAS

SERBS LAUNCH HEAVY ATTACK AGAINST NAZIS   German Drive Broken Up By Guerrillas

PO aL he See eT a a eT  Tito’s Guerrillas. Besin Offensive   Six German Divisions Used Against Yugoslavs

GUERRILLAS HIT BACK IN YUGOSLAVIA   Tito Launches Counter Attack In Some Areas

Tito’s Guerrillas Begin Offensive   Six German Divisions Used Against Yugoslavs

Heavy Toll of Enemy Is Taken In Mediterranean   Ten Ships Are Destroyed by. Rritich Sie

War Production Increases   Output of War Material Shows Gain Durine July, Says Nelson

War Production Shows Increase   July Up Three Per - Cent: More Uraed

British See Leap In Production \Of War Materiel   WPB Is Cheerful Again; Production Increases 3 Per Cent in Month; Many Planes, Weapons Are Produced

WAR MATERIAL QUTPUT GAINS   WPB Announces Increase Of Three Per Cent. Last Month

War Production in United States Shows an Increase   Step-Ups Must Continue If Goals Are to Be Reached, WPB Asserts in Survey Report: Peak Rates Not Far Off

WPEB Is Cheerful Again; Production Increases 3 Per Cent in Month; Many Planes. Weapons Are Produced

OUTPUT OF WAR SUPPLIES GAINS   PRODUCTION UP 3 PER CENT IN JULY—7,373 PLANES PRODUCED.

WILL PLAN CAMPAIGN   Red Cross Workers From 90 Bast. ern Counties to Meet Here

WORKERS TO MEET   District Red Cross Confer. ence. Will Be Held Here  Friday

Vote For Rail Pay Increase Predicted   Senate Expected To Order Eight Cents An Hour Raise

-CK EXPECTED TO AD GOP IN CONGRESS   WHEELER PREDICTS OK ON RAIL WAGE BOOST

PREDICTS: SENATORS WILL HIKE RAIL PAY   Wheeler Says He Has ‘No Doubts’ Resolution Will Be Approved by Committee

Railroad Bill Action Forecast  Wik aalae Puernncée   Wheeler Expects Pay Tilt Approval

POLICE SEARCH FOR ASSASSINS   Danny Stanton, Chicago's Pubtic Enemy No. 1, Slain Wednesday Night — Body Guard Also Killed.

CHIGAGO’S PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 SHOT TO DEATH BY GANG   Donny Stanton and Bodyguard Slain at Bar of ‘Tavern Wednesday  Night... .-  -

Allied Planes Sink Large Jap Cargo Ship at Rabaul: 20 Foe Raiders Shot Down

Flyers Bomb Jap. Cargo Ships, Aid Bougainville Fight   Toio Loses 20 Planes On New Guinea Raid; India War Flares

Jap Ships Pounded By Allied Bombs In Pacific Battles  Cargo Craft Is Sunk, Another Beached  on Attack by Planes

Bombers Raid Jap Shipping   One Ship Is Sunk And Another Suffers Hit

Enemy Raiders Shot Down During Attack   American Marines List Gains on Bougainville

DROP IN TEMPERATURE   Fall to 10 Above in Colorado Reflected in Kansas

D ALABAMA COMICTS ESUAPE AT HOSPITAL   Desperadoes Overpower Guards And Flee

GASOLINE RATIONS MAY BE REDUCED   May Reduce Value of Rationing Stamps One-Half; Gasoline Shortage in lowa.

May Cut Gas To Two Gallons   May Reduce Ration On Coupons 50 Per Cent

A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   See Possibility of Less Gasoline for State

YANK SOLOMON TROOPS TAKE ANOTHER ISLAND   Vella Lavella Falls Ensily; More Jap Prisoners Captured Than Ever Before.

American Troops Land on Vella Lavella Island in the Solomons   Shot Down 34 Jap Planes During Landing Operations.

BRITISH WEATHER BAD STORM 10 BLAST HAMBURG   Bie Bombers Tossed About On Way To Target.

HAMBURG AGAIN ABLAZE AFTER ALLIED AIR RAID   DESTRUCTION OF REICH’S SECOND LARGEST CITY SEEMS ABOUT COMPLETE

“PEACE NOW”   Congressmen Receive Letters Urging Negotiated Peace

Allies Pledge Selves Anew  To Great Task   From Algiers to - Chungking Messages Are Exchanzed —

U.S., Japanese Losses Comparec   Enemy Setbacks Are Far in Excess

Japan Warship Loss Twice Ours   Nips Lose.4 Times As Many Planes

Jap Warship Losses Twice  Those Of U.S.  Four Times As Many Enemy Planes Have

JAPANESE LOSSES IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA ARE RUNNING HIGH  WARSHIP LOSSES TWO FOR ONE; PLANES FOUR FOR ONE AGAINST U. S.

JAPS LOSE 96 SHIPS IN YEAR OF FIGHTING   Americans Have Lost 41 War Craft but Have Made Large land Gaine

JAPS’ WARSHIP, PLANE LOSSES ARE ENORMOUS   Warship Losses More Than Double Those Of U. S.; Jap Plane Losses Total 1,802 Against About 450  For Americans.

JAP LOSSES MUCH HIGHER THAN U.S   Orientals Lost Twice a: Many Warships, Airplanes Are Four Times as Great.

Jap Sea, Air Losses Heavy   Lose Twice as Many Ships, Four Times as Many Planes as U. S.

JAP LOSSES HEAVY!   Compilation Shows U. S. Holds Superiority Over the Enemy

Jap Losses In Year Are High   Twice As Many Warships, Four Times As Many Planes

New Attacks By Sea Upon Japs Hinted   Organized Resistance Of Enemy In Munda Area Completely Cut.

JAPAN LOSES TWICE AS MANY WARSHIPS AND FOUR TIMES AS MANY PLANES AS U. S. IN PACIFIC

Japs Lose More Ships Than U. S.   Nipponese Lose Four Planes To One For Americans

“Flu” in Mild Form Curtaiis War Factories   Schools Also Closed as Epidemic Spreads

(00,000 FLU. Choco LIoTED THAU GAPITAl   Respiratory Infections Reach Epidemic Proportions. in Some Cities.

Condition Is Reported as Nation-wide   Hinders War Plant Opera tion, Closes Schools —  Much Sickess Here

FLU EPIDEMIC HITS CONGRESS   00,000 Cases Reported In Washington, D. C,

McClelland  Given Parole By O’Conor; Gets New Job   B. And OQ. Engineer To Take Over Work At Spring Grove State Hospital, Moser Says

Engineer In  Wreck Paroled   Former Local Man Freed After Serving Part Of Sertence -

FIGHTING SAVAGE; ENGLISH IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS   Patrol Activity Marks Operations to South as Montgomery Masses Forces for New Thrust.   BERLIN SAYS BATTLE IS ONLY BEGINNING   Anti-Nazis From Concentration Camps in Rommel’s Army—His Air Fields Again Bombed.

Position of the British —_ First Army Is tm. * proved  MONTGOMERY MASSES FOR ANOTHER DRIVE Two Italian D Destroyers Destroyed Off of Sicily

Nazi Attacks Hurled Back From Heighth:   British and American Artillery Commands Swratezic Points

First army holds 10 hills and strengthens positions overlooking Tunis, Bizerte   Allied artillery command Tebourba road; can shell Djebel El Ahmera

NAZI ATTACKS HURLED BACK BY INFANTRY   First Army Pushes Steadily Eastward  With Support From Heavy Artillery.

Important Roads Now Commanded   Montgomery Massing Resources For Another Northward Thrust To Couple With Anderson’s Flank Move

AXIS COUNTER-ATTACKS FAIL TO HALT ALLIES IN TUNISIA   British First Army Infantry Pushing Ahead on Heights Overlooking Bizerte and Tunis

Gen. Anderson's Army Hurls Back Savage Thrusts: Improves Position   Montgomery Reported to Be Massing Strength for Northward Thrust; Fierce Fighting With Heavy Casualties for Both

BRITISH GAIN POSITION NEAR 2 AXIS PORTS   Hills Overlooking Bizerte and Tunis Now Firmly Controlled by Allies   NAVY READY TO STOP EVACUATION MOVES

Allied Advance North of Gabes Ends Pending Further Preparations; Two Italian Destroyers Sunk

SUPPORTED BY ARTILLERY THE INFANTRY PUSHES STEADILY EASTWARD; TEBOURA ROAD COMMANDED BY BRITISH AND YANKS.

Allies Gain in Africa, Hurl Back Strong Attacks,  Improve Strategic Positions

STRATEGIC HILL ‘POSITIONS HELD BY FIRST ARMY   Savage German CounterAttacks Are Hurled Back Ry Britich   TWO MORE ITALIAN DESTROYERS LOST

BRITISH HOLD KEY ROAD IN NORTH AFRICA   ROYAL NAVY BAGS TWO OF ITALY’S DESTROYERS

Nazis Hurled Back In Heavy Fighting   General Anderson’s First British Army Has Token Heights From Which Port Can Be Sean

J. 9. Lroops, First Army Avancing   Gen, Montgomery; Is Preparing For Final Drive

Allied Troops Battle Nazis In Mountains   First Army Advances. ~ Hurls Back Savage Axis Counter Attacks  8TH CONSOLIDATES

Allies Tighten Hold in North Africa   British, American Artillery Controls Vital Road

British Better Positions on Road to Tunis   Ist Army Commands 10 Hills Overlooking Tunis and Bizerte — Royal Navy on Alert

rs Chew At Celery To. 2: Calm Nerves In War Theater   ng Informs Par hat It’s “Hot nd Fast? = its

rs Chew At Celery To. ot Calm Nerves In War Theater   ng Informs Pat hat It’s “Hot nd Fast’?

BUILDINGS FOR SALE      Public May Buy Structure from Construction Projects ny

AIRMEN POUND FOE IN AFRICA   U.S. Troops Capture Halian General in Battle of Sened

Americans Take Italian General In Sened Battle   British Seize Tunisian Hill

Pittsburgh Killer Is Still At Large  Two Rewards Posted For Robbery Suspect

Flynn Not At Ease As Girl Talked   Perspired Much Though It Wasn’t Warm, Officer Says

Citizenship of Communist Upheld   Party Membership Insufficient Cause

Bars Canceling  Of Citizenship   Membership In Communist Party No Reason For Denial Of Naturalization.

CANNOT CANCEL U. 5. CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE PARTY MEMBERSHIP  SUPREME COURT RULES CASE OF SECRETARY COMMUNIST PARTY

Communism No Citizenship Ban High Court Reverses Federal Body’s Action

Suprem Court Ruling  Communist Membership No Cause to Cancel Citizenship

Cancelled Citizenship Restored   Court Has No Right To Revoke Citizenship On Communist Grounds, Justices Decide

RULING FOR ALIEN FROM HIGH COURT   Supreme Body Rules Citizenship Cannot Be Canceled Because Of Communist Affiliation

Citizenship of Red Upheld   High U.S. Court Rules In Favor of Comemunis' Perty Secretary

Allies Lose 10 Ships in 10-Day Running Battle With! Pack of U-Boats Believed Using New- l'ype Torpedo; )

Ten Allied Ships Sunk In Sea Fight   German U-Boat Wolf Pack Uses Deadly New Torpedoes In Attacking West-Bound Convoy

PLANES ASSAULT NAZI, ITALIANS ~ ON RETURN TRIF   Flight From England Starter Sunday, -Friedrichafer Blasted on Way, Spedic on Way Home   RADIO EQUIPMENT CENTER IS ONE OF TARGETS   3,000,000 Civilians In Ruhr District Are Evacuated as  . 1000 Fighter Planes Are Massed.

Bombarded Naval Base At Spezia ~   FLEW FROM NORTH AFRICA BA; BOMBED ITALY’S BIGGEST NAV. BASE: THEN FLEW ON TO ENG

Fleet Which Attacked Freiderichshafen Visits Italy an Return Tritt

ITALY’S BIG NAVAL BASE IS DAMAGEL   Success of New Tactics Lays Open All of Il Duce’s Lands to Attacks.

Spezia Heavily RaidedinNew Allied Attack   Bombers Fly From Britain to Africa and Return

RAF USES NEW AFRICAN ROUTE ~ TO BOMB ITAL’   “Shuttle”? Toshnique Carries Tertific Threat T'o Mediterranean Partner In Axis

RATION STAMP EXPIRATION DATES   RAF Bombers Raid From Africa to Enaland

AFRICAN PLANES HT SPEZA, THEN LAND IN BRITA   New Maneuver Opens Italy to 2-Way Assaults

Planes Fly From North Africa, Land In England   Move Holds Implied Two-Way Attack On Vital Italian Sites

British Fly From Africa to ltaly for Assault, Land In England After Strafine

Hit German Industrial Cities Going Over, Then Italian Bases On Return

ft Germany, Then Fly to Africa and Bomb Italy on Way Home  LL PLANES RETURN      )peration Lays Open All Italy to Two-Way ‘Attacks

Spezia Blasted As RAF Returns From North Africa   Two Way Assault Promises Terrific Pre Invasion Punishment Fer Italy

First Shuttle Air Assault Made by British   Fly From: Africa Bomb Italy, Return To Enalish Port —

SOVIETS SMASH NEARER KIEV IN BLOODY BATTLE   Nazis Rush In Reinforcements In Desperate Effort To Check Drive   RAIL STATION OCCUPIED   Recs Push Westward Thru Ukraine From Rostov And Kharkov Regions

Red Forces Are /Pushing Toward Ukraine Capital   Numerous Fortified Points West Of Kharkov Taken At Bayonet Point   NAZI RESISTANCE REPORTED STRONGER

OTAUNG POINTS IN NAZI LINE ARE CAPTUREL   Furious Charges by Rus. sians West of Krarkov Gain Ground.   FIGHTING Is BLOODY   Soviet Troops Elsewnére Along the Line Making Advances. ©

GERMANS JITTERY — ABOUT INVASION   Americans Advancing Beyond the Mater Approach At Ferryville and Tebourba Corridor .. 4

Big Guns Within Rang Of City and Threaten  Ferryville Naval Base   Germans Talk Worriedly of Probability of Early Invasion of Europe; Russians Give Nazis Hard Setback in Novorossisk Area of Western Caucasus

Americans and French Within Heavy Artillery Range of Bizerte .  BRITISH 8TH ARMY REPORTED ON MOVE  Ferryville, Tebourba Menaced by Drives Past Fallen Mateur

‘Ask Clarifying Of Father Draft   “Claim Situation Is Very Muddled:

WANTS DR PLAN CLARIFIED   — Congress to Ask for Final Statement on Size of Army, Drafting of Fathers

CONGRESS WILL SEEK T0 CLEAR FATHERS’ DRAFT   Conflicting Statements Cause Of Decision By Military Committee

WANTS MILITARY STATUS ON DADS FORWAR SERVICE   House Committee to Ask Wc; Selective. Servée to Put Cards on Table, Clarify. Statements.“   REP, MAY DEMANDS FACTS FOR AFFECTED   Wants Specific -Declaration From Groups In Which They Agree Upon Draft Questions.

Will Ask McNutt, Hershey For Defin‘te Statements _ On Drafting Of Fathers

CLARIFICATION IS DEMANDED IN PLAN TO DRAFT FATHERS   Conflicting Statements Made Result in House Committee Making Inquiry.

 Ask Clarification Of Conflicting Statements On Drafting Of Fathers

ZEROS ROUTED BY GUNLESS YANK FLIER  TWENTY-YEAR-OLD MINNESOTA YOUTH IS CREDITED WITH SAVING DIVE BOMBERS

‘Wheeler Bill  Faces Defeat   Administration Claims Enough - Support To: Prevent Postponing Draft of Fathers

Elderly Woman, With Four Sons In the Service. Says Wheeler Measure Is Unfair

BARUCH SAYS ARMY NEEDS ARE VITAL   F. D. R.’s Advisor Approves Father Draft to Meet Manpower Needs

WHEELER BILL'S DEATH EXPECTED   Baruch Summoned Again In ‘Hearing On Draft Needs

SAYS 300,000 OF DRAFT AGE IN U.S. JOBS   Counsel for a House Group Asserts They Are NonFathers and Half of Them Have Not Even Reen Called.

BARUCH CALLED BACK BEFORE ISENATE COMMITTEL   Indications Are Adminis tration Leaders Have Strength to Shelve Father Draft Bill

Ask Immediate Inquiry 300,000 Draft Age Non-Dad:  Found In Government Service

Baruch Upholds Army Views Upon Manpower  Post-War Plan Is Delayed By  Senate Group

WHEELER BILL SEEN BEATEN   Move to Delay Dad-Draft  Appears Headed for   Senate Shelf

Believe Bill To Defer Dac Draft Beaten   Baruch Defends  Armv’s Position

300,000 GOVERNMENT WORKERS DEFERRED   Committee Is Told That Many Draft-Age Non-Fathers Have Noi Been Called For Service

Check 300.000 Dralt Prooted U.S. Workers   Many Draft-Age Non-Fathers On Government Pay roll Not Yet Taken.   CRITICIZE SEC. ICKES

Woman Hits Father Exemption While ‘Mere Babies’ Drafted   Mother Of 4 Boys.In Service Makes Dramatic Plea As Baruch Testifies

Woman Stirs Draft Inquiry At Washington   Dramatic Support Given Opposition To Wheeler Bill

OHIOAN HITS IGKES ON GAS SITUATION   Brown Accuses Petrolew Head of Back Tracking

EMPLOYES OF CITY TO RATE ESSENTIAL   Approval of Application by ar Manpower-Commission Awaited   IBEER LICENSES ISSUED

EMPLOYES OF CITY TO RATE ESSENTIAL   Approval of Application by War Manpower-Commission Awaited     rr, o-oo Te . «a. ee + Oe Oe eae ~s, = et *e"8 oe,   BEER LICENSES ISSUED

3 Mainland CitiesBombed Fr om Africa      ‘Tons of Bombs Dropped  on Lezhorn, Foggia and  Tuncera Bases   ISLANDS HIT AGAIN   Large Italian Warships Believed in Port At- tacked North of Rome

Leghorn, Foggia And Lucera Hit   Other Allied Raiders Press ‘Softening Up" Offensive Against Island Outposts— {invasion Talk Rife in London — Reds Report Activity in Five Key Sectors

See Softening Up Offensive Prelude To Allied Invasion   British Press Hints At Seizure Of Pantelleria

Germans Reported Too Nervous for Russian Offensive   Reprisal Threats To England Again Voiced by Nazis

Invasion Talk Stirs British in London   Air War Continues in Unabated Fury; Reds Report  Sharp Fighting

Flying Forts Bomb Leghorn, Ifalian Base London Papers Expect Long-Awaited Allied Attack On Europe;  ” Danant Lisles Klaswarn

All of Europe Tense; ~ Nazis Bolster West Wall   Tempo of Bombing Attack Keeps Rising—Fleet Ready for Action

Italian Areas Get Hard Jolt   Raiders Storm Hitler's Northern  Defenses Anew.

REPORT ITALIAN MAINLAND HIT BY U. S. BOMBS   Three Cities Pounded As Fliers Blast  A vic   Hint Landing Of Allied Army In Europe ‘ Ts Near

SHARP FIGHTING ERUPTS ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT   McArthur’s Bombers Unload ~ 19 Tons On Three  Jap Airdromes

AMERICAN BOMBERS POUNDED ITALIAN MAIN LAND CITIES   Other Allied Leaders Pressed a “Softening Up” Offensive Against Outposts.   INVASION TALK STRONG   Lendon News-Chronicle Declared Great Naval Operation Is Imminent.

YANKS EXPAND  RANGE OF AIR DAING OW ITALY   Sees Ten Possible Roads For Allied March To Berlin   NAZI STRENGTH TOLD      Greatest Naval Operation In History Imminent, London Hears

Sharp Fighting on Five Sectors in Russi  —Americans Hack at Last Opposition :  in Attu—-New Guinea Bases Hit— Mandalay Target

Delegates To Relief Parley Are Gathering   Special Train Speeds Representatives to Atlantic City  MANY SUBJECTS LISTED

Delegates Start Work On Relief  Atlantic City Meeting Opens Consideration

Fresh Foods Plentiful i in in Sicil; The Prices Are Reasonable, Too

US Soldiers Prefer Sicily To Africa   Invading Troops Landed with Only Tinned Rations but Found a Land of Agricultural Plenty

CHRISTMAS PACKAGES TO SOLDIERS OVERSEAS MUST BE MAILED BY OCTOBER 15

sthodical Aerial Blows  Pantelleria Continue  ssian Lull Holds   ijor Bomber Action Against Nazis in Channel lea Appears Near; Chinese Drive Slows; glian Admiral Insists His Fleet Is Ready

ITALIAN ADMIRAL  - SAYS SHIPS ‘SET’   tiecardi Broadcasts Fleet Preparing For Allied Offensive; Rabaul _ Assulted By Yanks -

Fighting 45th Piling Up High Honors   Won Race to North Coast Of Sicily That Cut Island Defenses in Half

ASth Wins Its Battle Spurs   Storms Beach Enemy Thought Couldn’t Be Captured

AMERICA’S NEWEST COMBAT DIVISION HAS WON ITS SPURS  “FIGHTING FORTY-FIFTH IS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF OKLAHOMANS

Fighting 45th’ Boasts Triumphs  Newest Combat Division In Smashing Action  7. grFrcaremelUekhUC frerscriawyr:

Helicopter Has Some ‘Bugs’ But Also Many Possibilities   Potentialitics Of New Fling Machine Brings 250 Applications For Post-War Air Routes °

Charges Bungling On Food Problem   New York Mayor Asserts Unlimited Waste And Spoilage Being Caused

CHARGES HEAVY WASTE OF FOOD   Mayor La Guardia Contends Program Is Bungled by Government

SHORTAGE OF BEEF FEARED THIS YEAR      Meat Council! Urges Governinent to Act at Once

Beef Shortage Predicted by Meat Council   Government Action Urged to Maintain  Supply of Feeders

Beef Shortage This Winter Held Probable   Livestock Council Calls For Government Change In Meat Control Policy

Council Fearful Of Beef Shortage For Next Winter   Urges Government Apply Principles Of Recommended Operations

Serious Shortage Of Beef Foreseen By Livestock Men   Meat Council Blames Uncertainty Created By Government Rules

Ble FUTURE ob EN FOR HELICOPTER   Enthusiasts Hail “Air Flivver’ Of Future; Traffic Rules Planned

WLB Refuses Portal Pay Demand of UMW   Lewis Meets With Policy Grou Pp Unrest in Fields Sprcads Fast

Wildcat Walkouts Spreading   Policy Committee Studie: Ruling of WLB on Wage Dispute

WLB REJECTED PORTAL PAY PLAN, LEWIS IN CAPITAL   Pennsylvania, Ohie, Alabama «Miners Walking Out Today.

UMW Delays. Decision on  Monday Call   Forty Thousand Already Out, Ired at WLB ’Tiacistnn =, s,

Interpreting  The War   Churchill Promises Something Other Than Sweat, Tears

Madison Police Stop Bingo Game   Cops Find More Than 200 Playing

Nazis Flying Captured Fort: On U.S. Raids   Big Planes With Yank Markings Sneak Into Allied Formations

Germans Use Captured U.S. Flying Forts   REVEAL NAZIS FLY PLANES IN AMERICAN FORMATIONS ON RAIDS

Big Axis Transport Sunk by Submarine   London Reports Success at Sea

Submarines Sink Three Axis Ships   Large Transport Sent To Bottom

TWO ENEMY SHIPS SUNK   2 Others Probably Sent Bown By British In Mediierrancan

BRITISH SUBS ACTIVE   Admiralty / Reports Sinking of 2 Large Enemy Transport

BIG AXIS SHIP i SENT DOWN BY BRITISH SUB   Underwater Craft Bombards Viaduct Near Paliauro, Italy

Axis Troop Ship Torpedoed, Sunk  Heavily Escorted Craft Hit Off Sicily; Other Attacks Announced

Axis Troop Ship Sunk   British Subs Destroy Supply Vessel During Mediterranean Engagement

Transport To Bottom Off Sicily   Axis Troop Ship And Two Other Veasele Arve Sunk   Russians Take Six More Towns In Drive   Commando Raid In North Africa Reported Success

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES SHOWN IN COAST FRAY   Only 58 Hours Required From Enna To Coast

Fall Of: Sicilian Capital Splits Island In Two   Thousands Of Italians. Are Trapped By Arrival Of Spearhead On North Coast

U; S. Armored Division Is ‘ First in Palermo on  North Coast DEFENDERS CUT’ OFF      Attackers Move So Fast Little Opposition Is Encountered

FASCISTS WILT AS DOUGHBOYS SEIZE CAPITAL   NAZIS MAKE DEATH STAND AT CATANIA WITH SICILY SPLIT

(lle a Island Defenses   Axis Escape Route In East Cut Off; Many Surrender

Seventh Army. Drives Into.  Capital City   Losses Are’ Slight: As. U. S. Troops: Make Fast Advance; Catania fs Holding Out Yet

West Part Of Island Isolated As Result Of Swift Maneuver   British, Germans Locked In Battle For Control Of Catanian Sector; --- Report ‘Canadians Pregressing.

Fast Striking American Seventh Army Surpasses Expectations of Even Their Chief, Lieut.-Gen. George  Patton. Ir.   By Capture of Capital the Allies Gain Dominance of Tryyhenian Sea

Sicily’s Capital On North Coast Is Taken Easily   on emma,  American Occuption Of Major Seaport Has Isolated Western Part Of Island; Axis Still Resisting At Catania

Thousands of Italian Troops Trapped, _ Admiral Captured, Port Installations Seized before Demolitions Carried Out

The Armored Division, Over. running a psed_ ltalian Resistanc. ‘Entered City at 10 a. m.  Goneremnantteme-aiicediees   WESTERN END OF THE ISLAND IS ISOLATED   Americans Raced From Enna  _ in Central Sicily to North  Coast Port in 58 Hours.

Entire Western End Of Sicily Is Isolated After Fall Of Capital City

SEVENTH ‘ARMY TAKES CAPITAL   Fall OF Palermo To Americans Brings Demonstrations

West End of Sicily Isolated by Fall of Vital Capital City   Fast-Striking Units of Americans Surpass Expectations ' - Of Veteran Taskmaster By Racing From Enna ; To Coast in 58 Hours   FURY OF CATANIA BATTLE IS UNDIMINISHED

Thousands of Troops Trapped   Axis Compressed Into Area Little Larger Than Cap Bon, Scene of Previous Debacle   GERMANS CONTINUE STRONG RESISTANCE   But Italian Collapse Tends. +o Widen Breach Between Axis Partners -

‘Entire West End of Sicily Nov, Isolated   Fast-Striking Units Exceed Commander’s Hopes; Catania Battle Raging

THOUSANDS OF ITALIANS HELD IN ALLIED TRAP   Western Part of Sicily Is Cut Off — Sweeping {' S. Advance

Entire Western End Of Island Isolated By Lightning-Like Thrust Made By Patton’s Force:      Richest Prize Of Campaign; British And Germans Locked In Hattle For Catania, With Berlin Saying Early Break-Through Has Reen Stemmed

Drove Into Palermo Before Italians Knew They Were Closer Than 15 Miles; Win High Praise From Gen. Sir Alexander

Speedy Yank Drive Wins Palmero to Split Island And Entrap Enemy Forces

Thousands Of Italians Trapped By Whirlwind American Drive; Catania  Still Resists British.

Americans Speed Northward From Enna In 58 Hours To Create New Cap Bon Trap

American Drive Over - Runs Collapsed Axis Resistance To Isolate Western Sicily   General Patton’s Fast-Striking Offensive Traveling Faster Than Official News; British Army Drives For Vital Catania

CAPTURE OF PALERMO CUTS OFF WESTERN END OF ISLAND IN SWIFT AMERICAN ADVANCE

U.S. Victory Isolates West Part of Island   Americans Race From Enna to North Coast: Port in 58 Hours!  Italians Withdraw

Palermo On North Shore Captured   Advance Isolates Western End of Island British Eighth Army Edging Nearer to  Catania in Bitter Fighting —- Canadians  Make Progress Southwest of City

Palermo, Largest City And Capital Of Sicily Is Taken   American Troops Seal  Axis Chances Of Escape

SEIZURE GIVES ALLIES VAST SHIPPING AREA   Split Island In Two; Speed of American Fighters Stuns Italian  ; Forces   BATTLE FOR CATANIA CONTINUES VICIOUS   Fresh Waves Altied Paratroopers Attacking Germans North of Battle Area, Claim

THOUSANDS OF ITALIAN TROOPS CAUCHTINTRAP   Allies Gain Dominance of Water Approach to West Italian Coast

BATTLE FOR CATANIA RAGES UNDIMINISHED   Canadians Make Progress Against Fierce Resistance In South

Thousands Of Italian Soldiers Trapped By New Allied Spearhead   Eighth Army Makes Break In Catania Line; Dash To Capital Made In 58 Hours

Sicily Capital Taken By Yanks - In Speedy Drive   Fall Isolates Western End Of Island; Gives. Allies 2 Ports

ROGAN SEIZED, MAJOR RAILWAY LINE SEVERED   500,000 Enemy Troops Believed Trapped In Donets     m~  APTA t PP ,- mrrm   German Defenses Of Two Key Cities Are, Collapsing

“ADVANCING RUSSIANS CUT SIXTH “RAILROAD   Soviets Reported 10 Miles Outside Of Kharkov   NOVOCHERKASSK TAKEN   Nazis Have Only One Escape Route In Caucasus

BOMBS RAINED ON JAP FIELBS   16 Tons Dropped On Park: ed Aircraft At Rabaul

ARMY CHANGES TO-SYNTHETICS   WAR DEPARTMENT SAYS ALL NEW MDTOR, EQUIPMENT WILL SOON BE ON SYNTHETIC RUBBER

ONE KISS COSTS MAN LIFE PRISON TERM   Judge Claims Women Must Be Protected

Yankees Capture Mignano Heights On Road To Rome   British Army Advances To Banks Of Moro River

MORE HEIGHTS FALL 10 YANK ATH, ANNOUNCE   Germans Throw in Grenadiers For Reenforcements as Their Defense Line Sags, Sways.

Restraint Shown In Navy Communiques Indicates Titantic Struggle Is Shaping Up In Pacific

FLEETS SPAR FOR KAYOIN SOLOMONS   Air And Surface Engagements Said To Be Continuing

Believe Titanic Struggle Is Shaping Up For Control Of Guadalcanal; Exchange Aerial Blows; Fortresses Attack Rabaul

Titanic Fight With Jap Navy Seen Imminent   Naval Spokesmen Say Both Sides Have Suffered Losses In First Rounds

BOTH AMERICAN AND JAPANESE FLEETS ACTIVE   Maneuvering In’ Solomons Area for Stance From Which to Throw Haymaker   TITANIC STRUGGLE HELD SHAPING UP   Naval Spokesmen Reiterate Both Sides Have Suffered Losses; Tokyo Claims Exaggerated

TWO JAP RAIDS ON GUADALCANAL      Navy Reports” Increased Air Activity in Solomons

Surface Fleets Still Sparring ~ For Positions   Titanic Struggle For Guadalcana! Will Soon Begin

Fleets Moving Up To Hurl Haymaker   Both Sides Swapping Aerial Blows In Feeler Jabs

Ships Jab At Each Other In Knockout Bid   MacArthur Bombers Hit  Enemy’s Rear In Pacific

TITANIC SEA FIGHT SHAPES IN SOLOMONS   U. S. and Jap Naval Units  Maneuver For Stance to Throw Heavy Blow.   Both Suffer Losses In Sparring Contest

Yankee And Jap Forces Putting Out’ Feelers To Prepare For First Haymaker Blows

“Tl. Weathet   'U. S.-Jap Navies Swap Aerial Jabs In Pacific Fight

Night Raiders Harass Yanks In Solamons   Warships Near Guadalcanal Bombed By Foe First Time After Dark   U. S. PLANES ATTACK   Sea-Air Battle News Is Withheld For Fear Of Jeopardizing Forces

Air Activity In Pacific Gaining Yanks Pounding Japs: Kill 1,791 On Attu

Big Naval Showdown Looming   Secrecy Shrouds Coming Battle as Fleets Feint

anks Hold ield Day On ttu Enemy   American Airmen Pound Jap Bases On Bougainville, Kiska

U.S, JAP FLEETS, MANEUVERING FOR PAPIFIC KNOCKOU   Titanic Struggle —_ Believed Shaping Up for Control of Guadalcanal Island:   ALLIED BOMBERS BUS’

RENEWAL OF AIR ‘ACTIVITY, SOUTH PACIFIC, NOTED   Jap Positions on Bouganville Island Thoroughly Pounded by American Bombers— Kiska Attacked

U.S., Jap Navies Spar  For Opening   Swap Aerial Blows in Solomons and Tokyo Radio Claims New Scores on U. S. Ships   LIBERATOR BOMBS JAP WAR VESSEL   MacArthur's Bombers Also Raid Jap Bases at Rabaul, Buin and Cacmaia

U.S, Jap Naval Units Flick Punishing Jab:   Maneuver In Southwest Pacific for Chance to Throw. Haymaker.In New. .. Battle for Guadalcanal.

Fleets Poised For Struggle   Engagements Are Continuing,  Washington Says

Japs’ First Night Bombing In the Solomons Revealed As Ships Spar tor Knockout

U. S. Air Foree Resumes Attack in South Pacific   Japanese Positions On Bougainville Pounded; Two Small Enemy Vessels Bombed and One Is Beached; U.S. Airmen Attack Kiska In Aleutians;  Hits On Runways Scored

U.S. Army Troops Register New Gains o Guadalcanal and American Flying Fortresses Smash at Rabaul Base

Navies Spar For Showdown Pacific Fight  Small Skirmishes Believed Prelude   Small Skirmishes Believed Prelude To Big Battle

. $., JAPANESE NAVAL FORCES TAKE POSITIONS   Both Sides Suffer Losses in Waters: off. Guadal-eanal

Fleets Jab Like Boxers In Pacific Sea Fight  Jap And U.S. Warships Maneuver For Knockout

Big Sea Forces In Pacific Feel Each Other Out   U. S$. and Japs Spar For Position As Bia Battle Brews —

Air And Surface Skirmishes Said Con: inuing; U.S.  Planes Active

Air Activity In South Pacific Area Is Renewed   U.S. Also Carries Out Bombing Attacks On Kiska; Jap Known Dead On Attu 1.791

Fleet Units Spar for Haymaker Blow in Solomons Sector   Gen. MacArthur's Big Bombers Harass Foe From Rear Bases

American, Jap Navies Ready For Haymaker   U..S: ‘Air Forces Active In Solomons; Battle ~ "Hour: Nearing. "

AIR, SURFACE ENGAGEMENTS ARE CONTINUING   Bombers Under MacArthur’s Command Repeat Raids on Enemy Positions

Naval Maneuvering Continues Near Solomons   A “Dunkerque”’ For Germans

Navy Silence Hints All-Out Battle Near   Both Sides Trade Aerial Blows; Both Sides’ Suffer Laseas Ie Anioincament -

Sparring for an Opening in Pacific Area     Punishing Jabs But No - Haymaker as Japs and Yanks Circle

FIERCE FIGHTING IS REPORTED IN PRELIMINARIES   Sea and Air Battle to Date Described as ‘Sparring For Knockout Blow’   JAP ISLAND BASES RAIDED   Losses Have Been Suffered On Both Sides But Nip Claims Exaggerated

Aerial Activity Major Point In Sea Battle   Delayed Dispatches Reveal Japanese Night Air Attack

U.S. AND JAPANESE ~ NAVAL UNITS ARE SEEKING POSITIONS   Are Maneuvering in Southwest Pacific for Proper Stance. ‘   TO THROW A HAYMAKER   Air and Surface Engagements Are Continuing, It Is Said.

EXPECT MAJOR FIGHT TO OPEN AT ANY MOMEN]   Both Sides Suffer Losses From Air Force Assaults

U.S. AND JAP NAVY UNITS TRYING T0 LAND HAYMAKER   JAB CAUTIOUSLY FOR OPENINGS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS

aliIPo PREPARE FOR Blé FIGHT   U. S., Jap Fleets Maneuver For Positions for Pacific Battle.   LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES

NAVAL UNITS MANEUVERING FOR POSITION   United States and Jap Fleets Sparring For  Stance From Which to Get in Knockout   NIGHT BOMBING ATTACK

HOUSE VIBRANT “WITH NEW LIFE   Attitude -of Congressmen ‘Has  Changed © in« the Naw Séeestan: -

Congress Gets-Shot in Arm And Displays Unusual Vigor   - Even the Reperters Have Quit Yawning -There’s So Much Doing in Legislative Hall

“Lament Of The Late Lackadaisicel Leaislator” Top Tune Of Capital

RATION BOOKS MUST BE RETURNED TO OPA   Coupons Of Men In Armed Force: And Deceased Persons Are To Be Surrendered

Soviets Hur! Big Forces At Kharkov   Rostov on Don Captured by Reds After Bloody Fray

HEAVY FORCES AT KHARKOV   Series of Converging . Attacks Being Made on German Escape Corridos

Reds Waging Their Greatest Offensive  Seen Meat ! MSS Rp Heri MS pilin   Russians Hammer New Link in Its Chain About Kharkov

Rostov Falls as Reds Crack  Nazi Defenses   Germans Push Offensive . in North Africa; RAF Delivers ~ Bombs over Wide Area 

Hundreds of German Dead Litter City   Voroshilovgrad Also Falls Before Reds; Kharkov Expected to Be Taken

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SOVIETS DRIVE AHEAD AFTER {0STOV'S FALL     dew Advances are Claimed in the Zolochev Area,  - Threatening Important   Ukrainian City   ‘AGABROG UNDER FIRE

PANTELLERIA’S FALL WELCOMED BY RED NATION   Looked Upon by People of Russia as Rehearsal for Still Bigger Operations   NEWS NO SURPRISE BUT THRILLING   More Optimistie Than Ever: Soviets Everywhere Say Victory Only,  Matter of Time

Russians Drive Up To East Bank Of Dnieper River   German Reports of Half Dozen Crossings Are Not Confirmed

CIVILIAN USE OF TURKEYS “OUT”   “We” Can’t Have Any Until 10,000,000 for  Ovorcage Onna   Farm Meat

SEARCH MADE FOR VICTIMS ‘OFAIR CRASH   Lt. Tommy Harmon Only Member of Crew to be Found Alive —

Byrnes’ Anti-Inflation Program — _ Facing Stiff Tests In Congress

Two Tests Loom For Byrnes Plan   Bankhead Resolution And Miners Wage Demands Threaten Program

‘Queen Elizabeth Calls ‘Upon British Women For Religious Revival

Steps Taken To Keep Children’s ‘Clothing Supply To Adequate Level

Steps Taken To Assure Supply Of Kids’ Garments   JAMES MARLOW AND  MPOROE ZIEEE

ASSEMBLY TO END - SESSION ON-JUNE 10   Both Houses in Recess. Until Closing Day.”

Heavy, Wet Snow Blankets Kansas;  Moyesdnto Missouri      Columbia, Tarkio, St. Joseph Report Snow Last Night

Brilish Press. Pleased With FDR'S Message  Editorials Describe Presidante Tall «re   Editorials Describe President's Talk as “Stirring”

FDR Is Ur reed For 4th Ter ‘™m   Democrats See Need ‘For Roosevelt. To Remain:  Until War Ends

Nation Needs Five Million New Workers In War Plants by End of 1943, Says McNut

RUBBER WORKERS VOTE STRIKE END   Akron’s General Plant Union - Agrees for Night Shift Return

Nazi Attack on Kursk Salient Stopped Dead   Germans Battle Frantically to Expanc Wedge on South Flank; American: ‘Batter Jan Bace at Munda

Russian Report Von Kluge’s Drive Has Been Crushed   German Claim of 36-Mile Penetration Is Not Confirmed

70 TO 80 MORE JAP PLANES DESTROYED   Two Bases in Solomons  Hit During Week-End

‘Gobbler's Knol Seer Fails To Emerge Today   Weather Seer Cooperates With Unele Sam—Gives No Prediction

Grouad Hog Stymied-His Long-Range " ‘Predictions’ Fail to. Clear. Censors

SURPRISE RAID DRILL SLATED   Air Raid Warnings Will Sound In Lima And Allen-co Next Week

‘Splendid Effort of Americans’ In Africa Revealed in British Newsman’s Censorship Criticism

Bricker Finds Flaw in Labor Law Amendment   Hours for Women Workers in War Plants Unlimited

GOVERNOR OFFERS CRITICISM TODAY ON PROPOSED LAW   Plan to Relax Restrictions on Female, Child Labor Brings on Complaint,

Americans, 8th Army Meet to Continue Drive   London Hears Italian General Placed Over Rommel  For Final Stand

SLOW, STEADY GAINS ARE DEDORTED   Two Armies Begin Pursuit of Axis After Junction

ALLIES SMASH AT. CORNERED ENEM   Americans, British Are Unit ed In Relentless Pursuit of Afrika Korps:

NOW HAVE AXIS FORCES IN aeaasen TUNISIA CORNERED, AND BATT THEM FROM SOUTH, NORTH, ‘W!

TUNISIAN FIGHTING RAGES ON   Gains Are Meda by British and American Troops As Enemy Falls Back,

Crop Outlook Said Improved   Predict 6 Per Cent Drop From Last Year

NEW STAGGERING BLOW 75 MILES SOUTH  OF BRYANSK CARRIES RED ARMY TO. WARD KIEY.

Soviets Open Great New Battlefront   Nazis Now Face Fire On Four Lines, Continue Retreating

Armies Plunge Through Holes In Enemy Lines   Overrun Sevsk; Gains Made on Poltovo Base

More Than 5,000 Germans Reported Killed In &. Bitter Battle   RED OFFENSIVE 500 MILES FROM POLZ.nD

Russians Now Within [ 500 Miles of Poland      Break Through ni. » In Fourth: Batile. Cen  ter to o OverranSevalt, Seore

Russians Open Fresh Attack In Bryansk Area   New Break-Through Carries Threat To Vital Rail Line

Red Forces Drive Another Hole in Nazi Lines, Take ~ Sevsk and Peril Rail Line   More Than 5,000 Germans Killed in Bitter Fighting, Russians Say; Soviet Troops Continue Advance West of Kharkov

Reds Storm Through Nazi Lines   Another Battle Center Opened In Bryansk Area

Soviet Armies Launch Fourth Battle Center   Staggering Blow Dea!'t Germans Carries Reds Within 30 Miles of Vital Line; 90,000 Enemy Troops Killed

Nazis Unable To Slow Up. Red Armies   Newest Drive Hits : Toward. Railroad, .. Kiev to-Bryansk .

SOVIET TROOPS BREAKING OPEN GERMAN LINES   FOURTH OPENING IS MADE SOUTH OF BRYANSK

Red Forces  Open Fourth Battle Center   Now Within 20 Miles Of Rail Line Linking Bryansk with Kiev  PIJISH OTHER DRIVES

Seysk and 20 Other Localities Are Cap. tured  GAINS ARE SCORED IN OTHER SECTIONS German Communications  Again Threatened by © Troops

Russians Smast Great Holes In Nazi Defenses   Staggering Blow Struck As Reds Aim Toward Kiev

Soviets Break Through in Bryansk Area   Sevesk and Many Other Places Reported Taken

WERMANS DEALT OT AGGERING BLOW SGUTH GF BRYANSK   Capture of Town Puts Stalin’s Forces Within 20 Miles of Rail Line Running to Kiev.   ARTILLERY AND PLANES CRACK FOE’S DEFENSES   South of City Other Soviet Forces Plunge Closer to Poltava on Route to Dnieper.

Russians Open Fourth Battle Line in South   Moscow Announces Capture of Sevsk

Approach vital rail junction   Forge ahead on Kharkov front;  menace Poltava

Russians Smash Great Holes In Nazi Defenses   Staggering Blow Struck As Reds AIM Tweed 12s..,

Twenty Localities OverrunInAdvance   New Staggering Blow Carries Russians To Within 20 Miles Of Vital Railway Lines

Soviet Forces Swing Into Fourth Front   Bryansk Drive Perils Nazis’  ‘Dnieper Lines

Berlin Attempts to Split Allies _   Ti Dg Seececlaa Re   Suggests that ‘Just Peace’ Is Possible

BRITISH SCORN PEACE FEELERS   Nazis Hope to Split Allies, Russia

4 MORE YEARS?   Senator Burton Fears World Con. flict May Last Until 1947.

SLAPPING OF SICK SOLDIER MAY: BE PROBED      Patton’s Name Now Before Senate Committee For Major General Rank

War Department Indicates Desire to Let Matter Rest But Senator Threatens Action

COMPLETE REPORT ON PATTON ASKER   Senator Johnson Wants In vestigation Unless Stimson “Cleaned Up Mess.”

Solons Ask “Full Report’ on Patton   SENATE GROUP REQUESTS STIMSON ACCOUNT OF SLAPPING INCIDENT

Flood Waters Rise In State   Issue Emergency Pleas For Volunteers ‘To Sandbag Council Bluffs Dikes.

CONTROL OF PROS“ATIC CANCER PROVEN IN TREATMENTS HERE AND IN ENGLAND

OAD STEP 1S REPORTED. IN FIGHT AGAINST GANCEF   PROBABLE CURE FOR ONE TYPE CANCER BY USE OF NEW DRUG TAKEN AS PILL

STIGK 10 PLA FOR TAX BILL   Grant Full Abatement to! Those Owing $50 Or  lace.   NEW PROVISION ADDED

DRIVERS’ LICENSES MUST BE SECURED   New State Licenses for Drivers of Motor Vehicies Must Be Purchased By July 3.

FIFTH JAP WARSHIP BELIEVED SUNK IN SOLOMONS SECTOR  SIXTH VESSEL BELIEVED DAMAGED IN LATEST ENEMY DISASTER

BELIEVE FIVE OF SIX JAP WARSHIPS SUNK IN CONFLICT   Outnumbered U. S. Destoyers Sink Jap Naval Force in Running Battle Early Wednesdav Near Rabaul

Fifth Warship May Be Lost   Jap Destroyer Was Last Seen [In Flames

Probably Got Other Ship   That Fifth Destroyer Apparently Went Down

‘Montanans to Have Plenty of Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread and Gravy, but Other Foods to Be Shy Unless Victory Gardens Produce   Opportunities to Import Edibles Are Slim

Davies Says Eastern Gas Is Overdrawn   May Defer Fun Deva Ran I sft

Death Toll Reaches 161  _ Nine Deaths Recordec tn Texas Christmas

INVASION FORCE CALLED BIGGER THAN IN SICILY   Nazis Stiffen Opposition

D,  YANK INVASION ARMY LANDS DESPITE NAZIS:  GENOA BATTLE PENDS.

AMERICAN, BRITISH FORCES IN LARGEST INVASION FLEE OF ALL LAND NEAR CITY   Two Armics Locked in Big Battle; Naz: Opposition Is Stiffening

ALLIED FORCES HOLDING FAST   Secre‘ary of War Stimson Says Losses Heavy on Both Sides—Bat. tered Fifth Army Being Strengthby Reinforcements.

QUIT GERMANY’S WAR OR SUFFER, ITALIANS TOLD   Churchill Warns Italy Of Allied Aircraft Blows

Allied Army Chiefs Told To Hit Hard   Kingdom Faces Searing ~ From End To End, Says - British Leader In Talk  To Commons

WARNING GIVEN BY CHURCHILL OF RUIN AHEAD   Only Way To Escape Being ‘Seared and Scarred,’ Says Premier   MANY RUMORS ARE AFLOAT   Italy Tottering on Verge of Collapse Reports Now Indicate

Italy Warned By Churchill te  Sue For Peace   US and Canadian Troops Drive Pell Mell Toward Axis Escape Port at Messina; Russians Capture 70 More Villages in Advance on Orel

FACE ORDEAL BY FIRE, TOLD BY CHURCHILL   Allies Will Let Italy Stew and “Hot Up the Fire,?? Commons Hears.   SURRENDER AT ONCE. IS ONLY ALTERNATIVE

ALY (3 WARNED   Italy Will Be Seared, Scarred Unless She Abandons War, Winnie Warns

ITALY WARNED OF INVASION BY CHURCHILL      Will Be Seared, Scarred And Blackened From One End To Other

RAF Night Raiders Blast Hamburg for Fifth Time in 48 Hours—Reds Advance  on Three Sides of Orel—Yanks Gain 500 Yards at Besieged Munda— Jap Bases of New Guinea and  Burma Bombed

Italy Must Forsake Axis, Js UHtimatum   Prime Minister Says  Mussolini Ouster Makes . No Change in War   HUGE TASK AHEAD   Unconditional Surrender and Help Against Nazis Demanded

SAYS NO OVERTURES. OF PEACE. RECEIVED   Demand. Full * Facilities. For War - Against’ Germany: « ‘From Italians”

TO SEAR AND SCAR NATION UNTIL PEACE   Allies To Hit Foe All The Harder; Orders Given

‘Will Be Seared  [From End To End, Churchill Says    Orders Already Have Gone To Allied Commanders; No Peace Overtures Made

Must Sue For Peace or Take Consequences   Request for Armistice May Be First Move of New Italian Regime, Reports Indicate; Much Demonstration Rumored

TO BE TREATED ROUGH UNLESS PEACE SOUGHT   Unconditional Surrender Still Price for Peace, According to — British Leader 

[TALY ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE   Churchill Says Country Will Be Hit Hard Unless It Surrenders.   NO PEACE OVERTURES

‘UTMOST RIGOR QF WAR ORDER ALREADY GIVEN   Unconditional Surrender- Not By Piecemeal But   Wholesale—Demanded Bv Prime Minister   NO OVERTURES OF PEACE RECEIVED   Allied Course, He Says,  Would Be to Let Htalians “Stew In Their Own Juice Fora Bit”

HEAVY ATTACK ORDERS SENT TO ALUED CHIEFS   Churchill Says No Peace Overtures Have Yet Been Received

Commons Is Told All Italy Will Be ‘Seared, Scarred’  Unless She Surrenders

Italy Must Fall Asserts Churchill   Country to be Seared, Scarred, Blackened Unless Badoglio Abandons War with Allies

Fall of Mussolini Brings No Change in  Allied Policy; to Carry Fire and Steel Throughout Length and Breadth of Italy

Yield At Once Or Be Doomed, ‘Says Churchill   No Peace Approaches _ Received By Allies,  Report To Commons

INVASION 10 MEAN SCARRED NATION, PARLIAMENT TOLD   Prime Minister, in Fiery Speech, Warns Latins Only Hope is to Surrender Lincanditanally.

PRIME MINISTER, IN TALK TO COMMONS, GETS BIG OVATION   Says Italy Will Be “Seared, Scarred And Blackened” Unless She Gives In Unconditionally

PREMIER BADOGLIO TOLD CONSEQUENCES OF STAYING IN WAR  CHURCHILL SAYS ITALY   CHURCHILL SAYS ITALY TO BE “SEARED, BLACKENED END TO END”

Allies To Continue Relentless Bombing, Invasion Of Italy   Prime Minister Warns Italy Will Be Invaded ! - “Seared, Scarred an Blackened From   One End To the Other ; 

No Armistice Overtures To Allies’ Camp   Italy Will Be Seared Ard Scarred Unless Badoglio Ahandons War.   AVOID GERMAN WORRY

Prime Minister Tells Commons Allied Commanders Already Have Orders to Exert “Utmost Rigor of War” Unless New Government Surrenders— Pledges Country Will Be “Seared and Scarred and_Blackened From One End to the’ Other,”

Allies Letting — Ttalians Stew in Own Juice   Churchill in Address to Commons Tells. Allied Course: No Gloating   WORDS OF CAUTION TO ITALY AND ALLIES   He Expects Great Changes, But Warns Italy What to Psvect If She Fights On

Prime Minister Vows Country Will Be Blasted Unless Surrender Is Made

Prime Minister Warns Italy To Sue For Peace   Unconditional Surrender Asked Immedi ately By Churchill

WARNS ALLIES WILL BLACKEN WHOLE COUNTRY   No Peace Bid Yet, He Says

AMERICAN FORCES PLUNGE AHEAD IN SICILIAN FIGHTING   ' By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

- Allies Will Push Attacks Until — Badoglio Gives Up Unconditionally

Italy Is Warned to Sue for Peace Or Take Consequence   Prime Minister Churchill Issues Solemn Statement To New Government While Stockholm Reports Serious Rioting In Many Cities   VATICAN SAID TO HAVE STARTED NEGOTIATIONS

Says No Peace Pion ‘Has Been Offered; Allies Will Demand Air Bases, He Soys

Churchill in. Stem Warning To Italians      Country to Be Invaded Unless _ ‘Surrender Comes

Unconditional Surrender! Or Withstand Consequence Of Having Kingdom Razed

Churchill Promises Avalanche Of Fire And Steel Unless New Government Yields To Allies

Warns Italy It Will Be Seared And Scarred From End To End If Che Stays In War

British Leader Tells Commons Armies Have Orders To Strengthen Attack

ltalian Kingdom  « Will Be Seared, — Scarred, Blackened   Allied Armies Are * Continuing Slow Advance on Messina

CHURCHILL IN AN ULTIMATUM TO THE ITALIAN PEOPLE   The New Government Must Abandon Germany's War  Against United Nations.   NO PEACE OVERTURES

AdviceBacked by Warning» of Action   Unconfirmed Reports Hint That Vatican Has Already Started Peace Moves

Big Problem Put Directly At Badoglio   ‘Searing and Scarring’ Will Be Consequences Of Staying In War

Will Sear Nation If It Fights On   No Overtures of Peace Received, Churchill Saye — Allied Leaders Told to Exert Utmost Rigor — Warns Against Throwing Italy Inte Political Chacs

Supreme Moment For Prime Minister  Italy Must Surrender Or Be Seared From End To End, Churchill Declares

Japanese Ships, Troops Massed Near Australia   Powerful Armada Based In North May Be On Defensive Against Allied Push; Enemy Offensive Also Is Possible

NORTH OF ~ AUSTRALIA   Major Developments Are Believed Impending in Southwest Pacific   MacARTHUR REPORTS s ON ENEMY MOVES   Tokyo May Be Planning Either For an Offensive on Defensive Conflict

JAPS MASSING TROOPS, SHIPS IN $0, PACIFIC   Believed Planning Offensive Or Preparing For Large Scale Allied Assault   POSITIONS RAIDED   Attack On Airdrame At, Koepang, Timor, Reveal-  ed by General MacAr  thur’s Headquarters 

Japs Massing Ships, Planes At Island Bases-Just North Of Australia, Says M’ Arthur

SHIPS, PLANES IN SO. PACIFIC   Great Force of Troops Concentraied North of Australia, MacArthur  DD aaetdx:

Gathering North Of Australia In Large Numbers   Concentration Of Ships, Men, Planes Indicate Operations On Heavy Scale

Jap Concentrations Endanger Australia   Enemy Massing Great Forces North of Continent, Either for Long-Awaited Offensive or in Anticipation of an Allied Drive.

Nips Believed Set To Repel Allied Offensive Or Open Australian Attack

Armada Of Japs: Massing Nearby Australia Coast   Expected Invasion Of! Mainland Looming: Troops And Planes  Increas

IAPS PREPARING TOSTRKE BLOW NEAR AUSTRALY   Massing Powerful Armadas of Ships and Airplanes at [sland Bases North of Aus“Yealiq.   GEN. ‘MacARTHUR HAS REPORT ON ACTIVITIES   Enemy Either . Preparing An Offensive Against Australia or For Defense Bases on Islands.

Masses Troops, Planes, Ships At Adjacent Bases   See Major Developments Impending In That Area

JAPS REPORTED MASSING PORCES FOR OFFENSIVE   Troops And Ships Being Collected At Islands North Of Australia

Heavy Bombers In Pacific Smash 9-Ship Jap Convoy   Enemy Ships Sought To. Reinforce Wewak, ‘New Guinea, dn: What . MacArthur * Believes ‘May. Be ' Imrnineént’ Large-Scale Offensive

U.S. AIRMEN WRECK 3 JAP SHIPS   Nine-Ship Convoy Attacked Off Coast Of New Guinea

‘STRIKE REMNANT OF JAP CONVOY OFF NEW GUINEA   Allied Bomberd Follow Up Attack Which Cost Japs 3 Ships, Range Southwest Pacific  In Far-Flunge Raids 7

ALLIES BOMB d VeautLo Ih ENEMY FLOGK   ‘Ships Headed for Wewak, New Guinea, Pounded in Night. Attack.   KISKA AND SOLOMONS ASSAULTS CONTINUING

Allies Smash At" Remnants of Jap Nine-Ship Convoy   Three of Six Vessels. — ‘Headed For New Guinea Wrecked By Air F leet 

THREE JAP SHIPS ‘STRUCK BY BOMBS   Red Army Hammers at German Bridgehead, Occupies Axis Stronghold.

Smash Remnants Of Jap Convoy —  Attempt Made to Reinforce Wewak —

MacArthur’s Air Foree Smashes At Jap Convoy  3 Ships Wrecked:   3 Ships Wrecked: Others Pursued  asp Naw Ci'nas

BOMBERS SMASH AT JAP CONVOY   Remnants of Nine-Ship Convoy Being Sought — Three of Six Supply and Transport Ships in Group Wrecked Thursday Night,

Japanese Lose Another Convoy Off New Guinea   Allied Bombers Smash Nine-Ship Reinforcement

Efforts To Enforce At Wewak Fail   REDS TAKE POEN T; ROMMEL EXPECTED MAKE DESPERATE STAND.

ALLIES BLAST REMNANTS OF JAP CONVOY   Yankees Hit Kiska Base, Bomb Installations In Solomons

BONIBERS SMASH ‘Ale JAP CONVOY FOR NEW GUINEA   3 Of 6 Ships Wrecked; Allied Attack Continues   BELIEVE GROUP PART OF NEW OFFENSIVE

POWER RESIGNS AS BRIGKER AIDE   Governor Announces Re. signation Of His Secre. tary And Advisor

Gen, de Gaull Insisting on Army Purge  Won't Attend   Won't Attend Mectings Until Vichvites Ousted

$225,000 FIRE STRIKES AMANA   Seven Fire Companies Aid In Fighting Flames

REGISTER AT B.HS. FOR WAR BOOK IV.   1 to 8 p.m. October 20, 21, 22, and 23

(DuPont Scion Killed in Experiment IGlider Crack-up: Three Others Die

Richard duPont Killed in Crash   Glider Champion, Three Others, Die

Need 750,000 More ~ Workers On Farms,  Through October 30   War Food Adwisietion Re. veals Great Need For Voli unteer Workers

FLYING FORTRESS GUNNER DOWNS 7 GERMAN PLANES   Sergt. Benjamin Warmer’s Marksmanship on Sicilian Raid Yesterday Set Record for Africa.

e Shooting!  WAIST GUNNER KNOCKS DOWN SEVEN ENEMY PLANES IN  ONE BATTLE

Synthetic Program Reported To Be Bad  Sub-Committee Considering Alternatives

WIN DEATH RACE   Police, Druggist) Reach Woman Who Got Wrone Medicine.

War Enters Final Stage With Fall Of Italy   Rv WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

Italy’s Fall Body Blow To Hitler   Collapse of Junior Axis Partner Lays Ger many’s Position in South Open to Attack

WAR FOR WESTERN WORLD ENTERS FINAL AND DECISIVESTAGE AS. RESULT OF DOWNFALL OF ITALY

HITLER'S WHOLE SOUTHERN FRONT NOW IMPERILED   German Defenses Open to Attack by Seven Allied Armies Standing on Shores of Mediterranean.   BALKAN STATES SEEN AS POSSIBLE ARENA   Troops of Fuehrer’s Partners in Holding Force and Their Willingness to Fight Is Questionable.

UMW Will Settle Wage Ditterences On Illinois Basis   On Basis Of Agreement Providing For An 8-Hour Day, 48-Hour Week And Portal-To-Portal Pay Of $1.25 Daily For 2 Years

MINERS SUBMIT WAGE PROPOSAL   Coal Operators Receive Offer To Settle Pay Dispute

Miners Now Ask $3 a Day Raise  In All Sections   Seek To Extend Illinois Agreement to Other Fields   Policy Committee Seeking Contracts with Many Operators

UMW WILLING T0 SETTLE DISPUTE WITH OPERATORS   Lewis’ Policy Committee _Ready To Accept Terms Of Illinois Agreement   OWNERS ASK RETURN OF PROPERTY SOON

Suggests 8-Hour Day, 48: Hour Week   $1.25 PORTAL PAY   Appalachian Area Operators Demand WLB Enforce June 18 Directive

MINERS READY 10 ACCEPT AGREEMENT   UMW Offers to Accept Terms on Basis of Illinois Pact

Rommel Hurls 135,000 Men Into Fight  All-Out Drive to Clear Region T mid hes Bieta

Rommel! Hurls 135,000 Men Into Fight  All-Out Drive to Clear Region T secemmme hes Ri awole

WESTERN GERMANY .AGAIN BOMBED   Veiled Threat of Gas Warfare Made Against England

ALLIED FORCE LANDS ON THO GREEK ISLANDS   Lero and Samos Islands Located At Gateway To Balkans   NEW LANDINGS LOOM   Sth Army Moves, Yugostav Guerrilla Activity  Indicates New Action

Occupation. Seen As Portent Of  Balkan Invasion   Speculation: Heightene by Mystery of Where abouts, of - British 9tl  . Army and.“ Reportec Successes of. Yugo-Slar Guerrillas: °“

NINTH ARMY IS PRESUMABLY ON THE MOVE   ‘Whereabouts Remain Secret But Balkan Activities Indicate Early Action in That Theatre of War.   Expect Break

ALLIED THRUST INTOBALKANS BELIEVED NEAR   Occupation of Two Tslanc  Outposts Likened ta Op erations Pending , Italy Invasion

REPORTS TWO NEW ALLIED INVASIONS   FOREIGN SOURCE SAYS TROOPS HAVE LANDED ON ISLANDS OFF TURK COAST.

Strategic Balkan Thrust Appears In the Making   Absence of British Ninth Army and Success of Patriots Stressed

Allies Reported to Have Taken Island in Dodecanese; Invasion Of Balkans May Commence Soon

Balkans Thrust Said in Making   Ninth Army Missing Yugoslavs Triumph

REPORT BALKAN ISLAND SEIZURE   Allies Said to Have Taken Lero and Samos

ALLIES OCCUPY GREEK ISLANDS   Mystery About 9th Army Suggests Possible Balkan Invasion.

VOOIVI MMEIAUTE ET iiiMot  ‘Twe Greek Islands Reported In Hands Of Allies

MYSTERY HOLDS WHEREABOUTS OF BRITISH STH   Strong Middle East Force May Be Poised For  levasion Thrust

ALLIES SEIZE 2 OUTPOSTS 10 BALKANS   Occupy Dodecanese And Greek Islands In Mediterranean

Allied Thrust Into Balkans Believed Near   British Ninth Army Reported on Move: Yugoslav Patriots Seize More Land

British Poised With Force To Invade Balkans   Ninth Army Reported On Move For Possible Allied Thrust

BALKAN THRUST BELIEVED NEAR   British Ninth Army Reported On Move; Yugoslav Patriots Apparently Fighting On Prepared Plan

Nab 2 Isles Near Balkans   May Serve As Springboard For Invasion; Hint It’s 9th Army

Allied Move To Isles Reported  Two Outposts To Balkan  Area Seized ~

BALKAN OUTPOSTS-—  Allies Seize Islands   Samos and Lero Ja Aegean Occupied

Isles Off Turkey ‘Coast Reported Taken by Allies   Ninth Army Myster  Contains Hint of

Isles Off Turkey Coast Reported Taken by Allies   Ninth Army Myster   Ninth Army Mystery Contains Hint of Thrust at Balkans

Iecupation Seen \s Portent OF  alhan Invasion   neculation [Teightened by Mystery of Where: abouts, of British 9th Army and Reported Successes of Yugo-Slav (juerrtilas.

Probable Allied Balkan Thrust Seer 'n Reported Landing On Two Island:

Allied Push Into Balkans Is Hinted   British Ninth Army Reported Having Sailed From Bases in Syria   YUGOSLAV PATRIOTS INCREASE PRESSURE  Said To Have Occupied More Than 100 Miles Of Dalmatian Coast

INVASIONS MADE ON KEY ISLANDS   Lero And Samos Taken Over By Allies As Plane Bases

Strategic Attack May be  in Making, It Is Soid   i BRERETON SHIFTED ' TO NEW ASSIGNMENT   No Word Received of the Whereabouts of British Oth Army

ISLANDS NEAR THE BALKANS   Ankara Dispatches Report Greek Island of  Samos and Dodecanese Island of Lero Occupied

Balkan Drive Hinted; Allies Take Islands   British Ninth Army Reported on the Move After Training in Near East

Balkan Stirrings Lend Impetus to Invasion Rumor   Ninth “Army Reporte Departing From Syrian fases —

Actions Similar to Those Preceding the Invasion Of Italy; Reports From Ankara Differ as to the Method

ALLIES SEIZE GREEK ISLANDS   May Be Stepping Stones for Ninth: Acmy Move (nto Balkans. ©

Report Allies Hold 2 Aegean Gateway Isles   Rumored Samos - Lero Occupation May Portend Thrust At Balkans.

BALKAN DRIVE MAY BE NEAR   British Ninth Army Sail: From Syrian Bases Says Ankara

EX-PROBATE JUDGE REVERSES STORY   ‘Jurist Admits He Was To Get Bribe

Anti-Axis Legions Closing In For Kill Except in Burma Witt Crux of Struggle Still Russia   Assaults Make Past Week Red-Letter One With Crisis For Ill-Omened Axis Fellowship Soon

With Invasion of Sicily’s Mainland, Anti-Axis Legions Move in for Kill

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Defeat Now Stalks Axis Om Every Battlefront af (ilobal Struggle

Crop Risk — Bill Back fo House   To Vote. Again on Question ‘of Death Sentence for Insurance Program   SENATE. WOULD CONTINUE AGENCY   Congress Trylag to Act on Other Appropriations Before Nichtfall

-12-State Cornbelt . Conference Called ‘By Gov. Hickenlooper   State Capitol News: Letter As Reviewed by. Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

CLASS MEETS MONDAY   Enrollment in Nurses’ Aide Course Is Still Open

NEWS NOTES 23 ates From The Navigation School a        RECORD NAVIGATION CADET CLASS WINS WINGS

NEWS NOTES {8 ?aiem From The Navigation School “Es  Issued by the Public Relations Ofiice, AAFNS, Hondo, Texas.       ‘BOOMERANG BOYS WIN NAVI. GATORS’ WINGS

Kaw Tributaries Reported Falling   Flood Conditions Prevail From Wamego to River's Mouth   CREST NEARS TOPEKA   Slow Recession of Water Is Forecast by Weather Bureau

Rainy Spell About Over      Kaw Flooding Badly At Lawrence and Topeka, But Crest is Expected Today

Escaping Italians Say Naples a City of Horror.  ALLIED FORCES MOVE UP ON ITALIAN LINE  Two Enemy Convoys Are  Destroyed in the Aegean Area.

NAZI WRECKING PORT OF NAPLES   Docks and Port Facilities Destroyed To Preven  Use By Allies

SWEEP IT UP   White Wings Cart Away 25 Tons KFollawing Celehration

Special Show Tonight, To Boost Sale Of Bonds  on oe el OR, ey oe A © see

Special Show Tonight, To Boost Sale Of Bonds  eh Ae i har! Ree) eS Ree  ae  Se  Laem

Soviets ts Lap Up More: Territory   Troops Push Near ~Nazi-Held Zhitomir

Many More Communities West of Kiey Captured ;  VITEBSK IS NEARED _ IN RAPID ADVANCE  Area Strewn With Nozi Dead and Abandoned Equipment

REDS CAPTURE TOWN ON ROAD TO ZHITOMIR   18 Nazi Assaults Are Repulsed in Battle For Vitebsk

Russians Capture Korostishey in Savage Street Fighting and More Than 60 Other Popnuiated Places.   WIN BACK HALF GROUND LOST IN KIEV AREA   Other Soviet Columns Pounding Toward Vitebsk Repulse 18 Counter-Attacks and Kill 1,200 Germans.

UNRAINIAN: ARMY SWEEPS FORWARD   Takes 60 Communities it Fast Winter Offensive   FIERCE FIGHTING   Red Forces Push Southward Toward Rumanian Border, 115 Miles Away

TOWN ON ROAD TO ZHITOMIR   18 Nazi Assaults Are Repulsed in Battle For Vitebsk

Ukrainian Army Nearer Zhitomir   Vise Drawn Tighter Around German Stronghold Of Vitebsk As Big Offensive  Gains Momentum

Another Red Shock Force deats Back  18 German Counter Altacks on  Approaches to Vitebsk. ~ Corres  pondent Tells of Russian Ski ~ Mounted Troops and-Cavalry Playing Havoc With Nazi vefenses.

Korostishev Falls: Reds Push Toward Rumanic  Beat Back 18 Nazi Counter Attacks; 60 Towns Captured

Red Troops ‘Also Advance ‘On Vitebsk   Soviets Have Recaptured Half of Ground Lost In Nazi Counter-Drive  60 TOWNS RETAKEN

REDS CAPTURE 60 TOWNS ON KIEV HIGHWAY   DEEP BULGE MADE TOWARD BORDER OF RUMANIA   Cossacks Cut Railroad

Berlin Hit by Hundreds of Gombs—  Research ard Development Station Also Attacked.

BRIT. BOMBERS LOST IN TWO NIGHT SORTIES   Fifty German Planes Carry Out Feeble Attacks on England

24-HOUR BOMBING OF GERMANY {f “ON ONCE MORE   British, Americans Resume Wide-scale Pasting of industrial Centers.

BERLIN, BALTIC COAST HIT IN NEWEST BLOWS   Key War Factories, Research And Oevelopment Station Are Blasted   FRENCH AIRDROMES RAIDED   New Objectives Are Touched As Bombers Range Over Wide Territory

BRIT. BOMBERS IN NEW RAID ON BERLIN:   Also Hit Research Station Near Coast of Baltic

BIG RESEARG STATION ALSO GETS PASTING   British Lose 41 Bombers In Twin Night Air Raids

REICH BEARS BRUNT OF BIG ALLIED SWEEP   Berlin Struck Again— Research Station Is Target on Baltic Coast.

BIG NAZI WAR PLANT RAIDED BY BOMBERS   British Smash Research and Development Station in Germany.   41 BOMBERS LOST IN TWO NIGHT ATTACKS

Russians Launch Determined Drive   Reds ‘Would Push Nazis from Port

AXIS ROARS ITS INDIGNATION AT ROME'S BOMBING   ?ropagandists Beat Drums Of Indignation, While Acknowledging Much Damage; Claim 11 Sacred Buildings Hit.

JARS Cc ropaganda-' Beats ‘Drumis of Indignaticn ; 2 ‘Over Raid on Rome

Rome Admits Great Damage In Air Attack   Axis Propaganda Rouses Indignation Over Destruetion Sacred Buildings.   g PLANES SHOT DOWN

HEAVY DAMAGE IN RAID UPCN ROME   166 Dead, 1659 Hurt According to Communique, Axis Radio Reports.

‘World-Wide Cr Of Indignation’   Axis Propagandists Make Huge Clamor Over Rome Bombing

ITALIANS ADMIT GREAT DAMAGE IN CAPITAL CITY   PROPAGANDA DRUMS BEATEN FRANTICALLY BY FRUSTRATED FOE

PROPAGANDA IS FIRED BY ENEMY IN ROME ATTACK   Admit Damage To City; Report 166 Killed In Raid

ARTO INDIGNANT OVER ROME RAID   Italians Admit Great Damage Is Done in Yesterday’s Attack,   166 ARE KILLED IN RAID

Axis Express “Indignation”  _ As Result Of Rome Bombing   Brave Mussolini Spends Raid Hours In Shelter

Axis Propaganda Paints Picture of Destruction Inflicted Upon Rome

Italians Claim Bombs Fell On Eleven Sacred Houses In Attack On Eternal City

Axis Beats Propaganda Drums Today   Caught Flat-Footed By Allied Treatment of Rome Raid

Axis Sets Toll In Holy City At 166 Killed, 1,659 Hurt   Propagandists Say Sa. cred Buildings Hit; Duce Reported In Shelter

ROME REPORTS 166 DEAD, 1,695 HURT IN RAID   Axis Radio Portrays Bombing as “Bestial” Attack on Churches, Schools.

ROME CLAIMS SACRED PLACES ARE DAMAGED      Reports 166 Persons Killed, 1,655 Injured, San Lorenzo Basicila Parily Destroyed

AXIS TUNISIAN ARMIES WIPED OUT BY ALLIES   Final Prisoner Tally I 150,000 Ineluding 13 Generals

Stimson Rejoices  At Africa Victory   Says Result of Triumph Will Be Widespread

Stimson Jubilant over Victory in  African Theater   Present Win Is Called Better Than November Success

Stimson Rejoices  Over Win   Results to Have More Effect on Ultimate Outcome

OR SYoTEM AUTO DRIVING EFFECTIVE NOW   First Long Step In New Policy On Gas Saving; May Lift Pleesure Ban

AIR FLEET OF “AXIS MAY BE POWERLESS TO STOP INVASION   Allied Superiority Since Attack On Sicily Has Practically Rolled Back Foe

CANT HALT INVASION   Observers Think Luftwaffe Effectiveness Gone

Badoglio May Lose Control of Situation   Or Increasing Revolis May Compel Him to Sue for an. Immediate Peace   AXIS TROOPS ARE: RUSHED TO TRIESTE   Croats and Slovenes Are Demanding Return of Istria; Tension Mounting. Hourly

HONORABLE PEACE PROMISED PEOPLE IF NAZIS OUSTED   ALLIES WILL RESTORE COUNTRY’S LIBERTIES, WAR LEADER PLEDGES

Battle Brewing in Legislature on Tax Rebate to Counties   Opponents Fear Boost in Sales Tax Would  Be Necessary

TAX FIGHT LOOMS IN LEGISLATURE   PLAN TO REBATE 25% OF STATE SALES TAX MEETS OPPOSITION

WE MUST LIVE “GLOBAL LIVES”   Lincoln Biographer Takes Slap At “Globaioney” Wisecrack Of

OPA Approves Price Of District Turkey:  Here To Check Shipmen Of Holiday Birds

GRAPE RELIEF ~N-VAN BUREN   Growers Told They Can Sell On Open Market And To Wineries

Oust Mussolini, Get Out Of War, FDR Tells Ital   President Guarantees Aid In Setting Up A New Regime

VISIONS GREAT TOURIST BOOM FOR U.P. AREA   Helicopters Will Double Resort Revenues, Editors Told   TESTING PLANS NOW   Kelly Asserts Michigan Is  Leading Nation With Post-War Plans

Yanks Drive Japs on Attu Into Pocket   Aleutians Trap Set By Americans Closed: Foe Must Surrender  Or Fight to Death

U.S. Attu Trap Closed On Japs   -Hard-Pressed Nips Driven Into Pocket

U.S. Pushing Nips on Attu Info Pocket   Two American Landing Parties Closing Trap

U.S. Attu Trap Closed On Japs   Hard-Pressed Nips  Driven Into Pocket By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER_

_ Enemy Forces Driven Into Shrinking Pocket At Chicagof Harbor  JAPANESE DRIVEN FROM HIGH GROUND  Trapped Japanese Can Only Surrender Or Fight to Death

JAPS ON ATTY ARE TRAPPED REPORT SAYS   U. S. Troops Appear Driv. ing Enemy Forces Into Pocket

ENEMY DRIVEN INTO POCKETS   Surrender Or Fight To Death Only Recourse For Nipponese

Japs on Attu Island Being Pushed in Trap   Hard-Pressed Enemy Force Appears To Be Retiring To Pocket Near Chichafof; Position Virtually Untenable

AMERICAN FORCES DRIVE HARD-PRESSED JAPANESE INTO TIGHT ATTU POCKET   Enemy Is Pushed Into Spot Around Chichafof Harbor; Dive Bombers Attack Japanese Base In Solomons

Sea Halts Further Retreat Final Victory  Push Made. - By Yanks —

Yanks Driving Jap Forces On Attu Into Trap   Enemy Troops Pushed Into Pocket in Chichagof Harbor Region Are Seen Facing Bitter Fight to Death

Japs Forced Back on Attu Island   Americans Close Trap on the Embattled Enemy

JAPS ON ATTU ARE CAUGHT BY YANK TRAP   Enemy’s Positions On Chich: agof Harbor Are Untenable: Must Surrender Or Fight To Death   Rekata Bay Attacked

YANKS DRIVING JAPANESE INTO POCKET ON ATT   Nips Retreating Toward Harbor Where They Can ’ Only Surrender or Make Last-Ditch Stand.   PATROLS OF TWO U. S. FORCES MERGE   Americans Capture Anti-Aircraft Guns in Advance and These Are Turned on Foe,

 , , Americans Drive  Japs Into ‘Attu Pocket   Foe Now Can Either Surrender or Fight To Death After Two Landing Parties Slam Shut Two-Pronged Trap

U.S. Forces Drive Hard Pressed Jap Into Attu Trap   Must Surrender or Fight to Death; Capture Enemy Guns

FATHER DRAFT BAN OPPOSED AS BLOW TO WAR STRATEGY   Military Leaders Say Its Adoption Would Force Revision of RooseveltChurchill Plans.   WAR PRODUCTION ALSO WOULD SUFFER   Legislation for Compulsory  Assignment of Men and  Women to Vital Industries Urged at Hearing.

War Chiefs Oppose Draft Ban, Urging Compulsory Work   Recasting Of Entire Strategic Plan Is Said Involved in Induction Of Fathers

ARMY CHIEFS FIGHT BAN ON FATHER CALL      Drafting of Fathers Necessary, Congress Is Told   GENERAL M’NARNEY ON WITNESS STAND      Move Held Blow to War Strategy of United  States

Army Is Opposing Father's Draft Ban   Would Be Blow To U. S. War Strategy, Leaders  Tell Senate-House Committee

FATHER’ CALL ~ BY ARMY ME)   Department Heads Tell Congress of  Planning .

Father Deferment Would Upset Plans, Chiefs Say   Wheeler Unimpressed By Department’s Opposition Argument

War Department Says Fathers Draft Necessary   Claim Induction Ban Would Wreck Plans Of Quebec Confab

Army Leaders Insist Draft Of Fathers  N ecessary  Also Call for Laws Allowing Compulsory Assignment of Men   REFER TO SHORTAGE IN PLANE FACTORIES

Would Use Ivan’s Plan In America   WAR DEPT. OFFICIALS SEEK CONTROL OVER LIVES OF ALL CIVILIANS AFTER CZARIST PATTERN.   Insist on Father Draft

' Labor Drait sure Urged  Army Chiefs   ar Undersecretary, neral Cite Need r Taking Fathers

WAR OFFICIALS OPPOSE CHANGE IN DRAFT LAW   Ban On Taking Fathers Would Upset Plans, McNarney Tells  Committee

CROUP IS TOLD FATHER DRAFT IS NECESSARY   Ban Would be Blow to U. S. War Strategy, Army Heads Declare

Draft of Fathers Needed to Win   Army Asks Also Compulsory Assignment of War Workers

Gen. McNarney Tells Com. mittee Ban on Induction of Fathers Would Necessitate The Recasting of All Quebec Strategic War Planning

ARMY CHIEFS REVEAL NEEDS IN MANPOWER   BAN ON INDUCTION OF FATHERS IS NOT FAVORED

Power to Assign Men And Women to War Industries Needed, Congress Informed

Falhers’ Draft Ban Opposed By Anny Officials   McNamey and Pattersor Say ‘War Situutlon Demands Step

Military Aides Stress Draft of Fathers   Declare at Senate Hearing Deferment Would Mean Revamping Strategy; Groun Calls for Exact Army Figures

Britain, Russia,  U.S. Take Joint  Diplomatic Action  State Department   Reveals Envoys  Relaying Request  EIRE OMITTED   Refuge ‘Inconsistent’  With Principles  Of United Nations

President’s Ultimatum ‘Illegal,’ Says Berlin; Switzerland Silent On  leene

Train Slaying Case Is Given to Jury  Eight Women, Four Men Consider Data

State’s Local Defense Councils To Go Through Final Paces June 27

7 > WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE y PDEAVER CREEK PARK SITUATION?

LITTLE STEEL WAGE FORMULA IN DANGER   Prices Must Be Rolled Back To Hold Line, Says WLB

All Military Secrets Must  Be Guarded   Readers Are Asked to Keep All Information From Our Enemies

Censorship Office Says “Do Not Give Naiue of Sup or Regiment in Connection Wita Service Men

PREDICT BREAK IN FIRST COLD WAVE   Six Inches of Snow Falls at Chardon

RELIEF FROM COLD IS SEEN   Snow, Rain Blamed For Two Fatal Auto Ac- — cidents

“WORK OR FIGHT” BILL APPROVET   HOUSE GROUP VOTES 17 TO 9 FOR PLAN TO CURB WAR PLANT ABSENTEEISM.

ABSENTEE BILL GETS APPROVAL   House Naval Committee Gives O. K. To Work Or Fight Measure

Work-or-Fight Bill Favored by Committee   Legislation Aimed -at Absenteeism Passes, 17 to 9

"Work Or Fight’ Bill ‘Aimed At War Plant ‘Workers Who Lay Off   Texas Solon Denounces CIO Leader Lewis As — Economic Tyrant

\House Given Work or Fight Legislation  Aimed at Emploves   Aimed at Employes Habitually Absent Without Good Cause

Toil-or-Fight Bill Passes  House Group  Plant Absentees Would Face Call to Service

WORK OR FIGHT BILL APPROVED   Legislation Is Aimed At Warplant Layoffs For No Cause

House Committee Approves ‘Work or Fight’ Measure   Bill Aimed to Combat Absenteeism ; Lewis Assailed as ‘Economic Tyrant’

Work or Fight Legislation Is Given Approval   House Naval Committee Hopes To Curb Absenteeism in Piants

Work or Fight Bill Approved   Naval Committee Vote: 17-9 on Absenteeism

WORK OR FIGHT LEGISLATION IS GIVEN APPROVAL   House Committee Acts Te Curb Absenteeism In War Industries   OREGON SENATOR IN ATTACK ON GREEN

Enemy Planes Turned Back   London Has an Alert a: Two Approach; Allied Raiders Return

U.S. ToRebuild Munda Airfield   Army Prepares To Use It Against Japs

TO RUSH REPAIR OF MUNDA BASE WITH ALL SPEED   Engineers And Sea Prepare To Beat Immediate Reconstruction Of Captured Jap Base.

MUNDA AIRFIELD BEING REPAIRED   YANKS RUSH WORK ON CAPTURED BASE TO STRAFE NIPPONS

KELLY BROWN,. NICHOLS’ ATTORNEY GIVEN. 30. DAYS TO. PREPARE’ AN’ ANSWER

HALF OF MUNDA AIRFIELD TAKEN BY U. S. FORCES   Americans Encircle Jap Stronghold; Japanese Are Being Slowly Exterminated   Retreat Lines Cut

Jap Garrison At Munda  ls Doomed   Enemy Garrison Entirely Encircled and Being Slowly Destroyed; American Infantrymen Contral Half of Airport

Heavy Losses Are Inflicted On Jap Forees   Paced by Tanks, Infantry Has Advanced in All Sec. tors Against Munda, Headquarters of MacArthur Reports

NIP FORCE  COMPLETELY ‘SURROUNDEL   American Infantrymen, Fighting With Tank Support, Control Half of Airdrome.

Half ot Port Under Control Of American Infantrymen   All Lines of Escape Covered by Yankees After Patrols Slice Around Munda Strip   JAPANESE SUSTAIN HEAVY CASUALTIES   Tank Support Given U. S. Ground Forces In Successful Push

U.S. infantry forces gain control of half of airbase, now completely encircled   Americans battle with tank support; inflict heavy casuallies on enemy

Halt of Enemy Airdrome Held MacArthur Says  Lines of Retreat   Lines of Retreat Are Covered by U. S. Forces

YANKS CLAMP FIRM GRIP ON KEY AIRFIELD   NIPPONESE FORCES BATTERED INTO SUBMISSION

ENCIRCLEMENT OF MUNDA IS NOWCOMPLETE   Japanese Garrison Is Slowly Being Destroyed, General MacArthur Announces: Heavy Jap Casualties   Nearing Salamana

Japs Completely Encircled At Munda And Being Slowly Hacked To Pieces Bu Yanks

Infantry Take: Heavy Toll of Jap Defenders   Half of Airdrome in Control of U.S. Units: Enemy Attacks Near Salamaua Repulsed

Japs, Completely Encircled, Face Sure Destruction   nfantrymen Take Half of Objective with Aid of Tanks   Americans Also Score Advances in Other Parts of Solomons

Japanese Troops At Munda Slowly Being Destroyec   American Forces Control Half Of Airport; Other Half Surrounded

Infantrymen, Fighting With Tank Support, Completely Encircle Enemy Garrison   JAPANESE SUSTAIN HEAVY CASUALTIES

East Walks To Generate  Needed Heat  Lack Of Fuel Oil Plays Havoe With Public Places

East Cracks Down On Driving ror Fun; Oil Shortage Felt   Authorities Start Rigid Ban In Many States; Some Schools May Give Holiday

Motorists Kyed In East States  Pleasure Driving Now Out, Law Enforcement Agents Crack Down

MANY MORE WALK   Crack-Down on Pleasure Driving Thins Traffic  on Streets

Motorists Are Back on Cold Feet   Ban on Pleasure Driving and Cut in Fuel Oil Rations Make Streets a Horse and Pedestrian’s Paradise

Crack-Down Begins on Violators Edict of “No-Fun” Driving   Eastern States Become _ Paradise for Horse © ‘and Pedestrian

[t's Walk Or Else---— In 17 Eastern States   Traffic- -Thinned Streets N ow A Paradise For Horses And Pedestrians As New OPA Ban On wAEHE - ure Driving Hits Motorists ‘

POSTWAR PROPOGAL GOES 10 CONGRES:   Fulbright Collaboration Plan Assured Of Passage

Postwar Policy Resolution Goes Through Change  of Conares   Power of Congress Over International Pacts Asserted

BILL TO KEEP PEACE AMENDED BY HOUSE GROUT   Adds Reminder That Congress Has Final Power Of Approval

RESOLUTION ON POSTWAR ISSUE IS QUALIFIED   Committee Accepts Republican Demiand to Give Congress Power to Approve, Reject Program

Amendment to Postwar Bill Is Suggested   House Committee Seeks to Write in Rider Requirine Congressional OK ~

GIVE CONGRESS POST-WAR SAY   Power To Approve Or Reject Peace Acts Put Into Bill

Amend Fulbright Resolution  Gives Congress Power  To Accept or Reject Any Agreement

Qualification For Proposed Peace Action   Congress Would Be Given Final Word On Post war Collaboration.

SET CORN LOAN RATE, 88 CENTS, AAA PROGRAM   Rate Higher Than Year Ago Make Ear Corn Loans Up To June 30.

BROWN TAKES OVER NEW JOB, AIMS TO PLEASE   Former Michigan Senator Now Official Head of Price Administration

BROWN, NEWOPA EXECUTIVE, NOT TO GET TOUGH   Eases Gingerly Into’ Nation’s No. 1 Hot Seat With Desire to Get ‘Along With Public   HENDERSON EXITS   Many Canned Baby Foods to Be Rationed Under Point System Affecting Processed Fruits

 Protection Of Public Is  \Brown’s Aim   New Price Administrator Says There Will Be Gradual Rise in Prices, More Gas and Better Oil Supply

srepshggegeeapemntan date apes tniepaaent aang aya CONTRACT APPROVED

Funeral Services For Mrs. Mary Qualia, 73, To Be Held Friday At 9 A.M. In Sacred Heart Church

Ex-Hitler Aide Serving U.S.?   Working for State Department. Claim

Americans Converge on Japanese at Bairoko Harbor   Last Enemy Nest on New Georgia Island Futilelvy Resists

U S. TROOPS CLASH WITH SUICIDAL JAPS ON NEW GEORGIA   Garrison Dug In With Backs To Sea As Yanks Move Up From Munda

HARBOR OF BAIROKO IS OBJECTIVE   Foes’ Backs To Sea Ir Suicidal Stand Near Munda

AMERICANS CLASH WITH BAIROKO JAPS   Garrison Hemmed In, Backs to Sea, Facing Destruction

Seek to Stop” Jap Resistance On New Georgia   Bairoko Harbor Final Object OF Yank Traanne

Japs Cornered For Last Stand  In New Georgia   Escape By Sea Possible If They Can Elude Yankee Naval Forces

TYDINGS WOULD CUT FEDERAL EMPLOYES   Senator Says Government Payroll Could Be Reduced 10 Pereent; 3,000.000 Working Now

Urges Fewer Civil Servants   Tydings Demands 10 Percent Reduction In Government Employes.

Senator Would Slash Federal Payrolls Soor   Tydings Proposes 10 Percent Cut in Army of 3,029,000 Persons Employed by Government — It Wouldn’t Hurt War Effort, He Says.

lydings Demands 10 Per Cent Cut In Civilian Arm)   Senator ‘Shocked’ To Learn Government Employs 3,000,000

3,029,000 On U. S. Payroll Shock Sen. Tydings; He Will Demand Cut

‘Demands 10 Per Cent Reduction In Number — Of Government Employe:

TYDINGS SHOCKED AT THE SIZE OF  FEDERAL PAYROLL   Solon Demands 10 Per Cent Reduction in Civilian Army of 3,029,000. Employed By the Government

10 Per Cent Cut In Gov’t ‘Staff Askec   Tydings Declares Federal Payroll Out of Balance With Manpower

Civilian Army On US Payrolls May Be Sliced Sharply   3. Million Mark Is Shock To Solons

Yanks, British Knock 28 Axis Planes _ ‘ Qut of Tunisia’s Skies and Rock Tunis

Tunis Rocked By Ally Air Raids   Americans Account For Many Planes in Attack

34 Others Are Damaged Over Tunisia  Axis Harbors and  I i aati ee agers, Nea

BLASTED FROM TUNISIAN SKIES   Allies Rock Tunis and Other Harbors in Heavy Raids

34 Others Are Damaged Over Tunisia   Axis Harbors and Railways Heavily Bombed

KNOCKED 28 PLANES FROM TUNIS SKIES   American And British Airmen Rock Capibal And Its Port  In The Second Greatest nD ..*j   34 Damaged

United Nations Score Success In Tunis Attack   U.S. and R. A. F, fliers  blast harbors and railWays; destroy 28 a  ‘planes.

Flying Forts and P-38s Tear Into German and Italian Airforce, in Addition to Hammering Tunis Port and Other Axis Harbors and Railroads in Grestest Air Attack of Campatian

‘28 AXIS PLANES ‘ARE SHOT DOWN OVER TUNISIA   34 Others Are Reported Damaged In Fierce North African Air Battle   LA GOULETTE HARBOR IS HEAVILY BOMBED

Allies Blast 28 Axis Planes From Skies In Great Tunis Raid   Many Flying Fortresses Take Part in Foray That Smashes German-Held Ports and Harbors ; Little Ground Activity Reported in Rommel Pursuit

Dnieper Crossed North and South of Kiev and Russians Widen ’ ‘Bridgeheads for Advance   MOP UP IN KUBAN   Capture of Taman Completes Conques! of Peninsula, Immense Booty Seized

Red Army Blasts New Wedges Into  German Defenses   Thousands Of Nazi Troops Face Encirclement: Reds Pouring Ahead On 2,000-Mile Front

RUSSIANS SCORE SOME SMASHING NEW SUCCESSES   Vital German River Defense Line Is Rreached: Wide Corridors. Blasted Through Nazi Ap proaches Io Baltic.

SOVIETS KILL 8,000 GERMANS IN ONE BATTLE   Hundreds of Thousands 0 Nazis Face Trap in Crimea

Soviets Cross Dnieper River In Force; Thousands Of Germans Face Entrapment

FINAL ASSAULT AGAINST KIEV DRAWING NEAR   Nazi Troops Face Entrapment After Three Bridgeheads Are Established

RIVER DEFENSE LINE CRACKED   Russians Breach Vital  Dnieper In Three Important Places

Reds Breach Nazi Defenses Along Dnieper  ee eee ee et   Thousands of Enemy Troops Focr Trap

Soviet Troops Cross River In 3 Sectors  Enemy Is Cleared From Last Taman Peninsula Tochold  OPEN 2 CORRIDORS  Spearheads Plunge Ahead to Deepen Western Ukraine Wedges

SEEK TO REPEAL CIGARETTE TAX   DEMOCRAT INTRODUCES CIGARETTE REPEALER IN STATE LEGISLATURE

*Slash in Taxes on Cigarets, Beer and * —_ Liquors is Sought   Chicago Democrats Plan Introduction of Bills in  ' General Assembly

MOVE STARTED 10 DROP STATE GIGARET TAXES   Crisenberry Still Undetermined On USI Pronosals

Nit MORE JAP onPa cUNK Oh UARIAGEL bY U9   Allied War Plan‘s and Naval Vesse s Play Havoc in the Pacific.   MUNCA FALI iS NEAR   Yank Jungle Fighters Clcs2 in on Important Jananese Base.

YANKS HAMMER AT DEFENSES OF MUNDA   Allied Planes and Ships Sink Nine More Enemy Vessels

U.S. Forces Are Hammering At Munda Defense   Less Than Mile From New Georgia Base Is Report Today   ~ MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK, DAMAGED

"YANKEES BLAST _ NINE JAP SHIPS   Americans Less Than Mile from New Georgia Base at Munda

LOCAL SOLDIER DIES IN ACTION   Corp. Harry Gordon Killed In Battle of Sicily, Message States

NEW BUS STRIKE SET FOR SUNDAY IN LOS ANGELES   One of Two Chief Transport ‘Lines Threatened By Work Stonpaae.

ONE LOS ANGELES SERVICE RETURNS TO-NORMAL TODAY   Those On Other Transport Company Set Strike For Sunday Morning At 2 O'clock ©

BUS, TOLLEYS START AGAIN    Regional War Labor Board Orders Return

Wireetcar Bells Ring Again In Los Angeles  But Interurban .~ stem May  9 uit on Sunday

COSTELLO--TROUPER   Carries on Comical Radio Show After Son  Drowns

GERMANS ADMIT RETREAT FROM GREAT BASTION      Abandonment Signalizes One of Soviet’s Greatest Victories

GERMAN TROOPS HAVE EVACUATED GITY OF SMOLENSK   Was the Greatest Nazi Base on the Russian Centra! ront.   A GREAT RED VICTORY   Evacuation of the City Was Announced in a Communigue.

One Of Hitler's Most Disastrous Defeats Of War   Nazis Announce Withdrawal But Moscow Is Mum; Fall Of Kiev Also imminent

GREAT VICTORY FOR RUSSIANS COMES SWIFTLY   Nazi Propagandists Call It An ‘Evacuation,’ But Reds Were Bearing Down   DISASTER FACES HITLER   Fall of Kiev Imminent as Soviet Forces Cross Dnieper River

DISASTER FACES GERMAN ARMIES ON SOVIET SOIL   FALL OF KIEV ALSO IMMINENT; ROSLAVL TAKEN BY RUSSIANS

Disastrous Defeat “On Russian Front~  _ Admitted By Reich   Fall Of Kiev Reported Imminent; Loss Of Roslavl Also Conceded; Reds Snap Defense Backbone

Russians Drive. Germans From Two-Thirds of Land Once Taken by Invaders

GERMANS GIVE UP KEY POINT WITHOUT FIGHT   Destroy All Military Instai lations; Troops, Supplies Moved   FALL OF KIEV NEAR   Red Forces Forge Ahead On All Fronts; Take New Cities

Great Victory For Red Forces   Abandonment of Rostay Also Announced — Fall of Kiev Appears lmminent ~ Russians in Nine Months Have Thrown Nazis Out of Two-Thirds of Land Heid _

Germans Say Smolensk Is Evacuated   Russians Have Regained 460,000 Square Miles From Nazis  By JAMES M. LONG

Kiev Now Threatened By Russians   Capture of Smolensk Is Hailed as One of War’s Greatest Victories

NAZI TROOPS LEAVE BASE AT SMOLENSK   Germans Moving War Plants To West

RUSS WIN CHIEF NAZI WAR BASE   Kiev Doomed; Hitler  Faces Final Defeat On Eastern Front

German Troops Retreat   Greatest Nazi Base Falls To Russian Army

ROSLAVLIS ALSO CAPTURED FROM HITLER HORDES   Soviet Dispatches Declare Seizure of Ukraine Capital of Kiev Appears Imminent   BERLIN CLATMS WAR PLANTS ARE SAVED   Moved From Smolensk Several Weeks Ago, Military Spokesman Says, and Bridges Blown Up

NAZIS THREATEN TO PLAGE ALLIED . AIRMEN QN TRIAL   Germany Hints at Retaliation for Prosecution of War .Criminals by Russian  Authorities. ,   AMERICANS ATTACKED IN PRESS CAMPAIGN   “Murder; Incorporated” Reported Written on Uniforms of Yanks Captured at Bremen.

Nazis Threaten Reprisals: American and British Prisoners May Be ‘'Prosecuted”’ in Germany

Allied Airmen Face Nazi Reprisal Trials   Germans Threaten Prosecution’on .  "Wary Crime’ ‘Counts’

Nazis Threaten War ‘Prisoners   Soviet Executions Blamed Enr Arctian

Nazis Threaten War Prisoners   Angered by Russian Trials, Executions

Axis Jitters Increase as Preparations Made To Defend Italy; Rommel Has Army in France

Axis Nervousness Increases In Italy, France  Fascists Expect Battle Any Hour Now;  Remmel Prenarina

‘Axis Nervousness Increases In Italy, France  Fascists Expect Battle Any Hour Now;

ROMMEL BUILDS DEFENSE FORCE   Jittery Axis Rushin x Troops To Prepare Invasion Barrier

350,000 Germans Sent fo France To Fight Allies   Other Large Units Rushed fo Italy by Jittery Axis Chiefs   Experts Express Belief First Drive Will Be from South

TONS OF HOMHS DROPPED ON RUHR HTREL AND COAL CENTER—SICILY ROCKED.  BY ATTAOKS :

HEAVY ASSAULT ROCKS COAL AND STEEL CENTER   Oberhausen Blasted Ag Swarms Of Planes Mine : Enemy Waters   FORTS RESUME ATTACK   Fighter Planes Accompany Big American Planes On Bombing Mission 4

OBERHAUSEN IS ATTACKED BY R. ALF FLYERS   Big U. S. Bombers Roar Across Channel] on Daylight Raids

ANNOUNCE DATE OF FOOD TALKS   United Nations Conference To Be Closed To Reporters, President Orders

Allied Food Discussions  Start May 16   Reporters to Be Barred From  Most of Sessions

UNITED NATIONS FOOD CONFERENCES TO BE SECRET   To Be Held On May 18th At Hot Springs, Va.

Press fo Be Barred From All But Two Sessions    HOT SPRINGS HOTEL 1S SCENE OF CONFERENCE

Food Parley To Open In May In Great Privacy   Press Will Be Barred From All But First And Last Meetings

FOOD PARLEY IS SET FOR MAY 18TH   Reporters Barred From United Nations Meet

PRESS BARRE FROM ALLIED FOOD MEETING   Delegates of United Nations To Meet Secretly at - Hot Springs, May 18.   ROOSEVELT GETS WISH   Reporters to Be Admitted Only to Formal Opening And Closing Ritual.

FOOD CONFERENCE SET FOR MAY 18   Press to Be Barred From  Meeting Except Few Formal Open Sessions.

World Food Parley Wil Open May 18   Hot Springs, Va., To Be Scene of Vital Conference

United Nations F ood Conference  Set For May 18   Press To Be Barred From Parley Sessions Slated In Virginia

French Warned of Bombings Allies to Blast 14  Gy ani ft TT nrencntda

Favor Opening  Public Schools An Hour Later  _ County Board of  Education Hold Meeting This Week:

Rechmmanc Daylight Saving Hours For Rural Schools   ‘County. School 1ool Board Holds Meeting in. Co. Superintendent’s. Office

Army Nurses Left Behind In Philippines Caring For interned Americans

MAYOR TOLD T0 BY ROOSEVELT; PRESS CLAIMS   New York Daily News Says  President Has Instructed  " Draft Board to Waive. Physical Defects   WILL GET RANKING BRIGADIER GENERAL   White House Admits “All Indications Point to Service in Army;” Refuses  to Confirm It

LA GUARDIA TO ENTER ARMY, SAYS PAPER   Copyrighted Story Claims FDR Calls Mayor

MAYOR LA GUARDIA A HIGH OFFICER?   New York Daily News Say: He Is to Become Brigadier General.

PAPER STATES GOTHAM CHIEF TO JOIN ARMY   Presidential Order Said Involving LaGuardia

LA GUARDIA TO ENTER ARMY, IS REPORT   Roosevelt Said to Be Prepared tc Nominate Mayor to Rank of Brigadier General.

NNA ADDEN TAKEN BY DEATH   Succumbs To Heart Ailment After Five Wéeks Sickness

JOHANNA ABDEN TAKEN BY DEATH   Succumbs To Heart Ailment After Five Weeks  Sicknece

Inactive Reserve Planned To Aid In Essential Work   Agriculture and Dairying Will Be Helped by Release of Soldiers

Army To Give Farm Hands Inactive Status   Prasident Reveals Sever Courses Of Action Te Aid Agriculture   DAIRYING IS STRESSED   Local Boards Also May Seek Return Of Worker: From Industry   FDA Will Release 2 Million Cases Of Canned Fruits

MAN SHORTAGE TO BE EASED   War Department Taking Steps To Fill Gaps In Vital Jobs

Take steps to place some farmers on inactive status   President states war department . plan affects dairymen especially

DAIRYMEN TO BE PIVEN ASSISTANEY   Course of Action Prepared to Release Men In Service to Help Farmers.

 Sicilian Venture Greatest*- Amphibious . Operation Ever Attempted in Wartime

MASS GERMAN. AGOAULT FAIL TO SHOW GAIN   Moscow Reports Recovery of Al} Ground Lost in First . Attacks.   10,000 NAZIS KILLED, 738 TANKS DESTROYED

10,000 NAZIS ARE KILLED IN BLAZING FIGHTS   Russians Claim 738 Tanks and 203 Planes Have Been Destroyed

Powerful Assault  Fails To Gain   Red Army Knocks Out More Than 700 Tanks in Initial Stage of Violent Fighting

Hitler Loses 10,000 Men 738 Tanks, 203: Planes In 36 Hours   Powerful German. Summer. Offensive Meets -Rebuff in Initial Onslaught; Reds . Brace Along 165-Mile Frent

BATTLE IS RAGING ALONG BIG FRONT, RUSSIANS BRAGED   Reports From Blazing Battlefield State Enemy Lost 738 Tanks, 203 Planes In First 36 Hours.   REDS REGAIN LOSSES, WEDGES WIPED QUT   Hitler’s Long-Delayed Offensive Believed Backed By 218 Divisions, Probably 3,270,000 Men.

ENEMY LOSES 738 TANKS, 203 PLANES AND 10,000 KILLED   Hitler’s Long-Delayed Summer Drive Now Developing Great Strength— Fierce Fighting Along 165- Mile - Front Is Reported

AXIS LOSES 10,000 MER, J38 TANKS, 203 PLANES   ‘Summer Drive Is Launched By Hitler’s Troops  USSR REGAINS LOSSES  Soviets Hold Intact After Mighty Blow Struck

GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES AS OFFENSIVE STALLS   Berlin Denies Campaign Is Major Drive; Soviets Smash Armed Wedges Driven Into Their Lines.

10000 Germans Slain in Drive   36-HOUR OFFENSIVE COSTS NAZIS 738 TANKS, 203 PLANES AS RUSSIANS BRACE LINE UNDER HEAVY ATTACKS FROM WEST: HEAVIEST TOLL

REDS WIPE OUT GERMAN WEDGES - REGAIN GROUND   Hitler Takes Staggering Loases Tmt Slow Offensive

REGAIN GROUND, TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY FORCES   Report 10,000 Nazis Killed; 738 Tanks, 203 Planes Destroyed on 165-Mile OrelBeleorod Front

LONG-AWAITED ATTACK FALLS IN KURSK DISTRICT   Red Lines Bend, Then Hold, Moscow Reports   HUNDREDS OF NAZI TANKS, PLANES CLAIMED

NAZIS’ POWERFUL SOVIET OFFENSIVE IS STOPPED COLD   10,000 Nazis Killed, 738 Tanks And 203 Planes Destroyed  By Russian Forces

All Ground _ Regained by ' Russ Troops  BRattla Cnete Avice 799      Battle Costs Axis 738 Tanks, 10,000 Men and . 203 Planes   WEDGES SMASHED      Long-Delayed Offensive Lacks Customary Nazi Speed

BRACE ALL ALONG TGO-MILE FRONT, 10.000 MEN OIE   738 Tanks and 203° Planes are Knocked Qut By Russians Who Hold  Cant

Nazis Open Drive; Lose 138 Tanks   Russians Stop’ Long-Awaited Push Near Orel

Nazi Air Force Doomed: Airplane Rocket Guns Invented Too Late To Save German Planes   Smashing Allied Air Raids on Hitler's Plants Prevent Production of Greatly Needed Fighters

Allies Destroy Over 500 Nazi Craft in 8 Days   German Rocket Guns Invented Too Late Te-Save Air Force

Nazi Rocket Gun Came Too Late   500 Planes Downed ~In Last Fight Dave

NAZIS LOGE O00 PLANES IN 8 DAY   Airplane Rocket Guns Believed Invented Too Late To Save German Airforce; Production Sources Hit

900 Nazi Planes Felled in8Days   Foe’s Rocket Gun Said Arrived Ton Tate

Nazi Air Force lights For Own Tife As Well As ‘That of Fatherland

Allies Shoot Down 500 German Planes  Nazi Rocket Gun Is Invented Little Too Late

Republicans Call For Ruml’s Plan   Say House Bill Hurts Little Man, Aids Rich

Minority is opposed to demo plan   Claim pay levy ‘hurts the poor, boon to wealthy’

GOP MINORITY HITS TAX BILL   Proposal Branded As Aid To Wealthy, Hardship For Others

BE ACQUIRED FOR SCHOOLS   Government to Cancel Lease on Grounds Next Week

Will Ask Spain For Explanation   U. S. Probing Report Spain Has Recognized Puppet Regime In Italy

Widely-Printed Photo of Mrs. Roosevelt In Grass Skirt Arrives In States

CHREKASY FALLS T      AMERICAN AIRMEN BRING DECEMBER TOTAL OF DOWNED NAZI FIGHTERS TO 187 ADDING 15 MONDAY      Secretary Knox Predicts Hard Blows Against Japs Soon

Swiss Newspaper Claims Italians Ask Peace Terms   Zurich Paper Declares Peace Mission Is Now In Lisbon For Peace

Big German Battleship Sunk By British Navy   Scharnhorst Goes Down In Battle Off Norway Last Night As She Ventured From Lair To Strike At Allied Convoy.

Telling Blow To Crippled  German Fleet   Biggest Sea Victory For British Since Sinking of Bismarck

Bis Nazi Ship Is  Downed   Germans Admit Loss of  Vessel in Barents Sea’

Scharnhorst Sunk By British Fleet   Telling Blow To Crippled  German Fleet   Biggest Sea Victory For British Since Sinking of Bismarck

British Sink Nazi Battleship  Goes Down Off Norway —42 British Planes Lost in Running Fight

POWERFUL NAZI DREADNAUGHT SUNK IN ARCTIC   Scharnhorst -Destroved By British Home Fleet Units On Convoy Route to Russia

British Sink Great German Ship In Aretic   Scharnhorst Ventures From Hiding Place To Strike Convoy To Murmansk.   CLAIMS HEROIC BATILE

Mighty German Battleship Sunk By The British  Scharnhorst’s Sinking Cripples Nazis’ Fleet

«Giant Nazi Warship Sunl By British Off Norway    German Ship Ventures ‘From Hiding Place To Make Atlack on Rusésia-Bound: Convoy

Scharnhorst Lost to Nazis   Powerful German Battleship Sunk in Arctic Waters

NAZI BATTLESHIP IS SUNK OFF NORWAY   Scharnhorst, 26,000 - Ton Vessel, Entire Crew Sent to, Bottam Sunday.

SCHARNHORST IS SUNK BY BRITISH   Nazis Have Only Two Bic Warships Left

Scharnhorst Sunk by British Fleet  Powerful Battleship Lost Off Norway

SCHARNHORST IS SUNK BY BRITISH FLEET   Powerful German Bafttleship Goes Down in Blazing Active Action Off Norway   OTHERS ARE DAMAGED

Scharnhorst Is Sunk in Arctic Fight   Pride of German Navy Seni te Botiom in Blazing Battle with British Off Norway   HITLER CRIPPLED   Leaves Only Tirpitz and Greisenau as Kingpins of Nazi Sea Power Hiding in North

British Admiral Takes Sweet Revenge on Ship Which Sent His Carrier to the Bottom

Scharnhorst’s  Sinking Aired   Large. German. Battleship » Bagged ‘By British In "Arctic. Action

NAZI BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST IS SUNK BY BRITISH   Powerful 26,000-Ton Vessel Sent to Bottom in Battle. Off Mlosthem Nor war aU.

BOMBING BLASTS ON HITLER LAND ARE INCREASING   HEAVIEST BOMBARDMENT EVER LOOSED ON FRANCE'S IN ’ VASION COASTLINE REPORTED THIS MORNING,   INVASION PROGRAM BEING REHEARSED   American and British Bombers Teamed Up Last Nightsfor Cross Fire Blows at the Western Invasion Coast,

AIR ASSAULTS CONTINUE FOR SECOND WEFK   Heavy Attack Made on the French Coast

Representation. Is.Given . Soviet On Newly-Formed  Mediterranean Commission

War On Nazis Through '44 ls Expected   High Washington Source Discloses Allies Count On Bloody Struggle   REDS WILL CONFER      Meeting Plan Is Set; Rus sians Will Have Say r Mediterranean

RUSSIA GETS PLACE OR COMMISSION   Allies Are Not Counting on Axis Collapse Soon

Allied Chiefs Map Plans Through 44,   Roosevelt, British © Premier See Bitter Struggles

High Authority Doubts Collapse Inside Germany   Russ Representative Gets Seat on Allied Mediterranean Unit

EX-KIWANT! HEAD KILLED   Intruder Shoots Banker; Sonin-Law Wounded in Battle with Police.

BANKER KILLED BY MASKED MAN      Son-In-Law Is Wounded When Police Mistake Him For Burglar Who Entered Atlanta Home

GEORGIA BANKER SHOT TO DEATH   Son-in-law and Police in Gun Battle by Mistake

Atlanta Banker Killed by Prowle   Former Kiwanis Leader Is Slain

BANKER SHOT AND KILLED BY INTRUDER   Past President of Kiwanis International, Henry C. Heinz, Victim of a Masked Prowler   SON . IN-LAW INJURED

Prowler Kills Atlanta Banker   Sen-In-Law Of Henry Heinz, Former Kiwanis Head, Wounded.

pe Hull May Rule Out All Debate  Start of So-Called Second Front at Parley

Byrnes Defines  Wage Power of Labor Board   Issues Directive Permitting the WLB to Make Adjustments to Correct Gross Ineaquities—Not Ineaualities

Labor Board May  Make Some  Wage Changes Adjustments Should  Not Increase Prices or Costs

House Group Favor: Foreign Trade Act   Committee Votes Approval, 14-11; Rejects Amendments

House Committee Okays Reciprocal  Agreement, Rejects GOP Changes

VOTE APPROVAL IF TREATY PACT   House Ways and Means Committee Rejects Series o' Republican Amendments

TRADE PACT EXTENSION APPROVED; ONE CHANCE   House Committee Tacludes Power to Deal With In ternational Cartels   OTHER G.0.P. PLANS ARE VOTED DOWN   Hull Program Wins 14 to 11 Vote in Committee; House Action Later

RECIPROCAL TRADE PACT IS APPROVED   House Ways and Means Committee Votes Endorsement of Admin stration's Program   ONE CHANGE ACCEPTED

WOULD EXTEND THE RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENT 3 YEARS   House Ways and Means Committee Voted in Favor of Extension.   \THE VOTE WAS 14 TO 11   The Committee Accepted One Change, That of Rep. Dewey, Illinois.

House Committee Approves Measure   One Amendment Okayed By Group

Vote 14 to Ll for approval of trade plan   Reject changes  sought by GOP

COMMITTEE 14-11 ON TRADE PLANS   Reciprocal Trade Agreement Is Given Recommendation By Close Margin.

Changes In Trade Treaty Are Blocked   But One GOP Proposal Accepted By House Committee

TRADE TREATY BILL APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   Measure Essentially As it Was Requested. by. State Department Secretary Cordell Hull   GOP AIMS REJECTED   Republicans Sought.to Reserve for Congress Right of Veto and Tariff - Guarantees _

Trade Measure Wins Approval!   “~  Republicans Fail To Attach Amendments In House Committee Action.

VOTE APPROVAL OF TRADE PACTS   COMMITTEE ACCEPTS ADMINISTRATION'S RECIPROCAL PROGRAM

Trade Pacts Approved by House Group   Program Goes to Floor After Settlement of Tax Problem

RECIPROCAL TRADE PROGRAM EXTENDED      House Committee Votes - 14-11 To Extend Treaties

House Committee Okehs Trade Reciprocity 14 to 11 After It Rejected Republican Changes

Trade Treaty Bill Approved  Ways and Means Group Endorses Measure 14 to 1]

Lera Faces Execution Hour Calmly-Prays and Reads — Bible—Mother Visits Cell

Fayette City's First On List To Gain Quote  Goes Over The Top Or Opening Day Of War  Fund Campaian

LEGHORN, IN NORTH ITALY, HIT BY YANKS   Other Bombers Press “Softening Up” of Italian Outposts. Berlin “Talks It Down”

London Talks Of Allied Invasion   American Bombers Cause Great  Damaae To Italian Naval Center

WAR PROGRAM CHANGES MADE   ARMY AND. NAVY GROUP TO “EXAMINE ENTIRE PRODUC: © TION. PROGRAM -INDEPENDENT OF THE WPE

on? ltt aed  BUY AN EXTRA $100 BOW,      War Production  Will Be Revised   Large Scale Changes Loom Under Direction Of ArmyNavy Board   WILL REEXAMINE OVER-ALL PROGRAM

WOLF PACK’ U-BOAT TACTICS FAIL TO DISRUPT SHIPPING   NAZI8 SAID TO RE ABANDON. ING PLAN HITLER BOASTED WOULD CONTROL, ATLANTIO

Shift U-Boat Attack Plans   Use Of Subs In Packs Re ported Abandoned By Nazi Commander   LARGE LOSSES OF U-BOATS RECENTLY

Americans Land Behind Axis North Coast Lines; Raid Germany Again   Reds Within Artillery Range of Ukraine Industrial City; Envelop 100 Villages in One Area; Concarchin Veile Seethings Inside Axis Nations

BRITISH DRIVING  AROUND MT. ETNA         Reds Thunder Toward Bryanski; Jap Bases phere Undergo Telling

New Nazi Thrusts — Repelled   British Hurl Back Enemy Near Bizerte

TOMMIES TURN BACK SIX STABS INNORTHARBAS   Severe Losses Inflicted on Enemy's Half Dozen   Armored Thrusts at Tightly Held Positions   YANKEES CAPTURE KASSERINE RAIL HUB   Chasing Rommel’s Battered Columns Toward Faid Pass Line From Which . He Sprang

Series Of Heavy Armored Thrusts By Axis Smashed   Town of Kasserine Falls To AEF As Gains Continue

American Units Drive lLoward Vital Airdrome   Nazis Launch Six Attacks, but All Are Smashed by First Army; Number of Enemy Prisoners Reported Mounting

British Turn Back Nazi Tank Drives   American and Allied Troops Take Town of Kasserine and Push Toward Nearby Axis-Held Airport

Nazis fail in thrusts at British   Veterans hold rugged heights:  new tanks used

Allied Combat Teams Drive To Airport   German General Makes Vain Effort To Pierce Allied Lines In Tunisia

DESERT-WISE BRITISH UNITS CRUSH ENEMY   AMERICANS CAPTURE KASSERINE, TAKE PRISONERS

BRITISH SMASH FOE ATTACK ih NORTH SECTOR   Allies Capture Town Of Kasserine; Nazi Prisoners Taken

Bla GUNS RAIN DEATH ON NAZIS FROM MOUNTAINS   Repeated Thrusts Made on 55Mile Front in Effort to Break Allied Network of Roads.   ROMMEL CONTINUES FLIGHT TO SOUTH   Yanks and Tommies Drive 15 Miles Beyond Kasserine— Montgomery’s Fliers Bomb Airports.

American. Units Drive ‘Toward  Vital Airdrome   Nazis Launch Six Attacks, but All Are Smashed by First Army: Number  of Fneamruy Prisanare Rannartasd Mauntina

VON ARMIN FAILS PAIK OBJECTIVES   Tries to Break Into Strategie Network of Roads   WAR PLANES ACTIVE   Number Axis Troops Taken Prisoner Mounts Steadily; Fighting Continues

Veteran British Troops Repulse Vicious Drives .   American Colum Drives 15 Miles % Beyond Kasserine®

BRITTON BLOGK TANK DRIVE ON DO MILE FRONT   Allied Combat Teams Capture  Town of Kasserine in Central ‘Tunisia.      GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY — IN MEN AND EQUIPMENT

New Tanks Lead Attack }OnVonArnim   Nazi Chief Sent Reeling Back as He Tries to Cut Supply Roads

BRITISH CHECK DRIVE 10 CUT ROAD NETWORK   Other Forces Push Beyond Kasscrine Toward Auport   PRISONERS TAKEN

HOUSE CHAIRMAN WANTS TIME 10 STUDY MANPOWER   Military Affairs Head Declares Home Front Preblems, Can’t Wait.

HOUSE CHAIRMAN WANTS TIME 10 STUDY MANPOWEF   Military Affairs Head Declares Home Front Prcblems Can’t Wait.   Foresee New Blow Through Balkans in 7 Short Time; Big Forces Ready in East

Implies Hess’ Family in Britain   Englishman Asks Who Foots Bills

Treasury Chief Describes How Present Govt. Policies Are Aimed At Keeping U. S. On Even Business Level After War

ALLIES LOST ONLY THREE PLANES IN BOMBING OF ROME   Attack On Italian Capital Heaviest Daylight Raid Of 7 star Bengt  vite tat cay

ONLY THREE. PLANES LOST IN ROME RAID   Crew of One of Lost Planes Was Rescued

Three Planes Losi In Rome Attack  Crew of One \,  Ranorted Reccued

MOSCOW REPORTS GERMANS LEAVING BEHIND ARMS  AND AMMUNITION   Russian Troops Have Driven To Within 20 _ Miles Of Vitebsk,  Qbeann l ges WM. ° 2

Fight So Hasty Boches Leave Much Materiel Behind   Red Columns Have Outflank ed Vital Rail City of Vitebsk

Germans Fleeing So Fast They Are Leaving Everything Behind.  (4TH BIRTHDAY OF PREMIER STALIN  Break Through German Lines on Fifty-mile Front.

THREE MEN KILLED; 12 ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN BLAST   Full Operations, However Are Resumed Today at West Virginia Plant.

MORE HAMLETS ARE CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Soviets Apparently Have Again Taken Offensive In Caucasus Area.

SOVIETS MAKE GAINS IN DRIVE FOR SMOLENSK   Reds Also Report Success in Renewed Caucasus Attacks

RUSS BATTLE WITH FURY ON WEST FRONT   Reds Renew Offense it Caucasus After Brief Lull   NAZIS AREGAINING — IN BELGOROD SECTOR   Chief Attention Centered on Front Before -Smofensk

Reds Continue  Smolensk Drive Gains Also Made i in New  Fg, Sa eee SO er

Reds Pushing Forward  To Smolensk   Russians Fighting Stubborn Battles Through Strong Fortifications, Capture Several More Habitations

More Areas Freed. As Reds Advance Toward Smolensk   Russians Renew Offensive In Caucasus And Germans Beaten Back Near Kharkov

RUSS BATTLE WITHFURYON WEST FRONT   Reds Renew Offense in Caucasus After Brief Laull   NAZIS ARE GAINING IN BELGOROD SECTOR   eS Se er er ae ee ee le  Chief Attention Centered on Front Before Smolensk

REDS BEAT DOWN ~OTTFF RESISTANCE BEFORE SMOLENSK   Violence of Nazi Counter-Attacks Suggests Germans From Base Itself Have Entered Fight.   GAINS IN CAUCASUS REPORTED BY MOSCOW   Russians Push to Within 20 Miles of Novorossisk—Soviets on Defensive Near Belgorod.

Push on Smolensk nets more villages   Soviet armies on defensive thru Belgorod sector: fighting viclent

REDS DRIVE ON TO SMOLENSK, BiG NAZI BASE   Russians Operating In Caucasus Capture District Centre Of Abinskaya Near Black Sea Naval Base.   Four Battle Fronts

Russians Capture More Cities in Drive on Smolensk   Offensive Renewed in Caucasus; Take Rail Station at Abruskaya; Fight Against Powerful Assaults in Belgogdil”

Reds Capture Station 20 Miles Northeast Of Big Naval Base  CONTINUE DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK  Report Recapture Of Several Additional  Inhabited Places

Russians Seize More Points in Smolensk Drive   Reds Renew Their Offensive in Caucasus After Weeks of Lull: Other Areas Active

RUSSIANS GAIN IN PUSH ONTO SMOLENSK BASE   More Inhabited Places Captured In Steady Drive; 4 Fronts Are Active   Caucasus Lull Ends

Railway Wage Board Set Up   Will Consider Claims Submitted For Year

ltaly, Lorient © And Ruhr Area: Are Attacked   Only Three British Bombers Are Lost.in Raid

RAF hits Italy in night raid   Followed up by new attacks on western Europe

France Bombec by Ally Airmen   Germany, Italy Hit in Night Offensive

TURIN, RUHR, LORIENT BOMBED   Allies Keep Up Raids On Axis War Industries

NON-STOP AIR RAIDS CONTINUE   RAF Roars: Aver Enfope Today : Following Up Night Attacks On Italy, Ruhr

SNATIONS BOMBED BY BRIT. PLANES   France, Germany And Italy Raided In Last 24 Hours

RAF Keeps Up 24-Hour Air ‘Attack on Axis   Planes Over France Today After Night Tri-Nation Assault

RAF Carries Air Assault Into France   Heavy Attacks in Italy Followed Up With New Raids

RAF Resumes Daylight Raids After Night Attack On Northeast Italy

REDS REGAIN INITIATIVE ON MALIN FRONT   HUNDREDS OF TANKS LOST BY GERMANS IN BIG BATTLE

Tide of Battle Is Turned hy Red Troops   Germans Hurled in Tank, Infantry Clash Near Kiev

Germans’ Long Attack Termed Great Blunder   Russian Forces Recaptura  Anitiative. in Battle cL; a  a ee 

Reds Hurl Back Nazis in Kiev Bulge Battle   Russians Again Take Initiative: Planes Reported Great Help

Byrnes Warns Road To Berlin  Is A Long One   ‘Mobilization Director Quotes President As Saying Major Battles “Lie Ahead Of Us”

FDR Warns Over-Confident Home Front   No Hope of Early Unconditional Surrender Seen

BYRNES WARNS OF OVERCONFIDENCE, QUOTES PRESIDENT AS SAYING MAJOR BATTLES AHEAD. NOT BEHIND US

OVER-CONFIDENCE ON ~~ HOME FRONT IS SEEN   Warning Is Issued That Roads to Berlin-and Tokyo Are Still “Long and Hard and Bloody”—-No Hope __   Seen Immediately “of Unconditiong! Sur-.   ' render: by -the:-Axis—Byrnes’ Points - a  .- _ Qut- Exictina.Candi=iane

ROOSEVELT SAYS EARLY SURRENDER IS NOT EXPECTEL   Byrnes Authorized to Broadcast Message “The Major Battles Lie Ahead of Us, Not Behind Us.”   “THE WILL TO WIN” MUST BE EXEMPLIFIED   Roads to Berlin and Tokio Are “Long, Hard and Bloody” and Last Battle Has Not Been Fought.

‘Over-Confident’ Americz Gets Byrnes’ Warning   Relays FDR Opinion of ‘Long Road’; Slash in Cost of Living Promised

Byrnes Assails Optimism And Sees Long, Hard War;  Predicts Lower Prices

NO HOPE FOR UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER SEEN   J es Major Battles Lie Ahead, Not Behind, Now FDR's Conviction

mes Denies Hope Of Early Ayi Surrender   Roosevelt Says Major Battles Of War Lie Ahead, Not Behind Us   COMPLACENCY IS HIT   Continyed All Out Saceifice Held Necessary. To Ultimate Victory

ROOSEVELT HAS NO HOPES OF VICTORY SOON   Byrnes on Radio Last ‘Night Says Chief Will  Go to Quebec Expecting to Make Long-Range Plans

Roosevelt Goes To Anglo-American Confer‘ence in Quebec With No Hope of Unconditional Surrender By Axis

Surrender of Axis Not Near, Byrnes States   Paints More. Pessimistic Military View

Allies’ Hardest Fighting Lies Ahead, Byrnes Warns   Defeat of Germany May Take Another Year—Rickenbacker

Roosevelt Goes To Conference  - Without Hope Of Early Victory   James F. Byrnes Authorized To Broadcast Warning T “Over-Confident” Home Front

Germany Halts  Aid To Italy?   Badoglio Is Awaiting Next Development

Moving To Italian Mainland   Umbrellas Of Anti-Aircraft Fire Put Up To Cover Withdrawal

Parachutists Spearhead Assault On Island; It’s ‘According To Plan”’

LANDINGS MADE ON SICILY UNDER FIERCE BARRAGE   Stiff Resistance Met But Operations Proceeding ‘According To Plan’   OTHER ASSAULTS COMING   Axis Reinforcements Rushed Across Messina Strait As Allies Tighten Grip

Americans and British Divide Responsibility   Allies Cut Wire, Face Machine Guns and Battle Way Inland

Allies Launch  Invasion On Italian Island      U. S. Forces Land From Sea, Air For Big Attack

London Hints Of Other Assaults   First Unofficial Reports Say Attack Operations Are Going “According to Plan’”—Ankara Report Points to Possibility of Drive in Balkans Area

Planes and Naval Guns Blast Way ForLandingForce   American, British and Canadian Troops Locked in Combat With Enemy After Lightning-Quick Invasion

450,000 Men 2,000 Planes Taking Part   Americans, British and Canadians Strike with Powerful Air and SeaBorne Forces in First Major Land Blow Aimed at Hitler’s Europe

450,000 Reported Assaulting Island   Anglo Saxons Take Three Bridgeheads—Germans Rush in Reinforcements

MAYOR ACCUSED “BY REAMER AT COUNCIL MEE   ‘Lie’, Mayor Replies to Charge of Taking Money   COUNCILMAN NAMES MYSTERIOUS ‘GENIO’

REDS BLAST 150 GERMAN WARPLANES   Forces Preparing For Anticipated Ground Battles

Reds Destroy or Damage 150-160  German Planes   Luftwaffe Believed To Have Huge Bomber  Daksa } on DW eamaat oe

Red Air Force Crippling Axis   Attempting To Break Jp Nazi Concentration

RUSSIANS IN MASS RAIDS ON AIRDROMES   Destroy or Damage 150 More German: Planes

America to Spend TAmense Total in War Bffort in “4   80 Per Cent Hike Over 1942 Seen  In Nelson Figure

106 BILLION FOR WAR THIS YEAR   Report on ‘42 Production, "43 Prospects Shows U. S. Costs

U.S. to Spend Vast Sum in 1943 for War    Civilians Warned Leaner Days ’. Are Just Ahead

U. S. Spending $106 Billion This Year For War: Almost Doubles 1942

Cost Swells Greatly Over 1942   Chief Lauds Industry In Announcing Great Goals to Seek

1943 Program Is 80 Per Cent Above 1942's   Total Includes Arms Output, Construction Paying, Equipping, Feeding Services

U.S. fo Spend 406 Billion On War in 1943   Program 80 Per Cent Greater Than During 1942

Program, Outlined by Donald Nelson, Is 80 Per Cent Greater Than in 1942—Report Contains Warning That Leaner Civilian Days Are Ahead, With Fewer Goods During the Last Quarter.

106 Billion Needed For War In 1944   Requirements For Nex Year Are 80 Per Cen Above 1943   MORE NEEDED   War Production Greater Than Ever Produced For Peacetime Needs

U. ). (0 Cxpend 106 Billions This Year for War  Nelson Reveals  Program 80 Per Cent  Greater Than 1942

War Outlay For Year Is 106 Billions   OWI Feels America Can Be Proud Of 1943 Showing

106 Billion War Bill in 1943: Nelson   Vest Scope of U.S. Effort Outlined by WPS Report to F. R.

U. 5. 10 SPEND 106 BILLIONS DURING 1943   WPB Chief Makes Report To The President

U.S. fo Spend 106 Billions During Year   Goods and Services To Be 20 Per Cent Under End of 1942

OFFENSIVE PLANS MAY BE KILLED   Continuous Raids May Force Enemy to Give Up Any immediate Ambitious Program. 

FLIERS BLAST JAP BASES IN PACIFIC   Smashing: Raid Reported On Rabaul North Of New Guinea ~

ALLIES EXTEND AERIAL BLOWS AT JAP BASES   Concentration Areas Blasted To Choke Off Nip Plans For Offensive   BURMA FRONT IS ACTIVE   U. S$. Commanders Believed Planning Powerful New Attack In Pacific

Harassing Aerial Blows in Pacitic Reported Over   Reported From War as Usual Japanese Fronts

Yugoslavs Capture 2,000 Nazis, Storm Two Towns  Baitlefront Extends Almost All Along Border of Country

Yugoslavs Take Many Prisoners   2,000 Nazi Officers And Men Captured.

2,000 NAZIS CAPTURED BY TIT0’S BAND   in Yugoslavia, As Germans Prepare For Large-Scale Invasion of Balkans, Claim Capture of Island.   Boast Of Defenses

years : and has Sores  Vugos.avV Suerrlas “a <e 2, oe W2ATHER  Nagi risoners, Scorm “wo “owns °

Guerrillas Nab 2.000 Germans  In Yugoslavia   Tito’s Forces Storm Two Towns; Nazis Set For Allied Invasion

Partisans Take 2,000 Germans  ' Claim Cheiniks Are  Aiding Nazis

Slav forces take 2,000  nazi soldiers   Gen. Broz again lashes Chetniks

Tito Guerrillas Claim Capture Of 2,000 Nazis   SB Fighting with Germans In Yugoslay Warfare

Tito Captures” 2,000 of Foe   Broz Accuses Chetniks OL Aidine Germans

Crowd Riots At Negro Shindig   400 Police Called T: Quell Disturbance

Three in Jail Result of Riot   Negroes at California Dance Are Quelled by Tear Gas and Gun Threat

NEGRO RIOTERS HELD ON COAST   ‘More Than 400 Policemen - Summoned to Break Up  : Disturbance ot L. A.

Pete Baird Escapes from. Train, In North Texas: While on Way To Stand Trial at San-Antonio

Legion Likes U.S. Peace  Cooperation   Admiral King Warns Japs Last Raids Were Just Beainnina

Italian Sea Base  Blasted   R. A. F. ROCKS SPEZIA IN HEAVY BLOW AFTER LONG TRIP OVER ALPS

19 Persons Hurt In a Bus Crash  Leaves Highway, Crashes Into Tree

Okay Huge Navy Building Plan   Measure Approves Spending of 1 1/4 Billion on Shore

REQUEST FOR RAISE 1S DENIED BY BOARD   WLB Rules That Increase For Shipyard Workers  le Imnnecihia 

ADMIRAL THINKS VICTORY FAR OFF   American People Are Dangerously Near To Over-Confidence

TRIBUTES PAID TO. _ VETERANS OF WARS   Brigadier General Petrott Speaks at Boonsboro  Ewercicec

TRIBUTES PAID 10 VETERANS OF WARS   Brigadier General Petrot! Speaks at Boonsboro Exercises

PAY-GO TAXATION HEARINGS SLATED TOBEGIN TUESDA   Doughton Says He Is Hopeful Plan Will Apply to Part of This Year’s In-

Hearings On Taxation  Scheduled      Pay-as- Y ou-Go Proposals  To Be Considered

PAY Aa YOU bl TAK HEARINGS TO START SOU   Completion Of Legislation By March 15 Impossible, Asserts Legislator

NEWSMEN ARE BARRED   Reporters Forbidden To Attend Food Conference In Virginia

INJURED IN ACCIDENT   Two Hurt in Collision of Cars This  Afternoon

AXIS TROOPS OUT OF ACTION   Stalin Claims Soviets Have Killed Four Million

Stalin Tells Countrymen They Are Bearing Alone All Weight Of War

Army Makes Move To End L.A. Strike   Railway System of Coast City Completely Tied Up by Walout

Army, Navy, Unior Study Paralysis Of L. A. Traffic   Break Is Predicted Within 24 Hours On Freight, Passenger Tieup

LATE SUMMER WILL SEE END OF THE LUFTWAFFE   Vaunted German Air Fleet Will Be Destroyed, Say Allied Pilots

How Pay-as-You-Go Taxes Will Work Is Explained in  Question-and-Answer Form

All Three Targets Were Left Spotted With Large Fires.   JAPS TRY FEELER ATTACKS BUT FAIL  Nine Enemy Subs Have Been Sunk Off West Coast of U.S.

NATION'S AIRMEN STRIKE TO BREAK NIP SOLOMON HOLD   Growing American Power In Pacific Has Japs Jumpy, Spokesman  Sawa ~_

Hurl ThreeWay Attack  On Solomons   Strike Bases At Kahile, Munda,  Planes Return

SOLONS STUDY FINNS’ POSITION   U. S. Legation Admits Fears of Nazi Coup in . Republic

DEER SHOOTING BEGINS IN IOWA   ‘Conservation Commission Moves to Save Crops

Bulk of Capital Vessels Escape German Hands   At Least 35 Naval Craft Reported Making Get-away From Nazis; Enemy Retreats in Soutnern Italy

GERMAN HOPE OF SEIZING — ITALIAN FLEET FRUSTRATED BY ARRIVAL AT ALLIED PORTS   Altogether at Least 35 Naval Craft Escaped From Germans. American and British Bombers  Pound Nazi Communications In Relays

Large Portion Of. , Fleet, Including  Battleships, Now  In Malta Harbor

ITALIAN FLEET 18 REPORTED ESCAPED *FROM GERMAN GRASP  HEAVY FIGHTING CONTIN UES WITH NAZIS IN NAPLES AREA

Fleeing German  Convoys Pounded by American DiveBombers; Say King in Sicily

FLEES GERMAN GRAB; OTHERS REACH SAFETY   12 Units Arrive at Spanish Balearic Islands; Nazis Sink But One Big Battleship.

YANKS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS AND TAKE PORT   Chaos Reigns Throughout Italy as Germans Seize Several Big Cities   BITTER FIGHT FORESEEN   King Reported To Have Fled Rome and Gone to Sicily; Allied Drive Progresses

3) of italy s Naval Craft  Escape Nazis   US 5th Army Captures Port of Salerno; Allied Bombers Pound Nazi Communication Around Naples; Nazis Flee on 400-Mile Front in Russia °:

KING EMANUELE III, CROWN PRINCE UMBERTO, BADOGLIO FLEE TO SICILY-SAYS BERLIN

35 OF ITALY’S NAVAL CRAFT ESCAPE NAZIS   Includes Five Battleships, 11 Cruisers, and 8  Destroyers   ONE BATTLESHIP SUNK   Port of Salerno, South of Naples, Taken By Yanks

Italian Fleet Escapes Nazis As War Rages   Germans In Bitter © Fighting Throughout All of Italy

Bulk of Warships Have Surrendered In Allied Ports   Report That British Landed Near Rome Is Not Confirmed

U. S. Fifth Army Pushing Inland   British Divisions Fight Cos on Outskirts of Rome; Report Large scale Nazi Retreat

35 Warships  Escape Nazis,  Safe In Port   Yanks Take Salerno, Cut Deeper Into Naples Area

35 Ships Reach Non-Axis Ports   Many Go To Malta, Gibraltar While Others Put In At Spanish Coast; Salerno Captured By Yanks; _ Allies Smash Deeper Into Naples Area

bel Wr Wain On Steel Output   Few Days’ Strike Expected-To Cut “Supplies for War

Strike Spreads;  Lewis Is Silent   530,000 Miners Remain at Home Awailing Orders From UMW Chief or Government Action

930,000 COAL MINERS BEGIN SRD STOPPAGE   Steel Industry Again Periled By New Coal Strike

Walkout May Halt Steel Production   Railroads and Other Industries In War Effort Are Endangered

Shutdown Complete in Western Pennsylvania, with 117,000 Out of Pits

LATE SPRING WILL BE GREAT HELP T0 ALLED CAUSE   MacKenzie Thinks Allies Have About Two Month: To Finish Tunisia and Get Set For Another Big Show

ane War puuay  7 eH  Spring Mud Bad News For Troops In Russia, But Aids Allies.

TERRIBLE SPRING SLUSH ALONG RUSSIAN BATILEFRONT IS AID TO ALLIES IN PLANS FOR INVASION

WAR. NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied European Invasion Must Start By June 1 To Help Russians

FLYING FORTS ~~ BAID MESSINA   RAF Rounds Out Record Week With Attack on Ruhr

MESSINA IS BLASTED BY U.S. AIRMEN   More Than 100 Flying Forts In Raiding Party

BRITISH BOMB ~ FRENCH BASES   U.S. Bombers Make First Attack on Nazi Homeland

U-Boat Base Raided By RAF   Planes Resume Offensive After Two Day Lull

GRIFFITH IS NOT GUILTY      Man, Accused of Killing ‘Cousin, Is Acquitted ‘by Court

RED RESERVES ENTER BATTLE         Attenipt Being Made “to” Smash German Countet-Oifensive that: Forced Russian ‘Withdrawal Alcng  3-Mile Pront Before Pgland.

RUSSIANS TRY TO STOP NAZI COUNTER BLOY   Reserves in Lines West of Kiev to Prevent Further Withdrawal

Booby Birds Interfere with Plane T ake-Offs Until Army. Steals Eggs

More Recruits" Army and Navy Leave Monday  Lightest Call Since Recruiting By Draft Was Bereun

SMALLEST GROUP IS CALLED TO SERVICE   Draft Board Is Notified That September Call May Be Some Larger

ARGENTINA IS ‘ASTONISHED’ AT BRITAIN   Foreign Ministry Objects to Criticism: of Country’s Continued Diplomatic Relations With the Axis.

HOLD "KEY FIGURE’ IN JUNE RACE RIOTS   Charged . With = Spreading ‘False Rumor Through Negro District.

YOUTHS ADMIT SLAYING NEGRO   DETROIT BOYS TELL PROBER OF MURDER DURING RACE RIOTS

RACE RIOT PROBE REVEALS MURDER   Gang of Youths Fire on Waiting Negro in Party to ‘Get Ninaqers’

Allied Fifth Advances Toward Rome   Increase, Pressure Along 44-Mile Line on Volturno

Yankees Occupy Two Airfields in Southern Italy   North African Air Force Aids Ground Units Hammering at Germans and Attacks Fields In Greece Used by Nazis in Operations Against Coo; British Move Ahead Rapidly

Nazis Unable To Block Allied Drive   Pressure Along Italian Front Is Increased

Allies Hold 44-Mile Line Along Volturno   Fifth Army Increases Pressure Against Seven Nazi Divisions in Italy as British Drive One to Four Miles Deeper in East

YANAS SEIZE TWO VITAL AIRFIELDS NORTH OF NAPLES   Germans Throwing Reinforcements in Path ef Montgomery as He Moves Toward Pescara.   CORSICA CLEARED OF ENEMY TROOPS   North African Air Force Strikes at Greek Areas Used by Nazis in Coo Operations.

New Landings Are Made ‘on Adriatic   Moves Threaten Any Siand Germans May Make in Italy

Fifth Army Continues Advance Against the Germans  TOWNS ARE SEIZED BY THE 8TH ARMY,  Raine Cantinuae ta Slaw   Rains Continue to Slow Progress in the Italian Drive

Capture- Two™ Enemy. Airfields” In Push:On Ronie        in Lateral Rai ts Rome.

German Forces Sharply Resist Allied Advance   Enemy Armies Number at Least 60,000 Men

EIGHT GAING ON ADRIATIC COAST   Allies Wipe Out Nazi Pockets North Of Naples   AIRFIELDS TAKEN   Giraud Announces Liberation Of Corsica; Airfields In Greece Are Hit

Allies Meet Stiff  Enemy Resistance   SLE TLE LTS AT TT COE OD  Americans Wipe Out Pockets Of Enemy In Push Toward Rome; Flanking Movement Is  Extended On Cartel Front

Allies Increase Pressure Against 7 Nazi Divisions   Clark’s Fighters Now Spread Along Southern Banks Of Volturno; British 8th Makes Gains Along Adriatic Coast

ALLIES HOLD 44-MILE LINE ALONG RIVERS   Drive Ahead On 30 Mile Line Along Adriatic; General Clark’s Fighters All Along Volturno and Calore.   Forced Labor

Fifth Army Continues Advance Against the r Germans TOWNS ARESEIZED --: BY THE 8TH ARMY, Rains Continue to Slow Progress i in the Italian Drive

Nazis Have Reinforced Rome Area   British Make New Landings: From: Sea -on Adriatic Coast --

Germans Contest Clark’s Progres: With 60 to 70 Thousand Men; British Eiehth Moves Up Adriatic

Clark’s Troops Increase Pressure on Nazis Along Volturno, Calore Rivers

Eighth Army Makes Progress In East   Americens Drive Into Montesarchio In The Mountains. Extending Flankina Movements

Armies March On Despite Grim Battle   U. S., British Slash Steadily Toward Strategic Objective

NAZI POCKETS ARE WIPED UP BY AMERICANS   BRITISH MOVE FAST UP ADRIATIC COASTLINE

Fifth and Eighth Armies Increase Strenyth Along Adriatic, Volturno; Planes Slike  Eieht Aufields —

Bitter Fighting Faces Armies Bound { for Rome   Fifth Increases Pressure, Eighth Gains Four Miles

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ALLIED ARMIES FORGING AHEAD AGAINST NAZIS   Both Fifth And _ Eighth Armies Report Gains  In Drive On Rome

Nazi Resistance North of Naples is Reported to Be Stiffening; Two  Important Airfields Captured

bth Army Packs Serious Threat To Nazi Forces   Yankees Drive North As British Advance On Their Own Front

Germans Pushed Back on Long River Fronts   Four More Towns Seized in Drive

Germans Put Up Sharp Resistance   Enemy Pockets North Of Naples Cleared As Advance Proceeds

Americans, Supported by British, Wipe Out — Nazi Pockets IMPORTANT FIELDS TAKEN IN ATTACKS  Liberation of Corsica Is : Announced by Giraud

Nazis Bound To Lose, Says Gen. Devers   Score Will Be Evened In Tunisia When Weather  Improves, States Chief Of Armored Forces

Report Germans Are In Retreat Before Russians   Red Army Tank Columns Hastily Pursue Nazis On Southern Front   FALL OF OREL IS BELIEVED NEAR

NAZIS. RETREAT BEFORE RUSSIAN - SOUTHERN ARMY   Germans Driven From Pesitions Near Belgorod at ; Rapid: Pace.   BLAST OREL HEAVILY   Fall -of Key City Appears Imminent, Stockholm -. Disp atch Says.

NAZIS RETREAT ALONG KURSK RAILWAY   Red Artillery Units to North Blast Doomed Orel

Texas Flier Dies At San Francisco  Georgetown Man rashes Navy Plane lnto Bridge Cables

Begin Renewal Drivers Licenses  Issuance Starts June 7 In This County

Ask Drivers Licenses Be Renewed June 7   To Be Handled Locally; Good For Three Years

DATE SET FOR RENEWING ALL DRIVER TAGS   License Applications Accepted June 7.

START RENEWING “DRWERS.LICENSES      Field Clerks’ Stationed:: ‘In Counties Beginning. . ” ‘lame

Argentina Shifts Its  Ambassadors   United Nations Wondering What Significance Lies in This Move

Argentina Calls Home Her Envoy   Popular Ambassador To US Shifted

Allied Fliers Wreck 170 Jap Planes ,Kill 1,500 Nips At Wewak   Jap Airforce Dealt Most Humilating Blow Of War; 10,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

Crushing Wallop Given Grounded Jap Air Force   170 Planes Are Destroyed And 1500 Air Personnel ’ Killed By WU. 8; Bombs

Beaten to the Punch By Intrepid American:   Nipponese Concentrating Aerial Strength on New Guiena Were Caught Off Guard

STINGING BLOW DEALT JAPS IN WEWAK SECTOR   120 Planes Destroyed, 1,500 Personnel Killed In Surprise Attack   AIR STRENGTH SMASHED   American Bombers Blast Vila Base. Now Threatened From Two Sides

10,000 Bombs Dropped on Japanese Airfield Destroy or Damage 170 Planes and Kill 1,500 o  Enemy Air Personnel

ESTIMATE 1500 AIR PERSONNEL KIT LED IN RAIN   Fifty Additional Aircraft Severely Damaged By Hits

Huge Jap Air Force Smashed '  ‘On Ground at Wewak, N. G.   Concentration of 225 Warplanes Caught in Sur-' prise Pre-Dawn Attack, !20 Destroyed, 50 Badly Damaged, 1,500 Personnel Killed

120 PLANES DESTROVED 50 HIT 1500 KILLED   Allies Lose 3 Ships Delivering Staggering, Surprise Defeat on Enemy

Jap Air Force Dealt Its Worst Defeat of War   At Wewak, New Guinea, 225 Planes Caught on Ground by Allied Bombs.   Enemy Is Stripped of Air Strength in Area

170 JAP PLANES BATTERED BY YANK AIRMEN   Crushing Blow Is Dealt Enemy Air Strenath At Wewak

Fifty More Are Damaged ‘When Allies Strike at We Bat wak, New Guinea   ‘A. ‘STAGGERING BLOW   Enemy Is Stripped of Air ~~ Strength in Central : New Guinea -

Surprise Raid Smashes Fleet Of Jap Planes   120 Destroyed In Attack Made In New Guinea

ALLIED AIRMEN DEAL TERRIFIC BLOW TO ENEMY   Japs Suffer Their Most Humiliating Defeat Of War in Huge Raid on ~New Guinea Base

Japanese Air Foree Sutfers Heaviest Blow   120 Enemy Planes Destroy: ed. 50 Damaged In Sur. prise Allied Attack.   ‘OPENING OF BATTLE’

Fifty More Are Damaged When Allies Strike at We ~-wak, New Guinea   A STAGGERING BLOW   Enemy Is Stripped of Ait Strength in Central New Guinea

Japs Handed Humiliating  Air Defeai   Big Force of Planes Are Caught on Ground and Destroved by U. 8.   ENEMY BEATEN AT THEIR OWN GAME   Force Preparing Surprise Is Rubbed Out in the Surprise U.S. Blow

Wipe Out Air Fleet At Wewak   Jap Plans For Offensive Disrupted By Attack Which Destroyed 120 Planes, Damaged 50

Allied Raid ‘Wrecks 170 Jap Planes   Surprise Bomb Attack Deals Staggering Blow To Foe At Wewak.

PS SUFFER ~— AERIAL BLOW   Allied Bombers Surprise Enemy In New Guinea, Destroy 120 Planes

Japs Are Dealt Most ‘Humiliating Defeat’   Of 225 Planes On Ground, 120 Destroyed In New Guinea; Blow Is ‘Staggering’

Allies Hit 170 Planes, Kill 1,500   Aces Drop 10,000 Bombs to Smash Jap Morale

225 Jap Planes Caught on Ground in Sweeping Victory in New Guinea

Huge Jap Air Fleet Wrecked on Ground In Surprise Assault   170 Planes Smashed, 1,500 Men Killed in Allied Attack on Wewak; Guinea Counter-Blow Seen Foiled

Pearl Harbor In Reverse for Nippon  Jap Airforce Is Dealt Most Humiliating Defeat of the War

HARDEST BLOW fF WAR DEALT ENEMY IN WEST   Report 1,500 Air Personne! Killed In The Same Attack

KILLED IN RAID   Enemy Caught With 225 Aircraft on Ground By _ Allied Bombers.   STRIP FOE OF AIR POWER

Wreck 120, Damage 50 Planes On Field   Huge Raiding Party Inflicts Humiliating Defeat At Wewak in New Guinea; Japs Had 60 Planes Warming Up, Flaming Attack Turned Them Into Burning Coffins

JAPANESE AIRFORCE DEALT WORST DEFEAT OF WAR ON TUESDAY  MANY ENEMY PLANES DE. STROYED AND DAMAGED AND 1.500 JAPS KILLED

IN ALLIED AID   Enemy Caught By Surprise, Parked Planes Provide Sitting Duck Target

Jap Airforce Dealt Blow In New Guinea   Nipponese Receives Most Humiliating Defeat in Raid Upon Wewak

Smash Jap Air Armada   MacArthur Surprise Attack Destroys 120 Jap Planes On Ground

Wewak Raid Strips Japs’ Air Power hi  New Guinea   120 Planes Wrecked, 50 Severely Damaged, 1,500 Are Killed In Humiliating Defeat

Staggering Blow Inflicted Upon Enemy In Assault At Wewak — Fifty Additional Aircraft Severely Damaged And Estimated 1,500 Air Personnel Killed — 200 American And Australian-Manned Rambers Take Part In Surprise Operation

3 NAZI OFFICERS KILLED   Germans Arrested About 600 Persons in Brussels

Plans for Prelate s Installation Made   New Archbishop To Get Here Sept. ii

Yankees Hold 4 To 1 Edge In Aerial War   OWL Reports Army Downing Four Enemy Planes For Each One Lost.   PRODUCTION LAGGING

AIR SCORE I$ 4 10 1   OWI Gives Report On Losses Over  Entire World

U. S. Warplanes 4 to 1 Better  Superiority May Increase With New Types

U. 5. Besting Axis, 4 to 1 in Air War   Enemy . Losses Listed. in Count Do Not‘Include ‘Probables’ or Damaged Planes   104 JAP PLANES DOWNED SATURDAY   Only Two Allied: Planes Lost in Beating Off Raid by Nipponese

:  «  mane Planes Best Foe by 4-1 Score or  Better in All Phases of Air Fighting—OWlI

U. §. Planes Best Enemy bj 4 to 1 Score   Foe Beng Bested in Every Phase of Fighting Says OWI

U.S. Planes Outscoring Enemy 4-1   ARMY, NAVY AIRMEN ROLLING UP HUGE TOLL OF AXIS AIRCRAFT

U. S. Aircraft Besting Enemy Four To One   Ration of Superiority May Be Increased Sharply Soon   REPORT MADE BY OWI

U.S. Aircraft Besting Enemy Planes By Four to One Tally, OWI Says

Actual Fighting Records Show U. S. Is Superior In The Air   Army And Navy Planes Are Besting The Enemy ---By A Score Of Four To One, Or Better.

AMERICAN AIRMEN TAKING FOUR - ONE RATIO OVER FOES   Army and Navy Getting Big Advantage in Every Phase of Fighting

MOVE TO RIGHT INU.S. POLICY IS EXPECTED   Appointment of Stettinius To Welles Offieon Annoainerod

STETTINIUS APPOINTMENT TURN 10 RIGHT   Business Man, LendLease Head to Succeed Welles

SEE U.S. POLICY LESS IMPULSIVE   stettinius as Successor tt Welles Believed More Conservative

Stettinius’ Appointment ; Taken As Indication Of More Conservative Trend

U. S. POLICY 18 NOW BELIEVED MOVING RIGHT   Stettinius Behind Foreign Affairs     FOLLOWS WELLES Business Methods To Be Applied

Offensive Is Seen As Prelude To European In. vasion; Reds Close Ir  On Maikop.

Coal Strike Is Threatening To Close Big Mills   Production Of Five At Pittsburgh Faces Curtailment Monday.

Shortage Of Fuel Felt In Steel Plants   Production of Five Huge Mills May Have To Be Curtailed   ONE FURNACE BANKED

MINING STRIKE AFFECTING BIG STEEL PLANTS   Five Huge Mills of Carnegie-{linois Corporation Facing Curtailment of Production   FUEL DWINDLING   Republic Steel Forced to, Ciose One Blast Furnace; Others May Be  Davi by Monday

Strike Begins to Cripple Steel Industry; Tiny Break Seen in Ranks

45 BARGES WRECKED, FREIGHTER SUNK, IN HANSA BAY ATTACH   Salamaua Supply Base Hit By Biggest Bomber Fleet Of Southwest Pacific War   INSTALLATIONS WRECKED

Freighter And 43 Barges Are Destroyed   Ground Forces Within Mile Of Landing Strip

SALAMAUA SUPPLY BASE ATTACKED BY AMERICAN BOMBERS  AMERICAN AND AUSTRAL "TAN GROUND FORCES - TICHTEN PRESSURE

Jap Base Object Of Record Yank Bomber Attack   Heavy And Medium US Bombers Loose 180 Tons On Hansa Bay

Senate Group Ups Tax Bill Above  House Proposal! But Action Makes  Enactment Before ——sJanuarv Impossible

TAX BILL APPROVED BY SENATE GROUP   NEW $2,284,000.000 MEASURE CANNOT BE ENACTED BEFORE JANCARY. ‘

Boost New Tax Bill: Congress To Take Recess   Freeze Social * Security Levies;. . Hike Postal Rates

Six Dead, 22 Missing as — Floods Rage   Worst Arkansas River Flood in History Leaves Hundreds Homeless, Causes Untold Property Damage

WORST FLOOD IN ARKANSAS TAKES 7 LIVES   '22 Others Missing, Including Sev en Soldiers, Homeless Estimated  at 18.000   DAMAGE MOUNTS   Army Engineers Abandon Hope o! Saving Main Line Levees Ft. Smith to Little Rock

FLOODS EXTEND DEVASTATION TO ARKANSAS AREE   19 Persons Missing As Ar kansas River Reaches New Record Stage

RECORD FLOOD HITS ARKANSAS   Breaks 110-Year-Old Mark River Starts To Recede Today

Worst Flood In 110 Years At Ft. Smith.   Six Known Dead, 22 Missing, and Hundreds Homeless

AAKANOAG RIVER HiT AEGORD FLOOD PEAK   Six Known Dead, 22 Missing, Hundreds Homeless

FLOOD KILLS 6 IN ARKANSAS   22 Missing, Hundreds Home less as Waters Sweep Lower Valley

Worst Flood In History Sweeps Arkansas Valley   _ Six Known Dez Dead, Scores Missing, Hundred Are Homeless.

River Falling At Fort Smith: Record High Set  Six Known Dead, 22 Missing, Including Seven Soldiers

ATER BEGINS ‘RECEDING AT FORT SMITH   Crest Rolls on, Breaking ‘Levees and Flooding Lands—Toll Is 6 Known Dead, 22-Missing, Hundreds Homeless.

Arkansas Flood Worst in History   High Waters Smash Levees and Flood Thousands of Acres.

NO: OTHER MEDIUM   Flood Takes Lives of Six  In Oklahom:   Twenty-Two Others Are Missing and Hundreds Homeless, and ‘Untold Property: Damage Caused hy Hish Water

WORST FLOOD IN HISTORY GUSHES DOWN LOWER VALLEY   Levees Topped or Smashed to Flood Thousands of Acres  of Lowlands.

New Drive Into Europe Expected   Also Major Thrust Aaainst Japan

N ew Stab at Germany, ‘Drive to Oust Japs ‘From Burma Anticipated

NEW DRIVES IN EUROPE, ASIA ARE IMMINENT   Believed To Top Time Table Of Roosevelt, Churchill Just Fixed

Weather Forecast   MAJOR THRUST AGAINGT JAPAN EXPEGTED SUON   Further Offensive Actions Also Likely In Europe Within Few Weeks

ANOTHER BLOW AT EUROPE IN 6 WEEKS DUE   Italy Does Not Quite rit Pattern For Second Front

BLOW AT JAPAN SEEN 10 TOP WAR TIMETABLE   Major Thrust By Allies Believed Within Noxt Six Weeks

ATTACKS ON 2 AXIS MEMBERS BELIEVED TOBE ON CALENDAR   Allies Can Strike From ‘Directions Against Nazis —Japs Have Spread Air Force Thin.

THRUST THROUGH ASIA AT JAPAN “AND QUICK DRIVEINTO EUROPE TOP ALLIES’ LIST OF COMING EVENTS

GAS” SHORTAGE 1S REPORTED   Coupons May Be Cut to 2 Gallon Value

INTERVENTION OF WLB ASKED BY OPERATORS   Report Collective Bargaining Talks With UMW Have “Reached Impasse”   TRUCE ENDS IN 17 DAYS   Owners Ask For Further Clarification Of Board's Directive Of May 25

COAL STRIKE — = GRISIS NEAR      MINE owners APPEAL 00. Whe FOR HEARING ON DIEPUTE*: » OVER WAGE INCREASE,

SRD COAL STRIKE PERILS GROWING   Mine Owners Send Appeal to WLB for Hearing On Wage Tilt   RIItLtTRTIAnT

Threat of Third U.M.W. Coal Strike   Other Strikes In The Nation Are Summarized

GOAL STRIKE 1) THREAT OF JUnN L. LEWIG   Parley Between Operators and Union Heads Has Reached Impasse.   MAKE APPEAL TO WLB.   Lewis Says Prcceedings Are Farcical and Strike Is Befcre Nation.

MINE OWNERS AGREE TO CONTINUE TALKS CONSIDERED “HOPELESS.”   Still Hurls Charges   John L. Calls Operators ‘Sullen - Calls Their Conferences “Paoroiral.”

Billion and Half Seen U. S. Share In Relief Fund   Two and Half Billion Sought for Program Of Rehabilitation

U.S. fo Be Asked For $1,500,000,000  Announce Figures Of Reliéf Program

Estimate 15,000 Jap Troops, In Addition Te Naval Officers and Crews Went Down

5,000 Japs On Transports Lost As Allied Planes Pounce On Convoy In Bismarck Sea   CRUSHING DEFEAT CONSIDERED EVEN ~ MORE IMPORTANT THAN PREVIOUS BLOWS   50 Jap Planes Also Shot Down; Allied Air Fleet, Still Shuttling Back and Forth To Make Sure All Ships Sink, Lost Only Three Planes

Germans Desert by Dozens, Sell Arms to Poles, Says Escaped Jewish Leader of Underground

Millions of Acres of Illinois Farms  Under Flood Water   Families Driven From Homes; Crops Ruined; Highways Blocked

SWOLLEN RIVERS, GREEKS FORCE SCORES OF FAMILIES TO FLEE THEIR HOMES IN STATE  Over Million Acres Of Illinois Farm -. Land Flooded, State Officials Report

GERMANS NEAR ENCIRCLEMENT ABOUT VYAZMA   Germans Left Only Narrow Corridor Retreat Toward Hitler's Old Head quarters In Russia   BATTLE IN DONETS AREA “FEROCIOUS”      Nazis Continue to Hurl Numerically Superior Forces Against Ukraine Metropolis

Reds Stalled By Nazis In Donets Basin   Germans Claim Heavy Loss Of Russian Lives

Nazi Defeat In Russia Is Continuing  Voronezh Bridgehead Evacuated, Says

SHORTEN A FRONT   Nazis Are Attempting to  Stop Movement of Red Army

Nazis Report Evacuation Of Voronezh   Broadcasts Continue Account of Troops Caught at Stalingrad

Russian Donets. Drive Checkec   Elsewhere Red Army Continues Advance

BERLIN CLAIMS FOES STOPPED INDONETS ARBA   Russians Reported Thrown Back Across River At Izyum, 70 Miles Southeast of Kharkov   OTHER RED ATTACKS ARE HELD REPELLED   Moscow Admits Desperate German Effort to Stave Off Further Disaster Check Reds

COMMUNIOUE TELLS (OF 22 DIVISIONS \AT STALINGRAD   ISays Reds Have “Overwhelming Superiority’

NAZIS OFFER INCREASING RESISTANCE   Reds Continue To Smash Forward In Kharkov Section

NAZIS FIGHT FURIOUSLY 10 HOLD GROUND   Reds Admit Heavy Enemy Blows With Iresh Troops, but Report Grinding Forward in the Area West of Kharkov.

FIRST STEP IN BIG RETREAT SEEN. LIKELY   Russians Now In Position To Roll On Rostov From The “Soft” Side

GERMANS SAID RETIRING 10 NEW DEFENSES   Nazis Say Luftwaffe Inflicting Heavy Losses On Advancing Russians

SURRENDERED ACCORDING TO PLAN, IS GLAIM   Germany's Announced Capture of Rail Junction Last July Never Admitted by‘Russia   SIGNIFICANCE OF MOVE NOT CLEAR   May Be First Step Toward Large Scale Withdrawal From Caucasus; Nazi Resistance Smashed

Germans West  Of Voronezh  Withdrawing New Major Russian  Offensive Hinted In Berlin Communique

Announcement Of Evacuation Of Bridgehead Adds Another Chapter To Germany’s Continuing Story Of Defeat In Soviet Territory—Reds Smash Through Enemy Resistance After Taking Starobelsk —Additional Successes In Caucasus Reported

Nazis Report Evacuation  Of Voronezh   Admit Additional Reverses; Further Withdrawals Seen

RUSSIAN FORCES ~ ARE THROWN BACK IS GERMAN CLAIM   Pushed Across the Donets River in the Izyum Area, Near Kharkov.   STUBBORN RESISTANCE   Said Soviets Started to Attack on a Wide Front Near Rostov.

JOINS UNIVERSITY FACULTY   Father Paschel Pretz Comes to K. U.. from St. Benedicts

CONSERVATIVES OF GERMANY SEND PEACE FEELERS   Prospective Meeting of Big Three Spurs Activity of Anti-Nazis.

GERMAN PEACE FEELER CLAIM IS PERSISTING      Reports Circulate To Coincid With Meeting Of “Big Three”

Trio Seeks Halt in War ‘WithHonor   Schacht, ‘Von ‘Papen And You Brauchitsel Linked 10 Rumors:

State Vending Machine Law 1s Held Yatid   Licensing Law Is Upheld By Court OF Appeals

Vending Machine License Upheld   Court Of Appeals Reverses Ruling Of Baltimore Court.

P DANE TOWARD TUNIS   American and French Oc« cupy Pichon, Take Many Prisoners,   FIRST ARMY ADVANCES

ALLIED FORCES PURSUING FOES UP COASTLINE   Axis Facing Crushing Op position of Four Divisions, Plus Massive Armor   ROMMEL’S RETREAT APPROACHING ROUT   Enemy Putting Up Scant  Air Opposition; German Bomber Pilots Bailing Out at Sight of Allies

Rommel Loses His Key Supply Base In Africa   U. S. British, French Forces Launch Big Flank Attacks

Montgomery’s Army Gains 40 Miles in 24 Hours; Yanks Menace Nazis’ Rear

Americans Down ?'7 Fijel Planes   - «+ Axis Surrender Of Central Tunisia Looms

LIGHTNING PURSUIT OF ROMMEL’S FORCES CONTINUE UP COAST   GERMAN COMMANDER APPARENTLY READY SURRENDER CENTRAL TUNISIA

Rommel Forces Routed   Mahares And Pichon Are Seized; Tunis Seen Next Goal

"Onto Tunis” Battle Cry of Allied Troops   Nazi Surrender Of All Central  Tun:sia I< Near

Badly Mauled Axis Army Speeds Up Retreat Under Mounting Allied Pressure

Nazis Retreat So Rapid It Nears a Rout   Montgomery Calls For Dunkerque on Beaches of Tunis

‘Allied Chase: Roars North~ ward Out of Central  Tunisia   DRIVE INTO AXIS FLANK   Land and Air Attacks Converge on the Retreating - J Columns

TRIES TO WARD OFF AMERICAN FLANK ATTACKS   Badly Mauled Axis Troops Harried in Retreat by Bombers

‘Allies Drop _ Bombs Aone: - Coast Route   Rommel Seems Headed For Surrender of Cen: — .tral Tunisia

Sth Army Gains 40 Viiles in 24 Hours   Montgomery's Forces Seize Mahares and Graiba in Swift Pursuit of the Beaten German African Corps.   Marks a Retreat of 100 Miles by Rommel’s Forces in Last 12 Days

Yank Forces  In Pichon New Threat To Axis   Fleeing Nazis Lack Time To Sow Mines; British First Army Engages Von Arnim Outside Tunis

Allies Capture Third Largest CityOf Tunisia      American Troops Take Pichon As First Army In North Makes Further Advance In Drives On Bizerte And Tunis /

Allies Continue Push On Enemy After Capture ol  Vital Tunisian Supply Port

Shatter Axis Opposition And Continue Northward In Swift Pursuit of Foe?

Allies Drop Bombs Along ~ Coast Route   Rommel Seems Headed For Surrender of Cen . tral Tunisia

Advance 40 Miles In Last 24 Hours   Surrender Of All Of Central Tunisia Is Expected Report Allied Planes From Carriers Bombing Nazi Escape Corridor Along Coast

FARM INCOME UP IN KANSAS AND MISSOURI   Earnings in These and Five Other States First Five Months of 1943 Are 42 Per Cent More Than in 1942,

Flynn Denies Aceusations ln Senate Quiz   Never Bribed Grand Jury Foreman, Dealed With Jap, Claims

FLYNN DENIES CHARGES AT SENATE PROBE   Roosevelt Appointee Testifies Before Senate Group

CHARGES UNTRUE, LYNN TESTIFIES   ‘Minister To Australia Heard _ By Senate Investigating  Committee

FLYNN DENIES CHARGES MADE BY GOP GROUP   ‘Paving Block Deal’ Said Fabricated Political Smear

OAYS HE NEVER PUT GANGSTER ON PUBLIC PAY   Former Democratic National Chairman Defends Self at Senate Probe,   LANDENBERG, BRIDGES HELP IN QUESTIONING

HOUSE KILLED AN EFFORT BRING UP ANOTHER TAX BILL  NATIIRAIT RESOURCES T/   NATURAL RESOURCES TAX MEASURE FAILS TO BE RE-ANIMATED

RELEASE MORE COM FOR MICHIGAN USE   Survey Showing Shortage in State Is Followed by Promise of More Fuel

Michigan Coal Famine Averted    More Fuel. Is Ordered Shipped Into State

New Georgia Island Is Won By Americans   Offensive Is Prepared To Knock Out Vila’s Sandwiched Garrison   SEMILAR TO KISKA   Remnants Of Solsinen: Japanese Force Sneak Out Of Bairoko Harbor

NEW GEORGIA IN HANDS OF YANKS   T’Sgt. Sohotka of This City Is Awarded Air Medal For His Achievements.

Japs Sneak Off Island DuringNight   Defenders Refuse To Die for Emperor, Escape Onto Vila

Americans Control New Georgia   Vila, Last Jap Stronghold in Solomons, Attacked

Resistance On New Georgia Comes To End   Opens Way For Offensive Against Kolombangara Island

RESISTANCE OF JAPS ENDED   Way Opened for, Offensive to Wipe Out Isolated Japanese Garrison at. Villa, Last Enemy Stronghold in Central Solomons.

ALL NEW GEORGIA TAKEN BY YANKS. VILA ATTACKED   Remnants of Force At Bairoko Retreats. Across Gulf of . Kula.

COMPLETE KNOCKOUT FOR JAPS   Way Is Opened far Offen: sive to Wipe Out Last  Enemy Base in the Saectany

Japs Leave Bairaho Harbor at Night; Flee to Vila   §,000 TROOPS BELIEVE {ISOLATED AT VILA VASE

NEW GEORGIA ISLAND FALLS TO AMERICANS   Japs Abandon Fight at Bairoko and Flee to Join Trapped Garrison at Vila, MacArthur Reports.

BAIROKO IS CAPTURED   ‘Last Jap Stronghold In Solomons Next On  Allied List

JAP FORCE AT BAIROKO SNEAKS OUT   Escapes to Vila; U. S. Troops Occupy All of New Georgia

NEW GEORGIA ISLAND FALLS TO U, S. FORGE   Way Opened for Conquest of Last Jap Garrison in Central Solomons Islands Area

Attack On Vila Opened   Jap Force Chased Out O! Bairoko Harbor During Night

ALL NEW GEORGIA ISLAND NOW IN AMERICAN HANDS   Japanese Forces Withdraw From Bairoko Harbor Zone; Way Cleared for Drive on Vila.

All Resistance Ends On New Georgia  Island      Way Now Open To Wipe Out Jap Garrison On Vila   SUPPLIES CAPTURED   Enemy Position In All Central Solomons Is Hopeless

Resistance Ceases When Forces -Flee Rather Than Die For  Emperor AIR BLOWS DEALT — Position Of Japs Still In  Central Solomons Is Hopeless

Vila Next on U.S. Schedule   NEW TRIUMPHS HAILED FOR PACIFIC ARMIES IN FRESH ADVANCES

Airline Head _Enyisions Huge Transport “Ships . Hauling 100 Passengers

Treasury Tax Plan Goes  To Roosevelt   Asks 12 Billion, Part Refundable

NOTARY Elizabeth M. Caller 44406 Fallowfield Ave.      RENEPIT paper

U. S. Pilots Win Greatest Victory Of Mediterranean Conflict Off North Africa

Attempt fo Carry Axis Army Out of Tunisia Results In Great Victory for the Allies   Montgomery's Ground Forces Preparing for Conclusive Assault on Mountain Walls; Germans Prepare for Second Front

MISSING PLANE MAY BE FOUND   Reports Say 8 Bodies Are kecovered In ‘Peru

339 Are Dead  ~ In Accidents   Traffic Mishaps Leading Cause Of Fatalities: Over: Holidays -

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL UP 10 338   Traffic Accidents Head Violent Death Parade

339 Violent Deaths in Nation from 6:00 P. M. Friday to Last Midnighi

339 KILLED IN XMAS MISHAPS   Michigan Is High Among  States With 13  Fatalities

339 LIVES LOST OVER WEEK-END   Heavy Holiday Toll Reported In U. $.—Road Accidents Fatal to 216

Auto’ Fatalities Lead With 216; Exceed ‘4? Mark   Michigan Has 13 With Illinois’ 32 Topping Nation’s Record

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS — TOPPED LIST FATAL.  HOLIDAY: MISHAPS ©  Total of All Violent Deaths for Week-End ’ Reached 339. Fires C

Traffic Accidents Head 339 Violent Deaths That Occur Since Friday Night

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL HEAVY ONE   Violent Deaths Show Increase Over Those For —_ Year's Holiday Period.

DEATH TOLL QVER HOLIDAY 1S 441   11 More Than Were Recorded for the Same Holi- dav Last Year.

KA OFFERS SHORTER TOKIC ROUTE-KNOX   Navy Chief Warns 3d War Year May Bring Heaviest Fighting

PRICE ROLLBACK AND SUBSIDIES ARE DISCUSSEL   Farm Bureau Representative Gives Organization’s Views Before Kiwanians   STRIKES BY LABOR ‘DRAW CRITICISM

Weagly Scores Price Roll-Backs      Countian, Farm Bureau Head, Also Against Sy harness.

LEND-LEASE IN REVERSE   Permanent Transfer of Hemisphere Bases to U. S. Asked

Permanent Transfer British: Bases To U.S. Tydings Aim:   Maryland Senator Drafting Amendment to Lend-Lease Measure‘to Pave Way For Immediate Negotiations With Britain for All-Time Title to Western Hemisphere Sites

Transfer of British Possessions Soucht   Tydings Moves To Acquire Island Bases Permanently in Payment Of TLend-Toeace

U.S. Would Keep Bases   Measure Will Be Proposed For Taking Over British  Western Hemisphere Areas

SEEK PERMANEN'  U.S. POSSESSION  OF BRITISH BASES SENATOR TYDINGS  PLANS AMENDMENT TO 1 CNN. CACC

Uroes U.S. Seek Permanent Base  Tydings Would Like U. S. To Buy Atlantic  Islande From Britich

PROPAGANDA ~ PROBE ASKED   TAFT INTRODUCES BESOLUTION CALLING FOR. IN+) QUIRY INTO OWI AND CIA AGENCIES —

Asks Probe Of U.S. Propaganda   Senator Taft Asks Investiga-. tion Of Propaganda Distributed Abroad  Bes FAC'K WIA oA se

500,000Nazis Flee Advance of Red Troops   Commandoes _R: Raid Axis Stronghold in Tunisia; Activate New U. S. Fifth Army

Reds Capture Vital Towns  In Big Surge   Germans Destroy Roads, Bridges In Utter Rout

NAZI DEFEAT ISHASTENED BY RED ARMY   More Vital Poinis In Caucasus, Don Areas  Are Engulfed   ENEMY IN RETREAT   Half Million Of Hitler’. Finest Troops In Withdrawal

Reds Continue To Hammer the Nazis   Soviets . _ Report German Army Is in Full Retreat  4 im Caucasus   MAY BE FINAL DRIVE   Getmatis’ Have Lost More Than 11,000 Troops  "in Two Weeks

RED ARMIES DRIVE GERMAN INVADERS FROM STRONGHOLDS  ~ ENEMY IN FULL RETREAI "IN CAUCASUS, BLOWING _UP BRIDGES

‘Red Forces in New Drive to Engulf Enemy   a  News Agency Estimates  Half Million Germans In Flight  YANK ARMY FORMED  Axis Forces Ousted From Strong Position Near Bizerte

RUSSIANS TAKE SIK MORE TOWNS ‘AND HELD CITIES   Germans Blow Up Bridges, \Mine Roads to Slow Fury Of Red Drive; Start Cutting , Prapped Nazi Divisions  /HEAVY LOSSES

Soviets Rewin 6 Vital Towns   ... Axis Reported In Full Caucasus Retreat

HITLER'S FORCES RETREATING   Reds Engulf More - Vital Cities In - Caucasus Advance

Germans Reported in  Headlong Withdrawal   Russians Capture Additional Vital Cities And Towns, Quickening Pace of Advance On Long Winter-shrouded Fronts.

Russians Take 6 More Vital  Towns, Cities   British ‘—nmados Throw Germans From Strong. point in Mateur Hills.   REDS SEIZE PROVINCE

REPORT HALF MILLION NAZIS IN FLIGHT   Some of Der Fuehrer’s Finest Troops Routed, Reuters Report Says

NEW ASSAULTS ARE LAUNCHED BY RED FORCES   Thousands of Germans in Trap Near Stalingrad Facing Disaster. Too   AXIS SLAPPED IN AFRICA   Jap Armada in Pacific Is Blasted by Bombers - - At Least 9 Ships Hit

HALF MILLION NAZIS FLEEING, BRITISH CLAIM   Position of Axis Grows More Precarious in  North Africa

BLOWING UP. BRIDGES IN CAUCASUS   Also Withdrawing . Before Advancing Russians in the Middle Don’: ™   WIDE: NEW.GAINS... BY-RED ARMIES   Drive to’ Annihilate.- ‘the Forces Trapped Before. Stalingrad Indicated: :

Soviets Take Key Points In Advances   Enemy Blowing Up Bridges And Mining Roads in Desperate Defensive Action

U.S. Fifth Army Organized in North Africa; Canadian Detachment Reaches Field—Smash Jap Ship Nest at Rabaul — Americans Seek Riskier  Work in Tunisia

Six Vital New Cities Are Captured In Two Sectors   Germany Army Blows Up Bridges, Mines To Delay Onrushing Reds In Caucasus

Germans Blast Bridges, Roads In Mad Retreat   Reds Take Six More Vital Towns, Begin Pinch on 22 Foe Divisions.

DRIVE TO WIPE OUT NAZIFORCE   Reds .Quicken Flood Tide Of German  ’Tyieagactapr   Report Germans Ir Full Retreat In : Caucasus

German Army In Full Retreat From Caucasus   Final Drive Begins To Annihilate Nazis In Stalingrad Trap

Hitler's Command Acknowledges Reds Pressing Offensive   New U. S. Fifth Army In Africa Is Put Under Gen. Clark

Nazis Are in Full Retreat In Caucasus   Blowing Up Bridges, Mining Roads in Desperate Attemp' to Delay Onrushing Reds Position of Axis in Afric:  _Grows More Precarious

Half Million Nazis In Withdrawal Bordering On Disaster, USSR Say:

Ration Notice   Change in Time for Gasoline Pavan] at BDewslacntne 7.i~!

Madame Chiang Appeals to Americans  For Efforts Toward New World Based on Justice. Equality for All

World Organization for Keeping Peace Urged by Mme. Chiang at Chicaao

Madame Chiang Makes Peace Plea   Recalls League, Other Nation Alignments

Cannot Compel Salute to Flag   Supreme Court Overrules Itself— Upholds Right of Children of Jehovah's Witnesses

STUDY TAXATION OF WAR INCOMES   Treasury Department Considers Tax System That Would Avoid Gross In eauities.

War Workers’ ‘Excess Profits’  May Be Taxed   War-Swollen Incomes May ..Be -Hit. Harder Than  “Unraised” TIneomes

Treasury Studies Excess Profits   Seek To Avoid All In Equalities

Exeess Profit Tax Program  Is Studied   Treasury Considers Protecting Stable Incomes

DETROIT HAS” ~NEW. STRIKE   ESTIMATE 13,000 ALREADY IDLE IN THREE MAJOR WAR IN- DUSTRY: PLANTS ¢

TAX PROPOSALS CAUSE DEBATE   oe State Senate Adjourns After Sharp Debate On’ Income Tax Reduction:

Delay Action on Iowa Income Tax By Adjournment   lowa Senate Defeats Amendment to Eliminate Tax Entirely for 1948 and 1944

Germans in Fear Of Real Russian Break - Through   Stalin’s Secret Reorganization of Russian Army Six Months Ago Revealed; Axis Forces Becoming Disorganized

Younger Men Lead Big Drives That Penetrate Axis Lines, Says Report

Eighth Seizes Perano; Fifth Army Advances   Moscow Announces Nazi Counterattacks Heavy On Lkraine Line.   IGAIN AT CHERKASI

Germany’s Evacuation Of Red Areas Continues; Allies Advance in Italy   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance As Tempo of Fighting Grows; Weather Cuts Aerial Activity After Big RAF Blows

Soviet Army Gains Some   British Bombers Blast Leverkusen Chemical Plonts Near Coloane

REED SAYS 20°P.C. TAX WILL DRIVE PAYERS 10 RUIN   Dunkirk Congressman Pulls No Punches In Scoring Withholding Tax.

‘MEDIUM’ PLA ADOPTION SEEN IN TAX BATTLE   House Leaders Drive  For Compromise On Rival Bills

RABAUL ISLAND AIRBASE RAIDED   Flying Fortresses Hit Japs In Vital Spot, Leave Many Fires

Hard Blow Is Dealt Rabaul   Airmen: Slash. Area, Leave Many Fires In Night Foray

7. US Fs .-8 $:~ 2 Res ella - Don os ‘29  ~~ wv 2 uy we poe  a Me CoG! Tie Te  a Pte

fine Pay Paet \sreed Upon: with Excluded   (nion, Most of Coal rs Vote for Based on  LkecLewis Formula

Most of Operators Agree on Contract   Southern Appalachian Group Refuses To Take Part In Closing Deal Based On  Ickes-Lewis Agreement

UMW, Producers Will Negotiate Wage Contract   Southern Operators Refuse To Participate on IckesLewis Formula

WAY CLEARED FOR MINE PACT   Union, Most of Operators To Negotiate on Basis of Ickes-Lewis Formula

TRACT ON MINE PAY Is AGREED UPON   UMW and Most of Soft Coal Operators to Sign Aareement   SOUTHERNERS BALK AT PROPOSED PACT   Coal Ceiling Price Nat Expected to Block Ne aoshiations

SOUTHERN OWNERS . OPPOSED TO PAC!I   Miners’ Union And Other Coal Op erators Will Meet Today To Sign New Contract

HEAVY RAIDS MADE ON NAZ SUPPLY LINES   Railway And Road Junctions Suffer Fierce Bombings

HISTORIC POMPEI AREA TARGET OF ALLIED PLANES   Yank Bombers Blast Rail Lines Used by Nazis to Supply Troops

Negroes, Whites Clash 22 Hours   Federal Troops Move In To Clear Streets At Request Of Governor; Over 500  Persons Injured

KILLED IN PACIFIC   War Department Messages Disclose Death of East Liverpool, Ravenna Soldiers

850 LOST ON 2 U, S. SHIPS    Biggest Sea Disaster of the War Repdeted   BULLETIN

‘Quebec Conference Drafting Warning To Germans to Get Out of the War   Invasion Plans Are As Good As Completed

QUEBEC PARLEY DRAFTS “UTTER DESTRUCTION” WARNING TO GERMANS   SIGNS INCREASE THAT ‘ALLIED INVASIONS OF  ‘FRANCE AND ITALY NEAR

HULL ARRIVES AT QUEBEC CONFERENCE —   Invasion Plans Are Virtually Completed

Grim Allied Warning To German People Expected at Quebec   War Conferees Believed Preparing Appeal to Quit or Be Destroyed;  Plea Seen Coming on Invasion Eve

Warning Drafted to German People to  Get Out of the War   Appeal Drafted, by Churchill and Roosevelt to Be Made When Allies Are Poised for Europe Invasion

The Crisis in hidia Food ‘Shortage In India Presents Greater Danger Than ~»« a... Any Other Factor.   Br REWITT MACKENZIE

INDIAN SITUATION MADE MORE DANGEROUS THROUGH THREATS UNPRECEDENTED FOOD SHORTAGE

‘Food Shortage Complicates Political Monsoon in India   Crisis Expected About April During Between-Crops  Season When Flour Bins Are At Low Best; Indian  : Student Says One Would Have to See Coun;   ~ trv te Understand Pitiful Food Situation

YANGTZE PORT   American Airmen, Chinese Commandos Victoriaus On Yanotze Front.

AMERICANS AND CHINESE HARRY JAPS IN CHINA   U. S. Planes Bomb And Strafe Japanese Position As Chinese Commandos Strike From Rear; Pacific  War Review.

Central China Under Bomber: From America   Chinese Commandos Take Big Toll; Destroy 33 Enemy Fighters

U. . DUMB Ko, GHINcot abUnt NEW VIGTORIES   Jap Airfield At Nanchang Smashed As Commandos Strike At Jap Rear

CHINESE ARMY BATTERS JAPS   Yank Pilots Carry Out Big Air Raids to Support Ground Forces

Yanks Bom And Strafe Jap Bases  Chinese Score   Chinese Score New Successes Along Upper  Yangtze River

In Europe, Allied Bombers Hit Anew At Axis Targets   Mid-June Lull in Evidence As Both Sides Catch Their Breath For  Bio Push

CHINESE UNITS PUSH AHEAD IN RIVER SECTOR  llied Airme  A , + pete th vi tal vy Bas

Yanks Bomb And Strate Jap Bases   Chinese Score New Successes Along Upper Yangtze River

U.S. and Chinese Forces Hit Japs   Carry Out Furious Bombing and Strafing Raids on Enemy Bases

NEW SUCCESSES 2 APAINGT HDS   Yanks Carry Out Series Of Furious Bombing Raids

AMERICAN AIRMEN IN FURIOUS BOMBING RAIDS AGAINST JAPS  CHINESE COMMANDOS _ MEET NEW SUCCESSES - ON UPPER YANGTZE

YANKS HAMMER FOE’S BASES IN UPPER YANGTZE   Over 100 Bombs Dumped on Big Jap Airfield at Nanchang, China

ENEMY BASES IN PACIFIC ARE STRAFED   More Than 100 Bombs Are Dropped on Big Japanese Airfield at Kiangsi Province

‘US Planes Raid Japanese Strongholds      Chinese Commandos Strike Coordinatd Blows at Enemy’s Rear; 33 Jap Planes Destroyed Over Russell Islands

Yanks, Chinese Forces Score New Yangtze Coups   Half Of 40 To 50 Jap Planes Raiding Russell Islands Shot Down By American Fliers

U.S. Bombers  Give Chinese Strong Aid   New Successes For Allies Along Upper  Vanetze Frant

U.S. Airmen Aid Chinese Drive  — rite anise   Big Japanese Airfield Hit As Kai Shek’s Armies Follow Up Advances

U.S. AIRMEN ~ AID CHINESE INNEWBLOWS   Pilots Strafe Jap Bases As Chinese Commandos Go Into Action   100 BOMBS DROPPED ON ENEMY AIRFIELD   Attacks Take Place at Nanchang, Important Jap Base In China

American Airmen Bomb and Strafe Japanese Bases   Chinese Add to Enemy Discomforts With Commando Raids

Americans Raid Japanese Bases  Report New Blows On Chinese Front

Allies Gain in Fighting On Chinese  Front Lines   American Airmen _ Are In Thick ‘>. Of Battles

Japs in China Get NewBlows   Nanchung Airfield Blasted; Enemy Planes Destroyed

Allied Planes Blast Jap  Troop Convoy   Two Transports Damaged, Decks Raked With Fire

Allied Planes Strafe Trio Of Jap Ships in Aroe Isles   Japanese Send 49 Planes Over Darwin as Spokesmen Warn of Increasing Air Power

INipponese Airmen Make Raid on Port   U. S. Flyers Bomb and Machine Gun Troop Vecsels of Fneny

ALLIED BOMBERS nIKE TRANSPORTS   Attack Three Enemy Ships in Aroe Islands, Northwest of Australia; Japanese Pianes Attack Darwin

Three Jap Transports AreBombed   Darwin Raid Costs Foe 12 Planes: Allies Lose Four

Japs Raid Darwin In Heavy Renewal  Of Enemy Air War   Little Damage, Few Casualties Reported ; Allies Batter Two Troop-Laden Transports, Score Near Hit on Another in Aroe Islands

AIRMEN BOMB 3 JAP TRANSPORTS IN AROE ISLANDS   ‘Planes Sweep Decks With Machine-Gun Firing, Causing Heavy Casualties Among Troops Aboard.   NIPPONESE ATTACK DARWIN FROM AIR   Twenty-Five Bombers and 24 Fighters Carry Out Raid— Fourteen Shot Down, 5 Others Damaged.

2 dransports Are : Damaged Tn Aroe Area   49 Japanese Planes Stage Raid on Darwin In Blow at Australia  14 ARE SHAT nawn

Two Are Damaged Ant Third Is Raked By Allied  Gunfire In Aroe Islands   DARWIN IS RAIDED BY 49 ENEMY CRAFT

Two Transports Damaged: by Searing Guntire JAPANESE RAID ON DARWIN REPORTED.  Enemy Air Power in Australian Theater Increased

Trio of Enemy Ships Damaged Near Australia   Bombs and Gunfire Used in Attacks Off Aroe Islands  Japanese Raid Darwin, buf Cause only Minor Damage

ALLIED DRIVE IS CONTINUING   Take Sbeitla, 18 Miles Fron Kasserine; Axis Attacks Subside In North

Repulse Nazi: F Tanking: Effort Th North: Tunisia   Enemy Pays: Heavy Cost ~ In Men and Materials, '

ALLIED FORCES IN CENTRAL TUNISIA CAPTURE SBEITLA   Town Is 18 Miles From Kasserine and Was Occupied March 1 By Allied Forces Which Have Pushed To Three Miles East of the City.

Solons Expect Byrnes To Knock Together Heads © Of Federal Squabblers

SOUTH ITALY NOW UNDER MARTIAL LAW      Fear Allies May Invade Directly, By-Passing Sicily

NO RUSH FOR BOOK 4   Latest Ration Coupons May Be Secured Now at Office

NO RUSH FOR BOOK 4   Latest Ration Coupe ‘Coupons May’ Be ) Secured Now at Office

Turning the Other Cheek  French Become Medel People  To Nazis as Invasion Nears

French Suddenly Are Extremely Cheerful  Neither Nazis Nor Laval Followers Like I+

ITALIAN CRISIS NEARS A CLIMAX, NATION IN FUROR   Panic-stricken People,- Fear. ing Bombs, Evacuatnig Cities, ©

GERMANS PLAN TO TAKE OVER ITALIAN FLEET   Crisis Nears Climax—Nazis Aré Massing Crews At Many Points

Italian Crisis: Is Reported Nearing Climax       Slovene Guerrilla, 20 to 30 Miies: Inside Italy °

Italian Crisis Near Climax   Slovene Guerrillas Penetrating Nation

Slovene Guerrillas In Italy ©          PENETRATE COUNTRY 30 MI eS NAZIS AND ITALIANS REPORTE] FIGHTING EACH OTHER, IN: ? NORTHERN ITALY = -

Italian Crisis Nears Climax as Slovenes Reach Point 20 Miles Inside Italy, Cities Being Evacuated

TROOPS IS REPORTED   Germans Mass Crews To Seize Italy’s p Ships, Claim

3oard Increases Dutlay $877,222  Next Fiscal Year   Next Fiscal Year  { ’ Need $5,954,000 * For Adequate Work,  ' Director Asserts XEPORTS ON SURVEY  Herkenhot{ Discovers Many Grants Too Low ; Emnlovment Problems

LESS THAN 100,000 FATHERS TO LOSE DRAFT. DEFERMENT   Many In Non-Deferrable Jobs Get Positions  In Essential Activity:

JOB TRANSFER ORDER OBEYED BY MANY DADS   Only 100,000 Expected To Face Draft Call In 60 Davs

Draft Change Will Net ‘ 100,000 Dads   FATHERS REMAINING IN NONDEFERRABLE WORK FACE RAPID INDUCTION

Under 100,000 Fathers Likely To Be Inducted   Many Transfers From Non-Deferrable Jobs Are Believed Made

Think Many Fathers Have Transferred To Essential War Jobs   Saturday Was Deadline For Fathers To Leave “Non-Deferrable” Jobs

ALLIED BEACHHEAD IS STILL INTACT   WRITER SAYS SITUATION IS WELL IN HAND WITH NAZIS PRESSING HARD,

EIGHTH ARMY IS ADVANCING INT TUNISIA   General Alexander Expects Rommel To Make Stand Rehind Mareth Line, Which I. 4G Miles Long.   Sunaly Lines Vital To Axis

EIGHTH ARMY IS ADVANCING INTO TUNISIA   Confidence Expressed Of Ability to Flank Mareth Line

Miss Blythe Day Wed in Californiz   To Glenn B. Davis, Former Gil. more Citian, Sunday, June 6

Roosevelt And Churchill Receive News   News Represents Culmination Of Casablanca Conference

Roosevelt And Churchill Hear The Good News   President Will Address Nation At “9.0’Clock Tonight”

i R., Churchil   Prime Minister Terried in U.S. os Surrender Impended

NEWS OF AXIS OPLIT GLIMAK OF LONG WAIT   Roosevelt and Churchill at Washington See Result of War Strategy.   OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMASH AT HITLER

Military: Observers Quick to Recog_ Hize Unparaiieted. - Opportunities “Now Opened Up for Allica Forees Under Eisenhower.

“Break” Surmisec By Some Because Briton Delayed  Visit  OTHERS  ‘SOON?  Axis Satellites May _ Soon Follow Suit

Eisenhower Announces Capitulation Effective Today; To Resist Nazis   Italians Agree tc Resist Any Interference by Germany in Italy—Géeneral Tells Steps Leading to Armistice and Surrender by Badoglio

Chiefs Get Awaited News   Churchill's Stay Hinted Surrender Was Near

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL “HEAR ‘NEWS   United Nations Chiefs * Lay Down General Surrender Terms

Roosevelt and Churchill In Washington as They Get News of Surrender

Roosevelt and Churchill Get Word They Had Been Waiting For at Washington   Casablanca Formula Carried Out; Allied Sources Assume Mussolini Ic Beina Turned Over to Victors

Pres, Roosevelt And Churchill Receive News of Surrender of Italy Together

Other Axis-Held Nations Expected to Follow Italy: F. R.. Churchill Get News

FR. CHURCHILL HEAR ITALY END   PRESIDENT, PREMIER RECEIVE AWAITED NEWS

Roosevelt, Churchill Receive News They've Waited for, the Surrender Of ltaly; Continue Conferences

TREASURY MUM ON TAX PLANS   Refuses, to Tell Even Congres: ‘of What it Has in Mind For that 12 Billion.

HEROIC FLIERS WOULON'T QUI   Japs Paid High Price for Pursuit of Crippled B-25 Romber.   MOST OF CREW INJURED

Crippled B-25 returns from big raid with 52 holes in fuselage   Quiet radioman hero of dramatic journey home; Japs ‘paid a price’

Wife’s Attempt To Scare Spouse Ends in Injury   Shotgun Charge Enter: His Body—Wound Not Critical

Armed Forces, Big Steel Firms, WPB, Are Blamed For Steel Shortages

STEEL SHORTAGE BLAME PLACED   Senate Group Names Armed Forces, Big Producers, WPE For Situation

‘STEEL SHORTAGE  BLAME PLACED   Truman Committee Says Big Companies, Armed Forces, WPB All At Fault.

WLB,ARMED FORCES "AND: STE®L PLANTS BLAMED -BY SENATE      Calls, ‘Them Responsible : For Present Shortage. . Of Strategic Materials

Truman Committee  Fixes Blame For Steel Shortage   Big Steel Companies At First Opposed To Expansion; Armed Forces, WPB Share Blame For Materials Shortage

TAFT DEPLORES GOP ‘HOT-HEADS'   Ohio Solon Says There Is No Wide Difference In Party

VAUDEVILLE TEAM IS PARTED BY TRAGEDY      Buckskin Ethel Accidentally Slain After Performing 41 Years

VAUDEVILLE VETERAN KILLS WIFE IN SHOW   Shot Goes Wild in First Night After Long Retirement

Axis Score Gains In Tunis Battle   Seek to Relieve Pressure on Rommel

ATTACK BY AXIS TANKS REPULSED   Enemy Hurled Back On One Sector, Score Gains On Another

Axis Tank Force Said Destroyed   Fighting Takes Place 30 to 45 Miles From Tunis

Axis Forces Twice Repulsed In Tunisia   Allies Acknowledge Enemy Gain Southwest of Pont Du Fahs

FOE GAINS SOME GROUND IN PONT DU FAHS BATTLE   Axis Forces Make  ome Gains In  Ground Fighting In  Tunisia; Allied  Planes Smash At  Points In Tripoli rea.

British Clash ‘With Rommel  Afriean Force   Action Is Reported Near -Taruna, Only’ 40 Miles From Tripoli .

AXIS TWICE REPULSED IN MID-TUNISIA   However, Enemy Gains Ground At Pont Bu Fahs

AXIS MAKE GAIN  AFTER SETBACK TUNISIAN AREA   Enemy Throws In Tanks -and Infantry Forces to Move: Ahead Southwest Pont Du Fahs   HAMMERED FROM AIR   Allied: Fliers Carrying Fight to Enemy, Strike ‘New Blow at Tripoli Airfield

ENEMY GAINS GROUND NEAR PONT OU FAHS   As Land Operations Increase, Fortresses Make New Raid on Axis Air Base 13 Miles From Tripoli.

Axis Gains on Tunisian Front   Makes Some Advance Southwest of Pont Du Fahs, Allies Admit

Highlights   Of Winston Churchill's Prediction of Large Scale Operations

MINE OWNERS WANT MINES   Say It Is Ickes’ Duty T Return Properties To Them

Operators Ask Ickes To Give Back the Mines   Declare It Is His Duty To Restore Private -Ownership

MINE OWNERS SEEK CONTROL   Coal Associations Ask Ickes To Release Operations

MANY OF GOVT. BUREAUS TO BE MERGED   FDR Isaues Marriage Licenses For Agencies Handling Economic  : -Warfare .. wl eee ?

ORDER CHANGE IN OEW SETUP   Federal Agencies Involved In Economic Warfare  To Be Merged

Merger Of Several Federal Agencies Under Crowley Approved By Roosevelt

TD CONSOLIDATE FEDERAL BUREAUS   New Director of Office of  Economic Warfare to Direct  Change

Consolidation U.S. Agencies Sought By FDR   Economic Warfare Groups To Be Massed Into One Office  In Economy Move

Roosevelt Okehs “Mass Marriage”. of Agencies Handling Economie Warfare

CONSOLIDATION OF NUMEROUS FEDERAL AGENCIES PLANNED   NEW ECONOMIC WARFARI CHIEF AWAITING REPORT BEFORE ACTING

MERGER OF NEW BUREAUS UNDER WAY AT CAPITAI   Roosevelt Gives Go Ahead Sign On Program

Budget Bureau Directed to Arrange For Mass Marriage of Many Federal Agencies Handling Economic Warfare

Crowley Is Waiting For Green Light   Various Agencies Hand ling Economic Warfare  - Are To Be Merged

NAZI. ADVANCE ON CENTRAL TUNISIAN FRONT NOW HALTED   Americans Reply To Enemy Challenge Of “Come Out. And Fight” With Vengeance

U.S. ARMY ACCEPTS NAZI CHALLENGE - WITH VENGEANCE   “Come Out and Fight” Germans Say and Deep American Raid fs Response.

RAID ANSWERS NOTE TO GOME OUT AND FIGHT   German Advance Halted: on Tunisian Front and 80 Prisoners Taken.   AXIS FORCES EVACUATE SMALL PORT OF ZUARA

OPA’ s ‘Life ats take In Su bsidy Showdown  Powerful Cudgel Raised Over/FDR ‘As House Opponents: Ficht Demand

ATTACK UPON OPA EXISTANCE LOOMS IN SUBSIDY FIGHT   Roosevelt Must End Demands For Authority to Spend Funds to Hold Down Retail Food Prices.   ALABAMA REPRESENTA TIVE REVEALS PLAN   Bill to Extend Life of Commodity Credit Corporation, End Payments !s Due on Thursday.

Foes Threaten Attack On OPA . To Stop Subsidy   Will Take Step If President Does Not Drop Demand For More Authority

SUBSIDY PLA —ISGPA THREAT   Foes of Program Threaten To Cut Off Funds Unless FDR Backs Down

Threat To Kill OPA Marks Fight Over Subsidies   House Revolt Against Price Program At Showdown Stage

ENES OE SURSINY THREATEN OPA IE PLAN IS FOLLOWED AND PRICES HELD DOWN

Threaten To Kill OPA If F.. BR. Sticks For Subsidy   House Strategists Map Squeeze Play Against A j ® s : ti n

OPPOSITION IN SENATE MOUNTS; WITNESSES UP   Historic Military, Political Steps May Be Taken in London

SUBSIDY FOES THREATEN TO CUT OPA FUNDS   Enemies Of Plan Trying To Back FDR Down

Subsidy ! ‘Foes  Threaten OPA   President. Told To Drop Demands For Power to Pay Out ‘Funds

OPA Existence Threatened By Angry Solons   Subsidy Must Stop FDR Is Told 

TALIN REPORTS TO RED WORKER   Says Red Army Has Killed 1,800,000 Germans In Past 12 Months

Military Absence Law Does Not Apply to Senator  Supreme Court Denies Application of

Coal Production Behind ‘42 Rate   Ickes Blames Strike: For Decrease

California: Visitor Ran Private Bus Line With Motor Coach He Borrowed

Miners May Go On 6-Day Week   Anthracite Industry May Settle Dispute As All Workers Return.

PA. HARD COAL. -MINES: MAY: GO: ON 6 DAY WEEK   Expected . To. Meet Greater War Time. Needs

D-DAY WORK WEEK: LOOMS FOR WINERS   Committee of Twelve Meet to Iron Out Plan to Hike Production

Workers. Operators In Parley   Proposal By Ex-Strikers Would Aid War Effort, Relieve Fuel Shortage

Velikie Luki Claim Of Nazis Nailed As Lie  Reds Give Detail: Of Booty Taken,  Cermans Slain

Use ‘Carrot and Club’ Bargaining Power at Once, Bullitt Warns U.S.

FEARS STALIN MAY GRAB BOTH CARROT AND CLUB SHORTLY   Former Ambassador Explains His Phrase— Urges Prompt Action  Be Taken.

Today’s War Commentary  German Boasts  Now Rise To Taunt Nazi ‘Superme

Embarrassed by Whole Business  Police Called Out to Hold Back Women at Gable’s Press Parley

MORAL EFFECT OF SURRENDER OF ITALY MAY BE GREATER THAN MILITARY VALUE OF VICTORY

Moral Effect of Italy's Surrender Will Be Great Robs Nazi Fuehrer of His Magic

Moral Effect of Saipan May Be Even Greater Than the Military, Says MacKenzie, Who ‘Sees Whole Nazi Realm Shaking As Result of  T atest Allied Gains

CHIANG NAMED. PRESIDENT BY KUOMINTANG   Expresses Hope Chinese Commu nisis Will Dissolve—Congress tc Draft Constitution

CHINA'S PRESIDENT IS CHIANG KAI SHEK   Generalissimo Ele cted To Succeed Dr, Lin Sen

Chiang Kai-Shek Elected President  Chinese Leader Hope: Communists to Give

Kai-Shek Elected China President   Succeeds Lin Sen As New Leader

KALSHEK CHINA'S RULE    Generalissimo: Ts -.President Succeeding Lin Sen

MIL GRADUATE: . ~ RECORD PLAS   ue He S. ‘Banquet To Be Replaced By Spartan ‘Collation

WiLL GRADUATE: ~ REGARD CLASS   L. H. S. Banquet To Be Replaced By Spartan ' Collation

High School’s’ Commencement  Week May 14th  Frank Miles Of Des Moines Will Deliver Address

‘Orgies’ Result From FSA Policy  Accusation Made Before Senate Committee In Studving Farm Labor

Testifies On Orgies Among — FSA Worker:   Floridé, Producer Tell: Committee Of Senator:  * Experiences With FSA Contract Labor

FSA RECRUITED FARM WORKERS ARE CRITICISED      Florida Grower Charges ‘Riffraff Stage Orgies with ‘Whiskey and Loose Women’

MACHINISTS RETURN TO AFI   Today's, eAstion,,.Retumns ' Half Million to ’ Federation

Machinists in Fold of A. F. L.   Union’s Return Adds Nearly 500,000 to A. F. L. Membership

MACHINISTS ADD HALF-MILLION MEMBERS TO AFL   RETURN TO FOLD AFTER MAKING UP WITH CARPENTERS

President Leads Nation In Silent Tribute to Dead of World War I   Places Wreath on Tomb of Unknown Soldier; Legion Commander Appeals for More Than Just An Armistice

'HALSEY SAYS DRIVE IN  PACIFIC WILL BECOME  “THE BATTLE OF JAPAN”

BATTLE OF JAPAN IN SOU, PACIFIC IS PREDICTED   Halseys Statement Marks Campaign’s Anniversary

Halsey Vows Relentless War on Japs   Battle of Pacific To Become Battle: Of Japan, Declares

Allied Pacific Drive To Become ‘Battle Of Japan   Halsey Says Allied Strength Is Greater Than Bver, Rekata Bombed

Campaign In Pacific Will Go To Tokvo   Admiral Halsey. Promises Continuance ‘Of Victory ‘Over Japs:

ALLIED OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH PACIFIC TO BE INTENSIFIED      Adm. Halsey Says Allied Strength Greater Than Ever-——Expresses Confidence

Allied Drive Will Continue, Says Halsey   Battle Of Pacific Will Become Battle Of Japan, Asserts Admira  At His Headquarters

Halsey Promises Relentless Drive To Force Japs From South Pacitic

Price Ceiling On Livestock ‘Last Resort   Food Chief to Try Other Means to Bring Meat ‘Costs Down

:  pavis PREPARES PLAN CALLING FOR REDUCTION IN LIVESTOCK PRICES

KUERSTEINER TO STUDY   K. U. Professor Is Given a Year’s Leave of Absence

WPB Approves Plans for Gas Line From Southwest to Appalachians   Two Applications Now. Before. Federal Power Commission; One Line Would Be « Built From: Corpus Crist

Allies Will Beat Japs in Year: Halsey   American Fliers Press Advantage  At New Guinea

ADMIRAL HALSEY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PACIFIC WAR   J. S. Commander Of Naval. Forces In Far  ast. Says It Won't Take More Than Year  To Smash Jans If We Have Mare Weight.

For mer Leader — Of IWW Killed During Dim Out   Carlo Tresca, Anti-Fascis' Editor, Killed on Way To Meeting

Anti-Fascist Edifor Slain   Carlo Tresca Shot To Death on Street In New York

ANTI-FASCIST EDITOR SLAIN IN NEW YORK   Radical Labor Leader Shot Down On Fifth Avenue

Auto Of Killer Believed Found   Anti - Fascist Editor And Former I. W. W. Shot As He Strolled.

ANTI-FASCIST EDITOR SLAIN   SHOT TO DEATH BY LONE GUNMAN IN NEW YORK CITY

ANTI-FASCIST  EDITOR SLAIN: IN NEW YORK   Police Believe They Have Found Car In Which’ the Killer of Carlo Tresca Escaped   SHOT FROM BACK   Companion Tells of Shooting As. Pair Walked  Along Lower Fifth  Avenue In Dim-Out .

Federal Bureaucracy Is Denounced At Ohio Republican Club’s Meeting

WAR FOR SICILY ALL BUT ENDED AS AXIS FLEES   Germans Begin To Blow Up Installations To Hamper Pursuing Allied Force   ‘AMERICANS USE BAYONETS   Invasion of Italy Believed Next Step With Sicily Cleared of Enemy

AMERICAN TROOPS CRASH THROUGH AXIS REARGUARD   Yanks Within Heavy Artillery Range Of Messina.   GERMAN FORCES IN FULL FLIGHT

Axis Rearguard Being Overrun By U. S. Troopers   Germans Pull Out Leaving Italians To Face Final Push

ALLIED PLANES BLAST FLEEING REICH FORGES   Evacuation of Nazi Forces Nearing  End On Island

ALLIED GUNS IN POSITION 10 SHELL ITALY   Ground Troops Near Messina

Complete Occupation Of Sitily Matter Of Hours; Shells Fall On Mainland

Start Blasting At Italy Proper   German Radio Says All Axis Troops Are Evacuated} Only Scattered Resistance Remains In Sicily As 38-Day Campaign Is Considered Finished

Axis Carrying Out Demolitions Across Narrow Waters From Isle   Allies Cleaning Up Axis Soldiers Who Failed to Escape; Planes, Warship Pound Enemy Troops on Mainland

RACE TOWARD MESSINA   Yanks Overrun Rearguard Of Axis 14 Miles From Big City: Taormina Is Taken By British

ITALIANS LEFT ALONE TO FACE THE ALLIES   Germans Fiee; Yanks: Overrun Axis Rear Guard 14 Miles _ Wect Cf Messina

AMERICANS, BRITISH FORCES ARE RAPIDLY CLOSING ON MESSINA  U. S. TROOPS REACH MILA2ZO AND BRITISH HAVE CAPTURED TAORMINA

The U. S. 7th Army Swiftly Overran Axis Rear Guards in the Vicinity of Milazzo, It Is Said,   AMERICANS MOVED UP 12 TO 15 MILES   British Struck Northward From Taormina to Point Within 15 Miles South  of Messina.

Open Drive Over Final Dozen Or So Miles To Messina; Believe Nazis Have Fled

Yanks Storm Into Messina; Nazis Admit Full Flight:  Italy In Fear Of Invasion

DISTANCE NOW  WM 10 MILES  TO LAST. CITY   Yanks, British Make Spectacular Advance on Seaten Germans.

[OO-MILLIMETER RIFLES CAPABLE TO FIRE 10 MILES   Allied Big Guns In Pesitior. to Shell Mainland of Italy, Axis Evacuation is Stil.  ~ Going On.   BERLIN AND MILAN GET NEW BOMBINGS   160,000 Persons Reported te  Have Died In Raids on  Hamburg, 500 Burned in  Shelter.

Foe Destroys Installations In Southern Italy, Indicating  NoEffortto Defend That Area   German Radio Claims Evacuation Of Axis Troops in Sicily Complete; Allied Navy Bombards Healian Coast

Overrun Axis Rear Guards to Deny Use of Milazzo Harbor io Esfraning Paemne   END ‘NOW AT HAND’   Germans Leave Italians to Cover Reireat—Berlin Boasts Attempts to Ston Escape Futile

BIG GUNS ROCK MESSINA, PORT OF AXIS FLIGHT   Nazis’ Orderly Withdrawal Turns Into Near Rout in Some Sectors

ADVANCING ON” MESSINA TODAY             Amerizen and British Armies Wit in Artillery _Kange of City “= Triumphant End of Campaigi Reported Officially at Hand: .

U.S. Third Division, First to Enter Palermo also First into Messina—Entry Follows New Landing n Coast   COMMANDOS EIGHT MILES AWAY   DV.YIIWUAINDAO Eri WHO AWAT   American ‘Long Toms’ Open Fire on : Italian Coast as Germans Begin Dem' _ glitttns, Fearful of Landings There

Artillery Begins Pounding  Messina, Nazis Evacuated   Yanks Just 14 Miles From City, Advancing Rapidly; Germans In Full Flight

Messina Under Fire From Air, Ground Forces  Allied Troops Overrun Axis Aé Mileasn

rALL OF CITY IS EXPECTED MOMENTARILY   Americans Enter Outskirts After Third Spectacular Landing

Yankees Enter Messina; Axis Preparing For  Further Flight   Foe Blowing up Installations on Toe of Italian Boot

‘American Troops Are Overrunning Axis Rear Guard  Italian Units Left -   Ae ee

DEMOLITIONS ON COAST OF ITALY TOLD IN REPORT   Yankee Artillery Shell Mainland  From Sicily

Allies Within Artillery Range Of Escape Route   Forward Elements of Allies Shelled by Long Range Guns on Mainland.   U. 3. Army Overruns  Italian Rearguards

British Forces Under Fire From  Bie Mainland Guns   15-Inch Rifles Hurl Shells 20 Miles; British Within 28 Miles of Messina; Americans Advancing

Fall Of Island Ends 6 Weeks’ Allied Campaiten   Bulletin, London, Auz. 17. —P}— The United. Nations headquarters at Algiers antrounced. tonight that “Messina has fallen.”

Axis Troops Evacuated From Island   Americans Mop Up Italian Forces; Germans Concede Sicily’s Fall

Allied Big Guns Blast at Axis Across Strait   Berlin Says All Forces and Material  Have Been Evacuated, Admitting Fall of Island; Demolition  Of Italian Toe Started.

Sicilian Campaign Is Now Ended, Report States; Nazis Firing On The City

Nazis Concede Fall OF Sicily   German Radio Declares Last Nazi, Italiar Soldiers Evacuated — Hand-lo-Hand Fichting in Streets la Renorted

American Guns Shelling Italy   Yanks Surge Into City Last Night, Smash Lingering Resistance Hand-To-Hand

Yanks Smash Rearguard Of Axis Near Messina —   Germans Pull Out, Leaving Only Italian Units To Face Climatic Push That Poinis To Sicilian Campaign Being Near End.

Messina Falls To Americans   LONDON, Aug. 17.—(AP)—The United Nations radio at Algiers announced tonight that “Messina has  oot. TE

ITALIAN ‘TOE’ UNDER FIRE OF AMERICAN GUNS   BADOGLIO’S TROOPS DESERTED AS BOCHE FLEES TO MAINLAND

Axis Troops Withdraw From Island As American Seventh Army Sweeps Into Messina To End 38-Day Battle .   U. S. Artillery Shells Italian Mainland: Nazis Apparently Retreating Up Peninsula

SEVENTH ARMY WRITES SPECTACULAR FINISH TO 38-DAY CAMPAIGN AS NEW AMPHIBIOUS TROOP LANDING SPEEDS MOPPING-UP THRUST

Third Division — Seizes Sicily Port Of Escape   Fleeing Axis Forces In Toe Of Italy Blow Up Supply Dumps

American Forces Within Artillery Range of Messina   Nazis Withdraw; Leave Italians To Face Allied Push  Rwy PWIATAR ATOIPTAT

Big Guns Rock Sicilian Town  ‘As Nazis Step if , U  —-Rotrest—  nn ‘id MLVes URE   U.S. Troops Less. Than Ten Miles From City; Campaign Is.  Quickly Nearing End

GERMANS ‘TAKE OUT’ AS ALLIES PRESS FOR KILL   Italians Left to Defend Last Foe Stronghold —— End ‘Is Now at Hand’

Third Division Wins Race To Capture City   Doughboys’ Mop Up. Italian. Remnants; ‘Eighth Army. Sweeps From South Aided “By: Commandos: Berlin Admits Defeat.

NAZIS FLEE 10 LEAVE ITALIANS TO FACE ALLIES   Yankees Overrun Axis Rear Guard Only 14 Miles From Messina

Americans Overruning  Rear Guard   Italians Left Behind te  Face Swift Drives of Allies

Expect Fall of Messina In Few Davs   May Holdout Only Day or  Two Longer

RE IN ~ PULL FLIGHT FROM ISLAND   Americans Within Artillery Range of Messina, Announcement Says

SICILY BATTLE END DECLARED ‘NEAR AT HAND’   American, British Forces Within Artillery Range Of Escape Strait   ITALIANS COVER RETREAT   Evacuation Ports Are Placed Under Heavy Attack From Sea And Air

Germans Flee for Lives; ‘Allied Artillery Moves Up Within Range of Messina

CAMPAIGN IN SICILY ENDING TRIUMPHANTL'   American Seventh British Eighth Armies Within Range  of Messina

American Seventh Army  Surges Into City; Yank Guns Bombard Mainland

VIRTUALLY END DRIVE IN SICILY   Occupation Of Entire Island Matter Of Hours

38 Day Sicilian Campaign Ends In Victory   Germany Says Axis Troops, Evacuated To The Mainland

Allies Say End Of Sicilian Campaign ‘Is Now At Hand’   Americans Now Within Heavy Artillery Range of Messina, Nazi Escape Port; Italians Covering German Retreat

British Commandos Clear For Approach of Eighth Army.     THIRD DIVISION LEADS

Americans Within Artillery Range Of Messina Port   Eighth Army Captures Taormina, 28 Miles South Of Axis’ Escape Hatch; Allied  Airmen Hammer Evacuation Boats

14-Mile Advance Knifes Through Weak Defenses   Triumphant End of Campaign Thought Near As Axis Flees

Nazi And Italian Troops Evacuated To The Mainland   US Artillery Opens Fire At Once On Italy Just Two Miles Away

Yanks Reach Artillery Range of Messina: Nazi  Rear Guards Evacuated

U.S. Forces Within Ten Miles Of Messina  Today   BRITISH MOVE UP EAST COAST

Milazzo, Valuable Evacuation Area, Is In Allied British; Nazis Leave Italians Behind To Fight

SEVENTH ARMY HIRST TO ENTER SICILIAN PORT   British Close In From The East Coast To End Campaign

ALLIES FORCE ‘AXIS DUNKIRK AT MESSINA   Retreat of Germans turned to rout during weekend push  co  ~-

Yanks Now 10 Miles From Escape Port .   Patton’s Troops Isolate Milazzo; British 8th Armv Takes Taormina

Berlin Radio Reports Last German Forces Evacuated to Mainland   War Correspondent Reports City Has F allen; Hand-To-Hand Fighting Reported: British Mopping Up

Axis Wrecks Forts On Italian Mainland Before New Threat   Berlin Says All Troops Evacuated From Sicily Before Allied Advance; Yanks’ Big Guns Pound at ‘Boot’

Axis Escape Port Under Fire of U.S. Infantry Forces   End of Fighting on Sicily is Officially ‘Now at Hand’: Americans Head Drive in 15-Mile Advance

Allies Begin Shelling Of Italy’s Coast   Last Troops Evacuated, Says Berlin Story; Demolition Begun In Calabria Region

Germans Hold Back Italians To Face Allies   Americans Push Withit 14 Miles of Messina As British Drive for Axis Escape Port

OPERATIONS IN SICILY ARE NEAR END   British Eighth Army Seizes Taormina and Pushes On

Canadian Reporter Claim Axis Escape Port Falls To U.S.   Nazi Radio States That All Axis Forees Have Been Evacuated from Sicily, Continue Retreat in Italy

End Of Campaign At Hand; Allies Nearing Messina   Nazis Pull Out Entire Forces In Last Evacuation Rush; Leave Italians Behind

Victorious Yanks Joined By British 8th As Axis Flees  From Italian Peninsula ©

Third Division Enters Last Axis Port Atier Third Spectacular Landing Behind German Lines

BIG SUNS NOW THROW SHELLS INTO MESSIN   Allies Score Weekend . Gains Against Axis Troops onBoth Coasts. ©   PLANES HIT BRIDGEHEAD: AND ITALIAN MAINLAND

SICILIAN CAMPAIGN  ENDS WITH SEVENTH  ARMY'S FINAL SURGE GERMAN RADIO DECLARE!  LAST NAZI AND ITALIAN  SOLDIERS EYACUATEN,

LONDON, Aug. 17.—(AP)—The United Nations radio at Algiers announced tonight that “Messina has fallen.”

VERRUN AXIS REAR GUARDS   Americans Only 14 Miles West of Messina, Last , ‘Escane Port’ .   BRITISH TAKE TACRMINA

Nazis Pull Out, Leaving Italians Facing Onrushing Allies; Escape Chances Fading For Germans Not Already Across Strait

BEAT BRITISH OTH AnMY TO ~OUARRED GITY   Yanksin Hand-to-Hand Street Fighting Clean Up Last : Axis Resistance.   “LONG TOMS” OPEN UP ON ITALIAN MAINLAND

Long Range Nazi Shore Guns Shell 8th Army; Yanks Overrun Milazzo Defense

THIRD DIVISION ROUTS HAPLESS ITALIAN UNITS   Sicilian Campaign Virtually Ended By Seizure Of Port City   BIG GUNS SHELLING !TALY   British Eighth Army Traps Axis Forces; Germans Admit Defeat

YANKEES FIGHT THEIR ENEMIES HAND-TO-HAND   Invincible Doughboys Write Finis to Glorious Victory in Blood of Germans   ITALIAN MAINLAND BEING BOMBARDED   [Axis Believed Withdrawing Up Coast: Carrying Demolition Tactics in Southern Areas

YANKS SPRINT FINAL MILES OF ISLAND BATTLE   ‘American Forees Advance Welt Beyonc Barcellona Te Within Gun Ranee of Objective   END OF CAMP. AIGN HELD ‘NOW AT HAND’   Germans, In Flight, Have Even Pulled Out Rearguard Units; Italians  Left to Face Allies

Battle Of Sicily Punished Except For Mop Up Of Ragtag Axis Elements; Allied Big Guns In Position To Shell Italy   AMERICAN TROOPS CLOSE TO MESSINA

Italians Cover Flight As Nazis Race For Ports Already Under U.S. Fire

OVERRUNNING REAR GUARDS   Officiels Assert That Enc To Sicilian, Campaign lee  Now At Hand

Sicily Drive Nears Finish; Air War Rages   American Heavy Artillery ls Now Within Range Of Messina

Capture Messina,  Move On   Enemy Quitting Boo! Toe As Alhes Complete Sicilian Conauest.

Triumphant Allied Armies Race Toward Conclusion Of Sicily Drive   LONDON, (UP)—The Vichy radio said  American planes bombed Paris today.   Believe Allies Sinking U-Boats Twice As Fast As Germany Can Build Them, Report American Submarine Losses

‘Enemy Engages in Demo- litions on Mainland Op posite Port   JSLAND CAMPAIGN ENDS   Me iat of Gertnan Troops iExtricated, Ferried Across Strait

AXIS SATTELITE NATIONS TO BE ASKED TO QUIT   Harshness Or Lenity Of Allies Will Depend On Prompt Action   MOSCOW PLAN WORKING   Request May Be Made Of Turkey For Use Of Valuable Bases

U.0., ENGLAND HEADY 10 GPCR NEW OFFENSIVE   Diplomatic Drive Scheduled to Strike European Nations,

ALLIES TO TRY TO BREAK BLOC   Diplomatic Offensive Looms To Win Axis Satellites

Reds Plunge On In Three-Front Drive   Nazis Rush Troops In From Holland, But Eqil To Stem Onrushinag Soviet Assaults

Timoshenko's New Offensive ls Reported  Rolling Ahead   Red Army Which Has Marched 400 Miles in Three Months Continues To Advance Steadily

Gains Are Scored Despite Mud of Early Spring Thaows  NO MENTION MADE, OF NEW OFFENSIVE 167th Noxi Infantry Divi sion Rushed From: Holland

Soviet army gains In Donets despite new enemy troops   Early spring thaws hinder, but fail to check advance of Russia

REDS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE ON 3 MAIN FRONTS   [Soviet Information Bureau Is Silent On Timoshenko’s   NAZIS RUSH TROOPS IN FROM HOLLAND

SOVIETS MOVE UP 400 MILES IN 3 MONTHS   Successes Made South Of Moscow Despite Mud, Reinforcements  From Holland   Timoshenko Silent

Gains Are Registered on 3 Mam Fronts   Soviets Admit That Strengthened Nazi Troops: Slow Advance:

Nazis Bring In Holland Troop: To Kharkov   Germans Put Up Stiff Resistance af Kursk-Khartov

GERMAN TROOPS RUSHED TO EAST FROM HOLLANT   Muscovite Pace Slowed, but Moscow Reports Gains in Donets, Caucasus and West of Rostov.   HEAVY COUNTER-BLOWS ARE DEALT BY NAZIS   Soviet Bureau Lapses Into Silence About RecentlyLaunched Offensive in Leningrad Area.

REDS ADVANCE THROUGH MUD   Report Gains on Southern Fronts; Silent About Fighting in North

Yankees Sink Jap Cruiser, 2 Destroyers   Blast Enemy Try At Supplying Forces in Solomons

Another Big Victory - For American Fleet.   Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers Are Sunk;  Not One U. S. Ship Lost in Fight

0, NAVY alfa JAP WAR ono IN SOLOMONS   Allied Bombers Drop 184.,. 000 Lbs. Bombs On New Guinea Bases

WELSH MURDER CASE IS GIVEN TO JURY   Defendant Testifies He Loved Sis. ter—Closing Arguments Last Four Hours.

DON'T HOARD . ‘BUT GET YOUR FOOD SUPPLY   Advice Is. Given As Point Rationing Nears

Ready? Get Sef But Don't Hoard   Canned Goods Sales Stopped Tonight

Canned Food Sales Will Stop Tonight   Housewives Are Advised To Buy Enough For Week; Vegetable Ceiling Due   MEAT RATION NEXT   Point Value Table Will Determine Purchases  After March Ist

NEW FOOD RATIONING TO COME   ‘Freeze’. Tonight on Canned Fruits and. Vegetables Only a Start   DON’T: HOARD, BUT BUY TOR A - WEEK      Meai Sales’ Under “Control March 28, Butter Later; . Points Public Monday

Got Plenty Of Canned Goods? ....  Serious Food Ration Launched In America

Can Fruit, ‘Vegetables Off Tonight   OPA Closes Market Seven Days For Ration Book Line-up,   Routine Detailed   Buy Today For Week. But Don't Hoard. Is Requect.

Don’t Hoard, But Buy Week’s Supply Of Canned Fruits, Vegetables Today   Serious Food Rationing Hitting Its Stride As Un rationed Sale Of Canned Fruits And Vegetables Stops; Meat Rationing Next Month.

No Canned Fruits and Vegetables To Be Sold During the Coming Week

SERIOUS FOOD RATIONING NOW NEARS STRIDE   Housewives Advised te Buy All Canned Fruits and Vegetables Needed for Next Week   SALES END TONIGHT   To be Doled Out on Cou pons Beginning March 1; Rationing of Butter  on the Way

Sale of Can Goods Will End Tonight   Serious Food Rationing Is Starting to Hit Stride   RESUME MARCH 1   Ceiling Prices Due for Fresh Vegetables in Few Months

SALE OF CANNED GOODS FROZEN AFTER 12 TONIGHT; BETTER BUY SUPPLY FOR WEEK  Buying Will Be Resumed On March 1 Under New Food Rationing Orders

Should Buy Tonight For Next Week   Canned Fruits And Vegetables Go Off Market At Midnight   Point Rationing Into ~ Effect Monday, March 1   Non-Members of Family Must Have Separate Declaration Sheet

ZERO HOUR NEARS FOR CANNED GOODS   Sales Will Be Halted At Midnight Tonight Until Point Rationing Begins On March

Sales Of All Canned Fruit. Vegetables Halt Tonight   No Legal Purchases Until March 1; Must Count Your Stocks Rtefore Registering

Serious Food Rationing Now Hits Its Stride   Sale Of Canned Fruits And Vegetables Stops Until March 1.

Buy Enough for Next Week but Don't Hoard Food   Ban on Sale of Canned Goods Takes Effect at Midnight

TODAY’S THE DAYSTOCK FOR A WEEK   You Can Buy Canned Foods Until Midnight, But Not Next Week.  INTERIM TO GET

Freeze on Canned  Goods For a Week Effective Tonight   Rationing to Start March 1;  Registration Is Next Weel   To Allow 48 Points For Foods in March

Buy Today All Canned Goods You Will Need For One Week; Freeze Goes On At Midnight

Don’t Hoard, Buy Food for Next Week   Cauned Fruit and Vegetables Will Not Be On Sale Until March 1; Count Cans TeTearre ey

DONT HOARD, JUST BUY A WEEK’S SUPPLY   First Time in America’s History That Serious Food Rationing Has  Reen Necegsaary 

First Serious Food Rationing in United States Hits Stride   Registration for Ration Book No. 2 Will Take Place Next Week

Stocking Of Week’s Supply Of Canned Goods Approved   Serious Food Rationing Will Start in Nation After Today; No Canned Goods Sales Until March 1

COTIATIONS R MINE PACT TALEMATED   jw Crisis Develops With  peraters Proposing  Present Contract Stand For Duration   ION WILL REJECT IT, LEWIS CLAIMS   oposal to Be Submitted o Roosevelt; Steelman Says Conference in Rather Bad Way

Another Crisis In Soft Coal Parley   Operators Think Further Negotiations On Wage Boost Hopeless.

BREAK- DOWN SEEN NEAR IN NEGOTIATIONS   Northern Operators See Small Chance of Agreement, Ask Contract Renewal,   LEWIS REJECTS PLAN   Southern Owners Say They'll Ask Intervention of WLB Immediately.

CRISIS AT HAND IN COAL NEGOTIATIONS   Operators See Little Good Of Further Conferences

COAL PROPOSAL MAY HIT SNAG   John L. Lewis Predicts Re. jection, Committee Still in Conference

WAGE PARLEY COMPLETELY DEADLOCKED   Lewis Would Reject Present Working Contract

PRESIDENT GETS LEGAL ADVISOR   Rosenman ( Quits Bench To Devote Full Time To White House Job

ROSENMAN TO SERVE AS F.D.R. COUNSEL   Resigns Post on New York State Supreme Court to Become FPresident’s Special Advisor.

LAND PROGRAM 1S ADVOCATEL   DEMOBILIZATION. COMMITTEE SAYS MILLION. MEN CAN BE USED AFTER THE WAR

Agriculture May Absorb Million Post War Workers   Recommend Big Program to Aid Men in Service

446,000 DADS FACING DRAFT   HERSHEY REVEALS QUOTA ORDERED FROM BOARDS

Few California Fathers to Ga  During October   Reclassification to Get Un: der Way This Week,

THREE MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U. S. WARPLANES   Enemy Also Suffers Heavy Loss Of Life As They Try To Run Convoy Through South Pacific Waters.

SNOW IS PREDICTED   No Freezing Weather Is Expected for Eastern Kansas

No Freezing Weather Here   Light Rain And Snow Expected In West, However

00 R.A. F. BOMBERS IN REICH ATTACK   Another 400 Bombers Attack Italian Islands, Messina Being Focal Point of Attack

POISON GAS — _ WARNING IS > RIVEN AYIS   BOOSEVELT TELLS ENEMY THE ALLIES WILL RETALIATE: ir GAG USED AGAINGT  oo ONITED- NATIONS

FDR WARNS FOE NOT TO USE GAS   ‘Full and Swift Retaliation’ Pledged If Poison _ Used by Axis -

‘COMPARE NOTES   Have Faith in Us, Asks Commander of New Rainbow Division

‘Have Faith in Us’ Echoed af Gruber  : ORT eee! MO Die eae   Reactivated Troops Carry on Standard Of Rainbow Division

“Rainbow” Reactivated   ‘Pledge to Uphold Traditions of Famed Outfit of Other War

BATTLE IN FINAL PHASE   Allies Drive Into Suburbs of Last Strongholds

Allies Giving Enemy No Time to Catch Its Breath.   LOSE COUNT OF AXIS SHIPS SUNK   Nazis Have Lost Planes, Tanks and Boats as Allies Advance.

Sea Guns Pound  Minturnc   NAZI COMMUNICATIONS TOTTER AS U.S., BRITISH SLASH NEW ADVANCES

ail  Ke iii  By PauL MALLON 7"   EARLY PEACE RUMORS AND ADMINISTRATION POLICY

Eighth Army Takes Germar Coast Bases   Canadian Troops Lead Attack On Heights In Adriatic Coast Area

American Guns Smash Nazi Counter-Attack   6,000 Prisoners Are Taken in Three Months

Fourth War Loan Drive Coming Soor   Sioux County’s Quota ts 31161 (00K), Drive Will Again Be Made By Mail. Report Nowt

COUNTY QUOTA . 1S FIXED FOR 4tu WAR LOAN      ‘DRIVE TO START JANUARY 183 GOAL IS $1,161,600 °°"   County Chairman P. B. Mouw Aznounces That Campaign Will Again Be Conducted By Lettera ~

S. R. Graduation Set For May 8th   37 STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE DEGREES AT ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

SR Graduation To BeHeld Tomorrow   COL. ARNOLD, COMMANDING OFFICER OF WAACs, WILL DELIVER ADDRESS

Wallace Greets Russians in Their Own Language; It's About a Big Stick

BRITISH TOMMIES GIVEN SURPRISE   Woman With Baby in Arms Runs Toward Them on Battlefield.

FATHER CALL 19 COME LAS)   McNutt Says Dads Won’t Be Drafted Till Other Sources are Exhausted —

FATHER DRAFT AT VERY LAST CLAIMS MNUTI   Sen. Wheeler Reveals Army’s Plan to Reduce Goal

NO DATE SET FOR © CALLING FATHERS TO ARMED FORCE:   Manpower Chief McNutt Says Men With Families Will Be Called Only When “Every Last AIlternative” Has Been  Exhausted.

Drafting Fathers Date Avoided, NicVutt Declares   Arithmetic Sets Time, Policy, However, He Says

ARITHMETIC 0 SET DATE FOR CALLING DADS;   Governors Told Draft Looms When “Every Last Alternative” Is Exhausted   'DAVIES, MARSHALL HEARD   Former Ambassador, Army Chief Pay High Tribute To Soviet Efforts

ARITHMETIC 10 SET TIME FOR DRAFT OF DADS   Decision Of Policy Not Involved, McNutt  Tells Governors

Lend-Lease Criticized Dy Senators   Study of System May Follow Travelers’ Report

CONGRESS MAY APPROVE CHECK OF LEND-LEASE   Need For Protection Of U. S. Interests Suggested

Lend-Lease Inquiry Due   Senators Fear U. S. Interests Endangered

Congressional Scrutiny of LendLease May Be Result of Recent World Tour by Five Senators

CONGRESS MAY EXAMINE DEALS: OF LEND-LEASE    Closer Scrutiny of System te Result from Tour By Senators.

BERLIN TARGET OF INTENSIFIED “BRITISH ATTACK   RAF Drops: 50 Tons“a ‘Minute on, ‘Reich ©. ~Capital   GERMAN DEFENSES SHARPLY DECREASE

Block-Busters Rained On Berlin By Bombers   Britain's Biggest Planes Raid Nazi Capital Third Time In 12 Days

LEWIS SUMMONS MINE UNION GROUE   Policy Committee Meets Monday; Break Hinted in Coal Controversy.

Policy Group Meeting Called   Something Brewing in UMWA Councils

Rail Junction Captured Near Dnieper River  Allied Bombers Active On All

Reds Near Dnieperopetrovsk And Take Vital Rail Sector   American And British Lines Strengthened And Rommel Tank Attack Defeated   JAPS ARE ATTACKED OFF ALASKA   YAO ANKE AILIAULUALLY UFr ALAOAKA Mile-High Fires Started In Jap Bases In The  Solomons; Chinese Also V:ctorious

Russians Win New Ground  On Pushes   Voroshilovsk Occupied by Soviet Troops

Germans Resist  Desperately In Red Drives   Russians Are Not Halted, But Puch On

Guard Is Sent To Scott County   Governor Orders Out Force Where Labor Dispute Stops Pipe Line Work.

“Citizens Refuse, «Donnell Sends Guard to Illmo   - Men Asked to Patrol Pipeline Strike Zone ‘Appeal to Executive

THE 6TH MISSOURI INFANTRY ORDERED QUT BY DONNELI   Sixty Men Will Go on Duty at Ilimo in Connection With Pipe Line Strike.   WILL GO TO SCOTT CO.   Mobilization of Militia Was Not Martial Law, the Governor Said.

King George VI Completes  Aerial Visit   Precedent is Set By British Monarch

Yanks Stage Big Raid on Bremen   Allies Continue Mighty Aerial Assault; Nazis Repelled in Italy

More Than 1,000 Tons Of Bombs Pound German Capital In Latest Air Assault

Over 1,000 Tons Of Bombs Drop- ped On German Capital; American Troops Beat Off Counter. Attacks On Italian Front   GERMANS FLEEING FROM GOMEL POCKET

Plan Shift — Of Forces To Pacific   Commander In Chief Of Fleet Confident Of Defeat Of Germany In  ‘Coming Year

Tolntensify War Against Japanese   Admiral King Reveals   eS Weeeaes we ae 4 6F b&b aus F Ww th ee  Plans—Marines Attack  on New Britain

State Council Advoeated In New House Bill      Eleven House Bills In Hopper On First Day

11 Bills Tossed Inte Law Hopper   Armstrong Proposes to Cre. ate a State Legislative Council,

FLOODS CAUSE FORTY MILLION DOLLAR DAMAGE   ‘More Than 100,000 Persons Are Homeless and the Count Is Increasing.

FLOOD DlOAGTER LAIMG BIG TOLL ACROSS MIDWEST   More Than 100,000 Homeless; Crop Damage Esti mated At 40 Million

Hold 3 Negroes In Knifing Case  Charge Assault On Mc Coy Soldier

McCoy Soldier Knifing Victim Private’s Condition Is Serious: Negroes Held

JAP BASES IN BURMA SMASHED FROM AIR   All Raiding 10th U. S. Ai Force Planes Return

Two Raids Crush Bases in Italy   100 FLYING FORTS SHATTER AIR FACTORY, FLYING FIELD, SHIPPING AT KEY AXIS PORT; RELENTLESS SKY THRUST HAMMERS FOGGIA

U.S. Giant Bombers Raid Naples; Many War Plants Blasted   100 Fortresses Engage in Terrific Raid On Italian Objectives; Aircraft Plants, Harbors, Shipping Destroved

lowa Mines Idle; Price Raise Asked   Operators Say They Cannot Operate Mines -at Present Coal Prices

‘As-You-Go” Plan Does _ Not Take: Care Of All’ Tax   Have Income Overt y You May -Have To File Return

EXPLAIN TAX ESTIMATE ON ALL INCOMES   Must File the Form by Sept. 15.

Russians Destroy 160 Nazi Planes As Bitter Aerial Warfare Continue:

SOVIETS SMASH 160 NAZI PLANES   Six Enemy Airdromes, Munition And Fuel Dumps Arc Blasted

WARN AGAINST OVER-OPTIMISM. ~ REGARDING EARLY END OF WAR   SMASHING RUSSIAN VICTORIES AND OTHER FAVORABLE DEVELOPMENTS CREATING MANY UNFOUNDED HOPES

Optimism Sweeping Nation Has No Real Foundation, Officials Insist

NAVAL AVEATION  -OPEN TO THE 17 YEAR OLD MEN   High Schoot Students Whe OVill 4sradnate Refere Sune 30th EPlieible.

Natives Use Sulfa Drugs to Save Survivors Of the Helena Stranded Near Japs

Whether times are good or bad, they ean be made better by advertising.   Check Farm Machinery Now for Repair Needs

Japs Overrun Main Highways — Heading From Burma to China   30,000 Jap Troops Succeed in Blocking Invasion Into Burma.

JAPS CAPTURE _ THREE BURMACHINA ROADS   Block Traffic from Burma, India to China

JAPS MAKE GAINS IN BURMA FIGHT; BLOCK INVASION   Chinese Admit Japanese, In Large Force, Have Succeeded In Blocking Invasion Routes.

PILOT OF “OLD BILL” BIG U. 5. BOMBER TELLS OF BOMBINGS  LT. WILLIAM WHITMAN 01  DENTON SAYS SMOKE.

~ouldn t See Anything But Mass of Smoke and lame, Texan Says of Bomber Raid Over France

Ist Lieut. Wm. Whitman Of Denton Says Couldn't QSee Anything But Smoke, Flame In France Raid

STEPPES DOTTED WITH WRECKED GERMAN TANKS   All Important German Communications West and North of Kharkov Ilave Been Cut. Losing Four Villages an Hour

Reds 11 Miles From Kharkov, Spearheads Head for Poltava   _ Germans Reel Back Under Concentrated: Tank, Artillery, Air Blows

Reds Within Gun Range Of Kharkov   Nazis Reel Back On 50-Mile Front; Losses Heavy

SOVIET ARMIES TIGHTEN HOLD NEAR KHARKOY   Red Forces 10 Miles From, Stronghold Held By Germans   HEAVY ARTILLERY USED   Hundreds Of Tanks, Mortars And Trucks Captured By Russians

GERMANS ARE REELING BACK UNDER IMPACT   Ukranian Steppelands Dotted With Wrecks of Abandoned Nazi Machines.

House Group Orders Probe of  \Jefters’ Charges ‘Army, Navy» Loafers’ Impeding Production

RUBBER BOSS TO BE GIVEN PROOF CHANCE   Washington Anxiously Awaiting Important Announcement Which Will Come Tonight

HOUSE PROBE ASKED JEFFERS CHARGES OF ARMY-NAVY LOAFERS  IMPORTANT ANNOUNCE_ MENT SET FOR 9 P, M, - KEEPS CAPITAL ON TOES

Jeffers’ Charges of Army, Navy Loafers To Be Investigated   Committee Told Group Impedes War Production

House Will Probe Jeffers’ “Army Loafers’ Charge   Union Accusations Are Also Due for An Investigation

Nelson Tours Mills Of Victory Valley’   Receives Pledge From Labor, Bosses To Boost Production

BULLETS END ~ ESCAPE PLO      OHIO PENITENTIARY YNMATI WOUNDED IN LEG WHEN HE AFYEMPTED TO ‘ SCALE WALL

BOMBERS BATTLE OFF JAP AIRCRAFT ‘JO ATTACK VESSEL   Merchantman Hit by Big Bomb and Enemy Airplanes Shot  Out of Sky

Liberators Put Four of Eight Jap Planes Out of Action Before Bombing  Merchantman   JAPS KEPT BUSY   American, Dutch and Australian Flyers Strike at Four Places in Pacific Area

DOWN HALF OF ATTAGKING JAPS   Put Four Enemy Planes Ou of Action Over Dutch East Indies

GREAT otGURITY MEASURES TAKEN   Nothing Left Undone in Iran Guard ‘Big Three’   EVERY SPOT COVERED   Bristling Yanks, British Tom. mies, Red Soldiers, and Bearded Sikhs Guard

Big Three Work in Security  ‘Troops, Planes Keep Guard At Teheran

FIGHTER PLANES OVER WASHINGTON   Protection For Capitol Demonstrated

sale Largest and Mightiest Fighter Planes Roar Over Washington fo Demonstrate Air Protection of Capitol

US Capital Has Fighter Protection   Nation’s Mightiest Fighter Planes Ready to Take Off at Army’s Airport Just Outside Washington

Demolition of Key City of Cassino Reported Un. der Way  FIFTH ARMY JOINS IN SMASHING LINE  Four-day-old Battlefield Littered With Enemy Dead

CLARK'S MEN JOIN ALL-OUT DRIVE ON FOE   Eighth Army Pushing Ahead Along Front Of 25 Miles

Nazis Begin Wrecking Vital Cassino   Enemy Dead Litters Battlefield of Sangro Ridae

Panicky Germans Rushing to Rome lo Escape Allies   Yanks and British Announce Advances

Germans Begin To Demolish City of Cassino   Yankee 5th Joins in Splintering Winter Line

FOUR - DAY BATTLE LEAVES SANGR  RIDGE LITTERED WITH ENEMY DEA  AND WOUNDED; WRECKED EQUI! MENT.

ENEMY WOUNDED AND DEAD LEFT UN BATTLE FIELD   Planes Pound Retreating Columns as Montgomery’s Men Move Forward on 25-Mile Front.   CLARK HELPS CRACK FOE’S STRONG LINE   Germans Demolishing Cassino in Central Sector Preparatory to Abandoning Stronzhold.

Germans In Italy In Full Retreat   Rampaging Allies Move On Uncheckec

NAZIS HAMMERED IN OPEN COUNTRY   Demoralized Enemy Streams Back Toward Rome   FIFTH JOINS FRAY   Nazis Begin Demolishing Rey City of Cassino; Planes Batter Enemy

NAZI ADRIATIC DEFENSE LINE IS SHATTERED   AMERICAN 5TH ARMY LAUNCHES LARGE SCALE ATTACKS

-NAZIS IN FULL RETREAT TOWARD ROME, ENEMY DEAD LITTERS SANGRO RIDGE

CLEAN-UP OF FSA APPEARS TO BE COMING   Food administrator Jone: quietly working on new program

FSA 'CLEANUP? ~— 19 SCHEDULED   WAR FQOD ADMINISTRATOR PLANS TO WIPE OUT MUCH  CRITICIZED RESETELEMENT PROJECTS

School Aid Bill. Runs Into Bloc   Farm Group Opposes New State Measure

Hard Fighting Yanks Crash Through Axis Defenses To Capture San Stefano In Sicily

Badoglio Appears to Have Missed His Chance to Save Cities,  3.000,000 CIVILIANS FLEE WORK SHOPS  Naples, Other Cities, Airfields and Harbors Bombed.

Naples Feels Brunt Of  - Air Fury; Civilians Flee To Rural Areas, Cry For Peace.

New Advance Seals Enemy Escape Route From West; Battle For Catania Rages.   Morocco Radio Says Axis Troops Abandon Marsala and. Trapani: Thousands of Italians Surrender —

Latest Gains Cut Island In Two, Trap Many Italian Units   Other U. S. Forces Drive Toward Sar Stefano; British 8th Army Breaks Nazi Lines Near Catania

Capital Falls Without Fight   Thousands Of Italians Surrender To Patton’s Men; tighth Army Continues To Hammer Away At Powerful Nazi Garrison Before Catania

ISLAND CAPITAL SEIZURE TRAPS AXIS IN WEST   Morocco Reports Enemy Abandons Marsala, Trapani, Retreats Eastward   BRITISH GAIN AT CATANIA   Allied Headquarters Looks For Serious Repercussions In Balkans Area

ISLAND CAPITAL IS CAPTURED IN DRIVE TO COAST   British Are Meeting Strong Opposition at Catania But Yanks Dash to Aid   PRISONERS ARE POURING IN   Enemy Seeking To Back Out Through Messina Facing Another ‘Dunkirk’

Demands Action  On Rum Tax Plan   Congressman Calls  For Pay-as-You-Go

BLOW oTRUGK AT CORE OF BLAGK MARKET   Exact Price Ceilings on Pork Going Into Effect April 1.   TOP PRICE IS PEGGED   The Same Procedure Is Due for Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton.

RETAIL PORK PRICE CEILINGS ARE ANNGUNCED-~OTHER MEATS TO BE INCLUDED  IN. PLANS.

HE IS A FRIEND, INDEED   New Jersey Man, Who Found Bond, Describes Self Well.

Flood-Wise Inhabitants Combat Water   Army Engineers Assist in Battle Against Arkansas River

FLOOD IN ARKANSAS THREATENS GROPS   aa aca ele has ee ater cinta  Soldiers Help Civilians Ti Bolster Levees

One Army Wages War On Floods   SOLDIERS JOIN BATTLE ALONG BANKS OF ARKANSAS

Ary Assists In Flooded Arkansas   Reinforcing Earthen Bulwarks Protecting fF ogee ree

SISTER FOUND DEAD WITH INJURED MAN      Heart Attack Fatal But He Could Not Call Help

Men Trapped In Mine Blaze   All But Thirteen Of 78 Accounted for

4 LOSE LIVES IN e — BIG MINE BLAZE   78 Men Trapped Underground; _ All But 13 Accounted For

13 MEN TRAPPED BY MINE FIRE   65 OTHERS ESCAPE AS FLAMES BLOCK WAY TO OPENING

MINERS CAUGHT IN FIRE   Two Or Three Men Believed Dead in West Virginia Tragedy

NO VICTORS AND LOSERS IN THIS WAR HITLER SAID TODAY   It Is Merely Survivors and Annihilated, He Said in a New Year’s Message.   A MERCILESS STRUGGLE   Still Contended in His Talk That Germany Had the War Thrust Upon Her.

THERE'LL BE NO VICTORS IN THIS WAR, JUST SURVIVORS, HITLER TELLS REICH

HITLER LOSES HIS SWAGGER   Adolf Tells Germans ‘There * Will Be No Victors and Losers’ in War

‘No Vietors Or  Losers In War’   Fuehrer Delivers New Year's Cheerless Message To People OF Reich.

FOOD SHIPMENTS TO MARTINIQUE —  SUSPENDED  When U. S. Troops _ Went To Africa Anc  4

OUD CONTROL MAY GO UNDER UNE UIRCO TOE   House Is Said to Be Ready to Vote Such Powers at This Time.   WOULD CONTROL COST   Bill Is Being Opposed by President Roosevelt and Byrnes.

EARLY VOTE ON FOOD BILL 10 BE SOUGHT   Measure to Create Czar Gets Approval of House Committee

STRONG SUPPORT REPORTED BEHIND MOVEMENT -TO   give DAVIS TOR FOOD /  AUTHORITY =  *

FOOD CONTROL WAY 60 UNDER (NE DIREGTOF   House Is Said to. Be ‘Ready - ° to Vote. Such. Powers at This Time.   WOULD CONTROL, Cost   Bill Is. Being Opposed “by -President Roosevelt — and Byrnes.

FOOD GZAR BILL WILL BE PUSHED   House Committee Approves Proposal Despite Administration Opposition :

CITIZENS 10 VISIT BADGER DEER YARDS   Howard A. Quirt Is Membe Of Group Tourning Northern Wisconsin.

ITALIANS WILLING   Fascists Coming Up To Surrender Carry “Safe Conduct” Pledges

ARMED FORCES NEEDS STATED BY WPB CHIEF   Many Married Men To Be Drafted For Service

McNutt. Reveals Need Of Drafting Married Men To Meet Quotas   Four Million Men To Be Inducted in 1943; - Total Number Available Barely Enough. . To Meet Needs of Armed Forces

Dependency Plays Little Role in Draft   Hershey, McNutt See Choice Between “Mital Men. Others

FOOD ‘CZAR’  MOVE ENDED + IN CONGRESS   RERIGNATION OF DAVIS ENDS } AGITATION FOR CONGRESS TO GIVE HIM COM“PLETE CONTROL  i

Jones Is Named As Successor To  Davis, Food Head   Food Administrator Davis Resigns Because Of Divided Authority   CONGRESS WILL  SEEK ‘‘FOOD CZAR’

PLAN UNDER STUDY TO: RAISE CEILING ON PRICE OF CORD   Administration Considers Problem and Gives Some Details of Program.

Mosquitoes Hit Berlin ©   “Targets in, Western Gérmany Also Raided

ree TARGETS AD SUFFER: NO: LOSSES   Berlin Raided and Other Areas Also Get Bombs; London Has Raid Alert

Air Offensive Is Renewed As RAF Attacks Berlin   Targets In Reich Hit During Night; Nazis Raid London

Bombs Fall On Berlin, London   Allied Air Offensive Again In High Gear

MOSQUITO BOMBERS BLASTED BERLIN AND WESTERN GERMANY  INDICATIONS ARE THAT AIR OFFENSIVE GOING INTO HIGH GEAR AGAIN

Targets In Western Ger many Are Also Attacked Without Less: Airficids Assaulted

NAZI CAPITAL TARGET FOR HEAVY BOMBS   Thirty-four enemy fighte) planes shot down over Holland

Targets In Ber Jin, West Ger many Hit  By RAF   Another Large Force Crossed Channel For Continent Today; London Homes Wreckes

BOMBED TARGETS IN BERLIN AND _ WESTERN GERMANY   RAF Mosquitos Did Not Lose a Plane in Last Night's Attack.   FIGHTERS ARE BUSY   Atiacked Air Fields and Communications in Occupied ° Territory,

Berlin Ils Bombed — By Mosquito Planes   Nazi Craft, in Turn, Kill Four Persons in Raid on London Area—Allied Bombers Cross Channel Again This Morning.

MOSQUITO BOMBERS BLASTED BERLIN AND WESTERN GERMANY  INDICATIONS ARE THAT AIR OFFENSIVE GOING

British Make Raid on Berlin   Attack Airfields in Occupied Territory; All Planes Return

Bomb Targets Without Los:      Large Force Crosses The Channel After An Active Night   GERMAN BOMBERS ATTACK LONDON

BERLIN BOMBED WITHOUT LOSS   RAF Attacks Targets In Berlin And Western Germany; Other Activity Reported.

Bombers Blast Nazi Airfields 34 Nazis Downec   Raliway Objectives It France And Belgium Pounded In General Raid

RAF Raids Berlin; Forts Off. In Force On Daylight Foray   Large Number Of American: Bombers, Escorted By Fqhters, Roar East

RAF Mosquitos Bomb Berlin  No Loss Suffered By Night Flying British

IRAF MOSQUITOES BLAST GERMAN TARCETC   Indicatjons -Are Lhat_ Allied: Air Offensive is  Again: Going Into High Cc a,aar

AIR WAR GOES INTO HIGH GEAR OVER GERMANY   Berlin Bombed By  Mosquitoes; Daylight Daid fe fin Tradav

RAF MOSQUITOS ATTACK BERLIN   Large Force of Bombers Wing: Way Across Channel Again Today

BRITISH BOMB BERLIN: YANKS HIT AIRFIELDS   Americans Down 34 Enemy Fighters; 2-Day Toll Now 150

RAF Mosquitos Bomh Berlin Without Loss   Allied Air Offensive Against Hitler’ s Europe Again  Going Into High After Lull Since Thursday; Tandan Fe Wit

EISENHOWER INTERVENED IN FRENCH CRISIS   Backed Retention Of Gen, Giraud As Army Commandery

Eisenhower Takes Hand in French Crisis.   “Insisted Giraud Be Retained as" Commander

EISENHOWER INTERVENES IN FRENCH MESS   "Asked That General Giraud Be Re tained As Military Commander, Churchill Reveals

EISENHOWER SEEKS. THE RETENTION OF GIRAUD AS-LEADER   Supreme Allied Com. mander in North Africa Makes Request,  Churchill Reveals.

CHILDLESS MARRIED MEN TO BE CALLED   Will Be Inducted Into Service “Right And Left" State Draft  Director Slates

CHILDLESS MARRIED MEN TO BE CALLED   Stanwood Says Many fo _ be Inducted to Meet. _ Ouota

CHILDLESS MARRIED MEN 10 BE CALLED   Stanwood Says Many ta be Inducted to Meet Quota

DONALD NELSON MAY GET HELP FROM BARUCH   Nelson’s Outright Displacement Now Appears Unlikely

FIRING OF NELSON APPEARS UNLIKELY   BARUCH MAY BE BROUGHT INTO PICTURE AS ARBITER OF DIFFERENCES.

Ousting of ‘Nelson As WPE Head, Remote  Belleve Baruch May Enter Picture as e@ Arbiter of Differences

EYES OF FLEET ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES   Naval Fliers So Termed Because of Protection  To The Fleet   WEARY AT DAY’ END

TELLS OF LIFE ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER   Sea Churns Madly as the Destroyers Contact A Submarine   ON  THE ALERT

0. K. By Senate On Police Work By State Patrol   More Absentee Votes; Use Tax on Autos; End to School Fund

LAUNCH NAVY BOAT TODAY   Subchaser to Be Sent Down Ways At Dachel-Carter Plant

NAZIS THROW NEW - FORCES IN BATTLE      Desperate Efforts Made to Halt Allied Advances in Italy

NAZIS PUT NEW DIVISION INTO ITALIAN FIGHT   Allied Command _ Silent On Adriatic Victory; Enemy Uses Fire Throwers

Germany Admits Loss of Ortona   Defenders of Roman Road Reinforced

. azis Rush In resh Troops   Desperate Effort Made To Halt Mighty Allied Blows

ENEMY FIGHTS FURIOUSLY 10 HOLD IN ITALY   Fresh German Division Thrown Into Battle To Check Allies

Germans Using Fresh Division On Italian Front   Making Desperate Effor To Halt Relentless Attacks by Allies

FOE EVAGUATES “DATONA, REPORT   Germans Make Desperate Attempt Halt Allies   AMERICAN FORCES   Took Down on Fortified Village of San Vittore; Prepare for Thurst

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NAZIS LOSING THEIR GRIP ON ITALIAN FRONT   ORTONA EVACUATED; MORE MEN THROWN INTO BATTLE

IN FIRST LONG FLIGHT   Officer at Great Bend Round the World 19 Years Ago

BERLINERS GET CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM RAF FLIERS   Set Huge Fires in German Capital, Cost British 17 Planes

British Supply Berlin With Christmas Lights   Great Fires Set By R.A.F. Attacks; Germans Yell “Terror Raid,” Down 17 Planes

U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FAVORS RETAIL SALES TAX   Urges Proposal As Substitute -For Adiminstration’s $10,500,000,000 "New Revenue ’ Ratsine Prozvram

Retail Sates Tax Urged’ By Chamber   In Levies on Individuals and

Sales Tax Plan Gets New Support   U. S. Chamber of Commerce Favors Revenue Program Move

C OFC FAVORS FEDERAL RETAIL SALES TAX PLAN   Organization Opposes Any Increases in Levies on Incomes

Chamber Backs  Sales Tax   U. S. GROUP JOINS MOVE TO SPEED SUBSTITUTE FOR NEW REVENUE PLAN

Gales Tax Levy [s Supported By U.S. Chamber  Retail Fee ‘Most Practical’ of

SALES TAX IS GIVEN SUPPORT   Chamber Of Commerce Favors Levy As Most Practica!

Retail Sales Tax Urged By Chamber   Oppoee Raises In Levies on Individuals and Corporations

Proposes Federal Retail Sales Tax   The United States Chamber of Commerce Joined in Proposal Today.

FEDERAL SALES TAX 15 PUSHED   U.S. Chamber of Commerce Joins in Advocating New Revenue Levy.   DRAFT BILL iS REVIVED

RETAIL TAX BACKED BY NATIONAL C OF   Chamber Of Commerce Opposes New Revenue Plan

Admunistration’s Plan To Increase Levies On Income Termed Political

UNITED STATES C. OF C. FAVORS FEDERAL RETAIL SALES TAX . FOR NEW REVENUE PROGRAM   Ellsworth C. Alvord Refers to Administration’s ‘Plans As “Supported Solely by Political Expediency” and “Falls of Its Own Weight’

U.S. Chamber Has Tax Plan  For Congress   Expected to Back Federal Retail Sales Tax for Revenue

Push Federal Sales ‘Tax   U:S.-Chamber of Commerce Spokesman Says Plan Most Practical 

U.S. C. OFC. Is For Sales Tax   Urges Federal Retail Tax Over Treasury Program

SOLONS LEARN OF BRITISH AID   Witness Tells How Yank Forces Get Millions In Needed Supplies

DOLLAR VALUE IS FORGOTTEN ON LEASE -LEND   House Told U. S. Has Received 2,117,161 Ship Tons Of British Goods   FOOD, MATERIALS GIVEN   Treasury Urges Early Initia: tion Of Pay-As-You-Go Tax Collection

VICTORY Is CLINCHED IN HEAVY BATTLE   Savage Fighting Still Raging for Scattered Heights In Italy.

CLARK'S MEN SEIZE MOST OF RIDGES   Both Fifth and Eighth Armies in Violent Battles

VIOLENT BATTLE OF CLARK'S ARMY RESIILTS IN GAN   Four-Day Struggle High fr Air Gives Allies Most of 25 ~ Square - Mile Rock  Mass Near Liri River.   REDS CLOSING TRAP ON THOUSANDS OF GERMANS   American Bombers Spread Destruction on Two Big German Airfields Locatec Near Athens.

Pact Off, Says  GIVES UP TRYING TO CONTACT MAGICIAN   Houdini's Widow

Jap’ Ss. ‘Morale . ~ At High Peak   5- More ‘Years Of War Are OE Expected; People: Get. . Reduced Rations _

Japanese, Short of Any Good Thing in Life, SHI] Ready To Ficht for Five More Years

Jap People Show No Sign Of Cracking, Despite Scanty Living Caused By War   By RUSSELL BRINES

ANDREWS BLOM TO US, PLANS   Commander of Land Forces in Europe Crashed in Iceland; Bishop A. W. Leonard, M. E. Church, Victim.

GEN. ANDREWS DEATH A BLOW TO WAR PLAN   Was Commander-In-Chief of American Forces in European Theatre. Had Mapped Invasion

GEN. ANDREWS MEETS DEATH IN ICELAND   Commander-In-Chief 1 American Forces In. Europe Killed

Uticer Is Highest Ranking General Killed In World War Il   Bishop Leonard Also Believed Victim of Accident In Teeland

GEN. ANDREWS DEATH MAY RETARD ALLIED PLANS FOR INVASION   Chief of U.S. Forces in European Theater Killed In leeland Plane Crash, Along With Bishop Leonard

Andrews’ Death Crimps Plans To Invade Europe   Methodist Bishop Also Killed in Crash in Iceland

FATAL TOLT. GEN. ANDREWS   Commander of U. S Forces in Europe  Killed in Iceland

CRASH FATAL TO GEN. ANDREWS, BISHOP LEONARD   Death Of General Held As Blow To Preparations For Invasion

STUBBORNNESS GHARGES AIRED   Handling Of Contract Renegotiation Law Attacked

FRENCH EMPIRE WAR CABINET BEING FORMED   Government Convenes In Full Dress Session  Today in Algiers

FREE FRENCH PLAN NEW WAR CABINET   Ready To Throw Forces Against Axis Powers

French Gonvene For Organization  ‘Of War Cabinet   Take Vital Step Necessary To Throw Whole Weigh . Against Axis Battle Line

FORM WAR CABINET    New French Government Soon Will Be Ready To Fight Axis

French Ready To Organize War Cabinet   Leaders. Prepare To Take Last Step Beforé Throwing. Weight of Vast. Empire Into Battleline Against Axis

Full French Gov't Named   Liberation Committee Prepared To Throw Full Weight Into War

NEW FRENCH EMPIRE GOVERNMENT MET IN FULL DRESS SESSION  AUTHORITY TO BE COMPLETE WITH NAMING OF WAR COMMITTEE

HAMBURGCRUSHED UNDER NEW BLOWS OF ALLIED AIRMEN   Germany’s First Port Raided for Sixth Time in Little More Than Seventy two Hours.

Bombers Batter Hamburg Fourth Night In a Row   Allies Allow No Let-up In Raids On German Port

Hundreds of Plan of Planes Again Take Part in 7th Straight Aerial Blow — De fenses Saturated.

RAF Bombs Hamburg Once More   This City and Bremen Have Each Been Raided 104 Times

HAMBURG RUINS SMASHED AGAIN   Intensified Aerial Assault Strikes at Heart of Nazi War Production

RAF Continues Attacks To Obliterate Hamburg   2000 Tons of Block Busters Fall at Rate of 50 a Minute On Second Biggest City

RAF Bombers Rock Hamburg ‘In Fourth Attack   Round-The-Clock Raids On Big German Port Started Saturday Night

FINAL BAND CONCERT   Program Will Be Given Tomorrow Evening in Fowler Grove   Hamburg Bombed. Again By Strong R. A. F. Force

RAF Returns To Hamburg In Big Force   Weight Of Bombs Since Saturday Nears Total Dropped On Britain During Blitz

Devastating RAF Raid Made Last NightOn Hamburg   Targets In Ruhr Valley Also Bombed During Last-Nie¢ht.————

Hamburg Again Heavily Blasted   RAF Attacks City For Fourth Night

HAMBURG GIVEN SIXTH BASTING IN FOUR DAYS   Great North German Port Now Bracketed With Bremen as Second Most Bombed City   RUHR TARGETS HIT   Airfields and Rail Communications in Belgium, Holland, France Also Raided

6-Day Blasting of Hamburg Reaches 11-Month Bomb Total of London Blitz

HUGE BOMBERS OF RAF AGAIN RAID HAMBUR(   Great Force Returns to Heap Tons of Bombs On Vital Port, Already Hit 103 Times   AIRFIELBS HIT   Ruhr War Plants Suffer Terrific Damage; NaziHeld Areas Pounded In-Holland, Belgium

OVER 2,000 TONS BLAST HAMBURG IN 7TH RAID   Bombs Drop at Rate of More Than 50 - a Minute

2,000 More Tons Of Bombs Blast Hambure   Seventh Raid Tn 120 Hours Loosed On German City

‘SIXTH ALLIED RAID MADE IN LITTLE MORE THAN 72 HOURS   British Lose 18 Bombers; At Least 2.000 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped

BRITISH BOMBERS RETURN TO HAMBURG IN GREAT FORCE  STRONG FORMATIONS ALLIED PLANES CONTINUE ATTACKS WEDNESDAY

Americans Stage Smashing Day Attacks... ..  Sirong British Force Blasts Hamburg Again

‘Heaped Further Destruction  on That Great North Ger  man Port, the British  ! Announced Today.   OBJECT OF ROUND THE CLOCK ATTACKS   About 5000 Tons of Bombs Have Fallen on the City Since Saturday; Fourth  Successive Raid.

2000 TONS MORE DROPPED ON HAMBURG PORT   Sixth Raid on Ger many’s First Port in 72 Yours

Raid Sixth In 72-Hour Period On German City   Greatest Offensive ‘of All Time Passes Through Fourth Night

Bombers Heap Added Havoc On  Ruined Hamburs   Ruhr Targets Also Hit As Devastating DayNight Raids Continue.

Seventh Raid In Week   More Destruction ‘Heaped On Nazi Por 10! Hamburg AsAlliesStep —

RAF Battering Hamburg Into Submission  5,000 Tons Of Bom!   5,000 Tons Of Bombs Have Fallen On City Since Saturday

HAMBURG HIT HARD AGAIN BY RAF BOMBERS   Fourth Straight Night Attack; Lose 18 Planes in Raid on Ruhr

NO LET-UP IN ALLIED RAIDS ON CONTINENT   Sandwiched In Between Night Attacks Are Two Smashing Daylight Visits  By U. S. Bombers   MANY WARPLANES LOST

ALLIED PLANES CONTINUE RAIDS   Hamburg Blasted for Fourth Successive Night By RAF Fliers.   ALLIES LOSE 47 PLANES

Nazis Admit Heavy Losses to Port City   Round-the- Clock Raids on Coastal Base Coupled with Ruhr Attacks

Smouldering City of 1,682,220 Citizens Suffers Heavily Again As 2,000 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped in Seventh Raid Made in 120 Hours—TwentyEight Allied Warplanes Losi in 45-Minute Assault Last Nicht

HAMBURG AGAIN SUFFERS ATTACK   Futher Destruction Heaped On Great North German Port By Returning RAF Bombers:

Hamburg Dealt 7th Bomb Blow   Massive Armada Drops Iixplosives At Rate Of 50 A Minute

ALLIED BOMBERS STRAFE HAMBURG IN NEW FORAYS   ‘TERROR’ ATTACKS BY RAF MAKE SHAMBLES OF GREAT NAZI PORT

U.S. Bombers Hit Belgium and Germany   [No Letup in the Allied Raids; Hamburg Blasted Four Nishts in Row   AMERICAN BLOWS P STRUCK IN BETWEEN       No Details Immediately on Heavy Smash by U. 8. Forces Today —

TOPS PREVIOUS MARK OF 2,300 TONS ON PORT   6th Raid in 72 Hours Indicates Determined  Move to Destroy City

RAF Keens Up Raids Gin Hamburs   . About 5,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on City Since Saturday

YANKS BOMB CENTRAL PART OF GERMANY   Day Raid Follows Record RAF Assault Last Night on Hamburg, Hit for Sixth Time Since Saturday Night..

HAMBURG BLASTE FOR SEVENTH TH WN LAST 120 HOUR   Augmented Defenses Wilt Toward End of Devastating “Blot Out” Raid by British Airmen.

2000 TONS DUMPED ON HAMBURG; 7TH RAID IN 120 HOURS      28 Bombers Lost During 45 " Minutes’ Saturation Attack On Hapless German City

Bomb Hamburg For Fourth Night   RAF Heaps Further Destruction on Great North German Port.

R. A. F. Again Hits Hamburg   Great North German Port Suffers Another Devastating Attack

HIT HAMBURG IN 7TH RAID   Bomb Tonnage Exceeds 1l-Month Total In London “Blitz”

CONTINUE BLASTING HAMBURE   LATEST AIR ATTACK EMPHASIZES ALLIES’ DETERMINATION TO WIPE OUT CITY

Allied Air Attack Continues Through Day With Shuttle Service Operating

HAIGED AGAIN   2.000 More Tons Of Bombs Loosed By RAF Bombers Upon Hapless City

RAF Assault Turns Hamburg To Hamburger’   Ruhr Valley Industries Bombed; Nazis Admit High Casualties

2,000 MORE TONS OF BOMBS STRIKE CITY OF HAMBURG   Sixth Allied Raid in 72 Hours ts Described ag *4Eftective.’*

RAF Follows ToLash At Continent   Big Enemy Ports Shake Under Relentless Assault of Air Force

Destruction of Hamburg Goes on   RAF Makes Fourth Successive Raid

ADDITIONAL RUIN HEAPED INBIG PORT.   No Let-Up In.Allied Round-The-Clock Aerial Offensive

It Will Be Hamburger, Not Hamburg, lf Allied Airmen Continue Attacks

RAF Bombers Do Much Damage To Hamburg  Great German Port  Has Steady Attack

HAMBURG GIVEN SIXTH POUNDING   RAF Bombers Visit Seaport City for Fourth Attack Since Saturday

Hamburg Blasted Seventh Time By 2,000-Ton Raid   fnoreused Defenses Fail To Stop Effort  To Destroy Big Port

RAF ARWMADAS HT HAMBURG I NEW BLOW   Heap More Destruction Upon Nazi Port on Fourth Successive Night.   CONTINUE ATTACKS IN MORE DAYLIGHT RAIDS

RAF BOMBERS AGAIN POUND AT HAMBURG   City Blasted RoundThe-Clock Since Saturday Night

HAMBURG AGAIN HIT BY 2000 TONS OF BOMBS   Seventh Raid ‘In 120 Hours On Germany's Biggest Port, And Second City; Assault Carried Ont In Great Strength   28 BOMBERS ARE REPORTED LOST

More Bombs Fall in Ruins Of Hamburg   Bnitish Seek to Wipe Out City in Greatest Assault

Allow German Towns No Rest From Bombing   RAF Returns To Hamburg For Fourth Straight Night; Bomb Ruhr Cities.   CONTINUE DAY ATTACK

US. Bombers Strafe Reich   Central Germany Targets, Installations In Belgium Blasted

Objectives in France and on Sea Assaulted   Two. German Ships Are Sunk and Another Is Beached

2300 TONS OF BOMBS DROP ~ ON HAMBURE      New All-Time High In Tonnage Dropped By Raiding Fleet

Hamburg Is tit  With 2,000  Tons of Bombs 50 Per Minute  Fall on City Of Two Million

RAF BATTERS REICH ANEW   Fourth Night in Row for Massive Allied Air Offensive

Big RAF Flight Of Bombers Hits Hamburg Again   ‘More: Destruction Heaped on City iin Fourth Night Raid

Hamburg Receives “Drop Shipment”’ Of RAF Explosives   Twenty-Eight Bombers Are Lost on Raid   American Medium Bombers Attack Nazi Airfiald in Halland

2000 MORE TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON FLAMING HAMBURG   18 Planes Lost In Sixth Allied Raid In 72 Hours Against — Big Port City

Barkley Confident as Voting Nears;Outcome Doubtful; Bankhead Says  BUT HE APPEALS : FOR HIS MEASURE  Doubt Also Cast on Pace . Bill; Committee Tilt With Witnesses

Override F. R. Veto, Farm Plee   Sen, Bankhead Tells Senate Situation Hos Been Misrepresented

Allied Forces — Face Hardened  \Japanese Troops   Present Operation Said Definitely Not Big Pacific Drive

ALLIED FORCES IN PACIFIC FACE BIG ARMY OF JAPANESE   60 - 70 Thousand Hardened Japs Are Concentrated In Invasion:  Areas

70,000 JAP TROOPS IN §, W. PACIFIC   30,000 of Them Are ‘Concentrated in ‘Central Solomons

Allies Face 60,000 Battle-Hardened Jap Troops in Pacific Invasion Areas

WAGE ORDERS OF PRESIDENT HIT BY LABOR   AFL and CIO Join in Attacks on Roosevelt's -— Ruling -

CIO, AFL Hit Wage Control, Labor Freeze   Workers Chained, Says Green: One-Sided,

HOLD-THE-LINE ORDER RAPPED   ClO, AFL Chiefs Declare Plan Freezes Workers To Ill-Paying Jobs As Prices Mount

Unions Atteck Freeze Orders   AFL Says Workers "Reduced to Status of Forced Labor’

INFLATION ORDER   Unions Denounce Roosevelt Hold-the-Line Edict; Hit Job Freezes

WALLACE SAYS U. S. IS NOT NOW AND WiLL NOT BE AFTER WAR A MAJOR SOURCE OF FOOD EXPORTS OVERSEAS

Food Seen Major Problem in 1944   Wallace Urges Full  Use of Resources

WALLACE TELLS OF FOODS ROLE   Vice President Says It Wil Become Persuasive War Factor

GAS COUPONS TO HOLD LEVEL   Henderson Pledges Opposition To “A” Card Abolishment.

NO MORE CUTs IN GASOLINE COUPONS SEEN   Henderson Holds Out Ray Of Hope For Harassed Eastern Motorists   RATIONING DEMANDS ON COFFEE BEING MET   OPA Administrator Opposed To Eliminating A Cards Held By Motorists

Farm Price Index Still Is Gaining   Up Four Points in Montt —Farm Prices Now ai 117 «Per Cent of the Parity Level

SEE NAZI DEFEAT IN °43   Jim Farley Makes the Prediction in Mexico City.

Pacific Coast Plot To Incapacitate Inductees by Injections Is Charged

ALLIED BOMBERS SINK AXIS SHI      Another Left Sinking In New Sea Sweeps OF Tunisia

‘Two Gefitiati Troopships Belived Sunk   Allied Bombers:  Make Night Raid on Sicilian Port

5 Jap Planes Downed In Serap  Over Solomons  Kiska And Attu Subjected To  2° J.

Battle Rages Over Foe's Strongholds   - American Group Wins In Tangle With Fight Nip Warplanes

U. §. Warplanes Blast af Japs   Down 5 Enemy Craft, Also Attack Kisla

9 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   American Victory Over Kahili In Solomons Is Reported

Americans Down Five Jap Planes In the Solomons   Navy Announces Destruc tion of Two Bombers and Three Fighters

U. S. Fighter: Down Three Jap Bombers   P-38s Also Destroy Zero Escorts in Serap Above Kahili

LAST FOOTHOLD HELD BY JAPS   Americans Advance On Encircled Garrison At Bairoko

Allied Units Near Bairoka   Encircled Garrison Expected To Fall Soon

Trap Tightening ~ On German Force  But Reds Fall Back In Kiev Sector

SOVIET ARMY GAINS OFFSET KIEV RETREAT   Capture Important Town Yesterday; Gain 15 Miles

LINE 1S. GUT BY RUSSIANS   Tank Forces Seize ~Sharovka After  Advance.

Flank Movement Menacing Many Germans in Lower Dnieper River Area

RUSSIANS OUTFLANK ZNAMENKA   Enemy Reported Using 2000 Tanks Against Reds In Kiev Area

Sut Znamenka-Nikolaev Rail Line and Spur Railroad to Leave Germans but One Outlet   ENCIRCLING MOVE   Vatutin Falls Back Before Heavy Tank Assaull, Believed Biding Time to Strike Again ~

ADVANCE OF 15 MILES   Nazis Paying Heavily for Gains North of Chernyakhov

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP NAZIS   Znamenka-Nikolaev Rail Line Cut By Soviets

REDS TRAP BIG CERMAN FORCE   Outflank Nazis On Lower Dnemer; Thousands Face Capture

lens of Thousands of Germans Threatened By Big Flanking Movement

THOUSANDS OF NAZIS PERILED   Sharovka Captured And Znamenka-Nikolaev Rail Line Cut

RUSSIAN FRONT  Railway Cut By  Soviets   . Anamenka Threatened; Nazis Nearly Encircled

Reds Outflank Znamenka, Nazi Railway Center   Russians Fall Back For Second Day Before Ger mans In Kiev Bulge.

Red Gains Center On Western Bank Of The Dnieper   Ukrainians In Kiev Bulge Said Retreating Before Heavy German Assault

NAZIS FACE THREAT OF A RED TRAI   Thousands of Troops Imperiled by Soviet Qutflanking of Strategic Dneiper Bend Rail Center of Znamenka.

ENCIRCLEMENT IS FACING BIG GERMAN ARMY   Thousands of Boches Concentrated on West Bank of Lower Dnieper Are Trapped

SOVIET TROOPS MENACE NAZIS ALONG DNIEPEF   Tens of Thousands of Ger mans Face Encirclement; Force Gains 15 Miles

Soviets Seeking fo Entrap Nazis  Gain in One Sector But Lose in Another

Thousands Of Germans Face Dnieper Trap        Ericirclement “Lhreater s- Reds Outflank, Stra“‘tegic Center, of Zna“menka “ahd “Cit! Rail “ways ood ok

Russians Cut Railway Line   Threaten Encirclement Of German Forces On Lower Dnieper

RUSSIANS CUT KEY RAILROAD IN DNIEPER SECTOR   Reds Outflank Znamenka, Tens of Thousands of Nazis Face Encirclement

Soviet Trap Closing on ‘Nazi Forces   But Russians Fall Back Before Giant Tank Drive in The Kiev Bulge

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FACE ENCIRCLEMENT   REDS FALL BACK BEFORE ONSLAUGHT IN THE KIEV BULGE

Big Rail Center Is Outflanked   Nazis In Dnieper Bend Have Slim Chance Of Escape   NAZIS USING 2,000 IN THE KIEV BULGE

May Encircle Thousands of Germans in Dnieper Bend; Germans Gain in Kiev Area.

REDS OUTFLANK ZNAMENKA BASE   2,000 Nazi Tanks Lead Drive in Kiev Bulge

Soviets Outflank Vital Railroad City Of Znamenka   Thousands Of Nazi Troops On Dnieper Face Encirclement

‘Soviets Win Smashing New  Gains In Dnieper Bend But Retreat Again In Kiev Bulge   Encircling Move Threatens to Trap Tens of Thousands of Nazi Troops

Russ Advance Cuts Rail Line   Outflank Foe By Gains In Dnieper -Bend

Russians Outflank Rail Center to  Encircle Germans  Tank-Artillery Battle Rages Near Kiev As Soviets Retreat

SMASHING RED ARMY GAINS REGISTERED IN ZNAMENKA AREA  LARGE GERMAN FORCE THREATENED WITH ENCIRCLEMENT AGAIN

Sever Important Line; Encirclement of Germans on Dnieper Threatened.

ENCIRCLEMENT BY RUSSIANS   Important Railway Line Severed and More Towns .Captured by Red Army Attache

Red Advances Prepare Trap For Germans   Nazis Hold Lone Rail Exit From Znamenka  After Setback

Reds Make Gains  On Russian Front   Many Germans Are Threatened on West Bank of  Dnieper   ADVANCE OF 15 MILES   Nazis Paying Heavily for Gains North of Chernyakhov

Encirclement Threatened on _ Dnieper Benc   fermans Cut From All But One Rail Route Leading Out of Trap

Germans Fighting 0). Lower Dnieper Front Facing New Red Trap   Red Army Cuts Vital Znamenka-Nikolaey Rail-. way; Soviets Forced Back In Kiev Area

Reds Cut Vital Railway; Nazi Army Faces Trap   Encirclement Of Tens Of Thousands Of Germans In Lower Dnieper Bend Threatened In Swift Advance.

Key Rail Cenfer   Russians Reported In Slow Retreat In Kiev Bulve

Nazi Drive Appears to Be Doomed   Red Line Kept Intact as Sec ond Retreat Is’ Made in Kiev Bulge   NAZIS PUSH ON AT MOUNTING COST   But Successful Red Drive on danamenka Threatens Tens of Thousands of Enemy

ITPERSONG INDICTED FOR “BLACK MARKET   Illegal Sales Of Meat Chara. ed By Jury

New York Cotton   Chicago Wheat   Meat Packers And Individuals  ~ Indicted In Black Market War

BARES BLACK IMRKET THK - OF S860 00   OPA Announces Indictment of Seven Corporations and 11 Individuals.   OVERCHARGES BOOSTED ‘COST TO CONSUMERS

U. S. Indiets 7 Firms In Black Market Blow   Packers and: individ.  uals charged with'conspiracy to violate meat regulations.

Black Marketers In Meat Indicted   Seven Meat Firms Actused ee Turvy

EXPECT DECREASE IN FEED GRAINS SUPPLY   Farm Specialist Predicts 1¢ Percent Drop

Rommel Again Forced To Move His Troeps Back   New Withdrawal In Area Of Mendenine In Tunisia Made By Axis   MAY BE PLANNING ANOTHER ATTACK

AFRIKA KORPS IS POUNDED BY ALLIED PLANES   Bulk Of Army Believed Holding High-Ground Mareth Line Positions   NAZL TANKS ARE SMASHED   British Score Local Gains In Patrol Actions At Tunis And Bizerte

LONDON HAS ALERT   German Raiders Over British Cap ital Eighth Night In Row

BIDDLE TAKES DEWEY TO TASK ON BUCHALTER   Tells Governor Commutation Not in Order Uniti! Assurance Given Execution Will Be Carried Out

Montana Sugar Beet Industry Adopts Resolution Asking for Greater Planting Acreage for 1944 Season

Increased Beet Acreage Urged.   Sugar Industry Meet Asks Price Action

Great Falls Anaconda Plant Gets Second Army-Navy ‘E’ Award   Representatives of Montana Sugar Beet Industry Urge Government to Enlarge Goal for Acreage Plantings in 1944, Establish a Price Which Will Be on Basis of Equality With Competing Crops

Today On The  Home Front   4,500 Soldiers Sent Into Mines to Relieve Shortages

WANTS WORK SPREAD   Army to Start Tomorrow to Release 4,500 Men to Work Mines

F. R.’s ‘Guards’ Use Old Tricks  Divert Attention From President On Trip In  Morocco

Major Assault By RAF Costs 11 Of 220 Attacking Planes; Nazis Retaliate With Daylight ‘Nuisance’ Raid

Oe Song en) Rng ee  RAF DROP BLOCK BUSTERS, FIRE BOMBS ON STUTTGART AS NAZIS RETALIATE WITH LONDON RAID

Big Reich War Center, Other Targets Raided   British Loose Tons Of Bombs On Germany, Nazis Retaliate

Part-Time Teachers May Share In Raise  Would Benefit Same As Full-Time Tutors

Marshall Says Draft Reduction Would Be Unwise   Chief of Staff Takes Stance Fathers, if Needed, Must Be Taken

Gen. Marshall Demands Flow of Men  Continue  Ban on Fathers’ Draft ~ Must Not Interrupt   Ban on Fathers’ Draft Must Not Interrupt Allied Offensives, He Tells Conecressmen   FORESEES NEW BLOWS AT JAPS AND NAZIS

!Marshall Pleads For No Change In Father’s Draft   Tells Congress Lt Woulk Endanger Planned OF fensives, Admiral Nim itz Also Begs _ Politica Hands (ft. 8

MARSHALL RAPS DRAFT CHANGES   Army Chief Says Father Deferment Would Upset Plans

DRAFT VIEWS OUTLINED BY ARMY HEAD   General Marshall Declares Heavy Fighting Lies  Ahead   DANGEROUS TO STOP PROGRAM OF DRAFT   Warning Echoed by Commander of the U. S. Fleet

American Armed Forces Are Poised to Strike Blows  al Enemies, Congress Is Told General Marshall Warns of Danger If  Flow of Inductions for the Army   General Marshall Warns of Danger If Flow of Inductions for the Army Are Interrupted: Admiral King Agrees

Marshall, King  See Need of  Father Draft ‘Army Chief of Staff  Says Flow of Men Must Keep On

Marshall Hits Antidraft Move   Says It Would Throw Offensives Off Stride

Marshall Warns On Allied Plans   Continuous Flow -Of Men Is Needed

War C hiefs Warn Against Interrupting Inductions By Fathers’ Draft Bans

FATHER CALL BAN PAINTED AS DANGEROUS   Allied Offensives Jeopardized, Claim

Marshall Insists  More Men Needed   Says Fathers Call Up To WMC, Draft Boards

Marshall, King Say Draft Cut May Affect War   Congress Told Allied Offensive Would Be Thrown Off Stride

MARSHALL WARNS AGAINST CURB ON ARMY INDUCTIONS   Testifies Ban on Drafting Fathers Would Be Threat to Offensives Allies  . Plan.   OPPOSITION VOICED BY ADMIRAL KING   Chief of Staff Says Troops Now Are Ready to Strike on Far-Flung Battle Fronts.

ITALIAN INTERNAL CRISIS “DISCUSSED BY BRITISH CHIEFS   Ministers Confer With Churchill As Signs Of Unrest Grow Steadily

SIGNS OF NEW CRISIS SEEN WITHIN ITALY   Internal Situation Now More Critical Than When Mussolini Was Deposed.

Leaders Agree On Post-War  Freedom of Air   Question of Use of Bases Undecided by Roosevelt, Churchill

Roosevell and Churchill Predict Freedom of the Air affer the War

FREEDOM OF AIR SHAPES GLOBALLY   FDR Chirchill Agree Upon Pcst-War Procedure pools ‘caf Rautee ‘palad

FOR- Churchill — Favor Freedom Of Air Trave   United Nations Leaders Agreed on Post-War Flying Rights

¥reedom of At Policy Planned By U.S. Britain   Roosevelt Says Churchill Shares His Opinion On Ob ieriice

F. D. R. Favors Freedom of Air  Sketches Ideas for Post-War Aviation

\Freedom of Air Should Follow Vieksny Says Roosevelt, Advises Churchill Shares Same Belief

WORLDWIDE AIR FREEDOM SEEN   President Foresees Use Of Airports Being Built Abroad

Issue Orders on Sale of Meat   pale of meal  Closer Control of Over-Slaughter of I iemstnels Sansset

Three Control Orders Issued By Wickard   Action Follows OPA Announcement of Uniform Retail Prices for Meat

GOVT. LAUNCHES 2-FRONT ATTACK — ON BLACK MARKET   Aggy Secretary Wickard Issues Three Orders Providing Control

ALL LIVESTOCK KILLERS MUST. HAVE PERMITS   Wickard Tightens~Controls Over Slaughters on Heels of OPA Or der Setting Pork Ceilings.

‘Plan Ceiling For Hundreds Of Food Items   Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton to be Given Uniform Prices   MAY START. APRIL IST

yPermit Orders Area Effective April 1; Other Immediately   (For ceilings on pork products, wee Page 4.)

TWO-FRONT ATTACK ON BLACK MARKETS 19 LAUNCHED TODAY  THREE ORDERS PROVIDE FOR CLOSER CONTROL  ec uasiatse wen emu 2 meen pee te

Price Ceilings on Retail Meat Sales Will Be Announced   Will Be Extended to All Common Food Items About April 1st

OPA SETS TOP PORK CEILING   Uniform Prices Scheduled for Other Retail Meat Sales; Black Market Is Hit

Tight Lid On Meats   OPA Sets Ceiling on Pork and Wickard Orders Tighter Rein on Slaughter of Livestock

Issue Orders on Sate of Meat   Closer Control of Over-Slaughter of Livestock Sought

Order Uniform  Meat Prices    U. S. Also To Control Slaughter of Livestock

Uniform Retail Prices will Be Established For Meat — Livestock Dealers’ Licenses

Stress Value of Victory: Gardens  Billion and Quarter of Food Produced

U.S. Liberators Blast German Plane Factory   Messerschmitt Plant At Wiener Neustadt Hard Hit

AMERICAN BOMBERD HUAR QVER AUSTRIA   Airplane Plant Near Vienna Wrecked In Attack

NAZI FIGHTER PLANE FACTOR) GETS BLASTING   Liberators Fly 2,500 Miles Roundtrip To Hit At Austria

'U. S. Fliers Strike ‘Great German Airplane Center   Fliers Dump Bombs  Over Plant,   Cause Much Damage

U. 5. Bombs Nazi Aircraft Factory   Long Daylight Trip Made to Reach Plant For Messerschmitts

NAZI AIRCRAFT FACTORY RAZED   Liberators ; From Africa Raid Danube City In 2500-Mile Trip

Austria Plane Plant Blasted By Liberators   2,500-Mile Round Tri Raid Catches German

Good Luck Dice Clicked Again   Lt. General Kenney Puts Great Store By Pe vs hee

‘LUCKY DICE’ OF GEN. KENNEY AUGURED SUCCESS FOR ATTACK ON RABAUL BASE

GENERAL SHOOTS CRAP WITH LADY LUCK BEFORE RABAUL RAID - AND WINS

Officer Reveals 175 Japs Paid With Lives For Brutal Attacks on American Wounded

President Says  Lend-Lease  Means Victory Report Reveals  Nearly Fourteen Billions Issued

THE RESPONSIBLE FASCIST LEADERS ARE BEING SOUGHT   Only Ones of Axis That Need to Fear Unconditional Surrender to Allied Nations.   ROOSEVELT STATEMENT   The President Placed Total Lend-Lease at Nearly $14,000,000,000

FASCIST LEADERS ARE THE ONES 10. FEAR SURRENDER   Roosevelt Asserts People of Axis Need Not Fear Unconditional Terms Asked By Allies.   PROMISES FEEDING OF  @IBERATED RESIDENTS   Lend-Lease Aid To Russia In Past Quarter Was Nearly Two and Half Biltion Executive Says.

U.S. Pledges Security For Axis Cittzen nly Leaders Nee  Fear Surrender, Saves Roosevelt

Lend-Lease Aid Hastening Victory, Now Totals Nearly 14 Billion Dollars

“£NC ezse-v ~ers fooc, .fecicire “nc Securr-v-o0 Concueret. 70 <

Excludes “Responsible Fascist Leaders’ From Postwar Amnesty Plan

NOW NEARING 14 BILLION   FDR Says Allies Ready To Strike Harder in War Aid Report

Axis People Told They Can Pick Leaders   President Roosevelt Makes Report On Lend-Lease Activities

Unconditional Surrender Is Given Mention   United Nations Goal Is Choice of Government By Freed People.

LEND-LEASE TO RUSSIA OVER TWO BILLIONS   Report Assures People of Axis-Controlled Areas They Need Not Fear Surrender   POINTS OUT OBJECTIVES

Says Lend-lease Hastens Victory   Amounted tu Over Billion Dollars in July, Declares President Roosevelt

AXIS PEOPLE'S FEARS ALLAYED   FDR Gives Assurance: LendLease 14 Billions

FDR Reports On Lend-Lease Aid Program Today   Shows That Merchant Fleet Has Grown 250 Per Cent

‘Axis people: needn't fear capitulation’   Lend-lease aid totals 14 billion says Roosevelt

Axis Peoples Told Not To  Fear Peace   President Reassures All but Leaders OF Enemir

PRESIDENT PUTS - LEND-LEASE AID AT 14 BILLIONS   @ Report Reveals Allies Plan To Feed Persons in Liberated Areas

ROOSEVELT — LISTS LEND-LEASE AID 10 ALLIES UP TO AUG. 1   Says Supplies And Aid To Allies Totals $13,973,000 —  More Coming

F. R. Pledge To Conquered Lands   Allies To Permit Liberat ed Peoples To Create Free Political Life

Lend-Lease Now Totals More Than 13 Billions   _ Allies Now Are Ready To ‘Strike Harder,’ President Declares In Report to Congress  RUSSIA RECEIVES MOST AIRPLANES

President Promises Food To These Liberated From Control Of Axis Powers

FDR Assures People Of Axis That They Need Have No Fear Of Unconditional Surrender   Allies Gunning Only For Leaders, He Says; Reports On Lend-Lease

Reports Total Of Lend-Lease Ts 14 Billion:   Peoples of Liberated Areas Face Free Political Life When U.N. Achieve Goal

 Roosevelt Assures Axis Peoples Only Their Leaders Need To Fear Allies

Axis People Need HaveNo Fear Of What Lies Ahead   Roosevelt Says They Will Not Be Trading Despotism For Ruin; Reports On Lend-Lease

ANI AAU RED ONLY LEADERS NEED 10 FEAR   Roosevelt in Lend-Lease Aid Report Promises Greater Military Blows.   LEND-LEASE ON JULY 31 CLOSE TO 14 BILLIONS

LEND-LEASE AID TOTALS 14 BILLIONS   President Says People Of  Axis Need Not Fear Un conditional Surrender; Hints Of New Blows

President Declares Except for Fascist Leaders People of Axis Nations Need Not Fear Unconditional Surrender to Allies

Britain, Russia Receive Most Lease-Lend Aid   President Reports Total Approaches 1 4-Billion Mark

PEOPLE OF AXIS NEED HAVE NO FEAR FULL SURRENDER   PRESIDENT RENEWS PROMISE OF FAIR TREAT MENT THOSE WHO GIVE UE

Report on Help Given To Allies   Figures Show Reds Have Received Much

F, R, REASSURES PEOPLE OF AXIS   Says Punishment To Be Reserved For Fascist Leaders; Reveals Lend-Lease Has Topped 14 Billions. With Much To Russia.

FDR Says No One Except Axis  Chieftains Need Be Fearful of Unconditional Surrender Terms   Discusses LendLease and War Food Production

Axis Peoples Need Not Fear   Declares Only Responsible Fascist Leaders Need Be  Afraid,

‘Axis People Need Not Fear Us- FDR   President Makes Report To Congress On Lend Pease.

Only. Chiefs Of Axis Need Fear Allied Terms   Roosevelt Reports On Uses Of Lend-Lease Up To End Of July

Need Not Fear Surrender, F. R.  Assures Europe   Feeding Of Freed Folk Repledged; Lend-Lease Totals 14 Billions.

AXIS PEOPLES ARE ASSURED BY ROOSEVELT   President, Reporting Lend-Lease Says Nations Need Not Fear Unconditional Surrender   GOAL IS FREEDOM   Liberated Peoples May Create Free Political Life to Atiain Eco. nomic Security

FOR ABSOLVES. AXIS VICTIMS   Says Conquered Areas Need Not Fear Surrender To Allies

People Of Axis . Areas Need Not Fear Surrender   President Says Goal Of Allied Nations ls To Give Liberty

Lend-Lease Shipments Top 13 Billions   Allied Victory Will Mean Political SelfDetermination for Oppressed, Say FDR

FDR Reports 14 Billions Spent For Lease: Lend  >   Conference Mapped Course Of Victory, Roosevelt Asserts

LEND-LEASE NOW NEARING 14 BILLION   FDR Says Allies Ready To Strike Harder in War Aid Report

RUSSIA RECEIVES TOP LEND LEASE AIL   President Reports That Axis Peoples Will Not Be Enslaved Under Allied Rule

Need Not Fear To — Surrender   Only. Responsible Leaders Facing  a - Penalty. ;

Marauders Attack Frenct Airfield   Follow. Up Yank Raid-on Wiener-Neustadt

German Plane Plant Wrecked By U.S. Airmen   “Great Aerial Battle Fought As New Airforce Blasts Factory.

Yankees Renew  Daylight Raids   Marauders Attack Northern France After Two  Weeks of Fog.

NAZI PLANE FACTORY 1S DESTROYED   30 Enemy Fighters Go Down While 6 U. S. Bombers Lost

Americans Hit Nazi Airfield   Marauders Attack Northern France in Clearing Weather

DAY BOMBIN( IN EUROPE   Marauders Blast German Airfield In North France

U.S. MARAUDERS HIT NAZI FIELD    Mediniereasuities Planes Raid Messerschmitt Plant

American Planes Batter Field In Northern France   Renewal Of Allied Aerial Offensive Is Indicated By Raids

NAZI AIRFIELD IN FRANCE HIT - BY.U.S, FLIERS   Marauders Renew Daylight  Raids, Yank Bombers of  African Area Blast   German Factorv

SENATE CONSIDERS BILL FOR SPECIAL FUND TO AID DISTRESSED SCHOOLS

MILLION-DOLLAR SCHOOL BILL BEFORE SENATE   Bill Would Enable Schools To Pay Teachers, Debts   STATE GETS AUTHORITY   ‘Numbers’ Bill is Recommended For Passage By Committee

GERMAN, ITALIAN ~ LIFELINE (5 GUT TN BRENNER PASS   American Flying Fortresses in Longest Flight From Africa Wreck Two Imnortant Bridges.   WRECKING COMPLETE AS INVASION BEGINS   Brenner Pass Railway Used By German Troops Severed at Two Points to Stop Reinforcements.

Yankees Block Bottleneck At  Brenner Pass   Bridges Are Broken As Forts Snap German Supply Line

YANKEES B0 BRENNER PASS TO BLOCK NAZIS   Fortresses From North  Africa Seal Route Of Reinforcements

U.S. Forts Cut Lines at Brenner Pass   Rail and Road Bridges Wrecked In Longest Raid

roriresses Cut ltaly's Brenner Pass Lifeline   Raiders Wreck Two Bridges South “Of Bottleneck

Slayer Is Executed   Helps Guards Adjust Leathe: Straps To Chair

Red Carnatior Killer Dies In Gas Chamber   Observers Say Love Slay. er Seemed To ‘Welcome End Of Life   ARRESTED IN FRESNC   Former Jeweler Refused To Reveal Any Motive For Murder Of Girl

Gireth Executed At San Quentin  Slaver of Girl      Sloyer of Girl In Auto Court

Prisoner Has Music As He Awaits Death  Expresses Wisk. a..8. wertey Ch. Fy

SLAYER OF WOMAN GOES TO DEATH IN POISON GAS ROOM   Enigmatic Sentimentalist Die: Bravely; Lived With Memory of Gil

EAGER FOR DEATH, GIRETH EXECUTED   Murderer of Sweetheart Die: in Hope of Meeting Victim Again After End of Life

Lewis Sets Wage Raise Deadline   U. M. W. Chief Slates April  Mine Walkout

CtheDAILY usr Bt, WASHINGTON MERRY - GOROUND (+  ay DREW PEARSON

Thunderbolts Raid Germany   Fighters Now Escort Bombers Upon Raids

(Continued On Page Four)  JUDGE SPEAKS CURTAIN LINE IN COURT DRAMA

Reds Near Whife Russian Rail Hub  _ Another Strategic  “VU atary Danarta ,

Red Capture Of Zhlobin Draws Near   ~ . Germans Driven From Junction Northeast  Of Rail Center

German Force Hemmed In By Red Advances  Capture Of Zhlobin Is Near As Vital Road   ON ROAD TO POLAND   No News From Kiev Area Where German Troops Are Attacking

Reds Overrun Highways Near Zhlobin   White Russian Rail Hub May be Taken Soon by Rokossovsky

NAZIS REEL BACK IW ZHLORN AREA   Rail Hub’s Fall Believed Near, Reds Report... _

Castlefrentano Held by Advancing British Army      Nazis Pinned Back Against the Dnieper River Near to Rail City

Scviets Win New Victory Over Nazis   Germans ArePinned Back Against River

GIRLS ASSURED OF COSMETICS   There Will Be Makeup, And Enough Of It, Declare War Board Chiefs -

Kent Says Army Use Of Tech No Cause For Alarm; Time Assured: For Readjnetmonfe

Kent Says Army Use Of Tech No Cause For Alarm: Time Assured For Readiustments

U.S. Planes Down 46 Nip Aircraft   Lose Only 4 Cratt of Their Own in the Battle

U. S. Planes Down 46 Nip Aircraft  Tacea Only A Cred   Lose Only 4 Craft of Their Own in the Battle

Gilberts Af Mop-UpStage   Carrier Force Downs 46 Japanese Planes

Morgenthau Reveals Broad Plan For Stabilization of World Currencies

SENATORS GIVEN MONETARY PLAN   ‘Morgenthau Maps Program   for Currency Stabilization After War.

Angry Words — Enter Senate Peace Debate   Pledge to Use Armed Force to Prevent War Demanded

Anger Flares in Senate. Debate  Post-War Policy - Discussion Hot

Words Flare in Senate as as Attempt Is Made to Write Stronger Post-War Plans

Verbal Clashes  Flare During Senate Debate   Attempt Made to Put Stronger Language in Post-War Resolution

Anger Flares in Senate Debate On World Peace   ” Pepper Says Group Is Intimidating Sub Committee

Senators Clash On Connally Peace Program  Pepper Leads Bloc Advocating ‘Armed Force to Keep Peace’; Charees Browheatins bv Commitieé

Verbal Clashes Mark Senate's Postwar Debate   Attempts Made To Write Stronger Language into Resolution

SOVIETS SEIZE JUNCTION, CUT RAILROAD LINE   Nazis May Fall Back to Poland

Soviets Cut Foe’s Last Ukrainian Trunk Line:  Reach Kerch Suburbs

German Lines Now Split By Pripet Marshes   Last North-South Rail Line Broken By Great Victory

Krupa Convicted of Narcotics. Charge  Band Leader Faces Prican Santence

Tankers Collide Off Florida; 88 Men Die In Fire   28 Jump To Safety, Rest Are Burned To Death In Inferno Of Blazing Aviation Gas. Exploding Ammunition

Only 28 Merchant Seamen And Navy Gun Crewmen Escape Flames After Gasoline - Laden Vessel Explodes   Blacked-Out Ships Collide Off Florida Coast, Sending Towering Flames Toward - Sky: Seamen Describe Fiery Holocaust

CHINESE CHIEF PASSES AT 79   Generalissimo Kai-Shek Takes Over Duties Temporarily

At Treetop Height   W hile Nancy Wept Lady Oakes Testifies Sir Harry Changed Will

TELLS OF RIFT BETWEEN MEN   Widow Of Murdered Man Testifies In Trial Of Son-In-Law

WIDOW OF OAKES TELLS OF BREAK   Rift Causes Sir Harry to Will, She Testifies

Changein Oakes Wil Riselosad ~ n-Nassau Cou   Widow Tells of Break Between Sir Harry And De Mariany

HERE'S LIST OF RATIONED FOODS   Official Report Shows Items Affected and Not Affected By New Program.

LAYREWS OUN 29 0¢T 49 4S  FE B GRNNON   ~ hasevens Sug Cet 28 (493 Former Laurens  Man Passed Away

FRENCH PATRIOTS FIGHT   Germans, Ualians Feel Force Of Underground Action

French Patriots Kill Off Nazis   Dozen Slain Daily, Undargrewad Reports; Allied Lending Weited

OENATE FINALLY PASSED LOAN SHARK MEASURE FRIDAY  SENATE ALSO CONCURRE! IN HOUSE RESOLUTION

German Lines Broken; Reds Push Ahead   Hitler's Dreams Of World Power Smashed in Russia

Soldier Ballot Issue Headed Back to States   House to Pass Substitute Bill, Predicted By Rankin, After Senate Scraps Green-Lucas Act

Would direct subsidy pay  to farmers   Byrnes, Brown Jeading appeal

Subsidy Payments To Farmers Urged By Administration   Byrnes, Brown Abandon Hope of Reimbursing Plan for Processors  SOME TALK OF VETO But Bankhead Says  President too Anxious  To Retain CCC Program

SUBSIDIES FOR FARMS SOUGHT   Administration Leaders Try To Salvage Plan To Roll Back Cost Of Living

Administration Plans Fight for Rollback Program   Leaders Hope To at Least Save Part of Food Control Plans

Direct Farmer Subsidies Soughi   Try to Salvage Part Of Rollback Plan

Dalvaging  Of Subsidy Attempted   ~ompromising - Sought By “Leaders? 

Administration — Trying to Save. Farm Subsidies,  ’ Favor Retention - “ef This Feature of . Price Rothack Plan

Direct Farmer Subsidies New Rollback Plat   Adiinisteation Leader Hope to Compromise With Conwress

LEGISLATION T0 CURB SUBSIDIES MAY BE VETOEI   Both Houses Of Congress Vote To Prohibit Pay ments To Processors

PROPOSAL MADE OF FARMER SUBSIDIES   Administration L eaders Trying to Salvage Part of Proaram

Explain Censorship Rules On Soldiers’ Units, Ship Names In Addresses At Overseas Posts

Must Not Tell Troop Movement   Censorship Regulations Ar Outlined to Protect the Lives of Fighting Units

‘COON RAPIDS GIRLS (30)   COON RAPIDS BOYS (22)   ' Score at nalf: Coon 11, Bayard 10. Official: Rogers of Lytton.  ee   Wartime Censor. Rules Listed By Washington

Office of Censorship Says To Keep Information To Yourself VYhat Will Aid The Enemy

Office of ' Censorship Asks That Puble Not  “Reveal Troop Movements

CITIZENS ARE WARNED  OF THE DANGERS OUR .  MEN FACE BY TOO MUCH TALK AT HOME =.

Careful With That Tongue Don’t Risk M en’s Lives By Talking, Censors Ask

ATTORNEY GENERAL PREDICTS RIOTING   Biddte Tells Negro Lawyers That Kacial Disiurbances May Be Expected “At Anv foment”

SLIGHT ADVANCES IN GROCERY ITEMS   Price Will Not Exceed Ceilings Beyond Level In Hold-the-Line.

OPA APPROVES ADVANCES ON SOME FOODS   Percentage Mark-Ups. Aug. 5

GROCERY ITEMS GO UP IN PRICE   Ceilings Will Not Rise Above April 8 Level, OPA Announces

CAPITULATION OF ITALY FORESEEN, HITLER STATED   In a Speech Today He Declared Downfall Due to an “Absence of Will.”   ‘FREED OF HEAVY LOAD’   Today Was First Time He Had Faced a Microphone in Six Months.

A. Hitler Says Crash of Italy Not Important  Weakness Brought Not Lack of Suppo

Fall of Italy Long Foreseen Hitler Reveals   Fuhrer Condenins ‘Lack of Will’ of Southern: Partner

Hitler ‘Explains’ Loss of Italy  Due to “Absence Of Will” He Says 1... ——

‘Hitler Says Fall Of Italy Was Due [To Lack Of Will   Fuehrer Makes First Speech In Six Months In Broadcast To Peonle. -

Yugoslavs Also Are Threatened   Bodoglio’s Surrender Declared of Little Military importance, but Germans ‘May Have to Cede Some Territory,’ He Soys

Hitler At Last ives ‘Inside  On Axis Pacts   Says Italy Betrayec Him Before: Tells Why Mussolin: Was Ousted

Hitler Belittles Fall of Italy   In First Speech in Six Months Fuehrer Seeks to Rally People

Hitler Gives Consolation on Italy End   NAZI FUEHRER SAYS AXIS “MAY HAVE TO CEDE SOME TERRITORY”

xk * k * _ Germans         Hitler Smoked Out   We'll Win Yet, He Tells People; Will Avenge Italian Treachery

Fuehrer Admits, in First Broadcast in Six Months, That. “We May Have ito Cede Some Territory”

Hitler Attempts To Rally Germans   Still Believes in Victory but Admits Nazis May Have to Cede Some Territory

Hitler Belittles Loss of Italy   Declares Germany Will Be Winner

ADOLF TALKS ON ITALIAN ACTION   Hitler Claims Surrender Due To ‘Absence of Will’ In Address Today

HITLER DECLARES SURRENDER ITALY LITLE IMPORTANCE  a oer ae ae Fey er eee eee   ADMITTED, HOWEVER, “WE MAY HAVE TO CEDE SOME TERRITORY”

Hitler Goes On Radio-to ~ - Rally Nazis   Attempis to Minimize the Fall of Italy, Promises Counter Measures

Hitler Breaks Long Silence to Tell Nazis Why Italy Quit War   Blames ‘Absence of Will in Southern Partner of Axis

Lacked Will, Says Hitler   Fuhrer Tells People Italy’s Failure Had Been Foreseen

HITLER THINKS FALL OF ITALY NOT IMPORTANT   Says Surrender of Italy Of Little Military Importance, But Says He May Have To “Cede Some Territory;' Speaks 16 Minutes.

FUEHRER CITES TROUBLE FACED BY MUSSOLINI   Hitler Says Italian Collapse Caused by “Absence of Will”

‘DROP BOMBS IN FRANCE   American and British Bombers Hit Airfields

JUDGE IMPOSES DEATH PENALT}   Convicted Wife Slayer To, Face Firing Squad > On May 22

Don't Think. Japs Can Get Many Off Of Bougainville   Navy Raid Met Little Resistance, Enemy Must Sacrifice Men or Fleet

President Back Again A\ White House, Talks Witl  Congressional Leaders

F.D. R. BACK IN CAPITAL AFTER HIS LONG TRIP   Calls Congress Leaders But Report May Be Delayed

U.S. Bombers Smash at Naples And Sardinia   Allies Carry War to Italy From Bases In North Africa

AMERICANS SMAS GERMAN ATTACKS ON VTALIAN FRONT   British Eighth Army Extends Bridgehead on Sangro  Bivar

Eighth Army HasAdvancec   Montgomery Hints Of New Drives On Rome

SMASH TWO NAZI ATTACKS   British Extend Their Bridgehead On Sangro River

SUCCESS FOR YANKS, BRITISH ON ITALO LINE   American Fifth Beats Off Nazi Counter Attacks While English Extend Bridgehead   Surge Ahead (Re Aseociated Pree)

COUNTER-ATTACKS OF NAZI FORCES IN ITALY BROKEN   British Eighth Army Meanwhile Improves Bridgeheads.

Nazi Push Smashed by Fifth Army   Fighth Bolsters Bridgehead on  Sanero River

Says Father Ban May Impede War   Wheeler Proposal — Opposed By Stimson

Asserts Ban On Drafting Fathers This Year Would Hinder Early End Of War

TOKYO AIR RAIDER HELD BY GERMANS   ‘MAJOR DAVID M. JONES AP. PARENTLY CAPTURED DURTG ATTACK ON TUNIS.

U. &. FLIER NAZE PRISONER  Major Jones One Of Those Who Bombedt Takin

Je! ‘farign’, cee erec <0 Sac ..11a “a? neg yar -o- Aurcerc? CE <eS

DEMARIGNY FACES (HARGE OF MURDER   Magistrate Holds Defendant on Charge of Slayin Father-in-Law

Washington, DC-(AP)-American  nd Canadian troops have occupied ‘iska without opposition, the navy. announc  Allies Near Salamaua — Airdrome

Rumor Persists Welles Resigns. Shakeups Coming   Breckenridge Long Said Slated For Post As Under Secretary Of State   ‘YOUNG LIBERALS’’ ON THE WAY OUT

‘OPEN CITY’ NEGOTIATIONS ~ - > WILL BEOPENED BY HULL   BECRETARY. OF STATE.TO ANNOUNCE CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO SPARE ROME. FROM AM RAIDS

HULL TO CLEAR UP IMPORTANT QUESTIONS   Rome Problem and Status of Sumner Welles Included

U.S. Attitude on Rome’s Onen City Move Will Be Clarified by Hull Soon

Motorists Who Drive To Amusement Center: Face Cancellation  Of Ration Coupons  THEATRES, TRACKS PARTICULARLY HIT  Fuel Oil for Schools, . Stores and Theatres Again Cut in East

RATIONS OF FUEL OIL FOR SCHOOLS, STORES, THEATRES ALSO CUT   OPA Calls on State, County and Local Law Officers to Aid in Enforcing New Regulations on Gasoline

Pleasure Driving Banned; Further Fuel Oil Cut Made   Motoring to Theaters and Race Tracks Must Cease— Official Regulations Will be Announced by the OPA Sometime Today

Pleasure Driving Is Banned in East; Fuel Oil Supply Slashed Drastically

OPA Outlaws Pleasure Driving, Cuts Fuel Oil   West Virginia Included In 17-State Restricted Area; Directive Excludes Salesmen From Extra Gasoline Supplies

ALL PLEASURE DRIVING BANNED BY GOVERNMENT   Many Race Tracks And Night Clubs May Be  Forced To Close    NON-RESIDENTIAL FUEL RATION CUT

New OPA Edict Halts Pleasure Driving in East   Motoring to Purely Social Engagements, Theater: Bg  “Race Tracks Banned Specifically   Order Affects A,B,C  Cards at Noon Today   Commercial Fuel Oil Users Hit by Further 25 Pet. Cat im Ration.

EAST SUFFERS FURTHER CUTS ON RATIONING   17-State Sector Hit By Newest OPA. Curtailments

Yanks Take Important Crossroads Town of  Caltinessetta.  15 NAZI AIR TROOP TRANSPORTS DOWN  Network of Airfields Fall Into the Hands of the Allies.

ITALIANS ON SICILY ARE CRACKING UP   Germans Fight Hard Against British at Catania

NTALIAN ARMY FALLING APART   German Officer Killed Trying lo Prevent Italians lrom Surrendering

EXPANSION OF COMMERCIAL AVIATION SEEN   ‘LOWER 13’ MURDER TRIAL IS RESUMED

CITY OCCUPIED AFTER SHARP, BRIEF BATTLE   Remaining Axis Forces Trapped Between Two Armies

British Capture Tripoli; Battle Rages To West   Mussolini's Last Colonial Capital Falls To British In Climax Of 1,300 Mile Drive From Eqypt.

Lively Battle Said in aking West of City .   Allies Check Nazi Attempt to Open — Corridor of Retreat

UNION JACK FLIES IVERCAPTL AT EARLY HOUR TODA   Paris Radio Reports Battle Is Progressing West ol Mussolini’s Important African City.   ITALIANS HEAR NEWS x IN MISLEADING WAY   Axis Offered Only Brief Bul Very Sharp Rear-Guard Defense, Civilian Officials Are Missing.

British Troops Give Up Isle After Heavy Air, Ground Battle   Gives Germans Possession of Excellent Harbors; Berlin Reports Capture of 8,130 Prisoners

OVERWHELMING AIR BOMBARDMENT LEADS TO BRITISH SETBACK   SEVERS FIGHTING BRINGS LOSS OF IMPORTANT ISLAND POINT.

}GERMAN CAPTURE OF LEROS TIGHTENS RING AEGEAN SEA GUTPOSTS TO BALKANS.    British Announce Islafid Loss. ‘Germans Say. ; x British and 5,000 Italidns and 140 Guns ie Allied Leros ‘Setback Moy Have Important’ 2  R enarcnagions

Germans Take Isle After Heavy Aerial And Land Action—  Berlin Reports 3,000 British And 5,000 Italians Held As Prisoners—Enemy Triumph May Be Used As Propaganda Influence Over Turkey—Bad Weather Curtails Fighting In Italy

british Papers  “Angry At Failure To Hold Islands eln Dodocanese —

RUSSIAN DRIVE NEARS GOMEL AS NAZIS RETREAT   Weather Slows Fighting in italy But Yanks Regain Some of Lost Ground

Germans Close Ally Entrance To The Balkans   Operation Is Small But It May Cause Turkey To Change  Policy   REDS ADVANCING   Nazi Lines ‘Dented’ In Dnieper Area; Weather In _ Italy Bogs Allies

Nazi Success Is Important Mostly For Propaganda   Berlin Concedes Further Reverses On Russian Front

Victory May Have Effect on Turks   Air Bombardment and Heavy Fighting Give Enemy Leros, Island of Great Importance

GERMANS TAKE ISLE OF LEROS   Island Garrison Battered Into Submission by  Air Attacks

SHIP. SALVAGE “AS COMPLETED   FORMER LUXURY LINER. NORMANDIE:TO BE TURNED OVER ‘TO NAVY TOMORROW.

GRAIG ELECTION   E, H. Schulz Is New Mayor 3 New. Gounciimen  B O00

CONTESTSIN. PRAIE ELECTION   E. H. Schulz Is New Mayor ‘—New Councilmen Tan 7

How Goes Battle In Pacific After Two Years Of Bitter War?  Admiral Halsey Recalls Difficulties And Progress Of Past Year In Pacific   Situation Is Now  Greatly Improved By ELTON C, FAY   Guadalcanal Taken Ta Halt Jan Rlow

How Goes Battle In Pacific After Two Years Of Bitter War?  Admiral Halsey Recalls Difficulties \And Progress Of Past Year In Pacific   Situation Is Now Greatly Imorovec

Marshalls Bombed   SUBS SINK 11 MORE NIPPON SHIPS IN PACIFIC ACTIVITY.      Halsey Says Much Accomplished Under Major Difficulties During Past Year

River Rise Threatens Midwest Farm Land   U.S. Troops Aid in Fight to Abate Swollen Missouri

WATERS OF MISSOURI RIVER NEAR CREST   Soldiers, Civilians Work to Protect Property

Flood Takes Big Livestock Toll   Flooded Missouri Reaches Crest at Omaha; Dikes Are Heightened.

Spend 25 Per Cent   Soldiers Aid Flood Fight   Industrial Qmaha Section Menaeced

SOLDIERS BATTLE TO HOLD BACK RIVER    Missouri Nears “Flood Crest as Troops Labor over Dikes at Omaha

Missouri River Flood Waters  Menace Omaha   Soldiers Called Out To Aid In Fight Against Raging Flood Torrent

Powerful U.S. Fleet Awaiting Action In Pacific Says Knox   Secretary of the Navy Speaks To Largest Class Ever To Graduate From the Naval Academy At Annapolis

Hannah Denies Jack's Charges Of Infidelity   Mrs. Dempsey Also Testi fies Husband Threatened Her

MRS. DEMPSEY VOICES DENIAL OF MISCONDUCT   Testifies Ex-Heavyweight Champ Husban« Punched Her in the Eye; Made Several Threats to Kill Her

SINK JAP CARGO ~ SHIP IN HARBOR   Three Enemy Planes Shot Down by Patrol Bomber

Allied Planes Score Hit on Jap Vessel   Three Nip Fighter ‘Planes Are Shot From Skies

TO GIVE A DAY’S PAY   Kansas Highway Patrolmen Agree to Help War Fund Drive 

300 AMERICAN PLANES BATTER 9 ENEMY AREAS   Italian Mainland, Sicily and Pantelleria Also Hammered   TERA ees ww     Four Vessels Sunk, Fifth  Blown Up and Others Cat Afira

Sardinia Given Heaviest Blasting  By U.S. Bombers   More Than 300 American Bombers Hit Nine Areas On Island   TO IMMOBILIZE AXIS AIR BASES

War Is ‘Truly Grave’ Japs Are Told By Their Emperor      Hirohito Makes One Of His Infrequent Talks  Urges Greatest Sacrifices

Hirchito Asserts Situation ‘Grave’   Speaks Before Japanese Diet

“DESERT RATS” OF TOBRUK BACK iN AUSTRALIA   Famed Aussie Regiment Returns To Homeland To Fight Japs

FAMED HEADED UF Dtot AT WAR NOW BACK HOME   Australia Greets Gallant “Desert Rats” Who Held Port of Toburk

GROUPS CALLED ON TIRE INSPECTIONS   Alphabetical Name Schedule to Be Followed by OPA Stations in This County. :

CALL FINAL GROUP ~ TO INSPECT TIRES   Alphabetical Name Schedule to Be Followed by OPA Stations in This County.

TROOPS SHIFTED   Veleran Nazi Fighters on Way to Spanish Border. Renor?.

Seasoned German Troops Are Reported Swarming Toward Spanish Frontier

NAZIS MENACE TUNIS FOOTHOLD OF THE ALLIES   Heavy Fighting Continues Between. Axis Forces and British-American Army in Africa.   ON THE MOVE

HITS SCORED BY FORTRESSES ON FOUR JAP SHIPS   One Of Heaviest Raids Of War Made On Buin By Bie Planes

.NIPS’ BASE AT KAHILI IS POUNDED   Enemy Is Continuing + Retreat In Guinea Ground Fighting

HEAVY RAID IS MADE ONBUIN   Hits Scored on 4 Jap Ships by Flying Forts

FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST BUIN BASE IN. HEAVIEST - RAID          Scote Hits With 50 Bombs On Four Ships That) Totaled.  "27.000 Tone

SCORE HITS ON 4 SHIPS   Raid On Buin Is One of Heaviest Of the War

THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP INDICATES ALLTIME RECORD YIELD   About Million Acres Less Planted to Cotton This Year Than Last

COTTON CROP OF 12,358,000 BALES FORECAST MONDAY  GINNINGS TO AUGUST FIRST REPORTED TO RE 198 652 RALES

BALE ESTIMATE IS 12,558 000   Government Issues First Estimate On Year's Cotton Crop.

Soviets Beat Back Attacks By Germans   Moscow Reports Every Attempt to Cross Donets Has Failed

Red Line Holds  Firm       Beat Off All German Attempts To Cross Upper Donets River; Smash Near Smolensk

Section of Crack Train Is Wrecked   Four Injured, One Fatally, in Crash

IN ew York Banker and Mer cantile Director Terms It “An Intolerable. Force For Public Opinion”   FOR PLAN TREATING ALL CLASSES ALIKE   Hold His Program “Beneficial to Everybody,” and Maybe “Too Beneficial To Few”.

12 DIE AS PLANE. HITS GAS TANK   STRUCTURE TRANSFORMED INTO INFERNO—ARMY AIRMEN PERISH IN FLAMES,

Rhea Ie Annpainted   Big Bomber Rams Gas Storage Tank   Sets Off Chicago Fire, Burning Twelve Flyers

BOMBER CRASHES INTO 500-FOOT GAS TANK   12 Fliers Aboard Craft So Bad!) Burned Bodies May Never Be Located

Pete Baird Caught By FBI In Uvalde  Desperado Who Fled Officers June 22 Heald In Austin

Senator Connally Declares Time Ripe for U.S. To Prove [ts Power To Hold Peace

Senate Debates Stand of U.S. On World Peace   Isolation Policy Called Failure By Senator Connally

DEBATE ON POSTWAR POLICY OPENS TODAY   Connally Calls Upon Senate To Adopt Resolution

Connally Urges U.S. Aid In Enforcing World Peace As Debate Opens In Senate

SENATOR OPENS /RGUMENT FOR SECURITY BILL   Says U. S. Isolation Has Failed to Keep Peace

‘Senate Open: Debate On World Peace After War   Connally Says U.S. Alone Cannot Write Pattern To Be Adopted For Entire World

SENATE DEBATE ON POSTWAR POLICY OPENS   Connally Urges ‘Collective Securily, Says U.S. May Be Mighty in Peace as in War

U.S. Must Take Stand Now To Prevent Aggressior In Future, Connally Says Opening Policy Debate

Senale Begins Peace Plan Debate   Connally Pleads for Collective Security

Begin Senate Discussion On  Post-War Plar   Conally Says Time For America To Show Its Might on World Peace  SQL ATION FATLED

Connally Urges U.S. To Dedicate Might To Peace   Speaks As Senate Opens Qne Of Most Important Debates In Generation

SENATE OPENS PEACE DEBATE      Sen. Connally Calls U. S Isolation Policy Failure -

Connally Calls For Security   Senate Leader Says Isolation Has Failed In Opening Debate

SENATE TOLD ISOLATION HAS FAILED   Sen. Connally Calls On U. S. To Use Its Strength To Keen Peace

Generation’s Most Vital Debate Open:   America’s Postwar Position Being Decteled

POST-WAR BILL DEBATE OPENED   Senate Approval Expected fr Vote By Friday

Senate Begins Vital Postwar Policy Debate   U. S. Must Declare For Collective Security In Future, Says Connally.

SENATOR CONNALLY )PENED IMPORTANT DEBATE IN SENATE   DECLARES HOUR HAS STRUCK FOR AMERICA TO SHOW MIGHT FOR PEACE

Calls Upon U.S. To Act  ‘. For Peace   Sen, Connally Opens. One of Most-Important Debates in This Generations   URGES RESOLUTION FOR WORLD COUNCIL   ‘Isolation Has Failed,’ the Texan Says; Sen. Pepper for Definite Proposals

CONNALLY ASKS SENATE 0 0.K. PEACE LEAGUE   Urges Collective Security As Solons Open Historic Discussions

SENATE DEBATES FOREIGN POLICY   U. §. URGED TO JOIN IN HELPING MAINTAIN INTERNATIONAL PEACE

SENATE OPENS PEACE DEBATE   Sen. Connally Declares Now Is Time for America to Act

EARLY FALL OF BASE Is _PREDICTED   Soviets Capture 170 Additional Towns; Aim At Bryansk

ADVANCE UNITS DAY'S MARCH FROM 2 BASES   170 Towns Are Seized In Steamroller Drive  On Nazi Bastions —'   NEAR RAIL LINE      Germans In Mad Retreat As Eastern Defenses Are Crumbled

ROME INDICATED   Foreign Diplomats Ordered To Leave City At Once

AXIS ORDERS ALL DIPLOMATS 10 QUIT CAPITAL OF ITALY   Enemy Rushing To Fight Off Allied Siege On City Of  Rome

Axis Authoritics issue Order — Nazis ‘Rushing Last Minute Preparations. to Fight. Of Allied Siege. of, Capitals

AXIS OFFICIALS WARN DIPLOMATS ~ TO LEAVE ROME   Tell People to Lay Up 30-day Food Supply As Battle of Capital !s Nearing.

Roosevelt Reviews Men Of 7th Army In Sicily   Confers DSC On Clark And Others; Patton P-esent; President Rides In Jeep

F.D.R. visits veterans of Sicilian push   Awards d.s.c. to six officers

7th Army Reviewed By F.D.R.   President Visits Sicily On Recent, Mediterranean Trip

Roosevelf Sees Patton's Troops Pass in Review   Soldier Slapping Reprimand Denied

President in a Visit  to Sicily   Reviewed Veterans of Sicilian Fight   Awards DSC to Gen. Clark and Five Others

ath Army Chiet, 5 Ofticers Personally Decorated for Bravery   NEAR ACTUAL FRONT      Clark Cited for luspiring -Troops by Action al Salerno

FOR REVIEWS U.S. FORCES IN SICILY, GIVES CROSSES TO EN. CLARK. 5 OTHER

Roosevelt Visits Sicily, Honors Clark   President Gives Medals to Five U. S. Officers

N REVIEW CF PATTON ARMY   Decorates Gen. Clark, Other Officers for Bravery In Sicily.

Report F. D. R. Talked With Franco At Gibraltar  President Pays A Visit To Sicily; Honors Clark

MADE TRIP FROM MALTA BY PLANE, TRAVELS IN JEEP   12 Lightning Fighters Accompany Executive, Great Many Troops ! ino Airport Runway.   CLARK IS PRESENTED WITH HIGH CITATION   General {s ‘Last to Receive His Metal, Apparently. Astonished, Patton Greets Presidant.

Roosevelt ‘Visits the 7th Army   No Indication, of . What, It Anything, He Had to Say -- About Patton Incident   STIMSON REPORTS . ON THE GENERAL   President Wanted to Visit Ttalian Front,But Army and Secret Service Said No 

President Visits Sicily, Inspects Patton’s Troops   Spanish Dictator And President Of Portugal Talk With Roosevelt At Gibraltar, Sweden Claims; Gen Clark Decorated

UnIET EXECUTIVE  VISITS IN SICILY   President Roosevelt Reviews Troops From Jeep.

President Visits Sicily, Gives Officers Medals  Executive Honors Clark, Others While Near Front

SICILY VISITED BY PRESIDENT (CLARK HONOREL      Reoseveli Reviews Gen. Patton’ Troops, Reported Dissuade: From Visiiing Batilelront   KEPT FROM FRONT   Army Dificers and Personal Guard: Dissuade President From Visit ing Battlefield

ROOSEVELT HAS VISITED SICILY, DECORATED CLARK      President Reviews Veterans Of Sicilian Campaign. Sees Gen. Patton

ROOSEVELT VISITS SICILY, DECORATES GEN. MARK CLARK   Trip Takes President 25 Miles From Italy Front   GEN. PATTON RIDES IN PRESIDENTIAL JEEP

F.R. Reviews 7th Army In Sicily Visit   iwards Medals, But 1: Turned Down On His Request To Go Into  et. Kar Tauar

FDR Pays Visit fo Patton's Army  ate ps OFF in n Sicily eview 7th Army

General Patton Among Army Leaders Who Greeted Roosevelt At Castelvetrano Field

General Clark and Five Officers Are Given Decorations   Roosevelt Visits Sicily to Reward Heroism of Fifth Army leader

ROOSEVELT VISITED FORCES IN SICILY   Flew to Within 250 Miles of Battlefields to Review Troops and Decorate Officers.

Wanted To Visit Front In Italy   But Those in Charge of His Safety Vetoed The Idea   eS ee ee ne  SKES GENERALS PATTON AND CLARK

SICILY VISITED BY ROOSEVELT   President Pins Medal On Gen. Clark, Reviews Seventh Army

President Pins Heroes’ Medals   COMMANDER.-IN-CHIEF VIEWS U. S. SEVENTH ARMY AFTER FLIGHT FROM MALTA TO CASTELVETRANO; GENERAL CLARK GETS D. S. C. FOR SALERNO ACTION

Secret Service Men Prevent Roosevelt From Visiting Front Lines While In Sicily

FDR Stops Tn Sicily to ‘Honor Troops   Group at Airport for Welcome Includes Lt. Gen. Patton

UNDER PATTON ISREVIEWED   President Flies From Malta  - to Castelventrano Air '- field to Decorate Officers   SECRET SERVICE MEN VETO HOP INTO ITALY   ‘Dispatch Gives No Indication What, If Anything, - Roosevelt Had to Say to ith Commander

ROOSEVELT REVIEWS PATTON'S 7TH ARMY   Secret Service Vetoes FOR Request To Visit Front

PRESIDENT VISITED. SICILY WHILE IN MEDITERRANEAN ARE;   REVIEWED SEVENTH ARMY AND PRESENTED NUMBER OF AWARDS

PRESIDENT . WITH TROOPS INSICHLY   Visited Island; . Pinned Cross on Lt. Gen. Clark

Serious Economic Blow In Loss of Ukraine Lands Also Is Acknowledged

Ship Sunk By Patrols   Large Craft Carried Raw Materials Fer Germany. ~

LARGE GE VESSEL SUNK   Caught Trying to Run Bigekares iy Atlanta

NAR IN TUNISIA, LOWED BY RAIN, IS MAJOR EFFORT  eae LIAL ALTA AID   " ALLIES HOLDING AIR ~ AS AXIS CONSERVES . WANING STRENGTH

Big German Ship Sunk   Surfaces Ship Vessel Loaded With Raw Materials in Atlantic

HEAVY BOMBER ATTACK STAGED   Gen. Eaker Says Allies Will Cross Channel  For Invasion

Gen. Eaker Predicts an Allied Invasion of Germany Across the English Channel and the North Sea

GOV. GREEN CALLS SPECIAL SESSION   PROPOSES CHANGES IN ELECTION LAWS ON SOLDIER VOTE

OHIO MINE STOPPAGE REPORTED COMPLETE   20,000 Miners Leave Pits Awaiting Agreement

20,000 MINERS FROM OHIO JOIN COAL WALKOUT   Report Complete Work Hait, Union Members Wait for Agreement

OHIO'S MINERS JOIN. STOPPAGE   20,000 in Southern, Eastern Sections Walk Out

Blame OPA Meat Rules for Black Market   ‘Squeeze’ May Drive Out 3d of Packers, Wickard Warns

OPA BLAMED FOR BLACK MARKETS   House Small Business Group Says Third Of Packers May Quit Business

OPA Rulings Blamed for Black Market   Wickard Has < ; _ Authority, - House Committee “Sava”

House Group Hits atOPA Meat Rules   Regulations Blamed for ‘Worst Black Market in History’

Committee Hits legal Meat Sales   OPA and Wickard Blamed for Not . Cleaning up Mess

Meat racket blamed on  OPA rulings   Committee sees packers threat

BLAME OPA FOR BLACK MARKETS   Small Business Committee Charges Wholesale Ceilings Responsible For Shortage. Illegal Slaughtering

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Heavy Bombers Reach for Heart of Nazi Germany  59 GERMAN PLANES DOWNED IN FIGHTS  Fifth Army Continues to Score New Sucroaetecac

BOMBS RAINED ON INNSBRUCK AND AUGSBURG   YANKS BAG 59 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES IN TWIN RAIDS

FLEETS FLY INTO FACE OF LUFTWAFFE   American Heavy Bombers Shoot Down Or Damage 59 Enemy Planes In Flight Into Heart of Germany.   Take Orsogna

American Heavy Bombers Bag 59 German Fighters   Mediterranean Bases Used in Great Raids

Twin Blows Lash Nazis From South   Heavy Bombers Striking German, Austrian Bases From Mediterranean Shoot Down Or Badly Damage 59 Planes

MURRAY CHARGED SHIPPING WASTE   CIO Head Says Confusion, Lack of Planning in Use of Ships Delay Arms Deliveries, Cost American Lives

PROBE OF SHIPPING IS URGED BY Cio   Murray Charges Muddling Costing Lives of Americon<c

SHIPPING MUDDLE IS COSTING SOLDIERS’ LIVES, ClO CHARGES    Waste, Confusion And Lack Of Planning Charged To Government By Union; Trucks, Guns, Ammunition Reported Thrown Overboard In Southwest Pacific

Shipping Probe Asked to Stop - Waste. Delays   CIO ChiefTells Senate  Unions Have Evidence ee > ee

Murray Charges Ship Confusion Costs Many Lives   ‘10 President Demands Immediate Probe by Congress

— Se st UE er eee ee  ‘Legislation Cuts Year From Training Course

EXTRADITION IS ‘SOUGHT FOR NEOSHO BOY'S KIDNAPER   Gov. Donnell Approves Requisition Seeking Return Of Thomas Cope To Neosho

COMMITTEE NAMED BY PRESIDENT   Chief Executive. ‘Voices Hope For  A Quick Survey.

Cost of Living Group Is Named   William H. Davis, - WLB Chairman, Head: Investigators 

Every Available State Po‘ice lo Be Patrolling Highways, Adams Warns  ee ee ae  fm wt oe Oe ee   TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS

Seven Omaha Schools Open This Morning   Custodians Strike After Failure to Get Wage Increase

BOMBER FORCES POUND RANGOON   American Airforce Sends Over Two Formations Of Over 50 Planes

State Gains Nothing While  Gain Eternal Life, Writes Doomed Slayer

Slayer Revises 23rd Psalm Before Going to death in Electric Chair

STRIKE AFFECTS 8,000 AT FORDS   Army Investigates Cause Of Walkout In Big Aircraft Plant

8000 Strike 4 Hours In Ford Plant   ARMY ORDERS !INVESTIGATION INTO CAUSE OF WORK STOrPAGE AT THE FORD RIVER ROUGE PLANT.    Third Walkout

Proposed  Cat in Gas in Midwest Is Opposed   Several Congressmen Voice Protest, But Some tee the Move as Necessary   TRANSPORTATION AND SUPPLY INVOLVED   OPA Also Bans Sale cf New Tires for Spares tor Next Few ionths

ASSESSORS 10 START THEIR. ~~ WORK MARCHE   Will Begin Big Job of Listing ‘Perscnal Property "in County!   BUT NO REAL ESTATE   will: Also Take Census of "Male Voters Which Is  Really Useless. .

Astana Il START THEN WORK MARCH    Will Begin Big Job of Listing Perscnal Property in County.   BUT NO REAL ESTATE   Will Also Take Census of Male Voters Which Is Rea'ly Useless.

TAKE VENGEANCE   Polish) Patriots Shoot Another Hich Nazi Official.

Boss of Landings in Ttaly Gets New Job   U. 8. Trying to Socialize Medicine — Fishbein

RedArmy Roars On 13 Miles   SOVIET ARMORED UNITS BREAK GERMAN DEFENSE LINE NEAR DNIEPER

Russ Threaten Nazi Lifeline  Tuto Poltava   Soviets Out in Open Wes  of City and Headed For Dneiper

Mids County. ~ Quota For War Drive Is $12,950   ‘The National War Fand deive will -otart {9 Mille County next Mon  day, Wi H, Redabaugh Chair  . man of drive

Disaster One of Texas _ Costliest; Many Escape — ‘By Leaping From W ‘ndows

DOWNTOWN HOUSTON HOTEL DESTROYED; FORTY-EIGHT DEAD   ONE FIRE ESCAPE AND STAIRWAY CUT OFF BY SPREADING FLAMES

Guests Battle To Reach Lone  Fi re Escape    Many War Workers and. Transients Jump From Windows of Three-Story Building; Firemen Hampered by Age of Structure

Youth Admits Drowning Pa   Held Him Under Water ‘Fooling Around’

Atalian Naval Base At Spezia Again Bombec   Second Attack In Six Nights Is Made On Base By British Bombers   MANY ATTACKS ARE “MADE OVER WEEK-END

HALY'S NAVAL GAE BOMBED SEGOND TIME   Spezia’s Port Is Visited by Large Force of British Planes.   ONLY ONE SHIP LOST   Offensive Sweeps Alsc Made by the R.A.F. in Northern France.

Weather Forecast   MUST Ur oATt MINERS DLE, SURVEY SH OWa   Republic Forced To Bank Gadsden Blast Furnace As Fuel Lacking

Country Store To Be Held Saturday, Dec. 4  ST. LUDMILA’S PTA OUTLINE PROGRAM

Showdown on Labor Power Is Impending   Congressional Reaction te Penalties of Antiracketeering Act to Indicate Whether Revision Laws Probable

Fear of Russia Abets Nazis in Baltic Control, People Resisting Germanization

Municipal Election Plans Laid: Local Option Referenda An Issue   Primary Election To Be Held Stept, 14 — Local Offices To Be Filled——One Statewide Contest

RAF BLASTED KEY WAR ‘PLANTS THAT WERE REPAIRED AFTER PREVIOUS . RAIDS ON CITY

BLOCKBUSTERS DAMAGE VITAL WAR FACTORIES   Tremendous damage done to plants producing U-boat equipment

. Russians Clip Nazi “Wedges .   Foe Flees After Tank Disaster; Dead Litter Fielc

HUGE NAZI TANK DRIVE   German Advances Are Held Wiped Out In Belgorod Battle

SOVIETS WIPE OUT NAZI SPEARHEADS IN FURIOUS FIGHT      Launch Counter-Attacks Sending Battle Into New Phase—No Abatement

SOVIETS TAKE INITIATIVE AT BELGOROL   Smash Nazi Panzer Thrusts And Drive Nazis Back To Original Posts.

REDS HALT NAZIS, TAKE INITIATIVE NEAR BELGORAN   Counter-attacks  Buttressed By Reserves Rushed to Threatened Sector.

RUSSIANS STOP BERMIANS, START POUNTER-DRIVE   Wedges in Lines Near Belgorod Are Wiped Out   GERMANS ASSERT DONETS IS CROSSED

Kuss Pushing Nazis Back in Belvorod Area   Reds Take Initiative Claim Recapture of  Toast Tawne

Russ Wipe Out German Wedges   Bodies and ind Tanks Litter Battlefield

Reds Stop — Nazis in Big  Tank Battle   Germans Driven Back to Original Lines at Belgorod

Nazi Wedges Wiped Out By Russians   Red Army Seizes Initiative After Halting German Panzer Spearheads; Reserves Rushed Intc Rattls   RUSSIAN DEFENSES HAMMERED BY NAZIS

Seize Initiative in Gigantic  Tank Battle   Nazi Wedges Wiped Out By Defenders ‘In Belgorod Area

REDS SEIZE INITIATIVE. AT BELGOROD   : Wipe Out ut Nazi “Wedges As“ Tank - Battle Continues”

REDS HALT NAZI ASSAULTS AND TAKE INITIATIVE   Hundreds of Burned Out German Tiger Tanks Litter Field’

RUSSIANS PUSH BACK GIGANTIC NAZI ATTACK   Seize Initiative in Gi. gantic Tank Battle; Wipe Out Wedges

WORKERS HELD TO “HOME” JOBS   Employment Outside Commuting Distance Banned in Four Areas

MARYLANDERS ARE FROZEN IN PRESENT JOBS   Workers Leaving State To  Get Permission From _ U.S. Employment Service First .   War, Hlanpower Commission Issues Order Placing Embargo. On Persons Seeking Work

Senator Chandler Says He Is ‘Sold’ On Gen. MacArthur   Kentuckian Urges Amer Aan Leader Be Named Supreme Commander

Windstorm i in East Texas Kills Four   Many Are Injured; 50 Oil Well Derricks Flattened by Blow 

Argentine Regime Gets Recognition U.S. and Britain  BALD} A ae Rene

New Argentine Government Cains Recognition      United States and — Among Nation: yproving Revolt

WELCOME GIVEN NEW ARGENTINE   Regime Is Recognized By Warring Powers And Neutral Nations

U.S. and Britain Recognize New Argentine Regime   Japan Follows Other Axis Powers — Decree Bans Code Messages

Powers Give Recognition To Argentina   U.S. Joins Neutral, Warring Nations In Notices

ALLIES RECOGNIZE ARGENTINE REGIME   UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN JOIN’ GENERAL APPROVAL OF NEW GOVERNMENT.

PAY-AS-GO TAX SEEN CLINCHED   Compromise “May Cut 50 Percent from 1942 © Income Taxes

Tax Compromise Is Now Assurec   50% Abatement Of 42 Levy Is- Provided

Starting July  20% Withheld;  ‘41 Lower Rates To Ra Anniiad Ta ‘4?

Pay- As-You-Go Tax System Appears Virtually Assured; House Reaches Compromise   Provides For Abatement Of Approximately 20 Per Cent Of 1942 Income Taxes

50 Percent Abatement Is Planned   Democrats and Republicans Alike Retreat; 20 Percent Levy to Go into Effect

Facts About India, Vital Problem of United Nations, Will Be Given

Allied Airmen Give Japanese Hardest Blow Yet in Pacific   1,900 Japs Are Killed; 120 Planes Demolished; Take Baanga.

R. A. F. BOMBERS ATTACK ITALY   San Giovanni, Train Ferry Terminus At Toe Of Ital ian Boot Hammered

LOCAL YOUTh SENTENCED 1 HEFORMATORY   Robert Morisett Was Before Judge Frank B. Russell Thursday.   MADE PLEA OF GUILTY   Young Man Had Served on Penal Farm and Also a Jail Sentence.

LOCAL YOUTH “SENTENCED 10 ~ BEFOAMATORI   Robert Morisett ‘Was Before Jvudge Frank B. Rus- _ sell Thursday. .   MADE PLEA OF GUILTY   Young Man Had Served on Penal Farm and Also a _ Jait Sentence. ;

SOVIETS SMASH DONETS NAZIS   German Fire at Selves As Russian Scouts Open Barrage

Soviets Smash German Assault   Attempt To Capture Important Heicht Fails

RED ARMY AGAIN REPULSES GERMANS ION DONETS’ BANKS      Russians Also- Successful In Engagements On Other Sectors  Along Front 

Reds Repulse German Drive Along Donets   Effort To Capture Important Height Is Failure With Reds Holding Fast

Nazi Attempt Below Izyum Stopped by Reds   One Hundred Germans Lose Lives in Stormine Heioht

SPORADIC FIGHTING IN RUSSIA   Reds Smash Nazi Attempt to Seize Important Height

GEN, KAI-SHEK ~ 1§ PRESIDENT   HEAD OF THE CHINESE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SINCE 1931 DIED LAST -‘ ’ NIGUT -

Chiang Kai- Shek Acting President   Assumes China Presidency On Death Of’ President Lin Sen, 81, Last Night

Mystery Blasts Shake London   Third in a Week Levels 5-Story Building; Hint “Secrét Weapon Might Be the Cause

London’s Third Mysterious Blast ln Week Arouses Suspicions Nazi Secret Weapon May Be Striking -

SIFT MYSTERY OF EXPLOSION   London Blasts Give Hint  Of New Secret Nazi Weapon

LONDON EXPLOSION LEVELS BUILDING   Germans Confuse Issue by Saying Raiders Were over Capital, None Are Heard

LONDON BLAST REVIVES TALK SECRET WEAPON   Third Mysterious Explosion in Week Smashes FiveStory Building Arousing Suspicions

Notre Dame Wins Over Seahawks Final score:  - Notre Dame 14, lowa Seahawks {3 ~   London Mystery Explosions Stir ‘Secret Weapon’ Talk.

THIRD ATTACK IN 11 DAYS BY PR. A. F. FLEET   American Fortresses Smash Renault Plant On Edge Of Paris; Few Planes Lost In Day-Long Sweeps

German Radio Admits Damaage and Fires in Capital: Planes Encounter Heavy Barrage Over Sweden On Return Flight

—AIR WAR—  THAD B16 RAID ON NAZ CAPITAL   Twenty-Two Bombers Reported Missing After Gigantic Assault   FIRES IN PARIS   U.S. Flying Fortresses In Successful Raid On French Capital ©

BiG RAF FLEET DEALS GROGGY CITY 3RD BLOW   ‘Terror Raid’ Nazis Say; British Plane Losses Are Light

Worst Bombing           Size Indicated By Loss of 19 Rritich Planee

BERLIN SUFFERS HEAVY ATTACK   1,000' Tons of Bombs. ‘Fall in 20 Minutes

Nazis’ Capital Gets Another Smashing Blow   Thousand Tons Of High Explosives Dropped In Swiff Raid

War Grows More Serious With Each Day— Drug Stores Give Up Lunch ‘Counters. Revert Tp Drie

 War G Grows ‘More Serious V With Each ‘Day ‘Drug Stores Give Up Lunch ‘Counters, Revert To Druas

— Airmen Hit ~ At Sardinia Again   13 Enemy Fighters Reported Shot Down In Attacks; Middle East Planes Active

Berlin Screams ‘Betrayed’ as Italians Get Out   ‘An AmericanBritish Plot’ Radio Explains

STYLES HIMSELF SUPREME HEAD OF THE NEW FASCISTS   Series of Proclamations Over the Radio But Mussolini’s Voice Is Not Heard.

‘REPUBLICAN FASCIST PARTY SET UP IN ITALY   Mussolini in Supreme Direction.  Broadcast Says—Fate of Pope  Unknown, Famine Stalks Rome

Proclamation Broadcast By “Fase:st Party”   But Preclatnation. OF Newly - Created .Mussolini “Govt’? Was Not Read-Out by Mussolini.

[TALIANS WHIP GERMAN TROOPS   Overpower Nazis Stationed With Them in Corsica, Ig Report

Mussolini Heads New Htaly Party   &-Point Program Given By Benito

Newly-Formed Fascist Party Is Proclaimed   Announcement Containing 8 Points Is Reported Signed By Mussolini

Duce In Command Of Fascist Body  Proclamation Is Issued  Under His Name

ARMED. GERMAN TROOPS ‘GUARD’ VATICAN CITY   Fighting in Rome Reported

Mussolini Sets Up New Gevernment   Germans Defy Neutrality of Vatican City

FASCIST RADIO HAS. MUSSOLINI BACK IN POWER   Series of Proclamations Announced Over The Air

Mussolini Sets Up New Government As Nazis Defy Vatican's Neutrality

MUSSOLINI PROCLAIMS NEW FASCIST GOV'T   Series of Proclamations. Broadcast as Nazis Defy Vati-'  ean'’sa Nantrality

FASCISTS 10 CARRY ON IN NEWEST GOVT   Tenets Call for Punishment of Those Italians Who Strung Along With Badoglio

MUSSOLINI TAKES OVER NEW FASCIST GOVERNMENT LEAD   Proclaims Himself Full Ruler Seven Weeks _Following His Removal

ACLOT AAD SSUES ORDERS BY MUSSOLIN   Four Proclamations Supposed to Set Up If Duce as New Ruler,   MYSTERY MAN DOESN’T APPEAR. ON BROADCAST

GERMAN-CONTROLLED FASCIST GOVERNMENT RADIO BROADCASTS  PROCLAMATION UNDER NAME OF MUSSOLINI SETS UP FASCIST PARTY

LDUGE BACK AOUTALY'S HEAD, ENEMY CLAIMS   Proclamations Are Issued In Name Of Mussolini But He’s Not Heard

Mussolini Proclaims Himself Head Of New Fascist Government in Italy

NAZIS DECREE  DBATH IN NEW MOVE IN ITALY   ltallans Found Hiding  Arms or Molesting or “Stealing Military Equipment Doomed

Nazi Police Take Control in Italy  Death for Those Wh« Hide Arms, Molest Or Steal Materiel

Nazis in Italy Fear Sabotage   Death Edict Proclaimed it. dele Beant alnane:

Soviets Smash Tank Attack At Kharkov  Offensive Toward 2 1 r TT Tr   Offensive Toward Smolensk Rolls On Unstemmed

Soviets Claim Victory In Donets Tank Battle   Forces Battle Below Kharkov; More Towns Taken in Russian Drive Toward Nazi Keystone Fortress of Smolensk.

Soviets Claim Victory In Great Tank Battle   On Central Front Red Armies Capture 32 More Towns In Drive Toward Nazi Keystone Fortress At Smolensk.

FOR CONTROL OF DONETS BASIN.   More Than 32 Towns And Villages Taken in  Drive Towards Smolensk

Major War Development Believed Imminent; Signs Point To Climactic Allied Offensive To Drive Axis Out of Tunisia

CLAIM WIN IN DONETS   Timoshenko’s Armies In Staraya Russa Sector Advance

Russians Win Big  Tank Battle for Donets River Basin   Soviet Forces Also Advance Nearer To Smolensk

Red Offensive In North Threatens Entire Nazi Front      Zero Hour Believed Approaching in Tunisia. Thousands of French Patriots Start Guerilla Warfare in France:

Nazis Making Supreme Try To Cross River   Soviets Capture mportant Railroad Station; Many Towns

RUSSIANS FORCE WEDGE IN NORTH   Capture Rail Center; Ie crease Threat to Base Below Lake Ilmen   [By Roger Greene, Ascoctated Press War Editor] .

Soviets Claim Tank Victory Near Kharkov   Smash Back Germans; 32 More Towns Taken In Drive on Smolensk

Russ Win Giant Tank Fight tor Control of Donets River Valley   Soviel Troops, Rallying After Kharkov Re. treat, Declare Nazi Forces Thrown Back With Severe Losses

REDS CLAIMING TRIUMPH OVER GERMAN TANKS   Edge for Soviets in Battle for Control of Donets River Valley Below Kharkov

CIO UNIT DENIES SHORTAGE OF MEN   USES Survey Indicates Many Job Seekers

Recommends That  Eighteen Suggestions Be Made Laws  By New Legislature

WAR POWERS ARE SOUGHT BY GOVERNOR   But Non-Political Merit  System Likely to Become a Hot Subject.  Peay   Much of Message Is Devoted to War Laws

WIDE WAR-TIME POWERS SOUGHT BY GOV. DONNEL   Chief Executive Asks Legislature for Right to Suspend War-Hampering Laws for Duration.   MUCH OF INAUGURAL PROGRAM REVIVED   Also Included in Recommendations Are Some Subjects Destined to Bring Hot Controversies.

SEND OBSERVER TO MARTINQUE   ADMIRAL HOOVED TO CONFER WITH FRENCH HIGH COMMISSIONER

TO SEND NAVY MAN TD MARTINIQUE   Vice Admiral Hoover to Confer with Robert on Change in French Authority

Admiral Hoover At Martinique   Talking With French Leader On Isle

ADMIRAL HOOVER TO CONFER WITH GEORGES ROBERT   American Naval Officer To Fly To Martinique

ADM. HOOVER TO SEE ROBERT   Will Confer with Martinique’s Governor On Transfer of French Authority

U. $. Admiral to Confer With Robert Today About New Setup on Martinique

PRESSURE. PUT ON GOP BY POST-WAR POLICYASSOCIATION   Want To Obtain Speedy Party Commitment For Collaboration  On Peace

Pincers Action Threatens Japs on New Georgia  American Warships Shell Enemy Bases On Pacific Island  MUNDA ATTACKED   21 Nipponese Planes  Shot Down in Attempt   To Raid U. S. Positions

Navy Says No Details Given  Reports Hint Japs May Be   Reports Hint Japs May Be. Moving In For Major Scran

NAVAL FiGht UNDER WAY ih THESCLOMGNS   Scope Of Engagement Noi Revealed; Believe Japanese Determined To Stop Northward Move Of Americans   Blast Munda

vy Communique Does Not Say Whether Naval Units Used In The Batile  Both Sides Expected To Bring Up Heavier Units If Major Battle Should Be In Making

Details Of Fight In Kula Gulf Are As Yet Not Clear   Suggéstion That The Heavier—Perhaps Much Heavier—Units Of Two Sides Had Come  Together In Central Solomons

SHIPS SAID TO HAVE MET IN KULA GUL!   , Reports to Navy Give No Indication of Scope of Engagement North of  New Georgia.   YANKS DRAW NOOSE AROUND MUNDA   Final Drive on Jap Air Base Seems Imminent —Land, Air and Sea Forces Co-Operating.

Scope of Action Not Indieated   Japs May Have Moved in Strong Flee: to Check Aled Advance-

Washington Reports Actio i Progress in Kula Gulf; Allies Close In on Munda

Naval Battle Is Reported Raging In Solomons Area   No Details on Action North of New Georgia Island Received by Navy—Little to Suggest _ ’ Scope of Engagement

Little Known Of Fighting In Solomons   Allied Planes Beat off Zeros Over Rendova

Navy Report: Sea Battle In Solomons   Details Awaited On Progress of Action in Kula Gulf

Navy in Dark As to Scope Of Sea Fight   Engagement Reported In Waters North Of New Georoja Teland   PINCERS THREATENS ENEMY ON ISLAND  ws pee —

‘No Details Of Action In Central Solomons Yet Received By Navy   BOMBERS, WARSHIPS RAID BAIROKO BASE

NO DETAILS OF ACTION REPORTED   g ossibility That Light Naval Forces Engaged   FIRRCE AIR ACTION   © arty Jap Planes Come Over Rendova; U. 8. Dive Bombers Attack Jap Base

No Details of Engagement Raging in Kula Gulf Received; Enemy Troops On Land Periled By Pincers

Navy Says No Details Given   Reports Hint Japs May Be Moving In For Major Scrap

PLANS FIGHT TO BAN DRAFTING OF FATHERS   Wheeler to Call Up Bill Barring Induction in 1943 Second Day After Senate Convenes.

May Postpone Father Draft   Wheeler Will Press For Showdown When Congress Meets.

Father Draft Fight Looms   Bill ta Postpone Induction Till Jan. 1 to Be Called. Up Sept. 15

WHEELER PLANS FIGHT AGAINST "FATHER DRAFT’   Senate Expected To Postpone Dad Calling Until Jan. 1

‘Drafting Of Dads “Seen Postponed Until New Year   Wheeler Advises Leaders. Move To Be Made For Showdown Qn Sept. 15)

SHOWDOWN ON THE FATHER DRAFTING QUESTION CALLED   Sen. .Wheeler..to..Move..For a Climax September 15—To Ask No Inductions for Remainder of Year

Father Dratt Vote Sept. 15   Concede Wheeler's Measure To Postpone Call Good Chance In Senate.

Wheeler Plans Draft Showdown   Senate May Delay Drafting of Fathers Until After Jan. 1

WHEELER TO SEEK ~ DRAFT SHOWDOWN   Indications Point To Approval . Of Bill

ARREST UNCONFIRMED   Will Seek Showdown On Father-Draft On September 15

YANK TROOPS SURGE ACROSS FLOODED LAND   Vaunted ‘Little Rommel’ Line Collapsed By Allies

5TH ARMY SURGES ACROSS PLAINS IN ~ ADVANCE ON ROME   Troops Drive Forward Seven Miles Qn West End Of Front From Isernia To Sea—-Reach South Bank Of Garicliano

ALLIED TROOPS SWARM ACROSS ITALIAN PLAINS   Germans Dig In On New Line

ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE INDRIVEON ROME   ‘Doughboys Cross Upper Volturne; Fight Way Inte Vanatra

NAZIS DIG IN AGH Ooo RIVER FOR NEW STAND   Repeat Of Volturno Battle Likely As 5th Draws Up Before Gargliano

BRITISH-AMERICAN FORCES = COMPLETE SMASHING OF, NAZIS’ ‘LITTLE ROMMEL’. Lif

Enemy Falls Back to New Hill Position   Heavy Fighting Still Ahead Before  Rome Is Captured

Garigliano River Is Reached Ih Concerted Drive   J American Units Cross Upper Volturno To Cut Off Garrison’:  >’

ALLIES FINISH CRUSHING NAZI ROMMEL LINE   Fifth Army Advances Seven Miles to Gargliano River as British Capture San Salvo. —

ADVANCE ALL ACROSS ITALY TOWARD ROME   British Fight to Win Isernia Toughest of Day's Battles

ALLIED FORCES GAIN ON WHOLE ITALIAN FRONT   Cross Garigliano To Strike Forward Barrier To New Nazi Defenses

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY CONTINUE - CONCERTED DRIVE   Reach Mouth. of Gariglianc River and Capture San Salya_

‘Rommel Line’ Is Smashed   Allies Moving Forword Across Italy on Rome

GERMAN LINE {$ SMASHED IN ITALY BY CLARK'S ARM   American Forces Swarm Across Flooded Plains as Concerted Advance Moves Army Toward Rome.   REICH IS BLASTED BY. GREAT BOMBER FORCE   Long Range Fighter Planes, Lightnings, Thunderbolts Assist Wreckers {n Making Assault.

Bulgarian Queen Mother Reporfed Held Prisoner ‘By Regency in Sofia

First Rochester Peaches Of Year Appear On Local Market; Bring $5 Bushel

 RELATIONS ARE RESUMED   Russia. in Touch With Polish Gov' -ernment in Exile

REDS TO HEAL POLISH BREAK   Berlin Says Diplomatic Relations Are To Be Resumed

‘Two Norfolk Policemen Shot \Fatally In Answering Robbery ‘Call: No Trace Of Killers   Were Attempting To Arrest Thieves Who Entered Granby St. Pharmacy

Equipment of WPA Employed For War Use   FURTHERING OF WAR PROGRAM DEVELOPS. FROM THIS PLAN,

WPA Material Put to Use In War Program   -Road-building machinery used on the Alean Highway; Waves get sewing room irons.

Meningitis Tol Growing In U. 5.  Outbreak Is Scattered Throughout Country

a  Spinal Meningitis Increase Is Feared   Despite New Cure With Sulfa Drugs, Dread Disease Increases Sharply Now

Battle Raging For Important Japanese Base   Strong U. $. Units Engaged in Action

Senate May Delay Food Subsidy Vote   Fight to Continue Program Renewed By Administration

SUBSIDY FIGHT MAY.BE DELAYED   Senate Resumes Hearings As Postponement Talk Rises

‘SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDIES MAY BE POSTPONED   Administration Renews Fight T. Save Its Food Subsidy Prooram

Allied Fliers Strike With ‘Bombs, Guns   Strive To Check German Drives In Central Tunisia

Aliies Try To Prevent Axis Junction   U. S. Planes Go to Aid of Hard Pressed  French in Tunisia

U. S. And British Planes Aid French. ....  Allied Planes Assault Foe Near Pont Du Fahs

Scarcity Of Paper May Be Worse   More Wood Needed— Therefore More Manpower

GIRAUD HINTS INVASION NEAR   Tells Homeland France Will Hear Clatter Of Allied Tanks  Again Soon

Nazi Army Hurled Back In One Area, But Crisis Only Partially Eased   Russians Drive Ahead in North Area and Caucasus, Taking Number of Important Towns on the Route; British Mass for Smash at Rommel; Munich Raided

‘Nothing Said, However, In Red Communique To Indicate Slowing Of German Assaults  CIRCUMSTANCES RECALL JULY, 1918  Red Forces Continue Uninterrupted March Westward in North

Islands in Sea Again Bombed   Italian Outposts Get An other Blasting—Russia Tells of Air Battle

TokyoSays . 7 Warships of U.S. Sunk   MEDITERRANKAN AND® § AU CASUS SCENES OF hie, ALLIED LICKS, * 2%  ee

Reverses 10 Be Felt He Tells Nation   Cites Woshington’s Troubles In War As Parallel Of Today

F.D.R. Assaix Those Who 4 Stir Disunity®   Parallel Drawn in Address to Democratic Dinners   Text on Page 10

Soldiers Eye Front At Home  OWant Tha Wranaw Ahnat   Want To Know About Lewis And Strikes

Reds Drive Last Of Nazis Out of  Taman Peninsula   Soviets Swarming  Across Dnieper at Many Crossings

Soviet Forces Swarm Over Dnieper At New Crossings   ‘Initiative Is Now Entirely With The Red  Ren? @Cautet Aeneas Maaiennniae Dinctaimd

Nazis Driven From Taman Peninsula   Reds Seize Initiative Entirely From Germans, Red Star Reports

River Lines Shattered In Crushing Offensive   Nazis Admit Taman Evacuation; Initiative Now With Russians

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DIRECT APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF WARTORN STATE   United Nations Leaders Say Liberating Armies Are on Way to Lend Full Assistance

ITALIANS URGED TO STRIKE AT GERMANS   Roosevelt And Churchill say This Is The Time For Every Italian To Hit His Blow

Adaress Message To Badoglio And People of aly  Shia, le tha   ‘Now Is the Time’ United Nations Leaders Urge

Plea Made to Italians By Roosevelt, Churchill To Strike Hard at Nazis

Allies Entering At Every Point, People Are Told   Hitler Preparing To Inflict Cruelties, Says Joint Statement

APPEAL MADE ‘JO ‘HIT HARD   Roosevelt end Churchill Address Message to Italians 

ETERNAL CITY AGAIN THRUST INTO CONFLICT   BADOGLIO FLEES. PUPPET REGIME INDICATED   Strike Hard At Huns. Italian People Urged

Push Nazis Back      Allies Win 16-Mile Front on Volturno River Above Naples; Reds Cross Dnieper

Holds 16 Miles Along Volturno   Hitler the Big Noise at Nazi Pep Rally 

Chief Justice - Stone Becomes71 Years Today   “Celebration” Includes Decision on 300 Petitions

Catroux Would Pacify Lebanon  French Action Brings Protest From Arabs

Police And F.B. . Turn To St. Louis In Search For Boy and Kidnaper

Axis Facing Four Major ~ Defeats ln Global War   Approaching Week May Be Filled With Still More Disaster For Crumbling Plans

How U. S. Money Is Being Spent in Other Lands Is Under Investigation

Lend-Lease Probe Begun   Twin Inquiry Under Way Behind Closed Doors by Senators

SECRET INQUIRIES IN U.S. SPENDING   Two Senate Groups Probing How Money Is Being Spnent Abroad.

ui MAY HIT ‘HIGH PLACES   Probe of Legislature May Lead Afield, Says Rushton

HOLD ON CORAL SEA   United States Navy Finds Sea Theirs Without Challenge From  Toss Auer

NOT ATRACE OF JAPANESE IN CORAL SEA   Enemy Is Seen Loosening Grip On Solomons

Raiders Drop 2.000 Tons  Explosives   37,000 Germans Left Homeless After OneHour Pounding.

1,000 Planes Drop 2,000 Tons Of TNT]  ‘In Factory Area   Explosives And Incendiaries Rain At Rate Of 33 Tons Per Minute; Do Great Damage. Lifts War’s Total To 100,000 Tons On Europe.

U. S. Marines Take Airdrome At Cape Gloucester: Report Hundreds of Japs Are Slain

UOU DISMISSES ~ PETIT WURY LIST   ‘Excused Subject To CallCounter Claim On Record

COURT DISMISSES ~ PETIT JURY LISI   Excused Subject To Call— Counter Claim On  Record

Entire Reich  Subjected to Allied Raids   Under Way 48 Hours, Attacks Strike From Berlin East Into  Czechoslovakia. South

AERIAL BLOWS WITHOUT END SMASH EUROPE   Nervously Described By Berlin Radio As “Armed Reconnaisance Over Whole Reich” Attack On After 48 Hrs.   Yanks And RAF

AMERICANS SLIZF. STRANDED TANKS      GALENA MAN AMONG THOSE SALVAGING VEHICLES BE-  FORE GERMAN LINES.

WHITE HOUSE RAILWAY PAY * PARLEY FAILS   Management, Union “ Officials Confer With President

Railroad Parley At White House Helps ‘Clear Air   New Conference On Wage Strike Threat Is Set for Tuesday

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rail To Agree On Solid Pact 7 Ih Wage Fight   White House Moves Tc Prevent Threatened Railroad Strike

White House Parley Fails On Rail Pact   Talk Said to Have Attained Clearer Understanding Of Problem

CONFERENCE: ON RAIL STRIKE IS HELD WITH F.D.R.   Five-Hour Parley Fails To Reach Agreement; Meeting Is Set For Tuesday

White House Meeting Fails To Remove  Strike Threat   Rail Representatives And Union Men Meet With Chief Executive ‘And Talk Amone Selva:

RAIL CONFAB “TO RESUME ON TUESDAY   Telk at White House Yesterday Clears

5 -HOUR PARLEY HELD YESTERDAY ‘AT WHITE. HOUSE   Railroad Brotherhood Officials And President Unable To Agree   ANOTHER MEETING IS SLATED TOMORROW

Rail Conference Not Productive Of Any Results   Five-Hour Session Held at White House

Attempt to Agree on Rail Wages Fails   White House Meeting With Union Chiefs Lasts Five Hours

Opening Parley Leaves Rail Strike Unsettled   White Honse Announces Conferees Reached ‘Clearer Understanding’; Discussion Will Resume Tuesday

No Agreement Reached On — Railroad Wage Controversy      Five Hour Conference on Threatened Walkout Held at White House—Another Meeting to be Held Tuesday Morning

Fail to Agree on Rail Wage Question   Another Meeting Will Be Held Tuesday Morning

SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS HAS DENIED DISCHARGE OF THOMAS  PRESIDENT UAW REMAND. ED TO CUSTODY OF SHER-

Texas Supreme Court Upholds Cio Head's Fine   Discharges Petition Of R. J. Thomas: Expected To Seek  Rehearing

Japanese Ship Loss immense   Totals Better Than One Warship Daily During Northern Solomons Fight.

Allies Reduce Effective Jap Cruiser Roll   Air Force Holds to One A Day Average Against Jans

ALLIED BOMBERS SINKING JAP CRUISER A DAY   Since October 12th Raid On Rabaul, 40 Jap Fighting Ships Have Sunk or Damaged

Jap Warship A Day Feels U. S. Bomb   - Americans Cutting Down Nip’s Strength In Solomons

U. S. Airmen Sink Or Damage Warshiy Each Day In Current Pacific Offensive

FLIERS SINK OR HIT ONE JAP WARSHIP DAILY   Record Made Since Start o Drive in Northern Solomons

Bombers Bag Jap Warships At RateOf One Per Day: .      40 Sunk or Damaged To Date In North Solomons Offensive.

Allied Bombers Sink Average — Of One Japanese Ship Daily As Rabaul Offensive Spreads

Jap Sea Power -[s Fast Waning   Warships Being Sunk Ai Rate Of One A Day

A One-a-Day Score Against Jap Warships   40 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged in The Solomons . Since October 12

Score OF Allies On Jap Shipping Above One Dail}   Bombers Hunt Constantly For Enemy Warships In Northern Solomons

Jap Cruisers Take Beating Another Hit By A Heavy Bomb Near Rabaul

SINKING JAP SHIP A DAY   Yanks Add Jap Cruiser And Big Merchant Ship to List

JAPS LOSING WARSHIP A DAY AS ALLIES STEP UP AIR ATTACK   Jungle Fighting Limited To Patrol Clashes as Reinforcements For Foes of Yanks Being Made More Difficult

ONE A DAY IS RECORD OF JAP SHIP SINKINGS   American Airmen Search Seas For Enemy Vessels

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK JAP BASE IN THE GILBERTS   KNOX SAYS JAP NAVY IMPAIRED IN RABAUL AREA

Japanese Navy Hard Hit by Solomons Drive   Allied Bombers Have Now Smashed Forty Warships

BOMBERS TAKE JAP SHIP TOLL   Sink More Than One Daily In North Solomons Offensive

EE OSE See Sa ee OS Se RA eee Ne: See ee ee Oe  (Jap Cruiser, Cripple Ship   1,000-Pound Bomb Exploded Inside Enemy Cruiser in Raid Near Rabaul

BOMBERS SNIPE AT JAP SHIPS   Allies Sink or Damage Average of One a “Dav

Bombers Hitting Average One Jap Warship Daily   More Than 40 Have Been Damaged or Sunk Since Oct. 12

ALLIES SINK OR DAMAGE ENEMY -WARSHIP-DAILY   Average. Maintained Dur ing Solomons. Offensive; ThreeCrui

Jap Warship Bagged Each Day by Planes   Rabaul and Kavieng Main Hunting Grounds For Allied Fliers

Japs Ship A Day   Another Cruiser Feels Direct Hit From Heavy Bomb

Nippon Warships Dealt Hard Blows  Japs Lose One a Day. Since Oct. 12

Allied Bombers Sink or Damage Beiter Than One Japanese Ve.sel Daily

Toll of Jar Shipping — Is Heavy   Allies Average Better  Than One a Day Since Offensive in Northern Solomons Began Oct. 12

JAPS LOSING SHIP-A-DAY IN SOLOMONS   No Changes Announced On Bougainville Island

Jap Naval Loss Mounts Daily In Allied Hunt   Allied Bombers Sink Or Damage More Than One Ship A Day In Northern Solomons Offensive.

JAP SHIP LOSS IS ONE DAILY   Northern Solomons Offensive Toll Proving Costly

Allied Bombers Sink Jap Shins   INGI AVERAGE 'S MADE IN PACIFIC AIR ATTACKS

Japs Losing Ship A Day To Allies   Bomb Explodes Inside Enemy Cruiser Off Rabaul Harbor

U.S. Bombs Play Havoc With] apanese Warships   Allied Fliers Have Sunk Or’ ‘Damaged. ‘Better Than One Enemy Warship. vA: ‘Day. Dore, Northern ’ Solomons Offensive

Taking Big Toll Of Jap Ships   Allied Bombs Sinking Or Damaging Better ‘Than One a Day

PROBLEM OF FOOD PRODUCTION BEING GIVEN CLOSE ATTENTION   SENATE COMMITTEE TO DEVOTE MUCH TIME CONSIDERING METHODS TO MEEY SITUATION

German Nation Claimed Cracking Under Continued Air Blows of Allies, But May Resort to Chemical Warfare

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Two Air Bases In Sicily Fall To United Push   Major enemy resistance has not been encountered; our casual‘ties light so far..

Invaders push inland with little major resistance; casualties believed light ©   Parachute treops make contact with infantry; support from air and sea

Allies Establish Bridgehead 100 Miles Long   U. 8. Paratroops Landed by Night Aid in Seizing Objectives; Invasion Forees Strike Inland

Force Is Led By British, U.S. Airmen   Resistance 1s Feeble as Allies Grab Firm Hold on Wide Bridgehead; Loeces Are Reported to Be Licht

Casualties Are Believed To Be Slight  In Operations   Enemy Tank Column Near Gela Is Routed  R-- American Forces And Warshins’ Shells   BRITISH, CANADIANS MEET NEAR PASSERO

Limited Axis Aitacks Are Repulsed   Three Airfields Have Been Seized on Island

Americans Master Enemy Tank Column At Gela; Paratroops Strike Inland   COUNTER-ATTACK BY AXIS ANTICIPATED

Solidly Establish Strong Bridgehead Atter Forces Joir   Smudge-Faced American Parachutists Who Dropped On Big Island Friday Make Contact With  Infantrvmen Landina In Baraes

AMERICAN PARACHUTISTS DROP OM BIG ISLAND TO MAKE CONTACT WITH IN. FIELDS.

BRIDGEHEAD OF 100 MILES I FIRMLY SET UP   American Parachutists Aid In Capture Of 2 Bases In Gela  Section   Losses ‘Negligible’

AMERICAN SUBS PLAY HIG ROLE FOR CHINA   Blow At Jap Supply Lines Relieve Pressure

American Subs Helping Chinese   Playing Hob With Jap Supply Lines In East

AMERICAN SUBS HELP TO RELIEVE. CHINESE ARMIES   Military Pressure Sy Japs ‘: Lessened By Attacks on Sea Lanes.

AXIS’ BALKAN DEFENSE LINE “TS BOLSTERED   Some of Island Garri: sons are Being  Withdrawn

ENEMY PULLS IN OUTPOSTS FOR INVASION   BALKAN GARRISONS PREPARE TO MEET ALLIED BLOW

AXIS CUTS ITS DEFENSES 10 MEET ALLIES   Movement Said To Extend From Sardinia East To Dodicanese; 75 Divisions  Stationed In South   60,000 In Italy

Germany, Italy Mass Strength In Balkan Area   Italian Garrison on  Castelrosso Removed British Subs Sink 13 Ships, Damage 6 More

Concentrates Strength. in Balkans   Massive Blow From Southeast Is Apvocrently. Feared

Nazis Reported Quitting Islands   Making Plans For Rlow In Balkans

Nazis Put Line Of Defense Near Balkans   Axis Pulls Back Island Garrisons, Moves to Strengthen Weak Spots in Southeast of Europe

Abdication Of Italian King Looms   Badoglio Will Also Resign When Rome Is Captured

ITALIAN KING ISEXPECTED TO QUIT SOON   Resignation of Labor Minister Reflects General Attitude End Is Near   Badoglio to Resign When Rome Is Taken

Badoslio to resign when Rome taken   Sforza ready to lend full support

Badoglio Will Quit As Premier When Allies Take Rome   Resignation Likely To Mean Abdication Of King Emanuele

KING MAY FOLLOW BADOGLIO MOVE      Premier Will Resign When Rome Falls and King May Do Likewise

Abdication of Emmanuele Expected When Badoglio  Resignation Takes Place

KING EMANUELE’S  ABDICATION NOW MATTER OF TIME   Dbadogiios Fiedge io KNesign As Head Italian Government On Rome’s Fall and Resignation of Labor Minister Seen As Indications of King’s Unseating.

Feel Abdication Of Italian King  Matter Of Time   Expect Monarch Will Fail To Organize Cabinet On Badoglio’s Resignation

Badoglio To Quit When Rome Falls And Abdication Of King Expected

Badoglio To Resign When Rome Falls; Abdication Of King Matter Of Time

BADOGLIO PROMISES TO RESIGN AS SOON AS ROME CAPTURED  ALSO INDICATED THAT  KING EMANUELE’S ABDICATION MATTER OF TIMI

Abdication of King Expected ot the Same Time FIGHT FOR THRONE —  1S UNSUCCESSFUL  Marshal Mentioned os Possible Regent for Young Prince

New Government Looms in Italy  Abdication of King Believed to Be Near

PREMIER BADOGLIO WILL RESIGN WHEN ‘ROME FALLS   Indications Are That King Vittorio Eanuel’s Abdication Is Only A Matter of   Time

King Emanuele  Ready To Quit   Badoglio. Also To. Leave -Italy’s Government As Country Is Freed —

BADOGLIO WILL GIVE UP POST   Italian Premier Willing To Resign After Rome Is Recaptured

Badoglio Says He'll Quit When Allies Take Rome   Will Leave King Facing Many Foes

EXPECT KING EMANUELE 10 LEAVE THRANE   Badoglio Pledges Resignation When Rome Falls

Ttalian King Likely To Quit ‘At That Time   All Political Parties Are United in Seeking Monarch’s Abdication  MARSHAT IS LOYAL

BADOGLIO SAYS HE WILL RESIGN WHEN ROME FALLS   DECLARATION IS SEEN AS INDICATION THAT KING WILL ABDICATE

Italy’ s King i Expected fo Abdicate Soon   Badoglio to Quit When Rome Falls Allies Are Told

Badoglio Plans To Quit When Rome Is Taken   Pledges Resignation And Retirement With Victory of Allies

ABDICATION OF KING SEEN NEAR   Badoglio To Quit As Premier When Allies Reach Rome

KING TQ ABDICAT WHEN ROME FALLS   Italian Premier Will Resign as Head of Government, To Name Grandson.

Badoglio Says He'll Quit When {lies in Rome   king Emanuele Must Stand Alone Against Political Parties Seeking His Ouster

Predicts Fall Of Italian King   Strong Indications That Vittorio Emanuele’s Abdieation Only Matter Of Time.

Badoglio to Keep Loyalty Pledge To King Emanuele   - Premier Promises To Resign as Rome Falls to the Allies

King Victor Expected to Abdicate Due To Marshal Badoglio’s Pledge to Resign

Badoglio Will Resign After Rome ls Taken   Badoglio Won't Serve Without King, And Others Won't Work With Him

BADOGLIO VOWS TO RESIGN WHEN ROME FALLS   Report King Emanuele To Abdicate Throne in Near Future

AMERICANS GET 30 JAP BOMBERS IN RABAUL ATTACK   Wave Skimming Mitchells Catch Japs Napping and Blast Them

Naples Is Having Its Biggest Merchandise Boom of War Allied Soldiers Crowd Its Counters

Mighty Blow On Japs Seen   Widely Separated Attacks  Give Hint Of Heavy Punch.

Blow Looms  In Offing; U.S. Gains   Rabaul Is Considered Likely Object For Beginning; Relentless, Shattering Drive Is Anticipated

Base Is Better Defended Guadalcanal and Not § Hard for Nipponese.  to Supply,      WRITER DISCUSSES » _ PROBLEMS OF ATTACK           Between Island and U.. Ss a Positions Would Have to 7 Be Knocked Out. an

Mighty Blow Against Japs Believed Brewing   Roosevelt and Churchill Reach Stage of Fateful Decisions on.War Strateay

Strategy Of Pacific Is Drawn Up   Attacks So Far Only Warm Up Affairs, Reported

Blood Bank Unit Here February 1;   Number of Needed Donors Oversubscribed

Navy Seizes LA Shipyard   Facilities Taken Over on F. R. Order To Speed Production

Shipyard Is Seised   ...- Navy To Operate Los Angeles Shipbuilding Co.

Navy Takes Over Shipyard Control   Charges Inefiicient Operation of Company

TAKE OVER SHIPYARD   Roosevelt Orders Government To Operate L. A. Yard

U.S. Plans To Buy All Fruit, Handle Outlets   Prices Pegged By OPA Program

Fruit Would Be Purchosed On An ‘On Tree’ Basis And Sold Through Normal Channels

AUSTRALIA IS NOW ENTHUSED   U. S. Fliers’ Annihilation Of Jap Convoy Hailed With  Great Gratification

Gambling Machine Operator Fined $500 And 6 Mos.   ‘As Vicious A Thing As I Know Of,’ Judge Woodward Tells Luther B. Darr, Brunswick Thras.Time Offender: ‘Fools Play Then’

GAMBLER IS FINED, GIVEN JAIL TERM   Brunswick Business Man Convicted for Third Time

Six-Year-Old Prince on Throne; Boris Mystery Victim After Hitler Visit

Tragedy Follows Visit With Fuehrer   Son, 6; Installed on Bulgaria’s Throne, But Balkans Seethe

Balkans Face War Crisis In Boris Death   Bulgaria’s King Succumbs to Mystery Malady

BULGARIAN KING DIES SUDDENLY   Six- Year-Old Son Takes Throne; Ministers Act

Bulgaria King Visits Hitler And Suceumbs   Son Mounts Throne; Mystery Surrounds Death Cause _

REPORTS HINT. HULGAR RULER ASSASSINATED   Berlin Radio Asserts Death’ Came After Short But. Serious ‘{lness.   PASSING MAY BRING ON. = PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION

Son Of Boris Takes Throne   Bulgorian King Dies OF Stranae Ailment

Mystery Death Adds to Tension   Berlin Denies Ruler Murdered;  Six-Year-Old Prince Takes Throne

Death of Bulgar  King Causes Balkan Crisis   Monarch Succumbs Less Than Week Afte:! Visiting Hitler; Berlin Denies Reports That He Died of Bullet Wounds

King Boris Ill Of Bulgaria. Succumbs To Mystery Ailment   Balkans Plunged Into Most Severe Crisis Since Nazi Sweep. Two Years Ago; * Six-year Old Prince New Ruler -

Reds Achieved Vast Gains In Spring Drive   War Maps Are Printed In Moscow Showing  Wide Advances   PREVIOUSLY UNTOLD   Russian Army Now Only 36 Miles From Smolensk

Russians Gain Near Smolensk   Lines Are Pushed Almost To Velizh, Northwest Of Nazi Stronghold On Central Front

‘New War Maps Disclose ‘Surprise Red Advances; ‘Nearing Black, Azov Seas

WINTER DRIVE OF REDS ENDED   Claim 850,000 Germans Killed and Enemy’s Line Pushed Back,   NEW MAPS PUBLISHED

RED ARMY HAS - PUSHED ITS LINE AS FAR AS BELIZH   Is 70 Miles Northwest of Smolensk on the Central Front.   This Indicated by Mats Published in Tass, Official Newspaper, Today.

RUSSIAN ARMY REACHES GATE NOVORGSSISK   Red Lines in Kuban River Area Are Based At Very Eastern Gate Of City

Reds Push ‘Lines Almost To Velizh   Soviets Advance To Eastern Gates of Novarossisk

850,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS SLAIN ON RED FRONTS   343,525 Prisoners Taken, Russian Gov’t Announces

Russians Announce ~ Winter's Offensive Cost Nazis Heavily   Claim 850,000 Germans Killed; 343,525 Made  Prisoners of War

REDS AT GATES NOVOROSSISK, STARAYA RUSSA   Moscow, Announcing Winter Of fensive ai End, Discloses Gains Exceed Expectations   Maps Show Lines Almost to ‘Ve ” figh, 70 Miles from Smolensk 15 from White Russia

Reds Swing. To Northwest Of Smolensk   Chart Shows Russian Drive Has Reached Gates OF Novorossisk   BATTLE IN SWAMP   First Full War Maps Ever "Printed In Moscow indicate New Gains

Soviets in Recent Winter Offensive Killed 850,000 Foe: Advanced All Lines

LAVAL BASE ON LACK SEA NOW (EAR SEIZURE   oviets Drive Within 36 Miles Smolensk and Within 15 Miles White Russia   AR MAPS REVEAL RUSSIAN ADVANCES   sued as Winter Offensive nds; 850,000 Germans Killed During Past 141 Davs

Red Wave Rolls Over Nazi Front   RUSSIAN WAR MAP REVEALS PUSH 70 MILES NORTHWEST OF SMOLENSK ON CENTRAL FRONT, 15 MILES FROM WHITE RUSSIA IN SPRING

Reds Only 15 Miles From White Russia   War Map Showing Results of Winter Campaign Reveals Gains Greater Than Previously Known—Soviets Near Black Sea.

SOVIETS MAKE CLAIM; SMASH TO NAVALBASI   New Maps Published To Show Extent Of Red Gains

‘New Soviet Map Shows Great Gains ‘By Red Army   Forces Near Taganrog, Novorossisk, Smolensk, Orel, Velizh, And White Russia

Soviets Drive Still Closer To Smolensk   Over Miilion Nazi Casualties Reported In Offensive Review

Russians Advance To Eastern Gates Of Black Sea Base   Reds Hammer Germans Hard From Their Kuban Bridgehead in Caucasus.   Publish War Maps of  Long Russian Front

‘Soviets Kill 850,000 Nazis, Push Near ‘White Russia in Great Winter Offensive

WINTER OFFENSIVE OF RED ARMY ENDED MOSCOW ANNOUNCES  THOUSANDS GERMANS KILLED AND LINES PUSHED FAR WESTWARD

Continue To Move Up Against Nazis   Russians Publish Maps Showing the Advance “of Red Lines    HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES   Soviets Battle Hard to Drive the Enemy From the Caucasus ©

NAVY AIR CREWS GOT 65,000 JAP TONS IN 14 DAYS   Gave Jap Shipping Glorious Drubbing In Two Week Period, Revealed Today; 25 Officers  Decorated.

KELLAND.TALKS TO GOP: WOMEN   Demos and. Repubs Should’ Have: Same. . Foreign. Plank

For Identical Party Planks as fo Peace   Clarence Budington Kelland Echoes Pronosal Made by Secretary Knox   U.S, NOT DIVIDED ON ISSUE; HE SAYS   Favors One Foreign Policy So Voter Can Be Free to Act on Domestic Issues

G.O.P. Women Told Both Parties Should Have Same Foreign Relations Planks

SWISS READY _FOR ATTACK   Fascists May Violate Ancient Neutrality

German Planes Make Hit-Run Aerial Raids  London School Is   London School Is Target of Enemy’s Bombs

German Planes Make Hit-Run Aerial Raids   London School Is Target of Enemy’s Bombs

Western Oregon  In Grip Of Flood   Six Deaths And $5,000,000 Damage In Willamette Valley Is Report   RESCUE WORKERS EVACUATE FAMILIES

Oppose Change In Enforcement Of Liquor Law  Salary Boost For Sanford Officers

“Mine Dispute Back _In War Board’s Lay As Operators Split   O’Neill’s Northern Group Makes Pact With Lewis on Portal Pay; UMW Chief Again Ienores Asenc.   ‘Bomb Hit Rocks Plane 2 Miles Un

NYA WILL CONTINUE   Senate Votes 47 Million Dollars For Agency's Continuance

Bill Jam Blocks Congress Recess  NYA Funds Restored; Salaries of ‘Radical’ Officials Banned

Senate Passes Lalior Security  Bill, Kens NYA   Restores Millions For Youth Agency: Conference Likely

ALLIES SEEK: FIRM _ NAPLES FOOTHOLD   _ Italy Under Day and Night Aerial Assault

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PREDICT DEFEAT OF MREYNOLDS   BACKERS OF BLAKE BELIEVE HE WILL BE ELECTED CONVENTION CHAIRMAN,

Blake Adherents Predict Victory Over McReynolds   Anti New Dealer Is Said to Have Most of GOP Votes

Pre-War Diet Promised America For Next Year   WFA Administrator Tells Grangers 1944 Plans Assure Farmers Adequate Returns as They Plan Allied Farmer Conference To Take Over Job of Diplomats in Making Food Program

1944 Eating at Pre-War Levels   Jones Optimistic About Food Outlook

JONES SAYS 1944 DIET TG BE E000   Civilians To Have Supplies During Coming Year

FOOD STANDARD FOR CIVILIANS SAME FOR 194:   Assurance From War Food Administrator In Addressing National Grange At Grand Rapids

ADEQUATE FOOD TO BE PROVIDED   Jones: 44 Diet to Be Equal to Prewar Time

JONES SAYS FOOD. OUTLOOK (5 6000   American Civilian Diet In 1944 ‘As Geod As In Pre-War Years’ .

Assures Good  Diet In 1944   Administrator Marvin Jones Speaks ‘t Nationa! Grange Convention,

Assures Farmers of Fair Prices  WPA Chief Gives Pledge to Grange

1944 DIET AT PEACE LEVELS   WFA Chief Assures Nat'l Grangers, Civilians  Will Have Plenty

Laurel Refinery Blaze Claims life of Worker   H. M, Siemsen Dies, Four Others Are Reported Burned

JUDGES ATTACK BEER MEASURE   Act Is A ‘Legislative Lie’ Judge Chambers Tells Jury

Four Deaths and 195 Persous Injured — Mayor LaGuardia ‘Tours Distriet Making Personal Pleas for Negroes to Disperse.

HUGE RACE RIOT BREAKS OUT IN NEW YORK TODAY   1 Deal, 195 Injured When Thousands of Nezroes Rioted

STEEL WORKERS TO GO BACK 10 JOBS   Steel Crisis Ends as ClO Head Acts After Labor Board Ruling

CIO Leader Orders Men To Go Back   WLB Votes Guarantee Any Wage Increases Will Be Retroactive   RESULT REVERSES  PREVIOUS STAND 170.000 Workers Idle And Production Down To Lowest War Rate

STEEL WORKERS TO GET BACK PAY   WLB Directive, Calling for Retroactivity in New Pacts Expected Halt Walkout; Murray Urges Work

War Labor Board Issues Directive   Uninterrupted Production In Steel Mills Asked Until Neaotictions Finally Resolved

FDR Veto Threat Being Considered By House As Ruml Plan Fight Comes

Charge President Using Veto Scare To Obtain Defeat Of Ruml Tax Plan

RUML BACKERS TO DISREGARD VETO THREAT   Plan To Go Ahead With Skip-A-Year Tax Proposal

Danish Official Says 200,000 Are Killed in Hamburg   RAF Smashes City Nint Time in Obliteration + Offensive

Hamburg Shakes Under Giant Aerial Assault   German Losses Mount as Allies Make Greatest Series of Raids in History: Many Casualties Are Listed

Huge Bomber Force  Heads for Germany   Sky Armada Bound for Continent Takes Hours to Pass Coast; Hambure Shudders From Monday Attack

British Planes Hit Hamburg For Ninth Time   Damage to Port Said Unparalleled in Air  War History; Report 200.000 Nazis Killed

BOMBERS HEAD FOR RAIDS IN GERMANY   Great Force Crosses Chan. nel in Wake of New Hamburg Raid

Huge air armada headed for Germany takes hours to cross British coastline

BRITISH BOMBERS GROSS CHANNEI   GREAT FORCE SETS OUT APPARENTLY IN DIRECTION OF NORTHWEST GERMANY.

Japanese-American Soldiers Eager  For Action With Allies In Italy

Hot Oratory And Cool Deliberation. . ...  History Of America For  Years To Come May Be Spelled Out Next Week

Navy Training Divers Near By  Ex-Normandie   Some of the enlisted men. can’t “take” confinement of a hying suit, however. 

Medium Grade Bee Will Go to Army  _ WEA Orders Portion  To Be Set Aside

Price Panel Board Asks Complaints   Reports On Violation Of Ceilings Sought By Local Adjusters

Americans Seize Italian Mountain   Yanks Push Nazis Back More Than  Mile; Red Drive Gains Momentum

RUSSIAN ARMY FREES (0 MORE TOWNS IN DRIVE BELOW NEVEL   asermans Reported Abandoning Much Equipment In Hasty Retreat; 5th Army Edges Farward, Captures Peak   Ry UNITED PRESS

Large Fires Are Started In Frankfort   Jther Cities Raided — Rus sians Roll On—Yanks Capture Peak

HITS FOOD POLICY   Alf. M. Landon Addresses  Kansas City Cooper- ative Club ‘

HITS NEW DEAL PLANS-BY-WEEK   Landon Says Administration Fools Foreign Peoples With Shining Promises.

NATION’S FOOD POLICY ASSAILED BY LANDON _  1024 PRaniuhlizean Rlaminas leemac Call   1936 Republican Nominee Issues Call For Realistic, Continuous Proqram

Churchill Sees Turn  in War   BRITISH CHIEF SAYS CONFAB MAPPED HEAVY BLOWS IN PACIFIC

9 AIRMEN DIE IN OHIO CRASH   Fortress Falls On Farm Near Columbus This Morning and Burns

FORTRESS CRAGHES, KILLS 5 MAN CREW   Twa Young Boys Nearby Unable ta Help Scream-ing Victims.

Enemy Loses Heavily as Fight Rages   German Loss Reaches 40,000 Dead; Guns And Other Materiel Aw Ruined;  Boecianc Are Firm an Every Sertar

lurl Gigantic Tanks inte Action, but Fail To Advance   losses in Material Mount. ing in One of War's Greatest Battles

American, British Canadian Troops Take Part in Assault   Reds Beat Off German Attacks On All Fronts.

Russian Reported Holding Own in Belgorod Area   193 GERMAN TANKS WRECKED IN FIGHT   Score or More Offensives Repulsed, Communigue Savs

Hold Invaders Back at Belgorod Soviets Report   40,000 Germans Dead; Great Loss on Enemy Equipment

Nazi Dead Rises Another 5,000   -Total Tank Losses Said Beyond 2,000  By LYNN HEINZERLING

Nazi Dead Rises Another 5000   Total. Tank Losses. Said: “Beyond 2,000

NAZI DEAD IN TWO BATTLE AREAS RE PORTED AS 5,000 FOR DAY; TREMEN DOUS MATERIAL LOSSES.

SOVIETS BEAT OFF TERRIFIC NAZI ATTACKS   Fierce Battles Rage in Orel, Kursk, Belgorod Sectors

Russian Reported Holding . Own in Belgorod Area  193 GERMAN TANKS WRECKED IN FIGHT  Score or More Offensives   Score or More Offensives Repulsed, Communique Says

NAZIS HALTED NEAR KURSK BY RUSSIANS   Twenty Attacks Beaten: Back by Stalin’s Army —Troops Battie Handto-Hand at Times.   STALIN’S MEN HOLD OWN AT BELGOROD   Invaders’ Casualties in Five Days of Bloody Fighting Put at 40,000 by Moscow.

Russians Claim Lines Holding In All Sectors   Moscow Reperts Nazis Suffer ‘Materiel Losses

Soviets Beat Off Savage Nazi Aitacks   193 German Tanks. and $4 Planes  ‘Reported Desiroved

TANK ATTACKS ARE REPULSED BY RED ARMY   ATTRITION BATTLES COST GERMANS 5000 DEAD

Both Sides Have Heavy Losses As Germans Batter  Without Success   Reds Hold Their Ow: th Belgorod Sector anc Heat Off Attacks Al Along Orel and Kurs! Fronts

RUSSIANS HOLD BELGOROD AREF AGAINST NAZIS   193 More Enemy Tanks And 94 Planes Reported Destroyed By Reds

Red Forces Continue  ‘To Hold Lines   36-Mile Advance In Direction of Kursk Claimed by @ermanse   ENEMY LOSSES GROW. 3.000 MORE KILLED

8th Army Now in Italy Is Rated One of World’s Greatest Fighting Units

“FIGHTING MONTY” HAS WARM PRAISE FOR EIGHTH ARMY  ’ DIFFERS TODAY ONLY LIGHTLY FROM NEM ESIS TO ROMMEL

Many Other Armies Stand Ready To Back Un British Invasion Of Italy Or To Strike Out Against Other Points

WEATHER FORECAST   ‘Six ‘Allied Armies Remain in Reserve Behind Famed Eighth Army

Nazis Are Fleeing From Corsica as French Soldiers Invade Island   Naples Is Brough! within Fifth Army's Artillery Range by Capture of Strategic Peninsula

NAPLES WITHIN RANGE OF U. 5. ARTILLERY FIRE   Giraud Says Commando Operation To Oust German Makes Progress

Foe Meets New Peril  Over Area   Sorrento Peninsula Falls to Americans; French Commandos Swarm on Corsica; British Advance; Air Forces Give Help

Strategic Sorrento Peninsula Captured As French Commandos Reach Corsica

French Soldiers _ Land On Corsica   U. S. Army Continues To Expand Bridgehead Against Decreasing Resistance By Germans

NAZI OTAND IN NORTH MENACE D   American Fifth Army Captures Sorrento Peninsula   RESISTANCE DROPS   Allied Air Power Rips And Tears Into Nazi Convoys Retreating North

1,800 Vehicles In Retreating _ German Convoy Hammered From Air   ALLIES EXTEND HOLD ON SOUTHERN ITALY

FIFTH ARMY NEAR NAPLES: GET SARDINIA   Allied Air Power Rips and Tears at German Convoys  Retreating North of Contursi.   Northeast of Eboli

Allied Drive Puts Naples Within Artillery Range   French Commandos Storm Into Corsica To Helo With Battle Against German:

Captures Sorrento Peninsula —Naples Now Within 12Mile Artillery Range of Clark.     QCQaADWTLTarTyY A Way WTA ATTA!   SARDINIA IN HANDS OF ITALIAN TROOPS   American Casualties in Battle Below Salerno Said to Be Smaller Than at First Feared.

Fifth Army Gets Within Artillery Range of Naples   French Troops to Help Corsicans Drive Nazis From Homeland; American, Britis! Forces Gain 19 Miles in Salerno Area: Clark’s Men Seize Sorrento Peninsula

Plunge thru tottering nazi resistance to within 12 miles of ‘first objective’   Americans advance 15 miles; British extend allied hold on southern Italy

YANKS DRIVE 13 MILES IN SALERNO AREA   BRITISH 8TH ARMY JOINS 5TH WITH FULL STRENGTH

Yanks Take Sorrento Peninsula   ‘Germans Continue To Retreat Northwarc Before Allied Armies  CONVOYS HARRIED

Rationing Board Power Growing  Authority To Assure Law Enforcement

DESIGN CHANGE IMPEDES WORK   Slow Production Rate at Willow Run Blamed on Improvements,

NORWAY, BALKANS HIT BY BOMBERS OF UNITED -NATIONS   Jugoslav Crews Make Their Debut tn American Made Liberators:

American Soldiers Take to Combat in  Africa "Like It Was Football Game’

YANKS HIT AFRICA LIKE IN FOOTBALL   Sailors Tell of Attack Wher They Come for New Ship

American Soldiers React To First Combat As If It Were Football Game

REPORT SAYING GOVERNMENT FORCED TO ACCEPT LEWIS’ TERMS IRES ICKES

ICKES DENTES U.S. ACCEPTED LEWIS’ TER MK   Solid Fuels Administrato: Challenges Statement In ’ Recent Editorial In  New York Times   OFFERS DEFENSE   Times Insists Government Fails to Carry Out. Direction of the War Labor Board

Ickes Challenges Times’ Editorial   Says Terms Dictated By Government

VOTE MEN GET JOBS BACK AT CLOSE OF WAR   House Passes Bill to Guarantee Old Posts to Persons in Service

Allied Invasion Troops Prepare For Major Battle   Enemy Resistance In Sicily Shows Some Signs Of _ Stiffening    AXIS SEEKING TO DEFEND CATANIA   AN ADVANCED AL LIED COMMAND BASE.

MAJOR, BATTLE IN SICILY LOOMS AS ALLIES PRESS FORWARD.   Resistance Stiffens   Axis Generals Shiit Strength to Defense of Port of Catania.

” 47 FEET HIGH AT CAIRO, 38 NEAR ST. LOUIS   Illinois River May Burst Banks at Beardstown

lAll-Time High Stage Is Reached In Many Ot Inundated Areas Where Many Are Homeless  Levee Breaks Cause Surging Waters To Pour Over Lowland Farming And Industrial Areas

ONE SPEARHEAD ONLY 46 MILES FROM KEY CITY   Soviet Progress Toward Rostov Appears Unchecked

Red Army Breaks  Across Donetz   Germans Have Few Barrier: Before Kharkov—Great Caneasian Base Threatened

BEING PRIME  MOSCOW fait FOR BIG NEW   Break Across Donets in Drives on Khar- > kov Reported

Four Powerful Forces Drive on  UkraineCapita   All But Corner of Caucasus Is Freed by Red Army Nearing Rostrov

Mescow Primed For Annonncement Of Great New Victory— No Slackening In Pace Of Red Army Seen   BIZERTE RAIDED BY ALLIED PLANES

CLOSE ON ROSTOV  Fighting Russ Arm) Surges Over Donets      Nazi Plight Desperate as Reds Cross Last Natural Barrier to Caucasus Key

Capture of Rostov Is imminent   Moscow Expects to Arn. nounce Fall of Big Cau casus Gateway Soon

Soviets Seize City 10 Miles  From Rostov.   Russ Await Announcenient of Great Victory at. Caneasian Gate. -

RUSSIANS EXPECT ANOTHER VICTOR’   British Forced To Abandor One Position With Germans Expecting Attack.

KHARKOV IS MENACED BY 4RED ARMIES   Indicate German Troops’ Morale Sinking Daily

COMMITTEE CANCELS ACTION ON TAX BILL   Virtually Kills Bricker’s Sales Tax Move

SHOWDOWN NEAR ON TAY SLASi   Action Soon On Elimination Of Levy From Restaurant Meals

Rains Send Streams Out   Overflow Causes Wide Crop Damage; Winds » and Hail Follow Rain

Heavy Rains Send Kaw Out of Banks   Highest Stages Since 11935 _ Begone by the Weath er Bureau   TRIBUTARIES ARE FULL   Power Lines to Army Air . Base South of Topeka!  Are Down 

UUEAN SEAWAY [o PROPOSED BY FDR   Plans for St. Lawrence Wat. erway Included in Resource Board Report

US Threatens Japs On Kiska   New Army Air Base Only 63 Miles Away

Establish Base Close To Kiska   Occupation Of Amchitka Island Only 63 Miles From Japanese - Held Kiska is Disclosed

ESTABLISHED - IN ALEUTIANS         American Forces Have Air Base 63 Miles from Kiska —

‘AMERICAN UNITS: OCCUPY ISLAND: NEAR TO KISKA   Amchitka In Western Aleutians Is 63 Nautical Miles From Jap Base   LANDINGS ARE MADE WITHOUT OPPOSITION

AMERICANS HAVE ESTABLISHED AIR BASE NEAR KISKA   Bombing Time Cut to 12 Minutes; Accomplishinent Was Made Last January

BLOSE TO KISKA   Americans Steadily Moving Nearer Japanese-Held Base In Aleutians

AMERICAN  BASE NEAR  _ KISKA IS REVEATED   US. Troops Landed at Am. ’ chitka in January and Built. Air. Base   ONLY 63 MILES FROM THE ENEMY   Troop-Move Has Made ‘Daily Raids Possible; Weather an: Obstacle

United States Forces Establish Air Base Only 63 Nautical Miles From The Japanese-Held Kiska Islands

Amchitka 149 Miles Nearer Enemy Than Airports Previously Used. by Americans

U.S. AIR BASE ESTABLISHED 63-MI. KISKA   Base Is on Amchitka Island and Is 149 Miles Nearer Than Previous Easternmost Point of Attack. -

Bombers 12 Minutes From Jap Foothold   Amchitka Istand, Occupied in January, Could Send Raiders To Tokyo; Kiska Attacked Six Times in Day and Attu Four

U. §. Sets Up New Aleutians island Base   Unopposed Landings Secure Amchitka Isle, Only 70 Miles From Kiska   12 MINUTES AWAY   New Outpost Enable: Yank Airmen To Carry Out Many Attacks Daily

New Air Base 63 Miles From Foe On Kiska   Yanks Occupy Island Of Amchitka, Threaten Foe: Landing Made In Adverse Weather

New Field Reduces Flying Time To 12 Minutes For Heavy American Bombers

U.S. AIR BASE ESTABLISHED IN ALEUTIANS   American Forces Have Ai: Base 63 Miles from Kiska

Sees Democracy in Gravest Peril  New York Speaker Rlacée Bureaucracy

Axis Plane Loss at Least 1,253   Allies Lose 498 in African Campaign

Wage Earners Urged * To File Exemption Certificates With Em ployers As Soon As” De hhe

Wage Earners  Required To Get Certificates   Secretary Morgenthau of the Treasury Explains Manner of Collecting Under Pay-as-you-go.

New Law: Effective On July I   Employes Will Fill Out Certificates Showing Family Status As Basis Of Deductions

HOUSE PASSES HUGE APPROPRIATICN BILL   Wage Earners Shouid Lose No Time In Filling Out Government ‘Withholding Tax Certificates .

NEW RAID ON GILBERTS   Japanese Radio Reports American  Aerial Raid Upon Islands

Hint New Yank Gilbert Smash   AUSSIES BEAT OFF ENEMY FINSCHHAFEN TRIES AS JAPS LOSE HEAVILY IN JOINING FORCES FOR MOVE TOWARD MOUTH OF SONG RIVER

Tokyo Reports U. S. U. S. Bombing Attack NAZI AIRCRAF On Gilbert Islands; Aussies Beat Offi' CENTER RAKE Japanese Assaults On Finschhafen BY RAF BOMB:

Japs Tell of New Attack On Gilberts   Claim Bombers Driven Off Before Doing Any Damage

Italy Sees African Rout Realistically  People Advised to Fall With ‘Dienity. Honor’

Fascists Tighten Controls   Disunity Fought By Mussolini,  Followers

§,000-TON ENEMY VESSEL DAMAGED   Allies Carry Out Raid Off Dutch Indies; Convoy Attacked

Allied Bombers Damage Jap Ships   Enemy Convoy Raided Off New Ireland

BARE ALLEGE PLOT TO OUST GEN. MARSHALL   Political Weapon In 1944 Campaign   ‘CAPITAL BUZZES   War Department Terrorized

Report Group Plans Giant Political Move   Would Involve Army Production; Somervell Mentioned

Tokyo Raid Story Reveals 80 Fliers Took Off Early To Avoid Detection. Knowing They'd Run Out Of Ga

TOKYO RAIDERS “SUPER-HEROES”   Left Hornet 10 Hours Ahead of Schedule

MEMBERS OF CREW MADE PERILOUS TAKE-OFF FROM. CARRIER KNOWING © HEY LACKED  GASOLINE

Doolittle’s Raiders Of Tokyo Are ‘Super-Heroes’   Intrepid Airmen Deliberately Took Off From Carrier Hornet 10 Hours Ahead Of Schedule Knowing They Would Run Out Of Gasoline

TOKIO RAIDERS ACCLAIMED AS SUPER-HEROES   Took Off Ten Hours Karly, Knowing They Would Run Out of Gas

Gallant Airmen in the Raid on Tekyo Are Raised to Rank of “Super Heroes”

‘LABOR DRAFT’ TALK REVIVED   Rail and Steel Situations May Bring Bill from Pigeon Hole

“Draft Labor” Legislation Talk Revived in Wake of Tense Situation in U.S. Industry

‘LABOR DRAFT’ TALK REVIVEL   RAILROAD AND STEEL EMERGENCIES MAY LEAD TO  CONGRESS CONSIDER- ° - ING NEW LEGISLATION

Plane Crash Ends Life of  Gen. Andrew:   Head of Forces In Europe Dies In Iceland Crack-Up

Terrific Blasting EmphaticF ollowup -ToU.N.Ultimatum   Invaders Drop Leaflets From Sky Telling Italians Fascists Had Capitalized On Hallowed Areas

Japs of American Citizenship ‘Moving Into Essential Jobs; Some Go Into War Production

WIFE OF FORMER XENIAN SUFFOGATED   Mrs. Frank Ridenour Is Hotel Fire Victim

RUML PLAN REJECTED IN HOUSE   Tax Method Is Back Where It Started

GOP 10 RENEW “FIGHT AS RUML PLAN (S BEATEN   House Also Rejects Treasury Income Tax Pian   GENERAL SALES TAX POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE

GENERAL TAX SEEN AS RUML ACT REJECTED   Kansan Plans to Continue Fight; Compromise Bill Studied

GENERAL SALES TAX LOOMS AS POSSIBILITY   House Approves, Then Rejects Ruml Plan And Withholding Scheme   ‘GOP PLANS NEW FIGHT   Problem May Be Revived On Discussion Of 16 Billion Revenue Bill

SEE SALES TAX AS ALTERNATIVE Te RUML PLAN   G.°G. P. Leaders Promise New Fight For Current Tax Measure, Referred Back To House Committee

WORKING FOR NODIFIED PLAN   Republican Leaders Driving for Adoption — Cirlson-Ruml — Bill pjected by House Tuesday.

NEW DRIVE LOOMING FOR ADOPTION OF A MODIFIED TAX PLAN   Republican Leaders Line Up for Program — See General Eales Tax Possibility.

GOP Leaders Promise New Drive For Adoption Of Modified Form Of Runl Plan  TREASURY. FU FUNDS Low  Other Vital  Issues May, Kill -Consideration '.  Indefinitely

HOUSE FAILS TO PASS ANY TAX PROGRAM   Failure Enhances Possibility of General Sales Tax

POSSIBILITY OF SENERAL SALES TAX SEEN NOW   Republicans Promise New Fight For Modified Rumi Tax Plan

Ruml Plan Is Shelved By House   Tentative Stand In Favor Of Bill Is Upset In Formal Action Which Required Roll Call

GOP Sees Possibility Of Sales Tax   Republicans Also Promise New Drive For Ruml Tax Plan

FORECAST NEW GOP DRIVE FOR PAY-GO TAXES   Ruml Plan Wins, Thet Loses In First House Tests

DRIVE DUE AS HOUSE SEEKS NEW REVENUE   Legislators Turn Down Bil Including Rum! System on Forgiveness.   16 BILLIONS NEEDED   Democratic Leaders See Vote as Demand For Compromise Ineame Lavy Prannsal.

Rumi Defeat Seen Leading To Sales Tax      House Republicans Will Continue Fight for Pay-Go Plan

RESISTANCE ENDING IN DONETS BASIN: RUSSIANS ADVANCE   Soviet “Army y Almost Within Grasp Of _Stalino, 12th City Of U.$.$ R.

ALL OF DONET DAOIN IN HAND: UF AED ARMIES   All Organized Resistance Of Nazi Forces In Rich Areas Is Smashed

Russians Try To Close Escape Route  Reds By-Pass Stalino; Clear   Reds By-Pass Stalino; Clear Tonets Basin

Stalino Is By-Passed By Soviets   Rail Junction of Krasnoarmeisk Is Now Within Grasp

mea)  INDONETS   Russians By-Pass. Stalino; Draw Near  Railroad Junction:

Donets Basin Falls To Reds As Nazis Run   Large Enemy Force Faces Annihilation In: Russian Trap

WITHHOLDING PLAN BACKERS HOLDING GROUND ON ISSUE   Stand Pat in Attitude DeSpite Efforts to Effect Cancellation Campromise.

SPARE TIRES TO COST $1   OPA Establishes Ceiling on New Supply for Rationing.

Stevenson Raps Change In Form  Of Government   Governor's Inaugural  Speech Today

62 MAKE WAY TO SAFETY IN WEST VIRGINIA   Rescue Crews Push Efforts In Belief Entombed Men May Be Found Alive   MOTOR ‘CATCHES FIRE   20 Killed Six Months Ago In Accident At Workings Of Same Firm

RESCUERS SEEK TRAPPED MINERS   One Body Recovered; Ter Others Still Missing

Eleven Miners Perish In W. Va. Mine Blaze   One Body Brought From Pursglove Mine — Ten Unaccounted Por As Yet

Body of Miner Found;  10 Others Unaccounted fest in Virginia Shaft

Major Battle Indicated North of River  Riliace Danae Al awie   Allies Report Nazis Burning Farms, Killing Civilians

SLAYING AND PILLAGING LAND AS THEY FALL BACK FROM FIFTH ARMY ADVANCE IN VOLTURNO VALLEY.

Allies’ Path Sown Heavily With Mines   Livestock Slaughtered, Farmhouses, Haystacks Burned to Ground  BIG RATTLE TOOMS

Nazis Vent Wrath as They Fall Back To New Mountain Line; Swift Yank Advance Threatens Foe Flank   By FDWARD KENNEDY

Major Batile Indicated North of Rive:   Allies Report Nazis Burning Farms, Killing Civilians

Germans Fall Back to New Defense   Leave Italian Country Scorched in Show Of Destructive Wrath

Retreating Nazis Marder Civilians,  Burn Farmhouses   MLL LLL ALN ALLA, le  ‘Scorched Earth’ Policy Carried Out Whil Army Falls Back To New Mountain Defenses At Massico Ridge

Vent wrath like savages on Italians   Major battle expected soon

Clark’s Forces Threaten to Flank Germans   Enemy Establishes New Defense Line North of Volturno;: British Drive Ahead

FLEEING HUNS IN UGLY MOOD AFTER DEFEAT   ITALIAN CIVILIANS MURDERED; CROPS, HOMES BURNED

NAZIS VENT WRATH ON THE TTALIANS   Vast Destruction in Scorched Earth. Flight   CIVILIANS KILLED   Yank Advance Threatens to Flank Foe; British Eighth — Pushes Ahead

Swift American Advance Perils Nazi Divisions   Major Battle Now Believed Probable

Devastation Wrought as the Nozi Forces Fall Back   FLANK THREATENED — ——-BY -ALLtED- FORCES   Enemy Setting Up New . Defenses on Winding 27-bAile Line

U3, WILL oEER LANDING RIGHT   State Department Reveals. PostWar World-Wide Air Lines Are Considered

ROOSEVELT 10 HAVE CONTROL OVER AIRLINES   President Will Delegate Commercial Carriers And World Routes   P RECIPROCITY PLANNED   American Aviation Grants Will Be Proffered To Other Nations

Trains Have Worst Week For Mishaps   Death Toll In Five Mojor Wrecks Reaches 100 With Many Hurt

Five Railway Wreeks Kill 100 Persons  Deaths Reach ;~ 79 Mark At Philadelphia

0 EMPLOYES 10 IGNORE FIRINGS   Dodd, Watson, Lovett to Stay on Job After Statement by FR.

FDR IS CHALLENGED ON APPOINTMENTS   Rep. Dies Leads Fight To Get Them Ousted

DIES DECLARES ‘LEFT WINGERS: HOLD U.S. JOBS   Asserts Roosevelt Seeks Their Support, Assails “Dictatorship” Move By President

SENATE PASSES EMPLOYES BILL   Overrides FDR’s Protest Against Power To Pass On High U. S. Posts

SENATE VOTES - M’KELLAR BILL   Administration Henchmen Join  Opposition in Approval — Pilot  Training Bill Taken Up

SENATE RIDES OVER PROTEST OF PRESIDENT   Measure Would Require Confirmation of Federal  Workers Drawing $4,500 Or More   MONEY BILL NEAT   McCarran to Ask That CAA Pilot Trainees Be : Brought Into Active Duty With Army

Senate Approves MeKeliar Measure   Overrides FDR Protest 42 to 29

FEDERAL JOBS BILL APPROVED   Roosevelt Protests Plan To Give Senate Power Over Employes

Senate Rebukes FDR in Passing Bill He Opposes   Passes Measure Requir. ing Confirmation of Many Jobs

sate Approves Confirmation  I by 42-29   2 F  verrides Roosevelt "rotest That Civil service Will Suffer  P CHIEFS OPPOSE gut Eight Minority  party Men Assist Jemocrats in Passage

Christian World Observes Easter   Soldiérs Kneel In Solemn Prayer

Easter Being Observed Today In Fervent Hope Of Resurrection Of A Better World

Miners Back In Coal Pits  Struck Against   Struck Against Company Fines

Youth Robs Two Children, Hurls Them to Their Death From Top of 175-Foot Cliff

Entire Fleet of 20 Giant German Planes Shot Down in Africa  LONDON HAS ALARM  Russians Indicate Foe May Be Starting Big Caucasus Push

All Planes in Convoy Knocked Out in Battle Over Gulf of Tunis  FIRST ARMY SHELLS STRATEGIC HEIGHTS  Infantry Then Attacks; Eighth Moves 6 Miles North of Enfidaville

RAF CENTERS NIGHT ATTACK ON RUHR AREA   Large Fires Left Burning; British Lose Four Planes

BLOCKBUSTERS RAINED DOWNON NAZI WAR FIRMS   While Heavy Clouds Prevented Accurate Observation of Results, Large . Fires Are Started   DAYLIGHT RAIDS ON FRENCH AREAS MADE   Two U.S. Air Force Squadrons Take Part; Italy Discloses Targets In Sicily Blasted

BRITISH BLAST PLANTS IN RUNE   Americans Help Protect Bombers in Attacking Nazi Airfields

Ruhr Raided, 4 Planes Are Lost   Berlin Admits Damage And Casualties After Visit OrR A. FE.

RAF Returns To Attack In Germany For Firs Time Since Raid On Berlin By Hitting Ruhr

RAF BLAST TARGETS IN INDUSTRIAL RUHR   First Raid Since Attack or Berlin

RAF Bombers Go Eoo Laying on German Ruhr   Death Toll in English School  Rambhine Reaches 57

PAF RETURNED TO ATTACK GERMANY THURSDAY NIGHT   Biasted Objectives in the : Ruhr Industrial District.   FOUR RAIDERS ARE LOST      Large Fires Were Left Burning in the Target Area.

RUHR SECTION BOMBED AGAIN LONDON SAYS   FIRST RAID ON GERMANY SINCE ATTACKS ON BERLIN

100 Bombers Blast at Ruhr   Rig Fires Ignited Jn Tadastrial Area

Ruhr Valley Again Blasted By the R.A.F.   Large Fires Said to Have Been Started In the Target Area   AMERICANS TAKE PART

BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS SET FIRES IN RUHR   Loss Of Four Indicates Force Of Nearly 100 Planes Joined In Attack   SCHOOL DEATHS HIT 57   Failure Of Warning Signals Expected To Be Aired in Commons Oebate

RAF Returns To Attack on German Ruhr   Four Planes Lost, ‘School Bombing Toll Reaches 57

BIG RAF BOMBERS RETURN TO RUHR   FIRST RAID SINCE BERLIN ATTACKS  AST WEEK-END

RUHR AREA IN FOR BOMBING FROM THE RAF   Four Warplanes Missing, Indicat. ing Possibly 100 Participated In Night Raid.

RAF Again Blast: German Targets   Industrial Ruhr Area Is Blasted

RAF Resumes Blockbusting Of Ruhr Area   British Planes Shifting From Berlin Targets

RUHR BOMBED AGAIN BY 100 RAF PLANES   zarge Fires Started In Industrial Heart Of Ger many; 4 Bombers Lost; Nazis Make Weak Raids On Britain

Targets In Ruhr Again Battered By RAF Bombers   Large Fires Are Left Burning; .Four Planes Missing

Bomb Nazi  Industries   RAF Blasts Targets In The Industrial Rebr

ALLIED AIRMEN SLASH AGAIN AT ITALY’S BASES   Axis Airfields on Sardinia, Island of Pantelleria Raided by Bombers. Fighters   AIR FIGHTS ENSUE   3 Enemy Planes Shot Down as Bombers Intercepted, Only One American Plane Lost

ISLAND DEFENSES ~OFITALY TAKING A TERRIBLE BEATING   American Fliers Roaming High, Wide and Handsome   BAG OF THE ENEMY PLANES GROWING

AXIS ISLAND: STILL UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   Sicilian Air Buse at Comiso Blasted By Flying Fortresses From Substratosphere   "“NEMY CRAFTS DOWNED

Blo SIGTLIAN AIR BASE 15 BATTEREL   348 Axis Planes Destroyed on Ground and in Air in Eight Days

ITALIANS BASES POUNDED ANEW   Sardinia, Pantelleria Struck Again By Allied Planes

ITALIAN BASES GET SLUGGING FROM BOMBERS   Pantelleria Blasted Anew; Five Planes Downed

ALLIED PLANES RENEW BLASTS ATISLE BASES   Seven Enemy Aircraft Shot Down In Fight

ALLIES AGAIN BLAST ISLAND OF SARDINIA   Also Bomb Pantelleria in Continued Softening of Italy’s Outer Defenses — 13 Axis Planes Downed in Combat.

Alo OARDINIAN AYR FIELDS HIT      Down Thirteen Enemy Planes ‘in’ Air Battles.

Flying Forts Hit Big Sicilian Air Base   Other U. S. Bombers Batter At Italy’s  Gia Bom From Great Height, While Southern Island Air Defenses.

PANTELLARIA If POUNDED DAY AND NIGHT   Five Axis Ships Hit; 305 Planes Downed in Four Days

SMASHED TARGETS FROM ONE END OF ISLAND TO OTHER, DAMAGE WARSHIPS IN HARBOR

Flying Fortresses Blas! Sicilian Air Base At Comiso   SARDINIA TARGETS HEAVILY POUNDED   More Than 360 Axis Planes Destroyed In EightDavy Period

‘OF PLANES “TAKE PART   Middle East Airmen Attack Nazi Ships @ In Aegean Sea

Aliied Planes Pound Sardini Dromes Anew   Hit Italian Plane Bases: Rip Pantelleria

ALLIED BOMBERS AGAIN SLASHED AXIS AIRFIELDS   Struck at Sardinia and at the Island of Panetelleria.   13 PLANES DESTROYED   Many More on the Ground Were Hit in Softening Up Actiivty.

Allied Planes In New Success   ITALIAN TARGETS ARE BLASTED BY U. S. AIRMEN

Bombers Deal Heavy Blows Acainst Italy   Sicily, Sardinia, Pantelleria Again Targets of Allies

LARGE AIR BASE IN SICILY FEELS HEAVY ATTACKS   Bombing Assaults on Sardinia, Pantelleria Continued by Allies -

INVASION ROUTE BEING SOFTENED BY BIG PLANES   Pantelleria Island Blasted: Sardinia Attacked

NORTH AFRICA RAIDERS HIT AT AIRFIELDS   Down 13 Fighters After Stirring Up “Hornet's Nest” —

Sardinian ‘Air Fields Of Axis Are Hit Again   18 Enemy Fighters Destroyed In Combat; Many More On Ground Are Alse Wrecked

Fortresses Pound Enemy Basesin Sea   Power Station, Airfields and Shipping Bombed

American Bombers Continue Savage Raids On Italians   High Flying Planes Pay Special Attention To Air Base At Comiso

IMPORTANT AXIS AIR FIELDS ARE BUMBED AGAIN   Thirteen Enemy Fighters Destroyed In Assault On Fields Im Sardinia and Pantelleria; Only One American Bomber Lost  and Its Pilot Saved.

Savage Aerial Raids on South Italy Continue   From _ Substratosphere Height American Bombers Strike at Islands.   RAF Keeps Up Assault On Sardinian Targets

U.S. Bombers Relentless In ‘Softening’ Up   New Windsor Pict  Destroys Italian Fiving Boat

U.S. BOMBERS CONTINUE AIR BLOWS AT DUCE   Big Sicilian Air Base At Comiso Plastered With Fragmentation Bombs; No Fortresses Lost.

Italian Isles Pounded Again  By Bombers   Airbase Attacked By Fortresses From Great Height

Bomb Axis Air Fields, Shoot Down 13 Enemy Fighters in Hot Battle

ALLIED PLANES STILL POUNDING ITALIAN BASES   Bombers And Fighters Plaster Important Axis Air Fields On Sardinia; Attack Other Itaban Posts.

ALLIES HIT SARDINIAN AIRFIELDS    Many Grounded Enemy Planes. Reported Destroyed

RAF BOMBERS PURSUE STRATEGY OF SMASHING GERMAN WAR CENTERS INTO IMPOTENCE   Essen Hit With Another Great Weight of Bombs Dumped Among Krupp Works Buildings. 23 Bombers Failed to Return From Mission.   ESSEN AND OTHER KUHR TARGETS ATTACKED BY RAF

U.S.AIRMEN BLAST ITALIAN _ BASES AGAIN   Fortresses Strike Savagely from   Substratosphere Height at Si  cilian Air Base   Pantelleria Again Bombed by Warhawks, Middle East Fliers Hit Shipping in Aegean

Sardinia And Pantelleria Targets Swept By American And Other United Nations Aircraft—Huge U. S. Bombers Raid Comiso From Sub-Stratosphere Height—Total Of 348 Axis Planes Listed As Destroyed By Northwest African Force Alone

Big Sicilian Base Blasted   Enemy Shipping In Aegean Target Of Allied Planes

Airfields On Italian Bases Are Pounded   Thirteen Enemy Fighters Destroyed In Combat And Many More On Ground As _ Allied Bombers Unload Frag mentation Bombs.

ALLIED PLANES SLASH AGAIN Al ITALIAN BASES   13 Axis Planes Destroyed In Raids

ITALY’S SOUTHERN ISLAND DEFENSES BLASTED HEAVILY  SICILY, SARDINIA AND PANTELLETIA BEAR BRUNT AIR ACTIVITY

Allied Aerial Assaults Hit Key Defenses   Concentrate On Sicily Sardinia and Pantelleria

ALLIES BLAST. AIR DEFENSES AT 3 POINTS      Big Sicilian Base at Comisco Is Attacked From Substratosphere Height -—-Axis Plane Toll 360 in Eight Days.

PONTE OLIVIO PLANE FIELDS ARE ATTACKED   Fighter Planes Escort Flying Forts In Raid

IMPORTANT AXIS AIRFIELDS UNDER ATTACK BY ALLIES.  SARDINIA AND PANTEL. LERIA AGAIN SCENE OF DEVASTATING RAIDS

Blast Drome al Comiso From Stratosphere   Warhawks Hit Pantelleria Iste  in Wide Sweep

AXIS BASES OFF AFRICA POUNDED   Allied Forces K Keep Up Raids Against Key Points

Big Base in Sicily Is Blasted From. Substratosphere.       Fiye Enemy Ai Destroyed, Bringing Total to Record :348:

ALLIES BLAST AXIS AIRPORTS IN MEDITERRANEAN   Down 13 Enemy Fighter Planes in Combat, Hit Others

AXIS AIRFIELDS ARE BOMBARDED   Bombers Rip Enemy Targets At Villacidro And Deci momannu Sicily

SEASONAL, _ WORKERS . ” CLABMIEaOn       Men Who Shift to ‘Other. Work Du Ang on Season ‘Will Retain: eee ~¢ oar eo

COAL RATIONING IS NOT FORESEEN NOW   OPA Yas Plan Ready. However, In The Event It Is Needed

Coal Rationing Isn't Expected  But OPA Is All Ready  If It*« Necessarv

Atherton Heads State Democrats   Elected Chairman By Executive Committee

YANKS BOMB JAPANESE ON WIDE FRONT   Nine attacks on Kiska; five against outposts in Solomon Islands

TWO FUGITIVES ARE RECAPTURED   Brothers Wanted on Kidnap Charge Found with Girls; Three Others at Large

PARSONS BROTHERS CAPTURED BY COPS   Press Hunt for Other Cincin: nati, Escapees

TWO WHO FLED JAIL CAPTURED   Police Hunt Three Bank Robbers Who Escaped With ‘, Brother Kidnapers

ST, MICHAEL’S SCHOGL GETS MASON ESTATE   Tract, Buildings Purchasec By Several Friends   Rhote Island Ave, Sito fo Allow  For Expansion, Additional Rec reation Facilittes

Tract, Buildings Purchasec By Several Friends   Rhode Island Ave. Site to Allow For Expansiun, Additional Rec  reation Facillties

TRUCE BETWEEN MINERS UNION AND OPERATORS GROWING UNEASY   Still No Guarantee That Miners Will Not Walk Out For a Third Time.

FOR B 6 ISSUED   Old Style “Worth Remains  With Fewer New Onee Granted

Busy Week Is In Store For Lower House   Merger Of Telegraphy Companies Is First Problem To Be Faced By Representatives

TRIOOF MAJOR ISSUES FACING CONGRESSMEN   Merger ‘of Western Union And Postal Telegraph Tops What May Be  ouse’s Busiest Week °   HAS PASSED SENATE   Others Deal With Lend. Lease, Appropriations ‘And Renewal of Dies : Committee

Bomb Compression Frequently Fatal To Men In Battle, Evidence Reveals

Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Issues Urgent Appeal For 10,000 Workers At Once;. . ’ - More Coal Miners Needed, Too

UTAH SOLONS STUDY LABOR AND HOUSING   30,000 Worker Shortage By July  Estimated By Job Chief

ATTACKS ON SWEDEN   German Editorials Become More Violent Than Ever

FDR TO REPORT WAR PROGRESS   Congress To Get Message Thursday; Conference  Takes Place

Solons Slate Draft Survey   CONGRESS CALLS ON HIGH COMMAND FOR VIEWS BEFORE TAKING MANPOWER ACTION; WEDNESDAY HEARINGS ON WHEELER BILL ARE SLATED

Roosevelt Will . ..... ‘s. Make Report On. voce. Progress of War

LIBERIA'S PRESIDENT GUEST OF BRICKER      Ohio War Plants and OSU To Be Visited

Late Néws Bulletins   Full Alert Called in Caribbean Defence Ares:

NAZI SLAUGHTER OF 80,000 AIRED   Correspondents Find Grim Proof Of Atrocity In City Of Kiev

REDS. CHARGE — 80,000 SLAIN   MASS ‘SLAUGHTER OF CIVILIANS AT KIEV DURING GERMAN OCCUPATION I8  aaa” REPORTED 

PREMIER T0J0 REPORTED ILL   Postponement Of Diet Until January 27 Is Announced

BELIEVE FRICTION EXISTS IN JAPAN   OBSERVERS DOUBT REPORTS FROM TOKYO THAT PREMUCK TOJO IS ILL.

JAPANESE DIET DISPUTE HINTED   Premier Tojo Believed Trying To Get More Power For Himself

Japanese Postpone Parliament Because Of Tojo's Hiness   Allies Speculate as to Smokescreen for InterPolitical Friction

CUT PERSONNEL ORDERS DEFIED   Byrd Committee Requests 300,000 Government Workers Go

. GROUP. . DECLAR  “REAUCRATS  FURTS TO SLASH THE  FEDERAL PAY-.  wart.

Revenge For Execution of hers Asked   Congress Echoes With De mands for Action

BLAST NIPPON FOR EXECUTED MEN, ORDERS   Murder in Tokyo of American Fliers Stirs Up Fury in Washington.   BARBAROUS ATROCITY, . PRESIDENT DECLARES

Congress Also Echoes With Demands for Re: venge, Likely to Be in Form of Increased As: sistance to General MacArthur.

General Arnold orders American airmen to increase raids on Nip bases

Thompson to Lead Christian Revival   Services Begin In Christian Church Wednesday, Sept. 1!

YANK CLIPPER . CRASHES, 24 DEAD, MISSING   Many Bodies. Pinned in Cabin as Big Plane Drops in Flames into Tagus River, Lisbon

FOUR DEAD AND 20 MISSING IN CLIPPER CRASH   Sixteen Other Passengers and Crewmen Rescued

Yankee Clipper Crashes, 24 Die   Jane F roman Saved In  Lisbon Accident

24 ARE LOST IN CLIPPER’S CRASH   Salvage Crew at Work in River — Flying Boat Wrecked Near Lisbon

YANKEE.CLIPPER . IN CRASH LANDING   Crews Work At Bottom 0: Tagus River In Portugal To + Hulk: 20 Known Dead

Four Dead, 20 Missing In Crash Landing Of Yankee Clipper At Lisbon, Spain   16 Others Rescued When Giant Plane Dives Into River After Trans-Atlantic Cross From New York

Heavy Toll In Ulipper Crash  Vietimsa’ Iden ntity Is      Vietima’ Identity Is Not Yet Revealed

Salvage Crews hinting Plane   Twenty Of. 39. Persons On Board. Yankee Clipper  Stull. In Cabin = °

What Next?   Jane Froman Hurt in Crash   Singer on Wrecked Clipper, But Is Not Seriously Injured

24 Dead or Missing in Crash of Clipper Ship at Lisbon; 15 Rescued

Yankee Clipper Crash Kills 24  Falls Into River At isbon, Portugal

20 Trapped in Yankee Clipper at Bottom of [River Following Crash

ATTEMPT TO RAISE YANKEE CLIPPER   24 Dead and Missing as Huge Plane Sinks at Lis. hon Without Warning

FOUR ARE DEAL AND 20 MISSING IN PLANE GRASE   Trans-Atlantic Flying Boa Sinks In Lisbon River _ After Crossing from New York   SIXTEEN RESCUED   Four Women Aboard, In cluding Jane Froman, ~Radio.Performer, Are Saved from Drowning

20 Are Missing: hh Clipper Crash   Big Plane’s Hulk. Still in River

74 KILLED IN CLIPPER CRASH   Salvage Crews Try. to Lif Wreckage Frof Tagus River at Lisbon,

24 DEAD, MISSING, AS YANKEE CLIPPER ~—DRASHES IN LISBOR      20 of 34 Aboard Big Ship Sealed In Cabin at Bottom of Tagus River   3 BODIES ARE RECOVERED

FOUR KILLED IN CLIPPER CRASH   TRANS-ATLANTIC FLYING BOAT DOWN IN SPAIN

Public Hearing In Coal Dispute   Coal Operators Inform WLB Price Increase Must Be Granted Now   WAGE NEGOTIATIONS ARE IN DEADLOCK

BOMBERS AID PAGIFIG BASES   _iberators Drop 16 Tons of Bombs on Kendari, Dutch Celebes: Heavy Damage inflicted on Parked Plane:

Mine Operators Spurn $1.50 A Day Settlement   Half million: men are idle; Ickes calls tie-up a “strike against the vovernnient 2:

Union’s Offer on Portal-to-Portal Issue   Rejected; Ickes Calls on Lewis  To Order Strike Ended

Workers Proposal  Rejected  Half Million Men Remain Out On: Strike —

Ickes Calls For End of Walkout   Impasse In Negotiations Announced An Hour After Stoppage Is Branded Strike  Against The Government

County Quota $300,000, Equal To Quotas Of Full Year.   COMMITTEES PLAN DRIVE

Drive Quota Is Equal Monthly Quotas Of Full Year.   COMMITTEES PLAN DRIVE

Solons Stirred hy McNutt’s Draft Orders  Mast Conaoracsemeas   Most Congressmen Reserve Opinions for the Present

Solons Stirred by McNutt's Draft Orders   Most Congressmen Reserve Opinions for the Present

ALLIES ATTACK BUIN AIRDROME   Appointment Of Krueger Not Significant, Says MacArthur

General Krueger Commanding New Sixth Army   Stimson Cautions Step Isn’t Beginning Of March to Tokyo

Lf. Gen. Krueger To Command New Pacific Field Army  Possibility Major Offense Seen in

General Krueger Commanding New Sixth Army  Stimson Cautions Ster  len’t Baninnina   Stimson Cautions Step Isn‘t Beginning Of March to Tokyo

NAZI DEFENSES ARE CRUMBLING ON EAST FRONT   Germans Throw Tanks and Infantrymen Into Ficht to Halt Reds,

REDS SMASH GERMAN DRIVE   SOVIETS SWEEP SOUTH TOWARD VITEBSK BASE

5,000,000 RED TROOPS AVAILABLE   Russians Less Than 20 Miles From Rail Point

Desperate German Counter-Aitack Broken by Russian Army — More Than 100 Villages Eliminated in Drive,

ON TOWARD VITEBSK   Counterattacks Of Nazis Near Nevel Are Repulsed

Russians Break Nazi Attacks  - ‘Reds But 15: ‘Miles: North of Vitebsk —

Reds Break Counterattacks Below Nevel   Russians Said to be Only 20 Miles From Vitehek

REDS BREAK . : eltAdl ‘ATTACKS - BELOW NEVE!   Sweep Toward : Key Junction at Vitebsk ‘Liberating 100 Vil lavas

KEY RAILROAD JUNCTION GOAL IN RED SMASH   More Than 100 More Russian Villages Liberate From Yoke of Hitlerite Oppressor.

FBI Is Probing Into Explosion   Munitions-Laden Train Derailed; One Killed In PRlaat.

TRAIN LADEN WITH SHELLS I$ DERAILED   “Transient” Passenger : Killed, Shell Fragments Shower City

TRAIN BLA SHOWERS CITY   Spent Shells Rain Down On Monroeville After Train Is Derailed

FBI Investigates Train Explesion  City Showered With Shell Frarments-

Port Of Naples And Axis Bases Again Bomber   American-British Bombers Continue Attacks To Soften Italian Defenses   PATROL RAIDS ARE _ MADE OVER ISLANDS

AIRFIELDS IN SICILY, FRANCE BOMB TARGETS   J. S. Ninth Air Force Smacks Two Airdromes On Italian Island   BRITISH BLAST NAPLES   RAF Hits Objectives On Continent; Nazis Drop “Eggs” In London

Naples Also Battered By RAF Planes   Vessel in Aegean Sea Under Attack

ALLIES POUND ITALIAN BOOT --ANSES, NAPLES   To North, RAF Gives France Another Blasting and Returns by Day.   SICILIAN AIRDROMES HIT BY 125-TON LOAD

ALLIES PUMMEL VITAL POSITIONS IN INVASION LINE   RAF in Seventh Successive Night Hits Continent’s Communications

Allied Aerial Campaign ‘Continues To Knock Out Axis Bases In Italy

Army of Some 200,000 Virtually Trapped By Fast Soviet Drive  TRAP ALSO SPRUNG ON VORONEZH FRONT  Million Germans Lost Since November 19, One Informant Says  Wer CE’ YY wea eke}... ae

RAILS JAMMED UVER HOLIDAYS   Some Travelers Standing For 700-Mile Rides

Hundreds Stand’ on Trains. Cfticials Believe Crest Will Pass Today. .

Senator Denies Great Increase In Price Index   Country's Condition Not Dangerous, Says Thomas of Oklahoma

CLAIMS PRICES NEAR AVERAGK   Senator Thomas Sees No Threat of Inflation

Two Deaths In Congress Delay Vote On Subsidies   Steagle of Alabama Dies of Heart Attack; Pennsylvanian Ditter Plane Crash Victim   BALLOT ON SUBSIDIES PROBABLE TODAY   Democratic Leader Hopes for Compromise On Controversial Bill

DEATHS OF SOLONS DELAY SHOWDOWN   House, Saddened by Two Decths, Postpones Subsidy Vote

House Delays Showdown Vote On Subsidies   Deaths of Steagall And Ditter Result In Halting of Work

EATHS DELAY FOR DAY HOUSE SUBSIDY VOTE   Members Saddened by  Passing of Ditter And Steagall

House Saddened By Sudden Loss Of Two Members   Steagall, Ditter Widely Mourned

SHOULD KEEP IDENTIT’    # Governor Bricker Discusses. Foreign Policy of the U.S.

BRICKER URGES PEACE CAUTION   Ohio Governor "Addresses Convention of Society at Philadelphia

‘ONE MAN PEACE’ HIT BY BRICKER   Ohio Governor Stands for National Identity at Philadelphia Meeting

GOVERNOR BRICKER URGES CAUTION IN TREATY DRAFTING  WARNS AGAINST A ONE-MAN OR ONEPARTY PFACE PLAN

WOMAN, SISTER SHOT TO DEATH   Husband To Be Charged With First Degree Murder

TWO SISTERS SHOT DOWN ~ ON FARM NEAR DELAWARE   LABORER. CHARGED WITH KILLING His WIFE AND HER SISTER AS WESULT  OF QUAREREL

Angry Nazis Stoned, Spat on Yanks Who Raided Reich, Repatriates Say

U, 5, AVIATORS MISTREATED BY NAZI CIVILIANS   Repatriated, They Tell How Germans Spat on Them, Stoned Them. Nazis Want Peace

Germans Curse, Throw Stones At Fliers  Many Nazis Pray To End War

American Fliers Back From Nazi Prison Camps Tell of Being Stoned By German Civilians Angered by Raids

Yanks Tell of Mistreatment by Germans, _ Reich Peace Prayers; Censorship Liftec

More Germans To Yugolsavia   Troops Badly Needed In Italy Drawn to Balkans

YUGOSLAV WAR WEAKENS NAZIS   Reich Forced To Rush Help ~ From Italy, Other Fronts

Yugoslavia ‘Draws Troops   Germans Forced to Send Into Balkans Men Needed Elsewhere

NAZIS WEAKENED BY GUERRILLAS   Troops Have To Be Sent To Fight Yugoslavs

GERMAN TROOPS TO YUGOSLAVIA   Nazis Sending in Reinforcements as Patriot Armics Renew Fight

Expect Pineer Drive In Burma   Mountbatten Returns To India After Conferences  With Kai-Shek.

Map Plans for Burma Campaigr  Chinese Expected to Play Important Part

Chungking Says Chinese to Help Clean Out Burma   Japanese Reported Trying to Escape New Guinea Trap

Nazi Capital Ripped Apart By Giant Bombs   Two Thousand Tons of Explosives Dropped On City

Capital of Reich Trembles Splits Wide Open As Result Of Heaviest City Raid Yet   Observers Believe Nerve-Center of Reich Has Been Marked for *“Hamburgizing’’—Only 26 Planes Lost.

JUST 30 MINUTES “USED BY PLANES TOUNLOAD BONS   Neutral Sources Report That  _ Great Damage Resulted, Government Buildings Are Believed Hit.   CANADIAN TROOPS IN MAIOR ITALIAN FIGHT   Eighth Army Makes Gains For Four Days, Battle Lacks Any Large Scale Offensive Now.

ZUUU IGNS Of Bemis Hit Giiy   Nazi Government Buildings Are Believed Hit

AMBASSADOR JOSEPH DAVIES 10 LEAVE FOR MOSCOW WITH MESSAGE 10 STALIN FROM FDR

DAVIES TO CARRY NOTE FROM FDR TO RUSSIA'S’ PREMIER   May Be Planning To Meet Stalin For Survey Of Allied War Fronts

PRESIDENT SENDS ENVOY TO MOSCOW   Former Ambassador Davies  Carrying Private Message To Stalin

DAVIES 10 TAKE MESSAGE TO STALIN   Contents of Note Not Divulged by Chief Executive

REVEALS DAVIES GOING TO RUSSIA   President Says Envoy Wiil Carry ‘Sealed Letter’ to Stalin

UNIONTOWN HAS "$50,000 BLAZE   Lafayette Hotel, Kaufman Store Wrecked; Woman Hurt

High Pitch of Violence Marks Red Fighting   German Casualties Mount In 4 Dags of Bitter Action; U. S. Subs ~

Russians Claim Gains As Nazis Press Offensive   New Attack On Europe For First Time In Five Nights Is Reported

BUCKNER URGES OCCUPATION OF JAPAN PROPER   Alaskan Headquarters Commander Favors Land Occupation Of Japan In Order To Make Enemy Realize His Complete Defeat.

Uree Invasion  Of Jap Islands   Buckner. Jr., Says To Make Japs Realize Their Com. plete Defeat.

Germans Use Barges In New Attempt To Defeat Russians  Move Is Shrouded In Mystery; Nazis Take Loss

Reds turn back nazi attempttomove men across Kerch strait   Soviet ships and planes destroy 6 troop carrying barges in skirmish

GERMAN TROOP BARGES CAUGHT   Soviets Report Enemy Moving Men By Boat From Caucasus

Germans Attempt To Move Troops Out of Caucasus   Russia Reports Fighting ii Vicinity of Novorossisk

GERMANS MOVE TRONPS BY WATER   Enemy Shows Unusual Maneuvers in the Caucasus   INTENTIONS MYSTIFY   Not Indicated Whether Nazis  Trying Reinforce or Evacuate Troops

Hickey Gambling Repeal Proposed in Legislature  Political Groups May Be Permitted  Ee “Whirersgcen: Flees lb eletxe

Hickey Gambling Repeal Proposed in Legislature  Political Groups May Be Permitted to Name Candidates

GREAT AIR UMBRELLA PROVIDES CHANCE TO HOLD NEW POSITIONS   More Than 2,000 Sorties Flown To Break Up Nazi Attacks; 5th Army Has No Thought Of Abandoning Foothold   Ry UNITED PRESS

Giant Air and Naval: Assault Supports 5th Army Battling: To Stern Nazis Near Salerno   Strongest Air Attack of War Launched Against Enemy Forces; British Capture Isle of Capri

Reinforcements  Pour in to Help  Hold Bridgehead   Fierce Fighting Continues; Allied Aerial Support Most Powerful Ever Seen; British 8th Army Advances 

Five Others Trapped in Smoke Filled Basement After Building Falls.

Radclyffe Halli Dies In London   ‘Well Of Loneliness’ Was Her Major Novel

Last Main Road To Orel Immobilized      Quarter. Million Nazi Troops Are Virtually Trapped

Last Main Line To Orel Severed   Southern Defenses of City Almost Broken

REDS IMMOBILIZE FINAL NAZI MAIN HIGHWAY 10 OREL   Russians Will Probably Open All-Out Assault From Three Sides With Cracking of Lines. .   21 GERMAN TRANSPORTS DESTROYED BY ALLIES   Belgium, Holland Enemy Defenses Blasted, Hitler Reported Concerned Over Duce Resignation.

MAIN NAZI oUPPLY LINE TO OREL CUT   All - Out Russian Assault Upon City Imminent

REDS IMMOBILIZE LAST NAZI ROAD SUPPLYING - OREL      Russians. Will . Probably Launch All-Out Drive From 3 Directions To Take City

REDS IMMOBILIZE LAST GERMAN SUPPLY LINE   Russiang Breach Axis Defenses South of Orel

FINAL GERMA SUPPLY ROAD TO OREL CAPTURED   German Defenses Sixteen Miles Southeast Of City Are Breached

WOMAN FACES MURDER CHARGE   Arraigned In Slaying of Well Known Horsewoman.

Allies Puzzled by  Absence of Enemy Air Power in East   Americans Wipe Up Nip Forces on Tarawa Isle; Aussies Advance

Allied Airpower Unchallenged In Attacks On Japs   Ground Forces Hunt ‘Down Last Nipponese Stragglers On Tarawa

POWER NOW = He UN DRIVE IN PACIFIC AREA   Australian Troops Close on Bonga, Japanese Outpost in New Guinea Jungle. Aussies Using Tanks in Push to Iron Out Bulge in Allied Lines

Japs Fail to Challenge Us To Air Battle   Allies Planes Untouched During Wide Forays in Pacific Area

Yank Airmen In Pacific Meet No Opposition   Planes Pace Ground Drives In Guinea And The Solomons

Hunt ‘Down Last of ‘Foe on Tarawa   Australians. Tighten. Drive on Bonga, New. Guinea, , While _Allied..Bombers: Are -Busy '

Air Opposition Low In Pacifie   Australian Troops Close In On Bonga. Jap Ouipost In New Guinea.

No Jap Fighters Come Up to Meet Allied Bombers   Lack of Opposition At Wewak Puzzles Allied Air Officers

NO OPPOSITION TO AR POWER   American Ground Forces Hunt Down Enemy Stragglers on Tarawa.   AUSTRALIANS ON BONGA

Allied Bombers Pace Activities In The Paeific   Aussies Close fn On Tonja; Hunt Down Last, Enemy Straglers On Tarawa

ALLIED AIR POWER GOES ‘UNCHALLENGED I® DRIVE ON N. GUINEA, SOLOMONS

JAPANEOE FALL TO CHALLENGE ALLIED AIRMEN   Allied Airpower Unopposed In Southwest Pacific, Tears At Enemy

ALLIED AIRPOWER IN PACIFIC SKIES MET NO ENEMY FIGHTERS  AMERICAN GROUND FORCES MOPPING UP IN GILBERT ISLANDS

JAPS FAIL TO RESIST ALLIED RAID AT WEWAK   Yank Ground und ‘Forces ‘Hunt Down Stragglers on -Tarawa

Sergeant Stars In Kasserine Fight  Captures Pass,  Holds It All Night

Reds Fan Out Across River   Nazis Fight Furiously As Entire Defense Threatened

GERMANS BATTLE FIERCELY 10 SAVE LINE ON DNIEPER   Hurl Tanks and Planes at Foe —Reds ‘Repulse Thrusts and Widen Crossriver Footholds.,   ALL-OUT NAZI STAND HINTED BY MOSCOW   More Than 2,800 of Hitler’s Troops Fall — 24 Tanks Knocked Out, 32 Planes Downed.

Reds Fanning Out In Three Pockets On Dnieper River   Many Germans Slain In Struggles Which ‘Assumed Very Fierce Character’ Fridav

Reds Drive To Crush. River Line   Bridgehead Fight Nears Climax In Kiev Section

Reds’ Drive Menaces Kiev. Entire Front   Battle of Bridgeheads Rises Toward Climax On Dnieper West Bank  NAZIS DESPERATE

Battle of the Bridgeheads”’ Is Held Going Against Nazis on West Bank of Dnieper

FURIOUSLY T0 HALT SOVIET!   River Battle Fierce; Russians Also Ad vance in North

Soviets Beat Back Nazi Counterblows  Russians Fan Out   Russians Fan Out in Bridgeheads West of Dnieper

Germans Seem Determined to  MakeStand       Fight Assiimes “Ver Fierce Character,’ Moascow Asserts

Red Forces Fan Out From Dnieper Holds   Russians Batter Back Nazi Counter-Raids And Increase Threat to Kiev; 32 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down in Combats in Air

Germans Lose Heavily To Russians   Thousands of Nazis Perish as Soviet Onslaught Crushes Positions; Counterattacks All Meet Catastrophe

Soviets Beat Back Nazi Counterblows   Russians Fan Out in Bridgeheads West of Dnieper

COAL OUTPUT AT LOW LEVEL   12,000,000 Tons Lost During Week As Union Men Mark Time

W.L. B. Considers Coal Settlement   Board Decision On Agree. ment Is Awaited By Coal Miners   COAL PRICE BOOST IS NOW INDICATED

GOAL PRODUCTION STILL 1S BELOW NORMAL RATES.   Miners Await War. Labor Board Actioa “on New Contract

Marigny Fails To Marry Nancy   Illness’ Prevents Church Ceremony

RE-MARRIAGE PLANS OF DE MARIGNY FLOP   Priest Is Kept Waiting An Heur At The Church; Frenchman Is Ta Be Denorted

PRIEST WAITS BUT WEDDING DELAYED   De Marigny, Who Pianned Remarriage, Re- ~ ports Beina Iii

Se! farigny  Says ~ =e. _ ke-wec. “ancy. 2u- lev -at. 70 £.7)ear

MacKenzie’s Series On India  Gandhi's Hunger Strike Has Created A Serious Crisis In Indian Fight

Softening Of Italy Near End   Axis Hoisting Invasion Storm Signals on Coast

Jntland Fortikcation Plans In British Hands, Danish Report Asserts

MINE WORKERS VOTE AGAINST U.S. MEDIATION   U.M.W., Vetoes Proposal Of Southern Operators; Expect Concession

UMW Rejects Move To Ask Help OFU.S   Mine Operators Favor Taking Wage Dispute To Government; Union  Votes Down Proposal

INE OWNERS RESENT PLEA ( WASHINGTON   eported intervention By  resident Asked, But  Telegram. Contents — Not: Disclosed   ONFERENCE FAILS  TO SETTLE DISPUTE   nion Rejects Proposal To Continue Sessions 30 Days After March  31 Deadline

Operators Hac Proposed US  Assistance   UMW Chief Sees A Settlement Without ‘Interference’

Miners, coal workers fail of agreement   ‘Union votes down proposal on wace

UMW REJECTS PROPOSAL FOR SUBMISSION OF WAGE DISPUTE TO GOVERNMENT

MINERS REFUSE TO SUBMIT WAGE DISPUTE TOU 3.   Southern Operators Plan to Lay Differences Before Government Despite Attitude of Union.   NO PROGRESS MADE AT NEW CONFERENCE   Both Sides Agree No Settlement Is Possible Before Contract Expires on March 31.

MINERS TURN DOWN PLAN 10 END. DISPUTE   Refuse Producers’ Proposal to Submit Wage Row to Government.   CONGRESSMEN HINT OUTLAW STRIKE ACT

Telegram Sent To FDR by Operators   Miners Feel Capable of Settling Dispute Without Government Interference

Mine Workers Turn Down Plan   Refuse Operators’ Proposal to Take Dispute to Government

Miners Reluctant To Submit To Intervention  But Operators May Ask Government Tea Enter Dispute .

UMW Rejects Government Aid In Wage Dispute   Joint Conferences To Continue On New Contract

SEES SHUTTLE RAIDS ON JAPS   Gen. DeWitt Says U. § Airmen Need Only Supply Bases In China

HALSEY NOT SO SURE WHEN WAR WILL END   Admiral Who Forecast Victory ir 1948 Has Quit Gazing Into Crvstal Rall.

JAPANESE WARNED U. S. WILL ATTACK   Tokyo Radio Broadcast Says Alaska Will Be Headquarters for American Drive.

35 Draftees Take Exams at Camp Dodge Today   Those ‘Passing Will Be Granted 7-Day Furlough Before Reporting for Active Duty

Many Draftees Will Take Final. Exams Wednesday   Those Passing Will Be Inducted and Granted Sevenday Furlough

ACTION POSTPONED UN FARM LABOR BILL   Measure Threat To Army’s Plans, Claim

Action on Bill ToDeferFarm Labor Put Off   Measure Threat To Army’s Plans, Senator States

ARMY EXPECTS 4 MILLION MIEN ABROAD IN “44   Supply of Single Men Will Be Exhausted By End of Month

Bill to Defer Farm Labor  Postponed   Senate Committee To Seek Advice o Military Leaders

Delay Vote On Bill To: Defer Farm Labor   Senator Gurney Charges Bill Is Most Serious Threat Ever Made To U. S. War Program

British Cross Tunisia Border  At Three Points   Such Is Unofficial Report As Rommeé! Pursuit Is Continued   ALLIED BOMBERS HAMMER RETREAT

RATION VALUES GOING UP ON 7 FROZEN FOODS   OPA Revises Chart For August; Applies To Blue Stamps   (OPA Chart on Page 8)

OPA Announces  New Point Rises   Seven Frozen Foods  Up Three Natches

INCREASE POINTS ON FROZEN FOOD    New Point Values Will Take Ef. fort August 1, Is  iB saiciuicar’ at!

Ration Point Hike Begins August First  New Values to  Apply to Stamps R, Ss, T

REY. J. W. BIXLER TAKEN BY DEATH   Native Hanoverian, Pastor Emeritus Of Congregational Church At Exeter, N. H., Dies At 82

New Ceilings On Milk In Six States   Sweeping Order By OPA Affects  Fvery Community   Second Class City Top Is 13 Cents In Kansas   Retail Prices May Go Under But Not Over New Ceilings

Milk Ceiling Prices Changed   OPA ANNOUNCES NEW SYSTEM OF PRICES TODAY

NEW SYSTEM OF MILK PRICES SET FOR SIX SOUTHWEST STATES  NEW ORDER SET CORSICANA RETAIL PRICES AT 12 CENTS QUART

Maximum Prices On Milk Are Set For City by OPA   Federal Agency Creates a New System of Ceilings in Six States.   New System May Be Started on Monday

New Price Ceilings Are Fixed on Milk   Four-State District Affected—Joplin Dairymen Anticipate an Increase in City— Have Asked Boost of 2 Cents a Quart.

Fix New Ceiling. On Milk   OPA Acts te Ease Price Squeeze Which Threatens Curtailment Of Dairy Production.

New Milk in Effect _~ Monday   System Devised. for -.' the ~ Southwest Area May Be’ -Adopted for: Nation   15.CENTS IS TOP ©. RETAIL. PRICE   Prices in Different Towns Wil-Vary; .Plan-Seeks to: Restore - Balance

New System of Milk Ceilings Is Announced   Fayetteville Ceilings for Quart 11 1-2 Wholesale, 13 Retail

Uniform Milk Price Ceilings In Southwest   District Plan To Permit Boost In Prices Generally

Pilot Witnesses Destruction By  Ocean Batteries   Momeone Definitely Catching Hell, Says  Young American Flier

PILOT TELLS OF BLAZING SICILY COASTAL SCENE   Smoke Chain Stretches for 10 Miles Inland From Heavy Shelling

Fleet Sets Fires Raging 10 Miles Inland In Sicily   Pilot Describes Air View Of Battle Picture Or Shores Of Island

Great Salvos Are Fired By Allied Fleet   What A Battle Picture, I: Pilot’s Exclamation Or Return From Flight Over Sicily Early Toda;

U. S. Pilot Tells Story of Invasion   Saw Landing, From Photo Plane High Over Sicily Coact

Pilot. Tells First Bird’s Eye Story Of Great Sea Invasion   Says Allied Warships Start “Chain Of Smoke And Flame’ Stretching 10 Miles Inland

BRITISH FIRST AND EIGHTH ARMIES FORM EIGHTEENTH ARMY   Latest Reports Say Spearheads From Both Armies Driving On Enfidaville

Allies Are Driving North of Sousse. Rommel Surrounded On All Sides. 33 Thousand Axis Prisoners Have Been Tak-

5. C. PEARSON DIES IN CHICAGO   Succumbs In Hospital Following Operation—Funeral Today

BARKLEY SAYS LEWIS MAY WIN VETO BATTLE   Tells Senators to Avoid. TightRope Walking by Pigeonholing Bankhead Rill   BLOC SEEKS DELAY   Would Avoid Showdown, Hold Bill as Club Against Lewis, Barkley Says

Barkley Pleads With Senafe To Sustain Veto   Farm Measure’s Fate Remains in Doubt Again Today

Balk Move To Upset Veto Of Bankhead Bill   Farm Bloc Now Fights To Send Measure Back  To Committee.

Bankhead bill may boomerang--Barkley   Warns congress not to keep it as club aaainst John Lewis

BARKLEY URGES FDR'S VETO BE SUSTAINED   Warns Senators if Bill Is Kept Behind Doors As Club Against Labor Lewis May Come Out With Club

BANKHEAD MEASURE ASSUMES ROLE OF A “CLUB” TODAY   Solons Told If They Keep the Bill As Weapon Against John L. Lewis He In Turn May Use It As Such

URGES SENATE SUSTAIN VETO   Says Lewis Might Be Real User of “Club”

A Veto Vote Is Urged   .. + Barkley Pleads For Forthright Action

Kansas City. Musicians to Give Concert Monday  Afternoon   IS AN ANNUAL EVENT

OUTH WILL HEAR NOTED ORCHESTRA   Kansas City. Musicians to Give Concert Monday Afternoon   IS AN ANNUAL EVENT

DIKE BREAKS AT LAKE ERIE; FLOODS AREA   Hundreds ef Families Driven From Homes as Farm Lands Are Inundated

FLOOD SWEEPS LAKE ERIE AREA   Hundreds Homeless, Farms Inundated After Earthen Dike Crumbles

POUNDING WAVES BREAK LAKE DIKE   Hundreds Homeless After Water Inundates Area Near Toledo

Cabinet Called Into Session; Tension Grows   German, Turkish Armies Face Each Other at Border

DEMANDS FOR "PEACE MOVES ~ TN BULCARIE   OkOwnS “OPENLY sHoOUTING FOR BREAK WITH GERMANY AND CABINET HOCDING  BFECIAL SESSIONS

STIRRED BY ALLIED TALKS WITH TURKEY   Bulgar Cabinet. Holds Special Midnight Session

Tension High InBulgaria   Crowds In Streets Demand That ‘‘Bulgaria Must Get Out Of War’’

SOFIA DECLARES TROOPS RUSHING TO TURK BORDER   Premier Summons Midnight Session; Tension Brings Crisis

Crowds Say Get Out of War   Turkey’s Friendship With Allies Causes Stir

ChOWDS DlorLAy PEACE PLAGARLY; CABINET MEETS   Nerves of B:iigars at Breaking Po nt Following Turkey Talks

WHEAT OUTLOOK IN STATE IS GLOOMY      Smallest Crop Since 1868 Forecast in Maryland

‘Raleigh Newspaperman Named Administrative ‘Assistant To President

President Names Daniels Assistant   Newspoperman Will Serve on Staff in Fact-Finding Capacity

TINKER’S SON MISSING   a of Haskell-Trained Flier W: : on Duty in Africa

=INKER’S SON MISSING   Son of Haskeil-Trained Flier W: on Duty in Africa:

AUSSIANG GAIN IN SMOLENSK REGION   Advance West of Vyazma in Drive Toward Nazi Base   TAKE HEAVY TOLL   Reds Tell of Stubborn Fight. ing Against Tank - Supported German Attacks

Reds Concede Loss of City  To Germans   Drive to Smolensk, However, Is Being Pressed Successfully

Nazis Press Drive Above, Below City   Russians Claim Gains Towards Smolensk Base

POWERFUL NAZI COUNTER OFFENSIVE STILL PRESSING ON BROAD FRONT FROM KURSK TO MIDDLE DONETS.

REDS ADVANCE ON SMOLENSK: KHARKOV LOS   UKRAINE INDUSTRIAL CITY RECAPTURED BY GERMANS

Heavy Battle Goes on in Donets Area Germans Put Powerful Weight Into Push East

Reds Continue Spiritedly Despite Loss   Evacuation of Key Rail City, Kharkov, Is Acknowledged, But Fighting Still Rages, Soviets Make Some Gain

Nazi Forces Press Ahead On Wide Are   Continue To Throw Powerful New Weight Into Southern Battles  RUSSIANS STUBBORN

Reds Leave Kharkov; Nazi Counteroffensive Press on Broad Front   Russians Advance in Smolensk . Region; Push on West of Vyazma; -Nazis Continue Drive

GERMANS STILL PUSHING FORWARD ON BROAD FRONT   Nazi High Command Declares Soviet Forces Have Been Driven Back as Far as Belgorod.   MUSCOVITES GAIN IN SMOLENSK DRIVE   Capture Town 80 Miles to East After Smashing Counter-Attack and Enemy Defenses.

Reds Admit Withdrawa From Industrial City After Fierce Fighting   German Counter Offensive Still Being Vigorously Pressed from Kurst fo the Middle Donets; Berlin Reports New Gains in Terrific Tank Battles; Germans Using Powerful Forces

POWERFUL NAZI COUNTER-DRIVE IS CONTINUING   Soviets Report New Advances On Vital Smolensk Front Further North.

Official Acknowledgement of German Victory Made  RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN SMOLENSK AREA  Nazis Throw Powerful Weight Behind New - Offensive

Loss Of City Is Offset By Steady Russian Advance On Smolensk      SEVERAL POPULATED PLACES ARE RETAKEN

Soviets Report New Gains in Smolensk Area   Powerful Nazi Drive Pressing Viciously  on Broad Front From Kursk to Donets Zone

Labor’s Draft _ Being Pressed   Union: Support’ Is Sought By Softening Wording Of Austin: Bill

HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR LEAVE! CITY ABLAZE   R. A. F. Stages Fitting Observance of War’s 4th Birthday

BLAST BERLIN AS 4TH YEAR OF WAR ENDS   RAF in heaviest raid yet so far on Nazi capital city

RECORD BLOW MARKS END OF ATH WAR YEAR   Heavy Tannage Of Explosive  And Incendiary Bombs _ Dropped In 45 Minutes   48 PLANES ARE MISSING   Other Forces Smash Airfields And Military Targets In  Northern France

REICH CAPITAL QUAKES UNDER HEAVIEST RAID   American Naval And Air Forces Pour Destruction On Marcus Island   WARSHIPS SHELL ITALY   Victorious Russian Armies Pour Through Big Gaps In Hun Defenses

48 RAF PLANES LOST IN WORST CAPITAL SMASH   Nazis Admit ‘Considerabie Damage’; Record Weight of Bombs Fall

1d BILLION UNCLE OAM APRIL REQUEST   Biggest War Financing Drive In History Opens Monday   FUNDS TO PAY WAR BILL IS MAJOR OBJECTIVE   Draining Current Surplus Cash To Halt Inflation Is Second Purpose

THIRTEEN BULLION DOLLAR WAB BOND DRIVE STARTS TODA   Unele San Needs ‘Your Boney ta Wie the War That Costs ' Money and Lives.

BIGGEST BOND DRWE YET 10. OPEN MONDAY   “Second War Loan Drive” Will Run for Approximately Three Weeks.   INVESTMENTS RUN FROM $18.50 to $1,000,000

Second War Loan Drive Js Biggest War Financing: Operation In All History:

U. S. Drive for 13 Billion Dollars Opens Monday   Money Needed to Wage War, Bond Purchases Aid in Inflation Fight

WAR WUT ENE OO $US OER  Record War Financing Drive To Start Monday

NATION WANT 13 BILLION IN THREE WEEKS   SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE OPENS MONDAY

US Launches Record War Fund Drive   *Starts Monday on Drive to Raise 13 Billion in Second Loan   BLOW, AT INFLATION   Treasury Seeks to Drain Off Surplus Dollars to  Check Goods Buying °-

BIG FINANCING DRIVE OF WAR ~OPENS MONDAY   United States Treasury Seeks Loan of $13,000,-000,000 to Help Wage  Global War   PURPOSE TWO-FOLD   Sum Will Finance Conflic’ Three Months and Drain Off Surplus Money to Prevent Inflation

UP TO LEWIS IF UNIONS REJOIN   AFL Says Jurisdictional Issues Must Be Acted on First

RUSSIAN AIR WAR MOUNTS   191 Enemy Planes Downed; Land Fighting Quickens

AIR WAR OVER RUSSIAN FRONT REACHES PEAK   Report 191 Nazi Planes Destroyed In Last 24 Hours

AUGulAND 1] AIRPLANE IN SINGLE AY   Intense Aerial Fighting I: Believed Forerunner Of Ground Offensive

SOVIETS SPRING SURPRISE ATTACK WEST AF KURSK   Five Mass Air Raids Also Staged; Red Front Fight. ing Quickens. .

TEMPO OF AIR WAR IS INCREASED   Reds Capture 3 Towns  In Surprise Drive  West Of Kursk «4

191 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN BY RED ARMY IN 24 HOURS   ‘Air War Mounts to Unparalleled Heights — Decisive Battle Is Nearing.

Accord Is Reachec On Interior Funds  Measure Calls for 80 Million Total

Wm. Bos of Volge, S.D. To a, is Take On Plymouth Creamery   Killeas To Remain Here Tc “Take. Care of Other Bus iness Interests

William Bos of Volga Acquires Creamery Plant   Buys Out Interests of J. J. Killeas In  Thriving Concern

No Details, but Presence of A riers Indicated—Reds. Thu nder:, F ward. on.600-Mile Front. f ‘om Ss “ ensk to Taganrog—Fortrésties  Bl  Rail Lines in Italy"

Japs Say Their Mainland Could Have Been Raided   Target Is 1,200 Miles From Tokio, And 900 From Wake

Marcus Island ls Blasted by US Warships   Jap Broadcast Warns Enemy Could Have Raided Mainland If He Wanted to; Germany Reports New Retreat in Donets Basin Area

IMMEDIATE OUTER RING JAP DEFENSES UNDER BOMBARDMENT   BLACK NEWS FOR AXIS ON ALL FRONTS AS WAR ENTERS FIFTH YEAR

Marcus Island Is Shelled Wednesday By U. S. Warships   Huge Fires Kindled in Berlin; Reds » Threaten Nazi Defense System . x In Eastern Russia

Huge RAF Armada Raids Nazi Capital, 48 Bombers Missing   Fight Still On in Pacific; Island 700 Miles Northwest of Wake, 1,200 Miles from Tokyo

Raid Marcus, 1,200 Miles  From Tokyo   Report Heavy Damage At Strategic Outpost

Bombard Marcus Island      Heavy Raid By U. S. Navy Carrier Task Force; Nazis Admit Retreat in Russia

QUIT GREEK SOIL IS PLEA TO SOFIA AFTER BOMBINGS   Romania and Hungary Next in Line, Say Leaders on Diplomatic Front

BULGARIA GETS RUSS WARNING   Powerful Psychological Drive Under Way To Halt Axis Support

Soviet Joins Allies _ in Pressing. Bulgars  ~ Into Axis Breakaway

PLAN TO DRIVE BULGARIA OUT OF WAR BEGINS   Russia Joins in Bring: ing Pressure on Nazi Satellite

(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Preece War Analcct

WRITER AG TERMS HULL “ANTL-RED’  AIN   Drew Pearson Puts Himself in Direct Defiance of President

PEARSON REITERATES CHARGE DESPITE ROOSEVELT’S BLAST   COLUMNIST AGAIN ASSERTS SECRETARY HULL IS FOLLOWING AN “ANTIRUSSIAN” POLICY

Signs Indicate Early Invasion   Storming of Axis Wall Farcenst! in Landon

EARLY INVASION MOVES ARE SEEN   Capture Of Axis Isles Opens Path For Southern Europe Drive

8th Army Continues Advance   British Admit Resistance Of Desperate Germans Make Precress Slow

U. S. Troops Make Good Headway in Surprise New Offensive in Upper Central War Front

Sth Army Forges  Ahead —   British Deeper Into.  Mareth Line; Yanks in Surprise Drive Toward Fondouk, to The North

AXIS AIR BASE THREATENED BY YANK ADVANCE   Allied Progress is Slow But Sure — Americans Make New Surprise Drive   RAINS HAMPER OPERATIONS   Reds Smash Deeper Into Nazi Lines and in South Pacific Jap Bases Bombed Again

‘AMERICANS START SURPRISE OFFENSIVE TOW ARD FONDOUK; BRITISH ATTACK MARETH LINE   American Troops in Central Tunisia Launches Surprise Drive Towards Fondouk. The Sector Is North of Faid Pass And 100 Miles North o   ene ae

American Forces Launch New Drive 100 Miles to North   Montgomery’s Eighth Army Goes Deeper Into Nazis Defenses

Heavy Rains Halt Activity On Two Fronts   RAF Bombers Deliver Heavy Blows on Rail City of Duisburg

Surge Forward Despite Stiff Resistance; Yanks Launch Surprise Drive Toward Fondouk.

Nazis Admit Rommel Now On Defensive   British 8th Army Delivers Successful Attack on Mareth Ling; US Troops Launch Surprise Drive; Reds Smash Nesrer Smolensk

Fresh Attacks Are Opened On: Massive Scale  pee none &   Eighth Arm y Delivers Successful. Blows On Mareth Line °:

OFFICIAL BULLETIN INDICATES BRITISH G0 DEEPER INTO LINE   LIEUT. GEN. ANDERSON’S ARMY STABS AT AXIS IN NORTHERN AREA

‘Yanks Launch Surprise Drive At Kairouan   Montgomery Operations ‘Proceeding According to Plan’

Second Thrust in Two Days; Capture Foe   First Army Stages Raids; Reds Seize Initiative in Fierce Battles

TROOPS PUSH OF DESPITE STRONG AXIS PRESCHDE   American Yatrois Active On Central Tunisian Front

A SURPRISE. ATTACK BY LS. FORCES      Americans. Are Making’ . Good Headway: in New.  Drive-in: ‘Tunisia   MONTGOMERY ALSO. . MAKING PROGRESS   British. First. Army Joins in Offensive Actions By™.. Allied Annies

Campaign Goes On According To Plan, Allies Announce   Germans Make Intense Effort To Crush Russians Southeast of Kharkoy

FLIER REQUESTS POST-WAR JOBS   Rickenbacker Demands Jobs Provision Plan for Service Men.

RICKENBACKER WANTS HELP FOR BOYS AFTER WAR   SAYS THEY SHOULD BE ASSURED OF JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Wm. Jeffers Again Makes Charges   Army and Navy Interfering with Rubber Program

JEFFERS RENEWS INTERFERENCECLAIM   Army, Navy Impeding Rubber Program, Congress Told

RUBBER CHIEF REPEATS CHARGE THAT ARMY, NAVY INTERFERES WITH SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANS

U.S. Sub Made in Midwest Reaches Coast of Japan on First Cruise, Sinks Jap Ship With 1st Torpedo

Renaull Motor Works Attacked By Large Force   Targets Easily Hit and Fliers Report Damage Is Heavy   RAF Strikes Hard Blow at German Industrial City of Essen

YANKS BOMB RENAULT TANK PLANT, PARIS   RAF Gives Essen, Germany, One Of Heaviest Blasts Of The War; 900 Tons  FERS eee   21 Bombers Lost

Plant Has Been Supplying Equipment For Hitler’: Armies; 21 British Bombers Fail To Return From Destructive Attack On Essen -

U.S. Airmen Hit Paris in Heavy Raid   Rain Destruction on Renault Armament Works

Big American Force Hits Foe Severely   Great Bombers Hurl Death and Ruin On Nazi Factories

133 American Bombers Take Part in Raid      Devastation Wrought at Big Renault Motor and Armament Works; Year’s Biggest Aerial Battles Fought

American Bombers Attack French Armament Works  25 ENEMY PLANES REPORTED DOWNED  RAF Bombers Strike Another Heavy Blow at Essen

Four Bombers, Seven  Of Allied Fighter Escort Are Lost  DOWN 33 NAZIS  Hundreds of Tons Of Bombs Smash  Factories on Island

Greek Government in Exile Plans To Follow Allied Armies Back Into Greece: King, Premier in Cairo

NAZIG PREPARING BALKAN DEFENSE   Seem to Fear An Alleged Drive Through Greece In Near Future

GREEK GOVERNMENT TO FOLLOW ALLIED ARMIES BACK HOME   Officials Now in Exile Plan for Future As Nozi Activity in Balkans Is Noted.

AIRMEN BLAST ENEMY BASES   Flying Fortresses Smash Ships A\ Rabaul, While RAF Cracks Japs In Burma

Fortresses Hit Rabaul Harbor   American Planes Bomb Widely Scattered Points

BRITISH FORCES PUSH NAZIS FROM IMPORTANT POSITION   Infantry and Tanks Used to Force Germans  From Astride. Important Raad.

(With Raiders of Rabaul: Dogfights’ Clamor  Drowns Out Roar of Destruction Far Belov

CROWDER CAPTAIN DIES IN WRECK   Tire Blowout Believed Cause 0 Fatal Crash; Nurse Injured.

 Germans Fail to” Halt Victorious Russian Advance   Shock Troops Thrown. Back on Three Fronts, Infantry Routed and Tanks Smashed After Savage Counter-attacks

STREET FIGHTING INSTALNGRAD IS - RUSSIAN SUFeRESS   Fortresses Do Principal Damage. to: Axis Installations From Air Qwing to Muddy Sail,   GERMAN SUBMARINE  BASE GETS BOMBING   British Subs Probably Sunk Seven Ships North of Africa, Prisoners Are Taken From Two.

SOVIETS PUSH ANEAD ALONG THREE FRONT:   Major Drive on Leningrad s Disclosed After 48-Hour Assault,   RUSS ENTER “ROSTOV REGION” IN ADVANCE

REDS GAIN ON THREE MAJOR FRONTS TODA)   Overcome Counter Attacks to Continue Advances

GERMAN SHOCK UNITS THROWN BACK BY REDS   Infantry Routed, Tanks Smashed On Caucasus, Don And Central Fronts   ROSTOV PUSH EXTENDED      Stockholm Reports Soviets Attack Nazi Positions At Leningrad

ATTEMPTS TO HALT ADVANCES OF RED ARMY HAVE FAILED   Non-Stop Offensive In - Stalingrad’s’ Streets Intensified By Storni Troops

Red Offensive Smashes Ahead On All Fronts      . German ‘Shock:Troops Trying In Vain To —Stop Steam Roller

TEN VILLAGES ARE RETAKEN BY CHINESE   Encirclement of 2,000 Japanese, With More Than 500 Killed Announced  By High Command   SUPPORTED BY YANKS

Japs In China Forced Back   Enemy Forced From Another Stronghold

Chinese Retake  Niupitan and  10 Villages 2,000 Japanese  Encircled, 500. Killed in Rice. Bow!

Report Niup tan  Again In Hands Of China Troops   Chungking Also Diseloses . Vital Town Of Shihmen Lost By Chiang’s Army

CHINESE TAKE NIUPITAN FROM JAPAN'S ARM)   Chiang Forces Also Retake Ten Villages Northwest of Changteh; and En circle 2,000 Nips —

CHINESE ANNOUNCE SEVERAL SUCCESSES AGAINST JAPANESE  SEVERAL VILLAGES RECAPTURED AND LARGE ENEMY FORCE ENCIRCLE!

Niupifan Taken By Chinese In Rice Bowl Area   2,000 Japs Encircled With More Than 500 Killed In Action

REDS BATTER  AT. DEFENSES OF VITEBSK   Soviets Regain Initiotive in Kiev Bulge, Stop Nazi Tenks,

RED: ARMY FORCES REPORTED STORMING VITEBSK DEFENSES  POWERFUL GERMAN TANK OFFENSIVE STOP-

REDS STORM INTO NAZI STRONG POINT   Take Gorodok in Drive Toward Heavily-Fortified Vitebsk — Other Units Halt 2-Day German Tank Offensive.

Soviets Lake Initiative In Kiev Sector   Nazis No Longer Have Upper Hand; Russian Baltic Army Storms At Vitebsk Defenses

NAZI ARMOR “FORCE HITS STONE WALL   Foe Admits Break In Lines; Enemy  Uses Tanks’

Heiress’ Husband Is Found Guilty of Charges by Army Court Martial

ARMY DESERTER GETS 10 YEARS   PRIVATE M’INTOSH FOUND GUILTY BY A COURT MARTIAL

GERMAN WAR GEAR SHOWING RAID RESULTS   U. S. Ordnance Officers Find Ene my Material Delerioraling, Bolt Nazi and Jap

ENEMY WEAPONS DETERIORATING IN QUALITY   ‘Allied Bombérs and Navies Forte: Axis Nations To Reduce Quality of Weanbdns

Quality Of Enemy’s War  Materiel Is Deteriorating   Germans Master Craftsmen But Japs’ And Italians’ Equipment Called ‘Third Rate’

U. S. MATERIAL BEST   German War Weapons Show Effect i of Industrial Bombing

GERMAN AND JAP. WAR EQUIPMENT (S DETERIORATING   Ordnance Officers Agree American Materiel fer Suneror

American War Goo ds Surpass All Other  NAZI MATERIEL DETERIORATES AS RESULT OF BOMB ATTACKS

U. S. War Materiel Is Found Superior To That Of Enemy; Raids Hit Nazi Production

Enemy Materiel Deferiorating.   Increasing Weight Of Allied Bombing Raide Shatter Reich

Steady Deterioration of German, Jap Materiel of War Seen by Army Ordnance Chiefs at Proving Ground

FOE MATERIEL IS FOUND T0 BE DETERIORATING   Allied Bombipg Raids Be ginning to Show Results On Germany's Ability to Furnish Equipment

NO EXTENSION ON B,C, GAS GOUPUNS   100-Gallon Bulk Coupons Included in Sept.  Deadline.

AIR RESISTANCE WANES OVER JAP PACIFIC OUTPOSTS   YANKS CONTINUE TO HAMMER MARSHALLS AND NEW BRITAIN

Aerial Resistance Of Japs Waning At Two Outposts   MacArthur Announces Attack On New Britain

Jap Air Resistance Has Disappeared in New Britain Sector   Also Appears Waning in Marshalls, Adm. Nimitz Reports

jAT NEW BRITAIN \HAS DISAPPEARED   American Air Forces Pounding Heavily Jap Installations at Many Points

Jap Aerial Power Wane:   Enemy Resistance Weaker at Robaul And Over Marshalls

ENEMY OUT OF AIR IN BATTLE GF NEW BRITAIN   Jan Aerial Power Also Waning In Marshalls; Much Significance Attached To Renvorts Of Trend Of Fighting.

JAP AIR FORCE IN SO. PACIFIC AREAS WANING   Has Disappeared Over New Britain While Enemy Resistance in Mar shalls Is Meagre

Japanese Air Power Wanes In Pacific   Resistance Complete ly Disappears Over New Britain

Jap Air Power At  New Britain Gone  Marshall Isle Aeria/! Opposition Weakens

JAP AIR FORCE —1$ SCATTERED   ‘Resistance Over New Britain Nil) Invasion Fore sen In Marshalls

JAPANESE AIR RESISTANCE IS REPORTED WEAK   No Planes Around New Britain Or Marshails Now

NEW BRITAIN’S AIR. RESISTANCE HAS VANISHED   Little Opposition Reported Over Marshall ‘a islands ‘

JAPS’ AIR POWER REPORTED WANING OVER MARSHALLS   Resistance in Skies Above New Britain Seems To Be Gone Entirely

JAPS REMOVE AIR FORCE FROM NEW BRITAIN   Nip Plane Strength Appears To Be Weakening in Marshalls Also

Believe Allies Seek to Isolate Maior Ferry Terminals fo Italy   More Troops Being Landed by Royal and U.S. Navies; Indian, Dutch, Polish, Green Naval Units Aid in Strike Across Mediterranean

Landing Forces Seize Ports, Head to Messina   Swarm Ashore on 100-Mile Stretch, Crack Defense; Advance Under Artillery Fire

Axis Resistance Broken : br Bre Hour Strtiggles Assault Called “Success”   Landing Operations Carried Out Over.100-Mile Stretch of Coast;  Matar Glailian @aannete Maiiinnd

TEMPERATURE   Allied Soldiers Swarm Sicily; In Swift Attack  Enemy Overcome In Three Hours; Moving Inland

MESSINA MAY BE OBJECTIVE OF ATTACKERS   Flyer Says Naval Salvoes Looked Like “Volcanic Eruption”; Powerful Aerial Cover Afforded Invaders

Flame-belching Muzzies From Warships of Six Nations Rip Up Roads

Swarm Ashore Over 100 Miles Of Enemy Coast   Losses Are Light; Not One Ship From The Huge Allied Armada Is Lost; Resistance Light

Invasion Forces Overcome Enemy Resistance In Three Hours And Advance Inland

POWERFUL AIR COVER HELPING MOVING TROOPS   Armies Appear Alming Ts Isolate Major Ferry Fer. minal Linking Sicily ’ With Italy's Mainland   EISENHOWER HAILS SUCCESS OF BLOW   Naval Assaults Compared to “Volcanic Eruption;  Landing Troops Like Million Flies

Axis Resistance On Island Coast Quickly Crushed  Powerful Umbrella Of Planes Covers

[sland Landings Called Success   Triumphant News Tells Of More And More Troops And Guns Put Ashore: Other Offensives In Offing

Landings Made On Southeast Coast Of Isle   Troops Begin March Inland Within 414 Hours Of First Assault; No Ships Reported Lost In Initial Thrust

Simplicity Marks Inaugural: Officials Urge Government Must Stay Close To People

YANKS SURGE ON IN ITALY WITH FIERCE FIGHTING   Japs on New Guinea Blasted By Allied Warplanes: Slavs Drive Ahead in Balkans

Reds Tighten Grip Upon Krivoi Rog   Commanding Heights Fall To Fifth Army

May Be Facing Great Disaster   Soviets Sever Railroad to Krivoi Rog Sealing Escape of German Forces  Ranging From 500,000 to 1,500,000 -—Havye Advanced 500 Miles in Year

German Escape Corridor Closing   Estimates of Imperilled Forces - as High as Million and a Half; Fifth Army Makes Progress

Russians Within Artillery Range Of Krivoi Rog   Americans Take Commanding Height In Southern Italy

RED ARMY HAS ADVANCED 900 MILES IN YEAR   ‘Allied Forces Score Small Gains in Central Italy

Yugoslav Partisans Capture Four More Centers; Swedish Transbort Plane Shot Down

Nazis Bomb Naples Harbor Area, Ww. ile British Attack Cologne—2217 Tons Explosives Hit Japs Near Finsc           hafen—Slovenia Centers Fall.

Germans Face Worst Defeat Of World War Il   Panic Grips Hitler’s _ Troops As Retreat  Becomes Rout

Doom Of Great Nazi Army Being Sealed _   Onrushing Red Army Severs Key Railroad Escape Route While Bringing Great Iron Center Within Artillery-Range.— ~

WIND DAMAGES CITIES IN TEXAS   Tornado, Cloudburst Hit Points Over State , _

Allies Push Forward By 20 Miles   American And Canadian Forces Ram Big Dents In Mt. Etna Axis Defenses

Yanks 75 Miles From Messina Nov   Continue To Push Ahead In North; Fighting Is Heavy Though

100,000 Miners Still On Strike   Sporadic Picketing Of Captive Pits Reported

DECLARATION OF HEAVIEST PUNISHMENT COMPARABLE WITH CIVILIZED PRACTICE FOR. JAP ATROCITIES NEEDED FOR MORALE   Even the Lowly Jap Experiences Fear for His Hide As Well As for Fear for His Reputation Among Respectable People—MacKenzie

The War Today  eee  Government Should Declare That Atrocities Will Be Punished.

The War Today   Jap Beheading of Allied Flier Reince Call for Stern Vengeance

The War Today   By DE WITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   MacKenzie Urges Keeping Of Black Book On Axis Criminals’ Actions

The War Today-— Urges Allies To Make Good Pledges To Punish Those Guilty Of Atrocities

SPECIAL OFFICIAL DECLARATION NEED AS PUNISHMENT PLANNED IFOR IAPS BEHEADING PRISONER

Assurance of Vengeance on Japs Would Help UN Morale Would Create Fearin Savage Nips 

NAR ON ‘ZOOT SUITERS’ STOPPED BY NAVY ORDER   LOS ANGELES NECLABED OUT _OF BOUNIS BY REAR ADMIRAL AFTER DAYS OF  e RIOTING.

LOCAL STUDENTS PREFER J.T, A.C. REPORT SHOWS   High School Graduates Over Wide Area Enter for Summer Semester Last Week.

WILL BE ONE CONTEST   ‘Interest in Lawrence Election Will : Be in Fifth Ward  '

WILL BE ONE CONTEST.   Interest, in Lawrence Election Will Be in Fifth Ward

GREEN RE-ELECTED BY FARM BUREAL   Starts His 1lth Term: Lincoln Re-named Executive Secretary

More Points for Beef, Lamb, Canned Fish, Peas, Tomatoes And Fruits; Catsup Up 7

Point Values For Numerous Food Items Are Increased   Few Reductions Made; Beef Scarcest Since Rationing Went Into Effect

Higher Points Announced For Beef, Other Meats   Values Also Boosted On Four Vegetables,  Five Fruits, Catsup Anda fawwsorl eh   NEW OPA CHANGES EFFECTIVE SUNDAY

High Point ‘Costs’ Set For Meat  Processed Food ‘Prices’ Also  Increased

Many Food Ration Values Boosted   Increase Points  For Beef, Lamb

RATION NEWS ALL BAD: BEEF POINTS HIGHER   FOUR VEGETABLES AND FIVE FRUITS ALSO UP

Beef Rationing Points Boosted   Canned Fish, Catsup Vegetables Affected

RATIONING NEWS BAD; HIGHER POINT VALUES PUT ON MEATS   - Only a Few Reductions in List Announced by the OPA : —Beef Is Scarce—Canned Food Point. Values Jump ©

BARNESBORO MAN GETS ZERO   Sgt. Peter “Abromovich Had Big Time with Japs

AMERICAN HEAVY  BOMBERS BADLY “  WHIPPED JAPANESE ONLY SIX ENEMY  PLANES LEFT OF WORE THAN TWO DOZEN

JAPS COME OUT OF AERIAL DOGFIGHT WITH LIBERATORS WITH BUT 6 PLANES

Atoka Man Named On Industry Board      Aerial Control Tower Technique Employed By Japs In Plane War

JAPS USE NEW TRICK IN AIR WAR - - FAILS      ‘Director’ Flies High Above Dog Fight Over Pacific

Allies Crash Through Main Core of Resistance West of Lae; East Wing Moves Nearer Town’s Center

Jap Defenses West of Lae Are Broken   One Arni. of: Pincers Is Now. Within Two Mile of Tawn Center

Pincers Closing On Enemy Air Base From East   Japs Put up Stiff Fight but Lose Plantations

Detense Core Of Lae Falls   Planes Maraud Jap Bastions In Pacific

Allies Crash Through Jap Resistance   Are Within 2 Miles of Center of Nip Base of Lae

Pincer Drawing  tn Ln  Tighter On Lae   Aussies Crush Main Resistance to West

JapaneseLose Ground on Lae Defenses   Allies Crash Through Main Core of Resistance West of New Guinea Air Base, Threaten Foe Elsewhere

New Successes Made Against Japs Near Lae   Core of Resistance West of Base Crushed: 3 Plantations Taken

Allied Forees Have Crash. ed Through Main Core Of Resistance   JAPANESE RETREATING INTO JUNGLE HILLS

Gen. MacArthur's Forces Push Pincers Tighter on Japanese in Lae District

ALLIES ADVANCING ON JAP AIR BASE      Main Core of Resistance West of Lae Reported Broken

ALLIES CRASH RESISTANCE WEST OF LAE   Steadily Advancing Pincers Move From East to Within Two Miles of Town’s Center.   Bomb Vessel

New Successes In New Guinea Are Announced By MacArthur   llied Forces Crash Through Main Core of Resistance West of Japanese Base at Lae

Allied Armada Is On Move Eastward   Jap Sub Warfare is Reported Off Australian Ceast

UNITED NATIONS ARMADA ENTERS ° MEDITERRANEAN   Montgomery’s Big . Guns Pound Tunisian Defenses

Hint of New Offensive in ~ North Africa   Axis Tells of Heavy Bar rage from Eighth’ Army’s. Guns   REPORTS BIG CONVOY ' NEAR GIBRALTAR   Reports Are Unconfirmed But They Touch Off Speculation on Several Angles

BOMBERS HIT PARIS AREAS   Aircraft Factories Attack. ed by American Fliers

RAIDERS BLAST PARIS INDUSTRY   i’. S. Fertresses Pound Nazi Plane Plants And Airfields

Fortresses Rain  Powerful Blows On French Bases   Nazis Factories At Paris Pounded By (iant Aire Armada

U.S. Fliers Hit Paris, Other French Areas   Nazi Plane Plants Raided in Vicinity Of Capital by Biggest Heavy Bomber Forces to Strike at European Continent

© STRIKE AT PARIS   Other Sections of France @ Lambasted by Bombs   FACTORIES HIT   One of Biggest Air Forces ‘Ever to Strike at Continent, Belief

CHULA TURKEYS TO FIGHTING MEN   Wade Smith Sold Turkeys That Were Shipped Overseas.

SEEK WITNESS IN GRAND JURY PROBE   Officers of f Investigation Trying to Find State Representative.

SEEK OTATE aULOR FOR GRAND JURY   Rep. Stockfish of Hamtpamek Listed as Missing, .’Linked to Dombrowski «©

BOARD 10 RECEIVE COST COMPLAINTS   Three Are Announced For Work Without Compensation to Consider Prices.

Panel Will Show Customers _ How To Sue Business Men   Local OPA Will Instruct In Preparation of Damage Suits

Liquor Stores In Ohio Closed Rest of Month   Sales Halt Today To Allow Time For Rationing’s Start

EAGLES FRIDAY NIGHT Orchestra and dance.—Ad.   RICKY WYWE FEF MILES

Air Transports Missing Off California And In Peru   Plane Vanished In Storm With 19 Persons Abroad   U.S. Servicemen Among 15 On Lima-Bound Ship

}  Navy Plane Lost With 19 on Board      Big Transport Vanishes in Fog Nearing End of Flight From Pearl Harbor

NAVY FLYING BOAT MISSING WITH 19 ABOARD   Names Of Men On Board Not Listed By Naval Officials

ISEARCH PRESSED FOR NAVAL PLANE WITH ‘NINETEEN ABOARD   Transport Vanishes In Fog, Storm Near Sari Franletern Thursday

AIR TRANSPORT LOST IN STORM   Big Plane, With 19 Aboard, Missing on Flight To Frisco from Hawaii

NAVAL PLANE IS LOST WITH 19 ON BOARD   Craft Last Heard From On Thursday Circling San Francisco

Navy Transport And Cargo Craft Vanish In Fog   Airliner Long Overdue On Flight To Peru From California

BIG NAVY PLANE LOST IN STORM   19 Persons Aboard Transport Missing In Pacific

Start All-Out Air, Sea Hunt for Transport   19 Persons Aboard Naval Airliner Being: Hunted’ When Plane Is Unable: to Land

AIR TRANSPORT STILL MISSING   19 on Naval Plane Enroute Home from Pearl Harbor

START SEARCH FOR TRANSPORT PLANE   19 Persons Aboard Airplane from Pearl Harbor

NO RAIN IS IN SIGHT   Slightly Cooler Weather Is Predictjed for Eastern Kansas -

MOST OF CITY TO - CLOSE ON MONDAY   Annual Odd Fellow Pienig Will Be Held in South Park   DANCE IN: THE EVENING

MOST OF CITY TO CLOSE ON MONDAY   Annual Odd Fellow Picnic Will Be Held in South Park

MUST FILE INCOME FORMS BY SEPT. 1%   Collector Rothensies Issues  Last Minute Warning ied Taxpayers — Tells Who Must Make Returns

WARNING ISSUED TAXPAYERS MUST FILE NEXT WEEK  Federal Income a ee   Federal Income Tax Report Is Due Wednesday

TAXPAYERS URGED TO FILE RETURNS BY SEPTEMBER 15   Many Persons Included In Classes Who Must Give Estimate of Income

Internal Revenue Collector Issues Last Warning To Federal Income Taxpayers

ROMMEL RUNS INTO =NORTHERN DEFENSE “BOX”   Germans Refuse Battle, Slow Allied Advance With Mine Fields   LAST BIG PORT FALLS   Japs Hard Hit By Yanks And Russians Repulse Nazi Attack

SENTIMENT FOR BACK-T0-MINBS GROWSINPENNA,   Signs Striking Anthracite Miners May Return to Their Jobs Monday Are  Increasing   AWAIT NLB REPORT   May Vote To End Walk out After Union Meetings Today in Wilkes Barre and Scranton 

Back To Work Sentiment Grows In Coal Areas   "Watch And Wait’ Policy In Obeying Order By “WLB Is Favored

ENO OF MINE STRIKE BELIEVED IMMINENT   Miners May Resume Work Tomorrow, Belief

Miners Expected To Resume Work  Back To Job Policy May Be Adopted Today At Meetings

Coal Miners Are Likely to Return to Work  May Go Back on Job ’ And Await For Develepments

Miners May Resume Work On Monday  Several Locals Favor Compliance

Back-To-Worl Sentiment In Mining Area   Meetings Today To Discuss Order From WLB

Coal Miners Expected fo Work Monday   Union Locals Seid te Be Ready te Actede te . WLE, Await Results

UIGNO POINT 10 RETURN 10 WORK   Striking Miners Expected “Back on Job Monday   FOLLOW WLB ORDER   No Spread of Strike Noted Yesterday; Many Miners Take Saturday Holiday

Miners Returning To Their Jobs   They Adopt a WaitAnd See Policy In Hard Coal Field

GOAL STRIKERS MAY RETURN TD WORK MONDAY   Anthracite Miners Expected to Vote Compliance with WLB Order.   ICKES ANNOUNCES PLAN FOR USE OF SUBSTITUTES

Coal Miners Are Likely to Return to Work  May Go Back on Job ' And Await  eee: =p: A ENe ere Seen ies

Indications Are Coal Miners  to Resume Jobs  Unofficial Word Is That WLB Order Will Be Followed

Stockmen Advised by Ration Board  Can Get Supplies of Food in Advance

Stockmen Advised by Ration Board  Clan Gat Gunniiac af   Can Get Supplies of Food in Advance

Nazis Lash Out Again a Fiffh Army   Germans Leunch New Counter Attack: Situction Confused

Winter: Grips Ftalian Front   Grim. See-Saw Fighting Occurs, Slight Gains Are Recorded

WLB Supports Subsidy Program   New Food Administrator is Price Rollback and Subsidy Advocate.

Dian for Subsidies Gets War Labor Board Backing As Jones Takes Food Jet

Plan for Subsidies Gets War Labor Board Backing As Jones Takes Food Job   Farmers Urge Ceilings, Subsidies be Abandoned

SUCCES SOR TO DAVIS AS FOOD HEAD SWORN IN   Judge Jones Says There Is Sufficient Food For A “Healthful Diet”   SUBSIDIES FAVORED BY WAR LABOR BOARD

HEALTHFUL DIET _ AIM OF NEW BOSS   Judge Assumes Office; Known As Price Rollback and Subsidy , Advocate

Pennsylvania Legion Favors  Maternity Aid   Urges State To Join Federal Program;  New Officers Elected

Legion indorses Participation In Federal Prograrr  More Than 40 States Al   More Than 40 States Al ready Accepted; Murray New Commander

U, 5. BOMBERS RAID INGALADON   Leave Large Japanese Air Base in Rangoon Area Ablaze

Biggest Jap Air Base in Rangoon Area Left  Ablaze by U. S. Planes

U.S. Bomber: Damage Jap Burma Base   Mingaladon Is Left In Flamec

Aniericans Hit At Mingaladon   Raiders Leave Big Jap Air Base in Burma in Flames, They Report

OPA SUSPECTS LIONS ‘GAS’ USE   Checkup on Motorists Attending Cenvention in Cleveland for Violations

Balkans, North Italy Secured,  Germans Aver   Enemy Claims 200,000 ftalians Laid Down Li ig Ons Sancc

Germans Consolidating Their Positions In North Italy, Balkans To Meet Allied Pushes

Nazis Boast 200,000 Italian Soldiers Have Laid Down Arms to German Forces

Berlin Claims Surrender Of Many Italians   Upper Italy, Balkans Southern France Said To Be Under Control

Germans Claim. Consolidation. Of Upper Htaly.   Balkans, Southern:, France Also Included In Nazi Statements:

GERMANS CLAIM NEW SUCCESSES   Nazis Say Position in Upper: Italy, Balkans, France Consolidated

BERLIN CLAINS POSITIONS ARE CONSOLIDATE!   Lipper Italy, Balkans and Southern France Under Complete Control Cam muniques Contend

FAAM BLOG AY NO COMPROMISE   In Fight With Administration Over Farm Price Policies; House Committee Backs Pending Measure

HIGHER PARITY BILL APPROVED   Farm Bloc Gets Backing Of House Committee In Fight To Add Labor Costs

Farm Bloc Wins New Support In Policies Fight   Committee Approves Bill Revising Method Of  Figuring Parity

BLOG 10 INSIST QN HIGHER FARM PRICE CEILINGS   Gets Backing of House Bank’ ing Committee in Its Demand for Increase in Parity.   COMPROMISE SEEN AS OUT OF QUESTION   ‘Roosevelt Once Estimated Bill It Supports Would  Add Billions to Food Qhacte

HIGHER PARITY BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP   Farm Bloc Warns Administration There Will Be No Compromise

‘No Compromise For Farm Bloc   House Committee Votes Parity Changes

FDR Is Defied By Farm Bloe On Price Rise   House Group’s Proposal Would Add Billions To Food Costs

PARITY RAISE. APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUE      Farm Bloc Scores Victory in Fight With Ad - ministration

House Group Okehs Farm Ceiling Boost   Agricultural Bloc Spurns Move For Compromise

American Bombers Hit  ‘Hard At Japs At Munda   Enemy’s Key Defense Point In Central Solomons Heavily Battered As U. S. Fliers Pound Four Widely-Separated Bases

AMERICAN BOMBERS  POUND JAP BASES  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC MUNDA, ENEMY’S KEY  DEFENSE POINT, MOST HEAVILY ATTACKED

MUNDA HARDEST HIT OF SEVERAL JAPANESE BASES   Americans Deal Aerial Blows to Four , Widely-Separated Enemy Points in Southwest Pacific. Sunday.

Planes Raid Jap Bases  Heaviest Blow Struck   Heaviest Blow Struck At Key Defense Point of Munda

A Jap Bases Get ain Ut Dombs Pacitic Battles   52 Tons Of Explosive: Shower Munda A: US Jungle Fighter: Get Close To Base

Around 176 Tons Of Bombs Loosed   Nine Zeros Attempting To Interfere Are Shot Down   MUNDA ABSORBS MOST OF THE BOMBS

Planes Continue  Attacks On Mund:   Ground Situation Unchanged on Pacific Isle Where Americans Seek to Capture Jap Base

Allies in Pacific  Strike Heavily  At Munda Point U. §. Forces Said  To Be Closing in On Outer Defense:

YANKEES BLAST JAPAN'S BASES IN FOUR AREAS   Strike Most- Heavily At Munda, Enemy's Key Defense Point In Central Solomons   NINE ZEROS BAGGED      More Than 176 Tons Bombs Dropped On Strongholds, Including Bougainville, Salamaua and Bobo

Four Japanese  Bases Pounded  Munda Bears Brunt Of Allied Attacks

J. S. BOMBERS POUND JAPS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   sround Silualion al Munda Un changed, Troops Closing In Nearest 3 Miles Away

y  BASE, GETS HEAVY BLOW   Over 176 Tons Bombs Loosed On Jap Stronghold

Munda Gets The Heaviest Pounding... ..  U.S. Bombers Strike At Four Enemy Bases

U.S. AIRMEN HIT JAP FORGES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Munda Main Objective of Air Campaign, Down Nine Zeros

ALLIES STRIKE AT JAP BASES      ‘Munda Most Heavily Hit:  Word of Ground Action Scarce

BOMBERS ARE POUNDING JAP BASES   Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Blast Island Concentrations of Barbarians      ‘EFFECTS ARE TELLING

Americans Hif Four Jap Bases   Yankees Strike Most Heavily at Munda, — Headquarters Says

Four Nippon Pacific Bases Are Pounded   Munda Gets Heavies! Battering By 176 Tons OF Allied Bombs   TROOPS HOLD LINE   Devastating Air Blows De. livered At Trea Top Level: In New Guinea

FIGHT IN SOLOMONS MOSTLY BY PLANES   Yank Ground Forces Still Close in on Munda

4 JAPANESE BASES: ARE HARD HIT BY AMERICAN: PLANES   Strike Most Heavily at Munda, Key Enemy Solomons Defense Point   LAND SETUP UNCHANGED

Bombers Pound Japanese Bases  Key City of Munda   Key City of Munda Is Hit Hard

U5. BOMBERS HIT JAP BASES   Munda Hardest Hit As Yanks Strike at Widely Senarated Bases

SOFTENING MUNDA FOR LAND ASSAULT   Ground Situation Un changed Over Week End: Tornedo, Dive Bombers Used

YANKS POUND 4 JAP BASES   Strike  Most Heavily At Key Defense Point Of Munda

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT FOUR BASES IN S, W, PACIFIC   Nine Zeros Shot Down As Allies Smash Jap Posts

George Confident Acceptable Plan (Can Be Achieved   Conference Committee Begins Making Study of Income Tax Problem

George Sees Compromise On Tax Bill   Expresses Confidence _ After First Meeting OF Conference

Property Taxes Cut Since 1930   26.3 Per Cent Slash Reported in Montana

REDISTRICTING BILL WILL BE RECONSIDERED   Measure Faces Second Vote After Being Defeated In Moriday Session   DROPS AT-LARGE POST   Utility Rate Making, Unemployment Fund Boost Prooosals Considered

CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING PLAN UP AGAIN   Measure By Sheppard Defeated By One Vote; Ex-. pect New Supporters

; State Senate Renews Skirmish Over Proposal -To Make Changes In Congressional Districts

COAL PRODUCTION OFF   Both Bitumineus and Anthracite Figures Decline.

MARETH DEFENSE OF NAZIS CRUMBLE BEFORE ATTACKERS   MARSHAL ROMMEL’S FORCES REPORTED RETREATING NORTHWARD

Rommel’s Men Retreat North; Patton Drives  To Trap Them   Triple Break Seored by  British 8th Army On 25-Mile Front

Axis Defenses Cave In On 25-Mile Front   Rommel’s Army In Rapid Retreat Northward Ir Tunisia; Yanks, Other Allied Forces Race Toward Gabes To Cut Off Fleeing Foe.  nrmarrrTryrY oT? sa.

Line Breaks Before Steady Pounding of Montgomery's Force   Axis Troops Retreat to Escape Corridor With  Tremendous Losses

Little Maginot Line Vanishes   Montgomery Takes Mareth As German Retreat Is Threatened On Flank By U. S. Armies

Rommel’s Mer Retreat With. Heavy Losses   25 Mile Front Rent Asunder By Montgomery

Home Edition   BRITISH FORCE ROMMEL TO FLEE MARETH LINE   Yanks Push To Close Bottleneck In Hope Of Trapping Axis Army

EL FLEES BRITISH FORGES   U.S. Troops Make Progress _ Against Axis Escape Corridor.   ITRAP SET IN NAZI REAR

Many-Pronged Offensive May  Entrap Rommel   American, British And French Cutting In To Intercept Retreating Enemy

MARETH LINE CRACKS UNDER BRITISH MIGHT   Race on for Gabes as 80,000 Axis Troops Withdraw Under Pressure From United Nations

Tfareth Line Defenses Col * Japse Under British Army Attack      ESCAPE CORRIDOR HIT   All Strong Points in: Little Maginot Line in Allied  Hands

Big Inch Pipeliners Quiet Now— But Will Spin Yarns lor Years After Ceremony

‘MORE GAS IN THE EAST   Gasoline May Be Used for Pleas~gure Boasting After Sept. 1

OPA Lifts Ban On Boat Gas,  Furlough Fuels  pm Pleasure Rides Still Banned By OPA In Fast

WILL LIFT BAN ON GAS FOR BOATING   Service Men On _ Furlough, Too, Will Be Allowed Five Gallons Each After Sept. 1, OPA Announces

Tulsa ‘Women Beaten. Slain   Violated Bodies Found In : Their Ransacked Apartment

Guerillas Are Ready to Strike at Axis   Anti-Axis Station Describes Italian Peace Overtures

SAY GUERILLAS READY TO FIGHT   Report Italian Diplomat Talked Peace With U. &. Representatives

ITALIAN DIPLOMAT REPORTED TALKING OF SEPARATE PEACE      Said To Have Discussed Terms With American Representatives On Spanish Soil .

500, 000 Guerillas Ready To Aid Allied Invasion.    Secret Radio Tells of Italian Bid for Peace ' With United States .

rroup On Fair Employment ‘ractice Tossed Overboard   aosevelt Sets Up New Agency Designed to Insure Persons of Every Race, Creed, Color or National Origin Opportunity fo Aid In War Effort; Headed hy Monsignor Francis J. Haas

FDR SETS UP NEW FAIR EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE  Old Committee Dumped   is Committee Dumped Eloy To.  Habeas  Dew nhinna pegs

Discrimination Prohibited In Industry  President Sets Up   President Sets Up Committee To See All Get Fair Break

Uther Drastic Steps To Reduce Consumptior Of Gas in Northeast  Announced by Brown  BAND CCARDS  WORTH 21% GALS.  Furlough Gas ‘Our’; Supplemental Rations To Be Hard To Obtain

CUT'B’ AND 'C COUPON VALUE   OPA Orders 17 Per Cent. Reduction in Gasoline  Rations in Area

B and C Gas Coupons Are Cut by 0.P.A.   Worth 2 1-2 Gallons Beginning Last Midnight; Other Changes Made

NO SCORING DONE ~ INFIRST PERIOD   Crowd of 8, 000, Largest of - Year, Sees K. U.-M.U. e   Rulletin

Crowd of 8, 000, Largest of . Year, Sees K. U.-M.U.  Game   KANSAS THREAT FADES

TURKISH LEADER BACK IN ANKARA   CROWDS CHEER INONU WILD. LY—CONFERENCE BELIEVED PRELUDE TO WAR.

U.S. WANTS POST-WAR CURRENCIES TIED TO COLD: WILL LISTEN TO. BRITAIN.

BOLD SUPPLY IN POSTWAR PLAN   Treasury Revises Outline of Its International Finance Plan.   ASK WORLDWIDE KITTY

U, S, TREASURY. OUTLINES POSTWAR PROPOSALS   Ready To Make Agreement With Great Britain

Gasoline Muddle Still Continues   Ickes At Odds With OPA, And It All Adds Up To ‘‘No Additional Gas’’

DRIVING BAN BAN “TO. CONTINUE   (CRES INDICATES EASTERN MOTORISTS NOT TO GET IN*,, CREASED GAS SUPPLY UNTIL LATER

EAST GASOLINE CRISIS REMAINS   Cutting Southwest To Three Gallons No Help

: One-Man Army Is Dude Higgs. American Pilot i in Chinese  Air Foree, Back on Visit

M'KITTRICK IN RACE FOR U. $. SENATE      Attorney General First to Announce Candidacy for Demo Nomination, but Clark Is Expected to Be Contender.

McKittrick in Attack on Isolationism      Opening Statement in Bid for Senate Seat Presages Lively Drive on Clark:

Songs From Across the Sea--- — Seaman's Memory Restored      Sister's Singing Frem London Is Best ‘Medicine’

Girl's Song Brings Back Boy’s Memory   “WHITE CHRISTMAS” FROM LONDON RESTORES FACULTY OF BOY

Gil, 8, Broadcasts From London; Restores  ‘Memory of Sailor, fH]

SISTER'S VOICE ON RADIO RESTORES SALOR’S MEMORY   British Seaman, Long Ill, Revived by Song White  Christmac

Siege Of Leningrad Is Lifted; British Advance On Tripoli: Japs Beaten

From Russia _ to New Guinea They Triumph   ROBBER NATIONS  TAKING IT ON CHIN OVER BROAD AREAS.

Siege Of Leningrad Is Lifted           GIVES RUSSIAN ARMIES ONE MORE LARGE BASE; BRITISH AR WITHIN 50 MILES OF TRIPOLL

Leningrad Cheers As Germans Flee   British Drive Closer to Tripoli and MacArthur Takes Japanese Base

AXIS DIPLOMATS IN CHILE ARE PACKING   Turn To Argentina Ag Only Remaining Refuge In Americas

GERMANS OPEN ALL QUT DRIVE TO REWIN KIEV   Huge Armored Force Cap tures Radomisl, Russian Highway Center, Near Ukrainian Capital

Highway Hub Falis Beiore Axis Attack   Cream of German Army 1s Thrown in All-orNothing Gamble   NEW TACTICS USED   NEW TACTICS Uskd Commander Uses Onl Part of Tank Forces for Assault

ALL-OUT NAZI. BID FOR RUSS CITY OF KIEV   But 200 Miles Away on Long Red Front, the Seviets Launch Another Offensive Drive.   Nazis Desperate Rv ASSOCTATER PREECE

RADOMISL, BIG RAIL HUB, IS LOST BY RED   Soviets Admit Serious Setback In Loss. of Communications Center.

Redomisi, Key Road Center Seized By Nazis   YON CANNSTEIN MAKES ALL-OR-NOTHING BID

GERMAN CHIEF USES BEST OF NAZI SOLDIERS   Soviet Admits Serious Setback Suffered At Radomisl

Reds Admit Seriou: Setback in Battle   Nazi General Apparently Throwing Everything  Into Attack To Retake Cit

New German Blows Pose Kiev Threat   Nazi Mount Another Offensive, Throw Russians Out Of Focal Road Center West Of Ukrainian Capital   Ry HENRY SHAPIRO

NAZIS GAIN INDRIVE TO RETAKE KIEV   Mannstein Gamble: All In Ukraine Campaign

Cream of Army in Struggle   Russians Thrown Out of Important Ukrainian Center

Germans Have Retaken Radomis!   Enemy Making Big Effort to Capture Kev Ukrainian City

RUSSIANS LOSE RADOMISL IN ~ MANNSTEIN PUSE   German General Throws Everything Into Fight,  Recaptures the City. :

Russians Suffer st sion Setback   German Retake . City of Radomis!

SENATOR WHEELER ASSAILS PROGRAM TO DRAFT FATHERS  MONTANA SENATOR HIN} PLAYING POLITICS WITH  AMERICAN LIVES

In Statement From Belton He Declares “We Should not Play Power Politics With American Lives’’

Wheeler Says Father Draft Politics Play   U. S. Lives To Appease Reds

WHEELER SCORES DRAFT OF FATHERS      Claims Army Has _ Enoogh Men For 1944

DRAFTING OF FATHERS CALLED POWER POLITICS   VOTING AGE REDUCED TO EIGHTEEN BY STATE

WHEELER ATTACKS QCTOBER DAD ORAFT      Montana Senator Claims Move Is Playing Power Politics.

‘PLAYING POLITICS WITH AMERIC AN LIVE: SS  ATLSC WAVY   WAST DRAFTED FATHERS ARE TO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE UNITED STATES NAV

DRAFT PLAN SCORED BY SEN, WHEELER   lee ca od  Administration Is Accused of Playing Politics

Wheeler Assails Dad-Draft Plans      Charges It’s Playing Power Politics With Lives

WHEELER IS OPPOSED   Says Drafting of Fathers Is Part ) Of Power Politics

WHEELER RAPS FATHER DRAFT   Should Not Play Politics With American Lives, Montanan Says

MOSQUITOS AGAIN “HIT NAZI TARGETS IN NEW RAIDS   Germans Send 12 Planes Over Channel—-Damage {5 Slinht.

U.S. NEWSPAPE ‘SPACE IDEA IS ~—— COMMENDEL   Bankhead Says It Would Not Destroy Press Freedom

U.S. Flyers Raid Albania   Nazi-Used Airfields Get Shattering Blows

FIRST ALBANIA AIR RAID MADE   '. S. Bombers Hit German Airfield There

Ate Airmen Hope for Pavorable Weather in ext Few Weeks to Complete Assaults on Nazi Indystries

WEATHER WILL PLAY ROLE Ik LAND ASSAULT   Big Bombers To Continue DayNight Raids

Weather to Play Important Part  Season Coming When. Air Raids May Stop

GOOD WEATHER AiDS BOMBERS   Favorable Conditions To Help Allied Assault On German Homeland

From Now On It’s Any Man’s Guess  Weather To Play Vital Part In Length Of The Land Attack On Hitler

THE ALLIED LAND ASSAULT DEPENDS ON THE WEATHER   Favorable Weather Would Permit Big Bombers to Continue Their Blows.   BERLIN STILL BURNING   Was Ablaze Last Night From Thursday Night’s Big RAF Attacks. 

WEATHER EXPECTED  TO DETERMINE ‘TIME  WESTERN INVASION IF WEATHER FAVORABL!  ‘BOMBERS CAN CONTINUE POWERHOUSE BLOWS

GROUP ATTACKS WELFARE HEAD   Impeachment Of Murchisor Asked By Committee

Impeachment of State Welfare Director Is Recommended by House Investigating Committee

In South, Allies Begin Violent Air Offensive Against Cities Of Italian Mainland.

Mainland Of Italy Pounded   Nazis Feverishly Bolster Anti-Invasion Defenses

Daylight Raiders Pound AxisPoints   American Fliers Smash a’ Vital Foundries in the Ruhr   LOOK FOR AN INVASION   Knox Reports Plans for Grand Assault “Moving Along

FOLLOWS NIGHT ATTACK BY 700 BRITISH PLANES   Allied Air Fleet Opens Full-Scale Assault Against Italy

Nazi-Occupiec Belgian Targets Also Are Hif   British Lost 44 of 700 Bombers In Gigantic Raid On Krefeld

U. 5. BOMBERS ATTACK RUHR TARGETS   In Daylight Raid. Axis War Foundries in Belgium Hit

RAF Smashes At Krefeld In Rhineland   Allied Planes Hammer At Italian Mainland

American Raid Follows Big RAF Smash at Krefeld   Fresh Invasion Alarms Sounded By Axis Nations

RAF Pounds Krefeld In Heavy Assault; 44 Bombers Lost  Knox Reports Preparations For Invasion Moving Alona

Allied Invasion Preparations Moving “Right Along,”’ Knox Tells Press, As New Axis Alarms Ring Across Europe.

44 RAF Planes Lost In Raid   American Bombing First Raid on Ruhr —Big Fleets of Allied Bombers Batter Italian Mainland — Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Are Dropped

Fresh Invasion Alarms Ring Across Europe   "U.S. Fliers In Force Smash Targets In the Ruhr

 merican A autt Follows Big Attack By 7 00 RAF. Planes      Report 25 Huge Fires Left Burning ~~ In Naples Port Following Raids: “Blockbusters Rain: On. Krefeld:

Follow Big RAF Raid On Krefeld   First Time Americans Have Struck at Ruhr; 44 British Planes Lost Out of Force of 700

ALLIED AIR FORCES CONTINUE SMASHING AT TWO SIDES EUROPE _ VITAL NAZI WAR PLANTS ATTACKED IN GERMANY;  ITATY ACAIN DOTIANNCH

Air Blows Lash Ruhr, Italy  kk Moan Gotan Eleate Devactate Axis Citiec

Yankee Fliers Also Deliver Heavy Attacks  On Military Targets in Belgium After  _ British Strike at Krefeld, Report Says

AIR ATTACKS SPREAD OVER AXIS CENTERS   RAF Loses 44 Planes ir Terrific Blockbuster Raids At Night

U. 5. Day Raiders Smash af German  Foundries in Rhur  RAF Rains. Assault Of Blockbusters on Rhineland Krefeld

700 RAF CRAFT LASH KREFELD IN MIGHTY RAID   44 Bombers Missing; American Daylight Raiders Pound Rubr

ALLIED PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON AXIS TARGETS   Yanks Hit Ruhr In Day— dight Attack; RAF  Blasts Krefeld   NAPLES IS BATTERED   French Underground Geis Signal To Stand By For Action

Over 700 RAF Planes Smash German War Plants in Krefeld   Large Squadrons of Allied Bombers Raid Italy from Naples To End of Boot

US Daylight Raiders Bomb WarFoundries   Tremendous Fleet of US and Allied Planes Open Full-Scale Offensive Aaainst Italian Mainland

U. S. Raiders Follow Track Of RAF Planes   Night and Day Attacks Continue— French Warned

AERIAL ASSAULT IS INTENSIFIED ALL OVER AXIS   U. S. Navy Secretary Kriox Gives Tip That Plans ‘Moving Right Along’   FRENCH PATRIOTS READY   Allies Bomb German War Plants in Ruhr and Italy Hit on Heavier Scale

RAF Blockbusters Pound Krefeld As Ruhr Raided   Full Air Offensive On Mainland O;} Italy Is Opened By Allies

Nazis Aired Again   More Than 700 RAF in Shatter Raid on Kerfeld

Fresh invasion Fears Hit Axis   Huge Fleets Of Yank, British Planes Begin Full-Scale Air Offensive Against Italian Mainland.

American Daylight Raiders Make Initial. Trip: to-Ruhr Foundries; New: Invasion Alarms: Highlighted by Secretary: Knox's Broad.  ' Hint; Italy Rocks Under Aerial Blows.

Gunfire and Explosions Indicate Air or Naval Attack on French Coast

West Wall Attack Allied Guns Blaze Against  French Channel Defenses

KISKA OUTPOST GIVEN BOMBING   Effort Believed Under Way To Liquidate Jap Position

Heavy Weather Lifting in North  Americans Make Kighth Attack In Month on Kiska in Aleutians

AMERICAN AIRMEN AGAIN BOMB KISKA   Eighth Attack During the Month Reported by the Navy

American Planes Strafe Japanese Kiska Position:   Eighth Atfack of Month In dicates Lifting of Heavy Weather

Stevenson Would Accept Nomination For Vice President   Governor Says He Has No Ambitions Toward Washington

FRIDAY - SATURDAY SPECIAL Roses 75e per dozen. JOHNSTON THE FLORIST  waxes:

Bitter Mopping Up Fight at Sanananda le Waged in Rain   MORE BURMA BLOWS   MORE BURMA BLOWS  Heavy Bombers Down 12 Enemy Aircraft Above New Guinea

Jap Cruiser Bombed in Ambon Raid   Three Other Ships Damaged by Allied Airmen

NATION FACES HARDEST YEAR, SAYS REPORT   Truman Group Calls Possible Food Shortage Most Acute Problem.

Next Year to Be Toughest In History   But Final Victory Will Be Ours, Says Truman Committee

TOUGHEST YEAn 0 OTILL AREAD, NATION WARNER   Hardest And Grimmest Period In Our History Ahead, Committee Asserts   AGRICULTURAL SITUATION COMMANDS ATTENTION   Potential Food Shortage Most Acute Problem On Home Front

Extension of Guffey Act to Stabilize Bituminous Coat Industry Runs Into House Committee Rejection

“ACTS FXTENSIN      Guffey Coal Act Hopes Hit By Committee’s Action

House Body Rejects Coal Act Extension  Miners and Operators Favored Mercure

Guffey Coal Act Is Voted Out By Committee   House Group Votes ‘No’ Despite Plea of Miners, Operators and President

House Group Rejects Coal Act Extension   Committee Ignores Pleas for Bill Continuance

F. D.R., King Congratulate Eisenhower   PRESIDENT REVEALS AXIS HAD 405,000 MEN IN SICILY BATTLE

RAF Fighter Bombers Sweep France,  Low Countries—lItalian Underground * Radio Calls for Strike, End of War, ° Abdication of King, Dismissal of  Premier Badoglio

Chief's Praise Given Victors   Roosevelt Lauds Sicilian Campaign

Roosevelt Sends His Congratulations   Thrilled Over Sicilian Cam paign, Tells Eisenhower

"Well Done,’ Says FDR to Eisenhower  President Sends   President Sends Congratulotions To Men and Officers

F.R. Lauds Big Victory   Sends Message of Congratulation to General Eisenhower

GENERAL EISENHOWER  GIVEN “PAT ON BACK”   Warmly-Worded Message of Congratulations on Sicilian Campaign Dispatched to Him by President from Quebec Conference — Text Is ’. Made Public at Morning Press Confer ence at Historie Citadel

FR CONGRATULATES GEN. EISENHOWER   President Praises Allied Leader on Sicilian CamN4aign Sueracc.

FDR AND KING PRAISE VICTOR   Send Congratulations to General Eisenhower

Planes Aid Attack On. Power, Traffic Lines; Invasion Fever Mounts

PRESIDENT HAILS SICILIAN VICTOR   “Well Done,” Says Roosevelt’s Message of Congratulation.

THE PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES SICILIAN TROOPS   “All of Us Are Thrilled Over Campaign Now Closed,” He Told Gen. Eisenhower.   MESSAGE FROM QUEBEC   ‘Events of the Past 38 Days Show What Can Be Done by Teamwork.

U, 5, WARSHIPS TRAIN GUNS ON ITALIAN COAST   southern Rail Points Shattered By Air, Sea Blows

All Are Thrilled Over The Victory   Defeated Enemy Forces In Sicily of 405,~ (00 Men   WIN SHOWS WHAT TEAMWORK CAN DO

Eisenhower Is Congratulated By Pi resident   Sicilian Campaign Is Ended In Accordance With Aled Planning

Eisenower Is  Congratulated   President Tells General ‘A! of Us’ Are Thrilled by Victory in Sicily

Senators Argue Over Whether British Try to ‘Nose Into’ American Politics

NO KANSAS STRIKE   Miners at Pittsburg to Continue Until Further Notice

Will Use War Qbjectors At lowa Asylums   Try System Of Volunteer Attendants; Mostly From Denison Camp.

Forecast Increase . In Meat Supply   Further Reduction In Red Stamp Point Values Likely

MEAT SUPPLY.  GRISTS PAST   OPA OFFICIALS SAY THAT “LOWERING OF RATION POINTS 58 IN SIGHT THIS WINTER ~~

Urges Increased Feed Production   Food Administrator Sces Record Number of Livestock, Necd For More Wheat.

Increased Feed Production Need Cited By Davis   Must Meet Demands For Record Number of Livestock, Claim

Two Axis Subs Sunk, Six Others Hit, as Convoy in Atlantic Fights Foes Off

Two U-Boats Are Destroyed By Corvette   Fighting French Vessel Credited With Sinking Two Submarines During Convoy Battle

bh Attacks Upon Wolf Packs Are . Made By Convo   Two U-Boats Known Sunk Essen Arsenal Strafed By British Bombers

Two Enemy Subs Sunk By French  Corvelie   New British Destroyer Lost After Ramming Nazi U-Boat

Two Enemy Subs Sunk   New British Destroyer Lost During Battle With Atlantic Convoy

TWO"SUBS SENT DOWN IN FIGHT   British Lose Destroyer Ir Atlantic Skirmish

Adolf Hitler Indicted By Grand Jury; Sheriff Told To Brine Him r

ALGIERS FRENCH TO HELP ARABS   Improvement P romised In Food Distribution And Wages

Whisky Stocks Loesening Up   Senate Inquiry May Have Jarred Hidden Stocks Loose.

REPORT REDS FIGHTING IN NOVOROSSISK   Soviets Repulse Repeated Nazi Caucasus Attacks

REDS. BEAT BACK WAVES OF NAZIS      2000 Repulsed In One Sector With Over 200 Killed

REPORT REDS BREAK INTO NOVOROSSISK   Soviets Repulse Waves of Enemy in Caucasus

RED ARMY BEATS BACK THREATENED ADVANCES   Wave on Wave of German infantry Repulsed in Northwest Coucasus—Three Other Counter-Attacks by Enemy in Another Sector Prove Futile— Soviets Hold in Ukraine Area.

Waves Of Nazis Hurled Back In Caucasus Fight   Germans Try One Thrust After Another Without Breaking Defenses

RED ARMY HURLS GERMANS BACK IN CAUCASUS BATTLE   Nazis Flee in Disorder After Attacks Fail; Russian Forces Also Victorious ir TiLeaina

SOVIETS SEIZE 2ITOWNSON ROSTOV FRONT   GERMAN CASUALTIES 350,150 SINCE NOY. 19

REDS REPORT TAKING OF 21 MORE TOWN   Say Nazis Have Lost 330,150 Men Since November 19 —

Precipitate Retreat Believed to Be To Avoid Being Trapped; Nazi Toll is 330,150

Russians Capture 21 More Towns ln Winter Drive  330,150 Nazi Dead and, Captured Told  bg q ; in Communique -

21 TOWNS SEIZED. BY SOVIETS: MANY “NAZI LIVES TAKEN      More Than 330,000 Germons Killed and Coptured Since Noy. 19—British Map Off Tunisian Hill Positicns, Communique Says

Retreat by Germans ls Rumored   Falling Back Now To Avoid Traps, in Russia

BOOST NAZI CASUALTIES 10 330,150   ‘Many of Newly Won Points Are Deep in Caucasus, Where Germans Retreat.   ENTRAPMENT FEAR SPEEDING FORCES   'Reds Admit Counter-At:  tacks in MiddleDon and  Also Southwest of  Stalingrad.

Rail Stations Captured as Reds Drive on   Russians Believed fo Be 65 Miles From Key City of Rostov

Russians Drive Within 65 Miles Of Vital Rostov   Flight of Invaders So Rapid They Leave Vast Supplies Behind   HEAVY CASUALTIES   SERA VY § VAVIVALI ICYD  26,500 Slain or Taken Prisoner Since Jan. 1;  330,000 Since Nov. 19

Nazi Toll Now Set At 330,150:   Germans Claimed Leaving Caucasus

FOOD SUBSIDIES PROGRAM BLASTED FROM MANY SIDES   South ‘Daketan Likens  Subo “First Shot Of       Used “As An Example x

MORE ATTACKS ON FDR’S PLAN   Farmers Almost Universally Opposed to Subsidies, South Dakotan Avers

Food Subsidy Backers Fear Loss in House   Building Hopes on Veto To Stop Legislation Outlawing Program

Subsidies Inflationary, Says Witness   Defense Wages, Not Ferm Prices, Main Danger, Soys Official

Subsidies Argued Holly   South Dakotan Asserts Most Farmers Opposed

FEARS RISE IN BUYING POWER OF CONSUMERS   Farm Leader Likens Subsidies to Roosevelt’s “Shot of Opium.”

High Nazis Staff Officers Flee — From Stalingrad   Caucasus Army Scores 50 Miles Gain From Mineralnye Vodi; Berlin Admits Furious Blows All Along Front

Moscow Reports German Officers Flee Stalingrad   Assert High Ranking Nazi Officers Take Flight  Via t Route ‘RUSSIANS BATTLE TC LIFT SIEGE

OFFICERS TAKE PLANES OUT OF BATTERED CITY   Russ Smashing Enemy Back from Suburbs with Steady Thrusts.   ENCIRCLED GERMANS FACING ANNIHILATION

Weather Slows Allied Gains In Italy   Nazi Prisoners Taken When German Blows Are Repulsed

Bad Weather Limits Allied Gains In Italy   Fifth Army Scores OneMile Advance; Repulses Nazi Counterattack.

Little Change Is Reported in Past 24 Hours   Germans Destroying Port Of Leghorn, Apparently to Give It Up

Allies Slowed By Mud in Drive on Rome   Nazi Counterblow Smashed and Prisoners Taken

ALLIED DRIVE SLOWED TODAY AGAINST GAETA   American Forces Advance Toward German Lines

Three’s a Crowd   Allied Advance in Italy Slowed   BAD WEATHER AND ROUGH TERRAIN REPORTED

Liberators From Italy, RAF From Britain — Make Heavy Attacks On Southern France And Northern Italy; Nazis Seal Harbor

Bad Weather Slows Allies In Italy   U. S. Fifth Army Cap tures Commanding Slope On Mountain

Bad Weather Slows Down Both Fifth And British Eighth But Gains Are Made

Bad Weather Slows Allied Drive In Italy   Difficult Terrain Also Ac. counts For Limited 5th Army Gains

WEATHER BOGS DOWN ALLIED DRIVEIN ITALY   American Fifth Army Makes Onlv Mile Gain: British Eighth In Sharp  “Patrol Sk irmishes

Bad Weather And Difficult Terrain Slow Down Drive   Lt. Gen. Clark's American Fifth Army Captures Another Commanding Point on Slopes of Mountain at Western End of Front   SHARF GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK BEATEN BACK

ALLIES DRIVE IN ITALY 1S SLOWED BY BAD WEATHER   A QOne-Mile Advance Was Made by the American Fifth Army.   SHARP COUNTERATTACK   Was Beaten Back by Gen. Clark’s 5/a Army; Prisoners Were Taken.

Limited Gains Made By Allies With Difficulty   Progress Slow But Still In Favor OF Fifth And Eiaqhth

BAD WEATHER AND DIFFICULT TERRAIN SLOW ALLIED DRIVE   ONLY SLIGHT ADVANCE MADE IN WEST; PATROL ACTIONS ON EAST

, TERRAIN CH OWING DRIVE    Sharp German Counterattack Beaten Back By Clark’s Men.

BAD WEATHER AND TERRAIN SLOW ALLIES   Americans Make Mile Advazce to Capture Commanding Feaiure on Slopes Mount Camino   Rails and Industries al Annency and Near Cannes Strafed from Iialy and Britain

POOR WEATHE LIMITS GAIN OF ALLIES IN ITALY   Heavy Air Attacks Made on Nazi Supply Routes in Europe

ALLIED DRIVE IN ITALY SLOWEN UP BY BAD WEATHER   American Fifth Army Captures Vital Height on Mount Camina

ALLIED DRIVE IS SLOWED BY BAD WEATHER   Little Change Noted Along Italian Front In Past 24Hour Period

Bad Weather Slows Allied Drive in Italy   Difficult Terrain Before Germans’ Winter Line Also Hinders Troops

Bad Weather in Rough Country Slows Up Allies   But Nazis Scorching Earth in Preparing For Further Retreat

Weather Slows  Drive in Italy   AMERICANS ADVANCE  MILE, CAPTURE NEW HEIGHT ON SLOPES OF MOUNT CAMINO; AIR FORCES SMASH EUROPE SUPPLY LINES

Advances In Italy Slowed   Bad Weather and Difficult Terrain Hold Up Allies.

WEATHER, TOUGH TERRAIN HINDER ALLIES IN ITALY   Only Limited Gains Made; Little Change In Front In 24 Hours; Liberators Smash At Industry In France.

PUSH ON ROME PRACTICALLY AT STANDSTILL NOW   Reconnaissance by Airplane Show Germans continuing With Widespread Destruction,

YANKS OF OTH ARMY MAKE GAIN   Nazis Scuttle 2 More Ships In Harbor At Leghorn

Slight Advances Made By Allies On Italian Front   Bad Weather And Difficult -Terrain Halts Campaign; Bomb Southern France

Allies Make Short Gains Despite Bad Weather In Italy   Clark Drives Forward A Mile To Take Important  Mountain Top; Nazi Attacks Back

Bad Weathe1 Slows Allied Italian Drive   Limited Gains Are Announced

AMERICANS’ LAND DRIVE (5 SLOWED   ad Weather And Difienl Terrain’ Limit Advances

BAD WEATHER SLOWS ALLIED DRIVE IN ITALY   Air Forces Open New Assault on Supply Lines of Enemy

Eighth Army Swaps Blows With Nazis In Artillery. Duel; Gaeta Base Weakens

Fifth Gains — Mile Despite Bad Weathe:   Allied Air Forces Bus} During Lull in Fighting on Ground

Bad Weather Slows Allies An Italy   One Mile Advance Made by Fifth— Beat Off  Canicntevatiack

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Prospects Dark For Axis “Dunkirk” Evacuation Of Tunisian Force

Annihilation Or Surrender Now Facing Rommel   Eisenhower Says Allies In Position To Exact  Full Price.

INDICATIONS ARE ALLIED TRAP IN NORTH AFRICA WILL PERMIT ‘MINIMUM OF AXIS TO ESCAPE

Chances of Evacuating Axis Troops Don’t Look Good Must Surrender or Be Annihilated

HOOVER REVEALS ARREST OF SPY   John Da Silva Purvis, Detained in Newark As A German Agent

SUSPECTED SPY NABBED BY FBI IN NEW JERSE}   Federal Agents Announce Portuguese Acted For Germany, Sent Data On U.S. Warships

New Nazi Spy Nabbed By FB!   Portuguese Citizen Is  Held In Capital

Alleged Spy Of Germany Held   F.B.I. Says Portuguese Citizen Here Sent Information To Foe.

JOHN PURVIS HELD BY FBIAS NAZI SPY   Citizen of Portugal, He Begar Espionage Year Ago

Spy Arrest Is Announced  By FBI Chie!   John Da Silva Purvis. 43, Portuguese Admits Deals With Nazi Agents

Hoover Charges  Man in Espionage  John Da Silva Purvis Said to Have Acted As Spy for Germany

Newark Resident Arrested By FBI As German Spy   Hoover Asserts Prisoner Transmitted Information To European Principals

Portuguese Is Admitted Spy   FBI Captive Sold Valuable Information to Germany

President Asks Levislation For  World Rebiet   Congress Requested To Pass Legislation To Authorize U. S. Contribution   SPECIFIC FUNDS NOT MENTIONED

Asks Congress To Previde For U.S. Share   Ceuntv Mav Be Called Upon For 1% ef Inceme

IO MEN ARE KILLED IN PIT EXPLOSION   Five Others Seriously Burned in Alabama, One and a Half Miles Below Ground

10 Killed, E Burned in Mine Blast   Alabama Miners Trapped Mile  ; And a Half Below Surface

10 Men Killed In Mine Blast  Five Seriously Burned. Seven Escape

10.MEN KILLED IN MINE BLAST   Five in Critical Condition at Praco Coal Mine in Alabama

10 Miners Die  In Explosion   wee Na. a BAe Ube aALe  Seriously Burned

10 KILLED, 5 BURNED IN DIXIE MINE BLAST   Rescue Crews Find Bodies In Alabama Explosion

TEN MEN DEAD IN MINE BLAST   Trapped a Mile and Halt From Surface in Alabama Coal Mine.

TEN ALAGAMA MINH KILLED IN EXPLOSION   Shaft West Of Birmingham Scene Of Accident: Five Men Iniured

Ten Men Die In Mine Explosion  Rescue Crews Bring Bodies To Surface

ATROCITIES BY GERMANS CITED   Many Soviet Inhabitants Poisoned, Committee Declares

Russians Charge Nazi Atrocities  Claim Saviete Weare   Claim Soviets Were Poisoned, Gassed

ASK COURT TO REVIEW RAPE-SLAYING CASE   Lawyer Claims Anthony Treat, 57, Insane

PLANES BASED IN BRITAIN ROARING OVER CHANNEL TODAY. FOLLOWING 2,000-TON BOMBING OF. GERMAN: fCRETEE: “LAST: NIGHT WHEN - MORE  SECTIONS.OF; THE CITY WERE ;  -- BehUCED No RUBBLE .,

Bomb Coast Of France After  Raid On Berlin   Allied Bombers Resume Terrific Blasting Of Heart Of Germany   REPORT 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED

YANKEES SMASH BATTERED REICH DURING DAYTIME   German Capital Plastered by 2,000 Tons Dropped by R.A.F.

Two Writers, Back from F ronts : Agree Victory Still Distant   FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW “(Vice President of the’ U.P.)

BIG TASK LIES BEFORE ALLIES   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE  United Press War Analyst (Ree Tl S Pat Nftizad

URGES REVOLT AGAINST DUCE   FDR Bids Italians to Let United Nations Aid in Restoring Freedom

DISOWN DUCE, ADVICE GIVEN BY ROOSEVELT   UNITED NATIONS TO AID IN WEEDING OUT FASCISM

Roosevelt Bids Italy To Revolt   Invasion Warned Freedom ls Offered-

FDR URGES TTALY TO SCRAP IL DUCE   Invites People to Revolt, Le! Allies-Restore Country _ to Regpectability

ROOSEVELT CALLS UPON ITALIANS 10 ABANDON THE WAR   Advises Italians to Desert Mussolini, Fascism and Naziism and Choose Own Government.   WARNS INTENSIFIED WAR IS ALTERNATIVE   Says Campaign Against Nation Is Result of Mussolini’s Betrayal of His People.

ITALIANS URGED TO SCRAP MUSSOLINI   Roosevelt Makes Pledge of Non-Fascist Goy ernment

FDR Invites Italians to Oust I Duce   ‘Offers United Nations”  “Kilto Help Restore hhintry to Respected lace in World Affairs

Roosevelt Urges lfalian Revolt  Says Time Is Here To Oust Mussolini

TALYANG URGED TO OUST IL DUCE   FDR Invites People Let Allies Restore Country   GIVES WARNING   Allies Will Pursue War Until Mussolini Is Beaten Into Surrender

Ttalians Ur ‘ged By President To Scrap Duce   Promises Help of Allies In Regaining Freedom Witheut Dictatorship

FDR Suggests Revolt to Ttalian People   Warns That War Will Re Intensified if Tl Duce Isn’t Ousted

RAID ON ROME 18 JUSTIFIED BY ROOSEVELT  i      President Tells Press-Radio Conference Bombing Was to Protect American-British Lives   MILITARY CENTER   Says Allies Still Hopeful  That Germans and Fas ~ cists Will Declare Rome Open City

Giraud Plan Proposes to Form Couneil Which Would Dissolve After Victory

GIRAUD OFFERS COUNCIL PLAN   Sends De Gaulle Outline Of Government Which Would Serve Until  France Is Free

ENTIRE. DIVISION IS MOVED BY AIR   Planes Take U. S. Troops, With Equipment, From Australia to New Guinea,

Only 76 Deaths Reported in U.S.   Memorial Day Holiday One Of Country's Safest — Dav to Go

Memorial Day Week-endDeath:  Lowest in Years   Wartime Restrictions Reduce Traffie Deaths To Unusual Low Number

0.C. Stockyards Jammed Today   State Farmers Rush Cattle To Market, Prices Drop

Missing Plane, Crew Victims  Found On Peak   Navy Cargo Shir Discovered By Hiking Club

OTAIKERS RETURN . TO ORDNANCE JOBS   189 Women Walked Out in Protest About Rest Periods.

Walkouts In 7 States Reported   Results of WLB Rejection of Wage Contract Pro posed in Illinois

EXPECTS MINERS TO OPPOSE PLAN   Lewis Terms War Labor Formula In Long Dispute _ as Wage Reduction.

THREAT OF ANOTHER GENERAI WALKOUT CONFRONTS NATION   Lewis Views Board’s Plan as Wage Reduction: Wildcat Strikes Spread

STRIKES ARE SPREADING   JAndications Point __ To Government Seizure of Mines

Nation Faces New Coal Strike   U. S. May Seize Mines Indications Hint

LEWIS hejects WLB Offer In Mine Strike  Rail Unions Prepare for Walkout Poll

Lewis Attacks Coal Wage Formula As Cut; Strike. Fears Spread In Nation

FEARS OF NEW GENERAL COAL STRIKE MOUNT   Thursday Deadline For End Of Walkouts As Seizure Looms

EX-PRIVATE IS LEGION CHIEF   ATHERTON BEGAN LOW, CAME OUT AS CAPTAIN

Stockton Man Heads Legion  Supports Universal . Service As Solution To Manpower Problem

Legion Elects Atherton Boss   National Commander Urges Universal Service Act For United States.

Nazis Conquer Isle of Leros.   Jap-Bases in Central Pacific — Area Are Bombed   ° Isles. in ‘Marshall and Gilbert Groups ‘Liberator Targets ° 

GERMANS GAIN GOOD HARBORS BY VICTORY   Seek To Protect Balkans, Impress Turks; British Troops Holding Samos; Aerial Activity

Leros Island Is Captured  By Germans   8,000 Soldiers Lost By Allies

NAZIS SUCCEED INTIGHTENING RING OF ARGEAN   Vietory Gives Hitler ExceljJent Harbors, Including Naval Base to Dardanelles Approach   BERLIN SAYS 8.000 ALLIES PRISONERS   Leros Setback May Have Important Repercussions; British Press Angry: Suggest Shakeup

LEROS ISLAND CAPTURED BY NAZI FORCES   Germans Possess Important Base In Dodecanese

Aegean Island Falls. To Nazis   British Tactics In Sector Questioned

Capture Of Island Of Leros  By Nazi Forees Announced   Total of 8,550 British and Italians Listed as Prisoners — British Press Critical of Command— Island Given Heavy Pounding

NAZIS CAPTURE ISLAND OF ILEROS.   Organized Resistance to Nazis Ceased After Terri fic Bombardment and Fresh Troop Landings

Giant Air Attack Aids Reinforced Nazis: 3,00( English Troops Taken

ALLIES ADMIT LOSS OF THE AEGEAN BASE   Germans, Reporting Their Success, Claim Capture of 3,000 British and 5,000 Italian Troops and 190 Gine,

BY NAZI FORCE   Allies Unable to Beat Off Foe After Island Gets Terrific Pounding

LEROS ISLAND EVACUATED BY BRITISH FORCE   NAZIS TAKE OVER AFTER TERRIFIC AIR POUNDING   Victory For Hitler

British Give up Leros After Five-day Battle   Berlin Claims Capture Of 8,550 Prisoners In Communique From High Command;  Alhied Tactics Criticized

Leros Island Falls To Germans In Five-Day Fight   Strategic Point, Second of Dodecanese Group Taken in Three Weeks, Unable to Stand Overwhelming Assault

Germans Capture Leros   Gives Enemy Good Harboe On Doadecanese Sealanes.

Tiny, Strategic Island In Aegean Sea Falls To Nazis; Claim 8550 Prisoners Captured

GERMANS CAPTURE ISLAND AT FRONT DOOR TO BALKANS   British and Italians Lose Strategic Leros Off Turkish Coast After 5-Day Battle.   NAZIS REPORT 2,550 PRISONERS SEIZED   Allied Defeat Leads to Talk in London of Replacing, British Commander in Middle East.

Nazis Capture Isle of Leros Allies Unable to   Allies Unable to Beat Off Germans

ALLIES PUSH WITHIN SIGHT OF SALAMAUA   American. Australian Troops Attack On Three. Sectors

INCOME TAX "> DUE IN JUNE   TAX EXPERTS WARN THAT _TUNE: 18TH INSTALLMENT ’. MUST BE PAID

June 15 Income  Tax Must Be Paid   Government Says June Tax Must Be Paid Regardless Of New Tax Bill

June 15 Payment Of Tax Required   PAYMENTS OF MARCH AND JUNE MAY BE CREDITED ON 1943 TAXES

Beaten Troops Of Axis In Tumsta In Prison Camps   Resistance Practically End. ed — 150.000 Axis Prisoners Are Captured   GERMAN ITALIAN GENERALS TAKEN

SOME OF NAZIS’ UNITS HOLD OUT TILL BITTER END   Gen. Eisenhower Announces Resistance Ceases on Entire Front

RAF Drops Tons of Bombs On Duisbure   Vast Areas Are Laid Waste In Attack

Returning Jap Prisoner Urge  Armed dnsieen ica  Ship Carrying Americans Arrives Ay Maw Vari

Girl Rescued From Bear Pit  Sailors Heroes Of San Diexvo Incident

Check Reporis On State Test   James Receives Congratulations of U. S. Army Man

Make Believe Enemy Force Is Driven Off   State and Army Chiefs Are Well Satisfied With Result of Test   COMMUNIQUE IS ISSUED

“Invasion — Test Said Success  semana flaaermsnney Nation’s First Statewide Trial Goes  Off Nicely FINE, LOCALLY

WAR. CASUALTIES TU GE MOUNTING   Senator Warns We May Have 1,000,C00 Casualties This Year.

HEAVY LOSSES ~ ARE FORECAST   ‘MILITARY AFFARS COMMITTEE MEMBER SAYS MILLION CASUALTIES ARE  c POSSIBLE

ALLIES EXTEND MADANG SMASH   Major Pacific. Blows Hinted By Méeting Of Admirals.

Australians Fight Forward   Enter Ramu Volley, 60 Miles From Jap Base of Modana

~ RAM VALLE   Gen. Marshall Praises MacArthur for Tactics and Speed.

Marshall Congratulates MacArthur On lactics, Speed Of New Guinea Campaign   Aussies Fight Way Toward Madang, Sea and Air Blockade Tightens, Costing Japs Leaving Kolombangara Heavily

U.S, ADMURALS MEET TO MAP STRATEGY   ‘Madang Threatened as Australians Fight Way into Ramu Valley

Marshall Congratulates MacArthur On Tactics, Speed Of New Guinea Campaign

Aussies Enter Ramu Valley Near Madana   American Blockade Increases Price Enemy Must Pay

Aussies Reach Ramu Valley   American Blockade Costly To Japs In Evacuation Of Kolombangara.

RAMU VALLEY 1 ~ HELD BY ALLE!   Australian Troops 60 Miles From Jap Coastal Base At Madang   NEW DRIVE SEEN   Gen. MacArthur Receives Congratulations From Gen. Marshall

Allies Enter Ramu Valley; New Guinea   King Revealed to Have Been in Pacific Fo Conference

AUSSIE TROOPS FIGHT WAY INTO RAMU VALLEY   Tightening ,American Sea And Air Blockade Increase: Price Japs Are Paying to Evacuate Troops

Squeeze Japs In Solomons   Major Move Expected As Allies: Step Up Air and Sea Warfare .

New Blows At Japanese Expected   Australians Fight Way Into Ramu Valley Near Madang Base

AUSSTES DRIVE INTO VALLEY T0 PERIL MADANG   New Blows Expected, With Admiral King’s Visit to Pearl Harbor kur Naval Conference

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS NEAR MADANG BASE   Japs Paying High Price In Ships And Personnel

AUSSIES PUSH NEARER MADANG   Pacific Chiefs’ Meet Hints Major Developments

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS HAVE FOUGHT THEIR WAY NEARER MADANG  TIGHTENING AIR AND  SEA BLOCKADE COSTING

AUSTRALIANS FIGHT WAY INTC RAMU VALLEY   Sink More Jap Barges } Evacuation of Kolombangara

Smash Bologna   Aussies Slash Into Ramu; Yanks Tighten Blockade   Pacifie Plans

KING, NIMITZ HAVE MEETING INS. PACIFIC   _ Aussies Smash Nearer Madang; Solomon Japs Hit

Leaders Hint Great Pacific Drive Brewing   Roosevelt, Marshall, Nimitz Give Clues To War Strateqy

AUSSIES PUSH ON TO MADANG   Navy Scores New Gains In Solomon Isles

AUSSIES BATTLE TO WITHIN SIXTY MILES OF MADANG   Advance to Ramu Valley  Near New Guinea Coastal Base—U. 5S. Air and Sea Blockade in Central Solo mons Tightens

EVACUATION OF K OL OMBANGARA COSTLY TO JAPS   \Nustralian Land Forces, American Sea And Air Power Strike Hard; Major New Developments  In Pacitic Hinted.

Jap Madang Hub Periled   Australians Within 60: Miles: of: Fortress

AUSSIES FIGHT WAY INTO RAMU IN NEW GUINEA   Forecast Major Developments In South Pacific Offensive Soon

NIPS ARE PAYING HEAVY PRICE TO ABANDON ISLAND   Yank Air and Sea Blockade Hos Telling Effect on Japs in Solomons

King Visits Pacific Area   Future Major Developments In Pacific Area Noted By Admirals First Visit Since War.

Australians. Fight Closer To Madang   Ete Ramu Valley Alte     cific Developments In dicated ‘In Naval Con  ference.

Major Action Expected   * Australian Troops Drive Toward Jap Base-Ai Madang As Tightening Sea Blockade Proves Costly To Foe

Aussies Battling _ To Madang Base   NEW ALLIED SUCCESSES REPORTED IN NEW GUINEA

Did Harvard Sell Lots That Belonged To Town’s Mayor?   .. + Pinckney’s Lawyer Bares New Tangle; Nationwide Interest In “Jail” Shown

British Vanguards Reported Only 30 Miles From Big Axis Stronghold as Rommel’s Shattered Corps Continue in Flight

Rommel May Be Heading Directly Toward Tunisia   Soviet Forces Are Within 79 Miles Of Vital Kharkov

FLEEING TROOPS BEING BATTERED FROM AIR ALSO   Russian Attack Surges on As Nazis Forced To Alibi Set-backs to Germans   LONDON HIT BY RAIDERS   Red Drive Has Foes on Run On All Six Fronts and Nears Vital Cities =

Allied Air Units Pound Retreating Forces Of Rommel As Climax Nears

Eighth Army Vanguards Only 30 Miles : From Axis Citadel; Russian News  Grows Blacker Hourly For Hitler

DESERT TROOPS SURGE FORWARD IN NORTH LIBYA   Eighth Army Is Closing In On Homs, Tarhuna

Reds Storm Ever Nearer To Kharkov   Within 79 Mi. Of The ‘Ukraine Pittsburgh;’ British Drive On Tripoli  Gains Imnetus.

Allies Close  in on Axis   British Troops Only 30 Miles from Tripoli; Russians Widen Corridor to Leningrad

“the Weather   Near Industrial City Of Ukraine;  Rommel Battered

Reds Only 79 Miles Fron Kharkov, British Closing In Fast On Fleeing Axis

SQUECZE ON “ROMMEL IS DEVELOPING   British Are’ Closing in. on Axis Forces. Racing “foward. Tripoli   SMALL AXIS GAIN “AT PONT DU FAHS   But Enemy Forces Take Heavy Pounding;Some Criticize New: Alciers ‘ Governor

Russians Storm Kharkov, Allies Nearing Tripoli   British 'Chutists Drop Behind Rommel's Troops As Fleeing Axis Lines Blasted ‘Along Coast of Tunisia

Axis Loss  Black   Campaign In Libya Approaches Climactic Phase   NAZIS ADMIT   Russia Has More Guns, Tanks, Men Than Year Ago

BRITISHTROOPS ONLY 30 MILES FROM TRIPOLI   Shattered Rommel Corps Reported in Headlong Retreat

Rommel’s Army Losing Heavily During Retreat   Russians Report Strong Advances On Five Key Fronts; Near Kharkov.   30 MILES FROM TRIPOLI

British Snip At Rommel’s Reac Phile  Germans Register Minor Gains In Tunisia

‘Reds Within 79 Miles of Steel City of Ukraine   Ully olf Ukraine  British Vanguards Said To Be Only 30 Miles From Tripoli  PARATROOPS USED Hitler’s Newspaper Tells  Of Difficulties on the  BRactorn Brant

NAZIS LEAVING BY SEA, RADIO MOROCCO SAYS   Russian Armies Drive Nearer Kharkov on  Red Battle Front

Bodies of British Children Are Taken From Bombed Schoo!   Streets of Capital of Empire Machinegunned; ar

Closed in on Homs and Tar. ~ huna, 56 and 40 Miles Respectively From Tripo li Last Night.   SWEEPING THE AXIS FORCE TOWARD CITY   British Gathered Prisoners, Guns and Vehicles as the Army Charged Forward.

ALLIED COLUMNS — CLOSE IN ON HOMS, TURHUNA NEAR: CITY   jEngtish ‘Chutists Reported Being Dropped Behind  Enemy Lines

Reds Within 79 ~ Miles of Steel City of Ukraine   British Vanguards Said To Be Only 30 Miles From Tripoli  PARATROOPS USED  Hitler’s Newspaper Tells Of Difficulties on the FKastern Front

Pursue Rommel’s Retreating Army Toward Tunisia   British Eighth Army Gathers Prisoners as _ It Sweeps Forward.   Allied Pilots Keep Up Continual Raids

Reds Capture 52,000 in Week's Time   Only 2,500 Were Germans; Others Were Hungarians and Italians; London Has First Daylight Air Raid in Three Months

Reds Close In On Kharkov;  Axis Score Gain In Tunisia   11 German Planes Shot Down Over London; Rommel In Headlong Flight Today

VANGUARD 30 MILES AWAY FROM TRIPOL!   British Parachutists Being Dropped Behind Romme! Lines,—Allies Advance in Tunisia.

8th Army Advances In Africa   Retreating Axis Troops Believed Making Race -To Join-Tunisian Units

Kighth Army ‘Closes In OnHomsAnd  Tarhuna  Has Chased Rommel  Within 40 Wiles   Has Chased Rommel Within 40 Miles Of Tripoli; Air  Korce Hammerse Fine

Biggest Raid In Two Years Hits School. Kills 24   Reds Within 79 Miles of Kharkov. British Near Tripoli Outskirts.

British Vanguards Within 30 Miles of Tripoli Stronghold   Rommel Corps in Headlong Retreat, Losing Prisoners, Guns, Vehicles in Round-Clock Assault

RUSSIANS REPORTED STORMING FORWARD TOWARD KHARKOV   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CONTINUES DRIVE TOWARD TRIPOLI TODAY

MILITARY LEADERS IN NORTH AFRICA IN SECRET MEETING   IN OLUAL ET MILLE  PRELU" TO ACTYAL IN. INVASION OF EUROPE RELIFVED TINDER WAY

Allied Offensive In North Attica Gains Strength; May Indicate European Invasion

Axis Reports Hint Big Drive in Tunisia Has Already Started   Russians Staging Another Push on Nazis in Caucasus

See Big, New Allied Drive In No. Africa   Thrust In Europe Mav Be Next Move

VICHY CLAIMS U. S. PLANNING AN OFFENSIVE   Drive Toward Gulf of Gabhes on Line of Rommel's Retreat Anficipated in Berlin   BATTERED FROM SKY

Berlin Declares AEF Is Planning Major Offensive—Attempt to Drive Wedge Between German Armies Suggested as Airmen Resume Sweeps

Offensive Foreseen As Top U.N. Leaders Attend War Council   Session Of British And Americans Follows F. D., Churchill Parley; Reds 19 Miles From Oil Fields

COUNCIL OF WAR HELD IN AFRICA; REDS DRIVE ON   Yanks Launch Attack in Direction of Tunis While Secret Conference On   PACIFIC WAR EASES UP   Hitler Reported Gathering Ships To Rescue Armies On Both Major Fronts

Allied Military Leaders Hold  Secret Council   Meeting at Headquarters of General Eisenhower Foreshadows Climactic Allied Offensive in North Africa Followed by Actual Invasion of European Continent

British and U.S. Generals Hold Parley   Climactic Campaign Expected to Precede Use of North Africa As Springboard  For Eventual Invasion of Europe.

Allied Offensive Is Foreshadowed   Berlin Declares AEF Is Planning Major Offensive Attempt to Drive Wedge Between German Armies Suggested as Airmen Resume Sweeps

Prelude to Invasion of Europe Indicated as Top Military Leaders Confer

Plan for Allied Action After African Meet   Observers Think Casablanca Meeting Spiked Hitlers ‘Peace . Blitz’

WAR COUNCIL HELD BY U. S, GREAT BRITAIN   Comes on Heels of F.R.-Churchill Parley in Which Immediate Action Was Planned

BIG OFFENSIVE INDICATED FOR LAST OF AFRICA   Top Military \Leaders © Meet in Eisenhower Headquarters 2 Davs

NORTH AFRICAN OFFENSIVE Is BELIEVED NEAR   Americans Start General Movement After Big Allied Conference With Eisenhower

Secret War _ Council With _ Eisenhower   Vichy Broadcasts: Say “American Troops Have: Opened: Attack   MAY. BE PRELUDE : “TO EUROPEAN DRIVE   Various: Reports Indicate Extensive Withdrawals Are'Planned: bv Avis’

Gen. Eisenhowel Discusses Plans With Leaders  Offense in Tunisia   Offense in Tunisia Predicted as Axis  Says Attack Starts

Axis Reports Offensive After Allied Conclave   Vichy Reports Attack Already Opened by  American Troops — British 8th Army   Maintains Contact with Rommel

BRITISH, AMERICAN MILITARY LEADERS CONFER ON PLANS   Secret War Conclave Followed Closely on Heels of Roosevelt's Meeting With Churchill.

Predict American Forces In Tunisia Plan Major Offensive  FDR COMING HOME  Russians Storm Within a - Few Miles of German Held Oil

FFENSIVE  Big Drive  In Atrica Nearing   ..-Top Military Chiefs Of U.S., Britain Meet   Secret 48-Hour Council Ot War At Eisenhower Headquarters

“Unconditional Surrender” Ultimatum  Has Stalled New German Peace Overtures Anticipated When de Fuehrer  “ Speaks On Saturday :

MILITARY LEADERS IN NORTH AFRIGA IN SECRET MEETING   PRELUP” TO ACTUAL ININVASION OF EUROPE “BELIEVED UNDER WAY

White Russia Said Aflame   Reds Silent But Germans Tell Of Terrific Battles

Russians Better Positions in South Ukraine   Germans Claim Reds Gaining Ground In Nevel Offensive

PAUL HERBERT “ENTERS RACE   LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ‘THIRD REPUBLICAN TO FORMALLY   : “ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY  FOR GOVERNORSRIP

PEFIANCE WEATHER   Paul Herbert In Governor Race Offers Ten-Point Ohio Progran

GOVERNOR CONTEST  THREE-WAY RACE   Lieut. Gov. Paul Herbert Makes Forma! Declaration for Ohio Post

GOVERNORSHIP ASKED BY LT. GOV. HERBERT   Outlines 10-Point Program In Announcing Candidacy

HERBERT SEEK BIVEBNOR'S JO   Third Republican To Enter Race For Gubernatorial Nomination~

CLIMAX NEARS IN BATTLE FOR RUSSIAN CITIES   Mounting German Ccunter At. tacks Cannot Delay Fall Much Longer

MELITOPOL AND COMEL BATTLES ~ REACH CLIMA)   Red.-A' rn m, ye Tightens Grip. on Kiev’ After® “Nazi: Counter: ‘Attarnk

Germans Facing Twin Peri   MELITOPOL, GOMEL FALL IMMINENT AS BATTLES REACH BLAZING CLIMAX

Fall Of Gomel And Melitopo! Expected Hourly   Indications Point  To Nazi Evacuation At Gomel; Reds Tighten Hold On Kiev

FIGHT FOR GOMEL, MELITOPOL IS NEAR CLIMAX IN RUSSIA   German © Counter-Attacks Can Not Delay Fall Key Soviet Cities

TWO BATTLES INRUSSIANEAR CLIMAX   Melitopol and. Gomel About to Fall to Reds

JURY READY IN PARROTT TRIAL   Novelist Accused of Aiding  : Soldier in Escape

Lero Advantage Gained By Allies   German Resistance Reported Weakening

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   American Aerial Attacks’ Aim Is Ruin Luftwaffe Before An Invasion

The War Today— Military Officials Emphasize Effect ‘Of Allied Air Might On Nazi Industry

IMPORTANCE OF ALLIED AIR WAR STRESSED FROM NUMBER  ALLLIED CAPITALS AND FRONTS

The War Todav   By DE WITT MACKENZIE Becnnintead Preaes War Anaivst

MUST REACH TERMS   Ickes Issues a Warning to the Operators of Coal Mines

Sign Coal Contract ---Or Else   Tells Operators Gov't Will Not Return Mines Till Settlement With Miners Is Reached

Conditions Fixed For Pits’ Return   Custodian Avows Union Terms Mact Ro Met

A Needless Gesture... OPA “ALLOWS” GIVING  OF RATIONED ARTICLES WITHOUT COLLECTING STAMPS

EO AT ODD ON GAS RATIONING   OPA Rejects Request of Agriculture Department to Cancel A, B, and C Books Along Part of Atlantic Seaboard

OFFICIALS AT Opps ON BEST WAY TO MEET GASOLINE CRIS}:      Agriculture Department's Plea for Suspension of A, B and C Rations in East Rejected by OPA—An. . other Shake-up in Agency Reported

PA REJECTS PLAN TO VOID ‘GAS RATIONS   Refuses : Cancellation Of A, B, C Books in Part of East

Request Made By Agriculture Department To  Ease Shortage   SUGGESTION WOULD CRIPPLE WAR PLANTS

PLAN TO VOID ‘GAS’ RATIONS   Refuses Cancellation Of A, B,€ Books in Part of East

PA Rejects Plan o Cancel A, B,C  asoline Rations   High Officials Sharply at Odds Over Best Way to Cope With Gas Famine Which Threatens Food Production in tarce Eastern Area — Shakeup Said Due

A BC Books To Continue O P A Insists      BUT OPA IS DUE FOR SHAKEUP WITH SECRETARY WICKARD AND CHESTER DAVIS GIVEN MORE SAY.   Gas Shortage Grave

Agriculture Department's Request To Cancel A, B, C Gas Books Refused

PLEASURE TRIP WARNING GIVEN   Motorists Told To Avoid Shortage Areas Even Tho No Gasoline Is Bought

PRESIDENT OF LEBANON TAKEN INTO CUSTODY   Lebanese Cabinet Accused of Plotting Against France

RedsWipeOut 3000 Nazis Before Kiev  Claim Gomel Fall Imminent as Troops Enter City

67 Tanks Are Knocked Out   3,000 Germans Killed In Drive On Sector

,580-Mile Open-Wire ‘Phone Line to Alaska Is Opened by U.S. Army

Air Offensive on Continent Is Continuing   Industrial Targets, Airfields Heavily Bombed

QF EER  ESE ENII NEWS A TINE   2 A F. Raiders Head for Nazi-Held Europe

"RAID HITS eDUNKERQUE   Sustained Air Assault Made By Allies On  German Bases

FOR RESTORING RELATIONS   i ——_—_—_ Churchill; Hopes to Patch Up Rus sta-Poland Tronhlec

Allied Plans - Awry Due to Polish Status   Indications Are That Two Governments in Exile May Try to Function

FOR RESTORING RELATIONS   Churchill Hopes to Patch Up Rus. sia-Poland Troubles

RUSSIAN TANK UNITS HAVE SEIZED ALL LITTLE ROADS IN STEPPES WEST OF MELITOPOL   Nazi Retreat Being Caried Out on 150-Mile Front In Effort to Escape Trap Closing Between Krivoi Rag and Melitono]

ALLIES DRIVE ON IN ITALY WITH BITTER FIGHTING   German Air Transport Caught Off Cos and Blasted While Japs at Rabaul Smashed   By RICHARD MceMURRAY

Fall Of Pivotal German Base Matter  Of Hours.   By RICHARD McMURRAY. AP War Foditar

Algiers Says German‘ Resistanc Cementing—U. S. 5th Drives Deep S. ient in German Lines—South Afr Planes Hit Barges ‘Off Yugoslavia

ED TROOPS CLOSE TRAP ON GERMAN      American Fifth Army Drive Deep Salient Into Central ltaly Line.   RAINS GROUND PLANES

Soviets Pursue Enemy In Big Ukraine Drive   Slay 6,000 In Gain Of Nearly Score Of Miles

Being Surrounded  From Three Sides   Jaws Of Dnepropetrovsk’s Trap Said Cut To Less Than 90 Miles; Germans Suffer Vast Losses

Nazis Seeking To Escape Tray   Jaws of Pincer ‘Contracted to Less ‘Than 90 Miles.

5th Army Drives Deep Wedge Into  Italian Defense   Russian Successes Are Credited To Aijid By Allies; Nazis Plan Defense

Fall of Krivol Rog Is Only Hours Away   German Armies Retreating on 150Mile Front in Russia; Allies Make Slow but Steady Advances in Italy Against Stiff Nazi Resistance

RAPIBLY INTO NAZI FLANKS   Yanks Seize ‘Important High Ground’ lp Italy

Reds Are Closing Trap; Escape Route N ow 90 Miles Wi d e      Enemy Losing Vast Quantities of Mer and Materiel; Fifth Army Pushes Ahead :

Red Armies Pursue Fleeing Nazi Troops Across Ukraine; Allies Pound Rabaul Again

RED ARMY FORCES  CHASE DISORGANIZED  FORGES OF INVADER GERMANS ATTEMPTING  TO ESCAPE VAST TRAP RAPIDLY CLOSING

CLUES CHECKED IN MURDER CASE   SHERIFF SAYS CONVICT PLACED PHONE CALL TO GALVESTON FROM PANHANDLE

Thondis Phone Gall Tuesday To Galveston Among Clues Renealed By Sheriff Hutson

Thomas Phone Call Tuesday To Galveston Among Clues Revealed Bu Sheriti Hutson

Reds Capture Velikie Luki, Vital Rail City  «Beach Gaine MAndea   Fresh Gains Made In Seven Sectors; Elista Also Falls

MOST GLORIOUS * DAY OF WHOLE WAR RECORDED JAN. 1   Reduction of Fortress City  Endangers Nazi Front > *t— faoninarad.

FOLLOW 2 VICTORIES   Much Booty Taken in Capture Of Velikie Luki

Russians on Greatest Offensive Of War Along 1100-Mile Line; ~ Enemy Abandons Much Equipment

KEY TOWN IN CENTRAL SECTOR IS CAPTURED   ELISTA TO SOUTH TAKEN   Russians Report New Gains Along 1100-Mile Line

German Disaster in Seven Sectors as Russ Roll On   Steamroller Red Army Mops Up Last Defenders of Velikie Luki, Continues Attack 175 Miles West of Stalingrad

VELIKIE LUKI IS CAPTURED FROM GERMANS   Soviet Army Makes New Gains on Seven Fronts InGreat Offensive.

Claim Every Able Nazi In Velikie Luki Killed Or Captured   Successes Reported From Central Front. to Caueasus During Night After Bigzest Day of Gains in War

Elista Also : Falls Into . Russ Hands.                 RUSSIANS ON THEIR GREATEST OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR; MAK GAINS ON SEVEN FRONTS 1°

Velikie Luki Fortress Captured As Sweeping Offensive Is Continued

Vital Cities Seized   Greatest Offensive O} War Drives Thru  German Lines

U.S. Marines Make Two More New Britain Landings East — And West of Cape Gloucester

MORNING FIRE DESTROYS CASWELL RESIDENCE     Newport Firemen Aid Middle: town Department     Parrot Awakens Owner; Smok Flames Visible Over Wide

MURRING FINE UESTAUTS CASWELL RESIDENCE     Newnort Firemen Aid Middle: town Department  oe     Rarrot Awakens Owner; -Smoke +. Filmes’ Visible Over Wide -*:  Area *

U-Boat Base Pounded by U.S. Airmen   Unescorted Bombers Damage Many Nazi Fighters

UNITED STATES PLANES ATTACK -BOAT CENTER   Heavy Two-Hour Assault Carried Out Late Thurs.

Yankees Pound U-Boat Center   Big U. S$. Bombers Blast. Vegesack In Four Hour Raid, Lose Two Planes. 

USAF HITS AT ——U-BOAT MIGHT   Just Like Shooting Clay Birds, Say Men of Susie Q

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN U-BOAT BASES   All Planes Return Safely From Sweeping Foray ~—

U, 5, BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Nazi U-Boat Construction Center Hammered

‘Just Like Shooting Clay Pigeons’ Says Crew of Susie Q After Raid

U.S. AIR FORGE BLASTS GERMAN U-BOAT PLANT   Attacks Vegesack, 15 Miles Northwest of. Bremen, Bombers Unescorted

'U. S. AIR FORCE  [BOMBERS HIT 'GERMANY   In Two-Hour Attack Yesterday at Vegesack U-Boat Base Near  Resawanx

Yanks Batter ‘J-Boat Base   Bombers Fight Wa; Back Through 100 Nazi Planes

U.S. Airmen Raid Nazi U-boat Base   Heavy Bomb Load. Dropped in Germany

U.S. Planes Raid Submarine Yards  Construction Center Is Pounded For 2 Hours

U-BOAT CENTERS BOMBED BY W. §   Flying Fortresses Fly 80¢ Miles Without Fighter Escort

U-BOAT YARDS NEAR BREMEN ARE BATTERED   Heavy Load of Explosives Laid on Submarine Construction Center in Germany   ENEMY PLANES DOWNED

Vegesack Aflame In Daylight Raid By U.S. Bombers   Heart of Germany's U-Boat Strength Hit By Americans

Coal Operators Ask Compromise ‘On Travel Wage   Offer To Pay for 48 Min utes a Day Used in Reaching Jobs

VOTING LIGHT AS OHIO HOLDS CITY PRIMARIES   Less Than Half of Eligible Voters Turn Out In State Balloting

INTEREST NIL IN PRIMARIES      Preceded By Listless Campaigns, City Primaries Attract Half of Voters

“WHERE ELSE CAN THEY G02”   Demos Say South Has No Choice on 4th Term

BELIEF GROWING THAT FOR WILL BE A CANDIDATE   Democratic Leaders Do No Expect Any Marked Revoit In Southern States.

PRESSING DEMANDS FOR TAXES ENGULF COMMITTEE MONDAY   House Ways and Means Group All But Bogged Down by Conditions  Todav.

TAX AND TRADE ISSUES ARISE   President Asks New Levies Raps Repeal Of Salary Limit Order

Aln FLEET To GERMAN HEART   Lancasters Attack Berlin in ‘Highly Concentrated’ Assault.   RAF LOSES 22 BOMBERS

BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN LAST NIGHT BY RAF BOMBERS  ATTACK HEAVY BUT NOT ON SCALE TWO PREVIOUS ATTACKS

THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS RAIN ON ENEMY CITY   Government Buildings In Heart Of Berlin Reported Hit: British Lose 22 Bomb ers.

Berlin Smashed Again By RAF In a Night Raid   More Than 1,000 Tons of Bombs Dumped on City 

British Give Reich Capital Big Blasting   Americans Hit French Targets

British Lose 22 Planes In Raids On Berlin And Other Points In Germany During Night

BRITISHREPORT 22 CRAFT LOST WITH ASSAULTS   “Highly Concentrated” Attack Occurs in Flaming 20 Minutes

British Declare 20-Minute Raid Most Effective   Heavy - Concentration Of. Howling Steel and Fire Bombs Hit Capital

LANCASTERS SMASH BERLIN IN HEAVY RAID   “Raineland, and Enemy Airfields  in France Strafed by RAF in Nicht Attacks   FORTS RAID PARIS   Aircraft Factory and Airplane Assembly Plant Targets While Airfislds Bombed

BUILDINGS OF GOVT. HIT IN NAZI CAPITAL   RAF. Cuts Down Its Bomber Losses While Piling up Rubble In Shattered Reich City.

1,120 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Berlin   Attack Made in 20-Minute Pericd — RAF Loses 22 Planes in That Raid and Other Far-Ranging Night Operations.   Re WILLIAM SMITH WrHITr

Tonnage Is Greater Than London Got   , Daylight Raiders Swing Across Channel For Continued Attack

THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS FIRE REICH CAPITAL   OTHER VITAL GERMAN CENTERS BLASTED IN WIDESPREAD ATTACKS

Berlin Hit Third Time In 11 Days   Great Bombardment Fleet Deals New Blow to Capital

Bombardment Fleet 'Bashes Berlin Again   Tons of Missiles Hurled on City, Following Day in Which RAF Blasts Rhineland And French Flying Fields. "

Government Buildings Hit In RAF Assault, Termed “One of Greatest” On Reich City   22 BOMBERS LOST IN NIGHT ATTACKS   1.120 Tons Howling Steel and Fire Bombs Hurled Down; Capital Still Smoking

Tons of Explosives On German Capita’   Allied Planes Continue Assault on Nazi-held Continent Throushout Day

GREAT FLEET OF BOMBERS HITS CAPITAL   City Struck Heavily For Third Time In Less Than Two Weeks

BERLIN FEELS TONS OF BOMBS   Raid Of British Called ‘Highly Concentrated’

RAF Bombers Again Batter Reich Capital   Third Raid In 12 Days “Unloads More Than 1,000 Tons Of Bombs   22 PLANES ARE LOS]   Round The Clock Assault Continues As Daylight Raiders Head For France

Rhineland, French Bases Are Raided .   ¢ 1,120 Tons Of Bombs _ Dumped On Reich ' Capital By British

Night Raiders In Heavy New  Berlin Attack   City Is Plastered With 1,120 Tons Of Bombs In 20 Minutes.

Berlin Again Under Heavy British Raid   1.120 Tons Of Bombs Hurled Down On City In 20 Minutes; List 22 Planes Lost

Tonight To Be Colder   Mercury Fails To Reach Freezing  Here Last Night

NO RAIN FORECAST   Cooler Weather Is Replacing Midsummer Kansas Conditions 

Near Freezing Weather Expected For Kansas   No Rain In Sight And High Winds Are Expected Toe Disappear

NO SEVERE WEATHER   Temperatures Will Be Near Nor mal for This Time of Year

No Peg Cotton Price During Market Hours   Statement of OPA Leaves Open Possibility Of Ceiling Being Imposed at Night

Cotton Ceilina May Be Issued After Market Closes   Reports of Sudden Announcement Are Counteracted

FIRE AND SMOKE STILL SHROUDS MESSINA AREA   “Earthquake Proof” City of Halian Outpost Suffers Heaviest Attack of Mediterranean   FLAMES AND DUST ENVELOP ‘TARGETS   So Great Fliers From 100 lying Fortress Formation Unable to Observe Results

Big Force Hits Axis Port  Severest Blow   Great Attack Advances Efforts to Put Sicily in Isolation; Damage Is inestimable; Rail Area Also Suffers

Fortresses Shatter Messina   Smoke and Dust So Thick Last Raider Unable to Make Observations

Flying Forts Shower Bombs On Messina  Raid Marks Allied Plan To Isolate

Blast Messina In Record Raid   ‘Confinue Offensive To Isolate Sicily

MESSINA SHATTERED BY MASSED SQUADRONS OF: U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES

Bombs Batter Messina City   Marks Biggest Attack Yet In The Mediterranean; Flying Fortresses, 100 Strong, Shower Vital Italian Port

More Than 100 Flying Forts Pour Destruction on Messina ‘Port and Rail Installations

MESSINA BOMBED BY U.S, AIRMEN   ITALIANS STUBBORNLY DEFEND CITY—ITWENTY ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN.

Another Blow In Continuing Effort To Cut OF Sicily. Island Bastion Off South Italy

Fortresses Hit City of Messina  Port and Rail Area Heavily Blasted

Flying Fort Assault Rocks Italian Port   ‘Earthquake City’ of Messina Left Shrouded in Smoke, Fire

HITLER TOO BUSY FOR ANY SPEECH   However, Issues Proclamation Reviewing “Injustices of Versailles Treaty.”

NEW STRATEGY INDICATED. IN ASIAN THEATRE   Washington Regards Wavell, Auchinleck Appointments as Carrying Out Britain’s Pledge

Asia War Strategy Expected To Be Strengthened by Naming Marshal Wavell India Viceroy

TRIKE AFFECTING ALABAMA FURNACES   Operations To Be Curtailed Within Few Days

ONS ON PLANS MORAFT LABOR   Stimson Comes Out For The National  Service Bill    SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES ON DEFERMENTS

"FINISH FIGHT’ DUE ON LABOR DRAFT MOVES   ‘Dictatorship’ Cry Raised Against National Service Bill

DECISION DUE ON FARM LABOR   Congressional Lines Forming “Fight To Finish’ On Worker Draft

DEFERMENT PLAN a WORKERS ON   cenate Military Affairs Committee to Act on  Issue — Congress All See.

JAPS CLAIM 33 “PLANES DOWNEI   Figures Differ From U. S. Navy Report

Japan Claims - Sharp Victory   Navy Tells Different Story  Of Aerial Engagement In  Danific.

Japs Claim 33 American Planes Lost   Reports of Russell Islands Engagement Reverse of U.S. Navy Version

SENATE BILL. CUTS POWER OF GOVERNOR   Repeal Of Financial Emergency Powers Asked In Bill

UTAH SENATE HANDS HOUSE AUDITOR BIL!      Car License Measure Wins Okeh of House, Maw Power Hit

West Coast Sub Menace Ended Fast   Concerted Action Shortly After Pearl Harbor  Overwhelmed It

JAP SUBS SUNK   9 Downed Off Pacific Coast Just After Pearl Harbor

Jap Sub Fleet Off Pacific Coast Destroyed First Few iMonths After Pearl Harbor   Nine, Possibly 11, Enemy Craft Sunk Off Shores Just After War Began

Jap Sub Fleet Destroyed Oft Pacific Coast Coast Guards Foil Plans To Cut Supply

Soviets Unite Bridgeheads Along Dnieper   Germans Tell of Two Russian Drives on North Part of Front

.oin “wo. sreay 50- -umns — riving "Nes-warc;, o1ec< Aiev _1reas; ~>en “wo! or-iern  ~-ensives

SOVIETS OPEN TWO DRIVES IN WHITE RUSSIA   Germans Beaten Back In Fierce Tank Battle West Of Kiev In Past 24 Hours

Nazis Report Iwo Soviet Drives in White Russia   Defenders Win a Defensive Battle in Kiev Sector

RUSSIANS JOIN BRIDGEHEADS, CONTROL DNIEPER WEST BANK   Rv JAMES VM LONG

‘Germans Say Two Powerful Soviet Drives Are Under Way  BRIDGEHEADS ARE LINKED BY ARMIES  Russians Say Winter Will  See Greater Offensive Than Ever

Reds Link Bridgeheads On Dnieper   Germans Announce Soviet Offensive Toward Baltic Sea

REDS NOW CONTROL 200-MILE STRETCH UF RIVER'S BANK   Soviets Win Defensive Battle in Kiev Sector—Occupy Railway Town Near Smela.   START NEW DRIVES * IN WHITE RUSSIA   Thrusts May Be Beginning of Muscovite Winter Offensive Toward the Raltic Sea.

Ship Losses at Sicily Listed   Campaign Cost Allies Less Than 85,000 Tons

INGUME TAX FORMS RELEASED MONDAY   Must Be Filed Not Later Than March Fifteenth.

Two:Points in Bill To Control Strikes Agreed on by WLB  T where hdeeebkawr Dalene   Labor Member Roles, Membership Clauses To Remain Same

INTERPRET ANTISTRIKE MEASURE   War Labor Board Agreed On Two Points Of Potential Controversy In Strike Control Bill.

WLB RULES  ON NEW LAV   Holds Anti. Strike L Legislation No Bar to Policy of Ordering Union Membership

Corn Loan Rate To Be 8c Higher   Plan Indicates Higher Ceiling Leve

Mounting Expenses and Reduced Advertising Make Increases Necessary   SURVEY INTERESTING

Increased Wartime Costs Force 7( Penna. Papers To Increase Rates

70 NEWSPAPERS RAISE RATES   PNPA Cites Higher War time Costs in News World

Fiscal Year Is Started; Several  Agencies Broke   Many Governmental Departments Without Funds While Congress Still Debates Their Needs.

Congress Lets Appr opr iation:  Crisis Mount   Many. Government Avencies Without Funds at Start Of Fiseal Year

Reports Reaching Stockholm Say Tuesday’s Attack by British Bombers Paralyzed City’s Transportation System— Damage Heavy Both on Outskirts and Inside Metropolitan Area—People Streaming From Capital.

DENMARK NOW AN ARMED CAMP   Hitler’s Day of Reckoning Believed Near

Hitler’s Darkest Month Brings Showdown With Subjugated Countries.

Japs Feeling Allied Blows   Naval And Air Attacks On Wake Island Are Reported

Japs Meet Trouble Everywhere; Allies Keep Pounding on Land, Sea, Air: Wake, Burma, New Guinea Are Stricken

Bill Dies as Solons Face About   PRESIDENT DENOUNCES MEASURE AS BLOW AT LIVING COST PROGRAM

Roosevelt's Veto On Anti Subsidy Bill Is Sustained By House   Administration Victory Saves Food Price Rollback Program; Committee Okehs New CCC Fund Bill

Fighting Clouds The Pic  Extent Of hid To Italy Unknown Quantity Now

Mrs.. Chis: Mueller: Is Taken By Death   Succumbs In Home At Ireton Aftcr Prolonged Sickness—Is Old Resident

Mrs.: Chris:Mue Mueller. ~ ls Taken By Death   Succumbs In Home At Ireton After Prolonged. Sickness—Is Old Resident -.

Allies Worried by U-Boat Challenge   Seek Methods of  Meeting Menace

Allies Plan U-Boat Fight   Hitler’s Marauders To Face Allied Defenses

Allies Mapping Strategy for U-Boat Battle   Attention Given To Mid-Ocean Arec

OFFICIAL CIRCLES. IN WASRINGTON DISAPPOINTED OVER STATEMENT BY NEW REGIME

rgentina o Retain leutrality   Washington Disappointed  Rv Remirez Stand

HOUSE APPROVED BILL LOWERING AGE DRIVERS OF TAXICABS  SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLDS   SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLDS MAY ALSO DRIVE SCHOO! BUSES AND CITY BUSES

Railroad Yards Are The Targets Of Yank Bombers   Traffic Centers Near Naples Pounded By American Air Raiders   BRITISH HIT  SALERNO YARD

MAINTAIN AIR SUPERIORITY IN ITALIAN SKIES   U. S. planes inflict another defeat on enemy air force

Allies Reinforced By Canadian Troop:  Larae Group Landed   Large Group Landed Just Before Attack

CASUALTIES ~__ARE LISTED   STIMSON SAYS 501. KILLED [387 WOUNBED AND 2,370 MISSING IN SICILY

Death Of Berlin Near   Even Nazis Admit It Now; Morale Due To Sag

BERLIN BEING DESTROYED BY AIR MIGHT   World Now Witnessing Death of First Large City Thus Far To Perish in Waste---MacKenzie

The War Today   Destruction of Berlin Frem Ai Will Be Semething New In Way.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazis Admit Allies “May Lay All Berlin Waste” Very Soon

WORLD IS WITNESSING DEATH OF BERLIN WHATEVER ELSE MAY COME FROM BOMBING OF CAPITAL

 The War Today— Berlin Bombing Believed Prelude To Political Events Now In Making

PASSENGER HURT WHEN STRIKERS ATTACK TROLLEY   ‘Man Held For. Throwing Crosstie In Front Of   Baltimore Streetcar   TRANSIT FIRM SAYS ‘WALKOUT A FAILURE

Traction Company Reports Strike Is Ineffective   Men Slowly Returning t Work in Spite of Attacks on Cars

Gvvvvvvvvervvvvvyvvvvvvry Lions Club Teams To Compete for Ticket Sale Honors

 PAA A AAAARAAAAAAAAAAAL Lions Club Teams To Compete for Ticket Sale Honors

ALLIES AGREE ON PEACE PLAN   U. S., Britain, Russia Will Cooperate On All Major World Problems

CLOSE CO-OPERATION PLEDGED FOR DURATION OF WAR AND IN FRAMING POSTWAR POLICIES

AGREE ON TERNS OF SURRENDER & PEAGE ATER WAR   China Included in Parley; League of Nations Evolved.

U.S., Britain, Russia, China Vow Joint Action On War, Peace Problems

Full Surrender Plan Of Allies Ok’d By Russi   Moscow Meet Includes China; Big-4 In Accord On War, And Postwar League; To Free Austria And Clean Up Italy

US, BRITAIN, RUSSIA, CHINA IN ACCORD   Agree to Co-Operate in Settling Problems of War and Peace

Illinois Demos  Back 4th Term   idorse Hughes or Court: ney for Governor

7 TUNZ PRISONERS STILL AT LARGE   12 of 19 Who Escape Prison Camp Recaptured Friday; Dug Tunnel

NEW JAP RAIDS POSSIBILITY IN SOUTH PACIFIC   May Attempt To Relieve Allied Pressure In Solomons. New Guinea

Japs Believed Planning Offensive __ To Relieve Growing Allied Pressure

COUNT DE MARIGNY'S. CASE NEARING JURY   Attorneys Begin Final Summations In Celebrated Bahamas Trial

Simplified Price , Controls Urged   Grocers Want Better Food Distribution

GROCERS ASK FOR CHANGE IN RULES   Want Simplified Price Contro! and Abolishment of Enforcement.

Bryan Need Not Take The Stand  ’ Soldier Exeused From Testifying

GOVT. RESTS ITS CASE AGAINST URSULA PARROTT   Charged With Smuggling Soldier From Army Stockade

3-B Group May Be Taken Next   State Draft Boards Are Reclassifying Men To Meet Demands

Local Draft Boards In State Dip Deeply Into Their Files   Taking All Men Available Before Tapping Vast Reservoir Of Fathers

‘Million Dollar- Black Market Whiskey Rind’ Ils Smashed By AlcoholTax Group

Black Market In Meat Seen 'As Real Threat   Office of War Informatior _ Reports Menace to  War Effort

BLACK MARKET IN MEAT IS SERIOUS   OW! Says American Pro gram _ Seriously Threatened

RED ARMIES BLAST OUT NEW GAINS   Advance Threatens Lo Turn Orel Into a German ‘Stalingrad’

NEW GAINS ARE BLASTED OUT BY RUSSIAN ARMIES   Threaten To Turn Orel Into Another “Stalingrad,” Is Report

Nazi Base Under Red Army Guns   Soviet Troops Pour Through Breaches in Effort To Pinch Off Orel Salient

REDS TURN TABLES INIA CTEEP INTO ENEMY LINES   Orel May Be Converted Into Another Stalingrad’ By Russian Advance,

(0. Reaffirms... Pledge to Keep ~ From -Strikins   Letter from Presiden Read As Big Union - Conclave Opens

B. AND P. W. WEEK   ‘Business Firms Help in Lawrence Chapter’s Observance

Roosevelt and Churchill Expected to Instruct  Allied. Armies to Attack 

SIGNS MULTIPLY SECOND FRONT NEAR   American Military Leaders Hint Invasion Looming

THINK 100 DAYS WILL SEE START OF GRAND DRIVE   Only Surrender Can Present Greatest Offensive Against Nazis

Certain Defeat Of Germany Seen   Teheran Decisions Hailed In Washington As Sealing Doom Of Nazis   HUGE OFFENSIVE BEING PLANNED

LL CONDEMN LAND   Commifsioners Want Property fou Maintainer Headquarters

Asked to Make Good on Bond Pledges for 1943 During Third War Loan Campaign;  War Expenses, Income Have Both Increased

Nazis, Jittery Over Allied Offensive Plans For 1943; Center Hopes On U-Boat:

t  Nazis Showing Mach Worry Or War Outcome   Hitler Now Seems To Feel U-Boats Wil! Stave Off Disaster

Allied Air Strength Admitted   Strain Crops Out in Ger man Propaganda-—Plan  Submarine Offensive

Germans Fear Coming Events, News Indicates  Goebbels Confesses Reich No Longer   Goebbels Confesses Reich No Longer Holds Air Power

American Raid Damage Heavy  25 Planes And 19 Riuyldinace Wrerked

American Raid Damage Heavy  “so awe onto! UA TAR   25 Plaries And 19: Buildings Wrecked

Huge Force of U.S. Planes Strikes Nazi U-Boat Base  Yankees Shoot Down 25 Planes, Hit Important Nazi City

Riot Probers to Report to Kelly   Governor May Call  Jury to Investigate

SPECIAL REPORT MADE ON LENDLEASE TO REDS   Stettinius Says American Weapons In Russian Hands Have Made Themselves Felt: Tells Of Aid Sent To Russia.

SOVIETS AIDED _ BY LEND-LEASE   Report On Shipments Of Food And Materiel To Rus gia Is Submitted

KAI-SHEK NAMED   General Elscted = Preaident of Chinese Government.

DICKEY'S HOMER GIVES YANKEES 2-0 WIN IN SERIES CLINCHER   CHANDLER SHUTS OUT CARDINALS FOR SECOND VICTORY; NEW YORK CAPTURES CLASSIC, 4-1

YANKEES WINNERS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIE IN 1943 BASEBALL   BILL DICKEY’S HOME RUN WITH RUNNER ON BASE BROUGHT VICTORY

Yanks Take   Series   Bombers Beat Cards For Fourth Straight Time To Win Title; Final Seore is 2-0

YANKEES WIN WORLD SERIES   Score 2-0 Over Cardinals To End 1943 Baseball Classic.   COOPER LOSING HURLER

Dickey’s Homer  In Sixth Breaks Up World Series   Bronx Bombers Humble Cards 2 to 0 In Fifth and Final Game   2s 46678 8 Bae Yous i... @ @: 686 2 € © Hee 7 } saute 8G £8 86 B.S 8 Bae. 2 }

Dickey’s Homer In Sixth Breaks Up World Series   Bronx Bombers Humble Cards 2 to 0 [n Fifth and Final Game   123 4564783 «29 RHE Yanks... 0 0 00 02 0 0 0—2 7 1 Carde Vn nf HH Of nh Nn Ooh HK 69

Yankees Take World Title In-2-0 Fray   Chondler Blanks Cardinals in Fast Duel with Cooper

WORLD SERIES WON BY YANKEES FROM CARDS 2-0   Home Run by Bill Dickey With Keller on Base Decides Fifth Game

YANKS END SERLES ON 2 TO 0 WE   sill Dickey’s Homer Brings Keller In For Scores In Sixth Frame.   COOPER INJURED

Yanks Beat Cards  In Final Contest   American Leaguers Regain Title, Besting St. Louis by 2 to 0 Score

Revenue Bill Cut Further   Senate Committee Lops Race Track Betting Tax

SENATE WHACKS WACERING ITEM OFF HOUSE ACT   Proposed Tax on Race Track Betting Is Eliminated By Solons

Senate Finance Committee Cuts Off More Taxes   Rejects Race Levy, Boosts Amusements

REVENUE MEASURE FURTHER REAUCED   SENATE GROUP CUTS OFF 826, 400,000—DOUBLES LEVY ON MOVIE TICKETS,

SENATORS SLICE TAX BILL AGAIN   Cut Below Two Billion by  Committee's Action

Senate Makes New Tax Cuts  Race Track Betting Levy Dropped; Shift Reneqotiation Rules

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE FURTHER REDUCES TAX BILL  BETTING TAX ELIMINAT.ED, BUT ADMISSIONS TAX IS DOUBLED

Washington Roundup  Senate Finance Group K. 0. Proposed Tax On Race Belting; Ellender Suggests Pre-Cooling Period To Subsidy Vote

NEW TAX BILL _ TRIMMED AGAIN   Levy On Race Track Bets Rejected; Movie Ticket Tax Doubled

Knock Out Tax On Betting At  Race Tracks   Committee On ‘Finance Makes Another Cut In Bill Under Pressure . From Race Track States

Senate Rips New Hole In Tax Bill   Bill's Total Now Below One-Filth First Funds Soughi

DEAVER RULES —  RENT CONTROL UNCONSiITUTIONAL   Decision Handed Down In Case of John W. Payne Vs. J. H. Griffin of Thomasville. Ga.

JUDGE ULES RENT CONTROL 1S ILLEGK:   Federal Jurist In Georgia Says Act Invalid

Rent Control Held Invalid  Georgia Judae   Georgia Judge Rules Act Is Unconstitutional

Rent Control ‘Ruled Invalid   U.S. Judge Deaver Declares Act Is Unconstitutional

OHIO’S 37th WINS NEW LAURELS IN PACIFIC  GENERAL BEIGHTLER DIRECTS DIVISION'S SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN IN NEW GEORGIA 

News Release Tells of Activities of 37th Division In Battle Zone

East May Drive For Fun But Rations Are Sliced in Half; Price Boost Is Anticipated

‘A’ CARD GAS RATION HALVED ON SEABOARD   Pleasure Driving Ban Lifted bu! Means Reduced Beginning Mon day—Price Hike Sought

Eastern Drivers To Get Less Gasoline But Commodity Will Cost Them More; Allowance On “A” Book Is Cut In Half

Lift Pleasure Driving Ban      East Coast Motorists Have ‘A’ Coupons Cut in Half in New Order

East’s Motorists Can Drive Again For Fun Monday; Won't Get Far With Ration Halved   Pleasure Ban Lifted But A Coupon Must Last Double Time; Gas May Go Up

GASOLINE!      You Can Drive for Fun Again, but “A” Book Holders Won’t Drive Far with Ration Halved—and Gas May Go Up! -

Pleasure Driving Ban Off, But Gas ls Cut In Half  Starting Monday, 7A? B.AL Malderc’   Starting Monday, ’A’ Book Holders’ — No. 5 Coupons Must Cover 4-Month Period

“AY GASOLINE RATION STAMP “VALUES CUT BY OPA IN THE EAST   Motorists Can Drive for Fun Again, But They Won't Get Very Far   CUT FROM 3 TO 11% GALS

East Can Drive for Fun But **A°? Book Holders Not Far   Office of Price Administration Reduces Amount to One and One-Half Gallons Weekly; and Gas May Cost More; Workers to Get Special Allotments; New Ruling Effective Monday, March 22 -

‘Coupons to Have Same Value, But Must Last - Twice as Long.   ORDER ONLY FOR SEABOARD AREA

“GAS” RATION FOR EAST CUI   Ban on Pleasure Driving “Ends Monday; Dealers: Ask Price Increase

Will Lift Pleasure Driving Ban But Cut ‘A’ Gas Rations   A-5 Coupons Must Last Four Months Instead Of Two— Price Of Gas Likely To Advance

Nation’ s Gasoline Dealers To R equest Price Increase As OPA Cuts Value Of ‘A’ ‘Coupons And Lifts Ban On Pleasure Riding

East Can Drive Again For Fun But ‘A’ Book Holders Won't Drive Far   O.P.A. Halves Ration And Gasoline May Cost More Beginning Monday; Fifth Period “A” Coupons Will Be Valid For Four Months.

Pleasure Ban Lifted, Gas Ration Halved   Motorists May Drive for Fun, If They Have Fue

NAVAL SUPPORT IS TREMENDOUS   Landing Casualties Are Extremely Light As Troops Move On Enemy Island

Allied Soldiers Are Taking Over Sicily’s Beaches   Troops Almost in Holiday Spirit; Several Find Time for Bathing

SIGNS INDICATE EARLY ACTION IN PACIFIC   America’s Growing Forces May Swing at Japs at Any Time

New Action Is  Near In Pacific   Signs Point To Early End Of Prolonged Lull In Major Operations   HUGE AMERICAN FLEET ASSEMBLED

MAJOR MOVE AWAITED IN PACIFIC WAR   NAVY. OFFICIALS “BELIEVE LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS MAY BE OFENED AT  ANY TIVE: :

Surprising Stubborness Of US Forces Described In Tokyo Broadcast

COLD SPELLS HAVE RETARDEL EARLY TRUCK CROPS: PEACH CROP TO BE SMALL

Reds Charge Through 42-Mile Gap in German Lines to Erase Nearly All Nazi Autumn Gains

GERMAN DEFENSES CRACKED ON WIDE FRONT IN UKRAINE   Soviets Overrun 250 Villages in 24 Hours as They Plunge Forward West of Kiev.   CAPTURE FORTRESS TOWN OF KOROSTEN   Power Offensive Threatens to Shatter Nazi Hopes of Holding Struggle on Russian Soil.

Reds Surging On In Spectacular Break-Through »   Drive Well Beyond Farthest Point {n  Rinwarnhor Accnrrlke

REDS SMASH 42-MILE GAP IN FOE LINES   Russians Achieve Biggest Break-Through In West Ukraine

Reds Surging On In Spectacular Break-Through    Drive Well Beyond Farthest Point In  Alavambeor Acenilte

STATEMENT ON GAS NEXT WEEK   Chicago Director of OPA Indicates Change in Regulations.

DOOR LEFT OPEN ~ FOR RESCINDING FINES ON MINER   T Ickes Reminds Miners Contract Provides Machinery to Adjust Grievances Ir Wage Disputes.   STATEMENT ISSUED ON HIS ORIGINAL REMARKS   Conditions For Remitting o1 Fines 1s Not Explained, Absence of Contract to Be An Issue.

@*kes Opens Way To Rescind Fine on Strikers  Coal Miners Are @ Reminded Of Adjustments

Door Left Open For Rescinding of Strike Fines   WLB Appears Headed For New Collision With UMW President

Coal Miners May Escape Paying Fines   Ickes Points Out  Contract Provides For Adjustments

Opens Door For Rescindinge Fines      Ickes Makes Conciliatory Move as War Labor Board Heads for New Collision With Lewis

WAY IS PAVED FOR REMITTING MINERS’ FINE:   Ickes Moves To Head Off Protest Strikes In Coal Fields

KES OPENS DOOR TO. RESCINDING COAL MINE FINES   Hopes’ to Head Off Protest Strikes—Provides for Loea) Action.

REGISTRATION WILL START TOMORROW FOR RATION BOOK 2   Plans Announced for Bristol Borough, Bristol Township and Bensalem Township   OPEN 9 A. M. TO 8 P. M.   Book Drive For The Armed Forces

REGISTRATION IN AREA SLOW; URGE MORNING LISTING   Only 1 Person Applies at One Bensalem Twp. School In First Hour   Book Drive For The Armed Forces

RUMANIAN PALACE UNDER HEAVY GUARD   Swift Advance of Russian Armies Brings Potential Crisis in Country,

OW! Says Lots of Weeds Are “Good Eatin’ ”      Go Out Into thePasture and Pick Yourself a Méal —-for Victory..

SOME WEEDS MAY BE.USED FOR i GREENS; OWI ANNOUNCES TYPES : THAT ARE PALATABLE AND SAFE

Jap Convoy Is Forced To Retreat   Allied Aerial Attack Keeps Foe Out of Aroe Isles   Mickey Rooney Is Threatened In Phone Call

THREATS FOLLOW MICKEY’S REJECTION   Actor’s Father, Impersonating Son, Told Over Phone “We'll Murder You.”

THREE PERSONS HURT    Santa: Fe and Union Pacific Trains In Wreck at Miltonvale

Wage Earner With Family To Benefit Analysis of Withholding Tax Reveals

PEARL HARBOR OFFICERS MAY ESCAPE TRIAL   Statute Of Limitations May Have Expired Before Action By Congress   LEGALITY QUESTIONED   Army, Navy Chiefs Involved In Pacific Tragedy Can Balk At Hearings

CHURCHILL-STALIN PARLEY REPORTED   TERMED EITHER PRELUDE. TO 3-POWER CONFERENCE _ OR SUBSTITUTE FOR IT.

Report Churchill, Stalin In Meeting  May Be Prelude To FDR  Conference

POPPPPPPPPPEPPPPPPPA PPPS  Churchill Reported Conferring with Stalin

‘LIBERATION’ GROUP FORMED BY FRENCH   Giraud and De Gaulle Join in Program to Aid the Allies

French Formally Set Up Liberation Group   Signs of Tension Disappear Immediately; General Catroux Named Governor-General Of Algeria, Replacing Resigned Pevrouton

GROUPS UNITE   ‘Committee of National Liberation’ Formally Set Up at Algiers

FRENCH CHIEFS TAKE UP WORK IN N. AFRICA’   Unified Leaders Pledge Aid To Allies Until Axis Falls, France  Is Liberated   Tension Is Relieved

F rench Unity Is Achieved In Algiers   Giraud-De Caulle Body to War Against All Axis Nations

FREE FRENCH UNITED, FIGHT WITH ALLIES   DEGAULLE -GIRAUD PACT REMOVES ALL TENSION

FRENCH LEADERS BECOME UNITED TO SAVE FRANCE   DeGaulle And Giraud Head Committee Pledged To  Defeat Enemy Powers   NUMBER OF CHANGES IN PERSONNEL MADE

Free French Government Established   De Gaulle And Giraud Pledge To Gain Total Victory.

7-MAN COMMITTEE NAMED TO DIRECT FRENCH FIGHTING   Group Calls for Victory Over All Nations Opposing Allies, Including  ’ Japan.   GIRAUD, DE GAULLE ARE CO-PRESIDENTS   Tension That Prevailed Between Two Factions Replaced by Spirit of Conciliation.

French Chiefs End Formation of Ruling Committee  New Group Is Seen As Boon to Cause of Allies

UMW Demands For Wage Boost  Recommended   $2-a-Day Pay Increase And Other Items Urged By Mine Worker Group

UMW COMMITTEE WAGES PAY HIKE   Anthracite Miners to Demand $2 Day Increase, Premium Pay for Odd Shifts and Improved Vacation Pay

MINERS’ SCALE COMMITTEE ASKS $2? INCREASE IN PAY   Rv JOSEPH A. LOFTUS

War Prisons Authority Has A Defender   Rep. Eberharter Dissenting Member of Committee, Issues Report   CHARGES DISCREDITED

Nazis Now Threatened by Encirelement by Russians.  REDS PROGRESSING IN SOUTH UKRAINE  Germans Rushing Troops to Russian Front From the West.

GIANT EVACUATION ALREADY UNDER WAY NAZIS HINT   Despite Superhuman Efforts  Germans Continually Forced Back on All  Fronts

¥.POLICECOMBAT ‘MUGGING ATTACKS   ronx Woman Wounded With Tee Pick In Fourth Stabbing Within 24 Hours

MONTGOMERY'S MEN ‘FEEL OUT’ NEW AXIS LINES   Savage Aerial Hammering At Rommel’s Columns Kept Up By Planes

JUNCTION OF ALLIED FORCES GROWS NEARER   Fresh Troops Flown To Ald Rommel In Delaying Closing Of Pincers   SOUTHERN FRONT QUIET   Planes Blast Axis Columns Along Coastal Road North Of Gabes Area

LITTLE ACTION IS REPORTED IN SFAX AREA   Allied Airmen Are Active Despite Bad Weather   MEN, SUPPLIES   Arrive To Reinforce Axis Armies: Much Equipment Is Destroyed

 Troops In North Africa Nearer To Base Held By Axis; Front  In Tunisia 1s Reported Quieter   Fresh Troops Being Flown In To Aid Rommel; Enemy Reeling Under Heavy Blows But Still Fights Skillful Defensive Operation

ALLIED PEANES ACTIVE DESPITE BAD WEATHER   Allied Ring Closing. About Fierce-Fighting Germans

Russians Menace Mogilev, Again Break Nazi Line   Reds Continue Push West Despite Mud And Rain of Ukraine

REDS BATTLE INTO GERMAN DEFENSES      Russians Overrun Three Nari Bulwarks in Forward Drive

Soviet drive menaces nazi  held Mogilev   Russians advance despite weather

Reds Advance . Along Length Of White Russia   Drive Toward Propoisk And Threaten Mogilev Despite Mud, Fog, Cold

REDS MENACE ‘NAQILINES I WHITE RUSS!   Soviets Fight Closer To Zhlobin and Rogachev Rail Hubs

Russians Advance In Rain and Mud In White Russia   Approach Vital Railway Center

viet Forces denace Rail  Jub of Mogiley   Red Army Penetrates Deeply Into German Lines From End to  End of White Russia

NAZI LINES IN WHITE RUSSI   Soviets Fight Closer To Zhlobin and Rogachev Rail Hubs

Soviets Fight to Compress German Lines   Nazi Bulwarks in Propoisk Area Reported Overrun

DEFENSE LINES "IN GOMEL AREA JOLTED BY REDS   German Sea-Born Attack Force Wiped Out At Mouth Of Dnieper Recently

Predicts Axis Peace Proposa   Lord Halifax Says Bic Will Be Spurned

Awaiting an Agreement By Railways   President Says Strik: Would Be ‘‘Silly’’ — Sug gests Wage Compromise

Non-Operating Rail Workers Plan Strike   Order Is Expected Tonight—Roosevelt Has Plan

COMPROMISE PLANNED IN WAGE ISSUE   Railway Brotherhoods Meet at Capital for Conference on Pay Scale.   BULLETIN

Pittston School Officials Demand Pay for Damage To $400,000 School

PROBE STARTED OF '” PETTSTON CAVE-ii   High School and Homes Badly Damaged by Mine  Subsidence

Mine Subsidence Reported Checked  $400,000 High Schoo Said Total Loss

CITY WRECKED AS MINE SINKS   High School Valued At $100,000 Total Loss; 9() Homes Damaged

Giraud Retains Control of Army   DeGaulle Suffers. First Setback

French Army Will Have  Two Leaders   De Gaulle and Giraud Will Hold Joint Command

FRENCH UNITS T0 BE MADE INTO ONE   Four Military Leaders To Confer on Plans of Fighting Germans:

French Forge Single Army To Fight Axis   2 New Chiefs of Staff Reach Algiers; Giraud Heads Africa Force

e 0. pp. Senators Adz Des Moines   City vs.. Small Town-Rural  Friction Develops

Fiftieth General Assembly Getting Down To Business   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent

Bolivia Head For Union of Parliament:   President Penarands Speaks to Joint Session of U. S. Congress ©

HOUSE HEARS BOLIVIAN HEAD   Union in Americas  Ursed by Penaranda

VICTORIES BUOY HOPES OF BRITISH   PARALLEL SEEN IN CONDITIONS TODAY AND THOSE PRECEDING 1918 TRIUMPH.

Point Values of Meat to Change   New Table Is __ Effective Sunday

PREFERRED CUTS  OF BEEF WILL COST  MORE IN STAMPS   Fewer Points, However, Will Be Required for Some Lamb, Veal Items.   WILL BEGIN ON SUNDAY      Increases in the Point Values for Beef Ranges From 1 to 3 Points.

Must Pay More Points for Beef Under New Schedule; New Cheese Group Goes On Ration List

Sicily-Sardinia Again Blasted   Heavy New Assaults By Allied Bombers Are Reported Today   TWENTY-EIGHT AXIS PLANES SHOT DOWN

SOVIETS SPRING “GIGINTIC. TRAE ~WTHEGAUCASUS   Hard Riding Cossacks Score Brilliant Victory Near Rostov Railroad

TRAP CLOSING — IN ON GERMANS IN CAUCASUS   Moscow Noon Communique Says That Dozens Of Nazi-Held Villages Fell to the Soviets.

Pill Box Hospital Stati Saves Lives of Many Marines in Tarawa Fight

‘Bulgaria And Denmark imperil Axis Powe As Reds Go Rushing On And Allies Pound Italy; Fuehrer’s ‘Fortress’ Is Cracking

Hitler Faces Crisis   Setbacks in Bulgaria, Denmark, Gives Fuehrer  Bad Time

PRESIDENT MADE . PREVIOUS VISIT: 10 S.A. IN 1936   Two Presidents Probably Discussed Hemisphere Defense and Vital Decisions Made at Casablanca.   EXECUTIVE STOPPED BRIEFLY AT LIBERIA   Trip to Casablanca Spectacular, But Other Stops Are Outstanding For Any Higit Official.

FDR Confers With Brazilian President On Return Journey   Executives Meet Between Wednesday Night Anc Yesterday Morning At Natal

President Confers With Vargas in Natal   FDR May Have Visited Natal as Well as Liberia

Anti-Subsidy Congressmen Deluged With Protest Telegrams as Issue Nears Vote

SUBSIDY FOES DELUGED BY PROTESTS    People Favoring Program Wire Hostile Congressmen

HOUSE UNDER GREAT PRESSURE ~ IN-CONTROVERSY ON SUBSIDY   FLOOD OF TELEGRAMS AND MESSAGES RECEIVED BY MEMBERS FAVORING SUBSIDY BAN

HOSPITAL PLAN T0 BE PUT IN EFFECT   New State Program for Reimbursing Hospitals Effective

Hospital Plan  Goes Into Effect      State To Reimburse Institutions For Care Of Indivents.

HOSPITAL PLAN TO BE PUT IN EFFECT      New State’ Prograin’ far Reimbursing Hospitals © Effective

ClO Vigorodisly Opposes Sales Tax for Nation   Labor Head Says Workers Would Demand Increases

CIO IN OPPOSITION TO RETAIL SALES TAX   Unicn Joins With Administration 4n Fighting Fasi-Developing Drive Ih Congress

Argues That Federal Levy Would Be Faquivalent of a Military Defeat; Vinson  Sees Wage Hike Demand:

Lieut. Bob Buttke, Newton, Bags Two Enemy Planes   Knocks Down Nazi Fighters In Big U. S. Raid On Germany Wednesday

REPORT SICKNESS TOPS ABSENTEEISH   Mellon Institute Conducts Industrial Suryey

Convoy Escort System Improved   New Setup Offers  More Protection

ENTIRE HITLER DEFENSE LINE NOW MENACED   DRIVE ACELERATED TO KNOCK FINNS OUT OF WAR

Rzhev Falls To Advancing Russian Army   German Strongpoint On Central Front Bows After Violent Struggle

Red Troops Tak Rzhev After Fierce Struggle   2,000 Nazis Killed, Enormous Amount Of Booty Captured

Rzhev Falls To ~ Reds And Much Booty S Taken   Entire Northern Defense Line Of Nazis Threatened

REDS SEIZE RZHEY: KILL 2 000 NAZIS   Take Stronghold After Savage Fight Lasting Several Days — Fall Perils Enemy in North.   112 TANKS AMONG BOOTY CAPTURED   Fortified Town Had Served to Protect Poland and German-Occupied Baltic States.

Strong Nazi Central Base Falls   Russian Army Takes Key Point After Violent Struaqale

NAZIS NORTH DEFENSE LINES PUT iN DANGER   Victory Helps Russian Aim To Knock Finns Out Of War; Gain Made In South   2,000 Enemy Slain

112 Nazi Tanks, 78 Guns Seized  German Radio Declares Cee Was Deaniatad

Capture of Rzhev Threatens Germar Roads to Poland   Seizure of Strategic Stronghold s Great Victory for Reds   Russians Also Report Important Gains on Southern Front

Russians take Rzhev after heavy fighting   2,000 killed; capture accelerates move to foree Finland out of wal

RUSSIAN DRIVE TO KNOCK FINLAND OUT OF WAR IS ACCELERATED; GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF RZHEY.

City Falls After ‘Violent Fight: 2000 Nazis Die   Russians Sweep fo the South Near Kiev; Much Booty Captured

Capture Of City Acceler ates Russian Drive To  Eliminate Finland   CONSIDERABLE BOOTY TAKEN BY SOVIETS

Reds Kill 2,000 Nazis, Seize Rzhev   Soviets Threaten To Knock Finns Out of Fighting

Reds Capture Rzhev After Violent Battle   2.000 Nazis Slain and Enormous Booty Seized: Two Places Taken on South Front

SOCIAL PLAN oa ADVANCED   Ww BOCIAL SECURITY’ BILI INTRODUCED TO EXPAND.”  THE PRESEN ro  : PROGRAM ©

New Social  Security Bill   Measure Would Revise And Expand System

TAX INCREASE PLAN BEATEN IN UNT VOTE   Tots! ‘Take’ Remains Much Same, is Reliat

Committee Rejects Plans For Income Tax Boost Made by Administration

PLAN TO HIKE INCOME LEVY IS. REJECTED   House Group Decides On Streamlining of Tax Structure

Income Taxes Not to Rise >   House Taxing Group Refuses Ad‘ministration Plan to Levy More

lax Boost Plan ls Rejected   Individual: Income Levies Unchanged

Big increase on individua tax rejected   Plan 10 percent on normal levy

House Committee  Refuses to Raise  Taxes on Incomes Congesrdowal Plan  Would Make Victory Levy Integrated

Administration Tax Plan Killed   Ask Substitute For Victory Levy

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PROPOSED BOOST © IN INCOME TAX RATES REJECTED   House Group Turns Thumbs Down on Plan to Increase Burden of Individuals by $6,500,000,000.   VOTES TO ABOLISH 5 PCT, VICTORY LEVY   But It Would increase Normal Rate From 6 to 10 Per Cent to Make Up the Revenue Loss.

Reject Tax Plan Of U. S. Treasury To Hike Pay Levy   House Committee Plans Streamlining of Tax Structure

House to Get Plan Merging  Income, V Tay   Committee Flatly Bar: Administration Plan OF Increased Rate

House Group Kills Higher  Income Tax   Committee Votes To Streamline Present System

COMMITTEE FOR ABOLISHMENT OF VICTORY LEVY   Normal Tax Rate On Individuals Would Be In creased To 10 Percent   LOW INCOME GROUP TO STILL BE TAXED

Committee Rejects Plan For - Individual Income Tax Boost   Merger of Vicisry aid lncome Taxes Voted by House Group—Low Income Group Must Go on Paying Taxes

Only Military Targets Hit In ‘Eternal City’   American Troops Capture Key City In Heart Of Sicily As One-Third Of Island Is Brought Under Allied Control i

ITALY CAPITAL POUNDED FIRST TIME IN HISTORY; RAIDERS AVOID VATICAN

Only Military Targets Hit; Crews Carefully Trained To Avoid Shrines

Vatican, Historic Buildings Avoided  in Precision Raid   Plane Crews Carefully Coached in Most Careful Action Ever Staged by  Air Forces.

All-American Fleet of Fortresses, ~ Liberators, Join in Raid On Rome

BYVVVVIVV TV VV TTT TV ve Washington Woman Holds Hoarding Record, OPA Says

Urges System To Help Nations Hit Hard By War   Solon Would Couple Credit Plan With International Currency Stabilization

For sale 11-room house cheap. See T. A. Frasier, 1501 Ind. = 153")   NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Photos Reveal Ruins Mount  In Nazi Floods   British Say Raids Inflict Greatest  Disaster on Reich

Two German Valleys Are Under Water   Tons Of Flood Water Pour From Blasted. Dams.

EXPECTED TQ  ISSUE APPEAL      Prospects - of Nationwido Strike Next Week Studied —. War Labor Board Refers Case’ to White House Thursday Nght.

MINERS’ DISPUTE HAS RETURNED 10 ROOSEVELT'S LAP   With 70,000 Workers on Wildcat Strike Executive ls Required to Act to Maintain Production.   RANKS OF STRIKERS @WELL VERY RAPIDLY   War Labor Board Refers Case to White House After Its Deadline Ordering Men do Resume Work.

MINE WAGE CASE BACK AGAIN IN PRESIDENT’S LAP   $0,000 Miners Out tn Wildoat Strikes—F.0.R. Will Make Persona! Appeal.

COAL CASE UP TO ROOSEVELT FOR 4TH TIME   50,000 Out On Wildeat Strikes; U. S. Pit Seizure Seen

FDR Has Coal Dispute Dumped Back In His Lap   President Expected To Make Personal Anpeal ta Minere

Coal Wage Dispute Dumped Back Aga InF.D Rs Lap   Government Seizure Of Struck Mines Seems Likely

MALTA IS AVENGED; WAS MAIN BASE IN INVASION OF SICILY   Use Of Much- _Bombed Island As Major Stepping Stone Revealed © _ Today —

{Rommel Gambles Desperately in Drive at Junction of Allied Lines to Score Knockout Before Montgomery Can Close In  ee a i i engage: © go coven wipe asp age an   BATTLE ISSUE STILL IN DOUBT   t Nazi Column of 70 Tanks Drives to Within Eight Miles of Objective After Thrust Through Kasserine Gan   May Be Critical Battle

Rommel’s Forces, Driven Back By American Combat Teams With Loss Of 14 Tanks Near Tebessa, Open Powerful Offensive In Desperate Attempt To Cripple British First Army—Allied Mechanized Units In Day And Night Battle

Rommel Attempts to Knock Out British Ist Army by Drive   Gambles Desperately te Prevent Union of  Allied Forces

Powerful Armored Force Moves North in Tunisia; Critical Battle Progresses

CAMPAIGN MAYBE MOST CRITICAL   Issue Undecided As British And U. S. Forees Struggle

Critical Stage Is Reached In North Africé   Initial. Tank Thrust Is Driven Back By U. S. Combat Teams

Violent Tank Battle Waged  For Control   American Combat Teams Drive Back German Thrust For Tebessa; Rommel Launches Desperate Attempt To Deal Crippling Blow To First Army

Crippling Blow fo British {st Army ls Rommel's Aim  Americans s Stop. Tan!   Americans Stop Tank Thrust at Tebessa, ° Bag 14 Vehicles

Rommel! Attempts To Drive North   Is Seeking to Score Knockout Agains: British First Army—American Combat Force Turns Back Two Lesser Thrusts That Are Made By the Germans

Germans Smash At American and British Armies   Montgomery's Force Against Mareth Line

Drive Northward To Cut Allied  ‘Communications   On Russian Front Red Army Sweeps to Within 34 Miles of IDE River.

Blow Would Cripple British First Army   If Allied Forces Smashed at Thala, Axis Would Be Able to Control Huge Area; Situation More Serious than Faid Pass Break

Yank Troops Hurl Back New Thrusts   Nazis Gain Through Vital Tunisian Pass

RUSSIAN WINTER OFFENSIVE NEAR   Snow and Sub-Freezing Winds Sweep Front  Ce a manera

Soviets Poised For Opening o!  Winter Drive   Roads Harden, Moscow Beams With Air of Expectancy

BLAMES ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY   German Forces Give Ground Both There and in Soviet

RUBBER-GAS FEUD FLARES IN CAPITAL   JEFFERS WOULD PROBE THE STATEMENT SYNTHETIC PRIORITY THREATENS DRIVE,

QUARREL FLARES OVER ‘GAS’ FOR AIR OFFENSIVES   Jeffers Riled By Alleged Charges That Synthetic Rubber Interfers

Fight Flares Anew Over Gas Problem   Jeffers Disclaims Responsibility For Alleged Needs

RUBBER-GAS FEUD FLARES IN CAPITOL   Patterson Assertions Spur Jeffers to  Probe Request

Jeffers Asks Probe of Rubber Data   Patterson Charges Aviation Fuel Program Suffers

Rubber-Gasoline Feud Flares Up Anew A; Jeffers Asks Probe Of Patterson Charap

AVIATION GAS LACKING, SAYS WAR OFFICIAL   SYNTHETIC RU BBER BLAMED; CRISIS PREDICTED

nubber Frogram Said to Cripple Plane Gas Output   Jeffers Takes Issue With Statement   Jeffers Takes Issue With Statement From Patterson Aides  ASKS ‘TRUE FACTS’  Lack of Fuel Keeps Military Aircraft Grounded, Is Claim

Donets Basin Is Cleared - of Germans, Sialin Says   Re F MUTT HAW RING

Russ Forces Take Stalino And Roll On   Soviet Cleens Lest Of Nesi lnveders Out ef Donets Besin

CITY'S LOSS IS ADMITTED BY THE NAZIS   Soviets Thus’ Retrieve Last of Great Industrial Cities of the Donets Basin — Now Menace Mariupol Area.

EIGHTH ARMY: ON ADVANGE   MONTGOMERY'S FORCES HAVE ADVANCED. NEARLY 40. ‘ MELES, ON HEELS OF © ROMMEL'S ARMY

New Advance Is  Made By British   Eighth Army Advances Swiftly In Pursuit Of Rommel’s Forces   eet ett tte  BRITISH ONLY 130 MILES FROM TRIPOLI

RAISE OKAYED   State Control Board Approves Bisnket Ware Increnses,

MRS. HIGGINS HEADS TB UNIT   Mrs. Canterbury Resigns As Secretary Of The Raleigh County Association

Secretary Of Tb Group Is Appointed   Miss Flo Mae Canterbury Succeeds Miss Virginia Gill

PAPER HAS TROUBLES   Merning Free Press Changes From Daily Te Weekly lesue

Paper Ration Gone, Easton Daily Quits  Eastern Daily Newspaper To Become Weekly

PROCESS GOODS TO HIT CAFES   All Restaurants to Be Rationed On Point System

(Conuinged On’ Page F Four) RATIONING WILL AFFECT SERVING  IN RESTAURANTS

RATIONING TO HIT RESTAURANTS—OPA      Point System To Be in Cafes

Germans Are Given Stiff Battle  In Leros Landing  Foe Takes Beachhead: On Aegean Isle But Suffer Heavily

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Number of Landing Craft Sunk by British and Italian Defenders as Enemy Secures Beachhead—English Without Fighter Protection as Dive-Bombers Attack—-DNB Says Germans Gained Firm Foothold.

U.S. HAS MONTH SUPPLY OF COAL   TOTAL OF BITUMINOUS SUPPLY IS REVEALED

SALARY LIMIT _ REPEAL SEEN   SENATE EXPECTED to FOLLOW LEAD OF HGUSE IN KNOCK: “ING OUT PRESIDEN. " . “ An DEOREE -

Group Differs On Increase O1 Corn Ceilings   Gillette Tells Senators To Get More Grain Into Mark  For Feed.   JONES AT MEETING

Fighting Continues In Zoot Suit ‘War   Law Enforcement Agencies Try To Stop Warfare

iste ACTION IN RIOTS ~ ORDERED IN LOS ANGELES   EXTRA POLICE ON DUTY NIGHTS AND CITIZENS CONMITTEE NAMED TO CON DUCT INVESTIGATION

General Fights Break Out-as Police Seek to Halt Hoodlums Widespread Depredations in Los Angeles.

House Votes for “international Collaboration   Resolution Is — Passed 360 to 29; Goes to Senate

House Endorses Fulbright Post War Policy For US   Historic Expression Given By Vote of 360 to

House Favors» US Action. Post-War Era      Passes Resolution Calling for Wor With United Nations to Ilold  Lasting Peace: Bill Now hbdawoe fiver ta Sonate

HOUSE FAVORS PEACE POLICY   Big Majority Vote For Collaboration With Other Nations

House Votes For Post-War  Collaboration   Only 29 Members Dissent: Resolution (oes Over to Senate

POST-WAR SILL PASSED BY HOUSE    RESOLUTION FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ADOPTED, 3860 TO 29.

HOUSE BACKING POST-WAR PLAN   Policy Of International Collaboration Approved By 360 To 29 Votes

HOUSE VOTES PROGRAM FOR POSTWAR ERA   Policy of International Collaboration Carries by Bia Vote   RESOLUTION MOVES OVER TO SENATORS   Only 29 Votes Are Cast Against Fulbright Resolution

House Approves Collaboration   Fulbright Resolution Passes by 360 to 29

rouse Gives Collaboration Resolution Big Margin  360 Answer ‘Yes’ And 29 Vote ‘No’ On International Post-War Policy  SENATE TO STUDY . DOZEN RESOLUTIONS   360 Answer ‘Yes’ And 29 Vote ‘No’  On International D... W.. Dod...

House OK’s Fulbright Resolution   WITH 29 MEMBERS DISSENTING REPRESENTATIVES A P PROVE COLLABORATION WITH OTHER NATIONS FOR WORLD PEACE.   Senate Has Other Plans

House Approves Collaboration In Top-Heavy Vote   Fulbright Measure Passes 360 To 29;  Threa Dame Onnonee

House Passes Peace Plan; 29 Voie ‘No’   Fulbright’s Brief Resolution Wins; Goes to Senators

House Adopts Resolution Favoring U. S. Policy of Collaboration After War   rlistoric Expression is Made By Vote Of 360 to 29; Measure Goes to Senate for Consideration

Fulbright resolution Is passed   29 dissenting  wotes are oanoet

House Approve: International Collaboration   Fulbright Resolution  Overwhelmingly Passed, 360 to 29

NEW CONFERENCES HELD ON EASTERN » — GAS, OIL SHORTAGE   OPA Not Considering * New ‘Freeze’ Or Rationing

GASOLINE, FUEL OIL SHORTAGES  ARE ACUTE AGAIN   Existing Regulations May Be Further -Tightened’ Undar lokee’ Grders. ~~

DUTCH PARTY LEADER DIES   Nazi Representative I; Victim of ‘Accident’ While Traveling

PARTY FUNERAL FOR HIGH NAZI   Commissar Of Dutch Territories Meets With “A Fatal Accident”

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Machinery Set In Mofior   President Signs Bill; Increased Levies Will Be Sought

Pay-Go Tax Machinery Is Set in Motion   Treasury y Acts -Immedi . -ately After Roosevelt Signs Bill

MACHINERY FOR PAY-AS-GO TAX SET IN MOTION   Treasury: Releases Form For Deduction. of 20% From Wages and ‘Sal ’ aries Beginning July 1.   NEW TAXES SOUGHT   Comprehensive Program of New Levies Prepared to Meet Rodgsevelt’s Reguest, $16,000,000,000

New Income Tax Plans Ready As Bill Signed  Employers Sent , Millions of  Forms, Sheets

Treasury Works On Tax Program  Sets Up Machinery For Pay-As-You-Go

20 PER GENT TAX MACHINERY GOING   Set In Motion By Treasury To Collect 20 Per Cent, After Exemptions, From All Wages and Salaries of All Taxpayers.

20 Percent Deductions Start July 1   Treasury Sets Tax Machinery in Motion to Start Collecting Tax as You Go

Prepare To Inaugurate  Pay-As-Go   First July Pay Checks Affected By New Tax Plan

“Pay-Go” Collection Machinery Gets Go Ahead Signal Today   Roosevelt Signs New Tax Bill; May Prepare Inflation Message

PAY GO TAX BILL SIGNED   Treasury Launches Plans To Start Wage Deductions Next Month

PRESIDENT SIGNS ~ PAY-AS- YOU 80 TAX LEGISLATION   20 Per Cent, After Exemptions, to Be Taken From Wages of Taxpayers   ‘INSTRUCTIONS  RELEASED

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 BILL 19 SIGNED   Treasury Sets In Motion Machiuery To Collect 20 Per Cent

LAW = FINALLY   Treasury Department Sets Up Plans Of tL Collection

PAY-AS-YOU-CO SET UP   Machinery For Collecting Yas Piaced In Motion Veday

MACHINERY TO COLLECT TAXES MOVES   Twenty Per Cent Exemptions To Be Withheld from Wages Beginning Next Month

Treasury Sets In Motion Tax Collection Machinery   Millions Of Forms And Sheets Of Instructions Released To Employers As Soon As Bill Is Signed

MACHINERY FOR  COLLECTION PAY-G0  TAXES BEEN SET UP PRESIDENT SIGNED BILL  THURSDAY SETTING - TD TAY PLAN

Treasury Sets Up  Tax Machinery Prepares To Collect   ‘On ‘July: Pay Checks

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX MACHINER' SET IN MQTION   Instructions Giver Employers On Reavetions   F.D.R. SIGNS ACT   Legislation Will Become Effective July 1

Government — Set To Take Tax From Pay   Employers Get Orders on Withholding

Set Up Machine To Collect Tax   After July  U.S. to Take 20 Per Cent of Wages in Pay-as-You-Go.

to Wii Tax  eat, BW... WM mew 2...   Most Wage Earners To Feel Check-Off By July 10

Americons, British and Russians Smash at Installations.  BLOWS FROM WEST AND EAST REPORTED      Duisburg, Warsaw, Meoulte and St. Omer Raided

Yankees Take Big Part In Huge Raid   Berlin, Other Vital Enemy Points Get Severe Attack; Britons, Reds Score Heavily; Warsaw Is Assaulted

Allies Stage Three Major Bombing Raids   Americans, British and Russians Smash at Europe

Many Parts Of Germany Hit at Night   Tadications Given That Berlin Was ° Target Last Night

Nazi Attempt to Belitile Allied Gain   But Official Reports Make Clear the Retreats Were Not ‘According to Plan’

NAZIS BELITTLE CAPTURE OF OREL   Say This Does Not Mear The Russians Have Won The War

BERLIN ALIBIS (OSS OF ORE!   Belittles Russian Victory; Says Retreat Made to Straighten Line

Germans Discount Red Army Victor’  Nazi Broadcast Belittles Russian Orel Success

The War Today  Moscow Pledges Answer To Many Questions; Gives Rise to Others.

THE WAR  TODAY  By DeWITT MACKENZIE (Aecorinted Press War Analvst

MOSCOW DECLARATION READS LIKE HALF A PEACE TREATY   1943 May Go Down in History As Year When Actions of World Startec Down Road Toward World State

G5-YEAR LIMIT IS ADVOCATED BY PRESIDENT   Stiff Opposition Seen To Proposal That Strikers Be Drafted Into Army   MEN SHOW RESENTMENT   Return To Pits Is Reported Slow; 14 Pennsylvania Locals Ignore Order

Stiff Opposition to Roosevelt Plan For Drafting Strikers is Indicated

Draft kes Is Opposed   “Army Is No — Penitentiary” Is. Typical Comment

FDR SEEKS. DRAFTING OF. COAL MINERS   Plan To Raise Draft Age Limit Meets. With Opposition

OPPOSE F.D.R. PROPOSAL TO DRAFT LABOR   President Would Draft Strikers;  Put Them to Work

BOOSTING DRAFT - AGETO6S YEARS ~ HAS OPPOSITION   Congressmen, Civilians Are Expressing Views, “Army Not Penitentiary” Hofior to’Wear Uniform.   MANY MINERS VOTE TO STAY OFF-JOBS   Five Blast Furnaces. Forced to Suspend Operations at Pittsburgh, Production of Stee! Bid.

OPPOSITION HEARD IN AND OUT OF CONGRESS; RESENTMENT IS NOTED   Proposal to Raise Draft-Age Limit to 65 Years Is Scored by Many With Few Backing Up President—— Interpret Suggestion of Mr. Roosevelt As Indication He Plans to Veto SmithConnally Rill

“Work Or Fight” Proposal, Aimed At Strikers, Is Called Insult To Soldiers

NEW DRAFT PLAN HAS OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS   Relieve Plan Indicates Veto of Anti-Strike Bill

OPPOSITION TO: CHANGING DRAFT AGE LIMIT SEEN   Reaction To President's Proposal Both In And Out Of Congress

Wide Opposition Seen in Congress;  Mines Still Idle   ‘Army No Penetentiary’, Is ‘Typical View; Miners Deeply Resentful

Hard Fight Seen On Proposal To Boost Age Limit   Miners Resentful At FR’s Suggestion To End Strikes

FINSCHHAFE UNDER ATTACK BY AUSSIES   Others Swing In From Two Sides To Cut Off Base

Tokyo Hints at Possible Loss Of Finschhafen:   Australians Are Attacking Main Defenses

Allied Circle ls Closing On Finschhafen   Yank, Australian Forces Thrust Toward Nipponese Base From 3 Directions’   JAPANESE STIFFEN   Tokio Admits’ Importance Of Threat To Dampier Strait Sea Routes

F. D. R. Says He Is Just As Strong for a Second Front as the Reds Are

TWO KILLED IN SAVANNA CRASH   Army Tow Plane in Mishap On Proving Grounds

Solons in Probe of  Pensions   ACTION ON FARM FOOD BILL CLEARS DECKS FOR LEADER INVESTIGATION

Movement Of Oil, War Workers Still Remain Transportation Problems

NATION WINNING TRAVEL BATTLE   —oOoOo Transportation Of Oil, War Work: ers Remains Problem

MOVEMENT OF OL AND WAR WORKERS PRESENT PROBLEM   Acute Situaticn Is Revealed Despite Fact Home Transportation Is O.K.

Bombs Fall on Town by Accident   Church, Garage Hit: No One Hurt

BOMBS DROPPED ACCIDENTALLY ON “BOISE CITY. OKLA   Came from Plane on Practice Flight—Chureh and Garane Damaced.

Stocks of Food In Southern Italy  Far Diminished  AMG Officials Fec Serious Shortage

Tey This New Amazing  COUGH MIXTURE   Outsells’ All Others: in Canada on Merit Alone—Made in U.S.A.

Senate Kills Bill for War Bonds   Plan Would Have Pui Surplus State Funds in Securities

Senate Kills War Bond Measure  Fish, Game ‘Study Bill Also Fails

Reds May Have Opened New Offensive in White Russia  GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF CHERKASY Hitler's Army Admits {t Has Been Forced to Yield ©

Major Offensive May Have Been Opened in White Russia; 6,000 Germans Slain

New Major Offensive in No, thern  - White Russia Believed Opened and Last Major Rastion on Middle  ~~Dnieper Falls But Soviels Give Ground at Radonnvsl. : :

Last Major Nazi Bastion on Middle Dnieper Is Taken   Believed To Be Beginnine of New Major Offensive in White Russia   Moscow Announces Rus: sian Troops Forced Back from Radomys

See-Saw Battle Rages Near Kiev: Reds Suffer Loss   Soviets Start New Offensive in Area of Latvian Border

Germans Lose Last Major Bastion Or Middle Dnieper; Reds Again "7 Forced Back West Of Kiev

Moscow Hints New Major Offensive To Clear Northern White Russia; Germans Advance in Drive for Kiev

Nazis Talk Of Red Drive Near Nevel —   Soviets Take Cherkasy, But Give Up Radomysl, 39 Miles West of Kiev  6.000 NAZIS DIF

Last major enemy base on Dnieper   Reds forced back from Rademysl

Reds May Have Started New Otfensive   Nazis Force Reds Back From Radomys! in Fierce Drive

SEIZE CHERKASY, NAZI BASTION ON MIDDLE DNIEPER   German Strongpoint South of Ukrainian Capital Captured in Bitter Street Fichtine.   NEW MAJOR RED ARMY OFFENSIVE INDICATED   Berlin Radio Says Eight Soviet Divisions Are on Move 70 Miles From Latvian Border.

NEW DRIVE IN WHITE RUSSIA   Foe Loses Last Major Bastion on Middle Dnieper Front

NEW DEMOCRATIC TAX BILL STUDIED   Vote On Proposed Forgiveness Plan Is Postponed.

SFAX, MAHARES FALL AS EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCE!      Yank Tanks Crash Into Flank of Axis Army

Allies Driving To Trap Enemy Units   General Montgomery Orders Troops To Drive ‘Enemy Into The Sea: Many Prisoners Taken

SFAX SEIZED “IN ALLIED TUNIS PUSH      Montgomery's Orders “To Dirve Enemy Into The Sea” .

Allies Closing In On Tunis, Bizerte, Paced By Gigantic Air And Land Offensive

YANK AND JAP TRADE BLOWS   Americans Bomb Shortland and Kahili; Nippons Hit Guadalcanal

Pittsburgh Area Miners Want Wage Contract Before Oct. 31, They Say

FDR T0 TALK ABOUT PLANS   Will Meet New Food Admin, istrator And Farm Leaders Tomorrow

FDR to Confer > with Food Chiefs      Davis Starts Corferences in New Post; Re.  ports Say Wickard Due to Be Relieved of ! Agricultural Head with Davis or Aide   to Take Over Job

FDR TO TALK TO FOOD B05   General Plans to Be Drawn For Meeting Labor, Machine Needs.   WICKARD ON WAY QUT?

Food, Farm  Problems Up ‘At Parley At ‘White House   President Confers With Davis And Leaders Of Four Agricultural Group:

ROOSEVELT PLANS FIRST CONFERENCE WITH NEW OFFICER   Davis to Give His Ideas on Plans of Meeting Farm Labor, Machinery and Food Shortaqes.   FOUR ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE REPRESENTEL   Final Word to Determine Ad: ministration Policies : One of Questions to Be Considered.

FDR, New Food Chief To Map Plans Tomorrow   Another Post For Wickard Hinted As Davis Arrives

ROOSEVELT AND FOOD DIRECTOR MERT TUESDAY   Leaders of Four National Farm Organizations Also’ ’ to Confer With the President   TO MAP PROGRAM   Meanwhile, Reports Are Current Secretary Wick -ard Might Be Assign  ‘ed ‘to Another Post

Arrange Farm Parley   New Food Czar, F.D.R. And Farm Leaders to Confer At White House On Production Plans

ENTIRELY UNCONFIRMED ‘RE: RORT SAYS CROWN. PRINCE AND ARMY COMMANDER  IN NORTH AFRICA ¢:

EMISSARIES RUMORED IN N. AFRICA   Reuters’ Story From Algiers Entirely Unconfirmed

Rumor Spreads Italian Peace Envoys Active   Entirely Unconfirmed Ru mor Circulates Italian Emissaries In North Africa

Emissaries In North Africa, Algiers Says   Germans Rush Defenses In Balkans and Middle East As Cyprus Residents ‘Wait Big Events’ While Allies Hammer Sardinia and Sicily.

Peace Emissaries Reported In Africa      Rumors State Two Representatives of Italy Arrive

Patton's Forces Boost Prisoner Total To 70.000 In Rapid Advance On Foe

ALLIED TROOPS DRIVE DEEPER IN N. E, SIGILY   Boost Number of Prisoners to More Than 70,000

TERMINI PORT CAPTURED BY AMERICAN ARMY   Axis Powers Are Driven Farther Back Inte Northeast Sicily

Sicilian Port Of Termini -Imerese Seized By Allies   Axis: Troops Driven Deeper Into Last” Foothold O _Northeastern Sicily —- Total Number Of Prisoners Stands At 70,000

Allies Take Sicily Port In Big Drive   70,000 Prisoners ‘Rounded Up in Drive to Date

ALLIES ADVANCING IN SICILY FIGHT, 70,000 CAPTURED   Axis Troops Fall Back te New Line as Allies Prepare For Lunge In Northeastern Section.   STRONG ENEMY ARMY IS STILL RESISTING   British Round-Out Week-end Attack With Heavy Bombing at Essen; Hardest Hit In Reich.

Axis “Reslatarice  Stiftens Under  “ Heayy Attacks — Nazi Troops in * ‘oothold — Americans Capa lore Prisoners Over Week-

GOP Agrees On Foreign Policy Plank      PARTY LEADERS FEEL THAT BASIC DECLARATION WILL NOT BE DIFFICULT TO FRAME FOR POLITICIANS.   Look To Governors’ Parley

Sinatra Doesn’t Have to Warble To Kayo Fans.   All He Has to Do I= Show Up and the Crowd Throws a Wild Hissy

CITIES REMOVE TORNADO DEBRIS   Loss Nears Five Millions Three Killed And Hundreds Homeless

Storm Area Is Patroled   Civilian Defense Volunteers Aid Ohio Police to Stop Looting

Storm Loss  Is Surveyed   Steps Taken To Prevent Looting in Wage of Tornadoes That Struck in Ohio

Wind Damage Estimates Up  Cleveland And Akron -Tatal Over 83.000.000

CD VOLUNTEERS GUARD PROPERTY      Northern Ohio Recovers From Twister; 4 Die, Damage Unestimated

DEATH TOLL IN Onld TORNADO MOUNTSTO FOUR   Civilian Defense Volun:vteers ‘Aid!’ Police to -. Guard Areas Dam aged by Storm   DAMAGE GROWING   Estimated it May Run Into: $3,000,000 in Akron, and at Least $1,000,000 in Cleveland

NORTHERN OHIO — SLOWLY RECOVERS FROM TORNADOES   Four Deaths Result From! Series of Twisters That  Dealt Hard Blows at Cleve- land and Akron

Ohio Twister Ruins Policed By Civilians   Cleveland, Akron: Dam: age $4 Millions, War Plants Idle’. *

Tornado Damage In Ohio Mounts; Four Are Killed   Cc. D. Volunteers Help Police In Preventing Any Looting.

Northern Ohio Recovering From Tornadoes   All-Night Patrol Established to Put Down Looting

Write Pay-to Aeceord   «Believed Congress Will Okay Compromise Bill

s-ompromise Tax Speeded ' For Approva!  Prospects Called Good   Prospects Called Gooc .” for Passage This 4 Week

RACE 10 PASS INCOME LEVY   Quick Adoption of Compromise Measure Expected as Conferees Agree.

Reach Agreement  In Tax Deadlock   Prospects Are Good for  Speedy Passage by the   Congress   ENDS 5-DAY DEADLOCK   Little Income Tax Payers Will Be Forgiven a  Year's Bill

‘Congress Committee \Agrees on Compromise  \Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill

Skip-a-Year Compromise  Plan Voted   Withholding “Tax. Begins - July: 1l— Small Sums Forsiven

Prospects Are Good for Speedy Passage by the  Congress      ENDS 5-DAY DEADLOCK   Little Income Tax Payers Will Be Forgiven a Year's Bill

COMPROMISE REACHED ON PAY AS - YOU - G0 TAX LEGISLATION   Cancels Year's Tax for Those Owing Government Less Than $50

Congress Speeds Plan To Withhold Taxes On July 1   $50 Of 1942 Levies Forgiven For Most, 75 Per Cent Erased On Other Accounts   Here’s How You'll Figure Tax Under Compromise Bill

Fast Approval Of Compromise Tax Plan Seen   Cancel Year's Tax Liability In Some Cases, 75 Percent In Others.   ‘EXPECT NO SQUABBLE

Speedy Senate, House Approval Of Compromise Pay-Go Bill Seen;  75 P.C. Of Year’s Tax Cancelled

SOLONS PUSH TAX PROGRAM   Race Against Clock to Put Income Plan In Effect By July 1

APPROVAL OF COMPROMISE IS EXPECTED   House and Senate Conferees Finally Reach Agreement on Pay-as-YouGo Levy Plan

OF TAX BILL INDICATED   Compromise Perfected and Passage This Week Is Goal of Leaders  }   MAY BE PLACED - IN EFFECT JULY 1      Provides Pay-as - You-Go  Plan and Abatement of Some Tax Liability

Seek to’ Speed . ‘Action on Tax   Long Deadlock Broken; Prospects Good for Congress Avoroval

NewTax CollectionMay Be in Effect by July 1   Leaders See Speedy Approval By Congress

Action Rushed on Tax Compromise   July  Deadline Is Only 5 Weeks Away

Weather Forecast   SUMP ROMO PAY-Ad-GO_ TAK PLAN APPROVED   Speedy House And Senate Approval Of Conference Report Is Certain   PARTIAL CANCELLATION OF "42 TAXES ADOPTED   Withholding Levy Planned To Start On July 1st For Waae Earners

75 Percent of Liability — Is Wiped Out   Remainder to to be Paid in 1944, 1945; Taxes Under $50 Cancelled

PAY AS YOU 60 TAX PLAN LOOMS   Compromise Approved - Would Cancel Year’s Liability in Low Income Brackets

APPROVAL IN HOUSE, SENATE I$ PREDICTED   New Plan Would Cancel Year’s Tax Liability For Persons Owing $50

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN 1S DRAFTED   Legislators Hope New Proposal Will Become Effective July 1

Solons  Race for July 1 Act   PROVISIONS OF NEW MEASURE REVEALED FOR U. S. TAXPAYERS

Taxes Plan Ready   Race Collection for Books by July 1; Free Up to $50, 75% Others

SOLONS RACE 10 MEET JULY TAX DEADLINE   Hope to Write Compromise Into Law Before Start Of Fiscal Year   SEE QUICK APPROVAL   New Bill Cancels Tax For Persons Owing $50 To Gov't

Compromise Is Reached On  Tax Payments   Both House And Senate Are Expected To Give Speedy Approval To Pay-As-You-Go Plan

Rush Final Approval Of Pay-Go Tax Bill  Prospects Good For ~ Final Action On Tax

Tax Deadlock Broken; Congress Races To Get Income Collection  In Force Within Next Five Weeks

Solons Speed Tax Measure   See Good Chance That Compromise Pay-AsYou-Go Bill Will Pass

Deadlock on Income Tax  Bill Broken   Compromise Pay-Go Collection Plan to Start on July 1

Pay-As-You-Gc System Voted By Conferees   - Part Of Liabilities Cancelled Under New Method

New Tax Bill Agreed Upon At Washington   Prospects Good For Final OK On Disputed Plan

Tax Deadlock ls Broken By Conferees   Congress Races To Pu New Collection Law O Books By July Ist   SEE QUICK APPROVAL   Bill Cancels Year's Liability For Those Whose Levy Is Under $50

Compromise Bill Rushed   House and Senate Leaders Seek to Put It Into Effect July 1

Pay-As-Go Agreement  Is Reached  Conferees Would Forgive 3-4 Of A Voar'e Rw wiae:

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan _ Adopted To End Deadlock   Compromise Measure Finally Approved By Conferees— Speedy House And Senate Action Predicted

Seek To Speed 0.K. On Income  Tax Compromise   Cancels Year’s Liabilities Of $50 Or Less, 75 Pct. Of Others.

Congress In Race To Begin Plan July    Cancel Tax Liability For Persons Paying $50 Or Less: Speedy Approval

See Speedy Passage of Pay-Go Plan   Compromise Bill Approved By Committee

CONFEREES FINALLY AGREE ON TAX BILL SOME CANCELLATIONS  PROSPECTS FOR SPEEDY   PROSPECTS FOR SPEEDY ACTION BY BOTH SENATE AND HOUSE

OFFICIALS RACE TO PASS NEW PAY-GO TAX BILL   Would Cancel! $50 Income Ta) Bill, Those Over Pay 25 Percent

Paratrooper, Accused as Spy, Shot 7 Times By Italian Captain, Left For Dead; Makes Way Back to Lines

Shot 7 Times, Left For Dead, Yank Escapes From Italians In Sicily   Paratrooper Michael Scambullurj Lands In  Hot Spot In Sicily

American Soldier Tells Thrilling Story Of Escape   Shot By Italians, And Left For Dead

Paratrooper Is Captured By Italians, Shot Seven Times, Lives To Escape

».S. Paratrooper Shot Seven limes But Escapes Italians   Enraged Enemy Officer Accuses Him of Being Sp; When Asked in Malian Name of Town; Crawled Yo Safety After Being Left for Dead:  8 FV mel DN ben 6 Americ i] oe Pee ert ta ey Rawat + souere au Ssegere

Prisoner Shot By Italians   Wounded Seven Times By Officer—Makes Way Back Through Lines

Yank Captured And Shot 7 Times By Italians Lives And Escapes Sicily To Tell About It

TROOPER MAKES ESCAPE AFTER HIS “EXECUTION”   American Captured by Italian Recovering From Seven Bullet Wounds Fired into Body

Yank, Captured, Shot, Escapes  *Chutist nanan Behind  ES cilia aaiine

White Collar Worker, Forgotten Mai In Prices and Waves Nuteracker

Red Might Closes On  Smolensk   Soviets Sweep Along Route To Poland

Russians Nea  Smolensk, Nazis Citadel   Troops Overwhelm Last Sfronghoids on Patr To Kiev in Ukraine; Enemy Reels Before Onslaught, Admits Hurried Retreat

Soviet Armies Close in  on Smolensk  Strongly-Fortified German Defense Lines Are Broken

Red Armies Close  in Upon Smolensk   Two Gateways Cracked 30 Miles From Centra Front ‘Verdun;’ Last Bastions Before Kiev In Ukraine Overwhelmed

Russian Armies Are Closing In on Smolensk   Stalin Reports Two Important Defense Gateways Cracked

Fargo and Moorhead Fight Flood   Red River's Crest May Rise Above 37-Foot Mark

QUAKE IN UTAH’   Salt Lake City Shaken, Center of Disturbance Undetermined,

Duce Pleads For Support   Gave War denne  ike   Says War Means Life Or Death For Country

LENGTHY SPEECH      Declares This War Lie,  Death Struggle; Italy Must. Persevere

Havana Special Wrecks Neat Richmond; 1 Killed, 7 Hurt   All Of Casualties Occur When Rail Ripped From Track, Pierces Coach:

Absurd Washington Rules Make Gas Shortage lf There Is Any, John Lee Smith Tells Ickes ©

NAZIS LAUNCH DRIVE   Offensive To Recapture Areas Of Yugoslavia Underway

Germans Launch New Offensive In Slovenia   Drive Will Attempt To Reconquer Ground Taken By Yugoslavs

Hard Fighting In North Yugoslavia Germans Launch Major  Offensive To Re-take Territory In Slovenia

NAZIS LAUNC MAJOR DRIVE IN SLOVENIA   Liberation Army Report: Heavy Fighting in German Move to Reconque: Territory Lost in Slav Province.

German Push In Yugoslavia Opens  Offensive Is Begun Ta Regain Lost Ground

GERMAN FORCES LAUNCH MAJOR BALKAN BATTLE   Attempt to Retake Lost Ground In Yugoslavia

MUNCH DRIVE FOR BALKANS   Strong German Forces in Offensive to Regain Yugoslav Province.

HITLER OPENS DRIVE AGAINST TITO’S FORCES   Attempting To Reconquer Slovenia Province

Nazi Launch Offensive To Quell Slavs   Heavy Fighting Reported In Northwestern Yugoslavia

GERMANS LAUNCH BIG DRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Counter-Attack Starts in Province of Slovenia

Remember Red Crass   No Further Curtailment of Newsprint at This Time

No Further Cut In Newsprint Until July    WPB Officials Give Assur ance lo American Publishers

NO FURTHER CUTS IN PRINT PAPERS   ‘Publishers Can Rest Easy Until July 1 Following Announcement  Ry WPR NMria

REDUCED GOALS IN PLANE MAKING NOW SEEN OVER NATION   West Virginia Senator Says That Production is Already Lowered.

SOFT CORN THREAT IN IOWA THIS YEAR   All Corn Growers Should Make Plans to Utilize SoftjCorn if Early Frost Comes.

Will Blast Axis From U.S. Bases   Story Behind New B-29; Super - Bombers Dwarf Forts

Nebraskas Governor Will Get Help in Buying All Those Hogs He Had Wagered

Nebraska Hogs To Be Prizes   Gov. Griswold to Pay Off With Fine 4-H Club Pigs

ALLIED PLANES HAMMER LARGE JAP TRANSPORT!   Shutile Back and Forth to Strafe Enemy: U. P. Correspondent at New Guinea Describes Attacks

Flashes Of Life Among Americans , In Africa Show They Keep Humot

O'Daniel Again Assails Bureaus  Senator Says Capital Creates Boards to fh s,m LU

Boards Formed to Solve Problems Created hy Boards, Says 0’Daniel

Telis Siory Of Moscow Conference  Basis Laid for   Basis Laid for Post-War Security, Conaress Is Told

SOVEREIGNTY OF ALL STATES TO BE ASSURED   State Chieftain Tells Congress Need For Alliances ts Abolished   ROOSEVELT SAYS ALLIES MUST RETAIN INITIATIVE

MOSCOW PACT IS DESCRIBED TO CONGRESS   Hull Addresses Both Houses  sna  PRAISES PARLEY  Address Makes U. S. History

HULL TELLS JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS THAT POSTWAR SECURITY FRAMEWORK ACHIEVED AT MOSCOW

SECRETARY ADDRESS 10 CONGRESS   Says Moscow Pact Key to Post-War Security System

HULL PREDICTS “LASTING PEACE BASED ON PACT   Acclaimed by Congress, U.S. g Delegate Calls Equality Foundation Stone

Hull Reports To Joint Congress On Moscow Pact   Fcundaton Stone Laid For  Postwar Security Secretary Tells Congress   TRADITION BROKEN BY HULL’S ADDRESS

RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE PURSUING GERMAN FORCES   3,000 Nazis Reported Killed And Much Equip ment Taken   STIFF FIGHTING IN KRIVOI ROG SECTOR

Nazis Chased Through TD  Soviet Towns   Dnieper Bend Fighting Called ‘Super-Battle’ _ In German Broadcasts  RATTROAD CLEARED

3,000 Nazis Are Killed By Soviets Smashing Ahead on Wide Front; Foe Abandons Equipment

120 Towns ‘all To Russiat .,.in ‘Super-Bat..6°  Forces Surge a Nazvic Fram °°

FURIOUS BLOWS DEALT NAZIS ON OD-MILE FRONT   Russians Kill 3,000 Enemy Troops in Advance and © _ Capture Supplies and Guns.   STORM OUTSKIRTS OF KRIVOI ROG   Tank Battle Rages in City’s Environs—Soviets Continue Cleanup in Dnieper Bend.

Finale Believed Near On Dnienet   3,000 Nazis Slain, 120 Towns Taken

Heavy Losses Inflicted On Germans   Heavy Equipment Lost By Enemy On Ukraine Front

FIGHTRNG TERMED BY BERLIN AS “SUPER BATTLE”; RUSSIANS CAPTURE 12 TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

Soviet Forces Are Storming Outskirts of Krivoi Roa   ATTACKS LAUNCHED IN WHITE RUSSIA   Troops Surge Into Steppes on Heels of Beaten Nazis

Russians Seize 120 Towns and Kill 3.000 Men   Soviets Get 30 Miles From Lower Dnieper In Drive West of Ruined Melitopol

Reds pursue beaten enemy thru Ukraine   Nazis claim ‘super-bhattle’

Enemy Being Hard Pressed   More Than 120 Towns Taken By Russians

Russians Seize 120 More Towns In Great Drive   Moscow Reports Sweeping Gains

3,000 Germans Are Killed in Fierce Fight   Enemy Abandons Considerable War Equipment

Capture Vast Equipment, Slaughter 3000 of Foe in Crimea Push; Siash Rail Lines to Cut Off Retreat

MISSING AIRMEN ARE FOUND ALIVE   Iwo Were Feared Dead After Mail Plane Crashed On Alaskan Ridge

Officers Are Still Hunting For : The Rape-Slayer of Two Tulsa Women---$500 Reward Offerea

Tulsa In Panic As Sex Killer  Remains Free   700 Auxiliary Police  Join Search

Roff Youth Quizzed In Sex Murders   Changes Statement After Admitting Witnessing Crime

War Department Seeks 350,000 WAACs As Joint Group Studies Plan To Make Corps Part Of Army

ARMY: WANTS ~ MORE WAAGS   WAR DEPAHTMENT--SAYS IT  AN PROBABEY USE 360,000  WOMEN IN TRE  SERVICE  )

Company Plans To Merge Motor Freight Lines   Potomac Freight Lines Seeks Charter, Purchases One Company.

Allies Close !n, Strategic Points, Jap Radio Warns  MacArthur Reports Mad  _  Keeramnerae iwina

lokyo Aroused By Allied Gains   Japs Warned That ‘ ‘Enemy Is Closing In’

Japs Warn Nation Of Allied Advance   Broadcast To Japanese People That United Nations Are Closing In On Stratezic Points. ‘   RY LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Writer

Tokyo Radio Warns People Aspect Grave   Allied Announcements Of Fresh Successes Underscore Jap Fears  CHIANG HOPEFUL

Report Gives Story Of The Pp hilippines   Financial Stymie In 194] Delayed Defense Of Islands

ALLIED FLIERS BLAST BANGKOK   Large Fires Set In Raid Or Thailand Capital

Enemy Base On Nauru Hit By Bombers   Island 500 Miles West Of Gilbert, Marshalls, Which Are Hit Again  FIINICTR WAR RENKW.

Fhers Extend \cope of New {ir Offensive   {ttack on Island follows Raid on Nip Bases in Marshall ind Gilbert Islands

RAIDS AGAINST ISLAND BASES ARE CONTINUING   Sixth Consecutive Assault Is Carried Out On Gilberts And Marshalls   AUSTRALIANS MOVE NEAR SATTELBERG

Jungle Troops Move Ahead In Furious Battle   ,MacArthur Backing Up Aussies With Artillery And Bombers

Carrier Planes Go Into Battle on  Enemy in Pacific  Sustained Raids Get Good Results in Marshalls, Gilberts

Carrier Plane Force Strikes Nauru Island  Ye ae ee oe   Central Pacifie Air Offensive Extended , Toward Guadalcanal

JAP STRONGHOLDS AGAIN BOMBED   CARRIER-BASED PLANES IN RAIDS ON GILBERT AND MARSHALL ISLANDS.   RYULLETIN.

BATTLE BREWS IN MID-PACIFIC      Carrier - Borne Planes - Raid Marshall And  Gilbert Islands

OPA ACTION NEEDED   Price Squeeze May Force Anthony Dairy Out of Business

TWO ARE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK IN NORTH OHIO   Passenger Train Smashes Into Engine of Already-wrecked Freight Train

Fast Train Deraited in ¥3-Way Crash   Washington-Bound Flier Smashes Into Previous Wreck

DUAL TRAIN WRECK   B. & O. Passenger Runs Into. Already Wrecked Freight, Kills 2

TRAIN SMASHES INTO WRECK   4 Killed and 50 Hurt in Double Accident

2 KILLED IN WRECK AT YOUNGSTOWN, 0.   Baltimore and Ohio - Train Crashed Into Wrecked Freight Train.

COOL BREEZES STAY   Showers in West Temper the Weather in Kansas

Schoo! Amendment May Be Altered ‘With: New Measure   Bills: Introduced To Change Constitutional  Amendment.

Bills Introduced In Assembly To Revise Recently Approved Constitutional School Change

HITLER SETS UP COMMAND IN BALKANS   Seeks to Be Ready In Case of An Invasion

HITLER MOVES TO SET UP BALKAN DEFENSE AGAINST POSSIBLE ALLIED INVASION

HITLER SETS UP NAZI COMMAND I  BALKAN STATES   Reserves Ready to Move I Allied Invasion Comes Through Greece.

Female Menaces Jap Army © Rewara Set on Her Head      Chinese Fleroine Leads Guertilas

WOMAN, 68, LEADS BAND GUERRILLAS   Has Done So Much Damage Japs Offer  Reward: forex... Head

COLD WAVE TAKES.ON NEW LEASE OF LIFE   Lower Temperatures Predicted After Day’s Respite—Low Mark Yesterday Was 20 Degrees

Berlin Sounds Fear Of Coming Allied Attacks   Nazi Capital Is Given Another Pasting To Open 5th Year of War

10, 000 GERMANS KILLED BY THE REDS YESTERDAY   Capture Sumy; Roll Steadily Toward Dnieper River

Yesterday Was One of the Biggest Days for the Red Army.   10,000 NAZIS WERE KILLED YESTERDAY   Russians Launch Powerful Offensive on Donets Front.

‘Race Riots Are Disgrace. Hoover Says   FBI Chief Says Serious Problem Is Facing Nation

HOME FRONT SECURE FBI CHIEF ASSERTS   Turnover of Police in Some Cities Called Dangerous

Refuse To Accept House Proposal That All Draft Law Authority Be Taken Away From McNutt And FDR

SEARCH FOR BODIES UF FLOOD VICTIM   Fifteen Lives Lost in Flash Flood in West Virginia; Eleven Bodies Recovered

15 KILLED IN SUTTON FLOOD; MANY MISSING   Rescuers Search For Bodies Of Six Other Persons

15 LIVES LOST IN RIVER FLOOD      Property Damage Estimated At 2 Millions; Hunt Bodies Of Victims

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Axis Forces Harrassed Mercilessly in Tunisia

Allied Patrols In Action On Entire Tunisian Front   Little Enemy Activity Of Any Sort Reported By Allied Headquarters   AXIS FORCES ARE IN HILL RETREATS

Reprisals To Be Directed Against Nippon Officials   U. S. Will Live Up Te Treaty. Commitments, Patterson Declares 

J. S. VOWS 10  AVENGE KILLING OF PRISONERS:   hewmen Plans Execution of Responsible Japs in Reprisal for Death Of Airmen.

HIGH OFFICIALS TOPAY, ISVOW OF PATTERSON   Nation Determined to  Avenge Execution Of Air Heroes

PATTERSON SAYS JAPANESE OFFICIALS HELD RESPONSIBLE   Nation Aroused Over Fate of Yankee Airmen Who Were Held Prisoners

Cruel Nippon Leaders Face U.S. Reprisals   Vengeance On Prisoner: For Execution Of Tekic Raiders Ruled Out   CONGRESSMEN AGREE   Atrocities Spur Debate For Aid; Fliers Deny Attacking Civilians

Nippon War Lords To Pay for Killings Of Yankee Raiders   Underseeretary of War Patlerson Assures Aroused Nation That U.S. Will Punish Tokvo Chieftains

United States’ Wrath and Utter Disgust over Uncivilized Turn of Events Is Unlimited Now   Army-Navy Intensely Bitter—Sum Up Feeling by Saying “They'll Pay for That” —— Attention to Pacific Increases.

U.S, WILL HAVE REPRISALS FOR JAP ATROCITY      Will Be Directed Against Jay Officials. Not Against War Prisoners

Reds Straighten Gomel Area Lines Italy Battle Grows   Fifth and Eighth Armies Make Gains Aided by Air Forces

Soviet Armies Sweep Toward Main Nazi White Russian Defenses: Take 200 Towns

American Flying Fortresses Plaster Port Of Naples For Fourth Time In Four Days   Stash At Docks And Submarine Bases; Target ‘Well Covered With Bombs’

Flying Fortresses Rain Explosives On Bombed Naples  Docks, Sub Bases Hit in Fourth Allied

NAPLES ROCKED BY U. §. PLANES   AMERICAN PILOTS SMASH ITALY PORTS AGAIN

Yank Warplanes Hammer Naples  For Fourth Day   Naval Base Is  Heavily Bombed

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST NAPLES FOURTH TIME  DOCKS AND SUBMARINE ~ BASES ATTACK AND TARGET WELL COVERED

Naples Pounded Anew By Forts’  Docks And Submarine Bases Blasted

NAPLES ROCKED BY YANK BOMBS   ITALIAN MAINLAND WAR CENTERS HIT IN DEADLY FORAYS

Fourth Assault On City In Four Days.....  American Fortresses. Batter Naples Again

AIRMEN CONTINUE DAILY HITS ON NAPLES   Blast Docks, U-Boat Base in Latest Attack

NAPLES BOMBED BY ALLIES AGAIK   Fourth Raid Made on Southerm Italian Seaport in Four Days.

Naples Again Engulfed By Allied Bombs   Constant Air Support Given Allied Invasion In Sicily And Mainland Raided

Perkins Favors Keeping W.L.B.   Says Organization Can Do Much to Keep Labor Peace After War

Soviets Prepare For Final Kuban Assault   Island In Estuary Captured By Red Troops; German Planes Are Active.

Nazis Lose 65 Planes in Kursk Raid   Soviet Base Hit Hard by German  Force of Bombers

Russ Troops Plan Atfack In Caucasus   Kuban Estuary Island ls Captured As Reds Step Up Assault Plan

Green Outlines Labor's Goals  Cannmrace \A/arnat   Congress Warned On ‘Compulsion’

PRESIDENTS TALK BRINGS QUESTION ON BRITISH EMPIRE   Critics Are Interested In Roosevel’s Remarks On Exploiting OF Peoples

OPA Orders Vegetable Prices Cut   Lettuce and Cabbage Roll-Back Starts July 20th

OPA TO REDUCE  PRICES OF ] VEGETABLES   Government to Push Roll-Backs Regardless of Subsidies

OPA CUTS PRICE OF VEGETABLES   Administration to Carry Out Roll-Back Despite Action on Subsidies

ROLLBACK AS HIGH AS FIFTY PER CENT TO GO INTO EFFECT SULY 20TH  UNDER OPA. °

Today’s War Commentary  Bombs Can’t Do It  Infantry Must Win For Allies

Vice President Tells Chil ‘ean Congress Mankind ©  _4n Full Revolt Toward . Three Objectives   LONG SOUGHT UNION SEEN AFTER WAR   Freedom From Poverty. -Creation International Brotherhood and End of Frontier Aims

Wallace Speaks Before Chileans      Predicts Disappearance Of Differences

WALLACE GIVEN WARM GREETINE   Vice President Addresses Chilean Congress: Predicts Differences Among Groups in Americas Will Disappear

9.900 TONS OF TIN CANS FOR SALVAGE   County Quotas Listed By Defense Council Scrap Group

AUOO-FINN PEACE HOPES ARE FADING   Soviets Hold Enemy Accountable For Shelling

Crack Down Next Week. On Chiselers   More Than 100 Suits To Be Filed In Stx States. 2

LEWIS ORDER “1S ACCEPTED * UNANIMOUSLY   Striking Workers In Anthracite Fields Will Resume Work On Monday.

Leaders of Coal Miners to Seek an End to Strike  WAU) TIleern Man ta   Will Urge Men to Return to Work on Monday

Leaders of Coal Miners to Seek  an End to Strike  Will Urge Men to Return to Work on Monday

Favors Proposed State War Chest   The Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce Endorsed the Proposition.

ROBERT NIEDNER_  NAMED MEMBER OF ” - WAR CHEST .cCOM   ina County in, Missouri Can Desig: ‘gate Organization te Receive — Aid. “

State War Chest To Unite Drives Organized Here   Formed to Reduce Administrative Expense, Save Work

HALT WORK ON PLANTS   Material: Is Being Used to Construct Implements of Warfare

Ten Die in Bomber — Crash at Ballinger, Tex..  Believed From Clovis

wo FIRES CAUSE DEATH TO SEVEN   Maine Rooming House And Boston Hotel Fires Hit Monday Night

Seven Lose Lives In Augusta, Me., In Midnight Lodging House Blaze, Three Other Cities Report Fires

MAINE CAPITAL FIRE FATAL TO SEVEN PERSONS   Midnight Rooming - House Blaze Near State House Being Investigated By Authorities   WOMAN MAY DIE   Boston ‘Hotel Fire, Near Cocoanut Grove Ruins, Sends Guests to the Street.

SEVEN PERISH IN FIRE AT AUGUSTA   Rooming House Near Maine’s Capitol Scene of  Tragic Blaze.

U. S., Britain And Russia May Aready Be Discussing World Organization

SOLOMONS BATTLE! HAS NOT REACHED SHOWDOWN PERIOD   Navy.  Describes ‘Conflicts “At Sea As Sporadic But: Sheds ‘No’ More Light

Guadaleanal Conquest Near   Army Mops Up; Navy Reports Some Fightina

GUADALCANAL NEARING END   Americans Finishing Up on Island but Air-Sea Battles Continue.

U. S. Conquest Of Guadalcanal Nearly Complete   Navy Maintains Silence Regarding Sea-Air Battles

Jap “Taken      HOWEVER, AIR-SEA BATTLES ©} PAST WEEK ARE STILLINA “= PRE-SHOWDOWN STAGE. IT Is &

Would Wait For  Moscow Decision   Millikin Asks Senate  Defer Peace Action

SUGGESTS POLICY AWATT TALK END   Solon Feels Post-War Plan Action Now Liable to Ridicule

aren tetas tena ter s eeipemeinasiinatimeedineneteniaaemetameiatianianiaiaienetatatiane eaieanatintiaa  ltalians Put Under New Restrictions

FOUR KANSANS ON LIST   War Department Announces Names : of Wounded Soldiers —

Farm Bill for’ $848,295, 883 Is Sent to White House; Crop Insurance Knocked Out

SENATORS YIELD TO HOUSE DEMAND   Farm Bloc Plans Revival On Crop        Insurance Program Through _ Amendment

Serzre Revives J-02 “r sure.ige an foves “cr Oc mromisg Suns OO mad 7° Al Be cat pee 1 2-

CROP INSURANCE CUT OUT OF BIL   Senate Sends Farm Measure To White House After Bow- jing to House Demands to - Abandon Crop Program

Farm Measure Passes Senate   Votes Abandonment Of Crop Insurance

Farm Bill Goes To White House   House Wins Ban Or  Insurance Proaram

Senate Bows to  House Demands Farm Bill Is Sent   Farm Bill Is Sent to President

Senate Sends Farm Bill To President   Measure Carries $848,295,883 ; One Test Slated

FARM BILL 1S PASSED; CROP PLAN BEATEN      Senate Approves Measure After Bowing to House Demand<

FARM BIL.      Senate “Sends Mexsure to The ~White‘Hense: 9°: oe

FARM MONEY “BILL 1S VOTEL      ‘Measure Goes ta Presiden As Senate Agrees to End Crop Insurance   FDR is Against Change In Civil Aviation Setup

FARM MONEY BILL IS VOTED   Measure Goes to President As Senate Agrees to End Crop Insurance

rrr s  Privates Talley On ‘Second Honeymoon’ _  WAC Surprises Her Soldier Mate After Long Senaration

Privates Talley On ‘Second Honeymoon’  WAC Surprises Her Soldier Mate After Long Separation

GROSS FINDS FOOD WASTED IN CAPITAL   Congressman From This District Checks Up On Restaurants In Washington, A. P. Dispatch Says

Budget Bureau Social Security Board Criticized   House Committee Comments In Appro priations Measure

TWO BUREAUS HIT HOUSE COMMITTEE   Criticized for Withholding Part of Funds

HOUSE REBUKES UL S. AGENCIES   Practices of Budget Bureau, Security Board Are Scored

BUDGET BUREAU AND SECURITY BOARD RAPPED   Appropriations Committee Criti cises: Actions of Agencies A: Without Authority   PASSES ON FUNDS      $1,086,562,499 Measure for Labor, FSA and WMC Groups is Sent to House Floor

BUREAUS DRAW CONGRESSIONAL FIRE FOR ACTS   Social Security Board and Budget Bureau Charged With Thwarting Pur poses of Congress

BUDGET BUREAU AND SECURITY UNIT GRITICIZED   House Appropfiations Committee Assails Former Agency for Withholding Funds   HELD UNWARRANTED   Latter Bureau Draws Group’s Wrath For Exercising Extra-Legal Con trol Over States

BUDGET BUREAU DRAWS FIRE OF HOUSE GROUP   Paul McNutt Granted Pay Boost Of $3,000

Congress Learns  8 Billion Spent  On Lend-Lease Must Decide on  Continuance Of Program

LEASE-LEND REPORT SHOWS MANY BILLIONS IN AID TO ALLIES      MAN POWER SITUATION ALSO CAME IN FOR SHARE OF CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT

Congress Gets Long Report On Lend-Lease   Rubber and Food Problems Also In Spotlight

CONGRESS GET REPORT ON AlD   Lend-Lease Program Has Sent $8,253,000,000 in Goods Abroad.   JEFFERS ASKS PRIORITY

AXIS DISCOVERS AMERICAN FORCE NEARING GABES   Clark’s Fifth: Army: Making Quick ‘Thrust to tnter- °° cent Nazis.

Italians See Tanks Pressing East—Fighting French From Lake Chad Enter Tripoli

EARLY THRUST TOWARD SABES * 1S INDICATEL   Move Would Be Designed to Cut Off Afrika Korps

AMER. TROOPS IN LOWER TUNISIA.    Believed’ Ready to Cut Off Afrikan Korps Retreat

Maly Reporls U.S. Preparing For Assault   Drive. Said Planned _to Cut Off Fleeing  Enemy. Forces !

FORCES MOVING TOWARD GABES, AXIS REPARTS   Afrika Korps Believed To Have Reached Mareth Line In Tunisia   VITAL AIR BASE BLASTED      Eighth Army Seizes Zauia; Enemy Strength Set At 110,000 In Africa

Yanks Near ‘Big’ Scale Fight, Tip   Report American Forces May Soon Get In Action In  Tunisia To Cut Off Rommel  Ratroaat

CLAIM ATTEMPT. TO: CUT OFF AFRIKA ‘KORPS FRUSTRATED.   Fighting French in Tripoli Ready To Join Eighth Army In Pursuit Of Enemy

Rome Says Our oth Army Ready ToAttack Gabes   French Troops Enter Tripoli To Join British Push Towards Tunisia

AAA. NEED NOT. CALL ON FARMERS   Farmers Must Attend Sign up Meeting or Make Other Arrangement

Invasion Jok Seen ‘Lost’: By Marshall      Gen. Eisenhowei ‘et. Believed. Picked: For Reich’Stal

Marshall Likely To Stay at Home   Eisenhower May Command Invasion

WLB Orders Re-Opening Ot Talks   Private Mine Owners Severely Reprimanded.

Negotiations  Ordered Resumed  In Coal Dispute WLB Repyrimands  Mine Operators yy; fr J.

Scout Group To Meet And Plan  Financial Drive   MEMBERS WILL MEET AFTER KIWANIS LUNCHEON NEXT TUESDAY. D. P. SETTLE HEAD OF LOCAL COMMITTEE

Senate Democrats Bloch Two Cabinet Appointees   Martin Recalls All OF James’ Nominations Except ‘Those For Minor Offices

‘Senate Democrats Block [Martin Cabinet Choices   Highways, Assistance Secretaries Are Not Confirmed; Kell Is Passed

NATION ‘OVER TOP’ IN WAR LOAN DRIVE   Bond Sales Exceed Goa By Four Billions

$17,000,000,000 Bond Total Seer   Final Figures to Be Known About May 10

{7 Billions Subscribed   American Pass Goal By $4,000,000,000, It Is Now Announced

War Loan Drive Tops 1] Billion  Officials Pleased With Success of Campaian

ABOUT $17, 000,000,000’ BROUGHT IN. DURING 2ND WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN

OND WAR BOND DRIVE OVER TOP 4 MILLION   Will Announce Final Mark Around May 10

Would Earmark Money For Vets  Assembly Votes To Save incame Surtay

Earmarking Of War Veterans’ Fund Proposed   Setting Aside Of This Year’s Surtax Money For Post-War Aid Is Asked In Assembly

U.S.Bomber Fire Whole Dock Area Of Catania   Ammunition Ship Blown Up, Tanker Fired; Other Ships Hit In Attack

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK CATANIA   Blow Up Ammunition Dump, Set Tanker Afir

ALLIED FORCES ‘CLEANING UP AXISREMNANTS   More Than 100,000 Are Taken Prisoner, With Total Still Rising Hour by Hour   FRENCH UNITS BAG HUNDREDS OF NAZIS   Pockets Of Foe Mopped Up On Peninsula, and Allied Airmen Are Kept From Area

U.S. Bombers Rip Messina iin Sicily   Score Hits on Ferry Ship, Railroad  R enndhaves

Heavy U.S. Bombers Rip Catania   Blow Up Axis Ammunition Ship, Fire Tanker

TOP ARMY QUIZ KID.   Pvt. Wilson Made an A-Minus ' ‘Average While Attending K.U.

Hamilton Youth Makes High Score   Pvt. H. J. Wilson Scored 161 in Army General Ckassification Test.

Judge Blows Down Nevada Annulments   Court Declares Weddings Binding if in Good Faith

YANKS SINK 2 JAP CRUISERS & DESTROYER   Less Than Dozen Flying Fortresses Koar Down To Maste Of Foe In New Ireland Port.   Damage 4 Destroyers

U.S. Fliers, Using New Strategy, Crush Jap Holding  Vital Points Strafed In Pacific as Big Bomber Force Charae:

ALLIES CATCH UP _ WITH FLEEING NAZI TROOPS OF ROMMEL   Large Scale Battle Believed  Imminent

ALLIES WITHIN THREE MILES  OF STRATEGIC PAID PASS AREA   Large-Scale Fighting May Be Imminent. Americans and British Poised  For Big Push.

Home Canning Quotas for Mo. 218,466,400 Ots.   Estimate Based on 100 Quarts Per Person on Cities and Farms

lowa Women Face Big Job   Must Can 253,826,800 Quarts Te Replace Commercial Foods

NEELY DERIDES STATE SOLONS   Picks Three Candidates For President During Post-War Period

U.S. Surdiers Closein on Jap Base of Munda   . Enemy Task Force  - Seeking ‘to Supply Garrison Flees After Crushing Defeat

UNITED STATES TROOPS GAIN IN MUNDA SECTOR   Reports Hint Battle Enters Final Stage for Jap Air Base

Enemy’s Garrison At Jap Air Base Appears Doomed   Reinforcement By Sea Fails After Sinking Of Fifteen Jap Warships

US. FORCES STEADILY MOVING UP-ON MUNDA   Enemy Base Cut Off as Both Sea, Air Support for Garrison Are Hurled Back

J ungle Troops  Mov e On Munda  300) Japs Are hilled, Navy Deserts Base

YANKS CLOSE IN ON JAP AIR BASE   United States Troops Advanee Through Jungle Toward Munda.   JAP’S SUPPORT FAILS!

U.S. Soldiers Menace Munda   New Georgia Port Completely Cut Off From All Re inforeements.

JAPS CUT OFF AT MUNDA AS YANKS GLOSE IN   Garrison on New Georgia Island Appears Doomed After Fleet Smashed   NO SUPPLIES CAN GET IN   American Air Force Smashes Bases and Attempts To Relieve Troops

ALLIES CLOSING IN UPON MUNDA   Japanese Defenders Not Expected To Get Any. """" “Oasctde Halp

MOVE TOWARD NEW GEORGIA   Japanese Fail To Hold Line Along Jungle Bordér

Air Base Supply Lines Cut Off By Sea And Sky   Beginning Of End Of Enemy Stronghold Is Seen

SMALL GAINS MADE BY U. 8. JUNGLE UNITS   Remainder Of Enemy Fleet In Kula Gulf Runs; Nip Air Force Also Fails To Send Relief

Last Stand Seems Nea For Munda   Rout of Jap Fleet Leaves Outpost to Meet Certain Doom

U.S. Troops Move Ahead Against Jap Fight Area   New Georgia Scene Of Important Operation

Allied Troops Close Pincers Slowly On Nips   Swarms Of American Planes Rain Death On Jap Garrison

Yanks Move Forward on Munda Field   May Mark Beginning of End of Jap Air Base

Nip Navy Deserts Defenders; Supply Lines To Island  Cut By Americans

AMERICAN JUNGLE TROOPS MOVE UPON MUNDA WEDNESDAY  JAP GARRISON SEEMS DOOMED TO FIGHT IT OUT WITHOUT AID

AMERICAN PILOTS ' SHOOT DOWN ZEROS:   Nip Bombers Forced to Drop Loads In Sea As U. S.. Fighters: Hit Raiding Squadron

YANKS BATTLE TOWARD MUNDA   300 Japs Killed As Navy  Deserts Doomed  Garrison

Yanks Push Nearer To  Munda Base   Re-Enforcement of That Trapped Garrison Is Virtually Impossible

Yanks Advancing. On Base At Munda   Reinforcements Fail to Reach Jap Garrison At Strategic Base and Capture Is in Sight

Isolated Japs:  Face Yankee Jungle Troops   Americans: Creeping Upon Last New Georgia ‘Stronghold

Green-clad U. S. Troops On March   YANKS ADVANCING CLOSE TO JAP BASE AT MUNDA

Trap Closing Around Munda   Foe’s Attempts to Relieve Garrison Fail

U.S. Jungle Army Closes On Munda   Enemy Garrison Deserted By Navy; Fall Be lheved Near.

YANKS GIRD FOR FINAL STRUGGLE TO TAKE MUNDA  NEW GEORGIA NIPS   NEW GEORGIA NIPS FACE ANNIHILATION AT JUNGLE AIRPORT

American. Units “Continue Drive ‘Toward Mund:   See Sharp - Jungle - Fight ‘As Beginning Of End For Key Enemy Base

REACH GARRISON   Reinforcement By Sea Has Failed; Air Support Is Weak'   BOMBERS ACTIVE   General MacArthur’s Forces Moving Slowly Ahead In Jungles

U.S. Jungle Troops Drive On Munda Slaying Hundreds   Jap Navy Fails To Land  Garrison Reinforcements

YANKS MOVING TOWARD MUND/      Only Frequent Clashes Reported As Troops Creep Through Jungles

Move in Jungle  Upon Munda Base   End in Sight For Jap Troops Who Fail to Get Rein forcements.

Allied Jungle Fighters Move onMundaBase   300 Nips Lose Lives Before MacArthur’s Guns as Yanks Advance

Yankee Troops Closing In On Munda Jap Base   ‘Beginning Of End’  Is Forecast

Cotton Crop Down In ‘43   Dry Weather, Insects Cut Down Early Good Prospect:

Coffon Report Is Up Slightly ~   Crop Reporting Board Sets National Yield At 11,478,000 Bales

Japanese Repatriates Will Address Meetings “To Enhance Hostility”

VITAL ALLIED ANNOUNCEMENT IS ANTICIPATED   Report on War Policy And Strategy Looms In Headlines

London Papers Hint War News That Will Excite Entire World   Axis Radio Broadcasts Report Churchill, Roosevelt At Conference; Suggestions For New War Council Canvassed

World Waits Tensely for Big News   Momentous Decisions By Allies Expected To Be Announced

News Of Great Importance W. ‘ll Be Released To Public 7 onight   Today's Newspapers Throughout Country ‘Anticipati Announcement At 10 O'clock EWT .   Watch for these dispatches. By ROBERT WUSES.

London Newspapers Anticipate Announcements Of Important Allied Conferences On War Strategy

NAZIS EVACUATE IMPORTANT LINK, SOVIETS PRESS ON   Berlin Backs Into Admission of Defeat In Hub City Sector.

RUSSIAN ARMY PUSHES AHEAD BEYOND CITY   Rerlin Says Evacuation Was Made ‘According to Plan’

Fall Admitted By German News Ageney   Nazis Say Bastion “Was Evacuated According To Plan’

BRYANSK I$ CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Reds Attempting To Cut Off Fleeing Garrison of City

RUSSIANS NOW AT MAIN NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Berlin Tries to “Play Down” Loss Of Soviet Fortress City by “According to Plan”,

Smolensk, Nazis Largest Base in Russia, Falls; Battle for Kiev Begins

IMPRESSIVE VICTORY IS ACCLAIMED   Germans Admit "Withdrawal" As Per Plan

Reds Attempt To Cut Off Fleeing  Nazi Garrison   Fall of City Now Unhinges Defense Line For Winter

Bryansk Is. Evacuated By Germans   Victorious Soviets Race to Cut Off Retreatine Nazis

RED ARMY CAPTURES KEY CITY   Russians Race in Against German Flank to Cut Off Routed Garrison Today.

BERLIN ADMIT DAYANSK LO ga TO RED ARMED   Great Rail Hub Evacuated By Germans To Prevent Being Entrapped

NAZIS CONFESS MAJOR DEFEAT IN WITHDRAWAL   Russians Trying To Trap Garrison Routed From Rail City

LOSS OF BRYANSK ACKNOWLEDGED BY GERMANY   As Usual Berlin Says Evacuation ‘According to Plan’

Germans Admit Loss Of Bryansk, Key Rail Hub   Confirmation Of Soviet Capture Of Great Railroad Center Expected

BERLIN REVEALS CITY EVACUATED BUT DESTROYED   Vital Rail Lines Join Center, Southern Fronts   AWAIT CONFIRMATION FROM SOVIET SOURCE

Russ Capture Bryansk in Dnieper Basin  Great Railroad Hub Lost by Fleeing Germans

SOVIET COLUMN IS RACING TO CUT OFF ROUTED GARRISON   Nazis Say Great Rail Hub Was Evacuated After. Destruction Of Installations

HOGS HIT NEW HIGH ON CHICAGO MARKET   Price Climbs 60 Cents Over Level of Last Week

THREE JAPANESE BASES RAIDED BY U. $. BOMBERS   Fires Were Started Around Airport Runways and Bivouac Areas.   Munda Bay Area Is Hit by Dauntless and Avenger Bombers.

» BUTTER DEMANDS BRING INGREAGt IN POINT VALUE   OPA Announces Value At 10 Points Per Pound Be ginning August 

BUTTER INCREASED TWO MORE POINTS   Pigsfeet and Back Bones Taken Off Ration List.

SPECIAL PROGRAN OF ORGAN MUSIC      Rev. Gerhardt Bunge To Play At College  Church

SNOW AND RAIN HELP    Wheat Plants Can Now Survive  for a Short While Longer

ENEMY BASES ARE ATTACKED   ee  Japanese raid Guadal canal in retaliation for furious assaults

YANKS OCCUPY ENEMY HARBOR   American Troops Push Way From Munda_ to Seize Baijroko Harbor. {   ENEMY ESCAPES TO VILA

Bairoko Harbor, 12 Miles From Munda Occupied by Yanks   Bougainville Only Major Enemy Base Left in Archipelago

LAST OF NIPPON SOLDIERS FLEE INNEW GEORCIA   Large Stores Seized; Japanese Garrison at Vila Also Imperiled

Large Stores Are Captured At Bairoko   Remnants of Garrison at Final Holdout Seemingly Fled at Night

YANKS DEFEAT JAPANESE ON NEW GEORGIA   Central Solomons Drive Ends As All Enemy Resistance Ceases

JAPS’ RESISTANCE ON NEW GEORGIA ISLAND HAS ENDED   Bairoke. ls Captured by U.S. Jungle + Troops Who. Have _, Been, Pushing Up- From

Garrison On Kolombangara Isle Doomed   U. S. Losses Light, Says Spokesman; PT Boats Hunt Down Barges In Kula Gulf

Conquest of New Georgia Completed   American Occupation of the Central Solomons Area Imperils Vila Base   SMALL ISLES OFF MUNDA ALSO TAKER   No Reports of Prisoners Taken as Yankees Take Over Bairoko Harbor

Announce Japs _ End Resistance  On New Georgie   2. SE eee al rae  After Taking Munda To Gecuny Bairoka Harbor:

JAPANESE FLEE BAIROKO UNDER ATTACK OF PTS   New Georgia Completely in Ameri. can Hands Foe Apparently Mak. ing Escape at Night   iLEFT LARGE STORE   U. S. Forces Occupy Islands Off New Georgia, Turn Air Olffensive on Threatened Vila

BELIEVE JAPANESE ESCAPED IN BARGES   Large Stores, Including Much Food, And Vehicles Are Captured

Vila Garrison Imperiled By New Conquest   Fall Of Salamaua Air. drome To Allies Is Imminent

Japs Cease Resisting on New Georgia   MacArthur Communiqué Notes Other Pacific Advances

JAPANESE END RESISTANCE. ON NEW GEORGIA   Yanks Occupy Bairoko Harbor; Find Japs Have Fled   BASE AT VILA DOOMED   Several Small Islands Off Munda Are Also Captured

JAPS END FIGHT ON NEW GEORGIA IN SOLOMONS   All Enemy Resistance Ceased Thursday as Bairoko Harbor Falls To U. S.

Yanks Capture New Georgia   Complete Conquest Of Island When Japs — Withdraw.

JAPANESE HAVE QUIT FIGHT ON SOLOMONS ISLE   Gen. MacArthur Says Foe Fled After Battering From Yanks-Aussies Who Took Munda

JAP RESISTANCE ON NEW GEORGIA REPORTED CEASED   Bitterly-contested Campaign There Ended Thursday When American Troops Occupied Bairoko Harbor; Vila’s Garrison Imperilled.

ALLIES CONTROL STRATEGIC ISLE OF NEW GEORGIA   ADJOINING BASES IN SOLOMONS TAKEN AS JAP GARRISON FLEES

RESISTANCE IN NEW GEORGIA IS ENDED   Gen. MacArthur Reports Japs in That Part of Solomons Have Ceased Fighting

~—PACIFIC—~   American Triumph Threatens Enemy  Garrison At Vila

Yanks Capture Bairoko Harbor; Jap Resistance Ceases On New Georgia

ALL NEW GEORGIA ISLAND JAPANESE RESISTANCE ENDS   REMNANTS OF BAIROKA HARBOR GARRISON ESCAPED ACROSS GULF

All Resistance On Island Ends: Yanks Capture Bairoke Harbor   Remnants of Enemy Leave by Night, Abandon Their Stores

APS DRIVEN FROM HOLD ON NEW GEORGIA   zesty Contested Campaign a Sclomons tsland Ended Thursday.

Jap Resistance Comes to End  On New Georgia Yankees Oceupy Nip Base at Bairoko Harbor

Bairoko Harbor Fall Ends Japs  In New Georgia   U. S. Completes Central Solomon Isles Conquest

All Resistance Wiped Out On  New Georgia   Campaign Is Brought To Successful Conclusion With U. S. Occupation Of Bairoko Harbor

Campaign Ends As Americans Take Bairoko   Remnants Of Enemy Garrison Escape To Kolombangara

JAP RESISTANCE ON NEW GEORGIA ISLAND CEASES   Enemy Garrison Withdraws From Bairoko Where It Waged Stubborn Fight Against Yanks.   AMERICAN CONQUEST GF AREA COMPLETE   Allies Reveal U. 8S. Troops Also Have Seized Some Small Isles West of  Raanga.

Enemy, In Flight, Leaves Large Stores, MacArthur Reports From Headquarters   Conquest Of Island In Central Solomons Completed; Enemy Destroyer Successfully Bombed; Bairoko Position Liquidated

Clean Out. Last Japs — At Bairoko   All Enemy Resistance. On New Georgia Stops: Fall of Salamaua Be- . lieved To Be Near

Last Japanese On New Georgia Flee From Yanks   Another Victory Marked Up In MacArthur's Pacific Drive

Japs Quit Fight  In New Georgia   Bitterly Contested Campaign Ends When Americans Push to Bairoko.

Conquest Of New Georgia Is Complete   Remnants Of Jap Garrison Flee From Bai roko By Night.

Resistance At Bairoko Has Ceased   Enemy Troops Evacuated Across Kula Gulf to Jap Base of Vila

BITTER BATTLE ENDS AS YANKS OCCUPY BAIROKO   General MacArthur Announces Collapse Of Enemy; Jap Garrison At Vila ls Now Imperiled.

win th isi 16      Some May Receive’. ‘Di. plomas ip Abe os: eance”’,

Launch Move To Investigate Lend-Lease   GOP Senator Wants Inquiry Into Hopkins’ Public-Private Affairs

Senate Will Probe Lend Lease Setup   SENATOR BUTLER INTRODUCES RESOLUTION AIMED AT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ACTIVITIES OF HARRY HOPKINS.   Mirs. Hopkins Says ‘Baloney’

Move Launched To Investigate Harry Hopkins   Rumors Say His Wife Took $500,000 Gift . From Lord Beaverbrook

SENATORS TO ASK ‘LEASE-LEND PROBE   SPOTLIGHT MAY BE TURNED, TOO, ON HOPHINS’ PRIVATE ACTIVITIES.

Nazi Planes Raid English Coast  36 Children Killed in Bombed Church

21 Children Killed By German Bombs   British Take Bodies From Church Ruins

INCREASE SHOWN IN GASES OF “FLU’   Total Of 566 Pupils Absent From School Here Today With 93 Students Out At Delone High

“FLU” EPIDEMIC MAY BE ABATING   Improvement In Attendance In Public Schools Here Reported—Number Absent Drops To 474

Joint Group Demands Cut in U.S. Emploves   Congress Committee Report Calls For Releasing of 300,000; Blasts Bureaus for Salary Raises

NON-ESSENTIAL EXPENSE PROBE BRINGS REPORT   Army, Navy Employs 500,000 Clerical Workers Now

300,000 FEDERAL JOB HOLDERS MAY ~-TQSE POSITIONS   Senator Byrd Reveals Facts of Long Investigation, Over Three Million Civilians Have Jobs.   PAYROLL UP 4 FOLD DURING FEW MONTHS   Over - Staffing Has Taker Place With Reluctant Waste, Duplication of Effort is Occurring.

DISORDERS SPREADING THRU ITALY   Fascists Groups Hold Out Against Army In The North   Bulletin:

Cabinet Tries To Stem Disorders Throughout Italy   Radio Rome Asserts : . Nation Has No Choice But To Fight On

RAIDS WANTED   Rickenbacker Sees Collapse Of Nazis Not Before 1944

ALPINE BOY IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Lieut. Merritt M. Hopson Becomes City’s First

No Windows in Transports   Floating Cities Are Built for Army in New York District

AFRICAN SUPPLY PACT IS SIGNED   Reciprocal Trade Program Is Opened by Britain, U. S. for Desert Territory

Japs Are Massing Planes and Ships At Base Northwest of Guadalcanal

Japs Massing A Big Air Fleet   Allied Fliers Sight 170 Enemy Bombers Ringing Rabaul

J aps Building Up air £ Orces   Near Rabaul   Allied Fliers Report 170 Planes. Big Carrier in New Britain

Chinese Puch Ahead; Trap   Drive to Right Bank of River  Air Forces Aid

Attacking Forces in Full Retreat After Losing Heavily: American Planes Helped Defenders.

Changyang Is Recaptured By  Chinese Army   Advances 20 Miles; U.S. Bombers Wreck Many Jap Planes

THIRD OF JAP ARMY SLAIN ON YANCTZE FRONT   Chinese Recaplure Changyang “Occupy Port of Chihkiang in Con tinued Advance

JAP FORCES ARE PUSHED BACK IN VANGTZE AREA   Chinese Troops. Advancing In Central China, Occupy Two Key Cities   'U. S. AIR FORCE ASSISTS   Nips, Using 100,000 Men, Re-  ported To Have Suffered 30,000 Casualties

Chinese Drive Japs From 2 More Towns   Invaders Pushed Back on Whole Upper Yangtze Front

Nip Forces Driven Back On Yangtze   Port of Chihkiang Also Captured As Chinese Near Jap Base

Chinese Pursue Beaten Japanese Along Yanatze ©   Chiang’s: Troops Drive'to Right. Bank Of River. Opposite chang, Surround 4.000 of Invaders Further Downstrean

Chinese Storm Close To Main Enemy Base   Troops Drive To Right Bank Of Yantze River Opposite Ichang   AIR TRIUMPH CITEL   U.S. Fliers Help Kill 1,500 Retreating Foe; Towns Are Captured

RECAPTURE 2 VITAL TOWNS NEAR ICHANG   Japs Being Driven Across Yangtze Along Entire Upper. Front

Chinese Trap More Japanese   Four Thousand Surrounded In Yangtze In Air-Supported Offensive.

Chinese Advancing  On Japs Along  Banks of Yangtze Air Power Helps  Troops Trap 4.000 Invaders

Chinese at banks of Yangtze river   Retake Changyang, port of Chihkiana in offensive

Chinese Press Toward ‘Enemy Base At Ichane   Town Of Changyank, 12 Miles From Japanese Base,  Recaptured And Yangtze Port Of Chihkiang Also Occupied By Victorious Chinese

Victorious Chinese Army Captures Two More Key Points From Japs   Thirty Thousand Of 100,000 Enemy Troops Involved Reported Killed; U. S. Air Force, Played Leading Roll In Chinese Victory.

VITAL TOWN RECAPTURED BY CHINESE   Japanese Troops Are Being Driven Back Toward South Bank of the Yangtze River

 Gen..Ohiang’ s Forces’ Sweeping to Spectacular New Triumphs After Winning “Chinese Battle of Stalinerad” Around Chiphei

Changyang Is Recaptured By Chinese Forces   Japanese Being Driven Back On Entire Upper  Yanotze River.

CHINESE DRIVE JAPANESE BACK FROM YANGTZE      Recaputre Town of Changyang, 12 Miles From . Nipponese Base At Ichang   ANVANCE CONTINUES   Chinese Say Enemy Has Used 100,000 Troops In’ Campaign With Loss of 30,000

Chinese Capture Changyang And Still Advance   Japs Driven Back Or Yangtze Front. U. S. Air Force Active

OPA Jumps On  Soaring Items   Tighter Control On 13. Different Articles Due

PRICES FOR USED ITEMS 10 BE SEI   OPA Plans Classification of Needed Articles Into Three Groups.

Killed Every Jap on Makin Says Officer   Fanatical Defense of Enemy Failed to Stop Americans

Tells of Nippon’s Fanatical Defense   American Officer Relates Incidents in Capture of  Makin Island.

Says U. S. Soldiers “Killed Every Jap” In Makin Fighting   Representing the’ Combined Uv. Press Ihstribuied By The Associated Press

STORY OF FIGHTING FANATICAL JAPS ON GILBERT ISLANDS  WOUNDED OFFICER IN _ HAWAIIAN HOSPITAL Peres At BEA EFTRT TRAITS ACIS

45TH DIISION IN FIFTH ARMY   Famous Fighting Unit Helps Beat Off German Counterattacks.   Battle of Makin Island Described by Lieutenant

“We Killed Every Jap In Sight,’’ Officer Say  LIEUTENANT TELLS OF THREEDAY BATTLE OF MAKIN ISLAND

Withholding Tax Taken Up   Pay-as-You-Go System Promises to Become Party Issue

GROUP IN HOUSE STYMIED IN ITS TAX BILL TASK   Subcommittee. Decides to Let Pay-As-You-Go Is-: sue Simmer for.the Time Being   WEIGH DELAYING   To Consider That Phase of Income Payments Later; Issue Shapes Up as Party Measure

19 PERCENT. WITHHOLDING TAX STUDIED      Rum! Plan Shaping As Party Issue; Is Turned Down

 WITHHOLDING TAX STUDIED   Rum! Plan Shaping As Party Issue; Is Turned Down

Faxes Still Are Problem   :Solons Sidestepping Deferment Pronosals

 OF PROPAGAND!   Tojo Assured the Diet - That Japanese Forces Were Continuing To Capture More Sectors.

Chinese Reds Say They Will ‘Stand by the Government Political Fight Is Postponed

Some Uy: eer cath ce oti eee redalnass of RAN SESE hy  CHINESE COMMUNISTS DECIDE. WILL BACK GOVERNMENT UNTIL JAPAN AND PARTNERS DEFEATED

The War Today  Stand Taken By Chinese Communist Armies Good ‘News ‘For ‘Allies, "=

Strong Forces Of Red Bombers  ~~ Hammer Nazis   German-Held Rail Junctions In Russia Blasted For Third Night   HUGE NAZI PLANE LOSSES ARE CLAIMED

REDS CONTINUE BOMB ATTACKS   Nazis Lose 3369 Planes Since May, Is Claim

Tule Lake Japs Attacked Guard  Weapons Are Found Hidden in Colony

Boost Aid  To Russia   Report on Lend-Lease Shipments To The Soviet

Lend-Lease To Russia Heavy   Over 3.200 Tanks. Almost 2.000 Planes And 81,000 Military Vehicles.

2600 U.S, WARPLANES SHIPPED TO RUSSIA   ae  Tanks and Trucks Also Sent Across - - Some Lost

Farm Bloc To Fight Subsidy   Discuss Both Military And Economic Strateay   Fear Big Bomber Wreckage Sighted   MAKF PRODUCTION RECORD

Catholic Women Hold Conclave  Mrs, Frances Kelly  Hande Oreremiontins

Catholic Women Hold Conclave  Mrs. Frances Kelly Heads Organizatio:

\Nelson Discloses Nation Produced Warplanes at Rate of 338  ‘Each Working Day in November

COLD HITS KANSAS   Driving Snow Storm I: Sweeping Across the  State Today

Cold Wave Passing On   Mercury Will Start Climb Up- Tomorrow After Drop Tonight

MOTHER DEFENDS ACCUSED DAUGHTER   Joan Kiger On Trial For Killing Brother, Age 6

Nightmare Is Defense Claim  At Gul’s Trial   Joan Kiger Slew Father And Brother During Nightmare, Is Belief Of Girl’s Mother

AXIS TROOPS DIG IN--FOR LAST STAND   Allies Gain New Ground North Of Sousse In Advance

Armored Troops Push Northward Against Rommel   Battle of Tunisia _ Nearing Final Phase, Reports Indicate -

BATTERED AXIS “SEEKS HAVEN IN  MOUNTAIN AREA   First Army,’ Eighth, Americans, French Consolidate Their Gains.

Allies Are Hitting Afrika Korps Hard   RITTER BATTLE IS VET PROSPECTIVE IN THIS FINAL STAND.

BATTERED ENEMY ARMIES DIGGING IN FOR LAST BATTLE   Allied Commanders Gathering Strength During Lull to Drive 200,000 Axis Survivors Into Sea.   RUSSIANS, GERMANS JN CLOSE FIGHTING   Allies Claim 33,156 Axis Are Made Prisoners Between Nov. 23 and Monday, List Is Incomplete,

PUSH AXIS INTO COFFIN CORNER   ' ee  Allied Spearheads Gain Ground  , As Air Forces Pound Remaining Axis Bases

Bombing Of Rome Pledged By Eden  RAF wa Strike As Heavily As Possible If  X e*a*s4* ee arr“

EDEN HINTS ROME BOMBING TARGE]   British Foreign Secretary Vows Blasting of Italian Capital “if Convenient”

U.S. Troops Close Trap or Attu Troops   Keep Watch for New Jap Move; May Try To Reinforce Kiska

JAPAN’S BATTLE 10 HOLD ATTU ISLAND REPORTED GOING BAD   AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN THROUGHOUT PACIFIC WATCH FOR NEW THRUST

Climax Near as Americans Spring Trap   Watch for ‘Face-Saving’ Move in Some Other Section of Pacific War Front

U. 5. On Guard Against Japs  New Thrust Expected Or Japs May Try To Reinforce Kiska

Japs Thrown Back for Last Ditch Stand   US Troops Have Pinched Off Nip Forces on East End of Attu Island; Vigil Kept for Jap Counterstroke

‘Army Prevents Publication of News  Which Might Make Germans Resentful

FINAL PHASE OF FIRST WAR PRISONER EXCHANGE WITH GERMANY PROCEEDING

Forces of Rommel Reported Intact   Stimson Declares Hard Task Ahead

Axis Resistance In North Afriea  Seen By Stimson   WarSecretary Says Strong Chance of Rommel Effecting Union With Von Arnim.,

Axis Forces Still Powerful,  Is Warning   Rommel Has Been Able To Keep Bulk Of His Army Intact, Reports Secretary Stimson

Most of Rommel’s Army Intact, Says Secretary Stimson.   EXPECTS HARD FIGHTING

Gen. Rommel! Holds Bulk Of Force   Sec. Stimson Predict: Much Hard Fighting In Tunisia

Rommel Has Bulk Of Men Intact, Says  Seey. Stimson   Strong Chance Remains He May Effect Union With Von Arnim's Forces In North

‘HEAVY ‘FIGHTING  ¢  {AHEAD   ....In Tunisia Struggle, Sec. Stimson Warns

Rommel’s Force Intact, Belief   Strong Chance to Effect Union With Arnim, Stimson Says

Rommel Army Still Intaet, Says Stimson   War Secretary Opines German Marshal May Be Able To Contact  Van Arnim’s« Force

Signs Bill Appropriating Funds For Additional Expenditures By Navy

he Weather   - Weather ill Remain   Light Freeze Is Expected Tonight But Nothing Serious

Transfer Of War Material, Troops Is To Cease Soon   Indication Swedes Are Convinced Of An Eventual Allied Triumph

Sweden Puts End To Movement of German Soldiers   Action Complicates Supply Problem of Nazis in Norway

SWEDES CLAMP DOWN ON NAZIS   Miltary Transportation Will Be Halted On August 15

SWEDES ALERT [OR GERMAN RETALIATION   Movement of German Troops Over Swedish Railroads To Norway Will Halt August on   Swedish Blow At Nazis

Sweden to Halt Nazi Transport   Troop Movements Must Stop August 20

Swedes Alert For Trouble   Retaliation For Bon On Shipping Watched

Sweden Denies Germany Use  Of Railroads   Action Seen Physical And Psychological Blow to Harried Nazis

Sweden Closes Doors To Nazis   “Transportation Of Troons Forbidden

Sweden Dares Nazi Ire, Bars - Troop Transit   Halting of Norway Rails Puts Additional Strain

Sweden Closes Doors To Nazis   Transportation Of Troops Forbidden  By JOHN H. COLBURN

SWEDEN BANS TRANSPORT OF NAZI TROOPS   Halt Further Movement of Soldiers to And From Norway

NAZIS OFF sol   BANS RAIL TRANSPORTATION OF GERMAN TROOPS: TO ' AND FROM. NORWAY. .

Sweden Prohibits Nazi Army Travel  Across Nation : Breaks Three-Year  - Aereement Permitting   Breaks Three-Year Agreement Permitting Traffic to Norway

PROBE SHOTGUN IN CARPENTER’S DEATH   Weapon May Have Been Used in Murder of War Worker —

2 BOYS FIND SHOTGUN NEAR FOWLER HOME   Investigators May List Gun as Death Weapon

WIFE OF SLAIN MAN HUNTED AND SHOTGUN FOUND NEAR HOUSE STUDIED FOR CLUES

RUSSELL MOORE MADE A CAPTAIN   La Porte City Boy Is Regimental Adjutant in Texas

Says Cruelty of Japs In Guadalcanal Caused Breakdown of Americans

LEFT WITHOUT DESIRE 10 LIVE   Mental Breakdown Of Marines Exposed To Jap Cruelty Is Revealed

Nazi-Oceupied Countries May  Find Way Out   London Diplomats Say Germany s Satellites Will Desert Homeland.   ‘-BULGARIANS NERVOUS

NAZT CATELLITED SEEKING WAY QUT   Bulgarian Unrest, Reshuffling of Cabinet and Turk Complications Hint ‘of Break

Allies Wipe Out Mountain Line   Rumblings of Discontent in  The Balkans   Key Success Of Campaign Ts Realized   Bulgarians Reshuffling — Cabinet Reported = as Conference Result   Smash in Week What Nazis Thought Would Hold for Months

RENEWED RUMBLINGS  IN BALKANS MAY BE  BEGINNING OF END GERMAN SATELLITE  STATES BELIEVED SEEKINC WAY ONIT Or WARD

BALKANS JITTERY (VER TURK AGTS   Bulgarian Cabinet Crisis Shows. Tension, 

MINERS RESCIND STRIKE NOTIONS.   Plea from Army, with Veiled Threat, Converts Copper Workere

NEGRO GIVEN SIX” _ MONTHS IN PRISON   Perry Campbell Sentenced for Gasoline Ration  Violation

AIR OBJECTIONS TO WOMEN’S BILL   EQUAL PAY MEASURE FACES DECISIVE TEST IN SENATE HEARING

Equal Pay Problem Heads for Test in  Capital This Week   Illinois Senate Committee May Vote on Legislation Wednesday

EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN BILL UP FOR DISCUSSION   Measure Facing First Test In Leosislature

Optimism Marks Moscow Confab   SECRETARY HULL SUFFERS FROM COLD AS CONFERENCE CARRIES ON IN FIFTH SESSION; HARRIMAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS AT KREMLIN

GERMANS FACE DISASTER ON DNIEPER LINE   Russian Forces Blast Two Big Gaps In Nazi Defenses

NAZI DNIEPE DEFENSE LINE IS CRUMBLING   Soviets Smash Two Huge Gaps   TRAP IS CLOSING

DISASTER FACES GERMAN TROOPS ON DNIEPER LINE   Reds Smash Two Huge Gaps in Tottering Nazi Defenses

Postwar Bonus Pay To Veterans Is Considered   Rep. May Prepares Bill in Keeping with FDR’s Request Placing Musteringout Pay at $300. "

May Presents Mustering-Oul  Bonus Bill   Offers S300 Pay For Service People Lower Than Captain, Lieutenant (s.g.)

Last Jap Foothold In Aleutians Taken   Invading Allies Meet With No Opposition—Foe Believed To  Have Evacuated During Fog

Last Japs Evacuate In the Fog   Removes All Japanese from North American Territory, Announced

Joint Canadian And U.S Force Takes Aleutian Island Without Battle

PRESIDENT REVEALS ISLE OCCUPATION BEGAN ON ‘AUG. 15; NO JAPS THERE

Japs Abandon Aleutian Island Without Struggle   Moved Out Under Cover of Fog, Belief; U.S., Canadian Troops Occupy Area Without Opposition

Japs Make riasty Getaway From Last Aleutians Base; Yanks and Canadians Land   Occupaticn of Island Revealed — At Quebec Amid Rumors of Plan For Campaian to Re.Take Rurma

Jap Garrison: Had Evacuated Aleutian Island   4  “*Landing Operations _ . Began August 15 After Heavy Bombardments 

RUSSIA ASKS © FOOD SUPPLY   SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES  AT CONFERENCE BRING UP 5UBJECT OF PRESENT-DAY ‘ FOOD PROBLEMS —

SOVIET POLICY SHOCKS PARLEY   Russians More Interested In Food Now Than LorgRange Planning

SOVIET DEMAND SHOCKS PARLEY   Reds Less Interested Ir Future Than In Food For Army Now

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF REICH BOMBED   Hundreds of Tons of Ex. plosives Dropped on Duesseldorf

Duesseldorf Is Blitzed In 51st Raid   RAF Bombers Blast Industrial City With ‘Loss of Six Planes; Defense Overwhelmec

RAF Blitzes’ Duesseldorf Industry Area   Six Bombers Lost In Raid on ‘Industrial Center

RAF Bombers Hammer Duesseldort   Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Are Dumped on Targets

DUESSELDORF HIT BY BOMB BLITZ   Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Blast Nazi Arms Center ina ‘Saturation Raid’; Six Bombers Lost

ATTACK DUE WITHIN DAYS PERHAPS HOUR:   Million Men Assembled; Marshall Still in Africa

LONDON SPECULATION IS THAT GEN. MARSHALL WILL.BE IN   COMMAND OF ALL INVASION FORCES

Assault Against Europe Expected At Any Moment   London Reports Say <.. General Marshall Wit  Head. Invasion Forces.

Allied War Machine Of 1,000,000 Men Prepared to Strike   General Marshall May Be Appointed Commander of the Invasion Forces in South-. ern Europe, London Reports Say

MIGHTY FORCE IS POISED FOR BLOW AT AXIS   London Herald Thi-*-+ Genera’ Marshall May Command Invasion

Marshall Is Expected to Guide Attack   Million Men Prepared To Strike Blow For Allies

British Say Marshall Will Head Invaders   Million Men, Backed By Planes and Guns, Stand Ready

POV OPO POOP PPPOE PAM  Vallee To Leave Air For Coast Guard Duties

DIAMOND APPRAISAL BRINGS SOLUTION T0 BiG JEWEL ROBBERY  TWO TEXANS HELD IN $92,000 THEFT OF AIR ‘EXPRESS SHIPMENT

No Signs Of Break Found  In Germany   War Machine Is Strong Despite Reverses In Russia And Incessant Attacks By Bombers

NAZI WAR MACHINE SHOWING NO SIGNS OF WEAKENING   Despite Battering of Past Four Months  British Circles Report

NAZI ARWY IS STRONG,  LONG WAR  INDICATED   No Signs of Crackup in Germany Despite Defeats and Heavy -Bombings   7 TO $ MILLION MEN UNDER ARMS   Supply of Munitions Holding Up, Authoritative ‘British Sources Say

Nazis Show No Sion of Break   Looks Like Long War To British Observers After Reich Survey

No Sign of Weakness in Nazi Machine  Germany Shows No Signs  ef Cracking; Positions Stil Strans.

Nazi War Machine Is Still Strong   German Positions Strong  Enough to Preclude Early End of War.

NAZI MAG HIN NOT CRACKING, BRITISH CLAIM   Hopes For German Collapse Unfounded, Authorities In London Report

No Sign Of Nazi Crack-Up   British Sources Say German Army Strong; Plenty of Reserves  For Waging Long War

Long War Expected In British Circles   Survey Reveals Germany Shows No Sign of Cracking, Nazi Position Is Strong and War Machine Will Be Strong to the End.

ENGLANDIS PLEASED WITH CONFERENCE,   Believe Plans Made for Big-A llied Offensive

BASIS: OF MASTER WAR PROGRAM FOR "43 BELIEVED LAID   Only, Small Fraction Of Decisions And Events Told, Londen  Asserts

ALLIES HOPE FOR VICTORY WITHIN YEAR      ‘Plan. Blue - Printed For “Unconditional Sur--génder of

BLOW FOR THE AXIS   Casablanka News Breaks  on the Enemy With Violence—More Sur-. prises Anticipated. .

KASTER PLAN FOR ALLIED VICTORY IS BFIIFVED READY   ‘Tremendous _ Events’ Likely To Follow Conference   CASABLANCA STORY HARD BLOW TO AXIS

War Victims Cry Against Hitler’s Evading Justice   OCnited Nations ta Profti By Duce’s Flight, Hold Adolf Fast

Foothold Vs Petrillo In U.S. Court   FEDERAL JUDGE BARNES IN CHICAGG AGREES TO CONSIDER INJUNCTION PETITION AGAINST MUSICIANS.   Not MereLabor Fight

WAR OUTPUT MOUNTS IN U. $. PLANTS   Ships, Planes and Guns Rolling Off Assembly Lines in an Ever In creasing Stream  MF Al ec Pina sas AFA BD

March Output Of Arms Sets A New Record   But First-Quarter Pace Short Of Rate Needed In ’43, Says Nelson.

Top Records in Production During March   Output of Arms Reaching New High; First Quarter Total Below Expectations

Arms Output Still Far Below Rate Set For U.S.   But Aircraft, Warships And Merchant Vessels Roll Out In Great Numbers, Nelson Savs

RECORD-BREAKING PRODUCTION TOTALS OLLED.UPIN MARCH       RAET.AND WAR AND HANT SHIPS BY HUNFOF THOUSANDS

RECORD PRODUCTION IN PLANES AND CARGG AND WAR SHIPS SET IN MARCH

ArmsOutput Falls Short Of Goal Set   But Production Of Planes And Ships Hits Record Peak In Past Two Months

BREAK WAR BUILDING RECORDS IN MARCH   Arms Production Falls Short in First Period

Arms Output Sets Record in March But Rate Is Behind Requirements

By March Totals For Production   But First-Quarter Output Still Far Short Of Rate Needed For This Year

March Arms  Production Sets Record   500 Heavy Bombers Per Month Rate Reached for First Time

March Production Sets New Records      Aircraft Output Soars To 6200 Planes But Overall First Quarter Totals Show Lag

NEW RECORD IS SEI   Production Marks Are Still - Far Short of Goals for 1943

MARCH SETS WAR RECORDS   But First Quarter Still Short of Rate, Says Nelson

Production Totals Broken in March   Aircraft Output Soars in Month

War Production Breaks  Record, But Must Hit Even More Rapid Pace

NELSON REVEALS RECORD-BREAKING OUTPUT OF ARMS   Production Totals In Aircraft, Warships and Merchant Vessels Shattered Records In March Bul First Quarter Output Falls Short of Needs.

Production Records Broken In March; Output Still Is Far Short Of Goal

New Production Totals Set But Yet Far Short of Needs for Military Plans

RECORD-BREAKING WAR PRODUCTION LISTED IN MARCH  :   Aircraft, War and Mer chant Ships Set Pace; Arms Output Short

WAR PRODUCTION IN MARCH RECORL   6200 Planes, Bombers Ex. ceeds Monthly Rate According to Nelson.

AIRCRAFT, SHIP PRODUCTION UP DURING MARCH  Output Of Arms Short Of Quota Set By Gov’t

War Production in March Sets Record WPB Chief Reports   » But Nelson Says Output First Quarter Fell Short of Demand

War Production Records Made During March   But First Quarter Still Short Of Required Rate For ’43.

AIRPLANE. AND OnlP BUILDING AT NEW PEAK   Nelson Reports 6,200 Planes ‘and 500-Big Bombers ‘Month's Output.   MARINE CONSTRUCTION “GREATEST -ON RECORD’

But: First Quarter.of 1943 ‘Still Short of-Required’, Rate, WPB. Chair- * - man -Announces.   AIRCRAFT BOOSTED   Output Soars to 6,200 Planes and Heavy Bombers Top 500-a-Month Rate First Time

WAR PRODUCTION HITS NEW HIGH   Naval, Cargo Ship Construction ‘Greatest on Record’ Nelson Says

ECORD-BREAKING PRODUCTION TOTAL ROLLED UP IN MAR.   ‘First Quarter Arms Output Still Falls Short Of Military Plans For 1QA2.

ARMS OUTPUT STILL SHORT   Plane, Warship, Merchant Vessel Construction Breaks Records.   MUNITIONS MAKING LAGS

War Goods’ Production Records Craek   Nelson Says, Though, Totals Not Up to Goals

Arms Output Record Set, Nelson Says   But First Quarter Still Short of Required Rate for ‘43

Two Slayers Ask Clemency   Mrs. Susan Reich’s Killers Appeal to Governor Dewey

Fireman Dies After Blaze At Boys’ Home   Lieut. Thiesenhusen Is Stricken Fatally While Directing Operations Of Engine Company

eR EM oe  Peace Offer by Hitler Through Franco Denied By Spanish Embassy

STORY OF HITLER PEACE MOVE DENIED   Spanish Embassy at Rio Says Fuchrer Is Not Planning to Make Offer Through Franco.

spanish Embassy Denies ‘itler Planning Peace  liter Through Spain

23 TONS OF BOMBS: *ALL ON JAPANESE -RABAUI AIRDRONE   Violent Explosions Blast Foe’s Planes; Fires Visible 60 Miles Away   NO ALLIED PLANES LOST

TADANDOD DAD.  JALANTOD DADE  AGAIN BLASTED BY LIBERATORS   Rabaul Heavily Hit, Huge Fires Started by U. S, Airmen; Nip Field Is Also Target   16 BOMBERS USED, ' ALL RETURN SAFELY   23 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Jap Installations In New Britain; See Offensive Move

JAP BASE AT RABAUL IS LEFT IN FLAMES   All Allied Bombers Back Safely from Raid

JAP’S RABAUL BASE HEAVILY HIT BY ALLIES   23 Tons Of Bombs Dropped; Huge Fires Kindled

Key Jap Rabaul Base Is Ablaze ‘After Bombing   Great Fires Seen For 60 Miles; Many Violent Explosions.

ALLIED AIRMEN REMIT RABAUI   Drop 23 Tons of Bombs All Planes Return Safely

Soviefs Take GorodokBase   Baltic Army Nearing Key Vitebsk Defense

Russian Armies Resume Drive South of Nevel   Sweep Up 60 More Towns, Hamlets in Lakes, Swamps Area

RUSSIANS MOP UP 60 TOWNS IN BIG THRUST   HEAVILY - FORTIFIED GORODOK TAKEN FROM NAZIS

White Russia Rail Centers Are Pounded   Soviet Bombers Loose Bombardment On Baltic Area Defenses   DRIVE FOR POLAND   Surge Westward Engulf 460 Towns; Reds Reac! Pronya River

Reds’ Baltic Power Drive Is Resumed   Nazi Strongpoint Falls As Soviets Scoop up 60 More Towns

ROMMEL’S SMASHES AT THE BRITISH 8TH COMPLETE FAILURE   “Round 1 Is Over” With His Tanks and Infantrymen in Retreat.   Gen. Montgomery’s Men Dis. rupted Four Thrusts Saturday Afternoon.

Germans Lose 33 Tanks In Vain Attack   Forced To Withdraw Before Veteran Eighth Army

NAZIS LOSE 33 TANKS IN DRIVE ON SOUTH AREA   Allied Air Forces Aid In Stemming Attack On Mareth Sector

EIGHTH ARMY REPULSES SIX ENEMY THRUSTS   Small Advances B: Allied Forces In Northern Sector Are Reported.

Falls Back Toward Mareth Line Positions After the British Smash Assaults   Aggressive Allied Patrol Activity And Local Gains Made in North Tunisia—Yank Patrols Withdraw From Pinchon to Avoid Sheii Fire

Rommel Drive In South Is Stopped   “british Eighth Army Forces Nazis Back Into Mareth  Line   AXIS LOSES 33 TANKS   Allies Make Local Gains in North, Hammer An Axis  - Convoy

MONTGOMERY'S MEN STOP 2 BIG GERMAN ATTACKS   DESTROY 33 TANKS IN HEAVY ACTION NEAR MEDENINE

Axis Offensive Against British Ends In Failure   First Round Of Renewed Fighting Won By 8th Army

ROUND ONE OVER WITH GERMAN INFANTRY, TANKS IN RETREAT   ROMMEL LOSES 33 TANKS) WHILE NOT ONE BRITISH TANK WAS LOST

Rommel’s Battered Tanks And Troops Forced Back; Planes Rip Into Convoy

NAZI FORCES RUN BACK TO MARETH LINE   British Source Says Round One Won By Montgqomery’s Men   WRECK ENEMY TANKS   33 Declared Destroyed Without Loss Of Single English Vehicle

Destroys 33 Axis Tanks — In Mareth Line Action   J. S. Forces Withdraw Westward from Pichon to Avoid Heavy Fire from Hills, Canture 95 Italians in Sorties

NAZIS RETREAT AGAIN TO HILLS IN MARETH LINE   Montgomery’s Men Step 4 Thrusts and Push Germans Back

AFRICA C LOSES 33 TANKS TO EIGHTH ARMY   Rommel’s Forces Are ‘Driven Back Of Medenine  When Attack Fails   INITIATIVE GAINED BY ALLIED TROOPS

Rommel Heads Back for Mareth Line: Round One Is Over   DESSERT FOX LOSES 33 TANKS AS ALLIES GO UNSCATHED; AXIS FORCES RETREAT UNDER HAIL OF FIRE FROM GROUND, AIR

AXIS LOSSES RUN HIGH AT MARETH LINE   [NITIATIVE REGAINED BY ALLIED FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA   First Round Won   Artillery Too Hot

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY BEATS OFt GERMAN DRIVES   Axis Units Take Up Positions In Hills In Africa

Aggressive Allied Patrol Activity And Local-Gains Made in North Tunisia—Yank Patrols Withdraw From Pinchon to Avoid Shell Fire

Axis Troops Forced Back Toward. Mareth Line, 33 Enemy Tanks Destroyed

NAZIS. THRUST THROWN GAGK, LOSES HEAVY   Rommel’s Initial Smashes Are Complete Failure, — British Announce

‘Eighth Army Has Inflicted Heavy Losses   British Report 30 German Tanks Knocked Out In Bloody Battle

British Stop Rommel’s  Six Attacks   First Serious Drives on Eighth Army In Tunisia Broken With Seriqus Losses Inflicted on Axis

ROMMEL BEATEN IN ROUND ONE   Smash. At. British. Eighth Army Declared to Bea . Complete Failure   SUFFERS HEAVY  LOSS OF TANKS   Allies Regain Initiative in North; American Planes Again Score Big

Nazi Atfackers Forced Back in Bloody Retreat   33 Tanks Destroyed For Rommel; Allies Fail to Lose Single Tank in Contest

Allies Recapture Initiative in Northern. Sector.  ROUND ONE IS WON BY BRITISH ARMIES  ‘Only Patrol rol Activity Re ported in Central -  Sectnr

‘Round 1’ Ends As Axis Drives At Mareth Line   Allied Forces Active On Other Tunisian Sectors

British Eighth Army Repulses German Assaults   Allied Forces Regain In: itiative in Northern Tunisia

Six Assaults Repulsed by Montgomery   Alliés Also Report ‘Regaining Initiative in Northern Tunisia

Battered Enemy Is Withdrawing Back Into Hills   Allies Also Regain Initiative In North; Axis Convoy Is Smashed

TROOPS AXIS BACK T0 MARETH LINE   Initial Smashes of Nazi General Have Completely Failed, Military, Source Says, and “Round One Is Over.”

BRITISH TROOPS WIN ROUND ONE, ALLIES REPORT   Fierce Battle for Tunisia Rages on — 33 Nazi Tanks Destroved

BRITISH WIN ROUND ONE OF TUNISIAN WAR   Rommel’s Forces in Retreat Toward Mareth Line, British Assert.   8th Army Stops Four Smashes by Germans

AXIS FORGES SUFFER HEAVY LOSS IN TANKS   Thirty - Three Completely Destroyed; Enemy Thrown Back North of Medenine   NAZI OFFENSIVE IN NORTH THROWN OFF   Rommel's Mareth Line Defeat Greater Than That Suffered At Kasserine Pass

Nazis Retreat Toward Mareth Line Positions   Tunisian Front Action Accompanied By Allied Patrol Activity

Eighth Army Is Stone Wall  F or Rommel   Initial Smashes Against Montgomery’s Lines Turned Back; Nazis T ace 22 Tanke

ROMMIEL'S SMASHES FAIL AND RETREAT TOWARD MARETH LINE NECESSARY: TANK LOSS HEAVY

“ROUND ONE” WITH BRITISH 8TH ARMY OVER. REPORT SAYS   Axis Desert Chieftain’s Tanks And Infantry Forces in Retreat. Toward. Mareth: Line  Dotti nme   By HAROLD V. BOYLE

British Smash Rommel Raids   Allies Recapture Initiative in Northern Sector of Tunisia

British Smash Furious Drive at Mareth Line   33 German Tanks Knocked Out, None Lost By English; Allies Gain in North and Planes Severly Blast Convoy in Meditarranean.

AFRIKA KORPS WITHDRAWS 10 MARETH LINE   Axis Tank Force Battered As Troops Are Pushed Back Into Hilig *   PLANES BLAST CONVOY   Allied Troops Seize Initiative From Von Arnim In Northern Tunisia

British Win First Round Of Big Battle   Yank Bombers Smash at Axis Supply Ships

NAZIS RETREAT TO HILL POSTS   Battered By Ground Fire, 33 German Tanks Are Destroyed.   ALLIED PATROLS ACTIVE

NAZI FORCES FALL BACK T0 NORTHERN LINE   ‘Round One’ Is Taken By British; 33 Tanks Destroyed Near Mareth   Convoy Pounded

ROMMEL IS REPULSED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Thirty - Three Enemy Tanks Destroyed Without Loss of Single British Machine   TWO SHIPS ARE SUNK

ALLIES RECAPTURE INITIATIVE IN NORTHERN SECTION AND MAKE LOCAL GAINS THERE; ROMMEL’S LOSSES  HEAVY.

FORCED T0 WITHDRAW   Allied Bombers Break Up Enemy Convoy In Mediterranean

SIX THRUSTS FAIL 10 GAIN ANY GROUND   German Force In Retreat Toward Mareth Line   AERIAL BLOWS   Landed On Axis Convoy Off Tunisia: Allies Make Other Local Gains

Rommel Retreats To Mareth Line, Loses 33 Tanks   Montgomery’s Men Stop Six Attacks; Allies Gainin North

Nazis Flee Allies In Yugoslavia  Air Attacks Drive Foe From Island, Aid Partican Vietare

Allied Fliers Play Large Role in Yugoslav Victory  Airmen Force German   Airmen Force Germans From Adriatic Isle, Aid Ground Army

Tottering Balkans Jarred Anew   Allied Air Forces Assist Marshal Tito In Yugoslavia

BOMBING HELPS YUGOSLAV ARAN   Germans Forced to Abandon Uljan tsland; Moslems Join Fight.

GERMANS ABANDON ULJAN   Allied Air Assaults Foree Nazis To Ketreat From Island

Yugoslav Island Said Abandoned By Nazi Troops   Mounting Allied Assaults Force Germans To Flee Position On Adriatic Sea

1d Fliers Play e Role in  ict oslay Victory  rmen Force Germans om Adriatic >». Aid Ground Army

Germans Are  Driven From Uljan Island   Allied Air Assaults Op Adriatic Coast Play Big Role In Operations Of Marshal Tito

Raids-Force Germans To Flee Island   Allies Air Force Aids Slavs In War On Nazi Armies

WLB SNUBBED AGAIN BY UMW IN COAL GRISIS   Lewis Ignores Board As Hearings In Dispute Are Resumed

RESUME HEARINGS IN COAL DISPUTE   Representative of Operator: Attend But UMW Is Not -Represented.

LEWIS PASSES UP WLB MEET   Board’s Hearing Of Dispute Again Snubbed By Boss

PANEL SUCCESS SEEN DOUBTFUL DURING TRUCE   Government Makes Plans In Case Mine Strike Should Be Resumed   SEIZURE ORDER SIGNED   UMW Officials Remain In New York; Extension Of Peace Period Hoped

CONTINUES T SNUB EFFORTS OF U. S. PANEL   Ickes Prepared To Seize Coa For War Plant Operation If Necessary.   DIMOUT PLAN DELAYED   Transportation Ban Also Held Up Pending Possibility of New Strike.

JOHN LEWIS AGAIN SNUBS. WAR. LABOR BOARD'S HEARINGS   Representatives of Operators Appear But None Of Mine Workers Officials

Lewis Again Snubs WLB, Fails to Attend Meeting   Government Preparing Drastic Measures For Expected Strike Cali

ICKES TO SEIZE COAL — WR ULS. IF REQUIRED   Signs Order Enabling Him to Take Over Output, if Necessity Arises, to Protect War Plans and Essential Civilian Users from Shortages— Strike Truce Expires May 19.

GOVERNOR RESIGNS   Peyrouton to Accept Commission With  De Gaullists

Tito Offensive Hits 6 Sections   Yugoslav Partisans Take Heavy Toll Of Nazis

OPA LISTS CEILING PRICES ON MEATS      Ohio Prices Effective  April 1

Allies Seek — To. Consolidate Tunisian Gain:   British Engaged in Fierce Fight to Hold Strategic Hill

U.S. BRITISH PLANES IN: TUNISIA" ATTACK AXIS SUPPLY LINES      Ground -Forces Are - Now Consolidating Gains At Strategic Positions:

AXIS LINES STRAFED BY AIRMEN   Allies Seek To Consolidate Gains On Tunisian Front

Great Ford Plant In Chicago  Labor Row Scene  Work Is Halted But Employes Say It Is Not Strike

EE  STOP ON J08   Meeting Held To Protest Transfer Of Two Guards.

It Happened This Week... Reds Forced To Evacuate 8 Cities In Donets

Russia Admits Loss of Eight Cities to Nazis   Reichswehr Hurls 25 Fresh Divisions Into Counterattack

EIGHT CITIES FALL PREY 10 GIANT DRIVE   Nazis March 100 Miles To Threaten Big Fortress  City Of Kharkov.

Fresh Soldiers Sent Into Battle; Reds Lose 8 Cities Under Impact  Invaders Within 12 Miles of Khar-= kov; Soviet Fights Defensively;

ADVANCE COST NAZIS 20,000 MEN, REDS SAY   Soviet Forces Rapidly Enveloping Key City of Vyazma

FURIOUS ATTACK MADE BY GERMANS IN DONETS BASIN   Hitler Throws 375,000 Troops Into Area for Tremendous Drive—Eight Cities Recaptured by His Forces—Battle Rages On With Nazi Deaths Alone Placed at 20,000.

GERMANS GAIN 100 MILES IN DONETS BASIN   EIGHT KEY CITIES LOST BY REDS IN KHARKOV AREA

Nazis Using 25 Fresh Divisions   Reds Admit Eight Kev! Cities Loet. -

Launch Giant Counter  At Big Cost   Russians Admit Falling Back Under Impact of 25-Division Rush Rut Claim Toll of 20.000 Nazis

NAZIS TAKE 8 KEY CITIES IN DONETS BASIN   Launch Giant Counter Attack With 25 Divisions South of Kharkov; Reds Acknow ledge Reverse   Strongly Reinforced

Nazis Retake 8 Key Cities Near Kharkov   Reds Kill 20,000 German Officers and Men as Enemy Opens Powerful Onslaught

reat Battle Is aging in Donets asin with Reds n the Defensive   erman Assault Launched late in February with  25 Fresh Divisions of  375,000 Men

'No Reduction In Army Says  ‘War Secretary   Secretary of War Stimson urges top efficiency in agriculture ‘and industry. —

Russians Acknowledge the Nazis Have Added 25 Divisions   RED ARMY FORCED TO GIVE UP TOWNS   Russians Withdraw Northeastward, Bulletin  Aunouncec

Soviets Acknowledge Big Counter-Offensive Southwest of Kharkov  BUT SAY GERMANS PAY HEAVY PENALTY  Recapture of Towns Previously Contended By German Command

Bombs Still Fall On Ruhr   Populace Being Evacuated as Raids Increase

Americans Hii Northwest German Area   R. A.F. Smashes at Wuppertal in Shattering Raid

AMERICAN FLIERS POUND GERMANY: LOSE 18 PLANES   Targets in Northwest Part of Reich Undisclosed — 200 Ships Rise to Oppose  : Them.   RAIDS UPON RUHR FORCE EVACUATION   Source in Bern Reports More Than Four Million Citizens . Moved to Safer  Arnaag_   WITTE TIN.

Longview Man Named Secretary   Stevenson Asks Confirmation For Sidney Lotham

STEVENSON NAMES  SIDNEY LATHAM AS  SECRETARY OF STATE THREE MEMBERS OF  BOARD OF DIRECTORS Try AC A 2A PENAMERN

RAINS FAIL TO HALT RED PUSH AGAINST OREI   Russians Adyance 3 te 4 Miles, Smallest Gain Reported

GERMANS SLUW RSNDRNE AGANST OR   Rains Also Hinder Soviet Armored Troops

Texas Braces for Another Wave of Cold Weather   Hard Freeze in North Portion

Foxhole Seems Like Heaven in Air Raid; Soldiers Say Follow Rule, ‘Hit the Dust’

Foxhole fs a Funny Place But It Seems Like Heaven in an Air Raid

Railway Engines Are Destroyed By RAF Bombers   British Attack  German Airdrome

Superior Area Digs Out After  Severe Storm   Nearly All Schools Are Closed As Residents Of Twin Cities Fight Deep Snowdrifts

NORTHERN AREA Io HIT BY SNOWSTORM   Duluth, Superior Isolated By Drifts; Transportation Halted.

Crushing Raids Pave Way for Invasion   Grounded Enemy Planes, Hangars Bra Demolished

Slash Proposed Fund to Fight Labor Shortage   House Group Makes Cut in Agriculture Request for Fund to Reeruit Farm Labor

VICTORIO HIT FLEEING FOE   150,000 Russians Push Into Captured Kharkov   BERLIN ADMITS   Fall of Important City; De. clares Base Evacuated in Orderly Retreat

Russians Capture Kharkov, Advanc On River Basin   Kill 2,000 Germans, Occupy 15 Villages

Soviets Recapture Kharkov As Germans Flee; Release \Of Donets Is Red Objective   Nazis Sent Reeling Back 19 To 22 Miles In Three Days Of Savage Fighting; Loss Of City Is Tremendous De feat For Hitler

Kharkov falls; Nazi losses High  Ueeiay Rerart wy Tn   Major Break In German Line Made South Of City

Reds Open Smashing New Drive   Triumphant Army Starts Move on Enemy In Donets Basin; Fleeing Nazis Are Pounded Mercilessly on All Sides

Victorious Russ Units Chase Nazis   Major Break In German Donets Front, 200 Miles To South. Reported By Ruce Leader

Russians Follow Kharkov Victory With New Gains   Break-Through Is Aimed At Freeing All Donete Bacin

Russians Follow Kharkov Victory With New Gains   Break-Through Is ‘Aimed At Freeing AIL MWannte Deetn

Deep Break-Through Reported on Donets River Front  GERMANS RETREAT IN SAVAGE BATTLE Moscow Celebrates Vic. tory With Brilliant Fireworks

REDS RETAKE VITAL GERMAN DEFENSE POST   NAZIS THROWN BACK UNDER BLOWS IN DONETS AREA

WILD GAME IS DIET FORECAST   Solon Says Ickes On Right Track With Recommendation

: WE  BS Se CNH NEWS BULLETIN           Nazis Arrest: Former French Officers

Silence Prevails On Russian Front  Germans Pile Up  Ammunition Supply

RUSSIAN WARFRONTS OMINOUSLY SILENT   New German Onslaught I Expected Soon

BELIEVE ZERO HOUR NEAR ON SOVIET FRONT      Germans Pile Up Men and Materials for Expected Summer Drive—Atmosphere Tense All Along the Line.

Ominous Lull  On Red Front   Zero Hour for Nazi Push Believed Near

SILENCE PREVAILS ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT TODAY   Germans Continue to Pile up Stores of Ammunition, Tanks — And Men For Summer Push.

OMINOUS SILENCE PREVAILS ALONG THE SOVIET FRONT   Believed to Be Evidence’ !tidicating the Approi ‘ Zero-Hour in An A‘ Nazi Offensive

Wickard Warns Nation Food  Problem Serious   Says Rationing Will Be Even  Mara OO asin

TIGHTER FOO RATION LOOMS   Time To Conserve Is While Supply Is Available, Wickard Declares

Nation Must Save Food, Says Wickard  Secretary Calls For Tighter Hold on Supply

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ._ Represents First fap Retreat Of War, And Is Significant   By GLENN BABB Associated Press Foreign News Editer

5 Jap Ships Bombed: Two  Are Damaged Merchant Ship Leff Ablaze by Allied Planes in Pacific

FIVE JAP VESSELS REPORTED DAMAGED   Merchant ship Of 7.000 Tons Left Ablaze And A Probable Total Loss Off Boctong Istand

BOMBERS POUND JAPANESE SHIPS   Five Merchantmen Are Attacked, Two Are Badly Damaged

JAP MERCHANT VESSELS BOMBED   FIVE ATTACKED IN PACIFIC BY ALLIED AIRMEN—TWO HEAVILY DAMAGED.

Five Jap Merchant Ships Bombed In South Pacific  Grim Evidence of Sea Battle Observed Off New Guinea Coas

Hundreds of Items for Hormes To Be ‘Simplified’ in 1943; Frills:and-Styles Are Out

Hundreds More Household Items To Be Simplified   300 of 1,000 Articles Directly Affect Home, Government Discloses

Frills and Style Variations Must Go, OWI Asserts   War's Grip on Americar Household Soon To Be Tightened

GRIP WILL TIGHTEN ON CIVILIAN GOODS   Hundreds of Items Will be ’ “Simplified” This Year' -

HOME ARTICLES TO BE SIMPLER   Frills And Style Will Be Eliminated From Many More Items

Civilian Goods ‘Simplification To Be Extended  Number of Varieties  Of 500 or More

HOUSE POSTWAR PLAN MAY COME TOVOTEMONDAY   Leaders Confident Resolution Will Be Enacted in -- Present Form; Amend ments Proposed

Butter-Loving Steak-Eaters Hit Hard By Point Values   JAMES MARLOW  AND NMPNeaE TITIUF

NAZIS ARE FLYING CAPTURED ‘FORTS   But Thus Far They Have Made No Attempt to Interfere With U. §. Operations

GERMANS FLY UI. $. FORTRESSES   Captured Machines Join Allied Formations; Do Not Interfere

Germans Flying Captured Flying Forts Alongside Bombing Formations

Captured Forts Are Flown By  German Aviators   May Plan Sneak In Allied Ranks

GERMAN AIRMEN ARE FLYING. CAPTURED FORTS ALONGSIDE OUR FORMATIONS OVER FRANCE, GERMANY   What The Enemies Plans Are Has Not Yet Emerged —Perhaps They Hope to Sneak into Raiding Squadrons and Open Guns Against Them

Captured Fortresses Being Flown In Our Formations   Strategy Of German Airmen Not Yet Clear; No Attempts Yet To Interfere With Operations

Germans ' Fly Captured US [Flying Forts   Enemy Fly Former US Planes Alongside. American Formations Over France and Germany

Nazis Taking Bomber:  Alongside American Formations Without Attempting Interference

Germans Flying. Captured Bombers I'ry To Sneak In With Allied Raiders

Ships Appear Alongside American Formations Over France Germany—Kep! at Distance

Americans Hit Japs af Kiska   Blast Runways and Other: Installations On Aleutian Island

U.S. BOMBERS ‘AGAIN BLAST JAPS AT KISKA   Runways and Installations Feel 29th Raid of Month by ‘American Airmen

Fortresses Hit Jap Bases In Solomons   Revetments and Runways at Buin and Kahili Damaged

NAVY REPORTS KISKA BLASTED BY ARMY GRAFT   Airdrome of Japanese-Helc -Bass.Bombed-and “""Strafed by Force  On March 29   Flying Fortresses Also Hit Nip Positions In Central Solomons and At Kahili

Army Flyer: Blast Jap Kiska Base   Fortress Probably Sinks Destroyers in Night Attack

Japs’ Kiska Installations BlastedA gair   AmericanBombersStrike at Vila and Kahili in South Pacific

J aps On Kiska Blasted Again By Bombers   U.S. Planes Also Make Punishing Attacks In Solomons

Japs Again Attempt To Reinforce New Guinea Forces - And Again Fail

LT.-COL. J. P. DEVEREUX, HERO OF WAKE ISLAND, PRISGNER AT SHANGHAI

CHARLES RUGEE KILLED BY CAR   Mason Cityan Struck ‘by Hit-Run Driver”

YANKS ATTACK "AT MUNDA BASE   Enemy Destroyer Thought Sunk Off Island To North; Field Is Bombed

AMERICANS ARE ATTACKING NEAR MUNDA AIRFIELD   3 Jap Warships Engaged Off Kolombangara; One Believed Sunk      ENEMY’S POSITIONS UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

American Troops Attack Japanese On Munda Sector   Also Bomb Three Enemy) Destroyers in the Pacific:

Americans Strike at Japs in Pacific Bases With Good Results; Munda Is Hit; Ship, Planes Are Destroyed

U.S. Troops Drive On In New Georgia   10 More Actions Are Reported in Southwest Pacific

Communique Tells of Assault on New Georgia Island    JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK BY BOMBERS      Gen. MacArthur Now Has Planes for Job in the Pacific

PEOPLE FOOLED AGAIN BY AXIS   Propaganda About Allied Invasion on July 3 Is Turned to Advantage

Tense Europe Seeking Sign Of Invasion      Axis Radios Sarcastic a: Their Predictions Fail; Saboteurs Busy

AXIS MISS AGAIN ON INVASION. DAY   Nazi-Operated Paris Radio Now Claims Allies Made Prediction

Axis Build-Up Of Invasion Of Europe Crumbles; Nazis Nasty   Mingle Sarcasm With Fear; Italy, In Path Of Possible Assault. Has Real Jitters

JAP AIR FORCE GIVEN POUNDING   Wewak And Boram Airdromes Blasted In Concentrated Attack

DESTROY 40 JAP WARPLANES IN WEWAK AREA   Men of MacArthur Also Drop 66 Tons of Bombs in 15 Minutes

DESTROY 48 JAP PLANES OVER WEWAK   Allies Inflict Heavy Defeat on Air Concentration at New Guinea Base.   Hour-Long Air Battle Rips Enemy Attempt to Build Up Aircraft Strenoth.

Republicans Pledge End  To ‘Bureaucratic’ Rule   Post-War Advisory Counc Also Calls For U. S. Participation In Balking Future Aggression

U.S. Internationalism Would Be Controlled By Plan Approved By GOP

GOP APPROVES WORLD ORDER   Asks U. S. Participation ir Organization of Sovereign Nations.

GOP Parley At Mackinac Ends  Peace Preservation Proposal Approved

No-Isolation Stand Taken By G..O. P.   ‘Mackinac Charter’ Geis Unanimous — Republican. Backing

G.0.P. Leaders Frame Policy   ‘Mackinac Charter’ Is Adopted Tuesday

GOP MAPS BROAD POSTWAR POLICY   ‘MACKINAC CHARTER’ URGES WORLD MOVE TO MAINTAIN PEACE

CANNED FRUITS TO COST MORE   New Price Formula Is Is: sued to Canners  By OPA

Canned Fruits Will Be Highe   New Price Formula  Issued To Canners -

Pay for Waste. Fats in Points   New Plan Effective December 18, OPA Announces.

U. 8. Tanks, Infantry Besiege San Vittore; Highth Army Captures Consalvi. Strengthens Hold On Orsoena Road   U. 5. BOMBERS IN RAIDS OVER REICH

REDS CLAMP VISE TIGHTER ON KHARKOV   Rostov Also Is Reported Under Artillery Fire

BOTH OASTIONG WHTRIN RANGE UF SUVIET GUNS   Plans For Allied Invasion Of Europe Progressing With Tunisia Quiet

Escape of Passengers ‘Miraculous’ Three Crewnen Die in Wreck  Of Crack 20th Century Limited

CREWMEN DIE IN ENGINE BLAS!      Twentieth Century Locomotive Boiler Blows Up in New York State

3 of Crew of 20thCentury Die in Blast   BUT 173 PASSENGERS OF NEW YORK CENTRAL'S STREAMLINED LUXURY TRAIN ESCAPE INJURY.   Locomotive Blows Up

 Production Goals Will ‘Be Achieved   Nelson Says Rubber and Gasoline Programs Can Be Carried Out; Strike Spreads Fast in Soft Coal Mines

PRODUCTION CHIEF NELSON PREDICTS GOALS BE REACHED  BUT SPREADING COAL   BUT SPREADING COAL STRIKE MAY INTERFERE WITH PRODUCTION

Nelson Predicts We'll Hit Goals  Synthetic Rubber And Aviation Gas

Cattle Feeders Are Forced Out   Will Have to Sell Half-Fed Cattle Unless They Can Get Corn.

Ickes Reports Coal Situation Much Worse   Military Services Will Need More Fuel For Operations in Italy   48-HOUR WEEK HINTED

Coal Situation In U.S. Bad and Will Get Worse   Necessity of Giving Some To Italy Creates Problem

Coal Situation Crows Worse   ‘Secretary Ickes Reveals Fuel Being Shipped To Mili  tary In Italy,

iGKES REPORTS COAL SHORTAGE THROUGHOUT U.S   Says Situation To Get Worse As  Winter Nears

Molly Pitcher Day In Graettinger  Saturday, Aug. 7 Auxiliary Ladies To

‘Molly Pitcher Day In Graettinger Saturday, Aug. 7  Auxiliary Ladies To Gall Stamnc. Randc

GIRL MAIL CARRIER SAVES MAN FROM ADIRONDACK CAMP   Anne Gibbs, 18, Skiis Into Fourth Lake to Rescue Snowbound and Starving New Jersey Visitor.

CEILINGS ON 20 ITEMS OF FOOD   OPA Action to Be Followed By Moves Backed by Subsidies

Prices Of Meats, Butter, Coffee Down 10 Per Cent   Effective June 1 —: OPA Bégitis Begins Roll-Back Which Will Bring Cuts In Price Of Canned And Fresh Vegetables

ORDER 10 PCT. PRICE CUTS IN MEATS JUNE   Butter, Coffee Included In New Roll-Back Program

U.S. Cut  Prices   LABOR’S DEMANDS FOR LOWER LIVING COST MET IN ROLL-BACKS

SUBSIDIES WILL COMPENSATE FOR FOOD PRICE CUI   Government Payment Planned to sure Adequate Production

HE ROLL BACK BEGIN WITH IPC. CUT ORDER   ft Seeks to Return Cost ef ting to Sept. 15, 1942 Level.

!   OPA Orders 10 Pet. Cut In ‘Meat, Butter Prices:   Coffee Also Affected; To Reduce Fresh Vegetable Prices 30 or 40 Percent —

10 Per Cent Cut On Meat, Butter, Coffee Ordered   Seven Major Food Items Included On  List As of June 

Price Cut Effective On June    Subsidy Program To Be Set Up By OPA To  _ Bring Reduction In Cost Of Foods

20 Food Items Are Included In First Effort To Lower High Food Prices ~

TEN PERCENT CUT IN SOME MEAT PRICES   May Be Rolled Back In Som Canned. Fresh Vegetables By June 1

OPA Pegs  Prices on Food Items   All Price Levels Will Eventually Be Rolled Back

Cost-Of-Living Items Drop To Lower Levels   Officials Predict Prices Will Go Down To September 15 Levels Before July Ist.

LOCAL RELIEF DOLE DOWN $4¢   Over $50,000 for Al  Types of Assistance in March

COUNTY AID CHECKS UP $26   ‘Small Increase for Needy  in Week Ending Today

LOCAL RELIEF DOLE DOWN $2      Total of $52,991 for All Types of As- — sistance

Ruhr and Occupied France, Warsaw and Pilsen Targets in Greatest Bomber Assaults

Bombers Blast Berlin And Ruhr Valley In Raids   Occupied Czechoslovakia Also Included In Sweeping Bomber Attacks   VAST AREA OF EUROPE IS HIT

Windsor And FDR Confer   Parley With Prime Minister Interrupted.

AUTHORITY IS GIVEN ICKES   Would Direct Coal Rationing If Necessary.

Ickes Is Named Administrator Of Solid Fuels  Empowered To mam , £t ££   Empowered To Establish  Policies

LOTTERY BILL TO BE PRESSED   Sabath Will Ask Congress For Action To Ward Off Sales Tax Law

LABOR SECRETARY PROPOSES FINES FOR ABSENTEES   Miss Perkins Sees Bill te Correct Situation in Wa Plants No Solution of Problem.

HERBERT TAKES STAND AGAINST CHANGE IN TIME   Doubts Ohio Legislature Can Legally Order Switchover   UP TO CONGRESS      Proponents of Change As Legislation Be Recommended .

Doubts Ohio Can Change War Time   Lieut. Gov. Paul M. Herbert Issues Opinion To Assembly

HERBERT PUTS CRIMP IN DRIVE   Lieutenant Governor Doubls Time Change Would Be Proper Or Patriotic

CHANGE OF TIME HERE DOUBTFUL   Bill To Change Ohio Relief System Among Several Before Legislature

WOULD RUSH VOTE ON PAY-AS-YOU-GO PLAN   Chairman George of Senate Finance Committee Urges Decision on Tax Program by March 15.

Last Mountain Barrier Held By Americans   Commando Troops Occupy Corsica

German Units Are Fleeing From Corsica   Sardinia Is Under Control of Yanks and Italians

Fifth slowly driving thru last barrier   US. rangers aid in Corsica battle

Clark’s Men Oust  Nazis at 3 Towns  Germans — Flee Corsica, a \ oa Pe

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ESCAPE PATH UNDER HEAVY AIR ASSAULT   Germans Leave 1,000 Dead on Battlefield and Several Hundred Prisaners in Allied Hands,   CLARK PUSHING TOWARD NAPLES   Moves Into Last Mountain Barrier Before City—British Win Control of South Italy.

Allied Army Controls All South Italy   British Take Potenza And Americans Help French Clear Corsica  OTHER TOWNS FALL

U.S. Fifth Army  Continues Its Advance   Germans Apply Torch to Naples in Effort to Destroy Advantages of Great City for Conquering Forces

U.S. COMMANDO TROOPS JOIN IN ISLAND BATTLE   Germans Leaving Corsica As Force Is Cornered; Escape Routes Are Heavily Bombed

Fifth Army Smashes Into Mountains Near Blazing City; Yanks Help French Mon Un Corsica

Americans Help French Forces  Mop Up Corsica   Germans Set Torch to Naples in Likely Prelude to Evacuatian; All Southern Italy Comes Under British Domination With Capture of Potenza: Ports Bombed

Yanks Help French Take Corsica   Southern Italy Under Control Of British Army

American 5th Army Drives Toward Blazing Naples  GERMANS REPORTED LEAVING CORSICA  Escape Route of Nazis and Terminal! Ports Bombed

U.S. Commando Forces Join French To Mop up Corsica; British Take Potenza; Control Southern !taly   Germans Leave 1,000 Dead in Evacuating Island; Smoke Palls Shroud Naples After Nazi Looting; Americans Fan Out at Salerno

British Control South; Rangers Land On Corsica   8th Army Capture Of Petenza Is Vital; 3 Other Cities Are Seized

Allies Slash. Nazi Barriers   Germans Leaving Corsica; Hold Tiqhteninag On Italy

NAPLES AFIRE AS AMERICANS DRAW CLOSER   YANK COMMANDOS HELP MOP UP CORSICA

Americans Are Aiding French  On-Corsica” ©   British Take Potenzi ‘and Gain Contral of Large Rezion

Killing Frost Hits North, West Kansas   Ends Growing Season; Mercury As Low As 24 Degrees

5 CUT MAY TART SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT   Report A, B and C Coupons to Lose One Gallon in Value

PRIMARY DATE CHANGE KILLED   Senate Defeats Bill To Move Vote Into September; Labor Measure Stirs Controversy,

COP DEMANDS TAX ABATEMENT   Leaders Seek Approval With Compromise Left Up To Senate

DRIVE TO PASS SKIP-YEAR TAX PLAN PRESSE   House GOP Bloe Favors Passing Question To Senate

LIQUOR RATION   Fisher Bares Ohio Plan, Can’t Say How Much You’! Get.

REGISTRATIONS FOR LIQUOR SET   Start May 3; Purchases To Be Made On Books

Axis Confer In Tokyo, Reach New Acreement   ‘World Order’ Plan Seen; Compromise Reached In Use Of  Manpower

To Be Based On Justice and Guarantee Eternal World Peace, Announcement Says   TOJO ONLY KEY MAN TO ATTEND PARLEYS   Believed Little More Than Routine Diplomatic Exchange; Reich Getting Italian Labor

Axis Conference In Tokyo Ended  Reach Agreement on New World Order -

JAP AND NAZI RADIOS TELL OF CONFERENCE   Say Agreements Reached For Establishment Of  “New Order”

Berlin, Tokyo Spout News Of Axis Parley Or ‘Justice, Eternal Peace’

 Axis Announces With Pride \Creation-of New World Order   “Enemy Nations. Report Full. Agreement — “On “Guarantee of ‘Eternal World Peace’

Axis Maps Joint War Program At Tokyo Conference   Germans Squeeze  Italian Allies

Berlin and T okyo Radios Announce New Agreement on Axis World Order

AXIS AGREES ON WORLD ORDER   Draft on Italy’s Manpower , Is Planned By German Reich

MORE WORKERS FROM ITALY 10 GO 10 GERMANY   New Axis Order Calls for Mussolini To Sacrifice People to Nazi War

‘Big’ Parley Was Routine Diplomatic Exchange   Meeting Held In Tokyo; Germany Demands And Gets Italian Labor For Reich’s Factories

AXIS STRESSES ‘WORLD PEACE   Berlin, Tokyo Have Scheme » They Say, to Create New World Order

An Axis Confab In Tokyo   Boast of “Complete ‘Agreement,” But In Europe Nazis Demand For Men Stirs Unrest

Germany Believed Putting Squeeze On Italy to Fill Manpower   VEGETABLES IN RETURN

 AXIS POWERS AGREE ON JETERNAL PEACE, JUSTICE IN NEW WORLD ORDER

Axis Chiefs Map War Program In Tokyo: New Manpower Demands Made On Italy

Axis Diplomatic Pot Boiling Again With Announcement of Meeting and Plans for Italians Skilled Workers to Be Sent to German Industrie:

Axis Representatives Map  Joint War Program in Tokio   Germany Puts Squeeze ‘on Italy To Fill Manpower Gans

AXIS: NATIONS. MAKE POST-WAR PLANS   Life of Peace and Justice Offered Under New World Order

AXIS HAS PLANS FOR GREATION OF NEW WORLD ORDER   Berlin and Tokyo Announce Completion of Conferences At Which Complete Agreement Reached On Plans ‘Guaranteeing Eternal World Peace’.

SECY, MORGENTHAU AT ITALIAN FRONT   Impressed by Troops and Assures Home Support

Visits F ront In Italy   Sec. Morgenthau Says All Americans Ought To See Havoc of War

Democrats Ask’ _ Congress Back        GOP. Minority Is Pressing Fou. Passage. Of Ruml Skip-A-Year.. Alternative

2 Tax Bills Are Pushed On Congress   Major Parties Continue Jangling Over Rum! Bill And Compromise

Showdown Neat Again in Fight On Income Tax   Party Factions At Odds Again  Over Proposals

CONGRESS STILL AT ODDS OVER PAY-GO TAX ACT   Democrats Of House Committee Ask For Compromise; Republicans Insist On Ruml Proposal.

COMMITTEE BACKS COMPROMISE PLAN   Asks Congress to Pass Tax Legislation with Administration Support

Wrangling House Groups Press Congress For Passage Of Respective Tax Measures

House Group Asks Support Of Tax Plan Immediately   Compromise Needs Backing; GOP Backs Ruml

Urge Suppor For Income Tax Plans   Party Groups On Committee Make Pleas For Plans

Invasion Alert’ In Sicily, Sardiniz   Italy Abandons Island Airfields—Schools Converted Into Hospitals

United Front Needed, Says New Governor  ‘Pie Eliminate:   Frills Elimination, Greater Efficieney Necessary Today

TWO OBSTACLES IN MINE DISPUTE   Conflict Between  LaborGovernment Growing

‘CASUALTIES NOW BEING BROUGHT IN FROM THE GILBERT ISLANDS BATTLE

THEY ARE BRINGING GILBERT CASUALTIES BACK TO BASES NOW   GRAPHIC PICTURE OF RETURN OF WOUNDED FROM FIGHTING FRONTS

CASUALTIES. . FROM GILBERTS   Pacific Base Scene’ of Terrible Quietness, _” from Wounded

MASSACHUSETTS FUEL OIL STOCKS DWINDLE   Considerable Number of Houses May Soon Be Untenable, Officials Believe

Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith Will Start Probe of Sugar and Coffee Rationing

GERMANS ADMIT NEW RETREATS ON RED FRONT      Liberator Bombers Hit Italian Bail Bearing Plant

400,000 MEN WILL BE SENT INTO GERMANY   Hitler Takes French Industry, Finance, Agriculture

LAVAL TRA WITH HITLER   — Game Of Give And Take Is Being Plaved.

National Collection Of Discarded Clothing and Rags Nov. 22 to Dec. 4

aanven  NATIONAL COLLECTION OF DISCARDED CLOTHING AND RAGS NOV. 23rd to DEC. 4th

BROWN ASKS FOR AID   Pace Farm Bill Pure Inflation, C liead Tells Senators

Stabilization Lost [f Pace Bill Is Passed   Price Boss Urges Senate To Shelve Inflationary Act

Brown Tells Senate Committee That Pace Bill Would Lead To Far-Reaching Inflation Effects

Brown Appeals For Aid To Keep Food Costs Dowr   Bankhead Bill Goes to Senate Committee Today.

BROWN CALLS UPON SENATE COMMITTEE TO FACE SITUATION   ASKS SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING IN EFFORT HOLD DOWN COST LIVING

TOUGH LABOR PLAN BACKED TO HIT COSTS   Defeated Farm Bloc to Look to Anti-Inflation Program

Brown Pleads With Senators   Asks Understanding In Efforts to Hold Down Living Costs

Republican Chairman Agreeable to Short Campaign on One Conditior

GOP Again Hits 4th Term Talk  Party for Quick Campaign if FD Wall Not Ruin

Asks Roosevelt Renunciation   Spangler Sees Fourth Term Unity Threat

FDR IS URGED 10 RENOUNCE 4TH TERM   Spangler Calls for Action in. Order to Assure . Unity .

RENOUNCE FOURTH TERM. C.0. PLEA   Spangler Writes Walker for Short Campaign Assurance sy.

Republican Leader Asks Assurance That Roosevelt Will Retire At End of Term. Promote Harmony

OPA Lifts Curb On Pleasure Trips   -uts Motorists On Their Honor To Avoid Non.Essential Driving; No Immediate Rations Boost Expected

‘Motorists In Northeastern States To Be Placed On Honor At Midnight   OPA TO CONCENTRATE ON BLACK MARKETS

Pleasure Drive Ban Lifted for East Motorists   Ruling Is Effective Tuesday Midnight  — Drivers on Honor

Ban On Pleasure Driving Is _ Lifted, Effective Tomorrow   Motorists Placed on Honor to Avoid -Non-Essential Driving by OPA—Restriction in Effect - Since May. 20

Honor System Replaces Ban On Joy Riding   OPA To Concentrate On Black Markets

  OPA Lifts Restriction On Pleasure Driving For Eastern Motorists

CURB ON DRIVING IN EAST LIFTED   ‘PLEASURE TRIPS BY MOTOR-ISTS AFTER TUESDAY MIDNIGHT AUTHORIZED.

Pleasure Car ‘Ban to End In . East Tonight   OPA Places Motorists on Honor to “ Avoid Non- Essential Driving; Siresses Military Gas Needs

OPA Lifts Ban On Gas For Pleasure   EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1; _ IN FORCE SINCE MAY 20; MOTORISTS WILL NO LONGER BE STOPPED.

Pleasure Driving Ban Will End At Midnight Tonight   OPA Again Will Place Motorists On Their Honor To Avoid Non-Essentiai Driving

OPA Lifts Northeastern States Pleasure Driving Ban: Puts Motorists on Honor

LULL ENDS AS BOMBERS LASH TARGETS IN FRANCE   Pleasure Driving Ban On Easterners Liffed

Driving Ban Off In the Northeast   Pleasure Riding Put On Honer Basis

Pleasure Driving Allowed   But Motorists Placed on Honor To Avoid Non-esssential Trips

Pleasure Driving Ban  Is Removed   Northeast’s Motorists Again Placed on Honor Effective at Midnight  CHECK ON HIGHWAYS TO BE DISCONTINUED  Motorists Are Urged To Restrict Driving Toa Fecentia]l Trine

United States May Talk Post-War Plans With Russia In Near Future, Is Belief

U.S. and Russia May Soon Have Discussions  On Post-War Economies Move Would Be Made to Reconcile Atlantic Charter With Red Plans

DISCUSSIONS “WITH RUSSIA   President Hopes U. S Can Confer With . Soviet Envoys

PLAN SERIES OF ALLIED MEETINGS   Will Begin April 27; Russia and U.S.  May Confer

U S., SOVIET UNION MAY TAKE PART IN ECONOMIC CONFABS   Roosevelt Hopes Discussions Similar To Those With Eden Will Take Place Soon

HINTS AT UL S.SOVIET MEETING   Roosevelt Announces Date Of First United Nations Conference on Food Problem

FR. HINTS US. AND SOVIET ENVOYS MAY CONFER SOON   Type of Discussions Just Concluded With Eden Will Be Extended.

Hint U.S.and Soviet May Oper Up Discussions   May Be of Type Just Concluded With Eden “.

FEAR FOR DAVIS’ LACK OF POWER TO RULE PRICES   Food Czar’s ‘Misgivings x , Cited After Only Four Days on Job

FOOD CZAR HITS LACK OF POWER   Failure To Be Given Control Of Prices ‘Nettles’ Davis

DAVIS DOUBTS POWER TO MEET FOOD PROBLEMS   Lack Of Authority To Control Prices Seen As Threat To Plans   FARM LEADERS WORRIED   Promise Of Authority On Values Fails To Materialize

SLAYING OF THIRD YOUTH FALSE STORY   Admitted Killing To Relieve : Parents’ Anxiety

~ Heavy Amarillo Center Enrollment : Opens Second Senior College Year

BIG ALLIED CONVOYS LEAVE GIBRALTAR   Pantelleria Reported in State of Alarm

PANTELLERIA ISLAND GOES ON THE ALERT   Report Two Huge Allied Convoys Totalling 133 Ships In Mediterranean

TWO-ALLIED CONVOYS SAIL INTO MED. SEA   “Passed ‘Southern Tip of Spain, It Is Reported.

INVASION FEVER GRIPS ITALY AS CONVOYS NEAR   Ss Pantelleria Put Under Constant Alert; 133 Allied Ships In  .. Duce’s Sea.

Allied Convoys Reported Moving In Mediterranean   Pantelleria Placed Under Urgent Alarm State, Dispatches Say

Uniform State Act On Water Is Convention’s Plea  National Reclamation Association Opens Convention in Denver

Uniform Water Act in 17 States Urged  O.S. Warden Issue: Challenge to Boost Food Output

Nazi Escape  By Sea Anticipated   Soviets Capture Area 22 Miles North of Kursk; Reds’ Black Sea Fleet Battering Transports

Reds Announce Important New Advances   Smash to an Area 22 Miles North of Kursk

KURSK WITHIN GUN RANGE OF FIGHTING REDS   JUNKERQUE RETREAT ATTEMPT TRIED BY GERMANS

REDS CLOSING RING AROUND 200000 MEN   Germans Prepare for Evacuation by Sea Atter Land Escape Corridor Is Closed.   SOVIET WARSHIPS BLAST TRANSPORTS    Muscovites Capture Area  Near Kursk and Now  Are Within Artillery  Range of City.

SEVER RAILWAY TO OREL AND PUT RUSSIANS IN SHELLING DISTANCES OF, KURSK; MOVE TO BLOCK NAZI RETREAT. vm

CLOSE PART OF LAND ESCAPE CORRIDOR IN DRIVE BELOW ROSTOV   Capture of Kupyansk, Important Rail Junction, Also Announced; Units Press Forward Toward Kursk

Big Nazi Army Endangered By New Trap   Reds Take Kupyansk; Batter Transports With Sea-Air Forces

Fall Of Rostov Is Thought Imminent   Capture Of Another Important Rail Point Leaves Whole Nazi Army !n Risky Position

PARTY’S NOMINATE MAYOR GANDIDATES      Name Kelly, McKibben in Chicago Primary

SPECIAL BOARD OPENS, HEARING ON RAIL WAGES      First Witnesses Called on Plea of Non-Operating Erotherhoods for Increases

HEARINGS OPEN ON WAGEISSUE RAIL EMPLOYES   Emergency Board of Three Experts In Labor Negotiations Receive Testimony At Chicago   900.000 INVOLVED   Report On Findings to Be Submitted to Three Agencies; Byrnes Has  Final Say

(EMERGENCY BOARD STARTS AR HEARING   Experts Summon Witnesses to Consider Wage Increase Demands

Main Posifions O Enemy in ‘American Hands   Army Air Power Supports Assaults by Ground Forces

RESISTANCE OF ATTU JAPS IS GRUMBLING   Army Air Force Supports Ground Forces In Capture Of One Of Three Enemy Posts   Air Activity In So Pacific

Jap Resistance Upon Attu Island Is Now Crumbling   Heavy American Air Support Is Aiding The Ground Forces In Mopping Up Near Chichagof

One of Main Jap Positions in Hands of Am. ericans   BOMBERS JOIN IN’ ’ ATTACK ON ISLAND   Air Striking Power Supports Assault by Ground Force .

AMERICAN FORCES NOW CLOSE '"O LAST MAIN CENTER OF ENEMY DEFENSE  ” SYSTERT

Jap Resistance On Attu Island Crumbling Fast   One Position Falls To. 5. . Troops; Secos  I! onal aw OF neces

One of Foe’s Remaining Posts Taken   Heavy Use of Planes Gives Support Of Ground Troops

JAP DEFENSE GRUMBLING IN ATTU ASSAULT   ENEMY FORCE HELD IN TWO SMALL POCKETS

Planes Aid New Attu A ssaults  Japanese Lose One Of ‘Three Main Points

Americans Capture One of 3 Remaining Japanese Positions  U. S. PLANES ATTACK ENEMY DEFENSES  Weather Break Allows Offensive from Air To Aid Ground Forces

Violent Assaults Open on Second Of 3 Jap Bases   PACIFIC FRONTIER

JAPS LOSE ONE OF 3 POSITIONS ON ATTU ISLAND   Second Under Violent Assault Following Capture by American Troops of Chichagof Valley.   PLANES SUPPORTING U. S. GROUND FORCES   Resisting Enemy Is Entrenched on Ridge—Naval Guns Apparently Are Playing No Part.

YANK FORCES CLOSING IN ON - JAPS ON ATTL   Resistance of Foe om Island is Reported Crumbling Fast

Japanese Resistance on Attu Crumbles Fast as American Warplanes Join in Assault

Jap Resistance On Attuis Crumbling   One Of Three Main Positions Falls To U. S Forces, While Another Is Under Heavy Assault; Planes Support Action

ATTU BATTLE.   Very. Few Jap Prisoners Are Evxpected By Americans. —

Johnstown Grieves For BuzzWagner   FLOOD CITY MOURNS PASSING OF DISTINGUISHED SON AND HERO; YOUNGEST LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN ARMY.

Johnstown Plans To Pay Tribute To Buzz Wagner   Funeral Services For War Hero Will Be Solemnized On Saturday

Soviet Army Less Than 60 Miles From Rostov; Frontal as Well As Flank Attack Likely

4-H Girls Build For Victory Rally Day   Dorothy Schlensig Named Viee President; Loraine Wenell. Sec.-Treas.

4-H Girls In Victory Program  On Rally Day   Beverly DeWolf Elected County Club President

Beverly DeWolf Is New President of Organization   Dr. C. C. Kepler Initiated As Honorary Member of Or- (4  ganization. Z

Worried Axis Whistles in Dark      Radio Keeps Up Uneasy Chatter

CONGRESS MAY ~ CHANGE MIND   REPORT G.0.P, MEMBERS OF FARM BLOC HAVE DECIDED TO SUPPORT ROOSEVELT ON INSURANCE

SLASH GERMAN : DEFENSE LINES   U. S. Forces Land From Sea Behind Strong Enemy  Positions.   TAKE SEVERAL CITIES

British Sweep Through Acireale, Easi Coast Pori Only 42 Miles by Air from Messira   DARING MANEUVER   American Seaborne Flank Attack Surprises Germans—Nazis Make General Withdrawal

STH ARMY PUSH ALONG COAST IS ROUTING ENEMY   Yanks Gain On Northern Road  To Messina

Many Towns ir Sicily Taken By U. $. Force   Front Is Now Only 42 Miles Airline From Nazi Escape Port

Threaten To  Trap Nazis In Sicily Fight   Two Coastal Columns Of Yanks, British Move Ahead; Enemy Caught In Randazzo Area

Armies Poised 42 Miles From Messina and Yanks Advance Beyond Troina

YANKEES LAND BEHIND STRONG NATIT POSITIONS   Eisenhower's Armies Slash Huge Chunks From Axis Defenses

ADVANCES PUT DEFENDERS IN TICKLISH SPOT   Eisenhower's Armies Now Within 42 Air Miles of Messina On Coast

Right Wing 42 Miles From Messina Port   Seventh Army Seizes Positions In Surprise Amphibious Attack

Huge Chunks Of Defenses  Are Cut Away   Last Main Avenue of Nazi Retreat in Sicily Is Endangered

YANKS OUTSMART ENEMY TO SEIZE SICILIAN TOWNS   AMPHIBIOUS FORCES HELP ALLIES CLOSE AXIS ESCAPE ROUTE

American Forces Hack At Enemy's Escape Defenses   U.S. Troops Strike From Sea In Move To Halt Fvacvation

HUGE CHUNKS CUT FROM NAZI LINES   By Gen. Ejgenhower’s Armies Ova Week-End. Allied Armies Within 42 Miles Messina.

Allies Advance In New Drive On Enemy In Sicily   Troops Poised Within 42 Miles Of Vital Messina

ALLIES CONTINUE TO SLASH HOLES IN THE GERMANLINES   U. S. Seventh Army Lands Troops Behind German Position   SOUTHERN ITALY IS UNDER ATTACK

Allies Slash Big Chunks FromNazi Bridgehead Lines   Allied Right Wing Within 42 Miles Of Messina; Yanks Advance On Two Sides

Eisenhower’s Armies Slashed Huge Chunks From German Defense Lines Across  Sicilian Bridgehead.   U. S. 7TH ARMY UNITS TAKE SAN FRATELLA   San Agata, Only 50 Miles From Messina, Also Captured; Cesaro Also Seized by the Americans.

CAPTURED BY YANKS   San Fratello, Acireale, Cesaro, Other Points Fall; British Aim At Axis Highway

Yankees Land Behind Enemy Strong Points   British, American Forces Push Up On Retreating German Troops.   SINGLE ROAD NOT CUT

Towns Taken by Americar Combined Operations on ~ North Coast   ‘BRITISH DRIVE NORTH   Americans Advance Inland Driving Enemy Toward Messina -

THREE SICILIAN TOWNS FALL 10 AMERCAN UNITS   Allied Right Wing Within 42 Air Miles of Axis Escape Port

Three More Points Seized   British Army Seeking to Sever Escape Highway

Enemy Alarmed Since Same Trick Based on  Control of Coast Is  Menace To Escape

Americans Hit Nazis  From Reat   Americans Land Along Sicilian Coast Behind German Lines To Seize Two More Towns

Attack Nazi Strong Points From Behind   Escape Port Endangered By Daring Maneuver; British Near Messina

Big Chunks" Cut Out of Nazi Lines   f el ar: Both Allied Armies Make Gain, Americans Outsmart tha Gernmnans   MAKE A DARING AMPHIBIOUS ATTACK   Units in Surprise Blow Also Ambush Enemy Convoy; Allies Tighten Squeeze

Steal Ashore, Rout Germans  AtSanFratello And San Agata   “Squeezing Out’ of Enemy Continues Steadily In All Sectors

YANKS ATTACK TWO PLACES FROM THE SEA   Land Behind Nazi Positions on North Coast, Take San Fratello and San Agata, Latter 50 Miles From Messina. :

Huge Chunks Of ely taken From German:   San Fratello And Sa Agato Captured Yanks Push Fro  Troina

British in 42 Airline Miles of Messina With Half of Base of Mt. Etna Now Held By Allies; Germans Being Shaken From Central. Northern Linec

Are 50 Miles From Axis Escape Port   British Troops Drive Nine Miles Up Eastern Coast Of Sicily

Detachments Of U.S. Seventh Army, In Daring Sea  Attack Behind German Positions, Capture Two Important Towne :

GEN, EISENHOWER’S ARMIES SLASH HUGE HOLES ENEMY LINES   BRITISH 42 MILES AND AMERICANS 50 MILES FROM MESSINA

United Nations Take Five More Towns InSteady Advance   Invading Forces Within 50 Miles of Messina, Air Units Blast Military  Objectives in Italy

SAN FRATELLO AND SAN AGATA FALL TO YANKS   Places U.S. Army Within 50 Miles of German Escape Port of Messina   ACIREALE FALLS TO BRITISH BATTLERS   American Force Lands Be hind Enemy Lines and Drives Back Reinforcements for Axis Armies

GERMAN DEFENSE LINES GRUMBLING ‘NEAR MOUNT ETNA   Nazis Surprised by Ameri can Landing on North  Coast; British Sweeping Tic Becencn Ghee

 San Fratello And San A gat                                    1 ne aders. ‘bls so Ca ature Conrro   British Eirbth Army Sweens Throneh Aviveale: Americans Make Unopposed Landing Behind Enemy Lines. Capture 500 More Prisoners

Right Wing Poised Only 42 Airline Miles From Messina; Trap Closing  On Fleeing Navis.

Big Chunks Are Taken Out Of Nazi Sicily Line   Right Wing Is Now Only 42 Airline Miles Away

GERMANS BOMB MOVIE THEATER IN ENGLAND; 12 CHILDREN Dil   Casualties May Be Much Higher; Junkers Plane Attacked from Low Altitude, London Says

Italians Told Fleet Can Not Prevent An Invasion   Admission Made by Leaders During Six-Hour Emergency Session of Senate; Government Attempts to Calm Uneasy Nation With Assurances Other Defensive Measures Are Being Taken

ian- Leader-Tells-His People Their Navy Can’t Stop Invasion   Admission Reported By Rome Radio After Emergency Session Of Italian Senate; Broadcast _ Seeks To Calm Uneasy Italians.

Italians Told Navy Is \Not Capable of Holding (Off Invasion By Allies

Italians Told Navy Can't Stop  Invasion   Blunt Admission  Made And Breadeast To People; Balkans Watched By Enemy

ITALIANS TOL SHIPS CANNOT STOP INVASION   Mussolini's War Leaders  Hold Six-Hour Emer  gency Session   MAKE DEFENSE PLANS   Germans Promise Aid If Italy Is Invaded By Allies

PHEASANT SEASON 1 WEEK IN MARCH   Spring Hunting March 15 to 22 - With Hours 9 to 5 and Five Bird Daily Limit.

Chaos Reigns in. Easteiti Hungary ~ Despite Appeals  Premier Unable to Stor ~-fnereasing” Activity wef om  _. «fg

Guerrilla Raids In Carpathians Shake Hungary   Frantie Premi or Calls On His Countrymen To Ouell Revoely

Hungary Is On ¢ Verge Of Chaos   Guerrillas Waging Widespread Raids

‘Hungary Is On «Verge Of Chaos   Guerrillas Waging Widesnradd Raide

U.S. Airmen Batter Jap Island Bases   Forerunner To Invasion Of  More Islands

U.S. Airmen Prepare for New Invasion Of Jap Bases in Cenfral Solomons

Labor Told To Abide By Little  Steel Formula   Chairman Davis of the Board Says Wage Agreement Can’t Be Changed Without FDR Ruling.

WLB Upholds Little Steel Wage Formula   Presidential Order Required To Change Policy. Chairman Davis Warns Labor

Americans Strafe  Enemy At Kiska  Vessel Destroyed In New Georgia Group

Grounded Jap Planes Damaged By  U. S. Attack   Results Of Raids  On Aleutian Base  Of Enemy Reported Bv Navy Department

U.S. Planes Attack Enemy at Kiska  Several Grounded Jap Aircraft Are Damaged

AMERICAN AIRMEN RETURN 10 ATTACK   Jap Bases In Aleutians, Solomons Again Raided

AMERICANS STRAFE JAPANESE AT KISK   Damage Several Grounded Planes; Attack Rendova In Pacific.

Navy Reports New Attack on Kiska Small Jap Ship Destroyed,  SMALL JAP CONVOY OFF NEW GUINEA HIT

Japan Massing Ships and Men In South Pacific   American Planes In New Attack On Kiska Base

Yank Planes Strafe Kiska,  Hit Rendova   No Explanation for Pres: ence of Jap Planes in Aleutians

General MacArthur  Warns of New Jap Threat to Australia   ENEMY STABS AT BRITISH LINES IN BURMA AS ALLIED BOMBERS RANGE PACIFIC IN CRUSHING BLOWS FROM GUINEA TO ALEUTIA

JAP PLANES AT KISKA DAMAGED; DESTROY VESSEL   Destruction of Steamer Occurs Near Rendova Island in the South Pacific—Both Raids Saturday

HOUSE PASSES BILL AIMED AT NUMBERS GAME   Aroused Public Opinion Causes; Reconsideration Of Measure Once Defeated   HEAVY PENALTIES LISTED   Labor Acts Advanced As Hearings Are Opened On Sales Tax Repeal Plan

Anti-Gambling  Measure Revived   House Reconsiders,  Passes It, 78-3]

3 ALLIED FLIERS ARE LOST IN RAID   THEIR DISAPPEARANCE IN DARWIN ATTACK ATTRIBUTED TO WEATHER.

Allies Lose 3 Pilots As Japs Lash At Darwin   Nip: Losses Heavy; Bad Weather Adds HMasnrde TR. Gack

Allies Lose 3 Pilots As Japs Lash At Darwin   Nip Losses Heavy;  Bad Weather Adds LI masanecAde Th Rath

Shonbrun Gets Wish, Then Dies   Convicted Slayer and John Cullen Executed for Killing Refugee

EXPLOSION AT NORFOLK NAVAL STATION TODAY   Several Buildings Damaged By Fire After Blast

Army to Do Four. Billion Miles of Flying in 1943   Importance of Petroleurr Industry Emphasized -  - At Meeting

Tremendous Use Of Oil Cited By Army Officer   Reveals Army Will Do Four Billion Miles OF Flying This Year

AIR FORCES STILL BLAST: AXIS COASTS      Churchill. Roose vel! Shape Final Plans For Invasion

F, D,, CHURCHILL MAY DISCLOSE BROAD OUTLINE   Report German Troops Bolster Sardinia, Raid Target

Churchill And FDR Lay Plans  "9 Beat Foe   UNDERSIDE or BUROPE 1s STILE. UN DERGOING HARD BLOWS.

Allied Bombers Continue Hammering Italian Bases   300 U.S. Planes Take Part in Raid on Sardinia; Germans Move Onto Island

ESTERRRE BOHLKE. 1S NOW A WAVE   Completes, Indoctrination at Special Navy School at

YANKS’ FIRST MAJOR TEST IN EUROPE   Nazis Regain Some Ground Lost in Karly Stages

Nazis Regain Some Ground In Struggle   Bitter Fighting ; No Confirmation of Evacuation Claims

BITTER §BATTLE WAGED BY HARD PRESSED ALLIES   German Military Spokesmen Say Struggle Hopeless For Americans   STIFF FIGHT, SAYS KNOX   Eisenhower Admits Nazig Regain Some Of Losses During Invasion

Pound String  ‘Of Jap Bases   Five Enemy Strongholds  North Of Australia, Nauru Txtenan Pit

Blast Five Jap Bases   Allied Warplanes in Action Above Australia And On Burma Front

PLANES BLAST 5 NIPPON BASES   Blast Are of Islands hbo sli  Bee py.  Ta

Five Jap Strongholds Are Blasted as Allied Flyers Go into Action

JAP BASES HIT NEAR AUSTRALIA   R.A.F. From India Blasts —--Enemy-Targete in — Burma

Heavy Assaults by Allied Planes Hit Many Jap Positions   Aerial Activity Is Spread From Burma Eastward to Solomons

JAP TARGETS FEEL AIR ARM’S MIGHT   Strongholds Above Australia Hit and Also on Burma Front

19 Tons Of Bombs On Wewak   Allied Flyers Pound Enemy Bases in Are Of Islands Above Aus. -tralia, and in Burma

Allied Planes Blast Five Jap Strongholds  U. S. Air Commande: Chennault  Confi dent

Bombs Rained On Nip Bases   ALLIED AIRMEN MAKE NEW RAIDS IN PACIFIC

Secretary Of Treasury Will Formally Open Naticnal Drive  Tonight —  GOAL IS $13,000,000,00¢ Over Million Workers Will  Canvass Fellow _ . Citizens .

Y—o—V—9—V—3— V —$ — V —$ Morgenthau Rallies U. §. Tonight To Back Service Men With Bonds   Great War Loan Drive Opens Today

NEEDS IT 10 KEEP THE NATION FREE FROM SLAVER   Morgenthau, In Name of Am erica, Makes Radio Address.

GERMANS SEEK bbe TAKE OVER  ENTIRE AREA   Fighting Is Still Going On  In Rome

CLAIM ITALIANS STILL BATTLING NAZIS IN ROME   King, Badoglio and Umberto Reported In Sicily   BERLIN SAYS MOST OF ITALY IN NAZI HANDS

LIQUOR GANGS COMING BACK   U.S. Jury To Probe Ohio Bootleg Trend

New Technic Is Adopted by RAF Bombers   Shuttle Between Britain And North Africa and Strike Targets Both Ways

RAF Is Pioneering ShuttleBombing Service Flying Over Germany to Africa and Return.   HIT ENEMY ON BOTH WAYS, REPORT SAYS

India Faces  Shortage Of Food Stores   Hunger May Add Weicht To Woes

Indian Crisis  Threat Of Starvation Is Seen As Even Greater Danger Than Politics In Volcanic India

POLITICAL MONSOON RUSHING TOWARD A FRESH COMPLICATION  In India MacKenzie Thinks as Shortage of

Food Shortage in India Most Potent of Dangers   Millions, Who Have Never Had Enough To Eat, Now Face “ Comolete Starvation

Food Shortage May Cause Fresh India Complications  Crisis Expected in Anreil Whon Flaur   Crisis Expected in April When Flour Bins at Lowest

Writer Says Food Shortage In India May Become Worst Menace Yet to Allied Cause

MacKenzie’s Series On India. ... . Food Shortage May Add Even Greater Dangers  To The Crisis In India

NATION MAY Be GLOot TO COAL GHlalo   Only Direct Intervention of the President May Pre-vent Waikout.   WOULD BE A CALAMITY   War Labor Board Holding Fire Till Lewis Makes His Decision.

Coal Strike May Be Called   Only President’s Intervention  May Stop Walkout

NAVY DENIES SCANDAL HINT   Explains Deal for Operators of Western Oil Lands

Navy Defends Its Contract On Oil Land   Standard Oil Deal 1: “Good” One, Answer To Charges Made By  Senator Langer

PRINTS MAKE BOW IN NASSAU COURT   Andricen Detective Attempts to Prove de Marigny Entered Reom

New York Detective  Enters Murder Case  Says Son-In-Law Left Fingerprints In Room

Barclay Sets A Record For Brief Speech   Shatters Precedent By Remaining on Senate Floor

240,000 Jowans New  Under Abms   Over 10,000 Have Already Been Discharged,

Two Years After Pearl Harbor 240,000   Iowans In Service   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

REVEAL SUBS WRECKED BY — “US; ACTION      ONE GERMAN. AND ONE JAP SUB SENT DOWN—AERIAL BLOWS ARE CON- , FJINVED .

NKLEY NAMED 10 SGRAP POS   E. N. Storer Resigns as the County Salvage Campaign Director. 

BINKLEY NAMED “TO SCRAP POS   E, N. Stoner Resigns as th County Salvage Cam-: -: paign Director,

Begin Bougainville Retreat Ahead Of Schedule... . . Jap Fanaticism Giving Way To Realism Today

Gen. Marshall, U. S. Chief of Staff, Visits Battle Zone To Confer With Commanders There Strategy for Driving Invaders Back and Eventual Att ack on Homeland Begins

CHANGE IN FANATICAL TACTICS OF NIPS SEEN IN ABANDONMENT OF POSITIONS BEFORE ATTACKED   Bougainville Area, At Top of 150-Mile Long Solomons Group, Japanese Are Moving Out. Retreat 'Seen As Swing Away from Fanatical to Reahehc 

O. B. Hodges Electec Eighth District Pres. Of The Alabama Education Ass'n.

Prin. O. B. Hodges Is New President 8th Dist. ‘Ala. Education Ass‘n.

White House Eyes Russia And Food  Congress Looks Ove:  Postwar Policies Aud LCnokacs Monit

VACANCIES SLOW PARLEY PLANS   Four Diplomatic Assignments Await Roosevelt Action

SOVIET RELATIONS F000 PROBLEM IS NO.  CONCERN FOR   Combat Strategy Appears Temporarily Replaced Today As President’s Decision On Appointment of Four Key Diplomatic Posts and Food Problem Is Awaited.

FOR WILL NAME DIPLOMATS FOR KEY POSITIONS   Four Assignments Hinge On Relations With  Russia   ISTANDLEY MAY QUIT   Welles May be Named to Post at Tri-partite Conference

KEY DIPLOMATIC CHANGES WAITED   Four Posts Bear On Soviet And American Relations

Key Diplomats To Be Named   Four of Them Bear on U:S.Russian Relations

Four Key Appointments In U. S. Diplomatic Ranks, Hinaing On Russian Relations, Await FDR's Decisior

Relations With Russia Next On WhiteHouse Lis  - Four Important Posts in Foreign. Relations — 

ADIPLO MATIC APPOINTMENTS TILL AWAITED   Ali Bear On United States Relations With Russia   and Projected Allied   Conference   WELLES’ SUCCESSOR MEAY BE OUTSIDER   Envoy Preliminary Foreign Office Discussions At Moseow May Be Har riman Or Hopkins

Assignments Await Action by President   Relations with Russia Concern White House; Food Problem Is Also Viewad

Key Diplomatic Changes Coming  Appointments To man On Soviet Relations

Diplomatic Assignments  Are Awaited   White House Concerned with Relations with Russia and New Approach to World Food Problem

Parley Task For Welles?   Retiring Hull Aide May Sit With Stalin

LARGE RAF PLANES GROUNDED FOR THIRD STRAIGHT NIGKT   Communications, Utilities Slowly Being Restored in German Capital

pete a  Its Tobacconists No [nterference Will be Permitted In Harvesting of -ssential Food Crops. \djustments Sought At leeting. 

TOBACCO MUST NOT INTERFERE © WITH ESSENTIAL FOOD CROPS DECLARES GOV. BROUGHTON

Union Heads Say Miners to Return   Think Coal Situation Will Be Good Today

Third Allied Drive Aiming At Cassino   Canadians Reported Fighting In Streets Of Ortone: Germans Continuina Te Fiaht Back

Yanks Win Spinuccio Mountain   Shattering Blasts Remind Yanks Of Twinkling Christmas Tree Lights.

Yanks Battle Snow, Nazis  InItaly Surge   Mountain Advance Puts Troops on Rim of Liri Valley,

READING MAYOR DEFENDS ACTION OF SOLDIERS   Denies Need For Bringing In Mihtoyyv Police

“OF SOLDIERS   Denies Need For Bringing In Mili- ~ - - tary Police

Raise Postage to 34 Cents, Postmaster Asks Congress   350.000 Parcels Daily.   17 Million Mail Bags.

JAPS SUFFER / NEW LOSSES   U, 8, SUBMARINES ‘CONTINUE TO TAKE TOLL FROM ENEMY WARSHIPS AND SUP PLY. VESSELS . 

U.S. SUBS AND PLANES BUSY IN PACIFIC   Jap Supply Lines and Forward Bases Rock Under Blows

U. §. Subs Smash At Jap Shipping: Sink Eight Vessels   More Are Damaged As Subs Blast At Jap Supply  T.ineec   TRANSPORT AND DESTROYER SUNK

REDS DEVELOP NEW DRIVE 10 ENCIRCLE OREL   Position Of U. S. Forces Believed Better In Tunisia

Mail Application for Ration Book Now   Urged by J. M. Griffin Not to Wait Until June 10, the Deadline.

CHURCHILL GIVEN HONORARY WINGS   Becomes First Commoner So Honored: RAF Observes Anniversary

DESTROY 147 — JAP PLANES LOSE ONLY 2   One Large Jap Raiding Force Completely Wiped Out

ADVOCATES WORLD FARM AUTHORIT!   Ever Normal Granary Would Be Created Under Pronosed Plan.

MAY GREATE WORLD AGRIGULTURAL HEAD   British Delegation To Food Conference Suggests Plan

ADVOCATE WORLD FOOD AUTHORITY   PROPOSE AGENCY TO MAINTAIN NORMAL GRANARY RESERVE

FOOD PRIMARY WAR WEAPON, F.D.R. SAYS   Asks $837,000,000 in Agricultural Aid Funds During New Fiscal Year to Spur Record Production.

ROOSEVELT FOR RECORD OUTPUT FARM PRODUCTS   President Recommends $837,000,000 In Agricul. tural Aid Funds Be Appropriated   FOOD HELD PRIMARY YEAPON CONFLICT      Would Earmark $193,623, 000 for Parity Payments to Those Meeting 1942 Basic Crop Program

837 Millions To Facilitate Nation’s War Food Needs   Agricultural Aid Funds Proposed By President in His Budget Message

F. D. R. Urges Farm Aid Funds   $837,000,000 Asked ' By President in His Message to Congress

F.D.R. Asks Funds For Record Farm Output; Calls Food War Weapon   While Our Agricultural Production Largest In History, Needs Of Our Armed Services So Great That Shoriage Of Some Foods Inevitable.

$37 Million In  Farm Aid Fund   100 Million For Soil Conservation, Nearly 200 Million For Parity Payments.

$837,000,000 Asked To Boost Food’s. Production During 43; Termed Important Weapon

AGRICULTURAL AID FUNDS SUGGESTED B PRESIDENT’S BUDGET  MONEY WOULD BE USED IN FACILITATING RECORD FARM OUTPUT

REDS SMASH NAZI TANK FORCE; ENEMY MASSING FOR DRIVE, MOSCOW SAYS

Nazis Resume Counter-Drives Upon Russians   Report Red Army Holding Firm In Defense South Of Kharkov   MOSCOW PRESS : WARNS OF ATTACKS

NAZIS RENEW ~DONETS DRIVE. ~ NEAR KHARKOV   HEAVY TANK AND ARTILLERY ACTION REPORTED AS ’ RUSSIANS SAY LINE HOLDING FrRMy- -

RUSS TROOPS HOLD AGAINST »NAZI ATTACKS   German forces resume counter-offensive operations near Kharkov

BOMBER AIRVIEW OF  MARINE INVASION OF  BOUGAINVILLE TOLD HIGGINS LANDING BOATS  DELIVER INVADERS UPON SHORE OUICKLY

U.S. Attack Is Termed ‘Murderous’   Eyewitness Story , Of Leathernecks  Streaming Ashore .

lauer's Fine Cattle . At Extreme Tor      ‘Iinton. Feeder Gets $16.65 For ' Lead On Crago Market Monday _

DEFENSE OFFICIAL CRITICIZES NAVY   Charges Annapolis Academy Didn’t Participate in Raid Alert.

GERMAN ATTACKS DIMINISH ALONG NORTHERN LINE   Russians Beginning to Fee Nazi Summer Offensive Has Failed.

Reds Report Attacks Are Growing Weak   Terrific Losses Force Lull In Drive On Russian Front

HEAVY LOSSES SLOW GERMANS   —_—V— North Russian Front in Stalemate, Bloody Fighting Continues at Belgorod

REDS HOLD FIRM; TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF GERMAN FORCES   Battle Still In In indecisive Stage But Russian Defense Now In Active Phase

Reds View Nazi Drive As Failure   Tempo of Push Dies As Badly Mauled Germans Lose Hope

AXIS SUMMER DRIVE FAILURE RUSSIANS HIN]   German Attacks Ease Off Because Of Big  Losses

GERMAN ATTACK QWINDLING IN RUSSIAN FICKT   Losses To Axis Range Up To 45,000 Men. 2,622 Tanks In Seven Days

German Attacks Said Slackening   Summer Offensive Failure, Says Paper

LIST U. S. LOSSES IN SOLOMONS, CHINA   Japanese Radio Tells of Ship, Plane Destruction

saldier Fouad Dead   Speedy Little Torpedoboats Raid Nazi-Held Tunis Gulf

‘Torpedo Boat Raid Off Tunisia Coast Costs Axis 4 Ships   Swift Flotilla Penetrates Harbor of Tunis, Blasts Planes on Shore Amid Heavy Fire From Axis Batlerices

Torpedoboats In Dangerous Foray British Sink 4 Ship:  In Tunisian Waters

Daring Foray By British  Torpedo Boats Sink  eneae bewie Vacenle

BRITISH MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS BAG FOUR SHIPS   Also ‘Shoot .Up. Transport Planes Caught On Land-. ing Fields Along.the Tunisian Beaches .   FORAY DARING ONE   Flotilla Sweeps 60 Miles -Along Axis-Held Area to Carry Out Devastat _ ing Mission

British Torpedo Boats, In A Daring Raid Off Tunisia, Sink Four Ships   One Torpedo-Boat Lost And Hero Of Many Other Battles Killed; Flotilla Swept Up And Down Coast Firing At Everything In Sight.

Truman Urges Military To Pare Needs   Wheeler Counts On Baruch To Dent Military Stand

WANTS CUT IN DRAFT QUOTAS   Truman Thinks Reduction Of ‘Several Hundred Thousand’ Possible

ACCEPTANCE. BY UNIONS LIKELY   Spokesmen Of State UMW Locals Look To  John Lewis

ALGIERS BASED. BOMBERS DESTROY NAZI AIRFIELDS   erican Medium and Heavy Bombers Hit Elevais and Larissa Airfields In Greece

Athens Airfield Is Destroyed   American Airmen Strike At German Planes Massed On Fields.

Yanks Destroy Athens Airfield   Ground Action In Italy Stymied By Weather

ATHENS AIRFIELD RAIDED AGAIN BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Flooded Streams Limit Fighting in Italy to Patrol Action

U. S. Planes Take Part in Aegean Fight   Bombers Attack Nazi Air Bases In Greece

YANK BOMBERS RAIN BLOWS ON ATHENS AIRBASE   Meanwhile, Flooded Rivers Thwart Heavy Action on Italian Front

Weather Halts. Italian Battle  But German Planes in Aegean Are Blasted

Enemy Planes Pounded On Athens Field   Land Action Held Up By Bad Weather But Eighth Advances

U. 5. Planes _ Hit Aegean _ Air Fields   Elevsis Base Is Virtually Wiped Out By Continued Hammerings

ATHENS aR      Fortresses in Italy Strike at Field for Fourth Successive Day — LargeSeale Action Missing on Land Front.

Yanks Rip Greek Airfield Apart  But the Lull on Italian Land Front Continues

Fourth Devastating Attack by American Bombers on Elevsis   Ground Targets; News of Italian Campaign

U. S. Fliers Ruin German Airfield   Athens Field on Greek East Coast Virtually Destroyed

Yank Planes Smash Field At Athens   Lively Patrol Action, Artillery Duelling on Italian Front

GERMAN BASE FOR AIR ATTACKS AEGEAN AREA IS DESTROYED  WEATHER IMPROVING, BUT GROUND ACTION IN ITALY AT LOW POINT

YANK BOMBERS BLAST GREECE   RUIN ELEVSIS AIRFIELD; LARISSA BASE SMASHED

DESTRUCTION OF AIRFIELD IS COMPLETED   American Bombers Finish Elevsis Field Today

American Bombers Hammer At Massed Nazi Air Strength In Aegean Region

Destruction Of Nazi Airfields In Athens Nearly Completed By Yanks

Allies Bomb 2 Airfields in Greece Again   Strike as Nazi Aviators Mass for Aegean Raid;  Floods Slow Clark

B Activity In Italy Still Delegated To Air Force: New Aegean Attacks,

Athens Airfield Avain Plastered  Armies In Italy Bog Down; Big Guns Duel

WS. PLANES. HIT GREEK AIRFIELD   Flooded Rivers Impede Actior on Italian Front.

AIRFIELD AT. GREEK CITY IS DESTROYED   Patrol: Activity On Italian.Land Front. Reported -Livelier —

U.S. Bombers Strike Again In Aegean   Complete Destruction of Athens Airfield. Eight Army Gains Slightly On ’ Ground Front In Italy.

FORTS AGAIN BLAST ATHENS’ ELVIS FIELD           al Desirection of Base Repori ed, Mitchells Assail Larissa Grosseio Terni      BRITISH TAKE HILL   Pairol Action Increases in Italy as Weather Improves but Floods, Mud Still Limit Troops

FLEVSIS AIRFIELD AT ATHENS WAS HIT BY U. S, BOMBERS   Struck for the Fourth Sue. cessive Day at German Planes Massed.   HIT ANOTHER AIR BASE   Attack Made by Flying Fortresses, Damaging More Than 12 Nazi Planes.

‘Allies Strike German Planes Massed for New Attacks Against Aegean Area; Little Ground Fighting

Allies Smash Athens Field   Strike at German Planes Massed for Attacks in Aegean

Planes Raid Airfields For Fourth Time   Patrol Activity Increase: On Italian Front A: Weather Condition: Improve

Athens Airfield Said Destroyed By Allied Bombs   British Eighth Army Gains  Italian Heights Despite Stout Nazi Resistance

Floods Block  New Gains on Ttalian Front   Allied Airmen In New Smash Aa OQenal Bislde

NAZI AIRFIELDS UNDER ATTACK   Allied Planes Based in Haly Continue Heavy Blows Against Germans.

YANKS BOGGED, FLOODS RAVAGE AREAS IN ITALY   American Bombers Continue Heavy Assault On Fields Used by Ger‘mans

Ground Action Still Held Up By Floods In Italy But Planes Destroy Airfield

U.S. Bombers Keep Up Blows   Finish Destroying Elevsis Airfield At Athens

Flooded Rivers Bar Ground Activity in Malian Area.   FOE HAS 50. DIVISIONS

Patton and Montgomery Forces Unite as Rommel Withdraws.   Retreating Axis Columns Subjected to Heavy Aerial Blows — Americans Re ported to have Suffered Heavily   ‘Hello, Limey,’ American’s Hail on Historic Meeting

Both Sides Suffer High Toll im Italy   Counter Attacks In Russia Also Costly to German:

BAIT Toh FURL NAZI AtThtAl TOWARD ROME   8th Army Smashes Through Adriatic Wing Of German Defenses, Moves On

BRITISH DRIVE BEATEN NAZIS TOWARD ROME   ‘Moscow Indicates Germans Suffer Disastrous Losses In Russia

Leave Many Dead on the Battlefields   United Nations Leaders Re.  ported Mapping Strategy Against Germany

GOP ISSUES NEW TREND’ REPORT ON VICTORIES      Workers Told 1943 Results More Than Ever Confirm Prospects of  Victorv in-1944 -

GOP Points To Huge Gains As Signs Of Trend   In Six Years It Has Run Its  List Of Governors From 8 Up To 26

Spangler Claim: ‘44 Victory  Says Recent Results   Says Recent Results Prove Full Flood Toward Republicans

G.O.P. Puts Out New Report On Trends, Sees Victory Certain In ’44

GOP Puts Out New “Trend” Report to Add to Memorandum   Claims Confirmation of Prospects for Victory Next Year

VOTING TREND IS REPUBLICAN   STATE ELECTIONS INDICATE VOTERS. TIRED OF NEW DEAL

Number Of Disappointed " iners Are Rebelling Against Their Union’s Back-To-Work Order. 

Senator George Says Hope of Greatness of — U.S. Lies in Abandonment of All Subsidies

GEORGE ATTACKS SUBSIDY ‘IDEAS   Says Sound Tax Plan Needed For -Post-War Greatness

or Postwar Developments, Warns  oover Sees Lack of Reality in Plan gainst Too Intimate Collaboration

Hoover Says No Alliance With Britain   BUT SAYS A “PEOPLE'S PEACE” SHOULD BE WRITTEN FOR “A PEOPLES WAR;” FAVORS COLLABORATION,   Nationalism A Danger

oover Sees Lack of Reality in Plan or Postwar Developments, Warns gainst Too Intimate Collaboration

HOOVER URGES COOPERATION   Former President Opposes Alliance With Britain As Dangerous

Hoover Proposes United Nations Pool Control   Against Military Peace Alliance   Against “Amalgamation”   Military Alliances Fail

Hoover Favors Postwar Pool   Urges Chief Powers Share in Control

CHANCE FOR SHOWERS   With Mercury Climbing, \ Light Rain Forecast for Northeast

Congressman Says OPA Regulations ‘Will Cause Severe Meat Shortage

Solon Forecasts Meat Shortage   Charges Government Regulations Cause

ON ATTU “re   Landing M a d e Tuesday; Knox Says Operations — Progressing Very Satisfactorily

Secretary Knox Declares Of. fensive Is “Going Very Satisfactorily”      MAY BE FORERUNNER OF ATTACKS ON JAPAN   BY JOHN MM. HIGHTOWER

Secrelary Knox Says Fighting Continues  is Initiat Thrust In Attacks On Japanese

Offensive Is Started On Aitu Isle   Fighting Began Several Days Ago By U.S. Forces

Island Operations Are Progressing Satisfactorily, Knox Says; Early U. S. Victory is Expected

Forces on Attu Beat Back Japs   First Stage in North Pacific ~ Offensive ‘Satisfactory —

NORTH PACIFIC VICTORY SEEN NEAR AT HAND   TOKYO ONLY 2,000 MILES AWAY; NAVY AIDS OFFENSIVE

Knox Satisfied With Gains in Pacific Battle   First U. S. Offensive in the Area Starts in Aleutians   Army and Navy Co-Oper ating in Fighting on Rough Terrain

First Phase Of Fight  Successful   Operations of Army After Landing “Going Very Satisfactorily;” Fierce Battle Rages on Island

—_—  FFIGIALS QUIET ON BATTLE TREND   Fighting Rages on Island @ Since Last Tuesday   TROOPS ENGAGED   elieved Sufficient Strength To Wipe Out Jap Garrison On American Soil

Navy Says Battle With Japs Has Been Under Way Since Tuesday; Success Would Isolate Kiska

Knox Tells Of Landing On Island   U. S. Troops Are Fighting Fiercely To Oust Japanese.

Fierce Fight Rages After Army Troops Land on Isle   Knox Announcement Indicates Offensive Progressing Toward Successful Conclusion

Attu battle progressing  nicely: Knox   Believed moving toward success

‘Going Satisfactorily, Knox Says; Army, Navy Join in New Offensive   Washington Reveals American Troops Landed on Enemy Base in Aleutians Tuesday ; Believed Opening of Big Drive on Japanese

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES TO SWEEP JAPANESE FROM ALEUTIANS; NAVY MAKES KNOWN AGGRESSIVE _ PAIGN.

Americans Invade Island at Eastern Tip of Aleutians   Initial Stage of First American Offensive in North Pacific Appears Progressing Toward Conclusion — Is Army and Navy Operation

Drive to Force Enemy Off Island “Going Sot- — isfactorily”   NO DETAILS GIVEN ON ISLAND BATTLE   Assault an Army and Navy Operation, Knox Save -

Drive Presages Offensive in Entire Pacific   Seasoned Troops Landed on Island By Navy, Knox Announcés; Favorable Advance Hints Success

1.8. TROOPS ARE BELIEVED 10 HOLD EDGE                   Knox Says Operation: “Are Going Very Satis factorily,” But Refuse to Give Details. 3      WARSHIPS SUPPORT. SOLDIERS ASHORE   Attack, Which Began Tuesday, Is _ First Thrust to Drive Jap: anese From Aleutians

Yanks Progress Toward Victory In Fierce Battle   Initial Thrust to Drive Japs From Northern Pacific

U.S. Offensive Appears Progressing   Americans Invaded Jap’s Aleutian Base Last Tuesday

 Yuvoslavs  Take Towns In Slovenia   Hitler Concern Over Balkans Seen In Conference

HITLER CALLS BALKAN PARLE’   Calls Meeting of Regents of Bulgaria and High German Aides.

Yugoslavs / dake 4 Nazi. “Rail Pomts   Hitler Summons Bulgayrian Regents; Heavy Fighting in Montenegro

WEATHER AT FINEST   Forecaster Recommends His Indian Summer Brand

AERIAL POUNDING OF CONTINENT RESUME?   Allies Stage Series Of Attacks On Military Targets In Occupied Lands

Allied Bombs Strike Targets Over  European Regions Rails, Shipping Are Main Targets; Success Reported

EXPLOSION TIES UP BAY CITY BUS LINE   Gasoline Storage Tanks ir Motor Coach Garage Ex. plode, One Injured

LOCAL LOBSTER FLEET TO'BE SMALL THIS YEAR     Less Than 20 Men to Fish Gut of Newport     Service, War Work Guts Number  "Of Applicants; Price Tits

LOCAL LOBSTER FLEET TO BE SMALL THIS YEAR   Less Than 20 Men to Fish Out of Newport   Service, War Work Cuts Numbe Of Applicants; Price Hits All-Time High

GOP Accepts Dem Dare on Secret Costs   Sends Bricker Measure Party Once Called Portal-to-Graft.

Exchange Ship Arrives in Port   Transfer Expected To Require Week

FIRST REPORTS INDICATE ALLIES ARE MEETING FIERCE LAND AND AIR RESISTANCE FROM AXIS

Vacation Church School Program  _ Closing Session On  Fridav Forenoon

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL T0 CLOSE   Last. Session To Be Held At M. E. Church Friday  OoOrennnn

WPB Assures Nation’s Motorists Ample Supply Of Anti-Freeze Solution

Plenty Of Anti Freeze Forecast  15,000-000 Million   15.000:000 Million Gallons Available

ATTU BEING FORTIFIED   Americans Preparing Permanent De. fenses On Aleutian Island

RUHR BATTLE TO SPREAD All OVER GERMANY   Prime Minister Deslares Sub Meance Fades with 30 Sunk. in May.

HEAVY SUNLMER FIGHTING SEEN BY CHURCHILL  Tells Of Invasion Atole  efore Autumn  ra MTT CL   Says 40 U-Boais Destroyed in Month Of Mav

jar httacks a= Both Wings in  - Pacific Futile   Allies - Stand Firm a Empress Augusta, _ Bougainville

JAP ATTACKS ARE REPULSED   Foe Driven Back at Empres: Augusta Bay and at Sattelberg

WIEAT VIOLATIONS CHARCED   !    ‘Fourth Term Discussion Grows,  ‘But F.D.R. Silent on Subject

FOURTH TERMER MOVE IS HINTED   Prominent Democrats Suggest Another Roosevelt Race

Fourth Term Is Proposed To President by Several ‘Demo Leaders, Walker Says

SUGGEST FDR RUN IF WAR 15 ON   SEVERAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GIVE FOURTH TERM VIEWS AT CONFERENCE.

Roosevelt Gets Suggestions He Keep on Runninc  Fourth Term Suggested b)   Fourth Term Suggested by Members of National Committee

Several Democrats Suggest Roosevelt Run for Fourt Term but Get No Response From Chief Executive

DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE THE SENATE   ‘Republicans Support Sen. Briggs for President Pro Tem: Compromise Fails   FESTIVE MOOD IN THE HOUSE   Smooth Opening Shields Undercurrent of Major Difficuities Ahwid

Major Control Of The Senate  To Democrats   Harris, LieutenantGovernor Can Cast Tie-Breaking Vote

DEMOS TAKE CONTROL OF STATE SENATE   Topple Over Candidates Put Up by Republicans After Futile Parleys Preceding Opening of Assembly.

WAYNE LONERGAN PLEADS INNOCENT   Young Flyer Arraigned fo! Killina Wife

Yanks, British, French Storm Toward Tunis And Bizerte   VANKA PRATI&RED

ROMMEL APPEARS TQ HAVE LEFT AFRICA; AMERICAN TROOPS STORM TO WITHIN 30 MILES BIZERTE   British First Army Rolls Up Six or Seven Mile Gain on 23 Mile Front; French Troops Have Driven to Within 23 Miles Bizerte Along Coas   AMERICAN FORO ES PRAISED FOR SPEED AND SECRECY OF TRANSFOR TO NORTH

ROMMELS BATTERED KORPS FLEES WEST FROM TRIPOLI AREA   British Eighth Army Presses Hard at Heels in TwoPronged Drive   SEIZE TARHUNA, HOMS   at hie BM hae RB SRACR ENSLAVE RS RANA ERS  Advance Units of British in Close Contact With  Nazi Force

Higher Exemptions In State Proposed   Would Lighten Load For Small Earners

LABOR TRANSFER PLAN REPORTED BY WMC OFFICER   Cairo-Herrin-Mt. Vernon Region Is  Under New Order

President's Trip Military Secret That Was Well Kept   Many Indications President-Churchill  Were in Conference

PRESIDENT’ THIF OS KEPT SEGRET   Movements of Commanderin-Chief Not Publicized Under Voluntary Code of  Censorship of Press, Radio

Urges Labor Aid ToFDR Friends   CIO Leader Appeals For Support Of Pro-Roosevelt Candidates

Food Situation To Be Surveyed   Congressmen To Have Meetings Throughout Nation To Investigate Condition  Re WIPE trIA Bw j‘PFyagyrriePrrean

10 CO-OPERATE WITH CATTLE INDUSTRY   Jones, Brown to Aid Production and Processing of Stock

REPORT GANDHI GROWING WEAK   Has Difficulty Sleeping, Bulletin Says

FEAR GANDHI MAY NOT SURVIVE -FAST   Two Sans Summoned—Hearl Grows) Weaker On Tenth Day

GANDHI WEAKENING       Indian Nationalist Leader's Fai Steadily Sapping Strength —

REDS BLAST AXIS ALONG BLACK SE   Allied Aviators Battle Blinding Tropical Storm To Reach Jap Base.

RUSSIANS CONTINUE DRIVE ON GERMANS NEAR NOVOROSSISK      Soviet Big Guns Pound Axis Fortifications Guarding Black Sea Port

Nazis Driven From Kuban ~ Bridgehead   Russian Big Guns Blast Fortifications at Novorossisk

LIQUIDATION OF FSA BELIEVER NEAR NOW   Homesteads Being Taken Up As Income Rises

Allied Planes Keep Blasting At Nippon Ships   MacArthur Reports Direct Hits On Two Vessels Off New Guinea, Third Attacked Near Rabaul

BOMB HITS SCORED ON TWO JAP SHIPS   Vessels Pounded by Allied Airmen Off New Guinea-Attack Made on Third Craft.

Hits Scored On Jap Base   Incessont Attacks On Positions Continued

Allied Planes Bomb Three Jap Vessels   Allied Bombers Hit At Installutions of Japanese on Several Islands of Pacific

BATTERED BY AIRMEN   Planes May Have Got Second Submarine  At Lae Harbor

Japs Raided Incessantly At New Guines   Hits Are Scored On Two Japanese Ships By Allied Bombers

Bomb Two Jap Ships In  New Guinea  Third Vessel Target for Allied Bombers MacArthur Reports

Jap Merchant Ships Bombed By U.S. Fliers   Direct Hit Is Scored on Big Cargo Vessel

Congressman Says It Requires Payment of Two Years’ Taxes in One.   DENIES RUML PLAN WOULD FAVOR RICH

Tax Collection Bill Assailed By House Member   Committee’s Discount Plan Is Criticized

NEW INCOME TAX PAYMENT PLAN IS GLAINED FOR RICH   MEASURE SUBMITTED TO HOUSE DECLARED MONSTROSITY BY REP. MARTIN

NEW INCOME TAX BILL DESCRIBED  As RICH MAN’S BILL  Pay-As-You-Go Made Optional For Each Taxpayer in New Bill

Pit Mouth Canteens Now  Committee Plans to Pep  Up Sluggish Coal Mines

Many Prizes Offered By Merchants To First 1943 Baby; Advertisements Elsewhere In This issue.

Gifts To Be Showered On First 1944 Baby   Many Prizes Offered By Merchants To First 1944 Baby.

Japanese Rail, Communication Centers Suffe   Enemy Resistance Or Arawe Is Virtually At An End Now

JAPS GET HARD AIR POUNDING   Hit From China To Solomons; Lose Sixteen Planee

Ship Loaded With . Former Prisoners Nearing New York  Dock at Jersey City  This Moernina

Allied Planes Smash Berlin   Drop 2,106 Tons of Bombs, Lose 58 Ships

Devastation Sweeps Nazi Capital   Armada Drops Destruction on Scale Nearly as Great as Attack That Reduced Hamburg; Allies Lose 58 Ships of 700 Believed Assianed

Red Armies Open a New Offensive   Timoshenko Rea pears t Direct New Thrust ir The North

Lod La " Lal ” " 7  Russians Reveal Another Winter Thrust in North   Timoshenko Takes Back 300 Towns and Villages From Nazis

OFFENSIVE BY REDS ON NEW SOVIET FRONT   Soldiers Fight in Deep Mud, Water on Southern Front Under Timoshenko's Command.

Red Armies Open a New  Offehsive   Pifnostenity Rea appear’  1o Direct New Thrust in The North

Reds Gain   Soldiers Of Timoshenko Smash German Anchor In Lake Ilmen Area

CRANBERRIES SCARCE   Shert Supply in Some Localities for Christmas Is Seen.

All Personne! Removed Frem Destroyed Vessel Before it Sank, According To Navy Announcement—Aerial  Counter-attack By Nipponese Bears Out Secretary SBimenn’s Warning (CH SH Reciectance.

Preliminary Ob. jectives on Stepping Stones te Rabaul Believed Achieved; Two Island Groups Seized Without Opposition

U. S. transport McCawley lost in Rendova landing   No loss. of life on vessel sunk by Jap submarine

SHIP'S PERSONNEL ARE SAFE BEFORE TRANSPORT SINKS   MecCawley, Rebuilt For Use In War, Lands Troops Before Being Disabled By Torpedo Planes.      ENEMY ‘SUBMARINE FIRES FINAL SHOT   Stimson Says Progress Satisfactory According to Plans But Some Opposition !s Expected.

Yanks Occupy Iwo Island Stepping Stones Io Rabaul   Battle Japs On New Georgia, Rendova In Solomons

INTO OUTER RING. OF KEY JAP BASE   Trobriand, Woodlark Islands Taken; Nassau Bay South Of Salamaua _ - Seized; Landings Made On ‘New Georgia, Rendova

U. S. Transport Vessel Lost At Rendova Island   Stimson: Reports New Solomons Drive Appears To Be Moving Satisfactorily

fy JAP PLANES DOWNED IN BIG AIR BATTLE   American Losses Include 17 Planes and a Transport

Rabaul, Salamaua And Lea Menaced; Landings Are Now Consolidated 2

U.S. Transport McCawley Sunk; No Lives Lost   Secretary of War Stimson Says Drive  Making Pracraacd

Invading Yanks Battle Enemy, Seize Trobriand, Woodlark Is. One U.S. Transport is Sunk   No Loss of Life When McCawley Went Down — Landings, Fighting Pro-° ceeding Satisfactorily; Munda But 30 Miles Away.

YANKEES DOWN 65 FOE PLANES IN HOT BATTLE   Rendova Landing Prelude to 5-Pronged Major Offensive

SAY ADVANCE 10 TOUCH OFF HERCE FIGHT   New Georgia landing brought air fight; 65 Jap planes down

HARBOR, LOSE TRANSPORT   All Personnel Saved In Loss Trans- — port McCawley

Down 65 Japanese Airplanes   Transport McCawley Sunk in Operations—Vira  Harbor Captured

 American Forces Capture Vira  Harbor; U. S, Transport Me' Cawley Lost But All Personnel ' Had Been Removed Before It 1 -Wrae Sunk   CLAIM TWO ISLAND GROUPS ARE SEIZED

SHOOT DOWN 65 HAP PLANES IN AERIAL BATTLE   Invasion Forces -Drive Ahead. in Offensive North of ~~ Australia:   U. S. TRANSPORT SUNK -: BUT NO LIVES WERE LOST

Stimson Says Offensive Is Making Progress; Rabaul Believed Objective

U.S. Captures Viriu Harbor   Shoot Down 65 Out of 110 Jap Planes

Victory Gives U. S. Foothold on Same Island With Munda   Transport McCawley Sunk After Landing of Troops; Nipponese Try Desperately to Halt U. S. Offense

Find Fugitive From Alcatraz  Had Been Believed Dead After Escape

NAVY DAY 10 BE OBSERVED IN MATTOON   Chief Feature to Be Joint Meeting of Civie Clubs

HITLER MAY QUIT BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH, REPORT   Possibility He Will Follow I  Duce Is Seen

NAZIS ABANDON OFFENSIVE IN EAST THIS YEAR   Some Reasons Why Hitler Will Remain on the Defensive

GERMAN OFFENSIVE PLANS =. _ ARE REPORTED ABANDONED   UNDERGROUND  INFORMATION - INDICATES  THERE WILL BE NO GREAT DRIVE  AGAINST RUSSIA

Report Germany. Abandons Plan  For Offensive   Believe Hitler Forced On Defensive Completely By Turn Of War   CHANGED PLANS ARE IN EVIDENCE

Fascism Appears Out And Army May Put Up Only Token Resistance   BADOGLIO STATEMENT Open to Varied Interpretation

Italian Army Displays Defiance As Dam Cracks   Acceptance By Marshal Badoglio, As Prime Minister, Implies End Of Rule Of Fascism

Surprises Ahead For Congress   War Agencies May Try To Work With It For A Change

Reds, Czechs Sign 20-Year Pact for Aid   TEXT OF AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED ON TUESDAY, REPORT

Germans Awaif American Blow   Declare Seventh Army Will Not Long. Remain Idle in Sicily

Axis Nervous At Invasion ’ Of Continent   Nazis Prepared They Say to Meet Mainland Blows

Axis Gloomy Over News   Berlin Predicts Early ‘Blow in Another Sector by U. S. 7th Army

Missourian Led Yanks to Bizerte   Gen. Bradley Is Infantry Officer

GEN, BRADLEY LED YANKEES INTO BIZERTE   Disclsed Today That ‘Missourian Succeeded Gen. Patton When Terrain Changed

Both Houses Act on Bill Within Two Hours After Getting It; Becomes Law Immediately

Senate Votes 56 to 25 and House 244 To 108: Roosevelt Asks Labor Draft in Rejected Measure

Action Taken by Congy jas in Record Breaking Speed sw.   MAJOR DEFEAT Is: SUFFERED BY Eon   Act Provides Fines and Imprisonment for Strike : Instiaators

Swift Action  Taken to Make  Measure Law  FDR in Message Asked Ban Deaft Change 2 °

Senate Acts in > Minutes As Texan Declares Public 'Sorely Disappointed’

SENATE VOTES LAW PROVIDING FINES AND IMPRISONMENT FOR PERSONS ‘AIDING IN WARTIME STRIKES, 56-25; HOUSE BACKS UP UPPER BODY 244-108.

Veto Bowled Over with Breath-Taking Speed, Congress Completes Action in Searcely Two Hours — Senate Takes Five Minutes for 56-25 Vote — House Passes Measure 244 to 108

No-Strike Bill Passed  Over Roosevelt Veto   Fine, Prison Terms Provided for Those Instigating Walkouts

hoosevelt Plea Is Ignored Heavy Ballot  Is Recorded — BySolons ~

DEFEAT DEALT TOROOSEVELT BY CONGRESS   PENALTIES IMPOSED ON FOMENTORS OF WAR WALKOUTS

Conaress Acts Quickly To Provide Fines, Prison For Leaders of Walkouts

Measure passes both houses after return by chief executive   Roosevelt expresses belief would foment rather than deter strikes

Conaress Acts After President Sends Message Rejecting Bill   Vote by Senate 56-25; House 244 to 108; Perty Lines Split in Vote Overriding Veto FDR Says Measure Will Foment Strikes

President Sutters First Major Defeat On Labor Legislation   Senate Votes 56 to 25, House 244 to 108; Measure Is Passed Less Than Two Hours After Roosevelt Message Rejecting It

Congress Quickly Enacts Leg. islation To Curb Wartime 'Walkouts By Labor   ADMINISTRATION AND UNIONS ARE REBUFFED

Big Majority Approves Act   Measure Provides Penalty For Aidine Wartime Strikes

Make Law Effective   First Major FDR Defeat In Congress; President Asks Authority For Inductions

Measure Rejected By FDR Rushed by House and Senate   Two-Thirds’ Vote in Each Branch Quickly Obtained; Bill Outlaws  Strikes inGov’t Plants

Anti-Strike Bill Passed Into Law. Despite His Veto   Action Completed ; ‘Within Two.Hours Affer Bill Vetaed -

BILL F.D.R TURNED DOWN BECOMES LAW   Senate and House Reject President’s Contention Measure Would Foment. Walkouts.   QUICK VOTES TAKEN IN BOTH BRANCHES   Legislation Provides Fines, Imprisonment for Work Stoppages in Mines or War Plants.

F.D.R.’s Veto Overridden by Congress   Wartime Strikes Outlawed by: Legislation

Swiit Vote Overrides veto, Enacts Connally Labor Disputes Bill .   4 More Steel Furnaces Close With Half of U. S. Coal Workers Idle —

Law Purports ToBreak Bottlenecks   President Expresses Fear That Act Will Incite Trouble

Action Taken by Congress in Record Breaking Speed   MAJOR DEFEAT IS SUFFERED BY FDR   Act Provides Fines and Imprisonment for Strike Instiqators

WILL APPOINT AIDE FOR WELFARE CHIEF   Assistant Will Haye Charge Of Correction and Re» - habilitation, _

Factions Seek To Prevent Any Railway Strike   Management and _ Unions Afraid of Government Control if Rail Strike Is Decided Upon.

Rail Leaders Seek to Avert Strike Threat   Union and Management Represented In Parley Going on In Washington

Unrest Is Reportec  Growing in Italy  Naval Cadets Clash With Fascist Group

Italian Cadets Battle Fascists   Navy Fledgings Clash With Party Members: Pledge Loyalty to King

Jtalian Cadets Pledge Loyalty To King Alone   Several Reported Arrested by Mussolini’s Police

NAVAL CADETS. IN ITALY CLASH WITH FASCIST OFFICIALS   Police: Called To Stop Riot Caused By Ycaths Declaring "Loyalty To King Only

WOULD DRAFT U.S, EMPLOVES   Senator Wants Federal Employes Drafted Before Family Heads.   CITES FORTAS’ CASE

Badoglio Government May Be Moving Toward War Declaration On Germans

BadoglioMay Declare War Qn Germany   dilied Army Men Coo Toward Acceptance Of New Ally

ITALIANS MAY DECLAREWAR ON CERMANS   Marshal Pietro Badoglio Seems to Be Moving Steadily: Towards eee  ration

U.S. Bombers Smash Japs . At Madang   Large ‘Fires Observed at * Airdrome and. Fuel *  Dumps

Heavy Assault Made On Madang   American Bombers In Strong Attack Upon New Guinea Jap Base   OTHER ENEMY POINTS GET BOMB DELUGE

21 TONS OF BOMBSFALL ON MADANG   Other Enemy Positions In Pacific Pounded By U. S. Airmen

Acquittal Verdict for Errol Flynn   FREE NOW TO RESUME PLACE AS ONE OF BIG STARS.

Housewives Acquit Errol Flynn   selves for 'the privilege of touch ing them.   MOTHER NOT MAD

Flynn Free on Morals Charge   Spectators Cheer Verdict, Women Riot tc Touch Movie Hero; Jurors Reveol Test Vote Forecast Early Acquittal of Star

NINE HOUSEWIVES ACQUIT ERROL FLYNN   ‘Thank God for American Justice,’ Flynn Cries; Miss Satterlee Weeps After Verdict

Housewives Set Flynn Acquittal, Then Men Agree   Jury Tells How Verdic Was Reached: Actor Wil Take Long Rest

KIRIWINA NATIVES CAPTURE 18 JAPS   Invaders Outsmarted and Turned Over to Aussies

Captured Aegean sland Base Used To Hit Axis in Air on Mediterranean Right Wing:

African Operation Called Advance  - “third _Front: = United Nations — - Push Ahead in All Theaters Fer Concrete Gains _

THREE GERMAN WARSHIPS SUNK   BRITISH SCORE NEW BISCAY BAY VICTORY

Tekes Retuses More Gasoline For District   Western Pennsylvania Stays In East Coast: Rationing Area

Plan to Hold Up Draft Of Fathers 30 or Over Assailed by Marshall

Gen. Marshall Presses for Defeat Of Bills To Prevent Father Draft

STORNI: TAKES RESPONSIBILITY LETTER TO HULL   Former Argentine Officiai Said He Didn't Expect Publicity of LendLease Request

OWA LUMBERMEN SURVEY PROSPECTS   jangerous Shortages Revealed by Mote Than 3,000 Individual Reports.

NEAR U. S. FOR MEET   To Confer On Speed. ing Equipment To French Army

Frightened  Germans   Flee Bombs   , Refugees From . Hamburg Crowd Panish*Border

Flees in Pajamas   “Playboy Webb Is Arrested On Impersonation Charaes

FORMER NEW YORK PLAYBOY ARRESTED RENO EARLY TODAY  HAD WALKED AWAY FRON _ARMY AIR BASE AND

Playboy Private Rearrested i in Reno After Walking Away From Air Bace

Playboy-Soldier Found In Hotel.   Walks Away From Air Base Last Night

ARREST SOLDIER IN RENO HOTEL TODAY   Former Play Boy Leaves Army Air Base

SOCIALITE SOLDIER COULDN'T TAKE 11   Playboy Faces Court Martial For Impersonating Officer

Police Arest Playboy lakey: Webl.=  [After Flight From Army Hospital, Handful of Courfmartial Charges

Former New York Playboy, AWOLFromArmy, Arrested      Pajama-Clad Private Jacob L. Webb, Facing Handful of Court-Martial Charges Taken Inio Custody in Reno Hotel; Climbed Through Window of Base Hospital to Make His Escape

PLAYBOY HELD AFTER ESCAPE   Pajama-clad Webb Walked Off From Base And Handful Of Army Charges

ADVISORS RAP WMC ACTIONS   Charge Agency Refuses to Heed Industr Pleas.

STEEL HEADS . CRITICIZE WMC   48-Hour-Week Policies Hit In Steel Maga 7ine

EXECUTION DATE      American Who Aided German Must Die -. TJulv2 .

ON JULY 2 FOR HELPING NAZL   Judge Scores Trifling With Traitors As He Sets Date   MAKE NEW APPEAL   Detroit Cafe Owner Sobs As Death Is Decreed Third Time

Stephan To Die ~ AtMilan July 2   Third Death Sentence Is Imposed Today

OE] NEW DATE FO STEPHAN'S DEATH   ludge Tuttle Orders Detroiter to Hang at Milan on July 2 for Traitorous Deed

GM HEAD MAPS PEACE PLANS FOR INDUSTRY   Post-War Planning Must Be Realistic, Says Alfred Sloan

Sloan Demands Sound Post-War “Policy For U. 5   Far Too Much Utopia, Too Little Realism, ' G-M Chief Warns

MINERS STATUS STILL FAR APART   Both Sides At Odds As Closed Sessions Resumed in N. Y.

PLANNING BODY HIT BY LEWIS IN EDITORIAL   Says Security Recommendation Released to Coincide With UMW Pay Hike Proposals   TALKS CONTINUE   No Announcement Made.of Progress: Made At Executive: Session Yes-_ “terday

MANY REPORTS ARE RECEIVED BY THE SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS   SIDELIGHTS ON ITALIAN SITUATION, REACH NEUTRAL COUNTRY FROM BER- . . LIN’ AND SWITZER- ~ a LAND

Navy Opens  ‘New Year With Heavy Attacks   Planes Hit Nippon Shipping At Kiska; Blast Jap Headquarters Da MoeenAntlaanal Veland

Heavy Attacks On Enemy Open Year for U. S.   Air Forces Smash At Japanese Over Wide Pacific Front

JAP BASES ON KISKA ISLAND UNDER ATTACK   Navy Reports Two American P-38’s Lost When Nip Zero Fighters Intercept Them :

YANKS MAKE HEAVY RAIDS ON JAP BASES   Pound Kiska and Positions in Solomons, Including Area Believed to Be Headquarters on Guadalcanal.

U. 8. Air Forces Bomb Japs  In Aleutians and Solomons   Nipponese Cargo Ships in Kiska Harbor Hit; One of Six “Zeros” That Attempted to Intercept American Planes, Shot Down; Enemy Headquarters on Guadalcanal Raided

HEAVY RAID ON JAPS IN ALEUTIANS      Presence of Zero Fighter - Planes May’Mean Base - Hag Been Strengthened   MORE AIR BLOWS IN. SOLOMONS   Dive Bombers Are Used Against’ Headquarters of Enemy Force

U. S. Launches Heavy Attack: On Jap Lairs   Kiska and Guadalcanal Bases Severely Bombed

Leros Attempt To Intercept U. S. Attack   Americans Lose Three Planes in Ist Bombing of Series

U.S. Bombers Open ‘43 By Heavy Raids   Japs In hKiska And In Area Believed To Be Foe’s Headquarters On Guadalcanal   Rv WITTIAM F. BONI

HEAVY ATTACKS AGAINST JAP HELD KISKA ISLAND   Japanese Positions in the Solomons Also Came in for an Attack,   U.S. PLANES UNDAMAGED   Opened New Year With Raid on the Aleutian Islands.

REPORTS ON GEN, PATTON   Congress Still To Make a _Further Inquiry

EISENHOWER PEDART ON PATTON  Whitin  FAILS TO SATISFY CONGRESS   Senate Committee Decides It Wants More Details In Matter

EISENHOWER STORY OF SLAPPING CASE FAILS TO SATISF)   Congress Wants More Details On Patton Incident

PATION INCIDENT NOT YET CLOSED, — SENATORS HIN]   Eisenhower's Report Whet: Congressional Appetite for More Details

Solons Would Hear More About Patton   Eisenhower’s Report Is Called Unsatisfactory

CHIEF OF S.A, FATALLY HURT   Lutze Dies After Car Accident in Potsdam

NAZI STORM TROOP CHIEF DIES OF AUTO ACCIDENT INJURIES   Victor Lutze Was Chief Of Staff Of Nazi Storm Troopers

SS HEAD KILLED   German Storm Troop Leader Cart Preach Vietin Rant

Accident Claimed by Juvenile Held in  Cave-ln Deaths of 2 Young Boys

NE. Hospitals Ready To Aid  in Emergency   New Phase Of  Civihan Defense

Allies Killed As Many Ja ps in 2 Days As Were Wiped Out in6 Months in Guinea

Trade Pact Act Clears Initial  House Hurdle   Committee Votes Down GOP Proposal That Congress Have Veto Powers Over Treaties

HURDLE GLEARED BY TRADE POLICY   RepititioanyProposits Vothe  Down By House Committee

ALL ON BOARD BIG PLANE ARE KILLED   18 Are Lost in Disaster ir N e w foundland — Nationality Not Revealed.

CAPTURE AIR BASE, THREE OTHER TOWNS   Aachen Pounded _ By RAF In ne Heavy Raid ry

To Yanks  SEVENTH ARMY ADVANCES  ANOTHER SIX MILES ALONG:.: NORTH COAST; BRITISH ALSC RESUME ADVANCE

Comiso and Ponte Olivo Fall to General Patton’s American Seventh Army.   ALLIED NAVAL, AIR FORCES STILL ACTIVE

CARONIA FALLS TO U. 5. FORCES; NAZI THRUST IS HALTED   Americans Only 60 Miles From Messina—Bitter Fighting Along Entire Front

Caronia Falls; British Repel Tank Assault   Allied Offensive Is     Sweeping Forward In Northeastern Area

Air, Land, Sea Forces — Pour Deadly Fire Into German-ltalian Defense

‘Americans Drive Deeper Into Sicily  From South As British Forces Occupy ' Augusta And Advance Toward Catania  areieiainewcnnempnerneiinnnii siliagllaaiaimeansi

YANKS, BRITISH CONTINUE ATTACKS ON ENEMY FORGES   U. S. Seventh Army Advances Six Miles After Capture of Caronia, British Smash Axis Tank Thrust.   ITALIANS PUT UNDER EARLY CURFEW RULES   Regulations Apply In Cities Where Demonstrations for Peace Have Been In Mos Evidence.

Axis Base gf Comisc Captured   British Drive Toward Ca tania, Bombarded by Allied Naval Fleet

Americans in Sicily Spear Ahead  Five Towns Are Captured   Five Towns Are Captured in Big Drive

CAPTURE CATONIA WHILE BRITISH ALSO ADVANCE   Naval Units Bombard Enemy Reinforcements aid Supplies Moving Along Northern and Eastern Coasts; Naples Bombed Again

PRESSES FOR ACTION ‘ON FLOOD CONTROL   Delaware Dam in. List Pro posed After War.

OHIO FLOOD CONTROL EYED IN CONGRESS      Would Be Post-war Project For Army Engineers

Five Brothers ‘Missing’   Boys Believed Victins-of Craiser Sinking

FIVE PER CENT TEV Ppropnernp   » MOTHER OBEYS SONS’ COMMAND   p Keeps Her Chin Up Tho Five  Boys Are Listed Missing  In Naval Action 

Mother of Five Satiors Missing in Action Keeps Chin un as They Asked

Keeps Hope For 5 Missing Sons   ‘  Waterlco Mother Believes Boys Alf Aboaz= Juneau, May Stick Together and Return.

U.S. Fleet Sunk, Japs Say  If Claims Were True, We'd Be Qut Of Shiva

erlin Makes Fantastic laims About U. S. Losses   ich Radio-Reports American Losses In Solomons To Date Total Six Battleships, Four Aircraft CarMiers, 34 Cruisers, 21. Destroyers And Several Subs and Mine Sweepers

Fierce Struggle For Control Of Solomons Rages   American Forces Score Gains Over Vast Pacific Front   Tokyo Again ‘Sinks’ Our Pacific Fleet

Jap Imagination Again Destroys Whole US. Navy That No One Else Has Heard 0

JAPS CLAIMING NAVAL VICTORY   Berlin Radio Puts Out Story; . “Fantastic,” Says Associated Press.

BERLIN RADIO  SPREADS JAP  -NAVY CLAIMS    Colossal Victory Over U.S. Allegec  in Reported Destruction Hug:  Pacific Fleet

POOR TURNOUT HERE OF POLICE, WARDENS   “Double” Alarm Calls Out Defense Groups Early This Morning

LENGTHY AIR RAID TEST EARLY TODAY   Surprise Test Begun At 12:10 A. M. And Extends Until 1:25 A. M.—Try New  _ oe

POMP 10 BE “OUT” AT INAUGURATION OF GOV, BRICKER   No Elaborate Ceremonies Are Scheduled for Event at Cofumbus Monday.

Sabula Sailor Is  Killed   Joseph T. Cornelius One Of Five Victims In Bus-Car Collision,

WORK RESUMED  AT 7 CHRYSLER CAND PI ANTS   Employes Return Pending Settlement Of Grievances By Arbitration   138,000 OUT AT AKRON   General Tire Workers Back; Other Rubber Factories Remain Idle

WORK 1S RESUMED IN CHRYSLER PLANT   22,000 Have. Been Idle Since Thursday—-WLB Considering Case

MEN RETURN TOWORK AT CHRYSLER'S.   Go Back to kk to Jobs» : Pending Arbitratior Of Grievances

Strike Ends in Chrysler Plants   22,000. Workers Go Back to Their Jobs

Boy Will Get Long-Awaited Electric Train   Daddy Promised It 3 Years Ago, but Mother Died, and Daddy Died, Too.

WLB Grants Small Aircraft Pay Hike   Members Disagree  In Boeing Decision

PLANE EMPLOYES, “NIOPLANTS 1 PFT WACE BOOST   Increases Shart of Demands, All Allowable According to Terms “Little Steel” Wage Formula.   BOEING, OTHER PLANTS AFFECTED UNDER ORDER   War Labor Board Member: Are Sticking to Formula Coal Miners Also Seekint An Increase. .

PAY BOOST IS VOTED BY WLB   Aircraft Workers Granted Part Of Demands

Wage Raise Granted in Plane Plants   Increase is Short of Level Demanded By Workers

PLANE WORKERS GET PAY RAISE   WLB Grants Smali Increase, Sticks by “Little Steel” Fermule

Aircraft Workers Get Small Increase In 7-5 WLB Award   Majority of Board Yotes 442 Cents an Hour Increase, Within; Little Steel Formula, Below Workers’ Demands

Aircraft Factory Wages Are Raised By WLB Order   Award Falls Below Union Demands; Board Clings To Littie Steel Rule

LIBERTY OF PRESS UPHELD BY MOBILE COURT DECISION   Contempt Conviction of Mobile Publisher Dismissec In Court Action Today

And A Number of Tanks in Battle For Bridgehead Along Donets River

NAZIS REPULSED IN NEW ATTACK ON SOVIET LINE   Lose 1,200 Dead in Latest Attempt to Crack the Red Line  . _ South of Balakleya

Germans Again Try Vainly To Repulse Reds   Soviets Are Believed To Be  Still Holding Bridgeheads Despite Fierce Attacks

Naz! Drive On Donets   Lose 1,200 Dead, Some Tanks in Battle for Bridgeheads

MASSING NEW FORCES GERMANS ATTEMPT TU OMASH SOVIET LINE  IN NEWEST FAILURE NAZIS  LOST OVER 1,200 DEAD AND SOME TANKS

GERMANS FAIL IN SOVIET PUSH   Attempt To Smash Red Line South Of Balakleya Results In 1,200 Nazi Casual ting.

Russians Beat German Drive  Smash at Line Near Balakleya Costs Nazis 1200 Dead

Soviets Stave Oft New Nazi Attempts To  Break Lines   Ry EDDIF GILMORE

GERMANS IN RETREAT FROM ADRIATIC END OF FIGHTING FRONT  HEAVILY FORTIFIED WIN. TER LINE CRACKED; PRIS ONERS. MATERIAL TAKEN

Germans In "Full Retreat” On Adriatic Side Of Winter Line   1,000 German Prisoners Taken in Thrust: Fifth Army Probing; Nazis Rush Reserves

GERMANS NOW IN RETREAT IN ADRIATIC ZONE   Battleground Left Litered With Dead As Heavily  Fortified Lines Abanaa! poy fia :

Forced to Abandon Adriatic Defense   Nazis Leave Great Quantities of Equipment; Suffer Heavy Casualties as British Break Through Lines   Huns Dislodged in Hand-to-Hand Engagements on 25-Mile Front

8th Army Scores Break- Through On Winter Line   Foe Seen Preparing To Abandon Vital Link ‘Before. Clark's: Rising Pressure

NAZIS LEAVING PRISONERS IN HASTY RETREAT   Eighth Army Driving Enemy From Bases In Attack

ALL OF SANG RIDGE NOW IN ALLIED HANDS   Battleground Littered With Dead, Wrecked Equipment, Is Report

NAZIS IN FULL RETREAT FROM ‘WINTER LINE   Adriatic End of Wall Crumbled by Drive Of Eighth Army

Germans Quitting Key Post   Allied Fliers Report Heavy Demolitions On Via Casiling

Leave Ponderously Fortified Winter Line in Italy Near Adriatic.   ‘MANY DEAD, WOUNDED

Germans Seni Reeling Back by 8th Army   Large Quantities of Material Being Left as Troops Seek Escape

Great Losses Suffered As Line Broken   Brits Advance Three Miles Through Mine ‘Fields, Demolitions

Germans In Full Retreat From Winter Line On East End Italian Front _

8th Smashes Thru Germans   K KK KK YK Forts Pound Marseille Sub Base

Nazis Apparently Are Making Preparations -To Abandon Cassino On Main Inland Road

Carefully-Prepared Winter Linels = & Litfered With Dead   High Command Now Reveals 34th Division ls With Fifth Army

British in Slashing Advance Take 1,000 Prisoners, Leave Battlefield Littered With Dead, Injured, Gear

GERMANS RETREAT FROM FORTIFIED LINE IN ITALY   Battleground Is Left Littered With Dead, Wounded and Wrecked Equipment.   ABANDONED CASSINO   This Was in the Face of Ris ing Pressure From Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark.

British Drive oe from ~ ‘Winter Line   + Rising Pressure Also May Send Fifth Army on. Road ta Rama

NAZIS GIVE UP SANGRO LINE   Eighth Army Pursues Germans In Full Retreat From Winter Line

Germans Retreat From Winter Line   Battleground in Italy Littered With Nazi Dead Savs War Report

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SMASHES FOE DEFENSES   American Forces Strike Hard As Germans Prepare to Quit Cassino

NAZIS REEL BACK BEFORE FURIOUS 8TH ARMY DRIVE   LOSE QUANTITIES OF EQUIPMENT AND MORE THAN 1,000 PRISONERS

3erman Retreat n Italy Is 3rowing Hourly   All of Heavily Fortified Sangro Winter Line Is in British Hands; Waves Of Allied Planes Pound Fleeing Nazis

Germans In Full . Retreat   Fall Back from Heavily Defended Winter Line in Italy Before Eighth Army Assault

Don Cobbler Home Is Razed By Fire—   : Moravia Motorists Are Told How To Renew ‘A’ Gasoline Rations 

Africa Blow Preceded By Two Delays   Equipment Lack Caused Postponements Of Invasion

Factory at Kassel Batter-' ed in Daylight As sault   BASES IN FRANCE _ ALSO ARE BOMBED   Raids Follow Severe Night Battering of Hambhura

Paricutin More Active Than Ever, But Land Will Be Tillable Aaain

Legion Demands Immigration Be Halted After War   Demands Borders Be Closed  Until Unemployment Drops Under One Million   CALIFORNIA MAN TO BE COMMANDER

[GION HITS IMMIGRATION — IN CONVENTION RESOLUTION   ' URGES IMMIGRATION BE BASED  ON EMPLOYMENT—REP. HAM FISH IS CRITICIZED

TOLEDOAN PROFESSES HER LOVE FOR JUDGE   Divorce Trial Continues  ir Toledo Court

CHINESE ROUT NIPPON FORCES   Japs Forced To Flee After « Opening Thrugt On Hunan , Capital

THRUST AGAINST CHINA SMASHED   Japs Take To Their Ships And Flee; Heavy Losses Are Suffered

TRAPPER 1S GUILTY OF SLAYING WARDER   Jury Takes Three Hours to Find Veer Hunter Guilty of Second Degree Murder

Calls for 3 Power Conference And Peace Preparation   Soviet Labor Publication Discusses Parley '

Yankees Tighten  Pincers on Mund:   Japs’ New Guinea Bases Blasted

U.S. CLOSES PINCERS ON MUNDA BASE   ‘American Troops Meet Stiff Opposition From Japanese

War Activities Committee Has Been Organized  Will Direct War Fund Drives In Piymouth County

COMMITTEE ON WAR ACTIVITIES FOR THIS COUNTY IS CHOSEN   Every Bank And Various Other Organizations Are Represented In Set-up

Predictions Are Made That Italy Will.  Be Out of the War Late This Summer

PREDICT ITALIAN COLLAPSE ~ WITHIN NEXT FOUR MONTHS   AERIAL BOMBARDMENTS EXPECTED TO BE FINISHING TOUCH TO ALL SERIOUS RESISTANCE THERE

MRS. WM. HEURTZ FUNERAL TODA)   Former Resident Passed Away Thursday In Sioux City

Today’s War Commentary  Stalin Warms Up  Now Gives Britain and &. 8S. Credi

Today’s War Moves   By THOMAS J. DONOHUE  limited BDreaee Awmaivies

Sheriff Finds Body in Back o  Seve in Cabin   George Granger, 65, Of Davis, Believed Dead for Nine Days

Sheriff Finds Davis Resident  Dead In Cabin   George Granger, 65, Believed Dead For Nine Days

Production * ‘ Lags, Says  Patterson   Only Planes Rolling “Off Lines According To Schedule

PATTERSON IN BLUNT WARNING ON PRODUCTION   War Department Official Says Nation Behind Schedule

Harder Work Is Called For By Patterson   Over - Confidence 1: Blamed For Failure To Meet Schedules Set For May

MACARTIOR AND EISENHOWER GIVEN TOP BRITISH HONORS   RANEING FIELD OFFICERS RE‘CEIVE SAME MILITARY HGNOR ACCORDED GEN.  - PRERSAONG IN ipif

Japs’ Papuan Pocket Emptied   Last Post Destroyed; Enemy Ships Sunk

U. S. Fliers Damage Jap Burma Sites   Blast Docks And Railroad Yards

U. S. BOMBERS ATTACK BURMA INSTALLATIONS   Rail Yards Around Rangoon Heavily Hit

‘Gas’ Truck Explosion Injures 75 In Florida   Victims in Crowd  That Gathers After Two Trucks Collide At Fort Myers, Fla.  FLAMING GASOLINE SPRAYS SPECTATORS  Soldier Is Credited With Rescuing Driver

75 Persons Hurt In Gasoline Blast   Explosion Follows Two-Truck Collision

Gas Truck Blast nurs 15 In Florida City   5,000-Gallon Load Ignites, Sprays Flames Over Crowd

75 ARE HURT IN ‘GAS’ BLAST   Loaded Fuel Truck Ex plodes on Street at Fort Myers, Fla.

Yanks Establish Record Shooting Down 52 Planes   20 Others Probably Downed, 23 Damaged In Vegesack Trip As Raids Enter New Phase

U. S. Bombers Knock Out 52  German Planes   General Eaker Report: On Heavy Toll Taker By Americans During Last Week's Raid

U. S$. Bombers Knock Down 52 Germans   Vegesack Raid Esta blishes Feasibility Of Daylight Raids

Allies Unload Bombs On  Jap Air Concentrations   52 Nazi Fighter Planes Are Shot Down By Raiding Yankee Bombers

YANK AIRFORCE BAGS 52 REICH ~ PLANES IN RAID   Bombers Probably Downed 2( Others in Devastating Smash on Vegesack

Rommel in Comeback: US. Bags 30 Nazi Tanks   AFRICA BARED BY CHURCHILL   REPORTS NCONFIRMED   Yanks and Japs Swap Raids; Small Force Bombs Guadalcanal’   52 Nazi Planes Knocked Down in Yank Raid Over Germany

Vegesack Raid Netted 52 Nazi Planes; ‘Allies Strike Targets In France Today

U.S. Bombers Take Big Nazi Plane Toll   Total Mounts 16 356 Against Loss of 90 American Ships

U.S. AIR FORGE KNOCKS 32 NAZI FIGHTERS DOWN   Action Takes Place in Last Week’s Raid Over Vegesack

YANK BOMBERS “KNOCK DOWN” 52 NAZI PLANES   Score is “Positive”, Annoncement Says; Total Now 356 Germans to 90 U. S. Planes

Many Nazi Planes Shot Down ByU.S.   Enemy Paid Dearly For Intercepting Vevesack Raiders

 Fit. Single Bombing Feaid, Expert  ‘Yanks Down 52 Nazi Fichter Planes

U.S. Planes Bagger $2 Nazi Fighters In Vegesack Raid  German Losses in Wilhelmshaven . Attack Set at 28

Record Number Nazi Ar   §2 Claimed In One Attack By Eaker;  American Loss t.. Qi kt   POWER GROWING   "We're Getting So Strong, The More They Send Up The Better’

TELL GIGANTIC VEGESACK TOL   U. S. BOMBERS DOWN 52 NAZI PLANES IN RAID

A New Phase In Air Fight   With the Experimental Stage Over, Job Now to Build Huge Air Force

Eaker Sees Full Power Reich Raids By Summer; 52 Nazis Downed In Day

U.S. BOMBERS KNOCKED DOWN 52 NAZI PLANES   - During Last Week’s Over Germany and  Occupied Countries. 20 Others Probably  Downed

ARMY BACK TO CIVIL WAR SHOT IN PRESENT WAF   Commander At Local Ordnance Plant Says Canister Shot Will Replace Shrapnel In The Invasion Plan Of Europe.

CITIES EXPECT ‘MEAT FAMINE’ THIS WEEKENE   New York, Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield Face Shortages

Sec. Stimson Admits Heavy ‘Casualties   Refers To U. S. Plight As ‘Serious Local Setback’

Americans Suffer Heavy Casualties  in War in Africa   Serious Local Setback Shouldn't Be Minimized, Secy. Stimson Says.   In Four Days Germans  Push Ahead 35 Miles

Serious Local Setback, Says U.S. Secretary   Tunisian Battle Should. Not Be Minimized, Nor Exarrerated   A SHARP REVERSE NOT UNEXPECTED   Reviews the Situation There and On the Other World War Fronts

Setback In  Tunisia Is  Not Critical Losses Heavy Bu   Losses Heavy But To Be Expected, Stimson Asserts

Says Americans Suffer Serious  African Setback   Stimson States Local In Nature

SITUATION IS REVIEWED BY SEC. STIMSON   "Local Setback" Should Not Be Minimized, But Still Less Should It Be Exaggerated

‘Serious Local Setback,” Says Stimson; Should Not Be Minimized or Exaggerated

Stimson Adm'ts ‘Serious Setback In Tunisia   Americans Suffer Heavy Casualties in Personne! and Equipment.

Serious Local Setback, Stimson   Should Not Be Minimized or Exaggerated, He Says

secretary Warns Against Minimizing or Exeggerating U.S, Setback  CASUALTIES HEAVY      Axis Advance Already Is Showing Signs of Lost Momentum

Stimson Says Tunis Setback Only Local   SECRETARY WARNS ON EXAGGERATION OF U. S. DESERT LOSSES

Tunisian Setback Called Serious By Sec. Stimson .  Heavy Casualties: . De  WiSecoveucawal “Giicccll

STIMSON SAYS REVERSE NOT UNEXPECTED   Tells Reporiers African Setback: Should Not Be Minimized, but Also Not Exaggerated

SECRETARY SAYS U.S. LOSSES ARE HEAVY      Believes Montgomery's Forces Will Relieve the Situation, However

[Field Dispatches Indicate Americans Have Suffered Heavily in Men and Equipment.   AXIS SCORES OVER 60-MILE ADVANCE

YANKEEDEFEAT NOT MINIMIZED BY GOVERNMENT   secretary of War Stimson Says American Forces Apparently Have Suffered Heavy Casualties   NOT START OF BiG OFFENSIVE BY NAZIS   Arrival of Lieutenant General Walter Krueger In Australia, to Head 6th Army, Is Announced

Setback Serious  Stimson Admits   Tunisia Situation Should Not Be Exaggerated Nor Minimized   ‘DEVELOPMENT WAS NOT UNEXPECTED’

Setback A Purely  Local Situation      Does Not Think Nazis Intend To Continue Push   HEAVY LOSSES IN MEN AND MATERIAL

War Secretary Admits ‘Serious Local Setbacks’  U. S. Official Doubts if Germans Begin-

GERMANS USING STRONGER FORCE   Reverse Not Unexpected Army's Total Casualties to Date Given

LOSSES HEAVY IN TUNISIAN BATTLE   U, S, FORCES SUFFER SERIOUS SETBACK SAYS STIMSON

NOT BE GIVEN EXAGGERATION   Stimson Says Loss in Tunisi “Not Unexpected: Casualtes are Heavy      ADVANCED POSITIONS IN CENTRAL AREA OVERRUM

Believes Axis Attack Intended Only Widen Coastal Corridor; American Forces Withdrawn on 30-Mile Front to New Positions in Mounta Fighting Yesterday. on Red Scale, But Information Incomplet

Stimson Admits Serious Setback   Declares Casualties Are ‘Rather Heavy’

A ‘LOCAL SETBACK’   Stimson Comments on Tunisian Reverse at Press Conference

unisia Attack Not Regarded by Secretary as Beginning of Broad Offensive.

CLOSE TEST PRE ENT S FEN      One or Two Senators Shifting Either Way Will Turn vlide: Claim Made It Will Raise Cost of Livina.

SHOWDOWN IS NEAR ON BANKHEAD BILL: VOTE DUE TUESDAY   Warning Given on Eve of Vote That Passage Will MSean Increased Retail Costs.

Dempsey to Push Post-War Plans   Strikes ‘Yapping ©: itics In Convention [alk

COOLER IN NORTHEAST   Rest of Kansas Remains in Grip “of 100-Degree Weather

GERMANS HELD ~ IN KUBAN DRIVE   Fierce Fighting Rages On Novorossisk Front

NAZIS REPULSED “ONRUSSIAN FRONI   Germans Unable to Gain in Kuban Delta Despite Savage Attack.

NAZIS TRYING TO RECAPTURE LOST POSITIONS   New Masses Of Troops Thrown Into Battle

VIOLENT BATTLE IN KUBAN DELTA   Germans Throw In More Troops, But Are Unable To Gain Ground oe Russians.   _RY EDDY GILMORE-—

Germans Hurl More Men Into Violent Struggle, But Soviets Beat Back Assault

Violent Struggle Raging in Russia   Nazis Throw in. Reserve Forces

ACTION PEPS UP ON RED FRONTS   Fighting Heaviest In Region Of Kuban Delta

GERMANS TRYING TO REGAIN LOST KUBAN POSITIONS.   Russians Report That Nowhere Did the Nazis Succeed in Their Efforts.

Nazis Fail To Regain Ground   Fresh Troops Are Being _ Thrown Against The Russians In Kuban.

GERMANS MAKING ATTEMPT REGAIN LOST POSITIONS   Throw In More Troops In Violent Struggle For Important Height Which Marks Mounting Battle In Kuban Delta of the Cau casus.

GERMANS FAIL TO. GAIN GROUND IN KUBAN FIGHTING   Mounting Conflict. Above No_ vorossick Marked by Fierce - Battle for: an Important Heicht~ 8 a

MORE: TANKS USED   Nazi Forces Are Unable tc - Make Gains Against  the Russians

Soviets Beat Off Mounting Nazi Attacks   Germans Thow In More Troops in Attempt to Regain Lost Ground  REPORT SEA FIGHTING

Reds Hela In Violent Delta Steeple   Germans Throw’: More Droops, Tanks, Planes ANsainst: Red “Forces.

Violent Nazi Attack Gains Them Nothing   Bitter Fight In Kuban Delta Nets Attackers No Ground; German Boats Sunk

Reds Holding  In Violent Della Strugele   Germans Throw More - ‘Froops, Tanks, Planes * Adainst Red Forees,

NAZI RETREAT PANICKY f  SOME SECTORS AS THE’ TANKS, GUNS AND OTHE ‘ EQUIPMENT

RED ARMIES SMASHING FORWARD   German Retreat in Some Sectors Becoming Panicky

Red Forces T opple German Defenses   Panic-Stricken Enemy Rushing To Escape Jaws of Soviet Trap

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FLEE FROM BIG BEND OF DNIEPER   Enemy Retreat in Some Places Recomesc Panickyv

Thousands Of Enemy Fleeing ©   Drive May Send Enemy to Poland By End of Year

POWERFUL SOVIET ARMIES SNAP AXIS LINE IN UKRAINIA   Retreat Of Enemy In ‘Some Seétors Disorderly ‘As _. Troops Lose Hope .

RETREAT INTO POLAND DURING WINTER LIKELY   Withdrawal Is Panicky In Some Sectors  Reds Report

UKRAINIAN FRONT CRUMBLES, AXIS I ROLLED BACK   Dneprodgerzhinsk, Once City of 400,000, Reduced te Shell With Handful ta Welcome Victors.   FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Seven Major Towns Strengthened By Germans Oversun By Alles, Vital Roads Are Seized.

300,000 in Danger Ot Russian Trap      Mammoth Soviet Drive Picks Up Speed as Twin Electric Power Cities Are Captured

Table Resolutions Aimed at ‘Abuses’ in Correc_tional Institutions

James Praises Defense Units; “G, A.” Among Those To Get  Meritorious Service Medal

WIN70 108 OVER NAZIS   70 Nazi Planes Downed In Battles Over Paris, Antwerp

98 Zeroes, Bombers Attack American Shippin In South Pacific; Hitler's Aircraft Are Blasted In France And Belgium

U.S. AIRMEN WIN 70108 OVER NAZIS   70 Nazi Planes Downed In Battles Over Paris, Antwerp

) Raids Net Allies 10 Nazi Planes  47 Are Downed at Renault Works, Rest at Antwerp

Armies Lunge Closer to White Russia   Nazis Admit Setback As Soviets Take important New Area

Victories Engulf Nazi Defenses On 300-Mile River Front; Objectives Fall in Range of Big Guns

Guadalcanal Units Praised By Vandeerift   Never Any Letdown In Morale Of Marines Despite Hardships, Asserts General

DESCRIBES LIFE IN GUADALCANAL   Marine Officer Says His Troops Worked All Day, Fought All Night

Vandegrift of Guadalcanal says no letdown in morale; ‘out there with a mission to do’

NO MORALE LETDOWN   ‘Spirits Of Men On Guadalcanal  High, Says Vandegrift

GERMANS HUNGRY, CANADIANS SAY   REPATRIATED SOLDIERS TELL OF “MAD SCRAMBLES” FOR FOOD IN REICH,

FOR FERGUSON IN  SIDETRACK at AMBITIONS THODAY   Party Move May Be Planmed to Put Quietuis on  Aspirations for Governorshio.

> SUSPECT MOVE TO KEEP FERGUSON OUT , OF GOVERNOR RACE   State Auditor Endorsed For Re-election By Demo Leaders

Declaration Is Issued After 100 Hours Of Unparalleled Talks in Tehran, Iran The Tehran Conference in Brief:

12 MILLION LEFT   May Company Founder Leaves Vast Sum to Charities.

Temneratures ‘Ease  Off Over Stale.   Back to 100-Degree Maximum For Ada Tuesday

Roosevelt Dam In Danger of Sabotage, Fear   Race Riots Sure to Follow If Release Is Not * Stopped. Claim

General Praises Unified Command   Says Object Of War Is To Kill The Hun

CONFER AT CAPITAL ON WAR IN FAR EAST   BURMA PRESUMED TO BE FIRST ON ALLIED TIMETABLE; AID OF BRITISH FLEET SEEN   SOUTHERN HALF OF ITALIAN BOOT VIRTUALLY AMPUTATED   THREE FLEETS OF ALLIED RAIDERS LEAVE CITY OF FOGGIA IN RUINS

MOUNTBATTEN IS MADE COMMAND 'R OF BURMA AREA   NEW ALLIED COMMANDER IN SOUTHEASTERN ASIA ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON FOR CONFERENCE,   BURMA RAINY SPELL ENDS IN OCTOBER   British Have Army of Million Men Based in India Equipped for a Quick Dash to Drive the Japs Out of Burma.

GOVERNOR TACKLES DELINQUENCY TASK   Appoints Members of Crippled Children and Planning Commission

STATE PLANNING IS REORGANIZED   Ironwood Man Picked On Commission; Dillman Is Reappointed

GOP SENATORS STAGE REVOLI   Party Members Split or Female Labor Rill

Veterans Commission For Rehabilitation of Ex-service Men Sought   Republicans in Legislature Balk At Changes in Female Labor Law

Island-To-Island, Drive Against Japs Is Denied   Secretary Of Navy Refuses To Elaborate On Strategy Of War.

LINE SEMBLANCE IN ENEMY FORCES IS NEARLY LOST   Melitopo! Battle ts Reported as One of Ghastliest an Record, Russians Slowly Gaining Ground.   AUSSIES CONTINUE TO RESIST JAP ATTACKS   U. S. Navy Bombers Make Third Stab at Japanese Base at Tarawa, Sirongest in Gilbert Istands.

RED TROOPS LOP OFF NAZI-RELD NNIEPER BULGE   German Positions Above Krivoi Rog Pecomine Untenable

Germans Fight “From Point To Point” As Russians Cut Halfway Through River Bend.

ENEMY IS FACING MASS MURDER ON VITAL RIVER LINE   Russians Race Past Halfway Mark Southwest Of Dnepropetrovsk And Close Against Krivoi Rog  In North co

RUSSIANS RACE 10 CUT OFF NAZIS IN UKRAINE. CRIME?   Push Another Six Miles Be hind Enemy Toward Black Sea.

Advancing Russians Call. Battles ‘Mass Murder,’ Nazis in Full Retreat   Melitopol in. Soviet Hands; Moscow Sees Battle as Showdown; Germans Are Desperate

Chaos Grips Front. As Reds Churn Nazi , Line Into Muddle ©      Harried Germans Fighting Without \Semblance of Order; Realization’ of: “Imminent Disaster Sweens Ranks”

DNIEPER BEND BATTLE TERMED ‘MASS MURDER’   Germans Unable To Halt Retreat

Fuel Oil Ration Slashed in East   10 Pet. Cut Made by OPA; Increasing Gravity Te Cited

Fuel Oil Rations In East Cut 10 Per Cent; Home Owners Tc Get Nine, Not 10, For Ducats

Wonder What To Write To Men In Armed Services? Here Are Some Suggestions From 6,130 Men

HOPE FOR COAL MINERS FADES   Explosion Traps 69 Men: Rescue Work Now In Third Day

Waiting Relatives Maintain Vigil Hope Wanes for 69 Trapped Coal Miners

Recall of U, 5. °Envoy to Russia. Believed Possible   Standley May . Have Outlived His Usefulness

STANDLEY FACES ‘OFFICIAL REBUKE - FOR INDISCRETION   Washington Seeks Way to Smooth Sensation Caused By Criticism.

REPRIMAND OR RECALL - SEEN FORSTANDLEY   U. "S. Seeks To Smooth *- Sensation Caused By Criticism

Capital Hints Reprimand For Standley   U. S. Seeking ie Smeoth Sensation Caused by Jab at Russia   REPORT IS AWAITED   Passage of New LendLease Bill Not Expected to Be Affected

REPRIMAND 0 RECALL LIKELY FOR STANDLE}   U.S. Officials Seeking To Offset Criticism Of Soviet

Envoy’s Recall Seen Outcome  ‘Of Red Rebuke   U.S. Officials Are Still At Loss Over Standley’s Statement

Standley May Be Recalled   Capital Still Wonders About Criticism of Russian:

'U. S. Government Seeks to Smooth Sensation Caused by Ambassador’s Blast at  Gawiat.

(QM. STANDLEY'S ARKS. LIKELY T) DRAW REBUKE   U.S. Seeks To Smooth Sensation Caused By Envoy   STANDLEY WILL SEE STALIN AND MOLOTOV

PLANE CRASH — “KILLS TWENT)   ONLY = TWO--OF_-#2. PERSONS ABOARD BIG... AIRLINER SURVIVED. ACCIDENT IN KENTUCKY

 20 KILLED IN ONE KENTUCKY PLANE CRASH   Cause unknown; other airplane crashes are being investigated

Danes Asked to Stop Sabotage   Germans Will Cut Off Food and Fuel

Denmark’ s King. -Asks Subjects Cease Sabotage   Warns Countrymen: Nation _. Will Lose Food And Coal. “Supplied By’ Germans

DANISH HEADS ASK SUBJECTS, QUIT SABOTAGI   Evidently Govt. of Danes Has Won Compromise With German Occupation Authorities,

Ask Danes to Stop Bisorders   * King, Government Warns Nation May Hot Get Nazi Aid

Asks Cessation Of All Sabotage   Danish Government Appeals to People

Danes Act to End Sabotage   Government and King Appeal to People To Cease Activities

KING AGKS DANES CEASE SABOTAGE   Consider Move — as Triumphant Compromise for Danish Officials

Fearful of American  Offensive   Concerned Over Possibility of Thrusts by U S. Naval,  Air Forces

Japs Anticipate U. S. Offensive   Reinforce Bases  Over Wide Area

la Guardia ‘ls Recalled fo Army  Associates For His Unannounced  Ascianment Chosen

LAGUARDIA AIDES PICKED FOR ARMY JOB   Reports Assert New Yark’s Mayor io Be Made a Brig.-General.   MAY SERVE IN ITALY IN ‘OCCUPATION FORCE

LAGUARDIA FOR ARMY   New York Mayor To Enter Service  But Assignment Unknown

BOMBERS HIT AT ROMMEL'S SUPPLY PORTS   Patrols Engage Enemy Around Mareth Line Outposts

AlD INCREASED TO DEPENDENTS   Size Of Allotments Te Families Of Service Men Not Decided

COST $3,600 A YEAR    Government Gets Report on Its Dollar-a-Year Men

. 4 — so 7 A il — — -— 7 . A r 7. . r . 4 -— i -— - - ad - _  $1 Year Men Cost $3,600   They Work Free, But Expenses Mount Uy

Soviet Army Sweeps on To. ward Objective, Threaten 3 Points.   HITLER’S FORGES SPLIT

Germans Near Journey End In Caucasus  Land Exit Hopes Fade Before Red Offensive Drives

Targets In Italy, France. Ruhr Blasted   Collapse Of  Hitler’s Caucasian Forces Is Nea  Final Phase.

Enemy Rushing Tanks, Troops To Struggles  German’s Caucasia   German's Caucasian Forces Are Believed Near Collapse; Another Escape Path Cut

REDS SPLIT NAZI FORCES TRAPPED IN CAUCASUS   ONE BODY PRESSED AGAINST SEA, OTHER TOWARD ROSTOV

NAZIS DRIVEN TO SEACOAST OF CAUCASUS   Germans Reported Rushing Squadrons of Tanks and Divisions Into Battle in West   FLANKING MOVEMENT

HITLER ARM IN CAUGASUa NEAR GOLLAPOE   Escape Of 200,000 Germans Cut Off As Railroad Lines Are Slashed

Russ Slash Last Rail Escape Line  Soviets Sweep Toward All Objectives With Speedy Thrusts AXIS FORCES SPLIT  Squadrons of Reserves Poured In to Stem Nazi Retreat   AXIS FORCES SPLIT

Collapse Near For Germans In Caucasus   Reds Cut Escape For 200,000 By Taking Branch Rail Line

(lapse OF Germans In The Caucasus Believed Near As Result Of frins By Soviets

Nazis Are Rapidly Collapsing In Caucasus as Reds Advance Nearer Their Principal Bases

IES PINNED  INST SEA IN  JCASUS AREA   ans Rushing Tanks Divisions Infantry  ito Raging Krasny Liman Battles   3 PUSHING DEEP O RICH UKRAINE   Potential Flanking ement Against Ger Strongholds Kharv, Voroshilovgrad

ANOTHER BIG FORCE FACES TRAP IN DON   Soviets Sweeping Toward Objectives Like Steamroller

FINISH NEARS FOR GERMANS OF CAUCASUS   Russians Steamrollering Ahead tc Smash All of Weakening Nazi Resistance in Soviet.

RUSSIANS CUT RAIL LINE OVER WHICH HUGE ARMY MIGHT HAVE FLED FROM KRASNODAR AREA   Kursk and Khark Germans Rush Tanks And* Divisions of \Infgntry Up To Try To Hal  A Aesawhae  Red Advarices a Cities of Rostov,

NAZI CAUCASUS ARMY. NEARING GREAT CRISIS   Two Remaining Rail Avenues 0 Escape Threatened by Russiaz Swift Advances   NAZI ARMY SPLIT   Northward Germans Try Desperately to Slop Reds Who Broke Through at Krasny-Liman

Germans Rush Tanks, Troops To New Battle  Caucasus Army Now Trapped; 17,000 Renarted Killed

Collapse of Force in Caucasus Near, Observers Believe   ‘Dunkerque Escape” I Apparently Only Way Open to Germans

Rail Routes Cut By Reds Steamroller   Escape Path for . Perhaps Some 200,000:-Troops ‘is Blocked by ‘Soviets   ENEMY SPLIT UP ; AND ENCIRCLED   Russians Using. Hitler’s Own Tactics in Making Striking. Gains

Soviets Slash Last Escape Railway Line   200,000 Germans Trapped; Reds Rushing Toward Rostov, Kursh and Kharkov

NAZIS IN DON BASIN FACING RUSSIAN TRAP   Make Supreme Effort to Hold Key City and Re  tain Escape Route.   Germans’ Caucasus Force Is in Flight

AUSSI A—  STRONG DEFENSE. LINE SHATTERED   One Nazi Group Driven  Against Black Sea,  Other Toward Rostov   ICGAINS NEAR KURSK   Report 100,000 Germans Killed Or Captured Near Voronezh

Red Armies Cut Rail Line, ) May Have Closed Es-cape to 200,000   FORCES ARE SCATTERED   Axis - Detachments Fight Without Great Hope of Breaking Out -

RED ADVANCE THREATENS 3 VITAL CITIES   Rail Escape Route for 200,000 Germans Cut By Russian Gains

Trap Germans In Caucasus   Slash Branch Rail Line Cut. ting Route Of Withdrawal  For 200.000.

Desperate Germans Rush Tanks To Front; Russ Break Lines To Push Into Ukraine: May Flank Kharkov

German Forces Face Russian Encirclement   Nazis In Caucasus Being Pinned Back Against The Sea

COLLAPSE 1S SEEN AS REDS DAWE HARDER   Rostov, Kursk and Kharkov Threatened by Russ; Exits Blocked,   SOVIETS IN UKRAINE AFTER NEW ADVANCES

Russians Slash Rail Linesto Cut Nazi Retreat   Losses are Huge According to Moscow Reports

BREAK OF HITLER'S CAUCASIAN FORCE APPEARS IMMINENT   ‘Reds Attempting Flanking Move On Mt harkny

Winter Offensive Continuing Like Steam Roller   In Tunisia Yanks Withdraw From Sened Rail Station

Juggernaut Closes Flight Path To North   German Force Trapped In Southern Section May Be Nmbered At 200,000.  By EDDY GILMORE

DESPERATELY MOVING TANKS INTO BATTLE   All Forces In Don Basin  Above Rostov In Danaerous Position   TRAPPED UNITS SPLIT   Germans Hold Only Northern Edge Of Caucasus, Periled There

REDS SWEEP TOWARD ALLNAZI POINTS   Sever One cf Three Re_ maining Rail Exits and “Imminently Threaten Cities of Rostov, Kharkov and Kursk.

Russian Steam Roller Severs — Railroad Lines   German Armies Split By Red Thrust; May Force Land: Escape  AIR FORCE IS ACTIVE Only ‘Patrol Activity’ on Tunisian Border Is Re we Pine oN.

Soviets Close In For Kill   - . » 200,000 NAZIS CUT OFF BY ROSTOV TRAP

Hitler’s Caucasian Army Near  Final, Crushing Defeat As Red Forces Cut Off Escape Route

RAIL EXITS ARE CAPTURED; RED TRAP TIGHTENS   Russian Troops Sweep Ahead Against Germans in Steamroller Fashion

Collapse of Axis  Forces Believed   Near Final Phase   Reds Slash One of Last Avenues of Escape for 200,000 Germans; Push On Toward Rostov, Kursk; Kharkov.

Reds Pin Back Partly Encircled Army Against Biack Sea.   ARMY ROUNDED UP - NEAR VERONEZH

Forces of Clark and Montgomery Clear Last of Germans Out of 40( Square Mile Area in Savage Hand: ~ To-Hand Fighting Nor th of Naples

 Senate Committee Offers (Recommendations to Limit ‘War Contract Profits

Giraud Discusses  Pro-Allied Head  For Martinique Citizens Indicate  Desire for Alliance ee ee ie ees ee ee

REPLACEMENT OF VICHYITES ‘PRIME SUBJECT   Washington Officials, riraud In Conference

GIRAUD TALKS ON MARTINIQUE   Pro-Adj d_Setup to Reee'pisce Vichyites ~ on in 1). C.

' French Leader Confers In Washington  ‘Martinique Is Topic Among Giraud Talks

Martinique Shift To Allies May Follow Soon; Giraud Confers With FDR

Giraud to Discuss Martinique   Installation of  Staf! Favorable to Allies Is Proposed

GIRAUD SEEKS A MARTINIQUE TIE   Pro- Allied Accord With Troubled Island Is Prime Subject

Martinique In Limelight      One of Giraud’s Jobs it Washington to Work Out Plan for Change In Isle’s Leadership

PRO-ALLIED RULE FOR MARTINIQUE 1S UNDER DISCUSSION  GEN- GIRAUD AND WASH. : INGTON OFFICIALS SEEK ' BRING ISLAND IN

peur AIRING. FRENCH ISSUES IN MARTINIQUE   Installation of Pro-Alliec   Setup to Replace Vichy  ites Prime Subject For Talks  7   HULL KEEPS ALOOF   Secretary of State Refrain: From Taking Part In Reception to Fighting: French General

Giraud Discusses Martinique Rule In Washington   Demonstrations Agains: Vichy Link Reported r Fort De France

GEN, GIRAUD, FDR 10 DISCUSS MARTINIQUE   Large Crowd Shouts for Break With Vichy

GEN. GIRAUD STAATS WASHINGTON TALKS   New Pro-Allied Administration for Troubled Martinique Due to Come Up

CONFERENCE TOPIC   Giraud Discusses. Situation With Washington Officials in Sessions Today

MARTINIQUE IS PRIME CONCERN OF GEN. GIRAUD   Demonstrators at Fort-de-France Demand Break with Vichy as Giraud Confers in Washington

MARTINIQUE {S GIVEN STUDY   Giraud in Washington on Military Mission

Martinique Setup to Be Giraud Topic   French General Arrives in Washington as U.S, Guest

Martinique Setup Given Attention   ~— ——  Giraud May Lend Some Aid

Pro-Allied Plans Made By Giraud  Allied Administration For Martinique

INSTALLATION OF PRO-ALLIED ADMINISTRATION IN MARTINIQUE UNDER DISCUSSION IN CAPITOL   Between Officials and Gen. Henri Honore Giraud 15,000 Frenchmen Demonstrate At Fort De France; Call for Break With Vichy, Alliance  UercaL FY ¢

GIRAUD DISCUSSES: ~ MARTINIQUE RULE   Pro-Allied Administrator Now Neclared Likely

ALLIED CONTROL OF MARTINIQUE NEAR SHOWDOWN   Gen. Giraud in Washington To Discuss Plan as Crowds On Island Demonstrate   Bv RICHARD G. MASSOCK

View Plan For  French Island   Administration Of Martinique On Giraud’s Schedule Of Business.

Giraud Discusses  Martinique Affair French Officer Confer: With U. S. Officials  Be. pwrmwwaern waccor’K

Giraud May  Discuss Isle Of Martinique   French Military leader Apparently Here to Plan Invasion of Europe

New Rule at Martinique   Pro-Allied Setup To Replace Vichyites; Giraud Meets F.R.

Record of Lewis To Be Studied   Justice Department Acts in Coal Case

MINE DISPUTE ~ BEING STUDIED   UMW Involved In Report Of NLRB Violation 6 Years Ago

180,000 Nazis Attempt to Bar Road to Rome   Reds Overrun 100 More Villages; Berlin Hard Hit From Sky

FORD REVEALS PLAN FOR CARGO PLANES   Company To Take Over Big Willow Run Plant

FORD 0 BUILD CARGO PLANES   Willow Run Big Enough for Even Larger Planes Than Being Built Now

More Allowance: For Dependents Being Studied   Induction of Family Men Offere Prohleme

MAY LIBERALIZE DEPENDENT PAY   Study Ways To Take Care Special Hardships In Soldiers’ Pamilies

HOLD DNIEPER LINE, COMMANDS HITLER   APPEARS SUDDENLY AT EASTERN FRONT HEADQUAF TERS AND DECLARES INTENTION OF STAYING TO SEE THAT HIS ORDERS ARE OBEYED

Nazis Have Already Lost Their Strongest River Bridgeheads.   =f _—  Bridgeheads.  ‘RUSSIANS CROSSING RIVER AT POINTS Germans Fighting Hard  to Save Remnants of Battered Forces.

ADOLF ORDERS GENERALS 10 HOLD DNIEPER AT ANY COST   “Here I Am and Here  “Shall Remain. The Fear Of Another Stalingrad Must Be Banished,” Said Hitler.

New Hope In China Situation: ee By. Veteran Jap-Fighting ' General ..

New Hope In China Situation Seen By Veteran Jap-Fighting General

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS IN HEAVIEST ATTACK OF WAR ON CAPITAL   ALLIED AIR FORCES ACTIVE IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA ALSO         ‘GENERAL CHENNAULT’S COMMENI [ON JAPANESE AIR POWER MOST HOPEFUL WORD FROM FAR EAST

: i   Glenn Babb Says     Jap Cities Threatened By Allied Air Power 

SIGN UP FOR LIQUOR STARTS HERE TODAY   State Stores and SDDS Have Applications Blanks for Rationing Registration

LIST SCHOOL WINNERS OF WAR "SCRAPBOOKS   Lebanon Hig High, Rich:  jand Boro Schools  Ton Contestants

Fight Flares Up in House On Subsidies   F. R. Disormed in Fight On Inflation by CCC Bill, Seys McCormack

SIGN UP BEGINS FOR BOOK NO, 4   Persons With Last Initials G Through M Register Tuesday

A-F NAMES OPEN BOOK 4 SIGN-UP   City, East Townships Begin New Ration Registration Monday

DOGLITTLE BOMBED JAPS FROM CARRICE   Mother of Seaman Tells How Crew Cheered Fliers from Aircraft Carrier

CARRIER BOMBERS MADE TOKYO RAID      Ohio Sailor Aboard Ship Tells Of Take-off

Son Told Mother Shangri-La Base Was U. S. Carrier   Also Declares Task Force Sank Enemy Destroyer And Two Fishing Boais

Says ‘Shangri La’ Aircraft Carrier   Member of Carrier Crew Tells Mother of Tokyo Bombing Incident.

Supreme Court Is Asked To Rule on Exclusion Of Japanese From Coast

Conditional Recognition GivenBy US   Roosevelt Announces _ Stand -in. Taver of DeGaulig-Giraud  Ca. ainittan-

RECOGNITION FOR FRENCH 15 CONDITIONAL   Subject To Military Requirements Of Allied Command. ers, Says Announcement  Of The President   Hone For Risen France

Meal Shortage Strikes Dallas.   Combination of Circumstances Is Blamed by Dealers

Efforts Crowned With Success; Pledges for Future Payments Welcomed —

ALLIED ATTACK ON BIG SCALE; 17 PLANES LOST   Important cities hit; and ammunition dumps are blown up

Allied Fliers In Crete Raid   Large Force Makes Devas: tating Attack Upon NaziOccupied Island   INSTALLATIONS OF AXIS ARE WRECKED

Men Seeking Women’s Job: Tn Seranton   ‘Iron Age’ Says Efforts ‘To Get War Work Have Failed

Unemployment {n Scranton   30,000 Jobless, Iron Age Says — Tells of Efforts to Get Work

MEN LOOKFOR WOMEN’S JOBS ATSCRANTON   Magazine Says City Is Getting Run-Around

MEN ASKING FOR WOMEN'S JOBS SORANTON, PA.   Magazine “Iron Age”. Says Situation Created Be. * cause Unemployment” -- Js: So Great   7.000 HOMES EMPTY   Efforts to Secure War In ‘dustries Futile; Replies From: Government Bu~yeaus “Run-Arounds”

U.S. Captures Another Town At Guadalcanal   Intense Fighting Is -Resumed To Wipe Out 4,000 Remaining Japs

EDWARD EPLING FUNERAL FRIDAY   Well Known Resident Died . Monday In Sioux City Hospital

EDWARD EPLING. ~ FUNERAL FRIDAY   Well Known Resident Died _ Monday In Sioux City '. . Hlospital

White House Silent Over New Walkout   Negotiations  On Contract  SHIl in Progress

Ignore F.R. Order Not to Shut Mines   Follow Injunction of Lewis Not to Trespass; Truce Ends at Midnight

200 COAL MINES IN STATE CLOSE AFTER DEADLINE   Operators, Union Czar Meeting Again Today

[No Contract, No Work’ Movement Spreads To All Parts Of Nation's Fields

Thousands of Coal Miners Quit Work Again as Truce Ends: Production Menaced   STERN WARNINGS FROM PRESIDENT THAT A NATIONWIDE COAL STRIKE COULD NOT BE TOLERATED ARE IGNORED—-CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS TO REACH A CONTRACT

Nearly All of Lewis’ UMW Fail To Report At Pits This Morning   Half - Million Diggers Out from 3,600 Mines Today, Bituminous Operators Continue Negotiations

WALKOUT ENDS PRODUCTION IN UNION FIELDS   Negotiations to Reach New Wage Contract Are Continued

FLOW OF COAL IS HALTED BY MINE STRIKE   Half Million Miners Stay Away From Work Be cause of No Contract.   White House Silent  About Lewis’ Union

IOWA'S COAL DIGGERS OUT TUESDAY, T00   Virtually 100 Per Cent Cooperation in Walkout Among Miners of John Lewis Union

Work Stoppage Halts Flow Of Vital Fuel to the Nation's War Busy Industrial Plants   “Hesitancy to Trespass” Is Virtually 100 Per Cent Effective In All Fields Operating With UMW Personnel

Lewis’ Men Carry Out His Threat   Production Slows to a Stoy With Most of Nation's Bituminous Mines Idle

MINERS IGNORED STERN WARNING OF THE PRESIDENT   The Walkout Appeared at Noon Today to Be Virtually 100 Per Cent.   NEGOTIATIONS GO ON   Lewis Said His Men, Would Refuse to “Trespass” on Mine Property.

UMW Members lanore Warning Of President   Negotiatioris To Reach Contract. Reéesumed

MINERS \GNORE EAB WARNING   Half Million Stay Away From Nation’s Pits As Truce Ends   WITHOUT CONTRACT   Stoppage Halts Flow Of Vital Fuel To WarBusy Plants

War Industries Again Threatened By Fuel Shortage   Negotiations Over Portal-to-Portal Pay Are Resumed

THUGE LAPIS EWG MINER HEEUSE WORK   Virtually All Production Of Coal Mines Halted By Walkout Today   FDR’S STERN WARNINGS ARE IGNORED BY UNION   Flow Of Fuel To American War Industries Shut Off By Miners’ Action

—MINERS WALK OUT A  Vital Coal     War Halts   ..- FDR’s Stern Warning Ignored By Workers

Negotiations Are Resumed on Pay Topic   Virtually All UMW-Operated Mines Idle; White House Silent on Developments

Stoppage Halts Flow Of Coal To War Industries   Workers ignore Roosevelt's Warning By Failing To Report As Truce Ends

Strike Is Nearly 100 Per Cent Effective as “Negotiations Continued. to Reach Contract -

Nation Awaits Govern ment Action As Walk out Halts Flow Of Fue To Vital War Plants.

‘Coal Strike Halts War Plants’ Fuel   Nearly All. -Miners Stay  _ Away From Government Operated Pits —   WARNING IS IGNORED   One Exception Noted Where Men Work on in Pittsburg Field

Negotiations Are Resumed By Ope ‘ators. Lewis on -Portal-to-Portal Pay Issue

Strike Nearly 100 Percent In UMW Field   Operators Resume Negotia tions With Lewis On Por_ tal-To-Portal Pay.  ‘tideaiiibieitiaiteescaataiiamaally  ‘ ; ;   REPORT NO VIOLENCE

White House Silent as Virtually 100 PC Strike Made Effective in Both Soft and Hard Coal Fields

LEWIS’ UNION IDLE TODAY IN MANY FIELDS   Stays Away from Pits Even Though Negotiations: Are Under Way   MAINTENANCE MEN ONLY EXCEPTIONS   Flow of Vital Fuel Into U. S. War Industries Is Halted

Stoppage Halts Flow of Fuel to War Industries; Negotiations Continued

TRUCE ENDS AND MINES ARE IDLE   No Headway. Reported in Pay Negotiations Which Continue Today   ‘WALKOUT APPEARS. ° “ TO BE 100 PER GENT   White House: Silentas the Next Action on Coal Is Tensely Awaited

Walkout Virtually 100 Per Cent Comple te In All Fields Where United Mine Workers Operate   Men Quit When Truce Expired Last Midnight; White House Silent: No Comment From Either Side As Discussions Are Resumed

Ignore FDR's Warning Of Early In May   Claim Is Not Strike But Refusal to ‘Trespass’ When Lacking Contract

Operators Resume Parley With Lewis   Workers Ignore Stern Warnings, Walk Out on Expiration of Truce

Thousands of Soft Coal Miners Ignore President's Warning   : Toilas as Truce of One Month Reaches End

Thousands Stay Away From Pits InNew Shutdown   Production Of War Equipment Seen As Endangered

STERN WARNINGS OF PRESIDENT IGNORED AS MINERS WALKOUT  STOPPAGE HALTED FLOW OF VITAL FUEL TO NATION'S WAR PLANTS

NEGOTIATIONS WITH LEWIS CONTINUING   Refuse To Trespass Without Contract   STOPPAGE   Involves Both Soft, Hard Coal Workers: Nearly Half Million Out

Not Strike,  According to :  U.M.W. Chief   Negotiations Continuing Between Operators aud Miners

LEWIS’ UNION AND TRUCE RUN QUT TOGETHER   Stoppage of Fuel Production Brings Threat to Vital War Industries,   NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE AS MINES CLOSE DOWN

PRODUCTION 1h" SOFT AND HARD FIELDS HALTED   Mostof Pennsylvania's $00,600 and 80,000 Anthracite Workers !gnore Mine Whistles   WO DISORDERS OR PICKETING STARTED   TwiceExtended Truce Ends At Midnight Last Night With Negotiations Deadlocked

LEWIS, CHIEF OF UMW, SILENT AS TRUCE EXPIRES   Walkout Appears to Be 100 Per Cent Effective for UMW Personnel

iNation-wide Tieup of Coal Digging Begun   Lewis Regards It Merely Expiration OF Extended Contract

Workers Stay Away From Coal Mines   Vital Fuel Flow to War Plants Halted As John Lewis’ UMW Ignores Warnings; Negotiations to Reach Contract Go On.

Production of Soft And Hard Coal Is Almost at Standstill   With Most of Pits Throughout the Country Shut Down Operators Look to Washington For Next Move In Controversy :   “NO CONTRACT, NO WORK" LEWIS ADMONITION

Miners Refuse  To Work   UMW Walkout Leaves Half-Million Men Idle And Stops Flow of Coal to War Plants

Mine Worker: Ignore FDR’‘s Warnings   Virtually Every One of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers Stay Away from Government-Operated Pits

Virtually All Of Lewis’ Men Out   Soft Coal Operators Renew Negotiations With Lewis on Portal-to-Portal Pay — White House Silent — Expiration of “Fruce Brings No Word From-Lewis

WAGE PARLEY IS RESUMED BY OPERATORS   Discussiéns With Lewis Start at 11:15 A. M— Stoppage Halts Flow of Fuel to War-Busy Industrial Plants.

PRESIDENT’S ORDERS DEMED AS THOUSANDS LEAVE COAL MINE   Walkout Virtually 100 Per Cent; Portal-to-Portal Conference Resumed

'Second War Bond Drive Will Start Monday To Raise Thirteen Billion   Toral Duckett And R. E, Tool, Plymouth County Chairmen

Second War Bond Drive Will Monday To Raise Thirteen Bi   Toral Duckett And R. E. Tool, Plymouth County Chairmen

Hitler’s Intuition Gives — Over To German Reason   By EDWARD wy. BEATTIE

German Command Has Passed To Prussian Military Caste   By EDWARD W. BEATTIE,  Staff C‘'arroenandent.

‘Prussian Generals Take ‘Charge of Riech Defense      W. BEATTIE

GEORGE WANTS ’42 TAXES  POSTPONED UNTIL END OF WAR   Payments March 15 Would ’ Be On. Current Income 1942 Taxes Payable ‘In 2 Or 3 Vear«

SGLGN WANTS 1942 TAX TO BE DELAYED   Pay it Three Years After War, Says Chairman Of Finance Unit

Waring Assails U. S. Bureaucracy)   Says Policies Hurt  The War Effort

Interpreting  The War   Failure to Send Aid to China To Prolong War

Interpreting The War   Failure to Send Aid to China To Prolong War   By JOHN M, HIGHTOWER Wide World War Analyst

‘Reinstatement Of UMW Studied   Application Report Goes to AFL Council;  No Recommendations

AFL Council Studies Lewis Application   Action on Petition For Reinstatement Has Political Significance   DECISION IS UNCERTAIN

LABOR COMMITTEE READY TO REPORT ON LEWIS’ ~~ REINSTATEMENT IN AFL

REPORT ON UMW APPLICATION IS READY FOR AFL   Whole Matter May Be Referred To October Convention

AFL COUNCIL TO DEFER ACTION  ON T DUITC? MAUL UN UWE MUNE   Committee Report On Ap. plication For Reinstatement Expected ta Be Referred to Convention

Easterners Buy Postex Mills   Normal Operations “AATL Re Reciimead

FRENCH AIRFIELDS RAIDED BY FLIERS   Bases Battered by Airmen Who Return Without  Loss

U.S. Planes Hit Nazi  Airfields in France   Bombers Encounter Intense Flak But No Enemy Fighters in Raids on Merville And St. Omer and Return Without Loss

U.S. bomber: Continue Blov At Nazi Field Fighter Opposttio Notably Absent  In France Bb. ULERY BP TAMESCON

NAZI AIRFIELDS GIVEN POUNDING   American Medium Bomb er Force Stages Raid Without Loss

Yankees Continue Ceaseless Raid On Europe Targets  Fliers Hit Airfields Without Any Loss; RAE Aide in Attacl:

AIRFIELDS INFRANCE RAKED   Enemy Airforce Missing In Defense; Heavy Flak Encountered

SAN MASSINO AND SAN ELENO ARE CAPTURED   U, S. and British Fall Back Slightly Before Nazi CounterAttacks

SENATE GROUP AIRS ELECTIONS   Recommends No Action In Five States Probed, Including W. Va.

ACK ACK GUNS ON SUBS INGREASED FOR NEW ACTION    More Aggressiveness Expected from U-Boats Wtih Naw Equinment-

NAZI U-BOATS SHOWING MORE FIRING POWEF   Either New Tactics Or Better Armament for Attacking Planes Will Have To Come

REINFORCED NAZI SUBS HASTEN NEW ALLIED EQUIPMENT   Aerial Tactics Against German U-Boats May Have To Be — Changed

Patton Case Is Kept Open By Committee   Information As To Other Possible Incidents Is Sought By Members Of Senate Group

War Secrefary Asked fo Explair Patton Incident  Incident Closed   Incident Closed But Not to Group Of Senate Leaders

Senate Will Probe Patton Cover-Up   Committee Seeks Reason for First Headquarters’ Denial

Letters Spur Congress To_ Patton Probe   Incident Far From Over Says Chairman of Military Committee <=

SENATE GROUF KEEPING ALIVE PATTON. ISSUE   Demand Full Report Despite Eisenhower State‘ment That He Consid ered Case Closed .

Full Report on Patton Demanded   Letters of Parents Spur Senators on

General Cited  Two Patients Patton Razzed   Parents’ Letters Pour Into Military Committee

Senators to Probe Patton Incident Because, They Say, of Public Demand

Explanation of Official Equivocation’: On:Patten Case Demanded by Senators

Senate to Press Probe Of Slapping by Patton   Gen. Kisenhower’s Report Discloses > Th Arow:- Chief Upbraided 2 Soldie

SOLONS STUDY PATTON REPORT   Committee Receives Avalanche of Letters From Aroused Parents

Military Committee Wants Explanation of Patton Incident   Eisenhower-Stimson Consider Case Closed; Committee Doesn’t

SENATE WILL INVESTIGATE PATTON CASE   Eisenhower’s Report to be Studied By Committee

Gen. Pation Case Being _ Kept Open   Letters From Aroused Par. ents Spur Senate Demand for More Details   ALGIERS CALLED ON TO. EXPLAIN   Report Asked on Whether There Have Been Other Incidents in Army

Patton Probe to Go Deeper, Senators Say   Eisenhower Report Fails to Close the "Cuffing" Incident

Seek War Department Explanation of Patton Soldier-Cuffing Incident

Spurred By Letters From Parents  'Solons to Probe Patton Incident

SEEKS DETAILS ABOUT PATTON   Military Committee Assails Equivocaton

Allied Planes Smash at Axis Airfields   Few Enemy Craft Challenge the © - Raiders Over Sicily

Allied Bombers Hammer Axis Fields in Sicily   Enemy Fighters Refuse Challenge At Gerbini Base

Draft Will Take Fathers by Age Groups Now  — Younger Men Will - Be Called First in Future

Will Defer Dads Long ‘As Possible   Hershey Plans To Call Fathers By Age Groups As Need Arises.

Boards Told > To Hold Back If Possible   Taking of Family Heads Expected on Age Basis; Hershey Explains Set-up

Order Telegraphed By Gen. Hershey to All Draft Boards.   ICALL YOUNGEST FIRST

Induction Of Fathers Is Held Up   Selective Service Plans Calling iy Age Groups

DRAFT BOARDS TOLD  TO DEFER FATHERS  AS LONG POSSIBLE YOUNGER FATHERS  WOULD BE CALLED FIRS! WHEN NECESSARY

TIOPAL EDARKS® DIRECTED TO DELAY INDUCTION GE PRE:WAR DANS SO LONG AS POSSIBLE: TO GO BY AGE WHEN TAKEN   Resumption A] \Airplane Making Seen Saturday

DELAY INDUCTION OF PRE-WAR DADS   Selective Setvice Instructs Draft Board to Take  Them Last   NEW PLANS FOR CALL

Texan Takes AEF Air Chief’s Post  Army Turns Over Wesel Pock ta   Army Turns Over Vital Task to Brilliant Fighter

Texan Named To Air Post   Major Genera! Eaker ln Charge In Europe

GEN, EAKER GETS.” EUROPEAN POST   Replaces Spaatz as Leader of U S. Air Force in Sector

FAKER IS NEW AIRFORCE CHIE   Texas General Succeeds Spaatz As European Commander

EAKER MADE AIR CHIEF IN EUROPE   SUCCEEDS GENERAL SPAATZ AS COMMANDER OF U. S. FLYING FORCES.

When a Writer Gets a “Fool” Idea and Toys With it, the Public Gets Story as Follows:

Joe Citizen Bit Dazed Ou Hearing of  ‘New Tires, Big Steak, Hitler Sick

MacArthur Cites Decisive Pacific Victories; Says Japan On Defensive   RY WILLIAM F RBONT

OHIO RATIONS ~ LQUOR JUNE 1   ‘Date Set by Director Fisher; Allowances Are Not Set Yet

LIQUOR RATIONING TO START JUNE FIRST   State Director Don Fisher Sets Date Today

LIQUOR RATIONS START JUNE 1   State Stores Will Be Closed For Two-Week Period Starting May 17

Legislators Are Still Deadlocked  Fail to Agree on  University Funds

Impasse in State Legislature  Still Is Holding   Houses Are in Recess and Are to Sit Today; Difference Over Funds For University Causes Deadlock

Lt. Eso Naranche Killed in Action  Former Athlete Dies in Africa

Lt. Eso Naranche Killed in Action  Former Athiete   Former Athlete Dies in Africae

Traitor's Life Spared By FDR   Death Sentence Is Commuted To Life

Traitor Saved From Gallows  By F.R. Action   Stephan Looks Forward To Obtaining Freedom After The War.

Detroit Traitor Given Life Term      Delirious with Gratitude, Max Stephan Kisses Hands of Jailer When Presidential Order Is Received; Roosevelt Hopes Sentence Ts Not Fased Later

MAX STEPHAN’S LIFE IS SPARED   President Hoosevelt Commute Death Sentence of Traitor to Lif Imprisonment

SENTENCE. IS REDUCED   Max Stephan Is Given ‘a:, Prison Term Instead of Death

SAV ~ JHE ORESITEA   Gets ~ -Life;.. Chief: Executive _ Hopes. That’ Sentence Will? "Never ‘Ba. Commuted:   NOW: EXPECTS - FREEDOM

Stephan Escapes  Gallows   Penalty “Too Se vere,” FDR Gives Traitor Life

TRAITOR SAVED FROM GALLOWS   Stephan, Hysterical With Joy, To Seek Freedom After War

Traitor Saved From Gallows: By President   Stephan Hysterical Wit! loy Over 11th-Hour  Commutation.

SENTENCE IS COMMUTED TO PRISON TERM   President ‘Expresses Hope He Wen't Be Freed After War’s End

Stephan Hopes For Freedom After War   President Saves Life Of Man Who Helped Escaped German

Stephan Escapes Gallows   GERMAN-BORN CONVICT WEEPS AT COMMUTATION, SEEKS FREEDOM ACTION

F. R. Saves Nazi Aide   Commutes eDath Sentence To Life Term In  Case Of Detroit Man

Traitor, Saved by FDR’s Pardon to Seek Freedom After Peace Comes

PRESIDENT SAVES LIFE OF STEPHAN   Tratter Shouts with Joy, Then Collapses at News.

TRAITOR GAY AS FDR SAVES HIM   Shouts For Joy as President Calls Sentence Too Severe, Hopes For Freedom.

Stephan Spared  From Execution  Presidential Clemency Saves Treasonist

Traitor May Seek Pardon After Peace   Stephan Looks Forward to Some Future Presidential Commutation   ESCAPES THE GALLOWS

NOOSE WAS DUE IN 7 HOURS Traitor Saved from Gallow: Bv FR’s 11th Hour Move

President Commute Stephan Sentence   Life Imprisonment For Man Who Helped German War Prisoner

Max Stephan Won't Hang; F.R. Decides   Traitor Who Harbored an Escaped Nazi Prisoner Wins Commutation

STEPHAN IS SAVED FROM EXECUTION   Man Charged as Traitor Is Given Commutation, Cries, Laughs, Collapses.

TRAITOR'S LIFE SPARED BY PRESIDENT’S ACTION   Roosevelt Steps In to Save Max Stephan Who Grows Hysterical from Joy at News

CAN COLLECTION FRIDAY      {Householders Are Asked to Deposit Them at Curb

ORCHARDISTS COOL TO PRICE CEILINGS   Single Price Favored by Growers, OPA Pushes 3Way Plan

GROWERS COOL TO PRICE PEG PLANS OF OPA   Oppose Fresh Fruit Ceil ings, But Say They \ Will Go Along   URGE SINGLE CEILING   OPA’s Program Calls For Three-Way Pegging of Prices

Chicago Parley Ponders Fruit Ceiling Price:   Orchardists Opposed But Pledge Aid If Plan Is Invoked

Vegetable Roll-Back - Is Planned   OPA Tells Intentions as Critics Assail the Sub. sidy Program   AUTHORITY FOR ACTION QUESTIONED   Others Criticize Policy of Price Office, Taft Saying Program Is Too Broad

VEGETABLE PRICES NEXT   Brown’s Economic Adviser Tells Senate Banking Committee Order Being Prepared Affecting Fresh Produce.

OPA Will Depress Prices of Fresh Vegetables  New Decrease Drafted, Says Director

Liquidation of OPA Will Be Sought by Rep. Hartley (R-NJ)   “Horrified by Its Admin. istrative Incompetence, Misdirection”

Vegetable Price Roll-Back Next, 0. P. A. Reveals   Regulations Now Being Drafted, Probers Of Subsidv Powers Told.

Plan Vegetable Price Rollback  Regulations for Vegetable Price Cut Being Drafted

Support Growing Against Subsidies   Would Prohibit Government Agencies to Pay on Farm Products.

Vegetable Prices to  Be Cut   OPA Spokesman Tells Plans as Witness Before Senate Group

CONGRESSMEN FIGHT SUBSIDY PRICE CUT PLAN   Senaie Commiliee Quizzes OPA Of. ficials, Plans Anti-Subsidy Provisions in Laws

OPA Planning For Vegetable Price Rollbael   Regulations For Drop Being Drafted; Fight Over Subsidy Checks Growing In Congress

Foes Of Subsidy ing To Bar Price Rollback  OPA Draws MN ore Fire From Bloc

PUoH GRAND JURY TO PROBE BRIBES   Brake, Brown, Nugent Favor Investigation of Bribe Charges on Banking Bill

POINT VALUES OF BEEF MAY. BE CUT   Heavy Slaughter Threatens to Glut Market

FDR, In Report To Congress, Says Allies Also About To  Launch New Blows In Asia

Final Victory Is Still ‘Long Way Off’, He Insists   ‘Time and Place For Atlacks In Europe. Pacific Now Set, He Declares

SAYS AXIS T0 SOON FEEL NEW BLOWS   Warns Victory Is Still a Long Way Off

Sweeping Review Of War Contained In 5,000Word Message “ By FDR  _ VICTORY NOT NEAR  Much Attention Given To Mistakes Made ‘By Hitler

BUT STRIKES HOPEFUL NOTE IN WAR REPORT   Hints at New Drives Soon

EPIC WAR STOR) CIVEN CONGRESS BY -RDOSEVELT       Says “Allies About to Launch Smashing  New Blows in Won

Victory Still Long Way Off, President Says   Congress Told New Blows About” To Be Launched

Tells Congress of Achievements In Production   Declares Air War Over: Continent Has Been of Aid To Reds

Pres. Roosevelt, In War Review, Tells Congress That Allies Are  About To Launch Smashing New Blows In Europe, Asia   TALK REFLECTS PRIDE IN ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Russians to Invade Germany, Offensive In Burma Planned   Victory Still ‘Long Way Off, Congress Told in Review of War: Time. Place for Assaults Now Set

Dnieper Defenses  Battered by. Reds   Banks of Great River Reached By Reds in Drive Towards Border

TEMPERATURES:   Soviet Armies Drive Forward On Whole Fron   German. Position Grows _ More. Critical Hourly; Flee Kuban Sector

SOVIET ARMY ON BANKS OF DNEIPER RIVER   Big Objective Is Reached Thru  Novomoskovsk

GERMANS Fall 10 STEM RED STEAMROLLER   Break-Through At Poltava Lets Soviets Through To River

Surging Soviet Army Has Reached Dnieper   Strong Forces Have Reached Main Germar Defenses On River Despite Heavy Rains*Which Slowed Up Assault.

RedTroopsReach  ‘Dnieper in F orce   Germans Incapable of Stemming Soviet Tide on Entire 750-Mile Front

Beef Herds Jam Stock Yards With Record Supplies  144,000 Head of Cattle Unloaded in Major Markets

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Downs Third German Plane.

Higgins Claims Bad Handling of His Boats Caused the Heavy Marine Casualties During Tarawa Battle

500 GALLONS DAILY MAY LEAVE CITY   Dairies Oppose City Taxes on Milk Producers

American and British Troops . Relinquish Hold on One Strategic Point in Battle of Tunisia.   4 MISSING U. S. PILOTS ARE SAFE

Bus, Cab Mileage Cut 20% in New  Move to Save Gas   Additional Curtailments to Be Made Later. ODT Declares. as No Relief in Sight From Fact Gas Shortage: Stocks of Fuel Decline

ODT DECREES BUSES - TAXIS CUT MILEAGi   Twenty Per Cent Reduction at Once Is Ordered

Stretch-Out “T”’ Coupons New Order      BUS AND TAXICAB OPERATORS MUST REDUCE MILEAGE WITH. OUT DELAY; NO RELIEF IN SIGHT.

Bus and Taxi Mileage Cut 20 Percent  By ODT Orde:   Operators Are Told To Stretch Coupons And Cautioned Further Curtailments Planned  53,000 VEHICLES AFFECTED BY ORDER  No Relief in Sight In Gas Shortage Ae DNeHwaricee Wana

Taxicab and Bus Operators Told To Cut Mileage   Must Reduce Distances by an Additional 20 per Cent

BUS, TAXICAB MILEAGE CUT   ODT Orders 20 Per Cent. Reduction in Gasoline Use Immediately

May Simplity  arm Veasure   Senate Agriculture Comunittee Terms Draft Deferment Plan Complicated. :

Senate Group Acts to Defer Farmer Dratt   Moves for Speedy Change In Rules on Essential Farm Labor

Soviets Strike  Germans in  Leningrad Area Fresh Blows Hit At Orel in  Russ Offensive

FRESH BLOWS ARE STRUCK BY RUSSIANS   Elements of Ten Nazi Divisions Are Sent Reeling Back In the Orel Sector   TANK LOSS ENORMOUS

Russians Open Fierce Aftack ’ Near Leningrad   Red Army Routs Big German Force In Ore! Sector

‘Pay-as-You-Go’ Proposal Is Pressed in Congress; New 10 Per Cent Tax Seen

SUB-COMMITTEE WARNS HOUSE; VICE RAMPANT   Congested Capital Is Called Dirty, Germ Filled

Double Trouble Brews For Axis   Tremendous Blows Will Affect Tokyo

Rumors of Impending Big Decisions by ‘Big Three’ Heard in London    Russian Isolation Seems Ended as Reds are Given Important Relief Roles

GREAT BLOWS ARE INDICATED   Rumors of Impending Big Decisions by ‘Big Three’ Heard, dal sridon

HEAVY BLOWS AGAINST AXIS FORCES SEEN   New Military and Psychological Attacks in the Offing   RUMORS HEARD OF IMPENDING PARLEY   China Expected to be Brought Into Greater Prominence

HEAVY BLOWS AGAINST AXIS FORCES. SEEN   New Military and Psycho: fogica!l Attacks in the Offina   RUMORS HEARD OF IMPENDING PARLEY

New Military, Psychological ‘Blows Expected   Seen Aimed at Germany, But Repercussions In Tokyo Appear Likely

Double Trouble Brews For Axis   Tremendous Blows Will Affect Tokyo  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK Associated Press Staff Writer

Allies Prepare Blows at Nazi Nerves  Proposed Conference Of Chieftains

35 MORE TO ARMY   Group From This County Will/Leave February   for Leavenworth

‘KNOX TELLS JAPS BIGGER IRAIDS COMING AS NEW ‘HORNET IS CHRISTENED

“Look Out Tokyo, We’re,Coming Over Again”  SEC. OF NAVY FRANK iXNOX GAVE WARNING AS NEW CARRIER “HORNET” IS LAUNCHED

KNOX SENDS NEW THREAT TO JAPS   More Bombs on Way, He Says in Launching Hornet

Quick Passage Dewey’s First Budget Indicatec   Governor Proposes No Changes in Present Taxes Despite Estimated 10 PC Drop in Revenue— . Would Reduce Some Appropriations

FIVE DIVORCE SUITS FILED WITH COURT   Husbands Named Respondents in All Cases But One by Wives  ret tir, FeeieertfF»re= . . 2 _ ere rn

U. S. Subs Constantly Sinking More Jap Ships   Latest Bag of 17 Brings Total to 257  Sunk and Damaged, Knox Announces

17 Jap Ships Sunk By U. S. Submarines Sec. Knox Reports   Undersea Toll of Jap Ships Mounts To 257 Since Pearl Harbor; Knox Elated Over Unprecedentedlv Large Seore

AMERICAN SUBS DUE TO TAKE BIG PART IN PACIFIC   Knox Hints That Big Things are Due to Happen Shortiy.

U.S. SUBS TC DO MORE--KNO}   Navy Secretary Elated Over Toll of 257 Japanese Vessels Being Sunk or Damaged

17 More Ships . Sunk, Damaged In Latest Foray   Secretary Knox Says American Subs Will Take Still Bigger Toll

SUBS SINK 12 MORE JAP SHIPS   {Bring Total of Sunk and Damaged To 257 as Knox Promises Attack Will Grow.

KNOX PREDICTS ATTACKS WILL GROW STEADIL'   Prowling Yank Undersea Craft Have Blasted 257 Vessels

U. 8. Subs Sink Or Damage 17 Jap Vessels  Knox Elated As U-Boats Prey on Nips

HOPE SEEN FOR JUDGES “BILL   Penison System ‘Measure Loses First Test by One Vot>

THREE BRANCHES   Navy Men Trained in Shop  Practice, Electrical Lab,  - Mathematics

Army Ground Force Replaces Marmes in Solomon Islands   Major General Patch is Placed in Command at Guadalcanal

MARINES ARE REPLACED ON GUADALCANAL   Patterson Says Ground ‘Troops Have Taken Over for Army

SOLOMON BATTLE ‘VETERANS TO. REST   American Airmen Down Eight Planes Near Shortland Island

Army Troops Take Over On Guadalcanal   Marines Getting Chance to Rest --General Patch In Command

Army Relieves Marines On The  Solomon Islands   Devildogs Get A Rest; Jap Destroyer Bombed Off Bougainville.

Soldiers Take Over Marines’ Solomons Post  General Patch  - ian ges

NO MARINES IN SOLOMONS NOW   Ground Forces Have Replaced Marines, Who Are Getting A Chance To Rest.

MARINES REPLACED ON THE SOLOMONS BY GROUND TROOPS   Army Force Is Under Command of Major General A. Patch   ‘MOVE TO GUADALCANAL   The Marines Who Fought So Long and So Well Are Getting a Rest.

Regular U.S. Troops Replace Marines In Solomons Islands   Gen. Patch Put In Command; Marines Get Chance For Rest After Long Fight

Army Relieves Marine Forces  At Guadalcanal   General Patch Replaces Vandegrift as Commander

MARINES LEAVE GUADALCANAL   Révealed ‘Men _ Relievec by Soldiers To Get De. served Rest.

Marines On Guadalcanal Are Relieved   Army Ground Troops Replace Leathernecks Who Are Having a Rest  ey   REVIEWS WAR ASPECTS

MARINES ARE REPLACED ON GUADALCANAL      Army Troops From New Cale. donia Moved To Hot Spot To Give Marines Rest

War Picture ls Declared Bright   Decisive Action Taking Place On Russian Front   PATTERSON GIVES THE INSIDE DOPE

MARINES REPLACED BY ARMY'S GROUND MEN IN SOLOMONS   Troops Commanded By Maj. Gen. Patch; Marines Get Chance To Rest After Fighting So Long and Well In Solomons.

ARMY REPLACES MARINE FORGES   Admiral Halsey Still Commands Operations in Entire Area.   WAR NEWS IS REVIEWED

LEATHERNECKS' ARE VEN RES   Major General Alexander Patch In Command On  Quadaleanal   SITUATION GOOD   Patterson Says American Positions In Pacific Islands Improving

Aarines Turn olomons Job ver To Army   Assistant Secretary Of War Patterson Reviews War Effort On All Fronts

MARINES IN THE SOLOMONS GIVEN REST BY TROOPS   Ground Forces Take Over On  Guadalcanal

ARMY RELIEVES VALIANT MARINES IN SOLOMONS   GEN. PATCH MOVES HEADQUARTERS FROM NEW CALEDONIA

Rest Comes 'To Marines  ‘In Solomons   Soldiers from New Caledonia Move into Guadalcanal To Give Them Relief

MORE SLAVE LABOR   Laval Agrees To Send Hitler 220,000 More French Workmen

Out to Get Marshall?   “Powerful Interests” Reported Seeking to Replace Chief of Staff

SHAKEUP IN THE HIGH COMMAND MAY BE COMING   Army And Navy Journal Says ‘‘Powerfu Interests’ Want Marshall Out O! Washington Scene.

Say Marshall Move Due In Army Shift   “Interests” Seek His Elimination

Hint Marshall To Be Ousted   Army And Navy Journal Declares “Powerful Interests Seek Removal.

Army and Navy Journal] Says ‘Powerful Interests’ Would Like to Ehminate General   WOULD SHOCK NATIO NEWSPAPER DECLAR   Recurring Reports From Washington and London Say Chief-of-Staff 1s Slated For Europe

Marshall Is Said To Be On Way Out   Admiral Halsey's ‘School Tie’ Ban Unifies Services in Pacific

ARMY SHAKEUP TALK REVIVED   Rumors Mention Transfer of Gen. Geo. Marshall from Chief of Staff

Speculation. On Marshall ~ Is Revived   Army and. Navy Journal Says ‘Powerful Interests’ Favor Replacing Him   WOULD SHOCK THE ~ NATION, PAPER SAYS   Some on British Side Frown _on His Conviction to Invade From England

See Speculation On Army Shifts Revived Today   Claim “Powerful interests’ .Would Push Marshall From Washington Area

Marsh all Ouster Rumor Stirs Capital   Powerfal Interests Blamed by Army And Navy Journal

Shake-Up in High Command Talked   Military Journal Says Powerful Interests Trying to  Get Marshall.

Compromise Probable On Wheeler Draft Bill   ‘Marshall May Lose High Commnd Post

Six-Day Mine Weel Accepted By Lewis  Basis of Settling Soft Coal Dispute

PROPOSAL MADE 10 END MINE DISPUTE      Six-Day Week Program Reported Accepted by Lewis

Lewis Accepts Proposed 6-Day Week Guarantee   Secretary of Labor Has Hopes Operators Will Agree to Plan

LEWIS ACCEPTS SIX-DAY OFFER   Guarantee Of Long Week Proposed By Perkins As Basis For Coal  Negotiations

Farm Leaders  To Plan Relief   Committee Meeting With C.C.C. Officials To Aid Drought Stricken Areas.

Drouth Woes Before Farm Conference  Leaders Of Four States Meet With CCC Representative

Lifting of Gas Ban Postponed   East, Midwest Will Have Equal Rations

LIFTING OF GAS BAN POSTPONED FOR SHORT TIME   Await Report On Situation By Byrnes — Believe Ban To Be Lifted

LIFTING OF BAN ~ONFUN DRIVING DELAYED 10 DAYS   Changes in A Coupons. Musi Await Report of Director . Avrnes.

PLEASURE DRIVING BAN’S SUSPENSION AGAIN POSTPONED   Lifting Of Ban Delayed -. Week Or 10 Days Until Further ' Reports

ACTION ON DRIVING BAN UNLIKELY FOR WEEK OR 10 DAYS   Hint Value of A Cards May Be Increased in East and Slashed in Midwest Where It Has 4 Value.

HULL MAY TAKE TRIP 10 BRITAIN   Secretary Of State Gets Invitation From Eden To Continue Talks

City Soldier 1s Wounded   Pfc. Delbert Brown Reported Wounded in Action in Italy

BOMBERS SET NEW FIRES IN DEVASTATED HAMBURG      Danish Consular Official Estimates 200,000 German Dead In Blasted City; Marks Ninth Air Raid In Ten Days

HAMBURG FIRES ARE REKINDLED   British Bombers Strike German Port City Ninth Time in Ten Days

R.A. F, Armada Blasts Hamburg   200,000 Said Killed In Desolate City

RAID HAMBURG FOR 9TH TIME   Fires Rekindled in Ruins Of German Port City; 30 Bombers Lost

200,000 NAZIS IS DEATH TOLL IN HAMBURG   Estimated By Danish Official As RAF Bombs Continue To Blast Once Great  Seanort   Clothes Torn Off

SMOKY RUINS OF HAMBURG RAIDED AGAIN   EVERY PART OF BIG CITY HIT; CLAIM 200,000 DEAD

WOMAN ISINJURED IN HIGHWAY CRASH   Automobiles Badly Damaged in Accident on Dual Highway

WOMAN IS INJURED - IN HIGHWAY (RASH   Automobiles Ba Badly Dam. aged in Accident on Dual Highway

Russians Pleased With Allied Talks   Russian Newspaper Leaves No Doubt That Stalin and His Advisers Pleased with Outcome.

CITY STILL ABLAZE FROM EARLIER RAID   Strategists See Drive As a Historic Moment   PAVE INVASION WAY   Blows On Southern Italy Are Continuing

12,000 People Dead, 50,000 Wounded In Monday Night’s Assault; More Raids Promised.

Marshal Badogtio’s Government Moving Closer To Nazi Camp.  SENSATIONAL EVENT IS EXPECTED SOON  ‘Reported Mussolini Has Been Wounded and Imprisoned. 6.

POTATO GROWERS AGAINST SUBSIDY   ‘Handout’ to Farmers Called ‘Unwise, Unfair, Unwanted.’

Potato Growers  Present Views  To Congressmen Federal Officials  Hear Maine Men

MILLION CONSUMERS SIGN PLEDGE CARDS   Persons In Five-State Area Agree To Abide By Ration Regulations

Coal Mining Virtually Stops in U. S.   Complete Stoppage Would Strike at War Production

Nation Looks For Quick Action By Pres. Roosevelt  White House Silent On Plans; Capitol  i Meeaiaseame

Swiit Action Forecast. In  Coal Walkout  President Is-Silen ‘On Eine ane

Nearly All Coal Fields Are Idle   * New Negotiations On Waoaoes Saucht

SENATE MAY VOTE ON TAX BILL TODAY   Reported Opposition of N. A. M. Seen as 00st to Rumi Plan

8,000 QUIT TO PROTEST WLB PAY REJECTION   Pre - Deadline Walkouts Spread; Big Test To Come Monday

YANK BOMBERS DEAL OUT HEAVY BLOW ON AXIS PORT OF SFAX   Tremendous Damage Done By Americans In Large Scale Attack On  Fynemv

Zero Hour Near in Tunisia   Large Air Attack Turns Port Into Blazing Inferno

GERMAN SPIES GET 30 YEARS   Sentenced in New York on Guilty Pleas

China Scores New Victory   New Deveiopments Are Expected In 48 Hours

7 Meet Death  In Tornadoes   Louisiana and. Mississippi Areas Are. Struck By Hieh Winds

7 Killed, Score Hurt By Storms   Tornadoes Whip Through Louisiana. Mississippi

Southern Storms Take Seven Lives   Louisiana, Mississipp1 Report Many Injured

BLAST ITALIAN SUPPLY LINES   Allied Planes Pour Heavy Bombs On Vital Rail Junction At Padua

VENICE IS ATTACKED   French Troops Ente »y Frontline Action  With Allies

FRENCH TROOPS IN ACTION ON © ITALIAN FRONT   Allied Planes Hammer Northern Italy

STEVENSON FILES  CHIROPRACTOR BILL  WITHOUT SIGNATURE LAW TO LICENSE AND REG  ULATE CHIROPRACTORS RECOMES TAW AUC Oo

USE BOOK WW IN NOVEMBER   iGrebn Stamps, A-B-C Valid November First.

ad  STAMPS VALID   Green D, E And F Series Ir Book Four Good Dec. 1

9 Are Indicted — : In Fraud Case      Health Official Says Rodents 7 May Spread Infantile Parals =i

Indic Nine In Army-Navy War Contracts  -. Bribery, False Claims Conspiracy Charges Ar

CHARGE FRAUD ON CONTRACTS   Nine Persons Indicted for Alleged Overpayments at Explosives Plant

9 INDICTED ON ARMS BRIBERY   Contract Frauds Involve $1,418,617 In Goods For Army And Navy,  Biddle Says

NINE INDICTED BY JURORS IN FRAUD CASES      Overpayments to Elkton Explosives Plant Cherged’

Indicl Nine In Army-Navy  War Contracts  Bribery, False Claims  Conspiracy Charges Are Inualuad Riddla Cave

MINE WAR PLANT OFFICIALS CITED   Indictments Charge Officials Of Maryland Plant With Bribery, False Claims and Fraud Conspiracy

Brisk Selling On  Lumberton Market   Fast and Furious for Better Grades — Leuf Sclling as Tigh ag Any Time This Season.

Brisk Selling On Lumberton Market   Fast and Furious for Bet~ ter Grades — Leaf Sell  ing as High: as Any - Time This Season.   By Jasper. C. fitto,, Supervisor Tumbertan Tobacco Market

U.S. Fliers Fight Way To Target   Fortresses Blas Harbor And S thi wh

Flying Forts Weather Fierce Enemy Attacks Over English Channe!   Fierce Sky Battle Rages 20,000 Feet In Air, Then Bombers Streak Through Clouds To Blast Suburb Of Rotterdam

U. §. BOMBERS BATTLE NAZIS OVER CHANNEL   LUCK WITH RAIDERS IN ATTACKS ON SHIPYARDS

Cumberland Bo) Fights Germans High Over Sea   Sgt. James Millar Also Participates in Bombing Raid

BOMBERS FIGHT OVER CHANNEL   Fortresses Intercepted On Way To Blast Rotterdam

BATTLE NAZIS 20, 000 FEET OVER CHANNEL   Then American Airmen Streak To Rotterdam Suburb To Unload Explosives And In cendiaries.   9th In One Month

Yankee Fliers Battle Foe High Over € WR   American Flying Forts Stage First Attack  On Scheidam; Fires Set on Dock Area

Air Units Fight Fierce Battle  Flying Fortresses Ramk Tyrayvte kh Dard

New Guinea Coast ‘Now Held by Allies   Advance Costly To Defending Japs

Mambare Is In Hands Of Allied Army      Jap Loss Heavy In Infiltration

ALLIES OCCUPY NEW TERRITORY INNEW GUINEA   Entire Mambara River Valley On. Northeast Coast .. Forty Miles North of Buna Controlled   JAP LOSSES HEAVY   At Least 700 Killed and 10€ Taken Prisoners; Many Others Die of Disease, Starvation

Allied Ground Troops Now Control Mambare   Bombers Continue To Pound Jap Installations

ALLIES IN CONTROL OF MAMBARE RIVER VALLEY   Allied Steady Infiltration Has Cost Japs 700 Dead and 100 Prisoners

Firemen In Service Mai ed Letiers  l attorc ant Carntitiidio eo . ee \ on 7. a ae

Firemen In Service Mailed Letters  ro ee * Pe ak fe ive Tac toalea tears * eh roecoc ” Phes Sit

29 Years Ago!  Assassination of Austrian Archduke Started World War I.

JAP FLEET RACING TO MAKE ATTACK   Bombers Open Assault On Ships to Blunt Nose of Naval Thrusts of Enemy.

30 To 60 Jap Ships Headed For Rabaul And Possible Showdown Fight With Allies

OHIO WAR OUTPUT HIT BY NEW WALKCUTS   2,000 Defense Workers Idle at Four Plants

GENERAL RETREAT . STARTED BY JAPS      Many Strategic Points Recovered by the Chinece

JAPS RETREAT FROM SALWEEN   Many Strategic Points Recovered by China In Counter Raids Recently

HOUSE HAS SOME FUN    Bill Abolishing. War Time Is Passed Over Temporarily

QUICK THRUST PROMISED BY MONTGOMERY   Zero Hour for Final Offensive In North Africa Is Near at Hand.

Sales Tax Turned Into a ‘Use Tax’   House Voted Change Which Will Reach Every Purchase by Missourians.

“USE TEX” IS PASSD IN HOUSE   ‘Republicans Are Almost _ Solidiy For It; Most Democrats Vote ‘No’   AN AMENDMENT TO SALES TAX LAW   Levy Would Cover Every Purchase, Even Articles Rourht Outside State

House Votes fo Adopt Use-Tax: New Loan Fight   Says Measure Will Add 3 Million Revenue to State

LOGAL ORSERVATIONG   Would Turn Sales Tax Into Use Tax   Bill Would Provide For Things Bought Outside of State of Missouri.

. Reaching New Peak in Ingenuity  "Nazis Attach Mines to Apple Trees

GERMANS LAY MINES ALONG RETREAT PATH   Allies Find Booby Traps Concealed In Old Shells

Nazis Reach Peak -InTrap Ingenuity  Cover Retreat In Italy ~ With Mines

Believe Japs Plan Desperate Counter-Blows   Japs Increasing Air Strength In South West Pacific Says Stimson

PREDICT JAPS. WILL ATTEMPT HEAVY BLOWS   ENEMY BELIEVED TO HAVE MADE PLANS FOR DESPERATE OFFENSIVE OPERAow lIONS SOON

AMERICANS ADVANCING IN SICILY   Believe Allies Ready For Final Assault, Messina

Open Offensive InN. E. Sicily    Smash Forward on Messina Bridaehead

Allies Advance Along Entire Messina Front   Air, Naval Forces ‘Blast Once More At Italian Mainland

Yanks Take Four More Towns And 10,000 Prisoners   Allied ‘Armies Slashing Forward All ‘ Along 60-Mile Front In ‘Big Push’ To Finish Up Sicilian Campaign -.*)   American Drive Against  ‘Vila Is Believed Near —

OPEN OFFENSIVE DESIENED TO END > AXES RESISTANCE   Allies Move Forward Along 60-Mile Messina Bridgehead Despite Strong Enemy Opposition.   TAKE SAN STEFONA AS IMPORTANT MOVE   Flying Fortress Hit Naples After Warning of Allies to Get Out of War or Be Bombed.

AMERICANS TAKE 10,900 DRISONERS   Five More Towns Fall to Allies as Final Drive Opens

American 7th Army Captures 10,000 More Prisoners   Allied Forces Smash Forward on 60-Mile Messina Front Despite Strong Opposition From Axie Traana

SIXTEEN MER ARE ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE   Fourteen, Most All Married, Were Taken by Army. Thursday.   TWO GO TO THE NAVY   Acting Ccrporal Mil‘ard ' Mount Will Take Army Men Next Week.

SIMTEEN MEN Mt ACCEPTED. - FOR SERVICE   “Fourteen, Most All Married,  Were Taken by Amy. Thorsday. ~   TWO GO TO THE NAVY   , Acting Ccrporal Mil‘ard Mount Will Take Army . Men Next Week.

Germans Beaten Back In Italy And Russia By ‘Powerful Allied Drives

Debenture Bond Issue for Highways Sough  TL wee) CHESTER ote "ML ek   Ford Will Ask That ‘' Question, Be... Submitted to Voters

Debenture Bond Issue for Highways Sough:  Ford Will Ask That ‘Question Be Submitted to Voters

HALF - MILE GAIN ON GLOUCESTER BASE REPORTED   Outnumbered Marines Are Meeting Stiff Japanese Opposition   AMERICAN AIRMEN CHALLENGE ENEMY

Jap Resistance In Gloucester. Area Stiffenina   Marines On East Hold And Western Clank Birchina Orn

Marines Hold Against Stiff - Opposition In New Britain   _ American Forces Drive Ahead Under Artillery and Aerial Support Toward the Vital Cope “Gloucester Airdrome .     ia

200 JAPS KILLED INFIGHTING AT CAPE GLOUCESTER   Marines on Western Flank Overcome Stiff Resistance in Half-Mile Advance Toward Airdrome.   DESTROY PILLBOXES WITH FLAME THROWERS   Bitter Battle for Airstrip Predicted—Outnumbered U. S. Force on East Holds Posjfions.

Gen. Franco Sounds New Peace Plea   Joins Vatican in Urging Warring Nations to Unite

SPAIN, VATICAN > WILL SEEK PEACE   Franco Makes An Appeal Af. ter World Has Been Warring For Three Years.

Franeo Asks Belligerents To Stop War   . Spanish Leader Join: Pope—Fears Communism

Franco Renews Appeal for Peace   Allied Governments  Pay Little Heed

Stage Believed Set for Parley   Government Heads May Confer Soon

Japs, Near Final Defeat On Attu, Make Claims Of Gains; No Confirmation

Don’t Like War Time   Legislators Submit Bill to Put Kansas . Back on Central Time

A War Time  Bolt Staged  By Lawmakers   Farmer, Legislators Would Return State To Sun Time

Legislators Hit War Time   Would Go Back To Central; Iverson  Would Save Money

U.S. Troops Press On Toward Sea   Bloody Fighting Is Reminiscent of First World War

American Forces Repeatedly Counter-Attacked At Guetaria Pass      ALLIED AIRMEN ARE LENDING FULL AID

Americans Hold Control Of Road   Allied Air Attack Heaviest Of War

Infantry Forces in Africa Inch Slowly Forward  Or ee ne  DATA LACKING ON EL HAMMA BATTLE  Americans Retain Control of Road Despite Enemy Attacks

Eighth Army Inches Ahead Under Fire .   British Infantry Slowly Gaining At Mareth Line

Allies Keep  Pressure  On NaziLine   Yanks Battle Grimly to Hold Rommel In Trap; British Improve Positions on Strategic Barriers

BRITISH AND ENEMY, LOCKED IN STRUG GLE OF POSITION AND ATTRITION; NO INDICATION OF AXIS CRACKING. 

U.S. Troops Keep German  Flank Back .   Eighth Army? 6 Fight Throngh Belt of Defenses Is Unbated

British 8th Moves on to Mareth Fortifications; U.S. Forces Battle Axis  Montgomery and Enemy Locked in Struggle; Heavy Attacks Continue in Vicinitv of El Hamma

British Infantry Presses Slowly Into Mareth Line   Americans Attempt To Pin Nazi Flank o Tunisian Coast

AMERICANS IN TUNISIA FIGHT TO PIN FLANK   British Forces And Enemy Appear To Be Locked In Battle  lor Positions.

TROOPS LOCK IN STRUGGLE SEVENTH DAY   Germans  Counterattack At’ Guertaria Pass; Patton Retains Vital Road   Air Offensive Heavy

BRITISH ARMY GAINS UNDER HAIL OF FIRE   Attack on Minefields and Pillboxes Reminiscent of Battles of First World War.   NAZIS HIT BACK AT U. 8S. FORCES   Americans Battle Furiously to Keep Rommei’s Flank Pinned to Tunisian Coast.

MARETH LINE IS HAMMERED BY BIG GUNS   AMERICANS KEEPING ROMMEL PINNED TO COAST

British Smash Forward Along Mareth Front   Eighth Army Infantry Pounds Ahead In Fierce Fighting; Power of Foe Assaults Diminishing

AIRMEN BATTLE ENEMY U-BOATS   Submarine Pack Attacks Convoy In Atlantic; Planes Get Five

Aircraft Drive Off U-Boats Attacking Allied Convoys   Five Believed Sunk, Many Damaged During Air and Sea Battles

FIVE AXIS U-BOATS ARE BELIEVED SUNK       Allied Planes Engaged In Four Day Running Battle In Protection Of Two Convoys,

U-BOAT PACK HIT FROM AIR   > Subs Probably Sent Down In Four-Day Running Battle

U-BOATS DESTROYED IN A RUNNING FIGHT   Planes Join in Defense of Two Convoys, London Announces

FIVE AXIS U-BOATS BELIEVED DESTROYED   Allied Planes Make 19 Attacks on Pack of Raiders in FourDay Running Battle.

Allies Unite To Sink 5 U-Boats  Probable Damage To Axis Fleet Reported

Allied Planes Sink Five Submarines In Four-Day Battle with U-Boat Pack

Planes Sink Five U-Boats   Battle With Subs That Attacked Convoys For Four Days

Planes Blast 5 Subs In Four-Day Battle   Many Others in Pack of U-Boats Damaged As Bombers Defend Two Important Convoys

Planes Assist Convoy Defense   Believe Five U-Boats Destroyed From Air

Army Stores Shoes for FightingMen  U. S. Stockpile  _   U.S. Stockpile Largest in Entire World

A Teacher  Famine   Many Rural Schools May Be Forced to Stay Closed This Fall

VITAL NAZI WAR PLANT WRECKED   RAF BOMBS FACTORY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RADIOLOCATION DEVICES.

Air Groups Fly 3,000  Ships Daily   British Continue Fast Tempo, Smashing Plant at Peenemuende; 36 Flying Fortresses Lost Against 100 German

VITAL GERMAN PLANT HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   Peenemuende is Badly Smashed in British  Precision Attack

British Smash: Nazi Plant To Climax Record   Yanks Amass New.  Mark In 36 Hours TYE Leacletmene Bind chs

British Smash Nazi Plant To Climax Record   Yanks Amass New Mark In 36 Hours Of Lashing Raids

VITAL PLANT OF THE NAZIS ~ RAF TARGET   Allies Make Nearly 3,000 Sorties in Step-up of Raids   ENEMY AIRFIELDS ARE ALSO RAIDED   Many Women and Chil- dren Evacuated From _ Berlin

TEMPO OF AIR RAIDS STEPPED UP IN EUROPE   3000 SORTIES MADE OVER CONTINENT IN 24 HOURS

3,000 SORTIES MADE BY ALLIES IN DAY'S TIME   Radio Detection Factory In Germany Demolished; Berlin, Other Nazi Centers Struck   Hungary Sounds Alarm

Peenemuende In Germany  RAF Target   36 Fortresses Lost In Tuesday Assault On Nazi Schweinfurt  TOO NAZIS NOWNEN

British Planes Demolish’ jrerman Radar Factory; Bomb Hollarid And Italy

Vital Nazi War Plants Smashed By Bomb Aftacks   RAF Also Damages German Factories in Series of Raids   Thirty -Six Flying Fortresses Lost in Fights over Germany

RAF Bombers Hammer Vital  Nazi War Plant   Allies Make 3,000 Sorties in 24-Hour Step-Up of Air Raids: 100 Planes Downed

Brit Bombers Smash Vital German Plant   American Planes Attack Three Airfields in France

3000 SORTIES IN 24 HOURS OVER EUROPE   Bombers Switch From Italian To German Theater With Smooth, Tremendous Power;  Crush Vital Plants   Bright Moonlight

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War I Plant of Nazis Crushed By RAF Raid   Peenenmense Attack Is Climax of 24 Hours of Bombing Axis

PRESIDENTIAL RACE BECKONS GOV. BRICKER   Tosses Hat In Ohio  G. O. P. Primary Campaign

POLICY DISPUTES IN WASRINGTON HURT U.S. WAR EFFORT   Wallace - Jones Clash Latest Example Of Feuding

BOTH WAR EFFORT AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO BE DAMAGED BY SPATS   Disputes Within the Administration on Important Policy: Questions Believed to Have Hurt Prosspect of Election of Democratic President in 2 Wallace-Jones Dispute May  Lead ta Invactianatian.

Disputes In Washington Are Damaging to War Effort   By LYLE C. WILSON, Staff Correspondent.

Fortresses Destroy Many Nazi Planes   Americans Shoot Down 14 Messerschmitts in Running Battle After Attack on Rommel

51 PLANES OF AXIS TOLL IN NORTH AFRIGA   Terrific Loss Exacted Within 24 Hours— Only One U.S. Craft Downed.

Allies Bag 51 Axis Planes In  Aerial Drive   Nazi Communication Lines Under. Terrific Bombardment

North African Enemy Takes.  Heavy Beating   Hour of Great “Allied Push Believed Near

CLOSE IN ON STALINGRAD SIEGE ARMY   Smash Through Outskirts of Volga Metropolis After Night of Battle.   AIR BLOWS HIT AXIS   U. S. Warplanes Destroy 34 Enemy Aircraft on Ground In Africa.

County War Bond Chairman Explains This County’s Quota  By Toral Duckett, County Chairman

Plymouth County Asked To- Buy A Million In Bonds Next: Month   County War.Bond Chairman Explains This County’s Quota

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY IN SEPTEMBER   Plymouth County’s Quota Fixed At $990,000, Must Be‘ Sold, Not Pledged

Third War Loan Quota For Sioux County Is $1,139,000.0¢   Amomnt of Quota for This County is Raised by About Half Over Original Treasury Sum

Stern Necessity” Calls 50 per cent - Increase In Bonds Purchased   As U. S. Passes From Defense to Attack, More Money Is Needed

AULTAD FLIENDS DROP TONS OF BOMBS ON LAI  New Guinea ea Garrison ip anese Hit by .Mitchells, Liberators, Beau     MacArthur Determined to feaken Defense to Pave the Way For  Ground Forces

Tons of Bombs Dropped on Lae   Japanese Garrison Hit By U. S. Fliers

Tons Of Bombs Fall On Jap Base At Lae   Raid Part Of Drive To “Blockade And  Denlete” Garrison

MacArthur In Big Air Raid   ALLIED BOMBERS DEAL DEATH TO JAPS AT LAE

TONS OF BOMBS ARE RAINED UPON JAPS AT LAE, NEW GUINEA  INDICATES MACARTHUR’S DETERMINATION SOFTEN FNEMY FOR ATTACK

Jap Garrison  At Lae Battered   Twenty-Eight Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Enemy Outpost.

Australian Prime Minister Makes Dramatic Statement.   AUSTRALIA CAN NO LONGER BE INVADED   Tokyo Radio Reveals New Shake-up On Japan’s Home Defense.

BERLIN ADMITS GREAT DAMAGE IN RAF BLOWS   220 Planes Bomb Nazi Party Birthplace; 11 Are Missing

Heaviest of Raids Hits Rail Center   Germans Report Damage on Homes Cultural Sites

Pulverizing British Raid Hits Munich   Four Engined Bomber: Stab Deep Into Reich A\ Nazism Birthplace   BLAST WAR INDUSTRY   1} Plane. Lost As Big Sky Craft Drop Hundreds O: Tons Of Bombs

Other Nazi Targets Hit In New Raid   British Lose 11 Planes in Bia Assault

Indications  Are At Least  220 Aireraft  On Bombing of Nazism Birthplace

HEAVY ATTACKS CAUSING HAVO INSIDE REICH   Reports From Berlin Show Nazi War Production Heavily Damaged

MUNICH LATEST BRITISH TARGET; SHRINE QF NAZIS   Germans Admit Large Demage As RAF Renews Visits   11 AIRCRAFT ARE LOST; INDICATING BIG RAID

Second Capital Given Worst Lashing Of War: Nazis Admit Big Damage

MUNICH IS TARGET OF R.A.F. RAID   Loss of 11 Planes Indicates At Least 220 Took Part

On Key Nazi Rail Center   ALSO CARRY ON ATTACKS ON: WESTERN GERMANY AND SOW MINES IN ENEMY WATERS  -: 

R. A. F. Rains Explosives on Munich   FOUR-MOTORED BOMBERS SHOWER DESTRUCTION ON KEY RAIL JUNCTION

TONS OF BOMBS RAIN ON NAZI BIRTHPLAG!   Other Raiders Direct Attacks at West Germany

HUNDREDS OF TONS OF HEAVY BONES "LAY AREA QUT   Berlin Admits Damage ls Great—Over 220 Planes Take Part,

MUNICH BLASTED F   Hundreds On Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Seat Of Nazism And Key Railroad  Junction

Rain of Bombs Deluges Munich Germans Admit   RAF Pounds Nazis’ ‘Second. Capital’ in Heavy Attack

BOMBS ROCK BIRTHPLACE OF NAZISM   Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Are Rained Upon Key Rail Center.

GILBERT ISLANDS NOW IN OUR HANDS JAPANESE FLEET REFUSES TO FIGHT   Our Invasion Fleet Was Ready For Showdown Battle, Japs Do Not Show Up.

farawa Airstrip in Center of Island in Our Hands.  SAVAGE FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS Our Aim Is to Secure the  Ground to Build Air Bases.

Five Die In Chicago Fire   Bodies Are Found Huddled In Bowling Alley Wash Room

b  LOSE THEIR LIVES ~— IN-CHICAGO FIRE   1200 Driven Into Street As  Qawling Ailey Rurnc

FIREMEN RECOVER FIVE BODIES FROM BOWLING ALLEY   More Than “200 Patrons Driven Into Streets '_—Over 100 Injured

FIRE DESTROYS BOWLING ALLEY, FIND 6 BODIES   More Than 100 Patrons Suffer Injuries In Fire

5 DEAD MANY ~ HURT IN FIRE   Bodies Taken From Ruins Of Fire-wrecked Bowling Al: Jey In Chicago

Chicago Blaze Takes 5 Lives   Bowling Alley Is Swept By Fire; Number Hurt’ In’ Makins Exit

COMMUNIST PARTY PLANS TO DISSOLVE   Action Is Aimed at Nazi Charge, Believe

Communists Hear Plea  To Dissolve   International  Tells Branches

World Revolution Fears Soothed as International Abandonment Proposed

Moscow Says Conventionls  Not Possible   Move Would Sever Ties Of International With ~All Branches

HEAVY BUYING — TO BE PROBED   FBI To Check On Clothes Purchasing Spree

petrovek Falls To Russian Attack-— —By Kirke L. Sims   Nazis. Lack Manpower To Halt Red Ourush

Nazi Retreat Taking Shape Of Rout; Close Crimea Exits   Entire German Right Flank In Russia Appears Destined For Wholesale Collapse

atl PRESENT MN SERIES ~ FOR FATHER   ‘Funeral for Robert Kleyla - ‘Held at Ycung’s Thurs:  i . day, Afternoon.    CORONER: REPORT-200N   Belicved the Yéuth Has 2 . Disease That Has Affected His Mind.

UN PREOENT AY oR Cts FOR FATHER   Funeral for Robert Kleyla Held at Ycung’s Thursday Aftercoon.   CORONER REPORT 2:00N   Believed the Youth Has a Disease That Has Affectea His Mind.

Flu’  Epidemic ‘Deaths. Raised   British Malady . Is. Taking Hundreds. Of Lives As: Thousands Sicken.

Worst Epidemic Of War Faces British People   Influenza Death Toll Jumps; Thousands Confined by Disease

Flu E ipidemic Surikes England   Dratt Boards Ordered To Delay Calling Fathers

FLU HITS ENGLAND   Werst Epidemic Of War Is Threat; ening Britain

Influenza Threatens Worst British Fvidemic of War: U. §. Cases ‘Mild’

Argentina To Be ‘Purified’  9 Elected Govern   9 Elected Governments Set Aside

Electoral Governments Suspended   Argentina Sets Aside Elected Governments in Nine of 14 Provinees in Purification Program of Administration

RAMIREZ “PURIFIES' LOCAL PROVINCES   Elected Governments Se Aside By President in Nine States.

Ramirez ‘Purifies’ Provincial Setup  Sets Aside The Elected  Pg EEN OEE oe a

RAMIREZ SEEKS AMERICAN TIES   ARGENTINE CHIEF ANNOUNCES PROGRAM OF PURIFICATION

DEPENDENTS TO GET INCREASES   QUICK ACTION PREDICTED ON PROPOSAL ALLOWANCES BE RAISED BY CONGRES- -. SIONAL ACTION

New Gains Are Made By Reds Against Orel   Germans Launch New Drive In Donets Basin But Are Halted   REPORT ACTION ON LENINGRAD FRONT

SOVIETS SCORE NEW GAINS IN OREL AREA   Germans Launch New Drive of Own in Donets Basin

FUTURE RESULTS TO BEDEVELOPED. _ BY THIS BATTLE   Two Radio. Stations Announce Fierce Fighting With Hand - to - Hand Combats Amona Veterans.   AMERICANS ARE FIRM IN GERMAN ASSAULTS   United Press Gives Roundup of Development In Pacific Theater; Allies Harass Jap - Forces.

Home Edition   EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES IN BLOODY FIGHTING   Rommel Throws Waves Of Tanks And Men At Grimly Battling Allies

BRITISH GAIN DEEPER ADVANCI IN MARETH LINE   Fighting Dies Down In Yank-Held Sectors Of Tunisia

 Montgomery Advances Deeper into Nazi Positions; Yanks Guard the North Outlet; Enemy Losses High   German General, Back to ‘o Wall, Throws Wave After Wave of Tanks, Infantry at Determined 8th Army.

RAGING ON MARETH LINE   American Forces Hold Their.Ground Under General Patton

Hit Mareth Line Hard in Front Blow   FIGHTING SLACKENS ON OTHER SECTORS FOR _ PRESENT.

Tank And Infantry Waves Thrown By Romme Against British Veterans; Fighting Wanes On Rest Of Tunisian Front

Hand-to-Hand Battle Rages, orocco Says   Outcome of Mereth Line Struagie Awaited

Rest Of Front . - Waiting Outcome Of Fierce Battle   Remmel Hurling Waves of Tanks and Men Against Salient; Americans Beat Off Minor Jab -

FIGHTING DIES DOWN ELSEWHERE IN TUNISIA WHILE OUTCOME IS AWAITED IN THE SOUTH _

Advance Into: Rommel Lines inTunisia   Algiers Reports Fierce Combats. Now Raging  aq wee wee

NAZIS MAKE — JAB AT U.S. LINES   Americans and Germans Are Holding Back, Awaiting Outcome In South.

Lieut. Markway’s  Body to Arrive  Today; Rites Friday Escort From Peterson  Field to Accompany Remains to Citv

Lieut. Markway’ 5 Body fo-Arrive Today; Rites friday   Escort From. Peterson Field: to Accompany. - Remains to City.

Varsity Carnival To Have Queen This Year  Neate Set for   Date Set for Dec. 11 in Gregory Gym

ALFEDENA HELD FIRMLY BY 8TH   Italian Village Demolished by Germans Before Withdrawal a

Great Air Fleet of Allies Hammering Enemy Strong-points.   32 ITALIAN WARSHIPS IN ALLIED SEAPORTS   Italian Land Forces Use Bayonets on the Germans,

104 Jap Planes Shot Down In Air Battles   Nip Efforts To Bomb U. S. Bases Are Broken Up

Field Day Held By U. S. Fliers  In South Pacific   Not Necessarily In Numbers, Say Spokesman, But In Flexibility And Abilit; To Cover And Intercept.

MIME. CHIANG ILL AFTER ADDRESS   China’s First Lady Collapses at Meeting in Hollywood Bowl.

QUFTEN Alto 10 PLAN NOW   Allied Aerial Campaign in Tunisia Prelude to Real Offensive.

SOFTEN AXIS 1 PLAN: NO   Allied Aerial Campaign it Tunisia Prelude to Real Offensive. .

Program of Newspaper Advertising by Treasury Department Proposed

JACKIE TO PAY   Court) Orders Coogan To Give Estranged Wife 860 Monthiv.

ABOUT 3,000 JAPS KILLED IN ASSAULI CANANANDA AREA   Final Assault Cleans Enemy Out of That Sector and Victoriously Concludes Papuan Campaign; Many Coolies Are Taken Prisonrr.

3-000 Japs Die In Allied Attack   FINAL GONA ASSAULT TAKES HEAVY TOLL OF ‘NIPS’

3,000 JAPANESE SLAIN    ‘Final Assaulis In New Guinea Bring Heavy Enemy Losses

AERIAL ATTACK IS INTENSIFIED IN FAR PACIFIC   3000 Japs Killed in Final Mop-up Assaults of Buna Area of New Guinea   ENEMY SHIPPING BLASTED   Yanks Consolidate Positions In Strategic Location On Guadalcanal!

3,000 Japs Die In Allied Mopup  Papuan Campaign Ends In U. S. Victory

Rommel’s Flight Puzzling British   Marshal Refusing to Make Stand at-Ever Strongest Defensive Posttions

Rommel Chase Over Desert Becomes Wiil o' the Wisp Hunt for Puzzled Pursuers

Continue Advance Toward Sea Port In Central Tunisia   British 8th Army Takes 1,700 Axis Prisoners in Late Fighting, Captures Airfield Near Gabes

PATTON'S MEN NOW 34 MILES FROM COAST   British Showing Progress Along Mareth Line   NAZI AIRBASE   Threatened By Yank Tanks; Foe Resists Strongly On Southern Front

Police Find Plenty of Clues But No Suspects in Train Murder Case

No Suspects or Motives Found in Mystery Death   Staying in Lower Berth 13 Still Under Investigation

Pullman Car Slaying Has Police Baffled   No Evidence to Connect Either of Two Held For Questioning

LITTLE PROGRESS IN MURDER PROBE      Many Clues But No Motive Apparent for Slaying of Ensign’s Bride .

Train Slaying ls Mystifying  Plenty of Clues, But No Real Suspect

TRAIN MURDER STILL PUZZLES   Lower Berth 13 Scene _Of Strange Fiction-like Slaying Of Wife

Train Murder  Mysterious   Several Clues Found But Authorities Find No Motive or Suspects

Two Men Are Held And Third Hunted For ‘Train Murder   Pretty Bride of Naval Officer Slain in Pullman Berth—Young Marine Private in Upper Berth Picks Up Dying Woman As Man in Next Berth Sees Heavy Set Man Disappear

MYSTERYSHROUDS TRAIN SLAYING   SUSPECTS, MOTIVE ‘LACKING IN DEATH ‘OF ENSIGN’S BRIDE

DEATH OF ENGIGN'S BRIDE 1 UNSOLVED   Police Find No Suspects in Mysterious Murder of Woman on Train.

Murder In Lower 13: Unsolved   No Real Suspect Found By Police; Two Men Detained

Train Slaying Still Mystery No Motive Nor   Suspects In Death tOf Mre Jamec

Lack Motive For Slaying In Berth No. 13   Violent Death Of Wife Of Ensign- While On Train In Oregon Mystifies Police

Few Clues In Train Murder   Soldier And Dining Car Waiter Held In  Oregon Investigation

Train Killing Of Bride Still Baffles Police   Hold Two Men At Portland. Ore.

Train Slaying " Still Mystery   No-Glues Found In: Death - Of Mrs, Martha James Early Saturday -

TWOMENHELD, SLEEPER DEATH   Sunes ‘Murder Aboard ‘Train™ is ‘Still’ Mystery to Police... :

Police Mystified By  Slaying In Pullman   Two Men Questioned In Death Of Mrs. Martha Virginia Brison James Whose Throat Was Slit  In Berth On Speeding Train

Police Seek Third Man in Train Murder   No Motive for Slaying _ Of Ensign’ s Bride  Is Discovered

Mrs, Martha Virginia Brinson James’ Throat Slit As She Lay In Pullman Rerth Wo. 12   MOTIVE IS MYSTERY   Heard Exelaim “I Can’ Take This Any Longer,” and “My God, This Man Is Killing Me”

Slaying of Comely Bride of Navy Man on Train Is Probed   Two Men Questioned in Mysterious Murder in Oregon Saturday

Mystery Grows In Train Murder   No Motive, Suspects Reported Yet

Death Mystery Baffles Police   Victim's Outcry Adds Ta Murder Puzzle

Japanese Claim Victory. in China   Win Tough Fight For Changteh, Say

U.S. Now Has Gilbert Islands   Allied Airmen Strike Hard Blows at New  Britain. Solomons

Congressmen Thrilled At FDR’s Willingness To “Risk His Life” For War Effort  Some Criticize The Fact That Stalin, Kai-Shek Were Not At Confab

Single Agency  Plan Proposed   Relates To Economic Activities Overseas

CUTTER SINKS SUB, NABS GREW   Nazi Raider Destroyed Of! East Coast; 32 Survivors Captured

DRY SOUPS OFF RATION LIST IN NEW OPA RULING   Point Values of Most Fruit,   Tomato Juices Reduced;  Order Effective Today

TO CONFER ON CURRENCY   Post-War Stabilization Topic at  Washington Meeting

BRITISH DEVELOP TANK-BUSTER CUA   17-Pornder Canable of Rlowing Turret Off et 1,500 Varde Claim ~

RAINS OVER KANSAS   ‘Pastures and Wheat Helped by  Soaking Downpours

President Orders Strikers Back to Coal Mining Jobs   Roosevelt Sets Deadline of 10'0'Clock Saturday Morning for’ Return to Work Issues Appeal to Miners >

INESTO FABBRI ED THURSDAY IN CALIFORNIA   'amous Traveler Had Been A Summer Resident Here

MARTINIQUE CHIEF TO ASSIST ALLIES   Governor of Island Says Robert Forced to Resign When Garrison Revolted

China Already Has Fought ~ Longest War Of Century   Embarks Upon Seventh Year In One Of History’s Finest Examples Of Almost Hopeless Struggles

Chinese People’s Hopes Are  At New High  ' Enter Seventh Year   Of War Against _ Japanese Aggression

Cia Mer See ee ee  J apan’ S s Defeat In Two Years  Seen by Chiang   SEVENTH YEAR OF WAR Finds Hopes Highest in China

Chinese People’s Hopes Are At New High  Enter Seventh Year Of War Against

 MAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL Handshake With Old Friend Results in Death of Aaed Man

Civilian Goods Drop Expected   Plan Handed WPB Outlines Minimum Requirements Of Goods. Services.

CONSUMERS TO FACE PROBLEMS    ‘ee  May Expect Continuing Drop In Consumer Goods And Services.

CIVIL GOODS   OCR Warns of Continuing Drop In Consumer  Supplies

Tighter Squeeze. On Civilians   Public Told to Expect Further Drop in Consumer Goods—Enough For Minimum Needs

te ee ee  WARN THE CONSUMERS   Civilians May Expect “Continued Drop” in Goods and Services

Civilians May Expect Fewer Goods   Continuing Drop Forecast By Office of Civilian Requirements

Consumers Face Additional Cuts   Expect Continuing Drop In Goods

Consumers’ Services And Goods To Drop   OCR Cautions Civilians, At Same Time Suggesting Program For Their Needs

CONSUMERS GOODS WILL GROW LESS   OCR Expects to Provide Minimum Essential Civilian Requirements.

WARN THE CONSUMERS   Civilians May Expect “Continued ‘Drop” in Goods and Services

For ce of Red Drive Unabated   Capture of Trokhadnaya Strategic Rail Center,  seems Imuininent

NEW OFFENSIVE rOhoEo WEDGE IN NAZI ARMIES   Prokhadnaya Rail Center Is Newest Objective Of Red Attackers

STRATEGIC RAIL CENTER WS THREATENED   Soviets Pushing Forward On All Fronts

RHODE ISLAND THIRD IM NW. E. BOND SALE   Subscribes $89,913,418 li Recently Closed Second War Loan Campaign 

OPPOSITION TO PLAN IN UPPER HOUSE   Compromise pay-as-yougo measure passed by lower house vote

SENATE TO LASH HOUSE TAX BILL   Upper Branch Will Strive to Substitute Ruml Pay-Go Plan

DISPUTE OVER TAK SYSTEMS. ~ NOT SETTLE   BENATE REPORTED COLD 70WARD COMPROMISE PLAN  ADOPTED BY THE  HOUSE YESTERDAY 

Senators Cool To  House Tax Bill   Report Effort To Be Made To Substitute Rum] Plan In Senate   COMPROMISE BILL PASSED BY HOUSE

ALL MARKS BROKEN   Federal Spending, How ever, Is Unable to Exceed Budget

Pass Spending Records With 1943 War Cost   Federal Government Five Billion Dollars Under Budget Estimate.   OUTLAY OF 80 BILLION

SPENDING HITS RECORD HIGHS   Gov't Expenditures Are Five Billion Under Budget

U.S. Unable Tc Spend Money Fast Knough  All Records Broken But Still Below Amounts In Budvet

GOVERNMENT BROKE  ALL RECORDS FOR  SPENDING MONEY  - TREASURY LAID OUT MORE. THAN 80 BILLION  TIrr BEArsrTie

PENDING RECORDS SEI      Treasury Lays Out Over $80 Billion in Last Fiscal Ypar.

Government Spent 80 Billion in Year  Roosevelt Sets Sum OF 109 Billion for  Caminn Fteca!l Yanr

Federai Government Breaks All Reeords for Spending   Huring the Past Hisioric Tweive Months Treasury Has Laid Out More Than $80,000,000,000. But Failed to Spend As Fast As Budget Provided For: Three Agencies Operate at Loss

PAY FORMULA PLACED UNDER. ClO PRESSURE   HAL¥ MILLION AUTO WORKERS START ‘MOVEMENT, FOR JUNKING OF WAGE “YARDSTICK"

Land Drive In Tunisia Is Delayed   ..- dab at Nazi Defenses   Attack From Malic.

Includes 70 Transports; Tunisia Quiet   Report Says RAF Damage to Skoda Munitions Works Will Take Months to Repair

9-Day Score Totals 112 In North Africa   Dozen Junkers Transports, 12 Other Aircraft Blasted As Terrific Sky Offensive Snaps Rommel’s Supply And Retreat Route

70 Transports 2-Day Toll For Allies   Blazing Campaign to Strangle Foe’s Aerial Life-line to Tunisia; RAF Night Raiders Blast Rail Lines in Europe; Jap Bases Hit

48-HOUR TOTAL OF PLANES SHOT DOWN SET AT 112: 70 OF WHICH WERE JUNKERS ©   Scorching Pace Maintained Against Axis Aerial Supply Lines to Africa by Allied Airmen. Allied Have 12 Planes Missing in Same Period.

More Flying Box Cars Are Downed   Land Activity In North Africa Is  Limited However

AIR EVACUATION OF TUNISIA IS NAZI DISASTER   Two-day Toll of Slashing Allied Air Onslaught Mounts to 117   ITALIAN FLEET FLEES, TIP   Axis Ground Attacks Are ‘Easily Repulsed’—-Reds Stage Kuban Slaughter

Allies’ 2-Day Bag in Tunisian Battle  Today Given as 112   United Nations’ Planes Close Down on Axis Aerial Lifeline

Two-Day Toll of Axis War Planes ls Brought to 112   Lull in Tunisian Land Fighting Continues Today

Striving To. Cut Lifeline —  To Tunisia   Air Power Also Is Felt. Over Continent With Continued Raids

Seventy Giant. Junke Transports Hit Leavin, Tunisia.        FRENCH TROOPS ‘ARE. REPULSING ATTACK                  Report British Destroy _ Attacking: - Axis W ships Off Coast.

'ENEMY’S TRANSPORT SYSTEM BLASTED AS 70 JUNKERS DOWNED   LITTLE ACTIVITY ON LAND FRONT IN NORTH AFRICAN SECTOR

The Weather   Allies Attempting To Strangle Foe’s Aerjal Lifeline

Take 2-Day Toll Of 117 Axis Planes   Strangling Of Romme'! Aerial Life Line Con: tinues; Only Patrol Activity On Ground.

italian F leet At Sea?   ' British Destroyers Re. ported Attacking Enemy Convey

Blast Axis Life-Line To Tunisia   Allies Shoot Down 12 . More German Transports; Hear Rumors o! Mediterranean Battle

70 Boxears Destroyed In Sweeps   Counterattacks By Nazis In Central Sector Fail, To-Dent French Lines

Allies Smash At Aerial Life Line   French Forces Easily Repulse Axis Counter Attack in Central Tunisian Sector —- Germans Step Up Large Scale Attacks on Black Sea Coast

Two-Day Toll Of 112 Axis  Planes Taken   70 Giant Transports Included in Warplanes Destroyed by Allies in North Africa; RAF Blast Nazi Rail Lines in Brittany, France, Holland, Northwest Germany

10 JUNKERS TRANSPORTS ARE DOWNED   Blazing Campaign to Strangle Enemy's Aerial Life-Line Unhalted By Rommel

Two-Day Toll In rica Soars To 112 Nazi Planes   French Troops Hurl Nazis Back In The  Central Sector  Today   NEW PEACE BID?   Five Jap Bases In Pacific Are Blasted: Reds Hold New Offensive

7 9 Big Transports Shot Down; Nazi Attack Repulsed   Report Italian Fleet Has Put to Sea Warships Flee Battered  Qnezia

Axis Loses 112 Pianes Downed In Tunisia  Patrols Jab at Rommel’s Lines  Se hh acsmbarme

Gunfire Thunders Across Channel   Action Reported Against Conyoys

POUND 10 COST TEN POINTS ON NEW SCHEDULE   Ration Value Of Other  Fats, Cooking Oils  Are Decreased   EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1   Two Meat Items Removed From Restricted  List

Butter Will Take Two More Points Pound   No Changes Made In More Popular Cuts of Beef

Butter To Cost Two More Points After August   Shortening, Lard, Salad And. Cooking . Oils Will Take Less

BUTTER TO COST TWO MORE POINTS   Housewives Will Have To Hand Out 10 Points Per Pound Starting August 1— One Point Less For Lard

Increase Point Value for Butter But Lard, Oils Are Cut in New List

BUTTER TO COST 2 MORE POINTS   Lard and Cooking Oils ~ Point Less; Few Other Changes in August

batt UP TWO MORE RATION POINTS   But Shortening Will Cost One Point Less On August 1

Butter Ration Points Boosted   Values for Fats Are Reduced by OPA

OPA ANNOUNCES NEW VALUES ON BUTTER MEATS   Lard Shortening Cut One Point In Coupon Values

Boost Butter ? Points Per Pound Aug.    Salad, Cooking Oils, Shortening, Lard To Cost One Point Tess.   TWO ITEMS REMOVED

Butter Boosted To 10 Points A Pound Aug. 1      New Ration Price Announced Today By OPA; Shortening, Lard, Salad And Cooking Oils To Cost A Point Tec«

ALUE JUMPED RY OPA ORDER   ound to Cost Housewife «o More Points August , With Shortening Cut One Point   TIONING OF TWO  WEAT ITEMS ENDED   resh Pork Backbones and Feet (Bone In) Freed; Increase In Civilian Supply Beef Promised

Butter to Be Increased 2 More Ration Points Aue. 1   OPA Seeks to Bring Consumer Demand in  ~ Line With Supphies

OPA Trims Lard Points, Hikes Butter   Feet and Backbones Of Pork Are Freed From Ration Lists

New Point For Butter August 1   No Major Changes in Meat Values, Says OPA

BUTTER WILL (COST 2 MORE RATION POINTS   New “Red/Point Val. ues Are Announced By OPA

Butter To Cost Two More Points   Shortening And Othe:  Items Cost Less

SUTTER POINT COST GOES UP TO 10 AUG. 1   Point Increase To Be Made Under OPA Order Drawn To Control Supply.   LARD, OILS GO DOWN   0 Major Changes Made tn Meat Values: Beef Supply Increase Pragdinted.

Hike Cost of Butter 2 Points   ‘Lard, Shortening, Salad and — Cooking Oils Are Cut One Point

Butter Will Cost 2 More Points For  Each Pound   Values Of Shortening, Lard, Salad, Covking Oils Reduced By OPA Effective August 1

Butter to Be Raised Two Points   Shortening, Lard, Salad and Cooking Oils To Be Reduced One Point; No Major Changes in Meat Values

Butter To Cost Two More Points, But Shortening One Less August 1   New Red Point Values Will Continue In Effect _ Until September 4;.No Changes In Meat Values.

butter Will Cost 10 Points Beginning Avaust Il: Lard Valuie Reduced

Butter Goes Up 2 Points On August]   But OPA Will Reduci Fat and Cooking Oils One Point Same Day   Changes Made to Bring Demand in Line With Available Supplies

Butter Will Cost Two More Points Per Pound Beginning August Ist; Shortening Less

POINT VALUE OF BUTTER RAISED FOR AUGUST-OPA   Lower Lard, Salad, Cooking Oils; No Large Changes in Meat

Point Value Of Butter  Increased   Shortening Decrease: And Meat To  Remain About Same

BUTTER POINT VALUES UPPED   To Be 10 Per Pound; Other Fats Slightly Cut

Hike Butter Point Cost   Two Points Higher, But Other Fats Lower Two Items Off List

Point Value Of Butter To  Be Increased   Additional Two Points For Each Pound Will Be Required On And After August 1

Butter To Cost U.S. Housewives  : be, o Additional Points Per Pound: ‘Lower Value On Shortening, Oils

Margarine Unchanged; OPA Trying to Match Butter Consumption, Suppl

Fuel Refund Cases Filed   Hidalgo Residents Are Named As Defendants

Hidalgo Refund Claimants Sued   Total Of $64,640 Is Sought By Mann

FIVE GERMANS FLEE PRISON CAMP TODA)   Request Is Made That All Civil, Military Police Be on the Alert.

JAPS TO BLAME, JUSTICE AVERS   Nip People As Well As Heads of Nation Held Responsible

American Forces in Advance   Narrow the Escape Corri dor for Rommel’s Re.  treating Nazi Army

U5. BOMBERS OMAGH AT FAK IN HEAW RAID   American Troops Also Occupy Maknassy In Sharp Drive To Cut Off Rommel

NATION LOOKS TO ROOSEVELT TO END STRIKE   White House Spokesmen Maintain Tight Lipped Silence On Crisis   SETTLEMENT HOPE GONE   WLB Order Calling Off Wage Conference Puts Issue Up To FDR

Stage Is Held Set For Edict On Coal Strike   ‘War Labor Cabinet’ Believed Summoned Into Session To Line Up Other Groups Prior To Announcement By Roosevelt

Allies Open Pre-Invasion Air Offensive on Western Europe   Germany Thrown Into : Period of Stagnation Like That of 1918.

6,000 Prisoners Are Taken in New Victory   300 Allied Planes Strafe Rear Airfields As Others Sink Or Damage 17 Axis Ships  In Mediterranean

Allied Planes Smash af Fleeing Enemy   Rommel’s Gamble to Hold His Flanks Is Lost

Rommel! Defense Smashed: Africa Corps Ripped   6000 Prisoners Taken in New Victory; U.S. Infantry in Vital R

ALLIES RELENTLESSLY PURSUE MARSHAL ROMMEL’S FLEEING AFRICA CORPS RIPPED RELENTLESSLY BY  LOW FLYING.

(Dual Force Joins Relentless Chase Of Rommel Crew   British Credit Yanks With Major Effort In Helping To Break Nazis In Coast Area

Merged Forces On Land, in Air, Pursue Rommel   British Smash Desert Fox’s Defense: At Wadi, 20 Miles From Gabes; Planes Strafe Ranks of Fleeing Foe

6,000 Prisoners Taken in Drive North of Gabes   Axis Forces Now in Retreat and Pursued by Allied Airmen  trnaeaten soccer erent   American “Infantry Plays Important Part in Advance

Great American Air Armada Blasting Fleeing Foe; Rommel May Try to Make Stand North of Gabes

ARMIES UNITE AND CONTINUE ROMMEL HUNT   MERGED AIR FORCES POUND FLEEING GERMANS

Rommel’s Wadi Akarit Defenses North Of Gabes Completely Smashed   6,000 PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED BY ALLIES

Editors Warned To Expect Raid  Urged To Give Space To Defense News

WISCONSIN LOGICAL POINT FOR ATTACK   Milwaukee Nearer Axis Airfields Than New York, Savs Cudahy.

AFRIGA'S CIVILIANS FED BY ALLIES, TO0   All Cans and Packages in Red, White and Blue

JATE NEAR FOR CHANGING TIME   Hillsboro Will Move Clock: Back One-Hour Last of Month

Hillsboro Council Approves Fast Time; Effective Saturday At Midnight

CITY WILL HAVE CWT ON FRIDAY   Hillsboro Residents to Move Timepieces OneHour Thursday Night

Miners Reject Back-to-Work . U. 8. Ultinatum “Majority of : Workers iw Aniliracite Field “Tivité Intervention

Striking Miners Vote to Continue  Coal Walkout   Defy Labor Board, Despite General Committee’s Action

Strikers AgainDety WLB Edict   Vote To Continue Wildcat Strike Is 214 To 

Majority of Strikers Vote To Remain Ont, Thus Inviting Action By Government   ONE LOCAL DEFERS BALLOT UNTIL TODAY  WLB Has Threatened To Employ All Power To End Wildcat Strike

13,200 Miners Vote Walkout, Defying WLB   New Pennsylvania Crisi: Over ‘Wildcat’ Stoppage \. Envites Government   Outlawed Committee ~ Decides to Disbant   lis President Leaves Job After: Group : Advised

Majority of Miners To Strike   Next Step in Crisis In Coal Fields Up to Government

UNION MINERS VOTE TO STAY ON COAL STRIKE   Majority Of 13 Locals Defy War Labor Board And John L. Lewis   FAVOR TROOPS OVER UNION MINE CHIEF

Coal Miners Differ on Strike Vote   13 Local Unions to Continue. ‘Wildcat Walkout

Montana Legion  Opens Sessions - Americanism Chief  Delivers Address

Legion Opens State Meet in Bozeman   Governor, National Official Give Talks

Montana Legion Opens Sessions  Americanism Chief  Tinlicrevne KAa-ence

WINTER DRIVE IS SLOWED BY TANK ATTACKS   Outer Lines Of Strongly Fortified German Base Cracked By Soviets

Eight Killed in Cleveland Blast   Army Probers Seek  To Learn Cause

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Party Wot Afferctad.

See Regency For Italy   Observers Believe Both King and Crown Prince ‘Will Abdicate

se eueel . nammcummnummanaiaal  Think Italy’s king  ail abdicate soon

1,500 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON REICH CAPITAI   Germans Refer To It As Terror.  Attack On Big Scale. Huge Fires Set Blazing   HOME MADE

Goebbels Starting to Prepare German Peopl For Their Gloomiest Christmas Since 1939

One Toy for Nazi Kiddies   Goebbels Prepares People for Gloomiest Christmas in History

German Children to Get One Toy for Christmas in Gloomiest Season

DECLARES ITALY DEAF TO CHURCHILL TALK      Rome Radio Says Invitation to Get Out of the War Provokes No Particular Interest.

LULL IN BOMBING OF GERMANY   More Bombs Dropped On  Germany In Ten Days Than  Nazis Dumped On England In 11 Months

Steel Replaces Brass in Making AS Ammunition   Evansville, Ind., Plant Is Pioneer in Substitufion Process

Film Cackle   MEETS Wwe ©... se iene ie aca  Suzanna Laraine ‘Irene ™

Hollywood Seethes over Question Of Brass Hats as Glamor-Grabbers

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BRITISH SHELLS STRIKE ITALIAN MAINLAND CIT)   Warships Pound at Harbor Area to Prevent Use By Sicilian Troops

Big Guns Blast Crofone To Cut Route To Sicily   Second Bombardment O! Mainland Since War Made Yesterday

British Navy Shells Coast Near Taranto   Attack on the Italian Main. land Unchallenged by ~ Duce’s Shins   NUMBER OF FIRES IN THE HARBOR   Borabardment Seeks to Cut Off One of the Axis Routes to Sicily

BRITISH NAVY HITS CROTONE   Royal Navy Bombards Italian Mainland From Gulf Of Taranto.

City Shelled On Mainland   Royal Navy Vessels Bombard Crotone, On Gulf of Teranto

BRITISH NAVY GUNS CROTONE, TARANTO GULF   Shells Hurled Into Harbor Area Starting Many Fires, in Move Cut Aid to Sicily

ALLIED CRUISERS BOMBARD ITALIAN CITY OF CROTONE   DESTRUCTION RAINED ON HARBOR USED TO REINFORCE SICILIANS

BRITISH CRUISERS SHELL - ITALIAN PORT OF CROTONE   Hurl Missiles Into Harbor Area Five Minutes, Causing Fires—Object Is to Block Reinforcements to Sicily.

Brifish Naval Guns Turned On Crotone   Italian Mainland Bombarded For Five Minutes Yesterday

Mainland of Italy Shelled   Royal Naval Warships Attack Crotone to  Stop Axis Reinforcements

Italian Port Of Crotone Bombarded By British   Aim Is To Cut Route Of Reinforcements For Axis In Sicily; Is Port On Mainland

Navy Bombards ltaly’s Mainland   Crotone on Sole of Italian Boot Shelled by Big Guns.

AREAS ON SOLE ITALIAN BOOT ARESET ABLAZE   Cruisers Hurl Shells Into Harbor for Five Minutes  Withour Damage to British Warships   CUTS SUPPLY LINES TO TOE OF NATION   Could Have Been Used to Send Aid to Beleaguered Armies On Sicily; Rein forcements Getting In

South Fire Curbed After Huge Damage   THOUSANDS OF ACRES BLACKENED, HOMES BURNED IN BLAZES

BOOST OF EIGHT CENTS PROPOSED FOR RAIL GROUPS   Employes Had Requested 20  Cent Increase

RAIL LABOR PANEL ALLOWS PAY HIKE   Recommends 8-Cent Increase Instead of Original Request for 20 Cents

8 Cents An Hour Pay Raise For Rail Employes Approved   Panel’s Emergency Board Recommends Increase Affecting Over A Million

Rail Wage Hike Recommended   Favor 8-Cent Raise For Nonoperators

8 Cents An Hour Boos! For Railway Workers.   Million. Workers Would Be Affected By N. R. L. Panel’s Recommendation; Unions Had Asked For 20 Cents An Hour Boost.

Increase Said To Be Within National Stabilization Plan   Only Non-Operating Employees Affected By Proposed Boost

Board Doesn't ‘Give Workers As Much As They Had Asked   Non-Operating Unions Involved; Retreactive To February 1

RAIL PAY RAISE ISRECOMMENDED   Emergency Board Proposed Increase Of Eight Cents An Hour For More Than Million Railway Workers.

RAILROADERS MAY GET PAY INCREASE   Eight Cent An Hour Raise ' Recommended To FDR By Labor Panel

* ee oe he = ee orem  Request for : a $2 Increase.  RAILWAY EMPLOYES GET WAGE INCREASE  57,000 Rubber Workers Still Out on Strike in Ohio.

Pay Boost for Rail Employes Recommended   Emergency. Board Suggests General. 8-Cent Increase _

PAY BOOST URGED FOR RAIL WORKERS   U. S. Board Recommends Raise of Eight-Cents , an Hour

PAY INGREASE   & Cents An Hour Boost Recommended for Non-Operating Employes.

Recommend 8-Cent Raise For Railmen   Hourly Increase For Non-Operating Unions Dated Back To February 1

RECOMMEND PAY INCREASE FOR RAILROAD MEN   NON-OPERATING EMPLOYES TO GET RAISE OF 8 CENTS

8-Cent Pay Boost Asked For Rail Men   15 Non-Operating Unions Included in Proposal By Imergency Panel

Would Increase R. R. Men’s Pay 8 Cents An Hour   Emergency Board Fails To Follow 20-Cent Plea From Operating Unions

Urges Rail Pay Hike Of 8 Cents an Hour   Proposal Comes from Group Within Railway ‘Labor Panel and Affects Million Workers, Who Had Asked 20-Cent-an-Hour Raise.

PANCL RECOMMEND: AAIL WAGE INCREASE   Non-Operating Unions Given 8 Cents An Hour Hike

RAILROAD MEN " WILL GET RAISE   Labor Panel Recommends General Add of 8 Cents Hourly

Refuses Non-Operating Unions’ Request For 20-Cent Boost With 70-Cent Minimum

URGE HIKE FOR ’ RAIL WORKERS   General Increase of 8 Cents Per Hour For Million Employes

Recommend an Increase in Pay   A Hike of 8 Cents an Hour Offered to More Than a Million Employees.

8 Cents an Hour Rise Granted Rail Men in [Non-Operating Unions   Emergency Board Decision, Affecting More Than Million Workers, Refuses Request for 20 Cents

Board Urges Wage Raise For Rail Men   Members Depart from Little Steel Formula Te Favoring Ineregse

Rail Pay Jump Is  Urged   MILLION MEN AFFECTED UNDER NEW RAISE ASKED BY RAIL LABOR GROUP

Hike Granted For Righting Of Inequities   Emergency Board Says Adjustment Is Within National Stabilization Plan

UN WORKER TO GET INCREASE   Proposals of 15 Non-Operating Unions Are Turned Down   GOES TO BYRNES   Fifty-Thousand Rubber Workers Are Now Idle In Akron

Tearing De Laxe   8-Cent Hourly Boost for Rail Workers Recommended

BOARD GRA RAIL WORKERS PAY INCREASE   UNION DISAPPOINTED OVER RAISE OF EIGHT CENTS

Wage Boost Favored for  Rail Workers   Emergency Board Votes 8 Cents An Hour Increase to Employes

GENERAL INCREASE EIGHT CENTS HOUR FOR RAIL EMPLOYES   MORE THAN MILLION ME!  OF NON-OPERATING

W age Boost Proposed For  Rail Workers   Board Recommend: An Increase Of & Cents An Hour

Railroad Wage Hike Approvec   Compromise Increase - Granted By Panel! -.

SALARY INCREASE FOR THE RAILROAD WORKER PROPOSED   3eneral Increase of Eight Cents An Hour Recommended By Emergency Board of National Railway Labor Panel; Would Affect 1,000,000.

GRANTED T0 RAILROADERS   Eight Cents an Hour For Non-Operating Employes

BOARD SUGGESTS 8-CENT-AN-HOUR WAGE INCREASE   Boost of 20 Cents Had Been Asked—Over Million Persons Affected

Board Okehs Wage Boost For Rail Unit   Decision Affects 1,000,000 of Nonoperatives

Emergency Board Panel Proposal Made For Million Employes Of Nation’s Railroads

Non-Operating Railroad Men May Get Raise   Board Asks Roosevelt To Grant Them 8 Cents an Hour Increase

Recommend Increase In Railroad Pay   Hike Of Eight Cents An Hour For 15 Nonoperatino Unions.

WAGE INCREASE FOR RAIL WORKERS RECOMMENDED   Emergency Board of National Railway Labor Panel Approves 8-Cent An Hour Raise

Suggest Boost  In Rail Wages   Railway Labor Panel Decision To Boost Payroll By 204 Million.

RAIL WORKERS PAY INCREASE RECOMMENDED   Rail Labor Panel Urges Fight Cents Hour Increase Non-Operating Men—20 Cents Asked   Report Says Increase “Minimum, Non-Inflationary Adjustments Necessary to Correct’ Inequities

8 Cents Hour Increase For Railroaders   Emergency Board of Labor Panel Makes Recommendation   TURN DOWN DEMANDS

Non-Operating Employes Given. Part of Demand:   ‘Labor Board's Report Goes Next ‘To White House

One Million Rail Workers Get Increase   Emergency Board of NRL Recommends Advance of Eight Cents an Hour for 15 NonOperating Unions

BOARD GRANTS RAILMEN BOOST   8 Cents An Hour Raise Recommended For Over 1,000,000 Rail Workers

FOR A PAY BOOST   Raise of 8 Cents An Hour Proposed for Groups of Rail Workers

RAILWAY LABOR PANEL RECOMMENDS EIGHT-CENT PER HOUR WAGE INCREASE

RAILWAY PANEL APPROVES RAISE   Recommends Eight Cents an Hour Increase for Million Railroad Employes

Million Rail Men Win0.K Of Pay Raise   15 Unions Wilt Get 8 Cents More Hourly By Action of Board

Eight Cents Ine rease An  Hour For  Rail Worker:   More Than Million Employes Affected By Order; Within Stabilization Program

Boost of 8 Cents  Per Hour   Plea tor Union Shop and Wage Raise of 20 Cents  an Hour Rejected

NON-OPERATING RAILROADERS GET A PAY INCREASE   Retroactve To Feb. 1, Proposal Would Give Employes Eight Cents An Hour  Increase

PAY INCREASE FOR RAILROAD MEN GRANTED   General Boost of 8 Cenis An Hour To Benefit Million Workers   ACTION TAKEN BY EMERGENCY BOARD   Rates Within Stabilization Program, Board Certifies

R R Employe: May Get 8c Hourly Raise   Recommendation  Of Labor Panel

Boost For Rail Workers Given A'Green ight  4 ri ts of Hou Raise Due No Onaletane Unions

RECOMMENDS PAY BOOST FOR RAIL WORKERS   Railway Panel Asks 8-Cent Per Hour Raise

Wage Hike Is Suggested For Rail Men   1,000,000 NonOperating Workers May Get Raises

Recommends pay boost for million railroad workers   General eight-cent raise proposed: unions ask 20c

8-Cent Pay Increase To Railmen   Emergency Panel Says Decision Justified As Adjustment of Gross Ineauities

RAILROAD WORKERS TO GET PAY BOOST   Little Steel Formula No Followed by WLB -

Railroad Workers Pay Hike   General Increase of 8 Cents an Hour to the NonOperating Groups      WITHIN PROGRAM FOR STABILIZATION   Board Compares the Wage @ Trends, Gives Figures on Rail Revenue

ULS. Planes Pounding at West Europe   Huge Fleets Follow Up British Nicht: Attack

YANK BOMBERS BLAST FIELDS HELD BY NAUZIS   ‘Huge Force Stages Raid In Daylight On France As Hundreds Watch On English Coast   RAF RIPS AACHEN   Twenty British Bombers Lost In Attack During Night; Two Nazis Are  Downed In Britain

U.S. Planes Hit Europe  In Daylight   Follow Heavy Night Raid ~ On Aachen, Rhineland Textile Center

RAF Bombers ‘Batter Aachen ‘Tn Bis. Assaul   American Planes. Follow ‘Heavy~-British . Attact ‘With . Daylight “Sweep

ALE RAIDS— —  AACHEN POUNDED BY RAF RAIDER!   Heavy Night Attack Is Made On Railway Center In Rhineland

PLANES iT WEST EUROPE         Hundreds of U. S. Warplanes, Fortresses in Day Attack

Army Flyers Hit European Target In Daylight Raid   RAF Hammers At Rhineland, Striking Blows At Vital Rail Facilities.

HUNDREDS OF PLANES BOMB NAZI CITIES   German Radio Say: Buildings Hit By Allied Planes

Rhineland City Of Aachen, Center Of Rail Lines, Battered By RAF   Hundreds Of American Warplanes, F ollowing Up Devastating Night Raid, Hammer Targets ; In Western Europe Today. ©

RAF BOMBERS HAMMER NAZI RAIL CENTER   20 Bombers Lost; Ground Defenses Get Pounding

Airmen Hammer At Nazi Targets   U. S. and British Planes Make Raids

AMERICAN AND BRITISH PLANES ATTACK EUROPE   Fortresses Take Part In Daylight Raids; Germans Strike Back With Raid On British Coastal Town.

20 WARPLANES LOST DURING HEAVY ATTACH   Today Fiying Forts Hammering At Enemy Targets Over West  Europe in Large Numbers

HIT EUROPE BY DAYLIGH?   German Rhineland Railway Center Heavily Blasted

Allied Planes Attack Aachen   RAIDERS TARGET IS GERMAN RAILWAY CENTER

Daylight Raid Follows RAF Heavy Night Attack On Rhineland City of Aachen, Important Railway Center; 20 British Planes Reported Lost.

NAZI AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE HIT BY U.S, BOMBERS   Huge American Armada of Flying Fortresses Draws Attention in Britain   FOLLOW-UP TO RAF RAID   German Raiders Retaliate On Coastal Town Where Some Are Killed

US. DOMBERS HIT TARGETS 1h EUROPE TODAY   Follow Up RAF Raid on Reich 20 British Planes Lost; Nazis Hit England

Hundreds Of U.S. Planes Hanmer At West Europe   Vast Daylight Attacks Follow Heavy RAF Raid On Aachen Last Night; Doing Much Damage

Sicilians Show Lack Of Interest   Hundreds Of American Planes In Raid On Continent; ‘Heavy Attack On Aachen Costs British 20 Bombers

YANKS BLAST AXIS TARGETS ON CONTINENT   Daylight Raid Follow: Heavy Night Attack on German Rhineland City  of Aachen   AIRFIELDS OBJECTIVES

HEAVY FORCE OF AMERICANS BOMBS EUROPE   Daylight Atiacks Follow Concen fraied RAF Night Reid on Aachen, Rail Center   OTHER TOWNS HIT   20 RAF Planes Reported Lost in Aachen Assauli—Nazi Defenses, lasted

Many Yank Planes Pound Nazi Targets   RAF Makes Heavy Attack On Aachen, Rail Center

U.S. Warplanes Hit Targets In Western Europe   British Lose 20 Planes In Night Attack On Aachen, Germany

SELECTEES GET REPORT ORDERS FOR SEPTEMBER   List Issued By Draft Beard In Carbondale P. O.

UNPAID SOLDIERS DO ‘DARN GOOD JOB’   Picking Apples Considered ‘Active Duty’

Yankee Planes Pound Sub Base   Six Heavy Bombers Lost in Assault

AMERICANS HIT NAZI SUB BASES AT ST. NAZAIRE   Report Targets Bombed In Heavy Fighting With  Enemy Aces   SIX BIG BOMBERS LOST DURING RAIL

Off Daredevil Nazi Flying’ Cireus: Paste UeBoat Tair  Forts And Liberators Fight.

Yanks Batter U-Boat Base At St. Nazaire   Germans Put Up Strong Defense, Bag Six Bombers

Fortresses Pound U-Boat Base At St. Nazaire  Pen mew Cl wwmimiar   Americans Encounter Stiff Opposition Near French Seaport

Fortresses Pound U-Boat Base AtSt. Nazaire   Americans Encounter Stiff Opposition Near French Seaport

U8, FLIERS BLAST SUBMARINE BASE   MEET STIFF RESISTANCE OVER ST. NAZAIRE—LOSE SIX BIG BOMBERS. -

Forts And Liberators Fight Off Daredevil Nazi Flying Circus. Paste U-Boat Lair

ST. NAZAIRE NAZI U-BOAT BASE BOMBED   Second European Assault for U. S. Bombers; 3d Aerial Attack on St. Nazaire in 4 Davs   Set Many Fires

78TH CONGRESS FACES TOUGH ASSIGNMENT   Nation’s Stamina To Be Tested With Manpower. Material and Money Problems

‘New Session Of Congress To Be A Crucble To Mell The Patriotism And Wisdom Of The -¥enly Divided Houses Into Steel Of War

U. §. Stamina To Be Tested   Congress to Prepare Manpower Money and Material for Victory

NEW CONGRESS MEETS JAN. O   Global War Holds One of History’s Toughest Assianments.   WAR IS GREAT PROBLEM

Incoming Congress Faces Tough Task; May Pattern Peace   Convenes Wednesday to Fuse Materials for Permanent Peace

Toughest of world’s jobs facing solon:   To shape future of folk at home, fighting forces

New Congress Faces Big Task   Shaping Of War, Peace Is Solons’ Mission ©

Congress Faces Difficult Task This Session   Peace Pattern May Come from Deliberations

WILL PROBABLY MAP PLANS IN FORMING PEACE   GOP Says Division of Parties to Disappear on Issues of War

Congress Has Big Job to Do   Must Use Money, Manpower And Materials To Bring Victory

New'Congress Faces Many Vital Issues  Has A Minority That's Potent

TO FACE BUSY WAR PROGRA      Vianpower, Money-and Material Problems Must be Solved by Solons   SESSIONS TO START ON  WEDNESDAY: GOP ‘ACTIVE

Congress To Have Tough Assignment   .Convenes Wednesday   Lawmakers To Face War Issues; May Aid In Peace Pattern

CONGRESS FACES DIFFICULT TASK   Must Weld Nation into Fighting Unit, Legislation Covere Many Pointe

FDR May Seek 108 Billions From Congress   Incoming Solons Cana Tnicawhact   Incoming Solons Face Toughest Job In History

HARD TASKS ARE FACING NEW SOLONS   78th Congress Must ‘Test U. S. Under War Strain

78TH CONGRESS HAS GIGANTIC HOME FRONT JOB   Session Convening Wednesday Has One Of History's Toughest Assignments.

78th Congress Has Tough Assignment   Gets Chance To Shape Fumre War ‘And Resulting Peace

78th Congress To Open Wednesday   Will Face Tough Assign ment in Problems of War  . And. Peace; -Republicans. Strong. - a

ASSIGNMENT OF NEW CONGRESS WILL BE TOUGH   To Test Nation’s Stamina As It Fuses Ingredients For Victory and Eventual Peace   3-FOLD PROGRAM   Election-Born Realignment May Prove to Have FarReaching Effect On Civilian Issues

NEW CONGRESS T0 FACE PROBLEMS OF GREAT IMPARTANTE   HOME FRONT, FIGHTING FRONTS AND LASTING PEACE PLAN INVOLVED

CONGRESS FACING TOUGH ASSIGNMENT   Members Must Lay Pattern For War, Peace

Incoming 78th Congress Faces ~ One Of History’s Toughest Jobs; Seen Formulating Peace Pa.tern

CONGRESS IS FACING HARD ASSIGNMENT   Not For Many Years Has Membership of House And Senate Been So  Evenly Divided   SHAPE PEACE PATTERN

New Congress Is Faced With Tough War Job   May Also Help In Creation Of Pattern For   actin Pan

Triple Meet Agrees on  Pacifie War   British, Chinese And U. S. Talk At Chungking

DRIVE MAPPED AGAINST JAPAN   ROOSEVELT SAYS ISLANDHOPPING IN PACIFIC IS IN LAST PHASES,

ASIA CAMPAIGN IS MAPPED OUT   Allied Leaders Agree On Moves Against Japan At Chungking Meet

Leaders Agree On War Plans   China Conference Revealed By FDR  Re WITT YAM TT. PRERACACY

BATTLE AGAINST JAPAN OUTLINED   Military Men Agree On Offensive In Meeting Held At Chungking

Conference At Chungking Maps Strategy   Full Agreement Reached On Asiatic Campaign, Chief Executive Says

BIG ASIATIC DRIVEON JAPS TO BE OPENED   Decisions Reached at Momentous Parley at Chungking   NO DETAILS GIVEN BY THE PRESIDENT   Island-hopping Stece in Pacific Reported in Last Phases

DEATH TOLL OF FLOOD NOW 17   Search Continues For 4 Missing In Ritchie County Streams; Crest Passed

‘ood Death Toll ', Seek Four   Bodies of Children Found in South

Workers Find Bodies of Two Flood Victims   Toll of Dead Reaches 17—Four Missing; Monnine I/n Rerins

Community Figures in Bond Drive   Governor Says Western States Should Assume Responsibility for Own Welfare

UNITE 10 SA WAGE INCREASES  C.L.0., AFL. - Ra iroad        C.LO., A.F.L. Rail Form Unions. InNew Front   SEEK REVISION OF WLB ‘LITTLE STEEL’ FORMULA

No Buik Shipments Of Oil from U. S. To Spain Since February 1942

Nelson Said To Be Considering Leaving WPB   New Complaints on War Food Situation Heard by Congress

Nelson MayResign Post As WPB Head   Congress Busy With Vexing New Ration Problems —

Nelson Considers  Suggestion fo Retire From WPB   More-than-Busy Session Today For Congress

CHAIRMAN NELSON  OF WAR PRODUCTION  BOARD MAY STEP OUT MILK PRICES AND BLACK  MARKET IN MEAT ALSO VON Top NOTICL

Retirement Of WPB Chief Is Considered   Chairman Nelson Disclosed As Giving Suggestion Some Thought  OTHER CAPITAL NEWS

German Attacle in Tunicia   Today In Wachington: Cancellation of Some Taxes Likely As House Group Gets Near Vote   Advertising Key To ‘Post-War Prosperity, Civic Club Council Told

FARBAN PLANT AT LEVERAUSEN MADE TARGET FOR RAID   Third Consecutive Night Trip   Carried Out, Tonnage of   Bombs ls Now Well Over 5000 Mark.   GERMANS ARE UNABLE TO SLOW UP BRITISH   Eighth Army’s Thrust Results In Five-Mile Advances, Fifth Army Makes Only Slight Gain.

REICHS LARGEST SULPHURIC PLANT STRUCK IN RAID   Berlin Still Burning From Previous Night’s Fires Hit by 100-Ton-An-Hour Allied Offanciva

RAID MAY HAVE LOOSED POISON GAS OVER AREA   Heaviest Air Offensive Of War Carried Into Third Day

Blockbusters Wreck. Huge Farben Works   “Allies Step-Up Bombing Pace To Record 100-Tons-an- ‘Hour

Big Formations of RAF Planes Hit Acid Plant   Raid Might Have Set Poison Gas © Loose In Vicinity

THIRD NIGHT OF BOMBING OF GERMANY   Brit. Carry’ “On  100-Ton-Ani-Hour Air Offensive:

GREAT SULPHURIC AGID PLANT IN GERMANY 1S HIT   Poisonous Gas May Have Been Released By Bomb Eynlosisons.

Giant Block-Busters May Have Freed Deadly Vapors In Cologne Area

ROYAL AIR FORGE BLASTS GERMAN CHEMICAL CENTER   Leverkusen, Cologne Suburb, Showered With Big Rlackehucterc

Cologne suburb target of assault   May have loosed poison gas at Leverkusen plant

New Optimism Sweeps Britain   Hopes Risirig For Early End Of War

Axis Downfall Speeding Seen In War Status Balkan. Situation  ‘Held Perilous:  Boy Uitler ~~

NEAR EARL SAYS   New Octimism ts Expressed in Britain a8 Late Ree - ports Arrive .

New Optimism Is Felt in Britain  Next Four Months to Be Decisive

New Optimism Is Felt in Britain Wext Four Months   Next Four Months io Be Decisive

Montgomery’s Explo its Win Him  Title Of “The Desert Cromwell”   Believes In Blood And Iron Policy.And Quotes Bible To ' His Troops — A Clever Strategist

Three So. Pacific Service Men In County Bond Rally  At Emmetsburg  NA Ak des Besccktan

STIMSON WONT ~CONFIRM, i MARSHALL PLAN   Says Only Generals Used Where Most Needed   SECRETARY RETICENT ON MACARTHUR’S VIEWS

STIMSON REPLIES 10 RUMORS   Marshall Status Neither Denied Nor Contirmed

Stimson Refuses to. Confirm or Deny Reports Marshall May Be Promoted

Marshall Case Still Unsettled   Generals Are Assigned Where They Can Be Of Best Use, Say:  Secretary Stimson

OFFICIAL: WORD ON GENERAL'S’ STATUS AS CHIEF AWAITED   Statement May Be Made By President At Press Meeting: Tomorrow

STIMSON. SILENT OVER MARSHALL   “Refuses to Confirm or Deny Reports

LOUIS VELOTTA SLAIN IN GANGSTER STYLE   Body Found on Sidewalk in Cleveland Today

117 Japanese Surrender To Allied Force  Only a Few Snipers Chose Death; Bombe

Two Ships Hit Off Rabaul By Allied Bombers   Ground Fighting Ends: Enemy Foree OF 15,000 Cut To 117 Prisoners

3 fliers killed in bomber crash   S Knudsen will marry   117 Japs at ‘end of rope’ in New Guinea surrender rather than ‘fight to death’

Yanks Finish Off Japs In Papuan Jungle  Bombers Spread Aerial Front In Pacific

Allies Surprised  By Big Number of Prisoners; Planes Rake Port of Rabaul

Surrender Of 117 Japs Ends Battle  Allied Planes Pounding Rabaul; Enemy Convoy Hints Action Near  oe.  TWwriaer & 2 Dew rcay' sas

German Capital Is Left Flaming; Three Fourths Of City Is Now in Ruins

SECRET WEAPON USED, IS CLAIM; NO DAMAGE DONE   Allied Air Armada Spreads Devastation Through Ruins Of German Capital

CAPITAL HAILS BRITISH PLEDGE TO CRUSH JAPS   Air Power May Be Key Note of Invasion of Europe Observers Claim

REACTION GOOD IN CONGRESS TO BRITISH PLEDGE   Churchill’s Assurance of Continuance of Alliance Given Careful Study   OTHER PROBLEMS FACED   Ultimatum Issued on Tax Rumous as More Funds To Be Put Into War

Allies Sourn Peace Feeler From Spain   OWI! Meod Believes Offer Is Onty First Of Series to Come

HULL REBUFFS PEACE FEELER   Spanish Move Gets Quict Cold Shoulder in Capital

PEACE TALK FROM SPAIN IS REJECTED   Quick Cold Shoulder from Washington Emphasized Br OWL Chief   POINTS TO WRECKS IN EUROPE TODAY   Pienty More Peace Feelers Predicted in Coming Months of War

Davis Rejects Peace Feeler, Predicts More   OWI Chief Says ‘Europe Littered With Wrecks’ From Hitler Proposals   NO RAP AT SPAIN   U. S. Diplomats Await Reaction Of Latin Americans To Franco's Mave

COLD SHOULDER   Spanish Peace Proposal Gets Quick Brush-Off From U.S.

Yankees Pounding Italians   Combined Air Forces Applying Huge Pincers lo  Unhappy Nazis.

CAUCUS SET FOR JAN. 27% — AT CONCORI   But Little Interest. Seen. in sion; Vacancy on  - School Board

CAUCUS SET _ FOR JAN. 27% AT CONCORI   But Little Interest Seen in Session; Vacancy on  School Board

WeDielf We Fail Armed Service Men   PRESIDENT OF CIO TELLS CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA; CALLS FOR LABOR AMBASSADORS TO FOREIGN COURTS.   Murray’s Warning

Over 18,000 Axis Prisoners Drawn Into Allied Bag; Enemy May Now Be Compelled To Fight Defensive Rear Guard Action

PONTE OLIVO, COMISO FALL 10 7TH ARMY   Patton’s Men In 15-Mile Advance On Agrigento; Naro Also Captured Catania Blasted

Catania Threatened By British. Advance Along East Coast   Allies ‘Announce Capture -Of Nara By U.S. Troops Striking Inland: ..... Resistance To 8th Army Weak

Eisenhower Announces Steady Advances Made On  Three Sicilian Fronts

Naval Guns Heavily Bombard Base As British Eighth Army  And Airborne Forces Advance

ALLIED FORCES DRIVEFORWARD ‘ALLOVER SICILY      U.S. Troops Advance Half   Way Across Mid-Section  . of Tstand to Split Enemy’s Front   BRITISH EDGING UP TOWARD ITALY TOE   Burrowing Relentlessly Into Defenses Protecting Catania; Army Reported In Suburbs

Yanks Driving — Inland, British Shell Catania   Railway Junction, Comiso, Olivo Fall To  Americans Battling Strong Axis:  Opposition: Torpedo Boats Stab —Into Strait of Messina.

British Advance Toward Catania   ..« United Nations Warships Aid Land Forces

Americans Advance As British Eighth Army  Meets Heavy Resistance

TANKS BATTLE WN STREETS OF PORT CATA   British Eighth Army Taking On 60,000 German Troops Opposing Drive.   AMERICANS ADVANCE TO NORTH, NORTHWEST

Tank Battle Is Now Raging In Catania Streets   British Eighth Army Comes To Grips With Nazis For Vital Port   YANKS CONTINUE TO MAKE ADVANCE

YANKS TAKE VITAL RAILWAY TOWN OF NARO   Airfield At Comiso And Ponte Olivo Fall to  Americans   PUSH CATANIA DRIVE   Half Million Tons of  Bombs Rained On Two   Italian Airdromes

AMERICANS NEED HELP IN CHINA   Senator Chandler Declares Bases May Be Lost If Action Is Delayed

HELP IN CHINA NEEDED BADL)   Chandler Says U. $. Could Lose Airbases

Could Lose China Bases   Chandler to Demand More Help For Far East Leaders

AID FOR CHINA FORCE   U. S. Bases There May Be Lost, Says Chandler

IF AID NOT SENT ALLIES MAY LOSE BASES IN CHINA  SENATOR CHANDLER, BACK FROM WAR FRONTS MAYES ORSERVATIONS

OPA ANNOUNCES PORK CEILINGS   Establish Prices for Inde: pendent, Chain Stores on Five Products

OPA Reveals Prices Under Pork Ceiling   top Charge Fixed On Five Products Effective April 1.

‘Bust Germany Wide Open’ Is Battle Cry   Tons of Pigh Exolosives And Fire Bombs Dropped

BUST GERMANY WIDE OPEN IS ALLIED SLOGAN   Hundreds of tons of bombs dropped on L us seldorf objectives

Operations of Complexity are Approaching   Report Emphasizes Agreement with U. S.

ROME REPORTS BRITISHATTACK ON ITALIAN ISLE   Axis Sources Say Thrust Against Lampedusa Repulsed ,

AXIS CONTENDS FIRST INVASION ATTEMPT FAILS   Malta-Based RAF Planes Deliver Heavy Attack on Italy, Sicily

 Hope Fades For Woman Adrift On Wind - Swept Lake In Tiny Rowboat

AMERICAN 7TH NLOO ADVANCES UN AGRIGENTO   Reformed Goering Division Slashes British Lines, But Is Forced Back

British Defeat  German Division   Americans Gain Four Miles, Seize  Airdrome; 12,000 Prisoners Taken

Whole Germar Front Facing New Threats   Stalin’s Armies Are Pouring Through Widening Gaps

Both: Drives: Menace Kiev With Encirclement   New Crossmgs Give Reds 4 Bases on West Bank of Dnieper And Place Thein in Position for All-Out Offensive.

Soviets May Force Nazi Disintegration   Red Army Threatens Entire Front as It Rolls Forward in Two New Offensives to Clinch Hold on Both Banks of Dnieper.

RUSSIANS DRIVE AHEAD WEST OF DNIEPER RIVER   Disinteoration Of Entire German Front Threatened; Encircling Kiev; Nazi Reinforcements Ineffective.

RED ARMY ROLLING FORWARD IN TWO NEV OFFENSIVE THRUSTS   DISPATCHES INDICATE RUSSIAN FORCES POURING THROUGH BREAK

Russians Clinch Hold On Both Banks Of Dneiper   Germany Pouring New Reserves Into The Shaky Eastern Front

Hold on Dnieper Clinched   Russians Roll Forward, Threaten Entire Nazi Front

Reds Threaten Disintegration Of Nazi Front   Kiev’s Encirclement Seen As Soviets Roll Ahead In Double Offensive

Soviets Clinch Holds On Both Banks Of River   Ukrainian Capital Of Kiev Is Menaced With Encirclement

RED ARMY ROLLING FORWARD IN TWO NEW OFFENSIVE THRUSTS  DISPATCHES INDICATE RUSSIAN FORCES POUR-

Russian Army Pours Through Dnieper Break   Two Soviet Prongs Threaten Ukrainian Capital With Eneirclement,   NAZIS USE RESERVES

SOVIETS TIGHTEN ‘GRIP ON DNIEPER RIVER POSITIONS   Entire Nazi Front Menaced By New Russian Offensives Today

Reds Imperil Entire Nazi Front Line   Russians Score 15Mile Break-Through On 28-Mile Front

Reds Roll on Through New Saps   Entire German Front Great. ‘ly Threatened; New With‘@ drawal May Be Made Soon   CRISISFOR GERMANS . IN: SEVERAL AREAS   Drimea Area of Special Significance in Continuing Russian Advance

Imperil Huge Nazi Force In Dnieper Bend   Reds Crashing Through Defenses; ‘Detaching Movement Reported By Berlin

ENTIRE GERMAN FRONT MENANCEL ALONG DNIEPER   RUSSIANS CLINCH HOLDS ON BOTH BANKS OF RIVER

SOVIET ARMY ROLLS TOWARD GERMAN LINES   Ukrainian Capita! Is Menaced By Both Armies

RUSS WIDEN GAPS IN NAZ LINE MENACE ALL FRONT   Reds Hold Bridgeheads Above and Below Kiev: Crimea Escape Periled

Russians Rush Through Gap ir Nazi Defenses   Two New Offensives West of Dnieper Threaten Entire German Front

Hold On Both Bank: Of River Clinched; German Reserves  Sent From Poland

Reds Clinch Their Hold on Dnieper River   Disintegration Of German Lines Now Threatened

Reds Push On In Two New Offensives   Clinch Hold on West Side of Dnieper, Threaten Nazi Line

ROLLING IN 2 DRIVES   Soviets Pour Through Wid: ening Gap at Dnieper » River Bend.

Red Army Rolling West Of Dnieper   Two New Offensives Clinch ' Soviet Hold on the - Bridgeheads   NEW GAP IN NAZI LINE   Threat to’ Kiev Increased Despite Fierce Nazi  Stand

Soviet Rolls Ahead Today  In Two Drives   Pouring Through W idening Gap in Dnieper Bend In Kremenchug Sector

Soviet Armies Rip New Holes in Nazi Defense on Dneiper   Russians Clinch Hold on Both Banks; Whole Front Threatened

Trans Dnieper Thrusts Peril All Nazi Line   P Reds Smash Gap Inside Bend At Kremenchug, Another Near Gomel   NEW BRIDGEHEAD   Pravda Discloses Bases On West Bank Are Now Completely Equipped

N STAND  GTALRE PAT      Disintegration Of The Entire Front Is Threatened   SOVIETS POURING THROUGH BREAKS

The Red Army Clinches Its Hold On Both Banks of the Dnieper River, Threatening Disintegration of Front

Reds Roll On In New Drives   RUSSIAN FORCES LAUNCH TWO OFFENSIVES IN EAST

RUSSIANS RIP NEW GAPS IN DNIEPER LINE   Red Army Rolls Forward in Two New Offensives West of the River   BREACHES WIDENING

Reds Push Two New Offensives Beyond Dnieper   Advance Threatens Disintegration Of Entire German Defense Line.

Reds Advance la Two New Offensives   Threaten Disintegration _Of Entire  German Front

RUSSIANS ROLL FORWARD IN 2 FRESH ATTACKS   Clinch Hold on Both Banks of Dnieper; Threaten Nazi Front

Reds Advance In Two New Offensives   > .  Soviet Drive Threatens Disintegration of German Front

REDS ROLLFORWARD IN TWO. NEW OFFENSIVES WEST OF DNIEPER RIVER TODAY ©   Both Russian Drives Menace ‘Ukranian Capital o Kiev with Encirclement. Germans Throwing Nev Reserves Into Battle

German Port Is  Bomb Blasted   British Bombers Make At tack On Wilhelmshaven During Night

17-YEAR OLD BOY —  KILLED IN CRASH   Ricdiard Peale Vietkn’ of Truck Accident on U.S,  Highway 59   INEAR WILLIAMSTOWN

17-YEAR OLD BOY KILLED IN CRASH   Richard Peake Victim of Truck Accident on U. S.  Highway 59   NEAR WILLIAMSTOWN

VOTE HALTS SPREAD OF COAL STRIKE   15.000 Coal Miners Out On Strike Defying War Labor Beard .

Roosevelt Aid To Anti Strike Bill Reported   White House Support Seen As Miners Two Week Deadline Poses Threat   UNCERTAINTY. LOOMS   Byrnes Is Said To Have Urged Congress Speed Up Penalties

‘asure Sought Curb New Coal ‘tke Threat   _——ldUlc tlCcrhhUmc OU UE ElCUlLhS hr US  ‘\yrnes Reported "rging Congressmen ie Hasten Action ‘JUNE 20  ‘ack-to-Work Order ‘{ Union Revealed  terely a ‘Truce’

Lewis Suddenly Sets Limit On Coal Truce   Back-To-Work Order Good For Just Two Weeks; WLB Won't Work Under Such Bans

LEWIS MINE Ho eT DEADLINE FOR JUNE 20   Truce Expires In Two Weeks Miners Warn In Agreeing To Work Resumption   WHITE HOUSE BACKING ANTI-STRIKE MEASURE   Legislation Gives New Power To WLB, Despite Lewis’ Firm Qpposition

Lewis Says Miners’ Work Order Will End in Two Weeks  UMW Chief States Move Was Only Truce in Battle

Lewis Limits Coal Truce  To Two Week:   Position of WLB on Limitation Uncertain; Members Are Angered

NOT GIVING UP YET IN STRIKE   COAL TIEUP STILL REMAINS THREAT TO NATION

COAL MINE WORK ORDER EFFECTIVE ONLY TWO WEEK‘   John L. Lewis Discloses Union  _ Approved Resumption of  Production Only Through ~ "June 20.   LABOR BOARD MEMBERS ANGERED BY ACTION   Threat of New Stoppage Left Hanging Over Nation— May Expedite Anti Strike ‘Legislation. —

Extend Coal War Of Nerves For Two Weeks   Lewis Decrees Work In Mines Only Until June 20

FDR Reported Backing Strike Legislation   WLB Faces New Crisis as UMW Sets Deadline For June 21

Pending Threat of New Shutdown Stirs Lawmakers to Action; Report Says President Urges Law

FDR Now Is Said Behind Proposal   Two Questions Are Posed Ry Sitiiatian

Lewis Renews Strike Threat   Miners Ordered Bock to Work for Two Weeks Period Only; Administration Presses for Law Against Instigators

Lewis Discloses That Coal Mine  Back-to-Work Order Holds Good Only for the Next Two Weeks

COAL MING PLAN TO WORK ONLY 2 WEEKS   Lewis’ Trick Order Keeps Strike Threat Hanging Over Nation,   SITUATION UNSETTLED; SPEED ANTI-STRIKE BILL

Lewis Throws In Clause: FDR Reported As In Favor Of Anti-Strike Measure

Whether President Roosevelt Will Recognize Miners’ Limited Orders. as. Complying With Directive Is Questioned

Lewis Tells — Men It’s For 2 Weeks Only   His Attitude Leaves New Moves Up To  Cavernment

SETS JUNE 20 DEADLINE ON WORK ORDER   UMW Gives Operator: Two Weeks to Agree On Wage Contract

Short Term Work Order  Is Revealed   White House May Ask Legislation To Punish Leaders.

‘Miners Back To Work Order For Two Weeks Only   White House to Back New Strike Legislation

LEWIS KEEPING FEAR OF STRIKE ON COAL MINES   Orders Unionists Back te  Work Monday for Two   Meeks Pending Con. tract Settlement   WLB FACES CRISIS   Meanwhile, White House ‘Is Reported Urging Passage of Bill to Tiasisen Strike Instigators

Back-To-Work Order Of Lewis Only Temporary   June 20 Deadline To Get Contract, UMW Chief Says

5th Pushes Back Nazi Thrust   (Strategy In Ralian fighting analyzed, Fage 8-A.)

FIFTH CARVES OUT NEW GAINS IN ITALY   Takes.New Height After Smashing Nazi Counter-Attack

CONTROL OF NEW HEIGHTS HELP ADVANCE   Destroy mumber of tanks” in repulsing Nazi .  counter-attack be is

U4, BOMBERS ‘WIND UP BUSY ‘WEEK OF ADS   Attack Airfields and Other Targets in France by Daylight.   FRENZIED NAZIS PROTEST DESTRUCTION IN RUHR

Week Of Heavy Assaults Leaves Region In Ruins  U.S. Planes Taper Off Attacks With  Haray Owar GPreanen

Airfields And Industrial Areas Bombing Targets   Raid Winds Up Busiest Week in Allied Air War

Airfields, Other Targets Hard Hit   Busiest Week Yet Seen !n Aerial Assaults Of Allies Wound Uo By Davitah? Raiders

DAYLIGHT RAIDS . MADE ON FRANCE BY U.S, AIRMEN   Blows Dealt Airfields and Industrial -Targets—Five Allied Bombers and 7 Fighters Lost.   ONSLAUGHT MARKED BY NUMEROUS FIGHTS   Attack Follows British Assault on Ruhr, Described as Valiey of Spreading Ruin,

Fliers Smash Industry, Air Centers   RAF Supports Americans in Series Of Attacks; Ruhr Valley Is Struck by Heavy Bombing Fleet

Yanks Plaster Nazi Targets.   Blows End Busiest Week In Mighty Air Offensive

Germans Start Hate Campaign Against Yanks   Nazi Submarine Crews Re ported In Mutiny At Nor weoinn Rase.   FOE ADMITS HARD HIT

Enemy Airfields Raided; Norway Transmits Rumor Of Mutiny on Nazi Subs   Flying Fortress Squadrons Shatter Sicilian Seaport of Messina With Attack Starting Many Bie Fires

LOSE 12 PLANES IN GIANT RAID OVER FRANCE   Ruhr Described as Bomb-pitted Vale of Spreading Ruin

AMERICANS AND RAF PULVERIZE HITLER AREAS   Weave Pattern of Destruction Along Fuehrer’s Coastal Wall in Great  Week Offensive   RUHR NEUTRALIZING TASK NEAR CLIMAX   Observer Says. Mightiest Defense Germans Could Muster Failed to Stop Paralyzing Blows

Allies Complete Busiest Period Of Air Invasion        Fliers Barbarians, Destroyers of -Art

Nazi Coastal Wall Also Blasted By Heavy Bombers   Production Definitely Impaired

Climax Busiest Week Yet in Allied Aerial Offensive Which Has Devastated Ruhr Valley; Takes Ruin to Hitler’s West Wall

NEW ATTACKS DEVASTATE NAZI ‘WAR CRADLE’   Pattern Of Destruction Woven Along Coastal Wall

Ruhr Valley, Coast Area Are Hard Hit   Daylight Attacks Concentrate on Nazi Airports

DAYLIGHT RAIDS ARE SEQUEL TO RUHR ASSAULTS   Aerial Offensive Lifted t New Pitch, Leaving Plants in Ruins

Mighty Raids Shatter Nazi War Industry   U.S. Bombers Heap Destruction on Hitler's Coastal Wall

ZHITOMIR RAIL CENTER SEIZED BY RED ARMY   Polish Border Only 60 Miles Away; Winter Slows 5th Army

ritth Army In Grim Fighting  On Main Road   Stalin Announces Vietory In Triumphant Orders Of Day; Guns Roar.   REGAIN LOST LINES

German Forees in Ukraine Split as Soviets Complete  85- Mile Smash in a Week

HESS CARRIED PEACE BID ON MYSTERY TRIP   Terms Of Offer Bared For First Time By den   SOUGHT CONFERENCE   Declared Hitler Did Not ‘Vant to Defeat England

COMMONS TOLD OF HESS FLIGHT FROM GERMANY   Hitler Wanted To Stop Fighting, No. 3 Nazi Quoted As Saying

Eden Discloses Purpose of Hess Flight to Scotland: Der Fuehrer Didn't Want to Have to Defeat Britain

Mystery Of Rudolph Hess Flight Dispelled   No. 2. Nazi Flew To England Bearing Proposals For Peace, Commons Told; Fuehrer’s Deputy Gaid Hitler Wanted To Call Off War

Hess Bore Peace  Plan To England   Said Hitler Did Not Want To Defeat England And Wanted To Quit Fighting

eal Details Of Hess’ Conversations. . .  Hess Said Hitler Was Ready To Quit In ’41

HESS’ PEACE ~ PLEA BARED BY ANTHONY EDEN   No. 2 Nazi Offered Britain Free Hand in Own Empire for Naz Domination of Europe   CHURCHILL OUSTER   Hess Denied Hitler Planned Attack on Russia, Which Came Following Month

Eden Says Hess Declared Nazis Desired Peace   Said To Have Told Duke Foehrer Did Not Want

ANTHONY EDEN TELLS STORY OF PEACE PLEA   Says Hess Really Flew To London For Hitler

WLB GIVES MINERS - INCREASE IN WAGES   Ruling Affects 13 Iron Ore Mining Companies in Superior Area.

Dnieper Bend Lines Wither   Two Big Centers Taken, And Million Nazis Face Debacle

Russians Drive Nazi Army from Dnieper Sector   Capture Two Key Cities in Drive

1,000,000 NAZIS IN SOUTH RUSSIA PLACED IN PERIL   Enormous Quantities of War Material Captured as Soviets Spring “Trap Within a Trap.”   ENEMY TROOPS ROUTED IN KRIVOI ROG ARFKA   Muscovites Take Five Strongpoints in Advance on Crimea—Now 60 Miles From Peninsula.

Germans Powerful Dnieper Bend Defenses Crushed as Industrial Cities Fall Before Soviet Armies   2,000 Nazis Killed in New Break Through Above Crimea; Million Enemy Face Debacle in Southern Russia; Berlin Silent on Battle

Reds crust‘> nazis’ lower’  defense line   Million Germans facing debacle

SOVIETS GAUGh DNIEPER AINE BEND DEFENSES   Capture of Two Industrial Cities Puts Nazis Into Disordered Flight   NEW BREAKTHROUGH ABOVE THE CRIMEA   Badly-mauled German Army Of Million Men Faces Debacle in Southern Russia; Reds Smash Elaborate Pillboxes. Blockhouses

Foe Withers At Vital River City   Crushing Soviet Onslaught Causes Fall Of Dnepropetrovsk; Two Armies Join, Multiply Peril of Enemy Horde

Nazis AreCrushed  In Dnieper Sector   Four Violent Counter Attacks By Germans Are Renalled: Fiahth Army Driving Ahend

Crowley to Centralize All Foreign  LEHMAN IS SHIFTED Named Roosevelt Specia!  Aid tw Arrange for W,

Stettinius To Take Post Of  Sumner Welles   Foreign Economic Job Will Be Headed By Leo Crowley; Lehman Gets Relief Position

Welles Quits As Hull Aide: Stettinius In   Regroup All Foreign Economic Activities Under Leo T Crowley.   LEHMAN GIVEN OFFICE

STETTINIUS IS SELECTED FOR WELLES POST   Pick Lend-Lease Chie! As Undersecretary Of State

FR. Appoint eSfettinius fo Welles’ Post   Crowley Heads New Over-All Foreiga

Vital ports of (Trapani, Marsala fall to Yankees   British hammer at Catanis as foe is trapped in east

American Forces Swarm Eastward   Germans Leave Italians Behind Prisoners Total 110.000

Allies Finist West Sicily Occupation   Seize Trapani, Chase Foe East Toward Dead End

ABC BOARD MEETS   Board To Consider Applications For Retail Liquer Licenses

Army of 30,000 lfalians Battles German Troops   Group Supplied by Yugoslavs Strikes In Northern Italy

Italian Force Now With Slavs in  Battle on Nazis   Combined Armies Slash Rail Lines, Widen Germans’ Defense; Furious Fight Brings Heavy Casualties to Both Sides

Italian Army of 30,000 Strikes at Germans   Trained Force Supplied With Arms By Yugo Partisans Takes To Field in Northern Sectors

HALIAN ARMY OF 30,000 MEN FIGHTS fAZIS   With Arms Supplied By Yugoslay Partisans Widens Germans’ Long Adriatic Kront.   Berlin Fearful

Italian Army Formed To Aid  Yugoslav Forces   Guerrillas Claim Cutting Of Principal Railway Above, Below Belerade

Ttalians Battle in Northern Italy  _ Army of 30,000 Men Is Organized

Italian troop: engage nazis in north Italy   Partisans sever rail connections

ITALIAN ARMY ENGAGES NAZIS   Some 30,000 Men Armed Through Aid Of  Yugoslavs

Reds Urge Amphibious  Surge Across Channe   Russians Say Victory Over Germany  This Year Possible if Allies Mave.  ae es

Soviet Paper Demands : Invasion For Victory   Double-Pronged Amphibious Allied Action ) Europe Rumors Are Not Denied At Quebec

11 SEA SCOUTS DROWN IN BAY   re as Great Waves Wash Youths Overboard; Only Leader Is Saved

DRAG BAY FOR 3 MISSING SCOUTS; 7 COMRADES - PERISH   Leader Is Rescued But His Condition Is Serious — Easter Cruise Ends.  In Tragedy.

SEA SCOUTS DROWN AFTER VESSEL WAS --GAPSIZED BY WAVE   iaster Holiday Cruise Ends in Tragedy--Scoutmaster Saved from Death.

Hershey Opposes Congress Bill To Defer Fathers   Draft Chief Says ‘No One Else Will Be Left In Next Few Months’

HERSHEY SAYS FATHERS MUST ENTER ARMY      Opposes Bill to Draft All Single Men and Married Men Without  Children First

HERSHEY OPPOSES MEASURE TO DEFER THE FAMILY MEN UNTIL ALL OTHERS DRAFTED

HERSHEY SAYS HE POSE PLANTO POSTPONE FATHER‘   First Witness Called By Mit:  . itary Committee Considering Legislation on Draft: ing Men.   GENERAL THINKS ADMINISTRATION HARD   Over Million Single Men Who Are Subject to Draft Now Deferred Owing to Employment.

FATHERS GO NEXT STATES HERSHEY: NO ONE ELSE LEFT   Selective Service Chief Estimates Monthly Rate of Induction For Next Four Months Will Be 400,000. 

Draft Chief Objects to Deferment   Against Legislation to Exempt Family Men Until Others Are Taken

Law to Defer Fathers Fought   Gen. Lewis Hershey Says Not Dependency, But Jobs to Decide

FATHERS FROM ARMY OPPOSED      Hershey Says Enactment of Legislation Unwise; Many Sin gle Men Deferred   OCCUPATION SHOULD BE FIRST CONSIDERATION

Dratt Chief Says Boards Running Low   Measure To Postpone Induction Of Fathers Is Hit By Hershey

OPPOSING ANY DEFERRING OF “FAMILY” MEN   Hershey Says What Job They Have, Not Family Status To Be Considered

Hershey. Opposes Effort to Defer Men With Children   Says That Group Will Supply Most Inductees vin Next. 2 or 3 Months

Says Drattees Next Two or Three Month: To Be Fathers   After April 1 Must Be In Essential Work If Not To Be Drafted

Hershey  F ight: Deferment. of Family Men ©   Congress. Learns » ‘Million ‘Kept: From «Draft bv Jobs — *

ATHE AG NEXT, HERSHEY WARNS   Draft Of Family Men Now Necessary, Director Tells House Committee

Hershey Opposes Legislation To Require Determent of Married Men With Children

FATHERS WILL BE INDUCTED SAYS HERSHEY   Oppose Plan To Defer Until Single Men Are Called  BEACT AIRFARYV ANLIC   Most Inductees In Next Few Months Will Be Fathers

HERSHEY OPPOSED DEFERRING OF MEN HAVING CHILDREN   SELECTIVE SERVICE HEA   SELECTIVE SERVICE HEAD OBJECTS TO CONGRESS TAKING HAND IN DRAFT

Hershey Opposes Relaxing Draft   Many Fathers Face Call Soon, He Says

Hershey Opposes Measure Deferring Men With Children   This Group to Furnish Majority of Selectees In 2? ar 2 Months

Opposed To Deferment ~ Of Fathers   Proposed Law Would Hinder War Effort, Hershey Declares

Hershey Hits Draft Delay For Fathers   Director Tells House Committee Bill Is Unwise

Hershey Opposes Move to Delay Drafting Fathers Till Last, Says Occupation of First Importance

‘Single Men, Deferred Because Of Essential Jobs, Could Fill  4th Of U.S. Manpower Need:

GEN. HERSHEY — OPPOSES PLAN OF DEFERMEN]   Does Not Favor List: ‘ing Fathers As Last . To: Oo   Hearing Held -On Bill ' To Set Up.Four “"O)ascacy: -

DAD DRAFT IS SEEN BY CHIEF   Gen. Hershey Opposes Any Change In Pruyram

HERSHEY OPPOSES BILL DEFERRING ‘MEN WITH CHILDREN   Draft Head Says Great Majority of Men Induct ed In Next 2 or 3 Month: Will Be Men With  mt1j..e.

DRAFTING FATHERS CALLED NECESSAR}   Hershey Against Defer ‘meat Until Sage, Child less Married Are Called

Deferment Of Family Men Until Others Are Drafted Opposed By Gen. Hershey

Hershey Hits Deferment Of  Family Head:   Selective Service Director Says Army To Need All Able-Bodied Men.   JOBS MORE IMPORTANT

Deferment Of Family Men Is Opposed   Selective Service Director ls Witness Before Committee Hearing

HERSHEY FOR FATHER DRAFT   Opposes Deferment Until - Single Men are Called

HERSHEY OPPOSES CHANEE IN DRAFT   Says Lowering of Draft Age Has Not Filled Demands Made by Army

Hershey Expects Great Majority of Able-Bodied Men in’ Uniform This Year, Regardless of Status.

Draft Director Is Against Bill To Defer Dads   Says Calling Of Al Single Men Firs Is Unwise; Hearc By Solons

Fathers Facing Heavy Draft Call   ‘No One Else Left,’  Hershey Declares

Karly Drafting Of Fathers Necessary, Hercheyv Qawe   Reveals Action Due Within Few Months ‘Because There’ll Be No One Flee Tef??   OPPOSES MEASURE BY TEXAN KILDAY   General Estimates Monthly Induetion Of 400.000 Imnends

‘Job should count, above dependency’   Hershey opposes bill to draft childless men before fathers

Hershey Opposes Deferment Of Parents Until Single Men And Childless Married Men Drafted

Hershey Says Most Ot Future Draftees Must B e Fathers As “There’s No One Else Tet?”

MARRIED MEN DRAFT IS VITAL, SAYS HERSHEY   General Uses Figures or Armed Services to Back up Plea

Fathers to Be Called in Next - Three Month:   Necessity of Drafting Men With Children Is Emphasirod

HEROHEY FIGHTS CHANGE IN DRAFT   General Opposes Legislation To Defer Men With Children °   DEMANDS GROW   Fathers Will Be Inducted Into Army Soon, Says Draft Chief

HERSHEY SAYS ND OTHER WEN WL BE LEFT   Draft Director Tells House Committee Bill Would Cause Trouble.   NEW INDUCTIONS WILL BE MOSTLY FATHERS

Hershey Favors Father’ Draft   Says Legislation Would Be Undesirable

DEFERMENT OF FATHERS SCORED   Hershey Opposes Legislation Designed to Defer Fathers Till Draft of Childless

Law to Defer Men With Children Not Desirable: Hershey   Draft Director Voices His Opposition to Such Legislation

Draft Chief To Oppose Changes   HERSHEY SAYS FATHERS MUST BE TAKEN INTO ARMY

HERSHEY HITS PLAN TO DEFER MARRIED MAN   Despite Lowering of Draft Age, Still Unable To Meet Demand

Hershey Against Deferments on Dependent Basis   What Man Is Doing Must Bear Weight, Says Draft Director

MARRIED MEN DUE FOR ARMY, SAYS HERSHE}   Compulsory Training For Youths Set In New Bill

ARMY WILL SOON INDUCT FATHERS   HERSHEY SAYS IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO TAKE MEN WITH CHILDREN,

Says Many Fathers Will Be Inducted Into Army During Next Few Months

HERSHEY SAYS FATHERS FACE HEAVY DRAFI   Opposes Deferment Of Men ith Children Until Other Classes Are Taken

Fathers Wiil Be Called In Spring Draft   Majority In Next Three Months Men With Children   General Hershey Talks Against Deferment Law   Lowering Of Draft Age To 18 Did Not Provide Men Needed

ATHER’S BAN IB FECTED Tl   jor Gen. Lewis B. Her ey Opposes Legislation  That Would Require Their Deferment   q BE INDUCTED IN fT THREE MONTHS   ective Service Says  reat Majority to Be  Called Will Be Men With Families

Hershey Opposes Deferring Fathers   Says Occupation ost Important

Fathers To Be Called April - May   Hershey Says Men With Children Will Be Only Ones Left To Draft.

MARRIED MEN FAGING EARLY CALL 10 ARMY   Next Several Months To See Those With Children Called, Is Claim   STATE-WIDE INDUCTION PROPOSAL IS OPPOSED   Hershey Declares Single Men’s List Exhausted By Heavy Calls

FAMILY MEN FACE RISING DRAFT GALL   Hershey Says “Majority” in Coming Months May Be Parents.   JOBS TO BECOME MOST IMPORTANT   Army Gain in F ight for More Men for Services.

DEFERMENT OF FATHERS OPPOSED   Gen, Hershey is Against Delaying. Their Call Until All Others Are Inducted   TO NEED ALL MEN, DRAFT HEAD SAYS   Gives Manpower Figures in Testimony Before* the House Committee

CONGRESS IN NEW MOVE T0 SPARE DADS   Occupations to Defer More Than a Million

He Opposes Bills  Before Congress   Million Single Men Hold ' Deferments For Occupations   YOUTHS WILL BE USED UP QUICKLY

DRAFT OF FATHERS SOON WILL START   Hershey Says Men With Children Must be. Inducted

Gains Extended By Soviet Army Broaden Successes On  Kharkov-Orel Front: Nazi Airmen Busy

Reds Expand Recent Gains Near Kharkov   New Gains In The Donets Basin Over  Eaaavwe BPasistanmesn   Soviet Is Now Using Highway And Railway   Germans Rush In Crack Reinforcements  With Little Effect

Russian Gains Are Expanded  : First Signs of Warme agar 8 ors te] ete

Russians Expand Gains On Several Fronts Of Action   New Successes Mark Big Drive As Spring Nears

Russians Thrust Forward Everywhere Ajiong Front South.   GERMAN PLANES ATTACK

Expand Gains To Northern Sectors   Russian Forces Are Aiming at the Rich Industrial  Valley   WINTER BREAKING UP   Soviet Troops Report o! _ E’ght More Cities and  Villages

Expand Gains in Kharkov, Kursk Areas While: Pushing Forward - jn Doneis, Along Azov Coast   ADVANCE ON OREL   Thawing Streams in Rosiov Area Herald Warmer Weather—Nazis Rush In Reserve Troops 

RED ARMY GAINS ALONG THE RUSSIAN SOUTHERN FRONT   Expanding Gains in Northern Sectors’ Above Kharkov and Kursk.   IS AIMED AT TWO POINTS   One at German-Held Strong Point at Orel and the Other at Dnieper.

SOVIET ARMIES RXPAND THEIR KHARKOV GAINS   Aiming at Both GermanHeld Stronghold at Orel and Rich Dniepper Industrial Valley   NEW ADVANCE MADE IN DONETS BASIN   Gains Also Reported Along Sea of Azov Shore West of Rostov Against Stub born Counter-Attack

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH AHEAD IN KHARKOV AREA   Gains In South Are Announced By Russians

Drive Aimed At Axis Strone Point At Orel   New Gains Are Hammered Out In Donets Basin And Along Sea Of Azov

RUSSIANS AIM ~ ATOREL, DNIEPER   Soviet Newspaper Tells of Warmer Weather in Rostoy Area °

REDS HAMMER OUT NEW GAINS IN SOUTH FRONT   Russians Aiming for Orel and Industrial Dnieper River Valley

Soviet Advance Widens   Nazi Counter Attack ~ Iii Donets Basin Fails Tp Stop Reds Who Are Pushing All Along Line

Great Rail System Free For Reds’ Use   Advance on Tremendous Front Unstemmed

Russ Army ° Forges Aheac At All Points In The South   Trying To Drive Nazi Remnants Of Caucasus Campaign Into Peninsula

Reds Advance Everywhere on Southern Line  Russians Say New Gains Were Agains!  Pape Sees, Srey

REDS CONTINUE  TO ADVANCE ON  SOUTHERN FRON NEW GAINS MADE IN  DONETS BASIN AND ALONG AZOV SHORE

RUSSIAN ARMY EXPANDING GAINS IN SECTORS ABOUT KHARKOV © AND KURSK, AIMING AT OREL   New Gains Reported in Donets Basin and Along Sea of Azov Against Stubborn Attacking Foes. Five More Towns Captured  ABT raAaacriie

Make New Thrusts In Orel Area   Russians Expand Their Gains’ About Kharkoy ‘And Kursk Despite  ” Stubborn Resistance

REDS ADVANCE ALONG ENTIRE SOUTH FRONT   Troops Are Expanding Gains in Sectors About Kharkov and Kursk, and Toward Rich Dnieper Industrial Area.

FIRST SIGNS OF WARMER WEATHER SEEN   Kursk Rail Line Cleared For Soviet Use   EIGHT CITIES   Recaptured In Advance To West; German Infantry Arrives From France

RED ARMY PUSHING FORWARD ALL ALONG SOUTHERN FRONT   NEW GAINS HAMMERED OUT IN DONETS BASIN AND ALONG SEA OF AZOV

REDS THRUSTING FORWARD ALONG SGUTHERN FRONT   German Stronghold At Orel And Rich Dnieper Valley Next Goals Of Advancing  Soviets.

REDS AIM DRIVES AT 2 SECTORS   Soviets Closing Ring Around German Base  Of Orel In North 

UNION HEADS MEET; $8,000 ARE OFF JOB   Sympathy Walkout Adds 4,000 to List of 52,000 Out at Akron Plants.   LEWIS, MINE OWNERS - RESUME BARGAININGS

92,000 IDLE HALT OUTPUT IN AKRON AREA   Connecticut Plant Joins tr Sympathy; St. Marys Factory Unaffected   UNION OFFICIALS CONFER   Walkouts Affecting War Production In Toledo And Canton Districts

Chinese Who Aided U. S. Airmen After Tokyo Raid ‘Slaughtered By Japanese

Japs Slaughtered Chinese Who Welcomed ‘U. S. Flyers After They Had Bombed Tokyo

JAPO KILL ALL IN AREA WHER FLIER LANDED   Slaughter Every Man, Woman and Child After Raid on Tokyo.   BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK

WOMEN, CHILDREN SLAIN BY THE JAPS   Coblegram Received by Morgenthau From Mme. Chiang

MANY IN CHINA WERE MURDEREL   Women, Children Included In Revenge Slaughter After Tokyo Bombing.

Act of Revenge-Mad Nipponese Revealed to United  States by Generalissimo  Chiang Kai-Shek

‘Japs have slaughtered every man, woman and child in coastal area of China where Americans landed’

Nips Butcher Men, Women And Children   Chinese Section Where Toyko Raiders Landed Hi

Chinese Die For Help To Fliers Japs Butchered Chinese Who Aided.

Revenge-Mad Japs Butcher Many Chinese   Kili All Persons in the Area Where American Tokyo Bombers Landed   WORSE SLAUGHTER THAN IN POLAND   Official Chinese Report to Washington Reveals Mass Murders

MASS SLAYING OF CHINESE BY JAPS REVEALED   Butchered Every Man Woman and Child Because They Befriended American Fliers   LIKENED TO LIDICE   Horror of Blood-Letting, Reported to U. S$. Authorities by Chiang, Revealed by Morgenthau

Every Man, Woman, Child Massacred in China Coastal Area   Murder of People Who —Befri American Fliers Revealed

JAPS SLAUGHTER EVERYBODY IN REGION WHERE UNITED STATES FLIERS LANDED AFTER THE TOKYO ATTACK

Japs Kill All. In Area Where Raiders Land   Men, Women And Children Along Coast Slain

MASS SLAUGHTER ~IN CHINESE AREA DISCLOSED IN U. 5.   Japs Kill Every Man, Wo. man, Child Who May Have Aided Americans

Japs Slaughter ChineseBefriendine American Fliers   . Mass Killing Is Reported to U. S. By Generalissimo

Japs Slaughter On Mass Scale   Kill All in Coastal Area Where U.S. Fliers Took Refuge,

Chinese Civilians Slain in Areas Where Tokyo Raiders Found Haver

Bufchered For ~ Aiding Flyers   Men, Women, Childrer . Are. Slaughtered.

Chinese Who Helped U.S. Fliers Butchered      Every Man, Woman And Child In Coast Area Where Fliers Landed Are Slaughtered

Japs Massacred Flyers’ Friends   Killed All in Area Where Yanks Landec

Japs Slaughter Chinese Who Aided American Flyers In China After Tokyo Raid

All Men, Women and Children in Chinese Coastal Areas Where Fliers Landed Put to Death.      SEC, MORGENTHAU TELLS OF ATROCITIES   Treasury Head’s Information Contained in Message From Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,

SLAUGHTER OF CHINESE TOLD BY SECRETARY   Civilians Slain For Aiding Yank  Airmen In China  

Japanese Murde! All Chinese in Coastal Section   Kill Men, Women and Children in Wrath at Americans   Slaughter Civilians

Mass Slaughter of Chinese Who Aidec Flyers Is Revealed by Morgenthau

New Horror By Japanese Is Revealed   Every Man, Woman and Child in Chinese Village Is Butchered  COR REERIENDING YANKS

Japs Butcher Chinese Who Aided Yanks   Message From Chiang Reveals Reprisal for . Harboring Bombers

Morgenthau Tells Of Jap Butchery On China Coast   Reads Telegram From Gen, Chiang Kai-Shek  During Bond Rally

Chinese Residents of Arcas Harboring U. S. Fliers Slauehtered by Jabanese

All Chinese Along Coast Slaughtered  Entire Population Slain By Japs, Says Chiang

Morgenthau Reveals Japanese Killed Every Person in Areas Where American Fliers Landed

Chinese ‘Butchered by Japanese   Every Man, Woman and Child in Areas Where Fliers Found Haven After Tokyo Bombing  . .Has Been Slain

Chinese In Coast Areas Slaughtered   Japs Kill Every Man, Woman And Child Ir Sactions Where Doolittle Fliers Landed

Forsee Defeat of Germany’s Militarism by November of 1944 But Not Any Sooner

TWO MEN KILLED IN RAILWAY CRASH   Third Victim Believed Buried Under Wreckage at Indianapolis.

THREE RAILROADERS KILLED IN GOLLISION   Big Four Train. Hits Engine at Indianapolis,

TRAINS COLLIDE AT INDIANAPOLIS, 2 DIE   Fear Third Dead Under Wreckage, Four Injured

SOVIETS OVERCOME STRONG RESISTANCE IN CAUCASUS, ON DON   Russian Army Surges Across Kalitva River to Cut Vital Railway Line; Many More Towns Recaptured

Reds Surge On Against Nazis   . Germans’ Line Of: Communication Cut

Soviet Army Cuts Rostov-Moscow Rail Line Reaching Point 90 Miles Northeast of Communications Center

Break-Through in Middle Don Area Comes as Red Ariny Reports Huge Gains Along Caucasus Front

RUSOIANS MARE SWEEPING GAINS, KILL HUNDREDS   Report Capture of 30 Towns ' and Railway Points — Trainloads of Supplies Are Captured.   FIGHTING FLARES ALONG DONETS RIVER   Twenty-Five Mile Advance Made in One Sector— Swift Push Increases Threat to Rostov.

Cut RostoyMoscow Rail Line at River  30 Towns: and Rail Points Reported. Cotem ed lacs fawiaic.

RED ADVANCE ROLLS AHEAD IN CAUCASUS   MIDDLE DON FORCES CUT OFF ROSTOY RAILWAY LINE

Offensives Roll Ahead Despite Strong Efforts Of Germans To Check’  Southern Advances   GERMAN REPORTS ARE FULL OF GLOOM   Europe Still Hearing Rumors of Big Push To Relieve Leningrad

Cut Rostoy Moscow Rail  Line at River 30 Towns and Rail  Pas a Pe   30 Towns and Rail Points Reported Seized by Soviets

HIN. EUROPE, BALKANS, FARE READY TO: STRIKE        Germans: ‘Hastily Gonsoli ate : Positions In Trieste way: To:Balkans .            FIRE’ ON GREEK “PATRIOTS

RAF Raiders Blast German Steel Centers   ' Unrest in Balkans 1  Underground Awaits Uprising Orders

UNDERGROUND IS WAITING ORDERS TO GO IN ACTION   Reports From Widely Separated Points Indicate Axis Enemies In Europe And Balkans Ready Ta Erupt.

AWAIT ORDER T0 TURN ON REICH, SPOKESMEN SAY   Nazi Troops Fire On Greeks, Report From Athens Says

Hear Underground Forces In Balkans  Await Signal To Rise Against Axis~   Germany Understood To View Balkan Situation Gravely And Is Hastily Consolidating Positions In Italy’s Trieste Doorway.

Underground Forces Are  On Alert   German Troops Get Out of Greece; Balkan  Situation Is Grave

NAZI OFFENSIVE HAS BURNED QUT   Germans Lost 45.000 Men and 2,600 Tanks in Effort.

Russians Say Axis Offense Bogged Down   Germans Fail to Break Through Around Belgorod

ODD FELLOWS REFUSE TO SELL HOME HERE AT PRICE OFFERED  WILL CONTINUE OPER. ATING HOME JOHN C.

ODD FELLOWS REFUSE TO SELL HOME HERE AT PRICE OFFERED  WILL CONTINUE OPERATING HOME JOHN C,  HUGHES TRUSTEE SAYS

Tears and Cheers of Joy and Offerings of Wine Greet Battle Stained Conquerors of Tunisia

French Weep. For Joy After Tunis Victory   From Farm, War Writer Sees U. S.-Built Tanks Race for City

STREET FIGHTS MARK BRITISH CAPTURE TUNIS   Battle Enemy From Thoroughfare to Thoroughfare as Tanks of First Army Reach Capital   FRENCH CIVILIANS. SHED TEARS OF JOY   Bring Out Jugs of Wine for Khaki Legion That Broke German Resistance

Tunis Civilians Weep With Joy As Allies Enter Capital   BRING OUT WINE JUGS   “On To Victory,” They Cry As Army Vehicles Rolf By

Witness Tells. Tunis Capture   Daniel. DeLuce Writés Graphic Account

Tears of Joy Greet British   Civilians In Tunis Give Touching Welcome To Victorious Troops

FIVE DIE IN FIRE WHEN HOME BURNS   Explosion of Coal Oil Stove Blamed for Tragedy

BLAZE FATAL TO 5 AT NEW LEBANON   4 Children, Roomer Lose Lives; Father Escapes

FIVE PERISH IN ~ DWELLING FIRE   Four Young Children, Roomer Die in New Lebanon Fire

Russians Smash Nazi Defenses To Free 100 Localities in Area Near Rzhev: Smolensk Is Goal

Stubborn Nazi Resistance Smashed by the Soviets  NEW GAINS SCORED IN SOUTHERN AREA  Many Nazis. Reported Slain in the At tacke

REDS REGAIN 100 VILLAGES IN TWO DAYS   SALIENT MAY SOON CUT RAILWAY TO KIEV

Nazi Bases.of Vyazma and Gzhatsl Face Capture By Soviets; Russ Claim Advances in:.South

SOVIETS MEET RESISTANCE IN AZHEV SECTOR   Fresh Gains For Red Army Reportec On Southern Front By Communiques.

Reds Set Free Over 100 Localities in Sweep on Nazi Anchor Smolensk  Fresh Gains Reported on Southern  Front Where 50 Mile Salient Is Driven to Cut Brvanck.Kiev Rail

100 Localities Freed by Reds In Rzhev Sector   Frash Gains Also Reportec on the Southern Front   Approximately 2,000 Ger mans Reported Killed, 1,165 Captured

Soviets Make Gains on Road To Smolensk      Fresh Advances Also Made By Reds In Drive Aimed at Turning German Lines Hinged on Orel. Bryansk

100 LOCALITIES ARE LIBERATED BY RED ARMIES   Gains Are Made In Soviet Drive To Cut BryanskKiev Railway   STIFF RESISTANCE OFFERED BY NAZIS

Immediate Red Goals Appear to Be Vyazma And Town of Gzhatsk  ALSO REPORT GAINS ON SOUTHERN FRONT  ‘Reds Silent, However, On Western Caucasus And Donets Basin Arez

30 MILE LINE TO SOUTHWARD MOVES AHEAD   Germans Claim Taking Several Positions In Stalino Area, Trapping Army   Silent On Caucasus

Gains Are Also Reported in  Southern Area   German Claims of Donets Basin Success Uneontested, However

REDS SMASH NAZI DEFENSES IN PUSH TOWARD SMOLENSK    Hitler’s Troops Try in Vain to  Stem Advance With   Tanks, Artillery and Infantry.   INVADERS DRIVEN FROM 200 VILLAGES   New Soviet Gains Made on Southern Front — 2,000 Germans Killed in Day’s Fighting.

fy Centval Front Press ‘Yoward Enemy  Vital Smolensk Anchor; Gains Announced In gh.

Soviets Move Forward in  Central Area   Fresh Advances Also Are Reported On Southern Front in Drive to Cut Brvansk-Kiev Line

Reds Make New Advances Along  Southern Front   Russians Fail to Claim Any Gains in Donets Basin; 2.000  Nazis Slain in Day

Over 100 More Towns Captured   Stubborn Nazi Resistance Fails To Halt Russians

Soviets Clinching Great Victory On Lower Dneiper   )  Front, Trap 90,000 Nazis

German Defeat  Worst of War   Allies Pierce Enemy Line in Italy; Japs Lose 1,059 Planes Last Month

No Escape For Beaten Nazi Army   Battle Repcried Terminat. ing in Heavy Slaughter of Hitler’s Forces _

Germans Still Hold Krivoi Rog Ti  Dnieper Bend; Allies Driv:  Spearheads Into Outer Fringe:  Of German Line In Italy   BAD WEATHER GROUNDS FLYING PORTRESSES

Trapped Nazis Slaughtered  In Crimea War Yanks, British Progress on March to Rome

Can't Ship Any More Live Hogs   Embargo Placed in Effect ai East St. Louis; Market Is Glutted   15,000 UNSOLD, OFFICIALS SAY   Ban on Shipments Will Bxtend Through 6.A.M. Sunday, December 26

THREE STATES WOULD MOVE CLOCKSBACK   ‘Justice Dept. Experts Think ‘Move Illegal:

ERS TIME SHIFT ILLEGA PER OFFICIALS DECLAR   Justice Department Holds Shift Unconstitutional

ITALIAN HIT SNAG IN CONGRESS CALL   AMG Bans Meeting In First Political Issue

Italians Protest Actionby A. M.G   Seek to Conduct Political Congress

Croce Asks Freedom  Of Speech   Liberation Committee Angry at AMG Order  Acentoss Datharinges

Business Men Plait Officer's’ Induction On Monday, Feb. 15   “Annual Dinner to Be Held in the National Hall

Plans Completed -For Business Men’: Annual Banquet    James F. Mansfield  To Be Installed a Head of Association

METEOR FALLS   ‘It's One of Largest to Hit Amer] jean Continent.

Motorists Seeking New Rations Asked to Delay Requests ‘Til Notified

Present U-Boat Pack Estimated at Nearly 500 Subs by Navy Spokesman

GERMAN SUBMARINES ESTIMATED NUMBER ABOUT FOUR HUNDREL  NAVAL PUBLIC RELATION: DIRECTOR SAYS U-BOATS BIG MENACE

INCREASE BONUS ON LIQUOR RATIONING   Grant Extra Fifth of Rum for November

RAF Storms Over Europe For 2 Hours   Retaliation Attacks Reported on English Town This Morning

SIX MILLION TONS OF SHIP. “PING FOI CROSS-CHANNEL‘INVASION REQUIRED  BY ALLIES : -

FIXED LOW INCOME’ GROUE  FACES MALNUTRITION DUE "(FO RISING FOOD COSTS

FORMER GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA DIES   Fames H. Price Stricken In Richmond Monday With A Cere bra] HERemorrhage

JAMES Hl. PRICE DIES IN RICHMOND   Former Governor of Virginia And Imperial Recorder of Shrine Succumbs of Cerebral Hemorrhage

17 INJURED IN BLAST AT BALTIMORE PLANT   Boiler Explosion Threw Large Sheets Of Tin For Distances Lp To 400 Feet

Byrnes Reported Taking A Hand In  Tax Compromise   Deadlock May Bring Another Vote On Modified Ruml Plan.

BYRNES TO SEEK TAX COMPROMISE   Tax Framers Ask Economic [Director fof Administration’s Views

Byrnes Seeks Compromise In Tax Fight   Senate-House Conferces Still Deadlocked on Legislation

Admiral Killed   Byrnes Takes Hand in Dispute  Seeks Compromise In New Tax Bill

BYRNES IS REPORTED TAKING HAND IN TAX MUDDLE SATURDAY  STABILIZATION DIRECTO!   STABILIZATION DIRECTOR MAKING EFFORT TO COMPROMISE DIFFERENCES

SAVVY TTT TTT Tee Here's Prize OPA Story of Year.. About Gas. too

Hold Hill Near Mubo Airfield  — s Battle Japs sal  ear oagiamaud

MacArthur Is Pushing Drive On Jap Base   Troops Now Hold Positions Only 15 Miles From . _ Salamaua Fort

Hills Overlooking Mubo, New Guinea Captured by Allies   Are Less Than 15 Miles _ From Salamaua, Base of Jap Forces

Allies Control Hilltops Over Mubo Village   Pressure Increased On Jap Outpost Not Far from Solamaua

Allies Occupy Strategic Peaks In New Guinea   Hold Heights At Mubo, Less Than 15 Mi. From  Jap Salamaua Base.

ALLIED TROOPS HOLD HILL TOPS IN NEW GUINEA   LOCATED LESS THAN 51 MILES SOUTH OF IMPORTANT JAP BASE

Allies Hold Hilltops Near  Mubo Airfield in New Guinez   Advance of Ground Forces Is Revealed Toward Salamaua Base

MacArthur's Troops Take Mubo Hilltop   Height Commands Jap Airfield, Planes Strafe. Supply Lines

Yanks, Australians Push To Hilltops Overlooking Japanese Mubo Airfield

ALLIED TROOPS NEARING MUBL   Village and Airfield Only 15 Miles From Jap Salamaug Base.

Allies Hold Ridge Near to Key Jap Base   Planes Make Daily Raids ~ On Ground Troops and - Supply Lines

Control Hills Near Airfield Held By Japs   Allied Troops Creep Toward Mubo, Which Is Only 15 Miles South  Of Salamaua

YANKS, AUSSIES TAKE NEW HILLS NEAR JAP BASES   Allied Advance In New Guinea Is Announced

Allied Foree Holds Hilltop In Mubo Area   Overlook Jap Base But 15 Miles Away From Salamaua; Strafing Of Foe’s Lines Continues

U.S.FORCES ~ GAIN ON MUBO   Communique Indicates Americans Hold Hills Overlooking Jap Po-. sition in New Guinea

LONG RANGE US. SUBS ‘DESTROY TEN   ‘Allied Air Assault on Rabaul Adds 26 Sunk or Damaged

Russians Forced To Give Ground   SLIGHT ADVANCE FOR NAZIS ON SOUTH FRONT

RUSSIAN AIRMEN  4N ACTION   Germans Are Claimed ® Pushed Back After.  Crossing River

Fierce Battle Rages Below Kharkov    Nazis Hurl Masses of Men, Tanks and Planes Into Fight for Mastery Of Upper Donets River

GERMANS USING NEW AIR UNITS      Throw Motorized Infantry Outfits Into Battle for Donets River.

Nazis Hurl Fresh Troops At Russians   Berlin Reports Capture Of Belgorod Below  gg ES Ee  RE Sea A see cic

New Nazi Units Drive Reds Back   Soviets Admit Loss East of Kharkov

Germans Throw Fresh Reserves Into Donets Basin   Russians Report Further Gains in Smolensk Drive

RED LINES PENETRATED BY AXIS UNITS IN SOUTH   Germans Throw More Tanks, Aircraft Into Battle For Control Of Donets

Axis Reserves Forces Soviets  Back Slightly   Germans Claim Recapture Of Belgorod 50° Miles Northeast Of Kharkov.   REDS GAIN IN NORTH

HITLER USES NEW MASSES OF RESERVES   Despite Tremendous Pressure Red Army Yields But Slightly in Upper Donets Valley  eee   MORE TOWNS RETAKEN

GERMANS THROWING NEW AIR UNITS, ARMOR IN BATTLE FOR UPPER DONETS RIVER   Tremendous Pressure of New Forces Has Forced Russian Lines to Yield Slightly in Chuguev Sector. Red Flyers Slashing at Nazi Transports

THE UPPER DONETS RIVER BATTLE IS REPORTED RAGING   Germans Have Thrown New Air Units and Motorized Infantry Into Action.   RUSSIAN LINE YIELDS   Nazis Succeded in Throwing Infantrymen Across the River.

NAZIS HURL NeW UNITS INTO FIGHT FOR UPPER DONETS   Tremendous Pressure Causes Russians to Yield-In Chuguev Sector   {REDS GAIN AT VYAZMA

Reds Yield Before Fresh Nazi Forces  in Kharkov Secto1   Russians Smash Forward in New Advance in Smolensk Province

Soviets Tell Of Heavy   Tank Pressure   Nazis Hurl Powerful Forces Against Reds Tn Donets Basin

Russian Line Gives Way In Some Sectors   German High Command Claims Belgorod Captured

Germans Gain at Kharkov   Heavy Pressure Forces Russians  Back on Donets.

NEW UNITS INTO FIGHT      ’ Struggle For '-Mastery Of Upper Donets Raging:

Russian Line Yields Slightly - In One Sector   Germans Are Exerting Increased Pressure In Fight For Control Of Upper Donets River

Nazis Claim Recanture of Belgorod   Russians Say They are Yielding in Only One Sector

Axis Claims Belgorod; Advance On Smolensk Continued By Soviets   Germans Traveling by Highway Rather Than by Rail; Stalin’s Air Force Active

NAZIS THROWING EVERYTHING INTO FIERCE STRUGGLE   Russians Forced. To Yield Slightly In One Sector   SCORE NEW GAINS TOWARD SMOLENSK:

Fresh Tank, Air Strength Hitting Reds   Russians Yield Slightly In One Sector Under Tremendous Pressure  ‘rom Germans Re EM cc aes ee

Fierce Battles Continue in Chug. wev Sector—Nazi Aitempts tc Cross River Repulsed   VYAZMA IS TAKEN   Russians Continue Advances on _ Smolensk, Timoshenko Captures: More Villages in North :

GERMANS FORCE RUSSIANS BACK IN ONE SECTOF   But Soviet Communique Re ports Other Enemy Attacks Are Repulsed

GERMANS HURL FRESH TROOPS AGAINST REDS   Russians, However, Yielding But Slightly in Kharkov Sector of Flaming Battle   RY ASSOCTATEN PRESS

RUSSIANS FACE ~ HEAVY PRESSURE   Germans Throw New Air Units, Motorized Infantry Into Battle Near Kharkoy

REDS YIELD SLIGHTLY IN DONETS AREA   Germans Hurl New Air, Infantry and Tank Forces Into Battle.   Soviet Fliers Smash At German Transports

Germans Hurl Armored Might Into Red Fight   Tanks, Planés, Moforized Units Apply Pressure

Fresh Nazi Units Cause Slight Yield of Soviet Line in Chuguev Sector

Nazis Hurling Strong Forces Against Reds   Russian Line Gives Some Ground East Of Kharkov

Russians Say They Are Facing New Air And Mechanized Units   (Germans Claim Capture Of Belgorod To North   Report Further Successful Attacks Northwest Of Kursk

Italy's Island Fortress Undergoes 18th Day of Raids While Gerbini and Catania Blasted   MEET OPPOSITION   Fifteen Axis Planes Shot Down, Others Destroyed on Ground, to Loss of One Allied Piane

American Heavy Bombers Range Across » Mediterranean to Attack Air Fields and Installations on Sicily, Gerbini, Catania

U, 5, FLYERS HIT JAPANESE UNITS IN MUNDA AGAIN   Increase Nip Losses On Attu, Admit British Commando Attack

New Assaults Are Made On Pantelleria  And Sicily   Defenses Of Lampedusa Also Tested By Raid By British Commandos; Catania Rambed

ALLIED AIR FORCES ~WHITTLING DOWN AXIS RESISTANCE      New Air Assaults Made On Pantelleria And Sicily .   12 ENEMY PLANES ARE ELIMINATED

PANTELLERIA AND SICILY ARE UNDER ATTACK   Allies Hope To Knock Out Invasion Stepping Stone Off African Coast   SURRENDER PLEA IGNORED   Rome Radio Says Defenders “Ready And Waiting” For Enemy Move

British Disclose New Lampedusa  Commando Raid   Allied Air Offensive Against Italian Fortified Island Enters 18th Successive Day; Enemy Iqnores Surrender Demand

Airmen Whittle At Defenses of. [talian Isles  New Assaults Are Made upon   New Assaults Are Made upen Strategic Points

Pantelleria ls Battered   Island Under Attack For 1&th Day; Air Fields Hit

COMMUNIQUE TELLS OF COMMANDO RAID: AGAINST LAMPEDUSA   12 Enemy Planes Shot Down sin’ Action . Over. Pantelleria.

New Assaults On Sicily, Pantelleria    Commandos In Blitz Raid On Isle OF Lampedusa

Commandos Raid Lampedu: sa in Dark; Retire With Few Casualties.   OPPOSITION IN INCREASED

TEST DEFENSE OF SOUTHERN ITALIAN ISLE   British Reveal Commando Raid on Lampedusa and Pantelleria Attacks.   To Keep Up Bombing Until Flag Is Raised

Commandos In Se outing Raid  On Lampedusa   Pantelleria Blasted For The 18th Con secutive Day

PANTELLERIA IS EXPECTING PUSK FROM N. AFRICA   Twelve Enemy Aircraft Shot Down In Raids

Sicily Included In Soffening Up Aerial Assaults   Commandos Test Italian Defenses At Lampedusa

British Reveal Landing Forces Tests Defenses On Lampedusa Island

BOMBS RAINED ON PANTELLERIA   New Air Assaults Reported Along With Raid by British: Commandos

Air Forces Carry Out New Assault On Island Bases   British Commandos Test Lampedusa Defenses In Scouting Raid: Bombs Dropped on Pantelleria For 18th Consecutive Day

ALLIED AIR FORCES STEADILY POUNDING ITALIAN OUTPOSTS  SCOUTING RAID BY BRITISH COMMANDOS AGAINS1 TLAMPEDUSA ISLAND

RUMOR FACTORY. BUSY OVER ITALY   Resignation of Mussolal Leaves Nation’s War Poe. sition Unolear

NEGOTIATIONS   Generally Agreed that There is Some Understanding Between Sulid Fucls Administrator Harold Ickes and John L. Lewis.

Miners Going Back To Work After Rift   LEWIS EXPECTED RESUME NEGOTIATIONS WITH . GOVERNMENT. -

U.S. 45th Wins Spurs In Sicily   Rigorous Maneuvers “Back Home” Prove Worth in Turning Out First Class Fighters

Battle Freshmen Show Their Stuff   Americans Who Get First Baptism of Battle Make Fightin’ Outfit.

BATTLE FRESHMEN, SOLDIERS OF 45TH DIVISION, FIGHTERS  DRAWN FROM ALMOST EVERY STATE MEN TRAINED IN TEXAS

LEWIS BITTERLY ASSAILS PRESIDENTIAL ORDER— GREEN 3AXxs- AFL * AGAINST INFLATION. ‘MOVES

Hurricane In Texas Subsides   Damage At Galveston Estimated At Million; No Lives Lost.

HURRICANE CUTS PATH IN SOUTHERN TEXAS   Damage Runs Into Millions, Report One Death

TURNED DOWN BY ARMY, JAILED   Waterloo Men Had Been Pardoned by Governor

MOST DADS WILL “GET DEFERMENTS   Draft Officials Believe 80 Per Cent May Win Industrial -Deferments.

vo! DAUS WILL BET DEFENIEN TC   Draft Officials Believe 80 Per Cent May Win Industrial Deferments.

Tells Story of Moscow Parley   First Cabinet Member to Address U. S. Congress.

Hull Envisions End Of Military Pacts   Tells Congress Moscow Parley Points Way to World Freed of Spheres of Influence and Alliances-for Balance of Power.

Secy. Hull Sees Fate Mastered. - By Co-operation   First Cabinet "MeeiBar To - Talk -Before -Congress “Reviews Red. Parley

FOUNDATION OF PEACE S LAID, HULL DECLARES   No Secret Agreements At Mescow, He Informs  Congress

First Cabinet Member Ever To Speak to Legislators Says All Nations Are Co-operating

EGRETARY ANH          Actions Of ‘Today To Have Efféct On Future —

Road to security is clear; unity desire of allies, says Hull   Delivers unprecedented address before joint session of consress

Congress Told of Parleys   Scorctary Stresses Pledge to Support World Perce Body

Hull Looks Ahead To Free World   Secretary Addresses Congress On Recent Moscow Meeting

SAYS SECURITY ADVANCED BY 4-POWER PLAN   Tells Congress Need For Alliances and Balances Are Gone 

‘NATION’S FATE ISIN OUR HANDS’   Secretary Reports To Congress On Parley Held In Russia

First Cabinet Member To Address Cuncniiaie Decisions At Moscow  Point Way To New Era   Says Secretary Hull

Hull Says Moscow Decisions Point Way Toward Peace   Masters Of Own Fate Through Co-Operation

HULL DECLARES U. $. WILL BE MASTER OF FATE   Tells Congress Nation Faces Unprecedented Besponcibilities

No Secret Pacts Made at Moscow Hull Duiscloses   ‘We Can and Will Remain Masters of Our Own Fate,’ Congress Told by Returned National Hero—Military Discussions, He Says, Aimed at Closer Cooperation—Tribute  Paid Stalin and Russian People

Secretary Cites Need For Al Nations Working Towards Warld Peace Aims

Hull Renders Report on His  Moscow Tri      Results of Conference lined in First Address Evet Delivered to Congress by Member of Cabinet

ASOERTO PAGT WILL HELP 1D END CONFLICT   Tells Joint Session “We Can and Wiil Stay Masters of Our Own Fate.” _

‘We'll Still Be Masters Of Own Fate’   World Peace Hinges On International Collaboration, Congress Told.

Cabinet Member, Back from Moscow Speaks to Congress   ‘We Can Remain Masters of Our Ow! Fate’, Tennesseean Tells Joint Session ,

So Says Sec. Hull to Congress, Saying Moscow Conference Points Way to Future Freed of Old Arrangements That Failed

Old Spheres Of Influence Are Outdated   Co-Operation of Nations Bent on Security Will Fashion New World

Hull Says Pact Points Way To A Better World   Addresses Members Of Congress; Says America To Remain Master Of Its Fate

Sail “We Can and Will Re main Masters of Our Own Fate Through Cooperation  With Other Nations Intent on Security.”   ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT MOSCOW ENUMERATED   He Told How the Conference Decided to Set Up European Advisory Commis sion in London and a Council in Italy.

Hull, Ten Years Out Of Congress, Returns To Tell Lawmakers Of Epochal Moscow Pact

WEATHER FORECAST   TEMPERATURES:   United Nations Creating A New World, He Say   Security And Justice For All Peoples Allied Goal

CO-OPERATION THEME. OF HULL'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESSMEN      Says Allies on Offensive; Foe Suffering Defeat After Defeat   JAUDS PARLEY RESULTS

Security Need Binds Nations Says Secretary   Moscow Parley Details Are Told At Joint Session

VALUATES MOSCOW PACT ‘OR CONGRESS   ecretary Hull Recounts Before Joint Session of House and Senate Feature of Conference   URGES CO-OPERATION

MASTER OF OWN ~ FATE, SAYS HULL   Secretary First Cabinet Member Ever to Address Congress -

Hull Says We Il Remain Masters Of Our Own Fate   Hero of Moscow Conference Speaks To Congress Today

GIVES AIMS OF MOSCOW PARLEY TO CONGRESS   Secretary of State Claims Conference Points Way to World Security

Hull Reports, On Moscow Meeting   Americans to Remain Mas~ ters of Own Fate Thru Cooperation.   FOR ORDER: AND PEACE   Four ‘Nations, Agreed on Objectives, Will Invite  Others

DECISIONS MADE IN RUSSIA LEAD WAY, HE CLAIMS   Says They Can Be Achieved By World Freed of “Spheres of Influence For Alliances”   RESPONSIBILITIES TO BE MET HELD GREAT   Must Make Certain Opportunities of Future Peace and Security Shall Not Be Lost

DECISIONS MADE AT MOSCOW MEET TOLD IN CONGRESS   Secretary of State Hull First Cabinet Member to Appear Before Body, Joint Session Is Held.   COMMON INTEREST TO PREVAIL AT WAR'S END   Stresses Plans For Four Nations to Establish Organization on Sovereign Equality.

U.S. Can and Will Remain Masters of Own Fate, SaysHull   Decisions at Moscow Point Way to Warld Freed of Spheres of Influences, Alliance or Balance of Power, He Says 

Nations Cooperation Will Assure Postwar Security, He States      Opportunities Of Future Peace And Security Shal Not Be Lost If We Fulfill Our Responsi‘ bilities, Congress Told

HULL SUBMITS TRI-PARTITE REPORT TODAY   Congress Meets In Joint Session For Report

Hull Tells Of Epochal Pact   Can And Will Remain Masters Of Our Own Fate, He Tells Congress.

HULL STRESSES » FUTURE PEACE AND SECURITY   Before Congress He Declares We Will Be ‘Masters Of Our Own Fate’

“WE CAN, WILL BE MASTER” OF OUR FATE-HULL   Co-Operation With Other Nations Intent on Security Stressed

‘Moscow Meeting Paved Way For ‘Lasting Peace —   Secretary Of State First Cabinet Member To Address Congress

Liquidation Of NYA Is Called For   Committee Refuses To Allow Funds— MeNutt Is Slanped

McNutt Budget Requests Slashec By House Unit —   ‘WMC, FSA Bear Brunt of Reductions Made By Funds Committee

NO NYA FUNDS IN MONEY BILL   House Committee Votes Ueath To One MeNuit Agency, Cuts for Others.

House Appropriations Committee Calls For Liquidation of NYA   MeNutt’s Budget Requests Slashed by More Than $70,500,000 By the Committee

War About to Enter Battle of Supply Lines ~   Base Prediction On Reports . From Fronts

War Becomes Gigantic Battle Of Supply as Axis Prepares  To Send 500 Subs Into Fight

WAR ABOUT TO ENTER NEW PHASE   Will Become a ‘Battle of Supply Lines’

AXIS PREPARES T0 THROW 500 SUBS IN BATTLE OF SUPPLY   Enemy Is’ Attempting  Te Prevent. Or ‘Delay . Tightening OF Axis Ring

SECRET FUEL MAY END WAR SOONER, CLAIN   'Triptane Seen As Means of Boost ing Airplane Speed by as Much as 25 to 50 Per Cent,

New Motor Fuel May Aid Victory   Will Increase Air Speed, is Claim

Food Subsidies  ~ Faee Congress   Opponents Lack Strength To Override Veto

THEY CELEBRATE THEIR HONEYMOON—APART!   THIS LITTLE GIRL HAS HER OWN IDEAS

OTHER DEATHS ARE FEARED IN NORFOLK BLAST   One WAVE, and Dolgeville, N. Y. Man, Among 24 Now Dead—Navy Still Silent on Cause

NAVY KEEPS SILENT ON NORFOLK BLAST   Death Toll Stands at 24 for Explosion

Expect Death Toll To Rise In Navy Blast   24 Killed And 250 Inivred

6 BODIES FOUND AFTER AIR MISHAF   Navy Blimps Crash In Mid_ Air Coll'sion: 2 Still” Missing ~~

Recovering Bodies After Blimp Crash  Mid-Air Collision Near Naval Station

Sweden To File Protest Over Ship Sinkings   German Minesweepers Attacked Two Fishing Craft Without Warning

Swedes Draft Protest on Ship Sinkings   Say German Minesweepers Sunk Two Swedish Fishing Boats

Sweden Protests Sinking of Boats   Kemonstrance Is Second in 10 Days

Swedes Draft Protest Over Ship Sinkings   German Minesweepers Blamed For Blasting Of Fishing Boats In International W ater«

Sweden Is to Draft Protest   Demands Germany Halt Attacks on Swedish Interests

Swedes Draft Protest Over Ship Sinking   Secord Offense Against Swedish Neutrality in 10-Day Period

Sweden Takes Critical View Of Sinking Of Fishing Boats By Gerrans; Drafts Protest   Vessels Destroyed Without Warning; Attack Is Assailed As Brutal Act

DANISH REVOLT AGAINST NAZIS HITS NEW PEAK   Sabotage And Strikes Fol+  low In Wake of Riot In Copenhagen   ARREST 120 PERSONS   Nazis Drive: Tanks Into Crowds To Break Up  Demonstrations

Foreign Office Takes Action In Latest Incident   12 Of Crew On Twe Boats Lost As Ships Sunk By  Destroyers

Sweden Reports Protest To Reich ‘Is Being Drafted   Second In.10 Days Asking -. Nazis Cease. Attack’s Ou Neighbor’s Interests

Sweden Will Offer Formal Protest After Nazi Action   Move Follows Sinking  Of Two Vessels - By German Forces

NAZI SINKING SWEDISH SHIPS IS PROTESTED   Meantime from Denmark And Other Points Come Reports of More Unrest

Angry Swedes File Protest Of Nazi Aets   Government Takes Critical View Of Sinking Of Two Fishine Boats.   THINK 12 MEN LOST

SWEDEN WILL PROTEST NAZI BOAT SINKINGS   Second Protest in Ten Days De mands Germany Hal! Altacks or Swedisa Vessels

Sweden Prepares Protest to Nazis   Aroused by Sinking Of Fishing Vessels

DRAFTING A PROTEST   Swedish Government Demands Nazis Halt Attacks on Ships

Sweden planning to protest   Danish uprisings soar in intensity; make 120 arrests

Sharp Swede Protest To Germany Drafted   Latest Note Concerns Sinking Of Two Vessels By Nazi Craft; Danish Revolt Spreads Rapidly

Sweden Will Make Protest   Two German Ships Charged With Sinking Of Fishing Boats

BOCHE ACCUSED OF DESTROYING FISHING BOATS   SHIPS SUNK WITHOUT WARNING: MEN LOST; TENSION IS GROWING

Interesting Program Has Been Arranged For Meeting   War .Bond~ Stamps . Will Be Given To Lucky Members

WET WEATHER GUTS OHIO CROP PROSPECTS   Corn, Soybean, Sugar Beet Production Hit

Police Get Chester Hill Man After 12-Hour ‘Siege’; Faces Serious Charges

' Sales Levy ToCome Up For Study   Rep. Robertson To Ask Adoption Of Measure He Offered But Had Rejected Last Year   Petrilla Testifies

Ickes Fears For Future of Small  Business in U.S.   ‘Few Large Firms Getting Most of Wat Contracts”

New Congressional Battle Looms Over Financing Measur   Author of Measure Te Reintroduce It At First Opportunity

YUGOSLAVIA TC CHOOSE REGIME  OF ITS LIKING   Both King Peter and Mar. shal Tito Agree to Lay Down Portfolios After Wear, Eden Says

Chiefs Will Leave Government to  Yugoslav People  King, Marshal Agree To Let Citizens Make Own Selection

Allied Armies Slash Toward  Randazzo Base   Make Progress Despite Stiff Resistance Of Axis Forces, Is Report   NAVAL FORCES BOMBARD CITY

CRUISERS SAIL BOLDLY INTO NAPLES GULF   Allies Slash Ahead in Drive on Randazzo in Sicily

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allies Slash Wav Northeastwardly in Sicily

BRITISH FLEET ~ AGAIN SHELLS — TTALIAN SHORE   Ailies Continue Steady Gain in Sicily Despite Axis Resistance’

GRAND JURY T0 QUESTION DRAKE   Former Marland Aide to Appeor Before Tulsa Jurors Monday

Grand Jury Calls Drake   Wants His Story On Old Textbook Dealings

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Army Takes Over Western Electric  Baltimore Plants  Strike Occurs When Whites Ask Separate  Sanitary Facilities

Struck Baltimore Plants To Resume Production Today   Gen. Farmer Placed In Full Command

PLANTS TO RESUME OPERATIONS TODAY   Workers Decide to Go  Back After the Army Takes Over

Nine- State Alarm  For Missing Gir ‘Daughter Of Major Dis  appears In New York  {

BIG RAID MAY SPELL DOOM OF SOLOMONS   Campaign As Allies Continue to Blast at Jap Defenses; General Kenney Seems Sure of Situatign.   lf Kahili Falls?

invasion Activities May be Cover For Surprise Move Against Nazis

Many-Front Attack Seen Developing   Floods of Reports Keep Axis in Dither, Confuse Stratery

ORE CARRIER SINKS IN STRAITS GRAGH   Crew Uninjured in Collisior at 2°50 A. M. Today Of! Fort Mackinac Point

VESSELS COLLIDE ON LAKE, ONE SHIP SINKS   Amount of Damage Not Listed by Authorities

Beaten African Army In Full Blown Retreat   Thousands Of Men Taken; Little Resistance Remains

Speedy End. Ts Indicated For Enemy   Americans Rusk to Gulf of Tunis to Cut Off Escape.

Axis Prisoners Are Counted in Thousands   Americans Cut Off All Escape for Units in the North

Thousands of Enemy Troops Taken as Sweep Of Tunisia Continues   Coastal Highway Below Bizerte Cut By Advancing American Forces; Other U. §, Troops Take Chouigui, Above Tebourba

Trap Closing On Thousands   Certain Death Or Capture Facing Shattered Forces’

Shattered Enemy Pounded By Bomb In Retreat Along Coast Of Tunisia

ALLIED DRIVE {0 WIPE OUT ENEMY IS ON   Algiers Radio Reports 120,000 Encircled— Yanks Reach Gulf of Tunis to Stop Escape.   VICTORS CAPTURE THOUSANDS OF MEN   Meet Stubborn Pockets of Resistance in Hills— Foe’s Flight Route Is Heavily Bombed.

Allies Keep Close Upon  Enemy Heels   Americans Cut Off Highway Between Cities.

ALLIES CHAGE: BEATEN ARMY TOWARD SEA   Thousands of Prisoners Fall into Hands of British and Americans.   ENEMY IN FLIGHT TO CAP BON PENINSULA

Allies Smash Axis in Flight To Peninsula   Americans Cut Highway Between Bizerte and Tunis and Capture Many Prisoners

Prisoners Are Being Counted by Thousands   Armored Units Smash To Gulf Of Tunis; 120,000 Axis Troops Said .Encircled

Allies Keen Herding Foe to Sea   Africa Fight Will End Only When Last of Enemy Dies or Quits

TUNISIAN FIGHT TO LAST UNTIL FINAL ARMED FOE IS CAPTURED OR KILLED   General Eisenhower Promises Continuance of Annihilation As Americans, British Chase Germans Toward Cap Bon Peninsula—  Algiers Radio Says 120,000 Trapped.

Nazis Now Have No Air Support   Algiers, Radio Says 120,000 Axis Troops In Tunisia Are Surrounded By Allied Forces

CUT COASTAL LINK BETWEEN MAJOR CITIES   Reports Indicate Many Thousand Prisoners Are Captured

Thousands Of Prisoners Are Taken As Afrcian  Drive Enters Last Phase

Americans Cut Escape Routes   Coast Road Severed South Of Bizerte: Victorious Allies Close In For Kill On Disorganized Nazis

Magnitude of Victory \s Growing as Enemy Flees  To Tip of Cap Bon

Shattered Axis Army In Flight   Eisenhower Hails Victory; Pledges Foe’s Annihilation

RAF BOMBERS AGAIN BUSY   Blackout Of Radio Paris Suggests Night Attack.

INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES ON GERMANS   80) Miles From PreWar Frontier of Poland

Russian Forces Now Within 80 ~ Miles Of Poland   Huge Forces Pouring Through Gap In Nazi Lines West Of Zhitomir   GOMEL-RECHITSA RAILWAY SEVERED

inflict Big Losses The Enemy   Gains On All. s Of  Russian Batt Ansa

[GH MASS — OF REQUIEM IN CAMBRIDGE   Mrs. Elizabeth abeth. ‘A. Wolfe, 80, Died at Home of Dauchter Here

Mrs, Elizabeth, abeth “A. Wolfe, 80, Died at Home of ‘Daughter Here

Memorial Services For Brownstown Soldier to Include Guard of Honor

Memorial Rites lor Soldier Set   Services For Pvt. Ralph Steinkamp to Be at Wegan Dee. 5

New Red Gain Virtually Seals Fate Of Kiev   Last Major. Railroad East Of Dnieper Te Straddled

Reds Capture Rail Center Close to Kiev   Victory Assures Need fer Nazis To Run for Dnieper

Destruction, of Inhuman War Lords Pledged  by ‘Arnold -—--—— ROOSEVELT GIVES  WARNING TO TOKYO  ‘Air Force Commander Sends Message to Personne(

Gen. Arnold Urges Utter Destruction Of ‘Inhuman’ Japs  Re WILLIAM T. PEACOCK

NUMBER OLAIN BY ENEMY UNKNOWN   Eight American Fliers Known Missing After Raid   ARNOLD PLEDGES   Airforce to Destruction ef Jap War Lords for Execue. cution of Airmen

Arnold Pledges US Air Force Will Repay Japs for Executing Fliers   President Discloses Americans Were Put to Death After Capture Following Raid on Tokyo; Roosevelt Warns Nipponese

JAPS MURDERED AMERICANS WHO BOMBED TOKYO   Gen. Arnold Promises Ut. ter Destruction Of “Inhuman War Lords”   PRESIDENT DENOUNCES BARBARITY OF ENEMY

Japs Execute Yank Fliers   Arnold Says Reprisal .Due For Joo War Lords

Number Put to Death Undisclosed-—Others Taken Prisoner Are Being Treated as Criminals, —   ROOSEVELT CALLS. ACTION BARBAROUS   Declares Those Responsible Will -Be Punishted— General Arnold Calls for Vengeance,

ALLIES POSSESS AIR SUPERIORITY — IN NORTH AFRIC   Stimson Reports that During Period March 29 to April 24 Allied Fliers Destroyed 1,064 Enemy Planes While Losing 270.

Allied Fliers Down Many Enemy Planes   Stimson Reports On Air Successes

‘Air Superiority, ‘Allied Advantage Tn North: Afriea:   But Stimsoii Sees Strong Probability of Jap Of fenisive.in Pacific:

Berlin Could Be Ruined By 35 Major Air Raids   New Equation One Ton Bombs ‘Eor 60 Peeple

30 MAIOR RAIDS WOULD ERADICATE CITY OF BERLIN   Mathematicians Figure. One Ton of Bombs for Every © 60 People Is Enough.

Experts Estimate Berlin Could Be Destroyed by 35 Major Air Raids

30 Raids Will Crush Berlin   Observers Say City. May Follow Hamburg

SAY BERLIN COULD BE DESTROYED BY 35 MAJOR RAIDS   RAF Night Raids Will Be Centered On German Capital Soon—City  Of 4,000,000 

R. A.F. Bombers Follow Up Huge American Raid   Duesseldorf, Cologne And Wilhelmshaven Are Blasted In 24 Hours   ESTIMATE THOUSAND CRAFT IN YANK RAID

Japanese Sending More Planes Into Wewak, Is Report   s U. S. Forces Advance Half-Mile In Fighting On Bougainville; Jap Cruiser Blasted By 1000-Ton Bomb; Nip Bases Raided

Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Draft Starts October 1; Just Two Groups Exempted

Numbers Of Pre War DadsGo Up   M Nutt Calls Off Dependency Status To Supply  Armed Forces.

Fathers To Be Inducted After October   WMC Announces New Change In Draft Policy

: Pre- Pearl Harbor Fathers Will Be Eligible for Draft After October 1 : WMC McNutt Announces; Men to Be Called Only as They Are Needed

FATHERS WILL BE CALLED FOR ARMY EARLY THIS FALL   McNutt Says Oct. 1 Is Se to Begin Calling Those Between Ages of 18-37 Re: gardiess of Children.   NEW DEFERMENT PUT IN TWO CONDITIONS   Agriculture. Industry !s One, Extreme Hardship; Privation to Their Families  Second.

GERMANY MUST PAY FOR HER RUTHLESS WAR ATROCITIES  UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN IN JOIN) RETRIBUTION PROMISE

Allies Object To Nazi Aets   Residents Of Certain Belts Deported Or Exterminated By Germans,

U. S., Britain, Denouncing Atrocities Of Nazis In Poland, Promise Retribution

U. S.-BRITAIN — DENOUNCE NAZI ATROCITIES   Reaffirm Determination To Punish Instigators anc Perpetrators of Crimes

Axis War Atrocities To Be Punished, Allies Promise   Instigators And Perpetrators Will Be Dealt With, Small Nations Told

GERMANY MUST PAY FOR HER RUTHLESS WAR ATROCITIES   UNITED STATES AND  GREAT BRITAIN IN JOIN’

FARMING BOOSTED BY STATE GHIEFS   Agriculture . Recognized as Essential War Industry at Conference

Nazis Advance Into Populated Place But Driven Back By Counterattack   German Attacks Also Repelled On Front Northwest of Kursk While Air Battles Rage Over Various Sectors of Entire Front

NAZIS REPULSED NEAR LENINGRAD   Russian Airmen Run Up Highest Toll On Western Front

Seviets Throw Back Strong German Attack   Activity Is Reported On Leningrad Front

Reds repel German gain at Leningrad   Annihilate 300 enemy soldiers

Reds Fling Nazi Horde Back In New Battle   Foe Reaps Only Disaster From Thrust; Many Germans Perish; Soviet Eliers Ruin Airplanes and Trains

REDS ANNIHILATE 800 NAZI TROOPS   RUSSIANS REPULSE SUPERIOR FORCE ATTACKING  SOUTH OF LENINGRAD.

NAZIS ARE DRIVEN  BACK BY RUSSIANS   About 800 of the Enemy Annihilated in the Attack

Soviet Airmen.   Bag 17 Planes   Russians Repel Assault South of Leningrad

Reds Hurl Back German Assault   17 Planes Downed, 40 Trucks Wrecked

War Flares Up Anew in Area  Of Leningrad   German Altackers Are Thrown Back After Initial Success

Russians Repel German Atfack Near Leningrad   Drive Back Numerically Superior Force and Kill 800

NAZIS HURLED BACK INNORTH   Numerically Superior German Force Defeated in Leningrad Region

Soviets Gain In Caucasus   Three More Villages On Approaches to Novorossisk Taken

King Receives Brewster After  Lunch With Eden   Monarch Talks With U. S. Solons

Concert Program Slated Tonight  Russian Pianist RA7271 De We ened

LOAN DRIVE IS ACID TEST OF LOCAL PEOPLE   Jefferson county residents called upon to invest $420,000

Chairman of Local Committee Says Residents of County Will Be Put To Test During Drive

‘American People Face Acid Test in Treasury's 2nd War Loan To Raise 13 Billion Dollars in Three Weeks  ~ The Nation Dare Not Fail in This Greatest Financing Task in History—“They Give Their   Tines__You Lend Your Money.”

Treasury's 2nd War Loan To Raise 13 Billion Dollars in Three Weeks Nation Dare Not Fail in This Greatest Financ Task in History—“They Give Their Lives You Lend Your Money.”

2ND WAR LOAN 1194 VICTOR’ FOR 13 BILLION: GARDENS GO OPENS APRIL 12: FOR THIS A

All People ~ Must Help ~ Says McCoy   County Bankers Will Act As Co-Chairmen in Campaign

People of Palo Alto county to be put to’ acid test beginning April 12. Greatest selling campaign in history of country.

American People Face Acid Test in  _ Treasury’s 2nd War Loan To Raise  13 Billion Dollars in Three Weeks  The Nation Dare Not Fail in This Greatest Financing Task in History—“They Give .*  Their Lives—YoulLend Your Manev” /°:

2nd War Loan, $3,391,000   Must Be Raised In Medina County In Three Weeks

American People Face Acid Test lr Treasury's 2nd War Loan To Raise 13 Billion Dollars In Three Weeks

SECOND WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN STARTS:   Pottstown Faces Acid Test, Local Chairman Declares

- SECOND WAR LOAN STARTS MONDAY "WITH THOMAS COUNTY CITIZENS ASSIGNED QUOTA OF $402,000   Local Committees Headed by W. J. Miller anc B. C. Blanton, as Victory Bond Chairmen,  . Have Been. Organized’ And. Everybody is ‘Aeked To Take Part

Second War Loan Drive Starts Monday   Staggering Sum of 13 Billion Dollars to Be Raised: ‘‘They Give Their Lives; We Lend Our Money,’ We Can’t Do Less

May Be Necessary To Induct Fathers by Aug. 1  Employers Are Urged To File 42B  For Ecceantial Men

Fathers May Be Called by Aug. 1, Hershey Asserts   Draft Director Opposes Bill To Defer Them; Explains Stand

JAPS THREATENING CHINESE. CAPITAL AT. CHUNGKING   Mighty Japanese Army Advancing’ Along Yangtze River. Things Going Better For Us In Aleutians.

K. C. AIRPORT APPEARS DOOMED TO FLOODWATERS   Bubbles in Dikes Bring Fight to Keep Back River to a Grim Stage

Four German Ships Sunk in Bay of Biscay   British Sink Three Destroyers, One Blockade Runner; Other Destroyers Damaged; Reds Widen Offensive West of Kiev

NEW NAVAL VICTORY FOR BRITISH FLEET IN BAY OF BISCAY  NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNER ALSO SUNK AND OTHER

Action Takes Place in Bay ‘lof Biscay   Red Army Widens Offensive West of Kiev to 65 Miles,  Kill 1,000 Germans

Three Destroyers, Blockade Runner Lost fo RAF Bombs   Other Warships Were Damaged in Bay of Biscay

Sink 3 German Destroyers In Bay Of Biscay   Blockade Runner Also Sent To Bottom In Naval Action

BRITT ISH WARSHIPS AND PLANES. DO FURTHER DAMAGE TO NAZI SURFACE SHIPS IN SEA FIGHT   Blockade Runner Among Ships in Bay of Biscay Off France, According to Latest Announcement And Naval Battle May Still Be Continuing

ALLIED AIRMEN RAID AIRFIELDS CLOSE TO ROME   Canadians Advance from Ortona: Russians Press On

Canadians; Reds W i d en O ff en si 4      nel Islands Repulsed; Allied Drive e in New Britain Progresses —

4-Ton Explosives Hit Nazi Targets   Hour - Long Attack Believed To Be Biggest And Most Destructive Yet Made On Capital; Resistance Light

Tens Of Thousands Of Incendiaries Also Cause Fires Visible 100 Miles Away From German Capital.

Havoc in Berlin  Reported Great   Germans Admit 31 ‘Killed, 150 Hurt—Defenses Said Weaker

Sheer Folly For Stalin To Stir Battle With Japs As Quebec Speech Fixes Role

Lhe War £ oday— Russia § Reasons For Staying Out Of War With Japs Now Justifiable

CHURCHILL'S SPEECH EXPLAINED WHY STALIN NOT INVITED JOIN IN RECENT QUEBEC CONFERENCE

It Would Be Brutal to Suggest Russia Go to War with Japan She Is Already Overburdened

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS        * fe; ket Not Likely To War "  Japan Unless Nips force The Issue

More Pork, Lard to Be Reserved for Military Use  Official Says Meat  Sunnluy Situctian   Official Says Meat Supply Situation Has Deteriorated

‘More Pork, Lard to Be Reserved for Military Use   Official Says Meat Supply Situation Has .Deteriorated

Government Will Take Greater Portions of Pork And Lard: Rations to Civilians Will Be Reduced

Further Slash In Meat Quotas Seen   Government Says Black Markets Cutting Into Supplies For Troops, Lend Lease ©

FURTHER CUT SEEN ~ IN PORK RATION   Lend-Lease Buyers Mee Difficulty; Shoe-Heel

Further Slash In Meat Quotas Seen   Government Says Black Markets Cutting “Into Subcligs Ear Trcase bend lenea”

‘Stockholm Correspondent Reports Berlin Resembles (Remains Of Battlefield After Strong Artillery Fire

Quisling Lists His Hostages   Plans Seizure When Invasion Starts

Jittery Vidkun Quisling Makes Up List of Hostages for Coming Allied Invasion, Swedes Report

JAPS REPULSED IN DISLODGING MOVES   Allied Planes Soften Up Enemy. Positions In New Guinea Area

DAITISH BEAT DAGK JAPANESE BURMA ATTACK   Considerable Casualties Inflicted On Enemy As Attack Beaten

JAP ATTACK IN BURMA IS REPULSED   Allied Planes Raid Nip Bases In New Guinea

British Report Jap Thrust In Burma Checked; Allied Bombers Softening Up Enemy Positions In New Guinea

LaGuardia Called In Flynn Hearing   New York Mayor is To Testify Today

Attack Is Second In  Eight Days   Raid In Northwestern Part Of Germany Follows Shattering Assault On Hamburg

Big U.5. Bombers Hit Germany In Day Raid; 5 Lost   Sixteen British Planes Fai To Return From Nigh Blow On Hamburg

Long Holland Coastline Adds to German - Problems To Build Against Allied Invasion

ALLIED INVASION OVER HOLLAND WOULD BE TOUGH   Germans Have Difficulties Fortifying Coast Line, Says Fugitive Dutch Officer   CONQUEST IS DESCRIBED   People Enslaved by Germans But They Continue To Put Up Stiff Resistance

Syria-Turkey Border Seated By Britain   Civilians Leave  Norwegian and Greek Islands

RIES  ORDER  SYRTAN- TURK  ~ BORDER CLOSED   Take Action to Stop Leaks Concerning invasion Plan   JUGOSLAV GUERRILLAS UNITED FOR UPRISING

Urges Italy To Choose Peace   Foreign Sec’y Eden Voices Warning To Italian People   ACCEPT PEACE OR BOMB DESTRUCTION

WARN ITALY ~ AIR ATTACKS ARE COMING   BRITIGN FOREIGN MINISTER DECLARES ITALY 18 "WIDE OPEN" FOR DEVASTAT ' "ING RAMDS

GOES ON TRIAL   French General Reported Facing Court for Attempt to Aid Yanks.

FRENCH GENERAL IS BEING ‘TRIED FOR TRYING TO AID U.S.      Attempted To He ‘Hold Beach— Thought: Americans ’ . Were” ‘Invading, France Also

Tri-Partite Conference Pledges United Action in Peace To Follow Wa

Momentous Decision Reached In Moscow;  To Fight To Victory   Units Set Up To Deal With European Questions Arising As War Develops; Atrocities Will Be Punished

Approve Restoration of Non - Faseist Italy; No Nation To Sign Separate Terms With Germany

Post-War Interests of United States Being Neglected—Sen. Russell

CIVIL AGENCIES HIT   U. S. Representatives Abroad Lag: ging Senater Russell Declares

Cross-Pu  «Of Agencies Seen  Over-All Foreign Policy Neglected, Charge

MUSSEL REPEATS TALK   Charges U. S. Post-War Interests Neglected By Federal Agencies.   ABE AT CROSS PURPOSES

6,000 Cornered French Patriots Hoping for Aid   Troops’ Rations Are Dwindling

LITTLE HOPE NOW HELD FOR ALLIED HELP   Swiss Reports Say Patriots Subsisting On Bread, Wine And Potatoes.

6,000 FRENCH PATRIOTS FACE GRIM OUTLOOK   Supplies of Rebels Are Now Almost Gone

KENTON WRECK INJURES SCORE   Five Receive Hospital Care After Passenger Rams Rear of Freight

PEN SWICH CAUSES CRASH   NEW YORK CENTRAL PASSEN GER TRAIN RAMMED FREIGHT AT KENTON EARLY TODAY

PAGE 1—FOUR MURDERS .. « Four Murders, Suicide in Philadelphia Today

United Nations Relief Program  Wins Approval   Congress Will Have Full Contro! Of U. S. Part In Organization Through Appropriations Power

Think Lehman To Head Allied Relief Program   Proposal of U. S. Will Be Signed Soon By Members

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Warns England Still Faces Threat of All-Out Assault

PRIME MINISTER SAYS GERMANY MAY CRUMBLE AS ‘RESULT OF RUSSIAN OFFENSIVES AND ALLIED AIR ATTACKS, BUT WARNS HITLER MAY BE PLANNING ALL-OUT REPRISAL ATTACK ON : - ENGLAND-PREDICTS HEAVY LOSSES

ENGLAND STILL FACES THREAT OF INVASION   Churchill, however, con fident of victory in speech today

Cant Be Certain Nazis To Crumble Says Churchill   Still Face Threat Of Most Costly Invasion Before Climax Of War   HITLER FORCES ARE BADLY BATTERED

Soviets Leunch New Offensive Drive Fiom Nevel: Germans in lta'y Falling on Toward Rome

PROVE MORTAL TO GERMANY   Warns, However, England May Yet Face Nazi Invasion

‘Pet Bis (er te tO Flying Start   War Doesn’t Put Curb On Output Of Trivial Measures

Thieves Loot State Liquor Store At Akron.   Two Men Held For Illegal Transportation  Of Whiskey

Thieves Loot State Liquor Store At Akron  Two Men Held For  Illegal Transportati

Bond Drive Is $57,444 Short Of Loan Goal   Comparison Shows Most Units Below Quotas Set—Buying Is Urged

War Bond Sales Slump 1 in County   Sales Are Less In Week Than Any  Similar Period in July

NEW NAZI TRANSPORT PLANE CARRIES 130   Six-Engined Troop Craft Is Being Manufactured by the Messerschmitt Company.

WPB Estimates Alcohol Output Will Meet Need   Production in prospect  includes 200,000,000  gallons for synthetic —rubber. idee

Enough Alky Production   Additional Plant Sites To Be  Aaunnanmnenad Gaan

Plenty of Alky Production Seen   Additional Plant Sites Are Surveyed

Youth Injured in Unique hackiead   @vvvvvvrvrrvrrrrrerrT rr re NOTICE TU READERS OF CLASSIFIED ADSE

COFFIN WORKERS GO ON STRIKE   Only 2 Days’ Supply Reported in New York

8th Army Hits Rommel Flank  Near Zem-Zem   Large-Scale Blow at Tunis _ Believed Foreshadowed; 27 Enemy Aireraft Shot Down

BRITISH OPEN FINAL PUSH ON AFRIKA KORPS   Axis Reports Indicate Eighth Army Aims At Tripoli  ACTIVITY, FLARES  Acnal Blows Exact Heavy Toll Among Enemy Docks

Iowa  Needs ta  Itt Value to YN. S.A.   Many Americans Unaware of State’s Importance

Watch Out For Barn Fires. Warns  lowa State Professor   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Pennsylvania Mines, UMW Throw Out  Agreement Groups Fail To Reduce   Groups Fail To Reduce To Writing Oral Pact On $1.30 Compensation  pO... AP. gle

Coal Producers, UMW Throw Out Portal Pay Pact   Central Pennsylvania As sociation Awaits WLB Decision

TRAVEL WAGE AGREEMENT 1{§ BACK WITH WLB   Pennsylvania Operators And Union Throw Out $1.30 Proposal For Portal Pay   Decision Awaited

Collapse Is Reported In  Mine Wage Negotiations   Agreement on $1.30 a Day as Portal-to-Portal Pay Throyn Out by Union and Operators—Labor Board Decision Is Awaited .

Lewis-O’Neill Wage Contract Falls Throuel   Portal Pay Before Last April Breaks Pact

MINE OPERATORS ‘AND MINERS IN DISAGREEMENT   Central Pennsylvania Group Drops Portal-ToPortal Proposal   MATTER IS RETURNED TO WAR LABOR BOARD

VICTORY TAX REFUND BILL PASSES SENATE   Measure Giving Taxpayers Inmmediate Benefit Sent to Roosevelt for Signature.

Russians Threaten  Lhlobin   REDS DRIVE TOWARD KEY RAIL JUNCTION AS NAZIS TRY TO FLEE

Nazis run deadly crossfire gantlet   Reds shell flight routes, again 12 miles on Zhlobin

Nazis Routed From Gomel In Panicky Fh ght   Russians Pour Shells Into Only Escape Corridor   ABANDONING ARMS   Pursuing Reds Only 18 Miles From Vital Zhiobin

‘UnderCover Comes Out With Names   Book Called Who’s Who. Of Wrong Political Thinking In U.S

Pomona Grange Meets Next Week  > Banting UT Rao t.14   : Meeting Will Be Held _At Port Allerany

Pomona Grange  Meets Next Week   Meeting Will Be Held At Port Allegany

Pomona Grange  Will Meet June §   Keating Grange Will Play Host to County Group

Legion Names Atherton New Commander   Endorses Participation In Association ‘of Free And Sovereign Nations’

Legion’ Hears’ Talk by King   Admiral Declares Navy's Aim Is To Shatter Enemy with Ali Possible Weapons

Name Atherton Head Of Legion; Favors Service   Appointment Was Predicted Here By Uniontown Legionnaire

Advocates Universal Service Act  Warren H. Atherton Elected American Legion Commander

Atherton is elected new  Legion chief   Successor to Roane Waring

Warren Atherton Of Stockton Wins (sian Command   Convention Names Lawyer After Admiral King Laud: Navy Air Arm x

Admiral King Warns Japs To Expect New Blows In His Address At Omaha Convention

British Search For Nazi Fleet   Believe Scharnhorst Part of Task Force

British Fleet Hunts More Nazi: Warships After Sinking Battleship Scharnhorst

Hull Warns Stable Peace, Economic Warfare Will Not Mix; Urges Extension of Reciprocal Trade Act

FSA Head Indicates Desire to Resian   Believe He May Go To State Department

‘ALLIES, AXIS REPORTED iIMASSING PICKED TROOPS FOR TUNISIAN CONFLICT

Big Battle Foreseen  In Africa   Allies, Nazis mass troop on 1,000 mile front along coast

R.A.F. Hits Hamburg Again; Yanks Make Twin Drive On Warnemunde And Kiel

liamburg Raided Again By the R. A. F. For the 105th Time   2.000 Tons Dropped to Add Destruction to Battered City.

U. 8. Hits Hard At New Jap  Solomons Base   Fortresses Bomb Ballale Port  Near Guadaleanal

YANKEES RAID NEW JAP BASE   Bombers Blast Airfield Established on Ballale Island, Navy Reports

NEW JAPANESE AIRBASE RAIDED   Wake Island Also Gets Attention From Navv Fliers

Lt. Col. Russell Ramsey — With First Landing Party On New Georgia Islands

MAJOR PRAISES 37TH DIVISION   Officer On Leave Says “We'll Be In Tokyo Soon”

Northeastern and Central Ohio Begins Gigantic Task—Damage Being Estimated at Over $5,000,000.

Stab Wounds Cause Boston Actor’s Death   David Bacon Is  Slain In West

EASTERN SOCIALITE KNIFED IN BACK IN MYSTERY THAT RIVALS HIS MOVIE ROLES

LABOR CHIEFS HIT CIVILIAN DRAFT   Murray, Thomas Oppose AustineWadsworth Bill

MANY WILL GRADUATE FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS   Commencement Week To Open On Monday, At Boonsboro With Hagerstown Exercise On June Sth  June 7 $

MANY WILL GRADUATE FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS   Commencement Week To Open On Monday, June 7 At Boonsboro With Hagerstown Exercises On June 9th

British Planes Open Hamburg Attack On City   Fires Visible For Over 250 Miles, Aviators Declare”.

Miners Strike In Pittsburgh  Walkout Staged as Halt Is Called Far Mav 12

MINERS OUT INS STATES   Defy F.D.R. No-Strike Statement; Leaders Await May 18

Miners Strike Despite Ruling Of Roosevelt   2600 Men Idle In Three Coal Mining States

600 MINERS DEFY FOR, GO OUT ON STRIKE   orkers Idle I) Three States Despite President’s ‘No Walkout’ Declaration.   VEW THREAT DEVELOPS   400 Strikers Go Back tg Jobs In Pennsylvania; Fines Protested.

1400 Miners Return, 2600 Strikers Out   Threat of General Stoppage at End Of Truce Grows

MINERS STRIKE IN THREE STATES   Diggers Protest Salary Cut for Time Lost on Last Walkout

MINERS UPSET FD'S FORECAST OF NO STRIKE   2,600 Quit Work In Pits _Flying American Flag   OTHERS MAY FOLLOW   Protest Fines Levied For Previous Stoppage of Work

MINERS IDLE IN SPITE OF FR. ORDERS   Some Out in 3 States, But Others Return To Jobs

1400 Miners In Protest Walkout   Strike Despite Pres, Roosevelt's Implied Warning

1 400 MINERS GO BACK T0 WORK AS 500 MORE STRIKE   This Leaves More Than 2,600 Workers In Three States Idle In Face of President’s Indication that  Miners Are Not Now Free To Strike.

rirst Loal SIiKe Under U.S. Hand Affects 1400  Miners Protest Fine Levied Under  ' Eypiring Contract

2,600 COAL MINERS ARE OFF THE JOB   Walkouts Occur in Three States in Face of F. D. R.’s Indication That He Did Not Expect Strikes Against U. S.

Miners Leave Jobs Under US Control   Thousands Threaten to Resume Work Stoppage Unless Operators Sign Contract With United Mine Workers

1,400 Quit Work In Protest Over Company's Fines   Refuse To Pay $5.00 for Work Stoppage of Last Week

\ Coal Miners In     States Strike; hee President   Walkouts In Pennsy And Ohio Blamed On Fining. Of Workers. -

1,400 MINERS GO ON STRIKE   Pittsburgh Walkout Is In Protest To Fines For Stoppage

New Mine ¢ Strikes In Three States   Disgruntled Union Men Quit Work In Defiance Of Pres. Roosevelt.

Disputes F ollow Earlier Stoppage  2.600 Idle After Some Return To Jobs

3,500 MINERS  IDLE AS FINES  STIR TROUBLE      506 Quii at One Jones & Laughlit Mine as 1400 Return at Anothe: —Ohio Men Cut   Fines Imposed by Company Operators Under Old Contract Termed Illegal by Miners’ Leader

2600 Coal Miners Are  Still Out   Defiant in Face of F. R. Statement They Are Now Gov’t. Employes

1,400 Miners Return; 500 Others Out   2,500 Miners  Still Idle  In 3 States  Despite FDR Stand

Miners Defy United States Government; Strike in 3 States   Fines for Time Lost in Y Unauthorized Strikes Resented by Men

1,400 Miners On  ‘Strike After  IFine Assessed  ~ UMW Leaders Say No Work Unless  Contract Sioned

2,600 MINERS STILL IDLE   Fourteen Hundred Went Back to Work Today at California, Pa., Mines.

DLEIN THREE STERN AREAS,   \Walkouts Occur in Face of President’s Statement  He Did Not Antici-   pate Stoppages   1.400 RESUME JOBS  IN PITTSBURGH AREA   Meanwhile, Threats Are  Made Thousands Will Quit May 18 Unless Contract Is Signed 

MORE THAN 2,600 MMNERS STILL IDLE   Some Return to Work, Others Start New Strikes; Industry Far from Solution

2,600 Miners Remain Idle In 3 States   1,100 Strikers Return to Work, Bat 500 More Oui

1400 Miners Strike At Vesta Four   PROTEST $5 FINES IMPOSED FOR WALKOUT OF APRL 26-30; PROVIDED BY PENALTY CLAUSE IN CONTRACT.   Union Says Unauthorized

MINERS STRIKE AGAINST U.S.A   Work Stoppage Is First Since Government Took Over Mines

Coal Miners Strike, One Shift Is Back   Work For Steel  Co. In Penn.

New Trouble Flares ‘In U.S. Mines; 1,400 Men Walk Out  Workers Protest Levy Of $5 Prompted by : Strike of Last Month

2,600 Coal Miners Idle As Threat Of Trouble Renewed Despite President ©

Coal Miners Strike In Three States Dispute Arises Over “Docked”’ Payrolls

1,400 MINERS TAY DOWN TOOLS   STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA FIRST SINCE GOVERNMENT SEIZED PROPERTIES.

A400 Coal Miners Strike in Protest ‘Action on Fines   _ Controversy Flares * Over Penalties for Recent Work Stoppage

COAL MINERS IN 3 STATES DEFY NO-STRIKE ORDEF  WALKOUTS OCCUR IN  IAIMI ARIA OWI   WALKOUTS OCCUR IN INDIANA, OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA

2,600 In 2States Are Out   Imposition Of Fines Protested: 2 Ohio Pits Closed

2600 Idle At Mines In 3 States   1400 Strikers Return To Work” In : Pennsylvania As 500 Others Walk Gut

Action Comes After FDR Voices Stand  President Strongly Luplies- Right to me bt. Ww. oe!

Coal Miners Strike in Three States in Defiance Of President’s Statements   Threat That Thoueands of Other Miners Will Resume Work Stoppage of Last Week-end“Unless Operators Sign Contract;  Some Miners Return

New Strike Complicates  Coal Situation  1,400 Miners Strike At California, Pa., In Protest of Fine  UNION MAN ISSUES  NEW ULTIMATUM  - No Contract, No Work After Truce Is Over, District Head Savy«   1,400 Miners Strike At California, Pa., In Protest of Fine

Coal Field Is Uneasy      Some Miners Return To Jobs; But Others Are Still On Strike

1,400 MINERS STRIKE DESPITE PRESIDENT   resident Of Union Says There Will Be No Work Without A Contract May 18

Small Strikes Show Attitude In Coal Mines   Nearly Three Thousand In Three States Idle Showing FDR Wrong.   THREATEN FULL STOP

MINERS STRIKE IN PITTSBURGH REGION   1,400 Walk Out as No tice Is Served by Union Leader

Work Stopped At Coal Mine; 1,400 Strike Crew Quits Despit   Roosevelt ‘Ban’  On Walkouts

Miners Stage New Walkout   Captive Coal Mine !s Closed By Strikers

1,400 Coal Miners Go Out on Strike   Defy No-Strike Statement Issued By President Roosevelt

1,400 STRIKING MINERS RETURN   More Than 2,600 Others  Continue Idleness

ANOTHER STORY OF GERMAN SAVAGERY IN ITALY RELATED  MEN AND BOYS MASSACRED AFTER RAPING

ANOTHER STORY OF GERMAN SAVAGERY IN ITALY RELATED  MEN AND BOYS MASSA. CRED AFTER RAPING NAZI SOLDIER SLAIN

Brake To Name ‘Pay-Off Men’ At Bribery Probe   State Treasurer Says He Will Tell Jury Their Identity

4 PAY-OFF-MEN   To Tell Grand Jury of His Experiences as Solon in 1941

SENSATIONS IN LANSING PROBE ARE PROMISED   State Treasurer Says He Will Reveal Names of ‘Pay-off Men’   WILL TESTIFY MONDAY   Says Two Legislators Told . Him They Were Of fered Bribes

TO NAME 4 fo ‘PAY-OFF MEN   State Official Predicts Sensational Developments tn Probe.

DUBUQUER WINS SURVEY AWARD   Mrs. Herbert F. Butters Receives $25 War Bond

$25 WAR BOND AWARD IS MADE   Scales Mound Entry Win ner in Community Survey

DUBUQUE GIRL WINS WAR BOND   oa Marie Roepsch Takes Weekly Survey Award

DUBUQUER WINS SURVEY AWARD   Arnold Hipschen Receives Weekly $25 War Bond

SURVEY PRIZE AWARDS LISTED   Bellevue Entry Is Second;   Third From Lancaster

LIST WINNERS ~ OF 20 AWARDS   Mrs. H. L. Fitzgerald Wins War Bond for First

Hurricane Warning Withdrawn but Gulf Area Warned of Hich Tides. Squalls

Says J aps N ow Ready To Strike   Prepaved for ‘Decisive Blow at Enemy,’ Asserts Tojo

Se: . Rey 4s Japs N Exeady To  / * diver Blow i ws   Statement by Tojo Is Coupled with Declaration by Chinese Spokesman “Important  Move" Is Pending

Tojo Says Air Arm Must Be Reinforcec   Transport and Labor Are Biggest Problems

Retail price increase on  milk askéd   Problem reqiires ‘special handling’

 ‘Nazis Charged ‘With Torture   Indications Point To Man: Russians Being  Buried Alive.

REDS ACCUSE NAZIS OF MASS POISONINGS   Russians Begin To Return To Ruins of Stalingrad

HIT BRUTALITY   Soviets Charge Nazis With Mass Poisoning. Torture.

TORTURE, POISONINGS, BURIAL ALIVE CHARGED TO GERMANS BY RUSSIANS

ACCUSE GERMANS OF CARRYING OUT MASS POISONINGS   RUSSIANS CHARGE POISON FORCED DOWN THROATS

CHARGE NAZIS GAVE POISON TO RUSSIANS   Mass Poisonings, Tortures Charged By Russ Commission. German Attacks Smashed

AEDS ACCUSE NAZIS OF MASS ATROCITIES   Charge Them With Poisonings, Executions, Torture Cf Russians.

BILL TO SLASH TAX EXEMPTION GETS 12-100. K.   , Would Eliminate U. S. Financed Housing Units

Dorothy Olson, Union Director, Arrives Today   Listed in College Who’s Who, She Was Beauty Queen

MARTIN SEEKS TO REDUCE TAXES      Seventy-Eight Million Dol. lar Cut In Budget Is Estimated.

Martin Cuts $78 Million Ott Budget   GOVERNOR WiLL ASK TAX RE. DBUCLION OF AT LEAST $40,000,6009 IN BUDGET MESSAGE NEX1 WEER.,   Studying Relief Plan

MARTIN PLANS TO CUT COSTS $78 MILLIONS   Budget Will ‘Indicate Tax Reduction of  $40 Millions

VETERAN GOES TO WAR AGAIN   Sheridan, Johnstown Editor, Enters Merchant Marine

OUTLINE: OF POST-WAR POLICY STATED BY SECRETARY HULL   SECRETARY OF STATE DECLARES NATIONS MUST. BACK DEMANDS FOR PEACE WITH FORCE

JOB-FREEZING “KILLS” FIREMEN   Johnstown — Department Up Against First Case

Sardinia Goes To Alhes: Not A Shot Fired   Two Italian Divisions Oust Germans From Ysle, Now In Command

SARDINIA IN HANDS OF ALLIES; NOT A SINGLE SHOT FIRED   Two Italian Divisions Rout Nazis From Islands— Several Splendid Ports There

TALIANS ROUT GERMAN WNIT o ON SARDINIA   Nazis Retreat To Corsica As  Italian Divisions Turn On Ex-Allies

Ben Bernie, ‘Old Maestro’ Of Stage, Screen And Radio, Dies In California

Ben Bernie, Music  Maestro, Is Dead   Succumbs After Long IIL ness From a Pulmonary Infection.

ILLNESS FATAL TO BEN BERNIE   Star Of Stage, Screen, Radio  Succumbs To Pieurisy

BAND LEADER DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS   Heart Complications Fatal To Ben Bernie

BEN BERNIE DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS   Old Maestro of “Stage and Screen Succumbs

Ben Bernie Dies In California   Stage, Screen and Radio Star Passes After Leng IIIness

OLD MAESTRO fo TAKEN BY DEATH   Ben Bernie Dies After Long liIness After’ Discarding Doctor’s Orders

Death Strikes Ben Bernie At Beverly Hills   Old Maestro Of Stage Screen And Radio Is Summoned After Long Fight Against Illness

Ben Bernie Dies Today   Old Maestro Succumbs In California After Long Hiness

Ben Bernie, ’ Maestro Of Radio, Dead   ™ Noted Orchestra Leader Dies At Beverly Hills Apartment; His Wife, Son and Others At Bedside.

Long Iness Proves Fatal: to Popular Player of Stage, Screen and -Radio Programs

LUCAS-WAYNE CO. IRIS SHOW 10 BE HELD IN CHARITON   Rules of Show Are Listed;  Will Be From 1:30 to. _ . §:30 p. m.

IRIS SHOW IS TO BE MAY 23   Will Be Held at the High School During the  iy cp.) ee, oF aenanan.--i 5

CIGARETTES ARE BEING RATIONED   Informal But Effective Rationing Begun By Makers Of Five Most Popular Brands.

Nazis Launch New Offense   Reds Say Foe Thrown Back Near Leninared

NAZI ATTACKS ARE IN VAIN   Russians Throw Enemy Back With  Heavy Losses.

Miners’ Wage Case May Be Fought Out On Underground Travel Issue   Court Decision Which Bolsters Demands Of Miners For Increase In Pay, Cited; Would Be Paid For Time Inside Mine.

TRAVEL TIME (350 MAY END QISPUTE   Lewis Wants Miners Paid from Time of Entry to Exit of Mine

COURT'S RULING FAVORS MINERS IN WAGE ISSUE   Employers Must Pay lron Ore Workers for Underground “Travel Time” Tribunal Rules   ASKED FOR OTHERS   Bituminous Wage Case  May Be Fought Out and _ Perhaps Decided On  Similar Basis

Miners’ Wage Case May Be Fought Out On Issue Of ‘Underground Travel Time

CARE OF iT THOMASVILLE AR FIELD EVENT NEXT SUNDAY   Bond Selling Committee Entertained at Local . Base Yesterday Afternoon by Base Officials and Plans Completed for Handling Great Crowd Nest Sunday

10,000 PEOPLE CAN BE TAKEN CARE OF AT THOMASVILLE AIR FIELD EVENT NEXT SUNDAY

FITSPROBE — SPENDINC   Exhaustive Check Up of Moneys Voted for ar Ordered

BYRD GROUP TO STUDY RECORDS ON WAR EXPENSE   Committee Projects First Exhaustive Investigation Of What Happens To Money Congress Votes For War Purposes.

Byrd Committee to Make Exhaustive War Cost Probe   Will Attempt to Determine What Happens to Money  <Appropriated; Senator Contends Unexpended Balances for War of $203,000,000,000 Make New Funds Unnecessary

FIRST EXHAUSTIVE  INVESTIGATION OF  CONGRESS SPENDING WHAT BECOMES OF MONE!  VOTED FOR WAR PURBPACEC TH BE DRPOARI CM

EAST GASOLINE IS OVERDRAWN   Gulf Coast Storm Blamed For New Shortage

MAY NOT LIFT DRIVING BAN   DRASTIC RESTRICTIONS IN THE EAST MAY BE CONTINUED PAST SEPTEM " BER 18ST

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Mav Postpone Lifting of Pleasure Driving Ban

Mountam  H eights Captured   Fighth Smashes Two Miles From  Rome Plains

Allies Pierce Nazi Lines in West Italy   Massico and Matese Mountains Are Gained in Offensive

“U.S, BOMBERS STRIKE GERMAN CITIES TODAY   Solingen Bombed Second Time in  Two Day Raid

U.S. Bombers Hit Solingen Second Time   France, Belgium Targets In Raid

YANKEES R AID SOLINGREN FOR SECOND TIME   Americans Also Attack Nazi-Held Airfields In France; Fierce Sky Battles Fought

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS POUNDED CITY OF SOLINGEN   Fierce Sky Battle Resulted in the Loss of 27 Flying Fortresses, Liberators.   33 NAZI PLANES DOWN   Mission Included an Attack on a German Aircraft Plant in France.

Allied Bombers Strike Through German Rocket:   Rhineland Industrial City Of Solingen Hit Again; Enemy Waters Mined

RHINELAND CITY HAMMERED BY HEAVY BOMBERS   Planes Strike Through Rocket Hurling Planes

Russ Support Of ‘Tite Seen Blow at Petex   Plan to Send Mission t  Yugoslavia May Bring  Chetnik Showdown

County Men Pass Air Cadet Exams   Ten Enlisted Men at Freeman Field Also In Group

Many Accepted For Cadet Course   Youth From Seymour Ten Soldiers At rreeman Included

0LD WEATHER RE rRIPS MOST OF SE ‘AST. SEABOARD BE   Heavy Gales Drive Liberty Ship Aground in Upper _. New York; Low Mercury Tonight’ ~*">"

100 Killed In  Florence Rioting   Fascist, Anti-Fascist Elements In Battle

STREET FIGHT IN ~ FLORENCE COSTS HUNDRED LIVES   Fascists Run into Trouble TryIng to Round Up Badoolio Followers.

VIOLENT FIGHTING RIFE IN STREETS OF FLORENCE, IT ALY   Patriots Resist (Fascists Who. Storm Houses In Attempt To Corral  Badoglio Men 

New Mining Pact Signed Ikes Elated:   : Operators: and. UMW Embody $8.50: Basic Pay Rate in Contract

Allied Forces May Attempt To Prevent Rommel’s Army Joining Nazis In Tunisia

° FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today,    Faeed With Strike.

WAGE-PROTEST WALKOUT SET FOR DEC, 30   Balloting Is 97% Favorable

Late News Bulletins   Neu Lend-Lease Acreement Sisned With Mexico

SURPRISE AIR RAID DRILL THIS MONTH   State Council Of Defense Announces Next Test Will Take Place Sometime Before April 1

Yank, British Airmen Blast Vital Bases  Railroad Yards, Oil Tanks Are  a ee es ie BUR Ny eaee Dw

Attack Axis From Tripoli To Tunisia  WA ce tin ee ER ee i   Running Atiack on Rommei Bases to Prevent Contact

ALLIED PLANES BLAST AT ROMMEL LINES IN LIBYA   Field Marshal’s Main Supply Base at Gabes Heavily Pounded—TIwo American Craft Lost.   AXIS AIRDROME NEAR TRIPOLI HAMMERED   Daylight Attacks Made on Port Area of Tunis, Air Fields in Sicily and on Isle of Lampedusa.

Yank, British Airmen Blast Vital Bases   Railroad Yards, Oil Tanks Are Shataread Fram Ai

Nazis Pounded Hard From Air   “Area From Tripoli “To Tunisia-Is Hit

Allied Airmen Pounding . - — Axis Forces In Africa   Fliers Operate in Perfect Synchronization in Assaults From Tripoli to Tunisio—Rommel . Lines Bombed

Alhed Flyers  Beat Axis Lines   Aerial Assaults Continue in Africa

BEAT AT AXIS FROM TRIPOLI TG TUNISIA   American Bombers Assault Gabes; German Military Camp At Kebili Is Left  to eas   2 Yanks Lost

Allied Airmen Strike Blows In North Africa   Rommel's Main Supply Base At Gabes Undergoes Severe Assault From Air.

Rommel Seeks Tunisian Link,  Allies Surmise   Allied. Airmen Hammering Points Sach as Gabes, Where Foe Might Set Junction   Battleship Richelieu Is Refitted at Dakar   Gen. LeClere’s Chad Army  Réports His Progress Satisfactory’

ALLIES ATTACK LOGICAL, GOALS OF AXIS ARMY   Rommel Lines Blasted From Tripoli To Tunisia; Rails, Oil Tanks Hit   Headquarters Bombed

‘Allied Airmen Are Beating at Axis From Tripoli to Tunisia, Hitting at Rommel’s Desert Lines

7, KIESELBACH Q1ED SUNDAY   Well Known Local Merchant Had“Been lil More Than A Year

Road Projects for After War Approved   Montana Highway Schedule Is Made -Public

Road Projects for After War Approved  Montana Hiachwav   Montana Highway Schedule Is Made Public

RESTRICTION RULE INCITES STOPPAGES      Order Barring Mexicans and Japs from Streets Causes 400 to Strike

3 BANDS TO MARCH   Feature of Navy Day Wil! Parade Tomorrow Afternoon

WARN-LABOR “FREEZE MUST BE OBSERVED   RUMBLINGS OF “REVOLT AGAINST JOB-WAGE ORDER BRINGS WARNING OF OTHER £TEPB

Town Quotas Are Set At The County Meeting And Drive Will Be Conducted By Letter

SALAMAUA SEIZED BY ALLIED FORCES   Disintegrating Japs Leave Valuable Equipment Behind

Aussies Take Big Jap Base   Salamaua Falls; Bombers Pound Paramushiro Again

Japanese Army Quits Salamaua, Takes fo Hills   Pincers on Lae Slowly Closing

Enemy Yields New Guinea Air, Sea Base   Fighters Now Tighten Grip on Second Strategic Stronghold

JAPS GIVE UP BIG AIR BASE OF SALAMAUA   Flee Into Mountains Witl Australians in Hot Pur. suit— Pincers on Lae Tightened.

Flee to Mountain: As Australians Pursue Them   Base Is First of PreWar Importance to Be Retaken From Japs

DISINTEGRATING JAPANESE ARMY FLED SALAMAUA   Enemy Abandons Valuable Equipment; Aussies Pursuing Nipponese   'BLAMEY REVIEWS : ALLIED STRATEGY

Australians Pursue Nips Toward Lae   Allies Capture Valuable Supplies Left By Retreat

COLORADO GOVERNOR IS FIRM AGAINST FARM WORKER DRAFI   VIVIAN SAYS HE WILL NOT “BACK DOWN” FEOM ORDER  SENT BTATE DRAFT. ~ HEADQUARTERS

LANKET DRAFT ORDER ATTACKED   Action Of Colorado Governor On Farm Workers Sets Off Controversy

Australian Conscription  Bill Opposed   Menzies Says Curtin’s Bill Enlarging Soldier Conscription Area Not Far Reaching Enough in Effects

Bombers Pound at Continent   Marauders Follow Up Heavy Attack On Rhineland Areas.

Airmen Resume  Bombing Nazis  i oe a ae ae   Americans Follow Up British Attacks

HUNDREDS OF RAF BOMBERS. HIT NAZI TWIN RAIL CENTERS   British ‘August Bomb Total Near Record—Vienna In Panic Over Fear Of Raide

Americans _ Follow Up Night Raid   Fourth Year of War Is Ended With Attacks on Nazi Industry

YANKS FOLLOW UP RAF ATTACK WITH RAIDS ON FRANCE   Hit Airfields at Liile-Vanderville and Nazi Power Station—Rhineland - Industries Targets. for RAF

BRITISH BLAST WAR FACTORIES  IN RHINE ARKA   American Bombers Pound Airdromes In France, Hit Power Station At Mazineurbe

h  YANKS HAMMER NAZI TARGETS   Industrial Cities Heavily Hit By Huge Aerial Armada

NAZI INDUSTRY, AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE RAIDED   Allied Airmen Break Two-Day Lull, RAF Blasts Towns in Duesseldarf District   ST. OMER BOMBED      American Fliers Follow Up by Strafing Air Bases, Power Sta. tions in Prance

France Hit By Daylight Raids In Follow-Up   Twin German Industrial Centers Pounded With Big Bomb Load   28 BOMBERS LOST   Power Station And Air Stations Are Hit In France

TWO GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTERS RAIDEL BY BRITISH   More Than 1,500 Tons of Bombs Are Released

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS POUNDED RHINELAND SECTOR LAST NIGHT  FOURTH YEAR OF WAR  BROUGHT TO THUNDER. = OOS CLOSE IN AID

At Rhineland ©   Industrial Cities Blasted; Duisburg Is Special Target

 au eL AU OPY AD ae  Nazi Bases In France Blasted By Americans   Airfield And Power Station Attacked After RAE Smashes Industrial Cities In Rhineland Heavy Assault Monday Night

RHINELAND CITIES ARE BOMBED   British Planes In Heavy Attack On Factory Towns

HEAVY BRITISH AIRCRAFT BOER VEY WAD PITIES   Vital Industries In Rhineland Hit In Nignt Mission

Allied Bombers: Hit Rhineland, ‘French Airfield   Attack. By U.S. ‘Marauders ’ Reported “Successfual;” . RAF Planes Blast Reich

RAF Pounds Two Rhineland Cities In Heavy Attack °   Munchen-Gladbach,  Rheydt Rail Lines Blockbuster Targets

U, S. BOMBERS PUT RAIDS ON '94-HOUR BASIS   Italian Rail Lines Hit Again

NAZIS ADMIT TWO CITIES ARE HARD HIT   ~ Muenchen-Gladbach and Rheydt Are RAF Victims, as Well as Duisburg— Yanks Make Day Attacke in France.

RAF Delivers Another Blow To Rhineland   Yanks Follow Up Night Assault With Attacks On Airfield, Power  Station In France

Attacks Mark Close Of War's Fourth Year   Procession Of Planes In Wake Of RAF’S Night Raids

RHINELAND AREA TARGET OF HUGE ALLIED BOMBERS   OTHER CENTERS IN NAZILAND BLASTED IN SAVAGE FORAYS

Yank Bombers Raid Air Field Of Germans   Attack Lillevanderville in  France to Follow Up Big RAF Smash at Night

R. A. F. Dumps New Bomb Loac Qn Nazi Cities   Industrial Rhineland Is  Plastered After 2-Day Rott FT eel

GERMAN AIRFIELD _ IN FRANGE RAIDED BY THE AMERICANS   Were Located at Lille-Vanderville, and a Power Station at Mazingarbe.   TWO PLANES MISSING   Preliminary Reports Showed 3 Enemy Fighters Were Destroyed.

Yankees Raid Nazi Airfield   They Also Bomb Power Station at Mazingarbe, France

American Planes Bomb Targets In Nazi-Held France   British Hit Two Industrial Centers

U.S. Aces Bomb French Port, RAF. Hits Rhine   Vienna on Verge Of Panic as Raiders Feared

MIGHTY AIR FLEETS OVER GERMANY TODAY   Rhineland Is Raided; Americans Bomb Airfield In France

Rhineland Is Smashed By RAF Armada   War Busy Munitions Cities On Continent Hammered During Night  am AaRrrF APTrTAAATERr 1 Aer

Rhineland Hit By Heavy Raid   L. S. Marauders Bomb  Targets in France

BIG FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS HITS GERMANY   Rhineland Industrial Cen. ters Are Pounded Durinc Night; Americans Join At tacks Today.

OBJECTIVES {N FRANCE RAIDED   Yenks Follow Up RAF Assault on Rhineland With Blows in France. -

Thunderous Close For War’s 4th Yea  Rhineland And Continent Are  Allied Targets

Treasury, P.O. Budgets Reduced   House Committee Stresses Economy

CUT IS. PREDICTED FOR PARCEL POST:  FIRST CLASS MAIL   Curtailment - OF Marked Increase In Mailing Will Follow New’ House Bill

House Committee Approves Large Appropriation   Mail Curtailment ls Predicted

Quick End of Drive On Attuis Held Possible   Tokyo Radio Hints The One Clear Day Needed May Have Arrived; Navy Denies Charge Poison Gas Is Being Used

Swift Conclusior in Battle for Island Forecast   Enemy Radio Broadcasts Assert Naval and Air Bombardment Is Supporting Streams of Reinforcements in Conflict

Quick Vietory Foreseen Over Japs on Attu   Bad Weather Hamper: Americans; Tokyo's ‘Poison Gas’ ¢ harge Denied by Country

Only Weather Holds Up Yanks In Attu Attack   Swift Conclusion Seen; Navy Denies Jap Charge Aimericaus Have Used Gas

Yankees Keep Fighting Despite Fog   Japs Claim Many U. S$. Reinforcements Are Joining Battle

DRIVE ON ATTU MAY END SOON INU.S. VICTORY   Meager Reparts Indicate Speedy Ousting of Japs

Quick Aleutians Victory Is Seen   Navy Denies Charge Poison Gas Used

Retreating While Bitter Blows Struck   ALLIRS MOVING FORWARD ON ALL TUNISIAN FRONTS NOW.

GROUND GAINS TOWARD TUNE AND BIZERTE ARE ACCOMPLISE BY RENEWED AERIAL EFFORTS:

Allied Forces Advance On All Tunisian Fronts With Savage Fighting       Allies Knock Out 20 More Axis Tanks, Mak ing Total of 80 Destroyed in Tunis Drive

HEAVIEST BATTLE CONTINUES NEAR SMALL SAL? LAKE   Americans “Smashing Theii Way” From Mateur Junction Up Rocky Slopes. Capture More Hills,   1500 TONS OF BOMBS ” DROPPED ON DUISBURC   Biggest Fleet of Bombers hi _ Visit to ftalian Port of Bar  Where Airdrome {s Devas tata

Nazis Seize Another Base   Somes Island Token From Small Garrison

Naples Ruined by Desperate Nazi Troops   RESIDENTS SLAUGHTERED IN GERMAN REVENGE FOR ITALY SURRENDER

Naples Made-Ravaged City of Horrors Under a Reign of German Terrorism

Naples Is A City Of Horrors   -- Germans Machinegun Women And Children

Once-Beautiful City of Naples Now a Shambles   Germans Leave Italian Port Mass of Ruins

A Reign Of Terror  In Naples   tata by Armistice With Allies Nazis Wreak' Vengeanee on Italian Civilians

NAPLES [a CITY OF HORROR NOW   Desperate Germans Rule City With Terror, Kill Many Civilians.   KILL WOMEN, CHILDREN

Refugees Describe Naples As Ravaged City Of Horrors   Germans Machine-Gunning Women And Children, Rule City By Terrorism

Beautiful Port of Naples Ravaged By Crazed Nazis,  Becomes a City of Horrors

TIGHTER BEER CONTROL ASKED   State Bill Also Would Permit Clubs To Sell Liquor

RIGID CURE 0 BEER PROPOSED   Bill Would Extend Local Option to Beer Sales, Propose License Clubs Sell Liquor By the Drink

Eastern Stars Will: . Give U. 8. Government: 10: Aimbulances July 4

1,500 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED TIDAN NITCRIIRG   It’s Heaviest Raid of War; Other Planes Blast  ‘Invasion Coast’   REDS BATTER NAZIS   More Axis Generals Surrender In Tunisia, As  Fighting Ends

Hull Sees World Unity a Reality   Says Moscow Pact Free Of Secret Commitments

Moscow Pact Termed Free From Secret Commitments   Hull Asks Acceptance As Our Non-Political Foreign Policy Charter Of Unity Laid Down   MAKES FIRST PUBLIC REPORT ON PARLEY

Hull urges U.S. accept  Moscow pact   Will address  joint session

HULL REPORTS ON TERMS OF MOSCOW PACT   Says No Secret Commitments Made at Conference

Secretary of State Hull Asks Americans to Accept Moscow Pact as Charter for International Unity

Hull Asks Americans To Accept Policy Adopted at Conference   Moscow Pact Free from Secret Committment: Secretary Says af long Capital Conference

No Secret Agreement Made _ _ At Moscow, Sec’y Hull States   Cobinet Officer Asks Americans to Accept as Their ' Nationat Foreign Policy the Charter Laid Down in Moscow Pact

Hull Urges Americans Accept Moscow Pact as Nonpolitical Foreian Policy

HULL MAKES PLEA FOR WORLD UNITY AS FOREIGN POLICY   Calls on Americans to Accept ' Moscow Pact, Declaring It Contains No Secret Agreements.   REJECTION TO MEAN NO PROGRAM AT ALL   Secretary to Address Both Houses of Congress Thursday in Precedent-Breaking Appearance.

PUBLIC SUPPORT OF MOSCOW PACT ASKED BY HULL   No Secret Commitments Made By Conferees: To Address Congress   STALIN IS CALLED REMARKABLE PERSON

SEABEES NAME: a can DO” DAY   July Fourth Is Enlistment’ Day yY Navy Needs Skilled = Mechanics

ALLIES, 10 WIN, MUST FIRST BEAT SUB KNOX SAYS   Secretary Declares Hitler Is Aware of This, as He Tells of Steps to Combat Menace.   MORE AIR PROTECTION _BEING GIVEN SHIPS   Navy Also Is Building Escort. Vessels by Hundreds to Use in Fight, He Reveals.

MILK RATIONING TALK REVIVED   Shortage Of Doctors Is Nearing Critical Stage

"FACES NATION      Government Moves To Aid Small Businessmen: Milk Problems Up

NEW HOME FRONT TRIALS STUDIED   GOVERNMENT TAKES STEPS TO HELP THE SMALL BUSINESSMAN

MILK AND BUTTER PROBLEMS, DOCTOR SHORTAGE REPORTEL  COAL MINERS FAIL TO SHOW ANY SPEED IN RETURNING TO WORK

MILK RATIONING IS IN PROSPECT   Doctor Shortage in World Problems Face Congress

Milk And Butter  ~~ Problems Mount  And Doctor Shortage Causes Worry

KRAUSS. MURDER GAGE: SENT: OUT   Leaves County. by Change of Venue — Goes to the — Hamiltoh Court. —~

NRAUGS MURDER DAE otNT OUI   Leaves County by Change , of Venue — Goes to the Hamiltoh Court.

Alexa Ata SQ {7¥ Alexander Rites —  At Church Today   Young Woman Dies at Hospital Sunday; Funeral Services Todav

Alexander Rites At Church Today   Young Woman Dies at TLospital Sunday; funeral Sopyjeos Pacday

The War Today  Anglo - Americah “Air Forces Doing Magnificent Job In Tunisia.

The War Today—  American Air Forces Hold Key To. Final Victory Over Rommel Troops

AXIS FORCES IN TUNISIA HAVE NATURAL FORTRESS BUT ALLIED LAIR FORCE PAVING WAY FOR KILI

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Aerial Supremacy Proving Big Difference In Tunisian Battle

 Air Supremacy over Africa Alters Allied Situation  Magnificent Job Being Done

BRICKER HAS HIGH RATING © ~"IN-GONGRESSIONAL CIRCLES   OHIO GOVERNOR FIGURING .. PROMINENELY IN BPECU- © LATION... AS. 00 1944 RE>. PURLIOAN NOMINEE -.

Willkie and Bricker Seen as Favorites for ‘Presidential Nomination’

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   British Carry Out Heaviest Raid of the Year; Pound Pilsen

HEAVY RAIDS UPON PILSEN      Fifty-five British planes lost in heaviest air attack of year

Nip Desiroyer Is Sunk hy Yankee Flyers   Two Other Vessels Are Set Afire: 15 Zeros Downed   \U. S. Aviation Industry to Produce Cargo and Combat Planes This Year Valued at $20,100, 000.000

Nip Destroyer Is Sunk by Yankee Flyers   Two Other Vessels Are Set Afire: 15 Zeros Downed

Senate Seeks to Coordinate  Labor Probes   Fate of Legislation Creating Mobilization Agency Up to Group

COORDINATION OF MANPOWER PROBES SOUGHT   Vice President Leaves Committee Choice To Senate Members   STUDY RUML PLAN   Treasury Counsel Fears Demands for Wage Increases

MANPOWER, TAX ISSUES TOPPING CONGRESS LIST      Move to Coordinate Investigations of Former Problem Launched In ‘Senate= >        RUML PLAN STUDIED   Taken Up Despite Treasury’s Fear It Would Precipitate Inflation and  Wage Boost Demands

ACCEPTABLE TAX PLAN SILL BEING SOUGHT BY SOLONS   Senate Launches Move Te Coordinate Investigation of Manpower Require. ments; Rutledge Nomina. tion Expected To Be Con. firmed Overwhelmingly.

 Five Mines, None UMW Members, Returned  To Owners; Early Release Of Others Seen

Lewis Challenge Seen as Five Mine: Turned to Owners   Government to Return More Despite UMW Stoppage Threat

Secretary Ickes Ends Control Of  Five Coal Mines   Move Indicates Government Soon Would Relin. quish Control Of Others; Test Willingness Of UMW To Continue Production

U. S. Restores 9 Seized Mines   Hinted Government Wil Seon Return Othere

ICKES RETURNS 5 MINES BACK TO OPERATORS   Elk River Operation At Widen Relinquinshed To Owners; None  Had Strikes   Others Being Studied

Five Coal Mines Are Given Back  Ickes Says Others hAn  wees Poy sree cars

JOHN L. LEWIS DUE FOR TEST   Government Starts To Return Coal Mines To Their Owners

5 MINES ARE TURNED BACK BY THE GOV'T   Properties in Ohio and Alabama Returned to Owners  EARLY SURRENDER OF OTHERS LIKELY  8 BRS lie ee... CU GS   None of the Five Had « Contract With the UMW

5 MINES ARE TURNED BACK BY THE GOV'T      Properties in Ohio and Alabama Returned to Owners   EARLY SURRENDER OF OTHERS LIKELY

Labor Men Believe Lewis's Return To AFL May Lead fo Labor Lnity   Automobile and Rubber Workers May Apply for Admittance fo AFL

Lewis’ Move to Join AFL May Bring About United American Labor Movemeni

Lewis Move May Hasten Labor Unity   Mine Leader's Action In Seeking Return to AFL. Solwes None of  Difficultiexof Merger

ROUP DISCLOSES EDUCATION PERIL   Federal hid Need Stressed as Curtailments Now Loom in U. S.

SHORTAGE OF MEAT IS DUE TO BONERS   “Unofficial policy makers close to President”  are to blame

THUNDER KNOCKS ~ PLASTER LOOSE   Near _ “Miss s For Harold Graham House In: 7 BL hom

THUNDER KNOCKS ~ PLASTER LOOSE   Near Miss s For Harold Graham House In Elkhorm

BOLIVIA ASKS OKAY BY U.S.   NEW GOVERNMENT MAKES PLEA FOR RECOGNITION

Predicts Republican Victory n “44 Presidential Electior   Charges Confusion And Incompetence In White House Incite Revolt Against New Deal

FATHER, SON FATALLY SHOT   16-Year Old Kentucky Girl Being! Questioned to Clean Up Puzziing Angles of Crime

GIRL CHARGED WITH MURDER   Joan Kiger, 16, Being Weld for Flaying of Father and Brother at Burlington, Kentucky.

Kentucky Girl Held for Murder   She, Mother Tell Conflicting Stories

Russ Advances Seek to Cut Off 185,000. of Foe   Soviet Pincers Advance On Rostov Along 3 Fronts ©

Black - Sea , Fleet Aiding In Clamping Tron Ring Around: 185,000  In Field  " 25-MILE ADVANCE  Seviets Rapidly Closing In On Remaining 2 .  Rail Junctions

Soviets Aided By Black Sea Fleet In South   Drive To Clamp tron Ring Around Enemy South Of Rostov

MOVE ONLAST RAIL POINTS. HEI D BY NAZIS   Black Sea Fleet~'Harasses Evemy Units, Ports

Russ armies clamp ring around nazis   Soviet forces advance 25 miles, in range of Kropotkin

REDS SPEED ON 10 CLAMP IRON RINE   ‘Germans Steadily Lose Rai Centers, High Command Admits Reverses.

British General Heavily Fined for Using Extra Ration Card for Food

ALABAMA REVENUES SHOW LIGHT DADP   Drop In Gas Tax Collections ls Principal Feature

Russian Action  Sees Skirmishes   No Large-Scale Fight Reported By Soviets

900 GERMANS  KILLED BY RUSSIANS   Reds Make Series Of Jabs At Nazi Front Lines

Mrs. Roosevelt Predicts Post-War Organization For the United Nations

‘Mrs Roosevelt Sees   Postwar Cooperation, ‘Hailed At Wellinaton

MRS, ROOSEVELT IS IN NEW ZEALAND   Says Some Type of Post-War Organization Would Come From Meeting.

Mrs. F. D. R. Sees Unity After Conflict   POSTWAR ORGANIZATION OF ALLIES PREDICTED BY PRESIDENT’S WIFE

MRS. FDR VIEWS POST WAR DAYS   Tells New Zealanders Not Prepared on Actual Conditions

Speaker Says U. $ Still Defeated  Former Manila Man Talks to Rotary

WILMINGTON MAN APPOINTED TO COURT   Richard Hildebrand Named To Fill Vacancy

leading active Pacific air ace  Lt. Walsh is    Has 20 Japan  planes to credit

Lt. Walsh is leading active Pacific air ace   Has 20 Japan  planes to credit

Allied Warplanes Rake Axis Bases  Attack Warehouse: And Airfields

Allied Flyers Raid Axis-Held Districts   Rake Airfields, Rail Lines, Brest to Holland

AXIS AREAS ACROSS CHANNEL BOMBEL   Wundreds of Planes Take Parts in Raids on France, Belgium and €Wolland.

ALLIED PLANES STAGE ATTACKS   Shuttle Over Channel To Blast Targets From Brest To Holland

ALLIES MAKE HEAVY RAIDS IN SOLOMONS   Drop 23 Tons of Bombs; Big Fires Reported Raging

NAVY'S LARGEST SUB IS REPORTED “LOST IN ACTION   2,.710-Ton Argonaut Sunk  . In Action In South Pacific With Probably Loss of 102 Lives; Japs Suffer Heavy Poundings Over Week End.

NAVY'S LARGEST SUB IS REPORTED “LOST IN ACTION’   a erect oe te  2,710-Ton Argonaut Sunk In Action In South Pacific With Probably Loss of 102 Lives; Japs Suffer Heavy Poundings Over Week End.

Remaining Duiddieiia  Ask Truce   Demand for Armistice on Cap Bon Draws Sur render Demand

Body of Sidat Singh, Famous Flier And Aviator, Found in Lake Huron

REDS DESTROY 65 NAZI PLANE! IN SINGLE DAY ”   Artillery Fire Punctures Long RQaviet Front

RedsKnockOut 4A Nazi Planes   Enemy Attack on Kursk Rase Shattered

R.A.F. Planes Blast at i\Copenharen   Americans Attack Naval Base at Wilhelmshaven

[American Fortresses Raid Wilhelmshaven Naval Base As RAF Pounds Copenhagen   Attacks Designed To Check German Submarine Menace At The Source; Results Of Forays Are Obscured By Heavy Clouds

Swarms of Yank Bombers Hit Nazi-Held Area   First All-American Blows Are Struck At Wilhelmshaven and Industrial Emden; RAF Raids Copenhagen Yards

Fortress and Liberator Bombers Strike Blows  COPENHAGEN RAID IS STAGED BY RAF  Shipyards of the Danish Capital Attacked by Airmen

BOMB COPENHAGEN FOR FIRST TIME   RAF MAKES RAID ON CITY AS AMERICANS BLAST GERMANY PROPER.

RAF Bombs Copenhagen  iin Denmark   Fortresses, Liberators Pound Wilhelmshaven  And Emden in Germany,  THREE BOMBERS LOST.

RAF Bombs Shipyards In Denmark   U-Boat Nests, War Factories Hit In Two Raids

Swarms of Fortresses and Liberators Attack Wilhelmshaven Base   RAF Bombs Copenhagen; Day, Night Attacks on U-Boat Nests, Factories; Reds on Grand Schale

WILHELMSHAVEN HIT HARD BY AMERICANS; EMDEN ALSO RAIDED      Weather Makes Results of Assaults Difficult to Ascertain; RAF in Attack on Copenhagen

SHIPYARDS OF DANISH CAPITAL EMPLOYED ON NAZI CONTRACTS; FOUR PERSONS KILLED; “TERROR RAID" SAYS BERLIN.

Push for Oil Price Boost   House to Take Up Bill Stripping OPA Of Oil Control

WOMAN DEFIES ARMY OUSTER   Philadelphian Told To Take Up Residence In NonDefense Area

Subsidies Stop at Buffer, Meaf   Wagner Reveals Limitation ‘Deal’

OPA Abandons Coffee Rollback   Means No Expansion of Subsidy Program

ABANDON ROLLBACK OF COFFEE PRICES UNDER OPA PLANS   Cabbage, Lettuce Prices Will Be Reduced July 20

CALL ELECTION JUNE 5 FOR FIVE SOIL DIRECTORS   All Landowners May Vote Tc Select Five Out Of 10 Candidates.

HOLD ELECTION SATURDAY, FIVE SOIL DIRECTORS   All Landowners May Vote Te Select Five Out Of 10 Candidates.

PEOMAGE CHARGED T0 ALABAMA MEN   Federal Grand Jury Indicts Fort Deposit Men

Allies Begin Paving Way  For Invasion   Nazi Lines in Southern Russia Near Collapse

‘TO FIND ANSWER 10° HICH BOMBERS   Huge Forces of Fighters Mee! Fortresses But Fail to Stop Them

Kaiser Company Gets Subpoena  Charge Unlawful Material Acquisition

“Strange,” Says Builder of Sixty Ships Monthly of WPB'S Subpoena  1

KAISER IS ACCUSED OF PRIORITY ERRORS   Shipbuilder, However, Thinks Record Pretty Good

KAISER FIRM FACES CHARGES ON PRIORITIES   Shipbuilder, Noting Five ‘Errors Monthly, Says ‘Thank God We're That Good’

Charge Kaiser Violation of Priority Rules   Ship Builder Says Remarkable Company Building Two Ships a Day Should Make So Few Errors

KAISER COMPANY CHARGED BY WPB   Shipbuilding Concern Cited on 31 Counts .

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OFFERS "PAY AS GO" SUGGEB_ TION FOR INCOME TAX” COLLECTION

MODIFIED 1 TAX PLAN PROPOSED   Withholding Levy Of 20 Per Cent Suggested; “42 Liabilities Deferred

Harlan Miners Out on Strike In Three Mines   Jnionists Allege They Cannot Get $38,000 in Back Wages

Claim Unsettled Arbitration Cases in Which Coal Companies Owe Miners Between $38,000 and $39,000

U.S. FIFTH ARMY IN ACTION TODAY FOR FIRST TIME   Secty. Stimson Announces Landings on Beaches In — Vicinity of Maples. 

Fifth Army Now Goes Into Actior For First Time   Stimson Warns of Heavy Fighting Yet To Come In Italy —

Stimson Sees Possibility Of Hard Fighting   Fifth Army Is Making Satisfactory Progress In Naples Area, Says Secretary Of War

Part of Fifth U, 5. Army in Action For First Time Near Naples, Htaly

Private Newman And Miss Lucille Schneider Wed  Principals Members  Of Well  Known  rr? sp...

Private Newman  And Miss Lucille Schneider Wed  Principals Members Of Well Known  Hinton Families

Hinton Girl Weds Sioux City Soldier   Lucille Garland and Pvt. George C. Newman Tale Vows At Sionx City

CONTINENTAL OPERATIONS ASSURED THIS SUMMER, DIRECTOR ELMER DAVIS REPORTS  European Conquest May Start Before Fall Of Africa, Bureau Head Asserts

PLAN OPERATION ON CONTINENTAL _ EUROPE IN SUMMER   This Information Was Given Today by OWI Director Elmer Davis.   NORTH AFRICA FIRST   May Be Necessary to Leave a Pocket of Axis Resistance There.

May Launch Attack Before Bizerte Falls   Continent to Be Invaded Soon, Ravis Declares

it's to Be Ihis Summer  Elmer Davis Says 2nd Front Will Be Opened in Europe

Allied Invasion Of Europe This  Summer Certair   — LLIN PPAVIS May Come Before Africz Fully Cleaned Up, Says O. W_L. Chief.

OWI! Chief Thinks It May Be Possible To Go Ahead With Invasion Plans Even Though Bizerte Remains In Axis Hands For A Time.

Allied Invasion Of Europe Certain For This Summer, O. W. I. Head Says

Invasion Of Continental Europe Is Certain This Summer, Davis Says

Predicts Allied — Operations In Europe In Summer   Davis Also Liidicates Al: lies May Encounter Strong Difficulty ac Bizerte.

ALLIED THRUST AT AXIS HEART APPEARS NEAR   Director of OW! Says Operations On Continent of Europe Thjs Summer Certain   POSSIBLE EVEN WITHOUT BIZERTEI   Of Opinion Invasion May Be Made With Enemy Still Holding Pocket In  African Port City

SAYS ALLIES WILL INVADE THIS SUMMER   OWI Chief Elmer Davis Believes It Possible to Go Ahead With’ European Drive Even Before Finale in Tunisia.

INVASION PLANS CLAIMED READY   Africa To Be Cleaned Up In Time, Declares  OW! Director

 So Davis Declares   2nd Front Near Opening This Summer  Seen By OWI Head

SAYS EUROPE T0 BE INVADED THIS SUMMER   Axis May Hold Out For A Time At Riverte —

Operations By Allies  ‘On Continent This Summer   Davis, Head Of OWF, Confident Invasion Of Europe ls Coming Soon

‘0. W. . CHIEF ELMER DAVIS IS SURE A SECOND FRONT WILL COME IN SUMMER

“Second Front This Summer”   Invasion of Continental Europe Sure, O. W: . Director Davis Reveals

[Davis Certain Allies Will Invade     ‘European Continent This Summer   Allied Operations On Continent Do Not Necessarily Have To Await Ousting Of Axis From North Africa, Says O.W.I. Chief. ~

DAVIS FORECASTS ; INVASION: OF EUROPE   OW! Head: Looks for. Allied Action on Continent.

Davis Certain Allies To Land  In Europe Soon   OWI Head Says Bizerte’s Fall May Not Be Awaited

ALLIES FACE "EUROPE FRONT   Continental Operations this Summer Are Seen By OWI Chief

Davis Predicts “Second Front’ During Summer  Attack On Europe May Come Before Africa Is Cleared

Says There Is No Question About It   Allied Forces May Strike Before Bizerte Is Finally Won   HEAVY ARTILLERY ALREADY IN RANGE

MAY LEAVE NAZI POCKET IN TUNISIA   Clean-up in Africa is Not Necessary fo Permit Landing on European Continent   ITALIANS SHOW FEAR

Summer Invasion Of Europe Seen   Davis Says Allies Might Strike Before Port of a  zerte Is Taken.

Senate Set For Action on Pacts  Seek Longer Period of Power Extension

HOUSE RENEWS FDR POWER OVER TRADE   Trim Extension Time from Three to Two Years; Lose Veto Proviso

HOUSE APPROVES RENEWING FDR’S TRADE AUTHORITY   Reciprocal Trade Measure Expected to Get Speedy Senate  Caneidaratinn.

Sangro River Crossed by Eighth Army Patrols; US Troops Make Advances

Pile Warns Businessmen Of Forgeries   CHIEF OF POLICE SAYS SECRET SERVICE WANTS GOVERNMENT CHECKS WATCHED; DEMAND IDENTIFICATION.

CHIEF JONES WARNS AGAINST FALSE CHECKS   Co-operating With U. S. Secret Service to Protect Mer chants and Public   OUTLINES SOME RULES

SERVICE CHECKS WARNING MADE   Secret Services Calls Attention of Business “_ Men to Forgeries .:°:

HOW RATIONING OF  CANNED GOODS WIL!  WORK 1S EXPLAINED QUESTION AND ANSWER  INFORMATION FROM PRICE ANMINISTRATION

Herders Figure Out New Quiz Bee For Canned Food List In Februarv

ALLIED CONVOY LEAVES GIBRALTAR   Large Allied Landing Barges _ With Cannon Included

ITALY INVASION AREA CLEARED BY MUSSOLINI   Allies Destroy 39 Axis Planes In Kayo Air Blows

Major Attack Asainst U-Boats Now Developing   British Bombers Open Campaign On Nazi U-Boat Base In France   FOLLOWS ATTACKS MADE UPON RUHR

U. S. NAVY TWO YEARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULED GOAL   Will Equal All Rest of the World’s Fleet by End of Year 1944

‘BUTTER VS. MARGARINE   Old Controversy Is Again Revived In House By Fulmer

Battle Royal Looms In Farm Bloc ‘In Butter Vs. Margarine Dispute

Fight Started. On Margariac   Dairy’ Interests Tr ying To Preyent Remov al. Of Taxation. ©

50,000 Troops Captured in Africa Clean-Up   Axis Resistance Collapses Under Land, Sea, Air Blows;  Four German Cenerals Taken

Army Will Help Find  Positions   ‘Selective Service System in Reverse’ Is Described  by Official

JOB SYSTEM FOR SOLDIERS IN POST WAF   Selective Service System Will Be Used in Reverse to Provide Jobs for Military

R. Was: Feeling Gay, So Clothes: ‘Rationing Is Neare   Taken By Creation ndon Tailor For. Admiral ..

PLANS FOR FEEDING LIBERATED NATIONS   European Nations Should Be Able To Come Back In Two Years And China In About Three

WARSHIPS HIT AXIS CONVOY IN BOLD BLOW   Pantelleria Rocked By Third Naval Assault; 137 Allied Vessels Leave ‘Rock.’   UNITED NATIONS SILENT   Rome, Berlin Busy With Story of Three Armadas That Enter Mediterranean.

PUTSU.S. MUCE NEARER JAP TERRITORY   Now “Within Striking Distance,” Says Seeretary of War

OPA Rules On Giving Fuel For Vacations   Action Immediately Stirs Protests From Those Planning Short Trips   RULES ARE STRINGENT

OPA Headed For Hot Water  Vacation Trip Plan Attacked By Those Who Muct Stay Hom

See Headache In  Gas Concession   OPA Concedes Enforcement Of Pleasure Ban To Be Difficult.

OPA Heads _ Info Trouble On Vacations   Ruling Brings Protests From Motorists Who Would Like Short Trips .

OPA HEADING INTO TROUBLE   Brown’s Relaxing of Ban a Bit Makes Enforeing Hard

OPA HEADS FOR MORE GASOLINE TROUBLES   Motorists Who Do Not Want TT: Take Vacation Trips Want Some Consideration

- VACATION TRIP ) PERMIT GIVES E, OPAHEADACHI   Grant Extended to Holders of & and C Ration Books Bui Musi Be Made on A Rations

\OPAVacation RulingBrings Big Headache   Motorists Warned <A Coupons Must Provide All Gas for Round Trip

WHISKY TAXING PLAN STUDIED   Senate Considers Proposal To : Force Marketing

HULL, EDEN IN NOSCOW FOR - CONFERENCE   Parley‘is Expected to + Deal Largely With Post-War Matters

Hull and Filen Reach Moscow ~ For Conference   American and British Diplomafs Greeted__ : By Molotov

hULL AND EDEN HAVE ARRIVED IN MOSCOW      Accompanied By W. Averill Harriman, New Ambassador to Russia; Greeted By Russian High Officials.   Full Staff

Assurances of “Second Front’ Expected to be Given at Moscow  Ministers Conf.

Believe Russia Will Be Offered dnd Front tn “44   Allies To Ask For Right To "Observe" At Soviet Fronts

ASSURANCES OF SECOND FRONT 10 BE OFFERED REDS   Will Be First Question Before Conference of Allied Foreian Ministers.

‘SECOND FRONT PLEDGE PLANNED   U. §&. Britain Prepared To Make Offer To Soviets

SECOND FRONT EXPECTED BY EARLY SPRING      Russia To Be Assured By, U. S Britain Of Proposed Plans

Cut in Rations Of Commercial  Gas Users Asked   Eastman Says ‘Preferred’ List Must Be Sliced To Aid Civilians

GAS USERS’ LIST CUT REQUESTED   Eastman Asks Nelson to Cut “Preferred” Commercial - Listinas

PREFERRED GAS LIST FAGES GUT   ODT Urges Commercial Users Of Gasoline is Northeastern Shortage Area Be Slashed; Travel Forms Described

JAP POSITIONS ARE REDUCED   Allied Planes Raid For Eighth Straight Dav.

‘Jap Positions in Sanananda Area ‘Are Further Reduced; Allied 'Planes Baid Nin Bases Heavily   Enemy Troops Remaining in Papua Secto of New Guinea Have Been Pocketed Into Four Small, Ineffective Groups

Edict Expected This Week, Eliminates More Frills in Women's Apparel

Italian Soldiers Waiting To Hand Over Palermo; No Fight  Papulace Cheers. Throws Gifts And Flowers To  . Cn oe 4.mthwioews62hu:kckhehePhhfhee wre re

Palermo Taken Without A Shot   Yanks Make 60-Mile Advance To Take Sicilian Capital.

PALERMO FALLS WITHOUT SHOT OF RESISTANCE   Doughboys Win Race  Tramping to Outskirts After 60-Mile Advance From Castelvetrano   CHEER CONQUERORS   Populace Throws Gifts: of Flowers and Fruit and Pour Free Wine; Italian Soldiers Kiss Yanks

60,000 Enemy Troops Taken; No More Axis  Airfields Left   Warships Shell German Resistance South Of Catania   Palermo Fell Without Firing Single Shot In Its Defense

Palermo Taken Without A Shot  Independence Gunner Is Hero Of Assault

SICILY CAPITAL FALLS WITHOUT SHOT FIRED   American Doughboys Find Italian Defenders Packed anc Waiting To Surrender—Civilians Give Yanks Warm Welcome

Palermo Falls  Without a Shot   Historic Sicilian City Gives Up to American Doughboys.

Two More Income Tax Bills Offered   Another Would Exempt REA Lines

BILLS TO EASE INCOME TAX IN IOWA PROPOSED   One of Them Calls for Nearly Doubling Exemptions. More Local Option Measures Filed

New Demonstrations  For Peace Reportec  Soldiers Patrol Industrial Section Of Rome

Peace Demonstrations in  Rome Reported as Troops Patrol Northern Cities

Federal Bureaus Squabble Over Irrigation Jobs  Projects For Wartime Food   APPROVE PROJECTS

PARTLY FVACUATED   Speaker Reports Three-Way Tussle Over Irrigation

PUSH ON MUNDA SETTLED DOWN   Enemy Strong Points Being Liquidated; Rain Slows Raid

Red Gross War Drive Date Set   PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS NEED FOR GREAT  CAMPAIGN      BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION

By the President of the United States of America  A PROCLAMATION

A Proclamation  Pas 'T'Lo Pececedonut (if 'T'Lo Tleaéttaod Ctaeteoc

AIR WARFARE . S CONTINUED OVER EUROPE   FLERTS OF. ALLIED PLANES “+ CONTINUE NON-STOP °-. ABRIAL OFFENSIVE ‘AGAINST AXIS — ' *FARGETS

lowa Income — TaxFormsNot To Be Mailed   Distribution Will Be By Courthouse, Bank and Newspaper

FORD WAR WORKERS END WILDCAT STRIKE   9000 Employes Idie During Walk-Out

RUMANIANS SEEK TO FLEE COUNTRY   Thousonds Crowd Neutral faneulatae far Vicac

RUMANIANS SCARED AS REDS DRIVE ON   aaa ania ncnasiacars  Threat of War Causes Many To Try To Flee Country

Tension Is High In Rumania; Populace Is Evacuating East   Thousands Seek Visas To Leave Country; Government Crisis Looms: Demo Trend Seen

ACT T0 SAVE STOCK FEEDS   County Joins Statewide Move, Director Annowces.

Civilian Draft May Receive Group's Study   House Committee Action Is Possible On Proposals —~

Civilian Draft Measure Gains Capital Notice   Would Create Army, Navy Maintenance Corps To Fill Service Needs.   DRAFT HEADS APPROVE

SET FIRES AT BIZERTE   Allies Artillery, Planes Wreck Dock Facilities

British Take Tunis Path’s Key Barrier   Bombers, Artillery Pounding Shipping; Yanks Drive 4 Miles

Ground Forces Pound Closer To Naval Base   Heavy Bombers Join Assault On Tunisia’:  Second City; British First Army Takes  : Last Barrier Guarding Tunis Plains

BOMB CITY WHILE ATTACK IS MADE ON TUNIS HARBOR   Clear Weather Gives Aviators Field Day, Two Vessels Sunk and Several Others Damaaed.   BIG RED ATTACK IS FORCING AXIS BACK   Allied Aviators Report One Large Jap Cargo Vessel, Two Smaller Ones Are Damaaed.

ARTILLERY AND PLANES KINDLE ROARING FIRES   Allied Land Forces Push Closer To Biggest Tunisian Rasec

BRITISH SEIZE LAST BARRIER ON TUNIS ROAD   First Army Nears Tebourba And Is Only 21 Miles Outside Capita!  ‘   BOU AQUKAZ CAPTURED      Americans Mop Up tn Northern Sector; Two Axis Ships Are Sunk

ONE YANK PLANE FIGHTS 5 ZEROS   An Enemy Ship Destroyed i: Action Over Foe-held Nauru Island

Nazis Take Vital Adriatic Navy Base   The War Today— Allies Doing All Right In Italy Despite Nazi Fog Of Propaganda

eiau VE we US ati 3 ¢ Germans Attempting To Confuse Public With Reports From Italy.

[LARGE PART OF CONFUSION IN ITALY IS DELIBERATE FOG BY (CERMAN PROPAGANDA MACHINE

HOUSE REPUBLICANS FROM OHIO ENDORSE BRICKER’S CANDIDACY   Move Linked Closely To Stop-Willkie Drive Within Party

Ohio GOP Congressmen For Bricker; State Democrats Eye Governorship

Finnish Hopes For Peace Grow After Parliament Debates Foreign Policy

Americans’ Last Days in Corregidor Described by an A.P. Corresponden

‘Dazed, Sick, But Brave to the End,  Told of Americans on Corregidor

20 Killed In Airliner Crash In Kentucky   Two Passengers Only Survivors

Allies shoot down one intercepting enemy plane out of. 13 attackers:

TROOP JAMIL JAP TRANSPORT SUNK BY BOMBS   Cargo Vessel Is Also Sunk In Attack By MacArthur Bombers On Convoy

‘NEEDED RAINS ARRIVE   Mountain-Like Breezes to Hold Temperatures Down _-

Oklahoma Hits Top In D.C.   Premiere of Musical Show Draws Official Who’s Who

A COMPLETE SUCCESS   Capital Premiere of “Oklahoma” Attracted a Large Audience

Pittsburgh's Gas Dealers Cut 30%   Acute Shortage for Motorists Probable

MGM STUDIO APPEALS MICKEY ROONEY’S 1A   Move Seen as Test Case for Actors

Studio Files Appeal In His Classification As 1-A By Draft Board In Sacramento  “OKAY” WITH HIM M-G-M Points Out That         M-G-M Points Out That Carpenters Deferred But Actors Are Not Held Essential

Urge Iowans To, Push Drive  For Scrap Iron   Pocahontas County One of Nine _ Counties to Reach Quota

IOWANS URGED TO COLLECT SCRAP   Still Ample. Supplies To Be Gathered

Plagman, State Salvage Chairman, Says Iowa’s Showing Is “Shameful’"

Intensive Scrap Drive Is Now In Progress To Fill lowa’s Quota   Many Counties Lagging As Need Grows Urgent At Nation’s War Plants

[LUCAS COUNTY IS TRAILING—  Scrap Drive to End June 30   Iowa Must Have More Scrap ‘to Make Quota This Month. oR

Legal Price For Butter Is Set By OPA   Specific Dollars And Cents Ceilings Are Established In Order To Curb Black Market

Italy Still Mum  On Peace Issue   Patterson Says Sicily About Done

Seven Fliers Killed In Bomber Crash   Ship From Base in South Carolina Said Struck by Lightning

Soldier Who Was Object Of Search, After Dog Bite, Found   Private Scarpine is Discovered In Pittsburgh; Had Been There Ali The Time

AGREE ON CUT IN NEWSPRINT   10 Per Cent. Additional to Be Effective April 1, Officials State

Big Brazilian Air Liner Crashes   Eighteen Killed in TakeOff Disaster At Sao Paulo

HEAVY LIFE LOSS WHEN BRAZIL AIR LINER CRASHED   Rio De Janeiro Naval Academy Struck by Plane and At Least 15 Killed

Crash in Brazil Takes 18 Lives   Archbishop of Sao Paula Is Among Number Killed

10 ARE AILLED IN RIO CRASH   Brazilian Air Liner Strikes Building While Taking Of in Foq

18 Of 21 On Board Killed In Brazilian  Plane Crash   Archbishop Of Sao Paulo Among Dead; Accident Occurred Pouring Takeoff

18 Killed When  Airliner Crashes  Brazilian Plane Rams Into Building

18 DIE AS PLANE HITS BUILDING IN TAKEOFE   Big Air Liner Strikes Naval School in Brazil

EIGHTEEN DIE IN AIR LINER CRASH   Sao Paulo Archbishop Among Those Killed at Rio De Janeiro.

LAST NAZI HELD BASTION EAST OF DNIEPER FALLS   Opens Possible Red Drive or Former Polish Province of Polesie

Reds Drive On Toward Poland   Two Other Russian Armies Move In For Kill. ,

PROBLEMS BESET GERMAN MARSHAL   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst  (Dae Ti & Det ma...

IRON PRODUCTION OFF   Idle (Coal Mines Are Reflected in Alabama Decrease

RATION POINT VALUES ON BEEF CUT; CITRUS JUICES, SOUPS NOW POINT-FREE

Beef Leads List of Food Point Cuts   Butter Remains Same; Cheese, Canned Fish Among New Increases

Curbs Droppec on Soups   END BUYING REINS.ON GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, CANNED SAUERKRAUT

RATION VALUE CUT ORDERED FOR BEEF   Restrictions Lifted Entirely From Citrus Juices, Canned Sauerkraut And Soups Of Ready-To-Serve Variety

Beef Ration Points Down   Lamb, Mutton, Veal, Many Pork Cuts Little Changed

Wide Point Value Cut   Beef and Most Canned Vegetables Lower; Fish And Cheese Are Higher

Greatest Point Value Reductions Are Announced tor Processed Foods

More Meat; Fewer Points, Thanks to OPA   Housewives Assured of 30 Pct. Saving in Meat Rations

Citrus juices Free of Points; Beef Rating Materially Cut;  Ready-to-Serve Souns Free

OPA ANNOUNCES CUT ON POINT VALUES OF BEEF   NEW SCHEDULE IS EFFECTIVE SUNDAY; BUTTER UNCHANGED

Some Foods Off Rationed List  Some Vegetables   Some Vegetables Are Reduced in Point Value

HIGHER ALLOWANCE OF BEEF FOR RATION POINTS BE GRANTED   GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, CANNED SAUERKRAUT, SOUPS ARE RATION-FREE

Ration Point Value of Beef Reduced   Grapefruit Juice and Canned Sauerkraut and Ready-toServe Soups Removed from Rationing

POINT VALUES OF BEEF Cu   Substantial Cut is An. nounced by OPA, Effective Sunday.

Canned Products. Meat Points Cut  Grapefruit Juice, Soups  Dieannead ene I tat

Cut In Points Is Announced   More Beef Is Available And Citrus Juice Is Rated At Zero 

Cut in Beef and Processed ~ Food Points   New. . Schedules: Effective Sunday Make Big Changes - Gn Some Values...

BEEF TO BE CUT 110 3 RATION POINTS APOUND   Many Reductions Are Made in Processed  Food Charge by OPA

Slash in Beef Points Announced Grapefruit Tniee   Grapefruit Juice And Soups Will Be Point-Free ~  - On New Schedule

Allies Break Japs Sanananda Line  On New Guinea  Forward Positions Destroyed; Arms, Equipment Seized  END MUBO RAID  ! Allied Planes Extend Range in Widespread Attacks in Islands  ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN ALISTRAIIA Gat   SEEKS CITIZENSHIP

Blast Airdrome 10 Miles From Tripoli American Bombers Land  Initial Blow In Aerial Squeeze Against Rommel

Yank Bombers Visit Rommel   Sweep Into Libya Trying ‘To Smash Men Heading For Tunisia Stand

Charges Reecho On Capitol Hill  Says Auto Industry Benancinn Haltad

Position in Tunisia Reversed  Rommel Now Holds f rot.  4 a   Rommel Now Holds Long Line in Danger of Attack

Positionin — Tunisia Reversed  Rommel Now’ Holds   Romine} Now: Holds Long:Line‘in’. . Danger ‘of Attack

CHANGE IN TUNISIAN SITUATION TO BRING CASABLANCA PROGRAM INTO ACTION ON PLANNED TIME

ROMMEL REVERSE. FINE ALLIED FEAT   Status of Contending Armies in Tunisia  Quickly Changed .  THREAT REMOVED, OUTLOOK ALTERED

‘Rommel’s Failure To Crack Allied Lines Presents More-Hopeful Sign

The War Today   ‘Axis’ Setback in Tunisia Mav Hasten Second Front

Committee Of AFL Rejects Lewis’ Offer   Finds His Proposition No’ Satisfactory; Delegates Could Override Group

LEWIS TERMS REJECTED   AFL Report Still Leaves Deor Open Fer Ae-admission Of LMW

President Expects Miners to Return to Pits Tomorrow   Seizes Properties in Effort to Keep Coal Coming to Markets

BACK T0 WORK MOVE HELD MOST LIKELY   U. M. W. In Meeting Today: President Authorizes Ickes To Start Collective Baraainina

Mines Are ‘Taken ‘Over iby Gov’t   Heavy Penalties Hang over United. Mine‘ Workers if Order to ‘Dig is Not Given

LEWIS AND ICKES IN CONFERENCE TUESDAY ON MINE SITUATION  "MINES HAVE BEEN TAKEN  OVER BY GOVERNMENT  FOR SECOND TIME

INES SEIZED; ATION AWAITS UNION ACTION   wis And Ickes Meet In 45- Minute Conference

Government Again Takes Over Mines: FR Says Pits To Be Opened Wednesday

JOHN -ANDICKES AIR MINE PROBLEM   Both Authorized to Enter Collective Bargaining Deals Under Government Seizure Order   ROOSEVELT ORDERS MINERS TO WORK   Deadline Set For Tomor~ row Morning; Union Policy Group Expected to Comply

Ickes, Lewis Confer on Coal Seizure   Situetion Awaits Deodline on F.R. Order to Miners

LEWIS, ICKES IN PARLEY ON MINERS STRIKE   Neither Will Say What They Discussed or Conclusions at Which They Arrived Today.

MINERS MARK TIME Ao FLAG HOISTED AGAIN   Government Seizure Expected to Bring Showdown in Coal Row...

Ickes May Sign Agreement With Lewis Union  Any Contract Under Government Seizure Of Mines Must Be Accepted By Operators

LEWIS, ICKES CONFER: BOTK WITHHOLD WORD   Raise U. S$. Flag Again Over Pits, Order Miners to Return Wednesday

PRESIDENT CALLS ON UNION MINERS TO RESUME WORK   Ickes Given Authority to Negotiate New Wage  Cantract

Flags Raised As Uncle Sam  Seizes Mines   Ickes And. Lewis Confer As FDR Orders. Men Back TooShafts

Lewis, Ickes Confer After Mine Seizure   Roosevelt Announces Pits Will Be Opened By Gov ernment Tomorrow.   LITTLE COAL MINED

NATION WAITS DECISION OF COAL MINERS   Ickes, Lewis Confer As Gov't Takes Over Operations 4

Lewis Calls on Ickes as Mines Are Seized Again   Roosevelt Orders Workers Back on Jobs Tomorrow

Mines of Nation Under U.S. Control  Ickes and Lewis Hold Conference On Resuming Work in Coal Pits

Strikers Ordered to Dig Coal Immediately or Face Possibility Severe Penalties

Ickes and Lewis Meet _ This Morning   Pw: . Government Orders Min ' ers Back to Jobs Tomor. — row Morning

Nation’s Coal Mines Seized on FDR Order   Miners Must Return Wednesday or Suffer Severe Penalties

Nation Awaits Union Decision  On Work Order   Govt. Seizure Of Mines Forces Issue; Stiff Penalties On Unionists If They Prolong Strike.

U. . oElZURE TO OPEN MiNts AGAIN, BELIET   Sec. Ickes Given Authority To Negotiate Contract With Mine Unions

SEIZURE ORDERED AGAIN   Strike-Paralyzed Coal Industry Under Government Control  7   WAGE BOOST DEMANDED

ORDERS STRIKERS TO START MINING COAL WEDNESDAY   MINERS FACE STIFF PENALTIES UNDER WAR DISPUTES ACT

Lewis Sees ‘Ickes, Us. ~ Mine Boss   No Report From Parley and Union’ Leadership. Has Not «A ynounced: Plans   GOVERNMENT WILL -. PROPEN MINES   Outcome Uncertain,But Two **° Conrses Are Open to-: -Tinion Heads

Coal Mines Are Again Seized By Government   American Flags Once More Fly Over Pits as Truce FE ynires.   UMW to Meet Today;  Expect Reaction

ICKES, LEWIS MEET AS U.S. SEIZES MINES   Secretary of Interior Has Power to Negotiate With Union Under Roosevelt's Order.

Ickes and Lewis Meet This Morning   Government Orders Min ers Back to Jobs Tomor row Morning

Ickes Talks With Lewis As American Flags Are Raised Over Coal Mines

Lewis, Ickes Confer On Miner Deal   President Orders Mine Seizure and Insists On Miners Resuming Work

Ickes Again Operating Coal Mines   President's Seizure Order Follows UMW Policy Commiltee’s Fail. ure to Take Any Action   May Negotiate Contract   resident Calls for Mines’ to be Reopened Wednesday — Ickes and John L. Lewis Confer

Coal Mines Again Operaling Under Federal Control   Union Leadership Holds Decision For Next Maior Action

Charles Francis Dies Wednesday   Veteran of First World War Passes at Hospital in Des Moines

Senator Sees No Demand for  Price Increase  Aiken Says Congress To Get Blame If Rise Is Permitted

Aiken Declares There Is No General Demand for Increase In All-Farm Prices; Creating False Impression.

SENATOR AIKEN RAPS ADMINISTRATION — ARGUMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES

Senator Sees No Demand for Price Increase   Aiken Says Congres   To Get Blame If

Red Army Is Reported At Dnieper   Nearing Old Polish Fror tier—Advance of Four teen Miles in Italy

REDS PLUNGE .; 16 MIILES INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Yanks, Tommies Drive Nearer  To Naples

FIGHT IN oNOW d,O00 FELT UP ON MOUNTAINS   U. §. Troops Capture Spilucchio Height; British Said - to Be in Orsogna.

TAKE KEY HEIGHT IN FIERCE SCRAP      Clark’s Fifth Army Gains Mile and Half in Central Italian Sector

Fifth Army Takes High Summit Of Monte Snilucchio   Gen. Clark’s Army Takes Strategically Important Height In Italian Battle  ; j f i   FURIOUS FIGHTING HAS DEVELOPED

Seek New Bus Line Here to Sioux City   Em’sburg and Mal. lard are Palo Alto towns to be served.

Allies Gets 14 Craft In Pacific   Fight Over New Guinea Results In Yank Victory

ALLIES DESTROY 93 JAP PLANES   —_  wv. S$. Submarines, Too, Score Victories in Pacific

23 PLANES: IN BATTLE   Second Major Victory For Allies Brings Score To 47

ANOTHER VICTORY OCCURS IN PACIFIC   American Dive Bombers Unload 20 Tons of Bombs Upon Japanese Base.

14 JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN AT LAE   Possibly Toll Was 23 for Second Major Aerial Victory in the Australian Theatre

LIVE PORK PRICES DROP TO NEW LOW   Hit Lowest Level Since December 1942

PRICE SUPPORT BY GOVERNMENT LOOMS FOR HOGS   Recent Threats To Apply Price Ceiling Now Goes Into Reverse   PRICE SLUMP RESPONSIBLE   Scarcity of Feed Blamed For Unusually Heavy Runs at Market

Japs Gather Big Armada   Rabaul is Base for Largest Concentration Seen in Pacific War

JAP CONCENTRATION OF-NAVAL SHIPPING CONTINUES AT RABAUL   Further Concentration Noted by Reconnaissance Since Tuesday at New Britain

JAPS MASS AT RABAULBASE   Yanks Bomb Transport in Solomons, Attack Air Bases

Japs Massing More Ships At Rabaul  2 Raids Made On Jap Base   2 Raids Made On Jap Base  On Solomone~ Transport Hit

‘Reconnaissance Shows More  Ja p Ships Gathered At Rabaul   Enemy Naw Hac Creater Force There Than   Enemy Now Has Greater Force There Than Used For First Counter-Blow In Solomons

IAP ARMADA SAID TOBE INCREASING   Exceeds Number of Jap hips In Last 

JAP SHIPPING IS INCREASING AT RABAUL   Concentration Now Ex _ ceeds That Gathered by Enemy for First. Counter-Attack on Eastern Solomons.

Forces Greater Than Those Which Tried First Counterattack On Eastern Solomons

Japs Massing More Ships At Rabaul   2 Raids Made On Jap Base  On Solomons— Transport Hit

Jap Shipping Increased At  Rabaul Base   Concentration Is Larger Than Foe Lad At Firat

Japs Gathering For Big Attack   Nippons Have Large Concentration at Their Big  Base at Rabaul.

JAP SHIPPING GATHERING AT RABAUL      Even Greater Than That Marshaled By Enemy. For First Counter Attack Against Sol Lrrarrea»n»n a   Allies Stirred

JAPS INCREASE FORCE   Giant Armada Being Assembled At Rabaul, Reports Claim

ATRABAULBASE   Fliers Report Many. Enemy Vessels Being Con‘gregated There.

Jap Shipping AtRabaul- Reinforc reed   Armada Exceeds Fleet Used in Solomons Attack

Huge Jap Naval Force Massing    Aussies Say Force Largest Ever Seen

JAP SHIPPING AUGMENTED IN RABAUL AREA   MELBOURNE SAYS AERIAL SURVEY SHOWS BIG CONCENTRATION

Red Army Spring Offensive  To Split Germany's Forces Temryuk; Near Sea Of Azoy, Is Scene Of New  I a A Re OE

NAZIS REPORT NEW RED DRIVE   Sey Russian Offensive is Aimed at Splitting Germans in Kuban

Russians attempt to split German forces  at Kuban bridgehead   Have not achieved ‘lasting success;’ air fishting heavy in Caucasus area

Russians Open New Offensive,  Berlin Asserts  Moscow Confines Its Bulletin to Saying *Fishting Continued’

GERMANS REPORT NEW SOVIET DRIVE   SAY REDS ARE TRYING TO SPLIT FORCES HOLDING KUBAN BRIDGEHEAD,

Red Army Launches New Offensive To Split Germans  Air Battle Becomes More Furious In Caucasus Area

RED OFFENSIVE BEGUN IN KUBAN   Attempt Made To Split German Forces Left In Caucasus

RED ARMY SPRINGS NEW DRIVE IN EFFORT SPLIT BRIDGEHEAD IN SOUTH   Air Forces Of Both Sid es Making Thousands Of Flights A Day  n Stepped-Up Sky Fighting Over -The Caucasus

MADISON COUNTY  SHERIFF CHARGED  AIDING IN ESCAPE FBI AGENTS ARRESTED  YOUTHFUL SHERIFF RODNEY CHAMRILECC

Sheriff Pleads Innocent Of FBI Abetting Charge   Madison County Man Arraigned In Case Of Prisoner's Escape

ie DESTROYS. PAPER PLAN}   Loss’ of $450,000 Comes in. -Destruction -. of “Kress Box Co.

22 JAP PLANES DOWNED, ALLIED AIRMEN REPORT  _ More Activity In _W. Pacific Is

Fury Of Pacific Air War Mounts   Jap Zeroes And Anti-Aircraft Resist Raiders Of Allies.

Japanese Are Using Barges To Save Ships  Five Sunk And Five  Others Beached After Attacks By Allies

Fury of Air War in Pacific Mounts as  Japs Resist Yank:   Nips’ Dogged Efforts to  Supply New Guinea —— Bases ChaHenged ——

FURY OF AERIAI WAR IN PACIFIL HELD MOUNTING   Japanese Making Dogged Attempts To Supply Their Menaced New Guinea Bases: by Barge   ALLIES CHALLENGING   Attempting to Neutralize Enemy Air Strongholds  Above New Guinea   by Heavy Raids

Relief Costs County $61,183   Supervisors Receive Ex. penditure Report

COUNTY BOARD HEARS REPORTS   Heads of Berrien Institutions Hand In Financial Surveys

Representative Sumner Tells of Information She Has Recently Heard.

Spot Of Jam AReal Treat . In New Guinea  11,.d To.) Tatbec   Hard Tack Takes On New Life With Sweet Spread

Soldiers Find Little Things Important.    -Duty in Far Off Places Brings a “Real Appreciation Of Many Things .

THREE CITIES OBJECT   Newton, Halstead and Burrton Fear for Their Water Supply

ALLIED PLANES CROSSED ENGLISH CHANNEL TODAY   w ere Headed in the Direction of Northern France   MANY RAF FIGHTERS   Anti-Aireraft Fire on the Continent to the Right of Boulogne, Seen.

SICK, HURT ARE USING AIRPLANES   125.000 Have Been Flown Home From Battle Areas During 20 Months.

Hospital Planes Perform Miracles  Transport 125,000 Wounded and Sick

JUGOSLAVS SEIZE FOUR MORE TOWNS   Partison Troops Said To Hold Most Of Split  . And Susak

EXTRADITION OF SHIER GRANTED   Man Will Be Brought Back To This State.

DEFEAT BILL TO PROHIBIT SALE OF HORSE MEAT    Senate Votes to Extend Parole Privilege To Life Termers

SALE OF HORSE MEAT GETS NOD   Bill to Prohibit Dispensation Killed By Solons

AMERICANS TO HOLD INVASION REHEARSAL   Evacuation of English Country. side Begins to Make Way for U. S. Troops.

fden Slates Soviet Talks   Meeting With Russian Seen As Siqnificant

British Film Tagged Best War Picture   four Photographers Killed In Shooting ‘Desert Victory’

Millionaire’s Wife Killed in Car Crash   MATE OF BACKER OF DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY DIES NEAR LONE PINE

Hundreds Of Swiss Examing Bombers   Crews Described As “Fine Appearing Men”

Swiss Marvel  At U.S. ‘Forts’   lnterned Crews Treated as Honored Guests

WRIGHT IS CHOSEN -ASSOCIATION HEAD   New Officers Named by Washington Co. Tax. payers’ Ags’n  n

WRIGHT IS CHOSER ASSOCIATION HEAD   New Officers Named by Washington Co. Toxpavers Ass'n

FRANCE HIT BY BIG ALLIED DIANE FLEETS   Raid Follows Rehearsal of New Invasion

RECORD AIR RAIDS MADE ON FRANCE   Attacks Across Channel Are Continuous

German Capita! - Reports Paris Was Main  Target   AIRDROME HIT   Thousands Of U.S, Aircraft In Action

BATTERS NAZI AAFIELOS AND PENH CAST   Allies Keep Up Shuttle Raid Thru Wednesday Night and Thursday.   FOLLOWS FULL DRESS INVASION REHEARSAL

Greatest F leets Raiding France   Advance Rumors of New Invasion .

AIR FLEETS BOMBARDING NAZI TARGETS   Pre - Invasion” Bombard: ment Continues In’ ‘Faster Pace :

U.S. Bombers Raid France In Sudden Stepping Up Of Aerial Offensive

RAILROAD RATE INCREASE ENDS   Suspension Of Previous Level Voted By 1.6 765

ICC SUSPENDS FREIGHT BOOST   6-To-5 Vote Seen As OPA Victorv In Cost Cut

ICC Acts to  Cut Railway Freight Rates   Decision Major Gain for OPA; Commissioz Vate is Six to Five

CUT IN FREIGHT RATES ORDERED   ICC SUSPENDS 4.7 PER CENT INCREASE GRANTED CARRIERS YEAR AGO.

FURIOUS ASSAULTS ” STARTED BY NAZIS   Soviet Positions Along the Upper Donets Front. . pHtacked

VIOLENT BATTLE RAGES IN DONETS   NAZIS ATTACK IN FORCE, BUT ARE HURLED BACK BY RED COUNTER-BLOWS.

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED ON UPPER DONETS   Germans in Fierce Assaults with Tanks  And Artillery

Red Army Counterattacks Repulse Latest Of Germen Thrusts Which Result In Biq Losses

Reds counterattack. furious  German assault on Donets   Threatening initiative still rests in German hands as offensive renewed

NAZI ASSAULT IS BLUNTED IN UPPER DONETS   TANKS AND BIG GUNS ARE HURLED INTO COSTLY BATTLE

NAZI OFFENSIVE IN DONETS AREA BEATENBY REDS   500 Germans Killed And 22 Tanks Damaged In  Furious Assault

Russians Blunt Furious German Assault on Reds Donets Position   Resurgence of Fighting after Comparative Lull Costs Nazis 500 Men, 22 Tanks and 10 Guns

Germans Open Furious Assault On Donets Front   Reds Blunt Repeated Attacks; Slow Progress in Smolensk Area

Russians Hold Off Furious Attack On Upper Donets   Germans Still Keeping Threatening Battle Initiative

Nazis Resume Attacks Along  Donets Front  Russians ‘Say Their Troops Hold in Face of Furious Assault

NEW TAX BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE NEXT TUESDAY   Certain To Be Passed By Both Branches Of Congress, Is Belief

NEW TAX BILL MAY PASS ON TUESDAY   Possible Presidential Veto of Pay as You Go Tax Compromise.

Loose 356 Tons 0 Explosives on Jap Barae Base   No Interception by Jap Flyers; Spray Enemy With Bullets

JAP SHIPPING POINT SCENE OF NEW RAID   New Britain Again Target of Our

SERIES TEACHERS’ MEETINGS SET UP   Obie:t Is To P. Present : New Techniques In Science, Reading

Teachers Study  of New Courses Will BeHeld   Series Of Meetings   Series Of Meetings Arranged Next Week  In Various Schools

Teachers Study of New Courses  WillBeHeld _   Series Of Meetings Arranged Next Week In Various Schools

Bombers And Fighters Are Moved Up   Severe Fighting Reported Around Vitebsk

GERMANS FIGHTING  DESPERATELY HOLD  ON RUSSIAN FRONT MOVING IN FRESH TANK  UNITS AND LARGE EORCEC Oc pnuRrPc

Desperate . - Batile to ~~ Hold Hub   Germans ‘Move: -In Fresh Tank Forces: in ‘Defensé?’ 6f Vitebsk.      BOTH SIDES ‘SEND IN AIR SUPPORT   Reds Only 15°.Miles’- From Vital Center; Russian Gains. In. Other Areas

GERMANS MAKING DESPERATE FIGHT TO HOLD VITEBSK   Moved in Fresh Tank Units and Large Forees’ of Bombers and Fighters.

GERMANS POUR IN NEW UNITS   Reich Fighting Desperately te Hold Vitebsk Against Russian Army

Fresh Troops Go Into Fray On Russ Front   Soviet Armies Continue Their Winter Adyance

U.S. Bombers Pace Heavy Attack On Italian Islands In Mediterranean

Labor Leader Urges Relaxing Of Wage Law   Union Chieftains To Meet Today With  President Roosevelt

LF BILLION TOP THAT  PROPOSED   nate Committee ommends ch Action

SENATE GROUP 0X5 ROLLBACK ON F000 COSTS   Provision, However, Blocks Commitments Not Already Made.   AUTHORIZES RFC LOANS FOR SUBSIDY PAYMENTS

UAFTED FATHERS UESTINED FOR NAVY   Most Of Dads Likely To See Service With Navy

FATHERS T0_HAVE SMALL CHANCE TO WIN COMMISSIONS   Most Dads laduaredt Into Army Will Not be Able to Get Officers Rating

sein enmnenenamemeahamemesieesdineammnenmeememenenmenememmanmimemadiaaddl  CHANCE FOR COMMISSION IN ARMY IS REDUCED

MANY FATHERS TO ENTER NAVY AFTER OCTOBER   Chances For Army Commission Slim, Officers Report

Little Chance For Dads To Be Officers   -athers Facing Conscription Will Probably Remain In the Ranks

 Fathers Facing Draft Stand Reduced Chance Of Getting Commission In Army Now

American Units Withdraw Into Mountains Below Tebessa After Suffering Sharp Reverses   Pressure on U. S. Troops Is Eased as the British Eighth Army Drives From South to Relieve the Situation

AXIS FORCES OCCUPY THREE TOWNS, DRIVE 60 MILES IN 4 DAYS   British Eighth Army Promises Early Relief of Rommel’s Pressure On Americans by Advance

U. §. Tanks Break Nazi Offensive   Rommel's Forces Had Almost Pushec Allies To Algiers

NAZI TUNISIAN DRIVE REPORTED BROKEN   French Commander Quoted as Saying American Tank Action Stonpned Germans.

Yanks Anchor New Line For Defense   Last Three American Bases In West-Central Tunisia Fall Over Night As Nazis Attack

oo  MEETINGS ARE STILL SECRET   i Russ Press Gives ‘Hints of Subjects  Under Discussion

THIRD SESSION OF CONFERENCE HELD IN MOSCOW   Renewed Appeals Are Made In Soviet Press For Second Front

SOVIET PRESS MAKES PLEAS TO MINISTERS   ADMIRAL POUND OF BRITISH NAVY {S STRICKEN THURSDAY

RUMORS LEAK OUT WITH HINTS OVER MOSCOW MEETING   Three Ministers Hold Session as Papers Make Appeal For Second Front, Boundary Recognition.   FULLEST EXCHANGE OF VIEWS CONTEMPLATED   Lavish State Luncheon ts Spread at Spiridouovka Palace Precedes Meeting, Many Toasts Given.

TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY   SOVIET PRESS RENEWS SECOND FRONT PLEA AS TALKS CONTINUE

THIRD SESSION OF CONFEREN         United States, British ‘and Russian Diplomats Meet Against Back. ground of Renewed Appeals for ‘Seeond Front.

Summary of First Year’s Work Of 8th Air Force  11,423 Tons of Bombs Dropped, 1,199 Enemy Planes Downed

EIOAIA AIK FURLE REVIEWS TEAR UF ATTACK  Yanks Shoot Dén 1,199 men Planes in Year of Raiding

Eighth Air Force Has Big Year Over Europe IMdakina 7.067 Sorties Against Germans

Eighth Air Force Takes Heavy Toll   Reports on First Years Activities

Summary of American Air Force's Operations Over Europe During Year Given

MEAT RATIONS ~ TOBE SLASHED   “Informed Source” Says It May Be 1 3-4 Pounds a Person

NATION FACES MEAT SHORTAGE   HUNDREDS OF MEAT MARKETS MAY BE FORCED TO CLOSE

RETAIL MEAT FIRMS FACE BEEF CRISIS   OPA Regulations May Force Many To Close

Beef Supply Dwindles   Blame OPA Policies; Say Hundreds of Markets May Close Soon

Meat Markets  Face Closing; Asserts Kotal   OPA Ceiling Policy May Throttle Hundreds of Retail Dealers

MEAT MARKETS MAY BE FORCED TO CLse   Beef Supplies ne near Vanishing Point; Blame OPA for Shortage

Beef Shortage May Close Hundreds Of Meat Markets   OPA Blamed For Latest Difticulties Reported In Many Large Cilftes: Armed Forces Also Affected

MEAT SHORTAGE THREATENING TO CLOSE MARKETS   Conditions in Coast States Described as ‘Very Bad’ By Retail Store Head   ‘PRICE CONTROL IS BLAMED   Big Cities in Ohio Also Feeling Pinch - - Even Market Centers Hit

A BRIG. GEN. AT 39   Cel. Frederic Smith, Jr.. Is a New Guinea Air Task Force Head.

Half-Million Southern ‘California War Workers ‘Are Frozen On Jobs

MESSINA DRIVE PROGRESSING   Yanks Meet Savage German Attack, Repulse Ht, and Advance.   TAKE TOWN OF TROINA

YANKS MEET SAVAGE COUNTERATTACKS   Stop Drive, Push Enemy Back, Advance

BALKANS BLOWS MAY COME NEXT   Inonu Conferred With F. D. R., Churchill, Berlin Radio Claims

koosevelt-Churchill Meet With President Inonu of Turkey   Reporicd Meeting to Have Been Held in Cairo,

High Court Refuses To Get in Dispute Over Old-Age Fund   Disposition of Unexpended  Balance Left to Legislature

LANS READY FOR TRA PRAYER SERVICES 0!   Holiday One of the Quiet est on Record Here

TRAFFIC IS LIGHT ON MEMORIAL DAY   Holiday One of the Quiet"est on Record Hoare

Japs Drive Into China » Crosses River   18-Month Impasse Broken By Advancing Japanese Columns

Rains Impeding Russian Drive;  Nazis Stiffen   Lull, However, ‘Giving Soviets Chance To Prepare Next Move.

RED ARMIES HAMPERED BY AUTUMN RAINS   Ground Activity In White Russia Slowed Down by Rains and Mud

«German Resistance Gets Aid of Nature   _ Russians Take 3 Towns Near Gomel --Nazis Fleeine Western Caucasus

Mussolini Parly © Clamps Down on Italian Civilians  Death “Penalty Ordered For Violations of Nazi Decrees

Hale Defies State Which Seeks Ouster   Sedgwick Sheriff To Make Last Ditch Bight

OUSTER PROCEEDINGS   To Be Filed at Once Against Sedgwick County Sheriff

SOLON GROUP SET TO HEAR RUBBER TALK   Elmer Davis And Rubber Director Jeffers In Dispute

Davis, Jeffers In  Clash Over Rubber   OWI Chief Says He's ‘Telling Truth’

JEFFERS, DAVIS IN VERBAL CONFLICT      WPB Officials To Testify On Rubber Program

Rumanian Oil Fields Fired By U.S. Raid   Liberators Rain High Explosives On Vital Area

Americans Blast Great Rumanian Oil Refineries   Huge Plants Located At Ploesti Left  In Roaring Flames

MILK PRICE ORDER GOES 10 - WASHINGTON   New Boost Up to to Reconciliation with Subsidy Plan

Milk Subsidy Qr Retail Increase Leftlo WFA  State Milk Board  Submite Pronocal   State Milk Board Submits Proposal For 3-Cent Increase To Canital Bureaus

PANEL OF WPB © MAKES REPORT: ON MINER PAY   THREE-MAN GROUP” LEAVES  WAY OFEN FOR CONSIDERA.   TION” OF MINERS DE. © MAND FOR INCREASE

COAL STRUGGLE REPORT STUDIED   Panel Leaves Consideration of Lewis’ Demands Open

W.L.B. Decision Will Be Speedec   Coal Controversy Decisior May Be Ready By Middle Of Coming Week   THREE-MAN PANEL REPORT PRESENTEL

WLB STUDYING REPORT IN COAL MINE DISPUTE   Way Believed Left Open For Compromise On Pay Raise Demands

LARGE CRUISER OR DESTROYER HIT BY ALLIED WARPLANES   Fortresses Slip Over Jap Base at Rabaul and Drop Bombs eon Vessels.

JAP WARSHIP 1S BOMBED AT RABAUL   Cargo Vessel Is Damaged, Large Fires Started

Fortresses Hit Cruiser  At Rabaul   Jap Base is Raided for Second Giraniaoht Nioht

Warship Hit By Fortresses InRabaul Raic   Cruiser Or Destroyer Is Struck By 500 Pounders: Cargo Ship Damaged   BOMB KAI ISLANDS   Havoes Scatter Destruction In Mubo Area Of Northeast New Guinea _

ALLIED PLANES HAVE SUCCESS   Vital Japanese. Base at Rabaul Bombed — Cruiser or Large De stroyer Hit — Cargo Ship Also Damaged.

‘Forts’ Rake Warships At Rabaul Base   Large Jap Destroyer And Cruiser Hit by Quarter-Ton Romilic

pyrnes Hints Invasion of Europe Seon  Line in His Address, ‘Our Plans for 1943,’ Is Categoric  SITE MAY BE SET   SITE MAY BE SET

Signs Point To Move-In During ‘43   VARTOUS INDICATIONS PICTURES AHRAD OF _INVASION,

1943 Invasion Plans Hinted In Radio Talk   One of Greatest Military Operations in History Seen for Europe

PLAN INVASION OF EUROPE THIS ‘YEAR I$ REPORT      Evidence Shows Allied Plans Contemplate Invasion Of Furope

Byrnes Adds Evidence That Allies Plan Invasion Of Europe In 1943

INVASION OF EUROPE, 1943, IS INDICATED   Byrnes’ Talk Gives Inkline Of Program

EVIDENCES OF INVASION PLAN SEEN GROWING   Great Military Operation Against Europe Mentioned by Byrnes, Economic Czar,

TO SELL BUILDINGS   Bids Will Be Received on Some Structures at Sunflower

MAKE LONGEST FLIGHT FROM N AFRICA   Fly Without Escort; Another Force Bombs Foggia Airdrome

FORMER LOCAL BOY ~ DIES 'N ACCIDENT   James Sheehan and An- other Youth Fatally Injured

PRPPPPPPPPLEPP PPP PEPPY  Promise To Move In On Friends Gets Action

HOW TO RENT A HOUSE   Georgia Man Uses a “Persuader” on His Friends.

Rome Rail Centers Bombed © By Americans; British Hit Berlin, Milan and Turin

en et tt NN tap te  New Shells Rip Open Axis Planes, Tanks And Ships

Operators, Miners Keep Alive Hopes -For a Settlement   Thousands of Miners Jump the Gun of the Sunday Midnight Strike Deadline By Staying Away From Mines

Map 11 A. M. Parley As 69,000 Men Quit   Many Jump Gun in Eight States; Hopes for Settlement Kept Alive

[ Wildcat Strikes Of Coal Miners [stilt Spreading   John L. Lewis And Representatives Of The Soft Coal Mine Operators Confer Saturday Without Coming To Any Definite Aareement

Says Finland Listening to United States   Swedish Newspaper Declares Will for Peace Has Grown Greatly Among Finns im Past Week

Flight To Foreign Soil Sets Wartime Precedent   Cite Rulings   Washington Careful

BASEBALL FANS LOSE GAS BOOKS   OPA Suspends Rations For Lima and Warren MMoatorists.

AWOMENDIEINPOWDER BLASI   Explosion Takes Off Roof’ of Ordnance  Plant in Delaware.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  Giraud Invited to Washington to Discuss North Afviean Evantec

INVITES GIRAUD   FDR Asks Leader To Washington, But He Can't Come Now.

ARAILWAY STRIKE AFFECTS WAR AREA   Employes of Pacific Elettric Company. Walk Out in Los Angeles   GO TO PLANTS BY CAR

A RAILWAY STRIKE AFFECTS WAR AREA   Employes of Pacific Electric Company. Walk Out in Los Angeles

Strike Ties Up Traffi¢'in L, Av      No Buses or Electric ‘Cars Moving in Los Angeles County Area

Strike Ties Up Traffic In Coast Area   Company Had Agreed To Wage Demands, Washington Agencies Slashed Raise

LOS ANGELES:  ALECTRIC, BUS LINES STRUCK   Trans portation In WarBusy Metropolitan Area Paralyzed by Tieup  J Over Waves   ROOSEVELT FAILS AT CONCILIATION   Military Authorities Watch Situation; Army May  Take Over Operation;. . Cars to Rescue

PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY WORKERS QUT ON STRIKE   2,600 Workers Out Despite Presidential Effort At Intervention

Several Surprises Occur in Steisa’ Vote-.- Ruy The Acanclated Dracea

CRITIC OF BRICKER GETS SHARP REPLY ON FLOOR OF HOUSE   Rep. George Bender Insists Ohio Governor Is Top Presidential Prospect

OHIOAN STRIKES BACK AT KANSAS EDITOR   Bender Answers Editorial ir Behalf of Bricker

BENDER SUPPORTS — BRICKER IN HOUSE   Scores White’s Editorial On Ohio Governor

BOMB ESCAPE CORRIDOR IN XHARKOV AREA   Planes And Artillery Pouring A Terrent Of Bombs Into Enemy Ranks

KHARKOV; SUNY  NEARLY WITHIN GRASP OF REDS   Last Gutlet for Nazis Mear Capture As. Encirclement Proceeds.

REDS HAMMER KHARKOV'S ESCAPE AREA   Seek to Complete Encirclement of Vital City

REDS HIT NAZI ESCAPE ROUTE   Last Railroad From Kharkov Is Soviet Target

Reds Seek To Close Trap At KharkovToday   Pour Torrent Of Shells Into German Armies In Effort To Finish Quickly

RED ARMY ADVANCES CONTINUE   Last Nazi Rail Line From Kharkov is Threatened

ESCAPE CORRIDOR POUNDED BY REDS IN KHARKOV AREA   Russian Planes, Artillery Pour Torrent Of Bombs On Nazi  Columns

lWork on New City ‘School Building Delayec  ‘Due To Labor Shortage

Woodall Is Put Under Fire In Testimony In New York Hearing Of DempseyAction

WITNESS SAYS HE WAS JACK’S FRIENE   Dempsey Divorce Proceedings Are Continued

Price Announces Liberalization of Voluntary Censorship Restrictions

CHANGES MADE IN CENSORSHIP POLICY   Restrictions on Press and Radio Are Liberalized By Director, °

CENSORSHIP MAY BE RELAXED UPON PRINTING OF NEWS  _ NUMEROUS RESTRICTIVE GOVERNMENT REQUESTS ELIMINATED

More News For Public   Announce Revision Of Voluntary Press And Radio Censorship

War Analyst Publishes New Book. ....  Mackenzie’s Book Says The Difficult Problem Of India Can Be Solved

Claremore Woman Charges Ed Falkenburg Had Asked $500 For a Prison Parole

Leningrad Triumph Greatest Registered By Red Army So Far  DONETS AND MANYCH CROSSED IN SOUTH  Communique Pictures Soviet Armies on Marct  On All Major Fronts

Russian Armies Of South Move Upon Important Rostov   Relief Of Leningrad Represents Greatest Victory Ever Won By Soviet Arms Since The War Began; British Approach Tripoli

IMPORTANT ALLIED “GAINS ANNOUNCED   Greatest Victory ry Ever Won ey of Soviet Since War Began; Da Unbroker Success.

Russia’s Greatest Asset  Is Hitler’s Sorest Need:   German Manpower Trapped in Stalingrad Pocket  May Waver Fight-To-Death Resolution

Complete Casualty List In Gilberts Operations Not Known--Adm. Jacovs

HALF MILLION MEN OF OHIO. INDUCTED INTO ARMED FORCE   REJECTIONS FOR PHYSICAL DEFECTS HAV" AVERAGED ABOUT 40 PERCENT, IT 38 REVEALED

WAR-WEARY FINNS BELIEVED READY TO MAKE PEACE   Belief Is They Would Con tact Russia For Peace Tare Through US.

Finns Will Agree To Peace “With Freedom”   Kx «= KK Little Hope For “Missing”

Finns Expected To Seek Peace  Want Intermediary To Reach Terms; Not Bound To German

Army Of Three Million Needed For Invasion, World War  General Says

AVERS INVASION NEEDS 3 MILLION   Gen. March Predicts Long. Bloody War; Assails Censorship

Three Million  Invasion Need   So Declares Gen. Peyton C. March, Says Chief Of Staff Of World War 1   FORESEES TERRIFIC FIGHTING AHEAD

U. S. Forees Extend Gains In Solomons   Japs’ Hold on Bougainville Island Sector Menaced

WALLACE HilTS BUTLER REPORT   SOLON BLASTS LATIN EXPENDITURES BY U. S.

1S DIRTY SHRTS   Fuel Oil Outlook Gloomy for Laundry Owners, Report

Two Years of War Convert ‘Softie’ United States Into Dreaded Military Colossus

GRANTING AZORES BASES 70 BRITAIN BLOW 10 U-BOATS   Berlin Has Little to Say About Action and Is Not Expected to Deciare War on Portugal.   AMERICAN VESSELS WILL USE HARBORS   Hopes Raised Turkey, Ireland and Other Neutrals May Extend Facilities to Allies.

Axis Powers Not ‘Expected to Open ~ War on Portugal   Germany Not Likely To Press Issue Over Bases -

CHANGE DRAFT ORDERS   ‘Names of Selectees Can No Longer Be Published in Papers

75 MINERS ARE TRAPPED   Explosion Took Place in Coal Mine at Bearcreek, Mont.

75 MEN TRAPPED IN MONTANA MINE   No Contact Made With Men Inside Coal Mine Since Exolosion,

Company Manager Fears  All 75 Workers In Mine At Bear Creek Have Been Killed

75 MINERS TRAPPED IN COAL MINE   Officials Fear That All Men Trapped in Mine May Die

MASS ACTION HTS AKRON'S - BUSY PLANTS   Protest of WLB Ruling Is Given as Cause; Union Condemns Move.   28,000 AUTO WORKERS : TO GO BACK MONDAY

Production Stopped at Big Plants   Action is Taken in Protest Against WLB Wage Ruling

Award Navy Cress To Harold J. Mack  For His Heroism Wounded In Action  He Continues To Direct Gun Fire

Award Navy Cross  To Harold J. Mack  For His Heroism Wounded In Action   Wounded In Action He Continues To Direct Gun Fire

LAND ESCAPE FROM CRIMEA THREATENED   Germans Shift Reserves From Other arts of Front

DIVERT STRONG GERMAN FORCE TO CHECK REDS   Swift Soviet Gain Threatens to Close Nazi Escape from Crimea

Seven Fliers Die In Bomber Smashup  Plane Explodes In Denver Residential Area

Plane Crash Kills Seven in Denver Residential Area   Bomber Crew Dies

Bomber Crashes In South Denver  At Least Seven Airmen Lose: Lives

RESTAURANTS WILL BE RATIONED SOON   Customers, However, Will Not Turn in Ration Coupons

OPA Rations Fruits And Vegetables For Restaurants, Cafes   Plan Scheduled To Begin In Six Days All Eating Places

Restaurants To Be Rationed   Bub Customers Wan + Wave to Present Con‘pons At Such Places

PATRONS 10 SKIP “EATERY COUPONS   Restaurants to to Be Rationed  On Processed Foods,  However

PLAN RATIONS ON RESTAURANT FOOL   Customers Will Not Be Re quired to Turn In Coupons to Obtain Meals.

American Counter-Attack Of Yesterday Fades Under Heavy Losses Of Men And Materials   German Tank Column Smashes Its Way Into Sbeitla; Armored Battles Fought , Throughout All Of Tuesday

Rommel Threatened by Continued Advance of Montgomery’s 8th Army Into Tunisia—Some U. S. Units Trapped   AMERICAN CASUALTIES HEAVY   Fighting Reported Continuing Late Yesterday on Outskirts of Sbeitla with American Tenure There Uncertain

SUMMEL ARMY PUSHES YANK FORCES BACK   Yesterday's Six-Mile Gain Wiped Out As German Tanks Resume Powerful Offensive   DOUBTEUL HONOR

ROMMEL’S TANK ~ FORCES ADVANCED TOWARD FERANIA   Smashed to the Outskirts of Sbeitla, 25 Miles Northwest of Sidi Bouzid.   HEAVY LOSSES OF MEN   A Number of American Contingents Cut Off By~the German Advance.

AFRIKA KORPS DRIVES WEDGE INU, §, LINES   Rommel Renews Assault, Uses Mammoth Tanks In Pounding Ahead to Tunisian Town   AMERICANS THROWN BACK AFTER GAINS   British Army Advancing In South, Take Airdrome  Near Mareth Line;   Germans Strafed

Veteran German Armored Units Using Giant Tanks, Hurl Back American Lines 18 M iles In Bitter Armored Battle  Tunisia; Some U. S. Units Isolated

By DANIEL DE LUCE  ALLIED” HEADQUARTERS ‘IN A DTTLE A BET, Mra wchai

Assault Which Had Pushed Enemy Forces Back Six Miles Wilts Under Heavy Losses Of Men And Vehicles— Rommel’s Veteran Tank Corps Smashes To Outskirts Of Sbeitla And Advances Toward Feriana— British Eighth Army Progressing

Battle-Hardened Nazi Tank Forces Score New Gains   U.S. Counter Attack Fades Under Heavy Losses As Axis Renews Powerful Drive

ROMMEL ARMY AT OUTSKIRTS OF SBEITLA   Allies Losses Of Men, Vehicles Are Heavy   BRITISH FORGE   Attempting To Infiltrate Mareth Line: Retreat From Gafsa Continues

Powerful German Offensive Renewed in Southern Tunisia,   [COUNTERATTACK FADES

VETERAN UNITS PUSH 18 MILES AGAINST ALLIES   Armored Forces Reach Outskirts Of Sbeitla

Axis Veterans  Hurl Big Tanks Into U.S. Line   Rommel’s Men Smash to Sbeitla, Start Powerful New Offensive In South Tunisia; British Eighth Army Reported Flanking Mareth.

Rommel’s Tanks Drive Americans From Positions   German Forces Gain 35 Miles In Three Days

U.S. COUNTERATTACK FAILS, FADES WITH HEAVY LOSSES   Rommel's Advance In Southern Tunisia Takes Him Toward Feriana

American Counter Attack Fades Against Armored — ' Forces  _U. S. UNITS CUT OFF  Allies Are Pressed Back Almost to ‘the Algerian Borde

Axis Tanks  Wipe Out Yanks’ Gains   Losses Heavy As Enemy Advances Upon Sbeitla

German Armored Forces  Smash 18. Miles Through U. S. Defenses in Tunisia

DAMAGE SUIT (8 FILED: HERE   Mrs.” Louie Stack of Neat 3 ‘Windfa’l, Is Asking for $5,000. .

DAMAGE aUll fo FILED Heht   Mrs. Louie Stack of Near Windfal, Is Asking for $5,000.

MEXICO MAY BECOME MORE ACTIVE ALL   Expeditionary Force Is Hinted After FDR Visit

Executives Have Luncheon With Station Cadets.   Mexican’President Returns Visit Made By Roosevelt to Monterrey; Leaders Will Resume Separate Journeys From Here.      Mexico To Be United States’ ‘Best Ally, Observers Predict.  Ad Do ew ee eb LD gt At RR eg houses DEA RAG Dancavalt’e Vict Annrarinted

Closer Mexican Relations Seen   Meeting Of Roosevelt And Avila Camacho ‘South Of The Border’ Fires Enthusiasm Of Nation

Counter-Attacks Held in Check   Eighth Army Masses for Big Push; Allied Planes Pound Axis Targets

Rommel's Army Is No  Pushover   Easy Victory Not Expect. ed by Allies—Supply Lines Are Bombed

Axis Army Cornered In Tunisia Strikes. - Hard Counter-Blows   Allied Spokesmen Caution Against Expectations of Quick, Easy Victory; Axis Forces To Make Bitter Resistance

Occupied Continent is Again Bombed by RAF      Cornered Axis Army i: Staging Counter-Blow:

SEVENTY INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH   1, ©, CRACK TRAINS COLLIDE AT CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE STATION

LAFOLLETTE SAYS. SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN MEANS HIGH TAXES   Complains Of Forgiving Year’s Taxes In Senate © Version Of Ruml Plan

SKIP-A-YEAR TAXIS HIT BY LA FOLLETTE   Plan Means Higher Levy In Next 12 Months, Senator Says

‘Approved Revenue Bill Means Higher Taxes in Next Year, La Folletfe Says in Report

SAYS PLAN HITS SMALL INCOMES   LaFollette Argues Against Senate Rumi Rill

LaFollette Hits © Skip-a-Year Plan   ‘Debate On Measure Begins Wednesday —

LA FOLLETTE RAPS AUML TAX MEASURE   Passage Will Mean Higher Taxes, He Claims

Report Russians Only 75 miles East Of Roster   Advance Of 30 To 50 Miles Westward Along Don River Reported   SOME FRENCH NAZI TROOPS ARE ROUTED   Long Columns Of Nazi Troops Are Reported In Retreat In Don River Area

SOVIET DRIVE GOES FORWARD   Speed offensive to cap ture key city at mouth of Don River

HARD - DRIVING SOVIETS SMASH NEARER ROSTOY   30 To 50 Mile Advance Is Pushed Along Both Banks Of Lower Don River   NEW NAZI TROOPS ROUTED   Enemy Forces Race To Escape Being Cut Off fn Caucasus District

Fortresses Blast Jap Airdromes   Allies Pound [wo  At Wewak Heavily  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1

Chinese Near Recapture Of Rice Bowl   Retake Another River Point in Drive On 100,000 Japanese

Chinese Forces Near Recapture   Of ‘Rice Bow!’   Japanese Power Broker By Sustained Drive; River Port Retaken

RECAPTURE OF CHINESE RICE BOWL IN SIGHT   Counter - Attacks Break Power Of 100,000 Japs; Another Port Taken   Americans Aid Drive

Chinese Recapture Most of Rice Bowl  Counterblows Breal  [Sannin see. DRS

Bice Bow! Of China Near Fall   Power of 100,000 Japs Broken In Allied Drive

CHINESE RETAKE ANOTHER RIVER PORT FROM JAPS   ‘China Has Broken The Power Of Enemy In “Rice  Bowl” Sector   NIPPONESE ADMIRAL REPORTED MURDERED

All Day Aerial Assault Is Made At Munda Base   Jap Counter-Attack By Ground Forces Is Repulsed By Allies   FURIOUS AIR BATTLE JAPS LOSE 19 PLANES

CLEVELAND BOY, 9, KIDNAPED, BEATER   Police find Youth In Woods After Mysterious Tele: phone

RUOHTINUEO VR fdpe Fury  ‘MISSING YOUTH FOUND BEATEN ‘AT CLEVELAND

Bauer m sR ERED ERRRARAesS  EY, = me, zizes Man of Tv. *, Versatility

APPLICATION IS RECEIVED WITH FAVOR   Bolted AFL in 1936 To Form CIO; uit Latter

Missouri River Flood at Critical Stage in Omaha  Dike Breaks Menace City’s Airport and Carter Lake, la.  EVACUATE MANY  Council Bluffs Works To Save Dike; Hambr  Fvacuation Ordered

BAD WEATHER, NOT JAP PILOTS, THAT CAUSED BIG LOSS   ‘Allied Fliers, Returning From   Sky Battle, Ran Into Hard   Plead Wind—Three — Pilots . Missing

Weather, Not Jap Prowess, Costly to Allies at Darwin   Exactly What Were Our Losses Has Not Been Disclosed, But Three Pilots Are Missing After Fight Against Enemy Bombers; Allied Ground Defense So Effective Nips’ Plans Are ‘Unset

ICKES ACTS TO GET COAL INTO HOMES   Mines Ordered to Speed Shipments to Waiting Retailers

HOUSEHOLDERS WILL GET COAL   Ickes Orders Mines Te Speed Deliveries Into Hands Of Retailers.

Different From Others  Parley Signifies Resolve Of Allies To Utilize Initiative

Babb. Finds Casablanca Meeting Of the President and Churchill Different From the Three Others

DEFEAT OF ITALY AND GERMANY FIRST; THEN JAPAN WAR STRATEGY  GENERAL EUROPEAN OFFENSIVE BELIEVED PLAN “OF WAR CONFERENCE *  PRIMARY SIGNIFICANCE NEWEST WAR CONFERENCE IS CONTAINED IN ONE PHRASE OF COMMUNIOUE

Here Are Chief Post-War Plans Submitted by F. R.   WAK TO PEACE ECONOMY

SEPARATE PACT ADDS CONFUSION  TO MINE DISPUTE  PENN. OPERATORS   MAKE PEACE WITH   tOMN TL LEWIS

Coal Miners To Pay Fines   Workers Who Participated in June 1-7 Walkout Will Be Charged Dollar Per Day

Striking Miners Will Be Punished   Ickes Plans To Fine Those Absent from Work from June 1-7   ON CONTRACT TERMS   It Means Another Walkout. Says West Virginia  Union Official

Lewis Calls Fining Coal. Miners Another Step To Political Tyranny In U.S.

Penalties Inflicted by Contracts; One Operator Group Comes to Terms

New Walkout Threatened By Union Official   One Group Concludes Separate Peace With Lewis Who Ignores WLB Meeting

Miners Agree to $1.30 Pay Boost in Pits   Central Pennsylvania Producers Come to Terms; WLB Must Pass on Contract

MUST PAY $1 A DAY FOR JUNE LAYOFF-ICKES   Miners Win $1.30.Pay Raise From Central Pennsylvania Overators

Striking Miners to Be Fined   Union Official Declares Action to  Mean New Walkout.

Declares Striking Miners Are To Pay Fines for Time Off   Union Officials State Action Will Provoke Men To New Move

“Means Another Walkout’   Miner Spokesman Says Men “Won’t Stand for It”; Ickes Says Act in.  Aecord With Contract

Fine Strikers On Absence In  Coal Walkout   Ickes Levels Penalty, Threateus More To Come If Strike Resumed.,   REACH SPLIT TERMS

Miners Fined For Striking; It’s $1 A Day   Group Of Operators Breaks From Parley, Makes Separate Peace With John L. Lewis

To Fine Miners $1 Day For Time They Don’t Work   Most of 530,000 UMW Were Out For First Five Days of June.   A Group Breaks From Joint Wage Parley

Will Fine All Miners In Walkout   Under Contracts Penalty Money Will Be Allotied ~ Fo Selected . Charities

ICKES, MINER BOSS, DECLARES STRIKERS MUST PAY FINES  UNION OFFICIAL SAYS THIS WILL MEAN ANOTHER WALKOUT

Ickes Fines Coal Miners ~ For Walkout   Union Official Believes This Action Will Cause Another Strike

Miners Are Fined for - Walkout   Ickes’ Action Assailed by » Lewis as ‘Unwarranted, Megal Act’   SOME SEE ANOTHER WALKOUT AHEAD   " Agreement “Made With Part of Operators Subject to U. S. Approval

Miners Will Be Fined      ««- By Government For Jane 1-5 Walkout

COAL MINERS 10 BE FINED, ICKES SAYS   Federal Boss Declares Those. Who Participat _ed in June 1-7 Walkout Will Be Assessed in Line With Contracts.

UMW Miners To Be Fined For Walkout   Union Officials Angered B: Ickes Order; Lewis-O’Neil! Reach Agreement

Ickes Says Men To Get Penalty Of $1 Per Day   Money forJune ‘Layoff WillBe ‘Given to Charities

ICKES, MINER BOSS, DECLARES STRIKERS MUST PAY FINES  : UNION OFFICIAL SAYS   THIS WILL MEAN  Ts Tle creer werawvweresae tur

Mine Strikers Will Be Fined,  Ickes Reveals   Union Leader Says Men ‘Won’t Stand For’ Pen altv Assessment.

ALLIED AIR POWER IN PACIFIC GROWING: JAP SHIPPING HIT   More Than 200 Planes Reported in Recent Raids With Devastating Results—Ships Sent Down hy U S$. RBomberc

Plan For World Bank To Aid War-Torn Nations Hailed As Move To Insure Peace

$10 Billion’ World Bank Is Proposed   Treasury Plan Designed To Help Ravaged Countries Rehabilitate

World Bank Plar Pleases’ Portugal   Morgenthau Confirms  London Statement

HORLDBANKTO AIDWAR-RAPED LANDS 1S AIM   United States Treasury Proposal Being Hailed as Move Toward Insuring Peace   TO ONLY SUPPLANT PRIVATE CAPITAL   U.S. Contribution to $10, 000,000,000 Bank Estimated at $3,500,000,000;  Britain $1,000,000,600

MORGENTHAU'S IDEA REVEALED   British Disclose U. S. Treasury Secret Proposal for World Bank.   $10 BILLION FOR AID

WOPLD BANK PLAN MAY INSURE PEACE   Designed To Aid War-Ravaged Lands Rebuild

$10 Billion World Bank Is U.S. Plan   W ‘ould Help War-Ravaged -Lands to Get on Their Feet

WORLD BANK PLAN VIEWED AS MOVE TO INSURE PEACE   PROPOSAL HAILED WITH ENTHUSIASM BY LISBON PRESS

FDR Creates New Machinery For Manpower   Military Chiefs Aid. in Plan to Keep War Production Adjusted

BILL WOULD PUT FEDERAL WORKERS IN ARMED FORCES   Senator Bailey Moves to Take Non-Fathers Off Pay Roll and Arm Them With Guns.   300,000 SUCH MEN, SUBCOMMITTEE SAYS   Measure a Substitute for Wheeler Proposal—To Be Offered in Chamber Next Weck.   Roosevelt Moves to Scale Down War Production to Needs of Armed Forces

4 BATTLESHIPS, 9 CRUISERS GET TO MALTA PORT   1 Battleship Sunk After Fierce Battle With Nazi Luftwaffe

Is FastestMoving of All Red Offers   Germans Pushed Bael 12 Miles, Lose 9.000 More Men Killed  And Captured

Drive Across Snow-covered Plains on Voronezh Front and Kill 9,000 Retreating Germans.   FLEEING ROMMEL IS ALSO BEING POUNDED

Horror Night Spent In Foxholes By U.S. Soldiers Near Munda Described By Correspondent

Night of Horror Outside Munda; Hair-Line U. S. Artillery Barrage Routs Jap Fanatics

Box Barrage Hems in U.S. Generals To Foil Japs in Suicide Junale Foray

- HOSPITAL NOTES         News ‘al the: Sick“at: ‘Sacred: Heart '-".. Blospital;: LeMars :

- HOSPITAL NOTES      News of the Sick-at Sacred Heart Hospital, LeMars

THIS MARINE LIEUTENANT WAS “DIAMOND DICK” IN PERSON   Elm City Marine Back from Guadalcanal Tells Story of Sure Shot Marine Of. ficer Who Gained Title of “Wold’s Best Shot” Down In the Solomons.

AFTER BLOOD DONATIONS   Dr. Weber Will Be at Watkins Hospital on Wednesdays

AFTER BLOOD DONATIONS   EEE  ‘Dr. Weber Will Be at Watkins   Hospital on Wednesdays

Albuquerque Man Was Officer A Year Before He Heard of It   James B. Coulston Was Overseas With lank  Nestrover Outfit, and Army Couldnt Find Him

CARPE DIEM CLUB ~ SPONSORS SALE   Purchase and Sell Many Articles Made by the Blind—Will Broadcast April 29

HULL RETURNING TODAY   American Secretary Of State Bringing Message From Stalin

‘Hull Due. in Washingtor Today   Brings Message From Premier Stalin to President Roosevelt

HULL WILL BRING WORD FROM STALIN      Expected In Capital This Afternoon—President Eager For Talk

‘Secretary Hull . On Last Lap of  ‘Homeward Trip   Will Bring Personal Message To President From Premier Stalin

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES MAKE POWERFUL ATTACKS   Bomb German and _ Italian Military Targets

Vandereook Pleads  Innocent to Fraud   Senet t. S&S Shin Sunk   Soldier Scoots Down Icy Hill, Blasts a Jap While En Route

Move Taken To Bring New Unity To Allied Nations   Organization First Formed By Lenin To Unite Workers; Allies Hail Act  i

Russians Dissolve Great Union Of Working Class  Move Is Made to Aid  Allies, Foster Le Oe A, SL anche een, eee

Organization Effects Own  Dissolution  Creation of Lenin Said Destroyed to ASS Ast. Wacatari:

Move Is Seen    As Promoting Allied Unity   German Propaganda Program Shaken By Decision

Dissolution of Comintern Hailed As Strengthening Allied Relations   Resolution of Communist International, Committee Says Organization Outmoded

Russian Cominter: Is Abolished to Aid Allied Unity  Far-Reaching Step Taken, It Is Said, To Fight Fascism  ORDER IS OUTMODED  German Reaction Is Its Move Preparatory To Invasion Attempt

to Advance Russian Cause Against Fascism; Promote Amity   Far Reaching Step in Swing Toward Full War Cooperation Between Moscow and Allies; See Move as Permanent; London Hails Action

Comintern To Be Dissolved   Communists‘ Dissolution Is Decreed By Committee

Observers Believe Dissolution Permanent; Germany Sees in Move Forerunner of Attempt to Invade Europe; Denounces It

Comintern Dissolution Most Far-Reaching Act For Amity By Russians

Cominfern Is Dissolved  te Promote Allied. Cause Against Fascism

Dissolution of Comintern Held Far-Reaching Move In War Against Fascism

Russians Dissolve Great Union Of Working Class  Move Is Made to Aid Allies, Foster

Abolition Seen Permanent, Observers Say   Russia Declares Third International Organization Out-Moded —

RUSSIA TAKES STEP 10 WELD ALLIED UNITY   NAZIS SEE ACT AS PRELUDE FOR INVASION

Morocco Radio Tells of Junction in Tunisia; Battle of Africa Still Develop-

TAFT ENVISIONS ANOTHER LEAGUE   United Nations and Neutrals Would Join with Axis Coming Later.

OPA Orders Lowered Meat Ceilings   Effective Monday, New Schedule Outlines Slash

NEW MEAT CEILING PRICES DUE FOR CHANGE NEXT MONTE   Specific Dollors-and-Cents Prices on. Retail Meat - Sales to Go Into Effect May 17—Subsidy Proaram to Follow in a Few Weeks

corer MEAT ~~ CEILINGS SET UP   OPA Schedule to Be Supplanted in Couple Weeks By Low

NEW CEILINGS PLACED ON MEAT   Price Schedule Will Go Into Effect Monday, Will Be Revised Later

OPAProclaims Dollars-Cents Meats Ceiline   New Schedule Effective Monday—Further 10

UNIONS NOT EXPECTED TO ACCEPT PLAN   Presidential Board . Recommends Hike ‘Ranging To 10 Cents

Increases Ranging From 4 to 10 Cents An Hour Recommended by Special Presidential Committee Studying Workers Demands

Wage Raise For Railroaders Recommended   More Than Million Employes Would Be Benefited By Act

WAGE INCREASES VOTED RAIL MEY   fut Proposais Mee Prompt Objections From Leaders

INCREASE. ‘NOT SATISFACTORY   Rail Unions Seek to Enforce Earlier 8-Cent  Recommendation

INSON SAYS HE ILL APPROVE EW PROPOSALS   iding Scale Replaces Previous Award of Flat 8c — In All Wage Classi ficatinne   SHEDULE WILL BE EFFECTIVE NOV. 19   freen Unions Benefited y Special Presidential Board Now Taking Strike Vote

F.D.R’s Board Recommends 4 To 10 Cent Hour Boost In Railway Wages   Largest Increase Would Go To Those In Lower Paid Brackets; Vinson Says New Recommendation Will Be Approved.

Rail Unions Say No To Waae Boost   Vinson Okays Increase But Not Those Unions Think Congress Will Provide

Wage Increased For Rail Group   SPECIAL BOARD FAVORS HIKE FOR RAILWAY WORKERS

RAILWAY UNION REJECTS RAISE OK’D BY VINSON   Special Board Recommends Railroad Wage Increases Of 4 To 10 Cents Hourly; Union Spokesmen Turn Offer  Down.

RAILROAD WORKERS OFFERED PAY BOOST   Non-operating Unions May Balk, However, Is Tip

A Sliding Pay Mike Approved   »++ By Special Board; Union Heads Balk

PAY INCREASE SUGGESTED FOR RAIL WORKERS   Unions Expected To Reject Proposal

VINSON APPROVES WAGE BOOST FOR RAILWAY WORKERS   Union Spokesmen Rejec: Board Proposals as Unsatisfactory

4 To 10 Cent Wage Raise For Non-Operating Group Recommended By Board —

Non-Operating Groups Reject Board’s Plans   Recommendations Given Vinson’s Approval But Labor Spokesmen Saw ‘Na’

Rail Unions Reject Wage Boost Plan   4 to 10 Cents an Hour Increase Called “Unsatisfactory”

Unions Expected To Reiect Terms: Vote On Strike   Increases From 4 To 10 Cents An Hour Urged  By Special Board

W E RAISES — a RAIL HEN   10: Cents an Hour for  Lower Brackets, Four . Cents for Tops

Non-Operators Seen Rejecting Board Proposal   Vinson, Stabilization Head, Approves Suggestions  Of F, D. R.’s Committee

INCREASE FOR RAIL WORKERS RECOMMENDED   Average Increase Is Eight Cents Per Hour

Firm “No” On Wage  Proposal   fedda f disala fo ftiety . Pay Inere: tse Gi fey ed by Specal Guar (On tirely Sent vrs

PROPOSE FOUR TO TEN CENTS AN HOUR HIKE   Recommendad for Non-Operating Employes With Approval of Feonomic Stabilization Chief,

Rail Unions Reject Raise   4 to 10 Cents an Hour Boost Recommended by Special Board Refused

Approves Four Cent Boost in Top Brackets’ Lower Classes Would Get Ten  Cant Tnerancac.

WAGE INCREASE FOR RAIL WORKERS NOW PROPOSED   Four To Ten Cents An Hou Wage Raise Recommend. ed By Special Presidentia Board; Unions Now Tak ing Strike Vote.

BOOST OF FOUR T0110 CENTS IS FIXED BY BOARD   Spokesmen for Million Workers Dissatisfied With Group’s Wage Action

Unions Spurn 4 to 10-Cent Pay Increase   Would Destroy Whote Wage Structure, Says Spokesman

ROOSEVELT BOARD RECOMMENDS WAGE HIKE FOR RAILMEN  INCREASE OF 4-10 CENTS HOUR EXPECTED BE REJECTED BY WORKERS

SPECIAL BOARD VOTES 4 TO 10 CENT RAIL HIKE   Approves Sliding Scale Instead o Flat Wage Increase for Non-Op eraling Workers

Railroad Men Get Pay Raise   1,100,000 Non-Operating Workers Affected

ROOSEVELT BOARD  RECOMMENDS WAGE  HIKE FOR RAILMEN INCREASE OF 4-10 CENT! HOUR EXPECTED BE RE rRATrMm may ThrAhR VER

REVISE RAILWAY SALARY SCALE   New Wage Hike Runs From 4 to 10 Cents an Hour

Pay Increase Is Recommended   Non-Operative Railway Workers Would Be Affected By Increase

‘Higher R. R. Wages Asked By Board   Increases Range From Four to 10 Cents Per Hour

4 to 10-Cent Hourly  Rail Pay Hike Voted   Special Board’s Recommendation, Approved by Vinson, Meets With Prompt Rejection by Union Leaders, However.

Non-Operating Brotherhoods Decline Offer   Special Board Suggests Sliding Scale in Dispute

Rail Workers Get Wage Hike   Nan _Qrarnt fam Call   Non-Operating Folk Get Boost of Four To 10 Cents Hour

HIKE NEAR FOR © RAIL WORKERS   Presidential al Board -Recom' mends Wage keg Increases a

Railroad Men to Get Wage lump Nov. 19   Non-Operating Group Recommended Four ‘to 10 Cents Hourly

Special Board Favors Raise of Rail Wages   Increases Range From 10 Cents an Hour Dewn to 4 Cents

Pay Boosts Awarded 15 Rail Unions   But Sliding Increases Rejected By Nonoperating Group Spokesmen.   Had Asked °0 Cents.

RAILWAY WAGE HIKE APPROVED   Special Board Recommends Boost Of 10 Cents

FDR’s Board Hikes Pay Of R.R. Workers   Employes May Reiect Terms

VINSON APPROVES AOARO'S ACTION  Increases From Four To      Increases From Four To 10 Cents An Hour ‘Are Recommended   LEADERS OBJECT   Union Heads Declare Step Taken By Special Board Unsatisfactory

Board Favors More Pay For Rail Workers   Vinson Favors Recommendations For Increases

Rail Workers Wage Boost Recommended  - Non-Operating Pay Hike Ok’d By Board

NEW WAGE SCALE CALLS FOR 4 T0 10C HOUR BOOST   INCREASE BECOMES EFFECTIVE NOV. 19; VINSON APPROVES

Railroad Union Spokesmen Turn Dows  Raise Offered By President’s Board

Wage Scales For Rail Men Are Turned Down By Unions   Increase Called ‘Unsatistactory;’ Workers Now Taking Strike Vote

RECOMMENDED  BY FOR BOARD   Proposed Increases Range From Four to 10 Cents An Hour.   INOW TAKE STRIKE VOTE

BACK RESOLUTION @ BEFORE CONGRESS   Measure by Sen. 1ruman Would Permit Payment of >, 8-Cent Award

4 :to 10 Cent Hike May Be Rejected   Vinson Accepts Recommend: ation. by Specal. Board: but Railmen: Press: for-Raise

4-10 Cents An Hour Increase For Rail Workers  Steel Workers Seek 15-Cent Raise With   Steel Workers Seek 15-Cent Raise With President’s Board Viewing Living Costs

Commend New Pay Plan For Rail Workers   Increases 10 Cents Per Hour For Lower Bracket; 4 Cents For Top Group.  QRPART<C NOVEMRER 10

Rail Wage Proposal Is Rejected   Increases Ranging From 4 To 10 Cents An Hour Proposed, But Unions Indicate Opposition

Pay Increase For Rail Men  Recommended   Stabilization Board Is Agreeable to Schedule From 10 Cents Down

INCREASE FOR R AILROADERS IS FAVORED   Special Presidential Board Considering Demands Recommends Higher  Waaes   APPROVAL IS EXPECTED

4 to 10-Cent Rail Wage Increases Given Approval   But Non-Operating Union Spokesmen Reject Proposal

WAGE INCREASE TO RAILROAD WORKERS UNSATISFACTORY   B. M. Jewell, Chairman of the Rail Employees Wage Conference, Not Satisfied.   3}. M. Harrison, Brotherhood President, Said the Scale Was Unacceptable.

Urge Wage Hikes For Rail Workers   But 15 Non-Operating Unions Reject a 4 to 10 Cent Boost.

POLIO CASES ARE INCREASING DAILY   Rate Of Rise Is Alarming In Many Sections Of ' Country j

‘Alarming Increase’ of Polio Noted; Texas Has 757Cases,AMAReports

Nazis Say Ortona Is Left To Allies   Ten-Doy Battle Ends In Evacuation Of Key Anchor To Germany’s Battle Line In ttaly

Nazis Evacuat Ortona After Bloody Baitle   Yanks Penetrate Fortifications on Road ta Rome

BOLIVIA 1S CALLED TO WAR AGAINST THE AXIS NATIONS   Meeting Arranged to Consider Action of President and Cabinet   QO MOBILIZE MANPOWER

EXECUTIVE DECREE SUMMONS BOLIVIA TO WAR ON AXI:   Immediate Session of Bolivian Congress May Be Called To Vote Formal Declaration of War; Manpower To Be Mobilized.

Bolivia Now At War With Axis   Congress To Act On Executive Decree

Bolivians Get War Summon:   Immediate Session of Congress Expected To Act on Decree Jasued by President

BOLIVIA GOES TO WAR ON AXIS   President’s: Decree to Go to Congress. for Ratification, ~°*

SUMMON BOLWA TO WAR BY DEGREE   Executive Action Considered By Heads of Chamber Of Denuties.

EXPECT BOLIVIA TO DECLARE WAR   Country Summoned To War By Executive Decree.

BOLIVIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST AXIS   Formal Decree Expected As Congress Convenes

Landing Of Allied Army In Europe Soon Under Cover Of Naval Atteck

  Furious Allied  - Blows From Two Directions   Great Naval Operations Near, Report States

SPRING OFFENSIVE.   New Attacks Against: Japs Fore east Spring Offensive.

US, Bombers  Harass Japs   Munda And Kiska Island Are Again Heavily Bombed By Yanks  eal

KISKA BOMBED FOUR TIMES ON THURSDAY   66 Jap Stragglers Killec By Army. Patra 3 On Attu ~

Yankee Bombers Raid Jap Installations On Kiska   Attacked Four Times Thursday, Navy Department Announces; Sixty-Six More Nipponese Stragglers Killed by Army Patrols on Attu; Hits mend ne Iiclien

Action Continues In Aleutia  Yanks Bomb Kiska, Kill Japs On Attu

Truck Strike Ties Up Tons Of War Freight   Operators Make Appeal To Congress for Help As Strike Spreads West

Trucking Strike Ties Up Freight   Operators Urge Congress To Act

TRUGK DRIVERS STRIKE SPREADS   Operators Appeal to Congress to Aid in Settling Dispute; WLB Calls on Strikers to Return to Jobs

Congress ASKed To Help Settle. ~ Drivers’ Strike  Tok Pima ferarntare   Truck Line Operators “~ peontie as 4,400 7°" -Remain Idle

Operators Take Case To Capitol   Truck Drivers’ Walkouts Spread East To West

BARKLEY SAYS CHANCES 6000 “AS VOTE NEARS   Roosevelt Assures Leaders of “ Farm Machinery to Harvest Crops.   BANKHEAD BILL FIGHT .. TESTS FDR’S STRENGTH

SENATE NEAR AVOTEON F:D.R.VETO   Barkley Optimistic About Chances of »Sustaining Veto’

Veto of Farm > Bill May Hold   Statement Follows  Conference with FDR

PLAN TO BEGIN OFFENSIVE IN BURMA SHORTLY      Monsoon Season Is About Over; Seek To Open Road To China

Into Federal Radio Query   F. C. C. Is Charged With Endangerment Of National Security

Radio Chief Charged With 50 Offenses   Communications Commission Probe Starts Today

Public Hearings Highlight Probe Into FCC Today   More Than 50 Charges Ranged Against Agency By Cox Investigators

CURBS ON NEW DEAL ‘URGED BY SEN, TAFT   Denounces Atte mpts To ‘Smear Congress’

TAFT HITS NEW DEAL IN POST-WAR PLANS   Senator Urges Congress To Seize Leadership

RAF. LEVELS LARGE PART Of GERMAN CITY   Elberfeld, Western Half of Wuppertal, Heavilv Pounded

Probe of $65,000  Lobby Fund Asked   Herring Introduced Tax Bill Amendmen

Heavy Blows At Rommel’s Supply Lines   British 8th Army Makes First Thrusts Into Tunisia

British Cross Tunisian Line   Yankees and R. A, F Bomb North Ports

BRITISH SMASH ACROSS BORDER   Advance Units in Tunisia, *Pursuing Legions of Marshal Rommel

British Make oF irst Thrusts Across Border  @ U.S. and RAF Rain Bombs in Northern Tunisian Theatre

Montgomery’ s Kighth Army Makes Ist Moves  Across. Tunisian Border In Rommel Pursuit

British Units Thrust Into Tunisia   Allied Planes Stab at Retreating Enemy Supply Lines

British Eighth Army Thrusts Into Tunisia; U.S. and R.A.F. Planes Attack Communications.

BRITISH CHASE GEN. ROMMEL INTO TUNISIA   ALLIED AIRMEN HIT SUPPLY LINES OF AFRICA CORPS

Eighth Army Make Thrusts  Into Tunisia   Allied Planes Try To Cut Rommel’s Supply Lines

Hitler's Orators Didn't Mention Africa, Growing Alfied Air Power   British Making Firs:  Thrusts Into Tunisia

BRITISH EIGHTH AAMY.PUSHES INTO TUNISIA   ‘American And RAF Planes — Continue Hammering Axis Supply Lines

British Eighth Army Crosses Tunisia Borde:   Make First Thrusts Across Frontier In Pursuit Of Rommel; RAF, American Planes Blast Northern Tunisia

Air Attacks Stab At Africa Corps Communications   British Crossing Tunisia Border Move Toward Nazis In Mareth Line

British 8th Army  Movesinto Tunisia      American and R.A.F. Planes Rain Bomb: On Northern Tunisia In An Effort To Cut Axis Supply Lines

British Units Thrust  Into Tunisia Allied Planes Stak   Allied Planes Stab at Retreating Enemy Supply Lines

ROMMEL TROOPS PURSUED AGROSS TUNISIAN BORDER   British Advance Units Enter Protectorate and Bulk of Montgomery’s Army May Follow Shortly.   AXIS SUPPLY LINES BOMBED BY AIRMEN   Thirteen Enemy Planes Accounted For—Two Ships Set on Fire in Raids on Bizerte Dock Area.

War Anniversary Finds U. S. On Victory Road, But  Conflict Entering Toughest Stage

United Nations Move Along On Road to Victory   Second anniversary of Pearl Harbor » attack finds nation united in ‘aim for ‘victory. _

FORTY-FOUR DIE IN HOTEL FIRE   Death List Expected to be Increased —Most. Disastrous. Hotel Fire in Houston, Texas, History.

46 MEN DIEIN HOTEL FIRE AT HOUSTON, TEXAS   Victims Mostly Old Men on Relief; Many More Burned

MOST VICTIMS OLDER MEN IN HOUSTON BLAZE   Some Killed In Jumps After Guests Are Trapped

Aged Men Jump to Death From Second and Third Stories of Hotel at Hous: ton, Texas.

Admit Yanks Face Struggle   London Press Notes Dang: erous Period For : Fifth Army.

Full-Scale Talks To Be In Quebee  Political Aspects Seen As   leanartant

Dk and Churchill on Way to Quebec  fter Preliminary Conference in U.S.

First Of War Talks Closed   Roosevelt, Churchill Met In Advance Of Quebec Meeting; Staffs Confer.

Allied War Conference  Roosevelt, Churchill Hold Preliminary Meeting

Two Leaders In Meeting Prior To Conference   Chiefs of Staff of Both Nations Working Together

Held Preliminary Conferance Somewhere in United States in Advance Quebec War Talks

U.S.- BRITISH CHIEFS CONFER   FDR and Churchill Held  Preliminary Meeting

Roosevelt Meets Churchill in U.S. For War Talks   Eden and Hull Expected to Attend Quebec Parleys

Roosevelt, Churchill Meet In U. §.   Allied Leaders Stage Ses. sion Preliminary To Quebec Conference   EXPERTS MAP COURSE   Eden With Hull Or Welle: Expected To Discuss Po. litical Problems

British, U. S. Chiefs Hold Advance Talk:   Meeting Takes Place As Prelimmary to Quebec Conference

CHURCHILL SAW FDR IN UL 3, OFFICIALS REVEAL   Preliminary Meeting Held in Advance of War Conferences Soon to Open in Quebec.   SECRETARY EDEN TO ATTEND PARLEYS   Announcement of His Coming Gives Rise to Belief Hull or Welles Will Join Deliberations.

Allied Chiefs Meet To Discuss New  War Developments  FDR, Churchill Hold  Early, Private   Gathering in U. 5S.

Churchill And FDR In  Preliminary Meeting   Military Matters Expected To Be Main Subject Of Conference: Eden To Attend

Churchill, FDR Hold Preliminary Meeting in U. S.  Anthony Eden to Take Part; Hull, Welles ~  wo iad tn Abtanad

FDR, Churchill In Conference   Preliminary Talks Are Held In U. S.  =~ wsee.ecemse ane 6 : gem ee ewtne ®.

Big U.S. Planes Hit Important Jap Defense Positions  Foe Shows Weakness, Worry; Five Enemy Planes Down

KURILE ISLAND BASE POUNDED   American Bombers Lash Out 1,000 Miles On Road To Tokyo For Attack

Japanese Defense Positions  In Kurile Islands Attacked   Giant Liberator Bombers Strike Out 1,000 Miles Alon the Northern Road to Tokyo—Two Bombers Miccing

KURILE ISLANDS ARE RAIDED i BY AMERICAN HEAV-Y BOMBERS   ‘Jap Defense Positions On Northern Road To Tokyo Attacked Second Time; 40 Enemy Fighters Bagged; Planes Made 1,000-Mile Jump ~

Kurile Isles Blasted by U. 8. Bombers  ; “At Least Five of Jap  Defending Planes Brought Down

Yankees Again Blast Kuriles   Score Numerous Hits On Strong Jap Base

U.S. Airmen — Bomb Kuriles  2d American Blow Hits OMT Tan Mainland

Shoot Down Five Enemy Planes in Raid on Islands   iberators Strike Out 5,00€ Miles in Sensational Raid   ose Only Two Bombers Navy Department Statement Says   nited States Jungle Troops ‘osing In on Bairoka Harbor

RAF, American Fortresses Blast Italy and Germany; Road to Tokyo Pounded

KURILE ISLANDS BLASTED AGAIN   Two Liberators Missing After Successful Raid On Jap Bastion

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   German Kharkov Attack Primarily Defensive, MacKenzie Thinks

GREAT PRICE BEING PAID BY GERMANS FOR REOCCUPATION OF KHARKOV BUT COST NOT TOO BIG FOR VITAL SECTOR

GERMANS PAYING HIGH PRICE FOR KHARKOV, OPERATIONS SOUTH RIT MAY RE WORTH THE COST

‘Germans Pay High Price For Xharkov, But ‘tts Worth # 'Y Re-Capture Saves Rostov (Hinge; Hitler Gambles Against Invasion

The War Today   .. Nazis Taking Big Gamble With  Niseicvro Tntn Manette Racin

GERMANS PAYING — HIGH PRICE TO REOCCUPY KHARKOV   Offensive Thru Mud Calculated to Prevent Right Wing From Being Torn From Anchor

Fighter Escort Scares Off German Plane; RAF Continues Nightly Assaults

Within 70 Miles of  Rostov   Offensive Engulfs Volshay: aorlovka—Rumor Black Sea Drive

Enemy Losses In Africa Far Exceed Allies   Damage to Axis . Air, Naval Forces ‘Great...Stimson Says

ISLAND LITTERED WITH DEAD JAPS   No Women, But Face Powder, Rouge and Perfume Stores Found

island Is Firmly in Hands  of the Proud, Vic torious Yanks.  ‘SUPPLIES AND MUCH FOOD LEFT BY ENEMY  Chinese and American  Bombers Carried Out Big Air Raids.  i 

FITZGERALD CASE IS THROWN OUT BY 0. 6. JURIST   Mistrial Declared by Court After County Attorney's Remarks Overheard

Mistrial Declared In Fitzgerald Case   Judge Says Jury Saw, Heard What Miskovsky Did, Said _

YOUNG WORKER HELD GUILTY OF SABOTAGE   Faulty Plane Construction Brings Conviction

CARRIER FROM BRITISH FLEET WITH AMERICANS   ¥ictorious Has Been Operating With Naval Task  - Force In Pacific

Allied Planes  Set Pacific Pace   Mitchell Fighters Support Australians,  Liberators Hit Wewak

Land Values fo Be Adjusted    Counties i in Flooded. Oklahoma Districts To Get Tax Relief

Appeals Board Decides Members Of MRM Not Essential To War Effort

Sicily Airfields Given Crippling Bomb Blows; Many Planes Destroyed   China Wins More Victories in Rice Bowl; Tojo Warns Nippon Parliament That War Is In Decisive Stage, With Threats to Mainland

Sicilian-Aerial Blow ~ Pitch Is Stepped Up   Rumania: Said Dickising: For For Separs te Peace; French S . - Border

ALLIES STEP UF OFFENSIVE TEMPO   Enemy Checks Defenses In The Balkan Areas   RAF SCORES AGAIN   Hits Rail Lines in France; Berlin Gets Set for Eapected Big Air Raids

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins or Lutes World News Today.      BRronoanians Fvneuai

PEASANTS FLEE EAST RUMANIA   Tens of Thousands Are  . Fvacuatine Districts

Hitler Being Forced Back to Old Frontier   Soviets Threaten Last Main Rail Center , in ikraine

Lines Of Evacuees Choke Vital Roads; Arrest Many {n Attempt To Block Rush

PEASANT LEAVE PATH OF UVIETS IN EAST RUMANIE   Civilians Jam Roads, Hindering Nazi Efforts To  Reinforce Front

MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY   Seek To Smash New Policy Of Non-Belligerency

FEUDENDEDIN SOUTH CAROLINA   Electrocute Woman, Two Men for Planned Murder of Neighbor

3 ELECTROCUTED » FOR FEUD: MURDER   Mrs. Sue Logue First Woman To Get Chair

Woman, 2 Men Die In Chair For Parts In Feud Slayings   Pay With Lives For Five Violent Deaths; Woman Is Calm To Last

THREE EXECUTED BY $. 0. TODAY   Two Men and A Woman, the First In That State,  ~ Electrocuted Today Following Conviction In Feud-Murder..

State Adds To Toll Of Deadly Feud   Three, One First Woman Executed In  Carolina, To Death

THREE EXECUTED FOR FEUD KILLINGS   One Is Woman—First To Be Put To Death in State

Three Persons Electrocuted   Two Men and Woman Die in Electric Chair Result of Feud

Two Men, One Woman Die In Electric Chair To End South Carolina Feud

THREE ARE 10 DEATH FOR FEUD MURDERS   Trio Includes Woman, Firs One to. Be Electrocuted By State of South Carolina   SHE DIES CALMLY   Was Convicted With Her Brother-In-Law and Another Man of Panning Neighbor’s Death

CALM AS SHE GOESTOCHAIR   South Carolina Executes Ex. School Teacher And 2 Men For Murders

Execute Trio  For Murder   Woman and Two Men Go to Deaths in South Carolina Electric Chair

U.S. RAIDS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Hainan Island in South Sea, Haipong in French Indo-China Under U. S. Bombsights

U.S. Bombers Rip Taranto, Calabria   All American Planes Return . , Safely: Fram Raid

ALLIES AERIAL-OFFENSIVE = CONTINUES OVER GERMANY   RUHR INDUSTRIAL CENTER  BLASTED, LAST NIGHT FOL.” LOWING KASSEL BRAID  STAGED YESTERDAY

Remscheid Gets First Bombing Attack Gf War   Another Industrial City In Ruhr Valley Is Target For Allied Bombers   AERIAL ASSAULTS IN EIGHTH DAY

AEMouiicld), WOOL CENTER, BLASTED BY HEAVY! FORGE   Allied Assault Enters Its Eighth St.aigit Day: Hamburg in Flames,

REMSCHEID HIT IN ALLIES’ NEW « BLAST ATRUHR   Follows Bombing of Kassel and Clean-up Blow at Hamburg

Attack Only a Foretaste of ‘What Germans Will Get in Coming Months, According To Growing Indications

1000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON ST, NAZAIRE   Subsidiary Raids Take RAF Bombers Over West Germany

Nazi Sub Bases Chief Targets   Continuous Attacks by British And Yanks Pass 100-Hour Mark

Meanwhile Diplomatic _ Side Shown   DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLE BE. TWEEN NAZIS, ALLLES IS EVIDENT.  ¥

’Round-Clock Raids Blast Reich Tarvets   Great Offensive Seen As Possible Prelude To Invasion Thrust

Blasts at Germany Unceasing   Reds Give Ground Beforé Counter-attacks — Japs  Plan Offensive

Germans Disarm  Danish Police New Sabotage Wave  Greeypn ame (“Ante

New RegimeTries ToRestore Order; Army Fights On   ‘Peace Rumors Fly as Premier  Dissolves Fascist Party; : 30 Hurt at Milan  i 

MARSHALL'S TASK “IN ONE THEATER”   LONDON DISPATCH SAYS HE WILL DIRECT ALLIED INVASION OF CONTINENT,

Drawing Battle Lines For Final  Fight For Sicily   American Forces Hammer Close To New Nazi Defense Line   GERMANS SEEK TO BOLSTER DEFENSE

FIRE ATILLINOIS ~: HOTEL INJURES TEN:  Flames Still Out Of Con trot*Hour After Alarm’  ‘os Tura

Allied Airmen Battle Jap Fleets from Truk   MARINES TAKE ISLANDS

"MOVEMENT *REPORTED   Widespread A‘ And . Naval Bettles In View In Paciric

JAPS ATTEMPT TO AID RABAUL   Convoys Attacked By U.S. Planes     Big Naval Battles Likely

Allied Airmen  Battle To Halt Rabaul Convoys    Engage In Battles With Jay Warships And Troop Convoys In Rabaul Area   SEVERAL CONVOYS _ HAVE BEEN SIGHTED

Marshall Almost Gets a Ducking   Sprinkled with Hot Water in Kitchen

PRESIDENTS END MEETING   Historic Two-Day Conference Is Ended In Texas.

Hitler Healthy, Says Goebbels   Fuehver Working Hard.  Nazi Broadcasts

SURRENDER APPEAL MAY BRING RESULT   May Serve More Practical Purpose Than Previous Pleas to That Effect.

58 Civilian Workers Get Navy E Pins   Electricians Speeded to Honolulu to Make Repairs on Two US Battleships Sunk in Pearl Harbor Attack

c ene Civilians Honored  For Speeding To Honolulu And Rushing Battleship Repairs

4) WARPLANES, CROSS CHANNEL, RAID LOWLANDS   Constant Streams of Aircraft Pour Out Of England

Sovereignty Of States Keynote Of Conference Of Governors, Columbus   By ARTHUR BOSTWICK

EARL WARREN WARNS OF NEW PEARL HARBOR   Opposes Release by Relocation Camps Of 150,000 Japs

WESTERN 10\ OWA AND. -REMSEN LOAN -ASS'N. . - JO BE CONSOLIDATED

Jersey Coast Lashed By Wind And High Water   Some Resort Towns Temporarily Cut Off; Large Vessel Runs Acround At Belmar

Texas Warned That It May Be Without Federal Aid In Payment of Pensions

LOOKS LIKE DRAKE   Demos Aré Picking Second District Candidate at Paola .

i i li ti lh th Ml i hi i i a i  1,500 Miners Walk Out Following Dismissal  Of Three Employes

Defense Plant Corporation Unit Will Supply Companion Plant with Magnesium Chloride to be Converted into World’s Lightest Structural Metal

FOREIGN WHEAI AVAILABLE 10 UNITED STATES   American farmers face drastic shortage of livestock feed

VAoT QUANTIIco UF FOREICK FEED MADE AVAILABLE   War Food Administration Announces 503,090,000) _ Bushels on Hand.

Predicts Smelt Will Start Running This Week and Says It Means Spring

Jap Prisoners At McCoy Feel Disgraced; They'd Rather Have Died Fighting

Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp McCoy Are Aloof, Feel Disgraced

Cut German Defense Line Near the Adriatic Side.  SEIZE MAIN RAIL LINE INTO ROME  Air Offensive Like the Ground Offensive Picks Up Speed.

Landon Comments On Fourth Term   Says President Will Not Quit Job

STILL ON DUCE’S PATH   New Italian Premier Denounced by Emperor of Ethiopia.

MANY BOMBS ARE DROPPED OVER EUROPE   Berlin Blasted by Mcsquito Planes for the Second ~ Straight Night. —   OTHER TARGETS HIT   Much Attention Paid to te Railway Division Points and Trains,

Berlin Is Again Hit By Bombers In Night Attack   British Planes Over Berlin For Second Straight Night Savs London   MANY TARGETS IN EUROPE ARE BOMBED

MANY BOMBS) OME IRTP OVER EUROPE   Berlin ‘Blasted by Mpautto Planes for. the Second’ ° “Straicht' Nicht. Ach   OTHER: TARGETS  HIT   Much  Attention Paid to: “the _ Railway Division Points ° ‘and! Trains, 1 [oe °"

19 MEN ELIGIBLE FOR ARMED FORCE!   Six Of Those From Adams Draft Board No. 2 Who Pass Examinations Elect To Serve In U. S. Navy

ADAMS COUNTIANS JOIN ARMED FORCES   Draft Board No. 2 At Gettys _ burg Has 19 Men Accepted For Service, 8 Of Whom Are Volunteers

18 ADAMS COUNTIANS INDUCTED INTO SERVICE   That Number Sent To Harrisburg By Board No. 2 Pass Their Final Exams

‘MORE INDUCTEES FROM ADAMS BOARD   Forty-Two Men, Including Thirty Married Before Pearl Harbor, Taken Into Armed Forces

POLES DEBATE APPEAL 10 FOR AND CHURCHILL   Russians Want Purge Of Enemies Within Poland's Ranks

MAY RECONCILE POLES, SOVIETS   U. S., Britain Hope to Restore Harmony in Allied Camp; z Russians Bitter. !

Britain and U. S. Seek -‘To Bring Poland, Russia Back To Friendly Terms

SOVIETS SEER POLISH PURGE TO AID PEACE   Break of Nations Viewed As Major Defeat For Allies

EXILE GOVERNMENT OF POLES STUDIES NOTE FROM RUSSIA      Diplomatic Observers Hope Break-Up Is Temporary— Polish Cabinet May Need Shake-Un

BRITAIN, b. S, OPEN TALKS ON POLE-RED BREAK   Moscow Dispatch Says Polish Purge Only Answer

High Command's Flank Move Avoids Decision Between Rival Senate Groups

WhichSenateGroup Will Go fo Africa?   High Command Neatly Maneuvers Out of Any Decision

RUSSIANS ADVANCING AT ROSTOV   Huge Gains In North On Kursk Front Are Claimed By Reds

Troops Also Driving Hard On Rostov   Germans Reported To Be Evacuating Fourth Biggest Russian City

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON KHARKOV   Rail Line North Of Rostov Cut By Red Army

REDS TIGHTENING GRIP ON KHARKOV LIKE GIANT HANL   Russian Armies Also Drive Toward Rostov Suburbs in New Threat at Don's Manth.

ISOVIETS TIGHTEN DEATH GRIP ON KHARKOV WHILE PRESSING ROSTOV SIEGE

ROSTOV. IN. THROES OF SOVIET THREAT FROM NORTHEAST   Russians Maintain: . Mile. An-Hour Advance — New Gains ‘In Kursk Area

REDS TIGHTENING GRD ON KHARKOV ENTERING ROSTO   Big Guns Being Brought Up at Close Distance Behind Tanks, Germans Reported Moving.   BRITISH BELIEVED WELL IN TUNIS!   Afrika Corps Resisting Along Front From Coast and Extending 70 Miles Into Desert. 

Nazis Reported To Be Leaving In Great Haste   Rostov Is Also Threatened by Advancine Reds

RED ARMIES ‘TIGHTEN GRIP ON KHARKOV   Russians ‘Drive Towards Suburbs Of Rostov In New Threat

Red Offensive Moves Closer to Rostov   Red Tide Sweeps Toward Key Cities in Amazing Onrush at Mile-an-Hour Clip

CLOSE IN ON NAZIS   Red Army Also Drives Toward Suburbs of Rostoy in New Threat to the City.

Reds Closer To Kharkov And Rostev   British Launch Heavy Attack on Rommel’s Forces

Reds Tighten Firm Grip on Great City   Stockholm Says Russians Only Six Miles Awav

huss lighten Kharkov and Rostov Grips  Nazis Reported Starting to Evacuate Former      Soviet Armies Maintain Amazing Mile-an-Hour Advance

Soviet Death Grip Drawn on Kharkov: Nazis Said Fleeing   Evacuation of City by Germans -Reported as Russian Arc Closes; Drive Toward Rostov in New Threai

RUSSIANS CLOSE DEATH GRIP ON KHARKOV BASE   Reds Only 22 Miles From City After Big Advance   ALSO NEAR SUBURBS OF ROSTOV ON THE DON

NAZIS BEGIN EVACUATION OF KHARKO\   Many Additional Towns Captured In Mile - an- hour Advance by Soviets.   See startling Russian action pictures on today’s picture page.

PROFIT TAKING TREND CONTINUES   Market Selling Momentum ’ Slackens; Fractional Near Close ~~

Both Parties Support Move to Limit Future Presidents to Eight Years

PLAN TO LIMIT PRESIDENTIAL TERM OFFER EE   Republicans and Democrats Alike Support Proposal Made Yesterday In Senate   PASSAGE BOUBTFUL   Resalution ta Amend Con. stitution Held to Need Administration Support  For Enactment

8-YEAR LIMIT FOR PRESIDENTS GAINS SUPPORT   LEADERS IN SENATE WITH PROPOSAL WIN INCREASING FAVOR

Measure To Put Stop To Fourth Term   Proposal to Limit Future Presidents to Eight Years Gains Support   REQUIRES AMENDMENT

PROPOSAL TO LIMIT PRESIDENTIAL TERM ATTRACTS SUPPORT  BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICAN SENATORS APPEAR FAVORABLE

Move To Limit Presidential Tenure Gains Support   VINORITY BACKING

TWO TERM CIMT GIVEN SUPPORT   Senate Proposal Would Restrict President to Two Terms in Office.

Army Money Is Attacked by Senator   War-Front Trotting Lawmakers Report to Senate Be- hind Closed Doors

INVASION MONEY CRITICIZED AT SENATE HEARING   Fathers Eligible To Draft But Bigger Allowances For Families Likely

"  IN PLASTERS STIR CONGRESS   Use Of Military Money In Africa And Italy Arouses Comment

FIX DATE OF DRIVE   United War Fund Campaign Will Start Monday,  October 18

Russians Plunge Ahead Toward Polish Border; Hitler’s Plans Foiled

FALL OF KIEV TO RED TROOPS IS ANTICIPATED   Russians Plunge On Toward Polish And Latvian  Rorders

Reds Capture Important Heigh on Western Side of Dnieper in Battle of the Bridgeheads

Reds Smash Ahead Over Dead Nazis   Another Hound Of ‘Battle Of Bridgeheads’ Won

Soviets Reported Near Kiev In Great Pincers Attempt   Important Height on West Side of Dnieper Captured in Sweep of Red Armies—Fateful Battle of Dnieper in Full Fury

REDS TIGHTEN HOLD ON RIVER BRIDGEHEADS   Hurl Nazis Back Out Of Shelling Range Of the Dnieper

Russians Add New Threat To Nazi Army   Soviets Report Taking Strategic Sites, Continuing Onslaught

Allies Shoot Up Japanese Lines In New Guinea   Tokio Claims One British Brigade Trapped in Burma

Allied Flyer: Harass Jap Outposts   Strafe Island Bases In Blow At Increased _Enemy Activity In South Pacific Area

Allies Scourge Japs With Fire   Foe’s'New Guinea Bases Riddled With. Bullets

ON JAP BASES   Enemy Supply Route to Salamau and Lae Bombed And Strafed.   BLAST MANY TARGETS

WAR PLANES POUR HEAVY FIRE INTO JAP POSITIONS  Tn Navthoern Naw Criinea   In Northern New Guinea And Other Bases North Of Australia

Pound Japanese Pacific Bases   Enemy Supply Routes Hit By Allied Planes

Allied Planes Rain Fire on Jap Positions In New Guinea   Nine Enemy Bases Above Australia Also  Blasted

ALLIED WARPLANES POURED HEAVY FIRE INTO JAP POSITIONS  _ NINE“ENEMY: BASES IN-ISLANDS ABOVE

TLOMAT, HBRAaAPHUVUAT IANS   Allied Warplanes Strat Jap Bases   Pour Cannon and Machine Gun Fire Into North Guinea Positions.

NINE ENEMY BASES IN PACIFIC ISLES JOMBED BY ALLIES   Navy Department Admits Loss of Destroyer in Jap Air Attack on Shipping Off Guadaleanal.

63,000 ROUNDS OF FIRE POURED OUT ON THE JAPS   Allied Warplanes Strafe Enemy Positions In New Guinea And Islands Above  Australia.

Jap Bases Again Bombed By Allies  U. S. Lost Destroyer And 3 Other Vessels In Jan Air Accault

‘Allies Blast Japs’ New Guinea Bases; ‘Loss Of Destroyer Admitted By Navy

Allied Planes Blast Heavily  At Jap Bases   Pour 63,000 Rounds Of Cannon, Machine Gun Fire Into New Guinea.

HARD FIGHTING IN PACIFIC AREA   Enemy Bases Hard Hit as  Japs Increase Acivity in Islands:

U.N. Fliers Blast  Nine Jap Bases  - Above Australia   63,000 Rounds Of Cannon And Machinegun Fire Poured On New Guinea

ALLIED RAIDERS BLAST JAP BASES   HEAVIEST ASSAULT ON ENEMY SUPPLY ROUTE AT MADANG

ALLIES BLASTED 9 ENEMY POSITIONS   Poured 63,000 Rounds of Can. non and Machine Gun Fire on Japanese.

Allied Warplanes Pound Jap Bases  Heaviest Blow Delivered To Supply Route

Blast 9 Enemy Bases North Of Australia   RAF Bombers Pound Jap Shipping and Highway Traffic’ Navy Acknowledges Loss of Destroyer

YANKEES BOMB JAP ISLE BASES   MacArthur Aide Scored For Story About Idle Planes

ENEMY ISLAND BASES BOMBED BY U.S, CRAFT   Japanese New Guinea Posts  Are Blasted

ARCHBISHOP WILL STAY AT VATICAN FOR CONFERENCES   Nature of Discussions With Pope Unrevealed —May Concern War,  However.

ORGANIZATION OF LEGISLATURE WAS COMPLETED TODAY  HOUSE COMMITTEES  WARMCH DW CRBERAYWVED   HOUSE COMMITTEES NAMED BY SPEAKER PRICE DANIEL TUESDAY

LT. RUDY VALLEE ENGAGED TO MODEL   Actor-Crooner Says He and Bette jane Greer Have Not Decided When They Will Wed.

Willey’s Last ~ Words Read at Trial of Womai   Slain Youth Quoted as Saying Mrs. Randle Insulted Mother

DYING STATEMENT IS GIVEN TO JURY   Declaration of Slain Youth - Admitted in Trial of Mrs. Randle

Wallace, Jones ‘Announce Truee  Tn Their Row   Jones To Demand Congressional Investigation

Dispute Is Tossed Into LapOfFDR   Secy. Declares Vice President Cannot Speak For Him; Asks Probe.

Fascists to Stay On German Soil  Berlin Announces 'Tamnanrary’ Satin

Akron Car and Bus Lines, Rubber Plant Hit by Sikes   War Workers Stranded as Transportation Employes Stage Unannounced Labor Stoppage.

NEW STRIKES IN ~ AKRON, CANTOR   Walkout Of Bus Drivers Ties Up Transportation In Rubber City

DETAILS OF ATTACKS ARE ANNOUNCED   100 Officers And Men Suffer From Poisoning

‘Charge Use Of Poison Gas By  Japs In China   More Than 100 Officer: And Men Affected By Gas During Fighting Along Yangtze River

JAPS USING POISON GAS   ~ Chungking Reports Two Incidents Where Gas Used Against China

2 Gas Attacks by Japanese ‘Claimed in Chinese Disnatch   Chungking Says 100 Soldiers Affected South of Yangtze River

Pope Issues New Plea That Rome Be Spared Raids   Pressure to Be Renewed That It Be Open City

Pope’s Plea to Spare Rome May Lead To Movement to Demilitarize Capital

POPE IN PLEA FOR ROME TO BE SPARE   European Reports Say Italian Capital Will Be Made “Open

AN APPEAL   Plea That Rome Be Spared Further Air Raids Brings Renewed Pres. sure on Italian Government,

POPE PLEADS THAT ROME BE SPARED   Plea Will Add To Pressure That It Be an ‘Open City

Pope’s Plea May Result In Open City   Renewed Pressure From Neutral Nations Is Expected

Pope Pleads That Allies Spare Rome   Renewed Pressure To Have City Made ‘Open’ Is Foreseen

Italians Urge:‘Make Rome Open City   OPE’S PLEA, DEPLORING RAID, SPURS MOVEMENT TO SPARE ITALIAN CAPITAL

ROME MAY BE MADE AN OPEN CITY, IS BELIEF   Plea of Pope Pius XI} That City Be-Spored Further Air Raids, Plus. Action by :Eire -and Spain May ~ Bring on Stripping of Italian Capital of All : Military: Installations:in Near Future.

ITALIANS CRY PEACE,’ POPE HITS BOMBING   ‘Papal Protest Expected Ti  - Lead To Drive To Make Rome an Open City.   BOTH SIDES BLAMED   London Recalls Attacks or Wesiminster Abbey and  Archhichnn’e Hama

Churchill In Tripoli Thanks British 8th  Allied Alr Forces Are , Commended for Ald in Routing Rommel

CHURCHILL HOPS OFF AT TRIPOL   Prime Minister Thanks British For Defeat of Axis In Libya

Churchill Thanks Troops at Tripoli   He Views Rommel Rout From Air—Portuguese Visit Rumored

British Prime Minister Makes Visit to Tripoli: Commends Allied Forces   Peace Force is Seen By Wallace

Churchill In Tripoli Visit   Thanks Eighth Army For Splendid Fight

Churchill Travels To Tripoli to Hail Eighth Army  Also Commends Allied Air Forces for Routing Rommel’s Men

Churchill Travels Io Tripoli to Hail Eighth Army  Also Commends Alliec Bir Forrac for

Prime Minister Goes to Tri: poli to Greet Gen. Montgomery; Continues Spec: tacular Tour

Churchill Visits Tripoli To Thank British Army   Prime Minister Makes Ceremonial Entry Into the City —British Official Greeted-by Generals os He Makes Landing

CHURCHILL VISITS TRIPOLI T0 THANK ARMY FOR VICTORY   Tells British Troops Theit Achievements Have “Altered Whole Character of War.” ‘   FLIES ACROSS ROUTE OF ROMMEL’S RETREAT   Sees Wrecked German and Italian Equipment on Sands — Meets Montgomery and Alexander,

JOHN BENSON IS. CALLED BY DEATE      Retired Railroad Worker Tc Be Laid To Rest Thursday Afternoon

JOHN BENSON IS CALLED BY DEATH   Retired Railroad Worker To _ Be Laid To Rest Thurs dav Afternoon

Allied Planes Drive Out Nazi Fliers   Bomb Italian Bases; Plan To Eliminate Italy

[EISENHOWER TELLS ITALY  To END AID TO GERMANS, 'GAIN HONORABLE PEACE

“Hard Luck Kids” Destroy 24 Nazi Planes, but Lose Six Big Bombers

PRAISE BY STALIN.   Russian Leader Salutes the President of Mexico.

Spain Denies Peace Story   Says Hitler Has Not Asked Franco to Act As Intermediary

SEEKING WAY OUT?   Preparation of German _ “Peace Offensive” Suspected by London

Hint Spanish Fear Prestige Loss if Labeled) Nazi Catspaws in Move

Hitler Believed Preparing To Launch Peace Offensive   Strange Developments In Berlin Indicate Such Movement Is Afoot

Spaniards Deny Reports Hitler Asked Them to Act:As Peace Intermediaries

Hitler Believed Preparing Another Peace Offensive   Spain Denies Move To Be Initiated By Gen. Franco

ITLER PEACE MOVES HINTED   London Expects Development, Hears Rumania and Finland Near Cracking Point.

Diplomatic Sources Seeking Reason for Franco's Statement He Is Not German Go-Between   NOT PEACE EMISSARY FOR BERLIN REGIME   Madrid Advices From Paris Indicate Black Market Liquidating On Belief War's End Near

CITE STRANGE EVENTS DURING RECENT WEEKS   Reasons for Action by Hitler Increased in  Turn of War

SPAIN QUICK TO DISAVOW NAZIS   Denies to “South Amerigan’CapitaleShe Will Be Intermediary. *

Neutrals See Signs Of Hitler Peace Offensive   franco Disclaimer Called Strange: Spain Or Sweden Likely Chanrale

Rumors Of New Peace Move By Hitler Spread   Spain Hurries To Deny Story That Gen. Franco Will Be Go-Between.

Nazi Peace Offensive Is Seen In Spanish Denia s   ‘Spain Orders Embassies In Squth America To : Deny Hitler ‘Request’ To Franco

HITLER PEACE FEELER MAY BE IN OFFING   Spain’s Denial She’ll Take Mediator Role Causes Sneculation

P eac e Offer Hinted   London Sources Expect Move By Hitler To End the Struggle

See Possible  Peace Offers   Spain Denies Selection As Go-Between; Finns Said  Ready To Quit.

PEACE OFFENSE MAY BE HITLER'S NEXT WAR MOVE   Strange Goings-on Reported From Berlin Since Confab Held at Casablanca

"GERMAN PEACE _ OFFER RUMORED   Spain Denies Hitler Has Asked Franco to Act As Intermediary

HITLER BELIEVED PREPARING NEW PEACE OFFENSIVE   May Come Through Spain Or Sweden; Spanish  Don

Diplomats Study Odd Instructions   Denial Ordered For Unreported Rumor

IN OF THE 14:OR. POSSIBLY. 16 ‘SHIPS. OCCURRE! ’ IN: NARROW, -MID-MEDITERRANEAN. APPROACHES TC TUNISIA .   Neutral Sources Believe Hitler May Be Preparing Another Peace Offensive

Report Hitler  To Wave Olive Branch Again   ‘Developments ‘in’ Berlin Since Casablanca Are Whispered

New Hitler  Peace Move   Neutral Quarters in London Report Spain or Sweden to Take Lead

Spain Denies Franco Named Go-Between   Strange Happenings Reported in Berlin . Since Allied Parley.

INEW HINTS OF PEACE PLAN CIRCULATING   Spanish Cmbassies in Brazil And Chile Issue Denials Of Rumors Heard In Buenos Aires   SPAIN AS GO-BETWEEN

4,000 TON ENEMY SEAPLANE TENDER SUNK THURSDAY   One of Four Escorting Destroyers Damaged in Battle Off Bougainville Is. land; Jap Attempt to Reinforce Solomons Position  Repulsed.

Allied Bombers Sink Jap Tender, Hit 23 Planes   Fierce Air Battles Rage In Solomons

Jap Seaplane Tender Sunk   Destroyer Damaged by U. S. Bombers; Other New Air Battles Fought

JAP EFFORT TO AID MUNDA FAILS   U. S. Bombers Blast Reinforcement Attempt  Sic: “EET EN EO WRK co mreNES:

SINK 9000-TON PLANE TENDER   Damage One of Four Escorting Destroyers Off Bougainville Island to Bar Reinforcements   AERIAL BATTLES   23 Jap Planes Destroyed or Damaged Against Loss of Six American Planes

AMERICAN BOMBERS SANK JAP SEAPLANE TENDER THURSDAY  ONE OF FOUR ESCORTIN DESTROYERS DAMAGED; DOWN 23 JAP PLANES

Allied Planes Sink Japanese Plane Tendet   Damage Jap Destroyer In Disrupting Japanese Attempt To Reinforce Solomons Position

FELL 18 ZEROS, SINK NIP TENDER IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Damage Another Destroyer as Japs Fail Again To Reach Solomons

U. S. Bombers Destroy Jap Seaplane Tender   Destroyer Damaged and 23 Planes Smashed in New Flurry of Fighting 

JAP SEAPLANE TENDER SUNK nN SOUTH PACIFIC   Eighteen Zeros Also Destroyed by Allied Warplanes on Bougainville Island   DESTROYER DAMAGED   ‘Attack Foils Enemy At tempt to Reinforce HardPressed Central Solomons Positions

YANKS PUNISH JAP SEA FORCE   Seaplane Tender Sunk; Destroyer Damaged

Plane Tender Is Sunk   23 Exeny Planes Downed As Reinforcement  Try Is Foiled

JAP SEAPLANE TENDER IS SUNK BY U. S. PLANES   Ship Of 9,000 Tons Destroyed Off Bougainville; One Of Escorting Destroyers Damaged.

JAP NAVY FLOTILLA BLASTED BY BOMBS OF YANK PLANES   Seaplane Tender Sunk and Destroyer Damaged

Jap Seaplane Tender Sunk By  Yankee Bombers   New Aerial Battles In S. W. Pacific Cost Foe 929 nese Planade

Foe Sending Stronger Air Fleets To Protect Bases In New Guinea, Force Is ‘Defeated’

SUPPLIES KEPT FROM JAPANESE   Yanks Sink Jap Tender, Damage Destroyer Off Bougainville.   DOWN 23 JAP PLANES

Yanks Destroy Plane Tender At Bougainville   Disrupt New Enemy Move To Reinforce Positions In Central Solomons

RATIONING {¢ UNDER WAY IN STORES TODAY   American Housewife Buys on New Scale Starting Today.   OFFICIALS EXPECT SOME DIFFICULTIES   “Point System” Education Aided by Volunteers in Many Places.

Officials Sit Back to Hear Moans of Housewives  And Clerks  VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING

Canned Foods Sales Begin for Cash Ratian Crnann.   RESTAURANTS START REGISTERING For rann

OALE OF CANNED FOOOS RESUMED   Volunteers to Aid House: Wives, Clerks Figure Out System.

RATIONED SALES OF CANNED GOODS STARTS TODAY  POINT SYSTEM GOES raAITH CeeernT Aili   POINT SYSTEM GOES INTO EFFECT ALL OVER NATION

Point System Canned Foods Buying Begins   Rationed Sales Launched After Eight Days' Trade Ban

Point System Is Under Way  _ Officials Sit   Officials Sit Back To Hear Roars And Moans

COUPON SYSTEM EFFECTIVE IN NATION MONDAY   Canned Goods Released on Strict Rationing Basis

[One Half Hour’s Study is Suggested by OPA: as Rationing Starts  '

FOOD RATIONING STARTS TODAY: USE NEW BOOKS      Coupons And : Cash Will Get You Food  Again   Housewives Urged ‘To Study Before Shopping

Couple of Blue Coupons Will Get You Can of Peas, If You Have the Price

Study Charts Before Shopping  *¢+¢+ 4  Ration Chief ie Half Hour Should Do The Trick

HEAVY BUYING INSTOCK MARKE   Leaders Reach Best Level: in Nearly 3 Years Due _ to Several Factors

New Coal Truce Set By Lewis   Midnight May 31 Is Union ‘Dead -Line

Lewis Still Continues to Ienore Board   Ickes’ Appeal Brings Action From Mine Leader: Conferences  Urged by Coal Boss

Union Head res Summons abor Board  ” Staying on Jobs Bring Collective  gaining Parleys  1S TO ICKES  s No Attention  -WLB Charges of ‘allenging U. S.’

Coal Miners, Due for Walkout, Agree To Remain on Jobs Until May 31; WLB, Snubbed Again, Scores Lewis

LEWIS RENEWS TRUCE IN COAL WAGE DISPUTE   Accedes to Ickes’ Appeal Continues to Ignore Labor Board

Miner Chief Accedes to Ickes Plea   Development Comes After WLB Takes Up Challenge of Miners

JOHN L. LEWIS EXTENDS COAL MINING TRUCE   UNION MEN TO STAY ON JOB UNTIL MAY 31

SECRETARY ICKES’ PLEA OBTAINS CONTINUATION OF MINE OPERATIONS; WAR LABOR BOARD WARNS OPERATORS.

Coal Mine Truce Is Extended To May 31 By Lewis  Heeds Appeal Of  Secretary Ickec

Coal Mine Truce Extended 2 Weeks   Lewis Continues To Ignore WLB

Ickes’ Appeal Brings Union  Order to Work   UMW Leader Hopes His Action Will Open Way To Collective Bargaining Conferences; WLR Aceeuces Him af Aidine Fnemy

Ickes Appeal to Lewi to Avert New Walkout In Mines Brings Truce   Anthracite Conference Extends Pact; _ WLB Blasts UMW Boss For Ignoring Peace Set-Up

Lewis Continues Strike Truce Till End of May   United Mine Workers’ Leader Heeds Appeal From Ickes; WLB Assails Union for Stand

RESPONDS TO PLEA AGAINST HALTING WORK   Extension Was Due To Expire At Midnight Tonight; WLB Raps  Miner Chief   Board Risks Showdown

UMW Chief Acquiesces To Plea from Ickes Asking Him To Avert Another Coal Walkout  REFUSES TO APPEAR AT WLB MEETING  Board Stakes Its Life In All-Out Clash As It Maintains Stand

Lewis Calls for Work to “Continue Until May 31st   BLAST SOUNDED BY WAR LABOR BOARD  Federal Agency Given the Cold Shoulder by Union Chief

LEWIS AGREES EXTENSION OF PRESENT TRUCI   Head Of Miners Still Ri fuses To Confer With War Labor Board   ADJUSTMENTS ARE PLANNED BY ICKES

Deadline Is Now Set For End Of May   Action Follows Appeal By Ickes To Avoid Walkout.

Lewis Gives New Truce in Coal Case   Extends Agreement to ~Work Until Midnight  Of May 31

Lewis enters into truce with Ickes to avert walkout   War labor board blasts UMW head  for isnorine its~- peace machinery

eNew Lewis Truce In Coal Miners Wage Dispute  WLB Blasts UMW e Head for Ignoring Paace Machinery

LEWIS EXTENDS TRUCE INBITTER MINE WAGE ROW   Instructs Men to Stay on Job After Tuesday Deadline— Acts at Request of Secretary Ickes.   CONTINUES TO IGNORE WAR LABOR BOARD   Latter Charges Union Leader’s Defiance “Challenges Sovereignty of U. S, in Time of War.”

Lewis Extends Truce in Mine Wage Dispute   Sets New Deadline of May 31 After Appeal By Ickes; Snub of WLB Brinos Bitter Denunciation

New Coal Mine Truce Is Called.   Lewis Agrees To Extension Of Time

Ball-up Of Year's Big Story Brings Action  Tighter Censorship To Halt Invasion News-Leaks Aired

Thomas Released On.$1000 Bond After Sentenced On Contenipt Charge; Hearing Set Oct. 20 .

FOOD SUBSIDY BAN 1S AGREED UPON   RESTRICTION TO STOP’ GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS IS WRITTEN INTO BILL.

WLB Gives Full Support To Subsidies   Program Approved As Jones Becomes Food Admimistratar   FAVORS ROLLBACKS AND SUBSIDIES   Program Necessary To Hold-Line on Pay, Labor Board Contends

Group Favors Bill to Erase Price Rollback   Action Comes as Jones Takes Job as Food Head and WLB Back Subsidy Plan

Conferees Vote  Subsidies Out   Action Taken After WLB OK's Roll Backs

CURB ON SUBSIDY IS PUT INTO BILL   Conferees Agree on Legislation Prohibiting Further Expenditure of Funds for Rollback of Food Prices

Agree to Limit Price Subsidies   Further Expenditure For Rollback Banned

Congress Agrees To Prohibit Funds For Price Rollback   To Halt Subsidy * Program;.CCC Is Extended

No Subsidies ToPayRetail Food Bills      HOUSE AND SENATE CONFEREES AGREE THAT ROLLBACKS SHALL NOT BE FINANCED FROM TREASURY.   Answer To W L B Action

Subsidy Method Declared Key to Stabilization   Defended by WLB; subsidy method  declared key to stabiliasta ssrtiet ii.

Congress Agrees To Prohibit Funds For Price Rollback  To Halt Subsidy

NINETEEN DAYS OF — BOMBARDMENT CAPPED BY AERIAL ASSAULT —   General Eisenhower's Ground Forces ‘Swarm Ashore After Unconditional Surrender Of Island At 11:40 A.M.

AIRMEN HIT ISLE 80 MILES SOUTH OF PANTELLERIA   Report Italian Garrison Nearly 15,000 Strong on Captured Island —

‘OF ISLAND IS STEADY   Round -Clock System Begun; 12,000 Tak- en At Pantelleria

Italy Gibraltar Surrenders To Yankee Airmen   Terrific Bombing Forces Island Defenders To Fly White Flag; English Landing Force Occupies Stepping Stone To Sicily And Continent

ITALIAN OUTPOST SURRENDERS AFTER HEAVY BOMBARDMENT  CPECIAT COMMIINIOINE

ALLIED TROOPS OCCUPY REY ITALIAN OUTPOST   AXIS DEFENDERS CAPITULATE TQ YANKS, BRITISH AFTER 19 DAYS

Surrender Clears Route OF Invasior To Other Islands Protecting Italy

Allies Turn Bombs Against Lampedusa   Demand Is Made That Tiny Italian Island Near Pantelleria Surrender or Be Bombed Into Obliteration.   Turn Back German Bomb Attack on British When Pantelleria Gives Up

Troops Occupy All Of Island As Resistance Is Wiped Out; Many Enemy Planes Shot Down 1n Aerial War: Lampedusa Being Attacked

Rome Reports Surrender Prison Isle Demanded   Pantelleria Occupied with More than 10, 000 Prisoners Taken, American Fliers ' Turn Bombs on Sister Isle  i   REGGIO CALABRIA BLASTED   Two Sicilian Bases. Also Bombed by Airmen from Malta—Italians Told of Surrender of ‘Rock’

Ultimatum Delivered  , To Garrison   Unceasing Aerial Attack Follows Pattern Used On Pantelleria .

Great Deluge Of Bombs Falls On Tiny Island   Ultimatum Served On Italians Calling For Isle to Give Up

‘PANTELLERIA IN HAND, ALLIES TURN TO LAMPEDUSA; ITALIANS SAY SURRENDER REFUSED

Lampedusa Is New Target Of Allied Bombers   Surrender Ultimatum Delivered To Small ltalian Garrison

Is First Major Base Taken Through Air Power Alone   Roosevelt Indirectly Appeals To Italy T« Get Out Of War; Lampedusa Is Next

19 Days Of Raids Clinches Victory   White Flag Is Displayed And Eisenhower's Forces Occupy Duce’s Island; First Fortress In History To Be Blasted Into Submission

First Victory Battered Out By Air Power   ‘First Ctack In Ring of Outposts Intended to Keep { Out Invaders   AFTER GREATEST AIR ASSAULT OF WAR   Yields Before a . Soldier: is Landed after 19 Days of Incessant Pounding

BOMBARDMENT BY AIR FORCE SUBDUES ISLE   Eisenhower Ai Announces Capitulation Of Isle Fortress

Stepping-otone Isles Fallto Allies This Week   Fall of Pantelleria Effected Mainly by Aerial Bombardments.   Capture 3 Others   Lampedusa, Linosa and Lampione Are Valuable Bases Very Near Sicily.

Troops Go Ashore, Meeting Little Opposition; Ring Around Italy Cracks —

WASTE NO TIME FOLLOWING FALL OF PANTELLERIA   Bombing Of Lampedusa Maden: And Increased; Pantelleria Becomes A  Vital Allied Base.

Allies Get Stepping Stone to Sicily 60 Miles Away; Lampedusa Is Expected to Fall Shortly

Surrender Is Forced By 24 Hours Of Aerial And Naval Bombardment.

ALLIES TURN FULL WEIGHT _ ON GARRISON   Fascists Say Stronghold Is Under Aerial and Naval Bombardment and Has Been Called On to Surrender.

SURRENDER OF ROME GARRISON IS CALLED FOR   Being Subjected to Same Vicious Onslaught That Brought Pantelleria to   Knees Yesterday   ALLIED ULTIMATUM IS BEING IGNORED   Italian High: Command Announces Lampedusa * “Herocially Resisting; Duce’ ‘Gibraltar’ Fully Occupied

Report Planes So Numerous That Bombers Circled Offshore To Wait Turn To Hit Target

Italian Island Gets Surrende Ultimatum   More Than 10,000 Italians Taken Prisoner On Pantelleria

Pantelleria  Is Occupied By Allies       GIVES UNITED NATIONS = AIRDROME AND NAVAL BASE ONLY 60 MILES FROM SICILY, NEXT POINT OF CONQUEST ~

RAF THUNDERS BACK 10 ASSAULT ON GERMANY INDUSTRIAL CENTERS   Lose 43 Planes In Series Of Raids With Greatest Force of Heavy Bombers of War; Duesseldorf is Principal Target of Orslaught

White Flag Run Up After Aerial Pounding: Troops Meet Slight Resistance

Allies Occupy Outpost After Greatest Bomb Attack of War   Slight Resistance Met; De. fenders Quit Before Troops Landed

ISLAND FORTRESS UNABLE TO STAND TERRIFIC BOMBING   1,000 ALLIED PLANES BOMBARD  ISLAND IN FINAL ASSAULT

Lampedusa The Next To Fall?   Allies Turn Full Fury Of Air and Naval Forces Toward Rocky Isle, Demanding Surrender

Aerial Attack Pushed   Surrender Plea Ignored As Allies Blast Small Island

Gen. Eisenhower's Troops Take Over Duce's Gibraltar    Eisenhower's Ground Forces Occupy Istand As Blasting Brings Surrender

ISLAND FORT SUBMITS UNDER RAIN OF BOMBS   Eisenhower's Troops Occupy First Of Stepping Stones To Italy   invasion Background

Allied Air Forces Turn Full Might on Isle of Lampedusa   Fall of Pentelleria Re. leased Air Power for  All-Out Assault

ITALIAN TROOPS RESISTING, ROME RADIO REPORTS   Full Strength Of Allies In  Offensive

After Pantelleria’s Fall Bomb Raiders Turn to Island to South      10,000 PRISONERS   Defenders of Lampedusa Refuse to Surrender, Rome Announces

Concentrated air attack triumphs   Italy's ‘Gibraltar’ in © Mediterranean occupied

Second Italian  [sland Surrenders   Italians Cocky When © Winning, Says Mississippian

GROUND FORCES MOVE IN AFTER FLAG I$ RAISED   Unconditional Surrender Is Followed by Landing of Eisenhower's Troops

Allies Turn Air Might on Lampedusa   Blasted Throughout Night Following Surrender of Pantelleria by Italians

Air Triumph With Little Surface Aid   Lampedusa Believed Next Fortress To Fall to the Allies

Not All of Occupying Italian Forces Notified of Commander’s Capitulation, Eisenhower Explains

Naval And Air Forces Hit At Strategic  Enemy Island   Pantelleria Garrison Reported ‘To Have Been 12,000 To 15,000 Men; Reevrio Calabria Raided

Italian Desert island Occupied By Allied Forces   30 Axis Planes Driven Off After Attempt To Rake Landing Party

Eisenhower Announces Taking of Another Italian Island   AIR AND SEA ATTACK   Garrison Surrenders After 24 Hours; Occupation Proceeding

Eisenhower’s Ground Forces Swarm Ashore From Fleet-Backed Assault Craft —Meet Slight Resistance With Word of Surrender Not Reaching All Parts of Island

FDR's Order Brings Beginning Of AVA   Coordinates Sale Of Power From Two Dams

Jap Losses Heavy On New Guinea   American Submarines  Sink Five Vessels

Four Pockets Of Japs in Papuan Area   Allies Tighten Ring Around Doomed Japanese in Sector

LINES TIGHTENED AROUND JAPANESE   LARGE NCMBER OF PRISON ERs TAKEN IN FIGHTING ON NEW GUINEA,

JUNGLE TROOPS TIGHTEN LINES QN JAP FORCES   Four Pockets Of Enemy Troops Said Doomed In New Guinea Fighting   Allied Vessel Sunk

ALLIES TAKE LAST JAP STRONGHOLD   Capture Sanananda Point and Village in Guinea; Japs Holed Up in Small Pockets; Subs Sink Five Ships

JAPS BRING TANKS AND PLANES INTO CHUNGKING DRIVE   Spokesman Predicts “Huge, Decisive” Battle Which  May Determine China’s Fate

Japs Rushing Mechanized Units to Aid Drive Aimed at Chinese Capital

200 Planes Being Used With Tanks   Called Meeting of Legion on Friday    Leacay Farm Prices Up

Japs Rush Tanks To Chinese Front   Reinforce Troops  Pushing Through Hupeh

JAPS START DRIVE ON CHUNGKING   > Chinese: ‘Spokesman Predict Decisive Battle Soon

Japs Hurry Tanks Into Battle For Chungking, China’s Wartime Capital

HUGE’ BATTLE SOON MAY DECIDE FATE QF CHINA CAPITA!   Japs Bringing Up Tanks To Bolster Drive On Chungking

Japs Drive on Chungking; Chine Wartime Capit   ' Huge, Decisive Battle Is :  Exynected Soon

Japanese Mass Tanks ToDrive On Chunaking   80,000 Near Defense Forts In Offensive Aimed At Chinese Capital   WEST OF ICHANG   Defensive Battle Looms As Chiang Force’ Fights To Stay In War.

RUSH TANKS TO AID DRIVE ON CHINESE CAPITAL   Defenders Now Convinced That Invader Is Seeking Early Decision.

YANKS CUT TROOP OF JAPS DEFENDING NEW GUINEA BASE   Advance Nearly One Mile On Salamaua — First. Gain In Several  Weeks

NEW U.S. GAIN MADE SOUTH. OI SALAMAUA FIELD      Cut Off Jap Force Defending New Guinea Coastal. Base

JEFFERS FIGHTS RUBBER IMPORT   DIRECTOR DECLARES U. S. CAN BE SELF-SUFFICIENT

Jeffers Says New Synthetic Plant Can Supply All Rubber U.S. Needs

Automobile Is Rarity In Eastern States As 'New Driving Ban Goes !n Effect Thursday

PLEASURE CARS EXIST NO MORE   Heat For Homes Comes First In Eastern Oil Ration Area

Vatican May Tackle Role Of Mediator   Enyoys From Allied, Axis. Nations Throng ‘Falls of Holy See

Pope’ Reported In Peace Drive  Pontiff Undertakes Mediation Mission  Caer Cwiee Bannré

HIT SCORED ON SARDINIAN DAM   Allied Raiders Bomb Dam Ir Central Sardinia.

73 AXIS PLANES ‘DESTROYED DOG FIGHTS OFF Sil      At Least 44 Others Are Destroyed On Ground   ALLIES RESUME FIERCE AIR WAR

NAZIS LOSE 73 PLANES TRYING TO STOP ALLIES   Enemy Aircraft Rise in Large Numbers to Challenge Attackers

‘Allies Destroy Six Axis Planes   Twenty-Nine Are Shot fram Skies Over Sicily

Biegest Blow At Axia Air Power ‘Since Tunisia   Axis Airmen Offer Ktierce Resistance Jor Tleirst Time.

Allied Planes Knock Down 73 Enemy Craft   Mighty Air Battle In Mediterranean Reported Today

Greatest Toll Since Tunisia   Enemy Planes Fail In Effort to Halt Allied Blasting.

Allied Planes In Raid On Italians   Seventy-Three Axis F ighters Were Shot Down in _ Fierce Battle ©   FOUR U. S. SHIPS LOST      Milo Air Field Near Trapani, Sicily Was Target of Bombers

Raiders Take Heavy Toll Of  Axis Planes   Total Of 73 Destroyed By Allied Raiders Operating From Their Bases In Africa

DOWN 73 AXIS SHIPS OFF SICILY, SARDINIA   Sergt. Faurot of St. Marys in on Attack

Airdromes Of Ayis Blasted   73 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed In Raids

Destroy 73 Axis Planes In Clashes   Bitter Fights Develop As Allies Strike At Enemy _ Installations;  U. S. Losses Light

ALLIES STRIKE GREAT AERIAL BLOW AT ENEMY   “wenty-Nine Axis Planes Bagged In Fierce Dog Fight Off Sicily And Sardinia; Only Four American Planes Lost.

Enemy Concentrates Air Power In Mediterranean To Try To Stem Tide

AXIS. AIR POWER DEALT SMASHING BLOW BY ALLIES   Enemy Squadrons Torn tc Pieces In Sky Over Sicily and Sardinia   FOE LOSES 73 PLANES

Africa Fliers Destroy 73 Enemy Planes   Aris Air Power Suffer: Heavy Blow In American Sardinia, Sicily Raids   HIT 44 ON GROUND   Yankees Smash Renewed Sky Opposition, Lose Only Four Craft

Allies Smash 73 Axis Planes   29 Shot Down In Fierce Dog Fights; Four Of Our Craft Lost; Enemy Shows More Strength

ALLIED FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS MAKE HEAVY NEW ATTACKS  MANY AXIS PLANES DESTROYED IN RAIDS ON  JTALIAN OBJECTIVES

ENEMY AIRCRAFT CHALLENGE OVER SARDINIA, SICILY   29 PLANES SHOT DOWN IN SERIES OF DOG FIGHTS

73 Aircraft Destroyed in Allied Raids   29 Bagged in Dogfights Off Sicily and Sardinia;  44 Smashed on Ground

ENEMY RIPPE 10 PIECES BY ALLIED FLIERS   Four American Planes Lost in Operations  Off Africa

Yank Airmen Take Heavy Toll OF Axis Planes in Greatest _ Blow Since North African Push

29 SHOT DOWN IN DOG FIGHTS OFF SARDINIA   Four American Craft Lost In Greatest Assault On [talian Bases   BERLIN AGAIN UNDER FIRE      Enemy Bombers Driven Off In Attempt To Blast English Coast

Air Power Of Axis Battered In Huge Raids   Greatest Smash Since German Collapse In Africa Is Scored

Warplanes Based In Africa Strike  Heaviest Blows   Axis, In First Challenge Of Raiders Since Tunisia’s Fall, Suffers Heavily °

AFRICA-BASED “AIRMEN DEAL HEAVY ALOWS   Night. Attacks Aimed Again at Berlin and Other Hitler Targets.   TO SOUTH, ASSAULTS ARE BIGGEST TO DATE

Americans Down 73 Enemy Planes   Five Axis Airports Bombed Hecvily

Allies Bag 73 Axis Aircraft Off Italy   Deliver Greatest Aerial Blow. Since Enemy Collapse in Tunisia—Orville Hester of Joplin Shoots:Down Oné of the Planes. -

73 Planes Are Downed Over Mediterranean   Biggest Haul Since the Collapse of Germans in Tunisia

BLOWS ON AXIS OFF ITALY ARE PULVERIZING   Allied Raiders, Including U. S. Fortresses, Participate in Devastat ing Attacks   73 ENEMY PLANES IN GRUELLING FIGHT   Greatest Aerial Assault In-flicted Since Collapse of German Forces in  North Africa

SEVENTY-THREE GERMAN AIRPLANES DOWNED YESTERDAY   Allied Fighters in Mighty Smashes at the Axis Air Power.   A GREAT AERIAL BLOW   Twenty-Nine Pianes Are Shot Down in Fierce Dog Fights Off Sicily and Sardenia.

Chinese Retake Strategic Points   U. S. Planes Aid Attacks on Japs

On Central Front   14th U. S. Air Force “Scatters Bombs On Pailoki Air Field

Yank planes help retake Itu points   Chinese slay 1,000 Japs fleeing from mopping up

Defeat Large Jap Force In Central China   Chinese Claim They Have Killed Or Wounded A Least 1,300 Japs In Attacks At Itu

 MUCPMRS MUS 2s UANCOT LYOOPS IN VPimMea— —By Kirke L,. simpso:  ‘Nazis Out-Guessed, Out-Fought By Russians

EIGHT PEOPLE HURT IN PEORIA HOTEL FIRE      Blaze Out of Control for Two Hours

Fire Destroys Peoria Hotel   At Least Eight Are Injured in Flames;  Damage $300,000

EIGHT HURT IN HOTEL BLAZE   Five Story Building In Heart Of Peoria’s Business District Gutted

Eight Persons  Hurt In Blaze      Peoria Hotel Guests Get ~ Out By Leapmg Into Firemen’s Nets

House Passes Trade Pact  Extension Bill  GOP Loses Fight To Amend Act; Sets Two-Year Limit

SOFT COAL MINERS WORKING AS USUAL   Increased Production I: Reflected Jn. Upped Steel Output

Roll Througl 11 Villages In Night   Entire Northern German Flank Open to Attack

Russians Head For Smolensk   ENTIRE NORTHERN FLANK OF GERMANS ENDANGERED; OREL ALL BUT CUT OFF; TIMOSHENKO’S FORCES BATTER FORWARD

SUVIEIS CAPTURE 11 VILLAGES  IN DRIVE TOWARD CITY OF SMOLENSK  yy @..aLte ss.   Orel In South, Is Nearly Cut Off By Advancing  Russian Army Forces. 

Former LeMars Man Promoted  Francis Starzl Namec Traffic Executive

Disastrous Effect on Drivers Motorists Tell Ickes Gasoline Rulings Encourage Black Marts

ILLINOIS POLITICAL FIGURE SUCCUMBS   Patrick Nash Dies After Short lliness in Chicago

DEMO POLITICAL BOSS NASH DIES AT CHICAGO, ILL   Was With Mayor Kelly “Chief” Of Farflung Political Machine Which “Ruled” City.

Indict U.S. . Official For ° WAVE Attack   Dept. Of Agriculture Man Accused Of Intent To Rape

U.S. WORKER INDICTED ON WAVE’S COMPLAINT   Agriculture Department Offi: cial Charged With Attempted Rape Near Bethesda

Last Man’s Club To Hold Annual Meeting Thursday  Herman H. Koch Of Sioux City Is The Principal Speaker

ARMY POTATOES FOUND IN DUMP   Indiana Residents Salvage Hundreds of Bushels of Rare “Spuds.”

DUMP POTATOES ATVINCENNES   WFA To Investigate, Claim Residents Resell Spuds at $1 Bushel

Nazi Subs May Be Hunted Instead Of The Hunters In The Atlantic Soon

U-Boats Due To Go On Defensive   . So6n: To Be Hunted Instead Of Hunter

Allies Plan Big U-Boat Hunt In North Atlantic   Jap Subs Are Reportec Switching To Wolf-Pack Methods In Pacific.

U-Boats May Become Hunted Instead of Hunters In Atlantic.   JAPS ATTACK CONVOYS

Japanese Subs Change Tactics Hunt in Packs   Nazi U-Boats Facing Trouble On East Coast

Alties May Soon Launch U-Boat Hunt   New: Anti-Submarine War Indicated in- Reports of New Canadian Strenrth   WOULD GO BEYOND GUARDING CONVOY   Switch in Japanese Submarine Tactics Near Australis

Nazi Subs May Be Hunted In  Atlantic Soon   Japs May Shift To Pack Attack

Nazi U-Boat _ May Become _ The Hunted   Shift in Roles Seen as New Allied Strategy in Atlantic Develops

See Shift In Sub Strategy   Japs Raid Shipping Lanes In Wolf-Pack Style; Allies Step Up Anti-U-Boat Activity

See Nazi. U-Boats as the Hunted, Not the Hunters: Jap Subs Active

To Intensify War on Subs   Allies Groom U-Boat Weapons for Lethal Blow; Japs Adapt Wolf-Pack Technique

ALLIES READY FOR OFFENSE AGAINST NAZI U-BOATS; TAP SUBS START WOLF PACK RAIDS OFF AUSTRALIA

SIGNS THAT NAZI U-BOATS BEING LICKED IN ATLANTIC: JAPS CHANGE U-BOAT TACTICS IN PACIFIC   General Douglas MacArthur Reports Japanese Subs Raiding Supply Lines in South Pacific in Some Force in Waters East of Australia.

NAZI U-BOATS TO BE BLASTED FROM ATLANTIC      Subs To Become Hunted, Instead of Hunters, As New Protection  Plan Is Mapped   JAP PERIL GROWS   MacArthur Reveals Enemy: Craft Are Resorting to  German ‘Wolf Pack’ Ship Attacks

GERMAN U-BOATS WILL BE HUNTED   England and Canada Plat  Extension To Provide Con voys Protection.

JAPS USE GERMAN STYLE IN SUB WAR   Nipponese U-Boats Attack in Wolf Pack Formation

Jap Subs Raid Supply Lines  Expand Protection   Expand Protection For Ships in Atlantic Lanes

JAPANESE SUBS STALK PACIFIC IN WOLF PACKS   German U-Boats May Soon Be Hunted Instead of Hunters

NAZI SUBS 10 /BE HUNTED BY ALLIED SHIPS   Jap U-Boats Shift Their Strategy to Raid Pacific Lines

JAPS TRY NEW SUB TACTICS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Wolf-Pack Hunting Indicated by MacArthur as Allies Close Gap ix Atlantic Pairols

Planes Fight U-Boats; Japs Plan Sub War   ‘Alt Umbretle’ Will Se Carried Across See; Joep Tactics Changed

ALLIES TRACK DOWN U-BOATS   New Atlantic Drive Seen: Japs Aim At Pacific Supply Lines

Japan Opens Sub Raids On U.S. Shipping   Details Not Given Or Activity In Area Tea East Of Australia; New System In Atlantic

To Outlaw Strikes If Miners Quit   Coal Operators Would Let Uncle Sam Settle Dispute

Law to Forbid Strikes Seen lf Miners Quit   Congressmen Watch Trend of Parleys With John L. Lewis

LEGISLATION 10 OUTLAW ALL STRIKES READY   Mine Workers Union Reject Proposal Of Operators

Warn Coal Strike May Bring Drastic Legislative Curb  Congressmen of Both Parties Ready to Act If Crisis Arrives  BILL ALREADY DRAFTEI  Interference With War Effort Won't Be Allowed. They Say

BILLS READIED IN CONGRESS 10 CHECK STRIKES   Members of Both Major  ‘Parties Prepared To  ‘’- Take Action In Case Of Mine Walkout   LABOR MEASURES PENDING IN HOUSE   Johnson Act Is Aimed At Curbing Absenteeism In War Plants By Drafting Them

Anti-Strike Act Believed Likely If Miners Quit   Bill Already Prepared Speedy Action Set Jn Coneress

Harold Christie's Testimony Rapped  Defense Pounds Claims Of Oakes’ Friend

TESTIMONY OF OAKES’ FRIEND   De Marigny’s Actions Are Called Theatrical By Manager’s Wife

ITALIAN GENERAL ASKS U. S. RAIDS   German Radio Says : Made to Hitler for Aw’. Reprigal

Italian Genera Urges Air Raids on U.S.  — Calls Upon Hitler  To Launch Axis  Reprisal Attacks

Angered {talian General Urges Hitler To Launch Air Attacks on United State

Renewed Unrest as Badoglio Fails.to Negotiate Terms   Allied. Conquests of Catania and Orel Caused Enormous Sensation as People Speculate on Government's Next Step

Italian Delay Stirs Unrest   No Sign of Peace Move After Cabinet Parley

Lack Of Peace Renews Unrest   NEW ALLIED CONQUEST CAUSES MORE» TALK

ITALY UNREST. OVER BADOGLIO FANNED ANEW   Cabinei Fails to Give Any’ Outward Signs It Is Seek- . ing Peace; New Premier Asked

NEW UNREST IS REPORTED WITHIN ITALY   / People Affected by Failure of Cabinet to Indicate Peace Move, and by Fall of Orel, Belgotrod and Catania.

ITALIAN UNREST STIRRED AGAIN   : Badogho Fails to Give Sions of Seeking Peace

UNREST GROWS AS ITALIAN CABINET SIDESTEPS PEACE   News of Allied Victories Causes Big Sensation; Strikes Continue in WNascthern (ities,

No Peace Indication In Italy   People Uneasy — Hinting At Possible Overthrow Of Badoglio

ITALIAN PEACE DEMANDS GROW   Growing Unrest Reported As Government Fails To Pull Away from. Nazis.

Badoglio Continues  To Dawdle   Renewal Of Unrest Is   Apparent In Italy After Cabinet Fails To Take Action

ALLIED SUCCESS STIRS UNREST IN ITALIANS   Badoglio Regime Still Refuses To Quit . Wray

BADOGLIO WILL CONTINUE WAR   Failure to Give Outward Signs of Peace Moves Stirs People.

RENEWED UNREST AMONG ITALIANS WAS SEEN TODAY   Accentuated by News of the Fall of Catania, Orel and Belgorod.   NO PEACE MOVE SIGNS   Yesterday’s Cabinet Meeting Had Aroused Tremendous Interest.

Italian People Grow More Uneas As Allies Advance  Failure of Badoglio To Seek Peace Fans Unrest of Public

Badoglio Making No Peace Moves  Unrest Growing After Cabinet Session

Unrest Of Italian People Renewed By Failure Of Cabinet To Indicate Sians That Peace Is Being Soughi

UNREST OF ITALIAN  PEOPLE INCREASED  BY NEW GOVERNMENT FAILURE OF PEACE EF FORTS AND FALL OF CATANIA IS CAUSE

ITALIANS ARE DISTURBED BY AXIS REVERSE   Failure of New Government To Heed Popular Demand For Peace Arouses Much Comment   MAN) PROTEST STRIKES

Unrest in Italy Grows as Peace  Move Not Made   Uneasy Feeling Is Accentuated by Fall of Catania and Orel.   Everyone Talks Peace As Badoglio Hesitates

Failure of Badoglio Cabinet to Hear Popular Cries for Peace Fans Unrest In Italy

FAILURE OF NEW ITALIAN GOVERNMEN’ TO SEEK PEACE RENEWS UNREST {OF THE ITALIAN PEOPLE   Italian People Had Expected Badoglio To Report On Dramatic Situation of Italy and Its Wish For Peace.” Allied Conqvest of Orel, Catania Cause People to Ask How Government Still Hesitates?

Badoglio Gov't Collaborates With Germans  pg [ees   People, Impressed  By Allied Successes, qlnquire Why Premier  ‘Delays Seekina Peace

Fresh Italian Unrest Result  Of Allied Gain   Badoglio’s Failure Ta Seek Peace Adding Fire  To Masses’ Ire.

Report Axis ReversesSpur Peace Moves   Unrest Stirs Italy; Badoglio miteoks Fascist Organizatlon

Unrest Of Italians Is Renewed By Badoglio’s Failure To Ask Peace   Fall Of Catania, Orel And Belgorod Adds to Worry Of Italians; Fascist Party Officially Dissolved

UNREST IN ITALY RENEWED TODAY AS ALLIES GAIN   Everyone Said Talking of Peace and Possibility of Re-establishing Italy’s Honor; New Government Fails To Give Signs It Is Seeking Peace.

Unrest Grows Across Italy   Axis Defeats At Catania, Orel, Belgorod Bring Renewed Shouts For Peace,

Unrest Mounts In Italy Over Delay of Peace   People Anxious About Future Says Bern Report

Italians Stir In New Unrest Against Govt.               People _ Disappointei Inaction’ of ~ Bado Govt. ‘at . Yesterday’: Meet. Fall of Catania, Orel and Belgorod C ates Sensation and Ac: centuates Unrest:

Badoglio Failure To Seek Peace  Causes Unres'   New Allied Victories Worry Italians

Failure To Seek Peace Renews Italian Unrest   Russian, Sicilian Victories Spur Armistice Hope_

ITALY RUMBLES FOR ARMISTICE   Hints That New Government May Be Formed Filter Out Of Unhappy Land

LOSSES STIR ITALY UNREST   PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED BY LACK OF PEACE MOVE

Unrest of Italians Is Renewed   Failures of Cabinet Session to Seek  Peace Causes Alarm

UNREST GROWING AMONGITALIANS   BADOGLIO'S FAILURE TO MOVE FOR PEACE IS BLOW TO PEOPLE

More Unrest as Badoglio Holds Back   ‘How Can He Hesitate?’ Is Reported the Question Among Italian People   NO SIGNS THAT HE SEEKS PRACE   Cabinet After Long Meet Issues New Decrees in Wrecking of Fascism

HOG PRICES . FIXED   Liveweight Ceiling in Doug. las County Will Be $14.20

Ceiling Price OnLiveHogs   OPA Regulation Into Effect Oct. 4; Top in Allen County $14.20

ALLIES GAIN, BRITISH TAKING RIVER TOWN   Fresh Nazi CounterAttack Against 5th Army Reported

GERMANS’ GUNS STILL COVERING SWOLLEN RIVER   British Increase Pressure Despite Rain and Bitter Opposition

One Flier Saved In Crash Over N. M. Mountains   Rancher Tells How Big Bombers Hit ‘And Fell

DISTRICT KILLED   ) Alliance, Youngstown Lieutenants Die In New Mexico Accident

CELINA AIRMAN DIES IN CRASH   Sgt. Richard Gray Among 15 Killed as Planes Collide

CELINA AVIATOR DIES IN CRASH   Sergeant Among 19 Killed As Two Bombers Collide In Mid-Air

6) Jap Troops Reported Slain On Guadalcanal   Navy Reports Aerial Pounding of Enemy in Solomons

‘Who Dunnit,’ the Bureaucrat or the Baker? Mystery Unsolved. but Bread Will be Sliced

Sliced Bread Football Is Kicked Around   Where Ban Started Now Seems to Re a Mvysterv

“Who Dunnit”’ Mystery Grows - yway, Sliced Bread Is Back        Congressmen in The Clear-Se Far

One Year Has Passed Since MacArthur Left Corregidor   Br CLARK LEIS

MaeArthur Needs Planes Men, Guns To Return   Can’t Fight Way Back To Philippines Until He Is Given What He eNaadc

General McArthur’s Promise To Return To Philippines  Unfulfilled Because Of Shortage Of Necessary Forces

WViacArinur Wilt IN  Clark Lee Explains Why Year-Old \Promise Made by Fighting General ‘Has Not Yet Been Accomplished

MACARTHUR ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA YEAR AO ON WEDNESDAY   CLARK LEE, A.P- WRITER  TELLS WHY HE HASN’T  SEATIDWOR DHT iDpiice

MAC ARTHUR'S RETURN TO PHILIPPINES LAYED BECAUSE HE LACKS AIRPLANES, PS AND MEN TO GO ON OFFENSIVE

ISOLATIONISM GONE--BRICKER   Says U. S. Must Participat ~ in World Affairs

Marshall Returns From Overseas  Chief of Staff Went With Churchill

Marshall Makes Hop fo Capital  PP BC FPS Ce.   U.S. Chief of Staff Ends Conferences

JAPS DODGE COMBATS   Enemy Fighter Planes Make Neo Effort To Intercept Bombers

Jap Fighters Stay Away From British   Englis Bombers Raid Western Burma Witheut Onnosition

Morgenthau Wants Another Tax Boost   Secretary Of Treasury Back From Battlefront Wants To Increase Taxes

ARMY OF INCOME TAXPAYERS IN LINE OVER U. S.   Internal Revenue Offices Throughout Country Thronged By Thousands As Last Day For Re turns Nears End.

THOUSANDS FILE INCOME TAX RETURNS TODAY   Ever-Lengthening Lines Form Thruout Country to File Last-Minute Returns >

Great Numbers Wait at Collector’s Offices, Payment Made. Readily   REVOLT THREAT CAUSES NO ALARM

Thousands File Tax _ Returns.   Crowds Stand in Ever Lengthening ‘Lines As Midnight Deadline  Nears: Few “Holdouts”

INCOME TAXES FLOW TOU. S. ON FINAL DAY   Returns Must Be Filed Before Midnight Deadline

Income Tax Payments Reach Record Totals in Nation   ‘Come and Get Me’ Attitude Is Expressed in Many Parts

THOUSANDS IN LINES ON LAST PAYMENT (AY   Offices in Some Cities Open Branches to Handle Great Crowcls.   POSSIBLE DRAFTEES FIND TROUBLE {N BORROWING

JAP DRIVE IN CHINA COLLAPSE!   British Driving On Akyab Counter-Attacked By Japs

HEAVY FIGHTING HAS BROKEN OUT IN BURMA-CHINA   Japs Apparently Are Out To Drive Back British Before Heavy Spring Rains Set In.

ALLIES GAIN IN NORTH TUNISIA   Reported to Have Reached Point Near Enfidaville

AIRDROMES TARGETS FOR AMERICANS   Comiso and_ Biscari Fields Are Given Heavy Blasting In Attacks.

TONS OF BOMBS SENT: -HURTLING DOWN FROM _ HEAVY U.S. BOMBERS   Important Comiso and Biscari Airdromes Feel Effects of Raid—Direct Hits Are Reported on Hangar— Dispersal Areas Covered With Bomb Bursts  During Attack—All Allied Aircraft Returned CnSal..

Tunis and Bizerte Occupied   Axis Troops Have Slim Chance of Escape by Sea, Believed Today

GERMAN LEADER HAS FALLEN BACK TO HILLS ALONG MARETH LINE   AXIS FORCED TO WITHDRAW IN NORTH AFTER ATTACK NEAR TAMERA

ALLIED FORGES CHALK UP GAING NAL SECTORS   Fierce Offensive Thrusts Of Rommel Hurled Back — With Heavy Losses

Romme! Falls Back Before British Army   Loses 50 Tanks In Six Attacks Along Mareth Line   ‘Allied Troops Capture 200 German Prisoners   Giant RAF Bombers Again Hit Germany; Reds Continue Advance

Rommel Falls Back After Six Violent Assaults in Africa   Loses 50 Tanks in Drive Against British Army; — War News Summary

AFTER TANK LOSS ROMMEL FALLS BACK   Axis Forces Lose 50 Tanks in Battle Against British Army.   Inflict Heavy Damage To Retreating Troops

Marshal Rommel Sdll Backing Up   . Allies Down 21 Axis Warplanes

Troops Blast at Retreating Men   Rommel Completely Fails Against &th Army Guns.

ALLIES ADVANCE ON ALL MAJOR TUNISIA FRONTS   Axis Pounded from Above by increased Atr Attack as Forces Pulled Back   GERMANY BOMBED AGAIN   In Russia, Hitler’s Horda Battered in Moscow Area: Nazis Reattack Kharkov

Six Thrusts Cost Axis Fifty Tanks   British Blast, Nuernberg: Reds Nearer Vyazma: Street Battles In Pari:

Three Axis Setbacks In North Africa   Rommel Loses 50 Tanks and Falls Back Into Hills; Reds Within 20 Miles of Vyazma; RAF Bombs Germany and France

Axis Suffers Sethack in North Tunisia      RAF Blasts Nurenberg; Reds Within 20 Miles Of Vyazma Base

Desert Fox Loses 50 Tanks In Six Forays Against 8th ‘Army Under Gen. Montgomery

Good Evening   Nazis Badly Battered In ‘Escape Corridor’ Along Russian Front

ROMMEL FALLS BACK INTC TUNISIAN HILLS AFTER UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACKS   Nazis Lost F ifty Tanks in Engagement Befor: Falling Back Before British Eighth Army. Allies Captured 200 Prisoners

Falls Back Into Hill Area As Axis Suffer Other Looses   Germans Lose 50 Tanks, Allies None In Rommel’s Thrusts From Mareth Line   RIOTING BREAKS OUT OVER FRANCE   Red Army Shock Troops Batter Germans Int~ Swift Retreat Along Napoleonic Route

RAF Hits Shrine Of Nazis Overnight And  Russians Claim Further Advances

Five Futile Jabs ~ At Allies Cost = Fox Fifty Tank:   Germans Also Forced to Withdraw in North; Reds Pound Invaders in Retreat Along Old Napoleonic ‘Receane Corridor

Nazis, Italians Beaten In North, Center And Sky   Reds Only 20 Miles From Vyazma: Nuernberg, Rouen, Rennes Bombed

THANKSGIVING DAY SET    President Issues Proclamation For Annual Holiday

FR. PROCLAIMS THANKSBIVING   PRESIDENT DESIGNATES NOV. 25 U. S. HOLIDAY

OF THE REICH HIT BY RA   Blows Dealt by Speedy  2 Mosquito Bombers, Which British Now Are Using as Home Front Night Fighters.

RAF AIRMEN ATTAGK WESTERN GERMANY   British Use Light Bombers in Home Front Defense

RED AIR ATTACKS BEING GEARED UF   Varied Hostilities Reported At Scattered Points In “acific Theater.

Breach Made in Axis Line Near Novorossisk   Polish Patriots To Form Division to Ficht With USSR

BREACH DRIVEN INTO NAZI LINES   Red Air Offensive Continues in High Gear

RED FORCES DRIVE BREACH INTO NEW NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Two Companies Of 400 Men Wiped Out — Artillery And Trench Mortar Units Erased

CLEVELAND STREET CAR MEN STRIKE   UNION BUS DRIVERS ALSO GO our AS CONCILIATION EFFORT FAILS.

Sunday Will Be Pleasant   Winds Push Cold Weather Out Of Kansas For While

AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE ON MUNDA   Allies Go Forward Against Increased Resis tance

Jap Resistance Stiffening in New Georgia   Second Battle of Kula Gulf Smashing U.S. Naval Victory

RESISTANCE BY JAPS AT MUNDA HAS STIFFENED   Enemy Was Forced To Break Off Naval Engagement In Kula Gulf   13 ENEMY WARSHIPS ARE REPORTED SUNK

AMERICAN GROUND TROOPS ADVANCE CLOSER TO MUNDA   Jap Defenders Stiffen Resistance—Allied Planes Bomb Anti-Aircraft Positions at Base.   150 NIPS KILLED AS 3 BARGES ARE SENT DOWN   Checkup Shows Like Nunber Lost Lives in Clash With Yanks on Enogal Inlet.

Jap Cruiser And Other Craft Sunk   Enemy Resistance Hot But Foes Are Hit Hard and Relentlessly

YANKS MOVE UF ON MUNDA BASE   Ground Troops Meet Stiffening Resistance   NAVY REPORT   Confirms Smashing Victory In Second Battle of Kula Gulf; Japs Flee

U.S. Forces Advance On  New Georgie Sinking In Kula Gul Of Four Jap Ships Confirmed

Four Japanese Navy Craft Sunk. Two Probables   American Vessels Balk Attempt to Aid Enemy at Munda   SMASHING VICTORY   Allied Troops Move On Vital Base, Meet  Increased Resistance

Yanks Smash Nearer Munda   Resistance Stiffens Near Base; Bombers Lash Area

ADVANCE MADE ON MUNDA BASE BY LAND FORCE   Stiffening Resistance Met By Jungle Army Despite 2 Recent Naval Victories   300 Japs Killed

German Resistance Stiffens, How ever, On Fifth Army’s Front  In Italy, As Bighth Army Ad vances Four Miles   PIAT BALL BEARING PLANT HIT IN RAID

Knox Completes His  Mediterranean Tour  Warns U. S. Against Overoptimism Wave

Knox Witnesses Naples Shelling   Says Americans Are Too Optimistic

Sec. Knox ‘Touring On Fronts   Issues A Statement That Wave Of Over Optimism Is Sweeping United States.

Dead Hand of Tail Gunner Provided Rescue Raft For Bomber Crew in Pacific

Final Battle on Attu Described  , ny no   Japanese Commit Mass Suicide

JAPS IN MASS” SUICIDE ON ATU   MIKADO’S T ROOPS KILLED SELVES WITH GRENADES AFTER FINAL THRUST.

DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO MORE BOYS IN CLEVELAND PROBED   Twins Reported Absent as Police Investigate Story of Another Lad.

Police Confronted. with Another Disappearance Case — Searching for. Degonérate ‘Who Might. be Holding Boys Captive.

COLLEGE SLHUUL YEAR 10 CLOSE   Forty-Third Annual Com_ mencement Set Ahead Two Weeks —

COLLEGE StHUUL  YEAR TO CLOSE   Forty-Third  Annual Com: mencement Set: Ahead Two Weelis ~

Commencement  At Western Union  Held This Week Twenty To Graduate  And Fourteen Finish Teacher Training

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Cordiality Said: Parley Keynote   Moscow Conference Nears Conclusion

CONFERENCE NEAR END   Delegates Have Already Approved Many Policy Declarations

Houston Is Appointed To U. $. Labor Board   ...Former Congressman

Record Raid Rocks Berlin, Ludwiashafen   Over 1,000 Bombers Dump 2,500 Tons of Bombs on Taragets

Berlin Major Target Of RAF Night Assault   Ludwigshafen Raided Second Straight Nigh As More Than 1000 Bombers Deliver Twin Blows; Fortresses Hit Europe Today

Large Areas Razed By 5 Million Pounds Of TNT and Steel   1,000 RAF Planes Send Frightful Cascade of Destruction on Cities; Only 22 Bombers Fail to Return

VAST otGTIONg OF BERLIN LAID WASTE IN RAID   Over 1,000 Heavy RAF Bombers Take Part In Twin Attacks On Germany

Fighters Escort Planes All the  Way to Targets   Huge Conflagrations Started; 2,500 Tons of Feniosivee Droanned

 Rain-bound Italian Front More  Less Static — Russians B  Down Last Barriers On Ri  To Pre-War Poland   OVER 1,000 BR. A. F. PLANES HIT GERMA)   BR. Vnited Press

Berlin, Ludwigshafen Lashed by Over 1,000  ~ R.A.F. Heavy Bombers

ALLIED FLYERS HEAVILY POUNL LAMPEDUSA   Tiny Outpost Likely to Be Next Italian Island to Fall

Allied Bombers Lambast ‘Tiny Mediterranean Isle Out Post Of Lampedusa

Air Offensive Paves Way for Allied Invasion   Washington Observers Point to Stepped-up Attack on Nazi Plants

Air Offensive Forerunner Of Second Front   Experts Discuss Costly Raids on Munition Cities

Air Blows Hint Invasion Near   Assaults Expected To Be Stepped Up  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER  Receariatant Deace Giult Ueltae

Air Raids Over Germany In Final Phase Before Invasior   Attacks Increase In Force, Frequency  Say Observers

Air Blows Hint Invasion Near   Assaults Expected Toe Bae Ctanprad tte

Costly Assault On Nazi Bearing Plants New Step   Observers Believe Bombings Open Way For New Landings —

SUFTEN EUROPE FOR ARMY THRUS   ALLIED AIR RAIDS BELIEVED PAVING WAY FOR INVASION OF CONTINENT.

REICH BEING SOFTENED UP FOR INVASION   DAMAGE TO PLANTS WILL BE FELT IN 2 MONTHS

U. S. Airmen Blast Burma Rail Center   Heavy Bombers Seek To Demoralize Supply System

Nips Prepare To Meet Ching  Drive South   Enemy Getting Set for Invasion; Roads Occupied ~

STRONG FORCE © OF JAPS LINES SALWEEN BANK’   Overrun China‘Burma Highways

30,000 Japs Fan Out In China   Secure 105-Mile Line Along Salween

‘ALLIED PLANES BLAST PANTELLERIA ISLE IN HEAVY ATTACK: TWO AIRCRAFT ARE LOST

Air Forces ‘Shoot Works’ Against Pantelleria Island  Be Vi Aber Mme vier

Pantelleria Is Pounded Again  All Types of Planes Join In Attack

Much Activity In Mediterranean   Se ee  ROME RADIO ALLEGES LANDING ATTEMPT REPULSED

Pantelleria Again Raided; 11 Axis Planes Shot Down   G. I.-Zoot Suit Feud Flares; Thousand Police Stop Fight   Halt At Theaters

Pantelleri Battered In Concentric Air Assault   Formations Of  Every Type Plane Used

NEW AERIAL  BLOWS HIT PANTELLERIA   Italians Report Landing Attempt By British On Lampedusa Island

Deluge of Bombs Is Poured on Pantelleria   Almost Every Type Of Allied Plane Raids Island

PANTELLERIA DELUGED WITH _ BOMBS, FIRE   Two Allied Planes Lost, Eleven Enemy Planes Shet Down ia Raids, Communique Says

SHOWER BOMBS ON PANTELLERIA   CONCENTRATE ATTACK ON ITALIAN FORTIN. MEDITERRANEAN SEA

ALLIED AIR FORGE HITS PANTELLERIA   Smoke Rises 4,000 Feet After Attack

A Deluge of Bombs Hits Pantelleria   Smoke From Battered Italian Island Rises 4,000 Feet and Spreads Almost to Sicily, 65 Miles Away—11 Axis Planes Downed.

DELUGE OF BOMBS AND FIRE POURED ON PANTELLERIA   Formation of Every Type of Plane from Fortresses to Warhawks Took Part.   11 ENEMY PLANES DOWN      Outnumbered Defenders Attempted to Ward Off the Attack.

Italy’s Sentinel Island Is Deluged With Bombs, Fire   Clouds Of Smoke Soar 4,000 Feet Above Battered Island.

Pantelleria  Bombed, Fired  By Warplanes Every Type of Plane  Pours Destruction On Island

New Raid at  Pantelleria  A lliwe Slaw DP warw   Allies Use Every Type of Plane in Blasting Island Fortress

Bombs Deluge  Pantelleria  ! 11 Enemy Planes Shot  Down In Onslaught

‘Massed Strength Of Allied Aerial Forces Pour Deluge 'Of Bombs On Pantelleria   Formations Of Every Type Of Plane Participate; 11 Axis Planes Bagged

LARGE FORCE OF ALLIED PLANES STRIKES AGAIN   Italian ‘Sentinel Island’ Still Under Relentless Attack From The Air; Italy Also Reports New Raids On Sicily.

Deluge of Bombs, Fire Poured on Pantelleria Isle   Eleven Axis Planes  Are Downed; Gunner: Account for Six

Allies Pour Destruction On Pantelleria   Smoke Pall From Bombed City Reaches Nearly 65 Miles

All Types Of Planes Join  Tn Attack   Eleven Enemy Craft Downed While Allies Lose Two

PANTELLERIA AGAIN BLASTED BY EVERY KIND ALLIED PLANE  VAST PALL OF SMOKE COVERS SURROUNDING  meen i wi ie

Half Of Attacking Force Is Destroyed   Nine Counter Attacks, One After Another Are Turned Back In The Rechitsa Section

AVGIG RATION   Threat Passes Provided Publlo Buys Sensibly — Will be Fewer Textile Products for Remainder of War.

NO RATIONING OF CLOTHING IS NEEDED      Plan Appears To Have Been Avoided— Wise Buying Urged

CLOTHING, TEXTILE” RATIONING NOT YET --SEEN OVER COUNTRY   May Be Avoided for 1943, Providing the. Public . Buys Sensibly, Is . Opinion. :

YOUNG SEATTLE WOMAN FOUND SLAIN: ABOARD: Ss. P. PASSENGER TRAIN.

Woman Slain  Aboard Train   Throat Cut While She Was Sleeping in Berth of Pullman

PASSENGER TRAIN   Victim Identified Tentatively As Wife of a Naval Officer.

Russ Armies At Gates of 2 Key Cities   Capture of Zhitomir and Korosien Seen Near as Nazis Reel Back   Fleeing Hitler Columns Pounded Mercilessly bY Stalin’s Fliers

Germans In Full Retreat   Russians Recover Nearly All Ground Lost to Germans

RUSSIAN TROOPS OUTFLANK NAZIS NEAR VITEBSK   Fall Of Important German Base Would Give Red Army Supply Line From Moscow.

MacArthur Mum On Presidency   Silence Indicates He May Be Candidate

STETTINUS TESTIFIES ON. EFFECTIVENESS OF LEASE-LEND All      Says Question Is Why We Have Not Sent More, Rather Than Continuing Assistance   HE WANTS ACT EXTENDED

Ba oAYo MORE SWAPPING VITAL              iy:  “There’s Only<One War; Stettinius Declares.

Greatest Help Possible Urged — By Stettinius   Total Cooperation Is Only Principle To Follow, Lend - Lease Director Asserts

Stettinius Gives Lend-Lease Repor   Approval for Extension of Act Foreseen

MORE LEND-LEASE HELP IS NEEDED, “NOT SUPERVISION   Administrator Stettinius, Jr. Confers With Foreign Affairs Group on Help to Allied Nations.   CO-OPERATION BRINGS INTEREST EACH OTHER   Believes Plan Should Be Ex: tended For Another Year. Help Necessary to Those Now Dispoiled.

Lend Lease Aid Eight Billions,  House Body Told   Administrator Says Only Debate Is Why More Is Not Sent

Must Continue Sending Aid To Our Allies, He Tells Solons; Value To Fight Stressed

Lend-Lease Act  ls Upheld By Administrator.  Cites Benefits For All; Urges Its Continuance

OF THE ALLIES   Only Question Is Why More Supplies Have Not Been Sent, He Says.   TALKS TO HOUSE GROUP

CHIEF ON LENDLEASE DEFENDS WAR PROGRAM  Should Up Aid To Allies, Says  QGwctam’e Race

Stettinius Reports On Lend-Lease Aid; Says U. S. Should Strive To Send More

CONGRESS HEARS DETAILED REPORT ON LEND-LEASE   LABOR FACES TEST OF STRENGTH IN RACKET-ACT CHANGE

REDS THROW BACK GERMAN ATTACKS   Heavy Losses Inflicted As ‘Nezis Attempt to Cross Kuban

RUSS SMASH NAZI ATTACKS   Heavy Losses Inflicted On Germans in the  Kuban Valley

SMASH NEW NAZI COUNTERATTACKS IN KUBAN VALLEY   Red Army Artillery and Planes Cause Heavy Loss to Germans. 1   CONSTANT AIR ACTION    Was Seen All Along the Russian-German Front North  to Leningrad. ]

RED ARMY SMASHES NEW NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS IN KUBAN   Germans Reinforce Units in That Region With Fresh Reserves But, Are Hurled Back With Heavy Losses

REDS SMASH NEW. GERMAN DRIVES   Heavy Losses Inflicted On  : Nazis In Second Unsuc cessful Effort To Cross River In Kuban Delta.

Russians Smash New Nazi Drive Heavy Losses lnflicte  Ven iC wr Pes oF Aare &

Russ Smash New Blowin - Kuban Delta   Air and Land Action Rages All Along Wide Soviet Front

GERMAN EFFORT 10 TAKE OFFENSIVE IN KUBAN AREA SMASHED  HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON NAZIS BY RED ARTILLERY AND PLANES

SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN THRUST   Nazis Lose Heivily tir Seeéond Attempt to Cross River in Kuban

AUSSIANG SMASH GERMAN ATTACK:   Nazis Unsuccessful In Efforts To Cross River In Kuban Delta

REDS REPULSE NEW GERMAN COUNTER BLOWS   Actiow Flares All Along Russian Front

Nazis Thrown Back With Heavy Losses   Second Unsuccessful Attack To Cross A River   GUNS BLAZING ON THE ENTIRE FRONT

GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS SMASHED, REDS REPORT: SOVIET TROOPS ON THE MARCH

NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS SMASHED   Russians Announce Heavy Losses Inflicted on Enemy in Second Effort to Cross River.

Tempo of Battle Increases Along Entire Red Front   But German Counterattacks in Kuban Valley Smashed by Red Army.   Constant Air and Land Action Taking Place

Reds Smash New German Kuban Attack   Counterattacks In Kuban Smashed As — Fierce }.and And Air Action Continues All Along He pro~t.

ENGINEER DIES IN DERAILMENT NEAR ALTOONA   Traffic Tied Up Near Horseshoe Curve Today

LEAVE TRACKS   Three Trains Derailed Near Al doona, Engineer Killed,

U. S. Observers Doubt If Italy Is Gateway   Ships Passing Gibraltar Are Said To Include 50.000 Ton Cunarder

ARTILLERY, TANKG SUPPORT TROOPS   Air Action Rises in Violence  In African Area   MAJOR ACTION NEAR   British Hurl Back German Giant Tanks; Bizerte and Gabes Bombed

MAJOR ACTION UNDER WAY IN NORTH AFRICA   EISENHOWER LIKELY CHOICE FOR HIGH COMMANDER

Americans Storm German Positions   North African Front is Violent

Action in Air Over Africa More Violent:   Major Activity Is Seen as Ushering Showdown

American Forces Strike’ ~~ In Sections Of Tunisia   Air Action Rises in Violence to Signolize Approach of " Major: Action—U. 'S. Forces Seek to Recover Pass

American: Launch  3 Attacks on Axis   Violent Air Action Over Most Of African Theater Signalizes Approach Of Showdown: Gains Reported

U.S. Troops Attack In Tunisia   Air Action Rises in Violence Over African Theater

AMERICAN TROOPS ATTAGK FOE IN 3 TUNISIAN SECTORS,   Two Columns Make Gains in Drive Toward Maknassy— Third Unit Trying to Take Faid Pass.   GERMANS HOLD FIRM IN LATTER AREA   All Actions Bitterly Contested —Meantime Air Action Grows in Violence All Over Theater.

EES ET   Americans Attack in Tunisia, Start of Showdown Battle Near

ENDEAVOR TO RECAPTURE FAID PASS, ABOUT 60 MILES WEST OF SFAX; FRENCH LOSE FAID VILLAGE. =. sca

YANKS STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS AT NAZI LINE   Tanks, Planes, Infantry Make Progress in Tunisian Areas

ALLIED FORCES RIDDING ISLES OF ALL GERMANS   Gen. Eisenhower Reports Naples Under Cortrol

YANKS, BRITISH HURL HUNS BACK IN NAPLES AREA   ALLIES MOVE INLAND AFTER ESTABLISHING STRONG BRIDGEHEADS

Naples Expected To Fall Shortly To U.S. Forces   Fifth Army Smashes Five German Attacks

Five German Counter-Attacks Smashed; Strong Bridgeheads  Established By Clark’s Army   Initial Crisis Weathered; Thousands Of Allied Troops Continue To Pour Ashore; Our Men Strike From Land, Sea And Air

5 Attacks Repulsed ~ by Yanks   a Most of Clark’s Forces Ap"+ parently Landed in Big Push on City   ISLAND OUTSIDE ss BAY IS TAKEN   Americans Closing in After Big Battle at Salerno; Next’ Week a Decisive Period

Nazis Are Believed Seekinc Time To Rush Men Tc Po Valley And Build Ur Strong Defenses

Farm Workers Being Detained as Hostages   Rome’s Army Units in Balkans Also Provide Berlin With Cudzel

NAZIS STRUGGLE IN PINCERS OF DEFEAT; GERMANS REPORTED SEEKING PEACE TO SAVE REICH   Allies Take the Offensive ina Year of Almost Unbroken Successes —- Razing of Berlin from the Skies  One of Greatest Setbacks of The War

End of 1943 Finds Hitler Desperately Seeking Means of Saving Stolen Empire

WAR. NEWS ANALYSIS   Absence Of German Air Force Good Indication Of Gasoline Shortage

THE WAR TODAY   Ry DEWITT MackKENZIE ‘Associated Press War Analyst)

The War Today— Luftwaffe’s Comparative Inactivity  ‘May Be Explained By Depleted Oil

The War Today   Shortage of Nazi Gasoline ‘And Oil Hampering Hitler

Cardinal Hinsley, Foe of Naziism, Dies; Thousands Offer Prayers in London

RUSSIANS GAIN INBATTLE FOR AXIS SEAPORT   Near Novorossisk, German Planes Attempt to Raid Leningrad

Russians Increase Pressure On Nazis Who Are Striving To Retain Coastal Positions

REDS PUSH © KUBAN DELTA OFFENSIVE   Against Stubborn German Resistance Trying To Hold Back  Sea Coast in Caucasus

RUSSIANS GAIN NEW SUCCESSES   SOVIET OFFENSIVE CONTINUES TO GROW IN KUBAN DELTA

REDS POUND AT NAZIS IN SOUTH   Try To Take Novorossisk; Leningrad Is Raided

GERMANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY 10 HOLD DEFENSES   Artillery Pounds Nazis On Black Sea Coast

Reds Maintain Kuban Assault   Big Guns Knock Out 60 Nazi Firing Points —

SOVIET FORCES REPORT GAINS   Germans Fight Stubbornly To Hold Bridgehead On - Black Sea

Russians Score New Advances In Drive Against Nazi Army's Black Sea Coast Bridgehead   Destroy Over 60 German Firing Points In Shelling Of Formidable Positions

RED ARMY DRIVE GAINS SUCCESSES   Shel! Large German Defense Positions With Soviet  Din Qine,

New Successes Won By Soviets Tn Kuban Delta   Russians Threatening  German Bridgehead; Take Heavy Toll

Red Offensive  Wins New Gains   Kuban Delta Center Of Fierce Battle

RUSSIANS GAIN NEW SUCCESSES IN KUBAN DELTA   Nazis Fighting Hard In Attempt To Hold Bridgehead   SHARP FIGHTING  ALSO IN DONETS

Reds Increase Offensive in Kuban Delfa   Germans Fighting Desperately to Hold Caucasus Bridgehead

Russian Army Pushes Ahead in Kuban Valley Offensive, Repels Attacks Along Donets

RED ARMY'S GROWING OFFENSIVE IN KUBAN DELTA 15. CONTINUED  GERMANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY TO HOLD BLACK

Russian Offensive on the Kuban Delta Continuing With Many New Successes

REDS REPORT NEW GAINS IN KUBAN DELTA   Forces Shell Large German Defense Positions With Big Guns, Destroying More Than 60 Enemy Firing Points.

Reds Whittle Down Kuban Bridgehead   Big Guns Knock Out oF Nazi Firing Points Or Black Sea Coast   NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Many Obstacles Are In Path Of Caucasus Drive; Donets Line Holds

RUSSIANS MAKE GAINS IN KUBAN DELTA CAMPAIGN   New Successes Reported In Growing Sov: iet Offensive; Ger: mans Losing Grounc  Daily In Delta Re  gion.

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH AHEAD IN COAST SECTOR   German’s Black Sea Positions  Heavily Shelled

Red Offensive In Caucasus Gains Ground   Germans Resist Stubbornly But Can’‘t Turn Tide

RBD. OFFENSIVE INKUBAN DELTA HELD GROWING   New Successes Against Germans, Fighting Back Stubbornly, Are Reported Gained   NAZI AREAS SHELLED   Moscow Claims Soviets Pought Way Into Strip erritory Strongly Fortified by Foes

Reds Report New Success. in Drive   Offensive Mounts in the Kuban Delta Along Black Sea   NAZIS FIGHTING HARD   But Russians Use Big Guns With Telling Effect on - Strong Points

RED OFFENSIVE ~ IN KUBAN DELTA CONTINUED TODAY   New Successes Are Scored Against Germans Who Are Fighting Back Stubbornly.   SHELL NAZI POSITIONS   Big Guns Destroyed More Than Sixty Enemy Fighting Points.

Nazis Fight To Retain Bridgehead   Sharp Fighting Develops Along Black Sea Coast

Russians Gain New Successes In Kuban Delta   Germans Battle Back Stubbornly in Effort To Hold Bridgehead On Black Sea Coast

Germans Steadily Losing Positions  In Kuban Region: Tanks Are Checked

—RUSSIA—  SOVIETS ADVANCE IN KUBAN DELTE   New Successes Scored By Reds In Black Sea Coast Fighting

Russians’ Growing Offensive In Kuban Delta Continues; Nazis Keep Up Attacks on Donets River

DEMOCRATS GIVE ECONOMY PLERGE   SEVENTEEN STATE SENATORS SAY THEY WILL OPPOSE ANY TAX INCREASE,

Democratic Senators Take Economy Stand   Pledge Bloc Against Tax Hiking Budget Busting Leaislation

ATTACK NAZIS’ RETREAT ROAD ALONG COAST   Reds Score New Gains In Drives Aimed at Two Key Cities

RAID ON AXIS IS ANSWER TC TAUNTINNG NOTE   Penctrate Close to Coastal Road Germans are Trying to Hold for Rommel Retreat

YANKS ADVANGE IN MOVE TO CUT ROMMEL’S PATH   Allied Strategy Appears To Be Designed To Trap Axis Libya Remnants   REDS NEAR KEY CITIES   Russian Offense Continues To Surge On All Along Broad Battlefield

North Caucasus Army Spears into Rostov _ Province; Russians Also Gain in Drive on Kharkov — United Strategists Mapping 1943 Offensive

Russ Close In Steadily On Rostov, Kharkov; British Sweep On Beyond Tripoli.

Yanks Strike Axis Sector In Tunisia   Attack Position Near Maknassy; Full Pressure Being Kept on Rommel

Raid Conducted Against Weak Position in German General’s Escape Route

Americans Take xis Stronghold rotecting Road   Threaten Rommel Retreat In Tunisia; Hitler Prepares People For Bad War News

As Reply To Nazi Taunt   American Penetration Is , Closest-to’ Coastal Road » Germans Must Hold   ALL: ALLIED: LINES © . “ARE HOLDING   British. Continue -.. Pursuit Into. Tunisia As Reds ~ Make Sweeping. Gains

Thrust Toward Rommel’s Road On Gabes Coast   Seize 80 Prisoners As Allied Lines Hold Firm To North; Russians Close In Steadily On Key Bases At Kharkov. Rostov.

Action Takes Place Near Maknassy   This Point Only 33 Miles From Weak Link in Rommels Line

Russians Gain Over 500-Mile  Southern Line   Stalin’s Army Closing Steadily On Key German Towns Of Rostov, Kharkov.

Rail Spur To Oilfields Cut Off By Reds   Advance More Than 20 Miles Beyond Recaptured Armavir; American Troops Raid Axis Position near Maknassy; British Sweep on Beyond Tripoli

AMERICANS RAIDED  AXIS-HELD TOWN IN  COASTAL ROAD AREA RUSSIANS ROLLING  RELENTLESSLY AHEAD ON WINt CPRONT

Allies Strike Swiftly Across South Tunisia   Threaten Road Foe Must Hold Open If Rommel To Be Saved   INAZIS TAUNT YANKS   Russians Closing In Or -German Positions ot Entire Front

U. §. Operation Is Presumed fo Have Been ‘in Force   Russians Continue To Push Germans Farther to West

Axis Position Near Makassy  US Objective   Attack Answers Taunt Of Germans To Battle,

Defiant Dare Note Brings Prompt Reply; Reds Close In On Key German Bases

30 Localities Fall to Russ Near Kharkov   Soviet Tightens Ring In Stabs Aimed  Around Ukrainian City

Russian Troops Sweep Nazis ow Of 30 Villages   Counter-Blows Slow Advance on Kharkov

Berlin’s Night Exodus Barred  Decree Aims to Pravitle   Decree Aims to Proviile Raid Cleaneap Corps

New Landings Are Made Without Enemy Opposition   Goebbels Orders Berliners to Stay Home Nights

ORDER RESIDENTS TO STAY AT HOME   Berlin Gets Instructions Not To Leave at Night Without Reasons.

Forbid Germans To Leave Homes   Berlin Residents Can’‘t Flee Bombs

Plenty of Room in Berlin   But Goebbels Says None Can Leave Home Without Permission

TRIES TO HALT BERLIN EXODUS   Goebbels Bans Flight of People to Woods and Fields at Night

GREEN RENAMED AFL PRESIDENT   Labor Union Leader Unanimous Choice Of Group kor 20th Term

GREEN RE-ELECTED HEAD OF A. F. OF L.   William Green Will Start ~ on His 20th Term as President.

BEALL WILL TAKE: "SEAT IN CONGRESS   Local Representative - to Center Efforts on Roads and Flood Control 

Newly-Elected Congress man Is Opposed To Non Essential Expenditures

Realty Market Is Still Brisk   Sales Total Around $1 00, 000 For Week Ending Today.

Realty Market Booming Here With Sales Setting New High Record   Volume Of Transactions For Week Ending Today Largest In Years; Aggregate Value Of Préperty Sold Over $150,000.

Realty Market At Peak Here During Week   Sales Extra: Heavy And Valued In Excess Of €150 000.

USS. British Navies Pour’ More Troops and Equipment Along 100 Miles of Coast   : Enemy. Opposition, Countered, Communiqué Declares;‘Our*Troops Advancing and Artillery Be ing Put.Ashore; Allied’ Warplanes Attack Few _Airdromes Still Being. Used by Enemy 

Artillery 1s Put Ashore In First Europe Invasion   Axis Reports Fight Raging; Canadians, Yanks, Britons Swarm Onto Island

HOPES U. 5. CAN SURRENDER RAIL CONTROL SHORTLY   Roosevelt Wants to Turn Carriers Back to Private Management as Soon as  Possible.   SILENT ON TERMS HE WOULD INSIST ON   Government to Use Troops to Run Trains, if Necessary, —New Setup Not to Affect Public.

Early Return of Lines Is F.D.B.’s Hone   All Major Carriers Now Under Stimson’‘s Direction

"Army Extends Control to All Major Carriers   Prepared to Use Troops to Run Trains If Must

Specific Terms ‘Are Not Set Up   Working Conditions Will Be Unchanged  By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK

Stimson Calls on All Rail Workers to Aid  In Normal Operations   Army Prepares to Extend Control Over Carriers, Use Troops to Man Trains If Necessary; Three Unions Silent

Army Extends : Control Over Rail Systems   Roosevelt Hopes Lines Can Soon be Turned Back to Private Operation—Stimson Makes Plea to Railroad Workers

President Voices Wish for Early Restoration to Management; Army Controls All Major. Carriers

Troops To Run Trains If Necessary  FDR Wonec Baade   FDR Hopes Roads Returned To Owner: Soon As Possible

President Expresses Hope Railroads Can Be Returned To Private Operation Soor   Army Extends Control Over All of Maj or Carriers   New Weapons, Carriers Drive Japs Back--Knox; Reveals Destroyer Lost

FOR HOPES TURN AUCK LINES. SOON   U. S. Plans Keep Carriers for Duration of Emergency   INDEFINITE PERIOD   Rail Strike Would Come Un« der Anti-strike Act; Army Sets up Organization

Roosevelt Says He Hopes To Turn Carriers Back To  Management Soon   SEEKING SETTLEMENT OF RACIAL QUESTION

Troops to Run Trains, If Necessary, He Says   Private Operatic Key Is Cooperation; Stimson calle For Full ; Devotion of Workers

Specific Terms ‘Are Not Set Up   Working’ Conditions Will: Be Unchanged

Army Extends Control To All Major Carriers, Working Conditions To Hold Status Quo  ANY STRIKE NOW CRIMINAL OFFENSE  F.D.R. Hopes Roads Can Return Soon To Private Operation

ARMY HANDED CONTROL OVER ALL CARRIERS   STRIKE NOT LIKELY; PUBLIC WILL NOT BE AFFECTED

Railway Traffic Not Interrupted By Army Seizure   President Roosevelt Expresses Hope The Lines May Go Bock To Private Operations Soon: Troops Are Ready To Act If Needed

Po- £x).icr on Concicions; “roo rs eat v ~o Aun “rains 4.8 “on-1To. +x-encs -0 A. _ines

Measure Called Inflationary by Chief Executive   Bitter Message Given Congress By Roosevelt

President Turns Down a Proposal   Roosevelt Vetoes Bill Which ~ Would Eliminate Subsidy   SAYS IT IS ESSENTIAL   Chief Executive Sends Acid Message to the Law- — - makers ©

Legislation Ie; Called: An Inflation Bill In President’s Message. Explaining Veto

REJECTS BILL IN BLISTERING VETO MESSAGE   Anti-Subsidy Measure Would Raise Prices, He Declares   BULLETIN

Congress Sustains Veto Branding Commodity Credit Bill Inflationary

FDR’s Veto of Commodity Credit Corporation Bill Sustained By The House

Disorderly Retreat Is Reported   German Forces Flee Before Red Army

IN DISORDERLY RETREAT FROM THE CAUCASUS   Red Army Pressing Constantly Forward and ‘Robbing Axis Of Any Chance To Get a Rest.

SUBSIDY PRICE FLARE-UP NEAR   F. D. R. To Ask Continuance; Says Program Has Worked Over 10-Year Period ~

NEW FLAREUP OF SUBSIDY FIGHT LOOMS   O'Neal Says One Shot of Inflation Wouldn't Do Any Harm

BRICKER TAKES DATH OF OFFICE FOR THIRD TERM   Simple Ceremony Conducted in His Office for 49-YearOld Executive

BRICKER TAKES OATH SRD TIME FOR GOVERNOR   Wears Business Clothes For Simple Ceremony Before United Nations Flaqs.

Urge Polities Stay At Home   Senator Lucas Proposes OWL Delete Diseussions From Overseas Broadeasts.

OWI URGED T0 ‘STAY IN LINE’   Foreign News Reports Would Be Free From Any Political Discussion

Urges OW! Stay Out of Campaign  Rep. Lucas Would Ban Political Discussions

WANTS OW! TO SHUN POLITICS   Hopes Discussions Won't Be Broadcast To Troops Abroad

Viore Viiners Back at Work. But 150,000 Remain Idle . Most of Recaleitrants Employes of Mines  In Pennsylvania  And in Alabama   SEC. ICKES APPOINTS DIRECTOR OF MINES

Big Number Of Miners Remain Idle   ‘No Contract, No Work’ Is Slogan Of Thousands

Miners Delaying Return To Work In Many Places   Estimate Has 158,000 Sti on Strike, Many in Pennsylvania   Thousands Ignore Demands of Leaders They Return to Pits

More Miners Troop Back To Coal Pits   Thousands Still Hold Out in Pennsylvania  Mining Area: Strike Waning Very Slowly

Thousands Of Coal Miners Still Strike Despite Appeals From Leaders Of Union

DRIVE ONWARD TO MAKNASSY   Nazi Dive Bombers And Artillery Are Inflicting Heavy Blows On Americans

YANK TANKS, INFANTRYMEN DRIVE NORTH   Shake Off Blows By German Bombers, Artillery

Pincers Working On Axis   Advance Against Heavy Air And Artillery Fire To Cut Off Rommel’s  Escape.

Meat Ration Point Will Be Reduced:  Civilians May Buy More in December

Meat Rations for Civilians Will Be Increased in December by 30 Per Cent When Point Costs Are Cut

RETURNING TO “WORK TODAY  Puts End To Costly Strike; New Wage Pact OPEN INQUIRY Boar d Will ‘Study  eee eee Pal aces see,   OPEN INOUIRY   Board Will Study Wartime Living Costs

MINERS COING BACK T0 WORK   $1.50 A Day Pay Hike , Given Workers. Must Wark Langer Fach’ Dav

MINERS RETURN TO PITS UNDER NEW WAGE RATE   Special Board Opens Inquiry on Wartime Living Costs

NEW COAL MINE ‘PACT EFFECTIVE   Miners.-Get. Pay Hike: For Longer Day; Steel Workers -. Seek Raise .

Coal Miners Returning to  Work Today   Special Study of Living Costs Is Ordered By Presidential Group

COAL-PRODUCTION. RESUMED; MINERS RETURN TO JOBS   Go Back to Pits to Start Producing War-iVtal Fuel Under New Wage Agreement —Board Probes Living Costs

Cost Of Living Will Be Probed  By Gov't Group   Labor Complains that Living Costs Have Risen Out of Proportion with Wages Being Paid.

Miners End Walkout As Probe Starts   Special Industry - LaborPublic Board Opens Inquiry Into Living Costs   G OF C. iS CRIICAL

Most U.S. Coal Miners _ Return To Pits; Steel Workers May Ask Raise

Living Costs Probe Begins   C1O Steelworkers Meet Today to Draft New Wage Demands

PROBEWARTIME LIVING COSTS [AS MINES OPEN   Meanwhile, S te el workers Launch Drive For Wage Boost; Davis ForScrapping Formula

MINERS RETURN AS STEEL, RAIL MEN DEBATE   WLB Committee Begins Study of Living Costs with Davis Supporting Workers’ Attack

Steel Workers Seek More Pay, Miners Refurn  Inquiry Into Living Costs Opened By Special Board

LUAL MINERS  RETURNING TO WORK TODAY  Puts End To Costly Strike; New Wage      OPEN INOUIRY   Board Will Study Wartime Living Coste i

MOST OF NATION'S ~ GOAL MINERS BACK TO WORK TODAY   Returned to Jobs Under New Wage Agreement Recentlv Signed.   They Will Be Required te Work an Hour Longer Each Dav.

Miners Return to Work With Pay Boost; FDR Asks Living Cost Study

Cost of Living Inquiry begins In Washington   Investigation Opens As Labor Drive on Wage Ceilings Looms in Offing

STRIKE ENDED; LIVING COSTS STUDY STARTED   Steelworkers Reported Seeking Pay Raise

Coal Mining Is Resumed Under New Wage Pact   General Inquiry Into Wartime Cost Of Living Gets Under Way.

Anti-Sub Plans Are Effectuated   Conference Is . Held in Washington

oe * eee we ee   Copyright—1948—-Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. CAPITALISM OR COMMUNISM OR WHAT? 

CAPITALISM, OR COMMUNISM, OR  WHAT, AFTER WAR   Babson Speculates Regarding What Way Of Life United States Will Have When The War Is Ended. Seems To Anticipate All Sorts Of New Crackpot Ideas.

Meat, Butter, Coffee Prices Ordered Reduced; Ten Per Cent Price Cut Effective June ]

Meat, Butter Coffee Prices Ordered Cut   Two-Billion-Dollar Federal Subsidy Seen Under New Program

Subsidize Living Costs   Ten Percent Cut in Prices of Coffee, Meat, And Butter By June 1; Others Down Later

Billions  Food Plan Studied   Subsidy Would Cut Meat, Butter and » ' Coffee Prices

Living Cost Subsidy Plan  Is Considered   Meat, Coffee and Butter Subsidies Are Effective June 1

‘Price Cuts Ordered In Number Of Foo  MAY USE 2 BILLIONS YEARLY JO SUBSIDIZE LIVING COSTS

Two Billion Living Cost On Subsidy   Meat, Butter, Coffee Programs Will Cost About $400,000, 000 ‘Annually   Few Details   Plan Was Discussed by Administration’ for Over a Year

10% Cut In Meat Prices Planned   Federal Subsidy Will Stabilize Cost 

STUDY PROGRAM TO SUBSIDIZE LIVING COSTS   AIMS AT REDUCTION OF MEAT, COFFEE AND BUTTER PRICES

‘Janning Fund To Subsidize Living Costs   sonsider Expansion Of Program In Effect Now To  Lower Few Food Prices.   ARM GROUP OPPOSEL

Two Billion Dollar-A-Year Federal Program For Subsidizing Cost of Living Said Under ‘Consideration

PRICE OF MEATS, COFFEE AND BUTTER ORDERED CUT 10% BY OPA; SUBSIDY PLAN OFFERED

2 BILLION-DOLLAR COST OF LIVING PROGRAM CONSIDERED   Meat, Coffee and Butter Subsidies Will Be Swung In To Support Price Ceilings.

Big Subsidy - Along With  Pring Cite   Government. Is Expected ‘ to Support a Lower  Cost of Living   WOULD APPLY TO FOOD ITEMS      Program Costing 400 Millions Would Be Under RFC Financins

SUBSIDY PLAN TO GHEGK COST OF LIVING SEEN   $2,000,000,000 Federa Program Reported Authoritatively to be Under Consideration   PRICES ROLLED BACK   Ten Percent Cut in Retail Price of Butter, Beef, Pork, Veal and Mutton Ordered

Huge Subsidies To Cut Cost Of Living Talked   Order Reducing Butter, Meat, Coffee Prices Is Seen As Opening Move.

All-inclusive Food Subsidy Plan Mapped   Two Billion RFC Fund Proposed to  Finance Program

10 Per Cent Cut In Food Cost Sought   Meat, Butter And Coffee To Cost $400 Million Annually In Subsidy Plan: Some Skeptical

Two-Billion-DollarYearly Subsidy Is Studied in Capita   Considered as Means to Curb Cost of Living and Rising Prices

100 Million ‘or Coffee, fleat,Butter   med Fruit, ¥ egetables, ther Food - Included n- Federal’ Pr ogram

~ Meat, Coffee, . Butter Prices Cut June    $2 Billion Subsidy for Price Control Reported Planned   AID TO WORKERS   Move Intended to Level Living Costs on Most Staple Foods

2 Billion a Year Subsidy Aimed to Cut Living Costs   Is Considered After Government Announces Cut in Meat Prices.   Canned Foods Would Come Under Subsidy

Food Costs To Be Reduced   OPA OFFICIALS WILL CUT PRICE OF ITEMS

Living Cost Subsidization  Federal Plan   Brown Orders 10-Percent Rollback Of Meat Prices

FEDERAL PROGRAM FOR SUBSIDIZING COST OF LIVING:   This Was Reported Authoritatively to Be Under Consideration Today.   $1060,000,000 YEAR COST   $2.000,000,000 Program Said to Include Plans for Subs sidizing Fruits.

~SUBSIDY PROGRAM ON LIVING COSTS BEING EXPLAINED   Canned Fruits, Vegetables, Long List of Only Food Said te Be Included in Subsidizing Plan.    16 PER CENT CUT IN MEATS IS DUE JUNE °   Coffee and Butter Prices Are Being Lowered, Dealers to Receive Payments For Cooperation.

SIX U, S, RAIDS ROCK JAPS ON KISKA ISLANE   Forays Indicate Attempt to Dislodge.Enemy From Position

Airmen Blast Hercely At Kiska Isle   Battles Also Rage In Southern Pacific Regions

NEW KISKA RAIDS MADE BY AIRMEN   Medium Bombers Roar ’ Over Islands in Half Dozen Assaults

: “Half. Dozen Assaults Made in Good Weather Fr ‘day, Following Three on Thursday, Indicated « “Preliminary to American Invasion as con Att -Fnemy Pounded in Other Areas .

U.S. Planes Blast Kiska Six Times   Raids Ave Resumed As Weather Clears

Yankees Batter Japs at Kiska In Six Attacks   Preparation for Invasion by Land Troops Likely: Jap Camp Area Basted

Six Raids On Kiska Blast Jap Camps   Break In Weather Gives Fliers Opportunity To Make Assaults Probably Pr2paring For Land Invasion   Over Solomons

ODT Director Lists Objectives   Eastman Suggests Manpower Program

WARNS. CRUSIS. ON RAILROADS FAGES, NATION   Transportation Boss Eastman Offers 13-Point Plan For Use at Once.   WOULD USE PRISONERS, DROP FULL CREW LAW

oF ARM LEADERS CALLED BY FOR © T0 FOOD TALKS   Davis and Wickard Join » __ in Parley on Prices and Supply

“DECISIVE VOTE REQUESTED ON “BANKHEAD BILL   @ Barkley Expected To Ask Senate To Meet Issue Head-On   @ PRESIDENT VICTORIOUS   Ag Leaders Seek To Refer Measure To Committee And Avert Defeat

TEMPORARY HAVEN TO BE ESTABLISHED: IN NORTH AFRICA   Camps To Be Places -Of Safety For Refugees When Sicily Falls

SHELTER HOMES FOR REFUGEES TO BE ESTABLISHED   North Afr ic a Will Have Havens After Sicilian Campaigns

Lady Oakes Draws Host into Court   Capacity Crowd At Murder Trial

Senate to Ar Contreversy  Over Flynn   Public Hearings Start Next Week For Both Sides

Hearing: Set. for E: J. Flynn   Committee ‘to Study His Qualifications: 

Coal Crisis Is Averted on Fve of Strike   Strong Rivalry Springs Up Among Mine Peacemakers

WLB STILL CLAIMS CASES JURISDICTION      Ickes Reported To Have Formula Acceptable To Both Sides In Controversy

Tekes-WLB Clash Likely Over Mines   Secretary Reported to Be Realy to Negotiate; .. Board Balky.

RIVALRY SPRINGS UP OVER WHO SHALL  SETTLE COAL STRIKE  UMW President John L. Lewis Extends Truce Poerind Until May 31.

JENKINS 1S NAMED GOP HOUSE LEADER   Solon Calls Session Most Harmonious in GOP History

Spy Plot Against America Involving Brazil Nationals, Axis Diplomats Ils Reported

Uncover Spy Plot in Brazil   Brazilian Artillery Officers Involved In Axis Plot Against U. S.

BRAZIL TRIBUNAL LEARNS OF PLOI   Brazilian Army Officer Was To Get Information For Use of Germans.

Axis Spy Plot Against States   \rmy Captain, Axis Diplomats Involved in Plot Uncovered in Brazil. 

Axis Spy Plot Against U.S. Disclosed by Brazil Police   Charges Involve Captain of Artillery in Brazilian Army and Other Nationalists; Intercepted Message by Clandestine Radio Reveals Attempt to Visit American War Plants

BRAZIL FINDS ARMY CAPTAIN  INSPY PLOT   Wee Sought To Come To U.S. War  Plants To Get Fire Power Secrets For Axis

AXIS SPY PLOT AGAINST U. S. IS UNCOVERED   Brazilian ‘Artillery Captain Involved In Plan

PY PLOT “WARAZIL TOL   Brazilian Captain, Former Axis Diplomats Are Invalved.

Axis Espionage Plot Uncovered  Involves Officer In Brazilian Army

Pistol Bullet — Makes Histon   Gunfire’s Echo Grows With The Years

 Archduke’s Assassination 29 Years  Ago Today Set Off First World War

Knox Reveals New Air Base’ In Aleutians   Established on Anchitka, Only 70 Miles Southeast Of Japanese-Held Kiska

Navy Discloses New U. §. Base Fast of Kiska   American Troops Establish Hold, Jap Raid Withstood

U.S. Troops Seize Base Only 70 Miles From Japs on Kiska   Island Could Be Used as Starting Point To Bomb Tokyo; ‘Aggressive’ Move

American Airbase Built On Amchitka Island Near Kiska Despite Series of Eight Japanese Bombing Attacks

New Base Set Up In  Aleutians   U.. S.. Airfiele Only..70 Miles From Kiska-

U. $. Establishes New Air Base In West Aleutians   New Blow in War Against Japan; a Bombing Take-off

NEW U, $ BASE NEARER TOKYO   Knox Announces Military Situation Improved In Aleutians

New airbase’ on Amehitka  for offense   Within bombing range of Tokyo

NEW AIR BASE IN KISKA AREA   American Troops Now Are Only 70 Miles  From Enemy

YANKS OCCUPY NEW AIR BASE IN KISKA AREA   American Troops Now Are Only. 70 Miles From Enemy

American Troops Operating New Air Base 70 Miles Southeast of Kiska

U.S. Finishes Strategic Base onlsle   American Forces Are Now Close to Many Jap Strongholds

20 Persons Die In Plane Crash ‘At Trammel, Ky   Two Others Critically Hurt As Big Airliner Plows Into Field And Burns

Twenty Die As Civilian Plane Falls InKentucky   Two Survivors Are Thrown Clear Of Wreckage

‘Air Crashes Fatal to 38   Liner, Two Bombers Figure in Tragedies

Airliner Crashes; 20 Killed   Only Two Survive Tragedy in Remote  Hills of Kentucky

AIRLINER FALLS IN KENTUCKY, 20 DIE IN WRECK   Survivor of Plane Walks Nearly Mile To Summon Help

l0Persons Die When Airliner Falls In East   An Army Officer and A Civilian Saved When Thrown Clear

SCORE KILL IN TRANSPORT PLANE CRASH   American Airlines Ship Enroute from Louisville to Nashville In Accident at  Trammel, Ky.   TWO SEVERELY INJURED

20 Reported Killed In Airliner Crash   Plane, En Route From Louisville to Nashville, Falls and Burns 20 Miles Southeast of Bowling Green, Ky.—2 Severely Hurt.

20 LOSE LES IN PLANE GAASH   American Airlines Transport Crashes and Burns in Kentucky.   2 MEN ONLY SURVIVORS

TWENTY BELIEVED DEAD IN CRASH OF AIRLINES TRANSPORT  NO REASON GIVEN FOR ACCIDENT NEAR BOWLING GREEN, KY.

Nashville-Bound Airliner Crashes Near Bowling Green, Ky.; 20 Dead

20 Killed In Plane Crash Near Bowling Green, Ky.   Craft Plows Over Ground For Quarter Mile And Then Burns; Weather Unfavorable

20 KILLED : INAIR LINE CRASH   ‘Posseriger Plane. -Crashes Near Trammel. Ky. © ‘

TWENTY LOSE LIVES IN CRASH OF AIRLINER   Two Survivors Injured When American Airlines Plane Ploughs Into Field, Skids Quarter Mile

Twenty Killed In Plane Crash   ‘American Airlines — Ship  Crashes and Burns in Kentucky.

20 PERSONS DIE IN PLANE CRASH   TWO SURVIVE WHEN COMMERCIAL CRAFT BURNS IN KENTUCKY

Twenty Die in Airliner  _ Crash, Fire   Soldier and One Other Pas. senger Survive Crash; Both Thrown Clear   BIG TRANSPORT SWEPT BY FIRE   The American Alrbnes Plane Was Enroute From Louisville to Nashville

TWENTY PERSONS KILLED (N A PLANT CRASHIN NAIM  Only Two ) Sur   Only Two Survivors and They Are Badly Iniured   PLANE BURNED AFTER THE CRASH

20 Killed in Army Transport Crash   Only Two Survived Accident in Kentucky

Twenty Killed As Big Airliner Crashes, Burns   Mother, Baby and Army Officers Among Victims In Kentucky

10 Killed in Air Liner Crash   Only Two Survive As Fire Sweeps Plane; Baby Among Victims

20 Killed, Two Survive Passenger Plane Crash   48 Die In Two Crashes

TWO ESHPE BUT ~AOLY NRE  a eden SAL YT2andtenre AT -;   Badies Of Victims Badly Burned As Fife Sw eeps Plane   CAUSE UNKNOWN   Three Crew Members Lose Lives In Mishap Near Trammel, Ky.

TWO SURVIVORS THROWN CLEAR; BOTH INJURED   Weather Bad But There Wa No Indication of Troub'e Before Plane’s Plunge   WRECKAGE IS SCATTERED   Mother and Child Among Victims of Accident Near Bowling Green

Report 20 Are Dead in Crash      Two Are Thrown Clear of Ship as it Ploughs into Ground

20 Killed When Airliner Crashes  In Kentucky   Only Two Thrown Clear OF Plane. Survive : Crash.

PLANE CRASH   Sixteen Passengers, Four  Crewmen Die In Ken= tuecky Tragedy.

TWENTY KILLED IN PASSENGER PLANE CRASH; 2 SURVIVE   Craft Burns In Foothills Near Bowling Green, Kentucky——Enroute To Nashville

20 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Airliner Burns After Wreck In Southern Kentucky _ Hills; Only Two Men Listeg “As Survivors

20 PERSONS DIE WHEN AIRLINES PLANE CRASHES   Injured Man Stumbles Into Kentucky Home te Summon Aid in Tragedy

AIRPLANES WILL NO DOUBT BE IMPORTANT MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AFTER WAR THINKS BRISTOL HIGH SCHOOL STUDEN)   “EDUCATION IN THE AIR AGE" Ry hermit Marsh, 10-A

“EDUCATION TO WIN AND SECURE THE PEACE”   “EDLECATION TO WIN AND SECURE THE PEACE" Ry tTnek Sirott wW.A4

EVULAHIUNS FARE DURING WAR TIME  System Must Help Us to Keep Our Emotional Stability  IN TIME OF WAR

Housewives Vs. Bureau.  Who’s Right on Costs?   U.S. Labor Department Tells Doubting Goods Buyers They Live in Wrong Cities

Labor Department and Housewives Don't Agree On Drop in Food Prices

CLAIM REDUCTION IN PRICE OF FOOL   Labor Department Survey Includes 1200 Stores In Over 50 Cities.

CITIZENS DISPUTE FOOD PRICE DAT.   Labor Dep’t Sticks to Fig ures on Cost of Living

DISPUTE DROP IN FOOD COST AS REPORTED   Many Citizens Score U. S. Release On  Saving

ANOTHER DRAFT ORDER IS ISSUED   Defer Workers In Critical Industry

Strong Shows Tax Return   Matches $1,500 ‘Cut’ Lowe Had Told of Getting

TAX RETURN IN COURT RECORD   Strong Testifies He Paid $1,500 to Fred Lowe; Evidence Produced

Opposes Army Plan to .  Control River  Urges Primary Use of Water for Damachtico Durnacac

Opposes Army Plan to . Control River   Urges Primary Use of Water for Domestic Purposes

NATION REPORTS BUYING HEAVY BUT MEAT SUPPLY LOM   Cheese Sales Also Boom in Some Localities; OPA Gives Assurance No “Freeze” Intended.

DAYLIGHT RAID CLIMAXES 24 HOUR ASSAULT   Lorient And Brest On Brittany Coast Heavily Bombarded Radio Blacks Out.

German U-Boat Bases Pounded On Large Scale   Daylight Assault Climaxes Continuous 24-Hour Assault   Four Bombers and Iwo Spitfires Reported Missing

Allied Raiders Believed Over Continent Last _ Night SIX PLANES LOST IN DAYLIGHT RAID  First Heavy Bomber Action of U.S. Force in Eight Days

Four American Bombers and Two Spitfires Are Lost  BOMBS HIT TARGETS More Night Blows —  Indicated in Renewal  Of 24-Hour Schedule

POINT SYSTEM. {SIN EFFECT   HOUSEWIVES START USING “ABC” . RATION BOUK COUPONS IN PURCHASE OF CANNED FOODS

POINT RATION PLAN IS BEGUN   Public Tightens Belt For Vic tory Program

Food Rationing Program Starts In Nation Today   Canned Goods Now On Sale Under New Point Rationing System   SHOPPERS MUST BUY CAREFULLY

Allied Planes on Blast Axis Ou  Installations   Ruhr Industrial Area Rocked By Bombs Again

OCCUPIED NATIONS HIT BY BOMBERS   Targets In Belgium And France Rombed.

Government Program To Produce Electric frons Awaits Go’Ahead Signal

COMPLETE WORK ON TAX BILL   Fie Senate Gets Measure Wednesday Proponents Hope for Passage This Week

Tax Debate To Start Wednesday   Seek To Complete Action This Week

VICTORY COMES ON 12TH DAY OF OTER BATTLE   MacArthur Says Nips Trying to Escape Are Doomed

AMERICAN AND. AUSTRALIAN . TROOPS TAKE: MOST IM- PORTANT END STRONGHOLD IN NORTH: . NEW GUINEA

LAE-SALAMAU GARRISONS IN ALLIED HANDS   Loss Is Serious Blow To Japan  TRAP 20,000) JAPS  an ane  Victory Is Hailed By MacArthur

RESUME WORK ON ARMY JEEPS   Will Vote Later on Issue, Firm Builds Axles for Government

SEVERE BURNS SUFFEREN   Lt. Com. George M. ‘Chambers In. jured While at Sea

' SEVERE BURNS SUFFERED   Lt. Com. George M. Chambers In. wes jured While at Sea

Naples Area Is Target Of Devastating Raids; Litvinoff Mystery Holds   Enemy Broadcasts Say Landings in Force Made on East Side of ‘Toe’ and Coast of Crete; Soviets Report Continued Gains in Offensive

Unconfirmed Reports of Landings in Italy And Crete Discounted Immediately by London — Allies Declared on Offensive In Pacific—Air Activity Over Europe Fades

Russians Continue Fighting Tc Improve Their Positions Before Bryansk

ALEUTIAN BASE OF JAPS RAIDED   Installations On Island Of Kiska Hammered By Army Planes

Army Planes Strike At Japanese  Kiska Installations  Bombers, Fighters Fly Through Barrage Of Antiaircraft Fire

> es eowrwrwr ewer er FrhmUuUrlU Or Or err rl rr fCr ho  - DEATH RECORD

UNITED NATIONS PLAN OPERATIONS IN ’43 CAMPAIGNS   Questions of Strategy Now Up for Decision tn Allied Capitals,

\Whites and Blacks Fight In Detroit, Mich., Suburb   Reinforced Police Force Maintaining Blockade Around Negro Quarter of Inkster and Padlock Five Taverns There: Whites Kept Moving and Blacks Refused Right to Congregate

FIGHTS BREAK OUT IN NEGRO QUARTER   Police Throw Blockade Around Park

RACE RIOT FEARED IN DETROIT FIGHTS   Soldiers Join Civilians ir Clash With Negroes

GOVERNMENT 10. HiT HIRST BLOW . AGAINST LEWIS   ‘War Labor Board Seeks   Showdewn Monday In ; Mina Strike Threat.

WLB Plans Vote on New  Wage Policy   Hopes to Beat Lewis to Punch On Strike Threat

HOPES TO GET JUMP ON LEWIS   WLB Attempts To Beat Union Chief To Draw In Wage Dispute

COAL STRIKE THREAT HIT — IN WAGE ROW   Government Maneuvers Beat Lewis to Punch  On Deadline

BEAT LEWIS TO PUNCH   Government Is Maneuvering to _  Avert Coal Strike

Government Out To Lick Lewis in Wage Showdown   Labor Leader Would Order 450,000 Men KFram Pite Anril 1

SHOWDUWN UN WAGE HIKE FOR MINERS NEARING  Government Se eking To Bea ie Rawr To Punch

FUNERAL TODAY   Services for William May Held at 10:30 This Morning.

SHOWED UP ENEMY NEWS   Gen. Cherig Chen Had Attended the Cairo Conferences. .

Japs Miss Fire On Propaganda   : Cairo Meeting Sya(chronizes Global Strategy to Haten War Everywhere-

HEINRICH HIMMLER, GESTAPO HEAD, NOW HAS NEW NAZI POST   ‘Named Minister Of Interior ; ~—Genera] Shakeup Of  Nazi Officials  Announced

TRUCE SOUGHT WITH SOVIETS, PRESS CLAIMS   Stockholm Newspapers in Disagreement on Report Indicating Finnish Action

Report Finland Seeking Peace With Russians   Paasikivi Reported Ready to Go To Moscow To Discuss Negotiations For Peace Settlement; German Deaths Revealed,

STORIES ON FINN PEACE MOVE VARY   One Swedish Paper Ayers Steps, Another Publishes A Denial 

Finns Preparing  To Seek Peace   Reported Ready to Send Envoy to Moscow to Discuss Terms

CLAIM FINLAND PREPARING 10 SUE FOR PEACE   Juhu Paasikivi Reported Held In Readiness for  Moscow Trip

FINNS MAY BE   Former Minister to Moscow Told to Get Ready To Return To: Russia

SOVIET-FINNISH PEACE HINTED   Finland Reported Trying To Get Out of War

Search For 2nd Lieut. ‘Who Escapes While ‘Awaiting Court Martial

Crowds Force Hope To Scram  Meets 99 Year-Old   Meets 99 Year-Old Grandfather

Stimson Warns U.S. Casualties May Be Heavy.   - Series Of Events . At Capital Hint Of Comina Aitact

HINTS GIVEN OF BIG BLOWS AGAINST AXIS   Stimson Warns That U. $ Faces Heavy Casuoalties Soon

HEAVY ALLIED BLOWS HINTED   Grim Admonition Made by Stimson of Impending Heavy Casualties

‘HEAVY CASUALTIES   Unfolding of Allied Sti ategy Mappec At Casablanca Brings Grim ' Admonition By Secretary _-___.

HINTS GIVEN: OF BIG BLOWS “AGAINST AXIS   Stimson Warns That U. S. Faces Heavy Savial: hes TY

Allies Hint — Of New Blows   U.S. Warned to Prepare For Heavy Casualties

Eisenhower Eleyated To Full Generalship, Heads All African Force:

BORDEAUX HIT ~ BY FORTRESSES   Nazi Airfields Als: Bombed on African Shuttle

MOSQUITO BOMBERS STABBED AT BERLIN TARGETS LAST NIGHT  MONDAY NIGHT'S BERLIN RAID RENDERED 72 nnn HOMELESS

All RAF Mosquito Bombers Return Safely from Attack; Many Berliners Are Homeless.   ITALIAN CRUISER : IS BADLY DAMAGED

MOSQUITOES HIT AT BERLIN; NOT ONE PLANE LOST   Fast Wooden Bombers Stab At Targets In German Capital; Yanks From North Africa Bomb Aijircraft Plant In Bordeaux.

Stab At Berlin Targets Again  Mosquito Bombers Raid Nazi Capital

RAF Mosquito Bombers Keep Berlin Awake   Fast Wooden Craft Stab at Targets Pounded Monday

Mosquito Craft Attack Berlin   73.000 Residents Homeless, French Say

RAF MOSQUITO RAIDERS Hil BERLIN AREF   : Flying Fortresses Attack   Bordeaux; Claim 73,000  In Berlin Homeless

73,000 Said Made Homeless In Berlin   Fortresses.: Also Attack Nazi Avirfields In France; Other Forts Return. From Great Shuttle Operation.

BERLINERS AGAIN POUNDED BY RAF   FAST PLANES STAGE ‘NUISANCE RAID’ ON BOMB-TORN CAPITAL

Mosquito Bombers Hit Berlin Again  None Lost On Mission: 73.000 Homeless

PLANT AT BORDEAUX   Raid Leaves 73,00( Homeless In Nazi Capital, Claim

Planes Of RAF Make 2nd Raid   German Radio Station Quoted As Estimating 73,000 Residents Of Berlin Are Homeless

CLAIM 73,000 HOMELESSIN NAZICAPITAL   Other Allied Airmen Blast Three Enemy Airfields in France

BERLIN RAIDED AGAIN BY RAF      No Raiders Lost, As Mosquito Bombers Hit Berlin Targets.   MINES LAID BY PLANES

Mosquitoes Hit Berlin; Shuttle  Bombers Return   Underground Reports 73,. 000 Made Homeless  Jn Rerlin._

C10 ASKS DEATH © OF THE LITTLE STEEL WAGE PLAN   Declare Fuiure Readjustments of Wages Will Be Required  -Hf There Are Any Failuyes of Certain Controls

C10 ASKS PAY FORMULA END   Charges Congress Failure To Curb Profits, Farm Program Sabotage

CIO Fires On WagePeg   Demands Elimination Of Little Steel Formula of Stabilization

LEWIS:CIO RIFT APPEARS WIDER   UNITY GREATER SINCE UMW LEFT, MURRAY DECLARES

Charges Congress Has Refused To Enact Tax Bill To Curb War Profits

Families of Marines in the South Pacific Area May Send Short-Wave Message:

WOOLGROWERS TOLD BUREAUCRATS SOON BE ENACTING LAWS  TEXAN WARNS THERE IS STRONG TENDENCY TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT

FDR SAYS END OF WAR NOT YET IN SIGHT   President makes statement in message to Legion convention

Divorcee Freed . On Heavy Bond   $10,000 Bail Is Made After Hearing

MRS, HOWARD IS BOUND OVER IN TULSA SLAYING   ‘Court Trial Soon for Divor cee—Charge Is Reduced  : To Manslaughter

Fort Worth Divorcee Freed On $10,000 Bond After Being Bound Over On Manslaughter Charge In Tulsa Court

Mustering out bill approved  by senators   Pay would range from $200-500

MUSTERING OUT PAY APPROVED   Senate Okehs Measure for Overseas Service Pay mente

DISCHARGE PAY BILL APPROVED   Senate Votes Mustering Out Gift Of $200 To $500 For Veterans

JAPS BELIEVED MAKING FINAL STAND ON ATTL   Foe Last Reporied Holding Line About Five Miles Long in Mountainous Country   REPORTS SKETCHY   Vichy Radio Reports Japs Have Begun Evacuating Island—Confirmation Lacking

REPORT JAPS LEAVING ATTU   Enemy Making-Last Stand, Says Navy Report

OFFICIALS SAY FALL OF ATTU IS IMMINENT   Position of Enemy on Remote Island Called Hopeless

ENEMY MAKING Mo ROT OTAND UN AT TU (SLANG   Vichy Reports Of Evacuation Already Started By Japs Are Not Confirmed

ENEMY I$ IMMINENT   Evacuation Attempt Is Reported By Vichy  But Unconfirmed

Nippon Fleet Commander Dies in Plane   Death Ends Career of Jap Who Was to Dictate Peace to U. §&. in Washington

Capital Looks For Victory Soon; Capture Would Put Kiska In Tight Noose

Operations © On Attu Are  Continuing   Japs Making Last Stand in Defensive High Ground; Nip Planes Attack Allied Points in New Guinea

ITU IS BEING VACUATED BY PS. 1S CLAIM   chy Radio Broadcast. Recorded. by Reuters in London, Says Move Is Underway   SKA NOW FACING COMPLETE BLOCKADE   nemy Bottled Up Around Chicagof Harbor; Positions Described as Honeless -

Japanese Making Last Stand on Island of Attu   Enemy. Evacuation Reported; Navy Says Operations Continue

JAPS MAKE STAND ON HIGH GROUND   Vichy Evacuation Report is ‘Unconfirmed: by. U. -S.

Blockade Of Kisk: Seen As Next Big U.S. Maneuver  ~ In Aleutians

Enemy Making Last Stand In Attu Strugele   Attu Struggle  Complete Blockade Now Threatens Kiska; Fall Of Embattled Island  as 06hlUvwstl (‘i xS A C TT CC

Attu Evacuation May Be Blocked By U. S. Warship:   Enemy Encircled

No Confirmation Of Report Island Being Evacuated   Collapse Of Resistance Imminent; Survivors Said Tightly Bottled Up

Attu Action Continuing, Navy Says   Believe Japs Making Last Stand On High Ground

Nins Squeezed Into Narrow Island Area   Vichy Radio Reports ‘Evacuation’ Of  Enemy Troops

Attu’s Fall Is Matter Of Hours   Free Fighting Reported Between Allies, Japs In Southwest Pacific

JAPS PREPARE FOR ATTU EVACUATION   Americans Ready to Stop Any Sea Escape

Navy Announces Operations On Island Are Continuing —Vichy Radio Declaration Enemy Is Evacuating Unconfirmed Elsewhere—Survivors Of Hard-Hit Nipponese Garrison Tightly Bottled Up At Chichagof Harbor—Kiska Next U. S. Goal

 Navy Reports Operations On Attu Island In North Pacific Continuing

Nippon Reported Evacuating Troops From Attu Island   Washington Sources Indicate Collapse ls Matter of Hours

MAKING LAST DITCH STAND   Vichy Broadcast Says Nipponese Have Begun To Evacuate Island   NO CONFIRMATION COMES FROM ALLIES   Collapse, However. Is Believed Imminent, Says Washington

Japs Start To Quit Attu   Vichy Radio Makes Report; U. S. Warships Keep Close Watch

Japs Last Stand High — — Up On Attu   Report They Are Trying To Evacuate Has Not Been Confirmed

Say Japs  Leaving Attu   However U.S. Warships Believed To Be Barring Any Escape From Isle

Last Stand of Japs Indicated on Attu   Operations Continue in North Pacific As Vichy Reports Enemy Beginning to Evacuate Island; Defense Line Raided.

Vichy radio says evacuation begun   Navy tersely reports Attu operations are continuing

Vichy Radio Says Japs Are Evacuating Attu. United States troops Are Consolidating Gains  on Islang.

Fall boa Island Expected Hourly ‘Amid Clean-Up   Fog, Cold Slowing Americans; Nips Now Encircled

Pomona Grange To  Meet Friday Night   Quarterly Will be Jeld At Raft Swamp — Last Meeting Before State Convention.

Pomona Grange  Will Meet May. i   (Ouisii terly Will be H feld i in .. Lumberton: State Mas -ter Caldwell Mav. Ateee ee

ET FOR MAR, 2¢   Canned Fish, Cheese, Butter and Fats Included In  New Regulations

Heavy Attack Made On Buin   Allied Planes In Raids Te Aid In Support Of Solo. mons Defense

ctl RAISED   Tentative Action Proposed During Senate Unit tharations

Retroceden Los Rusos En Una  Lona De Kiev   V. Mannstein Envie Infantes y Tanques Contra Tropas Del  Gral. Vatutin

Los Rusos Estan Muy Cerca De Gorodnitza   Importante Centro Polaco. - Malinovsky Acelera Ofensiva Contra Nikopol

American Heav) Bombers Arrive In China Sector   Some Already in Actior against the Japanese Invaders

Raid On Hainan Causes Tojo To Worry~   Vy. S. Airpower Now Based Near Jap Cities

DELAYED STORY OF SMASHING VOLTURNO RIVER UPPER LINE  _ GERMAN BOOBYTRAPS  AND ANTI-PERSONNEL  MINES TAKE HEAVY TOLL

Volturno Defense  Smashed   FIFTH ARMY THRUSTS GERMANS BACK TOWARD NEW CASSINO LINE

Mined Vineyards Take Toll of American Soldiers Smashing Upper Volturno Line

Half Million Threatened By Newest Sweep   Radio Reports Germans Setting Fire To Entire City Of Rostov  Ry EDNDY GI VMORE

5 TIGHTE GRIP ON AXIS   Soviets Draw Net Closer About Nazi Troops in Western Caucasus.   RUSSIANS RETAKE CITIES

Aim Enveloping Drive at Rostov   Thrust Southward Seeks to Trap Huge German Army Defending City — Number of Towns Taken by Red Forces In Continuing Advance

ISERIES OF TOWNS ‘WEST OF ROSTOV BACK IN RED HANDS   Bitter Fighting Reported Still Raging At pee

REDS DRAW NET TIGHT ABOUT AXIS   German Forces Are Pocketed in Extreme Western Caucasus War Area.   Plan An Enveloping Move Around Rostov

RUSSIANS DREW NET TIGHTER ABOUT THE AXIS TROOPS   Are Pocketed in the Extreme Western Caucasus North of Novorossisk.   IN A DRIVE SOUTHWARD   Would Envelop a Huge German Army at Rostov, It Is Said.

Soviet Network Drawn Tighter In Donets Area   Russians Report. Capture of More Important Towns

REDS CIRCLE NAZI FORCES IN CAUCASUS   Entrenched British Halt German Attack in ‘Tunisia .

Gen. Patton’s Forces Capture E] Guetar In Eastward Advance  MAY SEAL ROMMEL IN SOUTHERN TRAP  Ninth U. S. Air Force Attacks Naples, Italy, Subs Sink Seven Ships

Drive East In Effort to Bottle Rommel   Capture El Guettar Pass, 73 Miles to Norwest of Gabes in Dash for Coast

Americans Capture El Guetar, Northwest of Gabes  ATTACK ON ROMMEL FLANK IS EXPECTED  Army of Montgomery in Tunisia Continues Patrollina

Yanks Chalk Up Huge — Africa Gain   Vital Pass Falls to Americans; Attack On Rommel! May Be Made Soon; All Lost Territory ts Reqained by U. S.

NAPLES RAIDED BY U. S. FORCE: MARETH QUIET   Pass Entrance Occupied After Pushing Ahead 42 Miles In 2 Days Despite Storms   Supply Ships Sunk

British’ Hack At Rommel’ s Lines   Heavy: Rains. Make Area A Quagmire

Americans May Strike Axis Flank   Town Captured At Entrance of Guetaria Pass

U.S. Forces Drive On Despite Rain   British Continue Pounding the Mareth Line

U S. Forces May Attack Nazi Flank   Heavy Rains and Flood Fail to Halt Advance by Gen. Pallon

FLANK ATTACK IS MENACE T0 GEN. ROMMEL   LOST TERRITORY IS ALL RECAPTURED BY U.S. TROOPS

FRISCO GREETS MADAME CHIANG      Colorful Parade’ Welcomes Chinese First Lady on . West Coast

STRIKERS WIN GOAL   ES a Police, Firemen, Public Works Men in Montreal Return to Duty

Montreal Bows To Demand of City Strikers   Congress of Labor Becomes Bareainine Agent

, Police, Fire; anil = 3  Works Employees, Nuns bering 5,000 Return to Wark

Montreal City ‘Workers Resume   orcvrr eee lel eee ee eee  Police, Fire, Public  Works Employes FeAl Cariba

ONE OF HEROES OF BATAAN ~ KILLED IN FLAMING PLANE   HOLDER OF MANY AWARDS FOR, BRAVERQ CRASHED PLANE IN VACANT LOT IN BURBANK

CRASH KILLS BILL DYESS, WAR HERO   Husband of Former Marajen Stevick of Champaign

Taxpayer Has Provided $25 Billions For Doles, i Work-Relief In Decade

Le oe SS oe See Se Quintuplets Are Born To Japanese Couple; All Boys Doing Well

TAX ABATEMENT PLAN ACCEPTED   Compromise Reached On Issue: About 50°; To Be Forgiven

AgreementNear  On Pay-Go Tax   50 Percent Forgiveness Believed Plan

Pay-Go Tax Act Is Agreed Upon   GOP's and Demos in Accord on Bill to Abate Heat of Taxes

NEAR ACCORD ON TAX PLAN COMPROMISE   Solons Expected to Provide 50 Per Cent Abatement of Last Year’s Obligations.

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Agreement Said Very Near   Abatement Of Hal! Of Year’s Income Indicated In Plan

Agreement Made On Compromise Pay-as-Go Tax   Abates Half 1942 Levy Provides 20 Per Cent Wage Withholding

House Group Agrees on  Pay-Go Plan   Bipartisan Parley Reaches Near Accord on Levy

Legislators Reach An Agreement on Pay-as-You-Go  Tax Compromise   Plan Provides for Abatement of About Fifty per Cent of One Year's Payment

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Agreement Said Very Near   Abatement Of Hal: Of Year's Income leAtewetpt i OTT.

Snow, Cold Hinder Recovery in Flood   Coal Burners Substituted For Pt. Pleasaut Gas: Tide Leaving State

ONOW, GOLD HITS FLOOD VICTIMS   High Water Finally Rolls Out Of West Virginia After Running Five - Day Course; Nears Crest in Ohio

Army. ‘Announces: Names of Three Will Rogers’ Field  Fliers Killed in Crash

SILENT ON GASOLINE   OPA Says Nothing Regarding Rationing Chances’

MASS MEETING ~ OF MOTORISTS   Will Demand Equalization of, Rations in East and Midwest

BEET SHORTAGE LOOMS DESPITE CROWDED RANGES   Marketing of Cattle Drops But Record Numbers are in Harde

HIGHER BENEFITS APPROVAL SEEN   Martin Is Confident House Will Back $80 A Month Senate Scale

Two Staggering Blows Did The Trick Japanese Face An Early  Hour Of Reckoning In Northeast New Guinea

JAPAN'S HOUR OF RECKONING NEARS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Repeated Air Blows By Allies Believed Too Staggering To Permit Early Recovery; Salamaua Reported Largely In Ruins.

GAYS GIRLS DEATH “NOT ACCIDENTAL’   Prosecutor Holds Conference to Determine Course of Ac-I tion Concerning Youth

FARM WORKCKS ARE DETERREL   May Be Exemnt From Draft Call for Thirty Days ’ -jn Indiana.

br WORKERS “ME DEFERRED   a ee al : May Be Exempt From Draft ‘ Call for: Thirty: Days  * -in- Indiana. -

Soviets Reoccupy Additional Towns In Rostov Sector   More "'Personages Of Algieres'’ Arrested In New Investigation Launched Under Direction Of General Henri Giraud

Soviets Fail To Gain Third Straight Day In Lower Don Area  STRUGGLE REACHES PEAK OF VIOLENCE  Nazis Throw Reserves And Scores of Tanks Into Counter-Attacks

NAZI RESERVES IN. MIDDLE DON AREA SLOW UP SOVIETS   Reoceupation by Caucasian Forces of Ten Additional Towns and Settlements Reported—Pacific : Area Relatively Quiet ;

Gigantic Air and Sea Bombardment Plus Additional Troops Smashes Enemy Back On Heele.

BerlinDescribesAlliesAs ‘Numerically Superior’ In Broadcast To Germans   (Clouds Clearing Over Allied Beachhead; Nazis Hint Yanks Have Recaptured Altavilla

WEST CONCORD WAN REVEALED   Roger Diskin Weds. Winifred Callahan, Newport, R. i. -

More Nazi War Plants Shattered   Stuttgart Bombed By British; Danzig Struck By Soviets

Shattering Aerial Blows Hit Reich  Russians, R. A. F.  Raid Germanv

GERMAN WAR INDUSTRIES DEALT SHATTERING BLOW   Attack on Stuttgart Leaves Tremendous Fires; 23 British and Canadian Planes Lost

Reds Assist In Big Bomb Raids   RAF, Soviets, Strike Terrific Blows al German Ports of Danzig, Koenigsberg And Industrial Metropolis of Stuttqart

Russian t!yers Attack Danzig And Koenigsberg  RAF Bombers Set Huge Fires in Night Raid on Stuttgart  DEFENSES HEAVY  American, British Make More Daylight Strafing Assaults

RAF AND REDS BLAST HITLER WAR SUPPLIES   Russians Raid Danzig And Koenigsberg; British Assail Industrial Stuttgart; Tremendous Fires Are Left.   - Nazis Over England

‘British and Russian’s Hit  On Same Nighit  Two. Baltic Ports and Stuligart Targets. fawn Then Netiane

DANZIG BLASTED BY SOVIET AIRMEN   BALTIO PORT OF KOENIGS. BERG ALSO BOMBED—BRITISH RAID STUTTGART.

SOVIET PLANES SMASH BALTIC SUPPLY PORTS   Military Targets in Danzig and Koenigsberg Are Left in. Flames   BRITISH-_BOMBERS BLAST INDUSTRIES AT STUTTGART

RAF and Soviet: Put Air Squeeze  On Germany   British Raid Stuttgart While Russian Planes Hit Danziz. Koenigsberg

Germans Dealt Air Blows From East and West   Soviets Raid Danzig and Koenigsberg as British Bombers Hit Industrial Stuttgart

BOTH RUSSIAN AND BRITISH PLANES ATTACK   Tremendous Fires  And Explosions Are Reported Following Widespread Assaults

R.ALF Attacks Stuttgart Area   Heavy Blow ts Dealt To Armament Cente

Round - The- Clock Bomb Attacks On  Nazis Continue   Day And Night Non-Stop Bombing Raids Are Still In Progress   FRENCH COASTAL SECTOR HAMMERED

ALLIES PRESS AIR ATTACK Ot NAZI-EUROPE   Raid “Secret Weapon” Zone: Yanks Down 38 German Planes

‘ROUND-THE-CLOCK ASSAULTS   ON GERMANY AND OCCUPIED.  TERRITORY IN FRANCE ._ ‘SARE CONTINUED —

U0, DIE BOMBERS AGAIN HIT MUNDS   Central Solomons Base Of Jans Pounded

GERMANS ATTACK SPITSBERGEN ISLE   Naval Units Make Strong Assault on Arctic Island; Territory Has Little Strategic Importance

 Nazi Propaganda Agency Report Germany's Naval Units Make Strong Raid on Spitsbergen

Japs Lose 300  Planes In Drive   15 More Shot Down In Marshalls Push

MEADVILLE HAS $100,000 BLAZE   Morning : Fire ire ; Destroys ine Airplanes. cat “Municipal “Airport. ©

Rail Strike Called for December 3(   Brotherhoods Will Go Out to Enforce Pey Boost Demand

Five Operating Brotherhoods Vote To Leave Jobs   97.7% of Members Reported Favoring Wartime Walk-Out

Deadline  Set for Dec. 30   BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS VOTE FOR WALKOUT IN WAGE DEMANDS

3 RR. UNIONS SET STRIKE DATE   Brotherhoods Vote to Quit Jobs on Dec. 30

RAILROAD STRIKE HAS BEEN SET FOR DECEMBER THIRTY   Nation’s Five Railway Operating Brotherhoods Made Announcement Today.   it Was Announced That 97.7 Per Cent of the Members Voted to Strike.

SENATOR HOPES FOR AGREEABLE POST-WAR BILL   Wants Minimum Amount Of Disagreement And Debate

UNION OFFIC'AL FREE   J Writ Of Habeas Corpus Releases Unionist From Jail

CIO Leader Freed by Chief Justice After Short Time in Jail   County Not Backing Attack! Sealy Says. War Bond Quota Three Million Dollars Short .

Haeheas Corpus Is Granted CIO Head By Judge   Was Arrested’ For Making Talk

Attempt To Start Corn Into Market      Guarantee Amount of Increase If Ceiling Is Raised

Meet Stiffer Jap Fighting Around Munda   U. S., Australian Patrols Move Within Four Miles of Salamaua on Three Sides; Enemy Rushes Air Support  To New Georgia Battle Area.

OF ALLIES ARE UNITED   Americans Maintain Pressure Against  Munda Air Base

Jap Flotilla [s Driven Ott By U.S. Warshins   Three Jap Cruisers And Four Destroyers Routed In Rendova Attack Move   JAPS FORCED BACK “IN SHORT ORDER”’

Minimum Is 7 Below Today In Washington   Spirit Lake Has 20 Below Zevo -— Predict 15 Below for  Southeastern lowan Tonight

Enemy Will Hit Hard, Says Communique; Foe Masih Ships North of Australia:   _ Second ‘Warning Within Month Claims Enemy Cargo Ships and Men Concentrating Near Amboina

Conference Boosts Hope  - For Allied Victory In ’43   London Diplomatic And Military Circles Believe Blow To Hitler’s Europe Almost Certain During The Present Year

GREET BISHOP ON ARRIVAL IN YOUNGSTOWN      McFadden Installed Today At Rites Following Welcome Last Night

Three Perish In Marinette Fires  Children Die As  hAathae GCawaee VT hsed

Pay-As-You-Go Conferees Still In Deadlock   Little Hope That Agreement Will ‘ Be Reached Now

5 Soldiers Killed In Bus-Auto Wreck  One Of Victims Believed  From Monessen

GERMANS PREPARE FOR ROME BATTLE      Pupper Italian Govern. ment Moved Back to the Alns

MOVE CAPITAL, ROME TO ALPS   Action of Puppet Regime Prepares for Defense as Yanks Gain

Tojo Warns Japs. War More Serious   New Wartime Council  Formed In Tokyo

WORST TO COME JAPS TOLD BY PREMIER 10J0   Australian Prime Minister Praises Gen. MacArthur as Inspiration and Leader

Japs Organize Advisory Board   Premier Tojo Worns Nation War Situation Is More Serious

Japs Told by Tojo They're  Facing Crisis   Fokyo Radio Announces For. mation of Board af Adviser: To Stimulate Increase ir Fiehting Strenoth

JAPS* BIG-WIGS CALL FOR HELP   Board of Advisers Named in Effort to Increase Fighting Strength

TOJO CREATES NEW JAP BOARD   S a ae ee  Premier Warns That ‘War Situation is Becoming Serious’

House Republican Whip Succumbs  H.R. Englebright, 59 Was From California

RAF Strikes Heavy Blows Against Japs   Americans Participate in Series  Of Big Raids

NLICD BOMBERS DIOHING 17 OUT UN BURMA FRONT   American Fliers Participate In Series Of Raids On  Kal myo

BIG NAZI PLANE PLANT GOAL OF RECORD FLIGHT   Messerschmitt Factory Blasted

Huge Plant Blasted By  Liberators   Flight Of 2,600 Miles Made By Americans To Attack Aircraft Plant Of Germans

Messerschmitt Works at Wiener Neustadt Attacked After Record 2,600 Mile Flight.

Messerschmitt Plant Bombed By Liberators   Americans Carry Out Longest Raid Of  Present War   DAMAGE WAS HEAVY   350.000 Pounds Bombs Carried On 2,600 Mile Flight

i? Vital Nazi . vane Plant At — Wiener Neustadt   Vital Blow Struck At Germans In First Big Austrian Attack

ICE JAM TRAPS 8 ORE CARRIERS   Boats Bound For Docks At Escanaba Caught In Shifting Field

FURLOUGHS BRING CHEER TO HOMES   THOUSANDS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM VISIT RELATIVES ON HOLIDAY,

Men In Service Hold. Spotlight.  IwiM ww   Day ls Cheerless All-Over Etirane

Men In Service Hold Spotlight   Day Is Cheerless All Over Eurone

DRASTIC ACTION IS TAKEN TO END SMALLPOX SPREAD   FIFTY THOUSAND PERSONS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY : WEALTH DISTRICT TO BE VACCINATED

PROMOTION SEEN FOR VON PAPEN    ISTANBUL HEARS DIPLOMAT IS TO BECOME GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER. 3,

ASK DIVERSION   Lonely Coast Guardsmen Call for g Monkey and « Parrat

[FE DEEPER 10 BOTH ENDS TTLE LINES   inwhile, British Firs’ my Forced to Withraw Slightly Under rman Counter-Attacks   ST ENEMY BLOW UICKLY REPULSED   rled Back’ in One of odiest Battles of North ‘rican Campaign; Yankee Gains Important

AMERICANS MAKE NEW ADVANCES   British Positions Hit Hard By Desperate German Attacks

Counter Blows Force {st Army To Give Grounc   Second U. S. Army Corps Make Important Gains Toward Mateur; French Also Advance

NAZI: onOGK TROOPS Push BRITISH BACK   First Army Withdraws After Repulsing One Bloody Counterattack.   AMERICANS GAIN SOME _ GROUND WEST OF JEFNA

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SECOND ATTACK BY AXIS TROOPS IS SUCCESSFUL   Heavy “osses Are Inflicted During Counter-Atiacks

Germans Smash Back at Allies In North Africa   Counter-Attacks Compel British Yan to Withdraw

Yankees, French Continue Advance   First, Eighth Armies Engaged In Mighty Artillery Duel

CAMERAS WANTED BQ OHIO FIGHTERS   Governor Bricker Appeals for Loan for Them

Eighth Army Rolling Into Tunisia   Promising Imminent Attack on Nazi Rommel’s Remnants

BRITISH ATTACK ON ROMMEL ARMY SEEMS IMMINENT   Gen. Alexander Announces His Forces Are Moving Toward Mareth Line in Tonisia.   ALLIED MOTORIZED VEHICLES MASSED   American Airmen Bomb Truck Convoys, Shoot Up Machine-Gun Posts and Blast Airfield.

British 8th May Strike  Again Soon   Army Rolling Forward Again in Tunisia, Gen. Alexander Save   AMERICAN PLANES CONTINUE ATTACKS

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BRITISH READY FOR ASSAULTS UPON ROMMEL   EIGHTH ARMY ROLLS FORWARD INTO TUNISIA

EARLY ASSAULT ON ROMMEL EXPECTED   General Alexander Promises Attack on German Forces

EIGHTH ARMY GIVEN AID BY ALLIED PLANES   British Troops Are Following Steadily Upon Heels Of Afrika Korps.

Rommel Facing British Attack   ‘Eighth Army Set - For New Advance

British Ready New Blow For Rommel  Eighth Advances  Into Tunisia Oh TIaale unk Dag

PLANES CONTINUE HEAVY ASSAULTS   Alexander Believes Mareth Line Can Be Turned   Spearhead Raids on Kairouan Air Field; Italians Admit Attack Extensive

GEN CLARK'S UNITS CROSS VOLTURNO   General Advance of 2 to 3 Miles Scored in Drive for Rome

ALLIES PRESS FORWARD IN DRIVE ON ROME   Report advances of two  to three miles by 5th and 8th Armies

RELIEF CASESIN ' COUNTY ARE LESS   Douglas County's Share of Costs Has Been Cut 1714 Per Cent   THE STAFF IS REDUCED

RELIEF CASESIN COUNTY ARE LESS   Douglas County’s Share of Costs Has Been Cut 1714  Per Cent   Average 150 Cases

Gen. Giraud Offers Union Of French -   Pledges to Permit "Nation to Settle Own Destiny

He’s Servant Of People, Giraud Says   Embraces Principles - Of Atlantic Charter _ In Speech at Algiers  HITS AXIS DECREES

IS SERVANT GE FRENCH FOLK SAYS GIRAUD   Civil And Military Commander-In-Chief In North Africa Will Abide By People’s Will.   Repeal Vichy Laws

Giraud will govern according to rules  of French republic   ‘People regain control;’ DeGaulle gets offer; accepts allied charter

Giraud Embraces Atlantic Charter.  Promises Unity  Fighting French Cold To Proposal, Despite  DPledee af Reforms

Giraud Moves To Assist Allied Cause   French Chief Offers Collaboration With DeGaullists

PLEDGE GIVEN BY GEN. GIRAUL   Backs Atlantic Char. ter, Offers DeGaulle  Basis of Union

French Commander Reveals Acceptance Of Atlantic Charter. Makes DeGaulle Offe:

LONDON PLANS MASS FUNERAI   Services for 47 Children and Teachers, ‘Victims of Bombs, Next Wed.

Report Welles Has Resigned   Confirmation Awaits F. D. R.’s Return

Enigma of Sumner Welles’ Future Is in White House; Showdown Due Next Week

FDR Informs Eisenhower of  Plans for War   President and General Have Conference at City of Carthage

Fisenhower Given Offensive Plans   President Confers With U. S. General

Great Mystery In War Draws  Near Solution   President Roosevelt Relates Conference Details To General Eisenhower.   ‘BELIEVED IN ITALY

TAGANROG TAKEN BY RUSSIAN ARMY IN PINGER MOVE   Jaws Close on City After _ Mechanized Divisions and Cavalry Drive to Azov Sea Coast.   GARRISON’S REMNANTS BEING WIPED OUT   Four Hundred Miles to North. Other Soviet Troops Advance 6 to 13 Miles  Toward Bryansk.

Great Area Is Regained By Russians   Encircling Movement Apparently Crumbles Nazis’ Southern Ancho.  150 VILLAGES FREED

Nazis’ Southern Line Crumbles. In New Smash   Soviet Columns. Advance in North; Take 50 Villages

Soviets Doom — Caucasus Oil  Dream of Foe   Red Surprise Captures Taganrog, Carries  henna Shaner

Another Nazi Bastion Falls   Reds Take Taganrog, Smash . On And Free 150 Villages

Whole German Southern Front Crumples in Pincer Move; 50 Towns Fall iu Central Sector

REDS CAPTURE TAGANROG AS NAZI SURPRISE   With Aid Of Of Mechanized Divisions And Cossack Cavalry; 150 Settlements Freed; Also Threaten Stalino   Major Gain

Reds Seize Taganrog;  Reach Azov   Germans’ Hold On Stalino Is Threatened

Taganrog Falls Reds Push Into Rich Ukraine   Stalino Stronghold Threatened—Smash Leaves Entire Nazi Left Wing in Dange

DONETS BAS LINE CRACKED BY RED ARMY   RUSSIANS ADVANCE 28 MILES ALONG AZOV SEACOAST

Piacer Jaw Closes On — ~ Azov Sea Stronghold   About 5,000 Germans Killed In Successes Ranging Far Up Long Front; Gains Scored in Bryansk Field

Russian Pincer Traps Nazis in Taganrog Area   Cossacks Encircle Army, Kill 5,000

“AZ REMNANTS + BEING WIPED OUT   Reds Drive to Sea of Azov in Encirclement Move   150 POINTS TAKEN   Smash Leaves Nazi South DB Line Crumbling; Stalino Stronghold Menaced

SOVIETS DRIVE GERMANS OUT OF TAGANROG   Reds Take 150 Settle ments; 5,000 Nazis * Slain in Day

VERDICT NEARS ON BRIGKER PROPOSAI   House Taxetion Committee Expects to Reach Decision on Tax Exemptions Today.

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 6 JAP SHIPS   ONE OF VESSELS A DESTROY‘ER—FLIERS BLAST KAHILI IN SHORTLAND AREA,

One Destroyer Sent to Bottom During Operations Against Enemy in Pacific   SEVENTH SHIP IS ' DAMAGED IN ACTION   Force of Flying Fortresses Bomb Kahili in Shortland Area, Navy De partment Announces

Subs Sink 6 Jap Ships   One Destroyer Sent To Bottom By Undersea Craft

NAVY REPORTS UBOAT ACTION IN TWO AREAS   Claim One of Six Japanese Vessels Sunk Was a Destroyer

AMERICAN SUBS SINK JAP SHIPS   Destroyer and Five Other Vessels Bagged In South Pacific

American Subs Send Six Jap Ships to Bottom   Seventh Damaged; Destrover Included In Vessels Sunk

j U. S. » Subs Sink Six  eka, Ey Vv sHis, §  11 BO! iS, ays Na y   . uns Give Good Account of Selves In Recent Action in Pacific Area

Subs Get Cargo Vessels, Tanker And Dest froyer.   Seventh Damaged Recently ‘In Vast Pacific War. Zone:

Six Jap Ships Sunk By Subs In Pacific .   Yanks Crush New Raid in Mubo-Wau Area of New Guinea

American Subs in Pacific Sink Six More Ships  One Destroyer, Big Tanker, Cargo Vessels Included

Toll Of Vessels Successfully Attacked By Underseas Craft Mounts To 177

MUSSOLINI MISSED CHANCE WITH NAVY   Only 3 British Cruisers Kept Fleet Bottled

Eternal City May Soon Be  Battle Area   Removal of Fascist Government. to Point Near German Border Believed Significant   CANNON: FIRE SOUTH OF CITY   People Are Apprehensive; Most Shops Closed, Little oo Transportation

Move Duce’s Government To Bolzano   Romans Fear Eternal City  Open City Terms Being Met

Removal of Fascist ReputHcan Government te Bolanzo Leads Romans to Belief

Fear Rome May Be Battleground   Fascist Republican Govern. ment Removed From Rome to Bolzano.

FATALLY STRICKEN BY HEART ATTACK   George John Smith, 40, Centennial, Expires Before Medical Aid Could Reach Him

Solons assure  °A3 fair   Additional fund: granted by 23-14  reversal vote

Garber heads movement to ‘erect historical building   The legislature adjourned Friday at 12:02 p. m. to meet Monday at 10 a. m,

Reject move to sidetrack power issue   Little headway made on Omaha commission bill

Legislature starts real work, receiving 39 bills on 2nd day   Several read second time at afternoon unicameral session

Water bill falls after long debate   Platte diversion argument is over

State water board given solons’ 0.k.   Conservation bill passed by 26 to 12 vote

Solons to adjourn  on Friday   9 bills remain on docket for final sescion

Retirement, osteopathy bills are in   Conservation of water, gas tax split in others

Tax to cover school fund loss offered   Rakow asks levy  on hotel rooms

Solons use stalling  manetiver   State. court bill still unsettied

Total of 99 bills offered  legislature   One to permit women on juries

Solons pass pre-primary reform plan   Reversal vote ok’s Peterson change sans opposition

Bill to hike bureau head:  pay debated   Motion to kill measure loses by 19 to 17 vote

  ine senators report; four bills advance   Clerk reports 46 measures await action next week

Broach primary reform   Subject long deemed sacred in state house

U. 5. Employe InWashington Held As Spy   FBI Reveals Invisible Ink Letters Sending War Dats To Germany   FACES LONG TERM   Colombia Born Office Of Inter American Affairs Translator Is Arrested

ESPIONAGE   FRI Arrests Suspect tn Washington After Letter Writing

ASSERTS BIG ATTACKS NEAR   Marshall Tells Legion We Are Ready; FDR Urges Greater Effort

Allies Planning Huge Offensives Marshall Says   American Legion Convention Told War Hasn't Been Won Yet

Roosevelt and Gen. Marshal Tell Legion New Offensives Pending in Europe and Asia.

Great Offensives Are Just About to Begin in Europe, Gen. ‘Marshall Says  Ton mee cee   Increased Effort in Civilian Defense and Other Phases of the National Program Are Urged at Veterans’ Parley

Allies On Verge Of Great Drives   Marshall Speaks   Balan ‘Canvoentiar

70,000 Of Enemy Slain; Red Troops Closing Steadily On Orel Bastion

Russia Closing Trap On Orel   New Goins of 3 to 5 Miles Are Reported From South As Nazis Admit Breckthreugh, Stalin Hails Crushing of Foe Offensive

Drive Smashed, Germans Lose 70,000 Troops   Stalin Congratulates His Generals as Russian Tighten Vise Around Stronghold of- Orel

STALIN REPORTS "70,000 TROOPS ~~ SLAININ DRIVE   Summer Offensive Costly to Nazis—Russian Generals Are Praised

Russian Vise On Orel Is Tightened  Stalin Says 70,000 Nazis Lost So Far

Great Chrysler Bomber Plant Is Closed Today   Union Leader Says Top UAW Officials Forment Strikes For ‘Political’ Reasens

28,000 Strikers Threaten To Stop Tank Production   Detroit's Worst Wartime Labor Strife ‘Blamed on Selfish Union Leaders

FLOOD CONTROL WORK ALONG RIO GRANDE WILL BE RESTRICTED  MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WORK ONLY BE KEP1 UP FOR DURATION

But Valley Not To Be Affected ~ By New Order?   Hearings Today Rul Most Improvement:  To Halt For The  Duration

AMERICANHEAVY BOMBERS HIT GERMANY TODAY   Specific Targets Not Known But Important Cities Are in Northwest

HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST TARGETS IN REICH AGAIN   Raid Is Fourth of Month for Americans on Objectives in Germany

Fourth Big Raid Of Current Month For Americans   Thunder Through Enemy Fighter Craft And Flak  In New Daylight Drive

U. S. Airmen On The Wing   Follow Up Big Raid On Germany That Cost Nazis 138 Fighter Planes

YANK BOMBERS ROCK GERMANY   FOLLOW MOSQUITO RAIDS OVER NAZI-HELD EUROPE

American Heavy Bombers Batter  N. W. Germany   - Follow Up Mosquito Raid _ Last Night, Emden Plastered. ,

AMERICAN BOMBERS  WENT AFTER GERMAN  OBJECTIVES AGAIN BRITAIN’S MOSQUITO  BOMBERS IN THIRD NIGHT RAIN OW REICU

The Worst Bombed_ Region In World   Specific Targets in The Area Not Named At Once   RAIDS MADE THIRD SUCCESSIVE NIGHT

Yank Bombers In Heavy New Raid On Reich   Attack Follows K. O. Of 138 Nazi Planes Over Emden Saturday.

Daylight Raid On Northwest German Cities   ', S. Heavv Bombers in Strong Numbers Swing Across Reich

Meet Heavy Nazi Defense  Fire in Raid   Specific Targets Not Revealed; 138 Planes Downed Over Emden   Escorted by Fighters

NAZIS LOSE 138 FIGHTERS OVER EMDEN   Eighth Air Force And R.A.F. Keep Up One-Two Attack

Northwest Section Is Hammered   Second Daylight, Assaul  “In Three. Days Made By. Strong Forces: Of U. S, Bombers ‘

YANKEE FLIERS  FIGHT THROUGH FLAK TO GOALS   Undaunted by Concentra  tions of Enemy Fighter   Planes In Daylight Attack   RAF MOSQUITOS KEEP ‘UP NIGHT ASSAULTS   Tireless Fleet of Bombers  Penetrate Nazi Territory  For Third Successive   Nicht

U.S. BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST NAZI TARGETS   Strong Forces Sweep Today Into Nortawesi Germany, Where Emden Pounded Salurday   DOWNED 138 NAZIS   17 U.S. Bombers, 3 Fighters Losi— Mosquito Bombers Raid ‘Reich Third Successive Nigh!

Yankees Fight Through fo Reach Targets   American P-47 and 'P-38 Fighters Go  With Flying Forts ’ And Liberators

FORCE BOMBS REICH BY DAY   Roaring Through Concen trations of Fightey Planes and Flak, Airmen Hit Northwest Part of Nation.

Bombers Raid Northwestern  Part Of Reich   Important Cities Lie In This Territory; Targets Not thiesinead.   DAYLIGHT ASSAULT

STRONG FORCES OF AMERICAN BOMBERS IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Thundered Through Concentrations of Enemy Fighter Planes and Flak.   NORTHWEST GERMANY   Specific Targets Were No Immediately Named in the Announcement.

MEET HEAVY PLANE, A.A. OPPOSITION   Fourth Major Attack Of Month For Americans; Mosquito Bombers Hit Reich In Night

Big Boys Follow Mosquitoes’ Trail   Liberators and Fortresses Strike Reich After Knocking Down  338 Enemy Planes Saturday

U.S. Air Forces Renew Offensive On West Germany   Heavy Bombers Blast Defenses In Strong Raid

Strong Force Of U.S. Planes Over Germany  Heavy Bombers Plaster   Heavy Bombers Plaster Unnamed Parts Of Reich Today   Strike Northwest Part Where Many Large Cities Lie

New Daylight Raid Hits  Amsterdam   Protective Swarms of Long-Range Fighter Planes Accompany Fortresses And Liberators on Other Forays Today

Bombers Go: Back Into. -the Reich   Americans Making. Another. _ Heavy Raid. on-Northwest.. Germany’s Vital Centers          FOURTH BIG BLOW OF MONTH SO.FAR   Tireless. Mosquito. Fleet Also . Continues Forays in ‘As:.: eending Operations ~~.

USS. ‘Heavies’ In Daylight Raid on Reich   Smash Through Enemy Defenses To Lay Bombs in , Western Germany

Yankee Bombers Blast Germany  Large Force Engages ss Dauvliaht Rain

U.S. Bombers Over Germany   Big Formations Thunder Over in Daylight Assault

—AIR WAR—  1.5. BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN}   Heavy Formation Battles  Way Through Flak,  ,Enemy Fighters   DAYLIGHT RAID   Flying Fortress Attack On Emden Costs Nazis 138 Planes

Reich Raided Around Clock  Wamk Brnwelksaee ba   Yank Bombers Hit Germany After Third Night of 8.A.F. Raids

U.S. Heavies Again Blast Northwest  Reich Target   Concentrated Assault Delivered On Unnamed Area Despite Enemy Opposition

With Our  Soldiers and  Sailors               Leonard Hinze Now Has Rank of Second Lieutenant

With Our Soldiers and  \ Sailors 9\e @   Leonard Hinze Now Has Rank of Second Lieutenant

Americans Recapiure Positions Lost by French Near Maknassy, Threaten Mareth Line   COVER VITAL PASS   Brifish Eighth Army Keeps Con tacit with Rommel's Forces Flee ing Into Tunisia

AXIS SQUEEZED FROM TWO SIDES BY ALLIES IN TUNISIAN BATTLE   U. S. Troops Break German QOusseltia Defenses; British Near Tunisian Border   PLANES BOMB MESSINA

Yanks Crack Ousseltia Defenses   British Fight Way Steadily Against Romme!’s  Rear Guard

Squeeze Axis In Africa On Both Front:   British Eighth Army In Con. tact With Foe 70 Miles  From Tunisian Border.   NAZI FORCES JOINED

BRITISH AND AMERICANS PRESS ‘FROM TWO SIDES   Acquired Positions Being Consolidated For Com‘ang Drive

Americans Roll Back Nazis at Important: Pass Between Oussel+ tia and Kairouan   {Additlonal story of American offensive on Page 8}.

Squeeze Axis In Tunisia   Allied Drives Press Axis Forces: Into Ever Narrowing Coastal Strip

Offensives Of Allied Forces Hit Both Sides   U. S. Drive Cracking Through German Defenses: British Hammer Rommel’s Rear Guard

AMERICAN AND BRITISH ARMIES ARE GLOSING IN   J. S. Forces Cracking Through Nazi Defenses In Ousseltia Valley; British 8th  rmy Presses Toward [Tunisian Bor der.

Allies Draw Near Nazis on 2 Sides   British and American Forces Are Battling Germans  in Tunisia    ROLL AXIS ARMY BACK   Allied Fighters Keep Retreating Enemy Columns  Under Fire

U. S. Infantry Drives Enemy From Heights   Germans Being Squeezed by Yankee: And British

TRUCK GRUSHES BOX WITH BOY INSIDE   Driver Unaware — of Tragedy Until Scream Heard

EAGLES FRIDAY NIGHT Orchestra and danre—aAqd_   SCRUBBY’S PLACE TONICHT

City Valuations Are Increased "807 525 Here   Gain Chalked Up Despite Wartime Building Freeze  Be BW iT WIFFER

City Valuations Are Increased $807 525 Here   _ Gain Chalked Up _ Despite Wartime Building Freeze

DEWEY'S PROPOSAL SPLITS GOP GROUP   New York Governor Demands Alliance With Britain

DEWEY’ PROPOSAL POST-WAR ALLIANCE STIRS REPUBLICANS  - GOP NATIONAL COMMIT. TEE CHAIRMAN SCORES “ADMINISTRATION

DEWEY SPLITS 6. 0. P. POLICY IN URGING POSTWAR PACT   NEW YORK GOVERNOR WANTS BRITAIN AND U. S$. TO ENTER ALLIANCE ON ARMY PLANS

Post-War Union With Britain Is Asked by Dewey   Suggestion — Consternates GOP Advisory Council; Home Front Policy Promulgated.   Taft Flays Proposal; Asks For Cooperation

Anglo-British Pact Attacked   Proposal of Dewey for Alliance After War — Draws Quick Fire

Republicans Split. Over Dewey Plan  Post-War Military Alliance With Britair ft ip gk ee @0 la

MILITARY DEAL WITH ENGLAND, DEWEY’S IDEA   Republicans Talk Over  Suggestions for '44 Party Platform

TAFT JUMPS ON PROPOSAL - OF ALLIANCE   Spangler Calls For Forthright Foreign Policy Dectaration at Mackinac Meeting.   LEADERS TALK IT OVER   Suggestion of Military Accord With Britain Proves Big Ranihchaill

U.S-ANGLO ALLIANCE   Governor’s Proposal foi Post-War Tie With Great Britain Cleaves Ranks of Republican Advisory Council.

Axis Makes No Claim of Having Turned Back Any Part of Invasion, or of Italian Fleet Being in Action

3-Pronged Assault Is Covered By Air Force   450,000 Troops’ and 2,000 Planes Strike at the Gun-’. Studded Beaches   EVERYTHING GOING. ACCORDING TO PLAN   No Axis Claims of Drive Be-. ing Turned Back; Further Action Probable

American, British And Canadian Troops Strike Opening Invasion Blow

British, Canadians Are Also Members Of Landing Force   Attacks From Other Points Are . Believed Imminent

Believe Landing Made In Three Key Zones   Axis Reinforcements Rushed to Island To Meet Invaders; Hinted Other Moves May Be Made by Allies Also.

Fleet Units, Furious Air Assault Cover Invasion  of Island Off Italy’s Toe

Land on at Least Three Key Zones   There's Indication of Allied Success Fifteen Hours After Invasion Is Begun After 7 o’Clock Last Night  Chivr Time.   Axis Estimates 450,000 Troops And 2,000 Planes Go Into Action

TEMPERATURE   Kisenhower On Way to lit  Eurove Blow  Glider-Borne Troops Used  Against Island

Other Mediterranean Zone Invasion Thrusts Expected   K KK O¥ Beginning of End Says Roosevelt

Americans Push Into Fascists’ Positions   Pincer Movement Is Sweeping Forward

Open First Major Invasion Move —   U. S., British, Canadian Troops Land. in at Least Three Spots on GunStudded Sicily Shores Friday Night.

London Hints OtherLanding ~ Move Possible   ( ‘o-Ordinated Action on  Mediterranean Front Suggested

A4th Loan Quota s $2,521,000   For Medina County To Stress Sale Of E Bonds

COUNTY QUOTA IS $2591 000   Individual Subscriptions Sought Are Higher

Humboldt County Meeting Federated Women’s Clubs In. Renwick on: April 17th

USE. OF TROOPS SEEN IF STRIKERS FAIL TO COMPLY WITH ° ORDER TO END STRIRE IMMEDIATELY

War Labor Board Prepares Further  Coal Strike Move   \ Anthracite Miners Ordered ~ To Return To Work By W.1L. B. And Lewis   CONFERENCE ENDS AT WASHINGTON

Stevenson Told of Walton Quitting — But Not of Failure ‘To Hire Williamson

TANKS ARRIVE   500 German ‘Tigers’ Reinforer Nazi Troom In Italy.

ClO STEEL WORKERS CALLED FROM PLANT   Estimate 500 Shippers Leave Jobs in Wage Dispute

Pinch Felt In Laundries Just Starter   Squeeze Bound To Get Tighter On All Other Service Trades

U.S. Sailors Trapped in Ship’s Radio  Room Two and a Half Dats Are Rescued

Four Sailors While Away Two And A Half Days Of Darkness Talking Of Folks Back Home

MARINES BREAK-UP RIOTOUS CROWD OF  NEGROES, WHITES   Service Men {n Vallejo’s Barbary Coast.Take Part In Free for AN. :

OF RACE RIOTS   Marines With MachineGuns Quiet Fighters On Barbary Coast

MARINES STOP SOLDIER GROUP RIOT ON COAS]   Quell Fighting Without Firing Shot; 350 Men Involved

Marines Half Vallejo Riot   350 Service Men Battle in Streets; “Three Arrests Made

Marines Disperse Rioting Crowd Of Soldiers and Sailors on Coast :

71 BILLION ARMY OUTLAY PROPOSED   MEASURE SENT TO HOUSE PROVIDES FUNDS FOR ONE YEAR'S OPERATIONS.

BIG ARMY BILL IS APPROVED   Over 71 Billions Will Be Recommended For Maintaining U. S. Fighting Force

BILLIONS VOTED TO EQUIP ARMY   Largest Appropriations Bill In History Gets House Right-of-Way

QUICK ACTION ON BIG ARMY MEASURE DUE   Largest Appropriation Bill in History May Pass Today

QUICK ACTION ON BIG ARMY MEASURE DUE      Lergest Appropriation Bil in History May Pass ‘ Today —-

$71 Billion For Army Urged   House Committee Expected to Act On Bill Saturday

F. R. Praises U. S Troops At Teheran   Makes Two Addresses To Armed Forces In Area; Speedy Return Ta Homes Hic Hone

~ TALKS TO TROOPS   Two Addresses to Amer. icans at Amirabad Camp at Teheran   AFTER AN INSPECTION

U. S?Soldiers - in Iran. Hear '. Talk by F. D.R.   Servicemen Are. Praised By > President: Who Tells Army. . of. War Conference: *            “FIRST BIG: JOB   Hopes. for Bringing ‘About a Permanent Peace. ‘Also =“ Dietussed.

‘Wish I ‘Could Take You All Back’ President Tells Soldiers In Iran

PRESIDENT PRAISED SOLDIERS IN MIDDLE EAST IN TWO TALKS  MEN BASED AT TEHERAN TOLD AMERICA WAS PROUD OF THEM

Yanks Hear Speeches By FDR   President Tells Soldiers Of Meeting With Allied Chiefs

Roosevelt In Two Talks   Praises Work of Soldiers Based in Tran Now

PRESIDENT MAKES  TALKS TO TROOPS   Two Addresses to Amer icans at Amirabad Camp at Teheran   AFTER AN INSPECTION

o-Power Meet To Plan Final Nazi Defeat   Izvestia Sees Both War. Peace Accord

SOVIET NEWSPAPERS SEE COMING THREE POWER CONFERENCE AS ORGANIZING FINAL NAZIDEFEAT   Moscow Said to Be Confident That Accord Wilk Be Reached on Both Military: -and:Political Qués tions. Agreement of Wat Problems First Sted:

Confident Big Three - Can Agree   Russian Papers - Reflect Signs of Warm Atmosphere for Moscow Conference   MILITARY MATTERS TO COME -FIRST   Welles and Willkie. Urge Britain, Russia, China and U.S: Reach an Accord

To Organize Nazi Defeat   Med .Newspaper Says ‘Tri-Party Conference  Will Shorten the War

Soviets Say Parley To Play Major Part In Organizing Final Defeat Of Germany      Confident Accord Can Be Reached On Both Military, Political Issues

Rooseveltian Personality Thrilling to -  Canadians: President Is Very Popular 

TIME CHANGERS EXPECT VICTORY   Senate Vote Scheduled On Emergency Clause Approved By House

FARM PEOPLE CAN PREothVe PEAGE-O NEAL   Bureau President Hits Isola lationism In Convention Opening Speech

Farmers Can Protect Peace  am YNE AI   Head Of American Farm Bureau Federation Speaks At Annual Meeting.

bla FAR TOP PLAGE fa PEAGE FACTO   Farm Bureau Head Calls for Voice on Problems of All Nations.

Farm Leader Hits Isolation  Declares in Favor of World Agreement:

FARMER VIEWS URGED IN PLANS ON WORLD PEACE   Farm Bureau Head Asserts International Agreements Are Necessary

OAS FRAMERS AID IN PEAGE   Can Do More to Preserve Peace Than .Anyone Else. Farm Bureau Head Says

Badoglio Orders Italian Troops To Resist Nazi Interference   x K OK OK Reaction

Italian Nation's Capitulation Gives Allied Armies Biggest Victory in Four Years of War

Bombers Strangle Nazi Supply Lines   Rail And Highway Arteries Into Italy, And War Plants In France Are Blasted

Strangling Grip Closed by Brilliant Air Attacks  —_—   RIVERIA RAILWAY. BOMBED BY FLIERS   Airmen Renge From British and Mediterranean Bases

Allies Strike Aerial Blows at Germany’s Passages Into Italy   Allies. Fight Nazi  Invaders of Leros -

SUPPLY R OF GERMANS 10 ITALY SMASHED   Strangling Grip Put On Three Vital Funnels To Front By Allied  Air Force

PLANES CHOKE NAZIS’ SUPPLY LINES T0 ITALY   Allied Bosnbers Smash Rail Line, Viaduct Near Cannes

Ally Fliers Smast Three Vital  Nazi Supply Lines   Airmen Achieve Long-Range Mission to Hit Riviera Railway, Antheor Viaduct, Transport in France Despite Bad Weather

Supply Lines Into Italy Are Smashed   Allied Bombers Attack Rail, Highway Routes

Allies Strangle Supply Funnels   Bombers Blast Three Important Sectors

RAIL FUNNELS FEEDING NAZI ARMIES IN ITALY ATTACKED   Many Allied Heavy Bombers Range Thousands Of Miles To Blast German Milifary Centers

Big Bombers Wreck Three French Bases   American, RAF Aerial Attacks Last 48- Hours

Allies Strangle Nazi Supply Lines to Italy   Coastal Riviera Railway Is Smashed—Antheor Viaduct Attacked and Bolzano Also Bombed

Yankees Defeat Cardinals by Count of 4 to 2 in Ist Game of World Series

Brazie Meets Borowy in 3d of Series   Cardinals Pitch LefthanderWhileYanksCount on Righthander   HUGE CROWD SURE   Cooper’s Game 4 to 3 Victory Starts Rivals Off All Even Again   Batting Order

OPA Freezes  Jelly, Jam —  Preserves Spreads Will Be Rationed On October 31

Rationing To Start on October 31   Freeze on Fruit Spreads Begins Today, on Orders, er  of OPA ot

Reds Open Drive At Voronezh As Others Speed On   Nazi Broadcast Admits New Offensive On Long Line Between Moscow And Black Sea; Southern Breach Conceded

Germans Admit Fifth Red Front Ik Now In Operation   Dozen More Towns Retaken By Russians: New Offensive Said In Varanachk Aca.

Army In Caucasus  Continue Advance On 120-Mile Front   Russian Midnight Communique Does Not Confirm Report of New Offensive

COAL MINERS OVER EASTERN OHIO ARE REFUSING TO WORK   Indications Are That 25, 000 Will Fall Out by Nightfall, It Fs Believed.

Roosévelt, Eden Reach Important Stage of Talks   New Developments Lead to Reports

Eden, Roosevelt Confer on War   Expect to Reach Policy Agreement

Considers New Plan For Youth   Explores Scheme for Every Young Person to Give a  Year to Government

Nazis Evacuate Calabria Area In South Italy   Enemy’s Sicilian Loss Estimated Eight Times Allies’

Nazis Evacuate Southern Area   Flee Reggio Di Calabria After Demolishing Bridges, Roads

EES RATIONINE ‘AFTER THE WAR   U. §. Net to Be International ‘Santa Claus,’ Says Apoleby.

Food Parley Not Designed to Give U.S. Chance to Play Santa; Appleby

11 Cole Countians  Accepted Into U. S.  Armed Services 16 Enter U. S. Army,  4 Into Navy and One Into Marines

IT Jefferson City Men Inducted Into The Armed Service  Fourteen’ to Navy, 12 - To-Army and One Int * The:-Marine Corps

RETURNS FROM RUSSIA   New York Publisher Is Encouraged Over Conditions

CIVILIANS TO FEEL WAR EVEN MORE   WPB Comm. Sees’ Further Drastic Measures Necessary

RECOMMEND SIX WAYS TO SOFTEN ‘CUT’ IN GOODS      Cut Is Estimated At 15 To 20 Percent In Goods. Services

REDUCED GOODS 10 CAUSE DISCOMFORT   WLB_ Proposes Six - Point Program As An Assistance to Public In War.

ALLIED PLANES SINK NINE JAP INVASION SHIPS   Fleet Concentration At Ra baul In New Britain Attacked In Two Waves   AUSTRALIAN FEARS EASED   MacArthur Troops Prepare For Final Action At Senananda Point

Rabaul Invasion Fleet Blasted: 10 Ships Sunk   MacArthur Bombers' Most Successful Raid Occurs As Australia Becomes Fearful Of Enemy Offensive

ALLIES SINK MORE THAN 50,000 TONS OF ENEMY SHIPPING      OF. Jap Fleet At Rabaul

MacArthur’s Fliers Smash  Nip Vessels   Over 50,000 Tons Of Tokyo Shipping Sent To The Bottom

ALLIES SINK 10 JAP SHIPS IN AIR RAID   Japanese Invasion Fleet - Blasted In Two Air Assaults

DESTROYER BELIEVED SENT DOWN BY PLANES   Attack By Allied Bombers Made In Two Waves  SIX NIP PLANES DOWNED  Enemy Positions All Along Coast Are Blasted

JAP FLEET IN NEW BRITAIN IS CRIPPLEL   Invasion Threat to Australia Ended When Allies Blast Ten Ships.

SHATTER NEW — INVASION PLAN   Last Enemy Base in Buna  Area Also Attacked  )

Shattering Blow Dealt New Enemy Invasion Fleet; Fears Of Australia Allayed By Timely Raid

GUILTY PLEA ~ BY ‘COUNTESS’   ONE OF KEY FIGURES IN GER MAN SPY RING AT DETROIT. HAS ADMITTED GUILT -

14 SENTENCED FOR SEDITION   Bell, Wealthy Leader of Mankind United, 13 Aides Draw Terms, Fines Alternative for Women

Mines Must Be  -hept Operating Atter Two Week   White House Serves Notice That Coal Mines Of Nation Must Be Kept Open   PRESIDENT HAS NO TRUCE REPORT

MINERS T0 GO BACK 10 JOBS ON TUESDAY   To Work for Govern. ment on Promise of Substantial Raises   BY JACK VINCENT  © «& #taff « aroeenandent

LABOR CRISIS ‘SIFTS DOWN TO 15 DAY TRUCE   President Sounds Warning Fuel Production Will Not Be Halted   UMW BOWS TO NEW BOSS   Strikers Begin Streaming Back To Shafts Under Stars And Stripes

Yank Paratroops Land On Choiseul  Island In Drive   Japs Are Taken By Surprise In New Attack

-Another Jap (sland Taken   Paratroops Land On Choiseul Isle Base

FOOD STAMP PLANS TO BE ABANDONED   More Jobs and Shortage 0 Food the Reason

WILL END FOOD STAMP SYSTEM   Plan Adopted In Every State But W. Va. Out On March 1

FOOD STAMP PROGRAM IS SUSPENDED   Inaugurated i in 1939 te Increase Surplus Food Use

Block-Busters _ Rain on Italy   Large Force of Bombers Making New Sweep

RAID INDICATED ON ITALIAN TERRITORY      RAF Bombers Follow Ur Attack on Base of Spezia

RAF Out Again In Great Force.   New Raid Follows Blasting Of ftaly _

RAF Returns To Raid Italy   Bombers Wing Across Strait; London Has First Alert in Month 

BRITISH BOMBERS RAID CONTINEN   FORCE LARGEST TO CROSS CHANNEL IN WEEKS—NAZI RAIDERS OVER LONDON.

Blockbusters Bomb Continent On Large Scale   ‘ollow Up Attacks on Ital. ian Ports with Gigantic Raid   Jse One of the Larges! Fleets of Planes in Recent Weeks

New Flight Follows Big Blow at Base   Radios Go Off Air in Many Portions of Nazi Continent

Mulheim Roughly Treated   Hundreds of Big Bombers Blast Industrial Center —  Raid Near Naples

Allied Bomers Smash At Italian Transport Town  [000 Tons Of Bombs   [000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Mulheim: Salerno Bombed

Stream Up Eastern Coast of Tunisia   Report Capture of 6999 Nazi  Prisoners

Triumphant British Eighth Ar my Streams Up Tunisia Coast In Pursuit of Fleeing Rommel Forces— Axis May Attempt Stand at Sfax, 60 Miles North of Latest Defeat

FLANK OF AXIS REPULSES TWO YANK ATTACKS   Eighth Army Cracks Wide Hole in Defense Line With Artillery

SEIZE 6,000 AS AXIS DEFENSE CRUMBLES   Montgomery's Men Continue Advance Up Tunisian Kast Coast

CHILEANS APPROVE  BREAK WITH AXIS   Senate Said to Have Voted 30 to 10 to Sever Relations After Hearing Foreign Minister.

Holland Invasion Expected in May   Dutch Believe Date May Be Hoax

Allies Capture New Section In Drive For Rome  sky LESS =. REN ES WUbeGke   Beat Off Fierce CounterAttacks To Take Important Towns

ROOSEVELT FOR CANADIAN OIL PROJECT IN WAR:   Says He W Would Have Approved Anything At Time Of Alaskan and Aleu- tian Threat: -

' Capitulation Delay Blamed   People Told by Radio Thot Blood of Every Additional Person Killed Will Be on Head of New Government Leaders

“Italy May Be Out of War by Tomorrow,” Says a Lon don Newspaper, But Rome Is Still Silent on Eisen hower's Offer of Honorable Peace.      Rioters in Milan, Birthplace of Fascism, Fire on German Troops

GERMAN CIVILIANS LIVING IN ITALY ARE ADVISED TO LEAVE   BELIEVED NEW ALLIED INVASION BLOW NEAR; STAND-BY ORDER

Patriotic Guerrilla Armies on the March in Balkans; New Dissension in Nazi France — Tighten Sicily Squeeze —Huns Break Before Red Force—Gains in Munda Area

Some Expect New Allied Invasion —   “Italy May Be Out of War Tomorrow” London Paper Says —- Yugoslav Patriots Break Through Malian Lines in Udine Region, Report— German Civilians Ordered Out of ltaly

CHURCHILL TELLS CABINET _ TOSTAND BY   German Civilians Advised by Ber. lin to Leave Italy — Weekend Emergency Indicated   SLAVS ON MARCH   Italian Rioters Reported to Havs Fired on Both German and Ilal jan Troops

German Civilians Living In Italy Are Officially Asked To Leave Country

New Government Has Temporized, Helping Germans to Get Set   WARNING IS BROADCAST   Week Closes With: Many Reports of Riots and Uprisings

ITALIAN TROOPS BEING DISARMED BY NAZIS, CLAIM   Scattered Fighting Breaks Out Throughout Balkans When Axis Totters   REVOLTS SWEEPING ITALY   Meanwhile, Yanks Tighten Squeeze on Trapped Axis Forces on Sicily

Badoglio Is Silent Too Long      ‘Breathing Space’? Ended, Aerial Offensive to Be Resumed at-Once      GERMANS CAN BE CAUGHT LIKE RATS   London Expects Big: Events Over Weekend, New Invasion or Italian Capitulation

TERN WARNING 5 GWEN ITALY   ‘Breathing Space’ Ends, Allied Command Tells People of Nation.   ‘MOVE AHEAD JN SICILY

PUT BLAME ON BADOGLIO FOR NEW ASSAULTS   Declare Germans Should Have Been Retired From Itahan Soil

Tension Mounts in London, Some Hint New Allied Invasion   Guerrilla’s Active in Balkans; Mussolini’s Son-in-Law Resigns Vatican Position, Rome Radio States

NEW  INVASION BLOW PENDS?   London Tense With Excitement; Churchill Hints at  ‘Emergency.’   NAZIS DISARM {TALIANS

Patriots Rise 4! To Revolt in 1) Other Countries.   Possible Mainland Invasion Seen as Receiving Its Cue

Italians Are ‘Warned They ‘Must Decide   Allies Make Good Gains In Sicily and Take 3 Nearby Islands

German Consuls Advise Nationals To Leave: Revolt in Europe Grows

Failure To Act On Peace Offer To Bring Raids   British Cabinet Stands by Awaiting New Developments

New Air  of Tension Prevails   Blow at Italy or Peace Move Seen  As Possibilities

STANDBY ORDER GIVEN TO WAIT DENOUEMENT   Electric Tension Surcharges  The Air As Allies Wait   GUERRILLAS FIGHTING   German Troops Disarm Italians In Greece, Withdraw Forces

‘Rioting Increases—Badoglic Urges Peace Seekers To” Have Patience © .

Churchill Orders Indicate Expectation  Of Weekend Crisis   New Allied Invasion Believed Near; Report Slovene Patriots Break Through Italian Lines At Udine

Big News Over Weekend Looms   ..«- New Allied Invasion Blow Is Foreseen

Germans Advised To  Leave Italy   Churchill Orders Cabinet Members to to Stand By for Possible Week-End Emergency; Patriot Guerrilla Armies  -on March in Balkans

NEW ALLIED INVASION BLOW HINTED   German Civilians Ordered To Return Home; Churchil Tells Cabinet To Be Ready For Action

Revolt Fever Spreads Thru Balkans; Nazis Disarm Italians in Greece   BADOGLIO ASKS TIME   Allies Tighten Squeeze On Germans In Sicily’s  “Coffin Corner”   BULLETIN

Breathing Space Is at An End    All German Civilians Officially Advised. to Leave Italy as Riots and Disorder Spreads; : London Expects Peace Hourly .

New Rain Of Bombs Coming,  Italy Warned   Immediate Resumption Of Heavy Attacks Is Ordered; Blame Put On Badoglio

CANO, SON-IN-LAW OF MUSSOLINI, QUT AS VATICAN ENVOY   “Italy May Be Through by Tomorrow,” London Pae per Says; Allies Broadcaat Stern Warning.

Warn Citizens  To Keep Away From Railroads And Factories   Terrible Air Offensive’ To Be Resumed  Immediately

4 reer ae Has Teming Gerge porter t Set   WARNING IS BROADCAST   Week Closes With Many Reports of Riots and. e Uprisings  cx

Allies To Resume ‘Terrible Aerial Offensive’ On Italy   Responsibility Placed On Badoglio For Tamporizine. Civine Nazic Time To Prepare

London Activity Hints Sudden Italian Capitulation Or New Allied In vasion Rlow.

GERMANS FAGt OUVET THntAl UF NEW TRAPS   Smashing Russian Advance Threatens To Trap Foe In Caucasus, Crimea

Report Nazis In Disorderly Race  Russians Smash Ahead  . * — He. f‘ensracese { ‘mammee

Reds Threaten to Trap German Forces   Russians Scoop Up 200 Villages. in Smashing Gains

Smashing Gains Threatening To Trap Axis Army   Soviets Race Toward Dnieper River

Reds Threaten To Trap Thousands Of German Troops   Berlin Announces Sea-Borne Attack Against Novorssisk: 200 Towns Taken By Soviets

RUSSIAN TROOPS SCORE SMASHING GAINS IN SOUTH   Advance Threatens to Trap Huge Enemy Forces, Jncluding Those in Crimea and Caucasus,   TAKE 200 VILLAGES IN RACE FOR DNIEPER   Germans Reported Fleeing in Disorder—Reds Also Plunge Forward in Wkraine.

‘Reds Capture 200 Villages And Kill Off 4,000 of Nazi Troops; Thousands Trying to Elude Trap

‘Germans Flee ‘In Disorder   Reds Kill 4,000, Free 200  Towns In Smashing Gains

Germans Face Huge Losses In Red Trap   Hundreds Of Thousands Of Troops In South Russia Are Periled 8y Gains   FLEE ‘IN DISORDER'   Soviet Forces Advance In Drives For Paviograd, Bryansk, Nezhin

[Nazis Flee In Disorder.  Reds Claim   Italian Collapse Is Reflected on Russian Front

Red Troops Wipe Out 4 000 Nazis   Russian Gains Threaten To Trap Thousands Of Axis Troops

REDS NAZIS OUT OF DONETS BASII   \ew Move Threatens lo Trap Hundreds of  Thousands Germans

REDS OVERRUN 200 TOWNS IN PURSUING FOE   Cut Down 4,000 Germans in Smashing Gains That Threaten To Trap Thousands   PLUNGE 7% MILES TOWARD PAVLOGRAD   “Hitlerites Retreating in Disorder” From Donets Basin, Moscow Reports

Germans Are Rated Highly   Little Chance Seen For Concerted Stand

Russians Take  200 Villages   Germans Announce SeaBorne Russian Attack On Novorossisk.

Germans Retreat In Full Disorder In South Russia   Red Army Overruns Nearly 200 Villages

Reds Threaten To Trap Huge German Forces   Italian Surrender Apparently Benefits Russian Armies

Germans Flee In Disorder Before Reds   Russians Take Big Toll Of Men, Equipment; Vital Area Is Theirs

+8 “Alife TyserIn Mei Less The ‘Seore: fhan Number Of Jap  Ships Destroyed

‘DIRECT HIT ON THAT ONE’ AND 'LET’S SHOOT THE - -’ IS HEARD FROM PLANE RADIOS

Stevenson Mentioned As Demo Leader In 1944 When Farley Visits Legislators

JAPANESE BASES ON NEW GUINEA BLASTED   Report.-Heavy Air Action In ' —. Munda Section

NEW ORDER WILL HURT WINERIES   WEA Restrict Use Of Fruits, Berries For Al. eohol Products

NO HARD FEELINGS!      De Gaulle Sends Best Wishes To American Commander

DEGAULLE STRESSES UNION OF ALLIES   Message to Eisenhower to iDispell Differences over Trip Cancellation

DE GAULLE VOWS SUPPORT   FRENCH CHIEF SENDS PLEDGE TO EISENHOWER

GERMAN WAR DEAD PUT AT 4,000,000   British Minister Says Vast Supplies Hitler Piled Up Have Becn Largely Expended,

COMMITTEE ON FOOD PLANNED FOR OHIO   eee  Purpose Is To Prevent Inadequacies of Supply

WILL SET UP STATE FOOD COMMITTEE   New Group To Attempt Tc Prevent Inadequacies

Air Attack On English Town   High Flying Enemy Planes Drop Bombs On South East Coast Town  (BULLETIN)

KHARKOV'S FATE MAY BE DECIDED IN HUGE BATTLE   Russian, German Armies Locked In Titanic Struggle Near Kharkov

‘Introduce Bill To Make ‘American Youths Take ‘Year Of Army Training

Military Training Bills Introduced   Peace-time Drill May Be Compulsory

Casualty Toll Reveals Japs’ Suicidal Fight  Only Four Captive: ‘Taken On Attu As:  500 Die.

AMERICANS SILL 1500 AYTU SAPS   Only Four Prisoners Are Taken In First 20 Days Of Island Battle

JAPANESE LOSE 1,900 AT ATTU   Only 4 Prisoners Taken In 20 Days Battle; Mopping Up Is Continuing

Americans Capture Only Four Prisoners In Taking Attu; Japs’ Resistance Hard

EDEN MAY FILL CHURCHILL JOB   Interim Premier Possible During Prime Minister’s IIIness

EDEN MAY ACT AS PREMIER = UNTIL CHURCHILL RECOVERY   FOREIGN SECRETARY IN LINE FOR TOP POST IN ABSENCE OF BRITISH LEADER

BOMBERS DAMAGE FIVE JAP VESSELS   Rebaul-Harkor. Ships Suffer ~ On bald By Flying Fortresses ,

Hive Enemy Ships Blasted   Harbor at Rabaul Is Raided; Japs Bomb Milne Bay

U.S. Flying Fortresses All Return-from Raid, Enemy Raids Milne Bav

. §. Bombers Strike ive Japanese Vessels  Rabaul Harbor Raid   Tokyo Flyers Strike Three Times at American Field on Guadalcanal, Send Strong Aerial Force Against Allies in Milne Bay Region

Five Japanese Ships Hit In Raid'’byFlying Forts:   Battle of South Pacific. Stepped’ Upt in: ae by -Allies ond Their Foes: . :

Big Bombers Again Smash Rahaul   Ground Troops Kill 122 More Nips  in Sanancndes Rea

FIVE JAP SHIPS SUNK OR BADLY HIT AT RABAUL   Allied Bombers Battle Througl Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire to Blas at Harbor

Majority of Officers To Be Provided In Navy's V-12 Program   Four Main Colleges Designated As Places For Civilian Men

Germans Lose Heavily as Withering Fire Repels Them; Foe Says AirSea Attack at Rome Imminent.   By EDWARD KENNEDY

Fifth Army Captures Strategic Towns to Harass German Efforts To Place Forces In New Defensive Mountain Detenses

Counter - Attacking Germans Run Into Withering Fire That Leaves Field Strewn With Dead,   A THRUST AT ROME REPORTED IMMINENT   Berlin Dispatches Say Allies Are Massing for Attack on City From Air and Sea.

Clark's Forces Now in Position For New Advance   Furious German Attack Smashed

Strategic Italian Towns Taken by Ciork’s Forces «   WAY IS PAVED TO __ CONTINUE THRUSTS   German Reports Say Al lied Attack Against Rome Imminent

‘Beat Off German Counter Attack: Bolster Positions   Berlin Reports Allied Thrust Against Rome Expected by Air, Sea

WHICH PLACES AMERICANS IN POSITION TO CONTINUE THRUST ALONG BOTH BANKS OF VOLTURNO.

Nazis’ New Defense Line Threatened   Berlin Reports Rome May Be Hit From Sea And Air

ADVANTAGEOUS HILL POSITION   Gains Will Enable Army To Continue Thrusts Along Both Banks Of Volturno

Germans Expect Allies To Open Two-Way Attack   Thrust Against Rome B Air, Sea Reported Through Spain

Allied Planes Nip  Raid on Yugoslavs  17 Enemy Aireralt Fall Dien tieene ad oe Rasen:

Allied Air Support Given Yugoslav Ground Troops Along Dalmatian Coast

Yanks Beat Of! Nazi Attacks At Two Points   Capture 2 Strategic Towns to Harass Enemy Effort to Set Up New Defense Line

Enemy Tries ToDigin For Defense   Clark’s Fifth Army Captures Towns Of Strategic Value

Clark's Force Captures 2  Inland Towns  Nazis Strike Back Twice but Are Bloodily Repulsed

INLAND TOWNS ARE CAPTURED BY 5TH ARMY   GERMANS BELIEVE ATTACK ON ROME IS IMMINENT

Big Bond Rally Today At State; Public Is Invited  Stores To Open At 9:45   Stores To Open At 9:45 To Permit Employes To Attend

VISITS ALLIED FORCES POISED FOR INVASION   Second Time to Leave Home Since Outbreak of War in 1939

BRITISH MONARCH REVIEWS ARMIES AND “CONFERS ~  _... HONORS. ON. GENERAL  “  .. SISENEOWER ;

KING VISITING AFRICAN TROOPS   Invests Gen. Eisenhower With Special Honor During Trip

British Monarch ‘As Making Visit To Allied Forces   Buckingham Palace Reveals News Of Unprecedented Trip Of King   GEN. EISENHOWER RECEIVES HONOR

LEGISLATURE IS COMMENDED BY GOVERNOR KERR   Lawmakers Adjourn Early Today Following Shortest Session Since 1927

Widow GIVES © _ HER TENTH SON   Jimmy McCabe, 17, of  .- Lilly, Joins oP, with Navy :

Here Comes Tillie the T.N.T. Girl to   Join Riveter Rosy, Steelmaker Susie

ALLIED PLANES 'RULE SKIES IN GUINEA AREA   22 Jap Planes Destroyed In Raid On Lae

ALLIED AIRMEN DO DAMAGE 10 22 JAP PLANES   American And Aussi Ground Forces  Mop Up Remnants Of Opposition.

New Attacks On ~— Kiska Island   Fresh U. 8. Bombing Forays Are Made In Aleutians Navy Reports

New Blows On Munda, Kiska Are Reported   Navy Tells Attack B Liberator Bombers O1 Aleutian Base   LEAD OFFENSIVE   Submarines, Warships Range Pacific In Search Of Enemy Yessels

ENEMY HELD HIGH AREAS ARE SEED      San sro Brid geh ead Being Enlarged  By British.

Kighth Army Launches Heavy Attack To Advance   Assault Launched During Night From Bridgehead Along Sangro River

Ickes Smiles On Idea  For Mineral Director Expresses Fear War Bad  For Small Business

AID FOR SMALL MINES FAVORED   Ickes Fears Effect of War On the Little Businessman

MINERAL CHIEF IS SUGGESTED   Ickes Asks Full Use Of Small Mines, Plants To Save Future

Ickes Asks Reseue Of Small Business   Full Use of Mines Urged: Backs Idea of Mineral Resources Director

Ickes Urges Full Use of Small Mines  indorses Proposal Of Director of  "Ae  odypet—s—iS

MILITARY AREAS ARE BLASTED IN DAYLIGHT SWEEP   BERLIN, MILAN AND TURIN ALSO RAIDED IN WIDENING BLITZ

500 Bombers, 200 Fighters Attack Rome   1,000 Tons Bombs On Rail Yards of Italian Capital

Nazi Say General Offense Is Begun   British And American Troops Are Within Two To Three Miles Of Vital Nazi Roads

Rain Fails To Halt U. S. Attack South Of Rome   Naval Units Bombard Enemy land Positions

Allied Troops Attack Both Ends of German Line as They Open Battle for Rome

Nazis Admit Desperate ~ Phight of Their Forces at Stalingrad   IN NARROWING CIRCLE   Speed of German Retirement From the Caucasus Accelerated

Russians Penetrate Western Fortifications And Dugouts Of Remnants Of 22 Axis Divisions Before Stalingrad—Ring Being Drawn Tighter Around Germans In Northern Caucasus—Another  Encirclement  ' Operation Develops On Voronezh Front

Russians Reach Voroshiloysk  Defenders Unleash Blows at Rostov Arc

Russians Draw Noose Tighter About German:   Red Army Recaptures Voroshilovsk and Open Way for Attack on Area South of Rostov

GOVIETS SMASH THROUGH FROM VEST, NAZISSAY   Meanwhile London Learns Russians Are Advancing In Southwest Against German Reserves   ¥OROSHILOVSK IS “TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Lays Open Strategic Oil Rich Region South of Rostov to Fast-Moving Soviet Legions

Germans Admit Break- Through At Stalingrad   Enemy Loses Thousands Of Men In Desperate Fighting

GERMANS ADMIT LINES SLASHED AT STALINGRAD   Desperate Plight-of Encircled Forces Cited; Soviets Roll On

Tighten Ring at Stalingrad   Nazis Admit Plight; Russians Push Ahead Against Long Line.

HIT NAZI  REMNANTS FROM WEST   Germans Admit Red Attacks Along’. Sonthern Sectar _

Reds Tighten Ring Around Trapped Foe   Nazis Admit Men Encircled, Forced Back .

Reds Tighten Encirclement Of Stalingrad   Offensive Carries Russian Army. Into Northern Gaucasus

22 Trapped Divisions Facing Death   German High Command Admits Fate; Russians Gain on Wide Front

ATTACK FROM WEST BREAIS GERMAN LINE   Claim Soviet Attacks On Other Fronts Are Repulsed   REDS TIGHTEN RING   Moscow Reports Success Against Remnants Of 22 Divisions

ENGIRGLEMENT OF 22 AXIS DIVISIONS BEING TIGHTENED   Smalier and Smaller Grew the Ring About the German Troops.   RUSSIANS ADVANCING   Last Authoritative Estimate of Number Penned Up Was Given at 50,000.

Berlin Admits Encirclement Of Big Force   All-Consuming Russian  Offensive Striking at  Germans From Every Side By EDDY GILMORE

Russ Make  New Break In German Line. LondonHears   Crash Through Nazi Remnants Holding Out Near Stalingrad;  Foe Reserves Helpless

RED ARMY TROOPS BLAST WAY THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSES  “REMNANTS: OF:-GREAT STALINGRAD SIEGE ARM!

Reds Widen Gains   About 50,000 Nazis Trapped Refore Stalingred-—New  Rate awe. Tliehké aeince

22 AXIS UNITS FACE GAPTURE IN WINTER DRIVE   Latest Soviet Offensive Has Carried Red Forces into Voroshilovsk

BLAST FORTS OF TRAPPED NAZI TROOPS   Russians Tighten Encirclement of 22 Divisions Before Stalingrad.   Hammer Blows Fall On Nazis at Rostov

RUSSIANS POCKET FOE AT VORONEZH   Soviet Armies Strike New, Heavy Blows Along Huge Are

Axis Wipes. Out Breach in Mareth Line   US Troops inflict Reverse on Nazis in El Guetar Sector; Russians Storm Within 40 Miles of Smolensk

British breach in Mareth line erased   Tank-led Americans inflict decided reverse on Germans

British Holding On Upper End   Prime Minister Churchill Reveals Change as Military Dispatches Report ‘“‘Confusion”’; Yanks Repulse Heavy German Attack

U.S. Troops Knock Qut30 Enemy Tanks   Algiers Radio Says British Nearina Gabes

BRITISH GAIN NEARLY WIPED OUT, REPORT   Report New Five-Mile Gain by Americans In Central Area   Serious Losses

BRITISH DRIVE IS STOPPED AND SOME GAIN LOST   American Forces Surge On Toward Coast and Narrow ~ Rommel’s Escape Path   GAP IN MARETH LINE HELD   Red Armies Lunge Ahead Toward Smolensk and Stop Nazis Near Kharkov

MARETH VILLAGE ZONE STILL HELD BY BRITISH ARMY   American Troops Rout Ger_ mans in North and Push * on Toward Sea from Mak-

8th Army Hole In Mareth Line Plugged Again   Americans Inflict Decisive Defeat on Nazis and Push Ahead

Yankees Inflict Decided Reverse on Axis Force in Northern Sector

Axis Wipe Out Breach Forced In Mareth Line   Situation Is “Very Confused” in Fighting Along “Little Maginot.”’   Americans Within An Hour’s Drive of Sea

Yankee Troops Lunge Forward   ...- Americans Inflict Big Losses On Tunisian Foe

BRITISH LOSE MOST OF GAINS THRU MARETH LINE: AMERICANS HOLDING FIRM ON CENTRAL FRONT   Tank Led American Troops Reported to Have Inflicted Heavy Reverses on Axis in E] Guetar Sector and Pushed Ahead Five More Miles

TROOPS CLEARED FROM AXIS LINE IN NEW SMASHES   Situation Said To Be Confused  In N. Tunisia

Yanks Advance Five Miles In  Northern Area      British Eighth Army Hold Mareth Willage District Despite Attack,   IST TU ATION CONFUSED

German Force Loses Heavily to 8th Army.   Yanks Advance 5 5 Miles After Punishing Germans at €I Guetar: Reds Advance

British Lose Most Of Breach From Counter-Atlack   Americans Beat Off Nazi Thrust And Push Forward

‘Patton’s Army Defeats Axis And Advances   German Counter-attack ACEI Guetar Wilts Under U, S. Guns

BRITISH CONTINUE TO HOLD ONTO UPPER END FORTIFICATIONS   DISPATCHES INDICATE THAT SITUATION SOUTHERN TUNISIA CONFUSED

Nazis Regain Hold on Line. Near Mareth   British Retain Village as Tank-Led Americans Inflict Sharp Reverse On Rommel Near E! Guetar and Push Five Miles Nearer Sea.

8th Army Holds  Position Upper End Mareth Line   Breach is Wined Out, Yanks Set Back Nazis

British Still Cling To Mareth Village Area; Yanks Beat Off Enemy  y AT.zate p.iiL Kr.

Russians Beat Back Germans At Donets Crossing and In Zhizdra Area; Smash Ahead In Smolensk Drive

ROMMEL FALL TO DloLODGE FOE FROM -LINE   Americans In North Inflict Heavy Losses On Germans Attempting To Attack

Breach By 8th Army Closed Aca; : In Violent Assaults   Americans Destroy Enemy Tanks In Big Battle East Of El Guetar; Reds 40 Miles From Smolensk

Eighteen Functions of Government Restored to Civil Authorities in Hawaii by Military Officials

HAWAII EASES MILITARY RULE   Functions Gradually Being Restored to Civil Officials

British Admit Europe’ s War Holds Top Place  “Home Secretary Says Feeling Is Natural;  RB: .. . we

Premier Mussolini Urged ‘To Accept Allied Terms ‘Unconditional Surrender

Quota Already Exceeded By $57,000. Cooperation Throughout County Has Been Very flan '

FURTHER CUT ORDERED IN MAKING ICE CREAM   Each Manufacturer Limited In January To 50 Per Cent Of Amount Made In October

Draft Boards to Have 5 Members   Polk County Groups Don't Like Change

ARGENTINA DELAYS BAN ON CODE NOTES      Will Allow Governments to Work Out ‘Details Pertaining to Situation”

Sfoppage Of Code Messages Delayed   Argentina To Conclude Pact With U. S.

Civilians Will Get Poorer Gas  And Less Of It   O. W. I. Cites Increased Military Needs For 1944 And 1945.

Less And Poorer Gasoline : Likely For Civilians As War Needs Grov

Civilian Drivers Are Told To Expect Poorer Gasoline and Less Of tr

POORER GAS. CAND LESS OF   OWI Bids Civilian Driv. ers to Expect New Rations .=

Civilians Warned That Shortage Will Increase Because of War Needs

OWI Tells Drivers Future Gas Supply  Poorer, Smaller   Domestic Shortage Will Intensify For The Duration, Says Report; Big Share To Be Shipped Abroad

Less And Poorer Gasoline Due For Civilians Soon!   Most Of 1944 Fuel To Go Abroad

LESS GAS SEEN FOR MOTORISTS      OW! Also Warns That Fuel _Will Be Of Poorer Quality

Germans Thrown Back To Rome, 120 Miles North   Naples, City Of 925,000, Ravaged And Terrorized By Retreating Nazis  ALL INSTALLATIONS ARE WRECKED   Americans Also Capture Avellino, East O' Naples; 8th Army News Vague

TWO-LINE ANNOUNCEMENT MADE   Next Obj ective IsT O Free Rome—FDR

Crimean Army Attempts to Make Escape  a ne a. ae   Capture of Town Paves Way for Faster Advance

NEW OFFIGERS _ WERE INSTALLED   Herbert Huffine and Corps of Officers Irstalled at Elks.

NEW OFFICERS. “WERE LNSTALLEL   Herbert ‘Huffine and Corp of: Officers Irstalled a at. Elks.  eh

SURPLUS OF SHIPPING   Lendon Financial Paper Reporis Eneouraging Development

B And C Gasoline Rations Cut To Two-Gallon Value   Civilian Use In S-W Running Close To 75.000 Barrels

5-Point Pork Bonus’ Declared   Gillette Urges 30Day Ration Holiday

OPA Decrees Extra 5-Point Pork Ration   Spare Siamp No. 1 in Book 1 Good Only Until Jan. 2

Pork Rations Increased  ~’To Reduce Huge Stocks As Hogs Jam Markets

LET SPARE RATION STAMP GO FOR PORK   pel eee  Stamp No. 1 Good for 5 Pitnts of Pork Products  Until Jan. 2

OPA Eases Points On Pork Cuts   Seeking to Alleviate Glut In Market—Make Room tor New Kills

ea ct ra ee Tt a ee  Spare Stamp Good For More Pork   Pork Glutting Market, OPA Wants Housewives to Use It

EXTRA PORK ~ 1S ALLOWED   Spare Stamp No. 1 Good For Five Points  Worth

Five Extra Pork Points Granted  Spare Ration Stamp No. 1 May Be Used Until lanuery 2

Extra Stamp For-Pork .   Stamp No. 1 in Ration Book 4 Good for Five Points Through Jan. 1

OPA ALLOWS MORE PORK FOR CONSUMEF   Spare Ration Stamp No.  In Book 4 Good for 5 Points of Pork.

Rumors Aimed at WAACS Said False   Unfounded Remarks Called Aid to Axis  By. Sec. Stimson

CHARGESATTEMPT TO INJURE WAACS   STIMSON BRANDS SINISTER RUMORS COMPLETELY FALSE

Stimson Brands as False Rumors That WAACS Are to Be Issued Contraceptives, Prophylactics

Rumors Aimed At Waaes Criticized Stimson Issues A_ Flat Denial Of Reports

STIMSON HITS WAAC RUMORS   Stories Aimed At’ Ruining Reputation Branded False

UPHOLDS WAAC REPUTATIONS   Secretary ‘Stimson Says Rumors Absolutely False

Rumors Aimed At WAAC’s Are Aid To Enemy   Secretary Of War Acts To Spike Attacks  On Women

Stimson Brands Waac Rumor Lie   Declares Report Bent Destroying Reputation

‘Sinister Rumors  Injuring WAACs   Immorality Chargeg Hurt Reputation

RUMORS ABOUT WAACS FALSE, STIMSON SAYS   Sinister Reports Aimed At: Destroying Reputation  Of. Army Auxiliary Unfolded :   FULL PROBE MADE   Charged War Department  Had Agreed to Issuance  of Contraceptives, Pro- _ phylactic Equipment

RAF Deals  Heavy Blow At Turin In North Italy   Target Clear And Heavy Damage Done To War Industries; 12 Planes Lost

Turin, Industrial City Of Italy, Is Battered   R.A.F.. Bombers Make Long Flight; Admit Damage Heavy.

RAF PLANES MAKE 2,000-MILE FLIGHT TO BOMBARD TURIN   Italian Arsenal City Is Considerably Damaged —Arms Factories Targets

TURIN STRUCK HEAVY BLOW BY BRITISH BOMBS   Home-Based RAF Bombers Blast Italian Target In Operation Coordinated With The Invasion Of Sicily.

RAF STAGES BIG RAID ON TURIN, ITAL)   Thirteen Bombers Lost in “Heavy and Concentrated” Attack—lItalian Communique Admits Much Damage.

TURIN HIT HEAVY BLOW BY BRITISH   Heavy Concentration Of Bombs Unloaded On Objectives

RAF BOMBERS IN A HEAVY ATTAGK ON TURIN LAST NIGHT   The Operations Co-Ordinated With Allied Invasion of Sicily.   RAN INTO BAD WEATHER   However, Sky Was Clear Over Targets Which Were Blasted.

BLAST ITALY   Raid On Turin Is Timed With Allied Operations In Sicily

TURIN HARD HIT IN RAF SORTIE   BLOCKBUSTERS TEAR HEART OUT OF HUGE ITALIAN WAR CENTER

TURIN TARGET ‘UNUSUALHEAYVY NIGHT BOMBING   British Airmen Cover the Roundtrip of 2,000 Miles to Reach Heavy Industrial Center   ROME SAYS DAMAGE IS CONSIDERABLE   Meanwhile, Middle East   Airforce Drops 650,000 Pounds High Explos  ives On Toe of Italy

HEAVY ATTACK ON TURIN BY RAF BOMBERS   ‘Northern Italy Torn by Explosions In Collaboration With Allied Successes in Sicily.

RAF BOMBERS BLAST TURIN, NORTH ITALY   British Raid Described as Pari o! Combined Operations Now Going On in Mediterranean   2,000 MILE TRIP   Bad Weather Impedes Flight bu’ ‘Usual Heavy Concentration o! Bombs’ Dropped

RAF Planes — Strike Turin   Figures Of Allied Losses Not Available Because Planes Were Dispersed.

R. A. F. Strikes Northern Italy  Concentration of Bombs Unloaded  Over Taract Area

HOME-BASED RAF  BOMBERS BLASTED  TURIN LAST NIGHT NORTHERN ITALIAN IN DUSTRIAL CITY ATTACKEL IN CO.ORDINATED RAID

British Airmen Blast At Turin   City In Northern Italy Ils Bombed

Bombers From Britain Strike Hard At Turin   Attack On Italian Armament City Links Up With Sicily Offensive.

RAF Strikes Turin Hard From Britain   English Bomber Force Coordinates Blow With Med iterranean Drive   13 PLANES ARE LOST   Bad Weather Encountered On 2,000 Mile Flight; Two Routes Used

RAF Bombers Hi Turin In Italian = Squeeze Play —   Northern Part of . Country Receives  28th Bombing Raid

13 PLANES ARE LOST IN ATTACK   2000-Mile Trip Made By Heavy Bombers From Home Base

RAF Bombers In Big Attack On Turin Area   13 Bombers Lost in As.  sault on Italy Arsenal; Raid Supnaccfnt

Northern Italy Blasted By RAF   Planes Fly 2,000 Miles To. Bomb Tuna

Heavy British Raid on Turin   RAF Flies 2000 Miles: 13 Bombers Lost

Turin, Italy, Gets Taste of RAF's  Bomber Medicine  Raid Coordinated With Allied Sicily Invasion

RAF HITS TURIN, FACTORY CENTER OF NORTH ITAL   2000-mile Bombing Mission Over Alps Proves Highly Suceecssfyl.

Turin War Plants Raided   R.A.F. Strikes Heavy Blows in 200-Mile Foray; 13 Lost

TURIN HIT HARD BY HOME-BASED RAF BOMBERS   Italians Admit Heavy Damage, Air Authorities List 13 Planes Lost

British Blast ~-Jurin In Htaly   RAF RAID NORTHERN ITALIAN WAR INDUSTRIES

RAF BOMBERS ATTACK TURIN   Italian Industrial Center Takes Heavy Blows

RAF STRIKES AT NORTHERN ITALY IN HEAVY RAIDS   Bombs Unloaded Despite Bad Weather—French Targets Strafed

HOME-BASE RAF STRIKES TURIN   12 of “Strong Force” Are  Lust in Concentrated  Night Attack

RAF Strikes Heavy Blow Over Turin During Raid   Operation Pushed With Sicilian War Efforts

Fly 2,000 Miles To Strike Heavy  Blows on Turin   Home-Based RAF Ships Unload Heavy Bombs on Italian Seaport.   Have Only Six Hours Of Darkness on Trip

Turin Is Pounded By the-RAFIn Heavy Raid Monday   neil ear  "Dutch Airmen Bomb Jap Held Island

Home Based RAF Joins  The Invasion   [Heavy Force Crosses the  Continent to Bomb City  Of Turin

HOME-BASED RAF BOMBERS POUND TURIN   Losses Not Told; Many Bombs Dropped On Italian City

ANF STRIKE AT TURIN IN ITALY   Big Home-Based Bombers Travel Round Trip of 2.000 Miles.

Vital Point Is Taken by Soviets While German Resistance Stiffens; Nazis In Caucasus in Peril of Being Cut Off

Reds Seize More Towns In Caucasus   Nazi Resistance Stiffens in Area Near Rostov.

AKRON SOLDIER AND LE MARS GIRL, WED   Sgt. Merlin Henke And Miss Lucille Knecht Take Vows March 25

ONLY 2.6 PC. OF WOUNDED DIE   Great Strides in Medical Progress Saves Lives of Most U. 8. Rervicemen

SOFT COAL OPS, MINERS REACH ‘NO CONCLUSION   Spokesmen . of. Operators and UMW Continue to Meet Behind Closed Doors   LITTLE PROGRESS   Miners - Will Stop. Work »March 31 Unless Wage Increase. Contract Negotiated

CONTINUE MINE WAGE DISPUTE   NO INDICATION OF AGREEMENT SAYS MINE SPOKESMAN

NO PROGRESS — INBITUMINOUS   Underground Travel Time Issue to Be Contest Fight

PROMISE TO DESTROY ENTIRE JAP FLEET   Urge Committee to’ Approve Lend-Lease Act

U.S. To Destroy Japanese Fleet Promises Knox   War Clause Also May Insist Japanese Never To Rebuilc Another

NAVY BAGS FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS   We Will Utterly Destroy Tokyo's Fleet, Says Secretary Knox

PROMISES END OF JAPANESE FLEET   Knox Declares Japan Has Proved Unworthy Of Having One

14 SHIPS SEEN MOVING BEHIND STORM FRONT   Allied Bombing Fleets Mass To Pounce On Enemy

Job: of Policing Pacific “Largely One for U. 5., Knox Also Says  “WE MUST HAVE ADEQUATE BASES      He Approves Renewal of Lease-Lend;Tydings Wants British Bases

DESTROY JAP FLEET BEFORE WAR IS OVER   Secretary Of The Navy Knox Makes Prophecy Indicative Of Purpose Of United  Ctatee Navy.   5 More Jap Ships Sunk

KNOX VOWS END OF JAPS’ FLEET   Telis Senators Japan Is Nat Qualified to Have Another Navy,

Japan Should Never Have Another Fleet, Asserts Knox In Pleading For Adequate Pacific Bases

American Subs Sink Five Nip Supply Vessels   Two Other Boats Are Damaged; Knox Says U.S. Will “Utterly Destroy’ Jap Fleet

KNOX SAYS WE VIL DESTROY ‘JAP FLEET   Before The War is Over. When It’s Over She May Never Be Allowed to Have Another

U. S. Will Utterly Destroy Japanese Navy, Knox Says   War Secretary Thinks Ja pan Will Be Prevented from Building New One

We'll Utterly Destroy © Jap Fleet, Knox Avers   Nippon Will Be Banned From Building Another - After. War, He Says

To Destroy Jap Fleet, Says Knox   Nips Never Again To Rule Pacific, Senators Told

JAP FLEET 10 BE SMASHED, KNOX STATES   Nation Not. Qu: Qualified tc Have Novy, Secretary Asserts

Knox Pledges Destruction Of Jap Fleet      ‘Not Fit to Have One, He Says in Uiging Lend-Lease Vote

Knox Promises That U. S. Will Annihilate Japanese Fleet Betore War Is Over

Lend-Lease Opposition Seen Fading   Will Propose Permanent Transfer To U. S. Of British Bases In West

U.S, MUST SINK JAPS, SAYS KNOX   Secretary of Navy Warns Nips Not Qualified To Have Fleet

Knox Promise: Destruction Of Jap Fleet  Will Never Have = Another, He Tells Senate Committee

POISE FOR BLOW AT JAP CONVOY   ‘Allied Planes Wait Chance To ' Strike at 14 Ships Headed For New Guinea.

Air Force Chief Reveals U.S. Plans to Produce 115,000 Planes During Coming Year

{10,000 PLANES FOR ARMY IN YEAR   GENERAL ARNOLD'S NEW ESTIMATE FALLS 10,000 SHORT OF OBJECTIVE.

AIRPLANE NEWS BAD FOR HITLER   U.S. Production For Yea Now Expected To Reach 115,000

Sen. Guffey Makes Address Concerning Fourth Term for Pres. Roosevelt

No Tradition’ to Bar F.D.R. ~ Fourth Term   Repubican * Opposition 1 “Desperate, Guffey’ Says, Reviewing Record   DOES NOT SUGGEST. "A POURTH TERM   But ‘He: Says’ Countless “Americans. Say ‘Thank. God for Roosevelt’:

Senator Guffey Sees No Reason Why F. D. R. Shouldn’t Continue.   SAYS VOTERS DO NOT LOVE CONGRESS

FOURTH TERM Too OPURRED BY GUFFEY   There’s Nothing To Prevent FDR Serving, He Says

Guffey Lauds Roosevelt in  4th Term Talk   Asserts Tradition Doesn’t Hold For Good President

Guffey Sees No Objections to A Fourth Term   Backs Re-election of FDR at Session Attended by 20 Members

BOMBERS HIT BERLIN; NAZIS RUN IN SOVIE   Nor Does Italy Escape, Flying Forts From Africa Blasting at “Toe” Country

‘BY FDR HITS ~ SYNTHETIC!   Haiti Contributions Is Seen As Peace Time Aid

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLAN WRITTEN OFF   Tremendous Amounts of Rubber Expected After the War

FUR Banking on Natural Rubber When War Ends  Synthetic Product Is Wrillen Off as Too Costly

FDR States War’s End Will Bring Big Rubber Supply  President Also Says OWM Will Study Peacetime Reversion

synthetic Industry Virtually  Written Off as Peace-time Competitor With Natural Rubher - ~.-..

QU LANES SEG f  i. nae oo Atl   Planes! Frem . Guadalcanal  ‘Are ‘Delivering Telling , : Blows on Japs. ‘

Jap Raiding Force Larger   Yanks Shoot Down Four Of 22 Jap Planes In Guadalcanal Area   LARGEST FORCE SEEN IN MONTHS

JAPS GIVING UP CENTRAL SOLOMONS   American Air Bombardment Left Them Short of ‘Ammunition and Sank Many Troop-Loaded Rarvec

JAPS GIVING UP CENTRAL SOLOMONS   Enemy Abandons Bases; Wake Island Hit

CENTRAL SOLOMONS — BEING GIVEN UP BY THE JAPANESE   Loaded Barges Sunk As Enemy Tries to Flee; Kolombangara Seizure Expected   \FOE POUNDED FROM AIR

NIPS POUNDED INTORETREAT FROMSOLOMONS   Apparently Had Already _ Abandoned All of Southern Kolombangara, In cluding Vila Airbase

JAPS ARE GIVING UP THE CENTRAL SOLOMONS AREA   All Of Southern Kolombangara Apparently Already Abandoned As Result Of Fierce Allied Air  Bombardments.

JAPO RE  IN SOLOMONS   Enemy Seeking to Flee From Northern Kolombanqaara {sland.

Japanese Giving Up Solomons,  Whipped By US   Ammunition Short, Barges Sunk

All of Southern - Kolum: bangara Already Aban. doned, Including Vila Air .Basé, and Enemy ‘Frying to Escape From North. -Through Tight Allied Blockade.

Japs Retreat On Solomons   Continuous Air Bombardments Leave Japs Short Of Ammunition.

Nipponese Quit Central Solomons   Enemy Flees Under Steady Pounding by U.S. Air Forces

Nipponese Leaving Central Solomons to MacArthur’s Forces   Pounded Into Retreat by Continuous U. S. Air Bombardment

Japs Fleeing North Under Air Assault   Abandon Vila Air Base in Wild Retreat From Kolombangara

Japs Abandon Chief Air Base of Vila; Evacuate All Kolombangara Area

Nippons on Run in So. Pacific  Pound Into Retreat  Eerum Cantral Salamanc

JAPANESE QUITTING  CENTRAL SOLOMONS  UNDER AIR PRESSURE ALL OF SOUTHERN KO LOMBANGARA “ALREADY HAS BEEN ABANDONED

Escaped Prison  Camp Of Japs   Army Captain, Captured When Bataan Fell,  Returns Home.

"Long Way Home" Says One of First of Americans to Escape Jap Prison Camp

ALLIED PLANES DAMAGE THREE JAPANESE SHIPS   _Nipponese Pounded Over A Wide Front

Allied Planes Damage 3 Jap Ships   Nip Installataions Over Wide Area Are Blasted

Alllied Plane: Smash Jap Strongholds ©   Enemy Ships and Aircraft Are Strafed as Fliers Conduct Series of Big Raids on New Britain and New Guinea

ALLIED PLANES SMASH 3 JAP MERCHANT MEN   Enemy Ships Are Attacked Off New Guinea,  New Britain   (NIP BASES HIT   Garrison At Kiska In Aleutians Is Plastered With Bombs

Three Jap Ships Bombed and Damaged Off New Britain and New Guinea

RICKENBACKER ‘GETS ACTION   Ace Says He'll Cantinue To Preach Against Abxenteesism.

CROP LOSSES ESTIMATED AT . $30,000,000   Iwo Known Dead, 5,000 Homeless—River Four to Eight Miles Wide and 50 to 60 Feet Deep Above Muskogee.

Record Flood Crest Rushes On Muskogee   Rivers Form Lake Above City of Four To Eight Miles Wide, 50 to 60 Feet Deep

MUSKOGEE EYES RAMPAGING LAKE   And Arkansas River Is Still Rising—Peak of 47.25 Feet Early Today

Muskogee Waits For Flood’s Crest   Arkansas River at Unheardof Peak, Threatens Wide Region   MANY TO SAFETY LATE   Cities, Plants and Army Camps Threatened by High Waters °

Desolation In Oklahoma   Turbulent Waters, Still Rising, Spread Death And Destruction

Troops Face Surrender  Or Death   Victory Brings Vital Bases in Striking Distance

Only Handful Of Japanese Troops Remains On Strategic Island In Lower Solamons.

VICTORY MAKES LIFELINE SAFEE   Tokvo Calls It “Withdrawal’, But Actually Japanese Were Smashed

NAZIS BOLSTER STRENGTH FOR ALLIED THRUST   Reported--to -Have_Moved "Several Divisions” Into {taly From Germany and France      TAKE OVER FRENCH COAST FROM ITALY   Meanwhile, Patriots in Oc cupied Europe Told by Allied Broadcast to Pre pare for Invasion

Russians Dent Dnieper Line Threaten Gomel   Hitler Rushes to + Front and Demands  Last-Ditch Stand

Russians Storm Gomel; Capture Dnieper Island   Nazis Face Loss of Main Hinge on Defense Line

Philipsburg Flyer On Raid Over Wilhelmshaven  Former Carroll Man  Terms Attack  “Dammed Good Run’

GRAND RAPIDS FACES DANGER AS DAM BREAKS   18 Roads Closed in Five Counties Near Van Wert

Toledo And Maumee River Towns Flooded; Several ~  Families Made Homeless

HOPES EXPRESSED FOR GENERAL UNDERSTANDING IN ADVANCE OF ACTUAL ENDING OF.  _ HOSTILITIES +

CIRCUIT COURT OPENS MONDAY  i   Drunken Driving Cases Pre dominate Criminal Docket.

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Let’s Get It Over Quickly, Urges e Steinbeck: Describes War Scenes

U. S. Planes Strike Naples, Messina  Direct Hits Scored; 5 Enemy Fighters Are Shot Down

LIBERATORS HIT; NAPLES, SICILY,   Italian Ports Blasted In Double Daylight Attack,

Messina and Naples Raided  Ports, Railway and Power Station Hit; Five Planes Downed

Hundreds Of Tons Fall On Chemical Center; 33 Bombers Missing’ On Night’s Mission 

TEMPERATURES:   Axis-Occupied Greek Port Hif * Crippling Blow   18 American Planes Missing In Sweep Over Germany

18 U.S. Planes Lost In Raid   Heavy Bombers Hit Northwest Germany

AXIS AIRCRAFT TRY TO BLOCK ALLIED PLANES   Heavy Defensive Activity In Area Is Reported  HiLierial

MUPPERTAL 3 FACTORY AREA NIGHT TARGET   German Chemical, Textile Center Hard Hit; 33 Raiders Lost,   DAY ASSAULTS AIMED AT “ATLANTIC WALL”

RAF And AAF Slam Huns; Lose 51 More Bombers    x *— KK OK Yanks Sock Salonika ~   Italy To Get It Reporter Predicts

18U.S.Bombers Lost in Attack On Northwest German Area   British Strike at Wupper. tal—33 Planes Fail to Return

WUPPERTAL AGAIN RAIDED BY BOMBERS   Concentrate Blows On Industrial Area Of Elberfeld;: Hammer Atlantic Defenses Of Enemy

Yank Fliers Pound German Objectives   Eighteen American Bombers Missing in Daylight Attack on Unspecified Targets—Adverse Weather Hampers Operations.

Targets Not Revealed; 18 Craft Missing   Assault Made Without Fighter Escort; Follows Shattering RAF Raid

OFFENSIVE AGAINST  RUAR CARRIED TO NEW  PEAK THURSDAY NIGHT THIRTY-THREE BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN FROM

LARGE FORCE U. S. BOMBERS ATTACK NAZIS  18 Of Flight--OfF. _Unescorted Craft

British Assault Is Concentrated On City of Wuppertal   Great Force of R. A. F. Fliers Renews Raids On Naz War Sinews in Ruhr, Smashing Important industrial Center   ROUND.TRIP FLIGHT MADE OVER MEDITERRANEAN

Wuppertal and  Italian Islands Take Blasting   \Salonika Raided for First Time a _ Allied Fliers Pulverize Center Of Chemical Industry In Ruhr;   Mussolini Orders Purge.

THE UNITED STATES LOST 18 BOMBERS IN AN ATTACK TODAY   Were Flying Without Fighter Escorts in an Attack on ., Northwest Germany.    TARGETS NOT REVEALED   American Blow Followed a” Shattering Attack Last , Night by the RAF _- 

Japanese Due For Shattering Blows From Ait   MightyAttacks Promised By Air Force General Nathan F. Twining

Pacific Airforce Chief Predicts “Shattering Blows” Against Japan

U. 5, HURLS NIPS BACK DESPITE BAD WEATHER   Pianes Grounded as Land Forces Advance on New Georgia

SHATTERING BLOWS FROM AIR FORECAST FOR PACIFIG: AREA  GROUND ADVANCE AGAINST ENEMY BAIROK‘

PREDICT HEAVIER © AERIAL BLOWS AT SW. PACIFIC JAPS   Prediction Made As U. S. Jungle Forces’ Move . to Clean Out All Enemy Re etotanmcrea an New Covoorcia

Mme. Chiang Topsi in Beauty, Brain: That Is Verdict of Newspaper Men

'Germans Raid Scotland Coastal Area; Allied  Bombers Are Inactive

NAZI PLANES RAID COAST OF SCOTLAND   Tenement Building Hi’ - With Some Casualties Announced

RAIN IS PREDICTED      Entire State Has a Chance to Get Light Snowfall Tonight

Snow Possible Here Tonight   Not Much Change In Temperature Says State Forecast

RESIGNS AS MAGISTRATE   But. Racketeer's Friend Wiil Stay On New York Ttickets

FIVE FURNACES TO BE CLOSED   Coal Lack Hits Steel In dustry; Hard Coal Min ers in Revolt

13 INDICTED IN NEGRO LYNCHING   Indiana Law Officers, Farmer: Charged In Death Of Former Sailor

FORMER SHERIF HELD IN KILLINE   Three Former Deputies Are Included In 13 For Death of Negro.

Thirteen Indicted In Fatal Shooting Involving. Violation Of Civil Rigchts

13 INDICTED   Cited Ay Federal Grand dary I . teen: Shantine at Recen

TAX BILL NEAR COMPLETION IN COMMITTEE   $2,000,000,000 Additional Revenue to Be Maximum

BREAK IN BALKANS   Smaller: Axis Partners Are Frightened by War’s  Developments.

Roosevelt, Vargas Agree Or Plan During Conference At Natal Thursday

AGREE TO FREE ATLANTIC OF ALL ENEMY FORCES   Brazil May Even Send Troops to Actual Battlelines, Meet on Warship

BRAZIL AND U.S IN ACCORD OVER WAR’S PROGRAM   Roosevelt and Vargas Agree Atlantic Must be Made “Safe for All” After Conflict   TO END THREATS   Hold Americas Must Never Again Fear Invasion From West  Africa and Dakar

FDR-Vargas Find Atlantic Must Be Made Safe For All While Discussing WarPlan

SEA SAFETY IS STRESSED BY FR. VARGAS   Brazil in Accord With America on War Effort

Control Of. Atlantic Is Objective   Complete Accord On Wat Effort Reached During Roosevelt's. Meeting  With Brazil President

Complete Accord Reached On War Conduct at Meeting ‘in Rio de Janeiro

Atlantic Must Be “Safe For All,” Presidents Of U. S., Brazil Agree

Safety of Atlantic Topic of Roosevelt Talk With Vargas   Brazil's Part in War Effort Might Include Fighting   Complete Agreement

DRAFT ATLANTIC DRIVE ON SUBS   Roosevelt And Vargas Agree Ocean Must Be Made ‘Safe For AIP

ATLANTIC MUST BE SAFE FOR ALL FDR, VARGAS SAY   BRAZIL MIGHT SEND TROOPS ABROAD IN EXPANDED ACTION

FDR:VARGAS TAKE STEPS TO FICHT U-BOATS   Two American Presidents Agree  Atlantic Must be Made ‘Safe for AY   * ACTION PLANNED   Brazil fo take Active Role, May  Even Send Fighting Forces to Actual Battlefields

Atlantic Ocean Must be Made ‘Safe for All’   FDR, Vargas Agree That Dakar Must Never Again be Threat

Atlantic Must Be Secure   Presidents Agree Africa Must Never Again Be Invasion Threat

ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL REACH COMPLETE ACCORD ON WAR  Leaders Agree That Atlantic Must Be Kept Open For Use By All Countries

Presidents Agree Atlantic Must Be Kept Free for All   Roosevelt and Vargas Complete Conference . Aboard Destroyer

F. D, R., VARGAS IN AGREEMENT   Presidents Of United States And Brazil Reach Accord On Several Points Of Mutual Aid.

ROOSEVELT AND VARGAS REACH ACCORD ON AIM   Agree at Conference That Atlantic Must Be “Safe for AIl’’

Brazil, U. S. Chiefs Are in One Mind   Declare Atlantic Must Be Made Safe for All; See Active Position for Brazil

Brazil and U.S. Presidents Said Agreed On War Plans   Executives of American Natians Complete Conference on Destroyer

Agree Atlantic Must Be Made "Safe For All”   Joint Statement Is Issued By Roosevelt And Varaas

Roosevelt And Brazilian Chief Of State Agree That AtlanticOcean Must Be ‘Safe For All”

U. 8. and Brazil Plan War Efforts   Chief Executives of Both Countries Confer on a Destroyer   REACH AN AGREEMENT   [he Two Allies Plan to Keer Atlantic Ocean Open for All ;

U.S, BRAZIL HEADS REACH ACCORD   Decide Africa Must Neve " Again Threaten Invasion Against Americas

Africa Will Not Be Threat Of Invasion   Presidents of U. S, And Brazil in Full Avsreement

Roosevelt and Vargas United On War Policies   Atlantic Must Be Safe For All, And African Threat Removed

UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL AGREE UPON FUTURE WAR PLANS   ROOSEVELT AND VARGAS SAY ATLANTIC MUST BE MADE SAFE FOR ALL

Brazil Reaches  Accord With U. S.   Agree With Roosevelt to Make the Atlantic Ocean Safe For All.   Definite on Two Peint:

ROOSEVELT, VARGAS ISSUE JOINT NOTICE   } Conference Is Held Aboard Destroyer At Natal  ATLANTIC   Must Be “Safe For All,” Executives Announce; New Speculation

‘Atlantic Safe for All’ Gist of Agreement by Roosevelt and Vargas

Leaders Agree Atlantic Must Be Made Safe   Roosevelt and Vargas Declare Never Again Shall West  Africa and Dakar Be a Threat to Americas

NAPLES ALREADY GAY CITY AGAIN   Menus Varied but Black Morket Prices Soar

Interest Over Postwar Food Parley Grows   Conference of Allied Nations on Food Problems Will Include Representative of Russia.

Russia Accepts Invitation to Food Parley   Hopes for Full United Nations Post-War Accord  Are Given Boost

SPECULATION OVER MEETING OF DICTATORS   Belief Prevails That Il Duce, In Confab With Hitler, Made an Urgent Plea For Help   MEETING PLACE SECRET

Would Jolt Home Morale, Furnish Allies Bombing Bases For Assaults On German War Industries, Oil Fields of Rumania

GRAVE SITUATION HINTED  Duce Believed to Have Asked Hitler for Aid

Axis May Make Stand In Northern Italy.  Hitler’s Plans In The Battle Of Italy Foggy

Washington Sees Mussolini Begging Hitler For Legions Of Men To Back UpItalians

Mussolini May Have Asked Aid   May Have Decided to Make Stand in Industria Northern Italy

Save Me, Adolph! ~   Mussolini Believed To Have Asked Hitler For: German Troops To Aid In'Defending Italian Peninsula

Axis Meeting Casts Serious Italy Position   Mussolini Seeking More Nazi Legions For Italy Defense

More German Legions for Italian Defense Believed To Be Purpose of Meeting of Premier Mussolini and Chancellor Hitler

Duce Begs Hiller s Aid   Shift in Strategy Moy Be Indicated by Meeting of Leaders   Lody Pound Dead   EISENHOWER CONFIDENT OF VICTORY BUT SAYS ADVANCE WILL BE SLOW

MORE GERMANS FOR  DEFENSE OF ITALY  BELIEVED DEMANDED MUSSOLINI AND HITLER  MEETING INTERPRETED IN WACHINCTON

Feel Italy’s Fate Hangs In Balance   To Defend—Or Not Defend Might Have Been Question Decfded in Hitler-Mussolini Talk

THINK NAZIS PLAN TO HELP DEFEND ITALY   . S. Observers Say Loss of Nation Would Be Blow to Morale — Believe Rome Will Be Declared an Open City.

Hitler, Mussolini Conference May Lead to Effort to Make Stand Against ‘Allies in Northern Industrial Italy

Former AP Chief Of Rome Bureau Also Speculates   More German Legions For Defense Of Italy Asked OF Hitler

‘AXIS DEFENSE OF NORTH ITALY  HELD LIKELY   Change in Reported Strategy . Be lieved Likely Result of Meetin: of Hitler, Duce

Believe Axis Partners Plan Italian Defense   Mussolini And Hitler Confer

Believe. Hitler, Musselini Meet... ‘To Plan Use Of German Legions For Fuller Protection.Of Italy

Nazis May Send More Legions To Aid Italians   Mussolini Probably Made Requests At Meeting With Hitle:

Axis May Stand In North Italy   Italian Surrender Would Be Blew to German Morale, Said

Duce Believed Seeking Germar Help For Italy   Additional Troops Reported Topic At Conference

More German Troops May Be Sent To Italy   Defense Of Italian Mainland Believed Topic Of Talk Between Mussolini And Hitler During Rome Raid

HTH SMASHING RAID ON CITY IN 10 DAYS   11 Bombers Lost in Air Battle Over and Near Capital

GIANT RAF BOMBING ARMADA BATTLES NAZI NIGHT FIGHTERS DURING RAID ON GERMAN CAPITAL— GREAT DAMAGE REPORTED IN: BERLIN DURING ASSAULT IN WHICH FORTY- ‘ONE BRITISH ° PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN

New Assault Bv Bombers On Berlin   Fourth Smashing Attack In Short Period

LONDON ADMITS 41 HUGE PLANES LOST IN ATTACK   Area of Nazi Capital Not Previously Hit Believed Target

RAID ON CITY IN 10 DAYS   41 Bombers Lost in Air Battle Over and Near Capital

Another Huge Aerial Attack Made On Berlin   Probably 1,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On City During Night’s Raid   FORTY-ONE RB. A. F. BOMBERS ARE LOST  RITTIETIN

Allied Forces Hot on the Heels of Fleeing Japanese.  JAPS RAID ALLIED BASE AT FUNAFUTI  Only Slight Material Damage to the Base Is Reported.

JAPS FLEE ALONG NEW GUINEA’S COASTAL LINE; HOTLY PURSUED   Nip Troops, With Salamaua Gone, Hope To Reach New Guinea.

Baby Chicks Rush Season To Aid War  Cheep, Cheep in ihe Mails Means Early Friers

YANK BOMBERS HIT REFINERY NBAR RANGOON   30 Tons of Bombs Drop On _ Jap-Held Plant In.Burmese Area; Huge Fires Started   RAILWAY BLASTED   Nip Plane Falls In Sea Af. ter Battle, All U.S. Planes ‘Return to Indian Bases

58 German Freight and Troop Craft Destroyed; Big Aerial Convoy is Ambushed; Palermo is Blasted   Air Supremancy of Allies Dooms Enemy in Tunisia

Axis Air Losses in Africa Reported on 8 to 1 Ratio   Monday Adds 100 More to Planes Destroyed Since March 20. Bringing Total to 1600

8 10 1 RATIO AIR LOSS. Of AXIS FORCES   In Battle of Tunisia Since March 20 And Apparently Dooms Axis Forces Trapped On African Bridgehead      “Air Supremacy”

American Air Force Pounds German Positions in Italy, Brenner Pass

Heavy Blows Dealt Nazis From South   Brenner Pass Route Left. A .Shambles:. . Ground Forces [n ttaly Drive Forward

“LINE BLASTED   Bomber Fleet Pounds Rail Yards in Brenner Pass And at Innsbruck

U.S. BOMBERS RIP NAZI RAIL LINE TO ITALY   INNSBRUCK RAILWAY YARDS WRECKED IN DEADLY ASSAULT

American Airmen  Blast Brenner Pass  More Than 300 Craft TH Dart in Attarct.

Bombers Blast Austrian Tyrol   U.S, 15th Airmen Rake * Brenner Pace Baile

Cleveland Boy, 15, Slai Last March, Confessed Murderer of Twins Says.

YOUTH ADMITS THIRD KILLING   Slayer of Twins Tells Police He Slew Cleveland Boy Last March

Ration Head’s Guilt Affirmed   Jefferson's Clerk Says Schluckebier Did Not Plan To Pav Secretary.

HITLER AND MUSSOLINI MAP EUROPEAN INVASION DEFENSE   Evacuation of Tunisia Is Discussed; Key Units Would Come Out By Airplane

CUATION OF OFFICERS NOW DECIDED   German and Italian High Commands Decide Armies Shall Stay in Africa to Delav Allies.

Axis Defense Plan Mapped By Leaders   Hitler and I] Duce to Remove Few Troops From Africa

Report Hitler, Mussolini Plan To Evacuate Specialists From Tunisia

AXIS LEADERS MAP INVASION DEFENSE PLAN   Total Mobilization Seen Of All Reserves at Command

AXTS AGREES JN PLANS FOR TUNISIA WAR   Would Evacuate Only Highly Specialized Units

DUGE, FUETIRER MAP DEFENSE OF ‘THEIR’ EUROP   Will Evacuate “Experts” from Bizerte for Use on Continent.

AXIS WILL REMOVE ONLY SPECIALISTS FROM TUNISIA AREA   Hitler And. Mussolini. Also “Mapped. “Deferise of Europe In Parley Last Week

All But Special Units To Be Left in Africa Battle   > Hitler; ‘Mussolini . Map. European Defense Against Invasion

HITLER, MUSSOLINI MAP OUT COURSE TO PREVENT INVASIONS   Desperate Delay in Stand in Tunisia Decided Upon to Hold Off the Allies.

Yank Disables 1] Axis Planes .For Day’s Work   Seattle Man Shoots Down Four CraffAnd Damages Seven Others In Africa

Pontelandolfo 1s Captured by American and British Forces  ALLIES FIGHT WAY 7  THRU HEAVY MUD  Heavy Attacks Against Nazi Lines Made b  Airman 7

Nazis Must Stand Firm Or Resume Withdrawal Northward Toward Rome

Germans May Be Forced To Flee to Rome   Americans Score Important Gains

Allies Astride Main Road to Poise New Threat   Axis Aided by Difficult Terrain; Resist Desperately

NAZI DEFENSE LINE MENACED ON VOLTURNO   AMERICANS BATTLE WAY THROUGH STICKY MUD

Allies Advance In Mud to Take  Pontelandolfo   Nazi Defenses Along Volturno Jeopardized By Gain; Allied Air  Force Attacks Enemy

CLARK'S ARVANCE MENAGES GERMAN LINE ON VOLTURNC   Nazis Must Fall Back Toward Rome or Meet Threat Developing With Fall of Pontelandolfo.   FIFTH ARMY MOVES . THROUGH STICKY MUD   Montgomery’s Troops Slug War Forward Slowly Along Adriatic Against Fierce Opposition.

Vital Center Taken in Hard Fighting   Germans Must Meet New Threat or Resume Withdrawal

THROUGH STICKY ITALIAN MUD GEN-. ERAL CLARK’S FORCES OF BRITISH AND AMERICANS SEIZE PANTELANDOLFO. :

Yanks Drive Through Mud In Hialy   Nazis Threatened Along Flooded Volturno River

Germans Yield Ground on Italian Front   Americans, British Now Straddle Highway Above Volturno River Despite Furious Resistance; Enemy May Be Forced to Flee

PONTELANDOLFO TAKEN BY FIFTH   Seizure Places Allies Astride Vital Highway   EIGHTH ARMY   Slugs Way Slowly Forward Against Intense Nazi Opposition

Clark’s Forces Astride Main Road Leading to Rear of Foe Lines, “Blagded River Stalis Army

Battling Mud and Flooded Stream, Fifth Army Takes Pantelandofo; Nazis Must Meet Threat or Retreat

MAIN HIGHWAY TO WESTWARD IS TAKEN OVER   Pantelandolfo Seized  By Clark’s Forces; Bombers Pound a Nazi Lines é

Pontelandolfo Captured by Allied Forces   Germans Continue to Put Up Heavy Resistance in Italy

Nazis Bolster French Forces   Report Hitler Turns Down ltalian Plea

Nazis Reported Shifting Troops Into S. France   Observers Believe Invasion Fears Have Destruyed German Hopes of Defeating Russia’

Nazis Said Moving  Forces Into France   Axis Losing Hope of Knocking Reds Out of War;  Surface Signe af Aliind lnenetnan lemranea

Nazis Disregard Cries Of Musso.   More Troops Are Sent Into: France

Germany Moving Reinforcements To French Coast   arge Force Being Sen into Occupied Seaports   Only a Few Nazis Believed in Italy in Spite of Invasion Threats

Nazis Move More Troops to France   Second Anniversary of Hitler's Attack On Russia Brings No Clue of New Offensive; Germans Say Allied Fleet Is Off Svria

Germany Reported Moving Men to France on Eve of Russian War Anniversary

Nazis Disregard Cries Of Musso   More Troops Are  Sent Into France Rye I.FWIS HAWRINS

Germany Reported Moving Substantial Number of Reinforcements to France

Nazis Move Troops West   Invasion Threat Has Delayed East Attack

Hope of Knocking Russia Out of War Abandoned, Allied Seurces Believe

HOOVER RULES HIMSELF OUT   Sends Capital Word He Won’! Consider Being Candidate For Presidanecy in '44.

HOOVER NOT AN OFFICE SEEKER   Former President Seeks Only Preservation Of U. S$. Democracy

[HOOVER ERASES DESIRE FOR PRESIDENCY; WANTS TO AID POST-WAR PLAN

HOOVER IS NOT A CANDIDATE, - ACCORDING. TO: CONGRESSMAN   EX-PRESIDENT SAID 'TO BE'INTERESTED, ROWEVER, IN WAR WORK AND POBT- , WAR ACTIVITIES

Unrest, Riots Spread Even to Germany   All Europe Tinder Box as Allies Sit Back and Let Hitler Worry

DUTCH WARNED AGAINST EARLY BEVOLT MOVES   Premature Breaks Will Be Costly,  Gov’t Declares

Allies Warn Seething Hollanders Time Not Ripe For Revolution   Told Premature Uprising ‘Would Lead Only To Crushing German Retaliation Before It Could Grow Into Large-Scale Warfare. ~

Holland Gets Warning of Nazi Trick.   Unrest Mounts: Reports Tell of Rerlin Riotina

Dutch Told to Hold Revolt   Exile Government Says Revolution Now Would Bring German Retaliation

GOVERNMENT WARNS DUTCH   Premature Revolution May _ Lead to Crushing Re‘taliation.   NEW ATTACKS REPORTED 

DUTCH WARNED OF NAZI PLOT   Government In Exile Seeks Avoidance of Premature Uprising

‘Holland Is Warned By Exiled Government Time Not Yet Ripe To Rise Up Against Germans   Told Revolt Premature; Seething Unrest Grows; Report Berlin Riots

EXILED HEADS WARN HOLLAND PATRIOTS   Thousands Storm Information Center at Berlin

PLAN SOUGHT TO FINANCE WAGE BOOST   New Taxes Ruled Out as   Method of Raising   Funds to Hike Teachers’ Pay     CTALEMATE REACHED

 MARA A AAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAL Motorist with Bear And Flat Tire Doesn't Haqgle

5 Nazi Prisoners Escape Camp Hood Two Others Caught   Men Thought Hiding In Bottomland ‘of Central Texas

FBI Hunts for Five Escaped Nazi Prisoners   Germans Apparently Are in Hiding i in! Densely-Wooded Bottomlands of Leon River ir, Central Texas

INTERNED GERMANS ESCAPED GAMP HOOD EARLY WEDNESDAY  ALL WERE YOUNG AND MADE ESCAPE SOON

U.S. JOBS OPEN “IN ECONOMICS OR ACCOUNTING   Heavy Demand for Federal Agencies, Civil Service Aide Reports

CONVENES IX PITTSBURGH WEONESIIAY   First Test Of Smith-Coynally Anti-Strike Bill Seen; Fayette, Washington County Pickets Out In Full Force. Reported   GOVERNMENT AGENTS PROBING WALKOUTS

RUSSIANS PUNCH A WEDGE INTO KHARKOV DEFENSES   RUSSIANS SPEND MORE TIME LIQUIDATING GERMANS IN DONETS BASIN THAN IN PUSHING NEW DRIVE

RUSSIANS PUNCH WEDGE INTO NAZI KHARKOV FORTS REPELLING ENEMY   ‘Main German Garrison Fleeing Westward Under Heavy Soviet Aerial Bombardment.

Blackjack Game   Attempted Royal Flush of Duce And Knave Disclosed by Nazis

Fifth Ari Towns I And Tu   Charge Badoglio, King With Plot To Kidnap Hitler

Berlin Charges Italian Plot To Kidnap Hitler Along With Mussolini

Germans Say Badoglio And King Had Plotted To Kidnap Hitler, Duce

GERMANS CHARGE ITALIANS SCHEMED TO KIDNAP HITLER   Declare Badoglio and King Emanuele Laid Plot to Deliver Fuehrer Into Hands of Allies.   BID TO CONFERENCE FAILED AS A LURE   Military “Documents” Cited as Proof of Plan to Make Prisoners of Dictator as Well as Duce.

Plot To Kidnap Hitler Charged   Stalians Accused Of Abortive Plan

Plot to Trap Hitler ‘Charged by Nazis   King  ittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio Of Italy Alleged to Have Plotted to Lure Hitler To Italy and Surrender Duce and Him to Allies

Germans Charge italian Plot To Kidnap Hitler  Say Leaders Planned To Turn Him Over To Allies With I Duce

Hitler Kidnaping Plot Charged  Nlagic Nera lenlian   Nazis Name Italian King and Badaglio

P.-T. A. Will Meet Tuesday Evening  Grades Will Present Christmas Proeram

CHURCHILL T0 VISIT CAPITAL   Prime Minister Expected To Come from Quebec Sometime This Week

Churchill And FDR Confer At Capital Again   Prime Minister Guest Of FDR For Fourth Time At White House

FDR, CHURCHILL TO HOLD FOURTH MEE]   Russia May Be Represented Hint

'FDR-CHURCHILL TO HOLD FOURTH MEETING THIS WEEK   Prospects for Tri-Partite Meeting Mentioned in Joint Quebec Communi Fira

Martin Gratified Over Speed Of Organizing the Assembly; James Address Is Highlight

QUICK ACTION OF LEGISLATURE PLEASES MARTI   Two Houses Organize Then Recess On Monday

404 JAP PLANES KNOCKED OUT AS YANKS LOSE TWO   RAF and American Flyers Combine in Assault On Europe

JAPS SUFFER MAJOR DEFEAT IN TWO-DAY AERIAL BATTLE   ATTEMPT OF ENEMY TO GAIN AIR BUPERIORITY IN SOUTHWEST. PACIFIC IS ' SMASHED

104 PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN 2-DAY ACTIVITY   British Ground And Air Forces Launch Strong Attack In Burma Area

JAP AIR FORCE SUFFERS LOSS OF 104 PLANES   Attempt To Regain Initiative Fails   U.S. LOSSES SMALL   Enemy Is Smashed In Furious Combats

GAIN RULE OF AIR SMASHED   MacArthur's Flyers Destroy at Least 104 Nip Planes

Pay Raise for Soldiers’ Dependents Called Bid for Votes by Some Solons

More Help For Families   Increased Allotment To Soldiers’ Dependents Sure To Be Voted

Allowance Hike Termed Vote Bid   Congressmen Attack Increases to Kin As Too Low

ERVICE WINDFALL SEEM   House Military Seeks Clearance for Vote  Next Wednesday

APTA TAKEN   Push For Bigger Family Grants Seen As Bid For Soldier Vote

MUST HAVE MEN,   Skilled and Unskilled Workers at Navy Yards Needed,

CONVICT IS HUNTED FOR ADDIS KILLING   Body of Man Known Here Found Near Portsmouth

SOLE CASUALTY   Panieliezin Landing Safe Except . Fore Donkey Site

Social Security Extension Asked   .Cradle-to-Grave Plan Introduced in Senate.

Wagner Introduces Cradle-to-the-Grave Post-War Social Security Program Comparable to English Beveridge Plan

OFFERS BROADER SECURITY PLAN   Wagner Puts  Cradle-To-Grave Social Security Before Senate

BILL OFFERED 10 EXTEND SECURIT’   Unified System Provides Fo Cradle-To-Grave PostWar Program.

Cradle-to-Grave-Bill © Submitted By Wagner   Post-War Social Security Program  Comparable to Beveridge’s Plan

Revenue Bill Calling For 104 Million During Next Two Years Is Given to General Assembl

LEGISLATURE GETS 5 104000,000.00 REVENUE MEASURE   No Major Changes In State’s Tax Structure Contemplated In Bill Sent To General Assembly By the Governor.

Martin Boosts Tax Reduction   Elimination of Gas Levy May Be Made Later, Says Governor

MARTIN HIKES TAX SLASH 10 $44 725,000   Receipts May Justify Additional Cut, Governor Says

Tax Reduction Figure Boosted By Gov. Martin   But Says Pay Increase Planned for Teachers Must Be Reduced

Ration Men To Industry   War Factories Will Be Given Priority On Available Labor

War Plants To Get First Labor Call   Rationing Program for Manpower Launched; In Areas Having Shortage

M’NUTT NOW SAYS ARMED FORCES T0 REACH 11,218,040   MANPOWER CHAIRMAN DECLARES OVER FOUR MILLION BE TAKEN 1943

HUGE CIVILIAN BURDEN 1S SEEN   Commission Launches Labor Rationing Program for War Industries

LAUNCH PLAN FOR RATIONING OF MANPOWER   McNutt Says Civilians To Feel Pinch for Army Support

11 Million Men To Be In Army   McNutt Sees Strain On Civilian Economy

Hiring, Firing To Be Under WMC Control   Commission To Act As Quickly As Possible To Handle Workers In 32 Areas Where Labor Is Now Scarce

Rationing Program for Manpower of U.  §. Launched Today   War Industries Given First Call on Labor; Job Shifts Barred

Manpower Need Is Immense McNutt Declares   War Industries To Get First Call On Labor Supply

Begin Program For Rationing U.S. Manpower   War Industries Are Tc Have First Call On The Labor Supply.

America’ 5 New FighterPlane  > + . .  Is Now inOperationinEurope

In Capture of Largest Naval Group,  Japs Swarm Into U. S. Rescue Boats

Gunners Mate Lyle Hanson Covers Rescue of Eager Japs with Tommy Gun

JAPS SWARM TO RESCUE BOATS   Scores Are Captured by 4U. S. PT Boats

OATS MAKE HAUL   Former K. U. Track Star Helps Take Jap Prisoners

JAPS FIGHT TO GET IN U, $, RESCUE BOATS   PT Boats Capture Many Nips in Vella Guif Battle

Bulgaria Faces Serious Crisis  Duce’s Downfall  Clhannec Pacitian

MUSSOLINT'S FALL SEEN AS CAUSE OF BULGARIAN CRISIS   ‘Developing Incidents Indicate Bulgaria May Be First Balkan Satellite to. Break With Axis

BADOGLIO LOSES GRIP ON NATION   ITALIAN UNREST MAY COMPEL PREMIER TO SUE FOR PEACE SOON

Bulgarian Crisis ‘Appears Probable  May Break With Axis Tf Italy Falls

Badoglio May Be Calling For Time To Get His Armies Home And To Rid Italy Of Germans   Events Moving So Swiftly He May Be Compelled To Sue For Immediate Peace

BULGARIA MAY BE FIRST ALLY TO LEAVE AXIS   Serious Crisis Develops; Fall Of Italy Would Wipe Out Defense Barrier: Minor Incident  Might Touch Off  Revolution.

Crisis Develops In Bulgaria As Italy Near Fall   Italian Garrisons Are Reporied Leaving Balkans; Uprising: Predicted

Bulgarians First Likely To Quit Axis   Italian Collapse Will Have Ouick Effect

BULGARIA MAY BE FIRST 10 BREAK FROM THE AXIS   With Serious Crisis Developing As Result of Mussolini’s Downfall Bulgaria May Break If Italy Surrenders.

Unrest Mounting  In Balkan Area  Bulgaria May Break Off Ties With Axis  on ———e za eee 26S Gm £4, in, ee

Badoglio May Be Forced By Developments To Sue For Peace Immediately

Serious Crisis Seen Developing In Bulgaria  May Be First In Ralkans To Quit

HINT BULGARIA MAY BREAK FROM AXIS   Situation Changes Since Fall of Mussolini

BULGARIAN CRISIS  APPARENTLY DUE IF  ITALY SURRENDERS REPORTS INDICATE BA DOGLIO MAY BE FORCED TF) Ir FAD PLACE

Balkan Crisis Develops Over Benito's Fall  Bulgaria Likely  wT hin Blnet ba

Bulgaria Crisis Near As Riots Ir ltaly Go On   Reports Say New Premier May Have To Sue For Peace

Crisis Brewing In Balkans; Unrest Among Axis Satellites Reported   Bulgaria May Be First To Break Away From Axis If Italy Surrenders; People Believe _ Italy f« Finished.

Balkans Crisis Seen’ “Following  Collapse Of Italy   Say Bulgaria Will Desert . Axis Partners In Event Of Italian Capitulation

BALKAN NATIONS READY TO BREAK FREE FROM AXIS   Believe Bulgaria First Country To Split With Reich

Allies Surge On In Grand-Scale Push   American, British Forces Are On the Move All Along the Tunisian Front

Trap Closing on Nazis in Tunisia   Eighth Army Storms Ahead With Gabes as its Next Objective

Grange Debates Value of A.A.A.   Abolishment Asked By Some Members

British Press Pursuit, Yanks Hammer Flank   Allies Rush on for  Final Slaughter on Beaches If Rommel Attempts to Escane

BTH ARMY TAKES SFAX AND PUSHES ON 10 THE NORT!   Montgomery Calls on Men Speed Pursuit of Rommel for Final Slaughter on Beaches.      MEANTIME AMERICANS’ ATTACK ENEMY’S FLAN]       Battered Germans and Ital  ians Expected to Make  Stand on Ridge in En- °; fidaville Area.

Relentless American flank attacks, continual bombing demoralize German troops

ROMMEL FACES SLIM CHANCES OF “DUNKIRK”   Fortresses Blast Twa  Italian Cruisers, Bag 7 27 Planes   HEAD FOR TUNIS

ALLIED PLANES POUND FLEEING ENEMY FORCES   Montgomery Orders Quicken: ed Pace to Give Foe Taste of Dunkerque

-Fortresses Hit Two Italian Heavy Cruisers   American Lightning Fighters Intercept Great Aerial Convoy and Shoot 27 Enemy Planes Into the Mediterranean

RUMMEL FORCES FLEE NORTHWARD   At Mercy of Relentless Yank Flank Attacks   BOMBS TAKE TOLL   Allied Troops Race on Primed for Final Slaughter on Beaches of Tunis

Rommel’s Army In Rout As British, Yanks Pour It On   Axis Chance To Escape By Sea Lessens; Enfidaville May Be Last Stand   20.000 PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN   Americans Under Patton Threaten Kairouan; Free French Aid In Tunisian Advance

Rommel Runs Toward Line  North Of Sfax, 50 Miles Below Capital City

Beaten Africa Corps On Run   British Eighth Army Charges Through Sfax In Pursuit; U.S. Planes Cut Off Rommel’s Supplies

Fleeing Forces Harassed by U. § Flank and Heavy Aerial Attacks   Africa Corps Tries Desperately to Gain New Defense Lines South of Tunis; Big Italian Cruisers Are Damaged by Bombs

Hard-Pressed Nazi Troops Get Terrific Pounding From Mighty Allied Bomber Fleet

Sfax Falls to Allies: Montgomery Rumbles Northward After Foe   Germans Being Subjected To Terrific Air Pounding; Slaughter Seen At. Tunis

Ahead In Drive ToCrush Romme!   Montgomery Urges Men To Slaughter Foe On Beaches

PUT CRUISERS OUT OF FIGHT   Flying Fortresses And Fighter Planes Ferret Out Two Italian Cruisers.

AFRICA CORPS DRIVEN OUT OF PORT OF SFAX   Allied Bombers Rig And Tear at Re treating Columns

Axis Troops Race to New Defense Line   Rommel Apparently Ready to Abandon All of Central Tunisia.   /HARRIED JON FLANK   Planes From Allied Carriers Reported Joining Others in Assault

Germans At Mercy Of Relents less American Flank Attacks   AXIS FORCES’ CHANCES TO ESCAPE BY SEA LESSENED

Americans Lash Stricken Nazis  In Flank Attack   Allied Air Power ' Is Breaking Down Defence In North

British Speed Advance; Take Bia Port   Enemy's Hope for “Dunkerque” Retreat From Africa Withers Under Brutal Fire as Allies Gain; Two Ships Are Hit

SENATE GROUP OPPOSES ALLRED   REFUSES TO APPROVE HIS Av. POINTMENT TO CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.

Board Refuses To Okeh Allred   Senators Block His Nomination as Judge by Splitting Even

Confirmation of Allred Blocked By Tie Vote   Senate: Committee .Stands;Nine-for, Nine Against

LABOR DRAFT PLAN BACKED   WLB Member Tells Senate Group Such Authority Eventually Needed

LABOR DRAFT POWER NEED   Principle of Pending Bill Is Supported By Speaker

RAF STRIKES AT ESSEN EN ONE OF WAR'S GREAT RAIDS   Bombers Carrying Five Tons of Bombs Coming Off British Assembly Lines

Balkans Drive. Gains Headway   Offensive Develops lnto Big Campaian

OFFENDIVE IN BALKANS GROWS   Becomes Companion Campaign to That in Italy; Allies, Patriots Hit by Land, Air and Sea

Campaign Now Comparable to One in Italy  At Least One Dozen . German Divisions

BALKAN FIGHTING SPREADS: GERMANS USE 12 DIVISIONS   Atlied Land, Sea and Air Offensive Has Become Companion Campaign to That in Italy,   PLIERS BLAST ENEMY BASE NEAR ATHENS   Huge Fires Sect, Parked P.anes Damaged—Raid Fol. lows Attacks on Crete and Rhodes.

Balkan Campaign Being Developed  Germans Scorched From All Angles

BRITISH FLIERS LASH ISLANDS, INLAND BASES   Offensive Is Companion Campaign To That In Italy; Large Nazi Army Occupied

Balkan Battle Ranks With Drive in Italy   Allies Develop Offensive There Into - Biggest Since 1941; Nazi Airfields in Greece, Aegean Attacked for Sixth Day

Allied Offensive Forces Hitler To Split His Forces   Yugoslavs Keep Enemy on Edge

Balkans Thrust Gains Headway   Nazis Face Battle By Land, Sea and Ai

CHURCH SQUABBLE CARRIED TO COURT   Judge Denies Ban Against Some of Congregation

Texas Rangers Ride Again, Looking For Catile Thieves, Black Markets

Christmas Eve In Solomons  Thoughts Of Home Shine Through War's Blackness   Here’s A Picture Of Your Boy On This Holiest Of Nights—He Dreams Of You And Prays That Reunion Will Not Be Far Away

J Family Of Akron Is sttered All Over The Globe   ers Are In the Services F rom le to Pole

1 Family OF Akron Is ttered All Over The Globe   Services From  fe Are In_ the le to Pole

AUSuIES BEAT UFr JAP HAND AT MUBO-WAU   . Allied Planes Follow with Bombing Attacks in New Guinea Area.   CONFIRMS DEATH OF JAP » ARMY HEAD IN. FLIGHT

AUSSIES HURL BACK ATTACKS   Jap Offensive Patrols Strike In New Guinea.

75,000 Planes in — 1943 Goal of FR: Revised Downward   But More Pounds of Craft in Making;  More Bombers Seen

75,000 Planes Believed Goal  More Large Bombers Being Constructed

Army Bans Political ‘Campaigns. by-Soldiers; Is it Aimed’ at MacArthur?. Capital’ Wonders

Soldiers May Not Become Candidate For Public Office   Would Head Off Nomina. tion of Gen. MacArthur for Presidency

TEXAS GOVERNOR ON EXTENDED GOOD WILL TOUR OF OLD MEXICO  EXPECTS TO MEET PRESI-

Stevenson to Say Howdy to Mexico  Governor to Visit   Governor to Visit President Camacho In Mexico City

Hand-To-Hand Combat Waged On Atté Island   Bayonets And Hand Gre. nades Driving Japs From Defenses On Island   U. S. CASUALTIES ARE AROUND 700

OCA AND AIR OUPPORT AIDS FINAL MOP-UF   Navy Credits Bombardment with Speeding Capture of High Ground.   STIMSON REVEALS 127 HAVE DIED IN ATTACK

PRESS ON FINAL ATTU POSITIONS   American Forces Make Gain Under Bombardment by Warship

SOLDIER DISCOVERED DOING DOUBLE DUTY FOR UNCLE SAM   Authorities Don’t Know Whether To Shoot Him  Ow A derarnra Eten. Renu Ant

SAYS JOURNALS ARE TRUTHFUL   State Attorney Claims Legislative Records Are Conclusive.

VATICAN CITY IS BARRED BY NAZIS, DISPATCHES SAY   Clam Persons Prevented From Entering or Leaving Area by Armed German

Allies Take Two Balkan Islands —   WEATHER  Ri anrinrota taranareaticea   German Troops Surrounding Vatican City Are Preventing Persons From Entering Or Leaving

Vatican Traffic Halted By Nazis   Troopers Guard Entrance To Holy Sea

German Troops  ‘Guard’ Entrance To Vatican City   Colonnades Machine Guns Prevent All Persons Entering Or Leaving

VATICAN CITY IS UNDER. CONTROL OF GERMANS ©   Italian Border Dispatches Say Persons Prevented From Entering or Leaving City

A. P. Reporter Tells Of Surprise Attack Which _ Captured Vella Lavella

AMERICANS TAKE ISLAND WITHOUT FIRING ONE SHOT   . S. Jungle Troops Establish Major Beachhead On Vella Lavella Island Only 70 Miles From Key Jap Air Base At Kahili.

BRITISH STRAFE. NAZI AIRFIELDS AND RAIL TARGET!   General Offensive Is Design ed to Disrupt Enemy Communications.

RAF Attacks Airfield and Rail Targets   German Bomb Partly Demolishes London Postoffice

Drive Disrupts. Communications InN. France.   _Oil Bomb Sets ' Fire te London’ Postoffice : -

Berlin Is Heavily Bombed   RAF Renews Attacks Upon German Capital Yanks Get 16  Planes, Lose 15.

Raid Wes 97th Of War On Heart Of Nazidom By Allies   Already Badly Damaged Berlin Given Heavy Pounding By Biq Fortresses And Liberators

Urge Midwest's Gas Ration Cut   Centralization of Authority Suggested

HOLD HUSBAND IN SLAYING — OF HEIRESS   Wayne Lonergan Described as. ‘Likely Suspect’

Jap Airdromes Blasted By 13 Tons Of Bombs   Numerous Fires Result; Much Other Damage To Nips

Freedom Oj Air And Seas Are Different   How Free Will Skies Be In Post-War World?   (Last of a series of five columns on freedom of the

Weather To Be Warmer   Sudden Drop Last Night Expected To Fade Out Quickly

COLD SPELL IS OVER   No More Than an. “Ordinary Freeze Forecast for Tonicht

'Air-Borne Engineers in Africa Carry Equipment To Build Airplane Bases in Record Time.

RUSSIAN TROOPS ONLY 10 MILES FROM ZHITOMIR   Germans Estimate 500,00C Red Army Fighters and 1,000 Tanks Are  Pressing City.

Reds Drive For Zhitomir   Huge Army On Kiev Front Gains Momentum by the Hour

Russians Now Are Less Than 10 Miles Krom Zhitomir.  HEAVIEST ATTACK WEST OF KIEV  Hitler Orders Permanent Mass Murder of All Russians.

AIRFIELDS OF AXIS WILL BE TAKEN OVER   Allies Expected Also to Occupy Towns Evacuated by Fleeing Nazis.

ALLIES ARE STREAMING THRU PASS      Expected to Occupy Three Towns Shortly

Urges Jetters As Fuels Czar   Colorado Senator Writes Letter To Roosevelt For Ap pointment,

COAL SHORTAGE  END IN SIGHT   Great Lakes Shipments to Subside After Nov. 15, Official Says

SUPPLIES TO BE PLENTIFUL BY MID - NOVEMBER   Present Bottleneck Due To Heavy Lake Shipments

COAL TO COME BEFORE WINTER   Shortage Due to Shipments Before Lakes Freeze

CHILD LABOR LAW BATTLE: S BITTER   Unions Demand Ohio Female Rules Go Unchanged; Seek Agreement

Mussolini Lost Power Trying to Obey Hitler   Nazi Master Said To Have Demanded Thai Two-Thirds Of Italy Be Abandoned; Wanted Po Defense Line

Quster Of Duce Laid To Aim To Yield Section OF Italy   Dictator Tumbled From Power Because He Tried to De Adolf Hitler's Bidding, Travelers to Madrid Report

ll Duce's Fall Due fo Effort To Obey Hifler   Fuehrer Must Now Accept Dictates or Lose His Ally

Il Duee’s Fall Blamed on Bow to Hitler   ..Party Killed Plan To Abandon Most of Italy

Mussolini’s Downfall Resulted From Trying To Obey Fuehrer,  Travelers from Rome Report

DUCE FALLS IN EFFORT 10 Dd HITLER'S WILL   Nazi Chieftain Wanted Mus. solini_ to Abandon Two Thirds of Italy to Establish Defense Line in North   Hold Scorza

12 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Daylight Raids Follow Night Attacks By RAF On Catania

BIGGEST OFFENSIVE ACTION YET STAGED BY U.$ LIBERATORS.  ONE HUNDRED PLANES SMASHED THREE AIR FIELDS SOUTHERN ITAL’

YANKS’ ATTACK! FROM MID-EAST WAR’S BIGGEST   Nearly One Hundred Liberators Raid Three Southern Italy's Air Bases With Devastating Effect   400,000 POUNDS OF BOMBS ARE DROPPEL   Lecce, Grottalgia and San  Pancrazio Targets; Three  U. S. Planes Lost: 12 Axis Ships Bagged

Three. South Italy Air Fields-Blasted.By-AForce of 100° ‘Bombers

'Liberators Hit Southern ‘Air Fields   Nearly 100 Americai Planes Carry Out Attack On Italy

Bomber Armada Plasters Three  Italian Bases   Four Hundred Thousand Pounds Of Bombs Dimi, ped In Raids =

AIRFIELDS HIT BY 100 TONS OF MISSILES   Big Fires Raging at Three Bases in Great: est Assault to Date by Big Bombers From the Middle East.

U.S. Bombers Hit Italian Air Fields   Nearly’. 100 ! Liberators Smash Fields Adjoin ~ ing Taranto   THREE. PLANES — LOST   Haingars and Aircraft Are Burning After  Attacks .

Nearly 100 American Bombers Attack Three Air Fields In Southern Italy In Biggest Offensive Yet Staged By Four-Engined Craft From Middle East—Three Planes Lost—Palermo, Cagliari And Castelvetrano Again Raided

Biggest Raid On Italy So Far in War   Attacks Apparently to Immobilize Tranto Naval Base

LARGE FORCE U. 8 LIBERATORS Hil ITALIAN AIRFIELDS   Biggest Offensive Action Yet Staged By These Four-Engined Craft From Middle East; More Thaan 400,000 Pounds of Bombs Dropped.

Yankees Batter 3 Airdromes  Near Taranto   100 Liberators Smash Air Fields At , Italian Naval Base; Other Towns In Sardinia, Sicily Are Hammered 

Large Fires Left Raging In Vast Raid   More Than 400,000 Pounds Of Bombs Dropped On Bases

. 9. BOMBERS DELIVER NEW ITALY BLOWS   Liberators Drop Explosives On Three Southern Air Fields   OFFENSIVE BIGGEST YET CARRIED OUT   Only Three American Air. craft Lost: 12 Enemy Planes Downed

SEEK TO SMASH AIR DEFENSE OF TARANTO BASE   More Than 400,000 Pounds of Bombs Fail in Mighty Assault

Liberators Rock Italy  Defenses   Total Of 100 Bombers Pummel Enemy Bases; Three Planes Are Lost

U.S. Bombers Hit Italian Air Fields   Nearly 100  Liberators Smash Fields Adjoin ing Taranto   Hangars and Aircraft Are Left Burning After Attacks 

100 Air Forts Maul’3 Italy Flying Fields   Drop 200 Tons of Bombs on Lecce, Grottaglie and San Pancrazio

400,000 POUNDS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON ITALIAN BASES   Nearly 100 U. S. Liberators Smashed at 3 Southern Airfields.   BIG OFFENSIVE ACTION   Twelve Axis Planes Were Shot Down as They Arose to Challenge Invaders.

100 Liberators In Biggest Raid Against Italians   Bombing Aimed at Reducing Aerial Defense of Italian Naval Base.   Three Planes Lost in  Triple U. S. Punch

U. S. Bombers in Heavy Blast at Italy   Nearly 100 Liberators Stage Their Biggest Raid; 12 Axis Planes Shot Down From Many Attackers.

Talks Underway For Martinique To Join Allies  Plan Submitted Bae Teland Ta   Plan Submitted For Island To Change Loyalty

Robert's Terms Offered To U.S.  Would Allow Martinique To Change Authority

Our Speed of Production Hints New Blows Against Axis Powers, Byrnes Says

Two-dSea Navy Set This Year   Many -Fronts Offensives ‘Planned ©

PRISONER KILLS HIMSELF   South Coffeyville Prisoner Grabs Gun From Sheriff

Ohio School Buses Will Get Plenty Of Gasoline      C. B. Hutchins, Chief Of The School Bus Section Of ODT, Informs Buckeye Official, Vehicles Will - Get Sufficient Fuel

WINTER IS MOVING IN   Kain and Snow Flurries Arrive in Western Part of Kansas

LEWIS AGAIN IGNORES WLB REQUEST   Fails to Name Man for Panel to Take Up Wage Dispute

Soldiers Occupy Danish Capital as Strikes and Disorders Rage in Protest Against Occupation of Country—Demonstration Staged in Odense Against Hitler Rule With Crowds Plundering Shops of German Sympathizers,

Germans Rule Copenhagen As Riots And Strikes Continue   At the Other End of the Baltic Sea, Finland Seeks New Means to Step Out of Struggle—Asks Senarate Peara

GERMANS SEEK TOEND RIOTS   Nazi Troops March Inte Danish Capital As Outbreaks Grow

Large Foree Of Nazis Sent To’ Copenhager   Meanwhile Finland . Trying New Means of Getting Out of War

Germans Guard Danish Capital   50,000 Troops Said Holding Copenhagen

vv lee py Fe a ) —~ * 8G _ aZi “roo s in Seeing — enmar < “in anc’ 2eacv -or leace a ts”

Nazis Take Over Danish Capital   Rioting Reported In Several Cities.

Nazis Take Over in Copenhagen  Finland Seeks Way Out of Conflict

GERMANS oWARM INTO COPENHAGEN   Troops Take Over Capital as Strikes and Riots Spread; Finns Seek Path to Get Out Of War

GERMANS CLAMP DOWN ON DANES TOSTOP RIOTS   Large Force Is Rushed To Copenhagen After Outbreaks Protest Nazi Occupation   Finland Is Restless

German Troops Take   Move In 50,000 Strong As Riots and Strikes Rage In Protest Against Occupation

GERMAN TROOPS IN DANISH CAPITAL TO MAINTAIN ORDER   Between 40,000 And 50,000 Nazis Drain Copenhagen’s Food Supplies; Presence Fails To Halt Riots, Strikes And Outbreaks Against Occupation

Smash Nazi  Defenses In Kiev Snows   Battered Forces Face Annihilation Campaign

Russians Drive . Swifily Toward. Poland, Rumania   Fierce Fighting Is Raging Along Entire Soviet Battlefront

Drive Toward Balkan States   Russians Advance On Wide Front; Land in Crimea.

Russians Tighten Grip on Crimean Coffin         of German 17th Army—Miniature Fought in Central Italy and Solomon Island of Bougaitiville

Disorganized Germans Flee  Before Reds   Allies Bomb Steel Works, Docks and Rail Yards at Genoa, Ball Bearings Works at Villar Perosa; Hundreds of  “Japs Land on Bougainville

Soviets Driving Swiftly Toward  Poland, Rumania   Russians Push Campaign Of “Annihilation” ; Enemy In Ukraine Faced By New Threat

Russian Gain  On Wide Front. Acknowledae¢   Heavy Fighting Continues as . Reds Push: Pincers.Move:in War of Annihilation   GERMANS SWAYING NEAR SMOLENSK      Enemy Making: Desperate Try: to'Hold im Italy; Jap . Threat Nothing Serious.

Heavy Fighting Now Reported on Perekop Isthmus         Nazi Counterattacks in Italy Hurlec Back; Bad Weather Hampers Land Operations

New Landing Closes Trap in Crimea _   Soviet Forces _ Sweep - 27 Miles Through Snow in Drive’ West of Kiev —

Poland-Rumania Drives Pressed   ... U. S. Fifth Beats Back Many Counter Attacks

Drive On Through Snow   Reds Push Swiftly Toward Poland and Ru mania; Nazis Strengthen Defense Wall in Italy

(SITUATION IN KIEV VICINITY — CRITICAL AS REDS DRIVEFAST TOWARD POLAND AND RUMANIA   Russians Open New Atacks About Smolensk and Land More Troops in Crimea Where German 17th Armv Now Faces Annihilation

rifth Throws Back Germans Near Venafre   German Lines Sway Northwest Of Smolensk Where Russian Rush Teo Latvia,   ATTACK AIRFIELDS

50 BUSINESSES “AGREE 10 GLOSE   Wednesday Afternoon Clos. ing Scheduled to Begin - Next Week. .

0 BUaINtoato AGREE 10 CLOSE   Wednesday Afternoon Closing Scheduled to Begin Next Week.

LEGISLATURE. QUITS TODAY   State Budget Is Far Out of Balance; Many Laws Are Changed,   MEMBERS ASK PAY RAISE

LEGISLATURE GETS MUCH DONE ~— IN-TTS LAST HOURS   Governor Congratulates Lawmakers; to Call Them Back to Finish Job   BUDGET NOT BALANCED

Bizerte Within — Artillery Range ~ Of Allied Forces   Americans ond French Driving Along the Northern Shore of Lake Achkel Toward the Big  Naval Race

ALLIED COLUMN N PUSHES FORWARD TO SWING TOWARD BIZERTE; MEETS “SOME RESISTANCE” IN ROUGH  COUNTRY.

Big Naval Base Within Heavy Artillery Range   Nazi Troops Continue Their Retreat East  of Mateur;: Americans Fan Out Toward Tunis

City Now Within Artillery Range. Of US and French   Americans Fan Out From Mateur to Strike Toward Tunis

ALLIED COLUMN GAINS 2 MILES ON LAKE FRONT   Americans Fan Out From Captured Mateur, Mop Up Pocketed  Germans   Ferryville Approached

Strike from Mateur toward Tunisia naval base; occupy  half of Lake Achkel shore   Nazi retreat continues with allies mopping up enemies in large numbers

2-MILE ALLIED GAIN HEIGHTENS THREAT TO CITY   Ferryville, Only 10 Miles Away, Being Shelled — Germans Continue to Fall Back in Area.   AMERICANS FAN OUT FROM MATEUR   Part of Force Moving On: . Tunis—Enemy Troops Apparently in Large Numbers Mopped Up.

‘Resistance Met hy Advancing Yankee Forces   Americans Mopping Up Axis in Large Numbers

NAZI RETREAT CONTINUES IN MATEUR AREA   AMERICANS MOP UP AXIS TROOPS IN LARGE NUMBERS

BIZERTE WITHIN SHELLING RANGE OF ARTILLERY   ‘Allies Meeting Some Resistance In Rough Coun if try Near Lake

Foe Continues to Retreat “East of Mateur as Allies’ . ~~ Big Guns Pound Ferryville

U. S., French Advance  Toward Base   Yankee Troops Also Fanning Out in Direction of Tunis From Newly Captured Mateur

Egg Ceiling At 50 Cents   OPA Makes Order Effective March 11 Under Control Plan

Axis Putting Up Last-Stand Fight On Sicilian Soil   Resistance Bitter But Allies Closing In; Termini Is Captured  By Yanks   MESSINA NEXT   70,000 Prisoners Are Taken, Mainly By Americans; Enemy  Bottled Up

HERE DO HITLER’S  LANES GO IN WINTER? ill Spring Bring Them Back?

[Mighty Luftwaffe Fading [As Result Allies Two ‘Front Aerial Offensive

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Busy Rebuilding Luftwaffe To Meet Allied Invasion

The War Today   Great Nazi Aerial Armada Hard Hit hy Two-frant War

The War Today  a 8  Allies May Hear Plenty About Nazi Air Force Tn Spring.

Propaganda Job Of Ours On Nifty Side   Counter Show Of U.  Purely Educational Material

District Coal Prices Issued   Southern W. Va. Giver 20-Cent Inereuse

UFT COAL PRICE TOP DESIGNATED   OPA Varies Ceiling Prices by Districts; Wage Negotiations Had Halted Until Price Breakdown Available

CEILING PRICE OF SOFT COAL RAISED   OPA Permits Increase of an Average of 17¢ Ton at the Mines

OPA Hikes Coal Price 17 Cents   Seeks to Offset Higher Labor Costs

Coal Prices Boosted Average of 17 Cents   Ceilings Raised To Compensate Producers For Higher Labor Costs; 20-Cent Hike Applied To Southern W. Va.

Hike Soft Coal 17 Cents A Ton As OPA Ceiling   UMW And Some Operators ‘Dissatisfied’ With Newest Ruling

Dillon Man Is Held Here In  Dean Slaying   Wife of Alleged Slayer Said to Hlave Been Riding With Victim.

Held Here In Dean Slaying      Wite of Alleged Slayer Said to Have Been Riding With Victim.

BOMBERS RAID DUSSELDORF   Planes Head Across Channel Toward Calais

britons Stage Fifty-seeond Raid on Dusseldorf.   TEAR NEW GAPS IN HITLER’S WAR PLANS   Objective of Allies is to Force italy Out of the War.

Italy Outer Fringe Pounded By Allied Flyers. Churchill Says Italy Must Make Peace.

HEAR MURDER EVIDENCE TODAY   McCoy Triple Slaying Case Goes to Grand Jury

GREAT FORCE OF BOMBERS HITS GERMANY   Gelsenkirchen, Site of Largest Synthetic Oil Works Target for Thunderbolts And Lightnings.   Railway Center

Nazi Rail, Oil Centers Blasted;  Push Rome Drive  Kiev Is Menaced As Reds Advance  In New Offensive

Giant U.S. Armada Lashes Nazi Cities   eynthetic Oil Works And Vital Railway Yards Pulverized By 1.000-Plane Foray

Record Atlacks Continuing on Gigantic Scale   More Than 700 Planes in Raid

Giant U.S. Armada Lashes Nazi Cities   Synthetic Oil Works And Vital Railway Yards Pulverized By 1,000-Plane Foray  Re BABRETAT’ @TIIRHaew daw

{00 U. 3. PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON 2 GERMAN CITIES   Seventeen Fail to Return From Raids—Thirty-eight Enemy Fighters Shot Down.   MUENSTER RAIL YARDS, GELSENKIRCHEN HIT   Two Hundred Tons of Explosives Believed Loosed On Targets in Daylight  Accanlte.

*Railyard Center Struck in Heavy ‘it Assault   Raids Continuing; Anti-Aircraft Fire Intense Pilots Say

ROSS ORDERS PAY HELD UP   500 State Workers Fail te Get Checks as Result Of Controversy

Ross Holds Up Pay Ot 500 Workers   AUDITOR GENERAL MAKES THEM SUFFER BECAUSE OF HIS DIIsSPUTE WITH SECRETARY OF REVENUE.   Going To Court Monday

THE WAR  TODAY  By DeWITT MACKENZIE  TKTyst An Wyariad War Analxat

Moral Effect ot Italy's Fall Will Be Biggest Allied Gain  i\Fear Underscores Hitler’s Speech

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ist Treatment Of Italy Gives Lie To Hitler’s Annihilation Claims

The War Today— Hitler Shows Fear Own People May {Oust Him As Italians Did Mussolini

Rommel Tanks Forcing) Yanhees Back Towaid Tunisian Hills 8TH ARMY GAINS Montgomery Driving at!   Montgomery Driving at Medenine, “Verdun” of Desert Fouts

AMERICAN TROOPS  BATTLING ROMMEL ~ IN SBEITLA SECTOR   British Eighth Army Drives Toward Mareth Line—Nazis Yielding In ~ South Tunisia, Gaining  Ground Elsewhere

Bey of Tunis Is Deposed by Giraud   French Attend to Civilian Problems

TOP BRITISH OFFICIALS ARE IN WASHINGTON   Conferences Likely to Include Program for New Action In Far East.   BULLETIN

Top Generals Come fol, 5, With Churchill   Navy and Army Leaders:From India Present:

DRAFT BOARD LIST NEW GROUP FOR INDUCTION   Complete Re-Classification; Examine New Group Monday Night.

LIST DECEMBER DRAFT CALL FOR STARK YOUTHS   Examine Group Monday Night; Continue Classifying All 3-A Men.

FAILS TD LOCATE SHIPS, BOMB BAS!   Another Major Battle Ex.  pected In Pacific Follow ing Extended Lull.

Offensive Pace of Japs in Island  Arc North of Australia Held Up   Dobo Smoking From Blasting by Allied Rombers

JAP CONVOY TURNED BACK BY BOMBERS   Jap Offensive Pace Knocked Off Balance

BILL TO PROVIDE MASTER WAR PLAN   Rep. Mass Proposes Plan to Give Chiefs of Staff More  @ Authority to Settle Manpower, Production Rows

Congressman Recommends Master Plai For Conduct of War and Production of Army, Navy Material

MORE AUTHORITY FOR MILITARY   Rep. Maas Suggests ‘Mas ter War Plan” By Chiefs Of Staff

Cattlemen to Meet Here March 12-13   Wartime Problems lo Occupy Members

SOVIETS SLASH GERMAN LINES   Reds Launch Attack West  Of Belgorod, Indicating New Campaign

Germans Attacked Behind Belgorod   Some Think Nazi Base Taken By Reds

Reds May Now Have City Of Belgorod   Report Action West Of That Important Center

Soviets Strike Nazi Belgorod Detense Lines   Attack Stirs Sneculation

Russians Strike West of Belgorod   Observers Speculate Whether Reds Held Town or Went Arounc

END OF TRI-PARTITE MEETING EXPECTED   Optimism Remains High as Envoys Open Session; Report Announcement . Due over Week-End

SCENE OF NEW DRIVE   Moscow Parley End in Sight   Final Agreements Reported Near

Tri-Par tite Ike Noay  AMO LNUG  See   Official Statement Ex. pected From Moscow; Success Blow to Axis

MOSCOW PARLEY IS NEARING END   Finishing Touches Put on Draft of Agreement

END OF TRI-PARTITE CONFERENCE IN VIEW   Diplomats Put Finishing Touches on Agreements

Moscow Parleys Nearing Close  Official Statement Expected Any Moment

MOSCOW PARLEY NEARING CLOSE   Diplomatic Experts Put Finishing Touches To Draft Of Agreements

Moscow Tri-Powel Conference Nears Successful Close  Formal Statement  (OF Results Achieved  —- wm 4g FF. ff...

Germans  See 2nd Front Plan   NAZIS SAY DELEGATES AT MOSCOW PROPOSED SCHEME TO SOVIETS

Diplomats Are Putting Final Touches on Their War and ’" Post-War Agreeinents—-Re _ sults Expected Over the Waal.E.wd

Government Will Not Give Up Mines   Miners Return to Pits but Ickes Sees Nothing to Justify Returning Property to Owners Yet

Most Miners Return to  Work Today   Early Enforcement Of Anti-Stnke Law Expected

Majority Of Miners Return To Pits But Production Still Below Normal

Little Hope of Mines Returning To Owners Soon   ‘Majority of Coal Workers Go Back To Duties In Pits

People Of Italy Given Ultimatum  By Allied Leaders   President Roosevelt And Prime Minister Churchill Demand Capitulation   ITALY WARNED TO SURRENDER

FDR, CHURCHILL MAKE OPEN BID TO STIR REVOLT   Messina Virtually Bombed Off Map as Axis Girds for Catania Stand

CHURCHILL T0 SEE FDR AGAIN   President Confers With High Officials Upon Return From Talks  In Quebec

Roosevelt Confers With Officials  Churchill Expected In Capital Soon

FDR BAGK FROM QUEBEC: MEETING   Confers With Military, State And Diplomatic Officials; Lays Plans for Meeting With Churchill

F. D. R. Returns to Washington  Will Confer Again With Churchill

Roosevelt Back In Washington For New Parleys   Expected To See Churchill Soon

Groundwork Being Laid  By President to Renew Parleys With Churchill

President Conduct:  Conference With  Military.Chieftains Churchill Will Visit  Washington Soon To Check on Plans

CHURCHILL DUE IN WASHINGTON   Roosevelt Gets Ready For More Talks With Prime Minister

ROOSEVELT PLANS RENEWAL OF TALKS   President, Back in Wash. ington, to Confer With Churchill

Soviet Forces ~ Advancing In White Russia   Red Artillery Pounds Dniepropetrovsk From Across Dnieper River   NAZI RETREAT IN CAUCASUS IS cuT

RUSSIAN FORCES SHELLING NAZIS ACROSS DNIEPER   Bombard Kiev; Knife Deep Into White Russia: Hold Escape Port

NAZI HOLD ON SOVIET STEEL CITY WEAKENS   Red Shells Rock Dniepropetrovsk   KIEV TOTTERING  eevee een  Russians Liberate 1,100 Villages

SOVIETS KNIFE DEEPER INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Dniepropetrovsk and Kiev heavily pounded by Red artillery

BRITAIN’S 8TH ARMY SEIZED COAST ROAD ON EASTERN FRONT   U. S. LIBERATORS HEAVILY BOMBED SOFIA, BULGARIAN CAPITAL

Bulgarian Parliament, in Throes of Crisis Brought on by Invasion Fears, Sent Home   CLARK ADVANCES   Wages Biller Battle for San Pietro, _ British Throw Another Bridgehead over Moro

Eighth And Fifth Armies Plunge  Ahead In Italy      British Seize Coastal Road Town, Yanks Near - Stronghold.-

Sth Army Forges Ahead   Take a Coast Town Against Bitter Nazi Resistance; Russians Fall Back Before Kiev

British Force Germans Back In Bitter Fightin   Eighth Army Seizes Important Positions Or Adriatic Coast; Bulgaria Capital Rocked By American Bomber Attack

Linked With Gains In Italy Is New Bombing of Sofia   mussians Gain in Some Sectors, but Lose West of Kiev

San Leonardo Captured by Eighth Army   Another Bridgehead Is Flung Across Moro River; Liberators Bomb Sofia; Reds Drive on Toward Kirovograd and Krivoi Roa

BRITISH CAPTURE ADRIATIC. TOWN OF SAN LEONARD   U. §. Air Force Pounds Germany On Heel of R. A. F.  po: C¢.f:. Blacsan

British Capture San Leonardo, Sea Coast Town   Liberators Bomb Sofia,  Reds Advance In Snow

BRITISH TAKE SAN LEONARDI: YANKS PUSH ON   Red Armies Drive Forward In Dnieper; Retreat West Of Kiev

9Oln Army. vains Despite Nazis’ »Counter Drives  Bombers Hit Sofia   Bombers Hit Sofia , In Shaky Balkans; Clark Edges Forth;  lenliqne Iain Allince

Capital of Bulgaria Hit by Huge Force Of Liberator Bombers   Planes Over City for 105 Minutes; American Troops Advance Mile in Italy ‘Toward Cassino

Sth Captures SanLeonardo;  Moro Crossed   Fifth Army ‘Punches Toward Cassino; Bitter Fight for San Pietro Raging

“Southern Front” Armies, Airtorce Hit Italy, Sotia   Montgomery’s Army Reports Gains; Bulgarian Capital Is Raided

(Turn to NAZIS, » NApere PASO 7)  RUMANIA REPORTED DEFYING HITLER NOW   Requests For Men And Foot Set Off Quarrel

Rumanians Reported Resisting Nazi Demand: For Further Sacrifice Of Troops In Russia

Bitter Struggle Reported On Way.... . Rumania Resisting Demands Of Hitler

Pai Shun aa cI  Coo ay Camb naC my chanical  Eighteen Passed Stale Bar Tests

Thousands Drown, State of Siege Declared After Nazi Dams Blasted

SWIES ‘EXPERTS CONBIDER. BREAMING OF DAMS WORBY WAR CATASTROPHE © ~~ FOR GERMANY = i’

FOR INCREASE  IN ALLOTMENTS   ALLOTMENTS FOR ‘SOLDIERS DEPENDENTS MAY BE INCREASED BY CON . GRESS .

APTITUDE TESTS:   Psychologica Examinations  - Are Pot at os  versity,   REVAMP LINDLEY HALL

APTITUDE TESTS — FOR A-12 GROUP   Psychological Examinations - Are in; ; Progress at University.  Pn eneeen

AXIS BIG SHOTS HAVE DARK DAY   China for First Time Joins Policy of ‘Unconditional Surrender’

Public Invited  To Hear Lieut,  Bogue Tues, Nicht   WAVE Officer to Interview Young Women in This Area

Lt. Jane Bogue To Speak at 8-00 Tonieht   Talk on “Women’s New Program to be Given By WAVE Officer

SOLONS TAKE HOLIDAY, BAN WAVES TRIP   Keep Navy Women at > Home, Is Congress’  Decision

‘House Males, Females Argue—  IWAVES Lett High ana Dry      Fail to Approve Service Alroael

FOREIGN SERVICE FOR WAVES FACES DELAY IN HOUSE   Action on Bill Postponed Indefinitely After Series of Orations on Sanctity of Wamanhood.

House Adjourns, Leaving Waves Stranded Within U. S. Borders by Defeating Foreign Service Bill

HOUSE GOES HOME; WAVES MUST STAY IN UNITED STATES   Action On Bill Postponed For Indefinite Period— Members Orate On Waman’s Sanctity

Mcny Military Authorities Don't Share Optimism of Public On War's Early End

ALLIES MARGIN IN PRODUCTION   Data on Germany, Japan Revealed ta Congress By General.   FIGHT IS ONLY STARTED

Army Intelligence Does Not Share Civilian Optimism for An Early End of Present War

‘Allies’ Advantage ‘ls Production   Chief of Military Intelligence Tells off Enemy Strenath

Nazis, Japan Stronger Now Army Proves   Statistics on Enemy's Military Might Show War Far From Won

“New Bill of Rights" Proposed for Post-War America by Planning Body

FORTRESSES . HIT EUROPE AGAIN TODAY   Third Straight — Day Yank Bombers Have Attacked

U.S, FORTS HIT AXIS EUROPE FOR THIRD DAY   British Mosquito Attack Western Germany Accompanies  Raid

WAGNER FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY   Well Known F armer Called Monday At-Age Of . 52° 5

WAGNER FUNERAL SERVICES. FRIDAY   Well Known F armer: Called Monday At Age Of  Vaars

Restaurants No Help in a Pinch  Civilians Can‘t Dodge Rationing Downtown

House Passes Coyote Bounty   Bill Aims $50,000 At Growing Menace To Kansas Stock

House Votes $50,000 For Wolf Bounty   Raiders Menace Increased Stock Herds In Kansas

Scantlin Sets Date for School Opening   The State Superintendent Recommends August 30 as the Date.

SERVICE VOTE FRAUD IS SER   GOP Plan Would Permit Persons At Home to Vote For Servicemen By Proxy

SUBSTITUTE FOR VOTE PLAN HIT   Opens Door to Corruption Sen. Lucas Claims

Vote By Proxy  Natve Proposal  amt 1. CAS   Democratic Senator  Savs Measure \ ould ) p © ii Doors To Fraud,

UP FOR THE.NIGHI   Jurors Unable to Reach Agreement. After Deliberating 1] Haurs

Flynn Calmly Awaits Verdict   _ Nine Women, Three "Men Hold His Fate

LOCK FLYNN JURY UP FOR THE NIGHT   Jurors Unable to Reach Agreement After Deliberating 11 Hours

‘lynn Jurors \roue 11 Hours   Body Locked Up for Night: Actor Calm

FATHER DRAFT CONTROVERSY. WILL BE AIRED. IN CONGRESS   PEOPOSAL TO BAN’ DRAFTING  FATHERS AND RELEABE  : THOSE IN SERVICE 18   ANNOUNCED

WHEELER READY TO FIGHT DRAFT   Montana Senator To Offe Bill Preventing Call Of Fathers

One Armed Bandits Go To War   Army Outfit Gets Three from G eorgia Sheriff and They Provide Fighting Men With Luxuries, Even After Going Overseas

One-Armed Bandits Go To War And Provide Comforts For Fighting Men

Gambling Pays For Luxuries   3 One-Armed Bandits’ Helping the Army

Mountain Heights Dominating Road To Tunis Seized   Three-Mile Advance Made At Enfidaville While Aerial Blows Take Increasing Toll

Takes Height Above Tunis Road   Powerful, Sudden Infantry Charge Gains Three Miles; Allied Air Victory Mounts in New Count

BEGINS NEW OFFENSIVE. IN TUNISIA   Montgomery Moves: Against Enemy’s Strong Enfidaville Positions —: Fierce Battle Raging.

EIGHTH ARMY PUTS SQUEEZE ON DEFENDERS   DRIVE LAUNCHED TO FORCE ROMMEL FROM AFRICA

EIGHTH ARMY ATTACKS AXIS TUNISIAN LINE   Montgomery Drives Forward at Enfidaville in Bright Moonlight Charge   FIRST OBJECTIVES TAKEN IN FINAL ALL-OUT BLAST

British Launch New Drive Aimec At Shoving Axis Out of Tunisia   Eighth Army Resumes Its Offensive at Enfidaville, Seize Mountain Heights Dominating Road

BRITISH BEGIN BIG OFFENSIVE TO ROUT AXIS   Allied Airmen Bag 112 Planes In 2 Days In Continuing Stabs At Supply Line   Coastal Heights Taken

Eighth Army Springs Sudden Infantry Charge 40 Miles North Of Tunis   FINAL OFFENSIVE TO CRUSH AXIS IN AFRICA

8th Army Takes Ist Objectives,  Piercing Outer Defenses in Hills Sudden Break-Through, Rout of Foe Viewed  7 Lut. D.... of Manntainane Terram

Infantry Seizes Heights in Sudden Assault   Montgomery Looses New Offensive Heralded as Final Onslaught; Controls Road 40 Miles From Tunis

Mountoin Heights Seized __on the Road to Tunis  112 AXIS  PLANES © ; REPORTED WRECKED Enfidaville Positi Position Penetrated by the . British

HEIGHTS ARE CAPTURED IN SWIFT THRUST   New Positions Of Allies Dominate  Coastal Road To City Of Tunis.

Seize Heights Dominating  Coastal Road   Monigomery Surprises in Moonlight Attack; Axis Planes Smashed

Allies Occupy Heights Dominating Coast Road To Tunis and Bizerte   117 Enemy Planes Shot Down, Including 73 Transports, in 48 Hours; Fighting Occurs On All Red Fronts, Where Nazis Are Reinforced

Canol Oil — Project Is - Denounced      Ickes. Assails 130 . Million Dollar War Department Develonment in Canada   ‘SHOULD BE JUNKED,” : SECRETARY SAYS      Wold Save 30 Millions ‘Needed to Complete ‘It; -No Value. After War’

Ickes Assails Canol Oil Deal   Bitterly Denounces Costly Project in Canada

Canada Oil Deal Blasted   ..- Not In Interest of U.S., Ickes Declares

Ickes Urges Scrapping of Canol Deal   Says Canadian Oil Plan Not in Best Interests of United States

HOPE MARTINIQUE .   Delegate « on Way To the ~ sland from United Empire Group —

WILL BREAK OVER   Delegate on Way To the Island from United _ Empire Group   WITH VICHY RING NOW

Homer Fuller Is ‘Killed in Car On Paris Street Resident Of  lJonev Grove Is   Resident Of  l-foney Grove Is Gunshet Victim

Tomer Fuller Is Killed in Car On Paris Street   Resident Of  l-Joney Grove Is Gunshet Victim

Storm Main Axi: Defenses, Seize More Prisoners   Totat Of 30,000 Captives Taken; Fierce Air Raids On Axis Continue

Have Taken More Than 30,Prisoners 1 in Tu- — nisian Battles   TWO HILLS STORMED   More Than 200 Axis Planes Shot Down in Five Days’ _ Fighting

TIGHTEN RING ON ENEMY’ DEFENSE LINE   Drive Nazi Forces from Two: Important Hills; Take §00 Prisoners.   AIR FORCES CONTINUE BLASTING. OFFENSIVE

TWO IMPORTANT HILLS STORMED BY FRENCH, BRITISH   Attack Was on the South and Western Fronts of Axis Tunisian Lines.   600 PRISONERS TAKEN   Increased Total Allied Bag Since Opening of Mareth Offensive to 30,000.

Rommel Gives Ground After New Attacks  Ba) a a ee   Two Important Hills Taken By infantry

Two Hills -Are Seized ByInfantry   Advance Of First Army Checked By Artillery Fire Along Coastal! Road To Tunis

Over 30.000 O Enemy Now Are Prisoners   Artillery Fire Halts Eighth Army’s North ward March

Foe Loses Key Africa Heights   600 ENEMY PRISONERS TAKEN AS UNITED NATIONS AIRMEN KEEP ROARING 40-A-DAY PACE IN ENEMY AIRCRAFT DROPPED FROM SKY

ALLIES TAKE 2 VITAL HILLS IN SLOW ADVANCE   600 Prisoners Captured as Rommel Begins to Defend New Line

Prisoners In Allied Hands Total 30,000   Advance Continues In Most Sectors; British Ist Army Pressing  Its Offensive

Allies Capture Over 30,000 Troops Since Mareth Line Attack   Ist Army Takes Hill 30 Miles West of Tunis, Downs Over 200 Enemy Planes in 5 Days

TWO IMPORTANT “HLS STORMED ON SIFCE LINE   French and British Infantry Capture 600 Prisoners   PLANES POUNDING ' AXIS TO PIECES

FRENCH AND BRITISH SUCCESSFULLY STORM TWO IMPORTANT HILLS   TOTAL BAG OF AXIS PRISONERS INCREASED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED

British, French Seize — Two Important Heights,  Capture 600 Prisoners 

600 SOLDIERS CAPTURED INTWO ATTACKS   French and British Infan-try Sieze the Enemy, Troops When They Successfully Storm Twa Important Hills. a

AXIS PRISONERS TAKEN: AIRCRAFT BAID KEY BASES   Landing Fields At Tunis Bombed By U. S. Fortresses

FRENCH AND BRITISH SUCCESSFULLY STORM TWO IMPORTANT HILLS  TOTAL BAG OF AXIS DDICANECD? INCDrACEnN

Six Hundred Prisoners Captured Increase Allied Bag Since Opening of Mareth Offensive to More Than 30,000, Reported

Over 200 Axis Planes Shot Down In Five Days   Flying Fortresses Have Another Field Day In Combat With Enemy

Nazi Artillery Stops 8th Army; Allies Shoot Down 23 Axis Planes    French Storm Mountain Point, Take 600 Prisoners; Forts Pace Mighty Air Assaults

Flying Forts Pace Assaults On Axis Bases   Number Of Prisoners Taken By United Nations Passes 30,000

2 VITAL HILLS ARE CAPTURED BY INFANTRY   600 Prisoners Taken To Boost Tote! Since Mareth Drive To 30,000   AERIAL BLOWS DELIVERED   Observers Speculate On Move To Divide Remaining Axis Forces

HILLS STORMED ON SOUTH-WEST WITH SUCCESS   Allied Air Forces Keep Up Merciless Battering of Troops, Airfields, Ships   MORE PRISONERS TAKEN   Air Battles Rage in Russia Over Mud-Bogged Troops as Nazis Hint New Drive

Capture 600 Prisoners, — Making Total over 30,000   Drive to Divide Remaining Axis Forces Seen as Possibility as Battle Nears Its  Bloodiest Phase—Axis Air Power Cut

TEMPERATURE   Allies Expected to Smash  Northward to Gulf, [ Split Forces

Dockyard Area At Ferryville Ruined, Aerial Photos Reveal   30,000 Axis Prisoners Taken Since Mareth Drive Began

Many Enemy Planes Downed   Smash Toward Tunis Gulf May Be Next Allied Move.

600 Prisoners Taken During ‘Foray in Desert   Aerial Operations Continue with 200 Axis Planes Downed

ARTILLERY BARRAGE CHECKS ANDERSON   Number of Axis Prisoners Taken Since Mareth Push Beean Is Over 30,000

AXIS PRISONER TOLL MOUNTS OVER 30,000   British And French Take Many More Captives   n Air Average 40 Planes Per Day: Fortresses In Heavy Attacks

CHARGE AWAY ATROMMELITES   Two Important Hills of South, Western Fronts Of Constricted Enemy Line Stormed   WAR PRISONER LIST  MOUNTS TO 30,000   British Eighth’s Progress  - Halted by Artillery; Al  .Hed Bag of Enemy Pianes Increasing

Senate Votes ~ “In Favor of  - Barkley Bill  Legislation to Provide Mustering Ou : Bay Banging Fran, $200 to   Legislation to Provide Mustering Ou' Pay Ranging Frotn$200 to— * _.. @a00 sent to House —

New Plan To Go Into Effect Feb. 1   Would Allow Draftees to Choose Branch of Service

NAVY WILL GEL FIAT DRAFTEES AFTER FEB. 1ST   New Selective Service Plan To Be Started; A. T. & T. To Cut Rates

OPA ANNOUNCES PLANS 10 LIST FOOD SUPPLIES   Monthly Report Planned As Aid  For Civilians

OPA Planning To Issue Tabulations   Would Help Censumer Schedule Purchases

TO (SSUE MONTHLY FOOD INVENTORY   Will Give Industry Bette Chance to Plan Ahead, Pre: vent Waste

PLAN MONTHLY STOCK REPORT   OPA to Issue Tabulation of Food on Hand

WAR NEWS JANALYSIS   Japan’s Effort To Form Great Asiatic Bloc Is Acute Danger

Lhe War 1 oday— Japs Playing Big Brother Act Well Among Asiatics For Deadly Race War

JAPANESE MILITARISTS SAID  TO REALIZE THEY WILL LOSE (THIS WAR BUT PLAN COMEBACK

CYCLONE ARMY DIVISION BACK IN LOUISIANA   Thousands Of Toughened Soldiers Move Into Camp Livingston

Hint French Indies to Join in with Allies   French Guiana Swings Un der Banner of Giraud; Oth. ers May Follow

FRENCH GUIANA’S GOVERNMENT 10 GENERAL GIRA‘S   This Raised Hopes in Washington That Martinique Would Fight Axis.   ROBERT FACES CRISES   His Refusal Thus Far to Rall; to Giraud’s Side, Is Against Him.

HOPE FRENCH WEST INDIES MAY SHIFT   French Guiana Leads to Come Under Giraud’s Rule.  U. S. CONCERNED OVER ISLANDS

Weshingtcn Hopes Martinique and Guadaloupe. Will Alse Join in Move to Oppose the Axis’

FRENCH GUIANA SWINGS TO GEN. GIRAUD   Hope Held in Washington That French Indies, Martinique and Gaudeloupe Will Soon Join Fight

Hope West Indies May Join Allies   French Guiana’s Swing to Giraud Raises Hopes in Washington.

French Guiana Deserts Vichy   French West Indies Expected To Join In Fight Avainst Axis.

FRENCH WEST INDIES MAY JOIN FIGHT ON AXIS   French Guiana Swings To Side Of Giraud

NAZI SUGGESTS “JUST PEACE”   Says Reverses Chastene German Extremists  OE RO ny EEO

PEALE SUbuESTED BY GERMAN RADIO   People Want Just and Generous Settlement; No Surrender.

PEACE HINT BY © COMMENTATOR Oh BERLIN RADIO      Says People Would Gladly Dis pose Of Some Leaders After War's End

BOMBERS POUND “FIVE JAP CENTERS   Allied Planes Make Wide  ® Sweep of New Guinea and  New Britain; Fires Visible Several Miles

Five Jap Centers Hit by Bombs Of Allied Planes  Navy Aircraft Start Fires at Munda In Solomon Islands

Allies Again Bomb Japs In A Wide Sweep  Strike af Centers in New Guinea and Fe Mass Dolhain

ALLIES SWEEP 5 JAP CENTERS   New Guinea, New Britain Strongholds Given Heavy Blasting

Five Japanese Centers Bombed By Allied Fliers   New Guinea and New Britain Ports Heavily Damaged

Axis Resistance Stiffer in Sicily   Reds Strike at Kharkov, Bryansk  After Greatest Summer Victories

Allied Drive In Sicily Is Slowed Up   Stiff Resistance Delays Completion of Conquest  of Island

 Stiffening Axis Defense Line Falls Steadily Before Al lied Armies In Northeast  ern Sicily.   VICTORY SEEN IN SICILY SQON

PLAN COLLECTIONS OF PREPARED CANS   Volume.___Last .. Week _ Swamped Facilities of. ‘Salvace Committee 

PLAN COLLECTIONS OF PREPARED CANS   Volume Last Week Swamped Facilities of Salvage Committee

A Sensational New Dive Bomber Is Put Into Service By The United States Navy

Churchill’s Pledge Lauded In Congress   Most View Remarks As Answer to Those Demanding Jap Stand

BRITISH CRUSH JAPAN PLEDGE WINS APPROVAL   HALLS OF CONGRESS RING WITH PRAISE OF CHURCHILL SPEECH

CONGRESSMEN VOICE APPROVAL OF PRIME MINISTER'S PLEDGE TO SMASH JAPANESE

CHURCHILL'S PLEDGE OF HELP PRAISED   Senator Chandler Not Satisfied With Speech

Congress Hails Churchill's Pledge England Will Stick In Fight Until Japs Beaten    Senators See Speech As Answer To Those Urging U. 8. Make Japan No. 1 Enemy

Congress Praises Premier’s Pledge That Britain Will Fight Japs to End

CONGRESS CHEERS CHURCHILL TALK   Senator Chandler Claims Prime Minister Left Vital Questions Unanswered

Members Regard it as Complete Reply to Those  Who Have Criticized

Meanwhile, Berlin Admits End Is Near For German Forces Trapped Before Stalingrad.

U.S. BOMBERS IN BATTLE   American Air Force Takes Part In Attack on Rommel

DIES REPORT ISHELD UP BY SQUABBLI   Dispute Deals With Including Plug For Administration

Dies Group In Squabble.   Committee Holds Up Report About Axis Activity in the U.S.

LELAND HARVE' D.C. BLACK BREAK JAIL   Negro Trusty Smuggles Pistol to Men in Macon Jail Which They Used To Effect Escape.

The Governor ‘Amazed’  Convicts Trust Trusty With $22 for Gun and Fecane Anain

Two Georgia, Convicts icts Make Second Escape in I2 Days; Set Record

RETAKEN, JAIL DUO ESCAPES   It’s In Again and Out Again for Leaders At Macon, Ga.

Convicts Stage Another Break  Captured After First Break; Escape Again

SLAND UST OFF ITALY. 5 BOMBED AGAIN   Hiowastaine Raids ‘ on. es Are ‘Reported Fis om “North Africa...   FOUR: AIR FIELDS ‘HIT   Flying ‘Fortresses Paid Vis . it ‘to Important - ‘Base: ’ at Palermo, 

SLAND JUST OFF ITALY 1S BOMBED AGAIN   Devastating Raids on Sicily Are Reported Fiom North Africa.   FOUR AIR FIELDS HIT   Flying Fortresses Paid Vis. it to Important Base_ at Palermo, 

NEW SERIES OF ASSAULTS ON SICILY ISLAND      U.S. “Forts” Also Pay Respects to Palermo’s Airfield

More Battering Raids Are Made By U.S. Fliers   Sicily, Port Of Palermo, And Messina Are All Again Bombed   REPORT MESSINA  VIRTUALLY RAZED

—————-BUY VICTORY STAMPS-——_. San Francisco Under Hour-Lona Air Ales

New York Cotton   Uncle Sam Became Talent Scout  To Produce ‘This Is The Army’

IRVING BERLIN'S THIS IS THE ARMY   Coming Here For Benefit Of Army Emergency Relief Fund.

CANCELLATION “42. INCOME TAX STILL SOUGHT  , ee      Congressional Backers of Ruml Plan to Fight Anew for Such a Pay-AsYou-Go Meastire   ALL PLANS SCRAPPED   House Committee Name Sub-Group ‘to Draft Acceptable Compromise Legislation

Rum! Tax Plan Is Turned Down By House Group   Sets Up Subcommittee To Draft Suitable Compromise

All Income Tax Plans Voted Dowr   Acceptable Compromise To Be Drafted With Pay-As-You-Go Idea Included In Setup

PAY-AS-EARN TAX PATRONS ~ RENEW FIGHT   Success Signs Indicated Despite Committee Setback

HOUSE GROUP TO DRAFT NEW PLAN ON TAX INCOMES   Three Weeks of Study or Ruml Plan Results In Vot ing Down All Proposals or Collections.   ACCEPTABLE COMPROMISE IS BEING SOUGHT   Five-Man Committee Is In: structed to Prepare Pay: As-You-Go, Collections A   Source.

Supporters of Ruml  Plan Will Continue Fight For Adoptior   All Pay-As-You-Go Tax Schemes Voted Down; News From Capital

WILL FIGHT ANEW FOR RUM PLAN   Version of Pay-as-You-Go Is Defeated but Proponents Hone for Comnromise .

PAY-AS-YOU-GO PLAN TO COME   House Votes Down Rum! and Other Ideas, to Get New One.

Pay-as-Go Plan Backers Plot Fight   New Signs of Success Seen Despite Set-back In House Committee

Highway Patrol Seeks Fugitive   John Wilbur Voss Escapes From State Penitentiary .

Convict Hides In Bread Box To Escape M’Alester, Makes Getaway In a Stolen Auto

REBEL LEADE APPOINTS HS NEW CABINE   Castillo, Ex-chief, Is Set Free: Two Min isters Imprisoned

Two Castillo Aides Jailed   Members of Cabinet Token Into Custody As President Quits

NEW PRESIDENT FOR ARGENTINA   Gen, Arturo Rawson Succeeds Castillo, Who Returns to. Yield Office

General Who Led Revolt  Is Argentina President   Castillo Surrenders Office to Rawson

OUSTED HEAD OF ARGENTINA RESIGNS POSt   PRO - ALLIED REGIME TAKES CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT

Rawson New Agen )         General Succeeds stiJlo and. Forms: tary Cabinet

Castillo Resigns Presidency; New Regime’s Policies Set By Military

Gen. Rawson Installed In  Argentina   10-Man Governing Board Appointed By New President.

General Rawson New President Of Argentina  Only Two Members Of Administration Listed as Civilians  CASTILLO GOES FREE  Two of Resigned President's Cabinet Sent to Prison

Revolution In Argentine Ends As Chiefs Quit   Pro - Allied Force:  Win; Country : Quiet; Two Mer Are Held -

CASTILLO OUT Aa PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINE   Set Free by Military Junta "After Surrendering. and. Resigning. a   ONE-DAY “REVOLUTION COST LIVES OF 50

New Leaders Start  Activities in  Argentine Nation Rawson Is President; Names Cabinet of Military Personnel

General Rawson New President   New Cabinet Setur Has Two Civiliance

General Rawson New Head of Argentina  New Cabinet Has Only Two Civilian Meambeare

Gen. Rawson Heads New Argentine Government. Following Military Coup  Uruguayan Sources Claim New bond o   Uruguayan Sources Claim New Government Does Not  Represent Democratic View

REVOLT LEADER 1S ARGENTINA'S. NEW PRESIDENT   General Rawson Takes Over . Reins After Castillo Ends ' Defiance and Surren-— * ders Office.   LATTER SET FREE; TWO MINISTERS HELI   No Indication Given of Policies of New Regime—AntiAircraft Guns Still . Mounted in Capital.

PRESIDENT RAWSON SETS UP ARGENTINE CABINET   Two Italian Battlewagons Have Been Crippled Ducks Most of War

Rawson Takes  Presidency  Of Argentina Only Two Civilians  Included in New fahine: af Natlan

GENL, RAWSON BECOMES HEAD OF NEW REGIME   His Governmental Leadership Includes Only Two Civilians; Others of Army and Navy   POLICIES TOWARD AXIS NOT REVEALED   Argentina Only South American Government Maintaining Relations With Foes of Alfies

Reds Dislodge  German Troops   Over 1,200 Killed During Skirmishes

Russians Launch Drive Aimed at Kiev After New Successes Near Kharkov

Soviets Aim New Assault Toward Kiev   Strike Out Northwest Of Kharkov in Race For Upper Dnieper

Reds drive toward  Kiev, advancing . on 400-mile front   Race for upper Dnieper where Germans may make next stand

Reds Strike From Newly Won Kharkov   Retreating Nazis Fallen Upon By Long Patient (;nerrillas

AHARKOV’S RED CAPTORS PUSH TOWARD KIEV   Continued Successes Along 400-Mile Front Reported bv Soviet

re dad bdo anal bd bead atl _ we >  Russians Push Out Northwest From Kharkov

Reds Pile Up Fresh Successes On Long Front   Invaders Expected to Make Next Stand on Dnieper River

UL §. Bombers Dropped 4698 Tons of Bombs on Nazis Last Month, Downed  Or Damaged 1261 German Planes

U.S. Drops  Bomb Load of 4698 Tons   AIR GUNNERS RUIN 1261 GERMAN PLANES OVER OCCUPIED EUROPE

Farm Leaders, Solons ,  Score Proposal Plan to Subsidize   Plan to Subsidize Production Meets Opposition

Farm Leaders, Solons  Score Proposal Plan to Subsidize Production Meets Opposition

Orders Coal Mines On Six-Day Week   Applies To Coal Mines Seized By Government

LEWIS STATES DEMAND UNDER NEW CONTRACT   Work stoppage costs @s! mated $15,000,000 in lost production

Six Day Week For Coal Mines Is Ickes Order   U. S. Controlled Mines Are Directed To Increase Production At Once   HARD AND SOFT COAL ARE INCLUDED  Ry WILLIAM EF ZIMMERMAN

Seven Japanese Ships Are Sunk By Subs; New Air Blows Struck In Aleutians And On Solomons

SMASH CARGO SHIPS, TANKER, TRANSPORT   Navy Also Reports Enemy Warship Was Damaged

Jap Aleutian Bases Hit By U. 5. Bombers  Planes Also Active  In Solomons Area; ete Oo ee

 Yanks Strike Japs at Kiska and in Solomons and American Subs Send Seven Merchant Ships Down

U. S. Subs Sink Seven Japanese Ships: Kiska Again Bombed by American Fliers

U.S. Subs Sink 7 Japanese Merchantmen  Damage Destroyer; Shoots Down Zeros in Aleutians

Nazi Offensive in Southeasi Tunisia Broken   Grave Losses Are Suffered by Rommel’s Forces

TOMMIES PUT HALT TO NEW GERMAN MOVE   ‘Americans Pressing Steadily Forward From South

American Bombers Sink Two Vessels From Enemy Convoy   Madrid Dispatches Ciaim Franco-American ® Forces Have Recaptured Nazi Base At Gafsa

French Troops Are Moving In On Gafsa   Allies Probing Weak Spots In German Lines For Start Of Offensive To Drive  Nazis Into Sea

Tanks Attack Toujane, Troops Reported Probing,  Testing German Lines

Souaelineaeeeheenannemeinel Se  OREGON TO CELEBRATE NORTH AFRICAN VICTORY

ELK HILO QEAL REPORT {§ BARED   Justice Dept. Says Teapot  Dome Case Outdone.

WOULD ACQUIRE ELK HILLS OIL RESERVES BY CONDEMNATION  JUSTICE DEPARTMENT _ MAKES RECOMMENDATIO!

Favors U.S. Purchase of Elk Hills Oil   Would Buy $146,000.,.000 Interest Held By Standard Oil

Report On Oil Contract Given  U.S. Should Condemn Company-Owned Land

Suggestion From Justice Department  U.S. May Take Standard Oil’s Interest In Elk Hills By Condemnation

Would Condemn Elk Hills Land   Justice Department Makes Public Report

U.S. Urged To Take Over All Elk Hills Area   Get Standard’s Share By Condemnation, Justice Dept. Suggests.

COMPLIED RELUCTANTLY   Condemnation Recommended For Ess¢ Interest In Elk Hills Oil Reserve

Condemnation Action Urged   Justice Department Recommends Move to ‘Secure Oil Lands

Ask Seizure  Of Oil Lands   Justice Department Suggests Condemnation Action Against Standard.

Gov't Moves To Acquire Standard Oil’s Interest In Elk Hills Oil Fields

Opponents Of Flynn May Be Given Hearing   Mayor LaGuardia May Be Called as Witness For Reviring Chairman   WILLKIE IS CRITICAL

LAGUARDIA MAY SUPPORT FLYNN   Senate Committee Decides Friday On Hearings Over Ambassador Nomination

MAY INVESTIGATE FLYNN’S NOMINATION   Would Call Mayor of New York as Witness

NOMINATION OF EDWARD FLYNN [S UNDER FIRE   Naming of Democratic Chairman Termed Insult to Government of Australia, by Bridges   WILLKIE RAPS MOVE   Asserts Appointment “So Crassly Cynical It-Must Be Revolting to Decent Citizens”

May Question ’  Naming Of Flynn  Willkie Says-Choice- <. ’Cynical;’ LaGuardia. May Testify On Paving

SENATE PROBE OF FLYNN CASE IS POSSIBILITY   LaGuardia May Be Called To Testify for FDR’s Friend

FLYNN AVERO LAGUARDIA CAN EXPLAIN   Predicts Mayor Will Tell Senate About the Paving Blocks.   WILLKIE .DECLARES FLYNN AN "INSULT”   Naming of New Minister Stirs General Outbreak of Protest.

PAVING BLOCKS IN FLYNN QUIZ   New York Mayor May Be Summoned As Witness In Hearings

LaGuardia May Be Called As A Flynn Witness   N. Y. Mayor Can Explain Paving Block Incident, Savs Nominee.

NCL LL ee aaa ea  Women’s ‘Styles s ‘Offensive And Sensual’ Catholic Union Charges

Asks OK. On Farm  Program   Says Farmers Must Get Greater Returns for: Labor, But Prices to Public Should Not Rise

‘ickard Asks congress Q, K.  On Farm Plan   iod = Direetor Would In. crease Income Without  Lifting Prices.   EED EARLY DECISION

WICKARD URGES FARM PLAN OK   ‘Clear Mandate -Immedi‘ately’ Is Food Adminis. trator’s Plea

Wickard Asks Clear Mandate On Farm Goals   Would Raise Farm Incomes Without Increasing Consumer Price.   Plan Evokes Sharp  Farm Bloc Criticism

WICKARD ASKS FARM INCENTIVE   Secretary Urges Congress Give ‘Clear Mandate’ on 1944 Program

WICKARD WANTS CLEAR MANDATE ON FARM PLAN   Doesn’t Think Increased Prices to Farmers For  Products Advisable

FARM PROGRAM TO RAISE PRICES UP T0 CONGRESS   Secretary Wickard Asks for ‘Immediate Mandate’ To Get Plans Started   HIGHER HCL IS FEARED   Program Based on Federal Purchases and Incentive Paymentsto Farmers

Incentive Payments  Demanded   Repeats Opposition to General Increase in Prices for  Farm Products

Wickerd asks ‘clear mandate’ for plans   Offers several proposals to stop prices from rocketing too high

Wickard Asks for Go-Sign   CONGRESS URGED TO ACT ON FARMING WHILE TIME REMAINS

ASKS MANDATE IN MAPPING OF FOOD PROGRAM   Wickard Wants Congress to Decide on Means for Farm Income Increase

WICKARD ASKS CROP INCENTIVE FOR FARMER:   Seeks $100,000,000 Fund to Finance Payments For Increased Yield

Wickard Asks Congress for Clear Mandate to Go Ahead with Food Production Program Proposed

WICKARD URGES FARM PROGRAM   ASKS CONGRESS FOR A CLEAR MANDATE — AND PROMPT ACTION

Wickard Asks ‘Clear Mandate’   Congress’ Backing With Cash Needed

Wickard Asks Green Light  For Program Hicher Prices Onls   Higher Prices Only Mean General Rise Tells Congressmen

Wickard Asks Clear Mandate   Suggests Other Ways To Help Farmers Than By Raising Prices

Peace Moves Jar Nazis In Balkans   Outbursts Of Unrest ‘Trouble Germans

\Germany’s Hold On Southeast Europe Shaking Under Impact Of New Peace Demonstrations   Populations Of Bulgaria, Rumania And Hungary Seeking To Shake Axis Yoke

NAZI HOLD ON BALKANS IS SHAKING   Elements of Population In Bulgaria, Rumania  And Hungary Seeking Good Graces of Allies

Nazi Marshal Rommel Still” Is Retreating.   * American Pilots , In- Victory Over. Mediterranean -

Down 19 Planes While British Eighth Army Is Pursuing Afrika Korps

FIFTY TANKS. ARE ABANDONED TO EIGHTH ARMY   American Fliers Down 17 Planes Over Mediterranean

Rommel Continues Retreat   U. S. AIRMEN WIN BIG ENGAGEMENT OVER MEDITERRANEAN

NAZIS ABANDON FIFTY TANKS IN STEADY RETREAT   Rommel Being. Driven Relentlessly Back to Mareth Line Poaitians

EIGHTH ARMY {S ~ IN HOT PURSUIT; ‘NOUS LOSSES   Flying Forts, P-38's Raising Hob With Enemy Air Forces.

BRITISH ARMY IS DRIVING GERMANS TO MARETH LINES   Allies Appear Winning Mastery of Air In Battles on Tunisian Front With Small Lasses.   JAPS SINK CARGO SHIP IN PACIFIC   Knox Declares Jap Communication Lines Are Weaker, “Our Position” Becomes Stronger.

AMERICANS VICTORS IN AIR BATTLE   Axis Loses 19 Planes Over Mediterranean Against None by U.S.

JAP ISLANDS TARGET FOR BOMBARDMEN}   ‘Attack By y Carrier Task Force Begins At  ‘Hawn, Report

Navy Announces Raid on Marcus Island by U. S. Task Force Is “Presumably Now in Progress’   No Report Is Received As Yet From Raiders

NAVY SAYS PUSH -(S ‘PRESUMABLY IN PROGRESS NOW   Japs First Announced It. Last Wid-Pacific Enemy Poet.

Japs. Reveal 1 Task Force Hit. Marcus Island —1,100 Miles From  ’ Tokvo

DEFENSE OUTPOST ATTAGK POSSBLE BI NAVA SWEEP      Able to ~ Raid’ "Mainland, Later Refers to-Attack-as Nuisance Assault: 2         DUTCH NEW: GUINEA   Reds Coordinate Offensives To Roll Back Eneniy-on ~ 700-Mile Front lensk

IS ONE OF JAP DEFENSE POSTS        “. Miah be But. One Phase of Greal American Naval Sweep in Central Pacific.

Conference Workers at Church Here   FIRST BAPTIST TO BE MEETING SCENE ON MON. DAY.  .

Workers Of Baptist Will Confer Mon.   ENNIS TO BE SITE OF RELIG. fOUS AFFAIR MAY 24.

FOOD SUPPLY . “REPORT MADE      COMPARATIVEY SMALL PORTION SHIPPED UNDER LEND-LEASE LA8T YEAR, REPORT SHOWS

LITTLE 1$ SENT   BLess Than Six Per Cent Of U. S. Food Goes Abroad

TEXAS PRODUCTION  OF OIL BE HIKED  120,000 BARRELS PAW OFFICIAL TOLD TEX  AS RAIL COMMISSION REC AMMENIATION pe WANE

Leaders Withhold “Back to Work” Order for Strikers   STRINGENT ORDERS ARE ISSUED BY ICKES   Householders With 10 Day’s Supply Denied - More Fuel

MINERS MAKE NO MOVE 10 RESUME WORK   ROOSEVELT’S CALL DISREGARDED BY UNION HEADS

Vast Majority of Miners Ignore Rooseveit’s Plea To Return to Pits Today

Coal Pact Is Sought By Ickes   Third Meetin, With Lewis ~ Set Todav

PRESIDENTIAL APPEAL T0 UMW TO BE IGNORED   Miners Not Expected To Work Without Contract; Lewis, Ickes Confer   GOVERNMENT FREEZES ‘ALL’ COAL IN TRANSIT

 Coal Mine Union Leadership Withholds Order Returning Men to Work as  Lewis and Ickes Reach No Agreement

UMW Withholds Back to Work ‘Order for Miners   Ickes Freezes Coal in Transit; Limits Deliveries to Homes

Lewis, Ickes Seek Terms  Al Heel   Next Move May Be Determined By Conference

President's Plea To Return to Work Will Be Ignored, Reports Indicate   Meeting of Policy Commilfee Is Cancelled by Union; Ickes Freezes Soft Coal in Transit

ckes Restricts (Coal Deliveries to Householders   Men Expected to Ignore President's Call for Return to Pits Today; Ickes  And Lewis to Confer Again Early Today

ICKES, LEWIS CONFER, UNION FAILS TO ACI   Secretary Issues Order Restricting Delivery of Coal

ICKES, LEWIS CONFER ABOUT NEW SITUATION   Third Conference Slated Today; Policy Group Cancels Meeting Yesterday

Coal Strike s Continued  ‘Back To Work’ Order Not Given By Lewis

U.M.W. Withholds Order to Work  Most Miners Will Remain Idle Today

Back fo-Mines Order Withheld By Union Heads   Believe Workers Will Ignore President's Recall to Coal Pits

Diggers Expected to Ignore Roosevelt’s Call for Resumption of Production Today—Ickes and Lewis Seek Agreement on Terms of Government Operation—Householders With 10-Day Supplies to Get No More.

Back-to-Work Order Withheld by Leaders As Policy Committee Postpones Meeting  ICKES AND LEWIS HOLD DISCUSSIONS  Delivery Restrictions On Household Coal Made by Secretary

REST AURANT PRICES ARE TO BE FROZEN   Food And Drink Charges As Of Last April 4-10 Will Be Enforeed Ry OPA

RESTAURANT ~— PRICE FREEZING   Plan Presented Would Peg Items At Levels of April 4-10

299 PERISH AT SEA;: GERMANY SUFFER:   No Americans Lost In Ocean Tragedy; Civilian Casualties High “ty . Rich Valleys Flooded

Nazis Hit London  Again as Blasted Dams Flood Ruhr   Americans Lose 14 Bombers in Big Daylight Attack on Lorient U-Boat Pens and Bordeaux; Status of U. §. Campaign on Attu Remains Veiled

MAY BAN PLEASURE DRIVING IN MID-WEST   Expect to Move Central States Supply East

New Gas Ban In Offing   -- - Ickes Says Cut In Driving Necessary

Violators in 13 States and D. of C. Face Loss of Gas Rations for Duration, Brown Says

Fun-Driving Ban Too Late, Ickes Says   Motoring for Pleasure Prohibited As of Today

tt s Against Law Again to Drive for  Pleasure in Dozen Eastern States

DRIVING FOR FUN GUT AGAIN IN EAST; PENALTIES REPLACE “HONOR SYSTEM”

Further Curbs On Gas Loom   ‘Driving for Fun’ Ban Not Enough to Avert Crisis. Says Ickes

ICKES SEES NEW GASOLINE GUT   Further Reductions Are Forecast; Pleasure Driving Ban In East

Further Gasoline Restrictions Hinted   Ickes Says Midwest Might Be Short

Driving For Fun Out Again In East, Strict Penalties Replace OPA Honor System

Clamp Down On East's Drivers   Pleasure Drivers Face Loss of Coupons

Further Cut In Gas Ration Ts Predicted   Ickes Says Ban Should Have Been Imposed Long Ago

REDUCTION OF DRIVING SEEN   Pleasure Driving Curb Ma: Extend To Midwest Says Ickes

F urther Cut In Gasoline   Ickes Declares Crisis Will Mean Further  Curb on Driving

More Cuts in Gas Use Loom. Ickes Says   New Restrictions May Have to Be Imposed on Middle West

MOTORISTS IN EAST ARE HIT BY OPA RULING      Ban Pleasure Driving Again In 18 © . Stotad ‘eee e   STARTS TODAY   Blame Shortage © Gas In East For Action

FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN USE OF GASOLINE SEEN BY ICKES   Further Restrictions May Have To Be Imposed on Middle Western States.

Driving Ban Is in Force In 12 States   Washington, May 20 (AP) As of noon today it’s against the law again to drive for fun in 12 eastern states, part of another and the District of Columbia.

BAN ALL PLEASURE DRIVING IN EAST   Honor System Fails So OPA Resorts to Strict Enforcement

IGKES NOW PREDICTS MORE RESTRICTIONS AUTOMOBILE DRIVING  DECLARES ALL NON-ESSENTIAL DRIVING SHOULD  DE ECRIBMINATCH

Need Drastic Driving Ban   May Extend Sharper Restrictions To Midwest Section Soon

MAY CURB DRIVING IN MIDWEST   Further Restrictions Will  Have to Be Made, Says Secretary Ickes   NEW CRISIS. ARISES ‘ IN BASTERN AREA   Break in Pipeline in Flood Area, Biggest Blow to Kast .

PLEASURE DRIVING IS UNDER BAN   Violation Will Lead to Loss Of Ration Book For the Duration if OPA So Desires   MILITARY NEED CITED

TWO ARE INJURED IN HIGHWAY (RASH      Three Cars Involved in Frederick St. Action

Allies Down Eleven  Jap Planes in Southwest Pacific   Seven Others Are Listed as Probably Destroyed and Four Damaged in Three Encounters; Four Aircraft Lost

Score Of Jap Zeros Blasted   Il Downed, Seven Probably Destroyed, Four Damaaed

NIPPONESE RAID LOSSES HEAVY   Enemy Risks More And More Aircraft Over New Guinea

Allies Intensify Pace of Air  Fight in Pacific Success Is Reported  After Battles With Enemy Zeros

Seguin Man Nominated Highway Commissioner   Fred Knetsch, Former Law Partner of Stevenson at Junction, ls Nominated

Nightclub Singer Wounded By Shot   Wild Pistol Shot From Speeding Auto Strikes Delores Gray

REDS DRAW NEARER TO. SMOLENSK   German Defenses Crumble As More Towns Fall

Red Troops Move Closer To Smolensk  - Russ ns Repor rted   Russians Reported Preparing Heavy Spring. Offensive

SCRAP RUBBER DRIVE SO GOOD IT’S ENDED   Genera  Salvage Program Builds Up Stock Pile

 ® American Troops  Within 34 Miles of Sea   British 8th Army Reported Cutting Around Mareth Line; German General Preparing Heavy Defense at E] Hamma.

Maknassy Is Captured by US Troops   British Forces Dash 100 Miles Around Mareth Line; Reds Take 50 Towns in Drive Against Smolensk

Allies Narrow Axis Escape Corridor   British Bombers Resume Trip-Hammer Blasting of Europe; Reds Push On

British Establish Breach Through Defense Works   Allied Forces Are — Closing Noose on Rommel’s Axis Army

2-WAY ATTACK BY YANKS AND BRITISH RAGES   American Tank-led Force Surges On to Maknassy Only 34 Miles from Coast   ROMMEL PUT IN SQUEEZE   Reds Drive On to Smolensk And Hold Near Kharkovs, Nazi Sub Base Blasted

British Gain 100 Miles At Mareth Line   Allies Forces Not Far Apart To Cut Off Axis

YANKEES SMASH TOWARD COAST IN CENTRAL TUNISIA   British Circle Mareth Line; Nazi Escape Route Nare rowed; Russians Capture Fifty More Towns.

Yankees Only 60) Miles From Joining Allies   Patton’s Forces Take Make nassy, Tommies Advance 100 Miles Around Mareth,   /RUSH TO CLOSE TRAP

AMERICANS CAPTURE MAKNASSY; BRITISH THREATEN MARETH   MONTGOMERY ONLY SIXTY MILES FROM JUNCTION WITH PATTON

8th-Army-Threatens Chief Supply Base Of Rommel Troops   Patton Pushes On Toward Coast; Heavy Fighting In So. Tunisia; Reds Gain In Smolensk Drive

Germans Name Kursk As Next Objective On Southern Front—w. S. Airmen Battle Wilhelmshaven Naval Base

SOVIETS ATTACK IN SMOLENSK AREA AS FEELER THRUST   Berlin Broadcasts Admit Re treat In Dorogobuzh Sector,

it WAY TO EW TACTICS   VV  fet High Command Reports Three Short Encounters In Past 24 Hours

SOVIET OFFENSIVE LOOMS AS ARMIES PUSH NAZIS HARD   Russian Troops Repeatedly Attack German Lines _ On Smolensk — , Front

FEW MINOR CHANGES IN MEAT VALUES   Some Cuts to Cost An Additional Point After May 2

OPA REVISES: POINT VALUES FOR MEATS      Additional Point Fer 15 Prime Cuts; Less For 25 Others

OPA ALTERS MEAT POINT LIST MAY 2   Prime Cuts Advance, but Variety Products Reduced

Points for SomeCuts Increased   New Consumer Point Val. ues for Meat Effective  Sunday

‘Point Values for Prime Cuts Of Beef, Veal and Pork Raised;  Reductions In Other Products

Meat Ration Points for  May Issued   Prime Cuts Up— Butter and Cheese Unchanged

OPA Revises Point Values Of Meats — Prime Cuts Raised   Changes Do Not Mean Meat Situation Is Worse — Go Into Effect Sunday, May 2

Point Values Raised On 16 Cuts Of Meat   Choice Steaks Will Be Higher Sunday; 25 Items Reduced

 Lhe War Today— ‘Capture Of Foegia. Opens Way For New. Developments In’ War Theater

‘The War Today  Capture of Foggia One Of Major ‘Triumphs In Mediterranean.

CAPTURE OF FOGGIA ONE OF MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS   Possession of Key Air Base Will Greatly Expe dite Conquest of Italy —MacKenzie

Foggia Is the Key to Vast Fields of Allied Endeavor Its Capture Was a Major Triumph

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   i apture Of Foggia Most mportant Victory ‘et Won In Italy

Selective Service Work  In Ohio Now Functioning Smoothly, Survey Reveals

U.P. Writer Describes Meeting That Signalled End of Guadalcanal Battle

40P.C.of — Mines ay Operate ae   Back-to:Work ~ Move Ranges Frorr Trickle to Stream

Regulations Broad Enough To Move Labor To Farms   Co-operation Of Immigration Men  ls Chief Factor

Quebec Commission Accedes to Demands  Of 4500 Striking Montreal City Workers

Daily Temperatures   By UNITED PRESS   Confirmed Casualties of U. S. Armed Forces Are Announced As 126,969

Dally Temperatures   Confirmed Casualties of U.S. Armed Forces Are Announced As 126,969

GILBERT ISLAND BATTLE COSTLY; 1092 YANKS DEAD   ‘Bloody Three-day Fighting As Deadly As Landing on ~ Sipily

Goodfellows   ‘Santa Makes Unscheduled Visit to ‘Court Room; Boy of 14 Is Made Happy

Berlin Admits Nazi Forces Are Fleeing Caucasus Toe-Hold   Evacuation of Crimea to Prevent . Entrapment Likely

ee  NAZI DEBACLE IN RUSSIA IS GROWING FAST   Flee Kuban Bridgehead, After Bloody Defeats at Novorossisk and Anapa.

Red Forces Reach Goal At Dnieper   Break Through  At Novomoskovsk

NO STOPPING ADVANCES ON GREAT FRONT   Situation of Nazis Grows More Pecarious Hourly as Soviet Juggernaut Rolls On

Last Minute Coal Peace Move Made   Operators, Miners Renew Attempt to Break Deadlock   UNION HAS CAUCUS   War Labor Board Awaits Detail Report From Operators

COAL DISPUTE BACK IN WLB HANDS AGAIN   Operators, Union ‘Unable to Agree On Portal Pay

FORT TO FING bu SETTLEMENT   Stalemate Reached in Negotiations With Lewis   UNIGN HEAD BRANDS MEETING ‘FARCICAL’

MORE TOWNS IN HANDS CF REDS ~ IN BIG DRIVE   Russians Are Making Huge Effort to Take Strategic Ran P= nt.   SOVIET FORGES AHEAD   Drawing Closer to Rostov, Which Is Prime Prize in Offensive. ~

MORE TOWNS IN: “HANDS OF REDS: IN BIG- DRIVE   Russians Are Making ‘Huge Effort to: Take Strategic” > Ran. Point. 4000-0      SOVIET] FORGES AHEAD   Drawing} Closer to Rostov, “Which Is Prime Prize . in Offensive.

REDS TIGHTEN RING ON VITAL RAIL JUNCTION   Thirteen Towns Retaken B: Soviets: In March Thru North Caucasus Area   NAZI WEDGE TURNED BACK:   Columns Sweeping Across Low Don River Area Drive Closer To Rostov

Reds Circle eorgievsk Rail Center   Soviets report capture o' thirteen strategic points today

Soviet Troops Push Nearer To  Rail Junction   Encirclement Around Georgievsk Is Developing, Says Moscow   MORE VILLAGES TAKEN BY REDS   Russian Forces Continue To Forge Ahead In Don Area Toward Rostov

MUNDA RAIDED BY U.S. FLEET   Guns Of Pacific Task Force Pound Island Base

Jap Airfield On New Georgia Island Bombed   U.S. Task Force Of Surface Units Takes Part In Heavy Attack   AIR FORCE ADDS TO ATTACK LATER

TO CONTINUE WARM   Little Change in Weather Condl« tions Forecast

Some Cooler Here Tonight   No Precipitation Expected In Kansas In Next 24 Hours

Red Units Free 110 Villages   Germans Lose 12,000 Dead In Battle

BLOW STRUCK ‘BLACK MARKET IN THE EAST   OPA CHARGES RING INDICTED AT NEWARK GOT TWO AtIzLION, DOLLARS IN EX. “CESS PRICKS

German General Staff Ready To Eliminate Adolf Hitler   Then Will Begin Plans For Next War, Unless Legend Of ‘Undefeated German Army’ Is Ended

Nazi Military ‘Believed Up To Old Tricks   Nazi General Staff Expected to Eliminate Hitler When Complete Collapse of Germany Anvears Inevitable

junkers Expected to Kick Out Hitler When German Collapse Appears Certain

German General Staff Will Eliminate Hitler, ts Claim   Getting Rid of Fuchrer Will Be Only Beginning In Breaking Reich As War-Maker Forever, a High  London Source, Who For Years Inside Gerae : Want Mal On Hoar Miulitacu. heavens  Loom € peetee BEEGE Aol Gf ReS epee gen ft

RESOLUTION IS PASSED   Board of Health Praises Newspapers and:Radio Station

Many Postwar Bills Planned   Survey Shows More Than 100 Measures

Postwar Planning For Veterans One Of Nation's Jobs  Chief Objective Is To As  Chief Objective Is To Assure Employment And Not Just Relief

SUBSIDY MOVE LIKELY TO DIE   Administration Hope Slim In Rollback Proposal

Montana Exceeds  War Rond Goal $3,999,206 Goes Into U. S. Securities

Moniana Exceeds War Rand Goal  $3,999.206 Goes Into Ty. S. Seeuritteas

DE GAULLE IS READY TO QUIT   Nesignation Is Offered te  French Committee

 U.S. Liquor Industry, Alarmed by   Prohibition Threats, Warts Rellback 

OPA ORDERS NEW LIQUOR PRICING   Ohio Officials See Regulations Boosting Drink Supply In State

JOINS IN BATTLE ON LIQUOR PRICE   Distillers Aid OPA Roll-Back as Prohibition Views Increase

DRIVE FOR MEMBERS      Attempt Is Made to Unionize Paid Workers of Red Cross

Make Effort To Unionize Red Cross Workers   12,000 Receive  fine For Services

REPUBLICANS HEAR CALL FOR COALITION   Landon, Marts, Bricker Assail “Expanding Arrogant Bureaucracy”

REPUBLICANS RAP NEW DEAL, BUREAUCRACY      Landon Urges Coalition With ‘Rea Democrats’ but Knox Rebuke: Partisanship

Advise Coalition Of Republicans,  Real Democrats   ‘Arrogant Bureaucracy” Is Denounced In Talks At Lincoln Day Dinners

Coalition With “Real Democrats” Askec By Republican Lincoln Day Speakers

Lincoln Day Speakers Ask  For Coalition   Suggestion Made That Republicans and Real Democrats Unit

Bureaucracy Attacked on Lincoln Day   Republicans Criticize Conduct Of War

‘BUREAUCRACY TAKEN FOR “RIDE” BY REPUBLICANS IN LINCOLN DAY TALKS

REPUBLICANS HAVE FIELD DAY RUNNING DOWN DEMOCRATS   Lincoln Day Gatherings 'Reek With New leal Slams

REPUBLICANS TD COMBAT BIIREANIRALY   Governor Martin Says Washington Has Invaded State Rights.   FEDERAL MONEY - BRINGS CONTROL   House Leader Martin Says Washington Is Full of Useless Employes.

Republicans Beckoning tc ‘Real’ Dems   Landon Calls For Coalition As GOP Sheds Shroud.

ye  For Fusion of ‘Real? Demos, Republicans   Lautan Advyacales Coalition: Knox Comnaree EDR. Lincolsy

BEUREAUCRATS ATTACKED ON LINCOLN'S DAY   Call Issued For Coalition Between “Real Democrats And Republicans

Ohio Governor Charges War Used To Impose Un-American Philosophies on People

Ask Coalitior In Fight on Bureaucracy   Lincoln Day Speakers Criticize Conduct of War; Knox Says Lincoln Faced Same Opposition in Civil War

LINCOLN DAY TALKS STRESS PARTY UNITY   Administration Conduct Of War Criticized by G. O. P, Chiefs

REPUBLICANS ASK COALITION WITH “REAL DEMOCRATS”   Attack on “Arrogant Bureaucracy” and Criticism of Administration’s Conduct of War Highlights Lincoln Day Meets

Congressmen Given Secret Report on War   Gen. Marshall, Secretary Stimson, Other Leaders Tell of Military Progress  A S™ TIAA Tt LAL sZAAASsII Oo OE TAMA AJA   ACTION MOVIES SHOWN

Army Chief of Staff Gives ‘Straight-Front-the-Shoulder’ Talk on War; Other Leaders Speak.

GIVES REPORT   ‘Convincing’ Talk Giver House Members Behind Closed Doors.

Presents War Progress Talk   General Marshall Gives Convineing First-Hand Report Of Fronts.

House Members Hear ¥J. S. Chiefs   Military Leaders Tell Progress of War At Secret Session

NATION'S WAR CHIEFS REPORT TO CONGRESS   Marshail And Stimson Discuss Military Plans And Future Problems

National GOP Committeeman Calls — For Permanent Defensive Treaty  To Be Signed By U. S., Great Britain

Texans Support Ickes Oil Plea .   - Hike’ In Price And  ‘Dendi  eetTn.w A-ld--t

Texans Support Ickes Oil Plea   Hike In Price And Production Asked

CHURCHILL WAR TALKS RESUMED   Leaders Give Attention To Collaboration With Russia

Churchill Arrives  To Confer   Collaboration With Russia To Be Stressed

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT OPEN NEW WAR DISCUSSIONS   President and Brifish Prime Minister Seek To Arrange Parley with Stalin

War Conference ls Resumed   Roosevelt, Churchill Stress Collaboration

FDR-Churchil Renew Parleys In Washington   Official Silence Prevails; Political Angles Believed Foremost

Two Leaders Expected to Give Attention to Ways to Attain Closer Military and Political Relations With Russia— Prime Minister Arrives in Capital by Special Train, Accompanied by Wife.

Churehill In Washington To   Resume Conferences On War   British Prime Minister, Accompanied by Mrs. Churchill, in Capital for Fourth War-Time Visit— Arrive by Special Train s

F.RB., Churchill Resume Talks   More Collaboration With Russia Seen

PN Bake CAUECA Pcrives in "Was ling: on 0 von: “nue, “War a <s,, im >1asis  "a “Wy ar-aicn wed Zussia .

Churchill Here  For Conference   Plans to Invade Europe Ralkieved Snaitlnd

Senate May Attempt to Revive FSA   Bankhead Leads Drive to Reverse Action Taken By House

Senators Hit Death OF FSA   Bankhead Predicts Effort To Restore Funds For Continued Operation, 

SEEK TD RESTORE FUNDS FOR FSA   Senator Bankhead Predicts Senate Will Replace House Cut Appropriations

Charges In Suit That Earl Carroll's Beauties Are Not So Beautiful

 ZI RESISTANCE § IFFENS AT OREL Bul REDS MOVE ON   G er mans ,° Counter Attack On Belgorod Front-— Enemy Losses Heavy

REDS SLOWED, NOT HALTED BY NAZIS AT OREI   Take 20 More Villages Despite Stiffer Resistance

GERMANS SLOW, FAIL TO HALT RUSSIAN DRIVE   Red Columns Reach Gates Of Orel — Hammer Out Some Gains

U.S. Fliers Rip  Italian Cruiser   Blow Off Stern: ‘Buster Raids on Mainland

BLOCK-BUSTER ASSAULT NEAR NAPLES MADE   Squadrons Meet No Opposition From Axis Fighter Craft   ‘CRUISER SET AFIRE

Italian Cruiser Loses Stern to  U.S. Bombers  Depleted Axis Airforce ! Again Refuses Battle H Owar Ttale;

Allied Bombs Leave Italian Cruiser Abaze   Airmen Continue Ham mering Of Enemy Com munication Lines.

SQUADRONS ALLIED AIRMEN BLASTED AT SOUTHERN ITALY  _ COMMUNICATIONS OVER - LOWER PART OF MAIN.  TAND HAMMERED

Airmen. Blast South : Italy   Leave Italian Cruiser Afire; No Axis Fighters Up

ALLIED PLANES HAMMER AWAY AT RAIL YARDS   Air Opposition To Attacks Falls Off,  Officers Announce

BLOCK-BUSTER RAID IS MADE NEAR NAPLES   Allied Airmen, in Other Attacks on Southern Italy’s Communications, Hit Cruiser With Two 500-pound Bombs.

Axis Cruiser Left on Fire by Bombers   ‘Naples Hit in Block Busting Raid; No Opposition Challenges Allied Airmen

Italian Cruiser Loses Stern to U. S. Bombers    Depleted Axis Airforce : Again Refuses Battle Over Italy     Two Hits Made

ALLIES ‘SOFTEN’ SOUTHERN ITALY   BOMBERS CONTINUE DEVASTATING RAIDS ON COMMUNICATIONS

ALLIED BOMBING IN ITALY-FRANCE TAKE HEAVY TOLL   Italian Cruiser Hit and German Air Bases in France Are Destroyed

Communications In Southern Italy Struck by Allies   No Opposition Met From Axis Fighters In Block-Buster Raid

FORCE NOT FIGHTING   Italian Cruiser Set Afire Off Coast Near Nanles

Airmen Wreck Italian Cruiser   Ship Left Afire With Stern Blown Off By U. S. Bombers; Fliers Active Over Italy

AIR SQUADRONS OF ~ ALLIES HAMMERED SOUTHERN ITALY   Communication Lines Were Again Attacked Tuesday Night.   ITALIAN SHIP SET AFIRE   Depleted Axis Forces Refused Battle for the Second Successive Day.

Ne ee  Sa  ALLIED PLANES CONTINUE TO HAMMER AT SOUTHERN ITALY WITH NO FIGHTER OPPOSITION

ITALIAN CRUISER [FFT AFIRE OFF COAST OF ITALY   Communications In Southern Italy Hammered By Allied Air Squadrons Which Also Stage Blockbuster Assault Near Naples.

Depleted Axis Air Forces Again Refuse Battle .   Raids. On ‘Communica. tions Include Blockbuster Assault Near Na: ples. Cruiser Also. Set Afire Off South Coast.

ALLIES MEET NO FIGHT IN ITALY FOR SECOND DAY   Air Squadrons Bomb Communications In Southern Italy; Naples Area Gets Block - Buster Assault; No Opposition Whatsoever.

Bombers Blast Cruiser Off alian Coast   Biock-Busters Drop Near Naples During Last Night’s Raid

Axis Planes Pull Away From Fight   Allied Bombers Range Ove: Southern Italy Without Opposition   SET CRUISER ON FIRE   Bulk of Enemy Air Fighters _ Withdrawn From South ern Italy

Allied Bombers Go Unchallengec In South Italy   Block-Busters Rain On Railways Near Naples

CRUISER BLASTED   New U.S. A-36 Bombers Blas: Away in First Try at Big Enemy Warship

Bombers Attack Kiska 13 Times   Record-Breaking Series of Blows Revealed

Total Attacks Number 62 For This Month   Communique Is First to Mention Hangars at Base

Yanks Raid Kiska 10 Times In Day  Assault Is Biggest  Bk “Reba RE: Bh BE...

Kiska Gets Its Hardest Pounding   Ten Slashing Attacks Made in Aleutian Isles

Army Fliers in Devastating Attacks on Base   Communique Reveals Jap Construction , of Hangars

U.S. Bombers Blast Kiska in 13 Attacks, Many Fires Sef In Jap Camp, Hangar Areas

U.S. ARMY PLANES MAKE TEN ATTACKS ON JAPS AT KISKA   ‘Most Intensive Aerial DawnTo Dusk Aerial Assault Qn Enemy In Aleutians

8 Workers Fired ; At Army Request   Accused of Responsibility Tn Series of Strikes At Bohn Plant

EIGHT FIRED FOR WILDCAT STRIKES   Workmen Involved in Lae bor Dispute Ousted at Army Reauest.

JACKSONVILLE IS SCENE BIG WATER FRONT FIRE  Loss Will Run Into The Hundreds of .

Tokyo Radio Reports Tule Lake Riots Caused By American Brutality

JUNIOR H.S. CLASS ~ PLAY ON OCT. 22   “Look Who's Here,” a Comed; in Three Acts Will Be Steged at High School.

Legislature Recesses for Week-End   PN celee Same ee   Only One Bill Is Offered in Friday’s Session

Legislature  Recesses for Week-End  Only One Bill Is Offered in Fridav’s Session

Legislators Recess After First Week Sessions Are Brief   Organization Work Marks First Days Committees to Be Completed BRafara Lawmakinga Buciness le On

‘Suspension Of Coffee Rationing Has [Been Ordered Effective Immediately

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latesi Wortd News Teday.   Ohairman Expresses Belief.

Six Brownies \Expire This ‘Week In No. 3   Green Stamps In Book No. 4 Good Now For Canned, Processed Foods

MEAT, BUTTER STAMPS IN USE   Three Series Of Canned And Processed Foods Expire During The Week

Snowstorms Slow Red Advances   Russians Expand Cherkasy Bridgehead In Dnieper Bend

Russians Extend Their Holdings in Big Dnieper Bend   Second Ukrainian Army Drives Into Cherkasy Amid Violent Fighting.   Reds Suffer Serious  Reverses in the Kiev

AUSOIANG NOW INTO GHERKASY   Violent Fighting Taking Place in Town; Reds Admit Reverses.

Reds. Expand Bridgehead At Cherkasy   Soviet Army Hammering At Approaches of Krivoi Rog

Soviefs Drive On From Znamenka But Retreat Before Nazis Near Kiev

Russians Drive  Into Cherkasy  a a ee   But Meet Reverses In Big Kiev Bulge

Russ Widen Bridgehead At Cherkasy   Take Town Following Violent Battle; Meet Serious Kiev Reverses

Soviets Fight In Streets (Of Cherkasy   Russians Expand Theit Holdings After Fall of Znamenka

SOVIET ARMY REPORTS NEW NIEPES (AIN   Heavy Fighting At Cherkasy Is Underway

Russians Gain in Dnieper Basin   SOVIET ARMY CONTINUES TO DRIVE FORWARD IN UKRAINE

Reds Admit Serious Reverses in Battle Raging Around Kiev   However, Russians Have Expanded Bridgehead in Dnieper Bend

ATTACKING INHEAVY SNOWSTORM   Russians ‘Admit  Serious Reverses In Kiev Bulge

RUSSIANS HAMMER OUT GAINS AROUND DNIEPER BEND AREA GERMANS, HOWEVER,   DRIVE RED ARMY FORCE 1 PACK IN KIEV SECTOR

Bitter Fighting Rages In Great Dnieper Bend   Ukrainian Army Expands Campaign, Attacks in Snow

Moscow Admits Serious Reverses In Kiev Bulge; _ Russians Face Difficult Supply Problem If Malin Falls To Invaders

Red Advance Moving Alone Rail Lines   German Position in Dnieper Bend Being Seriously Threatened

EXPAND DNIEPER BEND POSITIONS   SOVIETS ADVANCE ON KIROVOGRAD AND KRIVOI ROG

RUSSIANS GAIN GROUND; HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES   Second Ukrainian Army Expands Bridgehead In Dnieper Bend; Moscow Admits Serious Re verses In Kiev Bulge

SOVIETS HAVE ADVANCED INTO ANOTHER TOW)   ‘Despite Adverse Weather, Rus sians Push Into Cherkasy. Giving Ground to the North

Red Bridgehead Near Cherkasy Said Expanded   Violent Battle Takes Place As Russians Enter City On Great Dnieper Bend

SECOND UKRANIAN ARMY HAS EXPANDED ITS BRIDGEHEAD   Driven Into Cherkassy Itself, Where Violent Fighting Is Taking Place.   A SERIOUS REVERSAL   Massed German Armor Has Driven Red Forces Back 30 Miles East of Korosten.

Soviets Race To Slice  Off Dnieper Bend Area   Move To Outflank Krivoi Rog From West; Admit Serious Reverses In Kiev Bulge Where Fighting Is Bloody. 7

REDS DRIVE INTO BASTION OF CHERKASY   Report, of Nazi Origin, Says Violent Battle Taking Place in Town — Soviets Set Back in the Kiev Bulge,

Russian Drive Carries Into Cherkasy  Violent Fighting In Town; Nazis Gain ‘Elsewhere

REDS RAGING T0 SEAL DNIEPER BEND VIGTORY   Hammering Way Toward Krivoi Rog and Kirovo_ grad; Suffer-Reverses~-“~~ TH Kiey Bulge —

Soviet Troops Storm into Cherkasy   But Russians Suffer Serious Reverses in The Kiev Bulge

Heavy Fighting Marks Red Drive Into Cherkasy   Violent Fighting Taking Place In Town; Moscow Admits Serious Reverses In Kiev Bulge.

Aet Opens Way For Seizure -  Of Martinique   ‘State Department Cancels Pact With French Leader

Way s Cleared For Occupation Of Martinique   U.S. Novy Keeps Watch Following Break in Relations

MARTINIQUE OCCUPATION PREDICTED   U. S. Cuts Relations With Pro-Nazi  Governor

Alcohol Plants Won't Be Built At Present Time   Senate Committee To Ob tain Jeffers's Reaction to WPB Turndown

GROUP TO AIR RUBBER DISPUTE   Farm State Senators Are Angry Over Turndown Of Five Plants

Senators Plan  ‘Rubber Quiz  Reaction on WPB Ruling SE Pe ee PPE eer eed

2 JAP DESTROYERS SUNK IN SOLOMONS   Attempt to Drive Off U. S. Naval Force Ends in Disaster for Foe

‘AMERICAN WARSHIPS SINK TWO BiG ENEMY DESTROYERS FRIDAY   THIS ACTION COMES QUICKLY AFTER DESTRUC. TION 22-SHIP CONVOY

DE MARIGNY GAINS   Count’s Hands Showed No Burns, Nassau Doctor Testifies

American Legion Commander Hits U. S. Bureaucrats   Individualism in Government Is ‘Asked after War

Great Flood Crop Damage  Kaw VaHev Potato   Kaw Valley Potato Crop Hard Hit

Accident Fatal. To Aged Woman  Granville Pioneer ' Suffers Broken Hix

Accident-Fatal To Aged Woman  Granville Pioneer »  ' “Suffers Broken Hip

Record Budaet ls Submitted To. Congress Today   16 Billion New Taxes” Or Forced Savings” , Are In Prospect   World War II Costs More Than All Rest

HUML PLAN {a GAINING FAVGR WITH GONGRESt   Treasury Reported Ready to Effect Scme Sort of Comprom se.   SPEED IS NECESSARY   Gevernment Would Skip Only 19 Per Cent of 1942 Taxes,

COMPROMISE SEEN ON RUNIL TAX PLAN   Treasury Reported Ready to Concede Some Points to Congressional Advocates.

_ ' I SPONSORS OF RUML “PAY-A8' GO" PLAN TO PRESS FOR PASSAGE BEFORE “MARCH TH

MORGAN’S SONS GET BULK OF FORTUNE   Financie’s Will Discloses Other Bequests

J, P. MORGAN ESTATE GOES TO TWO SONS   Others of Family Taken Care Of Previously

Milum Favors 194345 Budget Bills Veto   Harrison Senator Also Urges Adkins to Call Special Meet

KING GORGE HOME   Completes 5,800-Mile Trip to North Africa and Mediterranean

New Offensive May Be Aimed a: Gilbert Islands —   Developments Indicate That Niraction

Gilberts Seen Goal of New - Pacific Drive   Occupation of Island in Ellice Group Viewed as Clue te Plans . _

Believe New Pacific Offensive May Be Aimed at Jap-Held Gilbert Islands

Deadlock Prevents Adjournment  Of Legislature   Two Major Appropriation Bills Are In Dispute and it May Be Several Days Before Sessions Are Concluded

Tunis, Bizerte Are Abandoned Without Struggle   American, British Units Press Close On Heels of Germans

ARROGANT ENEMY FORCES GIVING UP WITHOUT BATTLE   Thousands of Prisoners Tak _ en With Many Arriving in Own Trucks, Few Pockets Resisting.   GEN. BRADLEY NAMED  - PATTON'S SUCCESSOR   Gen. Andrews, 13 Others  Killed In,Plane-Crash, Bur‘ jed Following Services In * tootand.

Allies Pursuing Fleeing Remnants of Axis - Armies After Fall of Bizerte and Tunis

Speculation on Invasion Rife After Tunisian Strong Points Taken With Little

6-MONTH BATTLE OF TUNISIA NEARS. GLORIOUS FINISH   Americans Capture Bizerte Shortly Before Tunis Falls To British— - Arrogant Axis Forces Give Up Last-Ditch Defense Stand

Beaten Germans Flee Toward Sea;  Allies in Pursuit      'Bizerte, T unis Fall W ithoul  Expected Battle; Invasion  Of Europe Prepared

Occupation Of Tunis, Bizerte Great Triumph   Axis Forces Put Up Little Opposition / Key Cities Fall; Enemy Withdrawing To Bon Peninsula For Final $tan

Mopup Stragelers After Capture Of Bizerte And Tunis; Many Prisoners

BOTH BIZERTE AND TUNIS IN ALLIED HANDS   Brilliant Victory Has -aved Way for Invasion of Southern Europe.

Axis Forces in Hopeless Flight   Thousands of Prisoners Taken;  Rest Under Pitiless Air Attack

Missouri GOP. *Head Queries Wendell Willkie   Submits 9 Questions; Says State Is Not Unfriendly

ASKS WILEKIE FOR HIS VIEWS   1940 Republican Prestdential Nominee Called Upon To State Specifically Postwar Aims   QUICKLY PROMISES OF¥-RECORD REPLY   Says Most of Questions Bear No Relationship to  Reality; Views on Most Already Known

Suspect Held In Oklahoma Bank Robbery   $3,000 Raid Made Yesterday On Bank Ir Hamlet Of Hulbert

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Successful Nazi Attack Against Reds Proves Foe Still Strong

OVER-CONFIDENT FOLK RECEIVE ‘SOMETHING OF SHOCK AS NAZIS ‘STRIKE BACK ON SOVIFT FRONT

The War Today  German Counter-Blows  Show They Are Still Dangerous Foe.

The War Today—  German Army Still Dangerous As Shown By Zhitomir, Leros And Italy

Meeting Hinted Of "Big Three” Allied Leaders   Momentous War Development Is Expected Soon

PEACE OFFERS REPORTED SENT BY NAZI HEADS   Development Seen By Diplomats For Next Year

Report Allied Leaders En Route To Conference  To Study Nazi Peace Bid

A New German Peace Proposal?   Bern Correspondent to Swiss Newspaper Says It Will Be Submitted to Allies.

Roosevelt, Stalin,  Churchill Meeting In Africa Rumored   Allied Leaders Believed En Route To. Receiv e Foe’s Armistice Terms, Chigano Mav Be Included in Parley’

US. Air Force Blasts Jap Air Base In Burma   Planes Operating From India Also Heavily Damage Mandalay Rail Yards   R. A. F. MAKES SERIES OF BURMA RAIDS TOO   British Report Sixty Jap Supply Vessels Are Bombed In Two Days   (BULLETIN)

GREAT TUNAAGE OF FOOD Ft -E0 FOR EWP FE   Estimate 46 Million tons Needed to Care for Smas“ed Naticns

HUGE QUANTITY OF FOOD NEEDED AFTER WAR ENDS   ALLIED SURVEY REPORTED TO DELEGATES OF NATIONS CONFERRING ON POSTWAE RENABILIFATION

GREAT TONNAGE OF FOOD t E2E0 FOR FUP IEE? IS   Estimate 46 Million tons Needed to Care for Smas“ed Naticns

INDEFINITE TRUCE IN PROSPECT   Present System of Coal Mine Operation May Go 2On- for: Duration   WAGE STRUGGLE IN A STALEMATE   No. Hint of ‘Either Side Yielding; Mine Committie Adiournment Indicated

MAY EXTEND COAL STRIKE TRUCE    UMW Policy Committee Holds Session: No Comment by Lewis

OPERATORS OPPOSE A WAGE INCREASE   Was Ruled Out as “Impossible of Fulfillment” Meeting Held Today.

R. & P. and N. Y. C. Pits Desolated for Third Time  NO TROUBLE   Picketing in Some Districts, but Natura! Act

Soldiers May Help. On Farms   .FDR ‘Is Reported — . Aqreeable Ta‘Plan

Soldiers To * Help Harvest Farm Crops   Fulmer States President Endorses Plan in Labor Shortage Areas

SOLDIERS MAY HARVEST GROPS   Older School Childrer Suggested for Jobs In Food Producing

Crop Furlough Plan Approved By President   School Children May Be Asked to Help Qn Pasnac

President Says Soldiers May Helo Farmers   Roosevelt Asserts 7,500. 000 1943 Goal For Army Will Not Be Changed   YOUTHS CAN ASSIST   Economic High Command Is Summoned As Solons Press Labor Demands

Soldiers May Aid in Harvest   President Indorses idea in Principle

FDR Agrees To Army Farm Help   White House Order ‘May Be Issued For Harvest Relief

SERVICE MEN MAY AID CROP HARVESTING   Roosevelt Re ported tc Have Agreed to the Program

ILL PENDING N CONGRESS 4$ APPROVED   Army Camps Would Detail Soldiers To Put In One Dav In Fields.

Says FDR agrees soldiers should help harvest crops   Idea for labor shortage region endorsed in principle-Fulmer

Roosevelt Agrees To Armed Forces Aiding In Harvests  CpbLtiase thins Lt Aid Dl puatn, bh ctw   Soldiers Would Aid Pl anting, Cultivation And Harvesting With Farmer Paying UJ. S.

LABOR SHORTAGE ~ SECTORS BENEFI1      Fulmer Says Roosevelt Is In Accorc With His Plan; Army Size Determined In August

ysevelt Agrees diers Should  in Harvest   q,  ys Executive Order . ough, No Congress ction Necessary  HORTAGE AREAS  . ggests Older "hildren Assist 1, Food Production

SOLDIERS T0 HELP HARVEST CROPS   ROOSEVELT BELIEVES OLDER SCHOOL CHILDREN SHOULD ALSO ASSIST.

ARMY MAY ASSIST. GATHERING CROPS   President May Issue An Ex. ecutive Qrder For Labor To Produce Food.

SOLDIER AID FOR HARVESTS IS PROMISED   Would Relieve Shortage In Hard-Hit Areas; FDR Backs Army On Men Needed   Student Help Advised

PRESIDENT BACK OF SOLDIERS AID ON FARM FRONTS   Legislation Not Needed, He Says, To Make Men Available   MILK PRICE ORDER CHANGE IS HINTED

F.D. R. Agrees Soldier's to” Aid in Harvest  Suggests There Is No Need  far Tosialation

FARM HELP IDEA ENDORSED BY FDR   Under the Fulmer Legislation Soldiers Would Be Detailed To Help Farmers Plant, Cultivate and Harvest Crops.

Soldiers May Assist With Harvest   President Reported Favoring Such Move In Shortage Regions  Fr. D. R. BACKS ARMY IN SIZE DISPUTE  Feels Young Persons Of High School Age Can Helo Farmerc

U.S. Treasury Baeks New Pay-Go Plan   Measure Will Yield Three Billion Dollars Each Year

And No Wonder; Landlord Pays Constable to Throw  Tenant Out, Gets Thrown Out Himself

BRIDGES HITS OWI HEAD FOR ATTACK ON NATION’S PRESS   New Hampshire Senator Charges Elmer Davis Is Try ing to Silence Newspapers to Cover Sins of Mal-administration by New Deal

Investigation Of 0.W.I. Urged By Sen. Bridges   New England Senator As sails Elmer Davis for Attack on Press

FULL CONTROL IN CONGRESS SEEN BY REPUBLICAN PARTY   Also. Hopefal - ‘Of Taking White® House In Next Year’s Election  , Race

Traffic Light ‘Black Out’ Seen As Traffic Dwindles      Many Cities Making Surveys For Possible Elimination Of Signals, Blamed For Waste of Gasoline and Cited As Not Needed In Some Localities By Motorists

Start Saving Now for 1943 Taxes Is Advice to Everyone   They'll Hurt When They Hit, Business Experts Declare Today

1943 Taxes To Be Highest Ever Paid   No Matter What Form the New Tax Program Takes It Will Cost You Money

Start To Save Now For Taxes  Due This Year   They Will Hurt When Thev Hit

Traitor Saved From Hangman   F. BD. R. Commutes Stephan’s Sentence

President Commutes Death Sentence To Life Imprisonment for Max Stephan. Convicted Traitor

DETROIT MAN SPARED DEATH BY PRESIDENT      TRAITOR’S SENTENCE IS COMMUTED TO LIFE

STEPHAN SAVED FROM GALLOWS   ‘Detroit Traitor Wins Presidential Reprieve

British Eighth Army Continues Tunisia Drive   Advances On Air Base At Ben Gardane 20 Miles Inside Tunisia   BATTLE OF MARETH LINE IS LOOMING

BRITISH STH ARMY THRUSTS 20 MILES INSIDE OF TUNISIA   General Montgomery’s Forces Pound Nazi Field Marshal Rommel’s Withdrawing Afrika Korps.

Lower 13 Murder Is Admitted   Negro Cook Again Confesses; Motive Is Not Stated

Uniform Prices For Entire:  Country Are Estab-   ” fished In Revision ~*~” 1 . Order         Current Prices On Drawn and Quick-Frozen Evis~ _ cerated Poultry Cut  1 to 10c Pound

New Prices For Poultry      OPA Order Makes Cost At Shipping Point Uniform For Each Type

ORDER ON POULTRY   Uniform Schedules Are Set Up Affecting All Country Prices   OTHER PRICES WILL CONFORM   Varying Schedules Now in Use Said to Have Encouraged Black Market

New Poultry Prices Set By OPA   Based On Cost At Country Shipping Points

New Poultry  Prices Fixed   OPA Sets Up Uniform Schedule, and Announces Drive To Smash Black Market

POULTRY PRICES REVISED BY OPA   Government Campaign Launched To Smash Black Market in Fowl.

POULTRY PRICES SLASHED BY OPA   Order, Effective at Once, Is Intended to ‘Smash Black Market’

Another Is A Prisoner Of Germany   Fourth Southtowner Is Reported Wounded in Action in the Southeast Pacific Area.

Sgt. Richard Newport Writes of Seeing Sgt. Robert Stevens’ Leap from Burning Fortress.

2 Missing, 1 Wounded In Battles   Lt. Warten Holtsberg and Sgt. Emil Mateyak of Flying Fortress Crews Lost in Bombing Raids.

Third Man Is Wounded Near Munda   Lt. Norville Gorse and Sgt. George Johnson Fail to Return from Bombings; Lt. W. Cook in Hospital.

Nazi Armies Cornered At Dnieper   Russians Have Foe Trapped in River Bend and Press Advantage While Hitler Forces Try to Find Way Out

NEW FLANKING DRIVE IS MADE SOUTH OF KIEV   Over 50 Towns Captured In Advance of Four To Six Miles In Bend

Reds Wipe Out Nazi Battalion   Russians Continue Novorossisk Drive

Russ Destroy Battalion of - Nazi Troops   Red Army Intensifie: Campaign to Capture -  WNovorossisk

REDS INTENSIFY DRIVE ON PORT   Big Guns, Planes Active ch on Nevorossisk

Reds Wipe Out Nazi Battalion   Russian Gunners  Wreak Heavy Toll

Battalion Wiped Out By Russians   [000 Germans Slain As Reds Press Drive On Sea Port

SOVIET TROOPS IN CAUCASUS DESTROY GERMAN BATTALION      About 1000 Men Wiped Out ' In Drive Toward Port Of Nevorossisk On Black Sea

REDS SMASH BRIDGEHEAD IN CAUCASUS   Nazi Battalion Is Wiped Out; Soviets Advance On Novorossisk

NAZI INFANTRY UNIT WIPED OUT BY RED ADVANGE   Soviet Continues Steady Ham. mering on Foe’s Bridge-  head In Caueasus.

REDS WIPE OUT GERMAN BATTALION   Continue Drive Toward Important  Black Sea Port

Yanks Cut Wide Swath ThroughIsle   8th Army Shatlers Nazi Tank Blows At Catania’s Gates

RESISTANCE OF AXIS WEAKENS: YANKS ADVANCE   British Smash Back Desperate Nazi Tank Attacks Near Catania

Ttalian Troops Reported Mutinying Against Nazi - Officers     AT GATES OF CATANIA   maeameemenmeaemeneienendl   Americans Advance in Wes With Hardly Any Opposition

AGAINST GERMAN OFFICERS; SURRENDERING IN GREAT BATCHES; BRITISH READY TO KNOCK OUT CATANIA.

Americans Stab Deeper Into Sicily; Defenses Crumbling   Enna Within Artillery Range; Catania I: Pounded By Advancing Eighth Army

lfalians Mutiny Against Nazis: Enemy Tank Attacks Repulsed As British Pound Catania Gates

American forces drive deey toward interior of Sicily   British shatter nazi tank attacks; plan final assault against Catania

TROOPS REBEL AND OFFICERS. ~ SLAIN, CLAIM   Mutinies Against Germans in Western Sicily Announced,   BATTLE FOR CATANIA ON. SMOKE-COVERED PLAIN

Yank Forces Drive Deeper Into Sicily; Many Italian Troops Mutiny, Surrender   Americans in Mighty Effort to Chop: Axis Forces in Two; British Repel Nazi Tanks in Catania Region

Americans. Jab Deeper _ Into Defense   May Reach Messina Before British Arrive from The South

Italian Troops Reported in Mutiny Against Officers  BRITISH READY FOR ATTACK ON CATANIA  Situation Clearly Critical for the Axis Forces

U.S. Invading Units Score New Gains InIsland’s Center   Report Roman Soldiers Kill Two Nazi Commanders Who Attempt to Prevent Surrender

German Tank Attacks Shattered by British   Americans Dash 10 Miles Along Coast From Agrigento, Others 30 Miles Inland; » Axis Situation Critical

STABBING DEEPER INTO WESTERN AND CENTRAL SICILY   American Troops Finding the Axis Resistance Is Weaker.   British Forces in the Battle for Catania Have Smashed Back German Attacks.

German Tank Attacks — Are Shattered   Situation for Axis Is Viewed as Extremely Critical

RESISTANCE LIGHT, SAYS COMMUNIQUI   Allies Within Artillery Range Of Enna: Eighth Army Pushing Ahead On Plains Of Catania

Brifish 8th Shatter Nazi Tank Attack With Bloody Loss   Situation Critical For Enemy as Mutinies Grow

BRITISH SMASH NAZI DEFENSE GREAT SEAPORT   Montgomery Believed Gird — ing For Thrust to Crush   Enemy Still Holding Vital City   ITALIANS REFUSING TO FOLLOW GERMANS   Surrendering By Thousands Rather Than Face Devastating Fire Of American Forces

U. S. Troops Push Steadily Into Western And Central Sections Of Island—Montgomery’s Units Pound At Gates Of Vital Seaport—Allies Within Artillery Range Of Enna As Gains Continue— Knockout Blow At Messina May Be In Store

AMERICANS STAB DEEPER INTO SICILY   Weakening Axis Resistance Is Reported in Battle for Catamia.   Allies in Artillery Range of Stronghold

Yanks Forcing Way Deeper Into Sicily   British Smash Nazi Tank Attacks; Italians eet Mutinying

NAZI TANK ASSAULTS ~ BROKEN BY BRITISH   Patton’s 7th Army. Reported Within 60 Miles Of Palermo

Italians Turn on Nazi Officers: Enemy Said Retreating to Messina

AXIS RESISTANCE WEAKENING IN CENTRAL, WESTERN SICILY AS AMERICAN TROOPS STAB DEEPLY

New Advances Scored by U.S. Troops Against Weakening Foe   British Smash Back Nazi Tank Attacks at Catania

ITALIANS REPORTED  MUTINYING AGAINST  GERMAN OFFICERS BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY  MEETS HEAVY RESIST. ANCE AT CATANTA

Eighth Army Drive Shatters Violent Nazi Tank Attacks   Allied Troops WithinArtillery Range Of Enna Stronghold; America n, Canadian Forces Gain Against Tottering Axis Resistance

U.S. Speeds Deeper  Into Sicily   Allies Gain Generally; Italian Troops Mutiny Against Germans; Enemy Loses Heavily in Men and Equipment

‘Ttalian Troops - Reported " Mutinying Against Nazi - Officers      ‘AT GATES OF CATANIA   Americans Advance i in West With Hardly : Any Opposition

U.S. Forees Move to Cut Sialy in Two   ’ British Break Up German Tank Attacks Close to Catania

British Smashing Tank Attacks   Americans Find Resistance Weakening With Italians Reported Mutinying Against Geerman Officers—British 3elieved Preparing for Knockout Blow

Resistance Of the Axis Is Weakening   Italian Soldiers Mutinying; Allies Nearing Town of Enna

Italian Troops Reported in Mutiny Against ~ Officers BRITISH READY FOR ATTACK ON CATANIA  Situction Clearly Critical for ‘the Axis — Favencx ©

Italian Troops Kill German Commander Trying To Prevent  Their Surrender To Allies

Big Groups Of Italians Surrender   Germans Reach Critical Stage On Big Island

Resistance Against U.S. Collapsing  ritish Battle Against Desperate Axis Efforts to Save Catania  DRIVE NEARS ENNA  Americans and Canadians Reportéd Already at Ancient City

Italian Troops Reported In Mutiny Against Nazi Officers As Conquest Of Sicily Nears   British Eighth Army Breaks Series Of Desperate Enemy Counter-Attacks At Catania; Montgomery Preparing Full Scale Drive On Messina

U.S., CANADA TROOPS JOIN TO THREATEN ENNA   ‘Many Helians Continue to Sur render as Americans Drive Into      GENERAL CAPTIVE   Creat Push in 1 Making That May Reach to Messina as Quckly as Drive to Catania Made

WAIN TEN MILES; ATTEMPT TO CUT ISLAND IN TWO   Large Groups of Italians Continue to Surrender and Many Mutiny Against “Nazi Officers,   8TH ARMY SHATTERS GERMAN TANK ATTACKS   Montgomery Believed Gathering Strength to Take Catania and Push On to Messing.

Gates of Catania Are Pounded by British Forces   Many Reports Of Mutinies Amonq Italians

Surrendering By Hundreds As U.S Troops Advance   Native Sicilian Soldiers Lose Will To Fight; Germans Resist Bitterly

Many Italians Surrender,  Allies Report   Americans Drive On And British Power Grows Before Catania  RIN QVOIN A DIL COAT

Mutiny _ Against Germans   wa Many Italians Surrender to Allies in Sicily, some Kill German Commanders   e@ALLIES PREPARING KNOCKOUT BLOW   Next Drive May Carry On Through to Messina; Nazis e Snuffer Heavy Loss

MUTINY AMONG ITALIAN UNITS IN SICILY TOLD   Defenders Rebel Against Officers Of Reich Forces

U. S. Troops Push Toward North Sicily   Americans Find Resistance Weak, But Eighth Army Forced To Crush... German Tank Attacks Near Catanio

American Forces Spearing Deeper Inland in Mighty Drive in Sicily   British Troops Shatter German Tank Affacks with Bloody Losses near Strafegic Catania

Indications Of Mutiny Among ltalian Troops   Yanks And Canadians In Big Drive Inland

ISLAND BEING BISECTED BY U). §. FIGHTERS   MONTGOMERY READY FOR KNOCKOUT AT CATANIA

AWAIT BIG FOUR BOMB WARNING   ‘Major Cities in Germany ~ Doomed Unless Nazis Surrender

Belief Prevails Germany’s Leading Cities Ma yBe Wiped Out Within Four Months Unless Nazis Surrender

Belief Prevails Germany's Principal Cities May Be Wiped Off World’s Map

GERMAN CITIES MAY BE WIPED OFF MAP UNLESS NATION SURRENDERS QUICKLY

MAR AAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAL So You Think Your Luck Has Been Bad! What About Lesters?

lfaly’s Rail Centers Hit   American And British Plans Add To Havee

U.S. WRECKS ENEMY FIELD AT SALONIKA   Heavy Fighter Opposition Is Stirred Up by Aerial Offensive,

U.S. Captures Japan's Base On Solomons   Daring Thrust Wipes Out Entire Position Of Enemy On’ Island

Headquarters of Japanese On Guadalcanal Captured; 24-Hour Attack Success

NEW CHARGES.  HIT DEGAULLE   DIPLOMATIC: QUARTERS BE  PORT LEADER OF FRENCH ——FACTION 18 SEEKING——— » POST-WAR CONTROL

De GAULLE PLAN IQ HOLD POWER AFTER WAR otEh   Official Quarters in Wash ington Claim Secret Information.   OATH OF ALLEGIANCE   Underground Workers in France Forced to Swear Support.

DE GAULLE MAY BE PLOTTING DICTATORSHIP   Agents Reported Re quired to Take Special Oath

FEDERAL CROP PURCHASES UP   Ohio Senator Thinks Plan Is Solution to Price Hikes

HAS ALTERNATIVE. SAR SUBSIDY PLAN   Senator Burton Proposes That Government Buy Principal Food Crops and Resell Them At Below Ceiling Prices.

Draft Hurting lowa Economy; Appeal Boards   Vord Sent to Washington Communities Are Being Drained

SHIPPING REPORT. TREND OPTIMISTIC   Praise, Criticism Mixed a: Subcommittee Boosts WSA

Report Shipping Edge for U. 5.   Senate Body Says All Space Must Be Used

Committee Reports U. S. Shipping Facilities Are 13,000,000 Tons Above This Year’s Exnectations

BRICKER OUT — ” OF OHIO RACE. FOR GOVERNOR   GOVERNOR: STATES HE WILL CENTER ALL ACTIVITIES ON MOVES FOR PRESIDEN-’ TIAL NOMINATION

BRICKER SHUNS ATH TERM TRY   Governor to Devote Efforts Toward Presidential . Nomination

BRICKER DROPS 4TH TERM BID FOR GOVERNOR   Will Concentrate Efforts Or Securing GOP Presidential Nomination

Warning From ‘Leaders To Italian People   Broacasts Made To Italy; Pamphlets Dropped

FRIENDLY GESTURE TO ITALY  F. D. R. AND CHURCHILL IN JOINT- APPEAL

“hive FOR ITALY . Roosevelt, chal Call on  Italians to Surrender at Once

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL STRESS ULTIMATE DEFEAT OF THE AXIS.   People Must Act   Ital¥ans Must Disavow Fascist Regime—-Held as “Only Hope for Survival.”

WRECKED TRAIN WAS SPEEDING   14 Killed When Atlantic City Special Left Tracks On Bend

RAIL WRECK TOLL 1A: SPEED BLAMED   89 . Injured as Passenger Train Lurches Off Tracks at Bend

Blame Speed For Wreck; 14 Dead   WITH 89 INJURED AS P.R. R. TRAIN LEAVES TRACK ON CURVE; 1,281 PASSENGERS ON BOARD.

SPEED BLAMED FOR BAD WRECK   Derailment Of Crack Train Kills 14, Injures 89

TRAIN WRECK LAID =. TO EXCESSIVE SPEED      Engineer Under Technical Arres After 14 Lose Lives on New ‘ Jersey Curve.

“Excessive Speed’ Blamed For Derailing Of Passencer Train; 14 Killed in Wreck

TUNIS NEWS SLOWS STOCKS   Churchill’ s Statement Has Sobering I n7 «fluence: 5 ng

Declares Italy Is Not Through   “We Shall Return Tc Africa Where Our Dead Await Us”   ANNIVERSARY OF FASCIST MILITIA

Libya Will Be  Retaken—Duce   “Side Which Can Hold Out Quarter Of An Hour Longer Than’ Foe To Win.’

as Battle sto Decide   Victory to Go to Side Holding Out Longest—Mussolini

Victory In Last Battle’   Mussolini Tells Militia Italy Will Return To Africa

'NO SURRENDER’ BY AXIS--DUCE   italy To Avenge Libya Defeat, He Says

DUCE BOASTING AGAIN   Mussolini Premises Militia Libya Will Be Recaptured

Il Duce Says Italian Defeat In Libya Will Be Avenged, Axis Will Never Surrender

DUCE PREDICTS AXIS TRIUMPHS   Premier of Italy Says He Will Come Back to Africa

MUSSOLINI “CALM” ~ AT AFRICAN ROUT   Italian Defeat in Libya Will Be Avenged, Duce De-

‘Mussolini Says  Jtaly Will Go Back to Africa   ‘Attempts to Bolster Up Morale Is Speech on Anniversary

iL DUGE IN AN ADDRESS BEFORE HIS MILITIAMEN   Victory in This War Will Go to Side Able to Hold Out Longest, He Said.   BROADCAST PICKED UP   Premier Mussolini Spoke Somewhere in “Central Italy” Today.

Is Last Battle That Tells: Duce   Mussolini Declores Italy Has Right to Libya, Will Return

MUSSOLINI IN ~ BOASTFUL VEIN   Declares Italy Will Go Back To Africa; Says Reverses Are Taken Like Romans

DUCE PROMISES AFRICA. RETURN   Mussolini Addresses Fascist Militia on Anniversary of Foundina

WAR OF ENDURANCE   Mussolini Tells Fascist Militiamen ‘Last Battle’ Will Decide

SOP GIVEN ITALIANS BY DUCE IN HIDING   eae eee  Mussolini Says Africa Will Be Retaken from Allies

MUSSOLINI TELLS FASCIST MILITIAMEN WHO WILE WIN WAR  “The Side Able To‘Hold -

NO SURRENDER, IL DUCE HOWLS   Addressing Fascist Militia, He Declares Loss of Libya Will be Avenged by Italy.

PARISH HELD   Annual Event Was Fine Success; Pleasing Program  Well Received

Three Jap Ships Sunk In Night Fight In Pacific  Two Others Are Damaged In  Lonnie A Yeo

More Enemy Vessels Turn Tail And Run From Fight When Americans Strike Heavy Blow At Fleet Trying To Relieve Central Solomons.

Journals from Enéland  A first-hand account of the British Isles at war

Capture Of Attu Will Ugap Japs At Kis! i ia  ‘March To Tokvo Begins By Northern Road —

Grippe and Flu Reach New Peak   Improvement Shown in Some Sections

CEILING PLAN IN PORK AND BEEF TO BE SET UP   Community-Wide Top Prices to Be Listed to Split Black Marts

PRICE CEILING AIMED AT ‘BLACK MARKETS’   Brown Says Action On Beef And Pork To Come Soon

CEILINGS LOOM FOR LIVESTOCK   OPA Announces Plans To Move Indirectly Against Black Markets

CEILING PRICE ON PORK AND BEEF TO CURB BLACK MARTS   New Ceilings to be Fixed For Each Community; Designed to Aid Packers

Action Aimed As Smash at Black Market   Meat, Cheese, Butter Fats and Oils to Be Rationed April 1

CEILINGS ON MEAT   Brown Hopes This Will Help Break Up the Black  Markets

PROPOSE CEILING ON PORK, BEEF   SEEN ASSAN ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP BLACK MARKETS IN MEAT

Fight Black  Meat Market   OPA to Set o Set Uniform — Community-wide. Prices On Meat in Effort to  Halt Illegal Sales

Act To Break Black Market   Community - Wide Ceilings On Pork. Beef To Be An nounced Soon.

Pork, Beef Uniform Ceiling fo Be Sef  Action Will Be Taken to Break  rr. miewdksbsés6kda

BROWN PROMISES CEILING ON MEA]   Prices Will Be Pegged in Move to Break Up Black Markets.

Cold Wave "Not Unseasonable", Says Weather Man: Will Continue Tonight

SECOND FRONT PREDICTED BY SOVIET RULER      Stalin Says United Na tions Are Merging Blows ‘ at the Axis

REDS FORESEE SECOND FRONT   Stalin Declares Allies Are Merging Blows Against Hitler

itish-American t Raids Called eliminary Move   sian Dictator Sees ‘One ymmon Blow’ against Hitler   lares Germany Is Pass: 1g through Crisis: Refuses Terms

Stalin Foresees Beginning of Second Front   Declares Tunisian Drive Helps Speed Nazi Doom

Ickes Praises Aviation Gasoline Production Job   Says Armed Forces, WPB Responsible For Obstacles

Chief of Gestapo In Poland Slain   Was Principal Figure In Terror Campiagn

Knox Bares Plans After Elk Hills Deal is Called “Illegal, Invalid’’

Navy to Cancel Elk Hills Oil Pact,Says Knox   Contract With Standard Megal, De partment

Knox Decides ToCancel Elk Hills Oil Paet   Standard Oil Agrees To End Arrangement. Said Mlegal. Invalid In Legal Decision

Navy Forced To Back Down On Oil Deal   California Contract Held “legal And Tavalid”

Navy to End Its Contract With Standard Oil”   Announcement Made After Agreement Is Attacked as Wieval

NAVY TO CANCEL ELK HILLS PACT WITH STANDARD   Arrangement for Operation of Oil Reserve Held to Exceed Authority Granted by Law.   TERMINATION PLAN DISCLOSED BY KNOX   Secretary Says Neither Party to Agreement Was Guilty of Any “Improprieties.”

Contract Is Ruled Illegal   Second “Teapot Dome’ May Be Averted By  Cancellation.

Navy Lo Drop Its Contract On Elk Hills  Announced by Knox   Announced by Knox After Justice Dept. Rules It Tlagal

Navy's Contract With Oil Company To Be Terminated   Sec. Knox Reports End of Elk Hills Oil Reserve Proposals

Navy Will Take Steps To Terminate Contract   Announcement Made After Company Notifies Naval Secretary of Willingness to End Arrange. ment Called “Ifleaal and Invalid’

Father Accused Of Slaying Baby   Massachusetts Attorney Is Under Arrest

ATTORNEY HELD IN BABY DEATH   Pittsfield, Mass., Lawyer Charged With Murder Of Son, Mentally Ul

Penna. General Salvage Quota 75 Pounds Per Person Ist Half of ’43

Legless Child Is  BIUE-EYED MARY HAS A BEAU AND HE HAS A DIMPLED CHIN

Operators Fail To Agree With  Miners’ Demands   Vinson, New Stabilization Director, Confers With War Labor Board Members; Lewis Fails To Extend the Truce

530,000 U.S. MINERS © DEFY PRESIDENT’S ORDERS TO WORK   WLB.’s Position In Labor Dispute Laid Before Director Vinson — Board May Order Suspension Of -Present Negotiations

BULK OF UMW’S MINERS QUIT JOBS IN ABSENCE OF ORDER FROM LEWIS EXTENDING TRUCE

Government Must Make Next Move   War Labor Board Members Confer With Vinson

LEWIS SILENT AS MAJORITY OF MEN QUIT WORK   WLB Confers with New Economic Crar to End Stalemate.

WLB and Vinson confer on miners stoppage of work   Drastic action may result as coal output suspended

WAR BOND. DRIVE IN NATION: IS NEAR TO HALF-WAY MARK   Morgenthau Intimates: That 43 Billion Is No  Longer Ceiling In Drive 

BOND DRIVE NEAR HALF-WAY POINT SAYS MORGENTHAL   Warns People Not to Relax on. Theory “Push {s Over.”  It Isn't.

Loan Drive Over Half-Way Mark   Over Six Billions Already Subscribed

U, §. BOND SALE HITS HALF GOAL   Morgenthau Warns Netion Not to Relax On Purchases

FARM WAGE HIKE URGED BY GRANGE   County Deputies Approve New Program

IN SPEEDY DRIVE   Fighth Army Converges On Axis’ Gains 40 Miles In Single Day

Doubt Whether Marshal Rommel Will Put Up Fight Until He Reaches  Tunisia. ,

John McLaren, Creator Of S. F. Parks, Dies At 96   Golden Gate Horticultural Genius Will Be Given City Funeral Honor

Famous Park Chief Passes at Bay City   “Uncle John” McLaren Dies in City He Beautified Since Youthful Days

Warm Weathe: On Way Back   Cold In Northern States May Not Move South Soon

Storage Tanks Reported To Be Overflowing With Fuel As Rationing Is Enforced Here

Jap Troop Troop Center ‘Blasted Off Map   Yunnan-Burma SupplyBase Of Mengmao Left Afire; TT). & Beasts Zeros

SUPPLY CENTER OF JAPANESE BLASTED   Attack on Mengmao Re. ported by U. S. Air  Farces

JAP TROOP CENTER — IN CHINA BOMBEE   Town of Mengmao in Yunnan Province Virtually Blasted Off Man bv Americans.

PAUL HERBERT JOINS GOP RACE   Outlines Program For PostWar Use Of Ohio Surplus

Lt. Gov. Herbert  Formally in Race   -Third to Announce For Governorship

Nine Killed When Plane From Great Falls Base Crashes Near Big Sandy

Sightless Eyes Of German Dead Stare From Flaming Hell That Was Hamburg

Lunch Eaten In Fields Blamed.  For Poisonins   All Doctors In City Aid Emergency

Call Truce In Strike Of Miners   Many Return to Work To day, After Lewis An.  nounces Deferment

Up to 40 Per Cent of Operations Open Today; Local Workers Expected on Jobs Tomorrow "

SEES FREE PRESS HOPE OF AMERIC/   Realtors’ President Says Unbridied Newspapers Cyard Democracy.

Realtor Says  Free Press Is Vital To U.S.   Urges Real Estate Men All Over Nation To Fight For Its Preservation

Kharkov Battle Is  Drawing to Climax   Soviet Armies Close In From North, East anc West; Zhizdra Topples As Russians Smash On Toward Bryansk

Red Troops Are Closer To Bryansk   Showdown Fight For Kharkov Near As Nazis Retreat

Battle for Kharkoy Is Reported Nearing Climax  MANY PLACES ARE TAKEN BY SOVIETS Russians Standing Less Than Mile From Important City

Nazi Reserves Fight Back Desperately   Counterattacks Are Beaten Off in Ukrainian Battle

Heavy Rain Slows Front Activity   Gafsa Marks Opening of Drive to Berlin, Giraud Says

Tunisian Battle Stage Set   RAIN, DUST, HAMPER ACTION AS ALLIES PREPARE TO STRIKE

YANKS FORM FOR FIGHT AT TWO POINTS      March Downpour, However, Causes Sticky Bogs and Delays Action on Central Front, as Well as in South.

AMBRICANS NOW ONLY 60 MILES FROM KEY AREA   Gen. Montgomery’s Eighth Army Also Poised To Strike Against Rommel Forces   AIRFORCES MEETING WITH NO OPPOSITION   Enemy’s Positions Likened To Shape Man’s Head With Fliers Gripping His. Throat —

Weather Delays Ground Troops On Funis Fronts   U. S. Forces Are Driving for - Port of Gabes

Russians Advance In Center   .» +» Great Battle Rages On Kharkov Warfront   No Axis Planes Seen

Montgomery's Eighth Army Poised but Storms Hold Mareth Line Ac Hvite 23 Minimum   AIR ACTIVITY CUT   British First Army in North Forced fo Make Short Withdrawal by Yon Arnim

Yanks Only 60 Miles From Nazi Lifeline   American Consolidated Positions Threaten Axis Communications

AMERICANS ARE SETTING STAGE FOR A FIERCE BATTLE   ‘Infantry and Armored Units Organize Their ) Positions.   RAINS SLOW PROGRESS   Forces of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., Are Kept Motionless.

New Positions Are Organized   Continuing Rains And Dust Storms Hold Allied Blows

Birding For ‘Big Battle ‘In Tunisia   Yanks Consolidating Forces At Gafsa And El Guetar   Downpour Halts All But Aerial Warfare   Giraud In Captured City Says It Is Start Toward Berlin

American Infantry. and ‘Armored Units Organize \Positions in Gafsa Area

Rommel’s Lifeline Along Coast Only 60 Miles Away Now   Consolidation of Allied Air Forces Bringing Results

Yank Advance Is Slowed By Rains   But Forces Continue to Move Toward Gabes Over Muddy Roads   DUST IN THE SOUTH   Attack on Rommel From Two Sides Appears to Be Allied Plan

DOWNPOUR KEEPS MEN IMMOBILE   Dust Storms In South Keep Air Force Grounded

U.S. infantry And Armor Is  Organizing   Stage Being Set For What May Be One Of Tunisia’s Bivgest Battles

U. §. TROOPS HAVE CONSOLIDATED THEIR AFRICAN POSITIONS  FRONT GENERALLY QUIE} ’ AFTER CAPTURE OF - GAFSA AND EL GUETAR

Rain In North, Dust In South Keeps Mighty Forces Still, Poised For Kill

Clearing Sky To Be Signal For Attack   Bad Weather Bogs Down Advance: British Lose Ground

LINE UP FORCES FOR WHAT MAY BE BI BATTLE   Organize Positions as Downpour Makes Plains Too Soit for Tanks

“VP ARTTING, Vie vorRYy   House Group Filés Report On Draft Bill

Knox Reveals Armada of 40  Plane Carriers   Huon Peninsula Now Cleared; Army Raids Marshalls

l Jap Admirals Die At Midway  Berlin Radio Tells of Double Killing 

Chigrin Captured By Soviet Forces   German Affacks Near Kiev Fail

Town of Chigrin Captured in Bid To Reach Second Bridgehead In Cherkasy Section

Speaker Insists On Budget Bilis Coming First  Griffith Warns  House of Special Session Possibility

Marrying Justice’ Takes Bride Of 12  Years In Missouri   Forty-Six-Year-Old Man Asserts He Did Not Know Girl Was So Young

NAZIS WILL HAVE FRENCH DECLARE WAR ON RUSSIANS   Hitler’s Scheme Will Pui Slave Troops on Eastern Ferant._

GERMANY WANTS ~ FRANCE IN WAR   Hitler Schemes to Force Subject Country Into War With Soviet

Bud Bolser Of LeMars Wins High Honor   Photograph Given Excellent Rating At Spring Exhibition

ecall of Litvinoff use Fear of ed, Allied Break   Removal at Best Is Interpreted as Indicating tience of Premier Stalin with Pace  Of British-American Military Moves —  Follows Withdrawal of London Envoy

Russian Envoy's Recall Stirs Fears of Break   Action Is Seen as Indicating Stalin Showing Impatience

Breach Between Russians: ‘and  Allies Feared.   Role of Former Envoy in Moscow Being Awaited With Interest

Possible Breach In Anglo-Soviet Relations Fearec   Interpreted That Stalin Is Impatient With BritishAmerican Pace

Soviets Seem Impatient With Allies   Move Is Seen as Sign Of Reds’ Anxiety For Europe Invasion

RECALL OF RED ENVOY IS CAUSE OF SPECULATION   Stalin’s Action Stirs Fears Of Breach In Allied   oe a   LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF SEPARATE PEACE

ENVOY RECALL BY REDS STIRS ALLIED FEARS   Stalin May Be Showing Impatience Over Second Front Delay

BY REDS STIRS ALLIED FEARS   Stalin May Be Show: sing Impatience Over  Second Front Delay

LETVINGEE 3 RECALL PERILS ALLIED FRONT   ‘eparate Peace Between Russia And Germany May Be impo.t Of Transfers O:  A onk«a sea clare   Moscow Enigmatic

Fear breach in relations with Russia   Litvinoff recall looms ominously

Ambassador From Russia  Called Home   Interpreted in London As Stalin Impatience At Lack of Invasion

Disunity Feared In Exit of Envoy   Diplomats Futuce Role Anxiously Awaited

LIQUOR INQUIRY TO GET ACTION   Federal Grand Jury To Probe Black Markets

FIGHT WHISKY BLACK MARKET      U, S$. Seeks Indictments in Ohio Racket

Soviet Armies Drive Steadily Toward Three Chief Objectives— Kursk, Kharkov And Rostov—May Nollify German Gains   GERMANS BATTERED ON TUNISIAN FRONT

GREEK COAST FORTIFIED BY GERMANS   Moves Follow Churchill Meet With Turk Chicf:

Churchill Makes Pact With Turks At Secret Parley   Lendon Hears Germans Move _ _Heavy Reinforcements Into Balkans

Churchill Trip To Turks Gives Hitler Jitters   Heavy Axis Reinforcements Rushed To Balkans And Greek Ports

Axis Machine Gunners Break Marseilles Harbor Revolt   Ruthless S. S. Troops Drive Frenchmen From Homes in Evacuation Order

DEATH THE PRICE AT MARSEILLES   Nazi Field Guns and Bayonets Still Rebellion Of  Tough Frenchmen

NAZI GUNNERS WIN AT MARSEILLES AS ~ RESISTANCE FADES   French Unable to Combat German Troops in City-Quiet Again Prevails.

German Machine Gunners And Sharpshooters Break  Resistance At Marseilles

German Machine Gunner Put Down French Revolt   Marseilles, Brought Under Artillery Fire, Quiet—Many Kitled—Hundreds Arrested

MARSEILLES RESISTANCE IS BROKEN:   _F rench Revolt Quelled by Nazi Machine Gunners

Resistance Ends As Nazis Raze Marseilles Area   300 French Civilians Exe cuted For Revolt In Olc Harbor Section

300 ARE DEAD AN MARSEILLES AS BATTLE HALTS      Germans . Brought Artillery, Machine’ Guns: Into. ° ° Beatign. ;

Marseilles Area Blasted by Nazis   French Resistance  Ends in Old Harbor

Noxzi Gunners Break Resistance In Marseilles   At Least 300 Are Reported Killed

Break French Resistance In  Marseilles   Harbor District, Scene of Riot, Reported Quiet after Nazis Kill 300, Set Fires, Evacuate Area

CHurcHES   Church of Christ   United Brethren G. M. TALBOTT, Pastor

. FOR BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT   VIOLENT ANTI-FASCIST . DEM‘ ONSFRATIONS AND PEACE AGITATION ARE SWEEP.  ING BALKAN NATION

Gestapo Agents Can't Control Bulgaria Now   Such Are Reports Reaching London Of Demonstrations Against Fascists

Arnim Won't Sign Terms Of Surrender   Doesn't Matter, Anderson Says; Plans Service  Of Thanksgiving

GEN. VON ARNIM REFUSES 10 PUT NAME ON TERMS   ‘But It Doesn't Matter,’ General Anderson Says; Total Of Axis Prisoners May Reach 175,000

NAZI COMMANDER IN AFRICA REFUSED SIGN SURRENDER  GEN. VON ARNIM MORE CONCERNED OVER BAG. GAGE THAN HIS TROOP:

AXIS COMMANDER REFUSED TO SIGN SURRENDER TERMS   Was Sent to Rear More Anxious About Baggage Than His Troops.

CONQUERED C O MMANDER IS DEFIANT   Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim Refuses to Sign Surrender Terms With  Anderson

Von Arnim’s Refusal Has Little Effect In Axis Debacle, Says Anderson

Von Arnim Refused to Sign Terms   Commander of Axis Troops Sent to Rear As British Captive

Von Arnim Is ‘Worried Over His Baggage   Nazi General Refuses to Sign Terms Dictated by General Anderson

Von Arnim Refused to Sian Terms   Would Not Agree to Cease Destruction of War Material, But Allied General Said It Did Not Matter

BRITISH FIRST DOES IT AGAIN   Captured German Commander Surrenders to Anderson

His Baggage, Not His Troops, ~ Von Arnim’s Greatest Worry   \Captured Axis Generals, Majors, Colonels Tramp Through British First Army Mess Tent

Gen. Von Arnim Refuses To Sign Surrender Pact   But Captured Axis Leader’s Balkiness Doesn't Mean A Thing.

Von Arnim More Worried Over His Baggage Than Mer   Captured General Refuses to Sign Surrender Terms

Suspends Right To Sell Tires, Gas   Ft. Madison Dealer Affected By Ruling

HOUSE MQVING TOWARD APPROVAL OF NEW REVENUE BILL   Administration’s AntiInflation Program Comes Up for Another Body  Riaw

HOUSE MOVING TOWARD ACTION ON NEW TAXES   “Drop i in the Bucket’ Revenue Measure Nears Passage

HOUSE TAKES UP NEW TAX BILL AFTER VOTING DOWN SUBSIDY ON FOOD TO HOLD DOWN LIVING COST   Congress Jumps Into Task of Drafting Legislation for Mustering-out Pay and Unemployment Compensation for Returning War Veterans as Administration Looks To Senate To Hold-the-line Against Inflation

Little Change in Individual  Levies Noted   Bill Is Far Below What Administration Leaders Hoped for: Say Jt Aids Inflation

446,00 FATHERS TO BE DRAFTED BEFORE DEC. 31      Two-Month National Quota Totals 907,000

Needed To Fill Quota For 1943   Hershey Tells Draft Board Issue Is To Call Least Valuable Workers.

WORKERS FAIL T0 REPORT AT PLANTS      Factories of Wheeling Steel Corporation Are Idle

FDR APPEALS T0 STEEL WORKERS TO KEEP ON JOB   Unions and Owners Asked To Carry On Until Differences Can  Be Settled

Big Cut In Gas Looms For Fayette District   Reduction Of 25 Per Cent For B And C Coupon Holders Ordered; May Increase ''A"' Rations

General Infers Fake Guns Good  '   YUMMY TARGETS NEEDED TO FOOL ENEMY PLANES

Commanding General Says Wooden Guns Are Only Camouflage.   REAL DEFENSES WELL PLANNED

General Infers ~ Fake Guns Good   ANIM Y TARGE TS NEEDED TO FOOL ENEMY PLANES

CITE SQUEEZE ‘ON PACKERS   Brown, Davis Agree Situation “Untenable”

IS A HOT POTATO   Brown and Davis Testify on Ceiling Price Squeeze . on Packers

NAZIS PLAN HEAVY AIR RAIDS ON LONDON   “Lord Haw-Haw,” Propagan: dist, Issues Warning

Morgenthau Hits Bond Advertising   Waste of Funds, He Says of Plan

Airborne Reinforcements and Steady Bombing Campaign Sweep Through Jap Outer Defenses at Loe to Tighten Allied Hold Around Coastal Base _ —-Bombs Keep Enemy Defenses Stag-. gered in Perimeter Around Obrective.

TO FREEZE SOGIAL SECURITY TAXES   The Senate Finance Committee Voted to Keep Them at Present Rate.

Washington Roundup SENATE FINANCE GROUP WOULD FREEZE SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES THROUGH 1944 AT PRESENT RATE OF f PER CENT: INGOME TAXES MAY TAKE IN MORE PEOPLE 

Ad To Freeze Security Tax   Senate Committee Votes To Leave It At One Per Cent

Securily ’ Tax Rate Pea Voled   Senate Committee Approves Freezing 1.Per Cent Levy Through 1944   IFAVORS HIKING PROFITS TAX  :   Would Require Unions and Other Organizations to Report on Finances

Social Security Tax Hike Disapproved   Present 1% Rate ls Frozen for 1944

Security Tax Frozen for Next Year   Senate Committee Approves Financial Reports far Usiane

Vote To Keep One Per Cent _ Security Tax   Senate Committee Vote: To Freeze Levy For Both Employers And  Bown ninawee

SECURITY TAX FREEZE FAVORED   Senate Group Votes To Retain Current Rate In °44

Social Security 1 Per Cent Tax Frozen For °44   Labor Unions Required to File Informational  Financial Data.   Action on Individual Tax Levy Is Delayed

Freezing of Security Taxes Asked   Jones Seeks More Money to Recruit Farm Labor; Review or Draft Deferments Ordered 

Plan Freeze On Social Security Tax   Committee Votes To Retain One Per Cent Rate Through 1944

Break Is Expected In Flood But Danger Continues  Crest Surges South, Ohio Is Docile; Vast Area Is Soaked

FIND A FISH NET   F ish and Game Commission  Make Discovery Near ' «Eudora —

FIND A FISH NET   Fish and Game Commission Make Discovery Near Eudora

IWICY STEAKS ON WAY OUT   Virtually Non-Existent By Winter, Livestock Men Predict

Choice Steaks, Prime Cuts On Way Out This Winter, Stockmen Predict

Poimts To Save Points   rv rm   Food Preservation Cuts Meat Problems

ROYAL FLEET READY TQ HIT   Powerlul Units Poised For Axis Evacuation Try.

STUDY TOWELS IN SLAYING   POLICE EXAMINE CLUES IN LONERGAN APARTMEN’

TOWELS TESTED FOR ‘CLUE TO. SLAYING   Lonergan P lan3 To : Attend <> Wife’s Funeral—On ':. 1 Way To New York

Towel Stains. In. Lonergan DéathCheckec   Aviator and Two Guards on Way to'N, Y. City From Toronto

Climax In War  Talks Next Week   Recommendations of  Staff Chiefs Awaited

Final Allied Plans Due Next Week in Capital War Talks   Majority of Yank Forces Serving Outside U.S. Are in Pacific, Roosevelt Reveals; Early Drive on Nazis Likely

FDR Expects Decisions on War Soon   Reports Majority o U. S. Forces in Pacific Area

President Expects His War Talks With  Churchill To Reach Decisions Soon; ‘Says Most U.S. Forces in Pacific   Davies Mission to Moscow Believed Highly Successful; Stalin Gets Letter

Allled Spittires Bag Nine. Badly  Damage 3 More  Most Successtul Action in That Area  Lpeeeeeegees: °  Se ener

MAJOR BREAK.1S SEEN IN MCOY MURDER CASE   Prosecutor Hill Says No Accomplice Was Involved .. in Slayings

MINERS VOTE END TO COAL STRIKE   Federal Grand Jury Continues Investigation to Determine Blame

Insurgent Coal Strike Collapses Grand Jury Continues To Seek Responsibility

PENNSY COAL STRIKE ENDS   Grand Jury Continues Probe Of Insurgent Miners

PENNSYLVANIA COAL STRIKE COLLAPSES   - Federal Grand Jury - Continuing Investigation OF Recent Walkouts

Coal Walkout  Finally Ended   Insurgent Strike Collapses as Investigation Is Continued by Grand Jury

OUTLAW STRIKE COLLAPSES IN PENNSYLVANIA   Miners Go Back to: Work As Federal Grand Jury Opens Probetnto °  Illegal Walkout   WILL FIX BLAME   Union ‘Locals Hold’ Mass Meetings and, Vote ‘to Return; Jurors Quiz  Owners, Miners

INSURGENTS’ MINE STRIKE COLLAPSES   . and Jury Pressing Probe to See If Bill Violated

MINE WORKERS RETURN 10 JOBS IN PENNSYLVANI   ANTI-STRIKE ORDER IS HEEDED AS JURY PROBES PIT WALKOU’

MINER STRIKE COMES TO END   Men Go Back To Work AS  frome A fury Csntinucs  nt § teh FA a7 rote eer rier  Investiaqation

Miners’ Strike Has Collapsed   Strikers Vote To Return As Grand Jury Presses Probe.

New License Tags Must Be Displayed Now, Elgin Says   No Extension of Deadline, Motor Vehicle Commissioner Says

NEW CLIPS MUST BE ON CARS TODAY   Wednesday Last Day for Legal Use of 1942. 43 Taas

AIR RAID WARNING SYSTEM DEFENDED   Director Hutchinson Replies  To Criticism On Lack OF Audible All-Clear 

YANKS HIT MORE JAP CARGO SHIPS   Kiska Building Destroyed and Gun Positions Silenced

Three Nippon Ships Blasted In Solomons   Heavy U. 5S. Raids Go After Concentrations In Northern Islands   ALEUTIANS — ACTIVITY   Torpedo Bombers Get Five Hits On 10,000 Ton Cargo Vessel —

ENEMY CARGO SHIPS BOMBED IN SOLOMONS   10,000 ton vessel left sinking after attack by navy planes

Jap Cargo Ship Is Lett Sinking   Ten Thousand Ton Cargo Ship Hit By U. 8. Bombers In Solomons  ww. WYyeErewe rrp trary prr

HEPORTS HITS UN 2 Ono, ONE LEFT SINKING   Flames Visible for 30 Miles After Attack on Jap Base at Kahili. i   GUN POSITIONS SILENCED IN 9 RAIDS ON KISKA

US. GENERAL NOW FACED WITH  THE GREAT TASK   Marshall to. Be Kept Home. Arnold to Direct the Air  Enrreaea_

FOR WILL KEEP JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF INTACT   Eisenhower Said To Be Slated To Lead Invasion Of Western Europe

Risenhower Will Lead Invasion  Against Germans  F. R. Decides to Keep Joint Staff Intact

Allied Powers Agree 0: Leader; Roosevelt Will Keep Marshall In U.S.

CHIEFS OF STAFFS TO KEEP JOBS   United Press Informed Of Agreement On Attack Boss

Joint Chiefs Of Staff Remain Intact   Powers Agree That Eisenhower Shall Lead Invasion of Western Furone

EISENHOWER TO. LEAD INVASION OF WEST EUROPE   Marshall Stays Chief of Staff

EBlar Uieher OU Prica      Stale Total 46 Alone   One Dead In Crash

SEE NAZI THREAT TO ALLIED SHIPPING   Knox Says German Aljr Force Will Undoubtedly Try To Keep Allied Shipping From Using Mediterranean Route.

Knox Unatraid of Axis Threat  Foresees. Activity In Mediterranean

WILL KEEP LANE OPEN SAYS KNOX   Navy ‘Secretary Declares Axis Will Fail In Efforts To Keep Allied Ships From Mediterranean Routes Fastward.

SICILY THREAT TO SEA ROUTI   Knox Declares, However, Axis Cannot Prevent. Allies Using Mediterranean Now

Tunisian Victory Shortens Sea Roule   Secretary Knox Comments on War

ALLIED SHIPPING ~ IN MEDITERRANEAN PREY TO GERMANS   Secretary Knox Believes Air Force Will Try to Check Allied Shipping.   USE EASTWARD ROUTE   They Won't Be Able to Accomplish Their Purpose, the Secretary Said.

 Knox Says Allies Won't Be Halted  In Mediterranean   Says.Anticipated. Efforts of German Air’ Force To Cut Allied Invasion Convoys.. Into © Taland Sea Will Prove Futile.

Senate Debates Pay-As-You Go.   House Won't Kaow Its Bill After Alterations

PAY-AS-YOU-G0. AGT REVISED BY SENATE GROUP   House Measure Changed In Speedy Action, Debate’ Opens On Revamped . Income Bill   HAS QUICK: RIDE   LaFollette Assails Plan In. Minority Report; George  to Guide It Through Senate

SENATE OPENS DEBATE ON TAX      Drastic ~ Changes After Quick Ride Through Committee

Senate Bill -Abates Full  Year’s Taxes   \ Provisions Included fo1 Assessing ‘Windfall’ Tncomes

Tax Collection Bill Is Placed  Before Senate   Pay-As-You-Go Measure Considerably Changed Since It Was Passed  Re Lawer Honea

SENATE ALTERS INCOME TAX BILL   SUBSTITUTE FAVORED VERSION FOR HOUSE SPONSORED MEASURE

Senate Opens Debate on fax Measure   Fastest Trip Through Finanee Committee Js Ended for Pay-as-You-Go Bill

TAX PLANS UP BEFORE SENATE   Brief Discussion On Bill Expected: See Vote By Friday

Senate Debates Pay-As-Go Tax  Start Consideration at Naw Menciura

PAY-GO BILL UP FOR DEBATE BY SENATORS   Measure Almost Completely Transformed

F.D.R. Meets With His Capitol Aides   Military and State Leaders Are Called to Session

Roosevelt Confers with Several Advisers on Postwar Planning   slate Department Is Pre paring Alternative Plans for Various Situations

Roosevelt Meets Military, State Department Aides   Talks Preliminary To New Conferences With Prime Minister

FDR Preparing For Conference With Churchill  Meets With Many High Military And State De-

FDR Sets Plans For Conference   Meéets War Chiefs ~ And Other Leaders

FDR Has Man  Conferences  At Washington Talks With Officials  May Be Preliminary lo Seeing Charchill

FDR Sets Plans For Conference   Meets War Chiefs And Other Leaders  Re BDICWaRnnr @ pBwacecenrwyv

FDR CONFERS WITH ADVISORS   President is is Believed to Be . Preparing for.Talks With Churchill

Nation’s Chief Confers With High Leaders   Speeial Parleys Point to Churchill Meet

FDR MEETS WIth HIGH OFFICIALS   in Conferences Possibly Preliminary to Forthcoming War Talks With Prime Minister Winston Churchill

FDR PREPARES FOR MEETINGS   Calls Conferences With State Department Officials, Army Staff Chiefs

F.D. R. Attacks Rubber Strike   Will Act Today if Walkout Not Ended

STRIKERS TOLD T0 RETURN BY NOON   Roosevelt Delivers Ultima. tum to Akron Strikere

Orders Work Resumed Or Government Action ‘To Protect Nation’ Will Be Forthcoming  SETS NOON TODAY AS DEADLINE   General Tire Group Votes To Go Back After Appeal by CIO

U.S. Plans Steps If Men Not Baek By Noon Today   Walkout of 51.500 in Akron Reaches Climax; Early End of Mine Dispute Seen 1,900 Workers in Jamestown Plant Out

Reds Again Score Heavily, Bag 313 Nazi Planes  Russians Fortify Newly Won  Ground Positions

Soviets Claim 313 Nazi Craft Lost In Week  Aerial Attrition DriveOFfA'lies Gains Rapidly

Reds Down 313 Planes in Week   Report 1,613 Bagged Within Three Weeks

TAKE BIG TOLL, OF FOE PLANES   Reports Destruction of 313 More German Craft in  Past Week

1,613 GE PLANES BAGGED IN THREE WEEKS   313 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down Last Week Com pared To 61 For Reds   BIG RUSSIAN ARMY GAINING POSITION

REDS DESTROY 313° GERMAN PLANES 1 WEEK   Big Russian Land Army Maneavers For Advantageous Positions Anticipating Battles; Fortify Donets Banks   Nazi Attack Repulsed

REDS DESTROY 313 NAZI PLANES   Soviet Losses Reach 61 During Past Week

Soviels Bag 313 Planes; Lose Only 61   Huge Red Land Army Preparing For Big Blow

Reds Hold Bridgehead Against Nazi Attacks; Incréase Airplane Toll

Soviet Army Prepares for Major Fights   Newly-Won Positions Are Fortified by Russian Forces

Believe Brenner  Pass Is Blocked   German Raliway Bottleneck Through Pass Heavily Bombed By one  — a ==w “, =xyves =

BRITISH HEAVIES RAID LIFE LINES TO WEST EUROPE   Yanks Continue Merciless Cross Channel Pounding of Enemy

TWO ATTACKS BY AIR GLAST ENEMY LINES   Raid from Italy Hits Brenner Pass; RAF Bombers Hit France,

FLYING FORTS POUND LINE IN BRENNER PASS   American Attack Made In Conjunction With Heavy Raid By RAF   MARINES GET ARMY AID   Reenforcements Landed At Bougainville—Russian Forces Roll On

Accuse O.P. A. Of Extortion   Say Agents Offering Legal Immunity In Exchange For Treasury ‘Gifts.’

Wrecking Crews  Continue Search Fo More Bodies  Death yoll Placed at  40 “Tracks . Cleared Of Siiushed Cars

SEARCH FOR WRECK VICTIMS CONTINUES   Death Toll in North Caro. lina Crash Mounts to 70

WRECK DEATH TOLL NOW 70   Revised Figures Show 47 Servicemen Are Among  Crash Victims

Dependents Of Pre-War Fathers Inducted Soon May Get Increased Benefits At Once

DEPENDENT MAY GET MORE PAY   Added Benefits Likely To Be Retroactive To October 

Father Draft Starts As Increased. Benefits — Are Regarded Favorably

Higher Aid For Dependents To Star t Thursday   Likely To Be Made Effective As Of Oct, 1 Because Of Higher Living Costs

Army, Navy Delay War Production   Jeffers Declares It Is Contest Between Stars and Bars Regarding Synthetic Rubber Output

ATTACKED BY JEFFERS   Rubber Boss Hits At ‘Interference’ By Armed Forces

TO INVESTIGATE JEFFERS CHARGE OF SLOW - DOWN   Inguiry Ordered Into Allegation Made By Rubber Czar Agains!  “Army And “apie  Loafers.’

ARMY, NAVY. LOAFERS HINDER WAR OUTPUT, RUBBER CHIEF SAYS      House Naval Committee Orders Investigation Of Jeffers’ Charges   PRIORITIES BATTLE RAGES

REMARKS OF RUBBER CZAR STIR CAPITAL   Statement Made by Jeffers At Baltimore to be Subject of House Investi'jation  CEDIAILIC ACCIIC ATION

Jeffers Gets Action With  Accusations   Volley At Army And Navy Loafers Brings An Inquiry

Whether Hearings Will Be Public Depends Upon De. cision of Committeemen: Nelson Directs Synthetic Rubber Program Expedited

URDERG PROBE UF CHARGE BY AUBBER CZAR   House Committee to Look Up “Interference by Army and Navy Loafers.”   MATTER OF MATERIALS PRIORITIES AT STAKE

JEFFERS WILL GET CHANCE TO PROVE: CHARGES   House Naval Committee Call: Hearing on Rubber Director’: Dig at Anny, Navy   Priorities Fighis Gets Spotlight on Charge Army, Navy and ‘Loaf. ers’ Interfering

Rubber Czar Hits Army And Navy Meddling   Priorities Battle Breaks Into Open; ‘Loafers’ Interfere, Jeffers Declares

JEFFERS FLAYS ARMY AND NAVY ON- PRODUCTION   Remark “These Loafers” In industrial Plants Interfering With Output  Stirs Washington   DENIED NEEDS FOR RUBBER MAKING   Military Contends Demands Would Interfer With War Program; Up to Roosevelt

ERSATZ RUBBER DIRECTOR SAYS THEY DELAY PLAN   PRIORITIES FIGHT CONTINUES; NOW UP TO PRESIDENT

Right To Priorities  Is Claimed   Accusation By Jeffers That “Army And Navy Loafers” Hinder Work Will Bring Inquiry

JEFFERS' BLAST TO BRING PROBE   Says ‘Army, Navy Loafers’ Hamper War Production

Solons Order Rubber Inquiry   Action Taken After Jeffers’ Charges

JEFFERS CHARGES MILITARY LOAFERS STALL PRODUCTION   House Naval Committee Orders tnvestigation

Order Inquiry Info Charges   Naval Committee To Probe Remarks Of William Jeffers

Order Probe of Jetters’ Charge   Interference With War Production Charged

‘Army And Navy Loafers Delay War Production   Jeffers Charges JT Bring Probe

To Probe Charge  Of Interference  In Rubber Plans   “Army and Navy Loafers” Are Accused by Rubber Chief Jeffers.   Investigation Order Made by House Group

Interference Charges Against Army And Navy By Jeffers To Be Investigated By Committee

Navy to Air Accusations By Jeffers _   Rubber Director Attacks Services For Taterfereince

Rubber Battle Near Climax In Washington  Capital Awaits Anx. iously Important A  SM RRS ay NR Re  Se ee

Jeffers Avers ‘Loafers’ Hamper War Production   Investigation of Charge Is Ordered By House Naval Group

AMY AND) NAVY HURTING WAN OUTPUT, GLAIM   Interference By Military Is Hampering Production Says Rubber Czar   HOUSE TO INVESTIGATE SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS   Jeffers Demands Priorities To Get Synthetic Rubber Program Underway

Solons Order Probe Of Jeffers Charges   Naval Committee to Hear Administrator on Statement That Army and Navy “Loafers” Are Interfering With War Production.

WAR PRODUCTION FUSS HEATED UP BY RUBBER CZAR   Jeffers Says Program Is Slowed by Interference By Army and Navy   TAX PLANS FRET CONGRESS   Manpower Problems Harass Capital Officialdom—Probe Of Lease-Lend Sought

Congressional Investigation of Army-Navy Relations to War Production Ordered by Concrese

Probe Jeffers Loafer Charge   House Committee Will Investigate Delays On Rubber

HOUSE GROUP IS CHOSEN 10 MAKE PROBE   Charges of Rubber Chief Jeffers to be Investigated

Demand Charges Made By Jeffers Be Investigated   Vinson Asks House Naval Committee To Act On “Serious Accusation”

IEFFERS CHARGES 10 BE PROBED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Investigation Ordered at Request of Chairman Vinson Who Says Jeffers Will Be Given Opportunity To Prove Correctness of His Statement.

Jeffers’ Talk Starts House Investigation  Going to Find Out   Going to Find Out  All About Army,  Navy ‘Loafers’. ‘Impeding Output

JEFFERS RAPS ARMY AND NAVY ON PRODUCTION   Probe Of Charge Against ‘Army, Navy Loafers’ Is Ordered

Slap At Army And Navy ‘Loafers’ Brings Action; F. R. Must Rule On Priorities Squabble.

Army and Navy ‘Loafers’ Retard War Production, Jeffers Asserts   Congressional Investigation Is Ordered as Resul' of Charges Made by Rubber Administrator

Army and Navy Loafer Charge To Be Probed   Committee Will Investigate Jeffers’ Rubber Remarks

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PROGRAM SPEEDED   House Body to Probe Jef fers’ Charges of Interference by “Loafers”

Jeffers Charge To Be Probed By Congress   Adds Fuel to Dispute Over Vital Materials For Rubber Program

To Announce Important. Decisions   Report to Be Released Tonight Overshadows Other Developments in Washington and in Congress

HEAVY TOPICS IN CONGRESS’ HANDS   Boosting Debt Limit and Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Considered.   MANPOWER "ER ALSO MAJOR PROBLEM

Check Rubber Czars’ Charge   Jeffers Asserts “Army And Navy Loafers’ Holding Up War Production.

—PRIORITIES BATTLE RAGES—  CHARGES OF JEFFERS TO BE PROBED   Rubber Chiéftain Asserts “Army And Navy Loafers” _Hamperina War Production

NAVY OFFICERS   Rubber Chief Claims ‘Loafers’ Interfere With Production.   ADDRESSED GOVERNORS

Priorities Squabble ToF.D.R.   ‘Up to President to Settle Rival Claims  _For Vital Materials Needed for War Effort

JEFFERS AND ARMED SERVICES IN CONTROVERSY   Other Major Issues Occupy National Congress

INTERFERENCE BY ARMY AND NAVY CLAIMED   House Naval Committee Agrees to Inquiry At Vinson’s Request

Jeffers Says ‘Army and Navy Loafers’ Impede Productior   Investigation of His Charges Ordered by _ Naval Committee

House To Probe Jeffers Charges   Rubber Czar Says “Army and Navy And These Loafers” Are Interfering With War Production

Today In Washington:  Mounting Battle Over ‘Priorities Brings SOS ‘For FDR Intervention

Order Probe Into Jeffers’ Charges Of Interference   Rubber Chief said “Army and Navy Loafers’ Hindering Production.

Army, Navy Heads at Odds with Jeffers      Senate Committee Calls Donald Nelson to Explain What WPB Is Going to Do 

Nazi War Effort Kept Up Despite Austrian Trouble And Defeatis? Attitudes -

Nazis Plan Last Stand: Not Slackening War Effort Despite Growing Signs of Impending Defeat

HAWAII HAS IMPORTANT PACIFICROLE   ‘Gen, Richardson ) Placed in Charge

Food Report in Few Days to Be Pessimistic         Production Situation Is ‘Cause for Alarm

EXPECT GLOOMY REPORT OF U.S, FOOD OUTLOOK   Clamor for Unified Food Administration Grows

PREPARE NEW PESSIMISTIC FOOD SURVE!   WFA Report Expected To Reveal Poor Crop Outlook

GLOOMY FOOD REPORT SEEN   Pessimistic Announcement Expected in Few Days

NEW SURVEY OF FOOD SAID TO BE PESSIMISTIC      Report Expected To Be Released Within Next Few Days

WRITER TELLS ISLE LANDING   TROOPS SWARM ASHORE IN JUNGLE BATTLE-DRESS

POPE APPEALS FOR WORLO-WIDE FAITH   Denounces Propaganda of Anti-Religious \ Inspiration in Address to iItalians

Pope Appeals to Workers For Faith and Discipline; Scores False Prophets

Pope Warns of fa se Prophets   Tells Labor To Guard Against Discord

Pope Assails Prophets of Labor Revolt   Spirit of True Concord Is Needed for All Classes

Anti- Strike Bill Sent to President   Pope Asks For Discipline, Faith   Mother-in-Law Day Set by Joke Clue For June 30 All Over U. 5.

POPE APPEALS T0 WORKING “PEOPLE   Warns Against ‘Prophets Who Spread Dissension Between Classes.

FOOD PRICES. . "QUESTION UP   ADMINISTRATOR AND FARM LEADERS MEET WITH ROOSEVELT--MORE MEAT MADE  AVAILABLE .

DAVIS AND F.D.R. IN CONFERENCE   Farm Leaders To Join In Discussion Of Urgent Food Problem

- COMING TO KANSAS CITY      Mra, Roosevelt Will pape! WAAC . Training School Monday

COMING TO KANSAS CITY   Mra, Roosevelt Will Inspect WAAC . Training School Monday

reer errr pene seceteieeteetiemaies a  EXTRA DEPUTY IN SHERIFF'S OF FICE CANNOT BE NAMED   That Is, Under Present Set Up; Appropriation for Help In Sheriff’s Department Made Recently By County Board Cannot Be Used Under Law.

EXTRA DEPUTY IN SHERIFF'S OF FICE CANNOT BE NAMED   That Is, Under Present Set Up; Appropriation for Help In Sheriff’s Department Made Recently By County Board Cannot Be Used Under Law.

“PROVISIONAL. GOV'T. OF. HENDLA’T” IN SINGAPORE «* SET UP-BY THE JAPS

What to Do About Gasoline Reduction  Wwteatamamt fre fC trsante Datéianminos TBRaeewt

MINISTER ENDS . A5-DAY FASTING   Rey. Horswell, 85, Takes First Food Since Burial Of Wife

RAF Blasts 5 Axis Ships Off French Coast   Photographs Sho Show Yankee Raid Did Heavy Damage To Erla Works

WEATHER AIDS DEER HUNTERS   OPA Relaxes Search Fo: Sportsmen Breaking Gasoline Rules

President Gives Ickes Full Authority To Produce, Sell, and Distribute  Coal, Tells Army to Back Him, Speaks at 10 P. M. Tomorrow.

Will Broadeast to Nation at 10 P. M. Tomorrow Night; Lewis Is Silent

Government To Take Over Coal Pits, With Troops Protecting Workers Who Return; President On Radio Sunday Night   (BULLETIN)

RACE DISCRIMINATION *-** ORDER IS NOW-UP -TO THE PRESINENT HIMSELF

DISCRIMINATION {a INF. 0. 8.°S HANDS   Problem Taken From Railroads By Order

LABOR DECREE “JS UP TO. FOR      Committee Wants Probe of Racial Discrimination Ultimatum

C10 Head Hits Bethlehem Steel   Murray Sends Letter To WLB Director

Kills Wife Shoots Self Last Night       Near Here Late       February Negro Draft Call Is Released’ Today"

Turkey Is Served To Americans  In Many Lands   President and Mrs. Roosevelt Enjoy Assembly Of Family at Hyde Park; Ambassador To Russia Staaes Festival in Moscow

President And Family Celebrate Their Christmas Ouitely In Hyde Park Home

First F amily’s  Holiday Quiet   Roosevelts. Enjoy Dinner At White House. Gather About’ Their Tree

ROOSEVELTS HAVE TRADITIONAL YULE   OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION HELD BY FAMILY AT HYDE PARK.

PRESIDENT HAS OLD-TIME YULE   Family Traditions Are Followed At Hyde Park

» GROUPS PONDER ON GLIDER CRASE   Two Aircraft Representatives Advance Broken Strut Theory as Cause.

PETITIONERS SEEK GOVERNOR'S REGAL   Idaho Chief Executive Charged With Upholding Pension Bil! Death

LIMITED DEBATE ON FOOD PROGRAM SEEN IN SENATE TUESDA\   Proposal to Be Considered As Compromise —~- Administration Sees Approval.

LIMIT ON FOOD SUBSIDIES MAY SAVE PROGRAW   Think Liberal Curb: Would Avoid F. D. Veto

Bennett Exhorts Young Republicans — To Save U.S. Freedom on Home Front

TRANSFER OF GEN. MARSHAL! NOT FAVORED   House Military Affairs committee studies impending question

Discuss Impending Transfer of Genera   Strong Statements Against Proposal to Shift Marshall

FEAR STRIKES — ALONG COAST      SHUTDOWN OF WEST COAST PLANE PLANTS THREATENED FOR THIS WEEK END:

DELAY BY WPB ON WAGE HOIST "ANGERS UNION   Workers’ Leaders Declare Sunday Deadline For Federal Action   PLEDGE BEING IGNORED   Officials At Washington Assert They “Will Not Be Coerced”

Price Regulations Will Be Explained At Harvey Meeting   OPA Arranges Program for Local Retail Dealers Aua. 24

ACTION IS NEAR AT HAND, PRIME MINISTER SAYS   Amphibious Operations Of ‘Complexity And Hazard’ Pending  In Europe ‘   Air Success Cited

Declares Allied Amphibious  Operations on Large Scale ™’  Can Be Expected  Shortly.      sete  DISCLOSES GAINS Z IN WAR ON U-BOATS   Hells Commons United N: tions Are Steadily Wear-: ing Down Nazi and Jap: Air Forces, %y

Big Scale Offensive Promised   Victory In An, Over U-Boats Stressed

Churchill Says Attacks on Large Scale Very Near   All in Readiness for Grand Assault He Tells Commons

Allies Have All Plans Made for Grand Assault   Large Seale Activity Impending, Commons Told; U-Boat Kills Reach New Record

Allies in Readiness For Grand Assault, Churchill Makes Clear  U-BOAT KILLS SET NEW RECORDS IN MAY  Says Steady Pounding Of Enemy from Air W3ll Nat Re Relave}

ALLIES READY FOR ASSAULTS UPON EUROPE   DEFEAT OF U-BOATS SEEN AS BLOW TO NAZI MORALE

Confidently Tells House of Commons Of Completed Allied Plans For Hazardous Attack in Europe

Churchill Reveals Allied Blow Near   All In Readiness For Grand Assault, He Gave In Review Of Rerent Trin Toa lI S

ALL IS IN READINESS FOR GRAND ASSAULT, BRITISH PREMIER TELLS COM.MONS; ALLIED SUBMARINE POSITION IS BETTER.

Churchill Hints Big Drive Near   Commons Told Allies Ready For Campaign

Attack On Large . Scale Impending, Churchill State:   All in Readiness for Grand Assault, Prime Ministi ‘ Makes Clear in Report—Allied Submarine Position Fast Growing Better

Prime Minister Proud and Confident Before Commons With “Mellow Light of Victory’ Warming Cause

Tells Commons “Amphibious Attacks Of Complexity and Hazard” Near;   Y-Boat is Being Mastered

Four Children Die in Bus Crash   School Bus, Truck Collide on Bridge

Public Sale of Canned Fruits and Vegetables to Stop Feb. 20; Point Rationing Starts March 1

RATIONING OF Food SCHEDULE FOR MARCH °   Sale of Food Will Stop at Midnight February 20 to Permit Registration of _ the People.   POINT SYSTEM    All Food in Excess of Five  . Cans or Packages Per Person Must Be Reported at Registration.

RATIONING OF CANNED GOODS STARTS MARCH 1; ALL SALES TO BE HALTED FEBRUARY 20

New Rationing Starts March 1   Sale, Canned Goods Stops Feb. 20 As Registration Begins

Sale Of Canned Goods Stops Feb. 20 To Be Resumed On Ration Basis On  _ Mar. 1; Housewives to Check Pantries

CANNED GOODS RATIONING 10 BEGIN MARCH 1   Retail Sales Will be Stopped Feb. 22 to Permit Stocking

CANNED FOODS RATIONING TO BECIN MARCH 1   Public Will Register During Six Days at Schools  Same as Be fore,   TO USE POINT VALUES   Local Officials to Attend Meeting to Secure In. structions,

TO RATION CANNED FOOD AFTER MAR. {   SALE OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES TO BE HALTED TO PREVPARE FOR SYSTEM,

Freeze On *Tinned Foods February 20   Rationing to Begin March 1; Frozen, Dried Foods Affected

Gifford Flier Awarded Honor   Set. Niver Graduate Of Local High School

Gifford Flier Gets Oak Leaf   Sgt. Niver Honored For Anti-Sub Patrol Flights Over Atlantic

Congress Argue: Control Over U.S. Spending  House Group Rounds Out Revenue Bill

TAX FRAMERS EVE CONTROL ON SPENDING   Postage Rates Hiked: Refuse Soft Drink Tax

YANKS HOLD. NEW GROUND IN ITALY   Repel Four Germar Attacks In_ . Bayonet Fighting

DEATH U DINGO Ghlola IN BULGARIA   Nazis May Be Unable To Keep Control Of Balkan Nation As In 1918

King Boris Of Bulgaria Dies Mysteriously      Nazis Deny Illness Resulted From Quarrel With Hitler; Son Ascends Throne

KING BORG OF  BULGARIA DIES   Death Comes to Monarch After Mysterious FiveDay IliIness.   KING WAS 49-YEARS-OLD

German Racho Announces _ End After Mysterious 5-Day Illness   A CRISIS IN BALKANS   Six-Year Old Heir Ascends Throne As King Semeon II

Boris Dies Of Mysterious 5 Day Illness   German Radio Denies Bul ‘garian King Was Wound ed By Assassin   HINT HITLER QUARREL   Violent Balkan Crisis Seen As 6 Year Old Prince Simeon Takes Throne

EXTRA!   King Boris Of Bulgaria Dead At 49   Nation Threatened With New Government Crisis;  Was Monarch Shot?

King Boris of Bulgaria Dies   Announced by Berlin-Was Reported Shot

KING BORIS Ill DEAD; MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED   Hitler May Have Trouble Holding Bulgars In Line

BULGARIAN KING DIES FROM MYSTERY AILMENT   Passing of Monarch will Complicate Already Tangled Situation in Balkans

ONE SOURCE HINTS THAT HE WAS SHOT   Berlin Speaks of Mysterious Five-Day Illness Diagnosed as Angina Pectoris — Monarch’s Son Takes Throne.

a a el  NAZIS MAY LOSE BULGARIA FROM SATELLITEROLE   ‘London Spectilates on Po tentialities of Present Situation on World War Changes

Assassination Of Boris Cited As Possibility   Monarch Of Axis-Dominated Nation Succumbs To Five-Day Illness; Son Simeon, 6  Succeeds Father; Council To Rule

KING BORIS DIES, SUN, 6, ASGENDS BULGAR THRONE   Germany Ascribes Death to Heart Attack—Turkey - Hears Monarch May Have Been Shot.   MINISTERIAL COUNCIL IN CHARGE OF AFFAIRS   Passing Raises Question Whether Hitler Wil Be Able to Retain Control of Country.

6-Year-Old Sor Takes Throne Of Bulgarians   Death of King Boris Raises Question If Axis Will Be Able To Tiahten Hold

BERLIN REPORTS KING BORIS OF BULGARIA DEAD   DEATH IS SAID TO HAVE FOLLLOWED MYSTERIOUS FIVE-DAY ILLNESS

OUJARREL WITH HITLER CAUSE, REPORT SAYS   Five-Day Fatal Illness Llowever, Remains Unexplained

GERMAN RADIO DENIES FIGHT WITH HITLER   ASSASSINATION IS RUMORED; CRISIS THREATENS

Five-Day Mysterious — Ilines: Claimed Cause of Death of Boris of Bulgaria—Six-Year. Old Demon Ascends Throne

King Boris Is Dead, Reports German Radio   Conflicting Accounts Are Given As To Cause Ot Death Of 49-Year-Old King Of Bulgaria

Had Steered Nation On Delicate Course In Troublesome Days; Assassination Hinted

6-Year-Old Boy Takes. Throne   Mystery Stilt — Shrouds Sudden  [Iness of Boris

Nazis Claim Ruler Had Died Of Heart Disease After FiveDay Illness—Deny Sickness Began During Violent Quarrel with Hitler.

 —BULGARIA—  King Boris’ Abdication Is Expectec   Stormy Scene With Hitler Reported Cause Of Monarch’s [ness

Bulgaria's King ‘Dies Of Illness; ‘Son Gets Throne   Germans Announce Death Of Monarch

King Boris Of  Bulgaria Dies   Six-Year-Old Son. Simeon Succeeds To Throne As King Simeon Il.

MYSTERIOUS 5 DAY ILLNESS 1S FATAL TO BORIS   Nazis Deny Death Induced by Violent Quarrel With Hitler

Germans Deny That Vio. lent Quarrel with Hitler Caused King To Have Heart Attach   QUEEN IS ITALIAN   Bulgaria Entered War On Nazi Side On March 1, 1941, But People Are Pro-Russian

Death of King Boris, Bulgar Monarch, Causes Much Speculation; Nazis May Tighten Grip on Little Country

‘Nazis Deny Monarch was   Assassinated; Istanbul Hears Dead Leader Clashed With Hitler.

King Boris, Of — Bulstia. Dies   Death Of Ruler, Whether By Illness Or Assassination, Raises Critical Question O Nazis’ Slipping Control

SON IS PLACED ON THRONE AS PUPPET RULER   Pro-Axis Premier Seeks To Hold Control Over Balkan State   ATTACK DENIED   Nation Was First To Desett German Cause In  World War I

Bulgarian King Is Dead   Iliness or Bullet; Nazi Domination of Country Threatened

@His Six-Year-old Heir Immediately Proclaimed King of Bulgaria   ¢ REPORT OF CLASH WITH HITLER   But Germany Denies There Was a Quarrel; Assassina~ tion Attempt Also Rumored

5-Day Illness Fatat To King Of Bulgaria  ey  ASSASSINATION RUMOR

Bulgarian King Dies After 5-Day Mystery Illness   Premier Reads Proclamation That 6-Year-Old  Heir Takes Throne.   Country in Delicate Position With Nazis

BORIS, BULGAR KING, DIES   GERMAN RADIO REVEALS PASSING OF MONARCH

HOUSE ADDS MONEY FOR LINDLEY HALL   Ap ropriation Carries $50, for Furniture and Equipment  rArT sy T°vVanAT AT CYTO VTL 

HOUSE ADDS MONEY FOR LINDLEY HALL   Appropriation Carries $50. ) for. Furniture and Equipment   INTO FINAL STRETCH

LOCAL BOARDS 10 PONTROL TRAVEL FOR VACATIONS   “Christmas Present In July” Guarded Against Doubledealing.

LOCAL BOARDS MAY ALLOW USE OF GAS      “A” Rations May Be Used By Motorists For One Trip

KEY TO TRAVEL DEPENDS. UPON BATION BOARDS   Applicant Must Show There Is No Alternate Means Of Transportation

CLARK T0 HEAD U.S. FIFTH ARM   New Organization Preparing to Act With British, French Allies.

New Fifth Army Is Formed Under Gen- Mark Clark   British Commandos In Dawn Attack Oust Nazis From  Mateur Area

FRENCH BATTER NAZI TANK FORCE   Canadian Unit Joins British Ist Army in North Africa

Clark To Lead  New oth Army   Activitation Of Unit Means Two Or Three U.S. Divisions In Africa,

GENERALCLARK NAMED LEADER oF ETH ARMY  aw eA mA ae cl   ‘Placed In Command of   Force In Africa, Set to   Oust Axis From Tunisian Area   -RAIN- BOGS FRONT   British Troops Defeat Germans, Take Hill In Mateur Sector of Bi  zerte Drive

LIEUT, CLARK IN CHARGE OF NEW U, 5. FIFTH ARMY   His Forces Now Preparing To Drive Axis from Tunisia

Gen. Mark W. Clark Takes Command Of Fifth Army And Africa, As Severity Of The Broad Balle There Increases Force

US. Fifth Army-Now Formed In N. Africa   Pampa Air Base Soldier's Father Listed Missing In North Africa

Clark Heads US. Sth Arm   Eisenhower's Aide Is Given Command in Tunisian Conflict

106 LEAVE FOR ARMY EXAMS   Hunter Burt is Named Leader Of Large Contingent

DAYLIGHT RAID MADE ON LONDON   No Bombs Dropped; Few Scattered Raids Last Night

COLOGNE HARD HIT BY RAIDS   80 Per Cent of Central Area Destroyed

MURRAY FLAYS NO STRIKE BILL   ClO Executives Join in Plea to Solons to Defeat Connally Plan

Opposition Expressed Many Businesses   Lieutenant diovernor Against ¥:     emptlous For Sections; Mayor  Seeks Exceptions Here

OFFICIALS STUDYING SHORTER WORK-WEEK     Opposition Expressed in Many Businesses: .      Lieutenant Governor Against Exemptions For Sections; Mayor Seeks Exceptions Hers

ALLIES STRIKE JAP BASES ON BROAD FRONTS   Bombers Active All Way From Munda Area To Amboina; Greater Resistance Seen   Salamaua Is Blasted

Jap Bases Hard Hit By Bombers   Weather Slows Down Advance By Ground Forces

WIDESPREAD ATTACKS MADE ON JAP BASES   224 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Amboina, Salamaua, Bairoko And Vila By Allies

Ruthven Youth  Nig. Se A et . Pies in ACUON      oR “Smith “Te Was Shatpshooter ‘in’ New Guinea Aree

FDR “Not Keen” For Fourth Term   But Would Like to Help In Writing Peace Pro gram.

Navy Reveals Sinking of Two Axis Subs   Knox Warns U. 8. U-Boat Menace Fails to Diminish

UMW IGNORES BACK 10 WORK   Policy Committee Again Adjourns to Reconvene This Morning At 11 To Hear RePorts,   Lewis is Secretive

High School Awards Announced At Assemblies The Past Week   Students in Both Junior and Senior Hich Reorranized

RECOGNITION DAY: AT HICH SCHOOL   Special Achievements In Various Fields Duly Put On: Record.

Bolivia’s Regime Must Meet Three Conditions Before U. S. Gives ‘OK’

U. S. Recognition of Bolivia to Follow Guarantee Regime Will Meet Obligations

RECOGNITION OF BOLIVIA SEEN   Three Qualifications Listed.  For New Government ,

Two-Ton Bombs Fall On Milan  U. S. Planes Hit France: Report Paris Hit

MILAN HARD HIT BY NEW R.A.F. RAID   British Airmen Also Pay Visit To Berlin

‘Report Milan Swept by Panic and Huge Fires After RAF Attacks With Blockbusters   Thousands Parade Through Streets in Peace Demonstration

‘Berlin and Milan Battered; Panicky Thousands Try to lEseape; Mobs Call for Peace

Milan Again Target Of RAF Fliers; Berlin Hit   Portsmouth Is Center Of Heaviest Assault  By Nazis In 2 Years; Cacnalties Numerous

HUGE FIRES RAGE; BERLIN ALSO RAIDED   * Blazes Set in Italian Industrial City 24 Hours Earlier Still Burning When RAF Struck Blow Tact Niaht

[Bomders Hit Milan, Berlin   Germans Raid Portsmouth in Biggest Raid in’ :over Two Years oo ES,

Over 100 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Milan by RAF   Mosquito Bombers Again Raid Berlin and Report Intense Anti-Aircraft Fire and Great Concentrations of Seerchilights

Hear Japs Begin To Quit Attu   ‘U.S. Forces Threater Blockade Of Kiska Base.

WARLORDS ARE DENOUNCED BY HUGE THRONGS   Armed Guards. Ignored; RAF Attack Devastating; Debris In Streets Thirty Feet High   MOSQUITOES STING CAPITAL OF GERMANY   Great Formations of Allied Bombers Renew Attacks Today; British Towns Are Raided

Milan Workers Stage March for Peace After RAF Planes Pour Bombs On City

Kiska Blocked As Attu Collapse Near   Fall Of Attu Slated In Few Hours And Thert ‘/ Kiska May Expect Same Fate wW 

Bombers Cross Alps To Blast ltaly Targets   Railway Yards And Seaplane Base Are Shattered Near Rome

‘WRECKED’ BY RAIDS   RAF’s Night Bombers Also Hit Berlin; Yanks Out Today

Milan Pounded Third Time ‘In Four Nights by British; City Virtually Destroyed

U. S. AIRMEN RAID PARIS; MILAN STRAFED   Berlin Also Again Pounded 5, Mosquito Bombers—Forts Blas  Avice Airdramec   FOLK FLEE MILAN   Populace Demands Peace, Regards House of Savoy and Badoglio as Fascist

Allied Planes in an Attack on Paris   This Announcement Made Today by the Vichy Radio.

Italy's First Factory City Left In Ruins   Inhabitants In Demonstration For Peace; Refugees Fleeing In Confusion.   BOMBERS HIT BERLIN

New Alfack by RAF Leaves Milan Scene of Panic,Ruir   Fires of Saturday Raid Showed Sunday Disorder Prevails

CLAMORING FOR PEACE IN WAKE OF AIR ATTACH   More Than Hundred Two-ton Bombs Unleashed. Mosquito Bombers Attack Berlin.

British Again Smash af Milan   Italian City Area Of Desolation and Panic, Reported

LONDON — (#) — The Vichy radio. announced that Allied planes had attacked Paris Monday. morning for half an hour.

Milan Blasted for Third Time ‘In Four Nights, Setting Fires i Seen from Switzerland Border   _Populace Parades . Thru Rubble for. - Immediate Peace .

Northern Italy People Increase ‘Peace Demands   Flying Fortresses Roar Out Over Europe In Another Attack

Fires Are Visible At Swiss Frontier After Latest RAF Attack On Italian City

British Heavy Bombers Again Hammer Milan   Panic Sweeps Desolated Italian Industrial City; Mosquitos Raid Berlin.

RAF Bombers Fill Streets ‘With Debris   Inhabitants Stage Parade Through Streets In  Demonstration for Peace

CITY BLASTED THIRD TIME IN FOUR NIGHTS   Accounts From Neutral Sources Describe Vital Italian Industrial Center As Area of Desolation   RAIDS RESUMED TODAY

BERLIN, MILAN BLASTED ANEW BY RAF PLANES   Huge Fires Kindled; Berliners Get Taste Of Things To Come

Italians In Milan Clamor For Peace   Milan Virtually Ceases to Exist as City, Reports Say, After Third RAF Bombing in 4 Nights; Berlin Raided

MILAN, BERLIN RAIDED AGAIN BY BRITISH FLIERS   Also Lay Mines; 12 RAF Planes Fail To Return From Attacks

BLOCKBUSTERS USED BY fi A. F. IN MILAN BLEW   Panic Throughout Industrial City Reported Today

MILAN MASS OF RUBBLE, PEOPLE CRY FOR PEACE   WIDESPREAD ALLIED BOMBING RAIDS HIT AXIS WAR CENTERS

Attacks Made In Light Full Moon   Third Raid On Milan -Since Early Friday Morning   THE GERMANS HIT BACK AT ENGLAND

Americans fo Blast Attempt To Flee by Sea   Washington Asserts Collapse of Enemy Is Imminent, May Be Matter of Hours

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK PARIS THIS MORNING   _ Vichy: Radio Reports Two Sections in Paris Area Suffered Heavy  Damace ,

MILAN, BERLIN ‘UNDERGO NEW AERIAL RAIDS   Bombers Blast Industrial Milan, While Mosquito Planes Visit Germany

BRITISH BOMBERS HIT MILAN AGAIN; STREAM OVER CHANNEL FOR CONTINUED AIR BLASTINGS

Allies Overrun Last Defenses Of Fleeing Axis   Messina Under American Artillery Fire; Escape Route Under Land, Sea And Air Attack: Germans Leave Italians To Hold On.

BRITISH BOMBERS IN. ANOTHER ATTACK ON MILAN LAST NIGHT   MOSQUITO BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN TARGETS, RAIDS MADE ELSEWHERE

The City’s Defenses Were Re-« ported Stronger Than Ever Before, But the Fight Not So Severe.   THREE OIL FIRES IN ONE FACTORY   The Germans Put Up Night Fighters Over France to Intercept the Bombers;  Two Shot Down.

Milan, Berlin Hit By RAF Bombers In Night Attack    Milan “One: Gigantic Ruin” “After Third Pounding Sizice. Friday ~ Morning

ITALIAN CITY HIT SECOND NIGHT IN ROW   Light Planes Attack Nazi Capital: Airfields In France, Holland Also Blasted By Allies

Heavy Damage Reported in Paris Area   Considerable Number of Enemy Fighters Destroyed in France   BERLIN GIVEN TASTE OF RAIDS TO COME   100 Two-Ton Bombs Are Dropped in Devastating Raid on Milan

Big Attack On Milan   More Than 100 TwoTon Bombs Crash Into Industrial City

lin, Milan in Bombed By RAF Planes   Nazi Raiders Lash English Coastal Town

Milan Is Laid In Ruins by 3d RAF Night Raid   An Area of Desolation and Panic Is Reported From Switzerland.   Milan Doesn’t Exist As Industrial City

Milan Is Hit Third Time By Barrage Of Allied Bombs   Residents Demon_ strate For Peace In Wrecked Streets

Milan Gets ' 3rd Attack In 4 Nights   Important Industrial City Laid In Ruins by Allied Aerial Raiders

Inhabitants Parade Throug! Streets Of Ruined City  Demanding Peace

Russian Drive On Rostov Said Near Goal   German Defenses Said Crumbling At Many Points

Troops Encircled By Soviet Fighters Estimated At 200.000   RUSSIANS ONLY 10 MILES OUTSIDE CITY OF ROSTOV   Escape By Sea Exit Left And This Is Highly Dangerous

RED CROSS ON THE JOB   Organization Is Ready Te Provide Rehabilitation Service

RED CROSS ON THE JOB   Organization Is Ready To Provide Rehabilitation -

LIQUOR CURFEW BILL AMENDED   Revisions In Measure Hit At  Rural Honkytonks

Powerful Fleets of Bombers Hit At Europe Again   Non-Stop Attacks On Hitler’s Continental Fortress Continue

POUND EUROPE FROM 2 SIDES   Attack on Germany Completes Week; Allied Planes Over Italian Islands.

Powerful Fleets Of Planes Hit At Enemy Again   Daylight Raiding Forces Strike  From England

Allied Air Flects Hit Europe Again   RAF Damages 20 Trains in Night Assault

ALLIED AIR FLEETS. HIT AT EUROPE   RAF Long Range Night Fighters Damage 90 Trains

KAISER URGES U.S. SALES TAX   SHIP BUILDER ASKS FEDERAL DEBT SLASH

Tackle Backlog of Wage Boosts   Byrnes Restores WLB  Discretionary Power

Backlog of Wage Increase Cases  Tackled by WLB   Board Gets Back Some Authority to Adjust Wages

POWER RESTORED TO WLB BY BYRNES   Board Tackles 10,000 Wage Cases

WLB STARTS WORK ON PAY RAISES   10,000 Requests Have Piled Up; Tax Debate Continues

RETURNS SOME POWER TO WLB   Byrnes Restores Slight Authority Over Wage Increase to Board

WLB Given Power to Rule Wages   Restoration Ordered By Byrnes; Retains  Review Authority

SOME WAGE POWER RESTORED TO WLB BY JAMES F. BYRNES   Board May Grant Increases Only Within Formula : Or To Correct ‘ Inequalities

WILL DROP POINTS FROM STRIKE BILL   House Will Trade with Senate for Measures in Labor Act

xk *k& Kk * Strike Bill  Agreement Near   Rations, Prices And Wages

HOUSE MEMBER URGES TRADE ON STRIKE BILI      Would Give Up 30-Day Cooling Of Period for Other Curbs on Unions

Start Pocahontas County Victory ~ Garden Meetings   Town, City and Rural Areas Will Support 1943 Garden Program

Job Well Done In Some Plants, While In Others It Has Hardly Advanced Past Talking Stage; Survey Shows In One Place Employing 25.000 Workers Only 2,000 Could Be Fed

Reds Are Firm Before New — Enemy Troops   Violent Attempt of Germans to Take Kharkov Brings Loss of Many Men. Tanke: Nazi Reserves Pour in

FRESH TROOPS BATTLE REDS NEAR KHARKOV   KEY UKRAINE CITY IMPERILED BY NAZI PUSH

Nazis Throw More Men Into Battle   Ouinumbered Reds Kill 1,200 Near Big City

Nazis Strike Furiously to  Take Key City   Moscow Bulletin Speaks Ominously of ‘Unequal Engagement;’ Red Advance Perils Vyazma on Central Front

BATTLE FIERCELY TO HOLD KHARKAY   Moscow Speaks Ominously Of Unequal Engagement   RUSSIANS ADVANCE   On Central Front to Threat. en Encirclement of Vyazma; Timoshenko Gains

Moscow Reports 375,000 Germans Attacking Reds   Official Bulletin Describe: “Unequal Engagement   Iwelve Thousand Nazis Destroyed in Desperate Advance

Germans Are Bringing Up More Reserves, Moscow Reports  RED ARMIES GAIN ON CENTRAL FRONT  Troops Reported to be Within Fifteen Miies of Vyazma

Russians Repulse Violent  Attacks West of Kharkov   Nazis Bring Up Fresh Reserves Trying to Break Through: Reds Advance on Vyazma

Near edge of stronghold apparently determined ‘break thru at all costs’

Soviet Hints Of Ominous Trend   “Nazis Sending In ~ More Fresh Troops

Nazis Bring Up Reserves In Big Fight   Large Attacking Army Is Pushing Russ Back  Before Big Stronghold -'

Germans Ave Bringing Up More Reserves, Mos. cow Reports >   RED ARMIES GAIN. . ON CENTRAL FRONT      Troops Reported to: be  Withia Fifteen Miles  of Vearzma

RUSSIANS ARE SAID T0 BE OUT-NUMBERED   Despite Loss Of  1,200 Men Nazis Push On Against Soviet Defenders.

HEADS MISSION   Gen. Kenney Represents Mac Arthur At Washineten.

‘75 To 100’ Dead In Streamliner Wreck   ~ Crack Pennsylvania Limited Jumps Tracks '58 Known Dead Already Counted After

Coaches of Congressional Limited Split as Fasi Pennsylvania Train Buck. les and is Derailed.

PA, PASSENGER TRAIN ACCIDENT TAKES 65 LIVES   124 Injured In Crash Of Crack R. R. Limited

58 Killed in Rail Disaster;  124 Injured   Crack Eastern Train Jumps Rail; 541 Passengers Caught in Debris.   Victims Buried For Hours Under Coaches

Baille Says Generals Do Not Share Optimism of Civilians About Early Termination of the War in Europe

MEN AT THE WARFRONTS ARENT BETTING WAR WILL END SOON’   Rv HUGH BAILLIE

Military Commanders At Front FE xpect  No Early Conquest Of Hitler's Forces   Over-Optimism On Home Front Not Shared By Fighting Men, Writer Learns   Best Concensus Of Opinion Sees Germany Lasting For Year More Under Attacks

Jap Cruelty to American Fliers  Will Be Avenger   State Department Formally Protests Executions; Warns of Punishment.   Victory in Air   Allies Active in Aleutians, Holds Air Mastery in N. W. Africa.

NEAT U.S. ESSENTIAL   OCR Official Recognizes Work of Barbers, Beauticians.

Texas Governor and Workers Asree to Ban Work Stoppages During War

WORK STOPPAGES BANNED IN TEXAS   Pact Is Signed By Workers And State Governor.

Jap Forces Are Blasted On 4 Fronts   US and Allied Planes Attack Jap Bases at Burma, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and the Aleutians -

Ask Report On Rubber Plants   Senators Demand Story On Progress Of Government Subsidized Firms.

REPORT GIVEN ON LOAN DRIVE   Three-Quarter Mark Is Already Passed In Bond Sales.

OTATE DEFENSE APPROPRIATION MEASURES “Ih   But Chairman Junge Be lieves Totals Asked Aré Too High ana Will Be Reduced In Committee

Wartime Defense Measures   Discussed In House Today As Appropriation Bills Introduced

JAPANESE TRYING 10 GET ON GOOD SIDE OF CHINESE   Congressman Reports Nips Have Abandoned Practice ‘Of Atrocities—Peace  “ Overtures

DRAFT BOARDS TO ‘GET TOUGH   Selective service heads issue order to enforce ‘work or fight’

DRAFT GUARD ARE TOLD 10 “GEL TOUGH   ‘“‘Work or Fight” Order to Get Farmers Is Not Idle Talk.   SAMPLE LETTERS OUT   Men With Farm Experience Between 15 and 45 to Feel ‘‘Heat.”

PLAN DRAFT BOARD PRESSURE TO PROVIDE HELP ON FARMS   LOCAL BOARDS TOLD TO “GET  TOUGH” IN ENFORCING THE “WORK OR FIGHT"  porwrey

LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS ARE TOLD TO “GET TOUGH” ON “WORK OR FIGHT” RULE

DRAFT BOARDS 10 “GET TOUGH” WITH FARM WORKERS   Experienced Men in 18-45 Age Group To Get Choice of Taking Jobs or Being Inducted Into Service.

VITAL ROAD IN VITEBSK AREA CUT   Nazis Claim Red Army Using 150,000 Men West Of Kiev

Berlin Tells Of New Drive By Red Forces   Germans Admit Line: Are Breached ia Several Places

‘Russians Cut German Supply Road In North and Attack on Kiev Fron!

SOVIET ARMIES START ROLLING - WEST OF KIEV   Reds Continue Drive In White Russia Toward Vitebsk

Supply Highway Cut By Reds In Vitebsk Sector   200 Towns Freed; Nazis Claim Soviet Renews Kiev Drive

Reds Cut Vitebsk Rail Line, Renew  Push in Ukraine  Eighth Army Keeps Hitting Nazis in Italy As Rain Bogs Fitth

Russians; Cut Nazi Supply Line in North   Berlin Announces Renewed Soviet Drive Near Kiev

Reds Push Toward Vitebsk While Berlin Announces — New Russian Kiev Drive -

NAZIS INDICATE NEW OFFENSIVE IS SUCCESSFUL   Vital Highway Cut By Red Column

BERLIN ADMITS BIG OFFENSIVE BY RED FORCE   Russians Cut Vitebsk-Polotsk Nazi Supply .Highway in March Toward Vitebsk   2,000 HUNS KILLED; 600 OTHERS SEIZED   Germany Says Reds Have Struck With 150,000 Men in Reopening Drive West of Kiev

Reach Nazi Supply Road   Also Resume Long-Blocked Drive West of Kiev

Soviets Use 150,000 to Cut Artery   Nazi Counterattacks Fail; 200 Villages Taken by Red Forces

Tanks Engage in Conflict West of Kiev   Important Highway Is Severed by Onrushing Soviets

Reds Take 200 More Communities In Drive in White Russia; Battle West of Kiev Gains-in Fury

Supply Highway Cut By Reds In Vitebsk Sector   200 Towns Freed; Nazis Claim Soviet  Renews Kiev Drive Re TAMES M. YTOnNG

GERMAN SUPPLY ROAD'TO VITEBSK CUT BY RUSSIAN!   Two Hundred More Villages Are Overrun by Stalin’s Forces in Drive Toward Great Bastion.   SOVIET OFFENSIVE RESUMED IN KIEV AREA   Big-Scale Move Threatens to Flank Hundreds of. Thousands of Nazis South of Dniener Bend.

YANKEE AIR ARM CHOKING LIFE OUT OF ENEMIES   Famed Correspondent Cites Guadalcanal And Tunisia As Proof Of Claim   TROPIC NATIVES PRAISED   Tregaskis Says Pacific Islanders Should Have Own Governments

BERLIN SAYS RUSS FORCES REACH OREI   Nazis Preparing to Give Vp City, Dispatches  Indicate   MANY TOWNS TAKEN IN SOVIET ADVANCE   Over 2400 Germans Kill. ed and Much Booty  Talan

Nazis Appear Set to Give Orel to Reds   Russians Converge On City From Seven Routes: Attacking With Great Fury

Reds Report Continued Advances   German Radio Appears To Be Preparing Public For Loss of Orel  "QO MARE TOWNS FATT.

FICHTING NOW REPORTED IN CITY OF ORE!   Berlin Radio is Heard To Admit Red Units In City Itself

Nazis Admit Orel Enfered   Report Not Confirmed From Russian Sources

Berlin Prepares Nazi Home Front For Loss Of Ore  Big Russian Offensive Carried Red Army Into

Berlin Reports Russ Enter  Besieged Orel   Broadcast Prepares Germans for  Nazi Territory Loss

NAZIS PREPARE TO SURRENDER _OREL TOREDS   Berlin Radio Says Russian Troops Have Entered " Vital Chee   NO CONFIRMATION COMES FROM MOSCOW

RADIO REPORT e MAY BE ERROR   Appears Nazis Preparing to Give up Pivotal City   RUSSIANS CLAIM   70 More Populated Plates ® Captured; Heavy Fighting Is in Progress

Nazis Admit  Loss of Key Position   Report May Be Erroneous But Russians Announce Many Gains; Germans lose Heavily on Vital Orel Front

dio Reports, Howevel Are Not Confirmed by Moscow   ty Villages Overrun i ~ Latest Advance of Red Army

GERMANS FALL BACK IN ORELATTACK FAILS   Reds Closing In From Seven Directions; Nazis Claim Russians Got Nothing Un damaged   Softening Begins

Nazis Report Reds In Orel   _Invaders Believed Ready To Quit Embattled Soviet City

Berlin Radio Says Russians Already Have Entered City, But Broadcast Appears to Be in Error—Moscow Tells of Violent Fighting in Area With 70 More Villages Occupied by Red Forces—2,400 Enemy Troops Killed.

Germans claim Russian army has entered Orel   Nazis withdrawing from area as soviet attack envulfs citv

GermansReported About To Give Up Orel To Russians   Berlin Radio Announcement Declares Soviet Army Is Fighting In City, After Gaining 70 More Settlements

NAZIS UNABLE TO HOLD OREL AGAINST REDS   SOVIETS RECAPTURE SCORES OF SMALL VILLAGES

 AEVERCOMB FLAYS TESTIMONY EDICT   Says FDR Would Not Have Dared Prohibit Officers to Testify in FCC Hearing Had Congress Been in Session

PORTAL-T0-PORTAL PAY IS ISSUE AS. COAL GPERATORS AND MINERS DICKER

WLB GRANTS COAL MINERS CONCESSIONS   Rejects $2 Day Increase in Basic Wages but Otherwise Permits Abont S$] Baise   VICTORY FOR LEWIS   Miners, Operators Directed to Resume Bargaining on Portal-toPortal Pay

Coal Wrangle Is Down To One Basis, Truce To Extend   Portal-to-Portal. Pay Single Issue, Prospect For Settlement Brighiens

Miner Wages Hiked   ..- Prospects Bright for Settling Controversy

OUTLOOK IN COAL CASE BRIGHTENS   Union And Owners Resume Bargaining Talks In Capital

Issues In Coal Dispute Trimmed  Portal - To - Portal Pay  Onlv Remaining Point

COAL OPERATORS AND MINE WORKERS FACE EACH OTHER AGAIN  TACIT ACCEPTANCE WAR LABOR BOARD AWARD

Mine Issue.  Work   Labor Board Turns Down $2 Raise; Sides Resume Bargaining

PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENT SEEM BRIGHTER   Operators Union Face To Face Over Table

Miners Win Concessions In Pay Fight   WLB Rulings Leave ‘Por“tal? Payments as Chief Issue to Be Met

Operators and Miners Confer   Begin Bargaining On Portal-to-Portal Pay, It Is Revealed

Roundabout Victory For Coal Miners  Pay Boost Denied But They May Gel More Than Asked

Mine Dispute Stripped Down  To One Issue   Portal-To-Portal Pay Is Main Problem As Result Of Decision By War Labor Board

Coal Parley Narrows To Portal-Pay Dispute  WLB Edict Rejects Miners’ Demand   WLB Edict Rejects Miners’ Demand  For Basic Wage Increase of $2

Coast Guard Members are FoundGuilty   BY GENERAL COURT MARTIAL AND GIVEN “BAD CONDUCT” DISCHARGES, TWO OTHER VERDICTS UNANNOUNCED.   “Prisoners At Larve”

UNION GUARDS ARE CONVICTED BY COURT   Two Members Of Coast Guard Reserve Tried On Charges Of Refusing To Obey Orders

Air Forces Give Support to U.S. Ground Forces   Few Casualties; Australians Hit at Salamaua

Rendova Wholly In Allied Hands :   Nips’ Big Base At Munda Is Shelled

MacArthur Announces Complete Occupation Of Solomons Island  TWO-PRONGED PACIFI( DRIVE GOING WELL  Japs Lose 101 Planes And U. S. Loses 17 In Great Air Battles

QUICKLY TAKE PACIFIC ISLE   Shore Batteries Turned On Nipponese Air Base at Munda With Completion of Conquest,   101 ENEMY PLANES BLASTED FROM SKIES   American Casualties Are Light Throughout Battle Zone—Yanks Consolidate Positions.

101 Jap Planes Shot Down By Yankee Fliers   Americans. complete conquest of small islands. in Solomons; casualties light.

Foe Loses 101 Planes Trying To Stop Drive   Gen, M'Arthur Revealed Commander of Entire

U.S. Wreck: 101 Jap Airplanes   Conquest of Rendova Is Quickly Done; Ground Fighters Also Advance; MacArthur Reports Casualties Light

BIG GUND OPE FIRE ON MUNDA   General MacArthur Reports Casualties Are Light   AIRMEN SCORE   Rain Death on Forces Opposing Landings Near Salamaua, New Guinea

ALLIED PLANE BATTEN ANEW AT JAP SHIPS   Australian Fliers Take Turn At Smashing Enemy Craft In Rabaul’s Harbor

Reds Block  Nazi Escape   All but Last Rail Rail Line from Kharkov Cut by Soviets ‘in _ Bloody Fighting -

Fight Unto Death for Two Bases      Reds Slowed as Germans Make Death Stand in Most Favorable Terrain   MAY BE SEQUEL TO STALINGRAD   Russians Move Ahead, But Under Great Difficulty; Fierce Counter Action

Russian Army Smashes Nazi Counterblows   Close In Upon Kharkov Base

Allied Warplanes Destroy Japanese Barges and Ships   Direct Hit on Large Vessel Resembling Carrier Reported

)Allies destroy 23 Japanese airplanes in lashing  Wewak: score direct hits on carrier near Buka

23 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   20 Caught On Ground At Wewak; Three Vessels Sunk, One Hit

23 Jap Planes Destroyed In Attack By Allied Planes   Several Barges and Two Ships Also Wrecked at We- wak—Four Allied Fighters Fail to Return

Allied Warplanes Destroy 23 Jap Planes in Attacks in the Pacific

23 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED AROUND WEWAK   Large Ship Resembling Air. plane Carrier Hit By Allied Bombs   FINSCHHAFEN GROUND SITUATION IMPROVED

Allies Blast 23 Jap Planes at Wewak   Several Barges and Two Ships Also Hit By MacArthur's Fliers; Attack Made On Large Ship Off Buka: Four Planes Lost

Nip Aircraft Carrier Believed Hit   23 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed in Raid on Wewale

Allies Destroy 23 Jap Planes   Two Ships, Barges Sunk at Wewak ~

Allied Forces Smash Through  Nazi-Held Line   Americans And Canad. ians Advance Through. Breaches In Sicilian Defenses   FINAL OFFENSIVE NEARS IN SICILY

NAZI HELD LINE -GMASHED: BATTLE NEARS DECISION   AlLOut “Al‘ed Offensive in Preparation; Germans. Fight Fiercely. -

James W. Pearl Dies In Chicagc   Deceased Was Noted Enaineer. Planner

Liberators Hit Andaman Islands   Fires Visible For Over 50 Miles

Finland to Seek Separate Peace :  F Will Contact Reds ip Any Wav Possible

SOLONS COMMENT ON CAIRO ACCORD   BELIEVE IT MEANS MINOR ROLE FOR JAPANESE IN THE NEW WORLD.

Congress Hails Agreement of Cairo Conference  Sees Guarantee of Offensive to Crush Japan

NAZIS MASSING TROOPS ALONG TURK BORDER   Turkey Moves To Aid Allies As Mediterranean Assaults Are Planned

FOLLOWS SHIFT INTO ALLIED CAMP   Dardanelles Zone Militarized; Army To Be Doubled

ANKARA SUMMONS ARMY RESERVES SEQUEL 10 PARLEY:   Germans Reported Massing Powerful Forces on  Rulanrian Rardar

TURKEY PLEDGES. AID “SHORT OF WAR” TO. ALLIES        Germany Reportedly. Masses: Reinforcements ‘in Bulgaria; ~ Angle merican- Leaders Plan Mediterranéan Assaults -

Dardanelle Zone Being Militarized   Turkish Forces Being Mo. bilized—Action iv Bal.  kans Area Soon

Turkey Shifts Into Allied Camp In Latest Move   Strict Military Rule Placed By Nation  Over Important Area

 President Inonu Confers With   Roosevelt, Churchill Last Week Jcins In Bxpressing “Closes!  Unity” Is Communique   WAR DECLARATION IS SEEN AS POSSIBILITY

Dardanelle Zones Are Militarized As Baikans Boil   Bulgaria Reported Expected to Break With Germany Any Moment

Explosion Seen in Balkans Area   ONE MILLION MORE MEN CALLED UP TO DOUBLE COUNTRY’S ARMED STRENGTH THIS MONTH; LAY OUT THREE-MILE MILITARY ZONES

TURKEY  CALLS UP MORE MEN FOR ARMY   Zones Three Miles Wide Laid Out   Police Watching Italians With Fascist Svmpathies

WILL DQUGLE SE OF ARMY AFORE. 194d   Explosion in Balkans Looms as Result of Lineup with Allies.

‘EXPLOSION PRESAGED AS BALKAN SITUATION GROWS MORE INTENSE         Turkey Moves Closer to Showdown with Nazis

ALL GERMAN EFFORTS TO HOLD BACK ALLIED MIGHT CRUSHED AS AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY LASHES OUT OF HILLS ON PLAINS LEADING TO ETERNAL CITY

Believe Inonu Pledged All Suppert To Allies Short Of Actual Entry Into War   Dardanelles May Be Opened as Vital Supply Route—Say Aid to Turks Pledged by FDR, Churchill.

Pledges All Aid “Short Of War” At Conference With F.D.R., Churchill

Shift armies around vital sea gateway   Expecting Balkan  explosion soon

New Front. In Prospect   ‘Nazi Troops Speed: To Dardanelles: Area

Gatewsy 1 Is Militarized —   TURKEY SHIFTS INTO ALLIED CAMP AS NON-BELLIGERENT STEPS UP WAR PREPARAT

ThreeMile Strip On Each Side OF Vital Dardanelles Is Under ” Strict Military Rule

Inonu Pledges ‘Closest Unity’ In Cairo Talks   Parley Of Turks’ President, Roosevelt And Churchill Expected To Hasten Showdown In Balkans; Bulgaria May Quit Axis

ALLIED BOMBERS ~AUT RAIL CENTER ~ NORTH OE NAPLES   Bad Weather Prevents Daylight Raids On Italy   LIGHT BOMBERS PRESS NEW RAIL ATTACKS

Rail Bottleneck Sealed by Allied ‘Blockbuster Bomt   Town North of Naples Visited by Lighter Planes

GEASELESS AIA ATTAGK POUND AWAY AT UTALY   Big Railroad Center Nortt Of Naples Completely Out Of Commission

ALLIES HAMMER ~ RAILROAD YARD NORTH OF NAPLES   Transportation Bottleneck {s . Sealed By Weil Directed Biock-buster.

Blockbuster Seals Off South Italy Rail Hub; Weather Limits Yanks

Aversa Railroad Center Blasted   Doolittle Air Force Grounded By Weather

ALLIES DROP HUGE BLOCK BUSTER ON AVERSA RAIL LINK   All Planes Return Safely And~ Fliers “Report . Little Opposition Encountered

FLIERS HIT RAIL CENTER NEAR NAPLES   Allies Continue To Pound South Italy Towns

SMASH CLOSE TO SMOLENSK, NAZI BASTION   Advance With Electrifying Speed   KIEV’S FALL NEAR

Cross Upper Reaches Of Dnieper River   Now Within A Few Miles Of  Smolensk

Red Forces Storm Across Dnieper River  Troops Only   Troops Only Few Miles Erom Smolensk

OPA PROBING TAVERNS HERE   Checking Complaints Of Sales Above Ceil ing Prices

FLYING FORTRESS — COMPLETES MISSION AFTER 66 DAYS  BUT IN THAT REPORT SIXTY-SIX DAYS OF HELL  TrienAaer MmMasAMmroconrr,

Plane Crew, All Wounded, Survive §6-Day Ordeal After Crash Landing

‘Mission Is Completed’   66 Thrilling Days Covered By Terse, Modest Report  Ee cement

‘Amazing Adventure Of Group Of Flying Fortress. Members   Every Member Of Crew Wounded In Air Battle; Terrifying Weeks Described

“Routine Job” Ends: After 66 Days of Hell   Downed and ‘Wounded Fortress Crew Undergoes Amazing Adventure

Flying Fortress Trip Is '66 Days of Hell’ Told by American Fliers Rescued af Sea

- Flyi ing Fortress Crew, All - Wounded, Survives 66- -Day Ordeal After Crash at Sea

Bomber Crew Of 9, All Wounded, Survive 66-Day Ordeal In Pacific   Navy Plane Rams Hill: 8 Fliers Killed

TLOCAT, ORSERVATIONE   66 Days of Hell With Airforce   Bomber Crew, All Wounded Survive After Emergency Landing at Sea.

An Attack Is Best Defense Against Insects   Battle Should Begin When Pests Appear

Donations to U. S. Army From Three States in Area $5,000 Monthly

RED OFFENSIVE GAINS GROUND INSOUTH ZONE   Moscow Reports Drive Or  Novorossisk Launched   and Key’ Positions Already Seized   AIR WAR MOUNTS   Germans Force Crossing of Donets River, But Russians Claim All Were Wiped Out

Russ Seize Key Posts in Kuban Area   Action Seen Beginning of New Red Army Offensive

Russians Open New Drive In The Caucasus   Likely Beginning Of New Offensive; Fliers Take Part In Movement.

KEY ENEMY POSITIONS CAPTURED   Action May Mean New. Offensive In: Caucasus Starting:

Yanks Bomb Nazi Airfields at Rome  German Reports ge _— ot em: ht

Rome Suburbs Hit By Allied Heavy Bombers   German Airfields Near City Are Blasted In Big Attack

BLAGT GEAMAN AIRFIELDS WITH HEAVY DAMAGE   City of Rome Apparently Not Hit; Railway Yards in Italy Sombed.

BLAST ROME AIR FIELDS   Nazis Say Death Toll Was Heavy In Suburbs

ALLIES BLAST AIRFIELDS IN ROME SUBURBS   City Itself Not ‘Bombed

Rome Suburbs Hit By U. S. Medium Bomber:   Airfields In Area Blasted By Yanks; Nazis Admit Damage

GERMANS MAKE BIG STORY OF BOMBER FORAY   Claim Heavy Death Toll as Well as Considerable Damage at Eternal City in Italy.

Airfields In Rome Suburbs Are Pounded   Heavy Death Toll And Considerable Damage Reported By Germans After Air Attacks

Pressing Closer  To Munda Base   U.S. Troops Advance Under Cover Of Aerial And Naval Bombardments   SALAMAUA ALSO HEAVILY BOMBED

TOUGH YANKS MOVE CLOSER TO MUNDA   Now Within Mile of Vital Jap Base at Some Points

JAPS WON'T GIVE PRISONER LISTS   Thousands Held in Nip Prison Camps Are: Unaccounted For

AIR: ATTACKS BATTER JAP POSITIONS   Cape Gloucester Area May Be Due For Attack

MacArthur Seen Ready to Speed Drive on Rabaul   New Forces Likely To Land; Bombs Pound Jap Bases

Ruthven Blacksmith Shop At Auction Aug. 31  Henry Westergard   CON Th Becta

Ruthven Blacklsmith Shop At Auction Aug. 31   Henry Westergard p.

Urges Vote on Delaying Convention   Sen. Hart Asks Governo1 Call Election to Ballot on. Postponement   WOULD WAIT UNTIL THE WAR IS OVER   Many Issues Are Slated to Come Before Meeting to Revise Constitution

Allies Chase  Japs Back In Isle Zone   Nipponese Flee to North as Invaders Take Control of Treasury Isle; U. S. Paratroopers Improve Position

ALLIED INVADERS PUSH —JAPS TO NORTH TIP OF TINY TREASURY ISLAND   Seaborne Yank Paratroopers, Who Landed On Choiseul, Spli t Enemy Forces; Consolidate Their Positions

JAP DEFENDERS ON TREASURY ISLE ARE PUSHED BACK   Allies Disclose That 12 of 25 Bombers That Tried to Interfere With Landing Were Downed.   TROOPS CONSOLIDATE CHOISEUL POSITIONS   Nipponese Forces Split Following Descent of MacArthur’s-Soldiers From Skies.

Allied Forces Push Japs. Back On Two Islands   -Half OF, Nip Plane: “Force Seeking To: -

Jap Forces on Treasury Island Retreat   Troop-Laden Ship Is Sunk by Allies Off Buka

Japs Retreat Before Allies   Treasury Island Invader Force. Advances; Plane Attack Failure

Allies Drive Japs fo Tip of Treasury Isle.   Seaborné American Paratroopers Are  Consolidating Lines On Choiseul Island

NIPS ARE LOSING GROUND ON ISLE   Allied Invaders Are Driving Japs Back on Treasury: Island

Jap Dive Bomber Fail in Effort To Hit Invaders  Paratroopers on Small Island Hold Position

Today’s War Commentary  Japs Wary  3 & eee ee  A ute awr*B@ ut.   Wonder Where Allies Will Strike

VANDEGRIFT “NAMED HEAD OF MARINES   New Commander Is Back From Pacific  War Zone

Vandegrift Made Marine Command   Succeeds General Thomas Holcomb; Appointment Effective January 1.

Veteran Fighter New Commandant ~— -OFULS. Marines  Vandegrift Named te Suaceed Holcomb As Corps Head:

CORN CEILING — S CRITCIZED   CHAIRMAN. OF GOP FOOD COMMITTEE DECLARES BREAD SHORTAGE, MAY — DEVELOP

CORN SHORTAGE BLAMED ON FDR   Jenkins Asserts Thousands of Bakeries Facing Shutdown

NES UNDER DOOLITTLE MAKE DE RAID ON NINE OBJECTIVES AS OTHER NCAND ALLIED PLANES CONTINUE NG ITALY AND SICILY. }N AIR OF. SIVE IN MEDITERRANEAN ;

New “Apple Syrup” For Tobacco Makers Saves Glycerine For War Explosives

‘Apple Syrup’ for Tobacco Manufacture Saves Glycerine for War Explosives

New ‘Apple Syrup ’ For Tobacco Use To Save Vital Glycerine For War

GENERAL GIRAUD TO CONFER WITH F. DR,   French leader Will Discuss Military Subjects Only

GIRAUD'S VISIT.   Drench Leader to Discuss Militar) Matters Only on ‘Trip Here,

Att'y General Measure Given F inal Approval   Democratic Members Walk Out While Republicans Pass Bill Pertaining to Naming Deputies.

Willkie Puts In Busy Day At tate Capital   Addresses Legislature, State Committee and Is Headline Speaker at Banquet Last Night.

NAZIS PATROL VATICAN CITY   BERLIN, RADIO SAYS *CHUTISTS IN. ‘ST, PETER'S SQUARE AS ANTI-COMMUNIST GUARD

750 Employes Leave  i] ve o om fa =e uoweane fiat... 2e @ (2 Chases

HAVE YOU MADE AN APPOINTMENT TO. GIVE YOUR BLOOD?   Mobile Unit Will be at Fernwood Park on Oct. 14, 15 and 16

Bombers Continue Attacks in Burma   Severe Damage Caused to Enemy-

UNITED STATES BOMBERS, FIGHTER PLANES BOMB JAPS’ BURMA BASES  British Aircraft Blast Enemy’s Army  Pe eee 6 ee ee ee ee ee

NO PLAN TO RATION SOAP      OPA Puts Quietus on Rumors in Western Cities

Heavy Fighting Between Guerillas Germans Reported   Fighting On Crete Grows In Intensity

Fight Breaks Out On Crete   Many Cretans Kille? By Nazi Defenders

Home Front Must Avtain Its Goal   Pcople of America Will Not fet Their Armed Forces Down.

JAPO FORGED 10 GIVE UP ISLAND   Enemy Hold on Kolomban gara and Vala Lavella Islands Smashed: Suffer Humiliating Defeat

JAPAN'S NAVY BEATEN BADLY IN SOLOMONS   HOLD ON ISLANDS SMASHED; THREE WARSHIPS LOST

Stunning Defeat Handed Jap Navy  In The Solomons   19 - Month Grip lr Islands Broken

Two Strategic Isles Evacuated By Japan   Nips Hit Hard By American Fleet; Cruiser Anc Two Destroyers Sent To Bottom By Yanks

MYSTERY OF HESS MISSION S OFFICIALLY CLEARED UP   I HIGH-RANKING NAZI HAD GER MAN TERMS FOR PEACE WHEN HE REACHED  ! BRITAIN

HESS SENT T0 ENGLAND BY HITLER   Under Orders to Toss Out Churchill as Prime Minister

Hitler Sent Him To Offer Peace Plan   Churchill Had To Get Out of The Way

Shed Light On Hess Mystery   Britain Announces Hess Came To Britain For Hitler To Oust Churchill   REPORTED NOW AS SORRY MENTAL CASE

Hess F light Made On  Hitler’s Order; Ouster Of Churchill Planned

Clark’ s Army Nabs Dozing  Nazi General   Entire German Staff Unit Taken Captives

Will Not Impose Price Ceilings (On Flue Cured Tobacco On Grade Basis This Year, Declares Gage

\griculture Department Official Says No Reece ommendation To Be Made For Such Action.

OPA To Impose No Grade Basis Ceilings On Tobacco This Year, Ag. Dept._Says   Agriculture Department ficial -Says, No. Re        “Made For Such Action.

Fourteen Youths, Selected by Draft Board No. $4 are First of 18-YearOlds Registered Last June

rouths, Selected by Dr. - Board No. 94 are First of 18-YearOlds Registered Last June

Panel Meetings Of Ration Board  - No Over: Counter” ” Service In Future

NEW DIRECTIVE SAYS FATHERS 10 BE LAST 10 G0   Washington Orders That All Other Eligibles Will Be Called Before Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Will Be Drafted.

New Ruling May Delay Fathers’ Call  ‘Would Exhaust   ‘Would Exhaust Other Eligible Men in U. S. First

Plan Would Delay  Fathers’ Induction  Officials Order Nation-Wide Pool

SIX PERSONS HURT IN HIGHWAY (RASH      Auto and Army Tractor in . Collision Near FairSine

SIX PERSONS HURI IN HIGHWAY CRASH   Auto and Army Tractor in Collision Near Fairview

AD FIGHTING (a GOING ON IN THE LOWER QON AREA   Crossing of Donets at Junction with Don Would Further Menace Rostov   NAZIS COUNTER-ATTACK WITH TANKS, INFANTRY   Soviets Broaden Front Along Rostov-Baku Railway in the Caucasus; Reds Announce 22 Villages Reclaimed im the Latest Fighting

HL Towns Taken As Reds Extend $-Mile Front  Gains Consolidated a Russians Sneed

Drive Close To Lower Donets   Push Within 15 Miles Of Strategic River For Threatening Move

Russian Gain Creates Fresh Rostov Threat   Crossing of Donets Would Put Red Army Within 50 Miles of Rostov, Supply Center

Drive Perils German Flank   Red Army Is Reported 15 Miles From Vital Donets River, Exposing Strategic City To Direct Attack; Many Towns Captured

SOVIET FOR CES HURLING ASIDE BLOWS OF FOES   Russians Sweep Into Twenty-Two More Towns and Villages in Their Mighty Thrusts   PRESSURE TOWARD ROSTOV INCREASES   Germans Attempting to Break Russian Lines Southwest of Recaptur ed Velikie Luki

Red Lunge May Expose Rostov  On North Flank   Soviet Column Prepares To Cross Lower Donets Near Don Junction;  100 Nazi Tank Thrust Is Beaten

SOVIETS KEEP ARMY ROLLING ON TO ROSTOV   LOWER DON TOWNS ARE BACK UNDER RED BANNER

Roll Back Nazi Forces Near Rostov   Counter Attacks With Tanks Fail To Stem Tide

Column Driving West on Wide Front Threatens tu Outflank Key City From North.   FIGHTING SAVAGE ALONG LOWER DON   Germans Counter-Attack With Tanks and Infantry, * but Are Repulsed With Heavy Losses.

Another Series Of Towns Have Been Occupied As The Soviets Advance

NEW TOWNS REGAPTURED DURING DAY   Wet Weather’ Fails "To Halt Armies Of Stalin

Russians Roll On Toward Vital Bastov   22 More Villages Along Lower . Don Are Captured

LIGHT FROST SEEN FOR OHIO FRIDAY      Extensive Damage To Crops Unlikely

Judge Thomas » Holds Court —  Session F riday  - Two Divorces Grantec and Other Decisions  Are Réndered

Judge Thomas Holds Court  Session Friday  ' Two Divorces Grante  and Other Decisions , =e ‘ge

Disagreements Over Fund Bills May  Lengthen Session   Two of Six Major Appropriations Measures Still in Committee; Today Final One Under the Law

Laird Will Step Into Commissioner O}: Public Safety Post   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by. Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Midwest G.O.). Leaders Expect Coll From National  Chairman    Politics Start To Simmer In “1944 Pot

PANTELLERIA GIVES UP AFTER 20-DAY SIEGE   Fa Air Power Almost Solely Respotisible For Allied Advance.

Island Fortress Forced — To Yield After 20 Days   Battered Garrison Runs Up White Flag  of Surrender After Intensive Bombing

ROOSEVELT IS. LOSING GRIP. IN CONGRESS   ARRANGEMENTS, FOR RECERS ANOTHER INDICATION OF’ sPLir With CHy EXECUTIVE ©

Editors Talk War Problems   Largest Washington Newspaper Meeting In Years Under Way

3,000 Coal Miners Idle   Strikes Take Place In Pennsylvania Area; Report Made to Ickes

BOARD DEMANDS END OF STRIKE BY COAL MINERS   Possibility Of Government Seizure Is. Seen  In Action

LABOR BOARD TAKES. STEPS TO END STRIKE   Demand Sent ta Union Chief and Mine Operators

WILDCAT STRIKE RAPPED BY WLB   Government May Take Hand; Coal Stocks At Low Level

Interoreting  The War   Two Allied Assaults Expected to Be Eisenhower's Answer

LEO TRUCKS FOR NEED OF FARMERS   To Receive Less Than 20 Per Cent of Their Anticipated Needs.

Willow Run About To Enter War   Huge Bomber Plant Soon Will _ Be In Production, Says WPB Official

WAR ANALYST ALSO FINDS THAT PEOPLES OF EAST HAVE DOUBTS CONCERNING ATLANTIC CHARTER

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Asiatics Fear Atlantic *Charter’s Provisions Will Not Be Applied

East- W est Found. Suspicious Of White Race Peace Plans; . Japs Keep Propaganda Busy

THE WAR TODAY  Asia Suspicious  Of U. S.-British Post. War Motive

EAST FEARS: ALLIES. MAY FOOL THEN   Mackenzie Says There Is Downright Suspicion in Orient   DOUBT GOOD FAITH ATLANTIC CHARTER

Orientals Are  Confused Over Atlantic Pact   Post-War Effect  Causes Concern

EAST HASDOUBTS ABOUT THE ATLANTIC CHARTER [Many Are Downright Suspicious

YOUNG GIRLS FIGHT OVER MARRIED MAN   One Winds Up in Los Angeles Hospital, Other Injured

Germans Have Plan To Evacuate Baltic Territory  Enemy Acknowledges Allied Strength,  le Arranging Fliaht

NAZIS WAY ABANDON ALL BALTIC REGION   Jittery Germans To Wthidraw Into Inner Defenses

Invasion Jittery Nazis Are Reported Preparing iTo Evacuate Baltic States

Naming of Daniel To Speakership Expected Today   Many Uniformed Members af Opening Session, Slashing State Budget Due — To Be Chief Tonic for Consideration —

Bloody Ortona Battle Carried Into Final Phase by  Canadians   Two More Commanding Heights Are Taken  Rew Amarircane

Nazi Fortress On Adriatic Tn Ally Hands   Americans and French  _ Record Gains on Road  TT. Rame

ORTONA BATTLE IN LAST PHASE   Germans Mostly Cleared From Adriatic Port City by Assault Forces From Canada.

BLOODY BATTLE OF ORTONA 15 IN FINAL PHASE   Yankees Ignore Rain To Ex. tend Mountain Gains Above Cassino

HUNS BEING DRIVEN OUT   Canadian Shock Troops Battling  In City’s Streets

CANADIANS ARE /NOWIN ORTONA BATTLING NAZIS   House-to-house Fighting Goes ‘gn—Americans Also Push an.

BRITISH ABOUT TO TAKE ORTONA IN BITTER FIGHT   Adriatic Sector of Germen Defense Crumbling   AMERICANS OCCUPY TWO MORE MOUNTAINS

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Events Indicate Mighty United Nations Blows { Against Japs Near

Premier Won't Answer Senators  Full Statement of Facts ta Re Kent

NAVAL oUPPLY DILL ENDRNOU:   Billions Will Be Spent to Expand Equipment and Personnel.

NAVAL SUPPLY IS APPROVED   “ommittee Breaks All Records In Action

27 Billion. Dollar Bill Gets Okay   Navy Supply Measure Breaks  All Records

Gigantic Naval Supply Bill Is Sent To House   Vast Expansions Of U. S. Air And Sea Forces Is Forecasted   OVER 3,000,000 WILL BE IN NAVAL RANKS

NAVAL: SUPPLY “BILL FRILL   Billions will Be ‘Spent. ta Bayan ‘Equipment and  ' Personnel. .

-BEVEN BILLIONS FOR  NAVY, AI AND SEA FORCES  '- PROVIDED AN NEW AP."  _  FROPRIATION -

Hopelessly Defeated Nation Accepts Unconditional Decree: Fighting Ends

EISENHOWER TELUS OF MILITARY ARMISTICE   Government of Badoglio Surrenders Unconditionally

Wartime Tax Scheme is Given Congress by Treasury Today   Morgenthau Asks Ten and Half Billions in Next Fiscal Year

Over Ten Billions  InNew U.S. Taxes   $6,500,000,000 of Amount Asked Thru Increased:   Income Taxes   HEAVY LOAD ON FEWER   To Repeal Victory Tax and Reduce Exemptions All  Along Line

Bulk of Wartime Tases Placed on Individual in _New Treasury Plan  OscKS REPEALOF  .VICTORY TAX   Greater. Security . Program mg: Also Proposed Today by Secretary Morgenthau

Big Income Tax ncrease Asked   Morgenthau Declares $10,500,000,000 More Needed for Next Year; Individual to Pay $6,500,000,000 of It: Exemptions Cut

Morgenthau Offers Plan To Congress   Would Repeal Victory Levy; Seeks Relief For Hard-Pressed Citizens Of Nation

SEEK BILLIONS IN INCOME TAX   Added Taxes Would Push Federal Revenues Close To $50 Billion.   PRESIDENT APPROVES

Secretary Morgenthau Submits Estimate and Presents Tax Plan to Canoress

Treasury Seeks Big  Tax Boost   MORGENTHAU ASKS FOR ADDED $10,500,000,000 EACH YEAR IN LEVIES

PLYMOUTH TABLES LACKING TURKEY   Many Changes Take Place in 321 Years Since Pilgrims Landed.

Prather Calm About It All   Enjoys Last Meal, Walks Unaided to Electric Chair

(Members of __. Doolittle Squad ‘Suffer Death .   F, R. Horrified, Warns Tokyo Officials Will Pay Penalty

NOW CAN YOU DELAY IN BUYING WAR BONDS?.   Citizens Aroused By Executions,  Ss. A. Condemns Barbarism of Japs

Chief Executive Pledges Punishment for Those Responsible ‘for These Diaholical Crimes’’; State Department Protesied fo Tokyo; Number Execuled Not Revealed in Brief Statement

F.R. Denounces Nip “‘Barbarism”   PRESIDENT REVEALS DEATHS OF AMERICAN FLIERS CAPTURED BY ENEMY AFTER DARING RAID ON JAPAN; SEES RISING U. S. ANGER

President Warns ‘Barbarous’ Foe Faces Vengeance   Two Crews Are Taken Prisoners; Number Executed Is Unknown

Some Doolittle Fliers Executed By Japanese   Vigorous Protest Made

Some of Fliers of Doolittle’s Raid Captured   Number and Identity Not Revealed

JAPAN BOASTS YANK RAIDERS - PUT TO DEATH   Roosevelt Brands Executions as Barbarous

Roosevelt Vows Vengeance for All Perpetrators of ‘Diabolical Crime’; Utahn Listed as One of Prisoners

Exact Number of  Victims of Nippon Barbarity Not Disclosed by President

Roosevelt Vows Responstble War Lords Will Be Brought to Justice In Due Course.

TWO ENEMY SUBS ATTACKED FROM AIR IN PACIE I   Army and Navy Air Forces Step Up Offensive Activities In Solomons; Subs Attacked at Widely Separated Points.

2 Jap Subs Attacked  One Leaves Oil Slick   One Leaves Oil Slick After Bambh Strikes

Japs Are Hit In South Pacific   S ub marines Attacked; Air and Naval Offensive Stepped Up.

2 Jap Subs Bombed; One Believed Sunk   Second Was Making Crash Dive When Last ~ Seen—Attacks Are Made in Two Widely ' Separated Parts of the South Pacific.

AultmanSoldierWalks AwayFromNaziCamp   Fred Patterson Has ‘Crazy Time’ in Sicily

Meat Rationing Plans Outlined   Babies Will Get  Same As Grownups

Babies, Children, Adults to Share Alike In Meat Ration to Begin on March 28

Ration Meat On Mareh 28   Allowances To Be Same For Babies. Children, Adults OPA Declares.

Meat Rationing Will Start — For U.S. About March 28th   Babies, Adults All To Get Same Amount. Giving Parents ‘Extra’ Share

MEAT RATIONS WILL BE EQUAL   Babies, Childr en and Adults to Get Same Allowance

Babies to Gel Meat Rations  OPA Announces Equal Amounts Allotted to

To Share Alike  In Meat Rations   OPA Unable To Find Plan Of Graduating Supply; Babies’ Parents Bettered

Meat Allowance Will Be Uniform   Adults, Children Get Same Amount

WILL NOT GRADUATE ALLOWANCE OF MEAT   Babies, Children And Adults All Will Get Same Amount When Rationing Occurs

Everyone Will Get An Equal Amount Of Meat-Even The Owners Of Lockers

This Rationing Babies Sans Teeth to Get Reefstealks      If Parents Swipe Snookum’s Share, Lib eral OPA Won't Mini

All to Get Same Meat Allowance   Officials Say Sliding’ Scale of Allotment Not Feasible; Plan Into Effect Ahout March 28

Babies, Adults On Same Basis   MEAT RATIONING TO START SOMETIME SOON

FULL RATION OF MEAT FOR BABES IN U. S.   Rationing of ius All-Important _ Dinner Table Commodity to Start March 28, Expect

Same Amount Of Meat For All OPA Says   Officials Unable to Find Any Sensible Plan for Graduating Scale  MAY START MARCH 29

Same Amount of Meat for Young, Old   No Other Sensible or Workable Plan, Say Ration... ing. Officials   PROGRAM STARTS ABOUT MARCH 28   OPA Prefers an Earlier Date, But Plan May Not Be Ready Then

Uniform Meat, Portions for All Seen as Officials Plan for Ration ing March 28

Full Meat Ration For  The Babies   No Graduating Plan Believed Possible  When Dole Begins

“Rationing Expected to’ Start About March: 28,; OPA Officials Reveal *

MEAT RATIONING MARCH 28 LOOMS   Babies, Children, Adults Al To Get Same Allowance Under Program

Novorossisk Attack by G.. Baenwlkead Wanse Sar   Babies, Adults to Get Same Ration of Meat, OPA Says

MEAT RATION EXPECTED BEGIN ABOUT MARCH 28   Fail To Find Any Sensible Or Workable Plan of Graduating Meat Scale So Babies, Children and Adults All Will Get Same Allowance.

NO VARIATION IN MEAT RATION   Babies to Get as Much Meat as Older Persons; Coupons ~ Won’t Stretch

All To Share Equally In  Meat Rations  Plan Effective About March 28

All to Get Same  Meat Allowance   Rationing of Meat Expected to Go Into Effect on  March 28.

CONFEREES ARE STILL AT ODDS OVER TAX BILL   Democratic Members Of House Group Unable To Agree Among Selves   SOME SENTIMENT FOR ABATING $100 OF TAX

Perfectly Co-Ordinated Landing Operations on Kiriwina Island (Completed in: Matter of Minutes

Mrs. Colin Kelly ©  Explains Marriage   Widow of Hero Who Gave Life in Pacific War Says Life Must Go On.

Life Must Go On, Mrs. Kelly Says “Past Must Not Destroy a Future” :

Allied Subs, Planes, Open  Toint Move   Sink Seven Ships  In Offensive to Starve Nazis Out

‘Loveland Probable Demo Candidate for  Governor of Iowa   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

A. J. Loveland Suggested Ad — Possible Demo Cheice  Gor Gavermor   Triple-A Chief Looms As Good Vote-Getter

Coal Shortage Looms in Mid West States   Consumers Advised tc Store Every Ton That They Get Now

COAL SHORTAGE IN MISSOURI IS PREDICTED   Selid Fuels Co-Ordinator Says the Demand Var Eneceds haan Aheatesnad 

‘German Offensive On Russian Front Subsides Tuesday    Nozi Commentators Are Increasingly Sober In Making Reports On Russian Fighting And Creculate About What Might Be The Outcome

Nazi Attacks © Are Subsiding   Nine Days of Costly Fightinc End Without Major Gains

German Thrust At Russia Fades   Reds Recover Much Of Lost Territory

Nazi Offensive Against Reds Subsides   Russians Recover Much Ground Lost in Fightina

NAVAL PLANES, SHIPS ATTACK NAURU ISLE; WAREO IS CAPTURED   Todays War Moves

TODAY'S WAR MOV   (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE  Stnuwiténast Zdenka Shi ae A combannd

British Postwar Policies May Be Hit by Senafors   U. S. Activities Said Played Down In News, Radio

Claim America Falling Behind Gr eat Britain   Five-Man Inspection Committee Returns To Washington With Report.   MOR RK SERIIISH - OL

Returning Senators Find American Dinplomacv. Economy Behind British

Believe U.S. Diplomacy, Economic Activity Falling Behind British

Critical Of British Acts   Senators Wonder Why More British Oil From Iran Isn’t Being Used

ENATORS SAY AMERICA LAGS ON PEACE AIMS   ritical Report On British Commercial, and- Diplomatic Activities to Be Presented   LINGLAND STANDS  TO REAP BENEFITS   "8. Representatives Have No Plan; American Mibitary Activities Piayed Down by British

Senate Resents British Playing Down U.S. Part   Five Senators Just Back In States Tells Of British Attitude At Home

Report American  Economic Program  Trailing Britain Post-War Policies Are Functioning

5 10 CRITICISE U. 5. ACTIVITIES   Committee Believes Amer ica Far Behind In Diplomacy

SENATE 10 GET REPORT DIRECT FROM WAR ZONE   British Postwar Policies Viewed With Some Suspicion

U. 5. Declared Behind British In Future Aims  Te t%2.%* wh FT...   Britain To Benefit From Lease-Lend To Other Countries

British Active on Post-War Plans While U. S. Lags, Senators Declare

Senators Are Irritated By World's Tour   Critical Report on British Commercial and Diplomatic Activities Believed Coming   END 40,000 - MILE TRIP

Axis On Alert For New Allied  Invasion Moves   Attack On Sicily Seen As Prelude To Heavier  >  a ee eee

Axis Looks For Other Invasions  By Allies   Mussolini Appeals To King To ‘Say Something’ To Allay People’s Fears

Axis Tense, AwaitingNew Allied Blow  Lightning Thrust Is Ex. pected at Other Poinis in Europe ITALY MORALE HIT Duce Appeals to King to Address People to Ease Tension      ITALY MORALE wrr

ENTIRE FORTRESS OF EUROPE ANTICIPATES NEW ALLIED THRUSTS  BERLIN AND ROME CONCEDE ALLIES ESTABLISH _ BRIDGEHEADS ON SICILY

Entire European Front Is Active   AXIS FORCE ON ALERT FEARING ALLIED MOVES

Axis Keeps Uneasy Eye On Sicily   ‘Leaders Seek to Ease Rising Tension in Italy; Fear New Allied Thrust in Balkans

All Europe on Alert for New Allied Thrusts, as Axis Leaders Watch Progress of Sicilian Campaign

ry, Expects New Attacks e—Probably in the Balkans   ‘Axis Jittery, On Europe—

‘AXIS CAPITALS WATCH  ALLIED DRIVE; ITALIAN FOOD PROBLEM WORSENS

Jitters Increase In Italy   Mussolini and King Victor Make Point of Being Seen Publicly

Hitler’s Fortress of Europe on Alert for Allied Thrusts   Mounting Tension iw Italy ‘Is Indicated * in Axis Reports

ENTIRE EUROPE ALERT FOR NEW ALLIED DRIVES   Axis Leaders In. Germany and Italy Anxiously Watch Progress of . Sicilian Battle   FEAR NEW LANDINGS   Berlin. More Calm Than Rome‘Over Invasion With Tension Mounting In Latter Capital

ENTIRE FORTRESS OF  EUROPE ANTICIPATES  NEW ALLIED THRUSTS BERLIN AND ROME CONCEDE ALLIES ESTABLISH  PDIR(fFurséangc AW CIrinryw

European Fortress On Alert for New. Ailied Attacks   Berlin Said Taking Invasion News More Calmly Than Rome

AXIS FEARS NEW ALLIED INVASION BLOWSATEUROPE   Mussolini Urges King To Speak as Tension Mounts  in Italy; Nazis Watch  . 

Tension Mounts, King And Mussolini Appear More Often to Stir Confidence

Entire Fortress Of Europe Is On Alert For Lightning Allied Thrusts At Country

AXIS FEARING NEW THRUSTS   Germany and Italy, on the Alert, Anxiously Watch Sicilian Developments

New Invasion Spectre Faces Axis Warlords   Enemy Leaders Anxiously Watch Allied Progress 

Entire Fortress Of Europe _ On Alert For New Lightning ‘Thrust By Allied Forces   Berlin And Rome Concede At Least Four Bridgeheads Made On Sicily

Europe on Alert For New Allied  Invasion Thrusts   Axis Leaders Anxiously Watch Progress of Battle For Sicily .   Italians Are Beset  Trying to Get Food

Europe Awaits Allied Thrust At New Points   Tension Mounts In 'tély; Food Problem Serious 

All Europe On Alert —  For New Allied Thrus   Italy Attempts To Bolster Jittery Morale Germany, Taking Invasion More Calmly, Prepares For Balkan Attack

The Atmosphere Is Heavy In Rome      Mussolini Makes Point Of Showing Himself As Still There   BERLIN PLAYING DOWN ITS FEARS

ENEMY ON ALERT FOR NEW ALLIED DRIVES AT AXIS   Tension Mounts in Rome, on Mainland, Claim Berlin Calm

‘Rome In Jitters As” Allies Move Closer   Italian Morale Is Crumbling As Duce Asks King To Bolster Spirit

Axis Nations On Alert For Sudden Allied Attacks Against Continent

‘Mounting Tens ion Is Noted In Italy. .  Fortress Europe On — Alert For New Blows

Axis Alert Fearing New Lightnin: Thrust At The Fortress Of Europ

Duce, King Try to Ease Italian Fear   Atmosphere in Rome Reported as ‘Heavy’ In Swiss Dispatches

New Attacks Looked ior By Europe   Mitler’s Fortress On Guard—lItaly’s People Nervous

ALL EUROPE ON THE ALERT   Fortress Chiefs Look Anxiously to New Invasion

Axis Leaders In Germany and Italy Anxiously Watch Progress of Battle For Sicily; Allies Believed To Have Set Up At Least Four Bridgeheads.

AXIS ON ALERT FOR NEW JABS   Views Sicilian Invasion As Prelude to Bigger Blows

TENSION RISES AS EUROPE EYES INVASION MOVES   Mussolini Appeals to Forlorn King Vittorio For A : Talk To Italy

Vice President Accuses Standard Oil of Delaying American Rubber Program

ACQUISITION OF BASES IS URGED   Knox Believes Lend-Lease Can Be Used To Develop Pacific Network

PACIFIC BASES TOBE STUDIED   Knox Proposition Will Get  Action By House

MOVE FOR BASES ASKED BY VINSON   Urges Immediate Quiz Into Pacific ‘Stepping Stones’

NETWORK OF BASES OVER PACIFIC TO CURB JAPS ASKED   [uvestigation is Ordered Into Methods of Acquiring Bases Over Qerean

U5, MAY SEEK NEW SEA BASES   Know’ Suggestion For Pacifie Control Brin gs Action

New Pacific Bases Sought  Vinson Proposed Study   Vinson Proposed Study By Congress for Aerial And Naval Bases

inquiry Into Methods For Acquiring Pacific Bases Proposed By Rep. Vinson

COMMITTEE WILL STUDY PLAN FOR AERIAL BASES IN PACIFIC   May Be Necessary to Acquire Bases From ~ France, Holland and  _ Japan

Would Exataine Plans To Secure  —Bases tr Pacific   Congressional Study Of Methods Is Proposed By Committee Chairman

WICKARD WILL ASK ARMY TO AID HARVES}   Farmers Need Assurance Of Help, He Tells  Senators

WICKARD TESTIFIES BEFORE COMMITTEE      Tells Senate Group He Wil. Ask To Have Troops On Farm

May Seek Troops  At Harvest Tinle  Wickard Says Furloughs _ To Be Requested For Aid To Farmers

Wickard will ask furlough  of farm labor   ‘No crop if seed not planted’; hot fight shaping up

OLOIERS MAY HELP FARMERS   Wickard to Ask Army to Furlough Troops If Necessity Arises.

Wickard Says Soldiers May Aid With Farming   Tells Senate Committee Survey Will Show Labor, Machinery Needs

Wickard Says He Will Ask Army To Furlough Troops To Harvest Crops

WIGKARD URGE ARMY LEAVES FOREARM AND   Secretary Tells Senators He Will Ask Furloughs To Recruit Labor

WICKARD. WILL ASK FURLOUGHS   Seeks Manpower to Help Farm Labor Situation

Wil Ask Army To Army To Furlough urlough Troops To Aid In Crop Harvest If Needed

Frank Nitti, One Time Figure in Island Rum-Running Traffic, Takes ‘Easy Way Out ‘After Indictment by Federal Grand Jury

we Seay FER Fe  CAPONE LIEUTENANT, INDICTED ON UNION RACKET, KILLS SELF

CAPONE’S PAL SUICIDES IN UNION PLO}   Big-Time Gunman Takes ‘Easy Way Out’ During Probe

Frank Nitti’s Rule Of Gang Ends In Death   Death By Suicide Comes On Same Day Jury Returned Indictment On Extortion Charges

Other Victims in Crash Listed   British Officials Were on. Plane

GERMANS ADMIT BiG DAMAGE AS RESULT (IF PLANE ASSAULTS   TWENTY-FIVE RAF BOMBERS LISTED MISSING IN SYNCHRONIZED THRUSTS

COLOGNE AFIRE AS AIR RAIDERS LEAVE FOR HOME   Italian Naval Base Smashed By American Attack on Port of Leghorn   BRITISH WARSHIPS MOVING   pre  Blasted Axis War Centers Reported Being Evacuated By Scared Populace

Hamburg Also Battered By R. A. F.; 100 American Flying  Fortresses Hammer Leghorn.

‘25 Planes Are Lost In Assault   Hamburg Alse A Target ‘As Bomb War Grows: ; U. S, Fliers Hit Leghorn 

100 American Flying Fortresses Drap Hundreds of Tons of Bombs on Italian Port of Leghorn, Damaging Shipping

Cologne, Hambure Rock Under Duat Raids From RAF   100 U. S. Bombers Pound Leghorn Without a Loss

Cologne Raid As Heavy As May Assault   ‘Nazi Hopes of Stiffer _ Defenses Blasted By _ New Attacks

Eighth Assault In Ten Days On Germany   Hamburg Also Attacked; Ominous Lull Prevails In Russia

New Raid Damage Done at Cologne   Rhine City Is Left in Flames After Heavy R.A. FY Attack:    ‘LEGHORN IS ATTACKED   Great Damage Is Admittec in German and Italian Reports

Germans Find Anti-Aireraft Detense Fails   American Fiying Fortresses Drop Tons Of Bombs On  Lechorn.   RAID ITALIAN PORTS

COLOGNE SET ABLAZE BY 'BRITISH BOMBS ; YANKS DAMAGE ITALIAN PORTS

RAF BLASTS COLOGNE WITH MIGHTY FORCE   Flying Fortresses Raid Leghorn, Damage Cruiser, Other Ships— Hamburg Also RAF Target   JAPS BOMBARDED   Nazis Concefe Great Damage at Cologne; New Anti-Aircraft Defenses Fail tc Half Allies

Nazi Attempts to Stiffen Air Defense Fails   Damage ‘Is Heavy in City Which Rocked — Ttireugh 117th Raid in War

Hamburg Is Also Raided By RAF In Heavy Attack   Nazi Hopes OF Stiff Anti - Air Defense Fades; July 3rd Is  Invasion?

City Left in Flames, Hamburg also Bombed   Axis Broadcasts Herald July 3 Date of Attack on Europe; Allied Fliers Attack Italian Port of Leghorn.

RHINE. CITY OF COLOGNE  LEFT IN FLAMES BY BRITISH BOMBERS   Hamburg in Northwest Germany Attacked. ‘Twenty-Five Bombers Reported Missing From Operations. U. S. Bombers Strike Deep Into Italy

COLOGNE LEFT IN FLAMES BY RAF PLANES   RAF Makes Eighth Assault in Ten Days on the Nazi Home Front.   Axis Sounds Invasion Alarm in South Area

HAMBURG ALSO ROCKED; FORTS JOLT LEGHORN   Germans in Admission of Death Destruction in Wake of Block Buster Raid by R.A.F.

Cologne, Hamburg Hit Hard; Leghorn Raided by U.S. Fliers   25 British Bombers Fail to Return From Trip Over Europe, Sardinia Airdromes Rehit

SYNCHRONIZED THRUSTS HIT OTHER TARGETS   U. S. Warplanes Blast Series of Aerdromes In Italian Heel

100 Yank Planes Pound Leghorn   25 British Planes Missing in Eighth ~ Assault on Nazi Home Front in 10 Days —Cologne Raid May Have Been as Great As 1,000-Bomber Assault Last Year

25 BOMBERS MISSING IN GIANT THRUST   Berlin Dispatches Admit Stiffer Anti-Aircraft Defenses Fail to Slow Up  _ Aerial Offensive   NTALIAN PORT BLASTED

RAF Raiders Hit Hamburg Heavy Blows   American Fliers Blast Leghorn, Italian Port

 100 Flying Fortresses PWreck Leghorn; Axis Fears Invasion By 4th      _ German Radio , Reports ‘Terror’ - Attack With  Heavy Damage

Cologne in Flames After Before-Dawn Attack in Strength   Hamburg Also Bombed; ews of European War Summarized

Cologne > Feels RAF Fury Again   Great Rhineland City  In Flames After Heavy Raid Before Dawn Today; Hamburg Attacked

LEADERS READY TO DEMAND CUT OF TAX LEVIES   Serve Notice On Governor Green Of Intentions

NEWSPRINT CUT TO 1941 LEVEL   WPB- Order Reduces Paper For Nation By 10 Per Cent

CONSUMPTION OF NEWSPRINT CUT   Reduction Requested By Newspapers.

Bomb-Dazed Garri son Gives Up Afte: 19-Day Assault.   Allied Troops Mo Ashore; Lampe dusa Raided -

‘ALLIED TROOPS OCCUPY ISLAND AFTER FIRST CONQUEST BY AIR VIELNS ITALIAN STEPPING-STONE

Allies Are Landing on Key Island 60 Miles from Sicily            End Comes After 19 Days of ‘Incessant Aerial and Naval e Bombardment

Italy Yields Island After 19-Day Siege   Heavy Air, Sea Attack Leads To Occupation

Surrenders Unconditionally This Morning! After 19 Days Of Terrific Bombardment By United Nation Forces —- Roosevelt. Appeals To Italy To Get Out Of War

Bomb-Dazed Force Quits After 19th Day  Of Incessant Assault   Believed First Military Objective To Fall From Air Attack Alone; Allies Prompily Occupy Islazid

ITALIAN GIBRALTAR BEING OCCUPIED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Nineteen Days of Bombing Brings Display Of White Flag   A STEPPING STONE FOR AN INVASION

Finds Troop Morale High   Sec. Stimson Reports On Recent Tour of Allied Battle Fronts

250,000 Pounds of Bombs Are Dropned —   Yanks Seek to. Cut Lifeline to: Beleaguered ‘Sicily

Wallace Talks To Chileans   U. S. Vice President Addresses Congress Of Chile in Spanish

Wallace Gets Ovation From  Chilean. Body   Vice President Makes Appeal. for Freedom From Poverty .

PROGRAM FOR “LEGISLATURE 18 OUTLINEL   GOVERNOR URGES. DROPPING FOOL TAX IN RESTAUR-  .:,: ANTS--MAKES. OTHER >, REQOMMENDATIONS --

Yanks Advance Two Miles Against Nazis   Clearing Weather Helps U. S. Ground Forces in Attack

U. S. Force Gains 2 Miles Azainst Nazi Winter Line   Mountain Heights Commanding Secondary Road Seized As Weather Permits  Greater Ground Action

Americans Drive Nazis  Back 2 Miles   British Eighth Army Also ‘Continues Gains With Air Support  WEATHER IMPROVES

Planes Join Battle As Weather Clears  Patton’s 3d Division Naw With Clark

Yanks Storm Forward After Lengthy Stal   Eighth Army, Under Gen. Montgomery, Told To Capture Rome

Yanks Take Area Commanding Road Through Foe Winter Defense Line; Heavy Aerial Attack is Made

Mountain Heights Seized by American Forces.  ENEMY POSITIONS ~ BOMBED BY FLIERS  Vitat Bridgehead Extended by the Eighth  Army

Airmen Pound Enemy in Italy   ‘Americans Storm Forward in Center as Weather Clears ©

Clark's Force Scores Two Mile Advance  Maiuwmnitein BMatwhic   Mountain Heights Commanding Highway Seized

 §. Troops orm Ahead wo Miles   Yonks Advance Tc feights On Road fo German Lines

Clark's Force Scores Two Mile Advance   Mountain Heights Commanding Hishway Seized

CANNOT FORCE SALUTE OF FLAG   Illegal To Expel Children, Who Refuse, From School  

0.P.A. BOOSTS CEILING PRICE OF ANTHRACITE   Soft Coal Prices To Be Revised Later; Ickes Demands ‘Captives’  Join Wage Talks

FULL ACCORD ANNOUNCEDBY PRES. VARGAS   Brazil Executive Gives Out Statement Upon Arrival At Rio De Janeiro From Na. tal Parley.   Vargas Optimist

U. S., Brazil United On War Effort   Vargas, FDR Reach Accord During Meeting

NaN  eer! L “ao — a tex - Gas - ny —  v “ es 4 i art a. aren \227 ge eae ee aes. an s LL. ek

Full Agreenen Announced by  Pres. Vargas  Brazilian Chief Makes Statement After His

Pacific Fight At Showdown  -——TOIO   East Asia War In ‘Stage Of Decisive Battles” : Weak Heavily Bochad

Japan Sees More Action In East Asia   Washington Also Predicts  Growing Offensives for  Air Bases

AIRPOWER SEEN AS VITAL LINK IN JAP BATTLE   American Forces Concentrating On Pacific Bases

Forecast Giant Air Drive on Foe In Pacific   Tojo Warns Japs of Grave Events In The Making

Air Smash at Japs in the Making   Gigantic Offensive Being Forecast in Washington; ’ May Have New Bases   TOIO IN WARNING _ OF GRAVE EVENTS   Situation Becoming Serious, He Tells People; Lavish’ Funeral for Yamamoto ~

PREMIER TOJO OF JAPAN ADMITS EAST AXIS WAR SERIOUS  JAPANESE PEOPLE WARN ED OF GRAVE EVENTS I   JAPANESE PEOPLE WARN. ED OF GRAVE EVENTS IN MAKING FOR THEM

Predict Big Aerial Blows against Japs   Bury Ashes of Admiral Yamamoto While Chinese Sweep on in Yangtze Drive

HINTS BIG AIR ‘DRIVE ON JAPS   Tojo Warns Japan War I: Becoming Increasingly Serious

‘Tojo Says War Serious   Words of Warning To People; U. S. Official Hints Coming Air Blow

EAGT AGIA WAR BEGOMES TENSE   Premier Tojo Warns Japanese of Grave Events fn the Making,   U.S. AIR OFFENSIVE SEEN

War Situation Serious, Tojo  Acknowledges  U. S. Concentrating On Bases For Shattering  Aerial Drive Against ee ie

U. S. Concentrating on More Air Bases for Drive on Japan   Airpower Seen as Key to Battle of Pacific and Defeat of Nippon

TOJO WARNS JAPS OF GRAVE EVENTS IN THE MAKING   ADMITS SITUATION BECMES SERIOUS IN PACIFIC WAR

Anti-German Violence Is Growing   Enemy Loses Planes; Airfields Are Taraets of Assault

Greeks, Slavs French Fight Nazi Control   Guerrilla Warfare ‘Spreading Over « ° Europe and:Crete

ROOSEVELT TALKS WITH CHURCHILL TO BE IN QUEBEL   Date for Conferences, Expected to Be Cloaked in Secrecy, Remains Undisclosed.   U. S. CHIEFS OF STAFF TO GO TO CANADA   Stalin Receives American and British Ambassadors in Moscow on Eve of Parleys.

NORTH FRANCE   Allied Raiders Shuttle Bock and Forth Over Channel After Night Atieck on Cologne 2”

ALLIED RAIDERS SMASH AT AXIS   Carry Bombing Offensive Against Continent During 48th Hour.   MOUNTING AIR ASSAULTS

COLOGNE SUBJECTED TO HEAVY RAID LAST MIGHT BY BRITISH  ALIIERN RBOMRERS MAIN.   ALLIED BOMBERS MAINTAIN SAVAGE AROUNDTHE-CLOCK OFFENSIVE

HUNDREDS OF BOMBERS ATTACK GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTERS IN ‘ROUND-THE-CLOCK’ RAIDS   Cologne, Wilhelmshaven And Other German Industrial Centers Feel Weight of Bombs From Allied Planes. 26 Planes Missing From All Raids

‘Americans And_ British Attack Objectives Ou Continent Without Any Let-Up Today

COLOGNE SUFFERS VERY HEAVY RAID LAST NIGHT BY RAE   Over 200 British Planes Apparently Took Part In Raid With Only Ten Planer Reported Missing; High Explosives and Incendiaries Dropped.

No Letup in’ Mounting An ‘Assaults on the Axis P Occupied* Continent  HEAVY BOMBERS . ARE BEING USED Daylight Forays Follow  Powerful “Attack on Cologne, Germany

Another Landing In Gilberts      Fighting Still Rages On Makin and Tarawa As New Attack Extends Front 80 Miles South

FIGHT IN ITALY BOGGED IN MUD   Violent Battle Is Raging Near Russia’s Kiev Bulge

ALLIED LINES ARE EXTENDED 80 MILES SOUTH   Marines, Infantry Invade - Abemama Atoll, Burn Out Enemy

U.S. TROOPS BLAST THEIR WAY ON THREE GILBERT ISLANDS   Plowed Their Way Slowly Through Considerable Jap Resistance.   INVADED ABEMAMA   Already They Were on Tarawa and Makin Burning Out Dug-in Japanese.

FLOOD DANGER STAGE PASSES   Three Critical Areas Still Watched As Crest Passes Down Mississippi

Three Areas Still Face Flood Threat   Mississippi Rolls Into Wide Channe!

DERANGED OFFICER.   Struck Wife with AN and) Slashed His Own Phroat.

LAYS DOWN TERMS   Admiral Robert’s Letter on French Caribbean Re ‘ ceives Study

French Chief Gives Terms to Join Allies   Admiral Georges Robert’s Letter to AP Correspondent Stirs International Politics

‘ADMIRAL ROBERT'S STATEMENTS IS HOT DIPLOMATIL POTATO   STATE DEPARTMENT RESERVES COMMENT PENDING STUDY OF DOCUMENT

12,000 German - Troops Doomec   Saga, OF. ‘Stalingrad... Ar “Final: Phase -

Yank Warplanes Based In Africe Attack Germany   Forts, Liberators Make 1,800-Mile Round Trip Fliqht

AFRICAN AIR FORCES BLAST GERMANY, WHILE BOMBERS IN BRITAIN STRIKE HAGEN IN RUHR

AMERICAN BOMBERS FROM AFRICA HIT MUNICH, NEUSTADT   U.S. Heavies Open - Large “Scale Bombing Of ‘Reich _From South —. Fortresses * ‘Make’ 1,800 Mile Flight

BRITAIN -BASED PLANES JOIN IN TWIN AIR RAID   Blast Rhur Industrial City of Hagen, Near Dortmund, Often Target of  RAF Night Attacks   U-BOAT EQUIPMENT FACTORY IS TARGET   Loss of Two Bombers Un derscores Evidence Allied Planes Making Inroads on Fnemvy Air Strencth

HIT FROM AFRICA   J. S. Fortresses anil Liberators in Raid on South Germany

“Day and Night Bombing “of Strategic Industrial Cities Under Way

Flying Fortresses Hit Emden Again  RAF Night Assault Is Staged On Important Ruhr City of Haaen

FLYING FORTS SHAKE EMDEN   YANK, BRITISH BOMBERS SMASH HAGEN IN RAID

New Blow Struck By Fortresses   Attack On Shipbuilding Center Follows Night Assault By British On City Of Hagen .

African Bases Used In Attack On Nazi Centers   Southern Germany Is Blasted From New Italian Fields

Bombs Dropped On Nazi Mainland   Fortresses and ° Thunderbolts in Raid on Port  of n   Allies Make a Two-Way Aerial Offensive Against the Axis 

FLYING FORTS ATTACK EMDEN   Thunderbolt Planes Escort U. S. Bombers

Double Blow. Inflicted Fron  African Base:   Round Trip Flight Of 1,800 Miles Made By Fortresses In Attack Or City Of Munich

NORTHWEST AFRICAN BASED U. $. BOMBERS BLAST AT GERMANY  LIBERATORS AND FORTRESSES TEAM UP FOR DOUBLE NAZI BLOW

Avmerican ” Aifack on « Sub Base   Prime German’ Port. at. Emden Hit Again By U. ¢ S. Fortresses   THIRD MAJOR. BLOW IN- TWO DAYS   cRAF Also Makes -a° Heavy Attack; Germans Report Night Raid: By U.S.

RUHR INDUSTRIAL ‘CIEY OF HAGEN 15... HEAVILY: BLASTED GERMANS CLAIM AMERI_ CAN FLYING FORTRESSE!  TAN DADT IAN DAIN

Gives Hint Of Big Sky Pincer Move Coming Up   Fortresses Team With Liberators, Rip Munich And Vienna Areas.

LIBERATORS, FORTRESSES IN TWIN BLOW   "Munich, Wiener Neustadt Are Targets; 14 Planes Lost In First Action Of Its Kind

Allies Open Air Pincer Campaign  Fleets From Africa Blast Wiener Neustadt

AMERICANS HIT CERMANY FROM AFRICAN BASE   Munich Area And Other Cities Are Damaged

U. $. Bombers In New Nazi Raids   FIRST ATTACKS FROM AFRICAN BASES BY YANKEES

Longest Flight Is Made   Fortresses, Liberators Smash German  War Plants

GERMANY 1S DEALT ~ FIRST DOUBLE BLOM FRM AFRICA BASE   Fortresses Make 1,800-Mile Round Trip Flight To Pound Munich   IALLIES LOSE 14 PLANES

Emden Assaulted By Flying Forts   Raid Follows Night Attack on Ruhr Industrial City by RAF,

MUNICH, OTHER GERMAN CITIES HEAVILY BOMBED   Fortresses And Liberators Strike From African Bases While RAF From Great Britain Blasts At Industrial Ruhr.

Forts ad Liberaiors Cross Alps ic Bomb Munich and Wiener Neu stadt in Germany   AIR BASES SHIFTED:   Raids Give Nazis Sample of Air Pincers Bases in South Italy Will Make Possible

Bombs Dropped On Nazi Mainland   Fortresses and ‘ “Thunder‘bolts in Raid on Port of Emden   SHIPBUILDING CENTER   Allies Make a Two-Way Aerial Offensive Against . _ e Axis -

BLAST NAZIS’ EMDEN BASE   Day Assault Staged by Fortresses, Following a Night Raid on the Ruhr  ' Valley Industrial City of Haven.

Another Nazi Industrial  City Bombed Durine Nich   Berlin Says U.S. Planes Joined With RAF In Attack Made On City Of Hagen

FORTRESSES BATTER EMDEN FOLLOWING RAF RAID ON RUHR   Is Second Time in Week That -.Emden:Has-Been Bombed— “iy: Nazis’, Prime  North’ Sea  . - Port

Berlin Reports American Bombers Participating in Night Raid on Hagen, in Ruhr   FORTS HIT EMDEN   Raids Mark Another Step in Expansion of Aerial Campaign Againsi Reich from Britain

States, Cities Aid Bond Drive   Ohio Government  Leads All Others

QUINTS TRAN HAS ACCIDENT   Special Car Derailed When Rear Trucks Drop Off In Switching.

Quins’ Railroad Car Jumps Rails  Children Unhurt By Yards Accident

Swiss Upserver _ Tells of Havoc In Navi Capital   Vivid: Story Describe: Conditions Prior to Recent Bombinus:

Berlin Reported Fed Up on War   Know If Is Lost, Writer Declares

FLOODS DRAIN OFF   Many Rail and Highway Lines in Southeast Kansas Still Tied Up

752 ‘GERMAN PLANES DOWN IN GNE WEEK   By Russian airmen making total of 2,821 destroyed in Russia; Germans claim advance in central sector   Hit Red Targets

MANY NAZI PLANES WRECKED BY RUSS   Violent and Massive Ait Raids Reported. During Week

752 German Planes Lost Past Week   Violent Aerial Raids Costly  To Novis in Rueci-a

Reds Take Big Toll Of Nazi Lives, Materiel in Week  Ground Fight Slows But Planes Keep Hammering at Foe

Kussians Claim 152 Nazi Craft   Five-Week Toll Is Placed At 28?)

Reds Smash 752  Planes in Week   Ground Fighting on Minor Scale in Area

Soviet Losses Only Fraction Of Nazi Ones   Ground Fighting Is ‘on Comparatively “Minor Seale .

Study Ten-Hour Shipyard Work   Special Group To Study Work Change:

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Azores Bases Eliminate Atlantic “Blind Spot” In Anti-Sub Warfare

SHIP DISABLED   Eastern States Has Engine Trouble Off Cleveland.

BOAT DISABLED IN MID-LAKE   Eastern States With 500 Passengers lowed Into Port

President Roosevelt’s Son Awarded Silver Star for Gallantry in Action

BigThreeCali For German Revolt Seen   Three-Front Land Attack Reported Alternative ior People of Reich

“LAST CHANCE” DEMAND ON GERMANS NEAR?   Believe U. S., Britain  Russia Preparing  Demand German. People Rebel

Big Three May Be Preparing Last Chance Demand That Germans Rebel   FDR, Churchill And Stalin May Be in Conference

Believe U. S., Great Britain, Russia Preparing “Last Chance” Demand Germans Revolt Against Leaders

Texas Coast Digs Out After Storm  Cost $11,000,000 And Lives of 13 Persons

DAMAGE. NEAR $11,000,000   Texas Coastal Country Checks Up : After Hurricane 

THIRTEEN PERSONS DEAD, TWO MISSING RESULT HURRICANE  PROPERTY AND CROP DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT OVER $11.000.000

Thirteen Dead, Two Missing After Gulf Coast Storm  Damage Estimated At 11 Million; Aheontea Watar thartan,

Texas Digs Out Of Storm Debris And Counts Toll   13 Known Dead And Damage Climbs To Eleven Million Dollars

THIRTEEN PERSONS DEAD, TWO MISSING RESULT HURRICANE  PROPERTY AND CROP DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT

De Marigny Witness In Stiff Test   ’ Crown Still Pins Hope On Suspect's Alleged Fingerprint

“Factory Girl’ Is Out; Now Women in Plants Are "Girl Industrial Workers’

Train Derailment in State Is Cause Of Injuries to 58 Persons; Five Are Reported Seriously Hurt

Butte Man Hurt in Train Wreck  W.W. Grimm Suffers Fractured Pelvis

M NARNEY SAYS ARMY REQUIRES 7 700,000 MEN   Deputy Chief Of Staff Outlines Military Needs To Senate Body

ARMY TES AT HEARINGS ON WHEELER BILL.   General McNarney Tell: Committee Curtailment! Of Draft Woulc Change Conduct Of War.

Army Speaks On Father Draft Bill   Tells of Army Needs Decided At Quebec Meet

FEDERAL POLICY IS ATTACKED BY FARM OFFICIAL   Farmers Have No Voice In Determining Program,  He Says

Movie Awards Are Presented   Greer Garson And James Cagney Are Academy Winners For Year

Greer Garson. James Cagney Win ‘Oscars” For Best Actins; ‘Mrs. Miniver Top Film

LEWIS READY TO TALK TO WLB IN PLAN'S DEFENSE   U.M.W. Boss Ready to Talk With Board He Lo-n g Seorned in Effort to ar _ Contract for Miners

Peace ‘Dove’ Hovers Over Lewis. WLB   Mine Leader Determined To Fight For Mlinois Portal-To-Portal Pay Contract, Is Belief

LEWIS BACKS DOWN, WANTS TO MEET WLB   UMW Head Ready To Discuss Contract Terms

Lewis Ready To Talk Turkey With War Labor Board In ‘Defense of Illinois Contract

LEWIS READY 10 TALK TURKEYTO WARLABORUNT  a Te.” Pa a i ie   Chief of Miners Offictally . Recognizes Board in Sensational AboutFace Action   TO BE HEARD AUG. 3   Move Seen As Sign of  Lewis’ Determination to  Fight for Board Approval-of Working Pact

WS RECOGNIZES WAR LABOR BOARD   Offers To Come Before  - FRoard In Defense of Con tract Signed Three Day: Ago; Dove of Peace Flut tering.

LEWIS ‘EATS CROW’ AS HE AGREES T0 TALK WITH WLE   Sensational Reversal Viewed As Way To Get Own Way

Lewis Ready To Talk Turkey With War Board   Mine Leader Reverses Self, Will Defend Pact

Board to Hear Lewis August 3   Will Appear to Defend Contract With Illinois Owners

LEWIS IN REVERSAL OF FORMER STAND TO TALK TO LABOR BOARD   WILL SEEK TO DEFEND CONTRACT SIGNED BY ILLINOIS MINERS

PeaceDove Flutters For WLB   Lewis Ready to Talk Turkey on IIlinois Pact

JOHN L. LEWIS READY TO TALK TO GOV'T BOARD   Union Dictator Reverses Stand For Conference

Lewis Agrees To Submit to Labor Beard         UML W.-to-Ask. Approval of Contract Signed in Ylineis Mines

PEACE DOVE NOW FLUTTERING OVER LEWIS. WAR BOARD   Head of Miners Now Appears Ready to Discuss Wages With Group He Long Had Scorned. .   PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW SET FOR AUG. 3   Board’s Approval of Illinois Agreement Would Open Way For Similar Contracts With Other Men.

WLB SCHEDULES HEARING AUG. 3 FOR JOHN LEWIS   UMW CHIEF BURIES HATCHET TO SUPPORT LATEST PIT CONTRACT

lewis Bids For Peace With WLB   Reverses Stand To Get Illinois Contract OK

LEWIS WILL MEET OFFICIALS OF WLB   United Mine Workers chief " Appears Ready To Talk Turkey

Lewis to Fight tor ModelPact before WLB   UMW Leader Reverses Stand. and Formally Recognizes War Labor Board

WLB ACCEPPTS LEWIS’ OFFER TO TESTIFY   ‘UMW Chieftain’s Overture Said to Recognize Board Now Has Statu: tory Power   ‘CONTRACT AT ISSUE    Lewis Seeks Acceptance of {inois Wage Pact as Model for Entire  Coal Industry

SURFACE SHIPS SEARCHING FOR LOST NAVY PLANE   Senator George’s Youngest Son, Lieut. Marcus  George Was Member of "woes °

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Environs of Rome Rock to Explosions of Terrific Assault

FRENCH SURRENDER CHINESE RIGHTS   Puppet Government In Nanking Gets Reins

VICHY GIVES UF “AIGHTS IN CHIN TO JAP PUPPET:   Tokyo Hails Move As Mean Of Robbing Chinese O Supply Port

Ohio Farm Output To Be Short in °43   Every Major Field and Fruit Shows Evidence of Decline Over 1942 Season

. Washington Believes Italy Looking for Way Out of War "But Allied Peace Price Still "Unconditional Surrender"

THINK. ITALY FISHES. FOR EARLY EXIT   WASHINGTON SAYS ROME WANTS TO SURRENDER TO U. S. ALONE.   Can’t Be Done   Italy, However, Fears Reprisals If Entire U. N. Get Their Hands On Her.

Believe Italy seeking Plan To Get Out Of War   Washington Diplomatic Cir cles Think Italy Would Surrender To U. §S.   U. 8. WOULD NOT ACT SEPARATELY

Italy Wants To Surrender To U.S. Alone   Rough Handling Feared From Some of Allied Powers

New Jap Drive Against China   ANOTHER OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED BY NIP SOLDIERS

Japs Advancing Against Chinese  Liien wl nm Thiiwieiang   Five Nip Divisions Being Used

Japs Open New Drive In China  Five Divisions Engaged In Offensive

Drive On Chungking  Foreseen   Several Wedges Driven Into Positions Of Chinese Troops Along Yangtze River

PROGRESS IN CHINA DRIVE   Capture Important Town  in What May Be Preliminary Steps Toward Campaign Against Capital of Chungking.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Rumor Early Collapse of the German Home Front

Set Up Omaha  Power Counei   Pass Unanimously Resolution Advising City Aequiring Power Company.

-QMAHA POWER-—  Peoples Control  Is Voted   .. By Citg Council; Six Commissioners Yamed

CIVILIANS 10 RECEIVE 30‘ MORE MEAT   Ration Points for Most Beef to Be Cut Zor 3 points

THIRTY PER CENT MORE MEAT. IN PROSPECT FOR MONTH...  NO CHANGE IN BUTTER” 

Work On Enlarging College Airport Making Good Progress This Week   Half Mile Long Runway Added ~ And New Levels

ee ee ee  AT AIRPORT   Massive Scoops Clear Way For East-West  Runwav

Ask Checkups On OPA Work   Senator Patman Charges Price Control ~Aect Not Complied With.

Double-Barreled Inquiry Planned Of OPA Program   Retail Merchants Voice Objection To Increased Work

Patman Orders Review of OPA   Agency Cultivates Public’s Good Will

OPA Faces Probe On Patman Order   .- Brown Acts To Better Relations With Public

OPA to Trim Ration Barbs   Brown Assigns Deputy to Review Relations as Investigation Plot Swells

Turns Down Praposal Affecting State Highway Commissioner Job, ° -

Senate Kills Highway Bill By One Vote   Fail to Break Up Democratic Political Keystone: New Racing Legislation Offered

Congress Ready With Big Docket As FDR Returns   Investigations, Lease-Lend Top Work Of Solons

CAPITAL SHIFTS INTO HIGH GEAR   Big Job Ahead of FDR While Congress Presses Probes; Flynn Gives Up

COLD MILK REPLACES ROOSEVELT’S COFFEE   Capital Wonders Whether His ReBoiling Recipe Led to Abandonment of Morning Cuno.

President Roosevelt Gives Up Second Hand Coffee In Favor Of Warm Milk

President Takes His Beverage Cold  F. D. Drinks Milk in Morning Instead of Rationed Coffee

Boy, 9, Takes Ruaning Jump From Roof; Thinks He’ll Land on Mattress

E. F: STIMPSON DIES   Served ‘Nearly 40 Years in Physles ‘Department at K. U.

SOVIET ARMY DRIVES AHEAD THREE MILES   Enemy Makes Unsuccessful Effort to Check Russian Advance West of Kharkov   MUCH BOOTY CAPTURED

Germans Hit At Flanks of Soviet Army   Moscow Claims Attack West of Kharkov Fails To Prevent Advances

NAZIS ATTAGK DOVE T FLANK TO NO AVAIL   German Attempt To Close Salient In Ukraine Unsuccessful

Nazis Attempt To Roll Back Soviet Flanks   Red Army’ s Progress Reduced. to Three And a. Half Miles in’ Day, but Advance Into. Ukraine Proceeds Steadily *

Reds Drive On Across The Ukraine   New Soviet Encircling Move To Southward Al en Thisclaced.

SOVIET DRIVE WESTWARD IS STILL MOVING   Nazis Reported Faliing Back Slowly on Dnieper Line

German Troops Strike At Red Army's Flank   Nazi Effort To Check Russian Drive Was Unsuccessful

REDS THREATEN POSITIONS ON DNEPER LINE   Nazi Flank Attacks Fail To Impede Progress Of Russ Army   ADVANCE 315 MILES   Nazi Forces Pushed Back ~ In Drives On Poltava, Lozovaya

RED FORCES PUSH DEEPER IN UKRAINE   Drive Off German Flank Attacks In Continuing Gains

ERMANS FAIL INATTEMPT TO CHECK SOVIETS   Red Army Troops Continue Ukraine Advance Despite Nazi Attacks

. —RUSSIA—  REDS TURN BACK GERMAN ATTAGKS   Nazis Unsuecessful In Efforts To Check Soviets West Of Kharkov

Enemy Effort ls Repulsed; Fresh Gains   Russian BreakThrough At Orel Fails Says Germany

NAZI FLANK ATTACKS FAIL TO STOP REDS      Soviet Troops Continue Their Progress West of Kharkov, Repulsing a Number of Stiff German Counter-Blows.

OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON IN UKRAINE   Ine Big Goal Is Poltava: 2,000 Germans Killed Near Voroshilovgrad; Other Advances

German Troops Counter-Attack   UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO CHECK RED ARMY’S PROGRESS

Unable to Check Russian Advance  West of Kharkov   Germans Concentrate Infantry and Tanks in At tempt to Break Through.   Soviet Strikes South  In Flanking Maneuver

Germans Hit Back At Advancing Reds   Unsuccessful Effort Made by Nazis To Halt Progress of Russian Armies

German Flank Attack Fails to Halt Soviets   New Russian Drive Opens in Northern Ukraine; Move Into Position To Put New Pressure on Nazi Lines

Germans Pushed Back By Soviets   Nazis Unable To Stop Red Advance

Nazi Counter Blow Fails fo Halt Russians   Red Army Repulses Flank Attacks and Continues Advance On Wide Front

German Blow At Red Flank Unsuccessful ....  Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed By Soviets

Germans Throw Tanks and Infantry Against Russian Salients in Ukraine But Without Success.

Nazis Assault Russian Flanks In The Ukraine   Three And a Half Mi. Gain Credited To Defenders In Battle Near Kharkov

ans Repulse an Attacks Hest of Kharkov   Strikes At Flanks of ged Forces Advancing Through Ukraine; Effort fo Check Soviet Progress riesuccessful.

Beat Off Germans West of Kharkov and Press On Three and a Half Milee   New Flanking Movement Toward Lezeveya Puts Pressure on Nazis on Donels

NAZIS STRIKE AT  FLANKS OF RUSSIANS  BUT ARE REPULSED RED ARMY CONTINUES AD.   VANCE WESTWARD FROM  CAPTURED KHARKOV

Offensive In North Ukraine,  Nazis Declare  Russians Strike Deeper Into Heart Of Areas Violent Battles On,  Rasite Gawe

German Flank Attacks Fail To Halt Reds   Russian Claim Of New Drive Denied In Nazi Reports; Admit Heavy Fighting

FAIL TO STEMRED TIO   German Troops Strike Russians Advancing Through Ukraine.

GERMAN TROOPS FAIL TO BLOGK SOVIET FORCES   Steady Advance On Ail Fronts Told By Reds

German Attacks Fail To Disrupt Russian Advance   Red Army Continues Drive’Near Kharkov

NAZI COUNTER BLOW AGAINST FLANKS FAILS   Soviet Troops Gain Three and a Half Miles West of ‘Captured Kharkov.   POLTAVA ONE GOAL OF ADVANCING RUSS

Flanking Jabs Fail To Weaken Red Push   Reckless Drive Through Ukraine Continues, Says Moscow Bulletin

Reds Repulse Nazi Flanking  Counterattack   Soviets Also Launch New Flanking Maneuver: Of Own. Toward South.

EMERGENCY PHASE OF STICKER LICENSE MEASURE DELETED   House Rebukes Leaders In Protest Against Being Rushed

RULES SUSPENSION BRINGS ON REBUKE TO HOUSE LEADFRS   Get Their Fingers Burned in Admittedly IIl-Advised Attempt to Rush Bill.

House Members Rebuke Leaders For Undue Speed   Rules Suspended Too Many Times, Legislators Think

LEGISLATORS  HAVE TROUBLE   ‘House Leaders Promise, to Stay Within Rules ‘ih Attempts to  _ Speed Up State's Legislative Mill "Representatives Rebuke Lead, ers by Action Tuesday.

ANDREWS TAKES U. S. COMMAND   Succeeds Eisenhower As Chief Of European Forces; To Speed  Air Attacks

ANDREWS CHOSEN EUROPEAN CHIEF   Eisenhower's European Successor Is General Frank Andrews, Advocate of Repeated Use of Heavy Bomber.

Andrews, New Chief of Yanks in European Theater, Promises Intensified Air Blows

i a i a a  Mary Ruth Lauhon Te Appear In Who’s Whe In Ameriran Colleges

Mary Duke e Listed. Tn ‘Who's 8° ‘Who: Rica. . ‘College Students

Advance By British  Imminent   Germans Reported in Re. treat Again—British Fleet  Leaves Gibraltar

Patrol River Front As Mississippi Rises  14 PERSONS DEAD More Than 100,000  nO ED ee CB

Flood Waters Move _ Into Mississippi   Army Engineers Set For Action

FLOOD TOLL MOUNTS AS RIVERS RISE   Soldiers, Engineers and Civilian Volunteers Aid Danger Zones

a BS es & aS Homeless Total Passes 100,000 Mark With 14 Dead; Levees Reinforced

TROOPS PATROL LEVEES SOUTH OF ALTON, ILL.   More Than 100,000 Homeless; 14 Dead in 4 States

Engineers, Soldiers and Volunteers Guard Banks of Roaring Mississippi

BOLSTER RIVER DEFENSES OVER 100- MILE AREA   Mississippi River Choked  By New Waters From Tributaries   TROOPS ON GUARD!   New Lands Threatened As Peaks Are Expected During Week-end

Midwest Flood Losses Moun!   Mississippi Rampage: On. 100-Mile Front

Floods Fill Mississippi   Crop And Property Loss Throughout SixState Area Staggering

TROOPS GUARD FLOODED AREAS   Property, Crop Damage Figures Staggering

Heavy Guard Kept to Watch ivlississipp1   Mighty River Choked By Flood Waters From Tributaries Keeps Rising

STAGGERING LOSS CAUSED BY FLOOD WATERS THIS WEEK   It Was Estimated the Losses Would Run Into the Millions.   THE KNOWN DEAD IS 14   Homeless Total in the Entire Area Was Well Above 100,000 Mark.

TROOPS PATROL {00-MILEFRONT FLOOD WATERS   Army Engineers and Civilian Defense Workers Ready to Meet Rising Mississippi   100,000 HOMELESS   Number of Dead Stands a 14; Damage to Crops and Property Reaches Stag gering Figure

107,000 QUIT THEIR HOMES IN 6 STATES   St. Louis Focal Point For Ram paging Mississippi. linois Town Will Be Evacuated

Guards Patrol —     ~~ On Mississippi   ‘Death Toll Rises To. 14; . 25,000 Civilians. Offer ’ Aid To Troops On Duty

Flood Centers In Illinois, Missouri  Thousands Guarding Swollen Mississippt

Mississippi Is Guarded on 100-Mile Front  Mighty Stream “‘Maunte Hiahor

4,250 Troops Patrolling River Front   Aided by 25,000 Civilian Defense Volunteers in Flood Zone; Immediate Concern tm South Wiinnis. Missouri

Army Engineers Are Ready To Meet Rising Mississippi [As Floods Empty Into River   Vast Force Of Military And Civilian Volunteers Battling Rampaging Streams

Alton, Ill. _ To Cape Is ~ Danger Area   4500 Troops as Well as Civilian Workers Are Maintaining Vigil

100,000 Homeless, Staggering Crop Loss Because Of Floods   Mississippi Kising As Swollen tributaries Pour Torrents Into It; Army Stands Guard

TROOPS ON DUTY IN FLOOD AREAS WITH CIVILIANS   Guarding Levees Along Mississippi In Missouri, Ill.

GREAT MISSISSIPPI  FLOOD WATERS BEING  GLOSELY WATCHED OLD MAN RIVER CHOKEI  _ BY SCORES OVERFLOW-.  INC TRIRIITARIES

Securities Prices Reach High Point  Exchange Officials Limit Margin Deals

Stocks Show Signs of Boom, Exchange Takes Steps to Curb Rapid Rise

OPA Lift: Points  tor Beef   VALUE JUMPS ONE AND TWO POINTS AS NEW SUPPLY DROP IS SEEN

Sees End to Sugar Coffee Rationing   President Cites Anti-Sub Successes

F.D.R. Sees Possibility Sugar, Coffee Rationing May Be Eliminated

Japs Report Surrender of De tachment Upon Luzon ee    ole on oll

HITLER-DUCE HOLD PARLEY ONNEW CRISIS   Axis Leaders Meet to Re view Grave Situation

Adolf And Benito Hold Conference: Secret Procedure  ‘Ranarted Ru Cammenta.   Reported By Commentator To Have "Decided  All Countermeasures’

AXIS DICTATORS HOLD MEETING IN NORTH ITALY   Hitler And Mussolini Silent After Conference  On Monday

URGE SHARE-RIDE PLAN IN OHIO CITIES   Motorists with ‘B,’ ‘C’ Cards Violating Rules

Pacifie Air Attacks May  Precede Drive   Bombers Hammering Out Path for U. Ss. Fleet

PATEL. UAV 3, FLEE  DY U. og. Feel BELIEVED NEAR   Heavy Attacks On Jap Au Bases Believed Prelude To Big Offensive

Lewis Speaks For Travel Time   Hearings Open On Illinois Agreement

Lewis Tells War Labor Board U. S. Coal Miners Only Ones Who Get No Pay for Underground Travel

Lewis Joins In Urging WLB To Okey Contract Signed By UMW, Illinois Operators

WAVES in Washington Join Class To Learn Ju-Jitsu, “Just for Fun”

WAVES May Become Breakers Under Ju-Jitsu Training Program; Eat Standing After First Clas:

FOUND GUILTY OF ABDUCTION   Woman Faces Year in Prison For Takine Child.

NELOUN PREDICT PUaT-WAR LOANS TO AID INDUSTRY   WLB Chairman Discusses Future Unemployment Before Senate Group

AFTER WAR JOB PROBLEM VIEWED IN VARIOUS WAYS   WPB CHIEF NELSON BELIEVES GOVERNMENT SHOULD LOAN INDUSTRIES FUNDS FOR CONVERSION,   VETERAN HEAD SEES THIRTY-MILLION IDLE   Terrific Pressure Predicted for Legislation to Force Women Out of Their Jobs—Others See Problem in Brighter Light.

Milk Shortage Impending; Supplies Drop   Producers Group Blames Price Contro!  For Scarcity

SHORTAGE OF MILK PREDICTED; PRICE CONTROL IS CAUSE   Administration’s Policies arc Flayed by Session of Milk  Producers

PRICE HIKE SOUGHT FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS   Shortage Threatened Unless Regulations Lifted

Dairy Products Shortage Loom:   Government's Program Blamed For: Situation

ON OREL PICKS UP MORE SPEED  Reds Capture 12 More  ‘awne Near City In the

TAKE 12 TOWNS SOUTH OF OREL IN 24 HOURS   Three Columns Drive From South In Fierce Blizzard   DRIVE TO WITHIN 40 MILES OF POLTAVA   Key Rail Junction Half Way  To Dnieper From Kharkov

JEFFERS BACK AT HIS OLD JOB   Former Rubber Czar Returns to Omaha

Bill Subjects Unions tc Anti-Racketeering Law   ‘Neffner May Fight for lob

BILL PROVIDING CURBS ON LABOR IS INTRODUCED   Measure In House Would Subject Leaders To AntiRacketeering Law   MOVE IS SEEN AS A “TRIAL BALLOON”

Measure Aim: To Restrain Union Rackets   House Gets Bill Set Forth As ‘Trial Balloon’

Racketeer Bill Would Include Labor Unions   Would Subject Unions To Law Passed in 1934; Sideiracked Tact Year

Mariemvle Woman Hilled  When Big Stack -of Glass Plant is Topped By Win

Marienville Woman Killed When Big Stack of -Glass Plant is Toppled By Wind

MEAT SHORTAG! APPEARS TO BE NEARING END   However, Relief Is Believed to Be Temporary

Beef Shortage \Nearing an End   Number of Cattle Marketed Yesterday Largest Since 1930—18,000 at Chicago

SLAYER IS EXECUTED   Killer Of Georgia Patrolman Dies In Electric Chair

PATTERSON FOR NEW DRAFT ACT   Undersecretary of War In. dorses Austin-Wadsworth Bill Before Committee

Manpower Draft Measure Appears Due For Revision   Assure Women  Soothe Labor

Patterson For Civilian Service Draft Law   House Gets Proposal Deferring Essential Farm Workers

RoKo PAQOAGE UF DRAFT LAW FOR CIVILIAN:   Under-Secretary of War Says Action Would Be Bad News for Axis.   NYE SAYS U. S. DOING MORE THAN ITS SHARE

Civilian Service Draft Law Asked By War Official   Patterson Would Mitigate Loss of Life on Fighting Front.   Not Undemocratic to  Put Man in War Plant

LABOR DRAFT BILL IS LIKELY TO BE REVISEL   AFL President Green io be Asked io Aid in Revision—House OK‘s Farm Defermenis

indersecretary OF War-Says Burden At Home Must Be pistributed; Deferment Of Farm Help Wins

WANTS PROMPT ENACTMENT OF NEW DRAFT LAW   Civilian Service In War Plant, on Farm Needed   WAR IS NOT WON   Undersecretary of War Patterson Makes Appeal

Undersecretary Patterson Urges Prompt Law To Draft Civilian Service To Save Lives

WAR WORK DRAFT ACT 1S URGED   Patterson in Appeal . for Quick Enactment to Help Save Lives   “COMMITTER WILL REVISE MEASURE   Will Take in. Older Women, Soothe Organized Labor’s. Opvosition

if It Ils Undemocratic To Select Man or Woman To Load Shells Or Work on Farm, It Is Undemocratic Also To Send Men Off To Fight and Die, Patterson Declares in Plea For ‘Equitable Distribution of Burdens’

CIVILIAN SERVIGE DRAFT LAWS ASKED _ FORBY PATTERSON   Says It Would “Mitigate the Loss of Life on the Fighting Front.”   MAKES APPEAL TODAY   Adoption of the Austin-Wadsworth Bill Will Be Sad News to Hitler.

‘BILLUSGED ~WECESSIT   Patterson Tells Senator ‘It Would Equalize Bur dens at Home.   CALL TO WORK LIKE SOLDIER SUMMONS   Proposed Deferment of Farm Labor May Change General Bill.

Patterson Asks Quick Approval On Labor Draf   Manpower Bill Is Due For Broad Revision To  Soothe Unionists.

{16 JAPS KILLED ON NEW GUINE:    ALLIES RAID TOWN OF MOBO   —PRAILS SOUTH OF SALA MAUA STRAFED.

Jones Reiterates Inquiry Desire   Says He Doesn't Care ~ Which House Makes It

Jesse Jones Again Asks REC Probe   Wants Charges Made by Wallace Cleared Up

GROWERS CAS IN ON LIGHT FRUIT VOLUME   Get Eight Million Dollar: ~ For 3,806,000 Packs Sold On Market

Record Prices Offset Drop In Market Volume   Total Receipts Smallest Since 1938, Federal * Report Shows

Third Reich, Aimed to Last a Thousand Years, 'Should End Before Second Decade Is Far Gone

NICHE TOG, <MalyYSt, Says  Bonapart Rocket Was 20 Years i in Flight Hitler’ S, ‘After Decade, Is ‘About to Fall

OBSERVANCE OF HITLER’ RISE LACKS GAYIETY   Atmosphere.Is Sombre as Nation Marks Tenth An  niversary of Fuehrer’s   Chancellorship   1933 SPIRIT MISSING   Summons Today Isto Heroic- Effort, Blind Obedience to Avert Catastrophe

HITLER HAS SHADOWED WORLD FOR 10 YEARS  Career Has Been Meteoric

‘TEN YEARS OF HITLER MENACE HAS MADE TIME SEEM LONGER; NONE DREAMED EVENTS TO COME

TEN YEARS AGO TONIGHT HITLER CAME T0 POWER   Tenth Anniversary Of Fuehrer’s First Triumph Finds Berlin A Somber Place Where Was Hitler's  Pinnacle?

Welders Strike At Plane Plant  Protest Discharge Lf 4A WEY _F. . wc   Protest Discharge Of 14 Workers

Flying Forts Cross Sea to Hit Norway   17 Enemy Planes Shot Down, Giant Farbenindustrie Factory Razed

Raise U, §. Flag Over Palerme   Leading Port Of Western Sicily Falls Without Shot Being Fired

Stars And Stripes Raised At Palermo   Wounded War Correspondent Gives Graphic Eye Witness Account Of Capture Of Vital Sicilian Port

TWO YANK UNITS MEET IN SQUARE OF CAPITAL CITY   Advance Through Western Sicily One of Fastest in Military Annals

MILK PRODUCERS ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR AAA PAYMENTS   40c Per ewt On Milk 5c Per tb Butterfat, Is Subsidy Rate

Soviet Forces — Push Toward Base At Orel   Wide Expanses Of Donets Basin Also Being Cleared Of Enemy Troops   COUNTER-ATTACKS MADE BY GERMANS

SOVIETS SWEEP WIDE AREAS IN DONETS BASIN   Spearheads Are Being Pressed Toward Nazi Positions At Orel   LINE BEING STRAIGHTENED   German Counterattacks Smashed As Reds Take Over New Towns

GERMAND ARE PUSHED BACK ALONG FRONT   Russians Pressinz Spearheads Toward Orel and in Cone‘s Basin.   MANY NAZIS’ KILLED   Soviet Armies Straighten iro Out Front Before Another Attack.

BROWN SCORES LEWIS DEMANDS   Big Pay Hikes Will Lose Fight On Inflation, Savs OPA Chief

Lewis Demands Inflation “Bait” Says OPA Head   Seeking increase: for miners; more conservative leaders might follow example. :

Miner s Head Is Scored by Brown For Wage Demands   OPA Chief Says Increase Will Lose Fight against Inflation”

Cut Is Made In Draft Calls   L. S. Intensifies Move to Get Men 38-45 Into War Positions

Men of 38 to 45 May Be Drafted  Are Warned to Leave Nlondaferakla Inahe

April Draft Quota Cut, New 38-45 Policy Set   W. Va.’s April Allotment Slashed 12 to 14 Percent,  Savs Director Pierce. Now tn Washinotan

38-45 YEAR OLDS MAY BE INDUCTED   Men Must Go Into Essential Work or in the  Army

No 5-Day Week With Overtime For Busy Yanks   (More stories and pictures of the Sicilian invasion are on Page 3.)

No 5-Day Week For Our Troops  They Work Feverishly In Sicilian Battle  ein oneness A arcrAaAnmAacr TWH!

Henry Ford Is Made President   Succeeds His Son, the Late Edsel Ford, as Head of Company

Henry Ford Takes Reins  Of Company   Returns to Office He Left  For His Son, Who Died  Fast Week

Henry Ford Back as Head   Elected President of Motor Company Replacing Post of Dead Son

Henry Ford Named Company President   Other New Officers Named After Edsel Ford’s Death

HENRY FORD HEADS PLANT   Named President of Company Succeeding Son

Henry FordOu Of Retirement   Again Becomes Head Of Motor Company

New Directors Are Mrs. Edsei Ford, Harry H. Benneit. M.L. Bricker, B. J. Craig and R. R. Rausch; Sons of the Late Edsel Ford, Only Son of Motor Magnate

2,756,000 Acres of Midwest Farm Land Estimated Flooded   160,000 Homeless as IHinois Levels Off at  Two Places

Flood Toll Of America’s  Food Grows  Fresh Torrents Of Muddy Water Are  Bas malfincg Basmc

RAMPAGING ILLINOIS RIVER REPORTED BE LEVELING OFF TODAY   MISSISSIPPI CONTINUES TO THREATEN TWO STATES. HOWEVER

Roaring Stream Hits Level Flow   SEVENTEEN DEAD, 160,000 HOMELESS AS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR DAMAGE TO CROPS, PROPERTY, LIVESTOCK CLIMBS; CALL CONFAB

F lood Loss Mounts In Middle West   Davis Arranges For Conference

[linois River  Levels Off In — Danger Spot   But Mississippi Still Climbs: 160,000 Now Homeless, 1.257.698 Acres Flooded

FLOOD-CHOKED ILLINOIS RIVER AT TWO POINTS IS RECEDING BUT THE MISSISSIPPI THREATENS NEW DISASTER   Thousands of Weary Levee Workers Cheered By Improvement Along Illinois But Other Sections Still Face Serious Conditions from Flood Waiters.

FLOODS THREATEN FURTHER DISASTER ) OVER WIDE SECTION   Seething Mississippi Pours Out Fresh Torrents of Water Over Man-built Protective Walls; Illinois Levels Off, Cheering the Workers.

LEVELING OFF OF ROARING RIVERS CHEERS THOUSANDS   Flood-Choked Illinois River Slowing Down at Two Dan-ger Points But Mississippi Still Threatening

Mississippi Is Still at Danger Levels Today   ‘Critical Area Lies Be  tween St. Louis and  Noga, £8 wa tee Rees

Mississippi River Threatens Further Disaster to Flood Stricken Illinois and Missouri

NEW DISASTER THREATENED ON ~ FLOOD FRONT   Wlinois River Levels Off but Mississippi Continues Upward Trend :

Illinois Flood Level Falls Off   Mississippi, However, Still a Threat

FLOODED ILLINOIS RIVER LEVELS OFF   Mississippi Remains Threat To Many Sections

Mississippi Is Still at Danger Levels Today   Critical Area Lies Between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau

IN BATTLE ON FLOOD   ‘Mississippi Continues to Threaten Several Points; Tllinois Levels Off   MANY INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AFFECTED   556,000 Acres of Land in Missouri Inundated and 5,550 Families Affected

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES 10 BE COMBINED   Federal communications commission announced approval today

British Take Foaaia Field   Advance Gives Allies New Advanced Bases

Removal of Flour Price  Top Ureed   Wheat State Senators in De mand to OPA, Can't Wait on Congress   PRESENT CEILING "HELD ‘UNLAWFUL   Action Needed to Spur Farmer, Says Letter From 16 Senators

Strong Plea For Parity On Wheat   Wheat State Senators Urge OPA to Remove “Present Unlawful Catling on Fleur”

Ee are i rciniheeemnrn  Higher Prices For Wheat Sought By Senate Bloc

Ask Guarantee  Of 44 Parity   Sixteen Senators Advise Brown To Eneourage Wheat Harvest Inerease.

ASK OPA TO REMOVE CEILING ON FLOUR   Termed Unlawful by Senators from Wheat States

‘Fathers Fail To Rush For Defense Jobs   WMC Admits Draft Prospects Fail Te. Heed Warning And Go Into Defense Work

Selective Service Officials Say Fathers in Non-Deferrable Jobs To Be Included in October Cail

Non-Deferrable Fathers Are Certain to Be Drafted in October  See SS eee ee a ee ee ee, ee, eee Spee Se fees Ae Se Seeoeee:

OCTOBER CALL TO TAKE ONLY FEW FATHERS   Non - Deferrable Dads May Round Out All Quotas

Fathers In Non-Deferrable Jobs Are Expected To Fill Draft Quotas For October

October Draft Quotas May Include Single Men, Childless Married Men And Fathers In Non-Essential Jobs

Non-Deferrable Fathers Will Go   Clear Picture Not Available At Present

Allies Hold Mignano Now   Gateway To Valley Is Captured From Nazis

Mignano Capturec By Clark’s Army   Fifth Gains Vital Artery for Drive  Into Rome as Germans Retreat

Fifth Takes Rome Gate   Copture of Mignano Opens Valley Route To Italien Capital

Valley Gateway Believed Taken On Italian Front   Mignano Capture Would Facilitate Drive Toward Rome

RED COLUMNS SIX MILES FROM CITY   1,000,000 German Soldiers Facing Disaster

MARRIAGE BILL BACK TO HOUSE   Health Test Measure. Held Up by Adoption of Two Amendments

Mitchell Tells Officials to Assess Bonds   Says That {f Law [s Unfair Enforcement Will Bring Repeal

SHAFER HITS Gl HITS CUT IN PAPER QUOTAS   Charges WPB Official Ex-ceeded Authority in Recommendations.

LIQUOR RATION GARD TO BE PUNCHED TOO   Stamp Not ‘Sufficient To Prevent Chiseling

io CAPTURE 0 MORE TOWNS HY GOMEL SECTOR   Battlefields Neor Zhlobin Reported Strewn With  farmnan Rend

Allied Armies Overwhelm Axis Forces on Sicily In Just: Eiaht Days of Non-Stop Fighting

Athens Blasted By Liberators On Large Scale   [ons of Bombs Dropped on Two Important Axis Airdromes

HEAVY SMASH DELIVERED AT FOEIN GREECE   Tons of Bombs, Leaflets are Dropped By Raiders

Athens Pasted hy Many Tons of Steel   Spectacular Raid Carried Out Acainst Italians

U.S. Smashes Axis Fields    In Huge Raid   Great Greek Ports Are Badly Damaged; Fliers Drop Messages From FDR To Natives; Attack Is Big Success

Yankees Blast Axis Air Power In Athens Area   Fliers Rain Tons of Bombs on Airfields; Message From F. D. To Greeks Dropped

DELIVERED AT FOE IN GREECE   Tons of Bombs, Leaflets are Dropped By Raiders

BOMBERS SLUG 2 ATHENS AIRFIELDS   AMERICANS DOWN AT LEAST SEVEN PLANES IN ASSAULT WITHOUT A LOSS.

Yankee Bomber: Blast Nazi Air Bases in Greece   Tons of Explosives Are Unloaded on Areas Near Athens

Attacks on Airports Follow by Three Days Pounding of Salonika  DEFENSES STRONG, BUT NO PLANES LOST  Thousands of Leaflets With F.D.R. Message Dropped Over Greece

BALKAN ENTRY TO CONTINENT ALLIED TARGET   Fires Are Started In Hangars At Elevsis, Hassani, Great Damage Done   No Planes Are Lost

FLYING FORTS BLAST RABAUL   Damage From 20 To 50 Jap Planes Without Loss Of Anv Raiders.

Americans Hit Jap Airdromes   Raid on Rabaul Area Held Most’ Successful So Far as Targets There

Jap Airdromes Given Blasting By U. S. Fliers   From 20 To 50 Planes Are Reported Disabled In New Britain Attack

Bombers Hit Rabaul Again   Flier Counts 20. Large Fires Flaming At Port

AMERICANS GIVE RABAUL ‘WORKS’   Jap Airdromes In New Britain Get Worst Blasting Yet From U. S. B-17s. 

Yank Bombers Devastate Jap Airdromes.in Rabaul   Five Warships Claimed Sunk by Japanese -Taonttfied hv Tokvo as Vessels of U.S.

U. 3. HEAVY BOMBERS BLASTED JAPANESE AIRDROMES AT RABAUL  iii a Fis Tm rnne on TH   ESTIMATED FROM 20 TO 50 ENEMY PLANES KNOCK. ED OUT BY BOMBINGS

a i et ee ein eel  U. S. B-17 HEAVY BOMBERS RAID RABAUL AIRDROMES

BIG YANK BOMBERS SMASH JAP BASE   All Fortresses Safe After Wrecking 50 Planes

LARGE FORCE OF HEAVY U. S. BOMBERS BLAST NEW BRITAIN JAPANESE BASES

Japs Struck Devastating Blows By Yank W arplane:   Enemy Airdromes In New Britain Given Thorough Going-Over By Large Force Of Flying Fortresses: All Return Safely

Bad Blasting Given Rabaul   Foriresses Make Most eceseful Attack

Blast Rabaul Airdromes    U. S. B-17s Give Jap Air Fields Worst Bombardment of War

AIRDROME AT RABAUL BLASTING   Estimated Damage to Enemy Planes in Raid Ranged From 20 to 50. All Bombers Return Safely

NiP AIRDROMES INRABAUL HIT   Utah, Idaho Fliers Help Give Worst Blasting Handed Jap Bases

RETURNS TO LONDON AFTER FLYING VISIT TO SEE EISENHOWER   Believe British Leader Gave Final Orders For Allied Blow In Mediterranean; Italian Sea Base Airfield Pounded

DeGaulle Receives Reply From Giraud   Several Days More Needed To Correaspond, Say Fighting French

Way Cleared for Smolensk Attack   Fall of Gzhatsk, Anchor Point  In German Line, Spurs Soviets

Great Drive By Russians Prospective   AXIS STARTING OFFENSIVE AGAINST BRITISU RIGHTH,

Corsicans welcome Moroccans  who supported French landing   No opposition encountered at Ajaccio in all-French action

French Commandos Gaining in Battle for Corsica Island.   ~ Fighting Taking a “Favorable Turn," Giraud Communique Reveals -

No Opposition Met by French Troops Who Landed on Island of Corsica

Teacher Pension Act Wins House Approval As Solons Prepare To End Sessions

REAFFILIATION OF MINERS WITH AFL DISCUSSEI   Lewis’ Application Will Be ’ Acted Upon At Chi cazo Meetine

TO AFL HEADS ONUNION BID   Re-affiliction of -UMW With Federation Ad.-. vences Step -

UNION OF UMW WITH AFL NEAR   John L. Lewis Confers With High Officials Of Federation

REUNION WITH AFL DISCUSSED   Prospects Of UMW Going Back To Federation Reported Better

Reaffiliation Of UMW With AFL  Near Realizatior   John L. Lewis In Three-Hour Conference With Executives Of The American Federation  Of Labor In Washington

LEWIS TALKS TO AFL HEADS ONUNIONBID   Re-affiliation of UMW With Federation Advances Step

Consider A. F. L. Reaffiliation   Lewis Confers With Union Executives

RED PUBLICATION URGES CONFERENCE    INCLUDING SOVIETS   Says Red Viewpoint Not Touched at Quebec

KRUG IS. NAMED POWER DIRECTOR   Nelson Creates Post Respon s‘ble-for Electricity. Gas, Water, Communications

Secretary Knox Visits London   Futther Invasion  Plans in Making

KNOX ARRIVES IN LONDON FOR VISIT      Trip Seen As Forerunnex To Coming Invasion  Of Europe

Lauds U.S. Newspapers   Hails Press As One of Most Vital Factors In Winning of War

N ewspapers  Are Praised   Nation’s Press Hailed by Lawmaker as Most Essential Factor in Winning War

Newspapers Hailed as One of Most Essential Factors in Winning War

Phitoo lo TERMED VITAL WAR FACTOR   Nation’s Newspapers Praised By Congressman

Papers Praised  For Role in War  Press Is Hailed As Vital Factor in Winning Conflict

NEWSPAPERS VITAL FACTORS IN WINNING WAR   Hailed By Rep. Hall: eck As Most Essential

Newspapers Hailed As Vital To War Effort:   ‘Congressman Assails “Bureaucratic. Critics

DR. CRILE, 78, DIES TODAY OF HEART AILMENT   Recognized Internationally for His Surgical Skill, Goiter Specialist

FAMOUS SURGEON IS STRICKEN THURSDAY      Dr. George W. Crile of Cleveland Dies After Iliness of Several Weeks.

succumbs At Glevelana Clinie Where He Had Been Under Observation Three Weeks  RECOGNIZED FOR      Known to Scientists Primarily for Research Work On Nature of Life and Energy Loss

DR. G. W. CRILE WORLD. FAMOUS SURGEON. DIES   Co-Founder of Cleveland's Clinic Succumbs Today; ‘Had Career of More Than 50 Years.

Dr. George Crile Surgeon and Scientist Dies   Heart Ailment Fatal to 78-Year-Old Cleveland Notable

Death Takes Dr. George W. Crile 78 World Famous Surgeon, Physician,  Co-Founder Of Cleveland Clinic

Death Calls Dr. Geo. Crile   Widely Known Surgeon And Scientist Dies At Cleveland

Dr. George Crile Seriously Ill   Eminent Surgeon Reported in Grave Condition in Clinic

Crile, Noted As Scientist, Surgeon, Dies   Gained World Fame For Energy Research: Was Goiter Expert.

DR. GEORGE CRILE DIES IN CLEVELAND OF HEART AILMEN]   Hope Abandoned for Noted Surgeon Last Week

DEATH CLAIMS FAMED SURGEON   Dr. George Crile Succumbs At Cleveland Clinic

Crile, Noted Surgeon, Dies  Death Caused by   Death Caused by Heart Ailment— Ill Three Weeks

Dr. Crile Dies; F amed Surgeon And Scientist   Discovery of adrenalin, - operative shock ‘prevention among his accomplishments.

NOTED SURGEON: SCIENTIST DIES   Heart Ailment Fatal to Dr. George Crile in Cleveland

NOTED SURGEON DIES OF ILLNESS   Spent 50 Years Studying Life and Death

Noted Surgeon Taken By Deatt   Dr. George W. Crile Dies At Cleveland

FAMED DOCTOR, SCIENTIST DIES   Dr. George Crile Succumbs At Famous Cieveland Clinic He Founded

Nazi Industria! ~Centers Bombed  By Allied Ships   Night Attack by RAF Is Greatest American Raid Against Reich.   Defense Is Weaker as  Only 19 Planes Lost

RAF Follows Up Strong American Attack On Reich   Bombers Shatter Duesseldorf And Cologne Areas

GREAT FLEET HEAVY  RAF BOMBERS BLAST  INDUSTRIAL CITIES MAIN BLOW CONCEN.  TRATED ON DUESSELDORE. COLOGNE NEXT

Nazi Targets Feel Force of Allied Airmen   RAF in Night Smash Following Daylight Raid by Americans

RAF Heavy Bombers Follow Fortresses in Pounding Reich   Night Attacks Sequels to American Raids by Daylight Yesterday

Duesseldorf Again Blasted by Bombers   Rhur Industrial Center Again Target Of RAF Attack After Heavy Blow By U.S. Aircraft in Daylight.

PAP FOLLOWS UP RECORD. AMERICAN ~ ATTACK ON REICE   Main Blow Concentrated on Duesseldorf; Cologne Also Is Raided   9 AIRPLANES ARE LOST

DUESSELDORF AND COLOGNE HAMMERED BY RAF BOMBERS   Industrial Cities Attacked in Swift Sequel to Wilhelmshaven Raid.   DUESSELDOREF HARD HIT   Nineteen Aircraft Were Lost by the Raiders in the Night’s Operation.

Duesseldorf ls Hammered Again   NAZI INDUSTRIAL AREA TARGET OF HEAVY RAID

RAF Attaeks Follow Heavy Yankee Raid:   Largest American Force To Hit Reich Blasts Wilhelm.  ate 34 OY   REPEAT RUHR BLASTS

MAIN BLOW FALLS UPON LATTER CITY   British Say Night Raid Was Concentrated and Effective—Only 19 Planes Lost in All of the Operations.

Duesseldorf And Cologne Battered By Record Fleet   Area Most Heavily Bombed Of War

British Blast ‘At Duesseldorf   Also Make Smashing Attack on Cologne Following U. S. Raid

Swift Followups To Daylight Raids On Nazi Industry   Big Ruhr Armament Center Gets Heavy - Pounding: 19 RAF Bombers Lost

BOMBERS KEEP. UP ATTACK ON GERMAN CITIES   RAF Follows Up Ameri eans With Smashing Assault On Duesseldorf  and Cologne 

RAF Raids Cologne And Duesseldorf In Heavy Night Foray   British Lose 19 Aircraft—Bombers Destroy Four Enemy Planes Following American Attack on Wilhelmshaven — Mosquitos Hit Ruhr.

COLOGNE ALSO HIT IN ATTACK   Raids F ollow Record U. S. Assault On Wilhelmshaven

GERMANY HARD HIT BY HUGE BOMBER FORCE  Allies Lose Only   Allies Lose Only 19 Aircraft In Night Assault .

2,000 TONS  FALL ON HUNS         in’ : Great * Fleet: of  Daattkaine Diddies

BIGGEST RAIDS OF WAR SMOTHERING, WATT INQUIcTRIT      Wilhlemshaven And Duesseldorf Given “The Works”   THOUSAND KILLED  IN AUSTRIAN RAID

Duesseldorf Is Target Of Night Attack   IRAF Stages Swift Seque! To Massive American Daylight Raid

19 RAIDERS LOST IN NEW BLOWS AT NAZIS INDUSTRY   ATTACK DESCRIBED AS EFFECTIVE: NAZI DEFENSE IS WEAKER

NIGHT RAIDERS BLAST TARGETS   U.S. and British Planes Drop Bombs on Duesseldorf and Cologne

Duesseldorf Target If Damaging Raid  3y American Fliers   ig Ruhr Armament Center Is Probably World's Most Heavily Hammered City Next to Recently Devastated Hamburg   fOCKHOLM REPORTS 1,000 KILLED IN ATTACK

INDUSTRIAL GITIES GIVEN BOMBLOAD       Americans Pound ~ Wilhelmshaven Yesterday

Wilhelmshaven Is Rocked In Big Yank Blow  RAF Plane Losses Put At 19 While American   RAF Plane Losses Pu At 19 While Americar Daylight Raid Cost: Total Of Seven

R.A.F. Hammers Rhineland Cities   Great Fleet Pounds Duesseldorf, Coloane, Huge Industrial Cities

Followup Mighty U. S. Day Attack   One-Two Punch Deliver ed On Germany By Allied Air Forces

FOLLOW GREAT DAYLIGHT RAID BY AMERICANS   Duesseldorf, Cologne Hit by Explosives In Night Attack

Bombers Rip Duesseldorf And Cologne   Heavy R. A. F. Sequel To Smashing Yank Attack On Wilhelmshaven.

RAF AND YANKS BLAST GERMANY IN HUGE RAIDS   Duesseldorf, Cologne and - Wilhelmshaven Are   Battered

British Follow Up Heavy U.S. Attack On Wilhelmshaven   Largest American Force Ever To Hi Reich; English Lose 19 Bombers In Night’s Operations

Giant Fleet Blasts Reich   U.S. Bombers Hit Naval - Base, RAE Hits Dusseldorf

Smashing Blows Hit Duesseldorf And Other Cities   British Raid Comes Close On Heels Of Record U. S. Attack

GERMANY ROCKED BY HEAVY AIR BLOWS   RAF Follows Up American  Daylight Attack

RAF FOLLOWS UP RECORD ATTACK BY U, S$. PLANES   Great Fleet Of British Bombers _ Stages Heavy Night Raid  n Germany; Report 1,000 Killed In American Raid On  Wiener Neustadt.

Armament Center Becomes World’s Most Bombed City After Hamburg.   COLOGNE ALSO BOMBED

RAF Batters Axis Planes   Seven Shot Down In Raiding Over France

AKRON ZOOT SUITERS HELD FOR STABBING   Sailor Victim of Fight al Cafe, Sheriff Says

War Fund Drive Short of Goal  $8,000 Needed as ‘Final Week Opens

U.S. Bombers — Hit Kurile Base      Fly Long Distance To Strike at Japs

Coal Miners Threaten To Strike Again   Early Contract Agreement Seen Between UMW And Coal Operators; John L, Yields, Directs Work Return Monday

WINTER FOOD FAMINE SEEN   Situation Blamed On Mud: dling In Washington

FOOD SETUP ~~ 1S ASSAILEE   MINNESOTA CONGRESBMAN SAYS METROPOLITAN AREAS FACE SHORTAGE CRISIS - THIS WINTER

‘REAL FAMINE’ AHEAD, WARNS WESTERN SOLON   Rep. Andresen Paints Black Picture Of Conditions During Winter   ASKS PROMPT CHANGE   Placing Of Problem In Hands Of Competent Directors Urged

PLEDGE TO PUNISH NAZIS REAFFIRMED   J. S$. Gov't Promises Act ion for Atrocities in Poland

America Reaffirms Determination To Avenge Crimes  Germans Are Warned Of Penalty for Numerous Atrocities

U. 5. Will Avenge Polish Sufferers  Reaffirms Resolve   Reaffirms Resolve To Punish Germans

U. S. Reaffirms Resolve To Punish Perpetrators Of Atrocities in Poland

LEGION WILL MARK ANNIVERSARY TONIGHT   Post And Auxiliary Will Hold Join! Celebration In Redecorated Auditorium

HANOVER LEGION POST TO MARK ANNIVERSARY   World War No. 1 Order Was Organized 24 Years Ago—Unit To Jein In Social

Press Aerial Attack   - ++ Lash Wilhelmsharen;: 23 Planes Are Lost

ALLIES LEVEL GUNS AT SUBS   CHURCHILL DISCLOSURE ROCKS COMMONS HOUSE

BLASTS AIMED AT ADMIRALTY   Attacks Pointed at Alexander Reflect Gravity Of Nazi Sub Campaign

Sub Losses Stir Britain;  Ask Shakeur   Resignation of Alexander from  Admiralty Sought

U-Boats’ Toll Stirs Attack On Admiralty   Churchill’s Reassurance: Fails to Stop Demand Alexander Resign

U-Boat War Put First On the List   Admiralty Assailed For Lack of Action

Admiralty Critics Demand Removal Of A. V. Alexander   Speaker Charges Sea Lord’s Time Taken Up With Speeches, Inspections, Social Functions

U. 5. Wilt Support Yugoslav Partisans   America Takes Same Course as Britain

INCREASE SEEN IN FOOD PRODUCTION   Marvin Jones Says There Is no Donger of Starvation

German Attack  Smashed by Red Guardsmen   42 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out in Bitter Fight

“W'S” DEADLINE ON MARCH 31ST   Initial Inspection of Tires Under OPA Periodic Rule

OPA Refuses Fish, Poultry Rationing   Even Egg Supply Too Uncertain for Stamp Sales

NAZI AIRFIELDS GET NO RESPITE   Allied Planes Keep Up Constant Shuttle Over Straits

Western Europe Given Air Blows   Plant in Holland Is Among Targets

AIRFIELDS RAIDED ~ BY ALLIED FLIER   Assaults Renewed Afte Berlin Raid Thursday Night

Allied Planes Raid Continent For Sixth Day   Cover Wide Section In Bombing Atlacks

FLIERS SHUTTLE ACROSS STRAIT   Enemy Airfields Lashed Sixth Day In NonStop Attacks; Berlin Hit

May Not Be Enough Food To Go Around   Military Committee Recommends Draft Deferment of  Farm Workers; Union Opwnattinm ¢2 Abeoantas Rill

FOOD CROP MAY FALL SHORT OF ~ DEMANDS   Possibility of There Not Be: ing-Encygh. to’ Go Around ‘oS hie Year”   WICKARD’ S.VIEWS .; ‘ ARE DISCLOSRD   Critics Also Heard’ as. Senate Committee ‘Asks Farm Labor .. Deferment

GENERALLY AGREED THERE MAY BE FOOD SHORTAGE THIS YEAR   UNION OPPOSITION CROPS OUT TO PROPOSED PLAN TO CURE ABSENTEEISM

Battle-Scarred 19h Air Group Comes To Texas   ‘Heavily, Decorated Squadron Wil! Be Used As Teachers

Men Of Kelly  Air Group To  Be Pedagogs Remnants OF 19th   Remnants Of 19th To Texas To Teach How To Kill Japs

Members of 19th Bombardment Group — Late Colin Kelly’s Old) Outfit—To Be Air Instructors

Colin Kelly’s Outfit, Heroes of Pacific, Report to New Army Base at Pyote, Texas

AIR HEROES HOME TO TRAIN FLIERS   j eee ‘BOMBERMEN WHO TOOK PART IN 3 MAJOR ENGAGEMENTS ARRIVE IN TEXAS.

Colin Kelly’s Old Outfit Is Back From Far East To Show Bombermen What It Takes To Lick Taps

Deadline for Tire Testing Postponed   Holders of “A” Books Giv. en Until End of March

NEW DEADLINE FOR AUTO TIRE INSPECTION   March 31 Now Bixed For Holders Of CAM Capda ter.

Ast Official I nspection Deadline Off   MOTORISTS ARE TAKING BETTER CARE OF THEIR’ TIRES. OPA ANNOUNCES, EXPLAINING PCSTPONEMENT.   Truck Deadline Feb. 28

LIBERIAN LEADER IN SPEECH TODAY   President Of African Republic Talks To House, Senate

Communists End Organizations  In 30 Nations   Approve Action Of Moscow Head

Dissolution Is Now Complete   Communist International Disbanded After Final Approval.

SEE ARGENTINE COUP AS. BOOST TO ALLIES   Observers Believe Revolt May Put “Last Latin-American Holdout in War Arainst Axis.

Believe Coup Wil Bring Argentine To Allied Side   Many Observers Expect Diplomatic Break on War

See Argentine Break With Axis   Lo. Recognition Believed Assured

See Argentine coup favoring United Nations   Interpreting the Wear

ARGENTINA BREAK WITH AXIS LIKELY      Nation Expected to Join the Allies in World  ar

House Extends Lend Lease Another Year   Help to Other Nations Fighting Axis Totals $9 632,000,000

LENO LEASE HELP OVER § BILLIONS   Bill To Extend Aid Pro. gram To U.'S. Allies Before Senate

LEASE LEND NOW EXCEEDS NINE BILLION   Almost  $2,000,000,000 Worth of Goods Transferred in Quarter Ended March 1, Stettinius Reports to the Senate.

$10 Billion Mark Neared In Lend Plan   Almost As Much Help Given Allies In Past Six Months As During Proewinane 12

LEND-LEASE BILL REACHES SENATE   HOUSE VOTES TO EXTEND AID FOR ANOTHER YEAR

HOUSE-PASSED LENDING BILL   Measure Extends Life An. other Year For Greatest  Mutual-Aiding Arrange- ment Among Nations   QUICK ACTION AIM   Approval by House Overwhelming; GO P-Sponsored Accounting Amendment Defeated

HOUSE GIVES HUGE MAJORITY - TO LEND LEASE   Vorys’ Rider Defeated by Telle Vote —- Stettinius Reports Aic Given Allies

Results in Stale Hoopster Touritey   Allies Cot 30 Ont of Every 160 Bombers Produced

U9. AID TO ALLIED STEADILY INCREASED   Lend Lease Expenditures Total $9,632,000,000

LEND LEASE BILL HAS REACHED THE SENATE FOR ACTION   Accompanied by a Report Help Had Been Extended to $9,632,000,000.   MUCH HELP IN 6 MONTHS:   Almost as Much Aid Was Provided in That Time as in Previous 18 Months.

‘Report On U.S. ‘Aid Cites Help Sent To Russia   Bill To Extend Lease-Lend Act Reaches Senate

Lend-Lease Act Goes To Senate  Report of Aid Given By Stettinius

SENATORS GET BILL TO EXTEND LEND-LEASE      Measure ‘Gets Overw! :"ming Support In House

Lend-Lease Is Due for Quick Vote   Stetlinius Says Aid to Allies Increased 3 Times

Lend-Lease  Total N ears Ten Billion   Senate Gets Bill Alon With Report From ~" Stettinins:

REPORT CITES. GAIN IN HELP SENT OVERSEA   Stettinius Says Half Tanks Shipped so Far Have Gohe to Russia,   SENATE EXPECTED TO ACT SOON ON EXTENSION

Aid To Allies Qn Lend-Lease  At 10 Billions   Half Of Tanks. 40 Percent Of Tactical Planes Were Shipped To Russia.   BRITISH GIVEN MOST

NINE BILLIONS ~ INLEND-LEASE   Stettinius Reports Amount Of Aid to Other Nations in Congress

REPORTS VALUE OF LEND-LEASE   Goods Worth Nearly Ten Bil: lions Provided by U. $.; Bill Goes to Senate.

LEND-LEASE BILL REACHES SENATE   Report Shows Aid to Foes Of Axis Now Exceeds Nine And One-Haif Billions

LEND LEASE UP TO SENATE NOW   House Sends Important Measure To Senate With Overwhelming Approval.

DONALD SCHMIDT, U.S. N. MARREID   United To Emma Frahm At St. John’s Church Sat urday Evening.

Soviets Down  123 Nazi Air Fighters   Defenders Lose 30 Aircraft in Series of Battles

GERMANS USE 500 PLANES IN KURSK ATTACK      Nazis Lose 123 Craft And Russians 30 In Battles

Germans Lose 123 Airplanes In Kursk Push  Force Of 500 Ships   rorce Of 900 onip: Sent Against Red Bace

123 Of 500 German Planes In Raid On Kursk Shot Down; 30 Planes AreLost By Soviets   Display Of Axis Sky Strength Causes Speculation In Allied Circles; Fighting Continues In Caucasus With Few Essential Changes

Russians Lose 30 On Defense   Heavy Blow Brings Allied Speculation

Nazis Pay High For Kursk Raid   Lose 123 Planes of 500 Making Attack

Russians Lose 30 On Defense   Heavy Blow Brings Allied Sneciilatiann.”

Reds Drive Away Attackers at Cost Of 30 Aircraft  Italian Fleet Hides As British Warships Bombard Pantelleria  CHINESE DRIVE ON  Win Major Victories In Yangtze Area;

NAZIS LOSE 123 PLANES IN RAID   THROW 500 AGAINST SOVIET BASE AT KURSK—REDS LOSE 30 FIGHTERS.

123 NAZI PLANES LOST IN ASSAULT   Germans Hurl Big Air Force Against Russ Base of Kursk

Questions and Answers on Ration Book No. 2 Covering Fruits, Vegetables

NEW DISTRICT “BILLIS PASSED BY PA. SENATE   Cut Unemployment ‘Compensation Cost To Emoblovers _

MEASURE IS APPROVED BY 28-12 VOTE   Redistricting Legislation Is One of Two Important Matters Passed In Upper House   ANOTHER EARLY START

Today At The State Capital: ‘Senate Passes Congress Redistricting Bill, Puts O. K. On Jobless-Pay Merit Rating

Districting Bill Passed By Senate   Homsher Merit Rating Measure Passes; Filibuster Continues

DAVIS DIFFERS WITH ADMIRAL   Submarine Menace Still Serious. Chief of OWI Points Out

Davis Disagrees  With Admiral   Cool to Optimistic Halsey Prediction

SUBMARINE R-12 REPORTED LOST   Total Of Nine American U-Boats Sunk Since Pearl Harbor

U. S. SUB SINKS OFF EAST COAST   NAVY REPORTS LOSS OF R-12 WHILE ON TRAINING CRUISE

LOSS REPORTED OF SUBMARINE R-{2   Vessel Goes: Down in Training Exercises Off © East Coact

U.S. Sub Lost On Training Trip Off East Coast   Number of Officers And Men Rescued; No Hope for Others

SUBMARINE R-12 REPORTED LOST OFF EAST COAST   Navy Indicates Some Of Crew Were Saved Follow ing Training Accident   SALVAGE OF CRAFT WILL NOT BE TRIED

Small U. S. Sub Is Lost   R-12 and Part of Crew Lost During Training Operations

SMALL U. S. SUB REPORTED LOST   Submarine R-12 Lost With Part Of Crew In Training Onerations.

Navy Reports Loss of Sub Off East Coast   Old Training Vessel Had Normal Crew Of 28 but Some Saved

US. SUB LOST NAVY REVEALS   Accident, Not Enemy Action. Is Believed Cause; Several Lives Forfeited

U.S, Submarine Lost Off Coast   Several Of Crew   tlanhkle Th Fernne

Loss of Ninth U. S Submarine Since Pearl Harbor Announced by Naw

U. §. Submarine Lost Off Coast   Several Of Crew Unable To Escape

U5, SUBMARINE R-12 LOST OFF ATLANTIC COAST   Navy Indicates Some of Men Aboard Were Saved—Craft Usually Carried 28 Wen.   SINKING BELIEVED DUE TO ACCIDENT   Depth of Water Makes It Impossible to Raise Boat— _ Ninth Lost Since Pearl Harbor.

Navy Reveals Loss of Sub  R-12 Sinks During Mu  Trainina Run: _   R-12 Sinks During Training Run; Number Of Dead Net Known

SMALL U. S, U-BOAT LOST IN ACCIDENT   No Details Given in Report of East Coast Disaster

ALLIED FORCES BAG 14 PLANES IN NEW GUINEA   Two Bombers 12 Fighters Are Downed

New Guinea Raid Costly To Japanese   2 Bombers and 12 Fighters Shot Out of Action Over Ore Bay _

Shoot Down 14 Jap Planes   Attempt to Attack Oro Bay; Enemy Increases Air Force Strength

JAPS LOSE 14 PLANES   Attempted Raid in New Guinea Disastrous For Enemy

14 JAP PLANES Are Shot Down   Nipponese Attempt Raids On New Guinea

DOWN 14 JAP PLANES OVER ORO BAY SECTOR   Action Takes Place on Coast of New Guinea

INSURANCE SOUGHT FOR FARM WORKERS   ‘Inexperienced Help Causes Employers Concern

OHIO FARMERS SEEK PROTECTION FOR HELP   Need Compensation Insurance for Financial Security

Boast from Tokyo:  Japan Will Win in 1944, Premier Declares in Bombastic Message

Tojo Sees Jap Victory in 1944   Claims of Enormous Allied Losses Made

BRITISH NAVY STRONGER   Despite Heavy Sinkings, Fleet Mightier Than In 1939

British Navy  Now Mightier   All War Losses Arc  More Than Replaced

Britain Replaces Carrier Losses  More In Service Now  _ Than At Beginning Racnita  ace TH Live 

England Has More Carriers Than At Beginning Of War   Admiralty Announces List Of Such Units Larger After Losses Replaced

BRITISH BOOST CARRIER TOTAL   Strength Now Greater Than at Start of War

British Navy Has More Aircraft Carriers Now Than At Start Of War

Study PostWar Flying Problems   Civil Aeronautics Board Poses 17 Questions In Survey

JESSE 0. LISTON “WAS FOUND DEAD   Died in His Bed at the _ County Farm ‘During . ". the Night.

JEoat 0. Lott Who FOURD UEAL   Died in His Bed at the County Farm During the Night.

OURE APPROPRIATIONS COn_MITIEE. TERMS. BILE. WEAPON: 7 TO HASTEN VICTORY..."

Canadians In French Raids   Railroad Systems In Belaium Also Bomber

FRENCH AREAS ARE TARGETS IN RAF. RAID   Aerial Offensive Is Continued In Occupied Europe By Light Planes.

Railways, Airfields and Industrial Targets in Northern France Hit   British and Canadian Bombers Carry Forward Tremendous Allied Aerial Offensive Against Enemy

Allies Continue Air Offensive Against Nazis:   British, Canadians Blast Railways, Airfields, Industry

NAZI TARGETS AGAIN BLASTED BY RAF BOMBS   Attack centered over Berlin, Bremen, Hanover and Ruhr valley

Fall Victory Supreme Aim,  Nation Is Told   President Also Hints Reason Stalin, Chiang Were Not Present

VICTORY PLAN MAIN OO JtGT AT CASABLANCA   Roosevelt Makes Report To Nation On Journey To North Africa   ALL PLANS FOR 1943 CANVASSED, HE SAYS   New And Heavier Attacks Against Enemy Stressed By Chief Executive

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. TELLS OF CONFERENCE   Reveals to News Correspondents Today That Trip te See Churchill Was Destined to Form Plans for Complete Victory Over the Axis—Some Details of Discussions Are Told Today for First Time Since FDR’s Return.

PRESS TOLD ALLIES WILE STRIKE HARD   Chief Executive Informs American Newsmen About Casablanca.

SECRET VISIT BY CHURCHILL AIDS STRATEGY   Uncertain That Turkey’s  Neutrality Will Be Changed

Ordnance Plant Men Acquitted   Des Moines Men Not Guilty of Passing Faulty Ammunition

Ankeny Ordnance Inspectors Freed   Both Denied Passing Defective Shells

JURY AGQUITS TWO IN WAR FRAUD TRIAL   Were Charged with Passing Defective Ammunition at Des Moines.   WITNESSES INVOLVED, JURY TOLD BY JUDGE

‘State Press’ Answers to ‘30’   Josepn J. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief ‘of Dallas News, Dies

WAR PRISONERS AT FT. CUSTER   First Contingent of Germans Arrive At New Camp

Hitler Death Rumor Again   Underground Quoted In News From Germany

Where's Adolf? Rumors of Hitler's Death Spreading Over Europe; Some Say He's Violently Insane Agait

ON WOMEN AT WORK   Miss Twente Sketches Broadening of Opportunity  Ze

ON WOMEN AT WORK   Miss Twente Sketches Broadening ot of Opportunity

Errol Flynn Collapses On Set; Doctors Order Him Taken to Hospital

AMERICAN AIRMEN MAKE FINE RECORD   U.S. Fliers Down Three Planes For One Off Their Own

Offer Program To Revive FSA   Would Permit War Food Administrator To Take Over Loan Duties:

SEEK TO GIVE DAVIS CONTROL OF FARM LOANS   OFFER COMPROMISE AS ALTERNATIVE TO ABOLITION OF FSA

COMPROMISE ON FSA SOUGHT   House Proposal Would Give WEA Control of Reduced Funds: for Rehabilitation Loans

CONGRESS WILL ENJOY HOLIDAY   Plans To Take Yule Recess Beginning Dec. 22

BIG JAPANESE RAID REPULSED   16 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down In Hunan Province Attack

Yugoslay Patriots Score Gains Agains! German Invaders in Counteroffensive

Radical Post-War Social System Is Proposed By FDR   Committee Will Be Named To Probe Settlements Of War

TO SCAN ALL PLANS   Congress Will Keep Check on Post-War Economic Arrangements

CONGRESS WILL IGNORE FOR   Will Write Own Form ula on Post War Plannnig ~

Congress Checks Into President's © Security Program   Far Reaching and Exciting Plan Submitted by Roosevelt To Meet Problems of Future

SECURITY PLAN TO BE STUDIED   Independent Investigations Indicated By Solons

CONGRESS MAY WRITE ITS OWN POST WAR PLAN   Ignores Executive Planning Favors Nine-Member Committee Inquiry

Congress Will Frame Its Own Postwar Plans   Aims To Minimize Fed. eral Participation In Re. covery Program.

Congress Will Investigate Post-War Plan   independent Groups To Study Program Before Acting

CONGRESS PLANS . POST-WAR STUDY      ‘May: Write. Own. Program Instead of Adopting Board’s. Forniula

Congress TcDraw Own Formula for Post-War Work   Cradle to Grave Benefits Sought By Rocsevelt

Congress Gets Ready To Write Its Own Formula For After-War Planning

[LUMAKE OWN ROBE BEFORE OTING PLANS   mat George For HoldFederal Participation if Post-War Rehabilitation to.Minimum   OPIA-LIKE PLAN RASTIC, SWEEPING   resident Calls For Govrnment Partnership In Busines Labor Voice   In Management -

TRANSITION FROM “WAR TO PEACE BEFORE CONGRESS   Signs Indicate Most Thorough  “Investigations of Execu tive Recommendations Before Action.   NINE-MEMBER POSTWAR COMMITTEE PROPOSED   Georgia Senator Also Intends to Ask $50, 060 Appropriation For Staff to Make Inquiry.

Congress To Ignore FDR  Postwar Plan   May Write {ts Own Formula

Congress Plans Its Own Study  Indicates it Will Probe All Proposals On Post-War Plans

PROPOSALS TOBE PROBED   Congress Gives Signs It Will Closely Scan Any  Eormula:   PRESIDENT SENDS AFTER-WAR PLANS   Proposes Federal Partner‘ship in Industry and _Labor in Management.

CONGRESS INDICATES CLEARLY WILL MAKE OWN CONCLUSIONS  POST WAR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS SETTLEMENT TO COME AFTER PROBES

Congress Plans Probe Of Postwar Programs   Report Of National Resources Planning Board Recommending Many Proposals Fer Future Deyelopment Not Likely To Be Acted On Soon

CONGRESSMEN MOVE FOR OWN POST WAR PLAN   Administration n Leaders Reported to Have Given Green Lighi to George Planning Commiitee

CANNED FOODS   Vinson Pegs Retail Cost of Peas, Beans, Corn, Tomatoes

ADVANCE IN pnice OF. GREEN  PEAS, GREEN BEANS, BWEET CORN, TOMATOES BANNED ’ BY ADMINISFRATION

TAFT HITS NRPB'S POST-WAR PROGRAM   Leads to Abolition of Local Rule

Army Tests Camouflage by Small Models   TERRAIN Is SHOWN BY RECOKDS GIVEN BY DIORAMAS,

Army. Testing Camouflage By Small Models   _All kinds of ideas are tried out in miniature al army base ‘by Engi neer corps. ’

Japs Are Building String of Bases Toward Alaska   Enemy Has 200,000 First-Line Troops Near Australia

Allied Leaders Also Believe Enemy to Be Preparing for Possible Assault on Alaska; General MacArthur’s Airmen Shoot Down 37 Planes Over Port Moresby, New Guinea

LATEST THREAT IN FAR PACIFIC ENDS IN DEFEAT   37 of 100 Warplanes Shot Down in Sudden Attack On Port Moresby   TROOPS MASS ON ISLANDS   Air Fields Being Built on Aleutians in Spite of Air and Sea Patrols

BELIEVE JAPS PLAN OFFENSIVE IN NEAR FUTURE   Enemy Threatens Australia Alaska; Allies Win Great Air Battle

Signs of New Jap Threats Observed   Moves May Hold ‘Possible Menace for Australia ~~ and Alaska   ARE SMASHED IN AIR   37 of 100 Enemy Planes Attacking Port Moresby Shot Down

Japs Menace Alaska And Australia —  Aided By Fog, Nips Are Paving g Way Fo  kvce.._ 1... Bo

Mass Men. Build Bases  In Pacific   Allied Fliers Destroy 37 Enemy Craft In Great Battle Over New Guinea

Fliers Down 31 of 100 Foe Planes   Enemy Builds Stepping-Stone Airbases from Tokyo to Alaska, Reports Reveal.

TEMPERATURE   200,000 Nippons Massed Above Aussies, Says Allied Leader

Japanese Menace Grows   Nips Mass Troops In Islands Above Australia; Rush Work On Aleutian Air Bases

FOE BELIEVED SET 10 START OFFENSIVE   Allies Down 37 Out Of 100 Planes Over Moresby   NIPS GO AHEAD   With Building Air Bases On Kiska, Attu: Other Pacific Reports

JAPAN MASSING AT GOTH ENDS OF PACIFIC ARE   Ominous Threats To Alaska And Australia Seen In Enemy Actions

Deitroy 37 Enemy Planes - Over Port Moresby; Nipponese Moves Threaten Ayvatralia and Alacks.

Blamey Reports Powerful Enemy Forces Massing   Menace To Australia, Also Alaska Seen Even As Fliers Score New Air Victory

Signs of New Jap Threats Observed   Moves May Hold Possible Menace for Australia and Alaska   37 of 100 Enemy Planes Attacking Port Moresby Shot Down

PACIFIC GROWS OMINOUS WITH ENEMY THREATS   200,000 First Line Japanese Troops Massed Above Australia

TWO NEW JAP BALD THREATS ~ CAUSE ALAR   Blamey Warns Japanese Have 200,000 Troops North of ‘Australia.   IN ALEUTIANS ENEMY BUILDING NEW BASES

Japs Likely To Attempt New Drive   Indications Found in Aetivity in Whole Pacific Area

ALLIED AIRMEN SCORE VICTORY OVER JAPS   37 Out of 100 Planes - Attacking Port Moresby Shot Down. :

37 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN OUT OF AIR ARMADA   Port Moresby Victory Highlights News Japs Have Invasion Force of 200,000 Above Australia   Japs Build HalfMile Runway a Kiska, Bomber Field at Aitu Western Aleutians

Allies Win © New Victory ‘(Over Japs   Destroy 37 Out of 100 Planes Over Port Moresby; Ominous Japanese Threats to Australia, Alaska Disclosed

Down 37 Jap Planes Over Pacific Zone   Commander Of Allied Ground Forees Warns Japs Poised For Offensive   NIFS FUINET 10 t.. 8

New Jap Threats to Australia, Alaska   Enemy Massing Large Army in Island Bases Above Australia and Building Air Bases From Tokyo to Alaska.

Nips Mass 200,000 Troops In Islands Above Australia; Build Air Bases Near Alaska

Fnemy Builds Bombing Bases On Kiska, Attu   200,000 Troops Mass In South Pacific Despite Blows

Knox Skeptic Of Reported Jap Threats   Allied Airmen Down 37 Of 100 Nip Planes Raiding Port Moresby

37 Out of 100 Japanese Planes at Port Moresby, New Guinea, Destroyed

S tatesville hots-+-+  Thformal Glimpses of People In and Around Statesville!

S tatesville heothee2e   Informal Glimpses of YPeople In and Around Stateevillel

MUSSOLINI WAS ARRESTED AFTER ALL, IS REPORT   Was Taken Away In An Army ‘Ambulance After King’s Audience

Soldiers Put Mussolini  u n Ambulance  Tl Duce Seized  As He Tries

OPA DEVELOPING PLAN DESIGNED T0 GIVE MORE MEATS  D. C. SPEAKER DECLAR!   D. C. SPEAKER DECLARES PLAN HAS INFLUENTIAL INSIDE BACKING

More Meat For Public Plannec   Ceiling On: Livestock . Prices Pondered

OPA Outlines Plan To Litt  Meat Rations   New Program Hinges On Fixing Of Ceiling Price On Livestock.   TO LIOUID ATE STOC &

Capital Spokesman Says Plan Has Influential Backing of OPA   KEYNOTE OF THE IDEA

BOOST IN MEAT RATION LIKELY   OPA Hopes To Bring Substantial Increase For Civilians

OPA OUTLINING PLAN TO RAISE MEAT RATIONS   Officials-Claim They Can Bring More Meat to Mar. kerby Regulating Livestock Prices      “SPEAKER” TALKS    Blan: Must Hurdle Contro versial Issue of Putting  Price Ceilings On Live  3 Hogs and Cattle

MEAT RATIONS SEEN GROWING   D. C. Speaker Tells of OPA Development of New Plan

More Meat  Plan Faces  ~ Hurdle of Price Toy   OPA Favors Ceilings on  Live Animals, But Pack ers and Others Say No   JONES REGARDED © AS SYMPATHETIC   OPA Would Increase Meat Rations Under Plans Now Being Developed

PLAN CIVILIAN MEAT INCREASE   New OPA Program Reported Under Study In Washington

RED POINTS TO INCREASE, SAYS ‘D.C, SPEAKER   Move Points To Livestock Ceiling—Packers Are Opposed

Increase In Civilian Meat Rations Aim  OPA Developing Plan In Capital, Sneaker Save

MUST CLEAR BIG HURDLE BEFORE PLAN WILL WORK   Controversial Issue Of Price Ceilings On Live Cattle And Hogs Involved, But Plan Has Influential Backing Within The OPA.

Oe Planning’ . Meat. Tacrdixe! - Speaker. Says   ‘May: Entail Price Ceilings -On' Live Hogs, Cattle; Project Is Not Oficial

Civilian Meat Ration Hike Is Hope Of 0. P. A   Plan Hinges On Regulation Of Livestock Market Prices.

REDS JANGLE NAZI NERVES   Probing Jabs All Along 1800Mile Front Keep Germans Jittery; Expect Big Offensive

SERVICE FOR MRS. S, SMALL ~ IN CONCORD   Was Employed at Middle. sex School for Many Years

Dealer Points To Welsh As Knife Buyer   But Accused Brother of Slain Girl Grins At His Accuser

Peace With Finns Possible, Report   Roundabout Story Reaches Washington

Provisions Of Relief Setup Gaining Favor   State Assistance Secretary Endorses Proposal to Revamp Regulations   PREPARED FOR ACTION

U-BOAT TORPEDOES VESoEL NEAR CANAL   Bold Sub Attack Reported: Convoy Gets Through

Red Army Drive Costly To Nazi Force At Nevel   Fitth- And Eighth Warriors In Italy’ Make Progress Despite Heavy Casualties; Road To Rome Said To Be Strongly Fortified

NEVEL AREA “1S SCENE OF NEW DRIVE   Berlin Says Resein Using Z f. aw

San Pietro in One of  Bloodiest Fights of War   Fifth Army’s Victory in Italy Secures One Side Of Cassino-Rome Road Pincer; Bombers From Mediterranean, England Raid German Objectives

Sen. Wheeler Demands Vote On Draft Ban   Insists Father Call Be Delayed, Says Canada Plans Demobilizing.

SENATOR CALLS ARMY WASTER UF GREAT MANPOWER   Wheeler To Fight Barkley Proposal To Delay Vote On “Father Drafting”

CONGRESS RECONVENES THIS NOON   Critical Problems Om Manpower to Be Considered

CONGRESS REOPENS AT NOON;..FACING CRUCIAL PROBLEMS   -Manpower,, Taxation, After ' War Policy, Inflation Confront Senators, Representatives

CONGRESSMEN — RETURN TO FACE HARD PROBLEMS   Foresee Delay On Tax Bill!

Congress Faces Critical Things After Vacation    Manpower, New Taxes Will Confront Solons  As First Duties

Hard Session Lies Ahead Of Congress   Manpower, Taxes And Inflation  Among Problems

CONGRESS STARTS WORK AT HOUR OF NOON ON TUESDA\   Refreshed After Summer Recess, Members Are Ready to Take Up  Many Problems.

Legislators Convene in  Washington   Meet After First Recess Since 1939

OtoolON FACES BIG JOG WITR NEEDS OF WAR   Manpower, inflation, Taxes Head List of Matters To Be Taken Up.   BATTLE DEVELOPING OVER FATHER DRAFT

BETTY GRABLE WEDS MUSICIAN   . Becomes Bride of Famous   Trumpet Player

Croat Units SeizePart «OF Zagreb Partisans Capture West ern Section of Capital City  CABINET “RESIGNS” Nazi Puppet Believed to  Have Fled Before Troops

Brozovich’s Rebels Push Into Zagreb   Axis Losing Control Of Croatian Capital As Revolt Spreads

REPORT SEIZURE OF WESTERN PART OF CROATIAN CAPITAL   City Of Zagreb Seat Of Nazi Puppet Government — Report Capture Of Slankaman

JUGOSLAVS © SEIZE PART OF ZAGREB   Take Portion of Croatian Capital, Seat of Nazi Gov't

BELGRADE LINE RAILWAY. CUT NEAR: PLJESIVICA   Successes: Cause.Ger:  mans.to Send Added  Forces to: Balkan ~  OQtates _

SLAV PATRIOTS HOLD PART OF ZAGREB, SAIL   Capture Of Croatia's Capital Would Be Biggest Victory

Part of Zagreb Taken By Slavs   Seat of Nazi Puppet Government Captured

Nazis Fight New Wave Of Jitters   Plans For Deferise Feverishly Rushéd:

GERMANSRUSH 10 FORTIFY FRENCH COAST   Rumors ‘Cf Allied Intention: For Invasion :Cf Hitler’s “Fortress :Cf Europe” Gives Nazis Jitters   Seven Armies

Ration Book No. 4 To Contain 304 Stamps   Red and Blue Coupons To Be Used Early In 1944

War Ration Book Four To Contain 384 Stamps   Ready For Distribution Latter Part Of October: Schools To Do:The Job

RATION BOOK 4 NEXT MONTH   Coupons Planned to Last for Two Years, .  Savs OPA

RATION BOOK 4 “USE EXPLAINED   New Stamps to Last Two Years; Four Different ‘Colored Coupons

New Ration Book Will Be Ready Late Next Month   Registration Dates For University To Be Announced

State Paper Turns IntoA ‘Best Seller   Private Publishers Beg U.S. For Reprint ' Rights

Town People Encouraged To. Raise Gardens and Chickens   Series of Meetings ' Where Information Will Be  Offered

.Victory Garden Meetings Being Held In Several. Towns In Plymouth County   Plans Being Made For Expansion Of ! Home Gardens

‘Believe Italian Monarch Has Won First ‘Round of Battle to Retain His Throne

King Emanuele Wins Reprieve, ~ Retains Throne   Abdication Deferrec With Conciliation —_ . Agcormntiched

SPAIN'S POLICY OF NEUTRALITY CITED      Nation’s Program Defined in Weekly Publica tian

Spain: Defines Stand on War   Will Retain Status Of Nonbelligerent

SPAIN AFFIRMS NEUTRAL STAND   Article Defining Policy Follows Franco-Hoare Conference On  Friday Night

S cn";  Spain ¢ ou: 0. Nar dv 7s “Sree ~~ ecision.” €roria hae ains

Spain's Present Policy Defined  Infer Nation Will Stay Out of War

SPANISH PRESS FOR NEUTRALITY   Newspaper Infers That Spain Will Keep Out Of The War

Laundries Are Wartime Ca sualties—  Soiled Clothing Becomes ~Hard-To-Solve Problem

Rationing Digest.   Information to All Who Are Anxious - to Receive It.

TRUCK DELIVERY IS RESTRICTEL   NEW REGULATIONS ARE SAME AS THOSE IN EFFECT IN EAST SINCE LAST SPRING

New Retail, Wholesale Delivery Restrictions In Effect Monday   COMMODITIES

MAY NIP LATE CROPS   Frost or Freeze Forecast for Western Kansas

New Tonnage Passes Losses   Axis Continues to Have Large Number U-Boats At Sea, Alexander Says

Allied Shipping Tonnage Being Produced Faster That Losses Reported

@ WHAT GOES ON IN GERMANY  R.A. F. Believes Germany Can Be Bombed Out of War

GOV. VIVIAN CALLS HALT ON DRAFTING OF FARM WORKERS   Colorado Executive Projects Showndown on Issue by Forbidding Further In ductions in His State.   SAYS LABOR SHORTAGE HAS BECOME CRITICAL   Cites Selective Service Law as Authority for His Action— Washington Officials Decline Comment.

Governor of Colorado Halts Draft   Farm, Stock, Dairy Workers Not To Be Inducted

State Chief Takes Draft Tn Own Hands   Colorado Governor Forces Showdown on Farmer Deferment

GOVERNOR STARTS DRAFT SHOWDOWN   Colorado’s Chief Executive Orders Immediate Halt to induction of Men Engaged  ~ In Farming, Stock Raising

Showdown Seen  In Farm Labor Situation   Governor of Colorado Orders Immediate Halt To Farmhand Induction

COLORADO FARM DRAFTS HALTED   Governor Takes Bull By Horns In Food Output Labor Shortage

Colorado Head Orders Halt On Farm Draft   Declares Law Provides For Authority

GOVERNOR MAKES MOVE TOPREVENT DRAFTING AG NER   Colorado Executive Orders Immediate Halt on Military Induction of Those  — Actually Engaged.   CITES LAW PROVISION OVER ADMINISTRATION   Head of Selective: Service Is Ordered to Instruct ‘All Draft Boards to Cease Calling Group.

Governor Seeks Draft Showdowr   Orders Colorado Halt Farmer Inductions

Halt Farmer Draft Order in Colorado   Governor Vivian Seeks Showdown on Policy

RUSSIAN AND GERMAN AIR BLOWS GO ON   Land action reported to be “‘slack”” with no major thrusts

WAR IN RUSSIA MOSTLY WH AI   Soviet and Nazi Planes Ar Ccntinuing Exchanze of Blows.

NAZIS, SOVIETS SWAP AIR BLOWS   Germans Claim Attack On Molotov Armament Works; Reds Hit Airdromes

NEW TIRE REGULATIONS   Owners Eligible For Used Tires May Get Reclaimed Rubber Equivalent

RECLAIMED RUBBER TIRES   ‘Will Be Available to Car Owners Eligible for Used Tires

BASIS FOUND FOR UMW-AFL COMPROMISE      Lewis Would Be Given Free Hand in Coal Belt, but Must Give Up Organizing Workers in Other Fields.

RETURN OF UMW TO AFL APPEARS NEARER SUCCESS   Deal Apparently Hinges On Rights Of John L. Lewis

Lewis May Yield Point   “Deal With AFL Report: edly Trades Organiz_ing. Activities for a Free Hand in Coal Belt

AFL-UMW Merger Seen Possible If Lewis Handles Only Coal Workers And Stays-Out of Other Fields of Labor

LEWIS ASKING. FOR FREE HAND IN MINER RULE   Return of UMW to AFL Hinges On Deal Giving Lewis Full Contrat of Coal Belt   OUTLOOK BRIGHTER   Lewis Would Give Uf Other Union Fields In Return For Progres’ sive Miner Jurisdiction

RETURN OF MINE UNION 10 A. F. L. HINGES ON “DEAL”   Would Give U. M. W. President John L. Lewis Free Hand in Coal]. Belt If He Would Give Up Organizing ta Othae KRiali<«

‘Lewis May ° Win Control 'Of All Miners   AFL. - ULW. Merge Negotiations Hinge on Jurisdiction

Lewis Asks Free Hand At Mines   Would Yield To AFL. In Other Union Fields -

UMW-AFL Deal Is Rumored   Lewis Will Be Given Free Hand in Coal If He Quits Other Fields

To Restrict Lewis Actions to Coal Belt   Return of UMW to AFL Fold Hinges on Limiting Organization Activities

LEWIS MAY BOSS COAL DIGGERS IN ENTIRE PIT BELT   PMWA ABOLISHMENT BELIEVED PRICE OF AFL-UMW HARMONY

Troops Pour Across River, Seize Heights   British Dig In on Enemy Flank; Eighth Army Gains Six Miles

Enemy Being Thrown Back All Along Front   Seven German Divisions Face Choice Of Retreat Or Destruction: Eighth Gains Ground

NEW LANCINGS MENAGE FOES PAAST ANCHOR   Nazis Reeling Back Along the Entire Front; Yanks Storm Canua Helahis. .

MAIN FORCES POUR ACROSS VOLTURNO   Casacalenda Is Captured By British; Air Raids Made On Balkans, Adriatic Coast

ALLIED STH ARMY HAS CROSSED THE VOLTURNO RIVER   ‘British and Americans Are Throwing Enemy Back Aleng Entire Front.   INTO NEW BRIDGEHEADS   Furious and. Bloody Fighting Is Raging According to Reports.

Main Fifth Army  Is Over Volturno   Enemy Is Thrown: Back Al P ong’ Western Line -in Italy   BIG BATILE ON COAST:   British Amphibious Attack _ on Flank Fiercely  Resisted  

Decisive Victories Rolled Up By Gen. Clark's 5th Army   Forces Pour Across Volturno River Into Bridgeheads—British Infantry and Tanks Have Landed on North Side of River's Mouth to Aid Offensive.

Nazis Reel ©” Back Along  Entire Front   Americans Gain High Ground Northeast of Capua

British Land on Coast To Turn German Flank   Americans Take Heights in Frontal Assault to Dominate Bridgeheads—Germans Pushed Back All Along Front

FIFTH ARMY'S TROOPS POUR OVER VOLTURNO   Leapfrog Landing By British Up Coast Big Contribution To Allied Successes

Main Fifih Army Is Over Volturno   Enemy Is Thrown Back All _ Along Western Line in Italy   BIG BATTLE ON COAST

Driving Nazis Back Along Entire Front   British Land On North Side of River Mouth To Flank German Lines; Americans Storm Heights That Cover Bridgeheads At Capua

Germans Reported Being Thrown Back Along Entire Front   Ships Land Infantry And Tanks On North Bank Of Waterway; Positions Are Dug Along Canal

Nazis Thrown Back Before Clark's Army   Fifth Makes Progress Along the Entire Front Coast to Mountains

British, Americans Drive Germans Baek Along Entire Front   English Infantry, Tank Units Flan] — Enemy, Land From Sea on North Side of River

Yankees Roll Nazis Slowly From Volturno   Gen. Clark’s Men Advance Along Entire Front, Placing Nazis In Grave Situation -

Main Fifth Army Forces Pour Across River; Foe Thrown Back Along En:  tire Front.

GERMANS BEATEN BACK ON ENTIRE ITALIAN FRONT   BRITISH LAND ON NORTH SIDE OF VOLTURNO MOUTH

Gen. Clark Reports British And Americans Making Decisive Gains In Furious And Bloody Fighting—-Main Forces Of Fifth Army Pouring Across Volturno— Amphibious Units Land Simultaneously With Opening Of Frontal Assault

YANKS THROW GERMANS BACK IN NEW GAINS   Fifth Army Pours Into Newly Won Volturno River Strongholds

ALLIES DRIVE ACROSS RIVER IN NEW PUSH   Decisive Gains By Americans; Enemy Admits Strength

Enemy [Thrown Back Along The ltalian Front   Fifth Army Pouring Across Volturno Into New Won Bridgeheads

Amphibious Force Pulls Flanking Movement At Mouth Of Bloody River

BRITISH FORCE LANDS BEHIND » GERMAN LINES   Nazi Coastal Anchor Outflanked; Yanks Con solidate Lines

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY FORCES POUR ACROSS VOLTURNO RIVER  _ ENEMY BEING THROWN 8 BACK ALONG ENTIRE

Clark's Forces Hurl Nazis Back   BRITISH INFANTRY, TANKS LAND FROM SHIPS ON NORTH SIDE OF VOLTURNO MOUTH AS YANK INFANTRY, ENGINEERS LAUNCH FRONTAL ATTACK

Allies Make New Landing Along Coast   More Troops Pour Across — Volturno River

New Landings Are Made At Volturno; Nazis Hurled Back   Yanks Pour Into Brid geheads; British Infantry, Tanks Use Ships To Outflank Germans’ First Line; 8th Army Makes Advance

 Main Forces of Fifth Army  Pour Across Volturno in  New Advance.   TERRIFIC FIGHT RAGES

Enemy Throwback On Entire Front of Italy   _ British Troops. Outflank First Line of Defense for Rome While American Fifth Army Advances and Enters Casacalenda.

Bloody Battles Rage On Entire Line; Leap-Frog Landing Threatens Nazis

Decisive Gains Made on Entire Italian Front   Nazis Hurled Back Over Wide Area Says Day's Report

Fifth Army ‘Leapfrogs’ in Flank Attack     tT pen OPUrale GOTT Geenre SECe TI 0 EECAYS CS Petts Uses  jac Clark Puchec Bridooe  BOMBERS HIT TERNI   Germans Reported Evacuating Coast North of Ostia, 10 Miles From Rome

Big Gains Scored By Fifth Army   British Landing At Mouth Of Volturno Adds To Difficulties Faced By German Troops

Vain Forces OF Clark's Fifth Army Pour Across Volturno River: Decisive Gains Made   . i Fase 1 opp tall Milhious Novd lode Wiehtins Magks Silied  Advance: Enemy Anchor On Coast Rolled Back By Flanking Movement: Capua Heights Stormed

British Get Base On Azores Island   Agreement With Portugal Gives Allies One Ot Most Important Anti-Submarine Bases

British Granted Azores Naval And Air Bases   Report That U.S. Wiil Share in Terms of Portugal Agreement

Portugal Grants Use Of Strategic Mid Ocean Bases   America to Share in Use of Key Air and Submarne Facilities For Entire Atlantic Traffic System; British Troops Land.

British Trodps Land in Azores as New  Bases Taken Over   Strategic Atlantic Islands Occupied Under Agreement Based on a Medieval Alliance With Portuaal

Soviet Advances Continue Despite Nazi Resistance   Few Prisoners Being Taken a: Germans Throw More Men Into Battle ©

NOTORIOUS LABOR RACKETEER SLAIN — INCOUNTRY HOME   Joseph “Buck” Newell is Found Shot to Death by   Unknown Person or   Persons.

GERMANS ATIEMPT REPRISAL ATTACKS ON BRITISH COAST   Fighter-Bombers Raid Two Coastal Towns—Churches Hit, 10 Persons Killed

Marshal Petain Sees Long War   Defends French Government in Paris Radio Address

View Stimson’s Trip Important   Great Significance To Be Given To Meetings

SEC. STIMSON: HAS ARRIVED IN LONDON.      Much Importance. Attached to  His Mission There

STIMSON PAYS FIRST VISIT TO WAR THEATER   Rests In London, Wil Meet Churchill Later In Week

London Host To Stimson   U.S. Ware Seerctary Makes Trip by Plane

STIMSON RESTING TODAY IN LONDON   Attach Great Importance To Visit Of War Secretary

‘QUIET DAY’   Stimson Rests [In Britain; Tc See Churchill Later.

War Secrefary Stimson Abroad   In London To Confer With Churchill

YOUTH ACCUSED OF TWO DEATHS   Officials Say Toledo Native Pushed Boys Off 175Foot Cliff

BOYS PUSHED ~~ FROM CLIFF   SIXT EE N-YEAR-OLD  yOouTH ” WELD FOR BRUTAL MURDER. OF TWO YOUNGER BOYS

» GERMAN - HELD TOWN IN KUBAN *BELT CAPTURED   Soviet Forces Are Unyielding Before Enemy Tanks And Motorized Troops.

Nazi Attacks Beaten Off by Red Forces   Enemy Is Driven From Favorable Position in Fight

Germans  Held Off On Donets   Soviet Capture: ‘Defense Near -Bridgehead

Reds Repulse Nazis, Gain Donets Grounc   Drive Germans From Key Attack Points

Red Army Troops Hold Off Wazi Attacks In Donets  . Germans Are Thrown Back In Repeated But :. suas:  ae ee eee ee Fase

A.E.F. Captures Germans and Italians Rushed te Tunisian Front.   2 ALLIED COLUMNS HAVE JOINED RANKS   Axis Under Constant Rain of Shells by American Bombers.

OVER 100 BOMBERS SMASH SFAX, BIZERTE   Eighth Army and Americans Still 40 Miles Apart At El Guettar

Hannover, Burning  Emden, Brunswick Are Blasted By Night Raiders.

FATE OF ITALIANS MAY BE PUBLIC IN VERY SHORT TIME   Japan, High on Agenda of Conference With Pacific Becoming Major Theater fn Near Future.   KNOX DUE IN QUEBEC, STIMSON IS IN CIT!   Some Believe Litvinoff’s Return to Russia Is Due te His Need in Considering For Postwar.

JAPAN IS HIGH ON AGENDA OF ALLIED PARLEY   ‘Chinese Foreign Minister Arrives from  Washington to See Leaders.

CONFERENCE Ar QUEBEC NEAR: AN END   Much Time Being Given To Plans Regarding ‘Japan

MORE OFFICIALS ARRIVE IN QUEBEC: ~ STATEMENT DUE   Relieve Statement Involves ltaly—Litvinov Matter Puzzles Chiefs.

WAR PLANS COMPLETED AT QUEBEC   Announcement Involving lialy Expected Soon From Quebec

Conference At Quebec Nears End   Roosevelt and  Churchill Map Allied Strategy

MASTER PLANS COMPLETED BY F.D., CHURCHILL   Expect Statement By Leaders Soon On Italy’s Status

Pili New Onsiaughts On Japan   Knox and Stimson Reach Quebec to Have Part  in Plans

HOUSTON LAND & TRUST CO, ’ Authorized to act'in all trust capacities under private or court appointment.  ans wade” on Heuston olty improved ‘property. tloeral term -ow interest rates. Will censider applications fer loans on F. H c Han. Ne commiesion characd.      STATISTICAL RESUME   RE AL, ESTATE SAI ENGS   WANK CLEARINGS

URGES CHECKUP.   Sen. George Would Study Social Security Fund Status.

Congress May Study Social Security Fund   Question Raised If Doubling Contributions Is Needed

ALLIES CLOSING IN AS GERMANS LOOT HUGE PORT   Thousands of Civilians Killed By Retreating Nazis [Is Report

FOR RETREAT   Gervans Burning and, Looting Ital. jan Seaport in Preparation ‘of Leaving — Enemy Said to Have Killed. Thousands of Civilians.

BURNING BIG ITALIAN PORT   Four More Towns Captured By 5th And 8th Armies

Foe Turning Key Italian Base Into Scene of Horror   Retiring Troops Slay Thousands Of Civilians, Loot and Burn City; -Water,-Food Famine Threatening

CITY IN ITALY TERRORIZED BY HITLER FORCES   Nazis in Flight From Salerno Sector While Allies Bomb Leghorn, Their Escape Port

Italian Seaport Being Ravaged By Nazi Troops   “Enemy Apparently : . Preparing To Abandon -Large Italian City

9 Killed, 16  Hurt in Bus Train Crash Passengers Are  Trapped in Motor Rue in Acridant

BUS AND TRAIN CRASH KILLS 3   16 Others Injured As Speeding Electric Rams lilinois _ Carrier:

Death To 9, Hurts To 16 At Crossing   Bus Almost Clear Of Tracks When Hit By Fast Train

NINE ABOARD BUS KILLED IN RAIL CROSSING CRASH   Fourteen Others Hurt at Granite City, Il, When - Fast Train Strikes Rear  of Conveyance.   MACHINE IS WHIRLED AROUND LIKE TOP   Man and Wife Remove Score Trapped in Wreckage— Bodies of 5 Victims Tossed Into Field.

Nine Killed. In Bus and  Train Crash   Fourteen Others Are Tnjured in THinois Crossing Accident

WILLIAM M. JEFFERS TO GO BACK TO BEING PRESIDENT ‘OF UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD

U.S. WAR SHIPS BOMBARD ATTU   Navy Reports Surface Attack on Japs in Aleutians.

Japs Are Shelled at Attu   Size “of ‘Naval Force. in Aleutians Is Not. Disclosed by U: 3.   NO REPORT GIVEN ON THE RESULTS   Damaging Blows Scored at Other Points; New, Fast Planes to Solomons

Warships Shell Jap Aleutian Base   Speedy New Planes Used in Solomons

Significance of Surface Shelling Was Unclarified By Officers,   ‘CRIPPLE JAP SHIPPING

Results of Attack Are Hidden by Fog; Allied Planes Spread Assaults

U!S. WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAP‘ ON ATTU ISLAND   Allied Planes Sink Four Ship: Dropping 27,000 Tons Explosives in Solomons Raid

ALLIED WARPLANES CRIPPLED FOUR JAP SHIPS IN NIGHT RAID   SPEEDY NEW NAVAL COR SAIR FIGHTING PLANES REPORTED IN ACTION

Four Jap Ships In Night’s Raid   Corsair Fighting Planes Are Sent Into Action In Solomons Theater

ALLIED FORCE KEEP Phtoollt UPON JAPANESE   Troops, Planes And Warships Constantly Attacking Enemy In Pacific

Jap Admiral Warns Homeland Of Big  Blows Yet To Come From U. S., British

Gen, Kisenhower Declares Reinforcements Still Are Landing.  GERMANY ADMITS ALLIED SUPERIORITY  Vatican City Is Cut Off From Contact With Outside World.

CLARK SAYS POSITION IS SECURE   More Troops Being Landed Each Day; Presence Of British Will Be Felt Soon, General States

Fifth Army Position  Made Safer   Neintorcements Aid Americans Battling Germans

BEACHHEAD SAID TO BE SECURE   Eighth Army May Strike Foe In Matter Of Hours

Commander Says Not One Foot Of Ground To Be Given Up As. New Offensive Sets Nazis Back

BACK OF NAZI SALERNO RESISTANCE BROKEN BY BOMBARDMENT FROM SEA   MONTGOMERY’S EIGHTH ARMY ONLY THREE DAYS FROM SCENE AT PRESENT RATE OF CONQUEST; SEIZE KEY AIR BASE NEAR FRONT

Puny Assault on English Capita! Follows Berlin Blasting   AMERICAN SOLDIERS  TAKE RAID CALMLY,   Heaviest Raid on German City Since War Re ported

Germans Iry Retaliation But Raid Is Puny   London’s Defenses Drive Away Tiny Raid Groups

NAZIS GET KOT RECEPTION IN LONDON RAID   Drop A Few Bombs On Outskirts Then Dodge Madly Across Skies To Escape  Rarra cn.   Lose 4 Planes

London’s Hot Defenses Beat off Few Planes, Only Outskirts Suffer  BERLIN POUNDED SATURDAY NIGHT  Huge Bombs Dropped On German Capital And Defenses Light

LITTLE DAMAGE AFTER LONDON RAID BY NAZIS   Most Of Bombs Dropped By Germans Landed On Outskirts Of City   IMPROVED DEFENSES GREET ENEMY RAIDERS

Germans Make Puny, but Spectacular Raid On London, Retaliating for Berlin Bombing

‘Planned Withdrawal’ Made , in Face of Numerous Red 4 Blows, DNB Says   RYTYTERTIS

Liquidate 35,000 At Taganrog   Shortening Of Linea In Voroshilovgrad Area Announced By DNB.  German News Agency

Red Armies Advance On Three Fronts Following Up Smashing Victories

NAZIS REEL AS RED OFFENSIVE GAINS IN SCOPE   RUSS HEAD FOR KEY CITIES OF STALINO, SMOLENSK, MARIUPOL

France Scene  Of Air Raids   Allied Aerial. Might . Is Switched: From Nazis’ Cities, Plants

Allied Planes  Raid France   Change Tactics to Confuse Nazi Defense; 11 U. S. Bombers Lost

FRANCF COMES IN FOR BOMBING BY ALLIED PLANES   Change of Tactics Design‘To Take Germans Off” Guard in Occupied Zone

ENEMY TARGETS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE ARE ATTACKED   Allied Air Strength Changed Tactics to Confuse Nazi Defenders.   ' DEALT SMASHING BLOW   Sth Air Force Lost Eleven Heavy Bombers Against 11 Nazi Fighters.

France Tastes Bombs   Allied Air Might Diverted from Ger- man Cities 

For Accord With Spain   ‘Two Madrid Envoys : Arrive in. London; Nazis Call Italy Vile

THINK SPAIN MAY BE NEXT TARGET OF ALLIED DIPLOMACY   Axis Has Been Dealt 2 Hard Blows During Past 2 Weeks—Spaniards In London

Think Spain Next Target Of Allied Diplomatic ‘War’   Two Lisbon Diplomats Fly To London On Mystery Mission; Hear Spain Withdraws Troops VWram Ruesia

Allies Have Own Way In Sicily Today   Press Forward Into Interior With Resistance: Weak

News Day And Night   Southeastern Part Of Island Almost Completely Taken By Invading Force

PRINT” EXPERT PUT ON STAND   New York ldentificatior Expert Takes Stand for Crown in Case Anainst DeMariany

Crown Stresses Fingerprint In DeMarigny Trial  Call N. Y. Police Expert To Stand

Also Advance Toward Site Of Huge Dam   Smolensk Heralded By 100 Extra Guns As Greatest Victory

Reporter Telephones From Moscow Says "Soviets j in Suburbs of. Kiev

GREAMERY BUTTER TO HELP WIN WAR   30 Per Cent of Production at Present For Lend-Lease After February 1.

TO HOLD BACK MUCH BUTTER   Manufacturers Ordered to Set Aside 30 Per Cent. For War Demards

BUTTER SUPPLY TO BE REDUCED   Manufacturers Directed To Set Aside 30 Per Cent For War Use

CREAMERY BUTTER - TO BE SET ASIDE      Wickard Says_30 ‘Percent “Must be Used Directly in War Effort

30 Per Cent of Butter Set Aside for War   Wickard Extends Previous Order on Citrus Juices

BUTTER SUPPLIES FOR CIVILIANS CUT   WICKARD ORDERS 380 PCT. OF PRODUCTION SET ASIDE FOR WAR NEEDS.

Butter Manufacturers Ordered to Set Aside 30 Per Cent for War Needs

BUTTER WANTED FOR WAR NEEDS   Makers Must Set Aside 30 Per Cent For Military Use

Directs Butter Be Sef Aside For War Needs   Wickard Requests 30 Pct. of Output for War-Lend Lease

Food Administrator Sets Aside 30 Per ‘Cenf Butfer Output   Reserves Production Of Citrus Juices For Military  eancdel eace

War Program Takes 30 Per Cent of Butter   Ordered Set Aside By Wickard; Citrus Juices Reserved

BUTTE RESERVED FOR MILITARY USE   Creamery Manufacturers Told To Set Aside 30 Per cent For Government   RATIONING PROGRAM IS BEING STUDIED

Wickard Ties. Up Nearly Third Of Buffer Output.   Citrus Juices Also Held For Military, Lend-Lease Nee-fe

Civilians To Get Less Butter   Wickard Orders More Of Product For Armed Forces

30 Per Cent of U.S Butter Set Aside For War Needs  Wickard Reserves Citrus Fruit Juices, Except Grapefruit  MILITARY, LEND-LEASE

PREFER DEATH T0 CAPTURE BY AXIS   WOMEN BRAVE SHARK INFESTED WATERS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC

TRAGIC STORY OF BRAZILIAN SHIP SINKING TOLD   Women Aboard Torpedoed Ship Risked Death Rather Than Be  Prisoners of Axis

Women On Torpedoed Brazilian Ship   Prefer Death To Capture By Nazis

Brazilian Women Chose Death Rather Than Axis ‘Rescue’ When Sub Sank Shin

FR ORDERS END OF UMW STRIKE BY NOON MONDAY   eee Coal Miner’s Locals Notify Operaters They'll Strike As WLB Tells Them They Can’t

President  Orders Strike End   U.S. MAY CLAMP ARMY RULE ON PLANT AFTER MONDAY NOON DEADINE

Orders Picketing of Plant Stopped   President Steps In To Newark Dispute

Send Celanese Men Back to Work or Else   [Mine Leader Defies WLB  Citation on Coal . Strike Threat

U.S. Destroyer Among Three Ships Sunk   American Air Force Renews Attacks on Kiska

Navy Identifies: Victims of Raid   Destroyer, Tanker Sunk by Japanese

Name Ships Sunk In Jap Air Attack  Lost Vessels Include L. S. Destrover   Held Up By Weather

Identify Ships Sunk By Enemy  American Destroyer Among Those Lost

Identifies 3 Ships Sunk By Japanese   Destroyer, Tanker And Corvette Lost In April 7 Attack

NAVY IDENTIFIES SHIPS SUNK BY JAPS APRIL 7TH   Off Guadalcanal. Destroyer Aaron Ward, American Tanker and New Zealand Corvett Moa.

Navy Identifies Three Allied Ships Sunk Off ~ Guadalcanal April 7th

AMER. POLICIES MAY CAUSE WAR IN LATIN AMERICE   SENATOR BUTLER DENOUNCES ADMINISTRATION'S NEW DEAL FOR SOUTH AMERI.CAN REPUBLICS.   HAS HELPED KEEP MILITARY DICTATORS   Charges New Deal Has Distributed Six Billion Dollars in LendLease Goods There—Collapse Will Follow End of Liberality.

Governor Signs Measure Repealing Beano Legality   Prannnants af Came Threaten   Proponents of Game Threaten To Carry Their Case To the Peovle

War Labor Board Praises Own Work In Stabilizing of Wages and Prices

OPINION ON TIME CHANGE EXAMINED   Some Legislature Members Want Central Time Back In State.

SeekLoophole in Rushton’s NoPowerRule   Attorney General Stands Firm on Decision That State Has No Power to Channe Time

NAZIS CHASED FROM HEIGHTS BELOW TUNIS   IMPORTANT GAINS MADE BY FRENCH; WEATHER BAD

FRENCH TAKE TWO HEIGHTS IN TUNIS AREA   Bad Weather Holds Up Allied Ground and Air Action

French Drive Germans Off Heights   Two Strategic Points In Mountains of Africa Are Seized

French Drive Nazis From Two Strategic Heights   Bad Weather Limits Both Ground And Air Activity In North Africa.

FRENCH DRIVE NAZIS FROM 2 KEY HEIGHTS   LaFayette Escadrille, French - Fliers In American Planes, Go Into Action For First Time.   AirfieldsGunned

French Take Important © Heights In Tunis Area      Bad Weather Limits Allied and Air Activity Over Other Africon Fronts—Many Transports Successfully Escorted to Africa +

Bad Weather~ Stops Allies In Drive on Cerman Army   French Forces ‘Are in Action,”

Germans Driven Back By French   Strategic Heights Below Tunis Taken

More Than 40 Aircraft Carriers Now lttcluded In U. S. Fleet; May Mean Blow At Japan Proper Soon

MANY CARRIERS ARE ADDED TO PACIFIC FORCE      Veteran Aussie Forces Fake Satelburg In Furious Battle

40 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS IN U.S. FLEET    Now Has More than All Other Naval  Powers Combined

‘More Bad News for Tojo— ‘Reveal Huge Carrier Fleet        Smashing Atrack On Japs Implied

FLEET HAS 40 CARRIERS NOW KNOX REPORTS   Smashing Assault Or Japan Proper May Be Coming

CHINA RETAKES RICE BOWL CITY   Japanese Softened Up For Recapture by United States Rombers And Fighters

39 More Tons Of Bombs Blas Jap Airdrome   Raiders Hit Southern Coast of Invaded  Bougainville Island

Efficieny and Economy is Aim   Governor and Others Go East to Commission the Iowa

— Absembly Expected To Ye Axe On   Budget Will Be Far Les: Than At Present

Efficient Operationof State  Plans for Post War Period Guidine Tantar.

SOVIET . SUCCESSES MADE POSSIBLE BY STALIN'S STRATEGY      Secret’. Reorganization.” Of Atmy Started’ When Nazis Were Going  Strong

PRICE CEILINGS COVER 96 PCT. OF FOODSTUFFS   Ceilings Placed On Lettuce  And Spinach In_ Latest Action By OPA   'WORLD PROGRAM STUDIED   Spring Conference Planned To Formulate Production Program

PRICE CONTROL NOW INCLUDES MOST ALL FOOD   Wickard Renews Appeal To *® Farmers For Increase Of Vegetable Acreage   VITAL NEEDS ARE LISTED   6 neue Total Of 96 Percent Of Product Values Now Held In Freeze

PRICE CONTROL - OVER LETTUCE   LATEST ADDITIONS TO CEELING LIST PLACES 86 PER CENT. .. OF FOODS UNDER F = ognerron -

Reveal Third Jap Raid On West Coast By Plane Trying To Start Forest Fire

Jap Plaries Attempt - To Start Fires In Forests Of Oregon      Three Enemy Attacks Made On the Pacific Northwest, Western Defense Command Announces: All Attempts Fail

Jap Sneak hard Made on U.S. By Sub’s Plane   Nip Drops Bomb Seeking to Start  Blaze in Oregon

Office of Price Administration  . Information Division “- ) RATION CALENDAR . July 25, 1943

Allied Troops Within Artillery Range Of Enna, Stronghold Commanding Roads And Rail Lines To East And West: Gur Boys Advance 10 Miles

Americans Give German Targets Hard Bombing   Losses Are Heavy in Air Fighting

U.S. Bombers Again Hit at Germany   38 Nazi Fighters Downed; 24 Yank Planes Lost

38 Enemy Planes Destroyed in New Air Assault   21 American Air Craft Lost in Raid; RAF Dealing Blows

HEAVY BOMBERS POUND GERMANY   Hundreds Of U.S. Planes Strike Ship-Building  Factory Areas

U. S. Bombers Hit Reich Ship Building District, Bag 38 Enemy Fighters

$8 Enemy Fighters Destroyed in Air Battles; 21. Yank Bombers Lost; RAF Also Makes Big Attack

Forts Strike Northwest Reich Again Yanks Bag 38  -Nazi Aircraft, At Cast af Only 25

Strixe Again a> nc us‘tia. f .ne Si i SuLcing Secon; ‘4a4 "on ¢no-ier Pio Zaic

Raid Batters Nazis Again   Northwest Germany Js Fovyorite Taoraet

HITS ON TARGETS: SCORED THROUGH LAYER OF CLOUDS   Hundreds of Bombers Take Part in Attack, Made From High Altitude in Low Temperatures.   RECENT RAID ON KIEL DISCLOSED BY LEADERS   Engineering Works and Shipbuilding Yard at Important Port Showered With 900 Tons Dec. 13.

Industrial Area Again — HitbyUS.   Heavy Bombers Attack ‘Favorife Target in Gannany's Vital” Nosthwest

Twenty-one Bombers and Four Fighters Lost in Raids 38 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE  Aerial Bombardment After Night by RAF Indicated

Raiders Down 38 Nazi Planes   U.S. Loses 25 Planes In Blow At Reich's Industry

Publications of Names and Pictures  of Selectees Called Up Is Forbidden

NAZIS MAY FOLLOW TAGANROG AND GET OUT OF ALL CRIMEA      German Retirement Toward Dnieper In Motion All Along Soviet Front

JOHN BOVINGOON “DISMISSED FRON O00 OEW JOB   Dancer-Economist Fired After Refusing To Quit; REA Change Likely

20 PERSONS HURT IN BEDFORD WRECK      Truck Strikes Abutment — Nine Seriously Injured

Information Released on Making Application For War Ration Book Three

Court Ruling Okehs FCC Radio Orders   Hits Exclusive Broadcasting; ‘Tribunal Splits

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS FCC   Regulations Governing Broadcast Contracts Held Valid

ALLIED FORGES ARE POUNDING FORWARD ON SICILIAN FRONT   WHOLESALE GERSIAN “DUNKERQUE” ATTEMPT AT MESSINA SQUEEZED

COOK COUNTY WORKERS PAID BACK PAYME}.,   Funds Taken From Reserve Held For Co. Bills

PREPARE FOR EVACUATION   Rumanian Government Is '‘Concerned Over Russian Advances

Rumanians Finish Plans to Evacuate Bucharest People.   Balkan Nations:Are Disturbed _ By Red Army’s. Rapid Advance;  Germans -in Slovenia Attacked

Japs Paying High Price In Lives on New Guinea As Allies Mop Up Island

Jay h ys P ay H 12  Ko : i ae L 0 &&   Enemy Garrisons In Area Begin To Undergo Great:  er Attacks By Allies.

JAPANESE LOSSES IN LAE INCREASE   Entire Regiment Wiped Out By Allied Thrusts

Japan Suffers Heavy Losses In New Guineé   Report Enemy Garrisons Near Lae, Salamaua Are Targets Of Big Bombers

JAPS HAVE LOST HEAVILY IN PACIFIC OUTPOST BATTLES   Allied Aerial Attacks On Enemy Positions Stepped Up In Pacific

JAPS PAID HIGH PRICE IN BATTLE AT LAE, SALAMBUA   Allied Airmen Using Airports Won at These Two New Guinea Towns to Attack Jap Garrisons in the Area

JAPS SUFFER HUGE LOSSES AT LAE, SALAMAUA   Allies Step Up Air Attacks From Newly Won Bases in New Guinea

JAPANESE BELIEVED HAVE LOST MANY MEN SALAMAUA AND LAE  ' REMAINDER OF ENEMY REPORTED CAUGHT IN JUNGLE TRAP

Fleeing Enemy Soldiers Being Trapped On Jungle Trails By Allied Forces;  ” Pane testi Pe 6  New Britain Reported.

Says Japs Will. Pay Even More   MacArthur Spokesman Reports Heavy Losses At Lae. Salamaua.

Salamaua, Lae Battles Took Heavy Jap Toll   Enemy Stil Paying Plenty In Retreat From Fallen Bases

Hickenlooper Is Critical of Federal Machinery Ration   Regulations Are ‘Impractical,’ Chief Executive Says

RATIONING Cf FARM MACHINE TERMED FOOLISH   Governors in Session al Des Moines Want Immediate Action; Hoover Talks Tomorrow

GROUP. CHOSEN IN MIDWESTERN CHIEFS’ PARIFY   Hickenlooper Assails Federal Regulations in Farm Machinery Rations

Des Moines Host At Farm Meeting  Machinery Rationing Is Termed Impractical

‘Impractical To The Very Point Of Foolishness   —HICKENLOOPER Corn-Belt Conference To Present A Definite Program For Alleviation Of Shortages.

EXECUTIVES TO DRAFT PROGRAM   Kelly Proposes Farm Committee at Conference of Governofs,

~—FARM CONFERENCE—  PLANS MADE TO RELIEVE SHORTAGES   ..-Schricker Suggests Freezing Farm Labor

LOCAL GRSEERVATIONG   Governors to Aid In Farm Shortage   Twelve Midwest Executives Map a Program to Ease Situation.

Governors Will Draft  Proyram   Mid-Western Executives Name Committee To Seek Alleviation Of Farm Labor Shortage

Definite Program te » Alleviate Farm Help Shortage Is Planned   pCommittee Named at Conference of Mid-West  Governors Today

Farm Machinery Ration Methods Called Foolish   Midwest Governors Open Conference On Food Problems

CORNBELT STATE GOVERNORS MEET FOR DISCUSSIONS   STUDY MANPOWER AND FARM PROBLEMS AT IOWA CONFERENCE

GOVERNORS  10 PROPOSE A MIDWEST * FARM PLAN   lowa’s Chief Executive Crit~ icizes Regulations on _ ‘Farm .Machinery   MUCH EQUIPMENT  2 . HELDIN STORAGE   Conference,Mostly of G.O.P. Affiliation, Plans to Work Out Solution

Federal Farm Machinery Rationing Hit   Governor Hickenlooper of lowa Charges Program Impractical and Foolish

Silly US. Regulations Hit Farmers  Lh 1, OF Na.   Thousands Of New Combines Held In The Factories

NEW WAR TALKS HINTED BETWEEN FDR, CHURCHILL   ROOScVELT SPEEDING HOME AS IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS LOOM

Renew Parle At Capital   Churchill May Go to Washington —To Broadcast

Pres. Roosevelt Leaves Ottawa, Enroute Home   Further Conferences To Be Held With Prime Minister Churchill

FDR ACCLAIMED BY CANADIANS   Churchill May Come To —Washington for Foltow-up On Jap War Plans

MOUNTBATTEN COMMANDER IN INDIA THEATRE   Chercnill May Come to Washing fon Alter Making Radio Address Sunday Afternoon   PLAN PACIFIC WAR   Mountbetien Comes to Waskingio: for Conferences, Drive for Berme Road Exnected

PRESIDENT LEAVES OTTAWA FOR HOME AND MORE TALKS  ROOSEVELT EXPECTED 7      ROOSEVELT EXPECTED TO CONFER FURTHER WITH CHURCHILL .

Quebec Talks Bear Fruit In Selection Of Mountbatten As Southeast Asia Commander         FDR Homeward Bound, Expected To Hold New Parleys With Churchill

FDR EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON   Churchill May Visit White House Before Returning Home

‘Mountbatten To Head All Allied Forces   Cousin of King Chosen for Drive To Retake Burma

Mountbatten Is Chosen Allied  Leader In Asia   First Result Of Quebec Parley; Roosevelt Is On His Way Home.

PRESIDENT IS SPEEDING 10 WASHINGTON   Chief Executive on Way Back to U. S. For Prospective Renewal of Conferences

TWO LEADERS MAY MEET AT WHITE HOUSE   Roosevelt On Way Home; More Announcements Expected

F.R. Off For Home After Ottawa Talk   May Again Meet With Churchill; Canada Cheers U. S. Chief On Visit To Capital

Believe Churchill May Move Onto Washington to Talk With Roosevelt

Hint New Conference At Capital   Roosevelt And Churchill May Resume Talks At White House—Address Scheduled For Sunday

President May Meet Churchill In Washington   Roosevelt Speeds Back Home; Naming Of Mountbatten as Asiatic Commander Believed First of Many Announcements.

FD RETURNS TO U.S. FOR MEET WITH CHURCHILL   Lord Louis Mountbatten Named Supreme Commander in Asia

BY CHURCHILL IS EXPECTED   Although Censorshir Guards Plans, British Do Not  Discourage Speculation That He Will Again See F. D. R.

FDR Is On Way  liome   Lord Mountbatten Named Southeast Asia Leader

ROOSEVELT IS ON WAY TOCAPITOL, MORE DISCUSSIONS   Cousin of King George, VI Is Given High Position In Campaign To Recapture Burma Bases. .   CHURCHILL EXPECTED TO GIVE RADIO TALK   Present Movements Are Obscured by Veil of Censorship, Future Meeting Less Formal.

FDR IS RETURNING TO UNITED STATES   Expected To Soon Resume Talks With Churchill; Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander In Southeastern Asia.

FDR, Churchill To Renew Talks   Movements Again Are Being Censored

ALLIED LEADERS MAY REUNITE AT U.S. CAPITAL   Appoint Mountbatten as Commander of Allies in Southeastern Asia

Acclaim of Canadians Speeds On His Way First U.S. President to Visit Their Capital

Roosevelt Heads Baek to U.S. With More Conferences In Prospect; New Commander for Southeastern Asia

FOR May Renew Parle   Churchill May Go to Washington ~-To Broadcast Sunday

War Chiefs ~ Plan More  Conferences   Announcement of Mountbatten’s New Job Is First Important Release

War Bond Subscriptions Total _ $11,322, 000,000 On Wednesday   Only $1,678,000,000 Needed To Reach Second War Loan Quota OF $13,000,000,000

GIGANTIC WAR BOND CAMPAIGN NEAR ITS GOAL   Secretary Morgenthau Announces $12,000,000,000 of $13,000,000,000 is Subscribed   MARYLAND OVER TOP   Leads All States in Fifth Federal Reserve District With Surplus of $26,999 376

YANKS TIGHTEN SURRENDER-OF-DIE TRAP AROUND FOE   Kiska Is Expected to Be Nex Step In Drive Toward Toki.

RIOTING CONTINUES IN LOS ANGELES AS GANGS KEEP MOVING   Zoot Suiters and Service Men Clash and Trouble Appears to Be  Growina.

Consul Urges Zoot. Suiters To Stay Home   Navy Declares Entire __ City_of Los Angeles  “Out of Bounds”

ZOOT SUIT RIOTINGS CONTINUE   Trouble Makers in‘, Los. Angeles Mostly Negroes, Méxicans.:

MEXICO FILES REPORTS ON ZOOT SUIT RIOTING; NAVY SETS UP “BOUNDS”

Given Is Named District Attorney   Announced In Washington By Senator

GIVEN SLATED FOR ATTORNEY   Former Charleston Judge Recommended For District Post

4000 Montreal  Police, Fire  Fighters Strike Snow Shovelers and  Garbage Collectors Also Ouit

POLICE STRIKE AT MONTREAL   Other City Workers Also in Fight for Union

Gen. MacArthur Directing Wide Scale Land, Sea, Air Offensive Against Enemy

Rabaul Goal Of Latest  Offensive   MacArthur’s Joint Forces Progress  OK, Is Report

Report Says Gen. Marshall, U. 5. Chief (Of Staff, Will Be Named Commander of Any Allied Invasion Continent From England

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Gen. Marshall Selection As Invasion Chieftain Means Action Nearing

THE WAR TODAY  HOLIDAY WEEK-END MARKED BY ALLIED SICCESSES ON ATT FRONTS.

The War Today— Report General Marshall Will Head Allies In Europe Hints New Invasion

PAST WEEK-END NOTABLE FOR SUCCESS OF ALLIED ARMS ON ‘FAR-FLUNG WORLD BATTLE LINE‘

U. 5. Will Take Idle Farm Took   Unused Machinery To Be Requisitioned

FARM MACHINERY SURVEY PLANNED   War Food Administration to Requisition Idle Equipment.

To Seize Idle Farm  Machinery Reasonable Pric   Reasonable Price Promised Owners  Of The Equipment

Search For Idle  Farm Machinery   It Will Be Requisitioned by Government and Sent  Where Needed.

GOV'T SEEKS IDLE FARM MACHINERY   War Food Administration Attempts to Distribute Implements Where Needed

GOVERNMENT TO BUY IDLE FARM TOOLS   Will Transfer Machinery to Needed Areas

SEARCH FOR IDLE FARM MACHINERY   ‘County War Boards on  Hunts for Implements to Be Regutisitioned   FARMERS PROMISED REASONABLE PRICE   Government to Distribute Tools Where Needed to Boost Production

Seek Idle Farm Tools   Gov’t Will Take Over And Distribute Them Where Most Needed

Farmers Need  Idle Machines   War Food Administration Starts Search For Unused Equipment.

Search For Idle Farm Machine  To Be Distributed Where Most Neede

Start Search Over Nation For Idle Farm Machinery   Will Be Requisitioned By Government, Placed Where Will Help Food Output

IDLE FARM TOOLS ARE NOW NEEDEL   Implements Left By Japs In West Coast Evacuation May Be First.

Allied Bombers Hammer Escape  Roads To West   . .. Churchill’s 1940 Pledge Fulfilled   Excellent Torcets

[Routed Rommel May Try Stand On Mareth Line   Axis Rear Guard Driven Into Path Of Bombers: Berlin Admits Loss.

STRONG FORCE DRIVEN FROM CITY, BOMBED      Allies Hit Shipping as Far as 60 Miles West in Miniature Dunkerque, Blast Troops on Road to Tunisia.

Capture by British Puts Allies 100 Miles From Tunisian Border and Concludes An Advance of Nearly 1,300 Miles,   Rommel’s Force Attempts to Unite With Armies That Defend Tunis

Fall Is Climax ° To Libyan Drive   Strong German Rear Guard, Left In City, Is Beaten Back By Advancing Eighth Army; U.S. Planes Blast Retreating Nazis

Eighth Army Pursued Rommel 1,300 Miles After El Alamein Attack; Nazi Columns Bombed   Mussolini's Last Vaunted Stronghold And Uutpost Ut Homan *Entpire’ Entered Early This Morning: Foe Races Inte Tunisia

ROMMEL ARMY, TUNISTA-BOUND, STILL PURSUED   Imperial Eighth Army Enters City After Battering Through Outer De fenses With Artillery   GREAT DAMAGE DONE EXCELLENT TARGETS   Small Shipping in Harbor at Zuara Shattered in Miniature Dunkerque

WARTIME FOOD PLANS TO BE WORKED OVER   Jones Calls In Old Associate; People To Be Given Chance

Food Program Decentralized   Marvin Jones Calls In Former Missouri Congressman To Help In Readjustment.

NELSON NAMED TO HELP JONES   Plan To Give Folks At Home More To Say About Food

JONES NAMES: NEW WEA ASSISTANT   Former Representative from Missouri to Link ‘Folks’ to ~ Washinaton

WILL REBUILD FOOD PROGRAN   Plan to Give ‘Folks Back Home’ More to Say on Production.

NELSON 10 HELP BEBUILD WARTIME PROGRAM-OF FOOD   Representative From Missouri to Assist In Plans to Give Home Folks More to Say on Plans.   NELSON IS SELECTED AS CONNECTING LIN}   Assistant Says He Has Learned More About Fooc Problems Since His Defeat at Election.

Home Folks To Have Say About Food      Ask Nelson To  Revamp System

U5. FOOD BOSS WILL REBUILD FOOD PROGRAM   Administrator Marvin Jones Names Onetime Associate In Congress As Trouble Shooter   “YOLKS BACK HOME” TO BE GIVEN VOICE   Former Rep. William L Nelson to Serve As Connecting Link Between States, Government-

More Say On Food   Local War Boards to Have More Authority In Mapping Program

Marvin Jones  Selects Aide   Ex-Ccongressman Williar Nelson to Help Rebuild Food Program

‘More Local Authority In Food Program   Nelson Will Give Home Folks More To Say About Plans

FARM PROGRAM UP TO FARMERS   Food Administrator Wants To Give ‘Folks Back Home’ Chance To Help Make It

‘Knox Says Augmented Carrier Fleet.  Soon to Hit Deen In Jap Territory

CARRIER RAIDS SOON MAY BE RESUMED   Ship-Based Planes ° Could Hit at Heart of Jap Strongholds

Plans Progress For Second Fron!   Secretary Knox Also Says U. S. Aircraft Carrier Fleet Grows Rapidly

Start Righting The Normandie   Work Progressing According To Plan

TASK OF RIGHTING BiG LINER BEGINS   Refloating of Former SS. Normandie to Require Several Days.

Job Of Righting Lafayette Bequn   World's Largest Salvage Operation Started

START RIGHTING OF LINER ‘NORMANDIE   Largest Salvage Operation Proceeds With Deliberate Slowness.

Allies Blast Nip Convoy In Wewak Harbor   Fresh Series Of Blows Rained On Japanese; In Far-Reaching Blows  In Pacifie

THREE JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK, TWO OTHERS ARE HIT   Successful Air Blow Made On  Enemy’s Base

Bombs Break Up 7 Ship Tojo Convoy; Rekata Bay Withdrawal Is Confirmed

21,000 Tons Shipping. And 26 Japanese Planes : Fall Before Allied Airmen

ALLIED BOMBERS SINK THREE JAP SUPPLY VESSELS   OTHER CARGO SHIPS AND DESTROYERS HIT IN RAID ON WEWAK

ALLIES BLAST 7 SHIP CONVO}   Bombers Attack Jap Convoy At Wewak, New Guinea To Add to Toll.

Supply Convoy Shattered In Wewak Harbor, Enemy Warship Set Afire  In Heavy Raids

JAP SUPPLY CONVOY BLASTED BY ALLIES   Staggering Blow Is Dealt Sea Cargo As Bombers Attack at Wewak

HIT A JAP. CONVOY   Allied Bombers Add 21,000 Tons to Enemy Shipping Loses

Allied Bombers Add 21,000 Ship Ton  7-SHIP JAP CONVOY is SMASHED

JAPANESE SUPPLY CONVOY BLASTED APART BY BOMBERS   THREE BIG FREIGHTERS SUNK AND OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED

bombers blast Seven-Ship Jap Supply Convoy   Wewak Raid Only One Of Heavy New Blows At Enemy Shipping.

Smash Jap 7 Ship Convoy   Called One of the Most Staggering Blows Dealt the Japs

Allied Planes Hit Jap Ships Telling Blows   Blast Convoy At Wewak In Far-Ranging Attack

 RAF Flier, Named ‘King of Lampedusa’ by Mates, Tells How He Was Surprised in ‘Capture’ of Italian Island

‘King of Lampedusa, ’ Bewildered Young Pilot to Whom [Italian Garrison’ Surrendered, Tells'How It All Happened

"KING OF LAMPEDUSA’ STILL BE WILDERED Italian Garrison Eagerly Gives Up To Stranded RAF Pilot Named Cohen

‘King of Lampedusa’ Tells How He Received Surrender Aimid Heavv Bombardment

British And Canadians Dety Storm To Make New Assault On City Of Hamburg

AEF BOMBERS GIVE HAMBURG "ANOTHER DOSE’   ‘Destruction of Smouldering City “Virtually Complete”; British Lose Thirty Planes

1500 MORE TONS OF BOMBS LOOSED ON PORT OF-HAMBURG   Destruction . Of Germany’s Second Citysls Now Almost-Complete,’ . Fliers Report

BDLTS GRAZE UNS: PLANES UPSIDE DOWN   Pilot of Plane Out of Control Was Really Glad.to See Enemy Flak.   RAID FINISHES UP RAF DESTRUCTION OF PORT

RAF PLANES OVER HAMBURG MEET ELECTRIC STORMS   30 Bombers Lost as Nazi Port Gets New Attack

HAMBURG. AGAIN HIT BY WEIGHT OF RAF BOMBS   Bombers Fight Thru Electrical Storm To Throw 1,500 Tons Of Bombs

HAMBURG Hill NINTH TIME IN 10 DAYS   Virtually Finishes Job of Destroying Main Nazi Port

Hamburg Given Coup de Grace With Big Raid   1,500 Tons Dropped On Port Despite Electrical: Storm

Hamburg Bombed  Amid Storm  With 1,400 Tons City Gets Ninth  Raid, U-Boat Plants Wrecked

Bombers Fight Storm to Attack Hamburg Again   1500 Tons of Explosive Dropped On Wrecked City

BRIT. PLANES RETURN 10 HAMBURG   Rain 1500 More Tons Bombs On Stricken German German City

Bombers Eliminate  Chief Port   Ten Days Of Relentless Bombing  Wins “Battle  Of Hamburg.”

HURL 1500 MORE TONS OF BOMBS ON HAMBURE   Destruction of Ger. many’s Second City Virtually Complete

Last Axis Defense — Line In Sicily Sag's Under Allied Drive   Report Conquest Of Sicily May Be Completed In Few Days; RAF Resumes Bombardment Of Hamburg; Reds Army Inside Orel

RAF Bombers Fly Through Storm To Drop Tons of Bombs on Hamburg   Thirty Planes ~ Are Lost In Attack

Relative Accuracy Of High And Low Bombing Again In Question   Stimson’s Assertion About Ploesti Attack Raises Again A Much Debated Point

Hope FDR Drops 35 Revision   Legislators  Want Controversial Social Security Subject Sidetracked

Revision Would Touch Off Fight, Member Of Legis  lative Group Declares; See Harmony On Matters _ Related To War When Congress Opens Tomorrow

Want Social Security Out   Solons Gathering for. 78th Congress Move to Avert Needless Strife.

WOULD OMIT THE SOGIAL SECURITY REVISION PROGRAM   This Decision Was Reached by Group of Influential Legislators.   PLEA TO THE PRESIDENT   Mr. Roosevelt Will Be Asked to Omit It From Legislative Program.

GROUP LEGISLATORS PLAN LAST-MINUTE PLEA TO PRESIDENT *   WOULD HAVE SOCIAL SE Terry orwicerAn onsen   WOULD HAVE SOCIAL SECURITY REVISION OMITTED FROM PROCRAM

Want Hands Off Social Security Now   Demos Seek Harmony In New Congress   Fear Revision Of Bill Would Create Trouble   No Legislative Difficulties Seen In War Matters

Qne Group to Urge Rooseyelt to Eliminate Social.,   Security Revision From Message   JSSUE CONSIDERED  HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE   Meanwhile, Vice President Wallace Plans Meeting Between Democrats  - and Republicans

Social Security Dispute Feared   Gas And Oil Inquiry Will Resume Soon

Congress Seeks More Harmony   Leaders. To Ask FOR. -To:Drop:Revision Of Sacial:Security:

STATUS QUO SOUGHT FOR SOCIAL LAWS   Leaders Expected to Urge President to Omit Revision Proposal in His  _ Message to Congress Thursday.

Last Minute Plea To The President... ..  F.D.R. Urged To Dror social Security Bil

Legislators To Endorse Late Plea To FDR To Skip Social Security Change From Address To 78th Congress

Legislators Ask Soc Security ‘Stay Unchanged   Last Minute Plea Made To FDR For No Revisions

FDK Urged Not ~ To Seek Reform   SOCIAL SECURITY PLEA ASKED TO BE DROPPED

78TH CONGRESS WILL CONVENE TOMORROW   LEADERS HOPE FDR WiLL DROP REVISION OF SOCIAL SECURITY

[Demo Bosses Take Plea To White House   Urge Home Front. Reforms Wait End Of The War

F.R. Urged to Shelve Social Security Plan   Democratic Leaders Want Changes Left Out of  Program for Congress

F. D. Urged To Forego S_S_ Action   Influential Group Will Ask ~ Subject Be Left Out * OF Legislative Program

Congress To Begin Session  On Wednesday   Influential Legislators To Request President To Postpone Plans For Social Security Change

78TH CONGRESS AWAITS GAVEL   Leaders Ask FDR To Omit ‘Social Security Legislation

SOLONS MAY: ASK FDR TO DROP SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES FROM HIS PROGRAM

78th Congress Ready To Open   Legislators In Last Minute Plea To FDR To Drop So cial Security Plans.

QUCIAL SECURITY CHANGE OPPOSED   Legislators Hope F.D. R. “Will Not Include It In * His Program

Oppose Social Security, Revision ‘ In Precident’s  eoislative Prnoram

Sidetracking Of Social Security Revision Sought   May Ask President To Avoid Stirring Congress Discord.

Battle Certain if FDR Urges Social  Security Revision   Leaders May Ask Chiet Executive to Drop Plan for Duration

May Ask FDR to Omit Revision   78th Congress Gets Under Way  Tomorrow

WILL ASK FOR TO OMIT ITEM   Solons Do Not Want Social Security As Issue

FDR TO BE ASKED TO OMIT REVISION OF SOCIAL SECURITY   President To Address 78th Congress ‘Which Conyenes Tomorrow

Plea To FDR Will Ask Omission Social Security Revision From President's Legislative Plans

Ask Roosevelt To Omit Social Security Revision From His Legislative Program

Opposition To Revision Of Security Law   Influential Leaders Plar Last-Minute Plea To President   HARMONY IS KEYNOTE

Social Security Omission Asked   FDR's Address To Congress Will Be Broadcast Tomorrow

Group to Ask FDR To Omit Social  Security Revision  Subject Said Will Touch Off “Fight That Is Needlece”’

LEGISLATORS (PROVE PLEA FOR HARMONY   Farlier Pleas to Drop Program Rejected By President

Solons to Ask Delay in F.R. Social Plans   Leaders Wont Congres To Devote Full Time To Questions of War

Ask President To Eliminate Security Plea   Democrats See Losing Fight, lf Be Persists

Allied Planes Again Blast at Lae  4 Anti-Aircraft Positions Are Destroyed

Allied Planes Again Blast at Lae  4 Anti-Aircratft   4 Anti-Aircratft Positions Are Destroyed

Alhes Hammet Airdrome  At Lae Again   Ground Position At Sanananda Stays Unchanged

nse} rrotesis »ported Plan » Cut Gas Ration  Says Order Already Prepared Reducing VA’ Coupons by Half  . NEXT FEW DAYS’  Ickes Promises To Study Proposal, Governor Says

Corsica’s Kids Pick off Germans  To Help Allies Liberate Homeland

ASK SHIFT IN “STORE. HOURS   Extra Shopping Evening I: Proposed To Reduce  Absenteeism

MAN CONFESSES M’COY SLAYING   Relative of Fayette County Farmer Admits Killing One of Three Victims

FARMER SAYS HE KILLED AFTER ‘ARGUMENT OVER MONEY—A DMITTED ‘CRIME AFTER LIE DETECTOR TEST.

KIN CONFESSES MCCOY KILLING   Brother-in-Law Says Fight Over Money Led to Slaying

Railways of Italy Target Of Activity   Way of Allies Eased By Daring Italians Who Yearn For Peace

Sabotage Paved Way Of Invaders   Madrid Hears Italians Risked Lives To Make Invasion Easier.

Kansans Lead In Raids On The Japs   Three Fliers Help Break Up An Enemy Bombing Attack   OTHERS ARE IN BATTLE   Captain W. J. Cummings Is Among the Group to — Win a Cross

STATE DEFENSE MEASURE READY   Senate Recedes From Amendments; Bill is Sent To Goodland.   AVERT FURTHER DISPUTE

Defense Bill Is Forwarded  To Governo!   Legislative Action Is Completed As Senate Recedes From Position On Council Chairman

Defense Council Measure Awaits Goodland’s 0. K.  Further Dispute Avoi oid

Mrs. Howard Held On Murder Charge After Shooting   Maintains Silence After Death of Widely Known Tulsa Woman

URGE PROSECUTION OF UNION LEADERS FOR COAL WALKOUT   Demands Are Inspired in Congress Due to Situation in Pennsylvania.

MAY DECLARE WAR STRIKES TO BE CRIMES   Demands Made In Congress That Such Legislation Be Passed

Senate Leaders Seek Compromise   Farm Deferments Under Discussion

Farm Bloc Seeks Form Of Draft Compromise   Neither Bankhead Nor O’Mahoney Plan Proves Entirely Acceptable.

:  1  EARLY RECOGNITION IS SEEN FOR PRO-ALLIED! REGIME IN ARGENTINA’

Cologne Blitzed Again By Big RAF Force   100 Two-Ton Block Busters, Huge Number Of Incendiaries Dropped On Vital Germon Industrial Center

Fierce Raid Hits Ruins of Cologne   R. A. F. Hurls Big Block-Busters at France, Germany

BIG AIR RAID ON COLOGNE LAST NIGHT   R. A. F. Takes ‘Advantage of Good Weather

Block-Buster Bombs Fall. On Cologne  Great Rhine City _ Blaste wain

BRITISH IN BIG RAID ON COLOGNE   R.A.F. Resumes Offensive On Axis Territory

Gas Shortage Cuts Training  Of Air Pilots   Patierson Says Combat Crews Are Grounded

44,000-BARREL GAS SHORTAGE PER DAY SEENFOR AIR CORPS    Undersecretary C Of War Lays Gauss. Due’ To Priority. ; Given To Rubber  Program

SHORTAGE OF 100 OCTANE FUEL CUTS COMBAT TRAINING       Patterson Tells) = Truman’ " Group May Output Will "Bat bpee oo cee ee

Patterson Sees Aviation Gas Shortage   Says Cut in Training Of Combat Crews  Is Necessary

PATTERSON SEES FUEL SHORTAGE   Jeffers to Testify About Rubber Situation On Tuesday

Air Force Gas Shortage Cited   Training Operations  In Nation Reduced

American Army Engineers Now Building New Road to China   Some Territory Held by Japs Still to Be Captured.

AMERICANS BLAZE NEW BURMA ROAD TOWARD CHINA —   Work Begun On Ledo Road More Than 20 Months Ago. British Attack Jap Targets.

More Than 80 Populated Places Taken in Drive  FORCES ARE NEAR BIG RAILWAY HUB  Russian Gains West of Kiev Acknowledged by Germans

RUSSIANS FAN OUT 30 MILES IN KIEV AREA   ISOLATION FACED BY BATTERED NAZIS ALONG DNIEPER

Soviet Forces Push Toward Key City Of Korosten; 80 Northern Ukraine Towns Taken By Russians

Russians Baltle to Within 58 Miles of , Korosten to Increase Threat of Trapping or Forcing Nazis Back to   Rumania. Battalion of German  ~ Infantrymen Wiped Out. 

Red Troops Only 238 Miles ‘From Goal   Cutting of Rail Line Would Force Germans Deep into Rumania  HUGE TRAP TIGHTENS

Advance Increases Soviet Threat to° Trap Battered Germans or Drive Them Into Rumania.   3,800 NAZIS KILLED ON THREE FRONTS   Hitier’s Troops Attack Reds Trying to Widen Bridgehead at Kerch but Are Beaten Off.

SOVIET FORCES . POSING THREAT TO NAZI TROOPS   Russians Battle To Within _ 58 Miles Of Key Rail City Of Korosten   GERMAN 17TH ARMY APPEARS TRAPPED

Soviets Surge Toward Key Railroad City  Red Shock Troops   Red Shock Troops Cut 50-Mile Arc Around Kiev

Places Taken jn . Drive  FORCES ARE NEAR. BIG RAILWAY HUB  Russian Gains West of Kiey Acknowledged: .. by Germans  ‘More Than 80 Populated

Russian Troops Fan Out in Deep Arc around Kiev   Reds Capture 80 Popu lated Places and Move Nearer to Korosten

Drive Near Key City to Increase Threat of Trap   Expand Bridgehead on Peninsula; Seek to Isolate Enemy

Reds capture 80 villages  in Ukraine   Increase threat to trapped nazis

Complete Isolation of Germans In Dnieper Bend Imminent; Pincers Move Advanced

Reds Threaten to Trap Ukraine Enemy   80 Towns Fall as Soviets Drive Toward Korosten

Reds Advance On Rail Line  To Korosten   Soviets Exert Fresh Pressure on Germans  Trapped in Crimea

Robert J. Kelly Jap Prisoner In The Philippines Had Been Reporte  Mitceciune  rn _ oF   Had Been Reported Missing Since Early Last Year

Robert J. Kelly Jap Prisoner In  The Philippines  Had Been Reporte Mitceinae Qlnra BRawl

FRESH GERMAN TROOPS FAIL 10 HALT RUSSIANS   Reinforcements Flown ta ~-Rédland From Reich   Before Furious Onsiaught   4,000 ARE FELLED   Prisoner Says His Unit Was Hurled Intc Battle Day After Arrival; Soviets Closing on Orel

Fresh Nazi Troops Fall Before Fire (f Russians   Battle Over Orel Proves Too Much  For Recruits.

NEW NAZI TROOPS IN OREL BATTLE   Rushed Into Fight But Day After Being Flown From Germanv.

Russians Break Nazi Reserves   FRESH TROOPS FLOWN TO FRONT ARE ROUTED

Germans Break In Front of Orel   Furious Russian Assaults Bring the Reds Closer to  * Bastion.

German Troops Flown To Soviet On Eve Of Battle   Nazi Soldiers Tell Russian Captors Of Trip From Stettin To War Sector

NAZI RESERVES   Fresh Troops Rushed From Germany Fal! Before New Onslaught.

New Nazi Troops Fail   Russians Smash Through Reserves In Orel Defenses

Reinforcement Attempt F ails  Nazis Break Before  Furious Onstauoht

IN BATTLE A DAY   Nazi Troops Were Flown From Germany: to Rus- ' sian Front ,

Russians Break Through Fresh  German Forces   Reds’ 3-Way Drive Con. tinues Slow Strangula. tion Of Orel.

AIR-BORNE GERMAN  REINFORCEMENTS IN  OREL AREA WHIPPED FURIOUS RED ARMY  ONSLAUGHTS MARK UP ANDDITIONAT CAINS

New German Troops Fail to Halt Reds   Sovets Press Closer to Orel in Six Mile Gains; Nazi Losses Heavy

NAZI RESERVES ARE DEFEATED   4000 Fall Before Onslaught Of Reds At Orel

Meat, Buiter, Cheese, Fats to Be Rationed   Program Probably Will Become Effective April 15

Meat Allowance Likely To Be Two Lbs. Weekly   Expected To Be Started al Pound and Three Quarters

RISE IS DUE AS SEASONAL - DECLINE   Licenses, Permits Key To Strict U. S. Regulation

Wickard To Explain Meat Curb   Rigid Licensing System To Be Discussed on Radic

Meat Ration May Be Raised Later   OWI Man Assures Movie Academy  Of Freedom

DE GAULLE ASKS GET-TOGETHER   Wants Giraud To Meet Him On French Soil.

Penicillin Used As Syphilis Cure   New Drug Treatment Needs Only 8 Days, Harmless to Mon

Pencillin May Be Used to Cure Syphilis, Doctors Tell Public Health Association

Kiska Invasion May ComeSoon   Prolonged Silence Dhee A ntresté¢dQce Dhkanwe

Churchill And FDR Conference  To Come Soon   ‘Prime Minister in Canada  and Will Meet President on  . War Problems in the Near Future.

OFFENSIVE ON KISKA ISLAND SEEN IMMINENT   Prolonged Silence In Aleutian Area Raises Speculation

Secrecy, or Possibly Fog, Shrouds Kiska Island   With Last Reported: Action 12 Days Past; Observers Speculate Navy May Be Letting Tokyo Wonder What. Ils Happeninc   Che plain Recalls Day

SPECULATING ON KISKA SITUATION   Prolonged Silence In North Pacific Spurs Talk Of Imminence Of Invasion.

Meeting Plans Ot Leaders Still Secret   National Capital Also Speculates Over What's Going On in Aleutians

Silence On Kiska Hints New Action   ‘Bataan In Reverse  At Munda

Next Monday Is Bond Night At The Hawkeye  Free Admission Ta Rand Riuvere

Free Admission At Theaters Monday      Must Buy A Bond At Theatre To Get Free Ticket

BUY BOND AT THEATER, GET FREE TICKET   Monday, Sept. 27 is “movie day for Third  War Loan Drive”

27 MINERS. ON PROBATION   Given Six-Month Suspended Sentence in’ Act’s First Test

DO ARE INJURED IN TRAIN WREGH   Many Service Men Among Victims Of Railroad Ac cident In Delaware

PUPILS FOR HELPING FARMERS   R. K. Hagenbuch Is Speaker Before Middletown Grange    FARM PRODUCTS SHOWN

Stephan’s Lawyer  Tries to See FD   Convicted Traitor  Denied New Trial

STEPHAN MAKES PLEA FOR LIFE      Attorney ‘For Convicted Traitor Asks Audience With President

Break Of Lines Accomplished In Spite Of Rains;  Some Prisoners Taken

AMERICAN FORCES IN TUNISIA SMASH BACK GERMAN LINES  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CLINGING TO HEELS OF RETREATING ROMMEL

IMPORTANT POSITIONS CAPTURED   U. S. Forces Recover Ground Lost By French Units

German Units In Tunisia Are  Driven Back   U. §S. Troops Capture Several Places O: Tactical Importance Ir Ousseltia Vallev

REGAIN MUCH GROUND LOST IN TUNISIA      Attack Staged in Pont du Fahs Area, Where French Had Been Rout< ed—Allies Now Hold Pass to Kairouan.

Recover Large Sections Of Territory Lost In Past Week By French;  Prisoners Taken

Yanks Push Back Nazis In Tunis,  Take Vital Pass   German Defenses Are Cracked In Valley: Yanks Recapture  Lost Area

U.S. Forces:in Tunisia Smash Back Nazi Lines  Capture Several Important Places fin MAnuntrin Pree

U.S. Captures Tunisia Posts   Americans Smash Back German Lines, Take Vital Enemy Positions

CRAGK ENEMYS DEFENSE LINES   Recapture Large Sections Lost a Week Ago By French Troops.   BRITISH CHASE ROMMEL

ALLIES SMAS AXIS LINES iN NORTH TUNISIA   Capture Several Important Places In Recent Drive

CRACK LINES OF GERMANS      U. S. Forces Smash Lines Cover Tunisian Mountain Pass.

Americans Crack Axis Tunisia Line   U.S. Forts Blast Nazi Naval Bases   Fnvasion Pian Striet Seeret, But  Rina of Steel Girds Axis

YANKS RECOVER LARGE SECTIONS IN NORTH AFRICA   SMASH AXIS LINES WHERE FRENCH WERE REPULSED WEEK AGO

BRITISH CONTACT ~ RETREATING AXIS   Believe Bulk of Roshmel’ Troops to be Well Inside Tunisia Border

German Lines Are Smashed ~ By Americans   Several:-Positions - Captured by Yanks-in ‘Fighting’ in: Tunisia   ATTACK LAUNCHED :: DESPITE “RAINS   But ~ Weather ‘Conditions “Shut Off-Most' Activ- ao ity in-Area

American Leaque   Lowly Lemon Quits Bars To Go To War As Blood Plasma

Now You Can Get “Blood” Transfusion —  From Lemons; Government Orders Lots

EISENHOWER 1S NAMED AFRICAN FRONT LEADER   French Political Situatior Takes Turn For Better     AXIS SHIPS SUNK     ‘Allies Forced From Strategic Mountain By Germans   AXIS SHIPS SUNK

Eisenhower Is Chief In . North Africa  pee a See: ee. eee   Lacks Authority Over Triumphant Army Of Nile

AMERICAN GET FULL COMMAND OF ALL FORGES         French Political Situation Also Reported Clearing — In Strategic Area :

Early Showdown In Tunisia Seen   Eisenhower Named Allied” Cortinancder

FIVE DROWN, MANY MISSING IN FLOOD   Storm Hits Two Counties in  West Virginia ;

HUQOIANG DRIVE TOWARD ISTHMUS   Seek To Close Bottleneck Ihrough WhichGermans May Try To Flee

Red Mechanized Forces Rolling Toward the Sea of Azov.   mea OL AZOV.  GERMANS FIGHT TO SAVE KIEL, GOMEL  Nazis Blow Up Dnieper River Dam Second Time in This War.

Reds Press On From Smolensk: Kiev Menaced From 3 Sides   German Tanks Seeking To Stem Drive on Gomel

RUSSIANS PUSH TOWARD COME   Gain New Foothoid on East Bank of Dnieper River Near Kiev.

RED ARMY TROOPS MOVE DEEPER INTO WHITE RUSSIA   Drawing Closer to the Ger. man Defense Line on Banks of Upper Dnieper River.   APPROACHING GOMEL   Germans Throwing in Large Numbers of Tanks in Effort to Halt Advance.

RED ARMIES NEARNAZ DEFENSE LINE   Fighting Becomes More Violent Along River

Reds Drive Deeper Inte White Russia   Good Weather Aids Push Beyond Smolensk ‘Toward Dneiper Line Defenses.

GOOD WEATHER, -GOOD HUNTING FAVORS REDS   Russians Push Deeper Into White Russia from Captured Smolensk, Near Main Defensé Line   DRIVE ON GOMEL   Baitle for Gome!-Chernigov High. lights Day's Batiles—New Foot. hold on Dnieper

REDS ARE AIDED — BY SUDDEN SPELL OF BOOD WEATHER      Fighting Becomes More Violent As Reds _ Near Gomel   DNIEPER RIVER IS  NAZIS LAST HOPE

Soviet Troops — In White Russia   DRAW CLOSER TO NAZI DEFENSES ON UPPER DNIEPER

PUSH CLOSER TO GOMEL - VITEBSK DEFENSE LINES   soviet Army Pushes On From Captured Smolensk, With German Lines On Upper Dnieper Next 30a).

REDS PUSH ON AT SMOLENSK   Drawing Hourly Closer To Main Line On  Dnieper

Reds Push Deeper Into White Russia, Closing Upon German Defenses

Violent Fighting Reported Near Gomel With Germans Throwing In Large Numbers of Tanks In Attempt Halt Advance.

SOVIET TROOPS NEARING GOMEL IN NEW THRUS]   Rolling on From Smolensk, Russians Are Menacing Nazis’ Dnicper Line

ALLIES TAKE SANANANDA Pt WIPE OUT JAP   Exactly Six Months After Japs Began Papuan Campaign Gen. Douglas MacArthur Concludes It.   725 J aps Dead

First Complete Area Wrested Back From Foe   More Than 700 Japs Killed as Sanananda  Pocket Crushed   IN SIX MONTHS   Four Enemy Ships Blasted by Bombers Despite Storm

Allies Seore Victory in  Papua Fight   Last Organized Resistance at Sanananda Ends

Is First Land To Be Regained   Scores Of Enemy Soldiers Killed In Final Battle

ALLIES BREA RESISTANCE OF -JAPS IN PAPUA   Begin Cleanup of Stragglers ] ‘on Sanananda Point

PAPUAN BATTLE COMES TO END   Last Jap Resistance At Sanananda Point Is Shattered

TROOPS DIE IN FIGHTING   Victory Gives Troops Under Gen. MacArthur Control of Entire Papuan Peninsula.   FOE’S SHIPPING DEALT NEW BLOW   Four Vessels of 24,000 Tons Sunk in Pre-Dawn Air Raid on Rabual, New Britain.

Japs Cleared From Papua   ‘Last Resistance Shattered; Heavy Shipping Toll Taken

PANTELLERIA A VITAL. MEDITERRANEAN BASE   Beaten Into Subjection With Loss of Only 40 Allied  Bivoniwie

RAIN AND MUD. KEEPS ARMIES IDLE IN AFRICA   Hitler Concentrating On Keeping Mediterranean Blocked to Allied Shipping   COAST IS GUARDED   Despite Advantage of Established Bases Axis Air Force Appears to Be Losing Punch

Yank Fliers Strike Tunisian Air Blows   Supporting Ground Units, Pilots Do Effective Work in Southern Area—Shoot Dowi Four Nazi Planes and Lose Two. -

HITLER SENDS THOUSANDS INTO BATTLE   Rain Hampers Allied Tank Warfare In North   GERMANS HAVE   Advantage Of Short Lines Of Communication: Foe Conserving Strength

Aim To Block Allied Ships Major Effort   Axis Seek To Bottle lJn Mediterranean Sea

Hitler Sends Crack Troops To Tunisia   Best Fliers Being Used in Bid to Hold Mediterranean Bottleneck

AMERICAN AIRFORCE STRIKING BLOWS IN AID GROUND FORCES  FRENCH AND AMERICAN _ TROOPS IN SOUTHERN + TUNISIA GIVEN SUPPORT

RAIN HAMPERS TANKS IN AFRICA   German Air Force Lose: ~ Punch in Face of Allied Opposition

Rail Yards Rocked in Afro-Raid   Four of Enemy Planes Downed in Bad Weather

HITLER SENDS CRACKTROOPS INTO TUNISIA   Axis Movements Indicate Determination to Keep Mediterranean Block ed to Shipping   WEATHER IS HANDICAP

HITLER THROWS MORE MEN INTO TUNISIAN FIGHT   Thousands of Troops Moved To Tripolitanian Border, Writer Says

NAZIS FAGE NEW . STALINGRAD TRAP   Russian Forces Only 30  MilesApartInNew  Pincers Move   AIR BASE HELD   Desperate German Counterattacks Are Repulsed, Says Moscow

U. S. Strikes Ait  Blow in Tunisia   American Bombers Down 4 Nazi Planes; Give French And Own Forces Sunnart

Hitler Using Best Men in North Africa   Veteran Troops and First Line. Air Force Employ. ed in AU-Out Effort   RAIN: ‘PREVENTING. TANK WARFARE   But Allies Are Holding Air Despite Handicap; Writer Reports on Lone Survey

Weather Holds Up Tunisian Struggle Hitler Throwing Crack  Troops, Airmen Into  Area For Battle

Raid Axis In Africa   U. S. Strikes Effective Blows With Bombers

Yank Bomber: Strike Blows  In Tunisia   Raids Made In Support Of The Allied Ground Forces

British Eighth Army Rushes Aid to Battered American Soldiers  FRENCH REPEL ATTACK Soviets Take Rail  Town and Menace Retreating Germans

ALHIES HIT HARD AT BOTH ENDS GF SOUTHERN. PACIFIC   Stiff Jap Resistance 1: Broken Up ~— Patrol; Within Mile Of “Munda

ALLIES ON ° OFFENSIVE NEAR MUNDA   Battle Actions Are Small But Fierce

ALLIES ATTACK INS. W, PACIFIC ON TWO FRONTS   Americans Widen Lilio Beachhead East of Munda

Allies Kill 261 Japs in 24 Hours Of Action in Southwest Pacific   Yanks Account for 179 Enemy Dead On Lilio Beach head

Allies Break Up Resistance On  Lilio Bachhead   Supporting Aircraft Continue Relentless Blasting of Area

Jap Outposts Rolled Back Before Mund   Allied Forces Attack Relentlessly In Two Pacific Areas

JAP’S NAVAL BASE BOMBED   Paramushiru Attacked. by Army Airmen. — Big Enemy Base Only About 1,300 Miles from Tokyo Itself. .

Allies Attack ory Both Ends of Line in Pacific.   Toll of 261 Enemy Dead Taken In 24 Hours —

FIGHTING SLOWS UP SOMEWHAT   Efforts Are Directed To ward Breaking Up Stiffening Jap Resistance.

ROUSE COMMITTEE APPEARS LOADED AGAINST NEW DEAL   New Group Plans To Crack Down on Federal Agencies Which Have Usurped Legislative Functions.

Want An Alarm Clock?  Geo te Britain--They've  Just Got 60.000 of "Em 

Berlin Reports. Parachutists of Allies Massing  _ Concentration  reri irae

Strong Parachute Units Seen Massing On Mediterranean   Berlin Broadeast Reports Large British, American Invasion Forces Massing Opposite Southern Eurepe

Detroit Mourns  Death Of Ford   Private Funeral Services Are ranged For Edsel Ford Friday Afternoon

Family Of Five Burned To Death In Fire Which  Destroys Farm Home

New Invasion of Europe is Near   Allies Seek to Drive Luftwaffe From Skies Before They Invade

Pontelardoleo Captured; Dozen   Dozen German Cities Lay Torn And Burning From AmericanBritish Air Assaults   BITTER FIGHTING IS REFORTED IN ITALY

Resistance Ended On Key Enemy Base  In Solomons Area   Gen. Vandegrift Reveals Plans For ~ New Allied Seaborné Drive On Japanese In Southwest Pacific

Flame Throwers Burn Nips Out of Last Strong Point   Guadalcanal Chief ls Back at Front From States Visit

Resistance ls Fnded   Fate of Munda le Sealed—MacArthur; U.S, Troops Wipe Out Trapoed Jans

1671 JAPANESE = KILLED IN THE BIG BATTLE OF MUNDA   All Enemy Resistance Has Ceased, MacArthur’s Headquarters Said.   ARE NOW MOPPING-UP.   Munda Was the Enemy Key Base in the Heart of Solomon Line.

Long, Bloody Siege Ends  In Solomons   MacArthur Says 1,671 Foe Die In Struggle

JAP RESISTANCE ENDS AT MUNDA   Munda Was Enemy’s Key Base In Solomons

Hint of New against Foe   Over Thousand Japs. : ‘Dead, Fighting to Halt Amerigans in Assault on Air Base .

Only Final Mopping Up To Be Done   Japs Preparing to Defend Salamaua, Which May Be Next

Japanese Resistance Is Ended   Fate of Munda Ie Sealed— MacArthur; U. S. Troops Wipe Out Trapped Japs

Air Base Now In Hands (Of Americans   Vandergrift Hints At New Sea-Borne Operations Against Japs

DEAD: NEW DRIVE HINTED   Gen. Vendegrift Says “the Amphibious Corps Is Ready for Action” in the Southwest Pacific  Fano

Total of 1671 Dead Japs Have Already Been Counted by Victorious U.S. Troops After Bloody Siege Ended

Yanks Capture Jap-Held Munda After Bloody Flame Throwing Fight Which Destroyed 1,671 Of The Enemy   Gen. Vandegrift Hints At New Allied Sea-Borne Operations Against Japan In Southwest Pacific; ‘Amphibious Corps Ready For Action’

DIE IN FIGHT FOR AIRFIELD   General Vandegrift Hints At New Amphibious Move Against Enemy: Allies Gain In New Guinea

ENEMY LOSES KEY BASE IN SOLOMONS AREA   1,671 Nip Dead Are Counted As Victorious Americans Seize Sector   NEW OPERATIONS HINTED   Allied Troops Within Five Miles Of Big Stronghold At Salamaua

OCCUPY MUNDA AS RESISTANCE OF JAPS ENDS   New Allied Sea-Borne Operations In Pacific  Are Hinted   THREATEN SALAMAUA   Intervening Jap Bases Are Weakened By Fall of Munda

New Operations In Southwest Pacific Soon   MacArthur Tells of Heavy Jap Losses at Air Base

Lt. Gen. Vandergrift Hints  at New Operations in Southwest Pacific

All Organized Jap Resistance Reported Ended   MacArthur Announces That 1,671 rapanase Dead Already Have Been Counted

Munda Falls — To Allies   1,671 Japs Dead as Grim Struggle For Air Base Ends; Hint New Allied Offensive in Making

New Offensive Operations Against Japan Hinted as Soon as Airfield Area in Solomons Mopped Up

Munda Is Captured By U.S. Doughboys   All Organized Japanese Resistance at Air Base in Cen. tral Solomons Has Ceased, MacArthur Announces.   New Allied Sea-Borne Operations Against Japanese Are Forecast

YANKS HULL JAPS ON CIBIK RIDGE   Action Constituted Most Sustained Fighting of Campaign.

8TH U. S. AIR FORCE DROPS 3,000 TONS OF BOMBS"IN MAY   American Force Also. Wins Other Records During Month—RAF Steps Up Activity

MAYOR BEGINS HIS 3RD TERM   Demo Leader Is Winner Over Attorney by 116,159 Votes

KELLY RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGE   Starts Third Four-Year Term; Wins By Over 100,000 Votes.

RE-ELECT KELLY MAYOR OF CHICAGO   VETERAN CAMPAIGNER WINS THIRD TERM IN CITY ELECTION

KELLY REELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGO   Democrat Incumbent De feats George M’Kibben  by 116.159 Votes.

TEMPERATURES:   Kelly Elected  To Third Term   Chicago Mayor Wins “Tuesday's Election

KELLY IS RE-ELECTED   Chicago Mayor Begins llth Year As Head Of Metropolis

MAYOROF CHICACD   66-Year-Old Democrat Appears Headed For Record For Chicago  ' Mavors

Kelly Wins Third Term   Serves Longest Tenure Of Office As Mayor in History of Chicago

Chicago Voters Re-elect Kelly  Named For His Thir<   Named For His Third Term As Mayor

1d ARE ASSURED TOP POSITIONS ON ELECTION BALLOT   State Supreme Court Upholds Order of Listing of Slated Candidates for Convention Delegates.   PLAN WAS ATTACKED BY LEXINGTON MAN   Frank Catron Sought to Have Others Given First Places on at Least Half of Ballois.

Top Places For Political Slate On Ballots    Supreme Court Denies Mandamus Suit Filed . by Springfield Man

Resistance ofAlliesIs . Increasing   NAZIS MAKING DESPERATY EFKORT TO CRACK DEFENSE.

Lie Detector Test Passed By Marign}         No Wavering of Needk as He Replies ‘No’ to Queries on Slaving

Lie Detector = Test Taken By De Marigeny   Result: Indicated That “He: Did ‘Not Take’ ‘Life OF Oakes, Is Report Of Criminclogist

JAP ADMIRAL KILLED   Successor To Yamamoto Meets Same Fate At Allied Hands

DE MARIGNYS FAIL TO WED   Couple Fail To Appear For Remarriage At  Church

Rumor States Nancy Balked on Wedding   Turn of Events Complicates Affairs for de Marigny

DeMarigny, Wife Fail To Appear For Remarriage  No Announcement Pe ee 6 ae

Tojo Grabs New Power: Pair Ousted   CABINET MINISTERS HIRASHAMA, SUZUKI RELIEVED OF POSTS

SHY 7 CARS OF COAL   City Schools Have Not Received  Delivery on All of Its Fuel

Bond Drive In Sioux   Has Not Reached Tor   Hull Among Those Who Are (ve: The Top; Figures By Towns And Townships Listed

Chairman Mouw Says People Must Come Across With More Bond Pledges

Turks Reach Agreements With Britain   Churchill Confers With - President of Turkey  After Casablanca

Safeguarding Of Allied Flank In Mediterranean Results From Meet me.

Britain, Turkey Reach New  Agreements  Churchill Visits Nation After Leaving Casablanca

Britain, Turkey Reach New  Agreements  Churchill Visits Nation After

NEW STAGE HIT FUNZAPOPPIN’   Will Be Presented By Local Talent For Benefit War Veterans. 

NZAPOPPIN” 'NEFIT SHOW FOR LEGION   Freda Foster to Direct h Class Comedy for Reilitation Work.

Food Program Unworkable. Faces Breakdown. Is Davis Warning to White House

PRESENT FOOD SETUP FAULTY, DAVIS STATES   Administrator Blames Divided Control For Con fused Situation   PART OF BLAME IS PUT ON PRESIDENT

DAVIS SEEKS QUICK ACTION ONFOODPLAN      Present Program Held Un. ' workable by Food Chief

Food Program Near Collapse?   ‘Administrator Says Plan Not Working

Food Program Collapse Seen   Davis Says Management lmpassible at Peeaent

SAYS NATION'S FOOD PROGRAM NEAR FAILURE   Davis Urges Steps tc Eliminate Divided Authority

Davis Warns U.S. Food Program Near Collapse  Says Must Eliminate Divided Authority, White House Told  TOO MANY AGENCIES  Urges More Flexible Price-Fixing Rules  amayae

Davis Says Food Program Is Not Satisfactory   Administrator Advise: White House There Is Danger of Collapse

Administrator Chester C. Davis Declares Breakdown Likely Unless Price Control Is Made More Flexible and Divided Authority Ended—Says Some Officials Lack Understanding on Production and Distribution.

COLLAPSE OF FOUD PROGRAM FORSEEN   Davis Says Present Program Is Not Working Satisfactorily and Is In Danger of Collapse Unless Steps Are Taken.

Food Program May Collapse,  Davis Warns   Divided Authority And White House Delay Hit by Administrator

FOR FILLS CORPS, SELECTS DANIELS   Picks Another Newspaper: Trained Administrative Assistant

PRESIDENT GETS NEW ASSISTANT   Son Of Josephus Daniels Made Trouble Shooter For White House

TULE LAKE PROBE “GROUP REPORTS   California Senators Again Urge Army Retain Cen. ter trol

RUSSIAN AND NAZI TANKS NOW LOCKED IN CRUCIAL BATTLE   Armored Struggle Along Vorskla’ River’ May — _* Decide Control Of Ukraine

Reds, Nazis Wage Big Tank Battles   Fight Rages on Vorskla River

REDS, NAZI ARE LOCKED IN FIGHT   Red Tank Columns, Enemy Armored Units Have Met Near Pottava.

Reds Heading Directly For City Of Kiev   Can Strike To South Toward Poltava, Or Continue 170 Miles To Kiev

Tank Battle Is Under Way Near Poltava   Russians Attempting To Break Through Line Guarding Approaches To Dnieper River

RUSS-NAZI TANK BATTLE IN PROGRESS   Crucial Conflict Reported Near Poltava -

Armored Conflict May Decide Fate Of Ukraine  As Russian Gains Grow

NAZIS FIGHT HARD T0 SAVE VITAL POINT   Control of the Ukraine Involved in Bloody  Contests

Crucial Armored Battle Going On   Russians Fighting To Break Ukraine Line

REDS ADVANCE ON IMPORTANT WIEV RAILROAD      Drive To Within Thirty Miles Ukraine Drive Also Makes Gain

BLOCK OF DAD ‘DRAFT IS SEEN   Speedy Action Looms When Congress Reconvenes

CONGRESS MAPS DRAFT ACTION   Probability Looms That Body Will Block Scheduled Cail For Dads

TAFT RESENTS DAVIS ON RADIC   Says. OW! H ‘Head “Com---mandeered”: - z Stations; Talked Propaganda. -

Davis Denies Commandeering Radio Stations as Charged by Sen. Taf#

gBeach Indignant Over Story’ In: Recent Globe-Pos'       bing Says They Have ome and Food Is Now Reasonable

g Beach Indignant Over = Story In: Recent Globe-Post      boing Says They Have e Home and Food Is  low Reasonable

Giraud Predicts Defeat of Hitler, But Warns Contest May Be Lengthy

Early Invasion of  Europe Seen  Giraud Asks French to Await Attack

Heavy Jap Air Attack Blasted   Guadalcanal Foray  Proves Disastrous By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER  haw we tmdmek Chea nw Shan kk BAFeidadnn

Japanese Lose Many Planes in Guadalcanal Raid   Thirty-Seven Knocked Down against Seven Lost by Allies

Japs Strike At U.S. Shipping   100 Planes Hurled a! Battle-Weary Guadalcanal Area

Japs Hurl Air Armada on U.S. Ships in-Pacific   Americans Down 37 Enemy Planes; Speculate on Assault

YANKS DOWN 37 JAP PLANES   Greatest Foe Air Attack on Guadalcanal in Months Is Repulsed

37 JAP PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE OFF GUADALCANAL   Nipponese Hurl 50 Bombers and 48 Zero Fighters Against U.S. Shipping in Area,   AMERICANS LOSE 7 PLANES IN FIGHT   Attack Leads to Speculation Whether Mikado’s Forces Plan New Moves in Solomons.

37 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Japanese Lose Heavily in Attack on Guadalcanal

Yanks Down 37 Jap Planes At Guadalcanal   Americans Lose but Seven Aircraft In Big Air Battle

Yanks Down 37 Out of 98 J ap Aircraft   Defenders Lose Seven As Japs Raid Vessels In Guadalcanal Area  U.S. SHIP LOSSES NOT DISCLOSED  \

37-ENEMY-PLANES —DOWNED IN BATTLE   Japanese Lose Heavily in Attack on Guedal- .  canal

JAPS LOST 37 OF 98 SENT ON GUADALCANAL   Americans Lost Seven Planes in Warding Off Attack On American Shipping Off ‘that Island.   Japan Air Strength Grows

Japs Lose 37 Planes in  Raid on Isle   Guadalcanal Pilots Intercept Nips, Lose Seven Craft

Heavy Jap Air Attack Blasted   ~ Guadaleanal Caves SGGGG CGT Oray  Proves Disastrous

Nazis Stage Disastrous Flight Toward Polish —  And Rumanian Borders

‘Long Toms’ Reach Vital Air Fields   Axis Artillery Is Duelling With The British Ip Mareth Line Sector 75 Miles To South

Last Mountain Barrier Overlooking Coast Is Seized  ARTILLERY BATTLE RAGING IN SOUTH  American Break- Through Behind Rommel Is Expected

Last Mountain Barrier Taken By Gen. Patton   Yanks Now only 28 Miles from Axis Coastal Lifeline   Berlin Reports Germans Fighting © Superior Allied Forces’

Gain Control Of Last Barrier To Axis Life Line   British Kighth Army Settles Down To Artillery ue I With Enemy Bie Guns

US Forces Take Height Commanding Road to Axis Coastal Lifeline   Patton’s Troops Fanning Out Near Mezzoung; Artillery Duels Raging in Mareth Line Offensive

General Patton’s Troops Fanning Out Along Highway Near Mezzouna   ‘BRITISH AND GERMANS FIGHT ARTILLERY DUEL

AMERICANS TAKE CT AATEGIC HILLS   Control Last Mountain Barrier to Coastal Plain   PATTON IN LEAD   Americans Also Push Ahead Beyond El Guetar; Aerial Armada Pounds Axis

GENERAL PATTON’S TROOPS FAN OUT ON BOTH SIDES OF HIGHWAY A FEW  MILES SHORT OF MEZZOUNA.

Axis Lifeline Is In Danger   Americans Control Mountain Barrier 28 Miles From Coast: “Long Toms” Hammer Enemy Airfields

Artillery Duel Is Raging in Mareth Battle   Americans But 28 Miles From Coastal Lifeline of Axis; Allies Control Air

Axis Coastal Line Menaced  By U. S. Force   Eighth Army and Rommel’s Troops in Artillery Duel on Mareth Line; Berlin Admits Withdrawal

Last Barrier To Coastal.  Road Passed   British:Eighth Army in Artillery Duel  ‘on Mareth Line -.-

2,000 POUND BOMBS ARE DROPPED BY ALLIES ON RABAUL IN NEW BRITAIN   LARGE FIRES AND HEAVY EXPLOSIONS SEEN ALONG THE NORTHERN SHORE OF THE HARBOR; LIEUTENANT GENERAL PATTON'S FORCES ARE ADVANC nr"Tr

Last Hill Barrier 28 Miles Short Of Coast Road Taken   Slashing Nazi Attack Wipes Out British Gains At Mareth After Stubborn Fiahtina

Heavy Armored Attacks By Nazis Repulsed In Gafsa Sector By American Troops

TAKE VITAL HILL IN PUSH TOWARD SEA   ‘Last Mountain Barrier  _ Overlooking German  ' Coastal Lifeline Falls to Amerieans.   PATTON IN FIELD WITH HIS TROOPS   Artillery Duel Rages Along Mareth Line — Vichy Quotes Berlin as Admitting a Retreat.

‘PISTOL BRIDE’ GAINS FREEDOM   Soda Clerk Testifies Owner Of Store Forced Her to Marry; Court Issues Annulment Decree

Jap Actions Stir Americans  Many Cities, States Overshoot Quotas in War Loan Campaign

MANY PLACES OVER QUOTAS   Jap Executions of Yankee Flyers Spur Sale of War Bonds

SECOND WAR LOAN GOALS BEING UPPED   Japanese Executions Incentive Over Nation

Allred Expected To Testily Today   Texas Solons To Back His Appointment

Allred to Testify Before Senate Group Friday  O’Daniel Fights His Nomination To Circuit Court

ALLRED EXPECTED TESTIFY BEFORE SENATE. COMMITTEE  TEXAN FACES OPPOSITION SENATORS OVERTON ANN O’DANIFL

U. S. Force to Maintain  World Peace   Hull Says Foundation of Lasting Peace Hinges on Use of Arms

House Committee May Submit Bill Affecting All War Work.   /RICKENBACKER {INVITED

Absentee Hearing  Opens Wednesday   House Group Calls Knox As First Witness

KNOX CALLED ~ ON ABSENTEEISN   To Be First Witness 2 ~ Hearings By House Naval Committee

Knox To Testity On Absenteeism In House Probe  ay Haran dip ang ings me   on Worm

PREDICT SYNTHETIC RUBBER TQ REMAIN      New Product Expected te Compete With Natural Rubber After War.

Over Half of New Synthetic Rubber Industry Expected to Be Continued

LABOR LEADERS LIKELY T0 HAVE GURBS APPLIED   House Committee Approves Bill To Outlaw Strikes And Check on Unions   MINE STRIKE BOOMERANGS   Senate Swings Into Debate On Drastically Changed Pay-as-you-go Tax Bill

QUICK SHORT DRIVE CANHIT OBJECTIVE   LeMars One of Last Districts For Red Cross Quota

War Fund Drive For Red Cross Is Started Throughout Plymouth County   Partial Reports From Several Districts Have Been Received

TAN HiT ABITTIE   LeMars One of Last Dis. ’° tricts For Red Cross w Ouota:

HAS THE CASH   State Liquor Department Ends Year With $6,000,000 Surplus.

Strike Curtails War Plant Work  Part of Chrysler Workers Walk Out

Nazis. Seeking  _ Larger Force   Those Previously Turned Down By Army Get 2d ‘Chance To Serve

Nazi Manpower Shortage Acute   Army And Home Front Suffering From War

Mounting Casualties in War Result in Increased Use Of ‘Slave’ Labor

Nazis Now Drafting Men Formerly Termed Unfit   Mounting Casualties Force Germans To Comb  Manpower Ranks For 2 Million More

GERMANY BEING SCOURED FOR MOR E SOLDIERS   To Mobilize Every Available Reserve by Mustering Men Previously Rejected   ‘REICH BEING TOURED      Nation Desperate for Military Manpower In Face of Mounting Casual-. ties At Fronts‘

GERMANS COMBING NATION TO GET MORE SOLDIERS TO MEET NEW PRESSING NEEDS

NAZI GENERALS HARD PRESSED FOR RESERVES   German Army Now Calling Up Men Previcusly Rejected

Nazis Calling Available Men Up For Army   Commission On Tour O! Reich To Obtain As Many As Possible Ta Meet Shortage

Germans Hare Pressed for  Enough Men   Europe Being Swept Clean for Soldiers, Workers

Germans, Faced With Mounting  - War Casualties, Looking About For ‘Unfits’ to Bolster Army

CASUALTIES AND NEW FRONTS HIT NAZ MANPOWER   Calling Men Who Were Rejected In Other Calls

Reich Combs All Available Men For Duty   Many Previously Rejected For Military Duty Are Being Called   SHORTAGE OF WORKERS

Nazis Are Combing Reich For Last of Manpower,  Once Held Unfit for Army

Germans Muster In Rejected Men To Bolster Reserve For Coming Battles

GERMANY FACED GROWING NEENS   Attempt to Mobilize All Reserves: Seek Trained War Workers.   OFFICERS TOUR REICH

Germans Comb Out Last of Reserves Of Nazi Manpower   Situation In Reich Is Reported in Sweden as Being Critical

GERMANS MAKE STERN EFFORT TO MEET NEEDS   Calling Men Heretofore Physically Unfit for Military Service

R AF Scatters Bombs on Rhine Targets   Planes Drop Mines In Nazi Waters To Harass Shipping

Rhineland Hit y RAF Bombs   ig Planes Also Droy Mines in Skagerrah Section

MINES LAID IN COAST WATERS   R. A. F. Concentrates On Crippling Hitler’s Transportation

Scattered Targets in Rhineland Hit By RAF: Nazis in Raid on England

COTTON ESTIMATE IN  HEAVY DECLINE PAST  MONTH 1S REPORTED HOT, DRY WEATHER HAS  CUT EXPECTED PRODUCTION RV ge70 NNN RALES

Recapfure Two Prison Trusties   Tie Up Soldier, Force Girl To Drive Car

EISENHOWER IN COMMAND IN NO. AFRICA   New Theatre of Operations Set Up, Relieving American of European Theatre Command   ALLIES LOSE HILL   Axis Scores Local Gain as British Eighth Army Reported 60 Miles Inside Tunisia -

Showdown Neat As Lewis Fails To Answer FDR   Nationwide Shutdown Set for Midnight; New Laws Proposed

UMW Chief Views FDR’S Ultimatum Without Comment   Union Leaders To Discuss Order At Special Meet Friday Night

John L. Lewis Must Make Biggest Decision Of Showdown-Studded Career After President’s Order —

REDS CAPTURE FIFTY TOWNS AND VILLAGES   24-Hour Drive Against Nazis Nets More Gains; Whole Russian Line Reported “Holding”

SURGING REDS DRIVE CLOSER TO SMOLENSK   Chuguev and Belgorod Sectors Still Are Centers of Most Violent Fighting In Donets Area   KURSK NAZI OBJECTIVE

REDS CLOSER TO SMOLENSK   Nazi Assaults in Kharkov Area Reported Beaten

RUSSIANS HALT NEW BLOWS   Repulse Nazi Efforts to Cross Upper Donets  By TUE EINITEN perce

Stave Off New Nazi Assaults  Kharkov Front   Tear Local Breach In  Lines West Of Moscow

50 Towns Fall In Red Drive   Driving Ahead Toward Smolensk; Nazis Shift Assault to Kursk

Ways and Means Defeats Measure To Buy Bond Ads  Unncsn Carmmittas Clas   House Committee Side: With Treasury in Opposing Bill

IN TUNISIAS ALLIES ARE WAKING. GAINS   American Troops Are Giving a Good Account cf Tcemsz?lves.   FIGHTING IS BLOODY   Allied Columns Are Closing in Despite Fierce Resistance.  ae.

Several Landings Indicated With Bridgeheads Indicated; Batt'e Raging

Troop-landing Craft and Amphibious Jeeps, Sweeping Across Strait Under Cover of Moonless Night, Land on Beaches Opposite Messina

British 8th Army Springs Across Strait   Reports Indicate Landings Made at More Than One Point and Fierce Fighting On Toe of Italy Indicated

ITALY: INVASION IN FULL SWING   Alhtes “Take Advantage of Superiority”

LONG-WANTED SECOND FRONT OPENED TODAY   Axis Has Estimated 500,000 Men Available for Duty in Italy Against Allied Invader,

Spearheaded the First of Several Expected Invasions of Hitler’s Europe With PreDawn Crossing. ;   ‘QUICKLY CAPTURED : REGGIO CALABRIA   The British Stormed Through Wreckage of Pill Boxes, Coastal Batteries and Road Blocks.

Reggio Calabria And Scilla Taken. Axis Radio Admits   Veteran Eighth Army Storms Into Haly After Crossing Messina Strait From Sicily

DEATH STRUGGLE RAGING FOR KEY  COASTAL ROUTES   MONTY’S MEN CROSS FROM MESSINA, HOLD SEVERAL BRIDGEHEADS

8th Army Leads Assault   No Setback Yet Encountered in First  Invasion of Hiiler’s Fortress of Europe

Scilla and Reggio Calabria Reported To Be Occupied   Axis Is Putting Up Fierce Battle; U. S. Is Ready to Strike

Occupy Two Villages On  Toe Of Boot   More Invasions Of Continent Expected

\British 8th Army Sweeps Through Coastal  Defenses      FIGHTING IS HEAVY   Attack Is First of Several Expected Invasions of Continent

Allied Troops Occupy Scilla And Calabria   US Bombers Blast Northern France, Hitting Paris Region; Reds Deal Staggering New Blows to Germans

Two Drives, One To North And One Around Eastern Coast Seem Plan Of Allies; Military Experts Speculating On Whereabouts Of U.S. Seventh Army. —

"British And Canadians "Gain Beacheads At. ‘Reggio Calabria, Scilla  bint At Coming Action For 7th Army:

AFL Council By-Passes Lewis Reunion Request  _ Charter Application Left to Convention _ Minus Recommendatior

Application of UM W Is Pigeonholed   ‘UNTIL ANNUAL CONVENTION WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION - WHICH GREEN SAYS IS UNPRE CEDENTED.   Unanimously Set Aside

AFL Couneil Refers Lewis  To Convention   Interpreted as Rebuff, Possibility Seen Lewis May Drop Application

Lewis. Charter Plea Referred To AFL Parley   Council Declines to Exercise Power: Mine Union Head Likely To Withdraw Action

AFL VOTES 10 DELAY ACTION ON LEWIS’ BID   Question of Admitting Miners’ Union Put Off  Until October   REPORT SUBMITTED AT COUNCIL'S MEET   Progressive Mine Workers Oppose Re-affiliation

AF OF L REFERS UMW APPLICATION   Executive Council Declines to Exercise Power to Charter UMW, but Leaves it up to Its Annual Convention

WON'T ACT ON MINERS: UNION   AFL Council to Refer Re quest for Reaffiliation To Convention

AFL Convention To Act On Lewis Application   Council Refers Question Of U. M. W. Re-Entry In Federation To General Meeting In October; Conflicts Develop Over Proposal

Americans And Britis Press Forward Slowly  On Nazis Italian Lines

British patrols push over Sangre   Americans capture 2 more towns near Venafro, Italy

Says Rum! Tax Plan All Right But Treasury Dept. Didn’t Think Of it First   Knutson Makes Opening Talk fn House As Debate Starts

TREASURY IRKED WITH RUMIL PLAN, KNUTSON ASSERTS   Oppose It Because They Didn’t Think of It First, Says Congressman as De.  bate Opens.

House Opens — Discussion Of  Ruml Tax Plan   Treasury Department Scored By Minnesota Congressman

KNUTSEN LEADS DEBATE FOR RUML PAY-AS-YOU-GOTAX    Says There Would Be No Opposition If “Treasury Thousht of Ht First.’

DEBATE OPENS IN HOUSE ON RUML TAX PLAN   One Thing Wrong. Says Congressman. Treasury Didn’ Think of It First.

GOP Batile For Ruml Tax Plan Begins   Knutson Scores Treasury Benefit For Wealthy

Heavy Fog Hovers Over Island Weather Brings Operations Against Kiska to Standstill

Ban Pleasure Auto Driving   O. P. A. Issues Drastic New Regulation To Become Effective On Thursday

OPA ASKS STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES . TO ASSIST IN EN- ' FORCEMENT

Free Concerts Being Planned   Small Towns To Hear Sympheny Groups

Musie Boss Plans Concerts For Small Towns, and Free   Head Musicians’ Union Announces Fund Authorized te Send Big City Symphony Orchestras to Such Cities As Wheeling; Sug eet Bec TOAkK Ree Hd ee

Nazis’ Gestapo ToBeProblem   Ex-German ‘Official: Says Secret Avents Will Be Midoce: In Europe 

Gestapo Long To Be Menace. Ex-Head Says  Will Give Trouble   Long After Hitler

Gestapo Will Fight On After Nazi Defeat, Ex-German Police Head Says

OPA. TO. DISCONTINUE GAS HEARINGS AGANST STATE DEER HUNTERS   Another Hunter’s Gas Allowance Suspended Raising  Total To 20   letyTH HUNTER LOSES LIFE

OPA DISCONTINUES CHECK ON HUNTERS   Six Michigan Hunters Are Dead With Half of Season Left.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Amportance Of Kharkov Pe Kiska Will Grow As Future Unfolds

The War Today Recapture Of Kharkov Seen As \Key Victory Of Russo-German War

Japs Claim Advance Into india   British Fail to Confirm Report From Axis Source

AZ U-BASE IN FRANCE IS AGAIN RAIDED   Lorient Sea Of Flame, Pilots Report On Return   Americans In Daylight Attack On Naples, Bomb Ships

GETS PRIORITY   Jeffers Brings Rubber Pro. gram Out Of ‘Dog House’

RUBBER OUTPUT BOOSTED   Jeffers Given Priorities For Obtaining Vital Equipment

RUBBER PLANT PROGRAM GETS ~ PRIORITY HELE   JEFFERS FIGHT FOR MORE MATERIALS FOR SYNTHETIC PRODUCTION HAS BROUGHT RESULTS:

989,000 COAL MINERS TALK ABOUT STRIKE   Threats Voiced After Operators Refuse Pay Boosts

Mine Operators Reject Demands   Union Leaders Say Strike Will Result

Fighter Pilot Battles Way Through Jungles To Safety After Bailing Out In Central New Guinea

Allied Guns Hit Jap Stronghold  In New Guinea   Northern Road To Nigpon Is Declared.Open:  For Conquest - en

Battle for Salamaua in Final Stages With Yanks and Aussies Putting Nips Into Retreat— Recapture of Kiska Paves Way for Striking Japan Proper

ALLIED SIEGE GUNS BLASTING AT SALAMAUA   Japs Retreat Deeper Into Defense System  On New Guinea

Allied Siege Guns Pound Salamaua From Two Miles   Conquest of Kiska Shortens Road to Tokio, Leaders Say

Salamaua Is Blasted By Allied Guns   Fall of Big Air Base Appears Almost Within Sight; Conquest of Kiska Places Allies on Shortest Route to Tokyo

EARLY FALL OF SALAMAUA BASE IS PREDICTED   Siege Guns Blast Stronghold As Japs Are Pushed Into Last Defenses   KISKA CONQUEST VALUED   Military Chiefs Say Victory Places Allies On Shortest Road To Tokyo

AWAITING FALL QF SALAMAUA   MacArthur Says Capture Of Big Jap Base Is Within Sight

Japanese Ri To Last Defe  Around Salan   Fall of Big Air Base in * Guinea to U.S. App  Certain.   Allies Spread From Kiska to Segula Isle

Allies Pound  Salamaua   JAPANESE STRONGHOLD BLASTED BY GUNS IN BITTER SIEGE STROKE

FALL OF ENEMY AIR BASE ONLY HOURS : DISTANT   Seizure of Kiska Shortens U. S. Route To Tokyo

Allied Siege Guns Blasting Salamaua; Fallof Kiska Opens Shortest Allied Route to Tokyo

‘The Jap Is on The Run’   High - Ranking ‘Commanders See Pincer Movement on Japan’s Pacific Holdings

Batter Enemy Salamaua Hold  With Big Guns   Allied Troops Move Up Al Along Semicireular Front In New Guinea.   STUDY KISKA OPENING

Reoccupation Of Kiska Places Allies On Shortest Road To Tokyo, General Believes; Many Escaping Nip Troops Believed Lost

ALLIES PREPARE FOR FINAL DRIVE ON JAP AIRFIELD   Capture Ridge Overlookine Nip Airdrome at Salamaua

ALLIED GUNS BLAST JAPS IN NEW GUINEA   Enemy Troops Retreat Deeper Into Last Defenses

Economy Urged By Democrat   Huge Saving Seen By Rep. Starnes ---

ARMY EXPENSE SAVINGS URGED   House Makes First Move Toward Cutting Costs

The War Today— Says Double Disaster Faces Nazis As Battle Of Dnieper Reaches Crisis

GERMANS FACING DISASTER IN BLOODY BATTLE FOR DNIEPER RIVER’S LONG DEFENSE [INE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Senolensk, Break-Through ill Enable Russians To Turn Nazi Line

The Bloody Battle of the Dnieper Has Reached Crisis One of Great Dramas of the War

The War Today   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE  Roeanit ina Preece War Anslvst

27 DIE IN A TRAIN WRECK   Speeding to Make Up Lost Time Believed to Have Been the Cause

REPORT UNNERVES BUTTER INDUSTRY   Threatened Price Roll-Back Would Cause Enormous Loss.

Draft Hearing Set By House   Military Affairs Committee To Hear Opinion Of Of ficers On Changes.

HIGH OFFICERS 10 TESTIFY ON ARMY'S MANPOWER NEEDS   House Committee May Re‘open Entire Selective ervice Act

Draft’s Setup > To Be Debated   Manpower Needs. Will Be Determined ;, Ghanges Ave ‘Predicted 2:

United Mine Workers and Ceal Operators’ Resume Contract Mectings — No Chance for Agreement According to Southern Group.

Little Hope Held Out For Agreement On Coal Contracts   Burke Thinks Case Will Be Sent Back To the War Labor Board; Prospects for Agreement Not Encouraging

WAGE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS ARE RESUMED      Miners And Operators Seeking To Arrive At New Agreement

Mine Agreement Prospect Gloomy   Say Case Should Be Sent Back To Board

Operators and UMW Resume  Conferences   Main Point in Dispute is Amount Of Portal Pay

Operators Gloomy Over Prospects for Contract   Burke: Would Send Case Back to WLB; Parley Js Resumed

NO CHANCE OF AGREEMENT I$ GROUP’S VIEW   Southern Coal Operators Want Case Returned To Labor Board

UMW, OPERATORS RESUME DEBATES ON WAGES TODAY   Sessions Arranged Despite Contention of Southern Group at Washington.

Outlook in Coal Dispute Is Gloomy   Chairman of Operators ~ Believes Case to Go  Back to WLB

” Coal Operators See Little Hope Of Aoreement   Gonferences Resumec With John L. Lewis’ Mine .Workers

CONTINUE TRY FOR CONTRACT   Fifteen Days Given By Board to Reach Settlement Will Expire Tomorrow: Board May Then Act.

SOUTHERN MINE QWNERS ABANDON  HOPE OF ACCORE   Operators Insist on Returning Whole Case to War Labor Board.

Senate Farm Group 0.K.'s Parity Boost   Committee Acts In Only 10 Minutes

Senate Group Approves Bill To Include Labor Costs In Parity Formula

Quick Okay Of Parity Boost   Senate Committee Approve: Including Labor Costs In Farm Formula.

Parity Prices To  Include Labo:   Chairman Smith Predicts Prompt Action By The Senate  HOUSE PASSED MEASTIRE FRIDAY

Senate Group Okehs Farm Bill   Approve Inclusion Of Labor Costs Into Price Formula

PARITY BILL GAINS FAVOR   . al  Senate Committee Votes Unanimously

Hull Expected To Go To Moscow To Meet Eden, Molotov On Objectives

Hull May Go To Meeting At Moscow   Conference to Take Up War and PostWar Collaboration

Hull Slated For Trip To Red Capital   Secretary of State Bue To Attend Conference In Moscow Soon On War Objectives   STANDLEY TO QUIT AMBASSADOR POST   Eden To Represent Great  Britain In Talks With Molotov On Post-War Plans Of Allies

Hull’s Presence At Conference Termed ‘Must’  Await Decision On Plan  To Dispatch Secretary Of State To Meeting  Tos eS ae

Hull May Attend Moscow Meet   Look on Conference As Highly Important

Hull Reported Likely to Join Biz 3 Meeting   Presence af 8. eredary At Moscow Sessions Said Imperative

Think Hull Will Make Trip To  Moscow Parleys   Confirm Standley Won't Return As Envoy To Russia

HULL EXPECTED TO GO T0 MOSCOW   WOULD ‘CONFER WITH EDEN . AND: MOLOTOV-ON -WAR AIMS: AND PEACE PLANS,

Standley and Hull Confer   Believe High Officials Dis cuss U. S.’s Representa tive to Conference

Goebbels Confesses Even Nazis Can Make Some Errors  Chief Urges Unity, Says Guard Is Up for Invasion

OFFICIAL GERMAN ADMISSIONS ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN ERRORS   Jittery Nazi Leaders Say They Have Made Mistakes but Ask for Public Support

Allred Appointed tc Sth Circuit Court  Is Nominated Thursday By Pracidant

ADVICE OF GREW TO BE SEEKED ON INTERNED JADS   Senate Committes Thinks Two-Thirds Could Be Out And Working

Grew’s Advice.  - Is: Requested   Problem. ‘Of Separating ~ Loyal Japs On: Coast: *-... “Te Considered:

‘tchstring Out 'r John L. Lewis   -nion Head Again inubs Labor Board

Lewis Ignores  WLE Hearings   Nationwide Dimout Likely If Stoppage At End of Truce

Three More Air Raids On Kiska   Jap Submarine Base In Aleutians Is Being Steadily Pounded   SECOND DAY OF TERRIFIC ATTACKS

Yanks Plaster Submarine Base At Kiska   Four Japenese Fighter: Believed Destroyed By U. S. Lightning Escort   SECOND DAY RAID   Pacific Offensive Continues As Bombers Return To Vila, Munda, Kahili

Allied Fighters Smash Renewer Jap Air Assault   23 Of 45 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over New Guinea

Japanese Air Raiders Bagged By U. S. Fighters   Increase Noted In Strength of Foe in Pacific

Airmen Break Up Jap Attack  In New Guinea Shoot Down 23 Of 45  Enemy Planes Over Oro Bay; Effort Of  Fae ‘Considerable’

23 JAPANESE PLANES SHOT FROM THE SKY      Allied Airmen Break Up Assault on New Guinea, Characterized as Part of a New Enemy Air Offensive.

"Vr v"r.cC<izair SOUL  Allied Airmen Shoot Down 23 Of 45 Jap Raiders In Fight Over New Guinea

23 Oro Bay Raiders Are Brought Down   Allied Fighters Break Up Assault Seen As Part Of Enemy Air Drive   HIT JAPANESE BASES   Fortress Duels With 10 Fighters; Downs 3, Damages 3 At Kavieng

13 of 45 Japs Shot Down in Guinea Battle   Enemy Air Strength Increases; One Ship Beached After Hits

23 Of 45 Japanese Raiders Downed In New Guinea   Assault Broken Up; Part Of New Enemy Air OfFfenxzive.

Allied Fighters Shoot Down 3 Japanese Fliers  Enemy Air Raiders   Enemy Air Raiders Given a Trouncing Over Oro Bay

JAPS ROUTED IN} ABRIAL ATTACK’ IN NEW GUINEA)   Aldied’ Airmen Tear. Into  Formation of 45 Enemy  Planes and Shoot 23. Out of Action   MERCHANT SHIP HIT   Beached to Prevent Sinking; Allied Losses In Air Battle Held Negligible

Japanese: Lose 23 Planes In . New Assault   Allied Fighters Tear ‘Inte ‘Formation Of. 45. Jap Air, Raiders. Over - Orc Bay lin New Guinea

' —PACIFIC— Allied Fliers Destroy   23 Japanese Planes      Forty-Five Enemy Air Raiders Are Dispersed Over  Ora Bay. New Guinea In What Is Believed To Be New Jap Offensive.

ALLIED PLANES DOWN 20 JAPS      Enemy Offensive Expected To each Considerable Scale.   FIGHT OVER NEW GUINEA

ALLIES BLAST 13 JAP PLANES   Tear Into Formation Of! 45 Enemy Raiders Over Oro Bay   ‘OWN LOSSES SMALL

23 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN; U.S CARGO SHIP HIT  American Aircraf  Cues ry Out Attac “ks

DOWN 23 OUT OF 43: JAP PLANES OVER-ORO BAY   Air Fight Starts in SubStratosphere, Allied Losses Low

23 Jap Planes Bagged Over New Guinea   New Enemy Air Offensive Is Broken Up

ALLIED FIGHTERS SHOOT DOWN 23 MORE JAP PLANES  BREAK UP ENEMY ASSAULT ON NEW

Yugoslays In Heavy Blows   Deal Further Jolts to Germans in Hard Fighting

Nazi Tron Mine Is Captured _ a Patriots Continuing Big _  Seale Raids: In ‘Enemy Area

PATRIOTS TAKE BIG IRON MINE   Slav Forces Now Control Second Largest Ore Pit in Europe

RUSSIANS. WINTER OFFENSIVE GAINS MOMENTUM DAILY   Another 5,000 Germans Are Reported Killed Or Captured Around Leningrad

Army Day Finds America's Fighting Men Battling Throughout The World

War Problems Before Officials As “Army Day” Observed Over Nation

inniversary Of Another War—  Today Is Army Day, Bui Without Celebrations

Army Celebrates Its Day in Foxhole, Slit Trench, Tank Seat and Cockpit

Army Day Being Observed Today  i a ee   Commemorates Entry In War In 1917

Army Day Being Observed in U. 5.   26th Anniversary of U. S. Declaration of War on Germany

Extension Of Deadline In Coal Wage Battle Fases Pressure For Restrictive Labor Laws

BILLS TO CURB LABOR WAIT IN HOUSE, SENAT!   Easing of Coal Parley Relations Re lieves Pressure for Quick En. ’ actment of Legislation ~

Coal Agreement Eases Situation. ... .  Pressure For Tough Labor Laws Lets Uy

PRESSURE FOR LABOR LEGISLATION  EASED IN CAPITOL   Extension of Deadline for Settlement Coal Contract Eases Pressure for Bill

Move for Curb . On Labor Eased By Mine Compact   House Prepared For Drastic Act To Halt Strikes

PRESSURE FOR LABOR LEGISLATION EASES ‘UPON CAPITOL HILL   EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR COAL WAGE: AGREE MENT LIFTS DEMANDS

LABOR AIDED BY COAL PACT   Extension of Deadline on Wage Battie Eases Situation :

Pressure ‘For Tough Law Eased   -30-Day E> Extension of Soft Coal Deadlock Quiets Congress

MINE EXTENSION EASES PRESSURE   AVERTS POSSIBLE PASSAGE OF TOUGH LABOR LEGISLATION

DEADLINE FOR WAGE DISPUTE IS EXTENDED   Extension Takes Pressure From Gov't Leaders

Doubts Right Of Court To Set Hanging   Lawyer For Doomed Man Makes Novel Claim In Appeal

Gen. Devers Sure To Push Second Front   Armored Force Chief Is Always Saying: ‘Let’s Go!’

Moves Entire Leneth of Bougainville   Ships Shell Airdrome For 45 Minutes; Troops on Advance

American Naval Task Force Attacks Air Bases 45 Minutes; Yanks on Bougainville Pushing Ahead

NATION LEADERS TRYING TO CHECK OVER-OPTIMISM   Danger Of Invasion Not Passed. Victory Is Only In Early Stages

F.D.R., Churchill Warn ‘Optimists’   Fear Recent Successes May Slow Public War Effort

; Seek To Prevent Runaway Optimism  Allied Heads Restrain Enthusiasm

F ear Danger of Allied Optimism   Roosevelt and Churchill Say Recent Successes May Create Overcontidence

POST-WAR AIM, CONFAB TOPIC   F, R., Churchill Seek to Down Over-Confidence About Fight

FDR,CHURCHILL TRY TO CHECK WAVE OF OVER = CONFIDENCE   Prime Minister Tells People Danger Of Invasion Of Britain Has Not Ceased

Bill Offered To Repeal Gin  Marriaze Law   Would End Three Day Wait for License; Post War Work Plan

TIRES RELEASED   Dealers Permitted to Use Recap On U'eed fare far Sale

PRESIDENT 10 ~ MISITOTTAWA.. BEFORE RETURN   Accepts Invitation -of Prime Minister King to Visit Canadian Capital.

F.D.R. Plans Vistt On Canadian Soil,  TDenomcane mea TD 2. mm iin

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL BEGIN WAR CONFERENC   New Blows Against Axis Powers Being Mapped at Quebec; Parley May Contmnue Week.

15- Year- Old a Real Artilleryman Officers’ Problems Easy for Him

Drive To Enlist Wage Earners Into Systematic Purchase of War Bonds Regularly Starts

Mother Gains Daughter, But Loses Her Son   -+.» Baby Suffocates Under Bed Sheet

DONNELL ASKS _ ACTION ON CORN   Sends Message to the White  House on ‘‘Critical Market Shortage”

FARM GROUPS OUTLINE PLAN FOR CONGRESS   ‘Big Four’ Says Farm Labor Also Must Be Protected

54-Hour Work Week; No Overtime Recommended by Farm Organizations

Fighth Army Still Fights  For Ortona   Third Day of Sharp Street Clashes Reported in Tiny Adriatic Port

REAR GUARD OF AXIS IS FORCED BACK   In Southern Sicily Agrigento Is Isolated

Yankees Occupy Five More Towns; “Agrigento Taken   British Tanks Slowly Forcing Back Axis Rear Guard; Americans Capture 16,000 Prisoners, Great Quantities Of Gasoline And Ammunition.

SANITY TEST ~ FOR ACTRESS   FRANCES FARMER TAKEN, TO PSYCHOPATHIC WARD AND HOSPITAL TREATMENT  1 13 INDICATED

Heart Attack Is Fatal to Duster   secretary of Governor Hicken looper Dies Suddenly In  the Governor's Home

LEO DUSTER FOUND DEAD EARLY TODA)   Executive Secretary to Governor Hickenlooper Action in Affairs of American Legion

CHINESE SMASH JAPANESE DRIVE   Chungking Says Enemy Thrust Collapsed in Yangtse River Zone.

Jap Drive Into China Collapses   Enemy Driven Toward Yangtze By Chiang’s Forces

JAP OFFENSIVE HAS COLLAPSED   Counter Attacks by Chinese Decisive

Mountbatten, Plan: Falk With Chiane.   Cufrent Washington Conferences ' Continued In Chunakinag: Goole Cl

MOUNTBATTENIN WASHINGTON TO PLAN STRATEGY   New Southeast Asia Com mander To Later See  Chiang Kai-Shek   EXTENDED CAMPAIGN FORESEEN IN BURMA

TALKS ON BURMA CAMPAIGN BEGUN IN WASHINGTON   Lord Mountbatten Reaches Capital and Goes Into Conference With U. S. Military and Naval Men.   COMMANDER TO SEE CHIANG BEFORE DRIVE   Concensus Is Year or Longer Will Be Required to Drive Japanese From Territory.

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Now in Washin gion Mountbatten to Confer ‘With Generalissimo Nex

Mountbatten Plans Talk With Chiang   Current Washington Conferences Will Be Continued In Chunakina: Goals Charted

Mountbatten Begins Series of Talks On Coming Pacific, Asiatic Campaigns: Will Meet Chinese Chief

‘Mountbatten, U. S. Chiefs Confer; Plans ‘Chinese Session Before Japanese Drive

MOUNTBATTEN MAKES PLANS FOR SO. ASIA   Arrives In Washington For Conferences With Naval And War Department O/ficials, Before Departing   Final Victory

Map Big Drive Against Japanese On Burma Front.  Mountbatten Confers   Mountbatten Confers . With.UiS. Leaders; Sees Long Campaign

BEGINS PARLEY AT WASHINGTON WITHOUT DELAY   One Ojective Will Be To Open Supply Line To China; Staff Not Complete   Sees Admiral King

NEW DRIVES IN ASIA AGAINST JAPS PLANNED   Mountbatten in Washington to Talk to U. S. Leaders

MOUNTBATTEN HERE ~ FOR WAR PARLEYS      New Asian Commande: Confers With Ad. miral King —

Lord Mountbatten Holds Conferences   Meets American Military Chiefs

Mountbatten Confers with  Admiral King   New Allied Commander In Southeastern Asia To Plan Against Japs  FLIES FROM CANADA

ii I “PPLY SHIP.      “Has Treen Captured at Mouth c the Mayu River.

iAP SUPPLY SHIM.   Has Been Captured at Mouth o¢ the Mayu River.

Newest Rulings By Government Of Interest to All   War Information Office Releases News Bulletins For Herald Readers

Petitions From Drys Flood House   Nearly 7,000 Names Appear on Petitions Read In Legislature Today

MANY DRY PETITIONS   Deluge of Documents Received by the Legislature

Legislature Inundated By. Dry Petitions   Thousands Of Names On WCTU-Sponsored Pleas Submitted

Order Greatly Limits Power to Hike Pay   President's New Anti-inflation Stroke  Removes ‘Inequality’ As Basis; To Speed Compliance With Rule,

RULE DRAFTERS ARE MOBILIZED AT WASHINTON   Prices On Practically All Foods Are Frozen _

ORDER LIMITS WLB’S POWERS   Regard FDR’s Action A Answer To Lewis’ Challenge

Labor Board's Authority Cut Under New Rule   Number 1 Basis For Wage Increases To be Eliminated

WLB Authority On Wage Hikes Drastically Cut  FDR Anti-Inflatioy   FDR Anti-Inflation Stroke Puts Ban On “Inequalities”

LABOR’S DEMAND FOR PAY BOOSTS JOLTED BY FOR   Presidential Price-wa ge Freeze Is Regarded as Answer to Lewis

AUTHORITY OF WARLABORUNIT SHARPLY GUT   Board Limited to Granting Increases Within 15% Little Steel Formula and Sub-Standards   ALL WAGE INCREASE CASES ARE FROZEN   Those Granted Before 7:30 O’clock Last Night to Stand; Issuance of Rulings Ceases

FDR’S ACTION SEEN AS MOVE TO CHECK UMW   Order on Wages Removes ‘Ine  qualities’ as Cause for Granting Tacrpacec 7   MOST USED BASIS   Lewis Has Conceded Miners Already Have Received Increases In Excess Little Steel Formula

RULE CATCHES -WLB NAPPING      Regional Offices Instructed to Cease Giving Decisions Pending Clarification of the Executive Order.

Anti-Inflation Order Aimed At High Cost   President Takes Responsibility For New Action

FDR LIMITS WIB'SFIELD OF AUTHORITY   By Removing No. 1 Basis For Wage Increase: In Excess of “Little Steel”? Formula

Anti-Inflation Stroke Drastically. Limits War Labor Board’s Authority

Wage Increase Is Curbed By New FDR Rule   Pay Boosts Cannot Be Over 15 Per Cent  Formula

NEW WAGE PLAN CUTS WLB FIELD OF AUTHORITY   Inside Washington Says Order Aimed at John L. Lewis’ Challenge

Action Curbs Authority Of Labor Board   Seen as President's Person: al Answer to Challenge Of Lewis   BODY NOT CONSULTED

PRESIDENT’S NEW ANTI-ANFLATIONARY ORDERS SURPRISE  DRASTICALLY LIMITS WA  LAROR ROARN’S FIFID

President Cuts WLB  Powers   BAN “INEQUALITIES” AS CHIEF BASIS FOR SALARY INCREASES

ANTI-INFLATION STEP JARS WLB ~ GRIP ON WAGES   Roosevelt's Move Trims <Authority of Board to Grant Pay Hikes

WLB Field Of Authority Is Cut By Order   No. 1 Basis For Wage Raises Removed; May Be Answer To Lewis

W.L.B. Authority Limited By Removing  “Inequalities” As Reason For Raises

FORD-. FACTORY HIT BY STRIKE   Walkout Of Maintenance Workers Cripples Operations At Huge Plant

PROTEST STRIKE CRIPPLES WORK IN ROUGE PLANT   Ford Maintenance Workers Force Closing Several Departments

MAINTENANCE CREWS IGNORE LEADERS’ PLEAS   CIO Unionists Protest New Control, Force Shutdown of Rouge Departments.   VARIOUS SECTIONS HIT   International Head of Union, Army Officer Appeal In  Vain For Caceatinn 

RECORD OUTPUT SEEN ON FARMS   Bricker, Kruse Confident Ohic Farmers Will Exceed Goals Set For °43

AGENCIES TOLD 70 BECOME EXAMPLE   Hershey Suggests Men En gaged In Non-Essential Federal Jobs Join Army.

Investigates Deferment of U.S. Workers      House Committee Hears Hershey; Some Men Could Be Replaced   COULD USE OLDER MEN -OR WOMEN   Some Agencies Are Not Setting Proper Example, . It Is Said

TOO MANY FEDERAL EMPLOYES DEFERRED, GEN. HERSHEY SAYS   Director of Selective Service Says Government Agen. cies Should Set Example by Releasing Non. Essential Workers

Probe Deferment Of U. $. Workers   Some Agencies Not Setting Proper Example, Hershey

Hershey Says Government Agencies Not Setting Proper Draft Example

OWI WORKERS ARE DEFERRED   Hershey Urges Federal Agencies To Release  Draft-Age Men

Hershey Wants Government To Set Example by Releasing Men for Army

Bad Example Set In Draft   Hershey Says Some Agencies Asking Deferments

U, S. EMPLOYES BEING DEFERRED   Gen. Hershey Says Government Should Set Example For The Nation

SELECTIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR GRITICAL SOME DEFERMENTS   HUNDREDS OF OWI WORK ERS IN DRAFT AGE DEFER. RED OR NOT CLASSIFIED

Vote by Precincts   Gen. Hershey Proposes Government ‘Release Men for Military Duty

Allied Airmen Hit Jap-Pos'tions. In New Guinea, Timor   Allies Follow Up Widespread Offcasive With Small Attacks.

ALLIES FOLLOW UP AIR ATTACKS   Small Scale Raids Made On Jap Positions On Timor And New Guinea.

ENEMY POSITIONS UN TIMOR AND NEW GUINEA ATTACKED   Two Days of Widespread Air Offensive Followed Up By Smaller Scale At. tacks; Jap Forces Continue Slow Withdrawal In Wau-Mubo Sector.

DEWEY LEADS IN REPUBLIGAN POLL   Willkie Is Second In Vote For Most Popular Candidate.

Signs of Mutiny Elsewhere On  Island Increase   U. 8. Seventh Army Seeking To Slash Defense In Half

DRIVE BY AMERICANS THREATENS 10 SPLIT DEFENDERS IN SICILY   U. S, Army Reports Only Token Resistance In Sweep Through Middle Of Island; Foe Surrendering By Hundreds

TIGHTEN HOLD ON COAST PORT   Allied Communique Reports  Signs of Mutiny Among Italian Troops. in Sicily — American , Forces Closing in on Enna Seeking ta Cut Island in Two :

‘HOLD NOW TIGHTENS   British 8th Army Retains Grip on East Coast Port Despite Resistance.

Refuse To Obey Nazi  Officers, Surrender; Battle Hot For Catania

BRITISH TIGHTEN DEADLY GRIP ON EAST COAST PORT   Allied Communique Reports Signs Of Mutiny Among Italian Troons—U.S. Forces Closing In On  : Enna-Axis Crumbling

7TH ARMY SURGES FORWARD ON LEFT, ONLY CATANIA IS DEFENDED ON RIGHT OF ALLIED FAST DRIVE INTO SICILY      Montgomery Tightens Stranglehold ‘on Coastal City. Enemy Divisional Commander Is Taken ’ Betsoner by Allies.

Axis Troop ps      ELSEWHERE IN SICILY, ALLIES MEET LITTLE OPPOSITION AS ITALIAN ‘TROOPS SHOW SIGN: OF MLTINY

London. (U.P) — The Algiers radio reporte? tonight = that fighting is going on in the suburbs of Catania.

ALLIES REPORT MUTINIES AMONG ITALIAN TROOPS   U. S. Troops Meet Only Slight Resistance In Interior Of Island

ITALIANS SHOW. MUTINY SIGNS REPORTS SAY   See-Saw Battle for Catania Rages; British Kighth Army Tightens Strangle-Hold on East Coast Port

BRITISH TIGHTEN STRANGLEHOLD CN ANIS AT ATANI   Yanks Surging Ahead Through Middle of Sicily at EnNa With Little Resistance Erom Enemy.   REDS MAKING PINCERS DRIVE AT OREL BASE   Major Doolittle Congratulated Upon “Accurate and Devastating American Rome Raid.

ARMY-NAVY STP. TESTS TUESDAY   Graduates. May Take Examinations at 9:00-" at High School ~-

URGE CHARLEROI HIGH STUDENTS TO TAKE ARMY TESTS      Last Year Students Have Fine Opportunity To Take College Course

To Investigate Farm Food Shortages   Senate Committee. _ Says Situation Is. Aaqaravated by Policies

Senate Sets Food Probes   Threatened Shortage le Said Aagrayeted

Nazis Tell How To Stop Invasion   Claim 2,000 Planes Will Sow Mines

Nazis Planning Counter Action  Fight Invasion With Planes, Mines

PATRIOTS ARE STILL DEFIANT   Main Body Does Not Follow Small Groups Who Submit.

GUERRILLAS SUBSIST ON GOAT MEAT   A Few Stragglers Starved Out by Vichy Forces

Reds Land Or East Coast Of Azov Sea   Cut Off Escape Of Nazi Forces

Roosevelt, Still Absent On War Duties, Sends Greetings To Nationwide Party Series

FDR Birthday Parties Held   First Lady Reads Brief .Message From Chief In South America

President Messages Thanks For Birthday Celebrations   Mrs. Roosevelt Broadcasts in Place Of Husband, Still on War Travels

Roosevelt, Still Absént: On War Duties, Sends Greetings wide .Partiy Vease

President Sends Message of Thanks ‘ To Those Attending Birthday Balls

MESSAGE SENT BY PRESIDENT   Expresses Thanks For Nationwide Birthday Parties In Paralysis Fight

Roosevelt Sends Thanks ForPolioWaz   Gist Birthday Parties Get Message of “Truly .., Happy Day’

President, Out of Radio Reach, Sends Birthday Thanks to Nation via Wife

PRODUCING MORK FOOD   War Cute Down on- Imports Inte ‘Great Hyritain

OE I  PRODUCING MOT KOOD   War Cale’ Down one Teporte Into “Groat Britain

Old Way Gone.  Morrison Tells Britain  Glorious Adventure   Glorious Adventure In Better World Lies Ahead

Plan to Avoid Post-War Chaos Briton Urges   Maintain Present Economic Controls, Home Secretary Ask:

LEA DEALT HAW GLOW ON ALL FRONTS   American Flying Fortresses Soar Over Norway To Raid Nazi Submarine Yards

Rommel Trapped As Allies Push Past Detenses   Hundreds Of Enemy Airplanes Ruined; Tunis, Bizerte Are  Ringed

SLASH IN CIVILIAN _ BEEF IS EXPECTED   High Point Values for Most Cuts Fore eran

General Slash in Civilian Meat Rations Seen as OPA Plans Red Point Revisions

Big slash in beef ration is Imminent   Look for higher red point values

SLASH LOOMS   OPA Prepares Monthly Re vision of Red Stamp Point Values

General Slash i in Civilian Beef Rations Enrecast as O.P.A. Prepares June. List

BEEF RATIONS TO BE SLASHEL   Higher “Point Values Hinted For June

SLASH IN BEEF RATIONS SEEN   June Point Values Are Likely To Be Put Up By O. P. A.

General Slash In Beef Rations Seen for Nation   June List This Week

Cut Due In Beef  Rations   Value In Points Is Slated For   Decrease

Jump in Beef Ration Points  Is Indicated   Blue Stamp Values For Canned Goods Expected Also  To Face Revision

Senate War Investigating Committee Will Delve Into Coal Wage Dispute

SENATE GROUP TODELVE INTO WAGE IMPASSE    Truman Thinks Plenty Of Questions Will Be Asked

SENATE WAR PROBERS AIR WAGE ISSUES   Lewis Is Slated To Be Called, Also Other Union Heads

Unions Press Demand for Wage Boost Over “1 tttle Steel’? Rate.   SENATORS TO QUIZ LEADERS THIS WEEK   Upward Revisidn of Farm Parity to Boost Prices Seems Assured.

New York Mayor Backs Stockmen   .LaGuardia Approves Higher Meat Prices

ULL-SCALE MINE UPERATIONS SEEN BY UMW LEADERS   ‘Go To Work’ Call Sounds Through Many Mining Villages Sunday and Scores of Local Units Vote To Resume Jobs; 200,000 Believe Still Idle.

‘il FTO-WORK GALL = ‘B SOUNDED: IN ~ MINING VILLAGES   Full Scala Operations, in Most . States Predicted by UMW . Leaders   SOME. STILL. -ARE IDLE

Coal Miners To ~ Resume Digging   OVER 300,000 BACK ON JOBS AFTER — WALKOUT

BACK-T0-WORK MOVE GRIPS MINERS   Movement Lags_ in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania; Appalachian Region Ready

Back To Work Swing Steps Up At Mines   “Go To Work” Call Sounds. Through. Min. ing Villages and Scores  ‘of UMW Units Vote to Resume Jobs.

MINERS RAPIDLY RESUMING WORK   Weekend Saw Heavy BackTo-Work Swing; ToSpeed Production As Fast As Possible.

Penna. Publishers Adept 11-Point War-Aid Program; “CG. A.” Elected To Posts

PUBLISHERS IN WAR EFFORT   Adopt Wide 11-Point Program, Elect New Officers

POWER STATION IN NORWAY Is BOMBED BY RAF   Planes Fly Through Snow Storms To Blast Plants

U.S. Bombers Hit Points In Norway   Vital Metal Mine. And Chemical Plants Smashed

U. S. Bombers Blast German Norway Hubs   FLIERS BLAST POWER STATION, MOLYBDENUM MINE IN NEW RAIDS

Allies Bomb Nazi Plants In Norway   Power Station and Molybdenum Mine Hit; Chemical Plants Attacked

Crest of Spreading Flood In Farm Area Will Not Be Reached For Two Days

FLOODS DRIVE NEAR 100,000 FROM HOMES   Missouri Breaks Levees io Joit Mississippi 10 Miles Above Nor sual Confluence   CROP LOSS HUGE      New Threais Brought to Southern Qlinois, Missouri as Smal Streams Rise

SSISSIPPI AND SSOURI WATERS RISE OMINOUSLY             umber of Persons Driven ‘From Homes in Flood. Areas Near 100,000-—Destruction  ‘Widespread

Rampaging Rivers of Midwest Continue To Spread Over Rict Farm Lands as Smaller Streams Pour Floods in; Destruction Increases Over Wide Area

100,000 FORCED FROM HOMES BY FLOOD WATERS   Millions Of Dollars Of Crop Damage Reported In Midwest States   RIVERS CONTINUE TO RISE   Army Engineers Fighting To Prevent Further Breaks In Levees

MORE RIVERS RISING IN MID-WEST   Ten Thousand Driven From Theit Homes By Floods

100,000 LOSE. HUME; CROPS ARE DAMAGED   Six States Affected by the , Worst Conditions in Many Years,   MISSISSIPP AND MISSOURI ROMPAGING

Nearly 100,000 Made Homeless In Flood Zones   Rampaging Rivers Bring Added Perils To South ern Illinois. Missouri.

"00,000 DRIVEN ‘OUT OF HOMES WN FLOOD PATH   Yyollen Mississippi And missouri Rivers Rage Over Large Areas

100,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD SECTORS   Damage Toll from Rampaging Mississippi and Missouri Increases

MISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI ADD T0 THE FLOOD DANGEF   The Two Big Rivers Joined Early Today Near Alton, Illinois.   100,000 ARE HOMELESS   Hundreds of Civilians Labored Throughout the Night in Towns in Danger.

100,000 ARE HOMELESS IN B-STATE AREA   Many Communities in  - Danger Along Missouri  , and Mississippi Rivers, Joined 10 Miles From Normal Confluence.

100,000 Forced To Flee Homes in Southwest States   Hundreds of Recruits Labor During the Night to Hold Back Waters.   Red Cross Sends in Relief to Stricken

FLOODS SPREAD TO NEW AREAS IN SIX STATES   Further Destruction in Midwestern Areas Is Reported

New Widespread Destruction Wrought By Western Floods   Spreading Waters Cause New Concern To Southern Iflinois And Missouri

Yamage To Crops Estimated At Millions of Dollars; Red Cross Officials Rushing Relief To Stricken Areas; Crop: Experts See Degree of Optimism Concerning Crop Situation.

Flood Zones Grow   Mid-West Threatened by Additional Wide Losses

High School Boys and Girls Work on Dikes   Crest Expected Sunday or Monday at 37.5 ‘Feet, Hichest Since 1903

HOMELESS IN RISING FLOOD   Smalier Streams Continue To Sweli Rampaging Missouri and Mississippi.   MAUMEE WATERS FALL   Midwest Crop. Experts Se: Millions of Dollars Damage To Fields.

Rampaging Mississippi And Missouri Rivers Spread Damage Over Extensive Area

MIDWEST FLOOD DAMAGE MOUNTS   Estimate 100,000 Driven From Homes By Raging Waters

Mississippi And Missouri Rivers  Climb Steadil   Red Cross Rushing Relief; Farmers Think Corn Crop Is Endangered

Flood Waters Foree 100,000 To Leave Homes   Mississippi And Missouri, Rising Relentlessly, Create Added Concern

Further Devastation By Mississippi And Missouri Threatened; Oklahoma Big Lake

Flocd Damage Is Widespread Thousands Homeless In Middle West Area

FLOOD SPREADS STIRS CONCERN   Rampaging Rivers Still Rising, Causing Widespread Destruction.

SIX STATES STRICKEN BY WATERS   Thousands Of Acres Of Farm Lands Cover _ ed; Crop Loss High

100.000 DRIVEN FROM HOMES AS FLOODS SPREAD   Mississippi Still Going Up, Expect Peak Sunday

Floods Cause Added Concern in Missouri, South Illinois   “Nearly [00,000 AreReported Homeless While Waters Rise

100,000 Homeless  In Floods   Missouri arul Mississippi Sweep Across Country To Join

Rising Waters Threaten New, Heavy Damage   Hundreds Of Farms Are Inundated In Six States; Thousands  Rattlinge Watere

‘Many Forced Out By: Flood Waters   Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Spread Out Over Farm Land   RED CROSS ON THE JOB   Crest Expected to. Reach St. Louts Sunday; Dam‘age Is Immense

Levees Out as MissouriJoins Mississippi   Hundreds} Attenipt to Halt Rush of Water; Official Revisés -Flood Crest :

‘Huge Rivers of U.S.on Rampage   MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI WATERS SPREAD AS 100,000 MIDWESTERNERS ARE LEFT HOMELESS; CIVILIANS WORK THROUGH NIGHT TO STEM TIDE

Nearly 100,000 Homeless As Rising Waters Of Big Rivers Threaten Midwest   Widespread Destruction Caused In Six Midwest States; Hundreds Of Civilians Aiding Engineers, Soldiers In Flood Fight

Relief Rushed To Stricken Are  100,000 Homeless As Flood Waters Spread

100,000 Are Homeles: From Floods   Damage to Crops Estimated at Millions of Dollars; Civilian Reeruits Aid Engineers and Soldiers

  100,000 MADE HOMELESS IN FLOODED AREAS   Hundreds of Civilian Recruits Aid Engineers, Soldiers   CROP LOSS HEAVY   Levees Wash Away Along 75-Mile Stretch in Missouri

New Flood Rises In Midwest Spread Great Destruction   100,00) Now ITlomeless Red Cross, Govt. En. gineers, Soldiers Aid Evacuation. IlIleavy Crop Damage.

NEARLY 100,000 HOMELESS AS FLOOD SPREADS   Officials Expect Crest of MidWest Streams Over Week End

MINES AGAIN OPERATED BY GOVERNMENT   Men Expected To Be Back in Pits Tomorrow

LUN SEVELN WARDS  AMERICA’S DEAD ON LAND AND SEA NOW NIIMRER ONF.OUARTER OF A MILLION.

NATION READY TO HONOR DEAD   Traffic Fatalities Are Cut By Rationing, Survey Reveals Saturday

Quarter Of A Million Americans Have Died In America’s Seven Wars

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Bill Is Slated to Re Passed by ( ‘onaress Earlu in Week

HOUSE READY TO STAMP OKEH ON PAY-AS-GO TAX   Leaders Predict Passage As Hour Of Vote On Measure Nears   SENATE READY TO ACT   Administration Chieftains Say President Will Sign Bill

THURMAN ARNOLD ETS. NOMINATION      Anti-Trust-Group Leader 1s Named By FDR for Old . Rutiedae Seat

RECORD SUPPLY OF FOOD RAISED BV I! S FARRER      Diet For 1944 About Equal To This Year Assured By WFA

RECORD FOOD PRODUCTION 1S ACHIEVED   Termed One of War’s Greatest Achievements

Farmers Filline Nation’s Larder   Called Most Remarkable  Production Record ©

FOOD OUTLOOK FOR *44 IS SEEN BRIGHT BY WFA   Production Is One Of Major War Achievements

Record Food Supply Is Seer For Next Year   Civilians Are Assured O Diet At Least Equal T. That OF 1943   BUTTER STORES GROW   Shortages, Drought, Floods Failed To Cripple Nation's Farm Production

WFA REPORTS  HUGE SUPPLY BY FARMERS   Abundance of Several Products Listed in Food Survey

Nation Will Continue to Eat Well in 1944 WFA Lauds Achievements of Farmers

Troops Hurl Foe Back,  Form Vise   Americans Open First Major Offensive From Salerno; British Approach In Fast Move From South; Fliers Help

American Forces Drive Over ‘ight Miles From Sea In  Offensive From Salerno

Yanks Quit Foxholes To Advance   British May Strike Germans In Few Hours

British Are Cefting Close  To Salerno   Americans Surge on in Sudden and Strong Offensive

Film Stars Una Merkel, Gary Cooper and Phyllis Brooks Get Thrill of Lives

FILM STARS GET REAL EXCITEMENT   Awakened In Night By Largest Jap Attack In New  Guinea

Million Employes Involved   Wage Boost Recommendec by President’s Railway Labor Panel

Vinson Blocks Pay Hike for Rail Employees   Urges Labor Panel To Reconsider Case Of 1,160,000 Men

U, S. Stabilization Director Blocks Rail Wage Beast  Authorizes Board T. Denne *J.. mo...   Authorizes Board To Reconsider Case: Will File Memo

Vinson Refuses Wage Increase   -Overrules Railway Panel On Decision

ASKS EXTENSION OF © LIFE OF COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION  Administration Request Will Ciwvwe Conoreas   Administration Request Will Give Congress Chance to Express Itself on Subsidies Again.

CONGRESS T0 EXPRESS SELF ON SUBSIDIES   Will Consider Extension Of Huge Program

TO ROK EXTENSION OF AG DEPT'S CCC   Administration Request to  Test Congress on Subsidy.  Question

39 ARE AWARDE CERTIFICATES FOR EVENING COURSES   _ List Graduates Finishing ‘2 Defense Training at Bloom High

TRANSPORTATION TIED UP COMPLETELY TODAY   Street Car and Bus Operators at Cleveland Strike— War Workers Seriously Hampered in Reaching Their Places of Employment — Production is Curtailed.

WIDE AREA IS ‘HELD IN GRIP OF COLD WAVE        EW YORK WAS COLDEST DAY aN ItigTORY—27 BELOW WAS  RECORDED IN VERMONT

ZERO WEATHER HITS BIG AREA   New York, New England Get ‘Russian Winter’

Allies Surge Ahead on Italian Fronts; Reds Fight in Snow   News From European and Russian Fronts Briefed  by AP Editor

British Now 18 Miles Fron Critical Port   Americans Capture Heights in Savage Fighting jn Tinly

Fifth Takes New Heights onRomeRoad   Red Armies Pound Ahead in Dneiper Bend, Crimea and White Russia

5th And 8th Armies Advance Slowly In Italy  Snowstorms Hinder Russians Movirg On : MAanjlay TFhiahin:

BRITISH DRIVE TO MORO RIVER, 5TH ARMY GAINS   Soviet Forces Advance in White Russia, Ukraine

ALLIED ARMIES SCORE GAINS ON ITALIAN FRONT   Soviets Threaten Three Key Cities In White Russia Area

Smal! Gains in Italy Are Costly In Allied Blood   In Russia Hitler's Forces Show Signs Of Lacking Reserves

Dignity of Man Must Never Be Outraged Again, Mme. Chiang Says   Wife of Generalissimo ot China Aso Urges Forgiveness for Enemy in Looking fo Future

NO BITTERNESS (TOWARD ENEMY ‘FOLLOWING WAR   Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Pleads For World Based  On Principles Of Justice   STRONG COUNTRIES MUST AID THE WEAK

Madame Chiang Says Allied Goal Should Be “Whole World As One Great State”

One State Seen By Mme. Chiang   World Yiust Be Free of Bitterness. China  First Lady Tells Rally

Future World Seen as One Common State  Chinese Leader Points Out Goal of United Nations

olons Cut Funds For Manpower,  Security Agencies Slap at McNutt  ® Taken, but Hlis Pay Hiked

McNutt’s Budget Slashed 70Millionby HouseGroup   War Manpower Commission and Federal Sceurity Agency Must Absorb Slashes

American Fifth Army Advances Against Germans   Attacks Follow Terrific Artillery And Aeria! Barrages On Italian Front   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ALSO GAINS

Colombian Jungle Village Pays Trl. Wute To Fallen Army Flier From Minneapoti

British Raid Netherlands   Score Hits on Quays And Oil Storage Tanks, Air Ministry Says

IKE’S NIECE A GRADUATE   ‘Peggy Eisenhower To Receive Dit— ploma From Colorado School

UMW Sign Work Bill  in Illinois   Contract Provides 48-Hour Week, $3 Day Wage Hikes and Portal Pay

Way Open for WLB Power Test   Illinois Contract May Test Power to  Subpoena Lewis

Coal Contract Opens Way for New WLB Test   Subpoena Powers To Get Work Out At Wage Hearings

SUBPOENA TEST IS FACING WLB   Contract Between UMW And Illinois Operators May Offer Showdown.   BY WILLIAM F. ABROGAST-

UMW Signs For 35,000 Illinois Men   Mine Contract With Por tal Pay Will Test WLB Subpoenaes

COAL CONTRACT SEEN AS TEST   Illinois Operators Sign Agreement With UMW > Allowing Increases

WLB Gets Its Chance To  Summon Lewis   Miners and Mllinois Operators Sign Separate Contract

Contract Tests WLB's Power In Coal Dispute   UMW. And Ilinois Heads Make Wage Agreement For Board To Certif:

Coal Agreement May Be Test For WLB Powers  Lewis May Be Forced To Answer Subpoena, If WLB Orders Portal

WLB GETS AN OPPORTUNITY   Contract in Hlinois Will Test Power of Subpoena

STATE COAL PACT POSSIBLE TEST OF BOARD AUTHORIT}   48-Hour Week, $3 Increase For 35,000 Workers Contingent Upon Fina! Action of Labor Board.   LEWIS MUST BE PRESENT FOR HEARING   Board May Order Hearings to Determine Basis Used In Fixing $1.25 Daily as Portal to Portal Pay.

UMW ContractIs Approved By Illinois Coal Operators To Open Wedge For Board

UMW, MINE HEADS AGREE IN ILLINOIS   WLB Has Chance To Test New Powers of Subpoena

WLB To Test ~ New Powers  Of Subpoena   Contract Between Illinois Operators and UMW Must Have Approval

WLB Will Test New Powers To Subpoena Lewis   Wage Contract Qnens Wav Now

WLB Will Test Subpoena Power  Agreement Contingent On Board Action

Illinois Coal ‘Pact Is Made   Miners-Operators Accord May Result In Wide Settlement

COAL OPERATORS OFFER $3 BOOST TO ILL. MINERS   Decision On Wage Increase Now Up  To Gov’t Board

BELGIANS PLAN STEPS TO TAKE ON INVASION   ‘Prime Minister Hubert Pierlo Tells People How Belgium Wil be Liberated

FIRST IN EUROPE   American Fifth Army Be. gan Landing at Naples at Dawn Today

Admiral Doenitz Reported Out as Nazi Navy Chief Following Scharnhorst Los:

Reds Report Nazi Reverses Bring About Resignation Of Karl Doenitz As Leader

UAW Balks Plan On Assessments   Refuses Special Fund For Postwar Period

ADMINISTRATION 15 BELIEVED PLANNING COMPULSORY SAVINGS  WOULD SIPHON OFF SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS IN EXPANDED TAX PLAN

FDR MAY PLAN TO ASK FOR COMPULSORY SAVINGS PLAN   Proposal Has Been Advanced by. Treasury Officials As Part of  Tk. Deacveace

Savi ings Tax  Plan I xpected   Capital Observers See Roosevelt Order as Forerunner to Action

Savings Or Lending Tax Proposed  Anti-Inflation Order Revives Talk Of Plan

May Force Savings   Effort To Halt Infla tion May Lead To New Compulsory Lending or Saving Tax Legislation

Forced Lending Or Savings Tax Seen Possible   Speculation In Washington Stirred By President’s Warning To The Nation

F,R. WARNS TO SAVE MORE AND SPEND LITTLE   Compulsory Lending May Be Planned by Congress

F.D.R.’s Warning Starts Compulsory Lending Or Savings Tax Talk   Such A Move Would Freeze Current Spending Power And Would Create A Purchasing  Reserve For Postwar Period.

PRESIDENT WARNS NATION MUST SAVE MORE. SPEND LESS   Stirs Speculation As to Wheth-: er Administration Will Urge Compulsory Lending, Sav-: ings Tax  

Planes, Not Navy Key To Victory, General Warns   Challenges Statement By Knox; Declares Crucial Struagle Is Near   Japs Threaten Air Attack On  U. S. Mainland

Bombers Rest After Big Daytime Raid  Nat Sinale Shin Lost   Not Single Ship Lost In Smash at Coast of France

Mystery Targets Blasted from Ait   No Allied Planes Lost in Bia Raid —

Bombers Rest After Big Daytime Raid   Not Single Ship Lost In Smash at Coast of France

WAS GREATEST AIR ASSAULT   2,000 Planes Attacked  French Coast Targets

Yanks Wreck Rocket Area   Mystery Edifices on Channel Blasted to Bits by U.5. Bombs

MONTHLY REPORTS BY BUYERS OF CATTLE   OPA Advises Dealers That Ex penditures Fer Livestock Must Be Submitted

JAPS LOST MORE THAN 50,000 MEN   Futile Campaign Also Cos' 800 Planes and Loss of Many Ships

Jap Losses In  Solomons Heavy  Campaign Costs Foe  50,000 Men, About 800 Planes, 57 Ships

50,000 Japs Slain, Taken   800 Planes, Many Ships Destroyed in Solomons Fighting

LIST JAP LOSSES IN GUADALCANAL DRIVE   Estimate 50,000 Men Killed 800 Planes Destroyed

TO PRISON FOR COAL      Olathe City Trucks Are Sent to Lansing for Supply

Athens Would Be Plane Stop On Projected Post-War Lines   Southern Aviation, Greyhound Apply

Inerease Seen  In Food Cost:   But Economist Doubts Farm Lands Will Go Up Notice. ably In Price.

FARM PRICE RISES SEEN THIS YEAR   eee  No Increase in Value of Land Prediction

Japs Raid U.S. Base   Only Minor Damage Reported; I Man Killed, 2 Wounded

MacArthur Determined To Free Philippines   On Anniversary Of Fall Of Bataan General Again Pledges Himself To Secure Revence.

3 More Axis Ships Sunk   Eighth Presses on Rommel’s Trail After Capture of Tripoli

BRITISH SUB SINKS THREE ENEMY SHIPS   Two Merchant Vessels and Schooner Sent Down, Trawler Driven Aground in Convov Attack

2 Enemy Ships Are Destroyed      British ‘Subs Make Raid On: Axis Convoy Near Tunisia Coast -

Storm; Hits Hilo Region Of Hawaii   PROPERTY DAMAGE CAUSED BY TORNADO LISTED AS EXTENSIVE.

Flathead Lake Plan Explained   Army Engineer Tells Of Flooding Project

Government Plans to Confiscate  Water Outlined    Alarmed Montanans Throng to State Capital to Hear Army Engineers:. Public Meeting to Be Held in Kalispell

Cautions Householders Against Admitting Men Posing As Inspectors

MARTIAL LAW FOR ESSEN. GERMANY   Martial Law Proclaimed in Region of Alps in France as—  French Patriots Defy Nazi Order

Report Italian Forces Attacking French Guerillas   _ French Refuse To Obey Ul. ‘“ timatum For Surrender Made By Axis   HOLD POSITIONS IN FRENCH ALPS

INVASION FEAR GRIPS GERMAN HIGH COMMAND   Martial Law Is Prociaimed as Revolt Mounts on Swiss Border

PATRIOT ARMY IGNORES ORDER TO SURRENDER   Martial Law Declared As Frenchnien Rush To Join Guerrilla Bands   NAZIS FEARING INVASION   Coastal Garrisons On Alert As Civilians Are Being Evacuated

TAKING TOWNS IN OREL REGION FROM GERMANS   Stalin, on Army Anniversary Claims “Exodus” of Nazis From Soviet Has Begun

Russ Urged ° To Give No Rest to, Foe   Stalin Hints at Absence Of a Second Front in - Europe

Russians Gain Along 700 Miles Of Western Front   Orel, Key Point in Nazi Defense Line, Seriously Threatened

Biv the Ageociated Pree   Red Armies Drive Ahead   Plunge Deeper Into Ukraine In Drive Toward Dnieper River

Senate Group Cuts Tax Bill By Estimated 190 Million   Yield from Measure Less Than Two Billion  Under Schedules Pared  By Committee Action  POSTAL RATE HIKE. GAINS APPROVAL  Bill Raises Excises On. Whisky, Beer, Furs.  T°b.s« DP... Dihanoac

rate Committee aids Knife Tax Measure socks $190,000,000 if Bill Approved  1» Lower House

Senators Slash $19,000,000 From Tax Bill   Favor Increase in Postal Rates

Senate Slashes Revenue Bill   Pares $190,000,000 From: House Total

NEW TAX MEASURE: CUT $190,000,000 BY SENATE GROUP   Excise Levies Totaling $112,000,000 Knocked Out— Boost in Postal Rates Approved.   FIRST CLASS MAIL PUT AT 3 CENTS AN OUNCE   Proposed Doubling of Third Class Rates Rejected— Higher Levies Voted on Many Items,

Senate Group Cuts Tax Bill   Estimated Revenue Set Relow Ten Rillian

Senators Slice Millions Off New Tax Bill   @ Reduce House Passed Measure to $1,950,000

TOTAL OF NEW TAXES CUT BY “SENATE GROUF   $190,000,000 Slashed ~ From Amount Set By House

ALLIED TROOPS HOLDING STRIP OF  BEACH LIKE ROCK   Salerno Rattle Still At A Critical   Stage   BIGGEST FIGHT «SINCE DUNKIRK

ALLIED TROOPS HOLDING LINE AGAINST NAZIS   British Eighth Army Speeding To Salerno

Nazis Increase Efforts To Break Foothold at Salerne  As 8th Army Races North

Roosevelt Approves Dratt Of Fathers Into Services  Strong Likelihood 's Seen He May Propose  dae e eat Bahae Death na In Hie hdecenna

Russians Drive on Bryansk   TROOPS SURGE THROUGH KARACHEV, FLING NAZIS ACROSS SNEZHET RIVER

Close Last Door Of Escape Route   Soviet Army Drives on Bryansk After Taking  _Karachev   Move Cuts Off Escape of Germans Still in Orel Salient

Close Last Door Of Escape Route   Soviet Army Drives on Bryansk After Taking  Karachev   THRU DENSE FORESTS   Move Cuts Off Escape of — Germans Still in Orel Salient

Allied Forces Advance On Lae In New Guinea   Drive Steadily Toward Japanese Base After Surnrise Landing.

ALLIED INVASION THROUGH SPAIN?   Axis Leaders Permit That Statement—Maybe They Want Bases There

‘AXIS MAY MARCH INTO SPAIN DUE T0 INVASION PRETEXT   BERLIN AND ROME RE PORTS PROFESS TO FEAR ALLIES TO ACT THERE

AXIS TALKS OF SPAIN AS CHOICE OF ALLIES      Rome Prints Warnings That Invasion Coming

Axis Fears First Invasion Blow In Spain   Stockholm Reports Hint Germany And Italy Getting Ready To Act   ALLIED POWER GROWS   Huge Force Is Being As sembled; General Marshall May Be Commander

Ants Fear Allied [nvasion Blow May Be Through Spain   Ohservers Surmise Such Expressions Filtering Through Strict Censorship From Berlin and Rome Might be Prelude 1o German and Halian Plans {o March Inte Spain

Spain Is Considered Possibility   Axis Leaders Worry For Fear Allies: Will Make Landings There

AXIS HEADS SAID FEARING INVASION BLOWS THRU SPAIN   Observers Surmise Reports May Be Prelude To German and Italian Plans To March Into Spain To Set Up Air Bases To ‘Defend’ European Fortress Better.

Franco Has Some Good Air Bases. . . .  Axis Fears Invasion Blow Through Spain

AXIO FEARS ALLIED MOVE THRU OPAIN   Country Would Provide Ideal Bases For Planes

Apprehensive Axis May Hit at Franco   Jitters Possibly Prelude to Attack; Excellent Fields Await Conqueror

BERLIN AND ROME ~ HATCH UP EXCUSE ~ TOINVADE SPAIN      May Seize Air Bases to Better Defend Euro nean Fartragc   IDEAL BRIDGEHEAD FOR ALLIED ARMIES

Axis May Be Planning to Strike Spain   Reported Fears of Allied In‘vasion May Be Prelude to Own March into Franco’s Country ‘

COURT AULES TROUT STREAM TO BE OPEN   Little Branch of Pere Marguette River Held to Be Navigable

Bombardier Defies Death, Severe Cold To Drop Bombs on Reich by Hand

WOMEN’S REPUBLICAN CLUB HOLDS MEETING   Nominating And Other Committees Appointed—Annual Banquet Will Be Arranged

SOROPTIMIST CLUB COMMITTEES NAMED   Will Serve During Year—Donation Of $20 To Red Cross War Fund Is Voted

AUSSIES ONLY TEN MILES FROM MADANG   Make Remarkable Advance Thru Tough Jungle   Terrain

fled Cross Drive   War Bond Drive   What You Busy With WAR BONDS

HUNTERS GIVEN OPA SUMMONS   License Numbers of 1,590 To 2,000 Hunters Sent Ration Offices.

Deer Hunters Called Before OPA Boards   Michigan Men Notified To Attend Hearings On How They Got So  Far From Home

Mines to Operate for 30 Days... ‘After April 1.   MINERS WIN BASIS © OF “RETROACTIVE”

Coal Mining To Continue  To May 1   Miners and Operators Agree to President’s Plan

Northern Soft Coal Mines To  Continue   Retroactive Pact Extending Time For 30 Days Signed By Each Side

COAL STOPPAGE. PUT OFF MONTH         Operators and Miners Will Operate on Retroactive Basis —

OPERATORS AND UMW TO CONTINUE TALKS   Southern Mine Owners And Union Will Dicker For 30 More  Fiave

Agreement Contains Retroactive Proviso Appalachian Heads, UMW Men   Appalachian Heads, UMW Men Asree on FDR’s Snovectian

MEATS  Cin tin or glass ennmtatmnpert   Pact Assures Coal Mining After April]   Miners, Owners Agree to Continue on Retro- active Basis

Mine Negotiations To Continue for 30 Days   Southern Operators And UMW. Agree To Work Towatd New Contract After April 1 After Conciliator Steps In

Mine Conference Will Continue For Thirty Days   Any Agreement Reached Will Be Retroactive to April 

MINES WILL ~ BE OPERATED   Northern Coal Operators Agree To Operation During Negotiations.

Conciliator Steps Into Picture  Southern Coal Operators. Union Agree to Continue Wage Talks

Operators of North Aaree   Will Continue Work 30 Days After April 1 On Retroactive Basis

COAL STRIKE DANGER HELD OFF 90 NYS   Union and Operators Delay Decision on Miners’ “Wage Demands. —   (ANY INCREASE TO DATE FROM APRIL 1   Failure to Agree Expected to Bring Flood of Control Bills. -

BACON   CHEESES   Northern Operators And UMW To Keep Mines Open 30 Days

UMW, OWNERS REACH 30 DAY PACT IN PARLEY   54 Tons of High Explosives After April 1; Agreement Retroactive

Negotiations To Continue In Southern Coal Dispute   Operators and Union Reach Agreement Soon After Appearance Of U. S. Conciliator   ANY PAY BOOSTS TO BE RETROACTIVE   Agreement Averts Threatened Strike; Deadline Wednesday

2,000 Miners Out; Unrest Is Spreading   -JOHN L. LEWIS’ SUBORDINATES SAY MEN WILL NOT WORK AFTER APRIL 30 WITHOUT CONTRACT.   Captive Mine Employes

Urges House Discard School Bill Except for Equalization   - Scott Would Cut 437 Page Measure Down to Only 8 Pages

Fall Of Naples Just Matter Of  Hours, Is Said   8th Army Branches Out After Taking Foggia: Corsica Near Fall

Port Bombarded By British Fleet,  Germans Assert   Revolt and Sabotage on Big Scale Are Forcing Nazis to Leave.   Americans Capture  Old City of Pompei

Clark's Army — May. Already. -. Be in City      Pompei*. Overrun’ in ‘Last ‘Stages ‘of Approach’ to: the Big: Italian Center *   FIERCE ADVANCE. “MADE. AT: BIG: cost   German ‘Terrorists Said. .to Have Entered City; Some’: Troops Moving’ Beyond It:

Russians Declare 359.450 Killed, Captured on City’s  Approaches in Six Weeks

GAIN SEVERAL MILES; TAKE 5 VITAL HILLS   One Captured Height Only 29 Miles Southwest of Tunis

Britain's First Army Has Scored a Big Advance in the Drive on City of Tunis

Sudden Stab Nets Advance Of5 Miles   U.S. Forees Pound Ahead In Tunisia

Americans In Tunisia Make  Five Mile Gain   Capture Vital Objectives And Surprise Nazis In Halting Counter Attacks   BRITISH CAPTURE TOWN OF GOUBELLAT

NAZIS PREPARE TO MAKE STAND NORTH OF ROME   U.S. 5th Army Still Locked in Combat in Area Around Naples

One Battleship Sunk, RAF Pilot Reports After Seeing Battle Off Corsica Island

WOMAN’S STUDY CLUB TO RESUME MEETINGS   Dr. Harry Hursh Beidieman Will Address First Fall Session At Y. W. C. A. Tomorrow

200 SOLDIERS HURT IN STORM   Tornado Wrecks 41 Frame Buildings at Fort Riley Training Center

Fort Riley Storm Hits Nearby Town:   Kaw Valley in Kansas Swept by Tornadoes

Tornadoes Sweep Western Kansas  200 Soldiers at Fort Riley Injured

REVIVAL OF FCIG SOUGHT   House To Canvass Senate Amendment, Vote On Added Funds

Life of U. 8. Crop Insurance Corp. Depends on Deficiency Act Vote

SENATE STILL PULLS FOR CROP INSURANCE   Proposal to Continue FCIC. I: Up For House Vote

Senators Watch Action In House  Attempt To Revive  . a a oo a a    Attempt To Revive FCIC Depends On Outcome

ENEMY INDUSTRIAL, U-BOAT, SHIPPING DISTRICTS BOMBED   HUNDREDS OF FLYING FORTRESSES ENGAGED IN MISSIONS

Pound Naples in Heaviest Raid of War on That City; Planes Over Europe Today   2nd Yank Army Corps Repulses Strong Counter Attacks and Make Progress to Junction With Montgomery MacArthur’s Bombers Damage More Jap Ships

AERIAL ASSAULT: INTENSIFIED ON BROADER SCALE   American Flying Fortresses Roar Back Over Channel To Resume Destruction   PORT AT NAPLES SMASHED   German War Factories Left In Flaming Ruins by Increasing Attacks

Massive Air Fleets Strike Strongholds From Kiel To Naples   100 Four-Motored U. S. Bombers Stage One Of War’s Major Raids On Key Supply Port For Tunisia

Keil to Naples Is Territory Hit in Raids   Ships, Industrial and U-Boat Bases Suffer in Concentrated Attacks

Allied Pianes Blast at Axis Strongholds   Massive Fleets of Aircraft Cause Heavy Damage from Kiel to Naples;  Americans in Tunisia Advance Against Strong Opposition

{00 American Bombers In Raid on Naples   Meanwhile British Fliers Hit Kiel U-Boat and Nayal Base

Axis Feels Full Fury of Combined Allied Air Attacks   Enemy Accounts Tell of Big Losses Of Human Lives

Doolittle Bombs Naples from North Af - rica and Big Force Raids Paris War: Plant; Americans Take Lead in Act- : ion in Tunisia, But Have Not Joined Montgomery’s Army.

Smash at Enemy From Kiel to Naples   Allies Carry Air War to Nazis Over Wide Area; Américan Fortresses Attack Armament Factories in Paris Environs.,

MASSIVE FLEETS ALLIED AIRCRAFT BLAST THE AXIS   industrial, U-Boat and Shipping Strongholds From Kiel To Naples Bombed By Hundreds of Flying Fortresses; Heavy Damage and Big Loss of Life.

Fortresses Make Greatest Raids on Naples, Renault: RAF Pounds Kiel, Essen

100 U.S. Fortresses Pound Key Italian War Supply Base   133. American Planes Raid Pari Factory District; Essen Experiences Heavy Raid

Americans Smash Counterattack Near El Guetar   Naples Hit by 200 Tons of Bombs; 1,00 Tons Fall on Kiel

FRENCH REDS AID DE GAULLE   26 Communist Deputies Ask Sweeping Purge of Pro-Vichyites.

FREE FRENGH SEEK UNITY AMONG FORCES      Released Deputies Call for Quick Settlement

COMMUNISTS FOR DE GAULLE ORDER   INSIST ON PURGE  OF ALL ALLEGED PRO-VICHY OFFICERS

Soviets Advance 24 Miles in Caucasus Drive   Reds Seize Stretch Of Railway Between. Rostov and Voronezh

Soviets Gain Plains Near Rostov   Overnight Advance of Russian Nets 18 To 24 Caucasus Miles

REDS ADVANCE 18-24 MILES IN CAUCASUS   Other Trosps 56 Miles East Of Rostov Mass Along Sal River For Drive On Rostov em  6 ae   Nazis In Plight

[TYSON APPOINTED  DISTRICT JUDGE BY  GOVERNOR MONDAY NAMED TO FILL VACANC’  CAUSED BY RESIGNATION TNnCe HOWEFIT

TYSON APPOINTED DISTRICT JUDGE BY IOVERNOR MONDAY  NAMED TO FILL VACANCY CAUSED BY RESIGNATION JUDGE HOWELL

LONDON PRESS AND AXIS BROADCASTS SAY ALLIED INVASION [S IMMINENT   Invasion Craft Massing at African Bases, Rome Says

Axis Speeds Army To Greece as Allies Hunt ‘Ghost Planes’   Fuehrer Believed.to Have Hidden 400 Crack Planes as ‘Ace in Hole’; British Hear Invasion Is Imminent

U.S. AIRMEN SMASH KISKA, ATTUIN JARRING SUNDAY RAIDS   YANKS, AUSSIES SEIZE HILLS OVERLOOKING MUBO, 12 MILES FROM JAP SALAMAUA BASE

RAID KISKA 13 TIMES   Brings Raid Total To 129 So Far This Month

13 More Raids Made On Kiska   U. S. Airmen Knife Through Dirty Weather

Japs Desperately Cling To Munda   U. 8. Troops Drive To With in 2,100 Yards Of Besieged Air Base   HEAVY AIR RAID ON SALAMAUA

12 ARE DEAD IN KENTUCKY COAL MINE EXPLOSION   Six Rescued Had Been Trapped For 12 Hours

Senate May Back Down On Subsidies  Plan May Be Allowed to Function on Limited Basis  VETO IS EXPECTED  Food Certificates fox Low Income Groups Proposed

SENATORS MAY BACK DOWN ON SUBSIDY STAND   Might Allow Program To Function On Limited Basis

SENATORS TALK OF BACKDOWNON SUBSIDIES. BANS   Might — Allow Program  to ' Function On Limited Basis. Rather Than _ Override Veto   NEW PLANS LOOMING   Proposal for Issudnee of -Food-Purchase Certificates to Low Income Groups Made

FOOD PROGRAM THREAT WILTS   Solons Favor Permitting Subsidy To Limited Operation

11,300 Register In City For Ration Books  Incomplete County Tatal le 94 O00  Incomplete County Total Is 24,000; Local Area Figure 15 8NN- Renavo & 106

3,728 OF 12,500 ® Registered Here; Some Areas Have _, Completed Work

Yanks Rit  Ahead in Italy   U. $. TROOPS GAIN AS BRITISH CAPTURE CASTEL FRENTANO

Fifth Army Push  Opens Nazi Lines   Eighth Army Also Advances in Italy and Both Take  Prisoners   MUCH AIR FIGHTING   Germans Drive Refugees Upon Roads to Hamper Allied Advance

SENATE BEGINS ITS DEBATE ON RUML SKIP-YEAR PLAN   George May Make Fina! Effort {eo Substitute Compromise for Forgiveness.

Challenges Ickes On Gas Rationing   Congressman Says Ickes Is Seeking To Make Dire Predictions Good   SAYS CANADA IS GETTING OUR GAS

Pilot Dies As Army Plane Falls On R.R.   Machine Strikes Box Car. Blazes

Army Plane Hits N. H. Freight Car In Cranston Yard   Fails To Come Out Of Dive, Rips Up Tracks And " Burns; Pilot Is Killed

MINE CONTRACT NEEDS APPROVAL OF LABOR BOARD   Ickes Tells Lewis That He Cannot Circumvent Gov ernment Agency   PANEL WILL SUBMIT REPORT THIS WEEK

‘Settlement strike must  be approved’   Labor board has final authority Ickes declares

LEWIS IS TOLD WLB MUST 0. K. ' ANY PAY PACT   dckes Reiterates FDR “ insistence on Recagnition of Board

Ickes Quilines Stand on Coal   Says WLB Must Give Contract Approval

Lewis Told To Recognize WLB   Ickes Says Board  Approval Essential By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS

Coal Contract Dispute to Have WLB Approval   Ickes Informs Lewis of Position; UMW Head Still Silent

TERMS OF STRIKE AGREEMENT NEEDS ACTION OF BOARD   ~~ Ickes Informs Lewis That He Must Recognize WLB In Working Out Terms For Settlements.   LETTER SENT AFTER BYRNES CONFERENCE   Fuel Administrator Will Not Undertake Collective Bargaining Conferences In Dispute.

Secretary Ickes Addresses Letter to Mine Workers’ Boss —   SEEKS RETURN TO  PRIVATE OPERATION   No Collective Bargaining ' Conferences, Ickes Savs

Lewis Told To Recognize WLB   “Ickes Says Board. Approval Eccantial

ontract Must Approved by LB, He Asserts   el Co-ordinator Explain: Position to Mine Union Chief   akes It Plain Board Mus! Have the Final Word on Agreement

WLB’s Power Must Be Held,  Ickes Asserts   Says Any Coal Contract Must Have Approval Of War Labor Roard   LEWIS WITHHOLDS COMMENT ON LETTER   Ickes Makes It Plain _He Will Not Undertake  Bargaining Conferences

Lewis Told Approval of WLB Needed   Ickes Makes It Plain Any Contract Reachec in Negotiations Must  Have Board’s Okeh

Ickes Tells Lewis  He Must Accept  WLB Jurisdiction Federal Coal Mine  Boss Says He Can Not Nevotiate Contract

Lewis Told Coal Settlement Must Have Approval  Of Labor Board   Tekes Addresses Letter to UMW Chief Aiter Conference With James Byrnes and William Davis

Ickes Declines Role of Umpire ~ In Coal Battle   His Powers Are Limited, WLB Final Authority,  T owurt: Fe T.1.)

Ickes Lioses Door on Union Negotiations  Has No Authority To Undertake Any Collective Bargainin;  ‘SOMEWHAT UPSET’ Anv Contract Must

Union Boss Gets Letter From lekes   Effort To By-Pass Labor Board By Lewis Is Scotched.

CONTRACT MUST MEET APPROVAL OF WAR BOARD   Government Operator Of Mines Says He Will Not Undertake To Settle Dispute   Letter States Views

WLB MUST APPROVE ANY AGREEMENT; HE HAS NO POWER TO INITIATE ANY NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTRACT

Plea Is Voiced for Loyal Japs  Committee to Visit Relocation Camp

Attorney Pleads for Jap  Return to Pacitie Coast.   Charges Race Prejudice Resulted In Army Evacuation Order; Dies Group Heads for Arizona

Group to View Japanese Camp   Plea for Return of Nipponese Is Made

Coast Jap Probe Is Concluded   Dies Unit Leaves For Camp At  Poston

Brown fo Quit Its Reported   Tells President He Is Ready to Step Out of Office

No Decision Reached In Milk Price Boost  Claim Increases Must Be  Through Subsidy

SINATRA PAYS OFF   Sweon-Creener Buys flwn ( entract From Temmy Derare

Frontiers Out At 3-Power Talk  ‘Soviet Says Hitler's Defeat, Second Front Should Be Tonics.

Russians Ban Frontiers Talk At Conference   Will Discuss Question Of ‘Second. Front’ And Defeat of Hitler

REDS WHHL TALK ~AINLY 2ND FRONT   Not Interested Now At All In Discussing Frontiers

Defeat of Hitler Tri-Power Parley Pur pose Only,  ‘Russians Assert

RUSSIANS BAN PARLEY TALKS ON FRONTIERS   Intend to Use Confer ence to Discuss  Second Front

REDS WILL NOT DISCUSS BORDERS AT CONFERENCE   Pravda Announces Second Front To Be Topic of Im portant Tripartite Conference.

Post-War Boundaries Not On Agenda Of Moscow Conference, Says Pravda

 nitial : ThraaPeues” Conference to be Held in Moscow Says Pradva

Soviets Will Not Discuss Boundaries   Moscow Parley Concerns War

Soviet Limits Scope of Talks Among Allies   Pravda Says Discussion Of Post-War Borders

Tri-Power Conference In Moscow   Pravda Declares Ques: tion Before Delegates Is Military, and Not  Political in Character

Borders Out In 3-Power Talks   Reds Say Discussions Will Be On Defeat Of Hitler. Second Front.

nEUS MOVE “UNGRIMEA FROM EAST   Stalin States. Real, Second Front — Is Coming

Russian Leader Says Plans Mapped at Moscow Parley for Final Defeat of Germany   OF CATASTROPHE   Declares People of France, Yugoslavia and Occupied Countries Must Become Free

Stalin Declares Second Front Is Not Far Off  Says Definite Plans for Germany’s ~=6§ Nhafeant Ara Shaned

24,000 HOGS LAST WEEK    Highest Receipts on K. C. Market ' in ven Years -

24,000 HOGS LAST WEEK       Highest Receipts on K. C. Markef \ ; in Seven Years

EXCISE MEN HERE.   Rumored That. Local ‘Tavern Owners May Be Called Before Commission.

a Les CISE MEN:      HERE.         bees Re i: Rumored ‘That , i Local ‘Favern ‘hyners May Be Called ;  Be~ Po fore- Commission.

N uernberg Under Bombing By RAF  Seven Planes Lost On Raids, British Report

RAF Shifts Attack to Nuernberg  Batetichy BWawi bons   British Bombers Also Range Widely  Over Germany

OTHER POINTS IN WESTERN GERMANY HIT   Seven Planes Are Listed As Missing In Action   FIRES STARTED   In Industrial City, Berlin Admits: Britain Is Free From Raids

RAF BLASTS NUERNBERG AND PLANTS   Large Force Used. In Raid; Seven Planes Lost

RAF Makes Night Raid on Munitions Center After Americans Had Attacked Rail Centers.

RAF Resumed Neurnberg Raid   WESTERN GERMANY HIT HEAVY AGAIN LAST NIGHT

BRITISH LOSE SEVEN BOMBERS   Berlin Admits Major Dam age fo Residential Quarters, Public Buildings

STRONG FORCE RAE BOMBERS IN ATTACK. WESTERN GERMANY:   NUERNBERG ESPECIALLY HARD HIT AND SEVEN BOMBERS FAILED RETURN

NUERNBERGIS: ~ AGAIN RAIDED   Berlin Says Huge Fires-Start ed In One Of Chief Centers Of Production

RAF ASSAULTS NAZI TARGETS   Large Fires Started in Raic On Nuernberg; 7 Bombers Missing.

NURNBERG HIT BY RAF . BOMBS   Heavy Damage Results; American Planes Smash At Railway Centers

U-Boat Engine Factory Blasted ‘By RAF Raiders   Strong Force Hits Industrial Areas In West Germany

British Bomber Command Out In Strength For Job, Air Ministry Announces; Seven Planes Are Missing; Berlin Acknowledges Large Fires Started; Western Germany Also Raided

Strong RAF Force Blasts Nuernberg, Other Nazi Targets  Seven Bombers

RAF BOMBERS IN BITTER ATTAGK ON CITY OF NUERNBERG   Western Germany Also Was Raided by Bombers Last Night.   WERE OUT IN STRENGTH      Seven Ships Failed to Return, the Air Ministry Announced.

NUERNBERG HIT BY RAF BOMBERS IN NIGHT ATTACK  NAZI HIGH COMMAND ADMITS CASUALTIES

RAF CONTINUES AIR ATTACKS ON GERMAN CITIES   Diesel Engine Works at Nuern: berg Main Objective, Lose Seven Planes

Western Germany Again  Blasted By RAF Fliers   Wuernberg And Other Important Targets Are Al tacked By Strong Force Of Bombers; London Has First Daylight Alert In Nearly A Month

CELEBRATION IN LONDON BOTHERED IBY ALERT ALARM   U. 5. Bombers Blast ‘Jap Positions lOn Kicks

RAF BOMBERS HIT NUERNBERG   Heavy. Force’ Raids Factory _City-and: Other. Targets in’ oWasterns Germany. ~

Continue Raids On Nazi Points  Targets In Western Germany Are Hit

RAF Attacks Nuernberg   Seven Planes Fail To Return—London Has Daylight Alert

NAZI TARGETS IN FORCE   Nuernberg and Targets In Western Germany Were Main British Obijectices

BYRAE BOMBS   Heavy-Raid Made on .Diesel . Engine-Center; Seven Bombers Lost

BIG FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS HITNUERNBERG   Berlin Admits Large Fires Started

Nuernberg ‘Visited’ By Strong Force  Of Bombers   Heavy Damage Done To German Industrial Center; Eight RAF  Plane Are Poct

BRITISH BLAST NUERNBERG AND WESTERN REICH   Heavy Night A Assault on South German Production Center In_ dicated   7 BOMBERS LOST   Americans Raid Rouen and Rennes, France, in Daylight Attacks

BRITAIN’S BOMBS JOLT NUERNBERG   German Objectives Blasted By Heavy Force of RAF Planes at Night

CHINESE SCORE GREAT VICTORY OVER JAPANESE   Five Nip Divisions Routed By Chinese Troops

Hard-Fighting Chinese Rout Five Jap Units   Retreat Trails For Two Enemy Divisions Reported Cut Off   CHUNGKING RELIEVED

MARTINIQUE JOINS ANTI - AXIS LINEUP   Henri Hoppenot Will Take Over as Commis. sioner

Marfinique Comes Into ‘Allied Camp   Admiral Robert Quits Post So Island Can Work With The Allies

Free French Take Control Of Martinique Immobilized Fleet  Now.1s Available Tn, Bight Ayvic

Martinique Affiliated with Allied Nations As Admiral Georges Robert Resians

French Island Of Martinique Joins Allies   French National Committee of Liberation Takes Over Control —

MARTINIQUE JOIN: ANTI-AXIS LINEUP   Admiral Robert Relinquishes Authority; Resources Will Be Mobilized for War Effort ~ Against the Axis

Shift Is Made By Martinique   French Committee Takes Over Contro!

Martinique ‘Joins With United Nations   New Governor Is Named For French Island

French Antilles Joins In Fight On Axis Powers   Martinique Fleet Units Available For lJ<ee By Allies

Martinique s Freed From  Axis Master   French National Liberation Committee Assumes Contro! of Government And Gen. Georaces Robert Steps Down

MARTINIQUE JOINS ANTI-AXIS LINEUP UNDER NEW OFFICIALS   ' Admiral Robert Stepping Down As Commissioner Of French Possession In C aribbean; Allies To Get Use Of Immobilized French Warships

Martinique Joins Lineup - Against Axis; Hoppenot is Named Robert’s Successor

Martinique Joins Anti-Axis Lineup      Long Suspect as Weak Link in U. S. Defense Are of Caribbean.

MARTINIQUE LINES UP AGAINST AXIS   HENRI HOPPENOT NAMED ISLAND COMMISSIONER—VU. 8. TO LIFT BLOCKADE,

Bill to Call Fathers Last Is Approved   Senate Group to Ask Reason For Army Of 11 Million

House Committee  Votes Draft Curb   Senate to Probe Large Army Need

PROBE VOTED BY SENATE OF SIZE OF ARMY   House Committes Backs : aft to Delay Drafting na of Fathers

Draft Plans Of Kilday Favored   -Sefiate. To- Probe.  Genratas Of acne

VOTES TO DRAFT SINGLE MEN FIRS!   ‘HOUSE COMMITTE APPROVES BILL TO PUT FATHERS IN UNIFORM LAST.

Draft Measure Is Approved by House Group   Eligible Single Mén Would Be Taken First

HOUSE UNITS VOTE PLACES ~ FATHERS LAST      Eligible Single Men First-On State's ‘Army Call

COMMITTEE AGTS ON DRAFT LINEUP   Approves Bill Requiring Call. Of All Single Men in Each State Before Fathers Are Ordered Into Uniform

Draft Measure Is Approved  by House Group Eligible Single Men Would

WATER BLOCKS EXIT OF SIX LOST MINERS   Relatives Await at Mouth of Pit as Rescuers Pump Out Mine

Have Hopes For Trapped Miners  NTae ID. Ps Soe WS eee ee   May Be Getting Air; Pumping Rushed

GLIDER BORNE TROOPS USED   Land on at Least 3 Sections of Sicily

Japanese Expecting New UJ. S. Air Attacks      Hint Extensive Use Of Glider-Borne Troops

Little Greek Navy Has Been Revived   Gréek Flag Flies from Daredevil Destroyers in Vanguard of Allied Sea Offensive Against Italy

ATTACK ON RABAUL IS EXPECTED SOON   Predicted As Result Of American Advance In Solomons

Predict Rabaul Aerial Attacks   Two-Way Offensive  Seen In Future

ENEMY FACING MANY SURPRISES   General Devers Says The Enemy Is In For Some Surprises When the Allies Invade Europe.

Heavy Bombers Strike At Nippon Supply Vessels   Explosives Showered Among 13 Jap Ships Off Harbor of Kevient

BOMBS SHOWERED AMONG 13 SHIPS AT KAVIENG PORT   10,000-ton and 6000-ton Craft Hit Off North Tip of New Ireland.

U.S. BOMBERS DROP EXPLOSIVES ON 13 SHIPS OFF KAVIENG   Darkness  Prevented Check On Results But Two, Vessels Probably Were Hit

SAVE INMATE FROM INDIANA HOSPITAL FIRE   Doctors battle 1,186 ter rified patients in insane institution

SMOLENSK; HIT NORTH UKRAINE   Red Guns Boom Again and Again to Celebrate Russian Victories

Break-thrus undermining foe’s defense   Russians close in on Smolensk

Clothing Chiels Asked to Ban Scarcity ‘Ads’  Overall Program   Overall Program To Avert  Ration Program.

Ask Clothing Retailers To Refain From “Scarce Advertising In Move To Avert Possible Clothes Rationing

Nazis Mass Big Forces   Russian Dispatches Say Enemy to Launch Heavy Attacks Soon

Flying Forts Stage Raid  n Germany   U. S. planes follow up heavy attack by R. A. F  on Nuremberg

HUNS SHOVED BACK TOWARD ALLIED TRAP   Strategic High Ground In Kasserine Area Seized From Enemy   PRISONERS, TANKS TAKEN   RAF Continues Blasting Of Europe—Russians Moving Ahead

—Royal Air Force Bombs Nuremberg—  ‘Forts’ Lash North Reich   ... U. S. Bombers Attack Port Of Naples

YANKS JOIN RAF ROUND OF RAIDS ON AXIS AREAS   Block Busters on Nuremberg, Direct Hits on Naples Harbor

FACES QUIZZING   Young Girl Maintains Charge Of Intimacy Under Searching Questioning

Fire Damages Old Pittsburgh Coal Company Building   Four-Alarm Blaze In Down town District Results In  $40,000 Damages

State of Siege in  Crete Ordered   Lisbon Reports Many Tons of Shipping Reacihng North Africa

STATE OF SIEGE Is ORDERED BY AXIS ON: BALKAN FRONT   Crete, Key Aegean Islands  Center Of Activity -—Allied Convoys Arrive >

STATE OF SIEGE IS ORDERED ON GRETE BY AXIS   Lisbon Reports Almost Daily Arrival Of Convoys In North Africa

CRETE IS IN STATE OF SIEGE   Ordered By High Command Of Axis Powers

foLt Ur GHt Tt PUT ON altbt STATUS TODAY   Invasion-Jittery Axis Hoping To Make Allied Attack Expensive For Us

BL ON QUALI   Votes Down So-Called Equal Rights Amendment in ame 12 31c 11540” a a

Shot Down, He Swam 16 Hours To Escape Japs   Young Pilot Tells of Struggling 5 Days In Jungle

Russians Cut Ail Railway Lines Out of the City. GERMANS ADMIT THE SITUATION IS GRAVE Russians Overrunning Nazi Positions Everywhere.

RUSSIAN TROOPS ENCIRCLE BIG GERMAN FORCE AT KRIVOI ROG   Dispatches Say Red Arm; Mechanized Cclumn: Have Slashed All Rail road Lines Leading; From the Citv.

HALF A MILLION GERMANS FLEEING FROM DESTRUCTION   REDS CLOSING IN ON KEY POINT OF KRIOVOI ROG FROM THREE SIDES; GREATEST MILITARY CATASTROPHE IN HISTORY FACES GERMANS

Rogers Thinks Bombs Nearly Enough To Win   Rep. Rogers Says Public Is Not Aware Of Damage Done By Precision Bombing

Ceiling fo Cuf Price of Food  Brown Ann   Brown Announces Nev Schedule Will Be Effective on Monday

PRICE TOPS 0 GROCERY ITEMS READY MONDAY   Fixed Ceilings, Brown Hopes, Will Destroy Black Markets

NEW CEILINGS ON FOODS MAY LOWER PRICES   Maximum Consumer Costs List Will Be Made Public on Sunday by OPA.

Grocery Price Ceilings Planned   To Be Effective ‘In. 150 Cities

Outraged People Will  Be Given Criminals   Punishment of Those Responsible For Atrocitizs To Be in Hands Of Nations Injured

TURNS AGAINST FORMER ALLY  Texts Of Statements As Italy Declares War On Nazis

Bombers Flail  Low Countries   Belyian Railroad Yards. Duteh Airdromes Hit

Dutch Airfields and Belgian Rail Yards Hit   German Radios Ge Off the Air Late Sunday Night

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PLANES POUND FOE RAILWAYS AND AIRFIELDS   Another Night Attack On Europe by RAF Is Indicated

Allied Bombs Hit Possible Invasion Area  Night Silence of German Radio Gives “Hint of Night Raid.

U. S., RAF Hammer At Airfields In German Zones  Radio Silence Hints At Further Vicious Air Attack

Solons Receive Proposed  Highway Measure  Matter Would Be  Submitted to Vatawe am Asay 10

Solons Receive Proposed Highway Measure  Matter Would Be Submitted to

House May Avoid Floor Battle   But Rumblings Come From Senate Over Post-War Resolution

Five Killed as Bomber Hits Wires   Springfield Man One of Victims in Crash at Shreveport

Volturno in Flood, HoldsUp Fifth Army   Allied Guns Plaster Nazis On North Bank Before Crossing

Zerc Hour Forltalian Battle Near   Artillery Roars Prelude to New Allied Assault

Prepare for big assault on Volturno   Zero hour for attack nearing

FIFTH ARMY PAVES WAY FOR STRIKING GERMANS IN FORCE   Eighth Army Meets Bitter Opposition In Drive ——Hour For March On Rome Nears

‘ZERO HOUR FOR BIG VOLTURNO BATTLE NEAR   Eighth Army Inche: Forward Against Stiff Onnascition

ALLIES STILL GAIN GROUND   Meets Ea eco ‘ae MRR GALE Fifth. Army ‘Artillery Roaring  “Thunderous Prelude to Full-Scale Drive. — Stitt Opposition Being -Reported.

Clark’s Patrols Swim Flooded River i Reconnaissance; Bombers Raid Greece and ‘Aegean Islands

Set Stage For Drive  On Rome   Fifth Army’s Artillery Roars Prelude To Full-Scale Assault On  Volturno River

Allied Guns Jar German  Line In Italy   5th Army Hauls Up Artillery To Shake Up Naz Defenses As Flooded River Delays Mass Crossing   RN. RPICTHIARH DH Mewvfll 1.AWN

Artillery Roars Prelude To Big  Volturno Drive   Zero Hour For Great Battle To Pierce  Nazi Defenses Near

FIFTH ARMY GUNS MASSED AT VOLTURNO   Zero Hour For Big Battle Is Imminent

FIFTH BLASTS AT NAZIS’ DEFENSES ALONG VOLTURN   Swollen By Rains, River Over flows Banks At Some Poinis.

Zer-Hour Near ir Battle to Pierce Rome's Defenses   Fierce Clash Underway, North

MILD WEATHER STAYS   ‘Unsettled Conditions May Reach  -’ Kansas Tomorrow

Nazis Battle in Streets of Melitopol   Fight Under New Hitler Order to Stand or Die

Fierce Battles Rage In Streets Of Gateway City   2,000 Nazis Killed As Bitter Struggle Enters Fifth Day

2.000 Nazis Fall Before Red Troops   Germans, Russians Rush Reinforcements Into Melitopol

Germans Lose Severely  On All Sides   Nazis Perish by Thousands as Soviets Advance on Crimean Gateway; Many Surrender; Numerous Towns Are Taken

Reds Battle at Crimean Gatewa)  Street Fighting Rages in Shattered Melitope!

Bloody Battle Continues In lts Fifth Dav   Many Other Germans Wiped Out Ln Fighting Near Kiev

HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE RAGES IN MELITOPOL   Germans Pushed Back Block by Block, with 2,000 Nazis Killed.

Bitter Fight For Melitopol In Progres:   Battle Block By Block For City Foe Calls ‘Eastern Gate’; It’s Closed, Sovi iets Say

GERMANS ORDERED TO STAND OR DIE BY ADOLE HITLER   Troops Battle With Bayonets and Grenades at Melitopol With Neither Claiming Advances.   ENGAGEMENT RIVALS THAT AT STALINGRAD   Enemy Throws Reinforcements Into Struggle—So-. viet Victory Would Open  Path to South.

HITLER HURLS WAVES OF MEN INTO CONFLICT   Russians Wrenching  Fiercely - Resisting Ene mies from Block After  Block of City   2,000 HITLERITES ALREADY KILLED   Red Relief Army 50 Miles Away: Soviets Advancing Through Blood on Kiev

Melitopol Battle Fierce   Reds Taking City Block By Block In Close Fighting

‘Nazis Told To Hold Or Die   Slashing Reds Lunge On In Drive To Bottle Up Crimea

Fall of Melitopol Near; Important Gains Scored By Reds on Broad Front   German Counter-Attacks Hurled Back Near Kiev; Soviets Close In on Gomel From Two Sides: Red Airforce Is Factor

HAND TO HAND BATTLE RA SES IN MELITOPOL   Capture of City Would Entrap Six Divisions  Of Germans

Hitler Said Suffering ‘Stalingrad’ Losses In Battle For Great Base   Wave Upon Wave Of Germans Sent Reeling B; Russians; City Falling Block By Block

Fuehrer Orders “Stand-or-Die” Battle by Nazis   Streets of Melitopol Littered With Slain Germans; Reds Solidify Kiev Positions

Russians Kill 2000 Germans In Hard Batfle   Russian Relief Army Pushes for Gateway Of the Crimea; Reds Advance Elsewhere

Bitter Battle  Of Melitopol Enters 5th Day   Reds Win Block After Block Of Crimea Gateway City, Killing 2,000 Nagic: Relief Army le On Wav

Block By Block,  Invaders Giving ~ Up Vital Sector   Reds Nearing Kiev With Two Forces Gomel Objective Also Near

UNE MARRICD MEN INGLUDED IN NEAT CALL   Tipton County Will Have Some of This Group Up Wednesday.   RULE Is - EXPLAINED   Men Married After Sep. 15. 1949, Are Considered Single.

SOME MARRIED NEN INCLUDED WW NEXT CALL   Tipton ‘County Will Have Some of This Group.Up Wednesday... -    RULE. IS - EXPLAINED   Men Married After Sep. 15, 1949, Are Considered. Sinzle. \

Possible Breakdown In Rubber-Borne Transportation Seen Unless Drastie Conservation Measures Taken

Transportation ‘Breakdown Seen   Rubher (icial Wants Tires Saved

TIRE CRISTO NEARING COMPANIES REPORT   Breakdown In_ Transport System Foreseen

Disclose Nazi Ofier OF Peace To Reds In 42   Russia Now Expected To Take Surprising New Political Measures.   BALKANS CONCERNED   wubber Firms Warn Of  Drastic Tire Shortage

OWI, CUT TO BONE, TURNS TO EDITORS   Palmer Hoyt, Director, Appoints Committee For Study

OWI Asks Help Of Publishers   Hoyt Wants Program To Be Inexpensive

MacArthur Ready To Play Any Role Assigned To Him   Only Desire Is To See Allies  Victorious

Laval Yields More to His Nazi Bosses   Cuts Cabinet After Five Members Sabir  Ractrnatiane

FATHERS’ CALL IS INDEFINITE   McNutt And Hershey Say Fortunes Of War Will Determine Draft Date

Fathers Will Be Drafted Only [As Last Resort   Fortunes of War May Se Date, McNutt and Major Hershey Say

TIME FOR DRAFTING OF FATHERS INDEFINITE, OFFICIALS ASSERT   Fortunes of War May Set Date, McNutt and Hershey Tell Governors at Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio

YANK BOMBERS HIT PLANTS IN NORWAY AGAIN   Allies Meet Reverses in Russia and Adriatic; Jap Islands Blasted

ALMOST WORLD-WIDE RAIDS CARRIED OUT BY GIANT BOMBERS  RUSSIANS DROP BACK AND ALLIES STALLED IN-

ALMOST WORLD-WIDE RAIDS CARRIED OUT BY GIANT BOMBERS  RUSSIANS DROP BACK AND ALLIES STALLED IN ITALY ON GROUND

Italian Rivers Overflow Banks; Nazis Striking Back on Adriatic Coast

RAF Bomber Lost in Attacks \ ‘on Lu shaven, Berlin—Reds Make. Gerr Pay For First Gain Japs Still H. Formidable Fle ;

Enemy Targets Are Blasted by UN Bombers   US Fifth Army Improved Position; Yugoslay Partisans Fight Defensively in Dalmatia and Bosnia; Russians Retreat in Zhitomir Area

Nazi Industries in Norway Blasted by U.S. Bombers Again   Reds Yield Ground on East Front; Other News of Conflicts

Japanese Bases in Gilbert And Marshall Islands Are Also Hit by Yank Airmen

German _ Industries Are Targeta In   Air Raid /  REDS DROP BACK  Nazis Open Assault On Greek Island Of Samos

Germans. Announce Assault Has Been Started on Greek Island of Samos Following Fall of Leros. Germans Counter-Att: ck Futilly in Italy As Rivers Go Out of Banks:

Pound Enemy Bases .   Bomb Nazi War Indus: tries in Norway and  Germany; Strike Japs; In Central Pacific —_

Russians Capture Rechitsa, West of Nazi-Held Gomel   Action in Italy Is Still Slow; Aegean Outpost Is Attacked

SOVIETS FORCED TO RETREAT IN THITOMIR AREA   Yanks Attack Gilbert, Marsh all island, Held by Japan

Nazis Score First Success on Red Front   Germans Claim Assault Started on Last Allied Foothoid in Aegean Sea: at Samos

BOMBERS G0 TO NORWAY IN HEAVY RAID   Targets Not Identified But Big Load of Bombs Found Mark On Various Installations   RAF IN GERMANY

Compromise Tax Plan Gets HouseSupport   Abatement of 6 Percent Surtax and 13 Percent Surtax Looms Best Bet

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN DISCUSSED   Centers on Proposal That the 6 Per Cent Normal and 13 Per Cent First Bracket Surtax Be Abated

FIGHT CENTERS ON RUML PLAN   Compromise Proposed To Abate Part Of Income Taxes

Compromise sought over tax pay plan   Leaders head off eoalition block

Groups Weigh Abating Some  Income Taxes   Demoerat Leaders Try  To Line House Votes a oo ee, ae a ee

COMPROMISE TALK ON ABATEMENT PHASE: OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PROGRAM BUZZES

Compromise On Tax Plan Is Discussed At Capital   Would Eliminate All Of 1942 Tax Liability For Most Taxpayers, Reduetion for Others

A Tax Plan Compromiser      Solons May Unite on Measure That Would Abate Part of Taxes

Compromise Tax Plan Considered By House Grour   Many House Members Said To Have Open Mind on Ruml Plan

SHOWDOWN ON TAXES LOOMS   Administration Leader: Strive To Prevent Further Backing  Of Rum! Plan

Compromise On Tax Abatement Issue Is Talked   Solons Seek A Middle Course For Pay-As-You Ga Svetem.

Compromise On Abatement Phase 0! Pay-As-You-Go Tax Program Hinted   Part But Not All Of One Year’s Income Taxes Would Be Abated In Arriving At Pay-As-You-Go Basis  Under Rumored Compromise.

Compromise-On Tax Plan Aired   Dem Leaders Seek  To Maintain-Ranks:

Reds Breach Orel Defense   Bitter Resistance Of Germans Beaten Down

Russian Army Forges Ahead Against Nazis   Tireless Attack Maintained on Enemy Bases

Churchill Outlines Post-War Plan But Sees 2 More Year's of Struggle

SYSTEM OF SOCIAL INSURANCE FAVOREI   Warns British People War May Go On Two Years Or More

Churchill Outlines  His Postwar Views   Warns Britons Their First Job Is To Beat Hitler And Second Tn Deleat Tanan

FREE NATIONS COUNCIL ASKED BY CHURCHILL   Warns British People War Must Be Won As First Step

Churchill  Reveals New Plan   PRIME MINISTER URGES BRITISH PEOPLE TO “KEEP EYE ON BALL”

CHURCHILL SEES ROUGH FIGHTING   It May Take Two Years or So To Crush Hitler, Prime Minister Says

PREMIER WARNS ON PRESENT FIGH!   Broadcast Includes Socia Reforms, Draws Quick, Mixed Reactions

CHURCHILL'S TAYE DEALT WITH PEACE AFTER LONGER WAR  BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER SEES AT LEAST TWO MORE VEARS OF HITLER

Prime Minister’s Speech Devoted Principally ' To Peaceful World of Tomorrow and Compre-— hensive ‘“Four-Year-Plan” For Improved Social Conditions

Churchill Mans Post-War Order,  Warns Optimists   World Council, O! Free Nations Urged But Says War I: Not Won

Churchill Tells His Ideas On New Post-War Order   At Same Time He Warns That. Hitler Must Be - Crushed First

Churchill Sees Era of Peace After Conilic  Mes: abe Aga n Car ee 35 tadines

Churchill Plans For Post War   Warns British They Must First Become Victors in Confliet

Speech Draws Quick But Mixed Reactions From British Press  PACKS SURPRISE ‘LINE’

Postwar Plan Is Outlined By Churchill   Sketches His Vision of Peace Kept by European and Asiatic Council of Free Nations

Britain’s Prime Minister Says Nazis To Be Beaten And Then Japs Crushed

Year, Maybe Two, Seen As Necessary To Defeat Hitler; Japs Will Be Next

CHURCHILL WARNS NAZI DEFEAT MAY TAKE TWO YEARS   Prime Minister Visions Post: war Peace Maintainec by Council of Free Na.  Hane,

CHURCHILL IN FAVOR'OF WAR VICTORY FIRST      Discusses Post-War,Program But -” Warns War May Last For wo More Years   MUST ‘KEEP EYE ON BALL -- UNTIL VICTORY 18 WON

POSTWAR VIEWS BY CHURCHILL DISAPPOINTING   British Press of Opinion Prime Minister's Program Lacks Concrete  ' Proposals   FORESEES LONG WAR   Says It Might Take Two Years to Crush IntoDeath Dust and Ashes  Adolf Hitler

Churchill Sketches Future   Prime Minister Draws Picture of Possible Post-war. World Order ‘After Victory is Won

rUS1 WAN FLAN IS OUTLINED BY CHURCHILL  Prime Minister’s Talk Seen Chart For Future  MIXED REACTION   Sees War As Extending Two Years Or More

Churchill Lists Post Wa World Plans   Tells English Not to ‘Take Their Eye Off the Ball’ Sunday

CHURCHILL'S TALK DEALT WITH PEACE AFTER LONGER WAR  BRITAIN’S PRIME MINIST] Crra .2er TRAC}, TIT BET   BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER SEES AT LEAST TWO MORE YEARS OF HITLER

Britain's 8th Army on Move in Tunisia,  Churchill Declares   Prime Minister Reveals Development in Radio  Address Sunday

Churchill Warns It May Take Over 2 Years To Beat Hitler; 'He Sketches Post-War Order   Address Acclaimed As Charter For Future; Some Quarters Disappointed -

Post-War Plan Is Outlined By Churchill   Minister Warns Present War May Last 2 More Years

WARNS MAY TAKE 2 YEARS OR MORE TO CRUSH HITLER   CHURCHILL CHARTS POST-WAR WORLD IN RADIO ADDRESS

FREE NATIONS COUNCIL SEEN AS PEACE NEED   British Chief Visions PostWar System Of Complete Social Insurance   SENSES VICTORY BY °’45      Stresses Attention Must Not Be Diverted From Present Conflict

Warns Battle Against: Nazis Far From Ove:   Britilsh Prime Minister Suggests Council Of Europe. Council Of Asia.   SOCTAL INSURANCE OW

British Press Reviews Address      SOME EDITORS DEMAND POST WAR PLANNING Now

United Nations Peace Council Urged; Stresses ‘Post-War Social Security

FUTURE PEACE. PLAN MAPPED BY CHURCHILL   Britain, U.-S., Russia Linked in Postwar Council by : Prime Minister.   FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

SAYS VICTORY OVER A YEAR JN FUTURE   Wants To Defeat Hitler: Then Turn To Japs   POST-WAR SYSTEM   Of Comprehensive Social Insurance Is Approved; Reaction Mixed

Gives Vision Of Post-War Federations   But Churchill Wants Us To Keep “Eye On Ball”   Battle Announcement Rates More Interest   Eighth Army Attack Pushes Premier’s Plan In Background

PLANS FOR POSTWAR PEACE TOPIC OF RADIO SPEECH   Churchill! Gives Picture Of His Post-War Plan

CHURCHILL'S POST-WAR PLANS GIVEN   May Take Two Years to Crush Hitler, He Says; Reveals Eighth Army Offensive is Underway.

Churchill's Plan For Peace After War Is Sketchec  Warns That Fight Mav lact At lL enct   Warns That Fight May Last At Least Two More Years:

CHURCHILL WARNS WAR NOT YET WON   Talks of Peace Plans for Europe, Favors Broad Social Insurance.   WAR CAUSES MUST BE UNDER CONTROL   Sketches Organization for Peace to Include U. S. and Russia.

-Postway Plan Includes 4-Year Program for British Rehabilitation   VICTORY FIRST JOB!   Sees Hitler Crushed in 2 Years, Then Jt Will Be Japs’ Turn

SUBSIDY FIGHT SHOWDOWN DUI   OPA Price Contrel Set-up Hits Challenge As Oil  And Coal Officials Seek “Release”

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN DOOMED IN CONGRESS   COAL AND OIL MAY BE TAKEN AWAY FROM OPA

‘e Control gram Hits ‘ther Snag  41 Oil Bloc Winnit cht to Give OPA  Svar ta Ickeac

OPA Faces New Attack   Shift of Gasoline, Coal Price Control To Ickes Sought

Price Control Is Sniped at Again  Coal and Oil Now Ma  Be Removed From

Trouble Mounts for Administratior  Coal, Oil States  Seek New Break .

Subsidy Battle Nears Showdowr  OPA May Lose  Ser, Me’ x. Mill ty Poe ee

PAIGE CONTROL THREATENED ON NEW FRONTS   Consumer Subsidy Program Doomed, Removal Of Oil, Coal From OPA Sought

Raps Morgenthau For Tax Demands   Senator Hits Back In Fiscal Dispute

CITY SCARRED BY EXPLOSIVES  AND BIG FIRES Quick Drive On Rome By ‘Allies  a

Report City Clear Of Nazis   Italy’s Third Largest Cit: In Ruins—Can Clear Harbor Quickly

CAPTURE OF NAPLES GREATEST VICTORY OF ITALIAN CAMPAIGN; NAZIS RETREAT TOWARD ROME

FORTY-EIGHT HOUR  WEEK COMES BACK IN  CABOR-SHORT AREAS COMPLIANCE DESCRIBED   AS “GOOD” TO “HUN. DRED PER CENT”

Another Angle Is Reclassi. fying of Men In. Non-Deferable Occupations For Induction

48 - HOUR - WEEK RULE IN EFFECT   WMC Reports General Com. pliance In 32 Labor-Short Areas

48-Hour Week In Labor-Short Areas Of U.S.   Order Effective Today; No Cases Of Open Defi. ance Reported.

LONGER WORK WEEK ORDER IS IN EFFECT   Survey Shows a General Compliance With Recent Regulation Issued By the President   IN THIRTY-TWO AREAS

48-HR. WEEK IS EFFECTIVE IN 32 AREAS      Labor-shert Regions Shows General Compliance, Few Exemption Requests

48-Hour Weel Goes In Effect In 32 Areas  a a then "4 To ) Coo   Employers Ready To Cooperate In All Sections

LABOR SHIFTS BEGUN 0 GET MANPOWER Ih   WNC Reports Few Requests for Exemptiofs from Affected Cities.   NO WAY OF. CHECKING FOR PERFECT RESULTS

No Cases. of Open Defiance Reportedin Cities Affacted_   OTHER RULES IN EFFECT

48-HOUR WEEK IS EFFECTIVE TODAY   General Compliance Is Reported in 32 Areas Concerned,  canal   FEW EXEMPTIONS REPORTED SOUGHT

48-Hour Week Effective In Certain Areas   Survey Shows General Compliance With U. S. Orders Where Labor Shortages Exist

48-HOUR WEEK IN OPERATION IN FEW AREAS   Reports Indicate Most Sections Are Following Plan

New Draft Regulations Also Go In Practice Today Otherwise In Capital, Congressmen Ask To Sit b On Post-War Food Parley

48-HOUR WEEK FOR WAR PLANT REGIONS STARTS   Compliance Reported Good; Draft Boards Scheduled To Start New Plan

J) AREAS HAVE A8-HOUR WEEK   Compliance Is Called ‘Good’ To ‘100 Per Cent’, Early Reports Show   LABOR SHORTAGE   Step. Taken By WMC To Boost Production Of Essential War Equipment

48-Hour Work Week Is Made Effective      WMC Indicates Compliance with Rules Is ‘Good’

Hour Week Starts In 32 Labor Areas   Draft Boards Start Reclassification Of Non-Deferables

'48-HOUR WEEK ~~ EFFECTIVE IN 32 AREAS THURSDAY   Survey Indicated That Compliance Was Good; Employers Are Cooperating.   A PRESIDENTIAL ORDER   This Is One of Three Man:  power Actions Carrying  April 1 Deadlines.

Start Longer Work Week   Compliance With Order Reported Good; F Reauest . ood; Few

32 SECTORS START 48-HOUR WORK WEEK   Plan Designed To Ease Seri ous Labor Shortage

Longer Work Week Goes Into Effect   48-Hour Program Starts Today in 32 Labor Shortage Areas

48-HOUR WORK WEEK GOES INTO EFFECT IN SHORTAGE AREAS  WMC Directors Report Compliance With Order To Go To 48-Hour

48-Hour Week In 32 Sections Aids Production   Requests For Exemptions Are Comparatively Few Aceording To Survey

New Work Orders In Effect   Mississippi Among Red Cross War Fund Leaders

HOPE TO EASE SHORTAGE OF WAR WORKERS   New Classification of Deferables Is Started

Inception Of 48-Hour-Week In 32 Labor-Short Areas Finds Compliance Good; Few Exemptions

Longer Work Week Begins   48-Hour Week Now In Effect in 32 Labor-Short Areas

48-Hour Week Is Effective Today   Compliance General In  Affected Areas

General Compliance Reported in 32 Manpower: Shortage Areas, Few ~~ Ask Exemption ©

YUGOSLAVS BATTLE ON   German Offensive Gradually Pushing Partisans Back On Coast

RAIL WAGE BOOST   Hourly-Incraase-of. 8. Cents  Recommended for Certain Workers:

RAILROAD PAY HIKE REFUSED   Stabilization Head Sets Aside Increase for NonOperating Unions

Rail Workers’ Be Pay Rise Is Turned Down.  Revision Expected to Make It 6c; Unioeus Disanpointed

RAILWAY RAISE IS REJECTED   Vinson Turns Down Eight Cent Hike For NonOperating Men

REFUSE TO OBEY ORDER T0 RETURN TO MINES, THOUSANDS FAIL TO REPORT AT WORK

tANLY QUSTING It ATTU JAPo SEEMS LIKELY   Jap Government Preparing People For Base’s Loss But U. S. Navy Silent

OUSTING OF JAPS FROM ATTU SEEN   U. S. Invasion Forces Believed Successful In Ousting Japs

Early Ousting Ot Japs from  Attu Assured   Weather Expected to Be Only Bar to Early Cleanup of Isle

SILENCE IS MAINTAINED BY NAVY   Radio Tokyo Prepar. ing People For News Of Defeat On Island

Early Cleanup on Attu  Seems Certain  Axis Paves Way for Admission -_ Jap Unit Defeated

JAPS PREPARE PEOPLE FOR SEVERE NEWS   U. S. Navy Men Say Weather Worst Delay

CATOE DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR   Police Say He Admitted Killing 7 Women

Mass Migration Taking Shape in   Refuges to be’ Aide: “In Quest of Homes Following War

Nazi Infantry And Tanks Storm Belgorod Lines   New Desperate Attempt Be. ing Made To Break Through Russian Defenses   MOSCOW SAYS NAZIS SUFFER HUGE LOSSEs

GEORGE WICKLUND DIES LAST FRIDAY   ben FORMER BESSEMER RESIDENT DIES SUDDENLY AT IRONWOOD HOME

GEORGE WICKLUND DIES LAST NIGH   Death Comes Suddenly tc 46 Year Old Resident — At His Home. ~

RUSSIA MAY BE LOOKING TO §EPARATE PEACE OR FUT“TING ON PRESSURE FOR NEW FRONT

SOVIET ACTION CAUSES WORRY   Allied Chiefs See Possibility Of Separate Peace Move With Nazis

Satelberg Aussies Close In   ALLIED PLANES POUND KEY ENEMY POINTS ON NEW GUINEA, BRITAIN

Aussies Close In Steadily on Japanese Force   Enemy Supply - Points Blasted By Allied Planes

AUSSIE TROOPS CLOSE ON JAPS   Planes Pound At Enemy Supply Bases

AUSTRALIANS — CLOSE IN ON STELBERG:N.¢.       Allied * Platies *0' Jap Ports on New  ‘Guinea and. New « Britain

Aussies Closing in on Satelberg, New Guinea; Nip Bases Are Bombed

Kiev Feels Fury Of Russian Guns   Soviet Forces Effecting Dnjener Crossings

SOVIETS OPEN MAIN GATEWAY TOWARD EAST   Main Forces Are Nearing Suburbs Of Ukraine Capital

Germans Attack British Convoy   Two of Ships Sunk, Reuters Reports

Stalin Gives Davies His Wriffen Reply  President’s Envoy Leavina Directly

Davies Has Stalin’s Reply, Contents Of Letter Secret   Prepares To Leave For U. S.; Delight Apparent On Faces Of Officials At Meet

Davies Gets Stalin Reply   Personal Messenger of F. R. Confers With Soviet Premier Again

JOE OTALIN REPLIES 10 ROOSEVELT NOTE   Answer Handed President's Emissary In Moscow

DAVIES GIVEN STALIN REPLY   Sealed Message Will Be Brought to F. R.

Stalin’s Reply In Davis’ Hand   Secret Message of Russian Premier Is Solely for President Roosevelt.

DAVIES HAS VITAL MESSAGE FOR FDR   Stalin Hands Envoy Sealed Letter At Kremlin Last Night

STALIN REPLIES TO F..R, LETTER   Davies Ready to Return, Smiles With Soviets On Page One

Davies Is Given Stalin’s Answer To FDR’s Lette:   Leaves Directly For USA; Does Not Know Contents

Davies Is Handed Stalin’s Answer To FDR’s Letter   - Stalin Appears Pleased, F.D.R.’s Envoy Satisfied In Picture:

FDR-Stalin Letters Are Still Secret.   Davies Has Red Chief’s Reply, Sealed For Safety

Stalin Gives Davies His Answer To  ‘President   Roosevelt’s Special Envoy Returning To U. S. Immediately,  WMascraw Annonunres

Davies Declares U. S.-Soviet Notes To Remain Secret   Former Ambassador As: serts Mutual Confidence ls Essential

Stalin Hands Davies Sealed  Reply F or FR   President’s Emissary To . Leave Directly for United States.

Stalin Sends Letier to President   Davies Leaves Immediately for Home After Talks

DAVIES’ RECEWVES STALIN'S REPLY   Mailman to Leave Directly for America to Deliver Stalin’s Answer

Davies Receives Stalin’s Reply To Roosevelt  F. D. R.’s Emissary Te ki... The ee, Ti.   F. D. R.'s Emissary To Moscow Prepares To Return At Once

DAVIES HANDED STALIN LETTER FOR ROOSEVEL   Leaving Moscow After Stay Expected to Bring Conference

Davies Is Returning  With Letter   Envoy to Bring Sealed Message From Red Chief

STALIN ANSWERS FOR; DAVIES 10 RETURN 10 U. S.   Davies Conferred With Stal in Wednesday Night A’ The Kremlin In Presenc« of Molotov; No Details o' Meeting Given.

CONTINUE TRIAL (F ARMY OFFICER   Government to Prove That Selfridge Field Commander Was Disorderly

Deferment system key emploves   Acts to clear non-essential federal workers

Deferment or Drafting of Federal Employes Placed under New System

Giraud Predicts Allied Victory In 1944: Observers “in the Know” Agree

VICTORY NEXT YEAR IS SEEN ‘BY OBSERVERS    Allied Heads Agree With General Girand That War Will End Next Year

Observers Agree with Gen. Giraud   French Leader Says Allies Will Win Victory in (44

Allies See  Germany's  End in 1944 This Year  To Be One of Ward BWoehtinge

ALLIES WILL GAIN VICTORY IN 1944   May Be Climax By Autumn But Most Believe War —  Cannot End In 1943

WOUNDED FARMER GIVES HIMSELF UP   Kentuckian Who Slev   Neighbor Surrenders tc  Clergyman.

U. S. Bombers in Heavy Raid on North Germany   Oslo Has Air Alarm

Red Armies Make Drive In Ukraine   British and American Planes Raid Western Germany, Bulgaria

BULGAR CRISIS EMPHASIZED BY RAID ON SOFIA   Soviet Army On March Again; 8th Wins New Bridgehead

U. S. Bombers Attack Germany   Lull Ends On Full Scale Daylight Raids

Forty-five Minutes Raid On Nazi Capital Ushers In New Year Of Conflict

Destruction Poured On Germany To Usher In Fifth Year Of Conflict   Attack Lasts For 45 Minutes; Great Damage Reported Done By Blockbusters

‘AND INCENDIARY RAID   British Lose 48 Planes. American Flying Fortress Based in Africa Press Home Aerial War Against! Miliary ‘Targets At Pisa Italy ~~

Berlin Target of Bombs Last Night   tig Allied Planes Inflicted “Great Damage” on the Nazi Capital   Canadian Fliers Helped Out * in Second ‘Assault in ° _ Eight Days: -

FLAMING ATTACK INFLICTS GREAT DAMAGE ON CITY   Second Concentrated Raid On German Capital In Eight Days; 47 Bombers And One Fighter Lost; Bath Of Fire Opens 5th Year Of War For Nazis.

Fleets of Heavy Bombers Usher in Fifth Year of War With Ordeal of Fire and Steel For German Capital; 47 Bombers Lost .

RAF Again Bomb Berlin Last Night   NAZIS 5TH YEAR OF WAR OPENED WITH FIRE ORDEAL

48 Bombers Lost in Fourth Raid on Berlin in Eight Niohts.   RAID LASTS 45 MINUTES

ENEMY FIGHTERS ENGAGE BRITISH CRAFT IN NIGHT   47 Aircraft Are Lost, A:thorities In England Say

48 BOMBERS LOST IN BERLIN ATTACK   Much Damage Is Indicated By Large Fires; Nazis Strike at England

Anniversary  Blast at Berlin   RAF Heavy Bombers Deliver Terrific Attack on Nazi Capital As 5th War Year Begins

Heavy Bombers In  Attack On Berlin   Great Fires Are Started in - the German Cap-_ ital City .   5TH RAID IN 2 WEEKS   Nazis Were Waiting for Foe and Battle Rages in ~ the Air

FLIERS DROP BIG LOAD OF BLOCKBUSTERS   ’ Forty-Seven Bombers Are Lost in the Attack, Which Is Concentrated Into a 45-Minute Holocaust. 

HEAVY BOMBS FALL ON CITY: DAMAGE GREAT   Concentrated Raid Lasts 45 Minutes; 47 Planes Lost

Berlin Blasted Again By Big RAF Fleet   Great Damage Reported; Britons Lose 4B Planes

Nazi Planes Fail to Stop RAF Bombers   Fierce Battles Fought as British Once More Blast Berlin

RAF Bomber Fleets Attack Nazi Capital   Forty-Seven Bombers, One Fighter Lost As Planes Meet Stiff Defense.   ‘NEW TERROR RAID

Huge Fleet of British Planes Attack Berlin: 47 Shot Down   Damage City Heavily Despite Strong Fighter Opposition

45-Minute Air Attack On Berlin   47 British Bombers Lost But ‘Great Damage’ Again Is Inflicted   /ENEMY SENDS UP MORE FIGHTERS   Less Flak Than Before Veterans Say; American . Raids on France

Capital Is Pounded By RAF Planes   Forty-Seven Bombers Are Lost By British In Fourth Raid On Berlin In Eight Nights

Berlin Suffers Great Damage In New Attack   Loss -Of°48 Bombers ‘In  45-Minute Holocaust Is Reported By British

British Lose 47 Planes In Night Attack   Fighter Opposition Is Heavy, But Fails To Keep Allied Craft Fram Coetting Through

NAZI CAPITAL AGAIN HIT IN HUGE AIR RAID   Bombing Ushers in Fifth Year of German War: Great Damage.   U. S. Fliers Hit French Objectives

GREAT DAMAGE IS INFLICTED IN MASS ASSAULT   47 Bombers, 1 Fighter Lost as Attackers Meet Stiff Defenses

Heavy Cargo Of Bombs Unloaded On Nazi Capital   Great Damage Caused By Massive Assault

BERLIN GETS. IT AGAIN IN NICHT PAINS   Forty-One R. A. F Bombers Lost In  New Attack

German Capital Given Another Dose of Bombs   Blockbuster and Incendiary Bombs Do Great Damage

Huge R. A. F Fleet Again ‘Rips Berlin   Block Busters And Incendiaries Cause Heavy New Devastation.

M2 WEEK  UCCESSELL   4] Aircraft Lost In _ Night Blast On. Enemy

Batter Berlin In Heavy New Night Attack   Big Fires Raging In Reich Capital

A Flaming 45-Minute Concentrated Assault Made With Block Busters and Incendiary Bombs.   RAID USHERED IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF WAR   “Great Damage” Was Inflict-. ed on the Nazi Capital in This Second Massive Assault.

RAF USHERS IN FIFTH YEAR OF WAR BY MASSIVE ATTACK ON BERLIN: FRENCH AIRPORT HIT   Weary Previous Damare

BLOCK BUSTERS RAIN DOWN ON REICH CAPITAL   Huge Fleets of British, Ca. (+ nadian Bombers Pound City; Great Fires Are Set By Raiders

—AIR WAR~ —  47 PLANES ARE LOST IN ASSAULT   Fire And Exploding Steel Usher In Fifth Year Of War For Nazis   STIFF DEFENSE   Large Fires Scen And Great Damage Believed Inflicted

Greal Fleets — R. A. F. Planes Blast Berlin   Block Buster and Incendiary Bombs Hurled on Capital in : Terrific Assault —

Berlin Is Hit By Heavy Bomb: Raid   Great Fleets of Allied Warplanes Roar Over Germany Capital In Concentrated Assault—‘Great Damage’ Reported And Fires Seen Blazing by Returning Fliers

BERLIN WAS RAIDED AGAIN LAST NIGHT BY BRITISH BOMBERS  HEAVY DAMAGE BELIEVED INFLICTED ON CERMAN CAPITAL

BRITISH AIRMEN STRAFE BERLIN IN HEAVY RAID   Great Damage Inflicted on German Capital in Assauli Marking Fourth Anniversary of War   47 BOMBERS LOST   Germans Continue Increased Use of Fighters ia Defense—American Fliers Raid in France

Bombers Smash German Capital   “GREAT DAMAGE” INFLICTED ON CITY AS ALLIES LOSE 47 BOMBERS,  FIGHTER; OTHER PLANES RIP AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE, LOW COUNTRIES

FIFTH YEAR OF NAZI WAR THUS OPENED   Block-Busters In Heaviest Raid On Capital Cause Ordeal Of Fire; 47 Of Allied Planes Missing

GERMAN CAPITAL AGAIN HIT HARD BY BIG BOMBERS   47 BRITISH PLANES MISSING IN DEADLY SORTIE OVER REICH

RAF Heavy Bombers Rain Destruction On Berlin   Block - Busters, Ancendiaries Cause Widespread Damage On Nazi Capital To Usher In Fifth Year Of War That Hitler Started

Great Damage Inflicted On Reich Capital   Forty-Seven Bomber: And One Fighter Plane Lost

‘Block - Busters Rain On Berlin Damage Heavy   Germans Use Same Defense Tactics; 47 Bombers Lost.

Berlin Target of Bombs Last Night   The Allied Planes Inflicted “Great Damage’’ on the  Nazi Capital   MEET STIFF DEFENSES   Canadian Fliers Helped Out ~ in Second Assault in  Fight Days —

GREAT FLEETS OF WARPLANES VISIT BERLIN   Concentrated Assault of Blockbuster and Incendiary Bombs Usher In Fifth  Year of War for Nazis   47 FAIL TO RETURN

Berlin Greets 5th War Year InBomb Storm   RAF, RCAF Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Capital With New Saturation Raid   LOSE 47 PLANE:   "New German Defense System Takes Increased Toll Of Allied Airshios

ault Opens lis Fifth rat War   at Fires t Burning In man Capital

Capital Smashed Under Heavy Rain Of Blockbusters   47 Planes Lost In Saturation Raid Ushering In Fifth Year Of The War

HEAVY ASSAULT IS CARRIED OUT BY LARGE FORCE   47 Bombers, One Fighter Lost by British — ‘Great Damage’ Reported

INTENSE AIR FIGHTING OVER NORTH AFRICA   Air Opposition Almost Absent in Libya; Montgomery Blasts Rommel Again

British Attack In Renewal  Of Offensive   Allies Destroy 23 Planes Of Foe  Over Tunisia

Axis Declares Armored Assault Is Driven Back   23 Enemy Planes Destroyed in Intense Fighting in Tunisia  BRITONS SILENT  , ae  . ry.

British Renew Offensive i in  Libya-Axis   Intensive Air: Fights th Tunisia Reported; 23. Enemy Planes -Are Destroyed . ~

New Outbreak On Rommel In Tunisia  Alltes Destroy 23 Axis Planes at Cost   Alltes Destroy 23 Axis Planes at Cost of 8 Fighters

Axis Reports Eighth Army Started Again   British Communique Admit: Only Extensive Patrol Activity In That Region  By EF. C. DANIEL

BRITISH FORCES RENEW ATTACKS ~ IN DESERT WAR   Enemy Reports Say Eighth Army Is Striking Hard In North Africa

Axis Say Libya Drive Renewed   Intensive Battle © In Air Continues

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SAID TO HAVE OPENED NEW DRIVE ON TRIPOL!   Strong Armored Attack Launched At Wadi Zem-Zem, Axis Reports Say; Tunisian Air Force Downs 7 Transports

AIR POWER IN HANDS OF ALLIES   Heavy Raids Are Made By Americans On  Sfax, Gabes

British Army Renews Push To Tripoli   Axis Reports Drive Routed With Heavy Losses

Strong Armored Attack Takes Place at Wadi Zem-Zem: Air Fighting Is Intense

British Renew Attacks On Rommel Near Tripoli   Eighth. Army Launches New Offensive, And Air Fighting Flares In Tunisia

BRITISH AGAIN ON AFFENSIVE, AXIS REPORT!   ARMORED ATTACKS TOWARD TRIPOLI ARE CLAIMED

Brit Attacks on Rommel Are Renewed   Axis Sources Say 35 Allied Tanks Destroyed

8th Arm y Reported Renewing Offensive   * Intense Air Fighting Rages Over Tunisia; Patrol Activity Increases; British Are Silent On Axis Reports

Africa Drive Reporled On   Berlin and Rome Say British Are Moving Against Rommel Army

Axis Reports New British  Drive in Afriea   Allies Shoot Down 23 Enemy Planes In Tunisia Fight

8th Army Moves, Axis Reports   Tells of Strong Attack at Wadi Zem-Zem, 180 Miles of Tripoli

BRITISH FAIL TO CONFIRM NEW ASSAULT   Allied Air Forces Wage Intensive Attacks Throughout Tunisia.

Steps Taken To Bolster Manpower   WMC to Control Hiring, Firing  In 32 Areas  Of Nation

WMC To Hire And Fire War Workers   Adequate Supply of Labor for War Industries in Areas Where Shortages Exist To Be Assured

Today In Washington: Government Moves To Bolster Manpower Forces; May Use Axis Prisoners

Manpower And Taxes Occupy Officials In U. S. Capital   Move On Broad Front To Bolster Labor In Industry; Tax Plans Discussed

Manpower Rationing Launched   Government Moves To Control Worker Hiring And Firine.   Rum! Plan Sline   Canceling Of 42 Tax Gives Way To Modified Pay-As-Go.

WAR PRISONERS CONSIDERED FOR WORK ON FARMS   Government Planning Drastic Steps To Solve Country’s Manpower Shortage   WORKERS MAY BE ‘FROZEN’   Congress, Meanwhile, Keeps Plugging Away To Find Suitable Tax Plan

REPEAL OF SCORES OF SPECIAL SALARY LAWS 1S POSSIBLE  SENATE APPROVES  AMENDMENT LIMITING

REPEAL OF SCORES UF SPECIAL SALARY LAWS 15 POSSIBLE  SENATE APPROVES   SENATE APPROVES AMENDMENT LIMITING SESSIONS LEGISLATURE

[u. §. Nears End of Second Year of War With Production Over ‘Hump but Facing Bloody Baitles

US: Has Yet To Face War's Hardest Road   Two Years of Fighting, However, Shows Bloody Poth Towerd Victory

Special Mass to Mark Irish Fete  Service Wednesda   Service Wednesday at St. Patrick’s

Special Mass to Mark Irish Fete   Service Wednesday at St. Patrick's

BOTH LEADERS SPLIT ARTER   REVOLTTION  Loryvuuuil   Minister of War Under Deposed Chief Executive Castillo Decrees Postponing of Swearing In Rites   CONFUSION MARKING POLITICAL PICTURE   Congress Dissolved On Eve Of Reconvening; New One Planned; Foreign Minister Resigns

PREDICT DROP IN TEMPERATURE   Report Frigid Air Is Coming Frem Northwes!

New Cold Wave Is Expected to. Arrive Tonight   Forecast 30 Below Zere In Northwest Portior Of State

_ WHAT OUR BOYS < ARE DOING 10 > WIN THE WAR   ye & &. &. &. @.0.¢.¢.0.@.;

Music Ban Chock Full Of Dynamite   Petrillo Won Opening Round In Quiz By Senate

Madrid Paper Reports Conspiracies Afoot in Spain Against Franco Govt,.-

Conspiracy Against Franco Regime Said Afoot In Spain   Paper Charges Falonge’s Enemies Organizing; Armed Farce Threatened

PLOTS AGAINST FRANCO CITED   Spanish Newspaper Strongly Defends The Falange.

See Conspiracy Against Franco  hAadeied Klawenana   Madrid Newspaper Charges Plots

Fifth makes steady gain in mountains   Raises severe threat to enemv

Yanks Capture Important Raii, Road Junction   Entrapment Threat Raised For German ‘TpaRnne fh. Rea A cea

Fifth Army Takes Important Rail Junction In Italy War  Two Important Indust rial Cities Retaken By Russians: Army Of Million Face Crisis

Sparanise Occupied By Clark’s Army In 3-Mile Advance; British Make Gains

Nazis Facing Threat of Entrapment   Fifth Army Throws Back Four Violent Attacks

Repel Violent Counter Attacks To Take Junction   Gen. Clark's Men Succeed © ‘Crossing Reggia ¢ Zl  G

Germans Face Trap on Italian Front   Allies Check Enemy In Bitter Fight, Advance Three Miles

Clark’s Troops Drive Ahead to  Take Sparanise   Yankees Repel Four Counterattacks; Nazis Face Entrapment: British Gain Ground

YANKS OCCUPY KEY TOWN ON ROAD TO ROME   Repulse Four Furious Nazi Attacks, Gain Three Miles

Allies Capture Italian Road, Rail Junction   Fifth Army Advances Three Miles, Report Gains on Whole Front

KEY TOWN ON ROAD TO ROME   Repulse Four Furious  Nazi Attacks, Gain Three Miles

AMERICANS MEET STIFF FIGHTING   Drive Three Miles Against Determined Resistance   BRITISH EIGHTH   Enlarges Bridgehead Across Trigno River; Air War Rises to New Tempo

Fall of Sparanise Threat- ens German. - Forces  REPORT IS MADE OF STEADY: PROGRESS Bombers From Mediter ranean Bases Strike at Austria

FOUR-MILE GAIN MADE BY FORCES OF GEN. CLARK   Kifth Army Captures Rail Junction of Sparamise, Raising New Threat to Germans.   REPELS FOUR VICIOUS COUNTER-ATTACKS   Montgomery’s Men Widen Bridgehead Across Trigno © River in Eastern Sec-  tor of Front. 

American Force May Trap Nazis, Expert Asserts   British Enlarge Their Bridgehead

OW! Report U.S. Faces Serious Food Shortage Draws National Attention

FOOD SHORTAGE IS ANTICIPATED ~ IN SOME LINES   Long-Awaited OWI Report Says No Fancy Food Will Be Available      15 RESIGN PROTESTING SINCERITY OF SURVEY

SERIOUS FOOD SITUATION SEEN   More Food Being Producec But Less for Civilians

FOOD SHORTAGE IN SOME. LINES LISTED BY OW   Meats, Butter, Milk Among Those Listed As Probabilities

OWI Says Food Shortages Coming in U.S.; Resigning Members Aver Agency Is Not Telling the Truth

VARIGUS SHORTAGES ARE CITED IN REPORT      Civilians to Get About 6 Per Cent Less Food Than In 1942

OWI Announces U. S. Civilians Will Face Various Shortages In ‘Serious Food Situation’

OW! Predicts Food Shortage   War Information Reports Six Percent Less Food  Available This Year.

Shortage Ir, Food Forseen   Production To Be Up But Supplies Limited

NATION WARNED IT WILL GET LESS FOOD THIS YEAR   Supplies for Civilians Expected by OWI to Be 6 Per Cent Under Those in 1942.   REPORT PART OF ROW WITHIN THE AGENCY   Fifteen Who Resigned Say They Did So Because “It Is Impossible for Us to Tell Truth.”

OWT Says American Civilians Face Various Shortages in “Serious Food Situation”

Food Shortages For Civilians Seen by OWI   rither Occasionally Severe or Continuous, Statement Says

U.S. Faces Varied Food Shortages, Occasional  Or Continuous, in 1943   OWI Releases Long Delayed and Disputed Report on General Outlook for Nation, As Friction Over Telling of News Goes On

CIVILIAN SHORTAGES FACED IN AMERICA      But, OWI Says More Food Than in Pre-war Years

Brewster Finds U. S. Pays High Price For Wheat   Criticism (Of African State

U. 5. Purchases African Wheat At High Prices   Senators Find Grain Is Costlier Than at Home

SOLON SCORES WHEAT BUYING   SAYS U. S. GETS AF2.ICA CROP AT HIGHER PRICES

Pans African Wheat Deal   Visiting Senator Says U.S. Plans to buy Grain At $2.10 Per Bushel

Raps Price Paid For Africa Wheat  It's 50-60 Cents Over L. S. Market

Brewster Flays U. S. Civil Agencies In No. Africa   “Startled” By $2.10 Price For Wheat; Notes “Lax Use” Of Gasoline

{7-Year-Olds Take Army, Nay Exams Nov. 9  Services To Give Tests To Young Men   Services To Give Tests To Young Mer Who Wish Training  - For Cammiccianc

Desert Fort Drive Eases  Yank Setback   Rommel Diverts ForceSouthward to Combat 8th Army Thrust   BIG GUNS IN DUEL”

ROMMEL GALLS Ort OFFENONE, STIFFENS LINES   American Troops Digging In And Reorganizing Forces; Russians Drive On

Germans lurn Attention To Holding Mareth Line Against British Attacks 

BRITISH CAPTURE -VITAL-OUTPOST OF - FOUM TATAHOUINE   Rommel’s Drive In Central ‘Tunisia, Is at Standstill—Americans Regroup . In Rugged Hills—Big Drive: Is Expected Sagn’.

FIGHTING ON GROUND COMES TO STANDSTILL   Germans Concerned Over British Threats to Break Open Mareth Line.   BULLETIN

BRITO TARE SOUTHERN ANCHOR OF MARFTH LINE   Fanning Out Now—Romme Watching Rear Pasitinns.

LEWIS BEFORE SENATE GROUP   Asserls Coal Miners Are “Hun. gry” Because Of 126% Rise In Food Costs

Lewis Speaks at Senate Hearing In Strong Terms   Mine Chief Defends Move to Get  BS ion ae Wace Want wn

LEWIS SAYS U.S. BREAKS STRIKE PAC   Continues Demands For Wage Increase For 450.000 Miners

Lewis And Senators In Stormy Battle Of Words   Labor Leader Charges Little Steel Wave Ceiling Is Unfair To Labor.

Feminine Vanity Receives a Blow   War Production Board Issues (rder Against Sheerest Variety of Stockings

Haile Selassie Wants To See Mussolini Punished For His Many Crimes; Says Natives Were Slain Ruthlessly By Italians

Duce’s Fall Good News for  Conquering Lion of Judah   BY HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE,

Selassie SCOres Mussolini's Banditry Method   Justice for Future, Not Vengeance, Ureed by Monarch

ETHIOPIA HAILS DUCE OUSTER   VENGEANCE NOT AIM, SAYS HAILE SELASSIE

HAiLC SELASSIE DISCUSSES FALL OF MUSSOLIN   Deseribes Brutalities of Italian Conquest. of Ethiopia

Ethiopian Emperor Recalls Crimes —_ Perpetrated By Mussolini, Fascist:

Haile Selassie Writes of Mussolini’ s Downfall  See ee = = mee = eva = aerate ee A et Cla pss: Re ieee ie idee  UR Nea SS lian ‘Unite its = See Vie eee. “SS ee   Path Is Now Cleared for Forces of Justice to Emerae Savs Ethionian

Lion of Judah Comments on Mussolini's Fall   Haile Selassie Interested in  Dienesentiog Tasetine

Haile Selassie Comments On Fall Of Benito Mussolini And Collapse Of Fascism

Cpl. Cyril Groetken Fighting Axis On The Tunisian Front   Sand Flies “Eating” Him Un But He’s Still  Contented

Three Smashing Blows Hurled by Heavy Bombers in Corcentrated Attack — 5th = Arniy Captures Important  ‘Hill and 8th Army Advances in Heavy Fighting in Orsagna Sector. ’

AIRMEN RAID BRENNER PASS RAIL POINTS   Inasbruck, Austri a, ‘Sunction Among Targets, Avisio Rive Viaduct Blasted   TROOPS ADVANCE   Fifth Army Captures Importan! Hill, British Make Progress is Italian Campaign

How Wounded Airman Was Thrown From Fort In Chute In Hope Nazis Would Save His Life Is Related

REPORT  R ALLIED FLEET AT GIBRALTAR   Heavy Raids On Italy Add To Speculation Of Invasion In June

Ships Mass. af Gibraltar   104 Allied Vessels Reported at Anchor

Axis Admits Italy Is Ripe For Invasion   Huge Allied Fleet Masses at Gibraltar, Big Army in Africa

Allied Shipping — Concentrated at Gibraltar, Report   German Broadcast Speculateson  ° June Invasion .._.”

BiG SHIPPING ‘CONCENTRATION AT GIBRALTAR      Allied Invasion Of Europe Is Be lieved Matter Of Few Days

LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF ALLIED SHIPPING AT CIBRALTAR GIVES RISE TO NEW CROP OF INVASION RUMOR’   104 Transports, Tankers and Supply Ships Reported Anchored Off Tip of Europe. June 22 is Believed Likely Date For Attack.

ALLIED SHIPS .. ATANCHOR AT GIBRALTAR   104 Vessels Reported. to Be There

Germans Think Allied Invasion oy Begin On June 2?   Much United Nations Shipping At Gibraltar

NAZI TALKS JUNE 22 AS INVASION DATE   104 Transports, Tankers, Supply Ships at Anchor

Big Allied Shipping, Force At Gibraltar Starts Speculation   Axis Broadcasts Speak Of Invasion — Italians Told Tc Take Cue From British

100 VESSELS IN READINESS FOR INVASION DRIVE   Allies to Strike June 22, German Radio Report Claims

Furious Battle Develops —   Axis Sends Up Large Numbers Of Fighters In Attempt To Break Up Allied Raids On Sicilian Fields

30 More Axis Planes Shot Down In Raid On Gerbini   Enemy Put Up ‘Vigorous’ Defense When Flying Forts Attacked On Monday

30 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over Sicily Airfield   Furious Air Battle Fought Yesterday Over Gerbini.

FURIOUS AIR BATTLE OVER GERBINI WHEN FORTRESSES ATTACK  SICILIAN FERRY TERMINUS OF MESSINA

JO AXIS PLANES SHOT DOWN IN AERIAL BATTLE   German Fighters Attack U. S$ Fliers During Raid On Sicilian Airport   LANDING FIELDS DAMAGED   60 Huge Liberators Return! After Dropping 375,000 Pounds Of Bombs

Raid Develops Into Furious  Air Battle   30 Out Of 100 Ene.  my Fighter Planes Are Shot Down

BATTLE WAGED OVER GERBINI      Thirty of Some 100 Axis Planes  Atjempling to Break Up Raid by  Fortresses Shot Down   MESSINA BLASTED   Other Targels on ‘Sisily and Sardinia Raided by American, Brit. ish Airmen

30 Axis Planes Downed In Furious Sicilian Battle   Vigorous Resistance by Enemy Reported; 42 Craft Destroyed by Men Fram Afries

—AIR RAIDS —   AMERICAN FLIERS DOWN 30 PLANE!   Furious Air Battle Develops During Raid On Sicilian Airfield   TARGETS BLASTED   Allied Airmen Continue: Devastating Attacks On Italian Outposts

GAS SITUATION ISDISCUSSED   Ickes Is Not As Optimistic As Other Government Officials

GASOLINE SITUATION IN EAST APPEARS BRIGHTER, SOLON SAYS   Representative Hartley Finds Encouragement Despite Declarations of Ickes That Area Can Only Expect Essential Requirements

FDR IS OWN BOSS—BUT ‘PLEASE BE CAREFUL’   By William E. Zimmerman

Germans Wrest Several Places From Russians   Germans Pay High Price for Assault; Red Planes Strike Hard at Enemy Lines

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT MARKS RUSSIAN FRONT   NAZI OFFENSIVE AT NEW INTENSITY AROUND KIEV

Reds Forced From Several More Towns   Advances by Russians In Other Offensives Reported by Germans  NAZI LOSSES HEAVY

Russians Take Huge Tollas Nazis Attaek   Soviet Troops Lose Several Towns — In Fierce Battles

COUNTER DRIVES BY NAZIS PUSH RUSSIANS BACK   Germans Paying Heavy Price For Gains In North earn Ukraine   ENEMY MAY BE READY TO EVACUATE GOMEL

German Forces Gain Ground Result Of Counter-Attacks   Several Populated Places Wrested From Russians at Heavy Cost—-Nazis Admit Withdrawal in the Game] Area

Russians Fall Back as German Counter-Atfack Is Intensified   Reds Report 100 Tank: Destroyed and 2,000 Nazis Killed

Allied Planes Raid Shipping   New -Britain .Area Scene Of Raids; Warship Is Run Asround :-

Allied Warplane: Hit Jap Shipping   Enemy Land Forces Also Punished

MacArthur Planes Deal Heavy Blows   Hit Jap Shipping and Land Forces in Forays From New Guinea    DOWN FOUR ZEROS   Force Jap Warship Aground, Bomb Airdromes, Strafe Troops

Yankee Airmen Blast At Japs  Ranl BS on cneres ae Se   Deal Heavy Punishment To Jap Ships

DEAL HEAVY BLOW AT JAP SHIPPING AND LAND FORCES   AMERICAN BOMBERS CONTINUE ATTACKS IN SOUTH PACIFIC

MacArthur's Planes Deal Jap Shipping Heavy Punishment!   Fortresses Force Enemy Warships Aground Off New Britain Cape

ALLIED PLANES POUND AT JAPS   Deal Heavy Punishment to Enemy Shipping in New Britain Area.   STRAFE GROUND FORCES

BALKANS PORT SAID CAPTURED   Seizure Of Large Harbor From Germans Claimed By Yugoslavs

Chetniks Take Kotor Harbor In Montenegro   Tito’s Partisans Report Clashes with Chetniks In Hills of Montenegro

Yugoslavs Take Important Port In Montenegro   Other Successes Also Reported

Yugoslays Capture  Montenegrin Port  Allied Fleet Could Use Huge Harbor

Patriots Report Harbor Captured   Reports Persist On Internecine Strife

HARBOR SEIZED IN MONTENEGRO   Yugoslay Forces Claim New Gains Against Hitler’s Men

AXIS BASES AT SFAX, GABES, SOUSSE HIT   Germans Leaving Large Quantities War Materials

REDS MENACE KEY RAIL TOWN BELOW ROSTOV   Stalin Calls on Army To Hurl Foe From Motherland

AXIS TROOPS DRIVEN BACK NEAR BIZERTE      _ Brit. Eighth Army Also Pushes Ahead  In So. Tunisia

Commandos Hi At Axis Forces  Near Bizerte   Fightirig Flares On North Tunisian Front; Italians In Retréat

ALLIES GAIN IN AREA NEAF BIZERTE BASE   Axis Troops Are Driven Back By British, French

Raid Made In Bizerte Area   Allied Commando Attack Drives Axis Back In North As Eighth Army Advances On Southern Tunisian Front

BATTLE FLARES NEAR BIZERTE   Allies Drive Axis Back In LongQuiet Sector Of Africa; 8th Army Advance Continues

ALLIES onUlt AAG BACK IN BIZERTE ARE   Commandos Strike at Only Naval Base in Sight for Enemy Use.   SNOW, RAIN SLOWING EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES

   AXIS DRIVEN BACK NEAR \BIZERTE AS EIGHTH ARMY PUSHES ON BEN GARDANE

Commandos Pull Off Bizerte Raid   French Support British Hit, Run Attack Behind Axis Tunisia Lines   WEATHER IS BAL   Fighting Flares In North As 8th Army Continues Progress [n South

Axis Driven Back Near Bizerte Port   British and‘French . Apply Pincers, Break Tunisia: Stroneliolds

Commandos Hit Axis Line Near Bizerte Base   Eighth Army Nudges Afrika Korps Toward Town Near Frontier

AXIS TROOPS NEAR BIZERTE SEA BASE FORCED. T0> FLEE         Eighth Army,’ ‘Moving A’ In.. Lower... Tunigia,.  ‘Nears:Town, Of   "Ren Cavdase ™

Attempt Troops Front   Germany May . Evacuation of From Tunisian

AXIS. PLANS 10 SAVE RONME   Evacuation of German and Italian Forces Is Being Arranged,

15 bombers lost in heavy Bremen raid   33 nazi fighters blasted to earth

Planes Raid Bremen Port   -Enemy Opposition Is Tougher Than Before

LARGE SCALE MOVEMENTS OF BRITISH FORCES   Allied Planes Keep Blasting at Mediterranean Strong Points Held by Axis Powers.

Big Battle Is Brewing In Tunisia   British Hammer Rommel Defense

Allied Smash In Tunisia Awaited Vichy Radio Says Big Movement In Progress Along Border

Ickes Denounces ‘Despicable Tactics,’ Melodrama of Dies  ee ao 6 T)\...,. vs. on   Speaking at Dinner For Ex-Senator Norris He Cites House ‘Revolt

ICKES BERATES CHAIRMAN DIES   Tactics of Un-American Activities Crusader Called Despicable

ALLIES RESTRICT. AFRICAN ACTIVITY TO AIR BOMBING   Patrols Only Sign of Action on Ground As Both © Sides Get Set.

Air Activity or African Front Is Reported’   U. S. Bombers Are Flown by British _ Pilate tn Attack

BIG SHIPS DO DAMAGE IN SECTOR   Positions Inside the Mar. eth Line Bombed—Air Victory Near Algeria Also Scored.

U, 5. BOMBERS ATTACKING ON MARETH LINE   Comparative Quiet Along Tuni. sian Front Today, However, With Some Patrol Activity

Marein Line Raids Pound At Rommel   Allies Also Score Air Victory Off Algerian Coast As Lull -Holds   AXIS SHIPPING HIT   Attack Against Nazis In North Tunisia Reported By Algiers Radio

AXIS POSITIONS INSIDE MARETH LINE ATTACKEL   All ‘Comparatively Quiet  Along Tunisian Front

BRITISH RAID AXIS POSITIONS   Air Atlack On Mareth Line Highlights Tunisian Battle

20-MILE FRONT BLAZING — WITH ARTILLERY FIRE — GREATER THAN ALAMEIN

Battlefront Blazes 20 Miles Today   Approach Naples By Coastal Road

Report Nazis About to Send Fleet to Sea   Foe Hopes to Disrupt Invasion Routes by All-Out Campaign

GERMANS GATHER FLEET FOR SORTIE INTO NORTH SEE   British Watch Movements o' Surface Vessels In Norwegian Waters.

FBI REARRESTS CAPITAL MAN IN BANK ROBBERY   Gordon Blalock Accused With Participation in ~ Prince George’s Holdup in 1941   $52,000 WAS TAKEN   First Arrested Last ‘October.and Released; Three Others Serving Prison Terms

President’s Speech Gets 3 Mixed Reaction In World   Received With Almost Unanimous Approval By U. 5. Ans _ Allies —Condemned By Axie

U. S. Fliers Hit Japs In China, Burma   Fires Are Set In Warehouses

Naval Aviation Board Ar: tives Boys To Check With Dentist, School Principal   Failure To Do This May Cause Serious Delay ‘ In Application

Naval Aviation Board At Elks Club Tuesday   Youths Qualifying Receive Unexcelled Course Of Training

Naval Aviation Board At Elks Club Tuesday  Youths Qualifying   Youths Qualifying Receive Unexcelled Course Of Training

40,000 Italians “Battle Germans To Win Corsica   French Troops Landed By Warships Join Them Gen. Girand Announces

REDS SEND 700 PLANES ON RAID   Total Of 150 Nazi Craft Wrecked Or Damaged, Moscow Claims

Reds Strike At Airdrome   Nazis Lose 150 Craft To Huge Air Armadas

Reds Destroy, Damage 150 German Planes   700 Soviet Aircraft Attack Airdromes Alona Eastern Front

Giant Red Raid Is Disastrous to 150 Nazi Aircraft  Action Aground Is Limited But Grim, Report Says

NAZI DROMES ~ RAKED BY REDS   More Than 700 Russian Planes Participate In Attacks

SOVIETSBLAST FOE AIR BASES   700 Red Planes Raid Nazi Airdroemes, Destroy 150 German Craft

RUSSIANS AALD NAZI AIRDROMES   Force of 700 Soviet Planes Attack Fields Along Russian Front; 150 Nazi Craft Destroyed, Damaged   RY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Red airmen destroy 150  nazi planes   Over 700 soviet eva kk teu attack

Reds Destroy 150 Nazi Planes   700 Russian Ships Take Part in Raid

OPA Not To Blame For Eveything, Says Speaker   Many Mistakes Caused By Other Agencies: Just Case Of ‘Mistaken Identity’

‘Unofficial Washington Authority 7 Sees Price Administration Office As Victim Of Mistaken Identity

OPA HELD VICTIM  WAR'S WORST CASE  MISTAKEN IDENTITY D. C. SPEAKER DECLARE WHEN ANYTHING  Tree

The OPA Is Not To Blame For Everything....  Coals Piled On OPA’s Head Not All Justified

Speaker Points Out Undue Criticism Being Directed At OPA Even By Congress

Russians and © Germans Both Claim. Success   Main Soviet Defense Line Broken. in Several Places, Say Berlin Revorts   REDS SAY LINES ~ ARE HOLDING   Declare Wave After Wave of Tanks Being Stopped, Hitler’s Losses Heavy

BUT GERMANS CLAIM ENEMY _ LINES BROKE!   Soviet Ground, Air Power Showing Much More Strength Than In Past Campaign Operations

Both Sides Claim Success; Casualtie Mounting Higher   Soviet Forces Admit Giving Up Two Unnamed Towns

NAZI LOSS HUGE   Axis Claims Main Soriet Lines Are Broken: Reds Deny

2 NEW DESTROYERS NAMED FOR HEROES   One Is for Ohio Youth Who Died at His Gun

‘WORK OR FIGHT’ ORDER ASSAILED   Wadsworth Asserts M’Nutt Action Violates Spirit of Draft Act

LABOR DRAFT PCAN URGEL   MeNUTT'S: “WORK OR FIGHT" ORDER ASSAILED BY WADS.   he” WORTH AS HEARING.   "GETS UNDERWAY

County Court News Of Sioux County   Guardianship and Estate Matters are Taken Up By the Court at the Session, Past Week

County Court News Of Sioux County   Yo Hold Hearings On Sales Of Prop. eritles In Both Ida Douma and J. Van Roekel Estates

Soviets Grab Hub of Dnieper   STALIN ANNOUNCES VICTORY; NEW SOVIET TRIUMPH COMES AS GENERAL VATUTIN’S ARMY TURNS TIDE AGAINST NAZIS IN BATTLE

Take Cherkasi In Hard Fight   Oerman Counter Attacks  Stop Russians Near Kiev

413 WARPLANES DESTROYED IN RAIDS ON AXIS   Three Bombs Dropped on Dam 10 Miles East of Sassari Near Gulf of  Asinara in Sardinia   BIG TRANSPORTS OF NAZIS ARE BAGGED   U. S. Fortresses Deliver Fiery Assault on Italian Airdrom at Grosseto; Results Decisive

Much TobaccoHurt By Hail And Lack Or Excess Of Rain   By Jasper C, Hutto  Supervisor Lumberton Tobacco Market

BIG NAZI PLANT I) OBLITERATED   Raid on Schweinfurt Cripples War Industry; Loss of 60 Bombers Declared to Be Not Excessive

BIG FACTORY WIPED OUT BY AIR ASSAULT   Air Command Says Loss of Sixty Bombers Not  Excessive   DAMAGING BLOW TO GERMAN PRODUCTION   At Least Half_of Missing Crew Members Be lieved Prisoners

Vital German Industry Is Obliterated  Heavy Plane Loss   Heavy Plane Loss Not Excessive, CHietele Daclaera

Vital German Industry Is Obliterated   Heavy Plane Loss Not Excessive, Officials Declare

-War Will Be Shortened, U. S. Officials Claim, 60 Bombers, 393 Men Los

Big Plane Loss Said Justified   Nazi Ball Bearing Plant Obliterated

SCHWEINFURT FACTORY S OBLITERATED   After Fortress Raid American Air Command An nounces; 60 Bombers Declared Lost.   Shorten War

Schweinfurt loss is hard blow to nazis   ‘May reduce war by six months’

BALL-BEARING PLANT SMASHED   Half Of Germany’s Supply Wiped Out In Raid On Schweinfurt

Nazis’ Ball Bearing Plant At Schweinfuri Wiped Out By Flying Fortresses’ Attack

SCHWEINFURT PLANT LEVELED BY AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS   72-Acre Ball Bearing Fact ory Obliterated In Raid That Cost 60 Raiding Planes And 593 Airmen Thursday; Result Worth The Cost, Officials Declare

Forts Put Nazi War Plant Out   Raiders Ruin Schweinfurt Bearings Works

Flying Fortresses Obliterate Nazi Ball Bearing Plan   Loss of 60 Bombers  Held Not To Be Excessive for Results

REICH PLANT OBLITERATED   Loss of 60 Planes is Held Not Excessive for Results Obtained

Fortress Raids Pulverize Nazi War Production   Air Command Says U. S. Loss Is Worth The Damage Done

House O. K. On Tax Plan   Demos Sponsor New Pay-As-You-Go Bill After Junking Ruml

PAY-G0 MEASURE GETS APPROVAL   Democrats Vote Qut Bill to Use Lower Rates and Higher Exemptions.

NEW PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX BILL 15 GIVEN COMMITTEE APPROVAL   WOULD APPLY 1941 RATES AND EXEMPTIONS TO 1942 INCOMES

House Group Okays Income Tax Scheme   1941 RATES, EXEMPTIONS APPLIED TO 1942 INCOME UNDER ADOPTED PLAN

BILL SPONSORED BY DEMOCRATS WINS APPROVAL   Would Apply Lower Rates And Higher Personal Exemp. tions Of 1941 Tc 1942 Incomes.

Demo-Backed Bill Goes To House Floor   Would Apply °41 Rates To °42 Income And Put 20 Per Cent Levy On  Current Revenue

DEMOCRATIC PAY-AS-YOU-60 TAX BILL READY   Majority Member of House Committee Approves One to Revert to 1941 Rates   REPUBLICANS SILENT   Democrats Vocally Reject Their Move for Modified Rum! Plan; Vote May 4 Assured

WOULD REDUCE (042 TAXES TO VEL OF 1941   Republicans Are Silent After Rejection of  Ruml Plan

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES NEW TAY BILL   _ Lower Rates on 1941 And 1942 Taxes Applied With Higher Personal  Exemptions.

Tax Plan Adopted By  Committee   Proposal To Place All On Current Basis Wil Be Acted Upon Ir House May 3

PARTY LINEUP DRAWN AGAIN ON TAX PLAN   Republicans Abstain from Voting as Ways-Means Democrats Approve Pay-Go Proposal

Munda Airstrip  Captured   TRAP CLOSES ON 5000 JAPS IN GARRISON AT NEW GEORGIA OUTPOST

BATTLEFORMUNDA ENDS; AMERICANS ARE MIOPPING-UP  Routing of Japanese Begi on New Georgia Island

AIRSTRIP ON ISLAND IS CAPTURED   American Jungle Troops Cutting Japs to Pieces   TONES DESPATCH

SOUTH SEAS BASE FALLS 10 YANKS AFTER 35 DAYS   Jungle Troops Cutting to Pieces Remnants of 5,000  Japs Left to Make Death [a 

Munda Falls; Yanks Begin Mopping Up   Bulk Of Defense Force : Crushed; Enveloping ©} Field May Trap 5,000   BOMB KOKENGOLO   Strongly Entrenched Japanese Unit Reported 10 Miles To North

Yanks Occupy Chase Jans   35-Dey Jungle Slege Seliae Units Begins

Jap Garrison at  Munda Crushed   Resistance Almost Ended, Yanks Are Mopping Up, McArthur Says

MUNDA TAKEN BY AMERICAN JUNGLE ARMY      Troops Are Cutting Remnants Of Japanese Garrison To Pieces

GAS OUTLOOK IN EAST DARKENS AS ARMY NEEDS RISE   Officials Not Sure What New Sacritices May Be Asked of Autoists.

GAS OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN DRIVERS DARK   No Immediate Cut In Value 0 - Ration Coupons Is Anticipated

See No Further Eastern Gas Cut   Would Reduce Ration Only As Last Resort

Two Herberts to Split Vote, Throw GOP Nomination to Stewart, Republicans Believe

SPECIAL GROUP TO HELP IN CAMPAIGN   Total Bond Sale in Douglas County Now Is $573,843.75   DRIVE ENDS APRIL 30

SPECIAL GROUP TO HELP IN CAMPAIGN   Total Bond Sale i in Douglas County Now Is $573,843.75

Anti-Strike Bill Action Is Demanded   Carries Fight To Floor of House Today

STRIKE MEASURE IS CARRIED TO FLOOR OF HOUSE   Group Says Now Is The Time For Action

ISSUE NEW CRY FOR ACTION ON STRIKE MEASURE   Congressmen Seek Passage of Bill After Coal Strike Reopens

Anti-Strike Bill Action Is Demanded   Commitlee Carries Fight To Floor of House Today

Anti-Strike Bill Fight Taken to House Floor   Military Committee Asks Action; Debate Expected to Open Today

Demand For Anti-Strike Law Is Heard   House Military Committee To Carry Fight to Floor During Day  TO PREVENT WALKOUTS

Now's Time For Action, Plea On Law   House Committee Carries To Floor Fight For Anti-Strike Law

BATTLE BEGINS TO ENACT BILL CURBINGLABOR   Anti-Strike Measure Gets More Support Following Mine Stoppage; House May Act Quickly   FEDERAL OFFICIALS VOICE OPPOSITION   Rep. May Asserts People  Demanding That Conress Do Something About Strike Crisis

Anti-Strike Law Demand Pressec In House Today   Connally Bill To Be Called Up For Quick Action

ANTI-STRIKE ACT BEFORE SOLONS   House Military Committee Urges Passage of Bill To Curb Walkouts

LAW DEMANDED IN CONGRESS TO BAN STRIKES   ‘No Sense Waiting Longer,’ Says Kentuckian Citing Coal Mine Tie-up   QUICK ACTION IS EXPECTED   Meanwhile, Gasoline Shortage And World Trade Come In for Discussion

New Cry For Anti-Strike Law Raised   Sponsors Press For Quick Vote

HAS SUBSTITUTE FOR SUBSIDIES   Suggests Revival of Food Stamp Plan for Low-Income Families

VANCE URGES REPAIRS FOR FARM TOOLS   ‘RATIONING BOARDS SHOULD NOT BE BOTHERED IF REPAIR POSSIBLE

\ED.R., Churchill, Chiang Are Believed En Route There Now  Following Conference in Cairo   American OWI Incensed Over Early Release of Story by Foreign Agency. Dericinns Are Withheld.

Damaging Blows At Nazis Seen As Result Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Meet

Broadcasts Tell Of Meetivg Cairo Of U. S. President, Brit: Prime Minister And Chin  Generalissimo — Many Rum Beard   MEETING ANNOUNCED BY REUTERS, CLA)

MacArthur’s Men Closer To Rabaul   Finschhafen Fall Would Open Way For Attacks

Mac Arthur's Forces Closer to Great Jap Naval Base of Rabaul   Guadalcanal Continues te Be Primary Target in Pacific.

MacArthur's Forces Land North Of Finschhafen Nipponese Raid Guadalcanal

CIVIL STRIFE... FLARING OVER. ALL OF ITALY   BADOGLIO ATTEMPTING TO CLAMP DOWN IRON MILITARY RULE TO OFF.  SET REVOLT —

RUMORS ITALY ON BRINK OF CIVIL WAR: BADOGLIO CLAMPS DOWN WITH MILITARY RULE

OPERATORS OF SOUTH AGREE ON EXTRA DAY   Pact Affects Districts 17, 19 And 30 In This State; Extra Pay Provided   Follows Captive Plan

MINERS, PRODUCERS SIGN AGREEMENT FOR SIX-DAY WORK WEEK   Lewis Wins Point Against Penalties For Absenteeism; Pact Calls For Overtime Pay After 35 Hours

TRAIN SLAYER CLAIMS VOICES URGED KILLING   Negro Diner Cook Told  Prosecutor They De- tmanded Him to “Kill,   Ki Kj’   DENIES SEX ATTACK   Unable to Say What Happened to Death Weapon; Doesn't Think he Threw it Away

Finis St. John. Chairman of Ala. War Chest Appeal In Cullman ~~"

FE. St. John Jr., To Head War Chest Appeal! Co. Quota $13,998.16

Flynn's Defense Questions Girls   Soldier Called To Witness Stand

BILL TO STOP FATHERS’ DRAFT DIES IN SENATE   Unprecedented Allowances For Dependent Children Of Service Men 4.   VINSON IN APPEAL FOR GREATER TAXES

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Senate Rejects Plan  to Postpone  Father Induction   Seeks to Cushion Impact by Voting an Increase in Allowances of Dependent Children, Bill Goes to House

Senate Rejects Father Draft Ban Hikes Child Pay   Vote to Tighten Curbs on Deferment On Occupation Grounds

Senate Okays Father Draft By 69-0 Vote   But $30-820 Allowances Voted For Service Men’s« Children

Senate Eases Fathers’  Draft, Boosts Payments To Dependent Children

Senate Votes A gainst  Halting Dads’ Draft   Chamber Approves Increased Allowances For Dependent Children After Yielding To Marshall's Pleas: Vote Is 69 to 0

Wheeler Draft Bill Killed And Substitute Is Passed   Senate Approves Measure to Cushion Impact of In' duction of Fathers by Voting Unprecedented Allowances for Dependents

STANDS, fii AID-ANCREASED.   SENATE VOTES HEAVY ALLOWANCES FOR ALL DEPENDENT CHILDREN

Senate Kills Bill To Stop Drafting ' Of Fathers   Way Cleared by Action For Expected Passage Of Broad Substitute To Wheeler Measure   WOULD INCREASE PAY TO DEPENDENTS

Allowance Hike For Dependent Children Voted   Senate Passes Bill To Cushion. Father Draft by 69-0 Ballot

Allowances For Dependents Are Given Increase   Senate’s Action Is Cushion For Draft Catt Ear Enthere

Senate Passes Revision  ‘Of ‘Father Call Bil   Approve Unprecedented Allowance:  for Dependent Children In 69 to 0 Vote

Senators Yielding To Marshall Pleas  Reject Bill Halting Induc. tion Of Fathers

Senate Votes To Ease Fathers’ Draft  Hikes Allowance For Dependents; Kjlis Wheeler Bll

SENATE FAVORS PAY INCREASE 10 DEPENDENTS     Measure Sent To House - Adopted After Voting Down Postponement  Of Father Draft

Father Draft Is Cushioned   Bill Will Allow More Money For Dependents

Voles Increase In Allowances For Denendents   $100 for a Mother With Two. Children

A BIG AERIAL ~ NID. STAGED BE THE RAE   Germany, France and Italy Were Objectives of the British...   SOME PLANES ARE LOST   For More Than Twelve  Hours Bombing Planes  ‘Crossed Channel.

OTHER NAZI CITIES ARE ATTACKED   Diesel Engine Factory Target Of British Aerial Asault

A BIG AERIAL ~ AMD STAGED AV THE AE   SOME PLANES ARE LOST   For More © Than Twelve  Hours Bombing Planes  Crossed Chi inne. ; 

REDS ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT   45 Miles from Polish Line Peril Last North-South Railway Line

GERMANS TRYING TO PERSUADE JAPS TO ATTACK RUSSIA   Tojo’s Visit to Manchuria Regarded As Effort to Stir Suenicions.

Jap Indecision Aims at Allied Nerves, Belief   Tojo in Manchuric To Confer With Puppet Regime

Believe German Efforts to Persuade Japs to Attack Siberia Moving Toward Decision of Some Sort

Nazis Reported Pressing Japs To Open Attack on Siberia, Tokyo Response Still Unknown

SINE DESTROYER CHOT DOWN § AP AIRPLANES!   Naval Communique Tells of Naval Successes In the Shortland Area Jan. 19th

Jap Destroyer Bombed; Eight Planes Downed   Army Ground Troops Have Replaced Marines  - On Guadalcanal to Give Marines Rest

Jap Destroyer Hit, Eight Zeros Shot Down In Solomons         One USS. Fighter Is Lost: Munda Is Bombed With Results Unreported.

Planes Attack Jap Destroyer   Bomb Hit-Is Scored. Near Shortland ‘Isle; Eight ‘Leros Dropped

Jap Vessel Is Bombed In Pacific   Navy Also Reports Eight Enemy Planes Downed During Battle Tuesday

Navy Shoots Down Ejght Jap Planes   Bomb Destroyer Off Bougainville

U. 5. PLANES BOMB ENEMY DESTROYEH OFF BOUGAINVILLE   Navy Communique Also An-snounces Eight Jap Planes Shot Down In Shortland Island Area; Jap Positions At Munda Bombed.

ee OE re Oe le Oe  BOMB NIP SHIP   Destroyer Hit In Solomons; 8 Planes Downed

Jans Seeking To Break Free But Can't Make I   Half-Starved ‘1 roops Desperate; Large  Destroyer Bombed By Yanks

Fortress Gets A Direct Hit On Destroyer  Allied Airmen Are lima ling ‘ TT.

Jap Destroyer Bombed, Eight ‘Planes Downed In Solomons   ‘Navy Announces New U. S. Attacks On Enemy Shipping And Airfields

Yanks Hit Jap Ship And Down 8 Planes   Fortresses Drop Bomb on Enemy Destroyer Off Bougainville Island and Destroy Aircraft in Shortland Island Area.

JAP DESTROYER HIT IN SOLOMNS   EIGHT ENEMY PLANES ALSO SHOT DOWN IN SHORTLAND AREA

Army Forces Are Now on Guadalcanal   Patterson Says Marines Will Get a Chance to Rest

Jap Warship Hit By Bomb Eight Planes ‘Shot Down   Army Ground Forces Replace Marines On Guadalcanal Under General Patch

Jap Destroyer: Hit. Eight Zeros Shot  Down In Solomons   One US. Fighter Is Lost: Munda’ Is Bombed With Results Unreport - ede

JAP DESTROYER IN SOLOMONS SECTOR BOMBED  united States Fliers Also   Several Flying Fortresses   Damaged In Battle With Zeros and Float-Type Biplane, Navy Says

GOAL IS SIGHTED, SAYS STRONG   $11,500 Is Turned In Or War Fund Drive

WEATHER TO BE COLD   Light Freeze Is Expected ts Blanket State Tonight

Body of Slain Mar Held at Nassau   Surprise Is Sprung In Death Inquiry

PLANE RECALLED CARRYING OAKES   Body Taken.to Autopsy Room of Nassau Hospital After U. S. Start

GLANANG LIN IN AUGUIA oAby AT BOTH ENS   Red Army Surges Across —Desna River In North, Eastern Wall Of Invaders

GERMANY'S WINTER DEFENSE LINE IS \CRUMBLING AT BOTH ENDS IN RUSSIA   Soviet Applies Strangle Hold To Enemy Bridgenead In Caucasus

German Defense Line Crumbling  Gives Way on Both Ends of 700 Miles

REDS see      Nazis’ P Propo posed Winter Defense. _Line Crumbling:

NAZIS’ PROPOSED WINTER ‘DEFENSE LINE  CRUMBLING   Reds Apply Strangle Hold -In Northwest Caucasus— Army Pours Across Desna River

SOVIETS BLAST ADVANCE ALONG TOO-MILE FRON]   LONDON, Sept. 17 (.P)}—The capture of Bryansk was announced by Premier-Marshal Josef Stalin in an order of the day.

ALLIED TROOPS AND  AIRMEN BEAT BACK  JAPANESE LANDING ATTEMPTED ENEMY  LANDING NEAR FINSCHMALTON 1¢ NELEATEN

JAP ATTACK ON FINSCHHAFEN IS SMASHED BACK   Bombers Fly 2,000 Miles To Strike Ternate Base

Japanese Fail To Land Force At Finschhafen   Allies Down 24  Enemy Planes

ALLIES REPEL NIP LANDING AT FINSCHHAFEN   Sink Two of Three Barges, Down 24 Jap Planes in Oro Bay Sector

JAP BARGES NGT * ALLOWED TOLANG   Allied Forces Beat Back Japs From Finschhafen.

Japs Blasted At Finschhafen   Landing Attempt /s Smashed, Barges With Troops Are Sunk

Japs’ Attempts To Land Foiled   Twenty-Four Of 35 Enemy Planes Downed In Attemovts.

BEAT BACK JAP EFFORT TO LAND   Allies Destroy 24 Nippon Raiding Planes ”

REDS DEAL NAZIS ~ HEAVY AIR BLOWS   DESTROY % PLANES, 20 TRUCKS AND 300 FREIGHT CARS IN RAIDS.

AUGOIAN ACRIAL OFFENSWE GROWS   Red Airmen Pound Score of Choice German Targets; Destroy 72 Planes, Freight Cars and Supply Trucks

SOVIETS DOWN 12 NAZI CRAFT   Long Columns Of German Supply Trucks Hit In Devastating  Attacks

72 GERMAN PLANES BAGGED BY SOVIETS   300 Froight Cars And 200 suppiy Trucks Damaged By Russian  Airmen

NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN BY RUSSIANS   Other Nazi E Equipment Destroyed in Air . Attacks SN

Russian airforce effectively bombs nazi supply lines   Heavy onslaughts on key points over widespread soviet front

Russians Down, 72 Nazis, Blast Supply System   More Thar Score Of ‘Targets Feel: Eury Of Airmen _

 The Pethetic MNussclini Seems to Be Nearing Erd of the Road for Italy

The Pathetic M rsselini Seems to Be.  + Nearing End. of.the Road for- Italy

“JIM” STEWART STARS IN “VER BREMEN”   Indiana Flier in Second Mission Over Enemy Country

GEN, DESAULLE, GEN, GIRAUD STILL AT ODDS   Ns Agreement Reached on Big Political Issues

Writer Tells of Yank Bomb Raid on Wilhelmshaven   CORRESPONDENT ACCOMPANIES AMERICAN FLYING FORTS ON RAID IN GERMANY

“LADY LUCK” WAS PASSENGER ONT §, EIGHTH AIR FORCE BOMBER RAID OVER CERMANY

Shrapnel - Torn Planes Return To Bases In Britain; Crews Tell Of Narrow Escapes

Landon Hurls Charges Of ‘Life-Term Ambition’ At Roosevelt In Speech   Administration Promoting Fascism Fo America After the War, Says 1936 G. 0. P. Presidential Candidate

Landon Says Roosevelt Has “Life-Term Ambition”   Hunger, Hatred and Disorder Are  Increasing, Ex-Governor States

WAR NEWS   ‘tt  ourth War Anniversary Minds Foe Hard Pressed Upon Every Front

Senator Asks War Cabinet   Vandenberg Would Have President Drop “The Palace Guard”

Call For War Cabinet Made By Vandenberg   Michigan Senator Also Says War Effort Would Be Helped if “Palace Guard” Is Demobilized.

RUMORS FLYING THICK IN ROME   Vatican City Conferences Stir Up Speculation On War Mediation

Rumors Emanating From Vatican On War Conduct   Reserve of Holy See Spurs Conjecture As to Implications

Hint Important Vatican Move   Rumor Negotiations Are Being Conducted

Peace Rumor Is Heard In  Switzerland   Expects Vatican To Express View

RUMOR PEACE NEGOTIATIONS      Report Intense Diplomatic Activity at Vatican

WAR MEDIATION RUMORS STIRRED   ‘TALKS AT VATICAN BRING  REPORTS OF POSSIBLE  NEGOTIATIONS,

OPA Permits Milk Rise   Emergency Price Increases Permitted In Certain Cases

FOOD-INQUIRY _ REPORT FILED   AGRICULTURE BECRETARY' ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORTS UNITED STATES CANNOT FEED WORLD

Baruch Plan for Saving Manpower Viewed as Labor Draft Alternative

BARUCH SUGGESTS LABOR BUDGETING      Plan Seen as Alternative For Draft of Workers

Baruch Plan Calls For A Labor Pool   Suggests Voluntary Ac tion to Alleviate Short age in War Manpower

BARUCH’S PLAN FOR MANPOWER GETS SUPPORT    Viewed As Alternative to   National Labor  Draft   PACKED BY TRUMAN   Report May Affect Induc tion of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers

World Police Bill Up For Consideration   Congress Studies © Manpower Solution

CONGRESSMEN CALL BARUCH ON MANPOWER    Suggestions for Budgeting Labor Eliminating Cost Plus Contracts,  Stirs Interest

Baruch Suggests ‘Pooling Of Labor clo End Shortage  Manufacturers Of   ‘Manufacturers OF _-Vital War Materials > Would Get First Call  On Lahar Sunniv

LABOR BUDGETING BARUCH PROPOSAL   Seen As Solution To Man power Shortages and Father Draft

BARUCH REPORT STIRS INTEREST   Congress Bends Willing Ear to Proposal on Labor Budgeting.    SEEK VOLUNTARY POOL

CONGRESS TO STUDY LABOR DRAFT INU. S.   Compulsory Labor Control Seen As Solution

Late News Bulletins   Teeland Ratione Gasoline to Private Drivers

Boeing Plant Walkout Ends   Workers Demand Quick Action On, Pay Boosts By U: 8. Board

DEMAND DECISION CN WAGE CONTROVERSY   Thousands of Aitcraft Work ers Stage Mass Meeting Ie Gaal

AIRCRAFT EMPLOYES BACK ON JOBS TODAY   Atmosphere Tense by Union Leaders’ Threats

THOUSANDS OF AIRGRAFT WORKERS RETURN TO JOBS   Threats of a General Work Stoppage in Many Piants Were Made.   SEEK SPEEDY DECISION   Three Boeing Plants in the Seattle Area Closed Short Time Thursday.

AIRCRAFT MEN BACK AT WORK   Aimosphere Made Tense By General Strike Threat If Dispute Not Settled

Atmosphere Made Tense By Union Leaders’ Threat Of General Stoppage

Aircraft Plant Tension Grows  Boeing Workers Demand WLB Settlement

Threat of Work Stoppage in All Airplane Plants   A Tense Atmosphere Prevails as Workers Return  to Work at Boeing.   Demand a Decision on Their Wage Dispute

AST ALERT POOR FAILURE      00   Mayor to Draft Measure -With “Teeth” to  Enforce Law

One-Man Food Boss Sought By Congress   Delegation Seeking te Convince President of Need

Congress Demands One-Man Food Boss Over Protest ‘Of War Mobilizer Byrnes

Food Problem To White House   FARM AND LABOR IN SESSION WITH ROOSEVELT

DEMAND ONE-MAN BOSS OVER FOOD   DELEGATION CHARGES FOOD AUTHORITY IS WIDELY SCATTERED

CONGRESS SEEKS TO CENTRALIZE FOOD DIRECTING   Agriculture Committee Members Confer With  Roosevelt on Situation

NAMING OF FOOD CZAR PRESSED   Congressional Committee Ti Present Issue To White House

ONE-MAN FOOD BOSS SOUGHT       Consolidation of Food Au. thority Is Asked By House Committee

DEMAND MADE FOR ONE-MAN HEAD OVER FOOD   Bi-Partisan Delegation Names Chester Davis as Their Candidate

Food Price Boss Crisis Given FDR   Delegation Seeks One-Man Control In Mixed Stineatian

FOOD PRICE ROW IS PUSHED BACK TO WHITE HOUSE   Congressional Demands for Bread Basket Czar for Wartime Revived   BYRNES OPPOSED TO PLAN   Administration Gets Setback As Senate Passes Bill to Confirm Appointees

WILLKIE HAS ENTERED RAGE =~ ~ FOR REPUBLIGAN NOMINATION   ; O. ©. NOMINEE AT LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCES POLITICAL PLANS FOR FUTURE

FAVORS PORK MORATORIUM   Suspension of Rationing for  10 Davs Urged

SUSPENSION SOUGHT FOR PORK RATIONING   Action Proposed To Ease Surplus of Meat

RATIONING HOLIDAY ON PORK PROPOSED   Suspension for Short Time Would Permit Purchase Of Surplus.

Sugar Rationing Quotas Unchanged   Congress Group Presses OPA For Pork Rationing Holiday

MARCUS RAID JAP ‘WORRIER’   Objective of Carrier-Based Assault on Tokyo Outpost Remains Mysterv.

Marcus Raid May Be Feint Some Believe   Japanese Admit Own Planes Destroyed on Ground

BLOW AT ISLAND MAY BE PRELUDE TO OCCUPATION   Or Attack May Have Been Feint.to Cover Move  Elsewhere

MARCUS RAID WORRIES JAPS      ‘Tokyo Admits Big Losses Is Kept In Doubt By Navy’s Silence

MARCUS SLANG AAD MYSTERY   Attack in Pacific May Be Feint Or Well-Aimed Knockout Blow.   JAPAN WANTS ANSWER

MARCUS ISLAND STILL JAPANESE QUESTION MARK   May Have Been Feint To Cover  Other Offensive

WAS THE RAID ON MARCUS FEINT OR KNOCKOUT PUNCH   If Occupation Is Under Way Japs Are On The Spot   JAP FLEET WILL - HAVE TO FIGHT

J. $. Navy Raid May Have Been Feint on Start of Knockout Blow for Occupation—Vulnerable Hole Could Be Cut in Defenses of Japan Proper, Experts Theorize

Sea And Air Battle For Island Outpost Still In Progress; Japs Are Jittery

REAL OBJECTIVE OF  ATTACK ON MARCUS  ISLAND UNKNOWN WHETHER IT WAS A FEIN’  - OR INTENDED FOR KNOCKOUT OUESTION

Na vy Silent, Screens U.S. Stra teg y Behind Marcus Isle Attack   Micht Hit Wake

May Be Covering Major Attack In Some Other Area   Island Would’ Be Vital Advance Base For Next Offensive

QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED IN MARGUS ATTACK   Three Possibilities Emerge From Meager Accounts of Spectacular Raid; Japs Could Well Use Answer To Riddle Right Now.

Some Quarters Think Attack Psychological   Island, In American Hands, Would Be Great Threat To Japan’s Sea-Going Transport

Purposes. of Mareus Raid  _ Unanswered   Speculation Rife as to Whether _ Daring U; 8. Naval Attack ~ on teland-Wes: Feint or Well. Aimed. Bennelenios a i

CALLED FEINT ORK. 0. PUNCH BY CARRIERS   Silence Follows Reports Of Action Which Carries Threat To Japs: May Be Prelude To Occupation

NAVY SCREENS STRATEGY BEHIND RAID ON MARCUS   Two Aircraft Carriers, 150 Planes Used in Attack Says Japanese Report

Move To Import Livestock Feed  May Suspend Duties To Obtain Supply

French Fleet Is Now With Allies   Warships at Alexandria Comes  Over, Bolstering Naval Strength )  in the Mediterranean

Group Comes Over on Own  Free Will   Battleship and Several Cruisers Under Cadfrev’« Command

French Warships In Egypt Join Allies; 100 BI?'s Rip Naples   Squadron Of Eight Vessels Including Battleship ls Added To Power Facing Harbor Bound Italian Navy

Hight French War Vessels Join Allies Naval Force, Interned at  Alexandria, Egypt, Since Fall of France  GIRAUD WINS SHIPS  Squadron Will Help to Neutralize Italian Fleet in Harbor

ALLIES GET 8 FRENCH SHIPS AT ALEXANDRIA   Interned Naval Squadron Joins Of Own Free Will, Report

M’ Arthur Does Lots With Little   Gets 10 Per Cent Of U. S: Shipments

BOMBERS SMASH AT JAP POSITIONS IN PACIFIC SECTOR   ‘A merican Reinforcements  Pouring Ashore on.  Bouvaainville

Allies Pour Into Italy From Barges   First Pilot to Returr From Front Tells Of Activity

WARSHIPS PROVIDE COVER FOR INVADERS   Naval Guns Pound Batteries Ashore As Troops Land

CHRISTMAS FUNDS TO BE DISTRIBUTEL   Hagerstown Banks to Pay Out $240,000 on .. , . December ...

CHRISTMAS FUNDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED   Hagerstown Banks to Pay Out $240,000 on December 

Non-Stop Aerial Attacks Being Made On Nazis   Fighters And Bombers Sweep Into Axis-Held Europe Day And Night   FRENCH FLYING UNIT JOINS ACTION

GREAT FUTURE FOR AIRCRAFT PLANTS SEEN   Industry to Rank Among Top Five, Says Statistician   SAFE, LOW-COST PLANE FORECAST   A. W. Zelomek Says America More Mechanical Minded Now

Committee To Direct Activities Is Organized  To Coordinate Patriotic Campaigns In Plymouth County

Committee To © Direct Activities Is Organized  To Coordinate  D.. 24°..22. Mamwmnatan   To Coordinate Patriotic Campaigns In Plymouth County

PARADE ATTRACTS -ALARGE AUDIENCE   Many Men in Uniform Took Part in Navy Day  Celebration &

PARADE ATTRACTS A LARGE AUDIENCE   Many Men in Uniform Took Part in Navy Day Celebration 4   MUSIC BY THREE BANDS

© Patrol Activity Along Mareth  @ Line May Herald Early Offensive

Nazis Trying ToHoldTheir Vyazma Base Masses Of Germans Are Thrown Into Struggle ee

IN FIERCE BATTLING   Stiffening Nazi Resistance. Being Crushed,Noose Drawn Tighter on Vyazma   RUSSIANS HOLDING IN KHARKOV AREA   ‘Advance Near - Smolensk Leaves Enemy Only Nar row: Corridor for Retreat

Soviets Try To Encircle Key Bastion   Vyazma, Barrier To Smolensk, Immediate  Goal of Red Drive   Nazis Storm Approaches To Kharkov In Ukraine

REDS CRUSH STIFF NAZI RESISTANCE   But Germans Battle Desperately to Defend Grip on Vvyazma Bastion.   Encirclement Nearly Completed by Russians

Soviet Troops Closing Ring About Vyazma   German Stronghold Virtually Surrounded; Holding Back Attackers at Kharkov

CRUSHING STIFFENING GERMAN RESISTANCE TO ADVANCE WITHIN 80 MILES SMOLENSK   Nazis Battling Desperaely to Defend Their Grip on Vyazba. Red Shock Troops Reported Within Thirteen Miles of German Held City 

RUSSIANS NEAR HITLER’S OLD HEADQUARTERS   Within 80 Miles OF Smolensk; Kharkov  Front Under Pressure

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO HOLD GRIP   Germans Have Only Narrow Corridor For Retreat Toward Smo lensk Base   MANY TOWNS RETAKEN

Russians Draw Noose Tighter  Drive To Within 80  Miles of Smolensk

Russians Gain Ground on Central Front   Out-Flanked Germans Battling to Defend Grip on Vyazma

ATLEAST 44 TOWNS AND VILLAGES ARE PAPTIIRFD BY REDS      Are Surging Forward On Front Leading To Vyazma   ARE HOLDING OWN BEFORE KHARKOV

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON TOWARD THE SMOLENSK AREA   Nazis Battling Desperately To Hold Onto Grip At Vyazma; Fierce Fighting Reported Around Kharkov.

ISTIFFENING GERMAN RESISTANCE CRUSHED BY RED ARMY TROOPS  BATTLE FOR KHARKOV   BATTLE FOR KHARKOV APPEARED INDECISIVE SOVIETS REPORTED

Allied Air War’ in High Gear   Sweep Toward France Today, Duisburg Raided

800 Big Four - motored Bombers in Raid; 34 Are Lost.   RUSSIAN PLANES ON GERMAN RAIDS   Hitting Communication Centers and Railroad Networks.

DISCUSS SHORTAGE OF HELP ON FARMS   Meeting Hears Proposal tc Bring Japanese-Ameri_ cans Here’   IUNDER FEDERAL PLAN

DISCUSS SHORTAGE OF HELP ON FARMS   Meeting Hears Proposal to Bring Japanese-Americans Here:

AMERICAN CENERAI GAVE NAZIS TERMS ‘OF SURRENDER   First Herald of German Collapse-Comes When German Officer Walks Up to U. S. General’s  Tent Sunday Morning.

‘Unconditional Surrender’, Americans Tell Nazis   Commander of 25,000 Trapped Troops Complied With Good Grace, But Subordinate Wept

25 Called For Sunday   Group Includes 17 For Second Examination Here

Eisenhower Is Supported By Churchill   Prime Minister Stands Behind Request To Delay DeGaulle Trip

CHURCHILL IN FULL AGREEMENT WITH GEN. EISENHOWER   Tells House Of Commons He Is In Full Accord With General’s Request To De Gaulle To Delay Proposed Trip To North Africa.

EISENHOWER’S MOVE BACKED   Churchill in Full Accore With DeCaulle Order

Finns Ready For Separate  Peace Parley   Swedish Newspaper Article Claims Finland Seeks Way Out Of War

Sub Sinks Jap Ferry Steamer   Tokyo Admits Daring Raid Cost Heavy Toll Of Lives.

Wallace Evades  Campaign Issue   “Not A Politician” Vice-President Says When Asked If He WillSeck White House

Chili Welcomes Henry Wallace   Vice-President to Address Congress

8,000 TYPEWRITERS SOUGHT IN MARYLAND   Government Is Asking Dealers 1x Secure 600,000 Machines Throughout Nation

SELL WAR STAMPS   Lawrence Women Are felping Reach a Quota  0  9

BOMBS RAINED ON GERMANY’ WAR INDUSTRI   Ruhr, Berlin, Czechoslovakia Dealt Blows in New Air Offensive.   U. S. FORTRESSES HIT AT NORTHERN FRANCE

Allies Deliver’: Terrific Air Blows at Reich   Berlin. and Other ~ Points Are Hit; . 234 Planes Lost

PEACH CROP SHORT AT OAK HARBOR, OHIO      Estimate 60 Percent Drop in Yield

Knox Sights 9-Sea Navy By End Of'45   Speeded Construction Credited For 2-Year Jump Over Schedule.

9-Ocean Navy By End Of 45—Knox  Prediction By Official Comes As A Surprise

Knox Pr edicts United States Will Have Five- Ocean Navy Ready To Throw Into Service Before End of 1945

Five-Ocean Navy Nearing Reality   Progress Outlined “In Annual Report

America Turn: Out Warships. At Record Gait  Five-Ocean Navy. . .  Five-Ocean Navy Takes Shape At Amazing Pace

TO ATTAIN NAVY GOAL OF SEA FORCE BY *45   Two Years Ahead of Original Expectations

Five-Ocean Navy Built ByEnd 1945, Knox Says; BeatSchedule Two Years

FLOODS RAGE OVER MIDDLE WEST LANDS      Damage Grows as Swollen Streams Near Record Mark

FLOOD DAMAGE GROWS IN FOUR RICH VALLEYS   Mississippi Breaks Sea Wall At Grand Tower; Missouri Section Marooned   3,700 Persons Moved

Rising Flood Holds Vast Acreage In Several States  More Thousands Leave Homes as Three Great Rivers Swel]

Muddy Water From Four Bloated /Rivers Swirls Over Thousands of Acres of Midwest Farm Lands

king Levees ‘ase Menace  iree States 'e Than 100,000  ‘ons Homeless:   ‘e Than 100,000 sons Homeless ; iy Are Marooned  S COVERED  vy Crop Damage ‘lhinois, Indiana Missouri

Flood Engutfs Wide Sections   Report Levees Break In Three States

Floods Swirl Over Farms  In Midwest   Levees Break in 3 States as Rivers Rise to New Heights; Many Persons Evacuated

Vast rarm Areas Are  Engulfed   More Levees Go Under Heavy  Pressure

WOUNDS FATAL T0 ORRVILLE RESIDENT   inflicted by Wife in Fight at Their Home

HUSBAND STABBED TO DEATH BY WIFE   a ae  ‘Police Told She Did It While Fighting in Home

NO SHIPS LOST IN—— SICILIAN INVASION   Vessels Cross Straits Without Encountering Either Subs or Enemy Air Force.

@ THEY SAVED THE CROP  Two Red Cross Units Credited With Vital Canning Role

Allied Aerial Pincers Closing On Nazi Europe   British Based Bombers Operate in Close Concert

ENEMY BASES ARE ~~ BOMBED BY FLIER!   American Airmen Round Out Full Week of Assaults

AERIAL PINGERS CLOSES TIGHTER   Britain-based Bombers Continue Intensive Hammering Of Enemy Airfields and Communications in West

Allies Continue Hammering of  Nazi Airfields   Italy's Fall Will Give Impetus to Western Campaign: Yank Fliers Active

Air Pincers Is Developed   Nazi Fields Put In Hazardous Positions

Britain - Based Bombers Again Attack in West   Allies Continde Raids On Enemy Airfields, Communications

German Airfields Battered Deluge Of Bomb:  Smacks Hitler  - Poartrees:

PINCER BLOWS ROCK NAZILAND   Aerial Pastings Force Berlin To Revise War Production

BLAST FOE IN WEST EUROPE   Allied Flyers Continue t Pound Airfields and  Communications

ANNOUNCE SINKING if SHIP IN GULF   First Reported: Loss of Vessel in 7 Months; Toll Stands at 649

New Quake Kills 550 in Turkey   Twelve Villages Reported Destroved

Nazi Production Czar Uses Animal Language To Guard Against Spies

NOTARY PUBLIC Elizabeth M, Culler 404-406 Fallowfield Ave.   ren PaRTr

Twenty Bills To Be Vetoed By Governo1   Legislatore Are Informed In Advance What To Expect On Return To Madison July 13

Legislature To Face 20 Vetoes   Members Informed Through Letters

Tr eS er eS ee Oe ee eee  Hope of Compromise In Subsidy Fight Fades

ATTACKMADE ON SUBSIDIES BYSEN. SMITH      South Carolinian Sees < “Political Rollback” Next Year   BILL MAY REACH VOTE BY MONDAY

COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES NOW UNLIKELY   Vote on Monday Seems - Probable Under Pres ent Program

ATTACK MADE ON SUBSIDIES BY SEN. SMITH   South Carolinian Sees a “Political Rollback” Next Year  BILL MAY REACH VOTE BY MONDAY   Two Days of General Debate in the House  Ordered

PROPONENTS Of SUBSIDIES ARE FACING DEFEAT   Smith Says Administration Fight May Mean Political Rollback   COMPROMISE SEEMS OUT OF THE QUESTION

mmittee Blocks mpromise on bsidy Program   Bans Amendments, Sends It to House  ‘Amid Angry Talk

SUBSIDY TRUCE HOPES DWINDLE AS FIGHT NEARS   Opposition Legislation Is Scheduled For Early Debate  In House

Subsidy Debate T: Start Thursday   Chances of Compromise Fade in Battle Over Food Subsidies.

Hull Reports To Roosevelt During Day Secretary of State to Re.  view Moacscaxv Plane

Use Sulfanilamide Helping Control Rheumatic Fever   Doctors of Johns Hopkins Disclose Year-Long Tests Indicate Drug Works as Deterrent in Almost All Cases—Disease, Along With Infantile Paralysis, Rated Worst Scourge sf Childhood

Sulfa Drugs To New Use   Found By Doctors to Be - Successful in Control Of Rheumatic Fever

4,784 ON STRIKE   Ford Workers Quit In Dispute Over ‘Swing Shift.’

WALKOUT HALTS FLOW OF JEEPS   Workers Prote st Shift In Hours At Ford Lincoln Plant

4784 Ford Workers Go Out in Strike   Walkout Results Over Argument Abou Cveing Shift!

BEDAUX ARRESTED   Friend of Duke and Duchess of Windsor Taken In North Africa.

Ford Plant Struck By 8,000 Workers   Factory Produces Aircraft Engines

Hasty To Preside ‘  At Tax Discussion   Legislative Committee of State Asso. to Meet In Raleigh Wednesday. * -

At Tax Discussion   Legislative Committee’ State Asso.'to Meet’. _ Raleigh Wednesda

Yanks Mop Up Jap Remnants   Campaign On Attu About Concluded  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Beanrintan Drace Staff Writer

American Victory  On Attu Claimed   Knox Says Campaign Successful — Yankees Are Now Mopping Up

Japs on Attu Being Mopped Up, Knox Declares  Conquest of Island A Success, Navy Secretary Says  NEW MOVES SEEN  Blockade of Kiska Probably Will Precede Attack There

U.S. VICTORY ON ATTU ISLE IS IN THE BAL   JAP REMNANTS ARE BEING MOPPED UP BY AMERICANS

U.S. Forces Fight to Mop Up Jap:   Aleutians Battle Reported to Be Entirely Successful

os Victory Won, Knox Declares: 0  nly Mopping Up of Enemy Remains

Troops Are Now Engaged In “Mopping Up” Remaining _ Japanese, Knox Declares      ‘NIP STRONGHOLD ON KISKA NEXT OBJECTIVE

Mopping-Up Action Is Underway    Small Remnant Of Japanese Force Offers Opposition.

Attu Victory Is Certain; New Advances Seen   Remaining Japs on Island Face Death Or Surrender; Campaign Is Now Expected to Expand; Knox Cheerful

JAPS TRAPPED ON HEADLAND NEAR HARBOR   Must Surrender Or Die In Foxholes; Supply — Line Cut To Main Enemy Base   Post Held A Year

AMERICAN TROOPS MOPPING UP JAP FORCES ON ATTU   Knox Says Nipponese Are Surrounded and Will Be Forced to Surrender or Die in Fox Holes,   SCOFFS AT REPORTS OF ENEMY EVACUATION   Declares Yanks Control Sea Approaches to Island— Blockade of Kiska Seen as Next Step.

YANKEES WIN ATTU BATTLE   Americans Mop Up Remnants of Jap Forces; Enemy is Encircled

ENEMY MUST SURRENDER OR STARVE TO DEATH IN FOX HOLES, SECRETARY KNOX TELLS PRESS CONFERENCE.

U.S. Mops Up On Attu Island   Knox Avoews Campaign  Te *Gyrpepc]efnl®

AMERICAN TROOPS MOP UP ON JAP REMNANTS HEMMED ON ATTU ISLE   Remaining Japanese Are Trapped On Rocky Headland East Of Chichagof Harbor; Situation Parallels Cap Bon

U.S. Troops Begin Mop Up Operation On Island Of Attu   Campaign Called “Successful Operation” by Secretary Knox—Remnants of Enemy Forces Entrapped 7 on Rocky Headland :

SERVICE FLAG,   ' - z Dedication Sunday Morning At Presbyterian Church.

Suggests Flynn End Bitter Fight ByWithdrawing   Democratic Senator Says Tt Would Be Wholesome Solution To Situation

Will Guard Free Press   Editors Promise Aid To War Effort-But Won't “Be Muzzled”

PRESS PREPARED TO GIVE ALL AID IN WAR EFFORT   This Is Statement Made To. day by President of ASN E.   TO WARD OFF ‘MUZZLE’   Problem of How Newspapers Can Aid War Efforts, Keynote of Meeting.

American Society of Editors Alert Against Muzzling   Meets .n Washington at Request of Officials of Government

Press All Out In War Effort   Newspaper Men to Confer With Leaders Of U. S. Government

WE WILL HELP BUT DON'T MUZZLE US SAY U.5, EDITORS   Newsmen In ‘Washing‘ton; ‘Will See Pre-”   et dome

Extending Self In War Effort   But ASNE President Says Editors Will Watch Any Move To Muzile Them

Greeks Getting Food From U. S.   Starvation Rate Drops Considerably

SEVEN ADDITIONAL MANPOWER SHORTAGE AREAS ARE LISTED  AREAS SCATTERED OVER NATION COME UNDER PROGRAM OF WMC

Galveston Placed in ‘Labor Stringency’ Group by WMC, Made Eligible for Hiring, Job-Switching Curbs, 48-Hour Work Week

4 MORE CITIES ADDED TO LABOR-SHORT LIST   peed  Aron Only Ohio Community; Marion Moved Up

Labor Shortage Anticipated Here  Group Three Rating For City Is Ordered

'WMC ADDS MORE TOWNS TO LABOR SHORTAGE AREAS   Gary, Hammond, S. Chicago, Evansville, Portland, Wilmington, Burlington, Tampa, and  Savannah Added

EAST TEXAS FLOOD  WATERS WILL STAND  OR FALL SLOWLY FURTHER RISE IN LOU ISIANA AREA PREDICTED NEYT FEW DAYS

SENATORS SPLIT ON TESTIMONY VOICED BY RICK   Holman Indorses Views O01 Air Idol, But Downey Sounds Criticism   SOME REFUSE COMMENT   O’Mahoney Favors Plan Similar To Legion’s Universal Draft

‘RICK'S’ PLAN ~ CAUSES SPLIT   MEMBERS OF: SENATE: wt TARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE « DIVIDED ON FLIER'S PROPOSAL

Strong Nazi Resistance With Artillery Delays  Montgomery's Advance   Americans Overrun Three More Strategic Hills; Russian Fronts Remain Comparatively Quiet;  Kiska Bombed Repeatedly by U. S., Canadian Flyers

STIMSON SAYS POSITIONS IN ~ TRALY SERIOUS   Secretary of War Adds However, ‘Commanders Are Confident;” Reinforcements Arrive

Grim News For Axis Reported In Dispatches   Secretary Stimson Confident Of Success In Mediterranean

SALERNG BATTLE STILL IN BALANCE   Commanders Are Still Con: fident, Declares Stimson

POSITION SERIOUS   But Commanders at Salern< Are Confident, Stim son Reports

Stimson Sees Victory At Salerno   No Thought of Evacuating Beachhead, He Says

STIFF SALERNO FIGHT FORESEEN   Stimson Says Position : Serious but Allied Commanders Are Confident.

Sec. Stimson Says Position Of Allied Troops At Salerno Serious; Leaders Confident   Never Any Thought Of Evacuation; Says Landing A Deliberate Risk Undertaking

Help Speeded To Salerno, Says Stimson   Allied Position Serious, He Says, In War Report

‘GOV. F, C, DONNELT 92 RECOM MENDATIONS: ARE DEEPLY CUT   ‘Slashed Nearly © $15, 000, 000°  From Gaxepnpss.3 Pro; ma mi   posed .Total.,   A BALANCED:BUDGET   it Was Introduced in. ‘the House Today, by...Rep., .... C. P. Junge.

Slash Donnell’s Budget Almost 15  Million in House   Appropriations Committee Recommends Putting 6 Millions in Surplus.   State Costs Fixed at 248 Million Dollars

SOVIETS ABOUT TO EMERGE VICTORS IN TERRIFIC BATTLE      Counter Blows Showing. Increasing Local. Successes   GERMANS ADMIT —_ RUSSIAN GAINS

RUSSIANS GAIN IN TANK FIGHT NEAR BELGOROT   Mobile Artillery’ Blast: Nazis As Red Forces Take More Ground In Counter Attacks   DOWN 47 PLANES   Berlin Reports Reds Are Attacking Near Orel, Admit Break-through In Some Sectors

SOVIETS RETAKE SEVERAL TOWNS IN LAST DRIVE   Smash 100 German Tanks; Fighting in North Still on Small Scale

RETAKE TOWNS   Increase Gains in Belgorod Armored Battle: Holding Germans on Other Fronts.

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS AT BELGOROD   Stubborn Fighting Marks 11-Day-Old Battle, Moscow Report Says

40,000 MEN IN 11 DAYS   No New Drives Attempted By Invaders: 158 Nazi Planes Are Wrecked In Day’s Fighting

RUSSIANS STOP GERMAN DRIVE   Hitler Told Troops This Was To Be Turning Point of War, Prisoner Reveals

Russians Score New Gains Against Nazis   German Attacks Beaten Off: Several Towns Recaptured

Germans Use Rebuilt U. S. Warplanes   One Shoots Down Flying Fortress

REAR ADM. KIR  - KIRK BELIEVES LUCK PLAYS BiG PART   Boss of Big Convoy Over and Back, Saw N. Africa and Sicily Attacks.

War Ration Book No. 3 To Be Mailed Michigan Residents Late In Jane

‘ASSEMBLY ENDS STATE SESSIONS IN RECORD TIME   War-Time And Home Front Legislation Dominated  Lagielatursa   SENATE ADJOURNED ON SUNDAY MORNING

MANY BILLS PASS IN. CLOSING HOUSE   Legisleture Adjourns at Early Hour Sunday Mornina

Spectacular New American   Fighter-Bomber Introduced   Makes Its Battle Debut By Roaring Low Level Attacks On Troops And Motor Transports

Invasion of Sicily Brings to Light Spectacular New U.S. Airplane

Freedom From Hunger Goal Can be Achieved   Commission Soon To Carry Out Work Of Va. Conference

ALLIED GROUP TO STUDY FOOD   United Nations Commission Will Plan How To Feed Post-War World

WILL SET. UPA FOOD COMMISSION   ‘United Nations To Establish One In Washington —

Raids On Enemy Supply Lines And Bases Carried Out On New Year’s Day On Broad Mediterranean Front—Both Sides Massing Strength On Ground For Approaching Showdown—Fighting French Still Advancing Slowly From Southern Libya

Meanwhile, Both Side: Mass Strength for Approaching Showdown  in Tunisia   Believed Aiming at Juncture With British Eighth  _ Army Pursuing  Rommel Troops

Mass Forces In Tunisia for Showdown   Axis Supply Lines Under Continued  Aerial Attack

ALLIED PLANES BLAST ENEMY'S SUPPLY LINES   Little Land Action Reported in Tunisia Friday

More Blows Struck in Mediterranean as New Year Is Ushered in While Both Sides Mass Strength on Ground For Approaching Show* down.   FRENCH FORCE. ADVANCES

One Small Patch Is All Hitler Has Left Of 1942 Campaign In Russia

MOST OF NAZIS’ 1942 GAINS ARE WIPED OUT  New Line Needed By Germans

RECAPTURE OF ROSTOV BY RED © ARMY HAS SHAKEN LOOSE WHOLE SOUTHERN ANCHOR GERMAN LINE

The War Today   Recapture of Rostov Jolt To Nazis’ Caucasus Anchor

Loss of Rostov Wipes Out All German Gains in 1942   With Southern Anchor of Whole Nazi Line Shaken Loose It Is Difficult For Observer to Sce How It Can Be Firmly Fixed Again Much Short of Odessa and Mouth of Dieppe

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Shortening Of Nazi Line Of Supply Will Work Against Russians

WHISKY RATIONING WILL BE CONTINUED   ; But Allotment Will Be Cut To OneFifth Of Gallon To Each Person  ; For Six Weeks

POWERFUL NEW AIR ATTACKS ON GERMANY SEEN   May Be Greatest Demonstration Of Air Power

RAILWAY WAGE AWARD RAPPED   Train And Engine Men Declare 32e¢ Raise Is ‘Insult’

HEADS OF RAL MEN CALL PAY AWARD INSULT   4-Cents-an-Hour, Hike Recommended Brings Carrier Crisis

Railroad Unions Look Upon Wage Boost As lnisult  Four-Cent Award By; Emergency Board Unsatisfactory

Rail Workers’ Protest Small Wave Increase   Trainmen View Board's 4-Cent Recommendation As *Ilyenit®

Rail Pay Award Called ‘Insult   Board Grants Hike Of 4 Cents an Hour

New Labor Crisis Seen On Railroads   OPERATING WORKERS CAL AWARD OF ONE-TENTH OF DE MANDS UNSATISFACTORY; CALLED AN “INSULT.”   Second Major Controveres

Figures On Strikes Are Misleading   Four - Month Report On Labor Situation Incomplete

Danish Patroits Escape  To Safety Of Sweden   Refugees Run Gauntlet Of German Warships And Plane: To Flee Nazi-Dominated Homeland—Many . Die Under Guns And Bombs From Nazi Ships ;

Danish Patriots Fled to Sweden In Small Craft: Nazis Killed Some

Danish Patriots Flee to Safety Under Gauntlet of Nazi Warships and Planes

PARA R AAR  Remember Pearl Harbor! Ba  ERA RRRARR   Willing To Go Double

ARE RARRRB = Remember  E Pearl Harbor! iS RRERRABRB   Willing To Go Double

BIG ACTIVITY AT GIBRALTAR   Heaviest Shipping Move  ments Since Invasion  OF Italy

Hints Activity At Gibraltar  Axis Radio Says Many Vessels In - Harbor At Present

MANY SHIPS ARE IN GIBRALTAR   Vichy Radio Reports 58 . Cargo Boats in Harbor

INVASION INDICATED BY ALLIED SHIPPING   German Troop Movement To Coast Reported

Non-Deferables Advised To Get Into Essential Jobs Or Face Induction   “OBJECTIVES OUTLINED

OCCUPATION T0 BE BIG FACTOR IN WAR DRAFT   TYPE OF JOB, NOT FAMILY STATUS TO GUIDE INDUCTIONS

Occupation To Determine Man’s Status In Draft  TZTiTaese a      WMC Announces  New Regulations

Boards Will Continue. To Consider Hardship Cases In Selecting Men for  Sarvice

OCCUPATION TO BE  MAIN YARDSTICK IN  DRAFTING FATHERS ANOTHER SERIES OF  ORDERS IN MUCH-DISCUSSED MATTER ISSUED

Announce New Draft Regulations   Occupation, No Family Status, Will Govern Father-Draft

Non-Deferables Without War Job: Face Induction  Blamily Gtatna   Family Status Has No Bearing On Regulations

OCCUPATION, NOT FAMILY, NEW STATUS   New Regulation Issued By War Manpower Commission   149 OCCUPATIONS   Idle Fathers In Class To Be Called For Duty

WORK, NOT FAMILY STATUS, BASIS OF DRAFT DEFERMENT   War Manpower Commission Issues Series of New Regulations Over the Week-End

OCCUPATION,NOT FAMILY STATUS, NEW DRAFT PLAN   Fathers Warned To Get Essential Work By Director

JOBS NOW RATE FAMILIES WITH DRAFT BOARDS   143 Occupations Listed as ‘Super Deferment' Group in Move to In sure War Production

Occupation Is -Yardstick For Draft Status   WMC Issues Series Of   New Regulations To Guide Draft Boards In Classifying Men

Occupation Key To Drafting Dads 18 to 38  e Three Objectives On Jobs Are Cited By Official

Occupation, Not Family Status, Becomes New 'Yardstick for Determining: Men for Services

New Draft Rule Fixes Status of Non - Deferables   Occupation Set As Yardstick by Manpower 8oard

OCCUPATION TO BE YARDSTICK FATHER DRAFT   Men Between 18 and 38 Must Be In Essential Employment or Be n ducted After Oct.

Regulations   Test Men Whether They Serve Best in Factory or in Service

Occupation Will Be Basis on Men Going Into Army   Main Question Is Whether He Is Best Fitted For  Army or on Home Front.   List of 149 Critical  Occupations Given

New Draft Order Is Job Lever   Occupation, Not Family Status. Key to Deferment; May Make Labor Draft Unnecessary

oNEW DRAFT LAW BASIS INDUCTION SON OCCUPATION   Fathers Slated to Be Called ® Soon Unless Deferrable Jobs Are Secured

UOGUPATIONG IU OETERMINE URAET STATUS   Family Status No Longer Main Consideration In Induction Time

DRAFT STATUS   Non-Deferables Told to Ge Into Essential Jobs Or Be Drafted.

Occupations, Not:Family Status, Basis For Draft Deferment, WMC Ruling Decree:

NEW DRAFT PLAN PUT ON BASIS OF OCCUPATION   Family Status Still To Get Consideration But Work Is What Will Count

Jobs Will Be Main Test In Father Draft   Occupation Will Be Principal Yardstick For Deferment Of Fathers

WMC ISSUES NEW DRAFT REGULATIONS   Occupation Rather Than _ Family Status Will Be Principal Yardstick for Induction

OCCUPATION WILL BE MAIN BASIS IN DRAFT DEFERMENT   Boards To Determine Whether Men Can Best  Serve in Armed Forces ar War Pradactinn

Local Fathers Face Draft Or War Work   Occupation Will Be Principal Factor; In Effect October 1

New Regulations Are Issued By Federal WMC  START OCT. 1ST  Family Status Will _ Not Be Main  Tesuie

Non-Essential Job Holders Must Find New Work Or Be Drafted Into The Army

Sweeping Regulations Clear Way For Draft Of ‘Non-Essential’ Dads   Draft Board Chief Quits In Protest

It's Job That ls fo Decide Dad's Draff   Keeping Up War Production One Goal, By Using Fathers

Occupations Instead of Family Status Made Principal Basis for Draft 'Deferment; Must Get Essential Jobs

Jobs to Be Basis  for Draft   FAMILY STATUS BANNED AS ESSENTIAL FACTOR FOR ARMY INDUCTION

FURIOUS RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE THREATENS KEY CITY OF GOMEL   -RED FORCES PUSH WEST FROM SOZH RIVER BRIDGEHEAD; OTHER UNITS HIT BEYOND DNIEPER

RUSSIAN ARMIES CLOSE TRAP AS FRANTIC NAZIS FLEE GOMEL   GERMAN GARRISON DASHES TOWARD 40-MiILE BOTTLENECK IN MAD RACE FOR ITS LIFE

48. Hour Week Means Inflation, or Does. -It?‘Byrnes Says No; Second Guessers. Undecided

Eden Denies Any » Peace Terms Are  Offered Italians   British Foreign Secretary Says Unconditional Surrender Demanded.   Gives Lie to Report Of 7-Point Armistice

Eden Reiterates Italy Must Give Full Surrender   Truce Offer Denied, Bul Commons Is Told OF 'Rea: sonable Attitude’

NO TERMS YET ~ OFFERED--EDEN   Allies Still Demand Full Sur: render by Italy, Secre: tary Avers

Land Drive Into Italy  Expected   Invasion Now Regarded as Only Course Left Open to the Allies   NO TERMS OFFERED, EDEN TELLS HOUSE   Allies Continue to Demand  Unconditional Surrender, He Says in Debate

EDEN DECLARES ALLIES STAND FLAT ON TERMS   No Peace Terms Offered Italy But Allies Would Adopt Reasonable Attiude Toward Her

Conviction Grows That All-Out Invasion Of Italy Is Only Course To Bring Surrender

EDEN SAYS NO PEACE TERMS OFFERED ITALY   Sees No Inconsistency in ‘Honor able’ Peace and ‘Uncondifiona Surrender’

EDEN SAYS ALLIES HAVE MADE NO OFFER OF PEACE TO ITALY   BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY GIVES LIE TO GERMAN BROADCAST

ITALIAN PEACE RUMORS DENIED   Eden Says No Special Offers Have Been Made As Berlin Reports Say

EDEN GALLS ON ITALY TO HELP  DEFEAT HITLER   Refutes Berlin Broadcasts That Peace Terms Were Offered to Italians By Roosevelt

Italy Must Sill Meet Unconditional Surrender Terms, Commons Informed

NO TERMS FOR ITALY OFFERED   Al " Will Adopt “Reason ‘able Attitude”, Eden  % Tells Britain

Eden Denies Peace Terms To Italians   Full Surrender Stil Allied Terms

NO ARMISTICE OFFERED ITALY, EDEN REVEALS   Badoglio Still Trying To Play Ball With Hitler at Expense of People   INVASION COMING SOON   Italian Soldiers Deserting In Greece - - Nazis Seize Three Shiploads

NO ARMISTICE OFFERED ITALY, EDEN DECLARES   SURRENDER DEMAND STILL HOLDS, SAYS BRITISH STATESMAN

Peace Terms Not Offered Toltaly, Eden States   Badoglio Clamps Dowr Rigid Rule To Stop Public Clamor To Get Out Of The War

EDEN SAYS NO PEACE TERMS OFFERED YET   Might Swap Concessions For Aid Against Hitlerite Germany

EDEN SAYS NO PEACE TERMS GIVEN ITALY   Declares Policy Still Unconditional Surrender—  ’ Invasion Believed Only Course Left Open to ‘Allies.

Eden Says Allies Will  Use Reason   Gives Lie to Nazi Statement About 7 Point Armistice

Eden Repeats Surrender Is  Only Path to  Italian Peace   Gives Lie to Nazi Report of FDR *7-Point  Plan’

‘Reasonable Attitude’ Toward Italy Seen If She Helps Beat Germany   Eden Denies That Peace Terms Offered Italy, As Reported By German Broadcasters;No. Hopes For Immediate Peace.

Eden Brands Nazi Peace Story A Lie   Growing Italian resistance to Surrender Makes Invasion Necessary

Allied Demand Uncondition. al Surrender, House of Commons Told.   INVASIGN ONLY COURSE?

NO PEACE PACT OFFERED ITALY, EDEN DISCLOSES   Still Demanding Unconditional Surrender

Eden Denies Peace Offered   Alties Continue to Demand Unconditional Surrender of Foes

PEACE TERMS NOT OFFERED EDEN STATES   Britain’ s Foreign Secretary  Gives Lie to German Broadcast Regarding Proposal      SURRENDER DEMANDED

Claim No Peace Terms Offered   Events Point To Italian Resistance

Terms Remain Same.   Eden Declares Allies Have Offered Italy No Peace Terms In Answer To Nazi Report Of Armistice Proposal

NO AUDGEVELT PEAGE TERM HANDED ITALY   Indications Point To Allied Invasion Of Mainland In Near Future

$110 NETTED FROM RECENT PTA CARNIVAL   Crowning of Queen Is Big Feature of Event Held Last Saturday

JUGOSLAV TROOPS UNDER TITO TAKE 4 ADRIATIC PORTS’   Partisan Army Soldifying: Position Along Two 60-Mile Coastal Sectors

Claim Partisan Army Controls Adriatic Ports   120 Miles of Coast Said Under Domination of Jugoslav Troops —

Cold Wave Widespread   Hits Peak in Middle West, New England, Great Lakes

GULF STATES 10 GET COLD WAVE   Arctic Air's Moving South After Sub-Zero Snap Freezes Mid-West

REACHES PEAK   Lowest Reading of 24 Hour: 2} Below at Caribou, Maine.

Cold Wave Hits Peak in Midwest  Arctic Air Moves Inta Cacrth Avan

COLD GOES FAR SOUTH   Low Point ‘of . Subzero Snap Reached as Frigid Air Moves On

American Bombers Raid Southwest Germany Today Following RAF Attack On Berlin 

Assault May Have Struck Death Blow   American Bombers Continue Offensive Today with Raids Deep into Europe

City May Be Through As Nazidom’s Capital   Light, Medium, Heavy Bombers Hit Continent By Day; 20 R.A.F. Bombers Lost

RAF Bombers Pound Berlin in Giant Blow   May Have Finished City as the Working Capital of Germany

2.240 BOMB TONS SHAKE AND BURN GERMAN CAPITAL   SWEDISH DISPATCH SAYS NOTHING MORE NOW LEFT TO BOMB

Big Bombers Blast Berlin, Other Points   RAF Drops 2,240 Tons Of Explosives on Capital; Yanks in Day Smash

2,200-Ton Attack on City May Have Put Capital Out of War   Americans Follow RAF Night Attack Today With Great Raids

MANY TONS OF BOMBS  RAINED UPON BLASTED  HEART OF NAZIDOM AMERICAN HEAVY BOMB ERS DRIVE DEEP INTO FUROPE IN NAViIicur

Nazi Capital Given A New Blasting   American Daylight Forces Hammer At  “Rocket Gun Coast”

Eighth Heavy RAF Assault May Have Finished City As Nazi Working Capital

MAY HAVE FINISHED BERLIN AS GERMAN WORKING GAPITAI   RAF Bombers Left Great Fires Raging in That City Again Last Night.   A 2240-TON ASSAULT   Targets in Southwest Germany Were Pounded By Flying Fortresses.

Yankees Follow RAF Raid with Daytime Attack On S. W. Reich   British Smash May Have Finished Capital as Functioning City   Very Heavy Attack

NEAR RECORD ATTACK HITS NAZI CAPITAL   British Lose 20 Planes in Night Raids; Daylight Aircraft Continue Assault On Eurove Today.

20 U.N. Planes Lost In Eighth Assault On Reich’s Capital   Stuttgart, Mannheim, Frankfort, Karlsruhe In Area Devastated By New Allied Air Attack Today

RAAF BOMBERS RAID CAPITAL   Fleets of U. S. Bombers in Daylight Raids on Southwest Germany.   NORTHERN FRANCE HIT

Eighth Air Force Heavy Planes Hammer Targets In Southwest Germany Following RAF’s Severe Attack Which May Have Rendered Nazi Capital Useiess— One Of Largest Loads Of Explosives And Fire Bombs Yet Dispatched Poured On Area

REICH BLASTE BY NIGHT - DAY AIR ARMADAS   2,240 Tons of Explosives Cascade Down On Nazi Capital

‘Rocket Gun’ Coasts Are Hammered In  ‘Air Assault   Capital Of Nazidom Just About Finished In Devastating Blow Ry Rriticsh Planes

YANK BOMBERS > ROCK GERMANS   7  ‘Forts’ Are Accompanied by Fighters in Heavy Assault By Daylight

Biggest Load Of War Falls  From Bombers   Americans Follow Up With Punishing Blows Over West and on Coast

U.S. Fliers  Hammer Germany   BOMBERS DRIVE DEEP INTO REICH AFTER BIG R. A. F. BERLIN SMASH

1 240-Ton Raid Blasts Berlin Into Junk Hear   Three Fourths Of Nazi Capital Reduced To Smoking Ruins

Aes Planes Blast Targets Deep In Europe   RAF. American Bombers Attack Much-Battered Roeket Gun Coast,   LOSE TWENTY BOMBERS

Heavy Raids. on Reich Are  Continuing   Fortresses Go Out Today ir Major. Attacks- on the ‘Southwest Area   BERLIN BLASTED: BY R.A.F. HEAVIES   And Both Forces Again Give French Coast a Heavy Going-Over

Berlin Rocked With 2,240 Tons Of Bombs   Reich Capital May Be Finished As Capital; 20 Planes Lost

Great Fires  Raging   Seuthwestern Germany, Coast Hit By Daylight

2,240-T ON BOMB LOAD HITS BERLIN   Attack May Have Finished City as Working Cap “ital of Reich — Fliers Pound S. W. Reich and French Coast.

Huge U.S. Air Fleet Attacks Targets In Southwest Reich   RAF Drops 2,240 Tons of Bombs on Berlin, May Have Finished City as Nazis’ Working Capital

Berlin Believed Virtually Knocked Out As Working Capital Of Reich

RAF. LOOSES 2,240 TONS OF BOMBS ON BERLIN LAST NIGHT      Giant. Blow. May ‘Have Finished It-As .Working Capital of Germany —Righth Attack.In Six  _ Weeks  Shakes ‘Shud = “dering Cite:

4,480,000 Pounds Of High Explosives And Incendiary Bombs Are Hurled Onto Capital

Hammer Southwest Germany; Terrible Bombing May Have Finished Berlin As Working Capital

SOUTHWEST GERMANY ATTACKED   British Night Raiders Loose 2240 Tons Of Bombs On Capital

Battered Berlin newly hammered   Yanks follow up RAF raid by blasting s. w. Germany

RAF LOOSES 2,240 TONS OF BOMBS ON BERLIN LAST NIGHT   Giant Blow May Have Finished It As Work. ing Capital of Germany —Eighth Attack In Six Weeks Shakes Shuddering City.

20 Bombers Reported Missing in Blow at Reich's Capitel, 2,240 Tons Bombs Dropped   CITY 75 PC RAZED   ‘Nothing More to Bomb’ in Berlin, Swedish Correspondent There Reports te Paper

Berlin About Finished As Capital   Eighth Heavy Blow Dealt by RAF; U. S. Hits Reich

Air Assault On Europe Continues   Targets in  ~ France, Germany Blasted in Wake On Berlin Raid

Berlin Blasted In New Assault  U. S. Fliers Drive Deep into Europe

Berlin Takes Heavy Blows In RAF Raid   City Believed Finished As Working Capital; Only 20 Planes Lost In Nicht Attack

Many Fighters Go With Heavy U. S. Bombers   American Smash Into Southwest Germany Follows British Attack on Berlin

FINISH RAID FOR GERMAN CAPITAL SEEN   Michty RAF Armada drops 2,240 Tons of Bombs On Key Nazi City

TONS RAIN ON CITY   U. S. Planes Roar Across Channel Today   20 BOMBERS   Lost In Smash At Capital: Nothing Left To Bomb, Swede Writes

BOMB REICH AFTER RAID ON BERLIN   Cities in Southwest Germany Made Targets After Night Bombing.   Berlin Is Finished As Working Capita!   Large Canadian Foree

AS OPERATING CAPITAL SEEN   U. S. Bombers Resume Assault on Europe In Daylight

Chemical Companies Indicted For Cartel Conspiracy With Axis Firms

Four Chemical  Firms Indicted ;   Companies Accused of Being In Cartel Deal

W.G.C.Bagley, Treasurer Of lowa, Is Dead   State Official Succumbs To Heart Ailment at 6:50 A. M.

W.G. Bagley, Treasurer of lowa, Dies   Heart Attack Is Fatal For Mason City Banker

Bagley, 69, State’ Treasurer Dies   Long Illness Came After Heart Attack

Doomed Convict Gets Impatient As He Waits For Firing Squad--Urges Them To Come Because Daylight Approaches

ARGENTINE BANKING SETUP HIT BY TREASURY RULING   BLOCKING OF TRANSACTIONS BY BANKS £LOSE TO ARGEN-: TINE GOVERNMENT EXERTS MORE PRESSURE

Protests Of War DepartmentF ails To Deter Group   Farm Workers Will Not Be Permitted To Take Jobs Without Approval.

TO DEFER MEN IN FARM WORK   Senate Committee lgnores Protests of  Army Officials

Vote 9-7 for farm labor deferments   War department. selective service protests defeated

DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS IS APPROVED   Senate Committee Votes Approval Of Delay If Men Stick To Soil: Called Stop-Gap   Threats ‘Useless’

Deferment for Farm Worker: Is Approved   Senate Committee Overrules War Department

DEFERMENT FOR FARM WORKERS BETS APPROVAL   Senate Committee Acts Despite Opposition Of Military Officials   ‘DRAFT BOARDS ARE  GIVEN FULL POWERS

Committee Approves Bill To Defer Farm Workers   Senate Military Group Acts Over Protests of War De. portment and Selective Service—Hearings Open on Manpower Legislation

Senate Group Votes Blanket Deferment fo Farmhands   Legislation Approved Despite Protests Of War Department  And Selective Service   CALLED STOP-GAP BY ONE MEMBER   Committee Also Begins Hearings on General Manpower Lecislation

Blanket Deferment From Military Service for Workers on Farms ‘ls Noted hy Senate Committee

FARM WORKERS GET DEFERMENT   Senate Committee Votes Blanket Draft Order Despite Protests

SENATE. UNIT VOTE DEFERS FARM. WORKER   Change of Job Barred Unless Given Approval .

Measure Forbids Them Taking Jobs Without Approval Of Draft Officials   Bill Would Expire January 1, 1944 under Terms of Amendment of Holman Which ls Adopted

Senators Favor Deferment for Farm Workers   Committee Approves Plan Over Protests Of War Department

Blanket Farm Deferment!s Given -Approval   Senate Committee Would Also Bar Taking Other Jobs

15 MILLION MUST SQUARE UP TAXES BY SEPTEMBER 15         gy SO aisles a Se A Withholding Tax Doeé Not Represent “Paid In Full” For Upper  : BRrackoats«

INCOME TAXPAYERS RECEIVE BAD NEWS   Some 15 Million Told That September 15 Is Deadfine for Payments.

NEW FORMS ARE SENT TAXPAYER   15,000,000 Told They Must Get Current In Federal Payments By Sept. 15

Income Tax Payers Get Bad News   Sept. 15 Deadline For Declaring of Amounts Still Due

PAYROLL PLAN NOT ENOUGH SO TAX DAY NEARS   One- Third Of Tax Payers Must Dig Again For September 15

SOME INCOME TAX PAYERS GET BAD NEWS   Higher Bracket "Group Owes More On Sept. 15

MORE TROOPS AND SUPPLIES BEING SHIPPED TO ISLANDS   UNITED STATES RUSHING MEN AND MATERIALS. IN PREPARATION FOR MAIOR OFFENSIVE.

FOR MEETING   Delegates Unsure of Ground And Uncertain of Party’s Leaders.

DEMOCRATS GATHER SEEKING COMEBACK   Confusion in Ranks Created With Abdication of Van Wagoner and Kennedy

MM CALL TO ITALIANS:   Broadcast Urges Them to Sabotage Nazi Military Operations

OCCUPATION OF KISKA ISLAND  -BEGANIN MORN   Seizure Completes One of Strangest Anti-Climaxes on Record for Military Campaign

Writer Describes Landing on Island  Bieler hey [ig   Kiska’s Seizure Is Strange Anticlimax

FDR, Back In Capital From ‘Hazardous Trip, Sets Out To ‘Put Victory Plan Into Effect   Makes Last Lap of Journey By Train; Faces Series Of Domestic Problems

F.D.R. BACK FROM PARLEY IN N. AFRICA   Sets Out Today, Following Sunday Night Arrival, to Put Allies’ Winthe-War Plans Into Ac:  tion.

President Home From Long Trip   Sets Out to Put Into Action Plans Made at Casablan ca Conference.

FORRETURNS FROM TOUR OF FOREIGN LANDS   President Roosevelt’s Trip Lasted 22 Days, To Confer with U. S, Leaders

FDR, Returned from Africa, Faces Damestic Issues WAR PLANS —_——_y¥—__ Executive Ready to Put Victory Into Effect

F.R.IS BACK IN CAPITAL; WILL TALK TO CHIEFS   Will Translate Into Action Win-the-War Plans From Casablanca

Roosevelt Back To Put Victory Plans To Work; Absent For 22 Days.

FDR Returns  to Launch War Action   Congressional Leeaders Expect Early Call to Talk over War Legislation and Taxes

President Returns To Put Victory Plans Into Effect: To See Advisers   Twenty-Two Days Have Elapsed Since He Left Washington To Fly To North Africa For Historic Conferences To Plan 1943 War Strategy.

Back From Most Spectacular Trip, President Starts Action Translating Win-the-War Plan

Roosevelt Returns to Put Victory Plans Into Effects Faces Issues

Cologne Again  Center Of Bomb Raid On Nazis   Heavy Assault Is Climax To 24-Hour Series Of Raids On German Areas   SUBMARINE SUPPLY BASE ALSO BLASTED

BRITISH RAKE COLOGNE: U.S. SMASHES PORT   Heavy assaults carried out over Reich on round: the-clock schedule

New Raid On Western Germany Heaviest Since 1,000-Plane Attack Last Spring; Mosquitoes Smash At Rennes

PAY-€0 TAXES NOWIN EFFECT   Current Collection System Begins with July Payro! Period

New Pay As You (io Income Tax Into Etfect Today   Twenty Percent Levied On Incomes Above Exemptions Under Terms Of New Law.

44,000,000 Drawn Under Pay-Go Tax Effective Today   Withholding Levy Taken From First Pay Envelopes This Month

PAY AS YOU GO TAX EFFECTIVE   Withholding Levy To Begin Operating In First Period

New Plan Becomes Effective   Withhdding Ta Will Cut Into Pay Rolls

This Morning You Begin To Pay Taxes as You Earn 20% Above Exemptions

Current Tax Pay Checkoff Starts Today   Initial Deductions . To Come Out of Pay For Ist Payroll Period  rey ART Wwe 4a

Pay-As-You-Earn Tax Collections Begin Today   First Actual Cut Comes Out of Pay for First Payroll Period This Month—Millions Are Attected

IITHHOLDING TAX PLAN EFFECTIVE F FOR 44. MILLION        -eular Deductions From Sal aries to Be Made Starting  With First Pay Roll Period in July.   EW SYSTEM BREAKS 30-YEAR PRECEDENT   LS. Will Take 20 Per Cent  7 Earnings Above Personal Exemptions to Meet  — ‘Jacome Assessments,

Pay as You Earn Income Taxes In Effect Today   44 Million in U.S. Affected by Payment Plan

Now Income Tax System Becomes Effective Today   Forty-four Million Ameri: cans Now Paying According fo Earnings

20 Per Cent Is Basis For Levy   Half Billion Each Month Anticipated

BRITISH CAPTURE BULL-PQST.WEST.OF MATEUR TUESDAY.   U,. 5, Bombers Make Two Raids-On Mid-Southern’ Sector Of Tunisia, ‘Damage At Sfax

British Force Captures Important Hill Positions South of Bizerte

BRITISH CAPTURE STRATEGIC SPOTS IN NORTH AFRICA   Infantry Brigade and Royal Air Force Fighters and Bombers Smack Enemy.

LLIED HOPES OR VICTORY SOAR UPWARD   elation of Qutcome For Vital Consultations To Be Made.   [AZIS GIRD FOR BLOW   ns For Global Strategy, Designed To Wipe Out

World Awaits  Anneuncement   Statement At 10 O'Clock Tonight May Affect Future Course Of World War

War Talks to Be Resumed Next Week   FDR and = Churchill Will Meet Again In Washington

PEAK PRODUCTION IN WAR INDUSTRY “ABOUT ACHIEVED   Nelson Announces July Out‘put ts 3 Per Cent Greater : Than:-June, .20° Per Cent Over -Early Summer.   AIRCRAFT BY WEIGHT * DOUBLE THAT OF JUNE   7373 Planes Completed During Month, Most of Ma : terials For War Purpose: Are Greater.

Weather Forecast   U0. APPROACHING PEAK PRODUCTION   Top Already Reached In Some Lines. Says Nelson

PRODUCTION MANY TYPES FIGHTING  \EQUIPMENT INCREASES  WPA’s Production Inde:  (ol) eer FoOQ ne DNA Dates   WPA’s Production Index Shows 593, or 20 Point Rise Since Early Summer

MUNITIONS OUTPUT INCREASES IN JULY    Three Percent Higher Than June Production

July Output Shows Gains   Peak Production of Much Army Equipment ’ Has Been Reached

Achieve Peak Production In Fighter Craft   Nelson Announces July Munitions Output Up Three Percent.

PEAK PRODUCTION IN WAR MATERIALS 1S NOT FAR OFF  THIS IS NELSON STATE

Kind of Labor Indust Calls Common—Men i } nt Common Any ere It Is Needed Most

POULTRYMEN ~ LOSING MONE)   Producers Are Told To Ge Out Of Business By OPA Official

Car Collision Kills 4 From San Antonio   Three Others. Die In Accident Near Pearsall

MASS RAIDS. Oo GERMANY BY BOMBERS   TONS OF BOMBS SHOWERED : 'Y WAR CENTERS BY RAF AND U, 8, ° PLANES

Keep Up Huge Bomb Attacks  Upon Germany   Essen, Hamburg, Cologne And Other German Centers Hit By Raiders

GREEN BEATEN   Columbus Nominates Rhodes and Sandusky For Mavor.

FIVE AIR CORPS MEN ARE KILLED   Plane From Greenville Air Base Crashes In Florida; One Missing, One Survives

FIVEKILLED IN -FLORIDACRASH   Members -of -B omber --~Crew Killed, One Missing, One Hurt.

F.D.R. FAVORS FATHER DRAFT   So Congressional Leaders Learn As Hearings Are Opened

IDRIVE TO DEFER FATHERS IFROM DRAFT TEMPERED BY 'U. S. REVERSES IN ITALY

REGARD LULL IN PACIFIC AS CALM BEFORE STORM   INDICATES DISPOSAL OF ALLIED STRENGTH FOR NEW OFFENSIVE

ANKS PREPARE FOR NEW BLOWS IN PACIFIC. WAR   Present Lull in Fighting Indicates Plans for Mighty -Drive on Japs

TWO REASONS FOR EARLY ACTION SEEN   Seek New Positions, Blow At Jap Sea Power   OTHER ISLANDS   In Solomons May Be Goal: Allied Planes Continue _ Scattered Raids

Lullin Pacific Presages New Drive on Japs   Believe Navy Prepares Slashing Attack, Kiska Bomber 4 Times

FORCE JAPANESE TO FIGHT WHERE ALLIES INVADE   Every Idle Day Favors Enemy, May Drive into Munda Area

U. S. BLOWS ARE EXPECTED IN PACIFIC   Current Lull Basis - for Prediction— Object of Offensive Would Be to Win Bases and Reduce Jap Sea Power.

U.S. Is Believed Preparing New Pacific Offensive  Objectives Said to Gain New Footholds Cut Jan Sea Pawar

New Offensive In Pacific Is Hinted Soon   Current Lull Regarded A: Indicating Forces Are Strengthening’

NEW OFFENSIVE BELIEVED NEAR IN PACTRIC SRA   Current: Lull In Fighting -Regardéd As Indicating U.S. Commanders Are Strenothenineg Forces   RAIDS ONLY ACTION   Americans Hope. to Win _ New. Positions and Reduce Japan's: Wan - ‘ing Sea Power

Pacific Lull Hints U. §. To Strike Soon   > Two Months’ Quiet, Broken Only By Air Action, Indicate Preparation   SHIPPING BLOW, SEEN   Navy May Penetrate Deeply Into Solomons Archipelago, Hit Munda

Lull In Facific Indicates American Commanders Are Preparing For Powerful New Blows Against Japanese

New Allied Pacific Blows May Be Near   Commanders Strengthening, Disposing Their Forces For Action Against Japanese; Eye Foe’s Waning Sea Strencth

Yanks Massing Forces For Big Drive On Nippos   Lull In. Pacific’ War ‘Is Believed Forerunner - - Of New Action

Lall In Fighting In The Pacific Indicates New U.S. Blow Is Planned

Believe American Commanders Are Busy Strengthening Forces _ --- For New Offensive In Pacific

Lull In Pacific Forecasts Vast 1. 5. Offensive   Inactivity Hints Attacks On Japs Being Organized

Current Lull In Pacitic War Is Seen As ‘Omen   Goal Is To Furthe: Reduce Jap’s Navy And Capture Vita  New Bases

LL HINTS CF FUTURE FIGHT      Pacific Commanders Prepare for Anticipated New Blows in Area.

Bolster Forces . In The Pacific  Expect Powerful Nev - Blows Against Japs

Lull Indicates Allies Pre -paring For New and Powerful Blows in Pacific; Would Cut Jap Sea Power

PACIFIC LULL MAY FORECAST NEW OFFENSIVE   '. S. Navy Believed Seekitg To Draw Enemy Out

LULL IN PACIFIC BELIEVED PRESAGE lS OFFENSIVE   INDICATED AMERICAN COMMANDERS STRENGTH ENING THEIR FORCES

U. S. Beliesed Preparing for New Blows   Pacific Lull ’ Suggests At tacks on Japs.Are Being Organized:   NAVY MAY STRIKE:AT ENEMY KEYS    Island Conquests Are of Value Regardless of Territory Involved

Prepare for New Attacks on Japs   Americans Strengthening Their Forces in South west Pacific Area.

Believe U.S. Navy Making Ready For Blow At Japs   Current Lull Said To Presage Bigger Things; Enemy's Shinning Vilaerahk

NEW BLOWS AT JAPD BELIEVED IN MAKIN   Allies Preparing To Strike  Again, Is Belief

BELIEVE U. 8. READIES NEW PACIFIC DRIVE   Current Lull Suggests New  Heavy Blows Against Japs  Being Prepared

U5. COMMANDER: READY FORCE FOR NEW ORIE   ‘Lull in the Pacific Fight   -Probably. Just Precedd. Storm on Japanese Strongholds

Lull in Fighting in Pacific Seen as Sign of Impending Drive   Washington Quarters Be. lieve Powerful New  Blows Are Near

New Attacks On Japanese Are Forecast   Lull in Pacific Seen as Hint of Great Offensive

Current Lull Suggests Americans Getting Ready to Strike Powerfully

PLANE CRASHES INTO BUILDING   Army Pilot Killed, But No Students At Hofstra College Near At Time Of Crash

ARMY PLANE RAMS SIDE OF BUILDING   College Classroom Structure Fired, ’ Pilot Is Killed

MY PLANE HITS COLLEGE BUILDINE   Pilot Killed, Structure Ablaze After Crash al  Hemnetead.

‘Us S: Pilot Killed When Plane Hits College Building   Ship Bursts Into Flames When It Strikes Roof Of Hempstead School

250,000 MEN INVOLVED IN MARETH AREA   War Secretary Reveals Final Closing in on Enemy Is Accomplished by Union of Le Clere and Giraud Forces.

Yon Arnim Driven Off While Allies Approach Nearer Axis Gafsa Base

AT SEDJENANE   Heavy Bombers Attack Enemy Air Field in El Aouina Sector.   PATROLLING CONTINUES

‘Contact Other Forces Near  Mareth Line   250,000 Axis Troops Held in Net According To Secretary Stimson

FRENCH TROOPS ‘IN QUICK MOVE ~ TO MENACE FOE   Big Axis Army in Trap; Enemy Attacks Are Driven oe als   REILLETIN

Demand Tax On Whiskies Held in Bond   Move to Force Release ol . Liquor Proposed by Nebraska Senator

CLAIM LONERGAN PREMEDIATED AGT   Went Back to Apartment with Toy; Seek Uniform; Cadet Unmoved in Prison

SOUTHERN END OF MAIN. DEFENSE LINE 1S CRACKED   Heavy Cost of Lives Reported—Vital Points In Alliad Hands Now.

Allies Crack Nazi Anchor   Major Chunks Ripped ¥rom Rommel’s Line

ALLIED GAINS IN MOUNTAINS VERY COSTL)   Vital Points Which Nazis Fought Bitterly to Hold Wrested Away By British, Americans

CLARK'S ARMY TAKES 2 MAIN ANCHOR POINTS   Germans Ousted From Strong Positions In Mountains

ALL ERMAN LINE            cral Vital Points — <Ad¢ Gained with High Cost , Revert States

GERMAN DEFENSE LINE BELOW ROME (5 BEING CRACKEE   Slopes of Massico Ridge Are Assaulted at Several! Points In Twin Drives By Clark’s Army.   JUGOSLAVS BEAT OFF FOUR NAZI ASSAULTS   Navy Announces That Light Cruiser Savannah Was Damaged at Salerno Bul Stayed In Battle.

NAZIS OUSTED FROM 2 VITAL HILL POSITIONS   Weather And Terrain Aid Enemy In Making Altied Advance Slow

Allies Reveal Cost of Lives In Drive Heavy   General Clark’s Units Hack Two Big Chunks In Little Rommel Line

Allies Crack South End of Nazi Line   Gains Made at High Cost of Lives From Our Side

Allies suffer heavy losses  ousting foe   Drive into vital anchor points

ALLIES SLICE CHUNKS FROM CERMAN LINE   Gain Ridge in Bitter Fighting

1... BRITISH TROOPS OHNE AHEAD SLOWLY   Enemy Putting Up Hard Fight To Hold Defensive Posts But Allies Move On

FIFTH ARMY CRACKS END OF NAZI LINE   Allied Troops Cut Through Vital Anchor Points

Storms Heights To Take Anchor Points; Fighting Bitter And Losses Heavy

Fifth Army Storms Massico Ridge Slopes   British 8th Army Captures Town Of Casanova

Americans And _ Britis ‘Move Forward Into Vital Anchor  Points _ . CASUALTIES HIGH  Town ‘Of Casanova I Captured During o te Advance

ositions  « } '      OUST GERMANS FROM MOUR POSITIONS BUT GAIN IS M/ AT GREAT COST IN LIVES

18 American Planes Lost ‘Over Germany   Attack on Salonika Stirs Anew Axis Invasion Fears  ITALY HIT AGAIN  Germany Masses Force to Guard Vital Brenner Pass

Salonika Hit In Big Raid, Germany Gets More Bombs  SL awe bee   50 U. S. Liberators Pound Greek Airport At Gateway to Balkans

Stark Example to Other Enemy  Hamburg, Nearly All Ruined, Offers Cities: Devastation Sets Precedent

Hamburg, Nearly All Ruined, Offers stark Example to Other Enemy iCities: Devastation Sets Precedent

Hamburg Photos Show 77 Per Cent Of City in Ruins   Over 5,000 Acres Deva Stated -- Fires Swept Streets for Miles

Once-Great ‘Hamburg Has Almost Ceased to Exist, Data Issued by RAF Show

71% OF HAMBURG “CLAIMED IN RUINS   Grim Smoldering Example of What Berlin Faces, Report Shows

70 PERCENT OF HAMBURG LAID WASTE BY ALLIED BOMBINGS   : Once-Flourishing City Of 1,800,000 Has Almost Ceased   To Exist; About Nine Square Miles Of Metropolis °   Devastated; Warning To Other Cities

(7 Per Cent of Hamburg Lies Ruined As Result of British, U.S. Air Raids   War Production, Domestic Economy Disrupted; Large Part of Population Fled in July, August

ALLIED AIR MEN HAMMER NIPPON PACIFIC BASES   Airdrome At Bruin In Northern Solomons Target of Vicious Attack Yesterday.   NEW BRITAIN RAIDED   Destruction Spread From One End of Island to the Other, General Mac- _ Arthur Announces

Allied Airmen  Pound Japanese   Carry Out Sweeping Raids In Pacific

Allied Airmen. Blast At Japs   Destruction Is Spread On New Britain Isle In Nicht Raids 

Allied Fliers Smash Bases In Solomons   Airdromes at Buin and Rabaul Blasted; Land Unit Kills 88 Japs

ALLIES LAY WASTE OVER NEW BRITAIN   Pound Airdrome at Buin, Raid Salamaua and Blast Jap Base at Rabaul for Sixth Consecutive Night.

Allies Crumple German Defenses   Fifth Army Troops Smash Across Volturno River, Enemy Outflanked

bth Army Drive And Another British Leap - Frog Landing Send Germans Reeling Back Five Miles From Volturno a

Post-War Conditions  Are Obscure   Senators Opposed To Making Plans At This Time

UAL oT RIKER STAGE WALKOUT:   Unrest Among Miners Spreads In East; Many Jumping Deadline

‘Italian Anti-Aireratt  Shells Explode — After They Hit the Ground

ITALIAN SHELLS FAIL TO EXPLODE IN AIR   Adds To Damage on Ground in Bombing of Rome

Italian Anti-Aircraft Shells Fail to Explode Until They Hit Ground

Polish Air Force Ready To Break Away And Ficht Under Its Own Name

Polish Airarm Is About Ready   To Throw Full Weight In Expected Invasion Of Europe From West

Polish Air Force Soon y Become Independent Fighting Organization

POLISH AIRFORCE TO FIGHT ALONE   RAF’s Help No Longer Needed After Jan. 1—12,000 Poles in Britain

Polish Air —  Force Reborn   Almost Ready to Break Away from RAF; Now Numbers 14 Squadrons

POLTON AIR FORGE TO BE INDEPENDENT   Large Organization Readies For Invasion Of Europe

Poles Will Launch Independent Air Activity Soon  Flying Force Swells To 14 Squadrons; Plans to Hit Nazis

Polish Air Force Grows Rapidly  Becomes Independent Unit Soon After Jan. 

REDS CAPTURE RAILWAY TOWN, STEM RETREAT   Avenue of Escape Closed As Reds Crash Westward To Take Two Towns

Food Leader Advocates  Higher Taxes   Would Increase Bond Buying For Individuals

AT HORSE AUCTION   Fritz Meyn and W. B. Dal. ton Made Purchases at K. C. Sale

CONGRESS FACES TEST ON LABOR   Anti-Racketeer Bill Vote To Reveal Strength Of Law Making Body

SPY RING EXPOSED   Judge Fox Sentences Spaniard For Espionage, Bribery

MORE SPIES EXECUTED?   Censorship Chief Hints More Nazi Agents Sent to Death

EXECUTION OF SABOTEURS IN US BELIEVED   Hint Is Made In War Agency Supply Bill

OTHER SABOTEURG EXECUTED 19 HINT   Byron Price Gives Information During House Committee Hearing.

Enemy. Spy Executions  ‘Are Hinted   ‘Censorship Office Report Uncovers Possibility Same Not Publicized

Hinted More Spies Have Been Executed In U. S. Without Public Report

Hint At Action Against Spies  Reveal Executions Have Taken Place

Mutiny News Looks Good-to Allies; Foe May Collapse  Hope Is Seen for End Of Sicilian Drive; Some Axians May Quit

Mutiny News Looks Good to Allies; Foe May Collapse  bens fe Mase Law Fawol   Hope Is Seen for End Of Sicilian Drive; Some Axians May Quit

$ Feared Dead In Navy Plane At San Leandrc   Transport Crashes Into Hills East of Alameda Field

De Marigny’s Counsel Hits -Torch Story   OakesTrial DefenseSeeks Holes in Miami Detective’s Testimony

Quizzed About Slayer’s Torch   Miami Detective Says It Was Used To Destroy  Evidence.

STRESS TORC IN OAKES CASE   Sleuth’s Testimony About De Marigny’s Burned Hair Assailed

U.S. Bombers Blast Vital Nazi Rail Line   Deepest Thrust Yet In Italy — 1,500 Miles Round Trip

Crippling Blows Struck In Italy By Airmen   Americans May Strike Italy  At New Points Of Invasion   Official Silence Hides Whereabouts of U. S. Forces— Axis Prepared for Two or Three Blows Aaainst Continent

Funnel for Navi Troops En Route To Italy Broken   Allied Airmen Smash Railroad Through Brenner. Pass

Yankee Flyers Break Vital Railroad Lines.   Tracks and Bridges at Brenner Pass Hit by Fortresses

Allied Bombs Rock Vital Brenner Pass   Naples Area, Scene Of Possible New Landing. Alec. Merrilecely Darvicdad

Brenner Pass Rails Blocked By Fortresses   Waves of Allied Planes Aid’ Ground Forces Bo. Wa..t.. 4%  2ad

Aerial Raids Cripple Axis  Brenner Pass Rails Qh... § ts'2 1 Aa.

BOMBERS CUT BRENNER LINE   Crippling Blows Struck al Axis Transportation in Northern Italy

Fliers Cripple Rail Routes Serving Nazis   Fortresses Blast Vital Brenner Pass And Other Important Points in Deepest Flight Over Italian Region

BRENNER PASS ROUTEBLASTED   Bridges, Tracks On Key Line Into Italy Hit By Allied Airmen In Long Flight

BOMBS BLOCK RAIL ROUTES NEAR NAPLES   BRENNER PASS HIT HARD IN FLYING FORTRESS RAID

More Of Same Nice Weather   Rain In Southwest May Not Reach This Portion Of Kansas

IT’S LIKE SPRING   Yesterday’s Kansas High 60 Derrees at Dodge City

MUNDA IS NOW IN REACH OF CAPTURE   U.S. Forces Within ‘Few Thousand Yards of Jap Airbase

U.S. TROOPS NEAR, MUNDA AIRFIELD FACING CAPTURE   Thirty Jap Planes Knockec Out in Furious Air Bat tle Over Madang, New  Cainsa,

Million Tons Of Forgotten Coal Located   Half-Century-Old Pile Sufficient to Heat 100,000 Homes All Winter

Miners and Operators Deadlocked: Situation Serious, Steelman Says

MOUNTAINEER DIES AFTER FUNERAL HELD   ‘Uncle Bush’ Made Casket Five Years Ago

Harmony After Battle Depends On 3 Countries   Great Britain, Russia And United. States Contro] Future Security

BURKE ATTA PATRIOTISM OF MINE LEADERS   Praises Rank and File but Indi. tates Belief Chiefs Out to Restore Prestige

REPUBLICANS — GAIN IN STATE   Win Six of Eight Large Cities and Majority of Towns

REPUBLICANS ELECT MAYORS ~ IN SIX:OF BIG CITY TESTS   DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES WIN IN ONLY: CLEVELAND AND CANTON OF. THE “BIG HIGHT’ OHIO CITIES

RUBBER PROCESS DISCARD CHARGE   Alcohol Chief Tells Senate Group Government Dropped Proven Polish Process

GROUP IN HOUSE HITS RUML PLAN   Injustice to Small Taxpayer Contend Administration ,Backers

18-HOUR ATTACKS GAIN LITTLE   Nazis Hurl Whole Divisions Against Soviet Defenses

Initial Advance of Nazis Offset By Red Activity   Berlin News Agency Claims. Main Soviet  Line Broken Through

Russians Advance In  Nevel Area   Germans Use Reserves In Effort To Break Up Drive Of Soviets In Suburbs Of Kiev

PERMANS HURL MASSED TANKS AT SOVIET LINES   Reds Make Nazis Pay Heavily for Two Villages

Surprise Raid Kills 116; Air Bases Blasted   Salamanea and Loe Bombed; Enemy's Fuel Is Set Afire

JAPANESE STRUCK A SURPRISE BLOW BY ALLIED TROOPS   Enemy Attacked In Vicinity of Mubo, Below Salamau; At Least 116 Re ported Slain In First Ground Fighting There in Recent Weeks.

Allies Slay 116 Japs Tn Attack  In New Guinea   Allied Bombers Again Attack Lae; Japs Offer No Interception:

SURPRISE JAPS IN NEW GUINEA   Allied Forces Slay 116 Of Enemy In First Ground Fighting In Weeks In Mubo Area.

Slay 116 Japs In Mubo Area  Attack 15 Miles   Attack 15 Miles Southwest of Salamaua

Mighty RAI Bombs Hit Berlin Anew   Explosives Set Great Areas  Of City Aflame

ROME NEXT, BRITISH ASK ‘RAF BOMBERS   Berlin Blasted by Big Block-Busters, Fires Set

Italian Tunisia’ Chief Surrenders   Marshal Giovanni Messe Gives Up to British Eighth Army

MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN PRICE ROLLBACK, CCC   FDR Given Choice Change By AntiSuhsidy Congress

ANTI - SUBSIDY BILL IS SENT TO ROOSEVELT   FDR Must Decide Between Price Rollback And CCC   CONGRESS OKAYS ACT   President Has Until July 12 To Ponder Latest Rebuke

ANTI-SUBSIDY ‘BILLINTANDS OF PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Has Choice of Cutting Off Price Rollback Or Farm Financinge Agency   30ME LEGISLATORS PREDICTING VETO   Size of Vote by Which Bill Was’ Passed Indicates * . Enough to Override Rejection

CONGRESS GIVES ROOSEVELT CHOICE. OF BACKING DOWN FROM ROLLBACK PROGRAM OR ENDING CREDIT BOARD

Anti-Subsidy Bill To F. R.   Congress Passes Measure By Big Majorities; F. R. May Veto

ANTI-SUBSIDY MEASURE SENT WHITE HOUSE   Passage by Overwhelming Votes in House, Senate Gives President nal Dilemma:   MAY DRAW VETO   Has Choice of Backing Down from Price Rollback Pregram or Wriling End of CCC

CCC or Food Rollback Plan Is on Block   62-13 Vote in Senate and Strength in House Previews Ability to Override Veto

Food Subsidy Plan Killed By Congress   F. R. Given Choice Of Backing Down On Abolishing CCC

PLAN-PROGRAM FOR 4H GIRLS   Leaders To Meet Here December 16, 10 A. M.

PAXSON BILL MEETS DEFEAT BY VOTE OF 57-57 ON THURSDAY   12 Votes Short of Necessary Majority Is Given Measure in Ohio House.

Hitler Calls For Croat Leader  Another Satellite Visits Fuehrer; Duce  Ranraanizvec Faccicte

JAPANEOE HOLD ON OULOMONG GETS NEW JOLT   Enemy Warships Moving In To Intercept Invading Troops Routed

Reich Is Attacked From North Africa   Swiss Report Downing Fortress

REICH LASHED FROM AFRICA   Heavy American Bombers Raid Germany, Austria On Long Flight

FARM AID PLAN MEETS OPPOSITION   Wickard Asks Increase of $100,000,000 For New Farm Subsidy

COMMITTEE LIKELY TO FAVOR SUBSIDY PROGRAM ONFOODS       a Et Hans One Million -2Dollar--Plan.... Would? Increase® ‘Wartime  Préductios:

3G FARM SUBSIDY PLAN FROWNED ON   Incentive Payments’ Due To Hit Snags

Expect New Deal’s $100,000,000 Farm Subsidy Plan Will Not Be Acceptable

Subsidy Plan May Hif Snag   Congress Committee Expected to Oppose It

INSIDE STORY OF RULERS LAS! DAY   Mussolini’s Bluff Fails With Fascist Grand Council.

EASTERN AUTOIST MAY STOP ON SOCIAL CALL   Won't Violate Travel Ban If On Home-to-Work Driving Route, OPA Rules

Eastemers May Ride to Restaurants and Use Cars for Essential Shopping, OPA Says

SOCIAL CALLS  ARE 0.K. IF   ‘But It Must Be On Hometo-Work Driving Route

SOCIAL CALLS BY AUTO 0.K   But They Must Be Made On Home-to-Work Route; Clarifv Interpretation

RELAX RULES ON AUTO USES   O. P. A, Permits Social Calls on Home-to-Work  Ranta.

TAX PLAN IS AGREED UPON   Conferees Report Almost Complete Accord Reached.

OW! DISCLOSES WAR CASUALTIES   Total to 91,644 for All Branches of Service Since War's Start

U.S, CASUALTIES TOTAL 91,644   OWI Lists 16,696 Dead, 21, 828 Wounded And 21,541 As Prisoners

WAR CASUALTIES OF U. 5. 91,044   ARMY HAS LOST 64,621 AND NAVY 27,023—DEAD NUMBER 16,696.

U, $, GASUALTY TOTAL IS 91,644   List Includes 16,696 Dead And 21,828 Wounded

Casualties Tota! 91,456 to Date   16,696 Dead Listed; 21,828 Wounded, 31,579 Missing

Axis Airfields On Mainland Of ltaly Batterec   U. S. Bombers In TwoPronged Assault On Lecce And Grottaglie   TWELVE ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN

AXIS AIRFIELDS AT GROTTAGLIE, LECCE POUNDED   U.S, Liberators Down Twelve of Foe'’s Combat Planes

2 Dead, 33 Hurt In Wreck Of Bus   Crashes Into Bridge Near Corsicana

Two Killed; 33 Injured ‘Bus Accident Near Here At Early Hour Saturday

_ BOY DIED.      5 . os ji Elweod. Youth, on Bieyele, Struck 6 By Autoentabile Monday. :

Bary pbb.   ShIinmcod Youth, on Bicacle, Struck ‘ 330 Automobile Monday.

Consumers Foot Bill In Cases Cited   Private Research Can Be Perverted Against Public Interest

Jap Shipping At Lauten Attacked By Allied Planes   Bad Weather Is Again Hampering Air Activity

Allied Planes Blast ai Jap Shipping   Flyers Report Jap Convoy Sighted Offshore at Lauten

DEWEY URGES NEARBY STATES BACK CEILINGS   Governor Points Out New York Will Enforce OPA Price Rules If Others Do Likewise

POLICE PUSH SEARCH FOR CRAZED KILLER   Body of pretty army nurse cadet found near Vassar hospital

Lower 13 ‘Ghost’ Scares Zoot Suit Slayer Of Bride   Robert Foulkes Refuses To Enter Sleeper, Reenact Murder Scene

FIERCE ATTACK IS RENEWED ON GATE TO ITALY   Rome Radio Declares Little Mediterranean Island Won't Be Given Up   AERIAL ASSAULT EXPANDED   Meanwhile, In Russia War Flares Again With Reports On Progress Confusing

LEAFLETS FROM ALLIED PLANES ASK SURRENDER   Air Forces Strike Deep In Greece As Assaults On Nazi Bases Widen

43 British Planes Lost in War’s Biggest Raid on Hitler’s Rhineland Industrial Center; in  Mediterranean Area, Clouds of Bomb- — Loaded Allied Devastators Turn on Italian Isle, 80 Miles from Pantelleria

Rome Reports Pantelleria Will Not Quit   Report Is Heard That Landing Has Already Been Made

Great Damage Inflicted On  Duesseldorf   Lampedusa Refuses Ultimatum for Surrender; Reds Destroy 150 Nazi Aircraft in Greatest Soviet Aerial Drive of War

Pantelleria Won’t _ Surrender Despite  Repeated Attacks   “Italian Gibraltar” Subject To Severe Shelling From Sea; Allies Rain Blows At Other Points On Europe's Underside re

BRITISH PRESS HINTS LANDING ALREADY MADE   IRome Broadcasts Re port Pantelleria Garrison Refused Demands to Surrender Base   ROYAL NAVY UNITS AGAIN SHELL ISLAND   Heavy Bombers Keep Up Terrific Blows, Blast Other Italian Ports and Railways

SHELL AND AIR ATTACKS BLAST AXIS DEFENSES   Warships Turn Guns on island While Bombers Drop Deadly Loads.   LONDON SAYS LANDING MAY HAVE. BEEN MADE

Sea and Air  Attacks Lash Axis Europe  Bombers Step Up Sweeps  on Pantelleria. Sicily and Sardinia  LANDING IS HINTED  Supply Train.Smashed as Allied Fliers Range to Targets in Greece

ANOTHER ISLAND NOW TARGET IN MEDITERRANEAN   Warships and Big Bombers Launch Bombardment Against Lampedusa   GERMANY SMASHED AGAIN   Aerial Attack Renewed on Hitler’s War Factories in ‘Very Great Strength’

Large British Naval Force Bombards Base   Sardinia Targets Also Hit In Heavy Aerial Assaults

“Heavy Blows Rained In Foundry Cities, NDuesseldorf,Munster   Mediterranean Isle Of Lampedusa Bombarded By Allied Forces, Say Defenders Defy Surrender

PANTELLERIA HAS SIXTH SUCCESSIVE RAID DURING WEEK   ‘Satisfactory’ Results Obtained By Force of Allied Cruisers and Destroyers In Bombarding Italian  Island; Allies Suffer No Losses.

ALLIES GALL UPON LAMPEDUSA TODAY FOR ITS SURRENDER   Warships and Planes Bom  barded the Italian  Island.   IGNORES ULTIMATUM   The Garrison Is 80 Miles South of Newly Conquered Pantelleria.

Rome Source Says Pantelleria Garrison Refuses Surrender   Large Naval Unit And Planes Join In Big Raid On ‘Italian Gibraltar; - British Deny Lampedusa Defeat

Rome Says Island Garrison Refused to Surrender—Planes Blast Axis Supply Trainin Greecex— Hammer Enemy Shipping Along Both Coasts

GREATEST FORCE OF GIANT RAF BOMBERS ATTACKED GERMANY   RHINELAND WAR FOUN. DRIES OBJECT OF DEVASTATING BLOWS

Rome Rejects Ultimatum To Surrender   RAF Raiders Blast War  Industries In Germany

Italy’s Garrison On Pantelleria Island Won’t Surrender   ‘Allies Drop Leaflets From Air Demanding Capitulation By Noon i Tuesday

ITALIAN ISLES POUNDED FROM AIR AND SEA   Allied Demands For Sarrender Rejected, Rome Says   LANDING IS HINTED   Assault On Axis-Held Greece Stepped Up By Allies

British Writer Says Allies May Have ‘Already Made Pantelleria Landinas

Italy Reports Rejection Of Allied Terms   Extend Air, Sea Attacks To Mainland Of Greece

ALLIED FIGHTING MEN BLAST ITALY’S ISLAND CITADELS  PANTELLERIA, SARDINIA AND SICILY GET AIR

Big RAF Force  Hits Duesseldorf   Allied Forces Demand Surrender of Small Italian Isles — 43 RAF Planes Lost in Attack on Rhineland, Ruhr — 200 Yank Bombers Pound German U-Boat Nests

Italians Ignore Demands As Allies Pulverized Tiny Isle   Amphibious Attack Hinted Unless Defense Is Dropped; Sicily, Sardinia Hit   TOKYO PREPARES FOR LONG WAR   Japan Must ‘Eat Or Be Eaten’ Chiefs Say;  Russian Front In Violent Action

Step-up Raids On Axis-Held Greece   Japanese Are Warned To Be Prepared For A Long War

ITALIANS — FEEL ALLIED MIGHT    Lampedusa Refuses Ultimatum Sent

Light Forces Raid Lampedusa   Rome Says Island Garrison Refused to Surrender—Planes Blast Axis Supply Train in Greece— Hammer Enemy Shipping Along Both Coasts

ALLIES STEP UP ASSAULTS; RAF IS ACTIVE   British Drop 2,000 Tons of Bombs On Vital Taraets In Germanv   BLOWS AIMED AT ISLE OF LAMPEDUSA   Pantelleria Seized, Second Italian Island Asked to Surrender

Lampedusa, Like Pantelleria, Is Told fo Surrender   Duesseldorf and Muenster Targets Of Heavy Raids

Writer Thinks Thaf Landing ls Made  Official Sources, However, Don’t

Ruhr Is Blasted;  Lampedusa Assailed   British Lose 43 Bombers in Greatest Attack—Americaus Strike Both Sides of Enemy

Units On Pantelleria Refuse Invitation To Surrender Today   English Military Reporter Says Invasion Troops May Have Already Landed on Heavy Bombed Isle

Allied Airmen Turn Attention To Lampedusa  “RAF In Record Force Over Duesseldorf  And Other Targets; Ql, Aire Farce Bucy

Sicily, Sardinia and Greece Again Feel Scourge of Explosions—Reds Beat Off * Nazi Feelers.in Two Sectors—“Eat : er Be Eaten,” Japanese Told; Liberators Blast Soemba

AMERICANS RAID ITALIAN CAMP   TUNISIAN BATTLEFIELD 18 STREWN WITH ENEMY DEAD AFTER NIGHT ATTACK.

MARINES PLAN WOMEN’S UNIT   Would Relieve Men fo Duty in Front Lines

MARINES PLAN WOMEN’S UNI]   Lady Leatherneck Land To Total 25.0."

Attack Launched By Japs In Burma   Fighting Continues Says British Report

GOVERNOR HAS NEW SECRETARY   Dan O'Brien, Des Moines. Succeeds Leo Duster

Farm Measure Is Passed By Senate After Hard Fight   Funds For FSA Are Left  In Measure

La Guardia Pleads For Subsidies   Continuance Of Program To Prevent Sharp Rise In Living Costs Is Urged By New Yorker

New York Mayor Urges Continuance Of Food Subsidies; Bankhead Urges Stamp Plan To Aid Low-Income Group

Food Subsidies Are Defended  Sen, Maloney Says Thav Area tnavitahla

Surrendered Italian Vessels Suitable for War Against Japan, Malta Experts Declare

Federal Income Tax  Due Today   Selective Service Plans to Call 10,900,000 Men

BING CROSBY'S HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE   Loss, Including Trophies and Collection, Near $250,000

Crosby Home Is Destroyed Sunday   PALATIAL MANSION OF SINGER RAZED BY FIRE

Fire Destroys Crosby Mansion   Musical Recordings Racing Trophies, Golf Awards Destroyed

FIRE DESTROYS GRGSBY-HOME  Big Removes $2,000  Frem Salvaged Shoe

BLAZE WRECKS CROSBY HOME   Crooner’s Valuable Collection Of Recordings, Trovhies. Lost.

Bing Crosby’s  Mansion Burns   Short) Circuit Tn Tree's Decorations Is Blamed For $250.000' Loss ‘-

Fire Ruins Bing Crosby’s 20-Room Mansion; Valuable Collection in $250,000 Loss

Crosby Mansion Ruined By Fire   Singer's Wife And Four Children Flee Blaze

bing Crosby’s Mansion Home  Gutted By Fire   Valuable Collection Musical Recordings Charred Mass Now

SOFT COAL PRICE BOOST FIGURED   Reports Sa y ‘Six-Day Work Week in New Contract

Villagers Saved By Fortress Crew   Warned of Impending Crash, Explosion

CURFEW FOR CHILDREN AT VANDERBILT WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE MONDAY NIGHT

Curfew Hour Is Instituted   Vanderbilt Kiddies . Must Stay Home Night

Damaging Raids Made On Hankow   U. S. Bombers Hit Jap In stallations On Two Successive Nights

To Introduce Redistricting Legislation   Sens. Jones and Falzone Co-Authors of Bil for New Division

MOVE TO CHANGE SENATE DISTRICTS   JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTILES WOULD MAKE UP 16TH UNDER PROPOSAL.

Ruml Defends Pay-as-You-Go Tax Proposal   Finds Many Objections to Treasury Plan

Ruml Tax Plar Is Laid Before  Committee   New York Banker To Explain Details Of Program Today

RUML DESCRIBES PAY-AS- YOU-GO.TAX PLAN TO CONGRESS   Tells Ways-Means Group ’ Their Collection Proposal” On °42 Taxes Not Good Idea

ARE A HEALTHY LOT   Americans _Longest-Lived People, Says Bowers, Health Director 

caeaeeenesmnenemnantimamanatineandiaeates on  Guests Invited To 1000th Transfusion

Southwest Germany Is Bombed By Hundreds Of RAF Bombers   Stuttgart is Blasted; Enemy Makes Retaliatory  Raid an IT andan

Br ish Capital Gre Heaviest — Attack in Months      Germany From Stuttgart-to _ Munich fs Hit

3 Nazi Cities Get Blasting   Germans . Retaliate With Raid on London

STUTTGART HT BY HUNDREDS OF ALLIED BOMBERS   Munich, Friedrickshafen Also Bombed: Nazis Retaliate on London.

RAF HAMMERS 3 GERMAN CITIES   Weak Nazi Raid Hits Back  In London Area

Huge Air Fleets Assault Germany   Germans Hit Weakly A London In Reprisal Attempt

THREE HOUR BOMBING OF S W. GERMANY   Blasted All Way From Stuttgart To Munich

GERMAN POWER SHATTERED IN NORTH UKRAINE   New Drive in. Dnieper Bend

KOROSTEN FALLS 10 RED ASSAULT   Nazi Lines in Northwest Ukraine Crumbling

Rail Junction... Taken by Reds  German. Defenses  Are Falling Apart

KOROSTEN 1S CAPTURED BY RED ARMY   Russians Now 50 Miles From Old Polish Border

STRIKE NOTICE LAW IS CALLED INEFFECTIV}   Offictals Administering War Labor Disputes Act To Ask Repeal Of This Part

STRIKE NOTICE REPEAL URGED   ‘Officials Claim Act Serves To Confuse Entire Labor Relations Picture

 @ 7  Strike Notice  Serapping Asked Congress To Be Called Upon For Action

GAS STICKER MUST BE ON WINDSHIELL   ‘Announce Five-State Cam paign To Enforce Display

9 Million Men To Face Draft  Reclassification  General Revision Of Selective Service Fxnected Monday

GENERAL REVISION OF DRAFT SYSTEM WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY   ‘PHONE STRIKE THREATS VOICED   175.000 May Walk Out, Leaders Of National Federation Report

Draft Boards To Reclassify 9 Million Men   General Revision of Entire System Will Be Undertaken

Te Gea Som cme Nae Se oem eee terre eee ee ee eT  0. (. Firemen Help Bond Sale Finale

RED CROSS WILL - DELIVER FOOD TO WAR PRISONERS   10 Facts and Rules to Guide Relatives of Men Imprisoned

Return To Committee Considered   Farm Bloc Appears To Be Wavering As Senate Begins Debate On Farm   Parity Question

MAY DELAY VOTE ON FARM PARITY BILL IN SENATE   Farm Bloc Would  Send Measure Back to Committee In Effort fe Main Strenrth

CONSULTANTS VISIT PLANTS   WMC Announces Plan for Assistance on Manpower

EXPERTS WILL CHECK PLANTS’ MANPOWER USE   Consultants Will Also Go To Farms as Follow-Up of Roosevelt Order.   EXTENSION EXPECTED   102 More Areas Likely To Be Included in 48-Hour Work Week Plan.

Federal Agents. Visit: Plants to Check Manpower   McNutt Expects Opposition to “Cnagning”’

Plans To Push 48-Hour Week Are Advanced   Consultants To Visit Factories, Offices And Farms, Announced

Experts to Help Solve Job I Puzzle   New Bureau Slated to Aid Individual Plants

4§-HOUR WEEK RULE CLARIFIED   WMC To Make Survey To Learn If Manpower Is Utilized Effectively

WMC WILL ENFORCE NEW 48-HOUR WEEK   Consultants To Be Sent ' Into Factories And Offices

GOP CHAIRMAN » SEES VICTORY   SPANGLER. DECLARES 1042 . ELECTIONS AND RECENT POLLS POINT TO VICTORY IN 1944.

United States Fleet Has Been Expanded 13 Times in Last Three Years to Become Mightiest Surface Armada in World History

U.S. Holds Edge On Sea, in Air   Has Greatest Armada In World's History _

Lewis Denounced By Steel Union   Chicago Leaders Approve Resolution

INVASION COST AGAINST ITALY LIGHT SO FAR   ITALIANS EAGER TO SURRENDER, WANT TRIP TO U.S.

R.A. F Hammers City Of Bochum   Heavy Air Raid Is Made Or Ruhr Industrial City Last Night

RAF SHATTERS BOCHUM CITY   Attack Designed To Keep Ruhr Idle Gi’) “Eight Bombers Lost

Two Sought in Triple Slaying--Car Is Founda   Hired Girl, Yourg Hired Man Objects Of Search By Officers

‘SEEK COUPLE IN  “WERDER COUNTY  TRIPLE MURDER   Stolen Car Is Found Overturned Neor Sandy icke   TWO WOMEN, FARM HAND FOUND 5LAIN

Foremen in Ford Plants Strike  -Dispute Arises Ove: Clause in Contract

Your Only Tax Forgiveness Will Come After Yow re Dead  Renwnwr, RMoanwn Th nt BR Dane nklst OR A wr   Average Man To Get No Benefit Of Any Cancellation During His Lifetime

FATHER OF CARDS STAR BATTERY DIES   Heart Ailment Fatal to Robert Cooper

Father Cooper Brothers Dies   Robert J. Cooper's Sons May Form Battery For St. Louis Cards

MESSAGE REVEALS LT. F LOWRANCE KILLED IN ACTION   Parents Of Iredell Soldier Notified By Army Chaplain That Their Son Died Gallantly Fighting In Solomons.

FRED J. LOWRANCE KILLED IN BATTLE WITH JAPS JULY 30   Letter Comes From The Chaplain Of His  Regiment   BODY BURIED IN THE NEW GEORGIA AREA

STALIN ASKS GREATER RED BATTLE BLOWS   Expects Second Allied Front In Europe, Blasts the “German Babble About Peace”

Stalin Knots Allied Pact   Reds Lift Veil on Action in Caucasus with Report ot Advances

Stalin Calls for Greater Red Aitack:   Forecasts Opening of Sec ond Front by Allies, Rejects Peace Talk   FOR UNCONDITIONAL AXIS SURRENDER   Hails British-American Aerjal Attacks and the Action in Atrie2

SOLINGEN IS AGAIN HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   Industrial City Is Raided Twice in Two Davs   27 BOMBERS LOST IN ATTACK ON CITY   Other Nazi Targets in Germany, France and Italy Blasted

Forlresses and Liberators Atfack Rhineland; 27 Heavy Bombers Lost

27 UL. 5. BOMBERS ARE LOST ON RAID   NAZIS FILL AIR WITH RKOCKETS DURING SECOND ATTACK ON SOLINGEN.

U4, FORMATION: ATTACK SOLINGEN   Marks Second Heavy Raid or Rhineland City; Twenty Seven Heavy Bombers Fai To Return From Mission

27 Heavy American Bomb ‘ers Failed To Return From  Raid On City    HEAVY RESISTANCE PUT UP BY GERMANS

SOLINGEN IS AGAIN HIT BY " > —  Twiee in twa   Industrial City Is Raided Twice in Two Dave   27 BOMBERS LOST IN ATTACK ON CITY   Other Nazi Targets in Germany, France and Italy Blasted

U.S. BOMBERS HIT SOLINGEN PLANTS AGAI   ICY SKIES BRAVED TO DRUB GERMAN INDUSTRIES

Gas Ban May Be Extended   Ickes Gives Warning Of Future Trouble.

Keep Tuned to 1240 for  KWOS Program  Affiliated With the  MUTUAL BROADCASTING - SYSTEM

Keep Tuned te 1210 for  KWOS Program  Altillated Wib the MUTUAL BROADCASTING

‘Ghost’ Challenged To Wrestling Bout; Too Quick for Gun   Kaleidoscopic Thing Appears i House in Sections and Makes Noise Like Footsteps.

Today's Ghost Story  Pistol Pachin’ Neighbor Fails ‘To Evict Obnoxious Spook

LAVAL FACING ANEW CRISIS   Vichy Envoys In Spain Resign Adds To Growing Tension; Join Giraud

CRISIS IMMINENT INLAVALS =F iGOVERNMENT   Spanish Press Announce Resignation of 14 Vichy Diplomatic, Consular wargico

Ship Losses In Gilberts “Light”   Knox Says U. S. Planes Now Using Airstrip

AN AIR BASE FOR AMERICAN PLANES   Our Fliers Used Field Four Days After Landings

SHIP LOSSES IN GILBERTS LIGHT,  KNOX DECLARES   Naval Secretary Gives Details of Brilliant Conquest of lelande

TRIPLE KILLING IN OHIO PROBED   Prosecutor Thinks Two Assassins Slew Family  Of Three

ASSASSINS SLAY ENTIRE FAMILY   Thanksgiving Eve Crime Proves Mystery For Ohio Officials

Possibility of Two Killers in __ frase Consinlgrer   Triple Murder on Ohio Farm Continues to © Baffle Police

Triple Slaying On Holiday Eve Still Unsolved   Revenge May Be Motive For Murder Of The McCoy Family

REDS GAIN * ALONG 100MILE FRONT   Are Only 40 Miles from Important Railroad

RUSSIANS RAGE. TO TRAP GERMANS INTHE CRIMEA   Reds are 40 Miles from Sey. astopol Railroad—Kiev Threat Grows.

Red Threat to Crimea Grows   ‘Russian Armies 40 Miles From Key: Re R.

AXIS CRIMEAN ARMIES FACE RUSSIAN TRAP   Soviet Forces Threaten To Sever Principal “scape Route

RED ARMIES PUSH CLOSER TO 2 VITAL RAILROAD CENTERS   New Offensive Designed “To Trap German: - Garrison In ° Crimea,

RED THREAT 10 CRIMEA GROWS, NAZIS RETREAT      Russian Army Now Within 7 Miles Of White Russia, Take 60 Towns

Russians Seek to Encircle Enemy   Axis Garrison in Crimea Menaced

REDS MENACE NAZI LINE OF RETREAT   Soviets Within 40 Miles Of Railroad

LOUISA COUNTY FARM BUREAU NOTES. —   (By Lacl Moon and Louise Topp, Agents.)   LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION ONE TO RECEIVE ATTENTION

CHESTER DAVIS, BANKER, MADE SUPREME K, P   ee ‘kard’s Successor May Get Sole Power Over Farm Prices

WANT DAVIS TO HOLD CONTROL OF FARM. PRICES   Roosevelt Announces Drafting Of Davis To Replace Wickard

Farm Leaders To Stand Behind Davis   St. Louis Man Organized Montana Department Of Aecriculture

FARM ORGANIZATION. LEADERS LEAD BAND FOR ADMINISTRATOR      Start Drive to Give Chester C. Davis Undisputed Power Over Food Prices,

Bf eee  Contol Oe Farm-Prices:   Naming of Food ‘Administrator ‘ Meets Approval

“SOME OVER 38” MAY BE CALLED      Director of Civil Service  Sees New Action  Soon

TWIN RUSSIAN DRIVES FORCE NAZI RETREAT   Soviets Increase Threats to Vitebsk and Zhitomir

RUSSIANS SEVER VITAL RAIL LINE   Twin Drives Threatening Nazis at Vitebsk and Zhitomir

Russian Drives Increase I hreats To German Bases   Red Forces Push Nearer To Vilebsk And Zhitomir, Says Moscow   KEY NAZI CENTERS MAY BE TAKEN SOON

Governor Saves Former El Pasoan From Prison  Refuses To Send Escaped Prisoner  Back To Illinois

U. 5. Now Has 21  Prisoner Camps  36.688 Axis Men Are Being Held

36,688 MEN PUT IN PRISON CAM   Army Announces Location of 21 Places Captives Are To Be Concentrated.

WAR PRISONER CAMP PLACES   21 Locations Holding . 36,688 Men, —   Renort

‘36.688 Enemy Prisoners Are Held in 21 Camps in 17 States; Germans Lead List

Compulsory Organization Provided In Measure Passed Over Governor  Goodland’s Veto

ANOTHER GOEBBELS SPEECH IS. RUINED   RAF Raids Cause Cancellation of Speech; Hamburg Blasted.

NAZIS SAY RAF OVER GERMANY. AGAIN AFTER BIG RAID ON HAMBURG   Last Night’s Raid On German City Was Heavy. 16 Planes Reported Lost. —

Liquor Rationing Plan Announced   New System Will Start Next Week

RECORD FLIGHT SEARS GERMANS   Heavy Foray Reaches To Russian Raiding Area In Poland, Prussia

Focke-Wulf plant thought  to be ruined   U. S. bombers  pound .Muenster

Large Fires Started in Jap Camp Areas   Anti-Aircraft Barrages Iinusuallvw Heavy

Jap Areasin Kiska Damaged   ‘Americans Stage . Six Slashing Raids

BLAST PORT OF LEGHORN   Oil Refinery And Shipyards Are Greatly Damaged

Big Bombers § Blast Leghorn Refinery, Port   Nearly 10 Flying. Forte Make Deepest Thrust Inia Teale

Blast Leghorn, North of Rome From Tunisia   Jap Air Offensive In China Only 110 Miles From Capital

SHIPS, ARDROME ARE TARGETS FOR RAID DURING DAY   100 Fortresses Make Trip ti Leghorn, 40 Liberators Ir.  Two Waves In Attack In Tunisia.   BRITISH ARMIES IN RAIDS UPON FRANCE   Russians Bag 66 More Ger: man Planes But Soviets Are Silent on Possible Big Offensive.

LEGHORN IS RAIDED BY BIG PLANES   Foggia Airdrome Alse Attacked By U. S.  Heavy Bombers

[GRIFFITH ATTACKS NEW PROPOSAL AIMED TO GIVE LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AT COLLEGE

Says Crisenberry Bill Would Give $. . N. U. College ‘Blank Check

JAP DESTROYER ot] AFIRE BY AMERICANS   Planes At Mast Height In Punishing Attack

Low-Attacking U.S. Plane Hit Jap Ship Mast   Destroyer Set Afire; 5 To 7 Enemy Planes Also Ionited

Wing Clipped, But Plane Gets Home  U. S. Craft Flys In Low, Hits Mast Of Jap Ship

PLANES STRIKE AT DESTROYER   Make’ Low: Attack Jap Warship, Hit Mas. ‘ With Wing: Section. 

Destroyer Is Set Afire By U.S. Planes   Japanese Warship Is Strafed During Raid By American Fighters In Solomons Area

Jap Destroyer Is Set Afire  U. S. Attack Also Costs Enemy From Btn 7 Planac

Fighter Planes Strafe Jap Ship  Destroyer Set Afire In Solomon Island

PEACE OFFERS SENT TO CHINA   Proposals From Tokyo (et More Liberal, Soong Reveals

Grade Label System Is to Be Applied To Canned Fruits and Vegetables

Grade Labels Are Required  Order Will Apply On 1943 Vegetable Pack

Strike Closes Dayton School  Ce eamanm.  lmmitarc   Firemen, Janitors Seek Wage Raise

VALUE OF BEEF DOWN 3 POINTS   Ration Reductions Will Be Effective Sunday; Cheese Goes Up

Points on Beef Slashed by OPA   Canned Vegetables Are Also Reduced

OPA Lowers Points on All Beef Cuts      MANY CANNED VEGETABLES  TAKE FEWER POINTS; CHEESE, _ CANNED FISH TAKE MORE POINTS SUNDAY.   War Dept. Loosens up

Heavier Meat Supply Brings Sharp Cut In Ration Points Effective Sunday: Cheese Hiaher But Butter Unchanged

NAZIS ABANDON WRECKED KIEV RUSSIANS SAY   Soviets Storm Suburbs; Also Prepare to Shell Kerch, German Strong hold in Crimea.

Hold Off Attacks  By Japs   American Airmen Ruin Another Jap Convoy; Japs Increase Invasion Threat.

ENTIRESTATE © BLACKOUT IS COMING SOON  New Set of Signals to Be StandaraA far All Wi.   New Set of Signals to Be Standard for All Fu-  ture Practices Given.   LIGHTS MUST BE OUT   Traffic to Stop, Cut Lights on Second Signal, Officials Warn.

CHRISTIAN WORLD OBSERVES EASTER   Centuries-Old Practices: ir Religious Festival of  Holy Week   DAWN OF NEW HOPES

CHRISTIAN WORLD OBSERVES EASTER   Centuries-Old Practices in Religious Festival of  Holy Week

Frenchmen Threaten Axis Rear   Goumiers Cross, Cut Road Between Junction, Coast

Vital Pont du Faks Only. 4 Miles Ahead as Yanks,  British, French Plunge On   Observers Believe Defenders of Gateway to Tunis Plains Can't Stop . Overwhelming Strength of Allies.

WIN 3 FIERCELY DEFENDED KEY POSTS IN DRIVE   Other Allied Forces Hammer at Weakening Axis Points in Tunisia

GAINS THREATEN GERMANS HOLDING UP- EIGHTH ARNIY   Allies Make Advances Around Semicircte Line In Tunisia, Expect Battle To the Very  Lact.   ENEMY 1S PROVIDED WITH REINFORCEMENTS   Aviators on Long-range Trips to Strike Heavy Blows at Axis Bases In Sardinia, Italy.

GAIN ON CENTER OF ITALIAN LINE   American Airmen Attack Ships, Railroads, Troop Concentrations

Giraud, Catroux Agree Upon Numerous Points for Rebuilding of French Empire

UNITED FRENCH ~ GAIN STREGNTH   Giraud Soon To Have Force Of 300,000 To Free France

FOGGIA TAKEN, FALL OF NAPLES BROUGHT NEARER   Fifth Army Presses On

[Allies Now Have New Aerial Base   Battle of Naples Is Raging Towards Imminent Crisis

NAZIS BLOW UP SUPPLIES   Shooting Works In Large: Scale Effort To Retard Allies

Germans Now Using Supplies  Sicilian Roads Are Chnked Or Plawn lin

Allies Advance Steadilys Warships Rain Shells On Enemy.   MANY PRISONERS TAKEN

NAZIS SPEND SUPPLIES LAVISHLY   In Effort To Retard  Allied Advance In Sicily

GERMANS LAVISH WITH SUPPLIES   “Shooting The Works” With Explosives And Equipment In Slow Retreat Toward Messina.

Nazi Forces  ‘Shoot Works’ In Retreating   Begin Lavish Use Of Munitions In All-Out Bid To Halt Allies

ALLIED ACTIVITY . IS OBSERVED IN SOUTH ENGLAND   German Reconnaissance Plane Made Report Upon Return From Flight.   PLAN CHANNEL THRUST?   Considerable Increase of Shipping in Harbors on Britain’s South Coast.

SEE INCREASED ACTIVITY      German Planes Report Movement in South England

—n IN. MAKING   Reconnaissance Planes Reports Considerable Increases in Volame Shipping In British Harbors . —

Heavy Blows Are Delivered on Jap Base at Rabaul   6000 Ton, Enemy  Supply Ship Is’ _ Porxered Sone

JAP SUPPLY SHIP SUNK AT RABAUL    Two Others Are ‘Damage By © ‘Allied Bombers

B000-TON SHIP SUNK BY ALLIES AT RABAUL PORT   Two Others Damaged; Fires Kindled Visi ble for Fifty Miles

Bombing Planes Kndle Fires’ Visible fer 50 Miles in Attack on Big Japanese Naval Base at Rabaul.

Three Jap Ships Smashed at ‘Rabaul By Allies   Aussie Forces Advancing Qu New Guinea

2 Ships Sunk, Harbor Left  Blazing Ruins   Fighting Dies Down at Arawe; Aussies Gain On Guinea t.

FLIERS HIT 3 NIP SHIPS IN RABAUL RAIDS   Three Others Are Bombed Near New Ireland

Rabaul Hit Around Clock   Supply Ship Sunk, Others Damaged, Fire: Spread ot Jap Base

JAP SUPPLY SHIP SUNK WITH BOMBS   Reds Break Up Counterat: tacks at Nevel, Move Toward Vitebsk, Key City.

Allied Bombers Strike Heavy  Pacific Blows   Enemy Supply Ship Sunk: Aussies Take Imnortant Hill

PRODUCTION PROB~ LEMS piseussen   With Less Feed Available, ~ Emphasis Is Placed On Efficiency 

Organize Committee To Aid In  Promoting Maximum Farm Production   Approving Feeding and Disease Prevention To Be Featured

ompsey Directs elfare Records 2 Given Probers   Social Security Chief Says U. S. Has No Objection  (S. KIRBY SILENT  IState Senator Says She Should Be -Held in Contempt

ELLIOTT SPURS OIL PRICE LEAP   SOLONS MOVE FOR JUMP OF 35 CENTS A BARREL

Demand for Boost In Oil Prices Made  100 Congressional Members in Bloc

FOR ACTION ON OIL   Congressional Bloc: Takes Up Problem Neglected  by Bureaus

Nazis To Be Attacked From East, West And South Says Statement Issued At Cairo

Time For Invasion of Europe Believed Decided At Parley   Rv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

ALLIES SET 10 BEGIN PUSH ON QUICK NOTICE   In Position to Try For z Knockout Blow This Winter

KNOCKOUT BLOW MAY COME SOON   America, Britain Have Massed Power for Victory Drive

ALSO APPARENTLY PLAN FOR ATTACK FROM THE SOUTH   Latest Victory Strategy May Make It Possible To At‘tempt Knockout Blow Against Germany This Win  Japan Believed Ready To Sacrifice 5.000.000. Men In War Against Allies

invasion Dafe eporfed Fixed IBy "Big Three”   German “Knockout” May Be Attempted During Winter

Grand Scale Push Ready   Allies Have Large Forces Ready for Triple Assault

Signs Indicate _ Hour Moved Up   Knockout of Hitler This Winter Now Believed Possible   ATTACK ON THREE SIDES IS PLANNED

KNOCKOUT BLOW AGAINST NAZIS MAY COME SOON   Big Three Have Fixed Time For Invasion Of Western Europe; Supreme Drive May Come This Winter, It Is Indicated.

Knockout Try May Be Made This Winter   Allies Believed #o Have Planned Three Way Assault on Nazis

COAL SHALE IS EYED FOR FUEL   ICKES FAVORS PLAN TO GET NEEDED OIL” FROM PIT DEPOSITS

Ickes Says Oil Reserves Low    Would Extract Oil From Coal And Coal Shales

27 MILLION ARE FROZEN IN JORS   WMC Edict Forbids Them To Switch To Higher-Paying Work   ORDER ATTACKED   Senator Austin Of Vermont Declares McNutt Decree Is ‘Coercive’

Job Freeze Act Is Attacked As Coercive’ Step   27 Million Workers Effected Today

MILLIONS AMERICAN WORKERS ARE FROZEN IN ESSENTIAL JOBS  DECREE ISSUED BY M’NUTT ON ROOSEVELT’S

NEW WAGE, JOB ‘FREEZE’ HINTS LABOR DRAFTING   Workers in Non-Essential Plants Free To Go Into War Factories

ESSENTIAL WAR WORKERS FROZEN IN JOBS   Five Reasons Given For  Work Changes

‘ shitts Forbidden In Essential _ War Plants; New Maneuvers 10 *Hold The Line’

MNUTTS J00 FREEZE ORDER IS UNDER FIRE   Republican Senator Austin Terms Decree Coercive, Sees Labor Draft   27 MILLION AMERICANS ARE AFFECTED BY ORDER   Transfer To Higher Paying Jobs Virtually Banned By WMC’s Ruling

MCNUTT ORDER FREEZES JOB OF 27 MILLION   War Workers Forbidden  To Change Jobs For Higher Pay   FDR REQUESTS EDICT;   Non - Essential Employes Are Free To Change  Positions

SEN. AUSTIN HITS FREEZE AS COERCIVE   Says Tying of 27,000,000 To Jobs To Swell Cail For Service Law,   ORDER EXPLAINED   WMC Director Declares Ruling Bolsters President's HoldLine Command.

25° Million Others Free to Shift Jobs      Manpower Edict Forbids: Employes to Switch Employ- ers for Hiaher-Pay

Job Freezing Hits 27 Million   Essential Workers ‘Are iJnder New Rules

T wenty-seven Million Workers Now  On Vital Work Are Frozen to Jobs

McNuit's Order Affects All Employed in ‘Essential’ Work — Fines, Jail for Violaiions   BRINGS PROTEST   One Exception Permits Transfers in Work Stabilization Areas Under WMC Control

JOBS FROZE BY SPECIAL WMC EDICT SATURDAY   27 Million Men And Women Are Under Order

JOB SWITCHING NOW FORBIDDEN      27 Million Americans Virtually Frozen in Their _ Jobs By Order.

MIXED REACTION REGISTERED 10 ‘JOB FREEZING'   WMC Edict Forbids Workers Changing Jobs To Get Increase in Pay   ‘COERCIVE’ SAYS ONE FOE   Author of National Service Bill Thinks Order Brings Civilian Draft Nearer

ESSENTIAL WAR WORKERS ARE FROZEN   As Result .of WMC Forbidding Them to Switch Jobs to Higher Paying Jobs.

SET CITY WARD CAUCUSES FOR THURS., MAR. 11   People’s Party Will Nominate Alderman In Each Ward; Three Meetings.

CITY CAUCUSES WILL BE HELD HERE THURSDAY   Hold Three Meetings In City; Name Alderman In Each Ward.

Outlaw Beliefs Of Japan Descend From Divine Myth Of Empire Origin

Japanese Observe National Holiday But Reasons for Rejotcing Are Few .

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   iestival Season Of 1943 Finds Japan Lacking Further Conquests

JAPANESE. CELEBRATE FOUNDING OF EMPIRE ON LARGE SCALE IN OVERRUN AREAS: HOME QUIET

‘JAPANESE CELEBRATE ‘FOUNDING OF EMPIRE Myth Makes Jap Warlike People

The War Today   Japs Extend Anniversary Jubilee to Conquered Lands

Japanese Again Celebrate Fete   Founding Of Empire Is Observed On Greatest Scale In. History

per ed              -  Daocte Appear: Prouder Than at  panes Pecl.. ]e

*Red Cabinet Observes Its e Anniversary   Council of People’s ‘Commissars Is 26  » Years Old Today; Moscow in Mood for Biq Celebration.

BERLIN CLAIMS GREATER FORCES NEEDED IN WEST FOR EXPECTED INVASION   Russians Move Up 4 to Seven and Half Miles on 600 Miles Front. Nazis Throwing Reserves Into Battle Straight from March to Front

Allied Raiders Blast Naples ‘With. Ton Bombs; Rip Communicatio ~ South—Danes. Scorn N  -- Form Governmen

Red Soldiers Are Pushing Ahead Along the South ern Front 6,000 NAZIS KILLED  Soviets Report 120,000 Troops Routed in Battle of Taganrog

Berlin Says Troops Needed In Europe  To Meet Invasion   Soviet..Armies. Push. Triumphant. Reconquest Of The Ukraine All Along 600- Mile Southern Front

BATTERED ARMY OF INVADERS IS IN FULL FLIGHT   Alibi Is That Hitler Taking Troons Out To Meet Allied Threat of Attack   RUSSIA REFUTES CLAIMS   Pincers Being Tightened on Japs in New Guinea as Salamaua Under Siege

Claim Shift Troops Because of Invasion   Threat  FLEE IN RUSSIA   Taking Hundreds of Villages

MILITARY CIRCLES  IN BERLIN ATTEMPT  ALIBI WITHDRAWLS RED ARMIES PUSHING  RECONQUEST OF RICH UKRAINE SECTOR

Berlin Declares Forces Needed fo ‘Resist Invasion   Russian Armies Pushing Reconquest Of Rich Ukraine

Russian Army Advances In  Ukraine Push   Reports Progress All Along 600-Mile Front

Nazi Armies Are Fleeing Donets Basin   Tens of Thousands of German Troops Threatened with Entrapment; Reds. Capture Rail City of Sumy; Allied Raiders Blast Naples Area

Berlin Alibis Loss of Rich. Ukraine Area   Declares More Troops Needed In West As Huge Force Faces Entrapment By Advancing Soviets; Raid Ruin Heavy In German Capital.

Say Retreat Is Necessary for Invasion   Taganrog Victory Gostly for Boche, 120,000 ” Troops Routed. 35.000 Killed =

Soviets Pressing Ukraine Advance   Berlin Attempts to Alibi Retreat by Speaking of Need of Troops to Meet Allied Invasion — Russians Are Engulfing Hundreds of Villages

Territory Taken On Long Front   German Alibi Says Troops Moved to Prevent Invasion.

Russians’ Reconquest of Ukraine Continues With Advanees All Alone Front   World War on Other Fronts

RUSSIANS GAIN ALONG ENTIRE RNN-ML FRONT   Allies Bomb Naples, Rip Communications In South Italy    IDANES SCORN GERMANS    [Prime Minister Refuses Bid To Form New Cabinet

Berlin Attempts To Alibi Retreat In South Russia   Thousands of Germans Face Encirclement; Hitler Crushes Revolt in Denmark

Red Soldi ers Are Pushing  “Ahead A ong the South-  em ‘ont  6,000 NAZIS KILLED  Soviets Report 120,000 ': Troops Routed in Battle ~ of Taganrog

Rail Center . Is Captured  By Russians   Berlin Attempts To Alibi Retreat by Asserting Troops” Are Needed in West To  _ Meet Expected {nvasion

Alibi Defeat By ‘ Saying Men Are Needed In West   Russians Advance On 600 - Mile Front: 35.000 Germans Killed

Native of. Sweden: Lived i in 3 » Lakeland, ‘Florida in Recent Years pee

SERVICE FOR: ~ BE CARLSON      Native of Sweden ‘Lived in - Lakeland, :Florida in  ‘ Recent Years 

Russians Beat Off More German  Caucasus Attacks  Troops Aided by Air Support Inflict “Devastating Losses”

FIERCE GERMAN THRUSTS FOILED   Desperate Nazis Trying To Widen Toehold In Caucasus

REDS BEAT OFF MASS ATTACKS   Assaults In Caucasus Are Repulsed With Aid Of Aircraft

RUSSIANS BEAT OFF SERIES OF ATTACKS   Germans Are Striving to Achieve Success at Any Cost

Soviets Beat Off Attacks in Kuban Area   Russians Report Nazis Suffer Devastating Losses

SOVIETS BEAT Ot STIFF NAZI BLOWS   Inflict Devastating Losses in Northwestern Caucasus; Nazis Try to Ferry Troops To Novorossisk

Russians Repulse Mass Attacks of German Armies   Inflict “Devastating Loss es in Caucasus Section   Sink Patrol Ship and Two Boats Loaded with Landing Forces

WELLES PLEADS FOR AGREEMENT   Says Post-war Allied Rivalry Would Be Disastrous

Holds Allies Should Be in Accord on Principles Assuring Creation Stable Work   sAYS NATIONS NEED TO KNOW OBJECTIVES   Agreement, He Declares, Should Outline Aims For Security, Social Progress and Prosperity

Welles Urges Post-War Plan   Under-Secretary of State Would Try to Avert Rivalries

WELLES URGKS AGREEMENT ON POST-WAR AIMS  ‘Indersecretary of State   Undersecretary of State Says Understanding Necessary to Avert Rivalries   FEAR DISASTER   Talk Seen As Reply to Representative Clare Booth Luce; Regrets Russia’s Absence

Should Agree On Postwar Policies Now   Welles Says for UN to Ente Postwar Period as Rival: and Opponents Would Bring About Disaster

ALLIES MUST PLAN-WELLES   Ex-State Dep’t Official Urges Program to Assure Stable World

Welles Urges Plans For Peace Be Made Now  Post-War Rivalries ; fan Be Avoided If Prompt Action Taken * On Common Problems

Post-War Rivalry Feared By Welles   Urges Planning Now By Allies

Former {Undersecretary of State, Speaking As Private Citizen, Outlines His Views on Post-Wai Era. Says, U. S., Britain, Russia and China Mus  Ci yarantee Peace

SUMNER WELLES IN  PLEA FOR POSTWAR  WORLD AGREEMENT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, CHINA  AND UNITED STATES SHOULD AGREE SOON

WELLES URGES GOV'T REVEAL MAJOR PLAN   Former Undersecretary Says Allied Agreement for PostWar World Should Come

WELLES: SEES NEED OF UNITY AFTER WAR   Says United Nations Should Agree Now to Avert Rivalries.   DISSENSION CAN - PROFIT NO ONE   State Dept. ~ Spokesman Regrets Russia Not Re. presented at Ceremony.

Allies Are Urged to Agree Now on Post-War Program   Secretary Welles Says Action Will Avert Rivalries Which Would Be Disastrous

WELLES URGES POST-WAR PLAN   Undersecretary Wants Agreement Now To Avert Disastrous Rivalries.

Basic Principle Agreement Urged  ‘Need Solid Foundation, Savs Sumner Welles

LOOKS TO FUTURE   Under Secretary Welles Urges Post-War Plan for United Nations

Welles Urges Agreement Now   Wants United Nations To Agree on Post-War Program

WELLES URGES POST-WAR PLAN      Program Now Would Avert Rival ties Which Would Be Disastrous. He Says

Former Undersecretary of State Wants U.S. Britain, Russia and China to Plan Stable World.

A Post War Program Is  Urged Now   Period Of Rivalry Among Allies ‘T oD  Mean Disaster

Nations Urged — To Act Now On Trade Rivalry   Welles’ Call for Agreement Voices Warning Against Idle Deaes:...

 “The Mind of Joe Stalin” ETL TTT TOL TE eR eR TIE)  Welles Urges Allies To Agreeon Post-War Prograrr

Russians Eyeing Their Territory Hint Postwar Planning Must Omit Bessarabia. Baltic Republics   Welles Calls For Early Post-War Agreements

Avert Postwar Era Of Rivalry, Welles Warns   No Surer Road To Disaster, United Nations Representatives Told.

Welles Urges Postwar Program Now   United Nations Must Not Revert To Rivalry

F oreign Trade Bill Irks GOP   Reciprocal Policy Brings Critict  “iam at Hearines

TRADE PACTS FACING FIGHT   Republicans at Hearing Indicate Hostility to Renewal of FDR Power

FOREIGN TRADE POLICY RAPPED   GOP Members Of House Group Are Against Reciprocal Pacts Renewal

TRADE TREATIES ~LINE UP PARTIES   House Republicans Putting  Adminstration Policy On Griddle

FACING CHARGE   9 Socialites May Lose Right To Buy Rationed Goods

Italy Changes Defense Plans   Places Entire ‘Foot’ on Basis for Invasion; Doubt Germans

Invasion Jitters On Increase   Martial Law Declared In Enght Provinces, Civilians  Ordered Out.

FATHERS ARE GIVEN DRAFT DEFERMENTS   ‘All Whose Children Were Born Before Last Sept. 15 Are Included.   FATHERS MAY BE CALLED BY JULY      3-B Classification is Elim’ inated . Under New Draft Regulations.

RECLASSIFIED INDER ORDERS NOW BRFRCTIVE   New Ruling Covers Fathers Whose Children Were Born Before Last September   3-B CLASS IS WIPED OUT IN ENTIRETY   Only Those In Essential Activities Or Whose Dependents Face Hardships to Escape I-A

Draft Deferment Is Extended To Include Men Who Became Fathers By Last September 15

MANY NEW DADS’ ARE DEFERRED   Those With Children Born Before Last Sept. 15 Will .Go Into 3-A   3-B. ELIMINATED IN NEW GUIDE   Farmers. Go Into 3-0; Varjous Other Classes ~ Are Provided

IMMINENGE OF INDUCTION RULE IS ELIMINATED   All Children Born Before Last September To Be Counted

Men Becoming Dads Prior To Sept. 15, °42 Get Draft Deferment   Preferred Status Of Farmers Left Intact In New Selective Service Regulations Issued   9.B Eliminated; All Men Outside Farming Ordered Into I-A Except Those Personally Noraccaryv To Essential Industries

Wartime “Dads” Get Induction Deferment   All Men Under 38 Who Became Fathers Before Last September 15 to Be Reclassified in 3-A—3-B Classification Is Eliminated.

NO DRAFT NOW FOR DADS OF 2YR-QLD INFANTS   Won't Be Called Until Further Orders Sent Local Boards

NEW REGULATIONS FOR Ui. S. DRAFT ANNOUNCED   SELECTIVE SERVICE BUREAU TELLS RULES OF DRAFTING MEN FOR DUTY

CLASS 3-B WIPED OUT BY RULING   Fathers Of Children Born Before Last Sept. 15 Aided :

Men Who Became Dads In Last Two Years Get Draft Deferment Status for First Time

New Fathers To Be Deferred By Draft Boards   Latest Rules Are Announced At Washington

Father Draft Deadline Set Last Sept. 15   3-B Classification Eliminated in New Orders to- Boards

‘Dads AreGivenDraft _ [Deferment Under Rules Reclassifying Manpower

Deferment Of Fathers Is Ordered   Selective Service Muddle Enhanced By New Quick Change

Men With Children Born Before Sept. 15 ‘To Be Reclassified   Other Fathers Seen Called July 1; Extreme Hardship, Agriculture Factors In Determining Status

NEW “DADS” ARE ORDERED RECLASSIFIED   Thousands of Men Who Became Fathers in Last Two Years Given Draft-Deferment   RULE IS ELIMINATED

If Baby Is Born Before Sept. 15, Deferment Okay   New Dads Now Have Same Status As Fathers Of Older Children

GREAT NUMBER CF ‘NEW DADS’ GIVEN DRAFT DEFERMENT   Those With Children Born Previous to September 15 Not to Be Called Until Further Notice.   CLASSIFICATION 3-D iS LATEST ORDER   Change Made For Continuous Deferment of Farm Workers, Other Changes For Armed Services.

3-B Classification Eliminated—New 3-D Classification Set Up For Hardship Cases:

No Distinction Between Men Who Became ‘Dads’ in Last Twc Years and Those Who Had Children Before—Farm Workers Head List of Essential Workers—Regulations Revised

Men Who Became Fathers Before Sept. 15 Deferred   ‘Imminence of Selection’ Rule Wiped Out, 3-B Classification Eliminated, Men Outside Farming Reclassified .

NEW INDUCTION SETUP ORDERED   Children Born After Last September 15 Are Not Counted   NEW CLASS CREATED

NEW SELECTIVE SERVICE RULES ARE ANNOUNCES   Those Having Children Born Before Last Sept. 15 Deferred   OTHER CHANGES ARE MADE

Sweeping New Changes Made By Authorities   Those Who Became Fathers Before Sept. 15 Get. Deferred Status

Dads of One Year Placed in 3-A Group   All Husbands Whose Children Were Born After Sept. 15 Included in Order

New Draft Regulations Are Issued... .  Thousands Of Fathers Are Now Deferred

 Thousands Of New Fathers Given Their First Draft - Deferment Status; 3-B Class Eliminated

Pre-Sept. 15 Babes Stop Army Draft   Selective Service Announces New Classifications for Parents  And Farm Workers

DEFERMENT OF MEN WHO BECAME FATHERS _ PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 15, 1942 iS NEW ORDER OF SELECTIVE SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

No More 3-B » , Ratings To Be Allowec   More Rigid Rules on Deferment Covering Essential Works

NEW DRAFT CLASSIFICATION ORDERS ISSUED   If You Became a Father Before Last September 15th, You’re Classified With Other Fathers

SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE IN THE DRAFT RULES   Status Of Fatherhood Must Have Origin Before Pearl Harbor   ALL SUCH GIVEN DRAFT DEFERMENT

‘Bonus on Cattle 2 Cents Pound Urged by Solon  Colorado Senator Say   Colorado Senator Says This Would Do What Roll! Back Plan Seeks

Bonus on Cattle 2 Cents Pound Urged by Solon ;   Colorado Senator Says This Would Do What Roll Back Plan Seeks

Confiscate Gasoline Ration Books   40 Others in Philly Area Cited for  Hearings

Two Questions Being Asked By Officers ''Where Are You Going and Why"   MAKING FEW ARRESTS

OPA Agents Query Drivers In Large Cities  nm Enfn a      No Pleasure Driving; Local Officia Hot

Many Japs Deac In Allied Foray   Fighting Renewed In Salamaua Area

NIPPONESE LOSE JUNGLE BATTLE   Bodies Strewn In Bushes After Surprise Foray By Allied Fighters

Junele Fight Surprises Japs at Mubo   First News of Land Clash in Area In Several Months

NURSES SHOULD BE PAID   gvrola Republicans Introduces’ Bill 4 in House Today

Nazis Win 4-Day Fight On Island   Yanks Gain Back Some of Ground Lost in Italy — Reds Roll On

Attack in Tunisia Believed Made to Take Weight , Off Rommel   BATTLE FOR CORRIDOR

INTO FRENCH LINE   Attack in Tunisia Believed Made to Take Weight . Off Rommel   [BATTLE FOR CORRIDOR

Advance 7 Miles As Rommel Army Continues Flight   Africa Corps Streaming Headlong Into Three-Way Tunisian Squeeze

EIGHTH ARMY ON HEELS OF FIFFING AXIS   Sweeping Rommel Forces Toward Tripoli British Gather Prisoners and Armaments

See Possibility Of Rift Between Hitler -11 Duce   Report Of Meeting Of Dictators Shows No Confident Tone   MUSSOLINI FACES UPHEAVAL AT HOME

POSSIBILITY OF HITLER, IL DUCE SPLIT SEEN   Statements on Meeting Lack Usual Note of Cordiality

ADOLF AND BENITO REPORTED NOT. TO HAYE HAD A VERY __ CORDIAL OR HAPPY  ‘" CONFERENCE

State To Re-adopt Audible AllClear Signal For Air Raid Tests   Radio All-Clear Signal Has Marred Tests In Pennsylvania —~ Caused Much Confusion

sumners Warns On ‘Breakdown Of Democracy   Publishers Urged To Take Up Fight On ’Buréducrdics"

Sumners Warns Qn ‘Breakdown Of Democracy  Publishers Urged _ To Take Up Fight

CHINA'S RICE BOWL SAVED FROM JAPS   Invaders Receive Greatest Setback of War

"RICE BOWL’ MENACE IN CHINA ENDED   Spokesman Declares Japan Has Failed In 2 Big Objectives

New Corsair Planes In Spectacular Debut   Japanese Bases Are  Plastered By Navy

Vatican Prepares For Time When Nazis Quit Rome  - Fear of Ruthlessness Of Hitlerites Is Mintad in Alartnece

VATICAN PREPARING FOR FIGHT IN ROME   Guard Increaged and Other Pre cautions Taken Against Day When Nazis Evacuate.

Vatican Prepares For Time When Nazis Quit Rome  Fear of Ruthlessness OM Htlaritec fe   Fear of Ruthlessness Of Hitlerites Is Hinted in Alertness

ICKES DECLARES GAS SHORT HERE   Declares Facts Do Not Warrant Easing of Fuel Situation.   DENIES GASOLINE 1S “SLOPPING OVER’

PITTSBURGH DISTRICT REFUSED GAS CHANGE   Ickes Says Situation Won't Permit Eased Rationing

ICKES T - DOWN GAS PLEF   No Further Relaxation of Rationing in West Pa.

Can’t Relax Gas Rules in Area, Ickes   Supply Won’t Permit Any Relaxation of Rationing

MORE U. S. TROOPS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND   Sizeable Contingent Includes. Airmen—Fast Trip From Amer: ica UWneventful.

YANKS SCORE 25-1 TRIUMPH:      Down-57 Jap Planes  Over Clhigece Taetkacs

BROWN FIRM ON SUBSIDY ISSUE   Tells Senate Group Food Prices Can't Be Stabilized Otherwise.

FDR SUPPORTS MOVE IN FACE OF OPPOSITION   House Group Pledge: Aid to Forces in Subsidy Fight

OPA Director — Defends Program \During Hearing   Newly-Formed House Group Promises To  Back Subsidy Plans —

DEFENDS FOOD PhlGta olan AY UBT Ea   Brown Explains Roli-Back at Hearing by Senate Committee.   NEW GROUP ORGANIZES TO BACK PRICE POLICY

Italians Left Behind Again   Nazis Pulled Out In Night Avoiding  Yank Armored Force

New York Mayor May Join Army, Roosevelt Says   But President Doubts Mayor Will Wear Star Of Brigadier General

ROOSEVELT NOT TO APPOINT LaGUARDIA   President Says He Has No Plans For Making New York Mayor A General

LaGuardia May Not Get Stars   Roosevelt Says He Has No Idea of Naming Him for Commission

Allies Turning Tables on Goebbels With Well Planned ‘Nerve Blitz’   Ry JOSEPH W. GRIGG

Allies’ “War Of Nerves”. Causes Jittery Nazis To ‘Shift Defenses Rapidly

Allies Take the Ball  in Nerve wie hie W "Blitz Is Bnet of ‘Bimel Baliac Yina-UnProces  ee eR aes ae   By JOSEPH W. GRIGG I nited Press Staff Correspoane

Plans to Shorten War Not To Be Immediately Revealer Eden Tells Commons

Shorter War Moves Secret Eden Reports   "Will Develop at the Expense of Common Enemy"

Eden Tells Commons That Moscow Conference Agreed  On Plans To Shorten Wa

Eden Tells of Agreement To Shorten War  Russ Conferees , ¢. eres resieeppas   Russ Conferees Concur on World Security

EDEN ASSERTS PLANS SET 10 SHORTEN WAF   Keeps Speculation Oper Regarding Turkey’s War Entry

LATE ENROLLMENT “MAKES TOTAL 4146   Civilian Enrollment on Mt. Oread Now Stands at  3 &  ‘dimtititinpienioemtinidoniien.

TE ENROLLMENT MAKES TOTAL 4146   Civilian Enrollment on Mt. Oread =e at  ?

STRIKE CLOSES TANK ARSENAL   500 Workmen at Chrysle Protest Punishment of Loiterer

FURIOUS ASSAULT OF NAZI ARMORED UNITS FAIL BREAK THROUGH  GERMAN LEADER MAKES _ DESPERATE EFFORT EN TLARCE RELCOROD WEDCGI

Nazis Return To Attack On South Front   Unable to Advance on Northern Enc of Orel-Kursh-Belgorod Front Vai Kluge Tries to Widen Wedge or iSoquthern End

Action Designed To Blast Major Break In Lines   Entire Weight Of Armored Columns Thrown Against Soviet Defenses

Nazis Change to Single Power Push   All Strength Goes To Belgorod End

NAZIS INCREASE POWER ON REDS’ SOUTHERN LINES   Make Desperate Attempt Te Forge Wedge in Belgorod Sector

NAZIS LAUNCH FURIOUS DRIVE AGAINST REDS   Throw Full Weight of  -# Their Armored Columns Into the Southern End of the Orel-Kursk-Belgorod Front.

REDS HOLD ONSLAUGHT OF TANKS   Huns Leese Terrible Hail Of Shell and Fire on Stonewall Defenses - Of Stalin's Army   LOSSES ARE VERY HEAVY

Effort To Enlarge Wedge At Belgorod Fails; Orel-Kursk Line Holding Firm

Nazis Smash at South End Of Salient on Soviet Front; ‘Give Up Assault In North   Hitler Reported to Be Taking Hond In Russian Front Strategy,  Aaainst Advice of His Geaneral<c

Entire Weight of Axis Armored Columns  ‘Thrown in Fight  SHIFT FROM OREL  Even Tank Crews Stage Hand-to-Hand Battles

GERMANS SHIFT WEIGHT AGAIN TO BELGOROD   Frustrated in Efforts io Break Russian Lines in North, Renew Pressure in South   NAZIS CLAIM GAIN   Fierce Fighting Develops, Even Tank Crews Batiling Hand-toHand on One Occasion

Germans in  New Attack   Launch Drive at Southern End With  Heavy Armored Column

NAZIS LAUNCH FURIOUS DRIVE   Russian Defenses Stal! German Assault On North Front

German Marshal Throws Armored Power At Reds   Despairs Of Breaking Through Northern End Of Salient

Germans Launch Power Drive on Russian Sector   Fighting Is So Violent Tank Crews Engage in Hand Fighting.   Wave After Wave of Tanks Used by Nazis

Hitler Said To Be In Control In Kursk Area   Nazis Lose 2,600 Tanks In Eight Days.  Russia Claims

RED STONE WALL HOLDS ENEMY ON BELGOROD FRONT   SOVIETS HURL BACK NAZI TANK COLUMNS IN VICIOUS ATTACKS

Desperate Nazis Furiously Attack Russian Lines   2,622 German Tanks Lost in Eight Days Of Offensive Bottle

Germans Hurl Armored Unit into Red Line   Nazis Claim G Ground Gains, but Russian Resistance Reported Stiffening

Von Kluge Tries Power-House Play....  Nazis Fight Savagely, But Soviets Hold Own

FIERCE GERMAN ASSAULT FAILS TO BREACH LINE   Von Kluge Throws Full Weight of Armored Columns Into Attack

German Commander Returns To Familiar Powerhouse Tactics. But Fails

Germans Hurl Power Agains! Southern Line   Russians Beat Back German Attempts to Exploit Early Gains, Moscow Declares

NAZIS SHIFT ATTACKS TO SOUTH LINE   Russians Say it is Becoming More Clear That Axis Summer Offensive Has Met Failure.

IN FURIOUS DRIVE   German Armored Columns _ Are Hurled at Belgorod Wedge

Nazis Strive To Breach Soviet Lines   Full Weight of Armor Used in Attempt to Erlarge Wedge

GEAMANS HURL WEIGHT AT LINE   Nazi Field “Marshal Throws Entire Armored Divisions Into Fray.

Unable to Crack OrelKursk Line   Red Defenses Withstand Power Drive Against Southern Wing

Germans Throw F ull Weight Against ‘Russians At Southern End Of Front

RUSSIAN LINES HOLD AGAINST NEW NAZI DRIVE   Germans Resort to Their Qld Power-house Tactics in Attack on Kursk Front   IMMENSE LOSS SUFFERED   Reds Admit Battle Acute But Say Enemy’s Punch Is Growing Weaker

Furious. Assault Staged By Nazis South Of Kursk   Entire Weight Of Germar .Armored Units Thrown Into Russian Campaign

NAZI ATTACKS SLACKED AS LOSSES HEAVY   Russians Report Orel-Belgorod Battle Has Dwindled and Other Efforts Annaar Weaker.

Nazi Offensive Begins To Wane Russians Hold Fast On 200-Mile Front

Furious German Tank Attack In Belgorod Area   Nazis Drop Attempt To Break Through Northern  QD ts2eecte _ oe _sZa,

Nazis In Old Power Play   Hurl Massive Attack At Southern End, Get Nowhere

Armored Tanks Used By Nazis   GERMANS ATTEMPT = TC ENLARGE WEDGE BY TIGERS

GERMANS OPEN NEW DRIVE ON SOVIET FRONT   Furious Battle Raging On Southern End Of Orel, Belgorod Sector   '60-TON TANKS ARE USED      Hand-To-Hand Fighting With Heavy Losses Reported By Russians

‘Nazis Throw Entire Weight Aerial Force Against Sectors In South; Strikes Har Red Northern End Dropped At Sicilians

Nazis Batfer Russian Lines To Open Breach   Southern End Of Front Scene Of Furious Battle

Germans Slash Out Furiously At Reds Near Belgorod   Russian Defenses Remain Impenetrable Jn Face Of Onslaught Of Nazi Tanks

ENTIRE WEIGHT OF — KLUGE'S COLUMNS INTO THE ATTACK   Action Is Designed to Enlarge Belgorod Wedge in Russian Lines.   OREL-KURSK FRONT SET   The Red Defense Lines Re. mained Inpenetrable Throughout.

DELIVER BOAT 5 DAYS AFTER ENCINES COME   Lop 15 Days Off Similar Performances In  Other Plants   ION PRECEDENT LIST   Record of Local Concern Praised By Naval Inspector

Dachel - Carter Shipyard Sets Speed Recore   Minesweeper Ready Five Days After Engines Arrive

AFRICAN LAND ACTION QUIET   ‘Allied Planes Take Spotlight As Ground Forces Prepare for Final Assault

OPANTH REPORT MAY STUN JAPS   Neutral Report On Tule Lake Affair To Be Favorable To U. S.

RAF Pounds Wuppertal War Plants  Bakr AMAkiaetiuac   Ruhr Objectives Blasted for Sixth Nicht Ina Row

RAF Renews Heavy Atfacks On Ruhr Area  33 Big Bombers ' Lost In Smash _ At Industries

RAF Offensive In Industrial Area Reaches New Peak   Tremendous Dama gc Done by Bombers At. tacking In Great Stren. gth But Heavy German Defensive. Takes Toll of 35 RAF Planes.

Wuppertal Is Bombed By RAF   ANOTHER DAMAGING AIR RAID LAUNCHED ON NAZIS

OFFENSIVE ON RUHR AT NEW PEAK   RAF Blasts City Of Wuppertal In Great Streneth

Wuppertal Hit Again In Heavy   Great Damage Done, Air Ministry Says; Defenses Active, 33 Bombers Are Missing

Chemical Plants of Nazis Battered and Other Points Hit; Atlantic Line is Also Raided.

LOST OVER WUPPERTAL   Bombing Offensive Is Carried Through Its Sixth Night

BOMBS BREAK “ATLANTIC WALL   3 Allied Planes Fail to “Retur n from Continuing Offensive

RAF BOMBS WUPPERTAL IN FORCE   Attacks Declared In Great Strength; 23 Bombers Lost

GERMAN WAR PLANTS ARE TARGETS OF BIG BRITISH. BOMBERS      New Offensive. Peak Reached by RAF in Continued Offensive   ROMBERS ARE -LOST

RUHR OFFENSIVE CARRIED TO NEW PEAK BY RAF   Thirty-Three Bombers Failed to Return From Last Night’s Raids

RAF Shatters Wuppertal In Mighty Raid   German High Command Admits Great Damage From Assault  By LYNN HEINZFRLING

Nazi Industry Again Dealt Heavy Blows   RAF Loses 33 Bombers In Latest Raid On Wuppertal

BRITISH ATTACK NAZI INDUSTRIES   33 Bombers Lost in Smashing Raid Aimed at Wuppertal Plants

NAZIS ORDER FRESH DRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Move Is Made To Keep Tort Of Kotor From Becoming Invasion Gateway Into Balkans

 Nazi Fear of Invasion Gateway Seen ‘As Hitler Forces Order Drive ‘To Keep Yugoslav Port From Allies

Nazis Attack Slav Forces  Port Of Kotor Being   Port Of Kotor Being Protected By Enemy

Germans Pul on. Fresh Drive-to. Crush Patriot:   Seek- Elimination of ~GuverrillasFrome: Port of Kotor

NAZIS ORDER NEW DRIVE ON PATRIOTS      Germans Seek to Keep Yugoslav Port of Kotor Open

Red Armies Pound Nazi Defense Line   Kharkov Next After Fall of  Rostov

Russian Forces Within 7 Miles Of Kharkey Now   Great Industrial Center Will Probably Be Retaken By Red Army Shortly   RUSSIANS AGAIN OCCUPY ROSTOV   Victorious Soviet Troops Pounding Nazi Winter Defense Line Furiously

YANKS DOWN {2 JAPANESE ZEROS   ONE HUNDRED U. S, FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS BLAST ENEMY AIRDROME.

12 ZEROS DOWNED IN KAHILI ATTACK   New Raid Staged on Japanese Airdrome in the Solomons

Southwest Air Fleet Attacks Big Jap Field   Airdrome On Solomons Blasted By MacArthur's Forces

KAHILT FIELD HIT BY ALLIES   12 Zeros Bagged In Air Battle Over Pacific Airdrome

American Planes Bag Dozen Zeros In Bougainville  Airdrome Attack   Over 100 Bombers and Fighters Raid Kahili, Which Bars Progress of Drive on Rabaul

Americans Follow Island Attack With New Thrust  Bombers Smash Base On Way to Japs’ Rabaul Stronghold

JAPS LOSE 12 ZEROS IN YANK RAID ON KAHILI   100 American Bombf ers in Attack on Bougainville Base

Yanks Down 12 Zeros in Sky Battles   Jap Airdrome on Kahili Island Hit in New Raid

JAPA AT KAHILI HIT; 12 ZEROS LOS]   Heavy Attack Carried Out On Important Solo mons Holding   ALLIED POSITIONS ARE ATTACKED BY ENEMY

U.S. Planes Bag Dozen Zeros in  Raid on Kahili   100 Bombers and Fighters Hit Vital Airdrome; Two Cargo Ships Believed Sunk

RAID KARILI LAST ENEMY AIRDROME   Barring Northward Progress of Allies Up Solomons Toward Rabaul; Executed By Liberators in Daylight.   Qne-Sided Result

NAVY OIL DEAL INQUIRY STANDS   Knox Reports Contract ' “Terminated

PROBE TO BE CONTINUED   Termination on Of Stand ard’s Contract Not To End Probe

Elk Hills Oil~ Deal Cancelled   House to Proceed With Investigation

TO HOLD QUIZ   Cancelling Contract Not To ; Deter OW Lease Inquiry

CONTINUE PROBE OF OIL DEAL   House Investigates Navy Contract With Standard Qil

Heavy Toll Taken of Japs In New Guinea   Enemy Lost 353. Aircraft, 19 Warships, 85 Merchantmen

Report Heavy Toll Taken of Japs  Montana Troops Aid in Papuan Drive

MArthur’s Papua Victory Reviewed   353 Japanese Aireraft, 19 Warships, 85 Cargo: Shins Destraved

Democrats Choose Lev’ To Replace Aurelio   New Nominee Endorsed Earlier By American Labor Party

Shattering Yank A ir Raid Blasts Important Japanese Base at Arawe on New Britain Isle

BNEMY SUFFERS HEAVY BLOW TO ISLAND DEFENSES—AIR FORCE IN CHINA MAKES RAIDS

Shattering Raid By U.S. Bombers On New Britain   Over 356 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Base At Arawe Says Report   JAPANESE TAKEN WITHOUT WARNING

GREEN ATTACKS ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Claims Measure Robs Labor of Weapon To Defend ‘Rights’

BRITISH TANKS quoi PUSH INTO PENINSII &   What Is Believed to Be Last Tank Battle Is Reported Under Way

U. S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   FIRST U, Si ATTACK ON TARGETS WITHIN GERMAN HOMELAND

Is First Attack By American Air Force On Nazi Homeland: U-Boat Areas Taraets

‘NAZI NAVAL AREAS: ARE ATTACKED BY  AMERICAN BOMBERS   Believe German Sub Installa tions particularly Chosen’ B: Fortresses And, Liberator For Target Today

Nazi Submarine Centers Bombed  Heavy American Bom hers Attack Germany

U. S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY FOR FIRST TIME   Naval Installations Attacked Af ter RAF Raids Overnight on Lor jent, Bordeaux

Heavy Bombers Attack Germany   American Planes Make First Raid On Germany

U.S. BOMBERS HAMMER REICH   Army Force Blasts German Homeland First Time

U.S. Bombers Hit Germany First Blast   Flying Fortresses, Liberators Attack Naval Bases Of Nazi Homeland.   BRITISH HIT LORIENT

Yanks Bomb German Cities   First American Air Attack on German Homeland

Naval Sites Objectives Of Attack   ‘Reported As First Attack  By Army’s Air Force  On German Homeland

U.S. PLANES HIT TARCETS IN REICH   Americans Raid Naval z: stallations in First Blow: or German Homeland

U. S. Bombers In Attack on Germany   First Blast by Americans at Nazi Homeland; Action Follows Forays by RAF Against Submarine Base.

U.S. Heavy Bombers Attack Naval Installations Of Nazis   Biact Amoricean Ramhing Of Carman Hameland   First American Bombing Of German Homeland Is Carried Out Today By Our Air Forces

U.S. Bombers Attack U-Boat Bases Tn First Raid On German Homeland

U.S, BOMBERS. RAID GERMANY   Sub Centers Thought Chosen for Assaults

U.S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   First Attack On German Homeland; Naval Installations Hit.

Naval Installations, Believed To Be U-Boat Centers, Attacked By Heavy Bombers, Flying Fortresses and Liberators.

RAIDS ON GERMANY   U. S. Heavy Bombers At: tack Naval Installations in Reich

American Heavy Bombers Blast Naval Installations In Reich For First Time During Battle

Bold Daylight Assault May Presage Around Clock Attack; United Nations Forces Are Continuing Squeeze In North Africa

First Raid By Air Force On Homeland   Naval Installations, Believed to Be Sub Centers, Made Targets

FLYING FORTS RAID GERMANY IN FIRST TRIE      Americas ‘Bomb «Targets In Reich, Make First At tack On Homeland of Hitlerites’   HIT SUB BASES   Using: More: Liberators In  Attack On U-Boat Bases   On-Nazi-Held French  Coast

Army Air Force Giants  Spill Bombs On Reich   First All-U. S. Attack Believed Aimed At German U-Boat Centers.

304 MILLION STATE BUDGET TO BE OFFERED   Total Close To That O* Last , Biennium Provides Salary Increases   ) TIME CHANGE STUDIED   Probable Passage Indicated Next Week, To Become Effective Feb. 7

BIENNIAL BUDGET MAY BE HEADACHE FOR THE ASSEMBLY)   Biggest Task of the Session Faces Legislators-Time Change Alse a Worry,

Change in Time May Take Effect Sunday, Feb. 7   Assembly Expected To Complete Action Late Next Week

DHIO ASSEMBLY FACES BUDGET PROBLEM NEXT   Time Bill Slated Te Pass, Take Kffect February 7

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT™ There Must Be A Limit

WILL STEP UP “PACIEIC DRIVE   U. S. to Intensify Its Major Effort Against Japs, Knox Declares

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ESSEN RAIDED BY BRITISH BOMBERS      Great Damage Reported Caused in the Industrial Area

R. A. F. Pounds Essen Area   Krupp Arsenal Site Hit by Big Bombs

British Planes Set Mighty Essen Aflame   Great Arsenal City In Ruhr Suffers Devastating Raid

Essen Works Raided By British   Great Fires Left in Key Industrial City by Bombers

Essen Pounded  Hard by RAF   Seven of 150 Bombers Lost—Large Fires Left Rezing

150 BOMBERS STRAFE ESSEN; 7 LOST IN RAID   Lighted Fires Seen 100 Miles Distant From Great Industrial Area Of The Ruhr.   5th in 7 Nights

RAF Pours Big  Bombs on Essen   Home of Krupp Works Blasted in Night

F BOMBERS BLAST ESSEN   British Planes Leave Big Fires Raging Throughout Industrial Area

KRUPP PLANTS HIT BY R. A. F   Gun Works Blasted In 50th Raid On Essen; 7 Bombers Lost In Force Of 150

WARNING AGAINST SUBSIOY PROGRAM   Amendment Would Prevent Lend Lease for Food for Other Nations,

Red Flag Warning Against Subsidies Hoisted in House on Lease-Lend Bil

Pepper Blasts — Hoover Proposal   “RATION WAR EFFORT” OPPOSED BY U. S. SENATOR

HOOVER WRONG, PEPPER CLAIMS   But Vandenberg Backs Him on Well-Balanced Program

PEPPER FLAYS HOOVER VIEWS OVER WAR AINE   Senator-Disagrees With Former President Allies, Should Delay Knockout of Enemy’   FOR QUICK VICTORY   Senator Vandenberg. Approves Hoover's Approach to Problem for Decisive Outcome

Allies Raid Heavily Over New Guinea   Hit, $,000-Tonner. Possi bly Plane Tender, at Rabaul

Heavy Bomber  Strikes Rabaul   Several Vessels Believed Hit By Allies Craft In * “Kpur-Hour Attack

ALLIES RAID RABAUL 4TH DAY IN ROW   Hit 8,000-Tonner, Raid Three Others; No Fighters Appear

ALLIED HEAVY BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACKRABAUL   Major William G. Benn Lost On Survey Flight

British Stull 6 Miles From  Tunis Border   LeClere’s Army With Allies After 1500 “ile March

DESERT ARMIES DRIVE 30 MILES BEYOND TRIPOLI   French Soldiers From South Join Gen. Montgomery

FRENCH REAC CITY TO JOIN TUNISIA FIGHT   End 1,500-Mile Drive From Lake Chad — Rommel’s Fleeing Cols umns Under a Fierce Aerial Harassment,

U. S. Trap For Romme' Is Seen   American Tanks May Try to Cut Ott Nazi Retreat

British Keep Hard on Heels Of Rommel   Occupy Coastal Town 30 Miles West of Tripoli in Advance

Rommel Chase ls Pursued relentlessly   Bad Weather Continues To Restrict Activity On Tunisian Warfront

BRITISH PRESSING FLEEING FORCES OF MARSHAL ROMMEL  FIGHTING FRENCH REAC

Main Pursuit Stil Short of Tunisiz   British Eighth Army Is 60 Miles Short of Tunisian  Frontier   LE CLERC AT TRIPOLI   Bad Weather Restricts Air and Ground Activities on the Front

American Troops Join French In Savage Assault on Nazis In Ousseltia Area of Tunisia - -

Fighting French Now In Tripoli   Bad Weather Restricts Activity on Tunisian Front

British In Pursuit, But Rommel’s Legs Still Churning Fast   Eighth Army Occupies Town 30 Miles West Of Tripoli—French Column Reaches New Allied Base—Weather Interferes With Tunisian Campaign.

French Forces Reach Tripoli To Join Battle   Part of Rommel’s Retreating Army Struggles Through Zuaro; Ship Sent Dowr

British Pursue Axis Forces into Tunisia  Climactic Battle to Cut Off

OF TRIPOLI OCCUPIED BY BRITISH   Report Rommel Personally Has Fled To Tunisia   WEATHER SLOWS ACTION

Heavy Blow Dealt In Ousseltia Area   British Troops Contact Fugitives at Zuara, End of Railwa,   American Airmen Bag 21 Planes, Lose None   Giraud Camel Corps Aims To Ontflank ‘Little Masinet? Line

Press in On Rommel In Africa   French and Americans ‘On South and British on East Draw Noose Ever Tighter Around Axis

Chase After  Rommel Continues   British Sweeping Across Tunisia in Great Drive; American Troops Aid French in Spirited Battling

Fighting French Column Joins With British for War on Fleeing Germans

British Push Thirty Miles Past Tripol   Capture Of Zauia_ Places Montgomery's Troops 60 Miles From Tunisia,   LECLERC JOINS ALLIES

French Forces Join British Near Tripoli   Bad Weather Slows Yank Fighting On Tunisia Front

British Pursue Axis Forces Into Tunisia  Climactic Battle   Climactic Battle to Cut Off Retreat Foreseen

U.S. French Jolt  Germans Hard in Central Tunisia  Partly Close Corridor Of Escape of 70.000 To Aid Von Arnim Arm  NAVY ASSISTS  Prevents Foes’ Efforts To Escape Zuara Port In Small Boats

REUTERS SAYS IT IS LIKELY SOME OF BRITISH RECONNAISSANCE CARS HAVE ALREAY CROSSED — TUNISHA.

A VANGUARD OF THE BRITISH ARMY  REACHES ZANIA   Pressing Westward in Pursuit * of Marshal Rommel’s Troops.   A SMALL COASTAL TOWN   Fighting French Columns From African Interior Reaches Tripoli.

Pursuit Of Rommel Is Continued   British Eighth Army Is 60 Miles From Tunisian Border In Westward Drive

AMERICAN ARMORED UNIT AIDS FRENCH IN TUNISIAN ENCOUNTER   Eighth Army Chases Rommel’s Africa Corps Across Border; Yank Planes Down 19 Foe Craft at Bizerte

GRILL SUSPECT INFARM DEATHS   Elderly Man, Close Acquaintance of McCoys, Faces Lie Detector

LIE DETECTOR USED ON McCOY CASE SUSPECT   Officers Drill Man, Intimate of Murdered Family, at Toledo

AgedFriend Of Wealthy Family Held   Man Is Taken “To Toledo For Further Grijling

FATHER OF THREE OLEKS INDUCTION   Fears Congress May. Pass Law Preventing Draft of Fathers. i

200 Methodists at ParleyHere   Twenty Churches _Represented At. Annual Youth Fellowship

Angry Servicemen Out to Get Quaker City Cop  Beating of Marine Said to Be Cause of Rioting

Reds Take 100 Places, Push Drive’   Russians Envelop Vvazma, Last Nazi Fort in Salient Threatening Moscow

REDS CAPTURE 100 PLACES AS NAZIS RUN   Vyazma, Last Nazi Stronghold In Central Front Salient, Is Reclaimed, Russian Bulletin Announces.   Germans Admit Loss

Presses Toward Vyazma Killing 4,800 Germans,  Gains in Other Regions

Vyazma Being Enveloped by Red Forces   Timoshenko in North Captures Strongly Fortified Point

Reds Seize Nearly 100  More Towns   Germans Losing Equipment, Men On Most of Front

Last Stronghold In Central Area Occupied by Reds   Soviet Troops Envelope Vyazma in Continuing Long Advance   Germany Explains Retrea as According to Plan

Reds Forge Or To Take Many  Nazi Positions   But German Resistance Is Stiffening And Berlin Claims Losses of Foe in Great Battle Are Heavier

SOVIETS EXPAND THEIR GRIP IN GZHATSK SECTOR   Hundreds Of Enemy Dead Litter Field After Capture Of One Town   RUSSIANS ADVANCING ON STARAYA RUSSA

Hitler's Shivering Troops: Retreat at Accelerat- ed Pace   TIMOSHENKO FORCES } GRIND FORWARD:   Numerous Locations Are Taken by Advancing  Forees

TremendousBattleRagesas Three Russian Forces Move In Pincer Move Against Kiev

REDS FAN OUT IN ATTEMPT TO  ENCIRCLE KIEV   Bridgeheads North and South of Ukranian Capital Now Believed Secure   ADVANCE IN NORTH   Threat lo Baltic Bastion Grows While Russians Try Famous Tactics from Captured Nevel

Nazis Hurl Great Weight Against Reds   Striving to Prevent Huge Pincer From Clamping On Dnieper Bases

Russ Tighten Huge Pincers About Kiev   Sermans Falling Back to Next River To Make New Stond

Terrific Battle For Kiev Raging Near River Bank   Nazis Try to Prevent Russians F rom Clamping Pincers on City.   Reds Are Enlarging River Bridgeheads

1,341 Mile Pipe Line Completed   NEAR PHOEMAX VILLE WITH DIGNATAR(£S PRESENT TO WITNESS WELDING OF FINAL LINK.   Powerful Cranes

BIG PIPELINE IS COMPLETED   Ickes Warns That Huge Flow Of Oil Not  For Civilians

Oil Pipeline to East Completed   Ickes Says Fuel Not for Civilicns

BIG INCH OIL LINETOEAST ~—{S FINISHED   Ickes Warns, However, Gas Is Not for Pleasure Driving

Big Inch’ Pipeline ls Completed = To Aid War Effort  Fehee Warne Fact   Ickes Warns East Not to Seek Fuel For Pleasure Riding

IS COMPLETED   Ickes Warns that It Does Not Mean More Gasoline  For Civilian Use

Ickes Reveals — ‘Big Inch’ Oil Not For Public   Czar Says Jast-Finished

BIG INCH BUILT FOR 95 MILLION   Oil Pipeline Completed From Longview, Texas, To Pennsylvania

U. S, DISTRICT COURT UPHOLDS PRESS RIGHTS   Associated Press Given 120 Davs To Make Change

AP ORDERED 10 CHANGE BY-LAWS   RIGHT TO PASS UPON ADMISSION UPHELD BY COURT

AP IS UPHELD BY RULING OF FEDERAL COURT      Decision, ~ However Will Force Certain Changes

COURT UPHOLDS RIGHTS OF AP   Changes in Form of By-laws Directed, However, To Avoid Anti-trust Law Violation

U. S. BUSINESS MEN TO TACKLE PEACE PROBLEMS   NEW ORGANIZATION PREPARES NOW FOR POSTWAR INDUSTRY

British Raiders Rain Bombs ‘On U-Boat Nest   Nazi Industries Also Feel Fury Of RAF Attacks

BRITISH BLAST NAZI SUB NEST   RAF Flyers Deliver Hard Blows at Lorient and Western Germany

Allies Pour More  Bombs on Europe   Lorient and Western Germany Attacked

LORIENT SUB BASE BLASTED   U-Boat Pens Hammered Fourth Time In 10 Days; New Raids  Indicated

LORIENT BASE IS BLASTED BY RAF   Two Smashing Blows Are Dealt German War Machine -—

LORIENT U-BOAT BASE ATTACKED   Cargo Of Bombs Is Also Dropped On Industrial Western Germany

RAF Hammers  West Germany      Heaviest Bombers Unleash Weight of Explosives On Lorient Base

NAZIS. BLOWS AT LORIENT   Radio Stations At Berlin, Koenizsberg, Leipzig, Stuttgart And Luxembourg Off Air Sunday Night.   U-Boat Nest

R.A. F. Pours More Bombs on Germany   Lorient Sub Base, Industries Raided

Lorient Target of Allied Airmen In Hot Bombing  _ Western Reich Points  Also Given  Serious Strafing

HEAVY RECEIPTS BREAK HOG DAM   Markets See End of Fear That U. S. Will Face Pork Shortage

FATHER DRAFT: DELAY ASKEL   WHEELER FROPOSES . DEFER: _ MENTS UNTIL NEXT YEAR , “° —ADVANCE EXAMINA ~- TIONS ALSO AD-  VOCATED 

Allies Only 2  Miles From Lae   Dispatches Say Death Trap Was Being Tightened On 20.000 Japs.

ALLIES DRAW TRAP TIGHTER ON LAE   Remnants Of 20,000 Jap  Garrison Doomed

‘DEATH TRAP IS TIGHTENING ON JAPS AT LAE   Allied Jungle Fighters Only 2 Miles From Center Big Jap Citadel

Allied Troops Push In to Two Miles From Lae's Center   New Raids on Burma Revealed; Jap-Russia Clash Is Reported

Tightening Death Trap Around Japs   llied Jungle Fighters Are ag Two Miles From Citadel of Lae.

Italian Cities Rocked By Series Of Bombings   Shattering Assaults on Naples and-Toe Cities Report- ed—American Twin-Engined Mitchells ” Join in the Assaults .

Bombers Rock Italy in Heavy Altacks   American. British Whipsaw Action From Many Bases

BOMBERS ROCK PORT OF NAPLES   Other Italian Points Also Suffer Assaults

Allied Raiders Rock Italy; 20  Planes Bagged   Vital Factory Area Of Naples Left in Flames: Toe Cities And Others Battered

Allied Planes Strike Deep At Axis Supply   Naples and Foggia Battered by Air Fleets

Naples And Toe Cities Battered   Great Fires Roar In Factory Areas

BOMBERS ROCK NAPLES WITH HEAY RAID   Hundreds of Tons of Bombs Are Dropped

Naples One Main Target And 25 Great Fires Set By Yanks and British

Italian Mainland Rocked by Allies In Whipsaw Raid   Waves Of American And British Bombers Las! At Naples, Several Southern Towns; Sicilian Communications Hit

Damage Is Heavy At Naples   il oe Bases, Othe Centers Are Qhattered

Allied Bombers Batter Italy   Naples, Toe Cities Heavily Assaulted

Allies Bomb Italy In Waves   Mainland Rocks With Shattering Raids In Important Cities

ROCK NAPLES AND iTALIAN TOE CITIES   WavesOf AmericanAndBritish Bombers Strike From North Africa And Middle East   Railroads Strafed

Naples, Two Toe  Cities Assaulted  Whipsaw Attacks Made  From Afries. Malte

25 HUGE FIRES SET IN NAPLES BY AIR RAIDERS      Allies Make Shatter:  Attacks Ales  On Toe Cities

MacArthur Cuts Japs From Bases   Salamaua Attack Only Diversion Before Surprise Allied Move

ALLIES PUSH BACK,RETRACE DEFEAT TRAIL   Reach Farther Toward Sidi Bouzid From Sbeitla In Central Tunisia; Put Pres  sure On Nazis.   Wither Nazi Offensive

Allies Drive Forward in Tunisia Area   Troops Push Toward Sidi Bouzid: British Put Pressure on Foe in Northern Sector

MNUTT HAS FIVE POINTS ABOUT WAR   Labor Given List of “Musts” On Speeding Materials In Winning War.

TANK FORCES IN BITTER BATTLE   Escape Corridor For Nazis Narrowed In Gomel Area

Violent Combat At Two Points In Dnieper Sector   Moscow Reports Nazi Forces  Retreating In White Russia Area   BAD WEATHER IS SLOWING ACTION

REDS AND NAZIS MIX AT 2 POINTS ALONG DNIEPER   Three Other Soviet Columns Push Along Gomel-Minsk Railroad

REDS CHECKED ~ ATTWOPOINTS   Nazis’ Resistance Strong  at Kremenchug and Cherkassy

Kilday Draft Bill Opens Final Week In Congress Before Easter Holiday

Kilday Draft Deferment Measure Up   Would Require Quotas Be Filled on State Wide Basis

English City of Hull Bombed  Casualties Mount After Thousands of a Sa . Soe mone 

Cotton Spinning Industry Runs At 129P.C. Capacity   Census Bureau October Renort

Canadians  Repulse Attack North of Agone   British 8th Army Forces Push Closer to Alfedena

Canadians Halt Nazi Attack on ltalian Front  . Action Reported ~~

BATTLEFIELD INITALY A SEA OF MUD   Canadian Troops Repulse German Counter-Attack

PRISONERS IN GERMANY REVOLTING   Serious Problem to Nazis on Their Home Front 

SOLDIER KILLED IN BUS ACCIDENT   15 Others Injured as Bus And Truck Collide

Two Big Red Cities Lost By Germans   Bryansk, Bezhitsa Seized; Soviets Nearer Dnieper

Soviets Take Bryansk in Powerful Drive   Russians Smash to Within 35 Miles of Dnieper River

Enemy Races Away From Soviet Drive   Russians Speed Army Across Ukraine; Many Villages Fall

[Russians Announce Capture   Of Bryansk In Day Of Gains   Crashing successes Along 600 Mile Front Reported in Moscow Communique—Salvoes Thundered Durina Day

BRYANSK AND BIZHITSA ARE CAPTURED   Day Marked by Crashing  Successes All Along 600Mile Front; Nazis Fall Back in Many Sectors.   Maior Milestone

RED BLOWS SEND GERMANS RACING TOWARD DNIEPER   Hurried Flight From Sector After Sector Indicated as Soviets Overrun Hun dreds of Towns, .   STRONG FORTRESS OF BRYANSK FALLS   Six Enemy Divisions Routed in Battle for City—Russians Only 55 Miles From Kiev.

Soviets Report Bryansk Capture; Red Armies Push Toward Dnieper in South   BULLETINS

Soviet Forces Race Germans To the Dnieper   Smashing Victories Along Entire 600 Mile Front Friday

REDS CAPTURE BRYANSK FORT   Nazis Fall Back In Race For Dnieper; Broad Gains Made

Celebrating red victory at Bryansk.   Collapses entire German defense

Capture o f Bryansk Con firmed By Rapidly Advancing Soviets.   Sister City Also Taken, Other Columus 35 Miles From Vital Dnieper River

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Reds Smash On Beyond Bryansk   Race For Dniéper Started ‘By Nazis

Montgomery Orders Men to Knock Italy Out of War: Speculate On Part American Troops Will Play   Scilla and Reggio Calabria Fall to British and Canadian Invaders; Airmen Report Success; Prepared for Bitter Resistance

KNOCK ITALY OUT OF WAR, ARMIES TOLD   TWO PORTS FALL; INVASION IN FULL SWING

Returning Fliers Report Cor tinuing Success Of Assault: On Italian Mainland = ©

Eighth Army is Reported To Have Gained Foothold On First Day of Invasion   Airmen Tell of Success of British And Canadians; Berlin Admits Two Towns on “Toe” Lost

Scilla, Reggio Calabria Reported in Hands of Canadians and British   No Official Statement by Allies, but Germany Admits Progress Is Being Made by ‘Superior Forces’; Returning Airmen Report Lack of Enemy Aerial Opposition over Italy   Ry FNDWARD KENNEDY

British And Canadians Push Inland Following Storming Of Beaches   Scilla and Reggio Calabria, 12 Miles Apart, Fall, Berlin Reports; Landing Is Supported By Air-Sea Force

TO PLUNGE UNDER GENERAL MONTGOMERY ON LONG ROAD TO ROME; TO “KNOCK ITALY OUT OF WAR.”

Nazis Say Two Cities Are Taken   Montgomery Urges Men On Far Kis}

Alhes Gain Bridgenends On Italian Toe Across Strait  British and Canadians Forge Way Inland Under Montgomery, But Details Lacking  FURTHER LANDINGS BY ALLIES LIKELY  e we te 4&2. . Fy.

British, Canadians Rout Germans From Posts in Rapid Advance; Orders Say ‘Wipe “Em Out of War’

Berlin Claims Fall Of Ports Of Scilla And Reggio Calabria   AERIAL AND NAVAL SUPPORT IS STRONG

Troops Plunge Inland in Giant Move   Montgomery Admonishes Army to Knoel Italy Out of War; Enemy Admits Loss of Two Ports; More Action Due

Troops Seeking To ‘Knock Italy Out’   Scilla And Reggio Calabria Fall Before Heavy Allied Acsaulte On Italy Mainland

GAS COUPON NO. 7 WORTH 4 GALLONS NEXT 2 MONTHS   Proper Endorsement Must Be Made Now On Every Ticket

Arkansas River Flood Spreads Death, Damage  Six Known Dead. 2.   —  Six Known Dead, 22  Missing in Eastern  Part of Oklahoma FORT SMITH SUFFERS  600 Blocks Inundated 100 Square Miles of Farm Land Covered

New Shuffling Of Jap Cabinet Told   Gen. Sano Named Chief Of Staff

24-DEGREE LOW POSSIBLE HERE   Monday Night’s Minimum In Area Was 36

MANY STATES * ~ BEING SWEPT BY BLIZZARDS   FREEZING WEATHER AND SNOWSTORMS CAUSING DEATHS AND DISRUPT ING HIGHWAY TRAFFIC

Blizzards Hit Midwest Area   Winter Strikes Midwest States Considerably Head Of Schedule   ROADS SNOW-BOUND IN SEVERAL SECTIONS

Americans Advance 7 Miles Into Sicilian Mountains; Axis Defense Stiffening   Another Airdrome Falls Into Hands Of Patton’s Troops; 24 Towns In Island Now In Possession Of Allies; Catania British Objective

Yankees Take Another Axis Airfield   Parachutists Are Dropped Behind the Enemy’s Lines

RACE WITH BRITISH FOR CATANIA PLAIN WHERE ALLIED CHUTISTS AND GLIDER TROOPS HAVE LANDED BEHIND ENEMY LINES.

Major Battle Forming In Plains at Catani:   Americans Plunge 7 Miles Further In Hill After Taking Another Island "Drome 8th Army Breaks Attack

Counter-Blow By Defenders Is Repulsed By British   American Troops Push Deeper into Mountains  As British Advance TT Arcane VUttnl Catarwia   PARACHUTISTS DROP BEHIND ENEMY LINES

British Coastal Armies Still Batter Toward Catania  PARACHUTISTS DROP BEHIND ENEMY LINES  Another Italian General and His Staff Sur. render

Americans Take Another Airport In Sicily Drive  Parachutists And Glider Troops Dropped Behind  Gn op SE eee eee

MAJOR FIGHT DEVELOPS ON CATANIA PLAIN   GENERALS GIVE UP; BRITISH REPULSE AXIS THRUSTS

Americans in Seven-Mile Gain Take Airport; Airborne Troops Again Dropped Back of Foe Lines

PUSH DEEPER INTO SICILY HILL COUNTRY   Montgomery’s Army Repulses Stiff CounterAttack and Continues Drive on Catania.   AXIS PREPARES TO MAKE STAND   Parachutists Dropped Behind Enemy’s Lines for What Is Expected to Be a Major Battle.

Allies Lunge On In Sicily   Chutists And Glider Troops Drop Behind Enemy's Lines

Americans Advance 7 Miles In Race With British Troops Striking Toward Catania Area

eYanks, British Racing Toward “Catania Plain   8th Army Repulses Stiff Axis Counter Attack, Moves on

Major Battle Pends on Catania Plain   Yanks, British Push Drives; *Chatists Land

Armies Work Together For Advance   Parachutists Drop Behind Lines; Bia Battle Is Seen

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DUCES PURGE HINTS SPLIT OVER POLICY   Mussolin Gusts Ciano and 11 Others to Strengthen Pro-Axis Stand.

PERSONNEL GROWS AT WAAC CENTER   Young Negro Recruit Gives Birth To Baby.

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SUBSTITUTE FOR HUXMAN   Judge Chandler May Hear Topeka Grand Jury Report

EIGHTH ARMY CUT DEEP SWATH INTO ENEMY POSITIONS   Seized Positions Overlooking Sangro River and Heights Bevond.   CONTINUE BIG DRIVE   Germans Are Reported Establishing Eastern Anchor of “Winter Defense Line.”

Other Russians Push On Toware  Baltic Regions   Drive Battered Nazi Remnants Beyond Kiev

SUBMARINES DESTROY SEVEN VESSELS IN ATTACK ON JAPS SUPPLY LINES IN PACIFIC   Gen. MacArthur's Planes Mass New Assault On Japanese Base At Lae   News From War Front

U.S. CONTINUES TO HARASS JAP SUPPLY LINES   Long Range Subs Sink Seven Enemy Vessels, Including Destroyer

ATK. U. CONVOCATION   English Woman Addressed Students Yesterday Afternoon

WLB Formally Recognized  IBy UMW Head   Lewis Agrees To Appear In Move That May Lead To Coal Mine Peace

LEWIS AGREES TO APPEARANCE BEFORE BOARD   Head Of Miners Wants Ta Present Medel For Setthing Coal Dispute   AUGUST 3 SET BY WLB FOR HEARING

LEWIS READY 10 PUT ISSUE UPTO BOARD   Mine Union Leader Formally Recognizes War Labor Board   LONG FEUD ENDED FOR THE MOMENT   Offer Made to Appear ir Support of New Mine Contract

LEWIS TO END FEUD WITH WLE   Head Of UMW Offers To Come Before Board With Contract

Lewis Places Illinois Pact . Before WLE   UMW Leader Recognizes Board’s Authority  BR. Antenm

Lewis Agrees To Meet With Labor Board   Recognition Giver Unit's Power To  Q, 1 henan ~~

AGREES TO GO BEFORE WLB ON COAl   Lifts Big Obstacle As He Had Been orn

Lewis Formally Recognizes WLB And Will Testif   Passage of Smith-Connal ly Act Believed To Have Changed His Mind

John L. Lewis Ends Feud With W.LB.   Head of Miners Now Recognizes Board Authority

Lewis Recognizes WLB, Agrees To Attend Hearing   Mine Leader’s Decision Lifts Big Obstacle To Settling Strife  OFFER IN WRITING  Union Men to Back Model Contract Drawn in Illinois

Aged Clearfield R. D. Man Struck By Express Train And Killed Instantly      Que stion Whether Miners Woulk Liced F.D.R. Plea Unsettled

MANY MINERS WOULD NOT HEED ORDER   Men Would Do Anything—But Work For Nothing

MINERS MAY SPURN FDR WORK APPEAL   Some, Apparently, Would Refuse, Others Are Doubtful

Robinson ‘Guilty’ In Stoll Kidnaping   Jury Recommends Southerner Be Hanged

HITLER’S NEW OFFENSIVE ON RUSSIAN FRONT MAY REALLY BE TERMED DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS

Seeks to Cut Off and Kill the Russians   Hitler Apparently Trying the Biggest-Scale Mass Slaughter Ever Attempted   WOULD IMPROVE POSITION IN WEST   All Braggadecio Gone, the Fuehrer Now Makes Ficeht for Survival

ANALYSIS   Hitler's Drive In Russia Infiended To Annihilate Reds, Get Stalemate

UNDERGROUND READY TO ACT   Anti-Fascists Demand Peace; Broadcasts  Call For Revolt

Non-Stop Alr Offensive Is Preporing Way for Aljied Invasion, Griion Declares

hegistration for Ration Book  to Close Tonight “49,000 Residents   “49,000 Residents Have Secured Necessary Stamns

Registration for Ration Book to Close Tonight  49,000 Residents Have Secured Necessary Stamps

Russians Take Kiev,  Doom Nazi Armies   Nazis Forced To Flee Ancient Capital After Smashing Surprise Attack; Red Victory Destroys Last Enemy Defense Line

GATES OPENED TO POLAND AND BALKAN AREAS   Fourteen German Divisions Are Routed In Great Red Triumph

VOTE FOLLOWS LAST-MINUTE MESSAGE BY FR   Ignores President's Criticism ef Strike-Vote Provision In 2-Vote Victory

OTAIKE CURB AAINS PRAISED. BY ROOSEVELT   Upper Chamber Votes 56 to 25 to Pass -Anti-Strike Measure,   PRESIDENT ASKS FOR. INDUCTION PENALTIES

Formally Recommends Draft Act Change To Include Induction Of Strikers Up To 65

FDR SAYS ACT WOULD FOSTER LABOR UNREST   Fate of Proposal Now Rests on Vote of Lower House

Oct. 31 Date Not Recognized Or Accepted By Executive. Coal Must Be Mined   MANY PERSONS FORGET WAR IS ON, HE STATES   Miners Returning To Work But Absentees Still Are In Maiority

Votes to Make Measure Law Over the President's "Opposition  ie VOTE. 5¢ 56 TO: 25  Roosevelt Sends i in Veto, Calls for Draft Law _ Amendment .

President Says Bill Would Only Stimulate Unrest   Chief Executive Calls for Work or Fight Provisions

Says Connally Measure Might Cause Added Work-Tie-Ups   ‘Direct Approach Necessary to Insure Production’

Won't Recognize Deadline as Set By “al Miners   t Stirred vy Situation

Votes to Make Measure Law Over the President's  ition  THE VOTE 56 TO. 25      Roosevelt Sends in Veto Calls for Draft Law Amendment

Less Than Half of 530,000 Workers  > ee ee ee Ue   ANTI-STRIKE BILL VETOED RV EDP

SENATE VOTES TO OVERRIDE ROOSEVELT ACT   Thinks Bill Would Be Cause of Strikes ‘in Certain Cases  a ee

ASKS CONGRESS TO LIFT DRAFT AGE, 45 T0 65  FDR SAYS HE WILL   FDR SAYS HE WILL USE GOV'T POWERS TO CURB STRIKES

FDR Says Law Would Stimulate “Labor Unrest”  President Prefers Army ' Curb Walkouts

OVERRIDES . ANTL-STRIKE: BILL ACTION      Solons Act 5 Minutes After Being Told Measur Would Encourag Walkouts — The Vote Te AR tn 95.

Roosevelt Vetoes Anti-Strike Bill, Fearing Draft Provision Would Produce Labor Revol}<   Murray Joins President in Demand For Rollback and Subsidy Program

PRESIDENT VETOED ANTI-STRIKE BILL IN SENATE MESSAGE  SENATE QUICKLY VOTES TO OVERRIDE PRESIDEN: TAT NICADPRNVAT

Measure Re-Passed By Senate   By Vote’of 56 to 25; Now on Way to House; FDR Sayg Bill Would © Stir Labor Unrest

FDR Requests Labor Drait   .. Administration Hopes House Will Sustain Chief

President Roosevelt Vetoed Today = the Connally Anti-Strike Measure; Would Amend Selective Service Act

Strike Measure Vetoed   President Expresses Fear Legislation Would Cause War Plant Walkouts.   SENATE DEFEATS VETO

What House Will Do Now  s Uncertain   Senate Acts Five. Minutes After Receiving : Message: From White House   ROOSEVEEE MOVE . IS NO SURPRISE   President Recommends: Plas. for Draft:-Revision Cover: ine Strikes, Stoppages

FDR VETOES ANTI-STRIKE LABOR BILL   Chief Executive Says Measure Has Praiseworth: Purpose But Might in Some Case Produce Strike In Vital War Plants

WOULD CAUSE STRIKES--FOR   Intends to Use Powers of Government to Prevent interruptions.   ASKS DRAFT CHANGES

Coal Operators And United Mine Workers To Confer   Will Begin Discussions To day on Union's Demand for Wage Increases

Triumphant Red Army Plunges After Fleeing Nazis; Many Vital Localities Fall

Soviets Take Key Towns In Swift Push   Smash Forward At Rate of Mile Per Hour

Congress, FDR, Slug It Out To a Draw In  Stormiest Political Bout Since New Deal

Coneress Takes Vacation After Stormy Session   Committees Of Congress Work Through Summer

Congress Goes Home For First Vacation Since Fall Of 1939   Both Senate, House Decide In Favor Of Subsidy Roll. Back On Retail Food Prices

CONGRESS WINDS UP ~ BUSINESS   Solons Go Home ‘Mad’ After Bittler Fight On Subsidy Plan

CONGRESS NOW IN RECESS FOR SUMMER MONTHS      Goes Home “Mad” Because 0 Administration Win On ast Issne

Congress Goes Home Mad, Loses On Subsidies Issue   Long Tug-Of-War Wit F. D, Ends Thursday In Virtual Draw

Cong. Takes First Vacation Since .’39   Legislators Wind Up First Six Months Angry

Recess Sends Congressmen Home In ‘Huff   Administration Op position Loses Fight To Outlaw Food Price Subsidies   WAR BILLIONS VOTED   Investigating Committees Will Continue Probes During Summer Vacation

Congress Lakes Holiday With subsidy Settled  Salons Withdray   Solons Withdraw By 34-33 Vote Price Objections

CONGRESS HOME, SUBSIDY PLANS GIVEN APPROVAL   Legislators Take First Vaca: ’ tion Since Germans Entered Poland.

President Says Mussolini to Be Punished   Declares I] Duce’s Fall Is First Crack in the Axis

PUNISHMENT FACES ALL AXIS LEADERS         ‘Chief Cites Red Counter Offensive Manner In Which Japanese Pressed In Pacific.

F.D.R. Paints Rosy-Hued War Picture In Radio Talk   Insists United Nations Will Settle Conflict On No Terms Less Than Total Victory.  SAYS MUSSOLINI WILL BE PUNISHED  Offers 6-Point Plan For Post-War Care Of Our Servicemen

Declares Dictators -Will Be Punished; Promises Much To U. 5S, Service Men

'Duce’s Punishment  Promised by FDR  Plan to Aid Veterans ae 8 fp

President Has Rosy Plans For America  Axis Is Crumbling   Axis Is Crumbling Chief Says; Better Day Is Due

‘First break in axis has come; to punish fascists for crime’   Says no criminal will be allowed to escape by ‘expedient of resignation’

President Has Rosy Plans For America   Axis Is Crumbling Chief Says; Better Day Is Due

First Crack in Axis Front Has Come, President States; Outlines Six Point Plan for:Fighting Men

FIRST CRACK IX AXIS IS HERE ASSERTS FOR   Chief Executive Broadcasts Analysis Of War Promising “Mussolini And Fascist Gang” Would Be Punish'=4   Far From Objective

FD.R. SAYS QUITTING WIL NOT SAVE HIM   President Tells Nation First Crack in Axis Has Come — Repeats Policy of Unconditional Surrender.   PAINTS A ROSY-HUED PICTURE OF THE WAR   ‘Warns, However, That It Will Not Be an Easy Matter to Knock Out Hitler and His Gang, Toio and Nips. :

Red Army Seeks To Trap Fleeing Nazis Columns   Germans Fleeing From Rostov Area May Be Caught By Russian Move   REPORT FIGHTING IN KHARKOV OUTSKIRTS

NAZI FORGES NeAn ROGTOY An FLEEING   Red Army Columns Sweeping Forward to Halt De-moralized Ge. mans.   IN THE DONETS BASIN   Other Russians Are Incréasing Pressure on City of Kharkov.

WLB ULTIMATUM SENDS MINERS INTO MASS MEET   Government Seizure Of Anthracite Mines Likely if Men Fail Tc Return to Work

Call Miners To Meetings   Trucks in Mines Sought; WLB Hints Seizure of Colleries

Seizure Of Mines Threat By U. S. Is Spur To Strikers   Consider Settlement As FDR Asked To Intervene

Anthracite Miners Meet To Discuss Settlement , Of Strike After WLB Hints Appeal To Roosevelt ,

MINERS STILL OUT   WLB May: Ask President to Step: in to Settle Coal Mine: Tie-Up

Striking Miners Called To Mass Meetings; WLB Hints  ‘Emergency Mine Seizure

Mass Meetings Called In Wilkes-Barre Section, As Labor Board Acts In Stoppaves   SHORTAGE OF FUEL IN EAST IS CITED   John L. Lewis and Heads Of Coal Companies Get Telegrams; Roosevelt May Get Request

Possibility Of Seizure Spurs Move   Call Mass Meetings After ~ - WLB Hints It May Ask President To End Strike

WLB Hints Plea For Government To Seize Mines   Strikers Called To Consider End To Walkout

Miners Called To Meetings   To Consider Possible Truce In Strike

Miners Meet To Consider Coal Truce   WLB Hints It May Ask President To Seize Colleries

STRIKING MINERS CONSIDERING TRUCE   Studying Possible Settle ment After WLB Hinted Federal Seizure

Miners Called; Into Meetings   Hint That FDR May Take Hand In Strike Stirs Up Union. Heads

Coal Strikers Gather To  Consider Truce   Government Seizure Of Mines Is [oe a 

Hint U. S. Seizure of Strike-bound Mines   Local Unions Consider Possible Truce in Anthracite Fields :

MINERS MEET TO CONSIDER STRIKE TRUCE   Leaders of Anthracite Groups Cal! Sessions After WLB Threat of Intervention   MAY SEIZE MINES   WLB Acts After Strike Certified tc It by Labor Secretary—Threat ens War's Prosecution

MAY ASK PRESIDENT STOP MINE STRIKE   WLB Threatens to Exercise All Power Under Jurisdiction; Miners Still Out

CLOSED MINES MAY BE SEIZED   Government Takes Hand in Unauthorized Strike In Pennsylvania

FDR MAY ENTER GOAL DISPUTE   Striking Miners Called te Mass Meeting To Consider Truce

NO PERMITS THIS, YEAR   ‘Shawnee County Clerk Says Fire crackers Not: Needed 

FEDERAL TAX DUE   Pay-As-You-Go Installment Must Be In Under Line, December 15

Quote Bible tn Opposing Divorce Bill   Proposal To Make. Insanity Grounds For Decree Beaten

LOCAL STORES AND FACTORIES CLOSE JULY 5   Ration board, drug store: and restaurants to remain open

BUSINESS TO CLOSE OVER LABOR DAY   Schools, merchants, fac tories and offices ob serve holiday Sept. 6

Invasion Plans Movine Alono      Strikes, Riots Here Give Enemics Chance to Crow

Axis Uses Strikes and Riots As Propaganda Against Us Our Troubles Bolster Their Morale

AMERICAN HOME FRONT GIVES ENEMY PROPAGANDISTS GREAT IREASONS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT

WHEAT CROP HOPES ~ MAY BE IMPROVED   Southwest Reports More May Be Produced

Navy Launches Great Super-Battleship on Pearl Harbor Anniversary

NEW BATTLESHIP GOES DOWN WAYS   HUGE CRAFT, WISCONSIN, TERMED ANSWER TO JAPS’ SNEAK ATTACK.

Chicago’ 8. First Sedition Tr ial Sines.   lA pmistice Ending First World

Chicago’s First Sedition Trial Since Armistice Ending First World War

Allied Bag  - Of Prisoners  ~ Now 30,000   Air Forces Softening Up ~ Axis Strongholds For  Final Kill

200 Axis Planes Are Destroyed Since Saturday   Bloodiest Battle Of North African War Is Shaping Up   Rommel And Italian” Chief-Of-Staff ‘Are. Reported In Berlin

Paves Way For Junction Of Red Forces   Soviets Turn Tide Against Nazis in Kiev Bulge Battle

Cherkasy, Nazi Fortress, Falls To Soviet Army   Events Will Shorten War, Commons Told By Sec’y Eden

Cherkasy Falls After Weeks of Bitter Fighting   Last Stronghold Between Kremenchug and Kiev Ts Liquidated

‘Fall Of City, First Acknowledged By Berlin Radio, Confirmed In Order Of Day By Marshal Stalin— Capture Of River Port Opens Way For Junction Of : Red Central And Southern Forces—vVatutin’s Army  : Reverses Germans In Kiev Bulge

Nazis Wage Costly Battle to Cling To Vital Dnieper Port   Success of Gen. Vaututin's First Ukrainian Forces Turns Die Against Field Marshal Von Mannstein In Bloody Hostilities   TOWN IS REPORTED TO BE UTTERLY DEVASTATED

DRIVE NAZIS FROM RIVER STRONGHOLD   Russians Take Cherkasy, Strategic Dnieper Riv er Port   JOINS SOVIET FORCES

Force Nazis Out Of Vital Dnieper Port   Reds Also Drive Ahead In Bloody Kiev Bulge For Third Day.

CHERKASY IS WON BY. REDS   Germans Lose Costly Battle to Hold City

TROOPS ENTE RIVER PORT OF CHERKASY   City Was Last Remaining Stronghold on Middle Dnieper — Die Turned Against Germans in the Kiev Bulge. re

Charging Reds Take Fortress On The Dnieper   Say Soviets Hold Initiative At Every Point Between Kiev And Kremenchug

Nazis Abandon Cherkasy, Vita!  Dnieper Bastion   Reds Take Offensive Upon Flaming Front

SOVIET FORCES TAKE CHERKASY   Germans Reveal Loss 0! Strategic Fortress On Denieper

CHERKASY NOW IN REDS’ HANDS   Soviets Capture Last Remaining Nazi Stronghold On Middle Dnieper

Last German Stronghold On Dnieper Falls   Dispatches Say Soviets Hold Initiative At Nearly Every Point In Central Sector   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

Last Nazi Forf On Middle Dnieper  Falls To Soviets  Stalin Tells Victory In Order of Day  Beunnadenct Khe Abkewnw

Do. Ae. huss Armics Reported on Western Bank   Soviets Hold 400 Miles of  River; Fighting in Gomel, Report

"Reds Rip Cherkasy -From Enemy Grasp: Mav Unite 2 Fronts   Nazis Admit Loss of Last Bastion - On Middle Dnieper After Weeks of Superhuman Effort to Retain Hold

STALIN REPORTS GHERKASYIN RUSSIAN HANDS   Soviets Hold Initiative in Central Sector: Allies Hold in Italy

Soviet Forces Win Cherkaay In Kiev Battle   Victory Paves Way For Union of Two Russian Armies; Nazis Fight Until End

GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF VITAL RIVER BASTION   FALL OF CHERKASY MAY PERMIT SOVIET JUNCTION OF FORCES

Paves Way For Junction Of Red Armies   Russians Beat Off German Attacks In Kiev Bulge

LAST NAZI BASTION ON MIDDLE DNIEPER RIVER FALLS TO REDS AFTER WEEKS BITTER FIGHTING   Charging Soviets Capture Strategic City for sich Germans Have F ought Desperately in anc Arourid Kiev. Germaris Admit Evacuation City

Vital Stronghold Between Kiev and Kremenchug Taken   Russians Hold Initiative on Virtually Whole  of Front

Strategic River Port in Russia Falls to Soviet   Cherkasky, Last Remaining Nazi Stronghold on Dnieper, Captured,   Costly Battle Fought By Nazis to Hold City

SOVIETS TURN TIDE OF QATTL AT KIEV BULGE   Montgomery’s 8th Army Beats Off Counter Attacks In Italy

Cherkasy Is Captured by Soviet Troops   Reds Hold Initiative at Nearly Every Point Between Kiev and Kremen_ chug; Eighth Army Successfully  Beats Off Nazi Counterattacks .—

REDS CONTINUE RAPID ADVANGE AGAINST NAZIS   Positions Gained Yesterday Vital To Russians

STALIN ANNOUNCES CAPTURE OF STRONG POINT FROM NAZIS   DISPATCHES INDICATE RUSSIANS HOLD INITIATIVE ON LONG FRONT

Last German Hold On Dnieper Falls To Russian Drive   German CounterAttacks Beaten Off By British Eighth

BERLIN ADMITS RED PRESSURES ARE TOO GREAT   Reluctance of Germans to Quit City Emphasized by Desperate and Costly Defense   ENEMY OFFENSIVE APPEARS FINISHED   Ukrainian Army Turns Die Against Field Marshal Von Mannstein In Kiev Bulge Battle

Clears Out German Nest On Dnieper   Success Comes Atop Russian Achievement In Stopping Kiev Retreat

LAST REMAINING NAZI  STRONGHOLD FALLS TC  CHARGING RED ARMY NEW TRIUMPH COMES  «AS GERMANS THROWN RACK ON VIEV RICE

Drive Nazis From Last Bastion On Middle Dnieper   Reds Hold Virtually Every Important. . Point Between. Kiey And Kremenchug

CHERKASSY FALLS TO THE CHARGING RUSSIAN ARMY   First Ukranian Army Turned the Tide Against Marshal Mannstein.

Soviets Hold Initiative In Vital Sector   Eighth Army Beats Off German Counter attacks, Smashing Tanks.   MOSOUITOS ON RAID

Russians Capture Cherkasy   Hold Initiative Now In Vital Area West Of Kiev; British Push on in Italy

Soviets Take  Cherkasy, Drive Ahead   Strategic River Port Collapses as Reds Push Forward; Way Is Now Paved For Junction of Two Principal Forces

GERMAN LINES IN ITALY CRACK UNDER ATTACKS   Jap Strength Whittled Down By Yanks - - New Attacks Loom in Pacific Area

Important Dnieper Port Paves Way for Junction of Forces ia Kremenchug and Kiev Areas   TOWN BY-PASSED   Other Red Forces Advance on Kirovograd, Capturing Towns, Beating Off Tank Assaults

GERMANS TELL ABOUT REVERSE   Capture of River Port Paves Way for Junction of Russians.   MOVE AHEAD NEAR KIEV

Red Armies Recover Initiative in Center; Patton Arrives in Cairo

Russian Troops Take Cherkasy, Stalin Reports   Vatutin Makes Steady Progress On Kiev Salient

RECAPTURED GERMAN STRONGHOLD SITUATED BETWEEN KREMENCHUG AND KIEV—NEW VICTORY ‘COMES AS CATUTIN’S ARMY TURNS TABLE ON VON MANNSTEIN’S TROOPS IN THE KIEV BULGE

Nazis Put Up Costly Battle   Strategic River Stronghold Taken By Russians

Nazis Lose Dnieper Stronghold   Fall of Cherkassy Comes As Soviets Turn Battle Tide In Kiev Bulve

Von Mannstein Hurled Back In Bloody Battle   Victory Paves Way For Meeting Of Two Red Armies Fighting In Ukraine

LOSE FINAL STRONGHOLD ON ONEPER   Kiev Bulge Fight Is Decided: Gains   Extensive

Powerful German Counter Oifensive Appears Broken           Allied Planes Pound Western Germany; Only Minor Activity Report- _ ed on Italian Front. }

Cherkasy, Germans’ Last Middle Dnieper Bastion Is Captured by Russians   Germans Repulsed.

New Victory Announced By Stalin   Germans Admit Fall Of Last Stronghold On Middle Doieper

N Dnieper River  Key City of Cherkasy Falls   Capture Paves Way For Important . Russian Advance

STALIN GIVES TRIUMPHANT ORDER OF DAY   Last Nazi Stronghold On Middle Dnieper River; Vatutin’s Army Turns Tide Near Kiev

Enemy Meets Reverse In Battle Of Kiev Bulge   Capture Paves Way For Juncture Of Russ Forces In Important Area

Charging Russian Army Routs Germans From Cherkasy, On River Bend

British Stop. Enemy Tanks Push Ahead   Mosquito Bombers Hit Germany 4th Straight Night, Yanks Hit Solit Oi! Denot

CERKASY FALLS TO RUSSIANS   Last Stronghold Of Nazis On Mid Dnieper Yields

Vatutin’s Army Gains for 3rd Straight Day in Bulge at Kiev   Red Guerrillas Take Two Rail Stations Near Zhitomir

Canning Sugar by Two Methods   Housewives Asked to Destroy Unused Ration Stamps

Where’s Nazt Luftiwatte?— Near Moscow   German Planes Held Poiscd To Hit Soviets

Germans Mass  Big Air Strength Near Leningrad   Keds Say They Have Sufficient Force to Meet Any Plane Attack by Enemy

CHURCHILL OPEECH NOT SATISFACTORY   Many Congressmen Demand Action Against Japs

CHILD PUSHES BOY INTO TRAIN   Robs Body of Watch and Cash Beside Tracks; Penalty Studied

BUS SERVICE AUGMENTED   New Trips” Announced By Lakes-to-Sea - System

Off The Beam   City In Texas Bombed By Mistake In Misdirected Practice Air Raid

TOWN GETS ‘BOMBED’ BY PLANE OFF BEAM   ‘None Injured and Damage Small After Blackout

18 BOMBERS RAID JAPANESE ISLAND   Attack Kurile Group, Northern Stepping Stone

STRATEGY MEET SET FOR QUEBEC IN NEAR FUTURE   Military Staffs Of America, Great. Britain And Canada, Arrancine Plans

Military Staffs — Prepare For FR, Churchill Session   President Roosevelt : Will Go To Quebec. — For Sixth Meeting

Sixth Conference Of Churchill, Roosevelt To Be Held In Quebec   Chateau Frontenac, “Andént ‘and Historic Citadel to Be Scene of Conference; Time of Meeting Undisclosed

Lay Groukcwork For Meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt at Quebes Citadel

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT QUEBEC   Brit. And U.S. Military Staffs Prepare Ground Work

CONFERENCE GROUNDWORK BEING LAID   Sixth Meeting of FDR and Churchill to Be Held In Quebec Citadel.

ANOTHER iit FOR AED GROSS   Jefferson Township Has Al  most Reached $1,009  -. Goal'in Drives  

ANOTHER REPORT: OR AED GROGG   Jefferson Township Has Al. most Reached $1,009 Goal in Drive.

WPB BOOSTS OUTPUT IN BABY CARRIAGES   Wartime Boom in Births Causes Order to Supply Demand for Infant Transportation.

IN AIR DRIVES   Aerial Offensive Regarded By Observers As Invasion Prelude.   KIEL IS. BLASTED HARD

UNITED NATION FORCES POISED FOR BIG BLOWS   German War Outlook For 1944 ‘Gloomy’ Party Leaders Admit

Belligerants Look Ahead To 1944   New Year Bright With Promise for Allies But Darkly Foreboding For Nazis and Japs

Allied Leaders Show Optimism As 1944 Near:   New Year Certain To Bring Attempts To Recapture Bases Grabbed By Japs

Devers Says 1944 To Be Year Of Deliverance For Allies; Axis Gloom

Leaders Of Allies Are Hopeful On Eve Of 1944   But Germans And Japs Offer Only Gloomy Outlook For People; Himmler Vengeful

War Picture Changing as Year Closes   Optimism Among Allies Finds Different View Taken by Germans

Leaders See Triumphs For Allies   Nazis’ Prospects Are Dull at Best as Maicr Battles Loom

Allies Hoping” For War’s End   See. "44, F illed With: ‘New Blows. At Axis; Defeat Of Germans. Goal -

Confidence Marks End Of Year For Allies As Gloom Settles Over Axis

ALLIED MILITARY  LEADERS PREDICT  VICTORY IN 1944 ALLIES CLOSING IN FOR  KILL AND DELIVERANC! DURING COMING YEAR

Confidence Is Keynote Of Allies In ‘44   “New Year Preview In Germany, Japan Has Desperate, Gloomy Tinge

Allied, Axis Leaders Sing Different ‘Tunes on Prospects for New Year

TEMPERATURES:   United Nations. Confident,  _ Nazis Shaken As.1943. End:

Allies Confident As Old Year Ends   Prospects for Victory Mount As New Blows Against Foe Loom

Nazi SpoKesmepMloomy OvegNew Year Prospects; AMied Chiefs Arg Confident.

LEADERS SEE VICTORY IN COMING YEAR   Germans Adopt Gloomy Mood For New Year

Allies Are Confident of Victory in 1944; Nazi Spokesmen Are Gloomy

Allies Confident, Axis Chiefs Gloomy on 1944   Devers Hails “Year of Deliverance.’ Halsey Says Allies "Ready to Strike Killing Blows in So Many Places’

MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY HIT BY WORKMEN   Thousands at Shipyards Protest at Closing Of Plant

Showdown Near  On Gas, Rubber   Two Sets Of Referee Steps Into Fiery Controversy.

GASOLINE AND RUBBER WAR IN FIERY STAGE   Two Separate Sets of Referees Step Into Squabble Between Jeffers and War - Department Official   BARUCH AIRS ISSUE   Rubber Director, Denying Charges He Is Hampering War Effort, De mands Showdown

Gas Rubber War Brings 2 Inquiries   Baruch Committee as Well As Senate War Probers Will Investigate

Job Depends On Decision   Rubber Dispute Loser Should Get The Gate, Says Senator-Referee

DEATH FOR NAZIS AID TS UPHELD   COURT OF APPEALS REJECTS APPEAL OF MAX STEPHAN, CONVICTED TRAITOR,

MAX STEPHAN’S APPEAL DENIED   Hangman’s Noose Nearer For Convicted Detroit Pro-Nazi Traitor

Death Moves Closer To Man      May Appeal Decision To U. S. Supreme Court

Stephan Le Loses Plea For Life   Former Detroit Ca fe Man -Who- Aided Nazi’ Put Closer To Noose

SUBSTITUTE SOLDIER VOTE BILL PASSED   Senate Measure Leaves Matter  Up to States”

Soldier Vote Issue Moves  To House   Substitute Bill Passed by Senate Bitterly Denounced

Senate Passes Bill Placing Soldier Voting Matter in Hands of States

GREEN-LUCAS FEDERAL VOTE BILL KILLED   Substitute Is Passed By Senate Over Protests

Soldier Vote —  Issue Goes:   Before House States Would Get Authority Over Balloting

AGT AUTHORIZES NEW VOTING PLAN   Senate Kills Green - Lucas  Federal Vote Bill, Substitute ts Passed.

Enemy Loses Only One Zero Float-type Plane In Encounter Over Kiska Harbor.

THREE AIRGRAFT LOST AT KISKA   Four Jap Planes Engage U.S. Units, Losing Only One of Number

Japs Destroy Three Planes Over Kiska   Only One Zero Lost In Encounter In Aleutian Islands

Zeros Down 3 U.S. Planes in Aleutians   Surprise Fight Interrupts Raid on Jap Vessels

Japs Down 2 U. S. Fighters, ‘Bomber   ‘Lose One Zero in Battle With American Airmen Over Kiska, in Aleutian Islands— _ Yanks Hit Two Vessels in Harbor.

Three Planes Lost By U. S.  In ‘Aleutians   Only One Japanese Ship Is Lost In Encounter At Base In Kiska

Attack in Battle Over Kiska   Two American Lightning Fighters and a Bomber Shot Down by Japs, While Losing Only One of Their Own, Navy Reveals; Second Attack Successful of Aleutian Islands Area

Three U. S. Planes Lost In Kiska Raid   Zeros Bag P-38's— Our Bombers Active in Pacific

ALLIED - SUCCESSES ON ALL FRONTS 1s HARD BLOW ON AXIS   ‘Hitler. Expected To. Issue Harsh Decrees January 30—Tenth Year OF  Nazi Reign

Report Hitler, Faced With Disaster in Russia, Has Turned Direction Of War Back to German General Staff

Enemy Alien Treatment In Japan ‘Fair’   Biddle Says Japs Lived Up To Provisions Set Out In Geneva Conference

Biddle Says Jap Treatment of Enemy Aliens Has Been Fair; He Opposes Army Control of Tule Lake

STUDY BREAK-UP.   Wickard Pronoses ‘Registers ina Meat Dealers; U.S. Purchase of Livestock -

Black Market InBeef Called _ Very Serious   U.S. Parchase of Stock For Slaughter Is One Curb Pronaced

Black Market Meat Sales Very Serious,  Wickard Says   Government Purchases For Slaughtering  And Registration  Of Dealers Suggested  PITTSBURGH OPA SET TO TAKE ACTION  Entire Office Staff Assigned To Probe Of Operations

MEAT CONTROL PLAN SUGGESTED   Wickard Would Purchase Livestock, Register All Dealers

Control Of Meat ls Urged      Federal Buying. Registration Suogested

Problems of Yets Considered   Coordination of All Veterans’ Laws May Be Asked

ILLINOIS CROP jVALUE SOME 22% ABOVE 43 TOTAI   Highest Total Since 1919 , Corn, Soybeans Crops Near Records.

AGGREGATE ChOP VALUE IN STATE NEAR 1919 PEAK   Approach To Former Record Re sults From Production Of Corr And Soybeans And Highet Prices Received.

CALLS FOR MORE BOND BUYING   Family Budget Should Pro. vide Fourth of Income for Bonds, Treasurer Says

Fourth Of Income To Go For Bonds   20 Percent Tax Also To Cut Spending

Morgenthau Says Each Family Should Be Investing Fourth of Income in Bonds by End of Year

MGRGENTHAU SAYS AVERAGE FAMILY’S BUDGET DUE FOR OVERHAUL THIS YEAR

One-fourth Of Family Income For War Bonds   Family Budget Due For Overhauling, Morgenthau Thinks

4 verage American Family Budget to be Overhauled      veasurer Morgenthau of Opinion Each Family Should Invest One-Fourth of Its Income In War Savings Ronds; Withholding Tax to Leave Surplus for Purpose, He Says

Eisenhower Expected to Direct Smashing  Allied Offensive on Axis in North Afric

Nazis Now Leaving Dead Unburied As They Are Driven Back In Tunisia

Rationing Of Milk Seen Possibility Next Winter   Likely Only in Areas Where Transportation Is Major Problem, U.S. Official Accerte   SHORTAGE FEARED AFTER FIRST OF JULY

Move To Cut Sfafe Income lax Debated  Senate and House Study Changes In Present Law

STATE TAX MAY BE CUT IN HALF   Solons Declare Changes ir Income Tax Laws Are Being Studied *

Steel Leaders Answer Notice   United Steel Head Says 4 Subsidiaries To Negotiate New Contract,

sae  NEW ree pact   Large Steel Companies Said Ready To Treat With Representatives Steel Workers.

STEEL MAKERS ADJUST WAGES   Largest Producer Will Negotiate For New Labor Contract

Steel Firms Open Wage Contracts   Ready to Negotiate On Requested Increase

STEEL WORKERS DEMAND RAISE   U. S. Corporation, About 150 Others, Agree To Negotiate

MACHINIST KILLS 2 DAUGHTERS AND THEN HIMSELF   Seriously Wounds Two Others. Wife Flees Before Shooting—Police Held Off.

KILLS SELF AND TWO OF FOUR CHILDREN   Barricades Self In Home — Battles Police For 4 Hours

Father Shoots Four Daughters   Ends Own Life After Battle With Police

BAY CITY MAN KILLS SELF, ? DAUGHTERS   Wounds Two Other ‘Daughters: While - Berserk Today

2 DAUGHTERS ARE SLAIN BY FATHER   Wife Escapes from Enraged Man Who Committed Suicide at Bay Citv.

{Lenined WT AARE FOUL  TOLEDO SCHOOL BOARD SEEKS TO AVERT STRIKE

Want Higher Coal Price   Operators Hold Out For 10c a Ton More Before Signing Up

Operators, In Conditional Agreement With. MW. Want Added Hike Of 10 Cents A Ton

COAL OPERATORS ASK PRICE RAISE   Say They Need 10 Cents to Pay Wage Increase

COAL OPERATORS WOULD BIND PACT WITH DIME RAISE   Price Increase Of Ten Cents OR More A Ton Sought By Soft Coal Men Before Mak: ing Pact With UMW Effec tive

Mine Owners Ask Another Price Hike   Consider Increases Allowed Not Enough to Cover New Costs

Soft Coal Men Seek Further Price Increase   ‘Vould Pass All Added Cost Under Wage Boost On to Consumer

COAL OPERATORS WANT TEN CENTS MORE ON A TON   ASK PRICE BOOST TO CLINCH TENTATIVE WAGE AGREEMENT

CARDS TAKE EARLY LEAD   Double Scores Cooper In Second  oe  Record Crowd Packs Yank Stadium   By LAWTON CARVER

U. S. Jungle Troops Run Into ‘Resistance On Munda Push, Make Gains On Other Fronts

ALLIES SCORE NEW GAINS IN MARCHES ON LAE, SALAMAUA   American Guns On Rendova Island, Subjecting Enemy To Heavy Shelling

ALLIES GAIN IN SOLOMONS   Bitter Enemy Resistance Being Encountered — Amertcan Guns ‘SubJecting Enemy to « ‘Heavy Bom. bardment.

JAPS PUTTING UP BITTER RESISTANCE      Seek to Halt ‘Offensive Against Munda

“SLICK PAPER” ~~ -CONDEMNEL   Color Magazines for U. §., Will Bring Newsprint Cuts

Says Treasury Wastes Paper For Magazines  mnwerace    Congress Hears Newsprint Short

EEE EE LL  New Newsprint Slash Foreseen  Government Using - Much Paper.”

CHARGE GOVERNMENT WITH WASTING PAPER   Report More Drastic Cuts in Newsprint Inevitable

War Planning Referred to Year of 1942   President Tells Press of The  African Conference

FDR Breaks Presidential Rules by Flying, Leaving U. .S, in War Zones

ounder of Mother’s Day Urges Countrymen to Wear War Stamp lowers Instead of Carnations

Suggests War Stamp Flowers.  Mother’s Day   Champion , of Observance Prefers Them to Traditional Carnations.

 Suggestions From Originator-— Wear War Stamp Flowers On This Mother's Day

Bombs Rock Jap Airfield   Stinging Blow Dealt  Babo'in New Guinea

ALLIED PLANES DAMAGE WHARF AREA AT BABO   Japs Strike At Three Allied Points Monday

GANDHI ENDING HUNGER STRIKE   Indian Government Goes Back to Normalecy, No Fanfare

GANDHT'S FAST COMES TO END   Government Permits No Fanfare to Mark Hunger Strike Conclusion

FATHERS STILL ESCAPE DRAFT   No Additional Men Are Needed To Fill Calls In Next 3 Months

FATHERS SAFE UNTIL OCTOBER   Plenty Other Classfied to Fill Draft Call

Draft of Fathers Delayed Further  No Action Is Seen Until October

Most Fathers Assured Delay In Draft Call   Present Rolls Said :  Sufficient. To, Go 5 “These OO oe -

OCTOBER CALL FOR FATHERS NOW. SHAPING   Aseurance Given By Officials

Most Fathers Assured Delay In Draft Call   Present Rolls Said Sufficient To, Go Through Septembe:

ARMY T0 DELAY TAKING FATHERS   MEN WITH CHILDREN BORN BEFORE SEPT. 15 NOT TO GO BEFORE OCTOBER.

Fathers Deferred By Board   Names Excluded In Draft Until October

48 Out Of 60 Jap Planes Are Brought Down   10 Bombers Smashed On The Ground Ir Amazing _ ‘Victory In Pacific

British Bombers Blast Nazi Industrial Area   Week's Respite Ends, With Rhineland Attack

ALLIES LOSE HEIGHT TAKEN NEAR MATEUR   Nazi Daytime Attack Is Success, Despite Air Support   WAS TAKEN TUESDAY   Little Ground Activity In Libya; Sicily Is  Bombed

GERMANS  RECAPTURE POSITION   Hill Taken By British Tuesday Retaken By Nazis

MORE CHANGES IN BLACKOUT RULES   Street Lights Will Be Extinguished On First Audible Signal—Pennan& For Emergency Cars

NEW ZONE PLAN AIDS OHIO LIQUOR STORES   Stops “Stooge” Purchases of Packaged “Spirits”

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Tells Of Alliance Between New Deal And Union Rackets

INFLATION NOT HALTED, MINER JOURNAL SAYS   Union Publication Con: tends Roosevelt’s “Hold the Line” Order Only Impedes It   HITS WAGE FREEZE   Says Unless Worker Car Enjoy Equality In Distribution Goods Economic Dive Certain

COAL PARLEYS  AT DEADLOCK   Southeras Want Certification; Anthracite Proceeds

ITALIAN PORT OF LEGHORN IS WRECKEL   100 Flying Fortresses Shatter Harbor  Installations

MORE LADIES NEEDED FOR NURSING IN ST. CHARLES   he Red Cross Through Judge Gruere Makes This Appeal to Local Ladies Now.

Many Tried, Punished, Russians Reveal; Gen. Wolikowski Chief Spy, Soviet Claims

POLISH AUTHORITIES ARE ACCUSED FRIDAY   Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky Charges That Diplomats and High-Ranking Army Officers Are Guilty of Plans against Soviet Union.

Pilots Team Up With Busy Land Troops   Russians Stabbing Persistently At Germans On Dorets

Senate Opens Hearing on Qualifications. of Edward J. Flynn to Be U. S: Minister

SENATE OPENS FLYNN HEARING   Democratic National Chief Expected To Be First In Witness Parade

FURTHER CUT IN CIVILIAN GOODS IS NOT FAVOREL   Nelson Tells Chicago Club That Arms Costs Are Being Reduced

NELSON CALLS FOR CAUTION   Production For Civilians May Hold Its Level.

FURTHER GUT IN GUILIN GOODS   Opposed by WPB Chief Nelson, but Cautions Against Undue Optimism; Praises Industry’s War Efforts

Nelson Inclined to Oppose Further Curtailment of Production Of Goods for Use of Civilians

W PB Director Sees Swing to .  Civilian Needs   Nelson Praises Industry on Peak’ War Output

INDUSTRY CUTS BOMBER COSTS   Cooperation Commended By Davis, Who Warns Of Undue Optimism

CIVILIAN GOODS CUT UNWANTED   WPB Chief Nelson: Hoping to Avoid Further Parinn

Nelson would avoid further cut in civilian goods output   Cautions against undue optimism: industry is reducing arms costs

Neison Desires To Maintain Civilian Output   Says That Industry Is Cutting Arms Production Costs

U.$.-Production Miracle Lauded   Caution Urged On ‘Undue Ontimicn

Chilean on Exchange Ship Says Japs Plan to Carry on War Without Germany.

OPPOSITION ~- OVER SIQLY DIMINISHED   Axis More Cautious After 100-Plane Loss in 2 Days

Allied Airmen Slash Sicilian Air Opposition Blasts At Airfielc  Network Meet Few Craft

Axis Airfields On Sicily Hit Hard By Allies   Opposition Over Sicily  Decreases

Little Prospects For Holding State Fair At Springfield This Year

Thousands Surrender As Yanks Shut Trap   May Sever Foe at Peninsula Base; Enemy Herded Along Tunis Road

Troops Cut Road To Isolate Nazis In Bizerte Sector   German Retreat Towards Cap Bon Threatenec As British Capture Town Of Hamman Lif At Northern Base Of Peninsula

REMNANTS OF AFRIKA KORPS SPLIT IN TWO   Victorious Allies Mop Up On All Fronts ~ In Tunisia

Axis Armies Cut Into Two ‘‘Pens’’   Death or Surrender Are Only Two Choices Open to Enemy at Cap Bon

ALLIES RUSH 10 CLEAR WAY FOR EUROPEINVASION   Thousands of Prisoners and Huge Amounts of Material Fall to Victors

ALLIES ARE PAVING WAY FOR INVASION   Many Prisoners And Much Booty Taken by Troops

Anti-Red View Is Disclosed  In Argentina   ~ommunist. Paper Is Suppressed Bv Rawson

Guest Who Found Qakes Body Grilled   Witness Is Pale And Shaken After Long Questioning

FOOD PRODUCTION LOAN PLAN FORMEL   Government To Assume War Crop Losses

LEVIES ON CIGARETTES MAKING GOOD. 5a URCES OF REVENUE IN MANY STATES; LAWS ARE PLACED

Tobacco Tax Law Draws Attention   Is Good Producer Of Revenue In War Time

HUNDREDS HURT IN SPAIN BLAS]   Many. Persons Feared Dead In Mighty Explosion

Berlin Rocked With 45 ~ Minute Bomber Attack   Hundreds Of RAF Planes Tear Through Strong Fighter Screen To Lash Nazi Capital; 48 Allied Craft Lost

RAF BOMBERS SMASH LARGE BERLIN AREAS   Blockbusters Destroy Sections of City, Set Big Fires

RAF Raiders Bomb New *  Berlin Areas.   Bombers Blast Defense to Fire Nazi Capital

ROCK BERLIN WITH BLASTS DAY & NIGHT   British Indicate Second Assault In Eight Days Equals August 23 Blow Which Wiped Out Several Areas   Destroy Fighters

British Pound Berlin With Blockbusters   Bomb Attack Equals Intensity of Aug. 23 Assault

New Defense Tactic Fails to Aid Berlin   High F lying Nazi Planes Drop Flares to Silhouette Raiders

BERLIN ROCKED BY LATEST RAID   FIRES IN CAPITAL VISIBLE 70 MILES AWAY—DAMAGE DESCRIBED AS GREAT.

R.A.F. Stages Mighty Air Raid on Berlin   Flames Visible 70 Miles Away Are Left in Nazi City

R. A. F. Smashes Powerful Fighter Screen to Rock Berlin With Bomb Deluge

AIRMEN BOMB RAIL YARDS IN DAY ATTACKS      Night Attack on Berlin Followed up by Allied  Eltearc   NOTICE IS SERVED OF HEAVY ATTACKS   Forty-seven Bombers Lost in Assaults on Reich Capital

Berlin Rocked By Many Tons Of Heavy Bombs   Blockbusters Start Many Great Fires

AFL Opens Fight On New Tax Bill   Calls It Spying n Labor Unions

NIPS TURN TAIL; RUN FOR FIRST TIME IN WAR   106 Air Attacks, 15 Shellings By Navy In 14 Days Too Much For Enemy   SALAMAUA TOTTERING   Allied Warships, Planes Continue Battering At Italian Mainland

U.S. And Canadian Troops Landed On Aleutians Island   Joint Forces Invade Isle August 15 To Find Japs Have Evacuated Post Hit 106 Times By Air In 14 Days

AMERICANS AND CANADIANS IN OCCUPATION   Find Japs Had Turned Tail and Kled for First Time in War

NIPPON FORCES ABANDON ISLE WITHOUT FIGHT   Surface Ships Are Believed to Have Taken Garrison Off in Fog

Yanks Met No Opposition li _ ~ Landing On Important Japan Base Aug. 14, Roosevelt Says

U. §.-Canadian Landing Unopposed; First Time Foe Quit Without Fight

Devastation of Wewak Base Thot Completed   Liberators Hit Big unitions Dump  In Third Raid

Allies Enter Tripoli, Fall Is‘Imminent   Main-Defenses Of Base Gane; Axis in Flight

Fall Of Lest Axis — Base In Libya Is. Held imminent   One Column Reported By-Passing City to Cut Off Afrika Korps Retreat; Nazis Attack Below Pont du Fahs

Iowa Governor Asks Conference   Invites Mid-West Governors. Federal Officials To Discuss Manpower Problems in Des Moines

Rifle Bullet Kills Niles Bo   Shot Through Heart 8) Playmate. 14

House Takes Up New Draft Bill  Would Put Fathers At Bottom of the Induction List

GERMANS MAKE STRONG DRIVE ON RED FRONT   Huge Forces of Rese ves Being Rushed Up on Both Side Along 600-Mile L

Nazi Reserves nh Attacks Soviet Front   Germans Battling Fiercely To Regain Communications

NAZIS ATTACK ALONG ENTIRE RUSSIAN FRONT   Making. Desperate Bid to Regain Control of. Vital © Commiinications and ~ Supply Liries-

MS FEN A NE “ALONG LINE   Seeking To Regain Communications,  Stop: Reds

HUGE FORCES OF RESERVES ATTACKING   In Spite of Stiffening Resistance Russians Insist They Are Holding Their Lines   SOME SLIGHT ADVANCES

Russians Holding Heavy New Enemy Drives  Germans Are Making Desperate Bid To Take Rail Lines

Nazis Attack  Soviet Lines Hurl in Hage Forces   Hurl in Hage Forces Of Reserves in Effort To Halt Red Advances

RUSSIANS HOLD AGAINST NAZIS   Red Army Standing Firm In Face Of Violent German Assaults.

ian Battle Is Of Hercest (f Whole Wat   wiated Press Corre ent Says Many Men Are Being Expended By path Sides.

HTLER THROWING — INHUGE FORCES OF ~ BERMAN RESERVES      Making Desperate Bid To Regain Control of Supply Lines   THE SLAUGHTER _ OF MEN TERRIBLE

Nazis Attack Fiercely All Along Front   ‘Huge Forces of Reserves Thrown Into Desperate Effort. Russiar Lines Hold Against On ( slaugsht.

NAZIS IN DESPERATE ATTACKS   Reds Hold Lines Against German Counter Attacks

HUGE FORCES GERMAN RESERVES ATTACKING ON EASTERN FRONT   RUSSIANS DECLARE, HOWEVER, THEIR LINES ARE HOLDING STRONGLY

BATTLES RAGE ALONG VAST RED FRONT   Nazi Position Becomes More Serious on Peninsula

Yanks Start: Big Fires on Nauru Raic   U. S. Bombers in Batik With 35 Jap Planes in Wotie Atlack

Strongholds of Japs Battered   Enemy Installations Are Left Flaming

De Marigny’s Denial of Guilt Read   Statement Made by Accused on Arrest Placed in Evidence

YANKS, AUSSIES JOIN FORGES AT SALAMAUA FRONT   Allied Planes Wreck Enem) Convoy With Supplies for Wewak.

U. S., AUSSIES JOIN 10 PRESS DEFENSES OF JAPS AT GUINEA   Allied Planes Wreck Enemy Convoy At Wewak — Many Airplanes Destroyed

AUSTRALIAN. AND U. §. TROOPS IN SALAMAUA JGIN   Form Solid Line Pressing Upon Jans in ‘New Guinea Coas tal Rese

“] AM AN AMERICAN DAY” SUN., MAY 16   ww NEARLY 3 MILLION BECOME CITIZENS DURING THE PAST YEAR

LABOR iS CRITICAL.   Kansas Union Council Raps John  L. Lewis and G.O.P.. .

ALLIES CONTROL © MEDITERRANEAN        ESTABLISH COMPLETE AIR UMBRELLA OVER © AXIS SUPPLY ROUTES:

British Bombers Isolate - Sicily In Double Attack   Island’s Ferry Communication With Mainland Battered; Allied Control Of Mediterranean ‘Announced By High Command

SICILIANS BEAR BRUNT OF RAF'S LATEST ATTACKS   3ritish Bomb Both Ends Of Vital Rail Ferry; Entire Mediterranean Now Un.der Allied Air Umbrella And Open To Shipping.

Vital Points In Sicily Are Under Attack   Concerted Blows Struck By British at Both Ends Of Ferry to Mainland      MESSINA AGAIN TARGET

‘SICILY’S RAILROAD FERRY BLASTED BOTH ENDS MONDAY   Report cf Attacks - Accompanied by © Announcement That a “Complete Air Umbrella” Covers the Mediterranean

Allied Shipping Again Safe To Sail The Mediterranean “From Gibraltar To Suez

‘Air Umbrella’ for Ships in. Medilerranean   Allies Have Cleared Way for Shipping, Greatly Reducing Distances   MORE HEAVY BLOWS ... BY BIG BOMBERS   Italy Expecting Assault at Any Hour as-Drive on Invasion Routes Roars

BOTHENDS OF SICILY'S FERRY HIT   Aerial Umbrella Opens Mediterranean To Allied Shipping

Allies in Control Of Mediterranean   Complete Air Umbrella Reported Established Over Great Sea by British, American Forces

RAILROAD FERRY IN SICILY HIT BY BRITISH   English Fliers Renew Ai Attacks on Messina

SICILY’S VITAL RAIL FERRY TO ~ TTALY BOMBED   British Airmen Blast Both Ends of Transporl Link in Raids on Messina and Reggio Calabria   AERIAL UMBRELLA   Mediterranean Now Guarded Day and Nighi, Reopened to Allied Shipping

Planes Blast Ferry Line To Sicily   Air Umbrella Opens Up Mediterranean Sea To Allied Shipping

Vital Rail Ferry To Italy Blasted  Bombers Strike Sicily, Mainland

BRITISH BOMBS SHAKE MESSINA   Other Planes Rain New Blows on Sicily’s Vital Rail Ferry

Strike Concerted Aerial Blows at  Rails in Sicily   Mlies Establish Complete Aerial Umbrella Over  the Mediterranean.   Attempt Is Made to Isolate Big Island

Victory Corps Helps Harvest   Chouteau War Plant Also Releases 300 Men to Aid Harvest

WEST PA. CITIES IN GAS PROTEST   Indiana Not Yet Included in List for Pittsburgh Meet

RUSSIANS CUT OFF KHARKOV MAIN RAILWAY   TROOPS IN ROSTOV REAR MENACED BY ADVANCE

Reds Take Lozovaya; Cutting Main Rail Line Ukraine to the Crimea  Soviet Units Close in on Kharkov  Along 50 Mile Arc; Reds Gain  Addtaianal ; owe i Me

Red lsolation Of Kharkov  Methodical   Ukraine Capital’s Main Railway To Crimea and Donets Cut In Capture of Junction to South

Nazi Rail Outlet From Kharkov Cut [As Reds Close Tn.   cyeeveya Yunction Jaken, Gives Soviet Additional Base For Approaching Battle

REDS CAPTURE LOZOVAYA IN KHARKGV RAM   Cut Ukraine Capital’s Main Kalway To The Crimea And Donets Basin; 75 Miles   Clase In On Kharkov

Reds Capture Lozovaya. Junction on Railroad Running to Crimea  OTHER RED COLUMNS DRIVE NEARER CITY Nearly 200 Miles  Of Azov Sea Coast Reported in Red Hand<

Increase Seen in Tax Collections  Internal Revenue Department Reports

14 Lost Lives in Crash That Cost Lt.  Gen. Andrews’ Life  Brig. Gen. Barth, Chie: of Staff and Colonel Krum Among Victims

14 LOST LIVES IN PLANE CRASH OVER ICELAND   Sergeant Only Survivor Of Accident That Killed  Andrews

Iceland Plane Crash Takes Lives Of 14  Andrews Chief Ai ols: Killed;. Only.

Iceland Crash Takes Lives of 14   Only One Survivor Of Aerial Accident

VICTIMS OF PLANE CRASH REVEALED   Fourteen Persons Die in Crash in leeland in Which Lieut.-Gen. Andrews and Bishop Leonard Killed

FOURTEEN KILLED. IN ICELAND CRASt   Only One Survived Accident in Which Gen. Andrews Died

4 DIED IN AIR CRASH THAT COST LIFE QF ANDREWS   Brig. Gen, Charles H. Barth, Chief of Staff to Commander, Was One of Victims.   FIVE WOMEN KILLED; ONLY ONE SURVIVOR   Former New York and Chicago Newspaper Man Also Among Those to Perish in Iceland Accident.

Iceland Plane Crash Kills 14   Staff Sergeant Said Sole Survivor

14 KILLED IN ICELAND CRASH   Sergeant Eisel Only Man To Survive Accident Killing Andrews

U. 5. Warships Shell Madang, Gasmata Bases   Enemy Air Strips in Cape Gloucester Blasted by Bombers

woe TPE EB Fe ee Be ee ere Brazil Readying Men To Fight in Europe

US. AIRMEN ANOCK OUT 104 NAZI PLANES   Americans Lose 60 Bombers and 2 Fighters

U.S. Raiders Destroy 104 Hun Planes   Fortresses Bag 91 But Lose 60 Bombers In Attack On Schweinfurt

KNOCK OUT 10 NAZI PLANES   Americans Lose 60 Bombers and 2 Fighters

Destroy 104 Nazi Planes; Lose 60 Heavy Bombers   Heavy Fighting Occurs In U. S. Bomber Raid On Schweinfurt, Germany

SOVIETS MAKE SPECTACULAR NEW ADVANCE      Swinging Southwest of Kiev, They Cut Two More Rail Links and Threaten to Flank Lower Dnieper Nazi Forces.

Russ Army Swings southward in New Assault  Vatutin Is Driving Toward Rumania And Polish Border

Reds Plunge In New Drive, Cut Railroads   Vatutin’s Army Smashes Toward Rumania and Old Polish Border

Russians in New Plunge Toward Rumanian Border   Ukraine Army Swings Southwest Of Kiev to Cut Two Railroads

Soviet Troops In New Drive   Swing Toward Rumania And Old Polish Border; Threaten Nazi Railroad

NEW PLUNGE FOR RUMANIA BY RUSSIANS   Reds Within Five Miles Of Enemy Defense City

REDS 15 FROM ZHITOMIR   Drive Forward In New Plunge Toward Rumania

Soviet Thrust Cuts Strategic Railroad Line   First Ukraine Aemy Plunges Southwest Of Kiev To. ward Polish Border.   THREATEN NAZI FLANK

OFFENSIVE THREATENS NAZI FLANK   Russians Driving From Kiev 18 Miles From Zhitomir

Ukraine Army Registers 40-Mile Gain.   German-Held Railroad Line Is Threatened

Russ In New ‘Plunge Toward ‘Rumania   Cut Two More Rail Lines Badly Needed By Battered Nazis

Soviet Cuts 2 More Nazi Railroads   Flank of Enemy Forces on Lower Dnieper Threatened By Speeding Reds

SOVIET UKRAINE ARMY ROLLS ON   General Vatutin’s Forces Slash. ing Through Nozi Defenders Toward Rumania

SOVIETS IN NEW PLUNGE TOWARD RUMANIA LINE   Two Railroads Cut Out ‘of  Germans’ Fast-Dwindling   Communications In   New Movement

Soviet Army Pushes Ahead  For Rumania   Bltre-Grinding Force Of Gen. Vatutin Gains  Momentum, Moves On Foe At Zhitomir

REDS SPEED UP WINTER DRIVE   Take City 120 Miles from Rumanian Frontier

Soviets Advance 40 Miles Toward   Rumanian Border   Two Railroads Cut — Vitebsk Virtually Isolated. — 30 Towns Liberated.

FIRST UKRAINE ARMY SWINGS SOUTHWEST OF KIEV ON TUESDAY  TWO ADDITIONAL. RAILROADS. CUT FROM GERMANS’ COMMUNICATIONS

Two More German-Held Railways Are Cut... Russian Army Opens New Plunge Toward Rumania  And Old Polish Border

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE THREAT TO NAZI FLANK   Vaiuiin Advances 40 Miles in Plunge Toward Rumanian ant Old Polish Borders   YITEBSK CUT OFF   Zhitomir-Odessa Lateral Rail Line  Threatened, Reds 20 Miles from  Berdichev

Soviefs Sever Two Railroads Held By Nazis   Northern Offensive Slowly Isolating Vitebsk Base

Gen, Vatutin’s Army ‘Swings ‘Southwest Of Kiev In Plunge Toward Rumania And Old Balich Border, Cut Mazi Lines

RUSSIANS SEVER TWO RAIL LINES IN KIEV SECTOR   THREATEN FLANK OF ENEMY FORCES ALONG LOWER DNIEPER RIVER

Soviet Army Menaces Key Rail Junction   Russians Close In On Vitebsk; Drive Nearer Zhitomir

NEW DRIVE AT RUMANIA GAINS   Red Assault Southwest of Kiev Picks Up Speed

Swollen Missouri Spills Over Southwest lowa   Omaha Airport, Town  Of Carter Lake a a as. t... thti.a.

MISSOURI FLOOD CREST MOVES ON   Small Communities Beyond : Omaha. Threatened  By Action

FLOOD SWEEPS THROUGH IOWA   Omaha Airport Under Six Feet Of Water: Homes Evacuated

Swollen Missouri Spills Over Southwest lowa  Omaha Airport, Town Of Carter Lake Under Muddy Water

MISSOURI RIVER PLOOD SEVERE. IN OMAHA ABRA   (resi. Roavhed There But Flood Reseends On Towa TWanyns.

ADVANCE ON .. BUADALGANAL   JAPANESE DRIVEN FROM VILLAGE AS OFFENSIVE CON" ‘TINUES'TO CLEAN UP . HE ISLAND

Supply Point Is Captured; Island Post Destroyed   Furious Land, Sea, Ale Action Damages Nipponese Destroyer, Cargo Ship

Guadalcanal  Village Taken   New Advance By U. S&S. Ground Troops In The Solomons Is Reported   TWO JAP SHIPS BLASTED FROM AIR

RUSS DRIVE 25 MILES THROUGH CAUCASUS AREA   Score Of Axis Divisiong Feels Tightening Of Deadly Trap   ALLIES BLAST RABAUL   Yanks». And Aussies On Offensive On Wide Front In South Pacific

NAW nEPORTS HARD FIGn TING IN OOLOMONG   American Planes, Warships Blast Jap Destroyer and Cargo: Ship.   MORE THAN 200 ENEMY KILLED ON GUADALCANAL

WORKERS QUIT   Garment Makers Strike Threatens tn Spread to %.000 Shon.

Woman Juror Is Divmissed: Flynn Trial Continues  Action Forestalls Declarat ION   STEVENSON, SVT TAKE OATHS TODAY

Woman Juror Is  Dismissed: Flynn  Trial Continues Action Forestalls  Declaration ()t \iistrial   STEVENSON, MITIE TAKE OATHS TODAY

Russians Were Not Invited To Strateay Talks   Indicate Parley Will Emphasize Military Aspects

NOT INVITED 10 WAR MEETING, SOVIETS CLAIM   Hint Session To Deal With Military Rather Than Political Aspects

Moscow Announcement Indicates Talks Will Deal With Military Plans

War Strategy Thought Topie Of Conference   Moscow Declares Russia Not Invited To Join Roosevelt Churchill Talks.   MAP ATTACK SCHEDULE

Russians Announce No Participation In Quebec Talks  Conference Thought To Deal Primarily With War on Japan

JAP WAR SEEN PARLEY TOPIC   Hinted In Moscow Statement Russians Not Invited

Military Theme Of Conference   RUSSIA NOT NEEDED AT QUEBEC MEETING

Russians Hint Meet Is About Jap Offensive   Not Participating In Quebec Parley

J0StPH oTALIN NOT TU ATTEN JUEBEL GONFAR   Military Aspects Of War Rather Than Political Will Be Stressed

10 WAR MEETING   Pacific Problems Probably Subject, Russians and Jap-an Not at War. 

Moscow Says Russia Not Asked _ To Join President. And Churchill In Talks To Be Held. In Ouehe;

RUSSIA DENIED INVITATION 10 ALLIED PARLEY   Military Rather Than Political  Aspects Of War Plans Seen Emphasized   MEET DETAILS VEILED   Selection Of New European And Asiatic Commanders May Be On Program

MILITARY ANGLE OF WAR TO BE PARLEY THEME   Moscow Announcement Suggests Political Aspects Placed in Background

Russia Will Not Take Part In Conference   Moseow Says Soviet Government Did Not Receive Invitation to Roosevelt-Churchill Meeting

SOVIET LEADERS NOT INVITED TO ALLIED MEETING   Believe War, Not Politics, Will Be  Collarenss Theme

RUSSIANS NOT TN CONFERENCE   Invasion of Europe May Be Topic at FDR-Churchili Meeting.   'JAPS TQ ATTACK REDS?

CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT CONFERENCE BELIEVED TO BE MILITARY RATHER THAN OF A POLITICAL NATURE   Russians Announce Because of Nature of _ Conference They Weren’t Invited To Be Present ,¥ At The Meeting

Russia Not Invited to Conference   Military Aspects  Will Be Discussed By Roosevelt and Churchill at Meet

War Conference May Concern War Against Japanese  Soviets Not Invited To Participate In Meeting At Ouebec

MOSCOW ANNOUNCES NO PLANS FOR PART STRATEGY MEETING   NO INVITATION RECEIVED BY MOSCOW TO PARTICIPATE IN CONFERENCE

FDR, Churchill Facing Swiftly Changing Scene   Plans Must Be Made For Possible Collapse Of . Nazi Front

FR-Churchill Talks Thought  Military Only   Absence of Russia Said Evidence Politics Are Not Being Talked

FDR and Churchill Ready for Parley   Military Aspects of War to be Discussed Rather than Political Believe Observers

STALIN LACKS BID 10 CONFAB   SEE DISCUSSION OF WAR IN THE PACIFIC

Parley Appears Likely To Map Strategy Plans   Stalin Not Invited Te Meeting, Moscow Declares   INVASION IS TOPIC   Russian Premier Is Not Needed For Military Talks At Present

Russia Uninvited To Conferences  Hints That Meeting Will Be Concerned  VUs/iehl Daawihine VAlaw

Russians Not Invited  To Attend Conference   Meeting Between FDR, Churchill Seen As Purel; Military One: New Gathering Seen

RUSSIA ENVOYS NOT INVITED TO ALLIED PARLEY   Moscow Announcement Suggests Conferences Will Emphasize Military,  Not Political Aspects

Parley’s — Stress . On Military:   viet Statement ‘that They Were Not Invited in Quebec Conference ads to Speculation 

F.D:, Churchill ‘Seen Stressing  Military Aspects   Talk Trend Indieated In Announcement Russia "Not Invited To Parley

Reds Announce They Won't Be Represented At War Parly Due To Nature Of Subject

Soviets Got No Bid to Quebec   Absence Hints Parley te Skip Politics

MILITARY SIDE OF WAR TOPIC OF DISCUSSION   Indicated By Fact That Russia Not Invited To Quebec Conference

War Talk Seen at Quebec Meet   MILITARY SUBJECT SUGGESTED BY LACK OF INVITATION FOR RUSSIA; F. D. R., CHURCHILL MAY RE-EXAMINE PLANS FOR SECOND FRONT   Kisenhower Prospect

Quebec Conference Expected To Be Principally Military, With Much Attention To the Pacific.

Voluntary Induction In SY-7 Is Part Of  Navy Engineer Plan   Students Of Jr., Sr., Standing Interested, See Dr. C. B. Wright

New Plan Made for Dealers i in Food   Must Make Application With ood Panel to Avoid Delav

Food Panel To Have Hearings At Pocahontas   H. C. Moore Heads Committee Of Ration Board

No Early Crackup Expected, But Hitler Faces Stupendous Home Front Task  Nazi Morale At Lowest Level Of Wart

MORALE HITS LOWEST TINE FOR GERMANY   WAR REVERSES AND BOMBING TERRORS UPSET SPIRITS

Yugoslav Aid. Split 2. Ways   British To Adopt Sterner . Attitude Toward King Peter’s . Rezime

British May Adopt Sterner Attitude Toward King Peter’s Slav Government:

FIRMER STAND WITH TITO BY BRITISH-SEEN   Disclosed Partisan: Leader . ‘Getting Bulk: England's.  Support Over King. . - .Peter’s Army —

MOST AID GOES TOTITO'S ARMY      Sterner Attitude Toward King Peter Anticipated

Attitude To — Be Sterner Mihailovie Rebuked   Mihailovic Rebuked By British Government

Mihailovich’s Stand Hurting Peter’s Regime   Exiled King’s Government Is Getting Less Support As Result Of Rivalry

TITO GETS STRONG BRITISH SUPPORT IN YUGOSLAVIA   Dissension Among Rival Groups of ¥Yugo-Slavs Reported Growing More Intense = °.

Wallace Voices Views of Nation‘s Future  Declares Spirit of Competition Must Be Caontiyeuea-l

Wallace Voices Views of Nation s Future  Narlarac Sniirit   Declares Spirit of Competition Must Be Continued

Wallace Sees Better Life For America   Says U. 8. Must Assure All  ge £1... 3 VV...

NOTED  MILLER CO. LAWYER OIE   Barney Reed, 76, IN More Than Two Years at Camdenton, Mo.

M’LEAN DISTRIBUTES $9,000 IN HOSPITAL   Ontario Philanthropist Gives Away $100 and $200 Bills Until He Has 11 Cents Left.

ALLIES INCREASE AIR ATTACKS ON JAPANESE BASES   Drop 1000-Pound Bombs, Blast Enemy on Five Sectors

Western Penna. Awaits Ickes Decision On: Easing Of Gas Rationing Restrictions

Continued Study of Situation Is Urged By Senator Davis  STATISTICS ARE QUOTED

American Brigadier General Missing in - Aetion After Leading Attack on Rabaul

SAYS INDUSTR\ NEEDS BIGGER FUND RESERVE   Proposes part of income tax set aside for postwar period

$7,433,185 IS PAID FOR SCRAP RUBBER   Four Relief “Agencies Get Money from Government

Four Jap Destroyers Are Sunk By United States Force On Thanksgiving

‘American Destroyer Force Smaller Than Enemy’s Sinks Four Japanese ‘Destroyers And Damages Another

ANOTHER JAPANESE NAVAL BATTLE LOST AS DESTROYERS SUNK  SMALLER AMERICAN SEA FORCE SINKS FOUR, DAMAGES ANOTHER

EXPERTS WORK ON 12 BILLIONS TAX   Treasury To Submit Pro gram When Congress is Ready in Fall.

SALERNO BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBS   Another Important Italian Mainline Railroad System Attacked   AIR RAIDS GROW   Strategic Areas In And Around Naples Hammered By Fliers :

Salerno Is Battered By Allied Bombs   38 Foe Fighters , Shot Down— * Five Allied . Aircraft Lost

AERIAL ALLIED JUGGERNAUT HAS STRUCK SALERNO   Is Another Important Point in Italian Inland Railroad System.   THE CITY WAS SMASHED   is on the Coast South of Naples; Bombers Left a Trail of Ruin.

Italian Railway Syst ystem Battered By Allied Bombs   Salerno Is Latest Transportation Center Blasted

United Nations Air Fleets Batter Salerno, Smash Italy Rail System   114 Axis Planes Destroyed In Futile Attempt To Defend Mainland Lines Of Supply. Transportation

ALLIED ATR MEN' WRECK SALERNO. RAIL NETWORK!      Naples Is Also Hammered By Aerial Juggernaut In Continuing Blows  On fralian Ports   28 AXIS WARPLANES BAGGED IN BATTLES   Other Italian Cities Are Targets of Stepped-Up Offensive by Yanks, British Fliers

Italy Is Target Of Allied Ships   Another Important Point on Italian Mainland Is  - Smashed   RAIL CENTERS ARE HIT   Heavy Fight of Past Four Days Downs 114 Enemy  Planes

Railroad Marshalling Yards Lef Sea of Flames After-Day and Night Bombings   CROTONE RAIDED   Nazis Throw 100 Fighters Into Battle at Salerno and 28 or More are Shot Down

SALERNO ON COAST SOUTH OF NAPLES ALMOST WIPED OUT   Italian Mainland Rail System Virtually Obliterated.   114 ENEMY PLANES © ARE SHOT DOWN

South Italy Is Nearing Isolation   Heavy Air Assault Finishes Off Rail Network At Naples

Axis Defenders Lose 33 Ships In Sky Batth   Allies Leave Marshalling Yards In Sea Of Flame; Port Vital Railway Base

114 AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN FOUR DAYS QVERATALY   Salerno, Important Railway Center, Is Left In Ruins

SALERNO LEFT IN RUENS BY ALLIED RAIDS   Important City South ef Naples Containing Vital Rail Centers Object Of Assault   MANY PLANES DOWNED

ITALIAN RAILWAY CENTER AT SALERNO HEAVILY HI   Coastal City South Of Naples Virtually Smashed In Day And Night Aerial Assaults, With Marshalling Yards Mass Of Flame—114 Enemy Planes Downed In Air Fighting Of Past Four Days Over Italy-— Switching Areas At Crotone Blasted

NAPLES AREA BEING POUNDED 10 BITS BY AERIAL JUGGERNAUT IN NIGHT ANE DAY RAIDS BY ALLIES   Town of Salerno Left Raging Inferno in Latest Raids.—Italians Admit Great Damage in Salerno, Naples and Other Points

HIT SALERNO YARDS AFTER NAPLES RAID   Germans Send 100 Fighters  ~ Into Battle, Lose 28: Tol Of Nazi Planes 109 Ir Four Days

SALERNO HIT - BY AIRMEN IN LATEST RAID   Italian Railroad Centers  Ruined As Allies Push Day. Night Assaults

IMPORTANT RAILWAY CENTER OF SALERNO IS BADLY SMASHED  HEAVIER FIGHTER OPPOSITION MET BY ALLIES; ENEMY PLANES DOWNED

SALERNO AAD LEAVES YARDS SEA (IF FLAME   Allied Bombers Blast .Raii Center, Whittle Down Air “Lares.   114 ENEMY PLANES SHOT ‘DOWN IN LAST FOUR DAYS

BOMBERS HIT AT RAILWAY JUNCTION   Smash City In Day And Night Raids

Allies blast Salerno into flaming ruin   Italian railroad center destroyed

RAILROAD NETWORK WRECKED    Salerno, Near Naples, Reported Virtually Smashed

Allied Bombers Wreck Naples Rail Network In Big Two-Day Attack   Seek To Isolate Axis Southern Italy Forces

RAILWAY CENTER NEAR NAPLES IS SMOKING RUINS   Italy Now Openly Admits Withdrawal from War Is Blocked by Germany   PEOPLE TREMBLE IN FEAR   Allied Fliers Credited With Shooting Down 109 Planes With Loss of Seven

tack Leaves lerno in nokingRuin   8 Enemy Planes. rought Down v U. S. Alrmen

Marshalling Yard a ames After Air Raid   Nazis Use 100 Planes: To Beat Off Ally Raiders; 28 Were Shoat Down

Salerno, Italian Rail Junction South.of Naples, Is Flattened  By Day-and-Night Air Attacks

ITALIAN CITY IS SMASHED BY ALLIED PLANES   Port of Salerno Is Left in Ruins by Night and Day Bombings.   Germans Send Up 100  Interceptor Planes

‘114 PLANES SHOT DOWN IN 4 DAYS   Port Of Crotone Also Hamméred By Heavy  , British Bombers

Italian Railroad Center Reported Devastated; British Airmen Attack Ger man Cities.

Salerno Rail Yards Wreeked In Continued Bombardment of Italy, Down 114 Nazi Planes in Four Days

Salerno Struck By Allied Air Force Bombers   City In Ruins After Heavy Day And Nigh Bombing Raids

Air Blitz  Ruins Key Italy City   RAIL HUB SHATTERED IN DAY, NIGHT RAIDS BY ALLIED BOMBERS

ALLIED RAIDS LEAVE CITY IN SEA OF FLAME   Germans Throw In 100 Fighters To Battle Attackers

Bomhs Smash Ancther Rail — City In Italy   Salerno Is the Latest Target of Crippling Air Drive . by Allies   GERMANS THROW IN MORE FIGHTERS   But 114 Axis Planes Have Been Shot Down in the Last Four Days

U.S. British Air Armadas  Raid Salerno   Allied Aerial Offensive Rolls Ahead With Smashing Of Rail Center,   STIFF AXIS RESISTANCE

Salerno Is Smashed In Day, Night Allied Raids   Railroad Yards In City South Of Naples Left Mass Of Flames

LEAVE RAIL YARDS INA SEA OF FLAME   } Germans Throw Up 100 Fighters to Guard Vital Communications Center and Allies Shoot Down 99 of Them.

At Least 65 German Fight. ers Knocked Out of Sky Friday and Saturday and 28 In Raids Over the City Sunday; Trail of Ruin Left By Bombers.

Allied Airmen Leave Salerno Rail Yards Sea Of Flames In Day, Night Attacks

Located on Southern Coast of Mainland; 34 German Fighters Downed

DOWN 28 AXIS PLANES IN FIGHT OVER SALERNO   Fliers Leave Railroad Yards Sea of Flames After Round-Clock Attack ,

SOUTHERN ITALY RAIL CENTER IS MASS OF RUBBLE   SALERNO LEVELED AS ALLIED PLANES RAKE MAINLAND LIFELINES

Salerno Hit In Blows By Allied Bomb:   Rail Center Virtually Destroyed; 34 Enemy Planes Brought Down In Air Rattles

Salerno Bombed Heavily: Rail Yards Smashed   Day and Night Raids Leave Rail Yards In Flames

ALLIED ATTACK HITS SALERNO   Aerial Juggernaut Smashes Vital Point in Railroad System.   NAZIS DEFEND LIFELINE

Salerno, Italy, Crushed Under Air Juggernaut   City Virtually Smashed In Day And Night Air Raids   SEVER SOUTH ITALY   114 Axis Planes Downed In Past Four Days Of Fighting

Vital .Rail Center Smashed By Allies   Airmen Raze Salerno South of Naples . As Nazis Attempt to Knock Down Planes

IMPORTANT RAILWAY GENTER OF SALERNO IS BADLY SMASHED  _ HEAVIER FIGHTER OPPO:

DOWN 33 NAZI FIGHTER CRAFT IN AIR BATTLES   Day and Night Assaults Leave Railroad Yards a Séa of Flame:

Salerno Is Drowned In   Aerial Tide   Important Link in Italy’s Rail System Target of Successive Attacks

Salerno Railway Yards In Ruins After Raids   ° Marshalling Yards Left In Flames By Allied ’ Aerial Juggernaut; 28 Enemy! Planes Shot From Skies. :

NAZIS LAUNCH SAMOS ATTACK   GERMANS SWITCH DRIVE FROM FALLEN LEROS

Nazi Bombs On Samos   British Press Sharp In Comment on Loss Of Leros to Germans

Nazis Switch Attack From Leros To Samos   Begin Heavy Air Assault On Last Aegean Island In-Allied-Hands: London Critical

Germans Attack Samos, Aegean  Island From Air   Action Follows Leros Canture

Press Of Britain Critical   New Assault Follows Capture Of Leros —Island.

Loss Of Leros Held Blunder   British Press Critical . ‘Of Defeat Of--Allies In. —  . Dodecanese

DRIVING ON SAMOS   Nazis Begin Air Assault on ‘Last Aegean Island in  Allied Hands

Germans Launch Attack On Samos, Last Of Aegeans   Remaining Island In Allied Possession Subject To -Heavy Nazi Bombing

‘Nazi: Aegear Drive Turns ‘Upon Samos      Angry London: Pr Charges: ‘Bungling’ Tn: Toss. of Leros®:

Nazis Start On Samos   British Press Bitter Over Loss of Leros Island

NAZIS AIRMEN BLAST SAMOS   Berlin Reports Attack on Last Allied Hold in Aegean Isles

—NEAR EAST—   SAMOS ATTACKED — AY AIR RAIDERS   Allies Loss Of Leros Sharply Criticized By London Papers   ASK EXPLANATION   American Aircraft Bomb Two German Airfields In Athens Area -

NAZIS REPORT ALLIED-HELD SAMOS RAIDED   Berlin Radio Announces Opening of Assault on Last of Aegean Islands in Hands of the United Nations.

NAZIS ATTACKING SAMOS FROM Alt   Last of Eagean Islands In Allied Hands Under Attack; London Papers Attack Loss of Leros and Demand Explanation.

SAMOS UNDER ATTACK    Berlin Radio Claims Last Aegean  sold Of Allies Under Fire

GERMANS QUICKLY SWITCH ATTACKS 0 ISLAND OF SAMOS  - NAZIS CAPTURED LEROS ONLY 20 MILES AWAY, ON TUESDAY

SERVICEMEN MAY VOTE   Absentee Ballot May Be Used in ‘the Special Election

SERVICEMEN MAY VOTE   Absentee Ballot ‘May ‘May Be Used: in ‘the Special Election +

AGED RESIDENT — ANSWERS SUMMONS LAST THURSDAY   Albert W. Lake Had Been Ailing Long Time; Burial At Quincy, Ill.

Port City Holf Way Up Eostern Sicilian Coast Threatened  PRISONERS SEIZED IN ALLIED MARCH  Town After Town Surrendering, Correspondent — Cables

Port City Half Way Up Eastern Sicilian Coast Threatened   PRISONERS SEIZED IN ALLIED MARCH

Town After Town Falls to British, Canadian and American Forces — Axis Reinforcements Reported Rushing From Interior to Meet Yanks—English Land Near Catania to Menace Port.

Augusta, Other Key Cities Fall  Allies: ‘Capture ' 6,000 Axis”  Prisoners

GUERILLAS IN © BALKANS TOLD WAIT SIGNAI   Allied Chief in Middle East Call: on Italians Cease War, Order: Ships fo Port

Urge Balkans To Hold Fire   Gen. Sir Henry Wilson Tells Italian Garrisons To Cease  Hostile Acts.

Mosquitoes Nip At Berlin Again   10th Raid In Month On German Capital

BOMBERS HEADED FOR DIEPPE AREA   Several Big Flights Roa Over Channel Early  This Morning

Labor Board 5 Wider Power Raise Wages   Nalse Wages  " o . 'rnes Permits Lifts ' Correct Inequities,  Costs Not Affected n LABOR VICTORY "t Does Not Shelve  ‘tle Steel Formula » Pauw Sralec

Draft Legislation Designed Teo Delay Induction. of Pre-War Dads.   'N’NUTT URGED ITS VETO

FATHER-DRAFT ACT OK'D BY F. R,   President Signs Bill McNutt Urged Him To Veto: Puts Pre-War Fathers At Bottom Of Draft List.

Signs Bill  for Delay -:in Calling  of Fathers   “White House Announces the ~ President’s: Approval of New Draft Act :   WicNUTT: ‘OPPOSED BILL, MAY RESIGN   Removes: » His Authority Over Selective Service; Etfect of Bill in Doubt

Roosevelt Delays Draft Of Fathers   MeNutt Power Cut; Hershey Given Full Control by Bill

BILL 10 DELAY FATHER DRAFT BECOMES LAV   President Ignores Plea o' McNutt by Signing It; His Future Uncertain

Father Draft Bill Is Approved byF.D.R.   Action of President Gives Pre-Wor. Dods Respite From Army

FDR APPROVES DAD RAFT BILL   War Manpower Commissioner McNutt Is Sheared of Power, Threatened to Resign

Father Draft Bill Approved By Roosevelt   Signs Measure Despite McNutt’s Request For Veto

NUTT LOSES AUTHORITY IN DRAFT OFFICE   Pre-War Dads Given Last Call Under  New Measure

FATHER DRAFT BILL IS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT   Measure to Delay Taking Dads Signed Into Law Despite Protests by McNutt   EFFECT IN DOUBT   ‘Bill Puts Pre-Sept. 15, 1942, Fathers at Bottom of Pool bui Al lows Discretion

AGREES TO PLACE PRE-WAR DADS AT BOTTOM OF LIST   QUESTION RAISED AS WHETHER M’NUTT WILL TENDER RESIGNATION

Effect of Action P r oblematieal; MeNutt Loses Draft Control   Measure Contains ‘Escape Clause’ Providing ‘Orderly Flow’

“ATIERS LAST   Measure Also Remove: From Paul McNutt Au. thority Ovér Adminis. tration of the Selective Service System.

Father Draft Bill Approved  White House Reveals sident Has Siqned

PRE-WAR DADS INDUCTION 10 BE POSTPONED   Legislation Removes Selective Service Authority From McNutt

F.D.R. Signs Bill Aimed At Delay Of Dad Draft      Approval Raises Question As To Whether McNutt Mav Resign.

Roosevelt Oxeis Bill Delaying Father Drafting  McNutt Asked F.R. to Veto  The Legislation

FATHER DRAFT BILL IS SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT   Strips: McNutt of His Authority; Manpower Commission Head Might Resign

INDUCTION OF DADS DELAYED - AY HIS ACTION   But Hershey Says Schedule to Require Drafting of 1,000,000 in 1944,

—FATHER DRAFT—   MAY DELAY CALL OF PRE-WAR DAD   WMC Head Loses Authority To Administer Selective Service   MAY RESIGN JOB   ‘Work Or Fight’ Order Of Manpower Commission Nullified

president Roosevelt Approves Father Draft Bill: McNutt Shorn Of Powel   Washington Roundup 5  ‘Senate Liquor Commitfee Hears There Is A Liffle More Whiskey Available; Taxes Today ConcernCapital Lawmakers

R. Signs d Dratt  easure   rules Manpower McNutt; Put FathAt Bottom Of Draft

LEGISLATION CURBS POWER OF M’NUTT      Delays Induction Of Dads -Until All Other Men Are Called Up

Delay in Dad Draft Okayed   HERSHEY TAKES OVER SELECTIVE SERVICE AS McNUTT AUTHORITY ENDS

CHIEF EXECUTIVE APPROVES PLAN M’NUTT FOUGHT   New Measure Would Delay Calling of Dads Until Others Are Taken

NEW BILL DELAYS DRAFT OF FATHERS   Removes McNutt’s Authority Over Selective Serv ice System   EFFECT IS UNCERTAIN

Move Strips McNutt Of Authority   Measure Designed T¢ Delay Induction Of Pre-War Fathers

Father Draft. Delay Okehed By President   MeNutt Stripped of Supervisory Power Under New Statute

REFUSES TO VETO ACT   Legislation Putting Dads At Bottom Of List Removes Draft Authority From McNutt

PRESIDENT. SIGNS ~ MEASURE DELAYING > DRAFT OF FATHERS      Legislation Removes’ McNutt From. Authority Over * Selective Service   CARRIES “ESCAPE” CLAUSE

FATHER DRAFT BILL FAVORED BY ROOSEVELT   White House Announcement Raises Question as to Whether Paul McNutt  May Resign Position   ACTION FAR-REACHING

MeNutt’s Authority  OnSelectiveService  Removed; May Quit   Officials Don’t Know How Far Law Will Slow Induction Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Into Armed Forees

FATHER DRAFT BILL OKAYED _BY ROOSEVELT   Designed To Delay Induction.Of PreWar Dads   DECLINES   Paul M’Nutt Loses Selective . Service Anuthotity

Rejects Plea By McNutt To Veto Bill   Manpower Chief Sivipped of Power Over Draft System

PRESIDENT SIGNS FATHER DRAFT BILL PASSED BY: CONGRESS   *>MEASURE WAS’ DESIGNED TO DELAY INDUCTION PRE.WAR FATHERS

IGNORES PLEA BY MENUTT 0 VETO MEASURE   Effect On Induction Of Fathers Remains te Be Seen

Father Draft Delay Bill is Approved      President Acts Against McNutt

PyePear! Harbor Dads Placed At Bottom Of Draft Pool! As Result Of New Law

Signs Draft Bill   President Approves Measure Putting PreWar Fathers at Bottom Of List for Induction -

ACTION FROM BILL UNCERTAIN   McNutt, Who Had Urgec Veto, May Resign

F. R. Signs Bill Delaying Father Draft   President’s Refusal To  Veto May Bring Resignation Of McNutt.

Dads Gain Respite Under ‘Pool’ Plan; Hershey Gets Helm   - Pre-War Fathers to Be Called Last;. ‘Work or Fight’ Orders Nullified; 7 Reduction in 4-F Class Planned:

Pre-WarF ather Draft Delay Is Given Approval   President Signs Bill By Which McNutt Is Shorn' Of Much Power

FDR Signs Measure For Delay of Drafting Fathers  _ McNutt Loses Power Now Assumed by Gen. L. B. Hershey

FDR Approves Bill To Delay Father Draft   Single, Childless Married Men Face Induction First

F. D. R. Approves Measure’ to Delay Draft of Fathers  Action Raises   Action Raises Question As to Whether McNutt Will Quit Post

F.R. Signs Draft Bill   Would Delay Inductior Of Pre-War Fathers Into Armed Services

Father Draft Bill Approved   Action Taken Despite Appeal By McNutt

FDR SIGNS BILL ON DADS DRAFT   Pre-War Fathers at Foot of List: WMC Stripped of Authority

Pre-War Fathers Bill [s Signed   President Approves Measure To Put Pre-War Fathers At Bottom Of List   SOME INDUCTION CHANGES ARE MADE

Father Draft Bill Approved by Chief  Executive Abroad   Roosevelt Ignores MceNutt’s Plea That He  Veto Measure

Father draft bill signed by president   Delays induction of pre-war dads

SINGLE MEN ‘DRAFT POOL’ BILL SIGNED   - + . ' PRESIDENT SIGNS MEASURE DESIGNED TO DELAY INDUCTION OF PRE-WAR PATHERS 

FATHER DRAFT BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT   Will Put Dads Or Bottom Of List  For Induction

Father Draft Bill Gets Okeh   President Appruves Plan To Delay Induction Of  oe Pye Warn Dads .

Lsecificatbeass ei, eth ik. cL ree  FDR, ‘Bock in U. S., Signs Father Draft; Bill; WMC Goes Out

WMC STRIPPED OF AUTHORITY BY PRESIDENT   Non - Essential Employment Rules Wiped Out; Hershey Holds Power

DRAFT BILL IS SIGNED BY FRR   Act Will Delay Induction 0 Pre-War Fathers

FDR APPROVES — “FATHER DRAFT LEGISLATION   Delays Induction of PrePearl ‘ Harbor Dads; Await MeNutt Action °

EDR Approves Bill To Delay Father Dratt   President's Approval Raises Question What MeNutt Wonld Do.   RESULTS TO BE SEED

FDR Approves New Draft Bill  How Long Measure Will Delay Drafting OF Fathere Question

Chief Executive Ignored Appeal for Veto From McNutt   Effectiveness of oa Measure Remains To Be Demonstrated

FATHER DRAFT BILL APPROVED BY PRESIDENT   It Will Delay Induction of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Into Service.   Relieves McNutt of Authority in System

Measure Placing Fathers Last In Draft Approved   President Signs Legislation Despite Protest By McNutt

NO RELIEF YET IN COLD WAVE   Entire State Affected; Sault Ste. Marie Has 18 Below Zero

RICKENBACKER BACK FROM RUSSIAN VISIT   ‘Inspection Trip’ Made for Secretary of War

PERENNIAL MEASURE COMES UP THURSDAY   Bill to Permit Collection of Fees by Christian Science Healers Due.

GENERAL EISENHOWER AND ADMIRAL CUNNINGHAM WATCH SURRENDERING ITALIAN SHIPS   ARMISTICE TERMS GIVE ALLIES CORSICA ‘AIRFORCE, SHIPS 

Eisenhower, Cunningham Watch Italian Fleet Come Before Them in Surrender

Dramatic Scene Enacted as Italian Ships Stonm in Review Past British at Maita

Italians Surrender _ Backbone Of Fleet    Battleship Roma Definitely Sunk By Nazi  Bombers; 4 Battlewagons, 7 Cruisers, 6 Destroyers In Allied Hands   Dramatic Surrender Of Italian Fleet Signals Start Of New Pacific Phase

KIEV BATTLE TIDE TURNS IN RUSS FAVOR   Red Army Captures Cherkassy in Bend of Dnieper River

GERMANS REVEAL GHTY'S FALL Ab AEDS POUND ON   Kiev Bulge Battle Improves With Soviet Troops on Offense 

Freeing Of Rome Next Objective   Roosevelt Likens Present  Drive To Crusade To Liberate City And The  Vatican From Nazis

Allies Seek To FreeRome Says FDR   Would Also Rescue Vatican and Pope  From Germans

Would Free Rome, Vatican   Roosevelt Says Campaign Much Like Crusade

ALLIED FORCES GBJECTIVE IS 10 FREE CITY OF ROME   Much in the Manner of Cru. sade Attempting to Avoid Destruction.   GERMANS PLAN STAND   May Be on Line of Rome Now That the Allies Have Entered Naples.

Objective OF Allied Forces Is  To Free Rome, Vatican, Pope   President Says Whether There Will Be Much  Wo lenetion (Mhaea fe Pt boexe Destruction There Is t pid Gerrans To Say

ALLIED DRIVE THROUGH ITALY HELD CRUSADE   Roosevelt Says Aim is to Free Rome, Vatican and Pope: Hope to Prevetit Destruction of City

(President Cites Italy Campaign As —  ‘Allied Crusade to Free Rome. Pope

President Says Allied Objective ‘Is To Free Rome   Italian Drive Much In Manner Of Crusade

FDR Wants Pope Freed   -Push- in Italy Takes “Flavor of Crusade.

Allies Aim to Free Rome, Vatican, Pope, Says. D.R.   President Doubts Germans Will Make Next Stand ot Rome; Hopes City Can Be Saved

ALLIES HOPE TO BAR ROME'S DESTRUCTION   Roosevelt Pistures Advance az _ Crusade to Free Capital, Vatican  and Pope Pius

Allies Seek To Free Rome, Pope  Operation Much In Manner of Crusade,  be eee eer ae

Liberate Rome Without Harm   wees Res. Bee  Says General Eisenhower  Knows Not Where German Stand Will Be.

AMERICANS TO FREE ROME, POPE-FDR   Allied Units To Try To Prevent Damage To Italian Capital

Full-Scale Withdrawal Under Slashing Attack by Swarms of Allied’ Planes— Japs. Try to Get 10,000-Man Garrison’ :  Out of Solomons—Russia, China; ” : Balkan Gains

Allies Seek To Free Rome, Pope   Operation Much In Manner of Crusade, President Says

ALLIES HOPE TO FREE ROME AND VATICAN   Liberation of Pope Also Part of “Crusade” in Italy, With as Little Destructon as Possible, F. D. R. Says.

Free Rome, Allied Objective—F R.  Appears Skeptical Over  New Defense Line

WILL SAVE ROME FAR AS POSSIBLE   President Hears of Gccupan cy of Naples Just Before Press Conference.

Seek fo Free Rome, Vatican and the Pope   Every: Effort Being Made to’ Prevent Damage, ‘the President: Savs

Allies Seek to Free Rome, Roosevelt Says   Will Avoid All Possible Destruction; President Asserts Nobody Knows Where Next Stand of Germans Likely to Be.

PRESIDENT SAYS ALLIED GOAL IS TO FREE ROME   Roosevelt Doubts If Nazis Try to Make Stand In That City

ALLIES POINT T0 FREE POPE   PRESIDENT SAYS ARMIES TO SHUN DESTRUCTION

‘Alles to Free” Rome, F. D. R.   President Doubts If Germans Stand On Line of Rome —

Allied Objective  Is to Free Rome   Will Try to Avoid Destruction of Vatican Property, FDR Says.

Reds Forced Back at Donets. River Under Heavy Assault by Superior German Forces

Red Defenders Forced Back In  Donets Region   Germans Making Desperate Efforts To Establish Donets River Bridge.  heads   RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN SMOLENSK DRIVE

MAX STEPHAN BARE! NAME OF ADVISOR   Tells Trial Judge Former Detroit Postmaster Advised Him: to Aid Krug

FORMER DETROIT POSTMASTER LINKED WITH STEPHAN CASE   Stephan Says He Paid Fugitive Nazi Flier's Ticket To Chicago   ALLEGATION IS DENIEL

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Wants to Discuss Pinns.

DE GAULLE ASKS TO MEET GIRAND   Proposes Conference to Man French Plane

Gen. DeGaulle Invites Giraud To Conference   Hope to reach. agree~ment for united effort against. Hitler and his Axis partners.

Two Carthage Boys Arrested   ONE YOUTH ADMITS TAKING BLANKETS FROM CAMP SHELTER HOUSE

GANDHI HOLDING OWN AS FAST NEARS END   Visitors To Be Barred from Climaxing Ceremony

GANDHI FAST NEAR END   Indian Leader Has Only One Night Te Go On 21-Day Period

GANDHI NEARS END OF STRIKE   Returns to Status as Politica Prisoner Tomorrow at 8 P.M,

Six Years of War’s Horrors, Heaped or Iil-armed People by Japs, Fails To Shake Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Belief in Charity and Forgiveness of Enemies

MME, CHIANG ASKS CHARITY FOR ENEMIES   Speaks To 17,000 People In New York

Mme. Chiang For Peace of Forgiveness   One Great State Of ‘Common Gods and Men‘ Visuclized.

MOVING TO REDUCE HOLIDAY TRAVELING   Military Officers Are Restricting Liberty Passes For Personnel In This Section

HOLD 2 IN GAS COUPON THEFTS   St. Joe Youths Implicate Eleven Others; Seld Stolen Coupons

Demagoguery: Charge Hurled Back by Lewis   Miners’ ‘Leader ‘Has Sharp Exchanges With Senators

LEWIS IN HOT WAR OF WORDS      'U.M.W. Chief Clashes at Truman Hearing With Senator Ball.

LEWIS MAY BLAST SNAGS   Miners’ Leader to’ Testify Bafore “Rruman “~“ommitlee  g

Heated Exchan ges Mark Lewis Appearance Before Committee   Mine Workers Head Tells Senators He'll Follow Them On Matters Of Courtesy

EXCHANGES AT INQUIRY ARE HEATED   Give-And-Take Arguments Punctuate Questioning Of Mine Chief By Commitee   PLEADS "PROTECTION"

Lewis Charges Iwo-Faced Polic  Says Gov't Encourages Industry To Profits But Restricts Wages

LEWIS IS SHARP IN MINE CLASE   Call Me Demagogue, He Tells Ball, and  Hurl It Back at You

Lewis Enters Hot Exchange With Senators   Labor Leader Declares Labor Not Getting Same Break As Industry.   NO END TO INFLATION

Ball Clashes With Lewis  WVIQaqre oie en   UMW Chief Before  Senate Quiz Group

LEWIS TANGLES WITH SENATOR   SHARP WORDS MARK SENATE GROUP PROBE

LEWIS ENGAGES IN WARM EXCHANGE WITH SEN. BALL   RESENTS IMPLICATION OF DEMAGOGUERY AT COMMITTEE MEETING

Lewis Exchanges Heated Words With Senators  Congressman, CIO Leader Call Each Other “Demagoques

Lewis Clashes With Senators  Mine Leader Wrangles With Investigators

Lewis Turns on Senate Ball   United Miners’ Chief Resents Ball's Use Of Term Demaaoauery

Lewis and  Ball Clash   Heated Remarks Fly During Hearing Before Senate Inquiry Group

PROBERS IN HOT TILT   Charges of . ‘Demagoguery’ Are Exchanged Before Truman. Committee   IN TANGLE OVER A LEWIS CHARGE   Other Issues Debated~ in Hearing of the Mine Union Leader

LEWIS CLASHES WITH MEMBERS CENATR CROUP   Miners’ Leader Hurls Charge He Is a Demagogue Back In Face of Senator Ball   ATTACKS OTHERS   Chairman Truman Admonishes Laborite and Says “T’m Stopping It Right Now”

Lewis Irked By Members Of Committee   Frequent Exchanges of ‘Opinion’ Hurled In Hearing

Declares Miners Undernourished   John Lewis and Senator Ball i in Verbal Blows Dur ing Hearing.

Jehn Lewis Returns Epithet as Senator Terms Him ‘Demagogue’ In Give-and-Take Mine Hearine

Lewis Stands Tn Demand For Higher Wages   Hot Exchanges Of Words With Solons Mark Appearance

JOHN L. LEWIS AND SENATORS OF  WAR INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE  IN HEATED VERBAL EXCHANGES   Miner’s Leader Tells Senator Ball, (R-Minn) “When You Call Me A Demagogue Before I Can Reply.  Hurl It Back In Your Face, Sir’

RUSSIAN FIGHTING WEATHER CREEPING DOWN FROM NORTH   Red Army Preparing New _ Offensive When Winter Freezes Muddy  Terrain

SOVIETS READY FOR NEW DRIVE AS COLD NEARS   Reds Regrouping To Resume Offensive When Winter Weather Arrives

Russian Army Drive Halted By Sea Of Mud   Stalin Gives Troops Respité; Awaiting Winter Freeze

REDS PLAN NEW WINTER OFFENSIVE   Soviets Regrouping Armies For Drive After Freeze

RUSS ADVANCES ARE LIMITED 10 VITEBSK FRONT   Freezes Soon Will Harden Rain Soaked Fields, Give Footing

GEN. DEVERS, T00, SEES VICTORY DURING 1944   Native Yorker Addresses ve New British Officers—Tite Turned At El Alamein

NIP BASE IN NEW GUINEA IN RUINS   Allied Fliers Drop 177 Tons o! Bombs on Airfield at Salamaua

Salamaua Base Smoking Ruins   Heavy Americén Bombers Plaster Base With 177 Tons Of Bombs

Naples In Ruins  From Staggering Aerial Assaults   Allies Pressing Air Attacks Against Many ‘Ttealian Centers.

MESSINA ALL BUT RUINED AS PLANES RETURN 10 ATTACK   Air Fleets Including 270 Bombers From Africa and Middle East Strike Pul verizine Rlows.

Vital Jap Air Base Reduced To Smoking Ruins   Salamaua Is Hard Hit As Yanks Gain In New Georgia

Great Italian Port Left In Smoking Ruins After 24-Hour Stacceringe Allied Aur Attack   Messina Virtually Wiped Out Previous Day; Air Offensive Carried Deep Into Italy; U.S. Fortresses, RAF Wellingtons Strike Continuousl

SALAMAUA RUINED BY U. 5. BOMBERS   Japan’s Vital Air Base In New Guinea Undergoes Heavy Attack

Naples Fired in Crushing Air Assaults   Fountainhead of Enemy Reinforcement and Suppties _ a Blazing Inferno   PORT AND ARSENAL POUNDED 24 HOURS   Same Staggering Assault as That Dealt Messina; Other Points Blasted .. j

U. S. Bombers Lay Waste To Salamaua Nips   May Presage New Drive; Yanks Gain Ground On New Georgia

Bombers All But Finish Destruction Of Messina      200 Planes Lay Waste Sicily’: Vital Port—Raid Tops Ancther 24 Heurs of Non-Stop Attacks Made By Allies

ALLIED TROOPS PUSH FORWARD, TAKE 9 TOWNS   Two Mighty Arms Thrust Into Sicily; Reported Axis Planning to Abandon Island   ARMORED DIVISIONS: MAULED BY BRITISH   Americans Have Captured Over 16,000 Prisoners In Drive Inland On Western Sector

Japan’s Vital Air Base Is in Ruins   Salamaua in New Guinea Is Devastated by 177 Tons of U. S. Bombs.

JAPAN AIRBASE ON NEW GUINEA SMOKING RUINS   Yanks Devastate Vita! Enemy Salamaua Area in 45 Minutes With 177  Tons of Bombs

MUCH OF SALAMAUA WAS DEVASTATED IN 45 MINUTES   One Hundred Seventy-Seven tons of Bombs Were Dropped on City.   JAPAN’S VITAL AIR BASE   Debris Littered the Waterfront of the One-Mile Isthmus.

Salamaua Base Wrecked By U.S   JAP HE ADQUARTE RS ARE BLASTED BY YANK BOMBERS

GREAT ITALIAN PORT OF NAPLES IN SMOKY RUINS   [wenty- Four Hour Aerial Assault Leaves City A Blazing Inferno; Other Points In Italy Blasted By Allied Planes.

Concentrated _ Blasting May Presage Capture Of Pacific Vital Area.

Naples Shattered By Record Force Of Allied Planes   Twenty-four Hours of Bombardment. By Fortresses and Wellingtons Leaves Mainland Port in. Smoking: Ruins

Devastating Bombing Attacks on Salamaua May Presage Capture of Base; Troops Nearing Bairoko Harbor

Naples Is In Ruins  After Raid   Great Allied Aerial Offensive Smashes Tialian Port 

Naples Smoking Ruins After Air Bombardment   Allied Aerial Offensive Spreading Deep Into Italy Itself

NAPLES LIES IN RUINS AFTER HEAVY ALLIED ASSAULT FROM AIR   TWENTY-FOUR SOLID HOURS OF BOMBING LEFT CITY BLAZING INFERNO

ALLIED FLIERS -LEAVE NAPLES SMOKING RUII   Day and Night Attacks Compa: able to Those Which Virtuall: Erased Messina   RESISTANCE SLIGHT   Four Waves cf Flying Foris in Daylight Ailacks—Other Targels Strafed

177 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON SALAMAUA   Portion of Town on Isthmus Virtually Ceases  ‘To Be MacArthur  ‘Announces

Bombers All But Completely Destroy Messina   Raids on Naples And Palermo Are Reported

Messina Blasted Again By Allied  Aerial Forces .   270 Bombers Nearly Complete Destruction  of Sicilian Harbor

Record Raid Leaves Port In Shambles   Heaviest Bomber Units From Africa Crush Italian Citv

DEVASTATION WAS RAINED ON SALAMAUA BY U. 5. BOMBERS  CONCENTRATED ATTACK MAY PRESAGE CAPTURE  OF BASE FROM CROUND

MESSINA SUFFERS DISASTROUS BLOW IN BOMBING RAID   Line ‘of Enemy Supply and Reinforcement Virtually Pulverized,

Salamaua  ‘Gets Blasted   Much of Japan’s Vital Air Base In Smoking Ruins

BOMBS FALL ON THE CITY FOR 24 HOURS   Port Is a Blazing Inferno, Its Arsenal All but Demolished and Smoke Sent 20,000 Feet Into tho Airy.

Key Axis Port For Supplying Army in Sicily from Italian Mainland Left A Smoking Ruin. Arsenal: All But Demolished And Smoke Rising To 20,00 Feet Above Citv

NAPLES LAID _ IN RUINS BY AIR ASSAULT   Twenty-Four Hour Bombardment Leaves Italian City Blazing Inferno.   Italy Torn by 2-Way Allied Aerial Attack

Salaoman Js in Smoking Ruins After Attack by Heavy American Bombers

SICILY PORT OF MESSINA DESTROYED      200 Bombers Virtually Ruined It Yesterday

Salamaua is Left In Smoking Ruins   Much of Japan's Vital Air Base on New Guinea is Devastated as Yanks Dron 177 Tons of Rosnhs

INSIDE ORGANIZATION OF GERMANY REVEALED      Goebbels Warns That Nazis Intend to Close Shops Which Display Goods Only and Ban Restaurants, Bars from Conducting Business — Report Elephants Used in Place of Human or Domectic Animal lLahar

First Holdup With Gas Investigated in Chicago; Woman Victim Dies

POISON GAS BELIEVED USED IN HOLDUP   Chicago Woman Cashier Dies— Physician Says Her Lungs Were Inflamed.

MACARTHUR T0 “STAY AT POST   SQUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA COMMANDER DENIES - HE 18 PLANNING TRIP TO WASHINGTON

MEAT SHORTAGE” OVER, SAYS SUN   Baltimore Paper Quotes Offi cial; Point Value Cuts Seen.

Social Service  Bill Passed By  Legislature Now Up fo Governor; Will Release OAP  and AN fhachke

State Liquor Rationing ls in Prospect   Senate Instructs Committee to Write Provisions

Liquor Rationing Is Proposed For Montanans   Final Day for Intreduction of Bills Finds Senate With Total of 201; Reaular Tax Levy Bill Up in House

Liquor Rationing Is in Prospect  Senate Passes 11  Bills Wednesday

Escapees Caught In Anaconda; Will Return Here  Three Men Surrender When Captured  Rv Groun of Police

Three Helena Jail Breakers Captured   Found in Hiding Near Anaconda

BICKERING OF FRENCH TRKS ALLIES   Britain. ‘and. U.S. May Held French   Territory in Trust

U. S. And Britain May Oust Both  French Leaders If Row Continues

French Seize Two Strategic Tunisian Hills  - Aerial Operations in Libya Halted _..by Bad Weather -

Democrats Objecting To Elimination of One Phila. District  WOULD CHANGE 19TH

Filibuster is Threatened   Democrats Object tc Reapportionment Measure

BRITISH ARMY DESIGNATED FOR BALKAN DRIVE   Unconfirmed  Reports Say 9th Unit Has Departed For ‘Unknown Destination’

British May Be Moving On The Balkans   9th Army Said to Have Embarked for an Unknown Destination   A RISING FERMENT IN- BALKIN AREA

Britain’ s Great Ninth “Army — ‘Reported On Move From Bases In Middle East; London Mum   Alleged Movement Seen Aimed Toward Balkans, Where Unrest Is Spreading

Huge British Army Said Moving On Balkans As  Serbs Score New Gains

Bains NINTH ARMY ON MOVE   Stockholm Paper Says Troops Off For ‘Unannounced Destination’  eenetee ments: ema iy eat  m AE EF Ah ahLUcela Oe tk Ko ke

9th Army Said To Be Moving   Report About Middle Eas Force Not Confirmed

BRITISH NINTH ARMY ON MOVE IN MIDDLE EAST   Blow at Balkans Rumored Intent— Italians Battle Germans in Do decanese Islands

BRITISH NINTH ARMY CLAIMED TO BE MOVING   Reported At Sea and Facing Island Pathway Into Greece   BALKAN UNREST GAINS   Important New Military ~ Moves Are Imminent,  Algiers Says

British Ninth Army On Move   May Be Heading For Balkans, Where Fighting Heavy

Aim Attack Presumably Via Balkans   Yugoslav Guerrilla Successes Against Nazis Continuing

British 9th Army Moving, Says Report   Middle Eastern Foree Off For An Unknown Destination; Yugoslav  Cuerrillac Active

Action By Ninth Army  Imminent   Reports Received From Ankara That British Troops Are Headed For Unknown Destination _

Report British On The Move In Middle-East   Allied Drive In The Balkans Believed Coming

BRITISH 9TH ARMY ON MOVE FROM ITS MIDDLE EAST BASES   This Unconfirmed Report Reached London From Stockholm Today.   DRIVE INTO BULGARIA?   British Military Officials Had No Comment to Make on the Report.

Allied Balkan Drive Reportec   British Ninth Army Is Said To Be On Move

nae oT : BE ON MOVE      Algiers Radio Says Im-. portant New Military De velooments In Making

British Troops Said En Route To Balkan Ares   New Successes Are Reported by Yugoslav Patriots

BRITISH NINTH © ARMY REPORTED IN NEW MARCH   Balkan Countries Showing Unrest; Rhodes Bombed

BRITISH NINTH ARMY SAID T0 BE ON MOVE      Unconfirmed Reports Have It That Forces Have Left Middle East Bases Facing Route to Greece and Balkans.

New Military Activity Imminent, Algiers Claims Trouble Brewing In Yugoslavia, Bulgaria With “Near Crisis” Reported In Rumania

Report British 9th Army Moving   Stockholm Middle East Force on the Move

AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK JAP RAIL POINTS BURMA   HEAVY DAMAGE BELIEVE! INFLICTED ON ENEMY’S WAR MATERIALS

Yank Burma Fliers Wreck Jap Rail Bass   Bomb Junctions, Ware. houses; Week’s Raids Spread Over S00 Miiles

WAR RELIEF FUND [S STILL GROWING   $17,000 Mark Is Reached And Passed It Is Revealed At Largely-Attended Red Cross Meetine Here

$2,350 IS REPORTED IN WAR FUND DRIVE   That Amount Contributed Thus Far By Hanoverians—Goal Is $16,750

OHIO’S SLOW TIME AIDS FOOD OUTPUT   Statement Issued by Head of Farm Bureau

SLOW TIME AIDS FARMER OFB SAYS   Green Charges ‘Fast’ Time Hampered Farm Work

OWI Has Purpose In ‘Seamy’ Stories   To End Easy Talk About War Being Over Soon

Reds 8 Miles From Railway Leading Out   Many Hitler Divisions May Be Bottled Up On Crimean Peninsula  HOLD AT KRIVOT par

Germans in Crimea face entrapment   Reds severing last escape line

Western Firm Makes Refund Of $20,000,000  To Government   Voluntarily Returns Sum As Excess Profits on War Contracts

FUEL'S A-WASTING HERE, AVERS ICKES, CALLED 10 SENATE GAS CAUCUS ROOM

Projected Meeting of Russian, British and U. S. War Leaders Persicts

GAS COUPON USAGE CHECK   May  Recall Non-Essen. tials to Save 24 Million Gallons

Consumption Of Gas Must Be Reduced   Campaign Is Launched To Cut Output by 24,000,000 Gallons a Month   MAY REVISE BOOKS

OPA To Cut Down On Number Of B, C Books   123,000 Planes . Built In Period May ‘40, Sept. “43

Military Govt. Unit in Sicily   U .S.-British Group To Govern Occupied Enemy Territory

U.S., Britain Set Up Rule  By Military  In Sicily   To Destroy Fascism; Leaders Removed, Party Abolished And Youth Groups Wiped Out

Joint Allied Group Rules . Civil Sicily   Trained in Governing  Conquered Lands: Fascists to Be Ousted

First Combined U. S.-British Military Government To Take Over In Sicily

Military Regime Governs Sicily   First Combined AmericanBritish Government of  Kind Is Set Up.

Military. Men Will Govern Sicilians :   - Alexander Heads “Specialists : Sent “To Islend

Allies Set Up Government To Rule Sicily   First Joint British-American Government of Its Kind to Govern Territory of Conquered Country

JOINT ALLIED MILITARY GOVT. TAKING OVER   In Occupied Area. Only A Matter of Time Till Entire Ieland Falls

Military Unit Brought in to Govern Sicily   Specially Trained Fexce Sets Up Headquarters Under Allied Command   COMBINED AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCE   Will Rule Through Native Officials Who Are Not Attive in Fascist Party

ARMY EXPERTS GOVERN SICILY   Allied Specialists Setup Headquarters In Occupied Territory

First Combined American British Government of Its Kind Accompanies Invaders of Sicily   ALEXANDER CHIEF ISLAND AUTHORITY   To Abolish Fascist Party ‘and Remove Ringleaders From Office; Political Activity Rarred

Allied Pattern Of Military Rule Set Up In Sicily Under Alexander

Army Regime Rules Sicily   Gen. Alexander Named Military Governor of Occupied Territory

NAME ALEXANDER MILITARY GOVERNOR   Has Supreme Authority in Occupied Sicily

‘AMGOT RULES OVER SICILY      Allied Military Gov’t And Organization Is First of Its Kind In History

Set Up Combined Sicily Government  U.S. British Military : Program Ready

ALLIES ESTABLISH “MILITARY REGIME TO GOVERN SICIL   Hundreds of Secretly Trained Officers and Men Will Rule Occupied Terzi-

Allies Establish Occupation Rule   Officers Govern Sicilian Towns

ALLIED MILITARY  GOVERNMENT SET UP  FOR RULE OF SICILY GEN. SIR HAROLD ALEX.  ANDER IS GOVERNOR WITH SUPREME POWFR

MUNDA IS HEAVILY BOMBED BY FLIERS   Two Important Jap Bases Assaulted on Sunday

Allies Step Up Air Offensive Against Munda   Heaviest Bomb Weight Plasters Japanese Base, Gasmata Also Pounded

MUNDA ROCKED BY 200 PLANES   186 Tons Of Bombs Are Showered On Jap Base; Airdrome  Blasted

HEAVY RAIDS OVER MUNDA: 200 PLANES   Swarm Over Airbase Raining 186 Tons of Bombs On Japs Pinned There By Americans

Aillies Deal Japs Heaviest Raids ‘Of War in Pacific  More Than 200 Yank Planes Swarm Over Munda Base

Allies Raid Two Big Jap Bases   Munda and Gasmatc Blasted by Bombs

American Second Corps Concludes African Campaicr   This Ends the Opera tions’, Bradley Says in Bizerte

Germans Give Up in Droves To Americans:   Buelovius Among Six Generals ‘Taken; Capture 25,000 Prisoners

SURRENDER OF 25,000 END OF CAMPAIGN   In North Afric a Major General Bradley Declares AsGermanTroopsSurrender  By Thousands   General Weeps

THREE GENERALS AMONG CAPTIVES OF U. 5. FORCE!   ‘Crack German Regiments Among Those to Lay Down Arms—Prisoners Placed in Vast Bull Pen.

Unconditional Surrender Bitter Stuff for Germans After Yanks Trap Them  In Northern Battlesraund

PRISONER POUR IN BY HUNDREDS   Some Proud, Cocky, Others Are in Tears   HIGH OFFICERS TAKEN   ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Is Bitter Stuff for Nazis and Italian Allies

Second Corps Rounds Up Nazi Captives   U. S. General Applies Surrender Terms Allies Agreed Upon

Prize Divisions Destroyed,  NaziGeneral Weeps When   Surrendering To American:   Many Of Nazi Soldiers Are Proud And Jaunty Even In Defeat; Some American Troops Completely Shun Captured Enemy

Nazi Troops Surrender to Yankee Soldiers in Droves   American Forces Take 25,000 German Prisoners Ir Tunisian Fighting; Some Are Proud And Cocky, Others Weep

SECOND CORPS OPERATIONS IN AFRICA ENDED   Yankees Take 25,000 Prisoners in North Tunisia Action

Yankees Take Thousands of Axis Prisoners   Germans Surrender To Yanks in Droves: 15,000 of Troops Trapped on Peninsul:

German Soldiers, Some In Tears, Give Up Fight   Prisoners Pour in by Hundreds to American Lines— Story of Surrender Related by American . Army Officer

Story Of Nazi Surrender Told: Myth Destroyed   Elite Of Hitler's Once Invincible Army Weep As Defeat Comes - -

GIRAUD PROPOSES CENTRAL POWER   Writes Degaulle of Establishing Provisional Central Government in North Africa

Farm Migration Plan Is Proposed In House Measure   Committee Recommends 26 Millions to Transport  nrbare   Local Enrollment of  3,150,000 Sugvested

Farm Proposals Into Limelight   FSA, Farm Labor Recruitment, Importing Mexicans On Agenda In Congress.

Farm Bills In Spotlight This Week   House Takes Up Three Proposals; F. S. A. Is Special Target.

HOUSE TO FACE FARM LEGISLATION   New Farm Labor Appropriation on ‘House Schedale; tw Investigate FSA- «3

FARM PROPOSALS COME TO FORE   LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED IN CONGRESS THIS WEEK

McNutt Predicts Compulsory Work Actls on Way   Inevitable’, War Man power Commissioner Says in Statement

FORCED LABOR DRAFT COMING   Manpower Chief Thinks Compulsory Service Act ‘Inevitable’

FORCED LABOR   Timing Up To President And Congress, WMC Chief Says

M NUTT DECLARES WORK DRAFT SURE   Manpower Chief Says National Service Act Is ‘Inevitable’, but Timing Is up To President and Congress

Russians Hammer Last Bulwark of Nazi Front   Reds Smash German Counterattacks in Irresistible Sweep of Offensive

Nazi Donets Armies Face Soviet Snare   Soviets Converge on Rostov; Rolling to Kharkov as Gap Narrows to 18 Miles

Russians Attack With New Fury ot 500-Mile Front   Soviet Generals Develop Many New Offensives

Nazis Flee  on Chill Red Plain   HITLER’S ARMIES FACING CRUSHING RED DEFEAT EAST OF THE DNIEPER

Bulgarian "Peace Feelers” Spurned By Allies, Cairo Sources Report

CFIZED AREAS    Finnish Radio Also Reported Discussing Peace Proposals.   EDEN HINTS INVASION

Bulgarian Peace Plan  Is Reported      Balkan Country Said To Send Oui Feelers

Bulgarian Peace Bid _ Rejected   Separate Feelers Are Sent To Russia, Britain And ' The United States, Is "Report At Cairo

Bulgaria Sends “Peace Feelers” To Allied Head:   Report Both Government And Population Realize Axis Is Loser In War

Peace Feelers  By Bulgaria   N. Y. Times Says Allies Rejected Overtures

THREE ‘PORTS AROUND ATHENS UNDER ATTACK   Allied Warplanes Also Figure in Victory Registered by Yugoslav Partisan Forces

Hears Bulgaria Seeking Peace  Effort Being Made to Get Out of War

WANT 10 QUIT WAR BELIEVED ALREADY LOST   London Times Says Only Answer ls Continued Bombing by Allies.

Truce Bids Sent Soviets And British      Government Chief: And Populace:No Realize War-lost

BULGARIAN PEACE EFFORTS COLLAPSE   New York Times Says Allie: Turn Down Offer to Ne dotiate Peare

Bulgaria Sends Peace Feelers   New York Times Says In Cairo Dispatch Bulgaria Men See Allies.

Senate Republicans Support Rum! Plan  Say If House Approves, Can Get Quick O. K.

Briti:; ; Eighth Army Swar’, Across Straits To Open Second Front

decond Front Opens as ltaly ; Invaded  British--Eiqhth —  « British--Bighth-—Army Veterans ‘Make Landina

Monty’s Veterans Cross Messina to  Set Up Beachhead   [Four Years After Declaration of Wat Allies Re-establish Position on Continent by Combined  ‘§ QCepenwan

British Open Second Front as They Swarm Across From Sicily   By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

 British Eighth Army Opens Second Front on. Continent of Europe, Swarming Across Messina Straits To Make Landing

BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED BY 8TH ARMY   Heavy Barrage By Naval Guns  Cover  andings

‘Hundreds Of Invasion Craft Take Part In Landing — Assault Carried Out _ With Support of Royal Navy, British, U.S. Forces _   ALLIES HAVE FOOTHOLD   - ON MAINLAND OF EUROPE

OF NOSES TO DISCLOSE CHANGES   Possibility of First Class City Status for Lawrence Raised     GWPAT’S" TAVRAY FATE RATS ATV SRA?T

COUNT OF NOSES TO DISCLOSE CHANGES   Possibility of First Class City Status for Lawrence Raised   WAIT ON ENUMERATION

VION FATHER DRAFI   ; rus . Classification Officers From Three States Meet in Kansas City

ae ee Gee ee ee ee See eS! eS A, ee:  Nazis Keep Up Reports On British Warships

Reds Repel Attacks of Growing Fury  \ Moscow Believes Axis BDesnerate Fram Fear   aS Moscow Relieves Axis Desperate From Fear of Second Front

HURL NAZIS BACK 10 OLD POSITIONS   With Many CasualtieAnd Loss Off36 Plane s, By,Germans, Russians  Announce   New Adventures

NEW OFFENSIVE BELIEVED NEAR   Germans Are Expected To Launch Drive When  Ground Dries

RUSSIANS HURL NAZIS BACK 10 FIRST POSITION   36 German Planes Are Destroyed In Day In Northwestern Caucasus   Enemy Reinforces

SOVIETS HOLD ~ NAZI ATTACKS   Reds Believe’ Big Foe Offensive in Making on Caucasian Front

Repeated Nazi Blows Hurled Back by Red:   Major German Offensive Believed Beginning  T.. (asieaucix

SOVIETS CONTINUE TO REPULSE NAZIS   Germans Hurled Back tc Original Positions, Reports Sav

GERMANS HURLED BACK IN CAUCASU:   FREQUENCY OF NAZI ATTACKS, REDS SAY, INDICATES NEW DRIVE IS ON.

teams Named For Red Cross Drive To Canvass for  Campaign in Up Town Dictrict

ams Named For Red Cross Drive To Canvass for  Campaign in Up "Pouca CBleteie®

SETTLE STRIKE AT JEEP AXLE FACTORY   Workers To Return To Jobs Saturday

War Parley May Speed-Up Invasion Plans   Roosevelt, Churchill And Command Staff In Second Day of Meet  Re JOHN VW HIGHTOWER

Europe Invasion To Follow The Cuebec Meeting?   Strategy Conference Is Continued

Strategy Talks Seen As Linking Red Offensive   Invasion Likely To Tie In With Soviet Campaign

SPEEDING UP OF INVASION SEEN   Likely To Result From British-American Strategy Meet  NAZIS HARD-PRESSED

LEADERS TALK INVASION NOW   Speed-Up in Allied Plans May Be Result of Quebee Conference.

Exploiting Of Red Gain Best Chance   No Specific Word Comes From Meeting In Quebeo Now In Progress

SPEEDING UP OF THE EUROPEAN INVASION SEEN   Quebec Conference May Step Up Plans To Strike At Europe While Russians Have Germany HardPressed In East.

May Speed Invasion Plans   Red Army Successes Seen As Challenge  To Quebec Conferees For Quick Action -

furopean Invasion In Near Future Would Tax Germany’s Defensive Resources To Utmost While She Is So Tied Up With  Russian Campaign.

d Front Quebec   Up Of Invasion Undoubtedly A ic Of Meeting   lY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

See Speed-Up In Allied Plan   Quebec Conference Finds Situation Favors Action

SPEEDED INVASION LIKELY 10 FOLLOW PARLEY IN QUEBEC   Sustained Russian Drive Re. garded as Greatest War Development Considered  by Leaders.

British- American ‘Confab Continues   Speedup of Allied Invasion Plans Seen as Likely Result of Quebec Conference

WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE Ot SOVIET DRIVE   Churchill, FDR Continue Meeting With Staff Members

—QUEBEC CONFERENCE  Blow at Europe  Is Seen   .Speeded Invasion Plan Likely Result of Tatks

SEEK WAY TO MAKE MOST OF NAZI PLIGHT   FDR, Churchill and Their Aides Plan Ways of Straining German Resources Anew.   STUDY TIMING OF ATTACK   Trend of Meeting Believed To Be Sayed By Reds’ New Second Front Call.

INVASION IS EXPECTED T0 BE HASTENED   Speed-Up of Allied Plans to Capitalize on Red Drive Appears to Be the Likely Result of Quebec  Parley.

SEE TIMING OF NEW PUSH WITH SOVIET ADVANCE   Allied Conference Plans Guarded At Canadian City

ALLIES LIKELY TO SPEED UP INVASION,   Russian Campaign Shaping Up As Greatest Single War Development

CONFERENCE MAY SPEED UP INVASION   Blows Likely To Tie-In With Great Russian Offensive

Invasion May Tie In With Reds’ Drives   War Strategy Session Seen Speeding Move; President, Churchill Continue Talks

SPEEDUP OF ALLIED INVASION PLANS 15 BELIEVED FORECAST  CIICTAINEN DIICCIAW CIT’   SUSTAINED RUSSIAN SUCCESSES GREATEST SINGLI WAR DEVELOPMENT

Soviet Success Seen As Major Factor in U.S., British Talks   Eden Joins Conference, ‘May Report to Stalin

Tie Invasion to Red Gains   Roosevelt - Churchill - Parley Enters Second” Days’ with Soviet Plea Before Chiefs

Conference In Second Day —   Speed-Up In Plans For Invasion 0! Europe To Take Advantage Of Red Offensive May Be Result Of Meeting

Believe Allies Plan Full Use of Russian Successes   Strategy Speeded Up — While Hitler: Is'Biisy.*  on-Eastern Front

INVASION PLANS —-70 BE SPEEDED    Soviet Victories Continue As President and Churchill Meet in Quebec

Red Drive Studied ~ In Quebec Meeting   Conference May Result In Speedup Of Allied Plans To Take Advantage Of Soviet Eastern Successes

ACT TO SPEED UP INVASION   Quebec Parley Moves To Take Advantage of Red Gains

Quebec Parley Seen Speeding  Invasion Plans   Leaders Viewed Mapping Strategy To Tie In With Great Russian Offensive

Predict Invasion  Speed-Ur   ACCELERATION OF WAR MOVE TO CAPITALIZE ON RUSS DRIVE SEEN

SPEEDING UP OF INVASION PLAN IS ANTICIPATED  Seen Tikely Outcome   Seen Likely Outcome Of Quebec Sessions   Russia’s Success  Greatest New Development

Speed Up Seen In European Invasion Plans   Allies May Attack While Russians Push On Nazi East Flank

Quebec Parley May Speed  Up Invasion   Allies Expected to Strike In East and Help Russian Offensive

Speed- Up Plans Made At Quebec   FUTURE INVASION TOPIC OF FDR-WINNIE CONFERENCE

War Strategy Conferences Seen Speeding European Invasion Plans   Would Match Russian Offensive Which Is Keeping Germany So Occupied With Advancing Soviet Armiec

NEXT ? WEEKS MAY BRING BIG DEVELOPMENT   May Mean Speedier Invasion or New War and Peace Aims

RED SUCCESSES ARGUMENT FOR SECOND FRONT   Observers at Ottawa Conference See Opportunity Presented Roosevelt, Churchill

Speed Up Plans  For An Invasion   This Is Expected to Result  From War Conference  With Churchill.

iSpeed-Up Of Invasion Plans Seen As Purpose Of Quebec Conference

QUEBEC PARLEY MAY DEVELOP SECOND FRONT   Plans May Be Speeded To Take Full Advantage Of Russian Offensive   oan AS MAIN PROBLEM ‘Multiplying Political Angles  Also Expected To Be Considered

Allied Plans For Invasion  Taking Form   Action Expected at Quebec Conference To Take Advantage of Russian Offensive on Germany's Eastern Flank

Allied Leaders > BelievedRushing Invasion Plans    Roosevelt and Churchill May. Take Advantage of Russian Successes, Give Word for Assault To Start

SPEEDUP OF ALLIED INVASION PLANS IS BELIEVED FORECAST   SUSTAINED RUSSIAN SUCCESSES GREATEST SINGLE WAR DEVELOPMENT

Plans Speeded At Quebec for Drive on Europe   Invasion to Tax German Resources Experts Believe

Defends Post War Relief      Lehman Says That Food To Starving Eufopeans Would Prevent Chaos

Huge Sum Asked For “Liberated” Regions Abroad   Over $500,000,000 Needed, Lehman Tells Senators

COSMIC RAYS   CHAOS REIGNS DECLARATION OF .. PROBLEM NO. ONE HEY TO MORALE

COSMIC RAYS  CHAOS REIGNS DECLARATION OF... PROBLEM NO. ONE  Fr aetna        Here’s For a Short Duration, If We Can Judge by Coe’s Efforts

MARTIN SEEKS  TO BOOST U, $, AERIAL POWER   Republicans Plan For ‘Standing Committee: On _ Aviation-D During-And... After War   HEARING SLATED   Advocates. Cite Need of Assuring Nation-a Dominant Force In World Airways

Calls for Record Crop  Acreage   Beginning of Plan to fae Starving World

Lewistown Man New Pa. Air Raid Warder  Col. Adams Heads Coun cil's Protective Service

CONGRESS CUT SHORT DUE 10 MEMORIAL DAY   Bryer YouSo Tax Set First, With Strikes “ Nexton Program

@eeeeeseeeceeeeeseneeaeesees Kvervone’s Worried Except MaeArthur

TURKS LEANING: MORE TOWARDS care NATIONS    Premier Sukru Saracoglu’s Speech to National ’ Assembly Revealed  Yeacterdayv

Turks Leaning Toward Allies.   Speech Fails To Mention Neutrality

AMERICA’S WHEAT GOING INTO MEAT   More Small Grain Being Fed To Livestock

DEFEATISM Wes GRIPS NAZI a   Fears for Future P@ Gent As Red Offensive Rolling 

REPORT WAVE OF DEFEATISM   Nazis Fight Against Fears Gripping Satellites And Quislings

Nazi Quislings Suffer Wave  of Defeatism  Fears for Future Appear With German Reverses

DEATH DEFERRED   Gev, Dewey Postpones Electrocution of New York Criminals

Governor Says Roosevelt “Failed To Surrender” Slayer Serving Time On U.S. Charges

Railway Workers Strike on Coast   Walk Off Trains and Busses in L. A. Area

Trainmen Strike  In California  For Salary Hike 2500 Quit Work, Ignoring F.R.  Wage Committee

2,600 Walkout Leaving Thou: sands Unable to Get to, from Johe In City.

2,500 Strike, Tie Up Rail Line   Los Angeles Walkout Affects War Freight

RAIL STRIKE ON COAST PERILS WAR SHIPMENTS   Refused Pay Raise Basis

Strikers Tie Up West Coast Railway Lines   ‘Emergency. Board Will Not Consider Case With Men Out   BULLETIN:

LOS ANGELES TIED UP BY RAIL STRIKE   2500 Electric Railway Trainmen ‘Have Walked Out

GROUND OBSERVERS TO MEET FEB'Y 10TH   Week Designated by Governor O’Conor for Special Proarams

Newest Highway Bridge Across Mississippi To Be Dedicated Nov. 15

Soviet Hurls Infantry and Tanks Into Sweeping New Offensive; Large German Army Forced Back

Soviet Army of 150,000 Men, Hundreds of Tanks, Planes and Guns Attack in Terzific Battle

Berlin Claims Breaks in Lines Closed   Moscow Is Silent on Attacks Reported by Nazis

Swaying Battle Raging, Berlin Radio Reports   Nazis Claim Breaches in Lines lroned Out by Counter Thrust

Russians Silent On Kuban Battle   Heavy Destruction Claimed I(nflictecd

Nazis Reveal Powertul Soviet Move to Erase Caucasus Bridgehead   American Flyers Take Further Heavy Toll Of Italians in Blows at Major Bases; Mosquito Bombers Strike War Plants at Jena, Germany

Fierce Battle Is Still Progressing   German Cummunique Says Losses Are Suffered By Soviets In All-Out Attempt At Kubon Line

Germans Say Their Drive Fills Hole   Swaying Battle Still Raging On Lengthy Front.

Nazis Claim Reds Stopper After Gains   Moscow Is Silent On Fighting In Caucasus Area

BERLIN REPORTS. ARMY RECAPTURED GROUND IT LOST   Dascribes Powerful Russiati Offensive as Aimed at Reaching Kerch Strait “At Any Cost.”   REPORTS DESTRUCTION OF 61 SOVIET TANKS   Moscow Silent on Great Battle as It Rages On—Main: Attack Is in Krmyskaya Sector.

NAZIS ARE HURLED BACK BY RUSSIANS   Terrific. Bottle Still Rag_ing on the Kuban  Lian

Berlin Reveals New Russian Caucasus Push   150,000 Men Charge Behind Thunderous Artillery Barrage Against Axis Lines

SOVIETS HURL 150,000 MEN INTO BATTLE   MOSCOW HOLDING BACK DETAILS OF BIG PUSH

150,000 Men Hurled Against Axis Lines Berlin Reports   Moscow Siicnt On Berlin Annduneement* of Tremendous Offensive Aimed At Obliterating German Caucasian Bridgchead

SIX MORE TOWNS ~-CAPTURED WIth SMILE ADVANGE   Gen. Clark’s Fifth Army Reported In Satisfactory Position, Enemy 1s Holding Some High Spots.   JUGOSLAV ARMY IS IN BIG FIGHT WITH NAZI   Italian Battleship Impero ts Seized By Germans at Trieste Berlin Radio Announces.

ALLIED HOLD ON VOLTURNO THOUGHT SAFE   Enemy Loses Supply Bases .

STH ARMY PUSH GERMANS BACK ON ROAD TO ROME   Eighth Army Virtually Completes Conques _ of Trans-Peninsula. Highway Between: Naples and Termoli

Allied Troops Gate There Miles In Battle   Germans Falling Back Steadily From First Defenses Before Rome

Judge Lee Thompson Of Farwell Is Elected President Of West Texas Judges, Commissioners Association

Claims OWI Getting Well Following Its Amputation   Competent Performance Under New Director C Domestic Division Impresses Congressmen

Giraud Predicts Victorious End Of War in 1944   Declares This Month Wil See Defeat of Boche in Tunisia... -

TUNISIA RELEASE IS DUE SHORTL   Gen. Giraud Makes Prediction on Liberation and Time For Ending of War.

1944 VICTORY   Says Tunisia Will be Won This Month; Outlines  Plans for France

GIRAUD SEES 1944 VICTORY   Says Tunisia Will’ be Won This Month; Outlines Plans for France

HARRY HOPKINS FACING PROBE   Wife of FDR’s Aide Denies Jewelry Gift from Beaverbrook

No Emeralds Were Given   Mrs. Hopkins And High Official Deny Rumor

‘Beaverbrook in  Denial of Gift To Mrs. Hopkins   President’s Adviser Also Denies Giit of Emerald Jewelry

SAYS HOPKINS MAY BE INVESTIGATED   Representative Martin Declares He Expects Such Move Soon —Reported Gift Of Emeralds By Lord Beaverbrook To Mrs. Hopkins Denied

BEAVERBROOK GIFT STORY CALLED ‘LIE   ‘Germans Will Like Story’ Is Britisher’s Comment

ROOSEVELT SENDS: SINCERE GREETINGS TO CHINESE PEOPLE      Today Marks 6th Birthday Of Start Of Conflict With Japanese _ Empire

FDR Sends U.S. Greetings To China   Chinese Mark End Of 6th Year of War  Againaet Jananese

President radios China U. S. redeeming    pledges to neglect ‘no roads to Tokyo’

FDR Tells China U.S. Keeping Vow   President Says None Of Roads to Tokyo Neglected

REPEATS PLEDGE TO AID CHINA   President Tells Chinese No Road te Tokyo Will Be Neglected

FR. Reaffirms Chinese on. Road to Tokyo  War Anniversar Cheer Also Sent bv Briton

NONE OF ROADS TO TOKYO WILL BE NEGLECTED      President Sends Greetings Tt China On Anniversary Of Jap War

CHINA AT WAR WITH JAPS STX YEARS   President Sends Message to Chinese On’‘Anniversary —

Vatutin's Army in Qutskirts of Thitomir; 100-Mile German Front Shows Every Sign of Collapsing   Russians Swarm  Into Relatively finan (Cnintry

SOVIET FORCES AT OUTSKIRTS OF ZHITOMIR   ‘Canadian Troops Push North, From Ortona In Adriatic Coast Battle

KOROSTEN HAS ALREADY BEE TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Capture of Zhitomir Waoulc Lay Open Whole Corridor to Poland.

Russians Pound Into Zhitomir Suburbs as Germans Reported in Full Flight Toward Old Poland.

COLLAPSE OF NAZI FRONT IS IMMINEN   Powerful Soviet Mechanized Units Sweep Near Heart of Zhitomir.

OLDBORDER OF POLAND   Germans Reeling Back In ‘Great Disorder’  West Of Kiev

Axis Anxious About Balkans   German Ordered To Organize Rumanian Police

TWO MEN KILLED AT BEDFORD TODA   Explosion at the Truman Pipe Line Contracting Co.

TROUT STREAM CASE REVERSED   Supreme Court Declares Fishing Waters May Not Be Blocked

16 Billions in New Taxes Asked Today by Pres. Roosevelt   Says Budget Represents Maximum Effort in Waging War

Estimated Government Spending In Next Fiscal  Year More Than Annual Expenditures Of All The Other Belligerent Nations Combined.

PRESIDENT ASKS FOR 16 BILLION INCREASE IN U. S. TAX INCOME   Current Wax Costs Estimated at About 77 Billion by Roosevelt; New Outiay Passes Budgets Of All Nations Involved In War

FDR Asks 16 Billion Tax Raise   America’s Gigantic War Cost Is Three Times What Germanv Is Spending

’  SAVINGS HIKE “OF 16 BILLION   Message to Congress on Budget for 1943-44 Fis cal Year Also Urges $25,000 Limit on All Incomes. i

TAX INCREASES AND ENFORCED SAVINGS ASKED   Bill for U. S. War Program Dwarfs Anything in __Country’s History   GREATER SACRIFICES LOOM   Fund of $991,996,154 Wanted : For Helping Farmers with : Food-for-Freedom

Dwarfs Anything In History Books; Additional Taxes or-Forced Savings Due; Roosevelt Asks $25,000 Income Limit, Regardless of Source

More Taxes,  Forced Saving Are Requested   1  -Budget Termed ‘Maximum Program for Waging War

U.S. Spends More Than All Fighting Nations Combined      16 Billions In New Taxes Asked; FDR Says Taxes ‘Never To Revert To Old Level’  $25,000 SALARY LIMIT IS PROPOSED  ft a “7 wb doce ae i, Fr . F ~B FH FE Pr   Compulsory Savings Plan Urged As Public  Income Doubles Depression Years

Tells Lawmakers Total Represents Maxi~ mum Program for Waging War in Next Fiscal Year, Overall Total $196 Billion  TIperelec @9r ANN TAIS*SCRURAT™ OT OWRATDT   URGES $25,000 INCOME LIMIT   Emphasizes Not Money, But Blood, Sweat, Sacrifice Win Wars, Tells Nation It Must Cut Out Frills   $25.000 Income Limitation

6 Billions  n New Taxes  f D. R. Seeks   Three Times What Germany Ils Spending, Four Times England, 14 Times Japan

Requests 16 Billion In Additional Taxe: Or Forced Savings   $25,000 Income Limit In eluded ; In Program Given. to Congress; Expenditures of Allics Dwarfled

16 BILLION  INCREASE IN TAX YIELD REQUESTEL    $25,000 Limit © on Income, Regardless of Source, Al so Asked by. President   joan REACH GOAL  IF FULLY HARNESSED   Frills “Must Go, Simpler Life Necessary;Plan Dwarfs. Anything in History

NEW TAXES AND FORCED SAVING PLANPROPOSED   Maximum Effort for Waging War Dwarfs Anything in History

1943 War Costs 109 Billions   Roosevelt Asks For Sixteen Billions More Taxes And Savings In  Vear.

B25, 000 LIMIT ON INCOME PART OF HIS PROGRAM   War Funds Asked Greater  Than Expenditures Of All Belligerents On Both Sides   FORCED SAVINGS AND /BONDBUYING HINTED   Opposes General Sales Levy; Favors Pay-AsYou-Go Plan; for Joint Income Tax Returns

Expenditures To Dwarf All Figures In Nation’s  History; Program Includes $25,000 Limit On Sal  aries; Cut In Frills Suggested

Must Raise 16 Billion In Additional Taxes Or Forced Savings   Biggest Budget In History Triples Nazi Figure, Four Times That Of Britain, 14 Times That Of Japan

Asks 16 billions of this sum raised by additional taxes, compulsory savings

Roosevelt Calls For Raising Of Sixteen Billion Dollars In Additional Taxes Or Compulsory Savings To Help Meet Record Budget—Include Income Limit

Roosevelt Says Vast-Sum Needed © For Conduct Of Total War On ‘Axis   Victory Tax Study Doesn’t Defer Take-Out

16 Billions Additional Needed in Taxes Or Forced Savings, He Says.   iTO SPEED VICTORY DAY

100 BILLION BUDGET   President Asks Huge Sum in New Taxes or Com _palsory Savings  l

An Additional Sixteen Billion Dollars Taxes Or Compulsory Savings

ASKS 16 BILLIONS TAXES OR SAVINGS TO FINANCE WAR   Estimated Spending More Than Combined Budget Of All Other Belligerents

BUDGET DWARFS: PAST SPENDING “OF ANY NATION   Would Limit Incomes.-Of Citizens ‘To $25,000 From. Any Souree - “:

AsksHuge Budget For War   $100,000,000,000 Needed To Speed Day of Victory; President Says All ‘Must Sacrifice to .Wif

‘Spending This  Year Estimated At 109 Billion   Suggests Additional Tax, Forced Savings to Aid Raising Fund  ASKS FARMER HELP  Breakdown For Required Expenses Is Given By Executive

New Tax Program Suggests $25,000 Limit on Incomes Regardless of Source —Favors Pay-as-You-Go Tax as Far As It Is Possible, President Says

TO RAISE SUM BY MORE TAXES, FORCED SAVINGS   To Cost $100,000,000,000; incomes Limited to $25,000 After Tax Payment

Record Sum To Mean Raise In Citizens’ Taxes   Budget Message Says 109 Billions To Be Spent Next Fiscal Year; FDR Sees Compulsory Savings, Much Greater Sacrificesg sss

F.D.R.-Asks Congress For Hundred Billion - Dollars NEED ‘NEW. TAXES Outlay Represents More Than: All Bel Ligsvante

F. R. Submits Huge Federal Fund Request   Anticipates Government Expenses Will Reach $109 Billion During  Fiscal Year

New Tax Program Allows $25,000 As Income Limit   Is Larger Than Budgets of All Belligerents on Both Sides of War; To Collect Part by Extra Taxation

Sixteen Billions In More Taxes or  Bonds Are Askec   President Says Budget Represents Maximum Program For War.   Expenditures Dwarf Anything in History

President Warns That Attaining Objective of Program Requires Complete Recognition of Necessities of Total War

PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS TO PROVIDE 16 BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES, FORCED SAVINGS   Total Government Spending For 1944 Fiscal Year Estimated At 109 Billions; Says Money Alone Won't Buy Victory For Allies

U8. SPENDING SET AT 108 BILLIONS IN NEXT FISCAL YEAR   New Tax Program Includes $25,000 Limit On Income After Taxes Are Paid

New Tax Program Includes $25,000 In come Limit .   Not Fantastic

FR. Submits 100 Billion War Budget   Need Stressed for 16 Billions Adsed Taxes of *:avinat

F. DR. DELIVERS RECORD BUDGET TO CAPITOL HILL   Vast Sum In Additional Taxes Or Compulsory Savings Must Be Raised; All Other Nations’ Spending Dwarfed.

Our Expenditures More Than All Other Nations Combined; $25,000 Limit On All Incomes   Rovusevelt Points Out Victory Is Won By Blood, Sweat And Sacrifice; Stupendous Figures Dwarf Anvthing In Hislore Rank

16 BILLION IN NEW TAXES OR SAVINGS URGED   President Tells Congress His Revenue Request Represents . ‘Maximum War Program.’   TOPS ALL OTHER NATIONS   Repeats Request For $25,000 Net Income Limit as He Lists Finance Needs.

Asks Inerease I'rom Savings, Higher Taxes   U. S. War Expenditures Ex. ceed Those Of All Other  Nations Combined,   LIMIT FOR EARNINGS

100 Billions Asked For War Costs In Record. Smashing 1943 Budget   All Spending To Reach $109,000,000,. 000; Compulsory Savings May Help Boost Revenue By $16,000,000,000

100 BILLIONa FDR BUDGE FOR NEXT YEAR   American War Expenditures More Than All Other Belligerents   COMPULSORY SAVINGS PROGRAM ADVOCATED   FDR Announces Opposition To General Sales Tax In Message Today

President Asks Congress For 16 Billion In  Taxes And Savines -_—

President Roosevelt Asked  for $16,000,000,000- in Additional Taxes or Compulsory Savings.   MESSAGE DEI*lVERED TO LAWMAKERS TODAY   He Estimated Government Spending in the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1 at $109;000,000,000.

FDR Budget Calls For Higher Taxe:   Forced Savings Is Alternative

Compulsory Saving or  Additional Taxes Also Bavowed By Roosevelt   War Spending Program Calls for More Money Than All Other Belligerents Plan To Expend on Quest of Victory

President Asks 16 Billion In New Taxes And $25,000 Limit On Incomes

Roosevelt Ask: 16 Billion Be  Raised In New laxes, Savings   President Tells Congress “Budget Represents Maximum Program For Waging War”

$16,000,000,000 In Extra Taxes, Savings Requested In War Financing

xes Suggested to Raise  ae Saving, Additional ortion of Money Needed

Tribune   Requests 16 Billions More Taxes or Com“pulsory savings

Forced Plan of Saving: New Taxes Sought   Budget Greater Than That Of All Belligerents; Confident of Goal

FDR Asks Further Taxes Or Forced Savings Program   Proposal Dwarfs Anything In History; Is Maximum Program For Waging War

Suggests New Taxes fo Add To Treasury   Compulsory Saving May Be Necessary For Record Sum

Need Extré 16 Billions in Taxes   Huge Program ‘Towers Above All War Nations

F.D.R. Asks Congress For Hundred Billion Dollars NEED NEW TAXES Outlay Represents More Than All Bel-

16 Billions More Levy Requested   Compulsory Saving Plan Is Suggested Ry President.

CATTLEMEN SEE SPRING FAMINE   Grass-fat Steers To Flooc  Market In Next 6 Weeks

MEAT FAMINE IN SPRING IS SEER   Cattlemen Declare Market Will Be Glutted With Meat This Fall

FOOD POLICIES IRK STOCKMEN   FEAST AND FAMINE OUTLOOK BLAMED TO CONFUSING ORDERS

YOUNG OFFICIALS TAKEUP PROBLEMS   Improvement of Lawrence Street Signs Called for ) by Council ~   WARN ON CAR. SPEEDS

YOUNG OFFICIALS TAKE UP PROBLEMS   Improvement of Lawrence Street Signs Called for by Council

‘Turn On Heat’ To Force Bond Bill Through   Administration Putting Pressure On State Senate

Repel Japanese Supply Force   BParead Ta Flae Tha   Forced To Flee The Aleutian Area

REVEAL TAKING RUSSELL ISLES   Americans Extend Hold ir Solomons; Bomb Jap Base in Munda.

Jap Supply Expedition West of Aleutian Isles Renelled   3 Enemy Cruisers Are. Damaged by Light U.S. Naval Force

U. S. Naval Force Hits 3 Jap Cruisers   Outnumbered Two: to One, American Units, on March 26, Repelled an Enemy Supply Expedition West of the Aleutians.

Light Naval Force Routed Jap Ships   -Details of Sea ‘Battle Revealed

AMERICAN FORCES EXTEND HOLD ON SOLOMON ISLANDS   OCCUPY RUSSELL GROUP NORTHWEST OF GUADALCANAL

EXTRA!   Jap Expedition Repelled West Of Aleutians   Three Japanese Cruisers Damaged During Battle With American Patrol Force On March 26

U.S. Forces *Now Occupy Russell Isles   American Hold On Solo mons Area Is Strength ened By Move.

3 Jap Cruisers Damaged, Forced to Flee by Light U.S. Force in 34-Hour Conflict

U.S. Task Force Repels Enemy Fleet in North   Four-Hour Battle Fought Without Aid from Planes

Hands Off Maryland:  O'Conor Refuses To Heed W.L.B. Ruling on State Wage Increases

Inflation Can Be Kept From Rampage By Prompt Action  Tm....:... ef V7. Dew dt. Ce A nw Tren Cleancnllian   Buying Of War Bonds, Stiffer Taxes, Smaller Excess Profits, Stabilizing Income Are Helps

Work Stoppage Again Ties Up War Production   Roosevelt Warning” Not Heeded as Men Stay Away from Job

Ickes Demands Lewis End New Coal Walkout   Bulk Of 500,000 Miners Fail To Report For Work As Truce Expires; ‘Few Operators’ Also Blamed

ALLIES RAM FOES — INTO BOTTLENECK   Eighth Army Takes Metouia aiid Oud_ ref As Americans Advance Through Fi Guetar Minefields

Americans at Center Also Press Forward In Tunisian Squeeze  AXIS-HELD GROUND SHRINKING RAPIDLY  Backtracking Rommel Under Deadly Assault And Losses Are Heavy

SHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM   72 Planes Also Destroy. ed in Recent American Attack on Marshalls Telande .

Japanese Lose Six More Ships And 7? Planes   Moonlight Raid On Marshalls Hampers Enemy

JAPS’ NAVY AND AIR FORCES HARD HIT IN MARSHALLS   Nip Attempt to Strengthen Isles Against Likely -U. S. Invasion Blasted—Lose Six Shins, 72 Planes

Nipponese Navy And Air Forces Lose 6 More Ships, 72 Planes; New Britain Pounded Further

JAP NAVY, AIR FORCE SUFFER NEW DISASTERS   Two Cruisers ~ Sunk, 72 Planes Downed By Yanks

MARSHALL'S JAPS GIVEN A PREVIEW   Naval and Air Units are Hard Hit by U. S. Forces

Carrier Planes Sink Jap Ships Off Marshalls  Allies Add 72 Planes To Toll

JAP FORCES TRY TO BOLSTER LINE   Ninth and Heaviest Bombing, on New Britain Coast Is Reported From Pacific.

SIX JAP SHIPS SUNK IN ATTACK ON MARSHALLS   Down 72 Nip Planes, Only One U. S. Ship Damaged in Battle

U. S. Forces Suffer But Slight Damage To Sink  Six Japanese Vessels

JAPAN SUFFERS BIG NEW LOSSES   Six More Ships And 72 More Planes Lost By Enemy In Attempt To Bolster Marshalls.

Moonlight Attack Rakes “Marshall “a td “Gilbert, Sinks Two Light Cruisers, One Oil Tanker and Three Transvorts.

SIX JAP SHIPS, 12 AIRPLANES ~ CHALKED OFF   Enemy Suffers Losses Ir Attack by U. S. Navy Carrier Force

72 Jap Planes, Six Ships Lost   Allies Shell Enemy-Held Marshall Islands In Heavy Assault

CARRIER CRAFT TAKES NEWTOLL JAP SHIPPING   Two: ‘Nipponese Cruisers Among Six Vessels Sunk ‘In Marshalls; 72 En - emy Planes Bagged

American Carrier Units Rake Marshall Islands As Enemy Tries To Bolster Defenses Against Possible Invasion From Nearby Gilberts—Tanker And Three Cargo Transports Among Sunken Vessels—Troopship And Two Other Craft Reported Damaged

Expect 200 at Missouri River Valley Session   Four Governars Will Attend Today's Miles City Meeting

Eyewitness Account of Treasury Isle Landing  nn. Pras eee £4 Re ee

TREASURY ISLE. STORY (5 TOLD   AP Correspondent Landed With Troops Under Heavy Bombardment.

Eyewitness Tells About Landing Of Allied Units On The Treasury Isles

Destroyers, Gunboats Silence Jap Nests On Beaches; Garrison Is Whipped In 14 Hours

SHIPS LAND AT TREASURY ISLE: JAPS SILENCED   Daylight Raid Is Most Daring Of Pacific War

Japs’ Attu Loss Heavy U.S. ‘Light’   Yank Pincers Join; Defense Futile, Tokyo Indicates

SICILY GETS MORE BOMBIN( DOCKS HIT   Many island points are targets for softeningup campaign

OIGILY. AGAIN 3 -BUMGED bY ALLIED PLANES   Ferry Terminal and Three Axis Airdromes Blasted by Bombs.   FIVE PLANES ARE LOST   Pre-Invasion Attacks Upon This Island Are Growino Hotter.

REDS WIN 2 KEY TOWNS; CRACK NAZIS'1941 LINE   Sumy, Lisichansk Fall in Wide Gains..   Nazi Chiefs Meet

Quisling Laval © Closely Guarded   Vichy A MachinegunStudded Fortress, Travelers Declare.

Demand For Barring  ‘War Criminals’ Places Neutral Nations On Spot

EXPECT NEUTRAL COUNTRIES TO REFUSE ROOSEVELT PLEA      ACTION TO BAR AXIS WAR CRIMINALS TO BE TAKEN UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

NEUTRALS EXPECTED TO USE “ESCAPE CLAUSE” IN DEALING WITH REFUGEES

Funds Measures Action Blocked   NYA, Crop Insurance Differences Develop

ARE BLOCKED   Disputes on NYA and FSA Funds Tie Up Appropriation Measures

Senate, House At Loggerheads On Funds Bills   Lower Chamber Refuses to Restore  Money for NYA

LOCAL FIGHTER PILOT MISSING   —aeee eee  Lt. Allen Ellerbee Was Ir No. Africa Battle

POE'S POSITION HELD DESPERATE   May Be Forced to Pull Out Of Area Near River   STREAMS OF TROOPS   Pour Across River Along With Tanks and Artillery; Counter-blows Fail

Foe Weakens As Allies   Gain in Italy   British Menace Nazis’ Left Flank; Line Falls Back Toward Rome; Streams Of Advancing Fighters Cross Volturno

Enemy’s Position. Grows Untenable As Fifth Army Tanks, Artillery And Infantry‘Stream Across River

Allied Forces Pour Across the Volturno   Enemy’s Position Described as Very Desperate

i  ressccol FIGHTING YET SEEN IN MEDITERRANEAN WAR MAKES ENEMY’S POSITION MORE DESPERATE Hour v

jAllied Forces” Pour Across. 'Volinrno River   _ German Position Is ‘Called Desperate by Military Spskesman:

(Germans Reeling: ,Toward Rome As  Flanks Menaced   3 Sledgehammer Frontal Assaults Break Big Volturno River Line; Fighting Is Fierce Along Entire Front; Eenmy Facina Crisis

Fifth Army Drives Nazis  Germans Give Up   Gernians Give Up Volturna. Line, Retreat. Northward

BRITISH MAKE FLANK ATTACK ON VOLTURNO   STREAMS OF ALLIED TROOPS POURING ACROSS RIVER

Enemy’s Position Becoming More Desperate Hourly; Hold At Capua Strengthened

Enemy Position Growing Hourly More — Desperate Under Sledgehammer © ’ - Blows of Clark’s Troops

Defenders of the Volturna River Line Fall Back < Toward Rome ,  TROOPS STREAMING = ACROSS THE RIVER  Germans Yield Positions Only After Bitter ’ Resistance

British Land To Menace West Flank   Germans Forced Toward Rome In Fierce Fighting

Nazis Foreed To Resume  Withdrawal   But Yield Positions Only After Resistance Of Sternest Caliber  NEW VESSELS USED

NAZIS’ POSITION HOURLY BECOMES MORE DESPERATE   some of Fiercest Fighting of Mediterranean War Seen as Clark’s Men Push Forward.   i BRIDGES THROWN ACROSS VOLTURNO   British’ Amphibious Force, Landing Above City, At- — tempts to Roll up Foe’s Coastal Anchor.

Fifth Army Deals Sledgehammer Blows; Nazi Position Desperate; Enemy Falling Back Toward Rome   Streams of Allied Men, Tanks, Guns Pour Across Volturno on Makeshift Bridges; ‘British Forces Menace Nazi West Flank

British Landing Force Menaces Desperate Foe   Germans Yield Their Positions Only After Bitter Resistance;  Fifth Army Advances

Brush Fires Cause Heavy Loss Today   FBI Says West Coast Blazes Might Be of Incendiary Origin—Soldiers Help.

100 Dwellings Already Razed By Forest Fires   Army And F.B.I. Suspect California Fires May  Have Been Set.

BROWN PLANS OPA CHANGES   General Manager Will Be Named To Succeed Hamm.

Reorganization of OPA Is Brown’s Plan   Administrator Would Halt Wade, Price Boosts

10 KILLED IN PLANE CRASHES   Six Injured, Another Is Mising After Ships Collide In Air

F. M. Andrews ls Named Commander Of U. §. Forces in European Theater

All-Out A Warfare on Nazis Pledaed   “Plans Call for ‘Intensification of Daylight Attacks

New Yankee Chief Named In Europe   Lt. Gen. Andrews Pledges Aerial Blasts at Germany

NAME ANDREWS HEAD OF U. S. FUROPE FORCES   New Commander Pledges Alt Out Aerial War Against Germany

Andrews Is Named _ Commanding General In European Theatre   Air Officer Takes Over Post Formerly Held by Eisenhower, Who Has African Arec

NAME ANDREWS AX NEW COMMANDER      Advance British, American Units Have Formed Union In South Tunisia.

ANDREWS TAKES AEF. COMMAND IN EUROPE ZONE   Veteran of Panama and Middle East Pledges All-out Aerial Warfare Against Germany.

ALL-OUT AIR OFFENSIVE IS PLEDGED   Has Been In Command U. 5. Middle East Armv

Name Andrews Commander In European Area   Veteran Officer Pledges Vigorous Air Attacks Against Germany As He Assumes Duties

GENERAL ANDREWS NOW COMMANDER OF EUROPEAN AREA   Fakes Over Post Formerly ‘Held By Ejisenhower~ Separate From North Africa

Gen. Andrews American  Commander in Europe   Eisenhower’s Successor Promises Increased’ Air Attacks on Germany

OTHER BIC DEMANDS   Plows, Harrows, Corn Shellerg and Graig Drills .. Were Granted.

FIFTY FARMERG GAIN PERMITS FUR PURCHASED   OTHER BIG DEMANDS   Plows, Harrows, Corn Sheilers and Grain Drills Were Granted.

Delay in Burma Seen Prolonging War With Japar   Monsoon Limits Perios For Waging Warfare den Vital Reeian

BURMA DELA MAY EXTEND WAR A YEAR   Failure of Allies. to Open Offensive to Help. China  Means Another Critical Vear   Major Drive Required

HI-SCHOOL OBSERVES  ARMISTICE DAY WITH  PATRIOTIC PROGRAM DISTRICT JUDGE A. P.  MAYS PRINCIPAL SPEAK. ER FOR OCCASION

HI-SCHOOL OBSERVES ARMISTICE DAY WITH PATRIOTIC PROGRAM  DISTRICT JUDGE A. P. MAYS PRINCIPAL SPEAK.

CALLS ON POPE   Clana Presents Credentials As Ambassador To Pius XI.

76,000 Pounds Of Explosives Dumped By U.S   Partial Revenge Gained In Biggest Mass Raid Of Pacific War Action

ON MANE PEALE ISLES   Nips Caught by Surprise And Half of Troops Wiped Out   ALL YANKEES SAFE   Fortresses Drop 76,000 Pounds of Bombs, Start Firee

Planes Catch Japs With Kimonos Down   Nearly 40 Tons of Bombs Fall On Men Who Took Island From -Gallant Marine Rand

Correspondent Sees W hote Show—  American Bombers Give Japs On Wake Plastering

JAP. ON WAKE NOLAND RAIDED BY U.S. PLANES   76,000 Pounds Of Bombs Dropped Upon Enemy In Surprise Raid   ALL BOMBERS RETURN  TO THEIR BASE SAFELY   Biggest Mass Raid Of War In Pacific Smashes Isle Taken From Marines

Tons of Bombs Loosed on Unsuspecting. Japs On Wake Island in) Mighty Attack to Avenge  Gallar 46-Day_ ‘Stand of Marines: Year-Ago

Wake Plastered By Heavy Bombs   Jap Held Island Suffers Heavily From 76,000  Pounds of Bombs.

Half Garrison Killed by Yanks   76,000 Pounds of TNT Dumped on Enemy; Yankee Fliers Escape Without Casualty; Fires Left Raging on Peale Isiand, Too

Newcomers to Acrial Warfare See Action As  U. S. Bombs Smash Japs At Wake Isle

-OLEN W. CLEMENTS GIVES EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESS ATTACK ON WAKE ISLAND, DEC. 24TH

HALF OF NIPPON DEFENDERS ARE BELIFVED DEAD   76,000 Pounds of . Bombs Set Large Fires; Catch Japs by Surprise

Bombers Hit Japs On Wake   U. S. Pilots Catch Foe Napping; Raid Is Biggest of Kind In the Pacifie War

GREATEST RAID OF PACIFIC WAR MADE ON WAKE   More Than Half Of Japanese Defenders Of War-Famed Island Believed Annihilated; Not One  American Casualty.

Writer Tells of American Raid  On Wake Island   Half of Japs on Island Killed and Americans Suffer No Loss

Ameriean Fliers Jar knemy On Wake Island In Biggest Mass Raid of Pacifie War

 BIG US BOMBERS BLAST JAPS AT WAKE ISLAND  ' Half of Defenders Killed in Raid

Christmas Eve Raid on Wake Island Is Biggest Mass Attack of Pacific War

Yanks Plaster Japs on Wake Island With Biaaest Raid of Pacific War

Nippos On Wake Island Scourges   U. S. Flyers Blast Enemy With -/6 Large. Bombs

JAPS ON MIDWAY ARE BLASTED IN SURPRISE RAID   More Than Half of Force on Pacific Island Are Killed By American Bombs   ALL OF YANKS GET BACK   Longest Flight and Biggest Mass Air Attack of War In Pacific To Date

More Than Half Of Jap Defenders Believed Killec 76,000 Pounds Of Bombs Dropped On Defense: Action Took Place Christmas Eve

PRES Representative in Lead Warplane Reveals How—  U.S.Bombers Blast Wake Island

Wake Plastered By U. S. Bombers  76.000 Pounds Of Bomhe Dranned To Mo. pled

CHRISTMAS EVE WAKE ISLAND RAID REVEALED   War Correspondent Describes Attack By U. S. Bombers As: Biggest Mass Assault In Pacific   HALF OF JAPS KILLED   76,000..Pounds. of Bombs ‘Dropped’On Unsuspecting Enemy ; Offered ittle Resistance

AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST JAPANESE ON WAKE CHRISTMAS DA)  BIGGEST MASS RAID OF PACIFIC WAR STAGED

MATERNAL CARE PLAN PREPARED   Ohio Program Is Mapped After Federal Objections Are lroned Out

Restaurants Will Share Food for Their Customers   No “First Come, First Served” Plan to be in Effect in Eating Establishments of National Restaurant Association—Fresh Vegetable and Poultry Will Feature Daily Menus

PRESS FOR All   Declares Newspapers Gave ‘Invaluable Assistance’ In Rationing.   PRAISES FINE SERVICE

BROWN PRAISES AMERICAN PRESS   OPA Head Lauds Valuable ASsitance Given By Newspapers

NEWSPAPERS PRAISED   OPA Head Lauds Invaluable Aid Given By Press

 Battle Of Production— 30,000 Prisoners Making Goods For Armed Forces

CONVICTS HELP OUT ON HOME FRONT AS PRODUCTION IN PRISONS HIT NEW HIGH

Nation's Convicts Help on Home Front  Prisoners Make   Prisoners Make Everything Except Guns for Armed Forces

Convicts Aid War Effort      Host of War-Important Items Being Produced By Nation’s Prisons

Convicts Aid Home Front  War Effort   Make Supplies Of All Kinds

Convicts Aid In The War Effort   Make Everything From Bedding To Boots

 30,000 in 47 States—  Convicts Are Busy on Home  Front Production Line, Too

INDICT TWO FOR PADDING OF PAYROLL      Defrauded U. S. Government Out.  Of Payroll

DUISBURG HIT HARD IN WAR S HEAVIEST RAID   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped; British Lose 34 Planes

DEATH CLUES. -. STILL SOUGHT   AUTHORITIES BAFFLED BY FA TAL STABS TO “MASKED MARVEL" OF MOVIE  -- SERIALS

‘Big Inch’ Breaks, Much Oil Is Lost   Seriously Large Flow Of Oil Goes Down Creek

BREAK IN “BIG INCH”   Pipeline Spreads Leal — Pend Oil Thru tion o

BIG INCH BREAK PROVES COSTLY   40 Miles of Oil Lost; Fire Hazard Occupies Repairmen

BREAK IN “BIG INCH”   Pipeline Ss reads Leak Leak of Oi) Thru eection of Ohio

“BIG INCH” BREAK CAUSES OIL FLOOD   Eastward Flow Cut at  fvanwelsccwrs tart

ATTACK ON EUROPE IS EXPECTED SOON   Probably Will Include 2nd Front and Large Seale Bombings.

HOT SESSION OF CONGRESS: IS LOOMING   MEMBERS SAY NATION SATIS. FIED WITH WAR FRONT BUT NOT WITH DOMES-; :  ‘ "WIC AFFAIRS     nN

CONGRESS 10 BATTLE OVER DRAFT, TAXES   Resumes Tomorrow After Recess   UNREST EVIDENT

DAD DRAFT, TAX, POLICY ISSUES TO BE SETTLED   New Legislative Attacks Seen On New Deal’s Home Front Acts   SCENE SET FOR OPENING      Solons Have Only 16 Days For Action To Prevent Call Of Fathers

Jamestown,N.Y.. Firm Indicted By Federal Jury   Italian-Born President Of Fireworks Concern,  Six Others Indicted

BOMB MAKERS ARE INDICTED   Fireworks Co. Heads Face Conspiracy Charge to Commit Sabotage

TIME CHANGE IN OHIO BLOCKED   Legislature Decides To Wait For Ruling By Nelson, Head Of WPB

Headlong Rush To Nullify Daylight - Saving War Time Checked by Bricker’s Request

BRICKER SLOWS ‘LEGISLATURE’S PLANS ON TIME   Governor To Confer - With Nelson on Clock Changing

RUSH TO CHANGE TIME 19 SLOWEI   Governor Bricker’s Request Is Heeded By Ohic Legislature

House Trade — Bill Rapped   Administration to Fight For 3-Year Extencion

FIGHT LOOMS ON TRADE TREATIES   Administration Rejects Com promise. Will Demand Three-Year Extension

Air Fleet Smashes  Nazi Hub   DUSSELDORF, COLOGNE ROCK AFTER U. S. FLIERS RIP WILHELMSHAVEN

Pietro Yon. St. Patrick’s  Organist, Dies  Composer Was Also Honorary Oreanist

‘Record U. 5. Employment -Of 63,900,000 Persons iReported During August

ewey and Bricker Favor Military ‘liance between U. S. and Britain

Dewey Backs British Pact   Governor Startles GOP Michivan Meeting

Dewey Proposes American-British Military Alliance   GOP Post-War Council Stirred by New Yorker; Two-Fold Plan Offered

14-17 CHILDREN FOR FARM CROPS   esa me ea  U. 8. Service Seeking Voluntary School Enrollment

48 Rioting Jap Prisoners Shot   Captives Attacked Guards At New Zealand Camp

WAR RATION BOOK 3 DISTRIBUTED BY MAII   Application Cards Are Be ing Sent Through Mails To Each Family   FILL IN AND RETURN

NUMBER THREE WAR RATION BOOK      You Will Get Replaceiment Ration Book By ‘- 3)

TRAINING PROGRAM HAS BEEN DOUBLED   Local Naval Flying School Is One of 13 in United  States   MORE HANGARS NEEDED

Local Naval Flying School As One of 13 in United © States   MORE HANGARS NEEDED

EXPECTS MURDER IN DEATH OF DECKHAND   Find Badly Beaten Body o! Man Near Steubenville

RING GEORGE Vi 15 BACK IN ENGLAND   Monarch Is Met by Churchill After 4,000-Mile Troop Reviewing Trin

KING GEORGE VE RETURNED HOME BY PLANE TODAY   He Had Completed a 4000. Mile Tour of Allied Bases in North Africa.   MALTA WAS ON ITINERY   First King te Visit the Island Fortress in the Mediterranean Since 1270.

Bond Quota for County Passes Balf-Way Mark   Residents Purchase 60 Per Cent in First 15 Days

Bond Quota for County Passes Half-Way Mark  Residents Purchase   Residents Purchase 60 Per Cent in First 15 Days

TO VESSELS HIT INU. S. ATTACK ON ITALIAN PORT   American Armored Force Crushes Rommel Blow on Gafsa Road

Blistering Raid Made On Naples By U.S. Bombers   Harbor Is Blasted By Hundred Flying Fortresses, It Is Revealed   AMERICANS PUSH AHEAD IN TUNISIA

HEAVY DAMAGE DONE TO MANY AXIS VESSELS   All planes return from first American raid on Italian mainland

100 BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON TEN SHIPS   “Terrific Devastation” Done to Harbor Jostallations

10 AIG LINERS. HIT AND DOGK AREA BLASTED   Doolittle Leads Devastating - Assault; 200 Tons of Bombs: Dropned. .   AMERICANS STOP - NEW RAZI COUNTERATTACK

Fulbright Bill Passage By  Senate Is Seen   House Supports. Peace Measure By ~ Overwhelming: Vote

Disorders Reported in North Italy; Spellman Said to Have Left Africa Suddenly   Italian Editor, Gayda Said to Have Killed _ Himself — Duce, Family Believed  Held Incommunicado at Villa.

Badoglo Cabinet Puts End To Duce's Political Set-Up: As Rioting Spreads in Italy   Rome Radio Says Nation Obliged to Stay _ In War But Rumors of Peace Persist; . Eden Savs Celoniec Wan't Re Batirned

Seek to Halt Disorders in Italy Today   Badoglio Dissolves Fascist Party—Clashes in Industrial Area

CHINESE EXCLUSION REPEALER TO F. D. R   Bill Putting Immigration on Quota Basis Passes Senate—Roosevelt Favors Measure,

OHIO GOVERNOR HITS ‘BICKERING’   Plea Made To ‘Keep Faith With Fighting Men’ in ‘Free After War’

Brazilian Plane Sinks Submarine   Drops Bombs on Surfaced U-Boat

STOP A NAZI GETAWAY   Marines were ck Attempted Escape From Prison Ship

Tax Fought By Few, Is  Contention   Large Interests Would Gain Most Benefit From Repeal Of Levy, Asserts Executive

BADGER SURTAK REPEAL VETOER   Goodland Declares Bill’s Support Was Pushed By Big Interests.

Says Agitation Was Started by Big Earners   Upper House Places Measure on Calendar For Action Tomorrow

Bill To Repeal State's Income Surtax Vetoed   Goodland Says Big Interests Would ‘Be Only Gainers

Retreating Germans Get Worst Pasting In Tunisia—Roaring Hell of Bombs Wit Nazis Near Kasserine Gap

ROMMEL'S ARM BADLY MAULED BY ALLIES   _ Shattered Armored ~ Columns Withdrawn ‘: owards Feriana in  Tunisia

Differ Battle Pushes Nazis Into Mountains  14 Mile Retreat ne By Allied  Out rive

Germans Sent Reeling After Bitter Three-Day Fight for Key Road Junction in Tunisia

German Chief  Reported In Full Retreat   Axis Forced Back 14 Miles After Threat To Thala: Hundreds of Planes Unleash Thundering Assaults Or Enemy Forces In Kasserine Gap

Rommel Flight From Kasserine Pass Indicated   Montgomery's Army Surges Up From South As Hundreds Of Planes Batter Panzers On Feriana Road

TIDE OF BATTLE BEGINS TO TURN IN NORTH AFRICA   NAZIS FORCED BACK UNDER HAIL OF BURSTING BOMBS

YANK, BRITISH TANKS AND MEN PRESS. PURSUIT   Allies Open Offensive After Withstanding Assaults for 3 Davs

Improved Weather Frees Allied Planes, Flying Forts, Marauders, Mitchells Turn Pass into ‘Hell of Exploding Bombs’   1,000 Italians Reported Trapped in Another Pass in Mountains—Berlin Radio Claims 4,016 Prisoners, Mostly American

Hurled Back a Miles By. Allied’ Push   Now: Attempting to. Make Stand’ at -Kasserine Gap. “to Cover Retreat      SEVERE. LOSSES... . INFLICTED:-ON: NAZIS   Allies: Turn Tide: After Ab sorbing Full Shock “of. ©. Three-Day Attack’.

British Army Moves In On Mareth Line   Rommel To Be Forced To Send Tank Units South To Meet Montgomery.   PLANES COVER ATTACK

Forced Back 14 Miles By Heavy Attack   British Eighth Army Reported In Advance From South   American Warplanes Heln Shatter Germans   But Rommel Still Is 54 Miles West Of Startine Point

DANGEROUS THRUST OF GERMAN ARMORED FORCES TURNED BACK   ROMMEL REPORTED ATTEMPTING MAKE STAND NEAR KASSERINE PASS

Axis Armored Thrust Thrown Back By Allies   Germans Reported 14 Miles From Peak of Advance

Yank, British Planes Hurl Back Axis Force With Hail of Bombs   BATTERED ARMIES OF “DESERT FOX” FALL BACK TOWARD FERIANA IN SOUTH TUNISIA AS EIGHTH ARMY SURGES FORWARD

Allied Ground and Air ke F orces Punish Retreating Nazi Column  ITALIANS ARE TRAPPED         Montgomery's Eighth Army Strikes at Axis Defenses in South

Yanks, British Pursue Foe South Of Thala In Tunisian Comeback;  Reds Near Dnieper.

British Eighth Army Surges Forward in Southern Tunisia.   PLANES SUPPORT UNITS

Believe Japs Losing Battle   Allied Drive To Sweep Japs Out Of Solomons Gains Momentum

Richelieu Will Play Vital Role   French Warship Gives Allies Needed Edge

Richelieu Gives Allies Edge in Big Ships; Crew Is Eager to Fight

Richelieu Gives Allies. Naval Superiority : Over Axis In First Line Battleship Powe:   Be JOSEPH MORTON

Richelieu Is Seen As Giving Allies Edge Over Axis In Heavy Warship:   French Battleship’s Captain Says-Safe Journey From Dakar, With Propellor Missing And Speed Reduced, May Be Termed Allied Victory.

RICHELIEU GIVES ALLIES AN EDGE   BIG FRENCH WARSHIP ONE OF TEN MOST POWERFUL IN WORLD

 RICHELIEU WILL ADD WEIGHT TO ‘ALLIED NAVY.   First Line Fighting Ships of Allies Now Have Definite Edge Over Axis

Relief May Demand Extension of Ration After War   Lehman Implies Need; Says World Will Be Short of Supplies

Claim Milan Death Toll 70   Badoglio’s Troops Meet Only Moderate Success In Halting Disorders   OUTBREAKS MAY GIVE HITLER AID

CHURCHILL LAUDS ALLIED AIR UNITS   DECLARES U. S. AND BRITISH WILL BEAT LIFE OUT OF INDUSTRIAL GERMANY.

Churchill Lauds Allied Airmen   Lists Achievements Of Yanks, R. A. F,

U. 5. AIRMEN “OF CHURCHIL      Achievements During German Raids Streased

Churchill Congratulates U. S.  Flyers on Success Over Germany   American and RAF Planes Will Beat Life Out of Hitler's Industrial Cities, He Says

Holland Quits W PB; Shakeup Is Continuing   Reorganization ls Step Nearer

U. S. Patrol -Chaser Rams, Depth-Charges, Shells And Sinks Jap Submarine

Patrol Boat Rams Jap Sub   Navy Reveals Vessel Gets To Port Safely

Patrol Chaser Sinks U-Boat In the Pacific   Description of Thrilling Attack Told in Official Statement

Tiny U.S. Patrol Chaser Sinks Jap Sub by Ramming, Depth Charges and Shell Fire in Thrilling Battle

Little Patrol Chaser Rams. And Sinks Jap Submarine   ‘Undersea Raider Sent Down After Valiant Attack by the 170-ft. PC-487—Story Related by _ the Navy

PATROL CHASER SINKS JAP SUE   Rammed, Depth - Charged, Shelled and Sank Japanese Submarine Approaching a Convoy Near Pacific Base

U. S. Patrol Chaser Rams, Shells, Sinks Jap’ Sub Menacing Convoy

ROOSEVELT IN SPEECH TONIGHT TO OUTLINE PRELIMINARY STEPS ITALIAN’ GOVERNMENT MUST TARE

President To Speak Tonight   Expected To Center Broad cast Talk On Situation In Italy

FDR EXPECTED 10 TELL ITALY TO OUST NAZIS   @resident’s Radio Address Will Stress Italian Situation

Detectives Stumped by Bafflino Crime   No Real Clues As to Who Killed Woman in Pullman

TEXAN KILLED IN ACTION ON GUINEA FRONT   CAPT. JOHN W. HERBERT, III WAS OIL MAN AND GOP LEADER

Anybody's Guess, Version Of Soong   Chinese Leader Doesn’t Know How Leng Jap War

Germans Acknowledge Stiff Fight With Italians, Yugoslavs   Nazi Column Beaten

Battle Rages in Fiume-Trieste Area; Partisans Join Stalian Force; Germans Admit Advance of Guerrillas

Yugoslavs Cross Borderline, Smash at Nazis   Battle Rages in Fiume-Trieste Area; Partisans Join Jtalian Force; Germans Admit Advance of Guerrillas

‘Rebels’ Cross Hungary Line   Yugoslav Partisans Engage Axis Forces On Widening Iront.

Partisan Units Push Way Into Hungary  Other Forces Fight Nazi Troops in TT":

Yugoslav Guerrillas Engage Germans In Battles Across Hungarian Border

Patriots Move Into Hungary   Bloody Fighting Marking Battles W ath ‘Cer mans” In, Yueoslavia

BLOODY FIGHTS MARK ADVANCE OF YUGOSLAYS   Push Into Hungary and Engage Enemy: Berlin Gives Tacit Admission of Warfare

PRODUCTION OF FOOD WILL BE OFF 20 PERCENT   Farmers’ Council Told Gov» ernment’s Farm Policy Is “Cockeyed’’   SEES POSSIBILITY OF ACTUAL HUNGER

SHORTAGE OF FOOD FEARED IN NATION   Food Supply Inadequate, W. G. Wysor Tells Council

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY MAKE GAINS IN BITTER BATTLE   New Heights Commanding Road to Rome Captured by Americans. Nazis Repulsed .

ALLIED ARMIES MOVE FORWARD   New Advances In Italy Are Registered Today By 5th, 8th Units

NAZI RAIL BASE THREATENED AS REDS SURGE ON   Japs Battered at Increased Tempo from Air and Land In Pacific Area   By RICHARD McMURRAY

Pound  Ahead In Italy   Allied Armies Carve Out Gains in Bloody Hand-to-Hand Fighting: Snow Slows Reds

YANKS CAPTURE ITALIAN SITES WEST OF ROME   Germans Show Lack of Re: serves in Battle of White Russia

More Italian Heights Taken By the Allies   Fighting Resembles Bitter Hand-to-Hand - Combat at Verdun.   Coastal Supply Route Under British Attack

Smashing Drives On . Rome Road   British-and Americans Carve ‘Out New Gains:In ‘Bitter -Hand-to-Hand Battles   RUSSIANS ADVANCE .° INSNOWSTORMS   ‘Talk of Turkey Entering the _ War; New Pressure On : the Nazi Puppets -

JAPS BELIEVED PLANNING BLOW   Reinforce Positions Te North Of Australia Apparently To  Open Attack

Jap Positions Strengthened ,Near Australia   Allied Fighters Blast 22 Enemy Warplanes

REPORT WLB WILL REJECT. PAY DEMANT       HOWDOWN ON THREAT OF ! STRIKE IN THE AIRCRAFT ; INDUSTRY I8 EXPECTED IN NEAR FUTURE ° .

Seizure of vital Axis city guarding Bizerte from  unofficial source

American Troops Within Sight Of Tunis And Bizerte   Allies Consolidate Newly Won Gains On Front In Tunisia On Sunday   ALLIED BIG GUNS SHELLING MATEUR  BULLETIN

Individual Taxes May Be Doubled   Coast of Fighting Total War Is Brought Home to Public with Treasury Department's Prediction

In Washineton Today~  TILL SEARCH FOR BEST WAY TO FINANCE WAF   Treasury Has New Plan for  Taxation; Cost of Living _ Discussed; Rationing  Rules

ANNOUNCE NEW UNIFORM AIR RAID PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR 16 ATLANTIC SEABOARD STATE

New Raid Signal System Ordered   Uniform Regulations Are Set Up By Army

BIG TOLL OF BEHMAN DEED lo REPORTED   Giant Russian Guns Are N:cw Shelling the City of Rostov.   FIGHT IS DESPERATE   Moscow Claims That Some Red Troogs Are, Battling in Suburbs.

Russians Waging Opening Phase Of Rostov Battle   Reports Indicate Fighting Already In Progress In Outskirts Of City   GERMANS MAKING DESPERATE DEFENSE

Cleaning Up OnSouth Bank of Don River   ‘Making Headway In Suburbs  of City—Report

GERMANS FIGHT FURIOUSLY TO HOLD OL CITY   Some Russian Units Reported Crossing Don To Open Battie In Suburbs   PUSH ON KHARKOV, KURSK   Important Localities Seized As Soviets Close Ring Around Enemy

Booze Probers Ready To Act   Kilgore Says Whiskey Trade “Racket”

Liquor Racket ‘Probe Started   Distribution. And Sales ‘Will Be Examined By -5-Man ‘Committee

Liquor Situation Vicious Racket, Claim; $10,000 Voted For Inquiry

“Nenate Group Embarks on Liquor Probe  Solons Assail Quality of New Whiskey

Liquor Probe Committee Is Organized   Senator Kilgore Sees ‘Racketeering in  - Sale of Whisky

Stage Set for Showdown With John L. Lewis   Congress Given Responsibility For Livine Costs

WLB Votes To Retain Wage Rule      Leaves Way Open  In Case Living . Costs Go Higher

LABOR BOARD WONT ALTER WAGE CEILING   Stage Set et For Early Showdown With . John L. Lewis

STAGE IS SET’. FOR SHOWDOWN WITH LEWIS   War Labor Board Refuses to Raise Wage Ceilings —

Lovett Called Untit To Hold Govt. Office   Virgin Islands Secretary Was Accused By Dies Committee

Lovett Quster Recommended   _ House Appropriations Group Acts Against . Virgin Island Official

Virgin Island Secretary  Called Unfit  Committee Denies Money fox Three

Find Lovett Unfit To Holc Federal Post   Subversive Ties  Charge Of Dies

Robert Morss Lovett Among Several Charged By Dies Committee With Subversive Affiliations   WOULD DENY FUND TO PAY HIS SALARY   Oihers Included In Committee Report Are Dr. Goodwin B. Watson and  Dr. Wm. E. Dodd, Jr.

Lovett To Get No Pay  Bitiencd (litinétal te   Island Offivial Is Reported Unfit

New Torpedo Boats Ready To Slap Japs   Cruising Range Greater, Armament Improved: Navy Avers

REPORTS NAZI MORALE LOW   Dispatch to Swiss Paper Tells of “Psychological Collapse”

‘Psychological Collapse’ Increasing Steadily, — Swiss Dispatch Contends

German Morale Lower:  Nazis No Longer Listen to Hitler Or Read Official Communications

New Account of Lowered Nazi Morale Says People Greatly Fear Air Raids

OF NOLAN SEEN   Senator McCallum Believes It Can Be Concluded in Four Days.   OTHERS CONCUR IN VIEW

EIGHTEEN KILLED IN BOMBER GRASE   Plane in Hands of RAF Ferry Command

18 Killed In Bomber Crash   Ferry Command Plane Crashes In Newfoundland

18 KILLED IN FERRY PLANE   R.A.F. Bomber Crash in - Newfoundland With 13 Passengers.

Yanks 3 Miles From Original Landing Point   Routed Japs Abandon Field Guns And Much Equipmerft; Enemy Air Attacks Broken Up; Allies Gain On Other Fronts

Village, Supplies Captured   Japs Leave Much Equipment for Advancing Yanks

Nip Equipment Is Taken by Americans   Drive to Extend Lines Starts on Bougainville

JAP VILLAGE FALLS; ENEMY GUNS SEIZED   Inland Drive Opened On Bougainville By Yanks

Flying Fortresses In 24-Hour-A-Day Assault   Nazi-Held European Continent Is Pounded Incessantly By Allies.

AURA BLASTED AGAIN BY RAF   ‘Great Force Attacks Ger man Chemical Center of  Wuppertal.   AXIS AWAITS INVASION

Germany Battered in Rising Crescendo of Violence from Skies      ao Heavy Bombers Follow RAF in 24-Hour Attack on Reich

Bomb Raids Near Peak of Violence   Attackers Range Over  Many Points of AxisHeld Europe —   AMERICANS HIT KIEL   18 U. S. Ships Fail to Return; Many Enemy Craft — Destroyed ~   Enemy ‘Targets Raked

USFliersPomb Greek Port Of Salonica   250,000 Pounds of Explosives Dropped On Sedes Airdrome; RAF Bombers ~ Smash at German Chemical Center of Wuppertal

Bor b Raids Near ‘Peak of : Violence   Attackers, Range - Over Many Points of Axis‘Held Europe: '   AMERICANS HIT KIEL   18 U.S. ‘Ships Fail to Return; Many Enemy Craft  _ Destroyed «

U. §. BOMBERS MAKE ATTACKS: 18 ARE MISSING   33 RAF Craft Fail to Return From Heavy Raid on Wuppertal

Huge Force Of RAF Bombers Hit Ruhr Town   Chemical Center Of Wuppertal Severely Damaged Germans Announce.   YANKS BOMB HANGARS

POUND REICH WITHOUT AID OF FIGHTERS   Major Nazi Airport in Greece Destroyed By Liberators

Bomb Drive fo Balkans, Ruhr Also Hit Again      Smashing Raids by Yankee Forces; Enemy Airport in Greece Destroved   FIRST ATTACK MADE UPON SALONIKA   18 American Bombers Lost in New Daylight Blow After R.A.F. Hits Wuppertal

ROUND-THE-CLOCK SMASHES AT NAZI INDUSTRIAL AREAS   U. 8. HEAVY BOMBERS IN UNESCORTED ATTACK ON GERMANY TODAY fF

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST GERMANY AS AIR DRIVE HITS NEW CRESCENDO OF VIOLENCE

NAZI DONETS RIVER DRIVE PUSHED BACK   German forces suffer heavy losses in Balakleya region

Donets River  Defenses Hold   Continuing German At. tempts To Smash Russian Lines Are Frustrated   LITTLE CHANGE IN LINES AT FRONT

Storm Signals Fly in Face of Civilian . , ¥ 4 & - . Drivers Who Need New Automobile Tires

TIRE TROUBLE  “FLARES AGAIN   FABRICATION OF TIRES FROM SYNTHETIC RUBBER 168 LATEST HEADACHE OF THE WPB ‘

Jap Treachery Before Pearl Harbor Revealed by U. 5. State Department

Double-Dealing Japs Ready with Apology In Pre-War Dealings with U.S., Paper Reveals

Morgenthau Says Bond Quota Met  Campaign Still Has Two: Days to Go

BOND CAMPAIGN GOES OVER TOP   Morgenthau Announces Sales 165 Million Over Goal

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ILL PROPOSE GO. TAX REFUNDS IN    Treasury Head Reports To. tal of $15,165,000,000 Has Been Sold

Nation Goes Over the Top In Bond Drive   Goal Is Reached Ahead of Time

NATION GOES OVER TOP IN BOND SALES   Yiorgenthau Tells Indiana Shipyard Workers That $15,185,000.000 Was     Stribed

Nation Tops Third War Loan Quota  Morgenthau Cites Bond-Buying Unity

Japs Given Notice Of Navy Push   Admiral Nimitz Declares New Operations Will Be Launched Soon

)ON POLITICAL RANK   Truman Hears LaGuardia Is to Be Brigadier General  and Objects

CRITICAL OF RANK GIVEN CIVILIANS   Truman Speaks Up in Hear ing Concerning MovieMaker Darryl Zanuck   ALSO INCLUDES LA GUARDIA CASE   Film Magnate, Serving in Signal Corps, Has Asked for Inactive Status

LaGuardia, Zanuck  Draw [Truman Fire   «++ Colonelcy of Ex-Nebraskan Rapped By Senator

La Guardia Job Brings Criticism   Genator-Wonders— About Commission

La Guardia Has No Right To Be Brigadier Nor Zanuck A Colonel, Is View Of Senator

THURMAN OBJECTS ARMY COMMISSIONS LFGUARDIA,,74NEGK  WOULD SEND MOVIE DI_ DIRECTOR SCHOOL MAKI - SOTDTER OUT OF HIM

Choice H   Senator Can't Reasor For High Rank; Zanuok’s Place In Army "also Gets Committee’s Attention

SENATORS AIR GRANTING ARMY COMMISSIONS   Mayor LaGuardia_and Movie-Maker Darryl Zanuck Subjects of Pointed Remarks   LATTER INACTIVE   Truman Says Mayor Has No More Business With Rank Than Film Official Has

EPIDEMIC FEARED   Health Officials Warn of Increase of Infantile  Paralysis

urricane Hits vast of Texas   tGalveston Damage “Estimated at Million

Dr. A. L. Lowell,  86, Educator, Dies   Former Harvard President Noted For Innovations Tn Teaching Field

Dr. A. L. Lowell, Pres. Emeritus,  Harvard, Is Dead   Aged Educator Til Short Time

President Lowell .  Of Harvard Dies   Ruled Aged College For 3 Recades

NOTED EDUCATOR TAKEN BY DEATH   A. Lawrence Lowell, 86, Succumbs After Brief IiIness

Former Head Harvard Dies   A. Lawrence Lowell Passes Away in His Home in Boston

A. LAWRENCE LOWELL DIES   Former President of  Harvard University 1 on stein Diiind at ee

; ae te as By The Associated Press   Prominent American Educator Is Dead

American Royal Gets, Under Way   Oklahoma Girl’s Steer Cops First Champ Award

Royal Opens on Wartime Basis   Only Animals on Way To Market Exhibited At Kansas City Show

MEAT PRICE CUTS ARE NOW IN EFFECT      Rollbacks Ordered by OPA On Subsidy Basis

MEAT PRICES REDUCED   Three-Cent-Per - Pound Reduction Goes Into Effect Teday

MEAT PRICES ROLLED BACK   Average of 3 Gents 2 Pound Less Into Effect Today

Some Meat Prices Cut 3c A Pound   All Affected Except Cured, Processed Pork

PLUPLE OF SICILY LIKE DUUGHBOYS   Sell Them Best of Fruits and Vegetables at Low Prices

DISCUSSIONS AREHINTED AT BY CHURCHILL   Visit of Foreign Secre tary Eden to Wash. ington Put In New Light.

Churchill Tri-Power Plan Seen Launched by Eden   Groundwork for Parley Being Laid in U. S.. Would By-Pass Forntal Peace Con{erence

U. $., BRITAI AND RUSSIA TAKING DART   War May End in Two More Years, Soys Britisher

(Churchill Hints Plans Under Way for World Organization fo ‘Guard-Against Future Wars

GEN, EISENHOWER IN COMPLETE COMMAND OF ALLIED FORCES IN NORTHERN AFRICA  U.S. Army Commander Happy Over Men From British Staff Assigned Him   MORE THAN ONE MILLION MEN IN DRAFT AGE GROUP DEFERRED FOR EMPLOYMENT  Selective Service Director Called As Witness Before House Military Group

Eisenhower Is Enthused Over New Command   Asserts He Has “Stars” Of Britain's Military Strength To Help Ir African Campaign

ee fees Given Sits oF Britain’ $ Militory”  Strength” — Eisenhower

Report Hitler, General Staff At Odds As Allies Struck In Italy   Hitler Would Make Stand Ai Po River, But General Staff Reported Insisting That Defense Be Made Behind Alps.

GERMANS AT ODDS   Uncertain Whether to Stand on Po or Drop Behind Alps

HITLER AND STAFF AT ODDS OVER PLACE OF DEFENSE   Fuehrer Reported to © Want To Make Stand Along Po River. Staff Wants to. Move Back Of Alne

HITLER AND GENERALS AT ODDS AGAIN   Militarists Favor Making Defense Behind Alps

ommel Forces alfle British South Tunisia    Two. Attacks Fail, bu Germans Continue Assault   iolent Fighting Break: Gut along the Mereth line   Axis Losses Heavy

Montgomery Holding Firm  Tn Tunisia   Nazi General Fails to, Achieve Surprise ‘of British Forces

BRITISH FIRST ARMY REGAINS INITIATIVE IN NORTHERN TUNISIA; FIERCE EGHTING BETWEEN OPPOSING PATROLS REPORTED.

First Thrusts Since Long Trek Broken With Heavy Losses;  Battle Continues

AFRIGA CORPS © IS HURLED BACK BY EIGHTH ARMY   Rommel’s Forces Suffer Heavy Losses In Two Surprise Thrusts   PATROL FORCES ARE “ACTIVE AT PICHON

Nazi Attacks Repelled By British   “Very Heavy Losses” in Materials and Men Are Suffered by Enemy; Anglo-American Army Seizes Offensive

Allies’ First Army Regains Initiative  American Fliers Actives Waet T nccshs Hence

Axis Suffers Big Losses In Two Assaults   Germans Continue to Press Fighting On Southern Tunisia Front; Allies Regain Initiative in North

But Nazis Continue To Press Offensive In Southern Tunisia, British Not Surprised  ALLIES IN NORTH REGAIN INITIATIVE  Forces Take Pichon And Withdraw to Wes! With 100 Prisoners

Germans Press Attack on Brit 8th Army   Rommel Fails to Achieve Planned Surprise

British Army Stull Carrying Attack to Axis   Montgomery’s _ power for assault on Mareth line »is unimpaired; ‘German loases heavy.

British Halt Rommel .Gain Initiative   Kighth Army Beats Off Two Attacks South of Mareth Line. Kills Many

Battle In Southern Tunisia Believed Still  Raging  HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY NAZIS  Nazi Field Ma Marshal Fails to Achieve Planned _ “Surprise”

Massed Artillery of British Destroys Tanks and Soldiers Thrown Against Eighth Army

STATE GOVERNORS HOLD CONFERENCE   ASSEMBLE AT CHICAGO TO DISCUSS POSTWAR PROBLEMS IN MIDWEST

Striking Miners Most Defiant To War Labor Board   Tri-District Mine Committee Votes On Whether To Call Out Others

“WLB Calls Public Hearing of Union Heads, Hard ‘Coal Operators to Explain Reasons for Strike

MAJOR ALLIED MOVE IN PACIFIC EXPECTED SOON   Patterson And Knudsen Are In Australia After Tour Of  New Guinea Front

GI to aUMIMARY UN LEND-LEAGE   U. S. Has Supplied Allies Vast Quantities Of Food,  Equipment

British Lift : Turk-Syrian Border Bar   ‘May Have Cloaked Moves of Allied Armies Tuesday and Wednesday

2-DAY CLOSURE GLOAKED TROOP MOVES, BELIEF   Moscow Reports Brenner Pass Traffic Restricted

British Lift Syria Troop. Move Screen   Turkish Border Reopened: As Allied Concentration Of Forces Is Reported      ITALY FLIGHT SEEN   Liberators From Middle East Blast Sicily; RAF Pounds At Naples

TURKISH-SYRIAN BORDER OPENED, ANKARA REPORTS   Traffic Resumed After 49hour Closure — Taurus Express 2 Days Late.

Turkish-Syrian Border Opened After 48 Hours:   May Have Cloaked Troop Movement. . In Far East

Young Fliers Surprise Japs On New Guinez   Sweep in at Tree-Top Level to Bomb Airdrome At Lae, Pouring Bullets Into 10 Enemy Planes

Indicate Axis Rear Guards Retreating At Brief Stand at Wadi Bei El Chebir

PEAR GUARDS ARE DISPLAYING SOME. FIGHT FOR NAZIS   Are Resisting in Some Jn. stances While British Patrols Push Forward.

RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO PUNISH GERMANS   Kill 1200 in Gaining Stronghold on Smolensk Front

Blank Checks Era Is Over, Say Solons   Hereafter Army Officers Must List What They Want

‘Fast-Action Spending Over   Congressmen Say It's No Lonver Needed

Days of Blank Check Appropriations Past: Aceountings Must Be Prepared.

Tighter Rein On Spending   Senators Promise End To “Blank Check” Type Of War Appropriations

Admits Story of Killing Is Hoax   Slayer of Twins Denies Third Crime

DEFENSE UNITS MAY HAVE MORE POWER   Senate Committee Studies Proposed Plan Today

yanananda Positions Are Cleaned Out   Allied Bombers Smash Four Japanese Transports  In Rabaul Raid   24,000 TONS SUNK   Japanese Army OF 15,000 Is Annihilated In Four Months Campaign

MOPPING UP JAPS IN PAPUS   M’Arthur Announces Smashing of Last Organized Resistance

ENEMY RESISTANCE IN PAPUA BROKEN: MOPPING UP BECUN   Four Jap Ships. Totaling 244,000 Tons Destroyed. ~—WNipponese Raids Unsuccessful

LAST POCKETS OF FOE WIPED OUT AT PAPUE   Only Handful Of Japs Left From Original 15,000 Army

MEN MOP UP PAPIIA AREA   Last Three Nests of Japs Cleaned Out in Sharp Fighting and Nearly All Are Killed.

FOUR JAP SHIPS . TOTALLING 24,000 TONS DESTROYED   Last Vestiges of Enemy Army, 15,000 Strong, Destroyed on Papua.

HAS MAN FOR OUPRENE COUR   President Has Decided tc Nominate Judge in the . Court of Appeals.

Army Reveals Landings At Salerno Made With Few Troops In Desperate Miliiary Gamble

Original Salerno Landings Proved Successful Gamble    Victory Won by Narrow Margin, It Is Revealed in Official Review of Italian Compaign—Number of Lessons Tauaht

Italian Invasion Was Desperate Military Gamble   Landings at Salerno Made by One U. §., Two British Divisions

SALERNO LANDING BY ALLIES ‘WAS MADE ON A SHOESTRING   Review Of Italian Campaign Reveals That Only One American And Two British Divisions Won Desperate Military Gamble Over Entrenched Germans

FREE COFFEE STARTS RUSH TO GROGERY   Cleveland Youths Pass Out Pre-War Hand Bills

RAF BOMBERS ~RETALIATE IN NIGHT ATTACK   Americans Hammer Nazi Lairs for Submarines

Nazi Airmen Drop Bombs On Outskirts of London:   Silence of Axis-Dominated Radios Indicates RAF Resumes Attacks on Germany; U.S, Airmen Return From U-Boat Nest Sorties

Throw Rommel Back 10 Miles Tn Two Drives   Battle For Big Stakes In Tus nisian Fields;  Montgoe merv At Mareth.   GERMAN LOSSES LIGHT

SPEARHERD OF 70 TANKS IPS THAQUGH PAGS DESPITE LOSSES   Germans Repulsed In Some Sections As They Fight For More Elbow Room in the North

DRIVING NORTHWEST IN DESPERATE EFFOR CUT COMMUNICATIONS  WOULD FORCE WITHDRAWAL U. S. AND

Greatest Bomber Force of War Attacks Ruhr .   and Rhineland  43° AIRCRAFT LOST.  Raids Follow U. S. Day  jight Pounding of Naval Bases

Deadly Offensive Is Resumed by British and American Fliers   Duesseldorf Center of Concentrated Attack; Other Targets Hit

LARGEST RAF FORCE BOMBS DUESSELDORE   British Resume Deadly Offensive Against German Armament Centers.   43 Bombers Are Lost In the Raid on Reich   More Than 12°59 Planex«

43 Planes Lost In ‘Heaviest Raid’ Of War On Nazi Cities   Record Assault By British ‘Heavyweights’ Follows Daylight Attack By American Airmen On Wilhelmshaven Base

UESSELDORE MAIN TARGET OF RAF RAN   Munster Also Hit  Hard After American Fortresses Attack U-Boat Bases On Friday.

RHINELANDWAR PLANT 5 TARGET OF NIGHT BLAST   Cities of Duesseldorf and Munester Subjected to Attack of Unprecedented Strength   43 BRITISH PLANES LOST DURING RAID   “Great Damage’ Inflicted by More Than 2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Vital Foundries

DUSSELDORF BEARS BURDEN OF THE BOMBS   Munster Another Reich Target in Better Than’ 2,000-Ton Rain of Missiles—43 Heavy Bomb-:  are Ara Miccina.

Heavy Damage Caused   American Planes Hi Nazi Naval Bases; 43 Bombers Lost

LARGEST FORCE OF PLANES EVER USED IN ASSAULT   Hit Rhineland, Ruhr Valley; 43 Bombers Fail To Return

Raid Centered On Duesseldorf   R.A.F. Loses 43 Heavy Planes In Loosing More Than 2,000 Tons Of Bombs On Targets In Industrial Center Of Germany; Yanks Hit Naval Bases

Heaviest RAF Raid Hits Ruhr, Rhineland; Follows U.S. Blow At Naval Bases

Renew Att Assault  On Reich   Heaviest Bomber Force Of War Blasts Targets: In Ruhr; Follows U. S. Attack: on Sub Bases

Greatest Force of War Resumes Air Offensive   Duesseldorf Main Target As Weight Of Bombs Believed to Have Exceeded 2,000 Tons; Other Points Hit.

Ruhr Cities Swept By Bomb Deluge   Largest Attack In World’s History Delivered Against Duesseldorf And Muenster By RAF Following Daylight Sweeps By Yanks

Britain Sends Greatest Force Of Heavy Bombers Of War Into Ruhr And Rhineland After Americans Blast Naval Bases Of Wilhelmshaven And Cuxhaven— Record Unloading Of Bombs Indicated—Assaults Cost England 43 And U. S. Eight Big Aircraft

‘U.S. and RAF Rain Death ‘(On Dortmund   Break Two-Week Lull in Assaults Against German Area

Americans Break Two Week Lul with Bombings of Wilhelm shaven. Cuxhaven   RAF FOLLOWS UP      British Loose Greafest Force ol Heavy Bombers of War Agains! Duesseldorf

Biggest RAF. Bomber Fleet Hits Reich   Duesseldorf, Muenster Arms Factories Suffer Great Damage   43° PLANES MISSING   Night Smasty Follows Yank Blow At Naval Bases By 200 Heavy Bombers

Yank Precision Attack Follows British Foray   Duesseldorf Receives Greatest Deluge Of Allied Bombs

British Raids Follow Yankee Daylight Blow   Duesseldorf, Muenster Hit By Night With 43 Planes Lost; 200 U. S. Rombers In Attacks

‘AMERICAN AIRMEN RAID NAVAL BASES   200 U. S. Planes in Daylight  Attack On Wilheimshaven And Ouvkavan

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS IN DEADLY SMASHES INDUSTRIAL PLANTS   BELIEVED RECORD WEIGET OF BOMBS DROPPED ON VARIOUS TARGETS

Assaults By RAF Without Precedent  In Violence   43 Bombers Lost In Heavy And Widespread Attacks On Enemy Industrial Centers

LARGEST FORCE OF WAR STRIKES AT KEY CENTERS   Duesseldorf Hit Hard In Night Plane Assault 

General Walkout Expected Monday   Lewis Not Likely to Obey WLB  Order for Contract Extension

Third Coal Strike Seen For Monday   Wildcat Walkouts Already Make 61,450 Miners Idle

LABOR BOARD ~ SAYS LEWIS: AIDS ENEMY   BITTER CRITCISM HURLED AT MINE UNION READER AFTER JHE AGATN DEPIES ROARD

New Crisis In Strike Threat In Coal Mines   Lewis Refuses To Appear Before War Labor Board Hearing   STRIKE MENACE GROWING HOURLY

AUTHORITY 10 SETTLE WAGE DISPUTE DENIED   Belligerent Union Chief Ignores Order’ To Come To Washington   READY TO “NEGOTIATE”   Sessions Will Be Held With Operators, U. S. Is Advised

NEW DEFIANCE BY UMW CHIEF BRINGS BLAST   Statement Drafted After Miners’ Leader Again Ignores Parley

Welles Sets Down Peace Principles  Gradual Evolution Of International Organization Offerec

NO DEFERMENT FOR PUPILS ON VACATION   Only Students in Last Half of School Year Eligible

STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL ADOPTS AUDIBLE SIGNAL   Soiid Blast Of Sirens Will An nounce End Of Raid Alerts

AUDIBLE ALL-CLEAR TO END RAID DRILLS   Defense Council Adopts 15-Second Blast For Future Alerts

PATROLS CLASH IN NEW GUINEA AREA   Bad Weather Restricts Ail ' Activity — B-25’s Hit Finch Harbor

American Casualties In War Mount To 65,198   Figures Do Not Include Report On Losses In Current Tunisian Action.

Soviet Bombers Hit Nazi Dromes  Ammunition Dumps   Ammunition Dumps Set Afire By Raiders

SOVIETS ACTIVE ON OREL FRONT   Long Range Bombers Hit German Airdromes And Fuel Dumps

Russians Deliver Staggering Blow to Germans  French Unit Joins Reds in Fight; Nazi Airfield Hit

RUSSIANS BOMB NAZI AIRDROMES   HARDEST BLOW HIT NEAR COREL WHERE BOTH SIDES HAVE MASSED RESERVES.

SOVIET BOMBERS HIT NAZI BASES   Long-range Planes Concentrate on Enemy Airbase Near Bryansk, Behind the Orel Front

Sharp Clashes Between French Troops, Lebanese Continue as Egyptians Demonstrate in Sympathy

French Battle With Lebanese   Egyptian Students Also Are Aroused

French, Lebanese Troops in Battle   Grave Disorders Sweeping Egyp!

LEBANON MOBS STONE FRENCH   Sharp Clashes Occur Over Question of Setting Up  Free Government

Lebanese Continue Violent Actions Against French; Students Hurl Stones: Officials to Confer

STONE FRENCE      Sharp, Clashes Occur Over Question of Setting Up. ue Free Government _

SHARP CLASHES IN ) LEBANON CONTINUE   Sympathy Demonstrations by Students in Egypt Reported

il Duce Moves To Intensify War Effort   Cabinet Shake-Up Reported to Haxe Nipped Peace Plot

lI Duce Issues Work Decree   Report Italy Nips Separate Peace Plot

Ciano Peace Plot Seen in Rome Upset; Dino Oedore Mon 14-70-Into War Work

Peace Plot Said Cause Of Mussolini Shakeups   Ciano, Grandi And Badoglio Reported To Be In Van Of Movement For Peace.

ITALY CALLING YOUNG AND OLD FOR WAR WORK   Decree Orders Men 14 to 70 and Women 14 to 60 Into Factories.   CABINET SHAKE-UP NIPS “SEPARATE PEACE PLOT

PLEDGE TO BREAK “BOTTLENECKS AT WILLOW RUN PLANT   Truman Committee Tours Plant, fs Not Dis annnintart

Nazi Air Fields Heavily Bombed   Flyers Hit Targets In France, Belgium

EIGHTH AIR FORCE CONIINUES ATTACK   Offensive Now ‘In Seventh Straight Day — Raid German Bases _

FLIERS BAG AXIS PLANES, TRANSPORTS   Allies Shoot Down 38 More Axis Planes, 90 Transvoris

UEFIGERO FOR LEGION POST   Lawrence Sanders Nominated for Commander of Tipton Chapter.

OFAGERS FOR EGON Fst   Lawrence ‘Sanders  Nominated for: Commander ‘Of. , Tiptqn Chapter. 

Brighter Outlook For State's Oil   Kelly Sees Advantage In Oklahoma Line

PRISONERS TRANSFERRED   Americans Held Prisoner by lHtalians Now In German Hands

EDR CHARMS DE GAULLE  Pighilng French Chief Calls Prestdent ¥Vory Great Man

GERMANS REPEAT THREAT 10 PUNISH CAPTURED AIRMEN   say Nurnberg, Hamburg Raiders Will Be Tried First

REDS RACING AFEAD TOWARE OLD POLAND   By-Pass Zhitomir; Advance on Front 200 Miles Long

W HANDS OF REDS      Gen. Vatutin’s Armies Cause -Huns to Flee In Utter Disorder.

RUSSIANS NOW NEAR PRE-WAR POLISH BORDER   General Vetutin’s Ukraine Army Smashes Nazi Defense In All Sectors.

Soviets Drive Within 40 Miles of Old Polana   ‘Troops. Advance on 200 Mile Arc; Fierce Ficht Races at.Zhitomir

OUVIET UNI Poo ZHTUMM TN HUGE SWEER   Russians Plunging Westward On 200-Mi'e Are In Fierce Battle

‘Allies Hoping fo Gain Enormous Superiority in Air to Make Up For Axis Advantage on Ground

Allies Hold Enormous Superiority Over Axis Powers in Air Strength

COUNT ON AIR POWER TO WIN   ae *  Allies Expect Inferiority In Ground Troops Number To Be OutWeighed By Huge Air  q Superiority

RED ARMY FIGHTING TO LIMI   Stonewall Defens Against Axis Efforts to Widen Gap in Sector Put Up Today,   Strategy of Allies is Outlined by Official:

AIR MIGHT WILL OFFSET GROUND LACK   Will Compensate for Ground Force Inferiority

Land Reports 1,745 LendLease Sailings of U. S.  Ships in Past Year.

Lend-Lease Sailings Amouznt fo 1,745  Land Says Most of Ships Get to  ee ee ee

Land's Figures Reveal Amount In Lend-Lease   s Sweeping Power For Utilizing it Nation's Man, Womanpower > By FDR Proposed In New Bill

LEND-LEASE END WOULD JEOPARDIZE VICTORY--STIMSON   Secretary Of War Says Supplies To Allies “Not Chanty®

MOST OF HUGE AMOUNT OF LEND-LEASE WAR MATERIALS REACHED ALLIES, REPORT SAYS

Restaurant Customers Will  Get Smaller Meat Portions.   Operators of Eating Establishments Could Sell Out Week’s Supply In Three Days by Keeping Portions Same and Raising Prices or Ration Allotment and Keep Open All Week

Restaurants Will Have To Ration Customers To Make Supply Last   Eating Places Rationed Only Amount Of Meat They Can Purchase, Not On Amount They Sell To Customers, But Their Supply Limited.

New Eastern Air Chief Is Named  Expanded ‘Action In Asia Indicated

Today’s War Commentary  Japs Learn Lesson New Technique Replaces Old ‘Tactic:

University Receives Infors  mation from Colonel  < ‘Briggs >.   TO USE LINDLEY HALL

University Receives Infors mation from Colonel  Bn 3 IZgs l“.   >. TO USE LINDLEY HAT

INTENSE COLD IN EAST OUE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW   Zero, Sub-zero Temperature May Be Experienced In Many Areas—13 Neaq

‘Sub-Zero Weather Sweeps East Coast: Death Toll Hits 13   15 Below Weather Slated for N. Y.; Entire New England Area Warned Of Lowest Temperatures of Season

Commando Kelly, With Mug as Irish as Four-Leafed Clover, Is a Real Tough Gent

Nazis Find “Commando Kelly” of Pittsburgh, to Be Real Tough Gent

APTS ASKED 127 QUESTIONS BY U, §   Counsel for Press Association Has 15 Days in Which to Answer.

ALLIES SEIZE JAP OUTPOST NORTH OF LAE   Enemy Is Chased From Kaiapit As Planes Strafe Madang Arca

Air-Borne Allied Forces Capture Outpost Of Japs   Seize Kaiapit, 60 Miles Northwest Of Fallen Base At Lae   JAPANESE ARE GIVEN SURPRISE

ALLIES SEIZE JAP OUTPOST   Air - Borne Troops Stage Coup Enemy Surprised By Attack

AIR-BORNS FORCE SEIZES JAP POST NEAR FALLEN LAE   Kaiapit On New Guinea, Taken In Surprise Move Rv Allies

Clarence Mease, YMCA Secretary Speaks on “Our World Today,. Tomorrow”

Concord Workers Find St. . Sergt. Walthers Prisoner  of War in Germany -

IN ACTION   Concord Workers Find St .Sergt. Walthers Prisoner of War in Germany

Charges U.S. Housewics Paying Too  Much for Food as Farmers Get Little

Ah! Actor’s Beard Saved For Posterity   Imprint of Monty Woolley’s “Bush” in Concrete at Chinese Theater.

Reds Tighten Pincers cn Escape Gap   Nazi Efforts Are Futile Near Kiev

FEDERAL SALES TAX PROPOSED   PLAN CALLS FOR 10% VICTORY TAX ON RETAIL SALES

10 PCT. VICTORY RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSED BY TRADE OFHCIAL   Adverse Reaction Scraps Treasury's Plan to Raise 4101, Billions More Taxes   FORCED SAVING OPPOSED

10 Per Cent. Retail Sales Tax Urged   N.Y. Board of  Trade Head es a

Federal Sales Tax Proposed  As Substitute   Congressional Leaders Are Opposed to Treasury’s New Tax Plan

Sales Tax Suggested AtHearing   New Plan Is Proposed After Treasury Plan For Higher Levies Meets Early Death

Sales Tax Plan To Raise Funds Bobs Up Again   Administration's New Revenue Bill Believed Scrapped

FEDERAL SALES ° TAX SUGGESTED BY NEW YORKEI   Bio Percent Levy Would Yield About 6 Billions, Expert Cloims

10% Victory Retail Sales Tax Proposed   Chairman of Tax Committee of New York Board of Trade Estimates Tax Would Yield $6,000,000,000

Asks Federal Sales Tax   As Substitute for. Treasury Pian Which Has Met With Stiff Oppesition in Congress

10 Per Cent ‘Victory Sales Tax Is Favored   M. L. Seidman, Chairman Of Tax Committee Of ' New York Board Of Trade, Heard By House Group: Morgenthau Plan Checked

RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSAL REVIVED   ‘No Deductions’ Is Chief Argument for It

Victory Sales Tax Is Planned   10 Percent On Retail Prices Hinted

Federal Sales Tax of Ten Per Cent is Proposed to House   Sub _ for "Treasury Tax Pian Offered; News of Today in Capital

HOUSE SCRAPS TAX PROGRAM AS T00 LARGE   Ways and Means Committee Begins Drafting Revenue Measures Of its Own

Ten Per Cen Victory Sales Tax Proposed   Yield of 6 Billions Predicted; Treasury Program Is Doomed

New Yorker Asks $6,000, 000,000 U. 5. Sales Tax   House Group Scraps Administration’s Bill As Too High

RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSED TO CONGRESS   Board of Trade Chairman Presents Plan After Scheme Scrapped.   Offers Tax Incentive For Buying of Bonds

 of Tax Commit  ew York Board Estimates St:  (Can Be Raised   ‘OT ALLOW EXEMPTIONS   s Substitute For tion Plan TorShortly After  “satinehine

10 Per Cent. Retail Sales Tax Urged  N. Y. Board of   N. Y. Board of Trade Head Appears Before House Committee

OFFERS SALES TAR TO RAlSE NEW REVENUE   N. Y. Board of Trade Chairman Urges Substitute for Treasury Plan.   REACTION IN CONGRESS SCRAPS FIRST PROPOSAL

Ten Per Cent Sales Tax Is Proposed   New Tax Would Yield $6,000,000,000 Per Year,, Seidman Says

© 10 Pct. Federal Levy On Retail * Sales Proposed   Would Sub For Treasury Tax Plan, Scrapped As Too Drastic.

RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSED      Administration Tax Plan Virtually Scrapped By Adverse Reaction.   OPPOSES FORCED SAVING

10 PER CENT      New York Board of Trade Official Tells House Group Levy on Retail Transactions Would Yield $6,000.000.000.

Ruml Tax Plan \s Opposed by House Members   Some Compromise . On Revenue Bill ls Expected

MICHIGAN MAN HITS RUML PLAN   Crawford Calls Cancelling of 1942 Taxes ‘Economic Blasphemy.’

Ruml Plan Bits Snag In Congress   Proponen*: Forced To Appeal to Public As Committee Frowns

SUPPORTERS OF PAY-AS-GO PLAN 'ON DEFENSIVE   Opponents Don't Like Giving Away 1942 Tax Money

Pay - As- You-Go Given Backing, But Any Idea Of Cancelling 1942 Levies Meets Trouble

“Economic Blasphemy” Seen in Pay-as-You-Go Scheme for Income Levies

Rum! Plan Backers on Defensive; Hunt for Reinforcements   Majority of Committee in House Hostile to Full “Forgiveness”

Ruml Plan Opposed   House Committee Against Full Cancellation of 1942 Income Tax

SUPPORTERS RUML TAX PLAN ADMIT IT NOT POPULAR   VIRTUAL UNANIMITY OF OPINION THAT SOME TAXES WILL BE FORGIVEN

WIDESPLIT ON ~ TAXMETHODS   Congressman ¢ Calls Rum! Plan Near “Economic : Blasphemy.”

Rum! Plan Is Attacked At Hearing   Cancellation Of Tax On 1942 Incomes Meet: Vigorous Opposition O: Representative

Not In Favor Of Forgiving Year’s Taxes   House Committee Indicates Ruml Plan Is Out

POINT VALUES  Table Shows Ration Point Values For Processed Foods.

Point Values of Rationed Foods   Fruits and Fruit Juices: Canned and Boitled.

Coupon Point Values For Rationed Foods   Fruits and Fruit Juices CANNED AND BOTTLED

Coupon Point Values For Rationed Foods   FRUITS AND FRUIT JUICES

COUNCIL URGED 10 ENFORCE CURFEW   Business and Professional Women Make Pleas at Meeting

COUNCIL URGED TO ENFORCE CURFEW      Business and Professional “Women Make Pleas . et Meeting

To Prevent Rise  In Cotton Price  21.38 Cents Pound For Middling 15-16 Inch Te Spt

U. 5. Will Move To Peg Cotton At Base Price   Government Sales, Calls On Loans Seen As Regulator

COTTON PRICES TO BE CONTROLLED BY GOVERNMENT:   No Actual Ceiling Established But Plans Made to Keep Commodity From Advancing Over 21.38.

BADOGLIO PLEDGES DEMOCRATIC ITALY WITH NO FASCISTS  NEW LEADER OF ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TELLS OF FALL OF MUSSOLINI

BADOGLIO PLEDGES DEMOCRATIC ITALY IN FIRST INTERVIEW   Advocates Democracy In News Interview; Says Mussolini Has Promised to Devote Life To Catholic Church.

Democratic ItalyPledged   -Badoglio Tells All Of Mussolini’«: Fall

BADOGLIO SAYS ITALIANS WILL BE DEMOCRATIC   Benny Wanted To Quit; Out-Talked By Adolf

BELIEVED JAPANESE PROPAGANDA CLOAKS IMPENDING LOSSES  FALL OF RABAUL MAY BE NEAR AS VICTORY CLAIMS MADE BY TOKYO

Japs Use Tales Of Navy Battles To Alibi Losses   Propagandists Pave Way to Soften Fall Of Island Outposts

JAPAN IS SEEN GIRDING NIPS FOR NEW LOSSES   Tokye’s “Victory” Claims Believed Inspired by Impending Defeat At  Rabaul © -

; Impnding Loss of Rabaul May Be Jap ‘Inspiration to Claims of Victories

Impending Loss of Rabaul Thought Reason for Jap “Victory” Claims

Jap ‘Victory’ Claims Believed Paving Way for News of Defeat at Rabaul

JAPS MAY QUIT RABAUL   Will Not Be First Time Enemy Has Moved Out

Jans Pave Way For Rabaul Loss   Cushion Sicteat By Fake Victories

Ja p Cover-up Artists Invent Naval “Vanishing Victories” to Disguise   Possible Defeat by Allies at Rabaul

Jap ‘Victories’ May Be Inspired By Coming Defeat   No- Longer-Useful Has. Explained Previous Setbacks:

ENEMY CLAING ARE ANALYZEL   Jap Victory Reports Seer As Preparation for Defeat at Rabaul.

“Let's Give A Day For The Boy. Who Is Away” Is Slogan Adopted In Red Crace Nyrjnp

“Let’s Give A Day For The Boy Who Is Away” Is Slogan Adopted In Red Cross Drive

Japs Again Raic Australian Area   No Damage Reported At Exmouth Gulf

Exmouth Gulf Again Target For Big Japanese Planes But No Damage Done

AUSTRALIA IS BOMBED BY 3 JAPS   No Damage Reported In Attack; U.S. Plane Sinks Nip Ship

JAPANESE SINK THREE SHIPS AT GUADALCANAL   U. S. Destroyer, Australian Cor. vette, Believed Included, with Tanker and Fuel Boat   JAP BASES RAIDED   British Have "Nothing to Report’ in Burma, Japs Say British-In. dian Force Being Annihilated

Three Allied Ships Sunk by Japanese   Solomon Islands Activity Mounts

Vandeleur of State A.F.L. Dea   Federation Secretary Taken Suddenly at Residence in S.F,

* F. Swift ies at Home   Member of Chicago Meat Packing Family Passes in Chicago

Devers Given Andrews’ Post      Armored Foree Specialist Succeeds General Andrews In London.

LT. GEN, DEVERS STIMSON CHOICE   Succeeds Gen. Andrews ir European Theater

ENERAL DEVERS  NAMED IN PLACE FRANK ANDREWS   ew Commander Of U. S. Forces In the European Theatre Is Well Fitted For Job.

DEVERS TAKES OVER FOR GEN. ANDREWS   ARMORED FORCE CHIEF NAMED COMMANDER OF U. S. OPERATIONS IN EUROPE THEATER   ANDREWS CRASH IN REMOTE cTORMY AREA

DEVERS HANDED EUROPEAN POST   Stimson Picks Suecesso! To Command Yankee Doughboys

GENERAL DEVERS NAMED TO HEAD ARMY OVERSEAS   ‘Stimson Says New Leader in - European Theater Has Been Well Trained

NAME DEVERS T0 COMMAND U. S. ARMY IN EUROPE  SUCCEEDS ANDREWS   SUCCEEDS ANDREWS WHO WAS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

Gen. Devers New European Chief  Armored Force Officer  Succeeds Andrews

Stimson Names Leader of Armored Force To Succeed Andrews, Killed in Air Crash

FITTED FOR JOB - STIMSON   New Commander Of Europe From Armored Force

Gen. Devers to Be Head of U.S Europe Army   Armor Expert Named te Succeed Andrews After Crash

Devers Named European Chief   Takes Andrews’ Post As Troop Commander

AS COMMANDER   Succeeds Late Gen. Andrews As Head of U. S. Forces in Europe.

Armored Force Chief  Commands in Europe   Lt. Gen. Devers Will Succeed Gen. Andrews, Who Was Killed In Airplane Crash

NAME GEN. DEVERS AS COMMANDER 10 SUCCEED ANDREWS   “Commander of Armed Forces Will Have Charge of American Army Troops In Eurepean Theater.   LEADER IN PLANS OF ARMY ADMINISTRATION   Stimson Tells Press Executive Is Cognizant With Plans, London Will Reveal Arrival:

LIEUT, GEN. DEVERS NAMED BY STIMSON  Succeeds Andrews  As European Chief

To Succeed Andrews   Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers ToCommand Americans In European Theater

Tank General New European Chief   Devers Appointed To Succeed Andrews

GEN. DEVERS SUCCESSOR TO ANDREWS   Named to Command U.'S. Forces In European Zone

Deve _ ..amed Successor of Gen. Andrews   Commander of Armored Force Made Commander Of U.S. Army Troops in  European Theater

DEVERS NAMED COMMANDER IN EUROPEAN AREA   Head of U. S. Armored Force Suc ceeds Gen. Andrews, Killed ir Crash of Plane

Stimson Names Devers To Head Yanks In Kurepe   Former Armored Foree Leader Is Successor To General Andrews

Commander of Armored Force to Succeed Lieut. Gen. Frank M. An drews, Killed   FULLY COGNIZANT OF FUTURE WAR PLANS   Arrival In England io Be Announced by London; Fourteen Died With Andrews In Iceland

DEVERS NAMED T0 SUCCEED ANDREWS   ‘Will Command U. S. Troops in European Theater

General Devers Named To Take  Europe Command   Casualty List of Iceland Crash: Reveals -Minnesotan Killed

He Will Succeed  General Andrews   New Leader Is Artillery Officer 55 Years Of Ave   WELL TRAINED FOR HIS NEW POSITION

NEW COMMANDER OF MEN IN EUROPE   Lieut.-General Jacob L Devers to Succeed Gen. Andrews.

Stimson Names Devers To Lead Yanks In Europe   Succeeds Late Gen. Andrews

5. EUROPEAN “ARMY HEADED BY GEN. DEVERS   Armored Force Commander Is Successor to Gen. Frank Andrews   LONDON TO REVEAL HIS ARRIVAL THERE   ‘Made Recent Inspection of Euorpean, Middle East, N. Africa Areas

Devers Picked For General Andrews Post   Armored Force Leader Will Command American Troops In Europe   "WEATHER IS BLAMED   14 Named Who Died In Iceland Crash Monday;  Lone Gunner Survives

Gen. Devers New European Chief      Succeeds Andrews  Crash Victim

37TH DIVISION SECRECY LIFTED   Ohio Troops Highly Praised  For Work In Capture Of  Japs’ Munda Base

OHIO’S 37TH TOOK PART IN MUNDA CAPTURE   General Said America Safe in Hands of Men Like Those Of the 37th

STTH DIVISION FOUGHT AGAINST JAPS AT MUNDA   Gen. MacArthur Announces Units Used in Battle for Nip Airbase

MANSFIELDERS MAY HAVE HAD CRACK AT JAP   City’s Battery D Was Part o  Division That Went Overseas In 1942.

Ohio's 37th Division Helped Capture Munda Beightler's Tribute to Their Bravery Affirmec

COUNTY MEN HAD PART IN CAPTURE MUNDA AIR-BASE   Thirty-Seventh Division in Action in South Pacific,  War Department Reports

37th Division Meets Enemy in Battle for Munda Airbase   Troops from Marion and Surrounding Counties in Unit Made Up Prineinally of Ohioans.

ETERAN MUSTER BENEFITS URGED   Roosevelt Asks Congress for Financial Aid After a

STIMSON CALLS U.S, LOSSES BiG   Secretary States Outcome of Salerno Battle Still in Balance

ANNUAL CREAMERY MEETING FEB. 4TH   Cream Scoring and Talks About Dairying, to Feature MeetThis Thursday.

LIVING GOST ~ RISES: CITED   LABOR ‘DEPARTMENT SURVEY SHOWS OVER-ALL COSTS UP 23.8 PER CENT BINCE JANUARY, 1941

LEWIS’ UNION : POLICY GROUP HAS MEETING   ALL UNIONISTS IN BOTH RARD ANL) sOFT COAL FIELDS TO BE IDLE BY NIGHTFALL

SUPPLY LINES FOR ROMMEL ARE CRIPPLED   FLYING FORTRESSES ARE BACKBONE OF AIR ASSAULT

CITY OF ROME MAY BE NEUTRALIZED   Pope Advises Vatican Officials to Evacuate Families, However

Davis Tells Plan For All-Out Food   Acreage, Marketing AAA restrictions Mav Be Ramaved

FOOD PRODUCTION PLAN IS FORMING   C. C. DAVIS EXPECTED TO REMOVE ACREAGE AND MARKET RESTRICTIONS,

MAY ABOLISH A.A.A. ALLOTMENTS —FARMERS RELIEI   Chester C. Davis New Food Admin istrator May Lift All Quotos For 1944,

Crop Restrictions  May Be Eliminated ‘Consider Goals Instead Of Allotments

Food Program To Be Outlined   Many Restrictions To Be Abolished By Chester Davis

What Sufferers Thought Was Flu Was Only "Upper Respiratory Infection”

NEW AILMENT GRIPS MIDWEST   HEALTH AUTHORITIES DECLARE INFECTION IS NOT INFLUENZA

OPA DEPUTY RESIGNS; CHARGES “BUNGLING” OF RED TAPE SERIOUS THREAT

 Houdini Coudn’t Straighten Out OPA, ‘Savs Deputy Administrator in Farewell

OPA Bound up in Red Tape Maxsor Declares, Quits   Internal Weakness, Theorists Undermine Agency He Says

scheming Charged To OPA   Maxon Resigns, Assails ‘Clique  ~ Reform Ideas’

Maxon Resigns OPA Post; Says Agency Is Weak   Detroit Executive Declares Group ‘Bound Up in Legalistic Red Tape’

MAXON FLAYS OPA AS HE QUITS   Bitterly Declares OPA ‘So Bound Up In Legalistic Red-Tape That Houdini Himself Could Not ~ tangle It’.

POUR. MAXON, OFF OFFICIAL RESIGN   Declares Agency Is so Bound Up in Legalistic Red Tape That Houdini Himself Could  @Not Unravel it

Deputy Chiet of OPA Quits Agency   Maxon Declares It Is Tied Up With Legal Red Tane

Maxon Blasts OPA, Resign:   Deputy Declares Agency Needs “Horse Spuse"

FORMER CHIEF SAYS OP) IN PERIL OF COLLAPSE   ‘Confusion, Indecision, Miles of Red Tepe. Slide-Rule Theorists,’ Flayed by Mexen

Maxon Resigns From OPA Post   Says Agency Is Bounc Up With Red Tape

LOU MAXON RAPS OPA AS HE QUITS AS AID TO BROWA   Declares There Is Confusion and Indecision in Agency With “Miles of Red Tape.”   HORSE SENSE NEEDED FOR IT TO SUCCEED   Asserts Theorists in Key Jobs Are Trying to Force Dangerous Concepts on Public.

Lou R. Maxon Says Dras’ tic Reorganization Needed  POINTS OUT NEED OF “HORSE-SENSE“  Says Clique Uses War for Furthering Reform Ideas

Houdini Coudwt Straighten Out OPA,  : Saus Deputy. Administrator in Farewell

Maxon Gives Up Job With OPA   Agency Said Bound Un With Red Tape

Maxon Resigns OPA Post With Blast at Red Tape   Deputy Administrator Declares ‘Houdini Couldn’t Untangle It’   RAPS IMEUNRIO TO ‘Drastic Reorganization ‘Horse Sense’ Needed,  Official Declares

MAXON QUITS JOB. AS OFFICIAL OF OPA; ASSAILS RED TAPE   Denounces Snefficiency, Confusion, “‘Slide Rule Boys” and “Professors”   URGES REORGANIZATION

HIGH OFFICIAL RESIGNS FROM OPA POSITION   Lou R. Maxon Says Agency Is So Involved Houdini Couldn’t Untangle It   COMMON HORSE SENSE. MAJOR REQUIREMENT

OPA Deputy Chief Flays Red Tape And Leaves Post   Maxon Says Agency Weak, Canfused, And Hits at Theorists

Hendy Workers Quit, Refuse 10-Hour Day   Production of Engines for Kaiser Ships Off 95 ner cent

SUBS ADD TEN SHIPS OF JAPS   Score Boosted to 487 Since - Outbreak of War, Navy Reveals

Russians Launch Offensive On Large Scale Near Kuban  Soviets Seize Four Villages In The Orel  Caetany In Sarmricen hdnun Anainct formance

Three Attacks Launched Against Nazis   Huge Offensive hy Soviets Expected Soon

Russians Test Three Points Of Nazi Front   Soviet Big Guns Open Duel; Both Sides Report Air Activity

Says Mrs. Holt Had Threatened Husband's Life   Girl Testifies Blonde Widow's Love For Mate Grew Cold

RUSS FORCES BATTERING ON IN W. UKRAINE   Giving Up Rail Center To Ger. mans Means Only Temporary Respite For Them Claim

Setback Called Only Temporary In Poland Drive   Russians Switch To Paratroopers To Reduce Key Defenses

TRY TO REPAIR DAMAGE FROM ZHITOMIR LOSS   Use Of Air-Borne Troops Enables Big Force To Cross River

Soviets Make Sudden Shift In Strategy   Air-Borne Troops Shower Down to Join With Guerrillas   ABANDON ZHITOMIR   Loss Is Called Temporary Setback for Russian Advance

Soviet Chiefs Say Loss Of Zhitomir To Germans Only Temporary Setback

Cruiser, Two Destroyers Are Sunk in Batfle   Ships Intercepted Carrying Supplies to Garrison

Three Jan War Vessels Sunk In Solomons   Enemy Garrison At Vila Weakened; Japs Raid Rendova

Jap Cruiser,3.     iNew Battle   Two Other Enemy Destroyers Are Believed Sunk

U.S. Fleet Sinks 3 Jap Warships   Foe Loses Cruiser, Two Destroyers fer Certain in Selemens Heur-Leng Settle;  Fourth Ship Ripped, Ne American Locses

Vippon Warships Sent to Bottom ‘Tn Night Battle   American Navy Nets Cruiser And Destroyers

ENEMY LOSES CRUISER AND I DESTROYERS   AMERICAN FORCES UNSCATHED IN NIGHT BATTLE

Jap Cruiser and ‘Two Destroyers Sent to Bottom   Torpedoes and Gunfire Raise Toll of Enemy Losses in Solomons Offensive to at Least 23, Possibly 26 Warships

Yank Forces Rout knemy Vessels In Central Solomons   Naval Triumph Is Achieved Without Loss to Americans—Third Nip Destroyer Listed As Probably Sunk After One-Hour Battle On Auaust 6.

Two Other Enemy Warship: Believed Lost In New Kula Battle   MUNDA IS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY AIR ATTACK

Four More Nip Warships Sunk In Kula Sector   Two Other Japanese Destroyers Are Badly Damaced

Japanese Cruiser, 3 Destroyers Sunk   Two Other Warships Probably Sent Down In New Kula Gulf Battle; Allied Airmen - Soften Up Munda Airbase

Trio of Jap — Wo hist Siced   Enemy Warships ; ‘Sent. Down: i in: Hour Rattle in Vella Gulf

Four Jap Ships ‘Sent Down In  Kula Gulf Area   Two Other Destroyers Prob: ably Sent To Bottom—Jap Garrison Is Destroved

Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk In Pacific Battle   Third Destroyer Is Probably Sunk; American Forces Suffer No Losses

Pacilie Fleet Downs 3 Ships   U. S. Surface Units Sink Warships Attempting To Run Supplies To Vila.

.S. Fleet nits Win ver Enemy   Jour-Long Clash roves Costly fo Jan Sea Foree

3 JAP WARSHIPS SENT TO BOTTOM AN NAVAL FIGH)   ‘American Vessels Sink Enemy Cruiser and 2 Destroyers in Solomons—Yanks Suffer No Losses.   HOUR-LONG BATTLE IS FOUGHT AT NIGHT   U. S. Infantrymen in Munda Area Push North to Aid Other Forces Fighting Near Bairoko.

TWO DESTROYERS, SANISER VICTIMS   Third Destroyer Probably Sunk in Night Battle   SHIPS INTERCEPTED   Vessels Carrying Supplies to ® Garrison at Vila, Kolombangara Isle

"TWO DESTROYERS » PROBABLY SUNK   New Battle Occurs in Central Solomons Area   PLANES HIT MUNDA   Patrol Skirmishes With Japs @ Intensified in the New Guinea Jungles

‘Japanese Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk in Solomons   Third Destroyer May Have Been Sunk in Hour Battle In Vella Gulf

Ath Ship Hit In Pacific Naval Fight Off Vila   Midnight Action Follows When U. S. Vessels Intercept Nips Trying To Run Supplies To Garrison; Yanks Push On Bairoko

Jap Warships Sunk By Navy   Two Destroyers And Cruiser Destroyed

3 JAP SHIPS SUNK TRYING TO REACH VILA   Hour-Long Night Battle Raises Enemy Toll In  Solomons Area   POST WEAKENED   King Sees New Crippling Stabs At Strategic  Nin Positions

Yanks Knocl. Four Jap  Vessels Out   Brilliant Battle Sends Enemy Cruiser And Two Destroyers Down, Probably Sinks Another, Without Loss to U. S.

aps Lose Four arships in New a Engagement the Solomons   wiser, Three Destroyers Sunk in Kula Gulf Naval Planes Attach oda Air Base

Japanese Lose Four Ships  In Solomons   U. S. Forces Hit Six Enemy Vesseis, Send Down Five Zeros; American Gains Over Wide Area Are Reported

No Losses Suffered By U.S. Fleet   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sent To Bottom; One More ‘Probable’; Foe Raids Rendova

U.S. Navy Sinks Nippon Cruiser, Two Destroyers   @ Third Warship In Vila Convoy Believed Sent Down In Hour Long American Triumph: Troops Push North Of Munda

Japs Lose More Ships In New Kula Gulf Engagement  Is Second Time Japanese Have Tried To Run  = st o.oo

Another Ship Believed Sunk   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sent Down In Solomons

PRESIDENTIAL VETO THREATENS INCOME TAX PLAN IN HOUSE   Opposes Forgiving Whole Year’s Taxes In Upper  Incomes During MEY. welled

FDR Orders Coal Miners Back fo Work   President Warns . Refusal Will. Bring Federal Action

STRIKERS GIVEN ONLY 48 HOURS TO ENTER PITS   Unless Order Is Complied With Immediately Other Necessary Steps Will Be Taken   THREAT OF SEIZURE SEEN IN ACTION   Chief Executive Says Government Will Protect Security Nation Against Wartime Strikes

FD Orders Coal Men Back to Job   Commander In Chief Sets 48-Hour Limit Por Ending Strike.   5900 Return   ‘Security of Nation’ Stressed In Message To Union Officials.

FOR DIRECTS COAL MINE STRIKERS 10 RETURN TO WORK   Government Will Take Ove: lf They Fail To Comnly Within 48 Hours

Striking Miners Given Ultimatum   } i eeeeetemetemmedl  Directed By President To Return to Work

SEIZURE OF MINES HINTED IN STATEMENT   Chief Executive Says Governmen: Will Take Steps To Protect Security Of Nation  omer FRIPoOC. UH rFALigT

Told to Obey In 48 Hours or Face Action   Steps Will Be Taken To Protect Security Of Nation, He Warns

Return To Work At Once, F.D.R.  Orders Miners   Government _Intervention In 48 Hours If They Fail To Obey.

GIVES THEM 48 HOURS T0 GET TO WORK   Says as Head Of Army and Navy He Will Act to Protect The Nation

COAL MINERS ORDERED BACK BY PRESIDENT   Strikers Must Return to Work in 48 Hours, or Government Will Act to Protect Security of Nation.

READY 10 ACT fF MEN IGNORE NEW DIRECTIVE   12.000 Miners Remain ldle in Anthracite Coal Region

Ask Prosecution Of Union Heads   Solons Aroused Over Mine Strike

FOR DEMAND GOAL MINE Ra RESUME WORK   Chief Executive Points Out Mine Walkout Hampering Nation’s War Effort   IF ORDER NOT OBEYED, ARMY WILL TAKE OVER   Approximately 12.350 Men Still Remain On Strike In Anthracite Fields

3,000 MINERS BACK AT WORK   12,350 Insurgents Still Idle in Anthracite Field

Miners Ordered Back to Work W ithin 48 Hours   President Will Take “Necessary Steps” To Protect Nation Against Injury Ta War Effort if Men Refuse to Return

Orders: Miners. To Work   President Roos Roosevelt As Commander-in-chief In Step to Protect Nation — During War Emergency

Orders Miners  to Work   Government to Take Over Unless Strikers Go Back  to Mines.   25 Lecal Unions Have Demanded Wage Boost

ROOSEVELT ASKS COAL MINERS 10 RETURN 10 1088   Threatens To Use His Powers To Start Production   MAY ORDER ARMY TO CONTROL MINE FIELDS

Must Resume Operations In 48 Hours   Otherwise Government  To Act, 5,000 Return

MINERS GIVEN 48 HOURS T0 RESUME DUTIES   Necessary Steps Planned To Protect Security Of Nation   'WAR AUTHORITY IS USED      Telegrams Sent To Heads Of National And Local Unions

SAYS SECURITY OF U.S. MUST BE PROTECTED   5,000 Miners Go Back to Work but 12,350 Insurgents Are Idle

COAL MINERS TOLD BY FDR TO HIT JOBS   ALTERNATIVE TO BE STEPS BY GOVERNMENT TO OPEN MINES

FDR Directs All Striking Miners To Return to Work   Says Government to Take Steps if Group Fails to Comply

Strikers Given 48-Hour Limit   President Pledges "Necessary Steps’

COAL MINERS ARE DIRECTED RETURN TO WORK BY PRESIDENT  STRIKING MINERS TOLD  MUST COMPLY WITH ORDER WITHIN 48 HOURS

MINERS GIVEN 48-HOUR TIME LIMIT BY FDR   Must Return To Jobs At Once,  Says Roosevelt

Will Take Steps To Protect Security of Nation Against Strike Which Comes At Time of Shortage of Fuel In War Time.

President Orders Miners to Return   Telegrams to Union Officials Give 48 Hours to  Comply   SECURITY AT STAKE   Necessary Steps Will Be Taken If Order Is Disregarded

WARNS STRIKERS REFUSAL MEANS MILITARY FORCE   SECURITY OF NATION MUST BE PROTECTED, PRESIDENT AVOWS

END STRIKE F.R. DIRECTS COAL MINERS   12,000 Men Are Given 48 Hours to Return to Work

‘Roosevelt Says If Men Fail To  : Comply With Edict Government Will Take Necessary Action   Sends Telegrams To National And Local Otficials; Acts As Commander-In-Chief Of Armed Furces: 18-Hour Ultimatum

Action Taken As Army and Navy Chief   5,000. in Pennsylyania Return To Pits Early Tuesday

Ultimatum Is Issued To Workers, Heads After Parleys Fail   Says Government Will Take Action To Protect Security Of Nation Unless Strike Ends {n 48 Hours

COAL MINERS ORDERED BACK TO WORK TODA}   President Roosevelt Issues Order As Commander-in-chief

ee Vas sie  GIVEN iH HOURS TO END WALKOUT   Presidential Directive Says Government Will Act, If Necessary   5,000 RETURN   Chief Executive’s Order Sent. To National And Local UMW

Government To Take Necessary Steps After 48-Hour Notice, President Says

FR. Orders End Of Coal Strike   Workers Given 48 Hours to Obey Presidential Edict Before Military Action Taken for Resumption of Work

F. D. R. ORDERS MINERS ON JOB   President Directs All Striking Anthracite Workers To Return To Work Immediately.

F.D.R. Orders Striking Miners Back To Worl   If They Fail To Comply With Directive In 48 Hours, President Tells Them Government Will Take Steps To Protect Nation’s Security.

EXTRA   Strikers Are Ordered Back To Their Jobs   Anthracite Miners Told By Roosevelt Thal Government Will Ac! For Nation’s Security

MINE SEIZURE BY GOVERNMENT IS IMMINENT   President, as Commander of Armed Forces, Orders Strikers To Work   MANY ALREADY GOING BACK   Chief Executive’s Ultimatum Infers Army Will Be Sent In If Necessary 

Drastic Moves Proposed in Congress To Deal With War-Time Strikers °

STRIKING MINERS ORDERED BACK T0 WORK BY ROOSEVELT    President Said If They Failed  to Do So in 48 Hours, Ac tion Would Be Taken.   WILL PROTECT NATION   There Remains 12,350 Anthracite Miners Out on Strike.

PRESIDENT ORDERS MINERS BACK 10 WORK   Directs That They Comply With Order In  & Hours goa ou

Roosevelt Orders Striking Miners To Resume Work   12;350 Anthracite Workers Remain Idle in East

F.D.R. Orders Coal Coal Miners to Work   Seizure of Mines President’s Threat

F DR Orders Miners Resume Work;: Calling Troops Looms as Next Move

‘MinersOrdered By - Roosevelt Return to Work   Over 5,000 Miners Return To Jobs; Strike Now In Third Week:.

‘All Directive Orders of War Labor Board Must be Complied with by all Employers and all Employes,’ President Wires

3000 MORE MINERS GO BACK TO WORK   Nearly 12,000 Are Still On  Strike, However

FR. ORDERS COAL MINERS BACK 10 WORK   Strikers are given fortyeight hours to return to jobs

FDR. Orders Coal Miners  ‘nd Walkout   Government To Take Necessary Steps Hf Strikers Fail To Comply.   ARMY MAY TAKE OVER

PHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTS MINERS TO RESUME WORK   Ultimatum Threatens “Nees essary Steps” by Governs ment Within 48 Hours If Walkaut Continues.

FDR Directs Strike End Or “Face The Consequences’   Step in 21-Day-Old Anthracite Walkout Cames 28 Congress Hears Drastic Proposals

“NECESSARY  ”  TAKEN. HE SAYS   Hard Coal Strike is Doing  - Country “Serious Injury” Claim: Some Have Returned.

Failure to Comply Within 4§ Hours Will Find Government Taking Charge,  He Warns.   5,000 GO BACK TO WORK THIS MORNING

Men Are Given 48 Hours Time To Resume Job      lf Striking Anthracite Coal Miners Fail To Comply With Directive, U. S. Ready To ‘Take Necessary Steps’

Miners Are Ordered To Go To Work   Roosevelt Tells Strikers US, Will Enforce Edict

Miners Must Resume Work Says F.D.R.   President Directs All Strikers Back To Mines At Once   12,350 Remain Idle In Anthracite Area   Around 5,000 Return Today; Others Ignore Labor Board’s Order

Eber ieee  FDR Directs Miners — To Go Bach To Work   President Fixes 48 Hours As Time To Return To Pit Or Face Consequences Of “Necessary Steps” By a “Government To. Protect Nation

Forty Eight Hours Given To Comply   Some Return During Day, But More Than 12,000 Still Out In Protest

Men Given 48 Hours To Obey Action Hinted   Return To Pits Or Face Consequences, Roosevelt Directs

Roosevelt Orders Miners Back To Work   Armed Forces May Tak Over Anthracite Mines  Order Is Ignored   48 HOUR DEADLINE   5,300 Pennsylvania. Coal Workers Return To Jobs; 12,350 Remain Idle

Intervention by FDR Imminent   About 12,350 Insurgents Still Remain Idle

MINERS ORDERED TO WORK   Roosevelt Says Government Will Take Steps To Protect Nation

Roosevelt Orders Striking Pennsylvania Coal Miners To Resume Work at Once

Government Will Take Nevessary Steps to Protect. Security of Nation If Order: - ~ Is Not Fulfilled.

President Tells Coal Miners to Return to Labor   Given 48 Hours to End Wildcat Strike; May Seize Mines

Roosevelt Directs Striking Hard Coal Miners to Get Bus}   Gives Them 48 Hours to Comply With His Telegraphed Orders

FDR Orders All Miners Back To Work Promptly   lf They Refuse, He Threatens Action Will Be Taken By  Government

Gives Miners 48 Hours to Comply   President Warns Union Heads in Wire That Government Will Take Necessary Steps

Strikers Ordered To Work   Telegrams Sent By President  To Officials UMW Of America

FDR Directs Miners to Go Back to Work   Says If They Fail to Comply in 48 Hours the Government Will Take Necessary Steps

ORDERS MINERS BACK TO WORK   Gives Strikers 48 Hours to Return; 12,500 Are Still Out.   ‘CALLS STRIKE HARMEULY

President Gives Strikers Just 48 Hours   If Walkout Continue He Will Act To Protect Nation

President Orders Miners to Return   Telegrams to Union Offi_cials Give 48 Hours to Comply   Necessary Steps Will Be Taken If Order Is  Disregarded

ROOSEVELT GIVES CALL, BACK 10 JOB   Gives Striking Miners 48 Hours in Which to Resume Work.   ACTION TAKEN AS WAR COMMANDER   Nearly 5000 Men Return Today, 12,350 Still Defy W. L. B. Order.

STRIKER bE] 43 nOURo 1 RESUME WORK   Presidential Directive Says Failure Will Result in Gov't Action.   4,000 BACK IN MINES; 12,350 REMAIN OUT

Grants Men 48 Hours To Resume Jobs   Government Will Act, He Declares; Sees Threat To Nation’s Security; 5.000 Return

Coal Supply Vital, Strikers Informed   ‘Inactivity of 12,000 Anthracite. : Men Innairine National War Effor

Believe War Plans Given   United States, Britain And Russia Informed On All Plans To Blast Nazis

WAR STRATEGY WAS OUTLINED   CONFEREES IN MOSCOW SAID “TO HAVE DISCUSSED: ALL PHASES, OF. MILITARY ™ ”. PROGRAMS

REDS KILL 1000 NAZIS REPULSING ATTAGK. SERIES   Cownter- attacks . Regain: All “Lost ;Positiovs—-Rabtes..-. Slow-up Operations.:

RUSSIANS KILL 1000 GERMANS   Reds Repulse Attacks on Donets River Below Kharkov

NAZI ATTACKS ARE: REPULSED BY REDS   Japs Boast Sinking 12 “En: emy,’ Presumably American Vessels In Solomons.

NEARLY 1000 NAZIS KILLED AS SOVIETS STOP DONETS PUSH   Almost That Many Slait At Other Points—Nazis Attack: Along 30-Mile Line

SETBACKS GIVEN TO INVADERS   30-Mile Front Is Scene ot Fighting With Repulses Handed Out to  German.

Russ Repulse Donets Attacks   Claims Nearly 1,000 German Troops Killed

NAZI DRIVES REPULSED ON DONETS   Nearly 1,000 Killed In Fights Below Kharkov

Nazis Lose 1,000 Men In Vain Jak   Red Forces Repulse Desperate Lunges In Donets District

Army Officers Aare Scout Life Is Good All-Round Training   Toughens Moral Fiber Develops Character Meet Severe Tects

EXPECT BIG WHEAT DECREASE IN OHIO      Predict Drop of 10 Million Bushels

Eisenhower Assistant Appointed   Air Marshall Tedder Joins Channel Coas: Invasion Team

BRITISH MASTER AIR STRATEGIST EISENHOWER AIDE   Sir Arthur Tedder Named Deputy to Supreme Commander. Probably Will Direct Air Attack

TEDDER WILL BE DEPUTY 10 EISENHOWER   Air Chief Marshal Named Aide to Supreme Commander   PAGET TO DIRECT COMMAND AT CAIRO   Team to Direct Main Invasion ls Rapidly Shaping

TEDDER NAMED DEPUTY UNDER U. S. GENERAL   British Air Chief Placed Next To Eisenhower In  Invasion Command   PAGET APPOINTED TO MIDDLE EAST POST

Tedder To Be Deputy To Gen. Ike   Paget Appointed Commander in Chief in Middle East; Fraser May Lead Navy in Invasion

Tedder and Gen. Paget Get Important Posts With Invasion Armies   Former Is Named Deputy to Eisenhower; Latter Appointed Commander-in-Chief in Middle East at Cairo

DDLPUTY TOEISENHOWER   Selection of Air Chief Marshal Tedder Is Greeted With Approval.

Tedder Named  Invasion Ass'’t.   Montgomery Will Head British Land Armies and Spaatz Will Lead Air Forces In Main Invasion of Europe.

TEDDER DEPUTY TO EISENHOWER   BRITISH AIR CHIEF IS APPOINTED TO ASSIST IN INVASION

INVASION LINEUP 1S ALMOST COMPLETE NOW   Rommel Announces, At Same Time, That He Is Ready; Tedder Expected To Increase Air Strength Rapidly.

British Master of Air Strategy, Arthur Tedder, Second in Command of Invasion

Invasion Tean Shaping Up Rapidly   Sir Arthur Tedder Named Deputy to Gen, Eisenhower

~-CRACK STAFF NAMED—  Tedder Invasion  Air Head   .- Other Commanders Are Shifted For ‘Big Push’

TEDDER 15 NAMED EISENHOWER AIDE   Air Chief Marshal Chosen Deputy to Supreme Commander; Other High Officers Assigned New Duties

*Team to Direct Allied Invasion Is Shaping Up   Paget Assigned to Command in Middle East

Air Will Play Mighty Part in Invasion   Sir Arthur Tedder Announced as Deputy to Gen. Eisenhower

Tedder To Aid ‘Allied: Leader   British Air Chief Named ~ Eisenhower: Deputy: As New Staff Gathers .

TEDDER NAMED INVASION AIDE    Britain's Air Marshal To Serve As Deputy to Gen. Eisenhower

“To Hell with History,” Attitude Of Red-Tape Cutting Air Marshal

MIDDLE EAST COMMAND 10 GEN. PAGET   ‘Lineup for Encircling Assault on Germany from West or North Now Virtually Complete.   WINNERS PICKED FOR KEY POSTS   Most of Those Chosen to Direct Cross - Channel Hop Scored’ Against Fee in, Mediterranean.

TEDDER NAMED INVASION AIDE TO EISENHOWER   Britain’s Master of Air Strategy Becomes Deputy Generali; Paget Middle -East Commander

“Tedder Named Deputy To Fisenhower: Air Power To Play Big Role in Invasion   ‘Daily Mail Says ‘Churchill To Take Part In Invasion

Tedder Is Named  Eisenhower Aide  ‘Air Strategist Choser Deputy Commander

Tedder Receives Invasion Pos!   Appointed Deputy To Eisenhower In A Shaping Team To Blast Fortress Europe.

lecle lk a N ‘i ni Ct  Fs FiSc:H  lowe rs =(  et De: pt ty   tit Marshal Chosen Assistant tc Supreme. Commander as Paget: Gets Middle East Command 

Name Tedder Eisenhower’s  deputy leader   Allied command is taking shape

Tedder Named  Invasion Aide   Paget, Mountain Fighter. Coin Middle Fast Job

AIDE CHOSEN   Aw Chief Marshal Tedder Named Deputy to Supreme Commander

Naming Eisenhower Aides Shapes Up Invasion Team   Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder Appointed Deputy Commander; Norwav Veteran Cets Middle East Post

EISENHOWER 1S SELECTED   Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Teder, of Britain Named to Second Post  In Invasion Command   LINEUP IS COMPLETE

Team Tedder And Eisenhower For Invasion   Air. Marshal Named Deputy to Lead In Aerial Assault

TEDUER WiLL BEDEPUTY T0 EISENHOWER  ommander   PAGET TO DIRECT COMMAND AT CAIRC

Fedder Named Eisenhower's Assistant In Move That Foreshadows Role Of Air Power

Tedder Deputy To Eisenhower H Ip I  elp In Invasion Air Marshall Will

Air Strateaist Given Invasion Post by Allies   Britain's Tedder Eisenhower Aide In Latest Move

BIG ANIL CENTER IN ITALY BOMBEL   RAF Blockbusters Smash Aversa; Doolittle’s Boy: Add Too Score

AMERICAN CASUALTIES REPORT LIVEN IN CONQUEST OF SICILY   7,000 Americans Listed as Killed) Wounded or Missing.

CHESTER DAVIS NAMED AS CZAR OVER U.S. FOOD   St. Louis Banker, Forme: AAA Chief, Replaces Wickard

PRESIDENT NAMES FOOD SUPPLY CZAR   President of Federal Resevre Bank at St. Louis Appointed.

CHESTER DAVIS, FORMER HEAD _ OF AAA, WILL HAVE DIRECT.»  ‘. CHARGE OF. PRODUCTION... ' AND DISTRIBUTION:

Two Leading War Chiefs In Washington   Speculation Aroused Over Visit of Stilwell and Chenault  PIIRPQOCE IC LINREVEAI ED

VISIT OF FAR EAST CHIEFS IMPORTANT   Clearing of Mediterranean to Ease Task of Supplying India, China

CALL U. S. MILITARY HEADS IN CHINA BACK   Stilwell, Chennault to Discuss War Policies

Approaching Climax in Battle of Tunisia Is Believed Factor in. _ Stratery Plan   GENERALS COME TO PARLEY IN CAPITAL   Leaders in Orient Confer at Washington, As U.S, Blows at Nipponese Are Discussed

LEADING AMERICAN ~ MILITARY FIGURES ARE IN WASHNGTON   Lt. Gen. Stilwell and Major Gen. Claire Chenault in Conference.   WERE CALLED HOME   Conferences Will Be Held With Secretary Stimson, Gen. Marshall, Others.

Washington Visit of Two Leading U. S. Officers in Orient Significant

‘2 U.S, GENERALS VISIT WASHINGTON   ‘Approaching Climax in Tun isia Is Seen

Stilwell And Chennault In  Washington   American Commander: In Far East Are Home For Consultation

RUSSIANS DRIVING STEADILY AHEAD   In their Two Pronged Thrust Toward Poltava.

WAACS ARE IN THE ARMY NOW. BILL SIGNED   Girls in khaki, at Des Moines, delighted at recognition

Popular Young Pair Exchange Marital Vows   Paul Cramer and . Margaret Muecke of Hinton Wed

German City of Frankfurt Given Heavy Assaults Berlin and Other Targets Receive Lighter

Japs Foiled   2 Attack Parachuting Yanks; Seven Are Shot Down Ry Bamber Craw.

Yank Bomber Crew Gets Seven Japs Attacking Buddies In Parachutes

Soviet March Continues On Broad Front   Strongest German Positions Now Are Threatened

Relentless Offensive by Soviets Leaves Hitler’s Hordes Reeling Back On Heels   REDS ARE CRACKING FOES’ KHARKOV LINE   Great German Bastions of Oreland Kursk Also   Threatened In Stalin’s   Great Drive

RED ARTILLERY SHELLS ROSTOV IN 4TH BATTLE   CAPTURE OF AZOV OPENS WAY FOR BIG SCALE ASSAULT

[RUSSIAN TROOPS ‘CLEAR NORTHERN AREA OF INVADERS   ; Thousands OF German Releorves Used Uselessly > + leanorte Tell

Other Troops Batter Way Toward Main Nazi Defenses in Souts, a  BIG AREAS CLE? ™               Great bastions of fil Kursk and Kharkov in North Threatened

RUSSIANS SHELL AXIS POSITIONS IN VITAL CITY   Reds Seize Town Of Azov 13 Miles  From Enemy Port

FOURTH FIGHT FOR KEY CITY IS UNDER WAY   Town Of Azov Retaken By Advancing Russians   VITAL TOWNS   )f Orel, Kursk, Kharkov, Also Are Threatened; Offensive Continues

RUSSIAN SHELLS PUNCH GERMANS IN ROSTOV AREA   Med Forces Sweeping Onward Along 500-Mile Front; Azov Is Captured

RUSSIANS SHELLING GERMAN POSITIONS IN ROSTOV TODAY   RED ARMY TROOPS BATTERED AT NAZI DEFENSES ALONG 500-MILE FRONT

Shells Pour On Nazis In Rostov   Fourth Battle For City Opens As Russians Batter Toward Center Of Main German Defenses; Other Bastions Threatened

REDS OPEN  4TH BATTLE FOR ROSTOV   Send Shells Over Don River Into German Positions in City,   Clear Great Areas of Nazi in North Russia

FOURTH BATTLE FOR BIG CITY SAID STARTED   Soviet Offensive Rolls Forward; (Gireat Areas Of Russian Soil Taken

RED ARMY SENDS, ‘SHELLSSCREAMNG ‘EROSS THE DON      Ferocious Battle Is Begun For Important City   RUSSIANS GAINING aON 500 MILE FRONT

Germans Facing Own Dunkerque Along Black Sea   Soviets Clear One Bank of Don, Threaten Orel, Kursk and Kharkav

Fourth Battle of Rostov Has Begun   ‘Russian ‘Shells Fall on Nazi Positions Within the © City   LINES MOVE FORWARD   German Forces Still in Cau__casus Are in Peril of Capture

RUSSIANS TAKE AZOV, CLEARING PATH TO CITY   Masses Of Soviet Troops Batter Way To Main German Defenses

SOVIETS BATTER FORWARD ALONG 500-MILE FRONT   Fourth Great Battle For Rostov Gets Under Way; Germans Pouring In Reserves.

Red Guns Batter Rostov   Fourth Battle for Control of City Begins;  ‘Drive Against Kharkov And Kursk Gains Speed

Rostov Battle Begins; Nazis Heavily Shelled  Azov Fall Frees Left Bank of Don; Reds to North Liberate Great Area

Advance On 500 Mile Front As Axis Forces Try To Stem Tide Of Defeat.

REDS oHELLING ROSTOV TODAY   Seize Town of Azov, Freeing Left Bank of Don Qf Germans.   NEW ASSAULT POSSIBLE

Reds Shell Rostov as Fighting for Big German Base Opens   Russian Offensive Continues to Crunch Onward Unabated

Ath Battle For Rostov Under Way   Reds Batter Way Toward Defenses in South Russia

Russians Bom, German Positit ..s Inside of Rostov   Red Army Batters Way Toward Main German Defense in Southern Russia on 500-Mile Front: Capture Town of Azov

Russians Seize  Azov, Begin New  Battle For Rostov Reds Battering Way  a geen eee Ah! pacamie ey eon

Reds. Clear Foe From Left. Bank OF. Don. River.   Soviets Surge Forward on 500- Mile Front in South Russia, Push Threafs on Kursk. Orel. Kharkov

Soviet Guns Blasting at  Enemy Lines   Ruesian Army Closin; In on Vital Nazi-Held Cities

‘Russ Shelling Rostov In Ath Battle For City  Great Areas Being Cleared Of Invader

Germans Hurled Back with Heavy Losses in Attempt fo Regain Positions South of City   KHARKOV RAIL CUT   German Bastions af Orel and Kursk Also Threatened as Soviets Sneed Advance

FOURTH BATTLE FOR CITY OPENS   Left Bank Of Don Is Freed Of Last German Resistance   SOVIETS ADVANCE   Moscow Reports Indicate Reds Are Gaining On 500-Mile Front

Russians Open Drive To Take City of Rostov   Seize Azov, Making Large Scale Assault Possible

RUSSIANS OPEN WAY FOR DRIVE ON MAJOR CITY   Score Advances Along 500-Mile Front in Southern Sector

ALSO MENACE KEY DEFENSES IN S. RUSSIA   Large-Scale Assault on Rostov Made Possible by Ending Last Enemy Resistance on Left Bank of the Don.

BUREAUCRACIES HIT BY OHIO’S GOVERNOR   Bricker Says War Training Schools’ First Task

Fights To Ward Off Amendments   Senate Ready For Trade Pact Bill

Trade Pacts Veto Power  Under Fire   Administration Leaders in Senate Will Seek to Block It

Trade Quarrel Faces Senate   George Confident Amendment Permitting Repeal Of Pacts To Fail.

High Winds Cause Great Damage on California Coast   Great Ship Loss; Fires Started; Travel Halted

Gales and Fires Hit California   Damage to Property Runs Into Millions

HIGH WINDS LASH CALIFORNIA COAST   SHIPS POUNDED, COMMUNICATIONS DISRUPTED—DAMAGE INTO MILLIONS.

KOSSUTH SCOUTS TO SUMMER CAMP HIN NEW MEXICO   Prairie Gold Area To Send  ’ Sixteen Boys to Famous Cimmaron Farm; Selected By Camping Committee

Nazis Report Turkey Quake Kills 15,000   Towns Lay In. Ruins In Area Of Former  "Toseoas TVicackae

MUNITIONS SHIP AFIRE   Explosive Laden Craft Is Towed Out Inte Harbor, And Sunk

Powder-Laden Ship Sunk While Burning   Brooklyn, Staten Island And New Jersey Residents Warned To Close Windows

Explosive Laden Vessel Is Sunk  Flaming Ship Flooded Off New lerseyv

Explosives Laden Vessel In Flames Sunk   New York Police Sent Radio Request to Waterfront Residents To Keep Windows Open

SHIP. CARRYING EXPLOSIVES SUNK   FIRE ABOARD VESSEL CREATED FEAR. FOR SAFETY OF BROOKLYN RESIDENTS,

Russia And China Are Invited To Join Talks   Cordell Hull And Anthony Eden Appeared Pleased With Conference.

MOBILE COLUMN THREATENS HALE MILLION NAZIS   Desperate Rear Guard Action Is Made On Rumanian Front

500,000 Nazis May BeTrapped   Tottering German Front Will Fall When Rail Is Cut

REDS STRIKE AT NAZI FLANK IN DNIEPER POCKET   Would Trap 500,000 Germans Near Rumania

NAZI POSITION © ~IN UKRAINE IS ~ WITHOUT HOPE   Last Railway East’ of Pre-War Poland. Now Seriously Threatened

REDS MAKE MOVE TO TRAP 500,000 NAZIS IN POCKET   Kiev Bridgehead Is Expanded Rapidly While Germans Make Rear-Guard Stand ‘Near Rumania.   ALLIED AIRCRAFT EXTENDS ITS OPERATIONS   79 Jap Airplanes Probably Destroyed, Knox Declares Enemy Position In Pacific Critical.

RUSSIANS RACING FOR POLISH AND ~ RUMANIA BORDERS   Red Offensive Threatens Last Railway East Of Pre-War Poland—Fighting : On Kiev Front Reported = Mounting In Ferocity 

‘Winter Line’ Below Rome German Aim   Soviet Mobile Column Cuts Into Enemy Rear Guard Foree Guarding Road To Rumania; Allied Drive Slowed In Italy

Russians Attempt  To Trap 500,000   Red Army Spearhead Swinging South To Slice Up Huge Nazi Force in Dnieper River Bend

Many Trapped As Winter Line Broken   Enemy Remnants In Full Retreat Toward New Defences 2) Mifece Bevond Broken Winter Line

British Trap Big Nazi Army   Driving Remnants In Full Retreat Toward Rome Behind  Sangro Line.

U. S. Seizes 13 Bay State  Tanneries   Roosevelt Issues Order“After WLB  Camplaint

PRESIDENT ORDERS TANNERIES SEIZED   Army To Take Over Massa chicatte Plante

STIMSON WILL TAKE OVER 13 TANNERIES   rovernment to Operate Strike Closed Tanneries In Mas-. sachusetts Sections

POWER POLITICS OUTLAWED, SAYS ~ CABINET OFFICER   Declares Alliances Will Not Be Needed to Main tain Peace

Hu:) Makes Report to Congress   Hull Appears Before Historic Meet of Congress

Moscow Pacts To Aid Victory, Hull Declares   Secretary of State Makes Appearance Before Senate, House

Post-War World Free of War-Breeding Pacts is Moscow Aim, Says Hull

Sees Peace Hastened at Moscow   Secretary Appears Before Joint Session of Senate  and House

MOSCOW TALKS ASSURE SECURE FUTURE: HULL   Base Is Laid, Diplomat Says

KRUPA SEIZED AFTER SHOW   Band Leader Arrested For Cons tributing To Delinquency Of Minor

SOUGHT DRIVE OFF U.S. FORCE SHELLING BASE   Five Jap Torpedo Planes Downed In Convov Raid

US, FLEET SENDS ENEMY CRAFT 10 BOTTOM IN CLASt   Five Nipponese Torpedc  ' Planes Shot Down in At tack on Convoy; Ow Shins Escaped Damage.

Solons Reach Australia In Wartime Trip      Brewster Member  Of U. S. A. Group

Pupils Of Public School Buy Bonds   High Schools: Put .  Over Jeep Campaign

LeMars Public School Pupils Have Bought $4,200 War Bond:   This Is Only For Actua Sales In Buildings of Schools

BIG BOMBERS POUND ESSEN IN WAVE RAID   KRUPP ARMS WORKS BLASTED; BRITISH LOSE 23 PLANES

WAVE BOMBING IS EMPLOYED I ESSN ATTACK   RAF in Third Massive Aerial Assault: in Five Nights

DUMPS 1000 TONS BOMBS UPON KRUPPS   RAF Encounters Most Violent Anti-Aircraft Barrage Ever Encountered At Essen; German Munitions Center   23 British Planes Lost

ROYAL AIR FORCE SLUGS ESSEN IN HEAVY AIR RAID   ‘Most Bombed City In World’ Undergoes 50 Minutes Of Devastation   NEW WAVE-BOMBING PLAN IS DEVISED BY BRITISH

R. A. F. Employs New Air Raid Tactics at Essen   1,000 Tons Loosed In ‘Wave-Bombing’ Of Krupp Works

ESGEN ATTACK   RAF in Third Massive Aerial Assault in Five Nights

Fats and Greases!   RAF Pound: Continent  Tn New Raid   Attack Follows J000-Ton Blast Of Essen Plants

Bombers Using New Methods in Mass Offensive   Follow Atfack on Essen with Raids on Other German Cities   Numerous Explosions Heard by Residents Across the Channel

RAF Slashing Europe Again   New Bombing Pattern Used; Essen Battered Thursday

RAF Smashe: Essen in  Great Raid   Repeated Waves of Bombers Wreak Havoe On Enemy Industry; Great Krupp Steel Works Suffers Paralyzing Blow

Another Great Pounding Given Essen By Big RAF “Bombers: Thursday Night

Wave Bombing Plan Successful In Aerial War   Essen Again Is Target of Raiders; Mine Enemy Waters

ESSEN IS SLUGGED BY BRITISH FLIERS   Heavy Assault Launched on German Industrial City

HAF Slugs . German City Of Essen   Use New Technique of “Wave-Bombing” ; Other Cities Hit

R. A. F. Slugs Essen in Heavy Attack   More Than 1,000 Tons of Bombs Rain Down on City

JAPS USE TRICKS TO GET ENEMY IN TRAP   Bowling Green Soldier Surprises Inviting Nip

Vegetable Prices Next Ones Due To Be Rolled Back   Grocer Interests Complain to Congress Against OPA Prozram

FURTHER PRICE ROLLBACK OLE   Fresh Vegetables Next on List; Theory of Price Subsidies Attacked; Grocers Hit OPA Reguiations

Fresh Vegetable: Next on Price Roll Back List   Congressmen Attack Food Subsidy Plan; Grocers at Hearing

Vegetable Price Cut Scheduled   Food Subsidies OPA Rapped At Hearing

PRICE ROLLBACK OF VEGETABLES CONTEMPLATED   Subsidy Payments Are Assailed At Congressional  Hawsinoe   LABOR ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING PROGRAM

FOOD SUBSIDY THEORY UNDER ATTACK AGAIN   FRESH VEGETABLES LISTED FOR CUT IN PRICE NEXT

OPA Plans Vegetable Price Cuts   Theory of Food Subsidies Hit -By Congressmen

Representatives Of Labor Defend OPA from Attack By Congressmen   Grocery Interests Say Food Distribution System Threatened; Vegetables Face Price Rollback

OPA Held Enemy of U.S. Business   Fresh Vegetables on Roll-Back List

Seek Rollback Of Vegetables   Solons and Grocers Attack OPA Setup

e VEIL ABOUT 10 LIFT ON ALLIED * COUNCIL OF WAR   Vital Decisions Affecting Future Strategy Are Believed Reached   DRIVE MAY COME IN 1943   North African Political Muddle Also Likely To Be Ironed Out

OBSERVERS SEE PLAN 10 HIT EUROPE   Believe United Nations Seek To Force Hitler To Fight on Two Fronts,   ‘QUESTION SUB MENACE   Russia, China Seen Joining In New Offensive Set-up FAK Diakant ¥ear.

Believe Allied Major Strategy Plans Are Made   View In Diplomatic Circles Sees Decisions On Possible European Invasion   ALLIED STRATEGY MOVES DISCUSSED

EXPECT VEIL OF SECRECY ABOUT ALLIED STRATEGY FOR 1943 TO BE LIFTED SOON

American Fighters Down Ten Germans   Victory Score Mounts Higher

YANKS DESTROY 10 NAZI PLANES   Fighter Pilots Range Far Out Over North Africa to Win Air Victories

SAYS ITALIAN FLEET DID NOT SURRENDER   British Colonial Secretary Declares Its Future Is Under  Qiangideratian.

Committee’ ‘Fo. Help vo Promote Public Health Holds Fall Meeting

Past Margin of Safety on Coal Supply   Sinclair Coal Co. Official Tells Senators of Situation in 4-State Area

AT DANGER POINT   Coal Used in This Area Is Near Amount of Fuel  Produced:

STATE BUDGET HAS — BEEN APPROVED BY OHIO HOUSE cRour   Way Is Now Cleared for Consideration of Assembly’s Most Vital Task.

ASSEMBLY GETS BUDGET OUTLINE   House-Senate Approve 12 Million Sales Tax Fund For Municipalities

Rationing Of Liquor Seen As Possibility   Chairman of State Board Says Statement May Be Issued This Week   DETAILS UNREVEALED

LIQUOR RATION ROUND CORNER   Chairman Gelder Saye ‘Shortly but Refuses Definite Date

Liquor Rationing Coming In State  Tentative Plan Calls For Fifth Of Whiskey Per Month

Cruiser And Two Destroyers Are Included In Toll   U. S. Steps Up Raids On Kiska; Drive On Munda Also Is  Continued

49 Airplanes Also Downed.   20 Dazzling Minutes Bring Great Victory In Solomons

BOMBER RAID BLASTS FLEET ~ AT BUIN-FAL   Greaiest Air Force Ever Sent Against Japanese Makes™ 20-Minute Record. —   HITS NORTH TERMINAL OF “TOKYO EXPRESS”

Four Warships Among Vessels  Sunk By Yanks   Greatest Air Fleet Sent Against Japs In Pacific Smashes Jap Sea Units, Down 49 Nip Planes In 20 Minutes Of Dazzling Action

Ble TOLL TAKEN BY U.S, BOMBERS   Heaviest Single Day’s Bag Of Enemy Aircraft Is Rrought Down   17 TO 21 ENEMY WARSHIPS. ARE SUNK SINCE JUNE 30

Four Warships, Three Others Sent to Bottom; Enemy Loses 49 Planes   MacArthur Sends More Than 200 Aircraft Against Buin-Faisi Harbor ; We Lose Six in Hot 20-Minute Battle

Bombers Sink Jap Vessels   49 Planes And Seven Ships Are Destroyed

200 U.S. Bombers Pounce on ‘Nip Fleet at Buin, Riddle ‘Enemy Fliers Defending it

49 Nip Planes — Are Downed  in Fierce Battle   Only Six American Aircraft Are Lost in Greatest Aerial Attack Ever Staced in the Southwest Pacific Area

REAT AIR LET RAIDS ENEMY POR]   ‘Cruiser and 2 Destroyers Among Craft Sent to Bottom in Attack in Solomons.   PRICE OF VICTORY IS SIX PLANES   Twenty Minutes of Dazzliing Action Takes Place Over Buin-Faisi Harbor.

U.S. Airmen Sink 7 Jap Ships in Raid   Yankees Down 49 Enemy Planes In Solomons Attack

American Air Armada Strikes at BuinFaist Harbor, Destroying Nearly Holf af Worships ond Merchantmen in Harbor

3 Warships Ineluded In Battle Toll   Record Allied Armada Of Bombers, Fighters Delivers Paralyzing Blow In 20 Minutes

More Than 200 Planes Used To Blast Enemy   49 Jap Aircraft Downed During Lightnine Attack

100 U. S. Torpedo Planes, Bombers Attack Enemy   49 Enemy Planes Shot Down as They Meet Attackers

WAS ONLY A BASS CANARY   saa Not - ‘Likely To - Be “Taxed To Death” 7

MOST BLOODY FIGHTING JUST AHEAD, WARNS   Churchill Warns British Not to Expect German Collapse, Hits at U. 8. Politicians

CHURCHILL TAKES SLAP AT SENATORS WHO INVESTIGATED   PREMIER AND LONDON DAILY MAIL REBUKES SENATORS FOR THEIR CRITICISM OF ALLIED POLICY,   POST-WAR FOREIGN POLICY PROPOSED   Senator Sub-Committee Resolution Provides Machinery to Prevent Aggression and Preserve Peace After War.

HARDEST FIGHTING AHEAD-CHURCHILI   Skeptical Of Any Sudden Nazi Collapse

Germans At Kharkov Open Counter-Attacks   Reds Holding Firm; Russian Drives On Bryansk Also Meet Stiffening Resistance

Workers Can’t Be Blamed .  Coal Miners Happy That Strike Settles   [rresponsible Leaders Brought Unwanted Strike, Is Indication

Cooley Attacks  66 e a6 Protection  Given Congress   Savs Wooden Guns anc Dummy Soldiers Mounted On Roofs Oj Congressional Office Buildings.

Cooley Attacks “Protection” Given Congress   Says Wooden Guns and Dummy Soldiers ’ Mounted: Qn- ‘Roofs. Of - Congréssion ‘Oni * Buildings.

phils Lidansas Valuable - Fan arm Stock  —on—  Sat., ‘April 24, 1943

Steps Taken To Settle Dispute  Report Progress In Red-Polish Rift

Polish-Russian  Dispute Studied  Report F. R., Churchill  Have Formula

POLISH - RUSS ~ PEACE SEEN   Roosevelt and Churchill Making Progress, London Hears

46 Jap Warplanes Bagged in Battle  For Gilbert Isles   U.S. Loses Three Planes in Conquest Of Pacific Atolls

WILLKIE TO TALK TO FRESHMEN GOP MEN IN CONGRESS   Will Test. Reaction Ta His Proposal For A Post-War Allied Council

Rumors of Conference Betweer Roosevelt, Churchill  and Stalin Persist in Europe

Revenge Motive Seen In Slaying Of Girl, Parents   Farm Couple, Pretty Daughter Found Shot To Death Near Washington C. H.; Believe Murderer Was Known To Family

War Laws In Legislature   One Bill Proposes Sales Tax Residue For Veterans’ Fund

Cash Basis Law May Be On Way Out   House Votes To Let Down Bars To Cities, Counties

Index      ee tee etait  Condition of Bryaa is reported ‘much better’

oO: PB. NOMINEE IN’ 100!  LASHES OUT AGAINST. FOURTH TERM AND’ ‘ MANY POLICIES

Willkie Hits  AL Wang lant  AG PTOSTGCHL And Policies  Lashes ‘Palace Guard, Calls Fourth Term Hazard to Free Nation  KEYNOTE FOR 1914? Warns G.O.P. It Must  Have Qualified Candidate —eatehac Platfarm   KEYNOTE FOR 1914?

Willkie Castigates Roosevelt. and New Deal: _ Warns of Danger to Freedom in Fourth Terr

WILLKIE SEES THREAT TO U, S. IN FOURTH TERM   New Deal Administration Smarting Under Bitter Criticism Of Hoosier   RECORD IS CASTIGATED   Failure To Tell People Of Threats By Japanese Draws Fire

POLICIES OF NEW DEALERS ARE FLAYEL   WENDELL WILLKIE’ RIPS HIDE OFF FOREIGN, DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.   For G. O. P. Program   Hoosier Outlines Needs as End to Waste, Good Labor Policy, Wise Economics.

MRS, HOUDINI DIES ON TRAIN   Wife Of Famous Magician Had  Failed To Communicate  With Him In Death

HOUDINI y HED ON TRAIN   WISE. OF WORLD'S MOST. FAM OUB MAGICIAN FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH TWO . CHERISHED WISHES

MISSING IN ACTION AGAINST JAPANESE   Parents Receive That Word Concerning, Pvt. Eugene W. Shelleman, Aged 23, East Berlin, R. D. No. 2

Eighth Army Scores Five Mile Advance   Threaten Inland Sector of German Defenses

STH ARMY SEIZES NAZI SPRINGBOARD FOR HEAVY BLOWS   Advances Five Miles in Bitter Fighting to Threaten Vital Sector of Foe’s Winter Line.   CLARK’S FORCES MAKE GAINS NEAR VENAFRO   Big Guns Roar Along Front, but Mud and Rains Restrict Operations of Americans.

Eighth Army Advances on Eastern Side   Reaches Perano and Threatens Sangro River Line in Italy

EIGHTH ARMY IN o-MILE ADVANGE   Fall of Perano Threatens Nazi Position

British Lunge Five Miles   Storm Washes Out Hope Of Early Entry Into Rome

British Lunge Wrests Town On Italy Front   Fifth Army Makes Some Gains Qn Venafro Front

BRITISH DRIVE MENACES AXIS INLAND SECTOR   Americans Also Gain In Assault, Despite Mud And Floods Sweeping “Venafro Section

INLAND SECTOR OF SANGRO LINE IS THREATENED   Americans Also Advanee Despite Rad Weather

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ROLLS ON   Gain of Five Miles to Capture . Perano Menaces German Line

8th Army Goes Ahead 5 Miles   Gen. Moutgomery Newrs  Og i BB ol cay

8th Army Move  Threatens Foe  Gain Puts British Near Important Position

3th Army Makes 5-Mile Advance   General Montgomery’s Break Through to Capture Perano

Perano Capture Threatens Part Oi German Line   Fifth Army Makes Some Gains Along Northern Sector

Town Captured; Fifth Advances.   Important inland Sector Threatenect

BRITISH MAKE GOOD GAIN ON ITALIAN FRONT   RAINS IMPEDE ALL OPERATIONS ON ROAD TO ROME

New Gains or italian Front   Both Fifth, Eighth Armies Advance; British Take Town

Allies Break Through Line in Italy   Heavy Fighting Gains Some Territory; Weather Is Hindrance

Build Seaway, Urges Harbors  Association   Value Of Great Lakes To War Effort Could Be Doubled, Is Contention Of Seaway Advocates

Size of Army Set In August Roosevelt Tells   Use of Youths To Aid Farmers His Proposal

> ail  PRESIDENT GIVES MANPOWER VIEWS   Thinks Young People Ca Help Relieve Farm Labor Shortage

FDR THINKS SCHOOL KIDS CAN HELP FARM LABOR SHORTAGE  7,500,000 Men Needed Needed in Army by Next December 1st

NEED LARGE ARMY PRESIDENT SAYS   SIZE OF THE ARMY IS DICTATED BY MILITARY NECESSITY

TOTAL OF MEN ARMY REQUIRES   Says Adequate Supplies Are Available for Large Military Force

Military Needs Dictate Size Of Our Army  Fixed Last August At 7,500,000, Not  Cannting Officers

Decision On Size Of Army Is Unchanged   ‘High School Youths Will Have To Help Relieve Farm Labor Shortage, Asserts President

U.S. Army of 7,500,000   F, R. Tells Reporters Size Decided Last August by Military .

PECTS YOUNG PEOPLE TO AID H FARM WORK   President Says Nation Can Supply Adequate Food and Weapons

NEED DICTATES SIZE OF FORGES   FDR Says Officers Decided Last August Number of Men Needed.

Students Can Help Farmers, FDR's Idea   Tells How Youth of Moscow Produced Food in Crisis

Young People  For Farm Help   Sees No Danger Of Munitions Shortage Because Of Large Army,

FDR DECLARES NEED OF ARMY GOVERNS SIZE   Says 10,800,000 for All Armed Services ‘Military Necessity’ —Stu_flents Can Aid Farmers

Need Big Army FR Tells US.   Total of 10,800,000 By End of Year, President Asserts

School Boys Can Help Farm In Emergency   Number Of Men Needed For Service, Over 10 Million, Decided Last Year, Says FDR

FULL-DRESS AIR RAIDS AGAINST JAPAN MAY SOON GET UNDER WAY   Return OF General Stillwell To Chungking From the Churchill _ Roosevelt Meetings Has Set Off Flood Of Rumors About Tokyo  Rambkin awe

STILLWELL’S RETURN HERALDS NEW ALLIED MOVE IN CHINA   Full Air Offensive On the Japs Is Expected Soon.

FULL-DRESS AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN EXPECTED   American Planes Meet Little Opposition In Attacks on Enemy in Burma and China

SALERNO BEINS HIT HARDEST       Hurricane Day and Night Attacks. Being Made — Crotone Blasted Saturday Night.

Salerno Blasted By Allied Bombs   33 Axis Fighters Shot Out of Sky 

Salerno And Crotone Hit By Allied Fliers.   Bombers Shoot Down: 83 More Intercepting Vighters Yesterday. :

ES BOMB BIG ITATIAN RAIL CENTER   British and American Pilots Join Day and Night Raids: New Invasion Reports Called Hoax.

Allied Bombers Strike at Many Targets in  Mediterranean   Liberators Conduct Daylight Attack On Sadac *Tirama

AFRICAN-BASED PLANES STRIKE ON WIDE FRONT   U. S. Bombers End Lull, Raid Greek Airfield; No Losses

730-MiLE FRONT IS ATTACKED   Airdromes, Factories Railway and Shipping Wrecked by the Alliec.

NAPLES ISOLATED BY ROUND-CLOCK AERIAL ATTACK ON SALERNO   Allies Knock Down 33 More Axis Planes In DayNight Blows At Big Italian Rail Center

Allies Down Thirty-Three  interceptors   Liberators and Halifaxes Blast Rail lines at Crotone

DAY, NIGHT ATTACK MADE ON SALERNO   [talian Communications. Center Raided — 5 Planes Lost

SALERNO BLASTED IN DAY-AND-NIGaT AERIAL ASSAULT   33-Planes Bagged: For Total of 114 During Four-Day  Attack, Italian Boot Is Also Ramhod. .   MORE DESTRUCTION IN NAZI RHINELAND   Czechs, Forced to Produce Munitions For Germans, Are Warned of Impending Bomb Visits.

ALLIES BLITZING RAILWAY GENTER IN SOUTH ITALY   City, 30 Miles From Naples, Target for Latest Attack   33 MORE AXIS PLANES SHOT DOWN IN FIGHT

33 AIRCRAFT ARE SHOT DOWN IN SALERNO RAID   Kalian Communication Center Blasted In Day, Night Attack.

e NAPLES GETS © AIR BLITZ   Is Attacked Day And Night By Allied Airmen

RATION BOARDS NON-POLITICAL   Members Barred From Vote Campaigns, Says New OPA Manager

‘o's Ration arts Reminded (fPolitics Ban   (andidates, Party Officers Allawed” Te Keen Jobs -

Ration Boards Warned to Keep Out of Politics   Strict Enforcement Presents Personnel  Problem for OPA

RATION MEMBERS OUT OF POLITICS   OPA Issues Statement of Policy as 1944 Campaign Begins To Simmer.

CHANGE OF DVI   _Driving Exims  to- “Re ‘Given Thursday Mornings. :

TO QUIT FIGHT   Italy Easier to Conquer Than Sicily, Islanders “Declare.

Greatest Aerial Drive In History Continues   Monday Afternoon’s Attacks Follow Blastings Sunday Night and Monday Morning; Allies Resume Pounding of Greece

Feep Up Rain of Bombs on Europe   Axis Objectives in France Battered by American ©  Attack   HIT ON MANY FRONT   Airfields Near Athens and City of Naples Are Targets  j

Axis Targets In Greece   Are Bombed   US Bombers Hammer Two Airdromes Near Athens; Naples Battered Again; RAF Slashes at Railways and  Airnorts in France

Heavy Bombers Keep Up Drive Against Enemy   Axis Airfields Near Athens Object Of Heavy Aerial Attack.   RAF POUNDS NAPLES

‘BLASTING AXIS ON  EVERY FRONT WITH  INCREASED EFFORT BRITISH AND AMERICAN  PLANES DROPPED BOMB ON MANY TARCETs

BLASTING AXIS ON EVERY FRONT WITH INCREASED EFFORT  BRITISH AND AMERICA!   BRITISH AND AMERICAN PLANES DROPPED BOMBS ON MANY TARGETS

U.S. Fliers Blast Targets In France   Keep Air Offensive Rolling in Daylight Raid Today ; 3 Hit Axis Air Fields in Greece

Germans Shift Their Air Force   Move From Crimean Arrdromes Because of Telling Blows by Reds.

TELLING BLOWs DEALT BY REDS   Report Germans Forced te Shift Air Forces From Crimean Bases.

AUSOTANS BATTER NAZI ALR FORGES   Telling Blows Force Germans To Shift Planes From Crimean

CLAIM NAZIS ARE SHIFTING PLANES FROM THE CRIMEA   Reds Declare It is For Purpose Of Reinforcing Their Ex; hausted Air Forces—Claim Heavy Tolls

NAZIS SHIF} AIR FORCE IN EAST   Reds Repulse German Counter Attack In Kuban

Nazis Shift Warplanes In Bolster Move   Little Activity Of Ground Forces

PLANE LOSSES HEAVY      Russian Air Attack Has Dealt. - Telling Blows on the Nazis 

SOVIET BLOWS ON REICH AIR POWER TELLING   Germans Beginning to Shift Their Air Forces From Crimean to Other Russ Airdromes

SOVIET AIRMEN BAG HUNDREDS “ORNATZT CRART   Moscow Reports Air Force Has Shot Down 1,300 Enemy. Planes In Last Two Weeks:   FRONT UNCHANGED   Land Fighting Fails“ To Keep Pace With Aerial. -Battles Ranging In.  - * Northern Sector

Nazi Airpower Dealt Big Blow   RUSSIANS REPORT NEW GAINS ON EAST FRONT

GERMAN LOSSES . ARE PILING UP   Reds Claim Over 1,000 Planes Destroyed or Damaged Since May 2

Sharp Blows Dealt Germans in Russia  * Soviet Airmen - Renort Successes

Russia s Air Raids Paying Dividends   Germans Forced to Rush in Reserves

TELLING BLOWS DEALT AXIS IN RUSSIA   Shifting Air Force Made Necessary by Telling Red Blows Recently.

BLOWS DEALT NAZI AIRFORCE BY SOVIETS BEGINNING TO TELL  RENEWED ACTIVITY REPORTED FROM KUBAN AND LISICHANSK AREAS

REDS CRIPPLE ~ NAZI PLANES   Germans Shift Air Force To Meet Russ Aerial Strength

NAZIS FEELING BLOWS STRUCK AT AIR FORCE   Shifting Planes From Other Fronts To Face Reds

Nazi Plane Loss Heavy   Russians Force Germans To Bring In More  Planes From Crimea

Soviets Cut Gaps in Nazi ‘Air Defense   Germans Call - Planes From Crimea-to Bolster “Dwindling Forces’ ~

Germans Desperately Trying To Esxticate 500,000 Troops in Crimea

German Armies Fall Back In Italy Into Fixed Defense Linfe Across Mountainous Middle Of Peningula. Allies Advancing   MEDIUM BOMBERS HIT AIRFIELDS IN GREECE

State Legislators Charged With Aiding Asphalt Sale by Back Stairs Influence

Jury Lashes Nichols, Nance   Group Taken to Hospital a! Norman for Observation

Young Robbers -Enter.11. Rooms: At College Hall   Two Armed Thugs Force Girl Students Hand Over. ‘Contents of Pocketbooks

FDR, CHURCHILL OUTLINE ISSUES OF QUEBEC MEET WAR AGAINST JAPAN  PLAYED MAJOR ROLE IN ALLIED CONFABS

Sateming Pool. Special Phone Directories. Barbed Wires. 42 VillacatCoira .

Heavy Guard   Cairo Conference Headquarters Surrounded by Rashad Wisn.

Powerful Formations: Streak Across Channel in  One of Earliest Day light Starts    Berlin: Reports Only Minor Damage From “Nuisance Raids” — Second  Straight Night —

RAF Hits Again At Nazi Arsenals   Germans Describe Raid as Nuisance

RAF in New Day Assault   Streak Across Channel Today to Follow Up Whilhelmshaven Night Raid

HITLER ARSENAL BOMBED AGAIN   Powerful Formations Are , Sent Against Germany By the RAF

RAF Blasts War Plants Of Germany   Morning Raiders  Head For Calais

R. A. F. Sweeps Across Channel In Daylight To Follow Up Night Raids

Destroy 34 Nazi Craft   Fortresses Knock Out Plane: On Ground and ia Air

Americans Get Enemy in Air And on Ground   Germans Ignore U. S. Fighters to Attack Flying Fortresses; All U. S. Planes Return

Destroy 34 Nazi Planes Near Tripoli   20 Are Knocked Out On Ground; U. S. Flying Forts Lead Way In Aerial Assault

HEAVY RAID IS LED BY BIG PLANES   Axis Bases At Homs Sicily And Crete Are Pounded

FORTRESSES LEAD DRIVE ON AIRFIELD   All American Ships Return 7 Despite Opposition   NEW STRATEGY   Of Striking Rommel From Both Sides Works Well; Axis Trucks Struck

U. §. RAIDERS KNOCK OUT 34 NAZI PLANES   Flying Fortresses Hit Enemy in 75-Mile Running Fight

WRECK CRAFT DURING RAID NEAR TRIPOLI   Flying Fortresses Knock Owt 20 on Ground and Blast 14 in Air as Enemy Pilots Race Into Their Fire.

Nazi Planes Destroyed By US Bombers   Fortresses Take Big Toll At Base Near Tripoli

20) Destroyed On Ground, 14. Downed In Air Battle   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses In Trying To Stop American Craft

U, 5. AIRCRAFT DESTROYED 34 AXIS PLANES ON TUESDAY  FLYING FORTRESSES GIVE ATTACKING GERMANS

AMERICAN FORCES STRIKE HEAVIEST: BLOW AT ROMMEL   Twenty Planes Hit On Ground, 14 Downed In Dogtights

34 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed Near Tripoli   American Flyers Raid Deep Into Axis Area To Blast Airport

Fortresses Lead Foray In Tripoli: Air Battle Wagec   Blazing 75-Mile Running Engagement Is Fought; All U.S. Planes Return

Raid Castel Benito Field Near Tripoli   Fortresses Smash 20 on Ground and 14 During 75-Mile Running Battle

CRETE, SICILY UNDER ATTACK   Aerial Battles Over Desert Go On in Spite of Sand Storms

Hit Airfield Near Tripoli In Mass Raid  Nazis 9-4 Fire  Of B-17'

AAF Destroys Nazi Planes In Tripoli Attael   Lightning Aireraft Wreck Fifty Trucks In Sweep Into Tripolitania.   FORTRESSES RUN SHOW

Yankee Warplanes Destroy 34 German Craft in One Raid   Flying Fortresses Lead Attack Into Tripolitania on Tuesday

Flying Forts Lead Assault On Airfield   Heaviest Blow From West ls Struck Against Rommel’s Defenders Of Tripolitania

34 Germans Are Downed By U.S.  Fliers In Africa   All Of Fortresses Return Safely To Bases After Deep Raid In West

U.S. WARPLANES HIT AXIS FIBLD AND DESTROY 34   Flying Fortresses Lead Attack On Airdrome South of Tripoli; 14 Are Shot Down   ALL PLANES RETURN   Axis Airmen Brave. Huge Bombers’ Guns, Ignore U.S. Lightnings In.  ’ Aerial Battle -

Ally Airmen Lash Out at African Foe   Sky Fortresses Blast 34 Nazi Planes in Raid

U. S. PLANES DESTROY 34 NAZI AIRCRAFT      Raid Airfield Ten Miles South of Tripoli Blasted 20 Planes  On Ground

YANKS DESTROY 34 NAZI PLANES WITHOUT A LOSS   WITHERING FIRE OF FLYING FORTS TOO MUCH FOR GERMANS

Hit Tripoli From East And West.   U. 8. War Planes Bomb - Axis Airport South of Tripoli; RAF Strafes Naji Supply Line

FLYINGFORTS LEAD ATTACKS ON ATRDROME   ‘All American Bombers Return Despite Bitter Attacks By Axis Defenders

CONDUCT RAID ON AIR FIELD NEAR TRIPOLI   20 Aircraft Knocked Out On Ground And 14 jn Air Downed   GO DEEP INTO LIBYA

Blazing Clash Downs 14 Nazis In North Africa   Twenty Grounded Aircraft Destroyed In Allied Air Raid

Destroy 34 Axis Planes in Running Battle in Africa   Flying Fortresses Leave Trail of Destruction Along Supply Lines.   Deepest Penetration  By Allies Over Lybia

ARE ENGAGED IN BLAZING FIGHT   German Airmen’s Strong Effort to Stop Flying Forts Meets Failure

34 NAZI PLANES DESTROYED, U.S. FORCES REPORT   Warplanes Raid Castel Benito Landing Fieid

AIRFIELD NEAR TRIPOLI RAIDED BY FORTRESSES   Twenty Enemy Planes Knocked Out On Ground, 14 Shot Down In Blazing, Running Air Battle.

Sky Fortress Raid Destroys 34 Warplanes   20 Smashed On Ground At Castel Benito, 14 Messerschmitts Shot Down   ALL BI7'S RETURN   Sicily, Crete, Lampedusa Air Fields Are Raided From Eastern Side

American Bombers Blast Axis Airport in Africa; Supply Lines Also Struck

Raid Nazi Planes South Of Tripoli   J. S: Planes Destroy 34 “Axis Aircraft in Air and  * on Ground   ALL IN SAFE RETURN   ‘Rommel’s Forces Are Hit From Both Sides in Blast-  "ing Forays

Hit Airfield Near Tripoli In Mass Raid   Nazis Brave Fire Of B-17’s In Daring Fight

150 Homes Burn in Giant Blaze   FAVORABLE WINDS AID FIGHTERS AS UPPER HAND IS BELIEVED GAINED; 100,000 ACRES BLACKENED; DAMAGE MAY PASS $1,000,000

U.S. Bombers  Hit Rangoon   Japanese Land Forces Resist Near Akyab;  Solomonc Bases Hit

U. S. Bombers Raid Rangoon Dock District   Large Warehouses Destroyed and Fire Left Raging in Jap Port  MANDALAY IS_ VISITED

FDR ADVISES POPE PAPAL DOMAIN TO BE RESPECTED   MESSAGE SETS FORTH PROSPECTS THAT ITALY WILL BE INVADED NEXT

Beginning of End of Nazi Europe, FDR   Confidently Predicts French Liberation at Dinner Last Night

BEGINNING OF END, SAYS FOR   Suggests Invasion of France from England and Sicily

Allied Invasion ‘Beginning  Of End’ Of Hitler’s Europe   President Hints Also Of Other Operations Designed To Drive Enemy From French Soil   . 'Jov lu Russia

INVASION:CALLED © BEGINNING OF END FOR NAZI EUROPE   Reaction Expressed by FDR at Formal White House Dinner for General Henri Giraud: Last Night

———EOrrrrrrrrreerrrre  ~.D.R. Sees “Beginning Of The End” Of Hitler’s Europe In Sicily Stroke

‘To Liberate The French,’ F.D.R. Says   Confident Prediction Made at White House Dinner for General Giraud   BIG MOVES HAVE BREN WELL PLANNED   Many Objectives, President Says; Dramatic Excitement at Dinner Meeting

FDR TELLS POPE VATICAN IS SAFE   Says Allies to Respect Church Neutrality

Roosevelt Sees The Beginning of Hitler's End   Reveals Invasion Started Only Afte: Long Planning

American, British, Canadian Troops Land in Several Key Zones Under Aerial Escort

Another Force, He Suggests, May Strike Northward Toward Country From Mediterranean Area—Says War Against Axis in Europe Has Entered Final Phase—Pope Assured Churches Will Be Spared.

FDR Considers tt Beginning of End   Broke News at Dinner for Giraud

Final Phase Starts: F. R.   It's Beginning of End, President Asserts; Sends Pope Message

Breaks News at Dinner for Giraud   President Says Liberation of All of France Ultimate Goal of Sicily Step

ae ee he  FDR Says Nazisn In Death Throes   War In That Area Enters Final Phase  Be IOUN WMowWrournwee

Invasion Of Sicily ‘Beginning Of The End’ Of Hitler’s Europe—F. R.

President Hints Nazis in France Will Be Attacked Across Channel From Britain And Northward From the Mediterranean

HNVASION MEANS BEGINNING OF » END FOR HINTS   New Attacks On Germans In France Suggested By J Chief Executive

President Sees End of Nazis, Fascisti In Sicilian Invasion; Breaks News To Militarists During Dinner Party

Landings Completed Without Loss Of A  Single Allied Vessel   American, British And Canadian Forces Pour Onto Sicily With Heavy Equipment After Landings; Assault Moves Inland With Huge Air Cover   nooseveir  Looks Ahead To Complete Destruction Of Germany

VASION 1a HELD BEGINNING OF END   FDR Says War Has Entered Final Phase; Assures Pope Neutral Status of Vatican City Will Be Respected

War Entering Final Phase, FDR Asserts   Invasion of Sicily Termed ‘Beginning’ of End’, He Says

Roosevelt Sees Nazi Elimination   SICILIAN FOES ARE SEEING TRULY COORDNATED ALLIES

FDR Says Nazism In Death Throes   War In That Area  Enters Final Phase By JOHN M, HIGHTOWER  "emp a Oe OeP ta.

PRESIDENT PREDICTS INVASION OF SICILY AS BEGINNING OF END  ROOSEVELT INDICATES HAPPENINGS OF TODAY BEEN WELL PLANNED

—ROOSEVELT —  GETS NEWS AT -GIRAUD QINNER   Chief Executive Confident France Will Be Liberated   WELL PLANNED   Président Discusses Campaign Plans With High Officials

Invasion Seen Beainnina Of End Of Hitler   President Roosevelt Comments On Invasion of Sicily

Beoinning Of End FDR Says OF Big  Sicily Invasion   Hints Other Invasior Points To Include Jump From Britain Into France

Neutral Status Of Vatican To Be Observed  Pope Pius Told By Roosevelt City no Taroet

Marks Beginning of End, President Tells His Guests   Word of Invasion Comes During Dinner Honoring General Giraud; Hints Two Other Attacks Soon

INVASION OF ITALY HINTED; POPE ASSURED   Announces Invasion - At Dinner Given For Giraud

‘Beginning of — End,’ Says F. R.   President Discloses Sicily Invasion At Dinner for Gen. Giraud; Foretells Liberation of France, Reessures Pope

Roosevelt Terms Sicily Landing The ‘Beginning Mf The End’ For Hitler

TDR Says Sicily Means War In Final Stage  Comments Hint Other Drives  On Continent

‘Beginning of End,’ Is View Of Roosevelt  Hiitlawe EFnrvane Dnamed.   Hitler’s Europe Doomed. President Declares at - Dinner to Giraud   REVEALS - INVASION   Requests Guests to Keep News of Allied Attack Secret Till Midnicht

BEGINNING OF THE END --FDF   Chief Executive indicates  That Moves Have Been Well Planned.

BEGINNING OF HITLER’S END FDR ASSERT!   : President Pledges Liberation of Italy and All France, Respect for Vatican City

Assurances Sent  To Pope By F.R.  Vatican City’s Status ‘Will Be Respected’

Roosevelt Considers Allied Invasion ‘Of Sicily as Virtually Beginning of End of Europe Domination by Hitler

FRULS' OF CIVILIAN LIFE. > ARE HARDER T0 PURCHASE   CIGARS, BEEB AND LIQUORS STEADILY BECOMING LESS PLENTIFUL, SURVEY ' SRows

Munda And Vila  Airdromes Hit  ‘No New Word Released On Land Fighting

U.S. Fliers Deal Japs Terrific Blows in Pacific   Bombers Hit Airfields At Munda, Vila, Drive Off 30 Zeros

U. §. Planes Pound Foe At Munda, Vila   ) 112 Tons Of Bombs Are Hurled On Japanese In Support Of Ground Forces   TROOP BARGES SUNK   Forts And Liberators Smash At Dutch Indies, Start Large Fires

YANK BOMBERS SMASH AT JAPS   Series of Heavy Blows Hit Nips At Munda And Vital Airdromes

Central Solomons Heavily Hit by Allied Bombs   Flame Throwers Being Used by American  Teoons on Ground

American Planes Pound Japanese  In Solomons  14 Barges Blasted By Airmen Smashing At Enemy Supplies

U.S. Fliers Deal Japs Terrific  Blows in Pacific  Bombers Hit Airfields At Munda, Vila, RNetvwa MEE 20 ZVarane

Jap Bases In Solomons Hit   Many Positions Fee! Allied Plane’s Bombs

HIT MUNDA AND VILA   14 Nip Supply Barges Sunk; Dutch Indies Also Attacked

Money Expert to Give Tax Views   Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Aired—Other Washington News

Austraiian Forees Land East of Lae  New Allied Operation  Cuts Lae, Salamaua : WN prea: Dincwawwe nt Qaemmi<:

Invaders Take Japanese hy Surprise   Troops Move Ashore Under Cover of Naval Smoke Screen

Investment of Lae-Salamaua Area Begins   Powerful Force Is. Successful in Making New Guinea Landing

Allied Forces Land on Huon Gulf Near Lae   Lae-Salamaua Area Cut Off From Bases Of Supply in Move By MacArthur Units

Allies Make Landing On Strategic New Guinea Region  Forces Take Position To Isolate Japs; MacArthur Is in Field

Powerful Force Takes Jap: By Surprise and Isolates Salamaua Region

Big Land Operation Is Begun Japs Ate Caught -Unawares By  Manenver

Patton Rides Through Fire To Visit Soldiers at Front   General Compliments Men for Taking, Holding I] Guetar Heights in Violent Battling

CLAIM JAPANESE HAD KILLED MANY ALLIED SOLDIERS   Slain or Disabled 193,000 in the South Pacifie and Aleutian Front.   2,728 PLANES LOST?   From Dec. 1942, Through November This Year, It Is Claimed.

Officer Resigns Over Tool Sale   Investigation Made of Sale of 110) Tons of U. S. Owned Cutting Tools.

TOOL SALE PUNISHED   One Officer Resigns, Others May Be Reclassified

Russian Bombers Batter Prussian Railway Center  emerge neem   Two-Hundred Long-Range Warplanes Attack Insterburg

Entire City, Which Is on Nazi Trunk Supply Line to North Soviet Front, Is Left in Flames—Raid Sixth Carried Out by Reds on Reich Since April 10—Powerful Explosions Heard as Flames Spring Up.

Reds Bomb Railway Center, Impede Nazi Supply Lanes  Great Fires Light Strategic City In East Prussia

Largest Number Russians ilave Ever Mention Using In New Wave of  Reds Keyed With RAF And US Air Porees

EI 8vo. Ejercito gles Amenaza La Linea Naz   Avanzaron 2 Millas Y Se Apoderaron De La Ciudad De  Parano en Italia

Combates En Las Los Lineas De  Los Aliados   Tropas Coloniales Inglesas Penetran  La Linea Defensiva  De Los Germanos

Prosisue E] Ataque Aliado En EIR. Sansro   Los Soldados Del Rey Jorge VI Van Protegidos Por Muchos Aviones

CIVILIANS MUST WAIT FOR TIRES OF NEW RUBBER   Late In 1944 Before Program  Reaches Peak

Italy’s Toe Hammered  By Bombs   Life-Line To Beleaguered Sicily Subjected To Merciless  U. S. Bombing.

Allied Bombers Batter Italian Link With Sicily  Seek to Cut Island   Seek to Cut Island Off From Railway And Ferry Service

FREE SEEDS AGAIN FROM CONGRESSMEN   Purpose Is To Encourage Victory Gardens

Cattlemen Lash Subsidy, Prices   Spokesman Hits ‘Dictator’ Rule -

Koepang Is Left In Flames After U.S. Air Attack  Other Jap Bases In South Pacific Area Bombed

CREWS OF 2 BOMBERS KILLED IN COLLISION   Death Toll Estimated at From 15 to 20 in Mid-Air Crash Near Tdaho Base,

Australian Jungle Troops Advance In Drive in Northeastern Sector

Aussies Drive Ahead In New Guinea Area   American Planes Support Jungle Troops Northwest of Finschhafen: 16 Jap Planes Bagged in Air Battles over Bougainville

Australian Troops Push North on Huon Against Fierce Jap Resistance

NEW GAINS MADE ~ BY AUSTRALIANS ON NEW QUINE!   Jungle Troops Fight Way to Within Mile of Sattelberg Against Strong Jap Resistance.   NIPPONESE AIRMEN RAID BOUGAINVILLE   _otrike at American Beach\ head Before Dawn—Sixteen Shot Down in Battles Over Island.

Allied Force Draws Nearer New Goal On New Guinea   Strong Jap Resistance Fails to Check Aussies in Move Toward Sattelberg As U. S. Planes Give Help From Above

Aussie Jungle Fighters Close In On Nipponese; Yanks Down 16 Planes

TRIBUTE PAID OIL INDUSTRY BY U 8. OFFICIALS MONDAY   OPENING OF “BIG INCH” PIPELINE OCCASION FOR FELICITATIONS

OIL FLOWS THROUGH ‘BIG INGH’ 10 EAST   Secretary of Interior Ickes Wiil Guide Arc on Final Wold,

‘Big Inch’ Qi  Pipeline Open   Declare Line Not Intended To Provide Pleasure Driving Gasoline.

More Gasoline for East--But Not for Pleasure Driving   Ickes Sounds Warning, Emphasizes New Pipeline Primarily Military Facility, at the Opening — New Tire Restrictions

TRIBUTE PAID OIL INDUSTRY BY U 5. OFFICIALS MONDAY  OPENING OF “RIG INCH   OPENING OF “BIG INCH” PIPELINE OCCASION FOR FELICITATIONS

PROMISE DECISION ON VAGATION PLEA   Brown, Eastman Warn State Not to Expect Too Much in Federal Favor

ODT, OPA Hint More Gasoline For Michigan   Appeal By Goy. Kelly Brings Promise .Of Co-Operation

U. §. Bombers Raid Germany   Army Headquarters Says Targets in Central Germany Hit

U.S. Bomber: Raid Targets In Germany  i hom   : First Daylight Attack Since Sunday — Believec  Deep Penetration

YANK BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Targets Not Disclosed  Attack at Heart of The Reich

§.S. Bomber Raid Targets In Germany   Sunday—Believed Deep Penetration ©

Yank Bombers Hit Germany   Attack Targets in Central Section But Objectives Not Revealed

Volturno Is Crossed By Allied Army   Clark’s Forces Swarm Across Stream to Set Up Positions

DELIVERS F.DR, NOTE TO STALIK   —YToOo Contents Of Message Closels Guarded Secret

Story Of Cruise With Errol Flynn Related By Gir!   Peggy Satterlee Tells Of Incidents Aboard Actor’s Yacht

ENTERTAINER’S ‘MOTHER TAKES WITNESS STAND   Parent of Peggy Larue Sat. terlee to Testify Against Erroll Flynn In Rape  Case.   CRUISE DESCRIBED   Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Says Actor Twice Had Inti’ mate Relations With _  Her On Yacht

Girl Tells Of Flynn Attacks   Mother Will Take Stand Today In Trial Of Movie Actor.

Peggy Satterlee Resumes Story Of Yachting Voyage At Errol Flynn Rape Trial

CRADLE-T0-GRAVE SOCIAL SECURITY BILL IN SENATE   Would Cost Workers Six Per Cent, Get Like Amount From the Boss

PLAN TO INSURE  EVERY AMERICAN FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE IN MAKING   New Bill Would Extend Social Security Benefits To 15 Million Persons Not Covered By  me tar

GERMAN FORCES FACE COMPLETE ROUT IN TUNISI!   British Troops Only 30 Mile: From Tripoli—Three-Way Squeeze on Axis

Three- .Way Ring Being Tightened / round Rommel      Eighth Army Reported 30 Miles From Tripoli, Flying Fortresses Score Hits on Taraets af Sousse

RETREATING ROMMEL ARMY REPORTED T0 BE HEADED INTO SQUEEZE   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ONLY THIRTY MILES FROM TRIPOLI TODAY

French And Yank Troops Block Exif   British Only 30 Miles From Tripoii In New Drives

MICHIGAN TRAFFIC TAKES SIX LIVES   Two Are Killed in Crossing Crash at Cheboygan; Three Killed in ‘Detroit

-12 MEN ARRIVE ON K: U. CAMPUS   Temporary Mess Quarters Are Set Up Under the West Stadium -

A-12 MEN ARRIVE. ON K: U.. CAMPUS   Temporary Mess Quarters Are Set Up Under the West Stadium __  4 OFFICERS ASSIGNED

Night Clubs Face Earlier Closing »in Liquor Curfew   Board to Enforce Regulations Strictly Beginning August 10

For Whom The Bells Toll: Texas Drinkers’   Liquor Curfew Enforcement Mapped; Amusement Spots To Close

Omaha Scene of Dual Slaying And Suicide 19-Year-Old Wife and Girl Friend Killed; LInchand Shantec Salf

KILLS 2 WOMEN AND HIMSELF   Omaha Tragedy Probed me © Bink Acs Eccacd

IL.R. MAXON MAY BE GENERAL MANAGER IN OPA SHAKE-UP   Changes In Personnel, Policy And Qperations Will - Be Announced Shortly

Advertising Man May Get High-OPA Post   Drastic Changes’ In Personnel Are Exnected 

SHAKEUP IN OPA SEEN: MAXON MAY TAKE POST   Head of Detroit Advertising Agency May Be Named “General Manager” — Drastic Changes May © Follow If He Accepts Position — Policy and Operations May Also Be Along Ditferent Linec. [le BRolin€é

MAXON SEEN AS NEW OPA CHIEF   Drastic Changes And Revised Frogram May Be Revealed Within Next Two Days

BIG OPA CHANGE EXPECTED SOON   Adjustment Of Policy, Personneh May Come In Two Days

Maxon, Information Officer, May Get Post  Consider OPA ‘General Manager’

Forecast Drastic Changes In OPA Personnel, Policy And Operations

STABILIZATION OF WAGES DEMANDED   cio Board Adopts Resolu. tion Asking Flexible Plan

STABILIZATION OF - WAGES DEMANDED   Clo Board Ador ‘Adopts Resolu tion Asking Flexible. Plan

AXIS LOSES 40 SUBSEA CRAFT DURING MONTH   Full Strength of Britain Pledged to Defeat of Japan

Churehill Says +ULBoats Smashed   Demands Surrender of Ger many, Italy and Japan

Allied Bombings Of Nazi Germany Will Be Increased   Churchill Says War On Axis Will Be Intensified—UBoats Smashed   ALL-OUT WAR ON , JAPAN PLEDGED

Announces Smashing of Nazi U-Boat Warfare; Demands iInconditional Surrender af Three Powers

British Rush Aid In Drive Along Coast   Nazis Counter-Attack In Fierce Struggle

NAZIS CONFUSED BY ALLIED MOVE   Instead of Quitting Salerno Yanks Are Pouring In Reinforcements

British Urge International  Food Bank   Would Increase Crops  And Salt Away Surpluses For World’s Lean Years

International Food Bank Proposed by British at Hot Springs Conference

Britons Submit Blueprint for World Free From Want ‘Favor Bountifal Harvests to Replace Plow-Jt-U]ndoe:

WORLD FOOD BANK URGED BY BRITISH   Would Salt Away Surpluses of Fat Years and Insure Good Health In Lean Sea sons.

British Submit Food Bank Plan   Blueprint for World Free from Want Proposed to Parley

“Ever-Normal” Granary Plan For All World   British delegates’ propose “food bank” for all; to store surpluses for use in bad years.

British Propose Food Bank for Use after War   Hot Springs Conferenc Gets Suggestions for Feeding World

International Fooc Bank Suggested   British Delegation For Well-Fed World

World Food Bank Proposed To Tide Over Lean Years   British Delegation At United Nations Parley Offers Plan For Production, Rather Than ‘Plow It Under’ System

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDA. TION FOR MODIFICATION. _ OF PRESENT SYSTEM  _ WILL FACE. STIFF OPPOSITION

May Retain Tax System   House Ways And Means Committee Against PayAs-You-Go Plan   OLD SYSTEM MAY BE MODIFIED SOME

Plan To Control Press And Radio Charged By Taf  Congressional Definitio1 aby ECC Authority

TAFT ASSAILS PRESS HANDLING   Ohioan Charges Administration.Officiais With Disregard for Its Freedom

ADMINISTRATION SCORED FOR CONTROL PASSION IT SHOWS  SENATOR TAFT BLASTS AT GOVERNMENT SUIT _

PERIL TO FREE PRESS, RADIO < SEEN BY TAFT   Senator Demands New © Definition of Authority ‘of FCC

[AFT SCORES ASSAULTS ON PRESS OF U.S   Senator Demands Protec. tion for Radio and Newspapers

FCC OVERSTEPS POWER, CHARGE   Senator Taft Asks Congress To Redefine Authority Of the FGC.

CHURCHILL 10 HOLD GANDHI FOR DURATION   Premier From Sick Bed Declares Security Is Primary Motive In Dealing With Leader.   India Still Menaced

GANDHI WON'T GAIN FREEDOM   Indian Leader Surviving Fast: Churchill Orders Further Confinement

Churchill Says Britain Won’t Yield to Gandhi   Message Supports Action of Indian Officials

Doctors Think Nationalist Leader To Live Through His 21-Day Fast: Six:Days Remain

Churchill Says Gandhi Will Not Win His Freedom   Prime Minister Insists In dian Leader Must Stay in Custody

Mikado’s Armies Face Mounting Offensives; Japan's Premier Is Ill

Tojo Reported {ll at Tokyo   Diet Session Which He Planned to Address To Be Recessed

Jap Premier Reported Ili   Heavy Casualties Suffered By Enemy In Sanananda Fights

PREMIER TOJO REPORTED ILL, COLDREASON   Stricken by an Undisclosed liiness on Eve of Reconvening Parliament

REPORT JAPAN FACES SERIOUS SHIP SHORTAGE   Premier Tojo Stricken on Eve of Parliament ; Session

Tojo Illness Inspired By Need Of Time   Jap Premier May Be Planing To Demand New Powers

W. T. MAGOON ROTARY CLUB PRESIDENT   Succeeds Floyd Verrill; WwW Stuart Allen Officiates - at Installation

Succeeds Floyd Verrill; ‘Ww Stuart Allen Officiates  . “at Installation

CONGRESS ASKS RE-CANVASS OF FEDERAL ROLLS   House Takes Up Financial Threated To Soldiers’ Families

Recanvassing Of. Payrolls Is Demanded   War and Navy Departments Approve Boost in Payments to Dependents of Service  Men

LOSING FIGHT ON DAD DRAFT   Wheeler Opens Battle; Congress Looks to U.S, Payroils  for Service Eligibles.

BATTLE BREWS IN CONGRESS ON FATHER DRAFT   Sen. Wheeler Starts Demand That ‘Slackers’ Be Called From Federal Jobs

Demand Grows In Senate to Probe Deferments of Men on U. §. Payroll

Bowles Favors Food Subsidies   Price Administrator Says Living Costs Might Go Up 10 Pereent Without Plan.

Boost In Food  Prices Foreseen   Bowles Says Subsidy Program Necessary

HIGH NAZI OFFICIAL IS BUSY IN BALKANS   Marshal Keitel Seeks T Bolster Defenses

Nazi Organizes Army in Balkans   Unified Group Said To Act as Defender:  Meme tee: linuieetad

OW! Wants To Know Source Of News Stories   Begins Probe Of   Thieelosunre OF Soft

OW! Seeks To Shut Off  News Sources  Tries To Discover How Reporters (let Staring

OWT Attempis. To Find Leak   Releasing Of Food News To. Press ts Cause OF . Consternation

OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION SEEKS LEAKAGE OF NEWS  GETTING FROM OTHER THAN OFFICIAL OFFICE

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9,000 CASUALTIES ADDED TO U.S. LIST      Navy Department Reports 23,955 Casualties

5,000 Lost ir Four Weeks  In Tunisia —   Casualties in Last Month Raise Total US Losses in 17 Months to More than 80,000 for Army, Navy, Marines

85,000 Casualties For U.S. Forces In 117 Months Of War   Indications Point To No More Than 5,000 In ‘Tunisia. .

U. 5. Casualties Are Made Public   Total For 17 Months Exceeds. 80,000

MONTHS TOLL IN AFRICA PUT AT NEAR 5,000   ‘Amy Estimates That Number Killed, Wounded, Missing in Last Four Weeks in Tunisia

‘American Casualties in 17 Months  Of War Expected to Total 85,000

U.S, CASUALTIES PUT AT 80,000   5,000 Additional Expected As Tunisian Campaign Closes

URGES A SOUND FOREIGN POLICY AS G. 0. P. AIM   REPUBLICAN LEADER SETS FORTH PLAN TO END CONFUSION

Nine of {5 Escaped Convicts at Large  Lamar Countian Is Among Fugitives  omen: Die Rusececae Klaus

City, Not Notified of Impending Actions, Protests Lack of Voice in Joint Projects .

Italians Are Urged  To Speed End  Of War by Striking  — Socialist Party Acts Against Premier, Would Abolish King

‘SOFIA WILL IBE EVACUATED   Peace Demonstrations in Bulgaria Reported

State Bans Bootleg Minine   Order Issued to Stop Coal Bootlegging By November 30

EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES ENFIDAVILLE   Four Furious Counter‘attacks Repulsed With Losses

Rommel's Thrusts Repulsed   British Planes Bomb Ber. lin and Two Other  German Centers

FIRST BARRIER TUNIS AREA HURDLED TODAY   Allied Air Forces Continue To Take Terrific Toll Of Axis Aircraft

No Further Rationing of Coffee in Immediate Prospect, Roasters State

Asserts Measure In Present Form  Would Not Work   President Recommends Selective Service Act. Raise Draft Age To, 65

ACTION UPON ~ ANTI-STRIKE BILL COMING   WLB Demands That Union Be Forced to Accept Recent Settlement.   FLASHY?

TWO ESCAPE AS FLAMES LICK AT WRECKAGE   Number Of Air Force Officers From Wright Field Are Among Victims   FORCED LANDING MADE   Transport Smashes In Kentucky While On Flight To Nashville, Tenn.

20 Meet Death In Crash of Airliner In Kentucky Hills   ‘Liner Crashes and Burns as Wings Shear  Off, Engines Torn Loose in Crash  Landing in Kentucky Hills

EXTRA!   Crash Of Big Airliner Takes ~ Twenty Lives   American Airlines Plane Burns After Attempt To Make Belly-Landing On Tree-Studded Field

20 Die In Crash of Big American  Airlines Plane   Craft Tried Belly Landing In. Field Filled With “Trees

Huge Airliner Crashes, 30  Persons Dead   Plane Wrecks In Hill Country Of Kentucky During Bad’Weather

Stone Vetoes Plan For Soldier Vote   Chief Justice Says Proposal Is Wrong

CHIEF JUSTICE OF U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES BILL JOB   JUSTICE STONE SAYS WILI NOT NAME UMPIRE SOLDIER’S VOTE

Declimes Part In Var Ballot   Chief Justice Harlan Stone Sends Letter For Vander bere To Read.

Judge Objects To Part in Soldier Vote   - Stone-Says He Will Not Name Member on Proposed Conmissinn

aN a iN a ileal aan etemeemnneabenmeneiieatienienenemeneneeninmnnannel  Chief Justice Says He Would Decline  to Take Part in Proposed Commission

CHIEF JUSTICE WILL NOT AGT   Stone Declines to Serve on Armed Forces Ballot Group.

CHIEF JUSTICE BALKS AT WAR BALLOT SET-UF   ‘Stone Will Not Take Any Part in Appointment in Connection With Armed Men's Voting

Germans  Thin In Balkans   Slovenians Settling Old Scores With Axis

 Yugoslav Guerrilla Triumphs  Declared To Be Exaggerated   Eyewitness Finds That Partisan Armies Keep Germans Busy, However, And Wait Only Coming Of Allies

PVT. LEROY C. KECKRITZ, VALMEYER BOY, REPORTED Wor#»§npnrnpn IN ACTION

Pvt. Frank Smith Wounded In Action   Robeson Soldier. Among Casualties in North Af rican Area;

Third War Loar  Drive Greatest   Treasury Calls For Quarter Of Income

SAYS 2 PER GENT OF U. 5. INCOME NEEDED FOR WAR   Assistant Secretary of Treasury Calls for Greatest Thrift Campaign in History of the Nation.   COUNTRY MUST BORROW 45 BILLION THIS YEAR   Warns Against Inflation and Hits Civilian Spending in Plea for Support of Third War Loan.

Greatest Thrift Campaign in U. S. For Third War Loan   Missouri Bankers Told Nation Must Borrow 45 Billions

STORES OPEN ALL ~ TAY WEDNESDAY      But Most of Food and Feed Stores To Continue Closing

TURKEYS SHORT FOR CHRISTMAS   Thanksgiving ring Meal Will Be As Bountiful As Last Year

M. A Britt Buried Here Tuesday Morning   Holiday Food Cuts Predictet by Next Christmas —

Discuss Plans For Sportsmen  Conservation Con rFeaee em Aeresermm

GOVERNOR SOUNDS THE (CarT.   Dempsey Divorce Trial Witness Tells of Co-respondents’ Visits

Mississippi Governor Dies   Paul B. Johnson Dies At Farm Home Near Hattiesbura

Dead Governor Is Paid Tribute  State Offices in Mississippi Closed

GOVERNOR DIES IN MISSISSIPRY   Gov. Paul B. Johnson, Who Championed ‘The Runt-Pig People’ Expires

Russians Race Toward Smolensk In Fast Drive   Tanks And Infantry Crush Opposition, Take 53 Places

REDS RACE ON THROUGH 53 TOWNS   Fast-Breaking Drive Crushes All Opposition

SOVIET. FORCES RACING THROUGH (53 MORE VILLAGES   Advances Recorded In Key Sectors Along 900-mile Stretch of Front.

53 More Town: Taken by Russ Tn Rzhev Area   Soviets Now 37 Miles West of City; Olenino Captured

FAST-BREAKING DRIVE CRUSHES NAZI DEFENSES   Thrust For Big Smolensk  Base Develops 7? ey datal Wee

CHUGH NAZIS IN FAST PUSH ON oMOLENSK   Russian Offensives Pound Ahead Along 900 Mile Line of Power.   IMPORTANT RAIL LINE WILL HELP CAMPAIGN

03 MORE PLACES ARE CAPTURED IN CRUSHING ENEM   Russians Gain Railroad Control For Means of Moving Troops and Supplies in Smolensk Thrust.   GERMAN ATTACK MADE IN TUNISIA CHECKED   Americans !n Central Tunisia Operating at Faid Pass to Make Quick Drive to Reach Coast.

Soviet Troops. . Rushing Onward   ‘ Pass Through. 53 More :Towns. _--:=

PUSH SWIFTLY IN DRIVE FOR BASE OF NAZIS   Smolensk Next Main Objective As Result of Germans Evacuating Strong Point at Rzhev.

OPPOSITION CRUSHED BY SOVIET ARMY   Russian Tanks, Infantry Forging Ahead to Attack Big German Base.

Red Troops Advance Through 53 More Towns   Nazi Opposition Crushed in Drive  , Cee See, Se, oe

Took Leros By Sheer Audacity   Landing of German Paratroops Teaches Allies Another Bitter Lesson in Air Power

Leros Is Taken By Nazi Audacity   [hey Brave Reckless Hazard of Dropping ‘Chutists in Daylight.

FASTING GANDHI BECOMING WEAK   Leaders In India Fear Death May Summon Little Holy Man

NEW ADVANCE GRINDS DOWN BASE DEFENSE   eae © FLAME THROWERS AND TANKS  BROUGHT INTO ACTION AGAINST MUNDA AFTER  TERRIFIC BOMBINGS

Tanks In Action Against Munda   Flame-Throwers Also Used By Yanks In Advance On Jap Base   BAD WEATHER IS PLANE HANDICAP

W. L. ECKERMAN GRADUATES IN TEXAS SCHOO!   Chariton Boy..Finishes Bom. pers ‘pardier:Courseat <San Angelo.

Government To Back Hogs At $13.75 Level   Pledge To Be Kept, But Just How Is Not Told; Possibly By Army Purchases

Hog Prices fo Be Supported   Government to Act if Average Price Falls Below $13.75 Level

FDA Means To Support Hog Price Level   Prices Slumping Near $13.75 Pledge; How FDA Will Do It Is Unexplained

SUPPORT Hoe PRICE LEVEL   FDA Intends To Keep Pledge To Hold Market =“ Price Up tp

Follower Of Wright Given  Long Sentence   Member Of Architect's Taliesin Fellowship Is Sentenced For Failure “To Report To Army

ARREST 2 OUTLAWS WANTED FOR ROBBERY   Regarded as Most Dangerous Criminals at Large

Two Bandits Captured In Kansas City   Pair Labeled “Most - Dangerous At Large By FBI Agent

TREASURY TO GIVE — INFORMATION SOON ON THE TAX SETUP   Is Effective July 1 and Both Employes and Em. ployers Will Be Given Details.

PAY AS YOU 60 “ACTION STARTED   Treasury Is Sending Out Information

MOVE IL DUCE'S HEADQUARTERS   Transferred To Northerr Italy from Endangered Rome

Yanks Push Forward, But Slowly   Naval Units Shell German Line In Front Of Montgomery

Three Miles From Base On  Rome Road   Germans Claim Attacks Along Volturno Halted

BOTH SIDES ARE STRENGTHENED FOR SHOWDOWN   Northwest African Airforce Also Intensely Active Over Menrgomervs  Front Along Adriatic   BERLIN PREPARING ROUT FROM ROME   Meanwhile. Fifth Army Reports Dogged Progress Northward Despite Extensive Demolitions

‘House Group Pares Down Sunis For Service Men’s Dependents ‘Below Figures Senate Okehed   ‘Mussolini Government Moving To North Italy   Vatican Takes Steps To Protect Property

ALLIES START ROME BATTLE: NAZIS ROUTED   Germans Launch Infantry Near Termol: Area  TarryeiYT wre wy

THE MUSSOLINI GOVERNMENT T0 MOVE FROM ROME   To Be Transferred Ko Northern Italy Over Week-End, It Is Announced.   DIPLOMATS INFORMED   inadequate Telegraphic Con. nections With European Capitals.

GERMAN BROADCAST INDICATES NAZIS HAVE LITTLE HOPE OF HOLDING ROME

TRADE PACTS   House Ways and Means Committee to Hear Hull  And Jones First

TRADE PACTS, TAX ACTION IN HOUSE      Republicans to Press for Levy Stand as Treatjee Come Uo

House Body to Take Up Pact Powers   Action Seen as Hint To Postwar Policy

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TRADE PACTS TO BE AIRED   World Watches Ways And Means Group As It Takes Up  Treaties

NAZIS’ BROADCAST SAYS PORTUGUESE MAY HAVE TO PAY   Feel Break Of Neutrality Might Have Been International Violation

Agreement Is Reached On Strength Of Forces   Goal Of 10,800,000 Men Is Expected To Be Reached Before End Of Year.

REDS PENETRATE SMELA SUBURBS, KEY JUNCTION   Germans Resisting Stubbornly In Order To Prevent Russians From Gaining Control. +

Other Russian Troops Advance in Battle West of Kiev.   GERMANS RESISTING VERY STUBBORNLY   Russians Real Plans Seem to Hinge on the Weather.

REDS REACH KEY - RAILROAD JUNCTION   Progress 15 Miles to Smela  Since Yesterday

FORCES ON GUADALCANAL MAKE “SMALL ADVANCES”.  eee a. weneterue   Legislature To Convene Today

Navy Work Hit By Stoppage at Alameda Yard   Admiral Greenslade Sends Warning; Convoys TDelaved

Strike Halts Shipyard Work   Alamedg Yard Is ° Scéne. of Trouble

LOOKER IS BOOKED ON MURDER CHARGE   ————  Accused Slayer Removed to Washington County Jail

LOOKER 1S BOOKED ON MURDER CHARGE   Accused Slayer Removed to Washington County Inil

FARM SUBSIDY ‘BUCK WILL BE PASSED 10 CONGRESS FRIDAY   Jones Will Cite Pligh Of Dairymen To Committee

DENIAL OF ACCUSED IS READ IN COURT      De Marigny, in Statement, Declared Murder Charge “Ridiculous”

De Marigny s Defense Plans Given at Trial   Declared in Bed Night of Murder

In] ieiemom ‘ Oakes’ Murder  De Marigny Swears He Was at Home at   De Marigny Swears He Was at Home at Time of Crime

Accused Man Denies Murder of Oakes  Statement Conflicts WithOther Testimony

Defense Contends  ——$—$— ar  Oakes Killed While [De Marigny Slept

De Marigny Detense Is Given Jury  Says He Was Asleer When Oakec Was Slain

NEGOTIATIONS DEADLOCKED IN WAGE DISPUTI   Southern Mine Operators Ask Secretary Perkins To Certify Wrangle

OWNERS EXPLAIN REJECTION Ot WORK WEEK PLAN      Declare Proposal Motivated By Desire to Increase Income of Miners   BURKE GIVES VIEWS IN WIRE TO MISS PERKINS      Lewis Is Wiling Accept Proposal in Lieu of Demand for $2 a Day Basic Wage Boost; Will Not Alter Other Top Demands

OPERATORS SCORE 6-DAY PROPOSAL   Plon of Secretary Perkins Called Violation of President’s Order

WOMAN SENT TO PRISON FOR THREATENING LETTER SENT GOVERNOR BRICKER

FUNERAL FOR MISS MARY A. LOUNSBERRY   Retired Concord Public School Teacher Was in Her 88th Year

WILL GIVE EXAMS FOR U. §. ACADEMIES   Open Competitive Tests For West Point And Annapolis Will Be Given At York July 31

BRIDE'S MURDER IS DESCRIBED   Negro Dining Car Cook  Fills In Details Of  Lower 13 Slaying

TAX MEASURE PASSAGE SEEN   Doughton Predicts Action On New Levies Despite  Controversies

New Agency to Help Unravel Maze of Taxes By Federal, State, City Taxers4s Urged

[Fiscal Board Asks Tax Changesin U.S.   Committee Urges State-National Authority Agency

City Residents To Enroll For  Summer Jobs   3.5 Million Workers Sought Under Setup Announced By McNutt And Wickard

Land Army of: Over 3 Million To Be Sought   Persons Not on War ‘Jobs To Be Asked. to Help on Farms ——

PLAN ARMY’ TU WORK ON FARMS   McNutt And Wickard Disclese Plans To Marshal Workers

M'NUTT SEEKING *"LAND ARMY’ OF ~— 3,500,000 MEN   Wickard Asks for Volunteers From Towns to Work  On Farms

Seek fo Form Land Army for Seasonal Work   Persons Not Doing War Labor Asked To Join Food Drive

“Land Army” of 3,500,000 To Be Sought   Wickard and McNutt Would Mobilize Volunteer Army of This Size for Seasonal Farm Work

‘Land Army’ to be Formed For Seasonal Farm Work   Persons Doing Work Not Connected Directly With  War Effort to Be Enrolled In Both Rural and Urban Communities; Will Be Asked to Aceept Regular Farm Waves

“HUGE LAND ARMY. °FOR FARMS URGEL   McNatt, Wickaird Announce Move to Mdbiize -3,500,000 for Seasoial Wark

WILL ORGANIZE BIG LAND ARMY OFVOLUNTEERS   Three And A Half Million For Seasonal Farm Work To Be Enrolled

Land Army For Work on Farms Sought   3,500,000 Volunteers to Be Sought by  Government

3,500,000 Volunteers to Be Sought ~ for ‘Land Army' to Save Year's Crop

Prepare To Form Huge Land Army   Government Will Seek 3,500,000 Volunteers To Help Carry Out Seasonal Farm Work

Will Seek Farm Work Volunteers   “Land Army” Planned By McNutt and Wickard To Save U. S. Crops   Will Work For Wages Usually Paid Hands   U. S. Employment Service Will Do The Enrolling

SEEK SEASONAL FARM WORKERS   McNutt, Wickard Want to Mobilize Land Army of ~ «3,500,000; ~~"

VOLUNTEER FARMERS SOUGHT FOR 134i   3,500,000 Workers Needed To Aid On Farms

Will Seek Volunteers For Farms   Senate Military Committee Seeks To Find Answer On Size Of U. S. Army

Suggest City  Help On Farms   Would Organize Volunteer ‘Land Army’ Of 3,500,000 For Work.

Will Mobilize Land Army For  Work on Farms   Manpower Chief McNutt Hopes to Enroll Persons in All Communities.   Volunteers Asked to Work at Regular Pay

CLERKS WILL BE ASKED TO HELP WITH FARM WORM   3.500.000 “Army” May Get Less Pay, But Pairiotism Will Be The  Reason For Enlistine

Want Volunteers For Work on Farms   Store Clerks Will Be _ Asked To Shift Temporarily   ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE FARM WAGES

‘Land Army’ of 34 Million Volunteer Workers Is Asked   Would Be Sent to Farms During Peak Seasonal Periods

LAND ARMY TO HELP FARMERS TOBESOUGHT   MeNUTT AND WICKARD TO TRY OUT VOLUNTEER METHOD

‘Land Army’ For - Farm Aid Aim of MeNutt, Wickard   Seek Temporary Shift of Workers Not Engaged In War Effort

McNutt, Wickarc Seek Farm Army OF 3,500,000 In ‘43   Volunteers Will Be En rolled; Military Size Limi tations Probed

CLERKS WILL BE ASKED TO HELP WITH FARM WORK   3,900, O00 * ‘Army ”* May Get Less Pay, But Patriotism Will Be The  Reason For Enlisting

To Mobilize ‘Land Army’ For Seasonal Agricultural Work   Rural, Urban Nonessential Workers To Be Enrolled in Program.

WORKERS. EAR FARMS   Land Army of 3, 500,000 Planned; Volunteers To Be, Sought   48-HOUR WEEK IS ADVOCATED      Armed Forces May Be Increased to Ten or Eleven Millions

‘LAND ARMY: 10 PLANT, HARVEST: (RODS PLANNED   Clerks In Stores May Be Shifted By WMC To Ascure Food Supply

Would Enlist Land Army For Farms    McNutt and Wickard Seek to Mobilize 3,500,000 Volunteers to Work On Farms If Needed

Volunteers to Be Sought for Work on Farms   Paul McNutt, Manpower Commissioner, and Food Administrator Wickard  Work Out Details

Secking To. Mobilize Huge “Land Army’   3,500,000 Men Sought To Aid Nation's Farmers

Voluntary Land Army to be sought   McNutt, Wickard  announce plans

Senate Military Group Studies Manpower   McNutt, Wickard Announce Plans To Aid Farmers

TO MOBILIZE “LAND ARMY" OF 3,500,000   Persons Not Working in War Effort to be Enrolled in Rural and Urban Communities   TO HELP RAISE CROPS

American War Planes. Patrol Desert Trail  Of Rommel’s Force:   Allies Catch Afrika Korps in Vast, Aerial Nut-Cracker, To Show Effectiveness  of New Allied Air Command

Aircrait Destroyed at Castel Benito   All U. S. Fighters And Bombers Get Bia ale Gafale

HOGS REACH $15.36   Highest Price Paid on Kansas City Market Since 1920

‘Lewis Instructs Miners To Return To Pits; Agreement ! IsReached With Government   Wage Contract Providing For $1.50 Increase In Daily Earnings Of Soft Coal Diggers Agreed Upon; Pact Subject To War Labor Board Review

Telegrams Announced “Satisfactory Wage Agreement” Executed; Urge Speedy Restoration of Mines to Full Production.   Lewis Signed Orders

Coal Strike Is Ended; Miners Ordered Back   United Mine Workers and Secretary Ickes Agree on Wage Contract, Providing Increase of $1.50 a Day for Soft Coal Miners

‘Agreement Runs for Duration of Government Control, Is Subject to WLB’s Approval; Production Time Extended Qne Hour

Agreement With Miners Reached   * $1.50 A Day Increase In Earhings Set Up And Diaaers Ordered Back Ta Wart

‘Coal Strike Ends «As UMW-Ickes Sign Contract  Wane Pact Praovidec   Wage Pact Provides $1.50 Daily Hike for Miners

Miners Receive Increase of  $1.50 Per Day   Men to Return to Pits As Soon as Possible; 30-Minute Lunch Period Is Cut in Half

Coa Strike Ends In Pay Boost  Of $1.50 Per Day.   Mine Union and Ickes Reach Agreement, Subject to WLB Okay

Coal Miners Strike Ended   Hike In Pay Granted In New Aqreement 

EVIDENCE OF GENERAL NAZI WITHDRAWAL   Fires Are Reported Behind Lines In Central Italy

Reinforcements Arrive for American and British Armies  SLOW PROGRESS IN FIGHTING IS MADE  Fifth Army : Captures 3 Towns Beyond the Volturno

Fifth Occupies Three Towns In Steady Advance   British Eighth Army Patrols Stab West Toward Italian Capitol

Troops Now “Firmly Occupy” the Towns of Cancello, Ruviano and Nerrone in Slashing Attacks.   BRITISH 8TH ARMY MOVING TOWARD ROME   Numerous Fires in the Enemy’s Rear Area Suggest Germans Were Destrov ing Supply Dumps.

Allies Capture Trio of Towns   Give Fifth Army Heights Dominating Low Lands; Strong Reinforcements to Mainland; Axis Lost Many Planes~in Southern Italy

CLARK'S sth CAPTURES CITY AIRDROME   Nazis Withdrawal Upon Rome Hasten. ed; 6,500 Enemy Planes Lost

Soviets Penetrate German Dnieper River Defenses   No Planes Lost as RAF Mosquito Bomb. ers Blast Berlin, Allies Continue Alr Attacks

GLARK’S ARMY WINS 3 TOWNS   Fires Behind German Lines May Indicate General Withdrawal Soon.   8TH ARMY STABS WEST

Clark's Forces’ Occupy Three Italian Towns .   British 8th Army Stabs Into Apennine Mountains on Way Toward Rome

Foe Believed Burning Own Supply Dumps   Three More Towns Taken in North Italy

SOME SIGNS SEEN GERMANS ABOUT 10 RETREAT IN ITALY   Numerous Huge Fires Seen In German Rear Areas   BUT THE FIGHTING STILL RATHER HOT

Rebuilding Of Ports Aids Allied Plans   Troops, Tanks, Guns, Ammunition and Food  Moving in Swiftly ADVANCES CONTINIUFE

Cancello, Air Base City, Is Taken By 5th   Clark’s Forces Driving Enemy Back Against Desperate Resistance; Front Called ‘Fluid’

Eighth Army Patrols Stab Westward   Report Many Fires in Rear Of German  Lines

New Gains in Italy; Russians Push Through Dnieper Defenses for Fifteen Mile Gains

TAKE d MORE TOWN; DRIVE BEYONG RIVER   Fires Blazing Behind German Lines Hint Destruction of Supply Dumps.

Allies Press Twin Drives to Encircle Nazi Army in Italy   Important Landings of Men and Material on Mainland Announced

STH ARMY OFFENSIVE CUTTING DEEPER INTO ENEMY POSITIONS [ON THE ROAD TO ROME =   _. Cancello, Airdrome City Three Miles- Above River Falls to Americans. Gen. Clark’s Army Driving Enemy Back Against Desperate Resistance _ .

Fifth Army Takes Important Towns Above Volturno; British Captures Air Base Near Coast.

THREE MORE CITIES TAKEN BY 5TH ARMY   Important New Landings Made: British Advance Deep Into Appenines; Resistance Stiff

“Americans Capture Towns Beyond Volturno While British Stab Westward: Germans Believed Burning Dumps War Materiels

Cancello Air Base Falls In  Inland Drive   British Clamp Pincers Against Volturno Nazis

OF VOLTURNO   Clark’s Men Seize Three More Italian Towns in Valley

Heavy Landings of Men, Materiel Aid Clark, Montgomery Armies; Yauks Tighten Grip on Volturno

Cancello, Former Axis Air Base,  Is Occupied   Clark's Men Make Advances Despite Desperate Resistance By Nazi Furees

LAKES Tint MORE TOWN N ADVANGE   Plunges Along Road To Rome   NAZIS WITHDRAW   a  Report Germans Quit ting Rome

Fires Suggest l'oe May Plan Full Retreat   American Fifth Armies Capture High Ground After Fierce Ficht,   BOMBER UNITS BUSY

New Gains Scored By Gen. Clark   Westward Stabs Made By British Troops In . Effort To Speed German Withdrawal

GERMANS ARE PUSHED BACK TOWARD ROME   ENEMY BURNS UP SUPPLIES, SET FOR RETREAT

Striking West’ Across Italy   General Clark Pushes Ahead Against Hard Opposition

British Eighth Army Patrols Stab Westwatd Into Apennine Backbone Toward Rome; Nazis Believed Destroying Supply Dumps In Area

MANY FIRES IN GERMAN REAR AREAS   snemy Believed Destroying Supply Dumps Preparatory to General Withdrawal      THREE TOWNS TAKEN

U. S. Fifth Army Driving Enemy on Volturno Front    Russians Score 15-mile Breakthrougl on Dnieper, Imperilling Large German Forces 

Fifth Army Occupies 3 Towns   Eighth Army Clamps Pincers On Nazi Volturno Positions

Nazi Positions In Grave Peril From &h Army   Clark’s Forces Cut  Deep Into Area —

Slashing Give and Take Fighting Marks Advance Of American Fifth Army

Drive North Nets Three More Towns   British Eighth Strikes Westward In A Pincer Move Against Nazi Positions In Italy.

Clark Army  : Seizes Three ATLULY aU aa Numerous Fires Indicate ; Nazis Preparing General . Withdrawal ‘SLASHING BATTLES ‘Eighth Army Beats Off Massive Counterattack 3v Germans   SLASHING BATTLES

PRESS PINCERS AGAINST NAZIS AT VOLTURNO   British Strike Westward Across Italy as Yanks Cut Deeper.   Cancello, An Airdrome Is Taken by Allies

ALLIES DISCLOSE TANDING OF MORE TROUPS IN ITALY   Equipped With Tanks, Guns and Other Supplies, They Are Moving Toward Battie Front.   THREE TOWNS TAKEN BY CLARE’S FORCES   Montgomery’s Army Stabs Westward—Fires Observed Behind German Lines as Enemy Retreats.

PORT FACILITIES REACH POINT WHICH PERMITS BIGGER DEBARKATIONS  THAN PREV OUSLY; MOVE SWIFTLY TO FRONTS

Nazis Destroy Supply Dumps As. They Retreat   New Landings Of Men Made on Italian Beaches

Clark Captures 3 More Cities   EIGHTH ARMY STABS WESTWARD IN APENNINES TOWARD ITALIAN CAPITAL; BELIEVE GERMANS FIRING SUPPLY DUMPS FOR GENERAL RETREAT

Yanks Start. New Drive Toward Rome   Gen. Clark’s For Forces. Driving: Germans Back on: Volturno: Front; Capture Airdrome ©

Eighth Strikes West While Clark Cuts Deeply Into Path Toward Rome

OTH ARMY GAIN [IS MADE AFTER HEAVY FIGHTING   Battle of “Merry-GoRound” Nature When Formations Stab Deeply

BOTH FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES GAIN   Driving Beyond Volturno, Clark’s Men Take Three Towns as British Stab Into Apenpine Backbone Toward Rome.

ALLIED Aru TY PLUNGING CN TOWARD ROME   Big tanks and heavy equipment pouring across Volturno

BRITISH STRIKING WESTWARD ACROSS ITALY TOWARD ROME   FIFTH ARMY CUTTING DEEPER TOWARD CAPITAL AFTER CROSSING RIVER

Pinchers Placed On Volturno Line By Two Armies   Russians Advancing At Several Points On Eastern Front

Important New Allied Landings Made in Italy; Three Towns Are Taken; ’ Montvomery’s Men Make Gains

Allies Push Back Nazis In Two Areas   Clark’s Men Drive on Beyond Volturno, Eighth Moving West

Mie! Armies a Resehsto ¢ Lol      Bigger Debarkations Possible With Repair of Po.ts. ‘Fifth and Cighth Push Germans Rack as Heavy Fight.  __ Ing Continues, =

Strong Allied Reinforcements Land in Italy   Three More Towns Captured in Drive

TAKE CANGELLO ‘AND TWO OTHER ITALIAN TOWNS   British Advance Westward Into Appennine Areg  Toward Rome A

Eighth Army Patrols Stab Westward  Report Many Fires in Rear Of German

Disclose Forces Aided Push in Heavy Fighting   5th Army Drives Beyond Volturno; Occupies Towns

POSSIBILITY OF WITHDRAWAL BY FOE SEEN   Yank Forces Capture Three Towns After Hard Fighting

Pincers Clamped Ry British Forces   __ “Merry-Go-Round” Fighting On Volturno tron

Push For Rome Is Slowed By Nazis   But Allies Continue to Gain “in Slashing Battle Over. . Volturno   FRESH UNITS LANDED   Fires in Enemy Rear Areas May Be Signs of With drawal

Allies Drive Nazis Back on Volturno Front   Russians Imperil German Forces at Dnieper River Bend, Melitopol and the Crimea; Allies Wreck 104 Jap Planes in Southwest Pacific

GERMANS DRIVEN BACK; FIFTH ARMY SEIZES 3 TOWNS   BRITISH 8TH ARMY STABS WESTWARD INTO APPENNINE BACKBONE

TWO-PLY DRIVE BY ALLIES ON ROAD TO ROME   Thousands of Germans Are Endangered in Russia; Japs Jolted in Air Again 4

Glark: Ford Drive Nazi      Japs Claim Sinking of Four Allied Tr ports—Yugoslavian Partisans Retr After Wrecking War . Plants ‘in “Balkan Ruhr” :

Americans Take Nerrone and Ruviano to Dominate Surrounding Lowlands—Brit ish Eighth Stabbing Westward

GEN. GLARK’S FIFTH ARMY NOW SLASHING BEYOND VOLTURNO  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY

Clark s Army Wins Way to High Ground   Now Locking Down on Lowlands Beyond the Yolturno River

Troops Slowly Push Foe Back  Toward Rome   Fifth Army Veterans Drive Past Volturno River, Occupy Three Towns; British Gain

Key Hill Towns Fall To Yanks Above Volturno   British Seize Cancello In Advance From Volturno Mouth As 8th Army Stake Wact Into Anennines

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Enemy May ~ Be Burning His Supplies   No Indication of General Withdrawal Other Than Huge Fires Seen

THREE MORE TOWNS fod BY. CLARK'S MEN; REINFORCEMENTS. LANDED ON ITALIAN MATNE AN

New Landings Made In Italv   Nazis Slowly Beaten Back Ports, Airfields Rebuilt 

GEN. CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY NOW SLASHING BEYOND VOLTURNO  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY PUSHING ACROSS ITALY

Clark's Vets Take Three More Towns   Germans Slowly Forced Backward North Of River

—ITALY—  GIVE-AND-TAKE BATTLE RAGING   British Eighth Army Stabbing Westward. In Advance On Rome   HELP ARRIVING   More Men And Material Landed On Italian Mainland, Report °

Reinforcements Arrive for American and British Armies   SLOW PROGRESS IN FIGHTING IS MADE

© 8th Army Drives To Close Pincers On Nazis; Reds  > Break Through For 15-Mile Gain

MOPS UP AFTER BITTER BATTLE OF VOLTURNO   Clark’s Men Seize Three More Halian Towns in Valley

One Soldier Killed, 17 Persons Injured As Barrage Balloon Explodes

Union Leader Would Barter No-Strike Pledge   ‘Man of Many Aliases © Quizzed by Committee Probing Brewster Plant

Salem, Other Northern Columbiana County Communities Affected   60-CENT CEILING IS-APPROVED HERE   Higher Rates Are Considered Stabilized, Regional Office Explains

REGIONAL WLB SETS PAY RATE FOR 14 CITIES   Establish Ceiling Wage of 60 to 70 Cents Hourly for Unskilled Labor

Giraud Resigns as Co-President   Quits French National Committee of Liberation; De(iaulle Now Chairman.

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Letest World News Today.   tpantd Resizis.

Jester. Says Oil Will Fall Short:   Chairman ‘Supports Pleas for. Crude Oil Price Increase

OHIO LIQUOR RATION TIP IS NOW GIVEN   Pint Every. Two Weeks Is Indicated by Plans

LIQUOR HEADS GET READY FOR RATIONING   Press Distillers for More Pint Size Bottles

SLAYER JUDGED SANE BY CLEVELAND JURY   ‘Must Stand Trial for First  Degree Murder

Hitler Seeks New Army of Vassal Troops   Trying to Raise 5 Million Men in- Satellite Countries .

Enemy Base Gets Worst Raid of All Pacific War  Allies Strafe Lae With 28 Tons Of Heavy Bombs

Heaviest Raid Of War Blasts Lae   Huge Fires Set At Japs’ Guinea Base

Lae Takes. Heaviest  Allied Raid   Dump 28 Tons Of Bombs and Fire Supplies

Filtering Reports Indicate Tide Of Panic Growing Among Berliners

ROME ATTAGK . WAS PLANNED   . ry x GERMAN. AIR STRENGTH BLOCKED ONE SURPRISE  JPHRUST—DUCE DEATH  . . ORDER IGNORED ..

SENATE BALLOTS FOR  KILLS  SERVICE MEN   Action Called “Trayesty” on Soldiers’ Political Rights

SOLDIER VOTE CONTROVERSY BEING SHIFTED TO STATES   SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS EXPECT REPUBLICAN SUPPORT _ TO GAIN HOUSE SUPPORT -?-* (OP SENATE BILL 70’

SENATE KILLS BALLOTS FOR SERVICE MEN   Action Called “Travesty” on Soldiers’ Political Rights

Early Consideration Of Income lax Askea   Rep; Daniel Reed Says Pay-As  “You-Go System Would Be Beneficial To. Treasu  ty And Taxpaver

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX WOULD AID NATION, PEOPLE   Rep. Reed Sees. ‘Benefit To U. S. Treasury And Taxpayer If Law Passes

MUNICH GOAL OF RAF SOWING BLOCKBUST'RS   Fcllowing Nuernberg Raid British Fliers Visit Birthplace Of Naziism Inflicting Tremendous Damage.   RAF Lost 11 Planes

RAF Strikes At Munich   Raid on France Follow: Rlockbuster Attack

HEART OF NAZIIGM TARGET OF BOMBS   Munich Feels Power of Blockbusters and Incendiaries; Extensive Fighter Sweeps Made Over France

RAF Again Hits Nazi Objectives   Berlin. Paris Radios Go Off Air: Bombers Assault Munich

R. A. F. Assaults Munich Again   500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi City

RAIDERS BELIEVED OVER GERMANY   BERLIN RADIO GOES OFF AIR —HEAVY ATTACK IS MADE ON MUNICH.

BOMBERS BLAST MUNICH PLANTS   Raiders of RAF Swing Deep Into Naziland In Strong Attack

B.A. F. Strikes Hard at Naziism   Stages Big Attack Against Munich.

RAF Showers Bombs -and::  Fire on Munich   Blockbusters Wreak Havoc in Cultural, Industrial Metropolis

Munich Bombed In Big Way by R.A.F. Raiders   ‘ive Hundred Tons o Blockbusters Dropped on Key City

Manich Gets Hard Pasting; Heart of Naziism Fired   Germans Admit Heavy Damage But Assert “Cultural Objects” Suffered Most

NAZI CENTERS BLASTED WITH   Blockbusters Dropped  On Munich; Heavy  Damage Caused

RUSSIANS FACE. SUPPLY PROBLEN BUT STILL GAIN   ONE RED COLUMN GAINS 26 MILES IN DAY’S FIGHTING

RED OFFENSIVE SHATTERS NAZI COUNTER-BLOW   More Strong Positions Occupied by Soviets in Latest Series of Gains

Nazi Troops Confused By New Assault  Reds Recapture In Three Days Land l act in Six Manthe

REDS CONTINU TO ADVANCE AT FAST PACE   q Complete In 3 Weeks What Nazis Did In 3 Months   INFANTRY MOVES   As Much As 30 Miles Each Day To Catch Up With Motorized Forces 

Russ Travel ‘Faster Than Supplies Can Be Carried   Area Nazis Captured After Months Is Overrun By Reds In Only Three Days

RAPID ADVANCE OF RUSSIANS CAUSING PROBLEM OF SUPPLY  RED ARMY FORCES OCCUPIED SEVERAL MORE CAU CASUS STRONG POINTS

OOMIETS FACE ~ SHPPLY NEEDS   Rapid Pace of Offensive Brings Up Problem of Reinforcement.   CONSOLIDATE POSITIONS

REPORT GAINS ALONG DON IN CENTRAL AREA   Over-Ride Strong German Resistance In Mid-Caucasus

WINTER OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON IN DON, CAUCASUS SECTORS   ‘In Three Days Soviets Blank et Triangle Nazis ‘Were Months In Taking

Rapid Russian — Advance Brings Supply Problem   Main Forces Push Forward in Effort ‘To Overtake Mechanized Troops; More Strong Points Seized by Soviels

OFFENSIVE BY prs REMAINS TINCT ACKENED   Progresses Despite Prob Jem of Supplies and Re' jnforcements Rapid Pace Causes   MORE STRONG AREAS OCCUPIED BY REDS   Override Strong German Resistance; Prepare for New Thrusts To-. ward Rostov

Progress Made On Caucasian And Don Fronts   Offensive Has Taken In Three Days What It Took Nazis Three Months To Take

PROGRESS ON BOTH FRONTS —   Rapid Pace Of Soviet Advance Creates Problem

MID-CAUCASUS DRIVE SPEEBY. MOSCOW SAYS   Progress Also Is Made On Don River Front   MORE TOWNS TAKEN   Consolidation Of Newly Won Positions Is Now Problem

Progress Is Still Being Made on Caucasus, Don Fronts: Strong Resistance Overriden

Russian Troops Keen Up Speedy Drive af Enemy   Berlin Admits Heavy Defensive Fighting }s On

Pace Of Russian Advance Creates Supply Problem   Red Vanguard Moving Faster Than Reinforcements Can Be Brought Up

SUPPLY NOW Bic RUSSIAN PROBLEM   Reds Blanket Vast Area In 3 Days It Took Germans 3 Months To Capture

Storm Moves Across Gulf   Disturbence May Go Into Hurricane Soon

knemy’s  eJroops ‘Dig In   Going Is Slower For Allies As Germans Stiffen Resistance.

ANKo, CANADIANS MOVING FORWARD   xtend Lines 15 Miles In Sicily; Americans Take Port Of Cefalu

GERMANS DIG IN FOR SHOWDOWN BATTLE AT MT. ETNA   However, Allies Have Pushed Battle Front 15 Miles Eastward in Sicily

ALLIES ADVANCE 1 MILES IN SICILY   Continue to Advance Despite Stiffening Opposition.

Allies Push on  15 Miles   Advance Lines Continue in Sicily Despite Opposition

Jap Pilots In China Have Lost Courage   Abandon Recklessness and Wait to Gang Up on Crippled U.S. Planes.

JAP FIGHTER PILOTS BALK AT BATTLES   Channault Tells Of Raids Which Meet Little Resistance

Dark Petroleum Picture Painted   Crude Oil Famine  Seen In Five Years By BRACK CURRY

Dark Petroleum Picture Painted   Crude Oil Famine’ Seen r Five Years

UNE YEARS TAR AT ATIME, URGED   National Grange Asks Congress for Quick Adoption of Pay-as-Go Plan; Opposes Double Tax Payment

GRANGE DELEGATE ASKS TAX ACTION   Fred-Brenekman- Urges—Fast. ---Adoption-of Pay-As-Yous_. Go Plan

Grange Leader Calls for Speed On Tax Plan   Likes Pay-as-You-Go Idea. But Wants Obligations Of One Year Removed

GRANGE OFFICIAL URGES ADOPTION OF NEW TAX PLAN   Opposes Paying More Than One Year’s Taxes At A Time   NO HOP, SKIP, JUMP, © DOUGHTON DECLARES

Grange Backs As-You-Go Income Levy  Farm Oreanizaton   Farm Organization Opposes Doubling Of °43 Tax Burden

PAY-GO INCOME TAX IS BACKED   Grange Spokesman Says Organization Favors Current Payments

Grange Leader Favors Pay-As-You-Go Plan Of Income Tax Collection

HOUSE IS EXPECTED TO DROP. FATHER DEFERMENT DISPUTES   REJECTION GF WHEELER'S BILL BY SENATE REGABDED - AB ENDING DEFERMENT MENT CONTRO- ? “wensy

FISHT TO DEFER  DADS DROPPED   House Abandons Own Bil and Considers Senate Substitute

Dad Draft Foes Quit Struggle   Defeat Of Wheeler Bill In Senate Signals Retreat In Lower House

HOUSE WONT SEEK FATHERS DEFERMENT   Bill Passed by Senate to Be Placea Before Committee

Here Are 36 Industries Considered Essential by Selective Service

Essential 36 Industries Are Listed By Selective Service Bureau Notice

VITAL INDUSTRY LIST REVEALED   36 OCCUPATIONS ARE LABELED ESSENTIAL

THINK SHOWDOWN ON MARTINIQUE PROBLEM IS NEAR   U. S. Navy and State Department Watch for: Further Developments Witkcout Hinting  What They Are

Navy Eyes French Isle   Martinique Showdown Is Expected Soon; Natives Are Hungry

Martinique, Vichy Island, Being Watched by U.S. Navy   (“Problem Child” of the Caribbean Since Fall of France  in 1940 Is Cui Of From United States Relations   by Hull Decree; Governor Termed   Datain Follawer

Axis Fights To Death On Every Hill   Americans Straddle Roads To Mateur and Bizerte; Take High Ground

BRITISH FIRST © ARMY ATTACKS NEARER TUNIS   Striving to Capture Key, Height at Medjerda Village Only 21 Miles  From Capital 4   ‘BRITISH 8TH ARMY  AGAIN ON MARCH   Both American and French Troops Succeed In Punching Deeper Into North, South Hill Barriers

British, French Forces Register Steady Progress   Yanks Triumph In Taking Bizerte Road Positions Despite Bitter Resistance

Advancing On Mateur And Bizerte   British First Army Battles for Medjerda Village Near Tunis

Bitterly Defended Positions Fall to Gen. Patton's Men   “Steady Progress” _in.     Savage Fighting ; in Northern Tunisia

HOUR OF CRISIS DRAWS NEAR IN TUNISIAN FIGHT   French Draw Near to  Key Defenses at Pont Du Fahs

BRITISH FIRST ARMY ATTACKS KEY HEIGHTS 21 MILES FROM TUNISIAN CAPITOL   American and French Troops Punch Deeper Into Hill Barriers of Tunis-Bizerte Zone. Eighth Army Again Surges Forward.

Three Strategic Hills Captured; Axis Weakening   Patton's Forces Clean Out Arninr. Strongholds

British Within 21 Miles Tunis   Germans Battle Hard to Hold All Points Attacked.

Decision Fast Approaching in North Africa   Americans Storm Three Well Defended Hills as British First Army Attacks Key Height

British, French Make Steady Pro"gress, Hold Gains Againsi Count. er-Attacks   FLIERS AID TROOPS   British and French Forces Threat en Encirclement of Pont dy Fahs

Yankee Troops Storm Hills on Road to Mateur   Steady Progress Being Made in — Drive Against Axis

 French Attack Height 21 Miles From Tunis   Eisenhower’s Command Cites ‘Steady Progress’ Made By Allies In Furious Battles; Britain’s Eighth Army Advances Again After Brief Rest

Communique Indicates Axis Fighting Desper- — ately to Prevent Being Split in Two :     WORLD DEVELOPMENTS

Yanks Take 3 Hills; British Hit Key Site 21 Miles From Tunis   American, French Troops Punch Deep Into Axis Hill Barriers; 8th Army Again Surges Ahead

Americans Get — Three Hills In Bitter Battle   U.S. Forces Capture Three Strongly Defended Hills On Road To Bizerte; Hour For Decision In North Africa Fast Approaching; Eisenhower Reports ‘““Good Progress.”

U.S. Seeond Army Corps Gains In  Hill Battle   French At Outskirts Of Pont Du Fahs; British First Army Continues Advance

ENEMY FIGHTS DAGK GITTCRLY ON ALL FRONTS   Allied Progress Is “Steady” Reports Gen. Eisenhower In Daily Communique

Bitter Axis Defense, But Allies Gain   British Ready For Attack On Tebourba, 18 Miles From Tunis

Allied Units Making Slow, Steady Gains   Axis Defending Every. Foot of Ground, Instructed to Fight to Death   BUT BRIDGEHEAD TIS WEAKENING      Bloody Battles Along All’ Roads-to Tunis Plain; Air Raiders Kept Goings

FIERCE FIGHTING MARKS ADVANGE ON ALL FRONTS   British Forces Strike from Two Sides and Break Through Defenses   REDS RENEWING ASSAULT   Two Jap Freighters Blasted In Far Pacific and Wireless On New Guinea Wrecked

Allies Seore Steady Gains  In All Areas   British First Army Attacking Key Height Only 21 Miles  From Tunis.  HEAD FOR SHOWDOWN

ALLIES HANMER AT AXIS LINES   British First, Eighth Armies, And French Make 700ress.   ENEMY NOW WEAKENING

British Smash Nearer Tunis; French Drive Into Outskirts Of Pont du Fahs In South.

Ist Army Is  from Tunis   Germdns Fight Desperately  to Stave Off Split as Allied ~ Ring Grows Tighter

Americans Storm Three Hills Straddling Road To Mateur; Foe Weakening

3 HILLS STORMED BY AMERICAN TROOPS   Patton’s Forces Drive Von Arnim’s Men Out of Diebe] Dardyss

3 WELL DEFENDED HILLS STORMED BY AMERICAN TROOPS   Cleaned Germans and Italians Out of Djebel Dardyss; Occupied High Ground.   PUSHED TOWARD JEFNA   Another Contingent Took Two Mountains South of the Station.

Americans Storm — ° Strategic Heights   British First Army Battles For Important Position 21 Miles West Of Tunis

YANKS SEIZE           British First Army-~Ba tles for Height 21 Miles. From Tunis as Oth Allied Forces Ma Gains Elsewhere. —— -

First Army Is at Medjerda, Only 21 Miles From Tunis   Montgomery's Eighth Returns to Action After Short Rest

Three Bitterly DefendedHills Taken By US   British First Army 21 Miles from Tunis; French Troops Press Sharp Threats to Coffin Corner Defenses; Reds Hammer Nazis at Taganrog

Ist Army Now 21 Miles From  Tunis; French Also Advance   ‘Hour Of Decision’ Near Says Eisenhower; Yanks Drive Closer To Bizerte   ALLIES MAKE ‘STEADY PROGRESS’   Patton’s Men Within 28 Miles Of Bizerte; 8th Army Surges Ahead After Rest

Americans Take Three New Hills In Bitter Fight   French Troops Storm Crumblitig Lines as Germans Still Resist

AMERICANS GRAB THREE AXIS HILLS   Allies Gradually Close in on Axis Forces in Northern Tunisia.   British Reach Point 21 Miles From Tunis

British Forces 21 Miles From Tunis   ‘Axis Bridgehead Reported Weakening

TAKE THREE HILLS ON WAY TO KEY PORT   “Hour of Decision” De. clared by Eisenhower to Be Near.   HIGH PRESSURE ” ON ALL FRONTS   ‘Americans Now Within °28 Miles of Bizerte, Make “Good Progress”

“AXIS OPPOSITION STIFE ON ROUTE ‘OF BRITISH PUSH   French Lauded For Bravery; Planes Keep Up Hourly Pounding Of Enemy

Three Hills Taken In Fierce Fighting   Americans Battle . Further Along the Road to Ma - teur and Bizerte   PROGRESS IS STEADY   Axis Defense of African Bridgehead Tenacious But Weakening

Heights Command Moteur-Bizerte Rood French Cut Pont du Fahs Highway; British Drive Nazis Down Medjerda Valley

Allies Making Steady Progress   French and American Troops Purich Deeper Into Hill Barriers — Fighth Army Surges Ahead -- Heavy Bombers Blast Bari Airdrome

Allies Advance Despite Strong Axis Defense:   Americans Seize Three Hills Near Bizerte; Trap Is Closing

ALLIES ROLLING TOWARD BIZERTE AFTER SEIZURES   British, French Forces Also Push On—Final Tunisian Battle Near

Hold Road Leading To Tunis, Bizerte; British, French Gain   Allies Control Main Military Positions on Way To Mateur, Germans To Fight To Last Man

BATTLE AREA IS ON ROAD TO MATEUR   First Army Seeks Height At Medjerda Village   AXIS DEFENDERS   Yield Ground Along Entire Line; Allied Planes In Many Raids

Allied Headquarters Reports British, Americans and French Making Progress Against Axis Bridgehead North Africa

AXIS DEFENSES ON LONG FRONT ARE WEAKENING   Yanks Capture Key Hills In  New Advance

ALLIES REPORTED BE MAKING PROGRESS IN BATTLE FOR TUNISTA   BRITISH FIRST ARMY ATTACK KEY HEIGHT 21 MILES FROM TUNIS

THREE FIERCELY DEFENDED HILLS TAKEN BY AMERICANS  ALLIED FORCES HAMMER STEADILY AGAINST

First Army Moves Within 21 Miles Of Africa Goal      Axis Sources Mention ‘Heavy and Embittered Fighting’ in North  Africa Theatre

Plan To Raise  Price of Corn   Would Subsidize Dairy  Farmers To Break Jam

Senate Votes 33c Increase in Ceiline Price for Corn   Resolution Sent to House; Smith Says Situation “Intolerable”

SENATE VOTES RAISE IN CORN   House Geis Resolution to Plact Ceiling at $1.40

BOOST IN CORN PRICES VOTED   Senate Sends Resolution to   House for Action

BRITISH 8TH ARMY MENACES NAZI TROOPS   German retreat under constant bombardment  from American planes

Rommel’s Axis ~ Army Forced Towards Trap   Being Forced Steadily - Back Toward British Eighth Army   KASSERINE PASS HELD BY ALLIES

GERMANY HIT BY AIR RAIDS   AMERICAN AND BRITISH. TROOPS RECAPTURE STRA. “ TEGIC POSITIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF KASSERINE PASS AS ROMMEL'S ARMY IS FORCED STEAD.  ’ 1LY BACK TOWARD BRITISH EIGHTH : ARMY IN-THE SOUTH

US. URGED TODEPRESS “TTS THAN      Abundant Crop and War Gains. Seen For Year ~

Thanksgiving!   President Roosevelt: Praclaims Holiday On November 25.

Nov. 25 Made Official Date   Roosevelt Proclaims Day For Expressing Thanks

THANKSGIVING DATEIS NOV. 25 SAYS PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Sets Traditional Last Thursday For Nation To Express Its Gratitude

WILL OFFER THANKS   President Roosevelt Proclams November 25 Thanksgiving Day

THANKSGIVING TO FALL ON NOV, 25   FDR Decides to Set Observance Where It Belongs, Last Thursday

Thanksgiving Day Date Set   President Proclaims Thursday, November 25 As Day of Observance

FDR -PROCLAIMS NOVEMBER 25TH THANKSGIVING   “The Day for Expressing Our Thanks to:God for ‘His Many Blessings i in 1042

‘TOP DIPLOMATIC RANK   U.S. to Be Represented in South America by Ambassadors

FDR CONFERS RANK OF AMBASSADOR TO ENVOYS TO LATIN AMERICA   Confirmation In Senate  Will Mean U. S. Will Be Represented in All Countries South of Its Borders

FDR RAISES RANK OF SEVEN ENVOYS   Asks to Have Ambassadors Represent U.S. in Latin America.

Ambassador Title, Not Pay For 7   U.S. Ministers To Latin Republics Are Elevated

Ambassador Rank To Latin Envoys   Roosevelt Confers Top Ranking to Seven South  American Countries.

Envoys Appointed To Highest Rank   Latin-Araerican Ambassadors Named

Lana Turner Gets Divorce   Wed Before Hushand’s  Decree Wag Fingal

Experienced Sub Skippers Thought Lost  Knox Thinks Nazis Now Digging Into  TT TT 3202

GERMAN U-BOAT RESERVES USED   KNOX BELIEVES FOE LOSING MORE SU8S THAN HE CAN BUILD

BELIEVE NAZIS DIGGING INTO SUB RESERVES   Knox Says U-Boats Destroyed Faster Than Production

 "aa Two More Towns  Are Seized in  Central Mountains   Air War Spreads ‘ Toward Rome and Over Aegean tslands

Legion To Elect State Commander, Pass On U. S. Maternity-Care Plan

_ Fire Victim   Two Store Buildings Are Destroyed And Three Families Driven Out  At Richland Center.

MIAN PERISHES IN BADGER CITY FIRE   Richland Center Blaze Destroys Two Store Buildings.

GENERAL CLARK'S  STH ARMY TROOPS ONLY NINE MILES © FROM GAETA PORT   Americans and_ British Push Forward Despite Bitter Counter-Attacks By Germans.

Germans Are Believed tc Be Blowing Up Gaeta Harbor.  ALLIES WiTHIN NINE MILES OF GAETA Two American Columns  Hacking Way Toward Sacco Valley.

PLAINS OF ROME NEXT BATTLEFIELD   Enemy Mountain Defenses  Are Crumbling

Saloon License Bill Passed By State Senate   Governor Ford Signs Measure Banning Fireworks Sale, Use

Bill to Raise Saloon Fee Past Houses   Two O'Clock Closing For Beer Taverns Is Also Sanctioned

Liquor Measures Are Approved  Governor Signs OR Woacuys T recapa

Large British Bombers Blast Duisburg Port   Over One Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Inland German Base.   ATTACK RAIL CENTERS

British Blast At Duisburg   Seventeen Bombers Reported Missing From Raid on Germany

RADS YET MADE O DUISBURG CENTER   Seventeen of Britain’s Big‘gest Bombers Missing From Attack, Described As Highly Concentrated; At Least 1,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped.

RAF STAGES A HEAVY RAID ON DUISBURG   Attack Officially De. scribed as One of the Greatest Ever Carried Out Against Reich — Other Points Assaulted.

RAF BLASTS — DUISBURG PORT   17 Bombers Missing Afte Highly Concentrated Attack

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST BOMBERS BLASTED AT DUISBURG LAST NIGH  ESTIMATED 1,000 TONS ’ BOMBS DROPPED ON TAIPRITC TRTAT manwy &

Bomb Barrage ~~ Hits Duisburg   1,000 Tons: Dropped;.17 Raiders Shot Down:

BRITAIN’S BOMBERS BLASTED DUISBURG AGAIN LAST NIGHT   Was One of the Heaviest Raids Ever Carried Out Against Reich.   17 BOMBERS WERE LOST   It Was Indicated That at Least 1000 Tons of Bombs Were Dropped.

CONCENTRATED AIR RAID MADE ON DUISBURG   At Least 1,000 Tons Bombs Ind caied Dropped on Rhine-Rubr Ir dustrial Target

RAF Bombers Strike Blow At Duisberg   1,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Inland Port; 17 Planes Lost

Large Bombers Blast Duisburg  Heavy Raid Carried Out Against Nazis

RAF Bombers Rain Terror On Duisburg  Drop 1,000 Tons of Block-Busters on German Part

HEAVY RAF RAID ON GERMAN PORT OF DUISBURG   Seventeen Bombers Missing From Highly Concentrated Attack.

BRITISH HAND REICH ONE OF WORST RAIDS   Rain 1,000 Tons Of Bombs On Vital German Inland Port Of Duisburg

British Bombs Hit Duisburg   Seventeen Planes Lost In Heavy Attack

1,000 Tons. Of Bombs Dropped On Duisburg   RAF Bombers Rain: Giant: Block Busters On Important German Industrial City In One Of War’s Heaviest Raids ._

RAF Attack Last Night One of Heaviest Bombardments Ever Car ‘ried Out Against Reich   APPROACHES ONE STAGED ON COLOGNE   At Least 1,000 Tons o Bombs Dropped on City; Seventeen Bombers Miss ing; Railways Pounded

BOMBERS BLAST AT GERMAN PORT   DESCRIBE RAID AS ONE OF HEAVIEST CARRIED OUT AGAINST REICH

Duisburg Blasted By RAF Bombers   German Inland Port Suf fers From One of Heavest Raids.

(British Blast Great German  Port Of Duisburg   1,0) ‘Tons of Bombs Dropped on City in One of Greatest Raids Yet Nlade on Reich.

INLAND GERMAN PORT ATTACKED BY BIG PLANES   Britain's Largest Bombers Strike Hard At Reich; Indicated At Least 1, 000 Tons Dropped; 17 Bombers Missing

Air Armada Blasts At Duisburg   Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Inland Port.

R. A. F. BLASTS INLAND PORT OF DUISBURG   Seventeen Bombers Fail To Return From Heavy  Raids Over Continent During Night  1000 TONS DROPPED

17 BOMBERS IN ATTACK   Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazi Port  ATIITA AannTira   Made Over France, Northwest Germany With Al Planes Returning

DUISBURG GIVEN HEAVY BLASTING   Nazi Inland Port Target Of Strong RAF Attack

1,350 Tons OfBombs Fall On Duisburg   RAF Loses !7 Planes Ir One Of Heaviest Raids Against Germany   DEFENSE IS STRONG   Highly Concentrated Blow Is Close To Size Of Big Cologne Attack

AT LEAST 1,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON CITY   17 British Bombers Fail t Return from Heavy Raid

Nazi War City Hit With 1,000 Tons Of Bombs   Seventeen Allied Bombers Reported Missing From Foray

RAFBombs Duisburg In Big Raid   Report 17 Planes Missing After One Of Heaviest Attacks On Germany.

Heavy Raid On Duisburg By RAF; 17 Bombers Lost   2,000,000 Pounds  Of Explosives Are Dropped In Highly Concentrated Attack

BRITISH PLANES — BOMB DUISBURG   17 Bombers Missing After One of War's Heaviest Raids on the Reich

INLAND GERMAN PORT BLASTED   Britain’s Biggest Bomber Smash at Duisberg; Raid Other Points.

Preview Of The Postwar 194? Follies   Appointment Of Baruch Steals Show From WPB's Act

School Book Plan Has Some Obstacles Now   Bill That Would Provide Free Text Books for Grade Pupils, Is Given the Sidetrack.

SEE SHORTAGE OF RUST-FREE OAT VARIETIES   Urge Purchase Seed Soon.

Rome   Allied Armistice Terms to Italy Severer Than Nazis to France

Drastic Terms Of Armistice Are Made Known   All Allied Prisoners To Be Handed Over, Free Rein Accorded

Husband Gets Custody of 7 Children; Alimony by Ex-Wite Is Ordered

Husband Gets Children —And Alimony; Wife A Ordinance Plant Worker

The War Today   ‘Internal Strifein Europe + Foreshadows Postwar Changes

BITTER INTERNAL STRIFE IN NATIONS STILL STRUGGLING FOR THEIR LIVES IS DARK SHADOW

End of War Will Bring Vast Political Changes in Europe Nations Torn with Internal Strife

WAR NEWS iJANALYSIS   Vast Political Changes Brewing In Europe Though War Rages

The War Today   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE Asscciated Press War Analyst

The War Today  Internal Strife In Europe Sympton Of Vast Political Changes,

 The War Today— ‘European Ferment Portends Many Political Changes After War’s End

THOUSANDS TEXANS  TO SPEND: CHRISTMAS  DAY WITH INFLUENZA MANY CASES OF TROUBLE SOME DISEASE REPORTED EROM OVER STATE

BERLIN FEARS AR ATTACKS   Goebbels Says City Is Partly Evacuated

RAIDS MADE AGAINST NIDS   44 Bombing And Strafing Runs On Japs’ Mubo Lines

BOMBERS SWEEP OVER JAP LINES   14 Bombing, Strafing Runs Carried Out in Damaging Blows at Mubo

Jap Lines at Mubo Receive Pounding from U. S. Planes   MacArthur's “Flying Artillery” Makes 44 Bombing and Strafing Runs Over Nippon Positions, Firing 30,000 Rounds of Ammunition Into Enemy Positions: Merchant Ship Hit

BOMBERS AT MUBO LINES   Garrison in New Guinea Rattles to Hail of Lead From Pilots of Allied Craft

Nips Given Taste  Of Bad Medicine   ES TS TY  Pianes Make 44 Runs And Fire 30,000 Rounds      ATTACKS CARRIED ON DAY AND NIGHT

“Flying Artillery’ Makes 44 Bombing ‘And Strafing Runs Over Jap Lines

U. S. FLYING’ ARTILLERY HITS JAP POSITIONS   Fortress Whips Three Jap Fighter Planes

ALLIED PLANES RAID JAP LINES AT MUBO   Make 44 Runs Over Enemy Positions

Japanese Lines Heavily Strafed   Flying Artillery Makes 44 Attacks

BOMB, STRAFE JAPS AT MUBO   30,000 Rounds of Ammu- nition Poured Into En emy Positions.

U.. Bombs Jap Bases 44 Times   Mubo Blasted, Strafed In Single Day

FLYING ARTILLER} AGAIN POUNDS JAPS   4 Bombing And Strafing uns Made In Single Day

JAP POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA HI   ‘Flying Artillery’ of Gen. M’Arthur Makes 44 Bombing and _ Strafing Runs Over Enemy Lines At Mubo; 30,000 Rounds Fired

WAR IN FAR PACIFIC FEATURES AIR RAIDS   ‘Allied Planes Make 44 Runs To Bomb and Strafe

MACARTHUR IS HITTING JAPS   Forty-four Bombing And Strafing Raids Made In Single Day

NO COAL MINERS PLEAD INNOGENT   Ask Charges of Violations of Anti-strike Bill Be Squashed on Grounds Measure Is Unconstitutional

Anti - Strike ‘Law Held to Be Invalj d   COUNSEL FOR 30 COAL MINERS CHALLENGES CONSTIVE tian. ALITY OF THE WAR LABOR DIsPUTES ACT,   Hearing Aug. 18

Smith-Connally Act Challenged         hes Contend itutional  lnddictedt Mi Law Uneo

MINERS OPPOSE NO-STRIKE LAW   Indicted Union Workers Plead Innocent, Claim Act Unconstitutional

CONNALLY BILL IS CHALLENGED   Counsel For Miners Says Act Unconstitutional ; Asks Quashings Of Strike Charges

District Miners Plead Innocent To Indictment:  Motion To Quash Filec   Motion To Quash Filec On Claim Measure  ls Unconstitutional

Validity of Smith-Connally Act ls Challenged by Coal Miners   Plead Innocent and Ask That Charges against Them Be Quashed

SURFACE LINES PARALYZED BY STRIKE IN L. A.   Aircraft Plants Take Unusual Steps to Get Workers to Jobs

ONE-DAY STRIKE TIES UP GITY   Los Angeles Transportation Workers Stage 24-Hour Walkout

NE PLANTS E PLANS TO VE WORKERS   rtial Law  f Hints That vy Be Invoked

Walkout In City Halts War Work   Los Angeles Car And Bus System Paralyzed By Walkout—War Plants Have Difficulty

LARGE ALLIED AERIAL MOVE IN S. PACIFIC IS REVEALED   Fifty-Nine Jap Planes Destroyed Or Damaged in Air Pattle

Allied Fliers Credited With 59 Jap Planes   Vigorous Attacks Made Against Jap Positions In New Guinea And Solomon Islands

JAPS LOGE Og PLANED IN DUEL OVER AIRDROME   Ten Other Craft Destroyed On Ground As Bombers Smash At Wewak

Allied Aerial Offensive in Paci Revealed   59 Jap Planes — Lost or Damaged Over New Guinea

59 JAP AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN SOUTH PACIFIC OFFENSIVE      New Burst Of . Aerial] Warfare Disclosed  By General  M’ Arthur

Tokyo Asserts 160 U.S. Planes Raided Marcus   f'wo Yankee Carriers In Raid, Nipponese Say In Communique   ‘(FEAR OTHER RAIDS   U. S. Task Force Loose In Pacific May Hit Japs Again

Finland Hopes For Peace Soon   Newspapers Hint at Change In Situation Due in Near Future

The Japanese and Russians Have Much to Quarrel About They Have Nothing in Common

EAST TEXAS FLOOD WATERS REACH NEW HIGH FROM SABINE  RAIL TRAFFIC MAINTAINED WITH DIEEICHI.

President Asks That Steel Workers Resume On Retroactive Pay Basis

PRESIDENT ASKS STEEL WORKERS TO STAY ON JOB   Requests Uninterruptec Production While Set « tling Differences   80,000 REPORTED TO BE IDLE THUS FAR

APPEAL MADE. 10 STEEL MEN “BY ROOSEVELT   prees Work Be Continued Under Old Contracts

Roosevelt Uraes Steel Groups To Return to Work   Also Asks Owners To Speed Accord

APPEAL IS ISSUED TO STEEL WORKERS   Roosevelt Calls on Strikers to Resume Work at Once

SENATE DEMOS GAIN HARMONY   Barkley Threat To Resign Brings Compromise

BARKLEY CHECKS CAUCUS REVOLT   Senate Leader Retains Power Of Appointing Steering Committee Members

SENATE DEMOERATS REPORT > PARTY HARMONY RESTOREL   BARKLEY THREATENED TO RESIGN DURING STORMY CAUCUS BESSION AFTER WIS ELECTION

SANANANDA POINT; VILLAGE, LAST JAP STRONGHOLDS, FALE      Remnants" Of Papuan Atay Of 15,000. Sliced Inte ‘Four Isolated‘ « : Pockets

Last Japanese Strongholds in Papuan Taken   Enemy Sliced. : Into Four leqlated Porkate

ALLIES TAKE SANANANDA FROM JAPS   Nip Defenders Divided Into Four Pockets

Weary, Groggy Foe Driven Out Of Sanananda   Remnants Sliced Into Four Isolated Pockets: Americans, Aussie Veterans Of Middle East Make Capture

LAST JAPANESE OUTPOSTS FALL IN PAPUAN ARES   Stage Set For Complete Rout Of Invasion Forces

Allies Capture Sanananda Goa   Japanese Remnants in Hepless Position

Meat Board to Try and Solve Beef Problem   Shipments to Nation's Principal Livestock Markets Fall Off

Beef Shortage Getting Critical   Livestock Shipments Sharply Curtailed

ICKES WARNS HAT COAL AND SHALE: WILL BE PRINCIPAL: SOURCE WITHIN SHORT  So peg

COLLEGE MEN ARE CALLED TO DUTY   Some Men Are Exempted At Present.

450 FIRES STILL RAGE IN BERLIN FROM RAF RAID   Estimates of Dead From  Raid Run As High As eE nnn

BERLIN CASUALTIES FROM RAID 5.000   Many Fires Still Burning, Swiss Dispatches Say

Fires Burn On Over Berlin   Fire-Fighting Equipment Called From Other Cities

TWENTY GENERALS TAKEN OFF STAFF BY GEN. DE GAULLE   Step Taken In Giraud’g Absence May Cause - New Political Crisis

BUY A WAR BONG BEFORE NOV. 27TH   _ Honor Our Heroes. by Bond Purchases

BUY A WAR BOND BEFORE NO. 277}   Honor Our Heroes by Bond Purchases

WEA Will Seek Subsidy Funds   Plans ta Promote All-Out Food Program

Milk Subsidy Set, For Other Foods   Administration Wants Fund to Back All-Out 1944 Crop Production

Predict Rationing Program Will Be Greatly Enlarged In 43  ‘RATION BOOK NO. 2 EFFECTIVE MARCH Ist, THREE MORE BOOKS BEING PREPARED

Tightening Of Ration Rules Seen   War Ration Book Issued In Latter Part Of Feb. Is Report

OPA SAYS GRIP: ON RATIONING TO BE TIGHTENED IN 743   Virtually. Every Item. Of Food Will Be On List Of “Restricted” By  End. Of Year -

TIGHTER RATION CONTROLS COMING: POINT PLAN SET   Canned Goods Plan Is Ready To Start March 1   MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE, LIQUOR NEXT ON LIST

OFFICIALS ARE READY FOR PLANS   Prepare for Restrictions on Virtually Every Item of Daily Consumption.

Practically All Food Will Be ‘Rationed By End Of The Yea:   Tightening Of Control Planned By OPA; Book Two Issued Last Of Month, Books Three, Four, Five Prepared

NEW RATIONING PLAN TO BEGIN ON MARCH 1ST   Sales of Canned Goods Banned for Week Before Date

Tightening of U_$.Rationing: Controls Likely   Ration Book — ‘No. 2 Issued — - Late This Month

RATIONING CAN NED GOODS STARTS MAR.    Registering for Book Two Begins On Feb. 22 

FIRED FROM WPB OFFICIAL SEEKS ARMY SERVICE   Eberstadt Ousting J Hailed by AntiSenators

QUSTED EBERSTADT TO 60 iN ARMY   Shake-Up Gives Charles ‘Wilson High WPR Saat

Ousted WPB Official Seeks Service In Army; Senators Acclaim Move

Eberstadt Is Awaiting Call To Army Duty   Former Vice Chairman Of! WPB Gives Up Hits Position On Request O! Donald Nelson

7TH MARRIAGE FLOPS   ‘Manville Phones Reno After Being Wed 12 Hours

WRECKED PLANE IS DISCOVERED   Big Army Bomber Apparently Crashed In Mountain Several Months Ago

Wreckage of Big Bomber Found in Virginia Woods   Three Bodies Recoverec from Crash of Months Ago

Pacific Sea Battle Continues To Be Veiled in Secrecy   Heavy Allied Air Attacks Give Hint Offensive Possible

Secrecy Still Shrouds Moves Near Solomons   Navy Reports ‘Recurrent Engagements’ But Says No Big Fight  AERIAL TEMPO IS UP  Jap Report of Attack Is Still Without Other  Coanfirpmatian

NO ADDITIONAL NWO Ot NAVAL BATTLE GIVEN   Navy Withholding Details Under Military Secret Phraseology Today   GUADALCANAL TROOPS MAKE FURTHER GAINS   Gen. MacArthur’s Bombers Continue Heavy Raids Upon Japanese Bases

Fleet of 30-40 in Nip Force   Land Bolster Try Seen in Giant Sea Thrust by Enemy

(OFFICIAL SECRECY CONTINUES SHROUD PACIFIC SITUATION .  SHOWDOWN BATTLE BE TWEEN U. S. AND JAP FLEETS EXPECTED

Americans Best Japs In Skyways As Large Flotilla Bears Down On Guadaleanal

—PACIFIC-—   Large Japanese Force Reported Advancing  On Guadaleanal   Official Secrecy, However, Continues To Shrouc Developments In An Expected Showdown Bat. tle For Important Island

Large Jap Naval — Force Headed For  Guadalcanal-Istand     Enemy Reports of Big Sea Fight Denied in Washington; No Landings By Ninponese Troops Indicated

Guadaleanal Objective Of Enemy Fleet   Thirty To Forty Jap Ships Sighted By Americans In Shortland Harbor.   NO BIG NAVAL FIGHI

Sighting Of Jap Armada Is Reported   No News Given Out On Naval Engagement, But 30 To 40 Ships Are  Seen In Solomons

SITE 30-40 JAP SHIPS NORTH OF GUADALCANAL   No Immediate Indication That Japanese Have Land Reinforcements

REINFORCEMENT OF GUADALCANAL BELIEVED PLAN   Secrecy, However, Continues To Veil Developments for Expected Crucial Clash

LARGE JAP FORCE REPORTED NEAR GUADALCANAL   DEVELOPMENTS IN EXPECTED BATTLE STILL KEPT SECRET

AIR OBSERVERS REPORT 30 10 AQ SHIPS SEEN   Warships Included in Boats Sighted 150 Miles North of Guadalcanal

See Effort To Bolster Enemy Line   *Recurrent Engagements” Only Navy Report On Situation In Pacific

Jap Fleet Moves Qn Guadalcanal   Enemy Armada Spotted, Nip Bases Blasted

Heavy Enemy Force Driving On Solomons   Pilots Count 40 Warships—Jap Bases Battered

Big Japanese Force Nears Guadalcanal   Enemy Believed Making Attempt to Bolster Ground Troops There

Big Jap Force Bears Down On Guadalcanal   Official Secrecy Shrouds Developments; U. Ss. Offensive May Be Imminent In Solomons; Jap Airdrome At Buin Blasted; Roundup Of War News From Far Pacific. 

Se crecy Shrouds De-velopments in Expected Showdown Sea Battle.”

HIT AND RUN FIGHT BY ALLIED AND JAP FORCES REPORTED   MacArthur Airmen Bomb Enemy  Racac

Operations At Sea Are  Continued   Navy Reports Recurrent Engagements But Fails To Issue Statements Regarding Losses

Air Observer Says Solomons Fleet Numbers 30-40 Vessels   ‘Showdown’ Battle Still Shrouded in Official  Secrecy   Ry ASS TATED PRESS

Pacific Battle   First Word That Large Jap Fleet Is Advanting on Guadalcanal Is Revealed in  Disvnatches

SEA ACTION IN PACIFIC REPORTED  ONTINUING   Huge Jap Fleet Is Observed In Shortland. Harbor   ISECRECY IS MAINTAINED   Allied Airmen Make 3-Hour Raid On Buin Base

Large Jap Force Bears Down Upon Guadalcanal Base   Developments [In Naval Conflict Remain Secret

Official Secrecy Hides Activities In South Pacific   Air Smashes on Jap Bases Continue; Island Base Taken

BIG JAP FLEET SPOTTED AT SEA   Force Is Reported Headed For Guadalcanal—No Major Action Yet

IMPORTANT ADVANCE IN ~~. SOLOMONS      Capture. of a Japanese-Held Village Indicated in Navy Reports   OFTEN USED FOR LANDING SUPPLIES   Little Revealed on Sea Action; U.S. Bombers in Continuous Raids

Jap Armada Reported Off Guadalcanal   Official Secrecy Hides Development In Show down Battle.

JAP WARSHIPS MOVE TOWARD GUADALCANAL      Airmen Report Large Concentration of Vessels in Shoriland Har bor, 180 Miles North   TRADE AIR BLOWS   British and Japs Locked in Fierce Conilict Near Akyab— Ground   Beatitne im Baer ftactamnn

SAY JAP SHIPS POINTING FOR GUADALCANAL  Navy Reports ‘Recurrent Engagements’ By Air And Sea  CLASHES NOT BARED  eae anette Ue erties  Think United Nations Of.  fensive Against Enemy  Strongholds Near   Navy Reports ‘Recurrent Engagements’ By Air Armd Sana

UN Airmen Bomb Buin For 3 Hours   Incessant and_ Increasingly Violent Allied Air Attacks  . Spread Destruction on New Britain Island

AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL ADVANCE BEYOND TASSAFARONGA INDICATING CAPTURE OF VILLAGE   Sporadic Air and Naval Engagements Continue Between Japanese and United States Forces. No Indication as to W hether Naval Engagements Are Slac kening

Fliers Spot Foe Fleet of 30-40 Near Solomons   Only ‘Recurrent Engagements’ Are Reported by Navy: News Withheld.

Sea-Borne Forces Move On Islands   Secrecy Shrouds Developments in Southwest Pacific Area   AIM AT’ GUADALCANAL   Tempo of Allied Air Blows Rises, May Be New  Offensive

, 5. OFFICIALS DENY JAPANESE BATTLE CLAIMS   Foe Hopes to Bolster Tottering Forces, Americans Say

U.S, Jap Navy Showdown May Be Raging Now   Secrecy Continues To Shroud War In Pacific Area Today

Big Jap Force Heading For Guadalcanal  Long-Awaited Navy Battle May Be Shaping Now

Big Japanese SeaBorne Force Nears  Guadalcanal Islan¢   Official Secrecy Contin ues to Hide All De___ velopments

30 to 40 Jap Ships Seen Off Solomons   First Word of Force Bearing Down on Guadalcanal From the North Comes. in Delayed Dispatch—Many Warships in Convoy.

BIG JAP FLEET MOVES TOWARD GUADALCANAL   Secrecy Still Clouds Developments In Expected Showdown Battle   40 SHIPS ARE OBSERVED   Officials Doubt Nippons Have Been Able To Bolster Land Forces  t

OBSERVERS SEE MOVE TO LAND MORE TROOPS   Washington Maintains Official Secrecy on Developments

Guadalcanal Offensive Pushed On   Navy Maintains Hush About Sea-Air Fight Developments

Jap Sea Force Reported Near Solomons Area   Secrecy Continues To Shroud Shaping Pacific Battle

Capture Jap Held Village   American Troops Ad- vance on Guadalcanal, Still.Snpar at Sea.

Secrecy Shrouds Jap-U. S. Battles  In Solomon Area   Navy Reports Recurrent  Engagements by Opposing Naval, Air Forces.   Tell of Large Jap Force of Warships

@arge Jap Fleet Near Guadalcanal   Washington Reports More Engagements In South Pacific   Enemy Barges Reported Strafed By Americans   U. S. Army Continues Advances Against Japanese Forces

AMERICAN TROOPS ON GUADALCANAL MAKE AN ADVANGE   Moved a Half Mile Beyond Tassafaronga, the Navy : Reported.   ENCOUNTERS CONTINUE   it Indicated the JapaneseHeld Village Has Been Taken.

Secrecy Still Shrouds Naval Battle; Jap Claims Of Fight Declared False

Official Secrecy ‘Veils Outcome Of Engagements   Delayed Dispatches Tell Of Large Sea-Borne Force Moving On Island

Yankee Fighters Advance   Sporadic Encounters On Pacific And In The Air Continuing

Bitter at Russian Reverses, African  Allied Confab —vV---—— , BEYOND TRIPOLI  Ye  British 8th Contin. ues Route of  Rommel

REDS CLAIM 12,000 NAZIS ARE TRAPPED   Survivors in the Don-Volga Trap Given Three Days In Russian Communique

12,000 Nazis Are Caught in Red Trap   Montgomery Resumes Contact with Axis Troops; RAF Blasts U-Boat Bases. Italy

Only 12,000 Nazis Remain  In Red Trap   One Entire Regiment Surrenders, Detachments from Another Are Wiped Out; British 8th Army Resumes Contact with Axis Rearguards

ALLIES SCORE NEW GAINS ON ? CONTINENTS   Hitler Forces Continue Retreats in Russia,  North Africa

House Votes 93 to 65 Against Crop Insurance. by Government on Wheat

Pacific Blows Promised Soon   NEW NAVAL OFFENSIVES PLANNED AGAINST JAPS

Mighty Blows At Jap Homeland, Aim Of U. S.   Marcus Island Raid Hints At Powerful Operations To Come As United States Builds Growing Armada Of Warships In Pacific

FOUR - PRONGED DRIVE AGAINST JAPS IS COMING   Promise Is Seen Of Devastating Naval And Aerial Blows At The Japanese Home land This Fall.

FOUR - PRONG DRIVE ON JAPS SEEN POSSIBLE   Raid on Marcus Island Hints at Mighty Operations to Come In the Near Future   ‘ATTACK ONLY A TOKEN’

PROMISED JAP HOMELAND:   Attack on Marcus Island Onfy A Token of. Things To Come

Big Allied Jap Attack Due Soon   Warm-Up Period ‘About Ended’ and Full Offensive Is Scheduled This Fall

Four-Pronged. Drive on Japanese This Fall Indicated by Preparations

Four Drives On Japs Hinted   Yanks Seem Pointed Toward Nips’ Tokyo

Says Raid on Marcus Island Only a Token   McCain Says Such Blows Will  Increase in Tempo, Power and Fury Until Jap Home Islands Laid Waste

Devastating Four Pronged Drive on Japanese This Fall Likely.   ATTACK JAP HOMELAND

U. S. Fleet, With Its Growing Armada of CarrierBorne Planes, Will Join Program To Devastate Naval and Aerial Blows On Japanese Homeland.

DEVASTATING NAVAL AND AERIAL BLOWS PROMISED T0 JAPAN  JAPANESE HOMELAND INDICATED AS OBJECTIVE OF GROWING POWER

U.S. Fleet Will Rain Blows on Japs’ Homeland   Vessels, With Their CarrierBorne Planes, Expected to Aim Four-Pronged Offensive at Enemy in Pacific and Asia This Fall,

4-Pronged Drive Against Japan This Fall Seen   Carrier Plane Strength Now Double Pear! Warhor Status.

4-WAY BLOW AGAINST JAPS — 1S FORESEEN   “Big Drive Is Expected to Get Under Way This Fall, Timed for Conclusion of the Monsoon Season in Asia.

U:S. OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN  DUETHIS FALL   American Fleet Prepares { Join In New Blows On Enemy Jn Asia and the Pacific

Devastating Naval And Ail Blows At Jap  Islands Soon   To Lay Waste In Blood And Ashes Homeland Of ‘Treacherous, Brutal And Savage People’

LOOK TO THE JAPS   U. S. Is Preparing Devastating Blows on Japanese Homelands

HOUSE REQUESTS THIRD TERM BAN   Democrats - Vote Solidly Against Resolution, _ Passed. 82° to 47

House Is Split On Third Term   Missouri _ Representatives Vote 82 to 47 to Limit  President's Tenure.

Bonnell Suit Set for Dec. 3   President of A. and M. College Seeks Habeas Corpus Writ

ARGENTINA TO IGNORE NAZI BLOCKADE ZONE   Her Ships Hereafter Will Move Up North Atlantic Coast Despite German Warnine.

Argentina Will Defy Nazi Rule and Use New York Port  Government Ignores Blockade Order Defined by Germany

Argentina Ignores German Blockade   Will Send Ships Into U.S. North Atlantic

DIES TAKES oLAP AT BUREAUCRATS   Calls on Congress to Purge Government of ‘Irresponsible, Crackpot’ Group by Withholding Funds

4ouse Applauds When. Dies Urges Congress To Purae Capital of ‘Crackpot Bureaucrats’

DIES ASKS PURGE OF BUREAUCRATS   Calls Upon Congress to Hold Up Funds for Agencies — Employing Them   Secret Service Wars On Theft, — Forging of Government Checks

CONGRESSMAN BIES DEMANDS PURUE   CALLS ON SOLONS TO GET RID OF “CRACKPOT, RADICAL BUREAUCRATS.”

Revolt Flares In Marseille   Frenchmen Dig Up Guns, Fortify Homes And Fire On Germans; Nazis Order Large Area Of City Evacuated, Razed

Marseille French Barricade Selves In Homes And Fire On Germans In Onen Rebellion

French In Marseille In Open Revolt   Citizens Barricade Themselves in Homes fo Fiaht. Germans

MARSEILLE iN REVOLT; 6,000 UNDER ARREST   Frenchmen Barricade Themselves Inside Their Homes And Fight German Troops; All France Restless.   Jews Victims

Frenchmen At Marseille Fight Germans   Nazis Use Artillery, Tanks To Quell Revolt And Round Up 40.000

French Battle Nazi Troops At Marseille   Resist Removal Of Thousands From Port District

Vichy Police, Occupation Army Roun Up 6,000 to 40,000 Placed Under Arrest by Official Nazis

Citizens Rebel When 40,000 ‘Are Told to Move   Switzerland Hears Germans Will Use Tanks, Artillery  MANY ARRESTED  Entire Old Port Area Is Ordered Cleared and Razed

french Open Battle With Nazi Guards   @Revolting Frenchme. Barricade Selves In Homes To Fight Enemy

FRENCH REVOLT IN MARSEILLE PORT DISTRICT   German Tanks, Artillery Called Out To Halt Uprising; 40,000 Are Arrested   Homes Are Fortified

GERMANS. USE ARTILLERY IN QUELLING MARSEILLE REVOLT   40,000 French Have Been Ordered Evacuated From Port Area Of French Coastal City; Trouble Has Been Increasing For Occupation Forces -

French In Marseille In Open Revolt  Citizens Barricade Themselves in Hom

Frenchmen Revolt, Fight  With Nazis In Marseille   Spain Dispatches Say 40,000 Arrested After Outbreak — Increasing Disorders Reported Throughout the Nation

FRENCH REBEL AT MARSEILLE   Nazis Reported to be Employing Artillery, Tanks In Trouble Area

BLAST FURNACES TO BE SHUT DOWN   Coal Strike To Force Suspension Of Six Carnegie-lIllinois Co. Furnaces Wednesday

WARMTH EASES BACK   Frost Conditions. May Be on Way Out of Kansas

Aussies Progress In Drive To Wipe Out Jap Positions   Air Raids Cause Much Damage To Nip Installations

Ho Hum—Dec. 15 Is Close And it's Time fo Pay Another Tax Installment

13 ENEMY FIGHTERS BAGGED OVER HANKOW   14 Japanese Ajirctaft Have Been Destroyed Since July 23, Com munigque Reveals

Bricker Expresses “Sense Of Deep Obligation” In Beginning Third Term As Ohio’s Governor

3rd Inauguration ‘Of Gov. Bricker Is Simple Event   Herbert And Ebright Also Sworn; Solons To Hear Executive Tanigh}

BRICKER TAKES OATH OF OFFICE   Ohio Chief Executive Pledges Self to National War Effort

OHIO GOVERNOR IS SWORN IN FOR HIS THIRD TERM   ‘Sense of Deep Obligation’ Expressed by Bricker as He Takes Oath of Office   SIMPLICITY IN CEREMONY   Other State Officials Take Office with but Slight Interruptions

Office Operating Smoothly—Hull  Secretary Comments On Report Of Conflict

Hull Denies  Inefficiency   N. Y. Times Charge: Rivalry. Lack of Policy

1] Denies ction In te Dept.   York Times Story Of Rivalry Be- © n Hull And Welles

Reversal Won - By Pendergast      Supreme Court Overturn: Ex-Boss’s Conviction  In 6-1] Oninion

BOSS TOM WINS IN COURT BOUT   Supreme Court Reverses Conviction of Exiled Kansas City Chief

WLB ASKED TO OPEN WAY FOR COAL WAGE AGREEMENT   Captive Mine Owners and Unions Sent Telegrams Inviting Them to Join in Negotiations

‘Former Stars of Stage,  ‘Screen: and: ‘Radio: To =  Appear: Thursday. Eve n Auditorium 2

“LITTLE STEEL’ FORMULA MAY BE CRACKED. .:   United Steel Workers Reported to Help, Scrap. ‘Formula They Helped ‘Te Establish

Report Steelworkers Will Attempt To Crack “Little Steel” Formula

United Steel Workers Said Ready for Attemnt to Crack Little Steel Formula

Steel Workers Want More Pay  Original Little Steel Formula Attacked By Union It Benefited

Draft Is Faced By A-lf Men   «++ Essential Jobs Or Army, Order Says

“WORK OR FIGHT" SYSTEM TO BE STARTED. WITH DAIRY WORKERE FST ON Lisr

Two Allis-Chalmers Plants in Illinois Capital Are Struck   War Production Virtually at Standstill as Workers Walk Out

Half Of Jap Planes Lost   Other Air Raids Are Meade Over Week-End

300 U.S. Bombers Smash 3 Fields, Lose Only 4 Ships   Forty-Five More Japanese Planes Probably Destroyed In Two-Day Assault; Destroyer And Five Coast Ships Sunk, Another Destroyer Hit

MINERS WALK ‘OUT   Coal Sttike Spreads to More Big Producers; The Test Monday

250, 000 Miners Out of Mines After Congress Quickly Upsets FDR’s Veto of Anti-strike Bill

Coal Strike Spreading to — Larger Mines   Uncertainty Hangs Over Coal Fields — Test of ~ Back-to-Work Move

STRIKE SPREADS T0 A FEW MORE BIG COAL MINES TODAY   Air of Uncertainty Hangs Over Coal Producing Areas As Anti-Strike Law  Is Enacted

Coal Strike Spreading In Face of Ban   Half of Nation's Coal Miners Fail Te Return to Pits

Union Heads Expect Miners To Return  For Work Monday      . By ‘Lewer) Penneylvar ania ia Output: ~~ Republicans] Hail Defeat Of Veto

ONLY HALF Of MINERS BACK   8,000 More Leave Pennsylvania Pits; Final Decisions Expected by Monday.

COAL STRIKES SPREAD T0 FEW MORE BIG MINES   Despite Newly-Enacted Anti-Strike Law and Atmosphere of Uncertainty

ALK OUT   Coal Strike Spreads to More Big Producers; The Test Monday

Coal Strike Affects Few More Mines   Real Test Is Expected Monday On Efforts To Get Miners To Return To Work

Coal Diggers Ignore Orders From Lewis   Fuel Shortage Creates Drastic Threat In Steel Output

Coal Strike Is Spreading Again   Production Only Fraction of Needs

BACK-TO-MINE TEST EXPECTED NEXT MONDA'   Strike Spreads To Few More Mines  Today. Prospects Appear Brighter In West Virginia

Polish-Soviet Breach Widens: May Seek Purge   Reds May Seek Rival Regime; Poles Ask for Release of Prisoners

Soviets Smash Closer to  Nazi Fortress Orel Is Reported   Orel Is Reported Well Within Artillery Range

Soviets Smash Nearer Goal,  Crush Germans   Orel-Kursk Territory Is Now Reported Completely Restored; Enemy’s Loss le Unprecedented: Reds Continue Gains

RED BIG GUNS WITHIN RANGE OF NAZI OREL   FOUR MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN GAIN OF 8 MILES

FRESH GERMAN TROOPS FAIL TO STEM TIDE   168 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out: Heavy Resistance Crushed

O-MILE ADVANCE SCORED BY REDS MOVING ON ORFI   Thousands of German Reserves Cut Down as They Try Unsuccesstully to Stop Drive.   CITY WITHIN RANGE OF SOVIET ARTILLERY   Russian Air Force Covers Infantry—Nazis Bury Tanks and Use Them as Pillboxes,

Reds’ Big Guns Trained On Orel  Russians Smash Nazis Back Toward Base

Russians Press Close to-Orel In Power Drive  Soviets Restore Ground Lost in Nazi Offensive

Soviets Smash Closer to Nazi Fortress   Orel Is Reported Well Within Artillery Range

Kae alll Thousands of Nazi Reserves   Capture Four More Towns, End Drive Six To Eight Miles Closer To German Fortress

Reds Advance Or Orel: Take Four More Villages   Cut Down Great Nazi Reserve Forces in Drive

Reds Smash Nearer Orel  Have Key City Of German Lines In Artillery Range

Red Army Surges 6 Miles Nearer Nazi Fortress Orel   See: 2 Lo  nee   Four More Villages Captured, German Reserves Cut Down

Reds Smash To Only Six Miles Of Vital Ore   Artillery Now Within Range Of City As Nazis Hurled Back  From Area

Nazis Throw In Reserves.  As Russians Menace Orel   Red Army Registers Important Gains; . Artillery: Within Range ‘of Nazi-Held City’

SOVIETS WITHIN FIRING RANGE OF FOE-HELD CITY   Four Villages Taken, Reds Advance Six Miles—Reserves Routed

NUVIET FOURUED MOVING CLOSER NAZI FORTRESS  Advance Civ ¢n Fioht Miles   Advance Six to Eight Miles Near Orel Despite Furious Defense. by Germans   THOUSANDS FELLED   Battlefront Dispatches Say  Heavy Artillery of Reds  Within Range of Objective

Desperate German Reserves Unable To Halt Advance Of Russian Forces

In German Drive   Russians Beat Off Determined Nazi Counterattacks

Soviels Advance   Fortress Now Is Within Range Of Heavy Artillery

Nazi Reserves Slaughtered In Orel Drive   . Russians Smash 8 Miles Closer To Fortress City, Take More Villages   TANK LOSSES PILE UP   Soviet Forces Also Capture Important Hight North Of Novorossisk

Red Artillery Attains Firing  Range of Orel   Russians Have Restored Positions as at Start Of Nazi Of fonsive

UMW DEMANDS PAY CONTRA      Opposes Proposal of Southern Operatars to Stop Negotiations.   ASK RAISE OF $2 A DAY

COAL STRIKE THREATENED APRIL FIRST   Conference for New Wage Contract in Danger of Deadlock.   MINERS DEMAND $2 PER DAY RAISE   Union Leaders Say Men Won't Work Without  Contract.

“ses s2272Vveeueere OC  WAC Recruiting Unit Will Stop ‘Here Sept. 13-15

‘Oakes’ Daughter Seen Unw illing  To Aid Husband   Flies To. Nassau From NE ' School; Denies Opinion On Spouse’s Innocence

Strike Threat Fails to Rush Board Action   Congressional Demand For Anti-Strike Bills Revived

ELEPHONES DISRUPTED FROM ‘INSIDE   Believe Japs Armed Now With Steel Pipe Clubs

Says Evacuees Had Run of Country  Witness Describes Center in Arizona

Allies Advance Within Two Miles  Of Salamaua Base  Naval Units Pour Shells Into Jap _ New Guinea Holdings

ALLIES MOVE ON SALAMAUA   Jungle Troops Cross River And Push to Within Two Miles of Airdrome

ALLIES NEAR GOAL IN PACIFIC BATTLE   Jungle Troops Move Closer to Airdrome in New Guinea

Salamaua Troops In State Of Siege   Japanese Defenders of Airdrome Cut Off From Virtually All Aid; Heavy Artillery Fire Poured On Positions

Allied Forces Are ‘Within Two Miles of Airfield   ‘Jungle Fighters Draw  Near Goal; Naval

APPROACH GOAL NEAR SALAMAU:   ALLIED JUNGLE TROOPS ONLY TWO MILES FROM HIGHLYPRIZED AIRFIELD.

Allies Seore Fresh Gains  At Salamaua   Advance on Airfield As Ships Move North To Shell Finschhafen  KENHART ROVREN

FINS CHHAFENIS SUBJECTED T0 NAVAL SHELLING   Allied Surface Craft Make Daring Foray Into Nar.  row Dampier Strait   ADVANCE CONTINUES AGAINST SALAMAUA

JAPS RETREAT FOR STAND AT BiG AIRDROME   ALLIED TROOPS PUSH FORWARD OUT OF MOUNTAINS

Allied Forces Are Within Two Miles of Airfield   ‘Jungle Fighters Draw Near Goal; Naval Units Shell Japanese

SALAMAUA IS NEAR SEIGE; CROSS RIVER   Forward Movement In Southwest Pacific Also Indicated By Allied Ships Shell Finsch hafen On Huon Peninsula   Seize Guns

Yanks Within Sicht Of Goal      Navy Makes Daring Raid On Jap Docks Above Salamaua

Allies Near Pacific Goal   Airdrome At Salemaua Under Heavy Attack

Army Goal. In °43 Stays ~ At 7,500,000   Roosevelt Una “Unable to Guess on Figtive Likely for Next Year

Set Army  Goal of 7: Million   ENLISTMENT QUOTA SET LAST AUGUST TO INCREASE FOR 1944

‘ARMY FIGURES UNCHANGED: F.R   President Reiterates Need For 11,000,000 As Congressmen Back Reduction

Roosevelt Says There Will Be No Change Made in Plan For Army of 714 Million Men

F.D.R.ISFIRM ON ARMY GOAL “OF 7,500,000   Goal for 1944 To Be Sel This Fall, Declares President

Army Quota Unchanged, FDR Says   8,200,000 Men, Officers Still Wanted in 1943

GOAL OF ARMY ) UNGHANGED, HOA QEGLARES   11 Million Men By Year’s End Still Army Objective, President Relates   HIGHER GOAL FOR 1944 IS ALSO INDICATED   Farm Manpower Shortage Is Pressing Problem, Executive Admits

Seek. ‘Furloughs  For’. ‘Farm ; Labor ‘Already In U; Be » Service-Plenty OF.  4 a Ra Ceasar i

Army Size Set, FDR Declares   Won't Alter ‘43 Goal of 7% Million, He Says

President Says 1943 Goal Remains 7,500,000 Enlisted Men for Army

GRAPE CANNERS PLEAD FOR 600   Women, School Students, Part-Time Workers  Urged To Aid

Grape Canners Plead For Help   600 Workers Needed To Process Fruit

Navy Announces that Allies ‘ Have Decided Upon Methods of Defeating Axis Submarines.   THREE NAVIES TO BE USED IN CAMPAIGN

Anti-Sub Pact Revealed Today   American, British and Canadian Navies Agree on Plan

BRUSH FIRE IS FATAL TO MAN   Clothing Catches Fire And Makes Human Torch Of Farmer.

WARNS JAPS THAT ATTACK ON MARCUS WAS ONLY PRELUDE   ' Accomplishment ‘Still ‘Unavailable-—-May Take Some Time

With U. &. Subs Taking Lead, Knox Says  Allies Sink One-Third of Jap Ship:

One Third Of Jap Shipping Has Been Sunk   American Submarines Are Credited With Major Share of Success

ONE-THIRD OF JAPAN'S SHIPPING HAS BEEN DESTROYED, SEGRETARY OF NAVY DISCLOSES

Third Of Jap Shipping Has Been Sunk,  KnoxReports   Approximately 2,500,000 Tons Destroyed, Most Of It By U.S. Subs; Enemy Feeling Shortage

KNOX TELLS OF JAP MERCHANT VESSEL LOSSES   Reports One Third Of Total Has Been Qn”   IS SEVERE BLOW   American Submarine Is Given Chief. ’ Credit

ONE. THIRD JAPS SEAPOWER HAS. BEEN DESTROYED   Secretary Knox. Declares Most of Shins Were Sunk by Subs

JAP LOSSES HUGE   Third of Total Merchant Shipping Sunk, Says Sec retary Knox

Third Of Jap Shipping Is Destroyed—Knox   Most Of Destruction Done By Submarines, Navy Secretary Declares

Knox Declares Third Of Japan’s _. Shipping Sunk   About 2 1-2 Million Tons On Bottom Of China Sea And Western’ Pacific

Third of Jap   Says Credit for 77% Of Those Sunk Goes To U. S. Submarines

JNPS LOSE THIRD OF SHIPPING-KNO)   Approximately 2,500,000 ‘ Tons Destroyed, Says Navy Secretary

OF JAP MERCHANT SHIPPING. SUNK   Navy Secretary Knox Says Approximately 2,500,000. Tons of Shipping Destroyed, Chiefly by U. 5. Submarines

JAPS SUFFER SHIP. LOSSES KNOX REVEAL’   One-Third Of All Cargo Ships Held By Japs - Already Sunk

n Submarines Turned The Tri  Third Of Jap Cargo.  Shipping Destroyed

‘Fats Waller, Negro Dance Band Leader, DiesOn Train   Body Taken From Coach At Kansas City: Made Money From Jazz But Banned Boovie-Woovie

Fats’ Waller Dies on Train  Noted Band Leader Stricken Suddenly At Kansas City

Magic Fingers Stilled  ‘Fats’ Waller, Composer. Pianist, Dies On Train

‘Fats’ Waller Dies On Train   Famous Negro Band Leader, Musician, Comnoser Succumbs.

Fats Waller Drops Dead On Train-Fortune Made From Jazz He Disliked

‘F. ats” Waller, Jazz Pianist,  Dies Suddenly   Negro Performer And Composer  Succumbs on Trair

“PATS” WALLER ~* DIES ON TRAIN   Noted Negro Dance Band Leader Stricken by Heart Attack

BAND LEADER DIES ON TRAIN   Heart Attack Fatal To Fats Waller, Negro

Fats Waller, Noted Band Leader, Dead   Died of a Heart Attack in the Kansas City Union Station Today.

Fats. Waller, Noted Band Leader,Dead   Succumbs On Train In Kansas. City Union Station . Following Sudden Collapse While Talking, With His Manacer -

Fats Waller Dies Suddenly   Negro Dance Band Leader Dies on Train In Kansas City

‘Allied Mediterranean Attack Hinted; Berlin Radio Hears British Force Off Gibraltar

“DSSIE” LOFTUS DIES SUDDENL'   Noted English Actress Found Dead in New York  tel Ram

Landon Wants Joint Planks By Two Parties   Proposes GOP And Democrats Agree On Polices

COUNT SFORZA ASKS KING’S ABDICATION   Fermer Italian Foreign Minis‘er Wants New Government Te Purge Itself Of Fascists

Sforza Hints King Should Abdicate   Willing to Aid With p 7 ae  pos” owed Lea Be BP

  ‘German Retreat Into Europe Fortress Lays Trap for Destruction of Axis  As Air Attacks Become More Feasible

FARMS. WILL PLANT MORE THIS SPRING   Survey Indicates Acreage Will Be Up 3.5 Per Cent.   NO INDICATION OF EASIER RATIONS   Washington Talks of Treaty with Russia Like Britain’s.

Optimistic Report on Crop Prospects  Is Made by Board   s Eases Official Concern Over Food Shortages; Washington News

AN OPTIMISTIC CORN  REPORT HAS EASED  CONCERN OVER FOOD IMPROVED RELATIONS   WITH RUSSIA CHIEF  DIPLOMATIC PROGRAM

FARM REPORT EASE CONCERN IN WASHINGTON   Predict Another War If We Fail At Peace Table

ALLIES WRECK JAPANESE TOWN   Explosions At Island Base Visible For 40 Miles

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST AND BURN JAP-HELD DOBO   Leave Three-Fourths 0 Aroe Islands Town In Flames   ACTION REPORTED OFF NEW GUINEA

Bombers Plaster  Jap-Occupied  Town in Aroes Allied Planes Active  Over New Guinea, New Britain, Buin

TOWN IS WRECKED _ BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Japanese-Occupied Dobo Is Attacked by - Baombere

Allied Bombs Wreck Jap ° Occupied Town  Planes Strike Again af Kahili Alrdrome, Destroy Hemy Ship

FRANCO SHIFTS POLICY TO MORE LIBERAL STATUS   GENERALISSIMO HAS AGREED THAT POWERFUL FALANGE MILITIA IS NO LONGER NECESSARY IN SPAIN.   ALL REPUBLICANS BEING RELEASED   Gen. Franco Restores Freedom of the Press as Important Contribution for the Solution of Important Problems.

FRANCO FREES WAR PRISONERS   INDICATES STRONG FALANGE MILITIA NO LONGER NEEDED

Byrnes to Demand Full  ‘Co-operation   War Mobilization Head Outlines His Program; Building Great Fleet

TO END SQUABBLES   James F. Byrnes Pledges He'll Streamline the. War Effort’

End To Squabbling Within Government Pledged; Cheering Production Cited

BYRNES PLANS STREAMLINING WAR AGENCIE   Director of War. Mobilization Says He Will End Squabbling Within Bureaus   SAYS ERRORS MADE   Declares People Have Right to Expect Officials to Sacrifice Pride of Opinion For War

Byrnessays Streamline To Be Used  For Action   Home Front Plans Will Unfold In Future Days

Byrnes Pledges Team Work By  Govt. Agencies   Streamlined, Efficient War Machine On Home Front Promised.

BYRNES PLEDGES END TO DEBATES   No More Squabbles Among Iederal Agencies, Home Front Czar Says

Byrnes Says 100,000th Plane Built   a . Director of War Mobilization Pledges Teamwork Among Government Agencies

ee lS  BYRNES PROMISES SQUABBLING BUREAU HEADS BE SMOOTHED  NEW DIRECTOR WAR MO BILIZATION DOESN'T GIVI

BRYNES, WAR MOBILIZATION CZAR, PROMISES TO STREAMLINE ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Streamlined . War Agencies  Byrnes Pledge   New War Mobilization Direcfor Points to End Of Feuding

America’s War Production Record Minimizes Criticism Of  Policie:

SQUABBLING GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES  T0 BE STREAMLINED, BYRNES PROMISES

Byrnes Promises To Streamline Federal Agencies   But Chief Of Nation's Home Front Keeps Plans To Himself

New War Czar Keeps Plans To Himself... . .  Byrnes Pledges Well Running War Machine

Squabbling Governmental Agencies Will Be Streamlined Says Byrnes

War Machine Is Promised   James F. Byrnes Says U. S. Agencies To Be Streamlined

Attack Already Cathers Weight, Commons Told In War Review   Italian Campaign Called ‘Essential Preliminary’   Churchill Told Truth About U-Boats: Nazis  -—. saveeweasrres een «See eee

The Tune Is Changed   Nazis Confirm Churchill, Admit News Is Bad

DIRECT THRUST AGAINST HUNS ALLIED PLAN   Mediterranean Battle Not Second Front, Commons Told; Channet Will Be Crossed   DENIES TIME LOST . NEEDLESSLY IN ITALY   Pianned For Custody of  Mussolini and His Execution, If Necessary; Italian Guards Disobeyed

A.C. PONTIUS DIES   Had ‘Been Resident of Douglas  ; County Since 1877

Absenteeisms Again Attacked   Government And CIO Urges Full Time Work

Appeal to Workers On Absenteeism  Practice Doubles Since Start of War

Too Many Take Time From Job   Absenlecism Causing Production Loss

HALT IN WAR JOB ABSENCES URGED   GOVERNMENT AND CIO APPEALS TO WORKERS TO QUIT TAKING DAYS OFF.

DRIVE STARTED ON ABSENTEEISM   ClO And Government Appeal To War Workers To Cut Production Losses

C10 LAUNCHES DRIVE AGAINST ABSENTEEISH  Government Also Appeal. RV lenge Tee Wlae Tex.  py      Government Also Appeal: to Workers in War Production Plants to ‘Keep on Job   PERCENTAGE GROWS   Has Jumped From Normal 2.2% in Industry to 4.5% ; Greater Among  Women

GOVERNMENT ASKS END OF ABSENTEEISM   Asserts Hours Lost By Workers Can Never Be Regained

ABSENTEEISM UNDER ATTACK   Government And C.LO. Seek To Stop Preventable Work Absences.

Government And CIO Attack Absenteeism   Wage Clinic Here Tuesday

ClO JOINS IN PROTESTS ON ABSENTEEISN   Appeal Made to Workers to Avoid Time Lost In Needless Cause _

Aussie Spearhead Within Half Mile Of Finschhafen   Yap Defenders Put {Up Ferocious. Fight

AUSTRALIANS ONLY  SHORT DISTANCE  FROM FINSCHAFEN ONE SPEARHEAD: IS ONL}  HALF MILE FROM PROTECTED HARBOR

Aussies Battle For Japanese Port  Alliee Accault Traanne Onnoced   Allies Assault Troops Opposed By Japs on Finschhafen Border

AUSSIE TROOPS LESS THAN MILE FROM JAP BASE   Spearheads Drawing Nearer To Finschhafen

Australians Inch Forward   Penetrate Outskirts Of Finschhafen in Desperate Fighting

AUSSIES STORM JAPS CLOSER 10 FINSCHAFEN PORT   The Japanese Have Been Ejected After Bloody Fighting From All The High Ground Near The Objective.

Aussies Near Bulwark Of Finschhafen   One-Half Mile From Objective, Troops Fight Fiercely

High Ridges Cleared Of Jap Fighters   Defenders At Finschhafen Being Encircled By Assault Troops

AUSSIES BRING FINSCHHAFEN UNDER ATTACK   Enemy Ejected from Last High Ground, Pounded by Artillery— Counter-Avacks Repelled   WANKON IS SEIZED   Japanese Apparently Attempting to Evacuate Troops from Kolombangara in Solomons

Aussie Drive Is Closing In: On Finschafen   One Spéarhead Now Oni Half Mile From ‘We Protected Harbor: Ja Now. Battling. F  . Outskierv Posititns:

Battle Japs At Close Quarters   Defense Lines Only Few Yards Apart in Final Bleody Stages Of Finschhafen Fight

DANIEL C. ROPER IS DEAD IN WASHINGTON   Former Secretary Of Commerc? Had Been lil For Several Months Of Leukemia

Daniel C. Roper, First Secretary of Commerce Under Roosevelt, Dies

ROPER SUCCUMBS   Was First Secretary Of Commerce In Ronsevelt Cahinet.

LONG ILLNESS FATAL TO DANIEL C. ROPER   Retired as Secretary of Commerce in 1939

Ex-Secretary Roper Dies   Served as Roosevelt's First Secretary of Commerce; Age 76

DANIEL (. ROPER DIES IN CAPITAL   Former Secretary of Commerce Expires, Aged 76 Years -

Restores Civil Service Status Of Boston Cops   Officials Are Freed Of Charces

HOUSE RETAINS SUBSIDY PLAN   Votes Down Amendment to Trim Incentive Payments from Farm Appropriation

Major Parties May Rely on Press and Radio in Pre-Election Drives

POLITICIANS FACE TRAVEL PROBLEM   1944 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES MAY RELY ON PRESS AND RADIO

: Both Major Parties To Depend On Press  And Radio To Get Messages Over To Voters

WAR-TIME CAMPAIGN MAY BE ADOPTED BY MAJOR PARTIES   New Campaign Pattern Relying on Newspapers, Radio and Newsreels May Be Used To Replace Leng Personal Annearances

Both Parties . Streamlining   Pérsonal Appearances O} Candidates) Will Be. Cut Next Year

CAMPAIGN 70 HAVE WARTIME PATTERN   May Be Short on Personal Appearances, long on Other Anneals.

Campaign May Be Streamlined   Both Parties May Depend on Press, Radio And Newsree!l Appeals

1944 Campaign To Be Limited As To Travel   Wartime Restrictions Will Prevent Special Trains — FDR Can Make Official Inspections.

WARTIME CRIMP IN CAMPAIGNS   WFA Chief Jones Called Ti Tell About Subsidies

Parties May Cut Campaign Short   New Wartime Pattern Devised To Carry 1944 Issues to Pecple

CALIFORNIA FARES AROUND OAKLAND   Heavy Property Damage Around San Francisco Bay Region.

Fires and High Winds Destroy Much Property in Qakland, Cal., District

Flames Whip Coast Amid Heavy Winds  Hundreds Are  Evacuated aL.» Oakland

BRITAIN URGES WOMEN 10 GET 3-DAY SUPPLY   Hoysewives Respond at Once; Cologne Pounded by R. A, F.

FRENCH WARNED TO STORE FOODS   British Radio Notice Hints Early Allied Attacks On Transport

FDR ASKS FOR FCOD SUBSIDY   Support To Hold Down Inflation Asked

Order evacuation of Carter Lake as flood waters surge higher   Expect crest Tuesday; officials say situation grows more critical hourly

FEUD INQUIRY PROPOSED BY SEN. BRIDGES   Wallace - Jones Vv erba’ Battle Stirs Wash. ington

Senate May Probe Relations of Wallace and Jones  Solon Makes Proposal The Military Group Investiaate Problem

SENATORS FAVOR INVESTIGATION INTO WRANGLE   Democratic Leaders, How. ever, Want No Probe O:  Economic Warfare Board      WALLACE AND JONES ARE STILL AT ODDS

BEW PURCHASES PROBE 19 URGEL   Feud Between Wallace and Jones Brings Proposal for Senate Investigation of BEW-RFC Relations

Wallace-Jones Battle Brings Plea for Probe   Sen. Bridges Wants Inves tigation by Military Committee

IS PROPOSED   Bridges Asks Probe of Row Between Wallace and  Jesse Jones

RAF STRIKES AT GERMAN AREAS   Wilhelmshaven And Other Targets Attacked Without Loss Of Single British Plana

RAF Again Attacks Wilhelmshaven  Carry Out Raid on Nazi Base Without Loss of a Plane

BRITISH ATTACK WILHELMSHAVEN   Sub Base at Lorient Hit, Also Naples; No  Planes Lost

RAF Plasters Nazis’ Naval Base Again   More. Tons of Bombs Hit .Wilhelmshaven ;ATL Planes Ratuirn 

Raid Made On Wilhelmshaven By RAF Without Single Loss   Other Objectives In Western Germany; New Record For Bombs Dropped In Month

Bombers Hit af Wilhelmshaven  Make 16th Attack on Germany This Month,

German Naval Base Bombed  RAF Returns Without Losing Single Plane

RAF BOMBERS HIT NAZI BASE   Wilhelmshaven Objective Of Night Raiders

BOMBERS ATTACK NAZI NAVAL BASE   Wilhemshaven Raided Without Loss Of A Plane

Publisher Held In Tawes Attack   Charged With Criminal; Libeling State Comptroller.

BOND INTAWES DRIVING CASE   Rives Matthews Charged By State Attorney Somerset Co. With Libeling State Comptroller   ACTS AS AGENT OF ~ STATE OF MARYLANL   Tawes Was Exonerated By Ration Board of Accusation of Violating Pleasure Driving Ban

Tawes’ Accuses  Under Arrest Matthews Charged With Criminal Libe!

Matthews Charge¢ With Libelln © Tawes’ Case   Publisher Arrested In Connection With Gesdline Ration Case

Impeachment Articles On (rable Filed  Nowata Legislator Asks Removal Of ee ee ae

Impeachment Articles On Crable Filed  : Newato Legislator Asks Removal Of - State Educator

OUSTER OF SUPT. — GRABLE SOUGHT   Textbook Scandal Comes tec Head as Rep. Whitford Charges Corruption

Impeachment A. L. Crable, State School Head, Asked  Articles of Impeachment Introduced in   Articles of Impeachment Introduced in House of Representatives

Impeachment Articles On Crable Filed  Nowata Legislator Asks Removai Of

AXIS CONFERENCE, EXPECTE 3RING SOME MOVE BY HITL ‘UIROPE AS COOD WEATHEE

The War Today  Hitler, On Defensive, Will Find It Hard To Open Offensive,

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MacKUNZIF (Associated Press War Analyst)

 A he War  oday— Hitler On Defensive But Allies Still Must Prepare For Surprises

Hitler Is Getting Set for Crucial Summer Operations Will He Spring a Surprise Offensive?

pak seals "Clever Move Struck Final Blow at Axis”   Yank Leader Praises Gen, Alayva welap

Victory Won By Strategy   Smart Moves of Allied Generals Broke Lost Axis Resistance

Kisenhower Reveals How Allied Maneuver Surprised Nazis, Led To Enemy’s Collapse in Africa

Clever Move Speeds End   ‘Allies Feint With 8th ‘Army, Then Swing In With Knockout Blow ~ From West and North

Eisenhower Reveals Strategy By Which Axis Was Smashed   Foe Expected 8th Army To Strike, Taken Unawares By Allies In West

REPUTATION EIGHTH  ARMY HELD BULK OF  ENEMY BEFORE IT FIRST ARMY THEN GOT  IN KNOCKOUT PUNCH, EISENHOWER GAYS

Allies Got in Knockout Punch By Clever Feint, Gen. Eisenhower Diseloses —

Eisenhower Tells How Nazis Were Fooled And Then Crushec  Avis Fwnected Final Blaw Toa Came Fram   Axis Expected Final Blow To Come From Eighth Army But First Struck Instead

CROSSED UP NAZIS   Germans Were Looking for Blow From the Eighth  Army

CROSSED UP NAZISN   LISMISSING IN FLOO!   Germans Were Looking for Blow From the Eighth  Army

Munda Tough Nut to Crack      Find Japs Entrenched In Bomb-Proof Caves Dug In-Solid Coral .

Farm Labor Is Chief Trouble Governors Warn U.S. Ma y ace Major Food Shortage Problem

TOM HARMON TS MISSING OVER CHINA   Parents Get No Hint Whether - Accident or Jap Guns Cut Pilot-Down   UNREPORTED SINCE OCT. 30

TOMMY HARMON LISTED MISSING      Football Star Unreported Since October 30 Over China

Lt. Tom Harmon Missing In Ching  Former Michigan  Football Star Had  Raen Fiahktina lane

Tom Harmon’s Name On List Of Missing   Famous Football Player Missing In Action Over China — Has Served As Fighter Pilot

U.S. TIGHTENS CONTROL OVER RAILROADS      Army Reveals That Three Unions Merely Postpvoned Strike

AIRING OF RIVALRIES DEPLORED BY NELSON      ‘Out of Place in Time of War,’ He Says, in Testi/ mony on Gas, Rubber   BOTH PROGRAMS  CAN GO FORWARD   Assumes Responsibility for Orders; No Delay on High Octane as a Result

NELSON SCORES TIFFS BETWEEN GOVT OFFICIALS   DECLARES PERSONAL RIVALRIES HAVE NO PLACE IN WAR TIME

NELSON CRITICAL OF PUBLICLY. AIRED RUBBER ARGUMENT  WBP CHAIRMAN BELIEVE  PROGRAM BE CARRIED  QYVITT 2G GMrtirnrtT? cr

Nelson Raps Gas - Rubber Official Row   Says Problems of Both - Can Be Worked Out  This Year

Synthetic Rubber and High Octane Gasoline, Airplanes and Ships All Possible Says Nelson

WPB Head Calls For Halt In Bickering Over Priorities For High   Octane Gasoline

Gasoline And Rubber, Too, Says Nelson .   WPB Head Believes Both Programs Can  Re Cantinied

Nelson Reports War Production Program Gainine   Truman Committee Airs Dispute of Government Heads

Gas and Rubber  Production to Be Met, Nelson Says   He Is Critical of Publ ityAired Fighting Among Officials.   Plant Construction Is Being Expedited

Nelson Raps Officials For  Squabbling   Says Production Programs All Can Re Carried Out

Nelson Says All Of 1943 Production Goals to Be Met   WPB Chairman Hits “Publicly-Aired™ Fights of Officials. °

RUBBER-GASOLINE PUBLIC FIGHTING HIT BY WPB CHIEF   Personal Rivalries Have No Place in War Program, He Says - - Not Pessimistic

WPB Chief Hits sabblers In Official Posts   Says Production Goals Can Be Met Only Through Cooperation

Nelson is Critical of Personal Rivalry Amonc Government Officials

NELSON CRITICAL OF SQUABBLING BY BOARD CHIEFS   Believes Synthetic Rubber, High Octane Gas and Plane and Ship Programs Can Be Carried Out This Year

NELSON URGES COOPERATION   Critical of Fighting by Heads of Bureaus

NELSON THINKS BOTH RUBBER, GAS ASSURED   Criticises Disputatious Officials, Says Co-operation Needed, Rival. rv Oui of Place   GAS OUTPUT HIKED      WPB Chief Says Rubber Program Did Not Interfere with Produc. tion Aviation Gas

Official Fishting Rapped   ... Nelson Says Harmony Keynote To Success

NELOUN ASSAILG GAS-RUBBER DUE!   WRB Chairman Sharply Critical Of Publicly. Aired ‘Fighting’

CITE PRODUCTION OF GUN BARRELS   Timken Company Reveals New Process

GUN BARREL OUTPUT AT OHIO FACTORY IS GREATEST IN WORLE   Canton Plant Makes Them At Rate of 6,000 a Month

GERMANS CONCEDE Parr ne erry   TIRE SHORTAGE NEAR END, SAYS GOODYEAR HEAD

‘Rubber Crisis Past for United Nations, Head of Rubber Company Asserts

Light Candles For High Requiem, Not Birthday, Of Infant Lou Costella

Ration Pomt  Changes Made   O. P. A. Announces Sharp Cuts In Points Needed For Some Canned Foods   FROZEN FOODS ALSO AFFECTEL

Cut Stamp Cest Of Beans, Tomatoes   Peas, Vegetables, Frozen Fruits, Also Reduced

OPP REDUCES POINT COST OF VEGETABLES   Canned Beans, Peas, Tomatoes and Frozen Foods Affected

POINT VALUES ARE REDUCED ON SOME GANNED VEGETABLES   SNAP BEANS, ‘PEAS AND TOMATOES AFRECTED BY CUTS— COLD STORAGE CHICKENS  WITHHELD °

STANDLEY MAY RETURN TO U.S.   Admiral’s Retirement Predict“ed From Personal . Reasons

NAZIS DETERMINED   Speaker Predicts Standley to Leave Moscow By Octobe:

U. 8. Ambassador To Quit Moscow   But Retirement of Standley Said Due to Personal Wish, Whereas Withdrawal of Litvinoff is Part of Becaet Stalin  Policy

CONSTITUTIONALITY WOULD BE TESTED   Rep. Beall Introduces Meascre Permitting OPA Price Violalors To Go To Courts

Polio Cases to Reach New High Officials Believe   2,753 Cases of Infantile Paralysis Reported in Month

Two Large Convoys  Arrive In Englanc  Both Report Uneventful Atlantic Crossing

MORE YANKS TO BRITAIN   Members of U. S. Merchant Marine Also in Convoy.

Fortresses Again Blast Port City of Emden  1 ee ee iia De a   Germans Report U. § Bombers With RAF In Attack on Ruhr

Emden Raid Nets 19 Nazis   Flying Forts Blast Port City Third Time in Two Days

FORTAESUES JOIN "HAF IN BiG NIGHT oAAID ON THE RUNK   Also Stage Daylight Raid on North Sea Merchant Ship» ping Port of Emden   BIG SHIPS, ESCORTS DOWN 19 NAZI PLANES   " Indigations Point to Further Widespread Aerial Attacks Early Today; Heavy Blows Being Dealt Hitler's European Fortress

Fortresses Blast Emden   Shoot Down 19 German Fighters Against Two American Planes Lost

U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST EMDEN, GERMAN PORT   FORTRESSES BAG 14 ENEMY PLANES IN RAID

Forts Blast Emden In Daylight Raid: RAF Pounds Ruhr   Two Fortresses Lost In Foray; Fighter Escorts Shoot Down 19 Germ an Planes; Eighth Air Force Power Quadru pled

Other Attacks Indicated   American Flying Fortresses Blast Port Installations Ai Emden After Shattering Attacks In North France

Emden Bombed by U.S. Flyers; Another Night Attack Is Indicated .

Fortresses Give Emden Third. Blow in Week   Big U. S, Planes Also Reported Operating by Night

More Air Blows for Nazis  ‘Forts’ Pound Emden, Knock Down Foe Fighter Pianes

Fortresses Again Blast Port City of Emden  Germans Report U. § Bombers With RAF In Attack an Buhe

Destroy 104. Jap Planes In Two-Day Drive   Enemy Losses In Single Week Are Estimated At 300 Aircraft, Is Report From MacArthur

Air Smash Downs 104 Toio Planes   «MacArthur's Fliers Score Staggering New Blows To Enemy Sky Power   MAY REACH IA]   All 26 Bombers Raidin< Oro Bay Are Destroyed Plus 31 Fighters

Only 2 Allied Aircraft Lost  In Offensive  17 Jap Planes Smashed _ or Damaged in Rabaul Raid Boost Toll  ON 7350-MILE FRON'  Tokyo Claims Sinking of 4 Allied Transports in Buna Harbor         ON 750-MILE FRONT

JAPANESE LOSE 104 PLANES 10 ALLIEN FLIERS   Smashing Two-Day Offensive On  ~ 750-Mile Southwest Pacific Battle Line—Jap Losses Raised To 200 Aireraft   ONLY TWO ALLIED  PLANES ARE LOST

U.S. Fliers Again Rock Jap Air Power On Pacific Line   104, Probably 147 Planes, Destroyed In Smashing 2-Day Aerial Offensive Along 750-Mile Front— . , Two Allied Planes Lost

SMASHING AIR DEFEAT HANDLE NIPS IN PAGIEIL   104, Probably 147 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed In 2-Day Offensive

104 NIPPON PLANES ARE DESTROYED   U. S. Airmen Enjoy Field Day; Lose Only 2 Planes

YANKS SMASH 104 PLANES IN PACIFIC AREA   Brings Jap Losses to About 300 Aircraft In Past Week

Allies Inflict  Heavy Damage or Jap Airpower  MACARTEUR’S FLIERS SMASH ATLEAST 104 ENEMY PLANES   Only Two United Nations Planes Are Lost in Number of Aerial Battles

104, POSSIBLY 147 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN: OUR LOSS ?   Another Field Day for U. S. Air Forces Brings Total te 300 Within Week.

Japanese Suffer Another Blow To Air Power   Over 100 Enemy Planes Destroyed In New Guinea Raids

Heavy Toll of Jap Planes Is Reported Taken   At Least 107 and Probably 147° Are Destroyed

JAP AIRPOWER WEAKENED BY ALLIED FLIERS   104 To 147 Enemy Planes Smashed In 2 Days; We Lose Two

REDS GAIN IN DRIVE TOWARD! WNIEPER RIVER   HAL 6, 000 Germans, Take 3,000 VilJaces in Day

Enemy Loses Heavily On All Sides   Thousands Are Killed, Towns Are Taken As Russians Advance

Russians See Nazi Retreat. In Donets Are:   100 Villages Taken, 6,000 Germans Killed  In Soviet Advance  NAZI LINE WEAKENS

6,000 NAZIS SLAIN: REDS NEAR DNIEPER   Russian Airmen Report Ger mans Blowing Up Ammunition Dumps And Stores In Donets Ragin   Kiev Objective

REDS GAIN IN DRIVE TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER   tll 6,000 Germans. Take 1,000 Villages in Day

Russians Gain Nine Miles on South Front   Report Axis Lines Cracking in . Huce Donets: Basin

Axis Lines In Donets Basin: Are Believed To Be Cracking   Russians Plunge Toward Dneiper River After Killing 6,000 Germans and Capturing Nearly One Hundred Villages

GERMAN LINES INDONETS ARE CRACKING OPEN   Hundreds Of Nazi Soldiers Are Reported To Be  Surrendering   6,900 AXIS TROOPS ARE REPORTED SLAIN

6,000 Nazis Slain  In Dnieper Drive   Nearly 100 Villages Captured in Red Army Plunge of 4 to 9 Miles; Germans’ Donets Line Cracking

Russians Kill 6,000 Germans, Take 100 Towns   Axis Lines Crack On Donets Sector

1943  By ASHER RB. JOHNSON   February 22nd, 8:00 P.M.  bilan abe eg ee eas

Navy Gives  Up Standard  QOil Contract   Knox Declares Agreemen Was Entered Into li ~ Good Faith

Sfandard-Navy Deal Canceled   Contract Termed Invalid Discarded, Secretary Knox Says

OIL CONTRACT (5 CANCELLED   Deal Was Executed Ethically and in Good Faith, Affirms Knox

Navy Oil Deal Is Discarded   SECRETARY KNOX IN EXPLANATION OF CONTRACT

KNOX DISCARDS NAVY OIL DEAL        JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BRANDS AGREEMENT ILLEGAL AND VOID.

ELK HILLS OIL DEAL BRANDED AS “ILLEGAL”   Contract Signed Last December With Standard Oil Likened to Teapot Dome Scandal   AUTHORITY IS EXCEEDED

NAVY CANCELS ELK HILLS OIL RESERVES DEAL   Knox Announces Contract Discarded After Justice Departmen! . Held Tt Tlecal   EXCEEDED POWER   Secrelary Emphasizes Contraci Made in Good Faith, No Impro. prieties Employed

Navy Cancels Oil Contract   Knox Acts Following Iegality Ruling; Says Pact Made in Good Faith

Heavy German Attack Broken In Donets Area  Russians: ‘Hurl Back  Enemy, Improve’ Positions we  eS ete ie

‘Heavy German Attack Near Balakleya Sector Broken   Three Nazi Battalions Break Through Red Lines But Withering Fire Dislodaes Them

Nazi Attacks on Donets Front Broken   Germans Lose Nine Tanks and 1,200 Men Killed

NAZI ATTACK ON SOVIETS IS VERY COSTLY   1,200 Axis Troops Reported Killed In Vain Assault On Russian Line.

Germans Lose Heavily in Donets Thrust   Russians Halt Drive As Nazis Attempt To Open New Sector

ADM. HALSEY AND WARTHUR CONFER FOR FIRST TIME   Clesest Cooperation and Cocrdination of Two Commands Reported to be Subject of Discussions ,

(MacArthur ‘And Halsey ‘Confer In ‘Australia   Discussions Center  On Coordination Of Two Commands, Using All Their Means

HALSEY TALKS  TO WARTHUE   First Conference of Pacific Leaders May Signal New Phase of War.

HALSEY, MACARTHUR MEET IN AUSTRALI/   May Be Signal for New Pacific Drive

Pacific Chiefs Hold a Parley   Admiral Halsey, General MacArthur Meet

Are Cooking Up Brew For Japs   New Phase of the War In Pacific Believed In Offing   NO HINT GIVEN OF PLANS DISCUSSED

NAZIS CLAIM ~ ROME RAIDED   GERMAN AGENCY SAYS AL LIED. BOMBING PLANES.  MADE, ATTACK AT NOON YESTERDAY

\Old Settlers’ To Hold Aanual Picnic August 15  ’ Cordial Invitation Extended Ts Public

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1943   By The Preskdant Of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION

LIFE TERMERS’ HOPES BOOSTED   Senate Passes Bill Making Parole Possible After Serving 25 Years

Hit Federal Ixtravagance In Labor Use   President Of GovernmentOwned Railroad Says Government ‘Featherbedding.’   HOUSE HEARS CHARGES

LOS ANGELES HEADS FOR NEW STRIKE   Trolley, Motor Coach Men Set To Strike Sunday

TRANSPORTATION STRIKE SETTLED: ANOTHER LOOM   STREET CAR AND BUS OPERA: TORS AT LOS ANGELES RE TURN TO WORK BUT ANOTH: ER WALKOUT IS THREATEN: ERD.   WILL TIE UP VITAL FREIGHT CENTERS   Army Dragnet in Delaware Fails to Catch Black Market Poultry Trucks—St. Louis Complains of Poultry Black Market.

Oscar J. Gray Dies af Eugene   Widely Known Cole Co. Democrat Had Been Ill for Long Time

NOTED - EUGENE RESIDENT DIES   Oscar (Shorty) Gray Promiinent In Cole County Poli ties for Many Years

AFL Resolutions. Oppose Lewis Bid   Fight Looms on Convention Floor

A.F.L. OPENS 63RD CONCLAVE   LEWIS BID FOR RETURN FACES OPPOSITION

Five Oppose Lewis In AFL   Only One Resolution Favors Readmission

Roosevelt Will See Resolution Tomorrow   Proposed Measure Stemmed From Weeks Of Conferences

Senate Leaders  Resolve for  World Union   Demo and. Republican Solens to Join inAppeal to President

SENATE. G WOULD CLARIFY POST-WAR AIMS   Resolution Is Offered Reciting Position of United States

War-Peace Board Urged   Senate to Receive Proposal for World Court, Police Force

Senate ‘Moves For Peacetime Security Plan   Proposal Offers - Creation Now Of Firm Organization

GROUP TO PLACE PROPOSAL BEFORE ROOSEVELT TODAY   Permanent Organization Suggested for Closer Military Co-Operation and Peacetime Security.   TENTATIVE APPROVAL IS GIVEN BY WELLES   Plan IXmbodied in Resolution That Will Be Submitted to Upper Branch of Congress for Vote,

Senate Group Puts Up Postwar Plans   Will Carry Senate Approval Of Peace Settlement And Aims Of Allies

“Senate to Call for Firm Allied Organization on War-Peace Security   Leaders of Both Parties Sponsor New Proposal to Assure World U.S. Will Participate in Problems

Senate Group Proposes Plan For Security   United Nations’ Would Maintain. Force To Keep Peace

PROPOSAL TO BE SUBMITTED - TOROOSEVELT   Resolution Containing Five Point Program to Be Offered Tuesday...   URGES UNTED STATES. TO TAKE INITIATIVE

LL GET PLAN FOR STUDY   Program Announced As Eden Arrives For  Conferences

A Ship a Day Only a M inor Miracle as Kaiser Sends 6 Down Waysina Week

Tax Chief Hints At Increase In Surtax Rates   Normal Levy May Also Go Up, Chairman Thinks

TAX OUTLOOK DARK   Everybody “Will Be Hit Harder in Raising of Ten  Billions

Possible Horrors of Next Revenue Bill Told to Taxpayers by Senator

Tax Preview Looks Grim   Sen. George Outlines Likely Methods of Raising More

Tax Picture’s Grim Preview IsRolled Out   Boosts All Along Line Forthcoming If First Thinking Becomes An Actualityv

BIG INCREASE LOOMS IN NEW TAX PROGRAM   . . Senate Finance Chairman Presents Grim Picture  For 1944   SEEK NEW REVENUES   Federal Sales Levy May Be passed to Meet Treasury Quota

Next Tax Bill To Dig Deep   Combination of Higher “Income and Excise Taxes May Be Expected

PREVIEW OF REVENUE FOR YEAR GIVEN   Lower Bravkets Are Forecast In Senate

Sees 32 Pct. Tax On Lowest Incomes Senator George Offers  Grim Preview Of What Taxpayers May Expect  i = ae oe,

 GRIM PREVIEW OF NEW TAX BILL [32 Per Cent Income Levy In Lower Brackets Urgec

OPA CHANGES POINT VALUES OF FOODS   Dried or Dehydrated Soups Dropped From Ration List

Some Revisions In Point Values   Dried Or Dehydrated Soups Are Taken Off Point Ra. tion Lists Ry WILLIAM EF ZIMMER WAN

NEW PERIOD OF RATIONS   HOUSEWIVES START. PURCHASES TODAY UNDER RE’ VIBED TABLES OF FOOD 2. POINT VALUES."

NEW BATCH OF PAYTON oTAMPS NOW Wh EFFECT   OPA’s Monthly Revisicn c! Meat and Processed Focd Viaues.   MANY CHANGES MADE   Dried and Dehydrated Souns Eliminated From the Ration List.

German Drive Against Reds Fizzling Ou   Hitler's Troops Probe In. Vain For Soft Snot In Line

Germans Shift Cunter-Atfack   Use Tanks and Planes In Heavy Attack in Chernvyakov Sector

Italian Third City Is Taken From Nazis After 22 Days Of Invasion -

R. A. F. Bombers Hammer Turin During Night   ‘Ytalian ‘Arsenal ‘City Is Heavily Bombed By British In ‘Mystery’ Raid   SHUTTLE-BOMBING MAY BE RESUMED

-ALF.BOM TURIN, VITAL ITALIAN CITY   Renewal of Shuttle Raids on Europe Indicated

NEW UNDERSEAS THREAT DEVELOPS EAST AUSTRALIA   Enemy Launches Submarine Attack In Some Force; Details Are Withheld Temporarily Lest Knowledge Assist Jap Forces.

SPY SUSPECT — - DIES RECORE   DETROITER TRIED TO GET MAN IN FORD PLANT FOR PROP- AGANDA AMONG EM.  PLOVES

Dr. Fred Thomas Involved In ‘38 In Dies Report   Tries To Place Parker Sage In Ford Plant To ‘‘Get Confidence Of Workers’’   SAGE IS NATIVE OF NEW CASTLE

Gen. Hayashi Of Japan Dies   One of Nation’s Most Powerful Military Leaders Served as Premier in 1937

RUSSIAN FRONT VITAL: HITLER   DISAPPOINTMENT FOR NAZI ENEMIES SEEN

ROUTED AT KHARKOV, GERMANS FLEE WESTWARD IN DISORDER, REDS PUSH ON]    Nazis Rush Toward Dnieper River With Victory-Flushed Soviets in Hot Pursuit.

STATE CONVENTION   Chairmen Promise Not to Seek Control Through Election of Delegates at Large   NON-PARTISAN CONTEST .   Fifteen Deiegates to be Slected at Large and 68 from Sentorial Districts

Chairmen Premise Net te Seck Contrel Threugh Election of Delegates at Large   NON-PARTISAN CONTEST   Fifteen Delegates te be Slected at Large and 68 frem Sentorial Districts

U.S. RAIL STRIKE NEAR; NEW COAL TROUBLE BREWS   FDR Action, WLB Statement Show Mine Settlement Only Temporary

GENERAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS   Approval Of Union Members Indicated In Ballot

RAIL  UNIONS  HAVE VOTED  FOR STRIKE   RETURNS ALREADY TARULATED REVEAL RECORD — VOTE FOR WALKOUT ' HAS BEEN CAST

ANTI-GAMBLING BILL DEFEATED   House Turns Thumbs Dowr - After Debate on Church Immunity To Penalty

HOUSE NEGATES NUMBERS BILL BY SMALL VOTE   Church Bingo Games Source of Much Debate; Female Labor Bill Up Again

Marshall’s Moves Toward Opening 2d Front To Be Strictly Hush-Hush: Will Be Massive Job

Giraud Ousts Bey of Tunis   Leader of Moslems Reported Sent to Madagascar

French Depose Bey  Of Tunis, to  Madagascar Isle Distant Relative Will  Replace Leader Qf 9 000 000 Maclemse

Bey Of Tunis Now In Exile   25 Wives Accompany Him To Madagascar

PATTON GIVEN NEW COMMAND   Fiery General Expected to Play Big Part In Coming  Eurgnean Invacian

U. S. CARRIER FORCE TRIES TO LURE JAPS OUT AT TRUK   Enemy Fleet Refuse: To Take Bait; New Developments Seen

ROWS CAUSE OF RUBBER DELAY   Refineries Could Not Ob tain Critical Materials  For Conversion

Rubber Delay Blame Placed   Arguments Over Materials Caused Hold-Up, Says U. 8. Official

Plan to Tax (Outside Stock Is Up   Senate Kills Move to ‘Repeal Hickey Bill; House Session Active

House Kills Saloon Closing Bill   Tax on Migratory Livestock Is Proposed by Solon

WEAK ASSAULT MADE BY NAZIS   Four Mosquito Bombers Chase 8 Junkers Over Bay Of Biscay

Japs Lose In Air Attacks   170 Grounded Planes Blasted By Americans

WEWAK ATTACK BLOW TO JAPS   Air Force Of 170 Planes And 1500 Nipponese Wiped Out

Allied Raid Smashes 170 Jap Planes   1,500 Japanese Killed In Surprise Attack ‘On Wewak, New Guinea

Nips Caught Flat-Footed   Ships Wrecked On Ground And 1,500 Personnel Die .

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Actual Time For Invasion Ix Largely Dependent Upon Developments

PRELIMINARIES TO INVASION OF EUROPE ALRFADY UNDER WAY AS PANTELLERIA RUMORED INVADED

War At A Glance   PRELIMINARIES TO INVASION OF: EUROPE ALREADY UNDER WAY AS PANTELLERIA RUMORED INVADED

PRELIMINARIES TO ACTUAL INVASION OF EUROPE ARE UNDER WAY, WRITER ASSERTS  Island Of Pantelleria Must Be Occupied To Assure Clear Path To The Continent

Invasion Prelude Is Begun, Writer Says   DeWitt Mackenzie Declares Siege of Pantelleria Also Marks Preliminaries to Attack on Con~ tinent of Europe as Well.

The War Today   Curtain Rising on Invasion Ac Ysland Forts Are Poundec

ihe War loday  oe  Whether Pantelleria Has Fallen Or Not, Invasion Is On The Wavy.

Lhe Ww ar f oday— ; Preliminaries To Invasion Already Under Way With Pantelleria Attack

CASUALTIES AT 2,700,000   900,000 Nazis Are Killed in Summer Offensive; Total For Entire War 5 Million Dead

Red Army Holds Virtually Every Foot Of Land East Of Dnieper As Fruit Of Summer Drive On Germans   Marsha! Stalin Says Nazis Have Suffered 2,700,000 Casualties In Russian Campaign; Furious Battle In Progress Along Dnieper

REDS WITHIN 50 MILES OF POLISH LINE   Soviets Control Most Of Land East Of Dniener

Reds Seal Off Vast Area in Dnieper Bend   Stalin Estimates 2,700,000 Nazi Casualties in Drive

Russian Campaign Costly to Germans   Stalin Says 900,000 Nazis Dead, 1,702,000 Wounded This Summer

REDS HOLD EAST BANK OF DNIEPER   Summer Drive Seizes Every Foot; Nazis Lose 2,700,000

Nazis. Bled Pe Pale’ By. 2;700,000 - Casualties; Reds Gain In: North

Stalin Puts Total Enemy Loss at 11 Million; Reds Clear East Dnieper Bank

Germans Lose 2,700,000 in Four Months   Stalin’s Report Places 11,000,000 Lost in War; Control Base Sections

Russians Hold Nearly All Land East of Dnieper   Moscow Totals Nazis Staggering Losses of Summer

REDS AT RIVER BANKS ACROSS FROM KHERSON   Hold Virtually Al) of Land East of Dnieper After Swilt Campaign

Soviets Say 2,700,000 Nazis Lost   Entire East Bank Of Dnieper Cleared By Russians

Russians Hold All Land East Of the Dnieper   Summer Campaign Bleeds Germans of 2,700,000 Casualties, Reds Claim.   Reds Pushing West to The Latvian Border

Germans Lose Advantages In Summer Fight   Stalin States German Casualties 2.700.000 For Four Month Period.   VIEW TERRITORY GAIN

RUSSIANS NOW HOLD ALL TERRITORY EAST OF DNIEPER RIVER  SUMMER CAMPAIGN ON  EASTERN FRONT COSTLY‘

Virtually All Land East Of The Dnieper Held. By Reds: Nazi Losses Heavy

Stalin Claims 900,000 Germans Killed In Last Four Months Of Battle

RUSSIAN ARMY 50 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER   Vioscow Reports Summer Campaign Cost Germans 2,700,000 Casualties, Including 900,000 Killed; Russians In Holiday Mood.

Entire Region East Of Dnieper Cleared Of Foe; Red Rush Unchecked.

SAY 5 MILLION GERMANS DEAD   Reds Review Great Summer ~ Gains East of Dnieper

REDS CONTROL DNIEPER AREA   2,700,000 Nazi Casual:  Listed By Soviet Forces

Russians Drive Toward Poland   Soviets Move Into Newly Won Positions Result Break-Through

Nazi Casualties In Russia Placed  At 11 Million   Troops Pushing Toward Latvian Border . And Old Polish Frontier, Furious Fighting Rages In Dnieper Bend and in Kerch Area of Crimea.

RUSSIANS HOLD VIRTUALLY ALL DNIEPER AREAS   Have Retaken Every Foot Eastof River From Mouth Below Kherson to Gomel}

COSSACK NEAR KHERSON TODAY   Russians in Possession of Most of East Bank of Dnieper River.   GERMANS HOLD CRIMEA

EAST DNIEPER RIVER SECTOR HELD BY REDS   Moscow Says 98,000 Enemy Soldier Are Captured; 1,702,000 Wounded

Nazi Casualties In Russia Placed At 11,000,000   Soviets Now Hold Most of Land East Of the Dnieper River

Reach Stream Across Kherson   Stalin Announces Terrible Toll Taken Of Nazis Recently.

REDS HOLD EAST SIDE OF DNIEPER   Stalin’s Report Lists 900,000 Germans Killed in Last Four Months

REDS CONTROL LAND EAST OF DNIEPER RIVER   Stalin Says Nazis Lost 2,700,000  Last Summer

Father of Mrs, Louise (Den.7 nisom) Lyon, Founded Dennison Mife. Co.

Father-of Mrs. Louise (Den:  Rison): Lyon, Founded. - Dennison Mfg. Co.

TRIPOLI NEARLY SURROUNDED BY ALLIED FORCE!   Btitish Offensive Driving With Incredible Speed  and Power Oveywhelms Axis Defenses.

Seek Steady Food Supply   Prime Aim of Food Parley To Do Away With Want, Surplus

Patterson Blames Str ikes for Wa ar Pr -oduction Diop   Joan Barr se in, n Hospital as Chaplin and Bride Ho oneymoon

NEW: POLICY STEMS FROM CAIRO TALKS   Country’s Ministers Are Recalled From Moscow, Berlin and Ankara.

MERCURY DROPS TO 50 BELOW IN NEW ENGLAND   TWENTY-SIX PERSONS DIE IN WINTER’S WORST BLIZZARC

Cold Wave Takes Toll In Northern Localities   Ai Least 26 Persons Dead; Fifty Below Zero Recorded At Warrensburg. N. Y.

Mercury af -50 in Eastern States   Work in Shipyards Hampered by Cold

27 Die in Kast As Sub-Zero Wave Holds   War Work in Plants and Shipyards Hampered, Trains Delayed   N. Y¥. FRUIT INJURED   Fuel Oil Shortage Causes Suffering in New York and New England

26 Dead in East as Mercury Drops   Temperatures Drop to 50 Below Zero ir Places; Thousands Suffer Frost Bite; War Work Is Hit as Workers Are Unable to Reach .Renchec

27 PERSONS DEAD IN COLDEST WAVE OF THIS WINTER   Mercury Drops To As Far As Fifty Below In ‘Some Sections

50 Below Weather Delaying _ War Work; Shortage Of Oil Cleses Schools: Fruit Is Hit

50 BELOW ZERO TAKES HEAVY TOLLOFLIFE.   Transportation Slowed, Vital War Work Delayed, Schools” Closed In: East .

Cold Wave Toll Hits 26   Fuel Pinch Acute as 50-Below Marks Are Sct

27 Perish as Cold Wave Strikes East   Mercury Tumbles to 50 Below Zero; Fuel Shortages Reported

Vital War Work Delayed, Schools Closed and  Traffic Slowed Up  SLIGHT LETUP COMING

Twenty-Seven Are Dead As Cold Wave Grips East   Vital War Work Delayed by Cold; Fuel Is Scarce in Affected Area

EAST ENDURES SECOND DAY OF “FRIGID WAVE   At Least Twenty-Six Dead ‘As Result of Mercury’s Drop to Far Below Zero   DELAYS WAR WORK   Transportation Slowed and  AM nw le & asl: inany ‘Schools Closed; ;  Fifty Below At Warrensburg, N. Y.

26 PERSONS DIE IN COLD WAVE   Wide Eastern Area Engulfed By Sub-Zero Weather; War Plants Slowed

Severe Cold in East Kills 26   Sub-Zero Weather Delays War Work, Halts Transportation

Eas! Crippled By Sub-Zero _. Temperature   Death’ Toll Mounts to 27 and Thousands Suffer From Frostbite   ‘VITAL WAR WORK 1S DELAYED   Fuel Oil Shortage Adds to Discomfort; Many Schools - Closed Down

26 LIVES LOST IN COLD WAVE   Mercury Dives to 50 Degree: Below Zero in New York State

FEASTS COLD WAVE DEATH TOLL GOES TO HIGHER POINT   At Least 26 Paka Dead and Frigid Spell Continues Over Wide . Area

MERCURY HITS 0 BELOW ZERO IN EAST, 26 DIE   Transportation Halted, Vita War Work Delayed, Schools Closed

COLD IN EAST FATAL TO 26   ”’ Below Zero Recorded in New York State

COLO WAVE CLINGING TO GRIP ON NATION   At Least 26 Persons Dead From Frigid Blasts

26 PERSONS DIE INWORST COLD. WAVE OF WINTER   Mercury Down to 50 Below in Some Parts of Nation. - 11 Died in New FEnoland

27 Die in Cold Wave in East   Frostbite Is Common as  Mercury Slides Down to 50 Below Zero.

East's Cold Wave Claims  Rising Toll   Mercury Dives To Fifty Below Zero In New York State

FORMER BRONX COMMISSIONER DEFENDS FLYNN   Robert L. Moran Tells.Senate Group There Was ” “Nothing Wrong” With... Paving Deal   PRIVATE TRUCKS USE   Claims Blocks Were Secured From Dump; Previous Witness Said They Were Not

PUBLIC WORKS HEAD DEFENDS FLYNN ON PAVING BLOCK ISSUE   Teils Committee At Hearing On Unfitness Charge There ‘Was ‘Nothing Wrong’

- LA GUARDIA DUE ‘TO TAKE STAND   Former Bronx Official Says Nothing Was Wrong in Flynn Block Casé

Call LaGuardia As Last Witness  In Flynn Hearing   May Effect New Economy In Distribution Of Food To Speed Lend-Lease

NAZIS IMPOSE     iN NO. ITALY   ‘All Large Ci jes Taken ‘Over By . German Army:

Nazis {Impose Army hule In North Italy   Mussolini Quits Germany, Says Berlin Broadcast

MILITARY LAW IS IMPOSED ON LARGE CITIES IN ITALY   Germans Ignore Fascist Leaders Whom They  _ ° Intended To , Support

Nazis Clamp Martial Law On Occupied Italy; Berlin Radio Threatens Vatican __

Major Clash With Italian Navy Is Nea      Leng-Hidden Fascist Navy Being Readied To Join With Axis Forces In Defense Of Bigger Sreppine Stones, Claim   TORPEDO BOATS IN IMPORTANT ROLE

EXPECTED ON ITALY   Sicily and Sardinia Also Mey Be Blasted As ‘Major Clashes Loom  Today.

ALLIES SEEK CLASH WITH ITALY’S NAVS   European War Entering New Phase With Axis On the Defensive

U8. NAVAL FORGES BOMBARD JAPS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS   Nipponese Base in Aleutian: Bombed Six Times Be tween Dawn and Dusk Last Monday.

HEAVIEST RAID MADE ON KISKA   ‘Navy Planes B Bomb Japs  on Island Six Times on  Monday.

Raid Kiska Six Times In Day   American Bombers Carry Out Dawn To Dusk Blasting

Raid Kiska Six Times During Day   Light Naval Forces Shell Japanese Positions At Vila In Munda Area Of Solomon Islands

KISKA ISLAND BASE IS GIVEN REAVIEST RAID   Dawn to Dusk Attacks Made by 4-Air Forces; Other Jap Positions Bombed   ONLY FIVE JAPS ESCAPED FROM BISMARCK BATTLE

Kiska Attacked Six Times In Day  Light Surface Craft  Bombard Jans At Vila

OF CONVOY IS HUNTED   U. 5. Warships Bom. bard Enemy Positions In Solomons

Heaviest Air Attack So Far Made on Kiska   New Battle of Barma Rages 380 Hours With No General Change,

Heavy Attack Made on Kiska   American Planes Raid Aleutians Base Six Times

American Warplanes Make Strongest Series of Air  Attacks on Jap-Held Kiska

—PACIFIC~  HEAVY FIGHTING FLARES IN BURME   Aleutians Base Attacked Six Times Between Dawn And Dusk   WARSHIPS BUSY   Light Naval Ferces Shell Enemy Positions At Munda Airbase

Raid Kiska 6 Times in Single Day   Navy Ships Bombard Jap Positions in Munda Region

REPORT SERIES OF STRUGGLES ON MAYU RIVER   Wavell Says India’s Army Can Defeat Any Attack

HEAVY ATTACKS ON JAP-HELD KISKA   AMERICAN PLANES RAID ALEUTIANS BASE SIX TIMES

HEAVY AERIAL RAIDS CARRIED OUT ON ISLAND   Navy Announces Bombing Mission In Aleutians

JU, S. WARPLANES JOLT JAPANESE   Heaviest Series of Raids on Kiska Carried Out In Davlight

NAVY ANNOUNCES HEAVY BOMBING OF KISKA   Heaviest Raid Ever Made on Jap-Held Island Carried Out in Dawn  To Dusk Raid

YANK BOMBERS HIT JAPANESE SUPPLY SHIPS   Nipponese Bases Also Blasted by Airmen to Check Attempts to Stage Invasion   AMERICAN U-BOATS BAG 199 JAP SHIPS   Wavell’s Army Battling In Burma, Aided by RAF Planes; Japs Launch Land Attacks

Yanks Spray Kiska in Heaviest Raids on Jap-Held Island   U. S. NAVY GUNS POUR SHELLS INTO VILA IN MUNDA AREA OF CENTRAL SOLOMONS AS FULL FORCE OF BISMARCK VICTORY IS TOLD

Kiska Blasted By 6 Air Raids In Single Day  Only 5 lanc Feranac   Only 5 Japs Escaped Out of 15,000 in  Bismarck Sea Battle

Six Attacks, Dawn-To-Dusk, Made On Japs’ Base At Kiska   Enemy Positions In Sélomons Bombarded: Only 5 Of 15.000 OF Foe Survived Bismarck Sea Battle:

Jap Positions on Kiska Raided Six Times in Short Day   United Nations Speed Up Action on Whole of Pacific Front

BOMBARD VILA   ‘Aleutian Attacks Are Heav« jest Series Made on Single Day.   RESULTS ARE LACKING

RAID KISKA 6 TIMES IN DAY   U.S. Flyers Make Heavy Attacks on Taps

SOLONS BACK FOR CONGRESS WEDNESDAY   F. R. Message Thursday To Launch Work of 78th Term   BUDGET ON FRIDAY   Economy Campaign. Set By Chairman Byrd Next Week

DRIVE SEEN IN CONGRESS FOR ECONOMY   Senators, Representetives Arrive For New Session

‘Economy Drive Developing On Eve Of New Session  Wednesday; F, D. State Of Union  Address Thursday

78th Session to Open Next  Wednesday, Will Bring Concerted Drive to Curtail Exnenses.

Expense Cut, Bi-Partisan War Group Will Be Sought; Rayburn Is Certain Speaker

FDR TO ADDRESS CONGRESS THURSDAY   Work Already Started by Members of 78th Congress.

Congress Is Unofficially Hard at Work   Two Campaigns Are Already Under Way

CONGRESSMEN FIND 2 CAMPAIGNS FOR ACTION DEVELOPED   “78th . Congress Opens On Wednesday — President To Give State. OF  ’ Unibn Shee

MOVEMENT: ALSO UNDERWAS FOR, BI-PARTISAN COMMIT: . ATEE TO ASSIST.IN PROS+. ECUTION OF WAR:

PLEDGE SWIFT LANSING PROBE   Rushton Enlists Aid 0! Democrat to Prosecute Quiz

ANTI-STRIKE MEASURE WP: BE DELAY’ «=   Cooling Of .° od and Secr f at Stumblin. “& cks

STRIKE BILL IS NEAR APPROVAL   Conferees OK Most Of Plan As Passed By Senate

ASTRONOMER 4 TRIAL WITNES!   Testifies in Trial of Errol Flynn Charged With Molesting Girl Aboard Yacht;  Chemist Also Heard

Directs V War Dept. Provide Protection  F or U. S. Operations   Ickes To Handle: Coal Production: . Lewis Remains Silent On Action; F. D. To Give Talk On Situation   The Coal Céisis At A Glance

28 Airplanes Burned  $160,000 Blaze Destroys Hangar, Machine Shop

TRANSIT STRIKE AT AKRON ENDS   Unionists To Present Case To WLB Panel For _Hearina

DEADLINE IS SET IN TRANSIT CASE   Akron Workers, Ending Strike. Will Present Arguments To WLB

TRANSIT STRIKE ENDS IN AKRON   Carmen Have Until Friday To Present Case to Regional War Labor Board

Must Maintain Pacific Control   Navy Chief Favors Extension of Lend-Lease Aid

Knox Insists Lend-Lease  Be Continued   Control Of Pacific Bases’ After War fs Necessary, Says.He

RESISTANCE IS ENDED ON GUADALCANAL   United States Forces Now In Position to Go After Other Enemy Bases.

Knox Says U.S. Must Maintain Control of Pacific Ocean After The War: Naval, Air Bases Needed

Knox Says Japan. Must Be Disartned   U.S. Must Keep ~ ~Control of Pacific .

CONTINUATION OF LEND-LEASE URGED BY KNOX   Must Retain Sufficient Bases To Control Area

U. S. Destroyer Wins Victory   Sinks Jap Destroyer, Cruiser and Battleship, Is Home for Repairs

U.S. DESTROYER SANK THREE JAP WARSHIPS   Destroyer, Cruiser and Battleship of Kongo Class Engaged And Sunk

Small Ship Sails Into Ring Of Enemy Warcraft And Knocks Out Three Before Steaming Away; Exploit Held ‘Almost Incredible’

Single Destroyer Sinks 2 Warships ‘Trapped In Ring Of Jap Vessels, U. S. Craft Shoots Way Out

3 Jap Vessels In Daring Coup   American Destroyer Said Caught Unexpectedly In Ring of Enemy Warcraft

2 Ships Sunk By Destroyer   Failure To. Obtain Orde! Results In ‘Success  Of US: Craft

Yank Destroyer Sinks 3 Large Enemy Warships   Trapped In Ring O1 Jap Fleet, Smal Vessel Shoots Way Out Safely

Tiny U. S. Craft Caught in Ring of Enemy Warships Sinks—  Battleship, Destrover, Cruiser

JAP BATTLESHIF AND CRUISER SUNK BY U1. $. DESTROYER   Third Warship Also Sent to Bottom by Tiny American Boat; Almost Incredible Exploit.

BRITISH REFUSE NAZI TRAP BAIT   Reveal How They Outsmarted Rommel at Start of Desert . Fray

Standley Piqued By Davies Mission  Admiral Desires To Quit Russia

STANDLEY ASKS TO LEAVE RUSSIA   Hull Disclaims Knowledge of Reported Resignation Over Being Sliaghted

Nelson Says North America Alone Will Produce Almost ee ‘ice as ‘Much War Material This Year as the Axis; Declares We Soon Will Be Producing One Plane Every Four and Two-Thirds Minutes

War Materiel Fear of Invasion For Gigantic Alerts Germans BattlesReady Around Furope

115,000 Planes Produced by U.S And Canada   To Make Complete Craft Every 4 2-3 Minutes By 1944, Nelson Savs

United Nations. . Production Is Voice OF Doom  To Axis——Nelson   Tells Canadians Allies Getting Immense Materiel For - Gigantic Battles Ahead

Gigantic Battles Are Looming In Which Huge Quantities Of Materials To Be Used

Giant Battles Coming Soon,  Says Nelson   Allies Getting Materic In Great Quant

BRITISH EIGHTH ADVANCES FROM EAST TO WES]   While American Fifth Takes More Strategic Positions Along Roadway to Rome

, NAVY CHIEFTAIN RAPS OPTIMISM SWEEPING LAND   American Fleet And Air Force Must Be Twice Size Of Enemy’s  )   VICTORIES ONLY MINOR   Officer Points To Dangers As Production Decreases Are Reported

PACIFIC WAR OF SIX YEARS IS PREDICTEL   ASSISTANT CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS WAHNS  AGAINST WAVE OF #P- . _TIMISM SWEEQIN NATION ,

U.S PLANS FOR SIX MORE YEARS OF CONFLICT   U.S. Raids Main Nip Base on Paramushiru, 1,200 Mi. From Tokio

JEFFERS URGES MORE WORK ANI LESS TALKING      Says Some Officials Should Follow ... Jeffers Plan

Tree Grower of Dutchess County, Sometimes Called FDR, Votes at Hyde Park

Bolivian President Mobilizes Armies   National Defense Council to Direct War on Axis

Tenston Is Mounting as Allied Invasion Nears.  EPFORTS MADE TO PREVENT UPRISING  75,000 Pro-Allied Patriot Army Is in Hiding.

‘Americans Learn Nothing In National Life Remote   Nation Beginning to Realize That Rising Price of But ter, Higher Wages For Miners and Other Sup posedly Unrelated Matters Always Tied  In With Their Own Daily Lives

SERVICE VOTING ~ PLAN ATTACKED   Back-Home Prox peepee  Dries Cour

Draft New Measure For  Soldier Vote  Bill Proposes Pravy At Hame

Allempt to Junk Proposed Ballot For Service Men  Deslanatian af Mame   Designation of Home Proxy” Advocated In Senate

New Serviceman s Vote Plan Drawn   Friends Would Cast Their Ballots

Russians Recognize France’s New Governing Body  Soviets Grant Status Without Restraint In Moscow Statement

Russians Recognize France’s New Governing Body  Soviets Grant Status Without Restraint

LACAT. HREERVATIONSA   A Limit Is Set On Corn Buying   Food Administration Takes Steps to Prevent Hoarding of Corn.

Corn On Loans  Ordered Sold   Grain Grown In 1938-41 Must Be Redeemed Or Delivered By July .

Corn Purchase Limit Ordered   Davis Acts to Stop Hoarding of Feed

YANKS STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS AT JAP BASE   Assaults May ‘Indicate New U. S. Advance in South Pacific

Widespread Assaults For Island Control  Raids Simulfaneous With Danart Easeae

YANK AIRMEN TO STRIKE JAP BASES WIDELY   General Patch Reports His Troops On Guadalcanal Have Gained Complete Con trol Of Island.   Kiska Japs Suffer

U. S. Launche New Blows At Jap Bases  Attacks Presage Drive to Push Paaiftie Vietary

Navy Reports Widespread Aerial Attacks   Campaign Agains New Islands in Pacific Séen

Widespread Attacks In Pacific   Jap Bases Pounded In Pressing Guadalcanal Victory

Mountbatten Finishes Conferences With American Chiefs; Will Have U. S. Leaders on His Staff

Gen. Stilwell Is Mentioned For New Post   Relieved Slated to Serve  As Deputy Commander oe a en

Shape of Things to Come   Gen. Stilwell Slated for Deputy Commander Under Mountbatten

10 BE HIGH IN ASIA COMMANI   American is Reportec Slated for Mountbatten’ 8 Deputy  RnR. WIT sha ECRVr

Mountbatten Ends Series of Parleys   Stilwell Expected To Be Named Deputy

STILWELL IS SLATED TOBE MADEDEPUTY   Lieut.-General. Moy be . Second in Command imn Acin   MOUNTBATTEN ENDS CONFERENCES HERE   Plans Later Conferences With Generalissimo ~~ Kai-Shek

STILWELL SLATED. FOR HIGH POST   GENERAL EXPECTED TO BE NAMED MOUNTBATTEN’S DEPUTY COMMANDER,

Stilwell May Get New Post  7 sue   Lord Mountbatten Leaves Washinator

Stilwell Said Slated as Aide To Briton   Former Commando Chief Completes His Whirlwind Round of  Conferences Here

U. S. Leaders, Mountbatten End War Talk:   Newly Named Chief In Asia Eyes Stilwell for Post

TammanyGains  StrengthinN.Y,   Left Wing Holds ALP  Control in County

Kennedy, F.D.R. Backer,. Victor In N. Y. Voting   Leadership Of Tammany Strengthened; A.L.P. Results Noted.

New Strength For Tammany   Leadership of Kennedy Increased by Vote In New York Primary

KENNEDY KEEPS PARTY CONTROL IN N.Y. COUNTY      fammanyLeadership Gains Strength, Left Wing ALP Appears Victor In Primary Battle

Order of WLB Virtually Freezes Shop Agreements   Union Coxtracts Must Remain Same to Keep War Production Effort Stabilized

FROZEN IN U. 5.   Established Agreements Are Pegged in Stabilization of Production Effort

JOHN REEMTS IS CALLED BY DEATH LAST THURSDAY   ‘Rites For Well Known Akron Man Are Held Sunday Afternoon

Norwegians Are Ready to Pounce  Report Undergrounc Army of 500.000

 nderground Army Awaits  Allied Attack   Half Million Norwegians  Ready Fight

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazi Generals In Saddle (And Russians Facing Even Harder Task

SOVIET PUSH CLOSE UPON NAZI'S. HEELS   Reported German Orderly Retreat May Not Be So Leisurelv.   KHARKOV FALLS, REDS KEEP GOING   Retirement. of Hitler’s Army Is Declared A Dangerous Operation.

RUSSIANS TRAVELING FASTER 'THAN FAMED NAZI BLITZKRIEG IDID AT BECINNING OF INVASION

NAZIS NEARER TO KIEV TOQAY   Russians Make Third Withdrawal in Three Days Under Pressure.   'RED POSITIONS STRONG

THITOMIR IS TAKEN TODAY BY NAZI ARMY   Reds Continue To Hold Positions  In Kiev Area

RUSSIANS AGAIN RETREAT; NAZIS CLOSER TO KIEV   Russian Advance Units Fall Back Mainly to Avoid Encirclement

Germans Move Closer to Kiev As Reds Yield For 3rd Time   Foe Has Regained Half Of Distance From Zhitomir to City

Nazis Pound Soviets Back Toward Kies   Russians Retreating I Bulge As Counterblow Gains; Reds Gain In Other Areas

Russians Forced To Retreat Again   German Counter Offensive Moves Closer To Kiev; Enemy Paying Heavy Price For Gains

Reds Withdraw Toward Kiev  For Third Day’   But Advances In ‘Dniepe Bend At Other Sec-: tors OF Front.

Nazis Drive Russians Back  Toward Kiev   Nazi Spearhead Reaches Brusilov, 45 Miles From Kiev And Half Way  From Zhitomir

SLIGHT “GAINS TAKING HEAVY GERMAN TOLL   Reds Enlarge Bridgehead Along Sozh River tn Gomel District

MOVE BIG GUNS “UP PREPARATORY TOWEAVY ATTACK   Frozen Don Believed Affording Russians a Natural Crossing.

Big Guns Ready to Open Un on City   New Gains Marked Up by Soviets On All Fronte

SOVIET BIG GUNS NOW MOVING UP TO OPEN FIRE ON CITY   Nazis Fight Desperately To Retrieve Serious ’ Losses As Reds Advanre

Rich Prize of Rostov Within Sight, Almost Within Grasp of Reds   Russian Forces Are Hammering at Nazi Line at Mouth of Don River, Near Rostov

HANMER NAZI LINES AT DON RIVER MOLT   Moving Up Big Guns to Open Attack from 35-Mile.~ Front on South.   STREET FIGHTING REPORT: SENT BY STOCKHOLM

Stockholm..Says That Fighting Is Going On In Streets   GENERAL RUSSIAN ADVANCE CONTINUES

GERMANS ARE NOW THREATENED WITH IMPORTANT LOSS   Japs Are Expected To Make An Effort To Relieve 3000 Trapped on Northwest Guadalcanal Tip.   FOUR JAP POSITIONS BOMBED BY AMERICANS   RAF In American Planes Drop 3 Tons of Heavy Bombs on Rangoon, Now Held By Japanese.

Reds Keep Up Advance   German Counter Drives Around Kiev Believed To Be Weakening

RUSSIAN TROOPS RIP 37-MILE GAP IN GERMAN LINES   SOVIETS APPEAR TO HAVE OPENED ROAD TO MINSK

Red Airmen Siven Credit   Thrust Between Germans In Center and in Ukraine

Kighth Army Improves Its Kiver Position   Marshal Stalin Announces Victory Today Completing Nazi Separation.   ‘FIFTH USES ARTILLERY

RED ARMY CAPTURES BIG RAIL CENTER IN SEPARATING GERMANS  GERMAN COMMUNIQUE   SAYS GOMEL DESTROYED  PERAPE EYACTIATEN

Stalin Lauds Highly Work.  Ov As. Co Vi AI Puree   Vatutin Appears To Be Holding Lines Against Nazi Drive

Soviets Slash Enemyss Lines   KEY CITY DESTROYED BEFORE EVACUATION; FIVE RAILWAYS RADIATE FROM VITAL HUB; UKRAINE ARMY HOLDS IN GERMAN SMASHES

GERMAN DRIVE WEST OF KIEV IS WEAKENING   Hitlerites Report They Destroyed-Gomel Before Evacuating City

GOMEL HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIAN ARMY   City Was the Last Remaining Bastion East of the Dnieper River.   FORTRESS DESTROYED   Red Army Smashed in Nazi Defenses North and South of the Fallen City.

FORCES ARE SEPARATED   Thrust Into White Russian Citadel Completes Soviet Orive.   ADMITTED BY GERMANS

GOMEL TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   German Counter-Attack At Kiev Weakens, Mos cow Says

IS LAST NAZI BASE EAST OF THE DNIEPER   Drive Coincides With Powerful Offensive That Smashes Gaps in Enemy Defenses North and South of the City.

SURGING REDS TEAR GAPS IN GERMAN LINES   Hitler Loses Last Large City East of Dnieper; Nazis Counter Drive Slows.

Separation Of German Forces In White Russia And Ukraine Completed.

German Base, Rail Center ‘ In Red Hands   Gap Is Torn In Enemy’s Lines North Of City  On Road To Minsk; i £aer Gamracts Ghammecd

Nazi Radio © Reports City — Is Evacuated   Vatutin Army Is Standing Firm Against Enemy in Kiev Defense

Stalin Announces Fall Of White Russia Citadel; Ends Three-Week Drive

Crack Big ‘Nazi Base at Gomel!   Rail’ Center and Nearby Territory Captured, Separating German Forces   MAIN HIGHWAY . : ALSO SEVERED   Reds Holding Near Kiev As Other Forces Open Up Impottant Drive In Center

Soviets Tear Big Gaps in Enemy Line   Gomel Last Major Bastion of Germans; Kiev Attack Weakening

Nazis In Russia  Divided   Gaps Cut North And South of Fallen Prize.

NAZI FORTRESS IN UKRAINE IN SOVIET HANDS   Germans Lose Last Stronghold, Rail Terminal, East of Dnieper

Capture of City Splits Nazi Forces   Soviets Reported  . Standing Firm in Crucial Battle West of Kiey

SEPARATION OF GERMAN FORCES IS COMPLETED   Russians Score New Successes; First Ukranian Army Holds Fast In Kiev Bulge Against Heavy German Attacks.

German Toll Set at 13,000 In Two Days   Yank and British Flyers Continue. To Pound Sicily

EYE WITNESS TELLS HOW ROME WAS “BURNED"   Returning Flyer Describes Ruin of Axis Transport Lines

NERO NOT AROUND BUT ROME BLAZES UNDER ALLIED FIRE      Planes Turn. Rome's Military Machine “Into Volcano OF Yellow Smoke, Red Fire

Nero’s Fire Not Like One Today   WRITER TELLS ABOUT SEEING ROME AS IT ~ BURNED

Eye-Witness Account of Rome Raid  Is Given   Fires Could Be  Seen From 30 Milac at Sana

Baccalaureate Program   CHRISTIAN CHURCH MAY 9, 1943 8:30 p.m.   Commencement Program

Americans Damage Enemy Craft In Pacific Fight  Many Jap Bases Hit In Succession OF Raide hv Fliere

Peace Offer Believed Nea   Unconfirmed Reporr Says Negotiations Already Under Wey

‘Unconditional Surrender Italy Rumored London   ALLIED SUCCESSES IN SICILY AND RUSSIA MAY FORCE HITLER TO PULL BACK EAST BATILELINE

REPORTS CLAIM BADOGLIO WILL ASK ARMISTICE   Italy Told To Cut Loose  From Berlin Or Be ‘Seared’   NEW GAINS IN SICILY   Yanks Slash Up German Counter-Attacks In Central Sector

Rumors of ‘Unconditional Surrender   Washington Expects Some Attempt to Take Italy Out of the War

BRITISH PREMIER WARNS BADOGLIO AXIS IS DOOMED   ALLIED PEOPLES ARE CAUTIONED, HOWEVER, OF BIG TASKS AHEAD

S. W. MONTAGUE SINGING CONVENTION TO MEET AT BRUSHY CHURCH DEC. 19

Robert Seeks Unity Bee. For French Armies  lf He Joins Allies   Commissioner of Martinique and Guadeloupe Tells AP Why He Has Withheld Supvort.

FIND BANKER DEAD AT SPRING GROVE   Pistol Wound In Head Given By Coroner As Cause Of Death Of G. Philip Hoke, Cashier, Aged 45

Finschhafen's ~ Airfield Taker   Australians At Edge 0 New Guinea Town

JAP AIR FIELD AT FINSCHAVEN FALLS TO ALLIES   MacArthur’s Forces Only 75 Miles From New Britain

Allies Win Airport At Finschhafen   Field Only 75 Miles From New Britain

Finschhafen Airfield.  Taken   Gives Allics Base for Planes Only 75 Miles From New Britair; Town Expected to Fall

VITAL AIR BASE ON NEW BRITAIN TAKEN BY ALLIES   MacArthur’s Fliers Put in Position for Attack on Jap Supply Lines   AUSSIES MAKE CAPTURE   Attack on Rabaul Can Now Be Concentrated On, Experts Believe

NUSSIES CAPTURE ENEMY AIRFIELD      Finschhafen Landing Field Gives MacArthur Base for Attacks on Rabaul

In New Guinea  "Faken By Allies   Capture Of Finschhafen Gives MacArthur Vital - Airfield In The Pacific

ALLIES SEIZE JAP AIRFIELD   Finschhafen Base Provides MacArthur With Offensive Center

FINSCHHAFEN AIRFIELD !S UNDER ALLIES   Gen. M’ Arthur Is Given New Base By Capture

Finschhafen Airfield In Allied Hands   MacArthur’s Men Capture Important New Guinea Base

Australian Forces Are Less Than Mile From City Enemy Positions On New Britain Now Within Easy Range Of MacArthur's Airmen

SEIZE AIRFIELD IN NEW GUINEA   Australians Take Landing Strip at Finschhafen and Are Near Town.

improve Positions ia Southwest Pacific by Wresting  Finschhafen Airfield From Enemy

Airfield In New Guinea  Captured   Australians Are Within Three Quarters Of A Mile Of Town On New Guinea Coast

Capture Key Jap Airfield   MacArthur Given New Guinea Base For Drive On New Britain.

Finschhafen Airfield Gives MacArthur New ‘Air Base in New Guinea

AIR BASE TAKEN FROM THE JAPS   -Finschafen Airfield Wrested From Nips by Allied Forces In South  —«*iDa cific

Airfield At Finsehhafen Is Captured   Base Is Only 75 Miles From New Britain With Aussies Drawing Near To Town Itself

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE. AIRFIELD IN FINSCHHAFEN   Australians Reported to Be Less Than Mile ¢ From New Guinea Town

Australian Army Takes Finschhafen   Air Base 75 Miles  From New Britain

Finschhafen: Airfield Seized by Allies; Is — Valuable Attack Base

FINSCHHAFEN’S AIRFIELD TAKEN BY MAC ARTHUR   Troeps Move In on Town While Airmen Strafe Other Bases, Japs Trying Escape from Lae

Finchhafen Air Base Captured   MacArthur's Men Now Have Base 75 Miles From New Britain

Take Airfield  From Japanese   Seizure Of Finsehhaven Airport Puts Allies In Range Of New Britain.

JAPS LOSE FINSCHHAFED AIRFIELD   MacArthur Gains Base 75 Miles From New Britain

eel  2 STATES ASK DRAFT CHANGES   Call On Boards To End Deferment Of Coal Miners On Strike

UAAFT AGT OPEN T0 PRESS MINERS   Selective Service Authorities Say President Could Use to Put Pressure on Strikers: Governors Act

Workers Face An Ultimatum   Western Electric Whites Warned To Return To Jobs At Baltimore °

STRIKERS DEFY LABOR BOARD'S ACTIONTHREA   ‘Baltinore Employes Re Tain Firm In Stand For: ‘Segregation; Seekto ’ Solve Dispute

WAGE STABILIZATION STRUGGLE APPEARS HEADED TOWARD CRISIS   Pressure on War Labor Board Intensified by Lewis's Stand

WAGE FORMULA UNDER ATTACK   ‘Administration-Labor Struggle Over Stabilization of Wages Seems Headed for  @ inte

CRISIS NEARING IN WAGE FIGHT   Pressure On WLB to East Controls Intensified. By Lewis

Wage Stabilization Plan Near Crisis With AFL-CIO Fight on Stee! Formula

Seven American Airmen Rescued After Braving English Channel Waters

Seven U. S. Aiemen Rescued F; rom North Sea After Fortress Crashes

Apple Product. ‘Prices Raisec   Sharp Ceiling Increase Permitted By OPA

Roosevelt Asks 0 Conor's Help In U. S. Planning   Says Vigorous Agencies Are Needed for Period after the War

U.S. Bombers Blast Great Baree Flee!   Go Through the Worst ot Flying. Weather to Bomb 100 Vessels   MIGHT EAVE BEEN EVACAUTION. FLEET   Fortresses Flew Blind Through ‘Dense Clouds~ and Rain to Attack

GREAT FLEET OF BARGES BOMBED   American Planes Blast Fleet Of More Than 100 Barges At Bizerte, Report Reveals.

AKRON AVIATOR IS REPORTED TO BE MISSING IN ACTION   "Lieut. Harold Port, Youngest Son Of Mrs. Clara Port

AKRON FLIER ‘1S MISSING   Lieut. Harold Port Lost in . Action, Army Savs

Woman Ordered Held On Homicide Charge  Paramour Dies From  Gunshot Wound

PLAN ROUND-UP   FBI To Go After 11,000 Draft Delinquents in Ohin. Feh 1

German Planes Bomb Youthful French Workers  Seek To Fscane      Seek To Escape Draft Of Labor

N azi Planes Bomb Rebel Bands in Alps   French Youths Hiding in Hills; Await Start of Allied Invasion

FRENCH YOUTHS BEING BOMBED BY NAZI PLANES   ———  Refuses Ultimatum To Surrender For Forced Labor

Nazi Planes Bomb French Guerrillas   Germany Speeds Up Evacnation of Civilians from Large Portion of the Coast ef France

GERMAN PLANES ATTACK REBELS   Revolting French Youth Bombed in Mountain Fortress

Germans Bombing  French Guerrillas  Supplies Reported Goina in hv Air

Report Nazis Drop Bombs on Guerrillas   Union of Fighting French anc Giraud Followers Appears  Near at Hand:

French Youths , Defying Nazis   Wage ‘Guerrilla’ Warfare Against Being ‘Taken: ‘In Labor Draft’

“GAG RULE" IS PUT IN EFFECT   Sencte Acts After Fili. buster on Judges’ Pension Bill

FILIBUSTER IN SENATE I$ CUT BY SEN, FUNK   Upper Chamber Imposes Gag Rule For Remainder Of Session   KIMBLE OPPOSED TO PENSION BILL

"GAG RULE” IS PUT IN EFFECT   Sencte Acts After Fill buster on Judges’ Pen’ gian Rill

COUNTY May HI WAR BOND QUOTE   Jap Sub to Be Here July : 29th, Has ‘Averaged $22, 000 an Hour:

COUNTY MAY il WAR BOND QUCTA   Jap Sub to Be Here July 295th, Has Averaged $22,000 an Hour.

Happy Her 7 Sons Can Serve Country)   As if She Hadn’t Done Her “Bit,” Farm Mother Helps the WAACs, Red Cross and the USO.

6 Major War Fraud Cases Set for Trial   Anaconda Wire and Cable Co. Trial Heads List of. Cases Brought by Gov't _

War Fraud Cases Are Schedulec   Justice Department Prepores Trials

NAZIS EVACUATE. TAGANROG, ANCHOR OF DEFENSE. LINE   Observers Believe Germans Now Withdrawing To Dnieper River  TT ee

NAZIS BELIEVED WITHDRAWING 10 ~ SHORTEN UP LINE   War Installations Destroyed Berlin Radio Declares Present Move Comes At Bia Surnrise.   RAIL JUNCTION NORTH OF ROME iS BOMBED   Algiers Radio Beamed To Italy Warns Allied Forces Are Prepared To Strike In Northern Areas.

Nazis. Evacuate Taganrog, May Be Start Of Complete Withdrawal From Donets

Taganrog Is Abandoned  To Russians   City.Had Withstood — Both Red Offensives; Many Towns Taken

Nazis Abandon Taganrog In — Surprise Move   Opens Way For Red Drive To Dnieper River Defenses

SOUTHERN ANCHOR OF DEFENSE LINE SFEN CRUMBLING   Germans Reported Ready te Withdraw to Dnieper . River Now.

Italian Fleet Steams - so  Into: Allied Port for Unconditional. Surrender

Distribution OF « War Ration Book II Begins Today ‘   ‘Large Crowds Apply At — High School Gym  Jere.

Distribution Q Of War Ration Beg  Il Besins T:       Large Crowds

United Nations’ Peace Vows Raise Speculation among Balkan Nations

Parley Is Generally Acclaimed;  Berlin Says Concessions Made To Stalin by U.S. and Britain

ACCLAIM GIVEN TO. CONFERENCE VOWS   Moscow Pronouncements Well Received in Many Countries

MOSCOW WORK WINS ACCLAIM   Joint Declaration Gets General Approval Of Refugees

Asks Stores To Aid Bond Drive  Morgenthau Addresses Owners, Managers, Ete

Fourth War Loan Drive Shaping Up   Morgenthau Asks Help Gf Store Personnel

-—-RUSSIA—  GEAMAN DEFENSE LINE 1S DENTE!   Berlin Announcement Says Red Army Has Opened New Offensive

Reds Surge Ahead  In New Offensive   Russians Breach German Line on North Central Front Near Smolensk.

Russians Open Northern Push   Germans Say Lines Breached On Northern Front Near Velikie Luki,

FIGHT FIERCELY FOR POSITIONS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Heavy But Inconclusive Battles Reported As Russians Get Set For Winter Offensive To Rid Country Of Last Nazi.

Reds Breach German Line   New Offensive Cracks Defense Between Velikie

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE   BREACH NAZI LINE BETWEEN SMOLENSK AND VELIKIE LUKI

Germans Admit Red Advance Ir  New Offensive   Say Nazi Line Breached Between Smolensk And Velikie Luki.

BLHLIN  GLAINS ReUD OPENING NEW OFFENSIVE   Nazi Line On North-Central Front Breached, German Reports Assert

New Red Drive ~ Opens Nazi Line   MOSCOW REPORTS BIG BATTLE IN WHITE RUSSIA

REDS GAIN IN NEW OFFENSIVE   ‘Germans Claim Line Ir  North - Central Area Is Overrun

SOVIETS SURGE FORWARD, NEW MOVE, FOES SAY   Reds Breach German Line On North-Central Front Between Velilie Luki and Smolensk

Reds Launch’ Offensive on Northern Front   Mud'and Rain Bogs Down Armies Elsewhere in Russia

THE GERMAN LINE IS BREACHED BY THE SOVIET ARMY   Fierce But Inclusive Battles for Strategic Positions  : .  Are in Pregress.   'WOULD SEPARATE NAZIS   ‘Massed Battalions of Infan try and Tanks Thrown   Into the Assault.

German Forces Are Breached Between Velikie Luki And Smolensk In New Drive

Russians Open New Offensive   Germans Tell of Attacks in Velikie Luki Sector of Front

Fierce Battles  In White Russia Raging; Fighting Is Inconclusive

GERMANS REPORT RED ARMY STARTS ANEW OFFENSIV   Nazi Line on. North Central Front Between Velikie-Luki, Smolensk, Broken   SOUTH FRONT DORMANT

SOVIETS SURGE AHEAD; CRACK NAZi DEFENSES      German Line Breached Between Velikie Luki And Smolensk

Russians Breach German Line On Northern Front   Red Army Spearhead Attempts To Cut The Nazi Army In Two

GERMAN LINE BREACHED BY SOVIET DRIVE   Enemy Report States That Nazi North-Central Front Near Velikie Luki Has Been Broken

REDS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE AT VELIKIE LUKI   Berlin Reporis Rail Junction o  Nevel First Objective — Heavy Forces Attack   RUSSIANS ADVANCE   Moscow Reports Only Fierce anc Inconclusive Baitles for Position in White Russia

New Soviet Push On, Nazis Report German Line Breached,  Enemy Announces

Soviet Drive Cracks Nazi Linein North   New Offensive Breaches Sector Between Smolensk and Velikie Luki   OTHER AREAS QUIET   Rain and Mud Bog Down Fichting in White Russia

Hitler’s North-Central ‘Defense Line Cracked   Stalin Preparing For Winter Attack To Drive Invaders From Russian Soil

SOVIETS OPEN yA NEW DRIVE NAZIS REPOR]   yerman Communique Says Major. Blow I: Struck on North Cen tral Front, Between Velikie Luki and Smolensk.

BERLIN SAYSREDS SURGING FORWARD IN NEW OFFENSIVE   Major Attack Launched In Velikie Luki Area By Russians   IJTHER SECTORS SWAMPED IN MUD

CENTS REVEL BEDS CRACK LINES   New Offensive Aimed at Splitting Nazi Forces in South and North Sectors

LIQUOR RATION. _ STARTS JUNE   STATE STORES TO BE CLOSE MAY 17TH TO SUNE 187, DI . RECTOR. FISHER ‘AN ¢ . 8 NOUNCES ..

Bill Proposes Pay Raises For Deputies   Measure Also Entered For Highway Patrol Legislature Is Active

‘War Ballots’ Bill Offered In Legislature   Senstor Dan Maddox Of Big Horn County Introduces Measure

Pay Increases Are Proposed  in Legislature Deputy Office Men.  Patrolmen Would Get Boost

ONE CAR TAG NEXT YEAR   1944 Kansas License F Plates Will Be Red and White

First Fatalities Occur at Marfa   Cadet and Instructor Officer Die Thursday

NEW BOUGAINVILLE LANDING IMMINENT   Japs Find At Increasingly Difficult To Reinforce Main Defenses

HARLEM IS QUIET AFTER RIOTING; POLICE ON GUAR   Disorders’ Kitled 5, Hurt 500 : and Resulted In 500 Arrests.

HARLEM QUIET AS POLICE PROBE RIOT   3000 New York State Guard ‘Members Back Up City Force

Labor Board Criticized At Union Parley   War Labor Board Helc Fascist-Minded By: - Utah Union Men

LITTLE NOTED TALK SEEMS INTENDED TO REASSURE RUSSIA      Speech By Ass’t, Secretary Of State Berle Has Hint Of Acceptance Of Red Claims

INVESTIGATION OF ABSENTEEISM IS _ ORDERED BY HOUSE  Naval Affairs Committee Is Already Conducting Sweeping Investigation

NO AGREEMENT ON RAIL PAY REACHED   Progress, _ However, Re. ported in Settlement — of Dispute

Progress reported in railway workers salary negotiations   -Counter-proposal of 64-cents day inerease asked by brotherhoods

Management And Unions Fail To Gain Agreement  But Report Progress Toward Settlement Of Rail Wage Dispute   Bathe Buh BRS WRB AUR  COUNTER-PROPOSALS  Include Pay Increase Of 64 Cents Per Day, Vacation Pav. Overtime

Progress Made in Rail Wage Dispute   Another Session to Be Held by Conferees Today

No Rail Selilement In Sight   Counter-Proposal Session Continues For Another Day

NO AGREEMENT ON RAIL WAGES   Employes Scale Down Demands To 61 Cents A Day

Rail Conferees Fail to Agree — In Pay Dispute   Report Progress on Counterplan Submitted by Union; U.S. Keeps Hands Off Nonoperators’ Threat

FAIL TO REACH AGREEMENT IN RAIL DISPUTE   Unions, Lines Progress In Negotiations on Wage Proposals

yoress’ Made vard Averting Iway Strike   ‘anagement, Union onferees to Meet gain Today on Wages

TWO SIDES CONFER IN RAIL DISPUTE   UNION’S REDUCED WAGE DEMANDS CONSIDERED—PROGRESS IS REPORTED.

PROGRESS MADE ON SETTLEMENT OF RAIL WAGES   Union Counter-Demands Call For 64-Cent Increase ,Over Time Pay

INFLATIONARY   Hitler Bleeds France For More Workers, Taking Even Cripples

NAZIS 18 KIDNAP — FRENCH WORKERS   First Notice Will Be A Hun Crooking His Finger

RECRUIT NEW LABOR CLASS OF FRENCHMEN   Tighten Methods Of Dealing With Wouldbe Escapees

HEARS HITLER HAS BREAKDOWN   Welles: U.S. Receives  Placoanticwasd: Bex _

Is IL.         : ‘. Wefieved “Nazi Leader, Has Suf: fered Complete Trcakdown, 

Hitler Suffering From ‘Complete Breakdown, State Department Told

OUNCEMENT IS  MADE OF MARRIAGE OF LOCAL PEOPLE   L. Lias-Cpl. Bach; F. Willer-Cpl. Barinsky; 8S. Linke-R. Hultgren

"DIE OR LIVE” ULTIMATUM T0 SOFTEN [ITALY   Roosevelt - Churchill De mand Also Expected to Aid Anti-Fascist Underaround Movement.

ALLIED DEMAND 10 ITALY PLANNED 19 SGFTEN RESISTANCE   Effect Of Message Is Dependent On How Widely Appeal Is Distributed

‘Ultimatum’ To Italy May Aid Invasion   Fascist Control Believed Tightened; Poletti May Be Allied Governor

178 SUFFOCATE IN FREAK RAID SHELTER JAM   London Tragedy Traced Partly To Lack Of Hand Rails

Lack of Hand Rails Blamed for Death Of 178 in London Air Raid Shelter Tragedy, King Orders Investigation

LACK OF HANDRAILS THE PARTIAL CAUSE OF LONDON TRAGED   178 English Citizens Suffocate on Stairway During a German Air Roaid.

178 Persons Die” In Subway Crush   Were Hurrying Into’ Air Raid Shelter

TBDIEIN LONDON AIR RAID SHELTER   _Suffocated In Crush Started . When Woman Fell

Lack of Hand Rail ls Blamed for Subway Tragedy   178 Persons Die On 19-Step Stair

NO HAND RAILS BLAMED AS 178 DE IN SHELTEE   Woman Who Caused Tragedy Survives; Is Investigated

Hand Rails May Have Prevented  London Tragedy   178 Persons Are Suffocated in Raid Shelter Crush

BRITISH PROBE SHELTER DEATHS   178 Killed While Seeking Entrance To Subway During Air Raid

BRITAIN PROBES. SHELTER DEATHS   Lack of Hand Rails Blamed For Suffocation Of 178 En Air  Raid Shelter

SEEK CAUSES OF AIR RAID CRUSH  THAT KILLED 1 7¢   Stairway ‘and Landing Pited With Bodies of Londoners Seeking Safety.

FLAMES LEVEL BIG BARN AND PACKING HOUSE   Incendiarism Suspected In Fire At Louis Duneaig   Farm

Fire Destroys Fruit Packing House Near Sodus; Suspect Incendiarism

NAVY PLANNING MAJOR OFFENSIVE ON JAP SEAPOWER   Admiral King Confers With Pacific Commanders. Believe Blow Will Fall On Gilbert Islands.

U. S. Nav y to La unch Major Offensive Against Japanese   Believed First Blow Will Be on Enemy-held Gilbert Islands.

Seek fo Avert A Speculative Farm Land Boom   Surplus of Cash a Threat; Land ® Prices Pushed up

Fall of Attu Near, Kiska Faces Trap   Waits Same Fate As Doomed Island Scen Yielding Soon

ATTU GOLLAPSE NOW IMMINENT   Forces Of Enemy Bottled Up Around Chichagof Harbor   UNDER ATTACK   Second Island Is Held By Force Estimated At 10,000

LOSS OF Attu hel Imminent   Yank Forces Still Pounding EFnomvy Troops

RESISTANCE ON ATTU NEAR END   Fall Of Island Expected In Few Hours: Blockade Of Kiska Planned

JAPANESE ARE THREATENED ON KISKA ISLAND   Fall Of Attu Is Expected In Few Hours

Attu Victory Held Matter OfHeursNow   Blockade of Kiska Begun as Prelude to New Island Smash.

Fall Of Attu Near; Enemy Bottled Up In Island Harbor   Nazi-Controlled Vichy Radio Reports Japs Evacuating Attu As U. S. Troops Consolidate Gains; Enemy Resistance Gone

RUSSIANS PLOW ~— THROUGH SNOW NEAR ZHLOBIN   Nazi Troops Doomed To Decth or Surrender   SOVIETS CLEANING UP IN GOMEL AREA:

Red Armies Roll Ahead In Spite Of Winter Mud And Gain In Six Sectors

RUSSIANS THREATEN RAIL CITY   Soviets Plow Through Snow In Drive On Strategic Base

Reds Within  Gunshot of Big Junction   White-Clad Russians Encircling Several Trapped Nazi Garrisons

WINTER ollOWa FAIL TO IMPEUt  SOVIET DRIES   Fierce Fighting Raging As Russians Edge Near Zhlobin Junction

JAP ATTACKS IN BURMA REPULSED   Heavy Fighting Is Reported Continuing In Rathedaung Area Of Burma

BOMBERS UNDER MAG ARTHUR STAGE AEIAL OFFENSIVE   COORDINATED USE OF AIR. , POWER FROM AUSTRALIAN AND NEW GUINEA BASES’ HITWING JAPS HARD

@ BOBBY WAS A BAD BOY, BUT-—  “Little Egypt” Puts on Clothes and Kids Resume School Work

TO REPEAL TAY   Ignores Last Minute. Appeal From Goodland to Retain System.

Senate Rejects Goodland Plea, Repeals Surtax  Governor Had Asked Re-enactment of All

Senate Approves Bill 26  “ To 7 After Hearing Governor's Message On Post-War Needs

PROBE OF ‘PAVING BLOCK SCANDAL!’ PROMISED FLYNN   Demo Chairman's Choice kor Australian Post Denounced

Paving Block Scandal’ to Be Reviewed   Appointment of Flynn as Minister Meeting Coposition

Task Force Makes  eee eee eee  3 Daring Raids in  Ke 2e*  Norwegian Babes

M’Nutt Defends Draft of Fathers   Says ‘Stern Logic’ Dictates Move

DRAFT OF FATHERS LOGICAL NECESSITY   Needed. To Prevent Blow At War Production  Set-Up

McNutt Defends Dratting  of Fathers. As Move Dictated By War: Necessity

McNutt Defends Draft Of Fathers, Says Dads Not Deferred In Other Countries; WMC Prepares To Figh

Germans Claim 7?  * r ie 4 * © * * * Allied Vessels Are xe he yx, eR ee *  Now at Gibraltar

AFRICAN - BASED BOMBERS STRIKE PORT NEAR ROME   Yifth Day Of Record-Breaking Raids In Evropean Fortfect

Floods Cover Two Valleys; Berlin Bombed   Dam Destruction Maj ’ Cripple Nazi War Industries.

CHURCH BUILDER DIES AT MERRILL   John M. Klenk Also Put Up Many of Early Schools

Pioneer Builder Dies At Merrill  Built Many Houses  And Churches Here

Those ‘Secret Weapons:” Maneuver of Nazis To Alarm Allies Bounds Back into Laps of Germans

BATTLE FOR U). §. SUBSIDY   ADMINISTRATION HOPES FOR OKAY BY SENATE

Senate Compromise on Subsidies Hope of Administratior   House Outlaws Payments After First of Year by 278-to-118 Vote

HOUSE VOTES TO BAN SUBSIDIES   PROPONENTS HOPE FOR COMPROMISE IN THE SENATE

Subsidy Leaders Hope for Senate  Compromise House Votes 278   House Votes 278 To 118 to Continue CCC. Ban Subcidies

Cling to Hope — -of Compromise on Subsidies   We're Down to -Bed-Rock Issue of Inflation, Says Senator Pepper

SUBSIDY PLAN BACKERS SEEK ‘A COMPROMISE   Little Hope Held For Any Settlement

Senate Subsidy Foes Spurn Compromise Overfures Made by Administration

NO COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES   President’s Program Ap: pears Doomed To Defeat In Senate

SUBSIDY PL  NEAR DEFEAT   Demo Leaders Are Hoping   For Compromise in Senate. '

Inflation At Stake In Action, Claim; Believe Only Veto By F. R. Can Keep Program Alive

SENATORS SEEK COMPROMISE IN SUBSIDY PLANS   Administration. Leaders Still Hope to Salvage Part of Bill; House Defeats Measure

Subsidy Foes Refuse Efforts Of Compromise  Little Chance to Save Food Price Proaram in Rations

COMPROMISE REJECTED BY “SUBSIDY FOES   Confident of Votes on Eve of Senate Hearing on Measure

CHIEFS SEEK COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES   Administration Leaders Cling to Possibility That Agreement Will Be Reached in Senate   VETO SEEMS CERTAIN

SENATE FOES OF SUBSIDIES SPURN OFFER   Attempts to Win Compromise Lease Flatly Rejected   EXPECT TO OVERRIDE VETO OF ROOSEVELT   Taft to Demand Full Report From Federal Food Aaencies

SUBSIDY BACKERS. CLING TO HOPE IFOR A COMPROMISE   A Senate Compromise Is Only Hope Fer Administration  Men To Save FDR's Subsidy Dieu

SUBSIDIES COOMEL BY HOUSE REJECTION   Only Senate Compromise Can Save Program

Compromise Spurned by Senate Foes  Of Subsidies   Scant Hope of Winning Votes To Save Program Is Admitted Privately  R., Adminictratinn Man   HEARINGS TO START ON MEASURE TUESDAY

“ators Spurn “ypromiises “Subsidies  oie Confident “Can Over-Ride  ‘sesdential Veto

House Outlaws Subsidy Prograrr   Administration Seeks Compromise

SENATE LAST HOPE TO STOP INFLATION THROUGH SUBSIDIES  DECLARES FAILURE OF SUBSIDY PLAN MEANS INFLATION OVERNIGHT

“solons Hope for Compromise to Save Subsidies  @ Inflation Looms If Food Payments Stop

Vote 278-118 Against FDR’s Subsidy Plans   Administration Leaders Retain Slim Hope That Senate Will Reverse Decision

Hold One Hope  For Subsidies   Administration Leaders Cling To Possibility Of Senate Compromise.

Two Presidents Are Conferring In U.S. Today   FDR and Mexican Executive Move Across Border To Continue Their Conference Opened Yesterday.

President Is  Back in U.S,   Confers Today With Mexico President— Both on Radio

DISTANT CITY CRUSHED UNDER ABRIAL ATTACK   Size of Raid Indicated by Long Procession of Great Warplanes.

'NUREMBERG IS BLASTED IN HOUR-LONG ASSAULT IBY BIG BRITISH BOMBERS

Flying Fortresses Again Batter Rabaul   MacArthur’s Fliers Score Direct Hit On 8,000-Ton Ship

BRITISH. BOMBERS BLAST NURNBERG IN SOUTHERN GERMAN   Four-Engined Planes: Stream     Reports Say

NURNBERG PLANTS HIT BY HEAVIEST BLOCK-BUSTERS   At the Same Time Americans, Striking from Africa, Raid Naples.

Aerial Blows Exchanged By Allies, Japs   MacArthur’s Accounts Show Foe’s Raids Not So Successful; Enemy Ouits Kolombangara

Japs Bested In Air Encounters   Aussies Advance In Drive For Madang  By C. YATES McDANIEL

ALLIED AIRMEN BEST JAPANESE IN SO. PACIFIC   Aground Australian Troops Fan Our in Ramu Valley of New Guinea Toward  Madang

ALLIES MARC TOWARD MADANG   Japs Report They Are Evacuating Kolombangara

PLANES SMACK JAPANESE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Americans Get Best Of Exchange Attacks

Allied Airmen Batter Japanese,  Hit Big Ship   Australian Troops Advance in Drive On Base at Madang   ALLIED HEADQUAR.TERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday,

Aussies Score Advance in New Guinea   Liberators Damage Transport in Attack on Convoy

Allies Win on Land,  In Air; Japs  Quit Trying Flight Engagements Leave  U. S., Aussie Troops Victorious

Congress Ready To Slash Budget   Further Cuts are Pledged in Senate

Bring Surprise *Witness in for De Marigny Trial  New Orleans Police Expert to Testify . on Finger Prints

‘New Warning ‘Comes From Australia   Prime Minister Says Japs Plan To Strike Solomons, New Guinea

Officials Bare Camp Revolt In Californié   Government Agents Are  Threatened By Mob  Of Nipponese

Disloyal Japs Are Blamed For Uprising   National Director of War Relocation Authority Reports on Demonstration  BUILDINGS ARE SEIZED

JAPS CEMONSTRATE IN WESTERN CAMP   Disloyal Group Hopes for Early Return to Japan From U. S.

INTERNED GROUP OF JAPS REBEL   ALIENS AT TULE LAKE SEEK RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND

Jap Uprising at Center Revealed: Hold Employes Virtual Prisoners

Japs, Seeking To Return Home, Demonstrate At Relocation Center; U. S. Surgeon Injur ec

Facts Told Of Japs’ Rioting At Tule Lake   Leaders Sought To Set Up So Bad A Record They’d Be First Sent Back

Japs Riot To Get Sent Home   Leaders Of Demonstration Think U. S. May Ship Them Rack.

ALLIED CHIEFS READYING BAD NEWS FOR AXIS   Quick Military Action Expected To Follow Victory Conference   PACIFIC NOT NEGLECTED   Roosevelt And Churchill Go Deeply Into Plans For Future Battles

INVASION MAY COME QUICKLY, ~ QUEBEC HEARS   + EXTENT OF MILITARY 8UP PLIES AND SHIPPING EXPECTED TO 8PEED UF USUAL PRELIMINARIES

Continue Talks On War Strategy   F. R. and Churchill Go Deeply Into Military Program

ALLIED FORCES IN PACIFIC PREPARED   ‘Statement ‘By Commanders Brings Speculation On Offensive

Yugoslavia Now A Major Front   Troops Pour In As Britain, Reds Join

BIG BATTLEFIELD SEEN IN BALKANS   Germans Hurl Thousands of Men Into Yugoslavia Sector: Britain and Russia Help Tito’s Army

Major Battle Said Raging In Yuaoslavia   Germany Hurls Six Divisions Into One Sector Alone

Attacks in East Bosnia Repulsed by Partisans; Nazis Brace in Balkans

NAZIS THROW IN RESERVES AGAINST THTO      Great Britain and Russie Go to Aid of Yugoslay Army   GERMAN ASSAULTS ARE THROWN BACK   Yugoslav Marshal Reports 1,500 Nazis Sfain, Meany Wounded

Yugoslavia Develops Into Major War Front   Germans Hurl Six Divisions Into One Area While British And Russians Give Help To Partisans

Yugoslavia Now A Major Front   Troops Pour In As  Britain, Reds Join Re WHITraMm a&MVIitr WHITK

Germans Hurl Six Divisions Into Yugoslavia   Country Flames into Major Battlefield: Tito Reports 1,500 Nazis Slain

Red Army Alone Bearing Whole Weight of War,  Premier Stalin Asserts

Stalin cites second front ‘still absent’   Says time runs against invader

RUSSIA BEARING WHOLE WEIGHT OF WAR, STALIN SAYS   Premier Asserts Soviet Army Has Killed 4,000,000 Nazis and Knocked Out 5,000,000 Others.   DECLARES GERMANY IS BECOMING WEAKER   Warns Hitler Is Not Yet Conquered and Calls for Annihilation of the Invaders.

Red Army Alone Bears War Weight  Stalin Declares   Anniversary Talk Hits at Lack of  New European Front ‘GERMANY WEAKENING   Nine Million Casualties  Inflicted on Axis,  Says Russian Chief

Germans Have Suffered Nine Million Casualties At Hands. Of Russians, Stalin Declares:   Red Premier In Confident Order Of Day On Army’s ‘Anniversary Says Nation Is Carrying “Whole " Weight Of War;” Time Is Against Nazis

Marks Army Anniversary With Statement Time  Working Against Germany, Says Casualties 9.000.000

Premier Asserts Russians Carry “Whole Weight"   Reports German Casualties as 9,000,000 with 4 000,000 Dead   Declares Fascist Germany ls Becoming More Exhausted

STALIN ASSERTS RED ARMY ALONE BEARING WHOLE WEIGHT OF WAI   Declares Red Army Has Inflicted 9,000,000 Casualties on Germans, Time Now Running Against Hitler

Stalin Reminds th World Reds — Carrying War   President Sends Russian Army America’s Thanks

'9 Million German ‘Casualties Claimed  Hitler. Getting Weaker, Soviet Stronver

NeW TRUMPS BY REDS TOLD   Russians Blast Into Smolensk Defense Zone, Make Other Advances.

Nazi Winter Defense Line  Is Cracked   Stand Along Desna Riva Broken Under Terrific Red Drive   IMPORTANT TOWN OF CHERNIGOYV FALLS   An Amazing List of New _ Triumphs Reported in Moscow Communique

German Desna Line Collapses   Reds Seize Clernigov 7° Miles N. E. of Kiev

RUSSIANS TAKE CHERNIGOV IN FRESH ADVANCE   Whole German Winter Defense Line On Desna River Gives Way; Crimean Escape Line Closed To Nazis.

RIVER DEFENSE LINE CRACKED   Russian Troops Storm . Into Chernigov, 30 Miles From Dneiper River

WHOLE DESNA RIVER NAZI WINTER DEFENS! LINE HAS COLLAPSED  TERRIFIC RED ARMY   TERRIFIC RED ARMY DRIVE BROKE GERMAN STAND ON RIVER BANK

NAZI DEFENSE LINE AT THE DESNA RIVER HAS COLLAPSED   Went Down Under Red Army Onslaught Which Captured Chernigov.   STALIN PRAISED MEN   A “Skillful Outflanking Maneuver’’, Russian Leader Said.

Nazis’ Desna River Defenses Collapse   Winter Line Along West Bank Smashed By - Soviet Troops; Reds Blast Into Smolensk Positions: Near White Russia

NAZIS DESNE LINE COLLAPSE:   Chernigov Falls To ‘Ad vancing Russian Forces

NAZI WINTER DEFENSES ON DESNA FALL   Terrific Red Onslaught Crumbles Entire Line— Troops Seize Chernigoy Bastion, 30 Miles From Dnieper.

German Desna River Defense Line Collapses   Red Onslaught Captures Chernigov, 30 Miles From Dnieper River.

REDS DESTROY DESNA WINTER DEFENSE LINES   Important Bastion Town of Chernigov Captured by Russian Forces

Reds Seize Chernigov; Axis Desna River Line Collapses Before Drive

FIGHTING FROM FUEL-LESS TANKS SPENDING BLOOD AND SUPPLIES TO BUY FEW HOURS TIME.

Cape Bon Besieged by Land, Sea And Air; Americans Sons Major Victory

Cap Bon -Peninsula Besieged From Sea, Land and Air   ESCAPE BARRED BY PLANES AND SHIPS   Fighting Reported Ended  in the Bizerte Sec.  : bAR

Foe Doomed As Allies Close In   Germans Delaying Allied Plans For Invasion

Peninsula Is Besieged on All Sides   Enemy Blood Spent to Buy Just Few Hours of Time

Germans Buying Time by Battle from Fuel-less Tanks Being Used as Pill Boxes; Bizerte Fighting Ends   By EDWARD KENNEDY

Nazts Battle To Hold Open  Escape Route  Neck Of Peninsul: Ras Red With ’ Axis Blood — -

Desperate Army Fights To Escape Advancing Allies   ‘scape by Sea Cut Off and Complete Defeat Seems Certain   Unconditional Surrender fo Americans Ends Bizerte Campaign

Struggle Has Only Grim End for Axis   Few Germans Survive In Flight From Africa; Chiefs Quit

Are Making Last Stand On Cap Bon   After Fighting Ceases In Bizerte American Troops Rush To Cut Off Enemy At Peninsula

Axis Situation On Cap Bon . Peninsula Called “Worse  Than Desperate”   MEDITERRANEAN IS © BLOCKED TO ESCAPE

Germans Buying Time by Battle trom Fuel-less Tanks Being Used as Pill  Boxes: Bizerte Fighting Ends

DOOMED AXIS ARMY IN TRAP ON CAP BON   DESPERATE BATTLE NEARING END FOR ENEMY

NAZIS BATTLE IN FINAL STRUGGLE   Fight Desperately on Nar rowing Arc on Cap Bon   BOATS ARE SUNK   Allied Sea and Air Arms Bar Escape of Penned Axis From Peninsula

Corridor Of Escape Is Nazi Hope   Allied Ships And Planes Barring Path To Sicily.

Planes, Ships Bar Flight by Water to Sicily   25,000 Surrender Unconditionally to Yank Troops; Cap Bon Is Blockaded

FLIER KILLED, 10 HURT AS BOMBER ‘CRASHES ON HIGHWAY, BOUNCES T0 RAILROAD, WRECKS 29 CAR TRAIN

W. P. FREIGHT WRECKED BY ARMY PLANE   Bomber Lands On Track To Cause Wreck Near Wendover

**4..F”” Reporter Describes Trip In Flying Fortress For Benefit Of ‘“‘4-Fs”’

Lad Held For Slaying Of Aged Woman   15-Year-Old Boy Charged With Killing His StepGrandmother  $65 TAKEN FROM DESK

Flood Menacing Omaha Airport; '2 Dikes Break   Red Cross Evacuating 1,000 Families From Stricken Area.

Missouri Rips  ‘Holes in Dikes   Red Cross Workers Evacuate 1,000 From Flooded Areas Near Omaha

World Is Told About Conference   Allied Radio Stations Broadcast Steadily

World-Wide Radio Hookup Flashes African Meeting   Propaganda Value  Great: Axis Tries To “Jam Broadcasts

AFL FIGHT FOR PAY BOOST SEEN   Resolution Asks Changes In “Little Steel” Formula

Abolition of or Changes in Little Steel Formula Is Sought by A. F. of L.

House Okays 4-Year Term  For Governor  Measure Providing Vote Next Year

FOR SINGLE TERM   House Approves Amendment Affecting Two State Officials

MUST EXPLAIN AUDIT   Accounting Firm Is Cited in Shortage in Franklin County

Muddy Roads Fail To Halt Soviet Advance  Pincers Close  Tighter Around NYC A. «fr fF

Six Assaults Cost Rommel 50 Tanks   Germans Also Forced to Withdraw in Northern Sector: 200 Prisoners Taken

Axis Chieftain Reported To Be Withdrawing Behind Defenses   COSTLY VENTURE   Germans Also Falling Back In Northern Sector Near Sedjenane

FUTILE DRIVE COSTS NAZIS FIFTY TANKS   Allies Take 200 Prisoners In Northern Tunisia   AERIAL BLOWS   Landed By United Nations: 21 Axis Planes Downed To Two For U. S.

MANY ENEMY TANKS TAKEN IN TUNISIA   Germans Are Forced to Withdraw After Launching an Attack Near Tamera      200 ARE PRISONERS

EIGHTH ARMY DESTROYS 50 GERMAN TANKS   Sa Tee  Allied Planes ~— Shoot Down 17 Axis Aircraft

17 NAZI FIGHTERS DOWNED OVER ~ SICILIAN. STRAITS   Von Arnim Launches Two Attacks and Suffers Heavy Losses

Rommel Falls Back Into Mareth Forts   Withdraws Into Hills After Loss Of 50 Tanks: Axis Setbacks Reported In Two Other Sectors Of Tunisian Theater

Enemy Tank Losses Raised To 50; 200 Nazi Prisoners Taken j In Northern Sector

17 Axis Planes Knocked Out in Battle Above Sicilian Straits   U. S. Bombers Get Ten, Escorts Account for Seven

Six Assaults Beaten Back   North Attack Is Also Driven Back By Allied Forces

Germans Also Forced Back. InWorth .   French Forces  Takes. Tozeur—  Rommel Loves "Six Tanks 

TANKS ARE DESTROYED   Allied Airmen Down 17 Nazi Fighters Over  Sicilian Straits

Desert Fox Withdraws Into Hills   Nazis Badly Mauled; Air Battle Fought Over Mediterranean

ROMMEL PULLS FORCES BACK INTO DEFENSES   Retreats After Losing Fifty Tanks in Six Short, Fierce Attacks on British Eighth   REPULSE IN NORTH  Von Arnim’s Troops Repulsed in Aitack Near Tamera — Axis Bases Bombed

flonmel s Attack ‘Costs 50 Tanks    Kzi General Forced to Retre Deepet Into Mareth  Line   RETIRE IN NORTH, TOO   Flying Fortresses and Lightmngs Get 17 Nazi Planes -

Rommel! Pulls Troops Back After Defeat.  50 Tanks Lost In Sortie Against. ee te ti.. A ones

50 DESTROYED OR CAPTURED IN SINGLE DAY   “Licking” at Hands of the Eighth Army in Six Short, Fierce Actions Forces Withdrawal Deeper Into Mareth  Tone,

Nazis Flee Atter Losing Fifty Tanks   Rommel Suffers Another Reverse On Tunisian Front

Assaults From Mareth Line Are Failures   Montgomery Throws Back Axis Troops With Heavy Losses

ARTS RETREATS INTO DEFENSES   Rommel Tries te Assault From Positions Along Mareth Line.   DESTROY ENEMY TANKS

Axis Leader Pulls Units Back From British Eighth Army   Allies Capture Around 200 Prisoners ir Northern Tunisia, Our Patrols Near Gafsa Outskirts

ROMMEL’S FORCES IN RETREAT   Six. Assaults. on Highth ‘Army Beaten Back and ” Heavy Loss Inflicted   21 AXIS PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Fortresses and Lightnings Engage Big Force of German Aircraft

FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY TOZEUR SOUTH OF GAFSA   Allied Patrols Operating Near Important City

NAZIS SUFFER NEW SETBACKS IN OTHER AREAS   Forced to Retreat In Northern Tunisia After Attack Near Tamera; 200 of Force Captured   ALLIED PATROLS NOW ON GAFSA OUTSKIRTS   Rommel, It Is Revealed, Had Fifty Huge Tanks Destroyed Or Captured by British

WITHDRAWS: 10 SOUTH TUNISIAN DEFENSE LINES   Montgomery Not Pushing Pursuit; But Flyers Attack Armored Column

Futile Stabs At Brits Cost Him 50 Tanks   Germans Also Forced To Withdraw In The Northern Sector

Rommel, 50 Tanks Lost, Makes Deep W ithdrawal   Enemy Also Forced To Make Retreat In North After Attack Near Tamera

Germans Also Forced Back In North   French Forces Takes Tozeur— Rommel Loses Six Tanks

30 TANKS, MANY PLANES BLASTED BY THE ALLIES   /Rommel’s Forces Continue Retreat, Backing Deeper [ Into Hilly Region

8th Army Smashes Sixth Axis Attack From Mareth Line: Air Battles Rage

UNION CLAUSE ~IRKS PUBLISHERS   Guild Spokesmen Differ Before WLB Upon Guarantee

POLES: AND REDS FIRM IN DEMANDS ON. BOUNDARIES   Argument Between Two Nations Revolves Around This Poaiht.

POST-WAR POLISH BOUNDARY BASIS IN PRESENT DISPUTE      Prosepectsa For Solution Are Remote Despite Apparent Opening In Red Statement

POLE-RUSS SOLUTION ISREMOTE   Russia Leaves Opening. F or Settlement

UJ, 0, LIBERATOR HHT AT UTALIAN BAoco Ih FORGE   Heaviest Aerial Assault Ever ts be Made in That Viciri y.   AIRPORTS ARE TARGET   Twelve Axis Flanes Shot Cown ty Big Al ied Battle C: aft.

FEAR SOME DIE _ IN NEGRO RIOTS   Texas Violence Flares Afte Assault on Woman Who Befriended Black

FOUR DEATH DEATHS ~ DURING RIOT   RACE RIOTING . IN‘ BEAUMONT  CAUSES INJURIES TO:  SCORES OF PARTICI-_  ————" PANTS IN FRAY

US.FORTRESSES BLAST NAZIS ON FRENCH COAST   Big Attacking Force Hits Military Objectives at Le Mans

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES JOIN BRITISH IN ASSAULTS ON GERMAN MILITARY TARGETS

FLYING FORTS HIT LE MANS, AXIS SHIPPING   Allied Aerial Drive Against Germany And Italy Carried Into 11th Day   THREE VESSELS DAMAGED   British. Bombers Smash At Reggio Di Calabria And Messina: Districts

U, S. Fortresses Keep Up Attacks On Nazi Europe   Nazi Military Objectives At Le Mans, France, Are Bombed   STEADY BOMBING OF NAZIS CONTINUES

AMERICAN SUBS GET 10 SHIPS   Underseas Craft Increase Toll Of Japanese Vessels To 339

American Subs Sink 10 More Jap Ships  Three Others Are Damaged in  Daeifia UR) wolf moa

UNION PROPOSES OPENING BOOKS FOR INSPECTION   Under-secretary of War Impresses Labor With Patriotic Obligation

DEFENSE STEPS STIR PORTUGAL WAR TALK   Madrid Rumors Insist That Nation Will Join Allies

FOUR CONVICTS ARE DEAD AS RESULT OF ANTI-FREEZE DRINK   Deadly-Poison Fata! Shortly After It Was Taken —Six Others Cannot " Survive,

FOUR CONVICTS DIE OF POISON   Six Others Believed Dying After Drinking Auto Anti-Freeze

 e e ° ‘Convicts Drink Anti-Freeze;  ‘Four Dead, Six Others Dying

Four Convicts Dead Six Gravely Ill After Drinking Anti-Freeze Solution

4 DEAD FROM ANTI-FREEZE   Six Other Convicts Are Ill From Drinking  Car Solution

German Shipping At Lorient, French Coast Is Pounded By Other Aircraft

British Bombers Cross The Alps, Hit Italian Base  Blast pe ral Base of Spezia Time i n 6 Nights

British Cross Alps Again To Blast Spezia   Fierce Attack Is Second In Six Nights At Big  Italian Navy Base   HIDING FLEET GOAL   Yankee Fliers Destroy Over Half Of Huge Focke-Wulf Plant

Brifish Planes Cross Alps To Attack Italians   Big Naval Base Bombed Again by Allied Aviators

ATTACK MADE ON CONVOY OF ENEMY SHIPS   Hits Scored on Several Vessels by British Fliers

UNE BOMBER 15 LOST IN ATTACK   Strong Units Of Htalian Fleet Suspected In Hiding At Spezia   CALLED SUCCESS   Axis Bases Along French Coast Targets In Other Raids

Italian Navy Base  Blasted From Ai   British Fliers Span Alps For Attack, Los Just One Bomber In Daring Raid

ROYAL AIR FORCE REHITS NAVAL BASE OF SPEZIA   Second Time Within Week Italian Port Has Been Raided

RAF Planes Span Alps to Bomb Spezia       ttack Called ‘oncentratéd; “Only One ©  Se MA ties.

ITALIA AT SPEZIA IS RAIDED AGAIN   British Home-based Bombers Make Long Trip Across Alps Second Time in Six Nights   SUCCESS IS REPORTED

NAVAL UNITS BELIEVED HIDING THERE   Lorient, Other Targets Ir France Also Hit   LITTLE DAMAGE   Reported In German Bombing Of Britain: Enemy Convoy Smashed

Bombers Blast Italian Naval Base At Spezie   Furious Air Assaults Kept Up Against Hitler Domain

BRITISH BOMBERS IN ANOTHER ATTACK ON ITALIAN NAVAL BASE  AERIAL OFFENSIVE OF ALLIES CONTINUED DURING MONDAY ALSO

RAF BOMBERS CROSS ALPS TO BLAST SPEZIA   British Fighters Again Raid Lo  rient — Transpori in Northerr France Altacked   CONVOY SHOT UP   More than Half Focke-Wulf Plan’ Destroyed or Damaged in Ameri can Raid, Photographs Show

Raid Described As Heavy And ‘Concentrated _   , One Bomber Fails To Return From Attack _ On Spezia; Destroyers At Lorient Attacked

BRITISH BOMBERS ~ GROSS ALPS AGAIN TO BOMB ITALIANS   Italian Naval Base At Spezia Bombed Second Time In 6 Nights   ONLY ONE BGMBER LOST

SPEZIA RAIDED .. THE SECOND TNE IN SIK NIGHTS  Itatian Fleet _Suspect  Italian Fleet Suspected In Hiding There   ONLY ONE PLANE FAILS TO RETURN

R. A. F. Spans Alps For New Blow At Spezia   Suspected Hiding Place Of Italian Fleet Battered Again.

RAF Planes Span Alps to Bomb Spezia   Attack Called Concentrated; Only One  Plane Missing

Nai Convoy Off Dutch Coast Ts Scattered By RAT ~ Docks At Dieppe Damaged; Ships

BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST ITALIAN NAVAL BASE AS PART OF CONTINUED AIR WARFARE

RAF BOMBERS  BLAST CONVOY POUND DIEPPE   Air Raid Warnings Indicate Another Big Raid on Italy  :

British Fly Across Alps To Hammer  Spezia Again   Italian Naval Base Blasted; Rome Says U.S. Planes Heavily Damaged Palermo

BRITISH SOAR LONG DISTANCE TOHITSPEZIA   Second Time In Six Nights Royal Air Force Has Crossed Mountains to Naval Base   ATTACK DESCRIBED AS CONCENTRATEL   Freight Trains and Loco. motives In Northern France Also Raided; En emy Shipping Blasted

RAF ATTACKS GERMAN CONVOY   _ondon Has Three Alerts But No Bombs Drop

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE OF SPEZIA AGAIN BLASTED   British Home Based Bombers Made Long Trip Across  the Alps.   THE ATTACK WAS HEAVY   One Ship Failed to Return From the Spezia Expedition.

NEW BLOWS ON ITALIAN NAVAL-BASE   British Again Make Heavy Raid on Spezia Where Fleet May Be Hiding   AMERICANS MAY HAVE JOINED RAID   talian Vessels May Be In ‘Area, Awaiting Call to Evacuate Tunisian Troops

Spezia, Italian Base, Undergoes Heavy Raid As RAF Pounds Many Points In Europe

BRITISH PLANES BLAST ITALIAN NAVAL CENTER   _ ENEMY DESTROYERS BOMBARDED IN LORIENT U-BOAT BASE RAID

British Cross Alps to Blast Base of Spezia   One Bomber Fails to Return After Heavy, Concentrated Attack On Italian City

RAF Attacks Enemy Convoy  Raids Dieppe   Heavy Bombers Head for Italy Again: London Has Three Air Alerts in 12 Hours

British Bombers on Long Trip to Italy to Blast Navy Base   Simultaneously Fighters Strike at Lorient, Base for U-Boats

FLEET 15 BELIEVED OBJECTIVE   One RAF Aircraft Is Reported Missing From Attack

R. A. F. Lashes At Convoy of Enemy Vessels   Scores Torpedo Hits On Several Ships: Also Attack Dieppe

RAF Bombers Blast Spezia Naval Base   Long Range Planes Cross Alps To Continue Raids

BRITISH AGAIN BLAST SPEZIA NAVAL BASE   ‘Attack Is Heavy and Concentrated—Other Fliers Bomb Destroyers at Lorient and Trains in Northern France.

BOMB SPEZIA PORT   British Craft Cross Alps to ' Attack Italian Fleet  Race

RAF'S BOMBERS CROSS ALPS T0 POUND ITALIANS   Naval Base at Spezia Target of New Blows—Nazi Destroyers Hit

British Pound Again at Nazi Targets   RAF Strikes Big Group Of Ships, Bomb Railways Over Europe

British Bombers In Rat  On Italian Navy Base As Others Hit Sub-Base

DieppeBombed, Convoy Blasted   New Raids. Upon Italy Said lndieated

Big Italian Naval Base Is Blasted   Spezia Heavily Bomb ed Second Time  In Week.

ALLIED BOMBERS IN WIDESPREAD RAIDS ON AXIS   15-Ship German Convoy Is Heavily Attacked Off Dutch Coast   FRENCH RAILROAD  TARGETS HARD HIT

BRITISH MAKE HEAVY ATTACK AGAINST SPEZIA   talian Naval Base Blasted; One Bomber Lost In Spezia Attack: Lorient Bombed: Skoda Plant Another Target.

ITALIAN PORT HIT 2ND TIME IN SIX NIGHTS   One Bomber Reported Lost In 1,350-Mile Round Trip Over Alps Area   CONVOY UNDER ATTACK   Axis Ships Found Off Dutch Coast; Lorient, French Rail Lines Bombed

RAF Planes In Long Trip Across Alps   Only One Bomber Lost In Newest Aerial Attack

Italian Fleet Believed Hid In Spezia Port   Fighters Strike At Enemy Destroyers At German Bases

RAF BOMBE®S CROSS ALPS IN RAID ON ITALY   Naval Base at Spezia Pounded for Second Time in 6 Nights

British Cross Alps To Bomt Spezia Again   Home Based Bomber: Blast Italian Base; De streyers At Lorient Hit   HINT FLEET HIDEOUT   Mussolini's Navy May Be In Roadsteads Awaiting Tunisia Battle Orders

RAF Again Raids Naval Base in Italy   Lorient, on French Coast, Also Battered

BRITISH BASED  BOMBERS RAID  ITALIAN BASES BLAST NAVAL BASE  AT SPEZIA AND TARGETS IN SICILY

RAF Bombers Blast Spezia In Heavy Raic   Hunt For Italian Warships In Long Range Attack: One Bomber Missing.   POUND LORIENT BASE

RAF. Bombs Halian Base   Spezia, Believed to Be Hideout of Fleet, Is Heavily Bombarded

North Italy Attacked by RAF Bombers   Aerial Assault Planes Based in Britain; Heavy Damage Reported Done

Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today,   Fall to Go ta Work.

Any Slash In 10,800,000-Man Army Opposed By Patterson; Needs Cited

U.S, SACRIFICE FOR WAR ASKEL   Home Front Must Brace Up to Win Over Axis, Leaders Told

CASUALTY LISTS WILL MOUNT, IS WARNING TODAY   People Must Prepare For Many Sacrifices, Work On Home Front

DeGaulleDemands War Council Role   Underground Leads French Movement

ICKER TO OFFER  BARM SOLUTION   poe Will Present. Plan at Des Moines

German Forces in Territory East Of Dnieper In Peril   Hitler's Crack SoS. Guards Routed ln Final Street Battles For City.

een Taken By Soviet; Was Big Nazi Base   Among routed units are the ‘Adolf Hitler’’ and “Reich” tank divisions.

Skyscraper City Is Taken in Russian Attacks  FINEST TROOPS OF HITLER SENT BACK  More German Troops Are Threatened With Entrapment

hecapture  Of Kharkoy Imperils Nazis  In Large Area   Triumph in Taking Big Base Considered Second in Importance To That of Stalinorad   375-MILE ADVANCE FOR SOVIET ARMY

Topple Nazi Pivotal  South Base   Fall of Ukraine Hub Imperils All German Forces in Whole Battle Area East of Dnieper

REDS CAPTURE KHARKGV NAZI §.RUSSIA BASE   Fall of Important Industrial Center and Former Capital of the Ukraine Disastzr Unprecedented   In Nazi Hands 16 Months

German Forces Imperilled as  Kharkov Falls   Powerful Nazi Base in Hands of Red Troops

Violent Assault Routs Cream Of German Forces.  Orel Is Now Only ,   Orel. is Now Only ‘Important Bastion Short Of Dnijener -

Violent Assault Routs Cream Of German Forces.  Orel Is Now Only Important Bastion Short Of Dnieper

KHARKOV, MAJOR NAZI BASE, NEW RUSSIAN PRIZE   Reds Culminate 375-Mile Drive From Stalingrad By Conquest   STRONGEST BASTION OF DEFENSE LINES

Nazi Elite Forces Defeated at City   All German Armies East  Of Dnieper Imperiled Rw Rad Vintareyu

ALLIES THRUST OPENS THE WAY: TO NORTH COAST   Capture of Enna Gives Allies Firm Control of Railroads and Highways; Fall of 3 Catania Imminent fz

Swift Drive Overruns Enna and Way I!s Opened for a 28-Mile Thrust to North Coast—Hub of Axis Resistance Is Smashed and Split of Defenders Looms—Catania Battle Still Raging —hA peeinan Chall-esd

Way Is Opened For Drive To Split Sicily.   Troops Pressing On To North Coast Drive At Messina

STEELMAN JOINS MINE PARLEYS   ve  Conciliation Service Chief Seeks To Avert Coal Stoppage

MINE STRIKE — CRISIS NEAR   ACE CONCILIATOR IN. NEY  “YORK ATTEMPTING TO: ‘ore “+ GET, SNTENBION-, ; AGREEMENT

STEELMAN INTERVENES.   Trying to Prevent Shutdown of  Southern Coal Mines,

City Buses Will Take Selectees To Chicago; Patrons Must Double Up

Nazi Planes  Raid Britain   Hit-and-Kun Bombers Cause Casualties and Damage to One Town

GERMAN PLANES BOMB BRITISH COASTAL AREAS   2 Towns Bombed In Hit And Run  Fashion Tues.

Lull In Aerial Blows On Reich  Heavy Damage In Raid  On Berlin Of March 1; Reitich Tawne Hie

NAZIS HIT BACK WITH AIR RAIDS   Coast Towns Targets; RAF’s Bombers Take Night Off; Berlin Damage Heavy

Air Lull Over Europe Again   Hit-and-Run Nazis Attack 2 British Towns

German Hit-And-Run Planes Attack Two British Towns   Casualties Admitted; No Major Allied Activity On Continent; Mines Are Luid

GERMAN PLANES HIT TWO BRITISH TOWNS   Early Morning Raiders Use Hit, Run System

SICILIAN ROAD CENTER TAKEN BY AMERICANS   ALLIES ADVANCING INLAND; SECOND CITY AFLAME

U.S. 7TH ARMY URES GAINS UN OTHER SIDE   Continual Aerial Assault Blasts Axis Defenders Of Italian Island

(PRESIDENT SUMMONS TOP AD VISORS SOON AFTER RETURN . FROM MEETINGS AT  i QUEBEC

ARMY LEADERS . CALLED BY FDR   President, Awaiting Churchil Also Talks With China’s Special Envoy

Munich Paper Admits Reich Difficulties   Says Present Similar to  November. 1918

WILL HITLER SPEAK TONIGHT BY RADIO   Nazi Newspaper Admits Germany Is on the Skids.

German Defeat Imminent, Claims   Paper Compares  Position With 1918

PARALLELS 10 1918 ARE SEEN   Munich. Paper. Claims Collapse Impossible

UALL  POLITICAL SET-UP “IN HAND   Significant Statements From Munich On 20th Anniversary Of Putsch

Situation Likened To First War   Germany's Position Is Comparable To That Of November, 1918, Article Asserts

Rabaul Airdrome Handed Pounding  30 Jap Planes Downed By Fighters, Bombers

30 Jap Planes Destroyed in Rabaul Raid   Enemy Troop Ship Sunk Near Gasmata; Smash Gloucesler Again

Rabaul Pounded And Only Four ~ U.S. Planes Lost   Ship Loaded With Nips Sent Down; Gloucester Lashed

ALLIES DOWN 30 JAPANESE PLANES IN RAID ON RABAUL   Fifty Tons of Explosives Dropped on Airfield—Four American Fighters Are Lost.   LOADED ENEMY TROOP SHIP SENT TO BOTTOM   Vessel Was Carrying Soldiers to Attack U. S. Sixth Army’s Beachhead at Arawe.

Rabaul Pounded And Only Four U.S. Planes Lost   Ship Loaded With Nips Sent Down;  folIntiractar  ached

AXIS UPHOLDS EXECUTION OF TOKYO FLIER!   JAPANESE REJECT RIGHTS OF PRISONERS OF WAR-—GERMAN PAPERS SAY - TRIALS “FAIR”

COL MELLON $$. DIRECTOR   Pittsburgh Banker, 43, to Head Draft After August 1

Entire Crew Of Scharnhorst ls Believed Lost   Sinking of German Battleship Hailed As Great Triumph For British Navy

All of Crew of 1,400 Believed Lost in Convoy Battle; Craft Fought to Last Shell Against Superior Force, Germans Say

No Word Received Of Any Survivors Of Battleship Sunk By  - British Naval Force ©

Battleship Scharnhorst Is Sunk By British On Convoy Route to Russia

BRITISH FLEET BATTERS SHIP NEAR NORWAY   Entire Crew May Have Been Lost As Royal Navy Wins Great Sea Victory

NAZI BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST SUNK IN ARCTIC SECTOR:  RATCHET! Opp Bs al   POWERFUL GERMAN FIGHTING VESSEL LOST IN BIG NAVAL BATTLE

Big Blow To German Sea Power   Sinking of Scharnhorst One of Most Spectacular Allied Naval’ Triumphs   FULL DETAILS NOT YET DISCLOSED   But Few of 1 1,400 Aboard German Warship Survived Battle on Gonvoy Route

Scharnhorst Crew Goes With Ship   NO WORD OF SURVIVORS OF NAZI WAR VESSEL

Entire Crew — Of Scharnhorst Believed Lost   No Word of Survivors Comes From British Naval Triumph

NAZI BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST SUNK IN ARCTIC SECTOR  POWERFUL GERMAN FIGHTING VESSEL LOST

Entire Crew May Have Gone Down With Scharnhorst   Sinking In Arctic Battle Hailed As Major Victory For British Navy

German Sea Giant Sunk By British   The Battleship Scharnhorst Goes Down in Battle; Entire Crew Lost?

Crew Goes Down  With Scharnhorst   Sinking of Nazi Battleship a Spectacular Triumph by Royal Navy.

ENTIRE CREW IS LOST WITH SHIF   Germans Report No Survivors After Sinking of Scharnhorst by British

Entire Crew Seen Lost on Scharnhorst   No Word Comes of Any Survivors in Sinking of Batileshin   BLOW TO GERMANY

NAZI WARSHIP SCHARNHORST SUNK BY BRITISH   Believe Entire Crew of Enemy Battleship Lost as Ship Sinks

NO SURVIVORS REPORTED ON GERMAN SHIP   Believe 1400 Men Lost In Arctic; Sunk By Briti:h

BRITISH SINK GREAT NAZI WARSHIP   Report Action Off North Cape Of Norway   Being Slowly But Steadily Whittled Away, Admiral James Announces

German Ship ls Sunk Off  Norway Coast   Entire Crew of 1,400 May Have Gone Down with Scharnhorst; Reds Drive Through 50-Mile Breach West of  Kiev

Mighty Nazi Battleship Sunk   Yanks Blast Nazi Plant But Avoid Prison Camp

PRIDE OF NAZI FLEET IS SUNK   Scharnhorst Sent To Bottom By British Ships Off Norway

British Nava! Units Sink Scharnhorst   No Survivors Yet Reported; Reds Press Offensive in BreakThrough West of Kiev

Think Scharnhorst Carried Her Entire Crew Down Sunday   Sinking of Big German Battleship Announced by British

Scharnhorst Goes Down With All Aboard Lost   Blazing Action In Arctic Area Reported Today

Scharnhorst Crew May Have Been Wiped Out  Germany Has Only 2 Battleships Left

BATTLESHIP IN NORWAY FIGHT   No Word of Survivors Is Heard: Loss Is Severe Blow to Hitler

Arctic Battle Ends in Sinking ( Of Nazi Battleship by British; Russians on March West of Kiev   NEW WINTER DRIVE  OPENS WEST OF KIEV  (By United Press} meeocwaar sara’ Tre wP wey sarc

Germany’s Big Battleship Scharnhorst Is. Sunk By  British Home Fleet Units.

Rencrts Say Scharnhorst Went Down With Full Crew   Spatz Believes In Eliminating One Trraet Before Starting On Another

Believe Crew of Scharnhorst Lost   Survivors Unlisted Of Mighty Nazi Ship Downed Off Norway

Believe Nazi Crew Perished In Sea Battle   Loss Severe Blow To Hitler's Fleet; No Facts Available Until Canvay l« Safe

JAPANESE SHIP LEFT BURNING   Heavy Aerial Action At Wewak Possibly Hits Two Others

JAP CARGO ahi? HIT OFF GUINEA   Two Other 5,000-Ton Ships Possibly Damaged   HEAVIEST ACTION   Directed at Shipping Off New Guinea Since Convoy Chased April 15

JAP VESSELS HIT AT WEWAK   Foe Feverishly Bolsters Island Defenses

FLYNN NAMED IN PATERNITY SUIT   21-Year-Old Blonde Says Actor Is Daughter's Father

Second American  Move in Solomons Since Last August  '   Strategic Intent of Action on Rendova Not Fully Appar: ent But May Be First Stage of New Offensive Operation   MAY BE SCREENING OF DIVERSIONARY NATURE

Combined Forces Complete Landing On Rendova Island   Fighting Believed To Have Ensued As Americans Execute Assault On Base Near New Georgia

Take Rendova Island Near Munda Base   May Be First Stage Of New Offensive Drive On Japs in South Pacific

American Forces Land.at Rendova   ‘IN INTEREST OF HUMANITY’  Anthony Eden Calls Upon Mussolini to Surrender

Northern and West: ward Drive Menaces Japanese on Strate gic New Georgia Isle

Second Assault on South Pacific Isles Hits Central Area and Arouses Speculation as To What Next Move Will be; U. S. Force Moves in Under Heavy Bombardment And Catches Nips by Surprise

First Stage Of Broad New Offensive Agains’ Japs In South Pacific Is Indicated.

Rendova Isiand Landing Made By Combined Forces   Americans Either Opposed or Fighting Soon Develops

Americans Landed in  Rendova   May Be Opening Phase of Another  Pacific Offensive.

NAVY BRIEFLY HARES ACTION TN SOLOMON   Reports Landing on Rendova, New Georgia Group; — No Details.   MAY BE STAGE OF NEW OFFENSIVE: AGAINST JAPS

Rendova I gle Attack May  Screen Plans   Navy Communique Reveals No Details of Landing on Jap-Held Island Near Munda

Combined Forces Land on Island Near Much-bombed Munda Base: No Details of Fighting Received

Action May Signal New Offensive ... Against Japanese   Details of Today's Combined Operation Withheld by Navy

LANDING BY U.S. FORCES IN SOLOMONS   Rendova Seen as Possible Stepping Stone Against Jap-Held Positions in Pacific

Forces Landed on Strategic isle in New Georgia Group   May Be First Stage of New (Nfens've Drive Against Japanese

Americans Sail Il0 Miles North To Attack Rendova In New Georgia Group

Attack Morning of June 30th, Navy Does Not Release Any Report on Outcome of Fighting

ISLE OFFENSIVE      Details Of Yasik Landing Nat Told In Naval Report.

COMBINED AMERICAN  FORCES HAVE LANDED  ON RENDOVA ISLAND APPEARED TO BE FIRST  STAGE OF NEW OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH PACIFIC

Move May Be Start Of Drive   Rendova Regarded an Stepping-stone for Advance on Munda

Blow Aimed at Jans on Munda   Landing in Surprise Attack Believed to Presage Push Against Nippon Holdings Ja Snuth Pacific: Full Detaile Lackina

New Pacific Offensive Tokened by Landing at Central Solomons Base

Rendova Island‘ Scene Of Action   ‘Move Appears To Be First Stage Of New Offensive Against Japs; Believe Yanks Meet Resistance; Next Step Likely To Be Munda Airfield  i ]

Troops Land ~ On Rendova; No Details   Action Reported Today by Navy Apaprently the First Stage of New Action   OTHER OBJECTIVES BELIEVED IN VIEW   Yank Front Line Carried Into Zone of Jap Domination:Combined Forces Used

JAP HELD ISLE   Details of Operation Not Given; Island Used By Jananese.   1S NEAR BASE AT MUNDA

Washingtan Military Autharities Express View That Rendava Invasion Is First Step In New Offensive Against the Japs

Not Known If Opposition Was Encountered; Rendova Is Only Five Miles From Much-Bombet Munda, Where Japs Have Air Base

Strike at Dawn At Jap Holding Only Five Miles South of Munda   Details Not Told: May Presage Drive Against Rabaul

Americans Make Early-Morning Assault On Rendova,  In Central Solomons, In What Appears To Be First Stage Of New Offensive Operation Against Enemy Positions In South Pacific—No Details Received, Navy Department Announcement Says

Blow At Rendova May Be First Stage Of New Attack Against Japs   Few Details Of Action Reported: Island Is Only Five Miles From Big Munda Base

Americans Land on Rendova Island In The Solomons In First Stage of a New Drive

Troops Have Been Landed At Rendova   Marks First Stage Of New Offensive Against Jap Positions

Rendova Isle Occupied by Yank Forces  New Offensive Against Jap Indicated by Navy Communique 5 MI. FROM MUNDA  New Georgia Group Teland Uad Baan Mrnamv:.         MI FROM MUNDA   New Georgia Group island Had Been Enemy. Held; Fighting Likely

Scene Of Operations 150 Miles Northwest Of Guadalcanal And Only Five South Of Oft-Bombed Enemy Air Base At Munda

U.S. Forces Attack Japs On Rendova Island   Americans Making Landing On Island In New Georgia Group Of Central Solomons About Five Miles South Of Munda Where Japanese Developed Air Base

UNITED STATES FORCES LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE   Sea ee NE Americans Invade Central Solomons Island, Navy , Reveals; No Details  Are Announced   NEAR JAP BASES   Believed Landing Made On  Rendova Is First’ Move to Hit Nips  1 ‘On Other Isles

Munda, Jap Bas: 5 Miles Away ©   Landing Of American Forces On Rendova Island, In New Georgian Group, Appears First Stage Of New Offensive.

SWARM ASHORE WITH CENTRAL SOLOMON DRIVE   Assault Appears te Be New Phase of Drive © Against Jap Positions

ACTION HINTS NEW DRIVE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Combined Troops Move Against Island In Central Solomons Area   FEW DETAILS AVAILABLE   Further Stabs Against Jap Bases At Munda And Rabau! Expected

New Offensive Launched; Outcome Is Not Reported   Rendova Island In Central Solomons Invaded By The American Combined Forces; Just 50 Miles From Munda Base

Island Five Miles From Jap Base At Munda Taken Over   Combined American Forces Participate In Latest Offensive Action In South Pacific; Details Not Received

Combined Force Invades Central Solomon Island   Fighting Believed in Progress; Seen First Stage Of New Offensive

FORCES OCCUPY RENDOVA, INDICATING MAJOR DRIVE UNDER WAY AGAINST NIPS   tnemy Has Installations on Island, But Landing Already Achieved, Navy Dept. Discloses—-Isle Is Only Five Miles South of Enemy’s Base at Munda.

No Details Of Action Received   May Be First Stage of New Offensive Operation Against Jap Positions in South Pacific—Island Lies Five Miles South of Jap Field at Munda

NEW OFFENSIVE OPERATION BY THE AMERICAN FORCES   The Navy Announces the Landing of Troops on Rendova Island.   NO DETAILS RECEIVED   The Japanese Have Had Installations on the Island, it Is Said.

CHINESE ROUT 5 JAP ARMIES   Nips Thrown Back in Disorder ~ With Heavy Losses, . _.. Command Reports

Japs Are Routed In Chinese War   Victory Hailed in Free China as Greatest in Six  Years of War.

CHINESE TROOPS ROUT JAP UNITS IN HARD BATTLE   Greatest Victory In Six Years Of War. Chinese Say

 Jap Divisions Are Routed By Chinese Troops  Great Victory Near Ichang Claimed

CHINESE SCORE GREAT VICTORY OVER JAPANESE   Five Nipponese Divisions Completely Routed With Heavy Losses Toward Ichane   ENEMY WAS TRAPPED   Allied.Planes Give Remarkable Support to Chinese During Operations Yesterday

Five Jap Divisions Routed hy Chinese   Victory Hailed as Greatest in Nation’s Six Years of War With Nips—Enemy Thrown Back in Disorder Toward Base at Ichang.

CHINESE ROUT JAP DIVISIONS ALONGYANCTZE   Greatest Victory in Six Years Seen, With Nip  Losses Heavy

Chinese Claim Big Victory Over Japs Near Yangtze Base   Peril to Chungking Is Eased by Greatest Victory of War

CHINESE SCORE THEIR GREATEST VICTORY OF WAR   Five Nip Divisions Hurled Back Along Yangtze River Sector

5 DIVISIONS BEATEN BACK BY CHINESE ©   Victory Hailed Greatest In Six Years Of Warfare

Chinese Claim Great Victory Over Jap Troops Near Ichang   Five Divisions Reported Routed by Veterans Under General Hsueh Yueh

Chinese Rout Five Jap Divisions   Victory Hailed as Greatest in Six Years of War; Allied Planes Aid Greatly in Op erations

OF BATTLE. -IN CHINA   _ Routed in: Greatest: China +» Vietory in Six Years   75,000 TRAPPED . : IN ENCIRCLEMENT.         More Good News” Expected From Chinsse... Drive in: the Yanotze Area

Chinese Claim a Major Victory Near Ichang; Say 5 Divisions Routed

“Little Tiger? Leads Push Trapping Five Divisions- Chinese Rout Japs in War's Greatest Victory

Chinese Claim Big Victory In Routing Japanese Force From Mountain Territories

Hail Greatest Victory In Six Years   Chungking Dispatch Tells Of Triumph Over Five Divisions

ENCOURAGED BY AIR SUPPORT   Japs Thrown Back in Disorder Toward Ichan;

JAPS TRAPPED IN BIG ENCIRCLEMENT   Thrown Back in Disorder; Losses Heavy;. 75,000  Se ee ee

Chinese Nip 5 Divisions In Vast Rout   Japs Suffer Worst Defeat Near Ichang; Thousands Killed

JAPS THROWN BACK IN CHINESE DRIVE   Defenders Record Greatest Victory In Six Years of Fighting

Chinese Trap 79,000 Japs In Big Cirele   Victory On Yangtze Front Hailed As Greatest In Six Years Of War.   GET AERIAL SUPPORT

“7 ittle Tiger” Spurs Troops”  to Greatest Victory of 6 Years’ War.   ALLIED AIR SUPPORT HELPS TO TURN TIDE

CHINESE ROUT FIVE DIVISIONS OF JAPANESE   Enemy Forces Numbering Perhaps 75,000 Reported Encircled on Vanoize Front   Chinese Hearfened by Aerial Support, Victory Claimed Greatest in Six Years of War

Chinese Hail Ichang Victory War's Biggest   American Air Suppor Helps General Hsueh Rou  Five Divisions   75,000 ARE ENCIRCLEL   Entire’ 116th Japanese Regiment Slaughtered Attacks Continued

Five Jap Divisions  Smashed   Reports From Chungking Tells Of Great Chinese Victory

Hail Chinese Win Greatest In Six Years   Japs Routed In Are: Of Yangtze River: Allied Air Activity 1: Stepped Up

DRAFTING OF FATHERS   Ban On Calling Nation's Fathers Soon To Be Lifted

Admits Drafting of Fathers Near   Sentiment Putting It Off Long As Possible

FATHERS WILL BE INDUCTED SHORTLY   Ban On Draft Of Those With Children To Be Lifted

Nazis Claim Ceo Occupied   3,100 Italian and British Troops Captured; Fighting Still Continues

CLAIM TAKING OF COO   ‘Germans Assert British Resistance Is Broken

Americans Take San Stefano in Drive on Coast   10,000 Germans Captured in ‘Big Push’ Against Axis Defenses

FUTURE OF FRANCE UNDER DISCUSSION AT WHITE HOUSE  NEW SUPERSECRET FIGHTER PLANES NOW

FUTURE OF FRANGE UNDER DISCUSSION AT WHITE HOUSE  NEW SUPERSECRET FIGHTER PLANES NOW - BEING MANUFACTURED

GOVERNOR CALLS IN LEGISLATORS   Kerr Asks Committee to Report Tuesday, Finish Textbook Inquiry

Governor Kerr Calls Probers   Asks Completion of Textbook, Clemency Investiaations

FEARED POLICE CHIEF TO RULE NAZI HOMELAND   HITLER'S IRON FIST COWES CITIZENRY OF BOMB-GROGGY NATION

Teheran Crushes Easy Peace Hope   Reuters Hails Communique As “German Military Death Warrant”.

Junetion of Forees at Rail City of Ragusa   Prongs of Allied Thrusts Heading Toward Cities of Trapani, Catania

British and Canadians Effect Junction with Americans at City of Ragusa.      NAZI ATTACKS IN RUSSIA STALLED

CUFFS TO RETURN TO MEN’S TROUSERS   War Production Board Lifts Ban Against Them, but Only Short Men Are Likely to Benefit.

NAZIS FIGHT BACK ACROSS SOUTH FRONT   Russian forces gain control of rail town of Tumanovo

Russians Close In On Vyazme: Nazis Quit Bely   Reds Fight Hard To Hold Powerful Drive On Kharkov

Germans Staging Offensive in Donets Basin But Elsewhere  Russia Still Holds Advantage

MOUNTAIN FORT GIVES IN AFTER FIERCE BATTLE   Allies Push On Toward Mt. Etna

DU MOND GETS STATE CABINET FARM POSITIO?   President of State Farm Bureau Will Emphasize Importance ol Grain Production in State

LEWIS’ CONTINUED DISREGARD OF LABOR BOARD TOP INTEREST   ’ WASHINGTON STILL AWAITS WORD OF RELATIONS WITH FINLAND

Lewis Still Disregards WLEB Efforts   Demands Congress Assume Veto Power Over Trade Agreements; Democrats Seek GOP Support for Tax Bill —

Waters Leaving  State Highways   Roads Along Ohio River Only Ones Now Closed To Travel

SOME HIGHWAYS STILL BLOCKED   U. S. 60 Closed Between Milton, Huntington; Others Passable

NEW SHREDS RIPPED IN RHINELAND   British Meet No Opposition In Attack On France   SOUTH ITALY HARD HIT   British, U. S. Drive Snarls

ALLIED HURRICANE CRUSHING AXIS FROM GERMANY TO ITALY   Naples Isolated from Rest of Country by Allied Bombs.

Chinese Hatred Of Japs Grows As Famine Looms   By RAYMOND P. CRONIN

FOR MISSION IN 1944   Group: Last Evening Favors Holding a-Christian Mission

Starts “’SelfDispatching’ Share Ride   Mississippi Travelers Association Opens First Station in Jackson; Biloxi, Gulfport To Be in Program

Federal Agencies Without Funds      Senate Fails To Clear Bill  For Appropriations

SENATE FAILS TO PASS ALL FISCAL BILLS   Government left without funds; some employees already released

Meat Shortage Grows Acute; Demands of War Big Drain On Supply.   OPA Authorizes Removal of Slaughter Quotas On 10 Districts of 10 Western States To Ease Stringency

Don't Work Up Hope; Those Steaks Running Around on The Hoof Are Not for You   Meat Industry Issues Warning That Mest Shortage Will Get Worse Instead of Better, Because We Are Eating Un Next Year’s Suncly

Mathias Welter Dies Of Old Age - Conducted Town Herc  Yew Dinnwcew Tiwnac

Mathias Welter Dies Of Old Age   Conducted Town Herd  In Pioneer Times

LABOR LEADERS REAFFIRM “NO STRIKE” PLEDGE   Will Seek To Prove New Measure Useless, Secure Repeal   STAND LAUDED   Matter Of Enforcing Law Up To NLRB, WLB And Labor Office

3 BABIES DROWNED ‘UNWED MOTHER SAYS   Bodies Found by Police; Hidden in Hope Chest

 Because They Were ‘Children Of Sin’—  Admits Drowning 3 Newborn Babies

Unwed Mother Killed Three Babes, Sne Says  Drowned All in Bathtub: Bernice Williams

UNWED MOTHER SAYS SHE DROWNED THREE BABIFS IN BATHTUB   YOUNG DENVER WOMAN CALMLY TELLS HARROWING TALE TO OFFICERS

ADMITS DROWNING ¢ BABIES AT BIRTH   UNWED DENVER GIRL HELD AFTER BODIES ARE FOUND IN SHIRT BOXES.

Unwed Mothers Admits Drowning Her Three Newborn Babes, Hiding Bodies

Unwed Mother Confesses To Drowning 3 Children   Killed Tots Because They Were ‘Children Of Sin’ And Hid Them In Hope Chest

UNWED MOTHER DROWNS 3 BABIES   Little Bodies Found in Hope Chest

AMERICAN FORCES AVE LANDED ON ~— RENDOVA ISLAND   Appears First Move Of New Offensive  In Pacific   REAL MEANING IS NOT YET APPARENT

OHIO DEVELOPMENT AFTER WAR IS SEEN   Natural Resources Will Make State Important, Claim

OHIO MAY BECOME CHEMICAL LEADER   Rich Brines‘ es ‘ Cited By, State Geologist

Jap Positions Blasted Tn New Allied Raid On Marshall, Gilbert Islands

Allied Air Action Stepped Up — Against the Japs in Pacific   American Bombers Blast Gilbert and Marshall Islands 3 Days.

JAP POSITIONS ON GILBERT AND MARHALL ISLANDS HIT   All Planes Return Safely; Was Third Raid in As Many Days

More Delegates To GOP Convention   Rewards Go to Areas That Got Out 1940 Vote

1,058 G. 0. P.. DELEGATES CAN CAST BALLOT!   Increase Is Noted For National Convention

GOP Will Haye 1058 Delegates At 44 Meeting   National Convention Vote Strength To Increase, Early Figures Indicate

Maine Will Have 13 Delegates At GOP Convention  National Voting Strenoth Gains

To Boost Number Of GOP Delegates   When National Convention Held There Will Be In crease of 58.

Blue-Burma Gubernatorial Race Forecast  for 1944   Lieut.-Gov, Expected To Face « Speaker

Gov. Hickenlooper Hit Adjournment  Date “On the Nose’’   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

CRASH KILLS 6      Entire Crew of Bomber Lost In Wiaomine Arrident.

Nazi Planes Kill Several In England. ....  RAF Resumes Raids Across The Channel

RAF FIGHTER PLANES STAB AT NAZI EUROPE   Germans Attack Southeast British Coast—21 Killed When Englist Church Bombed

RAF Resumes AttacksOn  Coastlines   Many Formations Cross Channel.

Last Axis Defense Line in Sicily Smashed by Yanks   Allied Armies Converging on Flaming, Traffic-Jammed Messina; Large Enemy Forces Facing Entrapment on Isle

Smash Last Axis Line In Sicily; Focus On Messina   Allies Converge Upon Evacuation Port Only Thirty-Five Miles On Both Coasts As Germons Flight From Island Is Quickened.

Last Defense Line Of Axis is Shattered   Front Narrowed to 30 Miles; 130,000 Prisoners Taken

Guards Watch Closely Over Leaders  Meeting Of FR, Stalin Described

Roosevelt, Stalin First Met on Sunday, Nov. 2&    Historic Meeting Took Place in Soviet i Embessy With Stalin as Host

ADMISSION MADE ” OF NAZI REVERSES   ‘Commentators in Berlin Admit Situation Is _ Gloomy

Gloomy Forebodings Obsess Germar  Commentators-as Russia Discussed

WEATHER THREATENS FARM PRODUCTION   Grave Fears Are Felt for Livestock Feed

WEATHER SPOILING RECORD FOOD GROF   Low Temperatures,. Exces: sive Rainfall, Wet Soils Are to Blame.

WILDGAT’ OIL RULE IS EASED   Texas Commission Seeks Tc Expand Discoveries

sit wane ‘WAHOO’ . SET RECORD   DESTROYER, TWO FREIGHTERS, “TANKER AND TROOP TRANSPORT SUNK DURING ONE PATROL

PINGERS ON AXIS FORGES TIGHTENED   British Eighth Army Captures Oudrel In Gabes Bottleneck

Bowles Taking Brown’s Place   Nomination Of OPA Aide By. FDR Is Expected “At Early Date

Bowles Will  Head OPA-Herring Out   Others Leave Price Control Agency With Resignation of Brown

NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT ALONE OUTPRODUGE. AXIS  CANADA AND U. S. TO PRODUCE PLANE EVERY  FIVE MINUTES

> Plants Of North American Continent Alone Outproducing Axis Bv Two To One Margin   United States And Canadian Production Is Far Greater Than Enemy’s—Nelson   Airplane Every Four Minutes Soon To Be Our Record, WPB Chairman Says

ALLIED ARMS OUTPUT WILL TRIPLE AXIS’   Nelson Says North America Alone to Outproduce Enemy 2 to 1 This Year — Plane Every Four Minutes, 40 Seconds.

North America To Outproduce \Axis In Munitions Two To One This Year, WPB Chief Reports   By End Of Year Continent Will Be Turning Out Plane Every 424 Minutes

North American Figures On Munition Production Hasten Doom of Axis

Production Advantage Is 2 To ]   Donald Nelson Deliver: Report Which He Call Voice Of Doom To Axi Warlords

Donald Nelson Points Doom of Dictatorships  Visiting in Toronto For   Visiting in Toronto For Meeting With British And Canadians

North American Munitions Plants  Hit High Mark   Nelson Says Output Will Nearly Double -That Of * Axis ‘Nations This* Year

Donald Nelson Points Doom of Dictatorships   Visiting in Toronto For Meeting With British And Canadians

Tells Canadians North American Continent Alone Will Outproduce -Axis Two-to One   WARNING TO ENEMY      Says Unless Axis Warlords Are Not Completely Insane, They Will Agree  ' Doom Near

NORTH AMERICA TOP PRODUCER, WPB HEAD SAYS   Plane Ever 4 2-3 Minutes  Is Promised By   Nelson    BIG BATTLES IMPEND   ‘Axis Munition Manufacture Slowed; Allied  Effort Increasing

PRODUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA EXCEEDS REICH   Output Now Two To One Over All  Axis Countries

No. America Now 2To 1 Ahead Alone   U. S. Production Chief Tells Of Mighty Figures In Canadian Address

QUTPRODUCE AXIS BY TWO T0 ONE, SAYS WPB CHIEF   TELLS CANADIANS FIGURES SPEAK IN A BIG VOICE

New Plane ; Every Five Minuies   North America Alone tc Ouiproduce Axis Nearly Two-to-One This Year   GIGANTIC BATTLES IN THE OFFING   Nelson Gives Figures and Calls for Greater Co-operation on Home Front

AXIS FALLS BEHIND - INMUNITIONS RACE   Out-Produced in 1943 by North American Continent, Says Nelson —   ADDRESS IN CANADA

Canada and U.S. Will: Outproduce te “Axis by 2 tol Marcin: This: Vear

Arms Output Still Climbs   North American Continent Alone Will Outproduce Axia 2 Tol,

Nelson Reports On Production  N. American Output Exceeds Axis 2 To 1, With More To Come

Says America Outproduces Axis In Arms   Nelson Gives  Ratio 2 To 1

Continent’s Output To Top Axis ? fo 1   Nelson Outlines Future Program

U. S.-Canada Production. Double That Of Enem   Vast Output Revealed By Donald Nelson In Toronto Speech

Beat Axis War Output Two to One   That Record Predicted By Donald Nelson For This Year in North ‘American Plante Alone

AXIS OUTPUT OF ARMS DWARFED   U. §. And Canada Top Enemy) Figtire Two To One, Nelson Reports

YIELD AMAZING   Plane Every 5 Minutes Soon To Be U. S.-Canada Record

.d., CANAD CAN WHIP AXIS   Nelson Says Two Countries Can Outproduce Axis Two to One.   SEES GIGANTIC BATTLES

WPB HEAD CITES ENORMOUS GAIN IN ARMS OUTPUT   North America Alone Will Supply Twice Amount Made By Foe

North America To Outproduce All Of Axis   *We Will Shortly See Gigantic Battles, Nelson Tells Canadians

DOZEN PLANES AN HOUR Woda BLOW AT AXIS   Canadian and U. S. Munitions Output Spelis Doom to Foe, Nelson Says.   WPB CHIEF IN TORONTO ADDRESS BARES PLANS

U.S. and Canada This Year Will Outproduce The Axis 2 To  In Making Munitions

REPORT NEW YANK LANDINGS   SEE NEW U. S. PINCERS TO CRUSH SOLOMONS NIPS

Shop Owner Shoots Girl And Suicides   Bodies of Pittsburgher and Sweetheart Found In Car On Lonely Road   LEAVES WIFE A LETTER

Senate Ready to Override Economic Stabilization Director Fred Vinson

RAIL PAY HIKE UP TO VINSON   SENATE COMMITTEE AUTHORIZES FLAT 8-CENT INCREASE

SENATE COMMITTEE OKS AAIL WAGE HIKE   Next Move Is Up to Stabilization ‘Director Fred M. Vinson

U.S. Force Wipes Out Jap Troops   American Airmen Smash Nip Bases at Kiska, Munda

Battie Equal in Size to Midway Developing: Plane Attack Continued   Remnants of Enemy Convey Under  [ee oe a) ek: 

GUADALCANAL AIM OF ENEMY: ALLIES PREPARE FOR BLOW   Jap Ships Concentrating At Rabaul And In At North Solomons Islands

Japs Reported Concentrating Large Naval-Transport Forces in So. Pacific; Indicate Major Battle Developing

Battle Equal In — Size to Midway Seen Developing   One of the Greatest Concentrations of Jap Ships Since the War Started Now. ' Gathering North of Selomons

First Attacks By Planes Sink Two Jap Ships   Great Concentration   Great Concentration Of Enemy Vessels Reported Gathering

Announcement of Kiska Fall Comes From Quebec Confab; Soong, Stimson Will Confer

KISKA ISLAND WIN IS THREAT TO NIPPONESE   Japs Withdraw For First Time With No Resistance

Our Troops Have Seized the Important Road Junction on Capua.  ADVANCE 10 MILES IN THE PAST 48 HOURS  90,000 Germans Are Trying to Hold Allies From Rome.

Estimated That German Now Have 90,00 Troops Pitted Agains Allies Trying To ‘Steg March On Rome. _....

Fall Of Velikie Luki Cause Of Rejoicmg In Moecow; Allied Bomters Hit Three Nazi Bases In Tonicisa    BRITISH SUBS SI sINK LARGE SUPPLY SHirs

Russians Gain on Seven Fronts in Best Offensive   Fortress City Taken in Fierce Drive by Soviets

REDS MAKE GAINS ON SEVEN FRONTS INNIGHT FIGHTING   Velikie Luki, Fortress City,  West of Moscow. Taken And Most of Germans Are - Killed.   OTHER COMMUNITIES ' ARE ALSO CAPTURED   Gen Zhnkoff, Savior of Mos . ow, Is In Supreme Command of the Southwestern Front.

Senate Passes Ruml-Type Tax Measure. 49-30   Administration Lines Crack, Final Test Is Expected in House

2) PER CENT WITHHOLDING IS PROVIDED   Full Year’s Taxes Forgiveness Is  Called For

Dems Help GOP Pass Bill 49-30   Bill Provides Year's Forgiveness And 20 Percent Withholding  lax.

Ruml-Type Tax Passes Senate —  By 49 to 30 Vote   Action Returns GOP-Sponsored Income Tax Bill to House; Would ‘Forgive’ Full Year’s Levies

Ruml Bill Is Passed By Senate   Withholding Tax Of 20 Per Cent Provided

© WOMEN TESTIFYING IN BARONETS MURDER   © De Marigny is Placed at ~ Death Scene

2 Women on Stand at Trial   Young Guests of Oakes Called to Give Testimony in Trial of DeMariany

CONVOY DESTRUCTION VICTORY OF SUPPLY  Merchant Vessels Unmolested

Automatic Pilot Keeps Big  _ Bombing Planes On Course   Details Of Device Of One Of America’s Best Kept oe Secrets, Revealed; Factor evastating Raids

KAISER PLANNING HUGE CARGO PLANE   Proposed Machine Would Fly 17,000 Miles Without Stopping.

Kaiser Promises To Build Record-Breaking Airplanes   New Cargo Plane To Fly Three-Fourths Of Distance Around World Without Halt

SUPER PLANE PLANNED   Kaiser To Build Plane Pwarfing All Present Moedels

Kaiser Plans to Build Huge Planes That Can Fly  Non-Stop Around World

HENRY KAISER PLANS LARGE CARGO PLANES   Capable of Non-Stop Flight Three-Fourths Around World

Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses in New Guinea Assault         OVER 100 LOST IN RAIDS THIS WEEK   Allies Keep Up Their Own Aerial: Offen-.  ‘Sive

JAPANESE LOSE 30 AIRPLANES AT MILNE BAY   80-Craft Operation  Thrown Over Guinea Base In Following  Up Offensive   Enemy Boat Sunk

JAPS LOSE 30 MORE PLANES AT MILNE BAY   Raiders Hit 3 Small Allied Ships in Attack on Allied Base   TOTAL LOSSES OVER 100 SINCE START OF ASSAULTS

Japanese Suffer Heavy Losses in New Guinea Assault  OVER 100 LOST IN RAIDS THIS WEEK  Allies Keep Up Their Own Aerial OffenSive

Japs Lose 30 Planes in Raid  On Milne Bay   Allies Sink Cargo Ship in Hansa Bay: Raiders Hit Three  Vessels in Paupa

30 Jap Aircraft Bagged At Milne Bay; Three Small Allied Ships Sunk   LIGHT NIP CRUISER IS   REPORTED DAMAGED

Lose 30 of 80 Planes At Milne Bay   Nipponese Raiders Hit Three Smail Vessels

Japanese lose 30 of more than 80 planes in raid on Milne bay   Brings total to more than 100 since Sunday: raiders hit 2 small shins

More Than 80 Aircraft Used as Japs Continue Bid for Air Supremacy THREE SMALL SHIPS — HIT BY JAP BOMBS 6,000-Ton Ship Sunk, Light Cruiser Damaged By. Allied Offensive

Queries Posed By Surrender   What Happens to Fleet. Nazis. Balkans?

WHAT'LL HAPPEN TO THE FLEET?   Allies’ Great Triymph Brings New Questions About European Wor

What Happens To The Germans Now In Italy?   Rome's Fleet Another Question Mark Linked With Surrender

TRIPS ON U. S. HISTORY   Churchill. Erroneously. Refers. to Constitution in Speech.

Conscientious Objector Is Keeping Pace With Mohandas Gandhi's Fas'

TWENTY-SEVEN DIE, 130 INJURED TRAIN WRECK IN NEW YORK  FAST PASSENGER TRAIN

150 Others Injured When Passenger Train Hits Freight In New York

26 DEAD TRAIN CRASH; 150 ARE HURT   Lackawanna Limited Plows Head-On Inte Switch Engine In New York   LIVE STEAM TRAPS MANY

Native Troops Ready To Fight   White Leaders Needed For Senegalese

Boisson Offers French Troops      OVER 200,000 READY TO FIGHT FOR ALLIES

Boisson Offers Allies Use Of 300,000 Troops   100,000 Senegalese Are In Shape, Reserves Lael Arms And Officers

French West Africa Offers Allies 100,000 Trained Senegalese And 200,000 Reserve Troops

BOMBER OUTPUT 1,000 MONTHLY   8,789 Aircraft Of All Types Produced By U. Ss.  Factories In November

000 BOMBERS MADE LAST MONTH   OUTPUT OF ALL PLANES REACHED 3,789 — NAVAL BUILDING HITS PEAK.

Attention Adolf: U. S. Aircraft Factories Turn Out 1,000 4-Engine Bombers in Month

Bomber, Carrier Output Hits High   New All Time High Reached In U. S. Factory War Against The Axis.

} MASSING VOYS FOR NEW BLOWS   U.S. Continues to Harass Enemy's Supply Lines

a) MASSING i “SVOYS FOR NW BLOWS      U. S. Continues to Harass Enemy’s Supply Lines

Lewis Assails War Labor Board In Bitter Talk   Hints He May Refuse Ic Plead Miners Case before Group

LEWIS ATTACKS LABOR BOARD IN SCRANTON TALK   \Head Of Miners Calli Byrnes “One Of Our Judicial Vestal Virgins”

Montgomery Outsmarts “Desert Fox’   British Conquer Cruel, Windy Desert To Outflank Rommel  SAND BIG PROBLEM

[Rommel  Outwitted by Bold Gamble of Montgomery, — Correspondent Reveals

Montgomery Outflanks Gen. Rommel in One of  Boldest Moves of War   British Eighth Army Crosses Desert Believed by Ger mans To Be Impassable and Forces Evacuation of Mareth Positions; Final Dash across Sands Made al Unbelievable Speed, Wriler Asserts

Troops Landing on Bougainville   NAVY SAYS FIGHT “PROCEEDS SATISFACTORILY;” ARMY POURS REINFORCEMENTS ONTO ISLAND AFTER NAVY GUNS BLAST AWAY JAPANESE AIR FLEET

Marines Make Good Progress On Bougainville   Reinforcements Landed But Help Is Little Needed

THREE BANDITS ROB CINCY HOTEL, FLEE   Get Big Haul of Jewelry, Cash

JAPS TO KNOW ALL   Army To Reveal Location Of Base For Famed Tekye Raid

YANKS DROP 1,000 TONS ON EMDEN   Flying Forts Use New Tactics In Raid On Sub Base

U. S. FLYING FORTS POUND NAZI U-BOAT CENTER OF EMDEN      Action Puts Allied Air Offensive Back On An Around-The-Clock Schedule

U3. BOMBERS OMAGH EMER U-BOAT BASE   1,000 Tons Of Bombs Drop. ped On Submarine Center By Big Fortresses

FORTS AGAIN HIT GERMANY   Round-The-Clock Aerial Offensive Resumed by Allies

Flying Forts plaster sub  base Emden   New methods nsed in attack

Relax Weather Data Restriction Because ‘Of Improved Defense   : Gensorship Office » Reviews Further + Modifications

CENSOR RELAXES RESTRICTIONS ON WEATHER NEWS   No Longer Will Newspapers Be Limited in Number of Forecasts They May Publish,   APPROVE BROADCASTS BY RADIO STATIONS   Director Price Reviewing Rules to Determine Whether Further Modifications Will Be Made.

Relax Restrictions On Weather Report  Improved Defense Con ditions Warrant It

strictionson Ise of Weather Repoils Lifled  bliecation, Broadcast of   blication, Broadcast of forecasts Now.. * Parmissible

WEATHER NEWS BANS REMOVED   Papers May Now Carry Forecasts Without Limitations

Weather Forecast Bans Are Relaxed  ce a,  ee er    Other Censorship Modifications Seen

Senate Increases Lend-Lease Totals ‘For Russian Aid To $25,000,000,000

Major Deal With Russia Ts Indicated   Senate Acts on Urgen' Plea of Stettinius for Lend-Lease:

Subsidy Plan Opponents Heac For Floor Fight   Payment Idea Is Criticized As Inflationary

Fight Looms On Subsidies   Opponents of Payments To Cushion Price Decreases Will Carry Battle to Floor

FLOOR FIGHT LOOMS OVER SUBSIDIES   Senator George Opposes Plan as “Doubly Inflationary”

Cpponents of Subsidy Payments Appear Headed for Fight On Whether Funds Should Be Limited Or Prohibited Entirely.

Curb On Subsidy Plan Forecasts Bitter Fight    Limit On Payments Urged By Foes Of Roll-Back

SEE FLOOR FIGHT ON SUBSIDY PLAN   Opponents of Subsidy Payments Appear Headed for Fight On Whether Funds Should Be Limited Or Prohibited Entirely.

ALLIES PUSH WEDGES INTO GERMAN LINE   Make Advances Of Up to Four Miles, Capture 8 Towns

Drive New Wedges  In German Defenses   Eight More Towns Overrun as 5th and 8th Armies Continue Advances Despite Stitt Racictanca

ENEMY FIGHTS BACK onARPLY 10 AULD UNE   Increasingly Bitter Fighting Forecast As Fifth Army  Hits Rommel Defense

GAINS OF FOUR MILES MADE BY ALLIES   Eight Towns Before New German Defense Line Are Taken

Advance Up To Four Miles Overrunning 8 Towns In Front Of, Nazi ~~ Line In Italy   Allied Progress Described As Satisfactory But — Big Ficht Ahead

ADVANCING IN GREAT DRIVE.   United ‘States Troops Driving: For. ward Despite Stiffening™ Nazi: “Resistance..Which Serves Only” ‘to Slow Down Movement.

Allies Put Wedges in Naz! Line   Eight Towns Are Overrun in Push  Of Four Miles

‘Wedges Driven In Nazi ‘Defense Line By Push ‘Advancing Four Miles

‘Sharp Wedges [Are Driven Into \Nazi Defenses   German Resistance Stiffens But American Troops Push Forward

Armed Robber Gets $195 From Consumers’  Credit Co.  EMPLOYES FORCED TO LIE ON FLOOR  Wide Search Is Being Made for f Bandit

Aaa Robber Gets $195 - From Consumers’ ~ Credit Co,  EMPLOYES FORCED  TO LIE ON FLOOR Wida Search Is Being I, Mode for ‘ (4 Bandit

German General  Court-Martialed   Cowardice Is Charged During Emergency

#8 HOURS URGED IN CLOTH MILLS   WPB Requests Immediate Change by All Textile,  Fabric Yarn Firms.

USE FLAME BOMBS   Phosphorous Shells Added to Japanese Defenses  at Rabaul -

Rabaul Base Is Attacked Relentlessly   Phosphorous Bombs Are Used By Japanese In Effort To Disrupt Assault By Allies

JAPS DESPERATE FOR WAYS TO KEEP RABAUL FROM BEING BOMBED OFF MAP

JAPS LOSE 35 MORE PLANES OVER RABAUL   Allied Planes Rain Bombs On Bougainville

35 MORE NIPPON PLANES BAGGED   Japs Use Phosphorous Bombs at Rabaul

Yanks List 63 Jap Planes Bagged In 48 Hours At Key Base Of Rabaul

Japs Use Flame Bombs to Defend Port of Rabaul   But Relentless Allied Campaign Moves Unchecked Against Key Base.   63 Jap Planes Shot  Down in Last 2 Davs

Aerial Assaults  “Neutralizing” Rabaul As Base  Jan Teiel Damhe   Jap Trick Bombs Fail To Check Allied Campairn

Allies Destroy 63 Enemy Planes   Japs Use New. Type Of Bombs in Effort * To Defend Rabaul

63 More Jap Planes Lost Over Rabaul   Enemy Using Phosphorous Bombs in Desperate Defense of Rabaul Base

Japs Lose 63 More Planes At Rabaul; New Phosphorous Bombs Used By Nips

MacArthur fo Stay in Field   To Continue Services After Reaching Age Of Retirement

FOUR AXIS SUPPLY ~ SHIPS SENT DOWN   New Successes in Allied War of Attrition Diceloced .

Flying Fortresses Attack Eastern Tunisian Supply Ports, Marauders Attack Railroad Lines And Highways.

Four Axis Supply Ships Sunk, Three Believed Wrecked   British Subs Haunt Supply: Routes, Shell Southern Shore Of Nerve-Shattered Italy

Four Axis Ships Sunk By British  Subs Take Toll in Mediferranean Sei CLall ea Deidaa

British Subs Sink Four — Axis Ships   Also Shell Southern Shore of Jittery ltalians’ Mainland

Four Axis Supply Ships Sunk, Three Hit by British Subs   —Ground Action Slight, _ But Battle of Attrition Continues in N. Africa

BRITISH SUBS HIT 7 VESSELS   4 Axis Ships Sunk, 3 Others Believed Destroyed in  Mediterranean

Four Axis Ships Sunk By British   Subs Take Toll i in * Mediferranean Sea; Shella Bridge. -

ITALIAN COAST IS BOMBARDED BY SUBMARINE   NAZIS GET STRONG REINFORCEMENTS INTO TUNISIA

Three Other Vessels  Probably Sunk   Allied Planes in Africa Continue Attacks

THREE VESSELS PROBABLY SUNK, BRIDGE BOMBED   Attacks Made On African Sea Front; Combined Air Actions Made  In Tunisia   Land Fighting Slow

CALLS FOR ACTION   If President Does Not Move Promptly, Congress  Must, Says Byrd

Jap Assault Is Halted On Bougainville   Thousand Nipponese Are Killed In Action Since First Of Month

More Than 1000 Enemy Troops Slain in Solomons   Japanese Air Power Declines Steadily In Gilbert Islands

THOUSAND JAPS SLAUGHTERED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Another 1,000 May Have Been Killed By Ameri gs      GASMATA IS AGAIN HEAVILY BOMBED

MANY JAPS SLAIN, SPOKESMAN STATES   Estimates Given in Annaouncing Repulse of dao Assoult

Believe 2,000 Jans Were Slain   Estimates Given on Bougainville Drive

Enemy Being Cleared From Bougainville  Adm. Halsey Says a   Adm. Halsey Says at Least 1000 Japs Killed on Island

MORE THAN 1,000 JAPANESE KILLED ON BOUGAINVILLE   Enemy Losses Since Americans Landed on Island May Possibly Reach 2,000.   YANK BEACHHEAD EXTENDED 2 MILES   Australian Troops Make Gains on New Guinea, Repulsing Several Counter-Attacks,

Japs’ Bougainville Toll Rises, Savage Attacks Beaten Off   1 UQO Sidughtered And 1,000 More Are Believed -Slain:. Our Casualties Licht

KRUPP WORKS ALMOST IDLE BRITISH SAY      Air Ministry Reports That  ; Latest Aerial Photographs Show No Smoke Rising From the Hundreds of Chimneys.

KRUPP FACTORY NEARLY CLOSED   Big Attack Made Last Night Qo. Duisberg, Ruhr Valley Targets.

Krupp Works Made Idle By Giant Attacks   Results Of Shattering RAF Raid On Esser Bared; Duisburg, Ruke Hit   8 BOMBERS LOST   Enemy Tanker Torpedoed In Assaulf On Nazi Shipping Off Norway

Krupp Works Hard Hit By Heavy Raid:   Giant Armament Works Appear Almost Completely Idle In Late Photos,   BOMB ENEMY SHIPPING

Krupp Works Is Almost Entirely Idle After Raids  RAF Photogr oi of Essen Show  Smoke key

Giant Armament Plants Almost Completely Idle, . Photos Show  ANOTHER ASSAULT MADE ON DUISBURG         It Is.an Industrial Center Near Essen; “Bight Bombers Lost

Bombs Idle Giant Krupp Arms Works   Aerial Pictures Show No Activity in Vital War Machine Plants

Mother Stephens Is Busy; All of Her 15 Children Are Iii   a  Duisburg Bombed By RAF

RAF Attacks Duisburg and Nazi Shipping   Axis Tanker. Is Torpedoed from Air off Norway

KRUPP PLANT NEARLY IDLE   No Sinoke Seen From Hundreds of Chimneys

KRUPP WORKS ALMOST IDLE   After Heavy British Raids of April 3-4th Reconnaissance Photo. graphs Show

Duisburg Hit In Widespread Raids By RAF   Eight Bombers Are Lost On Missions; Tanker Sunk By Torpedoes Off Coast Of Norwav

KRUPP WORKS HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS   One of Mainstays of Hitler’s War : Machine Is Idle

German Krupp Works Are Idle After Attacks   Reconnaissance Photos Show Little Activity At Huge Plant   DUISBURG IS HIT   Eight Bombers Fail Te Return From Raids  During Night

DUISBURG AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL POINTS IN RUHR ATTACKED  DAY-AND-NIGHT HAMMER   ING OF GERMAN OBJECTIVES IS RESUMED

Aerial Photos Indicate Krupp ~ Plant Is Idle   Armament Works, One Of  ’ Mainstays Of -Hitler’s  . War ‘Machine, Greatly Damaged By Raiders

WALLACE SEES BETTER WORLD   All Can Share Benefits Middle-Class Has Enjoyed

Cry of Despair. on” 7 Radio Is Shut ¢ oft   Secret Polish Station Is Closed Down While Making a Plea.

Mme. Chiang Says Jap Defeat Vital   Urges Post-War Union To Prevent Another ‘Orgy of Blood’

Mme Chiang Kai Chek Urges Japan Be Moved Up On Attack Time-Table

More Help, Plea Of Madame Chiang   American-Educated Wife Of Generallissimo Of China Praises America As Incubator. Of Democratic Principles'—_Aske Congress To Lead In Forming Post-War Unity

FEDERAL PROBE BOARD IS NAMED   Group Will Handle Reports Of Subversive Activities By U. S. Employes

‘hite House Names ‘Isms’ inquiry Body Group Will Pry  Into Activities  Of U.S. Employes

Describe boais Ut Allied Drive Through Tunisia   Maknassy and Graiba Stressed as Strategic Points in Campaign.   Use Axis Airfields.   American Forces Now Dominate Guadalcanal Area in South Pacifie.

19 PERSONS DIE IN COLD WAVE   Five Drown In Lake Michigan; 14 Dead In East

Five Fishermen Are Lost In Storm   Chicago Area In Grip Of Sudden Sub-Zero Storm; Planes Are Forced Down

No Plans For “Nationalization  Of Mines: Ickes   Return To Private Ownership To Come ‘Soon  As Possible.’

Retailers Rap Food Subsidies   Wires Say America Must “Do. Ac Tt Fata?

NORWEGIANS HAVE FOUGHT   King Says in Broadcast His Men ’ Have Seen Action

RAF ON WING AGAIN   Large Fleet Of British Bombers Reported Over Purope

WOULD IMPROVE SERVICE   Cities Service Applies for List of Projects in Kansas!

YOUTH SHOOTS FATHER DURING HOME QUARREL   ‘William Smith, Plane i Plant Worker, Charged  With Murder by Essex, Md., Police   STRUCK HIS MOTHER   Accused, Near Collapse In Jail, Says He Believed Parent Was Going -to Kill Her

OPA REQUIRES SHARING RIDES   B And C Gasoline Holders Must Pool Use Of Cars

President Asks ‘Steel Workers To Stay on Joh   Pledges Them Retroactive . Wage Adjustments, Te fone

Roosevelt Bans Steel Strike   President Asks Work Continue and ' Differences Be Settled

Roosevelt appeals for steel workers to continue production   Urges operation under old contract until differences can be adjusted

F-D. R. Appeals lo Steelworkers   Urges Operations Under Old Contract:

RED TROOPS BLOW UP NAZI BLOCKHOUSES   More Than 100 Germans Killed and Guns Put Out of Commission in a Sector of the Western Front.

STRONG RED ARMY FORCE ADVANCES   Storms Across River Into German Trenches and Blows Up Two Block Houses and Other Installations.

REDS WIPE OUT GERMAN FORGE   Soviet Scouts Cross River Ta Blast at Enemy’s Installations

Red Scouts Blast Nazi Blockhouses  Over 100 Germa:   Over 100 Germans Die In Assault; Kuban Area Busy

Soviets Storm German Trenches   LENINGRAD AREA SCENE OF MORE RAIDS ON NAZIS

Russians Raid Nazi Trenches   Blow Up Two Blockhouses And Other Installations, Kill 100 Germans

Raiders Sink 17,600 Tons of Nippon Ships   Wharves, Warehouses Heavily Damaged; Allies Lose Only 5 Planes in Big Attack

Big Force Of Planes In Rabaul Raid      177 Aircraft Shot Down or  Damaged

House Unanimously Approves $732,500 Increase For State Institutions

Legislators Begin Vacation Friday  WP) Faas Din ciin   10-Day Recess Ends on March 8

Brazil Force Soon to Fight _ With Allies   Latin-American Genera Heads War Mission Sent to Algiers

SAY CHURCHILL MAY BE ON WAY TO MEET F.0.R   Nazl News Agency Gives Report; Stockholm Says Stalin May Attend Important Conference

Sul Ross Builds For the Future And Keeps Step With Present-Day Needs

F. D. R. Vetoes Subsidy Ban  Action Is  Promptly  _ Sie _ sai  Re a ee

PRESIDENT WINS STRUGGLE OVER PRICE SUBSIDY   Administration’s Food Subsidy Program Saved From Congressional Death Sen ~ tence As House Sustains President’s Veto.

House Backs F.D.R. Veto of Subsidy Ban   Refuses To Override After He Calls Bill  ‘Inflation Measure’

Bill Veto Sustained By House   Steps Are Taken To Re-Create Credit Unit

Food subsidy plan saved as FDR veto sustained by house   President vigorously assails  bill as forcing nation to inflation

COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION DIES AS INCIDENT OF VETO; EFFORT TO BE MADE TO REVIVE AGENCY.

House Sustains President's Veto *To Restore Food Subsidy Program

ACTION SAVES PLAN 10 ROLL BACK PRICES   Lower Branch Yields to President’s Vigorous Protest Against Killing Program.   DISAPPROVED BILL HELD INFLATIONARY   Executive Tells Legislators It Would Nullify Efforts to Hold Down Living Costs.

HOUSE SUSTAINS SUBSIDY VETO OF PRESIDENT   Roosevelt’s Message Calls Legislation “An Inflation Bill’   ASKS ACCEPTANCE OF HIS LEADERSHIP

Subsidy Program Given New Life As Veto Is Sustained   FDR Calls Measure Inflation And Food Shortace Bill: Flouse Vote < 978-154

House Sustains Roosevelt Veto OnFood Subsidy   President Rejects Measure as An Inflationary Bill

House Upholds Veto, Subsidy  Plan is Saved   President Assails CCC Measure as , Inflation Bille’ 228 Vote for Overriding and 154 Against

House Upto { Or Subsidy Ban   Saves Food Program Of Administration From Death Sentence

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Automatically Ou   President Roosevelt Tells Legislators The Measure Would Shackle His Hands; Another FarmFood Measure Is Advanced

Food Subsidy Program Ts Saved   Congress Had Sought To Kill Credit Bureau

U. S. Head Terms Measure Sure Way To Bring About Inflation; Rush Move Continuing Life of CCC

F.D. R. Vetoes Subsidy Ban  Action Is Promptly Sustained by House

House Acts After Stinging Message From President  BILL INFLATIONARY, ROOSEVELT STATES  Bill to Continue Life of the CCC to be Introduced

House Sustains President’s Rejection Of Antisubsidy Bill; Group Hastens to Revive CCC Temporarily

$225,000 Fire RazesNewton Novelty Plant   Firm Had Been Engaged In War Manutacturing For Past Two Years

Americans Blast Solingen Again   Nazi Combat Planes Put Up Hard Battle

Yank Bombers Raid Solingen  Second Time   Resistance Is Powerful And 27 Liberators, Fortresses Are Missing

Would Prevent Wage Reduction   Government Lacks Right, Finance Heads Claim, To Cut Salary Monev

Group Votes To Amend House Bil   Would Repeal $25,000 Salary Limitation

VOTES AGAINST SALARY LIMIT   ‘ ‘ Senate Finance Committee Approves Amendment

Substitute Proposal Controls Pay Cuts   Maximum of First 9 Months of °42 Fixed as Low Mark for Salarie<

Senate Group Prevents Cut In Salaries  Amends House Approved Debt

Senate Committee Votes to Amend  House-Approved Debt Limit Bill -

Senators Act  On Pay Bill   Vote to Amend House Bill to Prevent Any Wage or Salary Cuts

Senate Group Votes to Amend   Does Away With Disney Amendment in Favor  Of One of Own

Vote to Repeal Order Limiting Top on Salaries   Party Lines Are Drawn to Wage Battle For Ruml Tax Plan.   May Soften Rulings To Draft Manpower

SENATE GROUP. AMENDS HOUSE SALARY ACTION   Finance Committee Seek: to Prevent Wage Cuts Below Early 1942 Levels   NO OPPOSITION   Amendment Would Reveal Executive Order Placing $25,000 Limit On Salaries

Senate Drops Salary Limit   Committee Discards House Amendment To Debt Limitation Bill,

Double-Talks to Spirits  x * *  Medium Has Daylight Wire to Dead Stepfather

Spirit, Interviewed Through Stepson, Reveals Hitler Died Insane Some Months Ago

\p- solleria Surrender Is First Time in History Airpower Alone Reduces Garrison

Island Victory Hailed as First In All History   Airpower Alone Given Credit for Capture of Pantelleria

Airpower Is Credited For Triumph   Fliers Alone Beat Stronghold Into Submission

Panielleria Is First Fortress Ever Forced tc Surrender as Result of Aerial Attacks Alone

SPLIT BALLUT TREND RAPPED   Dingell Fears Republicans Will Rule Congress If FDR Runs Again

BALLOT LAW. . ~ 18 PROPOSEL   MICHIGAN DEMOCEAT HOPES TO. PREVENT SEPARATE PRESIDENTIAL AND... “STATE BALLOTS _

Democrat Jittery  Wants A New Law   Rep. Dingell Of Michigan Would Outlaw Separate Ballot For Electors

MICHIGAN CONGRESSMAN PLANS FIGHT TO OUTLAW SEPARATION OF BALLOTS

WALTERS NAMEL OPA LEADER   Succeeds Adams in ‘ Des Moines District

LEONARD HANDS OLIVE BRANCH TO GUERRILLAS   Tells Them They Can Continue If They So  Desire   WOULD BE ‘ON OWN   Says Berrien County’s CD To Be Reorganized Shortly

Guerrilla’s Get OCD Chief's OK   Never Ordered Them To Disband—Leonard

Yugoslavs Hold Strategic Area   Allied Air Force Aids Tito’s Army

SERBS HOLD FIRM BEFORE NAZI BLOWS   Rommel Fails To Claim Any Victory

IN SECTOR INDICATED   Eighth Army, Whose Location Is Unknown, May Be Set for Showdown.

PROBE AXIS LINES IN TUNISIA   Signs of Imminent Big-Scale Battle Are Evident

Badoglio Seems Determined To Keep on Fighting   New italian Leader Be lieved Opposed to Peace Terms

Badoglio Rule ls Tightened   Dictator’s Course Strays From Peace

New Dictatorship Is Tightened In Italy   Badoglio Apparently Leading People Farther From Peace; Military Zones Set Up In  Narthern Provinces

Sicily Blows Ease Off As Drive Shifts   Aerial] Pincers Swigg Back To Germany, RAF Making 116th Raid On Rhineland Industrial Capital

NEW-BLINDED TOBE EDUCATEL   Sightless Instructors Wil Teach: Others How to Live

BYERS NAMED IN CAUCUS 10 HEAD SENATE   Burma, of Allison, Selected Speaker of House After First Ballot,   5OTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL CONVENE MONDAY

lowa General Assembly  Will Convene Monday   Byers Named President Pro-tem of Senate at  GOP Caucus

‘WHAT IF YOU CAN’T MAKE FIRST PAYMENT ON YOUR. INCOME TAX? GOVERNMENT HAS IT FIGURED oT

U. S. HAS 4 FULL-RANK GENERALS   Editors Voice Fears _ Of Controlled Press

OPA WILL FIX WHEAT PRICES   Capitulates To Congress In Row Over Consideration Of Benefit Payments Ry PHILLIPS YF PECK

OPATO CONTROL PRICE OF WHEAT   Yields to Congress, Plans Ceiling Higher Than Parity

BROTHER, EASE UP ON THAT AUTOHORN   Needless Honking, on Increase Here, Adds to   Nerve Strain   A WRECKER OF SLEEP

BROTHER, EASE UP ON THAT AUTOHORN   Needless Honking, on Increase Here, Adds to Nerve Strain

LOCAL FLYING CADET KILLED   Ralph L. DePauw Victim As 2 Planes Collide

USSR. Force Pours Across Manych-River   Feverish German Efforts To Check Closing Of Rostoy Vise Fail   RAIL POINTS TAKEN   Reds In Ukraine Push West To Capture Center Southeast Of Kharkov

Russians Smash Whole German Lone of Defense   Nazi Line Collapses Under Terrific Red Onslaught

Reds Spring Trap On Nazis At Kiev   Major German Army May Be Taken

RUSSIANS CUT NAZI CRIMEAN ESCAPE PATH   Reds Blast Into Smolensk Zone to Outflank Ger man Central Anchor.   An Amazing List of Triumphs by Soviet

Soviet Units Storm Ahead From Velizh   Blast Into Smolensk Defense Zone — Cut Vital Southern Road

The W-r Today— Chinese Sense Of Humor Cited As One Reason Japs Can't Lick Them

CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR Adversity Can’t Dampen Spirits

'CHINA’S WARTIME CAPITAL OF CHUNGKING IS ONE OF HIGHEST PRICED CITIES OF THE WORLD

The War Today  CHINA CAPITAL ~ EXPENSIVE GIT      War Commentator Finds It . One of World’s Highesig: Priced Towns

The War Today Writer Finds Chungking Folk Cheerful in Spite of War

SENATOR SAYS ARMY HAS BIG  TRAINED FORCE   States There Is Sufficient Uniformed Manpower to Preclude Necessity Father-Draft

Senate Debates ‘Fathers Draft   Army Is Large Enough, Sen. Johnson Says

Sen. Johnson Fights Father Draft Proposal   Over 3,500,000 Men In Army With Year's Experience He Declares  ape at © 8 oe ee

Says Fathers Not Needed In War Draft   Johnson States Force Sufficient

DECLARES ARMY NEEDS NO MEN   Senator Johnson Says Figures Show There Is No  Necessity For Drafting Hath awe

Cost Rollback Will Include Coffee Next   Packers “Unalterably’ Opposed to Meat Price Subsidy

RETAIL COST OF MEAT SOON WILL BE LOWER   Butter Price Also Will Be Reduced Through Subsidy Payments By Government

Meat, Butter. — Will Cost Les:   Government “Subsidy  Planned By OPA

Price Rollbacks Effective Soon  Coffee To Be Included Eventually

NEW ROLLBACK PLAN ANNOUNCED BY OPA   $400,000,000 Subsidy Program Destined to Drop Prices on Meats, Butter

“Mann Rules           ¢ Seer et W eapon, Capable 0 of  Any Enemy. Tank, Army Chief S Says

Deadly “Bazooka,” New U.S. Secret Weapon, is Nemesis to Tanks, Claim]

Deadly “Bazooka,” New Secret Weapon, * ..Can Destroy Any. Enemy Tank In Battle

Hourly Readings   March Calendar   » Powerful Secret Gun Revealed: New U. S. Explosive Outdoes TNT

THROAT CULTURES TAKEN IN SCHOOL   Board of Health Official _ Make Search for Diph-   theria Carrier

THROAT CULTURES TAKEN IN SCHOOL   Board of Health Officials Make Search for Diph theria Carrier      IN PREVENTIVE MOVE

Batter Nazi Aircraft Mfg. City    COLOGNE AND FRANKFURT At VICTIMS OF LIGHTER ALLIED” RAIDS LAST NIGHT sf

Kassel Left Fiery RuinIn ‘Heavy’ Raid   RAF Delivers 2,000 Tons Of Bombs To German Aircraft And Arms Center; Blow Costs 44 Planes

KASSEL'S PLANE, “ENGINE PLANTS HIT BY 2000 TONS   Smaller Ralding Fleets Bat: ter Cologne and: Frankfurt: Losses. 44,

GERMAN A...CRAFT CENTER OF KASSEL SMASHED BY RAR   2,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped — Cologne,’ ’ Frankfurt Also - Targets °°’

44 Bombers Lost Uuring  Heavy Attack   Cologne and Frankfurt; Hammered by Smaller Fleets wd   LARGE FIRES SEEN:   Churchill Watches as Guns Drive Raiders  From London

Kassel Left In Shambles By Bombers   RAF Raiders Blast Arms, Aircraft: City; 4.4. Huge Planes. Lost

Kassel Bombed With Loss Of 44 Planes —  - 2000 Tons of Blockbusters Hit Arms City

British Bombers Batter Kassel in 2000-Ton Smash   By WILLLAM B. DICKINSON

RAF Drops 2000 Tons On Kassel   44 Bombers Lost In Attack on Industrial Center

Fights Flare In Both North, South   Mop-Up of Attu Goes On; Enemy Toll Is More Than 1,800

Helicopter fo Touch Ardmore   This City on Route From Oklahoma City To Houston, Texas

16-6 Vote Puts Levy Over, With  Emergency Clause   Amended to Provide All Revenue Goes  To Old Age Benefit -ABOR FIGHT DUE  Sponsors Insist on Bringing Measures Out of Committee

PUPILS BUY $1318 MORE WAR BONDS   Pierce School ‘And 7th Grade Led ‘This Week

Capper Hits Subsidies.   Says We Should Pay Food Cost Now; Not In Taxes Later On

Duce Reshuffles — Party Leadership  ‘Changes Made Following Meet With Hitler

DUCE JUCCLES FASCIST SETUP   Mussolini Replaces Secretary Of Party in Shakeup Dianmmead Week Aco

FASCIST PARTY IS RESHUFFLED   Mussolini Orders Purge After Conference With Hitler

TRIBUTES ARE PAIDTODAY = JO CIVIL WAR PRESIDENT   ANNIVERSARY OF ABRAHAM : LINCOLN'S BIRTH OBBERVED WITH CEREMONIES — AT HIS TOMB :

Pilgrims Journey To Lincoln’s Tomb   Secretary Knox and Sir! Owen Dixon To Speak in Springheld Tonight.

Shipworkers Pray As They Carry on   Kaiser Provides Church Services

American Bombers Attack Rotterdam  One Plane. Missing In Yanks’ Raid

Salesman Ends Life after Four Others Are Slain   Five Tragic Deaths In Philadelphia

TESTIFIES GAS. ~ USED BY NAZIS   GERMAN SOLDIER TELLS RUSSIAN COURT “UNSAFE”. PERSONS KILLED BY GAS IN TRUCKS

FIGHT GERMANS, ITALIANS URGED   Premier Badoglio Calls Upon People To Take Up Arms Again

Badoglio Orders War On Germans   Ringing Plea Cites It As Italy’s Duty  Re NOY ANKR NORCA ARTY

Badoglio Calls ltaly to Arms   Plea Hints Nation May Become Ally

BADOGLIG 15 URGING ITALY 10 GUST NAZIS   -alls Upon His Countrymen to Use Guerrilla Warfare if Necessary to Expel Germans from Italy.   Puppet State

BADQGLIO PLEADS FOR WAR ON NAZIS   Italians Urged by Premier to Expel the Germans

ASKS ITALIANS TO AID ALLIES IN EVERY WAY   Advised To Resort To Sabotage, Guerrilla Warfare To Clear Homeland Soil

Badoglio Calls On Italians To Fight Nazis   Proclaims Duty To War to End Alongside Allies

Badoglio Orders War On Germans   Ringing Plea Cites It As Italy’s Duty

Declaration of Hostilities  Badoglio Calls Upon Italians To Take Up Arms Against Nazis

First Indication Htalians May Be Accepted as Allies Of America and Britain

New Tax Bill Moving Near Final Action   Federal Income Tax On Pay-As-You-Earn Basis Into Effect Soor

Machinery Set In Motion For Final Congressional Approval Of Tax Bill

SENATE TAKING UP PAY-Gi0 INCOME TAX BILL WEDNESDAY  CONGRESSIONAL LEADER‘ CONFIDENT PRESIDENT WILL NOT VETO MEASURI

SENATE READY TO PASS INCOME TAX MEASURE   Cliff Clevenger Votes for Pay: as-You-Go Collection Plan

CERTAINTY OF DEATH, TAXES   Senate Sets Machinery in Motion for Final Action

SENATE READY TO APPROVE TAX MEASURE   Solons Feel FDR Will Pay-As-Go

Senate Gets Set to Voteon  Pay-Go, Tax   Leaders Confident President Will-Let Bill Become Law

Senate Approva Of Pay Go Seen   Average Taxpayer Won't Be Affected Much By Abatement

PAY-AS-YOU-G0. PLAN APPROVAL NTR INSENATE   Congressional Leaders Are Confident Compromise Measure Will Soon Be In Effect   “TO PAY JUNE 15   Payroll Deductions Will  — Take 20 Percent From —  - Taxable Portion.of Salary Checks

NTOOPERATION   “ndorsement Of Roose vel Reported Certain; First * Deductions July 1

SENATE OE FOR FINAL 0.K. OF PAY-GO TAX  Maghineyy In Motion For Approval Of Ponpion omise  ‘Ewa ee      ALL TAXPAYERS   Affected If President Roosevelt Signs Rill

Roosevelt Ready To Sign Bill  On Pay-Go Taxes  Senate Maps OK  oi Compromise Plan for Levies  )

FINAL APPROVAL NEAR FOR INCOME TAX LEGISLATION   Leaders Are Confident That Once Legislative Formalities Are Completed President Roosevelt Will Sign the Bill Or At Least Let It  Become Law.

HOLD 100-MILE COAST STRIP T0 15-MILE DEPTH   Casualties Still Light As Bitter Tank Battles Slow Advance At Scme Points

CLOSE QUARTER FIGHTING MARKS SICILY INVASION   Paratroops of U.S., Britain Attained Important Objectives in Bloody Combat

IF riendly Sicilians Aid Forces  Invading Isle; Italian Coun =   -terblows Repulsed

CIGARETS NEXT?   Public Warned Tobacco Likely To Be Rationed This Year.

JAPS LOSE 23 PLANES IN NEW AIR OFFENSIVE   Six Others Destroyed Or Dam_ aged'In Battles Over New Ireland Base   ORO BAY IS ATTACKED   Single Fortress Comes Out Victor In Assault By 10 Nio Fighters

IAPANESE LOSE 29 AIRPLANES IN DAN   Reds Break Lull tn Fighting Near Kharkov, Seized Number of Nazi Trenches,

American Fliers Shoot Down 25 Japs In Bath   Score Most Spectacular Victory In Two Months Over Jap Air Force   ~¥YOTAL FOR DAY INCREASED TO 2¢

TIME. CONFUSION SPREADS IN OHIO   Reaction Throughout State Surprises Legislators

17 WARSHIPS FROM ITALY REACH MALTA   30 Vessels Of Italy Navy Have Escaped Nazis

Total Of 30 Warships In Allied Hands   “Four: Battleships: Give: “Complete Ciiitrol - Of Mediterranean ©

Five Battleships in Allied Or Neutral Ports; Cruisers And Destroyers Arrive

MAIN PORTION OF ENEMY SEA POWER ESCAPES GERMANS   Four Battlewagons, Heavy Cruiser Included—Others gre At Gibraltar.

SEIZURE REMOVES LAST AXIS THREAT -IN MEDITERRANEAN   Germans Throwing Full Strength Into Counter Attacks To Check Allied -Drive On Naples— 8th Army Moves Ahead _

4TH TERM QUESTION IRRITATES ROOSEVELT   Executive Goes Into Allegorical Discussion As Ta Why New Deal Label Should Be Dropped

FATHERS NEXT.   Induction Seen In Lengthening of Purlough Period.

FATHERS NEXT.   ; we I Induction, Seen In Lengthening of Furlough Period. 

Quintuplets GoBack Home   Return To Callander After Visit To Superior, Wis., On Sunday

Officials Reveal ’Chutists Hit Sicily in Advance   Glider Forces Helped   To Pave Way for  Greatest Operation

Airborne Troops Land in Sicily Before Invasion   Move Swiftly To Consolidate Positions behind Enemy's Beach Defenses

First Invasion Units Flown Into Sicily   Paratroopers Seize Positions With ‘Negligible Losses’

Film, Factory Magnates Lead U. S. Salary List; Ginger Rogers Top Star

State Trying To Collect On WPA Contract   Bill Offered By Sen. Davis Claims Government Owes $5,923,126   CONSIDERED BY HOUSE

TATE AKG WPA. TO PAY ON PROJECTS   Senator Davis Asks Senate to Give State Right to Present Claim.   10 MILLION P PLEDGED, ONLY $4,076,873 PAID   Government  Contends State Got All It Was Entitled To. °

Roosevelt Sends: Seven-Point Plan, Swiss Radio Says   Premier Marshal Badoglio Continues Silent Defiance Of Allied Warnings Of Invasion

IANS OIL FIELD BURNIN   German Radio Says Roosevelt Has Made Seven  Point Proposal

Roosevelt Peace Terms Reported   Seven-Peint Program Listed by German Dispetch From Italy

Hear 7-Point Armistice Proposal Is Given Italy   Berlin Broadcasts Geneva Dispatch Saying Terms Were Given By Roosevelt

Report 7-Point Armistice Plan Advanced By ED   Declare Anglo- American Soviet - Military Govt. “Would Be Established

AXIS REPORTS F.D.R. OFFER OF ARMISTICE   Account From  Geneya Says 7-Point Proposal Is Given to Italy—Wash ington Has No Com. ment on Rumor.

Axis Claims President Roosevelt Offered New Peace lerms Io Italy

HAS NO CONFIRMATION FROM ALLIED. SqUReES:       Bacoglio Continues. Silent Defiance‘ of ‘Allied. Bomb, Invasion Warnines

Nazi Sources Say F. R. Demands That Italy Cease Fight, Stop  Helping Germanv

Italians Gather. Strength To Aid Invading Allies   rted To Include Withdrawal Of Sresiy Fook Balkan Nations; Peace Rumors Persist

Armistice - Proposal Reported   Seven-Point Plan Offered ‘Italy by Roosevelt, the German News Agency Says   ‘NO COMMENT BY U & AUTHORITIES   Meanwhile, — Anti - Fascist oF orces Inside Ttaly Are Reported Gathering Strength

FDR REPORTED TO HAVE ADVANCED — PEACE TERMS   Program Credited to U. S. Official Said to Re In Italian Hande

An Armistice Plan Proposed For the Italians   Broadcast From Geneva Says Proposal Is Made  by Pres. Roosevelt.   Would Cause Release Of Allied Prisoners

Geneva Dispatch Says Three-Power Military, Government Would Be Set Up In Italy  Unti! End Of Operations; Must. Aennet All Wae Cetminale.   Calls For War Prisoner Release

Italian Leftist ‘Peace March’ Against Rome Said Looming   Washington Mum on DNB Report of Peace Proposal

F.D.R. Offers Armistice, Italian Newspaper Says President Presents Seven- -Point  Denn acwn Fats Geta a

Seven-Point FDR ‘Offer’ Is Rumored   Axis Accounts of Overture to Italy Is Not Confirmed

DNB REPORT 0 T- POINT PEACE NOT CONFIRMED   Proposal Said To Have Been Given By Roosevelt

1-Point Armistice Proposal Reported Advanced to Italy  Allied Landing   Allied Landing On Mainland Shores Thought Nearina .

Geneva Reports President Advances 7-Point Program for Italian Armistice

REPORT F. 0. R. HAS PROFFERED TERMS 10 ITALY   Seven-Point Armistice Said By Geneva To Have Been Sent To Rome By Roosevelt; Badoglio Silent.

\SEVEN - POINT ARMISTICE DEMAND REPORTED SENT TO ITALY BY ROOSEVELT

1-POINT PLAK BY ROOSEVI ISREPOR   Broadcast Of Geneva ste: “te  patch Is U nconfirm( can  By Allies   PROPOSAL OUTLINE”

OFFER TO ITALIANS   German Radio Says Roosevelt Has Made Seven Point Proposal

U. 5. PRESIDENT  REPORTED TO HAVE  OFFERED ARMISTICE SEVEN-POINT PROPOSAL  MADE TO ITALY AXIS ACCOUNT SAYS

PEACE PROPOSAL MADE BY FDR, ENEMY DECLARES   WASHINGTON MUM ON AXIS CLAIM OF PLAN TO END WAR

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ARE TERMS OF PACT   Tops Eisenhower's Plan, Offer Recorded by The Associated Press

Armistice Proposal Reported: Landing On Italy Is Hinted   Italians Feel No Bitterness To Allies; Badoglio Government May Collapse

Roosevelt Peace Offer Reported By GermanRadio   Axis. Account. Says: Seven-Point Plan For Italy Includes Setting Up of Analo-U. S.-Soviet Military Government!

New Armistice Plan Reported Made fo Italy   Axis Declares Roosevelt has Advanced Terms

Present F.D.R.  italian Peace   Axis Says Seven-Point Program Issued By President; Badolgio Silent.

Rumored FDR Offers Terms   Reported Proposals to Italy Stiffer Than Early One

A Geneva Dispatch Says President Roosevelt Had Declared a Seven  Point Armistice Proposal for Italy

1-POINT AGENDA FOR ARMISTICE CLAIMED GIVEN   Calls For End of Resist ance of Army and Navy and Cessation Collaboration With Berlin   SURRENDER ALL WAR MATERIAL DEMANDED   Italian Troops In Balkans Must Be Withdrawn and War Criminals Arrested Under Terms

AXIS TELL 7 POINT OFFER OF FR. TONTALY   Armistice Proposal From Rome Paper Is Broadcast by Nazis

GENEVA SAYS ITALY GIVEN NEW CHANCE   Terms Of Alleged Proposal Stiffer Than Eisenhower Offer: Silence Is Maintained By Badoglio

Republicans’ Foreign Policy Argument Flares Into Open   Warm Remarks

GOP ROWS OVER FOREIGN POLICY   POSTWAR PROBLEMS RAISE FIERY ISSUE IN PARTY COUNCILS

.0.P. FIGHT ON FOREIGN POLICY IS MADE PUBLIC   Internal ,.Ruckus Brings Denials Of ., Party Sylit

POST-WAR POLICIES STIRS REPUBLICANS   Internal Friction over Scope of Foreign Action Is Denied by Group

POSTWAR PLAN CAUSES FIGHT   Republicans May Split Over Scope of Foreign Policy “For 19440 ---

Farm Bloc’ Fighting RearGuard: Action. tox Save Bankhead. Bill: “Army Bars Service’ Men from PERL A Office .

SUDDEN DEFEAT FOR FARM BLOC STIRS CAPITAL   Meanwhile, Study Given World Stabilization Fund Plan by Congressmen   POST-WAR ISSUES GROW   Army Ban on Servicemen in Political Office Sets Off New Controversies

co age Faces Three-Front ar Agency Financing ‘jczht and More ManpowProblems; Farm Bloc * ois Rear Guard Action  Td‘Save Bankhead Bill AF rom Annihilation.

UNCLE SAM HAS 2 BILLIONS FOR STABILIZATION   Capitol Confronted With Ticklish Problem of Buffer States

Man to Man Fighting Marked Yanks’ Guadalcanal Victory   Powerful Artillery Used In Sealing Fate of Japanese _ On Solomons Island Area, Major General Alex ander M. Patch, Jt., Reveals; Close Con tact Necessary to Reach Objective

MAN TO MAN FIGHTING   U.S. General Telia of Driving the Japs Out of Guadalcanal.

‘Double Holiday Is Just a memory  In America today   War Workers Intend   To Stay on Job;  Capitol Will Open

WORK GOES ON OVER HOLIDAY   No Extra Days Off For War Plants This Fourth Of July

WAR PLANTS IN  NATION 70 KEBE GOIN’ OVER 4TH   Peacetime Practice of Tak. ing Extra Day Lost in Dust of America’s High speed Production   ROOSEVELT AT DESK   Congress to Continue Ac. tivities: Banks, Stores and Other Establishments Close

War Plants to Get No Holiday   President Roosevelt And Congress to Continue at Work

WH FIGHI   Allies Expect Hard Battle Despite Propaganda   ITALIAN RADIO SAYS ITALY NEEDS EMPIRE

WARNS AGAINST EASY BATTLE   Opinion is That It will Require Methodical Hard Fightlng to Subdue Italy. —

Invasion Of Italy No Pushover For Allies Is  Belief Held In London

Lasting Accord With Russia Seen by Eden   Critics of Britain’s Dealings With Soviet Rebuked by Secretary

LASTING ACCORD IS EDEN’S HOPE   SAYS “WAR WILL NOT HAVE BEEN IN VAIN” IF AGREEMENT IS REACHED.

Hope Offered For Accord With Russia  eS eo ee   Anthony Eden Raps Tone of Soviet Weitings, However

CHARLIE PLUNIMIER HEADS THE LEGION   Resolution Asks Respect For National Anthem At Concerts

Name Plummer Commander of Wasmer Post   Legionaires Urge  Proper Respect For National Anthem .

CHARLIE PLUMMER HEADS THE LEGION   Resolution .. Asks aoe For: National Anthem  ‘At. Concerts

tod PLANED SEEN FOR FUTURE   Isolation Will Be Impossible In Post War Era, Official Says

SENEGALESE SAIL FOR NORTH AFRICA   Red-fezzed Colonials Take - With Them Bitter Hatred  of Enemy.

SENEGALESE ARMY ~ SENT 10 MOROCCO   Red-Fezzed French Colonial Soldiers Hate Enemy Bitterly.

FDR ANNOUNCES COUNCIL ENDED   Complete Agreement on  Plans Reported

F. R. Labels War Canfab a Success   ALLY TALKS SEEN AS “IN COMPLETE ACCORD ON FUTURE OPERATIONS”

Allied War Conference Is Ended   No Tip As To Future Plans in Brief Statement By FDR; in Full Agreement on Strateg,

U.S. CASUALTIES LIGHT ON ATTU SAYS STIMSON   INDICATES JAPAN’S ALEUTIAN LOSSES HAVE BEEN HEAVIER

President and  Churchill Part   Roosevelt Announces Com‘plete Agreement on Future Operations in War Theaters

RAF Batters Akyab Again   British Launch Series Of Attack In Burma

JAP PAPER IN U. S. CONDEMNS ATROCITY   Jap-Americans Pledged to Victory Over Japan

WHITE HORSE TROUPE, BABY SHOW TONIGHT   Youth Reigns at Open. ing: Racine, Horse Show Start Tuesday

UKRAINE DRIVE CARRIES REDS NEAR CAPITAL   Moscow Claims 900,000 Germans Killed During Four Months

Sweeping Gains By Russians {n Ukraine Sector   Soviet High Command Re. ports 5,000 Germans Slain In 24 Hours   HUGE LOSSES OF NAZIS ARE CITED

Third Russian Drive Posing Fresh Threat   Manganese Center of Nikepol Menaced as New Offensive Opens

Nikopol Is Threatened By Soviets   Germans Retreat  Before Bio Push

CTheDAILY a Sea Bu. WASHINGTON MERRY - GO: ROUND 2,      ey DREW PEARSON

Girls Will Live In Frat Houses, Starting Monday   And Why Not? Gobs Have Taken Over Andrews

Germans Flee Kharkov;Reds Storm Streets   Panic Threatens As Traf fic Jam Slows Evacua tion Of Enemy Troops   NEW OFFENSIVE   2,000 Foe Killed As Third Soviet Thrust Captures Spas Demensk Base

Ring Being Tightened By Soviet Force   Other Russian Troops Pressing On Toward Bryansk; Bombs Hit Nazi Communications

Nazis Flee Fron Bastion   SOVIETS BLAST HOLES IN GERMAN LINES AROUND BRYANSK AREA

Soviet Army Threatens a “Stalingrad Trap" at Nazi Base of Kharkov

Battle Rages In Streets. of Ukraine City   New Thrust Now Menace To Smolensk and Bryansk

Nazis Flee Kharkov  Doom   RUSS BLAST TRUNK RAIL LINE; ONLY ONE AVENUE LEFT OPEN TO AXIS

AN OVATION WAITS NOTED OPERA STAR   Concert by Marie Wilkins to Be Big Local Music  Event}   TO TOP IN NEW YORK

AN OVATION WAITS NOTED OPERA STAR   Concert by Marie Wilkins to Be Big Local Music  Event.

Yanks Close In on Japs At Rabaul   Two Airdromes Fall After Five Days — Of Jungle Fighting

AMERICAN FORCES CLOSE IN ON JAP BASE AT RABAUL   Marines Killed More Than 750 Nipponese on  Cana Gloucecter

Allied Air Forces Join In Heavy Attacks Gn Fleeing Foe: Three Anchors Of Line Fall To British   Fighth Army's Flanking Force Occupies EI Hamma; U.S. Troops Continue To Make Progress; 6(00 Axis Prisoners Taken

Axis Defense  Cracks Upon 25-Mile Front   Race For Gabes Begins With Enemy Withdrawal

2O-MILE HOLE IS OPENED BY MONTGOMERY   U, S. Troops Make Progress in Difficult Country East of E Guetar

8th Army Rips Out 25-Mile Hole in Forts   British Drop 900 Tons: “of Bombs on Beflin in -Heaviest Raid of War

AFRIKA KORPS ROUTED, FLEES TOWARD NORTH   British Forces Crack Fortifle cations, Advance On Gabes Supply Base   BLAST ESCAPE CORRIDOR   American Troops In Strategic Positions Along Routes To Bizerte

80,000 Axis Troops In Retreat, Face Entrapment   By Allied Spearheads   Virtually Entire 40-Mile Defense Line Swept Away      Major Axis Disaster Looms as Americans’ French, British Close in on Retreat Route Toward The Seq.

komme! in Race to Dodge Allied Noose  3 South Tunisia Towns Tan ae Mag: Tanaday   TAKE 6,000 CAPTIVE   Patton’s Men Poised for Thunderbolt Attack From Central Hills

Fall of Major Defense Centers Is Severe Loss to Nozi Leader; Heavy Losses Inflicted on Germans

Opposing Forces In Race To Secure Gabes Coastal Base   Fall Of Three Vital Towns Indicate 40-Mile Line Of French-Built Fortifications Are Swept Awav

Montgomery's Infantry Mops Up Scattered Axis Pockets Of Resistance

Allied Spearheads Jab Into Shrinking Coastal Corridor Occupying Three Vital Towns

‘Western Air - War Flares After Lull   Allies Ring Axis Force as RAF Bombers Smash Sub Bases

Allied Units Set To Spring Trap Along Narrow Corridor, Capture 6,000 Prisoners

Rommel’s Defenses Crumble Under Blows Of British 8th Army   Americans And. British First Army Poised -For Final Knockout As Fleeting Axis Forces: * Attempt To Escape Annihilation

‘LINE BREAKS IN THREE ‘PLACES   Americans Advance East Of El-Guetar And Ddijebel-Aboid

»nnel Is Forced To Retreat To Avoid Trap set in Rear Of Lines From El Hamma, El (uetar, Maknassy and Fondouk By American And British Troops

Rommel's Troops Flee  North Under Pounding By Air, Ground Forces

GERMANS, ITALTANS WITHDRAWING FROM  FORTIFIED SECTOR   RACE APPEARS UNDER WAY FOR GABES AFTER MARETH LINE BROKEN

British Eighth Breaks Through Mareth Line on 25-Mile Front   Race Underway for Gabes Where Germans Reported ta be Plowing up Airfields

Rommel’s Forces  Move Northward   Towns Of Mareth, Matmata And Toujane Fell Before British Eighth Army; More Than 6,000 Axis Prisoners Taken In Fierce Fighting

Rommel On Run, Losing Hea avily   British Eighth Army In Pursuit And Reported Taking Heavy Toll Of Enemy; Victory Believed Nearine Decisive Stace.   YANKS ALSO MAKE GAINS   Ry FDWARD KENNEDY

British Pour Through 25 Mile Gap; Flankers Reach £1 Hamma; Vanks Closins Bottleneck

Axis Troops In Southern Tunisia Flee   Headed Northward for Gabes; Line Breaks On 25-Mile Front

Escape Corridor Reduced To’Slender Strip Of Land   Allies Have Heavy Superiority In Air And ‘With Tanks; Many Prisoners Taken  en SE er   ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN ON GABES   Airfields At Gabes Being Plowed Up Today; All Major Mareth Line Forts Captured

Allied Aerial Squadrons Join Ground Forces in Powerful Attacks:to Break Axis Defenses on 25-Mile Long Front   6,000 AXIS TROOPS CAPTURED   -attons U.S. Troops Push Toward Coast to Blast Retreating Axis from NewlyCaptured Fondouk, Maknassy

ENEMY FLEEING NORTHWARD T0 ESCAPE PINCER   Line Broken At Three - Points Along 25-Mile Front; British Within 30 Miles Gabes  1   MARETH, MATMATA, TOUJANE CAPTURED   Meanwhile, Yanks Progress Toward Axis Escape Corridor Across Gabes Plain

Eighth Army Has Broken Through On 25-Mile Front   Montgomery’s Forces Race Rommel for Control of Gabes

ROMMEL'S ARMY IN WILD DASH TO ESCAPE TRAP   Yanks Surge on Toward Coast To Cut Off Retreat Of 80,000-man Army   NAZIS WRECK AIR FIELDS   Red Army Sloshes Through Mud and Blood in Drive To Retake Smolensk

‘lanking Force Captures El Hamma, ‘Now Only 15 Miles from Gabes. on Coast; Americans Push 25. Miles, ‘Take Fondouk, Now 28 Miles from Coast; Move Toward Sousse; Russians Advance i in Drive on Sasol  ~ Hold Well in South.: :

Yanks Menace Retreat   French, British and: American Forces Set To Cut: Off Escape to Northern Tunisia :

Rommel's Fore Retreat Northward With Heavy Losses  Line Is Cracked. we On 25-Mile Front

British Offensive Cracks Enemy. Fortifications On 25-Mile Front, Reports Say   ‘Axis Forces Flee Northward; fe “6,000 Enemy Troops Captured ©  " Re Tanieiag Trap Tightens

Nazi Line Breaks On 25 Mile Front Before British   Escape Corridor Narrowed To 15 Miles: Patton Ready For Dash To Sea On Central Front

Nazis Flee Northward After Yielding 95-Mile Front to Eighth Army 

FORTS FALL TO) OTH ARMY IN ~TO-DAY ORWE   Rommel’s Forces Flee North to Escape: Yank. Trap Along Coast.   AMERICANS MOVING . ‘TO SHUT OFF RETREAT

Withdrawing Force as Mareth Line Collapses   Reported Axis Air Field Being Ployed Up At Gabes, Indicating Rommel to Abandon  Area; Smashing Allied Air Attacks.

Rommel Retreats to the North With Heavy Losses; 25-Mile Front Break Made   Axis Line Gives Way Before Joint Threat Of Frontal Offensive and of Flanking Drive to El Hamma--6,000 Axis Soldiers Have Been Taken Since Start of Drive

Western Air      Allies Ring Axis Force ad RAF Bombers Smash Sub Bases

Deep Fortifications  Collapse Along 25 Mi. Front; Nazis Fall Back

‘Little Maginot?’ Defenses Cracked Along 25-Mile Front By British; Allied Planes Join Infantry In Strafing Fleeing Enemy.

Texans Convicted  Of Slavery Charge   Court Finds Farmer, Daughter Held Negro

LeMars People Badly Injured In Auto Crash    Mr. and Mrs. James Burns In Hospital At Carroll

New Tension  In Balkans   Political Unrest In Bulgaria Most Critical; Student Peace Riots

TENSION MOUNTS IN BALKAN ZONE   Situation in Bulgaria Critical; Student Riots in  Hauncary)

British Forces Make Swift New 40-Mile Advance   Attackers Reported Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli; Sweep Inland In New Move

—NORTH AFRICA—   Defenses Of Rommel At Buerat El Hsun Are Broken Down

IMPERIAL ARMY NOW WITHIN 400 WILES TRIPOLI   Gen. Montgomery's Thrust Apparently Designed to By-Pass Misurata Along African Coast   ROMMEL DEFENSES  AT BUERAT CRACKED   British In Contact With Retreating Axis Forces Between Beni Ulid and Tauorga

African Battle Nears Tripoli   BRITISH 8TH ARMY JIN NEW GAINS TODAY

Eighth Army Now Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli   Montgomery's Force: Take Straight Line Across ‘Hump’ In Tripolitania

MONTGOMERY'S TROOPS REACH BENI ULID AREA   Forces are Taking Straight Line Aéross Tripolitanian “Hump”

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY HEADING INTO TRIPOL!   Rommel’s Defense Cracked  and Gen. Montgomery Appears to Be Headed for  Afpvican Coast.

ROMMEL AND FORCES AGAIN RETREATING   Vanguard of British Forces In Contact With Eenemy In Vicinity of Beni Ulid   TO BY-PASS MISURTA

Montgomery Reports Advance of 80 Miles; Allies Continue Aerial Assault on Bases

EIGHTH ARMY PUSHES SWEEP ACROSS LIBYA   Rommel's Defense Lines Are Cracked At Buerat EI Hsun Position   'MAY BY-PASS MISURATA      Two Allied Forces Now Are Separated By Only About 400 Miles

BRITISH WITHIN 100 MILES OF CITY OF TRIPOL!   Montgomery’s Forces Apparently Are Cutting Direct Across “Hump”

Victorious British 8th Army Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli; . Misurata Believed Bypassed

MONTGOMERY'S FORGES DRIVING AGROSS LIBYA   Thrust By Eighth Army Apparently Designed To Bypass Misurata And Get To Tripoli By Short. est Possible Route.

Eighth Army Is 100 Miles From Tripoli   Montgomery Cracks Rommel'’s Defenses at Buerat el Hsun

BRITISH BLAST ROMMEL ANEW IN TRIPOLI PUSH  Pr ooee es oo eee es ee ee   ’ * se. SF = =  SWEEP OVER LIBYA ATTAINS POINT 100 MILES FROM GOAL

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CRACKS ROMMEL LINE AND SWEEPS ONWARD  INDICATED RACE ON FOR TRIPOLI BETWEEN MONT-

British Army Cracks Rommel’s Buerat Defense   Eighth Army Sweeps Across Lybia Within 100 Miles of Tripoli.   Germans Say Allies Suffer Heavy Losses

Montgomery ls 100 Miles From Tripoli   8th Army Drives Acros: Hump, Bypassing Misurata Coastal Area   GAINS EIGHTY MILES   Rommel's Line At Buerat El Hsun is Broken After Brief Clash

Rommel Defenses Reported Cracking As Troops Speed  Up Libyan Pursuit

TEMPERATURES:   ith Army Drives Within Hundred Miles Of Tripol   Allied Planes “Continue To Batter Retreating Axis Forces

MOVETO CUT OFF ROMMEL   British 8th Army Cracking “Fox’s” Lines, Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli

BRITISH ARMY NEARS TRIPOL!   Rommel’ s Defenses Broken  Again by Attackers

UNITS IN AFRICA ADVANCE 80 MILES   lied Air Forces Press Con tinuous Offensive Over

K ROME DEFENSE LINE IN LIBYA   ‘ Pian To By-Pass Misurata In Drive To Capital   400 MILES   Separate Eighth Army From Allies In Tunisia; Air Forces In Action

Push Within 9() Miles of Tripoli   Doolittle’s Men Pound at Tunis Line of Supply

British Make Beeline For Tripoli Battle   8th Army Cracks Rommel’s Defenses At One Point, 100 Miles From Capital

BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUE GAINS   Montgomery’s Army Only 100 Miles From Tripoli; Rommel Is Running

ROMMEL'S DEFENSES AGAIN ARE GRACKEL   British 8th Army Now Only 400 Miles From Tripoli

British Advance 80 Miles West   Cut Straight Across “Hump” In New Offensive

Reported Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli After Cracking Rommel Defenses At Buerat

Both Sides Claim Damage Infticted On Supply Systems   (Additlonal story of chase after Rommel on Page’).

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CRACKS ROMMEL LINE AND SWEEPS ONWARD  INDICATED RACE ON FOR TRIPOLI BETWEEN MONT GOMERY AND ROMMEL

ARE REPORTED ON SHORTEST PATH T0 GOAL      Sweep 80 Miles Acros: Libya After Cracking Rommel’s Latest Defenses, Contacting Enemy During Night.

ALLIES WITHIN 100 MILES OF TRIPOLI   Rommel Evades Decisive Action. i Continues Retreat (

British Army Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli   General Montgomery's Forces Sweep On Towards Rommel’s Goal, Contact Enemy After Advancing 80 Miles

NATION'S MOST — EXPENSIVE YEAR IN HISTORY ENDS   Tonight Marks Deadline On Fiscal Period. Both Houses Attempting To Rush Appropriations Bills Through.

NATION'S MEAT MARTS RUSHED   Many. Reconciled to ‘Having Frankfurters, Pigs  . te rere -_       MANY STORES CLOSE   Against Background. of Persons -Seeking Sunday Sustenance Is Minority of Hoarders.

Meat Markets of  Nation Stripped  In Buying Rush Many to Have  Meatless Sunday. Shops Close

Crowds Storm Meat Markets   Many Reconciled to Frankfurters, Pigs Feet or Macaroni

MEAT HUNTERS STORM NATION’S FOOD STORES; MARKETS ARE STRIPPED   Thousands Join Rush n Frenzied Search For. Sunday’s Main Dish; Nationwide Meat Rationing Will Begin On Monday

Buyers Stage Rush For Sunday Meat  Paint Ratianing Set ics nk <i ST A 5c

Women Faint In MadRushforMeat   Last Day of Non-Rationed Meat Finds Stores Cleaned by Housewives; Some Meat Hoarding Reported

WLB Approves Ickes-Lewis Pay Scale....  Long And Bitter Fight Over Coal Miners’ Pay Apparently Near Close

LONG AND BITTER COAL DISPUTE IS FINALLY SETTLED   UMW NODS ASSENT TO WAGE RAISE OF $1.50 A DAY

WLB Approves Conditionally Miner Contrac   Payment Of Peaceworkers Is Only Reservation; Morse Sole Dissenter

Dispute Over — Coal Wage Is At End Today   War Labor Board Gives Conditional Approval! To Pay Scale Plan’ Of Ickes And Lewis

Long Strugele On Coal Is Ended   WLB APPROVED MINER _ WAGE: AGREEMENT _ TODAY 

“WLB Ballot Of11:1Ends Coal Crisis   Ickes-Lewis Accord Approved With One Major Reservation

Coal Miners’ Wage Dispute Finally Ends   WLE Provisionally Approves Agreement of Ickes and Lewis

COAL MINERS’ PAY INCREASE   Piecework Pay Is Only Formula Undecided

W. LB. APPROVES [UKE - LEWIS PAY PLAN FOR MINERS   Nods Assent To United Mine Workers; Anthracite Mine Provisions Approved; Grant 70 Cents More A Day. 4+ @y

Coal Dispute Virtually Ended   WLB Votes 11-1] To O. K. Settlement

LB Approves New Pay Scale ‘OF Coal Miners   Soft Coal Miners + To Get About $2 A,Day More; Coal

Bitter Fight Over Miners Wages Near End   WLB Conditionally Approves Lewis-Ickes Pay Scale Plan Today

WAY PAVED FOR PEACEIN MINE FIELDS OF U.S   WLB Approves Contrac Granting Workers Up to Possibly $2 Daiiy Increase in Wages

WLB Approval Is With Conditions   Slight Changes in Coal Set tlement Agreed to By  Lewis   (ONE DISSENTING VOTE   Public Member of Board Protests Capitulation  Under Threat

WLB Puts Okay On Mine Wages Coal Production Soon Ta Be In Full Swing

Mine Wage Battle Appears To Be Over   Labor Board and UMW Approves Pay Scale and Conditions Drawn Up by Ickes and Lewis Which Provide More Money for More Work—Pu blic Member Only Dissenter

SEVEN MONTHS COAL DISPUTE ENDED BY WLB   Board Approves Contrac: Negotiated by Ickes and Lewis, UMW Signifies Acceptance   BOARD VOTE ILI

Coal Mines at Peace, With  Pay Increased  Final Approval Of Terms By WLB Received

WLB Approval Is With Conditions   Slight Changes in Coal Settlement — to By   ONE DISSENTING VOTE   Public Member of Board Protests Capitulation Under Threat

WAGE FIGHT HAS ENDED   Four Strikes Cost Nation 40,000,000 Tons Of flan!

Quiet Days Here   NuMine and Dutch  Run Only Two Mines Operating— Hope Full Return of Men Monday

‘Bitter Coal Wage Row Is Ended   WLB Approval of Pay Scale Plan Conditional, But Only Minor  - Points Unsettled

LONG MINE WAGE FIGHT SEEMS 10 HAVE BEEN ENDEL   WLB Gives Conditional Approval of Ickes-Lewis Pay Scale Plan, UMW Gives   Nod of Assent.   RESERVATION WILL BE SOLVED AT LATER DATE   Seven Months of Controversy, Four Strikes Cost This Nation 40 Million Tons of Fuel.

Approval Given: Of Coal Contract   Way Paved for Continued Peace In Mine Fields of the Country

Board Okeh To Send Miner: Back to Pits   Union Officials Promise Prompt Output of Coal-

WAGE FIGHT   War Labor Board Con' ditionally Approves Ickes-Lewis Pay Scale Plan

Coal Mine Trouble Ends   Conditional Approval of Ickes-Lewis Plan by WLB Clears Controversy

WLB APPROVES COAL MINERS’ PAY INCREASE   Formula for Paying Pieceworkers, However, Remains Unsettled

New Coal Contract Approved by Labor Board Vote of 11-1]   Action Paves Way foi Peace in Mine Fields of United States

Coal Plan Is O.K.'d By WLB   Public Member Is Only Dissenter— Long Fight Ended

WLB APPROVES MINE INCREASE   New Agreement Paves Way For Continued Peace  In Mine Fields

COAL MINER WAGE PROBLEM APPEARS VIRTUALLY ENDED   War Labor Board Conditionally Approves Ickes-Lewis Pay Scale Program—Piecework Question Is Sticker

Pay Boost for Miners ‘Approved   Long and Bitter Fight Over Wages Virtually Ended in Labor Board Vote   SOME ISSUES LEFT TO NEGOTIATION   Total Week’s Earnings Will Be Close to $57 Under New Acreement

WLB APPROVES WAGE PLAN FOR COAL DIGGERS   Union To Seek Peaceful Salary Scale for Pieceworkers

WLB Approves Coal Formule   Permanent Solution Of  Mine Problem Seen

LONG AND BITTER  COAL MINERS WAGE  DISPUTE SETTLED WAR LABOR BOARD IN  CONDITIONAL APPROVAL ICVEC TEWIC DIAN

SOLDIERS’ LOAN BILL PROPOSED   Seen Forerunner Of Measures For Broader Benefits

ANTI-LOAN SHARK BILL GETS SETBACK IN HOUSE TODAY   MEASURE FAILED TO PASS TO THIRD AND FINAL READING BY 52-60 VOTE

Says No Accord Can Be Reached During Walkout   Board Again Refers — ‘Case To President  __ For Appropriate Action

PACIFIC 1S SECONDARY IN WAR PLANS   Commentator Says Military Authorities Thinks. - Japs Still on Defensive,   WAR IN EUROPE “FIRST OBJECTIVE   Washington Strategists Differ Materially From General MacArthur.

WASHINGTON SCOFFS JAP. OFFENSIVE   Military Men Say They‘re Conducting ‘Aggressive Defense’

Military Authorities Believe Japs Will Not Attempt Invasion “Of Australia As They Have Passed Stage Of Offensive Fighting

Ws ashington Authorities Believe Japan Has Passed to “Aggressive Defense” in Paeifie: U.S. Delays Big Drive

Doubt Jap Offensive Possible    Military Authorities In Washington Say Nip Policy Now Is. One of “Aggressive Defense”

Believe Japs Have SetUp  ‘Aggressive Defense’  Washington. Holds Out Little Promise Of Early Allied  PO nce tee Phar ST!

saa aaa a estartiertn renner  “Aggressive Defense” Status Of Japs, Authorities Believe

See Little Danger To Australia   Military Men Be lieve Japs Have Switched Tactics

CITY AWAITING NEW SPY CASE DEVELOPMENTS   Six Persons Being Held In Plot Against Munitions Centers

Sensational New Developments In Spy Case Expected As FBI Unfolds Plot On Factorie:

DETROIT SPY PLOT GROWS   New Sensations Expected As FBI Continues Probe

FIVE HELD BY FBI FOR AIDING NAZIS   Two Countesses ‘Taken In’ by Government Agents While Reporting on War Plants

FBI Unfolding Spy Ring Plot   Four Women, Two Of Them Countesses, And Two Men Held

Two More Held: An Spy Inquiry   Sensational Exposure - Due In Detroit. °-

NEW SENSATIONS EXPECTED IN SPY ROUNDUP BY FBI   Alleged 'Nazi Spy Rings in Munitions Centers Have Backfired on Germans

New Sensations Expected as FBI Unfolds Specacular Spy Plot Against Munitions Centers Which Backfired on Its Perpetrator

Detroit Expects  Spy Sensations  FBI Unfolds Spectacular Plot With Arrests

NEW SENSATIONS IN SPY PLOT EXPECTED BY NETROIT TODAY   TWO COUNTESSES AMONG FOUR WOMEN HELD BY FEDERAL AGENTS

Pl? AMES BES  sik NOW HELD IN SPY SCHEME   Four Women, Including Two So-Called Countesses, Arrested

BIG BONDS FOR ALLEGED SPIES   Four Women And Two Men Face Trial Next Month; Two Are Countesses; Sensations Expected.

Detroit Looks For Sensation In Spy Cases   Two Countesses Among Four Women Being Held By the F. B. .   "DANGEROUS ALIENS"

JUDGES’ RAISE REJECTED   henate Refuses To Approve Increase For Local Jurists

FRING SQUADS ARE ACTIVE IN NORWAY   Germans Using Harsh Measures To Keep Norsemen Down

NORWAY POLICE HEAD EXECUTED BY NAZIS   Firing Squad  Is. Faced by Others Not Cooperating

CUT VALUE FOR GAS STAMPS IN EASTERN STATES   Government To Crack Down On Black Market

WILL CHANGE MARKING ON TRUCK GAS COUPONS   OPA Plans Attack On Black Market Dealers In Commercial “T” Rations

Government Gets Tough On Motorists   B and € Coupon Cut Precedes Attack Gn T Black Market

GASOLINE POLICY “1S NEW, TOUGH   “BY” & Cc” ‘Rations Cut; Prime Attack on Black Mart “T”

Tougher Gas Policy to Hit Car Misuses  B and C Rations Cut From 3 to 244-Gallon Values  NO SUPPLEMENTS  New “‘T’ Coupons to Bear Secret Marks; Crack Down on Black Marts

B AND C GAS COUPONS CUT TO 23 GALS   New T Coupons to be Issued fo:  Third Quarter to Thwart Black  Market Practices   NO EXTRA RATIONS   Servicemen’s Furlough Allowance Revoked by ODT’s New ‘Tough Policy Order

OPA MAPS WAR TO DEFEAT GAS BLACK MARKEI   Cuts B and C Coupons to 24 Gallons and Will Start Action to End T Card Racket   “APPEAL PROOF”   Will Change Marking Of T Coupons In Program to Curb: Misuse of Ration Svstem

CUT GAS COUPONS ON EAST COAST   ODT TO LAUNCH ATTACK ON BLACK MARKET DEALERS

Does Not Gain Stature of Full Fledged  } Ally, Must Still Pay Price for Being   Partner of Hitler

Former Member Of Axis Powers Is On Side of Allies   Portugal Grants Britain Use Azores Islands as Anti-submarine Bases; Drive on Rome Continues

Ties with “Dreadful Past” Are Broken, Says Genera Badoglio, Lasabasting “German Ferocity”—United States, Britain and Russia Approve Co-Belligerent Status

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Accept Nation as Co-Belligerent But Not Full Ally.

Allies Do Not Give Italians  Full Alliance   Permission to Declare War on Nazis Given by All Three Main Powers

Not Full Fledged Ally   Decision To Fight  Former Ally Gives Italy Status of CoBeligerant Only

Allied Heads  Reveal Move  By Badoglio   Accept Co-Operation Of Former Axis State

Nation ‘Does Not Be come Full Pledged  _ . Ally  . 5 ~ . marr e ayn VT Se

Allies Accept Offer Of Help  rom Badoglio   Italy Taken In As Co-Belligerent In War Against Former Partner.   “VICTORY INEVITABLE?

Action Announced  By Allied Leaders   Badoglio Breaks Ties With Former Italian Ally; Second Diplomatic Triumph for United Nations in Two Days.

Badoglio Vows Fight To Finish On Ex-Axis Aid   Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Issue Joint Statement On Italian Declaration; Co-Belligerency Stand Will Not Affect Present Armistice Terms

“PROVE. BULLISH   Chicago Livestock Mart’s oie — Hog First There Since October, 1920...

Australian Jungle Troops Take Bonga   Allied Forces Also Take Gusika in Sweep Carrying Them to South Bank of Kalueng: Two Armies Near Juncture

AUSTRALIANS OCCUPY BONGA   Capture Another Position on Huon Peninsula Withoul Struggle

BONGA CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS   JAP-HELD TOWN ON NEW GUINEA COAST FALLS WITHOUT A STRUGGLE,

BONGA CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIAN JUNGLE TROOPS   Seaward Anchor Was Vita Jap Supply Point Of New Guinea Coast   ENEMY AIRFIELDS ARE HEAVILY HAMMERED

Japs Driven "From Bonga   Nips Lose Another Hold On Guinea As Aussies Advance

OCCUPY BONGA   Capture Another Position on Huon Peninsula Without Struggle

Australian Forces Capture  The. Coast Of New Guine:   Jungle-Fighters Push North From Finschhofen and Take Enemy Position Without Struggle— Gusika Ales Held

 Australians  ‘Capture Bonga. Without F ight   Fall Deprives Japanese Of Another Stronghold  On Huon Penincnla

BONGA SEIZED WITHOUT FIGHT   Seaward Anchor Of Jap Supply Line Falls To Australians

Australians Capture Bonga On New Guinea   Admiral Nimitz Hints New Attacks In Mid-Pacific

Child Brutally Beaten by Boys   Harold Fuller, Jr., Feared near Death

Police Squads Hunt  Torturers of Boy  Suspect Older Youth: Of Beating Child

RAYBURN GALLS FOR JOINT ACTION PASS WITHHOLDING LEVY  WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN WANTS ACTION HIS WAY

RAYBURN AS FOR ACTION ON WITHHOLD LEVY   Calls for Joint GOP and Demo Move for Act to Stem Inflation

Holdout Of 20% Racked   - . - Rayburn, Doughton Urge Joint Action

Rayburn Calls for Enactment Now of Withholding Levy  20 Percent Tax to Prevent Inflation. © Asked by Speaker ...

Withholding Tax Urged By House Speaker   Prompt ‘Action On Plan For 20 Per Cent Levy Against Wages Asked ‘By Speaker Rayburn 

TAX DEDUCTION OUT OF PAY UP IN HOUSE AGAIN   Doughton Promises Speedy Work On Bill If Both Parties Will Agree

URGES QUICK WITHHOLDING TAX PASSAGE   Committee Votes 16-9 Against Delay in Trade Hearing

RAYBURN CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE TAX BILL MOVE   Speaker Leaves Chair to Issue Statement That Withholding Levy   Should Be Speeded   ASKS JOINT ACTION   Earlier House Committee Rejects Republican Move to Reopen Ruml-Like Taxation Measure

ChEGK ACTION ON PAY-AS-YOU-G0   House Refuses To Consid/ ef It Ahead Of Trade  Agreements

Both Parties  Asked To Give Their Support   It’s Best Way To Check Inflation,  Sneaker Save

Pay-Go Revival Move Is Killed By House Group   Ways, Means Com. Votes 16-9 On GOP Try Toe Reopen Consideration

A PAYCHECK TAX URGED IN HOUSE   Rayburn Makes Appeal for Joint Action to Help Prevent Inflation   WOULD AVOID LONG “-RUML: PLAN DEBATE      G.O.P, ‘Leader Insists on Considering Both Phases at the Same Time

Rayburn  Calls for Tax Act   HOUSE SPEAKER ASKS PARTY CO-OPERATION IN 20 PER CENT LEVY

RAYBURN URGES WITHHOLDING TAX LEVY NOW   Doughton Asks Republicans, Dem. ocrais Agree fo Pass Levy With out Pay-As-Go Plan   STAB AT INFLATION   Dan Reed’s Effort to Revive Ruml Plan Rejected by House Committee

IN NEW TAX MOVE   Democrats Propose. Withholding Levy Without . Abatement

Withholding Tax Measure  Advocated   Speaker Rayburn Calls On Both Parties for Act to Curb Inflations

Speaker Calls For Action on Payroll Tax   Donghion Seeks Agree. ment of Both Parties To Supnnort Plan

RAY BURN DEMAND: WITHHOLDING LEVY   Bill Would Be Effective Stab At Inflation

House Committee Defeats Effort to Reopen Consideration of Pay-Go Tax

Would Rush Pay-As Go Tax Levy   No Forgiveness Of Past Taxes Would Be Provided

JOINT GOP-DEMO ACTION TO ENACT A WITHHOLDING LEVY AGAINST TAXABLE PORTION OF WAGES ASKED BY SOLON —

Rayburn Urges Quick Action on Withholding Tax   Pay-as-You-Go Plan Voted Down by House Committee

Ask Move On Withholding Tax At Onee   House Speaker Rayburn Requests Joint Demo-GOP Action On 20 Percent Levy   DROP ABATEMENT PLAN

BRITISH 8TH ARMY ADVANCES 80 MILES IN. WESTERN. LIBYA      Continues  Moving” ‘Ahead Only, 90 Miles: From : Tripoli—Planes Rilact Muwie   MAY JOIN Wit WITH: ‘FIGHTING. FRENCH

British Army $0 Miles From Tripoli, Drive Continues Planes Pace Attack

British 8th Is 90 Miles From Tripeli   American Bombers Damage Harbor at Big Axis Base

TANKS MOVING   French Seeking To Dislodge ! Lebanese ‘Shadow’ Rule

Ask Why Gov’t Men Are Not  under Arms   300,000 in Lost Army Put Up to Hershey: Opposition to Draft Fades

BAN ON FATHER DRAFT FADING   Congress Locks to U. S. Payrolls To Provide More Eligible Men.

Fight On Dad Draft Fading   Opponents Turn to Charges Of Favoritism in Calls

0 ON U. §. PAYROLL NON-FATHERS   Legislators Demand Induction of Single, Childless Men In Government First.   WHEELER BILL DYING   Congress Considers V-Mail Ballot For Men Now ~

Deferment Of Gov't Employes Investigated — Opponents Of Father  Draft Shift Attention To Gov't Payrolls;

Federal Payroll Scanned; Hershey Asked to Explain Employment of Non-Fathers

HOUSE GROUP APPROVES NEW INCOME PLAN   Progress Being Made On Pay-as-You-Go  Taxation

Red War Heroes  To Caucasus Area   Fierce Air Battles Continue; Reds Claim 2,069  Nazi Planes Downed.

FIERCE AIR FICHTS   Continue to Predominate in  Battle i in Kuban Sector  in Russia

Total Of 2,069 Nazi P s Knocked Out In Battle Of Russia During May; 456 In Past Week; Fighting Continues.

Air Fights Rage In Kuban Area   Reds Claim Toll of 456 Planes in Week

FIERCE AIR BATTLES HOLD SPOTLIGHT ON KUBAN BATTLEFIELD   GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST 2,069 PLANES DURING MONTH

FIERCE AERIAL BATTLES RAGE ON RED FRONT   456 German Planes Downed In Past Week

AERIAL BATTLES FIERCE IN KUBAN   Air Battles Also Stepped Up Over Leningrad On Northern Front; Past Week Sees 456 German Planes Down In Kuban Scctor To 118 For Reds.

REDS BAG 456 NAZI PLANES IN ONE WEEK   Russian Loss 118 Craft During Same Period— Fierce Aerial Battles Feature Fighting in the Kuban Sector.

RUSSIAN AIRMEN HAVE THE MINBER OF GERMAN FLIERS      Stalin Sending His Ace Airmen Against The Nazis   KEEP THE GERMANS ON THE DEFENSIVE

Aerial Battles ‘Rage in Kuban   Moscow Reports 456 Germans Destroyed To 118 Russian Planes

AIR BATTLES CONTINUE IN RUSSIA   456 German Planes Downed by Reds During Last Month at Loss of Only 118 To Russia.

FIERCE AIR BATTLES HOLD SPOTLIGHT ON KUBAN BATTLEFIELD  CERMANS REPORTED TO   GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST 2,069 PLANES DURING MONTH

British Improve Leros Positions In Dodecanese   Allied Airmen Help Island. Defenders . In Fierce’ Fighting   Battle-Scarred Hetoes of Fighting 36th Tell of Grim Salerno Landina

Battle-Scarred Heroes Return to Texas; Saw Severe Action In Ital:

SOME BATTLE-SCARRED HEROES OF FIGHTING 36TH DIVISION BACK IN SUNNY TEXAS AGAIN

25 Pounds of Tobacco a Year And New Climate for England Would Solve World’s Troubles

World Peace ‘Easy’—  Senators Told: Change Climate Of England; Use Aluminum Coins

Sto Fury egd  Court t Martial Trial For Kimmel, Short Postponed   ‘OMPLETE SURPRISE

Kiminel and Short Waive Statute of Limitations   Trial of High-Ranking Army Officers. Yor Pearl Harbor Negligence Postponed

Two Officers Waive Barrier   Admiral Kimmel and General Short Are Willing to Be Tried

PEARL HARBOR TRIAL DELAYED   Kimmel And Short Waive Technical Barriers To Court Martial

KIMMEL, SHORT TO TRIAL LATER   Court Martial to Be Delayed Against Officers at Pearl Harbor

POSTPONE TRIALS OF KIMMEL, SHORT   COMMANDERS AT HAWATII WHEN JAPS STRUCK WAIVE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.

Kimmel, Shorf Trial Awaits End of War  Court Martial Pact.   Court Martial Postponed on Charges Of Dereliction

DELAY TRIAL OF SHORT, KIMMEL   War Department Decides tc Postpone Proceedings

Kimmel, Short Trials Delayed Both Waive. Statute Of  Limitations

Hull Flays Critics of FDR Policy   Abuse Most Severe During Meeting In North Africa

FRENCH NAVAL UNITS. JOIN WITH ALLIES   Somewhat Antiquated Flee! May Not Prove Of Much Value; Must Be Recondi Bama Ear Service.   For Convoy

FRENCH WARSHES WON ALLIED {8   Vesela at Neandela Need ; ana rs Before Being a of Much Help

FRENCH FLEET NOT MUCH USE   Alexandria Units Going To Allies Need Lot Of Renovating

OPPOSITION GROUP DEVELOPING AMONG NEWER SENATORS      Freshmen Fear Resolution Of Foreign Relations Committee Gives Blank Check

British 8th Army Again On Advance i” Africa   Alexander Expects Romme! To Make Stand At Mareth Line, If He Can

British Open Offensive On Mareth Line   Alexander Says Last OF Axis Forces Are Driver Out Of Libya   STAND {8 EXPECTED   German Air Base Near Kairouan Is Attacked By Fiying Fortresses

Red Cross Seeks Yuletide Boxes   Gifts To Be Distributed Among Armed Forces

AUML PLAN Io "APPARENTLY DEAD PIGEON   Pay-as-You-Go Tax Issue . Put in Pigeonhole by the Honse,   LIKELY TO -REMAIN   But Withholding Tax Plan Will Probably Get Study . in New Bill. me

RAYBURN SEES — DELAY AS RUML PLAN IS BEATEN   Speaker Finds FDR Happy Over House’s Pay-Go 215-198 Vote

WAGE INCREASES UNLIKELY UNDER NEW WLB RULE   ClO Chief Urges Unions To Take Loop-hole To Get Raise on Reclassification   WAR LOAN DRIVE ROLLS ON   Nation’s Capital Whirls_ in Variety of Issues—Both Domestic and Foreign

Pan American Day, Foreign Trade Program, WLB Wage Stand Draw Spotlight

PAN AMERICAN DAY OBSERVED   U. §. and Sister Republics Look Ahead to PostWar Period,

Pan-American Day Pattern Of Postwar Plan  ’ 10,000 Wage Increase Held Up; Trade Pacts  May Be Renewed Unde Ranuhli-an Tae) en, Pee

PAN-AMERICAN DAY OBSERVED BY SISTER REPUBLICS   New Indications Are That Administration’s Lapsing Foreign Trade Program Will Be Nenewed; Supreme Court Gets First Conscientious Objector Case.

Bills Seek Draft Of Workers    Hoover Declares Key To Output Js Shipping

HOOVER STRESSES ~ ~U. §. HOME FRONT   Warns About Military Effort; Work Draft Bills Introduced In     Congress

Bill Is Offered For War Work Draft   Republicans Introduce Service Bill os Former Presi. — dent Hoover Warns Not to Let Military Effort Break Down Home Front

LABOR DRAFT PLAN STUDIED BY CONGRESS   HOOVER SUGGESTS EASING STRAIN ON MANPOWER

W ork-Draft Measures  Are Put In   As Hoover Says Induction Ought to Be Trimmed to Fit Shipping; Draft Acts Provide for Farms, Factories

BILLS PROPOSE DRAFT TO EASE MAN SHORTAGE   Would Put Workers Into War Plants, On Farms; _ Hoover Favors Cut  In War Effort   Cites Shipping Limits

Hoover Suggests Fewer Inductions   Hold Army, Arms Output To Shipping Capacity

Farm and Factory Labor Draft Bills Offered; Hoover Would ‘Trim inductions to Shipping

G(V.HICKENLOOPER ctys “BACK TO eT ANDARD TIME”   ‘AR EFFORT IN FARM AREAS  qo AID W.

PROTEST WAY BE MABE TO SPAIN   U. 5. Ready to Take. - Nation to Task

Spaniards Stir Anger Of America   Franco To Be Told U. S. Will Tolerate No Added Pro-Axis Moves

PROTEST WAY BE MALE 10 SPAIN   U.S. Ready to Take Nation to Task

S e -# ctisan Navy Scores Successes  L étders Want Planes, Ships

SOCIAL SECURITY POSTWAR PROGRAM EXPLAINED TODAY   Proposal Would Afford . Protection to 20,000,000 Additional Per- ° sons in U. S.

SEVERE HURRICANE REPORTED MOVING TOWARD TEXAS.   Winds of 75 to 85 Mile Velocity Reported Headed Toward Galveston Area .

Freeport And Galveston In  Path Of Storm   Hurricane Now 130 Miles Off Corpus; Forward Movement Slows Down   TO HIT SATURDAY   Freeport Evacuated; Planes Moved On Coast; Red Cross Prepares

Possibility Of Sandusky And Northern Ohio Cities Being Bombed, Says Stone

High Military Authorities Expect Hitler To Attempt To Raid U.S. Cities This Yea

‘EIGHTH ARMY ON MARCH ON FAST SIDE   Germans Rush Reinforcements Into Sector

Allied Patrols Force Volturno River Line ' To Strike for Rome   Gen. Clark’s Artillery Hammers Nazi Positions on North Bank; Eighth Army Crushes Resistance at Termoli

Fiith Army Patrols Cross Volturno   Forcing of River Indicates Major Drive May Be On

Hull and Eden  Reach Moscow   Advisers Alse to Attens lri-Power Conference

HULL AND EDEN PARTY REACHES SOVIET CAPITAL   Allied Officials In Moscow For Tri-Power Con Conan nme   RUSSIAN OFFICIALS WELCOME DELEGATION

Hull, Eden Reach Moscow for Parley   W. A. Harriman, New U. S. Envoy to Russia. Accompanies Secretaries, Who Are Met By Russian Dignitaries; Others in Party

Hull And Eden Reach Moscow  For Long Awaited Conference   Parley Expected to Seek Agreement on War Objectives and Post-war Collaboration Between, U. S., Britain and Soviet Union

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Postwar Problems lo Be Discussed With Red Leaders   Defeat of Hitler First Objective

Hull, Eden Arrive  In Moscow  Man Th. Mawfaw   Men To Confer With Molotov On War Aims

LEAVE ESCAPED JAIL CONVICT ON WAR JOE   Walked Away from Londor Prison Farm in 1924

Solons Okay Revised Budge!   EARLY MAY ADJOURNMENT ASSURED AS $451,000,000 APPROPRIATION FOR TWO-YEAR PERIOD AWAITS GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE

State Budget Is Adopted by Both Houses   -Only Minor. Differences to Be Adiusted

Munitions, Planes, Food and Diapers Moved Thru. Persia Pile Up in Red ‘Store Houses

RUSSIA SWAMPED BY WAR SUPPLIES FROM U.S, PLANTS   Materials Pouring In on Soviets Through Iran Faster Than They Can Handle Them.   PLANES, TANKS, JEEPS, GUNS IN SHIPMENTS   Warehouses and Freight Yards Glutted as Weapons and Food Arrive in Unending Stream.

BILBO THREATENG NEW FILIBUSTER   Mississipp1 Senator Says He'll Talk Anti-Poll-Tax Bill To Death

Russians Open New Attacks, Nazis Declare   Soviets Say Two. More German -Blows Shaitered

Soviets Open Major Attacks In Four Areas Nazis:.Fear. Genera ; -Offensives Ate Develoning ©

Yanks Smash Into Axis Opposition   Two American Columns Thrust Forward—Germans Hold in One Sector

Current Action May Be Prelude to Final. Bitter Battle for North Africa.     RUSSIANS STILL MOP  TID ATM QMaklT Tarmlw aw

Axis Being Pushed Out of Sicily and in Russia, the Red Armies Are Within a Few Miles of Captur_ ing Kharkov, Great Industrial Center of the ' Ukraine—Enemy in Tough Spot in Both Sectors as Losses Continue to Moun,

DRIVE AXIS INTO SMALL CORNER ON N. E. OF ISLE   Hard Fighting Over Rugged and Roadless Country Stil Remains

Sicilian Death Trap is Closing   Enemy Penned Into Tiny Point on  Island, With Sea at Their Backs

Two Major Victories Imminent For United Nations With Powerful Armies Making Gains

WAR LOAN DRIVE   Second Bond Campaign Will Far Faceed the Quota.

Subsidy Dispute Renewal Seen   i NG eet SOON Ee See   President's Message On Food Awaited

FOOD MESSAGE _ TO RENEW FIGHT      Farm Policies, Subsidies Face New Attacks in Conoaress

MESSAGE MAY START BATTLE   Roosevelt Recommendations Expected to Spark Farm Policies Debate

MESSAGE MAY START BATTLE   Roosevelt. Recummendations Expected to Spark , Farm Policies Debale   Hold Bombing Knockout Stage is Far in Future

Washington farm policies battle looms   Roosevelt’s talk may start flame

CONGRESS 10 GET MESSAGE OF FDRIODAY      Food Program of President Expected to Renew Subsidy Battle   BATTLE SEEN FOR FULMER MEASURE   One Man Control of En. tire Food Situation Being Urged

President {rges  Subsidies Today   Message Is Expected  To Stir Fight Afresh

FOOD MESSAGE LISTED TODA’   Roosevelt Expected To Ask Congress To Sappert Subsidy Program

oth Renews Full-Seale  Otfensive   Advances on Cassino And Nazis Withdraw On Adriatic Flank  fRENCH PORTS HIT

ELEVEN WAR WORKERS DIE IN BUS CRASH   ‘Driver of Truck in Collision with Bus Enroute to Painted Post Held for Negligence   8 OTHERS INJURED   Six of Victims Succumbed to Burns After Bus, Overturning, Caught Fire

Allied Artillery and Aircraft Pound the Jap Base.  RENDOVA ISLAND TAKEN IN 6 HOURS  Japanese Suffer 56,000 Casualties in China.

American Casualties Slight In New Drive To  Destroy Nipponese Outer Defenses,

Support-Prices  — ForHogs Near  Will Be $1 Per Hundred Below OPA Ceilings   See Record Movement

HOUSE EXPECTED TQ APPROVE NEW TAX BILL TODAY   Republicans and Democrat: Defend Rejection of Treasury Program

DEGAULLE UNITY PRICE I$ GIVEN   Giraud OK ‘But Councilmen Tainted With Vichy

Crippled Production Of Livestock — Feared In Meat Prices ‘Roll Back’

THREAT SEEN TO STOCKMEN.IN MEAT PRICE CUT   Nebraska Senater Asks Brown To Explain Result Of Slash   FEARS FOR PRODUCTION.   Feeders Fail To Profit Despite Rapid Climb Of Values, Is Claim

THREAT OF MINE STRIKE LOOMS AS A POSSIBILITY   UNREST GROWS AMONG SOFT COAL MINERS OVER WAGE DISPUTE

WAR LABOR BOARD GETS COAL DISPUT   Threat of Strike Increases Following Certification of Wane Nenotiations tan WER

CUAL MINE CLOSURE STILL POSSIBILITY   Statement From John Lewis Awaited By Conferees

Lewis Threatens Coal Stoppage  WLB Calls Operators To Washington For Preliminary Hearing

Bituminous Miners Strike on May Ist Is Still Possibility   Certification of Wage Dispute to WLB May Not Prevent It

Work Stoppage in Coal Mines Again Looms   Unrest GrowingAs Result of Contract Deadlock

First Hearing To Be At Washington   Onerators Have Already Agreed To Appear

British Push to Within 21 Miles of Akyab - Aided By Shells from Coastal Ships

Hitler Reverses Traditional Role by "Taking Defensive Against Allies

GHINESE DRIVE JAPS NORTHWARD   Offensive In Central China Pushes Enemy Across  The Li River

Fleet Units Reach Malta, Gibraltar And Balearic Isles   Four Battleships in Allied Hands, But Nazis Claim Sinking of Fifth; Fate of Merchant Morinn Tinknawn

Flee Nazi Bombs To Capitulate   Germans Sink One Battleship, Five Others Run From Rain Of Bombs

NEW CHRYSLER STRIKE ENDED; LASTED A DA}   FBI Probes Coal Strikes. Name Carl Newton Mine Chief

STRIKE ENDS AT CHRYSLER   Highland Park Plant Employees Back on Job After Staging Oneday Unauthorized Strike.

STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK TUESDAY   Production Rises to Normal .at Detroit Plant After Unauthorized  Walkout.

MOTOR CORPS HONOR CAPTAIN AT. DINNER   Occasion Marked Anniversary of First Graduating Class Here

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Naval Clash Not Rated A Major Test   Only Light Forces Believed In Action; New  American Destroyer Tornedoned And Sink.

HEAVY LOSSES HANDED OUT BY U.S. TASK FORCE   Considerable Damage Said Inflicted On Enemy Naval Craft   QNE AMERICAN SHIP SUNK   Destroyer Sent To Bottom By Torpedo While Firing On Base

JAPS DAMAGED AN NAVAL FIGHT      Details of Action in Kula Guilt Still Lacking; Not Major Battle.   DESTROYER TORPEDOED

U5 DESTROYER SUNK BY JAPS SUNDAY NIGHT.   Navy Report on Sea Battle i in Solomons ‘Hints. Heavy . Enemy -Losses,   SURFACE ENGAGEMENT IN PROGRESS IN KULA GULF

Very Heavy Damage Inflicted On Japs In Kula Gulf Scrap   Information Incomplete But Indicates U. S. Has Light Losses; Yank Destroyer Sunk Off Vila

Americans Rule Or Vangunu: Island, Expect. Heavy  -- Air Blows. >

Jap, Loses Heavy hh Gulf of Kula   Complete Details of Battle Have Not Reached the  U.S. Navy   “ACTION IS: ALL OVER   Report a United States De“I stroyer Lost in the Engagement:

DESTROVER STRONG 15 REPORTED SUNK   Naval Action May Force Jap Fleet to Put Up Fight ~  * Onlamame

—PACIFIC—  FULL DETAILS OF ACTION AWAITED   Kula Gulf Encounter Not Listed. As Major Enparement   U. S. LOSES SHIP   Destroyer Strong Torpedoed And Sunk Sunday Night

Gen. MacArthur Forcing Japan To Risk Fleet   Preliminary Conflict   Now In Progress;  Details Lacking

Yanks Deal Heavy Damage in Battle for Munda; U.S. Loses [Destroyer Strong: Few Details

ONE U.S. BOAT SUNK DURING PACIFIC CLASH   Details of Battle In Munda Area Not Given In Bulletin   JAPS RISK FLEET - ‘TOSTEM ADVANCE   Loss of Destroyer Strong Follows Sinking of Transport

‘UETAILS OF NAVAL BATTLE NOT GIVEN HEAVY JAP DAMAGE   U. S. DESTROYER STRONG ‘SUNK WHILE ENGAGED IN BOMBARDMENT OF ENEMY

Navy Scores In Sea Engagement Destroyer Lost   Japan May Be Risking Fleet To Stem American Offensive, Still In Progress   Germany Sends Air Official To Bolster Italy's Defenses   Richthofen Dispatched To Help Strengthen Her Tottering Ally

BEING FORCED OUT 10 FIGHT   Another Battle Similar As That Over Guadalcanal Is Shaping Up

UNITED STATES DESTROYER IS LOSTIN FIGHT   Details of Action Lacking, But Washington Sources Do Not Believe It Major Engagement   ONLY LIGHT SHIPS USED, 1S BELIEF   American Warship Torpedoed and Sunk Sunday Night While Engaged  In Bombardment

‘American Warships Move Into Kula Gulf As Air Forces Patroi Rendova

Jap Fleet Is Forced To Fight   Heavy Loss Inflicted On Jap Surface Craft in  ~ Kula Gulf

Heavy Loss Inflicted on Jap Warships   Washington Believes Action Was Between Light Surface Forces   Big Detsroyer Leader Torpedoed in Attack Preceding Battle

U.S. Victor in Key Isle Battle   NAVY REVEALS LOSS OF DESTROYER STRONG IN SOLOMONS ACTION ON SUNDAY NIGHT; TOKYO CLAIMS 15 AMERICAN TRANSPORTS SUNK

Destroyer Strong Lost During Borhbardment Of Vila And Bairoko Sunday, Navy Reports

Full Details of Sea Fight Not Received   But Enemy: Losses. May- Be of to.1; U. 8. ss Lae ; “Strong Sunk c   MORE ACTION. MAY. - BE EXPECTED. SOON   Battle of Kula. Gulf, Has Ended for . the: Present, Bay Reports:to: Navy". -

Heavy Damage To Japs In Kula Battle Indicated   Battle Not Believed To  Have Been Major En.  counter. U.S. Destroy.  er Strong Sunk Sunday  Night.

Details Lacking On Action Of Big Kula Gulf Battle   Japanese Plane Losses Mount To 157 In Solomons; U. S. Destroyer Lost In Bombardment Action: Battle Apparently Over

Incomplete Reports Tell Of Some Damage to Yank Forces — Destroyer Lost   No Estimate Given of Probable Loss of Life in Sinking — Progress of U. S. Ground Troops in Solomons Evidenced —Yanks Gain Control of Vangunu Island

New 2100-Ton Strong Sunk While Shelling Enemy Installations Was Flotilla Leader

U.S. OFFENSIVE  DRAWS JAP NAVY  OUT OF HIDING NIP FLEET SUFFERS  HEAVY DAMAGE IN KULA GULF BATTLE

U. S. Losses Light In Kula Gulf Action   Incomplete Reports Indicate Fighting Was Between Cruisers and Destroyers But Not Major Naval Engagement.

LACK DETAILS OF BATTLE IN THE SOLOMONS   U. &. Destroyer Strong Sunk In Previous Action. U. 8. Grip Extended In Land Action

Navy Reports Foe Hard Hit In Kula Clash   Some Damage Is Sustained by American Warships

HIT BY U.S. IN KULA GULF   American Destroyer Strong Is Lost in Sea Fighting, Which Navy Indicates Is Not a Maior Encounter.

Details of Kula Gulf Battle Are Not Available   Engagement Was Probably Between Light Warships

Few Details Yet Received of Sea  Fight, Not Regarded as of Majoz Importance, in Kulu Harbor   U. S. TROOPS GAIN   Seize Control of Vanguou Island, Southwest of New Guinea, Alter Taking Village

FULL DETAILS OF VICTORY ARE WITHHELD   Destroyers And Cruisers Believed Involved In Battle Of Kula Gulf; U. S. S. Strong Sunk

Navy Reports U.S.Naval Forces Cause Heavy Damage to Japs in Kula Gulf

U.S. AND JAPANESE NAVAL FORGES IN KULA GULF BATTLE   Details of the Action Fought Yesterday Still Were Lacking Today.   ‘NOT MAJOR ENCOUNTER   Believed Action Was Between Fairly Light Surface Forces on Both Side.

Fighting Believed Over; Sufficient Details Not Received To Give Whole Story Of Action; U.S. Destroyer Strong Is Sunk By Japanese

LIGHT SURFACE CRAFT FIGHT IN SOLOMON ISLES   Series of Hit and Run Clashes Expected as U. S. Expands Holds

Details Of Action In Pacific Area Are Still Lackins   Officials Not Disposed To Think Fight Has Bearing. = On Solomons Campaign

Official Reports Lacking on Outcome Of Pacific Conflict   J. S. Destroyer Strong Sunk, Latest Naval Fight Carries No Major Importance in Solomons

FACTS OF NAVAI BATTLE SECRET FIRES REPORTED   Ground I roops Push Ahead In  Solomon Chain DIT? OC TIN

Action Against Nippon Naval Forces Apparently Is Ended With American Sources Reporting Heavy Damage Inflicted On  Nipponese — Details Of Action Are Lacking

NAPLES SHELLED BY FLEET UNIT   Britis, Blast at Ital’an Cities in Eneak Attack Monday N ght.

Germans Hint That ihe Real Second Front Will Be Somewhere Else.  390,000 GERMAN TROOPS IN ITALY  Allied Paratroops Land Behind Axis Coastal Positions in Italy.

ITALIAN INVASION ONLY A FEINT SAY GERMANS   EXPECT BLOW ELSEWHERE FROM AMERICAN 7TH ARMY WHICH WON’T “LONG BE IDLE,” SAYS THE BERLIN RADIO

Allies Score New Advance In Sicily   British Launch Attack On  Catania

British Eighth Army Unleashes Full-Scale Drive   Gen. Montgomery Orders Army ‘‘To Get On With The Job’’ In Sicily   MAJOR PUSH ON CATANIA DEFENSE

AXIS OBSERVES GENEVA PACT ON PRISONERS   Execution Of Tokyo Bombers Was Violation

AXIS TREATING PRISONERS WELL   Enemy Generally Respecting Provisions Of Geneva Convention, House Told; Execution Of Airmen Definite Violation, However.

COURT FINDS 2 INSPECTORS NOT GUILTY   Ordnance workers freed  on charge of passing faulty shells

ACCOR ECERKRESET RARER   Here’s U. S, Strike Situation at Glance

Watch For Concealed Price Hikes   Shoppers Can Not Be Sure Quality As Good As Ever

WLBREJECTSLEWS PORTAL PAY DEMAND   Wage Stabilization Order To Be Maintained

W.L.B. REJECTS LEWIS’ DEMANDS   Final Decision Is Made on Critical Coal Mine Dispute.

VOTES 8 10 4 AGAINST PLAN TO RAISE PAY   Stabilization Program Cited on Board's Refusal

CALLS PAY FOR TRAVEL HIDDEN WAGE INCREASE   Labor Members Dissent in Long Awaited Decision.

DECISION IS ADOPTED BY 8 TO 4 VOTE   Hidden Wage Increase Charged to Aims of United Mine Workers.

WLb Rejects  Lewis Demand  For Increases UMW Union Asks That Board

Board Rejects _ Lewis Demands In Final Decision   Will Not Yield On Stand To Preserve Wage Stabilization

hain County Defense Council Ordered To Help in Recruiting Cannery Workers

3 FREIGHTS WRECK WEST OF ALTOONA   Engineer Of Eastbound Dies Shortly ' After Accident

QNE KILLED IN TRIPLE TRAIN WRECK TODAY   Occurs On Main Line Of P, R. R Near Famed Horseshoe Curve

House Committee Asks Stronger Strike Bill   Votes Unanimously To Scrap Connally Measure For More Drastic Provisions.

Vandegrift New Head of Marines   General Holcomb’s  Successor Named

VANDERGRIT 10 TAKE COMMAND Of “US MARINE CORP:   Promotion Earned In Battle Succeeds Gen. Holcomb, Retired By Age.

Scarcity Marks Start of Meat Rationing Today   Removal of Scores of Foods From ‘Frozen’ List Eases Situation for Most Families

Meat Rationing Starts Today   Canned Fish. Butter Return to Shelves: New Point Values

Many Foodstuffs Available Again   On Sale Today With lirst Rationed Meat

Meat Rationing — _. Supplies Short   Canned Fish, Butter, Lard Return Tc Grocery Shelves Today; Point : Basis To Govern All Sales

Meat Rationing Started Today; New Point Rationing Values For  Several Kinds Of Canned Goods

Rationing Of Meat To Begin   Point Values Changed on Some Canned Foods

Meat Rationing To Start Today: Supplies Reduced   Canned Fish and Canned Meats to Return to Shelves -—-New Point Rationing Values for Canned Goods in Effect Today

Food ‘Freeze’ Breaks Today, Amount Short   Batter.) Fats, Canned Meat, Fish Return To Shon Shelves

Rationing  Of Meat, Fats Starts Today, Supplies Low   but Numerous Foods Including Canned Fish Return to Shelves After Month and Half  PINEAPPLE. POINTS ARE INCREASED  Juices’ Points Cut, While Dried Fruits Require No Coupons

Rationing Is On New scale Today   Meat Is Restricted; Easements on Some Items Given

Meal Rationing Starts Today With Scant Supplies Available   Many Foods Frozen Since February 18 Back On Sale Today

"Netch” Plan To Aid Taxpayers   Final Agreement On Pay-As-Go Exnected This Week

Axis Invasion Anxiety Turns To Balkan Area   British Poised For Action in Syria Say Nazis

GENERAL PATTON ARRIVES IN CAIRO   CONFERENCES THERE WOULD BE NATURAL PRELUDE TO BALKAN INVASION.

GEN. PATTON IN CAIRO ON NEW MISSION   Members of Staff Accompany Him on Unexpected Visit   STIMSON DISCLOSES ANOTHER REPRIMAND

General Patton Arrives in Cairo   Members of Statt Accompany Officer

Patton, Staff Appear in Cairo   General’s Mission Is Not Explained

IN CAIRO ON NEW MISSION      Members of Staff Accom. _Pany Him on Unexpected Visit   STIMSON DISCLOSES ANOTHER REPRIMAND   Soldier Left Off Leggings Because Ankles Were  Swollen

Third Patton ‘Incident’ Is Reported   General Spoke Harshly To Ailing Soldier Leaving Leesines Off

GEN. PATTON ARRIVES FOR CAIRO MEETINGS.   Commander Of Seventh Army And His Staff Show Up Unexpectedly For Unexplained Mission

British-American Units Advance On Africa Front   Eighth Army Makes ‘Sudden Thrust In   Southern Tunisia

BRITISH CHASE FOE OVER PLAIN FOR 100 MILES   Yanks Drive for Junction; Hit Communications, Po sitions: Capture 6,000

British Bighth Army Poun-'s Northward In Hot Pursrit Of Afrika Korps Which Is Retrea'ing North Of Gabes   GERMAN ATTACK IS SMASHED BY RUSSIA

8th Army Assault Puts Axis to Flight   Montgomery Troops Break Into Open Country in Latest Drive

AIR FORCES BLAST AXIS AFRIKAKORPS   5000 Axis Prisoners Capiured By Allies During Advance

Positions  Crushed by Onslaught   AMSSRICANS ARE HAMMERING ENEMY’S FLANK IN STIFF FLIGHT.

Allied Air  Fleets Sink -More Ships      BRITISH LAUNCH OFF ENSIVE al

300 GUS SHELL AXIS FOSITIONS © BEFORE THRUST   Americans Edge Forward At Same Time On Enemy's Flank, And Air Fleets Pound Retreating Nazis

Harry Wilson Now A Colonel  Famed Grid Star Teaches Pilots CL: D ee he oe oe bs ee a

COUNTY QUOTA LOOMS NEAREF   Only -$204,000 Needed to Reach War Bond Quota

Bond Sales Here Still Are Lagging   Quota Not Yet Half _.Pledged, But Glab Is Confident

POST-WAR RATIONING IS UNLIKELY IN U, S,   At Least That’s Impression at Relief Conference

NAZIS SAY REDS RIOT IN NAPLES   Measures Taken to Check Saboteurs Aiding Allies

Senate Kills Kilday Bill   Measure Was Opposed  By Genera! Hershey

Kilday Bill Is Tabled   Action Is Paramount Tq Killinoe Measure.

KILDAY BILL PIGEON-HOLED      Would Have Ordered Father Draft Last

FEDERAL FUNDS WASTE CHARGEE   Senate Committee Demands immediate Dismissal of 300,000 Government Employes

Demands Dismissal of 300,000   Byrd Group Charges - Waste of U.S. Funds _ And Manpower

ralors Demand 5. Cut 300,000 Pavol   lyrd Economy ‘ommittee Charges  ‘unds, Men Wasted ES HUGE INCREASE  eport Reveals Unwarranted’ Wage ‘ncreasee far Many

Overloaded Agencies Under Fire   Committee Charges Waste of Funds, Manpower

Byrd Economy Committee Demands the Immediate Dismissal of 300,000 Government Employes

Probers Call For Dismissal Of 300,000 TqhHaldarc   Byrd Economy Group Charges Extravagant And Wasteful Misuse Of Federal Funds

DISMISSAL OF 300,000 ASKED   Byrd Committee Charges Federal Bureaus Are Wasting Money, Manpower

Byrd Economy Committee Charges Federal Funds Are Being Wasted—Huge Increase in Pay Roll of Civilian Workers Cited—Pay Raises by Various Agencies Criticized—Denies 60 Per Cent Are Engaged in War Production.

ASKS 300,000 US. EMPLOYEES BE DISMISSED   Byrd Committee Char ges Waste of Funds And Manpower

BYRD DEMANDS DISMISSAL OF EXCESS CLERKS   Senator Says 300,000 Federal Employes Should Be Cut Off Payroll Now   EXTRAVAGANT WASTE OF FUNDS REPORTED

TOO MANY EMPLOYES.   Byrd Economy Committee Wants 300,000 Federal Workers Out.  ;

SENATORS: PUT OFF ACTION ON FATHER DRAFT   Consider Plan to Bat U. 8, Employment to Non-Fathers

Senate Receives Substitute for Wheeler Draft Act   Barring of Federal Jobs to Draft-Age Non-Fathers Urged

NEW INDUCTION PLAN OFFERED   Substitute Bill Framed For Delaying Draft Of Fathers

Proposal Bars. Nonfathers From U.S. Jobs  ’ Senators Offer Plan Ae Subentnte .

Senate Receives Substitute for Wheeler Bill   Would Ban Federal Jobs To Eligible Non-Fathers, Adininistration Backs It

Senate Is Offered Substitute for — Father Draft Bill  Administration Plan Proposed in Place Of Wheeler Measure

Fortresses Batter at Rotterdam   Amcrican Bombers Take Up Where British Left Off

Pre Invasion ~ Air Assault In Second Week   American Bombers Make New Sortie Into Ger ~ man Interior

YANKS JOIN R. A.F. RAIDS ON GERMANY   Flying Fortresses Blast Switching Yards At Hamm

U.S. AIRMEN IN RAID ON ROTTERDAM   Follows Night Attack By RAF On Hamburg

Pre-Invasion Air Offensive Sweeping On   Germany's Second Largest City Again Battered

American Planes Hit Retterdam And Hamm Yards   Follow Up Heavy RAF Night Smash At Hamburg

CARRY ALLIED AIR ASSAULT SECOND WEEK   R. A. F., On Night Shift, Blast Hamburg; Germany Sends Smali Force Over England

FORTRESSES: IN RAIDON ROTTERDAM      Amer. Planes Take Up Where Brit, Left Off

AMERICAN FLYING FORTS CONTINUE RAIDS ON EUROPE   ‘Rotterdam.and Hamm are smashed by Bombers: Hamburg Is Hit Hord by RAF

Flying Forts Batter Nazi Bases by Day  Pick Up RAF Round. Clock Hammering of Harbors STRAFE RAIL YARDS  Hamburg Sub - Base Flames Again; Reprisal Datla Wraal     Hambur g Sub - Base Flames Again; Reprisal Raids Weak

AMERICAN FLYING FORTS CONTINUE RAIDS ON EUROPE   Rotterdam and Hamm are smashed by Bombers; Hamburg Is Hit Hard by RAF   ‘SUNDAY SCHOOL PIONTE A FLYING FORTRESS BAS! SSLATE LE LEEL BPEL aa: Bwrdd ANT

1000 NAZIS...  IN RED AIR RAID ONPSKOV =   Russians Also Make Successful Drive on Moscow Front

Little Action On Red Front   Soviet And German Forces In Minor Thrusts West Of Moscow

RITCHEY DIES IN GT, LOUE   War Veteran and Railroader Had Been Ill for Past ~ Two Weeks

Delbert A. Ritchey Dies in St. Louis   Well Known Mo. Pac. ‘Conductor Had Been in Failing Health

December War Saving Sales Above Quofa   $625,639 Sold Here During.  “Past Month 

BOLLES OFFERED MAXON'S POST AS OPA DEPUTY CHIEF   ‘Price Administrator Brown Issues Vigorous Denia! of Charges Made by Former  ecictant.

OPA Head Denies Charges   - « Maxon’s Accusations Political, Brown Says

Brown Denies Maxon Charges   Claims Politics Behind Attack  On OPA

BROWN DENIES CLIQUE CHARGE OF EX-DEPUT)   Noted Advertising Executive Quits as OPA Aide in New Rumpus

SLAVS CLING T0 FIUME ISLANDS   German Attacks Breasted For 4 Days; Loss Of Samos Admitted

Ceremonies Of Assembly Over   LEGISLATURE GETTING DOWN TO WORK TO DAY

German Retreat Sees Fifth Army Punching Hard   Eighth Gains Along Its Fronts; Nazis Admit  Withdrawals

Recognition of French Committee Not Possible Yet Roosevelt States

U. 5, REFUSES 1 RECOGNIZE FRENGH   As Long as 95% of French People Are Under Nazi Domination.

No Recognition ~ For French Body  'Governing Agency Nol  Yet Determined

Index      No recognition of France  until free, FDR declares   General Giraud pledges aid against Japanese in battle of Pacific

President States French Position   Savs There Is no France Except Small Undominated Part

CONFERS WITH GIRAUD   France Under the Present Plan Cannot Be Recognized by U. S.

Withhold U. S. Recognition Of French Group   Only 5 Per Cent Outside Of German Domination, Asserts President At His Press Conference

FDR Opposes Recognition For France   German Domination in France Too Great, President Says

No Recognition Of Government Of France Here   Roosevelt Indicates U. S. Policy as Long as Germany Con.  trol, France

‘Also Says He Doesn’t In  tend to Ask Lewis to Sign New Contract.

FOR oAYS FRANGE WILL BE IGNORED   Nazi Domination Blamed; Discusses Lewis Pact.

No recognition of France until free   Giraud pledges aid against Japs in battle for Pacific

REGISTRANTS ~— OVER 38 “SAFE’   Present Draft Regulations Do Not Call for Blood Test, Induction

NO PROVISIONS FOR CALLING MEN OVER 38   Selective Service Rules Do Not Provide For Blood Tests Or Induction For Them

1] Generals of  Axis Prisoners Captives Now Total 175,000, Estimate

PROGRAM FOR SERVICE MEN "18. PROPOSE   THREE-POINT PLAN. INCLUD. ING, BENEFITS FOR. UNEMx PLOYMENT ADVOCATED     “AN. ROOSEVELT MESBAGE

ASKS POSTWA SOLDIERS’ PAY   Roosevelt Puts Three-Point Program for Aid Before Congress

POST-WAR HELP FOR DISCHARGED MEN PROPOSEL   PRESIDENT SUBMITS THREEPOINT PLAN TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO SERVICEMEN UNTIL THEY GET JOBS.   ASKS IMMEDIATE ACTION BY CONGRESS   Proposes Uniform Mustering Out Pay, Compensation Payments, Old Age and Insurance Credits for Armed Forces,

President Submits to Congress Post-War Benefits for Servicemen   Three-point Plan of Postwar Payments Presented,

F. D, R. SUBMITS POST-WAR PLAN FOR SERVICEMEN   Three-Point Outline Would Help Men and Women Until They Get  Peace-Time Jobs.

Dismissal Left Conspiracy Charge for Immediate Hearing; Separate Trials Asked; Fitzgerald to Be Tried First

Schools Canning Half Ton Tomatoes For Use in Pupils’ Lunches This Year   Plan Lunch Program

Senate Delay Sought on Subsidy Vote Administration Asks Postponement to

PROPONENTS OF SUBSIDIES ARE SEEKING DELAY   Administration Wants To Delay Senate Showdown Until February

Administration Moves To  ___ Delay Vote On Subsidy Bill   Moye to Submit Issue to Democratic Caucus Appears sees to be Gaining Ground—Republicons to Fight Delay on Vote

Plan to Delay Food Subsidy  Issue Gainine   Caucus for Demoerats Urged, With Study Of Pall Tax

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDIES MAY BE POSTPONED   Move Started To Dela; Action For 60 Days To Give Time  For Caucus

SEEK TO DELAY SUBSIDY VOTE   Administration Gains it Effort to Postpone Senate Showdown

PLANES ATTACK JAPS   ‘American Fighters Swoop on Cavalry, Kill 60 Men

STAMP BLACK MARKET   Treasury Agents To Watch Whiskey Ceiling Prices

GRAND SCALE OFFENSIVE ON SAY GERMANS   In Preparing Homeland For News Of Fall Of Stalino, Long Hitler’s ‘Southern  { Headquarters   Nearing Kiev

Russians Near ‘Stalino; Take - Many Villages   Steam-rollér Smash Through Donets Basin Sweep: Troops to Within 20 Miles of Nazi Southern Front Base—Greot Area Recaptured

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EARLY SEIZURE OF STEEL CITY IS INDICATED   Smashing 12-Mile Gains Overrun 400 Towns; Advances Made On  Ukraine Citadel   11,000 Troops Slain

Reds Smash Ahead In Rapid Advance   400 Villages Overrun In ‘Donets Section And Four-Mile Lunge Made Toward Smolensk

Early Seizure Of Donets Steel Center Forecast   Northern Ukraine Citadel Threatened; Nazis in Rout

Steel Center Of Stalino  Threatened By Russians   Konotop in Ukraine Also Under Shadow Of Reds Who Advance  Clacser ta Smolenck   REICH PREPARED FOR STALINO’S FALL   11,000 Germans Killed And Great Quantities Of Equipment Captured

DONETS BASIN BEING VACATED BY NAZI ARMY   Great Steel Center 0: Stalino Is Threatened  By Soviets

Soviets Make Great New Gains on Foe   Germans Are Reported In Headlong Flight Before Russian Force

‘Stalino and Smolensk Now Threatened —   Germans Apparently in Headlong Retreat in Donets Basin;

Reds Overrun 400 Villages In 12-Mile Gain   Threaten Steel City Of Stalino, Ukraine Citadel of Konotop — Drive on Smolensk

Conquering reds retake 400 villages   Force Germans headlong retreat

Reds May Entrap Many Nazi Soldiers   Sweep in South Russia Threatens Huge Disaster

SOVIETS TAKE 400 VILLAGES. PERIL STALING   Reds Smash Ahead for , 12 Miles in Don: ets Basin

Red Arm) Gains on Stalino   4,200 Nazis Die In Soviet Drive — On Central Front

Crushing Blows Menace Stalino   .Nazis Hurled Back With Heavy Losses

REDS CLOSING IN ON STALINO AND KONOTOP   Smashing 12-Mile Gains Reported 400 Villages Taken, Nazi Cas. ualties 11,000 in Day

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL ‘Let's Go on Dreaming Is Fed Listening Public of Berlin

JURY FINDS IN FAVOR OF PLAINTIFF IN WILL CONTEST SUIT HERE   HELEN HIGGINS WINS SUIT TO SET ASIDE WILL OF FATHER

MORE PLANES, MEN NEEDED 10 BATTLE JAPS   Diversion May Be Made Even Before Victory In Tunisia   NIP MENACE INCREASES   Axis Forces Fall Back Steadily On Bases At Tunis, Bizerte

Senate Votes To Kill NYA; Vote 39 To 33   Congress In Retrea! From = Anti - Subsidy Stand After Veto By President

Senate Agrees, By 39-33 Vote, To Kill N. Y. A.   Yields To House Demands To Taper Off Monev Grants.

SENATE YIELDED T0 HOUSE DEMANDS FOR ELIMINATION OF NYA  _ DEATH-SENTENCE FOR AGENCY WRITTEN INTO  PEAROR-FEDERAL RILL

SENATE YIELDS TO DEMAND FOR NYA SHUTDOWN   Joins House With Death Sentence for Youth Administration

Youth Agency Must Liquidate By End Of Year   Senate Delays Subsidy Action

Senate Votes  NYA’s Death   Joins House in Killing Rawle Fae Siieiiae

Senate Agrees To Join House  In NYA Deatt      Senator Truman Insists Agency Absolutely Essential During War.   CUT OPA ALLOWANCES

FOLD UP THE NYA   Senate Yields To the House  in the Appropriation Measure

SENATE VOTES WITH HOUSE 10 KILL THE NYA   8-Year-Old Agency Entirely Voted Out Of Existence

Knox Burnett Dies After ‘Long IlIness   .-- Architect Was Son Of Ex-Chancellor

County 4-H Club — Elects Officers. for Present Year   ‘Elwyn Ives of Garfield Township Elected President to Succeed Arnold Wenell

GERMANS FEA TWIN ATTACKS; AIR WAR EASES   RAF Idle, But Sardinian Base Battered, Fires Set

RUSSIA STATES HEAVY BATTLES ARE SHAPING UP   Nazis Expect Soviet Offensive to Be Timed With Attack on West

BIG BATVLES SHAPING UP IN RUSSIA, REPORT FROM MOSCOW REVEALS   Berlin Also Says That hiazis Would Not Be Surprised to See a Soviet Offensive in the East Coordinated — With An Aglo-Ame ‘ican Attack in theWest —War of Nerveh\Eased Off As Allied Planes Are Groinded by Weather.

BIG BATTLES SHAPING UP ON RED FRONT   Russians Seize Importan! Heights and German Ac. tivity Indicates They Await Invasion.

General Assembly Meets; Fight Over Surplus Is Begur   Republicans in Control of Both Houses of s iesssuasus St te Le gislature : ;

SURPLUS FUND BATTLE OPENS 63RD SESSION   Republicans Back Green’s  Proposals

CONSIDER LAW T0 CLOSE BARS AT MIDNIGHT   Is Aimed At Elimination Of Early Morning Drinking To Stop Absenteeism

STOCK MARKET ~~ SLANTS UPWARD   Advance Paced By Active Leadership af Rats Quiet Gain Among Steels

EXPECT F.R, TO VETO BILL AS INFLATIONARY   Farm Block Loses In Fight = ts Shove Through Companion Bill Including Laber Oncte In Prices

Administration, Farm Bloc Win Rounds in Fight   Price Boosting Bill ls Shelved

300 War Workers Are Poisoned By Food At Luncheon   Eight Reported  Serionely Iii

300 ARE ILL OF FOOD POISONING   Corned Beef Eaten by All of Those Stricken

SANDWICHES. POISONED 300   118 G. E. Workers, Eight Seriously Ill, in Erie Hospitals

Food Poisons 300 War Worker:   Eight Near Death Ai Erie. Pennsylvania

COOLER WEATHER IN   Needed Moisture Falls in seuitiie . eastern Kansas

COOLER WEATHER IN   Needed Moisture Falls in Southeastern Kansas

Key Centers of  Germany, Italy Are Bombarded   U. S. Planes Strike Again In Unprecedented Series of Air Raids

FRENCH AND BRITISH DRIVE AT CAP BON   Africa Corps Veterans Only Strong Force

Veterans Of Libyan Retreat Represent the Only Strong Axis Force atts ‘Many Prisonets

Coal Strike Problem Referred to President Roosevelt Today   President Is Expected to Appcal to Miners to Return to Work.

G. 0. P. MOBILIZING TO AID RUML PLAN   Stormy Battle on House , Floor Expected to Start  Wednesday.

REPUBLICANS TO MOBILIZE BEHIND RUML TAX PLAN   Chm. Daughton Claims Support of Ruml Plan Is Waning

100,000 Bengalese Starve Each Week   Figure Expected To Increase Until December

SENATE ARGUES SUBSIDY BILL   Vote On Roll-Back Program Ex pected Late Today

Americans Can Pay Higher Food  Prices, Is Claim:   Senate Expected To Act Shortly On  Subsidy Program ~

Sen. Reed Leads Subsidies Fight   Claims Nation Can Stand Price Boosts

Ameriea can afford high prices—Reed   Fight opened against cost control subsidy

Subsidy Plan Under Attack By Kansan   ' Says People Will Pay More te Avoid Rofiback System

Says Americans Can Well Afford To Pay Higher Prices For Needed Commodities

Seized Axis Properties in U.S. to Go On Auction Block for Public Buying

Seized Axis Properties to  Be Offered for Sale by U.S.   Estimated $500.000,900 Worth of German, Japanese and Italian Holdings Confiscated by Alien Property Custodtan Since Pearl Harbor to Go on Market

SALE IS ARRANGED FOR AXIS PROPERTY   Seized Since War's Start Valued at $500,000,000

HAWAIIAN ARMY CHIEF T0 LEAVE   Defenses All Rebui It, Emmons Takes New Assignment

Hawaii Base Command Shift Is Announced  Emmons ‘May Tak  —- DeWitt’s Post ~ re.

ie car   Gen. Richardson Will Replace Him in-HawaiiOn June 1; ~ Rumors Fly

EMMONS TO LEAVE HAWAIIAN POST   MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD SON TO SUCCEED HIM AS COMMANDER IN ISLANDS.

Emmons Gets Another Post   Hawaiian Commander Will Be Replaced by  General Richardson

General Emmons Gets New Post   Reports Say He's To Replace DeWitt

General Emmons Gets New Post   Reports Say He's To Replace DeWitt  By CHARLES H. McMURTRY

CALL AKRON DEATHS MURDER - SUICIDE   Summit County Coroner Reverses Earlier Verdict

COMMITTEE WILL BROADEN INQUIRY   Will Investigate All Pandling Of War Information.

Senate Committee To Broaden Inquiry  Stimson and Knox Will Be Heard

Shortage Of Physicians Is Still Acute   Over 300 War Industry Centers In U. S. Hardest Hit

Kiska, As ub Base, Ils A Fle  peau Fear Air Attack By Way Of Aleutians

Interpreting  The War   Jap Nightmares May Be Over Possible Attack From North

CHAGK GERMAN UNITS oMASHED BAGK BY ALLIES   Nazi Marshal’s Short-Lived Success Now Giving Way To Headiong Retreat

Success In © Tunisia Was Short-Lived ©      AXIS TROOPS TUMBLE BACK. : THRU KASSERINE PASS UNDER PUNISHING BLOWS BY ALLIES ::

Surprise Landing Made by Yankees Under Hot Fire   Navy Task Unit Takes Vital Part

Allies Take Island: In Pacific by Surprise Landing   Amphibious Forces Make New Threats At Japs’ Holdings in Rabaul; Vise May Now Tighten on Bougainville

YANKS LAND ON 2 PACIFIC ISLANDS   JAPS CHASED INTO HILLS ON MONO AND STIRLING IN TREASURY GROUP,

Surprise Landing Achiay: ed in the Treasury Islands  PLAN TO CLOSEIN . ON ENEMY TROOPS Ground Token by Halsey’s Forces in Face of se Mertar Fire '

Surprise Landings Made In Treasury Islands By U.S. Amphibious Forces

FORCES LAND ON MOND IN TREASURY S.      In Thrust Toward Japan’s Last Solomon’s Holding in Front of Rabaul; 1000 Planes Destroyed in Oct.   Guard Bougainville

Yanks Occupy Two Islands   Mono And Stirling In Area Of Shortlands Are Captured

Bougainville Bases of Japs Are Menaced   Move Seen as Effort To Further Lay Bare Approaches to Rabaul  [APS FLEE TO HILLS

Surprise Landing Achieved in the Treasury Islands  PLAN TO CLOSE-IN ON ENEMY TROOPS  Ground Taken by Halsey’s Forces in Face of Mortar Fire

Surprised Jap Defenders Run To Hilly Areas   Shells from Naval Task Force Support Invasion on Two of Isles in Pacific

Landing Made On Monolsland With  Minor Resistance   Allied Amphibious Force Thrusts Toward Jap’s Last Solomon Holdings Before Rabaul; Enemy Grounded By Bombings

‘Surprise: Landings on Mone, Stirling Supported by Fleet's Shells; . Foe Chased Into Hills

MONO ISLAND IS TAKEN OVER BY ALLIED TROOPS   Japs Are Surprised By Landings In Treasury I[s land Group s   DEFENSE BY ENEMY IS TERMED MINOR

DRAFT OF SOME _ FATHERS SURE   WMC Says Number Needed in October Not Yet Deterniined

Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads To Be Called   WMC Says ‘‘Statistically Certain’’ Some Fathers Up In October

BRICKER POLICY IS FACING TEST   lension Grows In Assembly Over Sales Tax Repea And Relaxation Of lemale Labor Laws

NAZIS STRENGTHEN BALKAN DEFENSES   Troop Trains Reported Rolling Into Yugoslavia—Fenr Attack Prom Three Sides.

Germans Make Frantic Anti-Invasion Preparations in Balkans, Fearing  Allied Offensive From Three Sides

RUSH TROOPS INTO BALKANS   Nazis Frantically Bolster Defenses Against Possible Invasions

Frantic Germans Fortify Balkans   Fear Major Drive By Allied Forces

Germans Girding Flank in Balkans  Hungi ary, Rumania Said a ee ee Cae ee

REDS CLOSING ON CHY FROM THREE SIDES   Germans Reported Forming “Taxicab Army” in Desperate Attempt to Save Vital Base.   6 TO 10 MILES - GAINED BY SOVIETS   Stalin’s Troops Smash Lines Formed by Enemy Reserves Rushed Into Sector.   RIVE TIN.

‘War Criminal’ Warning Issued   F. R. Tells Neutrals Not to Give Asylum

Neutrals Are Told Not To Harbor Axis   Roosevelt Says ‘Gang’ Cannot Find Refuge By Fleeing Countries

KANSAS OPA TESTED   Supreme Court To Rule : Agency’s Constitutio~-**'-

ADRIATIC FLANK OF GERMANS TURNED IN ITALY BY 8TH ARMY   Three Red Columns Fan Out Toward Polish Border As Nazi Retreat Again Borders On PRont

Allied Bombers Strike In Western Europe Again; Red Army Tanks And Motorized Infantry Now 40 Miles Beyond Kiev   NAZIS WRECKING PORT OF GAETA.

Russian Forces 40 Miles Beyond Kiev As U. S., British  Continue Drives In Italy

Push Forty Miles Past Kiev Today   Bombing of European Cen ters Goes on aig@iround  Armies Forced Back

Nazis Retreat in Russia and Italy   Red Armies 40 Miles Beyond Kiev, Big Enemy Forces Are Encircled

New Yank Air Attacks Hit Munda,Kiska   Silence Jap Choiseul Batteries, Sink Jap Destrover

LABOR FIGHTS HUObo BILL UPON RAGKETS   Rep. Sabath Demands Hearing Be Open So Labor Leaders Can Testify

ORGANIZED LABOR DOESN'T WANT HOBBS BILL PASSED.   Chairman Sabath of lilinois Carries Labor’s Fight to prevent Passave

Our Troops Advance 3 Miles Forcing Japs in Small Area.  TWELVE PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN  Destroy 25-thousand Tons of Shipping in Raid on Hong Kong.

NEW VICTORY FOR YANK TROOPS SEEMS IMMINENT IN PACIFIC   American Airmen Continue Raids, Sink Freighter.

AMERICANS READY FOR FINAL BLOW  ON NEW GEORGIA   Japanese Forced Into Small Area On Beach

Set a Ce ee ae  Halian Planes With Swastika Attack American Bombers

ANOTHER CALL = (3 GOING OUT   Induction Notices Sent te ‘Another Tipton County . Group Today.

ANOTHER GALL 10 GUING QUT   Induction Netices Sent to Another Tipton County Group Today.

ADMIRAL KING REVEALS PLANS AREUNDERWAY   Fleet Head Predicts Early Action, Even Before Defeat of Germany

Plans Are Set To Smash Japs in 1944   Assault May Not Wait For Complete Defeat of Germany

Allies Wiake Ready To Shift Against Japs. King Also Contends  Germany Will Be Beaten This Year

King Expects This Some Time in 1944; Main Attack Lines Decided On

ADMIRAL KING REPORTS ALLIES READY TO SHIFT STRENGTH AGAINST JAP*

Plans Ready For Full Strength War Against Japs   Admiral King Says Shift Porbably In 1944.

UNITED NATIONS TO SEND MIGHTY UNITS INTO WAR   Decisive Assaults May Be Launched Even Before Defeat of Germany

Shift of Power From Europe fo Pacific Nears   Admiral King Expects Action Before Nazis Fali

AMERICAN NAVAL CHIEF TAKES VIEW THAT MORE DIRECT DRIVE WILL BE MADE AGAINST NIPS   Expects Germany Will Be Beaten But Regardless Of European Outcome He Thinks Allied Eneokm Sufficient to Make Determined Attacks

May Be Able * — to Transfer ‘Power Soon   p Admiral King Says Shit ' May Come When Nazi Defeat Appears Near      _ WOULD WELCOME P NAVAL BATTLE   Island-Hopping to Last Only as Long as Forces Are Tied Up Elsewhere

Offensive Near, Says Adm. King   Allies Will Move Full Strength of Their Fighting Forces Into Pacific Arena; Fleet In Position to Retain Initiative, He Declares

Allies Prepared To Shift Fleet To Pacific Area  Admiral King Sees Stepped Up Jap Attack In "44

Admiral King Says: Plans Are Already Made for Change   Fleet Commander Affirms Eisenhower Prediction of Victory

To Step Up War Against Japan  Admiral King Reports Plans All Complete

PACIFIC POWER 10 BE BOOSTED   King Reveals Plans Underway To Extend Drive In ’44

MAJOR LINES OF ATTACK DRAWN UP   May Not Wait Until Nazis Are Beaten, King Says   EUROPEAN WAR   Will End In Coming Year, Fleet Head Expects: ‘Other Views

Allies to Shift Sea Strength to Combat Japanese   Admiral King Says U. S. and Britain May Not Wait Till Nazis Defeated.   Unrelenting Pressure  To Be Made on Japan

Full United Nations’ Strength Thrown Against Japan In 1944   Admiral King, Expecting Germany To Be Beaten Coming Year. Says Plans Have Been Prepared

Plan Shift To Pacific Area   King Says Allies Ready Concentration Of Strength Against Japs For 194 4

Admiral King Says Plans Ready For Pacific War   Full Strength of United Nations May Soon Be Shifted

COMPLETE PLANS ~ FOR WAR ON JAPAN, PROBABLY IN 1944   This Was the Announcement Made Today by Admiral Ernest J. King.  ]  i ’    UNDERWAY FOR MONTHS   May Not Wait Until Defeat of Germany Which Is Expected Next Year.

To Hurl Full Strength at Japs in 1944   United Nations Planning to Shift Power Even Before Germanvy’s Defeat

Plans Ready For Shifting Allied Strength Into War Against Japanese In 1944

Fleet Head Sees Nazi End in’44   CAPE GLOUCESTER AIRFIELD PERILED AS JUNGLE FIGHTING FLARES; NAVY CHIEF SAYS PLANS MADE TO SHIFT ALLY STRENGTH

PLANS READY FOR SHIFTING UN STRENGTH   Admiral King Says Transfer of Forces Against Japan May Not Wait Until Defeat of Germany

U.S. Is Shifting Great Strength To Pacific—King   Commander-In-Chief Of American Fleet Says Enemy Is Doomed

NAZI WAR MACHINE ~ WRECKED BY REDS, CHURCHILL ASSERTS   But Warns Allies Face Costliest Campaign of War In Europe In ‘44 _   EXPECTS DESPERATE FIGHT

Mr. Churchill Warns Gettysburg Tragedies May Be Surpassed In European War In 1944

Russian Blows at Nazis May Be “Fatal,” He States   Prime Minister Warns Against Optimism in Historic Speech

Churchill Warns 1944 Campaign Will Be Costly   Says Reds Wreck Nazis, Break U-boat War Back

L. 6. PROCTOR OF AUSTIN NAMED STATI WELFARE DIRECTOR  IF CONFIRMED BY SEN_ ATE HE WILL SUCCEED - MURCHISON. RESIGNED

TASK FORCE RAIDS JAPS ON WAKE   Details Lacking, But Operations May Still Be in Progress

WAKE ASSAULT MAY BE FIRST OF HARD BLOWS   Strongest Naval Force Yet Assembled Against Japs Blasts Island   OBSERVERS’ HOPES SOAR   Formation Still May Be Conducting Operations In Enemy Waters

OPA CHANGES PRICE REGULATION ON FISH   Takes Place of Previous Ceiling Set Last Year

Simmons Gave Woman $20,000   Husband of Slain Woman Admits Payments To Another Woman

Husband Of Victim Gave Divorcee-Siayer $20,000   Mrs. Howard Also Got Monthly Payments, T. Karl Simmons Reveals Today

Oilman’s Remark To Be Investigated In Tulsa Slaying  Says He Gave $20,000 To Divorcee Accused Of Killing His Wife

Slain Woman's Hubby Admits Triangle Affair  e Paid $20,000 By ch a Oil Man

Lhe War I oday— Fall Of Pantelleria Demonstrates Success Of Combined Sea-Air Powe!

‘All-Out Aerial Offensive on Axis Draws First Blood  Island Blasted into Submission

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Pantelleria’s Surrender Hirst Fruit Of All-Out ' erial Offensive

(Churchill Remark That It’s  Worth Trying to Bomb Axis (Into Submission Gets Support

ALLIES DRAW FIRST BLOOD IN SURRENDER OF PANTELLERIA AS RESUTT OF AERIAL POUNDINCS

CONGRESSMEN DRAW FDR BARB ON PLANNING   President Calls Denial .of Funds for National Planning _ Board ‘Spendthrift,, Argues Need -

Planning Board Fund Is Debated   Congress Chided by FDR For Ignoring Budget For Post-War Planning.

Economy Bloc Cuts Budget Bureau Fund   $180,000 Lopped Off as De. bate Continues Over: Planning Board      THE SECOND BLOW AT ADMINISTRATION   New:.Pleas Are Made Not to'Be ‘Penny Wise: and Pound Foolish’

British Catch Fox Off Guard On South Flank   ist Army Beats Off Heavy Attack in North Tounisia

8th Army Crushes Axis Force Segment  as R.A.F. Scores   METHODICAL FRENCH SEIZE KEY CITY OF METLAOU! AS ROMMEL’S FORCES CRINGE; AFRICA SHOWDOWN LOOMS

Nazis Suffer Losses In New Mareth Battle   Heavy Fighting Is fi Progress 40 Miles Fron Southwest End Of Line   FRENCH MOVE UP   Matlaoui Is Captured tn Drive Fer Gafsa; British Repulse Jab In North 

Beaches Littered With Wreckare   Prelude To Opening Second Prant

KNOCKOUT OF ITALY SEEN ALLIED PRELIMINARY TO WESTERN EUROPE DRIVE

INVASION NOT EXPECTED TO SATISFY REDS   London Given Psychological Lift By Turn In Events

Ardent ‘Second Fronters’ Dissatistied With Invasion of Italian Mainland.

WORD OF INVASION ITALIAN MAINLAND CHEERING T0 LONDON  SOME DISAPPOINTMENT BECAUSE BLOW DID NOT FALL IN WEST AREA

Invasion Comes  As No Surprise  Believe Russia Still Won't Be Satisfied  nm. Frere watewvwrmac

ITALIAN DRIVE CHEERS LONDON   But Ardent “Second Fronters’ Still Hope for Blow Across Channel.

FINNISH PEACE. MOVE TO START IN MARCH, SAID   Initial Finnish Peace Feelers Ar Made Through Swedish Channels

FINNISH PEACE MOVES MAPPED   Distrust Of Soviets fs Main Barrier To Quick Completion Of Plan

Soviet-Finn Peace Talks Believed Neat   Finland Reported to Have Made Overtures to Moscow   AWAITS RED REPLY   Restoration of Pre-1939 Frontiers and ‘Security’ Finns’ Aims

Nazis Are Reversec In Grim Effort To Gain on Donets  Skirmish Costs Foe Heavily in @Gacens wu’ Pak Line

Soviets Repulse German Thrust   Nazis Try te Make Donets Crossing

RUSSIANS STOP NAZIS ON DONETS   GERMAN ATTEMPT TO CROSS RIVER PROVES COSTLY— MANY TROOPS DROWN.

NAZIG MAKE VAIN PUSH ON DONETS   Stage Unsuccessful and Costly Attempt to Cross River;  Red Air Force Continues Assaults

Nazis Are Reversec In Grim Effort To Gain on Donets  Skirmish Costs Foe Heavily in Sector on Red Line

SOVIETS CRUSH DONETS ATTACK   Germans Mowed Down It Attempt To Effect River Crossing

RUSSIANS REPORT REPULSE OF NAZIS IN DONETS AREA   German Attempt To Cross River Beaten Off with Heavy Losses to Enemy, Moscow Says

Reds Turn Back Drive By Nazis   Attempt To Cross Donets Frustrated

Russians Stop Nazi Move To Cross Donets  Small German Unit: Wined Out In

NAZI ATTEMPT TO.CROSS RIVER PROVES COSTLY   Many Mowed Down 8; Soviet Fire And Others Drowned In Donets   ACTION CONFINED TO LOCAL OPERATIONS

NAZIS PUSHED BACK BY REDS   Attempt To Cross Donets River Proves Costly To Enemy

Soviets Crush Donets Thrust   Germans Mowed Down. Others Nenwned

Fourth Term Drive Seen By Spangler   Says Action Conducted By Frankfurter And Others

THREE TRAPPED IN MINE BLAST   Three Others Escape From Pit At Cambridge; Fumes Hamper Rescuers

EXPLOSION IN MINE TRAPS 3   Marcus Kerr Directs Rescut Efforts at Belle Vaizey

GAS EXPLOSION TRAPS MINERS   Not Known Whether Workers Were Dead or Alive, 3 Escape

Trio Trapped In Ohio Mine   Blast Near Cambridge Brings Rescue Crews; Three Men Escape.

Messina Heavily Bombed by RAF; Fires Left Burning In Harbor Area

Flying Fortresses Left Huge Fires Burning On  Italian Island Of Sicily

MESSINA HEAVILY BOMBED ON FRIDAY IN FORTRESS RAID   HUGE FIRES LEFT BURN. ING IN HARBOR AND RAILWAY YARDS

LARGEST FORCE OF U.S, AIRMEN BLASTS MESSINA   British Airmen Hit Sardinia. Americans Damage Supply Facilities in Sicily

Messina Is Plastered In Heaviest  Attack Yet   Hits Scored On Many Buildings, Communique Reports; Railroad Station Set Afire

LARGEST FLYING FORTRESS RAID OF MEDITERRANEAN WAR LEAVES BIG FIRES BURNING IN MESSINA

ASSAULTED BY BRITISH   920 Enemy Fighters Shot Down; Huge Fires Are Set

SEVENTH AR CADET DEAD IN CHEROKEE   One Pilot Still Missing From Courtland Base

Awai: a) Reaccion ’ “OA ) raise ° \ Sienicicance 07 . ew 2ricai1 _unge

State's Budget Bill Is Passed By The Senate  72 Million Dollar   72 Million Dollar Measure Sent To Governor Goodland

War Chest Still Short; Cards to  Be in Tomorrow   Workers Urged to Report; Clean-up Drive is Planned

APPOINTMENT OF HIMMLER SEEN AS PROOF MORALE OF NAZIS I$ SLIPPING

NAMING OF HIMMLER MAY MEAN GERMAN PEOPLE NEED TOUGH WHIPMASTER TO KEEP UP MORALE

ALL-OUT ATTACK BY AIR ON GERMANY IS PREDICTED SHORTLY   Appointment of Himmler Gives Fresh Support to  Conviction Crisis is,  Nearina. i

Himmler Appointment As Home Front Boss Points to Slipping Morale

AFTER KISKA, SAYS DE WITT   (General Declares Enemy’s Navy Dispersed and In Hiding.   ROAD TO TOKYO OPEN   Admiral Hints at Attack or Nipponese as They Fled Aleutian island.

Navy Lands Men On Segula Island   Tiny Island In The Aleu. tian Chain Occupied By Allied Troops

Germans Blast British Store   Many Shoppers Believed Buried in Rubble

Nazi Bomb Hits Department Store   Many Feared Dead After Air Raid

NAZI BOMB HITS STORE   Many Persons Feared Buried In Ruins Of British Store

U.S, WILL SHIFT MANY WORKERS TO NEW PLANTS   Spartan Living to Win War Urged as Offensive Crisis Nears

Many Persons Are Feared In Wreckage   Big Department Store Reported Crowded at Time

NAZIS SCORE DIRECT BOMB HIT ON STORE   Many Bodies Feared Pinned in Wreckage im South . England Town—London Has Alert

Mill or Drill Choice Up To 100,000   Ohio Employment Service Says Order May Hit 200.000.   Registry To Help   om BEE EEE On Workers Signed Up  Will Get 30 Days To Decide. Ie Ward

40,200-FOOT LEAP MADE IN “CHUTE   ARMY COLONEL SETS HIGH RECORD JUMP TO TEST OXYGEN EQUIPMENT.

SENIOR CLASS OF 10   Nelson Horn Will Address Seniors at Vinland Rural High

SISTER TO NAME CRAFT FOR HERO   Launching of Escort Ship Schmitt Is Saturday

SCHMITT TAKES PLACE IN FLEET   Sister of Chaplain Hero Christens Vessel

OPA RESOLVES TO GIVE U. S. PUBLIC MINIMUM OF ANNOYANCE NEXT YEAR

GPA MAKES NEW RESOLUTIONS   Administrator Bowles Predicts Gas Restrictions

GAS, TIRES “TIGHTER”   OPA Forsees More Restrictions For firivers tn 1944

Japs Punished By Terrific Raids Upon Lae   138 Enemy Planes Put Out of Action, 3 Transports Sunk

Allies Account for 138 Planes During Attack on Convoy, Which Continues

Fleeing Jap Fleet Under Fire   Yanks Increase Big Total of Foe Planes Sent Down

CONGRESS MAY ACT QUICKLY TO DELAY FAMILY MEN DRAFT   Bill Would Pool Other Induction Groups For First Calls

Seek Uniform Procedure For Inducting Men   Congress Is Expected To Take Prompt Action To Assure Delay In Drafting Fathers

CONGRESS TO ACT 10 DELAY DRAFT OF MEN WITH CHILDREN   Farm . State Congressmen Will Work To Have Farm. Workers ~  Deferred =: :

Action Providing Delay in Drafting Fathers Expected   Congress would Summon All Other Eligible Men First

Draft Action Is Seen Near   Congress Expected To Protect Families

Seek ‘Action To Delay In . duction of Married Men . With Children Until the  . Other . Eligibles Are Taken, - oe   SHOWDOWN SEEN.   Ultimate Size of Army Appears Headed For Defi‘nite Decision; Seek Uni _ term. Rule In State. - .

EARLY ACTION ON DRAFTING FATHERS DU   Congress Seeks to Delay Induction Until Single Men Used

 Farm Laborers Also Scheduled to Be Left in Fields Rather Than Inducted  Jnto Army.

SOLONS MAP WEDDED NEN DRAFT PLANS   Farm Heads Seek Release From Military Duty Of Workers

Back the Attack!  MANITOWOC COUNTY GOAL $3,745,500  SS   Prisoners of War Flee Camp

GREAT HANKOW AREA ATTACKED   Chinese Carry Battle To Heart Of Jap Regime In Central China

CHIANG OPENS NEW DRIVE IN CENTRAL CHINA   New Spearhead Aimed At Jap Held Hankow

Montgomery — Says Assault On Italy. Near   _Three More Rail Junctions Smashed ~ By Allied Planes

ALLIED FLIERS HAMMER ITALY   _ jontgomery Forecasts ‘Action At Any Time’

BOMBS aMAah MOE LTALIAN HAILRUAD HUBS   Relentless Aerial Pounding Of Italy’s Communication Lines Proceeding

SAYS ATTACK ON ITALY TO START SOON   Aerial Offensive Continues; Three Rail Hubs Raided

RETREAT RAPID ON CORRIDOR T0 NORTHWARD   Kharkov also outflanked by capture of Zolochev, to the north

RED ARMIES ADVANCE IN TWIN PUSH   Combined Assault Threatens All Nazi Power in Russia

‘Red Army Troops Drive On Kharkov: Bryansk Also Goal   Russians Stream Westward In Pursuit Of Retreating Nazi Forces   GERMAN POWER IN RUSSIA MENACED

GERMANS ADMIT REDS BREAK LINE BEFORE KHARKOV   Combined Assaults Threaten to Destroy All Reich’s Power in Russia

FIVE FURNACES ARE REOPENED   Coal Output Is Up But 130,000 Strikers Are Still Out

WORK ON SIX DAY TRUCE   Day Workers. Resume. Jobs at . Cramp Shipbuilding Company

“Liberty Brick” To Be On Display At High School   Impressive Program Is Scheduled On March 4 At 1] A. M.

Nazis Rumored Taking Over Full Control of Danes  Telephone Lines to Stockholm Cut in

Danish Unresi Hints Full Nazi Control  Germans Cui Lines Of Communication

‘Dane Revolt -ls Spreading   Communications With Sweden Are Severed

Danish Crisis Hidden Behinc Dhone Cutout   Rumors Spread Nazis Have Taken Over Full Military Control of Rebellious Denmark

Telephone and Telegraph Communications With    Sweden Severed as  Crisis Mounts   RIOT CASUALTIES GO PAST 200 MARK   King Christian May Be Interned as Nazi Military Forces Take Over All Civil Functions

Say premier resigns amid flaring revolt   Momentous news events f orming

DANISH KING MAY ABDICATE   Threatens To Do So If Full Nazi Military Rule Applied

f Denmark  0 Control s Rumored   Telephone Connections With Sweden Are Suddenly Severed

Crisis Feared — In Nazi Clash With Denmark   Telephone With Sweden Cut as Other Signs al  lad ina Palin

REPORT NAZIS ARE ASSUMING FULL CONTROL   Cutting Of Telephone Service Hints Major Developments   REVOLT FLARES   Nation Is Strategic Cog In Germany's Military Defense

Nazis Cut Wires As Denmark  Rebellion Grows   German, Italian Rail Hubs Blasted; Reds’ Offensive Rolls On

Showdown Believed Near in Denmark  Telephone Lines : To Sweden Cut

NAZI MILITARY RULE ORDERED; KING MENACEL   Swedish - Danish T cl e phone Communications Cut Off As Unrest Grows

Communications To Sweden Cut; Nazis Rumored Taking  Over Full. Control: As Government: Resigns”

Denmark In New Crisis; Full Military Control By Nazis Is Reported

Nazis Impose Army Rule On Danes   Crisis Takes New Turn; Telephone  Connections Cot

King Christian Abdication Threat, Ouster Of Prime Minister Are Reported _

GERMANS MAY RULE DENMARK   Signs Point to Political Upheavel in Nation

Sever Danish  — Wire Service   Communications To Sweden Cut; Rumors Say Germans Take Over.

Political Crises Seen in Model Protectorate   Report Prime Minister's Gov't. Has Resigned

Military Rule For Denmark:  Rumors Rife Nazis Taking Over Goyernment of Danes

GERMANS DEMAND HIGHT TO GOVERN SMALL KINGDOM   Action Comes in Midst of Rebellion Marked By Rioting Strikes and Sab-    otace,   WIRE COMMUNICATION WITH SWEDEN SEVERED   Travelers Hear Monarch May Be Interned — Scores Dead, 200 Wounded in Recent. Outbreaks.

PHONE SERVICE FROM LITTLE NATION CUT OFF   Germans May Take Over Full Military Control Of Country

Telephone Conimunications Between Denmark, Sweden  Cut; Crisis Apparently Near

King May Abdicate if Danes Let Nazis Take Power  Ultimatum Is Sequel To Numerous Clachae With Enamy

Government Out, Belief; Germans Act   King Christian Facing  Internment; Athletic Contests Slated On Sundav Cancelled

German-Danish Tension Grows Amid Clashes  Communications Of Protectorate

Ruhr Valley Raided Second Straight Night   Heavy Bombing Planes Of RAF Attack Heart Of German War Industry —Lose Two Planes

RAF BOMBERS ATTACK RUHR   Second Straight Night Raid On Industrial Area

Present Figure is 2,954 _ Compared with 3,423 : A Year Ago   TO HAVE AMPLE COAL

ENROLLMENT IS DOWN   Attendance i in City Schools at End  of First Week Is 2930

Present Figure is 2,954, Compared with 3,423 A Year Ago  ~—=——_ ses siasvewee: aeae@wsae© oe =~ > 2 &

‘Committees Sort Legislative Bills   Statewide Vote On Liquor Among First Proposals   ‘Comrades In New Guinea ‘Bury Eight Crash Victims

Roswell Hero Dies In Air Accident  Killed With Seven  In New Guinea

Goodland Cancels  7 Appointments  Six Made By Heil, One By La Follette Are  Dropped

Appointments — Made By Heil Are Revoked   Six Persons Named By Heil And One Named By La Follette Are Deprived Of Posts

Marcus F armer  Found Dead In Car  Coroner Says Death Due To Accident

ADVERTISING LAUDED BY FEDERAL AGENCY   Ads Major Weapon Of Home Front, Is Claim

Attu Saga--Cold Hungry ~ Yanks Attack Holtz Bay   Story Told AP Staffer By Captain of Daring Company

Yanks With Frozen Feet and No Food Outfight Entrenched Japs On Attu 

How 210 Yanks, Foodless for Three Days and with Frozen Feet,  Plowed Through Attu Snowdrifts to Help Rout Japs at Holtz Bay

Startling Eyewitness Account Attu Fighting; Americans Blast Japs

SAVAGE FIGHTS BRING BLOODY ATTU VICTORY   Machines Counted For Little in Encounters At Frozen Holtz Bay

Suicidal Jans More Than Match For Allies, Man for Man, Says Writer

DODGE STATUS OF STAFF HEAD   Stimson Silent Concerning Marshall  No Comment on Mae A estlasees Locth aw

NO LIGHT SHED ON MARSHALL   Stimson Evades Questions on Future Ranking of General

Axis Conference in Northern Italy   Von Ribbentrop Confers With Guariglia, Italian Foreign Minister.

ITALIAN, NAZI LEADERS CONFER   ROME’S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER GUARIGLIA MEETS VON RIBBENTROP.

WALLACE CITES FOOD PROGRAM FOLLOWING WAR   Vice president says Brit ish commonwealth to play major role

‘000 SUPPLY: AID AS SEEN   WALLACE SAYS MANY ‘OTHER  “COUNTRIES WILL, HAVE  FOOD, FOR WAR RAV 1 AGED NATIONS

Waeallace Saus Other Nations Will Supply Vost ef Food fer Hungry After the War

SWEEP IN PACIFIC   'U. S, Bombers Hit Jap Targets : Without Oppesition

ALLIED BOMBERS RAKE JAP BASES   BAIROKO, AMBOINA, VILA AND SALAMAUA AREAS LEFT AFLAME

FLIERS HEAVILY BOMB PACIFIC: BASES OF JAPS   Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko and Am bonia Strafed with Major Atten tion to First Two

Allied Planes Strike Widely  In Pacifie   4 Jap Strongholds of Vila,  . Salamaua, Baitoko and Amboina Heavily Pounded Without Op. position.

BOMBS RAIN ON ‘FOUR JAP BASES   Allied Planes Roam Battle Area In Heavy Assaults On Enemy

GA DI FOUR OF GAPS  MAJOR BASES HIT BY BOMBS   Allied Airmen Drop 22¢ Tons of Bombs On Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko and Amboina

Allies Bomb 'Four Bases Of Japanese      Entire Southwest Pacific Battle Area Hit; 224 Tons of Bombs Dropped

Airmen Range Jap-Held Area Unopposed   Bomb Strongholds, Heaviest Loads Dumped On Salamaua and Vila

FOUR JAP AIR ‘BASES BOMBED   Heavy Rains Slow Advance   of Infantry On New  Georgia

224 TONS BOMBS DROPPED ON JAPS MONDAY   Four Strongholds of Vila Salamaua, Bajroko and Ambonia Bombed

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST FOUR JAP BASES IN PACIFIC   No Air Resistance Offered by Nip on Wide-Scale Attacks

224-TON BOMB LOAD DROPPED ON JAP BASES   Allies Raid Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko and Amboina in Southwest Pacific Without Fighter Plane Opposition.

Jap Centers Are Heavily Bombed   Four Areas Are Assailed by Allied Fliers: Much Damage

ALLIED BOMBERS AAKE PACIFIC AREA   Heaviest Bomb Loads Dumped on. Salamaua and Vila,  Invasion Points

Bombers Pound Key Japanese Pacific Base:   Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko And Amboina Targets For Mass Attacks

4 MAJOR JAP BASES STRUCK BY AMERICANS   Salamaua And Vila Pounded; Rain Slows Ground Action

U.S. BONBERS HIT FOUR JAP PACIFIC BASES   Complete Heavy Raids Without Meeting Any En emy Fichter Planes.

HUNDREDS OF TONS DROPPED ON JAP BASES   Four Strongholds, Including  Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko   And Amboina Are : Raided   RABAUL ALSO TARGET

U.S, AIRMEN HIT JAP STRONGHOLD   Four Island Bases Batterered With 224 Tons Of Bombs *   NO OPPOSITION   Salamaua And Vila Are Heavily Blasted By Raiders

JAPANESE BASES IN S. W. HANDED HEAVY POUNDING   224 Tans of Bombs Dropped By Allied Craft On Monday

Four Major Jap Bases Attacked   Allied Bombers Range Whole Pacific

Allied Planes Raid Entire Pacific Front   Four Jap Strongholds Hammered by 224 Tons of Bombs

Heavy Bombing Prelude To New Thrust At Vila   Allied Attacks Along Whole Length Of Area In S. W. Pacific.

Allies Blast 4 Jap Bases   Entire South Pacific Wer Front Peited by 224 Tons of Bombs

ALLIED BOMBERS IN VAST SWEEPS OVER SOUTHWEST PACIFIC  _. HUNDREDS OF ‘TONS OF ROMRC NROPPEN ow

PLANES RANGE PACIFIC AREA   224 Tons of Bombs Poured Down on Jap Basts in Widespread Raids.

U.S. Airmen Blast Japs   22 Tons of Bombs  Dropped on 4 Jap Strongholds

FOUR JAPANESE STRONGHOLDS HiT BY ALLIED BOMBS   Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko anc Amboina Feel Force o 224 Tons of Bombs A: Allied Fliers Range Ths — Length of South Pacific War Area,

Allied Bombers Range Pacific Battle Region   Jap Strongholds Are Battered by 224 Tons of Bombs

Strike Of N. Y. Milk Workers  Gains In Force   Stoppage In Deliveries Hits Hundreds Of Thou sands Of Families.

Bombs Wreck 177 Airplanes: 17,600 Tons of Shipping Sunk   ‘I Think We’ve Broken Its Back.’ M’Arthur Says of Blow at Bastion

Air Force Thrown  Into Rabaul Raid   gy arog i. —— at Japan's Key ir Base  -Air   ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY   Attack “Marks Turning Point in War of South  Pacific”

*~  NEW MEXIC IN NEW PLAN OF INTERSTATE BENEFIT UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENT

BOMBS PLASTER KISKA AIRDROME   Ten Raids Made In One Day On Aleutian Island Bases

Unprecedented Series of Raids  U.S. Fliers Make 10 Attacks On Japs on Kiska in One Day

Army Planes Plaster Jap Kiska Positions   U.S. Bombers Give Battle To Jap Supply Convoy

YANK FLIERS BLASTER JAP ON KISKA IS.   Ten Raids On Aleutian Island Made In One Day;  Hits Scored, Fires StartOe:   Record Attack

TEN ATTACKS MADE ON JAPS AT KISKA      Unprecedented Series o' Raids Made in One Day

Kiska Bombed In Ten Raids On Single Day   Dawn-to-Dusk Attacks Se New Record, Navy Reports

Dakar Never To Threaten West Again   Roosevelt, VargasDiscuss Plans For Hemisphere Safety

SFAX ATTACKED BY BIG GROUP OF WARPLANES   Other Indications That Offensive Opened To Prevent Rommel Junction In Tunisia

U.S. Air Force In Big Raid on Axis’ Sfax Base   British 8th Duels With Rommel’s Rear Guard in Zuara Area

HARBOR AND RAILWAY YARDS OF SFAX WERE AIR RAID OBJECTIVES   AXIS BETRAYED JITTERS BY CLAIM BIG MOVE STARTED IN TUNISIA

RAIL YARDS AND DOCKS ARE HARD HIT   Raid Is 12th Air Force’s Greatest of War—British Duel With Rommel Units East of Tunisian Border.

ltalians Admit Heavy Damage  To Supply Port   Allies Shorten Rommel Escape Corridor, Axis Reports British. Start Bia Movement in Tunisia

U.S. Fliers Make Greatest Attack Of War On Sfax   Harbor And Railway Yards Smashed; Huge Fires Rage; Axis Jittery

REAR GUARD FOR ROMMEL DUELS WITH DITISH ARTHLERY   Twelfth Air Force Reports American Bombing HMasviect Yat

Yank Planes Pound Sfax, Supply Port   British Guns In Duel With Rommel’s Rear  Guard

Railways, Harbor Ripped by Yanks   Italians Admit Daniage Heavy; Axis Sees Plan to Sandwich Arniy

RAILWAY YARDS, HARBOR STRUCK BY EXPLOSIVES   Action Is Called 12th Air Forces Greatest Raid Ot War   STILL AFTER ROMMEL   British Artillery Duels With Retreating Army In Zuara Area

TZTHU.S.AIR FORCE “GIVES SFAX- WORST BOMBING OF WAR   Harbor, Railway Yards, Hard “Hit As British Duel With “Rommel’s Rear Guard   ATTACK IN FOUR WAVES

U. S. Airmen Blast Sfax Harbor Railway   Axis Vital Supply Port Struck by Four Waves of Bombers; British Artillerymen Duel With Rommel’s Rear Guard at Zuara.

Four Waves Of Bombers Blast Supply Port   Axis Radio Believes Giant Tunisian Offensive Already Launched By Ist Army  Ry ALFRED F. WALT.

Harbor of Sfax Is Bombed by Yanks   Is Target of 12th U. S. Air Force's Heaviest Raid — - to Date   A THREAT TO CORRIDOR   British Artillery Pounds Rommel’s Rear Guard Near Zuara

Axis Jitters Shown By Reports Allied Offensive Started   Russians Gain 124%Miles Toward Kursk On Central Front

Nazis Jitfery Over Americar African Push  Fear poem te i ll e Cut

U. S. Air Force Hits Axis Harbor   BRITISH 8TH ARMY DUELS ROMMELL’S REAR GUARD

Greatest U. S. Africa Air Raid ‘Saturates’ Sfax   Four Waves Of Planes Set Harbor, Rail Yards Afire; Allies Say Little As. Axis Reports Drive Is On

THE HARBOR AND RAILWAY YARDS AT SFAX HARD HIT   Twelfth U. S. Air Force ij Its Greatest Raid of the War.   British 8th Army Artillery men Dueled With Rommel’s Rear Guard.

Bombing Expedition, Described As Greatest Action Of War By American Units, Carried Out On Harbor And Railway Yards While British Eighth Army Artillery Duels With Rommel’s Rear Guard Near Tunisian Frontier—Ground Situation Unchanged

HIT HARD BY HEAVY BOMBINGS   Many Fires Left Burning By American Fliers   HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR   eee ee eee ie hk ee 2 ee  Fn 8 DL  ‘Something Big’ Reported Brewing In Tunisiaa ,y

Sfax Railroad  Yards, Harbor Hit By Airmen   British Army Artillery Duels With Rommel’s Rear Guard  AXIS SHOW JITTERS  Reds Buckle Nazi Forces, Killing 3000; Capture Many Enemies

‘IGHTH ARMY SATTERS NAZI EAR GUARDS   ladio Suggestions Heard hat British Have Started Big Move In Tunisian Theater  ee pene oe CeaIrimaAser

ALLIED THRUST TOWARD GABES SAID STARTED   Axis Radio Jittery; Say British And Americans Have Started Big Move

—e ioaeieeenenenumedhiie: ith Sieiiioaath  Yards, Harbor _ Hit By Airmen British Army Artillery  Duels With Rommel’s Rear Guard  AXIS SHOW JITTERS  Reds Buckle Nazi Forces, Killing 3000; Capture Many Bweniies

Strike Axis Supply Base   12ih U.S. Air Force in Greatest Raid Of War On Sfax, Axis Nervous.

Drive Expected Against Germans In North Africa   Americans Bomb Sfax; British Pursue Rommel

dAYG U8, CAN TAKE FULL PART IN WAR   Patterson Answers Critics Of Proposed 7,500,000 Man Array.

America Can Do ‘The Job, Says Patterson      U.S. Can Produce Arms And Food Necessary And ‘Still Take Its Full Part In Fighting War, Government Official Tells West Pointers .

WEALTHY ROMANIANS LEAVING FOR TURKEY AND SELLING .PROPERTY—BUL-"  GARIA I8 IN TURMOIL !

REVENGE FOR FRANCE   Fall Of Musselini Is Hailed By General DeCaulie

HOUSE OKAY GIVEN IN FIRST HARMONY TES]   Approves - Probe . To Wine Out. Overlapinine hon F

FDR Orders 48-Hour Work Week   Overtime Pay Law and Existing Wage Agreements Stand

TO BOOST EARNINGS QF MANY PEOPLE   McNutt -Given Control American War Produc cee TS

War Manpower Mobilizing  PRESIDENT ORDERS 48-HOUR WEEK IN PLANNING INVASION

PRESIDENT ORDERS 48-HR WORK WEEK   Calls It Part Of “Fuliest Mobilization” Of Manpower And Resources For E.uropean Invasion.   Power To McNutt

JAPS MOVING OUT ~ OF KOLOMBANGARA WITHOUT A FIGHT   Last-Ditch Stand Being Made  at Finschhafen, However

JAPS MAY LEAVE KOLOMBANGARR   enemy Defends Finschhafen lo The Last, But May  Quit Solomons Base

Big Jap Foree Beleaguered i  Chinese City   Formosa Raid Hailed a: Opening of Offensive On Janan

Chinese fight Nips at Yuan   Encircle foe after series of -hatiles

LEADER’S MEETING EXEMPLIFIES GOOD: NEIGHBOR POLICY   President Camacho Returns To Mexico After Day  In Corpus Christi,  , Texas

Roosevelt, Camacho  PartatC.C.   Meeting of Two Chiefs Example of Neighbor Policy

Two Presidents Highly Pleased With Result Of Meeting; Watch Flyers 

MEET AGAIN ON U.S.SOLL   <U. S. and Mexie Executives at’ Corpus Christi

F.D.R., Camacho End Historic Texas Meeting   Demonstrates. Republics' Good Neighbor Policy

Meeting of Two Presidents Is Called Example   Neighbor Policy ' Said Shown in Historic Meeting

NATION BUYS PRESENTS FOR ADOLF HITLER   THIRD OF SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE IN THE BAG

Happy-Birthday-to-Adolph Idea Catches on With U. S. Buyers of. War Bond Drive

OEUOND WAR BOND PURCHASES GROW   With Third of 13 Billion Dollar Goal in Bag Americans Start Planning Birthday Presents for Adolph

Record Blow Hits Japs on New Britain   179 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Base

New Britain Base Pounded   179 Tons of Bombs Hit Cape Gloucester

ALLIED FLIER DUMP 173-TON LOAD ON JAPS   Cape Gloucester Airdrome on New Britain Island Badly Damaged.

Congresman Comes Out In Interest OF Economy For Clare Luce Admirers

SENATE COMMITTEE OBJECTS TO FARM MACHINERY LIMIT      °943 Food Goals Will Be Reached With  28% Limit ‘On Equipment

Farm Machinery Shortage Assailed   Committee Makes Recommendations

Cite Need for Farm Machinery      “Senators Say ~ Food Threatened

Escaped Asylum Inmate Sought After Slayings   Father, Grandmother Found Slain In Grand Rapids Home

YOUTH SHOOTS HIS DAD AND GRANDMOTHER   Bodies Found By Girl In Pools ef Blood On Kitchen Floor

British 8th Army Slices  Into Tunisia   Troops 60 Miles Across Border, Bear Down On Rommel’s Forces For Shawdawn Strugcle

North “African: Theater of 1 Operations Has Been ” Established .   IS CASABLANCA PLAN   British Eighth Army in Tunisia Under American's — Direction -

GENERAL EDWARDS NAMED ACTING CHIEF OF SAFPF IN THE EUROPEAN THEATRE

OPEN SHOPPING DAYS THURSDAY   Annual Ironwood Event Continues Through Friday, Saturday.

SPRING EVENT ON THREE DAYS   Annual City Shopping Qpening Begins Next Week On Thursday.

Fliers Strafe Jap Ships and ‘ Pacific Bases   Heavy Raids Damage : . Destroyers and Batter Island Towns

FDR REFUSES TO DISCUSS LETTER   Davies to Make Quick Trip  To Russia on Mission

DAVIES GIVEN NEW MISSION TQ MOSCOW   Former Ambassador to Russia Will Leave Almost at Once With Personal Letter From the  . President to Stalin.

FDR Avers Joseph Davies Will Carry Personal Letter From President to J. Stalir

FDR’S LETTER TO STALIN TO GO BY SPECIAL COURIER   Former Ambassador to Russia Will Leave Immediately With Document

President Says His Personal Envoy Will Leave Almost Immediately For Moscow   FENDS OFF QUERIES TO ITS CONTENTS   Not Even Davies Knows What Is In It; May Be Proposing Meeting With Red Dictator

Davies Will Leave Seon For Moscow   Roosevelt Fends All At tempts to Learn Contents of Letter

Ambassador Davies on New Mission to Moseow  President Sends Former Envoy   President Sends Former Envoy ‘To Russian Capital With Leiter . For Joseph Stalin

DAVIES TO TAKE FDR'S MESSAGE TO STALIN   Former Russian Ambassador to Leave at Once

DAVIES TAKES SEURET NOTE TO AED CHIEF   Roosevelt Parries Questions On Contents; Hint Méet‘ing May Be Proposed.   FORMER AMBASSADOR LEAVING FOR MOSCOW

FDR Reveals ° Davies To Take Letter To Stalin   Contents Of Message To Red Leader Not Made Public By President

FDR WRITES 10 JOSEPH STALIN   Joseph E. Davies to Leave At Once for Moscow With Message.

F.D.R. Sends a Note To Stalin  Davies To Deliver Personal Latter

Davies To Carry FDR’s Letter To  Premier Stalin   President Avoids Answe! ing Questions As To Its Contents.

Davies to Take Letter To Stalin   Soviets Charge Some Poles  In London With Espionage

DAVIES WILL GO AT ONCE TO MOSCOW   Roosevelt Gives No Hint 01 Letter’s Contents   NO STRIKE   Of Coal Miners Expected Against Government, Executive Says

Davies taking Stalin letter in few days   Roosevelt sends premier message

DAVIES TO CARRY LETTER 10 STALIN   FDR Fails To Disclose ConAents To Newsmen

MESSAGE TO STALIN   Ambassador Davies To Carry Personal Missive From FDR

Davies To See Stalin At Once For  Roosevelt   Former Ambassador Will Leave At Once For Moscow, White  Honse Announces

DAVIES WILL DELIVER NOTE TO STALIN   President Refuses To Divulge Contents Of Letter

Davies to See Stalin   Will Carry Personal Letter From President; Meeting May Be Sought

HIGH NAVAL OFFICIAL BRINGS MUCH TALK BY PREDICTION OF LONG WAR WITH PACIFIC FNFMY

The War Today  Length Of War Anybody’s Guess But There’s No Harm In Preparing

Jap Ship Losses Nearing 1,000   12 More Enemy Vessels Sunk By Submarines

REPORT 12. MOR JAP SHIPS SUNK   Bring Total Close to 1000 During War

Soviets Now Only 60 Miles  From Perekop   US Warships Bombard Nazi Positions in Central Italy; 5th and 8th Make Short Advances; Japs Fall Back Before MacArthur's Offensive

Ukraine Road Center Seized   Offensive in White Russia Is Renewed By Soviet Forces.

New Disaster Faces Nazis on Russian Front   5th and 8th Allied Armies Make Short Advances in Italy

U, S. WARSHIPS BLAST GERMAN LINES IN ITALY   Bloody Battles in Russia, However, Overshadowing Other War Fronts

Red Army Slashes  Bores in for Kill   Japs Reel Back From Impact of MacArthur’s Aerial Offensive

New Advance of Soviets Increases Poril fo Germans   American Warships Shell Nazis North Of Italian Front

Fifth, Eighth Armies Make Short Advanee   ‘Soviet Forces 83 Miles From — Forming Junction To Trap Germans.   ‘TAKE KESSELRING OUT

Soviels Make . - Gains Along a ~ Entire Front   Yugoslav: Forces. Hit. Out ‘Strong; Cutting. Vital Rail: Line Used by Nazis) -:   ‘RUSSIANS HAMMER : F -KRIVOI ROG BASE:   ‘And Drive: “Against Forces . in Crimea,:Goés: Forward ~ in Relentless. Attacks

Russians Strike Relentlessly at Fleeing Germans in Sustained Offensive, Threatening Last Escape Hatch of  the Crimea.   Moscow Says Nazi Defense Cracks On Front Between Melitopol, Azov

Cut Last. North-South  Railway-East Of Bug ; ‘River  DISASTER. NEARS      BPA Ta Sess AR SRY  American Warships -Bombard Germans Tn Italy 

Crippling Disaster Faces Germans In The Crimea   a arene st  U. S. Warships Intervene In Italy, Attack  German Positions Near Minturno   U. S. SUBS NEAR JAP HOME WATERS   Allied Amphibious Forces Poised Near Bougainville, Last Major Outpost

Soviets Are — Sixty Miles _ from Perekor   Russians Cut Last NorthSouth Railway East of Bug River, Drive Across Nogaisk

No Let-Up In Soviet Offensive   Push Fleeing Germans Back Across Steppes, Drawing Tighter the Noose on the Crimea *

RUSSIANS CUT LAST RAILWAY EAST OF BUG RIVER ON FRIDAY  AMERICAN NAVV INTER.   AMERICAN NAVY. INTERVENES IN BATTLE FOR ROME TODAY

U.S. Ships Bombard German Positions Above Battle Lines   Rain Slows Up Allied Advance in Central Italy; Battle Still Raging at Krivoi Rog

REICH CITIES BATTERED IN TRIPLE RAID   Nazi flyers over London last night first time in months

RAF POUNDS 3 IMPORTANT NAZI CITIES   Triple Assault Follows German Raids on England

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Smashing Blow Against Nazi Airplane and U-Boat  wrsreaeat es eect

Reds Gain On  Smolensk Road   Close On Key City From Three Sides: Kharkov Drive Grows Weaker

Nazis Slacken Fury Of Assaults On Kharkov Front After Heavy Losses

3 TO ATTEND CLINIC    Dean Paul B. Lawson Will Give  Address in Kansas City

Jap Situation   Critical—Knox  Secretary Denies Nip  Claims Of Sinkines

Jap Position — Held Critical   Knox States Enemy Ha: Suffered Dire _ Loss In. Cruisers -

MILITARY DISASTER . APPEARS AKEAD OF ENEMY ON PACIFIC FRONT AS RESULT OF SETBACKS

Knox Calls Jap Position Most Critical   Loss of Cruiser And Planes Puts Them in Bad Way

Jap Position Now Critical  a na ee      Loss Of Six Cruisers Described As “Nothing Shori Of Disaster.’

JAP POSITION SERIOUS — KNOX   Nips Face Fight To Sur vive In Pacific, Navy Sec’y Says

Knox Says Jap Position in South Pacific Is Critical   Actual Survival Enemy’s Remaining Hope at This Time

JAP POSITION IN PACIFIC AREAS IS MORE CRITICAL   This Declaration Made Today by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.   FACED WITH DISASTER   It Is No Longer a Question of Actual Survival in Southwest Area, He Said.

Jap Position Is Critical, Knox Claims   Question of Survival — In Southwest Area, Official Reports

Position Of Enemy It Southwest Pacific : Critical, Secretary O01 Navy Contende

Japs in a Tough Spot in the Southwest Pacific.  JAPS CLAIM GREAT LOSS TO OUR NAVY  69 Enemy Planes Knocked Out and Prebably 79 More.

FOE IS IN ‘CRITICAL’ POSITION   Nips Now Must Fight Merely To Survive, Says Secretary

KNOX SEES NIPPO CRISIS   NAVY CHIEF SAYS JAPS IN “CRITICAL POSITION’

Pam IN CRITICAL POSITION NOW IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC   ’ Secretary Knox Makes Statement At News Conference 

Japs Are Facing Possible Disaster In Pacific Zone   Secretary Knox Says Japanese Position In Southwest Pacific Most Critical   TELLS OF SITUATION AT NEWS CONFERENCE

‘ENEMY GRIPS ON SOLOMONS ARE BEING BROKEN   Secretary of Navy Describes “Nothing Short of Disaster” Recent Foe Losses   NEW TYPE OF BOMB EMPLOYED BY JAPS   Fails to Prevent Allied Airmen From Delivering . Staggering Blows Against Rabaul

KNOX: SAYS. ENEMY POSITION IN SOUTH PACIFIC IS GRAVE   Jap Cruiser + Losses Caused By ‘American. Airmen In _° Rabaul Area. Was’ Disastrous

POSITION OF JAPS CRITICAL KNOX STATES   Sec. of War Declares Nipponese Have Suffered Several Military Defeats

KNOX DECLARES JAPS HARD HIT IN SO. PACIFIC   DESCRIBES PLIGHT OF. ENEMY AS NOW FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL

Position Of Japs In South Pacific Is Now Critical   Sec. Knox Says It Is Now Question Of Survival; Says Ship Loss Disaster

JAP POSITION IN S. PACIFIC CRITICAL, SAYS SECRETARY KNOX   Japanese Now Fighting For Actual Survival. Loss Of Ships and  Planes Proves Heavy Rina

Kiev Ablaze, Russ Open New Offensive  Soviets Deny Rumor of  Separate Peace

TRADE BOARD. SESSION APR. 5 OLONTAL tN      Carl E. Heunrich of Boston to Speak on Work of F. B. L

TRADE BOARD. SESSION APR. 5      Carl E. Heanrich a Bostor to Speak on W ve ee BL

Allies Bomb lialy Bases   Rome Claims Invasion Barges Of Allies Hit

ITALTANS FLEE SOUTHERN AREA   Invasion Barges Are Massed In Tunisia

SINK AXIS TANKER OFF COAST OF SPAIN   Air, Sea Forces Attack FullyLoaded Ship

UIL HEAD SEES BIG WAR POOL   BOYD SAYS 7 MONTHS TO SEE GOAL GAINED

Showdown Fight on Silver Seen  Measures Offered te Naur Oancradc

RAF BOMBERS POUND BERLIN MILAN, TURIN   Religious, Cultural Targets Avoided In Rome Raid

Rome And Berlin Attacked By Great Waves OF Planes   Many American Fliers Take Port in Raid on Italian Copital—Smashes at Turbulent Milan and © Turin in the South Reneorted

200 U.S. Plane: Raid Railway  Yards in Rome   Assault Follows RAF Attack on Milan and Turin—Bombs Rain Down About Noon

Light Raid Also Is Made On Berlin   1,120 Tons of Bombs Drop on Milan Alone; Aimed at Vital Plants  ROME TONNAGE UP

Rome, Milan and Turin Feel Might of British  And American Air Drive   Berlin Also Attacked in Resumption of Allied Aerial Warfare; Hundreds of Tons of Bombs Do Terrific Damage fo Axis Milifary Installations; Attacks Expected To Grow More Severe   Bombing of Rome by Americans Is Confined to Military Objectives

JOOUS PLANES BOMB ROME SECOND TIME   San Lorenzo and Littorio Railway Yards, Same Targets As July 19, Take Punish ment   British Bomb Berlin

500 AMERICAN PLANES ATTACK ROME RAILWAYS   Milan And Turin Are Also Pounded By British : Night Raiders   RELIGIOUS SHRINES AVOIDED BY FLIERS

DISTRIBUTION OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS PUT ON NEW BASIS   More Efficient Use to Transportation Facilities Is Object of Revised System

NO INDICATION WHERE ALLIES STRIKING NEXT   Meanwhile Allies Push Their Advance in Italy While Fighting Subsides Somewhat,

GERMANS BOMBED OUT OF TRENCHES IN ITALY   Scores of Slain Litter Battlefield as Yanks Storm Ahead on Road to Rome

BLAST NAZIS FROM LINES IN 5TH ARMY AREA   Biggest Italian Battle Shaping

Tells How U. S. Fliers Break Open Nazi Positions for Infantrymen in Italy

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FORTS HIT NAZI U-BOAT BASKIN NANTES, FRANGE   ‘Also Bomb German Air. dromes Deep In Western Sector of Hun-Occupied Nation   ‘RAP SETS FIRES IN GERMANY RAIL HUB   Hannover Badly Damaged ’ In 18-Minute Concentrat-. ed Attack; Twenty-Six   Planes Are Lost :

U.d. COMMANDERS TALK AT CAPITAL   Stilwell and Chennault Expected To Ask For  Planes For China

Japs Are Reported to Have Heavily Reinforced Garrisons in Marshalls, Expecting Next U.S. Attack There

16 ENEMY PLANES SHOTDOWN WHEN AXIS GIES FIGHT   Soviets Set German Airfields Afire to Boost Losses of Planes to 2824 uring Five Weeks.   YANKEES HAVE GOOD SHOOTING IN PACIFIC   Second New President of Argentine Forms Revolutionary Government Which He Now Heads.

BOMB FASCIST ISLAND BASES   Spezia Attack Followed By Heavy Blows At Pantelleria And Sicily; 16 More Enemy Aircraft Destroyed

Allied Bombers Follow Up Raids Made On Spezia   Sicily, Pantelleria Again Bombarded By United Nations Planes

JAPS USE GAS AGAINST CHINA   But It Proves Costly Wher Wind Changes—Loss Is Felt by Barbarians

Want Farmers to Know Facts of Case   Little oy No Farm Lumbe: in Inventory; Claim Mue! “Red Tape”

N azis Withdraw  To New Positions   Yanks, British Gain Seven Miles;  Russians Launch New Offensive

Lt, Gen. Clark's Fifth Army Ad vances Five To Seven Miles In  Italy As Russians Complete  Destruction On Nogaisk Steppes   MONTGOMERY'S RIGHTH CAPTURES SAN SALVO

4. a. FLIEho HIGHT dbl JAPo AND QOWN “FIVE   Two Of American Fighters Lost In Aerial Battle Near Solomons

ROOM AT AIRPORT   Accommodations for Planes and Students Are Insufficient

URGENT NEED FOR ROOM AT AIRPORT   Accommodations for Planes and Students Are ~ Insufficient   AT WORK ON PROBLEM’

W. P. Buran Graduates At Keesler In Service Of Liberator Bembers

Million Men Needed for War Work   Hoover Says Shift To Farm and Factories Necessary

America Faces ‘Grave’ Shortage Of Food, Metal   Workers Must Be Shifted — Hoover

“One-Million-Workers Must Shift To Farms, Factories to Avert — Grave Shortages, Hoover Warns

Ex-President Hoover Says U. S. Faces Grave Shortage of Food and Oil Unless Workers Are Shifted

COMMITTEE TOLD WARS OFTEN LOST   Suggests Men Be Moved From  Armed Forrac

Hoover Warns That U.S. Faces Grave Shortage Of Food, Metals Oil Unless Million Workers Are Shifted In Ind.

U.S. Faces Grave Food, Metal Shortage Unless Workers Shifted, Hoover Warns

HOOVER WARNS OF U. 5. SHORTAGE OF FOOD, METALS. OIL        Crisis In, Transportation, : Farm ; Shortage ‘And . Feeding Problems Now Exists

RUML TAXIS DEFENDED IN HOT DEBATE   Carlson of Kansas accuses opponents of bill with “demagoguery”

CARLSON FLAYS RUML TAX FOES   Bill’s Author Says Opponent: Look to Weifare of 60 Millionaires

German Broadcasters Hail Retreat From Sicily as Great Feat of Arms

Germans Declare Axis Retreat From Sicily Great Feat   Rome Says Big Allied Invasion Fleet Sighted Off Catania

Anxiety Betrayed         Germans Describe Retreat From Sicily as Great Feat   LK ) Siena” some

German Radio Tries To Paint Sicily as Victory   Allied Invasion Fleet Reported off Catania In Rome Broadeasts

Italian War Prisoners, Cooks in North Africa, Want to Stick Around

Three Italian Prisoners Insist They Have Right To Stav Captured Longer

OPA Chief Reveals Living Costs Un 477, Over Year Ago; Madam Perkins Reports On- Decline In Food Prices

PLANS OF OPA ARE REVEALED TUESDAY   Revamped Office Shows Indications of Currying the Favor of Congress.

FARMERS ARE BUSY HARVESTING CROPS   Wheat Quality Is Good This Year But Yield Is - Below Par   SPUD DIGGING STARTS

FARMERS ARE BUSY HARVESTING CROPS   Wheat Quality Is Good This -Year But Yield Is _sBelow Par  li ¢

Portsmouth’s  Flood Crests   Ohio Fails To Leap W alls Protecting .City; . May. Fall. Slowly -

Army Men Help Save Cities From Ohio Flood   Crest at Portsmouth, 0., Is Just 1.1 Feet Below Top of Vital 62-Foot Dike

PORTSMOUTE FLOOD CRESTS AT 60.9 FEET   (Army Engineers Believe Danger Has Passed ) City 50,000 ROUTED     y Peak Rolls Down Ohio . Menacing Other Val"ley Towns

50,000 Home: less In Ohio  River Flood  Stream Cresfs af 60.9 Feet; Cities Crippled  ‘hy Rawackatian

Flood Scare  Eased as Ohio Reaches Crest  ” Water Comes. Within Foot of Dike Top; Waters Also Rise

Ohio Expected To Crest Today At Cincinnati   Portsmouth Residents Are Uneasy as River Rises To Within One Foot Of Ton of Wall

Town Awaits Flood Crest.   Ohio River Edges Towards Top of Wall At Portsmouth, Ohio

Flood Spares Ohio City By  Narrow Margin   Water Crest Is 1.1 Feet From Top Of 60-Foot Wall

PORTSMOUTH ot? FOR FLOOD CREST   Water Inches Toward Top of 62-Foot Wall   RESIDENTS WAIT   ‘December Flood Moves Out of West Virginia; Up-state Begins Clean-up

RED CROSS MOBILE UNIT WILL RETURN   Opportunity to be Given to Contribute Blood  for. Plasma

COUNTY RESIDENTS TO DONATE BLOOD   Mobile Unit of Red Cross to Visit Here in February ©

Wickard Outlines Ways Public Can Help Break Up Meat Black Market

Number Of Miners On Strike Has Dwindled To Around 4,000 From Last Week’s High Of 23.000 Men   STRIKE SITUATION SHOWS IMPROVEMENT

FEDERAL PROBE OF STRIKE T0 BE HELD   Provisiors Of Anti-Strike Measure May Be Invoked

Strike Probe Is Opened In Pittsburgh   Conditions Nearing Normal As Federal Action Is Bequn

BEING FORGED AT KHARKO\   Soviets May Envelop All Donets Basin In Offensive

Mobile Russ Units Atlack   Trunk Railway ls Cut And Lozovaya Taken

RUMORS SAY . CRISIS NEAR INSIDE ITALY   TRAVELERS REACHING 8WiT‘ZERLAND BELIEVE BADO. GLIO WILL BOON BOW BEFORE SURRENDER DEMAND

Americans And Canadians Stops Nazis’ Sicily Drive  Stiffening Resistance Of German Troops 1. pm... gs ATE AR. Ie     a og

HUGE GERMAN TROOP PLANES BROUGHT DOWN   Enemy Uses Gliders To Reinforce’ Siely

Shock Troops Shot Down by Spitfires   Cefalu Occupied by Americans in Rapid Advance

SADDENED. BY BOMBING   DeValera’s Newspaper Discusses “Grievous Tidings

U.S. Refuses to Arm Argentina; Rehukes Holdout   Hull Sends Severe Note Dénouncing  Aid to Axis

U.S. Slaps Argentina  For Axis Aid   Request for Planes, Munitions Denied By Secretary Hull

ARGENTINA AID BY LEND-LEASE DENIED BY U.S   Hull Turns Down Plea In Blunt Note Of Rebuke

Argentina's Position in Post-War World In Jeopardy   Hull Scores South American Nation For Failing to  Clannarata

Hull Spanks Argentina In Curt Note ~   Criticizes Nation For Failure To Abide By Promises

ARGENTINA FACES LOSING DOMINATION QF SOUTH AMERICA   Hull Bhuntly Turns Down Nation’s Appeal For Planes And Other Munitions

Argentina Faces “Post-War Pros. pects cf Having te  Relinquish Domination of South America to Brazil,

U.S. REFUSES. LENO - LEASE TO ARGENTINA   Argentina May Lose Her Post-War Leadership To Brazil

ARGENTINA GIVEN REBUKE TODAY BY OFFICIAL OF U.S   Secretary of State Hull Turns Down Appeal for Aid—Says She Aided the Enemy.

) SMe VrPeteved Fels ou  —By Glenn B  Admiral Koga’ 's Command Faces Disactar

Much Too Much to. Do and See On Bombing Raid Over Germany to Be Scared.

Reporter Finds Air Raid With Yanks is Thrilling, Notes Great Efficiency

GERMAN FIGHTERS AND FLAK 'DOGGED AMERICANS ON RAID   Correspondent Flying In Fortress In Attack On Wilhemshaven Describes Sensation Of Being Shot At From Ground And In The Air

WRITER RIDES WITH AMERICAN AIR  ARMADA IN BOMBING RAID ON REICH   Describes Blasting O Wilhelmshaven, Big German Base

Planes Under Attack  By Nazi Fighter Planes And Flak for Two Heurs In Great Davlisht Raid

BRITISH FORCES HURL AXIS OUT OF SED JENANE IN NORTH; FRENCH SEIZE MIDES IN SOUTH   Both Sides Increase Activity Along Mareth Line; Patrols Seek Spots

British Eighth Army Jabs At Mareth Line; RAF Bombers Baiter Germany For Ninth Consecutive Night

British Tanks and French Hit German Lines ~ In Africa:     GERMANY IS BOMBED  Hitlerites Say Reprisal:  To Make England Beg. For Mercy

ALLIES SEIZE 3 TUNISIAN TOWNS   Planes Sink Four Axis Ships As Ground Forces Win Victories at Both Ends of Line.

Russians Continue  Big Push   Occupy 53 More Towns in North—Finland Remains  in War

Fifth Army Advanees Five to Eight Miles On 40-mile Front in Italy: Eighth Army Gains in Most Sectors

FIFTH ARMY WAKES CAN - OVER FRON   Rome Within Less Than 100 Miles Of Yanks

Advances of Five to Eight Miles. Thrust the Axis ; Back a   IN A STEADY RETREAT   Eighth Army Gains Ground an Day of Bloody 7 ' Fighting

Isernia Taken By Allies   Mountain Read Junction Falts. ta Eighth. 4omy

Germans Fall Back Under Steady Drive of Gen. Clark’s Mer   Fifth Army Advances to Within 85 Miles of Eternal City

TFTH ARMY \DVANCES ON VIDE FRONT   ains of Five to Eight Miles n Western Italian Sector Recorded for American Forces   MILES FROM ROME

in Wide Advance On Italian Front   Clark's Fifth Army Makes Gains of 5 to 8 Miles Against Huns.

—ITALY—  YANKS ANON AN-MILE FROW   Germans Thrown Back In Steady: Retreat Across Garigliano Valley   EIGHTH ADVANCES   Allies Forces Now Astride - Main. Coastal Road -To Italian Capital,

ISERNIA, MOUNTAIN: ROAD JUNCTION HAS BEEN CAPTURED   GEN. CLARK'S FIFTH — ALONG FORTY-MILE LINE ALON FORTY-MILE LINE

Allied Forces Only 85 Miles From Capifal   Nazis Swept From Last Strongholds On Massico Ridge

Eighth Army Makes New Gains; Clark’s Forces Now Within 85 Miles Of Rome

Advances of Five to Eight Miles Thrust the Axis  ck   IN A STEADY RETREAT      ghth Army oe Ground i m Day of Bloody ehting

ALLIED HEAQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 4 (7}—~Allied headquarters announced tonight the capture of Isernia, monntain road junction in the central front.

Massico Ridge Is Occupied   Allies Now Only 85 Miles from Rome; Nazis Retreating

Nazis Swept From Anchor Massico Line  Clark's Fifth Army   Clark's Fifth Army Sweeps Forward on 40-Mile Front

Germans in Steady Retreat Across Garigliano Valley As Allied Wave Rolls Across Mt. Massico and San Croce. Enemy May Establigh New Defense Line on Towering Aurunic Mts.

Eighth Army But 90 Miles  From Rome   Rommel’s Mountain Line Crumbling; Fifth Army Gains on Wide Front

OTH ARMY GAINS UPTO SMILES ON WIDE FRONT   Troops Now Within 85 Mile: of Rome; British Take Castelpetroso

Clark Smashes Gains of Five To Eight Miles   Americans Throw Germans Back in Steady Retreat Across Garialiano Valley

ISERNIA, MOUNTAIN ROAD JUNCTION HAS BEEN CAPTURED  GEN. CLARK’S FIFTH

GERMANS LOSE MASSICO BASE TO AMERICANS   Fifth Army New Only 85 Miles  From Rome

Rommel’s Mountain Line In Italy Fails To Hold 5th And 8th Armies.

Gains Reported By Fifth And Fiahth Armies   Center Of Rommel’s Defense Line Neared By Montgomery's Men

GERMANS DRIVEN FROM MASSICO RIDGE BASTIONS   ALLIES GAIN FROM 5 TO 8 MILES IN ALL ITALIAN SECTORS

TAKE TERIA ROAD JUNCTION   Eighth Army Within 90 Miles of Rome As Fifth Army Drives Ahead.   ENEMY IS RETREATING

ISERNIA, MOUNTAIN ROAD JUNCTION WAS CAPTURED TONIGHT   Brought Gen. Montgomery's Sth Army to Within 90 Miles of Rome.   MADE 7-MILE ADVANCE   Marshal Rommell’s Mountain Lines Falling to Pieces Under Allied Blows.

Allies Drive Within 85 Miles Of Rome   Scores Of Towns Freed Of Enemy By Fifth Army Gains

Allies Advance 5 Miles Over Wide Frontin Italy; Coast Road to Rome Cut

lsernia, Important Road Junction, Has Been Captured   Eighth Army Moves Up Seven Miles in Bold Night Attack

CLARK’S FORCE NOW WITHIN 85 MILES OF ROME   Gains of Five to Eight - Miles Made On 40-Mile Front On Western Italian Secror   ‘STH NEAR CENTER OF ‘ENEMY DEFENSE LINE   ‘Batter Way Into Castelpetroso While American Army Sweeps Huns. From Strongholds

Fifth Army In Major Gains On A40-Mile Front   Within 85 Miles Of Rome; Enemy Is Pushed Back On All Fronts

YANKS MOVE UP FIVE-EIGHT MILES wy 40.MILE FON  Allies Astride Mai   Allies Astride Main Coastal Road To Rome   AIRMEN STRIKE SOME HARD BLOWS

Allied Advances Of 5 To 8 Miles Scored In Italy   Enemy Is Forced Back In Steady Retreat Across Valley Of Garigliano

FIFTH ARMY IN 0-8 MILE GAIN ON WIDE FRONT   Drives Germans From Massico Ridge as Montgomery’s Forces Also Advance in Italian Fichtinc.

CLARK’S FORCES SCORE BIG GAINS   Fifth Army, Now Within 85 Miles of Rome, Con' trols Massico Ridge

Rommel s _ Tine Cal - fo Pieces   British: Capture Road. Cente “On: Central: Front;5th: Arm “Also: Forging Ahead.’           NAZIS'MA Y FALL. ae ’ BACK 60:MILES          New’ Gains. Place... -Allie . Within: 85-Miles ‘of Rome; Many: Towns: Taken: :

ALLIED TROOPS DASH FOWARD ONWIDEFRONT   New Gains Put Sth Army Within 85 Miles of Italian Capital

Kighth Seizes Road Junction   General Clark’s Forees Advance To Within 85 Miles Of Rome.

Sth Army Gains On Wide Front On Way to Rome   German Troops In Steady Retreat Across River Valley

lsernia Taken By Allies   Mountain Road Junction Falls to Eighth Army

VITAL TOWN QI CENTRAL      British Sterm and Capture   Isernia, on Foggia-Rome Road—Fifth Army Ad  vances on a _  40-Mile Front.

Eighth Army Grabs  Key Road Junction, Yanks Near Rome   FIFTH ARMY HURLS ENEMY BACK IN STEADY GARIGLIANO RETREAT AS MONTGOMERY DRIVES UP ROAD TOWARD NAZI-HELD ITALY CAPITAL

"XO NEW TRIAL.    Demurrer. ‘Upheld  vin Petition by j. Clyde Jones’ of Goldsmith. ©

NAP NEW TREAL.   Demurrer Upheld in) Petition by Chde Jones of Goldsmith.

Lubbock To Gel  Airline Service.   -Essair Application. - Approved By CAB

VOTES FUND FOR FOOD SUBSIDIES   Te SME Senate Committee Acts as Farm Bureau Requests Plan Be Abclished.

CONNALLY BILL FATE DOUBTFUL   Passage Or Rejection Hangs On Coal Mine Dispute

FATE OF ANTI-STRIKE BILL ~~ LINKED WITH MINE eis   PASHAGE IN HOUSE SAID TO DEPEND ON AETYLEMENT OF ‘THE NATIONWIDE -— -. WALKOUT

US. Surface Vessels Win Near Rabaul   Only ‘Que Enemy Ship Escaped Unhurt From SAwerjean Attack

Fifth Of Six Ships Damaged In Fight   U. S. Naval Forces Risk Attack From Air To Fioht It Out With Japanese Vessels.

FIFTH WARSHIP SHIT IN BATTLE   gremy Units Intercepted Off Bougainville   U. S. SHIPS SAFE   B70 Surviving Destroyers Fleé to North; Daring Action for Yanks

5th Nippon Craft  Damaged in Fight:  Yankee Ships Not Hit  Tew Wh eseeeeitene Baal.

Americans Win Naval Battle In Solomons   Fifth Destroyer Believed Damaged

Action Occurs Early on Thanksgiving   None of American Warships Are Hit in the Battle

Sea Battle  Costs Foe 4 Destroyers   U. S. Naval Forces Damage a Fifth  In Daring Foray Near Rabaul

Allies Sink Four Jap Destroyers   Thanksgiving Fight First Naval Battle Near Rabaul

FOUR JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK OFF SOLOMONS   Fifth Damaged In Daring Thanksgiving Day Battle; Only One  Escapes

Japanese Vessels Are Annihilated In Daring Action   Only One of Jap Destroyers Escapes Scathing Fire

NIPPONESE FAIL TO SCORE A HIT 2 VESSELS FLEE   Engagement Takes Place it Northern Solomons in Waters Not Far From Fortress of Rabaul.   DAMAGE SUFFERED BY ONE ENEMY SHIE   Marines and.Soldiers Extend Holdings on Empress Augusta—Kill 75 in Patrol Clashes.

Yanks Reach Edge Of Munda Airport   Japs Continuing Stiff Resistance

AIRFIELD AT MUNDA REACHED BY AMERICANS   Stiff Fight Expected For Strip; Jap Barges Are Sunk

Yanks Reach Munda Field   Stuff Fight Still Ahead. Spokesman Warns

YANKS HACKING AT MUNDA BASE   Advance Slowly In Savage Jungle Fight to Edge Of Jap-Held Field On New Georgia

Slash Way To Japanese Army Through Jungle   Face Bloody Fighting At Main Defense Line

Weather   Yank Infantry Hacks Way To  Munda Airfield   Jungle Fighting Inches Ahead But Stiffer Jap  OP ieee eek Gish ae

YANKEES REACH EDGE OF MUND!   Japanese Resistance Stiffens In Battle For New Georgia Base

Main Prize At Munda Is Still Ahead   ‘Best News From Pacific Area Is Sinking of 29 Barges

Japs Stiffen in Defense  ‘ot Munda   Bloodies Fighting Lies Ahead as Yanks Inch Forward ~ Along Air Strip

Yanks Push Near Munda Air Field   Troops Pierce Jungle, Hard Fighting Ahead

Allies Inch ‘Toward Munda   American Doughboys Fight Way Out of Jungle Near Base

BATTLE FOR MUNDA INCHES AHEAD TODAY   U. S. Troops Have Hacked Way To Edge Of Air Strip

TOUGH BATTLE AHEAD FORU.S, AT MUNDA BASE   Allied Troops Advance on Japs at Salamana in New Guinea

BLOODY BATTLE RAGES AT MUNDA   Yanks Beat Japs Back Tc Edge of Airfield But Fierce Fight Ahead

Envelopment Of Munda Is  Continuing   U. S. Infantrymen Hack Way Out of the Jungle Towards Base

Infantrymen Hack Way To Munda Opening   Americans Cut Through Fierce-Fight. ing Japs in Jungle

Main Munda Line Reached   Infantrymen Hack Way To Edge of Air Strip

YANKS HACKING PATH TO MUNDA   U. S. Infantrymen Now At Eastern Edge Of Munda Air Strip, But Much Fighting Is Ahead.

U.S. TROOPS REACT MUNDA AIR STRIP   Hack Way Out of Jungle Through Nests of FierceFighting Japanese; Main Enemy Defense Line Lies Ahead.

U.S INFANTRYMEN HACK WAY TO EDGE OF MUNDA AIRFIELD  _ MAIN ENEMY DEFENSE LINE AHEAD AND BLOOD  EICHUTING DUE

Yanks Hack Way ae o Eastern Edge of Munda Strip   Allied Headquarters Says Jap Defense Holds Up Under Heavy Pounding

Expect Stiff Munda Battle   Main Enemy Defense Line. Much Bloody Battling Ahead— MacArthur.

YANKS HACKING WAY TO MUNDA   MIKADO'S FANATIC SONS HOLD GRIMLY TO VITAL AIRFIELD

YANKS REACH MUNDA’S EDGE   Bloody Fighting Marks Slow Advance Against WellEntrenched Japs.

MUNDA TROOPS RESIST YANKS   Fierce Fight Progresses As Yanks Inch Toward Vital Airstrip

BLOC AHEAD ON S; W. PACIFIC ISLE   Yanks Hack Way Through Jungle,  Enemy Positions

JAPS DEFEND MUNDA AIRBASE DESPERATELY   Americans Hack Way to Eastern ’ Edge of Base but Main Defense Line Lies Ahead

Nazis Report New Attacks On 3 Fronts   Hitler Searches Desperately for More Fighters

Nazis Admit Reverses on Four Fronts In Russia, Three New Red Offensives

Offensives By Russians. Speeding Up   HITLER APPEARS DESPERATE IN QUEST FOR MORE MEN IN BALKANS.

HITLER ADMITS REVERSES IN FOUR RUSSIAN SECTORS   Report Heavy Attacks Af Voronezh—Acknowledge  Braste in lina

HITLER WIDENS HUNT FOR MORE FIGHTING MEN   Russians Open New Offensives On Three Fronts, German Radio Says   GENERALS ARE EVACUATED   Big Air Base Blasted In Opening OF Drive North From Caucasus

A TALK WITH DE GAULLE   Coureki Has Conve Conversation With French Leader

_A TALK WITH DE GAULLE   Chireehal] Has Conversation With French Leader

AMERICAN TROOPS OCCUPY ISLAND IN ALEUTIANS  ESTABLISH BASE ON AMCHITKA: CATCH

Move Closer To Kiska   U. S. Troops’ Occupy Island Only 70 Miles From Jap-Held Base

For a Short Campaign On a Hich Plane   Democratic Chairman Hoves for an Agreement to Hold * Gonventions Late   TOO EARLY TO TALK ABOUT CANDIDATES   Gives Report on Recent Trip Through a Dozen Western States

SEEK 6, 0. P., DEMO TRUCE   ALLIANCE OF PARTIES SEEN BY FRANK WALKER

Fate of AntiSabotage Bill Is Uncertain   Running Debate Develops Over Adoption of Amendment

Would Like To See A Short Campaign   Demo Leader Says Prosecution Of War Comes First

INFLUENCE BOYS UNDER FIRE OF NAVY OFFICIALS   Former Ohio Congressman Lashes Out at Sales Agents For War Materials   FESS CALLED OUTRAGEOUS   Contract Adjustments Have Brought Over $3,000,000 Already, ’Tis Said

NAVY BATTLES WAR AGENTS   ASK AID IN STOPPING HUGE CONTRACT FEES

CURB SOUGHT ON EXCESSIVE WAR PROFITS   Navy Officially Asks Congress For Aid in Cracking Down on Ouftrageous Agents’ Fees   MAN Y_ INVESTIGATED

tse Information   Navy Asks Aid of Congress In Curbing War Agents’ Fees

NAVY ASKS ACTION ON 'WAR BROKER’ PROFITS   Jacob E. Davis Expresses Department’s Views

Navy Requests Agent Removal   Officials Point To Huge Income Of Manufacturers’ Representatives.

Hopes to Halt Big Money andling of Government Contract Fees.  CAN'T ' DEPEND  iim tak. gil clin a asp mm ee ap

ADKo CRACK DOWN (IN AGENT'S FEES   Navy Seeks Aid Of Cangress In Halting ‘Out. rageous Fees’   LARGE SALARIES   Prabe Shows Compensation Ranged From $20,000 A Year Upward

Navy Asks Congress For Aid In Cracking Down On Agents Receiving Huge Commissions

SPORTS HIT BYU. S. BAN ON ATHLETICS   Civilian Players Only To Be in Competition, Director Says

Col. Beukema Says Army Students At Colleges Will Not Be Permitted To Take Part in College Sports

FAMINE CLAIMS 23.000   ... in Bengal Province Within Four Months

KIEV MENACED BY FRONTAL ADVANCE   Capture of Kremenchug Virealens Big Force in South

NEW ADVANCE MENACES BIG CITY OF KIE\   Nazis’ Vital Dnieper Line Wavers   REDS IN RUDAYA   Reds May Isolate Enemy In South

SEDS THREATEN “MAJOR BREAKS ¢ IN DNIEPER LINE   Kremenchug’s Fall Imperils @ Many Nazis; Kiev Under Frontal Attack

Russian Forces ~ May Trap More Of Nazi Troop:   New Major Break-Throughs On German Defense Line On Dnieper Threatened   NEW THRUST BY SOVIETS DEVELOPING

News Behind The News  Te Newspaper      WASHINGTON Re fav Tapker

Fifth Reversion to Winter This Month Expected   Snow Flurries Due in Northern Part of Texas

ROMMEL’S REAR GUARD IS PUSHED BACK BY BRITISH   They Were Within 35 Miles of Tripoli Today in a Continuing Advance.   PASSED TWO VILLAGES

French Column Joins British On The Flank   Another Small Gain Repartec Reported by Germans Against French Positions  At Pont Du Fahs

FINAL COLLAPSE DUCE’S AFRICAN EMPIRE IS NEAR   Believed Only Hours Away   As Imperial Forces Ad vance Past Tarhuna and Homs   AXIS WITHDRAWAL SHOWS SIGN OF ROUT   No Authoritative Indication Bomb-Battered Tripoli ls Being Evacuated

BRITISH ENGHTH ARMY PUSHES ROMMEL NEAR TRIPOLI ON THURSDAY   _ AXIS SCORE NEW ADVANCE, HOWEVER, IN TUNISIAN FIGHTING

Must Prevent  Union Of The  Nazi Armies   Germans Make Pene tration In Tunisia Fighting

ROMMEL’S ARMY HEADING TOWARD TUNISIA BORDER   Allied Aircraft Blast Retreating Troops In Libya

AXIS RETREAT SHOWS SIGNS OF DISORDER   qNo Indication That Tripoli ls Being Evacuated   ALLIES HOLD      Advantage In Air Power; Fighting French — Eighth Army March

ALLIES PUSH » AXIS CLOSER TO TRIPOLI   With Fighting French on Left Flank, British Ad vance in Africa.   Occupation of Port Matter of Few Days

Germans Score Further Gains In Tunis Battle   Axis Striving For Merger of African Armies °

British Capture Two Towns As Rommel Flees.   Fighting French Join Montgomery On Libya Flank; Yanks Bomb Capital Twice Without Loss

British And French Armies After Rommel   Hardpressed Germans Probably Within 35 Miles Of Tripoli

BRITISH REACH POINT 35 MILES FROM TRIPOLI   ROMMEL’S HARASSED REAR GUARD PUSHED DOWN COAST SLOPE

Rommel Gives More Ground To British   Two Towns Occupied By Allies 40 and 60 Miles From Tripoli

British And Free French Hit Nazis   REAR GUARD OF AXIS ARMY IS RUSHED RACK

BRITISH TROOPS IN HOT PURSUIT, NIP REAR UNITS   Rommel’s Army Is Driven to Within 35 Miles of Tripoli Today

Collapse Of Duee’s Africa Empire Near   Rommel May Abandon Burning Tripoli To Advancing British, Now 35 Miles Off

AAG GAING IN TUNISIAN AREA   Germans Drive Armored Spearhead Deep Into French Positions.   ‘FORTS’ BATTER ROUTES

ROWNELS RETREAT ‘SHOWS “SIGNS. OF DISORGANIZATION      No Indication Yet That Tripolils Being Kvacvated   FRENCH FIGHTING  ON BRITISH FLANK

Rommel in Flight to Tunis   British Encircle Doomed Tripoli as Nazis Retreat

FRENCH AID EIGHTH ARMY ON THE LEFT   Two Towns Occupied as Allies Press to Within 35 Miles of Tripoli— Axis Seeks to Open Corridor.

HARD-PRESSED ROMMELL IS PUSHED BACK   British Eighth Army is Reported to be Within Probably 35 Miles Of Tripoli

Allied Planes Hit at Fleeing Rommel Forces   Axis Forces Make New Advance Against French in Tunisia to Hold Path for Rommel

Axis Withdrawal Shows New Signs Of Disorganizatior In Tripoli Region

British Continue Rapid Advance in Libya, Axis  Forces Gain in Tunisia

Ring Being Sealed Around Axis Force in African Drive   French, British Units Join Forces in Libya; Axis Penetration

, British and Fighting French Drive Rear Guard Toward I ripoli —   BATTLE FOR CORRIDOR   Nazis in Northern Tunisia “Again Penetrate French ~ Positions

TWO IMPORTANT TOWNS CAPTURES   Axis Withdrawal Is Badly Battered By Allied Aerial Assault   FRENCH ADVANCE   Fighting French Desert Column Joins Montgomery’s Army

ALLIES PUSH ENEMY ARMY DOWN (OAS) SLOPE FROM RIDGE   [Aerial Assaults On Axis jane Of Retreat Are Mounting Steadily

Kighth Army OccupiesTwo Villages And Pushes On   Axis Not Evacuating Tripoli, But British Are Only 35 Miles Distant At One Point

Allies Within 35 Miles of Tripoli Port   ’ Battered Columns Of Nazis Show Signs of Rout

FIGHTING © FRENCH ON LEFT FLANK   British Eighth Army In Close Contact With Foe

Gather Evidence In Murder Case   Police Ready for Kiger Girl Hearing

SUGGESTION MADE FOR PAXMENT OF SUBSIDIES FROMISED AND LIMIT FUTURE ACTION

PRICE SUBSIDIES DEAL IS SOUGHT   Compromise Would Limit   Future Commitments of Funds

COMPROMISE Oh SUBSIDIES SEEN   Senate Group May Place Bar On Future Expansion Of Program

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Removal Of Government From Berlin Reveals Nazi Desperation

‘Speculation Rises ‘On New Command Of 10th Air Force   INTERESTING NEWS: Nazi Leaders Evacuate: Berlin

The War Today Abandonment Of Berlin By German Government Sign Of Desperation

@ sUDell sain,  RUMORED AE ABANDONMENT BERLIN BY NAZI GOVERNMENT DENOTES DESPERATION OF HITLER REGIME

NO ACTION TAKEN   Food Dealers Hear About Joint Action Delivery” Plan

REV. R. W. L. MARK INSTALLED   As Pastor Of The Wells. boro Presbyterian Church.

PARALYSIS D DRIVE ~ GETS UNDERWAY   Plymouth¢ County Campaign Committee Discusses the Kenny. ‘Treatment:

Seven Men Killed In Bomber Crash  Dalhart Bose Plane Fell Near Ore City Saturday Niaht

SPAIN DENIES NAZI TROOPS ON FRONTIER   ALSO THAT NAZIS DEMANDS PASSAGE, CCCUPATION OF COAST AREAS

FUTILE BARONY HOISTING BARS   Food Parley Scene Proves FDR Serious In Ban On News, Radio Men

Site for Food Conference Is an Ideal Spot to Make News Gathering Hard

Allied Planes Bomb Jap Base at Lae   All Buildings in the Area Were Totally Destroyed

Allied Planes. Level Japanese Lae Headquarters   Air Formations Pound Japs Holding Out At Vile Garrison

Allied Bombers ‘Sow Wreckage On Jap Lae Base   Nip Headquarters Levelled; Air Losses Growing

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST AT JAPS   Enemy's Lee Headquarters Destroyed by Raiders, Gen. MacArthur Reports

JAPANESE CENTER AT TAB LEVELED   ALLIED PLANES BLAST ENEMY HEADQUARTERS 15 MILES ABOVE SALAMATA.,

Allied Air Arm Levels Jap. Headquarters  Concentrated Blow Pours 84 Tons Pet Beaswhe weer Toa:

Allied Bombers Create Havoc In New Guinea Ares   Beaufighters Sink 15 Nip Barges On Coast

Allies Blast Headquarters Of Japs atLae   Mitchell Medium Planes Bomb and Strafe Jap Positions Northwest of Lae

Jap Headquarters At Lae Leveled   15 Barges Are Sunk Lae Destroved

JAP LAE Bhat OMACKED HARD IN ALLIED RAID   84 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Enemy Headquarters, MacArthur Reveals

i Base At ae Levelled   84 Tons Of Bombs Hit  ( i © Enemy’ 's Headquarters

HEADQUARTERS   Attack Similar to One Which Blasted Madang   BIG FIRES SET   Bombers Pound Isolated Jap. anese Garrison Holding Out at Vila

Planes Level Jap Lae Base   All Administrative, Headquarters Buildings Destroved In Raid,

JAPANESE LAE BASE WRECKED   Concentrated Attack By Allied Planes Level Headquarters

Allies Drop 84 Tons of Bombs on Lae   Report Bombers Sunk 15 More Barges Off  New Guinea

NEW ECONOMIC STEPS PLANNED   Administration Studying Anti-Inflation Action; Air Talk Expected

OWI AGAIN WARNS _ INFLATION MENACE      _Major Broadcast H Hinted On War Pro    by President Shortly

White House Maps War — ‘On Inflation   Subsidies and -Price Rollbacks Viewed As Possible Weapons

INFLATION MENACE   Owl Lays Groundwork for Address by the President

Roosevelt May Deliver Speech On Inflation   President Said To Plat Fireside Chat” at Early Date

Six Beavers Being Trapped : ~ From. Farm'N. E. of ebcsley      Issuing of Permit. Generally Regretted By Conservation-Minded 

Nazis’ Reported  fan In Russia- Brings Threats   Retaliation Sure, ‘Churchill Says In’, Sroaniticani Aaeeel

British Ready To Retaliate If Gas Is Used   New Warning Issued And Note of Urgency Seen in Announcement  CAUTIONED FARTIER

Report Nazis Plan Gas Use in Russia   Britain Renews Sharp Warning

HEARS NAZIS WILL USE GAS IN RUSSIA   BRITAIN  ISSUES ‘WARNING ITs EMPLOYMENT ‘WILL BRING RETALIATION.

Nazis To Use Gas In Fight   Churchill Issues Warrting To Germans

Nazis’ Reported Plan In Russia Brinas Threats   Retaliation Sure, Churchill Says In  Sianificant Annea}

WARNING GIVEN ON POISON GAS   London Hears Hitler Is Planning Attack On Russian Front

WARD FLYNN NEW MINISTER   Fireworks expected in senate following appointment by President

Heavy American Bombers Again Strike Japanese Bases In Kurile Island Group

WAR BOND CASHER CALLED DESERTEE   Turn-ins Result of Unwilling ness to Hold Bonds, Not Inability.

WEWAK IS HAMMERED BY ALLIED BOMBERS   4.000-fon Merchant Ship Is wit During Attack; Shore Bases  Damarcd

Japs Moving Men Into China From Manchuria For Drive, Say Chinese

Japs Moving More Troops Into Chine   Believed Trving to Prevent Use of China Air Bases for Bombing

JAP DIVISIONS MOVE TO CHINA   Transferring Four Japanese - Divisions From Man- churia Into China Proper.   -BY CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH-

ADMITS GAIN IN ANTI-SUB DRIVE   Germain Spokesman Says Allied Campaign Eifective

NAZI SPOKESMAN ‘ADMITS SUBS ARE BEING DEFEATED   Berlin Dispatch via Stock. holm Says. Allied Methods are Imoroving.

ALLIES DEAL BLOW TO NAZI U-BOATS   Ship Losses Of Allies Are Lower Than In April

WOMAN SEIZED IN KIDNAPING 8-YEAR-OLDBOY   Mary Penore, 20, New York, Taken Into Custody by FBI for Crime Committed Tuly 3   STORY BIZARRE ONE   Says She Stole Child in Effort To Convince Divoerced Husband She Had 2a Son

F.R.Leads 2nd War Loan Drive   PRESIDENT SELLS BONDS TO WHITE HOUSE STAFF IN ENCOURAGEMENT TO VITAL DRIVE

Gets Loan Drive  On Head Start —   President Sells Bonds To White House Staff

FDR STARTS SECOND WAR LGAN DRIVE   By Selling $25 Bond To Veteran Negro Messenger At White  House

FDR SELLS BONDS IN DRIVE PREVIEW   President Makes Advance Sales To White House  Personne]

Wor kers At White House Buy   Roosevell, Personally Asks Members of Staff to  Purchase

1 Wha Es —————EeE————E——E eee   READ STORIES iw by  RONNS! *   President Conducts One Man Bond Selling Campaign

PRESIDENT SELLS WAR LOAN BONDS AT WHITE HOUSE   Chief Executive Launches 13-Billion-dollar Drive; Porters, Clerks and Messengers Buy Securities.

President Opens Bond Sale Drive   Negro Messeriger Is First To  Purchase New Issue

Nazis Battle To Hold Line   Miniature Stalingrad Battle Being Waged

YANK BOMBERS BLAST BASE IN DUTCH -INDIES   MacArthur's Airmen Hit Japanese-Held Island of Amboina, Start ‘Huge Blazes   DOWN THREE ZEROS   Hangars and Barracks _ Shattered by Bombs  in Return Raid On   Big Naval Base 

ACK ACK, ZEROS FAILTO STOP ALLIED PLANES   MacArthur’s Bombers Spread Destruction On Japs

HEAD OF .RUBBER..WORKERS UNION ATTEMPTING TO GET 52,000 STRIKERS  ’ ". BACK ON JOBS

SOUTHERNERS BALK AT EXTENDING COAL MINERS’ CONTRACT   Northern Group Signs. Hostility To North Is Faetor

SOUTHERN COAL OPERATORS BALK   Oppose Parley Extension; Favor Certification Of Dispute To WLB

FDR TO INSIST SQUTH CONTINUE COAL CONTRACT   Had Urged Contimuation Of Cur rent Agreements Daring Dispute

CHURCHILL ETS HARVARD DEGREE   Urges Establishment of Work Arrannement for Peace

Churchill Gets Harvard Degree   Great Job Ahedd ‘Of America Cited

Responsibilities Rest on America  U. S. and Britain Must Collaborate

 Churchill Declares  U. S. Must Accept Share Of Global Responsibility

CHURCHILL SEES POST-WAR UNIT)   Cites American Responsibil: ity in Peace to Come   RECEIVES DOCTORATE   Harvard Awards British Chief Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws

SAYS U.5. CANT ESCAPE ISSUES   Churchill, Getting Harvars Degree, Points Out Great Responsibilities

Churchill Says U.S. Must Aid   Has Responsibility In Postwar Peace

SNE Jace Xesponsi 311-7 “n eace as in “V ar, Cre WL Savs"N 1en ‘Tiven ~arvare Degree

Berlin Radio Reports Violent Battles With ‘Guerrillas In Balkans

RUSSIANS ADMIT BELGOROD LOSS   Reds Continue Drive On Central Front;  Bliss: Macs pessee Gueseleecl

Fierce Baitle Continues in Kharkov Are:   Russians. Heavily Engagec by Sieadily Reinforced German: Armies   LOSS OF BELGOROD ‘IS CONCEDEL      But the Reds Keep On Advancing in Center, Taking Key Town Near Smolensk

House Approves Land Army Measure To Train Workers   Drastic Reduction In Appropriation Seen As Disennoroval OF Wickard’s Farm Policies

House Cuts  Money For Land Army   Administration Manpowe Policy Given Double Reversal In Congress.

DRAFT DEFERMENT FOR FARM WORKERS   Senate Passes Bankhead Bill 50  To 2A

States’ Rights In Draft To Be Tested   Governor’s Authority To Protect Farms Questioned

GERMANS PUSHED BRITISH BACK BUT TOMMIES RALLIED   Empire Troops Were Cut Off for Time But Situation Was Remedied.

British Split By Strong Nazi Units At Augusta But Rally And Advance

Yanks, British Drive Towards Calania; Big Battle on Plain Predicted

Counter — Attack Is . Beaten Off   ALLIES THEN STRIKE BACK IN: MOVE TOWARD CATANIA, WE MAJOR BATTLE EXPECTED:

ALLIES REPEL STRONG ATTACK _ NEAR AUGUSTA    American Forces Extend Flank,  Raise Prisoner Toll To  8,000

Crack Goering Division Is  Thrown Back   Axis Resistance Said S'iffening  Tn Sarre Sartare

GERMANS STRIKE POWERFUL BLOWS “INAURUSTA ARE   Reformed Goering Division Is Participating, Penetrate Allied Lines, Repelled By British.   CATANIA EXPECTED — AS MAJOR BATTLE   Russians Drive Germans From Towns Near Belgorod and Appear Gaining Along 165-Milé Front.

ALLIES: MEET STIFFENING RESISTANCE   Major Batile 7 Looms b For Catania: Heavy: j Tanks Used . %#

Major Clash Near As Troops Forge North Of August   American Forces on South Coast Extend Western Flanl: of Invasion Front in Hard Fighting: At Least Si:: Airdromes Taken From Sicilian Defenders.

Strong German Forces Strike Desperate Blows   Elements of Reformed Goering Division Lead Enemy Troops

FIRST MAJOR ENEMY BLOWS   Crack German Units in Augusta: Sector Beaten Off After Stiff Battle — Six Axis Airdromes Selzed by Allied Troops. ~

BRITISH RALLY FROM BLOW IN AUGUSTA ARES   Major Battle Expected For Catania: Foe’s Losses Heavy

United Nations Troops Fight Toward Catania   British Cut Off  Rally and Restore Ma Sitnatinn .

CATANIA SEEN AS RESISTANCE RISES  Axis Division Isolated North ‘Of      Axis Division Isolated North Of Augusta As More Ports And Bases Fall To Allies—Over 12,000  Prisonere Talen   WARSHIPS AND AIRPLANES  PROTECTING GROUND FORCES

AMERICANS GAINING ON ‘SOUTH COAST   Counterattack By Axis Repulsed In Augusta Area

First Enemy Blow Futile; — HeavyFighting   Axis Counter-Drive Led By Crack Nazi Troops Turned Back As Allied Armies Smash On Toward Catania

JAPANESE RAID BASE AT WAU   Light Damage Is Done To Newly Wan Pacitian

MAIL PICK-UP SYSTEM GROWS   Gain of 73 Per Cent Recorded; Express 74 Per Cent from 1942

Syracuse Falls And Calania Is In Flames   Ten Important. Ports and Towns Captured, » 2,000° Troops Taken Prisoner.   a COUNTER ATTACKS. HURLED BACK   Montgomery and Patton ‘in Charge of Twin Drives. Toward Strategic Straits

CATANIA AIR BASE REPORT CAPTURED   Patton’s Americar Crush Counterattacks 80 Miles West Of  Svracuse

Algiers Says Catania Airport Taken—Americans Throw Back Fierce Counterattack

Fall of Syracuse, Key Port, Defense. Base, Is Conceded.   Claim Heav iest of Seven Italian Counter-Attacks Met and Beaten Back. by. U.S. Troop in Gela Area.

Seven Axis Counter-Attacks Turned Back; Naval Forces Bring Up Men And Supplies

Port Syracuse Taken: British Rush Catania   African Team Of Patton And Montgomery Scores Again; Counterattacks All Beaten Back; Italians Reported Fighting Poorly

Italian Counter-Drives Are Smashed by British and Americans; Algiers Reports That Airdrome at Catania Is Captured.   Great Allied Forces Consolidate Their Positions on Coastal Area

Seven Counterattacks By Enemy Tanks Are Repulsed With 2,000 Prisoners Taken; Montgomery Leads British With Patton Heading Yanks

2,000 Prisoners, Mostly Ttalians; Coyne _ Montgomery Smashes: Toward © atania:  is

‘7 Armored Counter-Attacks Smashed; 2000 Axis Prisoners ‘Taken; Our Planes Rule Air

Syracuse Falls: British Racing Toward Catania   Nine Other Important Ports, Towns Captured: Enemy Attacks Repulsed

Syracuse Is Captured, Brit> ash Advarice Against Catania   YANKS TAKE, AIRFIELDS.   Hold Bridgehead 25 Miles Long Including Licata and .Gela

British Race Toward Catania; Vital Port  Of Syracuse Taken   Allies Say Axis Tank Counterattacks Repelled; Americans Hold Bridgeheads; More Than 2,000 Enemy Prisoners Taken

British Sth Army Units Near Cantania, U.S. Forces Advance   Patton, Montgomery Head Armies, Capture 2,000 Axis Prisoners; Allied Hospital Ship Sunk

Allies Pass Syracuse AfterNineBases Taken   Consolidating Positions Along Coastal Area of More Than 100 Miles; 400 Axis Vehicles Rushing to Front Blasted.

ALLIES DASH UP SICILY’S EAST COAST AFTER SURACUSE AND 10 OTHER POSITIONS ARE TAKEN

—INV ASION-—   British Sweeping Toward Messina;  Axis Attacks Fail

Ancient Syracuse, Nine Other Major Ports Are Now in Hands Invaders

Americans Crush Heavy Counterattacks By Axis Tanks; 2,000 Prisoners Taken By Invaders.

British 8th Army Units Push Toward Point Nearest Italy   History's Greatest Invasion Army Is Moving Rapidly

Push On After  Initial Blows Are Successful   Lieut. Gen. Patton Directs Americans In Repulsing Enemy Counter-attack In Licata-Gela Area; British Report Capture of Syracuse

MIGHTY INVASION FORCES SWEEPING KEY ENEMY BASES   TEN PORT POINTS CAP~TURED AS ALLIED PLANES ‘AID ATTACKERS

SYRACUSE, 3 OTHER TOWNS LOST BY AXIS   2,000 Prisoners Taken, Enemy Attacks Beaten Off; Allies Make Good Invasion Progress

2000 Axis. Captives Held By Invaders Are Mostly Italian   Report 400 Wounded U.N, Soldiers - Are Successfully Transferred. As Enemy Sinks Hospital Ship

Syracuse Is Chief Prize  Of Invasion   Speed of Drive Forcing Enemy to Regroup and Weakening Counters

AMERICANS ATID IN FRUSTRATING BLOWS BY ENEMY   Turn Back Seven CounterAttacks by Axis Tanks and Capture 2,000 Pris oners, Mostly Italians   CATANIA IN FLAMES FROM BOMBING RAID   British Units Driving To— ward Messina; Men and   Equipment Still Pour  ing Ashore

British Forces on ‘Way to Cantania; Syracuse Captured   Tank Attacks Repulsed and 2,000 Prisoners, Mostly Italians Taken; Yanks Check Heaviest Assault; More Troops, Supplies Landed Under Sea and Air Cover

7 Counterattacks Shattered, 2,000 Prisoners Taken   Gen. Patton Commands Yanks at Western End of 100-Mile Invasion Arc and Gen. Montgomery, the British on East

SEVEN ATTACKS BY FOE HALTED   Patton Leads U. $. Troops, Montgomery leads 8th Army Units.   DRIVE UP EAST COAST

Allies Seize ~ Ten Towns in South Sicily   British Eighth Army Advances Up - Coast from Syracuse Toward Catania —2000 Prisoners Captured by Allies; Seven Enemy Attacks Repulsed

Americans Crush Heaviest of Enemy Armored Counter-Attacks After Landing, Hold iol Beirigeneats 2 25 Miles Long; 1 10 Deep   ALLIES HOLD 100 MILES COAST   : Airmen Sweep Skies from Captured Sicil__ ian Airfields, Navy Shells Enemy’s Communications and Defenses

British Head For Catania   Patton Leads Advance On West Flank of Invasion

Prisoners Total 2,000; Axis Fails To Halt Advances In Counterattacks

Driving Toward Messina Straits   Genera] Patton Commands American Forces and Montgomery Tommies— Yanks Beat Off Counter-Attacks in Gela Area—Hospital Ship Sunk

9 OTHER MAJOR SICILIAN PORTS FALL TO ALLIES   Yanks And British Repel Italian Attacks At Gels   RINGING COASTLINE   Smash Axis Reinforcements and Supplies  Going To Front

Defenses Of Axis Slashed   ,.» Montgomery's Men Drive Toward Messina Strait

Seven Enemy Tank Attacks Repulsed as Lightning Drive Meets With New Success   Montgomery's.Forces In Push Up Island Coast; Patton's Men Advance Northward From Gela

10 Important Ports, Towns Are Captured   ftalian Counter - Drives Smashed; Naval Ships Pouring More Men, Equipment Ashore

They Also Turned Back Seven - Counterattacks by Enemy Tanks and Captured 2000 Prisoners.   BRITISH ARMIES UP SICILY’S EAST COAST   Syracuse Captured by Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s Famous Eighth  A wemmrtr

Surge On Toward Catania   ‘Elements of Famed 8th Army Under Command Of Gen. Montgomery in Big Push Up East Coast

7 Enemy Counter Attacks Smashed In New Advances   2000 Italians Taken Prisoner; Syracuse Falls, Civilians  Welcome Allies

NAZIS CHANGE BATTLE STORY   Admit Allies Still Coming Instead of Going at Salerno Beachhead

German Radio Tones Down; Admits Allies Are Landing Reinforcements

GERMAN RADIO CALMS REPORTS   Berlin Admits Allies Are Coming To Salerno, Not Leaving

Germans Admit Allies Coming Instead of Going   Report Allies Are Landing More Reinforcements

German Radio Changes Its. Tune; _ Americans Still Coming, Not Going

Rome Broadcasts  Take Defiant Tone  Tnvasion Seen Necessary Baw venseliiew: ¥ tlie

Hopes for Quick Peace With Italy Grow Dim; New Blows Held Necessar}   Axis Propagandists Publicize Reported 7-Point Armistice Proposal to Stitten Resistance: No Allied Confirmation

CHIANG 3 ELECTED UHINAS PRESIDENT   Generalissimo Is Unanimous Choice Of Council

SIX JAP SUPPLY - SHIPS SENT DOWN   U. -S. SUBS ALSO SINK DESTROYER AND MINE LAYER IN PACIFIC RAIDS.

U..S.SUBS SINK 8 JAP VESSELS   Destroyer, Mine Layer and Six Supply Ships are Sent to Bottom

U.S. Subs Account For Nine More Japanese Vessels  Enemy Destroyer and Mine Layer Also  Downed in Pocitic

American Subs Sink hight Japanese Ships   Three Other Vessels Damaged in Raids On Enemy's Supply Lines in Pacific Area Undersea Crafts’ Tally Raised to 269

JAP DESTROYER 6 OTHER SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS   Three Supply Vessels Damaged In Broad Operations In Pacific   Joll Is Now 269

U.S. Submarines Sink Eight More Japanese Ships   Destroyer, Mine Layer, Transport Included And 3 Ships Damaged

MINING TOWN FOOD COSTS NOT HIGHER   OPA Officials Admit Many Violations Here As Elsewhere

NOT TO ASK LEWIS TO SIGN CONTRACT   Hints UMW Head Would Not Sign Any Agreement

PRESIDENT WARNS NINERS AGAINST STRKING AEAI   Now Employes of U.S., Roosevelt Tells Reporters   DENIES PLAN TO DROP “LITTLE STEEL’ FORMULA

TRY TN SPFED MINE FORMULA   Seek Settlement Before Truce Expires

FDR WON'T ASK NEW COAL PACT   Pressure Against UMW Nx Avail, President Indicates

Roosevelt ~ Won’t Back ~ WLB Order   Says He Can’t Compel Lewis to Sign Agreement With Operators

F.D.R. Not fo Request Lewis   President Makes This Plain to Press At Their Conference

Roosevelt Won't Ask Lewis To Sign New Wage Agreement  Action Of WLB Speaks For Itself, He Says; ‘awful Lot Of Rot’ Printed About Matter

LEWIS NOT 10 BE ASKED 10 SIGN Ul   Note In Longhand on Pink Paper Would Not Help President Declares.

Miners to Stay Put: Roosevelt   Are Now Government Em. ployes, and No Strike Will Be Tolerated

WILL NOT ASK LEWIS TO SIGN   Roosevelt Won't Make Request of UMW Chie!

FDR Won t Ask Lewis To Sign  President Declares He Can’t Force Union To Aqree

F.D.R. Expects No Miner’s Strike   Now In Employ Of Government, President Telis Newsmen.

Fails To Back Up WLB On Point, What If Lewis Would Not Sign, He Asks

Dees Not Recall Any Strike Of Federal Employes Against Their Government; WLB Speeds Up Settlement Efforts   HEARINGS ARE UNDER WAY IN WASHINGTON

U.S. Will Not Tolerate Coal Strike, Says FDR   Points Out Miners Now Employes of Government; O'Neill Insists Pay Demands Mean Huge Cost Boost.

Expects No Strike By Coal Miners  Against U.S.   President Says He Has Never Heard Of Employes Quitting On Covernment

President Expects No Coai Strike Miners Now Government Employes, He Tells Press Group WLB NEARS CRISIS  Strict ‘Little Steel’ Policy Seen Alienating Labor  Cxninne   Strict ‘Little Steel’ Policy Seen Alienating Labor Groups

FDR EXPECTS NO COAL TROUBLES   Says Miners Are Employes of Government

EXPECTS MINERS TO STAY ON JOE   President Says Employes Of U. S. Don't Strike

WLB HEADING TO NEW CRISIS   AFL Spokesman Says Its “Tottering on Last Legs”

Will Not Tolerate (Mine Stoppage —   Coal Workers Now Federal Employes

FDR WON'T ASK LEWIS TO SIGN   President "Asks _ Reporters What He Could Do If He Refused To Comply

Expects  No Strike   FDR ‘Reealls? No Walkont of Government Eniployes

FDR Says Coal Output Mustn’t Lag   Points Out Men Are Government Employes Now

INE STRIKE MOTEXPECTED BY ROOSEVEL   Gives Clear Indication He Does Not Look For, Walkout Against the U. S. Government   TO RETAIN CONTROL UNTIL PEACE COMES   Meanwhile, WLB Being  Propelled Toward New Stabilization Crisis; — Tottering. Is Claim

F.D.R. Warns Miners Strike Period Over   Working fer Gov't Now Will Not Tolerate Any Stopnage

Will Continue Operation Of Coal Mines   'Miners Are Working For Government And They Will Not Strike, Is Roosevelt’s View

COAL HEARING MOVES SLOWLY   Roosevelt Says New Work Stoppage In Coal Mines Wiil Not Be Tolerated

President Will Not Ask Lewis To Heed Order   Pennsylvania Coal Miners Pass Picket Lines In Outlaw Strike   17,000 STILL OUT   ‘Federal Grand Jury May Probe Insurgent Walkout In Captive Pits

Not Asking Lewis Sign 9 Conrad:   President Indicates He Has No Intention of Making Request   WHAT GOOD WOULD TT DO? HE ASKS   Says He Knows of No Law That Would Compel Lewis to Sign

U. §. Won't Let Miners Strike, Roosevelt Says   Coal Diggers Now in Federal Service, President Warns

FDR Expects No Coal Mine Strike   Can Remember No Strike Against U. S.

NO MINERS’ STRIKE   Men Working For Government Now, PDR Keminds Keporters

War Labor Board Panel Ignores Absence of John Lewis and Proceeds With Hanaring of Testimony.

WLB Crisis On Wages  Seen Near   AFL Charges Says Board Totters On .Last Legs; Continues Coal Hearing

ALABAMA FARMERS PRAISED FOR PART IN CONVICT CATCH   Seven Escapees From Parchman Sought In Northact Micciscippl

 Kiev Rear Periled; 3 Dnieper Wedges -Break Winter Line   To Within 65 Miles of Latvia,  Continuing Great Germa~: Rout

LARGE GROUPS OF GUERRILLA FIGHTERS AID SOVIET FORCES   Cracking of Hitler’s Winter Line Highlights Action on 1,000-Mile Front

Russians’ New Offensive Is Packed With Power, Nazis  Unable to Halt Advances   New Intense Burst of Action Puts Soviets Across River in Three Places. Hitler Had Ordered Jt Heid.

REDS REPORTED CONVERGING ON CITY OF KIEV   Three Crossings of Dnieper Breach German Defense Line

HITLER WINTER LINE BROKEN IN THREE PLACES   Soviets Get Second Wind, Threat To Kiev Mounting

pinener 7 Is      GERMANS’ WINTER DEFENSE: IS BROKEN; REDS START AN.. OFFENSIVE ON 1000-MHILE FRO

FALLOF KIEV IS NOW CONSIDERED ~ MATTER OF TIME   Soviet Guerrillas Behind German Lines Are A Menace to City Hitler Expected to Hold Securely.   JAPS IN FULL FLIGHT IN CENTRAL SOLOMONS   Bodies, Blazing Barges Litter Sea Where Attempt Was Unsuccessfully Made to Evacuate.

Russian Armies March On 1,000Mile Front In What Appears To Be Pay Off Offensive On Three Borders   FIFTH: ARMY MAKES TEN-MILE ADVANCE

DEFENDERS HIT BY RED UNITS FROM 3 SIDES   Fall of Important City Is Only Matter of Time, Belief

SOVIETS SNAP DNIEPCR LINE, POUND AKEAD   Ukranian Capital Outflanked as Red Guerillas Go Behind Germans. i   STALIN FORCES BEGIN WIDE, FURIOUS BLOW

HINT OF TALKS SEEN IN JOINT STATEMENT   President, Churchifi Say Tripartite Meeting May Be Arranged

Russian Participation In Talks  With U. S. And Britain Predicted

Hint Tripartite Meeting In-Fall   Joint Statement Indicates Russia May Sit In With U. S. And Britain

WILLINVITE ~ RUSSIANS 10 NEW PARLEY   QUEBEC CONFERENCE - ENDED AND ROOSEVELT SUED “© ULED, FOR CANADIAN: 3 PARDIAMENT AD.

Preparing For After The War   BABSON GIVES RULES FOR EVERY U. S. BUSINESSMAN

GET BUSINESS READY NOW FOR AFTER-WAR   Babson Advises Starting At Once To Have Things Shipshape When Wars End May Bring Difficult Times.

General Gives Explanation Of Canol Project   Oil Development Made Imperative As. Result - OF. Situation In 1942, Asserts Somervell

Amnesia Victim Recognizes Baby   Youngster's Tears Restore Memory

DEFENOE LINE UF NAZIS BEND UNDER PRESSURE   Allied Fifth Army Advances 10 Miles Despite Heavy German Fire

CHARLES MUNDY UNREPORTED IN NORTH AFRICA   Group of Local Soldiers May Be Rommel’s Prisoners

Nazis Had No Margin in Courage. in Tunisia Battle: Yankees Mad Because They Had to Withdraw

Threaten Japs Western Flank Guarding Rabaul   MacArthur Seeks Third Major Triumph Wit! in Two Weeks As Forces Lunge At Bastion; Artillery Fire Crushing Stronghold.

Allies Within  Two Miles Of  Finschafen Base Is Under  oe Tee > Ee   Base Is Under Artillery Fire From Allies

FRENCH FIGHT GEOTAP FhOMt STREET FORTS   German Army Moving Tanks Up to Aid Evictions in Marseilles Harbor.   TUMBLE-DOWN HOMES CONVERTED TO FORTS

PATRIOTS FIRE ON THE GERMANS FROM ROOFTOPS   Tanks, - Artillery. Brought. Up..Enemy ‘Threatens to Level District. =; -

‘Frenchmen Barricade Their Homes   German Eviction Order Met With Stout Resistance

FRENCH BATTLE NAZI EFFORT AT EVACUATION   Germans Threaten Devastation Unless Resistance At Marseilles Ceases   MARTIAL LAW IMPOSED   Residents Barricade Selves In Homes Thruout Old Harbor District

FRENCH AT MARSEILEES BATTLE GERMAN TROOPS   Refuse to Obey Evacuation Order and Pitched Battle  Results.

Marseilles Harbor Area Battles Nazis In Transfer Protest   ‘Frenchmen, Barricaded.in Homes; Germans Move Up Tanks, Artillery: *Manv Wie. Dévaciation Threatened

TANKS, FIELD GUNS USED TC SUBDUE FRENCK   Orders to Move Out of Mar. seilles Harbor District Results in Revolt: Strike is Reported.

NAZIS MASS TANKS, GUNS IN MARSEILLES   French Resistance Brings Threat of Devastation

Germans Use Tanks, Guns Against Fortified Homes   Vichy Declares Martial Law In Mediterranean Port— 45.000 Resist Arrest

Tanks And Field Guns Are Massed By Nazis In Old Harbor District At French Port

French Battle Germans in City Streets   Heavy Loss of Life Is Feared; Civilians Resist Removal

French Battle Nazi Soldiers ln Marseilles   Clash “Results From Effort to Move 45,000

Marseilles Area Under Martial Law   French Revolt When Ordered t  Vacate Homes

DIES TO FILE NEW CHARGES AGAINST FEDERAL EMPLOYES   SALARY APPROPRIATIONS TO " BE ABOLISHED FOR Two “UNFIT’ EMPLOYES  oF Fcc —

Soviets Capture Bryansk Outpos   Karachev Is Taken, Kharkov Holds Out

Navy Flyer Attacked by 31 Japanese: Planes Is. Wounded: 11. Times, Bails: Out'and’ Lives —

Navy Flier, Attacked by 31 Jap War Planes, Wounded 11 Times. Lives to Tell It

31 Jap Planes Attack Navy Flier, Wound Him 11 Times, but He Lives

Navy Flyer Who Was Ailacked by 31 Japanese ‘Planes, Wounded 11 Times, and Forced to Bail Out of Plane. Lives to Tell Siorv

Navy Flier Hit 11 Times in Air Battle with Japs   Thirty-One Enemy Planes Attack Lt. Southerland, but He Escapes

SOVIET ARMY LASHES BACK AT GERMANS   Reds Seek to Nullify Nazi Gains Scored at Cost of 30,000 Men

GAS ATTACKS IN U. $. PREDICTED   Course in Poison-Gas Defense Opened at State University

AirPowerMay Get Chance To ‘Crush Reich’   Quebec Conferees Believed To Have Made Choice Despite Demands   MAY SHORTEN FIGHT   United Nation Chief: Plan Stepped Up Offensive Against Japanese

F, D.-Churchill Appeal May Be Issued On Eve 01 Invasion; Quick Military Victory Allied Aim   (RITLLELETIN)

GERMAN PEOPLE TO BE GIVEN WARNING TO GET OUT OF WAR   Russia’s Demands For Second Front  To Be Considered At Conference—.  Air Blasis Softening Up For  Land Invasion _

NAZIS WARNED OF IMPENDING DESTRUCTION   Roosevelt, Church ‘ll and Aides Draft Plans for Ruthless Assault.   BULLETIN

QUEBEC PARLEY SPOTLIGHTING WAR ON JAPAN   ‘Major New Operations Against "Enemy In Pacific Studied By  FDR and Churchill.   BRACKEN GIVES HINTS   Complete Destruction of Our Enemies With Germany First Promised.

BE OPENED FOR ARMIES   Allies To Bomb, Burn All In Way, Que S bec Indicates

Decision Is Reached At Quebec   Aim to Give Air Power It Chance to Crush Germany First

Air Assaults Will Precede  Big Invasion   Destruction Path Will Be Blasted To Save Casualties

AERIAL BLOWS HEAVY STRAIN UPON GERMANY   Berlin Raid, However, Was Only One of Several Activities by Allied Bomb Fieets

OTILL HANGING   Dates For Allied Landings On Continent Already Set But Airmen Come First

Quebec Says Germans Will Have Choice   Conference Draws Near Close With Hull, Eden Due

Believe Churchill And FDR Have Decided To Give Air Fleets First Chance At Knocking Qut Germany

Invasion Will Come Only After Full Use of Allied Air Power to Crush Germany, Belief

Air Power To Get Big Test  Over Germany      Quebec Group Believed To Have Decided On Air Test First   MAY INVADE SOON   Aerial War First Can Make Land Stroke Much Easier

Airmen Get First Crack In Attempt To Defeat Nazis   Russia Impatient For Action As Conferences Near Successful End

FDR, CHURCHILL DEGIDE 10 TRY BOMBING FIRS]   Air Fower to Receive Chance to Subdue Germany

DECK 10 MAKE INVASION: PATH ONE QF SAFETY   Crushing Air War To Be Accompanied By Reminders To German People To Get Out Of War Or Suffer Destruction   ALLIED LEADERS CONFER AT QUEBEC

AIR POWER MAY HAVE ITS CHANCE TO BEAT GERMANY   Blasting Path of Destruction For. Land Army Invasion  “ To Help In Fewest Possible Casuaities.   GERMAN PEOPLE WILL FIRST GET REMINDER   Roosevelt, Churchill Drawing Near End of Conference, Hult, Eden Get Review of Policies.

PLANS TO INVADE BELIEVED MAIN OUEBEG TOPIC   Value of Air Preparation in Shortening Any Campaign  Realized

WALLACE WINS CHEERS IN CHILE   Industrial Tour Made by Vice President

Wilhelmshaven Hammered By British Planes   First Big Raid On U-Boat Center Since Yanks Bormbed ft

WILHELMSHAVEN BOMBED AGAIN   Three British Planes Missing After Heavy Attack On Nazi Naval Base

WILHELMSHAVEN GIVEN DRUBBING LAST NICH)   R.A.F. Attacks Great German Naval and Submarine Base During the Night—-71st Raid Is Completed on Objective Since the War Started—Nazi ' ‘Radio Reports Latest Foray As a  “Nuisance Raid ” :

DUNNELL WARNS AGAINST MACHINE   ADVISES GOP AT SPRINGFIELD TO REMAIN VIGILANT — SEES GOP VICTORY.

Donnell Warns GOP Against Over Confidence   Says Pendergast Machine Must Be Watched

American Casualties At Salerno Beach Head ‘Are Announced as 3,497

Seek to Revive Pay-as-Go Tax   House Republicans Clamor for Action

‘Skip- Year’ Tax Action Is Urged   Republicans Will Try To Sidetrack Hearings On Trade Act In Favor Of New Levy Plan

Fighting Marks Rubber Strike; 44,000 Now Out   Pickets Form Barricade at Gates of Goodyear Company in Akron

Vatutin’s Army Progressing West Kiev Bulge Battle   Crush Repeated German Counter Attacks; Improve Positions South Of Malin.

ARMY BOMBERS HIT MARSHALS   Liberators ‘Maintain Raids On Mid-Pacific Isles

RAIDS CONTINUE BY LIGERATORS ON MARSHALLS   Japs May Have Moved Reinforcements to Counter U. S. Offensive

SALE REGISTER   Announce Your Sale In the Semi-Weekly News, the “Great Sale Paver”

Announce Your Sale In the Semi-Weekly News, the “Great  Sale Paper”

“The World Is Terribie, Betty, But Vai And Schoolmates Can Help It”

3 OHIO MINE GROUPS IDLE   Majority of State's Coal Workers Return to Jobs, However

A FEW MINERS HOLD OUT FOR WORK CONTRACT   Reosevelt, Anti-Strike > Law Criticized By Diggers As They Return

Rival Yugoslav Forces Fight Each Other In Fierce Battle   Tito’s Forces Claim Mihailovic Army Fighting With Germans Beaten Back

Rival Yugoslav ~ Forces Clashing   Chetniks- Join Nazis  Claim Partisans

Rival Yugoslav Forces Clash in Bitter Fight In Hills of Montenegro

TITO’S FORCES BATTLE TROOPS OF MIHAILOVIC   Partisans Report Caplure of Two Towns from Germans, Charge King’s General Aids Nazis

RIVAL YUGOSLAV FORCES BATTLE   Partisans Accuse Mihailovic Of Aiding Germans

Slavs Clash in Hills of Montenegro   RIVAL FORCES BATTLE AS TITO FIGHTS NAZIS IN YUGOSLAVIA HEIGHTS

Yu GOS12VS a ignting Qne Another   Partisans and Chetniks in Pitched Battle

RIVAL YUGOSLAV FORCES BATTLING   Tito’s Partisans and Mihailovic’s Chetniks Clash In Heavy Fighting; Rommel Asks More Divisions To  Crush Balkan Opposition.

Lewis Insists Miners Need  Pay Increase   Says No-Strike Pledge Voided by WLB Rule

LEWIS, SOLONS . GLASH ON PAY   Claim Miners Under N Obligation Not To “a Strike

NOT OBLIGATED TO OBSERVE BAN ON WAR STRIKES   John L. Lewis Demands $2 A Day Wage Increase For His Miners   HEATED EXCHANGE ENLIVENS HEARING

Says Miners Not Bound by Pledge   Truman Committee Hears John L. Lewis

Lewis Stands By Wage Fight   Mine Union Leader Says Men Must Eat

Lewis Insists On Wage Hikes   Says Miners’ Diet Far Below Neede ”

ewis Clashes ith Senators  n Mine Wages   insists Men Are under No Obligations Not To Strike   says Miners Diet May En: danger Their Productivity

LEWIS INSISTS ON PAY RAISES   Mine Workers President Won't Say Whether Men Will Strike

John L. Lewis’ Appearance Before Senators Sets Off Big Verbal Fireworks

‘Lewis Insists On Higher Pay For Coal Miners   Says Miners Not Bound By No-Strike Pledge,  Broken by Government

Union Chie! Insists On $2 Raise   Senate Committee And Mine Chief Swap Hot Words

Lewis Plugs For $2: Hike In Mine Pay   Refuses to Drap Wage Increase Demand ®

LEWIS IS NOT BOUND BY ‘Nd STRIKE’PLEDRE   President Of UMW Alleges W.ar Labor Board Voided Pledge By “Little eel’ born ula.   Demands Higher Pay

LEWIS RAPS U.S. POLICIES ON INFLATION   Mine Union Head Says Industry Waxes Fat While Miners Suffer

BATTER NAZI LINE TO MAKE NEW ADVAN   Bloodiest Battle of War Since Salerno Still Raging in Mountains. 4

ALLIES SHATTER DESPERATE NAZI BLOWS IN ITALY   Yanks and British Continue ® Gains in Heaviest Fight Since Salerno

YANKS GAPE O MMORE #173 ON WiNTCE Lik   Bloodiest Battle Since Salerno Now Raging in Italy

TWIN DRIVE. IS MEETING ~ FIERCE TEST   ELOODIEST STRUGGLE SINCE SALERNO REPORTED AS AL‘LIED FORCES SMASIL INTO NAZI DEFENSES

Allies Driving Ahead Against Stiff Opposition   Desperate Resistance Is Of. fered To Allied Advance In Italy   “MORE DENTS MADE IN GERMAN LINE

Aurelio Stays On N. Y. Ballot   Highest Court Rules In Favor Of Repudisted  A a oe

‘Axis Military Destruction’ Planned at Quebec; Roosevelt Warns Foe to Surrender Now

Surrender Warning Given Axis President Say Foes Head For  Destruction

Complete Defeat Of Axis, Plan   Says Utter Destruction Of Germany, Japan, Italy  Is Mapped Out.

RECORD -SIZED ARMADA HITS NAZI TARGETS   British Bombers Also Out in Great Force In Nicht AUacks

Reich Targets Are Attacked By U.S. Fliers   Record Force Sent Over Germany in Daylight Assault: Following Shattering 2,240-Ton Night 2 Blow hy the RAE

Joyce Zimmerman  And Leonard  Nechanicky Wed Groom Has Been  An Instructor At Beacon Airways

Lose Their Mountain Defenses   American and British Arm ies Advance — Fierce  Fighting in Russia

ALLIED OFFENSIVE LINE ADVANCED 15 MILES ON SICILY      Canadians Drive Forward Against Bitter Nazi Defense——-Germans ‘Holding On

ALLIES ADVANCE 15 MI. EAST In SICILY   Canadians Are Meeting Opposition From Germans

15-Mile Gain  Repor ted on Sieilv Front   Axis Airfields on Italian Mainland Heavily Attackad

GERMANS CLING TO REMAINING BIT OF SICILY   Allies Advance 15 Miles More

Bombing Planes Blast At South. Italy Airfields:   Canadians Meet Stiff Opposition Trying To Pierce Nazi-Lines.

AXIS STILL RESISTING IN SICILY   Trying Hard to Hold Remaining One-Eighth of Island.

ALLIES MOVE UP ~-THEIR LINES IN SICILIAN DRIVE   Germans Dig In to Hold Last __ of Island, Twe Italian Div isions Near Trapping Have \ Withdrawn.   GERMANS WITHDRAWING AT OREL, BURN CITIES   RAF Air Armada Made Sixth Visit on Hamburg, More Damage Is Done, Casualties Are Heavy.

LINE ADVANCED IN SICILY BY ALLIED FORGES      Move 15 Miles Eastward In Sicily Canadians Hit German Defenses

Allies Gain 15 Miles in Sicily Drive   Canadians, Yank Advance Despite Nazi Resistance

ALLIES ADVANCE TO MILES 70 EAST IN SICILY DRIVE   German Losses Reported Up to 50 Per Cent in Fighting Against British Eighth Armv.

CANADIAN ARMY SMASHES AHEAD AT AXIS CENTER   British Eighth Army Still Held Up by Nazi Forces at Catania.

ALLIES ADVANCE 15 MILES EAST IN SICILY TIP   Germans Busily Digging in From North to South Coasts

Americans Push Ahead 15 Miles In Sicily Drive   Yank And Canadian Forees Smashing Forward Against Bitter Opposition To Pierce Center Of Stiff German Defenses

American, Canadian Units Advance Offensive Lines Fifteen Miles In Sicily

AXIS LOSSES 342,000   Tunisian Campaign More Disastrous Than First Indicated

SOVIETS BEYOND OFFENSIVE LINES OF LAST WINTER   Russians Press Rerentlessly on Kharkov, Smolensk and Bryansk

BWiekussian Ghan ftéad   County Man Dies After ‘Grudge Fight’ in Prison

STRIKE WOULD HIT STEEL IN ONLY 3 WEEKS   Largest Warplants, Rail Companies Face Early Shortage Of Coal If Mines Close   Closing Down Feared

SHORTAGE WILL HIT WAR PLANTS   Steel Industry Will Feel Coal Famine First   RAILROADS WORRIED   Fuels Coordinator Ickes Estimates About One Month's Supply Above Ground

U.S. Troops Pound At Enemy Units   Japs On Attu Dig In For Stand

Third Transport Sunk; 73 Jap Planes Downed As Allied Airmen Rip New Guinea Beachhead

JAP TRANSPORT IN LAE-BOUND CONVOY IS SENT. 10 BOTTOM   Fourth Ship “Damaged.  Fires Started, Many  ; Japs - “Killed In ‘Beach Attack .   TWELVE HEROES. . GET RECOGNITION

BUSINESS IS USUALLY GOOD WITH THE MAN WHO GOES AFTER IT   Allied Planes Sink Jap Transport, Destroy, Damage 73 Enemy Planes In Three-Day Battle In New Guinea

ALLIED PLANES: SINK ANOTHER JAP TRANSPORT      Japanese Convoy Was Boand Pe Lae — Many Troops - ~ Are Killed ~

LAE BOMBED AS ALLIES SINK SRD JAP TROOP Shi?   Gen. MacArthur Soys Convoy Virtually Smashed

ALLIES SINK THIRD JAP TRANSPORT   Airmen Attack Beaches At Lae; Few Japs Escape

73 PLANES SHOT DOWN INBATTLE   Three Nip Transports Sunk In Heavy Air Attack By Allies

Third Japanese Transport Sunk Off NewGuinea  73 Enemy Planes Are Knocked Out In Allied Attack LAE BEACHES HIT  Few Japs Landed : After Three-Day Battering      Few Japs Landed  After Three-Day Battering Along Coast

LAE UNDERGOES HEAVY ATTACK BY U.S. PLANES   M‘Arthur’s Forces Smashing At Jap Beach-Head, Down 73 Enemy Air - erpaft, Four Transports.

ARMY GENERAL FINED $5,000 FOR CONTEMPT   ‘Commander Of Hawanan Department Defied Habeas  Cornus Writ   DEFIANCE CONDEMNED BY FEDERAL JUDGE

GEN. AIGHARDOON O+INED BY JUDGE   Army Commander Held in Contempt of Federal Court In Proceedings Involving Habeas Corpus in Hawaii

HULL AND. MOLOTOV EXCHANGE VIEWS   Ultra - Friendly Relations Prevail At Conference

KISKA SHELLED AGAIN   U.S. Warships Bombard Last Aleutian Base Of Japanese

Speaker Lauds China's Leadel   Dr. George Shepherd Addresses Rotary

KNOX REPORTS NO JAP LANDINGS AT GUADALCANAL BASE   Lull In Activity ‘In Recent Weeks—Ten Enemy Destroyers Cut OFF

None Reached Guadalcanal From Destroyer Flee Knox Reveals; Floating Drums Sunk Off Shore

Hermans Claim Transports And Destioyers Hit   Nazis Report Convoy Bombed Off North - African Coast

Nazis Claim 13 Loaded Troopships  Sunk or Damaged   Allies Fail to Confirm Report of Attacks Off North African Coast

Germans Claim (3 Allied Troop Transports Hit   Nazis Say Loaded Ships, 2 Destroyers Sunk or Damaged

Nazis Claim 13 Fully Loaded Allied Ti roop Jransports ‘and Two Destrovers Are Sunk

CANADIAN MAKES 30-MILE GLIDE      Heavy Anti-Aircraft  Fire Makes Record Trip Hazardous

Busy Days Ahead For Members Of Legislature  Public Hearing Today On Highway Bonds;

Busy Days Ahead For Members Of Legislature  Public Hearing Today On Highway Bonds; Many Measures Pend

BRICKER'S TAX BILL STALLED   GOP Committee Still Opposed To Repeal of Sales Tax Measure

Bricker Fails To Get Action On Food Sales Tax Repealer   On Other Items

BRICKER FAILS TO GET ACTION ON TAX LIFTING   Committee May Not Make Official Report on Tax Repealer

sting of emy Is e Soon  Dart nf AGnftanin:   Process Leading to New  Drive in Aleutians

Navy Airmen Attack Kiska   Aerial, Sea Forces Bomb Enemy Positions

Jap Sea Base Hit   70-Minute Air Raid Wrecks Huge Enemy Base At Soerabata

ALLIED SUBS HIT 2 BATTLESHIPS OFF SHANGHAI   Sink Several Japanese RiceLaden Ships on January 11

JARS CLAIM 35 U.S, SHIPS SUNK   Official Circles Await Battle Zone Reports As Aerial Activity Spreads

REPORT JAP "WARSHIPS HIT   Chinese Say Battlewagon: Damaged, Several Cargo Vessels Sunk.

U.S, SUBS TEAR 2 JAP WARSHIPS   Chinese News  Agency Tells Of Attack Off Shanghai

Reach New Peak   Two Japanese Battleships Damaged, Chungking Says

More Japs Killed on Bouganville   American Marines Mow Down Attacking Enemy on Island

JAP ATTACKS DRIVEN BACK   300 More Nipponese Killed on Bougainville

KILL 300~.. MORE JAPs ow BOUGAINVILLE   _Enemy Triedto  Cross River; Halted By Marines

GERMANS SEEK WAY TO STOP U, S. TANKS   Nazi Specialists Experimen' With Captured Models

Argentine Seeks Recall of German   Niebuhr, Embassy’s, Nava Attache, Is Accused Of Fanionace

Congressman to Ask for Survey of West Penn Fuel Situation.  <   MUCH CONFLICT IN STATEMENTS

WEISS WANTS PA. GAS PROBE   C§agréss Asked. {0 DE * quire Into Ration Ruling

‘Congressman 'To Ask Probe Of‘Gas’ Situation   Weiss Criticizes Ickes For Keeping This Area In Low-Ration District

Weiss to Seek Area Gas Probe   Congressman Says Stocks Greater Than They Were Year Ago

132 U.S. Ships  Lost; Wahoo Is 15th Sub   65 Crewmen on Overdue Craft; Liscome Bay, Baby Carrier, Sunk

“SINKING OF SUB WANOO AND ESCORT CARRIER LISCOME BAY aac 1 & MAVAL LOSSES TO 122 SHIPS DE ALL CLASSES

Axis Still  Is Holding At Catania   Heavy Resistance Holds Back British Advance  in Northeast

REDS READY LAY SIEGE TO OREL BASE   Berlin Reports Reds Stage Other Drives

War Picture Is Extrémely Bright For Allies On Both Ends Of European Front

PACIFIC BASES URGED BY KNOX   Must Keep Japan Disarmed On Sea After War He Says Endorsing Lend-Lease

Knox Urges Cham Of Pacific Bases   Prevent Future Jap Aggression

U.S. Must Hold Bases Against Japs Says Knox   Lease-Lend Value To This Country And Allies Told

KNOX ASKS NAVAL BASES IN PACIFIC   Urges. Lend- Lease Continuance to Maintain “Friendly Atmosphere”

KNOX CITES PLAN “TO CONTROL SEAS   Advocates Chain of Base in Pacific toKeep Japs " ” Disarmed After War

Pacific Bases Needed By U. S.   SECRETARY KNOX SAYS AMERICA MUST BE PROTECTED

KNOX PROPOSES AERIAL BASES ACROSS PACIFIC   Says Post-War Objective Will Prevent Future Aggression In  That Quarter   Supports Lend-Lease

Post-War Bases To Control Japs Urged By Knox.   Navy Chief Favors Full Maintenance _Of Armament Ban.

FAVORS KEEPING © ~— JAPS DISARMED   ‘Knox Proposes Network of  Bases Across Pacific After the War

Knox Proposes Pacific Bases After The War   Says Japan Must Be Kept Disarmed When Peace Comes   Urges Continuation Of Lease-Lend Aid   Allied Nations Have Helped U. S. In Many Ways, Says Secretary

Acquisition of Pacific Bases Urged by Knox   Move Proposed to Block Future Jap War Activities

KNOX POINTS OUT NEED OF OCEAN BASES   Post-War Objective fol Pacific Outlined by Secretary

Retention of Bases Urged   We Must Disarm Japan On the Sea After the War. Knox Declares

Knox Presents Post-War Plan   Secrelary Says U. 5. Mus! Disarm Japan on Sea, Acquire Bases

TO AID NORTH DAKOTA   1,100 Arkansas Farmers Are Going to Northern Harvest

PLOT AGAINST THE AXIS      American and British Officers Held Important Conferences

Blaze Kills 48 Trapped in Hotel at Houston   Many, Terrified, Jump From Hich Windows

Death Toll In Houston Fire  Reaches 46   Many Were Aged Men On Relief; Cigarette Blamed

HOTEL FIRE TRAPS  48 GUESTS ABOVE ‘2ND FLOOR FLAMES   iDozens Plunge to Street When Burning Stairways Cut Off Atl Chance of ©  Penanna.

A§ BURN T0 DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE   Blaze. Occurred Early Today at Houston, Texas

MANY OTHERS HURT; CIGARET CAUSE, BELIET   Most Victims Elderly Men on Relief, and  Transients

FORTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST IN HOTEL FIRE   Many Victims of Houston, Texas, Blaze Elderly Men

Yanks Take 6 Towns; Supply Hubs Deserted   River Bridgehead Extended 3 Miles: Trip. Hammer Blows Telline on Foe.

NAZIS RETREAT TOWARD ROME   “1 Least Six More Towns Captured in Allied Offense — Lieut, Gen: Sir Bernard L.° Montgomery Scores Major Tactical Success. ,

Seek To Break Off Fight In Italy As Allies Take Important Supply Bases

Allies Capture 6 Towns   Eighth Army Takes Capobasso And Vinchi aturo In Advance

GERMANS TRY TO BREAK OFF CONTACT, SAII   Vv olturno Bridgeheads Expanded; Six More Towns Taken

NAZIS, RESISTING FIERCELY, FORCED BACK ALONG RIVER   Eighth Army Steps Up Its Drive To Force Enemy From Strong Points ‘On East Coast

JARS. CLAIM. MORE AMERICAN LOSSES   Say A Cruiser Was’ Sunk In Engagement Off -! ¥sabel ‘Island

Has Contract For Surfacing Alcan Road   W. B. Linnan, Pocahontas, io Use 140 Men in Alaska

W. B. Linnan Gets Big Graveling Job on Alcan Highway   To Take Two Complete Out. fits and Crew of 140 Men ~ to Alaska Soon

Balkan Patriots Fight Axis Troops  Reports Tell Of Frach Activity

NAZI MARSHAL ROMMEL SENT INTO GREECE   Mikhailovitch’s Men Slash Railroads, Cut Travel

BEFORE HOUSE —      licves So Age Youth Intellectually, Morally Qualified ts Vote =

Today’s War Commentary  Invasion of Europe  Depends On First Whipping lL -Boat:

BLACK MARKET DETAILS TOLD      Federal Grand . Jury  Indicts Wisconsin Firm

Control Fire in Jeffrey Building; Damage Is Slight   Blaze Starts Between Floor and Ceiling Above Grocery — Confined to Simall Space

RAIL AND MINE DISPUTES HEAD TO SHOWDOWN   Labor Demands Up For Decision By WLB And President

ROOSEVELT TO GET OLD LABOR DISPUTE TODAY   Railroads and Coal Mines Are  Involved In Arguments

LABOR DISPUTES GO BEFORE WLB AND’ PRESIDENT   Outcome Will Shov Stréngth of Labor’s ssault ‘on Stabilization Prorram

Republ.   eee 1A COLUMN ‘ABOUT IOWA   Farm Gasoline to Be Allotted hy AAA

Says Japan Digging In To Protect Industrial. Raw Material Centers

J apan Digs In While  Allies Wait   Vital War Industry Centers Guarded By Crack Troops; Gathe: Reservoir of Supplies

Japan Must Be Defeated Through Blows at Industries, Writer Reveals

 Kepatriated Keporter Gives Upinion  Blows On War Industries Might Defeat Japanese   Ry RUSSELL BRINES

Ejecting Japs Likely To Be  Slow Process   Blows At Japanese Wat Industries Believed Best Way To Avoid  Severe Losses

Japan Digs in For Allied Blow   Accumulates Large Stockpile of Vital War Materials

Japs Digging In, But Blows On War Industries Telling   By RUSSELL BRINES Associated Press Staff Write:

Japs Anticipating Future Assaults; Dic In To Guard Industries, Resources

Japanese Rush Plans For Bitter Fight When War In Europe Ends   Py RUSSELL BRINES

ERROR IN REPORT ON SYNTHETIC TIRES   Col. Lynn Black ‘Says Tests Proved Them Satisfactory

No Scarcity Of Petroleum Magazine Says   Restrictions in Use of Equipment Blamed For Decline in Estimates   FINDING NEW FIELDS

Senate Views Or Peace Treaties To Be Clarified  Investigate Supply Of Sun-Standard Steel:   Investigate Supply Of Sun-Standard Steel; House To Begin Debate  Qrn Tayvee Tamarraw

[Twin Allied Drives Feared  By Berlin   British Continue Pounding Of Mareth Fortifications

Axis Forces Put Up Resistance At Mareth Line  German Infantry  Attacks East of A Bib, cn enmmee 2 ra. Wat <a

YANKS ADVANCE ON FONDOUK IN SURPRISE MOVE   British . Fighting Its Way Into Mareth Line Fortifications

NAZIS STIFFEN RESISTANCE AT MARETH LINE   Allies Uaunching Offensive On Northern, Cens } tral Fronts ‘   FRENCH ACTIVE   First Army Shows Signa Of Moving Against Tunis, Bizerte

British Drive ls Supported By Air Armada   Yank Push On Central Front Reported Making Good Headway

British Hammering At Mareth Fortifications   No News Reported on Column Driving on E] Hamma; American Drive Gains Ground

Good Headway Reported From Fondouk Drive.   British Doggedly Pounding Rommel Forces At Mareth

OTH FIGHTS WAY INTO MARETH LINE   Proceeds According to Plan Despite Opposition   PUSH ON FONDOUK   British First Army, Opposite Bizerte and Tunis, Re. ported on Move

Eighth Army Presses.on  In Tis Fight   ‘U. S.:Foreeés Said To Be Making Headway it Push to Fondouk  -

British Pound V ital Enemy Defense Line   American Push Threatens German Air Base Drive Follows Unsuccessful Attack By Foe: Allies Seek Passage to Ocean

Americans Launch Surprise Attack In Central Tunisia   Swedish Reports Claim British And Some Norwegians Are Dropped By Parachutes.

British Move On Into Mareth Line   Germans Report Allied Forces Are Much Stronger

SURPRISE DRIVE IS LAUNCHED BY FIGHTING YANKS   Axis Forces Pounded A: American Troops Begin _ Push on Fondouk

Surprise Blow Of Yanks Wins Early Success   Americans Make Good Headway in Push on Fondouk, 15 Miles of Axis Base at Kairouan

PUSH TOWARD FONDOUK NEAR AXIO AIR BASE   Drive Started After Attack by German Infantry Was Renulsed.   EIGHTH ARMY BATTLES TO DENT MARETH LINE

YANKS BATTLE AGAINST NAZIS FOR FONDOUK   Push on Town, 15 Miles From Vital. Enemy Base, . Reported Making “Good Headway”   EIGHTH ARMY MOVES ACCORDING TO PLAN   Doggedly Fighting Its Way Into Mareth Line Forti-  fications; Allied Forces  Sirenethened

Aeains Rommel Making Proares:   8th Army’s Drive Reported Moving Satisfactorily

Nazis Counterattacking In Lower Don  As Soviets Threaten Vital Rail City

Britain Will Stay hh Fight on Japs   Churchill Makes Pledge to Joint Session of — Congress   A BATILE TO FINISH   May Be Meeting of Allied Leaders With Stalin and Chiang

Sees U. S., British Fighting Sid& By Side Until End   WILDLY CHEERED  Prime Minister Talks  - Before U. S. Con-

ON WAR POLICY   Japan Will Be Made To Pay Fully For All Conquests Throughout World

BRITISH CHIEF GIVEN OVATION RY U.S. SOLONS   Prime Minister Asserts  England Will Fight On  With Allies On All Fronts In War   WINDSORS. ATTEND HISTORIC SESSION:   Aid To China Is Urged By, Premier, Says Britain Must “Repay Japs”   For Singapore

‘I Regard the Bringing of Immediate and Effective Aid to China as One of the Most Urgent of Our Common Tasks’      STRESSES BRITAIN’S INTEREST   Declares He and Roosevelt Hope Soon to Confer with Stalin, Chiang, Predicts New Offensive by Hitler   Hope to Meet Stalin. Chiang

Tells Congress He and Stalin, Chiang, F.D.R. May Meet Soon   Predicts Failure for 3rd Nazi Attempt to Knock Out Russia

As Eager As U.S. To Hit: At The Japs   Churchill Hopes For Meeting With Stalin and Chiang

CHURCHILL'S PLEDGE GIVEN IN U.S. TODA)   English to Fight Side by Side With U.S. Until Jap Cities, Industries Laid in Ashes

Tells Congress England Won't Give Up Fight   Statement Seen Reply To Allegations Britain Will Quit After Hitler Is Beaten

Tells Congress Nipponese Cities:and War Factories Must Be “Laid In Ashes”

Prime Minister Pledges Aid Against Japan   Churchill Expresses Hope For Early Meeting With Stalin, Chiang   AIR WAR HAILED   Thunderous Ovation Greets British Chief A: He Enters Congress Hall

PRIME MINISTER REGARDS BRINGING IMMEDIATE AND EFFECTIVE AID TO CHINA ‘MOST URGENT OF TASKS   Let No One Suggest That Britain Hasn’t  At Least as Great Interest in Pacific War ‘As The United States, Britisher Tells National  Law-Makers.

PREMIER PLEDGES BRITISH JOINT BLOWS WITH U. S.   Congress Told Greater Aerial Smashes Coming Against Germany  Sub Warfare Successes Revealed

CHURCHILL REVEALS PROPOSED U. S.-BRITISH MEETING WITH STALIN, CHIANG KAI-SHEK AS CONGRESSMEN FILL HALLS WITH CHEERS

CHURCHILL PLEDGES WAR WITH JAPAN   Tells Congress British Will Fight To Last Breath

England Will Fight With US Until the End   Churchill Pledges Britain Will Fight Side by Side with America Until Japan Laid im Utter Waste

Battle Will Continue Until  Japan, Already Cowering  _ Under Prospects of Death, Is Laid in Utter Waste.   CHURCHILL BEFORE CONGRESS TODAY   He Said He and President Roosevelt Hopes to Meet Soon With Premier Stalin  and Generalissimo Chiang.

Prime Minister Pledges Britain To Finish Fight   Expresses Hope Of Meeting With Chiang and Stalin

SOLONS HEAR RRITISHER   ‘We'll Fight to Last Breath,’ Says Prime Minister

Solons Hear Prime Minister In War Address   British Will Fight Until Jap Cities, Industries In Ashes

EN BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Promises Britain Will Be With U.S. To Finish.   TALKS BEFGRE CONGRESS

CHURCHILL PLEDGES BRITISH WILL WAGE WAR AGAINST JAPS.  PRIME MINISTER PROMISES ALL OUT AID FOR AMERICA IN PACIFIC

‘Points ToEmpire’s ‘Losses In Pacific   To Remain “Side By Side While There Is Breath In Our Bodies And Blood Flows In Our Veins,” Prime Minister Says In Talk To Congress

-BRITON ASSERTS NIP CITIES MUST » BE OBLITERATED   Parley With Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek, FDR Planned, Congress Hears

British With U.S. Until The Finish’   Churchill Assures Congress That Japan ‘Will Be Reduced to Ashes by Allies

Britain To Aid U.S. Against Japs   Will Fieht Alongside Us As Long As Life Lasts, Churchill Says To Congress

Churchill Addresses Congress   Prime Minister Lays Great Emphasis On Britain’s Interest In Pushing War in Pacific

Churchill. Pledges Fall British Aid In War Against Japan   British Prime Minister Speaks At Joint Session of Congress; Assures Aid in War To Crush the Japanese

Congress Assured or British Assistance In Battle Of Pacific   Refers To Malaya, Philippines,  Indies In Stating Britain Has  As Much Te Gain As Americans

Churchill, FDR, To Meet Stalin And Chiang Soon   Promises British Partici - pation In Evential Fin_ ish Fight For Utter De” struction: of Japanesé Industries And Cities:

Pledges Full Participation By Gt. Britain   ‘Utter Destruction O Enemy In Pacific Es  sential To Peace.’

Predicts New Nazi Gamble. On Red Front   But. Hitler Will Not: . Succeed, He: Says; May Meet. Soon With Stalin, Chiang   CONGRESS CHEERS =. ‘RINGING SPEECH   Heavier War Work Ahead, Allies Told; Great Gain in. African Victory

Says British Will Fight Side by Side With Yanks in East   Prime Minister Speaks to Congress Today; Tells of Plans

CHURCHILL GIVES INSPIRING TALK BEFORE CONGRESS TODAY   Britain Will Fight Alongside U. S. Against Japan “While There Is Breath In Our Bodies,” He Declares

PLEDGES BATTLE AGAINST JAPAN WILL CONTINUE   Congress Cheers As Prime Minister Reviews War Strategy

‘Side by Side’ Fight Pledged by Churchill      Affirms British Intent to Aid America Crush Japanese to the Dust

‘NIP CITIES TO BE LAID IN ASHES’   Churchill P ro mises Action ‘Side By Side’ With U. S.

PLEDGES T0 FIGHT BESIDE U.S. FORCES   Prime Minister Cites British Stake In Malaya, Loss of Dutch East Indies.   NOTABLES JAM CAPITOL   Hope For Meeting With Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek Cited in Address to Congres.

GREAT BRITAIN TO FIGHT WITH U.S. 10 THE END   Prime Minister Promises To Lay Industries And Cities In Ashes   AID TO CHINA PROMISED   Conference With Stalin And Kai-Shek Planned In Near Future

PLEDGES “SIDE BY SIDE” FIGHT IN THE PACIFIC   Prime Minister Promises England Will Battle Japs; Addresses Joint Session  Of Senate And  House.

PREMIER SAYS BRITAIN WILL STICK TO END   Cites Stake in East; Declares Chinese  Must Be Aided

British  Stake In Pacitie As Great As U.S.   States Axis Masterminds ~ Lost 950.000 Soldiers In African War.   FILL HOUSE CHAMBER

Aid Promised 8 Churchill   European Invasion In ANue Course Pledged

British To  Fight Japs ‘To Finish   Churchill Says England To Be Side By Side With Yanks To Bring Defeat To Nippon

Her Stake In Orient ~ No Smaller Than Our:   Reveals Plans for Early Meet With Premier Stalin and Chiang K a3-Shek

Visitor In U.S. Speaks  To Congress   Some Aims Of Conferences Are Outlined.

BRITISH WILL BE FIGHTING UNTIL FINISH   Will Battle “Side by Side With You’ to End, He  Tells Congress   STRESSES PLANS FOR AID TO CHINA   Expresses Hope for Meeting With Gen Chiang. and Stalin

Congress Hears Briton Promise Joint War Aid   Japan Must be Beaten, He Says, In Thrilling Talk

BRITAIN 10 AID IN WAR ON JAPS, CHURCHILL SAYS   Conference by Four Allied Leaders Hoped For in Near Future, He Adds   CONGRESS IS ADDRESSED   Packed Galleries Cheer as British Prime Minister Tells of War Aims

Cities of Japan Will Be Bombed Until They Lie in Ashes.  ENEMY STILL PROUD AND POWERFUL  North African Campaign Is One of Great Importance.

PLEDGE GIVEN . AS CHURCHILL IMPS FUTURE   Americans Promised “Side by Side” Fight-as One Common Task.   PRIME MINISTER [S_ GUEST OF CONGRESS

WILL FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE US.   British Leader Addresses Joint Session of Congress

Churchill pledges to lay Nips low   Tells congress British to stay in with Yanks

CHURCHILL, F.R. HOPE 10 MEET STALIN. CHIANG   Prime Minister Thinks Hitler Plans Supreme Gamble Against Reds

Will Battle Until Enemy Is Destroyed   Destruction of War Industries and Cities Forecast by Prime Minister

Aid To China Al’ Urgent; British Will Join U. S. In Efforts   HAVE SAME TASK   Dignitaries Gather For First Public Appearance After Conferences

“Aid to China Most Urgent Says Churchill   Declares Britain and U. 8. Will Fight Japs Side By Side

UTTER DEFEAT OF JAPS VOWED BY CHURCHILL   ‘Says He And FDR Hoping For Early Meeting With Stalin   \PLEDGES CHINA AID   Declares Britain’s Stake In Pacific Great As  America’s

FDR ASSAILS CONGRESS AS HE SIGNS BILI   Approves CCC Extension, But Hits at Ambiguous Laws

Bill to Extend Life of CCC Signed by FDR   President Gives — Own: Interpretation of Standardizing - Rammodities

FR Assumes ‘Standards’ In CCC Bill   Says Language Indicates Action May Be Taken When Necessary

LAWS PUZZLING. CONGRESS TOLD   Legislation With Double Meanings Criticized By Roosevelt

Standardizing Is Authorized - Where Needed   President Approves Bill On Commodity Credit Corporation — Inter: prets Taft Amendment

FOR C CONGRESS rR UNCLEAR ACTS   CCC Extension Bill  Signed  Amid

Roosevelt Takes Congress To Task For Delphic Laws   Signs Bill Extending Life Of Commodity Credit Corporation With Understanding That It Means What He Thinks It Does

CCCExtended As President  Signs Measure  Bill Permits OPA To ‘Standardize’   Bill Permits OPA To ‘Standardize’ Essential Goods

8TH ARMY UNDER  ~ COUNTER-ATTACKS   American Troops Advance In Central - ‘Tunisia; British Tanks Un. useed As Yet —

Violent Battle Rages Along Coastal Anchor Of Nazi Mareth Line  MOST TERRITORY REWON BY ROMMEL  But Peril Increases As Americans Advance Closer to E] Hamma

SOVIET ARTILLERY, PLANES HIT NAZIS      Blast -4 Trains And Other Targets—Lull Continues In Ground Fight

Lull in Ground Activity Continues On Russian Front, Soviet Bombers Active

AXIS REELING FROM BOMBS THREATENS TO RAID NEW YORK   say Heinkel 1 177’s Could Fly Across Atlantic And Back In -20 Hours

Attacks Have Revived Talk Of Axis _ Revenge Raids On New York City

Axis Revives Talk of Revenge Bombing of New York City With Heinkel 177’s

Axis Hints at Air Raid on New York   Revenge is Sought For Allied Bombing

REVENGE RAID ON NEW YORK Is TALKED BY AXIS   Hitler. Massolini To Conside Whether Time Is Now Opportnune

FOR POWERFUL AERIAL BLOWS   Enemy Nations Reel From Impact of New Attacks

NEW YORK ACRIAL BOMBING {S DUE “WARN DICTATORS   Axis,  Staggering Under Bombs ‘Gives Qut” Diane

Russians Close In Rapidly Upon City Of Kharkov   Battle Rages In Suburbs Of Besieged City As Russians Advance   EARLY FALL OF CITY EXPECTED

Charges Made By Senator Bring Denial "ravy Says Oil Lease Good For Government

NAVY ASSERTS STANDARD OIL DEAL GOOD ONE   Reply to Senator Langer’s Accusa tion Says Navy Gets Control En: tire Elk Hills Field

CHARGE GOV'T OIL LAND GIVEN AWAY   NAVY DEPARTMENT DECLARES DEAL WAS A GOOD ONE

‘Give-Away’ Lease to Standard of California Scored; Navy Spokesmen Contend Government Stands To Get Most Benefit, How ever.

Navy Executed ‘Give-Away’ Lease ‘With Oil Company, Senator Charges

TAX INCREASE ~ TS IN DOUBT   CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS SAY CONGRESS MAY TUEN "DOWN REQUEST FOR NEW REVENUE

CONGRESS MAY REJECT TAX INCREASE   House Committee to Start Hearings Next Week

Admiral Avers U.S. Cheeks Jap Expansion   Army Supplies Fail Short of Needs, General Declares

Expansion of Jap Forces Checked, King Declares   Believes Sub Menace in Atlantic Will Be under Control Soon

Japanese Expansion In Pacific Checked   _ Admiral King Voices Confidence

Miss Virginia Adams Corey feds Walter E. Ramsey; Reception Follows

IS MARRIED IN PROVIDENCE   Miss Virginia nia Adams Corey Weds Walter E. Ramsey;  Recention Follows

Higher Farm Prices Loom   Administrator Jones Predicts Increage Due Wartime Cost Rise

Higher Prices For Some Crops   Jones Says Prices To Help Production, But Subsidies Needed

WLB Again Takes Part In Dispute   Ickes Establishes Mandatory Six-Day Week For Miners.

Hard and Soft. Coal Miners Are Back at Work.   Lewis Expected: To. Win. Higher  Pav for Men

Japs Open New Battle To Retake Guadalcanal Isle  Jap Aircraft Bomb American Positions In South Pacific Third Time

Aerial Offensive Opened by Japs At Guadalcanal  ‘Usne New Base at   ' Using New Base at Munda in Attempt to Retake Island

Japan begins New Drive On  Guadalcanal Aagial Off aneiye   Aerial Offensive Unleashed From Manda Rase ~

Enemy Drives Again at Guadalcanal   New Offensive in That Section Is Opened by Japanese

"British Blast Dortmund In Greatest Raid   About 750 Planes Make Big Attack; 38 Are Lost

Wheeler Wants MeNutt’s Draft Order Rescinded   Montana Sen. Threatens To Ask That Convress Reconvene

Fights Plan To Dratt Fathers   Wheeler Likely To Be Ignored on Call to Congress

WHEELER'S DEMAND — CAUSES NO FURORE   Plea to Change Draft Setup fer Fathers, May Be Ignored in Congress.

SEN. WHEELER WANTS SOLONS CALLED BACK   Little Heed Paid His Demand that Congress ReConvene

U.S. Forces Have Reached Maknassy Area   Americans Within 33 Miles of the Gulf of Gabes in Attempt to Cut Off Rommel

‘Bitter Cold Moving Out Of. Kansas   Fair and Warmer + Is Forecast for  Tonight; Mercury  To Record Lows 

DROPPED TO 8 BELOW      Bitter Weather in Kansas May Be Eased Tomorrow

Cold Wave Moves On   After Shivering in Sub-Zero Cold, State To Warm Up Tomorrow

GANDHI PASSES A NEW CRISIS   But Tension Mounts Throurhout India

HOUSE OF MORGAN OPEN “AS USUAL”   Thomas W. Lamont May Succeed to Chairmanshir of Board.

Lamont Expected to Succeed "J.P." as Titular Head of Morgan House

Heart Ailment Fatal Teo Financial Wizard At Resort On Island Off Florida Coast

Time Change Studied By State Legislature; 3ricker Reports Surplus Of $40,000,000

CHANGE IN THME STIRS UP DEBATE   Sentiment Strang fm State Legislature Ton Fretiarm To Pre-War Basia:

SENTIMENT FOR CHANGING TIME GROWS STEADILY   Governor’s Office Feels Legislature Will Ignore WPB

RED ARMIES DRIVE NEARER ROSTOV. KEY TO GERMAN POSITION   NAZI] LINES BROKEN ON 20-MILE FRONT ON BOTH SIDES RIVER

LINES ON TWO SIDES OF DON   Soviets Gain 50 Miles Ir Last Two Days   MANY TOWNS   Recaptured As Offensive Continues: Resistance Stiff In Places

Reds Near Rostov in Fast Push ‘Along Dor   50-Mile Gain in Two Days Indicates Little. German Resistance   SOVIETS NEARING THE FLAT LANDS   These Have Always Been ‘Difficult to Defend; Nazis Face Double Danger

SMAS GERMAN LINES   Soviets Have Broken Through On 20 Mile Front   FOLLOW RIVER

REDS NEARING GERMAN BASE IN CAUCASUS   Soviets Claim Cupture of At Least 21 More Towns And List 339,150 Axis Dead or Prisoners   RETREAT CONTINUING

Breaks Nazi Lines On 20-Mi. Fron Along Don   Gain Of Fifty  Miles In Two Days Indicated; Reaching Into Open Country

German Lines Are Ripped on 20-Mile Front of Don River  7 Tawne 5 Villanac   2 Towns, 5 Villages Retaken By Soviets In Sweeping Drive

GERMAN LINES ARE BROKEN ON O)-MILE FRONT   Soviet Armies Have Pushed Forward Fifty Miles Since Capturing Don Bridgehead   MARINSK AND FOUR VILLAGES RETAKEN   Fall of Rostov Will Cut Off Whole German Army In Caucasus: Nazis In Ful} Retreat

Russians on *:. -ver oe we  Don omg: eS ZIS  On 20-?" - Front   Red Army '.. Within 75 Miles of Rostov, Key tv Whole Nazi Salient in Caucasus, Moscow Announces

THE RUSSIANS HAVE BROKEN THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES   Was on a 20-Mile Front on Both Sides of the Don River.   ARE NEARING ROSTOV      This City Is the Key to the Whole Nazi Salient Into the Caucasus.

Advance 50 Miles Along Both Banks Of Don River Since Capture Of Tsimlyansk

KEY VILLAGES CAPTURED FROM FLEEING NAZIS   Fall of Rostov Would Cut Off Whole German Army Of The Caucasus

WHOLE NAZI SALIENT IS — THREATENED   Soviets Break Through Foe’s 20-Mile. Front

ARE PUSHED BY SOVIETS   Caucasus Salient’s Key Point May Be Taken

Advance Within 75 Miles Of Nazi Caucasian Pivot   Break Through German Lines On Both Sides Of Don; Recapture More Towns

Vital Rostov Next Goal of: Driving Reds   Nazis Retreating Deep in Caucasus Wo Escape Death

Reds Break Through German Lines on Both Sides of Don and Menace Caucasus Gateway

SOVIETS DRIVE NEAR KEY CITY   Russians Recapture Many ' Towns Scattered Along Don River.   CHANGES HANDS 3 TIMES

hed Army Nov Only 75 Miles  From Rostov   Many Towns Recaptured As Offensive Rolls On

DON RIVER CITY KEY 10 THE NAZI CAUCASUS SALIENT   Push Througk German Lines On a 20-Mile Front on Both Sides of the Don River

PIERCE AZI LINE ON BOTH SIDES OF DON   Break-Through Occurs on a 20-Mile Front — Rostov Is Key to Whole German Salient Into the  . Caucasus.

Russians Drive Closer To Rostov   RED ARMIES NOW ONLY 20 MILES FROM CITY

Russ Offensive Rolls Up To 15 Miles Of Rostor   Smash Through German Lines On Wide Front At Lower Don

RUSSIAN ARMY BREAKS THRU GERMAN LINES ON 20 MILE FONT. DRIVE WITHIN 75MILES ROSTOV   Red Forces Have Pushed Forward 50 Miles Since 'Recapturing Don River Bridgehead of Tsimlvansk Two Davs Ago.

SOVIETS WITHIN 75 MILES OF ROSTOY, KEY TO NAZI SALIENT   Onrushing Forces Sweep 50 Miles Beyond Captured Tsimlyansk

Soviets Threaten » Entire German 7  Hold in Caucasus   “More Towns, Villages Captured in Red Thrust Down River; Remnants of Forces Trapped af Stalingrad Fight Desperately

Russian Army 73> Miles From  City Of Rostoy   339.150 Of Axis Reported Dead And Captured In Red Offensive

Russians Claim Recapture Of More Towns, Villages  In Swift Advance

Lewis Spurns Ultimatum of The President   ‘Want Agreement and Want to Work”

CHARGES MINE OWNERS BLOCK NEW PAY PACT   General Walkout in Soft  Coal Industry Due  at Midnight

Special Meeting. ‘of His . Policy Committee to Go. ee Ahead on Mine Walkout

Lewis Spurns Ultimatum On Back To Work   Indications Coal Mine Walk. out Will Develop In Nation At Midnight   LONG TELEGRAM SENT TO PRESIDENT

MINERS ARE NOT TOLD TO. STAY ON JOR   MINE UNION LEADER ne ‘NO DIRECT REPLY, ROOSEVELTS ken Te  STRIKE BE STOPFED

Agreement Is Held Necessary Before Mines Can Operate   Wire To FDR Indicates ‘No Contract, No Work’—Claims Formula Unfair To Patriotic UMW; Strike Due At Midnight!

GENERAL MINE WALKOUT SEEN FRIDAY NIGHT   UMW Chief Declares “We Want An Agreement—We Want To Work”   BLAME PUT ON OPERATORS   Long Telegram Sent To Prestdent After Meeting Of Policy Group

FAILS 10 GIVE DIRECT REPLY TO ROOSEVELT   Indicates Intention to  Permit Mine Walkout Friday Night

Indicates All — Coal Mines to Close Tonight   UMW Chief Telegraphs President Long Message Insisting Miners Are Patriotic While WLB’s Unfair Following Policy Meeting.

MINERS PLAN TO QUIT JOBS ON SATURDAY   President Roosevelt ex pected to take action to prevent strike

Heaviest Air Assault Of War on German Capital Starts Fires   Large Seale Attack Indicates Allied Aerial Offensive To Smash City Now Underway

58 Planes Lost In Record Raid   Attack Said To Be Twice As Heavy As Any Launched On A Warring Capital; Allies Believed Opening Supreme Aerial Offensive

HUGE BRITISH AERIAL ARMADA BLASTS BERLIN   ‘2,000 Long Tons of Bombs Dropped on Reich's Chief City, Heaviest Raid on Any Capital   58 BOMBERS LOST   Germans Report Americans Par ticipate Devastation Comparable io Thai on Hamburg

ALL-OUT ATTACK ON NAZI CAPITAL BEGUN, IS HINT   ‘Saturation Raid’ Made at Cost of 58 Bombers But City Left in Smoking Ruins   GERMAN JITTERS OBVIOUS   Raiders Meet Little Ack-ack But Run Into Swarms of Desperate Fighter Planes

Bitter Dose Given Axis in Report  On Ships Built And U-Boats Sunk

Naxy Also Discloses That American Submarines Have Sunk Seven Japanese Ships, Including a Destroyer; Building of Victory Ships, Faster Than Liberty Type, Will Start

MERCHANT SHIP BUILDING NOW TOPS SINKINGS   175 Vessels Launched Set May Record, Building Qutpaces Loss es by Four Times

Ship Building Tops Sinkings  175 Vessels Launched ebay oe  uring Ma

ee SW BYR AS For Pressure Avainst Axis   British First Army Operating From Its Positions In Hills Seized Friday

Rommel s Pressed Hard   First Army Follows Up Victory Near Medjexz-el-Bab

ALLIED FORCES DEEPEN BULGE II AXIS DEFENSES   BRITISH 1ST ARMY RENEWS PRESSURE ON TUNIS GATEWAY

Drive Toward Tunis Plains Is Resumed   British Infantrymen Active, Determined tc Crack Thin Mountain Wall to Reach Open Country—French Bear on Rommel’s Flank.

4,680 Prisoners Taken by Yanks, Reports Eisenhower  UTAH FLIER IS HERO Italian Seaplane Escort  Downed by Salt Laker Near Palermo

British Renew Pressure Upon Rommel’s Lines   Hard Fighting Lies Ahead Says Gen, Eisenhower

ON NAZI FLANK   American Flying Fortresses Again Lead Raid on Palermo Port.   BOMB SUPPLY VESSELS

HILL FIGHTING IN AFRICA HELD AS ‘VIGOROUS’   British First Army Infantry, Supported by Ar-tillery, Widens Bulge  in Axis Defense   BERLIN SAYS AXIS: POSITION CRITICAI   Enemy Positions Kept Under Constant Furious Bombardment; Eighth Army Quiet

PRESS AXIS LINES   Allies. Strafe Airfields in Tunisia, Raid Island  Ports

Fisenhower Says Hard Fighting Still Ahead Before Enemy fs Defeated

BRITISH FIRST ARMY INFANTRY RENEWS ITS PRESSIRE IN NORTH   FRENCH CONTINUE ACTIVITY AGAINST ROMMEL’S WESTERN FLANK

BRITISH KEEP PRESSURE UP ON SIEGE LINE   Vigorous Local Activity Reported in Hills North of Medjez-ElBab and at Western End  HARD FIGHT AHEAD   Allied Guns on Djebel Ang Trained on Djebel E] Ahmera, ‘Longstop Hill’

ALLIED F PRESSING IN ON ROMMEL AREA   Flying Forts Lead Heavy Raid on Palermo Harbor in Sicily

Rommel Pressed Hard By British Infantry   Dominating Height Guarding Gateway Tc Plain Of Tunis In British Hands, French Bear On Flank; Airfields Blasted.

FRENCH IN SOUTH ARE “ADVANCING   American Fliers Lead ® In Heavy Allied Air Offensive

NORTHERN UNITS RENEW ATTACKS AGAINST ENEMY   French Forces Continue Stabs At Front Bases

British renew pressure   Batter away at hills guarding Tunis qateway

British Capture Heights North Of Medjez el Bab   American Casualties Of 5,372 Include 903 Killed in Action

BRITISH 1ST ARMY ~ SEIZED THE HEIGHT OF DJEBEL ANG   Continued Its Pressure in the Rugged Hills Leading to Tunis.   DOMINATING POSITION   French in the South Continue to Bear on Rommel’s Flank.

BRITISH FIRST ARMY RENEWS PRESSURE   On Hills Guarding Gateway to Plains of Tunis. Seize Dominat  ing Height of Djebel —

12 Big Enemy Air Transports Downed; Allies Lose 8 Planes   Flying Forts Damage 2 Destroyers at Palermo Harbor

RENEWED ON NAZI LINE NEAR TUNIS      British First Army Makes Vigorous Attack.in Hills Guarding Plains   DETERMINED DRIVE:.. » TO OPEN GATEWAY,   French Patrols. Keep Nazis Busy and Eighth Army ‘Tests Frontal... Positions...

U.S. LOSES 60 BIG FORTS’ IN. SINGLE RAID ON GERMANY   Costly Bombing Crippled Nazi War Machine — , 600 Men On Big , Planes ‘

EQUIPMENT WORTH 18 MILLION FAILS TO ESCAPE ENEMY   104 German Planes Shot Down, Total May Reach 149, Photo Will Determine Real Damaae.   BOMBERS MADE 900MILE TRIP THURSDAY   Schweinfurt Recently Described as Most Important Target, Bearing Needed In Engines.

00 U. 9. PLANES LOST IN ATTACK UPON GERMANY   Americans Suffer Heaviest Losses Of War, But Down 104 Enemy Fighters

Raid on Reich  Costs Sixty  Flying Forts Ball Bearing  Plants of Nazis Bombed

LOSS OF WAR   Sixty Flying Fortresses, Costing $18,000,000 And Carrying 600 Men, Lost In Raids Over Schweinfurt. Report   FIFTEEN PERCENT OF RAIDING FORCE LOS?

J. & Loses Sixty Bombers In Raid   Giant Planes May Have Crippled Three Schweinfurt Roller Bearing Plants Vital To German War Machine

U. S. Loses 60 ‘Forts,’ 600 Airmen      Roller Bearing Plants in German  City Blasted

IN SEPTEMBER.   Married Men With Children Will Be Entering Service.

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper      WASHINGTON  Tye May Tarler

Milk Rationing Believed Near   Now Studying Ways Of Limiting Consumption By Civilians.

Consumption Of Milk May Be Limited   Decline in Supplies Later In Year Anticipated By Federal Agencies   METHODS ARE STUDIED

WFA OFFICIAL SAYS MILK MAY BE RATIONED   Alternatives are Allocating Sup plies, Eliminating Cream or Restricting Transportation 

EXTEND PERIOD ON BLUE G, H, J STAMPS   OPA Issues 7-Day Extensior on Present Coupons

May Blue Stamps Validity Extended  Points Will Be Good Through June 7

Extend Food Stamp Period   Seek to Avoid Any Month End Buying Rush Of Processed Food

Lend-Lease Supplement Sent House   To Avoid Month-End Rush  Blue Stamp Time Extendec

EXTEND TIME © ~ FOR STAMPS   o, H. J BLUE STAMPS GOOD UN.  TIL JUNE: ITH-~K, 1b, M STAMPS VALID. "MONDAY

Expiration Date of Blue Stamps G, H and J In War Ration Book 2 Extended

TIME FOR USING 6, H, J STAMPS EXTENDED TODAY      Will Expire June 7. Instead Of May 31. The Pormer Date

Blue Stamp Use Period Is Extended  OPA Also Changes Canning Sugar Rule

BLUE STAMP TIME EXTENDED   G, H and J Processec Food Coupons Good Through June 7

Wedge Driven Between Nazis   One Supply Line Left Germans Outside Main Defenses

THITOMIR FALLS - TO GEN, VATUTIN'S UKRANIAN ARMY  : )   Capture Made by <st Army in Its Rush to Old Wolish and Rumanian Borders.   60 OTHER PLACES TAKEN   The Great Battles Were the Result of Its Strategic Position.

“ANNOUNCEMENT IS ALSO MADE OF THE CAPTURE OF 60 PLACES IN THE DRIVE WEST OF NEVEL TO THE NORTH OF THE ZHITOMIR ACTION—ZHITOMIR ONLY 70 MILES FROM OLD POLISH BORDER

Loss of U.S. Planes in Combat Half of Numbers Expectec   Undersecretary of War Patterson Reveals Fact to Senate

PATTERSON AND JEFFERS AGREE ON INSPECTION   Seek Solution To Priority Problem In War Industries

Patterson and Jeffers Plan Tour To Settle Gasoline-Rubber Dispute

Patterson And Jeffers To Make Personal Inspection To Crack Rubber And Gas Bottlenecks

TO RUBBER, GAS PLANTS   Patterson and Jeffers Will Attempt to Settle Priorities Squabble   IN MOVE TO BREAK ALL BOTTLENECKS   Have High Hopes .of Achieving Something, °Patterson Says

OFFICIALS PLAN TOUR OF PLANTS   Patterson Says He And  Jeffers Will Make In  spection

Pian Practical Inspection Trip  Seek To Settle Prior ities Sauabble

GASOLINE - RUBBER TOUR IS PLANNED   Jefferson and Pa tterson Cooperate on Problem

Armed Forees Reported Short Of Airplane Gas   Patterson Asserts Nelson Mistaken In Statement On Faulty Distribution

Patterson and Jeffers Will Settle Rubber Priorities by Personal Work

‘GASOLINE SHORTAGE SERIOUS   Official Says Nelson “Was Mistaken’ In  Assertions

JEFFERS-ARMY TRUCE SEEN   PATTERSON, RUBBER CZAR SEEK SETTLEMENT

PATTERSON AND JEFFERS PLAN TOUR TOGETHER   Will Attempt-to Settle Dif— ferences Over Gasoline: and Rubber .. Priorities   PRAISES DIRECTOR   Says He Holds. Jeffers “In High Esteem,” and Respects “His Character and Patriotism”

“Jeff And I” To Seek Out Bottlenecks   : Field Trip Planned, Patterson Tells Senate.Committee-

ARMY IS SHORT AVIATION GAS, PROBERS TOLD   Under-Secretary of War Pattersor Says He and Jeffers Will Inspec Plants Tooether

Patterson — Jeffers To Tour Plants   Undersecretary Of War And Rubber Director Plan Trip To Obtain First-Hand Data

TO BREAK PRIORITY FIGHT   Allied Offense Threatened By Gas Shortage, Says Patterson.   TESTIFIES FOR JEFFERS

PATTERSON 10 PATGH UP OW  WITH JEFFERS   Undersecretary of War will Take Field Trip with ” >" Rubber Gzar. a    REVEALS SHORTAGE OF  100-OCTANE GASOLINE

PATTERSON, JEFFERS PLAN SETTLEMENT OF PRIORITIES TROUBLE  TO MAKE PERSONAL IN. SPECTION TO BREAK ANY BOTTLENECKS

Patterson To Make Tour Ot  Rubber Plant:   Undersecretary Of War. Jeffers To Attempt To Break Ratnlenecks.   COOLS IN CRITICISM

What Do You Mean, Paper Shortage?   OPA RELEASES 900,000 POSTERS AS REMINDER TO SIGN GAS COUPONS

JAP ATTACKS ON OUTPOSTS BEATEN OFF   Fighting Is" Above Buna Sector

JAP ASSAULTS ON MUBO FAIL   Action Is Called “Only A Skirmish” By Spokesman.

Flood Crest Is Passing Downstream   Waters A Little Lower In Most of Southeast  Kansas; Record-Breaking Overflow in Okla.

*« From High Wate: theastern Kansas  Will Be Great   BKIES ARE CLEARING   Eastern Section of Coffey: ville Flooded When Levee Breaks

Damage From High Water - In Southeastern Kansas  Will Be Great  TN  BKIES ARE. CLEARING   Eastern Section of Coffeyville Flooded When  Levee Breaks

Boy Scouts And Cubs Hold Court Of Honor And Hallowe'en Party    Prizes Awarded And Merit Badges" Are Presented _

Boy Scout Court of Honor Held Here: Saturday Fveniiin   Four Life Awards Are dncluded Among. the  Presentations

Pay-as-You-Ge Confronted By. Deadlock      “House” Séen ' Sphit into. Three Adamant Groups

DEADLOCK LOOMS QVER TAX ISSUE   Three-Way Tie Appears as Alt Sides Predict Victory for Their Own Plans

DEADLOCK GROWS ON TAX MEASURI   Three Apparent Unyielding Factions Are. Developing on income Questions.

HOUSE FACING DEADLOCK ON PAY-GO PLANS   eee  Chamber Split Into Three Main Factions

House Splits In 3 Factions On Tax Plan   Possibility of Deadlock Grows Stronger as Voting Starts

Deadlock Looms On Tax Voting   Solons Prepare Action on Pay-AsYou-Go Measure

Deadlock Seen Possible As House Begins Voting On Income Tax Measures

Rumor Is Current Hitler And Laval In 10-Point Deal  Parmanentivy Denorives   Permanently Deprives France Of 4,800 Square Miles Of Territory

Laval Turns Over Land, Men toReich   Fewer Concessions Made to Nazis Than Anticipated

HITLER, LAVAL IN AGREEMENT   Deal Deprives France of Large Area, Sends Work ers to Germany

Ten-Point Deal Arranged hy Hitler and Laval   France Permanently Deprived of 4,800 . Miles of Territory

HITLER, LAVAL IN DEAL, FRANCE 10 LOSE LARGE AREA   4800 Square Miles Involved, 400,000 Skilled Workers Will Be Sent to German Industries.   FRENCH CONSCRIPTION 1S NOT IN AGREEMENT   Giraud and DeGaulle to Meet Soon, Investigations In Darlan’s Murder Are Not Yet Finished.

Ten-Point Deal Arranged by Hitler and Laval  France Permanent)   France Permanently Deprived of 4,800 Miles of Territory

Reds Draw Noose Around Caucasian Key Railway Towr   2 More: Inhabited Places Seized; - Axis. ‘Troops Suffer Serious Defeat Ba Lower Dion Cre menwe Bait:

SOVIETS TAKE POSSESSION OF MORE VILLAGES   Key Rail Town Is Expected To  Fall Soon Under Heavy Pressure.

REDS TIGHTEN PINGER ABOUT BAILAOAD KEY   Troops Close to Georgievsk and Putting Pressure On Junction -Point,   CONTINUE ADVANCES IN VITAL CAUCASUS AREA

TOWNS TAKEN AS NAZI MEN KEPT ON RUN   Counter Drives Fail As Soviet Army Surges Ahead 

ARMY DEMONSTRATION   Military Performances To Be Given at K. U. Reception

Japs Rapidly Moving Up In  Australia Are   Menace To Australia Growing Swiftly; Yankee Sub Sinks Eight Jap Ships

Additional Ship Sinkings Told   Submarine Takes Toll -of Eight Vessels

Hundreds Of Jap Troops Killed A\ Vella Lavella   Three Nip Destroyers Hit, One Probably Sunk In Battle ~

JAPANESE LOSE HUNDREDS OF MEN      Attempt To Land On Conquered Vella Lavella Blasted

JAP WARGHIP EOGORT RUNS; LETS WEN VIE   Navy Ships Destroy Fleet of Landing Barges Filled with Troops.   42 MORE JAP PLANES SHOT UP AT WEWAK

House Votes To Limit Treaty Act   196-153 Margin Given 2-Year Extension Of Pact Powers

House Limits Trade Pacts   Votes 196 to 153 for Two Year Extension

2-Year Limit ~ On Trade Pact   Republicans Push Through Amendment, Two Others Gather Strong Backing.

FAVOR TRADE PACT LIMITS   House Tentatively Sets Program at 2 Years

72 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   300 U. S. Navy Planes In Attacks; 6 Nip Ships Are Sunk

U. S. Scores Big Marshalls Win   TOKYO HINTS SOME BASES MAY BE ABANDONED AS ALLY AIR MIGHT GROWS; FLIERS HURL BLOW AT NEW BRITAIN; CHINESE RETAKE CHANGTEH

2 Cruisers, 72 Planes Destroyed   Carrier-Borne Planes Hit Hard In Marshalls

Messina Will Be Escape Port for Defeated Enemy   Italians Reported In Mutiny Against German Commands

Italians Slay Nazi Officers   Mutinies Reported Among Fascist Troops;  Germans Are Killed Trying to Stop Whole-.;  sale Exodus of Duce’s Fighters to Allied Prison Camps

Montgomery Storming Gates of Catania: 7th Army Gaining Ground   Battered Foe Headed For “Escape Port” Of Messina; Italians Reported In Mutiny

Axis Forces Are Fleeing To Messina’   British 8th Army Storms at Gates of Catania; Red Armies Advance More Than 20 Miles on 25-Mile Front

TINY AMON ITALIAN MEN IS REPORTED   General Collapse of Sicilian Defenses Is Believed To Be Near

ITALIANS DROP BACK: MUTINIES ARE INDICATED   Duce’s Armies Reported In General Retreat Toward Messina   STORM CATANIA GATES   Mass Exodus of Non-War Workers From Rome  Advised

BATTERED GERMAN AND ITALIAN FORCES Y REPORTED BE FLEEING   ' AMERICANS KNIFE DEEPER INTO INTERIOR; BRITISH AT CATANIA GATES

Nazis And Italians Reported Speeding Fo ‘Messina Strait   Fascists Surrender By Hundreds; Yanks Deny Prohibited Sites Hit  Ih Bombing Attack On Rome

Yanks, Canucks Drive Deep Into Sicily; British Within Two Miles of Catania— Bombers Hit Jap Bajor Base At Macassar—Reds Take 130 Vil-.lages; Near Orel from 3 Sides ©

There Are Many Indications af Mutinies Among Italian Troops, Gen. Eisenhower . Soys, and Hundreds Surrender to Allies

British 8th Army Storming at Gates Of Catania in East   United States Forces in Sicily Continue to Advance Ir Central and Western Sectors After Capturing Caltanissetta   INDICATIONS OF MUTINIES AMONG ITALIANS

YANKS ADVANCE INLAND - BRITISH NEAR GATANIA   {  Italian Soldiers Mutiny And Surrender To Escape German Overlords   Plea te thew? 6A UNNI Ue Defenders Expected To Try To Get Out Through Port of Messina

American Troops Knife Deeper Into Heart of Sicily   Red Armies Imperil German Keystone Base at Orel, Drive 30 ! Miles West

Sth Army At Gates ©OfCatania   Soldiers of Mussolini Surrender by Hundreds

Battered Axis Troops Flee Toward Messina; Italian Army Mautinie:   Berlin, Italy Decry Rome Raid As Criminal; Heavy Casualties Admitted; Allies Press Forward In Sicily

Axis Fleeing To Messinia, Allies Think   Americans Stab Deeper Into Western, Central Sicily Against Weaker Enemy Resistance

Italian Units Surrender In  Haste To Foe   Capture 35,000 Prisoners In First 10 Days Of In traocmwy   NAZIS GUARD CATANTA

Genera] Retreat Toward Escape Port’ O¢ Messina Is Claimed As Allies Batter Axis  ’ Forces-In Sicily. Today — Report Italiana Have Killed German Commanders ”

Battered Enemy Reported Fleeing   U. S. Troops Knife Deeply in Sicily As Eighth tebe Storms at Catania;  Hundreds of Italians Surrendering

8th Army Only 90 Miles Southeast of Tripoli   Allied Planes Keep Fleeing Foe Under Fire   British May Contact Fighting  Keanenhkh (Calumn

BIG GAIN IN A DAY. REPORTED   Forty Miles Covered in Advance — Warpfanes In Offensive Far  Ahead of Army..

British Army ° Smashes Ahead Tn New Drive   Blasts All German Resistance In Southwest Libya

Eighth British~ Army 90 Miles From Tripoli   Forty Mile . ‘Gain in One Day Reported

Eighth Army Only *90 Miles Southeast Of Tripoli Now   Advance Continues; Allied Air Offensive Shatters Retreating Enemy Transport 

Eighth army 90 miles from port of Tripoli   Planes pace continued attacks as British register gain of 80 miles

BRITISH 8TH ARMY NOW IS NEAR TRIPOLI   Contact With Fighting Frenchfrom Lake Chad Expected Momentarily.

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES 80 MILES IN DESERT   Night and Day Offensive Underway—Montgomery In Liaison With French.

Eighth Army Gains 80 Miles   Now Onily 90 Mites. Southeast of Tripoli

STEEL MONSTER STAGE GREATEST SHOW IN HISTORY   Russians Yield To Breakthrough, Then Close In On Attackers

Greatest Tank Battle of the War Now Is Raging.  1.800 NAZI TANKS BELIEVED WRECKED  Soviet Position in the Belgorod Area Threatened.

Tide  Favors’ Soviets   Mighty German: Offensivg, Appears Licked. Ac Red Tanks Stem Onslaught.

Fierce Fighting Rages So. Central Front After Nazis Crack Soviet Lines

Fierce Guerilla Warfare Is Reported Raging Throughout Jucoslavia

ORDER LOCAL BOARDS PALL MARRIED MIEN   State Is 30,000 Men Behind in Quotas for Army; Follow Other States

BOARDS ORDERED 10 TAKE MARRIED MEN   Michigan Falls Short o' Army Quotas During Last Few Months.

Seven Servicemen Killed in Wreck  12 Others Are Hurt In Raifway Pileup

‘SCHOOL BOARD CUTS RATE OF TAX ONE MILL   Tentative Budget for Coming Scholastic Year Adopted

MERCK & CO. CHARGED WITH CARTEL TREATY   Justice Department Files Civil: Complaini Charging Trust Agree-' ment with German Concern

Charge Merck Cartel Violated Anti-Trust Law   Say Nation’s Biggest Drug House Maintained Pact With German Company

Bring Federal  Suit On Trust   Charge American. (serman Firms Divided World  Trade Territory.

REDS CAPTURE WAZA, LEFT TORN, BURNED   Third Big Battle for “Soviets? Pittsburgh” Carried to Streets of. City.   RUSS CLAIM DEFENSE LINES ARE UNBROKEN

Russians Continue To Develop Donets Drive.   Soviets Advance Six to 12 Miles and. Capture Over 99 Populated Points—Say 406,000 Nazis Killed in Summer Campaien

SOVIETS NEAR LAST KHARKOV ESCAPE LINES   Overcoming Dogged German Resistance, Soviets Menace Only Two Rail Routes Still Supplying the Rastion.

CONSPIRACY ACT ACTION SOUGHT   Bill Would Put Teeth In State Laws Against Vice And Policy Rackets

ATTORNEY GENERAL FAVORS PASSAGE OF ANTI-NUMBERS BILL   Would Put ‘Teeth’ In Ohio Laws Against ‘Rackets’

TIMETABLE FUR HITLER DcrEAl MOVED UP YEAR   Unconditional Surrender’ of - Italy Paves Way for Defeat of Nazis.

Ttay’s Surrender Seen As Removing One Year From Allied Timetable For German Deteat

WOODEN BARGES USED BY JAPS   Five of Craft Designed to Run Blockade Are Destroyed

NAZI AMMUNITION SHIP IS DESTROYED   16,000-Ton Vessel Explodes Ir Hambukt Harbor, Report To  _* Norwegian Legation Says

CONGRESS MAY TAKE ACTION ON LAW GOVERNING COMPULSORY BERVICE FOR  *. CYVILIAN: WORKERS

NO JOB SWITCH’ ORDER AFFECTS * 27 MILLION MEN   Draws Charge of Coercion y by Author of National — Service Bill

SIDNEY LAYMON RECEIVES AWARD   In Division 6 State Highway De. partment War and Disaster Emergency Organization

GERMAN ARMY FACES THREAT   Italian Force Estimated At 50,000 Is To Rear Of Nazi Forces

‘Army of 50,000 Italians May Trap Nazis Retreating Before Adriatic Coast Drive

SABOTAGE WAVE STRIKES EUROPE   Peoples Of Occupied Lands Hit Germans Following Big Three Parley

REPORT SABOTAGE SWEEPING EUROPE SEQUEL 10 PARLEY   Copenhagen Factory Blown Up by Danish Pat rate Taclaw

REPORTS SOF NEW SABOTAGE = HEARD IN NEUTRAL NATIONS   “ 5 TEHERAN ‘CONFERENCE 8AID   .TO-HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED BY OUPEREAKS IN'OC- ©  e CUPIED COUNTRIES

beds Advancing On Kiev, German Report Asserts   Nazi Defachments Declared Fleeing

Soviets Move To Encircle  Ukraine Goal   Germans Already Are Fleeing Kiev; Reds Séize Many Villages, Kill Thousands Of Nazis; Violent Counterattacks Fail

Kiev Menaced After Capture Of Smolensk   Berlin Reports Reds Already Have Crossed 1,400-Ft. Wide Dnieper  825 VILLAGES FREPEN

German Troops Hurled to Defeat by the Russians     RPrhiitrerarn yo. +   DNIEPER CROSSED BY SOVIET ARMIES   Many Populated Places Captured by Onrushing Forces

nURL NAZIS. INTO DNIEPER  NEARING KIEV    Reds Also Take 825 More Villages En Route to Ukraine Capital; Western Gates Qven Says Report.   Envelon Armies

SOVIETS DRIVE DEFEATED FOE INTO STREAM   All of Dnieper Line Seen Periled By  Russian Blows

CHUTISTS DROP BEHIND ENEMY RIVER FRONTS   Entire Line Imperiled As Smolensk’s Fall Opens Gateway To West

Russians Hurl Germans Into Dnieper   Berlin Says Some Units Have Crossed the River

Reds Smash to Eastern Bank Of River Opposite Kiev; 5000 Germans Slain Durins Davy

GERMAN TROOPS ARE DROWNED IN DNIEPER RIVER   Berlin Admits That Russian Forces Have Smashed To Eastern Bank   SOVIETS WITHIN 100 MILES OF POLAND

Backing Up The Defense Of Coo   Allies Advancing In Italy Seize Montesarchio; Pour Behind Nazi Lines At Termoli on Adriatic Coast. Four Hangars Demolished At Menidi Air Base.

Key German Airfields. In Greece . Smashed Jn Surprise Attack. 5th Artny.. Seizes “Monte« gorchio, But German Divisions. Putting. Up Increasing. Resistance From Coast: to Coast:

Just Suppose You Violate Wage Law...   ‘Plenty’ Will Happen I Regulations Are Ignored

» How To Get WageRuling ’In Your Case   Visit Or Write Letter To Nearest Wage, Hour Office

How Salary Control Of LU, ok Works   Pay Hike Applications Go To New Unit Of Tax Collector

How Pay O! Farm Labor Is Controlled   Their Wage Scales Are Most Unfrozen In Country

Pay Increase EKligibility Is Explained   Five Types Of Employes Can Get Automatic Wage Boosts

Whit te House War Talks in - Final Stage   Roosevelt and Churchill Finish Exploratory, Discussions

Important Decisions Reached —   FULL MILITARY IMPORT WILE NOT BE DISCLOSED; BELIEVE’ GERMANY STILL NO. 1 FOE -

Allied Chieftains Thought To Have  Reached Decision   President, Churchill Remain In Almost Continuous Conference

BELIEVE DECISION POINT REACHED BY EDR AND CHURCHILL   Public May Not Know An Details Until Plans Have Been Put Into Action

IMPORTANT DECISION 1S BELIEVED REACHED If WAR TALKS OF LEADERS   Public Statement Expected to Be Made on Progress of Was

NAMED LIVINGSTON COUNTY CHAIRMAN   Attorney Randall R. Kitt to Head Missouri War Chest, Inc., In This County.

Holman asks inquiry into  draft dodges   Asserts federal agencies shelter men from army

Hits Federal Dralt Dodgers   Senator Suggests American Legion Aid In Govern. ment House-Cleaning.

Detroit Quiet After Rioting   Governor Awaits Committee’s Report

AIR RAID PRACTICE MAY COME ANY HOUR   Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord Call: For Renewed Alertness By Civilian Forces

Small RAF Bombers' Again Hit At Berlin.   Swift Mosquito Planes Return To German Capital, But Boastful Hitler Already Fled

Berlin Again Gets Attack From British Aircraft   German Capital Feels Third Blow, Takes Place as World's Most-Bombed City; W0¢ Airmen Smash Toulon and Sofia

Nazis Trying Desperately to Restore Order in Their Capital, Pounded for Third Night in Succession—More Planes Streak Toward Continent Again Today to Resume At tacks an Enemvy.

MOSQUITOES IN LIGHT RAID ON CITY   See Continued Systematic Attacks On Capital: One Plane Lost: Goebbels Says Will Is Strong

Mosquitoes Stab t Burning Nazi Canitol: 1 Lost   Eyewitness Tell O: Horror In City As Entire Areas Are Leveled

Mosquitos Hit Berlin Again   Swift Light Bombers Keep Weary Berliners Awake

NAZI CAPITAL HARASSED BY R. A. F. CRAFT      Mosquitoes Set Sirens Howling in Berlin for Third Consecutive Night, Putting New Strain on Enemy Morale. ,

Mosquito Planes Blast At Capital For Third Night; Fires Still Rage

Sirens Sound %® Berlin Is Blasted Again   Swift Mosquitos Race in Wednesday Night to Bring New Terrors

OTHER AIRCRAFT OUT —  Swift British Mosquito Bombers Siart Sirens Howling In Berlin

Berlin Bombing Shakes German Morale Survivors Reveal---Hitler Flees City

German Capital’s Sirens Kept Howling as Swift Planes Confuse Defenses

Men With Wives Drafted Soon  State To Take Those.   State To Take Those. Without Children, Starting Next Month

DRAFT BOARDS — —TOCALL WEDDED MEN IN MARCH      Exhaust “Singletons,” Both With-or-Out Dependents

Believe Germans Plan To Move Battleship Tirpitz   Shift May Touch Off An Attack By British War Vessels

WORKERS QUIT AT WAR PLAN   Plane Factory Emplove: At Johnsville, Pa., Strike Alter Four Guards Were Arrested

Asserts British Unduly Sensitive   Senator Resents  Churchill Criticism

STH SMASHES AT CENTER Of LINE IN ITALY   Captures More High Ground Northwest of Castel di Sangro

BRITISH IN ITALY SCORE ADVANCE   Take High Ground Beyond Castel Di Sangro Despite Extreme Weather

Man Power Job In This Area Is  Now In Progress   ’ Headquarters Will Be At Spencer

CONTRACT CONTROL RETENTION SOUCH   Tax Bill Hearings Bring Agency Agents’ Arqumente

Proposed Changes In War Contract Control Debated   Government Agencies  Seek Renegotiation  Of Agreements

Destroyers Shell Positions   Agencies Fight To Hold War Contract Control

Letharg: ‘Seen a: as Cause of Campaign Lag; War-Time _ © (Need is Great

CONCORD ARC  ) REACHES       Lethargy Seen as Cause of Campaign Lag; War-Time Need is Great

' ABDUCTED TWO PERSONS NEAR FORT MADISON   Runyon last seen on high. way 218 headed toward lowa City

Runyon Forces Farm Couple To Aid Him   Drive Through Henry County In Early Morning

Plan Parley Here on War Fund Drive   Meeting Is Arranged — For Next Thursday In Dubuque

WAR CHEST PLANS ARE BEING MADE   Plan Huge Drive to Care for 16 Organizations to Be Held From Oct. 1 to Nov. 20.   IH. V. LEVIS CHAIRMAN   Committee Meeting in Osceola Today to Formulate Organization,

COMFORT DAMPENS ATH TERN RUMOR      lowa National Committee‘FDR Being  Pushed Into Race

Not a Candidate For Fourth Term, Roosevelt Says   National Committeeman Frank Comfort Makes  Announcement.   Will Not Take Under  Any Circumstances

DECLARES F.D.R, WON'T RUN AGAIN   IOWA LEADER’S STATEMENT DRAWS NO COMMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

WPA Prepares to End Operations; Only Comparatively Small Number Left

SWAN SONG MAY 1   WPA Winding Up Its Business in the United  States

Nazis. Mow Down 40 Italian Allies Who Try to Surrender in Tunisia —

Dairy Farmers Protest OPA Ceiling Price Will Cause Serious Shortage

OPA Ceiling On Milk Price Is Criticized   Slaughtering Of Cattle Will Be Accelerated, Contends Spokesman ' For Dairy Farmers

AUTHOR FREED IN SMUGGLING COLDIRR CASE   Ursula. Parrott. Acquitted of Three Charges. Growing ‘Out of “ ‘Kidnaping”  _U. S..Private.   VERDICT IS "RAPID   Trooper She: Took. From Stockade Now Doing Year at Hard _Labor

Ursula Parrott Freed By Court   Acguitted Of Luring Away Soldier

Ursula Parrott Is Not Guilty      -VerdietIn- 12 Minutes By All-Male Jury

WRITER FREED   Ursula Parrott Acquitted Of Aiding Soldier Escape

Mrs. Bertha Brow. Brown of Cutler Succumbs , At Kokomo Hospital]

Kiev's Outer Bastion Falls to Reds  Soviets Are Withir 73 Miles of

Nazhin Falls To Reds After Fierce Attack   Russians Drive to Within 73 Miles Of Capital of Kiev

Crack Russian Guards Take Outer  Bastion of Kiev in Fierce Assault

Nezhin, Outer Kiev Bastion, Falls to Reds   Soviet Claims Nazis Fail to Halt Drive Along 600-Mile Front

Capture Of Nezhin, Nazi Defense Point, Announc ed By Stalin   RUSSIANS IGNORING BRYANSK’S SURRENDER

Concede a Defeat  On Food Subsidy   But Supporters in House Believe They Can Sustain a Veto.

Food Subsidy Backers Seek Public Support   * Home Pressure Depended Upon to Put Over Program

DEMOS ‘LICKED’ ON SUBSIDY AIM   Concede Defeat But Hope Tc Back Looked-For Veto

Food Subsidy Backers Seek Public’s Help   Hope Hot Debate In Congress Will Wind Up F. R. Program Support

Sudsidy Backers Concede Defeat  Only Hope Seen in Presidential Veto

SUPPORTERS OF SUBSIDY PLAN EXPECT DEFEAT   Administration Forces Hope For Veto

HOUSE SUPPORTERS OF FOOD SUBSIDY  ARE FACING DEFEAT _ COUNT UPON ENOUGH  VOTES, HOWEVER, TO SISTAIN VETO

WANT PUBLIC 10 BACK SUBSIDIES   Congressional Backers Of Bill Counting On Getting Folks Back Home Steamed Up.

SUBSIDY BACKERS LAUNCH NEW PLAN TO WIN OBJECTIVE   Administration Men, Outnumbered in: Congress, Hope to Arouse Public Over the Issue and Gain Supnort

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN BACKERS "RAGING DERRA   Administration Leader: Count On Mustering Sufficient Strength to Sustain Veto

Licked on Subsidies — _in House   Supporters of Program Con. cede They Face Deteat; Hone to: Sustain Veto.   INFLATION ANGLE WARMLY DEBATED   Republicans Join. Big Farm States Bloc in Fight. on Administration Plan.

Concede Subsidy Defeat in House But Supporters —  Hope for Strength To Sustain af .  - Anticipated Veto:

Subsidy Battle Taken to Public  Adherents Seeki “a Grass Roots Backin

Hope Public Will Back Subsidies   Clamor from Back ‘Home Seen As Only Chance to Win Fight

(DY BACKERS  LVaTELY LICKED  AViusteting rength to Susjipated Veto of      FOOD $  Tuy i:   Coun, Enou tain: »  Meas‘,

Subsidy Group Pins Hopes On Public Support   Hot Debate Designed To Rally ‘Folks Back Home’ Behind F. R. Program.

SUBSIDIES DEBATE RAGES ON IN HOUSE   Prolonged Battle Expected Of Controversial Issue

Subsidy Pian Will Be Taken To Citizenry   Outnumbered in Congress Backers Hope Aroused Public Will Force Action  TO PROLONG DEBATE

Seek Public Aid to Pass Subsidy Bill   Administration  Backers to Prolong Fight in Hope Nation Will Force Passage

House Beats  Food Subsidy   Administration Admits Licking But Counts on Vote to Sustain Veto

Subsidies fo Lose in House   Supporters Expect To Muster Strength To Sustain Veto

Administration Subsidy Group Admit In Private They Are Already Beat In House

RURAL SCHOOLS OPEN AUGUST 30   No Changes In County Text ‘* Books For Coming 1 .. Wear

RURAL SCHOOLS — DPEN AUGUST 30          6 Changes: In County Text - Books For Coming WY ear

Some Rural Schools In Plymouth County Will Be Closed This Year   Teacher Shortage Not As Great As In Other Counties

PLYMOUTH COUNTY SCHOOLS PREPARE TO OPEN AUG. 30   Shortage Of Teachers To Cause Readjustments In Rural School Program

3 Warships Sunk in Trap By U.S. Craft   Outnumbered Destrovers Rout Jap Naval Force in Moonlit Battle   OTHER SHIPS FLEE   Enemy Squadron Foiled in Move to Evacuate Kolombangara Troops

U.S. Naval Force Sinks 3 Jap Ships   Enemy Claims Evacuation of 2 Key Islands

Naval Forées Of U.S. Sink 3 Jap Warships   Outnumbered American Force Moves In and Mows Down Foes

Caught Trying To Rescue Nipponese From Vella Lavella: American Losses Described as “Moderate”

ARE REPORTED “MODERATE”   Yank Force Outnumbered: Action Near Vella Lavella island: Tokyo Says Wake Hit Again

Three Nip Warships Sent to Bottom in Moonlight Fighting   Engagements is Reported in Gen. MacArthur's  Daily Communuique

JAPANESE LOSE SHIPS IN NAVY BATTLE FRINAY   One Enemy Group Retreats; Many Vessels Lost

Americans Win Moonlight Battle. .  Outnumbered Force Of U.S. Destroyers. Gets Three Japanese Ships

U. S: Naval Force Halts Rescue Of Japs From Central Solomons; Reporter Describes Night Attack

U.S. Warships Sink 3 Vessels  Off Solomons   U. S. Losses ‘““Moderate”’ In Moon-Lit Sea Battle

Enemy Cruiser, 3 Destroyers Sent To Botton   Small U. $. Squadron Deals Mighty Blow Off Solomons

JapTash Force Is Routed   Cruiser, Two De stroyers Sunk in. Solomons Try

‘JAPANESE LOSE IN NAVAL BATTLE WITH U, §. FLEET UNIT   ALTHOUGH OUTNUM.BERED, AMERICANS SANK, DAMAGED ENEMY SHIPS

THREE JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK OFF SOLOMONS   U. S. Navy Waylays Nip Sea Force Attempting Rescue of Troops in Area

ENEMY CRUISER, TWO DESTROYERS SENT T0 BOTTOM   SMALL AMERICAN FORCE WAYLAYS JAPANESE FLEET

3 Ships Sunk In Islands   Outnumbered U.S. Naval Unit Frustrates Enemy Move

Destroyers Blast Jap Task Force  Three Ships Sunk, Two Others Damaaed

Qutnumbered Yankee Force Engages Foe   U. S. Losses Are Uaited ‘Moderate’; Nipponese Attempting To Flee  Central Solomons

Scattered Remnants of 14-Ship Convoy in Flight in So. Pacific   Allied Bombers Attack Approaching Ships in Unfavorable Weather

14-Ship Convoy of Japs Is Smashed   -Kemnants Hidden in F og of Bismarck Sea Pursued - by Planes   FIVE SHIPS ARE HIT   Allied Planes Sink or Dam: age Nearly Half of ¥ ‘the Convoy

TWO VESSELS SUNK, TWO SMASHED, TEN OTHER. SHIPS FLEE   MacArthur’s Planes Catch 14-Vessel Convoy Between New - Britain And New Guinea--Headed - For Lae On Huon Gulf

Bombers Get Hits On Ships   American Airmen Still On Trail Of Jap Reinforcements

2 Ships Sunk, ‘Fortresses’ Chase Others   Planes Are Hounding Remnants Of Nippon Convoy In Pacific

Jap Convoy Staggering After Blow   Scattered Remnants Of 14-Ship Group Are Still Pursued   Four Transports And Cargo Vessels Sunk   Many Enemy Planes Shot Down By Allied Aircraft In Attack

JAPANESE CONVOY FOURTEEN SHIPS [5 ATTACKED, CRIPPLED  AT LEAST FOUR SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED; MANY PLANES DOWNED

SINK FOUR SHIPS; SHOOT 13 PLANES OUT OF ACTION   MAC ARTHUR’S FLYERS PURSUE CRIPPLED REMNANTS OF ARMADA

Smashed By Allied Bombers, Fighters In Bismarck Sea   MacArthur’s Airmen. in Relentless Pursuit; 4 Transports, 7 Merchant Ships Sunk or Crippled.

Crippled Nipponese Fleet Is Scattered   Jl Ships Blasted by Planes And Rest Seek Refuge in New Cninea Harhoar

JAP CONVOY SMASHED BY ~ ALLIED PLANES   At: Least 4, Transports and Cargo Vessels Are Sunk or Damaged   BATTLE IS CONTINUING

SINK AT LEAST FOUR VESSELS IN JAP ARMADA   Shot Down 13 Nipponese Fighter Planes, Our Losses Are Slight

US Planes  Stillon Trail Jap Convoy   Four Transports and Cargo Vessels Have Been Sunk or Damaged; 13 Fighter Planes Shot Down

Four Enemy Vessels Fit OffN. Guinea   Yank Planes On Trail of  Claenina Shine

Allies Shatter Jap Convoy Near New GuineaCoast   MacArthur's Bombers Continue Attack. After Blasting 4 Ships

JAP CONVOY BLASTED BY " FORTRESSES   Convoy of 14 Ships  * Ripped To Pieces 5 By Bombers

CONTINUING AFTER FLEET   13 Fighters In Protecting Umbrella Shot Down   NEW GUINEA BASES   Also Are Heavily Bombed By MacArthur’s Men; Cruiser Struck

Allies Harrass Batter ed Convoy Of Jap Vessels   Enemy Js Trailed In Race Toward N. Guinea Base: Report Toll Of 14 Ships

Smash, Scatter Jap Convoy Bound For New Guinea Coast   Allies Sink, Damage At Least Four Of 14 Shins

Allied Air Attack Cripples Convoy Of Japanese Shins   Scattered Remnants Proceeding Toward Lae, New Guinea

Four Transports, Cargo Vessels Sunk; Others Damaged, Then Scatter

ALLIED PLANES SMASH 14-SHIP ENEMY CONVOY   Four Vessels Sunk o1 Damaged: 13 Planes Shot Down

NO LETUP IN ATTACKS ON JAP ARMADA   Allies Sink Or Damage 4 Ships, Scatter Fleet

11 Japanese Ships Sunk Or Damaged   Convoy Bound for New Guinea Scattered By Allied Airmen  diinieeainciiet titi

4 Ships Are Hit by Forts   Allied Losses Light as Battle Continues; Bombers Rain Destruction on Foe Bases 

JAP REMNANTS BOUND FOR LAE   Planes Pursue Remaining Vessels of Original Armada of 14.   FINAL SCORE UNKNOWN

Japs Out 4 Ships, 13 Planes; New Guinea F. ight Goes On   Allied Combat Fliers Brave F. ‘og, Cripple Convoy Bound Fari-c

BIG JAP CONVOY DADLY BRUIDED BY AIR ATTACKS   At Least Four Transports And Cargo Vessels Sunk Or Damaged In Fight

Remnants of A Crippled And Scattered Japanese ‘Convoy Being Pursued   MacART HUR'S WARPLANES SEEK BATTERED CONVOY AS IT° GROPES THROUGH FOG-SHROUDED SEA  TOWARD LAE, NEW GUINEA

REPORTS CLAIM 4 OF 14 SHIPS SUNK, DAMAGED   Gen. MacArthur’s Planes Keep Hammering at Jap Vessels

Enemy Convoy Is Shattered Off New Guinea   Fortresses, Liberators ‘Sink 2, Hit 2 Directly, Score Hits Or Near Misses On Otherc OF 14 Total

Jap Convoy Still Heading For Lae Despite Pounding   MacArthur's Planes Sink 4 Transports And Continue To Attack

Remnants of Armada Staggers Through Fog of South Pacific After Allied Fliers Sink at Least Four Transports and Down 13 of 30 Airplanes

CRIPPLED ENEMY CONVOY PURSUED BY U.S. PLANES   Transports And Warships Head For Island Port

Jap Convoy Is Smashed By Airmen   Four Ships Of Original Convoy Of 14 Are Sunk By Bombers In Fog-Shrouded Sea

LLIES KNOCK JUT 4 SHIPS, 13 AIRCRAF]   e Transport Sunk, Another Left in Flames in Attack on 14 Vessels.   SEMNANTS STAGGER ON   jponese Armada Uses Cover f Fog to Continue Toward New Guineas.

Bombers Search Out Shattered Jan Convoy   Vessels Were Attempting to Reach Lae

Allies Blast Fleet, Sink 4 Jap Vessels   Remnants of Convoy Being Chased Toward Lae; 43 Planes Downed

JAP CONVOY CRIPPLED, PPAKEN IP   At Least Four Transports Sunk or Damaged by U.S. Bombers   18 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   American Airmen — Trail Ships; Other Southwest Pacific-Points Bombed

Allies Pound  Enemy Convoy   Four Ships Sunk Or Damaged: Half Million Tons Of Bombs On ‘Kiska.

NIPPON CONVOY BROKEN   At Least Four Out Of 14 Jap Vessels Sunk Or Damaced

Sink Or Damage Four Of 14 Ships En Route To New Guinea; Battle Still Raging.

AIRMEN BLAST ‘JAP CONVOY IN BISMARCK SEA   Four Transports Sunk By Bombers and Fighters Off New Guinea: 13 Planes Downed   ARMADA LIMPING TOWARD LAE BASE   ‘Allied Fliers Penetrate Heavy Fog. to Hammer 14-Ship Fieet; U.S.  Losses Slight

IN JAP CONVOY   MacArthur Reports At Least Fou Transporis and Cargo Ships Sunk or Damaged   BATTLE CONTINUES   Ammunition Ship Destroyed a! Wide Bay, New Britain, Sub: Get 5 More Jap Ships

Four Jap Ships Pounded As Allies Scatter Convoy   13 Enemy Fighter Planes Also Shot Down As Nipponese Vessels Stagger On Toward New Guinea Base With MacArthur’s Air Force Close On Their Trail

ENEMY IS SEVERELY PUNISHED   Heavy Losses Follow Attack and Big Transport Is Among Casualties.

13 ENEMY FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN   4 Nip Ships Reported Sunk Or Damaged By Allied Airmen

Pursue Jap Ships In Pacific   Badly Battered Convoy Fleeing to New Guinea Base.

MacArthur's Men Smash at Beaten Convoy   Enemy Seeks Refuge In Base at Lae After Losing at Least Four Transports From Convo

ALLIES SHATTER TA SHIP CONVOY NEAR NEW GUINEA   Four Craft Certainly Destroyed, Others Suffer Extenelve Namane.

Crippled Nippon Convoy Is Under  Further Attack   American Warplanes Con tinue Bombings Despite Bad Weather.   Four Transports Are Sent Down by Allies

DESTRUCTION IS WROUGHT AMONG SHIPS   Transport Left Burning and Sinking, Others Are Ripped to Pieces.

5 Jap Ships Sunk From Convoy; 13 Planes Downed    Scattered Remnants of Convoy Stagger Through Fog-Shrouded Bismark Sea Towards Enemy Base at Lae, New Britain as Bombers Pursue

Jap Installations In Burma Attacked   U. S. Planes, RAF Bombers Destroy Equipment

HIT JAP POSITIONS   Allied Medium Bombers in Assault on Burma Railroad Yards

ATTACKS ON KISKA REACH NEW HEIGHT   Strafed Jap Port by Plane, Sea, Thursday

15 Divisions of Nazis in Italy   15 More in Reserve, Says Swiss Newspaper

15 DIVISIONS IN ITALY   Germans Have Equal Number to  Send in Case of Need

FRENCH WARNED OF FLEET USA   Diplomatic “Exchanges Show ie a> ahaa of Fa

U. S. Pressure on Vichy te Keep It From Giving Its Fleet to Nazis Revealed

POINT VALUES — ARE. DECIDED   NEW SCHEDULE OF POINTS   FOR CANNED GOODS, MEATS   “AND BUTTER TO BE ; ISSUED. ‘

DRIED FRUITS RATIONED AGAIN   New September Pgint Values On Canned Goods Are Due Thursday

ALLIED WARPLANES PRESSED OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPANESE  GROUND TROOPS KILLEL   GROUND TROOPS KILLED 116 JAPS IN NEW GUINEA SURPRISE ATTACK

Troops Attack Near Salamaua In New Guinea   Allied Warplanes Press Offensive On All Fronts

QUICK PUNCH CLEARS ROUTE TO OALAVALA   Altied Planes Carry War to Japanese in Burma and in Islands.   SEA BLOCKADE AROUND GUADALCANAL TIGHTENS

Allied Planes Hit Jap Armies   Ground Troops Kill 116 Japs in Surprise Attack on New Guinea

Allied Attack On Japs Is Pressed In Southern Seas   Kill 116 In Surprise Raid On Salamaua Base

Allied Planes  Cover Pacific   Ground Troops Kill 116 Japanese In Surprise Attack Near Salamaua.

Allies Wipe Out Japanese Force at Mubo   Airmen Bomb Enemy Bases in New Guinea and in Solomon Area

POUND ENEMY BASES IN SOUTH SEAS, BURMA   United Nations Ground Troops Kill 116 Japs in New Guinea

JAP ARMIES ATTACKED   United Nation. Troops Make Surprise Raid on the Enemy

SURPRISE ATTAGK KILLS 118 JAPS   Allied Warplanes ‘Press Offensive Against Nippon’s Invaders

Allied Warplanes Press Offensive In South Pacific   Jap-Oceupied Villages In Vicinity Of Akyab Are Bombed By RAF. Flierc

Enemy Force Is. Wiped Out Near Base af Salamaua   U. S., Australian Fliers Continue Aerial Assault.

Facific War  Allies Pounding Japs From Ain   Invasion Armies On 2 Fronts Hit

PUSHING HARD IN OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPS   Ground Troops in Surprise At tack Near Big Enemy Base in New Guinea, Killing 116

Drives Pushed Against Nippos   Allied Flyers Hammer Japanese Bases

Allied Planes Take Offensive Against Japs   Pound Four Enemy Bases In New Guinea; Towns Near Akyab  FORCE DESTROYED  Close Trap on Survivors Of 15,000 Foe Army on Sanananda

Weather Hampers Fighting On Papuan Peninsula; American And Australian Planes Bomb Enemy Bases In New Guinea, New Britain, Timor

Allied Planes Strike Hard At Japanese   Enemy Force Wiped Out By Ground Troop: In New Guinea

ALLIED. WARPLANES POUND JAP POINTS   Heavy Pressure On Enemy In Pacific Maintained

Wipe Out Jap Forces in  Mubo Area    United Nations Troops Kill 116 Japs in Surprise Attack; Allied Bombers Hit Japa nese Bases

Axis Pilots Do Heavy Damage   Churches Wrecked by Enemy Air Bornbings

Today’s War Commentary  Blitz Goes Home  German People At Last Learn Meanin

4 SOLDIERS SENTENCED 1050 YRS.   For Participation In Thanksgiving Riot At Phoenix

MANY FLEEING FLOOD WATERS   Seven Known Dead In Indiana and Missouri

DAMAGE HEAVY IN SIX STATES IS INCREASING   Disaster Worst in 40 Years In Northwestern Ohio and In History in Oklahoma

Thousands Driven From Their Homes  by Midwest Floods   Farms and Bottomlands in Five States Under

Floods Drive Thousands ~— From Homes   At Least 7 Persons Dead as Surging Waters Cover Sections of Cities and Farm Lands 

Three of Seven Deaths Reportec In Missouri  Parts of Joplin Under Water: Warnings   Parts of Joplin Under Water; Warnings Aaain From Muskogee

THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS; FLOOD MENACE GROWING      At Least Seven Persons Are Dead; Sections of Cities, - Farm and River Bottom Lands Flooded and Streams Overflow High ways.

FLOODS FORCE THOUSANDS TO LEAVE HOMES   Six States Hard Hit With Greater Property Loss Predicted   7 PERSONS LOSE LIVES   Troops Called Into Service; Maumee On Rampage At Toledo

FLOODS RAGE OVER MIDWEST   More. Than 10,000 Homeless ‘Seven. Dead; Ohio Hit By Rising Waters.

5 HOMELESS AS FLOOD WATERS IN SEVERAL STATES RISE   Farm Lands and Parts of Cities Inundated; Crop Damage Heavy

HUNDREDS FLEE AS RIVERS RISE TO PEAK MARKS   Worst’ Floods Since 1913 Sweep Indiana. Section And Other . States >In -Middle? West   SEVEN.ARE:- DEAD   Thousands‘ Homeless And Damage Mounting Hourly In Wake of Record Rise of Streams

Thousands Homeless In Flood Area   Seven Known Dead While Property and Crop Damage Totals Millions

Thousands Homeless As Floods Sweep Midwest      At Least Seven Are Dead As High Water Hits Scattered Sections In Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, He nois, Arkansas And Oklahoma

FLOODS BRING DEVASTATION IN 5 STATES   Seven Dead—Indiana Inundation Worst in 30 Years—Major Overflow Predicted for Lower Missouri: Basin.

Thousands Flee  Floodwaters In Five-State Area   Seven Known Dead; Damage To Farm Crops And Property Heavy.

Several States Hit by Floods   Thousands of Famili s Leave Homes in  Midwest, Southwest

Floods in Five States   Surging Woters Result in 7 Deaths, Millions of Demage

FLOOD WATERS HIT MIDWEST STATES      ‘Seven Dead; Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and Oklahoma in Water’s Grin

Thousands Made Homeless By Floods In Midwest, South; Seven Drowned

WEST’S FLOODS CREATE HAVOC ‘FARMS, MINES   At Least Seven Dead, Thousands of Families Homeless, Third of Indiana Affected   SOUTHWEST HIT   Hydro-Electric Planis Flooded Oui Lead and Zinc Mines Closed Flow of O11 Stopped

7 Deaths Are ReportedOver Midwest Area   Indiana Gripped By Worst Floods in Many Years: Army Heips Evacuate

THOUSANDS FAMILIES LEAVE HOMES DUE 10 WIDESPREAD FLOODS  AT LEAST SEVEN DEAD IN SERIES OF DAMAG- JING FLOODS -

FLOOD WATERS CAUSE DAMAGE IN SIX STATES   Thousands of Homes Evacuated; Seven Persons Are Dead   MAUMEE IN OHIO OVER ITS BANKS   Five Schools Are Closed In Van Wert County; Roads Covered

Surging Floods Force Thousand: To Leave Homes   Damage to Crops And Property High In Midwest States

7 Dead, Damage Mounts As Flood Sweeps Midwest   Indiana Experiencing Worat Flood In Thirty Years.

Yee ee  IED SOLDIER WAY HOME   ay McNamara This of World—Calls Mother

Bill for Betting and One for Machines  Passed by House   Final Day for Transmission of Bills Finds Legislature Extra Active; Some Killed. Others Given Favor

Gambling Bill Passes House -  Licensing of Slot -. Machines Favored

Motor Vehicle Use Stamps are  Placed on Sale   Present Stamps on Trucks And Auteenilios Expire On June 30

FOR TRADE PACK RENEWALS   Secretary Hull Appears Before Senate Finahce Group

HULL ADVOCATES TRADE EXTENSION   ASSERTS TIME HAS ARRIVED TO CHART POST-WAR COURSE

Hull Asks Renewal Of Trade Program  Time has Come To Chart Course

RENEWED TRADE ACT ADVOGATED BY HULL   Asserts Time Has Come Te Chart Post-War Course

Drafting Of Fathers Set For August, Says Maj. Gen. Hershey   Instructions For Deferment Those In Eccantial Iahse Given

Major General Hershey Says Drafting of Fathers Will Be Started in August ‘if Not Sooner’; Orders Are Issued Under Which ‘Those in Essential Industries May Be Given Preferential Treatment

ESSENTIAL JOB-HOLDERS ARE DELAYED   Hershey Warns of Dangers From  Wheeler Bill

CAUCASUS PUSH SEEKS 10 CUT ESCAPE ROUTE   Reds. 15 Miles From Rostov, Chase Enemy Toward Ice-Locked Bay   ADVANCE ON KURSK   Russians Land Near Site Destined To Be Used For German “Dunkirk”

PRODUCTION OF SHIPS, PLANES SAID LAGGING   ead Of Quantity Seen Responsible

Farm Gasoline Shortage Hit   Senate Group Calls On OPA For Explanation

- Farm Gas  Aiken Says Gas Shortage ‘On Farms Boosts Food Price:

FRIGID WAVE SWEEPS STATE   11 Below Repoxted in Mason City, Decorah

TIPTON WiLL “SOON HAVE i. ~— DIN-OUT TEST   Arrangements . Made I for a ' Practice Event at Mecting Tuesday Night.   AT THE HICH SCHOOL   Getting ‘Ready fer a! Stat2Wide Blackout Within . Thirty Days. i

TIPTON WiLL OUON HAVE A DIM-OUT Tes!   Arrangements Made for a Practice Event at Meeting Tuesday Night.   AT THE HIGH SCHOOL   Getting Ready fcr a Stat>. Wide Blackout Within Thirty Days.

Dr. Carver, Negro Scientist, Is Dead   Discovered Scores of Uses For Products of Soil: Was ‘About’ 79

NEGRO SCIENTIST SUCCUMBS; NOTED FOR DISCOVERIES   Son of Negro Slaves Was On of Greatest Scientists in Agriculture

GEORGE CARVER DIES TUESDAY   One of Nation’s Greatest Scientists in Agricultural Economy

FAMOUS NEGRO SCIENTIST DIES   Dr. Carver Attended Two lowa Colleges

CARVER, NEGRO SCIENTIST, DIES   Son of Slaves Left  Manv Discoveries

DR. GEORGE CARVER NEGRO SCIENTIST, DIES AT TUSKEGEE   Born A’ Slave He Increased Income Of South By Millions OF ’ Dollars

Dr. Carver Dies At Tuskegee Home   Illness Is Fatal To Negro Scientist

Noted Scientist Died_ on Tues.; Rites Today  at Tu skeqee Institute   Outstanding Figure. in-Field .of Agricultural Research for Fifty ~ Years: His Fame Renewed by War

FAMOUS NEGRO SCIENTIST DIES   Dr. George Washington Carver, Research Expert, Passes

WARREN MAPS STREAMLINED GOVERNMENT   Takes Oath as 30th Governor of California

KNOX GUESSES JAP RAID BASE   Scoffs At Claim Two U. S. Warships Sunk

‘Japs Corralled on Peninsula’   Knox Says Attu Battle Continuing

Iowa Murder, Suicide   Grace Alberry, Monticello, la.. Woman Shoots Brother, Then Self

Reds Beat Back Attacks By Germans   SUCCESSFUL IN REPULSING BLOWS STRUCK AT BRIDGEHEAD.

RUSSIANS. REPULSE ATTACK IN UKRAINE   Russia n And Axis Air ’» Forces Trade Blows ~ On Entire Front

iii Air Fields. In France Raided   “American: Bombers “Return Without  Te ete ak

1/0 AMBRIGAN BOMBERS BLAST NAZI OL FIELD  300. Ton af tise EX sales s Are   300.Tons of Explosives Are Dumped On Ploesti, Rumania, In Low Level Attack   USE SPECIAL BOMB SIGHT DURING RAID   Big Planes Sweep In At Smoke Stack Height and Plaster Refineries; 51 Planes Downed

Vote Of 74-50 Prohibits Sale Of Sunday Beer   Bitter Debate Heard Before Passage: Curfew Bill Is Amended

GILBERTS IN FIRM” GRIP OF UNITED STATES   Powerful American Forces Have Secured Victory In Gilberts

Defy Japanese to Halt Offensive in ‘Mid-Pacific Push   Nimitz Announces Islands in Firm Grip of Americans

Victory  Is" ,           ISLANDS IN U. S. CONTROL. 80.; HOURS AFTER FIRST:LANDI READY TO MEET JAP. FLEET

ps Crushed SO Hours \Sier Atoll Landings, Nimitz Discloses   ES LOSSES HIGH   JES LOosSks HIGH  nericans Gain Fiving Fields. Radio Station ond teme Demne

MAKIN SEIZED: JAPS AT TARAWA FACING DEATH   Nimitz Says Invaders Set for CounterAttacks   MARSHALLS BELIEVED NEXT FOR INVASION

GILBERT MOVE FULL ollGGtos GAYS NIMITZ   Americans In Full Control 01 Islands 80 Hours After Invasion

ADMIRAL DEFIES ENEMY TO STOP DRIVE ON TOKYO   Wants Showdown With Jap Fleet

VICTORIOUS IN GILBERTS   Admiral Nimitz Says Yanks Have Firm Grip There

Nimitz Reports Gilberts Held Firmly by U. S.   Defy Japanese. To Halt. Roliing Yank Offensive

‘Marines Capture Makin, Are Mopping Up On Tarawa And Have Situation ‘Well In Hand’ On Abemma

Japs Suffer Heavy Toll In Gilberts   Tokyo Attempts To ‘Save Face’ With Wild Clanns

Large Naval Action Is Exnected Soon   Marines Are Slowly But Surely Cleaning Out Tarawa Atoll

MAKIN IS  REPORTED CAPTURED   Yanks To Consolidate Gains: Casualties  Claimed Light

DOT IN OGEAN OP AINGHOANDS TO RAID TOKYO   Admiral Nimitz Announces Gilberts Now in Firm Grip of U.S.

Marshalls Next in Line For Invasion   Nimitz Confident of Continued Success  In March to Tokyo

BROWN 10 OUTLINE NEW OPA POLICY   Firmer Program to Be Presented to Congress This Week, Forecast

ISOLATED MUNDA BASE CONTANTLY ATTACKED   Allied Bombardment !s Steady and Indications Arc That Sector Will Fall Within the Week— 378,000 Pounds of Explosives Dropped in Area Within a Period of Three Days.

Bombs Rair On Munda; Fall ‘Near’   Isolated Jap Base Pounded Steadily; Thousands Poised

MUNDA POUNDING MAY CAUSE FALL IN PRESENT WEEK   ‘Another 52 Tons of Bombs Are Unloaded on 11th Day of Bombings, flaps Lose 200 Planes This Month.   ENEMY CARGO VESSEL SUNK, THREE DAMAGED   Reds Hold Off Germans During Furious Assaults, Encircling Plans of Nazi Are Being Prevented.

Fathers Free of August Induction   Some Married  Men to Be Called

FATHERS SAFE UNTIL SEPT,    Ohio Dads Not Subject To August Draft

ge eee aa note  By Car Owners To Lopeal Or Coodtellows Distribution 

Magnificent Response Made By Car Owners To Appeal On Goodtellawe Distribution

JUST AFEW MORE ‘NEEDED 10 G0 OVERTOP FOR BONDS   Success Now Depends On Getting In a Few - “Bioldouts”’ 

JUST A FEW MORE: ‘NEEDED 10 G0 OVFRTOP FOR BONDS         Success Now. Depends: Or Getting Ina‘ Few. - “Holdouts? 

Japs Flee North Pacific Island Base   Japs Turn Tail And Leave Without Fighting

OCCUPATION OF KISKA PLEASES NATION'S CHIRF   Says it “Frees Last Vestige of North American Territory of Japanese Forces

JOINT STATEMENT   Roosevelt and King of Can ~ ada Comment on Capture of Kiska

NO OPPOSITION, NIPPONESE HAD FLED ALEUTIANS   Bombardments by WU. 8S. Ships Planes Apparently Had Driven Japs Out of Island

Step By Step! Conquest Of Kiska Frees Last North  American Territory From Jap Hordes

North America  Free Of Japs  Joint Statement Made By : F. R., King

Solons To Hear Of Food Mixups By Key Officials   s  "g Of Program To Stamp Out “Bootleg” Traffic

OPA ACCUSED OF PERMITTING BLACK MARKETS   Responsibility Is Placed With Agency, Probe Underway

BLAME OPA FOR BOOTLEGGING IN FOOD ITEMS   Congressional Group Prepares to Hear What Is Doing to Stamp Out Black Markets   OPA SHAKEUP LOOMS   Administrator Brown Reported Preparing For Reoganization of Policy Makers

Key Officials ‘Will Discuss Food Traffic   Chester C. Davis and Prentiss M. Brown are Called To Testify   HINT REORGANIZATION

1 QUTLINE Dn ON BLACK MARKETS   Brown, Davis to Tell House  Committee What They Are Going to Do

Beef Point Rates Increased Again   Action Kesuit of Decreased Supply

Beef Shortage Forces Raised Ration Values   New Low In Supplies Avail. able For Civilians Up:  Bv 1. 2 Points.   EFFECTIVE TO AUG. 1

NewLowinBee Boosts Ration Point Values   OPA Also Raises Red Coupon Costs of Veal, Lamb and Mutton From One to Two Points

POINT VALUE OF BEEF RAISED BY OFFICE OF OPA   Effective Monday, Predicts New Low in Supply for Civilians

VALUES HIKED   OPA Takes Action In Face Of Dwindling Supplies; Other Changes Made

Ration Points For Beef ‘Increased As Shortage For July Seen By OPA

Point Value Of Beef Increased By New OPA Schedule Today   Most Popular Cuts To Range From 9 To 13 Points Per Pound: Precessed Food Changes

POINTS FOR BEEF BOOSTED BY OPE   New Low In Beef Sup plies For Civilians Seer In July

Beef Ration Points Increased by OPA   Some Classes of Cheése Lowered; Point Values For Some Processed Vegetable Items Increased

New Low In Beef Supplies Predicted As Ration Value Changes Are Made By OPA

OPA Foresees Bee  Scarcity; Raises  Point Valuation Revised Values  wm...  Owe ck   Revised Values Based on Present Meat Situation

OPA Increases Ration Values Of Many Food:   Principal Change Made In Beef Points; Less Meat Available   {Complete new food ration point charts will be found on Page 7)

INCREASES OF ONE TO 2 POINTS POUND DECREED   Action Taken In Face of Prediction of New Low In Supplies for Civilians In July   NEW POINT COSTS EFFECTIVE SUNDAY   Red Coupon On Some Veal, Lamb and “Mutton and Canned Food Also Ordered Boosted

Jump Ration Value Of Beef Cuts From One To Two Points AsOPA _ Visions New Low In Supplies

Some Cuts of Veal, Lamb, Mutton Rise  “Bad Situation,” Says OPA, Announcing Latest Restrictions  CANNED FISH UP  12 Processed Foods High. er, 5 Lower, in Schedule far Inle

CHOICE CUTS SLIM AGAIN ON JULY LIS   Veal and Lamb Increases of Month Are Smailer; Catsup lumps Up.   17 CHANGES MADE IN BLUE POINT VALUES

oint Value Of Beef Will Rise July 4   PA Orders Increase Of One Or Two Points Per Pound Because 0! Low Supplies

OPA Raises Vegetable; Beef Points   Pork Lid Remains Unchanged; Catsup Values Skyrocket

RATION VALUES OF BEEF CUTS RAISED; OPA SEES LOW CIVILIAN SUPPLIES

Meat Drops, Ration Value On Beef. Up   Other Point. Values Are Changed July 4

OPA Raises Point Values For Meats And Processed Foods   Will Become Effective July 4 — Officials Say Meat Supply Situation Is “‘Bad’’ —May Make Further Changes

Increase Ration  Values of Beet   Unless Supply Situation Changes Point Values to  Stay For Month.

OPA Increases Ration Values Of Beef Cuts   Predict New*Low In Beef Supplies For Civilians In July

Point Cost Of Beef Goes Up   Ration Values of Some Cuts of Veal And Lamb Hiked Too; Into Effect July 4

PA Increases oint Values n Beef Cuts   Revised Schedule ncludes Changes nm Blue Coupons

POINT VALUES ARE UP ONE TO TWO) PER POUND   New Low In Civilian Supplies Is Predicted  For July   EFFECTIVE ON JULY 4   Some Cuts of Veal, Lamb and Mutton Are Also Raised

BEEF RATION VALUES. REVISED: APWARD. SUPPLIES DWINDL   Ration Cost of. Most Popular Cuts. Put At From 9 to “"€3 Points   FEW. “pen” RBEDIcTINNS

BEEF VALUES INCREASED ONE TO TWO POINTS   Boost Ordered as OPA Sees Supplies Hit New Low For Month of July.   TAKE EFFECT JULY 4   Some Cuts of Veal, Lamb anc Mutton Also Raised Under New Schedule.

Point Values For Beef Cuts Are Pushed Up   Low Supply Is Blamed; Many Processed Foods Also Marked Up.

Latest Point Charts to Remain in Effect Until August First   OTHER CHANGES NOTED

Point Value of Beef Increases   Veal, Lamb, Mutton Can. ned Fish Also Up

RATION VALUES OF BEEF MADE HIGHER AS SUPPLIES FADE   Red Coupon Costs of Some Veal, Lamb, Mutton and Canned Fish Items In: creased.

OPA Reveals Newest Ration Point Values   Most Meats Are Up, Point Advances Listed For Many Other Foods

Meat Point Values Increased July    Beef Boosted One and Twa Points a Pound—Pork Cuts Unchanged .

RED CROSS DRIVE QUOTA IS $17,150   ‘County Campaign for War Fund Will Bezin March 1

RED CROSS DRIVE QUOTA IS $17,150      County Nae a for War Fund Will Begin March 1

HUMMEL FINALLY REACHES GOAL   Cincinnatian Sworn In as New Secretary of Slate.

ZONE BLACKOUT TESTS PLANNED   State Divided Into Three Air Raid Warning Zones Under Army Program

TEST BLACKOUT IS ANTICIPATED   Surprise Alert Would Be Ordered Sometime This .Month Director Says

egar Girl s When Explodes   Burned Off  Year Old Child’s ishap Tuesday

AUSSIES BRING WAREO UNDER FIRE OF GUNS   Allies Maintain Aeria. Drive Along Rabaul Invasion Route

Ally Guns Hurl Stee at Wareo   AUSSIES TAKE KUANKO IN DRIVE ON GUINEA’S HUON PENINSULA

AUSSIES SHELL JAPS AT WAREO   Take Town Half Mile Away From Nip Stronghold

Aussie Guns Blast Wareo InHuonDrive   New Allied Air Attack: Ring Foe on South End of New Britain

Allied Heavy Guns Trained  On Wareo Now   New Guinea Stronghold May Take Some Time To Fall, Allies Believe

Nancy Flees As Murder Details Told   Wife of Defendent Hears Eloquent Plea For De Marigny’s Life

Defense Pleads For de Marigny As Trial Closes   Faked Fingerprint Used in Case Says Count’s Attorney

REPORT BIG CONVOY IN IONIAN SEA   German Troops Rushed To Albania, Adriatie Coast

Commander _Capitulates After Outskirts of City  Are Shelled   ALLIES TAKE TARANTO   Allied Invasion Armada Reported Heading Toward  hania

Taranto Naval Base Falls To  British Army   Huge Anglo-American Invasion Armada Moving Against Albania.   ROMMEL IN COMMAND

REPORT CLAIM CITY CAPTURED   Field Marshal Von Kessetring Leads Attack Against Rome.   /ROMMEL IN NORTH ITALY

AMERICAN ARMY HOLDS NAPLES   Nazis Want To Set Up Puppet Government In Italian Capital  fProeicic i¢ WEA TALES eA

ROME CAPTURED BY GERMANS   ALLIES START INVASION OF BALKANS AS YANKS STOP NAZIS AT NAPLES      Premature Explosion in Balkans Feared  As Allies Rush To Coordinate Attacks

Opening Thrust To Drive Germans From The Balkans   Convoy Escorted By Warship Steaming Up The lonian Sea

Capture of Naples Near; Nazis Face New Foe In Italy   Rome Shelled, Bombed by Uniden: _ tified Planes; Status of King Vittorio Emanuele in Doubt

Nazis ‘Assume Protection’ of Vatican. City    Hitler Throws Top Generals Into Defense of Italy; Seizure of Genoa, Spezia and Italian Riviera Claimed

Commander Of Rome Capitulates To Troops Directed By Field Marshal Von Kesselring: Rommel Is [In Italy   Hitler’s Legions Refuse To Recognize Status Of Open City For Italian Capital:

POWERFUL CONVOY REPORTED. ‘STEAMING WP besa SEA,      ng German Couriter-Attacks: Hurled Back h nity of Salerno, 20; Mi és South of Naples Gulf of Salerno Allies: Pushing Inland

BERLIN BROADCAST TELLS OF FALL OF ITALIAN CAPITAL  GEN. ROMMEL REPORTE IN COMMAND GERMAN

Allied Balkar Drive Near?   Fleet Steaming te Albania, is Report; Nazis Rush Troops

Reputed Movement Across Adriatic Sea From Southern Italy Seen As Possible Opening Thrust To Oust Enemy From Southeast Europe— Hitlerites Shell And Bomb Eternal City In Prelude To Occupation Of Capital

MAJOR BATTLE FOR ALBANIA SEEMS NEAR   German Troops Reported to have Occupied Kingdom, with Allied Invasion Fleet on Way   NAZIS HOLD PORTS   Chiasso Dispatch and Swiss Radic Say Allied Landing Imminent a: Fleet Moves In

Nazis Claim Rome Taken   American Fifth Army Amashes Five Nazi Attacks At Naps: Push Inland

Rome Falls to Nazi Forces: Allies Gain   Huge American-British Invasion Armada Reported Moving Against Nazi-Occupied Balkan Kingdom of Albania

HITLER CLAIMS CITY TAKEN BY REICH’S TROOPS   Meanwhile, Americans Are Crushing Enemy in Naples Battle Arca

Establish Powerful Bridgeheads for Decisive Attack on Port—Taranto’s Seizure May Cut Off Nazis to South

A Puppet Regime ~— Is Goal   Germans May Oust King in Bitter Fight to Hold Northern Italy   GENERAL ROMMEL IN COMMAND THERE   Little Resistance to Nazis in Eternal City, Says Berlin -. Radio Report

German Troops Reported to Have Occupied Albania; Powerful Allied Fleet and  “Convoy Reported On Way There.

Protection Of Vatican Assumed  Nazis Believed Seeking to Set   Nazis Believed Seeking to Set Up Puppet Government

Invasion Armada Reported Headed For Albanian Shore   Allies Battle for * Naples and Win Taranto Naval Base

Nazis ‘claim  tiny kingdom  is occupied   Major’ struggle  is anticipated

CITY SHELLED BY GERMANS: PREMIER LEAVES   Civilians Killed In Air Raid; No Report On King  BULLETIN

Landings Said To Be Imminent   Huge British-American Armada Reportec Crossing Adriatic—Surrender of First Units of Italian Fleet at Gibraltar Reported From Spain

Indicate Enemy May Set Up Puppet Government In Capital; Battle Rages In Salerno Vicinity; American Bombers Continue Raids

Indicated Attack Due on Balkan Natior   May Be Opening Thurst Against Southeastern Europe; Germans Report to Have Occupied Nation; Italy Seethes.

Fifth Army Beats Down Resistance In Naples Sector   British Moving Ahead In South Italy; Nazis , Reported In Control Of Part Of Capital 

WILL HIT NAZIS IN BALKANS   Major Battle Is Believed Imminent; Germans Said To Have Moved In

BRITISH TROOPS OCCUPY SEA — [BASE OF TARANTO; GERMANS SEEK TO TAKE CONTROL OF ROME

Allies Occupy Taranto, Gain At Naples; Huns Grab Rome   Abdication Reports Denied

NAZIS ASSUME PROTECTION OF VATICAN CITY   Allied Forces, With Naples Under Control, Are Pushing Lines Intand   TRANSPORTATION IS HIT.   New Troops Are Landed With Objective Of Cutting Off Southern Italy

British Take Big Navy Bast   Teranto Occupation Gives Allies Third Foothold in Italy

Capitulation Announced In Enemy Report  Report Foe Attempting   Report Foe Attempting To Occupy Vatican City; Rommel Over

HUN ATTACK ON CITY OF SEVEN HILLS FRUITRUL   “Commander of Rome" Gives Up After Nazi Attack Opens, Hitler's Headauarters Savs   U.S. FORCES BEAT DOWN FOE ATFACKS   Strong Beachheads Estahlished From Which to Push First Assault Toward Objective

Yanks Beat Off Germans, Hold Bridgeheads Firmly   Germans Attack Rome, Would Oust Badoglio, Emanuele And Set Up Puppet Regime; Italians Resist in Many Places

Nazis and Italians  Locked in Battle   ‘ast Moving Events See Allied Sea-Borne Forces Cap: ture Big Italian Naval Base at Taranto.   Field Marshal Romme! Commander Of German Forces in North Italy

Report Allied Armada Is Moving Against Balkans   Events Move Rapidly In Italy As United Nations Forces and Axis Forces Battle For Position

Germans Smashed Back By Clark’s Sth Army; Strong Bridgeheads Are Established

War Between Italians, Germans Already Begun, Swiss Say; First Units of Fleet Surrender

Invasion  Of Balkan State Seen   Yankees Crush Nazis, Fall Of  Naples Near

BADOGLIO STILL IN POWER AS NAZIS TRY TO SEIZE CITY, SET UP ITALY PUPPET REGIME; ALLIES TAKE VENTOTENE ISLE IN GAETA GULF AS GREAT ADDITIONAL FORCE POURS IN TO LOP OFF SOUTHERN AREA

Powerful Convoy Reported Moving Across lonian Sea   Fleet Said On Way To Albania, Where Germans Have Occupied Important Ports

Anglo-American Invasion  Fleet Is Reported On Way To Nazi Held Albania

Big Battle For Albania  Is Foreseen   Nazis Seize Key Towns; Big Allied Fleet Moves Over For Attack.

FALL OF NAPLES NEAR   Claim Italian Battleship And Cruiser Destroyed

NAZTO HELL, BUMG CITY 1 TARE CONTROL   Hitler Headquarters Says Vatican Will Receive Nazi Protection.   ROMMEL COMES BACK TO LEAD NORTH ARMY

italian Warships Reach Gibraltar   Rone Reports Attacks by German Army; Allies Crush Nazis in Naples Area—Germans  Rush to Replace Surrendered Troops. in Rallkane

Venice, Turin and Florence Reported i in Italian Hands After Battle With Germans

NAZI TROOPS OCCUPY ALBANIA   Report Large Allied Force May Try Landing

GERMANS ANNOUNCE THE CAPITULATION OF ITALIAN CAPITAL   The Surrender of Rome Followed a German Assault, London Hears.   NAZIS ARE IN CONTROL   The Attacking Forces Were Led by Field Marshal Albert von Kesselring.

BRITISH TROOPS CEE TARANTO      Allied Forces Gain Third Big Foothold on Italian Peninsula.   TIGHTEN GRIP ON NAPLES

BRITISH: GO INTO TARANTO   Occupation of. Big Base Gives Allies Their Third Big Foothold

INVASION FLEET IN IONIAN SEA NEARS ALBANIA   Huge Allied Armada Escorted by Powerful Warship Convoy Say Reliable Reports   GRIP ON ITALY IS TIGHTENED   sermans Putting Up Stiff Fight To Hold Northern Part of Country As Buffer for Germany

Allied Convoy Moving Toward Balkan Nation   Explosion Near Among Restless Balkan Countries

BRITISH TROOPS OCCUPY TARANTO, GREAT NAVAL BASE .  AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY BEATS DOWN FIVE GER-

Italian Naval Base At Taranto Taken By Invasion Fleet   Bulletin From Hitler's Headquarters Says Commander Of Eternal City Has Surrendered to Field Marshal Kesserling   ROMMEL SAID TO BE DIRECTING NORTHERN TROOPS

Allied Landing Forces Occupy Base At Taranfc   Italian Capital's Surrender Reported After Nazi Attack

War Bond Score   Nazi Resistance Being Broken In The Naples Area

Italian Capital Surrenders After Shelling  ‘Open City’ May Be Bombed;

See Major Battle Over Albania   Germans Send Troops Allies Approaching With Tleave Force

Field Marshal Albert Von Kesselring Leads German Troops Into Rome Against Some Resistance By Italians—Rommel Named Commander In Northern Italy

Huge British-American Invasion Armada Said Moving Against Kingdom

ALBANIA MAY BE OBJECT OF MAJOR FIGHT   German Troops Reported In Control Of Nation   ALLIED HEADQUARTFRE IN NORTH ALCrRica ....   BsBOn? BLN sANNPER REE GARONA NAO Allied forces landed today at Taranto, site of the Italian naval base inside the heel of the peninsula.

ETERNAL CITY FALLS AFTER SHORT BATTLE   Alhed Sea-Borne Forces Take Big Naval Base At Taranto   FALL OF NAPLES NEAR   ‘Huge Allied Invasion Ars mada Moving Against Balkans

Nazis To Set Up Puppet Government; Name Duce As Italian Leader Again

Rome Reported Capitulated ;  To Germans   Zommel Said In Command In North Italy.

Ports Occupiec By Hitlerites; Allies Moving   British-American Cor voy Reported In The Adriatic

Allies Striking Hard By Land, Sea, Air; Germans Claim La Spezia, Naval Base

Major Fight Is Expected Affer Nazi Occupation   Germans Reported Disarming Italians

TARANTO TAKEN BY BRITISH IN ‘LIGHT FIGHTING   Yanks Smash 5 Nazi Armored Counter Drives in Area of Naples

Report Big Allied Convoy Steaming Toward Albania; Yanks Advance On Naples   Alties Smash 5 German Attacks; Rommel Disclosed As Commander Of Enemy Forces In North Italy

Protection’ of Vatican Assumed by Germans   Nazis Inveigh Against Italy's Traitors; Rommel in Command in Northern Italy

ROMMEL SAID TO BE NORTH ITALY LEADER   Allies, However, Push Invasion; Capture Taranto Naval Base; Head For Alabania,

ROME SURRENDERED TO GERMAN ATTACK BERLIN DECLARES ©   HUGE ALLIED INVASION ARMADA REPORTED MOVING AGAINST ALBANIA

Important Naval Base of Taranto  Taken by Britis   American Fifth Army Beats Down Five German Ar. mored Attacks.   Allies in a Position  To Cut Off Germans

GERMANS ANNOUNCE ROME'S FALL   Germans Say Nazi Army Will Assume Pr

Commander Capitulate: ‘aitter Outskirts of City r Are Shelled   £ashy MIVA  ALLIES TAKE TARANT. 0  Allied Invasion! Armada Reported Heading Toward   eae

NAZIS ANNOUNCE ROME IS NOW IN THEIR HANDS   Berlin Says Rome Has “Capitulated” To German Assault; Rommel! Commands Nazis In Northern Italy.

Scant Opposition Is Encountered When Troops Land Inside Heel Of Boot °

Italian Warships Flee To Join Allies; Fight Nazis   Conflicting Reports Say King Abdicates; Italians Moving Out Of France

Italy's Capital Yields To Nazis As Army Attacks   British Occupy Taranto As Americans Tighten Grip On Naples

British Gain Naval Base In Italian War  American Army Beats Down

Germans Say Rome Taken   Full Occupation Not Planned, Fighting Was Brief

MAJOR BATTLE FOR TINY ALBANIA MAY DEVELOP   Nazi Troops Reported tc Have Occupied Former Little Kingdom

BALTIMORE FIREMEN ~ RESCUE AGED INVALID   North Charles Street Apart - ment House Fire Hampers ° Rush Hour Traffic

COOL WEATHER STAYS   Readings in the Fifties in Eastern Kansas Last Night

346 Flyers  Pri isoners   War Dept. Gets Report On Schweinfurt Attack

346 Airmen Reported Missing On Schweinfurt Raid Are War Prisoners

217 STILL REMAIN UNACCOUNTED FOR IN ISCHWEINFURT RAID   346-of Original 581°U. S. Crew Members Reportec Alive As German Prison ers

581 Air Crew Members Lost In German Raid; 60 Fortresses Shot Down; 346 Prisoners Of Wat

Seven Named Members Of New Cabinet   Selections Announced By Martin Include Three From Old Regime   OTHERS NEXT WEEK

KEEPS STEWART IN HEALTH POST   Former ‘Indiana Man I Retained by Goyernor-Elect

Allied Airmen Score Hits On Jap Ships   Bombs Set Cargo Vessels Afire In Banda Sea Area

Allied Planes Hit Transports  Singch ort Wraurrrle fy   Smash at Wewak ir Heavy Air Raid

One Vessel Left Ablaze, Others Badly Damaged   Raiders Weather Heavy Fire, And. All Return Home

Allied Planes Hit Transports  Smash at Wewak in _ Heavy Air Raid

U.S. fliers bomb five  Jap ships   Raiders of Wewak encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire

Marine General Killed in Crash   Charles Paddock Also Meets Death

Schoeppel And FDR Together At Fort Riley   President Praises War Work Of Kansas And Midwest

Reporter Claims #1 Duce Is Held as Military Prisoner in Rome Hote}

IL DUCE IS MILITARY PRISONER IN HOTEL   Did Not Resign as Premier; Was Thrown Out by King.

[Maybe It’s Just Sort of a Game; [Now You See Him: Now You Don’t

U.S. Bulldozer Buries Japanese Pillbox; Charges Ahead, Scoops. Up Earth, Buries Japs And Guns

Jap Planes Hit  Guadalcanal Isle   ‘Third Attack Made In Six-Day Period 

LOU COSTELLO'S BABY DROWNED   Comedian’s Son Gets Out Of Crib And Falls In; Show Goes On

Defense Witness Asserts Mrs. Simmons Tried to Push Way Into Ella B. Howard’s Roon

Slain Woman Forced Way Into A Room   Mrs. Howard Tried To Keep Her Out  Witness Testifies

PARTY HOST “AS WITNESS   MONROE TELLS COMMITTEE BUSINESS... WAS .NEVER DISCUSSED AT HIS PARTIES

Weekend Sees U. §.  Launch 11 New  Fighting Vessels Nation Celebrates Holiday With Advance in War

BEGIN SHIFT TO 48-HOUR WEEK   Program To Be Underway By March 31

WILL LAUNCH VAST PROGRAW IN SIX WEEKS   War Manpower Commission will begin program in 32 cities

STEPS TAKEN 1 INCREASE. ~ WAR OUTPUT   AKRON AND DAYTON AREAS " INCLUDED IN FIRST GROUP ‘OF INDUSTRIAL REGIONS “TO BE AFFECTED

Sweeping Edict Is Effective For 32 Shortage Sector:   Change To Mean 30 Per Cent Pay Hike For Many; Local Area Affected; Byrnes Tells . Of Plan For Great 1943 Invasion P

100 Flying Fortresses, Fighters and Dive Bombers Blast Axis Forces on Every Battle Front   Rommel Succeeds in Getting Remaind ‘er of Forces Through Gabes Bottleneck as British Press Him From Rear. -

Record BomberForce Attacks Sardinia As  Tunisia Climax Nears   Rommel Attempts To Make Stand As British And  American Forces Close In For Kill North —  Of Gabes; Foe’s Plight More Desperate

CONCENTRATE IN SOUTHERN ITALY   Transport, Hospital Ships Reported Seen

December 15 Is Deadline to File Estimated Return   Here Are the Groups of Tax  ' payers Who Must File By Next Wednesday

‘Must File Estimate Of Tax by Dec. 15   Birmingham Calls Attention of Farmers and Others to Re. quirements of Law

Three Groups Must -. File Estimates By . ---s. December: 15, 1943

1943 Income Tax Payments Due December 15  Deputy Collector Coming Wednesda:

TOUR OF SOUTH IS CONSIDERED   Democratic Chairman May Make Pilgrimage; Jackson Davy Dinners Planned   MORE SPECULATION ON ROOSEVELT

WALKER MAY TAKE POLITICAL TOUR   Jaunt in Southern States May Be to Cement Party or Ston Revolt Talk

TROUBLED SECTORS OF SOUTH MAY GET VISIT FROM WALKER  man to‘ Check Up on

Democrats Plan Pilgrimage To South To Repair Shattered Political Fences

WIDOW OF HOUDINI DIES ABOARD TRAIN      Doubted Immortality After Ten Years of Failure

Houdini’s Widow Dies Sans Word   Long Ago Gave Up Hope Of Communicating With Dead Husband.

Mrs. Houdini Passes Away   She Had Waited 10 Years in Voin for Spirit Message

rs. Beatrice Houdini, 69, liesin Train Compartment   Into Realm From Which She Waited Ten Years In Vain For Spirit Message From Her Famous Magician Husband, Harry Houdini; Had Grown to Doubt Immortality

Mrs. Houdini, 69, Dies On Train   Had Given Up Hope of Contacting Dead Husband

MRS. HOUDINI, 69 DIES ABROAD TRAIN   Wife of Famous Magician Ill Several Months

LONG HIDDEN ITALIAN FLEET ON MOVE, CLAIM      Hither Seeking Safer Port, 01 Preparing For Rlow

REPORT ITALIAN FLEET MOVING   Axis Pushes Defense, Block Sea, Aegean

U.S. Battleships Reported By Nazis In Mediterranean   Join British Squadrons As Escorts For Invasion

Italy’s Fleet Also Said To Be at Sea   Axis Sources Tell of Intense Preparations of Allie For Attack on Mainland

U.S. FLEET ENTERS MEDITERRANEAN TO AID INVASION   Italian Battleships Leave Port for Unknown Destination. Raids tnteneify.

Italian Fleet at Sea: Invasion Imminent   Foe’s Armada May Be Sacrificed In Final Effort to Stall Landing

Nazis Say U-S Backs Up Brit Ships   DECLARE BATTLESHIP GOING INTO M EDITERRANEAN TO ASSIST.

MUSSOLINI'S FLEET PUTS OUT TO SEA   Allied Landing Expected Soon In Three Places

ITALIAN FLEET MOVED FOR SAFETY   One Report Says It Left Spezia For Action But Others Think It Was To Escape U. S. Bombs.

SAILING INTO — MEDITERRANEAN AXIS REPORTS   Italian Fleet Said to Have Left Harbor Refuge

ITALIAN FLEET IS TAKEN TO SEA FOR UNKNOWN REASOK   ‘Madrid Hears Plan Is For An Offensive as Stockholm Says Safer Place to Hide {s Sought.   HITLER IS BELIEVED GIVING ASSISTANCE   Allied Air Forces Renew Hard Blows Along Possible Invasion Route, Raid Is Made In Athens Area.

Nazis Report U. S. Battleships Join With British In Mediterranean.

LEADERS SEEK COMPROMISE OF TAX PLAN   House Republican and Democratic Members Gei Together to Seek Early Enactment

SEEK COMPROMISE “ PAY-AS-YOU160 TAX PLAN   Opposinz Tax Plan . Factions Launch Effort To Reach Understanding

PARLEYS START TO TRY 10 GET TAX BILL OVER   Rayburn Meets With G. 0. P And Democratic Chiefs To Talk Compromise

Compromise Tax Plan To Be Sought   Factions May Try To Bring Out A Withholding Levy

Compromise  Pay-Go Tax Plan Sought   House Republican Leaders And Democrats Hope To Frame Legislation

Talk Terms On Pay-As-Go Tax   Repu b heans. Democrats Seek Compromise On Controversial Plan.

Tax Compromise Again Sought  Solons Confer, Try To Forget Ru im! and Other P; Pl  er Previous Fians

GOP, Democrats Map Compromise Tax Bill Drive   Agreement Expected To Include Plan For Withholding

Launch bi-partisan effort to compromise pay-as-go tax   Rayburn takes lead to settle on income levy legislation

Leaders Seek Compromise On Tax Plan   Joint Effort is Launched By Speaker Rayburn To Reach Accord   CONFERENCE IS_ HELD

Here Are Some Things You Ought To Know About Your Rationed Shoes

ATE HAVUN-WIDE BAL olin Hl WITH HEAVY FORCE   Impending W.nter Weather Brings Threat to U. §. War Effort.

40,000 COAL MINERS QUT ON STRIKE   Walkout Threatens War Production of Nation

Mabry and Zinn Draw State Pay   One in Army, Other Working in Chicago

Gl MARRIED MER PENQING TAO ON DRAFT Lol   First of Married Group to Leaye in the Next Two Months.   y€ST IS MADE PUBLIC   Group Includes Fathers of Children Born Since Sept. 8.

BI MARRIED. MEN ~~ PENDING TAS ~~ ON DRAFT LS]   First of Married Group to Leaye in ‘the Next Two  Months. .   ¢UST IS. MADE PUBLIC   Group Includes Fathers of Children Born Since ‘Sept. 8.

Disease Kills 300 Prisoners [In Philippines   Nine From New Mexico Included on List  Released by Red Cross

300 AMERICANS DEAD IN JAPAN   one  Prisoners Die Of Disease, Nipponese Report

78th Congress Returns Tuesday Faced With Difficult Double Task of Helping Blueprint a Future Peace in Midst of War While Guiding Domestic Economy With National Election Impending

ANTI-STRIKE LAW NEAR APPROVAL BY US. CONGRES'   House-Senate Commttee Has - Agreed. on Important .- Measure.

Ickes Will Fine  Striking Miners   530,000 Who Left Mines To Have $1 a Day for Each Day Absent Taken From Pay

ICKES IMPOSES FINES ON MINERS   $5 Fines Assessed On 540,000 Miners For Recent FiveDay Strike (BULLETIN)

Mine Operators . Say They Cannot Reach Accord   John ‘L. Lewis Remains Consistent In Not Appearing At Meeting

AGREEMENT REACHED ON STRIKE CURB      Compromise Measure To Outlaw Walk-Outs In Times Of War

Controversy Now Complicated by Major Break in Appalachian Coal Operators’ United Front Against John L. Lewis,

U. S. Will Deduct One Dollar a Day From All Walk- Out Participants . ‘

Congressional Approval of Anti-Strike Bill Seen   Ickes Declares $1 Per Day Fines on Those Who Walked Out

Government Will Penalize Miners Under Contract   WLB Told of ‘Separate Peace’ by Centra Pennsylvanig. Operators. Giving +» Miners $1.30 a Day

SEEK APPROVAL OF MEASURE TO BAN WALKOUTS    Hlonse - Senate Cenference Has Agreed On Terms Of Legislation

Miners Fined $1.00 a Day During Strike  Ickes Reports Pay Cut To Aid Charity

fal Dispute Today biting Mine Closings Heads Toward Congressional Okey

ANTI-STRIKE BILL IS — PUSHED BY CONFERFES   Agree on Measure Yesterday and Bill May Be Pushed Through Both Houses of Congress Before End of Present Coal Truce—Lewis May Be Subject to Fine, Sentence, If He Calls Walkout.

Striking Miners Fined $1 a Day   Ickes Says Says Money Goes to Charity

Anti-Strike Bill Gets Conferees’ Approval  Fine and Imprisonment Provided For Men Responsible for Tieuns

Unakie to Aare: on  Coal Wage   Operators Bring Dispute Back to War Labor Board  —Lewis Absent

SEEK TO FORCE PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX SHOWDGWI   Propose Plan As Rider On Bill To Raise Debt Limit

PAY-AS-YOU-G60 TAX PLAN WILL FACE SHOWDOWS   Advocates Planning Showdown At First Meeting Of Committee

SHOWDOWN ON PAYAS-YOU-GO PLAN IS NOW A POSSIBILITY   Advocates Of Proposal May  Try To Combine -It With Bill To Raise Debit Limit

Tax Collection Plan May Be Made  (Rider on Debt Limitation Measure

FSA INVESTIGATION ” DEMANDED IN HOUSE   Legislation Te Include Farm Labor Cesta In Determining Parity Alsae Approved

YANK PLANES STRIKE FIRST TRIPOLI BLOW   Bombs Hit Airdrome As Squeeze is Put On Rommel

TRIPOLI RAIDED BY AMERICANS FOR FIRST TIME   Direct Hits Scored On Air drome; Trying To Cut Off Rommel   BERLIN IS NERVOUS OVER BRITISH MOVE:

American Plane: Hit First Blow At Tripoli Base   Extend Campaign To Pre vent Escape of Rommel Forces

TRIPOLI RAIDED BY AMERICAN AIRMEN      Gutlying Airdrome Is At ~ tacked Without lance

Allies Pound Tripoli To Tighten Squeeze On Rommel’s Corps   U. S. Bombers Score Hits on Port’s Airdrome; British Flyers Hit 180-Mile Line; Eighth Army Ready to Attack; Mud Slows Tunisia War

MOVE TO SHUT OFF ROMMEL RETREAT SEEN   Meeting Of Allied Air Force From East And West Puts Squeeze On Axis Army   Weather Slows Fight

Raiding Yankee Pilots Return Without Loss  “AFRICA-MEDITERRANEAN

YANKS STRIKE AT TRIPOLI 10 BAR ROMMEL      Score Direct Hits On Outlying Airdrome, Returning Without Loss; RAF Assaults Are Coordinated.   Count of Paris

Campaign o Cut Rommel Retreat Toward Tripoli   Many Observers Believe Seaport Indefensible As Supply Routes Cut

U.S. Raid Upon Tripoli Slams  Door on Nazis   Not a Martin Maurauder is lost in smashing military objectives on, African coast: :

Yankee Airforce Strikes First  Blow at Tripoli   Rommel’s Back Door Is Being Slammed To Cut Off Retreat; RAF Bombs Germans on Lona Lines on Land

TRIPOLI RAIDED BY AMERICAN AIRMEN   Outlying Airdrome Is At tacked Without  Loce

Rommel Is Victim of Squeeze Play   American Bombers Strike First Blow at Trivolj

Tripoli Raided By U.S. Planes  From Tunisia   Blow from New Angle Adds to Difficulties - Faced hv Gen. Rommel

JAPS ATTEMPTING TO REINFORCE ISLANDS IN MID-PACIFIC AREA   WHERE ALLIES WILL STRIKE NEXT CAUSING Brpbpnhal UWAnRvaneYv

Japanese Attempt To Strengthen  Force in Pacific  Foe’s Plans Are Held In Abeyance by Allies Wide Range

Yanks Raid Nip Islands Unmolested   Intense Fighting Rages North of: Changteh, 14th Air :Force Supports Chinese

Japs Building Defenses To Meet Attack   Enemy Units and U. § P-T Boats Battle in New Guinea Area

Japs Admit Trying to Bolster Imperil. ed Positions in S W. Pacific; Wary of New Attack

JAPANESE ADMIT THEY ARE TRYING TO REINFORCE IMPERILLED POSITIONS

TOKYO ADMISSIONS DISCLOSE NEW EFORTS TO REINFORCE ISLANDS WHERE AMERICANS: ATTACKED    Claim They Have Swept Aside Americ Attack_ers, But Are Unable to Know Just Where FarRanging Allied Forces Will Strike Next in Wide  b> Ba amet ene RA avrae

Javs Attempt To Reinforce Positions   Tokyo Admits Southwest Pacific Bases Imperilled; Await New Assaults

Japs Hastily Reinforcing Troops In New Guinea To Counter Invasion

Japs Strive to Bolster Defenses   Harried Foe Is Kept Guessing Where Next Allied Blow Will Fall

JAPS ARE PUZZLED   Nipponese: Are Wondering Where American Forces  Will Strike Next

JAPS TRYING TO REINFORCE §. W. PACIFIC   Radio Tokyo Indirectly Reveals Nip Moves to Build Up Defenses in the New Britain-New Guinea Area.

Reinforcement Attempts Made But Ocean Wide  Boece A clean ’t bd...   Tokyo Admits Moves To Bolster Imperiled Bases But Americans Ranae Over Bia Area

Japs Trying Desperately To Reinforce   Admit Serious Blows Sutfered to Their Island Bases

JAPS ARE PUZZLED   oo Are Wondering ere American Forces  Will Strike Next

JAPS BOLSTER PERILED ISLES   Speed Defenses In Pacific To Prevent Allied Landings

Japs Attempting fo Reinforce Outposts   Sea and Air Blows Keep Enemy Guessir

Japs try to reinforce in Pacifie area   Wonder where Yanks to strike

Balk Jap Supply Effort   Inability to Foretell Where Next Allied Blow Will Fall Makes Nip Reinforcement Hard

PACKING PLANT CRASH KILLS 25   New Fire Breaks Out Aft er Bomber Hits Seattle Factory

29 DEAD AND MISSING IN BOMBER CRASH   New Fire Breaks Out in Ruins of  Seattle Plant on Which Big Plana Poll

THREE KILLED. AT CROSSING   AUTOMOBILE AND TWO TRAINS FIGURE IN ACCIDENT— 25 TRAIN PASSENGERS INJURED

SMITH SCORES CURRENCY PLAN   Terms Project ‘Political Hokus-Pokus’ Aimed at Money Power

Germany’s Collapse At Any Time Forecast By Senator:   War in Pacific May End Before 1945, Three Statesmen Declare After 40,000 Mile Inspection af World Battlefronts

Senators Believe Long War Ahead To Conquer Japs  Returned Solons See Possible Early Germon Faldina Un

Senators See War With Japanese Lasting to 1945   Predict German Collapse on Return From Tour of Fronts

Senators Back From Fronts See Nazi Collapse   Believe Pacific War Will Last Until 1945

3 SAY END OF WAR IN PACIFIC BEFORE 1940 15 UNLIKELY   Senators Back From Tour of Battle Fronts Declare Danger From Japan Is Underestimated.   BELIEVE GERMANY "MAY FALL ANY TIME   Report Army-Navy Co-Operation in Far East, but Inadequate Suppiies and  ~ Too Few Men,

Senators Expect Lona Pacific Wat   End 40,000-Mile Battle Front Tour

STORMY DEBATE IN TEXAS HOUSE OVER GOVERNMENT PEOPLE  RESOLUTION UP.GING CIVING COVERNMENT

Former Society  Girl Is Slain   Slayer Then Turns Gun On Self; Followed Jealous Quarrel.

Will Plan  Scrap Drive   County Salvage Leaders To Make Decisions Tonight

Southwestern Germany Hit Heavy Blow   3,000 Yank, British Planes Over Germany In 24-Hour Period  BERLIN PLASTERED

Daylight Attack Sets Record for Deep Penetratior   New Instrumenis Locate Targets

RECORD -SIZED ARMADA HITS NAZI TARGET!   British Bombers Also Out in Great Force In Night Attacks

Record Forces -O£ U.S. Planes Bomb Germany   Daylight Attacks Follow  Heavy RAF Hammering _ OF Weeckad Reelin

8th Airforce Smashes at Nazi Targets   Record Number of Planes Make Daylight Attacks

RECORD FORCE OF U.S. PLANES POUNDS REICH   BOMBING OF BERLIN BY RAF ARMADA FOLLOWED UP

Record Air Force (Batters Naziland.....   Americans Out For Daylight Foray On Haale OF Hard RAF Blow Given Berlin

Record American airforce hammers German territory   More than 3,000 planes swarm over Hitler’s fortress in 24 hour period

Record , \  Air Force Batters Naziland      Americans Out For, Day Heels Of Hard RAE-Biny   or, Daylight Foray On \F-Blow Given Rerlin _

Day Attack Follows Big Berlin Raid   About 1500 American Planes Take Part in Assault on Reich

GERMANY BLASTED BY 1,000 PLANES IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Americans Send Record Force Over Reich—Down 23 Fighters and Lose 34 Craft.   OBJECTIVE OF MISSION IS NOT DISCLOSED   Giant Operation Comes on Heels of Attack on Berlin That Leaves City in Flames.

At Least 3,000 Planes Blast at Nazi Targets   About 1,500 American Craft Strike By Day In Following Up Searing Raid On Berlin; Government Deserts Capital

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Most Sustained Assault Of ‘War Staged By 3,000 Planes  Fighter Planes Make Longest Escort Flight Th Peatact American Rambare Qe Unne Deniede

New Daylight Raids Set Record For Penetration   22 U.S. Bombers, 12 Fighters Lost in Battle Over Europe

Soviets Pound German Lines 44 Miles From Old Border of Poland   Nazis Shoot Down 22 U. S. Bombers, 12 Fighters As They Lose 23 Planes Battling Raiders; Bitter Fighting Goes On Along Italian Front

ALCOTT FIRED BY STATION WLW   Feud With Ziemer Climaxed By Fist Fight

STATE DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY FROM: FOLKES   ‘Lower 13’ Murder Trial Is Near  Climax

550 TRAFFIC DEATHS ON RURAL HIGHWAYS   Mahoning County Has Largest Number of Fatalities

Balkans Seethe as Threat of Invasion by Allies Expands   British Lords Are Told Next 100 Days Will be of Import

Bitter Debate As Pay-As-You Go Nears Vote   Tempers Flare and Dictionaries Are Consulted In House

Still Anybody's Guess on How Big "The Bite'' Will Be on Taxpavers

TEMPERS AGAIN FLARE UP WITH TAX ARGUMENT   House Nears Vate on Pay-as-Go Issue; Rumi Plan Again Offered

TEMPERS FLARED IN HOUSE DEBATE OVER WITHHOLDING TAX   RUML SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN OFFERED AS SUBSTITUTE FOR COMMITTEE BILL

HOUSE TO VOTE ON TAX PLANS   MEMBERS HAVE THREI MAJOR PROPOSALS TO CHOOSE FROM

TAX BILL IS STILL TOPIC OF DEBATE   Three Plans Under Discussion and Voting Will Take Place Sometime Today   GOP FAVORS RUML

House Will Vote Today On Tax Plan   Members Have Choice Among Three Major Proposals

House To Vote Soon On Taxes   Chamber Finishes General Debate On Pay-As-YouGo Tax Bill Today,

SKIP A YEAR BILL STOPPED IN ROLL CALL   206-202 Rejection Is Decided After Early  Favorable Count

Tax Debate Brings On Bitter Words   House Expects To Vote on Sizzling Issue  Today

HOUSE 70 BALLOT OW TAX PLAN TOOK   20 Percent Withholding Lev: and Half Cancellation o "A? Tax Seems Assured

HOUSE REACHES DECISION DAY ON TAXING BILL   Voting Set to Begin Before  Nightfall After Two Days of Spirited and Final Debate      TWO PLANS: OFFERED   Both Provide Withholding Levy At Source: One Plan Would Eliminate  Half 1942 Income Tax

Decision Day On ‘Pay-Go  Plan   Anybody’s Guess How Hard Purses Will Be Hit

House To Vote Today On Plan Of Income Tax  Three Proposals Are Considered

Day Of Decision  — On Pay-Go Plan   Entire Nation Stull Wonders How Big Assessment Wil Be On Taxpayers

House Ok's, Then Rejects Rum! Plan   Deciding Rell Coll Vote, 202-200, Velde   State Tax Cuts Voted, Sent to Governor

TAXES UP FOR BALLOT TODAY   House Members Will Vote On Plans After Long Debate Sessions

House fo Decide  On Tax Program Anybody’s Guess Good on What  Outcome to Be

G. 0. P. TAX PLAN “KILLED IN HOUSE   Carlson-Ruml Way Rejected bj Roll Call Vote of 206 to 202

House Votes 206 To 202 Against Proposal To Cancel One Year’s Taxes On Incomes

HOUSE REJECTS PAY-AS-YOU 60 TAX PLAN   Roll Call Was 206 to 202. Ona Non-Conclusive Teller Count Vote Was 197 to 166 in Favo of Plan.

Measure Would Cancel Levies  For Individuals  Action Is Subject To Later Roll Call Vote Before Taking Effect; Count Is 197 To 166

Pay-As-You-Go  Decision Toda y   Voting on Tax Proposal to Begin  By Nightfall

Republicans Lose First Round On Pay-Go Tax Vote   Three Maior Proposals

House Expected to Vote on Tax Bill Before Nightfall   Members Have 3 Pay as-You-Go Proposals ot Choose From

Pay-Go Tax Faces House  Vote Today   No One Knows Just How Much Taxpyaer Will Be Assessed

HOUSE VOTES RUML TAX BY VOTE 197-166   Bill Subject to Another Ballot By Solons, However

NELSON REPORTS: PRODUCTION. LAG   Urges Banishment of Strikes Over-Optiniem to - Reach Goala -

Production Hike Is Badly Needed   Nelson Says U. S. Must Banish Strikes nar OverOptimism.

PRODUCTION BOOST ASKED BY NELSON   WPB HEAD EXHORTS NATION TO BANISH STRIKES AND OVER-OPTIMISM.

COLUMBUS COUNCIL TO DRAFT GURFEM   Plan Fine, Jail Sentences for Violators

Northwest Group Plans Meeting  Sessions Will Be - Held at Missoula

Prohibition Repeal Is  Proposed in Lower House  Republican Member Madrano of Tulsa Injects New Fire in Beer Muddle

REPEAL OF DRY LAW 1§ URGED   Measure to Restore Liquor Into House’s Lap-—Albright Indorses Act

U. S. Rangers Seize Porto Empedocle, Best Harbor on South Coast   British Win Important Defensive Positions : On Outskirts of Catania; Russians Continue Advance on Orel; Planes Devastate Naples

Destruction s Facing Enemy  In Global War   American 7th Army Smashes Nazi Tank Attack; Report British In Suburbs Of Catania

Allied Push Continues Despite Heavy Opposition   British Eighth Army Reported in Suburbs Of Catania in East,  Big Airport Menaced   AMERICANS TAKE PORTO EMPEDOCLE  mm a

WILL INVADE CONTINENT      Ordnance Major Sees Germany Out of War in Two Years

BELIEVE SHIP OBJECTIVE OF US. BOMBERS   Flight to Norway Follow: Tirpitz Being Moved from Hideout.

Siege Guns Hammer at City; U. S. Airmen Hit Nazi Targets in Norway

Nazi Targets in Norway Raided by. U.S. Bombers         SMASHING BLOWS ARE DELIVERED TO ENEMY

Three-State Alert Set For Thursday  40-Minute Long Blackout Starts At 8:50

Three Die as Heat Wave Sweeps State   TEMPERATURE SOARS TO 112 DEGREES IN SOUTH ON TUESDAY

Cologne Is Target of Blockbuster ‘Assault   Over 7,000 Tons  Of Bombs Dropped On Rhineland in Pact Sie Dawe

COLOGNE IS TARGET OF BRITISH RAID   Sixth Successive Night of Attacks On Nazi Cities

NEWEST AERIAL OFFENSIVE NOW IN SIXTH NIGH   7,000 Tons of High Explosives Dumped {n Latest Series of Raids.

Great Offensive Over Germany Still Continuing   6 Days and Nights of Bombing Send 7000 Tons Falling On Nine Cities

GREATEST AIR OFFENSIVE OF WAR REPORTED   Industrial Capital of Rhineland and Third Reich City Devastated.

Another Heavy Attack On Hitler’s European Arms Center Makes Sixth Night In Row.

BLOCKBUSTERS BLAST COLOGNE   Jcaviest Air Attack on Germany Passes Sixth Night

MARSHALL MOVE STILL MYSTERY   Military Believes Chief Being “Kicked Upstairs”

Clark May Command  U.S. Forces   Current Loudon Keporis Say He Is More Likely ta Get Assignment Than Bradley   ALLIED LEADERS TO. MEET SOON   Military Chiefs Expected: to Complete All Details for Bic Invasion Move

Allies Ready For Mightiest Blows Of War   Invasion Machine To Start Rolling Soon, London Reports

Start Forming Invasion Plan   Allied Military Leaders Gather To Form Machine For Attack On Europe.

Report Mussolini Is Held Prisoner  OO sctege bles Bald eee   Claim He Believes Italy Has Won War

2 Counter-Thrusts By Nazis On London  Puny In Comparison   Great Fires Set In Reich Capital: Reds Near Rostov On 3 Sides: BEF But 100 Miles From Tripoli

AIRCRAFT PLANT SOLD,   '   National Aircraft, Elwood, Sold to St. Louis Firm.

ED DAVIDSON NAMED DESK SERGEANT   Shirley and Taylor Out: Commissioners Shift Own Posts

OBJECTORS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE   FEED TWO MEN IN FEDERAL PRISON CAMP BY FORCE

Aerial Assault On Ayis-Held Europe Continue:   33 Attacks Made From Britain During Month

COP LASHES AT ‘FOURTH TERM PROPAGANDA   House Labor Committee  Wants Probe of Conditions

Director Elmer Davis Issues Second Denial of Propaganda Charges  WARNING BY WICKARD

OWI! UNDER FIRE WITH CHARGES OF ‘PROPAGANDA’   Food and Manpower Issues Continue in Center of Capital Arguments   FOOD CEILINGS FORESEEN   Work-or-Fight Orders Not Solution of Absenteeism, Committee Finds

OWI Draws Blame For  ‘Fourth Term’ Yarns   Republicans Charge Office Of War Information  Circulating ‘Fourth Term Propaganda’; Amer. jeans Must Tighten Belts, Warnine

OW! Charged In  Propaganda Case   Uses Power To Boost Fourth Term?

CHAPLAIN GIVES ADDRESSES AS HIGHLIGHT   Lieut.-Com. Tower Speaks at Civie Club Luncheon and M. H. 5.

60 Per Cent Nazi Targets Blasted   German industries suffering heavily from Allied hammer blows

NAZIS" PRIMARY PLANTS BOMBED   Industrial Targets Inside Reich Have Been Dealt Hammer-Blows By Allies   STRENGTH OF GERMAN AIR FORCE DECLINES

Nazis’ Primary Industrial Targets 60 Per Cent Ruined By Combined Hammer-Blows

Bombings Cost Nazis 0 Per Ceni Of Industries  50 Essential War Industrial Centers Principal Targets

60 Per Cent of Reich’s Primary Targets Ruined By Air Fleets of Allies

MANY INDUSTRIAL SPOTS DESTROYED   Allied Airmen Try To Make New Visits When Germans  Complete Rebuilding.

Repori Discloses 60 Per Cent Of Germany's Industria! Targets Destroyed By Air Raids

German Industry Said Hard Hit   Report 60 Per Cent Of Targets Destroyed

ALLIES KNOCK OUT 60 PER CENT OF PRIMARY TARGETS IN REICH   Fifty Industrial Centers Are Considered Essential to Nazi War Machine

Air Fleet Hammer Blows Make Big Inroads on Nazi Industrial Works

NAZI FIREFIGHTERS  AND RESCUE SQUADS  KEPT BUSY IN BERLIN STOCKHOLM DISPATCH  GIVES EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS BOMBINGS -

GERMANS STILL FIGHTING FIRE   Eyewitnesses Teil of Destruction in Bomb Shattered Berlin.   IVAST AREAS DESTROYED

FIGHT BERLIN FIRES   Large Areas of German Capital Are Still Ablaze

Great Part of Berlin No Longer Exists After Two Destructive Raids By RAF

Vast Areas of Berl: Wiped Out in Raids   Refugees Tell Story of Unbelievable Damage Wrought in Capital

Travelers Report City Devastated With Many Fleeing To Escape Attacks

Chaos Holds Over Berlin   Vast Areas Wiped Out, Room Lacks For Bombed Out People

RAY Raids Wrought Almost Unbelievable Destruction En Berlin, Reports Of Eyewitnesses In Stockholm Say

British Secure Bridgehead Against Nazi Winter Line   " FITICG AAIT DIO  Reich Capital ls Reduced To A City Of Ruins By RAF Bombings

Fuel Oil Rafion For Nation Seen   Federal Official Gives Gloomy View

Rationing Of Fuel Oil Is Not Far Away   Representative of Ickes Paints Gloomy Picture Of Situation  CAPACITY IS REACHED

Picture for Fuel Oil in U.S. Gloomy   Nation-wide Rationing Not Far Away, Declares Deputy Administrator

Fuel Oil May be Rationed Nationally   Oil Production In Nation Has Nearly Reached Capacity, State Governments Tald

GOVERNOR AIRS ENCROACHMENT STATE RIGHTS   North Carolina Executive Blames Commonwealths For Expansion Of Federal Powers   ALMOST TERRIFYING   Holds Washington May Be Shown More Disposed to Pass Buck Than Raid State Jurisdiction

JAMS, JELLIES. AND PRESERVES ARE FROZEN BY ORDER OF OPE   RATIONING WILL BE STARTED ‘\ ON. OCTOBER 218T—SUPPLIES TO BE BUILT UP

JAM, SPREADS JELLY FROZEN   Rationing to Start Oct. 21 With Blue X, Y, 2 Good to Nov. 20

Puppet Chinese and Jans Clash in Hankow   ‘Smear,’ Says Fish to Legion Charge He Misused Frank

Legion Used  ForSmearing,  Asserts Fish   Republican Congressman Says His Frank Never Used for Propaganda

FISH DENIES CHARGE   Frew Yerk Congressman Denies Lexion Charge Of Subversive Acts

LT, TOM HARMON LOST OVER CHINA   Former Football Hero Reported Missing Second Time.

Old lowa Murder Is Solved   Lifer at State Prison Ad mits Killing Postville Man in 1927

Willkie Offers To  Answer Questions  Says He Would Appear Before Committee

Willkie Says He's Ready to Appear   Would Answer Charge His Supporters Sought to Buy Nomination

Willkie to Face Inquiry   Offers to Appear Before Senate Group To Clear Charges

W. Willkie Offers To Appear   For Cross-Examination On Vote-Buying Charge

SE TiL-PUWERD AGREERIENY ON POSTWAR ACTION   Cairo, Teheran Talks Result in Decisions as to Post-War Germany

ALLIES AGREED ON PROGRAM T0 INSURE PEACE   Huns To Be Disarmed And industries Controlled, Diplomats Declare   FULL PLANS NOT BARED   Russ Feel That Nazi Labor Should Be Forced To Expiate War Crimes

PEACE TERMS FAR GERMANY. -NOT IGNOREL      WAgHINGTON HEARS AGREE. ! MENT REACHED ON ALLIED “CONTROL FOR PERIOD. AFTER HOSTILI. ‘Tes END:

ALLIES WRITE STERN TERMS FOR GERMANY   But Details Withheld as Bar to Nazi Propaganda Machine .

SUPPLIES TO M’ARTHUR TO BE INCREASED   Secretary Stimson Promises American and Australian Fliers Will Be Well  Equipped   aeame Pepesbaeanti er PA eM Ke

M’ARTHUR WILL GET HIS PLANES   Secretary Pledges Weapons To Meet Increased Jap Activity In Pacific

Reports Great Jap Combat Fleet Is Constantly Being” Maintained In Truk Area

Increase Flow Of Planes To  Pacific Zone   Plan To Build United States Air Force In Australian Theater.   KENNEY RENEWS PLEA

MORE AIRPOWER IS M’ARTHUR’S PACIFIC NEED   Great Japanese Combat Fleet Concentrated In Truk Island Area

Secretary Stimson Promises Bigger Flow Of Planes To MacArthur Forces

NIPS PROBABLY LOST 30 PLANES OVER MILNE BAY   Japs Hold Fleet Just Three Days Sailing Off New Guinea Coast

Increased Supplies Going to MacArthur   Stimson Says American and Australian Fliers to Be Supplied; Japs Maintain Big Combat Fleet in Truk Area.

Stimson Promises U. S. Will Increase Stream Of Aid To Australians

MacArthur Is Promised More Supplies   Great Jap Combat Fleet Reported Massed in Truk Area; Suicidal Losses Inflicted on Nip Armada

STIMSON PROMISES INCREASING FLOW PLANES TO PACIFIC   WASHINGTON MILITARY EXPERTS, HOWEVER, SAY NO SIGNS JAP MOVE

Remember   Jap Tactics tn Pacific Seen As  Defensive Now   Threat To Australi Minimized; Ja p: Now Hope To Holc  Conaquests

Supplies To Be Provided  In Southwest   No Offensive Can Be Undertaken For Time, However

AID PROMISED  FORM ARTHUR   Stimson Says  More Aircraft And Military Supplies to Be Provided.   IKENNEY ASKS PLANES

AIRCRAFT, MORE SUPPLIES TO BE CENT MARTHUR   Stimson Promises More Equipment In S. W. Pacific

Allied Fliers To Get Planes, Other Supplies, Stimson Promises Australia

War Supplies For Pacifie To  Be Increased   Pledge Given by Stimson’ as Allied Spokesman Reveal; Maasing of Japanese Combat Fleet in Truk Area

Need In Area Emphasized By Jap Strength   Enemy Using Greater Number Of Planes In Pacific Attacks

: Constantly Increasing Flow : of Supplies: for Pacific, Stimson Says   » CAN'T MEET ALL “DEMANDS AT ONCE   Despite: Warnings, Threats, Washington Doubts. Japanese. Will Attack Australia

Steady Flow Of  Tools Promised   All The Theaters of War Pleading Constantly For More Help   ALLOCATION IS  DIFFICULT TASK

Stimson promises increasing supplies to Pacific fighters   Drakeford warns Australia griml) periled; Kenney asks more plane:

Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses At Milne Bay   But Continue to Push Troop Movement; Promise U.S. Aid

Will Build Forces To Meet Foe’s Increasing Strength, Stimson Says

GEN. M’ARTHUR IS PROMISED MORE PLANES   Stimson Says Losses Will Be More Than Made Up—New Warnings  Sounded of Jap Offensive    JAPS MASS SHIPS   15 Jap Planes Shot Down, 15 More Badly Damaged in Baitle Over Milne Bay

Experts In U. §. Deny Japan To Go On Offensive   Stimson Pledges Increas ing Supplies, But Cites Supply Limitations

Think Jap Activity One Of Aggressive Defense; Promise More Planes

Stimson Promises Plenty of Planes For Pacific War   Great Jap Naval Force Is Reported At Strong Truk Base

Supplies to Increase, Stimson Says   Jap Operations Now “Aggressive Defense’? Some  Believe

‘Constant Increase Of Planes, ‘Other Supplies For MacArthur   Secretary Stimson Makes Promise And Points Te Difficulties Of Reinforcing Many War Fronts

Kiska Hit 10 Times Ina Day   Tnerensing Flow of Supplies to he Sent to South Sexe—Stnienan

STIMSON PROMISES INCREASING FLOW PLANES TO PACIFIC  WASHINGTON MILITARY EXPERTS, HOWEVER, SA’

Japs Seen Switching To Defense   Spokesman For MacArthur Says Enemy Maintains Big Fleet In Truk Area

MORE EQUIPMENT GOING 10 PACIFIC   ‘Stimson Says Aircraft Flow For MacArthur's Force ts Now on Increase.

STIMSON VOWS AID IN PACIFIC   CLAIM MacARTHUR TO GET SWELLING SUPPLIES

lily Increasing Flow fEquipmen t For ythvvest Pacific Is romised By Stimson

N PACIFIC TO  ROLSTERED   secretary of War Stimson  Promises Increasing Flow  of Planes and Other Military Supplies   14P ON “AGGRESSIVE DEFENSE” IS CLAIM   Military Authorities Find   Little Danger Nips Will   Strike Against Australia

More Planes Promised For Fight Against Japs Massing Fleet at Truk   JAP FLEET MASSED

More Supplies to Go to MacArthur,  Stimson Asserts   Secretary of War Declares U. S. Will Answer Appeal for Additional Aircraft And Other Supplies for Southwest Pacific

Stimson Promises  Aid To MacArthur  Allied Air Strength To Be Bolstered, He Says

DIEDGE COMES IFTER REPORTS Of JAP THREAT   Great Fleet Massed at Truk, Says Allied  Spokesman

SIXTEEN RESIDENTS DRAWN AS JURORS   That Number Of Hanoverians Are Among 85 Countians, Selected For Service Next Month

Six Dead And 195 Injured In New York   All Of Dead Are Negroes While 40 Policemen Hurt

Night-Long - Battle Rages  In Harlem   Police and Negroes Fight; Six Killed, 195 Others Injured

Negroes Die In Bitter Clashes In Harlem Area   Casualties Include 40 Members Police Force

More Disorder Breaks Out Karly Today   Stores Looted. Parked Auto Set Afire—Police  Leaves Cancelled

SIX KILLED, 195 INJURED IN NEW YORK CITY RIOT   Harlem Outbreaks Reported Today, 40 Policemen Hurt

Harlem Scene of  Clashes   195 Persons, Including 40 Policemen, Are Iniured   “NO RACE RIOT”   Mayor Terms Acts of Hoodlums and Irresponsibles

Six Dead, 195 Hurt In Harlem Riots  Disturbances Break   Disturbances Break Out Again Today

Six Killed In Harlem Clash   Fresh Disorders Break Out After Night Of Clashes Injures 195 Persons.

6 Die, 195 Hurt In Harlem Area;  Looting Follows   LaGuardia Personally Leads Police, Seeks To Calm Disorders In City

FOUR DEAD AND 190 INJURED IN HARLEM RIOTING   Forty Policemen Included In Injured Following Night Of Clashes; Fresh Disorders Break Out Even After LaGuardia Appeal.

NEW YORK CITY HAS RACE RIQTS   Four Negroes Killed and 195 Persons Are Injured

4 Die In Negro Riots   Nearly 200 Injured In Ruckus In Harlem District In New York

4 Dead, 195 Injured In isorders In Harlem   ‘Fresh Disorders Break Out Today After Night Of Fighting; Mayor Blames Hoodlums, Reckless People.

HARD JOB SEEN BY EISENHOWER   ‘Calls Rommel Good Generat But No ‘Superman’

‘Fox’ Gains Praise of Eisenhower  Allied Chief Says Great General Doomed to Lose

Eisenhower Expresses His Views on His Opponent In North African Battles

Private Finds Father He Had Not Seen In 18 Years Wearing Colonel's Uniform In England

Pvt. Smith Reports, It's To His Dad   Colonel Hadn’t Seen Son For 18 Years

Caravan No. 9 Will Stage Stag Frolic  Yearly Feature Friday At Pleasant Valley Club

TWENTY-TWO AON COUNTY ARE EXAMINED   Went to Indianapolis for Physical Tests for Entrance to Service.   THE THIRD THIS YEAR   Most of Them Wednesday Were Youths of 18 and 19-Year Group.

TWENTY-ONE MEN TARE ARIY EXAM AT INDIANAPOLIS   Joint Army and Navy Exam-inations Given Tipton County Grovp.   SECOND THIS MONTH   Contingent of the Same Size Underwent Examination Last Week.

SHOES PLACED ON LIST OF RATIONS, STAMPS NEEDED   All Types Included In Order Issued Unexpectedly Or Sunday, Three Pairs An: nual Allowance.   LOCAL BOARD GIVES OUT NEW REGULATIONS   Members of Family Permit: ted to Exchange Stamps or Board May Authorize Certificate.

FEW HITCHES AS HOUSEWIVES START POINT RATION BUYING   Shopping Generally Light on Opening Day of New System—Little Confusion Is Reported in Local Stores

FEW HITCHES AS HOUSEWIVES _START POINT RATION: BUYING   Shopping Generally Light on ni f N System—Little Lonfesion re Reed ™ im Local Starec

O.K. COUNTY PAY BOOSTS   Increases Given Employe: In Five Offices And  Departments

NO DANGER OF AMERICA UNDERGOING DISEASE GERM ATTACK FROM ENEMIES

HOPES 10 BREAK OGUEEZE ON GOAN   Use Of Subsidies, Increased Price Ceiling Administration Plan

PLAN TO FREE , CORN STUDIED "IN WASHINGTON   Reported io Involve Subsidy, Higher Ceiling, Shift in Support of Hog Prices

CORN SQUEEZE MAY BE BROKEN   Insufficient Supplies for Industries - - Being Held on Farms for Livestock

Plan Subsidy _ To Help Ease Corn Situation   Farmers Hold Supply For Hog Feeding And Alse To Benefit From Any Lifting Of Ceiling

dministration, Having eaten Off Anti-Subsidy ,egislation, Weighs  Means to Loose Grain   10ST PERPLEXING OF FOOD PROBLEMS   -rogram Calls for Use of Subsidies and an_ Increase in Corn Price Ceiling

ASKS DIVORCE; ONE I$ GRANTED   Custody of Children Involved in Motion; Case Is Dismissed

DIVORCE CASE IS ONLY NEW SUIT   One Decree Is Granted by Court; Sale of Land — Is Confirmed

Field Is Opened For Easie: And Cheaper Produc tion Of Riboflavin

Stuttgart Hit In Series¢ of Day Bombings   “Heavy Night Attack ‘Ts Indicated by ~Flight of RAF Planes

Yankee Bombers Blast Stuttgart   R. A. F, Launches Bic Night Aerial Drive

Nazi Cities Are Pounded  U. S. Strikes By Day; The RAF In The Nicht

Fortresses Hit Southwestern German Sector   Day Attack Follows RAF Raid on Two Rhineland Cities

U. S. Bombers Rain Ruin On Stuttgart   More Than 70 Axis Planes Downed in Fierce Air Battles

Cradle-to-Grave Security Plan Means Dictatorship, Martin Tells Labor Group

"Kranco Sitting on Volcano: Rising Sentiment Favors Severing Axis [ies

IWO NAVY PLANES MISSING WITH 25 PERSONS ABOARL   Ocean and Mountain Districts Near San Francisco Scoured by Searchers Without Result.

WIDEN SEARC FOR MISSING NAVY P] ANES   25 Persons Missing on Cargo And Transport Craft In West Coast Area.   ALL NAMES WITHHELD

NATURAL GAS SELF-RATIONING NECESSARY TO: CONSERVE FUEL   GAS COMPANY ASKING CUS ‘TOMERS TO COOPERATE IN PROGRAM DESIGNED TO SAVE 15 PERCENT

Gas Company Asks 15% Saving Of Natural Gas In Self-Rationing Program   Steel Shortage Blamed for Lack Of Facilities Tc Bring Adequate Supply To Market For De. — mands Of War Industries As Well As Domestic, Commercial Customers

GAS COMPANY ASKS FOR SAVING OF NATURAL CAS   Voluntary Saving Of Fifteen Per Cent Is Asked Of Customers

NATURAL GAS SELF-RATIONING   Gas Company Asking Customers tc -Co-operate in Program Design. ed to Conserve Fuel

County Court News Of Sioux Count,   Four of the Nine Persons to Receive Preliminary Examination Are From Hull Vicinity

Common Pleas  Court Next Week   Five Cases Will Be Heard Starting Nov. 23

Common Pleas  Court To Convene   Argument List for June 22 Term Is Annouced

Announce List For Next Court   A Court of Common Pleas Will Convene Mar. 23

People In Martinique Welcome Freedom From Rule Of Robert   Inhabitants Of French Island Give V For Victory Sign And Sing Marseillaise

Vichy Rule Is Ended on French Isle   Martinique Populace Hail: New Regime as End-of  Long Suffering

RECORD IOWA PIG CROP 10 AID SHORTAGE   Farmers give answer to meat-hungry world with 19 per cent gain

Victory Corps Plan For High Schools _ Draws Fire Of Senator Rbt. Taft

Draft of Farm Workers Eased   Rules Relaxed by  Selective Service

TOLL RISING   British Rescuers Probe Debris of Bomhed Restaurant.

WEDDING FRIDAY   Well Known Couple -Married At St. John’s Luth eran. Church.

VICTORY NEAR FOR ALLIES AT TWO BASES   Salamaua Airbase Taken: Town and Lae Next

ALLIES HOLDING BIG AIRDROME AT SALAMAUA   Baitling to Wipe Out 20,000 Japanese Encircled by Bush Fighters.   NO EVACUATION MEANS LEFT TO ENEMY FORCE

SEAL DOOM OF SALAMAUA, LAE   Allies Capture Great Jap Airdrome  20,000 Trapped Nips Being Decimated

Solons Still Deadlocked   More Than 24 Hours After ‘Adjournment’ Differences Unsettled

PUT IN EXTRA DAY   Legislators Pass Guard Pay Bill; House Kills Senate Bills

Attack State Home Bill   Senate Knocks Out $11,000 Appropriation For Receiving Center

SAYS JAPANESE RESOURCES LAG   MacArthur Asserts Enemy Has Put Forth Best In Attacks: Now On  Defensive

High Protein Food Conservation Askec  Greater Production In 1943 Is Sought

MINERS BEGIN SIX-DAY WEEK   Operators And Union Official: Confer Over Contract Provisions In Plan

Henry C. Heinz Fatally Shot in Atlanta Home   Mystery Surrounds Sun Parlor Attack

PUZZLING ANGLE IN HEINZ SHOOTING   POLICE TRY TO CLEAR UP DEATH OF ATLANTAN AND WOUNDING OF DENTIST,

MYSTERY VEILS FATAL SHOOTING OF BANKER   ‘Henry C. Heinz, Past President Of Kiwanis  International, Is Slain; »Son-in-law Is ) Wounded By Officers

BAFFLES. POLI   Ex- Kiwan's international Head ie Victim in  Atlanta

DECIDES DEATH WAS NATURAL   bi Deputy Sheriff Offers Theory In Airetery Decanitation.

BODY DECAPITATED BY FLOOD, BELIEF   ‘Marietta Oil Man’s Deatt Natural, Belief

German Losses Reach 1,271 Tanks; 314 Planes And 13,000 Men  SOVIET DEFENSE TIGHT  Battle Rages Along Wide Front Between Orel. -

GERMAN LEGIONS ARE STOPPED COLD BY RED ARTILLERY   Red Army Counter Attack Hurls Enemy Back; Moscow Says Nazis Suffer Rleody Losses.

Four Sought In Slaying of Farm Family   Revenge Seen As Motive For Triple Murder

SEEK 4 PERSONS INSLAYING OF FARM FAMILY   Coroner Returns Verdict 0 ‘Murder by Parties Unknown’

New Rationing Formula For Restaurants  Allowed 6/10 Of A Point During March And April

RESTAURANTS TO: BE RATIONED TOC   Public Eating Places Under New Formula for Canned Foods.   LESS SUGAR IN COMING PERIOD

New Rationing Formula For Restaurants   Allotments Are Placed On About Same Basis as Those for Householders  FOLLOWS POIN? VALUES

RATIONS EFFECTIVE IN EATING PLACES   New Order Designed To Pu’ All on Same Basis

Restaurants Put On Rations New   Can Good Purchases Are Curtailed

Ration Formula For Restaurants   Put on Same Basis As Householders

Benjamin Hahn Local Flyer Weds Clara Schneider  Wedding Takes Place At Sioux Falls  Saturday Evening

BENNY HAHN WEDS SIOUX FALLS GIRL   Mutual Interest in Flying Leads to Romance—Then  Wedding Bells

CIVIL MORALE CRUMB ING IN ITALY   Disaffection Created by Attempt to Declare Rome Open City

MASS HrolchlA HTD POPULACE; HANS CONTINU   Rceme Res dents in Panic Demands for Peace Are Mounting.

UPHEAVAL MAY NOT ONLY SWEEP BADOGLIO FROM POWER BUT MAY FORCE  * OUT KING

PLAN 4TH TERM FOR GOV, JOHN BRICKEF   Would Add Prestige as Presi dential Nominee

FOURTH TERM BID BY BRICKER URGEL   Would Give Presidential Stock Boost, Belief

OF KANSAS STAFF   Athletic — Director-Coach Asks to Be Released From  Contract   STATEMENT BY DAVIS

GWINN HENRY OFF OF KANSAS STAFF   Athletic — Director-Coach Asks to Be Released From  Contract   STATEMENT BY DAVIS

All Signs Point To Early Victory In North Africa   Rapid Advance of Allies Seems To Doom Rommel Army

U.S, British Again See Victory Near   All Signs Indicate Panic Among Fleeing Germans

 While Bottle in North Is Inevitable—  FINAL TUNISIAN VICTORY IN ALLIES’ SIGHT

Victory In Sight, » Allies Press Fast Retreating Nazis   Fleeing Germans, Like Wolf Pack At Bay, May Offer Snarling Counterblow Any Time  Be WIYLIAM B. KING

Victory In Sight, Allies Press Fast Retreating Nazis   ‘Fleeing Germans, Like Wolf Pack At Bay, ‘May Offer Snarlina Counterblow Any Time

TUNIS FALL IN SIGHT; ALLIES PRESS AHEAD   Signs Left Behind By Rommel’s Troops Indicate Haste And Panic, Hardest Battle Ta Naot   Where Allies Failed

ALLIED TUNISIAN VICTORY IN SIGHT   But Harder Battle Than Any Yet Fought Appears Inevitable, Writer Says.

Hike in Profits Tax Expected   Boost Fram 90 to 95 Per Cent Likely

PRISONER OF 16 MAULS SHERIFF   Youth Assails Officer in Attempted Jail Break

‘Tico Youths Altempt ‘Second: Jail: Break;:  Shier Eft. ttt “Hospital.

British Advance 3 More Miles   AMERICANS HURL BACK NAZI COUNTERATTACKS; REVEAL U. S. 34TH DIVISION IN ITALY; MONTGOMERY CAPTURES ROCCA SAN GIOVANNI

WEAVE GREAT QUANTITIES OF EQUIPMENT   More Than 1,000 Captives Taken; Enemy Brings Up Reinforcements From Northern Italy

Devastating * Air Raid on Front Lines   ® 8th Army Breaks Through iv Toughest of Fighting; 5th Army Beats Off Attack   RISING PRESSURE ad FROM U. S. FORCES   Nazis Preparing to Quit Town Being Hammered by Clark’s Army   RBOTIETrY

NAZIS IN FULL RETREAT ALONG ITALIAN FRONT   8th-and 5th Armies Bring Heavy Presstire; Planes Attack Fiercely

British Seize Great Stores of War Booty and 1000 Prisoners   Nazis Hurl Fresh Troops at American End  Of Line

Germans Retreat  Before 8th Army   Nazis Forces Driven From Adriatic End of Their Winter Line   TAKE 1,000 PRISONERS   Fifth Army Gains Ground and Beats Off Counter attacks

Equipment Left Behind By Germans   Victorious British: Put Foe to ‘Rout, Capture 1,000 ..-.

Germans retreat around Adriatic   Thousand prisoners fall in hands of advancing allies

Germans in ltaly Drop Back Today   Reported in Full Re treat Before Montgomery’s Forces

WINTER LINE SMASHED AT ADRIATIC END   Eighth Army Overruns Enemy Positions, Takes 1,000 Prisoners and Sends the Enemy Into Full Retreat.

‘Uriven From Defense Line  ‘On Adriatic   Abandon Great Quantities Of Equipment and Suffer Heavy Losses in Defeat

GREAT AERIAL ATTACK HELPS ROUT THE HUN   Great Numbers of Dead and Wounded, Huge Quantities Equipment Being Left Behind.

JUGOSLAV ARMY IS THREATENED   Himmler Orders Extermination OI Patriot Groups.

YankBombers Aid Guerillas In Balkan Raid   Vardar Valley Rail Term: inal fs Target Of Africe Based Mitchells   FOE IS SURPRISED   Yugoslav Liberation Group Protests U.S. Plane Gift Te Mihailovich

U. S. Lending Air Support To Jugoslavs   Lightnings And Medium Bombers Hit Vital Railroad Center

U. S. Bombers Sweep Deep Into     Yugoslavia To Assist Guerrillas   Blast Vital Railway Center Of Skoplje In Raid, Which Caught Defenses Off Guard; Tracks Ripped Up, Locomotives Destroyed.

BOMBERS STRIKE IN YUGOSLAVIA   -, §& Medium Bombers Smash Vital Railway Center Of Skoplje To Aid Guerrillas.

YANK BOMBERS AlD YUGOSLAVS   Rail Center Smashed by Americans in Helping Out Guerrillas

VITAL RAILROAD CENTER OF SKOPLIE HAS BEEN SMASHED   U.S. Medium Mitchell Bomb. ers and Fighters Aid Yugoslav CGuerillas.   DEEP INTO YUGOSLAV   Tracks Were Ripped Up and a Rail Bridge Near the Yards Bombed.

U. S. Planes Fly Deep Into  Yue goslavia; Smash Railroads   Pe a a a re a a a Cas   Germans Caught Completely By Surprise At Skoplje; Timely Support Given Guerrillas

PACIFIC SUBS SINK 5 SHIPS   Three Cargo Boats Are Among Victims Of U. S. Crews

U. S. SUBMARINES SINK FIVE JAP SHIPS   All Were Non-Combatant Vessels— Two Other Nipponese Vessels Damared.

Destroyer And 4 Other Ships Sent To Bottom   Two More Damaged As U-Boats Prow! In The Pacific

FIVE ENEMY VESSELS SUNK BY SUBMARINES   Tanks And Medium Sized Trans. “port Among Ships Bagged In Pacific: Total Now 191

Jap Vessels Sunk By Subs   Tankers, Transports Are Among Victims

(Reds Slash Deep In Ukraine Reach Highwater Mark Of Last Winter’s Bia Otfensive

SOVIETS PUSH UKRAINE DRIVE   Red Army Captured Town 100 Miles Northwest Of Kharkov

Red Forces Drive Deeper Into Ukraine   Lebedin Seized: Soviets Almost Surround Kharkov

NEW RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVES INTO UKRAINE   ALL BUT 13 MILES OF KHARKOV AREA NOW ENCIRCLED

Russians Smash into Nazi Line Inthe Ukraine   Kharkov Reported Nearly Encircled

Reds TakeLebedin In Ukraine Victory   Russian Forces Reach Highwater Mark Of Last Winter’s Offensive; Armies Encircle  All But 13 Miles Of Kharkov

Army Reaches Highpoint of 42 Offensive   Russians Lack Only Few Miles of Having Kharkov Encircled

Reds Smash Deep Into the Ukraine   All But 13 Miles of Kharkov Reported Encircled

Lebedin, Highwater Mark of Winter Offensive, . Captured  KHARKOV REPORTED ‘NEARLY ENCIRCLED  Ruceiane Adtarkinn ma Cie   Russians Attacking ‘at Six Widely-Separated  Painte

New Red Army Takes Lebedin In Ukraine   Russians Have Encircled All But 13 Miles of Kharkov

FORTIFIED TOWNS IN KHARKOV AREA SEIZED BY REDS   All but 13 Miles of Besieged City Now Surrounded— 1,400 More Germans Killed in Battle.   NEW STEPPE ARMY ; CAPTURES LEBEDIN   Nazis Stiffen Resistance Near Bryansk—New Soviet Drive on Finnish Front Reported.

Soviets Capture Lebedin, Deep In Ukraine Area   Only 13-Mile Gap Remains In Kharkov Circle

REDS CAPTURE LEBEDIN. DEEP IN UKRANIA   Russia’s New Steppe Army Smashes 100 Miles North West :o-f Kharkov, All But Encircled   Reds Attack At 6 Points

Lebedin Captured In Heavy Attacks   All But 13 Miles Of Kharkov Encircled By Advancing Russion Trooos: Many Nazis Die

Lebedin, Highwater Mark of Winter Offensive, Captured  KHARKOV REPORTED NEARLY ENCIRCLED  Russians Attacking at Six Widely-Separated Points

KUBAN- AREA VERY ACI   Red Army’s Offensive Mov. ing Steadily Forward, Says Mcscow.

KUBME-AREA: NERY ACTIN   Red Army’s Offensive ov sing Steadily’ Forward):  al _ Says Mescow. - gee Ep ie pe FT Tea

Soviet Reports Total Gains Of  Winter's Drive   Recapture Of 185,328 Square Miles Of Territory Is Announced At Moscow   HUGE QUANTITIES OF MATERIAL TAKEN

REDS DRIVE IN KUBAN AREA ADVANCES   Claim Recapture of IS5.528 Square Miles in Winter Campaign

COUNTY MEETING OF LEGION HERE   This Friday Night In Legion Club Rooms

U. S. Submarine Triton Is Lost   Ship Had Bagged at Least Eleven Jap Vessels—Sunk While on Patrol Duty

U.S. SUBMARINE PRESUMED LOST   Bold Raider of Jap Shipping Tenth War Victim — But 200 Enemy Ships Sunk

The U. S. Sub Triton Is Believed Lost   Sub, Which Was on Patrol Duty, Had Destroyed More Than a Dozen Ships.

U, S, SUB LOST   ‘Triton’ Presumed Sunk Or War Patrol; Is No. 10

 Navy Department Announces Bold Raider of Japanese  ces ~ + 24% Zy,ad ES Fe resend Eansi? (8 War Mal  * re Shipping PAURL Bet ok Toso Rae Set  trol; Carried Normal Comp!ement of Alrout’ 60 i Men; Destroyed Over 12 Enemy Ships

Loss Of U.S. Submarine Triton Is Announced   American Undersea Boat Had Destroved More Than A Dozen Enemy Craft ° -

Triton, With a Dozen Jap  _ Warships and Merchantmen to Its Credit, Fails to Return From Pacific Patrol.

Total U. S. Naval Losses Now 104..... U.S. Submarine Triton,  With Dozen Enemy Ships  To Her Credit, Is Lost

NAVY ANNOUNCED SUBMARINE TRITON PRESUMED BE LOST  TENTH AMERICAN UNDER SEAS CRAFT LOST CREDIT ED WITH MANY SINKINGS

U.S. PACIFIC RAIDER TRITON FEARED LOS}   Submarine Credited With Sinking 11 Jap Ships Off Coasts Japan, Elsewhere in Pacific

American Sub Triton Lost on Pacific Patrol   Diver, Built in 1940, Had Bagged 11 Japs Since Pear! Harbor

U0, SUB. TRITON (5 LOST ON PATROL   Sub Had Destroyed More Than. Dozen Warships And Merchanitmen.

U-Boat Had Crew Of 60 Men Aboard   Triton Is Tenth U.S Undersea Boat To Be Lost In War

BOLD RAIDER OF JAP SHIPS BELIEVED LOST   Navy Announces American Submarine Triton is Missing on a War Patrol

American Raider Triton Is Missing   Famous Submarine which Destroyed Many Jap Warships and Freighters Feared Lost

Bold Raider Of Japanese Presumed  To Be Lost   Submarine Triton Is Tenth To Go Down At Sea

U.S. Sub Triton Presumed Lost   Craft Which Sank Many Jap Ships Fails to Return From Patrol

Navy Announces Submarine Triton “Presumed Lost’ On War Patrol; Was Bold Raider   Had Complement Of 60 Men; Fails To Return From Latest Operation

Bold Sea a Raider a Casualty   American Sub Triton Pre sumed Lost on War Patrol, Navy Says   HAD GREAT RECORD IN TH® PACIFIC   _Once Was Borrowed for 2 ® Mission by MacArthur; Downed Many Japs

Triton, Raiding Submarine, Los! On War Patrol   U.S. Vessel Had 12 Enemy Ships To Its Credit

FEAR AMERICAN SUB TRITON LOST ON WAR PATROL   Missing U-Boat Had Over Dozen Enemy Ships To Its Credit

U.S. Sub Triton Presumed Lost   Carried Normal Complement of 60 Men

U.S. SUB TRITON PRESUMED LOST IN PACIFIC AREA   Undersea Craft Had Record of Destroying More Than 12 Enemy Warships and Merchantmen .

Navy Repor Is Submarine Lost   Triton Was Credited With Destruction of Over Dozen Ships

Submarine Is  Declared Lost   United States Undersea Craft Found Missing on War Patrol in Pacific Waters

U.S. A. Sub Triton Lost   Had Destroyed More Than Dozen Jap Ships; 10th Sub Lost in War

THE TRITON IS LOST   Submarine Had Accounted for Many Enemy Vessels 

Submarine Triton Announced Lost   Bold Raider of Jap Ships Had Destroyed More Than Dozen Enemy Warships And: Merch.  antmen.

U. S. Submarine Triton Is Lost On War Patrol Duty   Bold Raider Of Japanese Waters Sunk 11 Ships In One Year; 300-Foot Undersea craft Carried Normal Complement OF 60 Men

U. S. Sub Is Lost In — War Patroi      Navy Report Announces Loss Of Bold Pacific Raider

NAVY DISCLOSES U.S. SUB TRITON PROBABLY LOST   Daring Raider Carried Crew Of 60—Commanded by Brooklyn Man

Famous Raider  Presumed-Lost  Triton, U. S. Sub Which Sunk Dozen Ships, Is Unreported.

Missing Craft Had Glorious War Record   Triton Had Destroyed Dozen Ships; 10th Sub to Be Lost So Far

SUB TRITON IS PRESUMED LOST   Raider Of Jap Shipping Is Long Overdue; Tenth U. §. U-Boat Lost

Der 7 Tu2arer - “s Susy: £ rousing © J nintec. S4500rt Aimorg: ardners

GRAIN TRADERS STUNNED; HEAVY LIQUIDATION   TODAY'S HAWK-EYE GAZETTE

Phillips Is ChargedWith  Conspiracy   Former Oklahoma Governor, Parole Officer Said To Have Taken Bribes

MacArthur Expresses His Willingness To Fill Any Role, Even Though A Subordinate One

M Arthur's Words Puzzk Washington   Pacific Commander's ‘Subordinate Role’ Remarks Prove Riddle

Puzzled About MacArthur Slant   American General Says That His Role to Be Sub ordinate.

Appropriation Is Cut Drastically  Interior Departmen to Work on Less

Sleet Barrage Covers Much Of The State   Winter's Worst Snow Storm Responsible For Two Deaths   HIGHWAY CREWS BUSY

Ohio Floods Continue Wide Damage   Thousands Homeless; Mississippi Is Beginning to Rise

OHIO FORCES THOUSANDS FROM HOMES   Fifteen Foot ' Rise In Mississippi Washes Out 600 Feet Of War Emergency  Pine Tine.   Wheeling 10 Ft.

Frost Strikes Part of State   Unseasonable Weather  ' Hits Blow at Oklahoma  Victory Gardeners

Nazis Falling Back To New Line Above Foggia Air Fields   Fifth And British Armies Smash On In Every Sector; Fortresses Roar Over Brenner Pass; Initiative  Is Now In Hands Of The Allies

Allies Mass Solid Front Across ltaly   American Army Cuts Deep into Defenses Of Nazis Near Naples  Lipwweaimn3syry awmmtrarnrmem

BEFORE, DURING, AFTER AIR RAID   C. D. Workers and Public to Witness Graphic — Demonstration

Display Arranged by Bell Company Will Be Shown At High School Gym

APPROVE STATE DEFICIENCY BILL   MEASURE ENACTED B\ LEGISLATURE CALLS FOR $15,123,000

ARE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE   Secretary Knox Attends Ship Coinmissioning Ceremonies nN

NAF UNLOAD LETHAL CARGO UPON COLOGNE   100 U. S. Flying Fortresses Pound City Of Leghorn On Italy’s Mainland

FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED   Allicd Sirmen  Siaged = Another Bombing Attack On Enemy Ves sels At Rabaul. New Britain

FIVE JAPANESE SHIPS ARE HIT   Vessels Sunk Or Badly Crippled By Airmen Off Rabaul

Five Japanese  Ships Smashed   Are Sunk or Badly Damaged Off Rabaul—Transport, Also Attacked

Weather Forecast   The South No Longer Strictly Agrarian Region, Report Shows

13 Dead, Scores Injured in Texas Coast Hurricane   10 Million Damage Wreaked by Raging  Tropical Storm

2 Missing When Government Ship Pounds To Pieces On Jetty Rocks; Storm Damage Is $11,000,000

HURRICANE DEATH TOLL RISES TO 13   VICTIMS INCLUDE AT LEAST 9 CREWMEN ON YDREDGE BLOWN OUT TO SEA.

Losses Mount 13 Diein Gulf Cyelone   Texas Damage Set At 10 Millions;  Rescues Continue

Texas Coast Storm Kills 13: Losses Total $10 Million   Gillespie Misses Brunt Of Storm; High Wind Caused Damage In Stonewall Sector

13 Per ‘sons Die In Texas Gale, Damage High   Ten Bodies Recovered After Dredge Goes Down; Damage Hits $10,000,000

THIRTEEN DEAD IN GULF BLOW   Galveston Dredge Sinks: Property Damage May Hit Ten Million

13 Dead, Scores Are Injured in Texas Hurricane   ~ 10 Million: Property Damage; 19.24 Inches of Rain

— Claims Many Lives,  Costs $10,000,000   Gulf Coast Struggles  To Regain Normal Living After Disaster

Hurricane Claims Many Lives, Costs $10,000,000  Gulf Coast Struggles To Regain Normal Living After Disaster

Coast Storm Kills 13, Damage Heavy   Dredge Grounded And Wrecked; Scores Iniured And Property Loss in Millions

HOUSE VOTES TO BAN SUBSIDIES AND SENATE EXPECTED TO REJECT ADMINISTRA., TION PROGRAM

BILL BANNING SUBSIDIES   Senate O. K. Predicted, But Administration Will Fight

SENATE SMILES ON SUBSIDY BAN   Approval Of House Bil Forecast After Lower Unit's 217-118 Vote

COMPROMISE IS SUBSIDY’S HOPE   Program Banned In “House By 278 To 118 Vote

HOUSE PASSES BILL BANNING SUBSIDIES   Senate O. K. Predicted, But Administration Will Fight

GUERILLAS FIGHT NAZIS IN EUROPE   Sabotage Activities Increasing Against Nazi Oppressors

News Day And Night   ITALIAN lolta AGAIN POUNDED BY ALLIED GUNS   Indications Point To Early Offensive By Allies In Mediterranean

U. S. Forces, Transferred to Far Northern End of Tunisian Front, Advance Six Miles toward Mateur    GAINS ALL ALONG WEST FRONT   Advance Carries Americans to Within 30 Miles of Bizerte Over Difficult Terrain, Capture Three Hills

Americans Press Drive on Bizerte as British Score Gains, Take Strategic Hill

British Take Nazi ‘Verdun’ Base On Hil   First Army Capture: Key To Plain Before Tunis; Americans Are Shifted From South

British Isf’ Army Captures Long Stop Hill; Rommel's Departure Is indicated :*

Rommel! Leaves Africa   .-- Document Captured By Allies Indicates

MOVE NORTH IN TUNISIA, GAIN 6 MILES   Another Column Advances Seven Miles in Twin Drives Against Mateur as British Capture Stratevic Hill ~

Yanks Drive Back Germans Over Difficult Terrain Of Mountainous North Tunisia

Another Record Aerial Onslaught Made In Africa   1,500 Sorties Carried Out Friday Against Positions of Enemy

Rommel Not In Africa, It _ Is indicated   Captured Document Signed by Von Arnim as Chief of Axis Troops   VARIOUS REPORTS ABOUT ROMMEL   Work of Americans Is Praised by General Alexander

Congressional Fur Flies  Over Safe-Guarding Of Dogs   Bone of Centention is Whether Every Canine Should Have His Day in The House of Representatives —or Whether Congressmen Are Treated Like Dogs; Fight Resumes Tomorrow

Congressional Fur Still Flies on Although Dog Fight Takes Recess

48-Hour Order To Steel Industry   McNutt Plan Expected To Affect 325,000

Steel Workers Go On 48-Hour Week  Industry Now Averaging 41.5. Savs MeNutt

SWING IN BEHIND GERMAN... LINES; GROUND TROOPS TAKE TWO VILLAGES NORTH OF VENAFRO

PROBE NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Destroyers.” Sending  Shells . Into  : “Enemy's: Rear, Lines — Fifth Ar. ‘my, Fighting in Mountain Snow —~ -Capture Two" ‘Small Villages.

British Patrols Force Sangro Defense Barrier   Action In Italy Mostly Short Advances  Assault Preparations

Warships Pound Positions Behind Enemy Lines As Allies Push Slowly Ahead in Italian Hills

Allied Warships Blast Nazi Lines j in Italy   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses In Counter-Blows

~2207-900-—A-deled _As War Fin. Com.  Drives For Goal   ‘Group To Spend Weekend . Checking Buver Lists; Appeals For “E” .Sales

Fitchburé's Goal [n 3d Bond Drive $1,642,610 Away   Total Bought $1,546.389, Banks Will Be Opened Monday Night, 5 To 9

DESTROY 58 JAP PLANES AT WEWAK   Allies Pull a Surprise Daylight Raid in New Guinea

Fitth Army Drives Nazis Into Hills; Raid Enemy.Ships   Germans Try Desperately To Escape Corsica; RAF And U.S. Bombers Strike At Military Objectives In Europe

Huns Suffer Setbacks on All Fronts as  Russians Reach “Dnieper River in  - Foree and‘French Aid Americans  In Chasing Hitler: froops. From Pat) ae

GAS RATIONS — CUT IN EAST   BAN LIFTED ON PLEASURE DRIVING BUT BASIC RATION. REDUCED BY THE OPA

OPA REQUIRES 'CAR-SHARING   B And C Book Holders Musi Prove Participation

Car-Sharing Basis of New Gas Ration:   Made Requirement fer Drivers Seeking More Gas to Offset ‘A’ Cut

fem Bay. Ne ON EERE comet yy NEE  Fall Of Pantelleria Shakes Italian Morale

ALLIED PLANES HIT CONTINENT   Continue Their Air Offensive Against Enemy By Daylight Today.

CONVICTS FLEE ALABAMA JAIL   Five Desperadoes Overpower Guard To Escape From Tuberculosis Ward

ce enema emer seer = =m a  FIVE CONVE TS ESC APE FROM ALABAMA PRIESON HOSPITAL

Moscow Parley Results Hailed At Washington   Baltic States Not Mentioned In Declaration

Unequivocal Allied Unity Now Confronts Beleaguered Nazi Regime, Who Had Hopes of Dividing Allies Against Themselves.

- LAST. AXIS: HOPES. DWINDLE : Moscow Accord Hits Reich Like Bombshell

Moscow Agreement Viewed As Greatest Blow To. Nazi Hope Of Victory In Was

New Allied ~ Unity Stuns   Hitlerites   Moscow Agreement Called Greatest Single Blow of Entire War

MOSCOW PACT SEEN AS GREATEST BLOW TO-GERMAN HOPES   Jittery Nazi Regime Now * Facea. Unequivocal Allied Unity Both in and After the

AGREEMENT FOR PROSECUTION OF WAR REACHED      Surprise Move Catches Nazi Press Without Counteracting Propaganda

Blast Hitler  Hopes   4-Power Agreement Hailed As Mightiest Blow Of Entire War

Moscow Accord Blow To Hitler   GERMAN VICTORY DEALT DECISIVE SETRACK AT MEKTING

Moscow pact i big blow  to Germans   Shows unity of allied nations

Moscow Pact Seen as Blow to Nazi Hopes   Viewed as Wiping Out Prospect of Distrust Among Allied Nations

Allies Promise Unity During And After War   Nazi Radio Remains Silent For Hours On Momentous Pact

HITLER JOLTED BY HEAVY BLOW FROM MOSCOW   All Allied Countries Have Praise for Allied Unity Developed at Conference

Moscow Pact Is Great Blow To Nazi Hopes   Unequivocal Allied Unity Now Confronts Beleaguered German Regime.   A Definite Operation For Military Planned

The Reply From The Con  MOSCOW AGREEMEN GREATEST BLOW YET TO GERMAN HOPES

Blow Is Dealt To Nazi Hop << By Agreement   Unequivocal Allied Unity Results From -Parleys Held In Moscow

MOSCOW PACT BLOW TO NAZIS      Viewed As End To Al Hope Of Victory

Moscow Pact Called Big Blow of War   Hull Says Isolationism Is Dead Issue

HARDEST: BLOW: at NAZI HOPES ~ FOR VICTOR’   Tri-Partite ite Agree: eement At Moseuw Stuns War Lords

UNITY OF BiG-4 ON STRATEGY IS BLOW T0 NAZIS   Conference Regarded Likely to Hasten End of European Conflict

Report of Moscow Agreement Believed Greatest Blow of German Hopes for Success

Moscow Accore ‘Greatest Blow To Nazi Hopes’   Allied Unity Declaration Blasts German Efforts At Splitting ‘Big Three.’

PACT GREATEST BLOW 70 NAZIS VICTORY HOPES   Berlin Radio Seemed Stunned by News; Big Spreads in Red Papers.

roxes FINES STRIKERS DOL: LAR A DAY FOR RECENT . STRIKE AGAINST THE  _ GOVERNMENT

TAMMANY RAISES UGLY HEAD AGAIN   GOV, DEWEY CHARGES GANGSTER CONTROL AS N, Y, ELECTION NEARS

Admiral Says WPB Order Very Brutal  Declares Rubber, Other Programs

Admiral Says WPB Order Very ‘Brutal’   Declares Rubber, Other Programs Should Be on Parity

Italians And Americans Battle Enemy Following Landing In Naples Area

William Siefke Claimed By Death  Well Known Early Settler In Meadow

PENSIONERS URGED TO HELP FARMERS   Governor’s Suggestion Gets Action in Ohio

AGE PENSION: ~ RULING MADE   RHYXSICAELY: ABLE: STATS, PUNSIONERS URGED TO HELP SALVAGE CORN AND SOYBEAN CROPS.

Pay-as-You-Go Still Deadlocked, Tr ‘easury T'o Ask for More Taxes

‘Congressmen Bend ‘All Efforts Toward Tax Plan  Session Today May Be   Session Today May Be Decisive; Needs Cited by Morgenthau

Hope to Obtain Tax Compromise   Pay-as-You-Go Plan May Yet Be Enacted

Congressmen Bend All Efforts  Toward Tax Plan  Session Today May Be Decisive; Needs  AA... tir tn a Pe Rein _

$45 BILLIONS MORENEEDED FOR WAR PLANS   Treasury Prepares To Ask For New Taxes As Pay-Go Row  Continues   Meeting Set Today

Tax Plan Hopes Are Renewed Pay-As-You-Go May Succeed,  Solons Believe.

Conferees Hope To Bring Out Tax Bill Soon   Agree On Pay-As-You Go Principle. Meanlime Treasury Plans to Ask For New Taxes

U.S. Treasury To Call for More Taxes   Congress Expresses Purpose to Enact Pay-Go Legislation

Determined onsome kind  of pay-as-go   Treasury will seek new taxes

TREASURY TO ASK”      Conterees Try Again Tagey: To Work Out You-Ge Plan

GERMAN FORCES OPPOSE LANDINGS BY ALLIED TROOPS: FORTRESSES BLAST NAZI MILITARY QUARTERS   ‘ Operations Going According to Plan, Say Allied Headquarters Today.—lItalian Town of 12,000 Used by Germans As Headquarters Is Wiped Oui

Germany Disarms Italians, Charts Defense of Fallen Kingdom, Opposes Invaders

Meet Strong Resistance Near Naples   Report Other Allied Landings In Kingdom

Nazis Determined To Mak Italy Battleground; Allies Within 100 Miles Of Rome   Ry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Germans Contest Allied Advances   U. S. Fifth Army, Long in Reserve Joins Battle for Italy; Report Landings on Sardinia 

EXPANSIONS DELAY PLANT COMPLETION   SOW Area Engineer Testifies Before Truman  Committee Today   FIRST PLAN TRIPLED

Munition Plant Costs 81 Million Above Estimate:   Sunflower Plant at De Soto Expanded; Completion  Date Delayed.   Army Doesn’t Have Breakdown of Costs

Expansions . Zoom Costs, Bring Delay   Sunflower Ordnance, Works to Total, 381,000,000 © Above Estimate   TRUMAN HEARS ARMY ENGINEER   Senator's Commitiee. Making Probe of Big-Project’ at De Soto, Kas.

Sunflower Plant Cost A Snowball   46 Million Estimate orf By 81 Millions  Senators Learn

ANSIONS DELAY COMPLETION   SOW Area Engineer Testifies Before Truman Committee Today   FIRST PLAN . TRIPLED

Today's News From Nation’s Capital Is Summarized by A. P.   President Says Second War Bond Drive Was a Grand Job

2nd War Loan iDrive Exceeds  $18 Billion   Congressional Tax Expert Says House-Approved Revenue Bill Does Not Put All Taxpayers on Pay-as-Go

House Favors Reenactment of Preferential  Solons Also Move   Solons Also Move Against Violence, Sabotage, Disloyalty

AMMUNITION NEED GREATLY REDUCED   14,000 In One Plant Released, Another Factory Lowering Production.

EXPLAINS CUT : IN MUNITIONS   CURTAILMENT OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION DOESN‘’T MEAN _ WAR WON, CAMPBELL WARNS

‘Hitler Declares Soviet Front Crisis Ended But Says Raids Have Made Reich ‘War Zone’   Asserts German Losses Relatively Small; Speech Spikes Rumors He’s Ill Or Dead

ADOLF BREAKS LONG SILENCE   Hitler Makes Short Talk in Berlin, Claiming Only 542,000 Germans Dead

Tells People German Dead Just Above 600,000 Since War Started: Changes in Command Announced.

HITLER COMES BACK TO TELL PEOPLE OF RISSTAN VICTORY   LONG SILENCE BROKEN IN WHICH HE REPORTS GERMAN LOSSES LIGHT

CLARES CRISIS IS NOW OVER   Fuzhrer, In Brief Broadcast, Declares Losses In War Relatively Small.

Hitler States Crisis Passed   German Fuebhrer Tells Of Relatively Small War Losses In Address.

Hitler Breaks  Long Silence      Hint Nazi Upheaval in High Official) Circles; Fuehrer ts Subdued

HITLER ON THE RADIO   Admits Bombing Has Made Parts of Germany “War .Zones”

HITLER BREAKS SILENGE; GIVES RADIO ADDRESS  Says Many Parts Of German vy Now

Specch Breaks 133-Day Silence and Spikes Rumor of His IHness or Death

Russian Crisis Ended Hitler Says In Talk   Fuehrer Admits Many Parts Of Germany Have Be come ''War Zones"   PRESENCE GUARDED

Hitler Alive And Breaks Silence  With Gloomy Talk   Tells Nazis Russian Crisis Over   Army Is Strengthened

Hitler Says ie risisin [Russia Over   Tells German People Losses im War Dead Were Relatively Small, Army Being Strengthened

Soviet Front Crisis Over, Says Hitler   Fuehrer Tells People Parts of Germany Have Become “War Zones”

HITLER GLAIMG END OF CRISIS   Estimate of German Losses In War Dead Called Unduly Low.    FUEHRER WELL GUARDED

Hitler Breaks 133-Day Silence With Address   Claims Russian Crisis Surmounted; 542,000 Ger mans Killed

NAZI LOSSES. ARE HEAR FROM HITLER   Breaks Long Silence; Reports Army is Being Strengthened With New Units

Hitler Tells Version Of  Russian War   Silence Broken; Admits Bombs Made Germany F ‘War Zone’

Dull Speech Ends Hitler’s Long Silence   Fuehrer Fails to Predict . Smashing of Russia and England 

HITLER CALMS NAZIS IN TALK   GERMAN CHIEF CLAIMS RUSSIAN CRISIS PAST   Stabilize Front

HITLER BREAKS LONG SILENCE   DELIVERS SHORT RADIO SPEECH; ADMITS LOSSES

Hitler Speaks But His Former Fire Is Missing   133 Days Of Silence Broken By Fuehrer In Berlin Sunday =~

Hitler Goes On Air After 133-Day Silence To Dispute Russian Claims

HITLER CLAIMS RUSSIA CRISIS ‘TSSURMOUNTEL   Assures Nation. Its Losses In War-Dead Relatively Small; Admits Country “War Zone”   URGES SACRIFICES   Declares’ “Total Mobilization” Increasing War Production for Ultimate Victory

JAPANESE CONVOY OF FOURTEEN SHIPS MOVE ON NEW GUINEA  BAD WEATHER HOLDS ALLIED AIRMEN AWAY FROM ATTACK

Jap Convoy Steams for New Guinea   14-Ship Transport Fleet Hides Behind Front of Bad Weather

MacArthur’s Warplanes Set To Attack When  Weather Makes Blows DParceithla

BIG JAP ARMADA STEAMS TOWARD NEW GUINEA   BAD WEATHER DELAYS ATTACK ON CONVOY BY ALLIED AIRMEN

BIG JAP CONVOY 1S UNDERWAY IN PACIFIC SECTOR   Fourteen Ships Moving Westward Toward New Guinea Coast Under Shield Bad Weather   14 SHIPS IN GROUP   Allied Airmen Poised For Attack In What Might Be Mammoth Engagement

NIP CONVOY IS SIGHTED IN PACIFIC   Allied Planes Prepare For Attack As Soon As Weather Clears

BAD WEATHER BLINDS ALLIED AIR FORCES   Enemy Moving In Under Cover of Advancing Weather Front

Large Japanese Fleet Sighted   ALLIED AIRMEN DELAY ATTACKS DUE TO BAD WEATHER

14 JAP VESSELS MOVING TOWARD N. GUINEA COAST   Convoy Sighted 175 Miles West Of Rabaul Base

BAD WEATHER DELAYS U.N. AIR ATTACK   Convoy Last Sighted 175 Miles Off Big Enemy Base at Rabaul

Bad Weather Delays Blow at Jap Ships   Allied Airmen Poised, However, for Crack at Big Armada Moving Toward Coast of New Guinea Just as Soon as Skies Clear.

14 JAP SHIPS MOVE TOWARD NEW GUINEA   Convoy Advances Under Protection of Weather with Destination No! Yet Clear

Weather Grounds Defenders      aps Time Advance To Coincide With  Storpmu Prerind   14 Ships Sighted

ALLIED AIRMEN WAIT FOR CRACK AT JAP CONVOY   Bad Weather Delaying Action Against Nipponese

Bad Weather Hide Flect From Allied Warplanes; Heavy Battle In Prospect

Allied Airmen  Watch Convoy   Weather Delays Bombing Of 14 Jap Ships In New Guinea Area

Bad Weather Helps Shield Jap Convoy   Fourteen Ships Move Westward From New Britain. Toward Guinea   PURPOSE UNCERTAIN

dap Convoy Headed for New Guinea   Allied Airmen Poised for Attack Soon as the Weather Clears   ‘BATTLE MAY RIVAL JANUARY CLASH   Destination of the Enemy Forces Is Not Known; First Sighted Monday

Sight Big Jap Convoy Bound for New Guinea; Weather Delays Attack

LEAVES RABAUL   Weather Prevents Bombing Of Ships Moving Toward New Guinea.   DESTINATION UNCERTAIN

Storm Checks Blow at Enemy   Warships and Transports Believed to Be Heading for New Guinea Under Cover of Weather That Grounds U.S. Air Offensive

Japanese Convoy Of 14 Ships Headed For New Guinea; Bad Weather Prevents Air Raids   Allied Airmen Ready To Attack Fleet Of Vessels When Sky Conditions Clear

ALLIED PLANES LYING IN WAIT FOR JAP SHIPS   Big Enemy Convoy Sighted Moving To New Guinea, Allies In Readiness

14-Ship Convoy Is Sighted Off Pacific Coast   Bad Weather Balk: Allied Defense. Destination  Unknown

Movements of Jap Convoy Hidden by Weather in Pacific   14-Ship Armada Sails Westward From New Britain Today__

Big Jap Convoy Moving Westward   Bad Weather Prevents Allied Airmen From Delivering Blows.

BIG JAP CONVEY 1S REPORTED MOVING NEAR NEW BRITAIN   14 Ships, Largest Assembled By Enemy In Southwest Pacific, Is Now Under Observation.   WEATHER ADVERSE FOR BLOWS TO BE STRUCK   Battle May Rival Figh'  _ Which Occurred During January With Heavy Losses For Orientals.

BIG JAP CONVOY HEADS FOR NEW GUINEA: AIRMEN READY   Enemy Takes Advantage Of Bad Weather; Allied Fliers Await What Promises To Be Battle Rival- ling Epic Three-Day Battering Handed Force.

‘Gale Hides Jap Armada ‘From Allies   Flyers Chafe for Action as 14 Ships  TA nwa: Mike ft

BAD WEATHER DELAYS ALLIED INTERCEPTORS   Jap Ships Move Toward Coast of New Guinea

CHURCHILL WILL SEE F. R, AGAIN   Prime Minister To Confer With President In Washington This Week.

FDR, Churchill to Meet in Capital: May Study Russian Parley Prospects

Roosevelt Sees Diplomatic, State And Military Officials; Tri-partite  War Conference May Be Discussed

CHURCHILL 0 _ AIR TUESDAY   Premier and FDR Will Have Fourth Meeting in Capital

FDR RETURNS TO CAPITOL OFFICE   Roosevelt Confers With Chinese Minister, Army Officers and Hull

President Roosevelt Schedules New Talks On Return To Capital; Churchill Expected

F.D.R. Returns To Washington   President Schedules Conference With Several Leaders

FDR RETURNS TO WASHINGTON FROM QUEBEC   Schedules Appointments With Diplomatic and Military Officials

F. D. R., Churchill To \Confer In Washington   Fourth U. 8. Capital Conference Since Pearl Harbor To Be Held This Week; British Prime Minister On Radio Tuesday

CONFER AGAIN   President to Confer Also With Soong, Hull, Marshall, Arnold.   PRESIDENT BACK TODAY   THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIC

PRES. ROOSEVELT BACK AT CAPITAL   Immediately Schedules Appointments With Diplomatic, State and Military Officials.

Roosevelt Returns To Washington, Schedules Talks  Churchill Expected This Week to Finish Ouebec Conference

Churchill to Come to U.S.   May Study Russian Parley Prospects in  Meeting With F. R.

FDR, CHURCHILL TO MEET SOON IN WASHINGTON   President Back At Capital After Canadian Tour

PRESIDENT RETURNS   Roosevelt Schedules Appointments With High Officials

PRESIDENT HOLDS CONFERENCES, HAS RETURNED 10 JCB   Chinese Minister Is Among First to See Executive, Hull and War Leaders To Visit Office.   CHURCHILL 1S EXPECTED VATHIN NEXT FEW DAYS   Plans For Meeting With So viet Group {s Another i Question To Be Consider! ed Immediateiy.

FDR BACK IN ~~ WASHINGTON   Churchill Expected To Ar rive At White House Within Week

Roosevelt Returns to Washington Prime Minister Will Arrive Soon.

Parley Called At Washington By Roosevelt  Political Aspects Of World War to  Re an Denneem

President Is Back At Desk In Washington   Chief Executive Schedules Appointments With Many Officials  TRI - PARTITE MEETING

F.D.R. Back In Washington      Anto Round of Official Conferences; Churchill Expected Within Week

WORKING ON 1944 BUDGET   Douglas County Commissioners ir Session Today

MOST BOMBED GERMAN PORT STRUCK ANEW   Nazis Retaliate With Two Weak Raids On London

New Welfare Set-Up Gets Big Majority   House Passes Bill; Won't, Ask Missouri For-Neutral Zone

NEW RELIEF BILL PASSED BY HOUSE   Measure Will Change Administration of State's Welfare.   IFOR SINGLE DIRECTOR

Modified Tax Bill Passed By House, 313 To 9   Compromise Wipes Qut 75% Of ’42 Income Liabilities   Michigan Members Fayor Tax Bill

REDS USE 920 PLANES IN RAID   Nazi-Held Orel, Below Moscow, Is Target For Bombers

Reds Blast at Foe With 520 Planes, Report Little Loss  Nazis Claim Soviets Are Making Hard : Thrust at Smolensk

United States Bombers Hit af French Harbor   Germans Claim Eight Are Downed; R. A. F. Attacks Industrial City of Essen Again

Nazi-Held Orel Lashed By Reds   520 Bombers Hit  Racca Nilanr \Ancenaw

520 Russian Planes Attack Orel   No Land Actions . of Consequence Mentioned by Reds

48 Nazis Downed As Heavies Lash German Plants   Wilhelmshaven, Cologne Hammerec In Daylight Raids  m.. AT BTR rTEr BIRT

RAF Blasts Essen Again   City Now Has Become Most Bombed In World

PLANES MAKE RAID ON ORE!   Nazis Report Red Of. fensive Launched West of Moscow

£20 PLANES BOMB NAZI-HELD OREL   RAID CARRIED OUT BY RUSSIAN FLIERS WITH LOSS OF ONLY ONE BOMSER.

520 Russian Planes Raid   Only One Soviet Bomber Reported To Be Missing.

ESSEN BLASTED BY RAF PLANES   American Bombers Follow Up British Sweep With Raid On French Harbor

520 Red Bombers Raid German Base  Only One Plane Lost In Attack on Orel

Russ Planes Attack Orel .   Moscow Says But One Soviet Plane fs Lost

Russians Bomb  Nazi- Held Or el  Onals FY Dlewn   Only 1 Plane Reported  Lost in Heavy Rail

RECORD YANK RAID IS MADE   Largest U. S. Air Armada Sent Out So Far Smashes Wilhelmshaven

500 U. 5. Heavy Bombers Attack Wilhelmshaven   Smash Important German Targeis

Nazi-Held Ore! Lashed By Reds   520 Bombers Hit ’  Rrcn Nines AA ee

CITY OF ESSEN RAIDED BY RAF   American Bombers Make Daylight Attack On French Harbor

520 Soviet Bombers  Strike Qrel   Germans Report Land Offensive In Velizh Sector

OREL BLASTED BY RED PLANES   520 Bombers Stage Raid Below Moscow With Loss Of One

520 RUSSIAN PLANES MAKE ~ RAID ON ORE!   Nazis Report Red Of fensive Launched West of Moscow

Kssen Takes New Pounding  From RAF   Berlin Reports US Fortresses Over French Harbor

520 Soviet Planes Stage Attack on German-Held Ore!   No Land Action of Consequence Along Vast Front Mentioned

U.S. Bombers Hit Coastal Vicinity  Germans Claim 8 Large Planes Brought Down

1.5, AIR ARMADA RAIDS GERMANY   More Than 500 Fortresses And Liberators Batter Wilhelmshaven, Other Targets In Northwest Germany

Germany Battered By Hundreds Of U. S. Bombers  Wilhelmshaven Naval Base One of Targets of Big Raid

80,5. PLANES REPORTED DOWNED   NAZIS SAY THEY BAGGED _ CRAFT DURING ATTEMPTED RAID ON FRANCE.

WILHELMSHAVEN RAIDED BY BIG BOMBER FORGE   500 Or More Fortresses And Liberators Hit North western Germany   BERLIN REPORTS RAF ATTACK ON COLOGNE

German Naval Base Hit by U. 5. Bombers   Huge American Blow Followed by RAF Attack an Cdlogne

Russian- Bombers Smash German’ Base at Orel -   One Plane.Is Lost; Nazis Claim Repulse of Red Ground Attack

00 U. 3. PLANES © ATTACK GERMANY   NAVAL BASE OF WILHELMSHAVEN BLASTED—34 NAZI CRAFT DOWNED.

Largest U.S: Raid Staced   Northwest Germany Is Pounded By Bombers

Essen Feels Heavy New Aerial Raid   Big Nazi City Gets Heavy Attack; U. S. Craft Reported

Wilhelmshaven and Other Nazi Targets Are - Blasted  COLOGNE ATTACKED IN NIGHT ASSAULT  Cross Channel Air Wat Continues After Dark

Reds Blast at Foe With 520 Planes, Report Little Loss   Nazis Claim Soviet:

48 Nazis Downed As Heavies Lash German Plants   Wilhelmshaven, Cologne Hammered In Davlicht Raid«

GERMAN NAVAL BASE POUNDED   Wilhelmshaven Is Dealt Blow By 500 American  Flying Fortresses

SIX DROWN AS BOAT CAPSIZES   Two Ohioans Survive Tragedy on Buckeye Lake

SIX DROWN AS BOAT CAPSIZES   Canton Couple Among Vic. tims In Tragedy At Buckeye Lake

BOAT CAPSIZES, GARE DROWNEL   Canton - Couple Among Victims Of Buckeye Lake Accident

Six Drown as Buckeye Lake Speed Boat Capsizes on Turn   Two Rescued after Acci. dent During Yacht Club Clam Bake

  Further Reductions in Ration Point Value — on Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Foreseen

RATION POINT ~ GUTS PLANNEL   “REDUCTION IN. POINTS. FOR FROZEN FRUITS AND VEGE- TABLES FORECAST—MORE.  j CANNED GOODS

BOARD REJECTS LEWIS’ PORTALTO-PORTAL PAY   Refuses Approval To Provision In Illinois Contract

LEWIS’ SECOND BID FOR TRAVEL TIME REJECTED   WLB Refuses Portal to Portal Pay Clause in Cool Contract

WLB REFUSES PORTAL PAY AC)   Lewis Seeond Bid: Is Turned Down; Statement Readied

Portal Pay For Miners  Is Rejected   WLB Takes Action On Contract Between UMW And Illinois Group: Vote Is 8-4

WLB Reject: Portal Pay For Miners   Votes 8 to 4 Against Clause In Contract of {Illinois Miners

Portal To Portal Pay Plea Refused By WLB   John Lewis’ Second Bid Is Rejected;  8 To  Decision Is Handed Down

Lewis Demands  ~ Vetoed By WLB   Meanwhile. Brewster Strike Continues

WLB Rejects Pay Proposal   John L. Lewis Loses Second Bid for Portal Pay for His Miners

VOTE 8 10 4 1 FE JECT PROPOSAL   WLB Says Plan Amounts to @ General Wage Increase   CONTRARY TO POLICY   @ther Provisions of Illinois Contract, Held UMW Pattérn, Approved

LABOR BOARD  REJECTS LEWIS PAY PROPOSAI   Portal To . -Portal Wage Bid Turned Down

WLB REFUSES MINERS PORTAL TO PORTAL PAY   Decision in Hlinois Coal Operators Contract Permits Time and Hali for Eichth Hour   BOARD VOTE 8 TO 4   Decision Ends Effort to Compromise, But Miners Yet May Sus Under Wage-Hour Aci

WLB REJECTS 2ND BID FOR TRAVEL PAY   Votes 8 to 4 Against Portal to Portal Pay for Miners

Portal-To-Portal Proposal By UMW ~ Is Again Refused   War Labor Board Rejection Based On Grounds It Amounted To General Wage Increase Contrary To Stabilization Policy

LEWIS" PLAN IG REJECTED BY WIA   Portal-To-Portal ‘Pay Agreement Reached In Illinois Not Accepted

WLB REJECTS BID FOR PORTAL PAY   Contract with I Ilinois Coal Operators Is Not Approved by Board

One Provision In Miners’ Contract With Illinois Operators Rejected

PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY 1S REIECTED   ‘Other Provisions of Iltinois 2 Contract Is Approved By War Labor Board.

MINER TRAVEL PAY IS DENIED   Lewis Bid For Portal te Portal Clause Rejected By War Labor Board In 8 to 4 Vote

WLB Votes Down Lewis’ Portal . To Portal Pay   Rejects Provision In IIhnois Contract For Extra Pav.

Board Refuses More Pay To  Coal Miners Portal-To-Porta. Time Demand Rejected

LEWIS LOSES AGAIN BEFORt LABOR BOARD   Portal-To-Portal Pay Provided By Contract With Illinois Coal Operators Is Denied   No Hidden Pay Hike

Portal Pay * Denied On 8-4 Vote   Labor Board Turns Down Lewis Proposal for the Second Time   PART OF CONTRACT MADE IN ILLINOIS   Other Provisions Are Given ® Approval; Minority Opinion Beings Prepared

LABOR BOARD TURKS DOWN PORTAL WAGE   Proposal of Lewis Is Again Rejected by the WLB   WAY POINTED OUT ' ‘TO INCREASE WAGE   Eight Hour Day Proposed in Decision of the Board 

WLB REJECTS UM * CHIEF'S PROPOSAL   Labor Members Cast Dissent>. ing Votes

Coal Miners Again Denied Travel Pay   WLB Rejects Second Lewis Bid for Portal-toPortal Compensation, Denying Allowance in Contract with Illinois Operators

Labor Board Again Refuses Mine Travel Pay   Clause in Contract With Ilinois Operators Turned Down, 8 to 4.

SECOND LEWIS BID REJECTED   WLB Again Refuses To Approve Portal To Portal Pay

PORTAL PAY IS DENIED BY WLB   Bid By Lewis And Miners Rejected By 8-4 Vote

Board Votes 8 to 4 Against Approving Provision For Portal-to-Portal Pay for United Mine Workers; Labor Members Cast Dissenting Vote.

PORTAL TO PORTAL PAY DENIED   War Labor Board Rejects Lewis’ Bid By Vote Of 8 to 4

LEWIS LOSES ROUND TO WLB   Fails to Secure Approval Of Portal-to-Portal Pay for Miners

Lewis Suffers Another Rebuff From Board   Clause In Illinois Coal Contract Providing For Portal-To-Portal Pay Is Rejected, 8 To 4

WLB Rejects Porfal-Portal Pay of-Miners   Approves Time and One-Half for Eighth Hour in Any Day in Contract Decision

WLB Rejects Lewis Bid For Portal Wage  Six More Guards Hel.   Six More Guards Held At Brewster Plont As Workers Defy WLB  Orvdar Ta Reenmea

WAR LABOR BOARD REJECTS MINERS’ PORTAL PAY BID   Provision of Contract Made with Illinois Owners Turned Down by Vote of  @rsn A

LABOR BOARD AGAIN REJECTS PORTAL PAY PLAN   John L. Lewis’ Again Meets Defeat in Efforts To Get Raise for Miners

W.L.B. REJECTS $1.25 PORTAL PAY IN MINES   Lewis Fails For Second Time To Get Approval For Travel Wages In Coal Pits   Held Wage Increase

Board Rejects Lewis's Appeal For Wage Boost   But Will Permit Eight Hour Day

ILLINOIS COAL MINERS DENIED WAGE INCREASE  PORTAL-TO-PORTAL   PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY AGREEMENT IS REJECTED BY WLB

State Senator Wesley D’Ewart Heads [Montana Reclamation Group Following Meeting Here Thursday

Wilsall Man Heads  Reclamation Body  100 Persons Attend Organization Meet

Officers Named by Organization  Reclamation Group _ for State Formed

Niontana Reclamation Ass'n. Organized   Judge C. B. Elwell Is Member of EFvec. Committee

19 Attacks Are Made on Kiska   Americans Have Hit Jap-Held Island 60 Times This Month

KISKA AND WAKE ISLANDS BLASTED   19 RAIDS MADE ON NIP ALEUTIAN BASE IN PAST TWO DAYS

139 ATTACKS MADE ON KISKA ISLAND MONDAY, TUESDAY   Wake Island In the Central Pacific Also Raided, the Navy Reported.

Surprise Raid On Wake Island   Twenty-Five Zero Fighters Fail To Halt Americans

U.S. Fliers Hit Kiska 19 Times   Another Raid Also Made on Woke Isle

Kiska Hit Forty Times In 4 Days   Zeros Try to Defend Wake Island But Lose Many Planes

YANKS CONTINUE WAKE AND KISKA AERIAL ATTACKS   Aleutian Island Blasted 19 Times on Monday and Tuesday

UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT MADE ON JAP ISLAND   Wake Island Also Raided Again; Seven Jap Zero Fighter Planes Destroyed In Aerial Battle.

American Air Forces Strike At Kiska With Unprecedented Fury; Raid Wake Island Aqain   Nineteen Bomb Attacks Made On' Jap Base In Aleutians Within Two Days

BOMB KISKA 40 TIMES IN 4 DAYS   Wake Island In Central Pacific Is Raided Again

19 Attacks On Kiska By Air Monday And Tuesday   U.S. Liberators Also Raid Japs On Wake Island Onee Again

Kiska. Hammered 19 Times In Two Days   Makes 60 Raids This Month; canes Again Bomb Wake Island, Shoot Down Attacking Zeros

BOMBERS BLAST KISKA, WAKE IN SWEEPING RAIDS   Navy Dept. Discloses* 19 Attacks on North Pacific Isle in Two Days

KISKA, WAKE ARE AGAIN ATTACKED BY U. S. AIRCRAFT   Lash. Out With Unprecedented Fury at Jap Aleutian Base —Bombers’ Miss ion to Wake Successful

Air Fury On Kiska And Wake   19th Raid on Kiska  In Two Days and 2nd In Week on Wake; No U. S. Personnel Lost

Furious Raids Made On Kiska By Air Force  19 Attacks In Two Days

Kiska Attacked 19 More Times   Japs Being Squeezed In Munda Area

NeW RAID ON AAP BASES AT WAKE TOLAND   Navy Reports 19 Air Attacks. on Kiska Base in Space of Two-Davs.   BOMBERS COVER 2,400 MILES TO BOMB WAKE

Wake Bombed Again; Kiska Hit 19 Times   Aleutian Island Hit 60 Times This Month; Seven Zeros Shot Down Over Wake

KISKA BOMBED IN 49 ATTACKS BY U.S. FORGE   Two-Day Blasting of Japs Raises to 40 Number Of Attacks Since Saturday   WAKE ISLAND HIT   Liberator Bombers Fly 2, 400 Miles, Shoot Down Seven Zeros In New Raid

Airmen Blast Way for Expected Conquest of Enemy Stronghold.   (60 ATTACKS IN MONTH

U.S. Air Force Makes 19 Raids _ On Kiska Base   Army’s Heavy Bombers Pummel Wake Island, Destroy Seven Zeros

U.S. BOMBERS REHIT JAPANESE ON KISKA, WAKE   Raid Isle in Aleutians 40 Times in Last Four Days

19 Furious Raids Are Made On Kiske   Airmen Blast Way for Expected Conquest Of Japanese Held Island in Aleutian Area

KISKA BATTERED BY U.S, AIRMIE   Bombers Make 19 Attack: On Jap Bases Monday And Tuesday   WAKE IS RAIDED   U.S. Troops Within 2,100 Yards Of Enemy Airfield At Munda

MORE ATTACKS QN KISKA AND WAKE ISLAND   Second surprise raid on island outpost; Jap Zeros are downed

Russ Move in To Take Orel   “Soviet Armies Also Gaining on. Three Other Old Fronts

Liquor Rationin Starts Monday In State Stores  War Ration Book 3 To Be Used To Buy Fifth And Pint By End Of Year

Pittsburgh Ryers Drop Below Flood Stage; Continue Drop As City Begis To Clean Up

BRITISH STAGE HEAVY ASSAULT ON STUTTGART   German Radio Reports East  / Prussia Raids, Presum  ably By Russians   23 PLANES ARE MISSING’   Nazis Make Weak Retaliation; Subs And Trains Also Are Damaged

BRITISH AIR ARMADA. HITS GERMAN CIT   Extra Large Force of Bomb. ers Blasted Great Industrial Center.   SEVERAL PLANES LOST   At Same Time Russia Sends War Planes to Bomb - East Prussia.

County Court News Of Sioux County   Sudge M.D. Van Oosterhout To Hold Day of Court on July 6th and 20th: Other Matters

County Court News Of Sioux County   Judse @. S. Thomas Will Hold A Day Of Court Ou Friday, December 3st, 1943

10 ARE MISSING AS TUG CAPSIZES   Workers, Failing to Find Room on Ferry, Among Lost in Columbia River Sinking.

BIGHT KAISER SHIP WORKERS DIE IN- RIVER   Feared Drowned-With Two Members of Crew of Tug , ish Capsizes In the ._ Columbia:-River’   NINE. ARE. RESCUED      Men Were Enroute From  Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver to Jobs In Shipvard

TAKING AN INVENTORY   Draft Board ’Getting Ready for Big Job to Start September 16

THE WEATHER   Accuser of Charlie Chaplin In Hospital Maternity Ward

CHIROPRACTOR BILL PASSED FINALLY BY 4 SENATE WEDNESDAY  LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR BREAKS TIE; NOW GOES TO CONFERENCE

WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON  By REV. T. M. LEMLY   PETER AND JOHN IN GETHSEMANE

WEEKLY SUNDAY ‘SCHOOL LESSON  By REV. T. M. LEMLY Pastor Presbyterian Ohurch   PETER AND JOHN IN GETHSEMANE

MANN’S STATEMENT  SHARPLY ASSAILS  STEVENSON STAND ATTORNEY GENERAL INT!  MATES HE WILL BE CAN. DIDATE FOR CoVERNoD

Mann Opens The Way Io Bid For Governorshin   Statement Assails Stevenson As An Anti-New Dealer

Gerald Mann To  Run For Governor   Criticizes Stevenson In Announcement

Army Planes Crash Killing Children  San Diego Housing Project Is Scene Of Tragic Accident

Plane Falls, 3 Kiddies Die  Pilot Also Killed; Co}lision In Mid-Air

3 Tots, Pilot Die ‘ In Coast Crash   P-38s Collide, One Hits House

TWO P-38'S COLLINE IN AIR MANEUVERS   Three Children Killed as Plane Explodes in Crash

COUNTY OVER TOP IN WAR CHEST DRIVE   County Chairman Reports $16,628, Over $1,000 Above (Quota.   Is One of First in State to Top Quota

CANCEL BLACKOUT SCHEDULED JULY 8   Office Of Censorship Says Public Would: Depend On ‘Radios Too Much

Axis, However, Occupies Gafsa; Russians Enter Kharkov Suburbs; British Take Ben Gardane.

NUIRGRNTRINNNNN RRR. ttinctin onmmummeemeamed CONTINUE ATTACKS ON JAPS IN BURMA

CONTINUE RAIDS' ON BURMA   Not a Single U.S. Aircraft Was - Lost in the Attacks

Planes Torpedo Two Nazi Ships In Convoy   HEARST IS 80   RECEIVES CAPTAINCY

RUGUlA OPEN MAJOH ATTACK IN UREL SEGTOR   War Of Nerves Continues As Allies Pound Away At Sicily Defenses

s-ENTIRE LINE ACROSS ITALY “FALLING APART   Americans Capture Venafro » And British Eighth Seizes Vasto   ALLIES POUND JAP SHIPS   Troop Convoys Steaming To Reinforce Battered Base Of Rabaul

Badoglio, Italy Are Invited To Join Allies   Churchill, Roosevelt Issue Thinly Veiled Warning To  Duce's Successor

‘Allies Invite Italy to Join War onNazis   Roosevelt and Churchill Urge Badoglic to Fight

BADOGLIO INVITED TO MAKE ITALY ONE OF UNITED NATIONS   Roosevelt And Chur chill Ask Former Axis Members To Rid Country Of Germans

Roosevelt And  Churchill Seek Badoglio’s Aid.   Darlan-Giraud Role Offered To Premier In Message Today

Roosevelt, Churchill Urge Badoglio To Lead Italians Into Allied Camp

BADOSLIO ASKEL TO.LEADATAL' TO ALLIED CAMI   Roosevelt and Church. ill Broadcast Invita tion Over Algiers Radio. i

URGE BADOGLIO BRING ITALIANS TO ALLIED SIDE   Leaders Askirig Premier Play A Darlan-Giraud Role In Italy

INVITATION 10 ITALY’S PREMIER   FDR and Churchill Ask Him to Join Up

F.D.R., Churchill Invite Badoglio To Lead Italy Into Allied Camp

BADOGLIO ASKED TO PLAY ROLE OF ~ DARLAN-GIRAUD   Roosevelt and Churchill Unite In Message Sent to Premier.

GIVE EXAMINATION FOR POSTMASTER   Must Apply Not Later Than June 8, 1943

HONOR JOHNSON LUTHERAN PASTOR   Rev. Gustav'N “Meyer. Served ‘Congregation Fot 25. Years —

Many Attend Silver Jubilee Of Rev. Gustav Meyer  St. John’s Lutheran  LyL.. ......_ Fp. 2 . ..3 _

HONOR JOHNSON LUTHERAN PASTOR   Rev. Gustav: Meyer Served Congregation For 25 Years

Turks Report Germany Has No Intention of Increasing Aid to Italy

JAPS INTRODUCING BETTER PLANES IN PACIFIC WARFARE   Could Be New Fighter or Im proved Zero, Americans Assert.

JAPS USE NEW, IMPROVED PLANE   Allied Fliers Patrol 1,000-Mile Front To Ward Off Drive ~ At Australia

Japs Introduce New, Improved Type Of Plane   Late Models Designed To Help Them Gain  Air Mastery   USING NEW TACTICS   MacArthur Is Watching - Closely For Signs Of Offensive

Japs Bring In Improved Planes   New Types Met By Allied Air Units

Japanese Use Improved Planes In Pacitic Area   May Be Prelude , In New Drive On Australia’

Japs Reported to Have Brought New, Improved Planes to New Guinea

JAPO SENDING BETT En GAAFT NAW DUEL   Improved Planes Seen as New Challenge to U. S. Rule in Skies.   MAC ARTHUR'S BOMBERS CONTINUE SMASHES

JAPANESE USE NEW TYPE PLANE   Improved Craft Brought Out, Dispatches Indicate

Japs Use New: ‘Type Of Plane  In New Guinee   Americans Report’ They Encounter Planes Of Improved _ Type As Activity Increases :

IN AREAS MOUNTING   Possible Prelude to Nev - Drive Toward Australia Seen by Observers Today.

Loeal Tail Gunner Knocks Down Messerschmitt To Save ‘Blondie’   Sat. Raymond L. Provost Extends Life Of Bomber Until She Reaches Home Soil 

Lt. Leo Tupper Reported Dead In Africa Area   ...Former Cherry County Extension Agent

Germany Foils. Franco Ouster   Overthrow Is Attempted By Political Foes

UNAUTHORIZED WALKOUT   Some Of White Shipyard Workers In Mobile Quit Joh

STRIKE CLOSES PACKARD FIRM   Thousands Strike In Pro test to ‘Upgrading’ Of Few Negroes

War Production In Detroit Plant   “Upgrading” For Negroes Given As Strike. Cause Tn. Packard . Compan+

“Upgrading” of Few Negroes Stops War Plant Production   White Employes Strike at Packard Plant in Detroit in Night

Church Services Halted By Crash   Falling Jap Bomber Kills Chaplain

BLAZING SHIP. ‘SHOT OOUWN IN “JUNGLE FIGHT   Chaplain Killed and Several Soldiers Injured in Freak Tragedy.   ELEVEN JAP BOMBERS ._ DESTROYED IN MINUTE

SCREEN TRIBUTE TO THE RED CROSS AT THE RITZ   Manager Roy L. Brockman Says Show Will Be Given April 1 To 7, Inclusive.

WILLKIE IS FACING A DECISION ©      Must Decide Seon As taEntering

Willkie Has Job Of Deciding If He Will Enter Hot Primary Elections

Bayonet Charge By Yanks Wins Important Hill   Ist Army Yields To Counter - Attacks: New Allied Blows Launched

‘ized Heights Permit ielling of Vital Axis inction at Mateur   zis Force British First Army Back Series of Furious Counterattacks; ‘ven Enemy Ships Sunk in Mediterranean

aaeereeneneenemeneneeit » patna Bina i eal << SS  Yank Bayonets Win Key Heights

Nazis Prefer Peace with Russia To Surrender fo U. S. and Brifain

Three Japanese Destroyers Hit In Naval Battle   Flyers Stage Second Raid on New Guinea,  seul Out hte Air Fleet  prem ee   PULVERIZE BASES   Oil Refineries, Ships Pounded Again in Raid  On Southeast Borneo   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thursday, Aug.

Yanks Finish Job At Wewak   Planes Smashed And Three Ships Fired On Return Trip

Raiders Again Pulverize Wewak Base   All But 10 of Foe’s Planes Chopped Into Match Weod

INTERCEPTORS ARE RIDDLED OVER WEWAK   Allies Knock Out All but 10 of 225 Aircraft Sighted on Their First Air Raid.   3 CARGO SHIPS ARE SET ON FIRE   U.S. Warships Hit Three Enemy Destroyers in Another Action, Probably Sinking One.

Chalk up More Jap Plane Losses In New Guinea   Naval Victory Scored; Pound Oil Refineries

Allied Fliers Completé— Destruction Jap Airdromes Navy Reports Sea Vietory:

Jap Destroyer Is Sunk in the Solomons   U.S., Australian Flyers Hit Oil Port in Borneo

Allied Planes Return To Wewak And Finish Destruction of jap Plane Armada Massed at Base

WEWAK AGAIN POUNDED HARD   Virtually Entire Enemy Air Fleet Wiped Out In New Guinea

Strike Is Denounced  By Leaders   Union Heads Declare Protest Against WLB Rule Is  Unauthorized.

LUXEMBURGERS MAY “FEAST AT. REMSER   Religions and __ Patriotic Themes Will Be   Ctraccad

Luxemburgers To  Celebrate Sunday  Annual Feast To Be Observed At Remsen

ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK Ih AFRICAN BATTLE   New Aerial Assaults ade On Sfax: Fourth Axis Ship Hit By Aerial Ter: pedo; Rommel  Corps Strafed.

Allies Strike By Sea: and bie  Oat ’  s aoa" spss  \N > no? . westroyer  ao’ 7.3? oritish Subs

PATROLS PROBE BATTLE LINES; SFAX TARGET OF RAID   New Successes Scored In Tunisian Battle Of Supply

ALLIED SUBMARINES AND PLANES SCORED AGAINST AXIS SHIPS  ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS AN RAN Tc HPFEACTrR Dw   ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS AND PORTS BLASTED BY RAIDING WARPLAN"S

Allies pound supply lines off Tunisia   Test strength for hig battle

TWO SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK OFF AFRICA   Allied and German Patrols Testing ' Strensth = +

Exploratory Patrol Clashes Open Test Of Strength; Axis Troops Reinforced

/ALLIES MARK UP GAINS /AS PATROLS TEST OUT ‘TUNISIAN BATTLELINES

TWO AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK IN TUNISIAN WATERS   Allied Planes and Subs Active Against Enemy Convoys off Tunisia

Air, Sea Attacks Increase   Allied Subs, Planes Busy as Patrols. Test Out Lines.

Allies Blast 4 Ayis Ships Off Tunisia   Submarines, Planes Hi Supply As Patrols Tes! Battle Lines   SFAX AGAIN BOMBED   Nazi Airdrome In Crete Also Hit; Teutons Probe Bou Arada Defenses

ALLIED UBS, PLANES abURt NEW VILTORIS   Both Sides In Tunisian Area Still Testing Out For Decisive Battle

Allied Submarines Sink Three Ships In Mediterranean; Axis May Attempt Tunis Offensive

TWO FOE SHIPS SUNK, ANOTHER HIT OFF AFRICA   Aerial Assaults on Sfax Bring Destruction to Docks, Power Station

SUBS AND AlR ATTAGKa olNK AXIS SUPPLIED   Two More Ships and Possibly Destroyer Destrayed Off Bizerte.   PATROLS FEELING OUT FOR NEW OFFENSIVES

French Repel  Axis Column   Enemy Motorized Group Put To Flight: Two Supply Ships Sent Down.

Patrols Test Strengths in Tunis Lull   Aerial Offensive Blasts Docks, Ports in Axis Supply Bases

2. CARGO SHIPS AND PERHAPS 4 WARSHIP SUNK   Enemy Vessels Hit By British U-Boats Off . Gulf of Tunis and Off Bizerte   AIRDROME IN CRETE ALSO SET EN. FLAMES   Fourth Ship Hit Off Sicily;  Battle Lines In Tunisia   Tested For Trial of ) Strength

Tunisian Supply Lines of Germans Are Hit By Subs and Planes   BRITISH PROGRESS  French Gain Positions in Series of Raids on African Front

British, Canadians  Pound Nazi Bases  Continue Mighty Ai Drive Aaainct Hitler

ICKES APPEAL TO MINERS UNHEEDED BY 130,090 MEN   Complaints of No Man or Group of Men Can Be Placed Against Nation’s Military Goal

PLEA BY ICKES GOES UNHEARD BY 130,000 MEN   Drive Started To Close Monongahela Valley Mines

RUSSIA MAY JOIN ANGLO-AMERICAN SUPPLY BOARDS   Allied Bonds with Russia to be Strengthened

Badoglio Hits Nazi Conduct   Points to Brutal Behavior As Allies, and Later

Badoglio And King Submit To Demands Of The People   Government Headed By Badoglio, Composed Of All Parties, Will Be Set Up      NOT TO AFFECT ARMISTICE TERMS   ‘German ‘Abuses Of Power’ After Collapse Of Italy Flayed By Badoglio

Badoglio Gives Word For King   Announcement Made By U.S., Britain And Russia; All Ties With Dreadful Past Now Broken, Premier Says In Statement To Eisenhower

Roosevelt, Churchill: -and Stalin Send Messages of Congratulations: on. Action Taken—Co. Belligerent Status Extended to Italy.

U. S., England, Russia Accept Italian Offer   Joint Statement. Issued By Leaders Of Three United Nations   1S NOT FULL ALLY      People Of Italy Retain Right To Choose Own Rule

Announcement Made in Capitals of U. S., Britain and Russia   Three Great Powers Ace cept Cooperation of “Co-Belligerent”

FDR. Churchill And Stalin Make  Announcement   Declaration Communicated to Eisenhower. Italjans to Retain Right to Decide Own Democratic Form of Govern« ment After War.

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Announce Sensational About-Face in Joint Statement—Badoglio Denounces Nazis

Marshal Badoglio Tells Italians to March Forward Shoulder With U. S., Britain, Russia and All Other United Nations

RALLIEDBY BADOGLIO   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Announce New Lineup

Joint Statement By Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Released Before Noon By White Llouse   Former Axis Ally Now To Cooperate Actively With United Nations As Co-Belligerent In War Avainst Nazi Germany

Badoglio Informs Eisenhower of Deci-. sion to Fight Former Ally in “Break With Dreadful Past” ,   ITALY STILL SUBJECT TO FULL TERMS OF SEPT. § ARSUSTICE   Marshal to Head Government But Italjans Will Be Free to Choose Own Form When War Is Over

Badoglio Through King Declares Wat On Germany,  Roosevelt, Churchill Qealia Ann INFIRM RAB

Badoglio Promises Active Cooperation To United Nations   In Proclamation Premier Urges People to March Shoulder to Shoulder With United Stctes, Great Britain and Russia   NEW GOVERNMENT TO BE COMPLETED SHORTLY

GEN, EISENHOWER FORMALLY TOLD OF BREAK WITH NAZI   Roosevelt, Churchill, Statin Make Announcement of Badoglio’s Action Month After Armistice.   ACTIVE COOPERATION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED   Proclamation To All Italians Says People Must March With United Nations to Inevitable Victory.

Declaration By Badoglio Given Allied Approval   ltaly’s Break With Ex-Ally Announced By Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin

Joint Announcement Issued by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at White House— Badoglio Broadcasts Statement  To Italian People

Drive Nazis Out, Badoglio Tells People   Brutal Maltreatment Of Italian People By Enemy Mentioned In Premier’s Address

ALLIES ADMIT EX-FOE WITH RESERVATIONS   Terms of Armistice Are Unchanged by  Italian Move

—ITALY—   Badoglio’s Action Brings Declaration  From Allied Chiefs

Churchill, FDR, Stalin Approve Former Foe as  ‘Co-Belligerent’   Badoglio Pledges Free Elections as Soon as War Ends

KING DECLARES WAR: BADOGLIO   Action Announced Jointly By Roosevelt, Churchill, < Statin.   IS NOW CO-BELLIGERENT

Marshal Badoglio Tells Italians T Take Up Arms Against German March To Inevitable Allied Victor:   United Nations Leaders Accept Active Cooperation Of Italian Nation In Fight; New Government For Country Is Planned

Ties With “Dreadful Past” Broken; Badoglio to Head Government, People To Decide After War Form of Government

NATION FIGHTS FORMER ALLY IN OFFICIALMOVE   Becomes Co-belligerent In War On Germany, But Not Full-Fledged Ally   Of “Big Three”   TROOPS, WARSHIPS WILL JOIN BATTLE   talian Government to Be Formed With Premier At Head; All Political Parties Invited

BADOGLIO ASKS ALL ITALIANS TO AID ALLIES   Right Of People To Choose Own Government After Peace Is Assured

Badoglio and King Turn on Former Ally   Italian People Told They'll Be Allowed ‘To Select Own Govt.

JOINS UNITED NATIONS; GUTS ALLAYIS TIES   Triple-Power Announcement Designates Italians as Co-Belligarents, -

This Announcement Made Jointly Today by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister  Churchill and Stalin.   [TALY’S DECLARATION TO GEN. EISENHOWER   Active Cooperation of the Italian Nation and Armed Forces as Co-Belligerent Was Accepted.

WILL GAT THE ALES      Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Accept Badoglio Government as a Cobelligerent, Joint Announcement Saves.

FORMER AXIS PARTNER NOW WITH ALLIES   Stalin-Rooseveit Churchill Make  Announcement

Italy's King Declares War on Germany   Badoglio Declares All Ties With Dreadful Past Are Broken

Badoalio Puts NationIn War Against Nazis   Declares Ties Broken With “Dreadful Past"

Allied Leaders Accept Active Co-operation Of Erstwhile Axis Partner  As A Cobelligerent.

Badoglio Communicates His Nation's Action to General Eisenhower, Saying It Comes With Approval of the King

Badoglio Sees Victory For Allied Cause   Announces Decision of King of Italy to Gen. Eisenhower; Allies Accept.   New Government Will Be Formed to Fight

FD, Churchll And Stalin In Joint Statement   Accept Active Aijid From Italy, Make Her Co-Belligerent In War

toosevelt, Prime Ministe Churchill and Jose Stalin Issue Joint State ment Congratulating Italy On the Action.

OUT TO BREAK TIES OF PAST, BADOGLIO SAYS   Active Cooperation of Italian Govt. Accepted by U. S., Great Bri-  tain and Soviet. 

FOR DROPPING PENALTY   Senator : Clyde Reed Introduces easure in Congress

New Synthetic Rubber Tastes Like Chewing Gum; Is Sign of Success

Stalin Pays. Strong Tribute To His Troops   Issues Order Of The Day In Which He Calls On - Troops To Push Nazis  - Out Of Russie

Russians Thrilled by Statement Of Stalin Praising Army, Urging Germans be Si ee from Country

Russians Take 200,000 Nazis Stalin Claims   Hitler High Command Admits Red Thrusts Increase in Violence All Along Front

REDS BATTLE GROWING NAZI RESISTANCE   Russians Push Battle Lines Forward in Ukraine and Caucasus Areas.   Stalin Urges Forces To Push Out Invaders

CAUCASUS AND UKRAINE LINES   Spurred by Stalin’s Order to Rout Foe Beyond Russian Borders

Stalin Cheers Or His Fighting Men   Soviet Premier Signs Self as Commander for the First  ‘Time   TO PUSH LINES AHEAD   Increasing German Resistance on Lower Don Ap' proach to Rostov ©

Stalin — Rallies  Armies:   Russian Premier Urges Soviet Forces to Complete Expulsion of In‘yvyaders from Homeland

REDS PUSH AHEAD AS STALIN URGES COMPLETE ROUT   102 NAZI DIVISIONS BEATEN, 200,000 PRISONERS TAKEN

STAL ARMY TO PUSH INVADERS BACK   Capture Railway Junction South  Of Vital Port

STALIN URGES RED ARMY FORWARD FOR ROUTING INVADERS  RUSSIANS PUSH BATTLE LINES ‘HEAD IN UKRAINE

Russian Battle Lines Again Pushed Forward   Americans Consolidate Gains on Guadalcanal

Premier Calls For Routing of Nazi Invaders   Soviets Advance in Caucasus, Ukraine Areas

Sharp Gains Made Along All Fronts   ‘Forward’ Is Command Given By ‘Supreme  _ Commander,’ And More Towns Captured

PAPTURE 200,000 MEN IN ROUTING OF 102 DIVISIONS      Military Quarters Estimate Axis Effectives Are 40 Per Cent Knocked Out In Past Two Months.   ALLIES SMASH JAP VESSELS, AIR BASE   Jap Troop Ship Sunk tn Burma By Indian Patrol Boat, Other Low Level Attacks Are Made.

Premier Calls On Troops To  Continue Push   Orders Germans Expelled ‘Over The Boundaries Of Our Motherland.’   ‘FOE TIGHTEN LINES

RALLYING CRY SOUNDED BY RED PREMIER   ‘Spurred by Order of Day  Issued by Stalin Soviets Push Battle Lines In Two Fronés  200.000 NAZIS TAKEN   200,000 NAZIS TAKEN

STALIN CALLS FOR NAZI ROUT      Red Army Push Battie Lines Ahead in Ukraine, CauGasus Areas.   AXIS RESISTANCE GROWS

Russians Push Onward in Drive   PREMIER STALIN URGES RED TROOPS TO GO FORWARD

Victories Are Outlined In Order Of Day   Battle Lines Pushed Forward In Ukraine  And Caucascu«

STALIN BECOMES HGH COMMANDER OE RED FORCES   Premier's War Cry Calls For Pushing Germans Ovper The Boundaries

Soviets Also Advance on Lower Don   Stalin Praises Red Forces in Personally Signed Order of the Day

Stalin Urges Reds to Rout Invaders From Russian Soil   Exhortation Comes as Soviet Army Drives Forward Steadily

SOVIET GAINS CONTINUE IN ~ THE UKRAINE   Troops Also Push Ahead in Caucasus and Battle Against Growing Nazi Resistance in Approaches to Rostov.

Turkey Ready To Take Part Ih War Effort      Ankara Full Of Soldiers At Hour Of Decision To Join Allies

STREETS OF ANKARA FULL OF UNIFORMS   Public Informed Of Living up to Terms of Treaty

Ankara Streets Full of Uniforms  As Crisis Nears   Officers Entraining For Istanbul With Atmosphere Tense

All Turkey in Expectant State of Preparedness With Officers Already Holding Sealed Orders

Turk Officers Head for Istanbul Ankara Is Seething With WarAtmosphere

ITALY COLLAPSED   Only Shell Of Fascist Regime Left Standing, Says Giraud

OPA CHIEF SCORED BY GIO DIRECTOR   Recall of Leon Henderson Urged To Curb Prices

Deliveries Of Vessels High   OWL Reports 20 Million Tons Of Merchant Ships Built Since Pearl Harbor.

Training Of U.S. Troops Draws Fire   Captain Says Soldiers Lacking In Hate Of Huns And Japs

PRESSURE PUT ON ROMMEL'S POSITIONS ON 36-MILE FRONT   Allies Reach Out for Railway Linking Nazi Chief and Von Arnim   KASSERINE PASS CLEARED

Munitions Goal To Be Achieved   Nelson Says Picture of Production Good

WPB SAYS ARMS GOALS FOR YEAr WILL BE TOPPEL   Preduction Picture Good, Nelson Says.

1943 Munitions. Goals of US ToBeReached       Exceeded, Says Donald Nelson

1943 GOALS IN MUNITIONS BEING MET   Nelson Reports Production Up To Schedule

Nelson Assures U. S., Allies That Munitions Goal Will Be Achieved

Russians Halt Nazi  Advance:   Artillery Barrages Break Up German Panzer Counter Blows   Halt May Be Only Temporary, However, As Germans Bring Up Fresh Reinforcements

WPB Issues Call for Steel Plates  Invasion Fleets to Be Augmented

WPB Issues Urgent Call for Vast Amount Of Steel Plates for Invasion Craft

MORE STEEL SOUGHT FOR INVASION CRAFT    WPB Issues a Hurry-Up Call te Producers for Metal Plates and Shoaoatc«.

WPB Urges Plants To Produce Steel For Landing Craft   Other Munitions Giver Second Place During  buvectnn Plasatus

Fresh Vegetables Next On Disputed Subsidy Program   Economic Adviser of OPA Defends Plan To Reduce Prices

OPA Plans To Rollback Price: On Vegetables   Opponents of present price control policies have their. ‘‘say’’ -before eonminiies,.

BULGARIAN TROOPS REVOLTING, REPORT   Hitler’s Order To Go Against Yugoslavs Not Liked

BULGARIAN TROOPS IGNORE FIGHT ORDER   Refuse To Battle Against Milhatlovic’s Guerrilla Units

QUCIAL DISEASE BILL APPROVED BY SENATE   Compulsory Exam, Treatment Provided In Measure

DELAY URGED IN INDUCTING DADS   HOUSE PROBERS ASK BETTER UTILIZATION OF U. S MANPOWER

Sub-Committee Would Re Examine All 4-F Classifications In View of Father Induction

Review Of Draft System Advised To Save Fathers   Military Sub-Group Urges Overhaul Of Set-Up

Would Hold Up Drafting Of Fathers House Committee Would  Fully Review Selective Service Method, Quotas

Ask Review of Pratt Quotas   Congress Committee Asks Reexamination © Of Draft System

DRAFT SYSTER REVIEW URGED   Solons Recommend Re-ex amination of 4-Fs Be  fore Dad Call

COMMITTEE WANTS FULL REVIEW OF SELECTIVE SERVICE QUOTAS   Sub-Committee Recommends No Fathers Be Drafted Before Complete Re-Ewaminatinn af 4F’e

May Delay Dad-Draft.   Committee Recommends Reexamination Of Persons In 4-F Class

DRAFT OF FATHERS FACED BY INQUIRY   California Senator Demands Control by Congress

Review Of Draft Quotas And Procedure Proposed   ‘House Sub-Committee Urges No Fathers Be _ Inducted Until Full Study Is Made Of 4-F And Over-38 Ranks

ASK FULL REVIEW SELECTIVE SERVICE QUOTA, PROCEDURE   Sub-committee Recommends That No Fathers Be Drafted Until There Has Been Complete Re-examination of All Persons In 4-F.

Fathers’ Draft Being Opposed   House Subcommittee Calls for Review Of Entire Question

Threat Of Drafting Fathers Inspires House Milifary Group To Recommend Review Of Selective Service Quotas, Procedure

COMMITTEE SEEKS TC CHECK BRAFT QUOTAS   Urges 4-F Reexaminations Before Taking Dads

CONGRESSMEN  URGE REVIEW - OF DRAFT PLAN   House Military Sub-Committee Members Issue Statement—New Jersey Board Takes Stand

RECOMMEND’ DRAFT QUOTA REVIEW   Committee, Members Want Other Sourcés “Used “Before Fathers Are Inducted .

Recommend Review of Draft Quotas   House Subcomniitteemen Believe No Fathers Should Be Drafted Until All 4-Fs Are Reexamined —

TIMOR CAPITAL CETS POUNDING   Koepang Blazing After Allies Dump 42 Tons Of Big Bombs

2 BIG JAP BASES BOMBED HEAVILY   TIMOR CAPITAL TURNED INTO MASS OF FLAMES—2 RABAUL AIRDROMBES HIT,

Highball Tax Urged As Aid For Treasury   Lottery Plans Also Is Revenue Proposal

Kitchen Porch Tax Experts Advance Many Plans for Financing World War

WAR FINANCING PLANS POUR IK   Letters Inform Solons. of ‘Godd Schemes’—One to Bring Back Rottel’y

Nickel Tax on Highballs, National Lotteries Suggested By Taxpayers

Hawaii Gets Back Civil  Government   Military Rule For 15 Months

LIQUOR SIGNUP ANNOUNCED   Registration To Begin On Thursday; Extends to  May 29

Liquor Rationing Machinery Is Se   Registration Will. Ge  Under Way Thursday   Brown Turns Thumbs Down  On Extra Vacation Gas

BOOST SOUGHT IN ALLOWANCE   More Cash For Families Of Servicemen Asked By ClO President

+) Chief Asks “diers Families st More Money  Wife, Two Children $ hould Get $120,  ee 7" WW a> en

PROPOSE BOOST FOR DEPENDENTS   ClO Head Asks Congress Increase Allowance for Families of Servicemen; Other Congress Developments

Boost Service Family Allowance, Murray Plea   CIO Chief’s Proposal Highest Ye Asked of Congress; Other Press; ing Problems Studied

Murray Asks Congress To Increase Family Allowance for Servicemen

NEW FIGHTING PLANE ACTIVE IN SOLOMONS   Far Superior to Japanese Flying Craft

Says Strategy Now Apparent   “Nibbling” in} Pacific Carried on to Decimate Jap Strength

‘Hard Blows Soon To Be Dealt Japs,  Knox Says   Past Campaign Has Been Carried Out  To Decimate Strength Of Pacific Enemy

NEAR FUTURE 10 SEE BIG ACTION SAYS NAVY HEAL   2? reliminaries Over Secretary Point: Out: Reviews Wa Of Attrition; Strate gy Apparent; Dis counts Jap Claims.

HARD BLOWS ARE IN STORE FOR JAPAN SAYS SEG. KNO)   “We Are Getting Stronger and Stronger,” the Secretary Told a Conference.   THE BLOW TO COME SOON   Gave No Indication of Where the Might of the U. S. Fleet Would Strike.

Forecasts New Jolts For Japs   Eneruy Has Contributed ‘To Accretion Strategy, Saya Secretary Knox

Knox Predicts Strong Blows   Navy Seeretary Says Japs Will Suffer Big  Losses in Near Future

HARD BLOWS‘ AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN THE PACIFIC PREDICTED BY KNOX

U. S. FLEET STRONGER, SAYS KNOX   Preliminaries’ Out Of Way; Nips Take Dig At Own Army

HARD BLOWS AGAINST JAPS COMING SOON   Prediction Made by Secretary Knox, Who Said Preliminaries Are Out of Way and Assaults   Ape Near.

Hard Blows To  Foe In Future  —KNOX   See retary Of Navy Says U. S. Is Getiing Stronger And Stronger.

‘HARD BLOWS’ 10 WEAKEN ENEMY   Navy Secretary Predicts Big Scale Attacks on Japanese in Pacific

Knox Reports Preliminaries  Out Of Way   Strong Blows Agains' Japanese In Nea Future Predicted By Secretary Of Navy

Ready to Deliver Japs Hard Blows  Knex Says U. S. Ready to Strike

Predicts “Hard Blows” in Pacific Will Come in  The Near Future, Navy Chief Says

J. 5. STRENGTH GROWING, NAVY CHIEF INFORMS   Japs, Losers of Cargo Shins and Transports, Having to Resort to Use of Barges

K nox Predicts ‘Hard Blows’ On Japs In Pacific   “We Are Getting Ready To Drive Home Some Hard Blows” Im Near Future Navy Secretary Tells  Newsamen.

FLEETSOON WILL STRIKE KNOX SAYS   Preliminaries Out Of Way, Important Actions: !mminent

HARD BLOWS ON JAPS ARENEAR KNOX REVEALS   “Preliminaries Are Out of. Way.” Secretary of Navy :  Telis-His Press Con‘ference a

Knox Predicts Hard Blows Against Japan  U. S. Stronger, He Says as Nip Ships Sunk

TURKISH BASES COULD TIP SCALES   Allies Strongér On Pacific Front   Knox Predicts New, Hard Blows Against Japanese in Near Future

3% MORTGAGE LOANS 5% The Afassilion Savings & Loaon.—Ac   RINGONTICHOT OaRNnENS

SPAATZ BOASTS OF AIR POWER   Says Planes Can Knock Out A Nation By Striking At Its Heart

Nazi Forces Try To Recover Coo, Island in Aegean  Increased Assaults Expected in New Theater of Battle

Nazis Attack Allies in  Aegean Sector   Seek to Regain Positions on Island of Coo

Nazis Strike New Allied Aegean Base   Allies Take Measures To Keep Foe Off Of Coo

NAZI Orn Al IACKS IN ALGILAN-SLA   Germans Launch Sea ad Air Cam -paign on Allied Hedi Coo  In Dadecancy -

Nazis Begin Sea, Air-Borne Attack on Allied-Held Coo   Defending Forces Are Taking Necessary Counter-Measures, British Report. As Size of Attacking Force Not Known

ALLIED-HELD COO ISLAND IN AEGEAN ATTACKED BY NAZIS   Nazis Unleash Sea And ir-Borne Ollensive On Newly-Won Dodecanese Base; Necessary Counter  Measures Have Been Taken, British Announce

Germans Strike By Sea and Air At Aegean Isle   Counter-Measures Taken By Defending Forces, British Announce

GERMANS STRIKE AT NEWLY SEIZED — GOO ISLAND BASE   Outcome Of  Fighting Still Hangs In Balance   STEPS TAKEN TO MEET NAZI STAB

Germans Launch Sea And Air  Attack On Allied Held Island   War Flares in New Theater — The Ancient Battle Lanes of the Athenians and Spartans—Few Details Given on Progress of Fighting

Germans Launch Sea And. ‘Air  teewa  Attack. On Allied field Island:   bee  War Flares in New Theater — The Ancient Battle Lanes of the Athenians and Spartans—Few . . Details Given on Progress of Fighting - -- - - -

NAZIS ATTACK COO ISLAND IN THE AGEAN   Island With Excellent Airfield Was Seized By British Parachute Troops and Navy Sept. 22.   Details Are Lacking

Germans Attack Allied-Held Island of Coo   Sea and Air-Borne Forces Said to Be Taking Part

German Sea and Air Forces Attack Island of Coo in the Aegean Sea

(AP WAR CLAIMS ARE FANTASTIC   Report Says Jap Naval Forces Have Done Much Damaae to Allies.

Our Whole Fleet Is Gone Entire American Pacific Nary  'Wiped Out, Tojo Tells Japanese  951 Rattleshins °9 Carriers. 118 Cruisers   31 Battleships, 39 Carriers, 148 Cruisers Sent Down, In Fantastic Claim By Nip War Lord

JAP WAR CLAIMS ARE FANTASTIC   BOAST OF VIRTUAL DESTRUCTION OF UNITED STATES NAVY

Tojo Talking About Winning The War In 1944  Jap War Claims Go Into Realm Ot The Fantastic

TOKYO AGAIN WIPES OUT U.S NAVY, ON PAPER   Reports 31 Allied Batileships, 39 Aircraft Carriers, 148 Cruisers Sunk or Damaged

Japs’ Claims Reach Realm of Fantastic in Radio Broadcast   U. S. Navy is Virtually Non-Existent According to Nipponese

FANTASTIC JAP, CLAIMS REACH NEW WAR PEAK:   U. S. Navy Virtually NonExistent, Tokyo Radio Tells Its People In :  Morale Broadcast

31 Allied Battleships and 39 Aircraft Carriers and 148 Cruisers Claimed As Sunk by Japanese Since - Start of War in The Pacific

Vinson Backs Treasury’s Tax Measure  Stabilization Chief Says Plan Will

Vinson Says Tax Program Needed  Opposes Plan for Levy on Sales —~

CONGRESS TO DEMAND ADDI“DITIONAL PROOF ARMY NEEDS FATHERS FOR ACITVE DUTY 

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ONE OF FOUR BIG COLUMNS NEARS ROSTOV   Counterattacking German Force Routed In Stiff Battle   JUNCTION NEAR      Two Armies Will Join For Advance Toward Black Sea

Americans Advance 200 Yards in  Drive on Munda Base   Gen. MacArthur Says Campaign Against That Strategic Position in Central Solomons Is Progressing According to Plan

TROOPS CREEP UP CLOSER 10 MUNDA DROME   SUPPLIES FOR JAP BASE CUT OFF BY BOMBINGS

Allies Edging Nearer Munda   Jap Loss Off New Britain Two Destrovers, Transport

NEW ADVANCES ON MUNDA ARE SCORED   MacArthur So Says Cam. paign Going According ta Plan

SHORT GAINS TOWARD MUNDA - BY AMERICANS   14 Enemy Pillboxes Destreyed; 2 Jap Warships And Transport Sunk   SALAMAUA IS GIVEN HEAVY HAMMERING

U.S. Forces Near Munda   Advance Of 400 Yards ls Made On Jap Base

U. §. TROOPS APPROACHING NEARER MUNDE   Within 1900 Yards Of Airdrome; Defended Stubbornly By Japs Every Inch; Blast Salamona   Pillboxes-Caves

YANKEE AIRMEN SMASH SECOND JAP ATTU RAID   Five of 16 Enemy Planes Lost; Japs Continue Ground Resistance

RECORD ARMADA WRECKS VITAL CITY IN RUHR   Target Obscured As Smoke From Vital Center Rises To 15,000 Feet   ITALIAN ISLE -BLASTED   Five Axis Vessels Hit At Pantellaria—Mop-Up Of Attu Continues

U.S. Fliers Drive Jap Planes Away   \Heavy Bowbing Attack In  Europe

CONTINUE 10 MOP UP JAPS ON ATTU   Enemy Bombers “Unsuccessfully Attack” Two U.S. Vessels

Americans Tighten Grip on Japs In Solomons Area  Air Forces Conduct Series of Raids On Enemy Locations

YANKS STAB at JAP BASES ON GUADALCANAL   Seek To Prevent Japanese From Sending Supplies To Forces On That Solomon Island.   Attack Munda

Japanese Bases, Supply Depots Targets of Navy   Air Forces Increase Starve-’-Em-Out Tactics Northwest of Guadalecana

Captive Mine Operators  Fall in Line   Only Southern Group Blocks Wage Agreement

U.S. ARMAMENT IS EQUAL OR SUPERIOR TO THAT OF AXIS   Tests Conducted on Implements of War of Enemy Prove Ours Superior in Many Cases

American Weapons Best, Tests Reveal   Of Captured Axis Armaments, That Made by Germans Better  Than Italians and Japanese Material Is ‘Tail-end Third’

Leather For Uppers But Not For Soles   Other Materials Being Called On For Shoe Soles

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Aerial Assaults in Mediterranean Continue

Sicily Given New Bombing   Round-T he-Clock Attacks On Air Bases Are Being Continued

WOMEN’S CLUBS ASK FOR “EQUAL RIGHTS’   Amendment To Remove All Legislative Barriers Against Women,  Now Before Coneress

LEMARS IS HOST TO COUNTY CORN SHOW   Annual Event Will Be Staged At Armory January 21, 22 and 23

Premium List For Corn and Grair  Show In LeMars Jan. 21, 22, 23   Exhibits Must Be Produced In This County

RUSSIANS SLUG WAY DEEP INTO GERMAN LIN EX   Reach Approaches to Main Enemy Base At Orel On Central Front South of Moscow   NAZIS ARE REELING   Rocking Under Sledge Hammer Blows of Red Counter - Attacks; Ber lin Says Drives Violent

LETTER FAM —OTAUN WILL - GHEER POLES   AN ALLIANCE NEEDED   Dicatcr’s «Expression. Wil Go Long: Way to Smooth : Out} Troubles.

LETTER FROM TALIN WILL Gheeh POLED   He Asserts Russia Desires Strong, Indcpendent PostWar Poland.   AN ALLIANCE NEEPED   Dicatcr’s Expression Wi] Go Long Way to Smooth Out Troubles.

‘ §. Production oubles Axis   Production of United Nations Reaches Three Times That of Axis

Seven Accused in Bogus Check Ring To Trial Today   Donna Peay and Geraldine Hunter File Motion for Probation.

FARM BLOG WANTS FEED COMPROMISE   Great Need For Wheat Is List: ed As Reason a

FEED SHORTAGE BRINGS BREAK IN FARM BLOC   Farm Bureau Federation Chief Backs Compromise to Permit Sale of Surplus Wheat

GOVERNMENT WHEAT MAY BE SOLD FOR FEED ALONG COASTS   Price in Midwest Would Be Held to Corn Parity

Would Release Reserve Wheat   Farm Block Ready To Yield So That It Can Be Fed Te Livestock.

Boy Weighing Over 18 Pounds, Fifth Largest on Record, Born in Tennessee

TOO MANY PLANS BLOCKING PAY-G0) TAX COMPROMISE   Rayburn Still Hopeful Compromise Can Be Reached   COMMITTEE WILL TRY AGAIN TODAY

TAX BILL PROBABLE   “De Or Die” Conference Regun By Bi-Partisan Group

Wallace Supports.  Unity Resolution ©  For United Nations Proposal to Ba  Edited Before Reaching Senate

FOR CLOSER WELDING OF THE ALLIES   Wallace Supports Move -for Immediate and Post. War Collaboration   MAY AROUSE BITTER DEBATE   Reciprocal Trade Program Also Soon Will Come Up for Much Discussion

TENTATIVE APPROVAL   Connally Says Some Changes In Plan Must Be Made

POST-WAR PROGRAM TO UNDERGO CHANGES BEFORE VOTING TIME   BROAD OBJECTIVES OF PROPOSALS TENTATIVELY ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT

Senators and F.R .Agree on World Plan   Seek Closer United Nations Immediate and Post-War Collaboration

POST-WAR PROGRAM TO UNDERGO CHANGES BEFORE VOTING TIME  BROAD OBJECTIVES OF PROPOSALS TENTATIVELY

URGE POST WAR COLLABORATION   RESOLUTIONS CALL FOR CLOSER WELDING ‘OF UNIFED NATIONS

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Opposes. Ready-Made Postwar-Plans-

RESOLUTION URGES CLOSER WELDING OF UNITED NATIONS   President Roosevelt Is_ Reported to Have Given Tentative Endorsement.   WILL NEED CHANGING   Promised Considerable Edit ing Before Reaching Senate Vote.

Would Weld United Nations   Wallace Gives His Approval To Effort

Connally Says  Rigid Editing  Post-War Plans FDR Endorses  a. ee

POSTWAR PLANS TO NEED EDITING   Rooseveit Gives Tentative In dorsement, Confers With Several Senators. -

POST-WAR BILL SAID DUE FOR MUCH EDITING      President Reported As Endorser Of Measure

First Milk Subsidy Checks Received In Kerr County    Dairynien Given $467.45 For October Payments; Reports Must Be in Sieker’s Office Nov. 30

Enemy Sinks . Transport, No Lives Los!   65 Japanese Planes and 17 U8, Aircraft Shot Down; Fighting Continues   ACTION A PART OF 5-WAY OFFENSIVE   Strong Enemy Reaction Is Expected, But Operations Are Going Satisfactorily

Violent Sea, Air Battles Are Raging Over Island   Americans Lose 17 Planes, One Ship, Japs 65 Planes

Americans Occupy Harhor Near Munda Air Base— QO her Attacks Succeeding

Japs Rain Ki ire on Landings   Viru Harbor Affords Airbase for Pounding Munda, 30 Miles Away

NEW OFFENSIVE SURPRISE MOVE TO JAP TRAOPS   Attack On Vital Isles Coordinated By Gen. MacArthut  BULLETIN

Strategic Spot Wrested From Japs After Fierce Aerial And Naval Clash

Violent Sea-Air Battle   65 Japanese Planes Shot Down; Americans Lose 17 Planes and a 7712.ton Transport

67 Japanese Planes Lost During Fight   17 American Planes And One Ship Lost; Drive for Munda Base

General MacArthur In Charge Of Operations In New Guinea, Solomons

VIOLENT SEA-AIR BATTLE IN SOUTH PACIFIC WITH LOSSES REPORTED BY BOTH SIDES   At Least 65 Jap Planes, 17 U. S. Aircraft and 7,000-Ton American Transport Known Lost in New Allied Five Point Offensive North of  Australia

Americans Are Now At Japans Outer Defenses   Allied Forces Land On New Georgia ane Rendova;: Seize Triobriand, Woodlark Isles   GROUND, NAVAL, AIR UNITS ATTACKING

U.S. Wins Sez And Air Battle Off Rendova.   Sixty-five Jap ‘Aircraft, 17°U.-S. Planes;;and One American. Transport Lost: Drive Going Well’ Stimson Says

Japs Lose 65 Planes, Sink US Transport   Navy Reports All Men  Removed, No Lives Lost

Japs Attack With ‘110 % Planes as U. 8. Troops * Land in New Georgias .         WATT" A OUTKCUDANWTPeL      MUNDA IS BOMBED<   All Men Taken Off Transport Safely Before It Sinks yj.

Americans Seize Harbor Opposite ‘Strategic Munda   U.S. Loses 17 Planes And Ship But All Men Removed; 65 Jap Planes Knocked Down

HREATEN LARGE JAP MUNDA BASE   Sixty-Five Enemy Fighters Downed In Air Battle Over Rendova,   ONE U. §. SHIP LOST

ALL ELEMENTS BEING   ALL ELEMENTS BEING-EMPLOYED UNDER SUPREME. COMMAND: MACARTRUR-

MUNDA SUPPLY BASE FALLS IN PIERCE BATTLE   First U, S. Territorial Tri umph In Developing Pacific Drive   POINT FOR RABAUL   New Offensive Expected To Touch Off Big Sea Battle

Landings Effected on New Guinea and  New Georgia Islands as Adm. Halsey ~  Aids In Gigantic Land, Sea, Air Offensive: Progress Good.

Two-Pronged Drive Started   Second Force Strikes Toward Rabaul; Transport Sunk, No Lives Lost

17U. S. Planes and One American  Boat Lost in Fierce Engagement   Used as Outpost

Gigantic Allied Drive On Strategic Jap Air Bases In Area North Of Austrelia

New Guinea Island Bases  Fall To Yanks   U.S. Troops Battle At Rendova, New Georgia Islands; Land Unopposed On Others In Pincer Thrust Toward Jap Base

AMERICAN FORCES WIN FIRST STEP IN NEW OFFENSIVE THRUST; COST IN EQUIPMENT 1S 17 PLANES, 7172-TON TRANSPORT VESSEL

Fierce Sea, Air Battle Off Rendova   At Least 65 Jap Aijrcraft Shot Down; U. S. Loses 17 Planes And An

Virus Has Been Used by Japs as OutpastFar Great Munda Base and Its Cdpture Is First U. S. Victary in New Push

BigAirFight Results in 65-17 * Score for Americans   7,712-Ton Troop Ship Was Sunk After Our Forces Landed

Americans Capture iru Harbor After Violent Fighting   nding Forces At Nassau Bay, Below Enemy Base A‘ Salamua, Move Swiftly Inland and Are in Contact With Nipponese   ANSPORT M'CAWLEY IS SUNK BY ENEMY U-BOAI

Viru Harbor Captured by US Troops   65 Jap Planes, 17 US Aircraft, one American Ship Lost; Furious Jap Aerial Resistance Encountered on Rendova Island

Seventeen U. S. Aircraft Lost In Fierce Sky And Sea Fight   Foe Hurled 110 Fighters, Bombers at Force on Rendova Isle

Yanks Take Harbor, Bag 65 Planes, Lose 17 And One Ship   Boches Losing U-Boats Fast.   Sock Sicily And Sardinia

FIGHT FIERCELY — BY AIR AND SEA   American Offensive Under General MacArthur ~ Geing Satisfactorily 

17 U.S. PLANES, ONE SHIP LOST   Enemy Loses 65 Aircraft In Attempt to Prevent Outpost’s Seizure

750-Mile Are Under Attack  in Solomons   Navy Expects Bit Big Sea Bat. tle as Japan’s Hold in South. Pacific Ig Challenged ~*~

Navy Reports Loss Of 17 Planes, Vessel Following Landing      Violent Sea- Air Engagement Costs . Nippon Defenders 65 Aircraft; ~ No Lives Lost On Sunken Ship

Take Harbor Near Big Jap Air Base   At Least 65 Jap Planes Shot Down Out : Of 110   AMERICAN LOSSES ARE MUCH SMALLER

Captured by Americans After Violent Battle   U.S. Forces Now Within 40 Miles of Japanese Air Base at Murgia; Stiff Opposition Met on Rendova, Near Munda.

Enemy Loses 65 Planes in Fierce Battle   17 U. S. Aircraft Lost Together With One Transport

U. 3. FORCES MAKING PROGRESS IN DRIVE JAPANESE POSITIONS  ALL ELEMENTS BEING EM PLOYED UNDER SUPREME COMMAND MACARTHUR

69 JAPANESE PLANES DOWN; U.S. SHIP SUNK   MacArthuur’s Forces Striking Northward Toward Rabaul

Down 65 Jap Planes; 17 U. S. Aircraft and One American Vessel Lost   110 Nipponese Planes Attack American Landing Units on Rendova Island—Transport, Former Grace Liner, Sunk — All Personnel Removed, Reports Indicate

Americans Score First Major Gain In Invasion Drive   655 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Fierce Fight In Solomons; Gen. MacArthur Is Supreme Commander Of New Allied Mperations

Down 695 Jap Planes In Sea, Air Battle Off Rendova Island   Japanese Forees Damage American Transport McCawley, List U.S. Aircraft Losses at 17

i e a .  Fierce Sea Aud Air Fight Off Rendova Island As Eneny \Counter-Attacks In Solomons   Nips Using All Types Of Planes; Strong Reaction By Foe Expected By Stimson: No Losses When American Ship Is Destroved

TOKYO WAR LORDS JITTER   Knox Says They Know Not Where or When Next Blow Falls

AMERICAN INVADERS CENTRAL SOLOMONS: TAKE VIRU HARBOR.   SEVENTEEN UNITED  STATES: PLANES: ‘AND ‘ONE SHIP REPORTED LOST.

invaders Capture Port Used By Japanese As Outpost For Aviation Base—Fierce Sea And Air Battle Waged Off Rendova—7,712-Ton Transport Goes Down After Landing Troops On Island—No Lives Lost—Operations “Progressing Satisfactorily”

Fierce Sea and Air Battle Puts Americans Near Munda Airbase   At Least 65 Enemy Planes, 17 U. S. Planes And A U. S. Transport Lost

Sigantic: Allied: Drive On  LSateaic Jap, Air Bases In- : > Area North’ OF Australia

Tr: ansport, 17 Planes Lost: 65 Jap Bombers, F iehters Shot Down by U.S. Forces

65 Enemy Aircraft Bagged; Transpor Evacuated Before  Sinking By Nips

FIERCE SEA AND AERIAL BATTLE MARK ADVANCE   Ar Least Sixty-Five Enemy Aircraft, 17 U.S. Planes and One American Transport   YANKS CLOSING IN. ON ENEMY ON MUNDA   Latest Victory Places  Americans Within Thirty  Nautical Miles of Jap Stronghold

65 Of 110 Jap Planes Downed As Americans Lose 17, Troop Transport

65 Enemy Planes Destroyed i in Big Sea and Air Fight   17 United States Planes, One Ship Lost; Stimson Says Action Progressing Satisfactorily

Fierce Sea and Air Battle Off Rendova island Precedes Capture.   JAPS IN COUNTERATTACK

VITAL HARBOR ON NEW GEORGIA TAKEN BY YANKS   One American Ship Sunk in Fierce Battle But No Loss of Life Reported   LANDING MADE UNDER FIRE   Yank Fliers Down 65 Jap Planes While Losing 17 in Launching New Offense

LA FOLLETTE WOULD SEND OLEO, NOT BUTTER, TO ALLIES   Asks Wickard To Preserve Butter Supply For Home Folks, Armed Forces

Butter for Home Folks, Margerine for Those Abroad, LaFollette's Air

OPA DOES NOT ISSUE WARNING BEFORE ORDER   ‘Freeze’ Does Not Apply to Cheese or Meats Involved in New Plan.   ANNOUNCED SUNDAY   Each Person to Have 16 . Points a Week to Spend for These Products.

16 POINTS   Red Stamps in Book No. 2 Will Be Used for New  Allowaneon Rasta

OPA Freezes Butter, Fats, Oil, Margarine   Ban Applies Until Meat Rationing Starts March 29

ales of Fats o Await Meat ‘ationing Start  Stocks Insufficient To Support Heavy Rush, Says Order  AFES NOT AFFECTED  Sunday Shops Get Heavy Rush After  Move Is Announced

Butter Frozen; OPA Ineludes  Margarine, Fats   All sales stopped for current week so stocks can be built up. before rationing starts.

OPA Bans Sale of Butter, — Fats for Week   Government Order, Issued Without Advance Warning, Freezes Buving Until Rationing Starts March 29

RETAIL SALE OF BUTTER BANNED FORONE WEE!   Parchases Of Margarine,  Lard And Edible Fats And Oils Halted .   POINT RATIONING STARTS MARCH 29

OPA STOPS SALE OF OIL.  - BUTTER FATS       Buying Will Be Resumed . Mareh- 29 Under Point  Ration System; Ban On ' for One Week. .   BUYING SPREE   Rush on Some Stores As  Soon As Announcement  Was Made at 2 P.M. Sun day; Meat Rationing ‘ Mareh 29.- ° -

Sale Of Butter, Margarine. Edible Fats And Oils Banned Until Next Week      Frozen Until Point Rationing Starts March a)

Butter Sales Ordered to Stop by OPA   Edible Fats and Oils Frozen Till Start of Rationing March 29

Items’ Point Values Along with Cheese, Meat, Canned Fish  Starting March 29   CHEESES, MEATS NOT UNDER FREEZE  Items “Point Values Will Be Announced  By OPA Wednesday

Retail Buying Forbidden Until These Foods Come Under Point Plan Mar. 29   Surprise Action Declared Necessary To Prevent Hoarding and Because Inventories Are Low; Point Values for Butter and Meats Expected To Be Announced This Week.

FREEZE THEM WEEK BEFORE RATIONING   OPA Order Effective at arate

Butter, Food (ils Are Under Ration   Retail Sales Stop For Week; OPA Will List Points

Order Issued Without Any Prior Warning   Sales Banned Because Stocks Insufficient: Restaurants Are Not Affected by Ruling

Government Order, Issued Without Any Advance - Warning   ‘ACTION NECESSARY, OPA. CHIEF STATES   Rationing Pragram. Will Go. Into Effect Next & Monday

BUTTER, LARD, MARGARINE OIL SALES BANNED   No Sales Of Edible Fats Un. til March 29 When They “Will Be Rationed, Cis  Announces.   Surprise Order

d BRITISH SHIPS CLAIMED SUNK   Nazis Report Battle Of Biscay Bay Still Rages

Naval Clash Not at End?   Allied Losses Cited; Adm. Doenitz ‘Qut’

GERMANS:CLAIM: O BRITISH VESSELS NBAY OF SCH   Air-Noval Battle Is Still On, Paris Redio Seys   ALLIED SOURCES SILENT ON SCHARNHORST SEQUEL

NAZIS CLAIM FIVE BRITISH VESSELS SUNK IN BISCA'   ‘German Broadcasts Assert Battle Continued Until Last Nicht

BLAME ERAILMEAT UN SMALL BOYS      Five and Six Year Olds Placed Stones Along Rightof-Way of Train

Blame Boys For Wrecking Train   Stones on Track Caused Derailment

Three Children  Caused Wreck   Fireman Killed In Grand Rapids Accident

EIGUT MILLING   Three Small Boys Caused Derailment Of Passenger Train

CONGRESS SEI TO SIFT DRAFT NEEDS OF ARMY   High Officials Called To Explain Necessity For Inducting Fathers At This Time

FAIRLY HEAVY LOSSES 10 U.S INNAZI THRUST   Secretary Stimson, Says However, There Has Been No Major Disaster In North   Africa.   Reverse Not Unexpected

Stimson Sees  Local Setback   U. S. Retreat in Tunisia ‘No Maior Disaster’

U.S. Reverses in Tunisia Called ‘Serious Local Setback;  Stimson Admits Losses Heavy   EISENHOWER OFFENSIVE  Appears Imminent in Tunisia

STIMSON VIEWS TUNISIA SETBACK   War Secretary Says Fairly Heavy Losses in Both Personnel and Equipment; no Maior Disaster, Declares

Reds Dent Stalingrad Outskirts   Violent Night-Long Battle Staged In Courtyards. Buildings And Streets

REDS EADY. FOR ATTACK “UPON SALSK   German Resistance Now Stiffening ' Along Don

Soviet Forces Smash — Through To Outskirts Of Famed Metropolis   BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nazi Siege of Stalingrad Is 141 Days Old   Russians Slash Through the Western Outskirts of Volga Metropolis, and Repulse Six Nazi Counterattacks; UN Airmen Deliver Tempestuous Blows to Axis

Push Through Nazi Lines To Outskirts   . Germans Report Heavy Fighting In North—Soviets Gain in Caucasus

32 Divisions of Nazis in City   New Offensive in North Indicated By German Report.

Sloboda, 25 Miles North of Smolensk, Reported Captured While Other Russian Troops Draw Lines Closer to Rostov

Reds Menace Rail Center In Caucasus   U. S. Planes Destroy 34 Nazi Craft In Raid  Into Trivolitania.

SIEGE OF CITY IS EASED   Russians Score New Gains In Caucasus Area   Airmen Active

Reports From Berlin Indicate Great Northern Offensive Launched by Soviet In Effort to Open Supply Lines For Drive

Battle All- Night To Get To City; New Offensive In North Russia Is Reportec

RED ARMY FORCES HOUGING DEEPER INTO STALINGRAD SECTOR  . RUSSIANS SMASH   RUSSIANS SMASH THROUGH TO WESTEDN OUTSKIRTS VOLGA CITY

(USSIANS PUSH "HROUGH NAZIS 0 STALINGRAD   U.S. Planes Destroy 34 Axis Aircraft In North Africa Without Loss of Single Plane

GERMAN EFFORT TO BREAK OUT IS BEATEN BACK   Fierce Fighting Rages in Buildings and Streets Of Battered City   ALLIES STILL ON OFFENSE   Sandstorms Slow War on North African Desert: Axis Factories Bombed

RUSSIAN TROOPS NEARING SALSK IN DRIVE ON ROSTOV   United Nations Airmen De liver Heavy Blows Against  Axis from Tunisia to p..... _

Stalingrad Now Fatal Trap For Invading Nazis   ‘Russians Gouge Naz  Armies Holding At Volga City; Nazis Desperate

United Airmen Cancel 34 Nazi African Planes   Fliers Defeat Axis Over Tripoli: Soviets Near Salsk. Below Rostov

New Russian Offensive  Is Indicated   Don River and Caucasian Armies Pushing Ahead

United Nations Airmen Deliver Blows to Axis from Burma to New Guinea; All U. S. Planes Safely Back—Sandstorms Over Desert Battlefields

Trapped Nazi Divisions in Bitter Fight   German Counter Attacks Beaten Back By Russ Victors  SIEGE 141 DAYS OLD  United Nations Battle Foe From New Guinea Te Burma

Russ Break Through To City's Outskirts   22 Trapped German Divisions In Desperate Plight As Soviet Steamroller Crushes On; Reds Open Leningrad Offensive

U.S. Planes Over Wake   Observation Craft Attacked by Jap Planes All Return to Base

Curtin Says More Power Is Needed To Hold Japanese   Warns Time Fighting On Side Of Foe In Pacific

U.S. Planes  Under Attack   Encounter Japs  Pee, < See en core BRcoeee F

Japs Attack U.S Fliers Over Wake   Two Zeros Shot Down By Yanks On  Reconnaissance   Australian Premier Calls For More Aid   Says Time Fights For Japan And Against Allies

AMERICAN PLANES FLYING OVER WAKE DOWN TWO ZEROES   Recennaissance Mission Flying Qver Jap-Held U. S. Island Set Upon By Eight Enemy Fighters

U.S. Ships Atfackec Over Wake Island, But Return Safely   On reconnaissance Mission; Two Jap Zeros Downed

Wake Island Scene of  Aw Fight   Allies Keep Pounding at Jap. Held Islands

Japs Hit Hard In South Seas ' And In B   Eichelberger Terms Action In Papuan Peninsula “First Pushing Around”

Bit More Gas  Is Provided Bittsbureh   WITH 10 PER CENT INCREASED ALLOTMENT CITY CONTINUES  O BE PRACTIALLY WITHOUT ASOLINE,   Priorities Threatened

Gas Allotment Is Increased  At Pittsburgh   Comes as Civie Leaders Probe Shortage Menacing  Fyen Essential Driving

SOLDIERS WOULD BE SHOT FOR DOING WHAT LEWIS IS, SAYS ARMY MOTHERS’ CLUB

MOTHERS SPEAK   Say If Sons Acted Like Men Who Strike They’d Be Shnt.

GIVE UP ON. PASSING: BILL OVER VETO.   Bankhead Bill Referred. Back To Committee

FARM BLOC WILL USE VETOED BILL IN FIGHTING LEWIS   Scraps Of Legislation Will Be Weapon In Battle Against Wage Rise

Fann Bloc Shuns Showdown Over Bankhead Veto   Hopes To Hold Bill In Committee As Cluk Against Pay Raises

Farm Bloc’s Rancor Over  Veto Now Aimed at Labor   Bankhead Bill May be “Weapon” in  Senate to Halt Wage Increases

BANKHEAD BILL HELD AS CLUB   Senate May Use Vetoed Measure To Oppose Relaxing Wage Ceilings

Bankhead Bill Veto Will Stand   ~ Is Weapon Against Pay Boost Demands

FARM BLOG SEEKS — A WEAPON TO USE   Want Something to Guard i Against Relaxation of  : Labor’s Wage Ceilinas.

VOLUNTEERS TO HELP PICK GROP   Citizens Of Wicomico County Trying To Save Bean Harvest

VOLUNTEERS RESPOND TO SAVE WICOMICO COUNTY BEAN CROP   Clerks, Housewives, Boy Scouts and Citizens in General Turn Out After Appeal—Stores Release Employes for Harvesting

INT ‘VALOES FOR MEAT, FATS, "FISH, AND CHE  "Nn 1-8Mertyva Mareh 90 1049

“HONE NURSING STUDY COURSE           Award Certificates at Con-cord Academy for Red  ' Cross Course

‘OPA ANNOUNCES SHARP CUT IN ~ GRADE I TIRES   Canning Sugar to Re Ayailable Soon, County Rationine Board Learns.

RATION BOARD STATEMENT   About Tires, Sugar And Gasoline Allotmenia.

Saltonstall Hints Official Shakeup Near In” Boston   Speedy Action To Be Taken Following Indictments In Grove Fire Case

FORCES NEAR UNION IN MOVE TO TRAP GERMAN DIVISIONS   Railway Station Also Taken in Advance—Other Red Army Units Capture Number of Inhabited Localities

Inconclusive And Scattered Ground Fighting In Tunisia; Axis Ferrying Heavy Equipment

MORE ADVANCES —. HINT JUNCTURE   2 Soviet Armies About 30 Miles Apart To Threaten Envelopment =~ of Nazi Survivors

RED OFFENSIVE STitL ROLLING IN MIDDLE DON   Only 30 Mile Gap Prevents Complete Surrounding  Of Germans   AXIS IN TUNISI4 GETTING EQUIPMENT

Midwest Gas Ration Faces A Cut Soon   Equalization With East Planned: 2-3 Gallons May Be Limitation Throuechout Area

Will ‘Equalize’ Gasoline Ration   Spokesman Says State Unaffected

MIDWEST GAS RATION T0 BE CUT BY ICKES   EQUALIZED QUOTAS PLANNED WIETHIN NEAT 2 MONTHS

ICKES PLANS GAS RATIONS EQUALIZATION   Mountain Area Not Included; East to Get More, West Less

Gasoline Rations to Be Equalized  Amounts. Available . Are Not Predicted

GARD HOLDER AYRECEIVE UP 1 3 GALLONS   ;  ckes Preparing To Equalize Gas Rationing Be rveen East Coast and  - Rocky Mountains   ‘OMPLETION OF BIG NCH PIPELINE AIDS   love To Decrease Middle  West and Southwest Al iotments Coincides With OPA Views

1] rl nH   More Equitable Situation For Critical Eastern Area Proposed

‘SEC. ICKES “ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN   East - Southwest P ar May Mean 2 To 3 Gallons Weekly

Ickes fo Equalize Gas Rationing In Near Future  Area Between East Coast and Rockies to Be Affected

Ickes To Cut Gas Rations   Southwest Motorists To Get Less Gasoline

Ickes Says To Be Even With East   Means Spacicus Regions To Have Between 2 and : Gallons Per Coupon

Gasoline Rationing to Be Equalized, Ickes Asserts  East to Get More; Midwest and Southwest Less. It Is Indicated 

GAS RATIONING TO BE EQUALIZED   Ickes Forecasts Boost For East Coast “A” Tickets, Cut In Midwest

GAS RATIONING CUT FACES SOUTHWEST AND MIDDLE WEST   Ickes Announces He Will Give. These Areas and East Same  Quantities in 30 to   60 Davs.   EQUALIZATION MADE POSSIBLE BY PIPELINE   Holder of “A” Coupon Expected to Get Between Two and Three Gallons a Week.

Equalized “Gas Ration Coming. Ickes Reveals   ProbablyMeans Reduced Allowance Except

10 BE EQUALIZED   ickes Says This Area To Be Put On Par With East Coast

MIOWEST NAY BET LESS GA IN 30-60 DAYS   Ickes Announces Equalization of Rationing to: Take Care of East.   TO AFFECT AREA EAST OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS

INCREASED Ghd FOR EAST SEER   Ickes Says He Expects to Equalize Gasoline Rationing Between East, Rockies Within 30 to 60 Days

Ickes Planning Gas Adjustment a mesh Region  apletion of   Pe  Completion of Pipeline May Bring Changes

ALLIED PLANES DROP LEAFLETS OVER ROME   Italian Newspapers Fail Te Follow Ultimatum

PLAN AUTOPSIES ON VICTIMS OF TRIPLE MURDER   Authorities To Determine Course of Bullets: Search for Guns

Top Prices Set On 100 Food Items   OPA Sets Ceiling In Move to Curb Living Cost Rise

OPA Changes Kanawha Price Ceiling System   Little Stores, Half Food Affected by Orders

WARSHIPS ASSIST GROUND FORCES IN NEW GUINEA FIGHTING: AUSSIES DRIVE AHEAD  Artillery Blasts Japanese Bases At  Salamaua From Ridge Near Airdrome

SALAMAUA AIRPOR] DEFENSES. PROBED BY AUSSIE TROOPS   After Months ‘of Mountain Fighting ‘Australians Come Down Into the Francisco River’ Valley. Near Air Strip

ALLIES CLOSE TO SALAMAUA   Australian Troops Emerge Into Francisco River Valley

Aussies Probe Inner Defense At Salamaua   Guns of Allied ‘Warships Are Used in Showdown Battle for New Guinea   DUTCH CELEBES RAIDED

Aussies Probe Jap Defenses At Salamaua   Allied Forces Hack Way Within Two Miles Of Base

INTO RIVER VALLEY   Australians Move Out of New Guinea Mountains  After Long Fight

Aussies Push to Salamaua   Allied Warships hips Brought Into Play, Shell Jap Supply Dumns. Bases

ALLIES 2 MILES TO SALAMAUA   Warships Shell Supply Base of Big Jap Airdrome

Allies Sweep Japs To Within 2 Miles Of Salamaua Field   . Australian Troops Emerging Upon Francisco Plains After Months of -r Battling Throuch Upland Tovolec

Aussies Near Salamaua Base   Allied Warships Take Part For First Time In New Guinea Battle,

Probe Enemy Defense Lines At Salamaua   Australians Cross River To Make New Threat Against Japs Holding Important Airdrome

AUOTRALIANS PUSH NEARER SALAMAUA   Aussie Ground Troops Two Miles From Jap Base

AUSSIES 2 MILES FROM SALAMAUL   MacArthur Reports Australian Troops Have Crossed River To Position Due West,.of Salamaua Airdrome Striv.

Aussies Probe Jap Defenses   Within Two Miles Of Salamaua Air Base on New Guinea

WARSHIPS SHELL JAPS AT SALAMAUA   Australians Cross River To Emerge  From New Guinea Mountains

WARSHIPS BEGIN POUNDING JAPS IN SALAMAUA   Australian Troops Probe Enemy’s Defenses Within Two Miles of Airdrome

AUSSIES DRIVE CLOSER TO JAP DEFENSE ZONES   Jungle Fighters Reported Two Miles From Enemy Field At Salamaua In New Guinea

AUSSIES CROSS RIVER, PROBE JAP DEFENSE!   Warships Come Into Play for First Time, Shell Finschhafen, Salamaua’s Supply Base-

President Gives Congress A Pattern To Work By.....  UNITY IS PROPOSED

‘Good Neighbor Policy Held Post-War Plan   Congress Looks To E.R. Talk As W orld Guide

GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY SHOULD BE — EXTENDED TO WORLD, ROOSEVELT SAYS

‘Some Coal Operators Break From Wage Conference, Mak« Separate Peace With Lewis   UMW Chieftain Accepts.$1.30 Raise _ As Compromise On His Demand For $2

ONE AGREESIEN] IN COAL STRIRE REACHED TODAY   Breaks Deadlock But Adds To Confusion

DENT IS MADE IN DEADLOCK IN MINE DISPUTE   Central Pennsylvania Group Of Operators Moves To Meet Lewis’ Demands   WLB POWER RECOGNIZED   Operators in Other Areas Not All in Sympathy; Confusion Spreads

Miners Get Wage Boost $1.30 a Day   Development Causes an Even Greater Confusion   BOTH SIDES SEEN AS TOO STUBBORN

Group Breaks Away. from Deadlocked Appalachian Wage: Parley and Make

Operators Report To Group Their Failure To Reach Agreement   Central Pennsylvania Operators Agree To Give Portal Pay, Subject To WLB Approval

WACE BOOST OF $1.30 PER DAY IS ALLOWED      Must Be’ Approved By War Labor Board; Lewis Accepts

ONE AGREEMENT REACHED TODAY   Breaks Deadlock But Adds To Confusion

Some Coal Mines Sign With Lewis   Separate Peace Causes New Confusion

PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCERS END DEADLOCK   Overall Outlook Is More Confusing Than Ever   SAME TERMS   To Be Offered By U. M. W. To All Other Plants; Approval Needed

Group of Coal Operators Breaks up Deadlock. Makes Peace with Lewis

Miners to Get Boost Of81.30   Ickes Says Union Men to Be Fined $1 A Day for Walkout

$1 DAY FINE 19 BE IMPOSED ON MINE STRIKERS   First Section In New Pact Is Given Approval, Men To Receive $1.30 Daily as Travel Pay.   OTHER MINE OWNERS TAKING CASE TO WLB   Lewis Declares He Will Offer Them Same Settlement As Long-time Wage Dispute Is Broken.

Frost Threat Is Averted by Close Margin in State   Victory Gardens of Oklahoma Narrowly Escape Damage

Reds Roll Over NaziHeld Salient   Drive Toward Smolensk Base From Olenino

AEDS 113 MiLba FROM SMOLENSK   Germans Routed F rom Olenino Yesterday, Lose Control of Railway

DRIVE NEARER TO  GREAT NAZI BASE   Velikte Luki To Moscow Railroad Now In Soviet Uands

One Soviet Column Has Reached a Point Less Than 115 Miles From Great Nazi Base At  Smolensk.

PICKS UP THREE MILES ON ROAD T0 ROME   Highth Makes Steady Progress, Improves River Bridgeheads

CLARK'S TROOPS THREATEN FLANK OF NAZIS’ ARMY   British Eighth Improves Newly Won Positions Across Trigno

Poll Tax Fight ° Opens In House   Southern Group Is Against Bill

Fleets of Planes And Tanks —  Speed Invasion   Advancing British and Canadians Establish 45-Mile Bridgehead; Nazis Worry Over Yanks’ Movement

Enemy Offers Feeble Resistance On Ground and Air: Allies Extend Gains: Many Axis Prisoners Taken   No Indication of Where Germans Will Make Determined Stand; Reinforcements Brought in Without Interference; Melito Evacuated

Invaders Drive Deeper Inland In Fast Advance   Light Opposition Reported; German Stand Awaited

Allies Meef Only Feeble Resistance   Where Germans Will Decide to Make Stand Draws Speculation in Military Circles

INVASION ARMY WIDENS GAIN ON 10-MILE FRONT   British and Canadian Forces Supported by Big Air And Tank Fleets

LARGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS TAKEN   No Indication of Where Ger‘mans Will Make Stand   REPORTS SAY   Canadian Forces Far Ahead of Schedule, Yank Role Yet Undisclosed

2 IMPORTANT PORTS TAKEN BY INVADERS   No Report Made as Regards the American Seventh Army

Allies Expanding Italy Bridgehead   Advance Ahead Of Schedule Against Weak Opposition; Germans, Anxious Over New  Landings. Report Tanks In Action

ALLIES SWEEP NORTHWARD IN  SWIFT DRIVES   ‘Rome Broadcasts Declare Second Landing Made By British Forces On Toe OF Boot   AXIS RESISTANCE IS TERMED “WEAK”   ‘Bridgeheads Enlarged By British-Canadians, As Two Towns And Axis  Field Are Taken

EIGHTH ARMY IS FAR AHEAD OF SCHEDULE   Encounters Only Feeble Opposition on Ground and in Air as It Pushes North and East.   CAPTURES MANY ITALIAN PRISONERS   Reinforcements Pouring Across Messina Strait— Uncertain Where Germans Will Make Stand.

Beachheads on Italy Are  Being Enlarged   There Are as Yet No Indications Where the German High Command Will Elect to Make Any Determined Stand

Axis Reports New Landings On Italy’s Toe         British nd ‘Canadians Meet F ecble Resistance Front Enemy Units =

Invaders Meet Little Axis Opposition As 10-Mile Bridgehead Is Extended

Allied Bridgehead Extended; Italian Prisoners Captured   No Indication Yet As To Where Nazis Pla To Make Determined Stand

Axis Gives Feeble  Resistance   Invaders Speed North, East; Planes, Tanks Support Forces; Enemy Is Still Worried About U. S. Intentions

Feeble Enemy. Resistance Met   Planes And Tanks  re: Ac he gee 2 Ok

Bridgehead  ls Broadened By Britishers   Axis Reports More Landings; Air Fleets Supporting Drive

Enemy Resistance Is Reported Weak   British And Canadian Forces Swiftly Make Enlarged Bridaeheads On The Toe OF Italy

RESISTANCE OF AXIS FORGES FOUND FEEBLE   Allies Fail To’ Confirm Reports Of New ; Landings To East —   PORTS SEIZED   Invasion Exceeds Sohedule With Enemy Troops Still Unlocated

Production [Show Five Cent Increase  eltems To w Big Gains;  awn ee eee en ae

Churchill Sees Nazis’ Downfall Next Year; Warns Of Sacrifices   arge and (Costly Battles Predicted by Minister; Stresses Need of AngloAmerican Unity

PAR CLIMAX IN 44 PREDICTED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Cautions Against Relaving Efforts

Churchill Expects Victory Next Year   Soberly Cautions Against , Relaxing Efforts While Predicting Climax Of War;  Great Sacrifice Foreseen

CHURCHILL SEES CHANCE T0 BEAT HITLER IN 194/   Believes Climax Will Come in That Year Unless Some Grave Strategic Mistake Is Made.   WARNS ALLIES CAN EXPECT HUGE LOSSES   Asserts Red Blows to Nazi Machine May Prove Mortal—Salutes Moscow Agreement.

Churchill Sees Climax of War in  Europe in 1944.   Prime Minister Says U. S. and Britain Must Be Prepared for Great Loss of Life: Briton Sees No Time for Relaxation or Of Thoughts on Jovs of Peace. Victory

Says Britain and U. S. Must Be Prepared for Great Sacrifice of Lives

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Churchill Sees: No Early Peace   Expécts European War Climax in 1944

Prime Minister Calls for Last Lunge Against Hitler   CAUTION SOUNDED. TO ALLIED POWERS   Nations Must be Prepared for Great Sacrifices, He Asserts

EARLY PEACE NOT EXPECTED BY CHURCHILL   U. S. A. AND BRITAIN TOLD TO PREPARE FOR BIG LOSSES

Churchill Sees Climax Of War Next Year   Cautions Against Over-Optimism ; Praises Feat of Russian Arms And Aerial Campaign of Allies

‘Churchill Says 1944 To Bring Climax In European War, But Warns That Great Sacrifice Gi Life Must Be Made

Final Lunge In Europe Seen Near   Heavy Loss In Lives Seen By Prime Ministe;

PETAIN RESIGNED?   Gorn Reports Claim French Chief Of State Has Quit

LIQUOR SALES RESUME TODAY   Ration Card Holders Car Make One Purchase Before June 28

Grand Assault Opened by Allies In North Africa.   Axis Bridgehead , In Tunisia Is Objective

Allies Report “Fierce Fighting”: UJ. §. Forces Have Taken Many Italians   Northern Column Striking Toward Enemy Base at Sfax

British 8th Army Plowing Forward On Mareth Line   Powerful American Armored Forces Driving Across Boggy Desert Take More Than 1500 Italian Priseners

AMERICAN FORCE MOVING IN CENTRAL SECTOR ALREADY RAS 1,000 PRISONERS IN BAG   ‘Fierce Fighting’ in Progress, Montgomery Communique Says

American columns race south for sea as 8th hits Mareth   British achieve early objectives; Yank spearhead. near Maknassy

ALLIES OPEN BIG ASSAULT IN TUNISIA   Sth Army Attacking Mareth Line; Two U. S. Columns Are Pushing East.   BULLETIN

YANKS PUSH T0 COAST AS 8TH ARMY ATTACKS   ——  ‘Mareth Line Turned Into Slugging Match As Long-Awaited Drive Starts.

All Preliminary Objectives Are Taken In Early Stages of Full-Seale At‘tack Against Axis in Africa

BRITISH, T00, ROLLING AHEAD AGAINST NAZIS   Strike in Unison “Under Canopy of Planes”; Americans 52 Miles From the Coast.   Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN IN SKY BATTLES   Report Of Second Raid On Hitler's liome Soil Given In Communique.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   \merican Attu Victory larks Sharp Change Yn Japanese Plans

[LITTLE VOLCANIC ISLANDS IN AEGEAN SEA HAVE BEEN SCENES BLOODY BATILFS FOR CENTURIES

The War today— = Leros Capture By Nazis Serves As Warning To Turks Not To Aid Allies

TheWarTeday— - ...) Leros Capture By Nazis Serves As Warning To Turks Not To Aid Allies

TUNISIAN VICTORS MARCH IN TRIUMPE   ALLIED SOLDIERS, 28,000 STRONG, PARADE BEFOR?: THEIR GENERALS.

Economist Speak: to Butte Group  Nadler Discusses Post-War Outlook

Economist Speak: to Butte Group  Nadler Discusses Bact Wear Cnriitlaal

lowans Upset by Marshall Rumors  That's What Senator Wilson Tells Reporter

Premier Declares Complete Plan Set By United Nations   Reports That Allies More Than Hold Own In U-Boat War And Promises Another Meeting With Roosevelt; Unusual Optimism Expressed In Address

‘CHURCHILL REPORTS ON CONFERENCE WITH U, $. PRESIDENT  INTIMATES LARGE SCALE INVACION ner enroapr IN

‘Commons Told Of Program By Churchill   Prime Minister Reveals Plans All Set; Speedy Action Will Be Taken

“Vill Invade Europe Within Nine Months   Churchill Reveals Allied Plans In  Parliament Address   British Eighth Army Advances In Tunisia   Secretary Stimson Warns Public To Be Ready For Casualties

Allied Plans Are Revealed By Churchill   Strategy Calls For Most Speed On Largest Scale   British 8th Army Storms 20 Miles Within Southern  Tunisia After Rommel Men

Churchill Says Allies HaveWarPlan   Reds Threaten Kharkov with Seige Guns; Desert Armies Clash

ALLIED ATTACK PLAN REVEALED BY CHURCHILL   Enemy To Be Made to ‘Burn and Bleed,’ Britain’s Prime Minister Says   DRIVE RENEWED IN AFRICA   Russia’s Fierce Offensive Smashes Nazis and Surges On Toward Kharkov   By ROGER GREENE

Attack To Be Launched on  Large Scale   Churchill, Reporting on “Uns conditional Surrender"? Conference, Tells Parliament Plans Have Been Made

AWAIT ACTION ~~ BY VETERANS   eet a $. POLITICIANS EXPECT RESOLUTIONS WILL REFLECT WIDESPREAD PUBLIC  © OPINION ON ISSUES ©

Munda Termed Within Reach Of Americans   Australians Crush Japanese Counterattacks In New Guinea

HEAVIEST RAID IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC SO FAR   Jnited States Bombers Plaster Japs At Bairoko Harbor, Above Munda, And Principal Supply Base For Strong Jap Base.

U.S. Ground Troops Now Closer To Jap Munda Base   Admiral Halsey's Announcement Is Hint Of Further Gains In Jungle

Yank Troops Draw Nearer To Munda   Important Airfield Is Now ‘In Reach Of Capture’

OPPOSITIO BY ENEMY ‘DECREASING   Key Base Within Reach Of Capture; -Bairoko Habor Hit

Surging Yanks Cut Distance to Munda To Matter of Yards   ‘Ground Troops Hem Japs in Narrow But Still Strong Fortress Area; Canture of Sieced Port Seems Near

FEW THOUSAND YARDSBETWEEN U.S. AND ENEMY’   Beleaguered Japanese Clinging Tenaciously to Key to New Guinea Position In Solomons   FOE ENTRENCHED FOR FINAL STAND   Americans Making “Very Satisfactory Progress,” Spokesman Says; Japs -At Bairoko Shattered

YANKEES NEAR JAP AIRFIELD INMUNDA AREA   “In Reach Of Capture,” Says Spokesman For Adm. Halsey

Americans Siorming Jap Base   ‘Munda Is In Reach of Capture, Says Report From  Admiral Halsey   BOMBERS BLAST BAIROKO HABOR   And Tokyo Radio Speaker Says Pacific Situation Is ‘Increasingly Dark’

American Units Ring Defenses Of Prize Goa   Heavy Bombers Shower 133. Tons Of Explosives Over Bairoko Harbor

150 Bombers Stage Biggest Pacific Raid   Australian Troops Crush Nine Jap Counterattacks in New Guinea Fighting

BAIROKO, IN ~NEW GEORGIA, BOMB TARGET   Australians, Fighting Near Salamaua, Turn Back Repeated Fierce Jap Counter Attacks

VISE TIGHTENED » AROUND MUNDA; FALL IMMINENT]   B® American Troops, Driving Through Jungles, Near Big Enemy Air Base

Munda’s Fall Is Expected Momentarily   Capture Near— Planes Smother Warbor Under Bomb:

'U. S. Troops In Reach Of Taking Jap Munda Base   Only Few Thousand Yards From Key Airfield. ——— Of Enemv.

Yankees Storm Within Range of Munda Airfield   Key to Enemy's Defense in Solomons is Within Reach of Capture.

Heaviest Raid Blasts Japs In Solomons   150 Planes Dump Tons Of Bombs on Bairoko Harbor in Day Assault

‘JAPANESE AIRBASE AT MUNDA NOW IN REACH OF CAPTURE   Troops, Storming Through Jungles, Within Few Thousand Yards of the City.   KEY TO ENEMY DEFENSE.   Australians Reported to Have Crushed 9 Japanese Counterattacks.

NIPS’ BASE IS HIT BY HEAVY RAID   Americans Are Making ‘Steady Progress On New Georgia

Munda Capture Expected Soon  Port Of Baikoro Gets Heaviest Pounding Of Pacific War

Allied Forces In Reach Of Goal   Score Jap Planes Shot Down in Battle Over New Guinea   TOKYO ADMITS - OUTLOOK DARK

FALL OF MUNDA WITHIN SIGHT   Jap Base Tottering, Says ~ Halsey; Bombers Flay  Nip-Held Islands

Munda Capture Seen; U. S. Air Raid Sets Mark   Bairoko Harbor, Supply Base For Besieged Solomons Area, Is Pounded By 150 American Bombers

AUSTRALIANS CRUSH NINE JAP ASSAULTS   Mountainside Few Miles Below Enemy Bastion At Salamaua Is Littered With Dead

Key New Georgia Position Almost  In Hands Of U. §,   Blockade Keeping Ou Reinforcements O; Japanese; Losses T«  Enemv High

Yankees Close In on Japanese Base af Munda   U. S. Fighters Push Within Few Thousand Yards of Key to Enemy Defenses in Solomons

Munda, Jap Base ‘Now in Reach,’ Halsey Declares   Nine Enemy Thrusts In New Guinea Are Stopped by Aussies

Says Munda “In Reach Of Capture”   Aussies Crush Counter Attacks Jap Base  At Salamaua

U. S. Troops  Storm Thru: Jungle Put Munda ‘in Reach of Capture’

Thirty Planes Downed —   American Troops Advance Within Few Thousand Yards Of Munda Airfield: Capture Is Expected Soon

RUSSIA'S CHURCHES ARE FILLED AGAIN   Easter Services Reminiscent Of Pre-revolution Days

Miners Resume Vital Production   Operators, Union to Negotiate Again

WLB LOOKS FOR NEW TALKS AS MINERS RETURN   Operators, Union Evidence Desire Of Reaching An Early Agreement   PORTAL PAY IS PROBLEM   4,600 Ohio Diggers Remain Absent; 125,000 Back In Pennsylvania

WILL RESUME CONTRACT TALKS: MINERS RETUA   Negotiations Between Union and Operators Will Begin.

Union and Owners Negotiate   Informal Talk About Wage Agreement Resumed as  Men Return

Danger by Flood In Oregon  Believed Less River Falling But Hundreds Have Oot Their Hame<c

Danger hy Flood In Oregon Believed Less  River Falling But Hundreds Have Qc Their Homes

SOLONS POINT OUT NEED FOR CZAR OF FOOD   SHORTAGE FEARED THIS SEASON IN CANNED GOODS

URGE NAMING OF FOOD CZAR   Leaders Fear Shortage Of Canned Goods; Subsidy Fund Proposed

FDR Urged To Name Food ‘Czar’; Over $1,000,000,000 Soucht To Subsidize Rollback In Prices To Consumers

FOOD CZAR URGED  BY CONGRESSMEN   Sofons, Spurred by Fears of Canned Food Shortage, Ask Action

Fears Of Canned Food Shortages Spurs Both  \Party Leaders To Urge Centralized Powers  President Is Said To Have Urged Congress To Act Soon To Provide Price Roll-Backs

Urge Roosevelt To Set Upa U. S. Food Czar   Suggest One Person To Make Final ' Decisions

Food Czar is Urged By Congressmen   Bi-Partisan Delegation Asks Supreme Authority to ” Handle Problem   PRESIDENT IN TURN CALLS FOR SUBSIDIES   No Resumption of Cut-Off Civilian Goods Production Indicated for Year

Roosevelt Said To Favor Great Rollback Fund   Believed To Favor More Than a Billion Dollar Subsidy   Request He Name ‘‘Food Czar’’ Brings Out Latest Views

Roosevelt Insists Upon Subsidies   REJECTS IDEA OF FOOD CZAR TO PREVENT SHORTAGE; OPPOSES HIGHER LEVEL OF FOOD PRICES.   GOP Against Subsidies

OLONS REQUEST — FULL FOOD CZAR:   Rollback, Shortage Fears Prompt Ac tion; Roosevelt Wants SubsidSsation Fund -

Huge Sum Asked For Subsidies   Plan For Fooc ‘Czar’ Meets  Opposition

APPOINTMENT — OF FOOD CZAR IS SUGGESTED   Plan Opposed By Roosevelt And Byrnes; Favor Qh Bae   CANNING FACTORIES HAVE HELP SHORTAGE

FINAL FIGURES ARE GIVEN OUT ON THIRD WAR BOND DRIVE   Plymouth County Goes Over The Top By Fine Margin Of 32 Percent

Plymouth County 32 Per Cent Over Quota In The Third War Loan Drive   Total Sales During Period Were $1,308,354 In The County

AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE AT JAPAN'S DEFENSE PERIMETER  TOKYO REPORTED CARRIER-BASED RAID BY All ON MARSHALL ISLANDS

RAID OFF CARRIERS   One Hundred Allied Planes in Attack on Jap Held Marshalls -

Turn Allied Air Power. On Marshalls   Japs Report Raid. By 100-Carrier. Based: Planes; _  ‘Widen Air Blows

JAPS REPORT ALLIED RAID IN MARSHALLS   Tokyo Says .100 CarrierBased Planes Participate in Blow at NipHeld Islands in the Central Pacific.

TOKYO REPORTS BOMBER RAID ON MARSHALLS   Admits Damage from 100 CarrierBased Planes, Claims U- 5. Carrier and Cruiser Sunk   JAPS HIT TARAWA   Three Men Wounded—Knox Forecasts Heaviest Naval Fighting of War Next Year

‘TOKYO REPORTS YANK AIR ATTACK ON MARSHALLS; CHECK NIPS ON GROUND

MARSHALLS HIT BY YANK BOMBS   Aussies Press Drive Toward Wareo In New Guinea

Marshalls Hit Again   Japs Report Raid By 100 Carrier-Based Allied Planes Sunday

American Bombers Strike at Japanese Defense Perimeter   Japs, in Turn, Carry Out First Mission Against Tarawa

WIDEN ATTACK ONTHE JAPS.   Jap-Held Marshall Islands Raided by 100 Carrier Based Planes. Japs Bomb Tawara Also

IDO PLA  NEO IN CUNDAY’S BAIN   Jap-Held Marshall Islands in Central Pacific Are AlJies’ Taraet.   COUNTERATTACKS FAILED

Jans Report 100 American Planes Bombed Marshalls   Nips Admit Damage: U. S.-Held Gilbert Islands Attacked

Japs Report ‘Allied Raids On Marshalls   Claim 20 of:100. ‘Carrie Bas ed Planes in Attack, ‘ “were Shot Down          ‘DECLARED: SUNK   No: Allied: Confirmation. ot Blow As U.S. Widens Forays in Pacific

Marshalls Hif By U. §. Bombers   Carrier-Based ~Planes Raid Jap Stronghold

American Planes  Smash at Jap  Pacific Defense Carrier Planes Hit Marshalls, Say Nip Reports

U. S. WIDENING AREA IN WHICH TO BOMB JAPS   100 Planes Strike at Marshalls But Japs Strike Back With Bomber Mission at Gilberts,

100 Americar Planes Smash at Marshalls   Allied Planes Set Fires at Hare Island; Australians Press Toward Wareo

AMERICANS RAID ENEMY BASES IN MARSHALL ISLES   JAPS RETALIATE WITH ATTACKS ON TARAWA AND MAKIN

Yankees Extend Battle on Japs  Widen Arc of Assaults by Land and Sea

Blows Traded By Jap And U. §. Raiders   Tokio Reports Blow At Marshall Islands By Allied Planes

Perimeter of Attacks On Jap Widened   Allied Bombers Reach to Island Only 400 Miles From Truk

HOSPITAL FILES PLANS FOR $152,500 ADDITION   FWA Awards Grant of $127, 500 Toward Cost   Proposal Includes More Space Above Men's Ward, Change in  1 Operating Room, Kitchen

HOSPITAL FILES PLANS “FOR $152,500 ADDITION     FWA Awards Grant of $127,500 Toward Cost °     Croposal Includes More. Space Above Men's Ward, Change in  Oncrautine Room. Kitrheon

Fisenhower Made Chief All Forces In North Africa: Darlan’s Job Filled

Actor Stabbed In Auto, Dies   Mystery Shrouds L.A. Killing; Police Find Clees Lacking

Gigantic Raid Smashes City   Axis Headquarters On Island Is Blowr To Bits by Planes

Headquarters Of Defense On Sicily Wrecked   Utter Destruction Wrought In Terrific Raid By Liberators

Heavy Raid On Jap Air Base   Allied Bombers Blast Enemy Base At Babo, Dutch New Guinea   JAP PLANES FAIL IN AIR BATTLE

HAMMER ENEMY BASE AT BABO   Allied bombers devastate Jap airdrome in Dutch New Guinea

German Weather Base Destroyed   U. S. Forces Destroy German Base Off Coast Of Greenland. Navy Reports

Grocery Bill For Army Is $2, 800, 000 For Every Day   Need This Amount To Feed 5,000,000 Enlisted .  en .

EMERGENCY ACT PASSED BY SENATE   Bill for 1943 War meas. ures sent to lowa house for consideration

Haly’s Toe and Islands Heavily Bombed Again   Americans and British Pound Strait of Messina And Mainland Toraets

Allies Destroy Vital Docks © In Air Attack   Fliers Drop Tons of Bombs on Ports In Messina Strait; Italian Mainland. Sicily Are Both Struck

Rumors of Fascist  Peace Bids Denied      ltalians Apparently Preparing For Desperate Stand; Docks Of Messina Strait Are Blasted In Aerial Attacks

Fascist Regime Appears More Than Ever Pledged To Last-Ditch Struecle

MESSINA AREA BLASTED BY ALLIED PLANES   Docks, Supply Points Hit in Strategic Move; Fight Seen   ITALIAN PEACE ENVOY STORY CALLED UNTRUE

ALLIES BLAST FOE'S SUPPLY. “LINETOSICILY   Rumors that Italian “Envoys are in Algiers Are Denied

MESSINA SIR. DOCKS SUFFER ALLIED RAIDS   Reliable Allied Sources Deny Italian Envoys Are In North Africa To Sue For Separate Peace   Fascists Fight To End

Rumors of Italian Peace Bid Denied By Allied Sources   Fascist Regime Appears Committed to Last Ditch Fight in Mediterranean;  Mecsina Strait Cities Hit by Bombers

‘Messina Strait Cities Targets for Bombers   RUMORS OF ITALIAN PEACE BID DENIED   Fascist Regime Reported Girding for Desperate  Resistance

ALLIES POUND GERMAN BASE IN NO. AFRICA   BOTH SIDES MASS GROUND FORCES FOR EXPECTED SHOWDOWN

SHIPS ARRIVE   Vessels Sail Through ‘Puce's Sen’ Tey Reach Torkey.

Worker bill has backing  of Stimson   Secretary urges compulsory chif ts to essential jobs

Stimson for Total Draft Of Manpowe1   IndorsesWadsworth-Aus. tin Bill; Would Mobilize Women, Too

Release Of Soldiers'For Work Opposed   Letter First Sign Of Administration Stand On Proposal

STIMSON FAVORS COMPULSION IN MANPOWER PLAN   Secretary Backs Bill to Tighten Nation’s Control Over Movement of Its Workers.   TOTAL MOBILIZATION URGED BY SECRETARY   Letter Believed to Indicate Opposition to Furloughing Soldiers for Farm Work.

Stimson Backs Manpower Act   War. Secretaty ” Deplores Present Control; Sees  Need Of Action

Stimson Cites Military Needs and Labor Shortage   Endorses Austin-Wadsworth Measure Calling for Registration of Women; Draft Boards to Take on New Duties

Stimson Endorses Manpower Bill   Reports Imminent Shortages Of Labor

Stimson Asks Prompt Action From Congress   Present Controls Are Inadequate to Solve Problem, War Secretary Says

Present Plan Inadequate, He Asserts   Compulsory Labor Transfer Has Admim istration Racking

Stimson Strongly Urges Compulsory Control of Manpower, Asserting Present Mobilization Inadequate

STIMSON BACKS LABOR CONTROL   Says Compulsion Will. Be Necessary To Solve Shortage Problems

STIMSON OKAYS - MANPOWER BILL   Compulsory Worker Control Needed, War Department Head Tells Senators

War Secretary Urges Congress To Enact Law   Present Controls Called Inadequate To Meet Demands

WARSHIPS IN POSITION TC AID IN ITALY   Get Back Of German Lines In Effort To Aid American Fifth, British Probe Nazi Line

Henry Ford Ready To Prove To Drew Pearson  He’s Stili Spry At 80

Ford Issues Challenge to Drew Pearson   80-YEAR-OLD MAGNATE OFFERS TO VIE WITH COLUMNIST FOR REPORT

iquonr 2uetlion lo  Neat Session   By-the-Drink Proposals Being Issued,

‘Major Political — Problem Legislators  F. ace Is Liquor   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special. Correspondent

TESTIMONY GIVEN IN DEATH OF OAKES   American Detective Presents Evidence Directed at. de Marigny

Prosecutor Attempts to Show That De Marigny Murdered Sir Harry Oakes

Surned Hair and  Fingerprints Point  To De Marigney Detective Tells of   ale eee ee ee ee a

PEPPER CALLS FOR OPEN MIND INFLYNN CASI   Florida Senator Urges Col- Jeagues to. Withhold  Judgement In Diplo- .   matic Appointment _   CHARGES TO: BE MET   Informed Severa! Persons Eager to Contradict Accusations Made By Senator Bridges

AMERGANS POURED BROADSIDES INTO GERMAN LINES   A Cruiser and Destroyers Pounded the Minturne Area to Rear of Mt. Massico.   MADE SHORT ADVANCES}   Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies Gain in Face of Massed Enemy Guns.

TEMPERATURES:   ‘Germans Sack Italian Capital . As Allies Press Offensive

Nazis Looting Rome, Dismantle Ship Materials   a 5 on Ban      Morale Low In Food Shortage

101 Jap Planes  Reportedly Are Destroyed   Allies Consolidate Positions at Other End of Long Offensive Arc at Nassau Bay, Guinea, According to Plan

OCCUPATION OF ISLAND ‘COMPLETE   101 Japanese Planes Shot Down, 17 Of Ours Lost   CASUALTIES FEW   Allies Consolidating Positions Within Nassau Bay

Enemy Garrison Destroyed; Down 101 Jap Planes   Americans Consolidating Positions At New Guinea Tobriand And Woodlark Quiet. Casualties In All Operations Are Reported Light.

Navy Announces  Mine Layer’s Loss  U. S. S. Skill Sunk In Salerno Gulf

MINE LAYER {S$ LOST IN GULF OF SALERNO   Underwater Explosion Precedes Sinking—Captain of Craft Carrying G5 Men Missing.

AKRON BUS, TROLLEY STRIKE CONTINUES: RUBBER TIEUP ENDS   Most War Workers Get Lifts From Autoists To Their Jobs

STRIKE SITUATION IN STATE CHECKED   Transportation Paralyzed at Akron and Another Wolkout Threatens.

‘Akron, Canton Strikes Continue   350 Workers Out At Timken Plant

SAYS COMPANY BACKED SINGER   Now Celanese Stockholder Seek Recovery Of Large Sum; Wife Of Company Head

WAS ON CORREGIDOR   Army Nurse to Speak From Stage at War Bond Premiere

LOTS OF IT   Exporters Report Coffee Sent To U. S&S. Nears Pre-War Level.

BATTLES RAGE IN CHANGTEH AREA   U, S, AIR FORCE AIDS IN DRIVE TO EJECT JAPS FROM RICE BOWL.

CHINESE GAIN AGAINST JAPS NEAR CHANGTEH      Chiang’s Troops Aided by Bombers of U. S. Air Force in Central China Battles

Green Re-Named AFL President   Will Continue to  Urge “Wayward Brothers” to Return

Green Re-Elected President of AFL   He Forecasts a Fateful Year For the Federation of Labor.

A.FL. RE-ELECTS LIAM GREEN TO PRESIDENCY   . Will Be Twentieth Term for Popular . Labor Leader .< -

Wm. Green Starts Leadership of AFL For His 20th Term   UMWA Gets Welcome Nod; Speculate Now How Soon Miners Will Re-enter AFL

Return Green, as AFL Chief, Beckon UMW   Issues Must Be Negotiated Council Rules; Show Willingness to Readmit Lewis

Green Wins Re-election as Union Chief   A.F.L. DELEGATES PICK PRESIDENT TO SERVE TWENTIETH TERM

Green Re-elected AFL President   Lewis Union Given Welcome Gesture   POSTON —(AP)— The American Federation of Labor today chose New Orleans for its convention in November, 1944.

MINER'S ONUS UP TO LEWIS   A. F. Li Weicomes Gesture for Reaffiliation Gets Boston Vote

GREEN RE-ELECTED A. F. L. PRESIDENT   Labor Organization Leader Is Named For His 20th Term

AFL. BID TO MINE UNION IS CONDITIONAL   Lewis Must Dismantle District 50: Green Renamed President

AFL Klects Gr een Chief For 20th Time   Forecasts Fateful Year; Mine Workers Invited to Return on AFL Terms 

GREEN IS REELECTED AS AFL PRESIDENT   Door Left Open To Reunion Of ‘Wayward’ ClO

PRESIDENT GREEN REELECTED TODAY BY LABOR GROUF   Will Head American Federa tion of Labor for the Twentieth Time.   TO NEW ORLEANS IN “41   President Green Said Return of “Wayward Brothers” Would Be Urged.

New Orleans” Is Chosen For AFL Meeting   William Green Elected To His Twentieth Term At Closing Session Of Labor Convention

GREEN CHOSEN ‘ARLPRESIDENT “FOR 20TH TERN   Re-Election Comes Afte: Gesture of Welcome toMiners to Re-Enter Organization

AFL Elects Green for 20th Term   Council Authorizec To Negotiate for Lewis Return

ALF RE-ELECTS GREEN, OPENS DOOR TO UMW   Execulive Council Given Authority fo readmit Lewis’ Union With Protection for AFL Groups

BILL GREEN RE-ELECTED   AFL President Unanimously Re elected For His 20th Term

\Nazis Admit New Bridgehead Held On Dnieper By Soviets  Moscow Communique Intimates Russians Are Waoitina For Winter Freezes For Offensives

Red Offensive Believed Halted   See Preparations for Drive During Winter

No Important  Changes On  Russian Front Reds Prepare  For New Winter  £frffr 

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Task Of Bringing Rommel To Bay Begun Again By Allied Armies

Brilliant Tactical Successes Achieved During Week Of War  GLENN BABE

Transport Planes Blasted From Sky   Axis Believed To Be Removing Key Men To italy By Plane To Save As Many As Possible

Fifty Iwo Big Junkers Among Losses Received In Greatest Afncan  Air Battle.

Guffey Coal Act To Die Aug. 23   House Committee Refuses to Extend Life of Solt Coal Law.

MOVE TO ABANDON GUFFEY COAL ACT   COMMITTEE REJECTS BILL TO EXTEND LAW FOR TWO MORE YEARS

Coal Control Act Given Death Blow   Guffey Law Dooméd To Legal Boneyard

DEATH BLOW GIVEN GUFFEY COAL ACT   Committee Tables 3-Month Extension Plan

GUFFEY ACT HEADED FOR JUNK PILE.   House Ways and Means Committee Rejects Bill To Extend Machinery For Two Years

House Group Kills Coal Act   Rules Committee Tables Resolution For Extension

House Group  Kills Coal Act   Extension of Guffey Measure Tabled

louse Group Signs Death lertificate Of Guffey Act   overnment Regulation of Soft Coal Industry to Die With Expiration of Its Act August 23; Commit{ce Tables Stop-Gap Resolution to Extend Act’s Life to January 1

RUSSIANS MOVE AHEAD IN WHITE RUSSIA; FIERCE’ FIGHT UNDERWAY   Heavy German Resistance Encountered. Nazis Disregard Thought Of  Casualties.

Reds Still  in Control   PIN GERMANS TO DNIEPER RIVER   No Serious German BreakThrus Anywhere, Say  Russians

Allied Troops Near Etna Line Across Sicily   Air and Sea Power Figure In Final Drive

Allies Move Up On Main Sicily Line; 8th Army Opens Artillery Barrage

ALLIES NEAR MAIN SICILY DEFENSE LINE   Eighth Army Opens Huge Artillery Barrage

Allies Are ‘Nearing Etna Line   Crushing Air And Sea Power Supports Troops

Allies Poise Drive to  Crush Sicily   Air, Sea Allacks Assist Troops Nearing Etna Line

FORMULA OF LOCAL : MEN USED BY OPA   Trailers Get. Double Allotment of Fuel Under  New Order   FIGURED HEAT LOSS

FORMULA OF LOCAL MEN USED BY OPA   Trailers Get Double Allotment of Fuel Under New Order

SMASH TO POINT NINE MILES FROM VITAL SMOLENSK   Berlin Reports Pincers Move on Kiev Is Being Pressed  With Unusual Violence.   SOME UNITS REACH THE DNIEPER RIVER   Others Cross Into White Russia—Push Under Way Toward Railway Center aft Gomel.

Smolensk Put Under Red Guns   Nazi Caucasus Forces Are - Pursued

Red Army Within Artillery Range Of Smolensk— Kiev Further Mlanked

Advances Made Tn All Sectors   Smolensk Is in Artillery Rangve——Kiev Flanked

Russians Smash Nearer Smolensk  Ukraine Citadel of Poltava Is Taken

Reds Flank Kiev, Topple Poltava, Shell Smolensk   Moscow Reports Important Gains

RUSSIANS APPROACH  mm YL 4 Fl q SS rNVUINrier   Reds Within Firing Range of Smolensk, May Push Nazis . Into Poland

RUSSIANS NOW IN GUN RANGE OF SMOLENSK   UKRAINE CITADEL OF POLTAVA IS TOPPLED

RedsIn Range Of Smolensk   - Poltava Taken And Defenses On 300-Mile Front Enqulfed

RED ARMY DRIVES INTO WHITE RUSSIA   In Gomel Area Only 150 Miles From Poland; Germans Announce Evacuation of Poltave.   Last Bastion

Reds Within BigGun Range Of Smolensk   Further Flank Kiev And Topple Ukraine Citadel of Poltava  LARGE GAINS MADE

Russian Drive Nears Smolensk, Qutflanks Kiev   Citadel of Poltava In Ukraine Toppled By Soviet Onslaught

NEW STATUTES ON IOWA BOOKS   Children’s Aid, New Civil Lav Procedure, Most Important

LEADERS OF FRENCH FACTIONS — — ARE REPORTED IN AGREEMEN]      D°GAULLE AND GIRAUD SAID TO BE IN ACCORD ON GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF UNITY

De Mariany Takes Stand to Deny He Kined Si? Harry:   Tells of Quarrels With Father in Law Over Wife and Boy

Marign y Denies -He Slew Father-in-Law   Accused Son-in-Law, Taking Witness Stand in Own Defense, Tells of Break With Sir Harry Oakes: Court Packed

DENIAL MADE OF KILLING BY DE MARIGNY   ‘Accused Pleads for Life and Liberty in Nassau . Court   DETAILS GIVEN OF FAMILY OUARREL‘   Prisoner Claims He Was ~~ Home in Bed at Time of Slaying

MARIGNY DENIES THAT HE KILLED FATHER-IN-LAW   Defendant Is Serious As He Pleads For His Life In Nassau Court

HITLER CHATS CHIEF 2 DAY!   Rumanian Antonescu Gets Bolshevik Pep Talk

PLAN TO CONVENE SPECIAL SESSION   Appropriations’ Committees Plan to Call Legislature Together by Feb. 1

Feb. 1, Tentatively Set For Special Session of Michigan’s Legislatave

PRICES FOR FLUID MILK ARE BOOSTEL   Temporary Increases Author ized Uptil April 1 In Three Communities.

WHE: INCREASE. _ SET IN 3 AREAS      OPA Acts to Prevent Supply Interruption There; Starts. Jan. 4

Prices for Fluid Milk Rise in Some Areas, to Go Up in Others Later

GOV GREEN TO SPEAK AS HIGHLIGHT   Parade on If Weather ‘errails; Mav Shift Pesnvens to H.S.*

URGES INCREASED WAR AID 10 CHINE   Publishers Told Japan Is More Dangerous Enemy Than Germany.

MORE AID TO CHINA   Former Chief Of AP’s Tokyo Bureau Urges Increased Aid

>roduction Chief Believes  Reorganization Will Insure Success Of Job Of Increasing Output

NELSON CALLS W. P.B. FEUDS PAST HISTORY   Production chairman says he had no intention of resigning post

it-of-State Meat Packers to Restrict Activities Over Most of State      LVER CITY IS WORST HIT. PRICES CONFLICT

Miners Ask Wage Boost   — Lewis Heads Drive of  450,000 Soft Coal 7 na gr <9 DP atae

MINERS DEMAND $2 PER DAY MORE   Lewis Says Raise Would  Affect Consumers, Modestly.   WOULD RAISE MINE PAY TO $9

Asks $2 Hike In Pit Wace   Lewis Speaks For 450,000 Miners In Defiance Of Contenle

Opposes U.S. Wage Limit   Lewis Says WLB Formula Stupid and Calls For $2: Pay Hike

MINERS ASK $2 A DAY INCREASE   LEWIS’ UNION GIRDS FOR SHOWDOWN ON WAGE CONTROLS

Miners Ask For. $2 Raise   > Lewis Bids for Showdown on U. S. Wage Controls   SEEK NEW BASIC   450,000 Soft Coal Workers Would Be Affected

Demand For Miner Wage Increase Tests Formula  Of U. S. War Labor Board

MINERS DEMAND WAGE INCREASE   Lewis - Girds _for Showdown. Asks $2 Per Day Hike

$2 RAISE DEMANDED BY 450,000 MINERS   Little Steel Formula Is at “Stake as Lewis Girds for Fight with WLB

A.F.B.F. Takes Stand Against Farm Subsidies   Edward O'Neal Is Reelected President ot Organization”

Strong Force Of Fortresses Heavily Raid Manufacturing, Rail City 50 Miles From Rome   Severe Damage Done In Resumption Of Big-Scale Attacks On Mainland

U.S. FLIERS SMASH TERN}   RAIL MANUFACTURING ITALY HUB IS RUINED

TERNI, IMPORTANT ITALIAN RAILWAY CENTER, BOMBED   Allies Resume Large - Scéle Aerial Attacks on Mainland With Blow at ik Reto Wedsles  dawg

FORTRESSES all TARGETS AT TERN   Americans Resume Largescale Attacks on Mainland of Italy.

Terni Blasted: in Heavy Raid’ On Mainland   American Fortresses Attack Important Industrial Center 50 Miles North of Rome   SEVERE DAMAGE, PHOTOS SHOW   Other Points Are Made Targets in Large-Scale Renewal of Air War ‘

TERNI BOMBED BY FORTRESSES   Large-Scale Allied Raids On Italian Mainland Are Resumed

10 Per Cent. Withholding Tax on Giross Income Proposed in Measure

WITHHOLDING PLAN URGED IN MEASURE   Resolution Offered by Rep.  Weiss Proposes Ten Per Cent Deduction On Gross Income  eee 8 ee ke

EIGHTH ARMY HAMMER AT AFRIKA RURP   British Meeting Qpposition  in Coastal Sector Inside Tunisia.   BOMBERS BUSY ALTHO WEATHER REMAINS BAD

BRITISH GUNS POUND ENEMY IN TUNISIA   Afrika Korps Resists Shelling In Coastal Area 50 Miles From Mareth Line.   BOMBERS ATTACK CRETE   Allied Air Forces Smash a Foe in Broad Area of Mediterranean.

Eighth Army Hammers Axis Forces With Artillery Well Inside Tunisia

KORPS IS FIGHTING PROGRESS   Some Resistance Being Made Along Coastal Sector — Artillery Duels Are Reported.

BRITISH ARMORED CARS, HEAVY. UNS HAMMER GERMANS   Smash At’ Afrika . Korps Well Inside Tunisia— Nazis Armies Resisting

Contact Made East of Bengardane   Bad Weather  Restricts Air A wtian Owar Arana

highth Army Slashing At Afrika Korps   British Move Ahead In Tunisia Under’ Cover Of Artillery

Kighth Army Pounds at Rommel Line   Artillery and Tanks Probe  - For Weak. Snot

Stale Has Highest Enrollment In Food Production Training      : 332,844 Persons Take , Mourses Given, By. : : Dept. OF Education

State Has Highest Enrollment In Food Production Training   32,044 Persons  ake Courses Given: By > . aes arnt ie oe Yd Pe rae ae

improved  SUNDAY  Uniform  International SCHOOL - LESSON ~   Lesson for July 18

fn a a ste de din th diaciadi ali ie iaitecline el Diproved  SUNDAY uierm  SCHOOL  International  «+ LESSON «   Lesson for November 14

Improved SUNDAY rece reat  SCHOOL - LESSON ~  ., BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. dD, em 8. Rte Te etiqiuta * Chiernen.   Lesson for May 16

ee Oe TRTTY AN? lenendl <  ‘SUNDAY, . SCHOOL  ‘International.  + LESSON *  : UND D. __ By HAROLD 1 L. Te ctl QUIS oa ST, "ohicaZo.   Lesson for August 22 °

EER ae ieee, improved  SUNDAY Internation— SCHOOL -- LESSON =  By HAROLD ee (LUNDQUIST. D. D. TV! Tha Mane we Institute of Chieseo   Lesson for September 12

~~ IMPROVED" UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL  SNA’ Lesson   Lesson for June 6

OPA Investigatior Is Called Off   Baltimore Cc itizens Object To Move

‘Hadn't Known Him Long Enough,’ So Manville’s 7th Marriage Is Off

FOOD SUPPL SUPPLY ~ STEPS TAKEN   SENATE. TO RESTORE’ sOM¥ FUNDS CUT FROM APPROPROFRIATIONS BILL BY HOUSE

Senators Fearful Of Food Front   Solons Acting To Avoid Danger Of Further Rationing Orders

NEARER ROME   Drive Northward to Garigliano River After Taking Isernia

Report Allied Landing North on Adriatic   German ‘Claim: Leapfrog Attempt 40 Miles North of Front

Yankee Troops Reported to Be In Outskirts of City of Venafro   Berlin Says 8th Army Has Made New ‘Leapfrog’ Attempt

Allies Knife - Deeper Into Central Italy   Advances Along Entire Front Follow Crack of Massico Line

Russian-Polish Accord Sought   Great Britain Seeks To Patch Up Quarre!

Britain Enters Red-Polish Fuss   Seeks To Patch Up  Dinlomati- Beanale .

BRITAIN BEGINS MOVE TO PATCH RUSSIAN AND POLISH RELATIONS   United States Apparently Participating in Intensive Effort

Effort to Restore Relations  Britain, U.S. Try to Patch Up Soviet-Polish Differences

ALLIES STRIVE TO HEAL SOVIET POLISH BREACK   German Propaganda Credited With Victory In Diplomatic Break   FORMULA IS SOUGHT TO EASE TENSION

Britain Moves To Mend Break   SettlementBetweenReds Poland Is Soucht

EFFORTS MADE TO MEND BREAK   Meetings Toward Ending Breach Between Soviet and Poland Begin

STEPS T0 END RUSS-POLAND - BREAK TAKEN   Britain Opens Negotia. tions to Patch Up Differences

Negotiations To Placate Poles, Reds   U. S. Participating In Talks in Hope Of Solving Trouble

Polish Crisis Stirs Britain And America   Officials in London Seek Way to Heal Russian-Polish Rift

Britain Enters Red-Polish Fuss   Seeks To Patch Up  Dinolomatic Break

 MAAAAAASADAAAALAAAAAA ‘Reveille Joe’ Is  New Nuisance to Marines on Tarawa

ROMMEL ARMY HIT BY PLANES   Little Activity Reported In Tripoliiania Area

Rommel Army Seen Falling Back on Tripol:   Allied Air Forces Pound Avis Ports, Fields on Mediterranean

COLUMNS HIT AO MILES EAST OF TRIPOL   Italian Unit Reported Intercepted Near Border   Bomb Sicily

AIRMEN ARE ACTIVE OVER NO. AFRICA   Harass Rommel's Army Retreating Toward Tripoli

Determents To Be Quickly Cancelled   Roosevelt Directs . Vingon To: Act In All Futuré Disputes

WLB DECISIONS GIVEN SUPPORT BY PRESIDENT   Strong Sanctions Planned Against Unions, Employers Failing To Comply   MINE CASE MAY BE FIRST   Vinson Given Enlarged Powers Including Withholding Of Checked-Off Dues

FDR Orders Induction Of War Plant Strikers   President Acts to Force Union-Employer Compliance With Labor Board Decisions

PRESIDENT FOR INDUCTION OF WAR STRIKERS   Strong Sanctions Authorized Against Unions, Employers

FAILURE TO OBEY WLB ORDER WILL BRING PENALTIES   President Outlines 3Point Enforcement Plan Against  Violators

See Fid in Week   F. R. Okays Striker Draft, WLB Violator Crackdown

Will Cancel Deferments: President Also Moves to Enforce War Labo: Board Rulince.'

INDUCTION OF STRIKERS AUTHORIZED   Deferments Will . End, According to President’s..Order

FDR Authorizes Induction Of War Industry Strikers   Also Announces Sanctions Against Unions, Or Employers Who Defy WLB Orders

Roosevelt Gives WLB New Powers   Board Can Impose Stiff Sanctions

FDR Approves Induction Of War Strikers   Sanctions Against Unions, Labor, And Employers Are Authorized

ROOSEVELT AUTHORIZES INDUCTION OF STRIKERS   Tie-up of Union Funds Also Threatened;  Order Increases Labor Board’s Powers

F, 0, APPROVES WAR INDUSTRY STRIKER DRAFT   Order Strengthens WLE Position In Coal Mine Case

WITH DEGREES   Roosevelt Approval Given Drastic New Program To Enforce Orders

EXECUTIVE EDICT UPHOLDS HAND OF WAR LABOR BOARD   Roosevelt Empowers Vinson to Impose Penalties Againat Both Unions and   a? ne

F.D.R. Cracks nh ¥T..*.... Downon Unions And iimployers   Strikers to Be Ordered Inte Army: Plants May Re Seized

Palermo, Sicily’s Capital; Has Been Battle Prize Since Early History   Largest City And Principal Seaport, Semi-Circle Of ‘Mountains And Hills Which Partly Surround It Makes It Natural Stronchold.

FDR Still Has Hopes For Rome   Open City Continues As Strong Possibility   Palermo, Sicily, Scene Of Bloody Fighting Since Dawn OF History

Palermo—   A Prize Of Battle For Centuries; Carthagenians Took It From Phoenicians

Congressman Fulmer Predicts Repeal Of War Profits Renegotiation Act

Mayor Bryan. Appeals   To Nickel Plate R: R. To Relieve Shortage

PROBE PROMISED ON DADS’ DRAFT   Hearings Planned As Manpower Officials Cite Acute Labor Shortages

LEBANON SITUATION POTENTIALLY GRAVE CAIRD REPORTS SAY  REAL CLASH BETWEEN  NATIVES AND FRENCH MAY COME AT ANY TIME

Lebanon Clash May Erupt At Any Moment   British Lodge Protest Over Attack By French Troops

Grave Crisis  In Lebanon   Clash Between Natives And French Feared Soon Says British Official

CASUALTIES ALREADY TOTAL 140 —  Situation In Lebanon Described As Potentially Grave With Real Clash Of Natives And French Feared Soon

Crisis Grave Over Lebanon   Real Clash of French, Natives Possible Any Moment

SHIUATION ih LEBANUN ROW REAL GRISIS   Officials Reports Clash May Be  Seen Soon

Lebanon Situation  Potentially Grave Clash Expected Between French, Natives

Situation In ‘Lebanon Grave   Casualties In Political Con troversy Total 140, Including 10 Dead.

Lehanese-French Clash Expected By British =   Situation Said Potentially Grave As Casualties Occur

SITUATION IN LEBANON GRAVE   Real Clash Between Natives And French Believed Imminent

Still Tense In Lebanon   Fear Armed Clash Unless Dispute fs Settled Promptly

SITUATION IN LEBANON GRAVE   140 -Already Dead With Further Clashes Feared

New Clash In Syria  Imminent   British Say Situation With French Is Grave

ARMED CLASH   Tension Between French Authorities and Natives in Lebanon

LEBANON CRISIS MAY BE TEST CASE   Other Outbreaks May Break Out if Situation Not Cleared in Satisfactory Manner

BATTLE LOUMS IN LEBANON   OFFICIAL SAYS SITUATION IS “POTENTIALLY GRAVE”

CRISIS NEAR IN LEBANESE ROW   ‘Real Clash’ Pending At Any Time, British Official Says

REPORTS LEBANON SITUATION GRAVE   British Official Places Casuvalties at 140

FARM MEN MAY BE LEFT OUT OF BIC AMERICAN FORCE   Hershey Says Eleven Million: Man Army Can be Raised Without Farmers ;

SELECTIVE SERVICE HEAD SAYS POSSIBLE PASS FARM WORKERS  SENATE BLOC DISAGREE! WITH GEN. HERSHEY ANI DRAFTS LECISLATION

Hershey Says Men - Can Stay on Farms   Can Get Army my of 11 Million Without Them

Hershey: Can maintain army of 11 millior without disturbing 1,500,000 farmers

Bloc To Demand Deferment For Farm Workers   To Offer Senate Bills For Relieving Agricultural Labor Shortage.

DRAFT 10 LEAVE FARM WORKERS   Hershey Expects 1,500,000 to be Left to Produce Ag ricultural Crops.

ies. cea ame tetas CN CNN anit  Spanish Ship Sunk By German Submarine

ALBANIANS JOIN WITH TITO’S ARMY   In Driving Nazis From Town Near Border; British Officer Says Germans Beleaguered in Strongholds _   Nazi Casualties

Slavs drive nazi forces out of Debar   Drug Tito again flails Chetniks

Guerrillas Take Town of Debar From Nazi Forces  Albanians Battle Alongside haa Patriots

Albanians Join ~Tilo’s Army in. - Dusting Germans  Nazi Thrown Out of Yuaoslay Tawn hv   Nazi Thrown Out of  Yugoslav Tewn by United Forces

Albanians Join Tito Partisans   Nazi Garrisons Claimed Stronoly Besieved

Albanians Join Yugoslav Group   Assist Partisans In Border Battle

Albanians Assist Yugoslays in Smashing Nazis  Partisans Drive Foe From City as Offensive Speeds On

Massacre Of Kiev Citizens At “Baby Yar”  War’s Greatest German Mass Atrocity

Russians Unearth Layers of Bodies Piled Deer In ‘Baby Yar’ Pit By Nazis in Kiev Massacre

Kiev's “Women's Ravine” Becomes Grave of - At Least 60,000 Victims of Germans’ Fury

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Germans Pressed Back  In Russia And Italy  tan th 5 Pre Mm. ast. t.. e +... F gg, We Ee Ail: ...i  I Pea   First Part Of Battle In Salerno Over; Allied Invasion Directly Helping Soviet Advance

: First Grim Phase OF Battle OF Italy Over— —bBy Kirke L. oimp:  Salerno Landing Turns Into Full Offensive

WPA SUSPENDS AT MIDNIGHT   Dr. Carl Watson To Retire To Farm Near Findlay

STRIKING COAL MINERS   :  OHIO WPA ENDS ON FRIDAY NIGHT   Only 75 Employes Listed as Curtain Falls; Peak in 1938 Had 278,000 on Rolls

WPA WILL END AT MIDNIGHT   Agency Spent $900.000.000 During Eight-Year Period in Ohio

Ratlio Indicates Tokyo Preparing To Admit Loss   Nipponese Wail They're Outnumberec  By Americans

TOKYO, BERLIN HINT LOSS TO BE ADMITTED SOON   Barrage of Blows on Jap Positions Looked for by Strategists

Governor Puts His Veto Upon First Measure   Bill Transferring Power of Attorney General from Governor Passed by the House over Veto.

Allied Bombs Smear Jap  Wewak Bases   Bombers, Fighters Shoot Down 14 Enemy Planes

Nazis Fortily Jutland Area, Fear Invasion   Big Reinforcements  Of Troops Sent  "TL. CiarrigAne

‘COMMITTEMAN OWLETT SCORES ' NEW DEALERS   Ex. Senator Warns Against   New Deal Theorists in War   Effort.

OWLETT SCORES ‘THE FANATICS   Republican National Committeeman Gives New Year Warning.

Strategy For Defense Will Be Continued   Civilian Protection Programs Will Be Aggressively Maintained   WARNINGS ARE ISSUED

PA. CIVILIAN DEFENSE IS NOT FOLDING UP   Director Of State Defense Assures Leaders   WILL CONTINUE   Strategy To Be Changed From Time To Time

Today's War Commentary  Italy May Quit  Hler Power To Might Diniainishins

American Bombers Raid Le Mans; All” Return to Bases   Thunderbolt Fighters Go Along With Big Fortresses on Raid

YANK BOMBERS  POUND LE MANS WITHOUT LOSS   Huge Force Hits French Railways, Industries In Raid; All Planes Return Safely   ‘NAZI OPPOSITION REPORTED AS WEAK   RAF Rips Messina With -Heavy Bombs, Italian Port Badly Damaged; Two Craft Lost

* Yankee Raid On French Air e Engine Plan!   Night Assault Also Takes Allied Offensive to Big > Chemical Industries   BOMBS UNLOADED IN LE MANS AREA   @ Thunderbolt Fighters Go Along, Number of Enemy Fichters Shot Down

Le Mans Hit In Force By Americar Heavy Bombers   Industrial. Center - As: saulted: in’ First Raid Made Without. Loss by American Bombers Since Mav 4.

BOMB AIRPLANE ENGINE PLANTS   American Bombers Return Without Loss From Attack on LeMans.   RAF IN ATTACK ON SICILY

Flew Through a Heavy Overcast, Encountered Weak Enemy Fighter Resistance.   RETURNED WITHOUT THE LOSS OF A PLANE   It Was First Time the U. § 8th Air Force Had Struck at This Airplane Works City.

OVER LA MANS AND BACK--0. K:   No Details of U. S. Raid As Clouds Obscure Observation

U. S. Forts In Big Raid  On France   Le Mans Industrial Area Target For Americans Who Suffer No Losses

YANK HEAYY BOMBERS HIT FRENCH CITY   Thunderbolts Escort Forts; Enemy Planes ‘Downed

Le Mans Raided; No UV. S. Planes Lost  Yanks Bomb French Industrial Center

U.S.Hits AtFrench Factory   All Fortresses Back — . Safe as New Fighters Aet as Escort

INDUSTRIAL CITY GETS HEAVY RAID   Airplane Engine Plant At Le Mans Pounded By Yank Airmen

U.S. AIRMEN HIT CITY IN FRANCE, NO PLANES L&S1   New P-47 Thunderbolts Join Heavy Bombers in Raid on Plane Plants

FRENCH CITY HIT BY YANKS IN NIGHT RAID   Weak Enemy Opposition  . Encountered as Flying Fortresses Blast Le Mans and Return Without Loss.

Flying Forts ‘Attack France   Industrial Center At Le Mans Heavily Hit in Night Reid

AMERICAN FORCE RAIDS LE MANS, FACTORY CENTER   Site of Giant Air Plant Blast ed by Bombers—Thunderbolts Help

Strong Force of Forlresses Accom panied by New Thunderbolts Meet Little Opposition

ALL RETURN» INTACT FROM HEAVY FORAY   Strong Force Hits Industrial, Railway Center Of Le Mans

Return Safely After Attack On Le Mans   U. S. Bombers Encounter Weak Opposition In Raid On Railway And Industrial Center

US Air Force Hit At French City   Le MANS IS RAILWAY AND INDUSTRIAL CENTER.

U.S. Bombers Hit  Le Mans, France   Raid, Made Without Loss Directed At Chemi cal Center,

U.S. Bombers Hit Le Mans, France  Return Without Loss From Attack

Le Mans Hit. By U.S. Bomb:   Not A Single Plane Lost During Attack

LARGE FORCE OF AMERICAN BOMBERS RAIDED IN FRANCE  SQUADRONS OF P-47 THUNDERBOLTS SHOT

German Defenses In Danger   Red Activity on Central Front Reported—Only 25 Miles from Key City

Yanks Blast Axis Army In Vast Aerial Nutcracker      PLANES DESTROYED   Flying Fortresses Star in Downing Nazis in North Africa

JUVE T ARM THREATENING  IW NEW SECTOR   Anchor Point Of Nazi Lines On Central Front Faces Serious Threat

Minor Thefts Are Reported   Pocketbook, Bicycle And Twenty Pigeons Are Reported Stolen Here.

LARGE STORES OF WAR GOODS ARE CAPTURED   Russian Troops Continue Drive Thru Caucasus

TANKS, PRESSED. INI BREACHES OF FOE'S LINES   Caucasus Campaign Being Pushed; Battles’ Are: .  Growing Fiereer

U. S. Subs — Sink Six . Jap Ships   American . Undersea Attack Sends:- Destroyer, Five “Other, Ships Down

Bag Includes Destroyer, [Laree Tanker   Four Cargo Ships Are Sent Down: Another Damaged

U.S. Subs Sink Six More Japanese Ships   Destroyer, Five Other Vessels Lost. by Nipponese

U.S. Subs Sink 5 Jap Warships   Destroyer !s Included Among Latest Sinkings

American Subs Sink Six Jap Vessels   American Airmen Strike at Kahili On Bouganville

AMERICAN SUBS OINK OIA MORE Ut JAP OHIPS   American Undersea Raiders Chalk Up More Victories In Pacific Waters

FIVE CARGO VESSELS HIT   Airmen in Another Attack on Nip Airfield

BOMBER CRASHES ON RAILROAD IN UTAH   Derails Train, 29 Cars Leave Track: Fler Dies

TRAIN IS WRECKED BY BOMBER’S CRASI   One Flier Killed and Ter Others of Crew Hurt

Cigarettes and Cartridge Shells Float in Air  As Granddaddy of All Downdrafts Hits Liberator

K-Rations, Pistols, Bomb Dropped as Reporter  Escapes Fall From Spinning B-24

 Danville Boy On Raider Caught  In Downdraft And Carried 2,000  Feet Earthward In Twenty Seconds

Medium Bombers  Strike At Por   Allied Aerial Campaign To Obliterate Nazi Airfields In France Continues  RW. Yur Vv Wey AW

YANKS BOMB NAZI FIELD AT POX   R, A. F. Gives Reich Proper Respite for One Night

Yanks Pound France To Celebrate Fourth   Fortresses Stage Three-Ply Bombing Raid on First Anniversary of U.S. Aerial Thrust of War Against Europe.

Allied Bombers Raid Germany, Coast of France   U-Boat Works At Nantes, La Pallice Hit

Forays Deep Into  Occupied Country Mark Anniversary Of First Combat

AMERICAN FLYING  FORTRESSES RAIDED  DEEP INTO FRANCE THREE-PLY FOURTH OF  _ JULY BOMBING OF GERMAN ORICCTIVES

FLYING FORTS POUND HARD AT NAZIS’ VITALS   Yanks Mark Anniversary Of First Raids by Ripping Key Positions

HEAVY BOMB RAIDS   Engine Factory and Boat Works in France Are  > U.S. Targets -

FORTRESSES STRIKE DEEP INTO FRANCE   Airplane Factory And U-Boat Works Principal Targets

U.S. Flying Fortresses Hit Nazi Plants in France   Smash Airplane Engine Factory at Le Mans and: U-Boat Works at Nantes

30, , ATTACKS BATTER EUROPE   Yanks Mark Anniversary 0} First Raids Year Ago

MINE OWNERS: ANDUNIONISTS IN CONFERENCE   Operators and Labor Rep‘resenting Every .Coal Producing Section of  Country-Meet- «

COAL WAGE. ~ MEET COMPLETE   All Operators, Union in Session for First Time in History

Join Coal _ Negotiations   All Soft Coal  Opera- ) tors Represented At Wage: Contract Parley.

COAL OPERATORS, UNION LEADERS DISCUSS CONTRACT  EVERY SECTION COUNTR}  REPRESENTED—-FIRST ThITh  Ar ITc VIN

All Operators At Coal Parley   Yield To Ickes’ Appeal To Get Together On Ware Contract.

‘CAPTIVE’ MINES JOIN PAY PARLEY   All Coal Factions Take Par In Talks First Time

MINE CHIEFS DISCUSS PACT   Operators, Union Heads At: tempt To Reach Wage Agreement

Seek Suitable Wage Contract   For First Time In History. All Coal Operators, Unions Sit Together.

MINE OWNERS CONFER WITH UNION CHIEFS   First Time in History Soft Coal Operators and Leaders From Entire Country Hold Meeting   HEED APPEAL OF ICKES

Mayors and Business Leaders Prepare to Take Up Fight at Pittsburgh  rvearrer ft AR ee  6CUP OAM KT

New Talk Of Invasion  Is Heard   Patterson Says ‘Hour of Realism’  Is Near at Hand

WITNESSES TELL DPJAP RIGT Al ~—TULELAKE CAME   Army Sends More Troops to Guard Internees in Cali Siete

EXTEND MAIL DATE FOR MEN SHIPPED OUT   Yule packages accepted for men shipped from home stations

Speed Limit Law Change Opposed   Sours Would Give  Committee Power

Ohio Legislators Afraid To Freeze Speed Limit At 35 M. P. H., Fearing Change Of Signals

3o-MILE HIGHWAY. “SPEED LIMIT MAY” END IN HEADACHE   General Assembly Faces Quite a Task in Fram: ing Measure in Legal  Manner.

NYA OPERATIONS IN “STATE ARE STOPPED   Termination 8y Congress Will Result in Property Liquidation.

10 Japanese Bases in Islands Above  Australia Bombed   MacArthur’s Air Force Reports Nips Massing War, Cargo Ships

TEN JAPANESE BASED GIVEN NEW POUNDING   Enemy Still Concentrating Forces At Kavieng

RAF FLIERS MAKE RAID ON RANGOON   Planes Keep Watch On Jap Shipping In New Guinea Area

ALLIED AIRMEN CONTINUE TO HIT AT NIP VESSELS   RAF Drops Large Bombs on Railway Station at Ragoon

Find More Jap Ships AtKavieng   Massing Of Fleet Off Port In New Ireland {is Continued Despite Allied Air Attacks

JAPS CONTINUE TO MASS FLEET OFF KAVIENG   Allied Airmen Pound Ten Jap Bases North of Australia, Score Near Misses on Ship

Japs Still Mass Ships At Kavieng   Return + To Area Despite Three-day Pounding By Allied Planes; Bombers Blast More Nip Bases

10 BASES IN. ISLANDS GET BOMB “CALLS”   Warships, Merchant Vessels of Yellow Enemy Still Being Massed in New Ireland

Allies Pound 10 Jap Bases  _ Enemy Continues ~ Massing Ships-At ._ Kaviena Decnite Raid:

JAPS CONTINUE TO MASS SHIPS ‘ABOVE RABAIIL   Enemy Returns To Hard. Held Bases North Of Australia Despite Hits

IN AASON CUTTY   Bombers Lash 10 Nipponese Bases   JAPS CONTINUE CONCENTRATION   Reconnaissance Reveals Many Ships at Kavieng  McC: eee ree eee

JAPANESE MASS SHIPS AT KAVIENG   Allied Airmen Continue Bombing Enemy Bases North of Australia.

YANKS ATTACK JAPANESE SHIPS   Enemy Massing Warcraft Al Kavieng Despite Raids By Americans

Japanese Massing Warships At Kavieng Despite Heavy American Aerial Assaults

10 ENEMY BASES FEEL AIR BLOWS   Allied Bombers Sweep Over Wide Area Above Australia to Hammer Japs

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAP BASES   Enemy Return To Strongholds * Despite Violent 3-Day Pounding -

U.N. Fliers Bomb Tex Jap Bases In Far ‘Pacific   Enemy Continues To Mass Warships Near Kavieng Despite Heavy Assaults

Japs Still Massing Ships At Kavieng  Allied Warplanes Hit At Ten Jap Bases Off The Australian Coast

Japs Massing More Ships in South Pacific   Allied Bombers Keep Up Devastating Assaults in Effort To Break Up Jap Attempts To Strengthen Grip and Threaten Supply Line to China—Many Enemy Vessels Destroyed

Allies Pound At Least 10 Jap Bases   Enemy Continues to Mass. Warships and Merchant Vessels in Vicinity of Kaveing Despite Violent Attacks )

Bombers Pound Japanese Bases   Islands Above Australia Hit By Fliers

Japs Massing Warship Fleet   MacArthur's Bombers Continue To Blast Concentrations Near Kaveing.

TEN JAP BASES POUNDED INPACIFIC   Japanese Continue to Mass Warships in. Vicinity: of Kavieng

Japanese Massing Ships At Kavieng  Allied Airmen Assault  10 Enemy Bases

Ten Jap Bases in Southwest Pacific Pounded by Bomb:   Enemy Continues To Mass Ships North of Australia

TIEUPS IN WAR “PLANTS STUDIEL   Fresh Demands To Curb Absenteeism Heard In Congress

CONGRESS ACTS TO END STRIKES INWARPLANTS   Steps Being Taken To Curb Absenteeism Following  Boeing Tieun   GOVERNMENT MUST ASSERT AUTHORITY

HIGHT TO CURB STRIKES BEGUN BY CONGRESSMEN   Connally to Offer Bill to Seize Any War Plant Where Labor Strife Interrupts Production.   PUNISHMENT PROPOSED IN PATMAN MEASURE   Texan Would Fine and Imprison Anyone Guilty of Conspiracy to Interfere With War Worl.

House Moves To Curb Absentees   Warning Is. Given, Workers By WLB

Men Absent From Work Hit in Bill   Action Is Started Following Walkou At Plane Factory

Congress Moves To Curb Strikes And Check Absenteeism   Action Brought About By Work Stoppage At A Flying Fortress Factory And Production Tieups In Other War Plants

ACTION AGAINST WORK STOPPAGE GAINS HEADWAY   Connally Will Introduce Bill Authorizing UV. S. To Take Over Works  Halted By Labor   Absenteeism Hit

ress Seeks s for Strikes  Absenteeism  nally Would Have S. Take Over Any errupted Plants  OTHER MOVES  B Says It Will nsider Case Only Work Goes On

Texans Fight Absenteeism, Work Tieup:   House Rules Committee Speeds Bill to Draft Lavvard Tailerc

Legislators Move To Hak Absenteeism  And Strikes   Connally Plans Bill To Authorize Seizing Of Plants Immobilized By Labor Disturbances

House Moves To Curb Absentees  Warning Is Given VAs. 1... D.. LA/IE DOD

Absenteeism, Strikes Irk Congress   Action Developing a: Production Tieups Get Airing

FIGHT OPENS © TOEND WORK STOPPAGES   Absenteeism Would be _ Halted and Strikes Curb ed by Measures

ACTION TO END ABSENTEEISM, STRIKES SEEN   Boeing Dispute Brings Labor Moves in Congress

Drastic Labor Bills Urged In Congress   Texans Prepare Laws to Stop Strikes and Excess Absentecism

Senate, House Rush Bills to Curb Walkout:   Boeing Tie-Up Spurs. Action to Check Strikes, Absenteeism

Would Have Government  Take Plants   Washington Officials Aim Shafts At “Absenteeism”

Action to Curb Strikes Develops   Congressmen Voice Their Concern

Badoglio Sees Fight Against King   PREMIER TELLS EMMANUEL ITALY POLITICAL HEADS FAVOR HIS ABDICATION

FAVOR ABDICATION QF -ITALIAN KING   Badoglio Informs Ruler Victor Emmanuel] Of New Plan

BADOGLIC TELLS KING TO RESIGR   Victor Emmanuel informed He Should Abdicate When Rome !s Captured.

ABDICATION OF EMANUEL ASKED   Italian Premier Badoglio Informs Kine And Crown Prince

Emmanuel Told Leaders Favor  His Abdication   Premier Badoglio Conducts Awkward Meeting W;ith King

New Yorker destifies In Flynn Hearing  7 Investigafor Charges Clty Materials Were

Ex-Aide of Dewey Says Flynn ‘Knew      No Direct Evidence Links Nominee to Paving Job, Herlands Admits

More Witnesses  In Flynn Probe   Investigator ‘Sure’  Of Brick Case Guilt

Five Witnesses  Give Testimony  Flynn Hearings May Rae Pedal Tale

Five Witnesses Give Testimony   Flynn Hearings May Be Ended Today

Ed Flynn Knew Bricks’ Source?   New York Official Testifies Before Sennte

Continue Hearing In Investigation Of Seating Flynn  New York City Investigator Expresses Belief Chairman Guilty

(Edward J. Flynn Hearing May Be (Concluded Today  Paving of Courtyard  At Country Estate Again le Reviewed

SAYS FLYNN KNEW CITY PAVED YARD   Investigator One of Witnesses Heard in Probe by Senate

HOUSE RESUMANG CONSIDERATION Ot REVENUE MEASURE   Already Adopted Nearly Half the Measure Following the First Meeting In Committee of the Whole; Legislators Visit Pre Flicht School.

WLB ADAPTS BONUS FORMULA PROGRAR   Hundreds of Thousands of Workers to Receive Bonus ‘ in Lieu of Week-End Pav

WLB LAYS DOWN. BONUS FORMULA FOR WORKERS   Bonuses Ranging From 5 to 12.8 Pct. Awarded Employes of Several Companies

BONUS PLAN TQ QUOTA RATE OF PAY   5 to 13.8 Per Cent Given Two Groups to Make  Up for Cut.   RETROACTIVE TO LAST OCTOBER 1   Executive Order Cut Off Saturdays, Sun days, Holidays Extra Pay.

Swing Shift Workers To Be Given Bonus   War Labor Board Lays Down New Formula For Restoring Earnings

$1,088 Stamps and -Bonds, 26 Corsages Sold From Ladies Booth Past Week

SPECULATE ON ROMMEL’S FATE   Reports Conflict On Whether Or Not General Was Shot  Down In Plane

Famed Church Is Destroyed, Axis Claims Cemetery, :Hospita  - Also Suffer, Say . > pea Conde: #

justice Department Secking Price-Fixing Evidence; Morgenthau Lessens Warehouse Time

Liquor Industry Inquiry Ordered On Trust Charge   Serugham Says Warehouses Hold - Plenty of Whiskey

Justice Bureau Makes ‘Liquor Scarcity Probe   Inquiry Develops “Strong Suspicion” Of Monopolistic Practices To Create Artificial Shortage And Boost Prices

‘Roll Out the Barrel,’ Liquor Probers Chant   Subsidy Dispute Produces Forum on Inflation

LIQUOR PLANTS UNDER SCRUTINY   Justice Dept. Is Conducting Investigation Into PriceFixing Rumors

Liquor Industry is Under Scrutiny of Justice Department   In “Sympathy” With U. S. Senate’s Inquiry; Washington News

ENOUGH WHISKEY FOR 12 QTS. EACH, SENATOR ASSERTS   SCRUGHAM TELLS OF HUGE BONDED STOCKS NOW IN WAREHOUSES

TREATY GIVES CHINA EQUALITY   United States And Britain Sign Pacts Giving Up Privileges

Identical Treaties Are Signed  By Washington And London With Chungking Government  Relinquish Extraterritorial Rights In China; Apply Principal Of Equality Of Treatment

Plea For Peace Voiced By Pope   Dramatic Christmas Message Is Broadcast To World By Pope Pius

376 PINTS BLOOD ARE DONATED HERE   Was the Third Successful Visit of Mobile Unit  to Lawrence  ea MRR EA Aare Cry Traal’  rAhrarr

376 PINTS BLOOD "AREDONATED HERE   Was the Third Successful ‘Visit of Mobile Unit  to Lawrence

Flat Increase In Wages Is Advocated   Wickard Seeks Substitute for Incentive Payment Program;  .Thomas Protests Civilian Draft Bill

Wallace Reports Powerful Groups Opposing FDR.   Sees ‘Effort “To Destroy Everything Accomplished by President’

Wallace Defends F. D. R.’s Policies  Vice President Is Speaker at Detroit

‘Wallace Pats Hand That Slapped Him   VICE PRESIDENT MAKES SPEECH IN DETROIT IN DEFENSE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; SKIPS REBUKE,   Assails Powerful Groups

WALLACE CHARGES EFFORTS TO WRECK ROOSEVELT’S PROGRAM      Powerful Groups Trying to Take Advantage of President’s Concentration on War to Destroy Program, Vice President Asserts

Wallace Charges War Used to Attack New Deal  Vice President Hits at Critics of His Post-War Proposals.

MARITIME UNIT GETS BIG GRANT   90 Percent of Budget is. Fo War Purposes; Planning Board Ignored

HUGE INDEPENDENT OFFICES SUPPLY BILL BEFORE HOUSE   Carries Over a Billion Dollars To Help Maritime Commission Attain Goal of Five Merchant Ships Per Day

SUPPLY BILL IS SENT TO HOUSE BY COMMITTEE   Carries More Than Billion Dollars To Speed Ship  Praaram   NEARLY. ALL FOR WAR   Total Asked In Measure Is $6,448,206 Under Budget Estimates

HOUSE RECEIVES $2,621,104379. SUPPLY MEASURE   Nearly Half of Funds To - Speed Maritime Goal of Five Merchant Ships A Day By Next May; Consideration Set For Next Monday.

OVER A BILLION FOR NEW SHIPS   House Gets Bill For $2,600,000,000, Including Large Sum For Five - Ships - ADay Program.

Five Merchant Ships a Day Included Big Appropriation ‘Bill Is Sent To House

Billion Asked For New Ships   Fund to Speed Building To Goal of Five Cargo Ships a Day, Stated

Billion For New Merchant Craft Asked In House   Supply Bill Sets Up Funds To Build Five Ships A Day

2 Billion Offices Supply Bill Offered   Billion Will Go to Maritime Commission To Reach Goal of 5 Merchant Ships Daily

Billion More Requested for Cargo Ships   House Gets Supply Bil for 214 Billions for War Purposes

Billion Dollars To Build Up U. S. Merchant Fleet   Congress Office: Supply Measure

$2,621,104,379 Fund for Independent Offices Supply Group  PLANNING UNIT OUT   Highway Works Program Tc Be Continued; Fund for Utah

Hunger Forcing French Into Nazi Work Camps   Tax Abatement Is Opposed By House Group   Roosevelt Denounces Framing of Post-War Policies In Detail now; Silent on Resolution by Republican

DAMPER PUT 0 POST-WAR PLAN   FDR Opposes Framing Policies in Detail Now   WIN WAR FIRST   Senate Resolution Favors International Police Force to Keep Peace

Lesident Favors elay in Framing ost-War Policy  Would Limit Senate To Pledge of United  Nations Co-Operation ‘VIDED OPINIONS  Taft Suggests Caution Resolution Sponsors Want Definite Action

F.D.R. Opposes Policy Framing   Senator Introduces Policing Resolution

FDR Disagrees With Planners  Saves We Must Wi   Says We Must Win War As First Job

General Postwar Plan Enough  Now---Roosevelt  First, Win the Fight, Reconstruction Details Come Later

ROOSEVELT WOULD PUT OFF FRAMING POST-WAR POLICY   President Indicates Opposition to Proposal for Senate to Make Pronouncement on Subject.   SPONSORS’ RESOLUTION LAID BEFORE CHAMBER   Willkie Gives It His Indorsement—Hearings Before Foreign Affairs Group to Start in Two Weeks.

Victory First, Then Policies, Says President   Opposition to Definite Post-War Stand Is  w.. Us... 6...3 kone DTA

HUGHES WANTS CONVENTION OF ILL. DEMOCRATS   Secretary Of State Proposes Pre.  Primary Meeting Of Party Tc Discuss Plans For The Cam. paign Next Spring.

GROUP OPP Oot INCREASING TAX   G. O. P. Committee Members Savy Income Taxes  Must Not Be Boosted

INCREASE OF. ‘ALLOWANCES T0 -BE VOTED UPON   Senate .Expe Expected . to Approve House Bill Before Nightfall  elon uy

GOP Members of House Ways, Means Comm. Oppose Fed. Income Tax Increase

Republicans Are Against Increase Of Income Taxes   Little Change Seen In Strike Situation

LIQUOR RATIONS FOR OHIO GO UP   Rationing Period Changed To Calendar-month Basis For More Convenience

Conference On Wage Formula Is Postponed   President Is Suffering From Head Cold, So Meeting With Labor Leaders Is Delayed

MINERS OFFER TO EXTEND PRESENT WAGE CONTRACI   Propose*To Make New Pact Retroactive To April 1   LABOR LEADER SEEING ROOSEVELT TODAY

Labor Protest To Be Aired This Week.   Head Cold Prevents Scheduled Meeting With President

OPA STUDIES MILK PRICE BOOST PLEA      Regional Office Forwards Producers’ Request To Washington

OPA RECOMMENDS MILK PRICE RAISE   Claim Advance Would Increase Dairy Production

Three - Sided Effort Fails Te End ClO Strike; Rubber Emploves Work Again.

TRANSIT STRIKE CRIPPLES AKRON   Triple Effort Made To End Stoppage; Rubber Workers Back On Job

EFFORTS MADE TO END STRIKE   Akron Bus, Street Car Workers Continue Walkout Dispiute Union’s Appeals

snoreneeni ea ere means eterna  AKRON WAR PLANTS GO DESPITE STRIKE   Buses and Street Cars Are Still Tied Up

AKRON TRANSIT STRIKE STILL ON   Issue Appeals for Drivers Te Return To Work; Factories Unhurt

FIGHT TO SPEED CHANGE IN TIME   Ohio Representatives Batt! to Get Quick Action As Senate Votes Delay.

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Frantic Texans Stampede Shoe Stores on Last Day For Use of Coupon No. I7

We Call It Civilization! Cattle Are Put To Shame As Texans Stampede At Shoe Counters

TRIO SMALL NATIONS FIND COLLABORATION WITH NAZIS NOT GOOD  LITHUANIA, LATVIA AND ESTONIA READY TO FIGHT GERMANY OR RUSSIA.

WATERS CARVE WIDER PATH IN 6-STATE AREA   Thousands Of Acres Of Valuable Farm Plantings Are Reported Destroyed   NEW LEVEE BREAKS LISTED   Menace Grows [n Southern lilincis And St. Louis Regions As River Crests

‘CROP ' GOALS ‘MAY NOT BE  REAUHED "AS RESULT OF"FLOODS IN MANY  STATES —

RAGING FLOODS CUT WIDER PATH IN SIX STATES   Wartime Crop Goal Chances Sharply Reduced In Nation’s Breadbasket      NEW DANGERS _ ARISE   Raging Torrents Sweeping Over Additional Acres Of Fertile Land

GREAT DAMAGE TO VAST AREA OF FARM LAND   Governors of six stricken states will plan  emergency moves

More Destruction In Mid-West Floods   Heavy Damage To Crop Land In Illinois

Mid-West Floods Spread Over Wider Area Of Six States   Fear Food Production In Wide Section Will Be Badly Hampered

FLOODS IMPERIL WAR GROP GOAL   Path of Destruction Widens Over Six Mid Western States .

FLOOD GUTS PATH IN BREAD BASKET   Stricken States’ Governors to Plan Crop Relief.

Expect Flood Crest Tuesday   Dikes At Blair Abandoned: Predict Omaha Reading  To Equal 1881 Mark.

MISSOURI TO RISE HIGHER   Council Bluffs Raises Dikes North of City

East Is Facing New Gasoline  Dearth Crisis   . Allotments For Civilian Use May Be Reduced  Again.

CLAIM NEW CRISIS IN GAS SITUATION   OPA Sources Say Suspension Of A Cards Is Possibility— Studying Effect Of Ickes’ Allotment

SUSPENSION OF A CARDS TALKED   Spokesman For OPA Admits All “A’’ Gas Books May Be Revoked As Last Resort.

CANCELLATION OF A GASOLINE CARDS STUDIED   Seasonal Demands Bid Fair to Ov. erfax Slight Increase in July, Leave Big Deficit

East Facing ‘A’ Card Loss InGas Cri isks   OPA Admits Possibility but Says Suspension Will Be ‘Last Resort? 

“A” Coupons Threatened by Another Cut  Talk Is Heard of Suspending All  eek  we Deere a

16,500 Fathers In Ohio Due For Draft This Year   Boards Told Not to Reclassify Faster Than Necessary

SENATE GROUP TO STUDY U.S. POST-WAR ROLE   Unpaid Advisory Group of ‘Experts’ Contemplated

SPECIAL GROUP 10 STUDY U.S. ROLE IN POST-WAR PICTURE   Ten Senators Called Together To Organize Study; Income Taxes, Struggle Against Inflation and Draft Deferments Are the Highlights.

SENATORS STUDY COUNTRY’S ROLE POST-WAR PICTURE  CHURCHILL BROADCAST HOLDS ATTENTION OF-

SENATORS STUDY COUNTRY’S ROLE POST-WAR PICTURE  CHURCHILL BROADCASI

CALL MEETING ON POST-WAR   Ten Senators Will Organize Study Of This Country's Role

Ameriean Fliers Blast Jap Bases  In Heavy Attacks  Kiska And Munda Raided By

TORPEDO BOATS WHIP JAPANESE   Scatter Destroyers at Guadaleanal' -

ALLIES CLOSING TRAP ON JAPS IN NEW GUINEA ZONE   Americans and Australians, Under Direction of MacArthur, Launch Attack on Enemy.

INJURED AT SUNFLOWER   Plumber’s Helper Suffers Broken Leg in Early Morning Accident

They were Shaking Loose the Last Grip of Marshal Rommel’s Crippled Columns in Centra! Tunisia.   ALSO MENACED TWO OTHER STRONG POINTS   Combining a Three-Pronged Attack in the North, Gen. Alexander Had Enemy in  Trouble on Two Fronts.

BIG SPRING AIRMAN  BELIEVED LOST IN  LAST HEROIC FIGHT STAFF SGT. H. W. HOL COMBE STAYED WITH ’ BOMRER FICHT FLAMES

ROOSEVELT ARRIVES IN QUEBEC TODAY   Athoone To Welcome The President

Governor General Of Canada Arrives At Quebec To Officially  Welcome President

Conference implications Significant   Hull Will Meet With Leaders In Quebec

ops Wallace Qualifies ‘Accusations ‘Against Jones   In Effect Issues an  Apology; Gets   Backing for Point

Wallace Qualifies Accusations Against Jones  In Effect Issues an Apology; Gets Backing for Point

Senate Studies  Aviation Measure   Final Reading Due Of  Controversial Act

AVIATION BILL IS ADVANCED T0 THIRD READING IN SENATE  HOUSE ALL BUT KILLED THREE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

FIND FIRE ON SPEEDING TRAIN   Officials Mystitied hy That Destrove

LAND SAFELY   sarge Contingents of U. S. Cunadian Troops Reach Enyland.

All-Male Jury Frees Novelist In 10 Minutes   Ursula Parrott Found Not Guilty on All Three Counts

JAPS HEAVY LOSERS IN CONVOY FIGHT   11 Ships Trapped In Attempt to Reinforce Vila

THREATEN A STRIKE   Copper Mill Workers in Utah Would Tie Up War Production

Nazi Supply Line Dealt Stiff Blows   Big Transports, Freight Planes Are Wiped Out

Enemy Loses 96 Planes Near Africa   Americans, British Triumph in Greatest Air Battle of Mediterranean; Bia Transports. Fiahters Are Downed

HALF OF BIG NAZI AERIAL CONVOY SHOT INTO SEA By DANIEL DeLUCE  Recariated Prace Staff Writer

68 Transports And 16 Fighter Escorts In Convoy  Are Shot Down   OTHER ENEMY PLANES ARE LOST IN AIR RAIDS

68 German Transports Destroyed in Greatest Aerial Attacks of War   3ig Junkers Planes Loaded with Troops Sent Crashing info Mediferranean on Rocky Hillsides of Tunisia; Americans Join with RAF in Annihilation of Fleeing Troops; Hard Blow to Nazis

OUTBOUND CONVOY AMBUSHED ON NORTHERN TIP OF TUNISIA AND 58 PLANES GO DOWN.

SUPPLY LINE FOR ROMMEL IS HAMMERED   OUTBOUND CONVOY AMBUSHED OFF TUNISIA

SAVAGE RAIDS MADE ON AXIS SUPPLY LINES   Outgoing Transports From Tunisia Shot Down By Alert Allied Airmen.

38 Axis Transports Are Downed in Massacre of Enemy Air Power   Big Junkers Freight Planes Destroyed in Savage Fighting; ‘Almost Entirely a U. S. Victory’ Cairo Reports; U.S. Losses Light

Destroy 96. Axis Planes Including 68  Bis T ranspor't    Junkers Transport RePorted Filled: With Troops Being Evacuat: ed From Tunisia;’ US ‘Airmen — Play. Major Part

68 WITH TROOPS, FREIGHT PLUNGE, SOME INTO SEA   Convoy of 100 Transports Ambushed and Attacked Near Water Level With  Devastating Results.   SLAUGHTER GREATEST IN AFRICAN THEATER   Cairo Says It Was Almost Entirely an American Victory  With Only Nine Ships TF nct

Junkers Freight and Troop Transport Planes . Downed cod AMERICAN AIRMEN . . DELIVER ATTACKS Smashing Victory Cloimed in Single, Historic Engagement

OO BIG JUNKERD AMONG VICTING   Marks Savage Attacks on Rommel’s Supply Line   FIGHTERS DOWNED   58 Enemy Transports Sent Flaming to Earth and Inte Sea in One Engagement

Savage Aitacks Account for  96 Axis Planes   Enemy Convoy Is Ambushed Off Tunisia Tip

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68 German Freight and Troop Gratt Destroyed; Big Aerial Convoy is Ambushed: Palermo is Blasted

ConvoyAmbushed Just off Tunisia   Cairo Reports It Almost Entirely American Victory; Craft Loaded With Axis Troops  Being Evacuated

Toll Includes 68 Transports Hauling Troops   Slaughter Worst in Mediterranean Area; Yanks Raid Palermo; Little Ground Activity

il PERCENT Ur FATHERS CONSIDEREL   Deferment Status To Be Studied - Carefully.

Draft fo Take Two Million By July 1   1,000,000 Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers. to Be Included

Nazis Plan Four-Engined Rocket Plan For 1944. ‘Sensational New Weapon’

FATHERS DRAFT DEADLINE ENDS   Those In Non-Deferrable Positions Could Be Called Today

‘They Could Be Drafted Tomorrow’   Selective Service Chief Gives Lowdown on  Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads

No Dads Immune From Service,  Uraft Head Says   “They Could Be Drafted Tom orrow, Thus Col, George Baker Sums up Status of Pre-Pearl Harbor Paters 

Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Liable for Army Service Before Oct. 1 Deadline

“They Could Be Drafted...”   Selective Service Chief Warns Against False Hopes of Immunity

‘They Could Be Drafted Tomorrow, ’ Savs Manpower Official Of Fathers

Seeking New Tax Formula   Democrats and Republicar Leaders of House Work on Pay-as-you-go Plan 

REPORTED MANY AMERICANS ARE HELD PRISONER   Withdrawal From Forward Positions In Ousseltia Valley Described As Natural Aftermath Of Axis Advance.

TROOPS MOVE TO ELIMINATE AXIS THREATS   Allied Troops Repulse Attack Near Kasserine

SOLDIER HELD FOR DEATH OF COUNTRY GIRL   Confesses Beating Victim on Road and Hiding Her Body in Bushes.   HE HAD BEEN DRINKING CONSIDERABLE WHISKY

Hold Soldier For Slaying   Nude Body Of 16-Year Old Girl Founds In Weeds On Nebraska Road

MacAVOY ADMITS SLAYING   Soldier Attacked, Killed 16-YearOld Girl

Soldier Admits Slaying Girl   Autopsy Disclosed That Girl Had Been Criminally Attacked.

He Confesses Killing Girl  He Attacked   Nude, Battered Body Found In Clump Of Weeds

SOLDIER ADMITS KILLING GIRL, 16   CRIMINAL ASSAULT PRECEDED VICIOUS ATTACK ON VICTIM

Soldier Held ‘In Girl's Death   Sheriff Says Sergeant Admits Slaying of Young Nebraskan

U.S, SOLDIER ADMITS RAPE-MURDER OF GIRL   Nebraska Police Find Body Along Gravel Road

Argentina lh ~ Allied ‘Orbit   Break With ‘Axis Js Held ‘Imminent

New Argentine Regime To Work With Neighbors  Martial Law Ends; Deeds Will Show  F Pea ea 1. Lemar”

RAMIREZ HINTS OF CLOSER ACCORD      Argentine Leader Says Deeds Will Follow Words

ACTS T0 BACK WORDS SOUNDE! BY ARGENTINA   Observers See Nation Breaking With Axis

ARGENTINA T0 GIVE CLOSER COOPERATION   President Pedro Ramirez Promises Relations Will Regulated By Deeds and Practices   MARTIAL LAW IS LIFTED

Argentine ‘Moves Closer to Allies   New President Says Words Will Be Followed by Actions, See Axis Rupture

Martial Law Comes ToEnc  in Argentina   Cooperates With American Nations

‘Says Argentina Will Cooperate  ’ With Americas   Ramirez Restates. Policy: Break With Axis Seen By Neutral Observers

Juvenile Crime Takes Jump in State in 1943   Delinquency among Whites Up 33 per Cent, Negroes 6/7 per Cent

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BRITISH EIGHTH RMY CAPTURES. CASTELFRENTANO   Hard Won Gains Reported On Both Flanks Of Front In Italy

ALA. COAL MINE BACK TO WORK  MOVE LOSES GROUND  Only. Two New Shafts Join List of Those in  Amara tinn

DAGK-1U-WURK MOVE IN MING LOSES GROUND   Less Than 3,000 Of State’s 22.000 Miners On Jobs in Coal Pits Today

BLOODSHED IN CLASHES IN BUENOS AIRES   Gen. Pedro Ramirez, Minister of War in Castillo Cabinet, Identified As Leader   STRATEGIC POINTS HELD

Bomber Explodes Near Lordsburg   Five Flyers Die  In Mountain Area

ITALIANS PLEAD FOR PEACE AS ALLIES RAIN DEATH   Turin Hit By Bombers; Peace Demonstrations —enreading.

Italy Hammered By Air Armadas   Allies Also Step up  European Bombing

ALLIED PLANES HAMMER ITALY   Air Fleets From Three Directions Blast Key Points

K LEE WRITES IR FROM SICILIAN LANDING POIN]   SENAY JRS SEEK BOOST IN FLOUR PRICE CEILING   Wheat State Men Meet With Jones, Vinson, Byrnes

DEMAND SOLUTION OF WHEAT TANGLE   Milk Product Supplies For Civilians to Be Materially Lowered By WFA.

WHEAT AT PRICE. BOOST URGEL   WHEAT. STATE SENATORS ASK. ING FOR INCREASE IN THE CEILING PRICE OF FLOUR

WHEAT PROBLEM GETS ATTENTION   Ten Senators Voice Demand For Boost In Price Ceiling On Flour

Senate Asks Jury Probe of Sunflower Plant   Miller Resolution Adopted; Vote for UCC Building

FAVOR A GRAND JURY   Missouri Senate Wants Investigation at Sunflower Plant

HOUSE AND SENATE STAND FIRM TODAY IN ROLLBACK PLAN   Outlawing of Measure is Objective Despite Warning Given by the W.L.B.

Congressional Members Determined To Outlaw Administration’s Price  Rollback Plan Despite WLB Warning

CONGRESS IN COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES   Two Houses to Qutlaw Subsidies To Processors

BUTTER SUPPLIES MAY BE BOOSTED   GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO MAKE MORE AVAILABLE FOR CIVILIAN USE.

BAITIN oHllPa BOMBARD ITALY   Extend Allied Domination of Italy’s Coastline, as Warships Hit Targets as Far North as Bay of Naples

BRITISH SHIPS SHELL ITALY'S COASTLINE   Se  As Far North As Bay of Naples; Action Hailed As Pattern of “Things to Come.”   Bomb Bridges

ITALIAN NAVY HUGS HARBORS   British Warships Extend Domination Over Long Coast Without Opposition

SHIPS SHELL. ! TTALY COAST   British Cruisers, Destroyers Blast Shipyards; Strategic + Bridges Blasted.

Salerno Bridgehead Made Secure; Crisis Of Invasion Past   Drive Toward Naples And Rome Started By Troons Under Clark

Eighth Army Near To Salerno Battle   Drive On Naples And Rome Opened By Fifth As Germans Reelina In Defeat From Beach

OFFICERS RENAMED   Annual Meeting of Endowment Association Held Yesterday

SOLDIERS DIE” _ FROM THIRST   THREE MEMBERS OF PLATOON : LOST DURING DESERT MA?  NEUVERS ARE DEAD— FOURTH MISSING —

4 Sicilian Air Fields Bombed   Rome Admits 2300 Death Toll in Naples

‘AXIS AIRFIELDS ARE HIT; ALLIES TURN ON HEAT   Many Fires Left Burning; Nazis Say Shipping Hit

TUES  Large Forces’ of For tresses Blast Airfieldi in Daylight Attacks. 16 Axis Planes Down in Combat.

ESCORTED FLYING — FORTRESSES ATTACK AXIS AIRFIELDS ENEMY AIRDOMES OVER SICILY OBJECT, OF W  omewervr powpire : ¢

TWO SICILIAN AIRFIELDS WERE ATTACKED TUESDAY   The Raid Was on Bocea di Falco and Castelvetrano, It Is Said.   MARSALA ATTACKED   Bombs Were Seen to Burst on Runways and on Barracks.

Objectives In Sicilian Areas Are Battered   Allies Turn Heat On From Air After Two Days of Rest

Flying Forts Renew Attack  On Airfields In Sicily   Other Allied Craft Pick Out Additional Targeis In Same Area For Heavy Assaults

BLOOD DONATIONS WILL START TODAY   Red Cross Mobile Unit to Arrive in City This Morning

BLOOD DONATIONS WILL START TODA   Red Cross Mobile Unit to Arrive: in City This -

PACIFIC HERO SPEAKS AT AFS GRADUATION   Mea From 40 States Given Wings At Exercises Held Tuesday

IRETON BOY — A CASUALTY   Robert Cooper Dies . of Wounds In New  Guinea -

Italians Flee Bomb Threats   Allied Air Fleets Said Waiting Call

STORIES OF DISSENSION IN AXIS RANKS MULTIPLY; ALLIES WILL NOT TEMPORIZE LONG WITH BADOGLIO’S REGIME.

Landing Forces Will Be Fighting On Mainland Soon, Is Message Of Algiers Radio

Germans Mass 18 Divisions In North Italy   Badoglio Fails To Answer Order For Surrender

Populace Is Heeding Raid Warnings   Fresh Evidence of Axis Dissension Develops in Europe

Italians Warned Of Coming Allied Mainland Invasion  Civilions Fleeing — Industrial Centers” in Po

Italians ‘Warned of  Invasion   Ships Shell Coast; Big Push Against Catania Started

Germans Fortify Po As Badoglio Shilly Shallies   Hundreds Of Thousand Begin Mass Flight Fror Raid Targets

ITALIANS MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL PLACES TODAY.   Hundreds of Thousands — of People Now Refugees  From Great Italian ! ao4

Big Bombers Set To Start Air Offensive   Great Raids Promised Unless New Regime Ceases Temporizing  DISSENSION GROWS

CIVILIANSIN ITALY FLEE TARGET AREAS   No Sign Badoglio Has Made Any Move -To Seek Armistice

ITALY 1GNOR ES ALLIED URGING FOR SURRENDER   Inaction by Badoglio Government Threatens Resumption of Aerial Assaults On Nation   CIVILIANS FLEEING   Three Million Reported to Have Left Industrial Cities; Flurry of Vatican Activity Reported

Italians Told Invasion Neal  Tarrnar. Car:eLan   Terror-Stricken People Flee Cities

Due to Follow Bomb Blasting, Algiers Says   North Flank of Axis Line in Sicily Beginning to Crumble; U. S. Troops Seize Stefano as British Army Advances

Told Allied Land Forces Will Invade Mainland as Follow-Up to Air Drive

NEW WARNING IS. — GIVEN ITALIANS   Are Told Allied Forces Will Soor Invade Mainland.

New Disorders Reported With Allied Warnins   Big Bombing Fleets  Poised for Onslaught If Badoglio Continues To Harbor Germans

'ITALIANS FLEE INDUSTRIAL ‘CENTERS IN ITALY; NO EVIDENCE (OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS MOVE

Italians F lee From  ‘Their Homes   Government's Stand Still Not Clear As to Peace Offer

Italians Warned Allied _ Forces will Invade Italy   Algiers Broadcasts Promise Troops Will Follow Up Naples Bombing — Davis Predicts Invasicn of Europe from England

New Evidenee \ OF Dissension  In Axis Seen   Resuinption of Allied Air Attacks on Cities Anticipated

MILLIONS BEGIN LEAVING HOMES TO AVOID BOMBS   3,000,000 Italians Are Re: ported Heeding Advice Of Eisenhower To Flee   FASCIST TROOPS ON CRETE ARE DISARMED

Allies Give “= New Warning To Italian:   Land and Air Drives Are Coming to Mainland, Al-giers Radio Says   NO WORD FROM THE ROME GOVERNMENT   German Troops Moving Into Northern Italy As Italy Holds Back

FLEEING FROM BOMPED CITIES   Warning of General Eisen. hower That Mainlanc Would Be Blasted is Be ina Heeded.

ZERO HOUR NEAR FOR NEW AERIAL ATTACK ON ITALY   PEOPLE FLEE LARGE WAR CENTERS; BID FOR PEACE LOOMING

“wR 443 {——  pWILINSELEE TALIAN GITIES  No Evidence Badoglio Tr _ ae 6 ~~ © aE aT   No _Evidence Badoglio  Has Made Direct Re quest For Armistice   WARNINGS SOUNDED   Ready. To Negotiate But ‘Not Capitulate, De clare Press, Radio

Civilians Flee Factory Towns In North Italy   Demonstrations Grow As Badoglio Stalls On Peace

dtalians Flee . Cities In Fear  OF Air Attack   Allied Bomber Fleet is Reported « Ready to Carry Out Onslaught; *Rumor Fresh Troop Clashes

NO EVIDENCE OF PEACE MOVE SEEN   Believe Only Direct Reply From Badoglio Can Stop Added Bombings: Activity In Vatican

MADRID CLAIMS PEACE CONFABS HELD AT VATICAN   Badoglio Silent, Names New Diplomat Who Has an American Wife

Roman People Warned Mainland Wil! Soon Be Invaded by Venceful Trooss

MILLIONS FLEE ITALIAN HOMES TO DODGE RAIDS   Command Hopes Ominous Words Will Sink in, End Wavering of Badoglio   Germans Eye Fleet

Seek escape from allied  bomb raids   Fresh evidence of axis dissension

Civilians Flee Italy Centers Of Industry   Flurry Of Activity At Vatican Hint Peace Discussions

Stalians Flee Cities In Fear  OF Air Attack   Allied . Bomber Fieet is Reported a Ready to Carry Out Onslaught; “Rumor. Fresh Troop Clashes   Army Gets More Planes Than Total Axis Output

Aemditheiiadiieeadilindiiadiiaditidiadiidiiadinadiitindnaiediindl  ITALY GETS A WARNING ‘OF INVASION

Italians In Flight From City Areas   Mass Exodus Started Before Fortresses Hit Naples; See Na  Peace Move

Brocdcasts af Eisenhower Warning Are Con. tinued  FEW DETAILS GIVEN ON NEW DISORDERS Air of Expectancy Pre vails in Capital of Britain

MASSES OF ITALIAN CIVILIANS REPORTED BE FLEEING CENTERS   MADRID REPORTS FLURRY OF ACTIVITY INSIDE VATICAN

Italians Flee By Thousands   United Notions Radio Dins Into Ears Of People What's in Store if They Don't Surrender: No Answer From Bodoglio

Allies to Land  Soon in Italy, Citizens Told From Algiers   Thousands Flee Metropolitan Areas as Air  Raids Resume

Air Raids On Italy Resumed By Allies   Mass Evacuation Of Civilians From Citie Reported; Peace Talks Continue

Italians Warned About Invasion   Second Warning Given While Civilians Are Fleeing Italian Cities.

Italians Fleeing Cities To Escape ‘American Bomb:   Millions Leave Homes a Fresh Attacks Seem Likely

Naples Blasted As Eisenhower Awaits Badoglio’s Decision   Dispatches From Madrid Indicate a Flurry of Activity At Vatican, But There is No Evidence of a — Request For an Armistice.   3,000,000 ALREADY SAID TO HAVE LEFT CITIES

MASS EXODUS FROM ITALIAN CIT!ES BEGUN   London Hears Hundreds of Thousands Are Fleeing. Industrial Centers —No Indication Yet of Armistice Reauest.

ITALIANS FLEE BiG CITIES 10 ESCAPE BOMBS   Premier Badoglio Fails To Answer Allies’ Demands For Surrender

Mass Fli ght Of lealigns Is Reported   Heed Allied Warnings Dinned Into Them All Day Sunday

lialians Flee Cities to  Eseape Bomb:   Populace Demands Peace After Eisenhower Threat

THREE MILLION ITALIANS FLEE URBAN CENTERS   Badoglio Invites Allies To Carry Out Threat Of Heavy Bombings By Failing To Answer Call For Surrender; Naples Attacked.

Dissensionts Seen Among Axian Troops   Germans Are Reported To Be Disarming Many Italian Soldiers

FIFTH MENACES NAZIS ITALIAN DEFENSE LINE   American and British Units in Spectacular New Blows

GAIN CONTROL OF STRATEGIC HIGH GROUND   May compel enemy’s lef wing to start general withdrawal

Military Setbacks Continue For Axis on all Fronts: Jap  Fleet Dared by MacArthur

Western Flank Of German Line Being Hammered   Allied Fifth Army In Italy Gains Further Ground In Attacks   CASSANOVA FALLS TO ALLIED FORCES

BLOW SMASHES VITAL POSITIONS SOUTH OF ROME   Yanks Storm Matese Ridge While British Take Massico

GERMAN RIGHT FLANK BROKEN BY YANK DRIVE   Formidable Barrier About To Fall To Surging Allies In Italy   RUSS PRESS ADVANTAGE   Thousands Of Nazis Face Death Or Capture In Crimea Region

MENACE NAZIS’ ITALIAN DEFENSE LINE   American and British ‘Units in Spectacular New Blows

Fifth Army on Move in Italy   German Defenses Cracked By U. S. and British Troops

Japanese Air Force Suffers Defeat-at Hands of U.S.   KING AND NIMITZ CONFER ON PLANS   Knox Says Pacific Fleet Is Gradually Being Strenathened

Severe Beating Administered by American Airmen in Clash  With South Pacific Air Force

19 JAP FIGHTERS ARE SHOT DOWN IN PACIFIC   Flight Of 40 To 50 Planes Attempts Raid On “Russell Group Of Solomons; King And Nimitz Plot War In Pacific

American Airmer Bag 19 Japanese Leros in Battle In South Pacific   Jap Air Force Suffers Its Second Severe Defeat in as Many Days in Russell Group of Solomons

Japanese Pacific Airmen Suffer Another Defeat  Enemy Loses 19 Zerc Fighters in Raid In Ruecell iclande

Japanese Pacific Airmen Suffer Another Defeat  Enemy Loses 19 Zere Fighters in Raid

JAPS BEATEN BADLY BY U.S. IN SO. PACIFIC   Enemy lost 19 out of 40 to 50 planes trying to raid Russel Islands In Solmons :   Yanks Lost 7 Planes

Japanese Lose 19 Fighters in Solomon Battle   Admiral King Talks With Nimitz on Plans For Prosecution of War in Pacific Area

Severe Defeat Is  Handed Japanese   Superiority Of Yank  Force Decisive

YANKS DOWN 15 JAP PLANES, LOSE “TIN AIR BATTLE   Action Fought Over Russell Group of Solomon Islands —  as Enemy Attempts Raid.       THREE AMERICAN PILOTS ARE SAVEL   Navy Announces Victory Shortly After Knox Discloses Conference Between Nimitz and King.

40 to 50 Enemy Planes Try To Raid U..S. Bases ~in-Russell- Island Group

KEY MILITARY 1AnbéELo HIT HARD; HAND-PICKED PILOTS MAKE ATTACK   LEAFLETS DROPPED ON CITY TO EXPLAIN REASON FOR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U. S., BRITISH PLANES

Make Effort To Guard All Church Areas   Rome Radio Reports Heavy  Concentrated Attack On Costar   'HIT TARGETS OF WAR

Military Targets Hit With Precision   Bombers Strike Heart of Fascism—Leaflets Offset Possible Axis Propascanda

Railroad Lines Especially Hard Hit By Bombs; Leaflets Dropped Before Assault By Specially Trained Crews; Damage Heavy

REPORT OF ATTACK ~ RELEASED BEFORE TT AGTUALLY. BEGAN   Blow Struck At War Machine Built In Shadow. Of Vatican City

Loose Terrific Force Of Explosives On Military Targets; Drop Leaflets

Leaflets Warn Eternal City of Raid; Military Objectives Only Bombed

 Aleutian-Based Planes Hit Japan Base   Eternal Gi City Siruck by First Bombs Of War: Allies Hit Pinpaint Targets

Raiders Give Emphatic Follow-Up to Churchill Roosevelt Ultimatum

Attack Is First On Duce’s City   Specially Trained Crews Carry Out Raid To See That No Explosives Fall On Non-Military Structures; Allied Warning Driven Home

Military Targets Hit In First Blow Struck Af Heart Of Fascist Italy   Special Allied Crews Make Daylight Precision Raid; Leaflets Dropped Telling Of War Machinery In City

Aleutian-Based Plane: Hit Japan Base   Rome Pomting De’ ails   Eternal City Struck by First Bombs Of War: Allies Hit Pingaint Tarvets

Raiders Believed to be American Force, Specially Picked for Precision onblag of Italian Capital

MILITARY TARGETS IN ETERNAL CY POUNDED TO DUS   Specially ‘Trained Men ‘Make Precision Attacks .   SACRED SYMBOLS '  o_IN CITY SPARED

BOMBS STRIKE AT HEART OF FASCIST ITALY      Specially - Trained Pilots Drop Explosives On Military Objectives

Raid Follows l ltimatum by Allied Chiefs   Military Objectives in Ttalian Capital Targets in First Raid on City   City Not Immune.   Riail Yard« Hil.

Fortresses And Liberators Down 13 Protecting Planes Off New  Guinea.

Lull Is Reported On Red-Nazi Front  Aerial Blows Traded Over Wide Sector

Air, Artillery Blows Traded On Red Front  Qnuls Tiine  aveek   Battle Lines Largely . Unchanged: After.  Minor Snarnng -.

Russians, Nazis Swap Air Blows   Ground Activity Is Little Chanaed

Reds and Nazis Trade — Aerial Blows   Important Change: in Ground Situation Lacking

REDS, GERMANS TRADE BLOWS   Aerial Attacks Carried Out During Lull In Ground Action

Reds, Nazis Trade Blows in Grim Air, Ground Fight  Soviets Hold Enemy At Bay Despite Bombing Attacks

MILLION FATHERS IN _ UNIFORM IN 6 MONTHS   Prediction Made by Draft Directo Hershey; Two Million to Be Added Eventually

Liberators Hit Rangoon Japs  Refinery And Rail Yards Are Set Afire

Selb bl-FE aes ee Hebe eehist ARERR EES  WMC Order Hits “Chiseling” F aclory Owners War Workers ree to Hike Off For Better Waees  ogee]

Some Workers Get Break By iNew Decree Can Leave To Take Setter Jobs Under  2 oq oye oe

U.S. FLEET MOST POWERFUL AFLOAT   KNOX SAYS JAPS HAVE BEEN PUY ON DEFENSIVE AND ARE DIGGING IN.

ONLY 1 SURVIVES BOMBER CRASH   Eleven Killed When Army Warplane Is Wrecked Near Columbus

11 KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH, ONE SURVIVOR   Given Even Chance To Pull Through

11 KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH   Probe Cause of Explosion in Plane at New Albany; One of Crew Survives

11 CREWMEN PERISH, 1 SURVIVES AIR CRASH   Board Presses Inquiry Into Tragedy Near Columbus

MOVE TO PUT BRAKES ON SALE OF TURKEYS   Food Administration Broadens Order to Hold Fowls Until Forces Are Supplied.

ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED IN QHIL   Wealthy Farmer, Wife and Daughter Slain At Holi day Eve Reunion

PREPARED FOR RAID   Enemy Threat “Is Clear’ Melbourne Official Says —MacArthur Reveals His Opinion.

NPARTHUR ISSUES WARNING OF VAP POWER IN PACK   Contro! of Sea Lanes, Airmen on Scattered Bases ‘in 2300-Mile Front Given In Lona Statement.   CONTROL OF AIR IS NEEDED FOR SUCCESS   Japanese Fleet Still Intact Is Beyond Range of Bombers, Believe An Attack Is Imminent.

Start’ t Harvest Next Week   A Big Yield, Although Lower Than 1942’s Record Crop; Face Labor And Tool Shortages .

‘GRAVE’ CRISIS IN LABOR SEEN   WLB Decision In Mine Case ls Anxiously Awaited

Labor Crisis: Moves: Near New Climax   Third Coal: Strike Is. on Horizon; Fate of WLE. * in Jeopardy

LAPOR CRISIS AT NEW CLIMAX   Third Coal Strike Feared as Fate of WLB Hangs in Balance.

THE GRAVEST. LABOR CRISIS. OF THE WAR   Nation Awaits WLB Decision and Reaction of John L. Lewis.   DEADLINE IS NEARER   Fate of the Anti-Strike Bill Now With President, Also Awaited.

ICE BREAKERS 10 BUFFALO HARBOR   High Winds Pack Ice 20 Feet Deep; Whitefish Bav Ice Locked.

FIGHT RAGES ON KHARKOV FRONT   Soviet Troops Struggling Against Large Forces of German Tanks.

Fate of City Again Hangs In Balance  Day and Night Fighting Rages On Wide Front

FIERCE FIGHTING IS RAGING IN THE KHARKOV SECTOR   Soviet Troops Are Struggling Against Large Forces of Germans.   NAZIS CLAIM KHARKOV   Say Southern Army Has Encircled and Occupied the City.

Fighting # At Kharkov Bitter, Says Russ Report   Red Army Threatening Orel May Be Forced  To Withdraw; Nazi Attacks Inepccant

LOSSES BIG IN RECAPTURE OF KHARKOV   Reds Refuse to Admit Their  Industrial Bastion Is "we   Fierce Battles Take Place North of City

Soviet Forces Move Ahead at Smolensk   Russian Artillery Pounds Advancing Germans; Reds Take More Towns West of Vyazma

Soviets Decline to Admit Kharkov Lost   Declare Furious Fighting Under Way; Russians Report Gains in Central Front On Road to Smolensk.

Germans Claim City Itself Has Been Captured And Encireled   Reds Admit Defenders Have Been Pressed Baek

RUSSIAN TROOPS BATTLE AGAINST SUPERIOR FORCES   GERMANS PUSH REO ARMY BACK TO NEW DEFENSE LINE

Fierce Conflict Rages In North Ukraine Sector   Russians Seize Overuch In Surprise Assault—-Counter Attacks Repulsed   GERMANS RETAKE CITY OF ZHITOMIR

FIERCE FIGHT RAGES IN THE KHARKOV ARFA      German High Command ~ Claims Capture of City and London Sources Concede It Looks as Though Base Is “Gone.”

' British Sources, Believing City in ' German Hands, Speculate on New Nazi Offensive   DNIEPER CROSSED   Russians Capture Semlevo Station in Advance from Vyazma, Take Several Villages

FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES MONDAY IN UKRAINE AREA  MITITADY COIIDCre TAT   MILITARY SOURCES IN LONDON SAY IT LOOKS LIKE KHARKOV IS GONE

The Battle — For Kharkov Still Rages.   Ger'tanas Claim to Have Occupied City But Red Army Headquarters Do Not Confirm Its Fall

Russian Lines Threatened By  Nazi Offensive  Reds Press Advance On Northern Front, Near

FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES MONDAY IN UKRAINE AREA  MILITARY SOURCES IN  LONDON SAY IT LOOKS  LIKE KHARKOV IS GONE

Hitler’s High Command Claims Capture Of Stronghold; Russians Push Forward in Campaign in North Against Smolensk

HARKOV BATTLE AGING, RUSSIAN OURCES ASSERT   Germans Claim City’s Cap. ture, But Reds Say Fierce Fight Continues

Russians Forced Back to  New Defense Line, Nazis Say Soviet Losses Heavy

New Lines Established In Kharkov Area   Loss Of City May Force Russians To Give Up Their Drive Against German-Held Orel

Fighting Heavy In TheKharkov Area   Germans Are -in Gity But Russians Fight on in Sectors   REDS INFLICT LOSSES   Soviet Drive Near Vyazma Reported at Full Speed Ahead

BATTLE RAGING NEAR KHARKOV REDS ANNOUNCE   Russians Putting Up Stiff Fight To Hold Invaders

GERMANS CLAIM CITY HAS FALLEN   Russians May Have To Withdraw To Straichten Lines

FIERCE FISHTING RAGES ON NORTH LINE IN UKRAINE   Red ’Chutists Take Rail Key as Nazi Counter Blow Seizes Zhitomir

NAZIS RETAKE RAIL POINT IN COUNTER DRIVE   Other German thrusts at Ovruch successfully , beaten off

FRENCH 10 EYE NAZI BACKERS   Group Name To Inquire Into Collaboration With Germans

With Our Soldiers _  and.     ‘\ Sailors bs Me oe:   Denis Baumhover Is Aviation Cadet at St. Mary’s College   AT GREAT LAKES

CLAIMS DENIED   Miners Refused Benefits Fo Work Stonpage Periag.

AMERICANS CAPTURE KEYSTONE POSITION IN GERMAN LINES  AXIS PRISONERS REACH

Battle Described As ‘Most Savage’   Axis Prisoners Total 125,000; Allied Planes Smash at Naples; Dispatches From German Frontier Tell of Grave Internal Crisis in Germany

City Outflanked After Drive Thorugh Belgorod  SICILY CLIMAX  “Mass ~~ Stampede” Reported from Scared Berlin

Soldiers Make 3,470-Mile Trip in A Jeep, and Live to Teil the Tale

New Auto Plates Will Go On Sale   Saturday Is First Day; Tags Much Smaller

Nazis Retreat In Orel Area   Russians Take More Than 100 Towns ~

Foe Falls Back In Orel Sector   Russians Report 7-Mil Gains Against Germans

Nazi-Held City Falls to Reds   SOVIETS SLAY 3000 GERMANS IN SLASH TOWARD DNIEPER

GERMANS RETREAT IN ORFL CAMPAIGN   Red Army Surge Surges Forward From Five to Seven and One-half Miles

NAZIS RETREAT BEHIND TANKS   Fall Back North, South of Orel: Red Gains  Continue

GERMANS RETREATING BEFORE RED DRIVE   Enemy Troops Moving Backward North And South Of Orel Behind Screen Of Tanks

SELLMAN IS GIVEN CITY POLICE POST      Former Investigator Ap: pointed by Street Com miecinnerc:

SELLMAN IS GIVEN CITY POLICE POST   Former Investigator Appointed by Street Commissioners

THE BRENNER PASS GATEWAY TUIIALY   Most Frequented Pass Across the Alps for Centuries.

Fall- of Bonga Believed Near   Australian Soldiers Close In on Jap Base

AUSSIES GAIN ON NEW GUINEA   Aided by Planes and Tanks They Close in on Bonga, Near Saltelberg

STEEL FURNACES IN ALA. CLOSED BY MINE STRIKI   SOME 22,000 MINERS WERE STILI, REPORTED IDLE IN THE SOUTHERN COAL FIELD THIS MORNING.   IGNORE APPEAL OF JOHN L. LEWIS   War Labor Board Does Not Meet Until Thursday—Several of Indiana Bituminous Mines Resumed Work This Morning.

HITLER IS FACED BY  SERIOUS SITUATIONS   Russia Is a Headache to Him and Ultimate Defeat in ‘Africa Is Looming With Prospects of An Invesion _ in Germany Gradually Beconiing More Certain—Fighting on Two Fronts Dreaded . : : by the Nagic . -

Conclusion Of Strategy Conference Between Roosevelt And Churchill Viewed In Some Washington Quarters As Marking Beginning Of Final Phase Of Global Operations—Full Scale Offensives In Both Europe And Pacific May Develop Soon

War Final Phase. Seen. Scheduled  - By. Conference   “Complete Agreement i. Is _-Construed © As” Decision,  “Reached.-On All Plans

Europe To Be Invaded Soon Is Forecast   Jap Fleet Will Be Forced To Fight by Thrust in the East

Believe FDR And Churchill Map Full Scale Offensives In Europe, Pacific

—STRATEGY—  Frame Future Plans   ... F.D.R., Churchill End Policy Discussions

Beginning of Great Action Seen in End __ of Official Parleys   Momentous Decisions on  _ Strategy Made by FDR     and Churchill

Final Phase in Global War Is at Hand   (Experts Say War in Europe to Be Over Next Year, Pacific War in 1945-46

End Of Roosevelt-Churchill Talks Viewed As Marking Beginning Of Final Phase Of War

FD And Churchill End War Conference   Final Phase Of Global War Begins After Parleys; ‘Agreement’ Reported

End of Roosevelt - Churchill Meeting Viewed as Start Of Final Phase of Global War

ALLIES REACH FULL ACCORD ON STRATEGY   War Believed In Last Phase As Roosevelt Concludes Talks With Churchill

End: Of Roosevelt-Charchill Confab Viewed As Marking Start OF Final Phase Of War

FUTURE ACTION WILL REVEAL WHAT THEY SAID   Large Scale Offensives i Europe, Pacific indicated

“In Complete Agreement” Conclusion Of Strategy  Conference May Launch _ Final Phase Of The War

Predict Start of War's Final Phase as Talks on Allied Strategy End

WAR NEARING FINAL PHASE      Full Scale Offensives By Allies, Everywhere, Are Indicated

FOR-CHURCHILL PARLEY AT END   See Final Phase of Global War Resulting From Meeting

Premier-FDR End Talks   Parley Seen as __ Marking Final Phase of War

FDR, Churchill Agree On Plans For Final Phas   War In Europe Will Be Over In 1944; View In) Washington

‘AGREEMENT IS REACWER!--FOR   Historic Strategy Talks With Churchill End

End of Roosevelt-Churchill Talks Viewed As Marking Start of War's Final Phase

Final Phase of Global War May Follow Confab   President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill End Talks

Strategy Talk Ends in Unity   U. S., Britain in ‘Complete Agreement’: FDR

ENDING OF STRATEGY  CONFERENCE VIEWED  AS FINAL WAR PHASE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT  STATED COMPLETE AGREEMENT REACHED

To Strike At  Nazis During  This Summer Allied Strategy Is Ready Today For Implementing

Smashing Of Germany Still First On List   Invasion Of Continent  This Summer Believed One Of Decisions Of War Conference

Allies Launch ‘Final Phase   Expert Think Major Offensive In Orient To Start As Soon As Possible.

FDR AND CHURCHILL CONCLUDE STRATEGY — CONFERENCE  Some Quarters Looking fo Final Phase of Global War to Begin

Strategy for Offensive Drawn   Pacific Appears tc Have Attention

Final Phase of War Now Planned by Allies With Knockout of Hitler First  And Attack on Japs   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

CONFERENCE ON WAR STRATEGY BROUGHT TO END      Momentous Decisions '. Made At Joint Sessions   SILENT ON-PIANG   Start Of Final Phase Of War Seen’ Wear - sth

Final Phase In Global War May Start Soon  ’ Strategy Parley   Strategy Parley Comes to Close With High Aims

TALKS BETWEEN ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL END   President Announces ‘Complete Agreement’ Has Been Reached On Future Military Plans   ACTION EXPECTED   Believed End of Conferences to Mark Beginning of Final Phase of Global Conflict

Give No Hint On Next Move Against Foe   Expect to End War In Europe Next Year; Long Jap Conflict

Beginning Of Final Phase Of War Indicated   Big Allied Offensives In Both Europe And Pacific Likely Soon.

WAR ENTERING FINAL CHAPTER   End of FDR, Churchill Talks Seen as Start of Double Allied Offensive.

Roosevelt, Churchill End Parley   Observers Believe Defeat of Hitler Still First Aim but See SteppedUn Pacific War

Final Phase Of War?   ‘Conclusion of Allied Strategy Parley May Mark Beginning of End

Allied Talks On Strategy Come to End   “Plans Completed “On: Future: Conduct OP Wan .

Strategy Meeting   Marks Beginning of Final Phase of War, Relief

Final Plans To End Axis Believed Set   Roosevelt-Churchill Conferences Close in Complete Agreement

Global Conflict Plans Are Made   CHURCHILL AND FDR CONFERENCE NOW AT END

FINAL PHASE OF CONFLICT BELIEVED NEAR   "Complete Agreement" \ Reached on Future Plans, Executive Declares In Last Statement   DECISIONS UNREVEALED

FDR, CHURCHILL CONCLUDE WAR MEETINGS HERE   Executives Reach Agreement On The Future Strategy

Complex Disparity of Congress’ Views  on Subsidy Settled      Conferees Vote to Restrict All Including Meat and Butter

NEW SUBSIDY ACTION LOOMS   Congressional Measure 7: Prohibit Rollback  Procedure

Pacific Sees Air Offensive On Big Scale   Major Jap Base in Gilbert Islands’ Tareet of Bombers

Yankee Flyers Launch Drive ©   Bombs Are Poured On Japanese Bases

Fliers Strike ‘Enemy at Many Points   Heavy Blows Indicate Plan to Drive Foe Toward Homeland

American Fliers Launch Drive To Force Japs Back   Large Scale Offensive Re ported under Way in South Pacific

U.S. Fliers Blast Japs’ Air Bases   Move to Drive Foe  Back Toward Japan

GILBERT BASE GETS POUNDING   ‘Heavy Attacks Against Tarawa Base May Indicate Drive

LARGE SCALE AIR ATTACKS ON JAPS SEEN   Fliers, in What Is Considered Prelude to Drive, Bomb Bases :

Armada of Evacuation Planes Smashed; Nazis  Lose 96 Craft to Our 11   Russia Knocks Back Repeated Counterattacks As Squeeze on Germans in Caucasus Continues; Daylight Aerial Sweeps Strike Nazi-French Areas

TRANSPORT CONVOY HEADED FOR SICILY   Believed Carrying Technical Personnel From African Theatre

96 Planes, 68 Carrying’ Troops, Are Destroyed   RAF Raids Italian Naval Base of Spe aia As Air Force Highlights Day’s . ‘War Front Activities

: Nazis May Open Attack   Would Delay Second Front  RY IINITOSOR poresc

DESPERATE NEW OFFENSIVE BY GERMANY EXPECTED BY BRITISH MILITARY EXPERTS   Believe Counter-Invasion Blow Being Planned On Rommel’s Theory Of Always Hitting The Enemy First, Especially When He Is About To Hit You

REGISTRATION FOR FOOD RATIONING WILL BE HELD SOON   ‘New Point System For ‘Canned Foods Will Go ‘In. Effect March 1st

British Say More Landings Expected Soon   Hint Sicilian Invasion Is Not  "The Landing”

INVASION OF SICILY MAY BE FOLLOWED BY MORE LANDINGS   Observers Hint Other Vital Landings Around North Mediterranean  Border

BRITISH HINT AT ‘MORE INVASION - OPERATIONS SOON   Sicily Must Not. Be Regarded As THE Landing, Observers Gay

MARGH SUB LOSSES ARE MUCH HEAVIER   Battle Of The Atlantic Takes Turn For © The Worse

Toll by U-Boats  Shows Increase   Knox Reports More Shipping Lost in March Than February

SECRETARY KNOX "REVEALS. ‘SUBS’ ~ MORE NUMEROUS   ~ German U-Boats Took Heavy. ier Toll of Shipping During Month.

U-Boat Offensive In Aflantic Is On the Increase   Attacks on Allied Shipping to England Increasing, Knox Reports

ALLIED SHIP LOSSES MOUNT IN MARCH   Over February Due To Increased German  U-Boat Activity

SECRETARY KNOX REVEALS GREATER LOSS OF SHIPS   SAYS SITUATION IN ATLANTIC IS GROWING WORSE

U-Boat Menace Grows In March   Knox Says Atlantic Losses on Increase

SUBS EXACTING HEAVIER TOLL. KNOX REVEALS   Rise in Sinkings Is Accompanied by Change in Submarine Tactics

KNOX DECLARES SHIP LOSSES BAL   Considerably Worse in March Because of Nazi Subs

KNOX SAYS SUBS ARE MORE ACTIN   Sécretary Reports Increase in Allied Ship Losses Dur. ing March.

Higher March Sub Toll Is Revealed   Knox Discloses Ship Loss Increase Over February

Turn to Worse  In Sub Drive   U-Boat Toll Heavier in March, Knox Savs

U-Boats Taking Big Allied Toll   Shipping Damage  Gaid On Incerence

U-Boats Taking. Big Allied Toll   “Shipping Damage  . Said On lave ce

Knox Says German Submarine Exacted Heavier Toll of Allied Shipping During Past Month   More U-Boats Than Ever are Now Abroad and at Present are Concentrating In the Mid-Atlantic Navy Secretary Tells Press

Sub Sinkings On Increase In Atlantic   Rattle for Sea Lanes Takes Turn for Worse, Know Diseloses

Heavier Toll Of Allied Vessels Taken In March Depend On Escort Ship

TURNFOR WORSE IN ATLANTIC - BATTLE   Ship Losses Heavier in March Than in February

ALLIED SHIP LOSSES HIGHER, KNOX REPORT!   Take Turn For Worse In Last Month Due To More U-Boats

U-BOATS TOOK TOLL IN MARCH   Secretary Of Navy Knox Reveals Allied Ship Losses In Atlentic Increased

More Ships Lost, Knox Announces   Sinkings Greater in March, He Says

ALLIED LOSSES AT SEA DURING MARCH BOOSTED   ‘Secretary Knox Announces Ship Sinkings Consider _ ably Worse Than In   February      REVEALS NO TOTALS   Says Enemy U-Boats Have Changed Tactics More Or Less; Concentrated In Two Areas

U. N. Ship Losses Tn The Atlantic Jump: In March   Seevetary Kuox Declares German Sub Operations Intensified Last Month

ALLIED SHIP LOSSES IN ATLANTIC HIGHER   German U-Boat Menace Grows Steadily Worse

MARCH SINKINGS SHOW INCREASES   Knox Says Germans Have New Tactics on Operations In Atlantic Occan.

U-Boats Mass In Atlantic for Convoy Attack   More Sinkings in March: Enemy Using New System

NAVY SECRETARY SAYS SUBMARINES TAKE HEAVIER TOLL      Announces March U-Boat Situation Considerably Worse Than In February

HEAVY SHIP LOSSES REPORTED BY KNOX   Secretary ‘Says Battle -of ‘Atientic Takes Turn for Worce

Ship Losses In Atlantic Show Increase   Secretary Knox Says Battle Against U-Boats Has Taken Turn for the Worse; Nazis Intensify Operations

Sec. Knox Indicates Battle . Of Atlantic Has Taken Turn For Worse; Losses Heavier   Reports More U-Boats Operating And Says That They Have Changed Tactics

SUBS INTO ~ ATLANTIC   ‘Situation Is Serious and a Tough One,’ Says Secretary Knox    ENEMY ATTACKS ARE INTENSIFIED   U. &. Rushing a Fleet of Destroyer © Escorts. to Battle U.Boats

U-Boat Toll  Increasing   Secretary Knox Reveals More Vessels Sunk During Past Month

German Subs Score Heavily During March   Secretary Knox Reveals Sea Losses Increased Sharply

MARCH U-BOAT TOLL HEAVIER   intensified Submarine Warfare Revealed by Knox ~

GROWS WORSE   March Ship Losses Higher Than Those in February, Knox Reports   Huge Fighter Plane Base Is Nearly Ready for Use

ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES DURING MARCH IN ATLANTIC HEAVIER THAN IN FEBRUARY

ALLIED LOSSES FROM U-BOATS ARE MOUNTING   March Totals Considerably Higher Than February, Sec. Knox Admits

Allied Losses From U-Boats Are Increased   Situation Became Worse During March, Reports Secretary Knox—Nazis Use New Tactics

U-BOAT TOLL HEAVIER. SAYS FRANK KNOX   Situation Last Month Much Worse Than In February

Allied Ship Losses In March Worse.  Knox Says   Considerably More Than In February; U-Boat Tacties Have Heen Changed

MARCH SITUATION MUCH WORSE THAN DURING FEBRUARY   Secretary of Navy Says Bulk  of U-Boat Packs are in Atlantic.

U-Boat Toll Much Higher,  Knox Reveals   Germans Intensifving Operations; Change In Submarine Tactics Told By Secretary

U-Boat Toll Of Shipping Still Rising   March Losses Greater By Far Than Those For February   MORE SUBS ARE OUT      Secretary Knox Parries Questions On Status  Of Aleutians

Battle of Atlantic Turns for Worse in March, Knox States   Secretary Declares Situation Is Serious and  ——"Fough One

Battle of Atlantic Takes Turn for Worst, Secretary Knox Says  MARCH SHIP LOSSES OUTPACE FEBRUARY  Nazis Still Reported Producing Submarines In Excess of Lossec

Allied Ship. Losses Grow   German Submarines Intensify Action In Atlantic Lanes

Bomb Within 15 Miles'of City of Rome   Sicilian Base’ > > © Of Trapani ‘Also:  Li mn aver  eee S

DELIBERATELY G0 OVER CITY WITHOUT DROPPING BOMBS   Lack of .Strong Opposition Surprises Attackers—Naval Base is Hit.

FLIERS MEET NO SERIOUS OPPOSITION   Rain Explosive: Among Sea Planes at, Lide di Roma

ROME PORT IS BOMBED BY BRITISH   Fliers Pass Over City But Drop No Bombs

Italian Sea Bases Bombed In Offensive   Allies Smash At Fascis Bases Within Fifteer Miles Of Rome — Alse Strike At Sicily

ALUES SMASH AT FASCIST SEAPLANE BASE L1DO DI ROMA   Big Wellington Bombers Based In Africa Hit At Target Only 15 Miles From Rome

BOMBERS CARRY WAR NEAR ROME   Fascist Seaplane Base of Lido Ri Roma Is Blasted

Few Clues in Mysterious Slaying Of David Bacon, Film Actor And Friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.

Allies Smash At Germans In Huge Raid   Rail, Supply Center At Rouen Is Hit Violently From Air

Tennessee Air Crash Kills 10   Six Passengers, Four / Crew Members Die

Ten Perish In  Airliner Crash   Six Passengers And Crew Of Four Die In Accident.

FEAR 10 KILLED IN U.S, AIBLINER CRASK   Find Plane Wreckage Near Centerville, Tennessee

High Ranking State Official Aboard Plane   Three Ohioans Among Crew of ill-Fated Craft

U. S. Airliner With 10 Aboard Crashes Near  Centerville, Tennessee

Ten Killed  In Tennessee Plane Crash   Bodies Disfigured in Fire After Wreck, Officials Say

TEN KILLED IN PLANE CRACKUP   American Airliner Burns After Crash In Tenn essee Hills

10) ARE FEARED DEAD IN CRASH BIG AIRLINER   American Lines Plan Plunges to Earth in Tennessee With Six Passengers, Four Crewmen   BURNED WRECKAGE NEAR CENTERVILLE   Discoverer Reports No Sign of Life; Speaker of Tennessee Senate Was Aboard

Report Ten De ad ta Crash Of Airliner   Six Passengers And Four Of Crew Believed To Have Perished

AMERICAN LINER CRASHED, 10 DEAD   Plane Was Reported to Have Burned Last Night Near Centerville, Tenn.

TEN LOSE LIVES IN CRASH OF BIG AIRLINER   Big Plane Reported To Have Crashed and Burned Midway Be. Iween Memphis and Nashville

Believe 10 Dead fa-Plane Crash   American Air Lines Plane Down in Nashville, Tenn.

MISSING PLANE FOUND BURNED   Ten Feared Dead After Airliner Crashes In Tennessee Field

REPORT 10 ARE DEAD IN AIRLINE RASH   American Airliner Said to Have Crashed and Burned Near Centerville. Tenn.

TEN BELIEVED DEAD IN AIRLINER MISSING SINCE) ‘MIDNIGHT IN TENNESSEE:

Ten Perish in Airliner Crash  Plane Burns After Crash Friday Night

10 OCCUPANTS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED   No Sign Of Life About Wreckage Of Large Plane

10 Persons On Airliner Which Fell   Plane Missing Five Hours, Believed Located Near (‘enterville, Tenn.

AMERICAN AIRLINER WITH TEN PERSONS ABOARD CRASHED  WAS OBJECT OF WIDESPREAD SEARCH BETWEE

10 KILLED IN AIR LINER CRASH   POLITICAL LEADER ON PASSENGER ROSTER

Ten Killed in Crash in Tennessee   American : Airlines Plane Falls and Burns Near Centerville   SIX PASSENGERS, ' 4CREWMEN KILLED   Ship Went Down While on Regular Flight to Memphis From ‘Nashville

TEN KILLED IN AIR CRASH   American: Airliner Burns Near Venterville, Tenn.

10 Persons Dead  In Airliner Crash Six Passengers, Four  Crew Members killed

JAP TRANSPORT OF 10,000 TONS _ SUNK BY BOMBE'   Marine Raid Plus Attack on - Convoy Proves Costly to . Enemy.

Marine Raiders In Daring Foray On Bougainville   Jap Transport, ‘Two Destroyers: ‘Reported Hit

MARINE RAIDERS DEFEAT JAPS IN. ~ SURPRISE FORAY   200 Killed at Bougainville, Many Others Probably as Transport Sinks, Cruisers Are Blasted.   REDS DEFEAT GERMANS AT IMPORTANT POINT   Enemy Believed Prepared to Make Powerful Thrust In “Kiev Bulge But Results Are In Balance.

BOUGAINVILLE RAIDED: JAP TRANSPORT SUNK   Marines Whip Force Twice as Big, Smash War Stores in 40-Hour Fight

MARINE RAIDERS KILL MANY JAPS ON BOUGAINVILLE   Liberators Also Exact Toll By Sinking Transport Of Jap Soldiers

U.S. MARINES KILL 200 IN RAID ON NIPS   Whip Twice Their Number In Foray On Bougainville

Reports Hint Major Break in War Very Near   Indication Possible Meet of ‘Big Three’ To Become ‘Big Four’

‘Transportation Strike ‘Strands 100,000 War ‘Workers in Cleveland

Bank Employes. Boost Memorial   Help Push “Sullivans Fund” > to $5,231. .

WAR MOVES   (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) Ry LOUIS F. KEEMLE  Tiemtént Dence Glae Analwat   Major Repercussions Expected in Europe If 2nd Front Is Postponed

RUSSIA DEMANDS ‘DIVERSION OF 60 a NAZI DIVISIONS   Any Decision Against Second Front Will Have Reperecussions.

Both Sides. Get Ready For Invasion   BBC Warns French to Be Ready Any Time and Nazis Strengthen Both Ends of Mediterranean

AXIS, ALLIES SOUND WARNING OF INVASION   Nazis Bolster Defenses; French Told To Be Ready

UNDERGROUND FORCES TOLD T0 BE READY   Allied Broadcast Urges French Patriots To Be “Well Prepared:” Both Sides Mobilizing

Both 1ae8 Sound iflvasion Warning While Mobilizing Their Resources ¥or Great Battles  FRENCHMEN URGED TO BE ON ALERT        a Germany Massing Array Som er kd Ain      Germany Massing Array New Artillery At Avignon, 50 Miles Inland, Algiers Savs

Allied Signal ~ Given Frenct   Underground Groups Ready For Action

Invasion Warnings Sound in Europe   Both Allies and Axis Report that Attack On German Stronghold Draws Nearer Daily

‘Step in March on Berlin Forecast With New Bases; Political Upheava!s Seen

Portuguese Granting of Azores Bases 'May Have Tremendous Effect on 'Neutrals Hesitating in War Decision

WV ith the Community’ s Churches... i      Ljunghed Lutheran Church G. Arndt Johnson, Pastor

DOGS MENACE TO STATE FARMS   Scarcity of Food Leads Many to Abandon Their Pets

STORED CHICKENS FROZEN FOR ARMY   WFA ORDERS POULTRY IN COLD STORAGE SET ASIDE FOR GOVERNMENT.

Removal or Sale OfCold Storage Chickens Banned  ‘Set Aside for Needs” -—-OF Armed Forces —

NFA Orders All Cold Storage Stocks of Chickens set Aside for Use hy Government Agencies

Storage Stocks Of Chickens Held   Will Meet Needs Of Armed Forces

Legislators Renew F ight For Inérease  In Oil Priee   Some Congressmen Warn Legislation Will Be Introduced  yT,.3n-.. WH... ig fr. _ gg   PATMAN AND GAVIN LEAD CONTINGENT  Oil Industry Council Urges Secretary Ickes To Continue Battle

Oil Men Intensify Battle  For Boost in Crude Prices   PIWC Urges Ickes to Continue to Fight for Boost; Member: of Cong-ess Threaten  Action to Override Rejection of Brown

Aviation Bill : Whipped In House   Moasiuie: ls. Tabled. Ox Thursday

CONMENDS PEOPLE FOR BRAVERY   May Be Invited to Joint Session of Congress

President Makes Surprise Visit To Island (Of Malta   Congratulates Heroic Defenders Of Island Throughout 2,300 Bomb Attacks   SAYS UNITED NATIONS PARLEYS AID WORLD

People of Island Are Congratulated   Blows Struck For Human Race, President Says

LATEST NEW) BULLETINS      President Roosevelt Pavs Surorise Visit To Malta

American Legion Chief Contends Capitalistic Form Of Government Threatened By Federal Control:

American Legion Head Decries Federal Ten-  dency to Usurp Rights  of Qtatac  wie re. wert   PROGRAM BORN NURING DEPRESSION   American Government Founded on Capitalism, He Tell Graduates of University of Virginia

ORDERS PURGE VICHY-MINDED   Pro,- Axis Officers in French Army to be Reported to Giraud.

DELINQUENTS GET “FINAL WEEK NEWS   New Penalties Anplicable > Nov. 1 Unless Board Recorde Rinht

City Ticket Ie Reeanitebal Hele.      ghon Named To Run: Fourth . - Time for. Mavor~

Finland Urged io End War With Russia   Carefully Worded Statements Made by Welles

FINN WITHDRAWAL URED BY WELLES      U. S. Agein Advises Finland _ Peace With. Soviet Russia

U.S. Advises Finland to Cease War   Welles Reveals Finns Asked to Withdraw Aid to Germany; No Guarantees Mentionet

Finland Told To Drop Out Of Axis War   Wellies Advises Small Republic To Withdray

FINLAND URGED TO LEAVE AXIS   Welles Advises Quitting Germany's War On Russia

Go on Strike fo Force Increase  Southern Michigan Producers Active

General Motors Plans for Peace   Program Set up to  Cost $500,000,000

COMMITTEE PASSES APPROPRIATION OF 6 BILLION DOLLARS   Eliminates. 13 Million In. ‘Approving G ant To Governnient  . Departments

House Appropiations Com. Knocks 13 Million Out Of Budget Bureau’s Bill

Allows Money For 4403 New Cargo Ships  Appropriation Is  Rerammoeandad

G.0.P. Successes Not Significant      Democratic Chairman Walker Comments On Tuesday’s Selections.

Nazi Sub Base Hit by 2,000 Tons of Bombs   Lorient Plastered By R. A. F.; France, Holland Alsa Raided

U-Boat Base Is Target ‘Of 67th Raid   Weather Aids Fliers And Flames Visible 160 Miles Away  GERMANS HIT BACK

RAF PLANES HIT NAZI SUB BASE   Lorient Is Subjected To Two Attacks From  Big Bombers

1000 TONS OF BOMBS FALL UPON LORIENT   Bombers And Fighters Follow Up Saturday Night Raid With Attack On Tour: R.R. Shops.   2 Fighters Lost

~Today’s War Commentary  Kiska Next  Taking Attu Will Cut Supply Route

Blizzards And Mud Slow Up Soviet Attacks   Capture Of Another Important Town ts Effected, However

REDS ENCIRCLING ENEMY GARRISON   Hand to Hand Fighting Near Kharkov, Snow Melting. Soil Is Very Muddy.

Red Armies Draw Noose  About Nazis   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Blocking Path of Escape

Reds Swing Behind Nazis I n U kraine   Russians Break Through Far West OF Kharkov

REDS SWEEP ON DESPITE STORMS, ~~ ENPIRCTE NAZIS    Dnieper River Nearer After Latest Russian Adyanna_

SOVIETS. ENCIRCLE GERMAN GARRISONS WEST OF KHARKOV   Reds . Pressing Hard In Drive For Dneiper — Engage In. Hand - To Hand Battle

Red Forces Encircle Nazi Strongholds   Hand-to-Hand Fighting in Proaress «.

ADVANCE OF SOVIETS 15 CONTINUING   Clamp Tightened On Bridgehead of Axis in Caucasus

Med, Snow and Axis Counter-Attacks Slow Drive   VITAL TOWN NEAR KRASNODAR CAPTURED

GIRAUD PLEDGE WINS APPLAUSE FROM D’GAULLE   Prospect of Complete Unior Among Frenchmen Now Bright

ML WORKER ~ PICKING SHAFT          Mrs. Ethel Downey of Boxboro Severely Injured at » So. Acton Factory

Mrs. Ethel Down Downey of Box_ boro Severely Injured at _ ~So. Acton Factory

The War Today   Rommel Makes It Plain Victory Over Him Will Be Costly

The War Today Axis Counterattack At Mareth Grim Warning Of Bloody Fighting Ahead

Fighting Will Be Bloody Before Rommel Is Defeated Desert Fox Has No Idea of Running

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Superb Rommel Tactics bGreatly Aiding Nazis In Europe, Russia

REPORTS THAT ROMMEL ABLE TO RESTORE MARETH LINE SHOWS THAT BLOODY FICHTING IS DUE

JAP AIR FORGE PUSHED BACK QVER 200 Mi.   To Bases 550 Miles From Salamaua_  Airdrome In New Guinea, Because Or Heavy Damage At Wewak   997 Planes Gone

Jap Air Bases Out 500. Miles   New Type Enemy Plane Said Retter Armed

Japanese Air Force Units   Forced Back By Allied Raids   Communique of General MacArthur Tells of Heayy Damage inflicted by Recent Attacks on Wewak—Many Jap Planes Wrecked

Nippon Air Force Greatly Crippled In South Pacific   Forced To Base Planes 200 Miles More Dis tant From Salamaua

Landon Assails Domestic Policy   Charges Administration With Inconsistency

Snowplows Called Out fo Clear Northwestern Oklahoma Roads   First Winter Weather, With Snaw and Rain Sweeps Into State From North

SNOWPLOWS AT WORK IN STATE   Panhandle Area Victimized, Some Drifts of Six Feet Reported There

Storm Hurts 200 Soldiers   Fort Riley Twister Injures 5 Seriously

State Track Meet Scoring   200 injured as tornado  hits Ft. Riley   41 buildings are shattered; $175,000 damage

TORNADO STRIKES FT. RILEY, KAS.   {wo Hundred Soldiers Injured Late Saturday Evening.

ARMERS TO GET INCENTIVE FUNDS   Payments Will Be Made to Those Who Reach Certain Goals

FARMERS TO. GET INCENTIVE FUNDS   Payments Will Be Made to Those Who Reach Certain Goals   ISEE LOWER SPUD GOAL

‘ury Reveals ‘A Market in lquor Industry  “Into. Moonshining lL) plete 8 ee   “Into: Moonshining * Falsified Sales heady to Start

BOOM REVEALED IN MOONSHINING   Treasury Drive On Black Markets Uncovers Whisky Tricks

Battle Is Raging in Tunisia   Americans Forced to Give Up Base at Gafsa, Then Counter-attack

BALKAN ALLIES OF AXIS LOOKING FOR PEACE PAC’   RUMANIAN. AND HUNGARIAN DIPLOMATS REPORTED. SOUNDING OUT UNITED _ NATIONS REGARD_ ING PEACE

Approves Report On Dairy Pamphlet   State College Pamphlet Will Be Rewritten

Sponsor of “Skipa-Year” Tax Plan Is Senate Witness   Ruml’s Contention Is Challenged by Rep. Doughton Today

Beadsley Ruml Cites But Three Important Differences With Treasury  SEES NO REVENUE LOSS

RUML TELLS HOUSE GROUP OF HIS TAY PLAN   Chairman D Doughton Strongly Challenges His Contentions

Rum! Plan Challenged In Hearing   House Committee Chairman Heckles New York Banker   Author Says Uncle Sam Would Get More Money   Collections This Year Would Be For 1943 Income Only

CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON CHALLENGES RUML’S SKIP-A-YEAR TAX PLAN  NEW YORK BANKER SAYS HIS PROGRAM WOULD

Jax Plan Explained  By Ruml   ..- TO CONGRESSMEN   Skip-A-Year Proponent Parries Doughton’s Sharp Challenge

RUML TAX PLAN "BRINGS CHALLENGE   Congressman — Doughtar Scores Proposal to Skip “Year, Pay-As-You-Go

Skip-A-Y ear Tax Program  Under Attael   Ruml Before Committee : Doughton Denies Idea Would Improve U. S. Financial Setup

Defends Tax Pay Plan —      Sponsor of Original  Pay-As-You-Go Schem Claims It Will Bring More Revenue to Gov't

RUML ADVOCATES PAY-AS:-YOU-GO STARTING APR. 1   NEW YORK BANKER TRIES TO HURDLE TREASURY PROTEST

Doughton Denies Rum! Plan Would Aid U.S. Finance   Ways, Means Chief Chal. lenges Banker's Plea For All Out Forgiveness

RUML EXPLANS PAV-AS-GO TAX PLAN TO GROUP   Doughton Vigorously Challenges Praposais to Skip Year af Deht

RUML'S SKIP-A-YEAR TAX PROGRAM IS CHALLENGED   Committee Chairman Doubts Claim That Proposal Would Make Money For Gov’t

DOUGHTON SET AGAINST SKIPYEAR TAX PLAN   North Carolina Congressman Challenges Ruml's Contention As N. Y. Banker Supports His Plan Before Committee.

Doughton Hits Ruml Tax Plan   House Ways and Mea Committee Chairman Challenges System

SOLON CHALLENGES BENEFITS OF RUML SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN   Chairman Doughton Of The House Ways and Means Committee Opposed to Any vT.. Forsiveness System 

Skip-a- Y ear Tax Plan Is Challenged   Chairman Doughton in Opposition; Rum! Offers Defense

DOUGHTON CALLS THE HAND OF THE TAX. FOREIVERS   Might Try The Plan Out First In Their Business   CANCEL DEBTS OF THEIR CUSTOMERS

Ruml Attacked By Committee   Doughton Fears A Loss Of Revenue If Plan Is Used

Ruml Stands Pat For Pay As Go Levy   Present System Is Bad For Everyone Banker Declares

Ruml Urges Dropping ’42 Income Taxes   Chairman of Federal Reserve Board of N. Y. Goes Before Congress

Tax Change Very Simple, Rumi Says   Makes Vigorous Defense of - His Plan to Switch Collection .Method   SAME AS DAYLIGHT SAVING, HE SAYS   Contends Burden Would Be Based and Government - Would Get More Cash .

RUML'S VIEWS CHALLENGED   Rep. Doughton Opposes Forgiveness of Last Vear’s Income Taxes

Ruml Appeals To Congress On His Tax Plan   Advocate of Pay-as-you-go Tax Plan Meets with Opposition from Chairman of House Group.

PAY-AS-GO PLAN AIRED IN HEARING; RUML TESTIFIES   New York Banker, Sponso) Of Bill Says Plan ‘Will Help Treasury

RUML URGES CANCELLATION ALL 1942 TAX   Banker Says Present System Keeps Men ‘from Retiring Because in Debt io Government   CALLS IT PEONAGE   Treasury Opposes Blanket Cancelation as Benefiting Weallhy Un equally

CONGRESS Gre HITS RUML PLAN   Wavs-Means Head Doughton Denies Move Would Lift “Finance Well-Being”

Rum! Explains . Plan To Forgive 1942 Payments   Challenged By House Com. Head. Says Payments Would Not Be Dropped

Ruml Pay-As-You-Go Argument ls Vigorously Challenged By Doughton At Capital Hearing

RUML EXPLAIN PAY Aa YOU bd PLAN TO HOUSE   Plan Would Aid Financial * Well-Being Of Federal Government,. Claim   DOUGHTON CHALLENGES EXPERT’S STATEMENT   Proposal Would Bring More Money Into Treasury, Sponsor Asserts

Ruml Defends Plan To Cancel  A Year’s Taxes   Urges Withholding Levy On 1943 Incomes Not Later Than April 1.

Fascist Editor Says Allies Have Massed Million Troops For Attack

Fascist Editor Reports _ Half British Navy Ready For Continental Assault

LIANG oAY ALLIES MAGS FOR INVASION   Have 5,000 Planes, Thousands Of Tavks, Over 1,000,000 Men Half Of British Navy Ready Por Assanit      GERMANS SEEKING TO REPEL ATTEMPT

FATHER DRAFT ~ E NOW CERTAII   MOVEMENT. ON FOOT TO SIDETRACK WHEELER BILL BY SENDING IT TQ COMWATTEE

Flynn Acquitted By a Mixed Jury   Actor Had Been Accused of Intimacies With Teen Age Girls.

FLYNN ACQUITTED STATUTORY RAPE CHARGES TODAY   UPROAR GREETS VERDICT; ACTOR EXPRESSES APPRECIATION TO ALL

ERROL FLYNN IS FREED BY JURY   After Long Deliberation, Jurors Acquit Actor Of Rape Charges.

ERROL FLYNN FREED; GIRLS MUST BEHAVE   Jury Acquits Handsome Movie Actor After Deliberating 13 Hours

FILMDOM FLYNN FREED BY JURY IN RAPE CASES   Panel of Nine Women and Three Men Deliberate 13 Hours Before Ac- quitting Actor   SIX BALLOTS TAKEN   Jurors Stood 10 ta2 for Acquittal Until Final Vote; Calm Deserts ‘Accused

Errol Flynn Acquitted   Found Not Guilty of Statuatory Rape Charged by Jury

Jury Acquits Errol Flynn In Girls’ Case   Nine Women and Three Men Reach Verdict in 13 Hours

ERROLI FLYNN é TS ACQUITTED   Jury of Nine Women and Three Men Free . Movie Star Accused of Rape

ERROL FLYNN ACQUITTED BY MIXED JURY   Film Star Overjoyed, Exclaims “ Didn't Become an American Cit izen for Nothing’

Jurors Acquit Errol Flynn  Maliserpace 12 Hare   Deliberate 13 Hours In Assault Case

Flynn Acquitted By Los Angeles Jury Saturday   Everybody Happy In Jury Verdict

Jury Refuses To Believe 2 Girl Accusers   “Wonderful News, Actor Sighs After 24-Hour Wait

MOVIE STAR {S ACQUITTED ON 3 ATTACK COUNTS   Press Corps Dashes From Courtroom as If  to 3‘Alarm Fire

FLYNN CLEARED BY COAST JURY   Movie Star Goes Free After  Verdict—Judge Says  It’s Just Verdict

April Fool Lowdown It Took A Heap Of Ancient Fooling To Make It A Day To Remember

Lowdown OnApril Fool's Day   It Took A Heap Of Ancient Fooling To. Make It A Day Worth Remembering:

4 Reporters ‘Take’ City   Little Tindja Celebrates As  Newsmen Enter

Ration Book No. 3 Wil Bessuied .~  Sometime In July  To Be Used Primarily For Shoes, Sugar and PF" fF pref *_) fof.

(Turn to PACIFIC, e 2)  RATION BOOK y DUE SOMETIME IN JUL’   Expected To Appear When Book 1 Runs Qut

Ration Book 3 to  Be Issued in July  OPA Says [t‘lf Be Used For Shoes, Cuadr Crnffao

RATION BOOK NO. 3 PLANNED   Designed Primarily for Shoes, Sugar, Coffee

RATION BOOK NO. 3 TO BE ISSUED SOON   New Book Primarily Fol Shoes, Sugar, Coffee

RATION BOOK NO. 3 TO BE ISSUED SOOK   Will Be Used Primarily for Sugar, Coffee, Shoes After No, 1.

Ration Book No. 3 Ready   To.Be Used Primarily To Replace Book No. 1; May Be Mailed To User

THE WEATHER   LOCAY, ORS<PRVATIONS   New Ration Book Sometime in July   It Will Be Used Primarily  For Shoes, Sugar and Beene oa :

3rd Ration Book Due About July  Will Be Used For Shoes, Sugar, Coffee

FDR Rebukes Argentina's Anti-Jew Act   Says Ban on Jewish Papers In In Line With Character istic Nazi Doctrines

Roosevelt Raps Argentine Policy   Hits Suppression Of Jewish Papers

FDR IS IRKED BY ARGENTINA   Ban on Jewish Newspapers Brings Rebuke

FDR Rebukes Argentina For Suspending Jewish Newspaper Publication

FOR RIPS  ARGENTINA   Rebukes Government For Suspending Jewish Papers

Argentina Sharply Rebuked   Roosevelt Reproves Order Suspending Jewish Newspavers:in That Country   ‘ACT IN LINE WITH NAZI DOCTRINES’   Recalls Resolutions Made by American States at . Lima in 1938 

PRESIDENT SHARPLY. REBUKES ARGENTINA ON JEWISH ACTION  SUPPRESSION OF JEWISH   SUPPRESSION OF JEWISH NEWSPAPERS CHARACTERISTIC OF NAZIS

ARGENTINA MOVE TO CHEGK PAPERS GETS CRITICISMS   Government Orders Suspension of Jewish Publications, Roosevelt Makes Mention of Naziism.   BELIEVES OTHERS IN ACCORD ON STATEMENT   Disclaims Knowledge of Unofficial Reports of South American Country Breaking With Axis.

ROOSEVELT FLAYS ARGENTINE POLICY   Country Halts Printing Of Newspapers By Jews

New Rebuke Of Argentina By Roosevelt   Ban on. Jewish Press Held Like Most Repugnant Features of Naziism

Slaps Argentina On Jewish Action   Chastises Country for Suspending Publication of Jewish Papers.

Banning Of Jewish Newspapers Brings Sharp Criticism From The President

ARGENTINA GIVEN A REBUKE TODAY BY THE PRESIDENT   Objects to Suspension of the Jewish Newspapers by That Nation.   SECOND TIME RECENTLY   a: Roosevelt Termed Action jn Line With Characteristics of Nazi Doctrine.

Suspension Of Jewish Papers Causes Worry   Sharp Rebuke Issued; FDR Says It Is Violation Of All Early Pacts

Argentina Is ‘Given Rebuke By Roosevelt   For Suspending Publication Of Jewish Papers

JEWISH PAPERS TIN ARGENTINA  KRESUSPENDEL   Roosevelt Sharply Rebuke: Government For Action In Line With Nazi Doctrines

F.D.R. Scores Argentine Act   Administers Rebuke For Suspension of Jewish Newspapers

rDR DELIVERS STIFF REBUKE TO ARGENTINA   Charged that government with actions hewed to Nazi doctrines

ROOSEVELT SCORES ARGENTINA FOR COPYING NAZIS   Banning of Jewish Papers There “Akin to Most Repugnant Phases of Nazviem ”*

Roosevelt Hits Ramirez Press Ban On Jews   Argentine Government Action Is Characterized As Nazism Phase   FEELING IS SHARE D   Chief Executive Denie: Knowledge Of Potential Break With Axis

Chief Executive ‘Hits Suspension Of Jewish Papers   Action Resembles Doctrine Of Nazis, Roosevelt Declares

Public Rebuke For Argentina   President Roosevelt Charges ‘Anti-Semetic Actions Of Nazi Doctrines

F.R. Rebukes Argentine’s  Jewish Policy   Assails Government O! Country For Ordering Suspension Of Al  Viddish Newsenaners

PRESIDENT CHARGES AN. ‘OTHER VIOLATION OF THE AGREEMENT AMONG NA > TIONS OF AMERICAS 

Roosevelt Sharply Rebukes Argentina For Showing Nazi-Like Characteristics

FDR Rebukes Argentina On  Anti-Jew Aet   Labels Suspension Of Jewish Papers As In Line With Naw} Dihev.   BREAKS RESOLUTION

FD.R. CRITICIZE ARGENTINA F Of ANTI-SEMITISM   Calls Ban On Jewish Newspapers Similar To Phases Of Naziism

Argentina Rebuked By  Roosevelt   Suspension Of Jewish Papers Is In Line With Nazi Doctrines, Asserts President

FD. R. LASHES AT ARGENTINA   NATION REPROVED FOR JEWISH PAPER BLOWS

Argentina Draws Rebuke of F.D.R.   Closing of Jewish Newspapers Hit

FR. RAPS ARGENTINA'S ANTI-SEMITIC ORDER AS ‘CHARACTERISTIC OF NAZIS’

Sharp Rebuke Handed ‘Argentina By F. D. R.   South American Country’s Action In Suspending Publication Of Jewish Newspapers Brings Message From U. S. Executive

Banning of Jewish. News Draws Blast Of Sharp Criticism   ‘Pro-Axis Country Gets Second Strongly-Worded Note From U. 8s : All Publications Are Suspended :

ARGENTINE GOV'T REBUKED BY FDR   BRANDS SUSPENSION OF JEWISH PAPERS AS NAZI DOCTRINE

Publication Ban Causes- Rebuke From President   Jewish Paper Suspension In Argentine Moves FDR To Sharp Criticism

HITS ARGENTINA SUSPENSION OF IEWISH PAPERS   F. R. Declares Move Is in Line With Nazi Doctrine Activities

FDR Assails Argentina for Suspending the Publication Of Her Jewish Newspapers

FDR REBUKES ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT   For Suspension of Jewish Newspapers. Action Termed Characteristic of Nazi Doctrine ,

ARGENTINA GETS REBUKE BY F.D.R.   President Charges Nation’s Anti-Semitic Action Resembles Nazis’

RUSSIAN DRIVE NEARS VITEBSK   SOVIET BALTIC ARMY PLUNGES DOWN RAILWAY   “Unsuceesstul Drive’

LIBERTY MAN HAS OPEAKER'S PLAGE   Price Daniel Is Only Candidate Left When Leonard Withdraws

Majority Of House In Favor Of Paid War Bond Advertising In Papers

MAAAAAAAAAAAALAAAAAAAAADR   FDR To Commemorate VU. S. Occupation of Islands

Missouri River Now Falling  Workers Will Concentrate On Mississippi

WATERS ON RAMPAGE   Nine Towns Inuncated or Almost Certain of Being Flooded Soon   NEW DELUGE ON  ILLINOIS SIDE   Cape Girardeau, Mo, Is Waging Valiant Battle; Power Plant Menaced

Hull Asks Funds For Relief Work.   Says UNRRA Must Be Close Behind Armies

EXONERATE DRIVER OF ACCIDENT BLAME   Killing of Pedestrian Termed “Unavoidable” By  Coroner’s Jury

CHRISTOPHER FREED OF BLAME IN AUTO FATALITY   Coroner’s Jury Absolves Taxi Operator and Says It Was An “Accident”   OCCURRED NOV. 22ND   Dominick Martino, Victim of Accident, Was Cousin of Driver of Car

NASSAU PRINT JIME BARED   ADMIT FINDING CLUES AFTER DE MARIGNY VISIT

Strike Blow At Evidence In  Nassau Trial   Officer Admits F inding De Marigny Fingerprint After Accused Visited Scene Of Crime

NAVY URGING WIDER USAGE OF V MAIL   Complicated Problem of Distribution.

SPEED MAIL 10. BOYS IN SERVICE   MORE USE OF V-MAIL ASKED BY NAVY DEPARTMENT FOR OVERSEAS

JAPS TRY TO SALVAGE BRITISH BATTLESHIP   Attempt to Raise Prince of Wales Believed to Indicate Foe Is Short of Steel.

JAPS, SHORT OF STEEL, TRY TO - SALVAGE BATTLESHIP  i atin alli ditt idee inal

County Ranks Third  In Peach Harvest   [Oth In Pears, Fifth In Strawberries, Eighth In Apples And {fs 54th In Farm Wages Paid; Van Buren And Alleacan In High List

SURVEY PLACES BERRIEN AMONG FRUIT LEADERS   Ranks High On List Of Nation’s Fruit Producing Counties

J__aval Reported WoundedBy Bomb On V/ ay Back From Parley With Hitler

Laval Said ” Hurt by Bomb After Meet  Beeanch Patitiielan Ha   French Politician Hac Just Received His Orders From Hitler

ATTEMPT T0 KILL LAVAL REPORTED   FIGHTING FRENCH RADIO SAYS HE WAS INJURED ON TRAIN BY TIME BOMB.

Radio Reports ‘An Attempt ‘On Laval’s Life   Injured by Bomb Returning From  Parley With Hitler

LAVAL REPORTED INJURED BY BOME   French Chief Was Returning From Confer. ence With Hitler

NEW NAZI ASSAULT REPORTED CHECKED   Seven Hundred Germans Killed in: Donets Basin Rattle

NAZIS SWITCH MANY TROOPS TO IZYUM LINE   Assault Thrown Back In 24 Hours Fighting; Reds Hammer At Kuban Army   Enemy Wedge Broken

NO CHANGE PLANNEDFOR WEEK OR MORE   Motorists Can Expect No Change In Gas Rations Until Byrnes Completes His Report

GAS HEADS WAIT FOR REPORT FROM BYRNES   No Change in Gasoline Rationing for Week

BYRNES REPORT MA CHANGE GAS PLANS   Motorists Meanwhile Can Expect No Increase Despite Hint of Allowances

Await Report On Gas Rationing  Ickes Says Committee Meets Next Week

Gas Rationing Change Awaits Byrne’s Report   Ickes Asserts Changes Are In Prospect And Plan Conference With Midwestern Group

GAS RATIONING CHANGES LOOM   Rep. Clarence Brown Advised Situation Will Not Admit Postponing Action

EAPEGT CHANGE IN GAS RATION   OPA Awaits Recommenda  tions From Mobilization  Head Byrnes. .

NEW GAS DOLE UP TO BYRNES   But It'll Be Week or More Before Restrictions Eased

No Immediate Boost in Gas Officials Say   No Change in Rations Ex. pected for at Least a Week

Gasolin Ration Cut Not Expected To Become Effective For Two Weeks

22,000 Refuse To Work With Three Nesroes   Packard’s War. Production Halted Second Day

PLEAS TO STRIKERS PROVE OF NO AVAIL AT DETROIT FRIDAY   Great Packard Plant Stiff Closed — Defiance Shown by Groups Today.

TODAY THIRD ANNIVERSARY — "OF OCU PATION OF PARIS   ANNEVERSARY FINDS AXIS NOW DESPERATELY PREPAR-—  ING FOR DEFENSIVE BATTLES ON CONTINENT.

AKO POWERS REALIZE THAT UOUN {a NEAR   Great Underground Army in France Is Ready to Aid Allies.   ITALY IS FEARFUL   Germany New Pouring War Planes Into Italy to Combat-Invasion.

War Chest Pledges Jump to $42,825;  Workers Urged to Redouble Efforts

$18,669 Is Reported In War Chest Drive   Amount Turned in First Day Represents 20.79 Per Cent of Campaign Goal of $90,000— Hurlbut in Plea to Put Drive Over.

Lord Mountbatten, New Asian Commander, Now  In U. S. For War Talks

Asia Chiel Sees U.S.  Leaders   MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON FOR ARMY, NAVY CONFABS

Commando Chief to Head Allied Drive on Japs in Southeast Asia   APPOINTMENT INDICATES FARLY DRIVE ON BURMA

Mountbatfen’s Asia Command Hints Action   British Commando Chief Due In U. S. For Conferences

All Important Military Installations in Kiev And Gomel Destroyed   Many Russian Residents Have Been Taken Away for Forced Labor.  SECRETARY HULL ON WAY TO CONFERENCE  Anthony Eden Also Is Expected to Be at Moscow Meeting.

Nazi Kuban Sector Attacks Collapse   Russians Say Enemy Sends Fresh Troops

CALIFORNIA STATE OFFICIALS — ~ ENTER ZOOT SUIT RIOT AREA   ZOOT SUT RIOT MENACE RE. ~~ PORTED CLEARING UP AS CALIFORNIA STATE OFCIALS ASSIST IN. Cagr -

Cutting War Profits Not Easy To Do   Pro And Con Presented On Renegotiation Of Contracts

MILLIONS SAVED FARMERS BY OPA   Things They Buy Would Have Cost More, Explanation

SOVIET PAPER HITS RUMORS   Possible Russo - German Peace Denounced

Pravda Assails Efforts To Sow Distrust Seeds   Attacks Reflections On Reds’ Good Faith Made In Some Foreign Newspapers

SEPARATE PEACE RUMORS DENIED BY SOVIET PRESS   “Provocativa’ Campaign” Is Blamed on Berlin to Oisruot Allies.

Jugoslav Guerillas Win Battle Against Italians In Hills   Hitler Inspects the Western Coastal Defenses

Hess ‘Complete Loss’ to Allies  War's Most Famous Prisoner Is Becoming More and More Irrational and Naveate

PRISONER TALKS BUT NOT SENSE   No. 3 German Spends Time Brooding; !s Irrational

Hess Described as Becoming Irrational   War’s Most Famous Prisoner Suffering From Fixed Ideas

HESS TOTAL LOSS AS SOURCE OF AID TO ALLIED GAUSE   Mind Deterioration Is. Irratjonal and Neurétic, British Authorities Say.

HESS IRRATIONAL, NEUROTIC IN HIS INTERNMENT CAME   Former - Big-Shot Nazi's Present State Is Described After Observations.

HALSEY DEFIES RABAUL’S MIGHT TO SHELL BUKA   U. S. Warships Venture Less Than 200 Miles From Fortress to Pound Enemy Air Bases.   GROUND TROOPS SCORE GAINS ON BOUGAINVILLE   Eight Hundred Japs Killed, f Others Wounded and a Few Captured Since Invasion of Island.

U.S. Warships Shell Jap  Bases on Buka  Sy menteeem Veale Seo   Venture Within 200 Miles of Strong Rabaul

U.S. Warships Shell Jap Bases on Buka   Venture Within 200 Miles of Strong Rabaul

Buka Is Hard Hit By Naval Shelling   Jap Nayal Might Of Rabaul Is Dared To - Come' Out And Fight As Enemy Base Attacked

Shells Rip Into Big Enemy Base   Beachhead Widened In Ground Fighting

Allies Crash Line in Race For Messina   Planes Gun, Bomb Scores of Boats With Fleeing Nazis

Germans Fighting Only Rear Guard Action In Retreat Toward Messina

Allies Push On In Sicily   Nazis Attempting To Evacuate All Troops

ALLIES MOP UP GERMANS IN SICILY   Germans Try To Carry Out Major Evacuation In Sicily

Allies Near Messina  In Sicily   Boats Loaded With Fleeing Axis Men Bombed, Gunned

GERMANS FLEE FOR MESSINA, ALLIES PURSUE   Campaign in‘Mop-Up’ Stage; Prisoners Total 150,000

BOLIVIA READY TO FIGHT AXIS   State Of ww ar Decree Timed For Arrival Of Wallace

DEVELOPMENTS IN ITALY AND REICH TENSE   Any one of a combination of circumstances may tip scale

World Diplomats Believe Another F.D., Churchill Meeting Necessary

ALLIED CHIEFS MEETING SOON, CAPITAL HEARS   DIPLOMATS EXPECT ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL TO CONFER ON MANY PHASES OF WAR SITUATION

See Need for New Meeting of Leaders   Changes May Call For Roose. velt and Churchill Con ference

DIPLOMATS WAIT MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS   Foresee Action on Expected Italian Surrender, Mending of Russian “Breach.”   BERLIN NEWS WATCHED   Conference of U. S., British Leaders Will Come Soon. Belief.

British Move Forward After Crushing Blows By Planes and Guns FIRST OBJECTIVES TAKEN BY STORM Allies’ Monday Score  Of Enemy Airplanes Put Offieially at 52

Tanks, Artillery Open New Attack   Sth Army’s Surge Perils Enemy Facing Yanks

First Objectives Taken By Storm In Fierce Drive   Air Blows More Crushing Than Alamein And Mareth Precede Victorious Attack  >. eraser a Pre. VF FST araeef Uy

BRITISH BEGIN TUNISIAN DRIVE   Eighth Army Moves After Crushing Aerial Attacks

Montgomery’s Forces Smash Forward After Air Blow in Which 52 Axis Planes Are Shot Down—Infantrymen Capture Outposts at Bayonet Point — Fighting Continues Throughout Day and Into Night.

Eighth Army Hurls Massive Force Against Axis At Wadi El Akarit   ATTACK PROCEEDING ACCORDING TO PLAN

Montgomery  Opens New Drive   Aerial Preparations More Crushing Than Bombings Preceding Attacks an Alamein and Mareth

TAKES FIRST OBJECTIVES BY STORM AND MIGHTY PUSH TO EXPEL AXIS FROM AFRICA CONTINUES INTO NIGHT. 5

CRUSHING AIR ASSAULT OPENS BRITISH DRIVE   First Objectives Taken By Storm; Battle Is 60 Miles South Of Sfax   Struggle Continues

British Make Fierce Attack South of Sfax   Montgomery Gains First Objectives; 52 Axis Planes Downed in Air Battles: Foe Convoy Blasted 

Drive Follows Fierce Aerial Blows at Axis   52 Enemy Planes Bagged, Destroyer Sunk in Raids on Docks and Shipping

British Launch New Offensive On El Akarit   First objectives ‘taken by Montgomery’s 8th army; would force the Axis out of Africa:

MIGHTY PUSH IS UNDERWAY 10 OUST AXIS   Aerial Preparation  Is More Crushing Than Those Preceding Previous Offensives.

First Objectives Taken tn Attack By Montgomery's Forces— Air Blows Struck

British Troops Smash info Outlying Enemy Posts at Bayonef Point with Veteran Tank Columns in Support; Stage for Newest Drive Is Carefully Set by Week's Pause

SAVINGS. PLAN ~ HAS SETBACK   HOUSE COMMITTEE PREPARING -. TO DISCARD PROPOSED FORCED SAVINGS AS TAX MEASURE

SAVINGo PROGRAM rOn U. 0. APPERRO DEFINITELY DEAD   Comjulsory Plan Meeting Opp ?sition; Refund Plan ‘Aas Been Killed. :

FOOD CONFERENCE "DRAWS IRE OF REPUBLICAN SMITH   Charges Plans Threaten American Constitutional Government

APPROVES 8-CENT RAIL WAGE BOOST   SENATE VOTES 74 TO 4 IN FAVOR OF HIKE FOR 1,100,000 WORKERS.

‘Railway Pay Boost Voted By Senate   Bill Is Sent to Lowe) Chamber by Vote Of 74 to 4

‘MIL PAY RAISE   Democratic Majority Leader Responsible for Huge ote

Senate Votes Wage Increase For Rail Workers   _ Resolution Goes ih ‘to House; 1:100,000Salaries Affected .

Senate Passes — Rail Pay Hike   Eight-Cent-an-Hour Increase Given To Non-Operating Rail Workers.

Senate Approves Rail Wage Hike   Favor 8-Cent Raise For Nonoperators

Senate Sends Rail Pay Hike ToHouse 74-4   Stabilization’ Leade rs Overridden by Vote  f.. Of '...2.%H.+..

SENATE APPROVES WAGE INCREASE   Votes for 8-cents an Hour Wage Hike for Railroad Workers; Disregards HoldThe-Line Warning

Senate Approves Pay Increase for Railroad Workers   Overrides Plea To Hold-the-Line

Senate Approves 8-Cent Pay Hike For Rail Workers   Non-Operating Worker: Win Despite Strong Administration Fight

SENATE APPROVES RAIL WAGE BOOST      Administration Officials Say Raise Would Aid Inflation

o-Cents-Hour Rail Pay Hike Is Approved By Senate   Favored, 74. to 4,  Despite Objections By Administration Hold-Line Oficials   AFFECTS 1,100,000 ‘NON-OPERATORS’

RAILWAY PAY BOOST VOTED BY SENATORS   Bill Passed, 74 to 4 - Would Benefit NonOperating Workers

SENATE FAVORS WAGE INCREASE FOR RAIL MEN   8-Cent An Hour Boost Approved By Vote Of 74To-4; May Be Vetoed

Hearings. On Food Subsidies Near Conclusion   Senaie Passes Wage Raise  For Idle Railroad Workers

Kighth Army Is 40 Miles From Tripoli. British Sav   Axis Repulsed In Tunisia But Forces Make Some Gains In Stiff Fighting

AMERICANS GAIN EDGE OF MUNDA FIELD   Attack Believed In Final Phase; Salamaua Shelled

REACH EAST EDGE OF MUNDA   American Jungle Troops Advancing with Flame Throwers, Tanks and Artillery — Weakening Japanese Garrison May Succumb Soon.

Yankees Reach Kast Edge Of Munda Airbase   Using Flame Throwers, They Advance 1,200 Yards To Edge Of Airfield

U.S. TROOPS REACH EASTERN EDGE OF MUNDA’S AIRFIELD   Weakening Jap Garrison May Succumb Soon. —. Attack Now: In:  Final Phase

MUNDA ATTACK IN FINAL PHASE, SPOKESMAN SAY   American Jungle Troops Reach Edge of Airfield

Yanks Blast Nir  Forces   BOMB-BATTERED NIPS ENTER FINAL PHASE OF DOGGED RESISTANCE

AMERICANS REACH EASTERN EDGE OF MUNDA BIRFIELD   Weakening Jap Garrison May Succumb Soon

“Yanks Pin . , Munda Foe Against Sea   Japs Retreat for ‘Death Stand Under Flame Gun Attack.

U. S. Jungle Troops Reach Edge Of Munda Airfield, Jap Forces Weakening

OPA:PLANS. DRIVE =. ~QNBLACK MARKET   Meat Bootleggers Will Be Tracked Down In Mid-Weet 

Bad Weather Hampers 5th In Italy   Clark And Montgomery’s Armies Inch Ahead On Italian Front

Kx planation Of Cans And Pencil Work   How Your Allowances Under Rationing Will Pan Out

37,000 Men Striking in State   83 Mines in Area Closed— 1,000 Leave 9 Mines Taday

37,000 OUT IN WESTERN END OF STATE   Eighty-Three Mines in Pittsburgh Area Are Reported to Be Closed

Submarine Menace Is Controlled   Supply Schedules Based On Assumption Danger Is Small, Reports Admiral William Young

MENACE BY SUBS IS NEAR CONTROI   Bureau of Supplies Reveals There Are Few Qangers In Shipping Now.

When He Predicts European Victory In 1944— —By Elton C. Fay (/P}  Eisenhower Knows What He Is Talking About

Card Carrying Is. Mandatory   Men Subject. To Draft ‘To “Face Fine or Pen-Term “After February I

Men Subject To Draft Required To Carry Cards   Order Becomes  Effective Feb. 1

MEN AFFECTED BY DRAFT MUST CARRY CARDS   Ruling Part of Program of  Selective Service Vigor ous Action’ Against   Draft: Delinquents   Persons In 1845 Age’ Group Failing to Comply May Be Subject to Imprisonment and Fine

DRAFT REGISTRANTS MUST CARRY CARDS OF CLASSIFICATION   Ruling Part Of Program Of Vigorous Action” Against ‘Delinguents

Delinquents Hit In Draft Edict  ci. 4 Wr. Tr...   Set Feb. Deadline for Class Cards

PLAN CRACK DOWN ON DRAFT DODGERS   All Men Between 18-45 Must Carry Selective Service Registration Cards

Death Claims Sporting Peer   Duke of Portland Dies At Welbeck Abbey Nottinghamshire

WONT QUIT L +4 Trae AID    Manpower Chief To Remain  On Job, Says Harper

LEAR IS PROMOTED DESPITE PROTEST   Officer Is Made Lieutenant General Over Opposition Of  Senater Clark

YO0-HO0 LEAR HAS PROMOTION   Acting Chief Of Army Ground Forces Made Lieut. General

Lewis’ Cry tor Wagner Act Rights Brings Den wheats by Bill’s A a a

BEAUTIFUL GIRLS SHALL NOT PASS   Nor Will The Waiters At Earl Carroll's Restaurant

Yanks Take Lead   An All-Time Record Series Crowd Sees Bombers Blast Out 6-2 Victory Over Cards   PLAY BY PLAY

YANKEES RUN WILD IN EIGHTH INNING TAKE THIRD GAME  SCORED FIVE RUNS TO SALT GAME AWAY BY ~ SIX TO TWO COUNT

Score Five Runs in Eighth Inning to Down St. Louis Cards.   69,990 RECORD CROWD

YANKS COME FROM BEHIND TO WIN, 6-2   Down One Run in Eighth, Ameiican Leaguers Drive in Five, Sending Brazile to Showers — Have Series Lead Again.

Yanks Stage Big 8th-Inning Spree To WinBy 6-2  SS ee eS ee  Ru & 000 200 000—-2 6 4 000 001 O5x—6 8 O  CARDS YANKS

Score 5 Runs in  8th to Win; 6 to 2   -,.  St. Louis Cardinals .. .000 200 000—2 6 4 New York Yankees ..000 001 05x—6 8 O

Winners Tally Five in Eighth   BOROWY TOSSES SIX-HIT VICTORY FOR NEW YORK AS BRONX BOMBERS BLAST BRAZLE IN BIG INNING BEFORE RECORD GATHERING   Cards Hit Borowy

YANKS LEAD CARDS WITH SECOND WIN   Big Eighth Inning Brings the Yankees From Behind To  6 io 2 Victory.   HANK BOROWY WINNER

Last Game Of Series In N. Y.   ST. LOUIS IS NEXT SITE OF BIG BASEBALL CLASSIC

Eighth Inning  Batting Spree Sinks Cards   Record Crowd of 69,990 Watches Un. canny Bronx Bombers Upset Third 1943 Game   : eee ee ee ards Beegktettet ta 6 & Yanks e 6 6.6 6 + .6. 8:26 8. o

Hugh Crowd Is At Game   Yanks Take 2-1 Lead in Series Before Record-Breaking rowd of 69,990 Fans

Yankees  Win, 6-2: 5 Scored In Eighth   Record Crowd of 69,900 Sees New Yorkers Rally Late Af ter Trailing in Tight Game    TYPICAL UPRISING BY THE BOMBERS   Rookie Brazle Had Allowed . Only Tyo Hits Until the Sixth Inning

5 Runs in ih Win for Yankees   Today's Crowd Sets All-Time Record  oh aide Meee Linie bon ree

Yanks Explode In Eighth To Win, 6 to 2   American Leaguers Step Game Ahead In Warld Series

EIGHTH INNING HIT BARRAGE DOWNS CARDS   Errors Contribute To New York Win; Attendance Record Broken

COSTLY ERRORS SPELL DEFEAT FOR CARDINALS   KUSOWSKI'S MUFF STARTS YANKEE RALLY IN EIGHTH    S&eore by Innings: ST. LOUIS (NL) 0006 Oo O61 NEW YORK (AL) 0060 001 @x—4

YANKEES RALLY TO) EAT GAnDo IN THIRD GAME   New Yorks Put On 8th Inning Rally To Down Cardinals, Take Lead In Series   THIRT: INNING

YANKS BLAST CARD HURLER TO TAKE LEAD   American Leaguers Smash Out Five Runs in Eighth Inning of 3rd Game.   Play Before Record Audience of 69,990

SCORING SPnEE IN EIGHTH WINS CAME   More Than 60,000 Fans On Hand to ‘Witness Third Game of Series”

69,990. Fans See Yanks Win In Third Game   Come From Behind With Five Run Uprising In Eighth Frame   END WAS SUDDEN   Squthworth  Used Trio Of Hurlers To Stop Rronx Bombers

70,000 Fans Jam Stadium To ‘See Final Game of Series _To Be Played In New York   PLAY-BY PLAY

Eighth Inning Batting Spree Sinks Cards   Record Crowd of 69,990 Watches Un canny Bronx Bombers Upset Third 1042 Camo   123 45 678 9 RHE Cards _...0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0—2 6 4 Yankee gO 0 9) 0 0 1 0 5 x6 8 O

FIVE-RUN RALLY GIVES YANKEES WIN OVER CARDS   Third Game of World Series Brings New Attendance Record of 69,990

Yanks ...6 Com... 2   Roof Falls in on Cardinals In Eigth After Early Lead

Cards Blow Up, Lose to Yankees   Eighth Inning Rally Puts Game On Ice 6 to 2 for New Yorkers

THE BOX SCORE ST.LOUIS 000200  [   NEW YORK QOGOO1             Brazle, Borowy Vie  in Third Contest

YANKS COME BACK TO TAKE 3RD GAME   American Leagte Champi_ ons Score Five Runs in 8th Inning   A RECORD ATTENDANCE

Yanks Trip Cards, 6 To 2, By Scoring Five In Eighth   VAN PES   THIRD INNING,

Yanks Rout Cards 6102 To Capture Third Game   Five-Run Assault In 8th Inning Ices Game

News Withheld,  OWI Says in  Complaint to F.R Churchill Scoops  ® America, They Tell President   By Lyle €. Wilson United Press Staff

Give Winnie the  Pulitzer Prize Authorities Charged With Withholding War News from Public

Military Men Delay News, OWI Charges   Inadequate Report Of War Misleads Public, Claim

To Follow Order on Milk Price   Wickard Says Milk Mar keting Order ‘‘First Step  in His Program”’

FOOD OFFICIALS PLAN REFORMS   Nation's Food Distribution System to be Changed to Foree Economies and Retard Rises in Prices to  Toansimere.

Milk Sale Gets Drastic Change   Distribution System Is Due for Revision

Revision of Milk Selling Is Ordered   Government Will ‘Prohibit Sales of Less Than: Quart

Plan Reforms In Distributior Of Foodstuffs:   Saving in Manpower And Equipment  ge

Order New ‘Economies In Distribution   Wickard Revises Milk Marketing Practices To Save Manpower And Equipment —

DRASTIC REFORMS IN DISTRIBUTION OF FOODS IS PLANNED      Revision Of Practices For Delivery. Of Milk Ts But “First Step”

PLAN REFORMS TO AID FOOD ‘DISTRIBUTION   i Drastic Kevision- Of Milk Market i Practice Is First  Steno

Hear Miners Last Wage Plea Today      NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SOFT COAL MINE OWNERS THEN UNION UPERATORS BEGIN CLOSED sSSIDTON.   Want $2 Day Boost

Miners Insist They Must Get Wage Increases   Actual Work on New Con. tract To Start in New York Soon

Mine Contract”  Will Be Drawn   Work Stoppage Threatens Industry. Unless: Pact: .Gains Approval

MINERS WAGE ~ SESSION TODAY   Closed Meeting for Con: tract After New Sneakers

NAURU ISLAND JAP BASE HIT HARD IN RAID   OFFENSIVE AG AINST TRUK HINTED IN SOUTH PACIFIC

ALLIED BOMBS DAMAGE GILBERT ISLAND BASE   Planes Hit Nauru Base In Long-Range Day light Attacks; Fort ress Fights Off 4 Jap Plaries In Long Duel

ALLIES RAID JAP BASE IN GILBERT ISLES   Naura Heavily Damaged By Army Bombers In Long Range Attack; Kiski  Bombed Again   5 Zeros Shot Down

Jap Nauru Outpost Guarding Great Base At Truk Heavily Damaged by Bombers

U.S. Fliers Hit Vital Pacific  Base of Enemy   Americans Smash at Least Seven Jap Planes, Wreak Great Damage on Important Guardian Pert of South

First Patronage Fight Develops   Would Give GOP Control of  Number of Jobs

RENT EXAMINER TO OPEN OFFICE HERE   Frederick R. Walters To Locate at Rationing  Board Offices

Most Districts Are Debt Free   Optimistié Report [Is Made To  nymer

Most Districts Are Debt Pree   Optimistic Report I> Made To Layvmen

Sub-Committee Reveals Some Findings Some Rationing, Price Control Must Be Kept Up For Time After War

Some Rationing Controls Will Have To Be Continued for Time After War

CHRISTMAS PACEAGES FOR SOLDIERS MAY BE MAILED SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCT,

LIFT BANS ON SOLDIER MAIL   Yule Packages May Be Sent Without Request.

Germans Throw Defense. Ring Around Naples Port   Fifth Army Captures Campagna; British Chase Fleeing Nazi Troons   By Noland Norgaard ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS I

Big Dams Are Burst By Mines   Yanks Blast Two U-Boat Lairs  In France

Dam-Busting Raid Proves  Big Success   American Heavy Bombers Follow Up RAF Attack.

Billions Of Gallons Let Loose   Destructive Raid Releases 336,000,000 Tons Of Water  Into Valley.

RUHR, WESER VALLEYS ARE UNDER WATER   Americans Follow Up With Attack on U-Boat Lair

Von Arnim To Engiand   Italy Warns People Nation May Be Knocked Out Of War By Invasions

Italy Warns of Gravity of Situation   State That Nation Soon Might Be Knocked Out of War

tte tie ett AY NR tent mr  OHIOAN KILLED IN CRASH » OF BOMBER IN FLORIDA

Captain John A. A. Hutchin son Been in Foreign Ser vice Nearly Two Years

OFFICER TO BE HOME. SOON      Captain John A. Hutchinson Been in Foreign Service Nearly Two Years

SUBSIDY FIGHT BACK IN LAP OF SENATE GROUE   Banking Committee Trving to Effect Truce In Farm  Bloc-Administration - Row

Deadlock Develops In Senate Over Vote On End to Subsidies Jan. 1

Food Subsidies Compromise  Fails in Senate  ) Solons Reject Lower Income  mw__. Bro ee en eK

New Deadlock on Subsidies Ties Senate   Truce Between Farm. Bloc and Administration Fails to Materialize at Parley

CLEARS COAST OF BRITAIN IN INVASION fLN   Developments Give New Signs of Preparing Blow at Nazi Europe.   UNUSUAL MILITARY ACTIVITIES ARE NOTED

BRIGHT NEW MILLS NOW IN CIRCULATION   Emergency Arising From the Shortage of Tokens, Has Been Ended.

New Record Crop Acreage Is Forecast Despite Shortages Of Workers-And Machinery

FARM PLANTINGS JUMP THIS YEAR   More Acres Devoted to Food Crops Shown by Survey

rmers to Plant n Million More  cres This Year   Respond to Plea For More Production,  U. S. Crop Board Says TION-WIDE SURVEY  Labor, Machinery Shortages Fail To Deter Growers

FARM PLANTINGS JUMP THIS YEAR      More Acres Devoted to Food Crops Shawn  hw Suncac:

German Air Force Promises Reprisal   Planes to Strike “Back Furtously”

Three Forces Operate as Single Unit   Timing in Assalut on Cape Gloucester Described as Perfect

LANDING TIMING AT CAPE HAILED   Coordination Of All Forces Bared By Eyewitness

(A weeky news digest prepared by the Rural Press Section, OWI News Bureau)

Town and Farm in Wartime —   Regulations Concerning Your Business, Farm and Home

Drive Is Over The Top   --- Tribute To Patriotic Response, Bell Says

LOAN DRIVE — 18 OVER TOP   SECOND WAR LOAN MAY GO OVER TOP BY THREE BILLION DOLLARS

Green Says AFL Miners Will Not Refuse To Work   Wires Roosevelt His Union Will Keep Pledge Not To Strike

State Claims Women ‘Gained Jury Seats “By Deceit And iPerjury” And Asks Mistrial

Fifth And Eighth Armies Continue Slashing Drives   Fall Of Important Highway Center Of Venafro Imminent

YANKS REPORTED IN SUBURBS OF VENAFRO TODAY   Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies Push Aheod in All Sectors

W arships Pound at Geemans   Yanks anil British Qaick to Exploit Newly-Matle Gains

Fifth Army Enters Suburb of Venafro, British Take Isernia   Soviets Virtually Hold All Land East of Dnieper; Reds List Nazis Summer Casualties at 2,700,000

Fall Of Highway Center Of Venafro Held Imminent; British Destroyers Shell Nazis Out Of Holes; Heavy Air Raids Made By Allies

Nazis Blast Dams tu Slow  Drive in Italy   Flood Coastal Areas a:  Allied Troops Smash {to Garigliano River   VENAFRO MENACED

Both Allied Armies Advance in Italian Drives; Near Rome   Fall of Venafro, One of Nazi Defense Centers; Thought Imminent

Fall of Venatro In Italy Certain   American Troops Are Fighting in Outskirts of Strategical Point.

PUSH SWIFTLY THRU SMASHED MASSIEQ LINE   Venafro, . Highway Center, Near Fall; Germans Repeat New Leapiroa Landinas.. .

Allied Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance In All  Sectors On Italian Front

Fifth Surges Forward In Drive on Venafro   ‘Nazis Fall Back on Entire Front; Eichth Army Captures San Salvo

VENAFRO HELD NEAR CAPTURE BY AMERICANS   Yankees Reported Fight ing In Outskirts of City, One of Two Inland Highway Centers   OTHER FIFTH UNITS REACH GARIGLIANO   Smash Through Germany's  _ Collapsed Lines to Sec  tor After British Seize lsernia

ALLIED ARMIES ADVANCE IN ALL ITALIAN SECTORS   AMERICAN TROOPS NOW FIGHTING IN VENAFRO OUTSKIRTS

ALLIES MOVE AHEAD IN ITALY WITH HARD PUNCHES; REACH RIVER 80 MILES FROM ROME

FIFTH ARMY IS EIGHTY MILES FROM ROME   Moving With Hard, Swift Punches Deeper Into Central Italy, Allies Advance In All Sectors   ARE NEARING VENAFRO

Allies  Roll On in Italy   VENAFRO FALL LOOMS AS CLARK RIPS THROUGH TO GARIGLIANO RIVER

ALLIES IN ITALY DRIVE FORWARD   Plunge Deeper Into Collapsed German Defense Line  VENAFROQ NEAR FAII

YANKS F EDGE OF INLAND KEY, VENAFRO   Move With Hard and Swift Punches Over Collapsed Defense Line

Allies Move Fast Against the Nazis   Swift Punches: Carry. Fifth and Eighth Armies Far ther North =   ENEMY FLOODS ROUTE    Dams Are Blown Up in Effort to'Slow Fifth Army’s Progress

ALLIED ARMY IS NOW MOVING DEEPER INTO CENTRAL ITALY   Over the Collapsed Massico Ridge-Trigno River Defense Line.   HARD, SWIFT PUNCHES   The Fall of Venefro Was Believed Imminent, lt Was Reported.

Allies Advance in All Sectors of Defenses in lfaly   Fall of Venafro, Second Major Road Junction, Imminent

\Allies Gain  \On All Fronts  Before Rome   Massico-Trigno River Defense of Germans Collapses Under Advance

FALL OF HIGHWAY CENTER 15 NEAR   Fifth And Eighth Armies Advancing Deeper Into Central Italy   CAPTURE ISERNIA   Nazis Massico-Trigno River Defense Line Collapses

Allied Units in Italy   Fall of Venatro, Key Inland Road Center, Expected Soon

Allies Score Fresh Gains Against Nazis   5th and 6th Armies Push Forward Over Massico-Triano Line

IN OUTSKIRTS OF VENAFRO      Its Capture Will Eliminate Second of Two Inland Highway Centers Which Have Held the German Line. Together.

ALLIED FORCES GAIN ON EVERY ITALIAN FRONT   Fall Of Venafro Believed Imminent; New 15th Air Force And RAF Smash Nazi Communications.

Fifth Drives . To Vicinity of The Garialiand   Fall of Venafro, One Inland Highway Center, Believed To Be Imminent

Fifth Army NOW Within Fifty Miles Of Rome   American Bombers Blast Vital West Coast Railroad

Early Capture Of Venafro Is Held Probable   Fifth And Eighth Armies Pressing Germans Back  In All Sectors.

ALLIED ARMIES ADVANCE ALONE ROAD TO ROME   Fall Of Venafro Imminent Today, Report Says

EARLY FALL OF VENAFRO. THREATENED          High Ground Falls After Crossing. Of Volturno -

Armies Advance On Both Fronts Algiers Reporis   Inland Highway Center's Fall Declared Near

‘Score Advances in All Sectors Along Collapsed Massico-Trigno Line   SHIPS AID TROOPS   Help Montgomery Break German Resistance in San Salvo Area and Caplure Town

Nazis Reel Back Under 5th, 8th Amy Pounding   Key Points Fall After British Take Isernia

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES PUNCH DEEP INTO GERMAN LINES  FALL OF. VENAFRO, IN.

STH AND EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCE IN ALL SECTORS   Fall of Venafro, Inland Highway Center Is Believed Imminent

ROME ADVANCE   Venafro Fall Imminent As Massico-Trigno Defense Line Collapses

SEIZURE OF KEY POINT IMMINENT   British And American ® Troops Advance In Italian Fighting

‘all Of Venatro, . Vital Nazi Link, Seen Imminen   ‘anks Fight In Suburbs; British Halt Resistance, Shell Enemy From Holes

U, S. Prepared To Rehabilitate Ravaged Italy   Problems To Be Met Will Be Tremendous;  Groups Leaving Now

‘Hull Says Victory In ‘Tunisia Opens Way To Direct Attack On Enemy

ATTACK ON KISKA MAY COME BEFORE ATTU. 1S. RETAKEN   U. S. Forces In Aleutians Greatly  OQOutnumber - Small Forces Of Defenders.

Expect U. S. To Go After Kiska Next   Battle Of ‘Attu Is Just Another Step Of Plan To Sweep Japs Into Pacific Ocean

CLAIM INCREASED OUTPUT   More, Tanks and Ammunition Pro- duced, Says Berlin

JAPAN LOSING. MANY PLANES   DESTRUCTION OF . 23 OF 3 PLANES IN. LAST BATTLE BRINGS TOTAL TO 780

STRIKERS MAY RETURN TO JOBS THIS MORNING   War Labor Board May Give Decision Today In Soft  Coal Controversy   MINE OPERATORS ARE CRITICAL OF REPORT

HELD NEAR IK TWO STRIKES   Spokesmen for Chrysler, Rubber Firms Are Hopeful

BELIEVE CHRYSLER STRIKE NEAR END   WALKOUT OF RUBBER WORKERS ALSO EXPECTED TO BE TERMINATED SOON.

Production May Resume In Full Today   S20pe F1Cid OUPikes In Detroit, Akron Shop: Will End Quickly  MORE THAN 30,000 STILL OUT IN AKRON  Chrysler Spokesman Sees Full Production Resuming Shortly

Officials See End of War Plant Strikes   Spokesmen Voice Hope of Full Production Shortly

Strikes at 10 Big War Plants Believed Over   Decision Of Labor Board Awaited In Mine Wage Dispute; Burke Raps Panel Report As Favoring Lewis

SETTLEMENT HELD NEAR IN TWO STRIKES   Spokesmen for Chrys:ler, Rubber Firms Are Hopeful

Se   LABOR QUILOOK MORE HOPEFUL      Chrysler, Rubber Walkouts Appear at End By .  oa oe ead ‘ae at cS

Leaders Stripped Of Power   Foreign Purchases Removed From Both BEW And RFC; Heads Spanked,

FDR Censures Wallace, Jones   Takes Both Out of Foreign Purchase Field, Ends Feud

Presbyterians To Raise Fund For S. S. Building   Church Groups to Meet Wednesday Night Po Adopt) Plans for Campve ay,

Presbyterians To Raise Fund For S. 8. Building   Church Groups tu Mee Wednesday Night Te Adopt Plans for Cam paign..

‘Court Bill Before Senate ! Cominittee   Final Vote May  Be Taken Early  In Uaming Waak

BILL T0 REVAMP APPEALS COURT NEARING VOTE   Senate Committee Hopes to Get Measure to Floor by Tomor- ~ row Afternoon   FACES STIFF FIGHT   Opponents Predict Its Defeat; Others See Close Vote; Senate. Leader Fights It

French Leaders Arrange to Discuss Plans   Giraud-De Gaulle Meeting Has Been Arranged

Giraud Plans .. Early Parley   DeGaulle. Meeting Slated As More Are Arrested In African Plots

NEW ARRESTS ARE MADE IN -_ DARLAN DEATI   Broad Conspiracy Probed In Assassination Of Admiral

Giraud to Meet De Gaulle Soon To Seek Accord   Fighting French See Early Agreement Between Two Leaders

Wide Plot Is Probed In Algeria   Giraud Causes Arrest Of Prominent Persons In Darlan Case.   Showdown Soon   Early Meeting With De Gaulle Expected To Quell Turmail.

PLAN TO MEET SOO   Continue . Investigation in Darlan Assassination; More Persons Arrested

Frenchmen  ‘Will Meet   Giraud Spokesman Tells Plan To Confer With De Gaulle

More Are Arrested In Admiral’s Death As Giraud Slates  Talk With DeGaulle

New Undertones of Mystery Seen in Probe _of Darlan Assassination

Giraud And De Gaulle To Meet Soon; Early, Complete Agreement Between French Leaders Expected; Military Officials Hold Investigation

Others Held in darlan Death   Some Arrested Earlier Released By Officials

Giraud and DeGaulle to Meet; Assassination of Darlan More.Mystifying

FRENCH CHIEFS PLAN MEETING   Giraud, De Gaulle Exchange Telegrams; Arrest More Suspects.

De Gaulle and Giraud To Meet Soon as More Arrests Made For Assassination of Darlan

MORE SEIZED IN DARLAN MURDER   Military Authorities Push Investigation; Giraud, De’ Gaulle To Meet

GIRAUD MAKES MORE ARRESTS   Spokesmen Indicate Earl Meet With DeGaulle

Giraud, De Gaulle Slated To Meet Shortly; Further Arrests in Darlan Killing

FRENCH LEADERS WILL MEET SOON FOR CONFERENCE   NEW ARRESTS MADE IN DARLAN SLAYING; OTHERS RELEASED

FRENCH LEADERS TO CONFER SOON   Make More Arrests in Investigation of Darlan’s Assassination

Two-Pronged Drive On Japs On Attu Island   Navy Discloses First Details Of Attack Against Japs On Attu   STIFF RESISTANCE BEING ENCOUNTERED

KNOX REVEALS PINGEAS MOVE AGAINST NIPS   Communiques Begin to Bare Story of Landings and Island Assault.   ENEMY FORCED BACK; RESISTANCE IS SHARP

U S. FORCES MEET STIFF RESISTANCE   Enemy Entrenched in Machine Gun Posts Along Rocky Ridges

TWO-PRONGED DRIVE AIMED AT ISLE CLEAN-UP   Enemy Entrenched Along Rocky Ridge And Offers Stubborn Resistance   LANDING AIDED BY NAVY   RAF Again Pours Death, Destruction On Flood Ravaged Germany

LOCAL TEMPERATURE   Praise From Most Quarters, But... ..  Reaction To African Conference Is Mixed

WASHINGTON NOT AGREED ON VALUE OF CONFERENCE   WHEELER SAYS THERE WAS NOTHING TOLD NOT ALREADY KNOWN

Dramatic Roosevelt-Churchill Meeting In Casablanca Brings MixedOpinionsFromAmerican.

WASHINGTON IS WISHY-WASHY ON THE CONFERENCE   Most Leaders Impressed, However, On The Nisring OF It

Praise and Criticism For Meeting   Some Washington Leaders Pleased with “Unconditional Surrender” Agreements; Others Disappointed .

WASHINGTON’S REACTION IS WIDELY VARIED   High Praise in Some Quarters, Dis. appointment in Ofhers Greei Casablanca Announcement

Capitol O.K.  On Conference   Few Criticize FDR-Churchill Meeting For Failure To Bring French Union,

OPPOSITION TO SUBSIDY SPLIT   Billion Dollar 1944 Agricultural Price Support Plan Gains Favor

QPPOSITION TO FOOD SUBSIDY AIM SEEN SPLI’   New Administration Program of Billion Dollar 1944 Price Support Plan. Held Reason

Opposition To Subsidy Plan Split    oe : ‘Administration Program  May Have Easier Time  Jn Congress

Opposition To Subsidy Plan Split   Administration Program May Have Easier Time In Congress

ROLLBACK FOES SPLIT IN FIGHT   Billion ‘Dollar CCC Fund to Finance Price Guarantees Supported, Attacked

ITALY SHAKEN BY CHAOTIC TANGLE. — AS DRIVE OPENS   Londen Doubts If Badaglio’s Forces Will Put Up Much Onnasition.

italy Reported Near Chaos as Allies — Begin Invasion Through Toe of Boo!

Arrest Three Italian Officers   Military, Political Troubles Plague Nation

Italy Gloomy as Allies Strike   Nation Near Chaos, Travellers Report

WAVE OF CHAOS STRIKES ITALY   Italy Reported Shaken As Fo Invades Southern Boot

ITALY SHAKEN BY CHAOTIC TANGLE OF  ‘MILITARY -TROUBLE      Ail . Inhabitants -Canight In Wave Of Deep Depression After Invasion ~

Inquiry Set On State Pensions   Payments Reduced Salaries Boosted —

MID-WEST GAS CUTS DEBATED   All-Star Meeting Will Be Held At Capitol; Supply Not Short

Sabotage By Frenchmen Is Growing   Occupied Nation Seething With Unrest And Nazi Fears Increase

FIRES IN FRANGE SHOW MOUNTING BLOWS AT NAZIS   Germans Double Precaution Against Early Allied Invasion

TOLL OF JAP PLANES RUINED REACHES 215   Entire Air Force at Wewak Is Wiped Out

215 Planes. Destroyer Liquidated   Allies Damage More Destroyers and Barges, Lose  Only Six Planes.

'Bridgehead Establishment at Arawe a Grand Piece of Work Difficult Operations Lie Ahead

WAR ANALYST FINDS CONCERN FOR CHURCHILL GREAT: ALLIES TAKING WAR RIGHT TO IAPS

YANK FLIERS AGAIN STRIKE U-BOAT BASES   Factories at Essen Get Heavy Smash From British

U.S. Bombers PoundU-Boat Bases in France   Brest and Lorient Daylight Targets

Heavy Bomber: Of RAF Over Europe Again  Day and Night Raids on Nazi Territory

Assault Follows Raid by '  Africa-Based _ Planes —  BOMBS RAINED ON BIG GERMAN CITY  Stepped Up Bo Bombing of the Reich Forei shadowed

Soldiers Not To Serve As Solons:   Gen. Marshal To End Double Duties

Army Order Forbids Men in Service Serving in Civil Official Capacity —

REPORT ON VICTORY TAX   Amount Collected for First Quarter - Js $300,220,428

GERMANS AT OREL ‘TO FIGHT 10 DEATH   ‘Nazis Fight Desperately in Attempt to Halt Threepronged Advance.

Fight to Death Order Issued To Orel Germans   Germans Bring Reserves to  Hold Red City

Nazis Ordered To Fight to Death at Orel   Enemy Bringing Up Reinforcements For Desperate Stand

Fight To Death Order For Nazis   Russians Crunch Out Gains Around Orel

GERMANS AT OREL ORDERED 10 FIGHT UNTIL. THEY - DIE   Nazis,. So Far,.Have: Failed fo Halt Three- -Pronged ‘Ad- . vance af Reds.

HUNS AT GREL GIVEN FISHT T0 DEATH ORDERS   Russians Advaiice 3 to 6 Miles; Capture Over 40 More Towns

ORDER GERMANS FIGHT TO DEATH ‘ON OREL FRONT      Nazis Trying To Halt Three. Pronged Red Advance At Orel

Variable Sentence In Prison Attacked   Senator Vickers of Fayette Introduces Measure For Old Plan

HARVEY’S DAUGHTER DIES   Leavenworth Resident Recently ' Underwent Major Operation

"AKRON MAN   Lawrence W. Dague Reported Alive In the Philippines

LEARNS SON HELD CAPTIVE BY-JAPS              al. Word That. Sori Philippines .

LINTON BUY AMONG LIST OF WOUNDED   Sanford Sims, of West Linton in North Africa Action.

BATTLE SEASONED AIR VETERANS TO GIVE INFORMATION   Army Air Force Has Plans For Bringing Men Back on Rotation Svstem

ARMY AIR FORCE HAS PLANS TO USE SEASONED FIGHTERS  PLANS INCLUDE POST-WAI   PLANS INCLUDE POST-WAI PERIOD AS WELL AS WINNING OF WAR

REDS CAPTURE 1,467 TROOPS AT VORONEZH   ‘Hint at Encircling Tac- ties on That Front as Other Forces. Continue “Liquidation” of Nazis at Stalinorad. 

RUSSIANS SAY CLEAN-UP WILL TAKE 2-3 DAYS   Freezing Remnants Of Hitler’s Once Proud Force Of 220,000 Face Certain Destruction; Nazi Communique Darkest  ‘et.

Reds Whittle Axis Forces At Stalingrad   Will Slay 12,000 Left In 3 Davs

 RUSSIANS DOOM 12,000 NAZIS [AT STALINGRAD   Complete Annihilation Malier of Two or Three Days, War Bulleiin Says   IN TWO GROUPS   Olfensives Continue on 450-Mile Front, Germans Mass Reserves -Before Rostov

Reds Press Annihilation of Nazis Caught in Big Trap at Stalingrad

Last Of 20,00 Troops Now Fact Death, Capture  Extinction Of Men  Set By Soviets

Ukase of Doom on 12000   Germans Before.  ‘Stalingrad Given. Only Three Days to- Live ‘   ‘ONCE. BIG ARMY SLASHED -TO BITS   Soviets Continue ‘Drive on “All Fronts; Nazis. Bring ~ Reserves to. Rostov.”

Reds Mark 12,000 Of Foe For ‘Death’ Within Three Days   Time Limit Set For Extinction Of Last Germans Trapped At Stalingrad; Sweeping Advance Continues

GERMANS ARE MASSING FORCE NEAR ROSTOV   Reds Set Time Limit Of Three Days On Survival Of Surrounded Nazis

NAZIS SLASHED INRED MOP-UP ATSTALINGRAD   Huge Armies Chopped Down to 12,000 Men; Russian Report Says Entire Force Doomed   TO BE ELIMINATED WITHIN FEW DAYS   40,000 Have Been Slain and 28,000 Captured Since Jan. 10, When  Given Ultimatum —

Remnants Of Hitler's Army Are Trapped   Russian Offenses Continue On 450-Mile Fro} From Voronezh to Upper Caucasus

Nazis Caught In Traps by Reds Doomed   Twelve Thousaad Fighting Before Stalingrad to Be Wiped Out.   Russians Tell About ‘vap.uring War Supply

ONLY 12,000 OF 220,000 MEN HOLD ON   Soviets Say They May Last Two To Three Days   In Advance Toward Rostov; More Towns Captured In Caucasus Region

Listen to Morgenthau - Marshall ate. lell Power of Payroll Savings

Doughboys Set for Final Attu Assault, Bombers, Floods Vent Fury on Nazis

Advance Patrols of Two American Columns Joined.   ; Nipponese Cleared From Vital Pass  Through Rocky Ridge

PATROLS OF TWO YANK GROUPS MEET   Japanese Flee Under Pressure From Americans

PUSH JAPS BACK ON ATTU   Nips Retreating After Losing Vital Pass

U.S. Troops in Position for Attu Assault   “Two Advancing Columns Are — : Near Juncture

Yanks Ready for Final Attu Drive   Japs Doomed When  Two Columns Meet

IAPS RETREATING UNDER PRESSURI   Two American Forces Are Executing Pincer Movement on Attu.

AWAIT JUNCTURE OF TWO COLUMNS OF AMERICANS   Important Ridge Taken, Opens ing Way for Decisive. Assault.

OF U.S. UNITS JOIN IN PINCERS MOVE      Enemy Withdraws Toward Harbor Of Chichagof—Meeting Of 2 American Columns Presages Drive To —  Clear Island Of Japs. .

SOME GERMANS SAID SEEKING WAY 10 PEACE   Downey Says War May End By Christmas

REPORT POPE PLUS: WORKING FOR PEACE   Disposal of Hitler Only Thin Holding Up Peace, U. S Senator Claims

Declares Nazis Suing For Peace   Sen. Downey Says Pope Pius Js Mediator

SAYS GERMANS ARE TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO SURRENDEF   This Statement Was Made To day by Sen. Downey of California.   A COLLAPSE IS NEAR?   Reported Pope Had Undertaken to Mediate Between the Germans and the Allies.

Wooden Anti-Aircraft ‘Guns’ Protect U. S. Congressmen   And ‘Soldiers’ Manning [hem “Are Only Dummies, Representative Finds

Dummy Guns Guard U. S. Capital Roofs   Congressman Finds Decoys ‘Protect’ Him and Colleagues

Why Not Use Lame Ducks?  ‘Dummies’ Guarding Congress Shock Inquisitive Lawmaker

CHARLIE McCARTHY’ GUNS, RAGDOLL TROOPS GUARD ROOF OF CONGRESS OFFICE BUILDING

Decoy Soldiers And ‘Wooden Guns Guns Guard Lawmakers Of The Nation

Wooden Guns ‘Protect’ Congressmen   Congressmen  ‘Artillery’ Is Manned " By Decoy Soldiers, Cooley Tells House  WAR DEPARTMENT DEFENDS PRACTICE  Common Procedure  In All War Theatres,  Denartmant Accnwse

Dummy Guns, Men Guarding Congres:  Office Buildings   Solon, In Civilian Clothes, Climbs To Top To Discover Secret: He’s Plenty Irritoted

CONGRESSIONAL GUARDS PROVE TO BE WOODEN   “Defenders” Of Legislators On Office Roof Made Of Rags And Timber

Congressman Finds Dummy Guns on Building Roof; War Department Says Usual rocedure to Mislead Enemy Agents

Japanese Offensive Attempt Has Cost At Least 104 Planes   Only Two Allied Plenes Destroyed and Several Dam. aged in Air Battles—Numerous Fires Are Started in the Dispersal Area

Only 2 Allied Warcraft Reported Lost  84 of Enemy Craft  Bea Ghat TDiacrm   84 of Enemy Craft Are Shot Down Over New Guinea

Enemy Tries In Vain to Upset Allies   Foe Pays Dearly in Latest Attempts To Wrest Initiative

Toll of 104 Jap Planes Reportec   Air Battles Rage In New Guinea Area

MacArthur Reports Victory Over Japs  Enemy Planes Downed Ir New Thrusts

104 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN NEW BATTLES   84 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down Over New Guinea; Allies Lose Two   NIP AIRDROMES ARE UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

MacArthur Says Only Two Allied Aircraft Lost   Flyers Shoot Down 84 Tokyo Planes  Above New Guinea

Only 2 Allied Craft Missing In New Attack:   Five Enemy Barges Blasted at Rottock Bay; Buka Airdrome Set Afire by Allies

J aps Sacrifice 104 Planes in Futile Bid for Pacific Air Supremacy

QNLY 2 ALLIED CRAFT LOST IN PACIFIC FIGHTS   Enemy’s Attempt To Get Initiative Proves Castly: 'Dromes  Are Damaged

laps Lose 04 Planes inBold Raids   Foe Prevented From Seizing The Initiative

Enemy Fails To Seize Air  Initiative   Only Two Aircraft of Allies Reporteil to Have Been Destroyed

Only 2 Allied Warcraft Reported Lost   84 of Enemy Crertft Are Shot Down Over New Guinea

Coup Ousts Pro-Allied  Government   President Penaranda and All Leaders Arrested By Revolutionary Forces

THE BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT WAS OVERTHROWN TODAY   Was in Coup d’ Etat by Leaders of the Nationalist Revyolutionary Movemeni.   President Penaranda and Seyeral of His Followers Reported Arrested.

PENARANDA, WITH OFFICIALS SAD T0 BE UNDER ARREST   National Organization Composed of Elements of Bolivian Army and Membere of Youth Groups.   REVOLUTIONARY LEADER HAS TAKEN CHARGI   Penaranda Was Active In Having His.Country Declare War, Elected to Office During 1940.

REVOLUTIONARY FACTION PULLS A COUP D'ETAI   Elements of Bolivian Army and.  Youth Organization Have Gov't Leaders Under Arrest

Pr esident, Generals Reported Arrested   Revolutionists in Principal Tin Producing Country — Opposed to American Policies

Radicals Take Over In Revolt   Insurrectionists May Drag Country Into War With Chile Over Sea Outlet

President of Bolivia  Ts Ousted      Leader Once Linked - Wits Nazi: Followers Takes Part in Coup   SAYS: NATION WILL STAND: BY. ALLIES   Nation Supplies. Tin ‘to- the United Nations; Long Torn by Internal Troubles

SUPPORTER Of NAZI POLICY TAKES OVER   President Penaranda, Others Under Arrest   Visited Washington Last Year: Criticized For Punishing Strikers

President and Other Leaders Reported to Be Under Arrest   Coup d'etat Led by Officer Once Linked to Nazi Plot

Government Of Bolivia Is Overthrown   Revolutionaries Strongly Opposed To U.S. Policies Take Over Reins

PRO-ALLIED PRESIDENT UNDER ARREST   Newspaper Plants Under Guard; Nation “Is At War With Axis

Pro-Allied ‘Bolivian Cove.  Is Overthrown   Coup d'etat Gives Cent to Faction Strongly Gpposed to U.S.

Anti-U. 8. Group Usurps Power In Bolivia Coup   Nationalist Revolutionary Léaders Overthrow Pro-Allied Government

Pro-Allied Government of Bolivia Overthrown; Army, Youth Groups Take Power

COUP OVERTHROWS PRO-ALLIED REGIME OF BOLIVIA MONDAY  INTERESTS OPPOSED TO HINITEN CTATCC DOTICIEFS   INTERESTS OPPOSED TO UNITED STATES POLICIES TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT

President Penaranda in Custody With 4 Aids in Army-Youth Coup   GAG PUT ON PRESS   Report Paz Estensore, Revolt Leader, Holding Governor’s Palace

Revolutionary Group Is In Control   Four-Hour Gun Battle Fought in Streets As Organization Headed by Former Finance Minister Seizes Power

BOLIVIA OVERTHROWS PRO-ALLIED RULE   Official Friendly to Germany in President’s Palace

Pro-Allied Bolivian Government Overthrown   Army Elements And Youth Organizations Engineer Successful Conn At La Paz

A BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN   Revolutionary Movement Opposed to U. a. Policles, Takes Over,   Made Up of Army and  Youth Organizations   le Source of Tin

Government In Bolivia Is Overthrown   Pro-Allied Regime of President Enrique Penaranda Ousted in Coup d' Etat  OPPOSES U. 5. POLICIES

GOVERNMENT OF BOLIVIA IS OVERTHROWN   Pro-Allied President Penaranda and Ministers Reported Under Arrest   COUP D’ETAT WINS.   IS LONDON HAS RAIDS   Revolutionary Groups Headed by  Estensora Reported Opposed to  U.S. Policies

PRO-ALLIED BOLIV'AN GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN BY NATIONALISTS IN SURPRISE COUP D'ETAT TODAY   Revolutionary Movement Said Headed by Elements of Bolivian Army and Youth Organization Reportedly Opposed to Policies of United States

BOLIVIAN CHIEF 5 OVERTHROWN   Pro-Allied Government Is Replaced by Group Opposed to Polices of United States

Leaders Of Coup Oppose U.§. Policies   Pro-Allied President Arrested

‘outh Organizations, Parts of Bolivian Army Lead Nationalist Revolutionary Movement—President Penaranda, Other High Officials Reported Under Arrest.

Bolivia's Government Overthrown   Pro-Allied President Reported Arrested; Former Nazi Associate Leads Stroke

Bolivia Leaders  Ousted   ANTI-U. S. ORGANIZATION OVERTHROWS REGIME OF PRESIDENT PENARANDA

ARMY, YOUTH GROUP DEPOSES ANTINAZI HEAD   Revolutionary Force Strong ly Opposed To Policies Of United States

PRES. PENARANDA IS ARRESTED BY REVOLUTIONISTS   COUP ENGINEERED BY GROUP OPPOSED TO POLICIES OF U. S.

Pro-Allies Upset In Government Of Bolivia   Nationalist Leaders — Of Revolutionary “Movement Take Over

PREST. OTHER LEADERS HELD UNDER ARREST   Revolutionary Element Forcing Coup d'Etat Composed Of Army And Youth Organ izations.

REVOLUTION!   Students, Army Arrest President; Government Falls       Take Over; No Newspapers Out; Former Presi igh Officials Are Locked Up As Revolutionists dent Had'Pledged Armed Aid To Allies

PENARANDA'S AIDES SEIZED _ WITH PALACE   Revolutionary. Group Is In- Control; “Papers Are Throttled

President of Bolivia Is Overthrown   Group Opposed to U.S Policies Reported In Coup D’Etat

Nationalist Group Takes Over After Fight Karly Today   President Penaranda, Aides Reported Arrested; Army, Youth Elements Make Up Revolutionists

Government Is Overthrown!n Bolivia Coup   Pro-Allied Régime Upset By Nationalist Revolutionary Group

Pro-Allied Enrique Pegaranda’s Regime Overthrown Today   Revolutionists _ Strongly Opposed to Policies of U. S. Take Over

PENARANDA IS OUSTED; JAILED WITH CABINET   Revolutionists Strongly Opposed. To Policies Of United States

COUP OVERTHROWS PRO-ALLIED REGIME OF BOLIVIA MONDAY  INTERESTS OPPOSED TO _ UNITED STATES POLICIES TAKE OVER COVERNMEN

Pro-Allied Government Of Bolivia Overthrown In Coup By Revolutionary Elements   Nationalists Opposing U. S. Policies Take Over Palace, Arrest President

Bolivian Rebels Win Government  Pro-allied President Reported a Prisoner

REPORT MORE GAINS   Reds Maintain" ‘ Pressure On Loi Line To Kalmyck

Further Gains Are Reported By Red Forces   Soviet Is Maintaining Pressure On 100-Mile Front; Salsk Siege Threatened

Germans Fail To Halt Push By The Reds   Gains Along Long Front Claimed By Red Communique

Germans throw weapons into Caucasus fight; violent fray raging on Rostov rail line

VIOLENT BATTLE {5 RAGING FOR RAIL LINE TO ROSTOV   Germans Make Desperate Attempt To Cover Ferces In Caucasus

GERMANS HURL TANKS, PLANES INTOATTACK   ‘Make Desperate Attempts to Check Soviet Drive In Caucasus: Fight “More Violent”   RUSSIANS ADVANCE AND TAKE VILLAGES   Nazis Are Driven Out Of Factory Section In Stalingrad “Battle of Buildings”

German Stand Stiffens   Hurl Masses of Tanks ‘ Against the Russians In Desperate Attempt To Stem Red Offensive

GERMANS TRY TO ATTACK IN CAUCASUS   Soviets Report More Villages Recaptured   COLD WIND   Hampers Don Valley Drive; Red Army In Artillery Range Of Salsk

Russians Gain Despite Stiff. Germans’ Stan¢   Battle Is Becoming More Violent Along Railroad Line Which Leads to Rostov

Nazis Throw Tanks, Planes Into Fight in Effort To Turn Tide   U.S. Warplanes Destroy 34 German Airplanes in Attack on Castel Benito Airfield, Tuesday

BATTERED NAZIS RALLY TO SLOW SOVIET ADVANCE   Reds Admit Battle for Caucausus More Violent—Report New Gains

Battle Becomes More. Violent Before Rostov; Nazis Making Attempt To Hold Oil Field:

Nazi Stand Tn Caucasus Stiffens But Reds Gain   Tanks And Planes Thrown In By Foe In Attempt To Save Maikop Oil Fields

SHOVE DOOMED 22 DIVISIONS AT STALINGRAD   Germans Reported Using Tanks, Warplanes in Desperate Counter Attacks

Nazi Tanks Slow Reds In Caucasus  Battle Grows Mor Violent Alona

GERMANS THRAWING TANKS AND PLANES INTO CATIGASHS WAR   RUSSIANS, HOWEVER, REPORT FURTHER GAINS AND MORE TOWNS RETAKEN

Nazi Tanks Slow Reds In Caucasus  Battle Grows Mor   Battle Grows More Violent Along Rostov Railway

PLANES, TANKS THROWN INTO FINAL EFFORT   Battle Becoming More Violent On Line To Rostov   SALSK THREATENED   Offensives Continue On All F ronts, Moscow Reports

More Ground Regained By Soviet Army   Reds Maintain Pressure Along Whole 1.000-Mile Front

REDS DECLARE FIGHT BECOMES MORE VIOLENT   Germans Throw Tanks Planes Into Caucasus to Stiffen Stand

Nazis Fling Planes, Tanks Into Caucasus   Germans Make Frantic Attempt To Cover Oilfields, Black Sea As Reds Recapture More Villages

An Important Advance in Stalingrad   German Lodgements: Along Velga Heavily Shelled From East Bank   iTWO CAUCASIAN LINES JOIN HANDS   Axis . Making Desperate Counter Attacks in the Rostoy Area

GERMANS FIGHT DESPERATELY IN THE CAUCASUS   Battle Along Rail Line Toward Rostov Becomes More And More Violent: Reds Take More Towns, Drive Out From Stalingrad.

Germans Try Desper ately” To Save Force:   Russians Maintain Pressure Along 100-Mile Front

Radio Station KWOS will broadcast the address of Prime Minister Winston Churchill this afternoon at 8 o’clock.

Solons To Hear Prime Minister   Congress ‘Expects Analysis Of War

Solons To Hear Prime Minister  Cannreace Eyvnarte   Congress Expects Analysis Of War

May Give Major Analysis Of Gtobal War Situation, Most Legislators Think

Congress to Hear  Churchill on War   More Speculation On Blows at Japan

 Churchill Expected to Present Analysis of Global War Situation in Address to Congress; Talk May Be Broadcast

Churchill Plans — To Discuss War Before Congress   British Prime Minister Will Deliver Important Address Wednesday

British Leader Will Address U.S. Congress   Major Analysis of Global Situation May Be Discussed by Churchill Wednesday

British Chief  Plans Talk  To Congress Churchill Accepts  Invitation of Speaker Rayburn

Churchill Will Address Solons  Analysis of Global Situation Expected

Churchill to Talk on War Before Joint Session of Congress Next Wednesday

Hope Is Held For Major Forecasting   Congress Will Hea: Prime Minister For Secand Time

Stalin Enjoys Davies’ Film   Russian Premier Dines EDR‘. Moceenger

Knox Says Japanese Shipping Losses In Pacific Increase Difficulty Of Supplying Island Base

American Forces Stronger Than Ever In Solomons Area. Declares. Navy Sec. Knox

JAPS EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTIES IN SUPPLYING BASES   U. S. SUBMARINIES TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY SHIPPING STRENGTH

U. S. Forces Stronger Now In Solomons   Knox Says _ Japs: Having  Trouble Supplying Island Bases

Knox Says Jap Lines Weakening   Americans Are Growing Stronger, Secretary Reports

U.S. FORCES IN SOLOMONS ARBA BECOMELARGER   Stronger Than They Ever ~ Have Been Secretary of Navy Knox Tells Press Conference   JAPS IN DIFFICULTY      lokyo Supply Problem Increases; U.S. Not Wor‘ried About Nips At Munda

Build Up Force In South Pacific   Knox Declares U.S. Is Cutting Off Japanese Supply Routes,

GROWING POWER IN PACIFIC CITED   Knox Says U.S. Is Stronger in Pacific; Calls Subs Successful

U3, SUB DRIVE BUCCESSFUL-KNGY   Navy Secretary Declares Japs Facing Serious Supply Problem   ALLIES STRONCER   U.S. Is Not Worried About Enemy Air Base At Munda

U. S. STRONGER THAN EVER IN PACIFIC AREA      Japs Face Mounting Difficulty in Supplying Bases

Japanese Supply Task Difficult U. S. Now Stronger Than  Ever In Solomons

American F or ces In South Pacitic Growing Stronger   Secretary Knox Also De clares Japanese Communication Lines Weaker   TOLL OF JAPANESE SHIPS HAS EFFECT

Knox Says US Stronger in [Solomons   Spokesman from MacArthur’s Headquarters Warns Against Discounting Jap Air Power; Curtin Wants More Bombers

AP INVASION — OF AUSTRALIA STILL EXISTS   ecretary Of Navy Knox Admits Japanese Air Strength Is Growing Steanger.

Knox Says U. S. Is Growing Stronger As Japs Are Facing Supply Problems

REPORTS JAP LINES WEAKER   Knox Says Foe Has Growing Difficulties in Supplying Outposts

PACIFIC UNITS GROW STRONG   Knox Says U. S. Forces Increase Strength in Pa-  ‘cific Areas.

Giant Nazi Offensive Takes Eight Key Towns ‘With 25 Divisions Hurled at Kharkov Bastion   Navy Strikes in Solomons as Knox Reviews Progress

Knox Says Japs Have Difficulty In Supplying Their Island Bases   American Forces Stronger Than Ever In Solomon Islands Area; Without Adequate Shipping, Enemy Can’t Maintain Bases, Says Navy Chief, :

Japs Face Increasing Difficulty ‘Of Supplying Island Bases, Says Knox

JAPAN EXPERIENCING GREATER DIFFICULTY  SUPPLYING BASES   SECRETARY KNOX SAYS JAPAN’S SHIPPING LOSSES HAVE BEEN SERIOUS

AMERICAN FORCES ARE STRONGER THAN EVER IN SOLOMONS   This Statement Was Made T9day by Secretary of the Navy Knox.   MANY SHIPS ARE LOST   Japanese Having Increasing Difficulty in Supplying Their Bases.

U.S. Stronger Than Ever In  Solomons, Knox Says   Jape Are Having - Increasing Trouble  a oa. or) are   Jape Are Having Increasing Trouble In Supplying Their Island Rases

Jap Supply LineWeaker   Koox Cites Difficulty In Helping Bases ©

Japs In Trouble In South Pacific  Can‘t Maintain Bases Navy Secretary Says

Knox Declare: U. S. Stronger  In Pacific   J ap Supply Lines Weaken; MacArthur Says Danger Not Past

U, S. STRONGER THAN EVER IN THE SOLOMONS   Navy Secretary Says Japanese Are Having Increasing Difficulty In Supplying Their Island Bases.

JAP AIR POWER ON THE INCREASE   So Says Navy Secretary Knox, Who Also Says American Positions Are Much  Stranger

IKNOX CLAIMS AMERICAN FORCES STRONGER THAN 'EVER IN SOLOMON AREA

Japs Finding Supply Line Bia Problem   Sinkings Of Japanese Ships On Increase; U. S. Subs Successful   Warn Of Discounting Nipponese Air Strength   McArthur’s Headquarters Says Enemy’s Aviation Is Being Bolstered

Knox Says Enemy Greatly Hampered In Supplying Bases   Sound Official Warnings Against Discounting Japan’s Air Might, Curtin Sees Need For Bombers

KNOX SAYS JAP LINES WEAKENED   Secretary Of Navy Gives Report On South Pacific.

Japs Experiencing More Difficulty With Supply Lines   Knox Says ‘We Are Going Stronger Thar Ever in Solomons’

U.S. Stronger In South Pacific   SEC. OF NAVV KNOX TELLS AVOUT OUR FORCES

Japs Face Difficulties in Getting Supplies to Outposts, Knox Says

U.S. Stronger Than Ever in Pacific-Knox   Japs Have Increasing Difticulty Supplying Their [sland Bases

Knox Says Japs Having Trouble Supplying Bases   Declares U. $. Is Stronger in South Pacific; Warns against Over Optimism

Jap Ship Losses Creating Serious Supply Problem   Knox Says U. S. Sub Campaign Success, But Warns Of Air Strength

STRONGER THAN EVER IN. PACIFIC   U.S. Position Improves as Japs Find Difficulties Mounting, Knox Says.

HITS AT HIGH WAGES      Congressman Wants Bill Fixing 48Hour Work Week

NEW BILL WOULD ELIMINATE 40-HOUR. WEEK FOR DURATION  Would Eliminate Over Time Pay For Less hae AR-iniuewe Alen

Senators Aroused By Coal Strike   Consider Plans far Worle Stoppage Halt

Solons Study Plan To Make Striking Crime Senators: ‘ Arousec  Diet Mining   Sanahan

Senators, Angered Over Coal Situation, May Consider Bills. Which Would Make It Serious Crime to Strike in Wartime:

Solons Consider Strike Measure  Plan Amendments to Connolly Bill

WOULD OUTLAW WAR WALKOUTS   Taft Favors Remedy; Against Labor As Well As Capital

LEGISLATION TO CURB WALKOUTS IS CONSIDERED   Coal Strike Stirs Up Sentiment For Bill To Make Halting Work A Crime   Strong Law Suggested

Agriculture Department To Remove Restrictions  On Slicing Of Bread

INE Yo Wwe Me yYreen,  Bakers Can Slice Bread Again, Says Washington

And Now It Looks Like They’re Going To Let ’Em Slice Lightbread After Al

BREAD TO BE SLICED   Agriculture Department Decldles To Litt Restriction

BREAD SLICING BAN IS LIFTED   Improvement In Papers And Wax Situation Cited

BREAD SLICING  ORDER T0 FALI   Need for Ban Removed, Prompt Action is Looked For.

Sliced Bread. Ban Removal Is Decided   Announcement Later In Day Is Expected From Officials

Allied Assault On Japs In   Solomons Imminent After  Yanks Seize Arundel Island   Japs ¢ ‘ounter-Attack

LAST JAP FOOTHOLD IN CENTRAL SOLOMONS UNDER ARTILLERY FIR!   BASE AT VILA NOW SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO STRONG AMERICAN FORCES

A ee FROM THO SIDES   Other Columns. Move on Kharkov, Other Maior Points

RUSS ARMIES WITHIN RANGE OF KEY POINTS   Various Drives Converginc on Industrial Area o: Donets Region; Closer tc Kharkov.

Kharkov Target of Two Giant Columns; Germans Swept Aside   Forces of Gens. Vatutin and Goliko: Race Toward Vital Voroshilovegrad.

Red Spearheads Within Artillery Range Of Donet Factory Center; Two Columns Only 60 Miles From Kharkov

Gther’ Powerful © Columuis ‘Advancing From Two Directions Toward Kharkoy  FIERCE FIGHTING Axis Forces Suffer Huge : Losses ln Men And  Equipment :

Soviets Drive Toward Rostov And Kharkov   Germans Routed In Many Key Points; Many Prisoners Taken

RUSSIANS NEAR GREAT INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF DONETS   Two Columns Within 60 Miles Of Base At Kharkov   GUNS APPROACH CITY OF VOROSHILOVGRAD

RedArmy Spearheads — Go Forward   POWERFUL COLUMNS -— AD VANCE NOW FROM TWO DIRECTIONS.

27 Leave Today For Training   August Draft Con ingent Under Orders To Depart  At 8:15 A.M.

Lawrence Students Place i In ‘Speech and Drama Festival at K. U.

Landed Just 32 Days Ago   Knock Japanese From Important Airdrome Area On New Georgia Island

Battle-Hardened U.S. Troops Mopping Up   MacArthur’s Headquarters Announces All Organized Enemy Resistance Ended; With 1671 Enemy Dead Collected.

10 OF THEM DESTROYED BY BRITISH SUBS   Four Others Sent to Bot« tom by Bombers in Tus nisian Campaign — Yanks at Sened Capture Italian General.

BeEOPPPP PPP PPP PPP DDS  27 Political Prisoners Released by Gen. Giraud

Axis Supply Fleet Sunk Off Tunisia   Ally Stabs Seek Weak Spot in Nazi Africa Line

Reds Widen Hold Along Dnieper, Drive Nearer  Vitebsk in the North   Portugal Gives England, U. S., Use of Strategic Mid-Atlantic Islands; Yugoslav Partisans Keep Up Bitter Fighting, Despite Nazi Claims of Defeats

A Loyalty Demand to _ the Nazis   Hitler Addresses Veterans of Party in Meeting at Mupich Beer Cellar   PREDICTS WAR WILL. : GO ON TO VICTORY   Fuehrer Praises People. tor Not Allowing Any Traitor Chief to Arise

—HITLER SPEAKS—  LOYALTY IS DEMANDED   --. Until Victory Or Annihilation

HITLER PRAISES GERMAN PEOPLE   Thankful They Have Allowed No ‘Traitor Chief’ To Arise.

HITLER ASKS LOYALTY OF NAZI PARTY   In Speech Celebrating His Beer Hall Putsch, Feuhrer Praises Nation for Not Allowing “Traitor” to Arise.

Hitler Calls For Loyalty Of Nazis  ‘Meaning Of Our Honor Is Loyalty,’ He Says

HITLER DEMANBS LOYALTY OF NAZI PARTY VETERANS      Spoke in Celebration of His Abortive Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.   HE PREDICTED VICTORY   Leader Also Praised German People for Not Allowing a Traitor Chief to Rise.

Hitler Demands Loyalty in Speech ‘Observing Munich Putsch Anniversary

OW! SAYS ARMY PRIVATE GETS $1 700 A YE AK  DOINTS TO MANY RENERITC DPDROVINEN FOR ENTICTE TS WAN ANT) DPAMITY AT TION   SAYS BONUS ISSUE MUST BE SETTLED

Tube Days Ended For 11-Year-Old  A cleamene (1.0 Can   Arkansas Girl Can Breathe And Eat Normally Today

Child Sings Again After 9 Operations  Sixth Grader Ate, Breathed Through Tubes For Year

STATE MAY PAY CIVIL WAR DEBT   Treasury Borrowed More Than $1,200,000 to Eauip Soldiers.

131 Regions Affected   Jap Airdrome at Buin Raided  for Three Hours Fires Are Started in Dumps, Among Grounded Airplanes

Jap Airdrome at Buin Raided  for Three Hours Fires Are Started in Dumps, Among Grounded Airslane:

Over 2000 Tons Of  Bombs Loosed On City Of Dortmund   Close To 1000 Of Largest British Planes Take Part In Record Attack; 38 Bombers Fail To Return; Nazis Hit At England

RAID ON FLOOD-DAMAGED INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF DORTMUND GREATEST OF A’   Close to 1,000 Planes Take Partin Assault; 38 Lost

RAF Unloads Four Million Pounds of Bombs in Hour-Long Raid Over Ruhr

2,000 Tons of British Bombs Fall On Dortmund   38 Planes of Huge Armada Reported Lost In Gigantic Attack

Stalingrad Defender Says Nazis Made No Tactical Mistakes, but Erred in Giving Hitler Command

Putting Hitler In Command  Nazis’ Mistake   So Says Gen. Chuikov, Brilliant Red Leader Who Held Stalingrad

Nazis Mistake In Red War--Hitler Gen, Chuikov Says   Error Strategic and Says After Stalingrad

HEARING ON COAL . STRIKE CALLED   Lewis Other Usion Officials To Explain Causes of Stoppage

LEWIS IS CALLED   War Labor Board Is Trying to-Settle Eastern Coal  Strike

ALLIES GAINING IN ALL ot TORa UF BATTLE AREA   Early Junction Of American, British Armies Expected As Rommel Retreats

Berlin 1s Bomb ed         rmans Give Up Gabes ta Allies—Lose 21 Planes in  Second Berlin Raid

[BERLIN FEELS WEIGHT OF RAF AGAIN   Gabes In Hands Of Allied  Armies

ALBERT MARTIN IS C. OF C. SPEAKER   Tells of CRanges If Lawrence Becomes City of First Class   ABOUT 75 AT: MEETING

ALBERT MARTIN IS C. OF C. SPEAKER   Tells of Changes If Lawrence Becomes City of  First Class  ADV TT Ve AT AACA

HIMMLER HAS — NEW POSITION      GESTAPO HEAD IS NAMED MIN“ISTER OF INTERIOR FOL_ LOWING SOMBING OF * BERLIN

PRESIDENT SILENT ON STALIN'S NOTE      Understanding 1s Excellent Between Roosevelt and So viet Marshal

Roosevelt-Stalin Accord Excellent   This Statement Was Made by the Chief Executive at Press Conference.

Accord With Stalin Held Excellent   President Comment: Briefly On Result Of Davies’ Trip

STALIN IN ACCORD ~ WITH ROOSEVELT ON WAR PROGRAN   President Comments During Press Conference Without Revealing Contents of Russian Note.   STANDLEY HAS NOT ‘GIVEN RESIGNATION   Capital In Speculation Over ‘Possibilities of Meeting of Three to Discuss War Moves.

Roosevelt Says Understanding and Accord With Russia's Stalin Is Excellent

STALIN AND FOR ACCORD IS OKAY   President Silent On Wha Letter Says, However

PRESIDENT MUM ON STALIN NOTE   Says Understanding With Russia ‘Excellent’

Accord Between F.D.R. And Stalin Held Excellent   But President Fails To Disclose Contents Of Premier’s Reply.

DAVIES’ MISSION S SUCCESSFUL   President Reports Accord Between Him And Soviet Premier Stalin

Capitol Hill Ok’s Historic Meeting   Democrats And Republicans Alike Voice Complete Apnroval: ‘Daring Of Leaders’ Demonstrated

BIRTH RATE DECLINES   Equivalent to Annual Disappear. ance of French Town of 40. ODO

LMM DALAL DLL  TOE YANK RATES NAPLES THE BEST CITY HE HAS SEEN OVERSEAS

American Doughboys Rate Naples Best Town Seen Since Leaving Home

Hint Rationing of Some Milk  Production Reports Are Beina Studied

Evaporated Milk Rationing Urged as Supply Decreases   Civilians May Be Further Restricted, Due to Drop In Production of Dairy Products and Indications Supply This Year Will Not Meet the Needs of Military Forces

DAIRY PRODUCTS WILL BE LIMITED   Further Restrictions on Civilian Consumption Anticipated

Dairy Outlook Gloomy   -.. Milk Rationing Being Considered, WFA Says

REDS Pun DOWN LAT LAP TD SHUT DOOR 10 CRIMEA   Steppe Legions Hammer at Northeastern Gate; Second Battle Begins   RUSSIANS PURSUE RETREATING NAZIS   Column Captures Town 22 Miles From Perekop, Last Railway Escape for Hun. dreds of Thousands of Germans on Peninsula

ESCAPE DOOR FOR GERMANS DRAWING SHUT   RED LEGIONS PUSH ALONG LAST LAP TO PEREKOP

Sealing Off of Peninsula ‘Matter of Hours;’ Russ Reach Azov Sea, Approach Perekop

Plunging On in Drive To Slam Shut Escape Door On Nazi Forces   Are In 22 Miles of Last Railway Escape Route For Huge German Forces On Peninsula; Furious Struggle Continues in Bend of Dnieper River 

SOVIETS TRYING TO ENTRAP HUGE GERMAN FORCES   Race Toward Perekop to Slam Shut Escape Door—22Mile Advance Made During Day.   2,100 GERMANS FALL IN DNIEPER BEND   Flee in Disorder in One Sectox of Front—Russians Repulse Attacks at Krivoi Rog,

Soviets Hurl Terrific Force at Foe   Pursuit Continues Relentlessly; Many Germans Die

Soviet Legions Begin Second Battle Of Crimea   Tolbukhin Hammers At Northeastern Gate, Within 22 Miles Of Perekop: Seek To Seal Off Escape Gap

2 000 Mor e Se   Hundreds of Thousands of ‘Germans. Trapped As Soviet Forces ‘Shut Escape. Door on: Edge of Peninsula—Reds Advance Near ly 22 ‘Miles, Capture 150 Towns,

Crimea To Be Sealed Off By Twin Thrust:   Russians But 22 Miles From Perekop, Key To Peninsula; Another Column Moves Up

Soviets Plu: ¢ Toward Pe op To Trap E; ny   Germons Co: ing To Retreat Rr sty Under Red A Its

REDS WILL LAY SIEGE TO NAZIS WITHIN HOURS   Reach Northeastern Entrance to Crimea With Capture of Genochesk  in Rapid Sweep   ADVANCE COVERS 46 MILES WITHIN WEEK   Seviets Simultaneously Race Within 22 Miles of Perekop. Last German Escape Route

Reds Hammer At Crimean Gateway    soviet Legions Piunge Down Last 22-Mile. Lap To Slam Trapdoor On Big Nazi Force:

Soviet Forces Take Askainya Nova, Only 22 Miles From Perekop, To Slam Shut Escape Door of Huge German Forces In the Penitisula

Russian Forces Speeditig to Cat Nazis Off   Peninsula May. Be Isolated by Russians Within Short Time

Russians Continuing Pursuit of Fleeing Germans Capture Genichesk by Assault, Killing 2000 Nazis.

Steppe Legions Seek to Slam Shut Escape Gate   Berlin Forced to Admit Outcome of Battle Problematical

RED TROOPS REACH EDGE ‘OE CRIMEA   Ls iat scape Rate ‘Of Wagis Bemg ‘Tightened

Soviets Ready to Seal Off the Crimea   Last Escape Route for Germans Is Nearly Closed

Russians Kill Off 2,000 More Enemy Troops In Thrust   Hundreds of Thousands of Germans Trapped As Soviet Forces Shut Escape Door on Edge of Peninsula—Reds Advance Nearly 22 Miles, Capture 150 Towns.

FORCES REACH GENICHESK IN 22-MiLE GAIN   Thousands of Nazis  Face Entrapment By Latest Move

Red Armies Closing In On Nikopol   Soviets Plunge Forward To Block Nazi Escape Corridors

Probe Reveals Japanese Plot   Internees Planned To Fire Building

POLICY MAPPED BY REPUBLICANS   Five Courses Of Action Submitted As Post-War Program Guide

Robeson’s Sales Of Bonds Througt Friday $602,112.75   Thousands of Small Buyers Needed to Reach Goal of $1,969,000.

Army Fighting With Marinesix Island Junsles   Heavy Reinforcements.  Given Yanks; Gains”. Recorded "4

AMERICAN SOLDIERS LANDED: MONDAY IN FACE OF ENE ATTACK; COST JAPS 261

SOLDIERS LAND TO FIGHT WITH U, S. MARINES   Half of Jap Force Killed as They Tried to Flank Beachhead

MARINES WIPE OUT HALF JAP LANDING FORCE   Army Troops Landed On Bougainville To Aid Leathernecks

JAP ATTEMPT T0 PLANK ISLAND BEACHHEAD FAILS   Army Joins Marines At Bougainville On Solomons Islands

SGLDIERS LAND ON BOUGAINVILLE TO AlD MARINES   Japanese Troops Seek Vainly Tc Flank Amefican Beachhead

U.S. Army Lands On Bougainville To Aid Marines  67 Jap Planes Downed in Aerial Baitles

LAFOLLETTE WON'T ABANDON HIS PROGRAM.   For Rehabilitation of Veterans After War Despite Substitute Measure’s Passage

Mussolini Lost Out When He Tried to Get King Of Haly to Abdicate

Shoe Rations In Tomorrow   Three Pairs Per Year Is Limit; Use Coupon No. 17

Crowds Storm Stores That Are Open on Sunday   Limited Lecther Supply Is Given As Need for Order

No. 17 Coupon Good To June 15 Shoe Rationing To Start Tuesday, 3 Pairs A Year

U. $. 10 BUY SHOES UNDER RATION PLAN   Legal Purchases Begin Tuesday After Day Of ‘Sales Freeze’

NATION-WIDE RATIONING-OF SHES BEANS   Crowds Storm Stores Yes:terday in Some Cities as Sales Halt.   NO. 17 STAMP FROM RATION BOOK VALID   Stop Manufacture of Ladies Evening Slippers, Spiked Shoes, Others.

Ration Of Shoes Starts Tuesday; Every Person Allowed 3 Pair Yearly

RATIONING OF SHOES---3 PAIRS A YEAR---STARTS TOMORROW.  Sean No. 17 in Your Su ugar Coffee Book is Asslakid to Footwent’

Shoe Sales Frozen Sunday And Rationing Is Order   Sugar Stamp 17 Will Buy One Pair Of Shoes For 3 Month Period Starting Tuesday

THREE PAIRS OF SHOES YEARLY UNDER RATIONIN(   All Sales Halted By Byrnes But Tomorrow Stores May Start Selling Them Again  COMDARNC ALTERED

Three Pairs of Shoes Yearly Said Liberal Allowance for Rationing Starting Tuesday

SHOE RATIONING IS ORDERED ON LIBERAL BASIS   President of Retailers Says Order Is ‘Fairest To Meet Circumstances’   EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY   Coupons Transferrable To Level Off Differences of Adults and Children

Shoes Go on Rations List; _- 3 Prs. Year   Order Made Without Any Advance Notice;Stamp. No. 17 Good for One Pair’   SALES UNDER NEW ‘PROGRAM TOMORROW   Retailers’: Association. Pres: ident Says Order is ‘One : of --Fairest’

Shoe Rationing Starts Tuesday Over the Natior   Each Person Will Be Allowed to Buy Three Pairs Per Year,   Stores Not Permitted To Sell Shoes Today

Rationing of Shoes Starts Throughout Country Tomorrow   Three Pairs Per Year Is Called Liberal by OPA Officials Today

Rationing Of Shoes At Rate Of Three Pairs A Year Starts  Tomorrow; Sales Frozen Today   Allowance Is Called Liberal; Stores In Some Cities Stormed Yesterday

Start Shoe Rationing Tuesday ~   Surprise Order Freezes Sales Today; Each  Person Limited . to Three Pairs a Year

Shoes Rationed For Americans   WEW ORDER NOW IN EFFECT FOR ALL CITIZENS

SHOE RATIONING ORDERED; THREE PAIRS PER YEAR   Stamp No. 17 In Sugar Book May Be Used For Purchases

ORDER ISSUED BY BYRNES WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE   POLICEMEN, BABIES NOT AFFECTED BY 3-PAIR LIMIT

Rationing of Shoes Starts Tomorrow   Each Person May Buy Three Pairs a Year; Extra Rations for Those Needing Them, an in Case af Policemen

Shoe Rationing Begins Tuesday: No Sales Today   Each Person Will Be Allowed Three Pairs Per Year.   Fair And Necessary.

Liznits-Plaeed-. “On Shoe Sales   Footwear Rationing Will ‘Start Tuesday; No, 17 - Coupon Usable

Shoe Rations Cut to Three Pairs Yearly   House Slippers, Infants’ Soft-Scled Types Are Exempt

Shoe Rationing Starts Tomorrow 3 Pairs A Year.   Families May Pool Supplies; Manufacture Restricted Because  Of Leather Shortaae

Shoe Rationing To Start Tuesday, Use Stamp No. 17 in ‘Sugar - Coffee Ration Books

Shoe Stores Which Operate On Sundays Are Stormed as Rationing Order Is Issued

3 PAIRS A YEAR FOR EACH PERSON IS THE ALLOWANCE   Crowds  Storm Counters In Stores Operating On Sundays

Shoe Rationing In U. S. Ordered   Three Pairs a Year Called Liberal Allowance; Program Starts Tomorrow; All Sales Halted Today

~hoe Ration Slipped On: Held Liberal  Three-Pairs-Yearly Decree Causes Run On Sunday Stores.  No Galac Tad

Shoes Under Ration Ban   Rationing Will Start Tomorrow Throughout Nation

Ration Shoes On New Order: 1 Day Freeze   Retail Stores Permitted To Sell Again Tomorrow After One Day Shutdown.  Le 7s A TTS ct wrTa IVT Sarvs A Wh

OAOEO PLAGLH UNDER ATION REGULATIONS   Retail Sales Frozen Today But Will Be Resumed By Stores Tuesday   THREE PAIRS PER YEAR LIMITATION IMPOSED   Stamp No. 17 In SugarCoffee Ration Books Good For Single Pair

Rationing of Shoes Starts   ‘Each Person in U. S. Limited to Three Pairs a Year

3 Pair Shoes a Year Is Ration Order   No Shoes-Can Be Sold Today; Stamp No. 17 to Be Used for First Coupon

SHOES FROZEN; RATIONING 70 BEGINTURSDAY   Each Person to Be Permit. ted to Purchase Three Pairs of Footwear Yearly   ORDER HELD LIBERAI   Coupon 17 From Sugar Rationing Book Entitles Each Person tg One Pair for 4 Months

No. 17 Stamp Good for One Pair of Shoes   Rationing Starts Tomorrow; No Limit On Repairing, Resoline

SURPRISE ORDER FREEZES SALES UNTIL TUESDAY   House Slippers, Infants’ Footwear, Rubber Wear Are Excepted

Few Types Exempted In Sudden Order From Economic Stabilization Director Byrnes

Coupons to be Taken From The Sugar-Coffee Books  CACTORIES RECTRICTLN

Shoes Are Addec To Articles Put Under Rationine   Each Person Is Allowed Three Pairs A Year, Starting Tuesday

RATIONING OF SHOES STARTS TOMORROW   House Slippers, Infants Shoes, Storm-Type Rubberwear Exempt From Rationine

Shoe Rationing Begins Tuesday; Allow 3 Pairs a Year for Each Person

SURPRISE U. S. ORDER CLOSES STORES TODAY   Head of Footwear Retailers Calls Regulation One of Fairest Drawn Up,   CURB PLACED ON STYLES'   House Slippers and Shoes For Baby Are Exempted From Rationing Order.

TO GET THREE PAIRS YEARLY   Byrnes Forbids Any Sale Of Footwear Today   ELIMINATION   Of Spike Heels, Two-Tones Also Ordered: War Book No. One To Be Used

RATIONING SHOES ORDERED IN SURPRISE MOVE BY DIRECTOR   PEOPLE AT MANY POINTS, HOWEVER, RUSHED TO STORES AND STOCKED UP

Nevada OPA Officials Permit Deer Hunters Special Gasoline Allotment ‘in Interests of War Effort’

Nevada OPA Trie lo Slip Extra Gas  To Deer Hunters   Acts After National Office Rejects Plea; ‘Own Responsibility’

Interoreting  The War   Last Week of Winter Finds Allies in Improved Situation

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Last Winter Week Finds Allies’ War Outlook At Brightest Stage

Vital Cities Seized   Encirclement Of Kursk Progresses; Nazi  Rout Looms

RUSS TROOPS PUSH NEARER SEA OF AZOY   Premier Stalin sends spe cial dispatch to President Roosevelt

Strong Points South of Rostov Are Taken   Capture Train Loaded With Supplies

News Rehind The News  Copyright MeCiure Mewsgaoer  Gad sages lea

Legislature Takes Another 3-Week Rest   Recess Is Taken After Handing Governor A Shellacking On His Veto Messages

F .R.to Put Victory Plans Into Effect   Returns to Capital After Spectacular Trip to Casablanca

President Is Home Again   Roosevelt Confers With .Nation’s Leaders Today ‘After Safe Return from Epochal African Trip

FOR RETURNS TO WASHINGTON AFTER 2? QAYS   President Suffers No Ill Effects From Arduous Journey To Africa

ROOSEVELT AT HIS DESK AFTER EPIC AIR TRIP   Sets Out to Translate Into.  Action Gommitments ~  ~—Madé Du ring Casi blanca. Conference   CONFERS WITH AIDES:   Completes Last Lap of Trip By Train From Miami; Journey Took 22 Nave

FDR BACKIN WHITE HOUSE AFTER JOURNEY   Spends Day in Conference With Congressional Leaders. Hich Officials

FDR Returns  To Washington   President Schedules Conferences With Hull. Congressional Leaders. Others.

PRESIDENT IN MFETING WITH HIGH OFFICIALS   Roosevelt Rushes Into Conferences After Historic Trip

CALLS HULL IN ‘ATER DEN WVERSEA TRI   Other Officiais and Leaders of Congress Scheduled for Parleys.   PRESIDENT REACHES HOME SUNDAY NIGHT, UNTIRED

FDR IS BACK AT HIS OFFICE DESK   President Plans Conference With High Officials to Outline Trip Features

ROOSEVELT BACK AT OFFICE AFTER TRIP 10 AFRICA   President Reported Appearing Fine After Conference With Churchill, Trip To South America.   MEETINGS ARE HELD TO TALK WAR CONDITIONS   Last Lap of Journey Made From Miami by Train, Executive Was Absent for Twenty-three Days.

MANY CONFERENCES FOR THE PRESIDENT UPON RETURN HOME   Secretary Hull, Congressional Leaders and Other High Executives See Him.

President Sees Leaders  Holds Many Conference: Snon After Return

CONFERENCES STAGED WITH HULL, OTHERS   Connally And Rayburn Among Those Called This Afternoon   APPEARANCE I$ GOOD   Apparently Not Tired By Long Tnp And Ten Day Parley

President Calls Conference With Congressional Leaders   Executive Returns from Trip To North Africa and Brazil

F.D.R: Back From. Africa: Goes to Work   Leaders of Congress Meet With Chief To Hear Report

PRESIDENT BACK FULL OF VIGOR   Begins Round of Con. ferences With Hull . And Others

President Home To Set Victory Moves Rolling   Prepares To Translate Casablanca Conference Plans Into Action.

FDR, U.S. Leaders In Conferences      Other Plotures of President's Afri. can irip on age 3,

WIN - THE-WAR PLANS BEING TRANSLATED   Early Action by President Foreseen as He Returns To the White House

PRESIDENT, HIGH ‘ OFFICIALS CONFER   Will Meet Senate Leader to Report oft Recent Trip Overseas.

F.R. Back, Ts Busy in  Conferences   Talks With Hull, Congress Leaders After Air Trip

PRESIDENT FINDS ACCUMULATED WORK ON RETURN CAPITAL   ("°F EXECUTIVE LOOKS FINE--HELD NUMBER CONFERENCES MONDAY

FDR, Back: From’ Africa, Busy li Conferences Today   President Reported Looking Fine Upon Return Last Night.

URNEYS ENDED   Congressional Leaders To Get Report On Trip, Parleys

Rooseveit Returns from African Trip   President Makes Last Leg of Journey by Train from Miami; To Confer With Convressional Leaders

F. D. R. Reports On Epoch Trip   Presidefft Calls Into Conference Leaders Of Congress

CONFERENCES MARK RETURN OF PRESIDEN]   Hull, Stimson, Stark, Nelson, Early Conferees — Congréss Leader: Get Report Today _

Roosevelt Is: Back, Confers With Leaders   Extended Session Witt Hull, Chat With Congres: sional Chiefs Slated   REPORTS ON JOURNEY.   President Looks Rested; is Expected To Invoke Casablanca Decisions

President Is Back On Job   Appears In Good Health On Return  From Casablanca

‘Roosevelt Confers With Cabinet: . Heads, Congressional eaters: ee and Other High Executives

President Busy Holdmg Parleys With Executives   House, Senate Leaders Of Both Parties Will Hear Report Of Historic Trip

FDR calls Hull, other officials in   President back, busies himself in conferences

Labor Day Death Toll Rises Fast   Two Train Mishaps, Fire Cause Boost

Other Japanese Vessels, Cruiser and Destroyer,  Bombed in Bismarck Sea

Torpedo Hits — Enemy Cruiser   _ Attacks ‘Stepped up to Keep Convoy Away from Rabaul ..

Jap cruiser at Rabaul is ‘probably hit   Allies take toll  of reinforcements

Japs Lose Two Cruisers - As U. S. Planes Blast at Ships Rushed to Rabau

U.S. TROOP RECAPTURE GROUND   Part of Hill Is Wrested From Nazi Forces

American Troops Regain Portions of Lost Ground    Clark Forces Drive Across Heights In ‘Face of Cold Winds

Yanks Retake Part of Ground Lost in Italy   -Enemy Forced To Evacuate Several Outposts

YanksRegain Some Ground Lost to Nazis   British Make Small Gains  North of Atessa, Fight ing in Bad Weather

ALLIED FLIERS ‘RENEW ASSAULT AN NEW GUINEA   Shoot Down, Sixteen Japanest Planes—No Allied Planes Lost

ALLIES TURN BACK RENEWED JAPANESE ORO BAY ASSAULT   First Attack In Force Since Milne Bay On April 14 Results In Very Little Damage

ALLIES DESTROY 16 JAP PLANES   Turn Back Attack On New Guinea As Knox Terms Attu Situation “Satisfactory”

JAP LOSS HEAVY IN NEW GUINE!   16 of 45 Planes Downed In Nippon Attack On Cro Bay

Japanese Aerial  Attack Repulsed   16 or More Enemy Planes Shot Down

RAF Makes 12th German Raid In Fourteen Days   Furopean Bombing: Intensified As Germans Attack Coast

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST BOMBERS ATTACKED MUNICH LAST NIGHT  ELEVEN BRITISH AIR CRAFT MISSING AFTER / IMPORTANT MISSION

CRADLE OF NAZI PARTY BLASTED BY RAF AIRMEN   Entire Heart of Munich A peared. to. Be “One  Big Fire,” Say. Re- __ turning Pilots. _.   “fi PLANES MISSING.   Assault’Marks Second Consecutive Night Stab of. RAF Into Southern — ‘ -Germany

Heavy Attacks On Continent Continuing   Center Of Cradle Of Nazi Party Undergoes Terrific Assault

Big British Bomber Force Blasts Munich   Twelfth R. A. F. Raid In Two Weeks Over Continent Plasters Industrial Center

TWELFTH RAID ON CONTINENT 4N 14 NIGHTS   Eleven Planes Fail To Return From Attacks   F CITY   Described As One Big Fire By Canadian Airman Who Participates

Brits Bombs: Blast Munict   Heavy Damage Admitted By German Radio

MUNICH LASHED WITH RAF BIG BOMBER RAID   Heart of City Reported to Be as One Big Fire at Height of Attack

LARGE SCALE RAID STAGED OVER MUNICH   German Broadcast Admi Damage Mostly to "'Cultural Places" In the City   NORTH FRANCE VISITED

BRITAIN’S BIG BOMBERS WING WAR TO MUNICH   Heavy Assault on. Site of Nazi Shrines Indicated Following Daylight Raids on France

Attack Is Believed As Heavy As One Which Nuernberg Suffered Earlier

Twelfth RAF: Assault. on'Nazis in Fourteen Nights; Eleven Planes Missing   INDUSTRIAL SECTION OF CITY TARGETS FOR BOMB

Bombs Blast ’Munich, Nazi Party Cradle   R. A. F.’s Sky Monsters Leave Heart Of German City Ablaze.

RAF Bombers Again Roam Nazi Areas   Strike at Munich and Other Important Points; 11 Planes Are Lost

Birthplace Of Nazism ts Pounded   Biggest RAF Bomb: Are Tossed Out On Munich

RAF Resumes  Blasting Munich   Report British Raiders Hit —-Many Fanious Building? In 12th Night Attack

PUNE OF RAT ATTACK MUNICH   Bomb Other Targets in Western Germany, Mine Enemy Waters.

RAF Blasts Munich In a Heavy Assault   Heart of City Appears to Be “One Big Fire,” With Flames Shooting 2,000 Feet Into the Air, Canadian Pilots Report.

RAF Pounds Munich in Heavy Attack   Canadian Airmen Say Heart of City Was ‘One Big Fire’

Entire Old Center Of Munich Is Destroyed   RAF's Devastating Attack On Cradle Of Nazi Party Causes Great Damage

RAF Bombers Blast Munich   Attack On Cradle Of Naziism Twelfth In Past 14 Nights

R.A.F. blasts Munich and  west country   Nazis complain ‘cultural places’ damaged in raid

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST BOMBERS BLASTED MUNIGH, GERMANY   Is the Cradle of the Nazi Party and Seat of Important War Industries.   WAS TWELFTH ASSAULT   Other Aircraft Bombed Targets in Western Germany, It Is Said.

BRITISH SHOWER BOMBS ON NAZI CITY OF MUNICH   Biggest Bombers Take Par In Smashing Raid on War Industries

Munich Blasted By RAF Planes   11 Missing—Germans Admit Damage in Nazi Party Cradle

RAF BOMBERS ~~ BLAST MUNICH      Twelfth Assault in 14 Nights Hits Cradle of Nazi Party

British Planes Bomb Munich   Heart of City ‘One Big Fire,’ Fliers Report

MUNICH HIT BY BIGGEST RAF BOMBERS   Cradle of Nazi Party And Important Seat of War Industries is Tommy Target

BOMBERS SET MUNICH FIRES   Eleven Planes Lost in Raid, 12th on German Territory in 14. Nights.

ROYAL AIR FORCE BLAST MUNICH   Report Flames Leap 200C Feet High, Fire Visible for 60 Miles

RAF Fliers Blast Munich Industry  Complete 12th Assaul: In 14 Nights

Big R.A.F. Bombers - Hit Hard at Munich On 14th Night Raic   Cradle of Nazi Party, City of Vital Nazi War Industries, Rocked by Blockbusters; Germans Say 3 Museums Are Hit

Munich Feels Lash Of RAF Night Attack   Larger Bombers Leave Big City Mass Of Flames

Patterson Backs Huge U.S. Army   Nation Needs More Soldiers, Best Equipment, He Says

Size of Army Declared Up to War Leaders  Axis Powers Have  More Men Under Bree Than Alliac

HAVE JUST BEGUN, PATTERSON STATES   Wor Dep't Official — An. swers Critics of Large Army Sts C -

HAVE JUST BEGUN, PATTERSON STATES   War Dep't Officia! Answers Critics of Large Army

TWO KIDNAPERS STILL AT LARGE   Police Bullets Fail to End Flight of ‘Dead End Kids’

 Two Members of the “Dead End Kids”  Still at Large After Chicago Kidnaping

OPA Reminds Storekeeper Thal Butter Prices Must Show Price Decline

PATRIOTS GAIN IN SLOVENIA   Heavy Fighting Rages Along Albanian Frontier

Yugoslavs Engage Nazi Forces In Heavy Battle  - Enemy. Is Attacked On Many Sides  By Patriot Armies

Student Nurse Enroll- ment Up; Need More   Reraj Girls Make Fine Students, Ac. cording To Repert Of Iowa Nursing Council

U.S, BOMBS RAIN ON EUROPE AGAIN   Americans Hit Nazi-Helc Europe, RAF Blasts Western Reich

U.S. Bombers Keep Up Raids   Targets In Western Portion Of Reich Are Attacked During Day

“New World Charter” Is Coming Out of   the Food Conference at Hot Springs 

Aviation Gasoline Shortage Curtailing Training Program   Breaking Of Production Bottlenecks Will Be Aim Of High Officials Of Government

WHEELER GAINS FRESH SUPPOR   Downey Opposes Father Draft, Says Nazis Can Be Beaten In 4 Months

Stepfather of Slain Bride Says He Believed She Broke Up His Home

10,723 ACRES OF RICH CARROLL FARM LAND FLOODED IS ESTIMATE   OVER 4,000 ACRES OF GROWING CROPS DESTROYED SINCE MONDAY

PLAN 10 RETAKE PHILIPPINES IN NEXT YEAR SEEN      Utterances Of Officials Would Indicate Such Action Is Belief

P. MAY BE ~—- RECONQUERED   Murphy Reais Filipinos’ Message From Roosevelt

THREE ARRESTED FOR GAME LAW VIOLATION =   Pay $100 in Eines for Killing Game Out of Season; Othpr Cacac Ticted.

NEWS OF THE COUNTY COURT   Three Tioga County Men Arrested For Illegal  Hunting.

DEMOBILIZATION TO TAKE YEARS   Postwar Planners See Gradual Mustering Out Over Period Of Four Or Five  Veaare

Post-War Planners See Demobilization Of Army ‘Taking 4 Or 5 Years

Planners Report Post War Danger Unemployment   Foresee Demobilization of Armed Forces At Rate of Million Men Or More A Year.

Republicans Want Nonpartisan Plan On Foreign Policy to Eliminate It as Issue in Campaign Next Year

NON-PARTISAN STATEMENT OF POLICY ASKED   GOP Leaders Moving Toward Agreement On Vital Issues

GOP GROUP OPEN FORMAL SESSIONS   Demands for Foreign Policy Statement Which Would Remove Issue From Camnaicn Voiced at Mackinac

New Price Rules To Aid Housewife   Cost Lists to Be: Posted in Stores

NEW OPA PRICE ORDER PLANNED   Program Designed To Help Nation’s Housewives

AIR RAID DRILLS SEEN FOR STATE   Army Expected To Order Tests In Pennsylvania In Near Future

Churchill Statement Seen As Supporting Restoration of Greek And Jugoslavia Governments After War

CHURCHILL BACKS RETURN OF GREEK, JUGOSLAVIAN KINGS   Prime Mimister’s -. Speech May Foreshadow Like Expressions Of _ Allies

Might Shift Old Age Aid To The State  Senate Committee For Inquiry Into Altered Prascram

INQUIRY IS PROPOSED    Measure Calls for Study of Old 1 Age Assistance

BERLIN IS SET AFLAME BY BIG BOMBER FLEFT   Ruhr Valley Coal Center Of Bochum Bombed For First Time In Two Years

Two Transports  Sunk, 18 Planes Downed in Battle   Enemy Army on Papua Virtually Destroyed MacArthur Reports as Allied Forces Envelop Last Position at Sanananda

New Foray By Japs Smashed   Heavily Loaded Transport Among Losses Off Guinea

ALLIES SINK TWO JAP TRANSPORTS, DOWN 18 PLANES   Convoy Attacked as It Attempts to Land Reinforcements in Northeastern New Guinea.   ONE SHIP DESTROYED FILLED WITH TROOPS   Gen. MacArthur’s Headquarters Says Nipponese Holding Out at Sanananda Face Annihilation.

JAPS’ STRONG POINT in PAPUA ENVELOPED   Two Jap Transports Destroyed With 18 Zero Planes Off New Guinea, MacArthur Reports.   3d Transport Hit

PAPUAN ARMY OF NIPPONESE IS WIPED OUT   LAST STRONG POINT AT SANANANDA ENVELOPED

2 Transports Are Sunk; 18  Zeros Downed   At Least One of Vessels Was Loaded With Men

Two Big Jap Transports Under Waves   They Lose 18 Planes Also; Cleanup By MacArthur Near

Nonstop Blasting Of Japs in Pacific Yields Heavy Toll   2 Enemy Transports Sunk, 18 Zeros Downed; Fight  at Sanananda Nears Climax

Rail groups order strike  December 30   Mediation board -requests parley

STEPS TAKEN BY BOARD 10 AVERT STRIKE   UNION PRESIDENTS COME TO CHICAGO MEETING MONDAY

[S CALLED FOR DECEMBER 30   Mediation Board Acts To Avert Tieup of Nation’s Roads

Railway Unions Set Strike Date.   Walkout Is Scheduled For December 30

Move Made by U.S. Body to Avert Walkout   Brotherhoods Take Drastic Action for Wage Increases

Nation-Wide Strike Dates — Announced by  Rail Unions   U. S. Mediation Board Takes Quick Action In Effort To Avert Tie-up of Railroads  STRIKE TO START ON DECEMBER 30  Board Invites Leaders ‘Of Roads and Unions To Meet in Chicago

RAIL STRIKE SET FOR DECEMBER 30   BROTHERHOODS ORDER WALKOUT TO ENFORCE DEMANDS FOR WAGE BOOST.

350,000 Union Men Get Order For a Walkout   Mediation Board Calls Conference

RAIL WORKERS THREATEN 10 CALL STRIKE   Brotherhoods Set Dec. 30 as Opening Day for Proaracsive Strika   CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD MONDAY   Action Is Called a Strike Against Inflation for Priviteaed Few

Rail Strike Set To Start December 30   Four Days Allotted For ‘’Progressive”’ QOuittina Of Jobs: Boards Calle Meetina

liation Roard 4s to Avert {way Strike  ‘ve Brotherhoods ‘der Stoppage 0 Begin Dec. 30

RAIL WORKERS THREATEN 10 CALL STRIKE   Brotherhoods Set Dec. 30 as Opening Day for Progressive Strike  CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD MONDAY  eet 2 eee peo fe Ie ee ae OF ee. eee   Action Is Called a Strike Against Inflation for Privileaed Few

Dec. 30 Set as Date To Start Walkout   rederal Mediation Beard Moves to Avert Stoppagze. Calls Union Chiefs to Parley

RAIL STRIKE OW DEC. 30  VOTEDECREE   Brotherhood’s Action Forces Board  Meeting

Mediation Board Seeks fo Avert Work Stoppage   97.7 Pct. Workers 2 Vote to Quit; Ask 30 Pct. Wage Increase

_ Le  ‘ wre 885 -b — —_ ©  ov po ae a~ 7 1? = i, a a   Seex o'+.ver: , oin: Scrixe, aire Suc. tver 2 annec

U.S.S. CHICAGO   3 se a ‘Knox Says Contract Let for New Cruixer.

GERMANS REFUSE TO EXCHANGE MER   Demand That 71 Military Personnel From Africa Be Inctuded.

WELLS CLAIMS TRICK BY NAZIS   Terms Prisoner Exchange Demands Cheap Attempt At Blackmail

CHEAP GERMAN TRICK I$ BARED   Blackmail Attempt Holds Up Return of 139 U.S, Internees

Allied Forces Occupy Island   Mediterranean Stepping Stone Taken After Stiff Bombardment

Pantelleria Gives Up to Democracy   AXIS POINT IN SiCILIAN NARROWS SURRENDERS TO ALLES.

Senior Senator Lists Six Items Congress Wonders About; No Delay In Money Bills

Money Wasted, Thomas Charges   Oklahoma Senator Not Satisfied With — Expenditures, He Says

FOR RENEWING A BOOKS   Rationing Office Is to Distribute Application Forms

MUST HAVE BOOK 1   Tomorrow Is Last Day to Get Initial Rationing Book

Liquor Shortage Inquiry Starts  Van Nuys Says Hint Of Monopoly Move Reported In Capital

Second Attack In Week Finds Defenses Being Strengthened By Nazis

Foreign Propaganda Of OW! ls Dwarfed By Similar Axis Material, Says Director Davis

DAVIS DISPLAYS OWI ACTIVITIES   Reveals Entire Foreign Program As Answer To Congressional Critics

DAVIS REFUTES CRITICISM OF US. POLICIES   U.S. Foreign Propaganda Has No Political Intent, Is Claim

Elmer Davis, OWI Director, Tells the Press That Politics Not Mixed With Propaganda

EDEN BEGINS © CONFERENCES   ail atl Diplcemat’s Visit Coincides Witt Senute Move to Assure PostWar Unity.

EDEN BEGINNING SERIES OF TALKS WITH SEC, HULL   Seek To Attain Agreement On AD War And Post -War PoHcies

CONFER ON WAR POLICY   British Foreign  Ministe: Confers With U: S. Leaders

Eden and Hull Begin Important Conferences   Four Solons to Ask Senate to Endorse Allied Meeting

Edenand Hull Talks Look to Postwar Unity   Senators Report Roosevelt in General Agreement With Their Plan

Said to be Clasiest Capital Doing Since Soviet Laid Out  Pounds of Caviar or Since McNuti Was Honored on ' Return From Philippines—High Style American  Food Loads Half-Block Long Tables

AMERICANS IN RAID STRIKE NEAR LINE OF ROMMEL’S RETREAT   Yanks are Quick to Reply to German Challenge to ‘Come Out and Fight; Planes Pound Foe Positions

NAZI TANK DRIVE HALTED BY ALLIED UNITS IN TUNISIA   Germans Sent Reeling Back by French and Americans as They Try to Gain Mountain Positions.   TRIPOLITANIA BORDER UNDER AIR ATTACK   Bases to Which Rommel’s Planes Were Said to Have Withdrawn Pounded and Blasted.

PLAN TO SHIFT MEN IN GOVT J0BS TO ARI   Executive Order to Follow Committee Report on Deferments.   PROBERS SAY WORKERS ARE NOT EVADING DRAFT

MOSCOW TALKS PROGRESS   All Parties concerned Pleased As Conference Proceeds

TRI-PARTITE CONFERENCE  BIE ACING ALT   Turkish Poblic Is Watching Moves At Moscow

PARLEY MOVES INTO EIGHTH DAY   Diplomatic Technicians Frame Decisions, Report Results Satisfactory

Allied Meeting In 8th Session  Good Progress re ey Reet:  we i miatye> teh

Sift Hull-Eden-Molotov Discussions, as Talk Proceeds Excellently

sr Pree ereewreeee eee ee ee ele Se (riticizes Soldiers for Public “Woo”

SENTENCE NIGHT CLUB OWNER   Coceanut Grove Head to Serve: 1? Yeare

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Todav.   Given 12% to 16 Vears.

Welansky Gets o Id Years In State Prison   Grove Owner’s Pleas For New Triai And Stay Of Execution Are Denied

RED AIR FORCE RAID BLASTS NAZI AREAS      Gorund Forces Generally Remain Inactive—Trains, Airdromes Hit

Red Air Force Presses Offensive Against Nazi Airdromes; Ground Forces Generally Remain Inactive

Red Airmen Bomb German Airdromes  Communications On Southern Front

Pattern May Be Cast For Averting Future  Coal Mine Strikes   Fatter Pay Envelopes for Miners and Stiff Penalties For Striking May Prove Effective in Keeping Mines Producing

Coal Strike Situation Is  Eased by WLB   Higher (Earningg Offered Miners, Penalties for Strik. ers Threatened

MINERS TO GET EARNINGS BOOST   Lengthening Of Work Day Holds Hope Of Averting Another Strike

New Policy May Avert Coal Strike   Opportunity to Fatten Pay May Cause Miners to Keep Working

PENALTIES, HIGHER WAGES FOR MINERS   New Plan Directed Toward -Averting Strike

Mine Peace Hope Voiced   Higher Pay, Strike Penalties May Be Ke,

Deterrent To Coal Stoppage   Chance for More Pay, Stirke Threat  Penalties Causes

More Money For Miners May Be Key   Additional Funds from Longer Work Week Plus Strike Penalties May  Avert Another Walkcout

CHANCE OF MORE PAY, PENALTY THREAT SEEN FURTHER COAL STRIKE DETERRANTS

Orders Could Avert Strike   Higher Pay, Penalties For Disobeying WLB Rulings Change Scene.

Chance For More Pay, Strike Penalties Seen As Deterrents To Further Coal Mine Strikes

Miners Will Soon Receive More Wages   Will Be Paid Time and a Half for Extra Hour; Stiff Penalties for Striking To Be Inflicted

C hanges May Help Ay ert Coal Strike   Possibility Union May Modify Position On Oct. 31 Deadline

PAY, PENALTIES AVERT STRIKES   By Lengthening Miners’ Productive Shift, Pay Is  Inpreacan 

DETERRENTS TO: FURTHER COAL STRIKES SEEN      Chances for More Pay, Threat of Walkout Penalties May Prevent  Mine Stoppages

MINE STRIKES SFEN CURBED   More Pay, Penalties For Walkouts, May Avert New Stoppages

SEE FURTHER MINE STOPPAGES HALTED   Workers’ Shifts Lengthened to 8 Hours: Stroke Penalties Severe

ADDITIONAL WAGES AND PENALTIES MAY AVERT COAL STRIKE   HIGHER EARNINGS FOR MINERS TO COME THROUGH LONGER WORK-DAY

NEW ACTION SEEN . AS DETERRENT TO. COAL MINE STRIKE   Officials Feel. Chance For  More Pay and. Strike. Pen alties Will Halt  Further  Gtannanne

U. S. SEEKING ANSWER TO PIT STRIKE THREAT   LONGER WORK DAY   LONGER WORK DAY, SANCTIONS BY WLB, SEEN AS SOLUTION

MORE PAY, STIFF PENALTIES PLAN FOR U.S. MINERS   Believe Program May Eliminate Mine Strikes

With - Membership Tied - They Will Seek to Elect “* AN Officers  DOUBT. ON HARRIS’ RIGHT TO VOTE  Deadlock May Force Com. promise; Situation High’ ly Confused

Senate Control Is Confused by A 17 to 17 Tie   Roy D. Miller, a Republican From Columbia, Elected to Fill Vacancy.   GOP to Name a Slate  For Posts in Senate

REPUBLICANS: TO FIGHT FOR SENATE LEAD      Will Try to Keep Demos From Using Harris’ Vote to Break Unprecedented Tie by Election of Miller.

WILL FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF THE STATE SENATE   Republicans Today Challeng  : ed the Democrats to a : Battle.   IT NOW IS A 17 TO 17 TIE   Election of Republican Roy Miller of Columbia Caused the Tie.

HEAT ATTACK, ~ CAUSED DEATH   Rites. for J ohn. " Neidhamer Will Be Conducted ituesday Afternoon) P

HEART ATTACK CAUSED DEATH   Rites for John Neidhamer Will Be Conducted “uesday Afternoon.

FOOD SUBSIDY ISSUE CAUGHT IN SENATE LEGISLATIVE JAM   Final Floor Vote May Not Come Before Yule Recess

22 County Men Accepted For Armed Forces      WILL LEAVE SPIRIT LAKE ON FRIDAY NIGHT FOR RECEPTION CENTER

LEADERS ASK G.0.P. SUPPORT   Want Backing For Newest Form Of Installment Tax.

PAY-GO TAX BILL READY. FOR DEBATE   Democratic Leadership '. [Asks Republicans To Back Bill

Dems Plead For Unity on NewlaxPlan   Urge Republicans To Aid in Latest Pay-as-Go Bill

ICC Upheld in Court's Ruling   Tribunal Reverses Previous Decision

COURT UPHOLDS GG DECISION:   Numerous Reorganizations Have Been Held up to Await Court Decision on Validity Of ICC Procedure

Japanese Sign Pact With Group   Shanghai Rites Restored To Chinese

Circle Pilot Downs Seven Jap Planes  Lieutenant Vejtasa Awarded Gnld Star

REDS STEP UP PACE IN CAUCASUS   Nazis Reported in Disorderly Retreat

Red Forces Capture Mozdok, Nalchik In Slashing Offensive   Germans in Disorderly Retreat Are Blowing Up Bridges in Attempt To Escape - From Swift-Moving Cossacks .

COSSACKS LEAD RED OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH   Soviets Open New Drive In Stalingrad Area  NALCHICK IS CAPTURED  Russian Push Clears Long Stretch Of Railroad

RED ARMY OPENS BIH OFFENSIVE AT VOLGA RIVER   Newest Drive Opens With Heavy Bombardment Followed By Rapid Advance.

Cossacks Slash At Enemy Flanks in Near Rout   Russians Claim Eastern Half of Don Bend Cleared; New Drive Opened West of Stalingrad

Soviets Slash Through Axis Defense Lines   Dozens Of Dugouts And Two Important Positions Captured

Recapture of Philippines One of First Jobs on List  WARNING IS GIVEN OF LONG STRUGGLE Stimson Looks: for Accel erated Drive Against the Japs

FIGHT IN EUROPE GIVEN PRIORITY AT CAIRO PARLE}   ‘Chiang Told Full-Scale Offensive in Asia Must Await Overthrow of German Machine.    PROMISE TO OPEN BURMA ROAD GIVEN   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Reported Meeting in Iran 50 Miles From Russian Border.

Southern Europe's  Defenses Weakened   Hundreds Of Allied Bombers Darkén Sky Over Axis’ Mediterranean ‘Gibraltar;’ Garrison Dazed By Unprecedented Aerial Assault

Retreating Japs Clog Roads Near Changteh   Chinese Apparently Have Won Greatest Victory

County's Population March 1943 84,031, In. crease of 9.3 Per Cent Over 1940 Census ot 76.860). ;

County's Population March 1943 84,03], Increase of 9.3 Per Cent Over 1940 Census of 76, 800.

Ask Removal Of Restrictions On Reporting   N, E. Newspapermen Sign Resolution Relating To Coming Food Parley

BIGGEST NON-STOP AIR “OFFENSIVE. IS PRESSED ON SICILY   Allied Planes In Support Of Invasion Armies Wreak Extensive Damage   42 AXIS AIRCRAFT BLASTED FROM SKIES

ALLIES SEEK 10 PARALYZE AXIS DEFENSES IN SICIL'   Planes, Ships, Tanks, Infantry Wreak Damage on ~ Inland Transporta i er

PLANES ARE SUPPORTING INVASION   Paralyzing Axis Defense Of Sicily

Allied Planes Smash 4 Ships, Many Supplies   320 Trucks And Six Locomotives Destroyed In Supporting Raids

Patrol Clashes Reported Along Italian Front   Extremely Bad Weather Continues To Restrict Large Military Operations   YANKS RECAPTURE SOME LOST GROUNL

Kiska Positions Raided Heavily By U. S. Planes   Solomons Area Attacked Navy Command Says; Terms Forays “Record”

15 Raids on Kiska Base   War Planes of Navy Report Numerous Hits; Damage Not Determined

KISKA POUNDED BY YANK FLIERS   Oo Record- Breaking Raids Carried Out in Single Day, Navy Reports

[3 ATTACKS IN DAY MADE AGAINST KISKA   Jap Base On Aleutians Gets Another Battering

Allied Planes Stage 15 Record-Breaking Raids On Japanese Kiska Base

KISKA SUBJECTED TO 15 ATTACKS BY U.S. AIRCRAFT   Recerd-Breaking Raids Made Menday—wU. S. Airmen Also Lash at Japs im the Solo-'  mons :

15 Attacks On Tuesday On Jap Base On Kiska   Numerous Hits On Important Works Scored; Enemy In Solomons Raided

HERSHEY LISTS MANY FATHERS IN DRAFT CALL   Only Congress Can Avert / Seven Out of Every !00 Dads Being Drafted Before Jan. 

446,000 DADS IN ARMY BY JAN.   Congressional Action Requir ed to Prevent Calling of Seven in 100.

DRAFT GALL FOR FATHERS S NOW UP TO CONERESS   Selective Service Chief Says 446,000 Needed This Year

446,000 Fathers Face Draft Call  Seven Of Every 100 Fathers To Be Called

Drafting Of Fathers Seen As Certainty   Congressional Stop Order Only Method of Preventing Such Action   BOARDS HAVE ORDERS

Draft Calls for Fathers 7 in 100    Congress Alone Can Halt Induction of Pe-Pearl Harbor Fathers Before Oct. 1

FATHER DRAFT NEAR UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS   7 of Every 100 Registrants With Children Face Induction   MANPOWER DWINDLES   Expect Solons To Review Subject Upon Return September 14

Only Action by Congress Can Stop Drafting of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads

Only Possibility of Congressional Stop Order Can Prevent Drafting of Seven ‘Per Cent of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads in Oct.

UP TO CONGRESS TO SAVE FATHERS   Otherwise Seven Out Of Every 100 Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Will Be Drafted For ne Service This Year

Congress Stands Between Fathers And Early Draft   Seven Out of Every 100 Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads to Be Taken

Push Father Draft Plans   Only Act of Congress   Can Halt Induction of Fathers After Oct. 1 

446,000 Fathers Face Induction Into Army, Navy   Only A Stop Order By Congress Can Halt Hershey's Plans

Act. Of Congress Only Action Likely "To Prevent The Drafting Of Fathers

Army to Take 7 Percent of Fathers Jan. 1   Only Congressional Orde Can Stop Drafting To Fill Army Quotas

(Only Action By Congress (Can Stop Planned Draft Of 446,000 U.S. Fathers

Seven Of Every 100 Fathers Face Draft By Jan. 1, Hershey Declares

HERSHEY TELLS DRAFT BOARDS TO READY DADS   Congressional Stop Order Only Possible Block   To Induction   446.000 FACE CALL   Non-Essential Fathers Tc Fill Out Last-Quarter Quotas

Draft Expected To Take Seven Dads Out of 100   To Fill Quotas, Some Fathers Must Be Inducted

7 Of 100 Fathers Face Early Draft  Only Congress Remains 7 ...... em. .J- on

ONLY CONGRESS CAN HALT DRAFT OF DADS NOW   Large Number of Names Already Drawn for Consideration of Board

Need 446,000 Fathers To Fill Draft Quotas   Hershey Reports Seven Of Every 100 Fathers Will Be Called By End  _ Of This Year

HERSHEY ORDERS FATHERS DRAFTED   QUOTA TO BE FILLED BY JAN, 1 UNLESS CONGRESS INTERVENES

Take 7 OF 100  Fathers Soon   Hershey Says 446.000 Physically-Fit Dads Needed Be fore Jan. I.

7 Out of Hundred Fathers to Army   Hershey Says 446,000 Physically Fit Fathers Are to Be Called.

KNOX ASSERTS RESISTANCE HAS ENDED THERE   Says Reported Naval Action Could Be Plan To Cover Action

KNOX ANNOUNCES ~ FULL CONTROL IN ~ HANDS OF YANKS   Only Few Jap Soldiers Left. U. S. Now In Position to Hit Bia Bases.

Jap Troops Withdrawn From Island   Yanks in Position. To Strike at Most TImnoriant Bases

RESISTANCE ON ISLAND ENDED, KNOX REVEALS   News Backs Up Tokyo Rae ports Of Withdrawals From Two Bases =“   NEW ASSAULTS PLANNED   Air-Sea Battles Of Past Week Believed Cover For Evacuations  1

Secretary’s ‘Report Backs Enemy’s Announcement ‘That Troops Were : Withdrawn  NO NEWS OF BATTLE   U. 3. Forces In Striking Distance Of Vital Jap Bases

Only A Few Isolated Groups Left   THESE FEW ARE UNORGANIZED AND ARE SURROUNDED; TOKYO SAYS TROOPS WERE “TRANSFERRED’

REMAINING JAP GROUPS SURROUNDED   Navy Secretary Tells Importance Of U. S. Victory

Naval Moves Now Seen  As Screen for Action   Knox Indicates New Reports from Solomons Tend to Confirm Report—Stresses Strategic Advantage of Island to U. S.   Naval Maneuvers A Cover

Secretary Knox Confirms Radio Berlin's Report Of Nipponese Defeat In Solomons Campaign; Nearly 30.000 Enemy Troops Destroyed

Toky v Announces ‘Evacuation Of Buna, Where United Nation: Annihilated Force Of 15,000   Picture In Solomons Would Have Been Different If U. S. Had Not Taken Offensive There, Navy Head Says: New Moves By Eneme

WITHDRAWAL . _ OF JAP TROOPS IS INDIGATEL   Knox Says Sea, Air Battles May Be Covering Removals

VITAL BASEIS NCW IN HANDS OF AMERICANS   Evacuation Of Buna Sec: tor Also Is Reported By Jananece   MAKES RAiDS EASIER   Capture Puts U.S. Within Striking Distance Of Other Bases

THINK AIR-SEA FIGHT COVERED WITHDRAWALS   Kew, Small Trapped Jap Groups Remain On Island

Gloomy Nip Statement Supported by Knox Who Says Navy Action May Be Cover

WOLF PACKS PROWLING ATLANTIC.- :  Brazilian Ship Added To Rising U-Boat Toll

U-BOAT DRIVE RENEWED; SINK TWELVE SHIPS   Brazil Vessel And 10 Or 11 In Allied Convoy Sent Down

New Atlantic Offensive  Under Way   10 or More Ships In Canada-Bound  Convoy Torpedoed

Nazi ‘Wolfpacks’ Resume Warfare On Allied Shipping   10 Or 11 Convoy Ships Are Lost In 10-Day Fight With Nazi Subs; Brazilian Vessel Sent Down May Raise Toll To 12

U-Boats Sink  Brazilian Ship  In New Campaign Canadian corey  ‘Loses‘at Least 10. Vessels to Sub Pack

- Desperate Nazi U-Boat War Resumed  At Least 11 Ships Sunk In Day

SEEN AS PART OF RENEWAL OF NAZI WAR   Enemy Campaign Seen as Attempt ing to Disrupt Allied Schedule For Liberating Europe.

New Offensive Launched By U-Boats On Shipping   Brazilian Passenger Ship Sunk . Off Northeast Coast Of Country

LOSS OF BRAZIL SHIP TO U-BOAT RAID REVEALED   Observers Think Nazi Subs Have Launched New Offensive on Atlantic

Brazil Ship 1th Or 12th Sunk In Day   German: U-Boats Begin  ._ Swift New. Drive. On... “Allied Shipping

SUBSIDY BAN TO HIKE BUTTER, MEAT PRICES   Cost of Products Will Revert to Pre-Rollback Level if Measure Becomes Law.

HIGHER BUTTER PRICES COMING   Anti- Subsidy . Action May Send Meat Levels Up About 10 Percent

Subsidy. Ban Means Meat, Butter Boost   Prices Are Expected To Go Up To Absorb Rollback Differentials   OPA HOLDS SILENCE   Settlement Of Senate House Differences Are Awaited In Capital

Rollback Of Food Prices To Be ‘Out   Senate Joins House In Rejection Of Subsidy Program: Future Of OPA Plans At Stake

Nearly 10,000 Idle Miners I Pennsylvania, Organized Picketing Planned

WOMEN JOIN COAL MINE PICKET LINES   Rebellious Workers Oppose Laboring Without Contract

War- Production Board — Is Exposed In, Attempt ~To- Hide ‘Incompetence

Cruiser Helena One Of Ships Hit At Pearl Harbor  Second Vessel Named After Capital City of Montana

Restrictions On Cotton Are Lifted  F Farmer Able  TT D1. ..4   Farmer Able To Plant All He Wants

HITLER SAID TQ BE IN’ .RAGE AS RESULT OF LOSS OF BIG NAZI BATTLESHIP

AWAIT ACTION OF WAR LABOR BOARD ON MINE TROUBLE   MORE THAN 89,000 MINERS IN SIX STATES ARE SAID TO HAVE JOINED THE WILD CAT STRIKE.   WLB EXPECTED TO ACT SOME TIME TODAY   Railroad Brotherhoods Preparing to Vote on Question of Strike— Patera Question Taken  Up Ag in Congress.

War Labor Board May Rule Today On Illinois Mine Wage Agreement   Both Operators and the Union Are Hoping for Approval.

Red Forces Smash Into The Crimea   Entire German Line Below Cneiper Bend Caves Reported ?

EFFORTS WILL BE MADE .TO WORK OUT PRICE CONTROL SYSTEM ACCEPTABLE TO BOTH SIDES

LEGISLATORS FEAR CHAOS IN DISPUTE   House Backs FDR Veto of Bill To Kill Tax-Financed Price Program.   FARM BLOC ANGERED   Move Started In Senate to  Back Limited Subsidies Prannead hy Taft

Compromise  On Subsidy Plan Sought   President’s Veto Of AntiSubsidy Bill Is Sustained By House

Light Freeze ls Predicted   Will Follow Day Of Delightful Spring Weather

DRAFT BOARDS PLAN INVENTORY   Seek Accurate Knowledge of Individual Registrants

DRAFT BOARDS WILL  NYENTORY STATUS OF ALL REGISTRANTS FROM SEPT. 15 10 30

 : “4  Cooper Brothers Play In Game Despite Death Of Their Father

Sales Tax to Be Pressed Again   Rep. Robertson to Re-Offer That Method Of Boosting Receipts

NEW FIGHT DUE OVER FEDERAL RETAIL SALES TAX AS METHOD IOF FINANCING COSTS OF WAR

Another Sales Tax  Serap On   Representative Will Re-offer This Method Of  Raising Revenue

Sales Tax Proposal To Be Offered   Congressman Says Income Levies Have Reached Saturation

FEDERAL SALES TAX PROPOSAL TC BE RE-OFFERED   QUESTION ICKES ABOUT SHORTAGES OF METALS

SCRAP OVER SALES TAX FOR NATION IS NOW INDICATED   Rep. Robertson Says He Will Re-Order This Meth od of Raising Revenue More Legislators Expect ed To Be On ‘Pro’ Side.

New Battle Over Sales Tax Looms   Rep. Robertson Plans To Reoffer Bill to  Raise Revenue

Sales Tax Again Offered To Raise Money For War  Pay-As-You-Go . _ Tax To Be Considered  ' Before Congress Acts On Any New Levies .

NEW SCRAP OVER FEDERAL RETAIL SALES TAX SEEN   Rep. Robertson to Re-offer  This System as Means to Help Raise 16 Billion Asked by EDR

U.S. SALES TAX SCRAP LIKELY FOR CONGRESS   Revenue Measure Again to Be Offered; Act Seen as Only Solution to Raise Funds.

Levy On Sales Will Be Ursed   Robertson ‘Plans To Push His. Method To Obtain . Needed 16 ‘Billion

EXPECT BATTLE ON NAT'L SALES TAXATION PLAN   Rep. Robertson To Reintroduce  U. S. Tax Bill

RETAIL SALES TAX FIGHT: IS BEFORE SOLONS   Petrillc, Ickes Are Questioned by Congressional  Committees

New Row Due Over Federal Retail Sales Tax As  War Financing Measure

RETAIL SALES TAX BACK IN SPOTLIGHT   Plan Gaining in Favor ls Claim in Capital

NATIONAL TAX ON SALES 18 GAINING FAVOR   Proponents Claim Levy On Incomes Has Reached SatuA ration Point   5 PER CENT PROPOSED   Ickes Questioned About Metals , Shortage; Recorded Music  Ban Prohed

National Retail Sales Tax To Be  Introduced Again   Congressman Says  In‘come Tax Has Reached Saturation Point.

Mull © Over Tax Plans   Pay-as-you-go, Sales Tax, Lotteries, Suggested to. Raise Funds

Sales Tax Gains Support in Congress      Congressional Committees Quizz Petrillo and Ickes; Review Tax Plans

New Fight Due Over Federal Sales Tax Plan   Sentiment Growing For Direct Levy To Finance War

Another Fight Over Federal Sales Tax Due   ‘Robertson Says _ He Will Reoffer Measure in House

TAXES GIVE MOST WORRY IN CONGRESS   Retail Sales Levy Likely ~ to Come Up Again With More Support.   NEARING PEAK ON INCOME TAXES   Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plans to Be Given Consideration.

Increased Support For Sales Tax Is Claimed By Rep. Robertson of House Group   SAYS INCOME TAX SOURCES USED UP   Move Was Defeated At Last Session, But New Committee Members Have Been Named

ANOTHER SCRAP ON RETAIL “SALES TAX : {$ SHAPING “UP   Robertson To Re-Offer Method Of Helping To Raise 16 Billions In New Taxes   5 PER CENT LEVY STUDIED

REP, ROBERTSON TO RENEW THIS REVENUE PLAN   To Consider Pay-as-You-Ge Taxation Plan Within Next Two Weeks

New Fight Over National Sales Tax Is Assured   Robertson To Reoffer Revenue Plan; It Has Better Chance Now.

‘New Fight Due Over Federal Sales Tax;  Petrillo Refuses To Remove Record Bar

New Scrap Over Federal Sales Tax Assured As Robertson Reveals Plan

New Scrap Looms Over Rational Refall Sales Tax; Rep. Robertson Says Point Of Safuration Reached On Income Tax

PACIFIC OUTLUUK MORE FAVORABLE   War Correspondent Says Allies Can Drive Japs Out Of New Guinea

PACIFIC FORCES NOW EQUIPPED FOR AN “EQUAL FIGHT   May Take New Guinea and New Britain by Christ mas, Is Beltef

Death On A Raft  Words Scrawled On A Canvas Sail Tell: Dramatic Story Of Ship Sunk By Sub

Sailor Leaves Note Scrawled on Canvas Sail  x k« ke & & & + * & k Tee Chin Ala DilnAna: oe a pee ‘ i. Roem. ce Wla Dyan’t Pray at imaley

GOVERNOR SIGNS HARD CONTESTED FOUAL PAY BILL   Pension System Also Gets O. K.  From Green

ILLINOIS WOMEN GIVEN EQUAL PAY   PENSION SYSTEM FOR STATE WORKERS ALSC APPROVED BY GREEN

Hitler Promises. Norway Freedom  It's of the Familiar Nazi Kind, Howeve:

Keep Mouth Shut, Government Asks      Valuable War Secrets May be Betrayed To ‘Enemy by Talking

Mihailovie’s Guerrillas In Action Again   Go On Offensive, Battle Rommel’s Troops In Yugoslavia; Tito’s Men Score Gains

Inspiring Harvest Day Message At Methodist Church      Dr. B. G. Childs of Duke Inspires Courage — Promotion Day, ~ Mireie. ¢

Inspiring Harvest Day Message At Methodist ‘Chuéch           Dr. B. G. Childs 6k. Inspires Courag Promotion Da Music. :

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Opposed te Bill

Bill To Defer Farm Workers  Is Under Fire   Enactment Of Measure Would Qpen Door To Discrimination, Say Robert Patterson

MUSIC FOR VICTORY CONCERT WEDNESDA)   Hanover Junior Chamber Of Commerce Will Present P. O. S. Of A. Band At Wirt Park

VIGTORY GONGERT TOMORROW NIGHT   Festival Chorus Will Present Program At Wirt Park Under Direction Of Miss Kathryn R. O’Boyle

Army Flies Ch: ‘st mas Trees and Gifts to Tioops in Remote Outposts

Soldier Gifts” Rushed: By; Air      Planes Visit Far Flung Battle Fronts;. Trees, Mail Delivered

Army Flies Gifts To All Its Outposts   - Santa Claus’ Visits Service:Men In , Remotest Areas.

‘Santa Claus Takes Gifts To Soldiers   Job Takes Him From Icy North to Burning Deserts And Dripping Jungles

Safe Rests In Trial Of Fitzoerald   Witness Tells of Paying $525 to Fitzgerald To ‘Go on Parole’

STATE RESTS IN ‘PAYOFF’ TRIAL   Defense to Introduce Testi mony in Behalf of Robert R. Fitzacrald

FEAR DEADLOCK ON TAX MEASURE   Senate-House Conference On Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Is Begun

DEADLOCK ON TAX BILL SEEN   Some Conferees Expect Fight, Others Believe Rumi Plan Definitely Out.

FLOUR OF SOFT WHEAT HIGHEE   Ceiling Advance Made To Relieve Millers In Price Squeeze

HINT RISE DUE ON BAKED GOODS   Forthcoming increase ii Soft Wheat Flour Raises: Cost Prospect

6 HURT WHEN BUS AND TRUCK COLLIDE   Jim Harris of Joplin Among Those Injured in Collision Between Marshfield and Conway.

Yank Subs Sink lO Jap Vessels   our Others Damaged In Operations n Pacific; American Troops Make Further Advances On Jap Base At Munda

10 JAP MERCHANT SHIPS DESTROYED   Submarines Run Tota! To 210 Ix War To Date; 29 Others Probably Sunk And 58 Damaged

SEARCHERS SIGHT PLANE WRECKAGE   Beliéve Craft Is Naval ‘Transport Last Seen Six Days Ago.

HOUSE DEBATE ON TIME CHANGE BILL OPENS THURSDAY   First Goal Restoration Of Fenergency Clause

IMPATIENT HOUSE TAKES UP GHANGE IN TIME IN OHIO   Controversial Bill Debate Is Started This Morning at a Special Session.

United States Ahead Of Germany In Manufacture ‘Of Optical Instruments

Naples Area Is Being Mined   Travelers Disclose Germans Expect Yanks “To Attack.

ALLIES OBSEAUE GHALSTMAS DAY WITH VICTORIES   Japs Face Gloomy Outlook As Allies Score On  Widespread Fronts

Yanks Widen Gains Despite Jap Air Blows   Little Pearl Harbor ai Rahaul Wider TT © henaat

HOLD DESPITE REPEATED JAP AIR ASSAULTS   Little Ground Resistance

Yanks Gain Beachhead On New Britain Despite Vicious Jap Resistance

JAP AIR RAIDS ON BEACHHEAD ARE REPELLET   Vanguards Of 6th Army Consolidate Initial Gains On Arawe

BEACHHEAD IS REPORTED SECURE BEING ENLARGED   Attack Was Beg Begun When Warships Laid Down ”- Withering Barrage.

U.S. Invaders Gain Despite Air Attacks   Jap Ground Resistance Weak as Sixth Army Fans From Arawe   WLDEN BEACHHBAD   Hall of Commando Force Killed by Enemy in Bold Coast Raid

Sixth Army Fights Way Inland On New Britair   Army Vanguards Are Consolidating Beachheads At Arawa

Japs Attack  Viciously By Air In Effort To Dislodge Troops From New Britain

SIXTH ARMY GAINING ON NEW BRITAIN   Arawe Beachhead On South Coast Is Being Consolidated

Vicious Jap Air Attacks Oppose Drive At Rabaul   Texans Lead Invasion That Takes Whole “Coastal Section” Within Five Hours

Jap Air Raids Are Repelled By Americans   Sixth Army Troops Capture Arawe Peninsula 80 Miles West Of Gasmata And 250 Miles From Rabaul; Texans Lead Invaders

Texas Yankees Grab Vital Arawe Harbor   Troops Storm Ashore, Advance Under Constant Enemy Strafine

VICIOUS JAP AIR ATTACKS ARE OVERCOME   Offensive Is Opened to Smash Tokyo’s Little “Pearl Harbor” at Rabaul.

Consolidate Positions at Rabaul Base   Americans Make Progress In Campaign On New Britain Today

U.S. Lroops Cling to base Despite Jap Air Assaults In New Britain Invasion

Invaders Meet Fierce  Air Attacks   Resistance’ by Jap Ground Forces  Collapsing, Word

Germans Counter-Attack All Along Rough Ukrainian Front   Nazis Hitting Hard In Cherkasi Sector After Russians Are Forced To Abandon Zhitemir

REDS ABANDON ZHITOMIR BUT CROSS DNIEPER   Unable to Get in Reinforcements in First Serious Loss of Year.   Bring New Threats to Nazis in Kiev Area

Red Smash at Cherkasi Gates   GERMANS HURL COUNTERATTACKS ALL ALONG UKRAINIAN FRONT AFTER RUSSIANS EVACUATE ZHITOMIR; NAZIS SMASH SOVIET BRIDGEHEAD

REDS ABANDON ZHITOMIR BUT TAKE OVRUCH   Germens Counier-Aitack Repeated ly Along Ukraine Fronl to Hea Damage io Lines   4600 NAZIS SLAIN   Russian Chutisis and Guerrillas Cross Dnieper io Besiege Cherkasi—Wedge Widened

Soviets Drop Back From Lhitomir   Russians Offset Reverse In Drive Across Dnieper

Germans Press Furious. Counterattacks Qn _ Entire Ukrainian Front.

Nazis Hit Back Hard   Counter-Attacks Reported All Along: Ukrainian Front; Reds Near Cherkasi:   NAZIS. CONCENTRATE ON SMALL SECTOR:   Fierce Attacks. Waged in au Attempt to Save Last City. Held by Germans

‘Nazis Slash Back At Russian Troops   Reds Forced to Give Ground — Under Sharp Counter-Offensives

Nazis Attack Along Ukraine Lengthy Front   Reds Give Up Zhito:mir But Take Rail Center of Ovruch

DRIVETO GATES OF CHERKASI   Retreat Ordered from Zhitomir by .Russian High Command .

Nazis Drive Russians Out Of Zhitomir   Reds Cross Dnieper a Another Point In  ae gfe 8 eee ge

Russian Advance Wavers   Tanks, Guns, Planes Used as Germans Extenl Offensive

NAZIS ATTACK ALONG ENTIRE UKRAINE FRON'   Zhitomir “Abandoned By Russians; Germans Hitting Hard

RUSSIANS ABANDON CITY OF ZHITOMIR UNDER PRESSURE  GERMANS COUNTERATTACKING HEAVILY ALL ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT

SOVIETS OFFSET MAJOR SETBACK WITH NEW DRIVE   PUSH ACROSS DNIEPER TO CHERAKS! GATES; 30 TOWNS CAPTURED

Soviets Lose Zhitomir To Nazi Counter-Drive But Gain In Other Areas

Germans Counter Red Army Drives   Gain Some Ground in Attacks on Whole Ukrain- ,  , jan Front   SETBACK AT ZHITOMIR   Russians Unable to Rein force Troops Holding  Tunetion

NAZIS ATTACK UKRAINE FRONT   Russians Forced to Give Up Zhitomar As Foe Counter-Attacks.   GERMANS HITTING HARD

Draft of 30-Year-Old Men Would Be Delayed In Plan  Advocated By Senator Tatt

TART PREDICTS DRAFT LAW WILL BEOVERHAULED   Ohio Senator Proposes Separate Induction Classification For Men Qver  Thirty   MIGHT ESCAPE CALL   Feels Very Strongly Men of Thirty and Younger Should Be Drafted  Pure,

Senator Suggests Draft Age Divisior  Says Those Past 30 Mav Not Be Needed

WOULD DRAFT ALL UNDER 30 FARSI   Early Revision of Selective Service System Predicted bv Sen. Taft.

Draft Change Urged By Taft   Wants Separate Classification For Men Over Thirty And Younger.

NO DRAFT REDUCTION      Demand for Men Will Continue Six More Months, Says Hershey

Moving lee Past  Dam 24 Is Problem   lee-Breaker Del Com mune Nearing Hannibal

Medic Society Meets Tuesday   DR. R. B. ROBINS WILL SPEAK AT EL DNORADO

700 Buffalo Stee! Mill Workers Strike  Republic Steel Company © ES ge ng Ee ae 2, en

‘Allies Advance On Japs in Salamaua Fight  1000 Nips Dead As Barges Hit By U.S. Bomber:

Quick Move  lam ata On Sa Jasiaimaua  Is Predicted   Ridge Taken; Aerial Resistance Of Japs Appears Smashed

ALLIES READY 10 ADVANGE QUIKLY ~ UPON SALAMAUA   Gen. . MacArthur... Makes:.No Comment Upon’ New “Jap Air Raids © After. Enemy Lost 215 Aircraft.   REDS CONTINUE WITH: SMASHING AXIS LINE   Second Exchange of Prisoners With Japan May Occur In Gctober, About 1500 Are Americans.

Allies Poised For Attack On  Salamaua Base   Ground Forces Prepare To Foliow Up Raids By Bombers In Which Japs Lost 215 Planes

Ground. Forces. Ready to Move On Salarnaua   Clean Out Jap Held Ridge Four Miles Southeast

MACARTHUR SET FOR SALAMAUA GAPTURE   Thousand Japs Killed Trying . toe Land on Vella

Allied Forces Set For Swift  Salamaua Push   ‘Enemy Resistance Wiped Out  OneBobdubi Ridge, 4 Miles — From Stronghold

NEW GUINEA TROOP IN. POSITION -FOR NEW MOVE ON JAPS   Enemy Forces Weakened By Wewak Disaster And Previous Air  Attacks

M "ARTHUR NOTES NO JAPS OVER NEW GIUNEA   Ground Forces in Position for Quick  Move Against   Salamaua 

AIR OVER NEW GUINEA DEVOID OF JAP PLANES   Enemy’s Disaster at Wewak Begins To Tell; Tokyo Asks ‘More Planes.”   GROUND TROOPS CLOSE IN   Take Ridge Four Miles From.  Main Base; Naval Clash  Kills 1.000 Ning.

ALLIES POISED TO STRIKE FOE AT SALAMAUE   Wewak Disaster Rids New Guinea Skies Of Jap Planes

3 Killed by Explosion of N.P. Engine   Rail Mishap Occurs Near Osseo Early Today; Cars Pile Up

Tax Is Ignored By War Workers   ‘Come and Get Me’ Attitude Cited

Cleveland War Workers Rebel Over Income Tax   Number of Returns Show 30 percent Decrease

WORKERS BALK AT INCOME TAX   ‘Come-and-get-me’ Attitude Reported in Cleveland War Factories

U.S. Smashes Toward Tunis Goal   Allies Control Air, Ground; Invasion Of Europe Is Anticipated Almost Daily; Savage Fighting Is Continued

Nazis Driven Out Of Skies   Death Blow For Enemy In Tunisia Believed Nearing

American Part of ‘Pay-Off Battle’ Rages Along 40-Mile Front Around Ferryville as Night Falls; Unhampered Air Force Plays Vital Part in Drive

AIR OFFENSIVE CHASES NAZIS OUT OF SKIES   AMERICANS CLOSING IN ON BIZERTE AND TUNIS

AMERICAN TROOPS CLOSING ON BI ZERTE DESPITE OPPOSITION; GIRAND SEES ENEMY WEAKENING; ‘ BRITISH ADVANCING ON TUNIS.

AXIS LINES BEFORE BOTH CITIES CRACK   Enemy in Retreat as Bat: tle Rages on 40-Mile Front— Yanks 8 Mile From Big Naval Base.      WARPLANES POUND . RETREATING FO   Massicault Falls to Advancing Columns—German Commander Reported to Have Fled.

Crushing Aerial Blows Aid Big  Assault Against Tunis, Bizerte   Battle Reaches Final Stage as Battered Troops Ree Rack Under Savaae Drives Aaainst Cities

Allies Reach Point [o> Miles From Tunis   Report From Front States “Payoff Battle Is Underway” For Last Enemy Strongholds.

Allied Troops Have Smashed Through Enemy Lines At Bizerte And Tunis   VITAL INSTALLATIONS REPORTED DESTROYED

Allied Air Arm Pounds Fleeing Enemy Soldiers   *Pay-Off Battle’ Is Under Way in Tunisia; 17 Planes Destroyed — and Eight Ships Sunk

Furious Aerial, Artillery, Infantry Blows Send Foe Reeling Back; Yanks Near Big Naval Port

“Pay-Off Battle,” Prelude to Invasion, Reported Underway   AXIS FORCES SENT REELING BACKWARD   Crushing of Axis in Africa Before End of Month Predicted

ALLIED PLANES TARE CONTROL OF TUNISIAN SKIES   American Troops Close in on Bizerte Despite Strong Enemy Opposition   DEFENDERS REEL BACK UNDER SAVAGE ATTACKS   French Broadcast Says Gen, Von Arnim Has Fled Tunisia Following Rommel; Fierce Fighting Continues All Along 40-Mile Front

[American-British Troops Drive 'Axis Back Before Bizerte and Tuni   Capture Massicault; Yanks Close on Bizerte in Face of Heavy Enemy Opposition; Deeply Penetrate Enemy Positions; Air Forces Active

U.S., British . Smash Enemy Lines   Crushing Offensive Chases Nazi Planes From Air

Yankees Take Last Barrier In Big Smasl   Second Corps, British First Army Lashing Out Toward 2 Major Obiectives

‘Payoff Battle’ In North Africa Now Under Way   Americans and  ritish Capture Important Positions From Axis.   Enemy Drives T ward Evacuation sula

American Gains Upon Attu, Aerial Attacks On Italy Highlights Of Day

Invasion Forts Are Blasted In New Air Attacks   Invasion Threat ; Seen Closer As Other Warfronts  Intensified

Rural, City Spokesmen Clash on Kannenberg’s Tax-Distribution Idea

Rural Areas Ask Bigger Slice of State Tax Melon   Hearing on Measure At Madison Draws Large Turnout —

Westside Man Is Drowned in Raccoon River   One of Three to Lose His Life While Fishing Near Adel

DISPUTE OVER “DOLLAR VALUE   REPUBLICANS, OPPOSING CONTINUATION OF ROOSEVELT CONTROL. OVER. DEVALUATION . ——

U, 3.-OCCUPIED Bhat IN HEBRIDES RAIDED   Lone Jap Plane Makes Attack On Espiritu Santo

Air Warfare In Pacifie  Picking Up   U. S. Island Bombed Rabaul Attacked; Taps Wined Out

ADVANCES REPORTED ON GUADALCANAL   First Raid On Island In  New Hebrides

English Village Scene Of Raid   Bodies Of 11 Service Girls Taken From Building ; ee: ay oe

Allies Tighten Their Siege of Jap Airdrome   Take Bridgehead ~ Leading to Field” At Salamaua

Siege on Salamaua Tightened   Allies Seize Bridgehead Across Francisco River

SALAMAUA SIEGE TIGHTENS TODAY   Allied Ground Troops Seize Bridgehead and Enemy Is Feeling Preeeurre.

Tighten Salamaue Pincers   ALLIED TROOPS SEIZE BRIDGEHEAD ON RIVER NEAR JAP BASTION

Ground Troops Tightening Up  Salamaua Siege   River Crossing Brings Aussies Within Two Miles Of Goal

ALLIES TIGHTEN SALAMIAUA SIEGt   Jap Flyers Machine - Gun Three Americans Parachuting From Bomber.

ALLIES GAIN IN DRIVE ON SALAMAUA   Seize Bridqehead Across River Near Jap Base

Atssies Cinch  Net Around  Salamaua Port Bridgehead Set  Across River In Latest Drive

Allies Tighten  Salamaua Siege   Cross Francisco. River In Advance.

COMBINED FORCES TIGHTENING SIEGE OF SALAMAUA FIELD   Aircraft Pounds Heavily Defended : Jap Base  LFinsch Harbor ~ Shelled

REDS STRIKE FRESH BLOWS AGAINST NAZIS   Send Elements of 10 German Divisions Reeling Back and Scattered in Rain-Soaked Forests and Fields.

Russians Are 15 Miles From Orel   Germans Declare Timoshenko Leads

Russ Drive Only 15 Miles From Orel   Timashenke Reported Commanding Lightning Thrust Against Nexis

RUSS OFFENSIVE GAINING GROUND   RED BREAK-THROUGH NEAR OREL SEEN AS BLOW TO. HITLERITES

Chinese Wipe Qut Encireled  Enemy Forces   General Chiang’s Armies Report Capture Of Three Hunan Towns.  YANKEES BLAST LAE

Chinese Trap  Closes on Foe   Victors Report Japanese Remnant Wined Out

Japs Admit Sethack in Fight for Vital Ri B ‘4 E Chis   Summary of News From Various War Fronts  in Pacific Today

(Chinese tell of smashing ee victory   Hupeh remnants wiped out; press Changyang blow

Chinese Wipe Out Trapped Jap. Units   Smash Ahead in Comeback Drive Against Nipponese

Tokyo Admits Grave Reverse In China Area  Nips See Setback As Completion Of Operations

Crop Output in U. S. Falls 6 Pet, Under 19  Over All Production le 4 Dar Cant Ahnv,z

Aussies Press  Foe On Huon   Gain Despite Resistance Of Japs; Air Attacks “Made In Pacific

AMERICANS RAID MARSHALL ATOLL   Mili Hit for Third Time in Two Days; Australians Extend Their Grip on Huon Peninsula

Yank Bombers Hit Mili Afoll   Shoot Down Four and Possibly Seven Jap Zero Fighters

Yanks Resume Marshall Blows   Attacks Reported On Daily Schedule

MILI, JALUIT ARE TARGETS IN TWIN ATTACKS   Aerial Activity Hints Of Invasion Moves, Heavier Drives Against Japs

RAIDS CONTINUE ON MARSHALLS   Islands Given Another Systematic Blasting By U.S. Liberators

Today’s War Commentary  Switch for Italy  With Fascism Dead. Kine May Ou

DRIVE IS BEING. LAUNCHED = ~ ON ABSENTEEISM PROBLEM   BILL WOULD HAVE. UNJUSTI-FIED ABSENTEES FROM WORK REPORTED TO DRAFT BOARDS

» WORK REPORTS MAY BE ASKED OF EMPLOYERS   » Ship Industry Lost Total Of 16,700,000 Man Hours During December   mn SOLONS STIRRED TO ACT   Johnson Bill To Have  Full Support Of Naval  Affairs Committee

Chicago Gang ~ Abducts: Three   Scions. Of Prominent - Families Released

KIDNAPPERS FREE RICH CHICAGO GIRL   City-Wide Man Hunt Previews Retease After Youths Are Robbed

GREEN SCORES LABOR DRAFT   Austin-Wadsworth Bill Said Designed For Slave Labor.

Green Denounces  Draft-Labor Bill   Challenges Plan to Spur Production

HEAVIEST RAID MADE ON JAP'S KISKA STATION   Aleutian Base Pounded In Eight Assaults; Attu Also Hit By Bombers   All Planes Return

U.S. Attacks Kiska in Big New Raid   Japs Are Severely Strafed in Northern Pacific

YANK BOMBS RAIN ON KISKA IN HEAVY RAID   Americans Victors In South Pacific Duel With Jap Seapiane; Win olsmons Eattle, Too.   Pjanes Return Safely

Kiska Subjected To Heavy Attack By U. §. Bombers   Second Group of Ameri cans Attacks Installations at Attu

Eight Raids Made On Japs at Kiska   American Heavy Bombers Also Hit Enemy . Installations on Attu: U. S. Pilot Victorious

Love-Nest Battle Related; Woodall’s Blood Saturated Sofa, Says Dempsey Witness

Treasury Urges Initiation of Pay-as-Go Plan   Cancellation of ‘42 Taxes Opposed

Cancellation Of Past Year’s Taxes Is Apparently Out—Mnay Pay It Over Period Of Years   ‘POINTS OF PLAN ON INCOME TAX GIVEN

TREASURY OKEYS PAY-AS-GO TAX PLAN, OPPOSE COMPLETE CANCELLATION OF 1942 TAXES

Pay-as-You-Go Recommended By Treasury   Deferment of 1942 Taxes for 'N umber of Years’ Proposed

TREASURY OPPOSES CANCELLING LAST YEAR’S INCOME-TAX      Favors Deferring Payment Over. Several Year —     AE Hearing

TAX CANCELLATION PLAN IS OPPOSED   Treasury Urges Pay-As-YouGo Be Placed in Effect As. Early As Possible.

REDS ARE SHOWING. THEIR GREATEST OFFENSIVE POWER   Russian Air — Force 1s Giving Hitler His . Own Medicine   930 NAZI PLANES ~_. DOWNED IN WEEK

RUSSIANS SMASH NAZI RAMPARTS Al NOVOROSSISK   Reds Report 930 Enem;: Planes Lost in Week of Hard Fighting

Soviets Break Into Crumbling Nazi Defenses At Novorossisk   Reds Claim 930 Enemy Planes Downed in Week

Reds Driving In At Novorossisk  Outer Fortifications Of City Crumble

Reds Penetrate Outer Defenses Of Novorossisk   Air War Hits New Peak With 930 Nazi Planes Reported Destroyed In Week —

Russ Pierce Noverossisk ‘Outer Lines      Soviets Report 930 Nazi Planes Destroyed in Last Week

GERMANS LOSE 930 PLANES IN WEEK’S ACTION   Nazi Defenses Reported Crumbling Around City

Soviets Drive Wedge Into  Nazi Position   Russians Enter Black Sea Port Outskirts ° At Bavonet Point

‘Nazi’ Communications Blasted in Central And Ukrainian Areas  By EDDY GILMORE.

Reds Slash Deeply Inte  Axis Forts   Outer Defenses Of Big Naval Base Crumbling.

REDS REACH RIM OF NOVOROSSISK IN FRESH DRIVE   Enemy Defenses Crumbling; Russians Report 930 German Planes De stroyed Within A  Week.

NAZI BASES LASHED BY RED FLIERS   930 German Planes Destroyed In Week,  Is Russian Claim

REDS PIERCE OUTER DEFENSE NOVOROSSISK   Russian Forces Are “Per‘sistently Crumbling Enemy Fortifications, Ac cording ta Moscow ~   AIR WARFARE BRAGES   Linked With Smashing Red Raids On Nazi Communications Centers Behind Ukranian Frent

RUSSIANS DRIVE INTO DEFENSES NOVOROSSISK   Advance in Kuban Paced by Formidable Raids on Communication Lines, Rail Junctions   TRANSPORT SUNK   Russians Also Send to Botton Several Small Craft Laden with Axis Troops

NAZI DEFENSE LINES CRUMBLE UNDER ATTACKS  Bitter Battle Rages For Control Of Important Blac Raq DP   AIR ASSAULTS WIDENED   Soviets Hammer At German Communications Behind Main Battiefronts

Reds Penetrate Outer Forts Of Novorossisk   Soviet Advance In Kuban Coincides Wit Heavy Aerial War

Reds On Kdees Of Novorossisk Air Fighting Heavy As  Russians Advance Re EPNNY C.yrworr

GERMANS LOSE J30 PLANES IN LAST WEEK   Soviets Hope To Break Up Nazi Offensive Plans   BAYONET FIGHTS   Rage Near Big Kuban City: Russians Sink 15 Ships Carrying Soldiers

REDS PENETRATE OUTER DEFENSES OF NOVOROSSISK  CLAIM DESTRUCTION   CLAIM DESTRUCTION OF 930 NAZI PLANES DURING PAST WEEK

OUTER DEFENSES OF NOVOROSSISK PENETRATED   Russians Say 930 Axis Planes Have Been Destroyed in Last Week.

Novorossisk’s Outer Forts Penetrated   Russians Breaking Into Enemy Positions. Moscow Reports

Novorossisk Defenses Are  Being Hacked   Russians Gain New Ground In Attack ’ On Vital Seaport

Air War Hits — New Peak on Russian Front   930 German  Planes Destroyed en Waal

GERMAN PLANE LOSSES HEAVY ON RUSS FRONT   Soviet Forces Destroy 930 Nazi Airplanes Last : Week

IN KUBAN AREE   Report Troops Entering Fortifications of Foe at Novorossisk.

Red Army Forces PersistentCrumbling Enemy Defenses and Breaking Into Depth of Its Positions; 930 German Planes Destroyed.

Air Offensive Supports Big Ground Push   Red Airmen Bag 930 German Planes In Week Of Sharp Fiahting

Air War Hits New Peak As Russians Destroy 930 Nazi Aircraft In Week

Reds Pierce Novorossisk’s Outer Defense   Advance Coincides Wit Russian Destruction © '930 Planes in Week'   RAID NAZI RESERVES   Centers’ Meant For German Summer Campaign Are Blasted By Air

SOWET PENETRATE TO NOVOROSSISK   Russians Break Through Outer Fortifications of — Black Sea Port   FIERCE FIGHTING IN AIR REPORTED   Russians Smash Germany’s Communication Areas Behind Fronts

Russians Smash German Defenses   Reds Penetrate Novorossisk Area

Soviets Enter Novorossisk   Outer Fortifications Penetrated; 930 German Planes Reported Destroyed

Red Forces Penetrate Outer Fortifications at Novorossisk on Black Sea—Renewed Activity in Donets Basin Proves Disastrous to Hitler’s Air Forces There   By EDDIF GIMORE

“Russians Penetrate Novorossisk Forts In Violent Assaults   Trenches Charged With Bayonets; Destruction of 930 Nazi Planes Durine Past Week Told by Reds

REO ARMY FORCES  HAVE PENETRATED  OUTER NOVOROSSISK RUSSIANS REPORTED TO  BE CRUMBLING ENEMY DEFENCES THERE

FORTIFICATIONS OF NOVOROSSISK ARE PIERCED BY REDS   ‘Red Army Forces PersistentCrumbling Enemy Defenses and Breaking Into Depth of Its Positions; 930 German Planes Destroyed.

Red Army Continues to Penetrate German Fortifications    HAND-TO-HAND CLASHES   Axis Is Foreed to Send Some ' -Reserves Into the Battle

Russians Destroy  930 Nazi Planes   Red Army Continues to Penetrate German Fortifications   HAND-TO-HAND CLASHES   Axis Is Forced to Send Some Reserves Into the  Battle

Sovitas Reach Outer Defense Of Novorossisk   Russians Smash Nazi Lines and Break Into Depths of Positions, Moscow Declares

SOVIETS SPEED UP UNIIED DRIVES IN PUSH FOR DNEIPER   Advances Of 25 Mile: _In-24 Hours — Nazi Salient Is Now, ‘Crumbling

Russians Speed Drive To Reach  Dnieper River   Arrive Before Time Of Autumn Rains

RED BATTERING RAM HAS NAIS ON WILD “RUN   Advance up to 25 Miles; Capture Nearly 320 Towns in 24 Hours; Fight on Fiercely.

RUSSIANS PUSH ON AT RAPID PACE   Expected to Reach Dneiper Before Autumn Rains

Soviets Step Up Offensive Pace, Gain Up To 2é Miles, Recapture 320 More Places In Day

Reds Advance 25 Miles in One Day   May Reach Dnieper River Before Fall

CRASH KILLS 14   Four-Motored Bombers Collidé In Airs One Survivor. -

LITTLE MORE BUTTER LIKELY FOR PUBLIC   Situation Unchanged by End Of Government Buying

Says Butter Will  Continue Scarce   Production Is Off Due To Conversion OrVt Craam.

No Raise In Butter Supply   Termination Of Government Requisitioning Leaves Situation Unchanged.

Torture Men In Prison Here Convict Says   Cleveland Captive Charges Fantastic, Declares Director

JAPS ARE PAYING CRUSHING PRICE FOR PACIFIC HOLDINGS   27 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped on Munda Yesterday.

JAPANESE PAYING CRUSHING PRICE IN S. W. PACIFIC   Nipponese Losses Are Much Heavier Than Allies’

Baltimore Banker Would Scrap Two Party Labels for an’ American Party’

Allied Bases In Italy Are Serious Threat To Nazis   First Real Fight Of Battle Of Peninsula Is Taking Place At Salerno Bridgehead

CHINA'S PRESIDENT DIES   de Lin Sin Pes After 11 Years As Republics Leader

PRESIDENT OF CHINA BURIED   Lin Sen Veteran of Chinese Revolution

Allied Leaders. Talk In Balkans With Yugoslavs   King Peter Asks Harmony Between Forees In Restoring Freedom

ALLIED OFFICERS AID SLAV REBELS   King Peter Urges People to Forget Internal Strife and Unite to Fiqht Foe

Allied Officers With Partisans   Land In Yugoslavia To Help Prepare For Fight On Nazis.

Allied Officers In Yugoslavia   Presence of Yanks, British Told by Partisans

Allied Officers in Yugoslavia; ‘Nazis Report Czech Force in Balkan:

REPORT SAYS ALLIES NOW IN BALKANS   Yugoslav Radio Says Officers There First

U.S. Officers Join Yugoslavs  Czech Brigade Now Reported on Balkan Benes Atding Aline

HOUSE VOTES FOR COMPELLING LABOR UNIONS TO REPORT   WOULD FORCE UNIONS TC REPORT FINANCES AND ACTIVITIES IN TEXAS

OKAY SEEN FOR CHECK ON UNIONS   Bill Requires Report On Finances And Activities In State

IMPORTANT BRIDGE WRECKED BY AIRMEN   Communication Link Vital to Jap: In Burma Is Cut By American  Air Action

U. S. Razes Rive River" - Span at Mandalay   U. S. 10th Airforce Knocks Bridge Into Irrawaddy, . Cutting Vital Line

FAIL TO REGISTER   Little Interest Is Shown in the Coming City Election

Scandinavia Is At Crossroads   War's Worst Crisis  Faces Nazi Bosses

GAlolo LOOMS IN ALL SCANDINAVIA   German Controlled Government of Premier Vidkun Quisling Takes Stern Measures Against Norwegians

Say Rome Fighting Goes On   Refute Germans’ Claims That Rome In Axis Hands

12 HUNTED IN ALABAMA HILLS   Seven Others Who Escaped From Mississippi State Prison Are Seized

MORE ATTAGKS ARAINGT JAPo ARE PROMISED   Air Borne Troops Proving Best Method Of Combat, MacArthur Asserts

PLAN: FOR. PACIFIC   MacArthur Expects to Use Air-Borne, Air-Supported Forces

CHECK FOR JAP COUNTER BLOW TOSAVEFACE   MacArthur Recommends Fast Air Offensive To Defeat Japan

AERIAL ATTACK AGAINST JAPAN IS IN PROSPECT   Swift and Massive Strokes Against Heart Suggested By Gen. MacArthur   ‘COUNTER BLOW EXPECTED   Meanwhile, Mop-up Pressed In Pacific Island Jungles By Yanks and Aussies

Pacific War - Jakes New Turn   GEN. MCARTHUR SAYS AERIAL TACTICS AID U.S.

Airborne Yank Forces Strike At Jap Troops   MacArthur Says Capture Of Papuan Tested the New Tactics  MORE JAPS KILLED  Bombers Inflict Heavy Damage on Foe Bases At Munda

AERIAL ATTACKS TO BE EXTENDED   MacArthur Says Capture Of Papua Tests And Proves Value Of New Tactics

Value of Planes Was Proved in New Guinea Drive   Slower Island-byisland Blueprint May Be Outdated

Gen. MacArthur Sees New Use of Air-Land Power Pointing Way  Cre mbit ta cnc SATAN  To Allied Victory in Pacific’ =

Papuan Campaign Tested Methods: Island-By-Island Drive Is Unlikely

‘Swift, Massive Strokes’ New MacArthur Sirategy   Island-To-Island Reconquest Supplanted By Quick Movement Of Airplanes

Relief Costs U.S. 25 Billion Dollars   Figures for Mine  Years Announced

U.S. Dole Set At 25 Billion   Social Security Body Presents Figures

THREE WEEKS GOAL IS SET TO REACH QUOTA   Every Citizen Must Join in Attack by Participating in Drive.   DRIVE ENDS APRIL 30   Lucas County’s Share of Lean Is Set at $260 000.

OFFICIALS APPROVE © PERRY MILL CONTRACT   Work on Conversion to Stari Almost Immediately   Structure WillBe Occupied Chiefly By Naval Torpedo Station  Workmen

OFFICIALS APPROVE PERRY MILL CONTRACT   Work on Conversion to Start Imost’ Iimmediately”              Structure WiBe Occupied Chief . 1) JBy Naval Torpedo Siation “Workmen

FEW JAPS LEFT ON GUADALCANAL   BODIES OF THREE JAPANESE WOMEN FOUND IN JUNGLE

Find Bodies Of japanese Nurses   Only A Dozen Japs Left On Guadaleanal

Find Bodies of Enemy Nurses  Discovered In Jungle of Guadalcanal

Frightened People of Troina Welcome American Troops Packed for Days in Filthy Cellars

Underwent Terror in Hiding While Savage Fighting Raged Around Town

Eyewitness Story Of The Battle Of Sicily  Miserable Troina People Welcome [he Americans

American Troops Found Troina Village  Of Fear And Misery: Nazis Looted Homes

Old Church In Troma A ‘Black Hell   Natives Herded Into  Its Basement Like   Cattle During Terrific Battle For The City

TAKES ISSUE WITH MRS, LUCE   Wallace Replies to Charge of “Globaloney’

URGES TEACHERS TO STAY AT DESKS   Elliott Urges. Boards Use State Money to Grant Wage Hikac

URGES TEACHERS TO STAY ON JOBS   Elliott Tells Instructors tt Is Their ‘Patriotic Duty’ _To Continue.

REPORT SUBMITTED BY P. E. PRESIDENT      Operating Revenues High er But Merchandise Sales Drop

REPORT SUBMITTED ~ BY D-E,-PRESIDENT   Operating Reyenues Higher But Merchandise Gales Dron

lighters Go Over Rabat iL — fortirst time  delle Bien Co SG AA dein.   Allied Planes Tangle With 40 Jap De _ fenders - Ground Forces” Take... “Cane Merkus Settlement

Air Supremacy \n Pacific Now. Held By Allies   Fighter Planes Sweeping Over Japs’ Stronghold Of Rabaul

AUSTRALIANS BID FOR WAREO, JAP’ JUNGLE BASTION   Juncture of Jungle Trails on Huon Peninsula in Northeast New Guinea Near Collapse Before Aussie Troons

Aussies Threaten War on New Guinea: Strategic Junctior   Press to Drive Enemy From Northeastern Peninsula Today

WAREO IS TOTTERING. BEFORE ONSLAUGHTS OF THE AUSTRALIANS   Press Drive to Push Enemy From Huon Peninsula of North East New Guinea   SUPPLY AREA-iS POUNDED

Aussies Press Drive on Japs   Jungle Crossroad Tottering to Fall

Report Wareo ls Tottering   Aussies Pressing Campaign To Drive Japs From Huon Peninsula; Stiff Fighting Reported; Blast Empress Augusta Bay Airdromes.

Australian ForeesBaekee by Artillery and Planes, Closing in On. Wareo

Wareo Totters Before Aussies In Great Drive   ‘Heavy Fighting Waged In  Action To Push Japanese  From Hoon Peninsula’

AUSolE TROOPS PUSHING DRWE   Strategic Juncture of Jungle Trails of Jap Retreat Line Totters.   HALE MILE FROM TOWN

THIRTY-SIXTH DIVISION GETS TOP PLAY AMONG TEXAS PAPERS DURING YEAR 1943 TUST CLOSING

36th, FDR, Hurricane, Race Riots, Murder Among Texas’ Big 10 News Stories of 1943

Corn Is Racing Against Frost  Crop Heads For a  Clam Rana (C limay

OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS FOR U.S. CORN CROP   Summer Weather Making Up For Late Start

LATE CORN IS BEHIND SKED   Race Against Frost To Determine Fate Of Crop

CORN GROP OUTLOOK IMPROVES IN WEST   Warm Summer Sun Offsets Late Start

Many Miners Vote Against Return to Work   ‘One UMW Local Plans To Picket Another Whieh Votes to Work

Mine Back-to-Work Movement  Proceeds Slowly  Many Locals Against Resuming Duties Wishoeu? Contract

MANY MINERS ARE STILL OUT   Back-to-Work Movement is Slow with Confusion In Coal Field

MINERS ARE SLOW IN GOING BACK   t  DOZEN LOCALS WITH 15,000 MEMBERS VOTE AGAINST RESUMPTION OF WORK.

CONFUSION IN PENNSYLVANIA FOLLOWS EDICT   Return To Mines Lags While Unions Vote On Whether To Resume Work   Contracts Demanded

No Contract, No Work, Big Units Tell Operators   Pennsylvania Locals Cas Heavy Vote against Returning   ig Test Comes Today When All Locals Are To Make Decision

THOUSANDS VOTE TO REMAIN (OLE   Pennsylvania Local Members Flatly Against Resumption  «Of Operations Without a Union Contract

Sentence Kaster  To The Gallows   Slayer Of Waverly, la., Utilities Guard To Die Dec. 29, 1944

U. S., BRITAIN AND CANADA PUT: LIMIT WITH RECOGNITION   All Reservations Will Be Lifted When Greater Degree Of Unity  Is Achieved :

WAGE DEBATES ARE PROCEEDING TODAY   Negotiation Subcommittees for Groups Settle Down to Their Dis cussions. “

\VERT MINE STRIKE BY AGREEMENT 10 PROLONG CONTRACT   Discussion ‘To Continue For Another 30Day Period

Cossack Horsemen Boe Down Tanks   Disorganized Columns Cut To Pieces—British Say 100000 Near Annthilation

FULL ANNIHILATION QF TRAPPED NAZIS: MATTER OF DAYS   Germans Staging Desperate Rearguard Action To Evacuate Across “Dnieper

RUSSIANS TRAVEL AT GREAT SPEED AGAINST GERMANS   Enemy Puts Up Bitter Resistance In Rear Guard Action to Save Men Grossing Dnieper River.   AMERICAN WARSHIPS MRIVE OFF JAP SHIPS   Bougainville Invasion Class ed as Greatest Venture of Allied Forces In’ Pacific Fighting. ‘

ANNIRILATION lo EAPEGTED IN FEW DAY!   Hersemen Take Up Chase When Soft Sands Threaten  to Bog Tanks.

REDS SWEEP NAZIS INTO SAND TRAP   Annihilation Of. Remnants Expected in Next Few Days

Enemy to Be Wiped Out Soon   Lossacks Chase Germans Over Estuary Sands   Reds Advance 125 Miles in Three Days Since Melitonoal

Cossacks Slash At Bewildered  Enemy Troops   Germans Trying To Put Up Resistance Below Nikopoi

RETREAT HAS TURNED INTC ROUT, REPOR]   Internal Troubles Besetting Reich Too, According to Reports Coming Out of Sweden.   Germans Losing By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mild Flu Epidemic Occurs At Capital   Washington Activity Is Slowed Down Due To Prevalence Of Disease  Fee Uap a

OUTBREAK OF ~~ FLU FEAREL   WILD EPIDEMIC IN WASHING: TON AS WELL AS OVERSEAS AND IN A NUM BER OF STATES

SOVIETS HAVE TENTACLES ON NAZI BASTION   Fall of Vitebsk Imminent With Russian Army Pressing New Offensive Around Kiev

Canned Goods Point Values  ' Are Revised   Sharp Reduction Made In Values Of Some Vegetables But Jams Will Be Higher

Points Lowered On Snap Beans   Ration Points Also Cut on Frozen Fruits But Raised on Jams.

UME CANNED GOODS POINTS CUT SHARPLY      ‘Reductions Are Effective Sunday on Beans (Zero Rating), Peas, Tomatoes and Frozen Fruits and Vevetables.

Processed Food Point Rafes Cut   Beans, Tomatoes, Frozen Foods Down

POINT VALUE OF PRESERVED FOODS IS CUT   Frozen Vegetables, Canned Beans, Tomatoes,  Peas Slashed

SOME CANNED FOOD ITEMS RATION FREE   Snap Beans And Certain Frozen Fruits’ And Vegetables Removed From List —Other Values Reduced

Cut Point Values On Canned Food  Snap Beans, Peas, Tomatoes Slashed

OPA Reduces Point Values of Several Articles of Food   Some Canned and Frozen Goods Will be Point Free After Jan. 1

Ration Value Beans, Peas, Tomatoes Cul   Jams, Preserves, and Non-Citrus Marmalades Boosted Two Points to Eight for Pound Jar

Rationing Point Levels Lowered   SOME CANNED GOODS TC REQUIRE FEWER COUPONS

RATION VALUES ON FRUITS CUT   Other Canned Goods Reductions Announced for Janary by OPA

Sharp Cut In Point Values —   Green and Wax Beans Many. Frozen Foods . Are Point Free Next Month: Jam Cost Up

Sharp Ration Cu in Canned Goods  OPA Brings Cheering Message to Housewife

POINT VALUE CUT ON FEW ARTICLES   Values of Jams, Preserves Boosted, Chickens in Storare Are Frozen.

Points Express  New Year Wish To Housewives   Canned Snap Beans, Most Frozen Foods Go Free During All January

Canned, Frozen Vegetables, Fruit Values Reduced   Snap Beans, Tomatoes, Peas Cut Effective Sunday. 

Sharp Point Cut On Canned Goods  Tomatoes, Beans, Peas and Frozen Vegetables and   Bevits on List

OPA DROPS POINTS ON CANNED BEANS   Reductions Ordered For Peas, Tomatoes, Some Frozen Foods

OPA Reduces Can Points   Lower Value on Some Products; Increased on Jams and Preserves

Want Frozen Foods Moved Out to Make Way For Record Pork Supplies; Jam Preserves Points Up

Ration Point Value Cut on  Vegetables  Beans OF Liat;  Peas, Tomatoes a oe .

LOWER RATION VALUE OF THREE CANNED GOODS   Green, Wax Beans Point Free; Raise Jams, Preserves for January

Ration Points Cut For Some Canned Foods   Snap Beans, Peas, Tomatoes. Frozen Goods Are Lower.  Jellies Raise

Cut Snap Beans, Peas And Tomato Point Values, Jan. 2   Points For Jams And Preserves Up Some; Several Point Value Changes

Forest Fires Destroy 1,200 Acres Of Timberland in Three Counties

WAAC BILL UP FOR FDR OKAY   Due To Become WACSs, With Corps Size‘ Unlimited

*BOMBERS ATTACK VITAL RUHR AREA   *’ Resources of Axis War Machine Whittled Down by Fresh Bombings of Plants;  « Airfields of France Hit —

Ruhz Blasted Again By RAF As Nazi Resistence Fades   German Fighters Fewer On English Channel As Fortresses Have Own Way

Allied Airmen Harass Nazi War Factories Blasting Axis Arsenals to Be Continued

AXIS WARPLANT AREAS POUNDED   Ruhr Factories Bombed: Air Defenses Appear To Be Weakened

Heavy Air Raids” On Northern Part Of Europe Made  : Daylight Attacks by H -U. S: and British Foallaw Nicht. Rank:

Ruhr Plants And Airfields Raked Again   British And American Bombers Join In Renewed Raids

Allied Planes Whittle .. Axis Resources   Fortresses Meet Surprisingly Little Oprasition

Axis Resources Whittled Down By Fresh Bombing Of Ruhr In Daylight Raid By Americans

FORTS BATTER AIRFIELDS IN WEST FRANCE   Big British Bombers Attack Ruhr Area Anew

RESOURCES OF AXIS MACHINE WHITTLED DOWN   American and British  Fliers Subject Ruhr and  French Fighter Bases to Heavy Raids   OIL REFINERY HIT   Ten British Bombers Lost in “Very Heavy Attack” Over Gelsenkirchen Friday Night

Allies Press Advantage Over Europe   U. S., RAF Hit Ruhr And France to Paralyze Industry

MD. ASSEMBLY ADJOURNMENT TONIGHT LOOMS   Sine Die Ahead of Sche-dule Would Break Modern Free State Precedent   TWO DAYS TO RUN   Calendars Pretty Well Cleared; Pension Bill Passes; Two Controversial Measures Pending

LEGISLATURE EXPECTED 10 END TONIGHT   Calendars Fairly Well Cieared On Both Houces

RED AIR FORCE POUNDS GERMAN COMMUNICATIONS   Non-Stop Air Offensive Continued By Soviets

Russians Join Air Offensive Against Reich   Attack Koenigsberg As RAF, Yanks Raid Germany, Naples

Russians Joined General Aer. ial Offensive By Attacking East Prussia’s Capital; Yanks Bombed Naples.   13 Allied Planes Lost

REDS JOIN IN   Russians Raid Koenigsberg As Yank, British Airmen Continue Raids

RAF Keeps Up Attacks on Nazi Europe   East Prussian City Is Target for Bombs of Soviet Air Force

Russians Join Air Offensive Against Nazis   Raid East Prussian Capita of Koenigsberg and Do Much Damage

Russians Raid Koenigsburg, East Prussia   American Liberators From Africa Pound At Naples in Italy  RAF OUT IN FORCE

Russians Join Air Offensive  Against Axis   Reds Hit Koenigsberg as RAF Raids Reich and Americans Attack Port of Naples

RUSSIANS JOIN IN - AERIAL OFFENSIVE      East Prussian Capital of Koenigsburg Is Attacked

Soviets Join In 3  Way Aerial Attack   East Prussian Capital Bombed As British Lash At Southwestern Germany And Americans Attack Naples

ALLIES PUSH ~ ON IN TUNISIA: NAZIS OUST COMMANDER   Sen, Von Arnim Now Heads Axis Tank Units In “Battle For Tunisia

Master War Plan Is Shaped In Morocco Parley; President Flies 5,000 Miles

Military Leaders for the Invasion of . Europe Chosen at Casablanca Sessior

Deliveries to Be Curtailed Here Monday   Local Milk Dealers Take Steps to Comply With New General ODT Order

37 PERCENT OF WOUNDED SAVED   Best Care In History Of Warfare Provided For American Fighters

COMPLETE RECOVERY REPORTED — BY.970F 100 WOUNDED MEN   SURVEY REVEALS THAT ONLY  24 PER CENT OF WOUNDED ' HAVE DIED. FROM INJURIES

Application For Ration Book No. 3 Being Distributed    Mail Carriers Have Started Distributing Applications for New Ration Book. Mail Forms After June 1.

Quiz Is Urged Of Lend-Lease   Ellender-States Russia Is _Now. Repairing Ships;  ~ Asks Conceésions

Would Probe Lend-Lease   Sen. Ellender Wants U. S. To Get Something in Return

Ellender Asks A Quick Probe Of Lend-Lease   Says Soviet Reciprocity Is Limited To Servicing American Vessels.

DEMANDS LENDLEASE INQUIRY   Senator Ellender Wants Immediate Probe Of LendLease Operations; Wheeler Backs Demand.

Senator Ellender Says Reciprocal Aid Confined to Supplying U.S. Ships In Soviet Ports   CALLS FOR PROBE OF ALL OPERATIONS   Information On Russia _ Given by Former Lend-   1  - Lease Director Ed-    ward R. Stettiziius

Demand Probe o' Lend-lease Work  Senator Would Know About Reciprocity

Lend-Lease No Bargain For U. 5.   Taxpayers’ Money I:  Given Away, Charge

DEMANDS PROBE OF LEND - LEASE   Senator Says Russian Aid to U.S. Only Serving of Supply Ships.

Charges Reds Give Little Aid to U. S.   Soviets Do Nothing but Ser— vice Ships in Russian Ports; Ask Lend-Lease Probe

Sen. Ellender Demands Lend  Lease Inquiry   Points Out Russia’s Aid Under Reciprocal Plan Has Been Scanty

SOLON DEMANDS AN IMMEDIATE PROBE OF LEND-LEASE   Sen. Ellender Says Reds’ Re. ciprocal Aid to U. S. Limited to:Supplying and Ser vicing Our Ships

Quiz Asked On Russian Lend-Lease   Reciprocity Said Limited.to. Aiding Ships in Red: Ports

U. S. DESTROYER STRONG TORPEDOED AND LOST TODAY   Normal Complement Was Estimated to Be About 250 Men.

9. WARSHIPS ARE VIGTORIOUs NAVY INDICATES   Loss Of Destroyer Strong In Bombardment Sunday is Also Announced

U. S. Porces Suffer “Some Damage In Engagement Which Began Early Tuesday morning “Solomon's Time”; Allies Con EE WGK I:   GAIN CONTROL OF VANGUNA ISLAND

American Destroyer Strong Sunk by Japs ‘In Prior Engagement   Action At Kula Gluf in Central Solomons Costs U. S. Forces “Some Losses”

Navy Veins Battlein Solomons   ‘Some Damage’’ Suffered by American Ships, Navy Reports

We Suffer Some Lose Destroyer in Earlier Fight   ‘Considerable Damage’ Done to Foe’s Ships; Details Still Lacking

Fighting In. Narrow Kula Gulf.   MAY DECIDE WHETHER MAJOR JAP BASE AT MUNDAISTO °° FALL QUICKLY OR TAKE TIME.

NAVAL BATTLE IN KULA GULF YANK VIGTOR'   U. &. Destroyer Lost in Solomon Action  get

JAP NAVY SUFFERS HEAVY DAMAGE IN KULA GULF BATTLE   U. &. Forces Suffer Some Damage.In Action — Destroyer Strong In Loat

sb BATLE IN NV CEOREIA ARES   Detaits Lacking—Fight Goes on in Narrow Gulf. Vanguni Isle Taken.

MIKADO'S FORCES HEAVILY DAMAGED, U.S. NAVY REPORTS   Destroyer Strong Lost in Previous Solomons Action; Details of Battle  t Peete

American Warships inflict Damage on Japanese   Navy Reports Loss Of Destroyer in Previous Action

HEAVY DAMAGE IS BEING INFLICTED ON JAPANESE NAV\   Americans Engage Enemy in Kula Gulf In Central Solomons With Damages to Both Sides.   DESTROYER STRONG TORPEDOED, SUNK   Wavy Spokesman Believes Battle With Light Cruisers and Destroyers May Be Panelidad.

Kula Gulf Battle Is Ended; ' Few Details Revealed  In Communique

383 Measures Introduced In State Assembly   Presidents Of Colleges Receiving State Aid Will Be Questioned

STATE'S BUDGET ITEMS WILL BE FULLY STUDIED   Maryland Legislature Looks Forward to First Full-Dress Inquiry IntoCertain Portions   GUARD FUND LEADS   Military and Police Officials to be Quizzed as to Need for $700,000 to Watch Bridges

STATE REAL ESTATE TAX CUT PROMISED   Total Reduction Of 114 Cents For Next Two Years Announced By Governor

LOCAL FIRM BUSY WITH WAR ORDERS   Duchess Is Helping Win War and Planning For Future

Warren Rector Episcopal Bishop Of Erie Diocese   Dr. Edward P. Wroth of Warren Elected at Oil City Meeting

NINE MEN KILLED BY A PASSENGER TRAIN   Were Working on New York Central Tracks Near Ohlman, II.

TRAIN KILLS NINE ON SECTION GANG   Westbound New York Cen. tral Train Plows Into Workers on Track.

Train Kills Nine In Section Gang Group Failed To Note  Passenger’s Approach

Needed For Planned 16 Million Acre Increase: “Shortage” Cry Rapped

F.R. SAYS FOO! PROGRAM 1S VITAL   Sends 12,000 Word Message To Congress

CONTINUE FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN, PLEA OF F.D.R   Program Key To Record 1944 Production Goal, Congress Told

FOOD SUBSIDY APPEAL FROM F. R. MONDAY   Support Price Program Called Vital for Record Food Production Goals During 1944.

NECESOARY TC RoollRE GOALS IN PRODUCTION   Longest Message to Congress Says Program Will Shorten War.

CONGRESS TOLD PROGRAM VITAL TO '44 GOALS   Lengthy Message Explains And Defends Food And Farm Policies

FDR OUTLINES FOOD SUBSIDIES PLAN TO CONG.   Sixteen Million More Crop Acres Than in °43 Goal

President Asks Congress Back Food Subsidies   ‘Message: Longest. ‘ He Ever Sent to , “Capitel Hil”

SUBSIDY PAY TO ‘AID BIG 44 CROPS DEMANDEDBYER   President, In Congress Message, Sees Food Vitalio Win War

NEED PROGRAM TO MEET GOAL OF 1944 CROPS   President Gives Reply to Those Who Have Assailed Guarantees

Message Is Received by Congress   President Makes Plea As War Measure, In 12,000 Words, Today

PROGRAM IS VITAL T0 1944 GOALS   Program Will Furnish Allies Potent Weapon

DELAY PARLEY ON MINER PAY TOTOMORR OV   Reconvening of Soft Coal Wage Conference Put Off to “Permit Developments”:   Mine Union Leader Lewis Charges Stalemate In Negotiations Due to Conspiracy

BITUMINOUS TALK TUESDAY   Parley Delayed” a Day to Permit of “Developments”

Hitler Has Puppets Lined Up For 1943 ‘Crusade’ In East.  GLENN BABB

Interpreting  The War   Hitler’s Puppets Are A Sorry Crew, and Their Visits Gloomy

ITALY REPORTS ‘RAID’ ON ROME BY ONE PLANE   Letter of ‘Pope Pius Brings Little Reaction

‘Ttalians Betray Nervousiess Over Air Raids   Pressure Increases to Have Rome Made an Open City

Town Meeting For War To Be Held Here Tuesday Evening; Col. James Barnes Speaker

NUMEROUS NAZI ATTACKS ARE BROKEN UP BY FIERCE DEFENSE OF RUSS FORCES

Claim More Gains Over Wide Front   Capture Important Railway Center In One Area

Martinique Is Hot Spot   Diplomatic Relations Are Broken By U: S.

RELATIONS WITH MARTINIQUE HALT   Navy Watches Developments In Vichy-held Territory; Admiral Robert Branded Tool of Hitler

NAVY ON WATCH AS U. 5. BREAKS WITH MARTINIQUE   Hall Denounces Island Commissioner as Tool of Hitler in Note Severing Relations.   PLANES AND WARSHIPS OPERATING IN AREA   Washington Recalls Its Consul General—Next American Move Remains Uncertain.

U.S. Breaks Off Relations With Martinique   ~ American: “Navy” Keeps Guard Over Domain Of ‘Adin. Robert--~:

U.S. Cuts Off Relations Witl Martinique   Navy Keeps Watchful Eve on Isle After Blistering Note to Robert from Hull’

UNITED STATES IN BREAK WITH ADMIRAL ROBERT   Hull Sends Blistering Note To High Commissioner Of Martinique   NAVAL OFFICER IS TOOL OF VICHYITES

S$. BREAKS BONDS WITH MARTINIQUE   Will Have No Dealings With Government Maintaining Contract With Vichy NaziRuled Kesime   Shins Bemilitarized

U. S. ENDS RELATIONS WITHH -PRO-VICHY MARTINIQUE HEAm D   Hull Says Admiral Robert Under Domination Of Germa #35; Knox Asserts Navy Watching Developments

U.S. CUTS OFF FRENCH ISLAND   Martinique Accused O Leaning To Vichy; Next Step Not Disclosed

AMERICA CUTS MARTINIQUE IN DRASTIC MOVE   FRENCH ADMIRAL Is LABELED TOOL OF NAZIS

U. S. Severs Relations ~ With Martinique, Navy Keeps Watch on island   Dutch Soldiers are Told To Resist Nazis’ Decree

U.S. Breaks Off Relations with ‘Martinique Isle   Navy Watching Develop ments, Secretary Knox Says in Washington

U. S. Severs Relations With Martinique, Navy  Keeps Watch on Island

Hull Sends Sharp Note  To High Commissioner Assailing Roberts’ Stand

Nazis Report _ Soviet Thrust   Say Reds Broke Lines BSonth af Velikje Luk?

Germans Claim Soviets Halted   Admit Russian Gain Near Velilcie Luki

Nazis Report Lines — at Velikie Luki  Breached by Soviets   Russians Say Scouts and Artillery Had Destroyed 12 Dugouts and. Eight Moachine-Guns on the Western Front

FIGHTING BREAKS OUT NEAR VELIKIE LUKI   Germans Claim Russian Wedge Into Axis Lines Has Been Sealed OF

Nazis Admit Reds Crash Into  Big Defense Line Russians Say Battle Continues With Gains Against Foe

Nazis Admit Reds Crash Into Big Defense Line  Russians Say Battle Continues With  fowtine Avni wet Dace

Nazis Admil Reds Smash  Axis Lines   Germans Report Attacks Made Near Veliki Luki

Commercial Vehicle Tires Must Be Inspected ‘Before Midnight Sunday

INFORMATION DEMANDED ABOUT DRAFT OF FATHERS   Selective Service Officials Are Told To Lay Cards On Table Concerning Future

May Asks Hershey For Draft Status Of Nafion’s Dads   Let them know how They Stand, Says Committee Chairman

WANTS FATHER DRAFT PLANS PUT ON TABLE   Chairman May Would Relieve Men Of Uncertainty

ASK SHOWDOWN ON DAD-DRAFT   Demand Voiced Selective Service Officials Lay Cards On Table

Wants Showdown On Father Draft   Chairman May Criticises Uncertainty About Call Date.

FATHER DRAFT PLANS ASKED   House Committee Demands Selective Service “Lay Cards on Table”

CHM. MAY WANTS SELECTIVE SERVICE \TO LAY CARDS ON TABLE   In Respect of Status. Of Father’s In Draft

Father Draft Showdown ‘ Is Demanded   Senator “May Declares ‘>Men. Should Be Re' lieved of Uncertainty   CONFUSION GROWS   If They’re Going to. Be Taken Tell Them So, [ Says Lawmaker:

WANT DEFINITE DATA ON FATHERS   Prominent Leaders In Washington Say They Should Be Told What Is What About Draft Status

MILITARY CHAIRMAN DEMANDS SHOWDOWN   Asks for Definite Status of Fathers in Draft

Yankees Learn Mountaineering In Tunisia   Forced To Rely on Mules To Carry Equipment Through Rocky Passes

Russia Lists 1,200,000 Lost by Nazis   Winter’s Drive Reclaimed Wide Domain   U. S. Infantrymen Comb Hill: Near Gabes for Axis Units

‘Old Army Mule Gets Supplies ‘To Americans in Tunisia ‘Where Even the Jeeps Stall

Reds Take 14 — Dnieper Bend Strong Points   But Russians Retreat Again Before Nazis In Kiev Bulee

Russians Admit New Retreat In Kiev Bulge   Also Claim Advances Scored Against Foe In Southern Ukraine

356 Tons Of Bombs Smas ‘ At. Arawe, On. Southern. Coast Of Japs’ Base

USINVASION OF NEW BRITAIN BELIEVED NEAR   Thrust Indicated As Imminent Following Devastating Raid On Harbor OF Arawe.

Invasion Of New Britain By Allies Near; Nazis Beaten Back In Russia And Italy

HAVE AMERICAN FORGES INVADED NEW BRITAIN ,   L. D. Brewer, Phoenix, Radio Amateur, Heard Broadcasts From Tokyo.   INVASION ANNOUNCED   Japanese Communique Said Desperate Fighting Occurred on the Beaches.

Air Warfare Against Japs Throughout Pacific Grows   ( Asseeiated Press }

Yanks Achieve Record Assauk On Arawe Base   Over 100 U. S. Bombers Blast At Key Japanese Point For Seven Hours

Prize Jap Harbor Of Arawe Knocked Out American Invasion Of  New Britain Appears Imminent Probability

ALLIED INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN SAD IMMINENT   Devastating Raids Of Bombers Softening Un Pattern    ATTENTION GIVEN TWO GOOD HARBORS

TEMPO OF AERIAL WARFARE AGAINST JAPS INCREASING   NEW BRITAIN THRUST APPEARS IMMINENT; ARAWE IS BLASTED

NEW BRITAIN TO "BE INVADED BY ALLIED FORCES   Tip-off Comes in Reports of Terrific Attack on Jap-Held Arawe

U.S. Invasion of Arawe Held  As Imminent   Yankees Believed Set Af ter New Britain Harbor Is Bombed Heavily

356 Ton Bombing Raid Staged At Arawe, Jap’s Supply Station, (On New Britain’s South Coast

New Britain Invasion Near  Otonned Tin Air Attack:   Stepped Up Air Attacks Make It Seem Imminent

PR, Churchill and Stalin Expected Yo Demand Surrender of Nazi Army

LABOR LEADERS FIGHTING BILL TO CURB THEM   Anti-strike Legislation Gets Approval of Congress and Handed to President   WLB GIVEN MORE POWER   Meanwhile, Coal Mines Are Nearing Normal After Series of Walkouts

DRASTIC BILL T0 PREVENT STRIKES SENT WHITE HOUSE  PROPONENTS OF MEASURE SAY IT IS DIRECTED AT. JOHN LEWIS

JESSEL’S EX-MATE - GETS $150 WEEKLY   Final Divorce Decree Entered For Movie Actress Against Comedian

Transit Workers Threaten Strike   Baltimore Facing Partial Breakdown In Transportation Svstem.

NAVY IN FIGHT FOR AUTHORITY 10 BUILD SHIPS   War Shipping Administra: tion Seeks Control of Auxiliary Ship Construction   VINSON BACKS NAVY   House Naval Committee Asserts Change In Policy At This Time Would Be “Catastrophic”

Allies Take Fight To Salamaua Area   MacArthur Reports Further Gains Against Enemy

Japs i in Guinea Giving Ground   Allied Planes Attack Faenw:-at Salanuua

Japanese Salient Cut In New Guinea   Allies Continue Their Offensive

OHIO REVIEWS POST-WAR PLAN   Lt. Gov. Herbert Heads Com mission Mapping Program For Peacetime Era

POST-WAR JOBS VIEWED AS BIG OHIO PROBLEM   Chairman of Commission To Plan for Peacetime; Considers Public Work:   TO HELP BUSINESS FIRST   Private Enterprise Counted On To Provide Work for Servicemen and Civilians

CHURGH CONFERENCE DEBATES 2 ISSUES   Postwar Program Up For Consideration

Hull Believes in Forceful Peace   Nations Should Get Along as Friends

Preparedness Foundation For Peace   Hull Says Readiness to Use  - Force, If Necessary, for the Maintenance of Peace Is Indispensable

Hull Favors Armed Peace   Readiness to Use Force Held Best Way To Prevent Wars

HULL FOR USE OF FORCE   ‘Secretary of State Says Tt Is Foundation of Peace

READINESS TO USE FORCE AS BEST MEANS TO INSURE PEACE   So Declares Secretary Hull In. Expounding Prin ciples American Foreign Pah Serur:

Preparedness Is Peace Security  That !s What Hull Tells People As He Explains U. S. Policy

HULL FOR USING FORGE T0 KEEP FUTURE PEACE      Appeals For Non-Partisan Approach to Vital Questions of Postwar Organization

Force Will Keep The Peace-Hull   Secretary Of State Asks Non-Partisan  Annroac

Hull Professes Belief in Force . To Back Up Peace  Secretary of State GC ianacte Cnnct al

Finland Serves Notice On Nazis   Nation Weary Of War. Premier Savs

FINN PREMIER SAYS COUNTRY TIRED OF WAR   PEACE WITH RUSSIA DESIRED; REBUFF JOLTS BERLIN

Finland Tired Of Fighting as Ally of Nazi   Finns Regret Warring With England, Want Peace with Reds

Finns Tell Nazis  They Want Peace   Informal Notice Given by President

FINNS MAKE KNOWN DESIRE FOR PEACE   Germany Given Informal Notice That Small Republic Is Tired of War.

BLASTS AT GAS RATIONING PLAN   Southern Senator Scores Tac tics; Urges President Ditch His Confidential Advisers

TO MOBILIZE "PA. DEFENSE IN SURPRISE   First Maneuver Of Its Kind Is Designed To Duplicate Maneuvers For Actual VW...   Unfolding Today

Aussies Make New Advance   River Crossings Made tn New Guinea Junale

AUSSIES GAINING IN NEW GUINEA   Japanese Being Steadily Driven Out Of Huon Peninsula

2-MILE ADVANCE MADE BY AUSSIES   ALLIES CONTINUE EFFORTS TO CLEAR HUON PENINSULA OF JAPANESE,

Australian Ground Forces Advance Two Miles on the Huon Peninsula

Mes. Janet Snowden Gill, 29, Heiress, Pound Dead Two Months Ago on Roof of Fourth Floor of Hotel, Shortly Befsre She and Husband Were To Have Left For Washineton

« Reconnaissance-Bombing Trip Over Wake Isle ' Is Successful, But Japs Shoot Up One Bomber

Wake Island Again Bombed By United States Airforce   Three Islands Covered In Full Reconnaissance, and 96 Percent of Bombs Hit Their Targets, Commander of Raid Reports On Return With Engine of His Liberator Shot Up

ALLENH. ‘WER   This: Is. Suggested by: Terse ‘Letter: Received! By: IA Cade de:

War Is A Mixture Of Comic Opera And High Tragedy In Towns Along The Road To Naple:

 U. S. Bombers Deliver Smashing Blows to Two Ifaliar ' Cities without Losing Plane in ‘Sofiening-Up’ Drive

MORE THAN 100 FLYING FORTS FROM NORTH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST SMASH IMPORTANT TARGETS.

U.S. Bombers Converge On Italy in Daytime To Continue Smashing  Of Axis’ Vital Spots  10 PLANES BAGGED, YANKEES LOSE NONE  Sardinia, Pantelleria  Get More Explosives, One Lightning Downed

AMERICANS DROP BOMBSON NAPLES, DOWN 10 PLANE’   Shipping in Harbor Is Destroyed and Damage Inflicted on Railroads . and ’Airdromes.   TARGETS AT FOGGIA ALSO ARE BLASTED   Attacks Carried Out Without Loss of a Single Ship— Duce’s Defense Outposts . Raided.

Yank Bombers Blast Italians   Naples and Foggia Are Bomb Targets

Big Fleets Of Bombers Hit Italy   All American Planes Return To Base Safely.

Naples and Foggia Hit by U.S. Bombers   All Planes of Force Making Assaults Return in Safety

Naples, Foggia Are Hit by Fortresses   Thundering Fleets Of American Bombers From: Africa And Middle East Shatter Targets Without Loss

SOFTENING-UP ATTACKS KEPT UP ON NAPLES   NOT SINGLE BOMBER LOST IN SERIES OF RAIDS

Fliers Strike Many Vital Avis Points   Fortresses Return Without Loss After Great Raid

Shipping, Airfield and Railroads Are Devastated; Over 300 Planes Take Pari in Attacks; Only Que Lost

CLOTHING STOLEN ANLOCAL ROBBERY   Home of Jesse Eichelberger, Mitchell Avenue,

(CLOTHING STOLEN IN LOCAL ROBBERY   Home of Jesse Eichelber. ger, Mitchell Avenue, Entered

/HOW MUCH FOOD WILL YOU GET? HERE ARE THE LATEST ESTIMATES IPUT TOCETHER BY AP. WRITER

KEY OFFICIALS QUIT OPA JOBS   Mass Resignations Causec by Disagreements Over Policy

Congress sentiment  Re Vea le d   Democratic Leader Calls For Action On Skip-AYear Plan Before July .

TAX ACTIONS IN STALEMATE   Bob Doughton Rebuffs McCormack’s Attempt To.Revive Plan.

Demo Leader Calls For Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Revival  Administration   Administration Opposes Any Forgiveness

Enactment Of Taxes Asked   Democratic Leader Is Seeking House Action

Broadcasting Firms Facing Changes in Business Ties   iU. S. Supreme Court Ruling Upholding Federal Com   munications Commission’s Regulations May Have  Far-Reaching Effect On Companies; Victory For Government Agency and Mutual

FCC RULES ARE UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT   Court Decision Seen As Victory For Rody

Ok Man Knickerbocker Steps Out Fearlessly To Cross Quiet Streets

Gas Rationing Almost Stops NY Traffic   Parking Lots That Formerly Were Filled to Overflowing Almost Empty; A Card Cars a Rarity

Back of Japanese Resistance in New Guinea Broken, General MacArthur’s Headquarters Announces; Another Devastating Raid on Lae Also Revealed: Huge Fires Started

Jap Resistance  At Buna Broken   MacArthur Men Are Destroying Remnants of Defenders; American Plane Attack On Lae Starts Immense Fires

BROWDER ASKS U.S. RED AID   PARTY HEAD SAYS RUSS BLOW AT JAPS NONSENSE

Soviet Towns Destroyed By  Beaten Nazis   Enemy Dynamites Road To Delay Advance Of  Russian Troops

Russians Near Bryansk, Take ‘Many “ Towns.   ‘Drive Toward Huge German Base Speeded Despite Defenses

5 SOVIET COLUMNS SPEED UP DRIVES FOR BIG NAZI BASE   Big: Enemy Counter-Drivea Slow Progress Of . Red Forces In Ukraine — -.->>

FIVE RED ARMIES DRIVE ON GERMAN BASE AT BRYANSK   Heavy Nazi Counter Attacks Reported Slowing Russian Progress in Uk-

MAIN BODY IS ONLY 16 MILES FROM CITY   Germans Are Counter-Attacking At Kharkov

Five Red Armies Drive On Bryansk; Battle Of Kharkov Still In Doubt

TOWNS FLAME ALONG LINE OF NAZI RETREAT   Nazis Put Torch to Villages as Russ Keep Pushing Them Back.   COUNTERATTACKS SLOW DRIVE FOR BRYANSK

FIVE RUSSIAN COLUMNS DRAW NEAR BRYANSK   Converging On City; Germans Resist at Kharkov

RUSSIANS NEAR _-BRYANSK:EROM.. FIVE DIRECTIONS   Situation In Kharkov Obscure. Heavy Resistance There Believed Being Met,

ran RED ARMY   Forces Now Only 16 Miles from ‘Objective--Towns, Villages: Being  ‘Lib- . erated.

RED TROOPS CONVERGING ON BRYANSK   Towns, Villages Liberated At Rate Of Five An Hour

RUSSIANS CONVERGING ON BRYANSK   Nazi Attacks Slow Red Drive In the Ukraine

Nazi Resistance At Kharkov Stiffens. Battle Races Thru City’s Streets

SOVIET THREAT TO BRYANSK IS STILL GROWING   Another Town Near Bryansk Cap. tured; Counter-Attack Slows Reds

NEW OBSTACLE TO UNION ALL ANTI-AXIS FRENCHMEN ARISES.  GEN. DEGAULLE WANTS ALL HOLDOVER OF VICHY’

Unification Of French Groups Hits New Snag   DeGaullists Balk At Holdovers From Vichy Regime In Africa.

Wants Former Vichy Friends Eliminated   “De Gaulle Spokesmai Poses. New Problem ' Bor Allies

DE GAULLE SETS UP OBSTACLE TC FRENCH UNITY   Demands Elimination Of “Vichy Holdovers’ In North Africa; Giraud Moves  To Unite French  Forces.

Italy Unrest Grows As Orel, Catania Fall   People, Eager To Have War End, Resentful Of Badoglio Rule

“WOMAN IN BLACK” SOUGHT. IN MURDER   Body Of WAC Corporal : Found In Hotel Room.

Seek “Woman in Black” in Mystery Slaying of Wac Corporal in Midwest

Believe 43 Lost As Hub Collier  Is Unreported   Two Radio Distress Calls In Long Island Gale Last Suffolk Message

Boston Collier Overdue, Is Believed Lost   Missing In Gale Off Long Island

‘NOTORIOUS FENCE’ IS NABBED BY FBI   Disposed of Jewelry Stolen In Akron in 1940

Policeman, Testifies Folkes Confessed Drawing Knife Across Mrs. James’ Throat in Lower 13 Berth Slayin:

10 President Murray Says far Production Tapers Off :   re Than 650,000 War Workers Will Be Out of Jobs Within Next Few Months Due to Curtailment, ‘Ne Declares; Tank Factory Employing 9,000 Closed Now, He Adds

IU. S. Has Produced More War Materials Than Can ° Be Used, CIO Chief Says

U. S. War Output Tops Need, Says Murray, ‘Predicting Wholesale Job Layotis Soon

a GEORGE WAG AT tau   British Ruler Paid a “Shor Visit to This  sland. Bastion.

NING GEORGE WAG AT MALTE   British Ruler Paid a Short Visit to This Island Bastion. :

Hike In Price of Crude Oil Recommendet   Disclosure of Suggestion by Ickes Is Made at House Committee Hearing   ‘PRETTY BAD TIME’ - TO TAKE ACTION   Increase Long Sought by Producers; No Action So. Far bv. OPA

Ickes Favors Price Boost   Has Recommended Oil Be Hiked 35 Cents

Ickes Urges 35c General Crude Raise   Submitted to OPA—‘‘Bad Time For Advance,  Brown Told

Ickes Asks Crude Oil Price Increase   Brown Says Action May Be Necessary To Prosecute War

FAVORS BOOST IN CRUDE OIL PRICES IF NECESSARY  ICKES RECOMMENDS AN INCREASE OF 35

PRICE INCREASE OW CRUDE OIL GRANTED      Brown Says OPA ‘Obliged’ To Raise Price If Necessary.

G. 0, P, FORMS POST-WAR UNIT   World Cooperation Will Be Keynote of Indianans

FEAR DEBATE ON POSTWAR MAY DISRUPT ALLIES  PLAN TO CEMENT UNITED NATIONS

Senate Delay In Post-War Debate Seen   Members Oppose Action. Fear Disruption of Allied War Effort

SENATORS’ BALKING AT POST-WAR ACT AND VOTE DELAYED   Proposal to Cement Relationship of United Nations Arouses Stiff Opposition

SENATORS SHOW OPPOSITION FOR POST-WAR PLAN   Believe Victory Should Be First Goal Of Nation

Senate Warned About Postwar Planning Perils   Opponents Fear Heated Debate Might Disrupt War Effart

POST-WAR PLAN & DELAY INDICATED   Senator. Clark Says Dis cussion’ Now’ Might Cause Break-Up in Allied Effort

Clark Fears Peace Plan ‘Explosion’   Move for Post-War Program Hits Snag In Senate Commiltes

Clark Opposes Post-War Talk   Fears Discussions Will Damage Allied  War Cooperation

ta+ld Poaceae Aet   SENATE RLOC DELAYS WORK ON PROPOSED RESOLUTION

Senate Debate on Planning Post-War World Under Fire   Proposed Discussion Feared As Harmful te War Effort; Opponents Assert Prolonged Argument On Program to Cement Allies After War Would Cause Conflict

FIVE SENATORS 10 MAKE WORLD TRIt   Predictions Made Group Wil . See Little.on Visit To Battle Areas.

SENATE GROUP JO VISIT FRONTS   Five Named for Global Trip to Inspect Service Equipment

BRICKER'S TWO PET MEASURES GAIN SUPPORT   Governor Enhances Legista' tive Position In Confer.  ence With Leaders   NUMBERS” BILL KILLED   Senate Expected To Give Favorable Vote On New Fe male Labor Laws

‘NUMBERS’ BILL IS REJECTED BY GLOSE MARGIN IN HOUSE   STATE .SENATE EXPECTED TO PASS FEMALE LABOR MEASURE AT TODAY'S SESSION

Annihilation of Nazis ‘Is Continuing   All but 12,000 of  220,000 Are Killed or Captured

Nearly All Nazis Ir Stalingrad Killed   Only 12,000 Of Once Proud German Army Of 220,000 Have Been Liquidoted, Reds Say

U. S. Planes Bomb Target: In Germany   First Operation Since Heavy Attack on Schweinfurt

U.S. Heavy Bombers In Assault On  Nazi Targets   Thunderbolis And Spitfires Accompany Heavy Planes On Raid In West

BIG BOMBERS HIT GERMANY   Raid Is Seventh Major Operation of Month for U. S. Planes.

U, S, FLIERS BLAST WESTERN GERMANY   Fighters Accompany Bombers, Indicates Heavy Raid

U. §. Bombers Hit Germany   Thunderbolts and Spitfires Support American Bombers

U. S. Planes Bomb Target In Germany  First Operation Since Heavy Attack on  ar .0e Ge ee ee

YANK BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Small Force of Nazi Planes Attack England

5. BOMBERS 60 OVER NAZI TARGETS   Spitfires and Thunderbolts Accompany Planes; May Be Seeking Production Center

U.S. Heavies Hit  Western Germany  Thunderbolts, Spitfire:  Aecamnanv Rombers

UNITED STATES HEAVY BOMBERS HIT WESTERN GERMANY   ‘Raiders Were Supported by   Thunderbolts and Spitfires.   GERMANS IN A RAID   Dropped Bombs at Widely Seattered Places in Eastern England.

TARGET NOT REVEALED IN MAJOR RAID   Heavy Precision Assault Indicated; Fighters Go Along

U. S. Planes Raid Western Reich Region   Bombers Blast Targets By Day

Carried Out Part of Battle Program by Keeping Rommel’s Strength From Eighth Army’s Path; U. S. Losses During Battle Put at 5.372

Second Army Corps Has Captured 4,680, Lost 5,372 In North Africa

3160 WOUNDED WHILE MISSING WEN TOTAL 839   General Dwight D. Eisenhower Reveals Figures - During Interview Laud  ing U. S. Army   YANKEES CAPTURE , 4,680 PRISONERS   Second American Corps Forced Rommel to Divert His Power Permitting  Fighth’s March °

TROOPS HAVE TAKEN 4,680 AXIS CAPTIVES   Eisenhower Says Americans Kept 35,000 Enemy Troops Engaged at the Time That Montgomery Cracked Mareth Line.

5372 AMERICANS LOST IN TUNISIA   Yank Commander Gives Out Casuaty List as He Reveals 4,680 of Axis Captured

Eisenhower Says. Second Army Corps Took 4,680 Prisoners.   ACCOMPLISHED MISSION

Second U. S. Corp: Drew Off Nazis, Helped 8th Army, Eisenhower Savs

SECOND U.S. ARMY CORPS CAPTURED 4,680 PRISONERS   Also Destroyed or Captured 683 Axis Vehicles on the Tunisian Front.   DESTROYED 69 TANKS   At the Same Time Gen. Eisenhower Revealed American Casualties Were 5,370.

GEN, EISENHOWER REPORTS ON SECOND U.S. ARMY ACTIVITY.  MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND CASUALTIES SUFLrDpDrn AR ANG

393 Americans Killed, 3610 Wounded, 859 Missing, General Reports   TOOK TOLL OF AXIS   U.S. Forces Captured 4,580 Prisoners, Accounted for 683 Vehicles, 69 Tanks, 150 Guns

Kisenhower Says American Troops Fullfill Their Mission   Wreck Large Amount of Axis Materiel, Our Casualties Stand at 5,372 Killed, Wounded, Missing

Eisenhower Reviews Campaign   Second Corps Losses 5,372 4,680 Prisoners Are Taken

REVEAL HIGH AXIS: LOSSES TUNIS FRONT   Gen. Eisenhower Tells of Capture of 4,680 Pris. oners; Guns, Tanks.   U.S. CASUALTIES EXCEED 5000 MARK      Estimate Half of Axis Eueplics Sent to Africa Were Sunk.

903 Americans Were Killed, 859 Missing,  and 3,610 Wounded In Same Actions

Explains Close Co-Operation of British and Americans in Pushing Rommel Into Tight Corner; Says American Forces Accomplished Mission

Second Corps Wins Praise From Ailies   ‘Eisenhower Telis Part of American Unit “in Big North: African Drive   5,372 CASUALTIES ALSO. REPORTED   Of That Number. 903. Were’

Reveals Americans Captured 4,680 Prisoners in Recent Fighting on Tunisian Front   Eisenhower Reports Casualties of 2nd U.S. Corps Total 5.372

3,610 WOUNDED, REPORT SHOWS; HELP ACCLAIMED   Eisenhower ¢ Giv es Planes Great Credit In Review; Sees Hard Fight Due

Eisenhower Tells Strategy Employed in Tunisian Drive   Explains Close Co-Operation of British and Ameri cans in Pushing Rommel Into Tight Corner Says American Forces Accomplished Mission

Patton’s Men Captured 4,680 Prisoners, 150 Guns; Wrecked Many Trucks, Tanks In Battle   Kept 55,000 Enemy Troops Tied Up While Eighth Army Smashed Mareth Line; Work Praised; 903 Killed, 859 Missing

Army Corps Takes 4,680 Prisoners  American Casualties In Clashes Total 5,372

4.680 Captives Taken By Yanks In North Africa   Eisenhower Also Discloses U. S. Casualties Totaling 5.372.

U. 5. Troopers Capture Enemy   Genera! Reports On African Losses

0,310 CASUALTIES ARE ANNOUNCED BY GEN. EISENHOWER   List Includes Killed, Missing and Wounded; 4,680 Axis Prisoners Taken and 683 Vehicles Destroyed Or Captured.

YANKS CAPTURE 4680 PRISONERS   Total U. S. Casualties, Including Wounded, 5372

3,610 HURT, “HE REVEALS   Yanks Take 4,680 Prisoners In Recent Drive   Accomplished What It Set Out To Do, Is Report; Troops Praised

RUSSIANS NEARING ZHLOBIN IN RACE TO TRAP GERMANS   Retreating Nazis Blowing Up Bridges in Attempt to Delav Reds

NAZIS HURRY 10 ESCAPE PINCER   Japs Lose Another 100C Men In Bougainville Fighting, Cruiser Is Sunk.

GERMANS HASTEN TO ESCAPE TRAP NEAR GOMEL   Reported Blowing Up Bridges, Abandoning Tanks and Sowing Mines ag Jaws of Tegan Cliacn

U.S. Invites Allied Nations to Conference On Post-War Currency Stabilization

Map Infantile Paralysis Fight   Disease Spreading In Five States

CITY LAYING OUT  _- POST-WAR PLANS      Mayor Sweeney Says Plan. " ning Commission Will be Named: Later _

CITY LAYING OUT POST-WAR PLANS   Mayor Sweeney Says Plan ning Commission Willi be Named Later

MacArthur Says ’ Japs Are ‘Broken   ,Enemy’s Ability To Attack Held Crushed By Allied Triumphs; Nip Convoy Bombed

SIX WARPLANES DESTROYED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Aerial Activity Reported On. Decrease After Big Attack On Rome, But Raids Continue   AIRDROMES HIT   American and. RAF Pilots Hammer Sardinia, Also Fields On Mainland; Six Are Lost

ALLIES ATTAGK ITALIAN BASES   Leave Air Fields in Southern Italy and Sarginia In Ruins.   YANKS STORM BISCARI

AIRFIELDS IN ITALY BLASTED BY BOMBERS   Six Axis Planes Downed; Sardinian Targets Pounded

Allies Continue Heavy Air Raids   Blast Targets In South Italy And Sardinia

SLIGHT LETDOWN IN ALLIED AIR RAIDS REPORTED TUESDAY  VITAL ENEMY AIR FIELDS   VITAL ENEMY AIR FIELDS HOWEVER, STREWN WITH WRECKAGE

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND AIRBASES AT TOE OF BOOT   Six Enemy Craft Destroyed As Waves of Planes Harass Enemy

ltalian Airfields Flaming Wreckage  Six Enemy Planes Destroved In Hits

Sink Three Jap In Munda Area   Nippon Vessels Were Trying to Run Allied Sea and Air Blockade.

Warships Bombard Island Of Kiska   No Return Fire Reported From Enemy Defenses

U.S. WARSHIPS HANMER KISKA WITHOUT REPL   Two Small Ships’ Bombard _Jap-Held Base, Report No Answer.by Enemy .   After Shelling   NIPS STAGE RAID   American Fliers Elated Af. ter Successful Raid On   Japanese Base Of Paramushiro

3 WARSHIPS ARE SUNK INBATTLE   4th Vessel Probably Sent Down And Two Others Damaged

NO OPPOSITION TO KISKA RAID   American Warships Bombard Jap Defenses on Aleutian Island.

2 Small Yank Ships Shell diska Base   No Return Fire 3 Jap Warships Sunk by Planes In South Pacific

YANKS HAMMER NIPS ON KISKA   Navy Dept. Reports Enemy Failed to Return Bombardment by Ships

FOR 2-TERM BILL   Senator's Proposal Not Regarded as Bar for Roosevelt. 

Churchill Says Italian  Fleet Turned Over To Allies at Malta Base

Churchill Claims Fleet Surrendered   Status of Italian Navy Mav BeProblen

Fans Out Early For 3rd Game  meme me VL Div Series   Borowy To Face Brazle In Final New York Battle

Bombers Favored To Win Final Game In New York With Borowy On Mound

FANS AGAIN JAM PARK AT THIRD SERIES TILT   Borowy And Brazle Chosen As Opposing Pitchers

YANKEES FAVORED TO COP THIRD GAME   Fans Flock to Yankee Stadiun For Final New York Meeting of Series Rivals

CEILING PLACED ON _ FRESH VEGETABLES      Program to Lower Cost of 13 Vegetables Announced by OPA

PRICE CEILINGS ON VEGETABLES ARE ROLLEDBACK   Some Reductions On 13 “Varieties Will Be As Much As 50 Percent   OPA MOVING TO CUT FRESH FRUIT COSTS

RETAIL PRICE CEILINGS PLACED ON 13 FRESH VEGETABLES BY OPA   Reductions of as Much as 70 Per Cent in Cost of Some ltems Expected

COST OF VEGETABLES TO BE CUT SHARPLY   OPA Announces Price of 13 Varie ties Whi Be Reduced From 30 to 50 Per Cent.

OPA Order: Vegetable Price Cuts  Tavale Raducad   Levels Reduced Below Averages Past Season

Akron Strikers Drift Back on Appeal by FDR   Plants Expect to Resume This Afternoon; Union Orders Men Back

Threat To Take Over Plants By Noon Brings Results; Goodrich Last

Congressman Urges Hike In Crude Prices   Rep. Gavin Says Output Will Diminish Unless Change is Made   OPA IS CRITICIZED

More Reserves  Of Oil Needed   House Group Hears Army Men Tell of War's Requirements

STATE REVENUE CUT      Gasoline Tax Intake Drops 35 Per Cent Under Rationing

KISKA RATED  BEST HARBOR   CHANDLER DECLARES JAP. OCCUPIED ISLAND HAS “BEST HARROR IN. ALL . OF PACIFIC

8,000 STATE DRAFT CASES TO GO TO FB   Local Draft Boards to Bare Names of Delinquents and Non-Renistrants

WARNING 16 GIVEN DRAFT DELINQUENTS   State Draft Office to Turn 5,000 Names Over to FRB Sunday.

FOR-Charchill Agree Peace Pacts Peace Pacts Must Be Written Beliberately

Liberators Hit Sicilian Ports   Palermo And Catania  Are Bombed Once Mor:

NAPLES FIRES REKINDLED BY U.S, AIRFORCE   Ninth Unéld States Fliers Strike Against Italian Port City After Fort resses Attack   HEAVY EXPLOSIONS HEARD BY FLIERS   ‘Meanwhile, RAF Fighters  and Royal Navy Planes Smash Enemy Shipping Off France

YANK BOMBERS RAID PALERMO   Huge Fires Again Set In Assault On Naples

Liberators Attack Palermo Harbor   Hits Are Observed, Enemy Planes Battle Formation in Vain

U. 5, PLANES RAID - PALERMO HARBOR   Yank Liberators Hi New Biows At Naples

U. S. Bombers Again Strike. At Naples   This Time They Were From Middle East Command

NAPLES BLASTED A SECOND TIME   Liberator Bombers Follow Up Effective Raids Launched By Fortresses

U. $8. Bombers. Hit at Palermo   Hits Observed Along Quay and in Vicinity Of Seaplane Station

New Attack Also Made On Palermo   Liberators Strike in Wake Of Major Raid By Fortresses

Mediterranean Enemy Bases  Bombed Again  Palermo, Naples And   Palermo, Naples And Messina Attacked; Fires Are Started

Naples Again Is Pounded  From Air   Harbor At Sicily Also Under Attack By Bombers

Chn. Nelson Explains New Ration Plan   Point system to go into effect early in February.

W. GILBERT GIVES REGULATIONS FOR OBTAINING FOODS   2nd Book to Be Issued Within Next Few — i Weeks

POINT RATIONING PROGRAM SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY   Coffee and Sugar Not Rationed Under This Point System

Facts All Should Know Concerning Food Ration Plans   Canned and Packaged Proceaad Foods to ‘he Rationed ia February, Point Value Same te All Stores

RUSSIANS DRIVE ACROSS DNIEPER TO ESTABLISH 3 BRIDGEHEADS   Reds Break Through German Winter Defense Line Which Hitler Ordered Held At Any  Caeb

hed Army Ulosing imhoun Kiev From North, South and Rear.  NAZIS LOSS OF LIFE AND MATERIEL HIGH  Russians Win a Springboard Into the Baltic States.

Today’s War Commentary  The Road Back  U.S. Has Turned Tide In Two Years

The Lafayette Escadrille Is Again on Duty   The Head of an American Indian War Chief Flies Over Tunisian Battlefields for First Time

NATION-WIDE DIMOUT MAY BE ORDERED   25 Per Cent of Rail Mileage May Be Cut

CURTAILED TRAVELING IS ‘MUST’   Dimout Would Douse All Excess Electric Lighting

CKES ASKS RAIL TRAVEL CURTAILMENT   Eastman To Work Out Non-Essential Rail Travel Curb

Non-Essential Trips Of Trains Face Cut   ODT Gets Ickes Order to Curtail Limited Fuel Supply During Strike

National Dimout To Save Fuel Is Also Studied   Limited Supplies Are Cited; Carrier Mileage May Be Cut One Fourth

4 STUDENT HOUSES "ROBBED IN NIGHT   Nineteen Students Report Losses Amounting to  More Than $160   A . VISITOR. SLUGGED

4 STUDENT HOUSES ROBBED IN NIGHT   Nineteen Students Report sses Amounting to  More Than $160  ASR EIRENE SR KSSH

GAS TANK HIDDEN IN LAWN IS FOUND   Cleveland Police Catch Three Pumping It

AFL STUDIES — -» LEWIS’ MOVE   MINE UNION. AFFILIATED WITH FEDERATION OBJECTS TO ACCEPTANCE OF UMW:

ae 10 ~ STAY ON 10   RUBBER ADMINISTRATOR HAS ‘ NO INTENTION OF RESIGN:

"WAS CONCERNED.   Churehitt ‘Asked - - About Anti-Aircraft Protection.

WAS CONCERNED.   Churchill Asked About Anti-\ircraft Protection.

Reds Say Nazi Casualties 2,100,000 in Four Months   Moscow Reports 900,000 Killed, 98.000 Captured, Total Now Above 11 million

Nazis Suffer Amazing Loss on Red Front   Casualties Placed at Two and Half Million in 1943 Campaian

German Casualties Put At Nearly Three Million In Four Months of War

CONGRESS INTO - SESSION TOMORROW   Manpower, Foreign Policy. Taxes and Inflation in Spotlight

Congress Returns to Washington From Summer Vacation Tomorrow   Facing Nation’s Lawmakers Are Some Pressing Problems.

Stronghold Taken In Drive Tuesday   Germans Continue Costly Counter-Attacks In Kremenchua Sector Of The Dneiper Bend

Russ Smash Nazi Lines West of Kiey  Take 60 Towns, Advance on 65-Mile Front

Rules Committee Demand Hints A' Profits Scanda  Investigations Produce Savings Of More Than _ Fei _ r>_]f__s.

House Committee Plans Probe of War Contracts  High Army and Navy Officials Will Be  Ouizzed at Hearings

BIG WAR FEES TO BE PROBED   House Committee Will Question Officials On Huge Profits

WLB Fails®to Vote; Strike Believed The Problem   ONLY 25,000 RETURN . TO DISTRICT'S MINES 

WLB to Rule On Miners’ Wage Pact   Work Resumes Slowly in Pits After Strike

Miners Slowly Returning To Pits—Many Await WLB Approval Of Contract  - VOTE LATER TODAY  Terms Of Illinois Contract Met By Agreement ~ Of Lewis, Ickes

MINERS SLOW IN RETURNING TO THEIR JOBS   Ruling Anticipated From War La bor Board on Wage Contract By Ickes and Lewis.

U.S. and Britain Plan To Seek Russia's Adherence To Tripartite Agreement To Have World Peace After Axis Defeated

RED AID SOUGHT TO BALK WARS   U. S$. And Britain Bid For Red Adherence To World Peace Agreement

NEGRO WORKER ARE THREATENE   Fear Of Violence In Big Steel Plant Causes Shutdown Early Today

40 Lengths Of Roadbed Wiped Out   B & M Blames Temblor For Landslide Early: Today At Northampton,

THREE OTHERS DAMAGED; SINK FREIGHTER, 100   Reveal Heavy Toll Which U. §, Naval Forces Took in Beating Off Japs at Rabaul Base 

AMERICAN CRUISERS  AND DESTROYERS IN  BOUGAINVILLE FIGHT DROVE OFF JAP NAVAL  FORCE AND SANK AT TEACT TURERF “HIPS

U.S. Fleet Struck Heavy Naval Blows   Tokyo Admits Loss of Cruiser, Two Destroyers When Yanks Drove Japs Away From Bougainville

AP WAROHIPS ARE DEFEATED   Tokyo Admits Loss of One Cruiser and Two Destroyers in Fight.   ‘AT BOUGAINVILLE ISLE

Heavy Naval Blows   Tokxea Admits Loss. of Cruiser, 'Fwa Destroyers When Yanks Doove Japs. Away From Bougainville

“It Was Helluva Black Night  ” When U. S. Task Force Routed Japs

Ten Merchant Vessels Sunk By U. S. Subs   Fifteen Nip Ships, 8: Planes Destroyed In Rabaul Smash

Japanese Admif Loss of Ships In Blazing Clash   Bougainville Isle Harbor Scene of Battle at Night

The Axis Are on the Run Again in Tunisia Battle.  ALLIES HOLD ALL IMPORTANT LINES  Airmen Continue to Bomb and Machine Gun All Sectors.

YANK BOMBERS ATTACK ITALY IN HEAVY RAID   Vital Airdrome Blasted, Reports Today Hadicate

BOMG ITALIAN AIR CENTERS   Liberators Hit Bari, Fortresses Fly to Grosseto.

250,000 Pounds of Bombs Dropped on Italian Air Base   They GIVE Their Lives—You LEND Your Money.

OIXTY-FIVE ARE READY FOR ARM   Number of "Teen Age Boys Who Registered in County Last Mcnth.

SIATY-FIVE ARE EADY FOR ARN   Number of ‘Teen Age Boys Who Registered in Coun: . ty Last Month. — 

County Medics Meet Thursday   MOVIE PROGRAM WILL BE PRESENTED TO SOCIETY

County Medics - Meet Thursday   HARRELL FIELD ARMY DOCTORS WILL SPrAK

REPUBLICANS TAKE ACTIVE PART THREE CAPITAL HITT RAWS   HOUSE TRADE PACT AND CIVILIAN SUPPLY AND SENATE TAX BILL LEAD

GOP Is Active In Legislative Controversies   Several Issues Refore Coneress

GOPS ACTIVE IN CONTROVERSIES   Veto Checks on FD’s Reciprocal Trade Agreements To Be Attempted

Today In Washington:  Three Scraps Hold The Spotlight: Taxes, Trade. Pacts, Civilian Supply ~

GOP Activity Revives in’ Controversies   House Trade Pact, Civilian Supply and Senate Tax Dispute Claim Capitol Hill Attention

EXPECT VOTE SOON ON TAX CONTROVERSY   No Agreement Is Reached Concerning Abatement   HOLDING LINE,   War Labor Board Reports: Anti - Strike Legislation Studied

Battles Over Civilian Supply Agency And Taxes Also Occupy Legislators

$4 Billion In Three Days   Morgenthau Asks + 20% of Workers’  Pay for Bonds

Americans Asked To Increase Aid To Uncle Sam By Buying War Bonds

AMERICANS ARI ASED T0 RAISE BOND ‘SIGHTS’   4 Billion Dollars Have Already Been Invested

Treasury Has Raised More Than One-Third Of 13 Billions Southt in Second War Loan

THIRD OF WAR LOAN HAS BEEN RAISED   Treasury Secretary Says ‘Hard Road Ahead’

FOUR BILLION STREAMS INTO BONDS IN IST 3 DAYS, STEP UP YOUR SHARE!

CALL IS OUT T0 DOUBLE BUYING OF WAR BONDS   Sec. Morgenthau Says Americans Must Buy More

Bd BILLION IN BONDS BOUGHT   Morgenthau Pleased, But Says ‘Hard Road’ Lies Ahead in Drive.   GOAL 'S $13 BILLION

BOND DRIVE ABOVE ONE-THIRD MARK   AMERICANS RESPOND TO NATION'S NEED FOR WAR FINANCES

Subscriptions Report ed _ by Treasury : Up to: $5,(000 ‘La Laat Night  tad detected bo  PRIVATE B BUYING " AHEAD. OF BANKS

National Drive Reaches Third Of Its Goal   War Loan Subscription Hits . $5,253,000,006 Last Night, Report Treasury Secretary

More Than Third Of Quota Raisec $5 Billion Subscribec Jn Opening Davs

One-Third of 13-Billion War Loan Already Raised   Subscriptions Total Over 5 Billion From Both Banking And Non-Banking Sources

OVER ONE-THIRD OF Nak LOAN ALREADY BEEN SUBSCRIBED   MORGENTHAU, HOWEVER, CAUTIONS “WE STILL HAVE HARD ROAD AHEAD”

U.S. REACHES THIRD OF GOAL   MORGENTHAU REPORTS TOTAL FOR WAR LOAN

FIVE BILLION IN WAR BONDS SOLD TO DATE   Total Is More Than Third of $13,000,000,000 Goal, but Morgenthan Warns Against  . Over-Confidence.

Must Buy More Bonds   Treasury Says People Must Increase Buying Even After Campaign

MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF WAR: LOAN RAISED   Secretary Morgenthau Reports. Subscriptions Up to Last Night Were $5,253,000,000

Treasury Asks for Fifth of Income of Workers of Country   One-Third of 13 Billions Sought in Bond Sales Has Been Raised

WAR BOND SALES AT $5,253,000,000 IN NATION'S DRIVE   Secretary Morgenthau Says This Includes Only Amounts Reported By Reserve: Banks

Bond Sales Hit 4 Billion In Three Days   Secretary of the Treasury Urges Citiens to Step Up Purchases   DEDUCTIONS ARE URGED

Over 5 Billion Pledged In Drive   Banks Oversubscribe Their Allottment Three Times

WAR BOND DRIVE HITS 5 BILLION MARK IN 3 DAYS   Civilians Should Invest 15 to 20 Percent in War Savings

One-Third Mark Passed In Bond Sales   Subscriptions Up to Last Night Totaled $5,253,000,000; Morgenthau Says We Still Have Hard Road Ahead

OVER ONE-THIRD UF BOND DRI TOTAL RAISED   Banks Largest Purchasers Of First Five Billion Dollars Of Bonds   MORGENTHAU CAUTIONS TOUGH JOB STILL AHEAD   Public Asked To Raise Sights Of Help For Uncle Sam’s War Financing

CALL IS OUT TO. DOUBLE BUYING OF WAR-BOND:   Sec.’ Morgenthau Says Americans Must . - Buy: More _.

24 DESPERATE CRIMINALS ON THE LOOSE   Wreck Power Plant to Escape Georgia Prison

24 DESPERATE MEN BREAK PRISON AND FLEE IN VEHICLES      ‘Overpower Three Guards, Wreck Pen Power Plant, Steal Sedan and a Truck.

Soviets Take 110 Towns In Orel Drive   Reds Launch Summer Of. fensive North OF Hitler’ Stalled Push   GAIN 28 MILES   12,000 Nazis Slain, 2,000 Captured; Five Divisions Put To Flieht

Allied Airmen Again Batter Sicilian Areas   Center Heavy Bomber Blasts on Messina; Great Fires Started

HIT MESSINA; RAID ITALY   Block-Busters Center Fire Gn Railroad Yards And Harbor ;__‘ Factories 01 Mainland Targets   Hit Battleship

ALLIED AIRMEN POUND SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY   Three-Sided Drive Under Way in Effort to Break Down Last Island Approach to Mainland.   BLOCKBUSTERS RAINED DOWN UPON MESSINA   Great Fires Started in City’s Railway Yards and Harbor Area by Explod- . ine Steel.

Sicily Again Heavily Hit By Bombers   Messina in Flames After RAF Aviator: Make Long Attack

RAILWAY YARD, HARBOR AREAS LEFT ON FIRE   No Allied Planes Lost In Three-Sided Raid On Ferry Approach  To Italy   War Plants Raked

Yank Airmen Pound Sicily   Ferry Approach For Southern Italy Is Hit

Raiders Drop Big Bombs on  Messina Port   Two-Ton Blockbuster Bombs Batter Port: Malta Planes Raid South Italy. Sicily

MESSINA ATTACKED BY ALLIED AIRMEK   Axis Positions in Sicily Raided With Heavy Bombs

Allied Planes Center (n Messina   Blockbusters Shatter Ferry Approach To Southern Italy

Allied Bombers Heavily Attack Sicilian Ports   Often-Bombed Messina Principal Target Again In Pre-Invasion Raids

Block - Buster Bombs Smash Sicily Area: Messina Railroac  ~ Yards, Harbor Ava Vareat

PLEASURE BAN MAY END MAR. 22   But OPA Says No Def inite Action Has Been Decided

CURB ON JOYRIDES MAY END MARGH 29   Possibility Also That Value Of A Coupons May Be Cut To Two Gallons Each On That Date—No Action Yet

DRIVING BAN MAY BE. LIFTED IN EAST   Don’t Cheer Too Soon, - There May Be Cut in Coupon Value.  MARCH 22NAMED __

May Lift Pleasure Driving Ban On March 22: No Definite Action Yet

CONSIDER LIFTING OF PLEASURE DRIVING BAN IN EAST  . .Price Administrator - . brown Says Ban May Be Lifted About

Driving Ban May Be Eased On March 22   But It's Only A Possibility

Pleasure Driving Ban May Be Lifted About March 22 By OP 4  Price Administrator Brewn Admits It Is   Price Administrator Brown Admits It Js Being Considered; No Decision Yet

Prospects Of Lifting Ban During Month   OPA Spokesman Declares March 22d is Possible Date   NO DEFINITE ACTION

WILDCAT. COAL STRIKES SPREAD   Miners Refuse to Enter 19 Pits of Kentucky

LIMA YOUTHS BREAK PUTNAM COUNTY JAIL   Eugene Conway, Willard Snyder Still at Large

HALT WORK IN PITS; FAIL T0 RENEW TRUCE   Troops May Enter Coal Fields If Appeals Are Ignored

Lewis and  _ Miners Defy Government   HALE MILLION MEN AT HALT ON VITAL WORK.

RUSSIA IS CRUCIAL THEATRE OF GLOBAL WAR, WITH BOTH ‘WAR AND PEACE NOW AT STAKE

Titanic Battle Of Dnieper Is In Stage To Produce Quick Debacle Of Enemy

The War Today Parley Table ‘No Less Than Dnieper Cruical ‘Theatres

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Issues Of War And Peace Likely To Be Settled In Russian Theatre

RUSSIA 'S: CRUCIAL THEATRE OF IGLOBAL CONFLICT   MacKenzie Sees Moscow Tri-Partite Conference as Important As Battle On  Dneiner River

U.S. Planes Drop 17 Tons Of Explosives   Make Effective Attacks On Japs At Kiska And At Munda Base In  Central Solomons

ROMRERS ACTIVE IN PACIFIC WAR AREAS   Munda and Kiska Attacked As Japs Hit at Guadalcanal Aqain.

Drop 17 Tons Of Bombs On Kiska Again  Navy Used Light Planes To Attack  ON OB

KISKA GETS 17 TONS OF BOMBS IN LATEST RAID   American Fighters, Doubling As Light Bombers, Dump  Great Load Of High Explosives On laps.

U.S. And Japs Swap Blows In South Pacific   American Fighter Planes In Role Of Light Bombers Attack Kiska

American Fighter Planes Blast Jap Bases On Kiska With 17 Tons Of Explosive

DROP 17 TONS BOMBS, KISKA   American and Jap Planes Exchange Attacks in ’ South Pacific.

NAZIS REVAMP LINES TO MEET INVASION BLOW   Troops Moved From Norway, Finland; Soviet Front Shortened   'WATCH BALKANS   Madnd Says New Eastern Defense May Be Along Polish Border

Frantic Germans Shifting Troops   Invasion Threats Face O}her Aranc

Nazis Weakening Military Positions In Norway, Finland      Frantic Shifting of Troops to Meet Allied Invasion

War's Beginning to Hurt German Troops In Norway,  Finland Shifted Elsewhere

Frantic Germans Shifting Troops   Invasion Threats  Ease Other Areas _ By JOHN H. COLBURN.

Germany Weakening Power in Baltic   Removing Many Troops From Norway and Finland

fERMANY SHIFTS MEN FROM RUSSIA, NORWAY. FINLAND   Position Weakened in Three Countries by Transfer of Trobdps to Other War Theaters.   NUMBER ARE POURING INTO BALKAN STATES   4 Nazi High Command Worried by Swift Advance of Stalin’s Forces Along Wide Front.

Nazis Preparing To Meet Affacks   Shifting Troops From Norway, Finland

Threats Weaken  German Forees  Nazis Reducing Troops In Norway, Finland  Be WFISFar we sca Pere ar

Claim Nazis Shift Troops   20 Thousand In Norway. Thousands In Finland Have Been Removed.

Ohio Democrats To Reorganize   Central Committee  To Name Leaders

NAZIS DECLARE REDS OPEN BiG SCALE ATTACKS   Russian Offensive Directed at Kuban Bridgehead in Caucasus

NAZI REPORTS REDS LAUNCH KUBAN DRIVE   Military Commentato1 Says Expected Large: Scale Attack on Bridgehead in Caucasus Began Early Today.

FIGHTING STEPS UP IN RUSSIA   SOVIETS UNLEACH HEAVY BLOWS AT KUBAN BRIDGEHEAD

British First Army in Tunisia Forced * to Slight Retreat   American, French Corps @ Lunge Deeper Into Axis’ Front Line

Reports Opening Of Red Offensive  Soviet Airmen Pounding Enemy Bases

Reds Launct Big Attack, Berlin Says   Commentator Says Kuban Attack Is Under Way

.German Military Commentator Claims Red Army Offensive in Caucasus -Hod Long Been Expected by Germans

Berlin Claims Reds Balked On Two Front:   Red Army Continuing Dogged Drive Westward Along Entire Front

RUSSIAN TROOPS CONTINUE TO DRIVE DOGGEDLY WESTWARL   RED OFFENSIVE PLOUGHING AHEAD THROUGH SNOWDRIFTS, BLIZZARDS

Reds Advance  Along Black Sea:      SNOW AND DEEP MUD AND BLIZZARDS NO HANDICAP

REDS CONTINUE WINTER ORE   Germans increase Counter attacks Along Entire Front Sectors.

Counterattacks By Nazis in Russia Mounting  Red Army, However, Continues ‘Spectacula  Fat, tmhtea

NAZIS HIT BACK AT REDS ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Soviets Drive Forward in Bad Winter Weather Despite Counter-Attacks

Ski Troops Battle Foe For Bases   Kramatorsk Reported to Have Changed Hands Repeatedly

Soviets Grinding Slowly Westward  Germans Counterattack In Donets Basin But Are Repulsedl

Reds Drive Doggedly Westward   Advance Despite Mounting Nazi Counter-Drives  On Entire Front

BLOODIEST BATTLES RAGING   Positions Change Hands Repeatedly In Donets Basin

Russians Driving Against Mounting Enemy Resistance   Bloodiest Battle Is See-Saw Fight Near Kamastorsk

MOUNTING NAZI BLOWS FAIL T0 HALT RUSSIANS   Soviet Winter Offensive Smashes Forward Over Snow And Mud Along The Entire Front.

RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING ON ENTIRE FRONT   Troops Plowing Ahead Through Snowdrifts in North and Sticky Mud in South Despite Mounting Nazi Counter-Attacks.

TO STOP RED ARMY DRIVE      Snow And Mud Also Overcome As Advance Is Made Toward Black Sea North Of Kursk.

RED OFFENSIVE * PLOUGHS AHEAD   Bile Raging as Nazis Brin; Up Reserves, Large Tank Forces

SOVIETS PLOW AHEAD DESPITE SNOW AND MUD   Bloodiest Batiles Rage As Red Army Faces Big Tank Forces, Fresh Reserves

Ski Troops Used In North; Motorized   Jafantry Active Along Southern Line 

Reds Continue, However te Drive Westward Against Enemy Along Entire Front   BLOODIEST BATTLE NEAR KRAMATORSEK   Hitler Throws Large Tank Forces and Fresh Reserves Into Struggle to Stem Defeat

MOUNTING NAZI COUNTERATTACK ON RUSSIAN FRONT   POSITIONS CHANGE HANDS BUT RED ARMY DRIVES AHEAD

RUSSIANS DOGGEDLY CONTINUE SPECTACULAR WINTER OFFENSIVE IN FACE MOUNTING NAZI RESISTANCE   Offensive Moving Ahead in North Thru Deep Snowdrifts And in Southern Sector Thru Sticky Mud

Reds Doggedly Push Nazis Back   Are Forced to Fight in Raging Blizzards Against Mounting Attacks.

Nazis Launch Many Attacks On Russians   Moscow Says, However That Soviet Advance Is Continuing

Migiity Mississippi Slowly Recedes Today  River Creeping Back to Normal . .

RIVER TO PEAK, FALLS SLOWLY   Tributaries Also Are Reced. ing After Biggest Flood Since 1844

MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES IN RECEDING ACTION  _ THOUSANDS OF FARMERS TP TO CET BACK INTO

Mississipi Crests And ls Returning Slowly to Banks   Farmers are Waiting To Start on Belated War Production

MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI SLOWLY RECEDING  BACK INTO ITS BED  After Reaching An AllTime High of 42.3 Feet at  Cane Cirardeau. Mo.

Mississippi Hits All-Time High af Cape Girardeau   Tributaries Receding; Some Replanting Must Wait a Month

FLOODS RECEDING FRUM RECORD PEAK   Mississippi High Mark Sets All-Time Record

ANNEH CRESTS AT HIGH POINT   Flooded Tributaries Begin to Recede at Cape Girardeau.

RECEDING WATERS LESSEN DANGER IN FLOOD AREAS   FARMERS PREPARE TO START ANEW TASK OF WARTIME PRODUCTION

500 Convicts in Joliet Penitentiary in Solitary Confinement After Rio

500 Convicts In Cell Confinement   Get Punishment For Riotous Behavior

TOE OF ITALY IS CLEARED BY ALLIED BOMBS   Attacks Concentrated Against Rail Lines; Big Cruiser Hit

Raids Blister Foot of Italy   Terni, Sardinia Piet  Heel, Tor. Sole anle

Allied Bomber Units Step Up Italian Attacks; Airmen Say Toe of Boot Appears Deserted

Allied Planes Increase Kalian Blows   Toe of Mainland Appears to Be Deserted by -Fnemy

Italy's Toe Is Deserled By Enemy   Allied Attacks On Railway Lines Increased

Axis Appears Helpless Under Lash   Furious Attack Puts Quietus on Foe’s Resistance in South

Allied Raids Again Rock  Central Italy   Pilots Think Foe “May Have Quit Southern Defense

Citizens Flee Italian Toe, Fliers Report   Intensified Air Attacks Extend North of Rome; Taranto Special Target

HEAVY AND MEDIUM BOMBERS FROM NORTH AFRICAN BASES AGAINS CON. CENTRATE ON VITAL RAIL CENTERS

SOUTHERN ITALY APPEARS DEAD AND DESERTED   Allied Planes Multiply Assaults On Peninsula’s  Batlweee   DIRECT HIT MADE ON LARGE CRUISER

ALLIES STRIKE NORTH OF ROME   Railway Yards At Terni Blasted; Defenses In Toe Of Italy Are Found Silent

Allied Bombers Cover South and Central Italy   Raids Extend Far To North of Rome

Allied Air Units Increase Intensity of Blows  TOE APPEARS DEAD, AILIER ELEEDC CAY   Vital Rail Centers’ Chie! Targets for the Bombers

British and Yanks in Ttaly Advance   Mountain Peaks Captured by KRmerican Troovs

Axis U-Boat Centers Hit By Yank Bomber s  “~~ r+ re rr .    200 Take Part In Big Raid In Daylight

Writers Relate Story of Horrible Death of 100,000 Reds   Nude Russians Massacred and Pushed Into Huge Ravine Near Cemetery

AMERICAN PLANES BOMB AND BURN JAPANESE PORT AT MACASSAR   Air Fleet Travels: Over 2,000 Miles Round Trip To Perform Task.

Mountbatten, Stilwell, Chiang Conclude War Strategy Talks In Chinese Capital

Mountbatten Confers With Allied Chiefs   Holds Series of Talks With Military Leaders On War Against Japs in Southeast Asia. Decisions Reached.

Many High Officials Present   Discuss Questions of Military Cooperation; Stillwell Also Present; Somervell There To Push Food  and Fuel Movement.

Pacific Fighter Lauds Red Cross   Praises A.R.C. In Far Away  Land

Mrs. Edward J. J. McClellan, Who - Has     - cordine Whereabouts « of Local Men

AFL TO LOSE. .  ABIG UNioN   MACHINISTS’ UNION WITH MORE THAN HALF- MELLION  MEMBERS WITHDRAWS ~~ MONDAY.

TIME SQUABBLE IN OHIO LIKELY TO FLARE AGAIN   Governor Signs Bill To Set  State Clocks Back But : Many Cities Balk   SOLONS STILL IN SESSION   Administration Leader Is Of Opinion Issue Will Come Back to Legislature

TIME ISSUE TO PLAGUE SOLONS      Foresee. Attempt To Repeal Controversial Measure

OHIO ASSEMBLY EXPECTS MORE TIME PROBLEMS   Federal Courts, Agencies, Railroads To Remain on : Eastern Wartime

Nomination of Lee Confirmed   Former Senator Is Now Placed on Civil Aeronautics Board

FRESHMAN SENATORS TRy TO STOP CONFIRMATION’ FOR SCONER LAME-DUCK

O.K. ON LEE APPOINTMENT   Former Oklahoma Senator Is: ‘on Civil Aeronautics Board —

POST APPROVED FOR LAME DUCK   Defeated Democrat Is Branded Messenger for White House

US. Loses Submarine   Vessel, Believed in Japanese Waters, Is Missing in Action

Sub Runner Is Lost in Pacific Area   U. S. UNDERSEA CRAFT GIVEN UP AS TOLL REACHES 14 TOTAL

NAVY REPORTS THE LOSS OF AU. S. SUB   The Runner, Overdue, Is Size Which Carries a Crew of 65—Craft Presumably Operated in Pacific Area.

THE RUNNER FAILS T0 GET BACK TO BASI   ‘About 65 Men On Board; List Now Totals Fourteen

U.S. Submarine Runner Is Lost  Presumably Was Oper. atine In Pacific Aren

U. S. SUB LOST, NAVY REPORTS   ‘Runner’ Presumably Down In Pacific Area

Navy Announces U.8. Sub Runner Lost In Actior   Believe Craft To Have Been Operating In Pacific; Normal. Personnel 65

Submarine Runner Is  Held Lost   Navy Department Noiifies Next OF Kin Of Crew

Another Of Our Subs Missing   Runner Believed To Have ' Been Operating In Pacific Area.

U. 5. Submarine Reported Lost   Lost Ship, the Runner, Believed Operating In Southwest Pacific

M'SHERRY NAMED TO APPEAL BOARD   Frederick Attorney Appointed to Selective Service Post

M'SHERRY NAMED 10 APPEAL BOARD   Frederick Attor Attorney Appointed 1 to Selective ’ Service Pact

FREAK STORM IN PEORIA KILLS 1 AND INJURES 16   RURAL AREA, CITY SUFFER HEAVY CROP AND PROPERTY LOSS

CHIEF NATURAL BAR 10 ROME INVASION   Spectacular Breaching Follows Capture of Two More Towns

FOURTH TERN ROW STARTED BY MOORE   Veteran Oklahoma Solon Uses Service Vote Bill Wedae

Senate Politicians Clash:  G.0.P. Asks Support of Democrats And Is Accused of Fearing F.D.R.

Politics Flare in Senate Over Service Vote Bill   “Democrat Touches Off Powder Keg on Fourth Term

13-MILE GAIN IS MADE BY RUSSIAN FORGE OVERNIGHT   Press Onward Toward What Promises Today  to Be a Significant Viebary

Cossacks Lead Russians To  13-Mile Gain    Entire Rail System Falls To Reds As Troops Smash Forward

Russ Capture Rail Network   Cavalry Presses On to New Objectives

RUSSIANS HAVE ANOTHER BIG ~ DAY OF SUCCESS   Advance All Alo All Along Line,  Smashing All Before 2 Tham

ALLIED BOMBS RAIN DOWN ON NAPLES, RUHR   Entire Railroad System Falls To Reds On Southern Front

SAYS RULE MUST WORK BOTH WAYS   Vandenberg “Agrees Substantially With  Byurnec

Pace Bill Draws Fire Of Browrn   Collapse Of Price Control Seen If Parity Law Is Approved

SENATE SENDS BANKHEAD BIL T0 COMMITTEE   Saves Life of Measure as “Club” Over Wave Demands

COLLAPSE FEARED -ONPRICE CONTROL   Prentiss Brown Warns Against Enactment of Pace Farm Parity Bill.

FBI QUESTIONS FIVE JAPANESE WOMEN   Pictures Prove They Were Witt Escaped War Prisoners

FBI Agents Hold Three Jap Womer   Germans Escape From Prison Camp

Question Jap Women In Nazi Captives’ Break  Pictures Show May 17a n Rimnhea ca

Jap Women Questioned on Reports Of Romancing With Nazi Prisoners

To eee eel eee ge Oe MM A Ge cen Mae er eeme  Panhandle May Get Some Showers Today

Chinese Regain Chungking Gate   Yuvangkwan Retaken —2.000 Japs Killed, Rest Reel in Retreat

Chinese. Troops Score Victory   Force Japs to Flee From Yangtze Gate

CHINESE TAKE YANGTZE TOWN   Inflict Loss Of 2,000 On Enemy In Capture Of Japanese Base Of Yuyangkwan

CHINESE TROOPS RECAPTURE TOWN   Prized By Japs As Gateway To Chungking

ds  With Our Soldiers and  Sailors            Set. Joe Rohner Is Guest Vocalist at Armored Foree Part

Howitt Is Named Director Of OCD  Veteran Is Elected At  Canncil Meeting

LUTHERAN CHURCH OFFICIAL SUCCUMBS   Rev. Clarence Sheatsley Dies at Columbus

REV, C, V, SHEATSLEY DIES IN COLUMBUS   Wife Burned To Death in Furnace - - Called Suicide

REV. MR. SHEATSLEY DIES IN COLUMBUS   Wife’s Body Found in Furnace 18 Years Ago

a UNGRESD FACES ~ GONTROVERSIES VER FIVE BILLS   Appropriation Measures Involved In Snarls; Nelson Gains Strength

22. BILLS OFFERED © AT HOUSE SESSION   Local Legislation Rushed ‘by. Maryland General q Aecamh

22 BILLS OFFERED AT HOUSE SESSION   Local Legislation Rushed by Maryland General Assembly

Coal Situation ‘Powder Keg’   Grows Tense As Mines Back To Owners; No Contract

Coal Industry on Powder Keg With Mines Returned Without Contract

COAL INDUSTRY IS ‘ATOP POWDER KEG’ AUTHORITIES FEEL   Holiday of. Alabama Miners and Government’s Return of Mines to Owners Minus Contract Makes Situation Tense

Alabama Coal Strike Has Industry’ ‘Atop A Powder Keg, Authority Says

IGOVERNMENT RELEASE OF MINES IWITHOUT CONTRACT PUTS WHOLE INDUSTRY "ATOP A POWDERKEG"

Coal Industry In Muddle Over Action Of U.S.   Release Of Mines To Operators Yakes

Coal Area Is Tense   Situation Explosive - Following Return of: Mines to Operators’:

trike In Alabama Has In ustry, In Words of Veteran Authority, “Atop Powder Keg’   ETURN OF MENES TO OWNERS CAUSE   ction Leaves Miners Without Contract With Operators: Quick WLB Ruling Urged

Labor Stoppages in Mining Fields Are Threat to Industry   Situation Made _ Tensex by Return of Mines to Their Owners

COAL SITUATION IS MORE TENSE   Return of Mines to Owners Puts Industry ‘Atop Powder Keg’

PLANES HIT AT BRIDGES   GERMAN OD VEPOT IN YUGOSLAVIA ALSO BLASTED BY BOMBERS OF SOUTH ’ BRN FRONT — ~-

HEMP ACREAGE HITS 4,301-ACRE COUNTY TOTAL   Part Of County Acreage Tc Aid Galva; Ask Bids Wyoming Plant.

HEMP ACREAGE HITS 4,242-ACRE COUNTY TOTAL   Part Of County Acreage To Aid Galva; Approve Wyoming Plant.

British Complete 3-Month Raid Through Burma; Railroads and Bridges Hit, Japs Harassed

British Forces End Super-Raid On Burma Bases   Wreck Jap Railroads, Bridges, Harass Foe for Three Months

HOPE FADING   Conferees In Final Session o1 Ruml Bill Compromise.

Tax Conference  Still Deadlocked   House and Senate Group Stalemated

Assault upon key fortress progressing   Escape roads  are bombarded

eS - WE  nr  a ‘ t e 4 Ne a ~ ST bea No uw Ao ww bs   Jor-resses %.as- .fessina 9 isrud. !vacuaon .

7th Army Hits Tough Going or Troina Front   Flying Forts Blast Messina to Disrupt Evacuation of Nazi Troops—Climax Nears

ALLIES THREATEN NEY AXIS DEFENSE POINT IN SICILY   Canadians and British Within Few Thousand Yards of Adrona, 20 Miles From  Catania. .   U. S. SEVENTH ARMY BESIEGING TROINA   Supply Roads to Town Under Fire — Other Americans Hammer Germans Before San Fratello.

Gagliana Falls: Allies Seek To Block Escape   Savage Fighting Rages at Groina; 7th Army Attacks

ESCAPE ROUTE OUT OF SICILY IS PLASTERED   FORTRESSES ATTACK MESSINA; BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX

Nazi Magnetic Mines O ff England Explodec 2.  aw-Flvinag Bombers. British Reveal...

BRITISH TELL USE   _ Air Ministry Discloses How Bomber: Countered Deadly German Magnetic Mines

‘Three-Year-Old Secret Of Magnetic Mine Control Is Now Revea led By Air Ministry

TRAVEL 1S LESS © THAN EXPECTED   While All Buses Loaded None Were Left Strand Hare

TRAVEL IS LEZS THAN EXPECTED   Whilo All 3uses Loaded Mone Were Left StrandHere

Allies Sink Two Axis Destroyers Off Sicily Coast   Heavy New Blow Struck at Axis

“SINK TWO ITALIAN  DESTROYERS OFF SICILY  a a@6 i FC Sy eos ~~ “a

15 Miles From Tebourba; 8th Army Massing For Final Push   Germans Driven Off After Retaking Hill Near Medjez-el-Bab   British Sink Two  Realian Piestensanie

First Army Advances On Rommel’s Forces In Fierce Fighting   Bomber and Fighter Planes Continue To Pound Axis Positions Heavily

BRITISH SINK ITALIAN SHIPS   Two Destroyers Go Down Off Sicily After  Encounter

PUSH CLOSER TO TUNIS; REPULSE HEAVY ASSAULTS   Air Force Pounds Encmy In Africa Sicily And Italy

Two Italian Destroyers Sunk off Sicily; 1st Army Aims at Key Tunisian Town   MacArthur Wary of Thrust, Batters Jap Supply Vessels   Jans Claim Success.

CONT INUE SEARCH FOR PLANE VICTINS   Lisbon’ Harbor Police Seek Bodies of 20 Persons Miss. ing After Crash

POLICE WORK TO RAISE CLIPPER   [Complete tdéntification OF ‘Missing Will Not Be Known lntit Salvage ‘Work Done

Bodies of 20 Are Sought In Clipper Crash   Rescue Crews Hampered By Currents of Tagus In Lisbon Harbor  SOME ARE IDENTIFIED

Hunt for Air Crash Bodies   Lisbon Harbor Police Seek Clipper Victims; 15 On Board Survive

JAP SHIP LOSSES BOOSTED WiTh 10 MORE BEING SUNK   184 Warships Included In 540 Sent to Bottom By U. S. In South Pacific Since Pear Harbor.   SHOWDOWN BATTLE AT MUNDA IS IMMINENT   Sicily Is Rocked For Sixth Consecutive Day In PreInvasion Offensive of Outer Bases.

SUBS SINK 10 MORE JAP SHIPS   Bring Total Since Pear] Harobr Er to 5B4

With Ten More Japanese Ships Destroyed Americans Chalk Up 540 Enemy Vessels Sunk in Pacific Since Pearl Harbor

Arrests Of Girls Show Big Gair   FBI Reports That Number Of Assault Cases Has Greatly Increased Since Beginning Of War

U.S. Bombers Blast Ruhr for First Time   Heavy RAF Planes Roar Toward Continents Again After Flying Forts Start Huge Fires at Huls and fsritish Blast Krefeld

RAF Over Europe Today, Following U.S. Bomber Raids   GERMANY WORRIED

RAF, American: Blast Nazis Without Pause   Fortresses Set Rubber Factories Afire in Daylight Raids; British Cross in Night Forays

Foriresses Fire German  ‘Rubber Plant   RAF Rains 2,000 Tons of Bombs On Steel Center

Round-the-Clock Blows Are Dealt Heart of German War Production   Flying Fortresses Batier Synthetic Rubber Town, Rotterdam Docks and  ~ Jaraets in Antwerp

Synthetic Rubber Town of Huls Struck in Daylight — OTHER ATTACKS BY AIRMEN REPORTED  Total of 64 Allied Planes Are Lost in the As gnulée

U.S. Bomber Hit Germany   First Ameritan Raid Ils Staged Over Ruhr

‘Americans Set Huge Fire In German Rubber Factory; Batter Naples industries

U. 5. BOMBERS BATTER RUHR BY DAYLIGH   SYNTHETIC RUBBER FACTORY ABLAZE AFTER ATTACK

Steel And Rubber Centers Smashed   Yanks Hit By Day’ And RAF At Night

‘Square Mile lof Fires  (Roar in Ruhr   Belgian Targets In for Their Share of Pasting

YANKS GARRY WAR INTO NAZI RUHR VALLEY   Flying Fortresses Set Square Mile Of Fires Roaring Through Huls, Synthetic Rubber Town   Smoke 6000 ft High

Both Sides Throwing Fresh Troops and Ar« mor Into Violent Battle — Clark’s Men Supported by Great Air Fleet and Naval Bombardment — Montgomery’s Army. Dashing Up Coast to Give Relief. :

Enemy Digs in After Failing to Dent Yanks; Situation Is ‘in Hand’

Million Owners Store Their Cars: Crisis Probable   Used Auto Supply Shrinks; No Relief Seen Unless “Cached Vehieles Freed

OWNERS STORED ~— MILLION AUTOS   Transportation Crisis Looms as Stockpile of Used Cars Shrinks.

19-Year-Old Bride Found Murdered   Slayer Hunted by W. Virginia Police

AHA VALLEY AND RANGE ARE BAIDED   Big British Bombers Reported to Have Caused Many Casualties.   SEVERAL PLANES LOST   Lcrient, Nazi U-Boat Base ~ in France, Was Under Heavy Attack.

Mine Owners Are Reported To Disagree  Discord May Send Labor. Dispute Back

Operators Hold Different Views In Coal Dispute   Open Split In Owner Ranks Believed Possible; Miners Go Back To Work Today After Six Days Away From Jobs

Split Is Seen In Ranks Of  Mine Owners   Return Of Disput To Labor Board Te Predicted ©

SPLIT MNER VIEWS HINT CALE OW WIE      Operators Rank May Open; Return

Divided View: Of Operators Complicate Coal Pletnre   Even Wide Open Split In Operators’ Ranks  Considered Likely Ne, [oe OW henwernme   MAY SEND DEBATE TO WLB THIS WEEK   Mines Due To Return To Production Today, ‘Then Talks to Resume

MINE OWNERS ARE SPLIT IN PAY DISPUTE   Division of Views May Send Question Back To Labor Board

Coal Operator Face Split in Wage Parleys  500,000 Miners Go Back to. Work; WLB Resumes Task

Miners Return To Work under Temporary Plan   Threat of Another Strike June 20 Held over the Nation

May Return Pay Demand Unto W.LB.   FIFTEEN DAY NEGOTIATION PERIOD GIVEN LEWIS AND OPERATORS EXPIRES WEDNESHAY.   United Front Difficult

Operators of Coal Mines at Odds Nou  Over Pay Increase   Divided Views May Send Dispute Back To WLB This Week; Miners Returning To Work Under New 15-Day Armistice

“Split” In Coal Operators. Seen By Observers    Lewis deadline. may block further’ portalto-portal- bargaining; split in owners seen.

Wheat Subsidy  In Tomorrow   Program  Designed To Prevent Rise In Cost of Bread

Prices of Bread Ge Under Control  Starting Tomorrow  Subsidy Is Designed To Prevent Rise In Commodity Price

Bread Subsidy To Be Effective   Schedule of Rates On Various Grades Of Wheat Announced

MOVES MADE 10 MAINTAIN PRICES   Bread Subsidy Program Te Be ‘Put Into Operation, Payments Are Varied.

SUBSIDY 10 BLOCK INCREASE IN BREAD PRICE GOES INTO EFFECT TOMORROW

BREAD SUBSIDY PROGRAM SET   New Plan Effective Tomorrow Would Prevent Loaf Price Increases

Bread Subsidy Program Ready   Intended To Prevent Retail Prices Of Bread Increasing.

WHEAT PRICES SET   Bread Subsidy Program To Go Into Effect To ~ morrow

AEAMIT ROOSEVELT  DIES WHILE ON QUTY    Son Of Teddy Dies In Alaska On Military Service

Son of T. R Dies in North   Kermit Roosevelt, Veteran of 2 Wars, Dead in Alaska

hermit Reasevel  Dies in Alaska  On Active Buty 53-Year-Old Son  Of ‘Teddy’ Was Adventurous Man

WAS SERVING Ao MAJOR ON ACTIVE DUTY   Details Lacking but Notice Did Not Specify His Death in Action. °   SERVED IN BOTH WARS WITH BRITAIN AND U. S

Death Comes To  ~ Kermit Roosevelt Son Of Ex - President Dies In Alaska

LACK DETAILS IN NEWS FROM ALASKA BASE   Autho r- Soldier, 53, Was Second Son Of ‘Teddy’

Major Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's Son, Dies While On Duty In Alaskan Area   Death Believed From Sickness

MAJOR KERMIT ROOSEVELT DEAD   Dies While on Assignment With Army in Alaska

‘Son of "T.R." ‘Dies in Alaska   Kermit Roosevelt's Death Believed Result Of Natural Causes

NOTED FIGHTER DIES IN ALASKA   War Department Says Deatt Of Kermit Roosevelt From Natural Causes

K. Roosevelt, ‘Teddy’s’ son, idies in Alaska   Major on active duty with army

KERMIT ROOSEVELT ~ DIES. IN. SERVICE   SON- UF’ * FORMER PRESIDENT “SUCCUMBS : WHILE SERVING “WITH- -ARMY. IN ‘ALASKA.

Major Kermit Roosevelt Reported Dead In Alaska   Son Of Late President Dies Friday, Cause Not Revealed; Was On Army Duty

MANY LEAVING ON SATURDAY   Group Of Hagerstown Registrants Called Up For Induction.

MANY LEAVING FOR SERVICE   List Of Local Youths Leav ing For Exams Mondav Announced.

MANY LEAVING FOR INDUCTION   Hagerstown Group Going To Baltimore On Wednesday For Exams.

Ttalian News  Well Received In Washington  ‘Typical Comment Was: ‘We Haven’t Licked Germany Yet’

FATHER DRAFI BAN 1S. SOUGHT IN WASHINGTON   See Spepdy Action on Induc‘tion of Pre-Pearl Harbor

WANT TO HALT FATHER DRAFT   Italy’s Surrender Gives Momentum To Congressional Drive

NEW MOVES MADE TO BAR DRAFTING OF DADS FOR WAR   Warnings Issued That Ital‘ jans Surrender Does .Not Mean War Against Axis: Is to End Quickly. .   CASUALTIES ARE FAR BELOW EXPECTATIONS   Hershey Says Need of Mobolization of Men May Not Be as Great During Remainder of War.

BAN ON FATHER DRAFT SPURRED   Htaly’s Surrender Brings Quick Call For New Survey of Manpower.

FAMILY OF FIVE DIED IN FIRE   Man and Wife and Thei Three Children Burned to Death.

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Quiet Restored To Harlem Area   5 Killed, 543 Hurt, Damage $5,000,000

Harlem Riots Fatal to Five, 543 Injured   More Than 500 Arrested After Stores Are Looted, Curfew Clamped on Area

Eastern Riot Costs  Five Lives and  High Property Loss Many Police Patrol  Harlem; Quiet Is Finally Regained

QUELL RIOTS ‘RESULTING IN FIVE DEATH:   543 Injured, Property Lass is $5,000,900 In Harlem Area

HARLEM RIOT FATAL FOR 9; 043 INJURED   WHITES AND BLACKS SMASH WINDOWS, LOOT STORES

ORDER RETURNS TO HARLEM AFTER 0 DIE IN RIOTS   Six Thousand Police Patrol Streets to Prevent Repeti, tion of Shootings and   Stabbings.   PROPERTY DAMAGE PLACED AT $5,000,000   Windows Smashed and Stores Looted During Disorders —Injuries Suffered byj  543 Persons.

BELIEVES COAL PRODUCTION   Negotiations May Continue Past April 30 Date

BELIEVES COAL PRODUCTION WILL CONTINUE   Negotiations May Continue Past April 94 Date

WILL TELL INDUCTEES TO ASK FOR BALLOTS   Draft Boards Are Instructed To Advise Men Going Into Service Regarding Right To Vote

Jimmy Doolittle’s Air Force Drop Rain of Bombs on Sardinia,  THE ALLIES DIDN’T LOSE SINGLE PLANE  R.A.F. Active Again Today and Headed for Northern France.

Sardinid, and Pantelleria Hard’. Hit By Allied Flyers In Heavy Raid On Axis Rases.

DRAFT DEFERRED FARMERS URGED TO AID INDUSTRY   Director Of Selective Service Promises That Men Will Not Lose Classification By Working At Defense Jobs Elsewhere.

FIERGL FIGHTING UN SOVIET FRONT   Pee , ,  Spring Thaw Brings New Activity; Russians Hold  Kuban Bridgehead

ACTIVITY ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT IS STEPPED UF   Soviet Communique Tells Of Heavy Fighting In the Kuban Bridgehead  Awana

First  rst of Kaiser's Six Opes Hearth. . - Furnaces Completed ia 11 Months

MARSHALL 10 COMMAND ALL ALLIES FORCES   Job As Chief-of-Staff Hence forth Largely Routine; American Only Available Man for Top.   British Admire Him

Marshall — Slated To Head All   To Become Virtual Global Commander-in-Chief of U.S.-British Forces   STRONGLY BACKED BY ROOSEVELT   Churchill and Other British Officials Admire and  Respect Him

Marshall Slated to Become Global Allied Commander   AP War Analyst Learns U. S. Army Chief Of Staff to Head Forces in Field, Ground, Air and Sea as Result of Quebec Decision

Selection of U.S. Stat  Chief for Top Job in War One of Quebec  Decisions   London Cabinet's Approval Likely;  Big Part Played By Marshall i At Military Conferences

BIG OFFENSE IN EUROPE IS ABOUT READY   General Marshall Also Mentions Asia as Target of  Allied Forces.   Year and Half Spent In Just Preparation

Would Top Three Allied Area Commanders; Seen Major Decision  At Quebec Conference

MARSHALL TO GET - GLOBAL COMMAND   -U, S. Chief of Staff Slated to Head Anglo-American Forces

MARSHALL WILL BECOME GLOBAL CHIEF OF ALLIES   General to Direct All Anglo American Forces in War

GEN. MARSHALL GIVEN SUPPORT   Objections Will Be Made to Any Attempt to Shift Chief of Staff.

Marshall To Be Allied War Chief   Slated To Become Global Head of All Anglo-American Forces In The Field

Rap Move To Oust Marshal!   Chairman Reynolds Gives Notice In Editorial That He Will Interpose.

Speedy Action Forecast on Mandamus Suit   Secretary of State Ordered to Show Cause  For Refusing Petitions   GUF FILES AUTIUN  Attorney General, Republican Lawyers To Argue Referendum

THRILLING STORY OF WAR WITH JAPS IS TOLD BY MARINE   Sgt. Lester, Hero Of Six Major Engagements And Wounded In Action, Addresses Bond Rallies   MEETINGS ARE HELD AT FIVE INDUSTRIES   WAR BOND SALES REACH $1,575,301

THEATER AIDS IN WAR BOND DRIVE   State Will Conduct Feature Show On Tuesday Night, Sept. 28—Seats Only For Bond Purchasers   War Bond Sales Now. Total $1,403,711.25

WAR BOND SALE TOTAL INCREASES   Sum Of $368,742 Reported Subscribed Up Until Close Of Business Last Evening —910 Subscriptions

BOND DRIVE NOW ON HOME STRETCH   Three-Quarters Pole Passed In Campaign Here As Total Subscriptions Mount—Two Days Added

WAR BOND SALES TAKE JUMP HERE   They Have Passed Half-Million Dollar Mark——Some Good Seats Remain For All-Soldier Show

VARIOUS GROUPS AID IN BOND DRIVE   They Are Getting Fine Results From Efforts—-Total Sales Going Higher And Higher Each Day   Bond Sales Near Million Dollars

Demands Probe Of Professional Pension Leaders   Assembly Gels Bill Permitting ChorctrTrainina

Demand Pension  Probe   ASSEMBLY STUDIES BILL TO PERMIT RELIGIOUS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDY

~ BE PRISONER   German Announcement of “Protectorate” Raises Question of Pope

Question Raised Whether Pope Is to Become Virtual Prisoner (As Hitler ‘Protects’ Vatican

Imprisonment — Of Pope Feared \n Hitler Move   Striking Parallel With Actions Of

Plans Disclosed For Electrical Automatic Pilot For United States

Use Automatic Bomber Pilots   Holds Plane On a Designated Course

WEAPON BARED   "* Auto-Pilot Is Reason For Bombing Accuracy, Army Reveals

DEBATE OPENS IN SENATE ON FUTURE PEACE   Many Days Of Oratory And Argument Predicted

SENATE TAKES UP PEACE MACHINER'   38 of 60 Senators Are Ex pected to Vote For Resojution, 18 Non-Committal.

i200 American Liberator Pianes Hit  Telling Blow at Source of German Oil Supplies

LIBERATORS SET FIRES IN OIL FIELDS   Of Rumania In Sensational Daylight Blow to Germany’s Fuel Sources And Rumania’s Morale   Seven Alerts

Biggest low level raid — in history   175 planes make 2.400 mile trip

Huge Fires Set In Sensational  Daylight Blow   Tons of Explosives  Rained on Ploesti Oil Area by Some 2,000 Fliers; Damage Great

Huge Nazi Oil Source  Hard Hit   175 Bombers Strike Seven Big Refineries

200 Liberators Fly 2000 Miles, Deal Devastating Blow To Germany’s Sour ces of Fuel

Tremendous Fires Set in Area by Liberator -: Bombers  AVIATION HISTORY IS MADE BY RAID Gallantry ‘of American Airmen Lauded by General

Axis Suffers Severely From Attack   Damage Will Impede Nazis on Red And Italian Fronts

American Liberators Strike Sensational Aerial Blow at Rumanian Oil Fields

q‘loesti Blasted a Record Raid: Damage Is Heavy   ditler's Principal Source of Lubricating Oil Attacked   Americans Fly 2,400 Miles To Bemb Important German Targets

Blow Dealt Oil Supply Of Germany   Course of Conflict Materially Affected, Gen. Strahm Believes  ryVIQm YVrponro t2ézmm acm

600,000 Pounds Are  Rained on Refineries   Daylight Attack Blow at Country’s Wavering War Morale; May Materially Affect Whole Course of War

Rumania Oil  Raid Severe   9th Airforce Chief See: War Course Turned

2,000 American Airmen In Low Level Raid On Main Axis Petroleum Source   7 HUGE REFINERIES PLASTERED WITH HITS

Rumanian Fields Of Oil Fired In Bombing Raids   American Airmen Rain Hundreds Of Tons Of Explosives On Ploesti

BIG ATTACK 0 ~ NORTH FRANCE   Fortresses and Fighters Apparently. Headed for . Sub Bases.

Nazis Reported Fleeing Berlin To Escape Bombs   German Government Agencies Are Moved

Heavy.U. S. Planes Attack Points in Western Area.  After RAF Hits in North

YANKS ATTACK: FRENGH TARGE   Enemy - Held Airfield ir Northern France Hit By American Foree.

Yank Bombers Strike Poix   Air Field In Northern France Bombed Today

Poix Airfield Raided By U.S   Daylight Blows At Nazis Are Cantiniod

U. 5. Bombers Raid France   Escorted by Many Fighters Bombers Attack Airfield

Americans Strike  At North France   Allies Continue Air Blows Against the Nazis Across Channel.

ALLIES POUND FRENCH TARGETS   Large Formations of  Planes Make Attacks

France Rocks in  New Raid   YANK BOMBERS HAMMER WEST AS BRITISH HIT SOUTH IN HEAVY BLOWS

Enemy Air Base In France Hit  Americans Stage Raid; RAF Lavs Mines

Continent Under Attack By Forts  Nazi Gunboats Blasted  By RAF Planes

Airfields in France Targets of Bombers   Nazi Concentrations Across Channel Hit As Aerial Warfare Continues; Officials Reported Leaving Berlin

GERMAWAIR BASE “ISHS. TARE   American Medium Bombers Attack Field In Northern France

AIR TARGET IN FRANCE RAIDED   American Squadrons Hit Axis Plane Base at Poix

Also Pound Germans In North Europe   Great U. S. Bomber Armadas In Devastating 2Front Assault.

‘Forts’ in 2-Pronged Attack      Aiv Farees Pound Axis fvem Eugland and J

British Bombers Also Lay Mines. Damave Shipping          rlin - Population , Said  - Scattering .to: Escape  . Future Raids. © Govt.  ‘Branches Said. Prepar ~ ing to Move to Occupied: Territory:

Two Forces Of B17’s Raid On Continent   British, Navy Albacores Sink Six Gunboats, Hit Three More In Channel   SURPRISE SQUADRON   Bombing Record Is Sat For Week; 12,000 RAF Crewmen Take Part

DAY RAIDS ARE MADE IN FRANCE   American Bombers Inflict Blows On Nazi Concentrations

AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK AIRFIELD AT POIX, FRANGE   Raid a Continuation of Day. light Blows at Nazi Concentration Points.   ESCORTED BY FIGHTERS   Was Third Anniversary of the First of German Air Attack on London.

NAZI BASES ACROSS CHANNEL WERE UNDE! U. 5. BOMBER ATTACK  GERMAN GOVERNMENT   GERMAN GOVERNMENT BRANCHES REPORTED MOVING OUT OF BERLIN

Men Can Escape Penalties under Latest Proposal   Wil! Be Allowed To Bargain with Mine Managers, Secretary Says   War Labor Board To An. nounce Decision in Dispute Next Week

Miners To Be _ Given Chance  Escape Fine:   {ckes Says Workmen Can Bargain With Government Managers of Mines; Three Alabama Mines Are Shut Down

Coal Miners Strike Again   Protest Over Fines Brings New Walkout

Plan To Levy Miner Fines Is Qualified By Sec. Ickes   Men To Have Chance To Escape Payments Through Bargaining With Mine Managers   WLB PLANS EARLY PAY ISSUE VERDICT

Ickes Modifies Ruling On Fines   Escape Is Offered In Baragininga Plar

New Walkouts Intensify Coal Wage Dispute   Ickes Qualifies Decision to Fine Striking Miners

Ickes Qualifies Plan for Fines  Men Have Chance to Escape Payment

ICKES MODIFIES FINE LEVY PLAN ~— AGAINST MINERS   Now Says Soft Coal Workers Have Chance to Escape Payments Through Collective Bargaining.   ISSUES STATEMENT . AFTER 2 MINES CLOSE   New Walkouts Aggravate Dispute as the War Labor Board Prepares Decision for Next Week.

ICKES MODIFIES ORDER LEVYING FINE ON MINERS   Official Says Strikers Can Avoid Penalty By Collec tive Bargaining      UNION MAY TURN TOWARD THE COURTS

New Strikes Hamper Coal Accord  Miners Leave  Jobs Despite (Reacts? aft BRaac

Check-up On Driving Ban Is Extensive   Hundreds of Motorists in Eastern Part of State Caught in Dragnet   NUMBER BOOKS SEIZED

Crack Down On Fun Driving  OPA Agents Active _ Around Large Cities During The Weekend

MANY WEEKEND DRIVERS FACE OPA. CHARGES   Hundreds Of Alleged . Pleasure Drivers Are Reported

King Thot In Custody Of German             40 DANISH WARSHIPS SLIP T: TO SAFETY, 30 SCUTTLED IN DANISH HARBORS; MILITARY DEPOTS RUINED

Nine More Ships  Safe in Sweden   One Vessel Sunk by Nazi Bombers, Nation Placed Under Martial Law

Danes Scuttle 31 Warships, Blow Un Fortifications As Nazis Take Over

40 Warships Slip Through .  German Hands   Soldiers Resist  Occupation As Fleet Is Scuttled

Upwards Of Thirty Are Scuttled And One Is Sunk By Bombs While Attempting Escape

Charge Filed Against Cafe Owner After Disturbance A oninet Mexican Workers

CHESTER E. WILEY BIVEN PROMOTION   Former fronwood Coach Ad. vanced From Captain to . Major in Army.

MINORITY UNION GIVEN RIGHT T0 VOTE ON STRIKE   FIRST BALLOTS UNDER NO-STRIKE LAW TO BE CAST AT SPRINGFIELD

First Strike Vote Ordered On Wednesday   Election Will Be Under Smith - Connally Act At Plant In Hlinois.   BIDDLE GIVES OPINION

First Strike Ballot Is Ordered By Gov’t Under New Smith-Connally Act

First Stoppage Ballot  Biddle Rules Minority May Also Petition for Strike Vote

YOUTH PUSHES TWO BOYS FROM CLIFF   16-Year Old ‘Lad Confesses To Death Drop Of Small Boys

C10 MAY CALL COAL STRIKE _ ON PAY POLICS   [rade Magazine Believes CIO May. Move to Reopen Contracts With Steel Companies .   DANGER IS SEEN   Administration’s Stand Or Increases Emphasized In Denial to Packing —  - House Workers -

SHIP RUNS AGROUND IN NEW JERSEY   Removal Of Crew. Halted As Stormy Weather Subsides

News Behind The News Copyright McClure Newspaner   WASHINGTON By Rave Tocher

New Offensive In One Sector   Bitter Tank Battle; Nazi Troops Drop Back

EDEN RENEWS BRITISH PLEDGE “TO CRUSH JAPS   Empire to Turn Attention to Nips After Nazis Conquered

EDEN PLEDGES FNL HELP IN WAR ON JAPS   Says Aid to Come After Defeat of Germany

Missouri War Chest Campaign Extendec   Will End When Every Countv in State Goes Over the Top.

WILL PROMOTE PORK CONTEST   Fair Secretary Announces New Swine Class

RATION BOOKS ONE AND TWO NEARING END   No more copies if books are lost or stolen  says local board

New Telephone Numbers   Gaddis Lumber Co. Ralph Moessner   War Ration Books One and Two

Ration Books 1 and 2 Out of Picture   No More Copies Will Be Is. sued, OPA Announced Today.

OHIO ORDNANCE PLANT CLOSINC   1900 Workers at Marion Switching to Other Jobs

aaa PLANT. TO BE CLOSED   SCIOTO ORDNANCE FLANT WILL BE ENTIRELY SHUT ‘DOWN BY FIRST OF YEAR

CUBAN FREIGHTER SUNK   Enemy Vessel Hit Off of East Coast of Wnited States

Paratroopers Go On Spree In Capital   ‘Take’ Washington With $1,000 Borrowed Funds

ho Specialize In Government  Fe Warns Of Thieves Pay And Benefit Check Fraud   Like To Loot Mai xes Or Play Con- . ‘fidence Came

ho Specialize In Government  fe Warns Of Thieves Pay And Benefit Check Fraud Fraud   re To Loot Mail xes Or Play Con ‘fidence Game

] GENERALS GET MEDALS IN AFRICA   Distinguished Service Awards Made for Brilliance in Campaign

9 KANSANS COMMISSIONED   Officers’ Candidate School Class at Camp Lee, Va,

BOMBERS BLAST BAIROKA HARBOR   JAP BASES POUNDED AS YANKS CLOSE IN ON MUNDA AIRFIELD

U. 5. BOMBERS DROPPED 133 TONS BOMBS   Bairoko Harbor is Blasted in Greatest Air Attack Yet Launched by U. S. in Pacific.

U3. BOMBERS. HIT JAP BASE ABOVE MUNDI   Heaviest Air Attack Ever Made in Southwest Pacific Blasts Harbor.   ACTION REPORTED AS IN SUPPORT GROUND UNITS

JAP POSITIONS AT BAIROKO HARBOR ARE SHATTERED BY U.S,  - HEAVIEST AIR ATTACK   HEAVIEST AIR ATTACK EVER MADE IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC REPORTED

Bombers Shatter Enemy Positions   Heaviest Air Attack Ever Made on Japanese In Southwest Reported: Munda’s Fall Near

‘More Than 150 United ‘States Bombers Shatter  Japanese Position at Bairoko

Japs Bombed In Heaviest Attack  133 Tons Of Bombs   133 Tons Of Bombs Dropped At Bairoko Port

U.S.PILOTS HIT BAIROKO WITH TONS OF BOMBS   Japs at Harbor Above Mun. da Reel Under Heaviest Pacific Attack

Yank Navy Bombers Lash Bairoko Japs   Americans Advance Within Few Thousand Yards Of Munda Nips

150 PLANES HIT JAPS’ BAIROKO PORT POSITIONS   U. S. Troops Advance to Within Few Theusand Yards of Munda Field

Biggest Raid Of Pacific War Strikes Munda   133 Tons of Bombs Shatter Harbor of  Wew Geneats Baca

Ko nT NEW GEORGIA BASE   Avenger Torpedo Bombers Pound Area in Daylong Raids.   JAP ATTACK REPULSED

ACIFIC—  NEW aOR I SET IN ATTAGK   Heaviest Air Assault ’ Ever Made In Southwest Pacific   DAYLIGHT RAID   Bairoko Harbor, Above Munda,  Plastered By 133 Tons Of Bombs

RECORD AIR ATTACK HITS JAP BASE AT BAIROKO, MUNDA’S SUPPLY POINT

JAP POSITIONS AT BAIROKO HARBOR ARE SHATTERED BY U.S,  » HEAVIEST AIR ATTACK  _ EVER MADE IN SOUTH WECT DACILIC DPEPORTETYL

DROP 133 TONS OF BOMBS ON NIPS AT BAIROKO   Heaviest Air Attack Eve Carried Out in South Pacific Area

JAPS’ SUPPLY PORT ABOVE MUNDA BOMBED   133 Tens Bombs Dropped in Heavies! Strafing Yel in Southwest Pacific, Communique Says   ENEMY REPULSED      19 Jap Planes Shot Down, 11 Oth: ers Probably Destroyed in New Guinea Air Battle

New Georgia Harbor Gets Heaviest Raid   Term Aerial Attack By 150 American Planes Biggest Ever Made In Southwest Pacific

POINT VALUE OF SAUSAGE IS REDUCED   New Cut Applies to Wieners, Bologna, Scrapple

tuts Range From One To Two Points On Tamales, Head Cheese, Other Meat Products Under Order

OPA Pares Cold Meats’ Point Values   Public Not Buying Wieners, Bologna And Pork Sausaze

SAUSAGE POINT VALUE IS CUT   Decrease Applicable To Both Tradesmen And Consumers.

ASKS EXAMPLE   Congress Wants To Know Hf U.S Paper's Rationed. Too.

All Refugees Taken From  Flooded Area   Soldiers Use Army Pontoons For Rescue  Work In Oklahoma

Japs Rush in New Planes   123 Aircraft Lost tn Rendova Battle Heavy Drain on Foe

Large Seale ~ Sky "Battles   Ar ‘e Imminent   Rabaul, Bougainville Are Eventual Goals _OFf Allied Assaults _

Offensive maneuver underway   Russians report all moves repelled

Violent Fighting Has Cost Invaders 586 Tanks And 203 Planes, Reds Say   RUSS ACKNOWLEDGE SMALL PENETRATIONS

REDS REPORT ASSAULTS OF FOE REPELLED   Say 586 Nazi Tanks And 203 Planes Destroyed

All Main Attacks Repelled, Soviet Message Says  LARGE FORCES ARE THROWN IN BATTLE  Hundred-Days Lull on the Soviet Front Is Ended

586 Tanks and 203 Plane Lost by Nazis in Fight — On Orel-Belaorod Sector

Russians Report Big Nazi Drive   586 Tanks And 203  Planes Said Lost By ROBERT E. BUNNELLE

MOSCOW REPORTS ALL MAIN ATTACKS REPELLED ALTHOUGH LOCAL SMALL NAZI PENETRATIONS WERE ACKNOWLEDGED.

Russians Report Big Nazi Drive   586 Tanks And 203  DiAagAne fete [ 22s

Nazis Lose 586 Tanks, 203 Planes,  Russians Say      ¢ Local Penetrations By Nazis Acknowledged But All Main Attacks Repulsed, Reds Contend  VIOLENT FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS  Orel-Belgorod Drive Stirs New Speculation As to Germans’ Plans  45

Soviet Reports Heavy Losses To Invading Force  Scale Of Nazi Losses  Leaves No Doubt Great  Action Is Underway

All Main Attacks Repell: ed, Soviet Message Says . LARGE FORCES ARE.  THROWN IN BATTLE: Hundred-Days Lull on the  Soviet Front’ Is ao Ended —

Soviet Fight Takes New Intensity;  Climax Is Expected  Big Nazi Force Hurls Full Weight en  Vial Rueetan Front

JEFFERS MAY QUIT JULY 1   Rubber ‘Director Hopes to Have ' Program Well Underway

Jetters May Quit After July First   Can Tell by Then If Rubber Program Is Shaping Up All Right.

Jeffers May _ Give Up Post After July ]   ‘Rubber Director Plans -To Resign If Program Is Satisfactory In Next Few Months 

Plans to Resign After July 1 if Rubber Program is “All Set and Coming Through”   WILL STICK AS LONG AS IT IS NECESSARY   ‘Pm Not Going to Let Anybody Down, But I Have a Big Railroad  Job to Do,” He Says

Jeffers Hints At Resigning   Will Quit July 1 ‘If Rubber Program Is Set’

Jeffers will resign July “if possible’   To resume rail duties if rubber program is set

CHICAGO BLAZE FATAL TO FIVE, MANY ARE HURT      Panic Succeeds Fire In Crowded Recreation Hall. Bowling Alley

Six Dead In Bowling Alley Fire   rhirty-tive Others Burned in Chicago Recreational  Parlor Today

§ Die In Chicago Fire   Explosion And Blaze  Causes Panic   Crowded Recreatior Parlor Becomes Scene of Tragedy

SIX KILLED IN CHICAGO FIRE   100 Treated for Shock, Minor Burns; Loss Set at $150,000

FIVE DEAD IN FIRE. PANIC IN CHICAGO BOWLING ALLEYS   Scores Suffer Shock and In juries Due to Rush for Congested Exits.

6.0, P. WOMEN ~APOAPITAL MEE      Will Keynote Meetings Looking to. 1944 Presidential «°°

1,000 Republicar Women Meet  Clinton County Will Be Represented By _ 12 In Harrichura

Group Studies 4-F Rejectees   Draft Officials Await Return Of FDR For New Moves In Drafting.

FATHER DEFERMENT LAW MEANS LITTLE AS IT NOW STANDS   Ahead of Them on List

No Plan to Induct Dads By Age Groups, As Reportec By Rep. May.   AWAIT CLARIFICATION

DRAFTERS LOOK TO 4-F's   Selective Serviee Head Waits For Reosevelt Return

Draft Officials Look Over 4-F's   Military Standards May Be Lowered To Ease Induction

DRAFT OFFICIALS, AWAITING RETURN OF ED.R.. STUDYING THE 4-F “FIELD”

FATHER DRAFT 1S CONFUSING   OFFICIALS AWAITING PRESIDENT'S RETURN FOR CLARIFICATION

VAY Ny      ar Today— Air Warfare May ‘Offset Hitler’s U-Boat Campaign

DELAY IS SEEN ON WAGE ACTION   Houte May Not Vote On Truman-Crosser Bill Until Next Year

WAY WAGE BILL ACTION T0 BE DELAYED   Administration Asks Delay to Await Subsidy Plan Outcome

HOUSE DELAY ~ IN PAY BILL   ADMINISTRATION ‘SEEKS TO BLOCK PASSAGE OF RAIL   "WORKERS' INCREASE, UN- °  a SUBSIDY ACTION

Overtime Proposal Believed Made In Effort to Prevent National Railroad Strike December 30th

OVERTIME PAY "PROPOSAL KEY TO RAIL CASE   F. D.’s First Overtures To Unions, Carriers Fail To End Deadlock

Overtime Pay FR Answer To Railway Strike   Four-Hour Confab With Leaders Fails To Reach Agreement

Seek-to:Avert Railroad Strike      Overtime Proposal . May Be Basis

Seek Plan To Prevent  Rail Strike   Roosevelt, Aides Look to Overtime  Pay Hike Proposal

PRESIDENTS — MEETINGS MAY AVERT STRIKE      Would Have  . Overtime Pay - Begin at 40 Hrs.

OVERTIME PLAN CONSIDERED IN RAIL DISPUTE   President, Chief Lieutenants, Ir Conference With Rail Leaders

MARTIN STRESSES AFTER WAR PLANS: IN TALK ‘TO LEGION   State Convention Opens Streamlined Session At Wilkes-Barre , Today

Mandalay Rail Yards Attacked   U. S. Bombers Make Heavy Attack On Rail Lines In Occupied Burma

YANKEES POUND JAPS IN BURMA   Enemy Rail, Communication ‘Links In Ruins All Over Key Areas

SUSPECTED SPY OFFERSTOTALK   \Yoman Nabbed by Federal Officers As Agent For Germany Says She’! Give Evidence

WOMAN GERMAN SPY OFFERS TO TALK NOW   Freedom, But. No Trial, Is Her Proposition

SPYING SUSPECT SEEKS FREEDOM   Detroit Woman Offers Tc Give Information To Federal Men

SPY READY TO TALK FOR HER FREEDOM   Mrs. Behrens May Give FB Vital Information

Big Inch All But Finished   Crude Oil to Be ~ Pumped Through Great Pipeline

BIG INCH LINE IS PRACTICALLY READY GARRY LOAD OF OIL  OIL NOW FLOWING EAST. WARD AND FINAL COM.

“Big Inch” Is All but Finished   Welding of Last Section Set for Monday in East

Huge Pipeline ls Completed   Test Runs of Crude Oil Pumped Through

‘lb INCH WILL BE READY SOOK   Ickes to Witness Welding Of Last Section of Pipe On Monday.

‘BIG INCH’ NEARS COMPLETION; OIL STARTS TO FLOW   Huge Pipeline Stretches From Texas To East Coast

Big Inch Pipe Line Is All But Finished   Government Dignitaries to Witness Welding of Last Section on Monday   PLIMPING IS UNDER WAY

WELDING OW . PIPELINE 10) END MONDAY   FINAL SECTION OF “BIG INCH” TO BE COMPLETED NEXT WEEK.   Air Tests Made   i Government Dignitaries to Wit  ness Welding of Last Link In Pennsylvania.

‘Big Inch’ to Be Completed Monday, Oil Already Moving Through Pipes

“Big Inch”? Will be Finished Monday, Ahead of Schedule   Great Project to Bring Oil to Eastern States Is Virtually Completed Aft Cost of $95,000,000 and Less Than Year After Work Started;  Will Lav Ancther Line

Test Run on Big Inch Pipe Line Monday   Will Take 3,000,000 Barrels Oil to Fill Eastern Section of Line Costing $95,000, 000.00 

THE TROOPSHIP POPE LAUNCHED   Is Largest Ship Ever Built At Kearny Yards

AUSSIES ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA   PUSH WAY TWO MILES UP HUON PENINSULA COAST— TANKS PACE DRIVE.

*Giraud Arrives For U. S. Talks   Committee Moves To Replace Robert  By RICHARD G. MASSOCK  Beannintad BDeaes Gbanfkf& Ul i tag

®Giraud Arrives For U.S. Talks   Committee Moves To Replace Robert

GIRAUD ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON FROM ALGIERS   Military Discussions Will Be Carried On By French  Army Commander   ROBERT RELIEVED OF MARTINIQUE POST

ROBERT WILI BE REPLACED IN. MARTINIQUE   Giraud In Washington To Hold Military Talks; Antilles Expected To Quit Vichy   Commander Appointed

Giraud Arrives For Conference In Washington   Robert Is Relieved Of Martinique Post By French Cornmittee

Giraud’s visit for series of military talks   French act to remove Roabert

GIRAUD MEETS ROOSEVELT 10 DISCUSS ARMY   FRENCH COMMITTEE TO OUST ROBERT IN MARTINIQUE

GEN. GIRAUD ARRIVES FOR WAR PARLEY   Steps Taken to Relieve Admiral Robert From Command

Giraud Reaches U. S. For Military Parleys   French Relieve West Indies Official From Oné-Man Rule of Islands; Alionment- Expected: Against-Axis:

GIRAUD REACHES WASHINGTON FOR TALKS WITH ROOSEVELT   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

Giraud in Nation’s Capital for Military Talks  French Leaders Aci To Relieve Robert in Indies

Rain Explosives At Rate of 30 Tons a Minute   New Tactics Prove Success in Most Concentrated Attack

RAF Plaster:  Berlin in Speedy Raid New Taetics Place Bombera Over

Government Buildings Around Famous Wilhelmstrasse Saic to Have Been Hit—Bombs Fall at Rate of 50 Tons a Min. ute—Only Speedy Lancasters Sent Against Capital— Railway Junctions in France Blasted.

Berlin Struck Intensive Blow From The Air   Faster Bombers Used For New Type Of Concentrated Raid

Smashing Raid Batters Berlin   Saturation Assault Lleace New Tactice

Berlin Is Given New, Severe  ‘Aerial Attack   Capital Suffers Most intense Raid In Germany's History; Other Taraets in Europe Are Punished

Heaviest Raid Concentration Hits Berlin   1120 Tons of Bombs Rein on City ot Rate of 50 Tous « Minute

REICH CAPITAL TARGET AREAS STILL BURNING   RAF Hurls 1,000 Tons of Bombs On Berlin; Only 22 Bombers Lost Jn 20-Minute Raid

Berlin Given Heavy Attack  New Type Of Atteck Is Used In Air Reid

BLAST BERLIN IN FIERY RAID   DAYLIGHT ASSAULTS ON REICH CAPITAL TO BE INCREASED

1,120 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPE ON BERLINERS   New Tactics Used By RAF: Heavy Damage Done To Germany

Berlin Blasted By New Concentrated Bomber Assault   Many Tons of Bombs Dropped Within 20 Minute Period on German Capital

British Drop 1,120 Tons of Bombs on Berlin—22 Giant Planes Are Lost in Raids

BERLIN AGAIN OBJECT OF RAF NIGHT ATTACK   More Bombs Dropped On Smoking Capital Of The Nazis

RAF Blasts Nazi Capital In New Type Of Attack   “Most Concentrated Raid Made On City

Speedy Bombers Blast Berlin With New Attack  Bombs Cascade Into Nazi Capital 50 Tons Per Minute

RAF Unloads:1,120 Tons of Bombs  In Concentrated Attack on Berlin

R. A. F. Bombers Blast Berlin   Raid Described as Most Concentrated Yet Made on Germany

INCREASES IN - INCOME TAYES. ARE REJECTED   HOUSE COMMITTEE: VOTES AGAINST ANY ADDITIONAL TAX ON INDIVIDUAL INCOMES

MARIGNY FREE: ‘ASSAU CRIME GOES UNSOLVEL   urv Decides 9 to 3 Tha  He Did Not Beat Sir  Harry Oakes, .MultiMillionaire, to Déath -

DE MARIGNY IS FREED BY JURY   Jurors Recommend That ‘ Handsome Count Be Deported From ‘Bahamas —

DE MARIGNY 15 FREED OF OAKES MURDER BUT UNWELCOME RESIDEN]  “JURY ACQUITS ACCUSED MAN BUT ASKED THAT HE BE DEPORTED

DE MARIGAY WINS GOURT'S FREEDOM   Jury by 9-3 Vote Acquits Sonin-Law of Victim, Recommend Deportation

DeMarigny Wins Jury Aquittal   Declared Innocent In Qakes Murder

De Marigny  Freed, May ~ Quit Nassau   Acquitted 9 to: 9 to 3: Jur Asks Deportation From Bahamas

D'MARICNY WINS §-3 AGQUITTAL   ‘Jury Recommends That He: ae Winer 4

Jury Acquits De Marigny Of Slaying   Mystery Surrounding Death of Sir Harry Oakes More Baffling Than Ever  IS CHEERED BY CROWD

Free De Marigny Of Oakes’ Murder   But Bahamas Jury Decides That He Should Be De ported From Colony.

OAKES SLAYING STILL MYSTERY   De Marigny Acquitted By Jury. But Deportation Is Recommended

DeMarigny Is Acquitted By 9-3 Verdict   Jury Recommends That He Be Deported From The Colony

De Marigny Freed By Jury Verdict    Jury Recommends Deportation From Colony ®

De Marigny Freed Of Slaying Charge   Mystery of Killing of Wealthy Sir Harry Oakes Still Unsolved   Order for Soda Bicarb Puzzles New Fountain Clerk

Handsome de Marigny Free But Jury Recommends That He Be Deported

BAHAMAS JURY ACQUITS COUNT   Gives Unanimous Recommendation He Be Deported

Jurors Recommend _ Accused Man Be Deported  VOTE IS 9 TO 3 Slaying Of Sir Harry Oakes Still Is  RA wetary

FREE DE MARIGNY OF OAKES’ DEATH   JURY RECOMMENDS DEPORTATION OF HANDSOME HARRY

Jury Finds De Marigny Not Guilty   Recommend Oakes’ Son-in-. Law Be Deported from Ba. hamas; No New Investigation Planned

FD, Churchill Ask Italians  To Wage War on Germans   Two Allied Leaders Say ‘Now Is Time For Every Italian to Strike His Blow’; Message Sent to Badoglio and People

3.000 Housing Units Listed In OPA Program   Representative To Be In Bonham  Two Days Weekly

REPEAL GRADE LABEL ORDERS QN MANY 6000S      Meats. Butter, Eggs. And Cheese Included In Today's Lists

Grade Labelling Dropped By OPA   ‘Officials Say Brand ‘Names Would Be Lost

Walkout Of Miners Averted When Lewis Extends Miners Truce      GREATEST CATASTROPHE   se EEE LD OOLD LO ———————EEE—————Eeeer  Blasting Of Dams Germany s Greatest Catastrophe

ICKES APPEALS TO JOHN L. LEWIS; COAL MINE TRUCE IS EXTENDED   Mine Leader Continues To Defy War Labor Board. Walkout To Halt Production Is Awarten.

READY FOR BIG FBI CONFERENCE AT UNIONTOWN   Valley And County Police Will Take Part And Hear Of New Methods

Three Counties Represented At FBI Conference   All Peace Officers In Dis trict Are Meeting Here Monday

REDS KEEP UP ADVANCE ON SMOLENSK   133 TOWNS AND VILLAGES TAKEN BY RUSSIANS IN 36-HOUR PERIOD

Russ Take Twe Key Points in Smelensk Push   Gzhatsk, Osuga, 133 Towns Fall; Soviets Make Gains Near Kursk

FOURTEEN SUPER-HEROES A DAY IN ARMED FORCES, ST. LOUIS REPORTER DISCOVERS

Congress Told Of Assured Victory   McNARNEY DECLARES UNITED NATIONS VICTORY NEAR

U.S. RAPIDLY APPROACHING     “FINAL VICTORY”, CONGRESS  TOLD BY DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF

ARMY'S BUDGET      War to Be Brought Home to Japan, Says Deputy Chief of Staff. ;   ‘6,800,000 MEN TRAINED

War Will Be Brought Home To Nipponese In Such Manner That “Whole Empire Will Feel Its Full Impact In Most Violent And Destructive Way,” Deputy Chief Of Staff McNarney Declares—United Nations Seen Nearing “Final Victory”

Full War On Japs Pledged  To Congress   We’re Moving Rapidly Toward Final Victory, MeNarnev Saves

United Nations Rapidly Approaching ‘Final Victory’’ Congress Is Told

Victory Near,’ Says Army Head  Deputy Stoff Chief Sees Speedy Climax  tn Eurone. Jaonan

Turn Tide of Jap  Drive in Pacific   High Military Officer Says United Nations Near to a Victory.

JAPS TO FEEL WAR   Congress Hears Allies Are Approaching *‘A Final Victory”

GEN. M’NARNEY PLEDGES JAPS TO FEEL WAR   Tells Congress United Nations Rap idly Approaching Final Victory, Strateqv Laid

WarTo Be Brought Home To Japs In Violent And Destructive Way, . U.S. Deputy Chief Of Staff Declares

CONGRESS IS TOLD 6,800,000 ARE IN FIGHTING FORCES   Lieut. Gen--McNarney _Declares Japanese Empire Is Due to Feel Impact in Most Destructive .Way.   SENATE. ABOUT. READY FOR APPROPRIATIONS   Discussing Budget’ Arm y Plans For 8,200,000 Ofcers, Men and 150,000 Waacs as Year’s Goal.

CONGRESS ASOURED “FRAL VICTORY” IS NOW APPROACHING  JAPAN TO FEEL FULL IMPACT OF WAR IN MOCT

Final Victory Rapidly Approaching for United Nations, Says General

Approaching Final Victory Senate Told   War Will Be Brought: Home to Japan,» General McNarney Says   TESTIFIES ON-THE . BIG ARMY BILL   Army of Seven and. OneHalf Million Planned-for All of 1944 Fiscal Year

McNarney Says Japs Will Feel Weight Of War  Senate About Ready is Pass Army Funds;  mamma  male r em

eas ALLIES APPROACHING FINAL VICTORY   Gen. McNarney Tells Senate Group Combined Chiefs of Staff Have Well-Defined Plans to Crush Jane.

Congress Assured Of Final Victory   Action on Army Appropriations Expected To Be Completed by Senate Vote Today

FULL FORCE OF WAR-M’NARNEY   Says Impact To Be Felt Is Violent and Destructive Way   ARMY TO BE ‘PEGGED’   Will Be Kept At 7,500,000 Troop Strength, Solons Informed

Congress Told Final Victory Is Approaching   Use of Word ‘Rapidly’ May Have Been Overstatement, However

"Final Victory’ Near, General Tells Congres:   Deputy Chief -Of- Staff  MecNarney Predicts Early Decision

JAPS TO.FEEL WAR   Congress Hears Allies Are Approaching “A Final eps

Congress is Assured United Nations Are Approaching Victory   Deputy Chief of Staff is Authority for  Statement in Committee

A llies Approaching ‘Final Victory,” Congress Told   I Liowt. Gen, Joseph T. McNarney, Deputy Chief of  ava War Will Staff, 5 ways5 weGYr vri Be Bro ought Home ts Japan  In Such Manner That “Whole Empire Will Feel Impact. In Violent Way”

Army School Is Planning For Future   Charge ‘Gauleiters’ Are Being Trained Is Silly

Pilot Gets Crew _ Back To Safety   THREE MEMBERS OF U. S FORTRESS WERE UNCONSCIOUS

Louisiana Set To Fight Storm Due From Gulf   Long-Expected Tropical Storm Swings North Tans Bite Tassie

PLANS SPURNED BY COMMITTEE   House Group Ready ta : Approve $2 Billion Measure

House Group Turns Down  Sales Tax   TWO BILLION DOLLAR TAX MEASURE READY

SALES TAX 1S DEFEATED BY. HOUSEGROUP   All Peoposats Rejected by Woysand Means  Committee   TREASURY PROGRAM ENTIRELY WRECKED   Only About Two. Billion ~ Dollarsin New Revenue a Approved

Defeat Retail Sales Tax Plan   New Revenue Bill May Raise Two Billion

Sale” ix Idea Turned Down By House Unit   Committee Ready to Vote Bill With Only 2  Billion New Revenue

House Group Votes Down Proposals for Sales Tax   Ballot Taken Behind Closed Doors With Lineup Undisclosed ' —Action a Victory for Administration—Committee Ap pears Ready to Approve $2,000,000,000 Revenue Program in Place of $10,500,000,000 ‘Treasury Requested,

SALES TAX IS DEFEATED BY HOUSE GROLUD   All Proposals Rejected by Ways and Means Committee   TREASURY PROGRAM ENTIRELY WRECKED   Only About Two Billion Dollars in New Revenue Approved  &

GENERAL SALES TAX IS KILLED   No Recommendation Made By Committee In Face Of Certain Veto

NO SALES TAX IN HOUSE BILL   Only Two Billion Of New Revenue In Sight; Over 10 Billion Asked

Federal! Sales Tax Is Vetoed  In Committee   House Bill Is Expected Sharply to Undereut  "esaeevemey Bs

ALL SALES TAX PLANS SPURNED BY COMMITTEE   House Group Ready te y-Approve §2 Billion Measure

10-25 AGE MEN TO BE CALLED   Men In This Age Group Will Go Next Two Months.

IAPANESE TBE FORCED 10 LEAVE PHILIPPINE ISLES   Puppet Government Action To Be Disregarded, First  + Actions Are Discussed By Roosevelt.   ALLIANCE WITH JAPS FIRST OFFICIAL ACT   President Says Appeal to U. S. Is Fraud and Deceit te Confuse and Mislead  Filipino-Peonle.

Japanese Will Be Driven From Philippines Says President Roosevelt

FDR Pledges To Save Filipinos   Japs Will Be Driven Out, He Declares

U.S. Will Drive Out » Japanese   Roosevelt Declares Invaders ‘Will Be: Forced. From the Philippines   PUPPET REGIME WILL NOT STAND   Alliance: With. Japan. and Hypocritical Appeal. to America Noted.

TREACHEROUS JAPS” 10 'BE:DRIVEN FROM: PRI HPS FOR   President Savs Truly ‘Indeéndent. Philipnine: Nation Will Re Fetablished

FDR Pledges U.S. To Drive © Japs From Philippines, Set ‘Up True Independent Nation   Collaborationists And Tokyo Puppet Government Scorned By President

Puppet Regime Ouster Pledged   President Roosevelt Says Philippines To Be Independent

FR Rips Into Jap Fraud in Philippines   Denounces Hypocrisy _ Of Recognition By Tokio

FA PROMISES U3. TO DRIVE QUT JAPS   Will Never Recognize As Legal Jap-Sponsored Filipino ‘Republic.’

URGE HOUSEWIVES TO GIVE MORE FATS   Report State Collections Far Below Quota

U-Boat Losses Cut Shar ply By Allies In 14s,   Losses to Axis submarines were ‘staggering ‘in early. part of the war, °°

POLAND WANTS PRUSSIA   Acquisition Of Eastern German Territory Polish Postwar Aim

TAFT ASKS CURB ~— ONFCC POWERS   Ohio Senator Demands Time for Congress to Study Problem.

Bill To Finance Camp, Furnish Equipment And Increase State Guard Indicated In Legislature

Proposes Summer Encampment, More Units For Guard.   Bill Appropriating Finds  for State ‘Guard - Introduced in Assembly: ”

ALLIES MEET NO FIGHTER OPPOSITION IN RAIDS ON eAPS IN NORTH SOLOMONS

U0, FLIER DEAL ANOCKOUT BLOW TN ENEMY BASE!   Three Main Jap Airfields In Northern Solomons  Believed Ruined

162 NAZI TANKS DESTROYED ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Massive Battle Rages As Of  fensive In Kursk Area   Enters Second Week   REDS CHECK BREAKTHRU   Soviet Bombers Smash Rail Junction, Wrecking Troop And Supply Trains

REDS RETAKE TWO VILLAGES FROM NAZIS      Moscow Says All German Assaults in South Cheeked

I62 NAZI TANK ANOGKED OUT BY HUOOlAN FORGED   Red Army Recaptures Two Towns in Brilliant  — Counter Attack. —   LOSSES ARE TERRIFIC:   Soviet Claims Nazj Offen. sive Thrusts Are Be-. ing Stalemated.

Second Week Of  Nazi Offensive In Russia Opens   Fierce Tank Battles In Pro gress—Soviet Says Nazis  )  Are Held   LARGE LOSSES ARE SUSTAINED BY NAZIS

MUSSOLINI MAKES PROMISE TO HELP HITLER IS RUMOR   Dispatch From Berlin Says Italians Will Send Diyjsions to Russia.

Report I] Duce Has Promised Hitler More Soldiers For Russian Front

BERLIN BOASTS “THAT MUSSOLINI — ISBACK IN FOLL   Leaders “Inflexibly and Fan: atically Determined to Fight,” Press Says.

Mussolini Promises Hitler to Send More Italian Divisions to Russia

2;000 Iowa Teacher  ' Shortage Expected 1943-44 School Year   State Capitol News Letter As: Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Assembly  Adjourns After  Last-Minute Rush of Business   School Bill Was Last Big Obstacle of Session

WAC Officer Found Slain   Sioux Falls Military And Civil Authorities Seek to Solve Death

Russins Report Taking Documents Showing Hitler’s Plan to Use Gas

GOVERNMENT SAYS FREEDOM OF PRESS WOULD BE AIDED .   AUGMENTED BRIEFS FILED IN SUIT AGAINST - ASSOCIATED PRESS

Battle Of Volturno River Delayed By Flood Waters   Despite Adverse Weather, Some Gains Are Reported —~Allied Air Forces Bomb Corfu and Other Mediterranean Targets

PATIENCE SEEN AS NEEDED FOR YULE SHOPPING   Lack Of Experienced Help T React Against Quick Shopping

Allied Bombers Hit Two More Troop Carriers   MacArthur Reports Enemy Suffers Serious Losses In Nonstop Attacks

Allies victorious in battle off Lae; down  12 aircraft   Japs land small amount of supplies: convoy scatters

ALLIES CLAIM VICTORY OVER NIP VESSELS   Many Enemy Fighter Craft Destroyed In Battle

JAP CONVOY LOSES THREE OF TRANSPORTS   Direct Hits Are Reported On Remaining Three In Convoy.

Would Probe Plan to Feed  Axis Victims   Gillette Fears Many Will Starve Before They Are Liberated

SENATOR URGES FOOD RELIEF   Says Our Allies May Be Dead Before They’re Freed

Axis-Held Nations May Get US Food   Solon Calls Probe Of Feeding Plan

Gillette Calls For Speedy Probe Of Program To Feed World At End Of The War

His Assault-To-Murder Conviction On Appeal  Dr. Newton “Shocked” Over News Of Slaying Of Hunts

Berlin Paints) Black Picture   Admits Spreading Battle Of Russia Raging With Undiminished. Fury.

Batile Spreads In Russia, Says German Radio   Paints Blacker Picture Than Ever At Stalingrad

Nazis Admit Reds Open New Fronts   Great Winter Battle Raging in Full Farce. Axic Ranartz

F irst Official Word Comes  From Moseow   Says Agreement Made On Both Military And Political Plans  REICH RADIO BUSY.

‘Moscow ‘Scoops’ World On Iran Meeting Of ‘Big Three’   Questons On War And World Politics Said Discussed But No Details Given

Allied Leaders Agree On Mili. tary And Political Plans For War On Germany   DECISIONS WILL BE MADE PUBLIC TODAY

MEETING HELD IN PERSIA FOR SEVERAL DAYS   Moscow Says Details Of Historical Agreement Will Be Announced  Probably Today

Roosevell, Churchill and Statin Agree Upon Both Military and Political Plans for War On Germany: Details to Be Given Out ‘Later’

FDR, Churchill and Stalin map strategy at Teheran meeting   Make final military and political  decisions in war against axis foes

SOVIETS TELL ‘OF PARLEY I ~TRAN CAPITAL   Roosevelt, Churchill, Statin Map Strategy of War

Also Consider Political Move Against Germany   Cenduct of War Fully Discussed

Moscow Reports I’. D. R Churchill, Stalin  Have Held Conference:

Moscow Announces Both Miultary and Political Plans Were Agreed On at Iran Capital.     ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL AND STALIN PRESENT   Army Men and Diplomats Attended—Decisions Reached May Be Announced Today.

Nazis Lose Eight Planes i in  Bat tle  ry oo   30 German Aircraft Attack Allied Canvoy

German Capital Is Hard Hit In Raids   58 Four-Engined Bombers Lost In Big Raid Over Berlin: Nazi Opposition Said Fierce

Yanks Bomb Plane Plant In Bordeaux   Germans Suffer Stunning Blows  From Two Attacks

Airmen Returning From Africa Attack Bordeaux Factory BERLIN HARD-HiT—  BY 700 BOMBERS Night Attack Indicated as  German Radios Go Silent

DROP TONS OF BOMBS IN BIG AIR OFFENSIVE   AMERICAN FLIERS IN NEW ATTACKS ON NAZI PLANTS

Radio Stations Off Air Again About Midnight   New Raids on Europe Indicated as British, Americans Turn Might On Nazis’ Queen City

German Radios Silent, Indicate New Air Raids   Russians Claim Near Nazi Rout In Poltava Drive

700 PLANES TAKE © PART IN ASSAULT   American Shuttle Raiders Hit » Targets in France   RANGE LENGTHENED   gosmrection in Berlin Twice That Ever Heaped on Any Capital

Yankee Air Raid Coincides With Bombing of German Capital City; 100 Bombers in Attack on Reich   58 Allied Planes Are Lost; U.S. 8th Army Airmen Blast Axis Airfields in France; Raids a Demonstration of Incresing Range of Power

Forts Batter ‘Axis Plants Coming, Going   French Factory Blasted After German By Shuttle Raiders

Air Command Smashes Nazi Capital   Battle of Berlin Is Opened on Destructive Scale

Bordeaux Is Hit On Home Flight   German Capital Is Rocked By Bambs

AMERICANS BOMB FRANCE ON HEELS OF BERTIN RAID   Nazi Radios Again Go Off Air Indicating New Attack on Reich Is Under Wav.   GREAT DAMAGE CAUSED IN GERMAN CAPITAL   Onslaught Four Times as Heavy as Any Ever Suffered by London—58 Planes Lost,

BROWN EXPECTED 18 CHANGE SUGAR SETUP   Hisapproves Of Rationing Sug at For Canning

ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED FOR SHIPS   C. of C. ‘Passes Resolution Urging Action for the Airport

ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED FOR SHIPS      C. of C. ‘Passes Resolution Urging Action for the  Airport   TIES IN WITH. K. U,

eAUML TAX PLAN ~ GETS NEW PUSH   Concerted Drive for Pay-asYou-Go Method Develops in Congress; Committee  » Prepares to Open Hearings

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan . Gains Momentum   Present System of Collections Ie Said ‘Shaky’

RUML TAX PLAN GAINS SUPPORT   KANSAN SPEARHEADS DRIVE: TO PUT LEVIES ON A PAY-  AS-YOU-GO BASIS,

County Within $36,000 of Goal   Nodaway Has Raised 93 Per Cent of Its Second War Loan Quota.   Celeanese Workers Return to Plant on Order of President

PRESIDENT’S ORDER ENDS JERSEY STRIKE   Government Threat To Take Over Gets Results

Plastics Workers Heed Official Order   - Plant Employes Return to Jobs

PRESIDENT’S DECREE ENDS NEWARK STRIKE   n Return To Factory Ti Await Arbitration

REPORT JAP FLEET COMMANDER KILLED IN AN AIR ATTACK   Admiral Koga Said to Have Died Aboard Flagship

GLIDER FLEET ~~ JOBE BUILT   CONTRACT AWARDED FORD FOR’ CONSTRUCTION Or LARGE. NUMBER OF MOTORLESS PLANES.

7TH RAID SINCE SATURDAY RAKES RUINED HAMBURG   AERIAL BLITZ TEARS HEART OUT OF MAIN ENEMY WAR CENTERS

Daily Hamburg Raids Continue   Seventh Allied Attack Since Saturday   Gestapo Chief Himmler In Hamburg. Reds Say

Pulverizing Of llamburg Seen As Experiment   Himmler Reported In Hamburg Following Demonstrations Urging An End To War

Roosevelt And Charchill Determine War Program In North Africa Conferences

THE MEETING IN GASABLANGA Belo DECISION   President Rocsevelt and Mr. Churchill Held a TenDay War Study.   THINGS WILL HAPPEN   Will Pesh War Vigz:rously and Give Al: Aid to Ruscia and China.

INDICATED IN KUBAN   Germans Hint Advances Made By Soviet Forces

DESTRUCTION OF 66 MORE NAZI. PLANES   Admit Intensifieation Of Fighting Around Black Sea Base Held By Nazis:

Russians Report 66 More German Planes Destroyed   Nazi Radio Broadcasts ‘Hint Soviet Forces _  Have Made New Gains

{00 Per Cent Parity Approvec   House’ Agriculture Group Backs Plan

PARITY FLOOR ASKED IN BILL: DRAFT DEBATED   Day's Activities Include Raising Butter Points, Granting 4 Cent Pay Hike For Railroads

Farm Parity Bill Given Approval  Immediate Debate Is Precipitated

Bill Would Put 100 Per Cent Parity Floor under Basic Farm Commodities

Farm Parity Bill Gains Approval Of House Group  Fall Equality Erases Need for Subsidies, Chairman Believes

— Ee rT Tri re FF —lhUcTFrFrOUhUcFrUlhTTCrF TFET  War At A Glance

Here Comes Another  Plans Drafted; Ration Book 4 To Appear on or About Jan. 

Ration Book Four in Offing   Manner of Registration for Book Not Yet Determined by OPA

RATION BOOK NO. 4 PLANS INDEFINITE   No Date Set for Its AppearanceMethod of Application Undecided.

For Sale   3 ricks of hay, - Gibout £9 £0 tons. =: Ls Haley, Phone 61F 22,

CONGRESS SUMMONED CLOSE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISERS FOR FACTS  WANT PREVIEW OF NATION’S FOOD AND. TAX  DOASDAM NECVT VEAD

KELLY HOLDS CHICAGO POST   Opponent In Race For Mayor Concedes Incumbent’s Victory.

Fewer Shoes During Year   Next Stamp Must Last For Six-Month Period

Critical Leather Shortage Extends Validity Period Indefinitely; Stamp Valid November 1.

Allies Hurl Back Nine Strong Counter-Atte«ks; Fierce Battle Raging

DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO HOLD ROME LINE   Allied Armies Hold, However, and Advance in Some  Places

Nine Strong German Counter-Attacks Have Been Thrown Back By General Clark’s Men.

Nazi Brigades Swarming Out of Mountain Nests.   NINE STRONG NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS   All Nine Thrown Back With Heavy Enemy Losses.

Marines in Combat With 3,000 Japs   Warships Patrol To Block Enemy  Reinforcements

U.S. Tanks Rip Jap Island Try   MARINES LOCKED IN COMBAT WITH NEW NIP COLUMN NEAR ATSINIMA BAY, 7 MILES NORTH OF EMPRESS AUGUSTA BAY AREA

eG  “PLEASANT AUTUMN” TO FOLLOW FREEZE  Tua Gi, AaonaakhndeaD Winans

Two Danville Men Serve As ‘Guinea Pigs’ At Fort Knox To Assist Army Doctors In Fighting Malaria Fever

Pvt. Edwin 0. Shrell Plays Part Of Army Human Guinea Pig   200 Soldiers Assist _In Combating Dread Malaria Fever

Americans Aid In Beating Off Raid onLondor   City Suffers Worst Air Attack Since ‘Battle of Britain

11 PLANES SHOT DOWN IN ATTACK ON CAPITAL   U.S. Fighters Join RAF In Defense Of Capital  20 CHILDREN KILLED  Germans Make First Attack Since Last July

29 SCHOOL CHILDREN DIE IN BLAST   Briskest Day Action Since  1940 Blitz

COURT TO VIOLATORS   OPA Officials: Will Function in All Parts of Oklahoma

GAVIN BLAMES BROWN, OPA IN OIL SITUATION   Oil City Man in Ex. change with Price Head at Meeting

Gavin Charges Brown, OPA To Blame for Oil. Gas Lack   Congressman Makes Claim at Discussion Of Crude Oil Price and Gas Rationing in Capital: Brown Savs Military Supplied

CAVINBLAMES BROWN, OPAIN OTL SITUATION   Oi City y Man in Exchange with Price taad at Meeting

Examine Account of Jap Decapitation Of Allied Airman, Curtin Reports

New Big Cruiser: ‘Alaska’ Lauriched   >Two-Man. Invasion: Party Takes 3 Islands -rom Italians at-cost of $3 to U.S. ”:

German Air Force {5 Out, Italian Dead, Says Hickey   Colonel Who Led “Air Support in Sicily Speaks On Leave

ALLIES PUT DEATH TRAP SQUEEZE ON   Five More Towns Captured as.  Allies Forge Ahead, All of Mt. Etna Now in Their Hands

ARGENTINA MAY DUMP THE AXIS   Martial La w Repealed Nation Calm After Revolution

Axis Break by New  Argentine  Government Seen Martial Law Is Lifted,  Will Act on Hemispheric Unity

EXECUTION STAY DENIED   Chict Justice liarlan Stone  Refuses to Postpone Hanging of Detroit Man for Treason.

Russians Take Kursk, Close On Rostov, Kharkov   Vital German Supply Base Falls To Reds’ Winter Offensive

CAPTURED CIT) ONE OF MAJOR GERMAN BASES   Y Occupied By Enemy Since November, 1941   Red Army Makes Big Gain: Pravda Says Town Is One Big Cemetery 

SOVIET CAMPAIGN MENAGES KHARK AI   Germans Forced To Give Up Major Base Held Since Nov. 11, 1941   HAMMER ROSTOV   Reds Pressing. Encirclement Drives Against ~ Important Cities.

Great Nazi Base Falls After Being Held Since Its Capture In Nov. 1941      BY EDDY GILMORE

URGE PASSAGE   Senators Appi School Fi     pve Bill te Pay Off ndation Debt.

Wives Tackle Ration Plan   Little Confusion As Food Rationing Goes Into Effect

Buying Is Slow On First Day of  Point Rationing   Housewives Conservative in Starting on Their 48 Points.   5,238 Are Registered In Maryville District

POINT RATIONING NTO EFFECT ALL OVER U5   Shopping Generally Light  Even on Goods Frozen  Throughout Nation for  Over a Month   No Rush In City

FOOD SHOPPING REPORTED LIGHT   Early — Reports Indicate Buyers: Are. Familiar With New System

POINT BUYING CANNED GOODS OPENS LIGHTLY   First Reports Indicate Housewife Has Familiarized Herself With  Tatriracies   WORKS SMOOTHLY      Republican Congressman . Calls For Revision of Rules; Says Hoarders Benefitted

Food Rationing Gets Underway In Nation Today   American - Housewives Begin New Type Of ’ Shopping. a

Point Ration Underway Now   MANY HOUSEWIVES ARE GETTING USED TO PLAN

‘48 Points to ‘Be Spent for Food in Month   Shopping Reported to Be Generally Light Despite “Freeze’”’ Period

U.S. Housewife Shows Familiarity With New Point Rationing System

Little Confusion Today ‘As Point Rationing of Food Goes Into Operation

Point System Of Rationing Now In Effec'   Little. Confusion I: Noted As Shoppers. ‘Go To Stores ~

Motor Freight System Suffers   _ Various. Shortages Bringing. Crisis:

Trucking Officials Warn Crisis ts Approaching Due to Lack of Trucks

LATE PLANTING CUTS CORN BORER LOSSES   Wet Weather Puts Ohio Farmers Behind Schedule

Vaunted German: Flee From Tunis  With No Battle   French Population Gives Joyous Welcome  “To. British Army .

Flowers, Not Bullets, Pelt British At Tunis  ‘Nazis Flee, French Cheer   Yanks Find Bizerte Nearly Deserted

Call Off DeGaulle Visit —   General. Eisenhower Requests Free French Leader To Delay Jour: ney To North Africa

Americans Hit Port of Naples With 200 Tons Of Explosives   Nearly 100 ‘Forts’ in Raid: 21 Ships and Three Subs Struck   Delay Trip, DeGaulle Asked hy Eisenhower

De Gaulle to Delay Meet   Free French Leaders Not to Go to North Africa Now

May 1 Deadline For Completing Classification Of ITI-A or TTI-B Men

DEADLINE MAY 1 ON CLASSIFYING MEN IN 3-A, 3-6  Draft Boards Get es a ee

Heavy Raid, Big Damage   U.S. Loses 60 Bombers, Smashes Vital Nazi Plant

Air Forts Blot Out Nazi Plant   U. S. LOSES 60 PLANES IN GREATEST AIR FIGHT OVER SCHWEINFURT HUBS

Achievement Wipes Out  Fifty Percent of Ger-   many’s Production of: _ War-Vital Article   MIGHT SHORTEN WAR BY 6- MONTHS, CLAIM   Germans Throw Up “Everything In Book” to  Protect Factory At Sehweinfurt

Law American Planes Lost In Air Fight   Rollerbearing Factory Destruction Heavy Blow To German War Program

‘Giant Plant Obliterated In. ‘Raid Costing 60 Forts; Some Collided In Artificial Foq   ‘Photos Show Schweinfurt Devastation; - Air Battle War's Greatest; Bag 104 Nazis

Yank Bombers Smash Vital German Plants 60 Flying Fortresses Lost But Americans Get 104 Nazj Planes

Plant at Schweinfurt Was Demolished by a_ Terrific American Heavy Bomber Assault.   THE 8TH AIR FORCE LOST SIXTY BOMBERS   Men Who Participated Told in Advance a_ Successful Biasting Might Shorten War 6 Months.

GREAT FACTORY IN SCHWEINFURT IS OBLITERATED   -»hotos Show Devastation Wrought By U. S. Bombers; 60 Fortresses, 104 Nazi Planes Lost In Probably Greatest Air Battle In History.

Bombers Wipe Out Giant Nazi Factory   Eighth Air Force Loses 60 Ships In Great Air Battle in Germany

Ballbearing Plant of Nazis Is? -voyed   =%\ ose 60 n&". _ a$ses .aing Assault a German City

Giant Nazi Ball Bearing Fac‘tory at Schweinfurt ~ sa "Destroyed     DOWN  105. NAZI SHIPS 72 Acres of Factory Build.      72 Acres of Factory Build~ ings Vital to Germans _- Wiped Out

ENEMY LOSES 104 PLANES IN AIR FIGHT   Battle Probably Greatest Ever Waged Over Continent; Ball Bearing Plant Wrecked

NAZI FACTORY KNOCKED OUI   Eighth Air Force Lost 60 Flying _ Forts in Raid on Plant Where  Bearings Made

GIANT BEARING PLANT SMASHED   Heavy Losses Suffered in Greatest Battle of Aerial Warfare.   DOWN 104 NAZI PLANES

SIGHT OF NAZI BEARING WORKS BLASTED   104 Enemy Planes Shot own in Biggest Air ‘Battle Yet Over Eurone

Schweinfurt A Shambles After  American Raid   But Yanks Lose Record Number Of 60 Bombers; Down At Least 104 Foe.

Yankees Level Giant German Bearing Plant   Photographs Show Factory Obliterated; Meet Tough. est Opposition,   LOSE SIXTY BOMBERS

Nazi War Plant Said-Obliterated By U.S. Bombers   Schweinfurt Devastation May Shorten War By 6 Months, Fliers Told

British Land North Of Volturno;. 60 ‘Forts’ Lost In Great Air Fight

Nazi Ball Bearing Factory Wrecked   Raid Cost 60 Bombers But Was Important

Giant Nazi Bail Bearing Factory at Schweinfurt _ Destroyed  DOWN 105 NAZI SHIPS  _ RR eee Om:   72 Actes of Factory Build. ” angs Vital to Germans  - Wiped Out

THREE PLANTS DAMAGED AT SCHWEINFURT   In Greatest Aerial Conflict Ever Fought Over Continent 103 Enemy Planes Are Downed   NEW ROCKET APPARATUS

U.S. LOSES 60 FORTRESSES IN RAID ON REICH   ‘Bombers Meet Heaviest Opposition Of War But Hit Vital Factories; Down 104 Nazi Planes.

NAZI FACTORY WIPED OUT BY BOMBER RAID   U.S. Eighth Army Force Loses 60 Planes in Greatest Air Battle of War.   104 German Fighter Ships Are Shot Down

60 Flying Forts Lost Over Europe   Americans Pay Heavy Toll  But Make Shambles of Schweinfurt

American airmen demolish factory   Lose 60 craft wiping out vital Schweinfurt works

Bearing Factory — Attack Worth Cost   B-29, Giant Bomber, Groomed For Combat

Nazi Plant Obliterated By Fortresses   60 Missing Called Perha. ; Greatest Air Battle in History

Huge Factory At Schweinfurt Obliterated By Terrific American Bomber Assault, Eliminating Vital Center Of Supply For Nazi Armies—At Least 104 Enemy Fighters Downed By Flying Fortress Sharpshooters And Thunderbolt Escorts

Aerial Assault. By. U. Se Fortresses bit German. Bearing Factory

A Gigantic, Two-Hour Air Battle   Yankee Bombers Meet Their Greatest Opposition But Make Wreck of War Plant   AT. LEAST 104 NAZI PLANES DOWNED   72 Acres of Great Factory Buildings Blasted; “May Shorten War 6 Months

Qehwel nfurt  WAR VY Waeaa eee  War Plant Is Obliterated   60 Fortresses Missing in Terrific Blow at Vital Nazi Industry   FOE USES ROCKETS   “Target Mass of Smoke and Flame,” Gunner on One Ship Declares

Yanks Destroy Bearing Plant, CripplingNaziWar Industry: 60 Forts Fall   Great Schweinfurt Raid Cuts Output Of Vital Machinery Parts In Half; 104 Nazic Fiaktere Are Downed

RECORD NUMBER OF  AMERICAN BOMBERS  LOST ON MISSION FLYING FORTRESSES  _ WRECK NAZI PLANTS BU] 60 FAIL TO RETURN

Thaws Slow Red Drive In Ukraine   Germans Report Soviets Shifting Armies to North

Russians Make Gains West Of Kharkov, Using Veteran Troops as Drive Slackens

Continuing Advances in —-Thawing Ukraine Reported NUMBER OF PLACES TAKEN BY SOVIETS Progress Slowed by Stif fened Resistance and Bad Weather

RUSSIANS GAIN. BUT BIG DRIVE IS SLACK ENED   Moscow Reports New Advances West of Kharkov

REDS SWIFT UKRAINE PUSH SLOWS DOWN   Germans Stiffen Resistance to Soviet Advance —Thaws West of Kharkov Another Handicap.   FIGHTING FLARES ON CENTRAL FRONT   Nazis Report Soviet Smash Against Their Lines Defending Road to Warsaw and Berlin.

Russians Stalled By Mud And Nazis   Communiques Admit Nazis Have Penetrated Soviet Lines In Kramotorsk Sector Front

Russians Move Again on Central Front   Offensive Slackens In Ukraine West of Kharkov

REDS ANNOUNCE FURTHER GAINS NEAR KHARKOV   Mud And Foul Weather Hampering Soviet Offensive In The Ukraine   GERMANS STIFFEN DEFENSE OF OREL

Red Army's Offensive Is Slackening   Thaw in Ukraine; Axis Central Forces Under Assault

Russian advance slowing   Veteran red force hurled against nazis

Aged Indians Replace Young Bucksin Wartime Sun Dance   Shuffling by Means of Which Redmen Believe They Receive New Viger fer Year Ahead Will Begin and Continue Until Dawn Friday; Participants Go Foodless During Time

Allies Strike From Africa In Wide Raid   Foe Loses 113 Planes; Field Far North of Rome Is Main Target

AXIS LOSES 113 PLANES IN ONE DAY   As U. S. Fighters Stage Raid From North Africa To 90 Miles North Of  Rama   Seconded By Eden

YANKS KNOCK OUT 113 AXIS PLANES, ‘LOSE ONLY ONE   Enemy. Has One of Blackest ' Days ‘in Air as Widespread Raids Are Made in Mediterranean Area,   VICTORS’ TWO-DAY — BAG RUN UP TO 186   Italy and Sardinia Heavily Pounded—58 Craft Destroyed on Airfield 90 Miles From Rome.

Raids Carry Allies  Near to Rome Only One Aircraft   Only One Aircratt Ts Lost in Aerial Attcelks

SCORE STANDS 186 10 5 FOR ALLIED FLIERS   ENEMY IS GIVEN NO CHANCE TO CATCH THEIR BREATH

(Axis Loses 113 Planes Over Italy   Two-Day Toll Is 186 Planes; Allies Lose Only Five Aireraft

Yank Airmen Destroy 113 Enemy Planes   Bombers, Fighters Blast Axis in Mediterranean Area

At Least 113 Axis Planes Destroyed In Allied Attacks in Mediterranean

Raids Carry Allies  Near to Rome  Only One Aircraft Is Lost in _ Aerial Attacks

U. S. Bags 113 Enemy Airplanes   Axis Satellite Islands, Italy Painded

Japs Drive Wedge Between Imperials In Western Burma   Pose Direct Threat to 2 Key Bases; Entrenched Astride Vital Highway; Endangering Springboard of Allies

Japs Drive Wedge Thru  Burma Front      British Bases Threatened as Foe Draws Near

GRAVE POSITION OF ITALY GIVES RISE T0 FLOODS OF RUMORS  MOST SENSATIONAL RUMOR IS THAT KING EMANUELE TO ARDICATI

ITALIAN KING SAID TO HAVE ABDICATED   London Papers Say Hitler 1 Abandoning Italy To Her Fate When Allies Invade

GRAVE OUTLOOK GIVEN NEW EMPHASIS   Unconfirmed Reports Indicate Internal Crisis Stirs Nation

Reports Heard That Hitler Is To Desert Ally   Abdication of Vittorio Emanuele is rumored ; may be forerunner to ORs Sk, MO 

Nazis May Leave Italy to Fate, ‘London Hears   Rumors Also Have King Of Italy Abdicating, But London Skeptical

Italian King Is Rumored Ready To Abdicate Soen   Italy's Grave Position Causes Mussolini To Tighten Defense; Rumors Spread

Nazis Reported: Leaving Italy To Fight Alone   Rumored Plan OF King To Abdicate Is Unconfirmed :

ROME RADIO DENIES KING IS TO QUIT   Among Rumors Coming  From Italy Is Report That Emanuele Will Ab dicate in Favor of the Crown Prince. °

Duce Prepares For Invasion   Morocco Radio Says King Emanuele To Abdicate In Favor Of Umberto.

ITALIAN POSITION IN WAR GROWING WORSE DAILY   Mussolini Redoubling Efforts to Tighten Defense Against Invasion.

lialy Redoubles Effort To Defend Against Invasion   Abdication Rumor Denied By Rome Radio Report; Claim Nazis Withdraw

Mussolini Steps Up His Defenses Crisis Gives Rise To  Flood Of Rumors

DUCE ACTS: TO STEP UP DEFENSES   Flood Of Rumors Include Report King To Resign

MUSSOLINI {IS REDOUBLING HIS DEFENSES   Italy's Grave Position Being Hammered Home to Her People By Their Premier   FURTHER PARTY PURGES

Crisis Gives Rise To Many Rumors in Threatened Italy   Mussolini Steps Up His Plans for Defense Against Invasion

Miler Reported About to Leave Italy to Her Fate; Rumor of King’s Abdication Discounted

Italy Reported Rocking With Internal Strife As Mussolini Bolsters Defenses

Hitler Reported About To Abandon Italians to Fate   Two London Newspapers Say Mussolini Will Have To Fight Alone

Hitler May Take Army from Italy   Report That King to Abdicate, (Discounted; Italian Defenses Considered Weak

NAZIS RUMORED QUITTING iTALY   Reported Leaving Duce To Face Invasion With His Own  Resources

Hitler: Said Abandoning ltaly to. Her Fate.- Il Duce Seeks to Strength. eit Defenses. Abdication Of King Emanuel Rum:  ored:

uce Steps Up Defense Plans As H Tells People Of Grave Situation ©   Rumors Rife, One Of Which Says King Will Abdicate; While Moscow. Hears Thousands Flee To Rome, Hoping It Won’t Be Bombed.

ITALY ABOUT TO COLLAPSE; RUMORS SAY HITLER PLANS TO WITHDRAW NAZI TROOPS

RUMOR ITALIAN KING ABDICATED   Nazi Officials and Gestapo Reported Preparing To Abandon Italy, Leaving Her to Face Threat of Allied Invasion Unaided.

Flood Of Rumors Marks Italians’ War “Jitters”   ll Duce Steps Up Plana To Defend Mainland

FLOOD OF RUMORS TELL OF INTERNAL STRIFE IN ITALY   MOROCCO RADIO SAYS KING EMMANUELE PLANS TO ABDICATE

italy Left On Own and Rumors Fj   Most Sources Doubt the Report That King Has! Abdicated, However   FURTHER PARTY PURGES BY DUCE   Apparently Left Alone by Axis to Meet Invasion He Seeks Stronger Defense

RUMORS SPREAD FROM ITALY IN WAR EMERGENCY   Report King Will Abdicate In Favor Of Crown Prince

Many Rumors  About Italy   Unconfirmed Reports Says King Has “Abdicated Post

HITLER PREPARING TO ABANDON ITALY   London Papers Say Nation Will be Left to Face Threat

Mussolini Steps Up  ‘Italian Defense Plans   Hammers Home Gravity of Situation to People; Germany Not to Give Aid; King’s Abdication Rumored

iter to Abandon aly, Papers Say   lumor King Emanuele ? te Heard

Rumor Says Hitler to Abandon Italy, Victor Emanuele May Abdicate

Italy Fears GermanyWill y Desert Her   Mussolini Wrestles Alone With Defense as Home Unrest Grows

Italy Plans Her Defenses   Mussolini Seeks to Bolster Morale for Last-Ditch Stand

ITALY TIGHTENS HOME DEFENSES AGAINST ALLIES   Report King Emanuele To Abdicate In Favor of Crown Prince Umberto

Seek to Settle Underground Travel Time Dispute; Would Change Entire Time Basis

NEW PORTAL PAY PLAN REVIEWED   Proposal Would Change Entire Basis Of Measuring Miners’ Working Day

CONSIDER NEW PAY PROPOSAL   Negotiators in Coal Industry Study New Basis for Travel Pay.

NEW PAY PLAN FOR MINERS IS BEING STUDIED   Measure of Working Day May Be Changed Entirely By Proposal

Aussies Capture Enemy Airdrome At Finschhafen   MacArthur Applies Pressure on Japs

Aussies Capture Jap Airdrome   Finschhafen’s Fall Believed Imminent

AUSSIE VETERANS THKE AIRDROME AT FINSCHHAFEN   Within Three-quarters of < Mile of Investing Japs’ New Guinea Base   MAKE STEADY ADVANCE WIPE OUT OPPOSITION   Bombers Hammer Rear Door Of Markham Valley Where Enemy Remnants May Seek Escape After Fall of Lae And Salamaua Bases

Allied Army Takes Jap Airfield On New Guinea Isle  Aussies Threaten Foe With Continued Advance in Jungles

ee ee  FINSCHAFEN AIRDROME IS CAPTURED   By Australian an Desert Warfare Veterans, Getting Closer to Japanese Coastal Base.   Checker Tactics

Third Air Base Is Captured By Allies  MacArthur's Men In Another Big Victory

Airdrome Has Been Taken by Australien Veterans   TROOPS ARE NEAR BIG COASTAL BASE   Finschhafen Has Been Put Under Artillery  L era

Australians Capture  Finschhafen Airfield   Desert } eterans Within Three-Quarters Of Mile from Jap Coastal Base Itself: Third Air Base to Fall Since September 1 

AUSSIES TAKE ANOTHER MAIN JAP AIR BASE   FINSCHHAFEN FALLS TO VETERANS IN NEW GUINEA

Aussies Drive Almost to  Finschhafen  MacArthur’s Men on Verge of  TF Wwisken ws Uitacl Dwraae

Airdrome At Finschhafen Falls to Allies   Australians Pushing Close on Jap Base

Finschhafen Airdrome Is Captured   Australians Seize Field Three Miles From Coastal Town

AIRPORT SEIZED BY AUSTRALIANS AT FINSCHHAFEN   Advance Puts Invasion Force Within Three - Quarters of a Mile of Base Itself.   FIRE EXCHANGED WITH JAPS ACROSS RIVER   Villages Near Lae and Salamaua, Recently Captured, Heavily Bombed by Allies.

One Raider, Many Deaths   Nazi Bombs Wreck Crowded Dance Hall in London

Nazi Bombs Kill Many In Londor   Crowded Dance Hall : Scene OF Dicacter

Many Dead Were Men. in Service   Bomb Explodes As Nearby Theaters Leaving -Out. 

German Bomber ‘Wrecks Dance  Hall In London   Many Casualties Caused By Raider

DAMAGE BY LONE SHIP   London District Was Hit by Nari Bombs Last Night

SIX HURT IN CAR CRASH ON 30 WEST HERE   All But Mrs. James Jones Of Ogden Released After Treatment For Cuts and Bruises

SIX INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Two Were Seriously Hurt When Car Going Down Hill Missed Turn, Plunged Into Bank,

STARK COUNTY  TEACHERS HOLD INSTITUTE NOV. 1!   Hold Annual Convention At Wyoming; Have Two Speakers.

HOLD COUNTY INSTITUTE FOR ALL SCHOOLS   Annual Event Is At Wyoming High; Have Prominent Speakers.

Soap Firms Acquitted   Judge Directs Verdict Of Acquittal Against Mail Fraud Charges

Urge National Flood Controls  Mississippi Valley Group on Record

Youth Shoots Woman, Ther Kills Self   Hand on Westgate, la. Farm Runs Berserk  With Shotgun

British Advance Nudges Closer to Rommel in Libya   Berlin-Rome Reports hidicate Gernians Ready to Make Stang

ROMMEL MAY PUT UP FIGHT   Axis Radio Indicates He May Halt Retreat At Wadi Zem- Zem For Battle

WILL SHOW HOW TO SAVE HOME FOODS   Hows State College Food -™ Snecialist Will Demonstrate Methods of Preserving.   CHARITON THURSDAY   Emphasize Saving of Wartime Foods and Preservation,

COUNTY MEETINGS ON DRYING FOODS   Series of Meetings in County on Preserving Perishable Foods in the Home.

DEMONSTRATIONS 7 BE. GIVE   ‘Home Economist to. Show Drying, Brining

Today's Index   With Marine Assault Forces as They Swarm onto Isle of Tarawe

Effect of German Capture of Kharkov May Not Be As Great As First Thought

FARM GROUP SEEKS. MAXIMUM OUTPUT   Bricker Names Next Tuesday As Mobilization Day

Two Noted Purdue  Educators Die  Dr. Coulter Was Former Dean of Mer

AIRCRAFT QUTPUT GOAL SEEN-MADE   Knudsen Predicts 90,000 Planes Assured By U. S. Industry

U.S. TO HIT PLANE PRODUCTION GOALS   Mark Set at 90,000 Airplanes, Accuracy Counts

Correct Shoes Stop Mishaps  Secretary Perkins Tel a Se) eee,  cee eee We

LEBANESE ROW ENDED   French Agree To British Proposals For Settling Difficulty

SAN GIOVANNI RAIDED BY RAF   British Attack City On Toe Of Italian Boot.

HUNTINGDON YOUTH REPORTED MISSING IN ‘BOMBING. RAID   T-Sgt, John M: ‘DesRochers, Gunner On Fortress, Lost In Earoptan  — Seen

U.3 NAVY BOMBERS HACKED AWAY AT JAE BARRIERS TO MUNDA  NO MENTION, HOWEVER,  OF GROUND ACTIVITY  ABOUT OBJECTIVE

Navy Bombers Back at Munda  27 Tons Dropped On Gun Positions And Supply Dumps

Yanks Continue To Batfer Munda   Drop 27 More Tons Of Bombs On Jap Base

BOMBERS SMASH AT MMUNDA APPROACHES   Planes Drop 27 Tons of Ex plosives on Japanese Gun Positions.

NAVY BOMBERS BLAST MUNDA   Raid Approaches To JapHeld Fortress In  Solomons

NAVY BOMBERS HACK AT JAPS   Munda Base Jarred By Light Attacks As Lull Hits  sd Fighting

RESTAURANT MEAT TOBE RATIONED T00   Customers, However, Won't Have To Give Up Coupons

CUT SUPPLY OF MEAT TO EATING PLACES   Ration Coupons Not Neces gary at Restaurants

STEAK, IF YOU FIND IT   Ration Coupon Not Required For i Restaurant Meats

REPUBLICANS MAKE GRINS AT ELECTION   BALLOTING YESTERDAY IN KEY RACES INDICATES DEFINITE TREND TOWARD THE G.G,P,

G. 0. P. Wins In New York Race   Hanley Emerges Victorious By Wide Margin For Lieutenant Governor

Short Form  For lowa’s  Income Tax   General Streamlining Is Designed to Speed Uy Department Work

GOVERNOR HAS FOOD TROUBLES   ‘Bribery And Blackmail In Subsidy Setup Denounced

Baldwin Asks Roosevelt to Call Crisis Parley   Food Troubles Bring Appeal; Texas Leader: Denounces Subsidies

BALDWIN APPEALS FOR FOOD PARLE’   Food Subsidies Denounced “As Bribery and Blackmail Smelling of Dictartor ship.”

APPEAL MADE IN SUBSIDIES BY GOVERNOR   Livestock Leader Also Airs Views fn Washington

LiQUOR RATION * STILL DEBATED   “Holiday Season* Hard Hurdle to Cross,” . Save Covernor -~

Further Cut Tn Fuel Seen   Eddded Reduction Is WNecessary For Autos

More Meat To Civilians Soon   Government Clearing Way For Rush of Meat to Markets

Lift Livestock Quota Limits   More Meat for Civilians Likely Seon

LAUGHTER GAN LIFTED BY WFR   Order, Lifted Until October 31, Will Raise Civilian Supply.

CIVILIANS WILL GET INCREASED MEAT SUPPLIES   Near Record Marketing O: Grass-Fed Steers May Be. Expected In Next Six Weeks

NO LIMITATIONS ON SLAUGHTER   More Meat Indicated for Use of Civilians

Zero Downed: Ship Is Bombed   U.S. Airmen Believed Out to Knock Enemy Off Aleutian Isles; Heavy New Air Attack Also Made on Foe’s Bases in Solomons

YANKEES FIGHT JAPS AT KISKA   U. S. Fliers Meet Enemy Planes; Down Zero In Attack

-ULS.PLANES BOMB S: TAPS OFF KISK:   Navy Reports Another Raid en Enemy Outpost in Aleutians.

NO LOSSES ARE SUSTAINED BY U.S. FORCES   Japs Have Brought In Fighter Plane Reinforcements

Wallace Amends Detroit Speech On barprsines  . Are faren tial To = Are Bassale Coun —

WHIP NAZIS ON HEIGHT BEFORE MATFUR   American Artillery Reported Shelling City Itself

“JAP U-BOATS HIT HARD EAST OF AUSTRALIA   ® Counter Moves gg  Nips Expected To Get  Quick Results    ® RAF BLASTS KRUPP PLANT   Furious Battle Raging Between Ground Forces In Tunisia

American Planes Blast Frencil Motor Factory   British Airmen Hit Sicily And Ferry  Terminal In Haly

POUNDING OF TARGETS IN EUROPE CONTINUES   Flying Fortresses of the Eighth United States Air Force Take Over Leading Role in Record Aerial Offensive Against Enemy Objectives— Attack Le Mans, France, in  Cacnnse Lacka

U S. Flying Forts Blast Nazi Motor Plant In France;  RAF Strikes Italy

Fortresses Hit Le Mans  In France   British Bombers Pound Sicilian  Ferry Terminals

Big Damage Being Wrought by America   INPUSTRIAL «PLANTS - HEB IN FRENCH REGIONS RY ATR PORTS.

RUSSIANS GAIN IN CAUCASUS   Tighten Semi-Circle Around  Novorossisk

Soviets Tighten ’Semi-Circle On. Nazi Bridaeheac   Another Town Is’; Captured And 450 ~ Nazis Wiped Ont

REDS INCREASE THREAT TO NAZIS AT NOVOROSSISK   Semi-Circlee Around City Tightened as Russians Capture Another Town in Caucasus.   SOVIETS HOLD FIRM ON DONETS RIVER LINE   Moscow Issues Maps Showing 185,328 Square Miles Recaptured in Winter Offensive,

Soviets Tighten » Semi-Circle On Nazi Bridgeheac   Another Town Is .  Captured And 450 Rlagsice VWA/inas] Ont

Capture Town In Caucasus; Seize Crossing   Nazi Force Pushing Against Donets River Line Wiped Out

REPEL GERMAN ATTACKS ALONG DONETS FRONT   Map Indicates Huge Gains Made By Soviet Armies

RUSSIANS GAIN GROUND AT BIG NAVAL CENTER   Reds Publish War Maps Showing Larger Area  Wrested From Nazis

Reds Tighten Semi-Circle  Around Nazis  450 Germans Who Attacked .

Red Ring Close: On Novorossisk   Capture of Another Town Is Reported

REDS CAPTURE ANOTHER TOWN IN CAUCASUS   Tightens Their Semi-Circle: Around Nazi Bridgehead at Novorossisk, Moscow Reports   450 GERMANS KILLED   Wiped Out While Attack ing Donets River Line; Russians Also Seize River Crossing

Wipe Out Enemy Attacking Donet: Seize Crossing   Little Essential Changes Reported on Long War Front

MAP REVEALS BiG GAINS OF SOVIET ARMY   GERMAN FOOTHOL D IN CAUCASUS IS IN DANGER

REDS ANNIHILATE RAIDING FARCES   Germans Lose 450 Troops In Drive Against Donets River Line

TAKES. ANOTHER  Tightens Semi-Circle Around Nazi Bridgehead At Novorossisk  OFFICIAL MAP SHOWS ‘REO   OFFICIAL MAP SHOWS RED GAINS EXPECTEDLY LARGE

*SEMI-CIRCLE TIGHTENED AT NOVOROSSISK   However, Little Essential Change Is Reported On Lengthy Front.

U.S. Bombers Blast Bases    German U-Boat Base Is Fortress Target

Tons of Bombs  Plastered on Nazi Navy Base   Flying Forts Fight  Running Battle With Enemy Planes: Three Heavy Bombers Lost

U.S. Armen Hit Sub Base In Major Raid   Wilbelmshaven Targe’ of Americans Third Time: Shipping Hurt

Americans Blast Wilhelmshaven For Third Time   One of Heaviest and Mos Accurate Attacks on the Continent

YANKS POUND NAZIS NAVAL BASE 3D TIME   Wilhelmshaven Suffers One Of Heaviest And Most Accurate Attacks Of 8TH  Ate Kaera.   3 Bombers Lost

BOMBS RAINED ON HUGE NAZI WARSHIP BASE   FORTRESSES SMACK WILHELMSHAVEN DOCKS AGAIN

American Fliers Plaster Big Nazi Navy Base   Third Raid on Wilhelmshaven Is Reported Success; Yanks Shoot Down Several Enemy Planes During Running Air Fight

Big German Naval Base Is Bombed   Wilhelmshaven Attacked Third Time by Americans

NAZIS AGAIN IS ATTACKED   Withelmshaven Bombed for Third Time by U.S. Fillers ~~

YANK BOMBERG BLAGT BASE AT WILHELMOHAVEN   Marks One of Heaviest and ‘Accurate Attacks of U. S. Eighth Air Force   PLANES FIGHT RUNNING BATTLE WITH GERMANS   Nazi Pilots, Badly Mauled by Americans in Previous Clashes, Stay at More Cautious Distance; RAF Hits Netherlands Targets

GERMAN NAVAL BASE POUNDED   Big Force Of American Bombers Blast At Wilhelmshaven Third Time

AMERICANS BOMB NAZI NAVAL BASE   DOWN NUMBER OF PLANES AND LOSE THREE OF OWN AT WILHELMSHAVEN,

NAVY BASE OF NAZIS AGAIN IS ATTACKED   Wilhelmshaven Bombed for Third Time by U.S. Fliers

Yanks Plaster’ Wilhelmshaven For Third Time   * Big-Bombers Given Wide Berth; Nazis Won't. Come Close.

Three Large Planes Lost in Heavy Daylight Attack  LONG RUNNING FIGHT  German Fighters ‘Keep Their Distance,’ Bombardiers Accurate

COMPULSORY ARMY SERVICE BILLS IN   Legislation Offered to Force Training of Youth When 18

GOOD CROP WEATHER   Showers Are Expected for This Section of Kansas Today

CRASH OF NAVY PLANE FATAL T0 CONGRESSMAN   REP. W. J. DITTER AND NAVAL OFFICER DIE IN PENNSYLVANIA

REP. DITTER IS VICTIM OF PLANE CRASH   Lancaster County Congressman and Lieut. Commander Mansure Carried to Deaths in Accident   ACTIVE AT CAPITOL

Commander And Congressman Die In Plane Crash   Plane Helplessly Drops Flares Over Pennsylvania Town In Driving Rain Before Crashing.

Congressman and Eight Others Killed In Two Military Plane Wreck:

SEVEN DIE IN NAVY PLANE CRASH.   _Among Passengers Aboard Were Rep. J. William ‘Ditter And Lieut. Com. IT J. Manaure

CONGRESSMAN IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASK   Rep. Ditter Dies Near Columbia Sunday Night   'PILOT ALSO DEAD   Seven In Army Trans: port Die Near Tamaqua

Rep. Ditter,, Pennsylvania.  Killed In Cr ash Of Airplane; — Service Craft Burns On Hill

REP. . W. DITTER, EIGHT OTHERS Dit IN AIR ACCIDENTS   Army and Navy Planes  Burn After Crashes in Pannsyvivania

CONGRESSMAN, NAVY MAN DIE IN AIR CRASH   Rep. Ditter Killed In Pennsylvania; Army Transport Falls

Rep. Ditter Dies in Crash  Leading House G.O.P.   Leading House G.O.P. Member Among Seven Burned in Plane

Congressman Is Killed in Plane Crash   Lieutenant Commander Also: Dies When Navy Plane: Crashes and’ Burns; Seven  Killed in Army Plane Crash 

DITTER KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Craft Drops Flares Through Heavy Rain

REP. DITTER, & OTHERS DIE IN PLANE CRASHES   High Navy Officer Among Victims of Week-end : Accidents

Air Crash Is Fatal   Rep. J. William Ditter Among Victims On Sunday Tragedy

Crash Kills Rep. Ditter   Navy Commander, 7 Army. Flyers. Perish

CONGRESSMAN KILLED   Pennsylvania Representative Was Aboard Navy Plane

21 Lose Lives’ ~ Inv Air Crashes   Rep. J. William Ditter Is Among Victims

Congressman Dies in Crash   Naval Officer Also Killed; Seven Die In Another Crash

Congressmar Ditter Dies In Wreck Of  Navy Plane   Officer Also Killed Near Columbia, Pa.: Seven Others Die At Tamaqua. Pa.

Navy Plane Crash In Heavy Rain Takes Two Lives   Army Transport Hits Mountain Few Hours Earlier

POLITICALLY, TTISBELIEVED   Congress Members Write Off Vice President's. Name in Polities —

Observers Expect Wallace's Eclipse  Comment Is Made On F. D. R. Order

WALLACE OUT POLITICALLY, TIS BELIEVED   Congress Members Write Off Vice President's Name in Politics

WALLACE OUT AS'44 FACTOR   Naming of Crowley Held as Tantamount to Victory For Jesse Jones

Leaders See Wallace’s "44. Eclipse  Say Political Life Ends as REW Paceer Ont

BYRNES GIVEN BROAD POWERS IN NEW SETUP   Capital Observers Expect Economic Director Will Seek Vice Presidency   WALLACE CONSIDERED “DEAD” POLITICALLY

Congressional Observers Write Off Wallace as 1944 Political Factor

End of Global Milk Routes Says Sen. Nye   SOME CONGRESSMEN REGARD PRESIDENT’S DISPOSITION OF WALLACE - JONES SQUABBLE VICTORY FOR JONES.   More Power To Byrnes

Wallace Believed "Washed Up' Politically After BEW Feud: Byrnes Adds Power

WALLACE BELIEVED DEAD POLITICALLY   F.D.R. REBUKE SEEN AS ELIMINATING HIM AS A FACTOR IN 1944.

30 U-Boats Destroyed During May   June Best  Month We Have Known in War, Premier Declares

BRITISH HEAD SAYS FIGHTING TO BE HEAVY   Mediterranean “and Elsewhere” Probable Theaters—30 U-Boats Sunk in May — Bombing of Reich to Continue.

HEAVY FIGHTING IN MEDITERRANEAN VERY PROBABLE   This Is Statement Made by Prime Minister Churchhill Today.   IN CONFIDENT SPEECH   Said Mighty Armies of British and U .S. Air Forces Will Lengthen.

“Heavy Fighting Before Fall” in Mediterranean al Elsewhere Seen By Churchill: Bombing Fury to Grow

Great Sueeess Revealed In  U-Boat War   Mediterranean Is Pointed Out As Place Of Action

Heavier Aerial Blows On Reich Ready, He Says   British Premier Reports Decline In Sinkings

Sees fighting by fall in  many points   ‘June best month in U-boat war; raids heaviest

Heavy Raids Soon To Hit All Germany   30 U-Boats Destroyed In May; June ‘Best Month Ever In War,’ Says Prime Minister

By Autumn On Mediterranean  Hard Fighting   Prime Minister Discloses 40 Axis U-Boats Destroyed, Losses Light.   TO STEP UP AIR WAR

Churchill See. Heavy Fighting Before Autumn   industrial and Military Targets ta Be Hammered With “Exterminating Farce,’ He Says; Japan ta Be Made ta Bite Dust

30 U-Boats Sunk in May; June Best Yet   Italy Has Felt Only Preliminary Bombardmenis, Says Prime Minister

All Germany To Feel Might Of Bombers   Smaller Towns As Well As Industrial Cities Will Become Targets

CITES TOLLOF NAZI U-BOATS   Invasion Before “Leaves Fall In Autumn” Will . Be Made by Allies, Premier Asserts   ATTACKS ON ITALY FORECAST IN TALK   Fighting Speech Draws  Cheers In Guildhall; . ‘Battle of Ruhr to Spread Over Reich

Churchill Says Heavy Fighting Due Before Fall   Eden Urges Mussolini To Accept Surrender Terms

Churchill In Warning To Enemy   Asserts Allied Air Power Will Continually Grow And Blanket Germany

Tell s Commons OF Battles T o Come ‘kisewhere’ Betore  "Leaves Of Autumn Fall’   30 U-Boats Destroyed In May; Scarcely Single Merchant Ship Lost In North Atlantic In Last Six Weeks; All Parts Of Germany To Be Bombe

Fighting Speech From Churchill; ‘Action by Fall   Confident Note Sounded Even as Eder Calls Upon Mussolini to Accep' ~ Surrender Terms

' Declares There Will Be Heavy Fighting Before Autumn Leaves Fall   . SAYS U-BOAT TOLL IN MAY REACHED 30   Reiterates Demands For “Unconditional Surrender” of Enemies

Churchill Says “Heavy Fighting’’ Coming... . Prime Minister Reveals U-Boat Losses At Peak

Heavy Fighting Near Declares Prime Minister   Enemy Promised No Let-Up in Air Attacks by Allies

HARD FIGHTING RY FALL SEEN   Predicts Intensified Attack In Mediterranean Before Autumn.

IN MAY TOPPED AQ IN ATLANTIC   Reports Italians Have Only to Be Subjected to Preliminary Bombincs

HEAVY FIGHTING IN MEDITERRANEAN AND ELSEWHERE BEFORE AUTUMN LEAVES FALL--CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Promises Germans That Englan And United States Will Follow Nazi Industry to  Smaller Towns and Bomb Them

HEAVY FIGHTING BEFORE AUTUMN, SAYS CHURCHILL   DECLARES ITALY SHUDDERS UNDER PRELIMINARY BLOWS

‘Before Autumn Leaves Fall’ Adds Minister   More Than 30 U-Boats Were Destroyed During May

EDEN GALLS Q8 FASCIST CHIEF TO SURRENDER   40 U-boats Sunk In May, Prime Minister Says

40 Nazi U-Boats Sunk During May; Demands Surrender Of Enemy   Says Blows At Italy Only Preliminary; All Of German Military Might To Be Hit

Reveals Massacre Of U-Boat Packs; 30 Sunk In May   Not An Allied Ship Lost Since Mid-May InN. Atlantic; Forecasts Invasion Soon

TOLL OF NAZI SEA RAIDERS 1S MOUNTING   Prime Minister Declares That Forty Enemy UBoats Were Destroy ed During May   WARNING TO ITALIANS

PRIME MINISTER IN FIGHTING SPEECH HINTS AT ATTACK  DECLARES THAT MORE THAN THIRTY U-ROATS

SUB MENACE BEING LICKED, HE REPORTS   Says June Was Best Month Since War Started: Unconditional Surrender Pledge Repeated

Blitz to Level German Cities   Heavy Mediterranean Fighting, Ruhr Devastation Before Autumn Predicted; Victory Over Subs Buoys Prime Minister

BLOOD TO AUN “ERE LEAVES OF AUTUMN FALL   So Says Churchill in Speech Promising Widening of Raids on Germany.   MASSACRE OF U-BOATS ’ CONTINUEB THRU JUNE

‘Prime Minister Promises Japs War ‘For as Many Years as are Needed’ to Make Them ‘In Their Turn Submit’   MENACE OF U-BOATS CURBED   Asserts Future of World Depends More on Association and Alignment of U. S., Britain than on Any Other Factor   Tide of Sea War Turned

UMW PRESENTING ARGUMENTS FOR NEW WAGE RAISE   U. M. W. Czar John L. Lewis Sits Placidly Before War Labor Board—Seeks Portalto-Portal Pay, Fatter Checks

LEWIS APPEARS BEFORE WAR LABOR BOARD   Seeks To Get Contrac With Illinois Operators Okayed

 John L. Lewis Booked For Personal Appearance On Pay Rise Before WLB

LEWIS PRESENT AS WLB HEARS =PAYARCUMENT   Labor Leader Faces Board He Long _ Defied

LEWIS APPEARED  BEFORE LABOR BOARD  FOR UNITED MINERS MINERS’ COUNSEL PRE SENTS PORTAL-TO-PORTAT PAY ARCUMENTS

Labor Board Opens Hearings On Coal Dispute   Lewis on Hand To Hear Argument For Higher Waqes

PORTAL MINE PAY SUE BEFORE WLB   Birmingham Attorney Puts Forth Lewis Claim

KINERS OFFER HUET rk nngsT IN   John b-bewis Sits Piacidly Before War Labor Board He Long Defied and  Tenored   COUNSEL PRESENTS  M{ODEL’ CONTRACT   Hold Claim For Portal-toportal Pay “Isn't Ficti- fious;” Withhold   Court Action

13 In Alleged Lottery Ring Before Court   Said To Have Used  Treasury Balance

DIFFER ON CASUALTIES   Tokyo Makes Exaggerated Report -  @& Allied Losses

WAR FUND VICTORY DINNER WILL BE HELD THURSDAY   All Committee Chairmen Expected To Be Present To Wind Up Drive.

ARMY AIRMAN BROWNS IN BAY   Another Missing In Leap Over Hooper’s Island

Court Upholds School Board   Board: Dismissed Pregnant Teacher Who Refused To Quit

HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK NAPLES   Fires Are Started in Harbor With Assault

Ohio May Change Time Next Week   Legislature Ready To Take Action

Absenteeism in Assembly Scored   Many Skip Friday  Session of House

RAP ‘ABSENTEEISM’ IN LOWER BRANCH OF OHIO ASSEMBL)   House Speaker Scores ‘Repeated Walking Out’ Of Members

BLL LL FOR PLANT SEIZURES ‘1S BEFORE SENATE MONDAY   TEXAS SENATOR TO PRESS FOR ENACTMENT OF ANTI-STRIKE MEASURE NEXT WEEK

OR a ALOE EE SNE: A AR A RI  NOTED RUSSIA AVIATRIX ‘DIES AT HER POST’

Claim Passage Of Subsidy Ban Would Force President To Yield To Labor Demands

Subsidy Ban Would Allow Wage Boosts   Supporters Warn Of Inflationary Danger to Follow

SUBSIDY BAN 10 BRING WAGE BOOSTS   Announce Flour Subsidy To Hold Bread Prices Down

YORK 1S NAMED IOWA COP CHIEF   “Little Businessman” Chosen by Committee

HUML DENIES PAY NOW PLAN  INFLATION   Tells House Hearing Tax for 1942 Must Be Dropped or Deferred.   ASSERTS THERE’LL BE NO LOSS ON JUDGMENT BAY

COMMENCE PAY-G0 PROGRAM APRIL ECONOMIST ASKS   Congressional Leaders Cool to Plan, However, After New Yorker Appears Before House Groun.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  Snr NERA eS   Claims Tax Liabilities “National Danger”

TAX LIABILITY DANGERS CITED   Rumi Tells Congress 1942 Income Levies Must Be Dropped Or Deferred

Japs Can’t Make Up Minds as to Whether : Tarawa, Makin Garrisons Alive or Dead

 Anglers Asked to Contribute Small Sum  to Furnish Fishing Kits for Servicemen

LEWIS LOOSES ANGER AT NEW PRICE ORDERS   Castigates Latest AntiInflation Moves “False And Unsound”   PERSECUTION HIT   Calls For Aid To Farmers; Attacks Other Labor Leaders

BE DRAWN FROM URBAN, RURAL AREAS   Workers Wil] Come From  Non-War Plants

BREAKDOWN IS SFEN IF LABOR SPPLY FAILS   Volunteer Force Urged During Seasonal High In Farm Production

Wickard Says 3,500,000 To Go To Farming   Indicates Many Small Firm: Not Essential To War May Have To Close

Millions to Be ‘Drafted’  To Aid Farm:   Even Housewives May Be Called to Helv Acriculture

BACCALAUREATE EXERCISES SUNDAY      Anoval:. ‘Event To. ‘Begin Promptly. At Eight In...  Evening

BACCALAUREATE EXERCISES SUNDAY   Annual. Event To Begin ~-Promptly At Eight In  Evening

BILL ON DEBT LIMIT, RIDER  BECOME LAW   Roosevelt Withholds Signature, Castigates Congress on Failing to Equalize Tax Burden

FDR OALARY LIMIT ORDER 15 RESCINDED   Rider Attached To Debt Limit — Upping Becomes Law

Congress Scolded by President for Nullifying Order   Lets Bill Forbidding Salary Cut Become an Unsigned Law

FDR Fails To Sign Debt Limit Bill   Condemns Method of Repealing Salary Limit Order; Says Men Drafted at $600 Year, but Civilians Get Bic Wage

210 BILLIONS ARE NOW AUTHORIZED   Roosevelt Comments Upon His Failure to Sign Measure, Opposes One Part.

Limit on U.S. Debt  Increased   PRESIDENT PERMITS MEASURE TO BECOME LAW WITHOUT SIGNING

New Ceiling Placed On U.S. Indebtednes:   Bill Permitted To Become Law

NATIONAL DEBT CEILING RAISED   mts. Ate ka rresrvwent zAOWws measure To Become Law Without Signature

AIR ATTACKS RAKE SICIL'   ALLIES UNLEASH DEVASTATING AERIAL WARFARE AGAINST STRONGPOINTS AND SUPPLY: LINEB

Action To Shorten War  Is Foreseen   This Believed To Be the Prime Result of Big Three Conference

Parley News   . Washington Believes Positive Action Taken on Invasion of Europe

Washington Sees Second  Front And Ultimatum To Nazis As Parley Results -

‘EXPLOSIVE ACTION TO SHORTEN WAR: BREWED AT MEETING   Washington Feels Dramatic Ultimatum to Germans to Accept Surrender or Die Drafted. by “Big Three”  Re JOHN MO HICGHTOWER

Military Decisions Are Probable =~   Official Statement Anxiously Awaited

Military Plan Such As Second: Front Is Believed Decided By Big'3 Session

‘LARGER OFFENSIVE "IN RUSSIA HINTEL   ‘Second Front by Anglo ' American Invasion of Western Europe Believed Main Topic

Ultimatum To Germany Held Likely   Moscow Gives Official News Of 3-Way Parley

NERVE WAR’ MAY ‘SHORTEN CONFLICT   Stalin Believed To Have Urged Second Front. Suicide Unless Prepare“

Worldwide Interest Is Attracted With News On Decisions Awaited In All Nations

MILITARY ACTION TO SHORTEN WAR EXPECTED SOON   WORLD ANXIOUSLY AWAITS DECISIONS REACHED IN IRAN

Army Invasion of Europe By Allies  Believed Agreed on By ‘Big Three’

Reds Report ‘Big Three’ Parley Ends   Second Front Is Believed To Be Main Topic At Talk  me. TOMY VW HMnTouren

Explosive Ultimatum to Germany Is Expected ‘From Teheran Session

ONE A CADET, — OTHER PRISONER   Joy and Sorrow Mixed in Visits of Pittsburgh Barber

Held Under $10,000 Bond at Burlington   Lockwood Accused of Trying Te Shoot Officers

MOUNTAIN TROOPS STORM 2 HEIGHTS   Fall of Mignano Is Believed to be Imminenk

Nazi Engineers Demolish Two Italian Ports   Fear Occupation By Allied Troops

Yanks Smash Ahead in Snow and Mud   Germans Fear Their Winter Lines Will Be Cracked

Nazis Prepare To Quit Ports   Demolition Of Leghorn And Pescara Harbors Under Way

Nazi Engineers Wreck Two Big  Italian Ports   Americans Threaten Te Crack New Enemy Line Near Mignano; Fierce Battle Rages

riith Army Threatens Detense Line   Nazis Blast Leghorn  And Pescara Harbors As Allies Advance  ATTIC ATARIO WMCAAC ON

NAZIS WRECK PORTS IN FACE OF YANK DRIVE   Leghorn, Pescara Being Demolished as Line In Italy Cracks

ENEMY BLOWS UP BIG PORTS AS LINES SAL   MOUNTAIN DEFENSES IN ITALY CRACKED BY AMERICANS

*Mignano Fall els Seen Near   Resistance Stiffens Before Allied Drive

Foe Is Preparing For Allies To Gain in Italy   Germans Scuttle Ports As Americans and British Smash Ahead

American Drive May Crack Latest Defense Line  MOUNTAIN TROOPS STORM 2 HEIGHTS  Fall of Mignano Is Believed to be Imminent

Yanks Threaten Latest German Defense Lines   naStori Strategic Heights; Nazis Tell of Fierce Battle

NAZIS DEMGUSH 2 PORTS AS att ARMY SURGES Gh   Germans Wreck Leghorn and Pescara in Face of Drive That Endangers Their New Line,   2 STRATEGIC HEIGHTS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Fall of Stronghold of Mignano Reported imminent—Cassino, 8 Miles North,  Is Encireled.

MEDIATORS SEEK 10 SETTLE DEMANDS OF RAILWAY LABOR   900,000 Non-Operating Employes Want ‘Wage Boost, Claced Shop

OPEN AAILROAD WAGE PARLEYS   Amicable Settlement Of " Demands Of More Thar 900,000 Sought

RAIL BOARD GETS WAGE DEMANDS   National Railway Mediatior Board Seeks to Settle Dis: pute Peacefully

Federal Mediation Board  Interviews Railroad Men   Government Seeks Peaceful Settlement Of Wage Differences

Government Calls on Rail Labor and Employers to Setile Differences

Railway Wage Claims Aired   Gov ernment Seeks Truce To Nip’ Strikes Over: ~ Pay Demands

Rail Mediation Board Meeting  Seek To Settle Wage, Closed Shop Demands Of 900.000 Workers

'NRMB SEEKS TO SETTLE RAILWAY LABOR DISPUTE   Over 900,000 Men. Involved In Wage and Closed Shop. Demands

BOARD STUDIES RAIL DISPUTE   Closed Conferences With Spokesmen for Groups Are Planned.

Hearings Open Into Demands Of Railway Men   Mediation Board Starts Task of Settling Dispute

HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASS STARTEL   Red Cross Workers to _. Make First Report: -. ‘?Fhis Evenina 

HOUSE-T0-HOUSE CANVASS STARTED      Red Cross Workers to Moke First Report This Evening

SOVIET DRIVE IS ROLLING ON   Reds Take Many Towns On 500-Mile Front as  Germans Retreat   At Least 5 Dead In Mexico Quake

HEAVY ATTU LOSSES ADMITTED BY TOKYO   Last Man’ Fight By Surviving Japs Indicated; Twe Main U. 8. Columns Merge, Trapping Foe On Island

UNION IS EFFECTED IN AREAS   Complete Control of Holtz Bay Sector Held—U. §. Losses Comparatively Light.

Army’s $13,163,519,000: Huge Amount Will Not Lessen Need For Additional Taxes, Experts Say   Buf Congressmen Interpret New Development As Removing Some Pressure for More Levies

WAR COST CUT BY 18 BILLION   Army And Navy Will Not Use All Of Their Alloted Funds

Lower Budget Seen For 44   Army, Navy Savings Reported To Conaress

Army, Navy Save U.S. 18 Billion   Treasury Denies Tax Need Is Lessened

Armed Forces Expected to Save $18,000,000,000 Over Estimates of 1943 Expenditures   Treasury Officials Insist Reports Do Not Lessen Need for Additional Taxes; Solons Hail Favorable Condition

Passing of Fascist Power Over Southern Axis Partner Changés. War Situation But Hitler’s Iron Hold Prevents Immediate Sur- ' render; King Returns To Control. ee a eee

BERN SAYS FORMER DUCE AND FASCIST LEADERS CAPTURED; MARTIAL LAW IS ESTABLISHED   Change In Italy's Wor Leadership Hailed As Possible Prelude To Bid For Peace; Blackshirts Being Watched

Badoglio Named Premier And Sets Up Martial Law   Report Mussolini Caught Leaving For Germany

American Raiders Tell of Experiences  wee. StF B&B FeUrryvea? .eriye

LORIENT GIVEN BOMB POUNDING   Flying Fortresses Have No Opposition; Base “Like A Desert”

Brest Attacked At Same Time By Liberators   Approximately 1,575 Tons Explosives Fell On Essen Last Night

Nazi Ammunition Cargo Explodes   Oslo Harbor Blast Does Much Damage

Hopes Of Miners For Increase In  Pay Appears Doomed By Roosevelt

War Labor Board Refuses To Change Little Steel Formula   Enforce Wage Freezing

RAPE SLAYER DIES IN CHAIR AT OHIO STATE PEN   Anthony Treat Kneels in Prayer Before Being Strapped in Seat

FORGIVENESS ASKED BEFORE EXECUTION   Killer of Girl Put To Death in Ohio Penitentiary

(Continued On Page Four)   CHILD'S SLAYER DIES IN CHAIR   Treat Maintains Composure, Makes Prayer Before Going To Death

ran an  RATIONING VIOLATED AT MISSOURI PRISON   Officials Short More Than 800,000 Points

CHARGE VIOLATION OF MEAT, PROCESSED FOOD RATIONING   Amounted to Hundreds of Thousands of Points at the State Prison.

Found Pen Had Hoarded Food   Prison Found To Have Used 800,000 Points In Excess.

OPA Says Ration Rules at Prison Are Disregarded   Management Fails to Report Full Amount of I oods on  land.   ‘Officials Got Excess Foods For Servants

Violations of Ration Regulations at Missouri State Prison Revealed

Allies Continue To Take Heavy Toll In Air War   12 More Junkers Aerial Transports Are Shot Out Of Sky By American And British Fighters, Bringing Total In 2 Davs To 70.

Key Nazi Officers and Men From Afrika Korps Believed Lost in Plane Disaster

Total Of Planes Shot Out Of Skies ~ In Two Days 112   Landing Fields Of Axis In Tunisia Area Also Steadily Battered   BELIEVE TRANSPORTS CARRYING TROOPS

REGENTS STUDY MIAMI A. & M.   Chairman John Kane Predicts Board Will Approve Plan Set Out By Joe Scott

MAY COURT TERM TO OPEN MONDAY   James M. O'Leary Will Be Tried ona Manslaughter Charge   COURT REPORTER IS ILL’

TO OPEN MONDAY   James M. O'Leary Will Be Tried on a Manslaughter  Charge   COURT REPORTER IS ILL

63 HURT IN CRASH OF PENNSY ‘TRAINS   Six Sericauly In Injured Held For Tr eatiment At *“ Hoeapitals

SIXTY-THREE HURT “IN TRAN, WRECK AT WILMINGTON   Pennsy Passenger Train and  Coaches Collide—Service Men Iniured.

SWITCH ENGINE BANGS INTO TRAIN: 42 INJURED   Most Of Injured Service Men; Six Retained In Hospitals

42 PASSENGERS ON TRAIN INJURED IN CRASH LAST NIGHT   Many of Those Hurt Were Members of the Army and Navy — Six jn Scrious State.

52 Service Men Hurtin Rail Crash   Penn. R.R. Cavalier Hit at Wilmington, Del., by Switching Cars

RUSSIAN ARMIES WIDEN WEDGE IN AXIS DEFENSE   Bransk, at Hinge of 2 Fronts, Outflanked From North and  Qouth

REDS WIDEN “V”, BY-PASS BRYANSK IN FAST ADVANCE   Nazis’ Attempts to Stow Sov. jet Push Fail on Every Erant.

RED ARMY BYPASSES BRYANSK   Soviet Forces Sweep On Toward Dnieper River

RUSS WEDGE IN NAZI LINE MADE WIDE   Bryansk Ripe For Nazi Net. An. other 250 Towns, Villages Taken by Reds on Long Front,

RED ARMIES STILL DRIVING THROUGH GERMAN DEFENSES      Overrun 250 More Towns In Drive On Kiev Along 600-Mile Front

SOVIET ARMIES WIDEN GAPS IN AXIS DEFENSES   Dive To Within $0 Miles Of Kiev Bastion — Take More Towns

Bryansk Target Of Squeeze Play   Red Army Poses Direct Threat To Big Base, Already Outflanked On Two Sides, By-Passed To North

German Losses Reported Heavy   Another Column Is Menacing Bryansk  _ By EDWARD D. BALL

KHARKOV BEING ENCIRCLED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS   Soviets Threaten To Turn City Into A Summer  Stalingrad   TWO RED GENERALS KILLED IN ACTION

Many Nazis Faced With Entrapment   Towns Near Big Base Taken as Soviets Force Germans Back

Germans Forced Back as Entire Line Is Menaced   Bryansk Also in Danger from Furious Soviet Offensive   Three Thousand Germans Killed, Troop Trains Romhed

Germans Face Death Trap At. Kharkov  es Bia nSanl Serre   Russ Encireling Drive Routs Foe; Rail Lines Bombed

RUSSIAN TRAP PERILS FOE IN KHARKOV AREA      Reds 12 Miles From Gity as They Smash Nazi Defenses

NAZI RETREAT NEAR BRYANSK   As Reds Step up Their Advance on That City   KHARKOV CITY   ‘May Be Turned Into Summer  Stalingrad as Germans : Face Entrapment

Nazi Armies Face New Stalingrad AsReds Advance   Germans Forced © to Retreat in Two Vital Areas

RED NOOSE AS CLOSING ON KHARKO'   Large Number of Germans Face Entrapment as Russians. Sweep Toward Big Base.   ONE COLUMN ONLY 12 MILES AWAY   Seviet Advance On Bryansk Stepped Up— Nazis Report Enemy Drive On Smolensk.  = lensk.

Bryansk Also ‘Threatened by  Soviet Drive   Another Stalingrad Disaster Leonis for German Army

German Losses. Reported Heavy   Another Column Is Menacinga Rrvancie

RUSSIANS RIP THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE LINE   SUMMER OFFENSIVE FROM OREL IS UNCHECKED

Nazis Suffer Huge Losses In Retreat   Fall Of Kharkov, Bryansk Nearer As Soviets Gain

Rationing Bad Joke, She Says   Clara Boothe Luce, Congresswoman, Raps Conduct of War

Air Battles Raging Over Soviet Front   Russians Report 197 Planes Downed; Germans Claim Enemy Stopped

RED AND NAZI. AIR FORCES ACTIVE   Russians Fail to Mention \\Red Army Offensive”, Berlin Has Been Reporting

BATTLE IN THE AIR   ae 7!  Russian and German Planes (Continue Their Aerial  Eat Attacks

REDS ACTIVE IN FIVE KEY BATTLE AREAS   Sharp Action Reported in Caucasus, West of Rostov, on Donets River Front and at Smolensk  ‘ and Leningrad.

RUSSIAN DISPATCHES FAIL MENTION ANY SOVIET OFFENSIVE  _ LARGE FORCES RUSSIAN _ AND GERMAN PLANES  JN ACTION, HOWEVER

BATTLE IN THE AIR   Russian and German Planes Continue Their Aerial Attacks

NAZIS REPORT NEW ATTACKS IN KUBAN AREA   Russians Say Germans are Attacking but Hint Other Major Offensives About to Begin

Air Duels Raging Qn Soviet Front  But Russians Make No Note Of Offensive

RUSSIANS SILENT ON ‘OFFENSIVE’   Reds Say 197 German Planes Shot Down In Past 3 Days

CONTINUE OVER RUSSIAN FRONT   Reds Still Sifent on German Reports of Major Soviet Offensive

SOVIET AND NAZI PLANES CONTINUE THEIR AIR DUELS   Increased Intensiy Is Noted in the Aerial Fencing Northeast of Novorossisk—TankLed Infantry Forces Clash

Activity On Soviet Front Is Increased   Germans Declare Summer - Campaign Has Started; Russians Silent

RABAUL POUNDED FIFTH DAY IN ROW BY U.S. BOMBERS   American Flyers Give Weary Japs No Rest At This New Britain   Stronghold. :

Americans Give Japs No Rest   Sink Munitions Ship, Hammer at Gasmata Airdrome

UNION SERVICES HELD THURSDAY   LeMars Churches Join In Annual Thanksgiving  Program

Union Services. On Thanksgiving  Rev. M. W. Myers Wil  Deliver The Sermoan

BULGARIAN KING IN CRITICAL CONDITION   Pro-German Monarch Took I] While Visiting Hitler

Bulgarian King Is Reported Ill   Stricken During Visit With Hitler

HITLER DEAD?   Newspaper Draws Conclusion From Anniversary Events.

REA Co-op Enters Fourth Year Here   N.C.A: Cooperativ e Is Now Serving 562 Rural Consumers with Electricity.

F.R. Sets Up New Food Unit   BANKING CHIEF WILL HEAD PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION PLAN

House Against Governor on . Aid Requests   Two Bills Completely Ip. nored and One Barely Soueezes Through   CHANCE OF FLCOR FIGHT REMAINS   Other Appropriations Go Through and Senate Will Act Next Week

A WELFARE SHORTAGE    Special Audit Discle Discloses Discrep: ancies in Franklin County

JAIL 3 IN GAS BOOK THEFTS   Accused Of Stealing Coupons Good for 13,000 Gallons

Three Accused Of Coupon Theft   Youths Charged With Wholesale Looting

Flying Fort Roars South With Drug For Shirley Carter: First Shipment Bungled And Forwarded Parcel Post

Japan's Hirohito and Tojo Both Admit Critical Situation   Statements Made at Spe. cial Session of Imperial Diet.

DAY: OF MILD WEATHER   Foretaster Sees Little Change for _ Tomorrow

DAY: OF MILD WEATHER      ‘Forecaster Sees Little Change fer ae Tomorrow

DISCUSS SHORTAGE -OF FARM WORKERS   Local Committee Plans to Work Out a Way to Solve Problem   MAY ASK VOLUNTEERS

OF FARM WORKERS   Local Committee Plans to Work Out a Way to Solve Problem   MAY ASK VOLUNTEERS

NAZIS EXPECT FRESH SHOCKS   Propaganda Machine Now Drumming on Odd Note After Red Setback

Nazis Are Told To Get Tough For Total War   Al] Luxury Shops In Germnay Have  Been Closed

U. MAX GARDNER NOT AGANDIDATI   Definitely Removes Self As Candidate for U. S. Senate In 1944 State Democratic Primary; No Announced Opposition To Reynolds.

Hoey Available If The Call Comes Loud Enough   REYNOLD’S WEALTH GIVES THEM PAUSE

HEALTH FORCES WITHDRAWAL OF EX- GOVERNOR   Field Now Left Wide Open Without An. nounced Candidate Against Reynolds: Hoey Indefinite But Available.”

Se ee Re eee cor MOTORISTS AGAIN CAUTIONED AGAINST USING HARMFUL ‘RADIATOR ANTI-FREEZE

At Least 30,000 Germans Have Paid With Lives for Initial Successes of Summer Offensive.

Moscow Reporis 35,000 Germans Slain, 1,539 Tanks Destroyed or Damaged, 649 Planes Downed   Rerlin Claims 400 Soviet Tanks De stroyed, 193 Planes Down—Re serves Enter Batile

Americans Capture  New Enemy Airfield   Nippon Acknowledges Heavy Casualties In Bitter Fighting; Terrific Bombardment From U. S. Warships Told By Enemy

Japanese Describe ‘Action in Detail Saying U.S, Warship Is Damaged

Japs Recite Their Story Of Attu Fighting   Tokyo Radio Broadcasts Report In Attempt To Raise Misgivings Among Americans

TOKYO CLAIMS U.S. LOSSES ON ATTU HEAVY   Jap Account Telling of Explosion on Warship, Blasting of Landing Barges, Unconfirmed

Jap Reporter Admits Huge Losses in Version of U. S. Landing on Attu Island

PINES “REE REPORTED KLE   Blasted From . Ridge Position By Planes ~ And Warships § {i

Jap Broadcast Designed for U.S. Admits Nip’s Forces Losing Attu Island Battle

Heavy Attu Loss Admitted by Japs   Tokyo Radio Broadcasts Admit Americans Have Blasted Japanese from Important Ridge

Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses   Broadcast Gives dapancse Version OF Island Attack -

Tokyo Admits Many Japs Lost  Two-Thirds Blasted By Planes, Warships From Ridae Positions

ONE THIRD OF ENEMY KILLED IN ALEUTIANS   Americans Winning Battle To Regain Possession Of Island     WARSHIPS BLAST FOES     Heroic Struggle Described tn Broadcast For Tokyo   WARSHIPS BLAST FOES

Tokyo Radio Admits Jans Thrown Back   Reveal Unsubstantiated Claims Of Heavy Losses On Americans Americans

Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses On Attu Island   Broadcast May be Intended to Cause U S. Overconfidence

Our Attu Losses Large, Foe Asserts;   Tokyo Will Find Its Own Also High 

Japanese Admit Two Thirds Of One Force Slain   Enemy. Claims Big Warship Hit; Broadcast Tries To Create Misgivings

TOKYO CLAIMS U. $. CASUALTY TOLL HIGH, TOO   Enemy Account Seen as Attempt To Worry Americans   SAY 10 BARGES SUNK   Radio Reporter Admits Jap Defenses Shattered

JUNE PRODUCTION SLIGHTLY HIGHER   a eetined  Output Still Lagging, However, It Is Reported

War Production Doldrums ls Repeated in June   Py Insufficient to Meet 1943 Goals; Puzzle-Causes

WAR PRODUCTION SLIGHTLY BETTER   Plane Production During June Indicates Fewer Than 50 Over May Output.

War Production [s In Doldrums   Leaders Say Goals Are Not Being Met¢

JUNE PRODUCTION — SLIGHTLY HIGHER   Output Still’ Lagging, However, It Is Reported

War Production Shows Decided Lag for June   Only 50 More Planes Produced Than in May, WPB Sources Reveal

OUTPUT LAGS DURING JUNE   Gain Of Less Than 50 Planes Over May, WPB Reports

War Production for June Somewhat Better but Not Yet Satisfactory to WLB

War Production In Doldrums for Month of June   Output of Planes Only Slightly above That for May

Production In Doldrums During June,  WPB Reports   Government Concerned Over Continued Level When Production  Should Be Rising  GAIN IN AIRCRAFT UNDER 50 PLANES  Spurt Rest of Year Must Be Achieved If Goal Is To Be Met

DROP PERSISTS IN WAR GOODS   Aircraft Production Has Only 50 Plane Gain Over Last May

Production ‘tn Doldrums   Plane Output But 50 BAhove Total For May

War Production Gain Is Slight   WPB Concerned Over Continued Lag

War Production Is In Doldrums   Leaders Say Goals Are Not Being Met  _ By STERLING F. GREEN  a. ae 7 a 7 2 oe ee

ARMS OUTPUT  “STL LAGGING   Production Gains in June Held Insufficient: to Meet 1943 Goals

REDS TIGHTEN GRIP GN NAZIS IN OREL   Gain 7 Miles, Kill 1,500 Germans and Knockout 15 Tanks.

Report s Of Fev  FEELING THAT ALLIED INVASION IS IMMINENT SWEEPS FRANCE

France Is Said To Be Swept By Idea That Alliod Invasion Ic About Reads

Report France Expecting Allies To Invade Soon   Based On “Concentration™ Of Allied Shipping, Men And Observation Flights

Invasion Of France Is Seen Near   Germans Prepare  For Allied Blow

France Convinced Allies Are Set for Invasion  Observation Flights Increase, Many Troops Are Moving

Baruch Given Industry Task   War Needs, Peace  Conversion Problems

Transition Job Given Baruch   Gets Role of Readjusting  Past War Industey

Baruch Given  Industry Role   Readjusting Policy Will Be Framed By Veteran Byrnes Adviser

FOR FEWER EMPLOYES   Baruck Makes Recommendation to War Mobilization Director

Revision  Is Urged   ,.. In Manpower Control By Bernard M. Baruch

Baruch Proposes Revisions In Manpowerand Production Controls, and Draft Review

SOVIETS TAKE MORE TOWNS ON PENINSULE   Winter Offensive Nets Nearly 2 Million Germans Killed or Captured on Red Front.

NEARLY 1,200,000 AULLED, CAPTURED COMMUNIQUE SAYS   Great Quantities of War Materials, Engines, Cars Are Taken In Advances of 434 Miles.   JAPANESE SUFFER IN SCATTERED ATTACKS   Navy Announces More Bombings In Aelutians, Two  . German U-Boat Bases Are Bombed In France.

850,000 AX!S MEN KILLED IN RUSSIA   Reds Announce 343,525 Captured In Past Winter

Soviets Start Spring Push to  Free Caneasus   Russ List Gains in Winter Offensive; 850,000 Axis Troonos Killed

RUSS PRESS ‘BACK NAZIS IN CAUCASUS   Triumphant Winter Drive Nets 1,192,525 Axis Troops, They Say

REDS COUNT UP WINTER'S GAINS   1 Claim Germans Were Handed “Largest Defeat In History.”

REDS PUSH SPRING CAMPAIGN AGAINST AXIS IN CAUCASUS   Winter Drive Winds Up With  Record Of 1,193,525: Enemy Troops As Casualties

Russians Push Spring Campaign   Hit Shrinking German Caucasus Bridgehead

AWARDS TO 115 MEN   Members of Bomber Crew Cited _ for :Meritorious Work

Testimony Against de Marigny Is Hit  Crown tah Light Was On In His Room

CROWN SCORES AT NASSAU   PROSECUTION CLAIMS MARIGNY ROOM LIGHTED

SAW LIGHT IN ROOM   Defendant Says He Was at Home Asleep on Night of Oakes Murder

NO TRACES OF FACIAL BURNS, DOCTOR SAYS   Neighbor Says Defendant’s Light Burned Entire Night of Murder

BLOWS AIMED AT “GROWN TESTIMONY   Defendant in Oakes’ Slaying Had Light Burning in Room, Claim.

The War Today   Smashing of Reich and Japan Just Start Toward Millenium

MILITARY ACTION T0 SHORTEN WAR MAY BI CONFERENCE RESULT  DRAMATIC ULTIMATUM TO GERMAN PEOPLE MAY ALSO BE ISSUED      WE'RE GOING TO HAVE GREAT NEW WORLD BUT THERE WILL BE ITRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS FIRST

The War Today— pe Civil Wars, Political Strife Face Postwar Era But Happier Davs Seen

The War Today  Happier Day's Millenium Is Not Coming As Soon As War Is Ended.

Nazis Pictured as Being Reluctant To Risk Russian Summer Offensive   Reports Suggest Timidity and Uncertainty among German Leaders

‘Stalin Expects   Grand Assault  . But Other Observers See Bo*. ... fe fF «

DOUBT GERMANY WILL RISK DRIVE   OBSERVERS: BELIEVE U. S.BRITISH THREAT WILL DETER NAZIS IN RUSSIA,

Nazis May Not Try Offensive   Heavy Losses Damper Russian Drive Plans

GERMANY REPORTED RELUCTANT TO START NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE   Nation, Suffering From Stalingrad and Tunisi: Wounds, Hesitates About Offensive While Invasion Threat Is Poised

QOSEVELT 10 AS! FOR CHEAP RUBBER   Executive Expresses Opposition to Post-War Tariff On Natural Supply.

U, S. Establishes Office to Handle Postwar Program   President Oppose: Tariff on Rubber After War Ends

Low Tariff on Rubber Urged   President Roosevelt Wants Cheap Tires For American Cars

HAD BIG OUWTPrITr      PRESIDENT OPPOSES TARIFF ON RUBBER AFTER WAR: WANTS CHEAP TIRES

Natural Rubber Is Best Way To Obtain Cheap Tires, Is Contention Of Roosevelt

RUBBER TARIFF OPPOSED   Protection Fer Synthetic Plants Hit By President Roosevelt

AERIAL BLOWS TRADED IN PACIFIC SECTOR   ANies Attack Marshall Island: And Japanese Retaliate Against Gilbert

RED ARMY I5 CLAMPING VISE TIGHTER   Four Columns, One 22 Miles Away, Are Driving on Kharkov

Soviet Guns Also Hammer at Rostov   Germans Squeezed Between-Two - Great Bases by Red Army Driving Deep in Defenses

Soviets Within Artillery Range Of German Base  Red Army’s Whirlwind Drive Continues; Crack Nazi Troops Routed

HEAVY GERMAN LOSS IN FIERCE FIGHT FOR CIT’      Cena Russians Say Nazis Must Escape Across Kerch Strait Or JRe

BIG GUNS BEING MOVED UP NOW FOR FIRST SALVO   Reds are Also Squeezing Nazis Into Small Triangle At Roastoy.

4 COLUMNS WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF INDUSTRY AREA   Fall Of Either. -Or Both Cities Will) Faree Nazis Back To Dnieper

NAZIS CAUGHT © IN TRIANGLE ABOVE ROSTOV   Five Kharkov Railroads . Reported to Have Been Cut

Observers List Seven Possible Points Of Attack—Germany [Is Alarmed Over Possibility Of Nerwegian Invasion   REDS MOVE CLOSER TO TWO OBJECTIVES

SOVIETS HOUT NAZI: GHAGK LOMBAT FORCE   Four Columns Advance Upon Kharkov; Reds. Squeezing Foe at Rostov.   GERMAN-HELD RAIL LINE REPORTED CUT

LONG-RANGE GUNS MAY BE SHELLING KHARKOV SUBURBS   Allied Commandos Reported Participating at Bizerte Base Where Germans Are Driven Back.   GERMANS FORTIFYING NORWEGIAN CENTERS   Wilhelmshaven Bombed For Tist Time During Daylight, City Heavily Blastec In U-Boat Campaign.

Powerful Red Forces Nearing  2 Key Cities   Crack Nazi Troops : Routed At Kharkov; Soviets Push On Rostov

ALLIES NOW ONLY 28 MILES FROM NORTHERN COAS]   ‘British Eighth Army Presses  Bitter Battle Against Foe At Catania.

IMPORTANT ROADS TO ALL CENTERS HELD BY ALLIES   German, Italian Rear Guard Troops Are Now Cut Off, Stubborn Enemy  Res'rtance Encountered.   AXIS DEFENSES ARE - SLOWLY CRUMBLING   Gen. Eisenhower Says Some Reinforcements Are Moving in, Apparently Preparing to Make Stand.

Allies Drive To Within 28 Miles Of North Coast   British 8th Army Presses Hammer-Tongs Battle For East Coast Port of Catania; Allies Now Hold Half of Sicily

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SMASHES  AT CATANIA   Main Enemy Forces Falling Back Toward Messina

Reds Smash Nearer Orel   Six Mile Advance Is Reported By Soviets:

Call 100 For Physical Dec. 7   From Board 1, Area: 20, 18 Last Month, Register

SCTE ER ES SUERTE ROR H EES Hitler’s Likeness to Get Pushin Snoot

Anti-Sabotage Bill Passed   Death Penalty-Tf .... War Effort Harmed

Japanese Stand In Papuan Area  Nearly Crushed   Meanwhile Americans Kill 1,032 Japanese On Guadalcanal Front

TOJ0°S PAPUAN FORCE DOOMED   Jungle Fighters Move So Fast They Can't Count Jap Dead

Widespread Air Attacks on Japs   Allies Apply  Squeeze in New Guinea

Japanese Are: Hard Hif By Allied Forces   Jungle Fighters Compress Pockels; Bombers Fury on 10 Points

Allies Pinch Jap Jungle Nests Harder   Bombers Attack Ten Nipponese Points In Southern Pacific

Allied Squeeze - Drawn Tighter On New Guinea   Bombers Plaster Areas Embracing All South Pacific

MARTHUR’S MEN IN SWIFT ADVANCE   JAP RESISTANCE REPORTED CRUMBLING AROUND SANANANDA POINT.

RUML OFFERS FISCAL PLANS   Banker Proposes Policy for After War, Calls for  Cuts in Taxes

Ruml Advocates Nine-Point Postwar Fiscal Policy, Including Lower Income Tax Rates

Would Reduce Tax Rates. Including Federal Levies On Individual Incomes

RAID BERLIN © ~ BY DISTRICTS   EYE-WETNESSES NAY. SAME  ‘PATTERN BEING FOLLOWED’  AS IN-THE HAMBURG  . BOMBINGS

U. S. To Give Filipinos  Freedom —   Independence After Japan ‘Destroyed’, Says Roosevelt

leet May Aid Gen. WArthu   Reorganization Of U. §&. Forces Assigns Unit To Australian Theater.

MacArthur Aid Seen As Solons earn eel   One Of Seven Is Assigned To Australia; Move Seen Heralding New Force

U. S. Navy Formed Into Seven Fleets   One Expected to Be Assigned to MacArthur To Increase His Power

Reorganize Navy Into Seven Fleets   May Mean That Strong Reinforcements Will Be Sent to General MacArthur’s Southwest Pacific Zone

Reorganize U.S. Navy Into Seven Fleets, One Named  For Australian Protection

M'ARTHUR IS EXPECTED 10 GET MORE AID   Regrouping of Navy Into Seven Fleets, With One for Australia, Strengthens Pdssibility of Strong Reinforcements.

One Fleet Is Assigned To Australia   Senators Glamor for New Reinforcements to Far Pacific Forces

SEE U. S. NAVY REORGANIZATION   Reinforcements Might Be Destined For MacArthur in Australian Area

NAVY GROUPED INTO 7 FLEETS   Move May Indicate Plan Tc Re-Inforce MacArthur

7 Fleet Reorganization Of Navy Hints Increased Forces For MacArthur

Reorganization Of Navy to Give Aid in Pacific   Remnants of Jap Convoy Flees from New Guinea Harbor

MORE HELP MAY GO T0 MACARTHUR   Hint of Reinforcements In Reorganization of Navy Into 7 Fleets   SEN. GEORGE CALLS FOR MORE PLANES   Aled Command May Have Decided to Channél More Support to Pacific

Navy Has Fleet Off  -Australia   One Of Seven Fleets ' Assigned To That  _ Area. As . Assistance Of Gen. MacArthur

Reeoapire Navy Into Seven Fleets, 'With One Assigned To Waters Around Australia   _ New- Aid For Mac Arthur Hinted As Solons Squabble On Strategy

NEW NAVY HELP FOR WARTHUR BRING PLANNED   United States Sea Power to be Reorganized Into Seven Fleets, it Is Indicated   ONE TO AUSTRALIA   Strengthens Possibility - Strong Reinforcements   Might be Destined   for Pacific Area

STRONG REINFORCEMENTS MAY JOIN MACARTHUR'S FORCES IN SGUTHWEST PACIFIC   Senator George Calls For All The Additional Pianes Needed Ty Be Sent to China and Australia. Navy Reorganized Into Seven Fleets

REORGANIZE U. S. NAVY INTO SEVEN SEPARATE FLEETS   KNOX REVEALS PLANS TO SEND FLEET TO AUSTRALIAN AREA

U.S. Operating 1 Fleets: Knox  Reinforcements for par Arter nts te

Reorganization of » Navy May Mean Aid to Gen. MacArthur   »Congress Agitated Over Situation in  Southwest Pacific

U.S. Nav d Into Seven Fle  GENERAL MACARTHUR. DUE TO GET HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS

Navy Reorganized To Pu Fleet in Australian Area In Revised Strategy

NAVY SUPPORT FOR M’ARTHUR IS INDICATED   Knox Reveals Sea Forces Divided into Seven Fleets as Senators Urge Stepped-Up War on Japs   NAVY PLAN VEILED   Chandler Demands 500 Planes for China, Japs be Driven from Kiska, Southwest Offensive

REGROUPING OF U.S. NAVY. JS ‘ANNOUNCED   Move  Seen” “Giving - Mor e Aid To MacArthur

/PREDICT MORE AID FOR 'M’ARTHUR IN S. PACIFIC   Navy Reorganized Into Seven Units  With One Assigned To Pacific Sector

St. Nazaire Is Target Of Attack   Tolt Of Bombers Is Highest In War To Date

Huge Submarine Base of the Nazis Is Attacked   FIRES STARTED IN CITY, REPORTS SAY

U. S. Bombers Blast at Submarine Base  Seven Fortresses Fail to Return From Raid

7 U. S. Fortresses Missing In Raids  German Naval Base Aj St. Naizaire Bombarded

SEVEN AMERICAN FORTRESSES ARE ‘LOST IN ATTACK   Operations Against St. Nazaire Sub Base Conducted On Big Scale   BOMBERS DID NOT HAVE PROTECTION

U5. BOMBERS RAID SUB BASE   Fires Are Started in At tack on St. Nazaire; Seven Planes Lost

Huge Submarine Base of the Nazis Is Attacked  FIRES STARTED IN CITY, REPORTS SAY  Day's Operations Described as on Large Scale

Daylight Raiders Blast U-Boat Base At St. Nazaire   - a > i i til  Seven Big American Bombers Are Lost On Long Journey  USE 300 FIGHTERS  Allied Flyers Find  Enemy Opposition Aa Wiad Ain Piet

TUSBOMBERS FAIL 10 COME FROM RAIDING   Forty-Four Enemy  Fighters Shot Down In Smash At St. Nazaire, French Sub Rase.    England Strafed

U, S. Bombers Blast at Submarine Base  Seven Fortresses Fail to DD sivenin:, Denes: Thactol

U-BOAT BASE RAID TARGET   7 U. S. Bombers Fail To Return From Attack On St. Nazaire

WILLKIE URGES: WORLD COUNCIL TO KEEP PEACE   Says Allies Should Set Up Organization That Eventually Will Take In All Nations.   LASHES OUT AT LONG REIGN OF NEW DEAL   Declares Change in Administration Is Necessary for Perpetuation of a Free Society.

“Two-way alliance will not aid cause of world peace’   Willkie calls for organization on an international basis at St. Louis

WILLKIE ASKS GLOBAL PEACE PLAN BE MADE   Says Defensive and Of. fensive Alliances  Will Not Do

PALACE GUARD IS ASSAILED IN WILLKIE SPEECH   End Of Power Needed For . Preservation. Of Free  Society In U. S.

Assails Any Alliances Between Principal Allies In Speech at St. Louis

Peace Organization on World Wide Basis Is Advocated by Willkie   says Co-operation between Nations Is Only Chance for Peace

German Wall Caves In Wher Rostoy Yields   Steel jaws clamping on city as Russians’ relentless drive reaches its peak. 

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Triumphant Reds Occupy Southern Defense Bastion   Voroshilovgrad To The North Also Captured As Onslaught Gains Momentum; Advances Made To Within 7 Miles Of Kharkov

GATEWAY TO CAUCASUS AND IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF THE DONBAS ANNOUNCED IN SPECIAL COMMUNIQUE.

SOVIETS ALSO SMASH THROUGH NAZI LINES AT VOROSHILOVGRAD   Fall of Both Places is Admitted By Germans; Hitler Reported to Be Evacuating City of Kharkov

BUS LINE TIE-UP AFFECTS 25,000   STRIKE OCCURS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS DEFENSE PLANT AREA

Protest Strike Ties Up Labor In Defense Area   25,000 Forced to Drive Own Cars or Walk to Work Today

Protest Strike Ties Up Labor In Defense Area  25,000 Forced to Drive Own Cars or Walk to

ATTACKS ARE SUCCESSFUL      Chinese . Raid Jap-Held Points North of Yuhang

Three German Airplanes Shot Down By Navy Gun Crew of Merchaniman

PAYROLL TAXING BILL ATTACKED   War And Navy Officials Voice Opposition To SenateApproved Measure

Ls S _—aS_s. —_  VRESBYTE RIAN. ME. N OF THE CHURGIE TO MELT TONIGHT

33 Bombers Lost in Raid On Nazi City   RAF Attack Climaxes Record Week of Raids  Against Continent  FORTRESSES SCORE

GIGANTIC RAID LEAVES HAVOC IN WUPPERTAL   British Blast German Industrial City in Great Strength

BLUGD BANK WILL BE HERE oe? 2I   Mobile Red Cross Dcnor Unit to Visit County for Fifth Tme. 

BLOOD: BANK WILL BE HERE SEPT. 21   Mobile Red Cross Denot . Unit to Visit County. for Fifth Tme. ~

Parley Held on Food Production  Farm Leaders Are In on Conference

Jones, 4 Farm Leaders Confer On Food Plan:   Government’s 1944 Program For Rec_ord Production Studied With Indefinite Results

INITIATE FOOD PLANS   Marvin Jones Confers With Farm Group Officials.

NOT ANY WORSE, BUT STILL GRAVE   Situation Stable At Moment But Nazis Have Plenty More, Knox Says

FUNDS RELEASED FOR FLOOD AREAS   MONEY WILL HELP BRING CROP LANDS BACK AND FEED THE HOMELESS,

American Units Gain Five Miles   Another Force Enters Eddekhila, Six Miles West Of Strongpoint Of Tebourba

Admiral Halsey. Predicts Attack -On Japan Itself          Bases Forecast On Defeais ». Given Japs In Air: And ” On- Sea In. Past. Year

SEE NEW BLOW AGAINST JAPAN   U. §. Planes Score Triumphs In All Pacific War Theatres

Rabaul Base Is Objective Of Yanks Now   Admiral Halsey Certain Of Attack Coming Upon Japan Itself.

Halsey Says US Will Carry War to Japan   Army ‘Engineers and Navy Seabees Rush Repairs to Munda for Use in Operations Against Rabaul

Halsey Is Pleased At Munda Job   Promises Push Until the Battle of Pacific Is Battle of Japan

Seek Army Flyer Saved by Chute   Seven Bodies Found Near Plane Wreckage

Fifth Army Pushes Big New Drive   Carves Hard-Won Gains In Calabritto Area Of  Italian Front.

British Also Drive Ahead   Montgomery’s Drive Slows: Allied Air Blows Heavy

AMERICAN ARMY KNIFES THROUGH NAZI DEFENSES   Clark’s Forces Advance i Calabritto Area—Montgomery Drives on

CLARK PUSHING AHEAD THROUGH HEAVY FIGHTING   Both Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance Against Nazis; Clark’s Offensive Greatest Since First Landings At Saler no,

GAINS MADE IN WAKE OF BIG BARRAGE   Eight Also Presses. _ Ahead By Offensives Seems Slowing Down

CLARK'S 5TH ARMY - MOVED FORWARDIN CALABRITTO AREA   Followed in Wake of a Roll. ing Barrage of Artillery Shells and Aerial Bombs.   Continued to Smash the Germans Back Beyond the Sangro Ridge.

Nazis Fight Fiercely As Fifth Army Opens Biggest Offensive Since Salerno

Clark’s Fifth Army Breaks Stalemate on West Italian Front   Fierce Opposition is Encountered by Both of Allied Armies

New Advance By Attacking Fifth Army   Prisoners Taken By Allies In Italian Offensives

BRITISH IN EAST AREA ALSO GAIN   Clark’s Troops Break Long Stalemate On Western Front

Ciark’s Army Moves For. ward After Long Stalemate on Front.   BRITISH MAKING GAINS

Germans Use Crowds Of Refugees To Slow Advance  Of Allies; Air Attacks Heaviest In Days;  General Clark Under Enemy Fire

CLARK'S ARMY OPENS BIGGEST ITALY DRIVE   Yonks Batter Nazis at Calabritto; Dust Of Battle Visible for Miles, Say Airmen

OTH LAUNCHES NEW DRIVE IN WESTERN ITALY   Allied Airmen Aid in Attack British Advance Six Miles

Fifth, Eighth Armies Push Ahead   Heavy Aerial Attacks Aid Allies in Drive Upon Reme

GEN. CLARK'S FIFTH ARMY HAS CRACKED GERMAN WEST FRONT  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ALSO CONTINUED SMASH NAZIS BACK

RakedB y Foe Guns, oth  Ar ‘my Makes Gain In Italy   British Smash Ahead But Advance Is Slower Nazis Use Refugees  Te Black Advance

British And U.S. Continue Smash On Italian Front   Both 5th And 8th Arniies Take Prisoners; Allied Planes Down 17 Ships

Clark’s 5th Army Lashes Qut At Nazis   Hard Won Gains Carved Out By Americans As British 8th Forges Ahead Ta Fact

CALABRITTO AREA TEE “OF ANVANGE   British Also Stage Gains And Take  Territory

Strongest  *Nazi Line  . Aitacked by Clark   Greatest Allied. Offensin - Since: Salerno. Reported. Raging in Italy   qe JERCE FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS   Germans Reported. Herding Refugees Onto‘ Roads. to ® Hamper Allied Push:

Long Stalemate Broken As U.S. Troops Advance   British 8th Army Continues to Hit Enemy Near Sangro

FIFTH CRACKS. AHEAD DEFYING ‘GERMANS’ FIRE   Advance In Calabritto Area Aided by Rolling Barrage: Of Artillery Shells and Bombs   STH ARMY.SHOWS SIGNS OF SLOWING   Continues to Advance. Beyond Sangro Ridge to Capture Castel Fretano

Clark's Army Lunges Into German Lines   Long Stalemated by Bad Weather Yankees Aeain on the March

CLARK'S ARMIN PUSHING THR GERMAN LINES   But Nazis’ Savage Defense Impedes Progress in Calabritto Area.

ALLIED TROOPS GAIN IN ITALY   Germans Reel Back Under Sth, 8th Army Attacks, Rush Heserves

Fifth Army Pushes Through Nazi Lines   Ending Long Stalemate, Troops Move Forward Through Machine - Gun - Raked Fields Following Rolling Barrage.

Clark’s Army Cutting Path WithArtillery   Breaks ‘Through Naz. Line as 8th Makes New Gain in East

is Biggest Allied Drive  Since Salerne   Germans Fight Fiercely In Every Sector Of Front

YANKS SMASH THROUGH NAZI LINES IN ITAL\   British Forces Are Still Gaining in Adfiatic Coastal Drive

Record Anti-Aircraft Fire Shields Evacuation; Allies Press Drive for Messina

U. S. 5th Army Crack Through Western Italy   After a Stalemate Clark's Troops Advance in Wake of Rolling Barrage.   Allied Aerial Assaults  Are Heaviest in Days

ROAD 10 ROME OPENINGS ARE GETTING WIDER   Allies Advance As Germans Retreat  Under Bombing

YANKS CRACK FORWARD AT CALABRITTO   American Succeses Coupled With Story That British Troops Are Smashing Enemy Back   PRISONERS ARE TAKEN

Clark s Men Crack Forward  In Heavy Fire   Break Long Stalemate on Western Front, Advance In Roaring Barrage of Artillery.

Clark’s Troops Open Drive on German Line   ‘Americans Wage Sanguinary Battle al  Calabritt, British Continue Drive — Airmen Pound Nazi Defenses

Fifth Smashes Ahead Behind Heavy Barrage   Artillery and Planes Blast Path for U. S. Army Against Winter Line of Germans

Yanks On Move In Italy Behind Rolling Barrage   Germans, Reeling Under Allied Blows, Rush Reinforcements.

HURL GERMANS BACK ON WEST FRONT IN ITALY   FIERCE FIGHTING REPORTED AROUND THE ROAD TO ROME

British Also Make Gains Ir Two-Way Drive Against German Winter Line

ith Resumes Advanee After Long Interva!   British Eighth Continues To Smash Germans Back Bevond Sancoro.   REDS MAKE NEW GAINS

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS AIDING YANKS, BRITISH   English 8th Continuing Advance Beyond Sangro River Line as Nazis Begin to Weaken

Artillery and Air Assault Paves Way   British Army Continues To Drive Nazis Back Bevond Sangro Ridge

YANKS FORCE ERMAN LINES   Eighth Army Drives Nazis Back Beyond Sangro  Lme

 —ITALY—  1.5, STH CRACKS LONG STALEMATE   Clark’s Troops , Advatce Through Machine-GunRaked Fields   BRITISH GAINING   . gt Increased Allied Activitiy'  Noted In Drive Toward { Rome

OPPOSES AREA RATION POLICY   Senator Davis Says Western Pennsylvania is Victim  Of Unfair Practice

NATURE VICTOR   Woman Escapes Jail Because She’s Tan Bie For It.

Senate Bill Would Ban Milk Subsidy   Measure Provides Price Increase of  One Cent a Quart

Increased Milk Prices Endorsed   Bill Outlawing Subsidy And Requiring Higher Price Is Approved By Senate Committee

SULONS BAN MILK SUBSIDY   GROUP OKAYS INCREASE IN PRICE OF FLUID

‘Measure Banning ‘Milk Subsidies Gets Unit Okay   Committee Would Boost Retail Price One Cent Per Quart

Senate Committee Votes To Ban Milk Subsidies; Raise Price One Cent Quart

SENATE GROUP {5 AGAINST SUBSID\   Favors One-Cent Increase, Another Food Stamp Plan Gets: Some Favor.

WOULD BOOST RETAIL PRIGt CENT A QUART   Senate Committee’s. -Action Hits at Gov't Payment to Dairymen.

PLAN TO O00M MILK oUbollY BY PRICE HIKE   Committee Approves One Cent Quart Boost; Wage Subsidy Is Asked

DEATH OF MILK SUBSIDY VOTED   Committee Approves Cent ) Increase in Prices

SENATE GROUP VOTES TO KILL MILK SUBSIDY   Asks Vote Soon On Whole Issue

LOOMS ON SUBSIDIES   Senate Committee Approves Bill To Ban Milk Subsidy

J. William Ditter, Chairman Of GOP National Congressional Committee Is Victim; Five Army Fliers Killed

NINE KILLED IN SERIES OF STATE PLANE CRASHES    Congressman, Lieut, Commander  Included In Casualty 7 List

REP. DITTER OF “PENNSYLVANIA I KILLED IN PLANE   Crashed Ouring Heavy Rainstorm Sunday Evening. Army. Fliers Struck Wire.

Seven Killed in  Plane Accidents   Five Craft Downed  In Pennsylvania

CONGRESSMAN, QO FLIERS KILLED   2 Flights i in Pa. Result Disastrously

Practically Every Vessel At Base Is Wrecked   Nineteen Allied Planes Lost on Bie Mission

~ BY ALLIED FORCI   Three Destroyers, 2 Large Cruisers Sunk Among 21 Other Shins.

ORDERS AMERICAN FLEET 10 ATTAGK ENEMY AT RABAUL   MacArthur Issues Instruction to Disregard Weather In Striking Blow to Destroy Reinforcements.   NAVY REVEALS SUBS BAGGED 14 VESSELS   10 Reported Sunk, Three Damaged as Reconnaissance Plane Blasts 1000Ton Jap Freighter.

loll At habaul 26 Jap Vessels Allied Air Fl Fleet ‘Deals  And 108 Planes Hard Blow At Hope Of   PORT SWEPT CLEAN   Entire Shipping Area Is Vast Scene Of Desolation

Allied Forces — Bag 26 Ships, 108 Jap Planes   Crush Reinforcements At Rabaul From Main Nip Base At Truk

150 Allied Planes Hit Jap Base . With Hard Blow   19 PLANES ARE LOST IN 75-MINUTE FIGHT

U.S. AIRMEN SMASH 26 JAP SHIPS   108 Planes Are “Destroyed Or Damaged At Rabaul

Allied Fliers Exact Heavy Toll OF Jap Ships, Planes   26 Enemy Ships, Including 5 War Vessels, And 108 Planes , Destroyed Or Damaged In Raid On Rabaul . «19 Allied Planes Lost

Allies Wreck 206 Ships At Rabaul   Five War Vessels, 108 Planes Included In Jap Losses In 75-Minute Battle At Big Enemy  Racca

26 JAP SHIPS  ARE DAMAGED AT RABAUL   108 Planes Also Destroyed by Allied Air Fleet

Rabaul Reinforcements Crushed In Attempt To Save Bases in Solomons

Allied Armada Downs 108 Planes at Base   Two Heavy Cruisers, 3 Destroyers Sent to Bottom: Harbor Is ‘Wreck’

NEW PLAN ON INCOME TAXES   Lend Full Amount to U S., Get Certificate of Indebtedness

JAP a pan, IN-NEW GU      Allies Mopping Up Oppesitio: in Narrow Sector After Resistance Broken   ALLIED TROOPS ARE MOVING IN FOR KIU

Small Jap Force Left In Bana Area Circled And Faces Annihilation

ALLIES MOVING IN FOR RILL ON TRAPPED JAPS   Buna Area in New Guinea Now Cleaned Up Except for Narrow Pocket.   HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST AT JAPS ON NEW BRITAIN

Enemy Force In New Guinea —- Surrounded   Position Now Hopeless , Al lies Moving in for the Kill, MacArthur Says   DRIVEN. INTO. : NARROW: POCKET   Destruction of . Foe ..in Buna Area Completed, 850 Slain

Japanese Reduced to One Position in Paupan Area   Surrounded and Facing Annihilation, General Mac: Arthur’s Headquarters On New Guinea Announces; “Enemy’s Position Is Hopeless,” Communique Says; Allies Move Up

JAP POSITION ON PENINSULA IS CRITICAL   Surrounded and Facing Annihilation Forces Confined to Narrow Pocket   MOVING UP FOR KILL

Japs Confined to Small Pocket   Allies Wipe Out Resistance in Buna Area

All Resistance Is Smashed In  ~ Buna District   Japs Are Confined Te  ' Narrow Pocket Or   Sanananda Point By Allied Attackers —

Japanese Position at Buna Hopeless, MacArthur States   Surrounded Nipponese Face Annihilation on Papua Today

REMAINING JAPS ON PAPUA FORCEL INTO POCKET   ENEMY POSITION CALLED ‘HOPELESS’ AS ALLIES MOP UP

LAST OF JAPS ON PENINSULA NOW TRAPPED   Allies Close In After Cleaning Up Buna Sector

Yanks Cut Off And-Surround  Japs in Papua   Buna Mission Falls: Foe Faces Complete Annihilation

MOVE ON LAST JAPS IN POCKET   Allied Troops Wipe Out  Force Around Buna

Allies Mopping Up In New Gutnea   JAPS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF ISLAND BASE OUTPOST

REMAINING ENEMY FACES ANNIHILATION   Position Hopeless, MacArthur Reports, As His Troops Move tn For Kill

LAST JAPANESE IN PAPUA AREA CAUGHT IN TRAP   Americans And Aussies Mop Up All Buna Sector Over Weekend; “Enemy's Position Now Hopeless,” Communique Says.

ENEMY FORGES ON PAPUAN PENINSULA FACE ANNIHILATION   Confined In Narrow Pocket On Sanananda Point; Last Vestige of Jap  Resistance Around Buna Wiped Out Over Week End.»

Surrounded Foe Faces Certain Annihilation   Position On Lower New Guinea Now Hopeless; . 650 More Killed

Japs’ Position In New Guinea Now Hopeless With Remaining Forces Held In Small Pocket

US.-British ~ Planes Strike Vigorously   AERIAR ASSAULT AGAINST WESTERN EUROPE TAPERING.  ~

Air Assault Maintained  On Sicily   Docks at Naples Hit by Two-Ton Blockbusters

Aerial Assault On Western Europe Tapers Off. Only Light Planes fent To Harry German Coniwmainicatans   GERMAN AIR FORCE HITS BACK AT LONDON

Western Europe Gets Respite From RAF Pounding As Italian Bases Bear Brunt Of Bombing

PORT OF NAPLES GETS — BOMBING FROM ALLIES   [talian City Battered As Well As Airdromes on the Invasion-Threatened Island of Sicily—Heaviest Attacks Directed on Targets Directly Under Mussolini’s Domain---British Make Scrtia.

Sicily Airdromes Heavily Blasted In Allied Bomb Raid   Heaviest Attacks Concentrated On Italian Targets; Entire Mediterranean Gets Sprinkling of Aerial Thrusts

RATIONED SALE OF LIQUOR T0 START AUG. 19   Quart of Liquor Per Month  Is Decreed By State Board   WINE ALSO LIMITED   Permits Must Must be Picked Up by Aug. 18 or Wait  Until Labor Day

LIQUOR RATIONING STARTS AUGUST 1!   Liquor Rations Are Announced By State Liquor Commission.

LIQUOR AATIONING TO START AUG. 14   One Quart or Four-Fifth of ‘Liquor Allowed ‘Under ‘New  Rinlae

BILLION DOLLARS SPENT IN DISTRIC   St. Louis Federal Bank Ha: Statement on Review of Past Year.

WOMAN PHYSICIAN BACKS TWO GIRLS   "Testifies In Behalf Of Flynn Accusers

Announce Substitute For Rubber To Be Put Into Use To Relieve Stress

ROTARY CLUB INMEETING AT ~ COLONIAL INN   Adjutant W.: J. Devoto, Guest Speaker Presented by Gordon Opilvie

~ COLONIAL INN   Adjutant W.. Devoto, - Guest Sg Presented by Gordon Ogilvie

Swiss Publication Says Conditions In Germany “Worse Than Ot VYoare Rao’: Raids Having Vital E#ect On German Morale

8,000,000 Nazis Bombed Out, Evacuated.... Conditions In Germany  Far Worse Than In 1918 Declares Swiss Paper

LO OL LLL  MORALE OF GERMANS GRACKED BY RAIDS   Internal Conditions Worse Than in First War

Flyi ng Fortresses In Raid On Rabaul;  Sink Merchantman   Jap Munition: Ship Explodes; MacArthur Observes Birthday.

Rice Bowl War Costly fo Japs   Chennault Elated at Showing Made by His Men in That Sector

Jap Campaign Is Foiled From Air  2.  NES awe   Chinese Fliers Given Praise

Chinese Hand Japs Defeat   Chinese Pilots Help Make Defeat Costly One

Japanese Campaign in China Costs Them Major Defeat   Nips Now Are Seeking to Extricate 10,000 Troops From Tungting Battle Area; Yank Flyers Destroy at Least 31 Planes

Decisive Defeat Inflicted By Chinese and Americans   Planes Inflict Heavy Casualties and Hold Up Retreat Gen. Chennault Say: in Report on Operations in Tungting

OCD TO COLLECT FOOD FOR SERVICE MEN'S CENTERS   First Donations to be Accepted Here on August 5th

3rd_ District, OCD Asks Contributions To Service Centers   Riverdale Community will Cooperate in Filling Monthly Quota -

23 PLANES ARE LOST IN ATTACK   Germans Report New Aerial Action In East Prussia

Heavy British Bombers Blast Foe Navy Base   Wilhelmshaven Subjected To _ Its 77th Air Raid Of War By Britain's Biggest

OF WAR ON CITY MADE   Site of Submarine-Building Yards and Naval Installations Are Blasted.

BRITISH RAID BIG GERMAN NAVAL BASE   Other Planes Bomb Objectives In East Prussia

BRITISH BOMBERS RAID GERMAN BASE: REDS HIT PRUSSIA   RAF Also Engages In MineLaying * Operations InBaltic : ‘Sea—-23 _ Planes Lost

RAF STRIKES: AT iWILHELMSHAVEN   Russian Planes Raid East Prussia

WILHELMSHAVEN RAIDED BY RAF   23 Bombers Lost in All Air Operations

 Japanese Establishing ‘Bases On Kwangchowan Off South China Coast

JAPS ESTABLISHING POWERFUL AIR BASE AT KWANGCHOWAN   . Most of Free China’s Strongholds Are Within 1,000 Miles of Base

POWERFUL JAP BASES SET UP   Air Facilities Established Between Hongkong And Hainan

6 Philly Draft Boards Refuse to Call Fathers Ahead of Single Men

Phila. Boards Rebel Against WMC Order   Refuse to Induct Married ) Men Ahead of Single  War Workers  MEETING IS ARRANGED

BOARDS REFUSE TO INDUCT FATHERS   Man Draft Legislation Awaits Green Light from FDR

Some Boards To Call 2-A Men  Bet pede Wan   Phila. Boards Won't Call Any Married Men Until All Single Go

Committes Will Probe Disputed Angles Of U.S. Foreign Policy; FDR Hits Senators’ War Report

SENATE FAVORS INVESTIGATION OF LEND-LEASE   Immediate Action Doubtful On Post-War Collaboration Resolution

200,000 REACH POLAND, RULERS 10 DESERT CITY   Nazi Government Said to Be Preparing to Scatter Itself to Occupied Territory,   SCHOOL CHILDREN LEAVE WITH TEACHERS   Third Raid in as Many Nights Speeds Exodus — Capital Pictured as Mad hongse._

Allied Planes Heap New Destruction on Enemy Airdrome in Normandy—Government Arranges to Divide Offices in Half Dozen Cities—Damage in Berlin Said Catastrophic

Five Hundred Thousand Fugitives Reported . in Potand  MOSQUITO PL, PLANES CONTINUE NUE ATTACKS  Residents of City Live in   Residents of City Live in “Real Panic,” Reports Sav

Bombing Causes Berlin Panic   Report Nazis Fleeing To Poland, Baltic

BERLIN THROWN IN PANIC STAGE   Over 500,000 Residents Flee To Poland For Safety; Officials Leave City   Children Evacuated

Nazis Deser! Berlin After RAF Raids   500,000 Germans Flee To Poland; Government Moves

German Chiefs Flee Capital .   Panic Spreads as Repeated British Raids ‘Destroy Much of City °°...

“INSOMNIA” TACTICS ON GERMAN CAPITAL CONTINUED FOR THIRD SUCCESSIVE NIGHT; NORTHERN FRANCE BLASTED.   (By W. W. HERCHEFR)

Nuisance Raids. Are Continued   Children, Official; Moving To Poland

PANIC STRIKES BERLIN, MANY FLEE CAPITAL   900,000 FUGITIVES REPORTED NOW IN POLAND

Report Berlin Residents Fleeing City   Nazi Government Declared Moving to East

MOSQUITO BOMBERS MAKE THIRD NIGHT ATTACK CAUSING PANIC IN CAPITAL

Leaders Are Reported Scattering   City Remains Smoking long After Great Air Attack by British

Government Agencies, Himmler’s Bureau Leading Move Out; Refugees Flock to Areas in Poland

Burning Nazi Capital Being Kept on Edge   500,000 Leave City To Live in Poland

500,000 Nazi Fugitives Said to Be Already in Poland; New Aerial Assaults Are Made on France

Airdrome at Lae Hit By Allies   As Land Forces Ge: Ready for Closing Assault

Allies Prepare Assaull on Lasi Jan Base  Bomb Airdrome at Lae; Destroy Four  ~ an NRaslhianme

VITAL JAP BASE AT LAE RAIDED   Mac Arthur’s Bombers Knock Out 4 Guns; Buna Quiet

BOREN PLANS WAR ON OPA IF SUBSIDIES WIN   Oklahoma Democrat Calls For Eliminating CCC And Price Support   SPEECH JIS PREPARED   Agency ‘Like Al Capone’ Went Out And Got Cash After Congress Ban, Is Claim

BRITISH ALSO THE VICTIMS OF JAPS   Murdered War Prisoners in Burma, It Is Officially Stated.

Japanese Murder  War Prisoners  Those Who Cannot Work Are Killed

Bayonets Used On Captives in Burma Massacre   Indian Prisoners Also Executed, Official Statement Says   Stabbed fo Death To Save Bullets, Those Who Escaped Say

NEW ATROCITIES BY JAPS BARED   BRITISH AND INDIAN TROOPS CAPTURED IN BURMA BAYONETTED TO DEATH.

The War Today  em e  New Ally, Winter, Comes Out Of North To Help The Russians.

Winter Is Moving Southward To Aid the Russian Armies Nazis Are Not Prepared for Cold

NEW RUSSIAN ALLY—WINTER IS MOVING OUT OF NORTH TO AID OF FICHTING RED ARMIES

NEW ALLY COMING TO RUSSIA'S AID, WINTER AND ICE   Hitler Has Only Few Short Weeks to Extricate Troops From Trap and Get Ready For New Stand---MacKen we

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Dreaded Russian Winter Closing In On Nazis On Eastern Front

“Editorial Comment ‘Written Today and “Moved  by Telegraph ‘or Cable.    Noatica.   ‘For Sale

The War 1 oday— Russ Winter-Trained Troops Ready To Attack Germans When Snow Falls

The War Today   Russia’s Ally, Winter, Speeding To Join Fizht Awainst Nazis

MARINES MAKE PROGRESS ON BOUGAINVILLE   Strengthen hold as Allie< airmen take heavy toll of Nip planes

American Drive On Last Nipponese Stronghold In Solomons Makes Headway

CIRCUIT COUR.   City Files Demurrer - In tay Moore's Damage Suit.

ALLIED SQUADRONS IN STEADY RAIDS QN AXIS EUROPE   9,500 Tons Of Explosive: Dropped On Enemy Targets In 5 Days

Gov. Bricker Favors Plan To Invite WPB Officials To Explain U. S. Stand On War Time Before Assembly Groups

Forest and Land Commission Sought by Bill  Body Would Devise Long-Range Conservation Plan

Forest Board Sought in New Measure   House Gets Bill to Control Animals That Destroy Stock

Allies Bomb German-Held Tunisia Ports   Eisenhower Says Nazis Will Be Pushed Into Sea

Land Action Subsides in North Africe   Alhes Confident. of . Outcome, But Victory Is      ‘BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST ENEMY   Rommel’s ..Forces Suffer Sharp Wounds But Still Display a High Morale

FLIERS HIT AXIS LAND TRANSPORT   Western Desert Bombers Atiack Rommel’s Positions In Mareth Line

Planes Pound Axis Ports In Tunisia   Also Blast Land and Sea Transport— Patrols Active

Allied Planes Smash Tunis  And Sousse  Attack Axis Land and   Attack Axis Land and Sea Transport; Ground Fighting Has Dwindled

Allies Start Fires — At Tunis and Sousse   Bombers Also Attack Axis Transport as Ground Fighting Dwindles—Tunisian Drive Now Spoken of in Terms of Months.

BOMBERS BLAST SOUSSE AND TUNS   Eisenhower Reports Enemy Attempt to Breal Out of Encirclement Beaten Back

SOUSSE AND TUNIS BLASTED BY ALLIES   Attack Made from Air as Land Fighting Eases

Gen. Eisenhower Predicts Defeat Of Nazi Forces   Rommel's Jabs Are Repulsed By Eighth Army

GROUND ACTION _ DWINDLES ON TUNISIAN FRONT   Victory Now Envisioned in ‘Months — Not Weeks’ — Nazis Predict Back in Tripoli Soon   SOUSSE BOMBED   Allied Airmen, Alone in Clear ‘Superiority, Hit Axis Transport Lines .

GROUND FORCES ARE ON PATROL   British Eighth Army’s Lines In Mareth Sector Remain Unchanged.   SIX PLANES ARE LOST

Also Attack Both Land And Sea Transports of Axis as Ground Fighting on Tunisian Front Dwindles Again to Patrolling.

ALLIED BOMBERS BLASTING ATTACKS ON SOUSSE AND TUNIS   GEN. EISENHOWER PREDICTS ULTIMATE VICTORY IN ORDER OF THE DAY

Victory In Tunisia Seen As Matter Of Months, Not Weeks; Little Change In Land Fighting Picture; Morale Of Rommel’s Force Still High

Allies Give Axis  Aerial Pounding Rommel To Be Driven  Into Sea—FEisenhower

Air Attacks Made Against  Axis Positions   Sousse And Tunis Are Targets Of Bombers As Ground Fighting Dwindles Again

Fire-Setting Raids Carried  . Out by Allies From  Bases in North  Africa   FOE ADMITS DAMAGE   Docks and Railroad Yards Main Objectives; Mareth Line Areas Pelted With Bombs

Tunis and - Sousse Hit ” By Airmen   Eisenhower Sees Ultimate Victory in Orders of Day Last Week

ALLIED BOMBERS BLASTED MILITARY POINTS AT SOUSSE   Tunis Also Was Objective of Fire Setting Raids : Yesterday.   ATTACKED TRANSPORTS   Probing Thrusts by Field Marshal Rommel Were ) Thrown Off.

Ickes Blames Dollar-a- Year  Men for War Effort Bobbling   Secretary of Interior Defends “Brain Trusters,” “New Dealers” and “Bureaucrats,” Declaring They Have Been Subjected to Unmerited Criticism;  Not Running War, He Says

Ickes Defends New Dealers Blames Friction In War  Effort On Business Leaders

DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN ARE BLAMED   Ickes Says They Are Responsible for Any Frictions Or Failures In Nation’s War Program.

‘BRAIN TRUST’ IS DEFENDED   Ickes Says Businessmen Who Were Drafted for War Jobs Responsible for Failures

ICKES BLAMES WAR FAILURES AGAINST BUSINESS MEN  “NEW DEALERS” AND “BRAIN TRUSTERS” DE-

‘Brain Trusters Defended By Secretary Ickes  Businessmen Gel Blame for War Preooram Failure

ICKES BLASTS ~SLYEAR MEN   Says Executives Are Te  Blame for Failures   Of War Program

Ickes Attacks Dollar-A-Year Men As Chiets   New Dealers Not To Blame For Failure In War Pro 7h OWE   HEADS INEXPERIENCED

Quick Knockouf Seen For Italy   - Use’ Of Psychology “Urged By Britoris

Psychology May Help in Knocking ltaly Out of Wa   Advance of Raids toward Rome Seen as Steps To Impress Duce

ITALY MAY BE OUT OF ACTION SHORTLY   Various Plans Discussec for Victory Over the Fascists

Disaster Nears  Italy, Nazis Help But Little   Bombings, RAF Flights Suggest Ease With Which Ruin May Come; Mussolini May Get Ultimatum Seon

END FOR ITALY MAY BE NEAR   Force and Psychology May Be Applied to Knock Out Fascists Soon

Quick Knockout Seen For Italy   Use Of Psychology Urged By Britons

Italy May Be Knocked Out Of War With Minimum Use ‘Of Force, Many Believe

\Little Force, Much Psychology Believed Way to Knock Italy Out of War in Short Time

Director of Public Welfare Comments on Dixon's Opinion   Brandon Talks on Cure of Alcoholics in Institutions of State

FOUR FAMILIES BARELY ESCAPE RAGING FLAMES   41] Tank Explosion Adds To Damage Estimated At 850,000; . Five Fire Departments Called

Outer Line Defenses Crashes   Defenders Abandon Arms And Supplies To Flee To Inner  Defenses.

JAPS RETREAT TO SALAMUA; ABANDON DEAD   Aussies and Yanks Tighten Ring About Base

Democrats In Legislature Ask — Cabinet Appointees To Appear   Hold Up Confirmation of Shroyer And Ramage Until They “Prove Their Qualifications”

Allies Seize Two Itahan Islands    Lie Along Mainland, ‘North of Sicily; Air, Naval and Artillery Blasts Shatter Italy

STROMBOLI AND LIPARI TAKEN BY U. §. NAVY   Aimed Directly At Italy’s Mainland North of  Sicily   REDS PUSH FORWARD   Nazis At Kharkov Facing Bloody Sequel To Stalingrad

Red Units Narrow  Axis Escape Route On Kharkov Front   Over 1,000 Japanese Meet Death in At tempt To Retake Vella  Lavella Island

Bridge Gap From Sicily To Mainland   Invasion Action Call Is Expected Shortly

Bombs, Artille y Shells Batter At Mainland Fo rts       American, British Forces Awa it Signal To Invade Southern European Mainland

Two Isles Near Italy Captured   American Naval-Forces Occupy Stepping Stories to the Mainland   ALLIED ARMIES ARE AWAITING GO SIGN   Meanwhile, a Big ‘Storm of Bombs and Shells Rocks Southern Itah’ - ‘

Shells and Bombs Batter Mainland   Seventh and Eighth Armies Await Word To Invade Europe Proper—Coast Bombarded

Heavy Attacks For 24 Hours   Other Fronts Active, Garmans Almost Cut Off at Kharkov

LIPARI-STROMBOLI  GIVE ALLIES ADDED  INVASION STRENGTH CALL FOR MOVE INTO  ITALY MAY BE FORTHCOMING FROM OUFREC

Two Islands Are Captured By US Navy   24-Hour Storm of Bombs and Shellfire Rocks Southern Italy; Germans in Kharkov Ordered to Fight to the Death

AXIS DEFENSES IN SOUTHERN ITALY UNDER HEAVY FIRE   Enemy Fortifications Bombed and Shelled;  Railway Centers Plas: Bie DE nn SEE Bc We Fs

Stepping Stones Are 35 and 50 Mile: North of Messina   Army and Navy Guns And Planes Pounding Mainland Defenses

AMERICAN AND BRITISH ARMIES AWAIT SIGNAL T0 LEAP FROM SICILY INTO EUROPE   Allied Artillery and Air Force Has Been Plastering Southern Italy for Last 24 Hours. King Vittorio _ Emanuel Tells Sicilians They Will Not Be Separated  For Tano fram Tally   EMANUEL TELLS 'SICILIANS ISOLATION \WON'T LAST LONG   Statement Made in Broadcast Over Rome  Radio Today -

Allied Planes And Warships Join In Terrific Assault:   Raiders Rip Up Nazi Airfields”

24 Hour Pounding Rocks ltaly’s Toe   Emanuele Hints of Peace in 1 Talk to Sicilians; Stream of Big Shells Flows from Sicily to Invasion Step in Italy; Axis Guns’  Return Barrage § 

Kingsley Couple Principals In  June Wedding  Very] Hamil and Fern Meister  Exchange Vows

Pretty Wedding  Is Celebrated  In Akron Church Cpl. Raymond  Barinsky Weds — Miss Frances Willer

Kingsley Couple Are. «= <> 'Joined:In:Wedlock             Veryt: Hainit and Fern 'y _,,Married’ Wednesda: te Morning:

Kingsley Couple Are -- 3. ‘Joined: In: Wedlock   Veryl: Hamil and Ferri “Meister Married Wednesday, .. . Mforsding: eS

WORKERS DON'T WANT STRIKES, UAW CHIEF SAYS   Charges Union Officials With “Politics” as 28,000 Quit Work

CLAIMS OFFICIALS OF UAW FOMENTING MICHIGAN: -STRIKES   Rank And File Of Workers Opposed To Strikes: -—— Politics Is Played

Detroit Strikes Blamed On High Labor Officials   28,000 Workers Stop Operations In Chrysler War Tank Arsenal

Leaders Of Unions Get Blame   Fomented by UMW Offi cials, Is Declared — Now  28,000 Men on Strike

Detroit Strikes Laid: To Politics High Union Leaders. - Charged With Blame

30,000 ON STRIKE IN WAR PLANTS   Union Chief Urges Return to Work; Accuses Reuther

SIXTH PLANT OF CHRYSLER CLOSES DOWN   28,000 Men Are Now Out on Strike in Detroit

Detroit Faces Worst Stoppage Of War Work Since Pear! Harbor: Sixth Factory Closes Down

Ross Fund Plea Up to Assembly   No Action Taken By Governor on Deficiency Fund

ROSS DEFICIENCY LEFT TO ASSEMBLY   Request for More Money Is Submitted Without Recommendationi.   SAYS DEPARTMENT BEHIND IN WORK

Bulgaria Seen As Preparing To Quit Hitler   Troops Deserting In Large Numbers

Bulgarian Peace Maneuvers Seen   Sofia Demonstration Ends With Arrests

Marshal Rommel Fights Fiercely To Hold Balkan States For Germany

OPINION POLLS SHOW FR. IN LINE  FOR FOURTH TERM   His Position Better Now Thar on Corresponding Date Preceding Third Term.

Start 4th Term Tf FD Wishes   1 PUBLIC OPINION  BETTER START HAN FOR 3d.

Two Prisoners Of Japs Named  Fairmont, Grafton   Fairmont, Grafton Officers Captured In the Philippines

lowa Welfare Group Discusses Curfew As Curb To Delinquency.   Say It Is An Emergency Stop-Gap Not A Remedy

REPATRIATED aING Ag onl? ENTERS POR]   Gripsholm Passengers Greet Statue of Liberty with “God Bless America.”

U, S, CITIZENS RETURN FROM ENEMY CAMPS   Repatriates Sing “God Bless America” as Swedish Liner Sails Past Statue Liberty

East-West Shuttle Bombing Suggests New Allied Plans   Raids Vividly Illustrate Rommel’s Plight And Lend  Color To General Defense Summary

Hamburg Gets Fifth Bombing Attack Within 48 Hours   Great Port Aflame; Other German Cities Feel Weight of Bombings

ee  RAF Continues Hamburg Raids  City Hit Five Times Within 48 Hours

HAMBURG RAIDED FOR FIFTH TIME   RAF Bombers Blast Ger. man Seaport In Devastating Aitack

Hamburg Is Hit for Fifth Time   Returning Fliers acess  Wee ae  More Than 30 Milas

New Hamburg Raids Shatter Nazi Morale   Relentless Pounding By Air May Crack UBoat Crews

HAMBURG ATTACKED BY RAF MOSQUITOES ON MONDAY NIGHT  FLAMES OF DEVASTATEI CITY SEEN LONG BEFORE A 7TTrACWEeRe ABDUL

IN FOURTH DAY   Hitler Homeland Shudders Under Coatinuous Attack Of Allied Bombers

HAMBURG BOMBED FOR FIFTH TIME WITHIN-6O HOURS   Wheory of Steady Roundthe-clock Air Raids Ap plied to Great German sts.

RELENTLESS AIR ‘DRIVE AGAINST ‘NAZIS GOES ON   “Lowlands Bombed; 5th Raid in 48 Hours Helps to Flatten Hamburg

Hundreds of Aircraft Raid Industrial. Points in German-Held Europe

Raid Hamburg Five Times In Only 48 Hours   RAF Mosquito Bombers Unload More Bombs On German Seaport And Nearby Cities

Raids Made Over Belgium And Holland   Hundreds of Fighters and Light Bombers Participate In Daylight Assaults   HAMBURG iS HIT AGAIN

Hundreds of Planes Hit  Axis Areas   Daylight Raids Today on Industrial Targets Meet No Opposition   FOLLOW THE FIFTH RAID ON HAMBURG   Nazi Fighters Show No Desire to Challenge Raiders Over Low Countries

ALLIED BOMBERS SMASH HAMBURG IN AIR ATTACK   German Seaport Rocks Under Impact of Explosives Five Times in Two Days   DEFENSES GROW WEAKER   American Fliers Take Part In Assault on Naziland By Precision Bombing

Fifth Time In Two Days, RAF  Raids Hamburg   Leaves Hamburg In Flames Which Could Be Seen 30 Miles From Target.   SPOTTY OPPOSITION

HAMBURG AGAIN TARGET OF RAF   Undergoes 5th Heavy Raid In Past 48 Hours

iVastNewhaid In Hamburg  Fires Acres fifth Attack in 48 Hours   Fifth Attack in 48 Hours  Leaves Reich Port Sea of Flame   ESSEN LAID WASTR   Fierce Fixes Still Burn; _ Yanks Bomb St. Omer Airfield

Hamburg Gets New Pounding By RAF Planes   Three Other German Cities Also Blasted During Heavy Raids

Hamburg Bombed For Fifth Time © Within 60 Hours.   6,000 Tons of. Bombs Dropped On Europe In Terrific Assault

BELGIUM, HOLLAND PLANTS HIT BY ALLIES   Airmen Also Attack Nazi Controlled Airfields

HAMBURG AGAIN  RAKED BY RAF  NIGHT BOMBERS YANK RAIDERS JOIN   BRITISH AIRMEN IN LEVELING BIG PORT

Hamburg Heavily Hit 5th Time In 48 Hours   Flames Sweep Skyward From Seaport As Night And Day Raids Continue

-IN AERIAL ATTACKS   Allied Fighters and Bombers Range Over West Front.

'HAMBURG BOMBED THIRD STRAIGHT NIGHT; HEAVY ‘LOSS REPORTED BY RAF

Keep Up Bombing Raids on Europe   Allied Fighters Attack Coastal Points and Ham burg Hit 5th Time.

Hamburg Hit For Fifth Time In 48 Hours   DL ition davoyuiLy Bombers Blast Great German Port Again

Hamburg Raided From Air Fifth Time In 48 Hours   Flames Seen  30 Miles Away

Hamburg Hit For 5th Time In 48 Hours   Allies Apparently Out to Flatten Huge German Seaport City

HAMBURG GIVEN FIFTH BASTING  IN 48 HOURS.   Allied Fighters, Bombers Continue Flight Over Belgium, Holland by Daylight Today   ZEEBRUGGE RAIDED   Axis Fighter Opposition Spotty, 54 Planes Shot Down to Loss of 26 for Allies

Targets in Belgium And Holland Bombed   Hundreds of Allied Planes, in Day Operations, Attack Industrial Units and Airfields—Hamburg Blasted at Nicht.

Terrific Raid On Hamburg Still Goes On   City Has Had No Rest, Little Food Since Saturday

Raid Targets In Belgium, Hollanc   Attacks Follow 5th Raid on Hambura

‘Mosquitos’ Hit Hamburg Again In Night Raid      Flames From Burning City Could Be Seen For 320 Miles.

Allied Planes Swarm Across  Nazi Airfield:   Daylight Assaults On Lowlands Follow RAF Night Attack On New Blow To Hamburg

Tremendous Losses Suf.fered by Germans in : Drive  ATTACWC DEPLILCER         ATTACKS REPULSED ' BY SOVIET TROOPS   Offensive Begins to Diminish in Power, Renorte State —

REDS STRIKE BACK AS POWER OF NAZI DRIVE DIMINISHES   Russians Repulse Numerous Attacks and Then Lash Out at Foe on 60-Mile  Tlnant   FEWER TROOPS USED IN ENEMY THRUSTS   Moscow Reports Soviets Knocked Out 122 Tanks in Day’s Fighting and PDNowned 18 Planes.

Moscow Reports Enemy Atiacks Being Repulsed   Stubborn Fighting Rages in Belgorod Region-Nazi Losses Heavy

German Socking Power Lessens Soviet Reports  Repeated Attempts to Break Thru Are Ground Down

Nazi Campaign Against Soviets Is Losing Power  Red Counterattacks Grow; Heavy Tank Toll Increased  NAZIS ADMIT TROUBL   Russians Increase  Forces Along  165-Mile Front

NAZIS REGROUP ARMY AT KURSK AS DRIVE BOGS   Attacks Not As Strong On Orel-Belgorod Sectors As In  Past Week   Russians Unyielding

Nazis Slowing Dewn In Russia   Reds Say Terrific ,  Lesses Inflicted By  _YNN HEINZERLING

Russians Claim Nazi Offensive Losing Power   Report All German Thrusts Halted by Soviet Defenders

Germanoffensive ‘loses power after ‘tremendous loss’   Rock-solid Russian defense  begins heavy counter-attack:

OFFENSIVE IN RUSSIA LOSING FOR THE NAZIS   Russian Defenders Rock-Solic All Along 165-Mile Front, Nazis Find; Reds Counter. Attack In Places.   fell Of Italy

DRIVE ON REDS 1S DIMINISHING   Russians Report Foe is Checked All Along Kursk Front

Nazis Slowing Dewndn Russia   Reds Say Terrific  ~ Leocese [Aflctad

Tremendous Losses Suffered by Germans in Drive  ATTACKS REPULSED BY SOVIET TROOPS Offensive Begins to Diminish in Power, Reports State

Nazis Reveal Power ls Diminishing   Losses Keep Mounting As Vicious Thrusts Are All Made in Vain

WEEK~OLD NAZI DRIVE IN AUSolA LOSING POWER   Germans Fail Repeatedly te Smash Through Positions All Along Front   THRUSTS GROUND DOWN BY SOVIET DEFENDERS   Attackers Despair of Crashing Red Lines and Set About Bolstering Own Positions; Russians Lash Out in Own Counter-offensive

Reds Slow  Germans  In Drive Scores Of Tanks   Scores Of Tank: And Planes Blasted

Enemy Fails Repeatedly To Sinash Soviet Lines And Reds Counter-attack

NO STORMS IN SIGHT   Fair and Warmer Is Predicted for the Stale of Kansas

OFFICIALS TO WICHITA   Meeting of County ‘ounty Officers Being Held This Week

OFFICIALS TO WICHITA   Meeting of County Officers ‘Being Held This Week

JAPS OPEN NEW DRIVE IN CHINA   Attempting to Throw Chinese Back From Coastal Areas

CARS DAMAGED IN HEAD-ON CRASH HERE   J. F. Pentzel, driver of one automobile, slightly injured

Fire Destroys Railway Shops   23 Locomotives Valued at $100,000 Each, Are Wrecked

Movie Pioneer  Bosworth Dies   Went West To Die 34 Years Ago; Dean Of Movie Colony.

Bosworth, Dean Of Movies, Dies   Doomed To Die In 1909, He Moved West, Prospered

WOUNDED FIGHTING MEN REACH SEATTLE   ‘Take Us Back to Solomons Islands, We’re Freezing to Death.” Men Shout.

944 CIGARETTE SHURTAGE SEEN   SMOKERS REPORTED BORROWING ON NEXT YEAR'S SUPPLY AND '45 RESERVES,

Americans are Smoking Next Year's Cigarettes, Figures on Supply Show

DANISH REVOLT THREAT GROWS   Nazis Spot Machine Guns At Strategic Points In Copenhagen

Danes Still ‘Bother Nazis   Series Of Sabotage > Acts Is Continuing

Sailor Tells of Fight for Life   Wounded American Manages to Take Raft From Japanese

Death To The Loser—  Wounded American Sailor And J ap Struggle For Small Raft

Yank Wins Struggle To The Death On Raft  With One Arm Shot Away, He Battles With Jap In Mid - Pacific

American Sailor with Mangled Arm Beats Jap In Fight for Possession of Small Raft in Pacific

Revision of Food Price Fixing Due   New Policies Likely Following Shakeup

BRITISH HEAD SAYS AXIS WILL BURN & BLEED   American general will head campaign in African sector

Priority Given U-Boat Threat, Premier Avers   British Leader Reviews Progress Made By Al _ lies; Says Plans Drawn For Heavy Land, Sea, Air Attacks On Axis

United Nations Have Definite War Design   Eisenhower To Command; Holding Our Own With  ubs

Churchill Tells Commons Alhes  Will Push War   Says Axis Will ‘‘Burn And Bleed’’ As Result Of Casablanca Conference   OFFENSIVE PLANS TO BE CARRIED OUT   Nazi And Fascist Power, And Japanese War Plotting, To Be Blotted Out

U-BOAT MENACE TAKES PRIORITY, COMMONS TOLD      Enemy Hope Of Averting Defeat Through Sinkings Declared Vain   AXIS TO BLEED AND BURN   No Vestige Of Enemy War Machine Will Be Left When Peace Comes

UNIT LEADERS MEET   ‘Workers Attend Lectures at Com: munity Building

UNIT LEADERS -MEET   Workers Attend ‘Lect Lectures at Community Building

ARMY CALLS OFF COTTON—PICKING   Order Permitting Use Of Army Troops To Pick Arizona Long -Staple Is Rescinded.

War Summation Pictures-Fight Far From Wor   Roosevelt's Representation Of Progress Of War Is Generally Optimistic

‘War Gangs’ Warned   Sweeping Allied Gains Told Congress In Major Speech

F.D.R. REVIEWS WAR PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS   Promises Further Blows Against German, Japanese Militarists

FDR Pledges Further Blows On Axis Gangs   President Analyzes What Has Been Accomplished On Fighting Fronts.   DISCUSSES AIR RAIDS

PRESIDENT ADDRESSES CONGRESS   Outlines Allied War Efforts Around World

MESSAGE T0 CONGRESS IS OPTIMISTIC   Chief Executive Analyzes What Has Been Accomplished on Warfronts and at Home   *OUR-POINT SUMMATION

CONGRESS TOLD NEW BLOWS ON AXIS PLANNED   Says Mediterranean Campaign Has Given Important Help To Russia      BIDS SATELLITES QUIT   Tempers War Progress Ontimism With Warning On Overconfidence

Promises New Blows At Enemy   President Warns That Victory Is Still Long Way Off; Cautions Against Over-Optimism

F.. R. Pledges Heavy New Allied Attacks   Quebec Conference Set Time And Place. For New Allied Landings In Europe And Elsewhere, President Discloses 

FDR Promises Further Blows Against Enemy  No Specific Recommendations  aoe ig Senna Niet a

REVIEWS WAR, WMPS ATTACKS FOR GNGRESE   “War-Breeding Gangs” Will Be Ousted, He Warns; Makes Analyses.   PRODS SATELLITES TO FOLLOW ITALY’S MOVE

EW, POWERFUL LOWS AGAINST FOE. PROMISED   rges .Axis Satellites To. Quit In Message ’ To Congress

FDR’s Message to _-Congréss Does Not Contain Any Specific Recommendationg aa

Review Of War Wams Against Over Optimism   But United Nations On Way To Victory, He Tells Conoress

‘New Blows At Nazis. Japs Are Promised  In FDR War Message   Italy's Invasion Merely One Of Many Coming Up, Direct Attack On Japan Itself Pledged In President's Report To Congress

VICTORY SURE, BUT FAR AWAY   President Makes Bid foi Axis Satellites to Get Out of War.   iISAYS RUSSIA IS AIDED

South Pacifie Offensive Seen   Staffs Coordinate Plans for Operations Mapped at Parley

Offensive Moves in Pacific Seen  Emphasis Shifts to  New Guinea Area

Halsey and Army Believed Laying Plans   No Indication Given Where New Blow Against Japs Due

Automobile Stalls On Tracks Near Orrtanna Early Monday Morning; Passengers Are Hurled From Machine; Wreckage Carried Five Hundred Feet

Mother And 2 Children Are Hit By Train   Automobile Stalls On Tracks Near Orrtanna Early Monday Morning; Passengers Are Hurled From Machine; Wreckage Carried Five Hundred Feet

American Heavy Bombers. Raid Northwest Germany   Allies Turn Back Attacks In Italy

Hard Hitting 45th Division Fighting With Fifth Army   t Is Made Up Largely of Soldiers From Southwest, Including Indians.   British Cross Sangro, A Formidable Obstacle

Allies Repulse  Enemy Attacks  On Italy Front 45th Division  Ic In Action

Nazi Counter-Attacks Beaten Back In Italy; 3 Rail Lines Feeding Germans Knocked Ou   U.S. 45th Division Is In Action; British Secure Across Sangro Now

TOUGH U. S. FORTY-FIFTR IS IN ITALY   One of the Hardest Hitting Units Under the Flag, It Helped Stop Nazis at Salerno, Headquarters Reveals.

FIGHTING 48TH’ FACTOR IN UTALY   Colorful Division Revealed in Thick of Battle.

U. 5. FORTY-FIFTT DIVISION FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT  GERMAN AIR, GROUND FORCES SEEK TO DISLODGE EIGHTH ARMY

Allied Units Beat Off Enemy Counterattacks.  Patton’s 45th Division With 5th Army In Italy

ALLIES BATTER ITALIAN LINES   New Bridgehead Across Sangro River Is Bolstered

FIGHTING 45TH SAVED DAY ON SALERNO LINE   Colorful American Divisior Rolled Back Nazis When  Bridgehead Tottered

“Fighting 45th” Now With Fifth Army In Ital   One of Most Colorful Divisions In American Army; Once Part of Seventh Army In Sicily.

AMERICAN 45TH DIVISION IS IN ACTION IN ITALY   Headquarters Reveals Unit Once Part of Pation’s Seventh Army Fighting on New Front   SANGRO IS CROSSED   British Securely Entrenched, Sustained Determined Attacks of Nazi Troops, Airmen

American 45th Aiding 5th Army   The Impact Helped Roll Back German Tide in Critical Early Period.

FIGHTING 45TH HELPS BEAT OFF NAZIS IN ITALY   FAMOUS DIVISION FEARED BY ENEMY BECAUSE OF INDIANS

‘ALLIES BEAT BACK ATTACKS BY GERMANS   Eighth Army Improves Positions

German Air Forces Join Ground Units In Battle Against British -Army

45th Division Has Joined Fifth Army   Part of Patton’s Army In Sicilly; Allies Check Germans

Famous U.S. 45th Division Now In Action With Fifth Army In Italy

Some Patton Men Are In 5th Army   “Fighting 45th” With Clark’s Men; British Cross Sangro River

British Tighten Sangro Foothold In Steady Gains  ‘amed 4th Division Jane Fifth Army On Italian Front

Allied Troopers Halt Nazi Attack   American 45th Division Battles With 5th Army on Front in Italy

Reveal Yankee ‘Fighting 45th In Action With Clark’s Troops   One-Time Patton U nit Now Attached to Fifth Army

‘Fighting 45th” In Action In Italy; Allies Beat Off Heavy Counterdrives

1TH OS GE PATTON TN IAVASION   Fighting Division Helps Roll Back  German. Tide

Part of Patton’s  Seventh Army in  Action in Italy This Disclosure Is  -Made As Allies Raat Ott f Carman

45th Division Now Battling In Italy   Colorful Unit Helps Stop Counter-Blow By Germans

U.S. 45th Division Is In Action   One of American Army’s Toughest Divisions Is With 5th Army

Eighth Army Improves Positions Despite Daylong German Assaults—Fifth Army Activity Limited To Artillery Bombardments—Famous American 45th Division, Once Part Of Gen. Patton’s Forces, In Action—U. S. And British Aricraft Busy

Crack Troops Aid Fifth Army in Battle for Italy  Fighting 45th Joins Comrades; Allies  Dg ee PR m VaIe fuer ieinres

AMERICAN 49TH DIVISION WITR CLARK IN ITALY   U. S. Unit Part of Patton’s Forces in Sicilian Campaign

‘Fighting 45th’ Helps Beat, Off Nazis In Italy   Colorful Yank Division Joins 5th Army; British  Improve Positions.

Crack Troops Aid Fifth Army in Battle for Italy  Fighting 45th Joins Comrades; Allies Continue Advance

Nazi Planes Go Into Action   Try to Stop Eighth Army Advance, British Hold On

Fighting 45th Division Helps Roll Back Germans in Italy  Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico Boys Spearhead American Offensive

American 45th Division Is Reported In Action In Italy As Allied Forces Beat Off Furious German Counterattacks

American ‘‘Fighting 45th’’ Once With Seventh Army Now on Unchanged Front

45TH DIVISION. OF 7TH ARMY IN ITALY BATTLES   Played Prominent, Part In  Salerno Campaign Un der Patton; British . Crack Nazi Line

Attacks on British Are — Beaten Off   Ttalian Front Generally. Un changed Despite Determined  German Counter Action   8th ARMY TROOPS IMPROVE POSITION      American Planes Keeping Germany’s Supply Routes Nailed Down

7th Army Uni Joins 5th in Italian Drive   Hard-Hitting t5th Helps Beat Off  Counter Blows

45th Division Joins Battle In Italy With Fifth Army   Outfit Composed Of Colorful American Men From West And Southwest indians

Tough 45th s Now Fighting With 5th Army   Once Part of 7th Doing Valiant Work in Datéle for Italy

45TH DIVISION AIDING CLARK   ALLY UNITS HURL BACK ENEMY ITALY DRIVES

AMERICAN 45th DIVISION IN AC TION AS ALLIES BEAT OFF ATTACKS OF GERMANS IN ITALY

Allies Repel Attacks on Italian Front   U. S. ‘Fighting 45th Revealed in Action  With Fifth Army

Hard Hitting Unit With Fifth Army   45th Division - Contains - More Than 1,000 South west Indians   THE 8TH HOLDS GAINS   Iniproves Positions Despite Nazi Air and Ground  Attacks

ADDITIONAL TAXES CALL MAY BRING. SPENDING SCRUTINY  SENATORS FEEL REDUC.TION COULD BE MADE IN FEDERAL OUTLAY

Closer Spending Aim of Congress   To Scrutinize Fiscal Demands Due to Higher Tax Requests.

SPENDING CLOSELY   Senator Taft Predicts New Taxes to Be Difficult to ~ Raise

SENATURD ADK CLOSER CHECK U.S, SPENDING  Ri_Partisan Demande Fol.   Bi-Partisan Demands Fol. low Roosevelt's Request For “Stiff” Increase In Taxes   SAVINGS SGQUGHT   Congress to Give ArmyNavy Requests In Future Closer Scrutiny, Radcliffe Says

President Asks For New Taxes: Congress Wary  Army’s Budget Shqre Cut With Navy's ilnanad: Tayvec Far

FDR’S Tax Demands May Be Countered By Requests for Probe of Spending

Taft Says Congress Will Have Difficulty Finding’ Additional Revenues  ParliigTi FrAriZ iit1IAIPLIAAIC OCR

Congress May Counter Request For _ More Taxes By Slash In Spending

Eye Tax Problem   Congress Expected to Probe Gov’t Spending; Say New Sources of  Revenue Hard to Find

Higher Taxes Asked For Nev Year's Plans  Budget Set Over $108 Billion, ol gress to Check

CONGRESS EYES FOR'S REQUEST FOR NEW TAXES   Likely To Ask for Closer Scrutiny of Huge Spending   TAX SOURCES LIMITED   Reductions In Non-War Expenditures To Be © Urged

Closer Scrutiny of Spending May Be Asked When FDR Seeks New Taxes

CONGRESS HOPES FOR WILL SLASH FEDERAL COSTS   Executive Asks ‘Stiff’ In. crease in Taxes — But Where Is the Source”

Spending May Be Probed If  Taxes Mount   Nebraska Senator Thinks Both Problems Belong . Together

Congress Likely To Ask Closer Scrutiny of U. S. Spending; Need More Taxes

Stiff Increase Urged In Taxes By Roosevelt   Congress Likely To Take Close . Look at Program

F.D.R. DEMAND FOR NEW TAXES BEING STUDIED   Closer Scrutiny Of Government Spending Asked

Close Check On Spending Asked  Call For Reduction   Call For Reduction In U. S. Outlays

SPENDING GUT DEMAND SEEN   FDR Request for New Taxe: To Be Met With Scrutiny of Spending.

Expect Closer  Study Of Costs  Check On Government’s  Spending Seen

WAR SPENDING EYED BY SOLONS   CONGRESS LEADERS PONDER FDR MOVE FOR HIGHER TAXES

Only Patrol Activity On Tunisia Front  Weather Impedes Nearly All Kinds  PSE Teenenderee

AGENCIES AT ODDS (WER RAIL WAGES   Apparent Conflict in Provisions of 2 Presidential Orders.

OFFICIALS AT ODDS OVER AGENCY TO DECIDE RAIL WAGES   Brotherhoods Expected Te Request Appointment Of Emergency Board

Conflict Over Rail Wage Demands. ... .  Disagree On Agency To Handle Rail Wage

SPECIAL BOARD MAY BE CALLED BY RAIL GROUP   Believe Workers To Make Request In Wage Dispute

Farmers Gain $3.452.000,000 in 1942, and Pro&pects Are for 20 Per Cent Rise in ’43

Rar rmers Gain $ 3. 452. 000,000 i int 1942, and:   ‘Deas pects Are for 20 Per Cent Rise in 43

Two Indictments Against Gallegos Quashed by Court   Ruling Affects Cases Of Five Other Persons.  Prosecutor to Appeal

NAZIS SLOW RED ARMY ADVANCES WITH HEAVY  REINFORCEMENTS   ‘Moscow Dispatches Also  ~~ State That Bad Weather Has Halted Russian Air Offensive.

BARUCH URGES TIGHTER CHECK ON MANPOWER   Calls for Weeding Ou Government Employes; Holds Farms Haven for Draft Dodgers

Baruch Urges 'Tightened  Manpower Law   Memorandum Asks Regular Reviev Of Farm Draft Deferments as Block Against Service Dodging

MANPOWER RULES HIT BY BARUCH   TIGHTER CONTROLS URGED— FAVORS REVIEWS OF FARM DRAFT DEFERMENTS,

BARUCH FEARS WAR OUTPUT CUT   Raps Cost-Plus-Fee Basis: Indirectly Backs Drafting Of Fathers

Baruch Favors Reduction In Federal Payrolls and Hunt for Draft Dodgers

Baruch Urges Tighter Contre! On Manpower  © ace C avern ment.   Says ( Government, Farms Need Check For Draft Dodgers

Baruch Submits Manpower Report  Says Efficient Production Needed

Must Produce Efficiently Or Cut War Outpul   Baruch Survey Says Further Trimming of Civilian Goods Seen

Germans in Center at Randazzo Appear to be Faced With Necessity of Making Double-Quick Retirement to Escape Trap   7TH ARMY SURPRISES ENEMY FROM SEWARD FRONT

Seventh Army Bags ‘Window’ To Messina   San Agata Falls Along With San Fratello And Acireale

Double-Flanking Drive Advances   Montgomery Says Situation Is ‘‘Excellent,’’ As Berlin Hints ‘‘Dunkerque’’ At Messina Is Axis Aim

Three Towns Fall to Allied Forces   Germans, in the Center at Randazzo, faced with Entrapment or Necessity of Makitig™ Forced Retirement Toward Messina; British Bombers Blast Milan

Flank Movement Threatens Axis Mt. Etna Lines   Report Goering Heads New Nazi Leadership

GERMAN FORCES CROWDED BEHIND MT, ETNA NOW   Americans Slash Forward To Within 5 Miles. of Messina Escape Port   ITALIAN CITIES BLASTED   Russians Driving Toward Kharkov—Japs Are Jolted Again in Far Pacific

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE MORE TOWNS TO FURTHER IMPERIAL AXIS FORCES   Both Wings of'Enemy Lines Pushed Back. Double Quick Retreat Mu st Be Made Toward Narrow Tip of Sicily or Accept Entrapment

Allies Vouble Flank Nazis At Mt. Etna   Reds Capture Bogodukhov to Cut Second of Two Railways Linking Kharkov with Bryansk; Bombers Raid Milan. Turin. Genoa

DRIVE THREATENS TO ENFOLD DEFENDING GERMAN BATTLERS  AMERICAN SEVENTH ANT   AMERICAN SEVENTH AND BRITISH EIGHTH ARMIES CONTINUE ADVANCES

Yank, British Columns Turning German Flank   Milan, Turin And Genoa Dealt Smashing Aerial Blows; Italian Socialists Demand King’s Abdi- . cation, Peace; Red Armies Enveloping Karkoy

DRIVE THREATENS TO ENFOLD DEFENDING: GERMAN BATTLERS   AMERICAN SEVENTH AND BRITISH EIGHTH ARMIES CONTINUE ADVANCES

SAN FRATELLA AND SAN AGATA CAN TA YANKS   British Army Sweeps Thru Acireale After NineMile Drive   RING DRAWN TIGHTER   Major Industrial Cities in Northern Italy Blasted

British, Americans Take San Fratello, _ San Agata, Acireale   Nazis In Center Of Island Face Necessity Of Quick Retirement. _ Or Acceptance Of Entrapment.  "

Germans Positions In Center Will : Have to Withdraw”   Montgomery’s 8th Moves Nine Miles North of Catania

Intérnees Loyal to Japan’  he Placed in Separate Re - lecation Camps

FD. R. REVEALS SIFT OF JAPS   BEGIN SEPARATION OF LOYAL FROM DISLOYAL

War Food Program Urged by Hoover   Reorganization of Nation's Control System Proposed by Former President in Address

Hoover Urges ‘9-Point Plan   Former President Says U. S. Cities Will Have Less Food

HOOVER URGES NINE POINT WAR FOOD PROGRAM   Would Reorganize System With Ag Secretary as Chief, Decentralize Through States

cere TO A ATLL AANA MEAL AAA  Single Food Head Urged by Hoover   Presents Nine-Point War Food Program In Predicting Less Food Next Year

Hoover Offers War Food Program   Wool Supplies Expand; Clothing Won’t Be Rationed

Hoover Has Food Plan   Would Make Wickard Head of Nation’s Food Control System

TO CLEAR MUDDLE   Hoover Calls for Revision of National War Food  . Program

PREDICTS LESS FOOD NEXT YEAR   HOOVER ADVOCATES NINE-POINT WAR FOOD PROGRAM

FOOD PROGRAN   Suggests Reorganization of Control System to ‘Clear Up Muctdle.’

Signal Honor For Boys Of  Fighting 19th  New Decoration To   New Decoration To Everyone In Group ln Action A Year -

THE 19TH BOMB GROUP PASSED INTO HISTORY TODAY HONORED AS MOST AUDACIOUS AIR UNIT

FIGHTIN’ YANK SQUADRON _ BACK FROM FAR EAST TO GET HONORS AND DISBAND

GROUP IS HONORED   Unit Citations Given to 19th Bomber Unit for Battling Japs

Unique Honor to American Bemb Grour   Citations Awarded Every Man of the 19th, Famous 1,000-Man Air Unit   FOUGHT THE, JAPS IN 4-BIG BATTLES   Salute to Fliers Is Without Precedent in U.S. Mil itary History

SURRENDER OF MUNDA LOOMS BEFORE LONE   Americans Closing in From Two Directions On New Georgia Island

YANKS CLOSE IN ON ISLAND BASE THROUGH JUNGLE   Cologne Blasted Again as Allied Planes Renew Assault on Germany   FIGHT RAGES IN RUSSIA   American Bombers Smashing Sicily in Softening Up Italy’s Invasion Gates

Enemy Garrison ls Now Blockaded By Land and Sea   Bloody Defense at Air Base Expected; Another Isle Named

Two-Way Squeeze Applied ©   U. S. Forces Defeat Japs But Three Miles  From Base.

Yank Advance: 3 Miles From Jap Air Field   Believe Jap Forces In Strong Strength; Ready For Bloody Defense.   BOMB NEW GUINEA

JAPANESE GARRISON  AT KEY ENEMY BASE  APPEARED DOOMED BLOODY DEFENSE OF MUNDA IS EXPECTED BY  SBRATDIP ARI ACKRICLCDae

Yanks Drawing Steel Noose As Bloody Mopup Said Near   Blocked By Land And Sea, Japanese Base Now Prepares For Last Stand

Shock of Battle Increased on Russian  Front; Crush Assault by 90,000 Nazis:  —RAF Bombers Attack Cologne, ©  Other Rhine Targets; Allies Smash — : Again Island of Sicily

With Blockade By Sea And Air, U.S. Troops Close Pincer Three Miles From City

Jap Garrison Said Blockaded By Land, Water   Allied Leaders Believe-That Enemy Is Prepared To Make Bloody Defense

WaArthur’s Forees Slash To Within Three Miles of Base, Cut Of Foe’s Escape

YANKEES DRIVE TO WITHIN 3 MILES OF BASE   Nips May Make Bloody Stand; Cut Off By Land, Sea

Japs Reported Well Entrenched At Air Base   Russian Front Lines Generally Unchanged As Heavy Fighting Keeps On At Belaorod

Japs Doomed On Munda As Jungle Men Advance   Must Surrender Or Die At Key Jap Air Base

Germans Hint New American Landings . ape -InNew Georgia Area   Repel Small Nip Thrust at Rendova Island; Enemy Plane Losses Increase Daily

Surrender or Death Facing Jap Garrison   Bloody Fighting Is Seen Ahead With Entrenched Enemy Forces

Tighten Munda  Squeeze   U. S. Jungle Fighters Drive Nearer Jap Base

JAP GARRISON ON PACIFIC ISLAND APPEARS DOOMED   U. S. Forces Only Three Miles From Enemy Air  Base; Surprise Thrust at Rendnva Defected

Americans Near Enemy Air Base   Stiff Resistance To End Expected From Trapped Men

Americans Use Blockade By   Path Cut Through Jungles To Within Three Miles of Base

U.S. Closing In on Japs; Reds Lines Are Holding   Americans Are Applying Two-Way Squeeze on Nips at Munda: Base   THE GARRISON APPEARS DOOMED   Hitler Making Desperate Drive to Crack Reds and Losses Mount .Higher

Yanks Apply  wo-W ay Squeeze in Drive for  Surrender of Air Base.

Nippons at Munda Doomed to Death   American Troops Are Applying Two-Way Squeeze Through Jungles Only Three Miles From Key Jap Air i   Allied Planes Deal New Aerial Blows With 100 Tons of Bombs

Laprovoked Profanity Decreases Since Shipyards Passed Largely Into Hands of Women; HairyChested Side-Kicks Defer to Women’s Wish In Maiter of Ripe Language

Assault Was Heaviest on German Capital of War.  32 BRITISH PLANES FAIL TO RETURN  Situation in Italy Is Practically Unchanged.

Almost 3,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Berlin and Ludwigshafen. American Fortresses Also Pound German Tarcete.

Russians Drive At Key Junction ‘Deep In Ukraine   Smashing Infantry, Tank . Attacks Are. Launched At- Kiev-Bryansk Rwy;

RED ARMIES DRIVING DEEP INTO UKRAINI   Storm Lebedin, 100 Miles North. west of Kharkov, in Apparent Ollensive Aimed at Konotop   CLOSE ON KHARKOV   Force Germans Steadily Back in Fierce Fighting—Berlin Reports New Drive in North

Russians Push Into Heart Of Vital Ukraine   Red Drive Is Aimed At Key Railroad Junction Above Kharkov.

JUVIET DEEP IN UKRAINE AREA   Russian Army Heading for Konotop, Key Junction On Railway.   REDS ENCIRCLE KHARKOV

Russian Drive Carries Deep Into Ukraine   New Offensive Opened In North; Kharkov Nearly Circled

Reds Driving ~ Into Ukraine   Take Lebedin. 100 Miles N. W. of Kharkov

Soviet Troops Pushing Deep Into Ukraine   Aiming for Konotop 170 Miles Northwest of Kharkov in Big Drive

Russians Drive Into Ukraine Foint For Konotop,  mes BP west tex manabsae

DEEP INTO UKRAINE   Russians Smash Forward With Tank and Infantry Attacks

Reds Point for Rail Junction  Soviets on March Deep Into Heart Of Ukraine

—RUSSTA—  SOVIETS DRWING TOWARD KONOTEE   Key Junction On Kiev. Bryansk Railway Rus. sian Objective

Konotop Is Key Junction On Kiev-Bryansk Railway and If Captured Would Menace Whole Nazi Supply Set-up In Ukrainian Theatre.

REDS DRIVING INTO UKRAINE   Point For Konotop, Key To Whole Nazi Supply Setup

Russian Drive Points For Key Railway Center   Reds Capture Lebedin In Tank and Infantry Assaults Yesterday

UKRAINE BATTLE AT SAVAGE PEAK   HITLERITES REEL AS REDS ATTACK ALONG 1,000 MILE SECTOR

REDSONMARCH DEEP IN HEART (IKRAINE AREA   Storm Into Lebedin, 100 Miles Northwest of Kharkov and Between Akhtyrka and Sumy   NEW OFFENSIVE IN FINLAND AREA SEEN   Reported by Berlin to be Attacking Furiously Between Leningrad and Murmansk

Soviet Army On March In The Ukraine   Series of Attacks Aims at Konotop Key To Nazi Supply Line

Increase In HC, its Army. 100   Price Rises Stepping Up Cost Of War; Food, Clothing Up

Britisher To Move Up From Middle East   American Strategic Bombing Force To Be Under  Spaatz’s Command,    MEET GENERAL PRAISE

FIVE CONCORD . SERVICEMEN AT ~ GUADALCANAL   Stad Sergeant Lamonakis Sends Photograph of _ Group to Brother.

¢ SERVICEMEN AT - GUADALCANAL   Staff Sergeant Lamonakis Sends Photograph of - Group to Brother.

DROP HANNAH'S COUNTER SUIT   Supreme Court Referee Rules Out Claims In Dempsey Case

Jack Denies Ring Tactics With Hannah   Never Laid Hands On Wife, Says Old Manassa Mauler

BILL WOULD LOWER STATE VOTING AGE   Measure Will Reduce Age From 21 To 18

WOULD LOWER VOTING ACI   Bill To Be Introduced To Permit 18 Year Olds To Vote.

Roosevelt Asserts America Delays French Recognition Until German Yoke Removed

Resignation of Petain Reported   Morocco and Dakar Radios Say the Marshal Has Resigned.

Rumors Are Out That Petain Quits   Crisis Is Reported to Have Arisen at Vichy Over Resignation.

FRENCH AFRICA RADIOS REPORT   Resignation From Vichy Gov't Not Confirmed Elsewhere

REPORTS PETAIN RESIGNS   Morocco and Dakar Radios Unconfirm By Other Sources

RESIGNATION OF MARSHAL PETAIN BEEN BROADCAST  GERMAN FOREIGN OFFIC ‘' SPOKESMAN ADMITS

Hear Petain Has Quit Vichy Post   Vichy Radio Announces Resignation; Petain Tried to Form Democratic Gov’t

Say Petain *Abdicates’   French Sources Report Vichy Chief’s Resignatior

PETAIN REPORTED TOBE ABDICATING   Vichy Radio Makes Announcement, Urge Frenchmen to Remain Calm.

Report Petain Resigned   LAVAL, GERMANS URGE MARSHAL TO RECONSIDER END AS CHIEF OF STATE

PETAIN OUT AND UNDER NAZI GUARD, MADRID REPORTS   Spanish Quarters Hear Vichy Crisis Has Reached  F gg ors

MARSHAL PETAIN REPORTED TO HAVE RESIGNED   Announcement Made Ove: Morocco and Dakar Radios Unconfirmed from  - Any Other Source

CLAIM PETAIN HAS RESIGNED   Reports Conflict Over Crisis In Vichy

FIRE CAUSES $3000 LOSS Al SHAY HOME   Blaze Starts in Hot Water Heater and Spreads Rapidly

17 Miners Trapped in Kentucky   Explosion of Coal Gas Responsible; Rescue Squads Busy

Huge Base for Operations Against Axis Established Few Hours After Invasion

British 8th Army First To Go Ashore   Bombers Attack Over Wide  Area

RATION BOOK BOE NUMB:            Will Be Available Soon Read The Following:

BRITISH 8TH ARMY MOVES TOWARD THE TUNISIAN BORDER   The Troops Occupy Zelten, 14 Miles West of Zuara, It Is Announced.   20 MILES FROM BORDER    In Contact With Retreating Forces of Marshal Rommel.

 ncome Tax Blanks Hold Headaches   Even U. S. Treasury Men Don’t Know How To Use the Blanks

New 1944 Tax Forms Ridiculed As Not Only Brutally Complicated, But Senseless

 Bill  Bill Would Give U.S. Advertising» ‘ oy dine Proge-ak’ @ Virtual Subsidy

Bill Would Give U. S. Advertising to the Press as a Virtual Subsidy

U. S., Canadian Troops Smash Mountain Defenses in Vital Area  RUSSIANS PUSH ON  Fortresses Make New Heavy Attack on Kiel; Lose 10 Big Bombers

American Officers Train Chinese Soldiers Transported to India   Daring Enterprise Proved Ticklish Job in the Beginning

Chinese Troops, Transported to India, Taught Modern Equipment Use by Yank:

ENTIRE GERMAN LINE BROKEN SOUTH OF DON   French Forces Break Up Hun Push Southeast Of Tunis   JAP SHIPPING POUNDED   Ground Fighting In Lull On Guadalcanal, But Yank Patrols Active

College Army Courses Will Start March    ... students’ Training To Be Strict'—Beukema

Draw College  Training Plan   Program To Start By March  With Engineering First Course Opened.

START TRAINING SOON      School for Specialized Army Per. sonnel Underway March 1

In Schools By March 1   Army Training of _Men to Start Then; in Full Swing by April

Davis Resigns As Food Czar, Texan To Succeed Hin   Marvin Jones Named: Subsidies Hit

President Backs Subsidy Program With New Leader   Serves Notice On Congress By Accepting Davis’ Resignation As Food Boss And Naming Marvin Jones To Take Over Important Post

yee cae  ‘Heart ‘Attack arid “Two  Accidents with Season ° in Third Day

Defense Bill Debate Is Set For Thursday   Passage Of Measure B; End Of Week May Be Possible As Result 0!  Senate’s Decision

Activity in North African Campaigns  Is Confined to A   Potrol Maneuvers Only Action Reported in Day’s Communiques

Allied Bombers Blast Four More fan Shins   Hit Two Destroyers, Tanker, Transport Off New Ireland

TWO AXIS SHIPS SUNK IN ALLIED RAID ON SOUSSE   ‘NOTHING TO REPORT" FROM LAND FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK ENEM   Fliers Are Busy in Africa, India, and North of Australia.

HIT TWO AXIS'SHIPS   Allied Bombers in a Raid on the Tunisian Port of Sousse

ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK SICILY, SOUSSE, GABES   Axis-Held Ports — Airdromes In nisia Raided; Nie. sina Ferry Port Blasted; Large Force Bombs Rangoon.

ALLIED BOMBS SHOWER ED ON PORT OF GABE   Two Axis Vessels Hit and Parked Aircraft Set Afire In Raid On Airdrome   BRITISH SUB SINKS FOUR ENEMY SHIPS   Sousse Also Attacked; Nazis Make Feeble Raid On London Suburbs Early Today

SOVIET OFFENSIVE NEAR   Germany Heports Russian Shock Treeps Geing Inte Action

CIVILIAN SERVICES DUE FOR GOV'T CUT   Streamlining Program May Branch Out, Laundries, Res‘taurants (Under Spotlight

Restaurants and Laundries  May be Next War Guinea Pigs   iWMP and OCS Officials Plan to Limit Activities of Latter to Wet Wash Only, and te Put Restaurants On As Nearly a Serve-Yourself Basis As Pos sible: May Be Extended to Stores

Self-Service Restaurants And Wet-Wash-Only _ Laundries May. Soon Simplify Civilian Tasks

Attack Largest Ever Unleashed On Any Capifal   Assault Presages Opening Of All-Out Blasting Of City

British Lose 58 Planes In Handing German City Worst Pounding Ever Undergone By Any Capital In War   Scope Of Raid Indicates Allies Are Opening — Supreme Offensive Against Rhineland Capital

58 Heavy RAF Bombers Lost In Night Blow  Eong-Awaited Knockout Attempt Against Nazi Capital Is Believed Under Way   Rv WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

More Than 1,800 Long Tons Of Explosives And  Incendiaries Poured Upon German Capital—-Raid Twice As Heavy As Any Seat Of Government Has Previously Suffered—Devastation Reported On Scale Comparable To Power Of Aerial Thrust

RAF Loses 58 Planes Showering Explosives on City   LONDON, Aug. 24 (®} — A Paris radio broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said American bombers attacked the Paris region this afternoon.

RAID TWICE AS HEAVY AS ANY CAPITAL HAS SUFFERED TO DATE   GREAT AMOUNT BOMBS DROPPED ON BERLIN BUT MANY BOMBERS LOST

RAF Smash Is Double That Of Any On Capital   Yanks, Canadians Help Drop 2,016 Tons; 58 Bombers Are Lost

More Than 2.000 Tons Of Bombs Hurled On Capital Of  Germany: Smoke Rises 3 Miles   Anti-Aircraft Defenses Weak But Swarms Of Fighters Get In Deadly Work: Heaviest Blasts Kock Center OF City; Capital A Red Chaos

Britain Loses 58 Bombers in Heaviest Raid on Any Capital      REA TAT LALCTT ACH IT fyni   MAIN. OFFENSIVE ON   Great Devastation Wrought by More Than 2,000 rd Tons of Bombs

Attack Indieates Opening Of Drive To “Hamburg” City   British Report 58 Bombers Lost;  Assault Claimed Twice As Heavy As Any Capital Ever Suffered

sritish Lose 58 Bombers in Historic Assault, Largest Ever Down in a Single Night, but Devastation Is on a Scale Comparable With Power of the Attack—Explosives and Incendiaries Send Smoke Boiling Up Three Miles.

Devastation Is Wreaked In Great ‘Night Assault   German Fighters Swarm to Defense in “Despera. tion Squadrons,” Planes Battle Amid  Searchlight Beams and Smoke. 58 RAF Bombers Lost.

Nazi Capital Given Heaviest Bombing Of War; Four Square Mile Area I[s Saturated

City Ripped By 2,000 Tons Of Explosives In Record Attack; British Lose 58 Bombers.

TWICE AS HEAVY AS ANY ASSAULT ON ANY CAPITAL   British Report 58 Bombers Lost In Devastating Attack   2,000 TONS DROPPED

Assault Twice As Heavy As Any Made Before On Berlin; RAF Loses 58 Bombers, Leaves’ Four-Square Mile Area Torn Apart, Flaming

2,000 TONS OF BOMBS BLAST NAZI CAPITAL   98 Allied Bombers Are Lost in ‘Hamburg’ Offensive

Fifty-Eight Bombers Reported Downed By Germany Anti-Aircraft Defenses in Historic and Record-Breaking Assault   BELIEVED OPENING OF SUPREME AIR OFFENSIVE

AAT OTARTING RAIDS TD RAZE NAZI CAPITAL   Attackers Lose 58 Bombers, Most Ever Lost by RAF in One Night.   SMOKE FROM DEVASTATED CITY RISES THREE MILES

Nazi Defense Weak As RAF ‘Hamburgs’ German Capital   Berlin Hit Twice As Heavy As Any Other Capital In History; 58 Ships Lost

BERLIN RAIDED IN BIG ASSAULT   RAF Squadrons Smash German Capital in Heaviest Raid of War.   58 BOMBERS ARE LOS?

Brifish Lose 58 Bombers in Historic Raid   Hundreds of R. A. F. Planes Encounter Large Squadrons Of German Fiahtere

§¢ RAF Bombers lost In Largest Raid Of War   Z,000 Long Tons Of Bombs Fall On The German Capitol

2000 LONG TONS OF BOMBS BLAST GERMAN CAPITAL   Swarms Of Nazi Fighter Planes Hit Aitackers

HITLER'S HOME BASE PLASTERED IN GREAT RAID   Some 2,000 Long Tons Of Bombs Loosed On Berlin In Attack Twice As Heavy As Any Yet Inflicted On Any Capital City.

58 Big Planes Missing From Huge Assault   Opening Of Supreme Allied Air Offensive To Raze German Capital Indicated By Raid; 2000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

ATTACK ONE OF HEAVIEST SINCE START OF WAR   RAF Dumps 2,000 Tons of Bombs on Capital—58 Bombers Are Lost

Britain Loses 58 Bombers in .. Heaviest Raid on Any - Capital’  MAIN. OFFENSIVE - ON      Great Devastation Wrought _ by More Than 2,000. « . Tons of Bombs  ‘thy

REICH CAPITAL HIT IN ATTACK BY HUGE FORGE   British Report Losses In Massive Raid “Heavy,” Indicates Size RAF Aerial Fleet   58 BOMBERS BAGGED BY NAZI DEFENDERS   Supreme Offensive Seen to “Hainburg” Hitler's Seat of Power; Great Fires Sweep City

MORESO me nent NB etre  Over 2,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped   Fifty-Eight Bombers Go Down Before German Anti-Aircraft Defenses in Historic Assault of Nazi Capital.   Smoke Boils Up Three Miles From Fires Started by the Incendiaries

PILOT REPORTS SMOKE THREE MILES IN AIR   Fliers Say Fires Visible 250 Miles Away On Flight  Hama

Drop More Than 2,000 © Tons Bombs   Great Fires Left Burning In German Capital; Heaviest Yet On Berlina

Smoke From Great Fires Boil Three Miles High; U.S. Fliers Take Part

Raiders Unload 2,000 Tons Of Bombs On City   RAF Loses 58 Planes In Opening Supreme Offensive To “Hamburg” Reich Capital —— Airmen Picture City As Red Chaos Of Smoke Columns From Explosions

Assault Doubles One On Rome; Smoke Boils Three Miles High   British Losses Greatest In Any One Flight; 2,000 Long Tons Of Explosives Dropped

BLACK MARKET IN BEEF IS SERIOUS IN- EASTERN AREA   Wickard Prefers to Leave Prob. lem Up to OPA; Food Program at Stake

Black Market In Beef Very  Serious Now   Secretary Of Agriculture Says War Food Program Could Be Disrupted.   TO SEEK DEFERMENTS

WICGKARD tlTS ALAGK MARKET   May Become So Serious As To Disrupt Nation’s War Food Program.

Black Market Very Serious,  Wickard Warns   Says Beef Situation Can Disrupt Nation’s War Food Program.

Black Market Very Serious, Wickard Says   Sees Threat to War Food Program; Mainly a Matter of Distribution   SMALL PACKERS SAY RULES UNFAIR   Senate. Committee’ Begins Hearing Into Complicated Food Troubles

Troops May Help Farms   Beef ‘Underground Market’ Blamed on OPA Reaulations

Wickard Asserts Black Market In Beef Is ‘Serious’   OPA Declares War O Uncontrolled Sales O Meat And Butter

War Food Program Menaced By Black Market in Beef, Secretary Wickard Declares

Wickard Takes Note of Black Market's Threat   Secretary Prefers To Let OPA Stop Bootlegging of Mea

Beef Situation  Called Grave   Black Market Threat ‘Serious’ +-Wickard

WICKARD MAY ASK ARMY T0 HELP HARVEST   Secretary of Agriculture Says Furloughs May Be Asked For Troops if Necessary   ‘BLACK MARKET SCORED

ripartite session May Be in London Because Hull Does Not Want To Fly

TO MEET IN LONDON   Allied Conference May Be Held There Instead  of in Moscow

Forces Poised For Kill As Jap Defenders Fall Back To Chichagof Bay

AMERICANS NOW HAVE ENEMY IN NFATH PACKFI   if Weather Clears, Planes Can Be Employed: In Final Cleanun.

Subject te Attack by Sea, Air   End of Campaign Started May 11 Seems Near — Bomb Berlin Again

JAPS LOSSES RUN AS HIGH AS TWO-THIRDS   Nip Airfield on Island in Aleutians Seized, Putting Yellow Men in Hopeless Straits

Americans Ready To Eradicate Japs From Isle —    Remaining Nipponese Reported Trapped In Chicagof Harbor Area

DEFENDERS FACE FIRE FROM SEA, AIR, LAND GUNS   End Of Fighting On Western Aleutian Island Appears Near

SARANA PASS CAPTURED BY U.S. FORCES   Enemy Forces Driven  Into Harbor Area  By Invaders

Gunfire From U.S. Warships Plays Part In Advances Made By Land Troops

VITAL PASS CAPTURED B' AMERICANS   Nips Trapped Or Narrow Fringe Of Island

Batter Nearer Latvian ~ Frontier, Moscow Says   Allies’ Air Power Continues Pounding Germany For Expected  Caatneag Invasion

Senate Passes Bill to Defer All Farmers   Measure, Opposed B; Army, McNutt, Now Goes to House

FARM BLOG WINS IN DEBATE OVER BANKHEAD BILL   1  Measure Approved In Spite Of Strong Opposition By Army, WMC.

House Gets Farm Bill   Senate Approves Bankhead Bill On Farm Deferments

BANKHEAD BILL IS APPROVED BY AOTO2Z4BALLOT   Would Empower Boards to Decide Workers’ Importance in Outout

Germans. Becoming More And More Nervous Over Allied Invasion Menace

Nazis Send Out Invasion Alert   Menacing Warship Activity Reported  By LYNN HEINZERLING

AXIS OUTPOSTS GUARDING EUROPE GET NEW WARNING   Germans Say in Broadcast U. S. Warships Have Arrived in Mediterranean to Bolster Fleet.   FEAR SIMULTANEOUS BLOWS IN EAST, WEST   Believe British and Americans May Strike as Stalin’s Forces Battle Nazis in Rirssia.

Germans Fear Co-ordination  Of Allied Blows   Say American Warships Have Bolstered British  In Mediterranean

Axis Outposts Get New. Alert as Invasion Fears Gain   Germans Voiée Anxiety, Over Possibility of Synchronized Blow From the. ‘West With Those of the Ruesian Fareac

AXIS OUTPOSTS FEAR INVASION   Allied Warships Sighted In Mediterranean Are Constant Menace

‘Invasion Jitters Plaguing Axis Defense Posts   Germans Moving Industries  rom Ruhr

Nazis Send Qut Invasion Alert   . Menacing. Warship Activity Reported

FEAR OF INVASICN SENDS NEW ALERT TO AXIS OUTPOSTS   Germans Report Menacing Activity of Allied Warships In Mediterranean   FEAR COORDINATION WITH RUSSIAN BLOWS   Nazi Report Says American Cruisers and Aircraft Oarriers Have Bolstered Allied Fleet; Defenders Ready for ‘Zero Hour,’ Declared

Axis Shows Fear of Allied Invasion as Reich Troops ~ Press Drive Against Reds   Believes German Defeat Of Reds “Impossibility

Axis Outposts Get New Alert as  Invasion Fears Gain  Germans Voi¢e Anxiety Over Possibility   Germans Voice Anxiety Over Possibility of Synchronized Blow From the West With Those of the Russian Forces

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NEW FEARS OF ATTACK GRIP AXIS NATIONS   New Alert Sent to Outposts as Allied Activity Grows

Axis Fears Invasion During Russian Crisis   Germans Disclose Menacing Activity Of Allied Warships Im Mediterranean; U. S. Carriers Reported On Move

WI. BE HELD IW TARMERS TO BE SUPPLIED  unction, sucy 30 FIRST WITH TIRES

J, §, Soldiers wn When Boat  izes in Lake   Men on Way to Rifle ge for Practice  itn Happens

Report 25 Men Die When Boat Capsizes  Maneuvers in Lake  Ne (EE sarap poegocre! Mrs

25 SOLDIERS DROWN AS BOAT CAPSIZES   Accident Occurs Three Miles Oftshore in Lake Pontchartrain ot Maw Orleans.

Destructive U. S. Fire Concentrated On Munda Base   Kiska Shelled by American Navy’s Big Guns Again

U.S. Forces Are Attacking Munda   Warships, Planes and Artillery Arein Raidon Jap Pont 2   MANY BOMBS DROPPED   British. and Indian Thon Carry Out Attack on. ~ Burma Front °

Push Fight on Munda By Land, Sea and Air   Navy Bombards Base As 100 Bombers Rock Fortress; Renew Assault On  Japs Near Salamaua, In New Guinea.

HEAVY AIR RAIDS IN SOLOMONS AREA   Axis Broadcasts Say American Air Force Preparing New Attack on Tokyo

WARSHIPS, PLANES  AND ARTILLERY ARE  HAMMERING MUNDA MAIN ENEMY BASE IN CEN   TRAL SOLOMONS NOW UNDER SOUFEZ7E

Heavy Blows ‘On Munds   U. S. Ships, Planes; And Artillery Pour Destruction On Key Japanese Air Base

Two Children Suffocate In Omaha Garage Fire Tragedy  w.. teescced. 228 C'ore

ALLIES SKIRMISH WITH AXIS FORCES ARMIES IN TUNISIA   8th Army Tests Axis Lite. South Of Tunis While Planning For Big Attack

Four Ships Hit in Raid  On Palermo      Skirmishes Take Place Between Ground Forces

British Attempt To Consolidate Newly-Won Posts   Two Large Italian Destroyers Sunk By English Navy Ships

Ground Action In Lull   Four Vessels Are Hit:  British Get Two Destroyers :

Flying Fortresses And British Navy Hits At Shipping; Armies Active

FOUR AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS ARE WRECKED   ‘Fortresses at ’ Palermo, ‘Sicily

Van Sant Asserts Long Coal Strike Would Cripple Rail Transportation

RAILROAD IS F ACING BAD COAL SHORTAGE   Baltimore And Qhio Railroad Ofcial Says Line Has Supply To Op erate     More Davs

COAL STOPPAGE MAY HIT FOOD   Railway Of ficial Says Distribution May Be Halted

Ickes Holds Anthracite Coal in Kast   Stops Shipments Past Pennsylvania-Ohio  Line Until April

PUTS EMBARGO ON ANTHRAGITE   AI Shipments West Ohio-Pennsyivania Line Frozen

Double dose for Lorient   ‘Over thousand tons’ of bombs loosed by RAF

Thousand Tons Of Bombs Drop On U-Boat Base   Double-Barreled Assault Leaves Lorient Afire; 2d Raid Bezun

Royal Air Foree Pounds Lorient Submarine Lair   R. A. F. drops more than. 1,000 tons of explosives on extensive dock installations. —

German U-Boat Base at Lorient Blasted  Over a Thousand Tons of Bombs Rannriad Tirnannead

RAF Rains Destruction  On Sub Base   Railway Targets Hit In France And In Holland

German U-Boat Base at Lorient Blasted  Over a Thousand Tons of Bombs Reported Dropped

Government Requisitions Part of Corn in Storage   Other Methods to Force Corn Onto Market Are Under Consideration

FDR FOCUSES HIS: ATTENION ON POST: WAR PLANNING   Permanent Group of Consultants Has Been Established by President

Roosevelt Brings Together Number Of Associates To Confer On Problems

Car Plunges 275 Feet Off Harding Way   Mrs. Peter Morello, Luigi Faroni Are Victims of Wreck

REORGANIZATION OF ARMY IN POST WAR PERIOD. DISCUSSED   Merit-Promotion Basis: a Proposed by Members §  Gamate Cawmrestitas

1943 Critical Rubber Period   Harvey Firestone. Jr.. Believes Supply Sufficient To Crowd Through.

TELLS LEADERS ITS LOSS WILL BRING DEFEAT   Fuehrer Attempts In Pep Talk to Whip Up Flagging Spirit on the Home Front   AIR BLOWS SAPPING FIGHTING MOOD   Gestapo Chief Says “Defeatism Non-Existent;” Promises Eradication Without Mercy

Hitler Bees Germans Te  Keep Morale Up AtHome   Makes Clear-Cut Attempt To Whig Up Flagging Spirits; Promises Victory

Enemy Fears Allied Drive To Trap Korps   Radio Paris Says Gen, Clark May Attack Gahes

Axis Fears Big. American Drive In Tunisia     Increasing Alarm Beirig uiedanca  

AXIS FEARS BIG AMERICAN DRIVE AGAINST GABES   Think Pifth Army Massed For Push Against Afrika 1 Korps

Axis betrays fear of drive on Tunisia   See drive to trap Rommel

Carry Aid To Pals Too Far   1 8. Finaneing Big Construction Jobs

ADVANCE UNIT 2] MILES PAST SOUSSE   Official Word Is Troops Gaining On All Fronts   4,000 ITALIANS   Said To Have Perished As Transport Goes Down; Aircraft Abandoned

AFRIKA KORPS PUSHED INTO COFFIN CORNER   Enemy Strength Reported At 210,000 Men, Three» Fourths Veterans al   ITALIAN TRANSPORT SUNK   Allied Fliers Pound Enemy Bases And Airdromes, Smash Axis Shipping

PANTELLE RIA MUST Wt UP, MALTA THINKS   Italian Isle Will Be Forced To Surrender Soon, General Belief

WAVE AFTER WAVE OF BiG BOMBERS PLASTER ISLAND   Lendon Circles Claim Landing May Already Have Reen Made.

WAGE OIL FIGHT ON HOUSE FLOOR   VURSELL DEMANDS PRICE BOOST AS AID TO INDUSTRY

Detroit race riot quieting after presidential edict   Series of wild disorders causes 23 deaths and over 700 injured

SUNRISE WEDNESDAY CAUGHT LEGISLATURE IN ANGRY DEADLOCK  MATTER OF CUTTING Ui.  AITAR PARP D Ar pha Dr   MATTER OF CUTTING LIQUOR CONTROL BOARDS FUNDS POINT IN DISPUTE

NAZIS BAR TRAVEL ACROSS FRONTIER      Enemy Begins Wholesale Evacuation Of. _ Norway 8g

TELEGRAPH MERGER   Congressional Committee Approves WU And Postal Merger

Nazi Armies Staggered UAn Wy Apart on Russian Front by -Losse Korosten, Rechitsa; Pressure ‘UR                   - Japan Increased by Air, Sea

Large Fleet of UN Bombers Attack Berlin   i Ludwigshafen Also Raided; Russians Capture Korosten and Rechitsa; New Peace Demonstrations Are Reported m Balkans

Nazi Army Split On Korostan Front   Fresh Peace Demonstrations Reported in Balkans; 1,000 Planes Smash  Berlin, Ludwigshaven )

Berlin, Ludwigshafen Hit by Biggest AirFleet   Only 32 Bombers Lost in Raids; Axis Hard Hit in Russia and South Pacific in Powerful Allied Drives.

Both Rechitsa And Korosten Are Captured   Nazis Occupy Three More Of Aegeans Weather Delaying Italy Drive

Hint Giant, New Aerial Drive Opens   Red Army Seals Gomel; 8th Gains in Italy; Balkans Scene of Demonstrations —

GERMAN CAPITAL IS SUBJECTED TO ONE OF HEAVIEST BLASTINGS   ALLIED AIR MIGHT LOOSED AGAINST OTHER WORLD-WIDE TARGETS

Largest Bomber Fleet Ever Sent Against Germa Hit Berlin and Important Chemical Producing Heavy Blows. Allied Armies in Italy Checked }  Ramnaono Rivere

‘COST, BENEFITS FIGURES ON ER POSTWAR PLAN READY   SOLONS TO STUDY FINANCIAL STATISTICS, NATION-WIDE SOCIAL REFORM PROGRAM

GOAL SUPPLY. 1S REDUGEI   GUFFEY 8 SAYS SOFT COAL PRODUCTION “THIS “YEAR WiLi BE 10 PERCENT OFF

FEARS SHORTAGE   Guffey Says Strikes Cut Coa! Output By 10 Per Cent.

Kiger Girl Taken To Psychiatrist   Murder Case to Await Grand Jury

Bolster Sagging Frenchmen   Heavy Losses Are Inflictec Upon Afrikaners As Spearhead Is  Blunted.

American Planes,  Tanks Take Lead In Africa Fight  Down 35 Enemy Planes Without  ‘Single Loss

COMMANDO-TYPE AND  HNTED 10 PFT INFORMATION   Berlin. First Claims Annihilation Bul: Later Admits Some of Invaders Still Uncaotured.   NAZI INDUSTRY AND RAIL POINTS BOMBED   17 of 75 Enemy Aircraft Are Shot Down In Effort. to Prevent Allies In Raid Upon Nantes.

British Force  Lands on Toe, Berlin Asserts   Claims Warships Support Attack Which London Observers Believe Was Raid Of Commando Type; Move Seen As Prelude To Major Operation. 

GERMANS SAY FORCE OF 400 BRITISH  ANNE)   London Silent—Nazis Repert Move Is Preliminary to Maior Push.

BRITISH LAND IN ITALY SAYS GERMAN RADIC   Berlin Claims Most of 40C Men, Believed Invasion Prelude, Captured; London Mum.

ADMITS FEW BRITISH TROOPS PENETRATED TO MOUNTAIN AREAS   Commandos Equipped With Equipment For Communications Says DNB; London Silent; Major Invasion Presaged

Allied Landing Made In Italy, Is Nazi Claim   German Radio Reports 400 British Troops Invaded Italian Toe On Sunday From Warships: Assertion Unconfirmed

Nazis Report Allied Landing On Italian Toe      Is Believed To Be Only Commando Raid To Get Information

German Radio Reports 400 British Troops Landed on Italian Mainland; ‘Seen As Preliminary to Big Invasion

400 TROOPS LAND ON TOE. RERIIN CAVE   Official London Quarters Make No Comment on Report

400 BRITISH GO ASHORE ON TOE OF ITALY    Amphibious Thrust Is  Reported By Nazis Aaainst Mainland

EXCEED LEVY LIMIT   Rural School Boards Hit Snag in Raising Teacher's Pay

TRANSFER OF RAIL LAND TO STATE IS URGED BY RODGERS   Calls on Senator Hatch to Get Congress to Change Title to Acreage

Sicily Fronts Inspected By Eisenhower   General Inspects Operations; Declares ‘Ail’s Well’

Eisenhower Rides Jeep In Sicily   General Pleased With Progress Made by Allies

EISENHOWER PAYS VISIT T0 SICILY   TALKS WITH GENERALS IN COMMAND AND DRIVES AROUND COUNTRYSIDE.

JAPS ON DEFENSIVE.   They ‘Are Entrenching In, Pacific To Hold Their Lines,

ADVANCED JAP BASES TARGET OF U.S.BLOWS   Recent Developments Show America on Top in Active War Zones

Cirizens OF Marseille Fire On Germans   Vichy Government Declares State of Siege in French City; UN Leaders Plan Momentous Events; De Gaulle and Giraud Reach Agreement 

Onen Revolt by French Flares as Vise Jaws Close   Bulk of Rommel’s Forces in Tunisia; Russians Advancing

BRITISH PURSUE ROMMEL'S ARMY WEST OF TRIPOLI   Russians Continue Sweep Toward Rostov; Stalin Orders Invaders Hurled Revnnd Rordar.

Important War Plans Shaping Up   Behind the Scener Atmosphere  Rife With Signs Of Bis Events

MOMENTOUS EVENTS BELIEVED IN MAKING BY ALLIED NATIONS:   CENSORED DISPATCHES ADMIT ALLIES’ WAR PLANS TAKING SHAPE

Nazis Order Evacuation, Decree Seige   Momentous News to Come Highlights War Picture; Brit-. ish Continue Rommel Chase

5 SPREADING  . REVOLT MARSEILLE   prising in France, Crisis in Africa and Defeat in Russia Confronting Axis Satellites

French Revolt  In Move Order   At Marseille   Momentous Events Said In Making Today By United Nations  PRESSURE IN AFRICA Russian Armies Driving  Battle Lines Closer to Rostov

Vichy Proclaims State Of Siege In Marseilles; Nazis Reach Tunisia In Flight

AXIS FAGES HARD GOING OVER GLOBE   Momentous Events Being Rumored ° For Future

FAR-REACHING WAR PLANS SHAPING IS REPORT IN LONDON.   [Fighting French And U. $ [Teese Advancing On I Tunisia

Behind The Scenes; Rife With Signs  of Momentous Events In Makina

War Picture Looms Dark For Hitler   All News Today Is Bad For Ex-Vierna Paper Hanger

Romme', Von Arn’m Fight ng Bacx To Back In lun'sa   Stalin, Usually — Taciturn, Praises Troops; Allied Leaders Map War Policies

Allied ‘Squeeze’ Movement Clicks as Rom mel Joins Axis in Tunisia — Russians Push Closer to Rostov, into Ukraine

. War Plans of Allied Nations Take Shape, Reported Leading Way to Awaited Invasion of “European Fortress” in  Coming Weeks, Months

\ n Settlement   High Officials Of United States And England Arbiters   og Declare Martial w In Marseille Riot   Allied Gains In Africa And Russia Still Unchecked

MAJOR ASSAULT ON EUROPE MAY BE NEXT MOVE   Vise Is Being Tightened on Axis Forces in Wild Dash For Tunisia   FRENCH FEUD IS SETTLED   Reds Continue To Smash Germans While Retaking More of Invaded Russia

REVOLT IN FRANCE, LOSSES IN RUSSIA, PRESSURE IN AFRICA  '  ADD TO DIFFICULTIES OF AXIS

Far-Reaching Plans For Big Offensive Said Taking Shape   French Revolt, Crisis In N. Africa, Black Defeat In Russia Form Composite Picture Facing Axis

British Nearing Tunisia As Reds Push On Rostov   Bulk of Rommel’s Men Conceded To Have Joined Von Arnim’« Army.

'Momentous Allied War Plans Taking Shape In London.   Reds Drive Nearer Rostov;. Axis Faces Crisis In North Africa. *

SENATOR COTTEN CHARGES LIQUOR CONTROL MEMBERS  SAYS 12,000 ROUND AM MIINITION ROTICHT TH

Health Flints   Texas State Department of Health, Austin, Texas Geo W. Cox. M. D.. State Health Officer

Precautions to Avoid Paralysis Cases are Giver   Keep Away From Crowds, Practice Sanitation, Dr. Cox Urges

Russians Crack Nazi Attacks  1,500 Germans Are - Reported Killed

RUSSIANS HALT NAZI ASSAULT   Furious Attack Repulsed In Kiev Sector With Big Enemy Loss

Soviets Halt Nazi Drives   Germany Hints Of New Leninarad Assaults

Russians Check Furious German Blow Near Kiev   Nazi. Reports Hint Leningrad Area To Spring Into Action -

Reds Rally To Crack Nazi Counterdrive  Russian Positions”  . Are Improved During ‘Thay of Ficliting-

Russians Repel German Attacks   Improve Positions In Ukraine Area

REDS RALLY TOSMOTHER NAZI DRIVE      Moscow Soys All Attempts to Breach Defenses Foiled   /CLAIM LENINGRAD  ~=—s BEING SHELLED   Might. Indicate Germans on Move in Another Sector

AUSOIANS GRAGK COUNTER-ATTACK   Halt Furious German Blows In Kiev Sector; German Onslaught Reaches Highwater Mark, Declared

Reds Crack Nazi Drive Jn Ukraine   1,500 Germans Die As Soviets Rally.  In Kiev Sector; __ . Leningrad Ramhoad?

GERMANS STOPPED IN KIEV SECTOR   COUNTER-ATTACKS OF NAZIS CRACKED BY REDS ON ELEVENTH DAY OF BATTLE,

England to Check on Gas Warfare   Churchill Promises fo Get Accurate Reports

Helicopters To Fly Over New England   CAB Receives Many Applications

Striking Akron Rubber Workers Begin Trek Back   Three Thousand Return To Jobs, But 31,000 Remain Idle Today.

Two Rubber Plants Resume Operations   Strikers Still Close Other Akron Plants: Workers Protesting WLB Ruling

TWO OF FOUR RUBBER PLANTS _ RESUME WORK   Thousands Still Idle, Working Forces Unbalanced by Strike Against WLB Wage Order

AKRON PLANTS RESUME WORK   2 Plants Still Idle as CI0 Unionists Protect WLB Decision

TEMPERATURES:   30,000 ‘Akron Rubber Workers Still Idle, Checkup Shows

Few Return To Rubber Plant Jobs   31,000 Still Idle At Two Concerns In Akron Walkout

2 RubberPlants Resume Work  30,000 Workers Idle At Two Other Factories

MEN RETURN AT AKRON, DETROIT   Rubber Workers Respond To Leaders’ Appeals

MOST OF AKRON'S RUBBER WORKERS BACK ON THE JOE   But Thousands Still Idle In Protest Of WLB Wage Decisions   CONFERENCES SCHEDULED

GERMAN INDUSTRIES BEING WIPED OU]   Country Will Be At Bottom of List in Post-War Scramble For Trade

NAZI INDUSTRIES ARE SAID 10 BE IN VERY BAD WA\   BRITISH ECONOMIC EXPERTS BELIEVE If WILL TAKE GERMANY MANY YEARS TO REBUILD HER FACTORIES.   2,500 NAZI PLANTS HAVE BEEN WRECKED   Hundreds of Others Severely Damaged-—Ten of Germany's Leading Cities Have Been Knocked Out Industrially.

MERCURY IS CLIMBING   Most of the State Was Visited by Freezing Temperatures

Frost Again Tonight _   Damage Due To Last Night’s Light Freeze Believed To Be Slicht

Jap Merchantman Is Hit by Allies  500 Ton Bomb Causes Damage; Strike at Wewak Airdramea

MacArthur Bags Another Jap Ship   Bombers Blast  Several Enemy Bases

JAPANESE IN INDO-CHINA ARE RAIDED   installations And Shipping Blasted Without Loss

Yankee Bombers Blast Japanese Bases In China   Stilwell Says No U. S. Losses

1) ACCEPTED BY ARMED SERVICES   Draft Board Announces 15 In September Contingent Meet Rejection

Judge Acts At Ration Hearing  Tears Coupons From Violators’ Books

aVETS BD FOR ONIEPER, OREL SLOWEL   Two Key Cities Seized During Caucasus Drive; Night Clash Successful.   WEATHER, NAZI BLOWS DELAY NORTH ADVANCE

CONTINUE ADVANCES   Red Army Tightens Its Arc Around German Bridgehead in Caucasus Sector.

Officials Disavow Remarks   Rebuke Administered Am bassador Believed to Foreshadow Re placement.

Administration Disavows Remarks Of Ambassador Standley In Moscow

Funeral Rites For Akron Youth  Lawrence F eauto  Killed In’ Accident

CAR INIURIES CAUSE OF DEATH   Lawrence. Feauto, 22, of Akron, Dies In New York

'Slave Laborers and War Prisoners Risk ' Death to Form Fifth Column Inside Reich

GERMANY’S WAR WORK PLAN —--BACKFIRING ON THE REICK   SABOTAGE ACTIVITIES OF IM _ PORTED WORKERS CAUSING  ‘ GERMANS TO FORM HOME: QUAED UNITS

WILL oor SOUCHT FOR OW! BUREAU   Retiriwy Director of Domestic Affairs Says Few Employes Will be Used

M’CLEARY 10 GO BACK IN SERVICE      Army Ceptain; After Nine Operations, Ordered a to Report

M'CLEARY 10 G0 BACK IN SERVICE   Army Captain, After Nine Operations, Ordered to Report

llinois Memorial. Day Week-End Is  One of Safest in Recent Holidays

2FRONT PUSH AIMS TO SMASH AFRIKA KORPS   British Eighth Army Hits Mareth Line, Americans Drive Toward Coast   1,000 PRISONERS TAKEN   U.S. And English Planes Control Air In Stabs At Axis Forward Bases

Yanks Strike For Coast in Pincer Drive  2 U. S. Columns Trv to  Tran Rammal ac Ha

1000 PRISONERS. IN BAG IN FIRST HOURS OF BATTLE   Two American Columns tn Move For Possible Trapping of Germans as British Make Advances.   NINTH AMERICAN AIR FORCE BLASTS NAPLES   Dozen Turkish Military Men on Mission to Allied Headquarters In North Africa Is Revealed. .

Reds Kill 600 Nazis  In Gaucasus Battle   13 Tanks Destroyed in Furious Fighting Near Novorossisk; W ar Material Captured

BATTLE RAGING AT NOVOROSSISK   Russians Report 600 Germans Slain In West Caucasus

Soviet Reports y New Nazi Blow ls Hurled Back   600 Claimed Slain And 12 Tanks Put Out In One Sector

REDS REPORT MANY VICTIMS   Claim 4,000 Of Enemy Slain In Violent Fighting.

Red Army Of Caucasus Kills. Many Axis Troops In Fight  Seventeen Tanks And 39 Guns Destroyed In Violent Finhting At Rim Of Kuban Bridaakacd

Nazi Thrust Is Vain; Reds Hurl Foe Back   Furious Fighting !s Renewed on Caucasus Front; Enemy Loses Heavily in Men And Material: Air Battle Gains Impetus

ARMIES IN FURIOUS CAUCASUS BATTLE   GERMANS HURL 46 TANKS AT REDS-—-13 KNOCKED OUT, 600 NAZIS KILLED.

4,000 Nazi Troops Slain By Russians   Violent Fighting Takes Place Near Kuban Bridgehead

4 000 Nazis Die in Caucasus Fight   Big Scale Action Looked for Soon

Soviet Reports p New Nazi Blow ls Hurled Back   600 Claimed Sfain And. 12 Tanks’ Put  Se Me

Soviets kill A, 000 nazis  in Caucasus   Big scale action brewing to wipe out axis foothold

600 GERMANS SLAIN BY REDS IN CAUCASUS   Furious Fighted Resumed Above Enemy Bridgehead At Novorossisk; All Nazi Counter Attacks Repulsed.   6 Nazi Planes Cowned

May Maintain Standing Army   Armed Force Of 2.500.000 Men At Close Of War Mav Be Made.

BIG STANDING ARMY FORECAST AFTER WAR   2,500,000 Men May Be Kept Under Arms, Government Official  Neetares

ee  Ls te 3 ON ~ SERVICE   Capt. Boylan, Victim Of War  Time Accident

RUSH DIVISION TOITALY FIGHT   Allied Armies Enter Key Strongholds

Enemy Rushes Men From Russia Front   Fifth Army Breaks Into Thick Defenses Of San Pietro As Eighth Battles Into Orsogna

Allies Advance At Both Ends Of Line in {aly   Nazis Bring Troops From Eastern Front To Bolster Position

Allies Smash at Key Strongholds   Germans Bring Mountain Troop: From Russia to Italian Front

DISTRICT OPA CHIEF QUITS JOB IN OHIO   Restrictions Are Given as Reason by Beckmann

HOOK & LADDER COMPANY HOLD: ITS BANQUE)   Mayor Bell Pr omises Fir emen Bigger Ap: : ’ Dropriations  ,

HOOK & LADDER COMPANY HOLDS ITS BANQUET   Mayor Bell: Promises Firemen Bigger Appropriations

Torn, Battle Stained Old Glory Brought Back To U. S. From Morocco

African Landing  Flag Now Home First Flag Ashore Nov. 8 Returned

Japs Had Completed Airfield on Kiska Island.  ALLIES RAID ISLANDS IN THE DUTCH INDIES  It Was the Longest Raid Yet of the Pacific War.

oH IPO, PLANES DUMB AND ohELL JAP HELO KISKE   Liberator Bombers Make 2400 Mile Trip To Bomb  East Indies Jap Base

Another Solomons Isle Taken   MacArthur’s Forces Jump 50 Miles—To Vella Lavella

AMERICAN DRIVE IMPERILS JAPS IN SOLOMONS ZONE   Invaders Capture 350 Nipponese Alive; Tokyo's Claims of Warship Losses Not Confirmed.

Yanks yurprise Japs by Taking Vella Lavella.   Capture of Island. Threatens Strongholds In Northern Solomons Ht Is Indicated

MacArthur Reveals Another Island Taken....  Last Jap Stronghold In Solomons in Peril

island Is 50 Miles Northwest of Munda and Lies in Heart of Enemy’s Northern Solomon Defenses; 35 Enemy Planes Shot  low.

U.S. TROOPS — HAVE CAPTURED VELLA LAVELLA   Island Lies in Heart of Japanese Northern Solomons Defenses

Surprise U.S. Invasion in So'omons Knocks Nips Out Of Last Major Stronghold

Sea-Borne U. S.  Troops Seize  Pacific Isle  Vella Lavella Island   Vella Lavella Island Northwest of Fallen Munda Taken by Yanks

Vella Lavella, 50 Miles Past Munda, Captured Sunday   New Conquest Is Only 70 Miles Below Bougainville Bases

AMERICAN SEA-BORNE FORGES IMPERIL JAP BASE-IN SOLOMONS  _ SURPRISE INVASION NORTHWEST FALLEN MUNDA GIVES NEW FOOTHOLD

Surprise Blow Dealt Heart Of Island Defense   Vella Lavella Captured By MacArthur Troops; 350 Japs Seized

Jap Bases Periled in Solomons   VELLA LAVELLA ISLAND OCCUPIED BY AMERICAN TROOPS IN SWIFT MOVE

Yanks Capture Vella Lavella   Japan's Last Major Strongholds In Solomon Isles bnnarilipd.

Surprise Invasion   U.S. Forces Capture Major Jap Stronghold InSolomons

Sea-Borne U. S. Troops Seize Pacific Isle  Vella Lavella Island  Northwest of Fallen Miinda Takan hv Yanke

Japs In Solomons Imperiled   Island Captured In MacArthur's  Surpise Move

Troops Slash Info Solomons   Seize Vella Lavella Island, In Heart of Jap Defenses

Enemy Bases In Solomons Jeopardized By Invasion At Vella Lavella

YANKS CAPTURE PACIFIC iSLAND   34 Jap Planes Destroyed Ir Sea-Borne Landing By Americans

Vella Lavella Is Captured By US Troops   Japan’s Last Major Strong: holds in Solomons Sharply Imperilled; Aussies Wipe Out Jap Forces at Tambu

Jap Defense Isle Taken   Solomons Supply Line Periled as U.S. Troops Occupy Vella Lavelle

Yank Sea-borne Forces Capture  Vella Lavella   Seize 350 Japs Alive  In Surprise Invasion

YANKS IMPERIL ENEMY’S BASES   Last Major Jap Strongholds In Solomons Near Downfall

FAL  (SLAND CAPTURED IN SURPRISE MOVE   Japan’s Last Major Strongholds In Solomons Now Imperilled

VELLA LAVELLA FALLS TO U.S.   Yanks Take Solomons Isle In Surprise Landing —  Sunday

PROLONG SESSION BY HALTING CLOCK   Lawmakers Are Working ‘on Last Minute Legislative Matters   [WILL QUIT TUESDAY

PROLONG SESSION BY HALTING CLOCK   Lawmakers Are Working on Last Minute Legislative Matters     twryry fruy Tyr ery Tr“ors, A T&F

Hornet To Be Launched Sunday   New Carrier Will Have Same Sponsors As Last Famous Ship

BADOGLIO TO GET SAME CHANCE. FOR PEACE AS BENITO   Unconditional Surrender Is Only Answer For Italian Peace Dreams -

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN MOTOR CITY   Approximately 200 Injured and Almost 300 Arrested

POLICE OFFICER AMONG VICTIMS IN RACE BATTLE   Governor Orders Troops. Flies Back from Ohio Conference

Deaths in Detroit Riot Rise to Six   Two White Men Four Negroes  Killed in Day

AACE TROUBLE N DETROIT I ~-VERY SERIOUS   Whites and Black Battle in the Streets and Many Are Injured.   STARTED BY NEGRO   Girl With White Sa‘lor Boy Was Insulted and Scrap Followed.

ark. PERAONG:, KNGWS.DEAD  ‘AND 200 INSURED IN OUT:  Lo BREAK’ OF, RACE 2° = RIGTING

Martial Law In Parts of Detroit   Race Riots Terrorize Sections of City

SIX NEGROES, WHITE DOCTOR ARE KILLED   Governor Kelly hurries home to take charge of situation

DETROIT RACE RIOT J DEAD, 200 HURT   5326 Persons, Whites and Negroes Alike Have Been Arrested.

5 JapBombers Shot Down in Attu: Attack   Second Raid: Ends in Disaster as Foe Tries  to Send in Aid

Japs Making Effort To Give Assistance To Beleaguered Force On Island

5 JAP BOMBERS SHOT DOWN SUNDAY   Out of Force of 16 TwinEngined Craft Raiding  Ameritan Forces on Attu

IAPAN GLAINS ONE WARSHD SUNK AND 6 OTHERS DAMAGED   Navy Reports Attack by 15 Jap Bombers Un-— successful   FEAR LONG DRAWN OUT STRUGGLE NOW

Long Struggle In Aleutians Now Indicated   Nip Bombers Make Second Attack and 5 Are Shot Down

Five of 16 Jap Bombers Shot Down Trying To Attack Attu   Two U. S. Planes Lost; Foe’s Ground Resistance Crumbles

JAPS IN ND JAB ATATTU   Five Of Enemy’s Sixteen Bombers Shot Down, Navy Reports

JAPANESE BOMBERS ATTACK U). 5. NAVAL UNITS NEAR ATTU  TOKYO COMMUNIQUE DE   TOKYO COMMUNIQUE DECLARES U. S. DESTROYER SUNK, OTHERS DAMAGED

LONG STRUGGLE IS INDICATED IN THE ALEUTIANS   ‘irst Jap Action From Outside Attu Hints Long Fight For Islands May Have Already Begun; Enemy Bombers Strike

Battle for Aleutians May Be Long One   Japanese Bring Up First Outside Forces At Attu Island

YANKS BAG FIVE JAP BOMBERS IN DUEL OVER ATTU   Enemy Loses 16 Twin-Engin ed Craft in Futile Effort to Aid Troops

JAPANESE BOMBERS ATTACK U. 5. NAVAL UNITS NEAR ATTU  ~ roKvo COMMUNIQUE DECLARES U. S, DESTROYEI SUNK. OTHERS DAMAGED

Japs Attempt To Aid Their Attu Forces   15 Nip Bombers Unsuccessfully Attack Two US Warships; Long-Drawn Struggle in Aleutians Indicated

WE'LL SEE YOU!   Germans Tell Us Rommel’s Waiting For Us In Greece,

ACTION TO BLOCK STRIKES PUSHED   House Group Indorses Plan As Coal Truce Nears End

Jomes H. R. Cromwell Files Suit For Divorce ‘From Former Doris Duke

FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR NEWSPAPERMAN   John McCarrens Dies from Bullet Wounds Saturday

Planes and Subs Sink 3 Axis Cargo Vessels   Ground Forces Are Marshaling Power For Supreme Test

» GROUND ACTION CONFINED 10 * PROBE TACTICS   Three More Enemy Cargo Ships Are Sunk By Torpedoes In Mediterranean.

British Sink 3 Axis Ships   Allies Hit Supply Lines. to Tunisia As Both Sides Spar

TUNISIAN PORTS BOMBED BY ALLIES   THREE MORE ENEMY SUPPLY VESSELS SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,

Three Axis Ships Sunk Off Africa   Air Fighting Marks Tunisia Action

Rival Armies Gird for Big  Tunisian Push   Ally Planes, Subs Sink Cargo Ships, Torpedo Destroyer

ALLIED PLANES AND SUBS SCORE ANEW IN TUNISIAN BATTLE OF SUPPLY LINES   Allies And Axis Marshal Strength For Developing Battle Of Tunisia; Rommel’s Exact  Whereabouts Puzzles

Three Enemy Cargo Ships Sunk   Destroyer Lisied as Being Possibly Destroyed

Axis Loss in Ships Put at Four   Subs Busy and Ally Planes Go After Merchant Vessel

Three Axis Ships Sunk Off Africa; Candia Base Hit   Allied And Nazi Forces In Tunisia Prepare Fc  Developing Battle: Enemy-Held Ports Are Bombed Again

JAPAN CONCERNED BY PARTNERS: FATE   Jans Checking Up On How Long Germany Will Last

Americans Raid Naval Installations at Emden, today.  12 BOEING AMERICAN BOMBERS ARE LOST  Constant Raids Cost Berlin Dearly in Life and Property.

Nazis Lose Hope For Victory in Avantic-— mee NAb enAte  U-Boat Collapse May Speed Invasion Date

Hitler’s Sub Production  Curve Is On Down Swing      Allies, On The Other Hand, Are Multiplying =  Building Industry Records By Ten

All Fathers In State Get Draft Delay   Postponement Follows Order for Boards to Review Classifications

STATE MINERS INSTRUCTED TO RESUME WORK   UMW Official Believes Full Operation Can Not Start Until Thursday   Train Crews Laid Off

HIS CAMPAIGN   Endorsed by G. °. P. Committe Which Names Salem Man Second Choice

AMERICAN RAID MADE   100 Flying Forts Unopposed in Attacks Yesterday

BATTERED ITALY GROWING SOFTER   American Raiders Encounter Almost No Opposition In Mass Attack

June Draftees Given Physicals   List of Those Passing Not As Yet Completed

June Draftees  Given Physicals   List of Those Passing Not As Yet Completed   HEADS YOUTH UNIT

MORT--COOPER TRYING FOR SECOND WIN   34,000. Fans On Hand t Witness Fifth Game of World Series

Police Capture Kidnap Suspects With Tear Gas   Fort Worth Cofe Scene o' of Modern

Cops, Kidnaping Sus pects In ‘Floor Show’  But Patrons Don’t Like It; Tear Gas Used

BOOST RAISE FOR TEACHERS   Re SE ee: Bill Would Give Them $300 Increase and Present Ronus

0.P.A.'s Timidity Atfacked By -A.F.t   Rollback Of Food Prices Demanded

OHIO LEGIONNAIRES TO AID CANNERIES   Canning Plants Will Need 17,000 Workers

LEGION TO AID LABOR SHORTAGE   17.000 Workers Are Needec In Ohio's Canneries, WMC Reports

ORGAN VESPER SUNDAY   Prof, G. Criss Simpson to Present Program at Hoch Auditorium

MAN DISCOVERED DEAD AT M’SHERRYSTOWN   Death Of Leaman B,. Yost, 65 Years Old, Believed Due To Cerebral Embolism

BUND GATHERED VITAL METALS   Orders Received Direct From Goering In 1937-38

Bund Formed To Aid Hitler, Witness Says  Collected Vital Metals For Shipment

GIGANTIC ALLIED. OPERATIONS SCHEDULED BEFORE THAWS HAMPER RUSSEAN BLOWS.

Gigantic Allied Drive Expected  To Get Under Way Within 100 Days

=  QTAGE ROW ot! Fn LAaT AbTo NY WAR'S DiANA   Gigantic Allied Dr ve ~W:thin Shcrt Time Is Expected by World

SET STAGE F LAST ACT IN WAR DRAMA   Curtain May Rise Soon on Europe’s Biggest Development

Rubber Supply Seized by Japs  Boomerangs   Lack Ships To Transport Production to Japan, Netherlands Agency Says

MORE FUNDS SET FOR NAVY   Indicates Big Increase in Striking Force to Be Hurled at Japs   Stolen Rubber Supply  Ils Boomerang for Japs

Japanese Rubber Supply Greater Than Is Required   Nipponese Unable 1 ~ Transport Product, Radio Reports

Japan's Rubber Supply Bouncing Back In Face   Experiencing Economic Chaos Comparable J 1932 When Price Fell To Three Cents A Pounc

5TH ARMY LOSES SOME GROUND   Nazi Claims Of Victory Believed Much Exaggerated

NEW PUSH -BY NAZIS REPORTED   Counter - Offensive 1: Staged Below Naples, Forcing Yankee Soldiers Back.

BITTER BATTLE FOR SALERNO BRIDGEHEAD   German Tanks Counterattack

Nazis Unleash Strong Attacks Around Salerno   British Capture Bari In Drive To Join Fifth Army >

Nazis Seek to Push Americans Into Sea   Batile Raging With Utmost Fury; OD A Pe Tan Wet Aj

HEAVY NAZI UNITS MAKE“‘DO-OR-DIE” DRIVE ON SALERNO   Battle Comparable To Bloody Struggle At Gallipoli In World War I-British 8th Army Pushes North To Join U. S. Forces      TTALIANS TAKING UP ~ ARMS TO JOIN ALLIES

NAZI ARMORE UNITS ASSAULT SALERNO LINE   American Positions On Sele River Broken In Surprise Attack Monday   BRITISH RUSH NORTHWARD   Bari And Cosenza Seized As Eighth Army Seeks To Join Fifth Army

TERRIFIC FIGHT IS IN PROGRESS ALONG BEACHES   Nazis Claim Allied Losses Hglh and Evacuation Has Started.

Assured Bond.  Drive Success   Over Three-Quarters of Quota Subscribed

Third War Loan Going Over Top   At Least F ive ‘States Exceed Quota

Kursk Salient Battle Grows In Ferocity; Ger mans Balked In North.

Hundreds of ‘Tiger’ Tanks Reported Burning on Front; ‘We've Tamed ‘Em,’ Say Reds

Struggle at Kursk Grow: Fiercer   Nazi Columns Led By 60-Ton Tanks Batter Soviet Lines

BATTLE OF KURSK GROWS IN INTENSITY WITH AID RESERVES   NEW NAZI TROOPS AND TANKS POURING AGAINST RUSSIANS

Germans Gain Near Belgorod At Heavy Costs   Russians Admit Wedges Driven In Orel-Belgorod Secto: By WILLIAM MceGAFFIN

HOPE TO DRIVE DEEPER WEDGE INTO DEFENSES   Reds Bring Up 50-Ton Tanks to Engage in Historic Battle

Fighting At Peak  Violence   Axis Tries to Exploit Wedge Near Belgorod

Russians Claim German Advance Costly In Men   Ground Recarered roun North Of Belgorod

Battle Grows in Violence - Along 200 Mile Front of Salient   RUSSIANS HOLD WELL     Furious Counter Attacks Limit Gains Made by  Carmane

Battle For Kursk Grows Intense as  Nazis Mass Tanks   Exploit Wedge in Russian Defense and Batter Un yielding Line.   Reds Say They Regain Part of Lost Ground

Nazis Desperately Trying to Repeat Yesterday s Gain   Small Advance Was Obtained With Tremendous Cost

Battle : :Grows in Violence _ Along: 200 Mile Front  of Salient   RUSSIANS HOLD- WELL     Fibrous, ‘Counter Attacks ‘Limit Gains Made by  Casmane ”

Ferocity Mounting In Kursk  Sector   Reds Regain Los Ground In Series Counterattacks

Reds Bring Up Huge Tanks To Meet Advance   RAF Returns To Bomb Cologne, Germany, After Four-Night Layoff,   CONTINUE SICILY RAID

Nazis Driving Hard At Kursk   SOVIETS BRING TANKS TO COMBAT TIGERS OF GERMANS

German Tanks Batter Against Kursk Salient   Fighting Reported Growing in Violence; Russians Bring Up New Tanks to Meet Columns of 60-Ton Tigers.

Terrific Price Paid by Nazis For Advances  Desperate Enemy   Desperate Enemy Seeks Weak Spot In Red Defenses

Tempo Mounts On Kursk Steppes As Both Armies Hurl Armor Against Foe

Germans Hur! a Troops Into Conflict After Driving Wedge into Belgorod End of Line      PLANES CLOUD SKY   Reds Bring Up 50-Ton Tanks to Batile German Tigers, Take Huge Toll German Airmen

GERMAN ARMORED COLUMNS BATTERED AT KURSK SALIENT   They Succeeded Yesterday in Driving a Wedge Into Russian Defenses.   THE COST WAS HEAVY   Reports Said the Battle on Steppes of Kursk Was Growing in Viclence.

Nazis Hit Again At Red Line   Tremendous Cost Being Paid For Virtually No (Gains

Twelve Million Subjugated People Wait To Strike At Hitler On Day Of Invsion

Fifth Year Of War Expected To See Final Blow Given Nazis And Japs

SOVIETS SINK NINE GERMAN SHIPS; NAZI RAIL HUB IN DNIEPER CLT OFF

NINE NAZI SHIPS ARE SENT DOWN ~BY-REB PLANES   28 Fighters are Also Shot Down As Convoys are Attankad.

RED NAVY PLANES SINK 9 NAZI SHIPS, BAG 28 AIRCRAFI   AIRMEN DAMAGE THREE VESSELS OF CONVOY; SOVIETS THREATEN DNIEPER ENEMY DOOM   Big Europe Offensives Are Seen After Mid-January

Soviets Sink Nazi Convoy  Near Finland  , Red Army Cuts Rail City in _ Dnieper Bend

German Convoys  Blasted By Reds   Ships Try To Reach Finnish Arctic Ports

NEWTON TO TAKE (VER OPERATION “OF CQAL SHAFTS   Railroad Head Handling Most  Coal In World Will Have ~ Charge During Crisis in ’ Wage Dispite.   LOANED BY COMPANY, -— IS FULL-TIME WORKER   Fair Dealing Between Own:  _ ers.and Miners Desired.  ~ Has No Authority In Settl: ing Differences’  ~-

Russians at East Gate of Novorossisk   Hope to Drive Germans From bridgehead; Claim 850,000 Nazis Slain

REDS STORM AT NOVOROSSISK   Map Shows Advance to 36 Miles From Smolensk  ‘Rh. THE sCanriaTron veces,

Russians 11 Miles From City   Communications o Nazis Cut, Sumy, Poltava Menaced

All Nazi Communications West and North of Kharkov Severed.  NAZIS LOSE FULL   DIVISION OF TANKS Expect Bulgarian Revo lution to Follow Capture of Kharkov.

CONVICTS HELP IN WAR EFFORT   Prison Industries Have $500,000 Worth Of Special Orders

More Than Third of Jap Ships Sunk   Knox Says Recent At tack on Marcus Only A Prelude

KNOX BARES NIP SHIPPING BLOW   THIRD OF JAP TONNAGE IS SUNK BY ALLIES

Recent Marcus Attack “Token” Prelude ©  Third of Jap Cargo Ships Sunk

Petit Jurors For October Term   Sixty Persons Drawn For Jury Service

March Petit Jury Is Called  “Ordered Te Report For Duty * Bt10 A.M. On March 8

TAFT WILL HEAD ~ OHIO DELEGATION   State Republicans Pledged to Support Bricker Organized

CITY'S CURFEW ORDINANCE 10 BE ENFORCED   Children Under 16 Must Be Off Streets by 9 O'clock

COUNTY MEN GET ARMY: EXAN GALI   Group Notified to ‘Appear for Induction Exams . Wednesday.

COUNTY RicN GE ARIIY EXAM GALL   Group Notified tc Appear for Induction Exams Wednesday.

STEWART HEADS SQUADRON   Former Popular Movie Star Commands Bombers

Four Freedoms   Alf M. Landon Predicts FDR Can and Will Be . Defeated In 1944.

MUST HAVE TRUTH  AP DIRECTOR SAYS POSTWAR WORLD MIST RE BETTER INFORMED.

COAL SERVICE COSTS FROZEN   Dealers Told By OPA To Hold Charges To Levels Of December, 1941

More Men Acquire Plymouth County Land Through Tenant Purchase’Loans   Total Of Nineteen Such Loans Now In This County

‘SIX MORE TENANTS PURCHASE FARMS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY   Take Advantage Of Loan: Made Available By Federal Government

NEW YORK SOCIALITE SEEKING DIVORCE   “OWER 13’ MURDER JURY IS SOUGHT

Caucasus And Crimean Peninsula Freed Soon   Fate Of Whole Right Flank Of Nazi Battle Line In Russia At Stake In Red Army Drive

Soviet Accord With the Vatican Seen as Possible Development by Capital

 Soviet. Accord With the Vatican Seen’ : . 2 Breshia: Denelonmeont ha. Oivital

ALLIES MOVE UP “OMILES TOWARD NEW GERMAN LINE   Opposition of Enemy Ranging From Light to Tough at Various Points Along Natural Defenses.   ALLIES SEEK CONTROL OF HIGH&R SECTIONS   Jugo-Slav Communique Reports Guerrilla Forces Continue Attacks Against Reinforced Axis.

Fifth and Eighth Gain Six   Allies Seize Four Towns in Mass Drive On German Line

ALLIES TAKE FOUR TOWNS IN ITALY   5th ond Sth Armies Advance Up To Five Miles

Five-Mile Gain Reported Agains Nazi Opposition   Showdown Battle For  Rome Appears Likely On New Defense Line

Allies. in Mass. Movement - Against New Nazi Defense Line - In Italy  BIG BATTLE LOOMS —  Victories ‘Erase Strong ‘Points Near. Trigno. _ River

8th Army Encounters Stiff Resistance At Isernia   GERMANS FIGHT HARD TO STRENGTHEN LINES

NACI ALT REAT INTO NEW LIN AGROSS ITALY   Four More Towns Captured By American, British  Armies In Advance

Biggest Battle To Be Fought In Italy Looms   Armies Jockey For Positions  For Showdown

Eighth Army Facing Toughest Resistance as: Nazis Set up New Defense Line.

GERMANS PULL BACK FROM ENTIRE MEL Fl SALIENT REPORTS DISCLOSE: BENE VENTO HIGH IN MOUNTAINS.

Benevento Falls, Enemy Retreats To Calore River   Montgomery’s Britons Push Up Adriatie Coast; Victors Strive to Revive Life in Naples; Byeancgh Carner Cermans in Corsica

Enemy Gives Benevento Fifth Army   Invaders Headed to Po Valley Gate As Nazis Retreat

Germans Pull Back From Entire Melfi Salient; Corsican Heights Captured

British Lop Off Wide Area on Adriatic Side   Nazis Retreat from  Entire Melfi Salient > Central Ita’;  € .sica Bele Rages

Allies Enter ’ Town of Benevento, 39 Miles From Captured Port; French, Americans Close in on Bastia

Enemy Forced  To Back Up    Fifth and: Eighth Armies Pound Along’ Toward Rome and North Italy

Fifth and Eighth Armies Gaining In Double Drive   Benevento Taken By Allied Troops

Fifth Army Enters Benevento As British Push Up Coast; Germans Abandon All Melfi Area

British Eighth Army Scores Major Advance   Details of Yankee Thrust Are Not Disclosed

Eighth Army Lops Off a Wide Area on Adriatic Side   VITAL TOWN HELD BY AMERICAN ARMY   Work of Clearing Corsica of Nazis Rapidly Nears Completion

Allied Army Captures Benevento   __ Nazis May Make Stand Along Italian Calore And Volkturno Rivers  PRESSED IN CORSICA

STAGE COMEBACK   Can Openers Can Be Made Again Under WPR Rulinc,

Disc-yunt Payn-ents   Ways and Means Commit. tee Gives O. K. for Double Payment

Would Aid Those Who Pay Double   Roosevelt Claims Ruml Bill Would  Cut Revenue

DISCOUNT PLAN IS PROPOSED ON TAX   Per Cent Allowance Approved By Committee On Payments By June 15.

PICTURES OF BABY MAY GO V-MAIL   Transmission, However,  Limited to New Ones

BABY'S PICTURE TO DADDY   Sending Permitted by Latest -VMail Innovation

County Court News Of Sioux Count,   Many Estate Matters Take Court's Time. Une Suit For Divorce Filed by Cora Jonveties

County Court News Of Sioux County   Auto Accident Is Basis (i Two Suits Filed Against Julius Penning By Nick and Jubn Bleck

panty Court News OF Sioux Count,   ts 3 Months On Bad Check Charge: Hock Valley Men Fined For Having Gambling Devices

BETWEEN 260 AND 300 STRICKEN IN ERIE, PA.   Werkers In Factory Became fl Of Ptemaine Poisoning Af dor Batine ftunckeon

300 Stricken With Poisoning   Jam Hospitals In Pennsvivania lown

Ptomaine Poisoning  Hits Eastern Town  Between 200-300 Reported Stricken

Harriman To Russia   Nominated As Ambassador, To Succeed William Standley

HARRIMAN NOMINATED   ‘Lend-Lease Head In Lenden Nominated As Envey To Moscow

Name Harriman Envoy to Russia  U. S.-British-Soviet  Staff Discussions

FD. R. NAMES RUSSIA ENVOY   W. AVERELL HARRIMAN NOMINATED AMBASSADOR

Harriman New Envoy   Appointed by F. R. As Ambassador to Russia; Replaces Standley

HARRIMAN CHOSEN AS RUSSIAN ENVOY   Lend - Lease Official Wil) Succeed Admira) William H. Stendley

AMES TARRINIAN ENVOY 10 AUSSI      Succeeds Admiral Standley; Has Been Lease-Lend Official,

BANKER GETS MOSCOW POST   Has Been in Russian Capital Several Times

FDR Nominates Harriman As U.S. Ambassador   Named to Succeed Admiral Standley; Already Familiar With Moscow Scene

‘Harriman Is New Russian Ambassador   President Nominates Him To Succeed Standley In  Important Diplomatic Diet

Name Harriman Envoy te Russia   U, S.-British Soviet Staff Ducussions Now Planned

Pick Harriman As Ambassador   Roosevelt Nominates Former Lease-Lend Administrator In London.

Funeral: Held at St. Ber -mard’s Church fot Native. eo gh italy ° .-

Tl eit a. om  Mery ae pe  abd Bt te la  AN is ah  nV Wa Y ew: Ay aio o Ld r')     SUCCUMBED TO ~ LONG TLLNES:   Funeral ‘Held. at St. Ber. nard’s Church fot Native of Italy eo

Navy Fliers Relate Story of Mission On Which Butch O'Hare Disappeared; ‘He Was Downed by Blundering Jap

New Gas Ration Plan Is Settled  But It Hasn’t Yet Been Announced At Capital

Herele Pennsylvanians ‘State Fighters in Thick Py Bloody Aerial War

Pennsylvanians . .ayed Great Part In Southwest Pacific Aerial War

MUSSOLINI BLAMED FOR RAID ON ROME   Catholic Review Puts the Responsibility Upon Il! Duce

Catholic Review Defends Bombing Of City of Rome   Places Entire Responsi bility for Attack upon Mussolini

BENITO BLAMED FOR ROME RAID      Catholic Review Says Duce Put Arsenals Near Churches

ALLIED FOOD CONFAB POSTPONED 3 WEEKS   Meeting To Be. in Virginia To Start May 18

BERLIN SPEEDS UP PROPAGANDS   Vicious Attacks Made On Italian Leaders For Surrender

Meeting Hel Held By Bulgarian’ Parliament    ‘Secret Session Hears Important Issues Discussed

Stockholm Tells Of  iNew Tension   May Presage New Outbreak Of War; May Be A Feint For Allies Too

American Bombers Batter Rail Yards In Tunis Harbor   British Attack on Rommel’s Army Seen in Next Few Days

AF TURNS BACK ALGERIA RAIDER   Waves of Nazi Dive-Bombers Attempt Attack   ‘TUNIS AREA HIT   Fires Are Started in Rail. road Yards; Ground Activity Quiet

Tunis Railway Yards - Blasted   RAF Turns, Back. Nazis. Headed-For Bone In . °. Serial Battle...

TUNIS HARBOR RAIL LINES HIT BY AMERICANS   RAF Turns Back Two Out of Three Waves of Nazi Bombers

Costly Explosion At Powder Works  All Workers Escape A ) Logans Ferry

BUNGLING BLAMED FOR FOOD SHORTAGE      Retail Grocers’ Secretary Asks Where It Goes

HITS BUREAUCRATS FOR FOOD CRISIS   Retail Grocers’ Official Blames Shertage on Off cial Burngling.

Part of Food Jam Blamed _ On ‘Bureaucratic Bungling’   Woman Official of Retail Grocers Avers OPA Ignores Loss Factor.

BOMBER PLANT  ' STRIKE ENDED      £OREMEN RETUBN TO JOBS AFTER: WALKOUT. DURING “DISPUTE ON USE OF BULLETIN BOARD  *

RUSSIANS GO INTO HUGE MINE CENTER. FROM THREE SIDES   Big German Force Surrounded By Soviets—Enemy Hurls Many . Tanks, Planes Into Last-Ditch Fight

‘Nazis in Desperate Attack 'To Escape Dnieper Trap; Red Army Cuts Rail Lines

Germans Fight Desperately Trying to Keep Escape Gap Open   Foe Tries to Support Defense With Much  Aarial Activity

Russian Armies Said Closing In On Three Sides   Big German Force Reported Encircled In City’s Environs

CITY ENCIRCLED AND BY-PASSED BY SOVIET ARMIES   Nazi Tactics Recall Desperate Attempts to Save Stalin- © orad Year Aco.

Storming Through Streets Of Mining Center From 3 Sides: City’s Fall Imminent

MANY TANKS AND PLANES BROUGHT UIP AS NAZI FLEE   Russians Battle Their Way Into City, Capture Suburban Stations, Rail Lines fre Severed.   CRUSH JAP FORCES IN NORTHERN SOLOMONS   Gen. Stilwell Announces Zap Tanker Is Destroyed By American Bombers Along Hainan Island.

ITY INVtolEd ON Thntt alka BY RED ARMIES   Magnitude Of Nazi Debacle Growing Almost Hourly As Soviets Advance

Soviets Ring  Mine Center Dynm 9054 AL UAE “ WIEUAYL  Nazis Fight Des Desperately to Save Northern Prop of Escape Gap  CLASH IN STREETS  Transport Planes Drop Supplies to Encircled  Ll answemann

REDS SURROUND BIG NAZI FORCE   Germans Lash Back in Desperate Effort to Permit Troops’ Escape

Reds Surround Mining Center on Three Sides   Germans Struggle to Keep Open Gap for Escape

KRIVOI ROG INVESTED BY RED ARMIES   Believe Fate Of Big Nazi Force There Is Sealed

ARMIES INVEST MINING CENTER FROM 3. SIDES   500,000 Axis Troops Seek Es: cape Route From Dnieper Bulge

Navy Reminds Pilots When To  Turn on Oxygen   Advised to have real respect for what altimeters show; ' “‘anoxja” invites disaster.

NAVY REMINDS PILOTS OF. OXYGEN NEEDS   Tells Them When Masks Should Be Hooked Up

DRIVE ON JAPS IN BURMA LOOMS   PLANS FOR ASSAULT MAY BE MADE BEFORE MOUNTBATTEN GOES TO COMMAND.

MOUNTBATTEN [0 CONFER ON BATTLE PLANS   DRIVING JAPS FROM BURMA FACES NEW COMMANDER 

Draft Plans To Take _ Japanese-Held Burma      New Southeast Asia Chief Due Here ~ to Map Details; May Strike ' . Direct at Rangoon

Commando Chief To Washington. For Conferences   British Embassy Announces He Will Artive at Once

PRES, ROOSEVELT AND EISENHOWER HOLD CONFERENCE   President and Army General Meet In Tunisia. Allies Still Gaining In  Teale

Hl B00 GOES VER WAR PLANS MADE AT GAIRL   White House Reveals Important Two-Day Con: ference Held In Tunisia

Lt. Earnest Osher Bagged A Nazi Fighter Plane   Is Pilot Of Fa: Fast Fighter Plane

FACING INDUCTION DRAFT-AGE FATHERS AGAIN WARNED BY MeNUTT TO TAKE WAR JOBS.

FATHERS OF DRAFT AGE FACE SOME COLD FACTS   Hopes of Deferment are Based Solely On How Close Their Job Is Tied to War

—DAD-DRAFT—  DRAFT-AGE DADS FACING SERVICE   Induction After Oct. 1 Certain, Says War Manpower Head

FATHERS FACE ‘CERTAIN. DRAFT   McNutt Adheres To Previously Announced Policy

McNutt Holds To Draft Plan   After Oct. 1 Fathers Are Open to Draft, He Soys in Address

CONFLICT IK WASHINGTON WIDESPREAD   Uproars General Over Lend-Lease, Manpower and Taxes.   O. W. I. WANTS RADIO STARS DEFERRED   President Calls in Freshmen Congressmen for White House Session.

- House Expected To Approve Lend-Lease Policy  — Without Trouble

ROWS ON TAXES AND MANPOWER STIR CONGRESS   Pay-as-you-go Plans Hold Spotlight But None Gets Very Far   COMPROMISES PROPOSED   Hodge-podge of Questions Arise To Keep Capital Squabbles Going

CHIANG KAlSHEK MAY BE IN MEETING   To Make Fina! Decisions On  End Of War

General Chiang May Take Parf In Conference  Officials Silent ew... hd. ‘ti CO   Officials Silent Over Meeting of Allied Chieftains

CHIANG KAI-SHEK MAY BE AT PROPOSED MEETING OF ROOSEVELT, STALIN, CHURCHILL

Chiang Likely To Join Group      Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin .Gathering . Will Be Tmniessive

BIG3 PARLEY ° BELIEVED SOON   RUMORS RIFE THAT CHINESE LEADER MIGHT PARTICIPATE

» Official Co  CHIANG KAL- “SHEK MAY ALSO BE PRESENT AT BIG ALLIED TALKS

Chiang May Joi Other Leaders  Four Great Powers Expected To Meet In War Parley Soon

Chiang Kai-Shek May Participate in Impending World Powers Conferences

EXPECT CHIANG AT BIG CONFAE   Parley Between Chiefs Of Allied Notions Believed Imminent

Report Chiang May Participate In F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin Parley   Conference Of Heads Of United Nations’ Powers Believed Imminent; Would Set New High Water Mark In Field Of Diplomacy.

RUMORS INDICATE KAI-SHEK MAY BE IN ON CONFERENCE   Churchill, Reosevelt, Stalin  Parley Promises to Set Fi New High Mark in the F: ield  “of Diplomacy

LONG-AWAITED CONFERENCE IS IMMINENT   Rumors Heard in London That Kai-Shek May Participate in Parley With  Allied Leaders   OFFICIALS ARE SILENT

IFORTHCOMING BIG 3 CONFERENCE TAKES  ON MORE IMPORTANCE  i It Is Now Reported With out Official Confirmatio: That Chiang Kai-Shek Wil

BAND LEADER JAMES WEDS BETTY GRABLE   Radio and Screen Commitments Shorten Honeymoon of Newlyweds

Betty and Harry Return to Work   James’ Draft Status Changes on Marriage Says Beaumont Clerk

OPA AND WPB MEN DRAFTED INTO ARMY   i ceesheaneeeeennenennntenel  ‘Deferment ‘Status Had Beer Cause of Criticism

BRITON TO LEAD ALLIES IN ASIA   Commando Officer and Cousin of King Named

Offensive In Burma Due In Some 6 Weeks   Naniing Of Mountbatten Guarantees Drive  By October   RESOURCEFUL CHIEF   Probably A Als: so Means Yankee To Command European Drive

Mountbatten To Have Charge of Clearing Burma   Commando Leader First Britton To Head Allied Forces

HOUSE OKEHS: VOCATIONAL SCHOOL BIL!   Appropriations 1 For Operation Left Out Of Meacure

Newsmen, Entering Detroif's Negro District under Guard, Find a Mess"   Hastings Street Stores Looted and Burned, Windows Smashed

Cancel German   All Troops in Berlin, Other Cities Must Go to Russia

MILITARY REGIME REPORTED SET UP IN GERMANY   Prussian Generals Have Delegated Hitler to Back ground. Since Series of Military Reverses

Decline of Axis Fortunes  Presages a Military Regime  Have to Retain Hitler as a “Front”

Nazi Shakeup To Be Expected   Expert Points Out That Report of New Plan Fits Into Picture

DESPITE LACK OF CONFIRMATION INTERNAL NEWS FROM GERMANY ARE OF WORLD-WIDE INTEREST

Military Clique Takes Over With Hitler’s Decline   The Old Prussian War Lords Are Planning Long  Defensive War.

Late News Bulletins   414 Trains in Italy and Sicily Hit bv R.A F

Ten Raids On Kiska In Day   Great Series Of Air Attacks In North Pacific An.nounced Bv Navy

BELIEVE RUSSIANS BOMB GERMANY   Raiding Aircraft Make Attack On Northeast Germany During Night

STARS AND STRIPES FLYING OVER ATTU AS BATTLE IS OVER   Loss of Barren but Strategically Important Island Conceded By Japs; Only Scattered Snipers and Possibly Few Isolated Machine Gun Nests Remain.

BATTLE FOR ATTU 15 FINALLY WON BY U. 8 TROOPS OVER JAPS  ~ ONLY FEW SCATTERED SNIPERS REMAIN ON ALEUTIANS OUTPOST

At Least 123 More Japanese Aircraft Destroyed In New Attacks On Rabaul

Rabaul Hit In Daylight Now   Strewn With Wreckage Of More Than 300 Planes

Shatter Jap Base At Rabaul   Ground Strewn With Wreckage of Enemy Planes After Fourth Allied Air Assault

Rabaul Battered Tn Assaults By ~ Allied Warplanes   Airport Is Strewn With Wreckage .Of 311 Enemy Planes

RABAUL, HEART OF  JAPANESE AIR MIGHT,  HAS BEEN WRECKED FOUR RECENT DAYLIGHT  RAIDS HAVE DESTROYED 9211 ENEMY PLANES

Allies Smash 311  Japanese Planes  _ Swarms of Yank Airmen Overpower   Swarms of Yank Airmen Overpower Heart of Enemy Might in Pacific

Sapanese Air _ Base ls Wrecked      RABAUL HIT BY ALLIED BOMBERS IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS

Rabaul Strewn With Wreckage   Allies Destroy 311 Nippor Airplanes in Daylight Assaults.

AERIAL ATTACKS WRECK RABAUL   800 Jap Planes Bagged ln Last Two-Week Period

4 RABAUL RAIDS LEAVE 311 JAP PLANES RUINED   Heart of Nippanese Air Strength in §. W: Pacific Is Smashed

Rabaul Completely Overpowered By Air Raid; 311 Planes Wrecked   Jap Planes Destroyed  ’ Faster. Than. Japs Can Replace Them, Is Report

NIPPONS DEALT HEAVY BLOW ON RABAULISUAND   Up to 168 Planes Destroyed to Raise 12 Day Toll  of Allied Airmen to 800

HEART OF NIP AIR MIGHT IN THE S. W: PACIFIC SHATTERED   Last Two Raids Saturday and Sunday Destroy 123° More Planes. for Sure With 45 More Probably Ruined   “Quite a Few” Jap Subs Sunk During Evacuation of Kiska, Kinkaid Reveals:

RABAUL HARD HIT BY ALLIES   311 Japanese Planes Ar i Destroyed in 4 Assaults

Rabaul Laid Waste By U. S. Bombing Raids   311 Planes Wrecked in Recent Daylight Blows; Total Now 800

MacArthur’s Airmen Bag 311 Japanese Planes in Four Attacks on Rabaul

RABAUL STREWN WITH WRECKAGE OF JAP PLANES   Heart of Jap Air Might In Southwest Pacific Overpowered In Four U.S. Assaults; 311 Planes Destroyed In Raids.

U. S. Destroys 311 Jap Planes  Around Rabaul   General MacArthur's Bombers Raid Fortress With Four Assaults.   i? LOST BE ALLIES

AIRMEN WRECK 311 JAP PLANES IN FOUR RAIDS   Smash Nip Air Strength a Rabaul in Daylight Assaults

WRECK 311 PLANES   Hundreds of Allied Bombers in Daylight Attack on Rabaul

Jap Air Might Blasted In Daylight Raids   Bombing Assaults Destroy Rabaul And 311 Planes

HEART OF JAP AIR MIGHT IS OVERPOWERED   Rabaul is Strewn With Wreckage of 311 Planes In Four Recent Daylight Assaults   12 RAIDERS ARE LOST

Rabaul Smashed By MacArthur's Heavy Bombers  Four American Raids Leave Jap Air Center In Dareifice a Ruin

ENEMY VESSEL SUNK AT KISKA   Nipponese Are Believed Trying to Strengthen Aleutian Toehold

RAYVRURN GIVEN OVATION,   Jap Cargo Vessel Sent Down in Aleutian Waters

Jap Ship Sunk In Kiska Raid   Another Hit; Jap Base On New Guinea Also Blasted

Foe Seen Still Strengthening Aleutians Hold  MacArthur Forces Prepare for Final New Guinea Assaul  aes oa © Bee ot Oe,

ON SANITARY WORKS   Earnest Boyce Discusses Phase of Post-War Program

See Little Hope Of Breaking French Deadlock   Communist Deputies Demand Leaders Take Swift Action

French Reds Protest. Long  Delay In Unity British Also Grow  Impatient Over  Ounbblings

German Morale   Being Shattered  Defeat At Salerno A _ Costly Blow

Villaves Are Fired      U. S. Salerno Victory Kills Last Hope For Many Nazis

Yanks Victory At Salerno Shatters Last Glimmer Of Hope And Confidence In Nazis

LEGAL AGAIN   OPA Says It’s All Right to Pay What You Will For Mowing.

EASE UP ON FUEL   Coupon No. 4 Beonnnes Valid in This County on January 27

POST WAR PAYMENTS ON LEASE-LEND: ARE SEEN AS DOUBTFUL   War Secretary Makes Plea For Continuance of Aid As Weapon of War

STIMSON GIVES LEND-LEASE OK   Navy Secretary, Shipping Boss To Testify

Stimson, Land O.K. Lease-Lenc   Program Enables Alfies to Match Axis. Senators Told

AND THEN HE WAS REJECTED   Tragedy S:ailks Career of  Inciana Dad

Axis Pressure In Tunisia ls Continued  British 8th Inflicts Losses on Enemy in Southern Sector

U.S. Soldiers Clinging to Sidi Bouzid   Montgomery’s Forees Taflict ‘Very Heavy’ Losses on Germans

Nazis Force Fighting in  North Tunisia   British Eighth Army Engages Enemy ih South

Enemy Forces in Northern Tunisia Keep Up’  Pressure  HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY NAZIS  American Patrols Reported Clinging to Sidi Bouzid

HEAVY LOSSES ARE INFLICTED ON AXIS TROOPS   Enemy Forces Maintain Pressure On Allies In  Northern Tunisia   MAIN BATTLE IS DUE ALONG MARETH LINE

U.S. Fliers Smash 4 Axis Ships Off Bizerte, Damage 2   Enemy Forces In Northern Tunisia Keep Ur Pressure; Eighth Army Inflicts Heavy Loss In Brush With Germans

Enemy Attacks Are Beaten Off  In N. Tunisia   British Eighth Army Also Inflicts Losses  On Germans in South

British Stab At Mareth Defense   U.S. Troops Near Edge Of Faid Pass

HEAVY LOSSES ARE INFLICTED ON AXIS ARM)   AMERICANS CLINGING TO THEIR GAINS IN TUNISIA

British Inflict Heavy Losses on Nazis in Africa   American Patrols Hold Sidi Bouzid in Spite of Attacks

AXIS KEEPS UP PRESSURE ON ALLIED ARMY   American Patrols Cling Tc Sidi Bouzid, 25 Miles South South Of Faid Pass, Naziheld.   French Push Forward

ENEMY FORCES KEEP PRESSURE UPON ALLIES   United Nations Arc Offering Stiff Resistance In North Tunisia.

Allies hand stubborn Germans big losses ‘they'll remember’   American patrols hold Sidi Bouzid; nazis in possession hill positions

AXIS ATTACKS FAIL IN TUNISIA   Foe Keeps Up Pressure in North; Eighth Army In flicts Heavy Losses

Nazis Keep Up Pressure in North Tunisia   British Inflict Big Losses on Germans in Brush in South:  Allies Beat Off Raid

300 JAPS SEIZED WHEN AMERICANS CAPTURE ISLAND   Vella Lavella Is Taken When Yanks Make Surprise Advance of 50-Miles Near New Georgia.   ARM OF PINCERS ON EAST 1S EXTENDED   Russians Liberate Many Towns in Advance on Bryansk But Counter Attacks   Slow Soviet Progress.

S TROOPS LAND ON VELLA LAVELLA SETTING UP DIRECT THREAT TO ALL JAPANESE POSITIONS IN SOLOMONS

VELLA LOVELLA ISLAND SEIZED BY AMERICANS   Capture, Following Surprise Attack, Threatens All Taps Left in Solomons

Surprise Advance Made In Pacific by Yankee:   Conquest of Sicily Nearing End: Invasion Prelude of Italy Seen

U. § SEIZES VELLA LAVELLA ISLAND IN SURPRISE ADVANCE   Seizure Places Yanks Only 70 Miles From. Jap “Strongholds On Bougainville

Lin Sen, President Of China, Dies  Chiang Kai Shek Designated As  Actina Pracident

Lin Sen, 81, President of  China, Dead   Chiang Kai Shek Has Been Named the Acting President

LIN SEN, HEAD OF CHINA, DIES   Succumbs After Long IlIness; Name Chiang as Acting President

CHINA’s PRESIDENT DIES; CHIANG KAI SHEK NAMED TEMPORARY PRESIDENT

China’s President Dies: Chiang Take: Over His Duties   Notables at Bedside Of White-Bearded Statesman at Death

Aged President Of China Dies   Lin Sen, 81, Had Been Ailing Some Months

Chinese Chief Dies;  Chiang Will Be  Acting President Statesman Was Frienc  Of U. S.; Had Lived, Studied Here

LIWLESSNESS 16 RAMPANT (NICH   Areas Controlled by Guerrilla Groups Better Policed Than Vichy Held District

—ERROL FLYNN TRIAL—  Film Star Also Denies Charge Of Lincoln Gir

Flynn Denies Intimacy With Betty Henson   Didn’t Even Kiss Girl, Didn't Know It If She Kissed

Flynn On Stand, Denies Charge. Of Girl Attacks  Screen Star Gives   Screen Star Gives His Version of Story To Jury

Lewis, Ickes in  Confab   SITUATION MARKS TIME AS HALT NEARS 100%; PITS TO OPEN WEDNESDAY

Mine Boss Ickes And Lewis Confer   Government Takes Over Coal Mines For Second Time This Year   MINERS MARKING ‘TIME   President. Roosevelt Announces Pits Will Be  Opened Tomororw.

CALL OFF WALKOUT OF POWER WORKERS   Labor Board Orders No Interruption of Service; Demands Arbitrator Be Named

Lower Estimate Of Tunisian Cas  No Quick Victory In Africa, Says Stimson

REVISES GUESS AT U.S. LOSSES   Stimson Sees Clean-Cut Repulse of Rommel

Harass Path Of Germans In Retreat   Press New Threat Into Sbeitla, Sbiba Territories

U.S. Losses Lighter Than First Stated   Sec. Stimson Warns Rout Of Romme! Not To Be Easy Or Quick

STIMSON SEES ~ AXIS REPULSED   Yank Losses Less Heavy Than Expected, Says Secretary

Germans Stream Back From Pass Under Air Blows   Stimson Says U. S. Losses Are Heavy But Axis Met Clean-Cut Repulse

U.S. Losses Gut Down in North Africa   Yanks Drop Complac: ency, Says Stimson; Now Fighting Mad _

STIMSON. REPORTS GERMAN ~ REPULSE IN TUNISIAN FIGHT   U.S. ‘Losses Were Heavy But. Not As Large As Were Expected At Firet

Planes Smash Transport On Road Of Retreat   New Threat to German Positions Develops in Allied Patrol Activities in Area Around Shiha

Stimson Says Rommel Blow Shows Victory Not To Come Easy; Losses Not Bad As Believed

Punished By Land, Air Blows   Stimson Says American Losses Heavy in Repulse of Nazis

No Quick or Easy Victory ~ In Prospect   Stimson Gives Warning -in Comment. on ‘Clean-Cut Repulse’ ‘of: Rommel   NAZIS SURPRISED: BY'U. 8. COMEBACK   American Troops. Are Thor‘oughly Mad and Ready > to Fight

STIMSON SCANS AFRICA: LOSSES   American Casualties Not So Numerous as First Reported

Secretary Stimson Says Axis Forces In Tunisia Have Suffered Cleancut Repulse By Eisenhower's Men

mS C1INSON War Secretary  Avers Man Loss Is Not So Great   Materiels Wrecked or Captured By Foe Already Replaced. Is Word

Axis Jolted In Tunisia, Stimson Says   U. S. Troop Losses Less Than First Estimate, _» Secretary Asserts —

Fighting Now Kasserine Pa   Air Force Plays Leading Role in Tt _ ing Back Vicious Drive; British “Army on Move in South;. Gen Stiffen Opposition, But Red /  Reports Continued Gains. - .

Strength May Upset Rum! Plan   Talk of Compromise Heard As Tax Fight Grows

Administration Gains Strength In Tax Battle   Skip-a-Year Plan Faces Trouble in Vote in Senate

Tax Deadlock Grips Senate   Foes OF Rumi Plan. Ta Force Compromise

RUML TAX FOES GAIN STRENGTH   Administration Forces May  Upset Skip-A-Year _  Proposal

Administration May Win In Tax Dispute   Skip-A-Year Plan Can Be Sidetracked For Compromise

MAY BARE OLD JAPANESE PLOT   Seek To Open 10-YearOld Sealed Records

MAY OPEN EARLY JAP SPY RECORD   nemeel> waa Sealed Evidence Of Special Probe Rediscovered By Congressman

Administration Is @ Under Fire on Four Fronts in Capital   gPresident’s Authority to Devaluate Dollar Is  Under Attack

MORGENTHAU REVEALS GOLD SALES BY U.S   Wagner Finds Majority of Avail able Banking Committee Oppose: Continuing Stabilization Powe:

Vital Troina Seized in Bitter Fight   Biancavilla Falls to British in Another Sector

Twin Victories Aim At Dividing German Forces   Total Of Prisoners Soars To 125,000; Messina Battered

Raids Renewed On Italy; Milan Reported Targel   Axis Military Parley Re ported In Verona; Ma Take Rome Out Of Wa

Bombs Heard in Po Region; Yanks Take Troina, Chase Germans Toward Messina

Lugano Hears Milan Bombing   Flashes in’ Skies Could Be Seen  From Swiss City

EXPLOSIONS ARE HEARD 40 MILES AWAY   Indicate Milan May Be Target—Raid Follows Warning to Rome of General Eisenhower...   YANKS IN SICILY CAPTURE TROINA   Seizure Threatens to Split German Forces in Half —British Take Vital Biancavilla,

CASUALTIES NOT HIGH IN TUNISIA   Stimson Places Allies Losses At 70,000, enemy 325,000

(RFA Medium And Light ‘Bombers Attack Targets In Northern France

OVER FRANCE.   British Bombers Keeping Up Bombing Raids Over Europe.

Bomb Europe Seventh Night   R. A. F. Fliers Continue Steady Attacks Upon Nazi-Dominated Sectors   GERMAN RAIDERS IN LONDON SUBURBS

Chinese Deal Japs New Heavy Blows   Victory Of Yangtze Valley Expanded; Fliers Bomb Enemy.

CHINESE EXPAND VICTORY OVER PAST WEEK END   New Drives Opened Against Japanese

Millions Frozen To Present Jobs   Can't Quit If in Essential Work

Change To Secure Higher Pay Is Impossible Under  Edict of McNutt, Byrnes Unless Authorized.

WORKERS FROZEN IN PRESENT JOBS BY W’NUTT ORDER   Only Those In Non-essential Industries are Permitted to Chanae.

MAJORITY OF WORKERS BEGIN NEW WORK WEEK   Rules Now Effective, Which Moke It Virtually Impes. sible to Change Employment in Order to Increase Earning Power—Regulotions Now in Force Are Explained for Benefit of Workers  . and Emnilovere.

WAGE EARNERS ARE FROZEN 10 ESSENTIAL JOBS   Virtually Impossible For Them To Change To High Wage JIobs

NEW WAGE RULING BANS JOB CHANGE FOR INCREASED PAY,   is cv, ee i Only Change Permitted ty From Non-Essential _ To Essential Tndustry

U. $. WORKERS “FROZEN” ON PRESENT JOBS   Virtually Impossible to Change employment in Order to Increase Money Earning Power

LS a ENE EEL I  ‘Manpower Ruling ‘To Bar Switching “For Better Jobs

WORK “FREEZE PLAN IMPOSED   Change in Employment Is Limited Under Order

LABOR FACES NEW RULE ON JOB CHANGES   Wage Hike Possible Only lf Worker Goes to Essential Trade

52 Million Are ‘Frozen’ In Essential Activities   Workers Are Forbidden To Change Jobs In ._. AMrderTo Get More Pay

Job Freezing  Yan De os  oe ee UFUEr Lircuiive   Limits Changing By Many Workers

Job Freezing Order Goes Into Effect; Permit Needed to Change Positions

NEW WORK RULES NOW IN EFFECT   Move Made to Stop Switching Jobs For Hirher Wages

Nazis Call Out Older Veterans   “Germans Forced To Draft New Men

CAMP CROWDER SOLDIER LOSES LIFE IN COWSKIN   Drowns After Boat Overturns Near Noel

WAR BOND BUYING IS BELOW AVERAGE   Sales for Month of May Show Neclinc From the Usual Monthly Arvérazge

INCREASES BASE RATE OF SOYBEAN LOANS   Ohio AAA Announces 10-Cent Per Bushel Boost

TRIPLE PRESSED UPON VITAL BASE   Capture of Important City Weuld Pave Way For Westward Surge of Soviet Drive   KIEV SITUATION STATIC

SITUATION NEAR KIEV IS STATIC   Reds Recapture 1000 Towns In Push Into White Russia .

RED CAPTURE OF STRATEGIC BRIDGE SEEMS IMMINENT   nvestment of Kremenchug, Bridgehead of Dneiper, Endangers Hitler’s Retreat From “Ukraine As Red Troops Press A Three Pronged Drive On City.

eds Bump to Stiff azi Fire   Fighting Along ner River Front, is Hit Back

COLLAPSE OF DNIEPER LINE THREATENED   Kremenchug, Important Escape City On River In Danger

Reds Press Drive On Kremenchug   Capture of City Would Pave Way fo: Surge of Soviets Across Dnieper

REDS MAY ENCIRCLE NAZI BASE   One Of Nazis’ Fev Remaining Escape Bridveheads

Nazi Line On Dnieper Menaced   Red Drive Threatens One Of Few Escape Routes

Soviets Press Investment Of Kremenchug   Converge From Three Directions Upon. German Egcape Bridgehead Across Dnieper. ®

Soviets Roll Forward To Kremenchug   Threaten One Of Few Remaining Escape Bridgeheads

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH FORWARD AS NAZIS FLEE      Red Armies Menace Vital City of Kremenchug, One of Few Escape Bridgeheads Lefr

jvestment Of Kremenchug, One Of Few Remaining Bridgeheads Open To Enemy Across Dnieper, Seems Imminent As Reds Press Three-Pronged Drive—Soviet Armies Plunging Forward In North, Threatening German Line In Upper Reaches

Vital German Escape Bridge Now Besieged   Would Bring Threat To Germans Or Western Bank O-!  Dnieper

A Cracks Down On Farmers  Truckers, For Private Corn Sale   orner Markets’ elp Beat Income ; ay

A Cracks Down On Farmers  Truckers, For Private Corn Sale      elp Beat Income Tax.  Fs Markets’

KITE FLYING TIME AGAIN   But Watch Out For Them High Voltage Wire  Gremlins

FLYING CADET KILLED   Was Returning to eerey vem From Night Fli¢

FLYING CADET KILLED   Was Returning to vorteyville From Night Flight

Italy, Sicily And Sardinia Hit: 97 Planes Downed  286 Enemy Planes Toll for 3 Days; 12 Allied Craft Lost

AXIS AIRFIELDS HIT BY FLIERS   97 Enemy Planes Destroyed As Yanks Press Attacks On Italians

ALLIES SMASH ENEMY PLANES   97 More  Destroy ed In Forays On Sardinia, Sicily. Italv

YANKEES’ TOLL OF AXIS PLANES GROWS HEAVIER   Americans Destroy Ninety. Seven in Sweeps. Over Airfield of Italy, Sicily end Sardinia   3-DAY TOTAL 286   RAF Smacks Berlin Again While Other Raids Are . Carried Out in NaziHeld Areas

Score Stands af 286-12 in Three Davs   Sicilian Airfields Are Heavily Hit  by Rio Farfracscen

U.S. Sweeps  Over Italy, Other Sites   Allies Pour New Destruction On Foe’s Military Power; Sardinia, Sicily Airfields Are Hit, 97 Planes Down

97 MORE AXIS PLANES RIPPED   Allied Fliers Knock 30 Out Of Skies, Destroy 67 On the Ground

AMERICANS DOWN Q7 IN SARDINIA, TTALY AND SICILY   New Stabs at Invasion Approaches to Europe Bring to 286 Number Bagged in Three Days.   PORTS AND AIRPORTS TARGETS OF YANKS   Enemy Formations. Try in Vain to Break Up Furious Attack, Even Loosing . Bombs Over Fortresses.

Italy, Sicily, Sardinia Get Poundines   Allies Toll In Mediterranean Goes To  286 In Three Dava

97 More Foe Planes Destroyed   Fire and Destruction Poured on Italy, Sicily And Sardinia

Yanks Bag 97 On Third Day   Allies Lose 12 In Bashing — Island Invasion Approaches

285 Enemy Planes Are Destroyed   Airfields At Sicily And Sardinia Are Heavily Pounded.

ALLIES RAISE ENEMY PLANE TOLL 10 28%   Mediterranean Islands And Italy Pounded  In New Assaults

Score Stands at 286-12 in Three Days   Sicilian Airfields Are Heavily Hit by Big Fortresses

Today’s War Commentary  Nazi Sea Power  Stull Strong Knough To Bear Watchine

German Sub Crews Mutiny 3 in Norway  Pocahlec (OUP Rocce Abed cece ee ea OA OP wre ey

Six Nazi U-Boat Crews in Norway Reportedly Have Refused to Fight.

Nazi Sub Crews Mutiny; German Morale Cracking   Officer ,Crews In Norwa ray y Refuse To Reimbark ) And Are Sent To Military Prisons

Six German Sub Crews Mutiny  Alf Sent to Oslo PAT pias a. DT  DéicAe:

Mutiny Reported On Nazi U-Boats In Norway, Recalling Refusal of Kaiser’s Sailors to Brave Channel!

Nazi U-Boat Crews Mutinv   Reports say Urricers Join * Men In Refusing To Embark

Six Crews Of Officers And en Sent To Prison Camps   ” Poor Morale And Arrests Among German  Troops In Norway Reported Vie Underqround

Officers And Men Alike Reported Refusing To Embark In Submarines Now Tied Up In Norwegian Waters .

Six Sub Crews Stage a Revolt   Reliable Sources Say Nazis Who Mutiny Are Sent to  Prison.

NAZI SUBMARINE CREWMEN MUT IN   Crews of Six U-Boats in Norway Refuse to Reembark; Recall Mutiny in 1918 Major Step in German Collapse

SIX NAZI U-BOAT. CREWS ARE SAID TO HAVE MUTINIED   Officers and Men Reported Imprisoned in Norway for Refusing to Take Subs . to Sea —   MORALE OF HITLER’S TROOPS IN AREA LOV   German Warships Believed  Intentionally Damaged by  ' hose Aboard to Get Back to Shore.

Nazi U-Boat Crews Mutiny, Norse Report   Officers and Men of Six Refuse to Go out and Sent to Prison In Oslo, Is Report

NAZI OFFICERS AND WEN ALIKE IN OPEN REVOLT   All Sent to Military Prison in Oslo, Sources, Wha Cannot Be Identified,  Disclose   SAILORS’ MUTINY CLIMAXED LAST WAR   Base Where Disaffection Occured Not Revealed, But Is Believed to he Trondheim

ITALIANS SEE AN INVASION ~- POMING SOON   Ccntinued Attack on Island of Pantelleria. Held as Evidence. =   AXIS .TENSION . HIGH   Germans. Also Preparint "Every Defense Pessible a iz) Europe. .

HALIANS ott AN INVASION COMING oOON   Ccntinued Attack on Island of Pantelleria Held as Evidence.   AXIS TENSION HIGH   Germans Also  Preparin® Every Defense Pcssible ir, Europe.

Arnett Scores Food Practices At Mo. Prison   State Food in Homes of Officials ‘Contrary to Laws’ He Charges

SOUTH CAROLINA EXECUTES WOMAN   Convicted Trio Electrocuted As Climax to Row Over Calf

South Carolina Executes Mrs. Sue Logue   First Wonian ver Elec: trocuted In Palmetto State Sent do lier Death Iu Triple Execution

South Carolina Executes First Woman Slayer   Former School Teacher : Electrocuted Together With Two Relatives

National Day Of Prayer Sef   President Proclaims Jan. 1 As Special Occasion

F. D. R. Sets January las Day of Prayer   PRESIDENT ASKS NATION TO SEEK “STRENGTH AND GUIDANCE FOR VICTORY”

JANUARY 110 BE ~—ADAY OF PRAYER   FDR Sets Aside Day for Seeking Strength, Guidance in Problems.

JANUARY FIRST PROCLAIMED AS DAY. OF PRAYER FOR PEOPLE OF AMERICA

PHILLIPS’ TRIAL SET FOR NOV, 15   Former Governor Is Granted Separate Trial on Bribery Charae

Phillips Trial To Open November 15   Former Governor Accused Of Bribery and Conspiracy

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RAF BOMBERS STRIKE HARD AT ITALIANS   Attacks Are Aimed to Cut Off Sicily from Supplies, Reinforcements.

British Bombers Paste Messina, Reggio Calabria   Rome Broadcasts Porto Empedocle Also Attacked

British Again — Smash At Sicily   Messina and Reggio Calabria Punished

Raid on T okyo a 13-Hour Flight, Doolittle Recalls on Anniversary

‘U. S. Must Attack Japan Proper   Doolittle Makes Confident Assertion on Eve of Rai

Doolittle Says Only Atfacks on Japan Proper Can Defeat U. §. Pacific Enemy

WPB Lifts Restrictions On Wool Use in Clothes, Draneries, Upholstery

Wallace-Jones Probe Is Asked   Barkley Shunts It To Friendly Group

Lady Oakes On  Stand In Nassau   Says Marriage Was ‘Bad Situation’

LADY OAKES: TELLS OF FAMILY LIFE   Made Best of Bad Situation When DeMarigny Married Daughter, Widow Tells

Say Testimony Of Lady Oakes  Most Dramatic   Court Told Of Grief When Nancy Wed De Marigny; Courtroom Is Jammed

Lady Oakes On Stand, Relates Dramatic Tale   Made The Best Of DeMarieny

RAID ON ‘JOINT’ LEADS 10 RIOT   Patrons of Unlicensed Liquor Spot Taken to Hoosegow Where Fight Staged

AGENT WOUNDED IN LIQUOR RAID   Angry Patrons Riot As State Men Swoop Down On Unlicensed Club

LIQUOR AGENT IS WOUNDED IN RIOT   Unlicensed Liquor Place : Raided By Officers

STATE LIQUOR INSPECTOR SHOT DURING SEARCH   Vernon Tobias Hit with Bullet Fired by Club Patron

Powerful Nazi  Counter-Atfack  Is Hurled Back   Fighting Subsides On ~Mareth Line, Where’. British Stopped ©   Italians Fired On By Germans

‘FINE FEEDING WEATHER   Wheat in Kansas Is Reported to Be In Fine Condition

U-BOAT TOLL IN MONTH EXCEEDS MAY PRODUCTION   ee Allied Shipping Losses Drop Sharply

Many Nazi Subs Reported Sunk   May Toll Heaviest Of War, Is Claim

War Against Subs Gains In  Effectiveness   Destruction Of German Submarines Greater In May Than In Any Other Month, Says Alexander

BRITAIN BARES PEAK TOLL UF GERMAN SUBS   More U-Boats Sunk During May Than Any Month in War, Commons Told.   ESTIMATE NAZI LOSSES EXCEED PRODUCTION

NAZI U-BOATS LOSING BATTLE OF ATLANTIC   Allied Sub Sinkings In May Highest For Any Month Of War, Alexander Reveals To Commons

Stimson Asks ‘Full Devotion’ Of Nation’s Railroad Workers   Promises Least Possible Interference In Operation

Ground Action Reported in New Guinea   Allies Repulse Jap Attempt to Penetrate Positions

ENEMY PLIGHT HELD HOPELESS BY OBSERVERS   Warships Which Backed Landing Continue Shelling Island Positions  WL. oa ee 2 Pee

Conquest of Aleutian Isle Nears End as Two Forces Move In; Midway Planes Hit Captive Base

VANKS TAKE VITAL HILL HELD BY FOL   Height Falls in Savage Struggle— Capture Imperils Enemy’s Main Positions.   U. S. WARSHIPS SHELL INVADERS   Knox Reveals U. S. Troops, Landing Secretly, Met First Resistance on Beaches.

Conquest By Yanks May Be Completed In Next Few Days; U. S. Casualties Are Light, Navy Reports

ENEMY PLIGHT IN ALEUTIANS IS DESPERATE   SUPERIOR AMERICAN FORCES CLOSE IN ON NIPPONESE

Warships Continue To Bombard Japanese Ahead of U.S. Troops  PLIGHT OF ENEMY APPEARS HOPELESS  U.S. Liberators Fly 2,000 Miles To Blast Jan-Held Wake Telan;]

US. Trap Closing on Japanese ‘Battered About on Attu Island ‘Foe Bases in Solomons. Bombed

U.S. Troops *Are Closing Jaws Of Tray   Present Reports Indicate Battle Will Soon End.

Foe’s Plight Appears  Hopeless   Main Nipponese Defenses on Holtz Bay Smashed; Warships Continue To Bombard Precarious Positions

Bombers Blast Japanese-Held Wake Island   Conquest of Aleutian Island Expected in Few Days Provided  Weather Is Good

Main Nip Defense  Smashed Fleet, Planes  At]. Aas. 2   Fleet, Planes Aid In Attack On Island

Plight of Japanese on the Island Appears Hopeless  HEIGHTS SEIZED IN AMERICAN ATTACK Liberator Bombers Raid Enemy Held Wake ‘Island

Enemy's Plight On Affu Appears To Be Hopeless.   Conquest of. Island May Be Completed Soon If Weather Holds

Yanks Closing Trap on Attu   Plight of Enemy Hopeless On Aleutian Island

U.S. Forces Capture Main Defense Line   Conquest May Be Made Complete in Few Days if Weather Is Good

Enemy Defense Positions Broken By Fierce Attack  Expect Conquest Of Island Within Next Few Days  RIDGE CAPTURED  American Warships  Back Land Troops UWs'.L Do. 1 a.

JAPANESE ON ATTU DOOMED AS AMERICAN TRAP CLOSES   Rv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

YANKS CLOSE ON WAIN JAP ARMY ON ATTL   Unless Weather Intervenes U.S. Blows Should Complete Conquest Within Few Days, Knox Savs   Seize Haltz Bay Heights

COAL WALKOUTS REACH 53,000; PRESIDENT MAY BE ASKED TO ACT   John L. Lewis Indicates That He Clearly Intends To Call Out 450,000 Miners By Satur pe

93,000 MINERS NOW ON STRIKE   With the Miners Backing Lewis’s Defiance of Labor Board.

LT. W.E BROWN “MISSING” ACTION   Navy Department Notifies Wife That Local Man Is “Missing Following Action” In Service of Country; Last Heard From Nov. 9; Carolina-Duke Graduate.

PRINCETON BOY FOUND MISSING IN WAR SERVICE   Navy Notifies Mrs, Martin Hoffman That One Of Her Sons Is Missing In Action Following Engagement With Enemy.

EYEWITNESS STORY LANDING OF TROOPS LAE-SALAMAUA AREA   LESS THAN 30 CASUAL. TIES SUFFERED BY ALLIED FORCES

Less Than 30 Casualties Suffered by Allies in First Landing in the ‘Investiture of Lae-Salamaua, Report

Robt. Williams Is War Victim   Third Winfield Boy Killed In South Pacific

Further Close Escape From Caucasus By Cutting Moscow - Kharkov Railroad.

60-Mile Russ Thrust Cuts Kev Rail Line   Soviet Warriors Within 30 Miles of Rostoy

WAR IN WESTERN SICILY AT AN END SAY MILITARY MEN   Assault On Last-Ditch Axis Line In East Also Imminent—Hold Prisoners

RED ARMIES DRIVE WITHIN 100 MILES OF POLISH BORDER!   Russians - Increase Threag To Present German Line “As They’  Near Gomel 

REDS PLOD ON: TAKE 60 TOWNS   Drive To Within .100 Miles Of Old Border Of Poland

RUSSIANS MOVE NEARER POLAND WITH BIG GRINS   Red Army Pounds Across White Russia With Gomel As Next Objective

RUSSIANS ARE NEARING POLE BORDER   Threat to Hitler's Vitebsk-Gomel Line Increases

Red Armies Fight Near Old Polish Border   Berlia Acknowledges Russian Bridgeheads or Dnieper’s West Bank

Soviets Close I On White  Russia Line..   Battle F or Gomel, Hinge of Front, Said In Progress’

ARE NEARING POLE BORDER   Threat to Hitler's Vitebsk-Gomel Line Increases

Berlin Admits Soviet Forces Cross Dnieper   Reds Closing in on Gomel, Last Nazi Bastion East of River

Soviets Advancing On Four Key Cities      Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev And Gomel Goals In Drive Towards Old Polish Border

MUNICH SHAKEN BY AIR ATTACK   RAF Follows Up Yankee Attack By Showering 500 Tons On City

3 SHIPS READY   10,000-Ton Freighters Hit Water At Montreal Today.

Bishop Ivan Lee Holt To Preside   First Methodist Is To Be Host Church

Bishop Ivan Lee Holt To Preside   First Methodist Is To Be Host Cnurch  By EDWIN WATIiON

NOT TO RESUME   Unrestricted Production 0 Civilian Goods Not Seen

CIVILIANS MUST WAIT.   Unrestricted Manufacture of Goods Not in Sight

Elections Are Slated Oct. 5 in Soil District   Five Supervisors Are To Be Elected  Bv Landownere

Allied Planes Cross Channel   Flood Waters From Wrecked Dams Continue Destructive Rush

New Paralyzing Blows Struck by RAF on Europe   At Least 54,000 Families Made Homeless in Ruhr by Flood Waters.   Nazi Put Censorship On Details of Havoc

ATTACK NAZI RAILROAD LINES   Flood Waters Engulf More Than 54 Towns

Continue Heavy Air Attacks on Axis In Europe   Offensive Enters 8th Day of Round-theClock Activity

RAIDERS STRIKE AT NAZIS AGAIN   Flood Death Foll Mounts in Broken-Dam Areas

54 German Cities Engulfed by Flood   Another Great Dam in Danger of Bursting —RAF Returns io Assai] Railroads

Engulf 54  German Cities   54,000 Families Left Homeless in Ruhr Alone; RAF Blasts Nazi_Transport System; US Fortresses Smash at Trapani

ALLIED ALRIAL AIDE HO oT RIAL HEAVIER BLOWS   Axis Being Given Shattering Pounding By Air Giants Of U. S. And Britain

54,000 Families Driven from Homes Along Ruhr, Weser   German Officials Clamp Censorship on Details of Plane-wrought Inundation

Big Force Of Planes Roars Over Channel  Continue Pounding Of Hitler’s Europe

OVER 94 CITIES IN RUHR, WESER AREAS FLOODED   U. S. Troops Close Pincer Movements on Japs in Attu

NAZIS DEMAND REPRISALS; 8TH OFFENSIVE DAY   The ASSOCIATED PRESS

Floods Create New Nazi Danger   MUCH DAMAGE REPORT. ED TO GERMAN CITIES BY WATER

New Blows Struck By Allied Airmen Against Germany   Third Big Dam Is Reported Weakenec By an Aerial Mine

Strike German Transport Ari   List 54 Towns Engulfed By Flood Water Unleashed By Bombed Dams.

Enemy Rail Systems Hit In Air Raids   One Pilot Shoots Up Five Trains in Continuing Raids on Nazis   GERMAN FLOOD  DAMAGE MOUNTING   Third Large Dam Reported in Danger of Bursting; More Raids Near Italy

Allied Planes Again Over Nazi Europe as Offensive Extends Into Eighth Day   Another Germen Reservoir Hit By Mine; Seepage Threatens Further Damacae by Floods

AIRCRAFT RETURN TO ATTACK ON CONTINENT DURING WEDNESDAY  FLOOD WATERS FROM BREACHED DAMS CONTIN.

Allied Aerial War Continues Against Nazis   Strong Forces Sweep Actoss Channe! Today

PLANES STREAM ACROSS CHANNEL   RAF Extends Sweeping Raids On Continent—Germans Are Fighting Floods

AERIAL ATTAGK 15 CONTINUING   Flood Waters From Blasted Dams Continue to Spread Devastation.

94 Cities and Towns in Germany Flooded by Released Water   Allied Raiders Continue Blasting Vital Transportation Systems

PRE-INVASION RAIDS GO ON   Daylight Raiders Hit Con tinent In Strong Force

RAIDERS ROAR TO EUROPE ON NEW MISSIONS   Flood Continues To Spread Ruin In Valley Areas

Air Offensive Starts 8th Day of Nazi Raids   54 German Cities Engulfed by Released Waters; Third Dam Threatens to Let Go

Third Dam May Cive Way Soon  Mine Starts Seepage; Thousands Homeless

Aerial Mining of Dams Continues to Spread Devastation in Germany

Third Dam In Danger Of Bursting   Paralyzing New Blows Are Struck At Germany By Allied Bombers Today.

Blast Nazi Transport System   Allies Continue Attack Against German Industrial Centers and Key. Anti-Invasion Points

Flood Losses  Mount From Broken Dams   54,000 Families Are  Homeless In Germany

54 Towns and Cities Under Flood Water   Great Damage Results To War Industries; Germans Raid London

RAIN ON AXIS   Attack Continued: Pictures Show Damage Wrought By Broken Dams

Paralyzing Assaults Carried Out By Allied Raiders While Flood Waters Released By Blasting Of Two Giant Dams Engulf Great Areas In Germany—Large Formation Of Planes Crosses Channel To Open Eighth Straight Day Of Offensive

PARALYZING NEW BLOWS DEALT NAZIS   54,000 Families Left Homeless by Ruhr Valley Power Dam Break Alone.

Allies Continue Heavy Bombing Of Hitler’s Europe   Flood Waters of Breach: ed Nazi Dams Continue to Spread Devastation And Paralysis.

 Mounting Aerial Offensive Takes Heavy Toll; Vital   Transport Lines In  : France Wrecked   REICH WAR PLANTS © RAVAGED BY FLOODS   Crippling Blows Landed By RAF In Wrecking Of Huge Reservoirs By Aerial Mining.

RAF Strikes New Blows At Germany   More Than 54 Cities Flooded 54,000 Homeless In Ruhr

Waters From Dams Ripped By Bombs Continue Havoc  In Factory Areas

ALLIES STRIKE AGAIN TODAY ~ INNEW RAIDS      Paralyzing Smashes At Vital Transport TOuctamy   IN GERMANY   Toll OfDeath Mounts In Ruhr And Weser Vallevs

FLOOD WATERS FROM TWO BLASTED DAMS ENGULF MANY CITIES  NAZI OFFICIALS CALL REPRISALS AGAINST JEWS AS CAUSE

FLOOD WATERS PARALYZE KEY PLANT REGION   Axis Engineers Rush Work To Shut Off Flow

‘Nazi Floods  Spread to 54 Cities, Towns Waters Roll Up Mount ing Death Toli in German Valleys  NEW BLOW STRUCK  Allied Raiders Blast  ¥ Scores of Rail and f Wiadac OBtanafivne ~   NEW BLOW STRUCK

ALLIES RENEW RAID ON REICH   Large Formations Roar Over English Channel To Bomb Enemy

ALLIES ROAR OVER EUROPE   HEAD FOR CONTINENT AS FLOOD TOLL SPREADS

BLASTED DAMS LOOSE FLOODS, SPREAD PANIG   Rigid Censorship Clamped Down—Allied Air Force Roars Back To Attack   THOUSANDS HOMELESS   Meanwhile, Italy Is Given Another Beating by Allied Bombers from Tunisia

BOMBERS SPREAL DEVASTATION IN NAZI TERRITORY  SOFTEN UP EUROPE   SOFTEN UP EUROPE WITH PROLONGED AERIAL OFFENSIVE

R.A.F. Batters 20 Trainsin Slave Eurone   Nazi Transport Hit in Widespread Atr Offanciva

Over 50 German Towns Flooded By Bursting Dams; Death Toll Mounts

Onslaught By Air Goes Into Kighth Day   German Industrial Areas Devastated Rv Floods

FLOODS SPREAD OUT IN WAKE OF DAM BOMBING   Damage Heavy at Froendenberg, Other Ruhr Cities, Waters Rise Rapidly at Duisbura   RAIDS CONTINUED   American Bombers Blast Point Targets in Belgium, British Raid France—London Has New Raid

ANT-DRAFT BILL MAY BE RECALLED   Military Officials May Be Questioned About Revision of Needs.

-~ Buy War Bonds —  ENDS GRADE LABELLING REROVIREMENT FOR RITTER

REDS HURL BACK 2 HUGE NAZI DRIVES IN. UKRAINE AREA   Germans Fight Fiercely To Hold Bridgehead In ~ Kuban Sector Of ‘Black Sex

Reds Turn Back  Counter-Drives   Hang On.To Newly-Won  Ukraine Positions

Missing Passenger  Transport Locatec  Dropped From Sight Bearing 15 Persons

JAP DEPORTATION CALIFORNIA’S IDEA   Proposal Is Pressed for Endorsement by Grange

Major Air Battles Continue Up And Down Long Rassiar Frent With Sharp Fighting

MAJOR AIR BATTLES CONTINED ALIN RUSSIAN FRONT  NAZI RIFLEMEN CROSS _ DONETS BUT WERE KILLED OR FORCED RAC

RUSSIAN FLIERS CONTINUE RAIDS   German Infantry Company that Forced Donets Crossing Wiped Out or Ferced to Swim

Big Air Battles  Rage in Russia   Sharp Fighting Takes Place Above Narrow Kuban  Bridgehead.

SHARP AIR BATTLES      Russian and German. Fliers Exchange Thrusts on Red Front

Reds Repulse Nazi Attempt Cross Donets   Soviet Air Force Maintains Stepped-Up Air War On Axis

Air Clashes Rage On Soviet Front  Nazi Riflemen Crossing River Exterminated

AIR FIGHT CONTINUES ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Hur! Nazis Back Along Donets River

AERIAL CONFLICT CONTINUING ALONG ‘THE SOVIET FRONT   Sharpest Aerial Tussles Ap: pear Over the Narrow Kuban Bridgehead in Western! Caucasus :

AIR BATTLES — CONTINUE ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Sharp Fighting Above Kuban Bridgehead. Nazi Riflemen Crossed _ Donets But Are  Forced Back.

Reds Wipe Out Nazi Riflemen   MAJOR AIR FIGHTING REPORTED ON SOVIET FRONT

BEEMANS CLAIM f MERCHANTMEN   Nazi U-Boats R Reported to Have Sunk 16 British DeStroyers Since ‘Dec. 22

GIRL'S BODY FOUND — INNEW YORK HOTEL      Man in ‘Sailor's Uniform Sought for Crime

Hunting Sailor In Girl Murder   Body Of 15-Year-Old Girl, Missing Since July, Found In Hotel.

LEWIS SIGNS “CONTRACT IN COAL DISPUT!   Two-Year Agreement Covers Two-Thirds of Soft ~ Coal Industry; WLB ’ Must Approve Pact

Rail Talk ~ Switched * fo Capitol   fleads: of Operators . and ,. Brotherhoods To Meet my With Roosevelt ~   CONFERENCE TO BE HELD TOMORROW   Y New Plan Will Replace Chicago Meeting on Moves _To Avert Strike

Hope Rail Strike’ May Be Averted By Meeting Of  Operators, FDR Tomorrow

COAL WAGE ISSUE SETTLED AS RAIL PAY ISSUE LOOMS   John L. Lewis, Signs TwoYear Contract, But Stabilization Board Turns Down Rail Wage Demands

RAIL STRIKE THREAT CLOUDS SCENE ‘ MADE BRIGHT BY COAL WAGE PEACE

RAIL UNIONS TO SEE FDR ABOUT STRIKE   Railroad Leaders to Be at Conference Sunday Over Strike Ordered,   Walkout Would Affect Major Rail Systems

Peace Near In Coal Wage  ‘Controversy   Rail Controversy Stirs Up Bitterness as Union Head Denounces Vinson

COAL DISPUTE 1S CLOSE T0 AN AGREEMENT   John L. Lewis And Operators Avree On New Policy

ROOSEVELT CALLS RAILWAY  WAGE PARLEY   Heads of Operating Brotherhood: and Management Leaders fo Meei ai While House Sunday   STRIKE SET DEC. 30   Blueprint Calls for Walkout on Ma jor Lines First, Spreading t Other Railroads

PRESIDENT SETS SUNDAY TALK WITH FIRM HEADS, UNION CHIEFS ON STRIKE

BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS TO TALK WITH, PRESIDENT   Meeting, will Be Held  Tomorrow. in‘ Effort, to : Avert Strike Ordered ‘fo December 36th. noes,

Rail Leaders To Meet F.R. On Strike  Walkout Called for   Walkout Called for December 30 Would Hamoper War Effort

Coal Argument Finally Near Settlement; Rail Dispute Is Hanging On

FR. TO MEET WITH RAIL AND UNION LEADERS   White House Parley to Be Held Sunday to Avert Nationwide Strike

THREAT OF RAIL STRIKE GROWS AS UMW MAKE PEACE   NEW COAL CONTRACT AWAITS APPROVAL OF WAR LABOR BOARD

RAILADADERS, FOR TO MEET   Conference Seeking to Avert Strike to Be Held on Sunday.   REPLACES CHICAGO MEET

PEACE IN OFFING ON LABOR FRONT   Mine and Railroad Strike Threats Diminish

LEWIS OKEYS NO-STRIKE PLAN   But Railroad Controversy Now in Forefront

Rail Leaders To Talk With F’. R. Sunday   Attempt To Be Made To Avert Walkout; Coal Dispute Settled With Contract Signing

Big 4 of. Rails to  Meet FDR      White House Conference Scheduled for Sunday On Theantered Strike

FDR to Confer With Railmenin Effort to Avert Dec. 30 Strike   Schedules Conference for Sunday: Unions Issue ‘Blueprint’

Settlement In Coal Dispute Seems Near   But Railway Wage Issue Threatens New Trouble

RAIL MEN TO CONFER WITH CHIEF EXECUTIVE  Comes on First Day; W. P. on Third Southern Pacific Work Stonpaqe

Union Chiefs Summoned to White House   Effort to Avert Dec. 30 Strike Is Under Way

1) normous Tax  Increases Seen   Will Be Necessary To Raise 12 Billion Dollars

ENORMOUS TAX INCREASE IS INEVITABLE   Roosevelt demands $12, 000,000,000 additional  revenue

TAX INCREASE _ BIG PROBLEM      SENATE FINANCE CHAIRMA? SAYS MIDDLE GROUP. OF INCOMES WOULD BE  . HARD WIT

BIG INCREASES IN TAXES. SEEN   Fresent Source To Be Tapped Further. George Says

ALLIES TURN MIGHT UPON SUPPLY BASES   Flying Fortresses Lead Attack on Italian Port; Fires Started.

MakeAPNews Available to All Papers   Court Finds Clause -Restricting Membership in Violation to Anti-Trust Laws

RIGHT UPHELD: TO PASS UPOK AP MEMBERS   Court Directs That By-Laws Be

RIGHT OF A. P. (MEMBERS. UPHELD   May Pass on Application: —By-Law Change Ordered

UPHOLD RIGHT Of A. P. TO PASS ON ALL APPLICANTS   U..§. District Court Rules. However that By-Laws in Pres ent Form Are Violation of Anti-Trust Laws

Court Holds By-Laws of AP  Violation of Anti-Trust Laws; Amendments Can Correct It

ett Stig AP Ju me o wee  Yan cise Rio   _irec’S 37-aw clanges su" “enies sov’- Sur '£a’or oin-

Associated Press Partly Upheld By High Court  Decision Orders By-Law Changes

Upholds Right tc Pass on Members  But AP Ruled to Be Outside Law

Federal Court Upholds Right Of AP To Pass On Applicants’ Admission; Orders Agency To Change By-Laws

FEDERAL COURT FILES OPINION   Rules By-Laws Of AP In Present Form Violate Anti-Trust Laws

‘Court Orders AP to Amend its By-Laws   Three Judges Recognize Right - ef Organization to Pass Upon Admission of Appli pamtea én Wawe Aganewy

Court Upholds AP on Members   Three-Judge Court Rules Co-Op Has Right to Rule on Member Papers. -

COURT RULES AP_ HAS POWER TO PAS ON MEMBERSHIP   News Gathering Agency Given 120 Days to Change ._ By-Laws However

‘Associated Press May Pick Its Own Members ‘Is Ruling of United States District Court

ORDERS CHANGES, NAP BY-LAWS   Court Upholds Right Of Membership To Pass Upon Applicants

ASSOCIATED PRESS’ MEMBERSHIP RIGHTS UPHELD BY COURT   TWO OF THREE JUDGES, HOWEVER, WANT BY-LAWS CHANGED

CHANGE IN AP BYLAWS URGED   Right of Press Membership ye Te Pass On Applications is Upheld, However

Court Decrees AP Has Right to Pass on Its Membership   Some Changes in Its Bylaws Necessary in Judges’ Opinion

Court Rules On AP Case   2 to 1 Decision Makes It Mandatory for News Assn. to Alter By-Laws

COURT ORDERS CHANGES MADE IN AP BY-LAWS   Special Tribunal Upholds Right of AP Membership to Pass on Admission of Applicants   SWAN IN DISSENT   ‘Sees No Tendency in AP’s By. Laws to Create Monoply or Proc  Competition Sitfled

JUDGES RULE IN SUIT FILED AGAINST AP   News Ass‘n Has Right to Pass on Applicants, Jurists Sav   VERDICT DIRECTS BY-LAW CHANGES   No Statement to be Made Until Directors Hold Meet

Reds Destroyed 470 Nazi Planes Over Caucasus Yesterday.   POLAND AND RUSSIA NOT IN AGREEMENT  Jap Forces in New Guinea

Say nazis have 230 divisions  on soviet front   Repulse German blows in 2 areas

NAZI HAVE GREAT FORGE IN RUSSIA   New Allied Aerial Assauit on Jap Base on Rabul Is Predicted Shortly.

Soviets Say Large-Scale Fighting May Be Expected Soon on Russ Front

REQUIEM HIGH - MASS HELD IN ~ WEST CONCORI   ‘Mrs. Frances (Nagle) Williams, 81, Had Lived Here é Many Years

Virs. Frances (Nagle) Wil. liams, 81, Had Lived Here =. (Many Years. ;

German Hopes to Hold Peninsula and Dnieper River Line Fade As Russians Continue Advance.

Fall of Four Big Russian Cities Expected Momentarily   Germans Have Very Little Hope of Haltine Red Drive

HIGHEST COURT ORDERS ALIEN CASE REARGUED   Agrees Also io Reconsider Decision in Case of ‘eJhavah's Witnasces’

HIGH COURT FOR —__ REARGUMENTS   One Litigation - Involves Right to Cancel Citizenship of Once Communist

\Court Orders Reargument of Government Right to Cancel \Citizenship of Communist

Roosevell Points To North Atrica As Aid to Russia   President Makes Little Comment However on Stalin Statement

Nation’s Chief Parries Quiz  On 2nd Front   Declines to Reply Directly to Stalin’s Complaint

MEASURE TO DEFER FATHERS CERTAIN OF ITS FIRST TEST   Legislation Is for Defermeni of Fathers of Children Under °18— Wheeler . Deter‘mined to Bezin Debate.

CONSIDER BILL T0 DEFER FATHERS   CONGRESSIONAL TEST APPEARS CERTAIN IN U. S. SENATE TODAY

START DEBATE ON DEFERMENT INU. S. SENATE  _ Seek Method To  Defer Men With

Deferment Of Fathers Nears Vote   Entire Bill Endangered By Proposal, Official  Sources Declare

See Legislation To Defer. Fathers Given Test Today   Sen. Wheeler Says He Is ’ Deterniizied To) Begin Debate .. On Subject

UP TO SENATE   Insisis on Debate Despite Objecjections to Amendment Might Kill Bill to Defer Farmers

Daily Washington Merry - Go.- Round  BY DREW PEARSON  (Tyradamark.)

King, Badoglio Take Command In Italv’s Crisis   Crack-Up Of Axis Gangster Partnership Hit World By Surprise; Italy May Seek Peace, But Girds For More War At Present -

Italian Dictator Virtually Fired As Fascist Leader   H Duce Succeeded By Marshall Pietro Badogho, One Of Ousted Premier’s Bitterest Enemy. Fought Fascist Party.

ACE DIPLOMATS EDEN AND HULL IN CONFERENCE   Seek Basie Agreement On War Aims And Peace Plans

NAME DIRECTOR FOR WMC IN 4 COUNTIES   Board Appoints Marcus J. Kintz

News Ban Affects AAA Employes   Appropriation Act Prohibits Policy

AAA Agents Are (Ordered Not To Give ‘Reports To Press   Order Interpretation Of Recent Action Of Coryjress

AAA Employees Curbed on Press, Radio Releases   State and County Extension Offices to Handle Publicity

Informational Services Ban  IsSetBy AAA Promotional Wor “Also Barred: By

PUBLICITY BAN PLACED ON AAA   Farm Program Employes Can Issue No More Press Handouts

SCHOOLS TO START EARLY NEXT MONTH   Most of the Rural Institu- tions Will Open, Sep tember 6 -

SCHOOLS TO START EARLY NEXT MONTH   Most of the Rural Institu: - tions Will Open, Sep- iD tember 6 -” .   K. U. BEGINS SEPT. 23

RUSSIANS SWEEP FORWARD IN NEW WINTER DRIVE   Soviet Troops Have Regained Initiative From Germans At the Kiev Bulge.

Russians Recapture Tw thirds of Their Ter- — ritory.   NAZIS BURN TOWNS BEHIND FRONT LINE   Indian Troops Take Vil laze of Villa Crande.

IN STRIKE PROTEST   Letters Sent to Roosevelt By City Council and County Board

FULL STAFFS ATTEND WASHINGTON PARLEY   Roosevelt and Churchill Settle Down to Concentrated Work With Key Advisers.

Farm Groups As! Increase in Prices of Food  @ Elimination of Subsidies Is Requested

Open New Attack On Subsidies   Adjustment Of Ceilings To Offset Increased Production Costs Is Urged By Farm Groups

FARM LEADERS oPLIT ON SUBSIDY ISSUE   Subsidies Praised, Bemeaned At Senate Hearing

Farm Chieftains Ask Adjustment In Price Ceilings   Farm Bureau, National Grange Chief Appear At Committee Hearing

Chinese Report New Jap Drive  Japanese Attack Hamnachnauyr Tivac

Chinese Report Nex Japanese Thrust   Declare That Enemy Is Held in Check

WAP ATTACK 0 U.S. IN CHINA PROVES GOSTLA   Out of 27 Bombers Sent Over 15 Are Shot.Down, Seven Probably Destroyed

 JAP SETBACK IN CHINA   ‘Fifteen of 27 27 Bombers on Raid Shot Down

Air Loss in China One of Japs’ Worst   Fifteen of 27 Bombers Sent Against Fourteenth USAAF Headquarters Are Shot Down—Seven Probably Are Destroyed.

RIOW ON HEAD IS FATAL    Gov. Martin Criticizes Strikes  ‘In Holiday Address at Gettysburg

‘War Strikes Scored By Gov. Martin      IN ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD WHERE LINCOLN MADE FAMOUS SPEECH; “CANNOT DREAM POST-WAR WORLD   Rededicate Lives

Nazi Airdrome Near Paris —  Wrecked By. American Fliers   Marauder Medium Bombers Work With Escort of BAF Spitfires—No Enemy Planes Are  Bucainbavand

NAZI AIRDROME HIT BY ALLIES   Field Near Paris Lashed Without Encountering Enemy Planes

BOMBERS RAZE NAZI AIRDROME   American Planes Speed To Target, Return Without Loss

Marauders........ Knock Out .  Nazi Base      Aincrican  Boinbuis Wieck Ceiman Airdrome Near Paris Without Encountering Enemy Plane

American Marauder Bombers and RAF Spitfires Wreck Airdrome Near Paris   Allies Smash Deeper Into Nazi Line; Subdue Enemy Counter-Attacks

Americans Wreck Nazi Airdrome  No Enemy Fighters Are Encountered

Japs Boost — Air Strength   Big Increase in Number of Planes in Area Of Southern China

OVERRATE FOOD SHORTACE FEAR   State Expert Says Alarm Is Not Justified In Michigan

SOLOMON ISLES SEAMAN PROBED   Vinson to Pick Group To Investigate Union Charges

GROUPS PROBE WHY SEAMEN REFUSED TO UNLOAD SHIP   ‘Guadalcanal Marines Reported Forced To Do Work ocance t Was Sunday

Guadalcanal Ship Inquiry Sought   Refusal to Work On Sunday Charged

DEDSIBDEALY IN CONCORI   ian Was Former Boston  ee of Town. VeterinarProduce Dealer

SHORT, KIMMEL TRIAL DELAYED   Pearl Harbor Commanders : Waive Limitations

120,000 Germans Claimed Dead In Trapped Garrison   Enemy Refuses Ultimatum For Surrender; ‘Annihilation’ Threatened; Russian Offensive In Caucasus Rolls Up Gaing P

Only 70 to 80 thousand of trapped force alive: ultimatum was rejected

COLD WEATHER IS LESS SEVERE   Winter Vegetable Crops On Coast Wiped Out _ By Freezing

HARD COLD WAVE IS MODERATING   56 Persons Reported Dead In 16 States, Vegetables In South Are Killed.

53 Deaths Attributed to Cold Wave   Temperatures Rise In Most States After Marked Dip

DEATH TOLL REACHES 53   Mercury Still 39 Below In 4 Northern States

BRITISH SAID     OVER AZORES      Defense Units, Engineers and Technical Troops Reported Occupying Bases Granted by Portugal Yesterday.

TAKING OVER BASES   British - Forces. Believed  - Moving Into Position in Azores

British Move in On Azores   Lose No Time In Taking Possession of New: ly Acquired Bases on Strategic Islands

Non-Fathers To Go First Next Month   Draft Headquarters Sends Out Rules to State Chiefs On October Quotas

ALL NON-FATHERS ARE FIRST CHOICE   Those Available Will Be Inducted Before Starting Draft Of Fathers And On State-Wide Quota Basis

Non-Fathers To Be Called First   Will Be Taken Before Drafting Of Fathers Begins

FATHERS WILL BE DRAFTED LAS}   Selective Service Will Get Single Men Bret

Review of Draft Records Ordered   Seek to Induct Every Available Non-Father

NON-FATHERS TO BE GALLED      October Allocations Will Be Divided Into 2 Calls

OAKES MURDER SCENE REVIEWED   Accused Count Calm As State Witnesses Parade To Stand

Roosevelt Opposes Rum! Plan   President Says It Woulc Result in Less Revenue Than Last Year

FR Sees Less Revenue Under  Rum! Tax Plan   Collection This Year Would Take Big Drop, President Believes

ROOSEVELT SEES LESS REVENUE FROM RUML TAX      ‘House Committee Rejects Plan But Republicans Bid d For It

CLOTHING THEFT RING IS SMASHED   Two Men And Two Women Arc Convicted.

Gives Veteran  Welfare Plan   Robert T. Merrill Presenis Substitute For Roosevelt's Peooram.

PROPOSES PLAN "FOR VETS’ AID   @ Merrill Says. President’s Plan Not ‘Comprehension’ Enough

6 MONTHS OF POST-WAR PAY IS PROPOSED   Head Of Veterans Says Roosevelt’s Plan Not Comprehensive

RE-BUILD IN 5 DAYS   Al Reconstruction Work at Ft. Riley Has Been Completed

ee. a  A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   Naval Aviation Cadet Killed at Ottumwa

Moving Huge. Forces Inte France and Italy In Preparations For Inyasion      [BELIEVED DRAWN { PROM RED BATTLE   ‘Reinforcements In: France  Estimated at. 10 to 12   German Divisions, Stimsan Says

Nazi Troops Go to France   Huge Forces Being Moved, Says Stimson, To Meet Invasion

STIMSON SAYS NAZIS SHIFTING   Germans Moving Large Forces inte France and Htaly, War Seeretary Reports.

RAF Develops New Technique: For Bombings   Leaves England, Pound Friedrichshaven Then Refuels In Africa Before Blow ~ At Italian Naval Base on Way Back to Home Fields.

Nazis Throw Huge Forces Into Italy And France   Move To Stave Off Tnvasion; Shifting Fighter Planes From East To West

HUGE FORCES ENTER ITALY AND FRANCE   Stimson Reports Hitler Bolstering Anti-Invasion Army

‘Nazis Pour Into  France And Italy  Germans Preparing Te Meet Invasion

Huge German Force Moves Into France   Reich Also Masses Fighter Planes, Antiaircraft Guns

NAZIS MOVING FORCES INTO FRANCE. ITALY   In Preparation to Fight Off Invasion, Secretary Stimson. Reports

PREPARING TO FIGHT OFF INVASION   Estimate 10 To 12 German Divisions Moved Into French Territory: Concentrate Air Power

Stren othen Nazi Forces In France   Secretary Stimson Has Explanation For Lull In Ground Fighting On   Russian Front

STIMSON REVEALS THAT GERMANY IS MOVING HUGE FORCES MEN INTO FRANCE

Axis Moving Troops Into France, Italy   Concentration of Planes ix Western Europe Also Is Indicated   AN EXTRAORDINARY LULL IN RUSSIA   Little Activity on Red Front Although Weather. Ts Suitable

SOLDIERS DIE OF THIRST   Four Men Become Lost From Com pany In Califernia Maneuvers

Sicily Drives “Are Checkec  Repulse Of Yank “With Heavy Loss : 3 sReported *

Nazis Say Allied Assaults Checked   “eserves. Sent In,  . But Berlin Admits \iialewse Keele.

DRIVE HALTED, AXIS CONTENDS   Radios Claim Repulsing Allied Attacks At Several Points In Sicily

Nazis Say Allied Assaults Checked   Reserves Sent In, But Berlin Admits Violent Fighting

HOOVER URGES FOOD CONTROL POLICY CHANGE   One Czar Asked; Sees 4 To 6-Year World Shortage

ORLD WIDE FOOD SHORTAGE EXISTS, ~ HOOVER DECLARES   ormer President in Speech Lost Night Says - Reform in Policies , ‘Is Needed.-

Food Problem Cited by Hoover   Shortage to Last Six Years, He Says

CONFERENCE AT CAPITAL ON PACIFIC   Threat of Japanese Offense to Relieve Pressure on Hitler in Europe Taken Up With Chief of Staff.

CHIEFS OF U. S. FORCE IN CHINA HOLD CONCLAVE   Offensive in Pacific to Relieve Nazi Fight, Enemy Predicts

Gens. Stillwell and Chennault In Washington; Expected to Request More Planes for China Front

U.S. CHIEFS ARE HOME 19 CONFER   Red Air Forces Stage Inten sified Offensive, Hope to Wear Down Axis.

U.S. Air Chiefs in China Confer In Washington, Jap Spokesman Predicts Offensive in-Pacific

XTENT OF UNDERGROUND ORGANIZATION. AGAINST. ~ GERMANY REVEALED BY EXPLOIT.

Danger to China's ‘Rice Bowl’ Lifted   Chinese Complete Reoccupation of Itu

Chinese Smash Jap Drive For Rice Bowl Area   River Port Near Ichang Taken And Jans Cleared Out

GREAT CHINESE RICEBOWL SAFE   Remnants Of Japanese Rounded Up At Itu; Invasion Failure

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek To Address Workers By Telephone: Rest Ordered

DON’T SWOON GIRLS, SINATRA IS IN 1-A   Crooner Frequently Mobbed by Women Modestly Says He Won't Be Missed Much.

Mannerisms Theatrical After Death Of His Father-In-Law Says Witness At Nassau

Woman Says De Marigny Theatrical   Heated Words Mark Murder Trial at  Nassau

JAMAIGAN WORKERS TO AID U.S. FARMERS   State Department to Recruit 10,000 for Farm Jobs

FARM SQUABBLE GROWING HEATED   Senate Committee Irked bi Wickard and Brown But McNutt Promises Labor

Warships Buzz With Rumor: When Vessels Await Orders   SPARE TIME WELL SPENT

FLEET FEELS WAY IN FOG BY DEAD RECKONING   British Destroyers Have Little Opportunity To Navigate By Sun and Stars   GUARD'ILANES TORUSSIA

“BLUE NOSE FLEET” FLOUTS DEATH TO PATROL   British Destroyers Guard Sea Lanes to Russia Regard less Of Weather   LAUGH AT DANGERS

BRITISH SHIPS KEEN TO FIGHT FOE IN ARCTIC   Cruisers ‘Luxury Liners’ Com. pared To Destroyers But Stay Long at Sea   GUARD THE SEA LANES

RAF HITS TURIN BUSY ITALIAN WAR ARSENAL   City Is Heart Of Plane Production In II Duce’s 8 Country.

Russ Told Of U.S. Aid   Successes In Tunisia Also Hailed In Moscow

Rubber Strike Ends But New Troubles Arise as Many Workers Walk Out of Ball. Roller Bearing Plant

Strike Halts Jamestown  Plant Output   Walkout Is Directed At WLB: Workers in Rubber Plants in Akron Resume Tasks

AkronStrike Ends While Others Start      RUBBER WORKERS RETURN TO WORK AT AKRON FOLLOWING PRESIDENT’S REQUEST: JAMESTOWN, N. Y., PLANT IDLE.   War Labor Board Delay

Rubber Strike Is Ended, But Another Opens   Ball Bearing Plant Workers Quit In WY] R Disnute

RUSSIAN ARMIES DRAW NEAR NAZI BASE AT VWAZM/   German Radio Admits Withdrawal from Sychevka; London Area Bombed by Enemy Flyers.

Rommel’s Offensive from Mareth Line in Tunisia Flat Failure   Allies Regain Initiative in Africa; Other War  News Summarized

Postal Workers Get Pay Boost  Roosey elt Signs Bill Granting Roise

Postal Employes Given Wage Increase   President Signs Bill for Workers

WAR INVOLVES POLITICS OF U.S.   Babson Cites Reasons Why Peace Unlikely Till After Elections

 Late News Bulletins   ’- 2 Pevorted Shot in KansacPrison Breet.

STRIKE REALLY NOW UNDERWAY   Mines Closing Down in Pre paraticn for Saturday Work Stoppage.

LEWIS CONTINUES TO ' DEFY “WAR LABOR BOARD AND TARES NO ACTION TO STOP WALKOUTS

A 000 SOFT COAL MINERS ALREADY IDLE   Strike Is Under Way to All Intents and Purposes

Weather Hampers Aerial Action  Over North Africa SMASH ITALIAN SUBS  Reds Report New Minor Advances In Caucasus Fighting

BRITISH HOLD 10 HILL POSITIONS      American Artillery Helping to Command 2 Approaches to City; Jap Convoy Flees

TEXAS HOUSE HAS REVIVED GASOLINE PROCESSING TAX  REVENUE BILLS ADVERS! LY REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ARE REINSTATEL

Germans at Salerno Tn Peril of Flank Attack From South   [Vaunted Luftwaffe Whipped Out Completely   2,000 AMERICANS ARE RESCUED AFTER BEING CUT OFF FROM FIFTH   Brenner Pass Is Reported Clogged With Stalled Nazi Supplies

Americans Smash Three More Nazi Counter Attacks.   TAKE INITIATIVE TO ADVANCE ON NAPLES   Italian Patriots Hold Railway South of Brenner Pass.

Montgomery’s Forces Join Clark’s Army At Salerno, Report Nazis Retreating

Germans Now On Defensive   Enemy Troops Burrowing In Hills To Await Allied Attack. :

Japs Launch Burma And  China Drives   Seeking to Forestall Any Allied Moves in Burma Or to China Via India

FDR ORDERS MORE OUTPUT OF PRODUCT!   Lumber~-Satd-Needed F ‘or, Essential ’ Projects:

File Plan For Passenger, Mail Routes Through lowa   Would Have To Wait Until After War, But Application On File

MAN, WHO POSED AS OFFICER, ACCUSED IN BAD CHECK CASE   Suave Man, Alleged to Have Victimized Local Woman, Under Arrest in Pittsburgh——Local . Anale Is Related

MAN, WHO POSED AS OFFICER,   Suave Man, Alleged to Have Victimized Local Wo man, Under Arrest in Pittsburgh—Local Anale Is Related

Must Solve Big Problem Quickly   Draftee Must Find Home For Girls

Bogus Money Mighty Weapon During War   By FRANK J. WILSON Chief, U. 8. Secret Service AP Features

Jurors For The August Session Been Selected   SUMMER TERM OF SUPERIOR COURT WILL CONVENE ON THIRD MONDAY FOR SCHEDULED TWO WEEKS RUN

Superior Court To Convene On F ebruary First   JURORS DRAWN FOR WINTER TERM. TWO WEEKS SESSION SCHEDULED FOR TRIAL CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES

No Politics — InGovernors’  _ Conference   Spangler to Stay Away For That Reason, Say Informed Persons

MAY REDUCE ASTE   Plans to Cut Down Army  Training in Colleges Is   Considered

Plan To Cut College Corps   Army Will Send Fewer Men To Campuses Next Year.

Bishop Spellman lauds U. §. Unity  Says All Determined To Retain Freedom

VALUE OF TWO GAS COUPONS IS CUT TODAY   New Tough Effort Made To Com. bat Shortage Of Gas In Area

HALF-GALLON CUT IN GASOLINE FOR DRIVERS IS MADE      Value of "B" and “C" _ Coupon Books Reduced in Several Sections Today.

Subsidy Program Plans Incomplete   Processor Level Tc Govern Payment

PRICE SUBSIDY OUTLINED BY OPA OFFICIALS   PROGRAM STIRS UP ANGRY PROTESTS IN CONGRESS

OPA Setting Up Machinery For Processor-Level Payments In Food Price Subsidy Program

OPA, BUSINESS T0 COOPERATE   Chester Bowles Lays Down Cooperate - With - Business Chart; Names Business Man as Price Chief

OPA Promises Co-Operation With Business  College Professor Ousted as Chief

Bowles Sounds  New OPA Note   Cooperate-with-Business Ts Re Hie Pallev

AT LONG LAST   O.P.A. Chief Appoints A usiness Man As Price, Chief.

BOWLES ACTS TO SIMPLIFY * OPA METHODS   Names Business Man to, ” Be Price Chief, Outlines Program

OPA PROMISES LESS RED TAPE   General Manager Assert:  — Office Will Cooperate  With Business; New Price Chief Named

NEW PRICE Gilt TAKES OVER WORK   Business Man Is Replacing College Professor to Handle OPA Activities.

Coal Miners Get 48-Hour Week   Bowles Picks Business Man  To Succeed OPA Professor

OPA Head Picks Business Man  As Price Chief   Inaugurates Program To Simplify Operations Of Complicated Agency   Four Major Changes Are Made In Plans for Job Stabilization

VOLUNTARY OPA CHART DEVISED   No Further Rationing Expected; Coal May (;o On List

Bowles Promises To Simplify. All OP A’s Functions   Business Man Named Price Chief: No More Rationing Is Likely

TO COOPERATE WITH BUSINESS   OPA General Manager Removes College Profes sor From Job

OPA Launches New Business Co-Operation Plan   College Professors Out of Policy Jobs, Under Congress Order  ‘O SIMPLIFY EFFORTS  J. F. Brownlee New Price Control Chief Appointed Monday

MARINE GENERAL GETS HIGH AWARD   FIRST IN CORPS TO RECEIVE NAVY CROSS AND MEDAL OF HONOR

Vandegrift Gets Medal From F. R.  Becomes First Marine To Gain Naval And Congressional Awards

WAAC Officer To Head  Army Recruiters To Llano      ~ With Our Fighting Men 4

WAAC RALLY TO BE HELD HERE NEXT TUESDAY NITE   Affair Will Be Staged in District Court Room, Beginning at 7:30; School Band To Play and Citizens Will Be on Program

WAAC OFFICER AND ARMY RECRUITERS COMING FRIDAY   Rally and Entertainment Program Planned for 8 P. M.

WITHIN 25 MILES OF JUNCTION WITH AMERICANS DRIVING TOWARDS THE MEDITERRANEAN; AMERICAN ) CLASH WITH GERMANS.

British Eighth And Yanks Close In From South   British First Now Only 27 Miles Out Of Tunis In North

UNION WITH MORE YANKS   Meantime Americans te Northwest Battle Germans in Eftort to Break Through to Sea.   ANDERSON’S UNITS ALSO ON MARCH   General’s Forces Only 27 Miles From Tunis — Swarms of Bombers Batter Enemy.

7 CASEIN Ne WEEE  Driving Toward Sea   British First Army in North Now Within 27 Miles of Tunis; All Southern Tunisia Occupied

ANOTHER U.S. FORCE NEARING EIGHTH ARMY   British First Army Reaches Point Within 27 Miles Of Enemy's Tunis Stronghold.

British Reach Point 27 Miles From Tunis: All Southern Tunisia in Hand of Allies

British Fighth Army Advances  Steadily North   Yanks Hammer At Flanks Of Afrika Korps

ONLY 25 25 MILES BETWEEN FORCES PURSUING AXIS   First Army Now 27 Airline Miles From Enemy’s Tunis Stronghold   PATTON FIGHTING IN MEZZOUNA AREA

ommel’s Forces n Wild Flight; anks Advancing   ormans Leave Italian: Behind as They Flee up Coast   etreating Axis Units Lose Much of Their Equipment

*Near Another _ Junction With Yankee Column   All Southern Tunisia Now in Allied Hands; Patton Battles Nazis

ANOTHER U. 8. COLUMN PUTS PINCH ON AXIS   AMERICANS NEARING SEA AND JUNCTION WITH BRITISH

First Army Makes Gains In Direction  Of Stronghold   British 8th Advances 15 Miles Along Coast In Continued Pursuit  Of Fleeing Rommel  SOUTHERN TUNISIA NOW IN ALLIED HANDS  iat a   ‘Mentgomery Army, 2nd Tenens Column To Join Forees Soon

First Army Rolls Within 27 Miles Of Tunis Base  “AEDICA.MENITEDDANEAM

Montgomery's Forces Re— ported Near Another U.S. Calumn   FIRST ARMY NEARS «KEY BASE OF TUNIS   All Southern Tunisia Now in the Hands of Allies -

British Press Hot Chase of  Rommel Army   Montgomery’s Forces Only 25 Miles From Junction With Another Yank Column in Tunisia

British Units Report 15-Mile Gain   Near Junction With Still Another American Column

British Eighth And Yanks Close In From South   British First Now   Only 27 Miles Out ONE TD pets” Pox Be fox See's

COPPER WORKERS PREPARING FOR WALKOUT   Miners Vote to Strike Ir Protest of WLB Refusal To Consider Wage Hike

Strike Is Voted by Copper Men   Fourth of American Copper ‘Production in Peril as Miners Vote to Strike

CHANGE FORECAST INU. 3. DEALINGS WITH HER ALLIES   Critical Report of Five Senators Who Visited War Fronts Spells Trouble  for Administration.   MILITARY STRATEGY MAY BE AFFECTED   Solons Expected to Demand Lease-Lend Revision and That Others Share in Relief Work.

POGT-WAR ST ANE FACES CHANGES   -Off-Record Report of Tourist  ~ Senators Starts Ball Rolling; Early Results Forecast In Capital

Secret War   Changes in Post-War, Lend-Lease Deals Face Revision in Senate

DYNAMITE IN ~WAR REPORT BY SENATORS   May Strengthen Opposition to Advance Promises by United States.   MILITARY LEADERS MAY FEEL EFFECT OF REPORT

Report on War Brings Change In Senate Views   American Dealings With Allies May Undergo Revisions

See Changes In Dealings With Allies   Report on Progress of War Starts Action In U.'S. Senate

Senators May Cause Changes   Report of Five Who Toured: Fronts Leads To Spirited Debate

Flying Senators Find UncleSam Playing Sucker   Tougher Attitude Toward Our Allies Expected  BFream ‘War Rann

Far Reaching Changes Seen A: Result of Tour   Globe Trotting Senators Report Stars Ball Rolling for Reforms

Report May Cause Many Changes In War Strategy  Action Already Starts As Senators Seek  Imnmravad Citmuetiane

U.5. POSTWAR ALLIED DEALS FACE CHANGES   Military Strategy May Feel Weight of Legislative Pressure as Result Secret Revelations

Senators’ Views May Stir War Policy Changes   Capital Sees Move Already Started. To Delay Postwar Declaration, Check Lend-Lease and Cost Spread

Report Stirs Definite Turn  May Alter Dealing With Allies, Freed Peoples

Secret Report To Congress ©  sMay Alter War   Critical Review of War Conduct Slates Changes in Lend-Lease, Opposition to Advance Promises

Destructive Aerial Defeat In The Southwest Pacific   Three Transports Destroyed And 133 Planes Sho Down Or Crippled In Three-Day Running  Convoy-Air Battle In New Guinea Area

ICKRS RETURNS COAL MINES 10 369 OPERATORS   Number Of Pits Back In Private Management Is Boosted to 549, But 2.829 Still Held

DRADER RESTORED 69 COAL MINES   Releases Mines Scattered Throughout Soft Coal Re‘gions: Ickes Orders Certain Shipntents Reduced

43 Nations Sign Post-War Pacts   White House Meeting Due Tuesday

PROGRAM FOR WORLD RELIEF WILL BE SIGNED TUESDAY  - DELEGATES FROM 44 NATIONS WILL MEET AT WHITE HOUSE

CASH PAID or WASTE FATS   WHITE HOUSE TO BE HOST 10 44 ALLIED NATION’S DELEGATES

UNITED NATIONS TC SIGN RELIEF BILL   44, Representatives of Allied Nations Prepare Agreement for Post-War Project :

44 WILL MEET 10 SIGN FIRST PAC!   Intual Agreement Provides For Assistance to Starving War Victims.

WORLD RELIEF PACT SIGNING PLANS ARE SEI      White House to Be Host to 44 International Delegates for Ceremonies Tomorrow

Allies Sign Relief Pact  Tomorrow   Postwar Council Begins Work Next Week

Sign War . Relief Pact   44 United Nations — Delegates Meet to Tackle Huge Problem

PROGRAM FOR WORLD RELIEF WILL BE SHED TUESDAY  DELEGATES FROM 44 = NATIONS WILL MEET AT

SPECIAL FUND MAY BE PROBED   Move Started To Check Expenditures From 631 Million Appropriation

Probe to Be Asked Of FDR's Secret War Spending   Thorough Accounting Of Expenditures Will Be Demanded

FDR'S SPENDING BRINGS PROTEST   Solons Demand Accounting Of Expenditures, If He Asks More Money  :

SPECIAL FUND Io FACING INQUIRY   Congress Expected To Turn Spotlight On F.D.R. Expenditures

Tydings Asks “An Accounting   600 Billion Dollar Grant ‘For War Projects Ts In ‘Spotlight. 

Secret Fund Accounting Is To Be Asked   Two Senators Seize Chance For Congress To Exercise Authority.

Secret Spending und Probe Due By Congress Unit   Solons Seeking To Recapture Lost Powers; War Fund Checked

CONGRESS MAY PRY INTO WAR SECRETS, HINT   Move To Recapture Some of Legislative Authority Gains Momentum   OHIOAN ONE OF LEADERS   Questions May Be Asked About Spending Funds When Renewal Sought

Want Rein — (On Spending By: President.   Senators Demand Accounting From The ‘White House

CONGRESS TO STUDY WAR PROJECT BILL   Taft, Tydings To Demand Thorough Investigation

Settlement of Martinique  Issue Expected      French Ships May Be Turned Over to United Nations

ALLIto 10 GET FRENCH oflIPS AT MARTINIQUE   Giraud Visit Is Forerunner  Of Island’s Cooperation With United Nations

OPTIMISTIC VIEW ABOUT MARTINIQUI   Settlement of Differences on Three Warships, Dozen Vessels Is Possible.

GIRAUD’S VISIT 10 WASHINGTON MIGHT HELP =MARTINIQUE      Admiral Robert May Step Down As Island’s Commissioner  Gahan

STALEMATE HOLDS ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Sharp But Minor Battles Fought in Two Sectors  :

Morrow Wins Round in His Pension Fight   Gets OAA Bill on Calendar Ahead of Cigarct Tax in Senate

REPORT PROGRESS IN FIRST MOSCOW CONFERENCE TALK   URGENT MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED AT FUTURE MEETINGS

PROGRESS IS BEING MADE AT MOSCOW   Hull, Eden, Molotov Settle Down to Program of Daily Conferences On Issues   DETAILS UNREVEALED

FDR Prepares  Hor Conference   Holds Meetings With: His Top Advisers

Congress Gets  Anti-Subsidy Bill   Drastic Act Would Strip OPA, Others

Racine Gambling Games Must Go   Action Follows Parley With Governor

Eighth Air Arm Ends First Year   102 Targets Destroyed By American Airmen

UMW OFFICIALS ADDRESSING MASS MEETINGS   Effort Being Made To Get Men Back Into The Mines

ALLIED LEADERS PLOT NEW MOVES   Roosevelt and Churchill Plan Body Blow

Eden Returns After Confab in Cairo   BRITISH FOREIGN CHIEF SLATES COMMONS TALK ON RESULTS AT MOSCOW

I. DR. Renews  Funds Request   President Asks Senate To Provide For Mapping Of Post-War Plans.

Arm Shot Off, Gunner On Flying Fort Takes 100-1 Gamble Against Death

6 CARGO SHIPS LOST IN MONTH   Lowest U-Boat Toll O: War Recorded For February

9 More Ships Sunk In Western Atlantic  RY TURP ASenrraTrncry PrRrrcEe

Miners Spurn All Efforts To Bring Strike to an End   Majority of More Than 15,090 on Strike Will Remain Out

Coal Miners Not to Goon Job   Government May ‘Be Forced to Take Some Action

Anthracite Mine Worker Strike Holds After Vote ©   Majority of Strikers Will Not Return To Colleries Today, Conciliator Says   HINTS GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE ACTION   50-Cent Increase In Dues Paid Union Bottom of Trouble

15,000 Penna. Coal Strikers Still Out   Few Vote to Resume Work, But Majority Huggle Qu Union Dues

BULK OF MINERS CONTINUE. STRIKE   Majority Won’t Return to Work Today,. Federal Prober Says

Coal Mine Strike  Due to Continue   Union Dues Dispute Unsettled in East

MINE STRIKE FARM GROUPS IS NOT ENDED WILL GATHER   Most of Men Out in Hard Coal Fields Will Not Return to Jobs   From Beans and Pickles To Planes Plant Record

Many Miners Vote Not To Return To Jobs Today   Mojority of Men on Strike Decide Not to Return, Federal Conciliator Says—Increase in the Monthly Dues Issue -

MINERS REFUSE TO END STRIKE   Anthracite Walkout On Extra Union Dues Continues

New Areas of Black and Ruin Follow Attacks  COLOGNE, HAMBURG AGAIN ARE STRUCK  United Nations Airmen Winding Up Record Month

Two Athens Air Fields Damaged by Explosives Planted by Revolters   Axis Leaders Grow More Jittery Over Invasion; War Remains Quiet on the Russian Fronts ; Fourteen U-Boats Sunk in Atlantic in Fortnight

FLYING FORTS BLAST LECHORN   Reach Far Into Northern Itahy To Find Target   VAST DESTRUCTION   Raiders Hit Italian Oruise@ And Four Cargo Ships; No Planes Lost

FINDS EXCESS PAY BEING ENCOURAGED      Congressman Says Admin. istration to Blame for Excess Waaes.

HIGH WAGES ARE UNDER CRITICISY   M ichigan Representative Compares Wages With Sum Paid to Soldiers.

Administration Encourages Exeess Pays, Profits, Claim   Congressman Says Girls Paid $55.80 Weekly Learning to Mend Shoes $50-a-Month Suldiens Wear, and That Machinegun Assemblers Get Ag Much As Top-Ranking Officers

Pay Girls $55.80 Weekly To Fix Shoes Of $50-A-Month Soldiers   « Investigating Congressman Says Administration Measures War's Progress By Its Expenditures

BELIEVES GERMAN COMEBACK UNLIKELY   Welles Doubts That Germans Will Bo Able to Launch Spring Drive in Russla.

Vv With Our  Soldiers and Sailors »\e @   Leo Rettenmaier Returns Home: Has Honorable Discharge

With Our Soldiers and  Sailors                    Leo Rettenmaier Returns Home; Has Honorable Discharge

NAZIS DRIVE - ON LENINGRAD   ‘Chains’ of German Infan try Repulsed By  Russians

Germans Open New Russian Attack   Long-Stalled Army Moves on Leningrad

GROUP MAY DECIDE TAX ISSUE TODAY   Democrats Favor Plan To Forgive 50% Of 1942 Payments

Chinese Begin Counter Deve On Japanese   Yuyangkway Retaken Enemy Installations Damaged Sharply

Paced By American Bombers  Chinese Knock Japs Cack; On Offensive

OHIO GOVERNOR IN TIGHT SPOT   Time Change Issue Puts State In Confusion; Cities Stand Pat

Largest Cities Protesting Slowing of Clocks From Wartime to Eastern Standard   FARMERS URGE MOVE   State Authorities Believed 75% of People Wanted Clocks Turned Back One Hour

Fathers’ Draf Quiz Eyes Labor Survey   Senate Unit Hears Of ‘Hoarding’ Men in War Plants

Senators Demand Congress Probe ‘Labor Hoarding  Propose Drafting Of Fathers Await Their Findings

LABOR HOARDING CHARGES HEARD   Deferment Of General Draft Of Fathers Gains Support

Wheeler, Holman Cite Labor-Hoarding In Attack on Father Induction; Hershey States 446,000 Are Needed

Wheeler Draft Bill Receives Fresh Support   Sen. Holman Backs Plan to Defer Dads: Grand Jury Indicts Six in Fraud Case

QuickBacking Given Move To Postpone Dads’ Draft   Some Congressmen  Want To Investigate ‘Hoarding’ of Labor By War Factories

Would Put Off Fathers Dratt to Wait: on Inquiry  Investigation Into Labor Hoarding Wins Backing

446,000 Dads For 1943 Is Hershey Bid   WHILE SENATOR WHEELER ‘ADVOCATES DEFERRING DRAFT UNTIL LABOR HOARDING IS PROBED; HOLMAN SUPPORTS.   Receive Statistice

Wheeler Proposes Investigation of ‘Labor Hoarding   Montarian Favors Putting Off Draft of Fathers Pending Survey

Senators Seek Investigation Of Draft Policy   Wheeler, Oregon Solon Would Defer Fathers Until Inquiry

Floods Fatal To Four In Oklahoma      Motor Boats Used To  Rescue Marooned

Four Known Dead  In Southern Flood   Struggle Against Oklahoma Streams to Rescue People in Trees.

Four Persons Known Dead In Oklahoma   Two Others Missing; Hundreds Homeless; Scores Marooned

Defer Calling Up College Students In This Area Until Order Is Cleared

FIFTH COMMAND TO DEFER CALL   Clarification Awaited On Or der Regarding College Re Serve Students

Yanks Win Domination 01 Tunisian Pass   Axis Shows Increasing Fear U. S. Troops Ready Fer Big Drive   ALLIES TAKE, TOWN   Cairo Communique Reports 8th Army Battling Rommel Rear Guard

U. Ss. Recaptures Vital Ousseltia   Pass in tunisia   Axis Jittery in Expectation Of American Drive to Wipe Out Retreatina Afrika Korns

VITAL TUNISIAN PASS IS SEIZED BY U.S. FORCES   Axis Radios Express Fear Of Drive Against Retreating Afrika Korps   REACH MARETH FIRST   Spanish Dispatches Report Heavy Allied Aerial Reinforcements Arriving

Avis Jittery About U.S. Push   Americans Capture Vital Pass in Tunisia

Axis Fear U.S. About Ready To Start Drive on Rommel   American Tanks and Infantry Regain Domination of Vital Mountain Pass

AXIS FEARS DRIVE BY ALLIES TO WIPE GUT AFRIKA KORPS   Main Body Of Rommel’: Troops Have Arrived At Mareth ‘Line Fortifications

AXIS FEARING TUNISIA DRIVE   American Tanks and Infantry Suc *‘ ceed in Regaining Domination of Vital Pass — Four Enemy Planes Destroyed.

GERMANS IN FEAR OF U.S. ATTACK ON AFRICAN FORCES   Axis Troops Are Driven From Positions In Ousseltia; Rommell Is Attempting Consolidation.   AMERICANS IN FIRST DAYLIGHT AIR RAIDS   French Resistance Is Broken at Marseilles, Probably 300 Killed by Machinegur Fire.

Pepperell Man Keeps Statistics On Allies Using Wilderness Base To Strike At Jap Island Point

State Lawmakers In New Session   Six-Point Program, Controversial Issues, Kace Legislature

Sen. Nye Predicts Food Riots in U.S.   Farm Production  Problem Studied

‘Tire Certificate Not Needed Now To Get Recaps   Fitchburg Inspectors Will Meet Tuesday Night For New Instructions

EASE UP ON RECAP TIRES   OPA Orders Rationing Certificate Is No Longer Needed

NEW TRY FOR FRENCH UNITY   Churchill in Visit to Africa Again Attempted to Draw Giraud, DeGaulle Together

YODER fo GWEN LEAVE 10 TAKE A GOWMISoIOh   Council Gives Tipton C:ty Engineer Leave of Abs-rc2.   RESOLUTION IS PASSED   Compliments Yoder on His Fine Work and Praises His Report.

YODER: (5 GIVEN LEA TO TAKE. A GONMISSION   Council’ Gives’. “Tipton C: ty . Engineer Leave. of .Abscree.*  yee   RESOLUTION IS PASSED   ‘Compliments Yoder on. His Fine Work and Praises ‘His Report. 

Almost Traitorous Acts  Alleged In War Effort   Shocking Picture Of Bureaucratic Buck Passing And Incompetent Administration Reported Given House Committee

BELIEVES MANY STORES DOOMED   Sma!! Business Group Of House Charges Buck  Passing On Issues

Shakeup Asked For WPB Unit   -House Group Criticize: *Buck-Passine’

Small Business Faces Crisis, 'Probers Assert   Production Still Lacks Efficient Co-ordination, Committee Comments

PROGRAM FOR - SMALL FIRMS   HOUSE GROUP REPORTS “BUBEAUCRATIC BUCK-PASE- ‘ING" IN SMALL BUSINESS PRODUCTION : SETUP

BUREAUCRATS ATTACKED BY HOUSE GROUP   Small Business Facing Extinction Under Present Proqram

Report Ailing Marines Had To Unload Own Ship Probed   Akron Paper Claims Guadalcanal Attackers Were Forced to Take Over Unloading Task When Crew-  Men Refused to Work On Sunday; Paper Terms Incident “Worst Scandal of War”

Ailing Marines Had To Unload Supplies At Guadalcanal When Union Crew Refused To Work

Paper Charges Ailing Marines Had : to Unload Own Supplies in Solomons

Marines Had To Unload Supplies At  Guadalcanal   Merchant Ship Crew Refused To Work On Sunday Because Of Tinton Rules

Union Rules Force Ailing Marines to Unload Supplies at Guadalcanal

Hears Guadalcanal Crew ‘Laid Off' for Union Rules   Akron Paper Reports Ailing Marines Forced To Unload Own War Supplies

Ailing Marines Unload Ship In Solomons When Union ‘Crewmen Refuse To.Work.

Crew Refuses To Work on Sunday, Union Regulations, Ailing Marines Unload Ship

Weary Marines Forced To Unload Own Supplies On Guadalcanal As Crew Refused To Work On Sunday

UNION'S WORK REFUSAL PROBED   Ailing,Marines Forced To Untoad Supplies On Sunday; Ohio Paper Reports

‘MARINES HAD TO UNLOAD SHIP. (OFF GUADALCANAL BECAUSE OF 'UNION SUNDAY RULES, CHARGE

Sick Marines Had To Unload Ship When Crew Balks At Sunday Work   Marines Had To Take Over Work Qn Guadalcanal Because Of Union Regulations Against Working On Sunday.

Union Sailors  Anger Marines   Knock Off For Sunday During War Work

BOWLES PREDICTS LIVING COST RISE AF SUBSIDIES END   - Urges Payments Continue as House Prepares to Consider Legislation to Outlaw Them.   DECLARES WAGE ISSUE INVOLVED IN FIGHT   Believes Labor Will Press for Higher Pay if Plan Is Kiiled—Opponents Assail Program.

Higher Prices to Follow If Subsidy Plan ls Dropped  (ay Pee "aa RRS ee Se ey   Price Administrator Makes Strong Plea. for Program

BOWLES DEFENDS: FOOD SUBSIDY   Says Ban Would Lead To Price Rise; Meat Would Rise Two To Six Cents A Pound.

Bowles Warns Against Ban  On Subsidie:   OPA Chief Makes Appeal After House Schedules BRillsofae 3 Ekas  iO ate

Sfalin Receives Secret Message   Davies ‘Arrives In Moscow By Plana

Teachers Attend Meeting Today In Sioux City  _HLN. Kluckhohn Is Member Of  Executive Committe.

HARD FREEZE TONIGHT   Extreme Cold in Nort! in North Not Headed This Way, However

Tonight To Be Colder   Hard Freeze For Northeast Kansas Is The Prediction

/HARD FREEZE TONIGHT   ‘Extreme Cold in North Not Headed This Way, However

Germans Reinforce Yugoslav Forces  Tap Reserve Pool as Guerrillas Attack

Slavs Oppose Slavs Opp  Top Reserves   Nazis Employ Troops  Tentned in Rawnarnia

Germany Calling Up Reserve Pool   Fresh Troops To Be Sent into Balkans

YABLONSKI IS FIRED AS OPA BOARD MEMBER   District Office Announces His Removal From Board At California

KELLY URGES MORE VICTORY. GARDENS   Conservation Opens Land to Gardeners; :7lan Price Rules for State

Governor Asks Public’s Help In Food Crisis   Victory Gardens Are Essential; Black ~ Market War On

RACE HIRING: AS PROBLEM   QUESTION OF NEGEO EMPLOY" MENT ON SOUTHERN RAIL"ROADS NOW PROBLEM OF GOVERNMENT

Battle Of Kiev Opens; Russians Take Rail City   Soviet Forces Are East Of Dnieper; Capture Scores Of Towns

Red Forces Open Fight For Kiev   Krichev Falls To Advancing Russian Army

Russians Lay Siege To Kiev  Reds Overwhelm Krichey As   Reds Q Overwhelm Krichey As ‘Cleanup Of Big Area Starts

Soviets Score New Gains in White Russia   Krichey Captured by Russians: Battle for Kiev Begins as Guns And Bombs Are Heard

Krichev Is Taken  In Heavy Assaults   Crescendo Of Guns And Bombs Herald Start Of Battle For Kiev: Frontal Attack Hinted

Rail Junetion Is Captured By Red Army   Many Prisoners arid ‘Much Equipment “Yaken From Nazis

Russians Open Major Effort To Take Kiev   Make New Advances In White Russia

Nazis Answer From Cliffs Before City   Red Forces Also Seek To Clear Eastern Bulge Of White Russia  CAPTURE KRICHEV

Struggle For Kiev Stronghold Begins   Soviet Troops Cleaning Up Eastern Bulge O White Russia; Krichey Junction Taken From Germans

Soviets Clean up After Success in’ White Russia  Capture of Kerchev   Capture of Kerchev Gives Reds Key Railway Junction

Russians Lay Siege To Kiev   Reds Overwhelm Krichey As Cleanup Of Big Area Starts

Soviets Fight to Clean Up White . Russia Bulae   KRICHEY IS TAKEN BY SOVIET FORCES   Widespread Battle Opening on a Fifty Mile Front

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS IN WHITE RUSSI   Capture Krichev, Stra. tegic Nazi Strongpoint, Rail Town

FLYERS TELL - OF PARIS RAID   Report Scene “Wonderful” And Targets Easy to See in Sunlight

Pension Bill Is Vetoed By Gov. Goodland   Retirement Program For State Employes Sets Too Heavy A Burden, Asserts Governor —

RETIREMENT PLAN FOR STATE VETOEL   Goodland Says Burden Would Be Too Great for State to Bear Now.

Will Seek To Reduce Plane Crashes   Trumon Committes Also Will Check On Ovearsea Lending. Fields

Truman Group To Cheek On  Plane Losses   Reduction Of Plane Crashes, (;uarantee Of Air Fields Investigated.   ALL CHARGES DENIED

DEFECTIVE AIRPLANE. PARTS SOLD, REPORTS TRUMAN COMMITTEE   Head of Curtiss-Wright Terms «Charges “False. and~ Unwarranted   TO STUDY: PLANE CRASHES

TRUMAN GROUP ACCUSES AERO FIRM OF FRAUD      Yanghan Denies Allegations of Defective Engines on Behalf oi Wright Aero   U. S. SUIT IS FILED   Truman Commiliee fo Probe Plane mache  Crashes, U. §. Interests in Alrfields Built Abroad

Truman Quiz Turns fo Army Plane Crashes   Sweeping Report Made on Aviation Situation in U.S.

Military Plane Crashes Will Be Investigated      Truman Committee Turn: Over Evidence To Avetice Dent.

To Probe Military Plane Crashes: Look Into Post-War Use of Fields

Truman Committee Turns to Post-War Air Issue   Sweeping Report of U. S. Military Aviation Passed’ on: to Denartment of Justice

LAXITY CHARGED IN BUILDING OF AIRPLANE PARTS   TRUMAN COMMITTEE FORCES SHAKEUP IN BIG WRIGHT PLANT

U.S. TAKING BIR. QFFENSIVE   Le Mans, Vrance, Blasted Tuesday in Daylight Attacks by U. S&S. Fiying Fortresses.

FORTRESSES IN RAID UPON AXIS EUROPE   Big American Bombers Hit Targets at Le Mans, France, In Daylight.

U. _S. Fortresses 'y fake Over Bomb  Drive On Europe   : Precision Raid On “LeMans, France, Made _ By American Planes

U. 5. Fortresses Take Over Allied Air Offensive   Precision Bomb Attack Made on Le Mans. France

FLYING FORTS ~ ~RAID FRANCE       + Triples Weight of Attacks en Germany

Bad Weather Holds Up RAF  Operations   Eden Says British  Would Not Hesitate Ty, Ramh Rama

GERMAN STRENGTH 1 SPREAD DANGEROUSLY THIN IN YUGOSLAVIA   MORE FICTION THAN TRUST HAS BEEN HEARD OF EVENTS IN DALAMATIA

GERMANS ON THIN ICE IN YUGOSLAVIA   Strongholds Are Fast Falling To Allies

GERMAN STRENGTH 15 SPREAD DANGEROUSLY THIN IN YUGOSLAVIA  / MORE FICTION THAN   MORE FICTION THAN TRUST HAS BEEN HEARD OF EVENTS IN DALAMATIA

NAZI DEFENSES THINLY SPREAD OVER BALKANS   Eyewitness Account Tells Of Partisan Fight Against Germans

Nazi Strength In Yugoslavia Is Spread Dangerously Thin, IA. P. Writer Learns On Visit   Daniel De Luce Discovers Italian Collapse Left Germans In Bad Spot

Naz FORCE SPREAD THIN IN YUGOSLAVIA         Associated Press Wii ‘Reaches Partisan Heodquarters '

Nazi Forces Spread Thin In Yugoslavic   Italian Collapse Left Germans  In Dangerous Spot, Writer Told

American Writer, on Visit to Yugoslavia, Tells How German Forces Are Thinly Spread

NAZI STRENGTH SPREAD THININ YUGOSLAV AREA   Two Divisions Experience Difficulty Maintaining Order After Italian Disintegration

German Strength Is Spread Thin In Yugoslavia, Correspondent Finds On Visit With Guerrillas

German Strength is Spread Dangerously Thin in Yugoslavic   Partisans Ready to Attack from All Sides When Chance Comes

GERMANS WEAK IN YUGOSLAVIA   AP Reporter Brings Out First Eye-Witness News in 2 1-2 Years.   MEETS WITH PARTISANS

Charred Wreckage Only Thing Left Of 22 Jap Ships In Bismarck Sea

2 Damaged Destroyers Put to Death   Lifeboats, Barges and Rafts Crammed with Japs Bembed; Allied Planes Attack Jap Airfield at Lae

‘Only Four U.S. Plc,  ‘Planes Lost In Major Sea Victory      Two Damaged Destroy. ers Sunk. Yesterday.

ONLY CHARRED WRECKS REMAIN OF JAP ARMADA   Finishing ‘Touches Added To. Nippon Convoy::'

 Nothing but Floating  Wreckage Remains of  22 Ship Convoy.  JAPS AFLOAT ARE  ALL ELIMINATED

Raid On Lae *Climaxes Success Of Allied Pilots ‘eln Bismarck Seq

HUGE NPPONESE FLEET SUNK WITH HEAVY LIFE LOSS   Only Floating Wreckage Remains at Battle Scene; Allied Airmen Scored Tremendous Victory.

Only Wreckage Of i Armada  In Pacific Sea   Allied-Fliers: Sink-2-More Destroyers To Complete Destruction Of Convoy

Only Charred Wreckage  Remains of Jap Armade   Final Touches Added When Two Damaged Destroyers Are Sunk

Ia ~ Totiches Added Yesterday When Two Damaged Destroyers Which Remained Afloat Through the Night Were _ Put To Death.

Flyers Clean Seas of Jap Survivors   Debris Observed over 20-Mile Area, Allied Pilot Reports; Damaged Destroyers Are Finally Sent to Bottom

Fliers Clean Up Final  Survivors of Jap Fleet   Two Crippled Destroyers Sunk And Crowded Rafts and Lifeboats Destroved

WRECKAGE OF CONVOY SEEN   Last Two Destroyers Sunk. MacArthur Announces

Allied Bombs Blast Finish To Jap Convoy   Only Charred, Ficating Wreckage Remains; Tokyo Silent; Raids On Bases Continue

Cedar Chest Murder : Ts Bared-In Columbus      ‘More Than One Involved In Mystery, Spe.  cial Investigator Says; Victim Had : Worked at Quartermaster Depot

Forces of U.S. Withdraw ToMountains   British Eighth Army Driving Hare From South to Relieve Central Tunisian Situation

French Leader Claims Offensive OfEnemy Broken   British Eighth Army Promises To Remove Pressure From Americans.

Eighth Arm Expected toRelieve Pressure on ’ Americans      FIGHTING REPORTED ON REDUCED SCALE   Severe Defeat knflicted' on American Armored Forces

HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY AMERICANS   BRITISH 8TH ARMY MAY EASE STRAIN ON U.S. TROOPS

SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON SPEAKS OF IT AS SHARP REVERSE FOR AMERICANS; LOSSES’ OF MEN AND MaATERIALS HEAVY. eal

Smash up to Mareth line as German tanks stand near border of Algeria

NAZI TANKS ARE NEAR TO ALGERIA AS DRIVE SLOWS   U. S. Troops Withdrew To Mountains Below Tebessa   BRITISH ADVANCING   IN SOUTH TUNISIA

Nazis Now Command 4,000 Square Miles  In Central Tunisia  ADVANCE 60 MILES IN FOUR-DAY PUSH  But British 8th Army Moves Swiftly North To Relieve Situation

U.S. Tank Losses — Depicted as Heavy   Yank Forces Stand South Of Tebessa, 12 Miles  [os a 

Veteran Axis Tank Division:  Gain 60 Miles   British 8th Army Draws Nearer to Relieve Pressure

TANKS WITHDRAW TO MOUNTAINS   Take up Stronger Positions On Slopes of Range   AXIS VETERANS   Advance 60 Miles Since Sun. day; Fighting Continues On Reduced Scale

O0-MILE ADVANCE MADE BY GERMANS IN 4-DAY BATTLE   Ronmeil’s Men Stand Near Algerian Border Ready to Turn South to Meet British Eighth Armv.   PRESSURE ON YANKS APPEARS SLACKENING   Much of U. S. Units’ Armored Equipment Falls to Enemy—Nazi Losses Are Not Known.

Leningrad Siege Lifted By Russians Scoring New Gains   Japanese Forces In Papuan Peninsula All But Wiped Out

British Near Base at Tripoli   Russia Lifts Siege Of Leningrad; Gains On Wide Front.

Nazis’ Rout Heads   United Nations Gair Victories in Libya Russia and New Guinea

AXIS 1S ROCKED ON THREE FRONTS IN WORLD WAR   Red Army Drive Breaks Leningrad Siege as It Rolls Relentiessly On   CRISIS IS NEAR IN TRIPOLI   Allied Aerial Offense Is Stepped Up in Tunisia; One Minor Setback

Allies Take Vital Jap Strongholds In  New Guinea Drive   Reds Lift Leningrad Seige, Surge to Within 108 Miles of Kharkov.

8th Army Catches Up With  Fleeng Germans In Africa      Epic 17-Month-Siege of Leningrad Lifted At Russians Hail Rout of Germans There

British Move Up To Only 40 Miles From Tripoli Base   MacArthur's Men Cut Remaining Japs Off From Coastline

mg Chase aid Ended  t Tarhuna   ort British 8th Army atches Up With Nazis 0 Miles From Tripoli

(Rommel Again Flees Before Rritish Armv   Second British Army Is Within 90 Miles of Tripoli  LENINGRAD FREED  Allies Pocket Japs in Fight; Take Two Foe  Strongholds

New Sledgehammer Blows. Against Axis-On Three Fronts, But Allies..Lose Some Ground in Tunisian -Clash. -

Two Columns Push Down Qn  Broken Enemy   Russians Foree Five Mile Strip Through Siege Army At Leningrad.   REDS. GAIN IN SOUTH

BRITISH ATTACK OMIEL'S ARM REDS ADVANCIN   Russians Only 108 Miles rom Ukraine Industrial Capital; Long Siege of Leningrad Lifted.

Eighth Army Engages Axis Near Tarhuna   Approaches Within 40 Miles Of Tripoli Base

BRITISH MAKE CONTACT WITK ROMMEL ARM)   In Southern Russia, Reds Surge Forward Again. Two Strong- — holds Taken in New Guinea 

United Nations Move Forward In North Africa  NEAR TRIPOLI Red Armies I Lift Nazi  ex tr FF

IN LIBYA, RUSSIA AND SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIES SUCCESSFUL  ROMMEL APPEARS IN RE TREAT AGAIN, RUSSIANS BREAK LENINGRAD SIEGE

Leningrad Siege Lifted By Red Army   City’s 1,000,000 Residents, Cut Off from World for 17 Months, Reach End of Ordeal; British 8th Army in Contact with Rommel’s Forces

BRITIoH Ih LIBYA CLOSE ON TRIPOLI   Two Advance Columns Reported 40 and. 90 Mites from Base.      ROMMEL’S RETREAT NOW IS HEADLONG   Russians Lift Long Siege of Leningrad, . Report 13,000 Germans Slain.

Allies Hit Enemy Hard  On 3 Fronts   Advance In Russia, Libya And New Guinea; Siege O Leningrad Lifted By Reds

7-Months-Old Siege Broken At Leningrac   British Eighth Army” Is Only 40 Miles From Tripoli Today

Eighth Army Reported In Close Pursuit Of Enemy In Libya With Second Column Striking Along Coastal Road East Of Tripoli—Red Armies Of North Recapture Fortress Guarding Approach To Former Czarist Capital—Soviet Forces Drive Toward Kharkov

Lhe War 1 oday “Many Thousands” Of Commandos Ready To Spearhead Invasion Attack

BIG FORCE OF HIGHLY TRAINED AND TOUGH SPECIALISTS READY FOR INVASION ACROSS CHANNEL

Commandos Will Be Vital te  Allied Invasion of France ‘Will Act as Spearhead

BOMBERS SCATTER JAP MERCHANTHEN   ATTACK MADE ON SHIPS OFF NEW IRELAND — TRANSPORT POSSIBLY SUNK,

RAID WEST GERMANY   Bombers Escorted All the Way By Fighter Planes

Large Formation of Fortresses — Blasts Germany   Important Industrial Town In Western Section Bombarded

Moderate Opposition Is Encountered On 100th Mission Of Bombers Over Continent

Axis Balkan Satellites, Weary Of War, Advancing Feelers For Peace

BALKAN STATES PUT OUT PEACE FEELERS   Authoritative Sources Say Axis Satellites Are  War-Weatry

SATELLITES OF AXIS SEERING PEACE OF OWN   ‘Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary Known to Have Put Out Feelers Through Neutral Channels

Hungary, Bulgaria .and . Ru: mania, Weary of War,  are. Seeking Way Out...

BRUTAL KILLER OF CHILD GETS LIFE SENTENCE   Pittsburgh Judge Apol ogizes for Not Imposing Death Sentence on Raper and Murderer   PLEADED GUILTY   Enticed Girl 4, Into House With Candy Bar: Buried ‘Body in Cellar of His Home

War Effort Makes Food Big Business   Many Firms Converting Plants To This New ‘Industry’

Ttaly Invasion In Offing, Says Alsiers Radio   Contest for Second City Grows More Bitter: Yanks Advance

NOW IN TRAINING    Private Gladys Borrusch at Fort , Des Moines, Iowa.

BRITISH KNOCK OUT 20 MORE NAZI TANKS: FRENCH TAKE HILI   American Troops Hack Way Into Enemy [Lines With Bayonets, Hand Grenades

Raid Comparable in Weight to 1,000-Plane Bombardment of Cologne.

John Q. Civilian Well Fed In 1942 But May Have To Tighten Belt This Year

Must Fall Back To Avoid Trap, Berlin Radio Says Soviets Near Krivoi Ros

GERMAN DISPATCH CLAIMS TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM STRATEGIC POINT   Russians Making New Progress In Drive To Cut Off As Many As  - Millian Nazi Treops.

Remind Motorists That A-4 Gasoline Coupons Expire Midnight Sunday

BROWN WARNS ON BUYER RUSH   HOUSEWIVES ASKED TO AVOID MEAT STAMPEDE

Appeal Issued To Housewives  By OPA Head   Urgent Request Made Te Avoid Buying Rust _ Before Meat Rationin; * Begins On March 29

Red Bayonets Forcing Nazis On Road Back   Russian Arms And Courage Have Sent Germans Staggering In Retreat Along Wide Front

CHARGES FLY. ASDEBATEON PACTS OPER   Heoted Exchanges in the House Over Reciprocal Trades Treaties

PRESIDENT PLEDGES WAR PROSECUTION WON'T BE STOPPED   Says He Will Use All His Power to Protect National Interests

HOUSE REFUSES TO BOOST SOCIAL SECURITY FUND   Missouri Legislators Accuse U. S. of Trying to Intimidate Them Into Increasing Total.   MATCHING MILLIONS MAY BE CUT OFF   “Tell Government to Take Money and Go to Hell,” One Solon Shouts During Debate.

Shout Defiance Of Federal Aid In Killing Bill   Deny Measure by 2 Votes; Osborn Led Fight for Fund

SHERIFF ON STAND   Officer Doesn’t Remember Being in Ottawa on  February 13

Not Drinking Hale Testifies   Suspended Sheriff On Trial At Ottawa

BATTLE FOR SICILY HITS FINAL PHASE   Acting Secretary of War Says Victory Matter of Days

FOOD ALLOTMENT PLAN 1S URGEL   Senator LaFo-lette Wants a Minimum Allotment, No «  ~° Subsidies. —

WISCONSIN, SENATOR INTRO; DUCES BILL TO GUARANYEE ALL NEEDY INDIVIDUALS SUFFI CIENT FOOD

issue of Union Security Is Eliminated   Attorney General Rules RLA  _Forbids Maintenance of Membership and Closed Shop in Railway Labor Contract

Early Action On State Tax Program Seen   A  GOP Majority, However. Has Not Yet Reached Final Decision On Detail«e OF Peacram

Churchill Back In London to Report Talks   Meeting Seen as Prelude to Smashing Biows by Allies; Prime Minister Flies Home by Way of Africa,  Maps Final Strategy Changes.

New Clashes In  West Caucasus   Battling Continues For Black Sea Naval Base Of Novorossisk   SOVIET ARTILLERY HAMMERS AT NAZIS

TUNISIAN PORTS IN BIG AIR RAID  Fighteen German Fight  Eighteen German Fighters Shot Down In Heavy Attacks On

JAPAN'S TOJO VISITS MANILA   Makes Boastful Speech On Anniversary Of Fall Of Correvidor

May Irrigate Kaw River Valley   Plans Would Be In- * _cluded in ‘Missouri River Development Now Under Discussion

ENEMY SUPPLY DEPOT ON NEW GUINEA-BLOWN TO BITS IN TERRIFIC EXPLOSION -

JAP MUNITION DUMP LEVELED   Explosions Set Pacific Record  een  Finschhafen Net Is Closing

Jap Munitions  Depot Wrecked   Wewak Munitions Dumps Are Charred Ruins After U. S. Attack   HUGE EXPLOSIONS CAUSED BY BOMBS

Withholding Tax Considered For Compromise Bill  Both Party Leaders Together On Taxes;   Both Party Leaders Together On Taxes; Civilian Supply May Be Put Under Control!

To Work on Pay-as-Go Compromise   Arguments Continue on Labor Resistance to Anti-Inflation Order, Dollar Devaluation Authority, Ete.

Flier Tells How Yanks Lyached   Repatriates Agree Incident Happened

Eastern States Car Owners To Demand More Gas   New York Group Sche dules Protest Meeting for August 18

GAS DEALERS _ ENLIST PUBLIC   Mass Meeting of Motorists is Calles — Auto Club Head Charges Mid west Hoarding

WAn PRISONERS Wat IN STATE PROBABLE   Alleviation Of Labor Shortage Is Acute Problem

Shot To Death In Washington   <r oT  PUIG S APY RARE  Thrown Into Street

2 Attractive Women and Physician And Wife Killed by Unknown Hands   DE. ANT WIRE KILLED

WASHINGTON NOW STIRRED BY NEW MURDER MYSTERY   Body of Young Woman, Shot Six Times, Dumped Out On Street Near .  Dro antanl

Dumps Wounded  Woman From Car   Slayer Flees In Car; Red-Haired Victim Was Shot.

SLAYER DUMPS WOMAN'S BODY NEAR GAPITOI   Attractiv e Red-Haired Wo. - man, Shor Six Times, Dies In Washington Street

Woman Shot, Is Left To Die In Rain On Street   Seek Slayer In  National Capital

ARMY GIVES K. U: : “GO AHEAD” SIGN   University Is on Market fox  _ Equipnient for Lindley,   TO REPORT AUGUST 9

ARMY GIVES K. U: “GO AHEAD” SIGN   University Is on Market fox ane _ Lindley,   TO REPORT AUGUST 9

Americans Blast Enemy At Wewak: New Guinea Base   Pour Bombs For Three Hours On New Invasion Stronghold Under Construction   JAP SHIP HEAVILY DAMAGED BY HITs

YANKS BOMB » JAP BASE IN NEW GUINEA   38,000 pounds of explosives dumped on enemy stronghold at Wewak

FARMERS NEED HELP -IN FOOD PRODUCTION   [Most States Expect’ a Crisis E ‘at. Harvest Time

SEARCH FOR HAMMER MAN   Maniac terrorizes Chicago after attack on ten persons

Hunt Hammer Man In Chicago Area   Attacks Ten Women and Girls and Small Boy

German Attacks Are At Standstill In Kursk Sector   Offensive On One Part 0: Russian Front Appears Halted   HEAVY FIGHTING IN SOUTHERN AREA

HUGE LOSSES SUFFERED IN 10-DAY BATTLE   Steady Defensive Attacks Waged By Russians Weaken Enemy Offensive   CENTRAL PUSH STALLEO   Red Counterattacks Chase Germans Out Of Key Positions Around Belgorod

ENEMY CONCENTRATES ON  SOUTHERN WING OF FRONT AFTER FUTILE ATTEMPTS” _IN NORTH :

SELF DEFENSE PLEA - MADE BY SOLDIER HELD FOR KILLING   Trial Gets Under Way Before Wilmington Jury

OWI Calls Ickes On Its ‘Carpet   Magazine Article Annoys Elmer Davis

Nazis Tried Everything to ~ Stop Raiders   Bombs Against Bombers Other Desperate Moves, Failed to Halt Fortresses   A SEDALIA PILOT IS COMMENDED   ‘He Performed Best Job of Any of-Our Group,’’ Says Leader of U..S. Raid

NAZIS USING BOMBS TO ATTACK BOMBERS   Suicide Tactics Also Used Against Flying Forts

German Air Force Attempt To Fight Bombers With Bombers  Fails To Stop American Raid

Kx «*—K KK ¥ Jumpy Jerries  Double Defenses   Reds Reduce Foes Fast

Using Everything They Have Nazis Still Fail to Stop U. S. Bombers

GERMANY BLUFFS FINNS FROM PEACE-EF ROR T   Protests Suggest Nazis Fear Finland Will Fellow Italy’s Example

JURY FAILS TO REACH DECISION   Another Sanity Trial Due for Kathleen Latham

GRADE CROSSING IS HEARING SUBJECT      Trought Creek Residents Testify On Need For. Watchman

Dusseldorf, Cologne, Wilhelmshaven Blasted By R. A. F., Yank Bombers    Depile-Barcaled Attack Resumed—British Lose 19 ee Planes. Americans 5

Follows U. S. Daylight Attack 'On Wilhelmshave          19 Bombers: Lost _ — ln First RAF. Raid In Almost: Two Weeks

BRITISH AIR. FLEET HITS DUSSELDORF, COLOGNE IN NIGHT   Anglo-American Offensive ' Gets Back Into High © Gear With Blows   At Rhineland

DUSSELDORF IS BOMBED BY BRITISH   R.A. F. Resumes Assaults On Nazi Rhineland Cities

Rhineland Twice ’ Struck in Night Raid by Armada   Mighty Fleet Hits Dual Targets after Record Yank Raid

3 GREAT NAZI WAR CENTERS LEFT IN RUINS   RAF Blows Follow 1.000 Plane U.S. Raid On Big Sea Base

Two Big German Cities Bombed   Dusseldorf and Cologne Smashed Rv RAF Air Fleet

RAF FOLLOWS UP AMERICAN RAID   British Hit Dusseldorf, Col oane last Nioht

RAF Bombs Two Big Rhine Cities; 1,000 U. S. Planes Blast At Wilhelmshaven

Blasted by Hundreds Of Planes   Major Raids Follow Daj light Attacks by VU. §,  Flying Fortresses  é

RAF SMIASHES NAZI TARGETS IN RHINELAN   Bomb Dusseldorf and Cologne After U. S$. Fort Raid on Wilhelmshaven.

JUNIOR CLASS PRESENT PLAY FRIDAY NIGHT   ‘Don’t Be Bashful’ Is Annual Production; Matinee Is Thursday.

JUNIOR CLASS WILL PRESENT ANNUAL PLAY   Junior Class Of T.T.H.S, Will Give ‘Don’t Be Bashful’  At High School.

Bomb Three Jap Bases On New Britair   Motor Torpedo Boats Attack Foe’s Offshore Shipping; Aussies Push Toward Madang

MARTHUR FLIERS HIT NEW BRITAIN FROM END TO END.   Vital Nipponese Positions. On ‘Crescent -Shaped Island Ex posed to Possible Invasion  From New Guinea

NEW OFFENSES AGAINST JAPS MAY BE COMING   Enemy’s Key Base Pounded On New Britain and Makin Is Blasted Again

MACARTHUR AIRMEN BLAST NEW BRITAIN   Expect Air Attacks To Precede Possible Invasion

Key Jap Position in South Pacific Open to MacArthur's Army   Island is Undergoing Aerial Pounding All Along Its Crescent

Rabaul, Exposed to Possible Invasion, Is Pounded by Air   important Nippon Air. Strip Is Reduced to . Rubble: by Assaults”

‘New Britain Is Being Blasted From The Air   Key Jap Position Target For Intensive Allied Bombing.

GETS POUNDING   Rabaul Reduced To Rubble _ By Heavy Allied Assaults

NEW BRITAIN, HELD BY JAPS. GETS BOMBING   Enemy Stores And Planes Explode Near Madang

ISLAND OF NEW BRITAIN BEIN( BOMBED DAILY   Allied Airmen Reducing  Key Japanese Position in Southwest Pacific  to Rubble

ey Jap Position Exposed To Invasion From West  New Britain Undergoing Severe Aerial Pounding

Bombers Pounc New Britain's Entire Length   Bases On Key Japanese Island Battered By Allied Airmen.

Jap Positions  Now Exposed To  Yank Invasior   Rabaul Ripped In Singk Day; Cape Hoskins Aj Strip Reduced To Rubble: Gasmata Ajirdrome Se’ Ablaze.

MACARTHURMEN CONTINUE TO BLAST JAPS   Heavy Weights of Bombs Dropped on Key Japanese Positions

New Britain Is Undergoing Heavy Attack:   Aerial Assaults Made  , On Capes Hoskins And Gloucester By Planes Of Allied Forces

New Britain Is Exposed To Invasion   Aerial Poundings Shatter Whole Length of 370Mile Crescent

New Britain Given Severe ‘Air Pounding   Rabaul Satellite Bases for Jap Warplanes on Island Shattered

A\ll New Britain Exposed To Invasion By Allies   MacArthur's Successes In New Guinea Pave ’ Way For Conquest Of Japan’s Main Bases In Southwest Pacific 

Cape Hoskins, Cape Gloucester Handed Pounding As Follow-Up To Rabaul Attack; Planes From Undisclosed Bases Blast Makin

FRENCH SITUATION TURN FOR WORSE   Postpone Executive Meeting Scheduled for Today.

TURKEY SALE BAN HIS. CIVILIANS   Armed Force Supply Placed - First Under WFA Act Yesterday

ALLIES SINK TROOP-FILLED JAP VESSEL   Score Direct Hits At Masthead Height

Grain Shortage Blamed for Low Liquor Supplies   Lend-Lease, Other Factors Cited at Senate Hearing

Counterattacks Stall Russians In Donets Basin   Germans Muster Every Available Tank for Defense

Red Army, However, Drive Ahead In North On The Kharkov-Kursk Front Sector

‘Russ Drive Continues in Kursk Sector   Axis Admiis Red Army Is Attacking on Wide Front Near Lake Iimen      ARTILLERY DUELS   Soviet Offensive Moves at Quickest Pace West of Kharkov

RED ADVANCE IS HALTED IN DONETS BASIN   GAINS AGAINST NAZI ARMY CONTINUE IN NORTH

Nazi Tanks Stall Soviet Drive In Donets Basin   RLIZZARDS NO EXCUSE

FATE OF SIGILY MAY BE DECIDED WITHIN 48 HOUR'   Axis Believed Husbanding Panzer Strength for Major Counter-attack.

Fate of Sicily Likely to Be Decided By Armored Battle Within 48 Hours

ALLIED VICTORY IN SICILY LIKELY 10 BE DECIDED SOON      Armored Battle, Expected Within 48 Hours, May + Be Finishing — “Touch”     eth pgee ee

At BY FORTRESSES   American Airmen Pound Fras cati from Which, Germans are Commanded.

FLYING FORTS: RAID FRASCATI   German Headquarters In Italy Wrecked

Frascati Smashed by Bombs   German Headquarters For Italy Ruined After Fortress Raid

RAID ON FRASCATI IS MADE BY U.S. FORCES   Attack on German Headquarters in Italy Is Revealed Few Hours Before Surrender of Italy Was Announced—Foray Parallels That Made in Sicily Just Before Allied Invasion of That Island.      Process of Knocking Out Nazi Forces Over Italy is Under Wav

U.S. FORTS’ SMASH HEADQUARTERS OF GERMANS IN ITALY   Several: Hundred Tons Of Bombs Hit Frascati —28 Nazi Fighters Shot Down

HOUSE VOTED PROBE OLD AGE PENSIONS T0 BE CONTINUED   “COMMITTEE WOULD DELVE INTO ADMINISTRATION OF ASSISTANCE LONGER ©

KANSAS Will BE TI THEME   — ee: K, U. Brain ‘“dsters Program or KFKU Chis Evening

KANSAS Wil BE THEME   K, U. Brain “Thilsters, Program or KFKU fhis Evening

AXIS CLAIMING SHIPPING TOLL   Severe Blows By Submarines In Atlantic, Including Liner Loaded With Allied Troops

ee  Naval Committee Approves Bill Aimed at War Plant Absenteeism

BOR BIL UP DEFER FARMERS THK LEGISLATION   Heavy Raids on Kiska ant   Developments In Tunisie   Intrigue; Productior Good

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES MEASURED AIMED ABSENTEEISM  _ AFL HEAD PROTESTS BILL TO DRAFT CIVILIAN WORKERS AS SERVITUDE

Absenteeism Bill Approved By Committee   House Group Sanctions Measure Aimed at War Plant Workers.   AFL Head Protests Pending Legislation

Penicillin Brings Temperature Down   Tiny Girl’s Temperature Normal, Death Beaten Off

Penicillin Helps 1-Year-Old Girl  Rare Drug Reduces 105-Gegree Fever  i © ee

Baby Given 7 Hours To Live, Then ‘Penicillin’ Begins Its Magic Work

'U. S. Publisher In England Says Brifish People Expect Early End Of Present World Conflict   Denicillin. Magical New Drug Beains To Work lis Wonders For 2-Year-Qld Patricia Malone

Germans Leave ‘Mother City’ of Russia a Holocaust of Flame and Ruins

Smith Accuses House Member of Accepting Bribe in Connection With Labor Bill

NEW JERSEY CROWD SEES WOMAN SLAIN   Killer’s Note States “For 2 Years I’ve Been Mixed Up With Wrone Woman”

RAF BLASTS FOE OVER WIDE AREA   HUNDREDS OF PLANES IN MOST EXTENSIVE NIGHT SWEEP OF WAR.

RAF Hammers Heavily Again At Lorient   U-Boat Base Pounded Tenth Time This Month Raids Cover Wide Area

ALLIES AGAIN RAID LORIENT   Successful Attack is Made By Bombers on German  Submarine Base

Allies Pound At Lorient  10th Raid Is Greates!   fOth Raid Is Greates! RAF Sween-in War -

RAF Again Attacks Sub Nests   Most Extensive Night Sweep of -War Over Western Europe

LORIENT ATTACKED BY BRITISH FLIERS   German U-Boat Base Is Raided for Tenth Time This Month

LORIENT: ATTACKED © * BY BRITISH FLIERS      German U-Boat Base A Raided for Tenth Time . This Month’

GREAT U-BOAT LAIRS POUNDED   Extensive Night Sweep Hits Lorient 10th Time In Month

British Planes Hammer at U-Boat Lairs  Fighters Range Over Wide European Area

Kaiser Promises Labor Strife End  Tells Congress He Will Produce

Ralser Pledges — To Cure Ils of r Brewster. Plant  Assures Congress He  Will Remove Kinks

Flood Brings Out lowa s State Guare   Three Companies Are Mobilized

(Reg. U. S. Pat. Office.) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE  WT eatin d Banen CSln nw A materaut

Would Sit In On Proposed Food Parleys  Congressmen Want   Congressmen Want To Know Plans For Future Largesse

Congress Asks  Voice On Food   Representatives. Would Sit In On United Nations  Post-War Food Talks.

Says He Will Trim Stale Expenses   Explains Various Items In New Budget

Hickenlooper Still Looking For Spots To Trim Budget      State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Corresnondent

Gov. Hickenlooper Seeks Cut in Budget At Present Session   Economy Is ‘Watchword Of Iowa’s Legislature As.Session Progresses

‘SMASH BOATS LOADED WITH  ENEMY TROOPS   Six Generals, 31,000 Men Surrender  To Yanks

GIVEN ROLE BY VETERAN It BER WAR   Allies To Close In on Fortress  VICTORY IN_ 1944  Defeat Sure, Nazis Fight For Time

MAJOR DRIVE “ON FORTRESS’ © NEXT SPRING   ALL-OUT ASSAULT TO BE SFEARIIEADED BY AMERICAN i TROOPS, SOUTH AFRICAN  _ OW EMIER SAYS

DEATH OF WAG NEAR SOLUTION   Robbery Possible Motive In Indianapolis Hotel Room Slaying

M'NUTT DECLARES OVER RADIO THAT DADS ARE NEEDED   Manpower Necessary to Help Make Certain War Will Not Be Prolonged For Unnecessary Hour.   MEETING REQUIREMENTS 6S EXTREMELY SERIOUS   Hints at Possible Drafting of Labor, Avoiding Orders Will Cripple War Production.

FATHER DRAFT IS CALLED NECESSARY   WMC Chief Paul MeNuts Telfs of Problem Being Faced

War Demand: Call Fathers, MeNutt Says  Deplores Belief Of f Eacly Eni  ees Eke

Draft of Labor Seen by McNutt As Unavoidable   Defends Induction Of Many Fathers

NEED OF FATHERS DRAFT STRESSEL   McNutt Declares New Manpower. Regulations Necessary to Make Certain War Will Not Be Prolonged

McNutt Hints General Draft Of Labor Soon   Replies to Critics Of Plan to Induct Pre-War Fathers

McNutt Defends Fathers Draft   Says New Manpower Regulations Needed

MANPOWER DRAFT IS HINTED BY MCNUTT   Says Nation Can No Longer Exclusively Rely On Voluntary Cooperation Of Public

McNutt Declares Fathers Draft » Is Necessary  New Manpower g Regulations Are Also Essential

MNUTT DEFENDS DECISION T0 PUT FATHERS IN ARMY   Declares Long Fight May Be Ahead and Military Manpower Requirements Must Be Met.   LABOR TURNOVER DECLARED TOO LARGE   Commissioner Says Problem Cannot Be Solved by Voluntary Management-Labor Co-Operation.

TOKYO PLEDGES HAMS UN WU. 3.  MAINLAND NEAR   Vast Air Attacks On Ameriican Mainland By Axis Planes Coming, Claim

ATTACKS WILL BE VAST, SATO WARNS WORLI   Meanwhile Gen. MacArthur Renews Appeal for More Planes for Australian “Front”

JAPANESE TALK OF ‘A VAST AIR ATTACK’ ONU, §   Officer Issues Threat Just Four Days Before Anniversary of Tokyo Raid

JAPAN THREATENS ~ ABOMBING RAID ON THE UNITED STATES   Major General Sato Says Preparations Are Completed for Air Attack.   OFFICIAL WARNINGS   MacArthur and Curtin Says Japan Is Ready to Strike.

JAPS SAY PLANS COMPLETED FOR BOMBING U. S.   Major General Kenryo Sato, Chief of Japanese Bureau of Military Affairs, Says Jap, German and Italian Air Forces Will Collaborate In Assault.

TOKYO REPORTS AXIS WILL RAID U, $, MAINLAND   Bogie-Man Threat Comes From General Sato; Curtin Stresses Grave  Threat To Australia

Axis Nations To Participate Tokyo Declares   MacArthur Warns Enemy May Scon Control Pacific Skies

Japs Threaten To Bomb America   Military Leader Says German and Italian Air Forces to Join Attacks

Sato's Bogie-Man Warning Declares Attack Imminent   Says Germans, Italians To Take Part; MacArthur Agrees Japs Ready To Strike

Jap General Says Axis All Set to Bomb United State:   MacArthur Warns Of Challenge to Superiority in Air

GEN. MACARTHUR SAYS JAPS SET FOR AIR FIGHT   Commander Asserts Airpower Is Key in Battle of Western Pacific

AIRPOWER, NOT NAVAL POWER WILL DECIDE WAR IN PACIFIC, GEN, M’ARTHUR ASSERTS  Japanese Now In Control Of Vital Sealanes, Commander Warns Allies

JAP OFFICIAL THREATENS T0 BOMB AMERICA   Chief of Military Affairs ‘Bureau Says Plans Are Completed for Blow With Nazi and Italian Air Forces Assisting.

JAPS THREATEN AIR ATTACK ON U.S. MAINLAND   Sato Says Japs, Germans, Italians fo Collaborale in ‘Vast’ Bomhardmanic   MILNE BAY RAIDED   MacArthur Emphasises Tokyo Ready io Strike Anew in Southwest Pacific

ITUATION IN EST PACIFIC REVIEWED   acArthur Warns That Japanese Control Sealanes Leading to Australia   IRPOWER VITAL NEED

TO HEAR VIEWS ON JOB INSURANCE COST   Seek Money to Strengthen Unemployment Fund

GAS REDUCTION IN B-C BOOKS RESTORED TODAY   Will Grant Restorations On Individual Bases Through Extra Stamps

Hits Hal NER fli WUNTUE IN 4d   City County Plans to Imrrove Facilities — Will Be Two Location:.

GRAFT GENTER 10 ~BONTINUE IN 4d   City County. Plans to” Im_ prove Facilities — Will Be Two Location:.

CATTLE SOLONS BLAST CEILING   LEGISLATORS PREDICT BEEF SHORTAGE CRISIS

CONGRESS WILL LET ARMY RULE IN PATTON CASE   Pointed Out Army Regulations ‘Specifically Forbid . Commander Striking :  Soldier :

Patton Issues  His Apologies   Fisenhower’s Castigation Issued For Slapping Shocked Soldier

Slim Chance for Approval of Ruml Plar   But House Committee May Write Bill Along Similar Lines ~   NO FINAL ACTIONFOR SEVERAL WEEKS   Meanwhile, Taxpayers Must File Returus By March 15 As Usual

Three Persons Found Slain On Ohio Farm   Killing of Hog Breeder, Wife and Daughter, 22, Baffles Authorities

THREE FOUND SLAIN IN OHIO   Man, Wife and Daughter Are Mysteriously Shot to Death in Farm House

Officials Baffled By Murder Of Farm Family   Farmer, Wife and Daughter Shot; Phone Wires Cut

Family Of 3 Is Found Slain In Police Mystery   Wealthy Farmer, Wife And Daughter, 22, Victims Of Tragedy

LANA TURNER HAS MORE TROUBLES   Discovers That New Husband Has One Wite.

Feeding, Returning 30,000,000 People to Europe to Be Gigantic, Heart-Touchina

Refugees Are Scattered All Over Europe   Millions “Will Seek To Find Way Home After Germany Has .Surrendered   HUNDREDS OF TRAINS WILL BE NEEDED   Belgium Alone ‘Has 10,000; Lost Children; Lot of Poles the Most Tragic

Writer Envisions Europe as Giant Rail Station After War, With 30 Million Civilians Trekking Home

Hotteschwamun Reformed Guest Minister ‘Worship service at 6:30 a. m. Sunday school at 10:30 a. m.

2 Labor Chiets Ask President Cat Food Costs   Sept. 15 Level Urged; Higher Wages Seen

Italy's Fleet Must Move Into Action Soon or Be Ruined During Invasion

Push 12 Miles West of Kharkov—Capture Oboyan and Wipe Out German Garrison.   OTHER SOVIET UNITS CLOSING IN ON OREL   Taganrog All but Isolated by Seizure of Point in Donets Basin West of Rostov,

+ MILITARY GROUP CONSIDERS BILL TO “CRANT DEFERMENT PRIGRITY 10 FATHERS

 Would Preserve American Home   Calling 12,000 Men Daily Attempt To Defy Congress

NEW DRAFT PLAN ON ROUGH ROAD   Deferment of Fathers To Be Sought — Tax Question Remains Unsolved

HOUSE SPEEDS WORK ON DRAFT DELAY FOR DADS   May Says McNutt Ignoring Intent of Congress   CALL FOR 12,000 DAILY   Income Tax Legislation May Be Ready Next Week

Today In Washington:  Income Tax Legislation ‘To Be Ready For House Consideration In Week

May Says Kilday Bill Will Pass: Exempts Fathers   Compromise In Tax Plan Is_ Indicated; Part Of 1942 Taxes To Be Paid

©1943 WHEAT CROP HIT HARD, REPORT   ” Winter Kill To“ Slash Yield 32 Percent

EXPECT LARGE DROP IN °43 WHEAT CROPS   Estimate 32 Percent Loss in Grain Output

Liberators Pound Jap Wewak Base   Allies Continue To Advance  Toward Salamaua

Buy Now! Buy More! Buy Often! Buy Bonds!  5 BILLIONS NOW IN ON Z2ND WAR LOAN DRIVE

BOND CAMPAIGN HITS 5 BILLION   Campaign in Fourth Day With Goal of 13  Billions

Three Violent Axis Counterattacks Are  Repelled by British   Heavy Fighting Reported in Tunisian Moonlight;  British Inch Ahead

Violent CounterAttacks Slow Up Tunisian Offensive   But British Forces Destroy Nazi Tanks And Take Prisoners

Axis Counter Thrusts Beater Back By Allies  27 Enemy Tanks Destroyed, 500 SE ee, ee

General Montgomery’s Infantry Drives Against Axi Defense Lines South of Tunis; British Artillery Beats Off Two Heavy Attacks by Germans

Fierce Tunisia © Battle Is Raging   HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLE WITH BAYONETS, GRENADES FLARES AS MONTGOMERY'S MEN STORM AXIS DEFENSE LINES SOUTH OF TUNIS

British Sth Army ‘Continues Battle   British ‘Artillery Repulses Two German Counter   Attacks   HAND TO HAND SCRAP   Rommel’ s Forces Left 27 : Wrecked Tanks as They : Withdraw 

BIG GUNG TOP AUAZ] ATTACKS   Bayonet and Grenade Fighting Rages on Tunisian Front Today.   'USE PARACHUTE TROOPS

Ground Troops Were Seeking  to Ease Pressure on Their Tunisian Defense Lines; Heavy Losses Inflicted.   27 TANKS DESTROYED, 200 GERMANS TAKEN   Fresh British Gains on the Southern Front Were Declared Being Firmly Held.

Beat Back 3 Nazi Attacks eln N. Tunisia   Fierce Counterthrusts Succeed Only In Slow ino Allied Squeeze.

Germans Seek To Soften Drive On Defense Lines   Nazi Infantry Makes Attack on Allied Troops

NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS LOSE IN NO, AFRICA   Germans Thrown Back by Allies With Heavy Losses. 500 Germans Taken Prisoners

BRITISH FIRST ARMY -WITRSTANDS ASSAULT ON NEW POSITIONS  TWO MAJOR NAZI AT ‘TACKS AGAINST EIGHTH - ARMY ALSO FAILS

First And Eighth Armies Beat Off 3 Nazi Thrusts   Parachute Troops Fight With Allies As Infantrymen .

British Forces Repulse Three Major Thrusts   Fierce Battle Rages

British First Army Beating Off Assaults   3 Nazi Counter-Attacks Repulsed; 27 Enemy Tanks Are Destroyed,  Prisoners Taken

Attempts, Of Axis Troops To Ease Pressure On Lines In Tunisia Are Smashed Promptly

Germans Lose Men, Tanks To No Avail:   Long, Hard Battle Looms For Allies In North Africa

Axis Loses Men, Tanks in Unsuccessful Thrusts at Allied Lines in Tunisia

FIERCE FIGHT. IN PROGRESS ALL DAY LONG                   Montgomery’s Infantrymen Use Bayonets and Grenades—First Army Destroys 27 Tanks; Takes 500 Captives. 

BRITISH TROOPS REPULSE HEAVY COUNTER-BLOWS   25 Tanks, 500 Axis Prisoners  Taken In Africa  FOYrYTY F ervey

Lose 500 Prisoners.  27 Tanks   Allies Improve Posilious in Fare  Of Counter-Attac

24 CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM EORCIA JAll   Two Recaptured: Posse Trailing - Fugitives With Bleodhounds

24 CONVICTS FLEE GEORGIA PRISON; TWO RECAPTURED   Overpower Guards Tc Wreck Electric Dynamo   WIDE SEARCH STARTS;  GANG 1S ‘DESPERATE’

24 PRISONERS MAKE ESCAPE   One of Largest Breaks in Georgia Prison History

24CONVICTS MAKE GEORGIA PRISON BREAK   Two of Group Captured When Truck Tips Near Lyons

24 CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM PRISON   Notorious Escape Artists Lead Georgia Break

24 CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM GEORGIA DEN   Two Prisoners Recaptured When Truck Overturns

Two Captured After Georgia Prison Break  24 Flee From “‘Little Alcatraz” ?

RAF Again Ranges Over Axis-Held European Targets  Germans Admit Much Danger Done in Attack on Nuernberg

RAF Bombers ‘Swoop on North France   Blockbuster, Fire Attack Wreaks  Havoc in Nuernherg

BLOCK BUSTER BOMBS RAINED ON NUERNBERG   BIG RAF WARPLANES RANGE 500 MILES INTO EUROPE

New Induction Plan Goes Into Effect Monday   Combined Calls For All Armed Services Will Be Made Under Revised Induction Program

NEW STANDARDS FOR DRAFT-AGE MEN APPROVED   Tougher Physical Examinations To Be Given Men Called For Service

Federal Income Tax Information  ARTICLE NO. 5   HEAD OF FAMILY EXEMPTION

PHYSICAL TESTS MAY BE EASED   Induction Of Some 4-Fs Proposed To Delay Father Draft

WRITER REPORTS 10 ALLIED SHIPS SUNK   Says at Least Two Nazi Bomher: Were Shot Down in Engagement Off Spanish Coast.

WICKARD 1S TO-BE GIVEN MANDATE BY HOUSE FARM GROUF      Secretary “of Agriculture to See Picture of What He Is Up Against.

WICKARD MAY GET MANDATE OF OPPOSITION   Congress Farm Bloc To Step Up Drive For Higher Prices

Greeks To Leros Rescue   First Major Greek Blow Of Revenge Against Nazis, Aid British

US. Task Force Seeks to Lure Out Jap Fleet   American Navy. Still Trying to . Enaage Enamy.

POWERFUL TASK FORCE SEEKING  JAPS FOR FIGHT      Sails Pacific Endeavoriag To Lure Jap Fleet From Hiding Place

Fugitive Kills Wrong Gir!   Had List of Ten Persons Marked for Death

COAL MINES IN INDIANA IDLE TODAY   Expect Miners To Follow Orders ‘Of U. M. W. A.

Expect Miners  To Drop Strike   UMW Representative Expects Rapid Improvement In General Picture.

PREDICT ALABAMA MINERS 10 RETURN   Soft Coal Operators Attack Travel Pay Agreement

Gas Rationing  Eased by OPA   Thousends of Additional Moflorists in Nation Are Made Eligible for “C" Books

OPA ANNOUNCES NEW C CARD REGULATIONS   More Workers Now Eligible for ‘C’ Books

C Card Bars Are Lowered   Job Transportation Rated Above Type Of Occupation.

RESTRICTIONS ON ‘C’ BOOKS EASED   Thousands of Additional Motorists Eligible

Dublin Invitation To Pope Discussed  Fear Vatican City May Be Overrun

May Invite Pope to Dublin   Irish Ecclesiastics Discuss Proposal

2 Navy Crews.  Are Decorated   Help Destroy Enemy Sub While, On- Flight Over Atlantic. Area

Decorate Air Crews Which Sank U-Boat   Members Of Two Bombers Accorded _ Navy Recognition

MANY AFTER TAGS   County Treasurer Report: Rush for 1943 Auto  License Plates

W.L.B. Sure io Force Showdown   Lewis Extends Coal Truce; Solution Far Away

Coal Strike Threat Put Off Another Two Weeks   Lewis Tells Miners To Stay On Jobs Until May 31

LEWlo EXTENDS TRUCE 13 DAY   Miners Won't) Quit Work For Present But U.M.W. Head Still Defiant

Action of War Labor Board Expected to Avert New Tie-up .   TRUCE EXPIRES AT _ MIDNIGHT TUESDAY   Agreement Possible on a Number of Issues, Board Asserts

Coal Truce ls Continued   Postponment Brings Signs of Rivalry Over Settiement

Act to Avert New Tie-Up in Coal Industry   End of Truce Near; Board Believes Agree: ment Is Possible

LEWIS REQUESTS UMW MINERS 10 REMAIN AT WORK   AVERTS WALKOUT IN RESPONSE TO ICKES’ APPEAL

DIRECTS MINE NEGOTIATIONS BE REOPENEL   Second Crisis in Soft Coal Industry Appears Averted

WLB READY FOR COAL SHOWDOWN   In Spite of Truce, Agency Seen Ready to Force Lewis to Appear,

WLB Sticks  To Claim Of  Jurisdiction Members To Quit  If Lewis Is Given ’ His Own Way

Work Stoppage In Bituminous Mines Averted   WLB and Lewis Still Not in  A owraamant

Extend Coal Truce      Rivalry Indicated Between Ickes And WLB Over Who Should Settle Wage Dispute

Ickes And Board At Odds As New Coal Crisis Is Averted   Strong Rivalry Over Who Should Settle Strike Develops; Lewis Extends Truce

Mine Strike. Is Again Averted  Lewis Agrees to . Truce Extension _

LEWIS RENEWS TRUCE IN COAL MINES 15 DAYS  UMW Czar Gives   UMW Czar Gives In To Demands  Of Fuel Chief

IN GOAL FIGHT   Renewal of Walkout Averted Until the End of the Month.

SOFT COAL TRUCE EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 31   Miners Wilt Continue At Work

But Signs of Ickes-WLB  Ba Coal Crisis Averted  ettlement Rivalry Seen

War Labor Board Acts to Avert New Coal Mine Crisis   Orders Operators And Miners to Resume Collective Bargaining  MEETS LEWIS STAND  Six-Day Week, With Over-Time and Other  Concessions Hinted

EXTENSION OF COAL TRUCE TO MAY 31 AVERTS NEW STRIKE   However. Lewis And WLB Seen As Far As Ever From Solution Of Contest

War Labor Board Orders Operators, ‘Miners To Resume Contract Talks

ACTION BELIEVED PREVENT TIE-UP   Board Suggests Miners Be Assured of 6-Day Week   OVERTIME PAY   Board's Interim Decision Ex. pected to Meet Approval Of UMW Chief Lewis

MINE TRUCE IS EXTENDED UNTIL END OF MONTH   Walkout Of Miners Temporarly Averted Rv Move

WLB Orders Renewal of  Coal Parleys   Crisis Apparently Averted by Board’s Suggestion

OPERATORS AND MINERS TOLD TO RESUME PARLEY   War Labor Board Directs That Negotiations be Continued: advises  6-Day Week

‘TRUCE AVERTS COAL: WALKOUT   Lewis Extends Dead line Until Midnight Mav 2h-.   Who Should:: Settle Wage Dispute Is Cause

Threat of New Strike in Mines Averted  John L. Lewis Orders Extension of

Feud With WLB Continues, Both  Sides Adamant   WLB Closes All Routes To Solution Except Through Board, Charges Lewis Holds Self Above Law; Leader Wants To Deal Only With Ickes.

Lewis Accedes to Ickes, Extends Truce to May 31   Interior Secretary Reported to Have Plan for Ending Coal Wage Dispute, WPB Members  Insist Jurisdiction Theirs

COAL STRIKE IS AGAIN AVERTED AS ICKES ACTS      Lewis Calls Two Weeks More Truce at His Request But Still Ignores ' War Labor Board.

Lewis Continues To Ignore Labor Board But Extends Coal Strike Truce

LEWIS EXTENDS MINE TRUCE   Report Rivalry Over Who Should End Dispute

Ickes Office Prepares Formula Which He Believes Acceptable  WLB STILL FUNCTIONS

SOLUTION IS NOT YET REACHED FOR MINE WAGE ISSUE   Work Stoppage, However. Is Temporarily Averted by Factions Involved,

Mine Truce Is Extended. Fiffeen Days   Decision Is Reached Upon Ickes’ Reauest

LABOR BOARD ACTS TO AVERT SECOND COAL MINE CRISIS   Demands Resumption of Col_lective Bargaining—John L. Lewis Expected to Approve Order.   -POSILION OF BOTH ‘SIDES CRITICIZED   Six-Day Week Suggested for Diggers, With Time and ~ a Half Pay After 85 Hours’

WLB Averts Another Coal Crisis   Board Directs Miners, Operators to Resume Bargaining

“re. er 20. éc ive. larga’ ning Resume: -o Aver. 21¢ “Coa. CEisis

CONTINUE TRUCE IN COAL MINES   LEWIS REQUESTS PIT WORKERS TO HOLD LINE

SECOND CRISIS IN COAL MINES AVERTED BY WLB   Federal Agency Directs Miners And Operators  To Resume Parleys   ‘ADAMANT POSITION” OF BOTH CRITICIZED

WORK STOPPAGE IN GOAL MINES AVERTED AGAIN   Lewis Agrees Again to 2-Week Extension Of Contract   CONTINUES TO SNUB THE WAR LABOR BOARD

WORK STOPPAGE IN COAL PRODUCTION AGAIN PREVENTED   WLB Determined*to’ Force Showdown With Lewis, Leader of Miners Continues To Show Defiance.   LEWIS IS TRYING TO EVADE BOARD HEARING   Ickes Wires For Assurance of   No Walkout With Hope of  - Collective Bargaining Conference. .

STOPPAGE IN COAL FIELDS IS AVERTED   Lewis And War Labor Board Fall Apart From Solution

SECOND COAL CRISIS AVERTED BY ORDER   Truce May Continue If Lewis Approves

Ww LD Urders Mine Dispute Principals  Resume Talks  Action Apparently Averts New Crisis  As Truce Expires  At Midnight Tuesday  HAD BEEN ASKED

LEW AGRE CG TO EXT ENGION OF MINE TRUGE   mmediate Shutdown Threat Eased As Union Leader Extends Period   LEWIS STILL IGNORING ALL WLB INSTRUCTIONS   UMW May Negotiate Con. tract Through Ickes. Is Belief In Washington

Coal Truce  ‘Is Continued ' Until May 3] Lewis Asks Miners to  Continue Under Existing Agreement  RIVALRY REVEALED      RIVALRY REVEALED   Some WLB Members Are Ready to Resign If Ickes Steps in

WLB ORDERS NEW CONFERENCES OF UMW AND MINE OPERATORS   Second Crisis in Nation's Goaldndustry af Least Tem: porarily Averted by Board

COAL TRUCE EXTENDED TWO WEEKS   Would Have Ended Tonight; Lewis, WLB Still Far Anart

oC OAL STRIKE CRISIS ENDS INWLB FAVOR   Showdown With Lewis on Terms Still to Come, However

Lewis Complies With Ickes Request to Extend Truce, Hints Work Stoppage Late:

NEW CRISIS IN COAL INDUSTRY AGAIN AVERTED   Lewis Agrees to Extension Of Truce From Midnight Tonight Until May 31   MEETS ICKES APPEAL   Meanwhile Signs of Riv. alry Between Interior Secretary and War La bor Board Appear -

to End of Month   Two Government Factions, Fuel Co-Ordina tor Ickes and the War Labor Board, Are Seeking to Settle Miners’ Dispute; Ickes Awaits Board Approval

CRISIS IN COAL MINES AVERTED   Workers And Operators Directed To Resume Bargaining

LEWIS EXTENDS TRUCE 13 DAYS IN MINE CASE   Work Stoppage In Coal ~ Fields Again Averted Temporarily

Avert Stoppage In Coal Fields — For Time Being   WLB, Lewis Seem As Far Away As Ever From Solving Matter

COAL HEADS RENEW TRUGE FOR 2 WEEKS   Extend Agreement Until Last of May

Crisis In Coal Fields Relieved   “Interim Decision “te Made By WLB

Shutdown Put Oft Two Weeks   Union Chief Stl Refuses to Deal With Labor Board

Hinox Says It Is Folly to Assume that Atlantic Submarine War 1s Won — Says He Believes It will Break Out Again.

SUB WAR'S NOT OVER-KNO}   Secretary Expects Attacks To Break Out Again, Silent on Paramushiru Raid Rumor.

Yugoslavs Open Counterattack Against Rommel   Partisan Forces Report Successes In Many Sectors

TITO LAUNCHES COUNTERBLO WS   Heavy Losses Inflicted On Several German Divisions

Yugoslavs Renew Attacks on  Rommel’s Troops  Guerrillas Pick Away  At Hitler Divisions oo aalto Ln Dalbmee

Yugoslavs Renew Attacks on Rommel’s Troops  Guerrillas Pick Away At Hitler Divisions Rattlina far RallLeane

Yugoslavs Open Counter-Atlacks   Battle Rommel's Army in Balkans

House Group Puts Off Tax Law Hearing  Doughton Declares  New Measure Will Click Jan. 1

REP. MARTIN SAYS BUREAUCRATS ' ARE MENACING NATION   Warns :.That Country. Is Being Endangered By °° “Power-Mad” Offictalé

Raid By American Liberators and Flying Fortresses Remind Mussolini Italy May Be Invaded Following Fall of Africa 

MACARTHUR BOMBS DESTROY NINE JAP CARGO SHIPS   Australian Government Expresses Fear Of New Japanese Aggression

SENATE AWAITS FLYNN. BATTLE   Calls Issued For Absentees With Close Vote On Appointment indicated

CLOSE VOTE ON FLYNN INDICATED   Opposition Leaders Claim Enough Senators to Reject Appointment.

Stephan Again Denied Retria   Detroit Traitor Will B Hanged July 2

US Operation Possible in Rail Pay Row   Vinson to Oppose Move to Override Objections to Wage Increase

RAILROAD STRIKE ISNOW UP 10 THE ADMINISTRATION   If Oec. 30 Quit Plan Goes Through = Government Would Operate Roads.

NEED QUICK ACTION ON RAILROAD PAY   ‘Strike I Called for “Decémber 30

WAYS EXPLORED 10 HEAD OFF NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE DEC. 30   Believe Stoppage Can Be Averted Only Through Retreat Before Pay Demands Of Unions Or U. 8. Seizure Of Lines

New Bill Would Help To Enforce State Tax Law   Attachment of Wages o Workers Failing To Pay is Proposed

TAX MEASURE IS MADE LAW      Governor Signs Bill Providing for Reduction of : One-Third

STATEINCOME TAX MEASURE IS MADE LAW   Governor Signs Bill Providing for Reduction of One-Third

GOVERNOR SIGNS ONE-THIRD CUT IN STATE LEVY   Bill Is Introduced To Attach Salaries Of Those Defaulting Payments

MANY TRAPPE AXIS SOLDIERS SURRENDER   Americans and British Launch Battles of Extermination

Battle To Exterminate Axis ‘Troops   Allies Corner Enemy In Small Area

Rout in Tunisia Paves Way for Early Invasion   Little Chance That Rommel's Remnants May Stace Dunkirk”

Rommel Lines Are  Blasted   YANK PILOTS SMASH GERMAN POSITIONS IN “SOFTENING”

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND ROMMEL'S LINES IN AFRICA   AERIAL ASSAULTS SOFTEN UP NAZIS FOR COMING PUSH

U.S. Mitchell Bombers Raid Mareth Line   Rommel’s Line Being Softened Up Before Big Push

Bombers Raid Axis Armies In Tunisia  me 8 QA... wf...   Bad Weather Holds Up Ground Operations

Planes Pount Axis Lines In Africa   Continue Raids To Soften Mareth Line for British Attack

ALLIES DRIVE FORWARD IN NORTH SECTOR   Aerial Assault Intended to Soften Mareth Line For British Uninterrupted

Bombers Hit At Nazis On Mareth Line   Bad Weather Halts Aerial Warfare On Other Fronts

BOMBERS PAVING WAY FOR EIGHTH ARMY’S ATTACK   Mareth Line Softened A British Prepare for New Stab at Rommel

STRIKE AT ROMMEL   In Effort to Soften Mareth Line. Bad Weath er Hampers Airmen Eleavohavs

AIR ATTACKS INTENDED TO SOFTEN LINE   Aerial Assaults By Allies Mark Activity Along Mareth Front

U. 5. Planes Raid Nazi Positions On Mareth Line   Continue Softening. Up Process. With Heavy  _ Attacks

a nAlD CEANIAN  NFS   Continue Aerial Assault to Soften Mareth Line for Coming Push,   ACTIVITY [IS LIMITED

Mareth Line Pounded by Allied Fliers   British Occupy Part o! Height Near Sedjenane; Seize Gun Nests

BRITISH TAKE PART OF HEIGHT   Both Sides in Africa, Moving Up Supplies Before Next Smash

U. S. BOMBERS SMASH AT AXIS POSITIONS SEEKING TO SOFTEN MARETH LINE

MARSHAL ROMMEL’S POSITIONS ATTACKED SUNDAY BY BOMBERS   A Continuation of the Aerial Assault Intended to Soften Mareth Line.   PLANNING A NEW PUSH   Mitchell Bombers Were Escorted by Spitfires and Warhawks.

AIR ATTACKS 10 SOFTEN UP AXIS ARE CONTINUED   United States Mitchell  Bombers Raid Marshal  Rommel’s Positions   On Mareth Line      GROUND UNITS QUIET.   Activities of Both Sides Confined to Patroling Moves; Bad Weather Curbs Airforces

MITCHELL BOMBERS RAIDED ROMMEL’S POSITIONS SUNDAY  PREPARING WAY FOR BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY'S COMING PUSH

Lull in African Fight Reported   Continue Air Action; Regroup Ground Units

‘AIR ACTION ‘SOFTENING AXIS LINES   Bad Weather Delaying - Final Drive Of Eighth Army

Aerial Assaults intended te Reduce Nazi Power Before Beginning of British Eighth Army’s Expected Push

MITCHELL BOMBERS RAIDED ROMMEL’S POSITIONS SUNDAY  PREPARING WAY FOR _ BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY'S  PUARATRIC DIC

Allied Push ls Cautious   Nazis’ Heavy Guns Must Be Silenced Before Mass Assault

FlyersPound Mareth Line   Keep Up Aerial Raids To Soften Up Rommel’s Positions for Attack

ALLIED BOMBERS KEEP UP POUNDING OF MARETH LINE   ' British Try Cautious Push  On Northern  itina

YANK AIRMEN RAID AXIS IN MARETH AREA   Blow Is Part of Softening Process Preparatory to Eighth Army’s Drive— Both Sides Inactive in Other Sectors.

Theodore Dulle  Dies Suddenly Was Native of This "City and's Widely’  Kw mune epeaaw

TED OULLE DIES: LL FEW HOURS   Member of Prominent Family Had Been Farming 30 Years

Theodore Dulle Dies Suddenly  Was Native of This City and a Widely  RRO. i

The Village Carpenter Made Coffins Horror Was Greater In  Altavilla Because The People Wouldn’t Leave

VILLAGE CARPENTER WORKED TOP SPEED MAKING COFFINS  AP CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF SCENE AS WAR - pacers ITALIANS

Village Carpenter Makes Coffins Swittl People From Mountains Wait for Them:   Eyewitness Repott on Horror  Wrought in Salerno Sector Villages

__In Altavilla Most Of The People Stayed Home;  That’s Why The Horror Is Much Greater There

Village Carpenter at Altavilla Is Busy With Job of Making Coffins

T: he Carpenter ds Busy  Tin Aide cotdlen thn De meeten Oh. IT Tt

Peasants Wail in Line for Wh Dhaval           AY fre a D2. wan: COLt eee ai) i 2:5

Italian Civilians Bury Their Dead After the Battle Sweeps Onward

NELSON, SERVICE CHIEFS BATTLE   Feeling So Intense it Appears   WPB Chief Will Have to Quit or Army and Navy Men Will Resign

NAME OF MURDERED AIRMAN GIVEN KIN   Statement Indicates Victim Of Beheading Was Australian.

ALLIED CARGO SHIP SUNK BY JAPS AT BUNA   89 Survivors Of Recent Sea Bout Killed On Isle

SMALL VESSEL SUNK BY JAPS   Enemy Air Fleet Gets. to Cargo Carrier South of Buna

Jap Air Fleet Strikes In... South Pacific   MacArthur ‘Sx ‘Spokesmat Warns Against Dis counting Jap: Aj Strength In Southwes Pacific.

Nine Bombers. and Thir_teeti Zeros Sween in. on  Flank of Allied Force: .  to Sink Ship in Oro Bay

JAPS RAID PORT ON NEW GUINEA   Sink Small Cargo Vessel but Lose Medium Bomber, Zero Fighter— Allies Blast Jap Bases

Japanese Fleet of 22 Planes Attacks  New Guinea Coas   89 Jap Survivors of Sea Battle Killed by U.N. Shore Patrol

Jap Air Fleet Sinks Ship in New Guinea   89 Enemy Survivors of Bismarck Sea Battle Killed on Coast

U. S. Ship Sunk By Jap Bombers   92 Convoy Survivors Killed or Captured!

SMALL U.S. SHIP SUNK IN ISLANDS   Japs Send Nine Bombers and B Fighters To At tack.   MacARTHUR SAYS ENEMY IS GOOD

JAP AIR POWER TN NEW GUINRA AREA MOUNT!   Increases Despite Recen: Reverses, MacArthur's Headquarters Communique Announces   SINK CARGO VESSEL   Nine Bombers and Thirteen Zero Fighters Used In Attack: Two Enemy Planes Are Bagged

SMALL SHIP IS SUNK BY JAPS   Jap Air Fleet Gets Cargo Vessel Off Buna.

Japs Swell Air Power Near Isles  ppecr.  22 Planes A   22 Planes Appear, Sink Cargo Vessel Ot New Guinan

Nipponese Air Power Is Stronger   Vessel Bombed in Daylight Raid on New Guinea Coast

MacArthur Says Nips Must Not Be Underrated   "Small Vessel Hit’ In Bay By Heavy: Fleet Of Bombers

ALLIED VESSEL SUNK BY JAPS AT NEW GUINE!   MacArthur Warns Against Belittling Air Strength Of Enemy In Pacific

JAP AIR FORCE RAIDS NEW GUINEA COASI   Sink Small Cargo Vessel in Oro Bay

JAPS SINK ALLIED VESSEL IN RESUMPTION OF AIR WAR   Enemy Aerial Power Believed Growing; Survivors of Japanese Convoy Killed or Captured

Allied Vessel — Sunk By Foe   Japs Raid Forces South Of Buna; Nippon Air Power Growing

JAPANESE BOMBERS. “SINK ALLIED SHIP   Small Merchantman Sent Down Off New  Guinea

JAP AIR FLEET HITS CARGO SHIP   MacArthur Warns Enemy} Plane Strength Still Strong In Pacific

JapS ONOW At Strength, Sink U.S  Vessel Near Buna  More Survivors Of Enemy Convoy Slain on Shore   MACARTHUR WARNS

Jap Aerial Arm Still  Powerful   MacArthur Warns Foe’s Air Power Grows in Pacific

May Get 4 Gallons ‘Of Gas for Each Coupor   State O.P.A. Reveals Plans to Enforce Ban Ayainst All Pleasure Driving; NonEssential Drivers Face Loss of Ration Books

Moves Continue To Get State Out Of Gas Sub-ration Zone   Washington Delegation Encouraged To Believe Remedial Measures Will Be Taken; OPA To Enforce Pleasure Driving Ban

Present U. S. Campaign in Solomons, New Guinea May Be Strafegical, Not Tactical

PACKERS GIVE CEILING VIEWS   U.S. Meat: Institute Ts Not Represented

CEILING ON LIVE HOGS OPPOSED   Many Producers Protest Against Move; -Packers Not in Agreement   MEAT INSTITUTE HOLDING BACK   Several Conferences Are Held in Washington in Move to Settle Issue

Packers Believed Not in Accord With Scheme for Producer Ceilings

OPA CONFERS WITH PACKERS   Oppose Proposal to Place Ceilings on Producer Prices of Hoas.

Allies Use Air, Land And Sea Power To Rid Italian Peninsula Of All Germans

Rome Attacked By Nazis; Naples In Allied Hands  Badoglio Government Reported Still To Be In Power; No U.S.  Traance in fanisal

GOVERNMENT MOVES TO HALT ILLEGAL STOCK SLAUGHTER AND BLACK MARKETS

Black Market Action Rushed   Wickard Appeals To Public Kor Cooperation, Suggest Licensing.

MOVES SPEEDED TO. END BLACK MEAT MARKETS   Plan Being Prepared For Licensing Livestock  Slaughterers Through  out Country   MARKETS ASSAILED   To Have ‘Disastrous Etfect’ On Nation’s Health; Poisoned Meats Already Appearing

U.S. to Curb Black Meats   Licensed Slaughters of Livestock Planned; Some Poisoned Meats Appear

Meat Supplies  Less Favorable   U SSpeeds Action To End Black Marketing Over ‘Whole’ Of Nation

x/MEAT SUPPLY ; SEEMS UNDEF > EXPECTATIONS   REDS MOPPING JP IN DONETS'S BASIN SECTORIE   Government Moves to Halt Illegal Slaughter‘ ing and Stop Black Market Operations — Poisoned Products Appear.

TO TIGHTEN ~ CONTROLS ON MEATS   ‘License System Governing Livestock Slaughterers Expected Soon   OPA CRACKDOWN  ON BLACK MARKET   o Illegal Practices Are Viewed With Growing Alarm -in. Washington

Plan to fight meat racket in two ways   Will try to halt black markets, illegal slaughter

U.S. Speeds Up Action To Halt Black Markets   Government Ready To License All Livestock  Sle:ochtererc.

SLAUGHTER OF LIVESTOCK 10 BE LICENSED   Government Speeds Action To Halt Wegal Slaughter Of — 1 Cattle And Hogs

Crack Down On “Black Markets”’   - OPA Launches Drive To Put a Halt to the

GOVERNMENT TO HALT ILLEGAL HOG, CATTLE SLAUGHTER   To Begin Action To Stop Black Markets In  RAleatan

 Speedy Registration For Ration Book Four To Be Held Here October 21-23

Registration For Ration Book: Four Starts Thursday   More Than 14,000 .Persons Expected Ta Renicter Here

U. §. and Mexico Plan Program of Economic Benefits   Agreement Reached as Result of Roosevelt's Visit

Mexico and U. S. Plan Committee  Economic Program to Be Formulated

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO IN NEW AGREEMENT   Program Of Economic Cooperation Arranged At Recent Conference   MEXICAN MONEY IS BEING INFLATED

Income Tax List Held Inviolate  Holds Tulsa County   Holds Tulsa County Grand Jury Has No Right to See Returne

MILK SHORTAGE THREAT GROWS, AG DEPT. SAYS   Says Decerased Output Due to Feed Shortage, Less Favorable Finan cial Returns

REDS REPORT KUBAN ATTACK   Numerous German Defense Points Said Captured.

PEACE GESTURES ARE MADE BY GOE   REPUBLICAN LEADERS OFFER TO DIVIDE JOBS IN THE MISSOURI SENATE.

Parties Seek Compromise To Break Senate Deadlock   Democrats Offer GOP Counter Concession on Officers, Clerks and Committees; House Elects Officials in Caucuses

San Angelo Army Air Field Officer Fatally Wounded  — Soldier AWOL Shot Also Assistant Sent To Get Him

Two Army Men Shot To Death   Officer And AWOL  Suenect Are Slain

DAN ANGELO ARMY AIR BASE OFFICER SLAIN BY SOLDIER  MAN AWOL LATER FOUN FATALLY WOUNDED IN

OLD PIONEER IS CALLED BY DEATH   Minnie — Albright. Dies. At ' . Homie. of Son In = Hawarden

OLD PIONEER IS “CALLED BY DEATH      Minnie : Albright. Dies: At ' Home. of ‘Son In’: Hawarden

AGRICULTURAL DISARMAMENT PLAN STUDIED   Post-war program may be considered at Allied  food conference

Agricultural Disarmament of Europe Is Suggested to Aid in Permanent Peace

GERMANS RETREAT WHEN SUPPLY LINES ARE SMASHED    Garrisons Caught Are Merci lessly Destroyed By Advancing Russians

WORK RESUMED AT STEELTON STEEL PLAN   Management And Union Still Are At Odds

Germans Announce Move as Allied Air  Offensive Increases QUIET IN AFRICA  Russians Extend Pincers About Axis Caucasus Forces

Seeks Soldier  Security Law:   Vanderberg Says Certain Expansion Of Wagner Bill Must Be Made.

Full Social Security Legislation. — Will Be Requested for War Veterans

SEEK SECURITY FOR VETERANS OF WAR   Vandenberg Says Congress Will Take Action Next Month.

SEVEN ITALIAN WARSHIPS STOP IN BALEARIC PORTS  TA WAVY BEA Wan. Bei ttnww. fee

TEST 1S HELD IN DAVENPORT AREA   Unannounced Blackout Covers 6 Counties

Yank Guns Smash Nazi Tank Attack   Deadly Fire Thwarts Armored Advance or Heighis Near Alife

Enemy Tanks Beaten Back   Nazi Counter Attack Fails To Halt Fifth

Nazis Toss Tanks Into Yanks’ Path   Desperate Move Ils Made to Halt Allied Advances

Allies Shatter Tank Assaults   British, Americans Bite Deeper Into Appenine Defenses

Allies Bite Into Enemy Lines in Italy   Fifth Army Gains Heights; 8th Also Edges Forward

Enemy Railroads and Airdromes Get Torrent of Bombs.   HAMMER HARBORS, OTHER POSITIONS   In Preparation for Coming Allied Invasion.

Allies Continue Raids; Opposition Is Light; Berlin Finally Has Quiet Night.

Axis Airfield Around Naples Heavily Bombed Warships Hit Coastline

Grand Jury Indids Two   H. G. Bennett, Willis Smith Accused of Perjury

STATE COLLEGE PREXY, 0.0. MAN CITED AT TULSA   Grand Jury Accuses Stillwater Executive, Willis Smith Of Perjury

GOP MAPS NEW DRIVE FOR RUML TAX PLAN: TONG DELAY SEEN FOR WHOLE PROGRAM

CONTROLS OVER  WAGES, PRICES “ARE AT STAKE       ONGRESS COMPLETES. FAVORABLE ACTION ON BANKHEAD ’ BILL—INFLATION BHOW .) DOWN If NEAR

Soviets Smash To Within Five Miles ’ Of City Of Kharkov   plold Around Objective Tightened; Meantime Battle For Bryansk Is Stepped Up And 110 More Villages Captured

Reds Reported  But Five Miles _ From Kharkov   Many: More. Towns Taken ~ ‘As: Northern Drive-On ‘Brvansk-Is Stepped Up

REDS TIGHTEN KHARKOV HOLT   Soviet Army Presses To Within Five Miles. of Important City

RUSSIANS TIGHTEN  GRIP ON KHARKOV;  DRIVE ON BRYANSK ENVIRONS OF NAZI —  _ BASTION REPORTED  INVESTED RY SOVIETS

REDS TIGHTEN PINCERS ON KFY BASTION   Chuguev Captured By Soviet Army; Drive On Bryansk Pressed

Reds Tightening Grip On Kharkoy   Less Than Five Miles From City

sovl ETS SMASH WAY TO WITHIN KHARKOV EDGE   Meanwhile, to North Drive Against Bryansk Is Stepped Up In Strength, Moscow Says

ar TIGHTEN _ KHARKOV GRIP   Strong Fighting Marks Drive To Retake Bryansk From Germans.

Soviets Tighten Pincers Around  Axis Stronghold   Only Five Miles From Kharkov And Driving Against Bryansk

REDS TIGHTEN KHARKOV GRIP   Soviet Troops Smash Ahead To Point Less Than Five Miles from City.

NOTE OF PRAISE SENT 10 STALIN   Roosevelt Congratulates Red Chief for Victory At Stalingrad

FDR COMPLIMENTS PREMIER STALIN   Victory At Stalingrad I, Cited.

FOR CONGRATULATES STALIN ON VICTORY   Says Triumph Will Be One Of Proudest War Chapters

Roosevelt Sends His Congratulations  Messages Stalin On ‘Brilliant Victory’

PRESIDENT COMMENDS STALIN ON VICTORY   Roosevelt Says Congratulations Are Due Russians For Triumph At Stalingrad

Move Favored For Economies In War Budget   Administration To Ask For 12 Billions Of ° New Revenue

Cut in War Bill Sought By Congress   Move Under Way For Economies in  Federal Spending

From Safe, Easy War Start, Italy Is First Victim   Frightful Calamities Gnaw Like Acid Into the Ital ian Morale.   Rallying Cry Changes From Days of II Duce

Inglorious Finale For Italian Army   Safe, Easy War Bomerangs for Rome As Facists Becme First Casualty

DELUDED ITALY NOW IN THROES GREAT DEBACLE   What Looked Like Safe and,EAsy. War at Time of Entry Against France Has: Backfired. -

ITALY BOOMERANGED INTO CALAMITIES —  MUSSOLINI, WHO SOUGHT BT RMABBALY nrhgnin vr  Peahi ld  mi EASY WAR FOR.

NAVY BLIMP. CRASHES INTO HILL: 2 HURT   All Members of Crew Thrown Ou —Bag Bounds on and Is Found Wrecked.

INMATES IN. PAJAMAS   ‘Governor Puts Situation at Larned in Lap of WPB

TESTS PLANNED HERE FOR ARMY, NAVY PROGRAM      Blanks Available At Charlero: Senior H. S.; Starts April 2

Jap Defense System in Southwest Pacific Appears to Be Crumbling ‘And Allies Advance on New Britain

Union Orders an End to Strike  Regional War Boare   Regional War Board Issues Ultimatum

New Los Angeles Rail Strike Voted   Workers Demand End to Pay Dispute

Rail Crews In L. A. Order Strike   Call Walkout Over Old Wage Dispute

Another Strike Is Threatened   Los Angeles Reports One Stoppage Ended

Pacific Interurban Strike Is Called After Los Angeles Stoppage Is Ended

Union Orders an End to Strike  Regional War Boarc Issues Ultimatum

WEST COAST GAR LINES-FACE TIEUP   ® acific Electric Interurban Workers Order Walkout; Union Orders Other Strik_ ers to Return to Work

CANNED FOODS ASSURED CAMPS   Isolated Sections Given Permits To Stock Up For Long Periods

Tons of Destruction Hurled - Down on Nazi Capital, Trying to Knock Qut World’s Most Bombed City.   NEW FIRES SWEPT THE GERMAN CITY   Capital Isolated from World. Neither Telephone Calls Nor Telegrams Were  ) Being Received.

U.S. Embassy  Is In Ruins _  Carman Prace Te Naw   German Press Is Now Screaming For Revenge

Guerrillas  Now Battle In Hungary   Cross Hungarian F rontier And Widen Battle Lines Against German Troop. With Great Success

FIGHTING YUGOSLAV  GUERRILLAS CROSS  HUNGARIAN BORDER GERMAN COLUMN DEFEAT.  ED ALONG DALMATIAN COAST AFTER TEN HOURS

Slavs Cross Border as Fight Widens   GUERRILLAS BATTLE ON HUNGARIAN SOIL IN WIDE OPERATIONS

Yugoslav Army Crosses Border Into Hungary   Guerrillas Kill Or Wound 150 Nazis In Dalmatian Coast Fight

GUERILLAS CROSSED THE HUNGARIAN FRONTIER TODAY   Widened the Battle Lines Against the German and Satellite Troops.   A German Column Defeated Along Dalmatian Coast. It Was Announced.

Serb Partisans Beat Germans, Slash Railway:   Large Dalmation Coast Area Seized With Aid Of Allied Planes

YUGOSLAV FORCES CROSS HUNGARIAN FRONTIER TODAY   Report States Some Units Now Fighting On Hungarian Soil  - =—Step Up Battles Against Nazis. Satellites

Allied Air Aid In Fight   Reports Sizeable Italian Army Forming In Guerilla Regions

Yugoslay Guerrillas Push Across Frontier To Battle Germans On Hungarian Side   Patriots Extend Operations, Aided By Strong Italian Army Of 30,000

FIGHT IN HUNGARY   Yugoslav Guerrillas Extend Operations Against the Germans

SOME FORCES FIGHTING IN THAT COUNTRY   Extensive Qperations, Aided by Allied Planes, Also Reported on Dalmatian Coast — Nazis Lose Fierce Battle.

Slav Forces ~ Battling On Into Hungary   Extensive . Operations "01 Dalmatian: Coast. Also Are Reported   ALLIED PLANES ATID: CUERRILLA FORCES   Germans Rush. -in- More Trops; See Possibility of: an: Allied Thrust

Yugoslavs Fight Nazis — In Hungary   Reported Aiding Rebels on Adriatic Coast

YUGO GUERRILLAS INVADE HUNGARY   Audacious Guerrillas Cross Frontier North of Zagreb; Fierce Fighting On Dalmatian Coast; Captured Chetnik General Dies.

YUGOSLAV ARMY QF LIBERATION NOWINHUNGARY   Audacious Guerrillas Cross Frontier in Widening Battles Against ‘Axis Troops

Audacious Slav Guerrillas Cross  Hungarian Line   German Column Defeated Along Dalmatian Coast. In Extensive Operations

SLAY GUERRILLAS CROSS INTO HUNGARY   Forces Now Fighting or Hungarian Territory

Slavs Fight Nazis  On Hungarian Soil   Extensive Operations Also Are Made Along the  Dalmatian Coast.

Yankees Batter Nazis in Tunisia   Germans Press Aaainst Allied Line

Nazis Fall Back To New Defenses South From Rome   British Continue Advance Northward From Fallen Foggia

STREAMS GOING DOWN   Flood Waters Moving Slowly Back Toward Channels

River Crests Passing On   Slight Overflow on Neosho Expected. to Reach Iola Tomorrow

American, British And Canadian T roeps on Island   Mightiest Landing Operation of War To Date; Another Step Towards Invasion of Continent

Bridgeheads Are Set Up Under Sea And Air Assault   American, British And Canadian Troops Join In Attack During Night; Nazis And Italians Offer Strong Resistance

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Important Buildings Blasted in Taormina, Sicily

Gigantic Aerial Assault Paved Way for Invasion   Air and Sea Bombardment. Covers Landing by Huge Force

Rep. Mary Norton Hits Subsidy Foes  Claims Consumers Are Being Sold ‘Down River’

WOMAN SOLON SCORES LASHES SUBSIDY FOES   New © Seanad Lagiair: ‘Says

HOUSE VOTE ON SUBSIDIES NEAR   Ban Seems Assured As Coalition Is Attacked

RAPS COALITION   Anti-Subsidy Bloc Accusec Of Political Tactics ,

House Nears Vote on Subsidy Bill   Rep. Norton Charges Politics Being Played With Plan

Operators, UMW Workers Hold Up Truce Parley  ram “abe — ier  uUrning   Take No Action  Before Adjourning Until Monday

TRUCE DEADLINE LEFT UNCHANGED   Operators And Miners Recess Negotiations For Over Week-End

Future Of Mine _ Dispute Unknown  Negotiations Suspended For Weekend

TRUCE EXPIRES IN COAL MINES   Negotiations Suspended Without Action In Wage Dispute

MINE PARLEY ADJOURNS UNT!I MONDAY MORN   Miners May Work Beyond Deadline

GONFEREES HALT FOR THE WEEKEND   Leave Unanswered Question of Extending Truce in the Coal Industry Which Expires Monday Midnight

LIQUOR PROBE TO BEGIN SOON   Senate Group Votes Inves. tigation; Tax Evasion,  Price Hiking Charged

AXIS IN THE AEGEAN:    Balkan Source Says 75 Divisions By ‘Are in Islands

NEW RUBBERLIKE PRODUCT STUDIED   DEVELOPED FROM CORN AND SOYBEAN OIL AT PEORIA

CONFERENCE HAS ~ MET WITH FAVOR   Russian, Chinese Delegate: Discuss Successes of 16Day Conference.

FOOD CONFERENCE: BIG SUCCESS, SAYS SOVIET DELEGATE             Ga The Byline of loadin Dependability   Claims Alhes Strengthened by Agreements; Closing Ses sion Being Held

As Food Parley Ends—  Russian Delegate Declares Hot Springs Meeting Will Speed Up End Of War No. 2

Farmers Eligible for Tires if They Can Get Them, OPA Director Says

JAPANESE HAVE ENTERED GHANGTEH   Smashed Into Vital Rice Bowl City Through North and East Gates.

Japs Smash Way Into Changfeh   Throw ‘All-Out’ Attack At Rice Bowl Center

MAMOND WOMAN IS DEAD AT 123   HANNAH KINNEY’S HUSBAND FIRED FIRST CANNON IN BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE.

WORK-OR-FIGHT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN STATE SENATE   Senator Altfeld Would Have President Take Action To Outlaw Strikes During War; Another Bill Would Remodel Motor Vehicle Laws

CHANGES IN MOTOR CAR LAWS SOUGHT      Complete Modernization Proposed in Assembly Rill

WITH AMERICA UNTIL FINISH, CONGRESS TOLD      Capital Cheers Promise To. Lay Island Of © Nips In Ashes   BRITISH INTEREST CITED   Grand Strategy, However, Still Calls First For German Defeat

JOINT ATTACKS ARE PROMISED   CHURCHILL TELLS CONGRESS. GRAND STRATEGY OF WAR CALLS FOR LEVELLING JAPANESE CITIES at . THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT—DECLARES BATTLE OF ATLANTIC AGAINST U-BOATS 13 BEING WON ;

Declares British Will Battle Side By Side With U.S   Churchill Gives Solemn Pledge To Joint Session Of Congress This P. M.   BELIEVES GERMANY’S DEFEAT FIRST GOAL

Pledges Aid of Britain Against Japs   Conferences Not To Improve  Health of The Mikado

JAP CRUISER HEAVILY HIT BY AMERICANS   Nipponese Soldiers Are Slaughtered  In New Guinea

BOMBERS SINK JAP CRUISER   Three Merchant Ships Are Also Sent To Bottom.

Allied Planes Hit German Positions   Doylight Raids By American Built Planes Keep Up Day-Round Attacks Gn North France

Allies Make Heavy Raids Over Europe   Many Squadrons of Fighters With Bombers Attacking Dutch Plants      Six Light Craft Lost but All Raiders Return

Bombers Blast Targets In Occupied Countries   Many Fighter Planes Support Raids On French Docks And Dutch Factories.

COUNT HELD ON MURDER CHARGE   De Marigny Accused of Slaying Father-in-Law

Held For Oakes Trial   Alfred De Marigny To Face Trial For Murder Of Father-in-law

DE MARIGNY IS HELD FOR TRIAL   ACCUSED BOUND OVER ON CHARGE HE KILLED RICH FATHER-IN-LAW

Order de Marigny Held For Murder  Indictment To Be Filed In October

BAHAMAN HELD FOR SLAYING OF WIFE'S FATHER   Alfred De Marigny, Ac cused of Murdering Wealthy Sir Henry  Oakes, to Face Trial

DE MMARIGNY MUST FACE JURY TRIAL   Court Orders Suspect Held for Death of His Father Ty er

Hold De Marigny For Jury Trial   Faces Charge of Murdering Oakes

De Gaulle Hails Corsica Liberation   Calls It France's — Contribution in “One War. One Victory"!

11 FRENCH SHIPS USED IN INVASION   De Gaulle Hails Landing ‘French Contribution’

TWIN CITY BOY NAZI PRISONER   Henry E. Warren Held By Germans After Bombsine Raid

A “Million Dollar’ Snow   As Much As 10 Inches Falls in Parts of Dry Western Kansas

WHEAT CROP SAVED   Snow and Rain in State Are Worth Millions of  Dollars

China In Fear. _ Of New Threat   Jap Foothold On T: ungiing  Lake Increases ‘Danger .” To Pravince Of Hunan

GRAVER FOR “RICE BOWL’   Invaders Gain Foothold on Lake Shore. More Activity in New Guinea War Theatre

Japanese Forces Get Foothold On China “Rice Bowl”   Other Pacific Action  In Burma, New Guinea

JAPS GAIN ON CHINESE FRONT   Allies Renew Offensive Against New Guinea Base of Nips

China's "Rice Bowl" Facing A New Threat   Potential Danger to Capital of Hunan Province Graver  JAPS HAVE FOOTHOLD

New Jap. Threat Js Invasion Of. Hunan. Capital          8 Gain Foothold’ 50 Miles . Away.” Burma Action Slows “As Japs Consolidate’ Newly Won Positions:

New Threat By Japs. . To China‘s Rice Bowl; Patrols Clash in Burma

FAR PACIFIC WAR ~ MARKED WITH NEW THREAT 10 GHINA   Potential Danger to Changsha, Capital of Hunan Province, Greater.   JAPS ARE IN TUNGTING

Japanese Threat In China Grows   Activity in New Guinea Is Growing

Japs Direct New Threat At China   Gain Foothold on Food-Producing Province Border

JAP CHALK UP NEW AOVANGES IN CHINA AREA   Latest Attempt Obtains Beachhead For Enemy, Chinese Report

‘Rice Bowl’ of China Again Threatened   Clashes in New Guinea, Skirmishés in Burma Also Reported

JAPS THREATENING CHINESE “RICE: BOWL’: INCREASED ACTIVITY ON NEW GUINEA AND BURMA FRONTS...   Chungking Says Potential Danger to RiceYielding Yunan Province-Becoming Graver. Possible Renewal of Salamaua Offensive Forseer   NEW GUINKA JUNGLE TRAILS ASTIR WITH  f@& AUPE ELT

Japs Advance tc Lake Tungting   Gains Mark New Threat To Capital of China's Rich Rice Bow!

N ew Jap Threat Is Invasion Of Hunan Capital   J  Japs Gain Koothold 50 Miles Away. Burma ‘Aston Slows As Japs Consolidate Newly Won Positions,

JAPS SMASH NEARER TO CHINA ‘RICE BOWL’            i reat To Changsha Grows ‘As Foe Gains Beachhead

TEMPO MOUNTS IN PACIFIC WAR   New Threat to China's ‘Rice Bowl’ Seen

REPORT HEAVIER CLASHES ON Tht NEW GUINEA FRONT   Far Pacific War Marked By New Threats To China’s ‘Rice Bowl’; Potential Danger To Changsha Becomes Graver As Jap In vaders Gain Foothold.

IAPS THREATEN CHINESE AREA   Heavier Fighting Jn Salamaua Indicates New  Allied Offensive

Three Members Of Prison Board Are Appointed   Marvin Hall Is Re-Appointed

SEIZURE OF VITAL TOWNS IS ANNOUNCED   Red Army Forms Fifty-MileLong Assault Front Just East of City of Kharkov

GREEN TAKES NEUTRAL. STAND ON U. S. I. PLAN   Proposal Is Entitled To Consideration, Says Governor In Capital Interview

GREEN NEUTRAL ON UNIVERSITY   STELLE DISCUSSES OIL LEGISLATION WITH GOVERNOR

RE-GROUP ARMIES ON RUSS FRONT   ‘Reds and Germans “Form New Lines For Summer Battle

Russians, Germans Reported Getting Ready For Showdown Battle Next ‘Summer; Armies Being Re-Grouped

REDS, NAZIS READY FOR SUMMER FIGHT      Armies Being Regrouped For Final Showdown Battle

LULL REPORTED ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Opposing Armies Gathering for Expected Showdown Summer Battle.

Russian Front In Lull Before  New Offensives   Forces Being Regrouped Along 1,800-Mile  Front Now

Legislators and War Officials Serve Grim Notice That Pacific War Will Continue Years

Uncle Sam Orders . Aircraft Carriers  Hint War In Pacific Go ing Past 1945

Nelson Refuses  Ickes Oil Power   May Set Up New Board To Help Distribution

U.S. Maps Plans To Buy Wool Cror   Texas Congressman Tells of Program

Government to Buy All Wool  TD esl ce “Te an   Basic Features of Plan Worked Out

REORGANIZE WPB AT MEET IN CAPITOL   Consideration of Decentralization Is on the Agenda

ODT Proposes to Eliminate all Retail Deliveries of Beverages, Flowers, Candy, and Other Luxury Items,

FAMOUS MOVIE DIRECTOR DIES   Van Dyke, Il, Devoted Most of His Life to Show Business

MORE FARM FREEDOM SEEN BY F, B, HEAD   Trend Away from Control O’Neal Declares

AGRICULTURE TREND [5 DEFINITELY AWAY FROM FEDERAL RULE  FARMERS EXPECTED

Western Germany  Bombed In Night   Mosquito Bombers Make At tacks; No Pianes Lost Reports London

Mrs, Rose Hudson Dies af Wellsville.   - Mother-of Mrs. Curtis Quimby Was Well. Known. Heré .

Mrs. Rose Hudson  Dies af Wellsville  Mother of Mrs. Curtis Quimby \ Was Well  ee tea 8 gad

NAVY YARD REMEMBERS   Workers Dedicate Efforts To Pear! Harber Dead

American Railroaders Keep Trains Moving in Northern Tunisia Area

Tunisia Railways Rapidly Restored by U.S. Former S. P. Superintendent Right on Job.

DISPUTES ARISE OVER BORDERS   Study Begun Over Possible Post-War Claims Of Anti-Axis. Nations

POST-WAR CLAIMS CAUSE ARGUMENTS AMONG COUNTRIES      Anti-Axis Nations. Are i Jin _Disputes--United ‘States. - ‘tnvolved. Is ‘Report: -

ANTI-AXIS NATIONS’ AFTER-WAR CLAIMS CAUSE OF ANXIETY   Boundary Dispute Study Already Being Undertaken

Disputes Among Anti-Axis Nations On Post-War Claims Causes Concern

TROOPS ALSO CLOSING IN ON ZHITOMIR   Fallen Bastion of Great Value to Retreating  *“Germans—Is Only 60 Miles From the Old Border of Poland.

Close In On Zhitomir On Sixth Day Of Their New Drive Toward Tha Polish Border

Russians Storm Lhitomir Gates   Also Assault Outer Defenses of Korosten, Vital Junction Point

Soviets Again Near Zhitomir  Russ Also Storming Korosten Outer Defens

Korosten, Vital Rail Junction,  Falls To Reds   Reoccupation Of Zhitomir By Russians Also Appears Imminent.

Reds Storm Key Nazi Defenses  In Kiev Sector 1,200 Germans Killed in White Russia 

REDS ADVANCE UPON ZHITOMIR   Russian Troops Also Driving Hard At City Of Korosten

Reds Storm Defenses of Two Cities   Zhitomir and Korosten Goals of Russians Pushing Forward

Russians Reach Defenses Around Two Key Towns   Heavy Pressure Put On Zhitomir And Korosten Bases

Soviets Drive  On Zhitomir And Korosten   Lay Siege To  Outer Defenses

Russ Forces Near Zhitomir And Korosten   Outer Defenses of Strategic Junctions Stormed in Offensive

REDS POUNDING KEY JUNCTIONS WITH BIG GUN!   Vital Rail. Centers. Stormed As Russians Score More Gains In Ukraine;  . Nazis Fall Back

GREATEST GAIN IN KIEV SECTOR   Red Troops Advance Along Ail Fronts; Prison Cages Fill Rapidly.   NAZIS LOSE MATERIAL

Red Troops Storm Forts At Zhitomir   Heavy Artillery  Softens Defenses » Of Strategic City  In Kiev Bulge

HEAVY SOVIET GUNS POUNDING RAIL JUNCTION   New Russian Offensive Streaming Forward

REDS 10 MILES FAOM ZHITONR  Gen. Vatutin’s Army Now      Gen. Vatutin’s Army Now 80 Miles West Of Ukrainian Capital   NAZIS FALL BACK   Occupation Of Strategic Junciion Points Expected In Few Days

2 JUNCTION POINTS MAY BESTORMED   Kiev’s Offensive Is Meeting Success; Towns. Fall -

Reds 10 Miles  From Zhitomir   Greatest Gains Recorded In Kiev Bulge; Germans Abandon 16 Big Guns; Reoccupation of Two Cities Matter of Days.

Vatutin's Troops Recapture Half Of Nazi Gains   Storm Zhitomir Defenses  And Slash At Korosten On Important Railroad

Gen. Vatutin’s Forces Make Rapid Gains   Reds Score Advances On Two Other Important Sectors

REDS CAPTURE GROUND LOST TO NAZI ROMY   Continue Drive To Regain All Old Territory

Siberian Shock Troops Dissipate 16 German Counterattacks  Near Vitebsk. ©

GEN. VATUTIN’S ‘ARMY SUCCESSFUL IN SEIZING VALUABLE COMMUNICATIONS CENTER IN HIS RESUMED OFFENSIVE WEST OF UKRAINIAN CAPITAL OF KIEV— OUTER DEFENSES OF ZHITOMIR ALSO STORMED

Korosten   Falls fo ~_ Russians   Important Ukraine Rail Junction of Great Value to Retreatinge Nazis   REDS ALSO CLOSING IN ON ZHITOMIE   Soviets in One Week Have Reconquered Half of Nazi Gain in Five Weeks

RUSSIANS STORMING OUTER DEFENSES OF ZHITOMIR, KOROSTEN  GEN. VATUTIN RECAPTURES MUCH. OF GROUNI LOST TO RECENT DRIVE

Zhitomir Also Expected to Fall Shortly   Soviet Forces Wiping Out All German Counterattack Gains

Vatutin Storms Outer Defenses Of Railway Cities   Zhitomir, Korostén. x Threatened on Line Of Leningrad-Odessa

Reds Menace 2 More Towns  Held By Foe   Break Into Defenses Of Zhitomir, Korosten; Widen Offensive West —sO Kiev

Stherian Shock Troops Dissipate 16 Germar Counterattacks News Vitebsk.

RUSSIANS HAVE TAKEN KOROSTEN IN THEIR DRIVE   Captured Important North Ukranian Rail and Highway Junction.   80 MILES WEST OF KIEV   City Had Fallen to Germans Nov. 28, a Few Days After Its Fall to Soviets.

Red Troops Storm Outer Defenses Of Two Rail Centers   Vatutin’s First Ukraine Army Smashes Near Zhitomir And Korosten; Russians Now Have Regained Half Of Territory Germans Seized In Offensive

German-Held Rail Junetion: Under Storm  7. Reetawe Patter   -Russians Batter At Zhitomir And Kovrosten

RED OFFENSIVE DRIVES AHEAD   Soviet Forces Engulf Outer Defenses Of Zhitomir

German Navy Is Crippled in Biscay bay   Ortona Falls To Canadians As  Bombers Range Over Rome Area   BULLETIN

REDS STORMING OUTER DEFENSE OF 7 BIG BASES   “Push Nearer Zhitomir and Korosten, Vital © Rail Junction Points

Reds Storming Two Junctions   Vatutin Retakes Half Of Area Nazi Tank Drive Won

MANY. GERMANS KILLED: MUCH BOOTY TAKEN   Reds Recapture in One Week What Germans Spent Five Weeks Taking From Them

Vatutin’s Troops Moving Rapidly  Storming Defen Fhitomir oc wa ten 42

OUTER DEFENSES OF ZHITOMIR AND KOROSTEN STORMED   They Are Strategic Junction  Points on the Leningrad Odessa Railway.   SOFTENING-UP PROCESS   Other Units Smashed Weakening Enemy Lines and Captured a Village.

Soviet Drive West Of Kiev . Streams Forward Engulfing. Zhitomir’s Outer Defenses   Reds Also Nearing Strategic Junction Point Of Korosten; Advance In North

REDS STORM ZHITOMIR DEFENSES   Recapture Nearly Half Ground Taken By Nazis In Drive

Soviets Land in East Crimea   GERMANS CLAIM COUNTERATTACK BLOCKS RED LANDING FORCES; RUSSIAN FLEET DOMINATES BLACK SEA SURROUNDING CRIMEA

Reds Storm Outer Lines Of 2 Cities  . Within 10 Miles Of Zhitomir and 5 Miles of

Allied Headquarters Disclose Tide Turns  In African Fighting   Enemy Resumes Drive In North; British Attack On Mareth Line; Reds Expand Gains On-3 Fronts

Russians Roll Up Gains Along 400 Mile Front; RAF Hits Wilhelmshaven

Round-Up Of War News.....  British Eighth Attacks Foe In Medenine Area

British 8th Army Hits At Center  Mareth Line   Alexander Directs All Ground Forces

British Move to Penetrate Mareth Line   American Troops Withdrawn to New Positions; Reds Consolidate Wide Gains

Sth Army Attacks Axis Line   Allies Withdrawing In South to Adjust Front; Rommel Takes Offensive i in Center

GEN. MONTGOMERY'S VETERANS BATTLING IN MEDEINE SECTOR  GERMANS AND ITALIANN RESUME OFENSIVE IN NORTHERN TUNISIA

ROMMEL MOVES TROOPS TOWARD BRITISH FORCES   Desert Fighters Attacking Axis At Medenine

Germans and :: Italians in’   Offense Try.   Removal of Troops From Valley Hints Shift in Allied Line

20 Miles Southwest Of German Position In Central Tunisia   8th Army Attacks Axis Forces in Medenine Area, Reds Take 8 Towns West of Rostov

Germans Start New Drive as  British Attack   Allied Forces Crush German Thrust Toward Tebessa; Russians Continue Advance in Ukraine; Nazis’ Rush Up Reserves

“BRITISH 8TH ARMY ATTACKS AXIS IN MEDENINE AREA IN CENTER GF MARETHLINE   Allied Forward Troops in Ousselitia Valley Withdrawn. Allied Lines Adjusted Because OF 66-Mile Axis Gain in Center

Americans Beat  Off Axis Attack:   Ousseltia Valley Given Up And U. S. Troops Dig In— Eighth Army Opens Battle

ROMMEL TANKS DASH TO MEET BRITISH ATTACK   Yanks Temorarily Knocked Out by Big Nazi Assault On Vital Gafsa Area   RAF BLASTS SUB BASES   Russians Surge on Toward Kharkov and Tighten Pincers on Orel

Eighth Army Moves Up to Help Yanks   U. S.-British Troops Reported to Have Stopped New Thrust by Rommel

LUFTWAFFE LAGS: LOSSES MOUNT, OUTPUT DROPS    Believe Combat Losses Now Exceeding Production

GERMAN AIR STRENGTH ON WANE, REPORT   Losing Planes Faster Than Production Can Supply Them, Compilation Shows

Germans Losing Planes Rapidly   Rate Probably Exceeds Production Ability

NAZI PLANE STRENGTH IS DECREASING   Losses Now Exceed Ability ..

All-Out Air Fighting on Three Fronts  Hard on Nazis   1,010 Enemy Planes Downed Between March 18 and Anril 5

Luftwatfe Reporfed Suffering Greatest Losses Since Battle of Brifain, Rate ‘Believed Probably Exceeding Production

LUFTWAFFE IS LOSING PLANES AT FAST RATE   Loss Probably “Excééds Ability To Produce Them In Ouantity

NAZI PLANE LOSS BELIEVED BEYOND PRODUCTION RATE   Analysis of Allied Communique Reveals 1,010 Ships Destroyed in Air in 18 Davs.

NAZIS NOW LOSING AIRPLANES FASTER THAN AT ANY TIME   Rate Probably Is Greater '. Than Hard-Pressed Factories Can Produce

 Men From Montana Take Part in Bombing Raid   Tunic Given Fearful Strafing by Yankee Airforce

American Fliers Bomb Macassar   Jap Shipping Base On Island Of Celebes Is Hammered By Bombers   LONG FLIGHT IS MADE FOR RAID

JAPANESE BASE.ON.CELEBES — ~ RAIDED BY AMERIGAN PLANES   HOMBERS FROM MacARTHUR’S COMMAND IN AUSTRALIA MAKE 2,000-MILE FLIGHT TO MACASSAR

HITLER'S MIGHTY AMBITIONS. — HAVE GOST STAGGERING SUM   HALF-THILLION DOLLARS FIG- URED AS BILL FOR ATTEMPT TO MAKE GERMANS , _ ‘MILITARY MASTERS

War Cost Is Figured   Half Trillion Dollars Being Spent Due To Hitler

ITLER COSTS WORLD HALF A TRILLION   timates Show Total Trebies Amount Spent by All Nations In World War I.   U. S. SPENDS MOST   erican Expenditures Set al 112 Billions; Germany’s Next With 100 Billions.

‘Here’s Why You Must Pay Income Tax  War Costs Half Trillion. Bucks

10-Day Temporary Diversion of Lake  Asked by Rowan   WPB Invites Horace Ramey to Washington for Conference.

10-Day Temporary Diversion of Lake  Asked by Rowan   Says Health of Troops and War Workers Endangered by Pollution.

CITY AT HALFWAY MARK IN CAMPAIGN   Workers Feel Last Half of Quota Will Be Difficult :  to Raise     TAVYTAT TC @190 £79 FS

CITY AT HALFWAY MARK IN CAMPAIGN   Workers Feel Last Half of Quota Will Be Difficult  to Raise     TYT AT re C19 -~39 #4

DRUG THAT MAY “SAVE BABE FOUND   CHILD HAS FIGHTING CHANCE FOR LIFE AS RESULT OF EDITOR'S ACTION.

CANADIAN GIVES AWAY MORE CASH   Waitresses, Soldiers and Children Benefit

Man of Mynstery Again Appears to Spread Joy tq Halifax Rasidente

CANADIAN GIVES MONEY OUT FREELY   Up to $2,000 Scattered among Townspeople, Cabbie’s Son Gets Education

Big Money Man With Cigar ir His Mouth Showers Halifax With Banknotes   Distributes Bills to Servicemen, Waitresses, Bellhops, Children in Nova Scotia

MERCURY WILL DIP BELOW ZERO   Temperature Sinks to  1 Above in Mason City

MERCURY DROPS TO 27 AT ONAWA   Heavy Frost Reported at Several Iowa Points

10 P.C. Retail Tax Finds Support   Congress ‘Has Substitute for. JackedUp Income Levy

For Proposed U.S. Sales Tax   Ten Per Cent Levy May Replace. Hike In Excises

RETAILSALES TAX PROPOSAL WINS SUPPOR'   Bounds Into Forefront of Discussions On Possible Substitutes For Morgenthau's Program

RETAIL SALES TAX TALK GROWING   It Is Est:zmated That Tax Would Yield $6,000,000.000 Annually.

Sales Levy Talk Grows  Jn Congress   Called Most Accessible Vehicle for Gathering War Funds

RETAIL SALES TAX BILL GETS NEW SUPPORT   Backers Say Plan Would Gross 6 Billions Per Year

Retail Sales Tax Supporters Buck Strong Administration Objections

Refail Sales Tax Feeling Gaining Now   This Despite Determined Opposition of Administration to 10 Percent Idea

Retail Sales Tax Winning ‘New Support   Would Be Substitute For Treasury's High Levy on Incomes

Sales Tax Talk Louder   Most Logical Way to . Funds, Say. Back: "ers: Treasury Opposed

U.S. Sales  Tax Law Looms   10 PER CENT LEVY TALK GROWS DESPITE ATTACK BY ADMINISTRATION

TALK OF TEN PERCENT SALES TAX GROWING LOUDER IN CONGRESS  NETLRMINEN ANMINIG.   DETERMINED ADMINISTRATION OPPOSITION FAILS CHECK IDEA

Troina Falls to Allies; German Forces Menaced By Trap Around Catania   Russians Take 48 Settlements, Destroy Much Enemy Equipment and Many Men; Hamburg Suffers Bombing ; Nazis Seize Italian Ships in Greece

LEBANON TRUCE HOPE BRIGHTENS   Release Of Arrested Leaders Promised By French

‘Miners Ordered to Return to Work by Union Leadership      Work Order, Effective. Until Oct. 31, Will Terminate Automatically if Control of Properties Relinguished by Governmen

Policy Board Says Current Minimum  Wages, Conditions Must Be Continued  International Officers Authorized to Exercise Diserction in Portal Pay Litigation

Union Orders Coal Miners Back fo Work  Effective Today; ew Deadline Is

Miners Ordered to Return to Work by Union Leadership  Work Order, Effective Until Oct. 31, Will Terminate Automatically if Control  at Deanmavckiaa Dalleawetiekhad ke Cawarnman

Build 3 Prison Camps In State   Italian Prisoners Arrive At Internment Camp Built Near Scottsbluff,

College Reservists ‘taliere Reservists   HOTEL FIRE > “INCENDIARY”

300,000 Too Many Employes on Federal Payroll Congressional Committee Says

3,008,519 Persons On Payroll OF U. 5.   More Than Tripled   More Than Tripled Since 1918

U. §. PAYROLL HAS TRIPLED   Byrd’s Committee Claim: 300,000 Could Be Cut Off

Report That Government Could Get Along With 300,000 Fewer Employes

BYRD SAYS 300,000 ARE UNNECESSARY   Government Pa Payroll Ha: More Than Tripled Since World War J.

Abduct Girl 2 Days Old At Hospital   Mother Near Death from Shock—No Clues in  Kidnaping

Child Kidnaped, Fear For Life Of Mother    Oregon Woman Suffering From Shock Caused By   Kidnaping Of Two-Day-Old Baby From Crib In Hospital — Authorities Lack Clues To Identity Of Kidnaper

REJECTS DEPOSITORS   Bank Breaks Precedent In Asking Accounts Withdrawn

RUBBER HEADS WAIT FOR WLB STATEMENT   Strike Halts Tire Production for Fourth Day

FLOOD VICTIMS OWE LIVES 10 GRUBER CREWS   Soldiers, Riding in Pontoons, Rescue Many Persons Marooned Below Sallisaw

Senate Starts Hearings Food Subsidies Tuesday   Farmers To Appear

Subsidy Hearings to Open Tuesday   Chances Are Better for Compromise

Argentine Coup Ousts Castille   Revolt Caused By Dissatisfaction With Anti-Amer-. ican Policy   SEE COUP AS AID TO UNITED STATES

MILITARY RULE ESTABLISHED I ARGENTINA   U.S. Prepares to Recognize New ProAllied Regime

REDS CHARGE DUTER DEFENSE NEAR SMOLENSK   Russians Find Germans Are Putting Up Desper) ate Resistance.   FIGHTING , IS BLOODY   Nazi Reserves Being Sent to Donets Basin to Stop Red Attacks.

Red Army Getting Near Important City   British Advancing According To Plan In Tunisia

Russian Forces Fight In Outer Smolensk Areas   Red Armies Crush Repeated German Counter-Attacks In Donets Basin   RED GUERRILLAS BECOME ACTIVE

TWO COLUMNS TIGHTEN GRIP ON SMOLENSK   Strong Russ offensive near Belgorod wipes out German company

GEN. DEVERS ASSUMES COMMAND IN EUROPE   Says His Purpose Is To Win The War In The Shortest Time Possible

GENERAL DEVERS ASSUMES DUTIES   COMMANDER OF AEF IN EUROPE SAYS THERE WILL BE NO LET-UP IN AIR,

Takes Over European Command Devers’ Only Purpose Is to Win War in Shortest Possible Time

State Claims Albany City Funds Short      legally Diverted From Bond Money, Says © Comptroller

STATE PROBES DIVERSION OF ALBANY FUNDS   Comptroller Moore Charges $1,(64, 328 ‘Shortage’ in Capital Fund: Uncovered   THIRD STATE QUIZ   Democrats Denounce Surveillance of Registration Places by State Troopers as ‘Terrorism’

Grand Jury Opens Investigation Of Soft Coal Strike   Operators And UMW Officials Are Listed For Call Today

FEDERAL JURY PROBES STRIKE   First Case Under New Walkout Law Opens . In Pennsylvania

 Where is /apan sive Powcr Hiding— o=-By Glen nm Bab  Berlin ‘And Tokyo Preparing Something Big

Senators From Solid South’ Split Wide Apart On Issue; New Party Move Fades

South Divided Over 3d Party   Thunder. of Revolt Likely To Die With Leaders  _- Unable -To Agree.

Other Nations Wavering   Proposal That Southerners Start Own Party Gets Little Support

SOUTHERN REVOLT FADES WITH TIME   To Remain Democrats First and Last Despite Rumblings of a Purae

Solid South Is Split Wide Oper On Third Party   Only 3 Senators  Say There Is Chance They Will Withdraw From Parent Party

SPLIT IN SOUTH CHECKING REVOL)   Formation Of Independ  ent Political Party No’  Expected

Parfy Move Southern ors Split   ts’ Talk Bolting Dies At Capital

Solid South Is Not So Solid   Angry Talk Echoes On Question of Southern Democrats

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS MAY DEVELOP.   Union Men in Some Mines Say “No Contract No Work”

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS LOOMS   OPERATORS DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER ON CONTRACT TERMS

New Crisis In Coal Situation Faces Nation   Operators Disagree On Contract Terms, Miners Say No Contract, No Work

Many Elements Viewed Forcing New Coal Crisis   Active Seeking Terms Avceptable All Around

PRODUCERS OF COAL WRANGLE: CRISIS NEARS   Some Miners Strike: Home Heat Threatened

WAGE DISPUTE RESULTING IN COAL FAMINE   Operators Disagree With Each Other on Contract Terms, as Union Men  Refuse to Arbitrate  UF e 7 eiire ARR Al

NEW COAL CRISIS   Some Householders Begin to Feel Pinch of Lack —  of Fuel

Another Crisis in Coal Industry Has Reared Up Its Head   Soft Coal Users Already Feeling Pinch of Impasse in Dispute

New Coal Crisis Looms As Miners Demand Contract  Operators Wrangle Over Terms; Heat 5 a er ae

Another Coal -Crisis Neared   Operators. Unions Fail To Reach Agreements As ‘ _ Work Lags

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS NEARS; MINERS STRIKE   Operators Reject _Ilinois Terms: Lewis issues Appeal

New Crisis Faces U.S. in Coal Fields  Operators Disagree on  Terms as Miners Press for New Contracts FUEL PINCH IS FELT Lewis Sees Illinois $1.73 Raise Acceptable But Operators Balk   FUEL PINCH IS FELT

Coal Crisis Looms   Operators Disagree And Miners Stay Out As WLB Struggles With Wage Formula

Another Crisis In Coal Industry Coming Soon  Miners Won't Work Without Contract; President Calls In

Nippo Fleet Routed   ENEMY SOLOMON HOLD LOOSENS AS GROUND FORCES CLOSE IN

Other Planes Batter Lorient U-Boat Base   Europe Jittery as British Craft Head for Continent      British Contact Rommel Army Rearguards West of Tripoli   Imperials Fight Axis Retreating Forces Wast of Zauia

Contact Effected ‘ With Rommel's Fleeing Forces West Of Tunisian Capital

VIERECK WINS COURT DECISION   Conviction Is Reversed by Five to Two Vote

Conviction Of Viereck Upset  Supreme Court Hands Dawn 5-2 Decision

SUPREME COURT FREES VIEREGK, HITS PROSECUTOR   Asserts Government May  .. $trike Hard Blow But Not Foul Ones; Said He Failed to Furnish Evidence

Court Changes Viereck Case   Prosecuting Attorney s Statement Causes Reversal Of Conviction.

DEALERS ASKED TO BARE ‘KICKS   Government Sets Complaint Sessions On Food, Goods

Will Hear Complaints      To Make Nation-Wide Survey of Retail Distribution Problems .

Merchants Will Give Complaints   Government Planning Conferences

U.S. PLANES ARE ATTACKING JAP PACIFIC BASES   Air Force Gets Busy Following Complete Capitulation of Japs On Guadalcanal; Navy Issues Communique.

U. S. Planes Bomb Japs In South Pacific   All Organized Resistance Ends On Guadalcanal   Twin-Engine Bomber Shot Down By Yanks   4,000 Enemy Dead In Last Two Weeks In Island Fighting

DRAFT CONCERTED DRIVE ON JAPAN   High Ranking Allied Leaders Agree On ‘Offensive Plans’   MEET WITH CHIANG   More Than 800 Japs Kill ed In 13-Day Drive In  Salamaua

Drive Japs Back  In Solomon Area   Sudden Burst of Power Is Shown by Troops Under MacArthur.

Conference Hints Drive On japan   English, British, Chinese Agree On Offensive; Pledge Help To China

JAP RESISTANCE ON GUADALCANAL HAS BEEN HALTED  COMPLETE CONTROL OF ISLAND GAINED BY

U. 5. Warplanes Hit Jap Bases   Organized Fighting Ends cn Guadalcanal

Japanese Bases In Pacific Hit Guadalcanal Resistance  At End, Allied Planes Ceeitkinag (bert

U. S. PLANES ATTACK ENEMY BASES IN SOUTH WEST PACIFIC  Extended Activity Follows Announcement Of Complete Control

Allies Map New Orient Attacks   China, Allied Heads Agree On Plan

Uuadaicanal  Fliers Widen Pacific Raids Blast Foe’s Munda Base  and Down Jap Bomber Over Choiseul      KISK&A HIT AGAIN

Army Planes Attaking Jap Pacific Bases   Organized Enemy Resistance Ended On Guadalcanal

U.S. Attacking  Other Pacific  Enemy Bases ANDO Tans Were   4,000 Japs Were Killed In Two Weeks On Guadalcanal

HIGH-RANKING LEADERS HOLD WAR MEETING   ’ Chiang Kai-Shek, Wavell Arnold. Dill Attend   In Allied Offensive Toward Salamaua Base On New Guinea

Resistance On Guadalcanal Ends   American Planes Attacking Other Enemy Bases

‘Navy Department Reports i U.S. Fliers Hitting At Japs In South Pacific  INSTALLATIONS OF  JAPS ON KISKA HIT   Outflanking Move by Army   Spells Disaster for Nips  i On Guadalcanal, Stimson Lays

U.S. Opens New Pacific Drives   ULS. Planes Smash  Jap Strongholds on ro

F. R. Bares New Battle on Japan   ALLIES JOIN IN COMING CAMPAIGN AGAINST NIPS IN CHINA WAR THEATER

Newspapers And Pagaines Use Of Paper fs Restricted   Allowed Amount Of Newsprint That Was Reauired In 1941

USE OF NEWSPRINT GUT BY 10 PERCENT   Additional Curtailment Anticipated

AO Lost In U-Boat Sneak Attack On U. S. Ship Off Eastern Coast In April

Vessel Sunk bff Key West   Hit-And-Run Sub Has Inveded Shipping Lane

Ship Sunk Off Florida Coast   Forty Men Were Lost, Including Gallant Skipper of Craft

Axis Sub Sneaks Through Defense And Sinks Ship   Heavily Guarded Ship Lanes Penetrated For First Time In Months 4 .

‘Ship Torpedoed Off East Coast; Houston Skipper iGoes Down With Vessel

German Attacks Are Repulsed.   Reds Report Fierce Caucasus Battles

FIERCE GERMAN BLOWS REPULSED   Nazis Try to Widen Bridge‘head in Caucasus Neat Novorossisk: 1,600 Wipec Out, 17 Planes Destroyec

Soviets Repel Fierce Attacks   1,600 More_Nazis Wiped Out, 17 Planes  Downed in Caucasus

NAZI CAUCASUS ASSAULT FAILS   Reds Report 1600 Enemy Soldiers Slain And 17 Planes Downed

Germans Lose Heavily in.  Caucasus Area   Russians Repulse Nev ‘Efforts of Nazis to Widen Bridgehead

Nazis Again Fail Despite Great Attack on Reds   Russians Report Many Germans Killed; 17 Planes Downed

RUSSIANS REPULSE FOE IN CAUCASUS   RECKLESS ATTACKS NEAR NOVOROSSISK COST GERMANS 1,600 DEAD.

NAZI ATTACKS PROVE COSTLY   Germans Lose 1,600 Men in Attempts to Widen Novorossisk Bridgehead

NEW GERMAN: ATTACKS IN CAUCASUS   Fishting at Times Develops Into Hand-to-Hand Clashes; Nazis Try to Drive Back Reds   Base Wrecked

German Attacks Prove Costly At Novorossisk   Soviet Communique Reports 1,600 More Nazis Are Wiped Out With 17 Planes.

ussians Repulse erman Attacks, last 17 Planes   ixteen Hundred More lazis Killed in Caucasus Fighting   loscow Reports Victory i Bitter Hand-to-Hand : Struggle

NAZI ATTACKS PROVE COSTLY   Reckless Attempts Made On Red Lines Near Novorossisk; 17 .» Planes Downed

New German Attacks in Caucasus Are Re- ~~’ pulsed 1,600 NAZIS ARE KILLED IN BATTLE  Fighting’ Monday Develops in Hand-to-Hand Clashes

Nazis Throw Away Men In Caucasus   Reckless Germans Lose 1,400 More Near Novorossisk

“Wait And. See’ Attitude Adopted. in Official W ‘ashington Quarters On Sudden Ouster Of Mussolin

Washington Much Surprised By Mussolini Ouster   Officials Not Saying Anything

17 u + Red ‘Wordy Washington Wordless  be et Capital Is Stunned By ‘Sudden ness Of Ouster OF I [Duce   Badoglio Stil Was To Choose Between Peace And Continuance Of War And Ruin For Italy   Duce’ s Ouster First Step In F ascism’s End, Hull Believes  a Roe aie  Wt Daltowoc Tt ‘UIioht Do Thea   Mrs. Roosevelt Believes It ‘Might Be The Bevinning Of A Crack Internally’

CAPITAL MARKS TIMESILENTLY ON ITALY ISSUE      \  ‘Ouster of Mussolini, How  ever, Elates White House,   War and Navy Departments   SPECULATION RIFE   Believed King Emmanucle Has Accepted Roosevelt and Churchill Proposai  to Banish Fascism

U. Ss. Capital Stunned Into Silence; Officials Take Wait-and-See Attitude

Washington Is Stunned Into Odd Silence By News   ‘Wait-And-See’ Seem: To Be Attitude Of U. S. Officials On Italy

Poker-Faced Washington Waits to See   However Speculation Is Rife As to What Italy Plans to Do

Allied Troops Swarm Ahead   Nazis Fighting Desperate= ly To Hold Barrier Bes fore Rome; Yank Fifth: Army Gathers Fu

Knox Claims Coas Raid Danger Over   Secretary Speaks At San Francisco

NEW BUS LINE 10 BEGIN SOON   Le Mars On Schedule With Two Round Trips Fach Day

Application For : Bus Line Granted —  '.eMars Among Other Towns to be Served.

Installment On Pearl Harbor   Americans Fake Grim Pleasure in Terrific Destruction Wrought On Jap Base At Rabaul

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF RAID ON RABAUL BY TIMES REPORTER  SEES SHIPS BURSTING INTO FLAMES---INSTALLATIONS WRECKED

Aboard A Bomber Over Rabaul.....  Eyewitness Tells About The Greatest Blow Yet Struck In The Pacific

Objective At Rabaul: Elimination Of Japs   ns FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN

Eye-Witness Account Of Raid On Rabaul. Nipponese South Pacific Base Becomes  Flaming Hell As Yanks Surprise Foe

Munda Being Bombed Out   Tons of Explosives Dumped by Planes On Jap Positions

LEWIS FAILS TO EXTEND BRIEF TRUCE   Presidential Action Is Expected as Men Walk Out

Quick Action By FDR Expected To ‘Keep Coal Rolling   Next Move Up To Ickes After Lewis Leaves For Home Without Extending Truce After Midnight Expiration. Negotiations Deadlocked.

Patton’s Men Beat Off Axis Tank Attack      American Armor Trying to Clear Way for Contact With British   ADVANCE IN NORTH   Gen. Eisenhower Praises Coordinated Drive as He Tours Warfront

INFANTRY AND TANKS BATTLE TO WIDEN GAP   Patton Trying to Clean Out Enemy Positions and Join British,   AMERICANS KEPT:FROM GAIN IN FONDOUK. AREA

NAZIS AT €L GUETAR   Patton’s Forces Make ® Bid For Junction With 8th Army

British Forces Score New Gains In Tunisia   Eisenhower Expresses Satisfaction With Drives by Allies

Grim Waves Of Yanks Beat At Rommel's Flank   Heavy Mine Fields Slow Down Drive In Central Tunisia  ae tL aetna. nk. a) caw Na SN ah o te Ud

Americans Hit Hard at Enemy Flank   Several German Panzers Are Knocked Out

Yanks Charge Tunisia Hights On Foot After Mines Balk Tanks   African Goums Bring Terror, ‘Death To Tunisia Germans

Patton Pushes Drive To Join Forces With British Eighth Army   Yankees Learning Art Of War The Hard Way; First Army Still Active In North

American Tanks Try Advance   Armored Division Pulls Back to Let Infantry Widen Gap

Yanks Trying For Junction With British   British First Army Continues Advance Toward Bizerte, Tunis

PATTON FORCES SEEK JUNCTION WITH BRITISH   Rommel Plants Heavy Mine Fields To Pro-  tect Flanks   172 PLANES LOST:   Eisenhower Reports “Sat« isfactory Progress”  Being Made

YANK INFANTRY SLASHES AT FOE   General Patton’s Forces Striving to Wipe Out Nazi Positions in Tunisia

Yanks in Attack On Rommel’s Flank in Wedge   Patton Renews Efforts to Clean Out Enemy Blocking Junction

Many Cleverly Concealed Traps Are Left By Rommel’s Boys In Back-Pedaling

U.S. TROOPS SENT AGAINST FOE IN WAVES   Axis Defense Stormed. ix Effort to Effect Break Through and Sno With British.   TANKS HIT FIRST, _ THEN INFANTRYMEN   Several German Panzer Knocked Out — Enemy Infernal. Machines Lite ter Area.

GERMANS BLOCK JUNCTURE WITH BRITISH FORGE   Americans Renew Attacks -on Steep African Slopes to Clean Enemy Out of Positions   THRUST WITH TANKS QUICKLY REPULSED   Armor Withdraws to Let Infantry Resume Operations Toward Widen ing Gan

‘American Infantry Attacks Axis Defenses at El Guettar   Nazis Continue Mobilization Despite Boomerang Results

AMERICANS ON MOVE AGAINST AFRIKA KORPS   Heavily Mined Areas Presenting Much Difficulty For U.S. Troops.

Allies Keep Hammering  Nazis’ Line   Retreating Enemy Leaves Treacherous Trap But U. S., British Forces Advance; Cleanup of Vital Meuntain Sites Beaing

Grim Waves Of Yanks Beat At Rommel’ 5 Flank   Heavy Mine Fields Slow Down Drive In Central Tunisia

Patton’s Forces ‘Deepen Wedge Into Axis Flank   Thousands of Mines Impede Path Of U. S. Troops Toward Gabes; Junction With Eighth Army Near

U.S. Doughboys Attack Rommel’s Flank Behind Nazi Defensive Lines

TRAIL PROTECTS  ‘Sit iba ie lita   j. §. Forces ‘Strive For Pos: session Of Heights Near Kairnuan   ENEMY LOSES MORE THAN TWICE AS MANY AIRPLANES

Yanks( we pen.      Uise: Infantry Begins. “Thrust: “At Nani Flank,

NAZIS FLEEING IN HASTE 10 DNIEPER RIVER   Red Army’s Summer Drive Reaches New Turning Point   CONTINUE ITALY RAIDS   Rail Center At Salerno  Virtually Destroyed  By Allies

Nazis Admit Loss Of City: Retreat Reported General   Reds Say Offensive Appears To Have Reached Turning Point As Foe Flees

Evidence Jap Foe Concentrating On Shortland Area  Powerful Air Defense Forces Encountered By American Fighters

JAPS GATHER IN SHORTLAND FOR ATTACK   Eleven Enemy, Fighters Destroyed In American Attack On Shipping In That Sol omons Area.   Heavy Aerial Activity

Japs Marshal Addea Air. Power in Pacific   Strong Enemy Forees Surprise U.S. Raiders in Shortland Island Area; Kiska Is Raided

Power Hearings Are Scheduled   Will Clarify Plans For Columbia Basin

Hearings to Giarify~ Water Problems Planned: by Officials   Congressional Authority to Send Group Into Washington, Idaho and Montana Will Be Soucht. Renresentative Announces

FEDERAL JURY TO PROBE DEAL BY JOHN LEWIS   Union Leader May Have Violated Law In Loan To Mine

Congress Sel For Father Draft Debate   Compromise to Have Little Effect on Inductions, Cleim

LITTLE EFFEC)   Fathers Already at Bottom  of List, Officials  : Reaclara

Induction Policy Not Changed By  Compromise Bill   Selective Service Officials See Little Change In Procedure

LITTLE EFFECT ON DADS SEEN THROUGH BILL   Compromise Measure To Change Draft Policy But Slightly

GREEN ATTACKS MINORITY BLOC IN SPRINGFIELD   Says Kelly-Nash Holding Up Bills To Make Deal

GOVERNOR SAYS KELLY-NASH BLOC IRKED OVER ‘DEAL   WANTED ELECTION CONTESTS DROPPED, GREEN CLAIMS

’ STATE IMPOUNDS FOREIGN WHISKY   Permit Holders Must Make Refund

EXPLOSION OCCURS AT YORKTOWN, VA.   Six To Eight Persons Are Killed And 20 To 30 Injured In Blast

CLOTHING RATION     RUMOR AGAIN HiT      Elmer. Davis’ Investigation. Shows Public— Is Confused ;

Shut Down Is Expected As Truce Ends   UNITED MINE WORKERS FAIL "Q BUDGE FROM DEMAND FOR INCREASE OF $2.00 PER DAY.   C-mmittee Stands By

Neat Question Of Liability For Injury During Blackout   ~ Who Will Reimburse John Jones? Problems So Far Withuut Answers In U. S. Courts

Father Seeks To Clear Name Of Darlan Assassin  Vindication Of Youth Is Partial

Father of Youth Executed as Darlan Slayer Partially Clears Son's Name

DARLAN MYSTERY PARTLY SOLVED   FATHER OF SLAYER SEEKS TO CLEAR NAME OF HIS SON

Roaring Fires Could Be Seen Hundred Miles Away.  RAID COST THE BRITISH 35 PLANES  Allied Planes Sink Ship Off the Coast of Sicily.

TRANSFORMED 10 INFERNO BY 1.000 TONS   British Lose 35 Planes in Shattering Raid

POUND RAIL FACILITIES IN AUSTRIA   Eighth Army Wins Berrati In Steady Advance On Ortona: Germans Put Torch To Port

BRENNER PASS HIT BY U. S. BOMBERS   Communication Lines Were Hit on Both Sides of the the Pass.

Bombers Raid Supply Lines   Strike Heavy Blows On Both Sides of Brenner Pas:

Yank Alr Force Hits Brenner Pass   Gain Telling Blows At Enemy Communications

Brenner Pass Gets Mighty Bombing From U. S. Planes   Communications: Hit, On Both Sides of Important Gateway

Bombers Rip Foe in Italy And Austria   Big U.S. Force Hits Communications On Both Sides  Of Brenner Pass

BRENNER PASS AREA POUNDED   Yank Bombers Strike at Targets in Great Force, Reports Say

U.S. Heavy BombersRaid Supply Lines   German Facilities on Both Sides of Brenner Pass Hit—Also Athens

AMERICAN HEAVY  BOMBERS BLASTED  BRENNER PASS AREA BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY  ~ PUSHES SLOWLY AHEAD ON ITALIAN FRONT

Heavy Air Blow Dealt to Brenner  Pass by Yankee:   Bombers Direct Their Explosives at Rail Facilities at Innsbruck.   Eighth Army Pushing Ahead Along Coast

U. §. Bombers In Raid On Athens   FLYING FORTRESSES DC DAMAGE TO NAZI BASES

Some jv Neavy Bombers On Raid  Attack Supply Lines From Germany Into Italy  GROUND FORCES CONTINUE TO GAIN

U. 8: Bombers Blast Brenner 'Pass Entrance:   Planes Sirike Behind Lines—British Cate oan. Cenirmd

Brenner Pass Towns Hit by Yank Airmen   Innsbruck and Bolzano Blasted; Fifth Army Takes Vital Hill

Allies Blast Both Sides of Brenner: Pass:   Yugoslay Coast :Is. “Pounded; Italy Sees  Little. Ground: Action

U.S. AIRMEN HIT TELLING BLOWS IN NORTH ITALY   BLAST AT TARGETS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRENNER PASS

U.S. PLANES HIT BRENNER PASS   Bombers Batter Both Sides of Gateway: Eighth Army Advances in Ifaly.

: —ITALY—  5. FORTRESSES BLAST INNSBRUCK   Communications On Both Sides Of Brenner Pass Battered   NO PLANES LOST   British Eighth Continues Slow Progress ‘along Adriatic - .

Brenner Line Again Blasted  By Americans   ‘Enemy Communications On Both Sides Of Pass Are Targets Of Large Force Of Bombers

Heavy Allied Bombers Hit Brenner Area   Austria and Northern Italy Pounded by Air Assaults

Supply Lines From Germany To Italy Disrupted; Eighth Army Still Gaining

Brenner Pass Plastered By Heavy Allied Air Assault   Sledgehammer Blows Directed At Enemy Rail Communications In Northern Italy

Brenner Pass Area Bombed By Allies   Supply Line Into Italy Hit Hard By Fortresses

AIRMEN SMASH BALKANS HUBS   YANK RAID RIPS RAIL AT BOLZANO, TRENTO

Bis U.S. Bombers Blast Railroads In Brenner Pass   Think 300 Planes In Attack On Vital Supply Line; 8th Army Forges Ahead

Bombers Hit Brenner Pass Towns   Sledge-Hammer Blows Are Directed At Rail Facilities

Communications On Brenner Pass  Blasted By Yanks   Sledgehammer Blows of American Bombers Directed At Rail Facilities at Innsbruck In Austric, and Bolzano in North Italy   ROAD BETWEEN ORTONA ANR ORSOGNA SEVERED

U), S, BOMBERS BLAST ENEMY COMMUNICATION   Every Plane Is Reported Safe  After Raids

U. §. Planes Rain Blows on Brenner Pass   Another Fleet Blasts Rail Facilities at Innsbruck, Austria

Air Raids Staged By U. S. Planes   FLYING FORTRESSES IN ATTACKS ON NAZI  TARGETS

Allied Planes In Daylight Attack On North Germany; Nuernberg Struck By R.A.F.

Daylight ‘Assaults Come After Nicht Raids   Allied Air Forces Smash German Target: After Heavy Blow At Nuernberg Last Night    Londen, Feb, 26 (4A strong ‘force of United States bombers atHacked northwest Germany today, lit was announced authoritatively.

ALLIED PLANES POUND NAZISIN DAYLIGHT RAID   Big A merican Planes May Have Been In Attack Force

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST NORTHERN CERMAN COAST   Dayhght Attack Follows Heavy Night Assault

Opposition To R e districting Is Increasing   Sponsors of Proposed Bil Predict It May Be Blocked   MEASURE IS DRAFTED

U. S. Casualties in Northern Africa Won’t Exceed 12,000 OWI Chief Elmer Davis Feels

YANK CASUALTIES SET AT 12.000 ~   Elmer Davis Says Enemy Ha: Lost Almost 30,000 Troops ‘Discounts Statement

AFRICAN FIGHTING LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Davis Says 12,000 Are Kilt ed, Prisoners in Port Six Months.

MS. L. AVERILL ~ ANSWERS CALL   Mother of Mrs. Floyd Bau_ erly Buried Saturday At Sioux City

Strikes at Three Akron Plants End   CIO Unionists Comply with Noon Deadline Set by Presidential Ultimatum; Others Returning

Welfare Post Is Given Up By Frank C. Klode   Resignation Effective On   November 1 Submitted By Director At Board Meeting Today

NAPLES AND OTHER AXIS BASES STRUCK   Transport In Tunisia Also Is Crippled Under Hammering -From Skies.   BULLETIN

REPUBLICANS CUT TIMBER FOR 1944 PLATFORMPLANKS  :  NATIONAL CHAIRMAN  OUTLINES 5 BROAD   AIMSe COR CAMPAIGN

Preliminaries Discussed By GOP Leaders   Committee is Formed to Develop "Realistic PeaceTime Program"   MEETING IS CONSIDERED

Republican Party Lists Aims For 1944 Campaign   National Chairman Outlines Goals As Early Start On Platform Planning Is Indicated

G. O. P. Starts Campaign   Looking to Midwest for Lumber for  "44 Building — :.

GOP Primes Guns for ’44   May Call Meeti Meeting Soon To Lay Groundwork for Presidential Campaign

Republicans Considering  1944 Platform   Meeting Expected To Be   Called in Chicago in  Near Future

REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERS PLANNING CAMPAIGN FOR 1944 _ MAY CALL MEETING  THIS SUMMER TO STAR] PI ATEOOM Woov

Republican Party Leaders See Midwest Battlefield; Meeting In Chicago Slated

GOP WILL MAP NEW PLATFORN   Republican Leaders Plan to Meet in Chicago This Summer.

- Coal Wage  arleys Ordered   WLB Tells Miners And Operators to Resume Bargaining

ENFIDAVILLE LINE FOE DEFENSE KEY      Allied Counter-Offensive Against the Japs in South Pacific Under Way: Eves on Africa

TAX ON SALES: “TO BE URGED IN CONGRESS   BENATOR SMITH DECLARES FEDERAL SALES TAX IS ONLY SOLUTION TO FINANCE PROBLEM.

New Nazi Strategy Suggests Hitler _ No Longer Dictates Army Movements

REDS HAVE LONG WAY TO GO TO EXPEL NAZIS  Haye Made a Good Start, However

AEDS MUST GO FAR TO GLEAN LAND OF NAZIS   Stalin Calls on Army for Clean Sweep to Bound. aries.   GERMANS MAY SET LINE ON DNIEPER   Nazi Strategy May Be in Army’s Hlanlty Out of Hitler’s.

There’s Still A Long Way To Go, But.....  Expulsion Of Nazis  From Soviet Soil Is Goal Set By Stalin

Place American Flag At Entrance of Pit, Symbol of Employer   Lewis Asks Miners To Return To Work by Tuesday Morning on 15-Day Temporary Basis   Coal Miners in Ohio ‘Flock’ Back To Pits This Morning

OHIO MINERS HASTEN BACK TO COAL PITS   Three Major Companies Say ‘Almost Normal’ Digging ~ Resumed Today.   MEN GLAD TO GO BACK   Brief Stonpage Since - Friday Not Expected To Interfere With Work Resumption.

NEARLY NORMAL IN OHIO MINES   Men ‘Glad Strike Called Of But Insist They Would Stand by Lewis

Opening Of  Schools May ~ Be Set Back   STUDENTS MAY BE REQUIRED TO HELP IN HARVESTING TOMATO CROP

FURLOUGH TIME -T0 BE INCREASEL   Three Weeks in Effect for Altoona Sector August 16

R, A, F. BLASTS DUISBURG AND RUHR TARGETS   Fliers Also Attack Ships Off Coast of Norway

DUISBURG AND OTHER TARGETS IN RUHR RAIDED   Eight Bombers Fail to Return from RAF Assaulls — Rubr Also Strafed Thursday Niqht   Liberal Brilish Weeklies Criticise American Daylight Raids as Useless Destruction’

RAF PLANES KEEP UP HAMMERING AT RUHR   Duisburg Is Latest Target; Eight Fail To Return

BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST RUHR VALLEY INDUSTRIAL TARGETS IN NEW ATTACK  Eight Royal Air Force Planes Are Lost In Assault On Key Axis Area

DUISBURG AND OTHER POINTS ARE ATTACKED   Royal Air Force Continues Day And Night Hammering Of Objectives In  Germany.

Duisburg and Other Industrial Points in Germany's Ruhr Blasted  By RAF; Enemy Shipping Attacked

Duisburg and Other In dustrial Points in Ruhr Valley Area Targets of Raids   EIGHT PLANES LOST   Enemy Shipping Off Norway Attacked; Tanker Torpedoed; Four German Bombers Bagged

Duisburg, Other Ruhr Valley Areas Raided Again   German Railroad Center Hammered By British Again:  8 Bombers Lost

Duisburg Hit In New Raid  Pu< Man wbimcrad BAE   Ruhr Area ts Target Of Continued R.A.F. Hommering Tactics

RAF Keeps Aerial Offensive Rolling Over Ruhr Valley   Duisberg Blasted 58th. Time; American Air Force Criticized

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST DUISBURG   EIGHT BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN AFTER LARGE SCALE ATTACK

R. A. F. LOSES EIGHT PLANES IN ATTACKS   Round-The-Clock Program Again Being Followed   DAYLIGHT RAIDS   Made On Industrial Areas Of France: Four German Bombers Over Britain

& Ships Lost In Attacks   French Report Rail Sys. tem Is Slowly Being Paralyzed

Duisburg Is Blitzed By RAF Fliers   Other Points In The Ruhr Also Smashed. -

R. A. F. Bombs Rain on Duisburg Plants   Ruhr Valley Points Get Pasting From allied Pilots

RAF CONTINUES AIR ATTACKS ON RUHR FACTORIES   Hit Duisburg, Other Industrial Sectors, Lose Eight Planes

RUHR VALLEY RAIDED BY RAF   Duisburg Blitzed 58th Time During War

DUISBURG IS HIT BY BOMBS IN NIGHT: RAID   RAF Continued ‘Round Clock Strafing of German Industries Turning Out War Materials.

Senators Okeh Rescinding  Of Salary Limit   Approve Measure Forbidding U. §. To Order Reductions

GET YOUR CAR INSPECTED   Good Car Condition Is  Now More Important Than Ever Before.

GANDHI SLIGHTLY ILL, WEAK IN FAST   War Of Nerves Develops Between Nationalists And British

LEWIS* RETURN TO AFL LOOMS   Application of UMW Chie! Referred to Executive Committee

Bombers  Pack New Punch   Additional Bomb Racks And More Guns Make Fortresses and Liberators More Deadly

FLYING FORTS LOAD OF BOMBS IS INCREASED   Both Foris and Liberators Nov Equipped wiih Additional De fensive Guns

Deadlines of U. S. Bombs Increased  By Added Weapons   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Now Pack Terrific Punch

FORTRESSES MADE FAR MORE DEADLY   Additional Ton of Explosives and Defensive Guns Are Carried on Crafts.

Punch Added To Fortresses   More Guns Added, Bomb Load Stepped Up By Ton

Yankee Planes Now Carrying Greater Punch   Forts, Liberators on European Front Made More Deadly

\With Added Bomb Racks, Turrets ‘ U.S. Heavies Become More Deadly

Flying Forts Are Improved   Big Planes Are Made Even More Deadly by Recent Improvements

Deadly Punch of Fortres Abroad Increased By 2,( Pounds of High Explosi

Add lethal punch Flying Fortresses   Use Azores bases to crush menace of German U-boats

AMERICAN AERIAL PUNCH INCREASED   More Bombs And Guns Now Carried By Fortresses, Liberators

NEW GRISIS IN FRANCE LOOMS   Abetz Back in Paris Alter Seeing Hitler

HINT NEW CRISIS / IN VICHY FRANCE   [Nazis Hear Petain Dealing with Foreian Power

Hitler Moves To “Liquidate” Vichy Crisis   Abetz, Nazi Agent, In Paris To Carry Out Fuehrer’s Edict

Japanese Are Still Retreating   Victorious Chinese Armies Driving Beaten Japs Back In Kupeh

Talk of Whale Steak Comes to Surface Of Food Conference Discussions As Streams, Oceans Cited as Sources

WAR DEPARTMENT OPENS NEW PROBE OF COLMAN'S CASE   Consider Retiring Ex Field Commander From Service

-—-§UBSIDIES INQUIRY— RATIONING OF MILK BY POINTS SEEN   Farr Says OPA Policies Create Uncertainties

WARN OF MILK POINT RATIONS   Farm Groups Ask Present Agricultural Policies Be Scrapped

Opinion Prepared On Changing Time   Action Expected In Coming Week

‘TIME: CHANGE. ISSUE... NOT TO BE AVOIDED, ~- MCCULLOCH REVEALS      Piquad, Speaker of the  House; Assures All the  Impatient Advocates  : of Action,

ALLIED PLANES BOMB TWO JAP CARGO VESSELS   One Left With Decks Solid Mass Of Flames

SEIZURE OF VITAL CITY MAJOR WIN   Dnieper Bend Railway Center Regained In Fierce Fighting

SOVIETS SCORE MAJOR VICTORY AT CHERKASSY   Reds Also Peril Kirovograd as Tide Turns in Crucial Battle

Tide Of Battle In Kiev Sector Favors Russians   Soviet Forces Now On Offensive In Area Is Moscow Report   SAVAGE FIGHTING OCCURS IN KIEV BULGE

Roosevelt Signs Huge Money Bills   18 War Agencies, Othe Bureaus Get 4 Billion

WAR AGENCY. FUNL BILL 15 SIGNED   Wilk Finance Work of 18 Government Bureaus; Includes Sharply Trimmed Funds for OPA and OWI

FUNDS FOR OWI AND OPA SLICED   Appropriations Measure Signed Into Law By President

British Speculate On Invasion Of Europe Soon  Newspaper Predicts Greatest Naval Act of All History

London Hints Invasion Near   Greatest Naval Operation In History Said Imminent

London Excited Over Invasion Possibility   Rome Lugubriously Says Allies Choose Italy; Navy Attack Predicted

WAC CORPORAL'S DEATH MYSTERY   Half-Nude Body of Army Non-Com in Hotel

WAC CORPORAL IS FOUND SLAIN IN HOTEL ROOW   ‘Dark-Haired Woman In Black’ Sought By Army Probers

PROBE DEATH OF WAC IN HOTEL   Drinking Party Believed To Have Preceded Slaying In Indianapolis

2 KINGSLEY BOYS SHOT      More Members of K: Company Wounded in. N Africa ;

2 KINGSLEY BOYS SHOT   More Members of K. Com. pany Wounded in Now ;  Afri ca

AIR WAR IN AFRICA IS INCREASED BY ALLIES   "26 Additional Axis Planes Damaged In Big Raid   "sritish Forces Continue. Te Hold In Northern Area

AFRICA IS INCREASED BY ALLIES   ™%6 Additional Axis Planes Damaged In Big Raid  WITHDRAW FROM SENED  British Forces ( Continue To Hold In Northern Area

-DIDN’T REACH MACARTHUR      .General Not Informed of G.0.P. Leader’s Statement

Stock, Land Tax  Values Retained   State Makes No Change From 1943 Figures

New Liberator Feared By Japs   It’s Wonderful Fighting Ship As Well As Bomber

YOUTH ADMITS © KILLING BOYS AT CLEVELAND   FORMER REFORM SCHOOL IN. MATE TELLS POLICE HE SHOT TWINS “FOR HECK OF 51"

Youth Confesses ~ Slaying Twin   Eighteen-Year-Old Former Psychopathic Patient In Cleveland Shoots Boys   HEINOUS CRIME SHOCKS OHIO CITY

Youth Held For Slaying ef Twins   Accuse 18 year Old Former Psychopathic Patient

Conaressional Economy Bloc Gets First Chance to Carry Out Threat

Billion for Treasury and  P.O. Sought   First of Departmental Supply Bills Sent to House by Committee

BILLION ASKED FOR TREASURY, PC   ECONOMY BLOC GETS FIRST CHANCE 10 CARRY OUT THREAT

Treasury-PO Supply Bill Faces Slash   Congress Economy Bloc to Study $1,202,007,320 Appropriation

KISKA AND ATTU WILL COST MANY AMERICAN LIVES   ' Correspondent Says Japs Are Prepared For Any  {  Invasion Attempt   BOMBINGS HAVE NOT BEEN TOO SUCCESSFUL

Ateutians No Sideshow, Writer Says, Setting Out That Dislodging Of Japs To Be Tougher Than Guadalcanal

Oleo Interests Revive Fight   Would Repeal Tax On Butter Substitute

Ben Childers Assumes Post   No Sweeping Change In Highway Personnel To Be Made, He Says

Asks Probe of GOP Convention   “Criminal Rigging” of Session Charged

Jeffers Says His Program Boosts Gas   Tells Senate Synthetic Rubber Plants’ Add to High Octane Output

JEFFERS HITS RUBBER CURBS   DECLARES CURTAILING PROGRAM TRAGIC ERROR

Jeffers Defends Rubber Program  Director Says Any Curtailment RQairy_ 1k — .

leffers Urges No Curb Be Irdered of Rubber Program   rector Tells Senate Group That Cancellation of Any Part of Plans Would Be “Tragic Error;” Accepts In the Same Spirit As Given Patterson's Desire to Work Proposals Put

. THE WEATHER    Denies Civilians  Coddled on Tires   Director Jeffers Urges Syne thetic Production Be  Kept Up.

Defending Synthetic Rubber Plan, Director Jeffers Asserts Program Has Helped Aviation ‘Gas’ Output

Says Cut In Rubber Would Be Sad Error   Jeffers Declares Synthetic Work Aids Other Programs

Jeffers Says Curtailment Of Synthetic Rubber Program Would Be A Tragic Error

Rubber Program Has Boosted Gas   Jeffers Contends To Cut His Program Would Be Tragic Error.

Rubber Helps  Fuel Program   Rubber Director Says Curtailment Of Work Would  Be “Tragie Error.

Jeffers Defends Rubber Program   Gas Production Aided, He Claims

JEFFERS SAYS RUBBER ADDED TOGAS OUTPUT   Asserts Program Brought About Additional Production of Aviation Gas—Both Programs Needed

Jeffers Says Rubber Plan Vital to War   Claims Plane Gasoline Production Dragged Forward

JEFFERS CONTENDS  SYNTHETIC RUBBER  PROGRAM CLOUDED AVIATION GASOLINE OUT  PUT DRAGGED IN; RUBRED CIIT RE TRACIC

Clothes. Rationing “Imminent”   "Best Brains Needed to Avoid 14  AJalean

BIG RESPONSE TO WAR LOAN   Calls on Businessmen, Citizenry to Add to Holdings   HITLER BIRTHDAY   Treasury Gives Good Hint for Bond Sale Next Tuesday

Report Boris Recovering From Illness   Turks Hint At Murder Attempt

PRISONERS OF WAR EMBARK FOR J. S.   Seventeen Americans In cluded in First Repatriation

Nazis And Allies Swap Prisoners:   Only 17 Americans  Ie, Firet Exehoanae

First Americans On Way to U. 5. From Germany   Sick and Wounded Arrive in Sweden

APRIL WILL BE ~ MONTH OF Music      Series fo Vocal Programs ' Prepared by High School ‘Music Department

Music Month In LeMars Schools  Is Announced  Four Public Program: Planned For April By Music Groups

War Progress in Pacific Praised  Patterson Says Jap Strength Is Less

Early Invasion  Move Predicted  Date Believed Advanced By Cooperation   Notes Important Defeats   Deadline Set For Air Power To Kayo Nazis

AERIAL WARFARE GETS ACID TEST ° AGAINSTGERMAN\   INTENSITY OF BLOWS STEPPED UP AS TIME FOR INVASION NEARS

Time Limit Set On Air Raids, Then Invasion Will Folloy   If Victory-Through-Air-Power Fails, Then Must Hit Western Europe

U. S., BRITISH TROOPS CET READY TO INVADE   Britishers Believe Hour for Second Front Has Been Advanced Materially by  Moscow Conference

Allies’ Planes Have Until Time Limit to Knock Germany Out   Churchill Sees Costliest of Battles Coming in Europe in 1944

Invasion: Scheduled Should Bombing Raids  On Europe Fail To Brine Defeat Of: Hitle

Time Limit Is Set For Aerial Blitz On Reich   Ground Invasion Ready If Bombs Fail To Knock Germany Out.

Time Limit Set for Plane Attacks; Invasion Ready lf Air Blows Fail

Time Limit Set on Air Corps’ Test in Knocking Out Reich, iThen Invasion Will Follow

Time Limit Set for Bombing Germany: Invasion Ready If Aerial Blows Fail

Time Limit ls Set For Air — Raids‘On Germany; Invasion Is Ready If Bombings Fail —      Deadline For Raids Is Invasion Date Communicated To Russians

TIME LIMIT SET FORBOMBING RAIDS ON NAZIS   Ground Invasion To Come If Fliers Fail To Knock Enemy Out by Deadline

’Second Front Threat Increases Pressure On Germans In Russia  -Time Limit Believed Set For Air Attacks—Then Land Invasior   Date For Invasion Advanced Materially   Try For Surrender Through Air Alone

BRITISH, NAZIS TRADE BOMBS   London Has Light Raid 7th Straight Night

WESTERN GERMANY HIT BY RAF AGAIN   British Mosquitoes Active For 7th Night In  Succession

RAF BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Nazi Planes Continue tc Hit Lendon at Night

Axis Opposition ln Air Dwindles   Sicily Hammered In Violent Blows

AXIS DEFENSE IS WEAKENING   Opposition Dwindles On Sicily In Face Of Round-The-Clock  Offensive

BOMBS SHAKt SICILY; NAZIS ARE DEPLETED   fortresses Liberators Join Round-The-Clock Effort Te Sweep Enemy From Abova Mediterranean Island   Lose 83 Planes

German Fighter Opposition in Sicily Weakens   Allies Meet Little Resist. ance in Raids upon Island

Sicily Ils Heavily Bombed By Round-Clock Airmer   German Fighter Opposition Dwindles Precipitately, Indicating Enemy Had Lost Most of Land-Based Aircraft?

Opposition Dwindles Over Sicily   Violent Day and Nighi Hammering by Allies Continues

SICILY ROCKED» BY ROUND-CLOCK AERIAL ATTACKS   Nazi Fighter Opposition Dwindles, Indicating LandBased Force Needs Reinforcements.   GERBINI AIRPORT IS CHIEF TARGET   Liberators Drop More Than 285,000 Pounds of Explosives, Starting Large Hires.

Axis Air Opposition Over South Italy Is Decreased  Runways And Dispersal Areas Hard Hit By Lerae Force OF United Statec  iharatare

Nazi Fighter Opposition Is Dwindling   Allied Planes Hit at Airdromes Throughout Sicily

eee a ee ene ene at ea EE Gee  Sicily’ s Air Defenses Depleted By Assaults

Sicilian Plane Defenses Fade   Indicate Foe’s Air Force !s Hard Hit

ALLIES AGAIN BLAST SICILY   Enemy Fighter Force is Depleted and Resistance

Remsen Couple.  Wed At Salinas Cpl. Al Gengler . And Shirley Singer

-Popular Remsen’ Couple Married In California   Shirley Singer and Cpl. Al Gengler Joined in Wedlock On Anril 10

THE TEENAGE : ~ BOUNTY YOUTH  WILL PROCESS   Military Questionnaires Will ‘Be Mailed Out. Within j) Ten Days.   IBAVE. 65 IN COUNTY   Farm and .School Defer. ments Are Expected to Reduce Inducticn.’

WILL PROCESS THE TEENAGE COUNTY YOUTH   Military Questionnaires Will Be Mailed Out Within Ten Days.   HAVE 65 IN COUNTY   Farm and School Defer. ments Are Expected to Reduce Induction.

Rabaul Staggers Under American Aerial Blows   Jap Keystone Base In Philippine Defense Dealt Knockout Blows

Aerial Blows Play Havoe On Rabaul   JAPS KEYSTONE BASE IN PHILIPPINE AREA BLASTED

929 Jap Planes Knocked Out At Rabaul; Our Losses But 13 Planes   Keystone Of Island Outposts Dealt Staggering Blows In Five Raids During Which 500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped. <

1525 Jap Planes  On Casualty List   Rabaul Keystone of The Entire Jap Defense Svstem   NIPS SUFFERING BAD AIR LICKING

Jap Outpost - Wavers Under Aerial Blows   Allied: Attacks’: ‘on’ Rabaul . Has Cost Enemy. 525 Planes: in 13 Days 2: :   JAPS REPORT NEW ALLIED (LANDING   Tokyo Radio Says. Treasury ‘Island Has Been Attacked: Claims. One Shin: Sunk: -

ALLIED FLIERS BLAST RABAUL IN FIVE RAIDS   $25 Jap Planes Desiroyed or Dam: aged in 13 Days, Airfields Hit by 500 Tons Bombs   MONO ISLAND HIT   Japs Report Landing by Allied Forces, Claim One U. S. Warship Sunk, One Damaged

Rabaul Staggers Under Aerial Knockout Blows   525 Enemy Planes Lost In 13 Days; Destruction Has Cost MacArthur Only 13 Planes.

Allied Planes Blast Rabaul   525 Japanese Planes Destroyed or Damaged In 13 Days of Raids

Rabaul Rocked By Air Attack   500 Japanese. Planes Are Bageed In Raids Upon Enemy Outpost

Rabaul Base - Staggered by Allied Raids   Toll of Jap Airplanes Stands at 525 for Five Raids

Rabaul Staggers Under Knock-Out ‘Air Bombardment   525 Jap Planes Destroy: ed or Damaged In Body Blows That Are Crack: ing Keystone Base Wide Oinen.

Japs Stunned by Loss Of 525 More Planes   Whole Enemy Position Crumbles; Sinking of U. 8S. Warship Claimed

JAP AIRPLANE LOSSES HEAVY   Allied Attacks on Rabaul Have Ruined 525 Planes In 13 Days

Toll Of Nippon Planes Reaches 55 In 13 Day:   MacArthur And Halsey Keep Up Smashing Pacitic Blows

RABAUL WEAK UNDER aa      525 Jap Planes Destro ed By ' Airmen in Last 13- 6  Dave

Rabaul Staggers Under an Attack   Aerial Blows by Allies Have _ Destroyed 525 Jap anese Planes :   MANY BOMBS DROPPED   Solomon Outpost Has Been  Cracked Wide Open by  Air Raids:

RABAUL STAGGERS UNDER MIR BLOWS   ‘Keystone In Japan’s Island Outposts Battered By Allies   525 PLANES LOST   Enemy’s Network Of Airfields Shattered By 500 Tons Of Bombs

Ohio Miners To Join In Strike      Expected To Leave Pits Shortly

ASSURED OF OIL   Ohinans to Be Able to Heat Homes, OPA Promises.

General Public and Dealers Asked to Cooperate On Coal Shortage Situation

“THIRD FRONT DATE. MYSTERY TO-OWL-HEAD    Returning Davis Mum - On Guess When ' Blow Will Fall

Davis Predicts A Third Front’  Rat OW! ROS Cay,   But OWI Director Says Place Is Up to Officers

THIRD FRONT IS FORESEEN   Davis Is Doubtful Of Reports Hitler Is Out Of Picture

OWI HEAD PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR FRONT   Operations in Western Europe Forecast by Elmer Davis — Evades Question as to When.

Third Front Seen By Elmer Davis  Shies Away From Guessing on Time

Educators Plan To Eliminate Many Dates And Names From School Text Books--Easier For Pupils To Recall

Johnny, Pestered by Dates, Finally Has Educators Around on His Side

Good News for Johnny Schoolboy: Memorizing History Dates Is Passe

American History Committee Says Many Names. Dates Should be Dropped

WEDDING MILL’ TO BE EXPOSED   Marriages Performed By Gogebic Judge May Be Held Invalid

NAZIS SAY ALLIES LEAVING SALERNO; HINT NEW LANDING   Germans Declare ‘Whole Divisions’? Lost — Craft ‘At Scene To Move.  Troopns

RAISED AFTER LAVAL VISITS GERMAN CHIEF   Occupation Cost Hiked From 300 to 500 Billion Marks   ITALY RAISES TRIBUTE   More Rolling Stock And Rail Workers, Wheat Also Demanded

Battle Of Capitals Has Value As War Of Nerves   Red Army Forces Succeed In Lifting Siege Of Leningrad; Rommel In African Rout

FARMER SHUT AFTER ‘PHONE ARGUMENT   Mahoning County Deputies Hold Neighbor In Death Of Poland Man

QUARREL FOR "PHONE LEADS 10 KILLING   Argument Over Party Line Settled With Gun

DRAFT BIL TO CONGRESS   Measure will not call fathers until single men are in service

WHEELER HAS DRAFT PLAN FOR SENATE   MONTANA BENATOR INTRODUCES BILL TO. MAKE MEN WITH CHILDREN LAST ON THE LIST.

Big Losses Inflicted On Enemy   Red Drive Toward Polish Frontier Will Continue

Reds.Check Nazi Drive: West of Kie   Push: Ahead Toward Polish’. Border, “Nazi. Losses. Heavy .”

Reds Blunt Nazi Wedge  Near Kiev   Troops Turn Back Attacks ; Inflict Heavy Casualties

Post-War Era Must See More Equal Distribution Of Wealth, Wallace Says

LIVESTOCK UP IN PAST YEAR   Meat Production Exceeds Goals, Crops Down, U. S. Reports

LIVESTOCK GOAL EXCEEDED IN °42   Cash Income of Farmers Is Greater Than Estimates: Crop Goals Missed

RUSSIAN WAR.   Navi Counter-\ttacks Beaten Back  By Soviet Forces.

Desperate Nazi  Attacks On Reds Are Driven Back   Germans Launch Frantic Attempts To Regain Lost Territory In Orel District   POWERFUL AIR RAIDS REPORTED

SOVIETS SMASH GERMAN DRIVES   Nazis Seek To Regain Lost Territory {n Area Around Orel

Mubo, Gasmiata Severely Lashed   Villages Raked In Low Level Attacks

Nine Japanese Bases Pounded By Allied Flyers  Four Enemy Vessels Bombed as Airmen

Constant Air Raids Harrass Japs.ai Muba   Bosfons and Beaufighters Sweep Area 44 Times af Base

CHILE ACTION WON'T BUDGE HER NEIGHBOE   See No Change in Argentina's ProAxis Stand. U. S., Chile to Collaborate More

Battle Is ‘in Pfogress as .. Troops Land at Several  pd Points —   UNDER AIR PROTECTION   U,S., British, and Canadian Troops i in Invasion Force ;

Battle Is in Progress as Troops Land at Several  Points   UNDER AIR PROTECTION   U, S., British and Canadian Troops in Invasion _ Force

Majority Applicants For Social Security Cards Are Women   Individual Should Safequard His Acconnk Niamber Gere

Windstorm Hits Freeport, Kills One, Hurts Fifty   25 More Are Injurec In Galveston Blow  Freeport Damage Is High

Two Known Deac In Coast Storm  200 Are Reported Hurt At Freeport

Problem of Manpower Given Light   Patterson Pleads To Draft Greater Numbers

Conscription. Of Manpower Again Urged By War Dent.   Undersecretary Heard As Stimson Objects To Kilday Measure On Draft Sequence  CONTINUE STUDY  OF ABSENTEEISM Navy Says Records Will Be Considered  Isy Awrwsicl fener Dion swwasvteo

Official Urges Compulsory Service Law   Patterson Calis for Act to Draft Men Power

TOFILLFARM, PLANT JOBS   War Dep't Official Pleads for Greater Efforts et Home

Labor Draft Law Is Urged By Patterson   Says All Persons Must Have Equal Obligation  [a ree eee

‘Legislation 10 Draft Man Power Asked   ® Would Fill Factory- Farm Jobs From Civilian Ranks

LEGISLATION TO DRAFT WORKERS GIVEN SUPPORT   ‘Undersecretary Patterson Says There Are Too Many  Jn Non-Essential Jobs   ABSENTEEISM AGAIN TOPIC IN CONGRESS

DRAFT URGED TOFILLFARM, PLANT JOBS   War Dep't Official Pleads for Greater Efforts at Home

‘Aid to Stimson Urges U. S. Draft of Laber   Would Reduce Loss Of Lives in War, Patterson Asserts

Patterson Urges Draft To Fill Farm Vacancies   Would Also Call Men and Women Io Fill Factory Jobs

Patterson Calls For All-Out Draft Measures   Would Put Both Mer And Women Into Farm, Factory Jobs

FACTORY AND FARM WORKER DRAFT URGED   PATTERSON FAVORS WORK OR FIGHT LEGISLATION

LABOR DRAFT LAW IS URGED BY PATTERSON   Calls for More Effort At Home to Save Men at Front

KAISER HINTS OF LARGE’ WNIUIMBRER OF TT 4&4 CRhAERIEFRGS   Patterson Urges Manpower Draft

WORK DRAFT LAW NEEDED, SOLONS TOLD   Greater Home Effort Plea Made By  Patterson

Draft Men, Women for Farm And Factory, Patterson Urges   Lives of Fighters Can Be Saved by Labor, He Tells Senate Military Committee

Problem of Manpower Given Light  SSS,  EE AS   Patterson Pleads To Draft Greater Numbers

Patterson Asks Draft of Men.  Women for Jobs   Stimson Objects Anew to Kilday Proposal; Absenteeism Hearings Continue in House

PATTERSON URGES ARM AND PLANT MANPOWER DRAFT   Says America Can Save Lives Of Fighters by Greater Effort at Home   MILITARY COMMITTEE CONDUCTS HEARINGS   Stimson Objects to Delaying Call of Married Men in States; Shipbuilder Kaiser Says Miners Will Not Follow Lewis Strike Call

Captain Peterson, Master Of Put-in Bay, Stricken; Hold Rites Here Tuesday

OIL. REFINERY, BIG SHIPYARD, HANGAR BLASTED BY FLIERS      British Idle Yesterday, But Raiders Start . Across Channel  Early Today

AMERIGANS LEAD DOUBLE ASSAULT FRI,   Damage Leghorn Refinery, Pound Airdrome at Forgia

ryhi dLargest Port At Leghorn Suffers Damage   F our-Engined Bombers ‘Strike Airdrome At. Foggia In New Raids -

SEE PROGRESS ON PAY-€0 BILL   Legislators Still Disagree Over ‘Forgiveness’ But Hope To Reach Compromise.

PAY-AS-G0 TAX NOW PROBABLE   REPORT PROGRESS BEING MADE ON COMPROMISE PLAN  ACCEPTABLE TO BOTH -PARTIES

Profiteering By Pair Revealed  Charge Stockings Solc For $4 a Pair

UNCOVER HOSE BLACK MARKET   Federal Agents Learn Couple Gross ed Nearly $30,000 In Nylon Stockings

U. S. MERCHANT FLEET MAY EXCEED BRITAIN’S THIS YEAR   New Construction Of Merchant Ships In This Country This Year Estimated At 18,890,000 DeadWeight Tons; Maritime Policy Defended

U5. MERCHANT FLEET EXPANDS   For First Time in History Fleet Is Expected to Exceed Great Britain’s Before End Of the Year

LANSING BRIBE CASE IN COURT   State Medical Society Secretary Is Bound Over For Trial

BANKER FACES BRIBE GHARGES   Grand Rapids Man Bound Over On Story Of Ferndale Solon

MAY REGULATE OPINION NEWS   Committeemen Object t Pamphlets by Bureaus

Government News Handling Probed  Senators Would Bar ‘Opinions’ From Ranorts

END TO SECOND MOSCOW MISSION   America’s No. 1 Mailman Or Way Home With Letter From Stalin To FDR

DAVIES RETURNING WITH A LETTER   Premicr Stalin Sends Mes: sage to President Roosevelt.

TWO BOMBERS. ARE WRECKEL   TWENTY OFFICERS AND MEN OF BIGGS FIELD DIED IN CRASHES YESTERDAY 

Air Field At Kahili Ruined By Bombings   Useless To Japs At: Present, Spokesman For Adm. Halsey Says

Ja aps’ Airbase  Held Useless   Kahili- Is Heav ily. Raided a Yanks; ‘Planes. ae . Ground Destroyed

AIRDROME AT KAHILI SAID USELESS NOW   172 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Port

U.S. LEAVES KAHILI AIR BASE USELESS   Three Smashes Leave Planes Unable To Use Landing Strip; ‘Bougainville Is Last Jap Stronghold In Area.

Bare Jap Treachery in Vow to Halt Chungking Bombing   Tokyo Reply

ALLIED CHIEFS BOUND TO GET TO JAP GAPITAI   So Promises Lt. Gen. Stilwell on His Return to China After Parley in Washington

‘Smiling Joe’ Hints  dir Support  In Drive en Japs Offensive Mapped In U. S., He  Hints in China

Hints Far East To Get More Supplies  Stilwell Sees Tokyo Offensive

COASTAL DIM-OUI WILL END ON NOV. 1   Less - Stringent, Voluntary “Brown-Out” Will Take Its Place

COAST DIM-OUT WILL BE ENDED   New “Brown-Out” Will Be Less Stringent

13 Vesetabler. Fruits to Cost More Points  i Oe   Creamerv Butter to Have Higher Value in Coupons

13 Vegetable. Fruifs to Cast More Points  Craamary Rutiar   Creamerv Butter to Have Higher Value in Coupons

Mother Asks Army Surgeons To Save Life Of Bahy Whose Flow Of Blood Is Reversed

AIRMAN’S BODY IS RECOVEREL   Lieut. Col. “Buzz” Wagner, 26, Was Hero Of Philip pine Camnaion

Li. Co. Wagner Killed in Florida Plane Crash   ‘Hero of Philippines Had Been Missing After Routine Flight

CRASH FATAL TO ARMY ACE, BUZZ WAGNER      Routine Flight Ends _ Career of Young Officer

Body Of Colonel "Buzz Wagner, Piane Are Founc   Crashed Near Elgin Field, Fla.; Was On Flight To Maxwell Field

U.S, ACE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   COLONEL BOYD (BUZZ) WAGNER CREDITED WITH DOWNING 15 TO 50 JABS.

War Department Reveals Death Of Buzz Wagner   Notifies Flier’s Father Body Found in Plane Missing Since Nov. 29

MISSING FLIER 1S FOUND DEAD   Air Ace “Buzz Wagner Victim of Crash In Northern Florida

BUZZ WAGNER IS FOUND DEAD   Philippines Hero's Body In Debris of Plane Near  Florida Field *

SIENS MULTIPLY THAT INVASION MAY BEGIN SOQN   Allied Armies May Land In Italy And France Within Month

Air Thrusts May Delay Zero Hour   Officials Believed Split on Timing Of. Ground Assault

ALLIES MAY LAND IN ITALY, FRANCE DURING SEPTEMBER   Military Authorities Divided ’ On Whether. Big Push Should Be Made In 1943. -

Signs Indicate Allies May Land In ~~ Italy and France Within Next Month

FRENCH AGAIN ADVISED ZERO HOUR AT HAN   Nazi Airfields Bombed and Warships Shell West Coast of France

Signs Indicate Invasion Ci nin      oF rench. Coast: Again” Bombarded ‘As. Patriot Troops Get’ Warning * 

(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) _ By LOULS F, KEEMLE  ss ¥y I a eh pee aR SD

HUNTER FOCND SHOT IN BACK   Lower Michigan Man Killed: Two Hunters. Reported Missing.

Lights Along Gulf Coast Will Shine In Full Once More      a of Popular Brapd Cigarettes, Lowriced Cigars

Cigar, Cigaret Shortage Acute  Situation Gradually Growing Worse

Scarcity of Cigarets, Lower Priced _ Growing; Prospect of Relief Is Slim

GROWING SCARCITY  POPULAR BRANDS OF  CIGARETTES, CIGARS ATTRIBUTED TO CHRIST MAS BUYING, LABOR SHORTACE OVERSEAS

POPULAR KINDS OF SMOKES ARE FOUND SCARCE   Cigarettes and Some Cigars Hard to Get; Labor Shortage and Overseas  Shipments Blamed

Shortage Seen (Of Cigarettes, Cheaper Cigars   Labor Shortage, Heavy Shipments Overseas Blamed

U. S. Faces Tobaccoless Christmas Cigarettes, Cigars Becoming Scarcer As  Holidays Draw Nearer

Davis Advocates Higher Taxes To Curb Inflation   Food Administrator Alsc Favors Compulsory Buying of Bonds

Davis Warns Excess Spending Power Must Be Drained  Food Czar Is for

DAVIS SEEKS CURB PLACED ON SPENDING   Greater Bond Buying, Higher Taxes Proposed

DAVIS URGES TAX BOOSTS, BOND BUYINC   Food Chief Gives Program to Curb Inflation Threat —

PLANES ATTACK WEST GERMANY   Large Force Seen Flying Across Channel

BOMBERS ROAR OVER HITLERLAND AGAIN   Britain Has Sixth Raid-free Night in a Row

Finland Proclaims Freedom To Retire From Russian War   Manifesto In Finnish Parliament Dissociates Majority Party From Axis  BP. PEN LTE aarta fk!

Peace Move Launched by Finnish Party   Social Democrats Drop Axis Cause; “Freedom Manifesto” Issued

MAJORITY PARTY IN FINLAND ~ MAKES INDIRECT PEACE MOVE   MANIFESTO ISSUED AFTER ELECTION OF PRESIDENT DECLARES NATION “FREE _ TO DECIDE" ON PEACE.

HOLIDAY TRAVEL. IN TEXAS NEARS PEAK BUT IT’S NOT SO BAD  PICTURE SPOTTY WITH SOME POINTS JAMMED

HOLIDAY TRAVEL IN TEXAS NEARS PEAK BUTIT’S NOT SOBAD  PICTURE SPOTTY WITH SOME. POINTS JAMMED AND OTHERS AS USUAL

PRICE INCREASE FOR MILK ASKED   Delegation of Producers in Capital Insists Hike Needed To Get Production

MILK DEALERS DEMAND ACTION      Disappointed, Seeing ‘Red,’ They Visit Washington To Demand “Direct Answer”

SLAV GUERRILLAS REPELLING NAZI   Heavy German Attacks Reported Repulsed In Interior Montenegro; Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses.

Yugoslavs Repel German Attacks   Stockholm Hears Many American Weapons Being Used.

‘PAY-GO" PLAN IS GIVEN OKAY   House Approves Compro: mise Bill 159 To 68

U.S. Fifth Army Drives Into Heart Of German Lines   Thunderous Bombardment Described As Greatest In History; British Eighth Army Scores Advance; Bitter Fighting Reported

Path Blasted By Terrific Barrage   Some Nazi Troops Are Driven insane

Bombardment Drives Nazis Insane   Greatest Artillery Barrage in ; History Opens Attack

Fifth Army Is Driving Nazis Back   Gen. Clark Says. _ Advance Is. Made’ " Aceording to Plan”

Fifth Slashes Into Heart Of Winter Line  Titanic Barrage Sends Germans Insane in Italy

Many German Troops Driven Crazy By Titanic Bombardment As Fifth Breaks Into Heart Of Winter Line   Thunderous Curtain Of Fire Described: As One Of Greatest Laid Down In History Of Warfare; Two Important Heights Captured

Artillery Barrage ©  Is Declared One r Greatest in History; Germans Go incone

ALLIO o MAT HEART Ut NAZI LINES IN ITALY   Terrific Air And Artillery Bombardment Paves Way For Sharp Advances

Fifth Army Drives on Rome: ‘According to Plan’ as Air Force and Big Guns Open Way

ENEMY DAZED IN FOX HOLES BY ARTILLERY   Clark’s Troops Advance Two Miles Behind Terrific Bombardment.

Artillery Blast So Terrific Many Nazis Go Insane   Fifth Army Smashes Nazi Winter Line As 8th Knifes Up Adriatic

Heavy Artillery, Air Bombardment Precedes Army   Drive Toward Rome Is Being Continued ‘According to Plan’

SAVAGE FIGHTING RAGES NEAR PEAK IN MIGNANG AREA   Number of Prisoners Taken by Yanks—Bombardment Drives Some Germans Insane.   MONTGOMERY’S FORCES SCORE NEW ADVANCES   British Reach Outskirts of Vito—Capture Vital Rail Center in Fierce Strnoole.

Fifth Breaks Into Heart Of Nazi Winter Lines and Drives on Toward Rome

Clark's Army Makes Progress On Road to Rome   Artillery Fire Opens Way for Two-Mile Advance

Some Driven Insane by Awesome Shellfire; Americans Force Way Two Miles Into Heart Of Enemy's Winter Line, British Advance.

Behind Great Bombardments  Allies Push On   Reds Sweeps Within Eight Miles Of Zholbin Moscow  A oes @4 yh 6 4 OO Oe   8TH ARMY ADVANCES

Drive On Rome Going “According To Plans”   Artillery Barrage Driving German Troops In sane: British Move Toward Pescara

Heavy Artillery Barrage Leads Big Scale Push   Americans Drive Ahead Two Miles To Crack Defenses

GERMANS ARE DRIVEN INSANE BY ARTILLERY   ALLIES CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE TOWARD ROME

Clark’s Army Slugs Far in  Rommel Line   Under Tilanie Artillery  Curtain, Fifth Army Drives for Rome

BILL PLACING FATHERS LAS}   Childless Men Get First Call For ‘ Arm:

House Approves Bill, Requiring Drafting of All Single Men Before Fathers Are Called to Duty

House Backs Bill Pulling Fathers Last in War Call   Favors Draft of All Others Available Before Dads .

House Votes to Draft All Available Single Men Before Taking Fathers; Hershey Would Have More Power

HOUSE VOTES TO PUT DADS LOW ON LIST   Bill Provides Calling Sin: gle and Childless Men First   INCREASED POWER GIVEN TO HERSHEY

Must Draft All Single, Childless Men House Vote:   Would Scrape Bottom Before Calling Fathers to Service

FATHER DRAFT DELAY APPROVED BY HOUSE VOTE   Lower Chamber Would First Take All Available Single, Childless Men

Passes Bill to Induct All Single Men and Childiess Married Men Before Calling Those With Children—Measure, Which Strengthens Authority of Hershey and Strips McNutt of Much Power, Now Goes to Senate.

‘House Passes Legislation To Induct All Available. Men Before Taking Dads

Give fathers brief stay in draft rating   Must take single, childless men firet

HOUSE PASSES DRAFT MEASURE   Approves Legislation To Put Fathers Last On  Induction Rolls

HOUSE VOTES TO PUT DADS LOW ON LIST   Bill Provides Celling Single and Childless ° Men First   INCREASED POWER GIVEN TO HERSHEY   Measure Returned to Sen ate for Concurvyanfa

Fathers Placed On The Bottom Of Draft Grou   House Passes Bill To Take Single, Childless Men First

House Vote Puts Fathers at Foot Of Service Lisi      State Checks Migration F Tubercular Pationte

VOTES TO CALL FATHERS LAST   House Passes Bill to Draft Available Single, Childless Men First

House Orders Dads Put at Ene Of Draft List   Hershey's Authority Strengthened in Bill Which Goes to Senate

House Puts Dads At Bottom Of Draft List   Would Draft All Sinele, Childless Married Men Before Calling Fathers

CHILE'S ARMY TAKES GVER PORTS, MINES   President Rios Issues Decres Declaring Them Zones Ot Emorgancy

Concentration And Fear Of Death ‘Make Bombing Missions Real Test

Omnibus Bill Debate Opens  In the House   Floor Battles  Over Allowances FOR OWL and OPA Are Expected

House Debates Money Requests Of 18 Agencies   Republican Members Plan To Slash Allocations of Some of the Numerous War Agencies.

Buyers of Nazi 'Re-Migration Marks’ Caused Arrest of 923 Enemy Aliens

OPA After Chaplin for Speed Ride to Wedding: Girl He Spurned Hysterica

French Thrust Perils Axis Hub   BRITISH FIRST ARMY BATTLES FOR COMMANDING HEIGHT AT MEDJERDA VILLAGE; ALLIED AIRMEN RAKE ENEMY IN CLEARING AFRICAN SKIES

Three Hills Taken In Fierce Fighting   Americans Battle. Further Along the Road to Ma- ©  teur and Bizerte   PROGRESS IS STEADY   Axis Defense of African  Bridgehead Tenacious But Weakening

AMERICANS TAKE THREE FIERCELY DEFENDED HILLS   GEN. PATTON’S MEN DRIVE VON ARNIM OUT OF DJEBEL DARDYSS

72 Men Trapped In Coal Mine By Deadly Fumes   Hope Held That They Livé but No Word Comes From Searchers

adly Fumes Fill ntana Shaft ter Explosion  orkers May Have arricaded Selves  n Fresh Air Areas VE-IN REPORTED  wo Are Known Dead nd Three Injured t Coal Workings

TOUCH OF WINTER HITS KAW VALLEY   Light Snow and a Low of 24 Degrees Present: Real Preview   COAL SHORTAGE FELT

TOUCH OF WINTER HITS KAW VALLEY   Light Snow and a Low of 4 Degrees Present. Real Preview     CYN AT CPI TA Cr re rsor

RUHR, SICILY TARGETS OF BIG BOMBING RAIDS   Attacks on European Fortress Again on Round-the-Clock . Basis

ENGLISH WRITER SAYS CONTINUAL BOMBING TELLING   ‘Unbearable Physical, Nervous and Mental Stress,” Savs Hitler’s Paper.

HAF WRECKING CHEWS BATTER AHR TARGETS   Eighteen Planes Lost in Raid on Nazi Arms Plants in Oberhausen.  \   ANTI-PERSONNEL BOMBS DROPPED IN LONDON

ARE TARGETS   Four-Engined Bombers Attack Arms Clty of Oberhausen and Other “Places Monday Night — Eighteen Planes Lost in Attacks.

Battered Ruhr Area Again Is Hit by British   Large Fires Seen; Results Ara Eixeorrlertx

Oberhausen Hit By Air Raiders — On Western Ruhr   18 Planes Lost In Attack On Important German Arms City

FOOD DELEGATIONS — CONTINUE DEBATES   General Agreement Is Be lieved Reached on  '  Aceomplishments Expected,

HARMONY AT ALLIED FOOD CONFERENCE   Four Major Powers Are In Agreement

U. §., Britain, China And Soviet Union Appear To Be Agreeing On Subjects

BUSINESS HOUSES  CORSICANA TO BE  CLOSED SATURDAY GENERAL OBSERVANCE  OF HOLIDAY IN ALL LINES OF ENDEAVOR

Oakes’ Widow Takes Stand   May Reveal Story of Father-Daughter Break  wre... Tele DW 842 ae tt

Afrika Korps in Powerful Drive On U.S. Lines    Rommel’s Forces . Reported in Gain . Of 35 Miles

NAZIS GAIN 35 MILES IN TUNISIA   U.S. and German Forces Jockey For Position

KNOX SEES SHIPS SAFE FROM AIR   Mediterranean Shortens Trip to Middle East by 5,000 Miles

CANNING SUGAR TO BE PROVIDED   Deal With Cuba To Give 200,000 Extra Tons For Home Use

.P. A. RELEASES CANNING SUGAR   200,000 Tons Received From Cuba To Fill Home Ouota

Canning Sugar To Be Available   Extra 200,000 Tons Will Be Imported

TOHOME GANNERS   Coupon Penalties Again Ignored By OPA Due to Cuban Extra Import

YANKS TAKE     WVITALY —   Captured ‘Peak: Looks Down on Road to‘Rome —

YANKS GAIN IN ITALIAN MOUNTAINS   Edge Forward As Much As a Mile And a Half

PAY-AS-YOU-GO PLAN ATTACKED   Senator Connelly Flays Modified Rum! Measure As Inflationary

Senators Argue  Skip-a-Year Tax   ‘Inflation, ‘Fair Deal,’  Rival Camps Cry

Senate Starts  Tax Act Debate   Measure Is Attacked aml Defended; George Opens Battle on Bill

‘Skip-a-Year Tax Plan Attacked as Move Into Inflation, Defended As Effort Toward Equal Abatement

Senate Debates Tax Measure   ‘Skip-a-Year’ Plan Attacked, Defended

Into Inflation, Defended  Skip-a-Year Tax Plan Attacked as Move As Effort Toward Equal Abatement

DEBATE HELD ON RUML PLAN   Connall¥ Sees’ Menace of Inflation in Skip-a- Year Tax Proposal

Lots Of Coffee But Few Buyers   Grocerymen Puzzled By Lack Of Demand

NO RUSH FOR ~ COFFEE. HERE   Buyers Fail To Swamp  Stores As Rationing Ends

New Guinea Suffers Heaviest Raid   Pend GR Die   Over 200 Planes Take Part in Saturday Assault

New Guinea Suffers Heaviest Raid   Over 200 Planes Take Part in Saturday Asscult

U.S. S. Yorktown, New Carrier, Jumps Gun At Ceremonies In Newport News

RETURNS HOME   Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Joins Generalissimo in China.

CONGRESS GROUP WANTS DOUGLAS FOR LABOR CZAR   Jurist ts Possible As Succesor To McNutt

JUSTICE DOUGLAS IS. BEING BOOSTED FOR LABOR HEAD   Reorganized Depar tment To ‘Inélude WMC, WLB ‘And NLRB Groups

LABOR CONTROL SHAKEUP LOOMS   Congressional Group Promotes Justice Douglas To Head New Setup

DOUGLAS IS BEING ADVANCED TO HEAD LABOR DEPARTMENT      Justice Groomed by Barkers for Post That May Mean the Ousting of McNutt.

Labor-Draft Job May Go To Douglas   Congress Greases Skids for McNutt By Cutting Funds

SEEK DOUGLAS ‘AS NEW LEADER OF LABOR DEPT.   Discussions In Congress Have Been Precipitated By Rlanvower Trouble

BOOM DOUGLAS AS MANPOWER OVERALL HEAL   Supreme Court Justice Linked With New 3Way Setup

Moscow Report Due Tomorrow   May Be Preliminary To Joint Meeting

Review Slated. . Of Conference   ‘Moscow Gathering Result Will Be. Aired Tonight:  Or: Tomorrow

Nebraska Area Hard Hit By Flood Water   Council Bluffs And Omaha Threatened With Disaster

Missouri On Risen lowa   Damage Is Feared In Two Cities Saturday

FLOODS THREATENS HEAVY DAMAGE IN IOWA, NEBRASKA   Metropolitan Areas of Omaha and Council Bluffs Face Danger of Vast Destruction,   HUNDREDS OF WORKERS STRENGTHEN DIKES   Guardsmen of Two States Patrol Menaced Zone—Red Cross Prepares to Care for Refugees,

Major Flood Threatening Two Cities   Farm Lands Along Missouri TInundateds Omaha fs Menaced

Flood Waters Threaten Two River Cities   Red Cross, Salvation Army Prepare to Take Care of Families  To Be Evacuated

‘Workers Seek fo Bolster ‘Dikes as Missouri River Continues Rise at Omaha

Flood Threatens Council Bluffs.  Omaha Region  Hundreds of Workers  Strengthen Dikes  Against Missouri ARMY ASSISTS  Fear Crest May Surpass Record Destruction of 188]

ENEMY NES SHOT WN IN DAY   ady Launch nisian Drive  : es Believed

ENEMY LOSES 47 AINGHATT IN THREE DAYS   Axis Broadcasts Indicate Final Assault Of Allied Forces Is Imminent

Americans Hit Rail and Ferry Junctions Hard   Pantelleria, Duce’s Gibraltar, Again Hammered From Air And Sea; Sicily And Mainland Also Feel Fury On Non-Stop Allied Attack.

WARMER IN KANSAS   : Only the Northwest Is Expected to Have’ Freeze Tonicht

U. 5, PARATROOP FORCES SPLIT JAP DEFENSES   Two Landings Made While Allied Air Superiority Keeps Japs at Bay in Solomons

Paratroops Split Nippon Defenders   Americans Advance on Barge Point at Choiseul in Solomons.

YANKS SPLIT JAP FORCES ON CHOISEUL   Are Advancing Against One Nip Group Holding Sangigai, Principal Base in South Central Part of Island.

STRIKE ON CHOISEUL   U. S. Paratroopers ‘Split Japanese Forces on Island

New Advance On Japanese in Solomons   U.S. ‘Paratroops Land a Choiseul and Split, the Enemy Into Two Groups   STIFF OPPOSITION JO BE EXPECTED   New ‘Thrust Follows the In-vasion of Treasury Isle; . More Effective Bombings

Paratroops Split Japs On Choiseul   Landing 1g Without Oppe‘sition, Allies Expect Tough Going Later; Air Mastery Complete

American Force In Solomons Move On Sanigai   Jap Troops On Yank Beachheads Withdrew Farther Northward

Paratroopers Split Japs on Choiseul Island  Yanks Bomb Nips in South China

ALLIES LAND ON CHOISEUL   Jap Defenders Fall Back To Key Base At  Sangigai

Barge Base in Solomons  Is U. S. Goal   Americans Land on Choiseul, Hasley Expects Stiff Opposition; Japs ‘Withdraw

JAP JAP FORCES SPLIT ON CHOISEDL   Troops Now Advancing Against Enemy Force. Holding Satigigai

NAZIS EVACUATE CORSICAN PORT   Remaining Resistance  on Isle’s N. E. Tip

United Nations  Flag Made   31 Countries Plan To Unfurl Symbol Of Freedoms Today

LINER GRIPSHOLM ARRIVES TODAY   Means Freedom for 1,20 Americans and 221 Canadians.

Allied Planes And Ships Sink Craft   Engagements In Which Japanese Suffered Heavy Lacses Renaorted By Naw Denartment

Jap Losses Are Ileavy In Effort  Evacuate Island  42 Enemy Barges Destroyed Or Damaged In Raid

Jap Attempts to Evacuate Tsle Shattered   42 Enemy Barges Destroyed or Damaged in Action

Jap Attempts to Evacuate  Isle Shattered  42 Enemy Barges Destroyed or

Press Of Nation Praised By Gov. Edward Martin   Issues Statement In Oonnection With Newspaper Week Opening

Martin Pays Tribute  To Work Done By: Newspapers _  AID WAR EFFORT  National Newspaper

Limit State Whiskey Sales  One Bottle Allotted To Customer; Three Limit Of All Types

SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE TOMORROW   Local Citizens to Vote for Congressman and Councilmap   POLLS OPEN AT 8 A. M.

SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE TOMORROW   Lora Citizens ‘to Vote for  Congressman and °  Councilmap

McNutt Says Reclassification Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers For Induction to Begin Oct. 1

Reclassify Fathers, Is Authorized   McNutt Orders They B Made Available Latter Part of Year

Congress Will Have 16 Days To Block Father Drafting   Governing Body, Which Has: Been Cool To Calling Of Fathers, Returns From: Its Recess Sept, 14

BLOCK MOVE   Two Bills Now on Agenda Are Ignored as McNutt Orders 3-A Reclassifications.   ACTION SURPRISING

CALL FOR DADS IN DRAFT IS DUE   Congress To Have Brief Time To Block New Order

CONGRESS MAY PUT DAMPER ON DRAFTING DADS   Subject Certain Of Early Discussion When Body Reconvenes On Sept. 14   'M'NUTT ORDERS CHANGE   Induction Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Is Scheduled To Start Oct. 1

Cong. Must Soon Make  Draft Decision   Local Draft Boards To Begin Reclassifying WI-A Reoistrants

DRAFTING OF. FATHERS 10 START OCT. 1   Congress Will Have l€ Days After Recess To Block Move

ORDER ER DRAFT OF FATHERS AFTER OCT. 1   Congress Meets Sept. 14; May Try To Block Move

Drafting Of Fathers Ordered   Will Start Drafting Of Fathers October 1st Unless Congress Intervenes

CONGRESS MAY TRY TO BLOCK FATHERS DRAFT   Has Only 16 Days After Recess Ends To Decide Iscne

CONGRESS HAS SHORT TIME T0 BAN DAD DRAFT   WMC Order Lets Process Begin October 1

Father Draft Is Set for October 1   CONGRESS MAY BLOCK McNUTT ORDER TO START INDUCTING PARENTS: CLASS 3-A COMES UNDER NEW RECLASSIFICATION ORDER

Solons Must Beat October  Deadline  Need Quick Action On Dad Draft

Camp. Lee’sCommander Is Retired.   General Edmonds Assumes Inactive Reserve Status

AIRMEN STOP NAZI EFFORTS TOREINFORCE   21 Big Transports Reported Downed Over Messina   FURTHER GAINS ON GROUND ARE MADE   Only One Spitfire Lost in the Battle Over Messina

U. S., Canadian Troops Press Sicilian Drive   R.A. F, Downs 21 Nazi Planes to Smash Reinforcement Move

RAF Blasts 21 German Transports   Nazis Unable To Fly Treeps Into Sicily

21 Transports Shot Down  Over Messina   Allies Gain in Sicily After Throwing Back Nazi Counter-Attacks  GERMANS GAMBLE

Spittires Down 21  Junkers   U. S., Canadiar Troops Gain On Sicily

RAF Shatters Nazi Effort to Land Troops   Yanks, Canadians Hurl Back Bitter Counter Assaults

Nazis Gamble, Losein Sicily Fight   Desperate Jab Fails To Slow Allied Progress on Island

Desperate Nazi Relief Attempt Blasted By RAF   21 Big. Junkers-52 Transport Planes Dawns At KAniein-

Allies Repulse  Counter-Attacks  Se, Lee er ee ee Sees ee   Noose Tightens in Sicily te Then’

Nazi Attempt To Bolster Sicily Is Shattered by RAF   2! Giant Transports Shot Down Over Messiné Strait; U. S. And Canadian Troops  Drive Deeper Into Corner

21 Giant Nazi ‘Air Transports _ Are Destroyed   Graft Shot Down Over Messina as ’ Germans Attempt to Land New Reinforcements in Sicily.

GERMANS FAIL TO GET QUICK AID TO SICILY   SPITFIRES DOWN 21 TRANSPORTS OVER MESSINA

BIG NAZI AERIAL FLEET SMASHED BY RAF PLANES   Twenty-One Transports Shot Down as Germans Make Attempt to Reinforce Troops in Sicily.   COUNTER-ATTACKS OF AXIS HALTED   American and Canadian Troops Drive Deeper Into Bitterly-Defended “Coffin Corner” of fsland.

Desperate Nazi Relief Attempt Blasted By RAF   21 Big Junkers-52 Transport Planes — Downed At Messina

30 MILES THRU JAP TERRITORY   Ligonier Flier Has Re markable Escape After Crash Landing

World Money Plan Outline By Treasury   U.S. Would Have Veto Power in Fund by Virtue of Donation  of $2,000,000.000

Currency Plan Made Public By Treasury   U.S, May Contribute Two Billion to Stabilization Fund

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World Money Plan Details Revealed  U.S. Would Have Veto On Stabilizing Fund

Currency Proposal Revealed   Plan Of Postwai Stabilization  Outlined -

STABILIZING OF CURRENCY IS PROPOSED   Morgenthau Reveals Post. War Program of Treasury ss

First Draft Of Plan Outlined   37 Nations Asked To Join Conference

Gold Would Be  Exchange Basis  United Nations Asked Ta Tain in Plan

TREASURY GIVES DETAILS OF WORLD MONETARY PLAN   Reveals U. S. Would Furnish 40 Per Cent of Proposed 5 Billion-Dollar Stabilization Fund.   DESIGNED TO REVIVE TRADE AFTER WAR   Thirty-Seven Nations Invited to Discuss Scheme in Washington—Ten Have Accepted.

STABLE MONEY PLANS DRAFTED   Nations Seek To Avoid Post-War Economic Collapse

U.S. Would Deposit ‘Two Billion: to Stabilize Post-War Currencies. Morgenthau Savs

37 Nations Are Invited To Join In Stabilization Pact affer War   lreasury Would Contribute Two Billions to Inter: national Fund; 10 Na tions Respond

World Money System Urgec By Treasury   Morgenthau Has Plan For Post-War Trade

MORGENTHAU BARES WORLD MONEY PLAN   U.S. Would Contrib. ute Two Billion to > Proposed Fund

County Fails To Meet Bond Quota   TOTAL SALES FOR MONTH OF JUNE ARE $2,769.05 SHORT OF GOAL

RED BLUDGEON AIMED AT: KIEV AND KONOTOP   600 Germans Reported Dea¢ ‘When Russians Storm Towns North Of Kursk

Russ Troops Smash Along Toward Orel  Number of Towns Taker in Fighting North of Kursk  KIEV DRIVE GAINS  Final Outcome Nearing in Caucasus, Says THicnatah

Russ Army Smashes Its Way Deeper In Ukraine   More Strongly Fortified Areas Captured; Reds Strike Near Sumy

Red Armies Smash Deep Into Ukraine   ‘Capture of Three More Towns Aims Bhidgeon at Kiev, Important Rail Tnnciion   ADVANCE ON OREL   Peasants Follow Soldiers to Dig Up Hidden Grain, Prepare for Spring Planting

UU CAPTURE NEW AREAS IN UKRAINE PUSH   Drive Nearing Ore! in Spite of Spring Thaws That Soften Roads.   KHARKOV BURNED AND PEOPLE CARRIED AWAY

Russian Army Is Forging Deeper Into The Northern Ukraine, West of Kharkov

RUSSIANS PUS ON DEEPLY INTO NORTH UKRAINE   Peasants Dig Up Buried Farm Tools, Prepare for Spring Plantings

Reds Capture 3More Towns, Threaten Kiey   Russians Drive Within 40 Miles Of Orel Strangheld, Take Maloarkhangelsk   SPRING THAWS BEGIN   SPRING THAWS BEGIb Fall Of Akhytyrka Threat ens Dnieper Valley June tion At Poltava

Russians Smash Deeper Today in NorthernUkraine   Fortified Points Captured in Crive For City of Kiev

Nazi Ukraine Forces Yield To Russians   Three Towns On Roal.to Kier Are Cepfured

Reds Draw Near Kiev, Capture 3 Major Town:   Joyous Peasants Dig Out Hidden Grain, Tools, And Begin Plantings

Russians Smash Deep in Ukraine, Taking 3 Cities   Fashion a Soviet Bludgeon Aimed at Kiev and Konotop Rail Junction.   Tanks Surge to West Despite Spring Thaws

SPRING THAWS FAIL TO TRAP SOVIET TANKS   Peasants Dig Up Buried Grain And Hidden Tools To Begin Spring Planting As Russian Army Surges On Through Ukraine.

RUSSIANS DRIVING DEEPER INTO GERMAN LINES NORTHWEST OF KHARKOV   More Strongly Fortified Settlements Fall to Russians as They Race Along Muddy Roads  As Sprine Thaw Begins

RED ARMY DRIVES PATH DEEP INTO. NORTHERN UKRAINE      3 Cities Captured on 42-Mile Front Northwest of Kharkov   GERMANS COUNTER ATTACK

RED ARMY SMASHED DEEPER INTO NORTH UKRAINE DISTRICT  MORE SIRGNGEY FORTI LICH, CeTTI CATC DAVE   MORE STRONGLY FORTIFIED SETTLEMENTS HAVE BEEN CAPTURED

RED ARMY SMASHED DEEPER INTO THE NORTHERN UKRAINE   Three Towns Were Captured by the Soviets Northwest of Kharkov.   600 GERMANS KILLED   Russians Have Driven to Within 40 Miles of Orel From the South.

GERMANS FACING HARD BLOWS AT KIEV, RAIL CITY   600 Nazis Killed in Sweep Of Area Near Kursk; Red Tanks Rolling

ANOTHER UNIT 15 40 MILES FROM OREL   Nazi Counterattacks Grow. ing In Donets Basin   Sent Into Battle By Germans West Of Rostov; Several Towns Taken

Reds Smash Deeper Into Ukraine   Push Fashions Threat Aimed At Kiev and Rail Junction

Nazi Ukraine Forces Yield To Russians  Three Towns On Roal to Kiev Ara Cantiurad

Nazi Ukraine Forces Yield To Russians  Three Towns On Roal to Kiev Aan C'ambssnna

Reds Smash Deeper Into The Ukraine   Capture of Sumy And Other Cities Forms New Threat   Kiev And Important Rail Center Exposed   Russians Advance Rapidly Over Muddy Roads and Fields

Reds Advance Toward Kiev and Near Orel   Germans Report Big Attacks on Northern Front

SOVIET TANKS — SURGE WESTWARD   Final Outcome Is Nearing in Caucasus, Says Tass Despatch

Soviet Troops Point At Kiev. Threaten Ore   Russians Capture Thre ¢ Towns In Smashing Deep. er Into Ukraine.   MENTION SPRING THAW

CAPTURE THREE MORE CITIES ON 42-MILE FRONT   Action Takes Place Northwest of Kharkov, Other Unit Nears Orel

SOVIETS MAKE ‘NEW GAINS IN THE UKRAINE   Forces Smash Deeper Into Territory Northwest of Kharkov in Spite of Muddy Roads Caused by Spring Thaw.

Soviet Machine Grinds Onward  Three Towns Taken, Reds Aim At Kiev

SOWETO PUG INTO UKRAINE   Russian Soldiers Race Along Muddy Roads to Take Settlements.

Reds Deeper Into Northern Ukraine   Soviet Forces Roll Onward ~ in a Movement Aimed at Kiev   SPRING THAWS ARE ON   Russian Dispatches Say “F inal Outcome’”’ Nears in Caucasus

OFFENSIVE IN DONETS BASIN NEARING END   Soviets Forging West To Rostov Engage in Handto-Hand Fighting For Vital Town

‘Germans Throw in Reinforcemenits to Try and Hold Supply Lines in Donets Basin.

GEAMANS STIFFEN AN DONETS BASIN   Strong Nazi Counterattacks Reported In Soviet Communique   HEAVY LOSSES   Hitler Switches 22 Divisions From West To : Eastern Front

TEMPERATURES:   Red Offensive Clearing Foe From Ukraine   Other Soviet Columns 40 Miles From Orel, Moscow Reports

RUSSIANS ROLL TOWARD VITAL GERMAN BASES   Spring Thaws Causing No  Delay In Tank-Led Red i Drives to Ukraine  Area Bastions   FORTIFIED TOWNS * TAKEN IN ATTACKS   ‘Soviet Troops Reported  Within Ten Miles of Orel and Heading For Kiev Base

REDS RACING FORWARD IN THE UKRAINE   RUSSIANS SURGE AHEAD IN SPITE OF SPRING THAWS

SOVIET ARMIES SMASH DEEPER INTO UKRAINE   ‘Three Cities Captured On 42 Mile Front Above Kharkov

‘REGIONS’ ARE UNDER ATTACK   Senator Would Abolish New Form Of Government

Would Abolish Unneeded Offices  Of Governmen'   Regional Agencies Expensive, Decentralizing, Says Tennessee Senator

 Considers ‘ens Instead Ration Stamps   ficial Reports jange in System tal to Retailers  LD EASE LOAD  yency Proposes 1 Eliminate Much - Raokkeeping

Ration System Change Hinted   Token Coins May  Ranlare Coiinnone

OPA Considers Ration Changes   Believes Burden Too Heavy for Retailers

HOUSE REJECTS FUNDS FOR Fok   ‘Attempt to Restore Funds  _ Defeated on Point of Order; Final Vote on Farm Bill Expeced Today

House Fails To Provide FSA Funds   Final Vote on Farm Bill Likely Today as Controv ersial Parts  Disposed of Monday

Farm Security Administration Gets Knockout Blow in Fight for Funds

HOUSE REFUSES FUNDS FOR FSA   Appropriation Bill I Approved Leaving Agency Out

FSA ELIMINATION -ISGIVEN APPROVAL   Form Agency Goes Oul the Window by House Action

FSA Is Out Thru House Agreement   VOORHIS’ ATTEMPT TO RESTORE FUNDS DEFEATED ON POINT OF ORDER; MONEY IS ELIMINATED.   REA Wants Funds

WILL VOTE NO CASH FOR FSA   Agency's Doom Indicated as Hour Nears Final Action on Farm Bill

FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS ELIMINATED   House Also Refuses To Con. tinue Wheat And Cot ton Crop Insurance   REA AUTHORIZED TO  BORROW 20 MILLIONS

Japanese Believed Preparing To Announce Defeat. Three Pronged Drive Made By Ameri Cans.

Japs Believed Preparing to Make Announcement of Defeat.  KISKA ISLAND NEXT TO BE INVADED  Half of a Japanese Air Fleet Has Been Destroyed.

Pigeons Dropped From Fast Planes   Can Now Be Used In New War Role

GASOLINE COUPON OFFENSES SPREAD      BOWLES SAYS THEFTS AND COUNTERFEITING HAVE GROWN TO “BIG RACKET.”

OPA Chief Asks Public To Help End Gas Racket   Bowles Says Black Marke’ Must Be Smashed Largely by Public

RACKET IN GAS STAMPS BAREL   Public Asked To Help Ban Counterfeiting And Thefts

Counterfeiting of gasoline ration coupons is big racket   Individuals must be responsible for destroving black market says Bowles

Bowles Says OPA Relis on Public To Smash Racket   Drivers Urged to ‘Join In Campaign Against illicit Coupons

ASK VOLUNTEER FARM HELPERS   Kelly Defines 25 County Areas Where Residents Must Aid Farmers

Creamery Price  Of Butter Cut  Retail Prices to Be Lowered Thursday

WLB Sets Tomorrow __ Morning. As Deadline. for Miners co Return. to Work

Coal Deadline Set Tomorrow  If Walkouts Aren’t Ended, Dispute to Go to President

‘STRIKE THREATS LOOM OVER WAR VITAL INDUSTRIES   Labor Front Rattled With Controversy Today Over Coal and Railroads.

Nation’s Labor Front Seethes With Disputes   Miners Cold To Compromise Wage Pact; Rail Unions Plan Strike.

MINERS TOLD TO RETURN TO PITS THURSDAY   WLB Offers Substitute Agreement; Railroad Strike Vote Authorized

WLB Strike’ Deadline Set For Thursday   All Mines Must Resume; ‘Pay Fight Stalled; Rail - . . Vote Nove 25

Miners Cool To WLB’s Wage Offer   Railway Strike Looms As Trouble Mounts In War Industry

CONTROVERSIES SPREAD AMONG LABOR GROUPS   Coal Strikes in Effect Thursday To Be Certified ~ To FDR

Tomorrow New Deadline Given To Coal Miners   WLB Notifies Striking Min“ers that They Must Return or Government Will Take Over.

Deadline Set For Resumption Of Work In Coal Mines Controversies Raging  Along The Labor Front

Thursday Set As New Deadline For Work Resumption   Miner Official Says WLB Has “Sinned Away Its Day Of Grace’; Lewis Declines Comment

Labor Front Presents Two Big Problems   Showdown Nearing in Coal Mine and Rail Waae Disputes

Rumblings Mar Production Front   STRIKE THRE: EATS HEARD FROM VARIOUS UNION GROUPS

LABOR FRONT IN FERMENT OVER DISPUTE   Strike Threats Looming Over Two War-Vital Industries, Coal and  Railroads  [EWC CTILL €IiL_tar

Labor Front In Ferment As Coal Miners Cool To New Wage Plan   Labor Board, In Disapproving Illinois Plan, Would Approve $1.1214 A Day Boost; Railway Unions Call For Strike.

MINERS IGNORE WLOS EtFORT ON WAGE HIKE   Back-To-Work Move In Ala: bama Loses Ground After Board Rejects $1.50 Hike

WLB Orders Men Return  by Thursday   Rail Unions Join with Nonoperating Brotherhoods in - Ordering Strike Vote

STRIKING COAL MINERS GIVEN NEW DEADLINE   WLB SAYS THEY MUST WORK TOMORROW OR FACE MINE SIEZURE

Threats Of Strikes Hanging Over Twe War - Vital Industries Are Increasing

Labor Front Rattles With, Controversy As Strikes — Threaten Two Industries

Rail, Mine Walkouts Threaten ‘As Labor. Front Rattles With  Controversies Over Pay Rate

STRIKER GET NEW DEADLINE   Ordered Back to Work Thursday; Rail Strike Rumblings Heard.   MINES MAY BE SEIZED

Strike Threats Boom Over Two Big Industries   WLB Sets Tomorrow as Deadline in Present Conl Crisis

Report Unrest In Labor Ranks Over Wage Plan   Miners Cold Toward WLB’s Proposed Substitute; Rail Unions Seek Strike

WLEB Sets Deadline for Coal Miners   Must Get Back to Work Tomorrow or Face Government Seizure; Solons in Doubt on Tax Raises

ABOR-FRONT-FLARES WITH STRIKE THREATS IN WAR INDUSTRIES  COAL MINES AND RAILROADS MAIN TROUBLE POINTS AT PRESENT

Must Resume Work or Face Order for Seizure of Shafts   Strike Threats Held Ser ious; News of Capital in Brief

Strike Vote Is Ordered By Railmen   Mine Unions Seethe With Unrest When WLB Decides Against Tilinois Agreement

Strike Threats  Booming Over 2 Vital Industries   Soft Coal Miners Cold to WLB's Substitute — fo: Wage Pact.   Fifteen Rail Unions  Will Vote on Strike

. RAILROADS—  Walkout Threats Increase   . .. Labor Front Tense: Unions, WLB Disagree

Wasminglon hHounaup  WLB Tells Miners To Return To Pits Or Government Will Seize The Mines

MANY SCHOOL PUPILS KILLED   Victims Perish at Lunch in Nazi Bombing of British Capital

German Planes  Blast London School Building   Only Six Raiders Elude City’s Defenses = to Reach Metropolitan Area; 13 Nazi Planes Reportedly Were Shot Down

NAZIS KILL 30 CHILDRENIN SCHOOL RAID      Only 18 Children And One ‘heacher Emerge From Ruins Of Building Alive; 16 tthers Dead.   Bury 30-63 More

Worst Blow Suffered By Schools in London Since Start of Conflict

London School Children Die In Nazi Raid   30 Killed, Many Buriec in Debris; Fire Breaks Out After Bombing

FRENCH BUILDING ARIAY IN ALPS 10 HELP INVASION   Veteran Troops Flocking t Colors and Contact AlYied Staffs.

FRENCH PATRIOTS READY 10 STRIKE   Famous General Reported Leading Resistance to German Invaders.

Sentenced Soldier Flees (,uard House   PRIVATE CHARGED WITH LINA BASQUETTE RAPE ESCAPES AT MARCH FIELD

Unity Asked Of French   De Gaulle And Giraud Address Their People.

GIRAUD T0 BE CHIEF OF ARMY   Leaders Call On French People To Support Committee

UNITED FRENCH URGE SUPPORT   DeGaulle And Giraud Reach Agreement On Dividing Duties

GIRAUD AEMAIND HEAD OF ARMY   Joins de Gaulle in Calling on French People to Support New Organizationn Stresses Unity of War Effort

De Gaulle and Giraud Stress Unity Of French People in Radio Address

French Leaders Ask  Support of All  In New Government Generals Compromise  On Several Topics In Regard to Nation

French Leaders Talk to People   Unity of War Ef ©  Stressed by Two

CONCORD TOWN ELECTIONFEB, 2:      Polls. Open from Noon Until 7.30; School Board Gives, Only Contest —

Polls. Open from. Noon Un til 7.30; School Board ~ Gives, ‘Only Contest

15 SOLDIERS HURT DURING MANEUVERS   Motorist, Accused Of Driving Inte Column Of Combat Engineers, Meld Under 81.000 Bond

CAR PLUNGES INTO SOLDIERS; 15 HURT   Driver Is Held Following Accident at Fort Meade

Secretary Knox Says Mediterranean Is Open  To Allied Shipping - .

UNITED SHIPPING AIDED BY VICTORY   Sec. Knox Declares Both Americans and British May Use Sea.

Allied Victory in Afr'ca Opens Medit jerranear   German Air Force Will Not Be Able  dos Ch acts Gb ect ey

SAYS SHIPPING LANES OPENED   Mediterranean Opened tc  Allies, Says Knox

Expects Air Umbrella Will Protect Supply Ships Traveling Shorter Route, As Result Of Vietory In Tunisia

TUNISIAN VICTORY ALLOWS SHIPPING IN MEDITERRANEAN      Knox Says Axis Cannot Stop Allies From Using That ShorteCut

WAR HERO KILLED — IN AIRPLANE FALL   Lt. Col. Dyess, Who Es. caped Jap Prison Camp, Killed

Hero of Philippine Campaign Killed In Plane Crash   Lieut. Col. Dyess Won Many Decorations in Battle

TexasHeroWho Escaped Prison ~ Killed in Crash   Col. . Dyess. Victim--.of Plane” Accident in - California :

175.000 DADS FACING DRAFT   Employers Asked To Seek  Deferments For Needed Workers at Once

OL SP MILES ON SEA AFTER ATTACK   Sortie Made Through intricate Defenses of Base at Altentiord

Inderwater Damage Is inflicted On German Battleship By Small Batish Submarines

German Warship Tirpitz Hit By British Sub  Photos Show Oi  ) From Craft CO nw ne 9 ATT .KK

DAMAGE BIGGEST NAZI WARSHIP IN NORTH PORT.   Sail Within Arctic Circle

Tirpitz Was Torpedoed On Sept. 2?   Huge German Warship Left Wallowing in Thick Oil Spread  sp.. WUE VFA we OPata i eis ih

Mighty Tirpitz 'Torpedoed In ‘Own Naval Base   Tiny British Vessels Sail 1,000 Miles For Daring Assault

3 Miniature Divers Lost in Daring Attack   London Bares Nazi Giant Warship Blasted at Anchorage

GERMANS KILL MANY DANES IN FIERCE FIGHT   Hundreds of Soldiers Are Slain: Union Leaders Arrested

RUTHLESS MEANS USED 10 DEFEAT STAND OF DANES   Wundreds of Soldiers Reported Killed With Leaders of Labor Unions Placed Under Arrest.   DANISH SOLDIERS OFFER RESISTANCE   Communication Lines, Short. est Invasion Route Tc Berlin, Still Remain Out of Service.

ARRESTS GRO AS DANES KEEP UP RESISTANCE   Patriots Flee To Sweden

Trade Union Heads Seized as Strikes © Augment Uprising ©   German Dictator Tightens Contr ‘ol; Troops Rushed to Troubled Areas; Ohser vers See Virtual State of War

, Nazis Kall Hundreds  In Denmark   Labor Leaders Arrested to Prevent Strikes

Nazis Arresting Labor Leaders  In Denmark   ‘Danish Soldiers, ~. - Civilians Die In Defense of Country

NAZIS ACT TO NIP SABOTAGE THRU STRIKES   Hundreds of Danish Soldiers _ Killed in Fighting by  Garrison‘ Forces, »   MANY PATRIOTS SHOT IN ESCAPE ATTEMPTS.

NAZIS MOVE TO HALT DANE RESISTANCE   Are Reported to Have Killed Many Danish Soldiers

YANK FLIERS BOMB TOWN NEAR COLOGNE   Flying Fortresses In Action First Time This Month

U. S. AIR FIGHTERS IN GREAT NUMBERS BOMBARD GERMANY   Target Was Rhineland Town Of Bonn, 15 Miles South Southeast Of Cologne

Large Formations of American Flying Fortresses Smash Deep Into Germany Today—Berlin Broadcast Reports That Target of Raiders Was University Town of Bonn—Clark Gable Takes a Rinacide Sent

FORTRESSES HIT HARD AT BONN IN LONG SMASt   Rhineland Railways Town Pound. ed &th USAAF; Clark Gable Along as an Observer.

RAIL HUB HIT BY AMERICAN BIG BOMBERS   Heavily Guarded Area Deep in Germany  Is Penetrated

Flying Forts Raid Bohn’s Industries   First Heavyweight Raid in August

Flying Forts Destroy 307, Nazi Aircraft'in 2 Raids; 191 Jap Airplanes Downed

D ALLIES BLASI RININE SHIP NiJAP CONVOY   Which Attempted To Land Supplies On North Coast Of New Guinea; Convoy Flees Beyond Range.   30 Planes Bown

Would Force House Vote on Pay-as-Go Tax   Republicans Draft Petition to Bring Measure to Floor

PAY TRIBUTE TO 16 LOST IN WORLD WAR II   Memorial Services Mollow Parade: Rev. Hall Speaks

 Here Is The Evidence— \Washington Correspondent ‘Stirred Up Over Christmas

Wac’s Death Attributed To Blow On Head   Wrists, Throat Slashed To Give Appearance Of Suicide, Belief Of  Indianapclis Coroner

WOMAN IN BLACK SOUGHT IN CASE   Few New Clues Diseovered in Slaying of WAC in Indianapolis Hotel.

Epidemic of Flu Termed as Mild   But It Is Taking a Heavy Toll of Absenteeism From Plants, Schools.

Officials Hope Cold Wave Will Keep People Home, and Halt Spread of Flu, Grippe

EPIDEMIC STEPS UP ABSENTEEISM   PLANTS OPERATE.ON RESTRICTED BASIS IN MANY SECTIONS

Illness Causing Much Absenteeism In Eastern, Midwest War Plants, Offices

Sneeze and Cough  Epidemic Spreads   Mild Form of Respiratory Ailments Sweep Over Nation

AFFECTS MANY   Absenteeism Mounts in War Plants, Offices, and Schools.

MBGENTEEIOM HIG DUE TO GOLDS, FLU   100,000 Affected In Washington, Is Report

LATE OPENING Of LAKES - PREDICTEL   Continued Cold Weather Throughout Region to Delay Season.

AGRICULTURE HEAD SUCCUMBS FRIDAY   Herman Ihde, 66, Was Di. rector of Wisconsin Department.

Director Ihde Of Agriculture Group Is Dead   Department Head Fails To Recover Following Abdominal Operation At Madison Hospital

PLANNING BOARD FUNDS REFUSED   House Group Denes Morey for Agency Headed by President’s Uncle.

McCullough Tells Why Less Gasoline  Stocks Declined, PAW Would Allot Equitable Shares

STUDENT REGISTRATION   K, U. Freshmen to Get Together at Jayhawk Nibble Tonight

Chinese Break In To Sinyang Base   Fighting Under Way To Prevent Drive on Changsha

Chinese Pierce Jap Stronghold:   Chiang’s Ferces Break Through After Losing Key Chanagteh

Situation At Poston Is Probed   Dies Unit Elicits Evidence From Arizona Camp

42 DUBUQUERS GO INTO ARMY   Pass Exams and Leave for  Induction Center

MORE LEAVE TC ENTER SERVICE   Another Group of 46 Off ta  Reception Center

DUBUQUE BOYS OFF FOR CAMP   43 Joining Regular Army; 18 in Other Branches

North Atlantie Naval Battle ‘Continuing’   Nazi Battleship Tirpitz May Have Led Force In Effort To Reach Sea

TIRPITZ MAY BE IN ACTION   Big German Battleship Is Thought Possible Leader Of Dash  To Atlantic

Tirpitz Perhaps  Engaged in  Big Sea Fight But North Atlantic  Battle Details Are Being Withheld

British Silent On Sea Battle   Speculate German Battleship Involved

BRITISH SILENT ABOUT TIRPITZ   Outcome of Sea Fight-Mys* tery in North Atlantic Section

Admiralty Is Silent On Nazi Sea Foray   London Speculates Tirpits Led—Fight Continues, Was Lact Renort

lirpitz Leading New Attempts To Break Blockade  Adnmiralty Silent On Outcome Of Reported Sea Fight In North Atlantic

MUST YOU FILE INCOME TAX? Requirements Explained In Every Day Language   By JAMES MARLOW AND

TODAY on the HOME FRONT   Your Income Tax ho Must Declare on Sept.

TODAY on the HOME FRONT   Your Income Tax .... Who Must reo on Sept. ]

TEMPERATURES:   Today On Home Front   By George Zielke and James Marlowe

Today On the Home Front  Third Of Taxpayers Must File Return By Sept. 15   By JAMES MARLOW and GEORGE ZIFLKE

1 Out of Every 3 Income Tax Payers Must File New Return by Sept. 15   By JAMES MARLOW and (POM FIPLMRE

Your Declaration Of Income Tax      By JAMES MARLOW A GEORGE ZIELKE

Sees Changes in Banking Policies   Roger W. Babson Explains Relation Between Inflation and Banking System

BABSON SAYS BANKS MUST MAKE HIGHER SERVICE CHARGES   Because Of Lower Interest Rates and Decreased Volume Of Loans, Banks Lose That Source Of Income.

PVT. BOHN HANGED AT MILITARY CAMP IN EARLY MORNING    26-Year-Old Soldier From Wilkes-Barre Was Convicted On 3 Counts

Powerful Raids Delivered in North African  Theater  AFTTACK-ON NAPLES TERMED A SUCCESS  Only One Allied Plane Is Lost in the As: .  caulte

ITALY, FRANCE AND GERMANY ARE BOMBED   Italian Port Of Naples In Flames When Aililied Planes Depart For Home.

HUGE DAMAGE REPORTED IN AIR ASSAULI   Naples, Italian Port, is Left in Flames by Yank Flyers

INDUCTION Ur ALL NON-WAR WORKERS   Q.P.A. Says A-6 Gas Coupons Will Have Until November 25.

PLEASURE RIDING IS ORDERED ENDEL      Owners of 8,000,000 Cars Ir 17 States Forced to Reduce. Auto Uses.

Yenderson Takes Drastic Steps to Save Situation in 17 Eastern SeaBoard States.

EDEN TALKS ON WAR STRATEGY   ‘Continued Offensive’ Is Favored By Briton

EDEN DISCUSSES MILITARY PLAN   Secrecy Shrouds Parley, But Invasion Believed Major Topic

Masked Men Lynch Negro  Man Accused OF Murde:   Man Accused Of Murde: Clubbed Tu Death

NEGRO IS CLUBBED TO DEATH BY FOUR MEN IN FLORIDA   Once Cleared of Killing and  Then Reindicted

 Red Wave Rolling On Russian Army Closing InOn Kiev and Dnieper Defenses

Red Army Advances Across Northern Ukraine Along 100-Mile Front From Bakhmach To Zenkov— Priluki Is Immediate Objective—Other Units Less Than Sixty Miles From Dnieperopetrovsk And Within 35 Miles Of Key Railroad Point

RED ARMY CLOSES IN ON KIEV ARE!   German Middle Knieper River Defense Line Threatened; Immediate Soviet Objective Is Priluki 81 Miles East of Kiev.

MORE THAN 300 TOWNS TAKEN BY RED ARMIES   Soviet Treops Are Rapidly Closing In On Kiev

Russian Armies Roll Across North Ukraine On 100-Mile Front, Closing In On Kiev   Center Of Line Pushing Ahead As Wings Prepare Immense Turning Movement

Ukraine Area Is Falling To Soviet Armies   March Toward Kiey Continues; Nazi Forces Severed

Red Drive Threatening German’s Middie Dnieper Defense Line.   PUSH THROUGH UKRAINE

Reds Go Forward On 100-Mile Front. ....  Russians Close In On Kiev And The Dnieper

SOVIET FORCES OPEN NEW PUSt   Russians t losing in on Kiev, Most Important Ukraine City

Russians March Across Ukraine Toward Dnieper   100-Mile Front Scene of Activity In Red Campaign

Russians Closing in On Kiev and German Middle Dnieper River Defenses

RUSS OAWVING © ON KIEV, NAZI DEFENDE LINE   Capture of Bakhmach Key to New Advance on 100Mile Front.   ROMNY THREATENED ON THREE SIDES BY REDS

Paul Stewart To Speak Here At Bond Rally   Congressman Will Be Heard at 8:30 P. M. Community Meeting

Paul Stewart, Congressman,  To Speak Here   He Is to Address Community Meeting War Bond Rally

SS Guardsmen End Mutiny in  French Town   Soldiers Kill Officers When Ordered to Russ Front

ARMED FO Abt NEED 2 MILLION MEN NEXT YEAR   Hershey Explains Job For Selective Service “Nasty--Not Big’’

Chief Sees Two Million Draft   Hershey Cites Sources Other Than Pathors

2,000,000 Troops Needed By Army   Hershey Says Job “Nasty But Not Big”

FATHERS’ DRAFT TO BE LIBERAL   Selective Service Chief Calls Task “Nasty But Not Big”

Nasty Job Ahead, Says Gen. Hershey  2 Million Men Needec In Year, He Reports

CARRIERS FIGHT RATE GUT PLAN   Testimony Is Completed By Railroads In ICC Hearing

O'CONOR PROGRAM ENACTED INTO LAW   Many Administration Measures Go Through Assembly

O'CONOR PROGRAM ~ ENACTED INTO LAW      Many Administration Measures Go Through  Accaombly

FDR’s Airplane Trip to North Africa Ups His Mileage to Almost 300,000

Spectacular Drive Takes Reds to Within 22 Miles of Door to Great Area

REDS RACING TO SEAL OFF CRIMEA NAZIS   Soviets Drive To Within 22 Miles Of Perekan .

Sweeping Drive Seals Nazis’ Eseape Route   Capture of Genichesk Carries Reds To Northern Border Tip; Race 29 Miles. Seize 150 Towns

Encirclement By Russians ls Imminent   Soviet Drive Is One Of Most Sensational So Far In The War

16 Seeking Butte Postmaster Job  Investigations Are Being Conducted

16 Seeking Butte Postmaster Job  Investigations Are  festa: rs ee

Annual Meeting Of County Red Cross Chapter  Harry Cannon Was - Reelected Co. Chm.  a F a

Annual Meeting Of County Red Cross Chapter  _ Harry Cannon Was Reelected Co. Chm.  OL Ovcanivakian

GLAMOUR ROAD OF SCREEN ACTRESS ENDS IN JAIL CELL   Frances Farmer Battles Police; Gets Six Months for Violating Parole in Drunk Driving Case.

SA LTS TT  FRANCES FARMER CARRIED TO HER CELL   Blonde Screen Actress Starts 6-Month Term

Unruly Actress Is Sent To Jail   Frances Farmer, After Hectic 24 Hours, Given 180 Day Sentence.

Actress On Wild Rampage In Jail   Miss Farmer Plays Hob With Police Officers

Cinema Actress Frances Farmer Lands  In Jail Atter Unscheduled Court Show

Venafro ana dasto Taken By Allies   Yanks Take Venafro After Fierce Fight With Germans

Smash Last Remnants of Nazi Massico-Trigno Line; Yanks Score Heavy Blow On German Air Force In Balkan Raid.

GARIGLIANC RIVER LINE [S CROSSED   Nazi Efforts To Halt Gains Of 5th And 8th Armies Fail

Allied Forces Capture Key Points in Italy   Enemy Throws: New Device into Battle for Ridge

Vasto on Adriatic. andVenafro: in Up, er Vol _turno River Valley Onmuntad :

ALLIES Man MASSICO LINE   Americans Drive Ahead Into Mountains After Occupying Venafro.   GERMANS USE RESERVE

SEIZE VASTO AND VENAFRO, KEY DEFENSES   British Patrols of Fifth Army Cross Garigliano River to Probe a New Barrier Which Enemy Has Formed.

J. S. Troops Drive Ahead Into Mouniains While British Patrols Cross Garigliano   NAZI AIR FORCE HIT>   U. S. Bombers Blast Airfield a! Beral Kucov, Albania, Base for Balkan Operations

Massico Line OfGermansin Italy Broken   Vasto on Adriatic and Yenafro in Volturno Valley Captured

ALLIES SMASH AT LAST REMNANTS OF MASSICO LINE   eo FTE INARA OBE  AMERICANS OCCUPY VENAFRO AND DRIVE AHEAD INTO HEIGHTS

PATROLS CROSSING GARIGLIANO RIVER TO TEST NEW LINE   Seize Key Centers of Vasto On The Adriatic And Venafro In Upper Volturno Valley — Allies Forging Ahead

ALLIED FORCES SMASHED LAST GERMAN RIDGE   Fifth Army Drives Ahead In Passes  In Mountains

Nazi Air Force Crippled By Yank Bombers   British Army Patrols Probe German Line North of Garialiano

Nazi Remnants Near Massico Smashed Away   Key Points Of Venafro And Vasto Taken By Allies In Italian Campaign

Last Remnants Of Strong Nazi Defense Line Gone   American-British Forces Less Than 80 Miles From Rome

OF VENAFRO, VASTO FALL   Eight Nazi Divisions Now Fighting Before Rome; Heavy Air Raid Made On Albania Field

ALLIED FORGES CAPTURED THE KEY POINT OF VASTC   Smashed Away Last Remnants of Germans’ Massico Ridge-Trigno Line.   VENAFRO ALSO TAKEN   British Patrols Forged Ahead in Western Sector, Crossing the Garigliano River.

FIFTH FORCES CHASING FIVE FOE DIVISIONS   Key Point of Vasto On Adriatic ~Also Captured by Allies in Steady Advance On Rome   AMERICANS BEAT OFF FIERCE HUN DEFENSE   Rout Fresh New German ‘Division; Large Portion of Nazi Airforces From  - Albania Knocked Out

Vasto And Venafro, Two Nazi Key Points Seized By Surging Fifth Army

Allies Attack New German  Line in Italy   Americans Take Venafro—Germans Send in More Troops

Allies Drive Germans from 2 Key Points   Fifth and Eighth Armies Make Gains ia March on Rome

U.S. Forces Stab  Into German Lines   Take Mountain Stronghold ~ From Reinforced Hold ing Group   CROSS RIVER BARRIERS   Allied Air ‘Force Strikes Axis Fields on the Al banian Coast

LAST REMNANTS OF GERMAN LINE ALONG MASSICO RIDGE GONE  ’ KEY POINTS OF VASTO

Yanks Take ‘Venafro In Central Italy   British Surge Up Adriatic Coast To Capture Kev Point Of Vasto.

Allies Capture 2 Key Points In Drive On Rome   Crush Last Remnants Of Germans’ Massico Ridge Defense Line.

SMASH GERMAN LINE IN ITALY   Allies Take Key Points of Venafro And Vasto

ALLIES GAIN IN ITALY   More Key Points Fall to 5th and 8th Armies

Allied Forees In ltaly Smash Last of Germans’s Strong Massico  Ridge Trigno Line: Busy in Air

4 Divisions in Retreat ~ Near Rome   Allied Forces Smash Away Last Remnants of . Nazi ® Line Along Massico Ridge   FRESH TROOPS FAIL TO HALT ALLIES   pleavy Air Action Knocks Out Field Enemy Used to Send Planes to Balkans

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES RIP NAZI LINE FROM RIDGE   Fresh German Division Routed in Battle by Americans

ALLIES PROBING NEW NAZI LINE SET UP IN ITALY   Yank Airmen Knock Out Many Planes Operating From Bases in Albania

Yank Forces Drive Nazis To Mountains   British Patrols Cross River To Probe German Defenses

Last Remnants Of German Hill Defense Ripped By Allied Men   Yanks Plunge Into Mountains After Taking  Venafro

Take Key Points Along Adriatic   Allied Forces in Italy Smash Last Remnants of Strong Nazi Lnie.

Chinese Fight for China, But U.S.   Service Men Battle for Souvenirs 

BOMBS CUT STEEL OUTPUT OF AXIS   GERMANY’S PRODUCTION BELIEVED DOWN 40 PER CENT, ITALY’S 75 TO 90.

Downpour of U.S. Bombs Cuts Axis Steel Production   Enemy Output Drops 25 Pct.; Italy Weak Link

920.92 Increase An Receipts Over Same Quarter ’42   Volume of Mail Mounts as Receipts Increase.

Postal Receipts Increase Over Same Quarter '42   Receipts of $5,029.82 For July, August and September.

POSSIBLE BREAK IN WAGE ARGUMENTS IS SEEN ON WEDNESDAY   New Contract for 450,000 ‘Bituminous Workers in Appalachian Field {s  "Seen Today,

BREAK LOOMS IN MINE PARLEYS   Southern Operators Demand Dispute Be Certificd To WEB

BRICKER AND TAFT SPOTLIGHT OHIO IN NATIONAL POLITICS   ates  Burton, Too, Comes In for Some Speculation

POLITICAL EYES ON BURTON’S '44 ROLE   Talked For Vice Presiden Spot On G. 0. P. Ticket

More Aid For China, Plea Of Madame Chiang   Wife of Generalissimo Denounces Belief Defeat of Japan Is Less Important Than That of Germany

Says Japan ©  Danger ous As Germany   POINTS OUT HUGE NATURAL RESOURCES AT JAP COMMAND; ALSO DEALS WITH POST-WAR 5 nek

WIFE OF LEADER OF EMBATTLED NATION AY CAPITAL   Says Chinese Victary is As Important As Win Over Rarmanc.

CONGRESSME HEAR CHINA'S “FIRST WOMAN’   U. 8S. Asked to Lead Way in Form ing One Body of Nations at Conclusion of War.

Mme. Kai-Shek Appeals To U.S. For More AidTo China   first Lady OF China, In Addressing Congréss,; Denounces : - “Erevailing Opinion” That. Defeat Of Japan Is. oe Leas, Important:Than Defeat OF Germany

Congress Hears Talk by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek   Says Defeat of Japs. Not Less Vital Than Nazis

MME, CHIANG MAKES STRONG APPEAL FOR AID WITHOUT DELAY   Wife of Chinese Military Leader Holds Defeat of Japan As Very Important,

China's First Lady, in Address To U. S. Congress, Urges More Effort  Be Devoted to Wiping Out Jap Menace

HEAVY, SAYS. SEC. STIMSON      MME, CHIANG ASKS CONGRESS TO LEAD WAY TOWARD WORLD UNITY

MADAME CHIANG SPEAKS BEFORE U. §. CONGRESS   Dramatic Appeal Made to Americans for More Aid to Embattled China.

CHINESE ASKS FOR WAR HELP   Generalissimo's Partner Holds Jap Menace  On Par With Hitler .

Madam Chiang Kai-Shek Makes Personal Appeal! Before U, S. Congress    Denounces Prevailing Opinion That Defeat of Japan is Less{Important Than the  Defeat of Germany in This War

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Pleads for More Aid to China, Warns Japanis More Dangerous Enemy Than Germany

CHINESE WOMAN MAKES AN APPEAL FOR HER COUNTRI   Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Denounces Opinion About Importance of Japan In Present War.   SAYS JAP RESOURCES EXCEED GERMANY’S   Sayings of Old Chinese Phil: osophers Woven Into Hel Address to Impress Im: portant Points.

Scores Opinion Hitler Must Be Beaten Before Japan   TELLS CONGRESS CHINESE NEED MORE U. S. HELP

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Makes Stirring Appeal   First Lady of China Gives Address  In Canorecc

Defeat of Japan   Called Paramount   Generalissimo’s Wife Addresse: Both Houses of Congress, Makine Stirrinse Plea ©

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Addresses Congress, Pleads F or More U. S. Aid To Chine

The official Helena tempera- 58 ture at 2 p. m., was..............

HASKELL TO START ON ITS S9TH YEAR   Classes at Indian School Will Begin Monday, September 13

HASKELL TO START. ON ITS 59TH YEAR   Classes at Indian School Will'Begin Monday, Sep tember 13   A FEW STAFF CHANGES

$50,000,000 Road Besgram Slated for State   Martin Says Project Can Be Financed Without Additional State Taxes; Reservoir for Labor

Road Building Tops Post-War Plans for State   $300,000,000 Program Outlined by Governor ‘For Changeover Period

DEGAULLE HITS AT LATE REPLY   Fighting French Leader Declares Giraud Hasn't Answered Unity Plea

Steps To Unif y The F ighting Fr on Forees   Giraud And De Gaulle May  Soon Meet

De Gaulle Raps Giraud For Not  Calling Parley   Giraud Says He Hopes All Frenchmen Te Unite; To Free  Prisoners

De Gaulle Has Asked Parley With Giraud   Is Miffed Because Answer Hasn’t Yet Been Given

Over 2,000 Tons Of Bombs Rained Upon Dortmund   RAF Loses 38 Bombers In Mighty Attack; Smoke Curls 3 Miles In Sky

RAF BATTERS AUG TARGET TD SET MARK   2,000 Tons of Destruction Fall in Night Attack; 38 Craft Lost.   iTALY’S- “SOFTENING”  : .FROM SKY CONTINUES

hh Record Raid  ' Attack Described As Largest Yet  Nahe in 8A oF

More Than 2,000 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Industry In Water Logged Ruhr -

Greatest Air Attack in History Staged on Rubr Transport Center. Great Fires Set   38 BOMBERS LOST   One-Third More Bomb Tonnage Dropped than on Duisburg, Previous Record

OTHER TARGETS IN RUHR VALLEY HIT   Smoke From Fires In German  industrial City Rises 3 Adilen In Ale

: One of the Greatest Air At' tacks in History Staged   Last Night by RAF on  Industrial Points.     VAST BLAZES WERE  Trrua7yTriaFrrt ee Ta SNiwrerw ea   British Lost 38 Bombers; Raid Described as Highly Successful by Returning Pilots.

2000 Tons of Bombs Fall ~ On Ruhr City   fAllies Also Keep Up Fury Of Attack on Southern Kuropean Flank

More Than 2,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Dortmund, Water-Loaaed Ruhr Area

2,000 Tons of Bombs Rained On Nazi Ruhr   In the Heaviest Raid of War, RAF Blasts Rail way Center.   38 Bombers Fail to Return to Air Bases

RECORD WEIGHT OF 2,000 TONS INNSEN RY RAF   Smoke Clouds 15,000 Feef Above Target Obscure 4 Results Of Damage   RUHR AREA JS BLASTED   African Air Forces Concena trate Attacks On Pantelleria !sland

2.000 TONS OF. BOMBS FALL ON CITY IN RUHR   Four and Two-ton Bombs, Incendiaries Kindle Fast Blazes   OPERATION COSTS R. A. F. 38 PLANES   Other Targets Up and Down Water-logged Valley Blasted

City’s Defenses Unable To Withstand Great Weight Of 2,000 Tons Of RAF Bombs   Scores Of Four And Two-Ton Missiles And Tens Of Thousands Of Incendiaries Dropped o8 Planes Lost. British Announce

British Drop 2,000 Tons of Explosives   Smoke Frfom. Fires Rises Three. Miles Above City;:. 33 Bombers: Lost... ::   ‘BUT THE:ATTACK : ‘IS A BIG SUCCESS   Devastating - Smash. Gives Life’ to. Recent. Words ‘of Churchill: *:

RAF Cripples ‘Industrial City -InRuhr Valley   Hammer Blow At Nazi Production Center Is Carried Out At Cost Of 38 Planes 5

2-HOUR PARADE OF PLANES SENT AGROSS TARGET   Carries Out Prediction By Churchill; Nazis Strike Back In Coast Areas

Pilots Report Smoke Three Miles Above Main Objective, British Lose  38 Bombers

RAF Drops 2,000 Tons For Record   History’s Greatest Attack Starts Vast Blazes in Dortmund

GREATEST AIR ATTACK OVER EUROPE TODAY  2000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

2000 Tons of — Bombs Poured Upon Dortmund   R. A. F. Loses 38 Bombers in Greatest Air Attack in History, London Announces

BRITISH DROP 2,000, TONS OF BOMBS ON CITY OF DORTMUND   Start Of A Campaign To Bomb Germany Out Of The War   DAMAGE KNOWN TO BE TERRIFIC

HEAVIEST ATTACK OF AIR IN HISTORY MANE LAST NIGHT   DORTMUND, GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTER, GETS 2.000 TONS OF BOMBS

RAF Dumps 2000 Tons of Bombs on Nazis   Industrial City Of Dortmund Hard Hit by Bombers

SMOKE RISES THREE MILES ABOVE TARGE]   Both Two and Four-Ton Explosives and Thousands of Incendiaries Rained on Large Ruhr Industrial Citv.

British Lose 38 Bombers in Mammoth Raid  Smoke Goes Three Miles Above Ruhr Vallev City

Attack Heaviest In All History   British Lose 38 Bombers In Blasting Water-Logged Ruhr Valley; Action Puts Emphasis To Words Of Churchill Before Congress Last Week

British Lose 38 Bombers inRaids   May Be Effort: © to Bomb Germany Out of War

Savage Attack Shatters Cities   SMOKE RISES THREE MILES ABOVE DORTMUND, KEY INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF NAZI WAR PLANTS, AS FOUR-MOTORED PLANES BLAST VITAL SPOTS

Dortmund Smashed As Tons of Bombs Kindle Ruhr Blazes   London, May 24 (AP)—In the greatest air attack in history, the RAF dropped more than 2,000 tons of bombs last night on industrial Dortmund and raided other targets up and down the water-logged Ruhr valley of Germany.

HIT DORTMUND IN 2,000 TON BOMB ASSAULT   Vast Flames Started in Heaviest Attack Ever Made by Planes

Allies Rain 2,000 Tons Of Bombs On  Industrial Germany   Smoke, Flames Roll Three Miles Over German City In Hist ory’s Greatest Raid; 38 Allied Bombers M issing

2, 000 Tons of Bombs Hurled ~ By RAF Fliers   Dortmund, Industrial City, Principal Target, but Other Areas Are Hit Hard; 38 Planes Lost; North African Bombers Busy. Too.

Giraud Would Meet DeGaulle Soon  To Make Agreement Conference May End Difficulties Of French Factions

DE GAULLE ASKED TO MEET GIRAUD   LATTER SUGGESTS CONFERENCE TO BRING FRENCH GROUPS INTO ACCORD.

Giraud’ Seeks Early Meeting With De Gaulle  Cocke Beck obi   Fighting French Ghiel  Invited F: ‘0: Settle

FRENCH LEADERS WILL MEET IN NEAR FUTURE   Gen. Giraud Has Asked DeGaullc To Meet Him Soon After May  5S Ae Possible

Giraud Seek: To Meet De Gaulle   Conference Asked Soon After May 5 In North Africa

Drive Nears Bizerte   NAZIS FLEE; FRENCH RIP FORWARD TO POINT 15 MILES FROM NAVAL BASE

Giraud Would Meet DeGaulle Soon To Make Agreement  Conference May End Difficulties

Plan No Fight On Continuance  Of Lend-Lease   Congress Republicans Concentrate On Holding  Dinaurn hy wma em

Lend-Lease To  Gain Renewal   Republicans Drop Move To Prevent Continuance; Check Expenditures,

Second Front ls Due Soon   Stalin Says Germany Is Facing Catastrophe; Lauds Allies

‘Catastrophe  facing nazis’   War aims listed; allies are lauded

Concerted Efforts! To End Hitlerite Regime Promised   United Nations’ Coming Offensive To Crush Hitler And Nazi Military Power Forever, Reports Soviet Dictator As Kiev Captured

Real Second Front Not Far Off--Stalin  TSS See Eales eG Sea ee ee) Ye ote SUS, eae ye ae i?) Sea   Germany Now Stands Face to Face with Catastrophe

Real Second Front Not Far Off---Stalin   Nazis on Verge of Catastrophe, Russian Premier Says in Victory Speech

ISERNIA; ROAD JUNCTION, WON BY 8TH ARMY   Montgomery Captures Important Point With Bold Night Attack

‘Restraining’ Tax Suggested In Washington   ‘Compromise Idea Planned  To Limit Purchases of Some Items

SOLONS HEAR ‘RESTRAINING TAXPROPOSAL   Offered as Sales Tax Com: promise, Limiting Non. essential Purchase: and Permitting Some Without Levies.

Congress Hears Some Talk Of A  Restraining Tax   Would Aim At Keeping Luxury Spending At A Minimum.

RESTRAINING TAK IS NEWEST IDEA CHECKS SPENDING   Plans For Certain Amount of Tax-Free Essentials Is Being Discussed at Capitol win   $500 ANNUALLY MAY BE MAXIMUM AMOUNT   Coupons Would Exempt Paying Taxes, Without Them Customer Would Be Charged Extra Sum.

‘Restraining’ Tax Studied  By Congress   Believe Compromise On Plan Might Overcome Administration Fight  Ower Sale« I evw

Discuss “Restraining Tax” to Halt Too Much Buying of Non-Essentials

PLAN PROPOSED (COMPROMISE FOR SALES TAX   Would Give Exemptior Vith Free Coupons  Up to $500

55 BRITISH BOMBERS. MISSING   From: Raids on Skoda Munitions Works in Czechoslovakia and Rhineland War Tssicislvtae.

Skoda Works, Mannheim Area Feel R. A. F. Fury; British Lose 55 Bomber: In Raids.

Both Pilsen and Rhineland Are Bomber Targets   Last Night's Twin Assaults Declared To Be Successful

MUNITION PLANT MAIN TARGET OF LATEST RAID   British First Army  Driveg Deener Wedge Between Bizerte and Tunis   YANKS RCCOMPLISH JO@   Fight To Finish by Axiq Making Last Stand in Africa Expected

600 RAF. Bomber: Raid 2 German Armament Areas  Fifty- Five Raiding Planes Reported by

British Lose 55 Bomb. ers During European  . Raid : MIGHTY ASSAULT British First. Army  Threatens Roniriel, 8 5 Plank «

“Biggest Night Operation” of Year In volves Over 600 Planes in Czech and Rhineland Penetrations, While R sian Planes Hit East Prussia; Ge  ‘mans Claim They Will Fight to  th End in Tunisia. :

Strike Heavily At Mannheim, Ludwigshaven and Pilsen, Home of Skoda Works — British Infantry Deepen  Bulge in Tunisian Defenses

55 Planes Lost In Big Night Raid   Skoda Plants in Czechoslovakia and Rhineland War Foundries Hammered  - Germans Indicate Russian Planes Bomb East Prussian Points

55 BOMBERS IN DOUBLE FORAY   Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia, War Foundries in Rhineland Pounded by 600 Planes

Twolmportant German Arms  WorksBlasted   British Ist Army Cuts Deeper Wedge Between Tunis and Bizerte; Reds Kill 600 Nazis in New Caucasus  Drive

90 RAF Craft Missing As Huge Fleets Raid Nazi War Plant Sites      First Arn my Gains Between Tunis And Bizerte New Threat To Axis: Yanks Capture 4680 Prisoners

British Air Force Suffers Largest Losses Of Aerial War On Nazified Europe

LABELED BIGGEST NIGHT OPERATION OF PRESENT YEAR   FIFTY-FIVE BIG PLANES MISSING FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE MISSIONS

55 Listed Missing   Vigorous Fighting Rages on Tunisian, Front; Ist Army Drives Wedge into Axis Line

RAF Bombers Blast Leipzig in Night Raid   Alr Offensive Grows as Allies Make Slight Gains on Italian Front

‘STRONG WAVES OF BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN CITY  ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY   REPORT ONLY SLIGHT  GAINS THERE

Air War Gathers Weight   Leipzig and Berlin Targets of Last Night's Heavy RAF Raids; Say Nazis Quit Crimea

Rail Center Main Target   Allied Forces Push Ahead for Some Gains in Italy.

AERIAL OFFENSIVE GROWS AS ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY MAKE SLIGHT GAINS   Mosquito Planes Sting Berlin and Western Ger many. Allies Press into Central Mountains of Italy to Seize Towns of Busso and Aratino   YUGOSLAVS EXTEND ORWENQIVE AQAING®T NAZIS

BERLIN, OTHER GERMAN SITES ALSO ATTACKEL   First Time Leipzig, Aircraft and Rail Center, Had Been Assaulted by Large Force

Bitter Battles: Rage Near Kiet and: Key Spots i in Russia; ; in l 2 q  -for Quarter Million: ‘Germans—  Partisans Expand Offensive

British Blast Nazi Industrial City of Leipzig   17 Bombers Lost in Raid; Allied Armies in Italy Make Slight Gains; Germans Reported Evacuating the Crimea

Leipzig Is Smashed By Allied Bombers As Aerial Assault On Germany Renewed

Allies Make Slight Gains Against Foe   Strong Waves of of RAF Units « Follow Trail of Destruction - of American Forts

Aerial T Offensive Against Nazis Gath"ers Weight.  ARMIES GAINING  Slight Advances: Re  ported North Of  Volturno 

Air Attack Is Carried * to Leipzig   Waves of RAF. Planes , Pound Big Industrial City Well Inside Germany   5TH ARMY PROBES NEW GERMAN LINE)   d . Slight. Gains in Italy as Mountain Defense Area Te Tocotpd

Leipzig Gets First Full-Scale Bombina   City Ranked Third As Trade Center

‘STRONG WAVES OF BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN CITY  ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY REPORT CHILY SLIGHT

Allies Capture Two Mountain Towns In Italian Advance   First Heavy Raid of War on Vital Nazi Trade, Industrial Center, Lose 17 Planes

British Raid Follows Yank  Dueren Blow   First Strong Attack On Industrial Center

Other Vital * Nazi Points  Also Raided   Aerial Offensive Gathers Weight as Allied Armies in ftaly Make Slight Gains North of Volturno River

Industrial Center Hard Hit by Big Allied Offensive   Germans Reported Evacuating Crimea; Battles Rage North of : Kiev

Simplest Blank Issued by Agency  OPA Prepares Five-Question Fuel Oil Ration Renewal Form

BY CEN, KRUEGER   Possibility of Offensive in Pacific Arises With Appointment

jAajor Drive Against Japan In Southwest Pacific Seen “New Field Army Orgonized In Australia  Dledase fammams PUL Maw Vhlndbne Venn

British Storm High Ground Dominating Important Road, Threaten German Fiank; Liberators Wreck Rail Junction in Balkans

Fifth Army’s Gains Slight At New Line   American Bombers ‘Wreck Rail Center Deep in Yugoslavia

Yanks Probe In Search Of Ne ew  German Line —   . Make Slight Gains: North ” Of wens Belkons : Are Raided: .

ALLIES SEIZE TWO TOWNS IN SOUTH ITALY   Gen. Montgomery's Troops Storm High Ground Dominating Road North from Vinchiaturo   BUSSO IS OCCUPIED

Medium Bombers Strike At Balkans   Terrain Slowing Advance Of Americans; Montgomery Threatens German Flank

New Lines Probed By  Americans   Ditches And _ Irrigation Canals Hamper Drive Of Fifth Army North Of Volturno River

CLARK'S FORCES CAIN SLIGHTLY NORTH OF RIVER   Advance Elements Trying To  Determine Exactly Where Germans Will Make Next Determined Stand; Eighth Army Takes Busso.

ANKS FACING MAJOR BATTLE   Advanced Elements of 5th Army Probes New German Defense Line

U.S, FIFTH ARMY PATROLS PROBE ENEMY DEFENSE   Endeavoring te Determine Where Germans Are Planning Stand On Massico Ridge   [RRIGATION DITCHES SLOW UP ADVANCE   ‘Eighth Army Sweeps As Far As Oratino After Occupying Busso, Over looking Baranello

Advances Made By 5th Army on Front in Italy   Germans Set Up New Defenses On Massico Ridge

Americans Bomh Railroad Yards In Yugoslavia   Eighth Army Storms High Point On Road Near Vinchiaturo

‘5th’ Prepares To Hit Nazis  To. AF Aww tain  En uiGulicaims Patrols Trying to Learn Where Foe Is Digging In / on Massico Ridge TOMMIES MOVE UF  Yank Bombers Stab Deer in Balkans; Hit Yugoslavia Rail Center

5TH ARMY MADE SLIGHT GAINS IN VOLTURNO AREA   Advance Elements Are Seek: ing Location of New Nazi Defenses.   PROGRESS IS SLOWED   The Sth Army Occupied Busso and Swept Into Oratino.

Slow Advance By Fifth Army  Above Volturno   Yanks Feel Out New Enemy Line; British Storm Vital Heights.

Allied Gains Engulf Two More Towns   Devastated Terrain Slows Up Progress Of Fifth Army

SEIZE ORATINO AND BUSSO ON ROAD 10 ROME   Allied Planes Bomb Nazi Transport Facilities North of Rome

Fifth Tests Nazi Line: Yanks Bomb Yugoslavia   U.S. Flyer Threatened By Enraged German Mok

Germans Mass for New Front North of Volturno Defenses   Major Battle Shaping up at Massico Ridge in Italy Today

hth Army Probes New Defenses Of Retreating Foe   Advance Is Slowed By Difficult Terrain In Voiturno Area

—ITALY— American Fliers   In Balkans Raid   Exact Location Of Nazis Mountain Defense Lines Sought; Eighth Army Also Advances: U. S.  Airmen Wreck Roundhouse In Yugoslavia

Major Battle Lines Taking Form in Italy   Germans Mass Troops For Stand On New Front Above Volturno

U.S. Italy Push Lags; Yankees Hit Balkan Hub   Yugoslavia Rail Center Of Nis fs Bombed In Deepest Stab; 8th Army  Storme Hiohts. Captures Bussa

Clark’s Men Advance in  Patrol Jabs   Probe Area North of Voliurno to Determine Exaci New Line Germans Setting Up   BRITISH ADVANCE   Take High Ground in Bitter Fight ing !o Continue Threal fo German. Flank : 

Ditches, Canals Slow Advance Of Allied Troops   American Bombers Wreck: Roundhouse  ln Voaoclavia

Germans Establish New Defense Lines; Terrain Slows American Drive

Fifth Army Gains Above Volturno; Eighth Storm: Hill, Perils Nazi Flank

Slight Gains Made North OF  Volturno Area   Nazis Set Up New Defenses On Massico Ridge: Eighth Slowed Up.   BOMB BALKAN RAILS

Fifth Makes Slight Gains Above River   Advance Units Probe to Learn New Defenses Of Germans

ESTABLISH NEW DEFENSES ON MASSICO RIDGE   FIFTH ARMY MAKES SLIGHT GAINS NORTH OF VOLTURNO RIVER

Water Barriers Check Progress Of Fifth Army   Clark's Forces in Italy Make Only Slight Caine Probing Nazi Defense.   American Pilots Stab Deeper Into Balkans

FIFTH ARMY PROBES GERMAN POSITIONS NORTH OF VOLTURNO  EIGHTH ARMY STORMS HIGH GROUND ON EASTERN SIDE ITALY

Fifth Army Makes Slight Gain and Probes for New  Line of German Defenses

5th Army In Slight Gain   Advancing Allied Armies Find Terrain Tough Going

American Fifth Army Makes Sliaht Gains   Advance Elements Probe To Determine Location Of Germans

Advanced Elements Sounding Out Location Of Enemy Defenses On Massico Ridge North Of Volturno River—Eighth Army Occupies Busso And Oratino American Medium Bombers Wreck Rail Facilities At Nis, Yugoslavia, In Deepest Balkans Thrust

Advance Units Seek To Uncover New Nazi Lines   Fifth Army Pushes Ahead _North Of The Volturno;, British’ Occupy, Busso

8th Army Is Striving For Campobasso   This Position Is Vital For Hinge to General Flank Movement

Allies Probe For  New German Line   Fifth Army Makes Slight » Advances North of the  Volturno   AIR: RAIDS IN BALKANS   Allied Airmen Wreck Rail' road at Nis, Disrupting . Traffic

Allied Armies In Italy Mark Up Slight Gains   Raid Aids Gvyerrillas

Nazis Setfing Up Lines Along Massico Ridge  Fifth And Eighth Armies Closise

POSITIONS AT MASSICO   U. S. Bombers Fly Deeper Into Balkans To Hit Nis; British Occupy City Of Busso

HFTH ARMY MAKES ONLY SLIGHT GAINS   Ditches of Agricultural  Terrain Slow Troops Beyond Volturno— Patrols Trying to Find New Nazi Defenses. _

Allies Make Shight Gain In Italy   U. S. Bombers Wreck Rail Equipment in Jugoslavia

‘National Service’ Draft of Women Proposed by 6.0.P   Call for Volunteer Workers Would Be Tried Out First

WOMEN ARE NAMED IN SERVICE BILL   Congress Gets' National ManPower Legislation Designed to Mobilize .Women

National Service Manpower Bill Given Congress   Size of Army Must be Trimmed Hoover Declares

CONGRESS RECEIVES PROPOSAL TO MAKE ALL SUBJECT CALL   WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN WOULD BE PLACED SUB_ JECT NATIONAL SERVICE

Benson in Race for Secretary of State Nomination by GOP   Batavia Publisher Opposed to Treasurer William Stratton

FASCIST TREND DENIED   Argentine Spokesman Makes Statement in Buenos: Aires

FASCIST TREND DENIED   Argentine ag sige cece Makes Statement in Buenos Aires

Found Guilty In Woman s Death   Convicted As Slayer of Mother of 6

Morale Heightening Seen As Answer to Absenteeism   J. Milton Patterson, American Welfare Association  President, Says Many Workers Are Staying Away   From Jobs Because of Dissatisfaction; Asserts  Mutual Confidence Must Be Established ,

Labor Morale Found Factor   Absenteeism, Partly Laid To Misfits In’ Plants  Of United States .

OHIO REGIONS      Crop Damage Is Checked:  28-Degree.Reading In ' Salem Among Lowest

Russian Push Captures Dnepropetrovsk As Cossacks Near Crimea   ’ Resistance In Corner Of Dnieper Bend Is Crushed; Soviet Right Wing Pushes Down On Krivoi Rog

Russians Roll On Against the Nazis   Germans Throw Reinforcements in Check Mighty Red Army   AXIS TROOPS IN TRAP   Enemy Soldiers Are Almost Encircled in Dnieper Elbow

Former Official Admits Charges  Panama Subjected   Panama Subjected To New Plotting

Soviet Arms Closing in (On Kharkov   Night Bomber Stab At Berlin and French Coast Hit

7 SMALL ISLANDS — CAPTURED BY U.S;   Foggia; Railway Hub In South Htaly;  Torn; Allies Gain In Pa- 

Red Offensive Reaches Highwater Mark Set  In Last Winter’s Drive   American Sea Forces Clamp Hold on Seven Italian Aeolian Islands; More Than 700 Planes Take Part in Devastation of Railroad Center

Heavy Air Raid Smashes Foggia  In Southern Italy   Industrial And Communications Center Afire; Sits Astride Railway

Industrial Areas Of France, Italy And Germany Hit   Largest Aerial Operation Of War Is Carried _ Out During Night Following American  Bombing Raids In Daylight Yesterday

Germany, Italy And France Are Hit By Bombers   Triple Attack Is Made By R. A. F.—Simultaneous Raids On Three Countries   SUBMARINE BASES ARE AMONG TARGETS

{44 AIR DRIVE ON JAPS FORECASI   ARMY COLONEL PREDICTS ALLIED OFFENSIVE WILL START NEXT SUMMER.

Air Offensive Against Japan  In Summer Seen   Officer Also Says Blasts At Europe Are Actual PreInvasion Tactics

GAP HELD IN BALKAN LINES   Yugoslav Partisans Make Fresh Gains Against German Forces

MADANG ASSAULT IS WAR'S HEAVIEST NEW GUINEA RAID   Bougainville Campaign Going! “Better Than Expected,”  Adm, Halsey Says. 

Allied Bombs Jolt Madang; Big Fires Set   223 Tons of Bombs Rip Jap Base in Greatest New Guinea Raid   EXTEND BEACHHEAD   Mavines and Army Cnits Alert for New Attack on Bougainville

Assault Made On Madang By Allied Planes   Target In New Guinea Blasted By 223 Tons Of Bombs — Only One Fighter Plane Lost

Acriai Might*of Aled * Directed Against New Guinea on Saturday ~—Heaviest Raid of War. on New Guinca Objective:. °  car

ALLIES MADANG WITH 200 BOMBERS   Halsey Says Campaign On Bougainville Going Well

MADANG DEFENSE HIT BY ALLIED AERIAL ATTACK   200 Planes Drop 223 Tons Of Bombs, Heaviest Raid Of War

Aerial Might of Allies Directed At New Guinea   ease 200 Planes Drop sae  223 Tons of Ramhe on Madana

Allies Drop 223 Tons of Bombs on Madang Raid Heaviest  Of War ona  New Guinea   Invasion Progressing Savs Admiral Halsey

ALLIED PLANES HIT AT MADANG BASE OF JAPS   223 Tons Of Bombs Dropped Upon New Guinea Area By 200 Attackers

PLANT WORKERS RETURN TO PQoTt   Employes of Triumph Company, Many Themselves Injured in Explosion, Resume ‘Passing the Ammunition’

Jurors Drawn For New Term   Judge Mish Selects Men Tc Serve During Febru- ary: Court.

Jurors Drawn For May Term   Judge Joseph D. Mish Draws 48 Names For Dutv Next Month.

GERMANS HURL FRESH TROOPS AGAINST REDS   Battle desperately to halt Soviet drive to cut off Crimea

REDS EXPANDING DRIVE TO CIRCLE NAZIS IN CRIMEA   Fifth Army Smashes Counter Assault and Allies Gain in Central Italy

Try To Halt Soviet Drive In Crimea   Germans Order Executions If Prisons Are Attacked

GHTRUS FRUIT COST 10 BE CUT   Consumers Price for Oranges and Lemons 10 to 15 Per Cent Reports OPA.

New Price Schedules Giver By OPA; Pound Basis Sale  Prices Received By Growers Will Be Raised   Prices Received By Growers Will Be Raised Over Last Season’s Level In New Crders

First Practice Under New Set of Air _ Raid Signals Will Be Statewide: ARP Units to Mobilize

First Practice Under. New Set of Ai ~ Raid Signals Will Be Statewide; ARP UnitstoMobilize  _—

Transit Workers Vote To Strike   Baltimore Trolley And Motor Coach Drivers Only Awaliting Signal.

WLB May Approve $1 A Day, or Portal Pay   Arranges Calendar to Permit Final Decision by Tuesday; Unlikely That Lewis Would Accept Decision

Soft Coal Dispute Decision Is Near.  Board Proposes To Make Report

Decision Soon  On Coal Issue   WLB Arranging For Final Word On Monday Or Tuesday Of Next Week.

Nazis Battling New Disturbances In Copenhagen   Mounting Artillery In Streets, Swedish Newspaper Reports

Terror Grows Among Danes   Many. Shot Down By Nazis: New Disturbances Reported

Hitler’s Soldiers Ruthlessly Shoot Down Danes as Resistance Goes on, King Implies Approval of Uprising

Tension Rises To War Pitch: P00 Killed   Gestapo Takes Over Police Stations; Christian Cheered

Refugees Flee To Swedish Mainland   Prominent Educators, Ministers And Editors Jailed By Germans And Seldiers Demohjlized

Nazi Armored Patrols Quiet Angry Danes   Crowds Forbidden — Street Executions Grow—King Gives Revolt Approval Hin?

Nazis Slaughter Danes; Executed By Armed Guards   Refugee Groups Elude German Patrols And Escape Into Sweden

KILLINGS KEEP UP TENSION IN DANISH CITIES   STRIKES SPREADING; KING APPROVES REBELLION

Casualties Grow In Danish Revolt   German Patrols Shoot Into Any Groups Of Five Or More Persons; Strikes Grow Despite Death Warnings

General Strikes Spread, 2,000 Casualties Reported By Refugees in Sweden

Nazis Kill Danes Found In Groups   Five Or More Found Together Are Mowed Dowr

DANES ARE SHOT DOWN IN STREETS OF COPENHAGEN   German Armored Patrols Ruthlessly Fire Into Groups of Five or  More Persons.    GENERAL STRIKES REPORTED IN 9 CYTIES   King Makes Appearance and Gives What Is Regarded as Tacit Approval of ‘Resistance.

Battles in Streets Keep Tension at Warlike Pitch   THOUSANDS KILLED, . REFUGEES ASSERT   Tacit Approval of Resistance Given by King Christian

Hazis Turn Machine Guns on Groups Of Five or More; Refugees Say 2.000 Were Shot on Sunday

Report German Patrols Shoot Danish Groups   Believe 2,000 Killed Or Wounded; Strikes Spread Over Country!

GERMANS BRING UP ARTILLERY IN COPENHAGEN   Armored Patrols Reported Shooting Into Groups Of Danes   GENERAL STRIKES ARE PREVALENT IN NATION

Madison Sheriff Helped Prisoners  Flee. FBI Charges   Bond Set at $2,500 in Hearing Held Wednesd2y

Sheriff Charged With Aiding In Escape Of Two.U..§.. Prisoners:. .

45 SELECTEES ARE ACCEPTED   Contingent From Board No. 3 Inducted At  Huntington

To Take Spinal  Test on Ervin   Attorneys Say Normal Boy Wouldn't Have Killed Neighbor Woman.

ROOSEVELT IS BELIEVED ‘SEEKING UNDERSTANDING ON SOVIET PEACE PLANS

SOVIET PLANS © ‘BEING SOUGHT: BY ROOSEVELT   RECENT MOVES REGARDING RUSSIA SEEN AS MANEUVERS  “TO LEARN STALIN'S PEACE TEAS

Freshmen Congressmen Organize to Get Greater Voice in Lower House

GREATER VOICE BY FRESHMEN SOUGHT   Bi- -partisan » Combination Proposed by First Termers

GREATER VOICE BY FRESHMEN SQUGHI      i-partisan Combination Proposed by Firgt Termers

Time Question Before State Senate, House   Bills To Move Clocks Back One Hour Taken Up I: Both Branches Of Legislature; Passage This Week Indicated

Slow Time Bil in House for Debate   Detroit Group Make Second Plea to Keep Time Same; View Kelly Attitude

TIME CHANGE BILL READY FOR DEBATE   Detroit City Officials Appeal For Retention of “War Time.’

TIME CHANGE BILL = READY FOR DEBATE; TO VOTE WEDNESDAY      Detroiters Seek Retention Of ‘War Time’; Veto Possibility Discussed —   JEFFRIES AT HEARING

LEWIS DELIVERS NEW WAGE BLOW   Walkout Threat In East Seen As Given With Chief’s Consent

ENNSY MINERS PLAN WALKOUT IF TRUCE FAILS   Lewis Strikes Cleverly Timed B Blows in ‘War of Nerves’ on Operators

WARREN MAY GET SWEEPING FOOD PRODUCTION POWERS   PROPOSE LEGISLATION TO GIVE GOVERNOR WIDE AUTHORITY IN STATE FARM CRISIS

TOKYO CLAIMS EIGHT RAIDERS ARE SHOT DOWN   Admit, Two Transport Shins Set Afire. Ground Installations Damaged   TRAIL TO LAE MENACED   Australians Seize Airdrome; Allied Troops Planning Final Assault

NEW PACIFIC i MAKING   Berlin Says U. S. Has New Bases in North Pacific *

New Moves In Pacitic Loom   Aerial Offensive Against Japanese Bases Is Stead. ily Continued   U.S. PLANS ARE WELL OUTLINED

NEW PACIFIC NSIVE id MAKING   Berlin Says U.S. Has New Bases in North Pacific

Says Allies Need  Accord on Goals   Welles Sees Hope For Peace Fleeting

WELLES URGES AGREEMENT OF FOUR POWERS      Speaks Out as Private Citizen for First Time in 10 Yrs.

Wwe Look Lhem by Surprise Minot Pilot Blasts Nazis In Raids on Velzen Holland

 Expect R epeal Of Food Subsidy   Southern Railroads Protest Ruling Against Racial Diserimination

Subsidy Repeal Regarded Likely At Voting Time   Hope That Food Measure Can Be Defeated Has Been Practically Abandoned by Administration Leaders.

Tottering Air Arm Of Axis Hard Hit   Heavy Allied Bombers Strike From Two Ends OF Fortifications: SixTargets Are Blasted

Fourteen Axis Craft ShotDown   Nazi Ship Sunk, Two Others  Damaged ©

Mighty Offensive Continues   Foggia And Naples Battered; Plane Toll Is 432 At Cost Of 45,

Fleets of Huge U. S.. Bombers  Batter Facsists   Eleven Attacks on Six Targets Made By Wavesiof Planes Operating From African and Middle East Bases

James W. Gerard Buys Mocho Ranch   Ex-Legate to Germany Invests in New Mexico

TWO JAP POINTS NEAR LAE TAKEN   MacArthur’s Communique Also Confirms Fall of Salamaua

HOG PRICE CEILING MEETS OPPOSITION      Farmers Can’t Produce at Profit, Is Claim

STRIKES ON ~ INCREASE IN ITALY TODA)   Mussolini Reported to Have Been Spirited Into “Safety” of the Greater Reich

Duce ‘Saved’, Taken Into Germany, Said   strikes Spreading Ove) Nazi - Occupied Italian Areas

Report Mussolini Captured by Nazis And Taken to Castle Near Salzburg

STRIKES SPREAD: INNAZI-HELD NORTH-ETALY   Germans: ‘Claim. to Have.. Mussolini . in . Custody;. Battie  shine Facane —

SENATOR GEORGE THINKS SOME OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS DO NOT HAVE PLACE IN RURAL AREAS, SMALL TOWNS   Noted Georgian. Declares Mast of Grumbling Among People Is Against Rationing Program, Which Many Do Not Understand

PRESIDENT ENJOYS TYPICAL ARMY FARE   Coffee, Sugar, Butter, Beef ar Missing From Menu At  Annual Dinner

Single U. S. Flying Fortress Routs Jap Navy Squadror   One Enemy Destroyer Is - Sunk, Three Others. Aré Driven Away

JAP: DESTROYER SUNK BY BOMBS OF YANK PILOT   [Lone Flying Fortress In New Guinea Area Hits Warship and Routs Three Others   ALLIED AIRMEN HIT BASE AT GASMATA   Japs Attempted to Take Supplies to Forces In New Guinea; Convoy is Broken Up

Lone Flying Fortress Breaks Up Convoy Of 4 Jap Warships   Scores Direct Hit On One, Probably Sinking It And Drives Others Off

Ja panese Destroyer  Believed Sunk; Guines Reinforcement Fails   ALLIES BOMB LAI   MacArthur's Planes Carry ‘Out Widespread Raids Ir Pacific Offensive

Plane Routs 4 Warships  One Jap Craft Sunk   One Jap Craft Sunk By Flying Fortress

Jap Warships Blasted, 1 Hit By YankPlane   Destroyers Nipped Off Huon; Lae Base, Salamaua, Gasmata Hit

LONE U. S. BOMBER HITS JAP VESSEL. ROUTS 3 OTHERS   Four Enemy Destroyers Attacked by Single Fortress . Were ‘Attempting: to Reinforce Bases in New’ Guinea

ALLIED PLAN GALLS FOR CRUSHING ONE OF BIGGEST EMPIRES   WOULD TRIM TERRITORY

Fulfillment Of Cairo Pledge Will Mean Stripping Of Japan Of One Of Greatest Empires

50 Nazi Divisions  Being Held Down   Latest German Troops Ill-Equipped, Green

EXPLAIN STAMPS . IN RATION BOOK 2   Some Food Rationing Stamps to Expire Friday: Four Others Valid During May.

Vacation Travel  To Be Condoned   But Vacationist Should G To One Point And Remain There

VACATION TRIPS CONDONED   But ODT Wants Travelers tc Choose One Spot To Say In

“7 w? me YaACALIVULE At apes Are Explained  OPA Warns Public Of Summer Hazards

Vacation Travel Held Unessentia   ODT Issues: Statement On What-To Expect

Lite in Leningrad Goes on as Usual --- Shapiro   Total Damage to Russian City Appe ars Smaller Than Reported by Nazis

Leningrad Life Goes On Despite Two Years Of Bitter Warfare on-lts Verv Doorstep

Mysterious Mirage Seen In Copenhagen   Gibraltar's Rock Figures in Sight

MARINES ENGAGE NEW JAP TROOPS on BOUGAINVILLE   Foe Makes Bold Attempt to Aid Last Stronghold in Solomons

U. 5. MARINES TACKLE FRESH JAP RESERVES   Fight Hundreds of Nips Landed Sunday in Darkness

Marines Battle Japanese Troops At Bougainville   Several Hundred Japs Are Landed In Attempt To Reinforce Defenders   FEW DETAILS ARE GIVEN ON BATTLE

“Messina Really Took It, Says Set. Ben Floyd   Comment of Lumberton Aerial Gunner Quoted In Press Dispatch About Assault on Sicil qan Parr

BOMBS HEAPED UPON MESSINA IN HUGE RAIDS   Great Damage _ Inflicted Upon Key Port In Heaviest Attack Of Campaign   Air Opposition Light

PORT OF MESSINA HEAVILY BOMBED   GREAT DAMAGE CAUSED TO HARBOR INSTALLATIONS,  RAIL COMMUNICATIONS, 

Messina Lashed With New Fury   Other Airfields, Shiovinna Battered

Kegistrants Must 'Have Classification Cards   /REGISTRANTS NOT HOLDING  LASSIFICATION CARDS WILL BE PICKED UP BY FBI, AND ARE SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION  [AFTER PREBRTIARY 1. 1042

WAR PRISONERS LOOK TO FARMS   Highway Projects Alsc To Be Considered as Axis Tasks

Thos. H:. Robinson Granted Jury Trial After Serving  Over Six Years In. ‘Aleatraz Prison. —

Home Front News Of Interest To Times’ Readers   Various Subjects That Are Timely

Interpreting e War   Kursk Loss Means Hitler Must Readjust Lines   By KIRKE LL. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst

BRITISH DOWN BATTLESHIP IN NORTHERN SEF   Tirpitz and Gneisenau Out of Action, Says British Spokesman

SCHARNHORST LOSS LEAVES REICH LITTLE   Two Pocket Battleships, Some Small Cruisers A!l That's Left of German Navy

Nazi Battleship, 1400 Men, Sunk   Arctic Battle Deprives Enemy of Last Warship in Fighting Trim

Loss of Scharnhorst  Leaves Nazis Without _ Single Capital Vessel   Crack Battleship Sunk by British Home Flee On Murmansk Convoy Route; * German Navy Dwindles

GUTS FACTORY, KILLS FIREMAN   Idle Furniture Factor; Buildings Leveled In Grand Rapids

Secretary Perkins Told That Winning War Comes Before Experiments

BERLIN RAIDED NTH NIGHT IN SUCCESSION   U.S. Flyers Follow British With Attack on Western Germany

U. S. BOMBERS CARRYING OUT DAYLIGHT RAIDS   Mosquitoes Harass Reich Cap. ital For Fourth Consecutive Nightly Blow

U.S. BOMBS HIT. WESTERN REICH   Yanks Lose 13 Planes: RAF Makes Fourth Successive Smash at Berlin

Powerful British Attacks Crumble  German Defenses   Enemy Retreats Along North Bank Of Sangro

PURPOSE IN THE RUHR   Objects of Heavy Bombing  Raids Are Stated —

Viereck Loser Second Time On Agent Count  Federal Court Return Guilty Verdict On

Viereck Is Convicted 2nd Time for Concealing Propaganda Activities

General MacArthur Still In Grievous Need Of More Fighting Men And War Material

Big Increase In Aid Needed ByMacArthu   Survey Shows General Undermanned in Land and Air Forces

Writer Back at Front, Finds  MacArthur Still Needs Aid   Re MOURTIN cprpycep

Stories Of Increased Shipments Disclaimed By Correspondent On Return From U. S.

STILL SHORT OF MEN, SUPPLIES, WRITER CLAIMS   Declares Situation Not Much Changed Over Year Ago

More Men, Arms Still Needed In Pacific War   Ex-Utahn Reports MacArthur Is Handicapped

P REPORTER TELLS OF NEED   Popular Belief Required Aid  Has Been Sent in Error, He Finds.   TELLS SOLDIERS’ VIEWS

AP Writer Finds Reports Untru  M’Arthur Not Getting Increased Supplies

POSTWAR PLANS BATTLE STARTS   11 Senators Unite to Fight for Stronger Connally Resolution

Fleeing Troops In Near Riot State   Escape Corridor Is Being Narrowed By New Advances Of Russian Troops In White Russia

Russians Seeking To Snap Gigantic Pincers On Nazis   250,000 Germans Jamming Through Bottleneck With Haste Approaching Rout As. Reds Threaten To Cut Off Their Retreat

FOUL WEATHE IS HAMPERING GROUND MOVES   Both Sides Wheel  Up Reinforcements For Coming Great Battle For Tunisia.

MAJOR CLASH "IN TUNISIA IS BEING READIED   Allied Planes Steadily Pound Mareth Line; Reinforcements  Moved Up   Action Is Limited

MARETH LINE HIT + BY ALLIED FLIERS   Attacks Believed Prelude to New African Battles

MARETH LINE IS HAMMERED BY U.S. FLIERS   OFFENSIVE AGAINST AXIS HELD UP BY FOUL WEATHER

Allied Desert Air Foree Hit: Mareth Line   Fighting Along Wide Front Deteriorates to Patrol Action;  Big Clash Imminent

Alllies Strike Africa Foe  Continuously   Bad Weather Fails to Keep American and British Bombers From Hammering At Enemy Although Battle is Impeded

Allied Planes. Batter Mareth Line Steadily   Weather Confine: Ground Fighting To Patrol Action

Reinforcements Take Place for Bitter Batile   Foul Weather Slows Operations on Tunisian Front

Allied planes bomb Mareth line steadily   Foul weather delays action sround forces

Bombers Batter Rommel’s Line   Aerial Prelude To New Battles Continues; Weather Slows Fighting Along Entire Tunisian Battle Front

AIR RAIDS MADE ON MARETH LINE   BOTH ARMIES IN TUNISIA MOVE UP REINFORCEMENTS FOR SHOWDOWN.

Jap Vessel In Harbor Poundec   Other Areas Also Lashed By Allies  we. WIrTr~rTrryT~nas F&F RBRONT

Gov. Donnell’s: Civil Service Bill Offered   Constitutes’ a Major. Part of _His Program for Legislature   BILL INTRODUCED “IN THE HOUSE   Measure Would. Take- All Workers Out of... Politics, “Seat Ty: Merit ‘Plan *

Donnell Proposes  Civil Service Bill   Would Take Most of the State's 12,000 Employes Out of Politics.

Submits Merit Program   (,overnor’s Bill Designed To Take All State Jobs Out Of Polities

Donnell Asks Legislature To Take Most of State’s Workers Out of Politics

CZECHS, RUSSIA MAKE COVENANT   Friendship Pact May Inspire Others

MANY NATIONS PRAISE TREATY   China Enthusiastically Welcomes Joint Declaration   FINLAND IS IGNORED

SMALL ADVANCE MADE BY REDS   Germans Sacrifice Five Planes And Many Men On Donets Bulge

RUSS HOLD GAINS IN DONETS BATTLE      Germans Lose Whole Company and Five Planes in Attack

YOUNG AMERICA DISPLAYS WORK ON FOOD LINES   Prized Livestock, Garden  And Kitchen Products —  Exhibited   ‘ST. JOE BOY WINNER   Earl Kugle Cops Showmanship Honors In Dairy Division

FAIL 10 SETTLE TROUBLE OF TWO   Speculation Caused on Whether Jones Will Retain Cabinet Position.

ROW MAY COST JESSE JONES’ CABINET POST   Peacemaker Byrnes Fails In Effort To Reconcile WalJace, Jones

JONES POST JEOPARDIZED IN DISPUTE   Initial Peace Effort  By White House Has Back-Fired

Think Roosevelt May Intervene ©  In BEW Dispute   Conciliation Effort Goes To No Avail In Jones-Wallace Fight

AFFORTS 10 ‘SETTLE FEUD BACKFIRE   Developments In Wallace-Jones Tif€ Cause Concern

WALLACE AND JONES APPEAR FAR APART      Efforts to Get Them Together to Settle Their Difference Failed; FDR May Talean Aectinn.

Peace Effort “In New Deal Feud Fails   Jones Demanding Probe; Cabinet Shakeun Possible

Wallace-Jones Squabble Far From Settled; RFC Head Demanding That  Congress Investigate Charges   Peace Effort by White House Evidently Fails

Peace Move In Wallace-Jones Feud Backfires; Believe Commerce Secretary May Resign If Wallace Stays As BEW Head

JONES’ POST IN CABINET SAID T( BE IN JEOPARDY   White House Efforts To End Dispute Causes New Ritterness

jft With Wallace Not Yet Healed; RFC Chairman Is Demanding Congressional Inquiry Into Charges

BYRNES FAILS AS UMPIRE IN POLICY FEUD   Peace Efforts Miss Fire In Wallace - Jones Dispute

EFFORTS 10 CALM NEW DEAL QUARREL END IN. BACKFIRE   Peace Efforts Fail . After Jones And Wallace ; Get Together At White House

PEACE PARLEY OF JONES-WALLACE PROVES FAILURE   RFC Chairman ts Still Insist. ent on Congressional Inquiry.

Frantic Japs Go. Down In Gamble   Actions Show Fear Ot Growing Power

Knox Hails Pacific Victory, Cites Growth of American Airpower, Releases Figures of U. S. Losses

 Japanese Get “God-Awful Pasting’ With Loss of 77 Planes in Attempt to Blunt Allied Aerial Power in Guadalcanal Area

AERIAL BEATING GIVEN JAPANESE   Thrust At Guadalcanal Turned Into Great Victory For U.S.

Sec. Knox Elated Over Defeat of Jap Air Force   ‘God-Awful Pasting fo Them,” He Says af Press Conference

Japs Suffer A IT to 6 Blow at Guadalcanal   Air Battle a ‘Glorious U.S. Victory’

‘President Anxious fo Avoid Drafting of Workers for War ‘Plants as Long as Possible

President Has  Hope of Delay In Labor Draft   ‘Rieck’ Attacks Restraint; House Group Clears 1D:

WORKER DRAFT MAY COME—FOR   President Would Avoid Ster as Long as Possible

Hopes He Car Avoid Using Compulsory  ‘Work Law   President Says He Realizes, However, War Can't Be Won

WANTS TO. AVOID WORKERS DRAFT   WOULD MAKE LIFE MORE COMPLICATED SAYS ROOSEVELT

PRESIDENT WANTS TO AVOID NATIONAL  SERVICE LEGISLATION No Decision Reached _ On Drafting Workers

President Wants  To Avoid National  Service Legislation No Decision Reached  On Drafting of War Warkere He Save

PRESIDENT WANTS TO AVOID DRAFTING CIVILIAN LABOR UNTIL ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY   Would Halt  Foremen Unions

Civilian Draft" Backing Asked   Manpower Question. Lags --- With. Rickenbacker’ Going To Stand...

F. R. Hopes To Avoid Any National Service Legislation Until Act Becomes Necessary

NO DECISION ON DRAFTING OF WORKERS   President Says He Wants To Avoid National Service Legislation Long As Possible   RICKENBACKER HEARD

FDR WANTS NO LABOR DRAFT IF AVOIDABLI   Rickenbacker :Teils: Senate Com mittee Shift to Piece Work Would Free Over Third Labo:

Proposals for Solution of Post-War Problems Are Being Drafted by Allies

‘President Hopes To Avoid National Draft   No Decision Has Been Reached On Question Of Drafting Workers For War Industries, F. D. R. Says; Senate Group Hears Rickenbacker

WOULD AVOID LABOR DRAFT   FDR Wants To Avoid National Service Legislation As Long As Possible

Possibility Of Measure Not. Denied   Views Service Legislation Resulting In Complaints Against Regimentation

Would Delay Worker Draft, FDR States   Would Cause Regimen, tation Complaints, Sava President

PRESIDENT SAYS HE PREFERS NO ~ ACTION ON BILL   Meanwhile, Eddie Rickenbacker Calls for Greater Effort on Home Front

Need for Greater Production Is Stressed by Rickenbacker   Roosevelt Wants to Avoid National Service Legislation

DELAY LABOR DRAFT: F.D.R,   Rovsevelt, Says Compulsory Service Not Yet Necessary As Rickenbacker Slashes at Absentees

'NO DECISION  ONMANPOWER   FDR Wants tc Avoid National Service Legislation

Favors Delay In Compulsory - Service Plar   Roosevelt Is Anxious Tc Avoid National Service Legislation As Long A: It Is Possible

FDR Suggests Work Draft Be  Forgotten Now   President Would Avoid National Service Legislation  Until Needed.   RICKENBACKER HEARD

ie  President Foresees: Labor Draft But Wants to Put It Off Awhile; Admits Plans Are Being Made

PRESIDENT SEEKS TO AVOID NATIONAL DRAFTING WORKERS   NO DECISION REACHED ON THAT PHASE OF MANPOWER SITUATION

Chief Hints Labor Draft Is Possible  U. S. Seeks To Avoid National  rwite ea Awe

FDR Hopes To Avoid Labor Draft   Rickenbacker Says Many War Workers Evade Induction

Opposes Drafting Workers   Says It Would Complicate Things and Make for In creased Regimentation

President Not In Accord With Drafting Labor   Wants To Avoid Compulsory Law, if Possible — Rickenbacker Offers Alternate Plan.

FAVORS DELAY IN WORK DRAF]   Roosevelt Says Country May Have To Come To It Later To Man Plants

Compulsory Labor Delayed for Nation Roosevelt Reports   Avoiding Increased Regimentation, More Federal Machinery Desired; Hones U. 5S. May Not Resort to Draft

FDR Opposed To National Service  Drafting Workers For War Industries Tan Complicated Now

FDA OPPOSES. FORGED DRAFT TO. WAR JOB:   President Wants to Delay Move; Rickenbacker Sees Evasion.   CAPTAIN SAYS MANY HIDE IN WAR PLANTS

HOPES ACTION MAY PROVE 10 BE UNNEEDED   Rickenbacker in Favor Of Sending Farm Workers Back

® But It May Eventually Become Necessary; Some -Changes: Probable  SENATORS. HEAR . * CAPT, RICKENBACKER         He Declares Industry ‘Still Is Operating On a Devression Basis

DECISION ON BGISLATION MADE, HE SAYS   lls Press Conference He  ants to Avoid National  Service Act As Long As Possible.   pans REACTION TO REGIMENTATION   f Course, He Remarks ‘fou Can’t Win a War Without It; Byrnes ReInort Lacks Conclusions

F. D. R. Opposes Service Bill   President Would Delay As Long as Possible Enactment of Measure

Roosevelt Would Delay Labor Draft   Rickenbacker Says Industry Stili on Depression Basis

FOR OPPOSES LABOR DRAFT   Says He Wanis to Avoid National Service Bill If Possible.   ‘ELYING ACE TESTIFIES

FDR Would Delay Labor Mobilization   Prefers To Hold Off; Plenty Of Men Says Rickenbacker

LABOR DRAFT DELAY URGED BY PRESIDENT   Rickenbacker Testifies Piece Work Plan Would Help

FDR WOULD DELAY MANPOWER LAW   National Service Bill Backers Look to President for Supnort

PRESIDENT SEEKS. TOAVOD LAW ON ~ ENFORCED LABOF          ; May iy Be Thonn 2 ~~ Required He Says.   WRITERS: GET VIEWS: ON’ REGIMENTATION   Roosevelt Believes ‘Manpow_er of Nation: Is Sufficient “lf Workers - ‘Are Pronert --Untilized. ao

Labor Draft Delay Is Hope Of Roosevelt   Would Make Things Lot More Complicated, Says President

F. R. Desires To Avoid Labor Draft As Long As We Gar   Hopes Nation Will Not Have To Resert  To Regimentation

Civ Dratt Delay Favored By Roosevelt   President Says War In dustry Compulsion May Eventually Be Needed   FEARS OPPOSITION   Rickenbacker ‘Crusades’ To Arouse Home Front To Speed Up Production

U.S.Work Draft Is Avoided   F.R. SEEKS TO HOLD UP NATIONAL SERVICE ACT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE

President Would Side Step Draft Of War Workers   No Decision Reached For  Placing Men and Women  )   in Plants.   Rickenbacker Would Institute Piece Work

FDR Wants To Delay Draft   Rickenbacker Says War Plants Need  Piece-Work Incentive

F,D.R. Seeking To Avoid Laws Drafting Labor   Plenty Of Workers, If Properly Utilized, Declares Rickenbacker.

PRESIDENT SHIES AT CIVILIAN DRAFI   Says It Might Not Be Neces sary; Rickenbacker Gives Manpower Views

LABOR DRAFT DELAY URGED BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt ~ Proposes Putting Off Plan as Long as Possible

President Says He Hopes Issue Can Be Avoided If Possible.   WOULD NEED LOT MORE MACHINERY

Pope May Make  New Peace Move   Papal Appeal Might  Come at Christmas

Leader To Appeal To Striking Men  WE Cas. Vinten de mea oo   Will Investigate Work Stoppage

Leader To Appeal To Striking Men   Will Investigate Work Stoppage

YUGOSLAVS GAIN TWO VICTORIES   DRIVE GERMANS FROM IMPORTANT COASTAL TOWNS

Yugoslav Groups Not Yet United  Rommel Sent To Balk Guerrilla Forces

NAZIS SUFFER “TWO SETBACKS IN YUGOSLAV   Expelled From Crkvenic: and Kraljevica, Which Germans Took In Tank Warfare 5 Days Ago

YUGOSLAVS WIN BIG VIGTORIE!   Answer Naming of Romme' "By Defeating German Units.

ROMMEL SENT TO YUGOSLAVIA ‘AS NAZIS LOSE.   Partisans Score Two Important Victories

PATRIOTS IGNORE HITLER'S THREAT   Guerrillas Refuse To Stop Fighting, Capture Three More Towns

Slavs Capture Two Cities  Guerrillas Score   Guerrillas Score Victories Despite General Rommel

Yugoslavs Add  To Victories   Berlin Sends Rommel! To Stem Tide Of Partisan —folomne om

YUGOSLAVIA. GIVES NAZI FAST ANSWER   Win Two Victories Against Rommel; Derail Trains

Slavs Score  Victories   Answer Appointment of Rommel by Driving Out German Forces

ASSIGNED T0 YUGOSLAVIA   Two Important Victories In Widely Separated Sections Given As Answer  to Appointment   MANY BITTER CLASHES

Slav Patriots Answer Nazis   Slavs Take Two Vietories After Rommels  Appointment By Hitler.

YUGOSLAVS SCORE TWO: IMPORTANT VICTORIES   As Answer to German ‘Announcement of Rommel’s Appointment to Command of Operations

2 Yugoslav Victories Announced   Partisan Troops Give This  Answer “to News of  ' Rommel to Balkans

Patriots Answer Appointment Of Rommel. .  Yugoslavs Drive Nazis From Two Strongholds In Hand-To-Hand Fight

REDS FORCED TO WITHDRAW IN TWO AREAS   Vield to Nazi Counter-Attacks North and East of Zhitomir

Fighting Is Heavy Over Central Area   French Radio Reports New British Advances

PREPARE PUSH TO RIP APART NAZI LIFELINE   British Offensive Now Opens New Wedge In Mareth Line

Yankee Convoy Escaped Japs   AERIAL ATTACK FAILS AS U. S. NAVY DEALS BLOW

JAP WARPLANES PREY 10 CONVOY   9 Torpedo Planes Destroyed; Allied Aircraft in South Pacific Bomb Lae Region

ALLIED CONVOY BEATS OFF JAP AERIAL ATTACK   Five Enemy Torpedo Planes Destroyed, Convoy Escapes Without Suffering Any Loss.

ALLIED CONVOY BEATS OFF JAP ATTACK AT SEA   Five of Eight Enemy Aircraft Destroyed in 15- Minute Night Raid

Convoy Picks Off Five Of Eight Japs   Night Attack Is Repulsed Without Damage To Ships -

Japs Lose 5 Planes In Attack on Convoy   Repeat Tactics Which Sank the Chicago, but Anti-Aircraft Gunners Were Ready for Them—Not a Single Allied Ship Is Hit.

CONVOY BEATS OFF NIP ATTACK   Allied Warplanes Step Up Fury Of Assaults On Jap Pacific Bases

 ALLIED CONVOY BEATS OFF JAP (TORPEDO ATTACK   Five of Attacking Planes Shot Down in 15 Minute Battle

CONVOY STAVES OFF ATTACK IN SOUTH PACIFIC  SHOOT DOWN FIVE  noe CinuT apd   SHOOT DOWN FIVE OF EIGHT JAP TORPEDO PLANES

FIVE ATTAGKING JAPANESE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   An Allied Convoy Escaped Without Receiving Single Hit.   FOUGHT OFF AN ATTACK   Convoy Made Up of Transports and Escorting Destroyers.

Convoy In Pacific Beats Off Jap Aerial Attack, Escapes Without A Hit

U.S. Convoy Beats Off Attack By J ap Planes   Not One Enemy Torpedo Reached American Ships In Night Rattle

Japs Meet With Disaster in Assault on Allied Convoy   Five of Eight Enemy Torpedo Planes Shot Into Sea After Failing to Score Single Hit On Transports With Escorting Destroyers; Tried Same Tactics That Sunk Cruiser Chicago

Torpedo Planes Stopped by Withering Fire From Ships South of Guadalcanal

NIPPON LOSES FIVE AIRCRAFT   Merchant Ship Sinks Sub; Bombers Pound Base at .. “Munda

FIGHTS OFF AIR ATTACK BY JAPANESE   Shoot Down Five Of Eight Attacking Nipponese Planes

Torpedo Planes Attack Convoy, Are Beaten Off   5-8 Jap Aircraft Bagged In Furious 15-Minute Battle Off Guadalcanal

Allied Convoy  Beats Off Jap Torpedo Planes   Merchant Ship’s Gun Crew Sinks U-Boat in Pacific

ISLANDS CONVOY FIGHTS OFF SERIES JAP DIVE BOMBRS  FIVE OF ENEMY AIRCRAIT   FIVE OF ENEMY AIRCRAF! DESTROYED AND NOT SINGLE SHIP HIT

CONVOY BEATS OFF JAPANESE ATTAGK      5 we Enemy Aircraft Destroyed

DOWN FIVE JAP TORPEDO PLANES   Japanese Aviators Try Same Tactics That Sunk Cruiser Chicago

Our Ships Came Through Unscratched  Allied Convoy Bags 5 Jap Planes, Escapes

Allied Convoy Beats Off Japs Near Guadalcanal  Torpedo Planes Fail To Score Hits And

Denmark Votes For Democracy In Record Poll   Believe Germans May Use Results For Propaganda

AFFIRMS FAITH IN DEMOCRACY   Dances, Holding Election Under Nazi Bayoncty, Okay Partimentary Coalition

Battered German Armies Retreat Before Russian:   Moscow Reports Nazi Force: Flee In Disorder On Two  Red Fronts   RUSSIANS ATTACK NEAR LENINGRAD   Powerful Artillery Assault Launched Before LongBesieged Northern City

‘Reds Strike Heavy Blow At Leninarac   German armies withdraw in disorder on two main fronts

GERMANS ON TWO FRONTS IN DISORDEE   Retreat Before the Crushing Weight of Scviet Troop Offensive.   DRIVE IS CONTINUING   New Artillery Attack by the Russians Before Long-Be) sieged Lelingrad.

REDS ADVANCE TOWARD GERMAN RAILWAY CENTER   Fall Of Nezhin Great Triumph, Stalin Says

Russians Aim At Last Rail Link To Kiev   Capture of .Kiev-PoltaveLozovaya.. Railway Would Isolate German Armies To North and South ‘and Precipitate Another Stalingrad For Enemy in South.

Russians Batter Enemy Defenses   Aim Main Thrust Against Raiiway

Russians Threatening  ITo Split Axis Armies   Drive Toward Last Railway Line Of Enemy, Severage Of Which Would Isolate Nazis _ In North And South. __

REDS DRIVE ON ACROSS RUSSIA TO SET NEW TRAP   Germans Slaughtered During Spectacular Advances Toward Dnieper River   MAIN NAZI BASE TAKEN   Soviet Forces Seeking To Cut Main Railroad Line in Ukraine to Kiev

Another Gigantic Defeat Possible  ‘Fall of Nezhin Opens Direct Route To Kiev  3, 000 NAZIS LEFT  Wy APEVERG BAQAQKY   3,000 NAZIS LEFT ON BATTLEFIELD

VITAL RAIL LINE TARGET OF REDS   Cutting of Road Would Isolate German Forces in North and South.

German Defenses Broken by Russians   Red Army Troops Move on Toward Key Cities of Kiev and Zaporozhe Today

RUSSIAN FORGES PUSHING ON PASI NEZHIN BASTION      Capture of Nezhin Cuts All But One Rail Link Between Enemy Forces Operating In Central and Southern Sectors of Ukraine,

CHINESE SLOW UP JAP THRUST   Bloody Battles Raging North of Shanghai; Feint Suspected

Bitter Fighting Admitted And Tokyo Move Seen By Some as Only Fejnt

CHINESE SLOW ENEMY DOWN   Widespread Drives Are Checked Or Thrown Into Reverse In Severe Fights

Chinese Stall Jap Drives in Bitter Battles   Major Offensives on Three Frouts Halted With Heavy Losses

JAP DRIVES IN CHINA SLOWED OR REVERSED   Bloody Battles In Progress In Northern Kiangsu Province, North Shanghai; Japs Haita   Belittle Roosevelt Promise

Pork Reduced _ 1 Points Friday   Supply ‘Increasing ‘As Hoas Move To Market

Pork Cut  2 Points   Hog Prices Supported At All Livestock Marts

Warships Batter Targets In Italy; Tommies Take Guardia Near Mount Etna

ENGLISH SHIPS SHELL NAPLES, OTHER TARGETS   Furious Battle Rages for Possession of Randazzo in Sicily

Allies Still Push Onward: Guardia Falls   Fleet Makes Bold Attack on Italy’s Mainland, Only 130  Miles From Rome

Ships Blast  Targets On Bay of Naples   Allied Forces Smash Sicily Defense Lines

.. Baht of tah      Beltish Forces Advance Seven Males on of Etna   WAVY! SHELLS NAPLES   ‘Caip on Sicily Tightens; k South Italian Points  Bombed

British Eighth Drives To Within Sight Of Italy   British Warships Bombard Shipyards In Bay Of Naples; Yanks And Canadians Consolidate Positions In Sicily.

BOMBARD MAINLAND   Battle F or Randazzo Continues; Guardia  On Coast Falls

BRIT GH WITHIN SIGHT OF ITALY   English Warships Bombard Italian Shipyards in Naples Bay.   UNIT CAPTURES GUARDIA

Converging American. British, Canadian Armies Meet Fierce Resistance .   TOWN WRECKED   Nazis Resort fo Wholesale Demolitions to Gain Time While Withdrawing Forces

TAKE GUARDIA AS SHIPS HIT NAPLES BAY   Uther Mainland Targets Eombarded — Tommies’ East Coast Advance Now Puts Them Only 40 Miles From Messina,

British Advance Within 40 Miles Of Vital Messina   Eighth Army Gains Its First View of Italian Mainland From Sicily.   British Shell Naples From Their Warships

BRITISH ARMY WITHIN SIGHT OF MAINLAND   Make Further Advance Toward Messina: Warships Bombard Naples

Troops Advanced Seven Miles Along the East Coast of  Sicily to Capture Town  of Guardia.    WARSHIPS BOMBARBED ITALIAN SHIPYARDS   The Atta: - Was Made in the Bay of ples, 130 Miles South vf Rome, It Was Announced.

WARSHIPS BOMBARD ~ [TALIA SHIPYARDS   Stiffest Fighting In -Sicily Rages Near Randazzo, North Of Mt. Etna

British Battle Fleet Sails Into Bay Of Naple:   Big Guns Pour Shells On Shipyards; Sicily Advance Continues

Allies Still Push Onward: Guardia Falls  Fleet Makes Bold   Fleet Makes Bold Attack on Italy’s Mainland, Only 130 Miles From Rome

Allied Front Now la Sight of Italy   beitioh Forces Advance Seven Males on of Etna   WAVY SHELLS NAPLES   Geip on Sicily Tightens; South Italian Points ) Bombed  ’

BRITISH EIGHTH IN SICILY IS IN SIGHT OF ITALY   Tommies Advance To Point Where They Can See Italian Mainland; Warships Blast Naples; Stiff  Fighting.

British Advance Seven Miles Taking Town Of Guardia   Tommies On East Slopes of Mt. Etna Gain First View of "Boot" After Striking Up Coast of Sicily in Dramatic Drive   YANKS CONSOLIDATE POSITIONS ON ROSMARINO

Italian Shipyards Are Bombarded By Naval Units   AmericansConsolidate Position; Randazzo Fighe2vg Fiercest In Sici?y

BRITISH FORCES 40 MILES FROM MESSINA STRAIT   TOMMIES IN SIGHT OF MAINLAND COAST AS ALLIES ADVANCE

British Warships Heavily Bombard Naples Shipyards   Heavy Fighting Rages As British, Americans and Canadians Converge on  Randazzo, North . of Mt. Ftna.

BRITISH ADVANCE TO WITHIN SIGHT LTALIAN MAINLAND   Italian Shipyards In Bay of Naples and Other Military Targets Are Bombarded By British Warships.

BRITISH LEGIONS » ARE NEAR COAST OF ITALY TODAY   gEighth Army Advances Seven Miles in Sicily—Enemy Shipyards Pounded

Eighth Army Sees Mainland   Warships Bombard Italian Shipyards in Bay of Naples, Struggle For Randazzo At. Critical Stage ~*

WITHIN SIGHT OF MAINLAND; TAKE GUARDIA   “Warships Bombard Italiar Shipyards: U. S. Forces Consolidate Positions: Randazzo Next

British Troops Within Sight Of Mainland Of Italy In Their Drive Up  Eastern Coast

Warships Blast Italy Shipyards   BRITISH VESSELS SHELL BAY OF NAPLES, OTHER TARGETS AS LAND FORCES DRIVE SEVEN MILES ALONG COAST TO TAKE TOWN OF GUARDIA

WARSHIPS HIT SHIPYARDS IN ' BAY OF NAPLES   Eighth Army Advances to   Capture Town 40 Miles ~ From Messina; Yanks Repulse Germans

British Warships Penetrate Bay of Naples—Randazzo Holds Up Sicilian Advance

Navy Shells Naple: Shipyards While: 8th Army Gains On Messina...

British Storm Ahead, Sight Italian Land   Capture Guardia While Warships Pound Coast Of Mainland; Advance Kent Rolling

Allies Keep . Drive Going  Full Till   British in. Sight of . Italian Mainland as Result of New Advance   BAY OF NAPLES HEAVILY SHELLED   Endless’ Minefields an¢ Blasted Roads Confront Troops in North

ITALIAN MAINLAND NOW IN SIGHT OF BRITISH TROOPS  ; EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURE aDIA. WARCHIPS RN

Italian Mainland in  Sight of Allied Army   Nazis Forced Back Until Shore of Italy Can Be Seen Across Strait

British in New Gains on Sicily Front   Within Sight of Italy's Mainland; Wars.ips Bomb Shipyards South of Rome

Bay Of Naples ls Pounded By Warships   Constants Gains Maintained On Ground By Allies

BRITISH SHIPS SMASH ITALIAN BAY SHIPYARDS   Army Patrols Makes Junction - With Canadian Units Rounding Mt. Etna

British Continue Drive on Messina   Eighth Army Now Within Sight of Mainland Of Italy As Warships Bombard Shipyards

Allies Continue Heavy Blows on Mt. Etna. Warships ‘ound italian Const

British See Mainland Of Italy Today   British Fleet Makes Dar. ing Naval Attack On Naples Shipyards

Warships Shel Shipyards in Bay of Naples   ‘Tommies Capturing Guardia, Can See Across Strait -

Naval Guns Shell Naples Shipyards   Another Tunis or Bizerte Is Developing at City of Randazzo

ENMQHTH IN SICILY ADVANCES   _Take Guardia. And Gain First View Of Italian Mainland

ADVANCE PUTS ALLIES WITHIN SIGHT OF ITALY   Warships Bombard Naples Shipyards And Mainland Military Targets   CAPE VATICANO BLASTED   American And Canadian Columns Slowed In Drive Toward Randazzo

British Advance Seven Miles To Capture Guardia  Italian Shipyards" In Bay Of Naples Blasted By Warshins

EIGHTH MOVES: PAST ETAA TD TIKE GUARDI   Warships Bombard Shipping in Bay of Naples, Shell Mainland Areas,   STIFF FIGHTING REPORTED RAGING ABOUT RANDAZZO

British Eighth Army In Sight of Italian Mainland, As War Vessels Blast Ships at Naples, Other Targets

British Forces Within Sicht Of lfaly Mainland   Stiff Fighting Rages In Randazzo Sector; 4 Axis Vessels Sunk

Americans, Canadians Converge On Pivot Of Messina Defense Line   Montgomery Drives To Within 40 Miles Of “Escape Port”; Germans Continue Withdrawal

British Warships Batter Shipyards ..In- Bay Of. Naples   American 7th Army Consolidates Lines On North Coast Of Sicily; - Stiff Fighting Near Randazzo

BOMBERS BLAST PATH FOR YANK INFANTRY UNITS   Montgomery’s Men In Sight Of Italy After Advance

Urges Drivers To Plan For  Winter Now   Traffic this winter will “be only of necessary classification, : making it more important.

Dog Keeps A Tragic Vigil   WON’T LEAVE DROWNING SCENE AFTER RESCUE EFFORTS FALL

Daylight Bombing Continues   Yanks to Go! Ahead, Déspite Losses, Offacials Indicate

DAYLIGHT BOMBING NAZI WAR INDUSTRY WILL BE CONTINUED  RECENT BREMEN VISIT   RECENT BREMEN VISIT WHEN SIXTEEN BOMBERS LOST. BROUGHT QUESTION

Yank Bombing of Nazi War Plants Likely t oContinue   Plane Losses Are Justified By Results of Raids

Maintain 6-to-1 Score in Losses   High-Altitude Assaults to Be Continued; Raids Draw Nazi Planes from Other Fronts

Holds Losses Justified   Results Obtained By Big American Bombers Proof of Effectiveness

American Daylight Bombing Raids Almost Sure to Continue in View of Damage Inflicted on Nazis

‘AMERICAN RAIDS “ARE TELLING ON ENEMY TARCET:   Daylight Bombings of Ger} man War Cities to Continue Despite Losses

U.S. to Keep Up Day Raids Despite Loss   Daylight Bombing of German War Plants Justifies Price Paid

High Altitude Bombing To Be Continued     Wrecking Of Bremen   Wrecking Of Bremen ‘Plane Plant One Proof of Its Effectiveness

Daylight Blasts On Nazi Plants  Seen Continued   ay Oficial Washington Holds Losses Of Planes Justified By Reeults

AMERICAN DAYLIGHT BOMBING OF NAZLINDUSTRY PAYS OFF. TO BE CONTINUED—PATTERSON

Bremen Raid Is Costly But Well Worth It   Although 16 Planes Lost, It Is 6-To-1 Victory For Big Yankee Bombers

U.S. Daylight Bombing — To Continue In Spite Of British Skepticism

Yanks ToKeep Bombing Nazi War Industries   Washington Holds Losses Justified By Results Obtained

Cadet Is Grilled In Death Of Wife  Lonergan Is Called By District Attorney

RAIDS ON MANY JAPANESE BASES   Wide Series of Air Attacks “Are Reported by ’ “MacArthur.

SPORADIC FIGHTING CONTINUES AT MUBO   Allied Planes Press Home Attacks on Enemy Bases: In Wide Area.

Area Expanded As Nazis Flee Northward   Germans Believed Evacuating Naples After Pillaging and Burning City; Allies Push Drive in Corsica,

Nazis Pillage and Burn Naples as Evacuation Begins   British Eighth Army Also Expands Its Hold Toward North

City Experiencés Reign of Horror   Americans Expand Bridgehead at Salerno; Half on Corsica in French Hands; Reds Advance

Allied Bridgehead Is Expanded To A Depth Of 20 Miles   Germans Set Torch To Great Port; Thousands Of Italians Reported Being Shot

Nazis Burning And Pillaging Port of Naples   Epidemics of Typhus and Typhoid in Waterless, Hungry City Heighten Reign of Horror; 5th Army Expands Salerno Bridgehead

Nazis Flee Salerno Sector   Fall Back on Naples As Allies Surge Forward; American Rang: ers Help i in Cofsica

GREAT ITALIAN PORT BURNED BY GERMANS   Expand Salerno Bridgehead To 20 Miles: Allies Take Three Mountain Towns; Bombinas Continue

Germans Apply : Torch to City, Shoot Citizens   Fifth Army Extends Bridgehead To 20   Miles In Depth As Enemy Strives   To Build Defenses Against , Advance On Major Port.

Burn, Pillage Port As 5th Army Nears   Yanks Take Three More Towns In 20-Mile Push

‘Allies Continue To Move Inland; Russians’ Keep Us Steady Advance

Report Germans Burning Naples   Nazi Evacuation of City Seems to Be In Progress — Sky Over City Black With Smoke—Heavy Bombers Batter Leghorn, Corsica Escape Harbor

FLEEING NAZIS PUT TORCH 10 ITALIAN PORT   !  Evacuation In Progress;  Germans Terrorize Civilians   CLEAN UP CORSICA   Soviet Steamroller Takes 1,000 More Towns in  March to Dnieper

AMERICAN STHARMY TROOPS KPAND SALERNO BRIDGEHEAD, THREE TOWNS CAPTURED       Eyewitnesses Say Air Over Naples Black With Smoke. ‘Italians Say Germans Looting and Destroying City and Shooting Thousands

Nazis Retreat Krom Salerno. Naples Areas   Conquest Of Corsica By Freneh And American Commandos Near.   BOMB ENEMY AIRFIELD

Yanks Expand Salerno Hold   Corsica Being Rapidly Cleared of Germans and French Join with Patriots; Smoke =: Hangs over Naples ‘and Reports Say” ~  Nazis Loot City

American Bombers. Rain Destruction on Leghorn; Nazi Forces: in Corsica in. Desperate Straits: Key Towns Are‘ Seized—Reds Take’ 1,000 Towns, Kill 7,000 Germans—Jap Troop. . Trains Blasted . ;

Ravage and Burn Seaside Metropolis In Evacuating City   General Clark's Army Marching Onward Gains Twenty Miles Capturing Strategic Towns and Mill<      HUNS TERRORIZE ITALIANS BY MAD ACTS

Japan, America’s Chief Foe   Visit to South Pacific i enough to prove danger is very real and growing

Think Unity Of French Is Now Nearer   PUBLIC DECLARATIONS OF LEADERS LEADING TO OPTIMISM,

UNITY OF FRENCH NEARER AS RESULI OF EIRAUD EDICI   Public Declaration Closely Parallels Ideas Advanoed By De Gantle.

HIGH-RANKING QFFIGERS Dik IN AIR GRASE   Brig-General Carlyle Walsh Among 10 to Die  -In Transport Plane  -  Crackup In Alabama   BODIES BURNED   Wreckage Strewn Over Considerable:Area; Plane Plunges During Rainstarm

GEN WASH KILLED   High Ranking Officer, Nine Other Airmen Die In Crash

AMY OFFIGERS DE IN PLANE CRASH   10 Men Die Including Brig Gen. Carlyle H. Wash, Flying Officer

Brig. Gen. Wash And Staff Killed In Flaming Air Crash   Tragedy Called Army’s Worst Involving High-Ranking Officers

General Wash Crash - Victim   Veteran Air Officer’ And “Staff Killed As Plane: -Palls ‘In’ South:

ITALIAN EIGHTH ARMY  RECALLED FROM RUSSIA  Will Soon Defend Mediterranean

HITLER LETS MUSSOLINI PULL HIS BATTERED EIGHTH ARMY IN RUSSIA OUT FOR REBUILDING

The War Today   Hitler Lets Italians Recall Beaten Army From Russia

FOUND, AMERICAN DEFENDER 0} JAPANESE AGAINST REFERRING TO PACIFIC ENFMY AS SAVACFS

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Japanese Savagery Cjted; Bayoneted U. S. Wounded Soldier

‘Not Al Japs Inherently Savage But Most Are Barbaric In Battle Tactics

The War Today   SO  Whole Pattern of Japanese Warfare Is One Of  A Sauvnon Pannles.

RAGE ON FOR SMOLENSK, NAZIS FALL BACK   Fall of Rzhev Unhinges Whale German Salient In West.

NAZI DEFENSE:   Fighting Southwest, of _Recaptured City" OF" Tesi ‘Plunging ‘Towaril Big: ‘German’ Stronghold ; of Sniolensk, ‘

Reds Plunge On Toward Smolensk    11 More Villages Are Captured in. Vicinity of Rzhev

» AIM DIRECTLY AT SMOLENSK   One-Time Headquarters Of ~Hitler Next Soviet Goal

‘Russians Plunge Toward Smolensk   German Salient West of Moscow Te Now I'nhinoed

REDS DRIVE ON TOWARD SMOLENSK   11 More Villages Captured Near Rzhevy Base

REDS CRASH ON BEYOND RZHEV TODAY   Take 11 Towns In Advance , Toward Smolensk

Reds Plungins West After Fall of Rzhev   Whole Enemy Defense Line to Baltic Is Threatened

Reds Take 11 More Villages   Troops Crash Through Crumbling Nazi Lines

REDS SMASH NAZIS ON WAY TO SMOLENSK   Russ 80 Miles of Latvia, Moving 300 Miles From Moscow

Reds plunge in direction of Smolensk   Crash thru nazis crumbling lines

Soviet Army  Cracks Enemy  Defenses Russian. Advance  Points Toward Smolensk

RED FORCES BEAT OFF NAZIS, SEIZE TI MORE VILLAGES   Soviet Drive Across Smolensk-Moscow Railroad Expected to Isolate Vyazma and Gzhatsk.

DAMAGING FLOODS CONTINUE TO SWEEP MID-WESTERN AREA   Devastation Amounts ‘Te Millions Of Dollars  As Waters. Cover Farm Lands

Nation’s Richest Farm Belt Is Threatened As Waters Swirl Toward Unprecedented Heights in Half a Dozen States—Damage to Crops, River Cities and Railroads Reckoned in Millions of Dollars — Farm Work Is Boina Belaved.

Disastrous Flood Nearing Crest _   Acres of Fertile Land Under Water

FLOODS SURGE OVER MIDWEST FARM REGION   3,000,00 Acres New inundated; Crops Damaged

Damage Mounts In Six-State Flood Area   Crops And Railroads Washed Out, Whole Cities Evacuated

CROP DAMAGE GREAT IN SIXSTATE FLOODS   3,000,000 Acres Inundated In Midwest Farm Belt Area

GERMANS WITHDRAW AT NEVEL   Moscow Ignores Claim » Winter Offensive Now Under Way

Soviets Near Polish Lines   Massive Red Units Break German Lines

Germans Admit Retreat   Huge Soviet Army Drives Huns Back Along Nevel Front

Asks Inquiry Into Char ‘oes Against Fly nn   Senator Opposes  His Appointment As US Minister

‘Martin Opposes Milk Subsidies  Wants Federal OK © For Increased Prices For:Retail Sale

JAMES E. CLARKE ~ CALLED TUESDAY   Former. Credit  Bureau ‘Op. erator: Succumbs In  Philadelphia. .

LEWIS AND ICKES HELD CONFERENCE AGAIN TUESDAY   Conferred on the Coal Controversy Which Has Closed the Mines.   DECLINED TO TALK   Lewis Said Nothing and Ickes’ Office Reported Conference Was Held.

HIB CALLS FOR DRASTIC MOVE IN MINING CASE   Reported Urging Intervention by Roosevelt As Ickes and Lewis Resume Conferences   1 }ORMER WARNED BY WAR LABOR BOARD    Reported Secretary Told Any Agreement Reached Must Conform With Directive by WLB

Ickes Confers With Lewis OnCoal Strike   Nature Of Discussions  Undisclosed; Federal Op.  eration Forecast   530.000 WALK OU]   UMW Rejection States Miners "Will Work For The Government’

Lewis, Ickes Conferring On Coal Dispute   WLB Urges Presiden. tial Intervention To  Back Board’s Decree

Hehes And Lewis Plold Conferences  ‘On Third Walhout   But WI.B Serves Notice on Ickes That Any U'nderstanding fle Reaches With Lewis lust Conform to WI.B Or. ders.

LEWIS, ICKES CONTINUE CONFERENCE   Third Walkout By Miners In Seven Weeks Already Hampers Production In Vital Steel Industry

White House On Spot For Firm Action  In Coal Crisis   Production Of Fuel Quits; Another Scries Of Conferences Is Under Wav

Coal Miners Strike Again: Parley On   Secretary Ickes And Joba L. Lewis

LEWIS ANDICKES CONFER AGAIN ON COAL CONTROVERSY   War Labor Board Declares to Be Asking White House Intervention in Battle Which Has Closed Mines

WLB, MEANWHILE, URGES PRESIDENTIAL ACTION . TO BREAK COAL STRIKE   War Labor Board Wants President To Enforce Decree That Union and Operators Sign Two-Year Contract; Tetlow Among Conferees

Lewis, Ickes Discuss Coal Controversy   Both Decline to Say What Transpired at Conference; WLB Calls on FDR for Intervention

STEEL INDUSTRY FEELS EFFECT OF COAL STRIKE   PREPARE TO SHUT DOWN MILLS; FUEL SUPPLY DWINDLES

Miners Remain Away; Crisis Is Reported Near   White House Expected To Take Action Within 48 Hours — Detroit Rist Leave 23 Dead.

War Vital Steel Industry Choked By Third Strike   Lewis, Ickes Hold N ew Conference; Secretary Issues Order Freezing Soft Coal In Transit For Diversion To Needed Points

Direct Action By White House Due In Coal Strikes   521,000 Men Refuse To Work; Vital Steel Industry Is Choked a co

Lewis Ignores Agency.   UMW Head Again Confers with Iekess Steel Already Hi

Nation Is Facing Crisis As Coal Stocks Dwindle   Direct Action By President Looms Within 48 Hour Unless 521,000 Idie Miners Return To Jobs; Blast Furnaces Are Closing Down

Lewis Resumes Strike Parleys With Sec. Ickes   W. L. B. Urges Presidential Action To Reopen Soft Coal Mines.

WLB Sends Coal Case ToF.D.R.   Said to Have Urged  President to Enforce Its Decision; LewisIckes Talks Continue

FDR EXPECTE DIO ACT IN WALK-OUT WITHIN 48 HOURS   White House Expected Te Take Direct Action Unless 521,000 Striking Miners Return To Work Before Then; Idleness Already Choking Steel Industry.

Ickes And Lewis. ‘Hold Conferences ‘On Third Walkout   But WLB Serves Notice on Ickes That Any Understanding He Reaches With Lewis Must Conform to WLB Orders.

DIRECT ACTION EXPECTED IN COAL STRIKE   From White House Within Next 48 Hours Unless Miners Return to Work

U. S. Strike Action Seen In 48 Hours   White House Intervention Looms Unless Miners Return To Work: Ickes And Lewis Hold Secret Conferences

EXPECT FDR 10 TAKE ACTION IN MINE SHITOOWN   32,500 Miners Out In State, Survev Shows

Jekes-Lewis Conferences Are Resumec   WLB Said to Call Upon Roosevelt to Back Up Its Order   Bituminous in Transit Is Frozen by Order of i Fuels Chief

OSL LT ees ee ene wr eae ant + SERRE,  COAL: CRISIS MAY REQUIRE FDR’S ACTION   Without President's Intervention Only Hopeful Sign is Lewis-ickes Conference

Lewis And Ickes  h a New Meeting   War Labor Board Reported Calling for White House  Intervention   STEEL OUTPUT IS HIT   Presidential Action to Send Miners Back Not Indicated

Mine Leaders Again Confer With Ickes   WLB Wants White House to Put End to Strike

ICKES CONFERS WITH LEWIS ON MINE PROBLEM   WLB Asks White Heuse Intervention To Enforce Decree

Action By FDR InCoa Strike Seen   Ickes And Lewis Reported In Conference Today.

Secretary and Labor Leader Fail to Reach Agreement on Strike.   ACTION FROM FOR SEEN

Lewis and Ickes Confer on Strike   WLB Calls for White House Action

JOHN LEWIS CONFERS WITH ICKES   President Believed Ready To Take Unguessed Action

CALLS ON FDR TO STEP INTO COAL STRIKE   Meanwhile Lewis and Ickes Confer Again Regarding Miner Controversy.   Decline to Say What ~ Happens at Parley

Lewis, Ickes Confer Again On Coal Fight   War Labor Board Voices New Plea To White House

WLB Calls Fe ray r *F DR  To Decide        Miners: Stay’ Out: Of -Pits “Ae Observers: Predict ‘White House Ultimatum

Operators Now Out of Picture, Capital Thinks   Drastic Steps Seen to Re. turn 500,000 Miners to Work

W.L.B. Asks Roosevelt Iniervene   Takes Firm Stand in New Coal Strike as Ickes and Lewis Confer   NO REPORTS ON WHAT HAPPENED   President Is Said to Be Ready to Act Unless Some Settlement Is Reached

White House Move Predicted Within 48 Hours   Work Stoppage Already Choking Steel Production

LEWIS AND ICKES  CONFERRED TUESDAY  ON GOAL TROUBLES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT  BELIEVED TO BE READY “Fry OPEN MINGS. ACAIN:

WLB Calls on FDR To Enforce Order On Coal Workers  Two-Year No-Strike

Says F. D. R. Action Is Sought in Strike   Unnamed Authoritative Source Declare: WLB Asks Intervention in Coal Dispute as Lewis and Ickes Confer Again on Problem.

Ickes, Lewis Confer On Coal  WLB Ready To Certif Dispute to FDR for White House Action

Blast Furnaces Are Being Shut Down; Practically No Coal ts Mined

ICKES, LEWIS MEET AGAIN ON COAL PROBLEM   Report War Labor Board Calls for White House Intervention

Farm Bureau  To Hold Meet  At 8:15 P.M.   REGULAR MONTHLY SESSTOS is TO BE Tis EVENING.

Farm Bureau Is To Meet This Evening   SEVERAL SUBJECTS OF T™MPORTANCE TO BE TAKEN UP.

ALIQUIPPA GETS WHITE STAR   Seversky Says 3,000 Super-Plane: Could Blast Japan to Defeat

Tells How To Whip Germany And Japar  Aerial Expert Says Super Planes Could Do It

EAGLES FRIDAY NIGHT Orchestra and dance.—Ad.”   NANCE EVERY NIGHT

. §. VETERANS SENT BACK 10 TEACH FLIERS   Remedy Failure Which Caused High Rate Of Losses

Report Scarlet Fever Increase In Iowa   More Thin Hali of the Counties in the State Strnck By the Disease In October This ¥

Réport Scarlet  Fever Increase  Hit 3-Year Peak   More Than Half Counties in State Struck By Disease in October.

().M.C. Depot Spent Billion And Half In *42   All purchasing for’the army is.done at headquarters in. Philadelphia; a huge place.

MISSED SIGNALS LED T0 GOLLISION   Death Toll in Train Wreck Rises to Fighty.

Officials Probing Tragedy   Investigation ls Made By FBI Rail Officials

BRITISH 8TH ARMY CROSSES TUNISIAN FRONTIER IN FORCE   American Fortresses: Hit Airdrome At Kairouan ~-Move Over Border ' On Two Seetors 

Sth Army Said To be Crossing Into Tunisia As Air Force  Power Increase:

Eighth Army Smashes Into Tunisia   British Cross The Border On Two Sectors, Revealed

Democratic Leadership in House Wins Victory on Policy on Aviation

Republicans Aid Democrats In Chalking Up First Major Legislative Victory

French Leaders Start New Fuss   Giraud Accused Of  OA aa! Corcicg

GIRAUD-DE GAULLE FEUD IS REVIVED   De Gaulle Accuses Giraud Of ‘Stealing’ Corsica

DeGaulle, Girauc Renew Old Feud, Report Declares   Former Atiempts To Oust Latter

‘YOU STOLE MY CORSICA’  DeGaulle Gets in Uproai With Giraud in Victory

FRENCH AMITY SUFFERS JOLT _ Corsica Battle Splits De Gaulle and Girauc

New Dispute blares Between French Leaders  i] DeGaulle Seeks to Oust Giraud Over Corsica

ROW BETWEEN FRENCH GENERALS BREWS AGAIN      De Gaulle Asserts Giraud ‘Stole My Corsica’; Tries to Have the Latter Ousted as French Comm ander-in-Chief

DE GAULLE IN NEW DISPUTE   GIRAUD'S RIVAL ACCUSES HIM OF “STEALING” CORSICA BY SENDING TROOPS

French Heads In Row Again   De Gaulle Is Angered Over Corsica Battle

Wen CHAIRMAN WABNS, CON. GRESS. AGAINST LABOR DRAFT OF TOO MANY {MEN IN ARMY

Danger In Inducting Too Many   ...NELSON WARNS   Draft Of Labor Will Not Solve Problem, WPB Chairman Says

LINENGRAD STILL UNCONQUERED DESPITE. GERMAN SACRIFICE OF TWENTY-SIX CRACK DIVISIONS .

Mussolini-Formed. Legislature Killed   ‘Too Bitter A Pill To Swallow,’ Italian Radio Says Of Allied Of fer Of Surrender

Rome radio says terms too drastic   Fascist, regular troops battling

Rome Radio Says Peace Terms of Genera! Harsh   People Parade in New Demonstrations for Early Peace

OLD CHAMBER IS DISSOLVED BY BADOGLIO   REVOLTS BREAK OUT IN FIUME AND TRIESTE

terms Include  Exchange Of Prisoners   Rome Says Eisenhower's Offer Is Harsh; Troops Are Sent to Trieste and Fiume to Quell Croats and Slovenes

KNOX DENIES MAJOR CLASH IN AREA YET   Secretary Of Navy Tells Newspapermer That Losses Are Only “Moderate.”

«x REPORTS ON SEA FIGHT   ‘Navy Secretary Says Losses To Both Sides—Still No Major Battle

MAJOR BATTLE STILL BREWING IN S. PACIFIC   Refutes Jap Claims 2 American Battleships Are Sunk   SUB LIST GROWS   Nippon Communicatior Lines In Burma Are Blasted

NAVAL CLASHES OF OULOMONS TERMED MINOR   Moderate Losses Suffered By Both Participating Fleets, Says Knox   NO WARSHIPS OF MAJOR CHARACTER CASUALTIES   Great Air And Sea Battle Likely Will Develop, Secretary Thinks

Sec. Knox Indicates No Major Warships Lost By Either Side In Sparring For Pacific Edge

NO NEWS YET OF BATTLE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   KNOX SAYS LOSSES ARE MODERATE FOR NAVY

WARSHIPS LOST {IN SOLOMONS BY U.S. AND JAPAN   Navy Secretary Says Losses Are “Minor in Everything—Surface and Air”   MAJOR ENGAGEMENT HAS NOT DEVELOPEL   Statement Indicates Neith‘er Side Has Lost Any Large Vessel in Preliminary Skirmishes

Japs Tactics Indicate Big Clash on Way  But Knox Denies Battleships Have Been Sunk by Either Side BOTH SIDES SPAR  Secretary Reveals That U-Boats at Sea Are on  Tee ke ee ce   BOTH SIDES SPAR

No Major Sea, Air Battle Yet Under Was   Some Warships on Both Sides Are Knocked Out

NAVAL FORCES STILL SPAR IN PACIFIC AREA   Knox Says Japs Have Not Increased  Their Strength In Aleutians

Losses In Naval Battle Moderate   Knox’ Says Action Not’ On Big Scale

WARSHIPS LOST BY EACH SIDE IN SOLOMONS FIGHT   Knox Indicates Craft Were Small With No Carriers or Battleships Disabled or Sunk.   GERMAN SUBMARINE MENACE IS GROWING   Secretary Says Hitler Now Has More U-Boats at Sea Than in Month They Dealt Hardest Blow.

Knox Declares Solomons Battle Stil Obscured   Secretary Says Losse: Moderate; Japanese Ob jective Not Clear

CHARLES SCHWAB BROKE AT DEATH   STEEL MAGNATE LEFT OBLIGATIONS EXCEEDING VALUE OF HIS ASSETS,

Rostov, Kharkov Squeezed Tight  By Red Advance   Berlin Is Preparing Nazis For News Of Reverses On All Fronts

RUSSIANS SMASH GERMAN LINES IN NORTH CAUCASUS   Merging Allied Troops Squeezing Axis Forces in Tunisia; Enemy Shipping BRambhod

SPEED WEST T0 FORCE RING ON BASES OF NAZI   Axis, Telling Its Peovle at Home “Something,” Explains It All as “Line Shortening”

REDS CLOSE IN ON ROSTOV AND KHARKOV BASES   Hitler and Mussolini Face Further Reverses in Russia, Africa

Train Runs Into Plane Wreckage   Freight Derailed In Utah Mishap

TRAIN STRIKES WRECKED PLANE   10 Survive Forced  Landine of Bomber

Plane Crash  Wreeks Train   Army Bomber Lands On Track, Freight Train De. railed By Wreckage.

Army Bomber Crash Lands On Railway   Pilot Fatally Hurt in Subsequent Freight Train Pileup

List Of Rationed Meats, Cheese Fats, Fish Effective March 29  Fresh Fish, Poultry And Game, Certain Fats. Oils And Cheeses Are Nant Affectod

MEAT RATION GOODS LISTEL   All Foods Included Are on Official List

Here Is the Official Rationing: ; List to Become Effective March 29

“WILDCATTER” JOE TREES DIES   Oil Man, Normal Graduate Here in 1892, Taking New Gamble

26 MINES IN DISTRICT ARE IDLE TODAY   Dissident Miners Continue Picketing Althongh Threatened By Two-Pronged Government Grand Jury Investigation   18,000 MINERS ARE NOW OUT ON STRIKE

Bus And Autes Are Stoned At Gates Working   Federal Grand Jury And OPA: Will Probe Picket Activities

26 MINES IDLE AS PICKETS RUN WILD      Operations Are Hindered In West Penn Bituminous Coal Mines

School Children Are Buying  Peeps. Jeeps, Parachutes   Sales Are In Small Amounts But They Are Steady

Going Strong In © Jeep Campaign  - Plymouth County Pupils Do Their Part

Yanks Strike af Jap Outposts   Liberators Open Nev Drive From West

Americans Open New Offensive  Liberators Attack Car Nicobar Island

U.S. Fliers Open New Offensive To Wreck Japan   Airmen Hit Approact To Netherlands East Indies Bases

AERIAL OFFENSIVE -TAUNCHED IN INDIE!   Liberator Bombers Attack Approaches to Rich Islands

New Offensive In Air Opened By American: Netherlands Indie  Hit Serious Blow From West 

GAR NICOBAR IS HIT BY ALLIES   Approaches To Jap-Oc cupied Netherlands East Indies Under Attack

Americans Open New Offensive In East Indies   Liberators Attack Rich Rubber Area

AP CONSIDERS COURT RULING   NEWS ORGANIZATION GIVEN 120 DAYS T0 CHANGE ITS BY-LAWS

Gen. MacArthur Voices Hope For Liberation of Philippines Soon On Anniversary of Bataan’s Fall

MACARTHUR RENEWS PHILIPPINE PLEDGE   Mesgage Commemorates Fal! Of Bataan Year Ago

Gen. MacArthur Commemorates First Anniversary of Fall of Bataan With 'Hope for Liberation of Islands Soon

MacArthur Hails Yankee Heroism. On Anniversary of Fall of Bataan

M "Arthur Lauds Bataan Heroes On First-Anniversary Of Fall   American Leader Says He Hopes Liberation Of Islands  , Will Take Place Soon

RE-SHUFFLING OF FUEL OIL SUPPLY ORDERED BY ICKES   Supply and Distribution Sys. tem In Mid-West Drastic. ally Changed To a Flow of Fuel Oil To Short East.

Ickes Orders Reshuffling Of Oil Supply   Drastic Changes in Middlewest to Expand Supply to East Coast

RESHUFFLING OF GAS DISTRIBUTION IS  ORDERED BY ICKES  In Mid-West to Expand Tp Ae

To Expand Fuel Flow To East      Ickes Orders Drastic Change In. System Of Supply and Distribution of Petroleum

PETROLEUM SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION BEING RESHUFFLED   PETROLEUM ADMIMISTRATOR ICKES SEEKS EXPAND FLOW TO EAST

Move Is Made ‘ To Expand Flow “IT hol ha, Pack   Drastic Reshuffling Of Oil Supply And Distribution - Is Ordered By Ickes

Oil Industry's Competition To Be Out for Duration   Ickes Orders New Measures to Help Gain Efficiency

Ickes Revamps Oil Supply And Delivery Setup   Changes Midwest System To Swell Flow To  Fastern Areas.

OIL TRANSPORT SHIFT ORDERED   Drastic Reshuffiing for Midwest Asked by Secretarv lekes.

OIL SUPPLY IN MIDWEST AREA 1S RESHUFFLED   Consumers Will Not Be Visibly Affected, Aides af Ickes Declare

OIL SUPPLY TS RESHUFFLEL   Ickes Reshuffles Distribution System To Expand Flow Of Fuel To East

PETROLEUM CZAR DISCLOSES PLAN FOR EAST COAST   Seeks Methed To Speed Flow From Midwest . Region

TOCO-ORDINATE FLOW OF OIL   Orders Reshuffling to Eliminate Back - Hauling, Cross - Hauling. Supply Small Refineries

RESHUFFLES OIL SUPPLY SYSTEM   ICKES SEEKS T0 RELIEVE SHORTAGE ON EAST COAST

Orders Ease Transport Of Oil Product:   Supply, Distribution Setup Reshuffled To Expand Flow To East: Midwest Affected

Ickes Seeks to Lift Oil Flow   Orders Reshuffling Of Supply, Distribution System in West

WAR MEAT — COMMITTEE FOR ~ COUNTY NAMED   Committee of Three In . celide Charles Hercules, Charles Sperber. and Mrs. Lola Tiedemann.   REVIEW PROBLEMS   Plan. to Conduct. Educa_ tional: Campaign. ‘to Ac~ quaint” Both Consumer ' and Producer With Propram.

ROMMEL FORMS DEFENSE LINE 10 AWAIT ATTAGKS   U. S. Planes Based In Tunisia Attack Tripoli   BIG SCALE ACTION IS SEEN APPROACHING

17 TOWNS FALL TO RUSSIANS IN NIGHT BATTLES   Report Rommel Trying To Establish Two Defense Lines

Was Automobile Dealer for -30 Years; Funeral at First:  Parish.Church 

G.W.VIALLE PASSED AWAY : IN CONCORD   Was Automobile Dealer for 30 Years; Funeral at First Parish. Church

John Aistrope ~~ Burned’ to Death   Bachelor Fatmer Residing. North eaet of Tabor. Met Tragic Death Sat. Night When - Ferm Home Burnacd

JOHN AISTROPE BURNS TO DEATH AT HOME   Funeral Seffices Held Monday Afférnoon for Titatanag Rakident +

307 NAZI FIGHTER PLANES DESTROYED IN AUGUST RAIDS      59 American Bombers -Los — Greatest U. 5. : . Loss Over ° Europe

307 Nazi Fighter Planes Destroyed By Flying Fortresses In Two Raids On South Germany On Angoust 17   ATTACKS COST U. S. TOTAL OF 59 PLANES

59 American Craft Lost In Shuttle Raid   Big Bombers Idle For Second Night Due To Weather

307 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN GREAT YANK AIR VICTORY   Final Score. of Two Raids on August 17 Shows Amazing Resuit.

AMERICANS KNOCK DOWN 307 FIGHTERS   U.S. Also Loses 59 Bombers in Raids August 17

Reveal American Airmen ~ Destroyed 307 Nazi Planes In Two Raids August 17th

Great Air Victory Revealed   AMERICAN FORTRESSES SHOT DOWN 307 NAZIS IN AUG. 17 RAID

Smashing U. S. Air-Victory — Is Revealed   -$07 Nazi Fighiter Planes Destroyed On Auvaust. 17

Smashing Air Victory Revealed   Americans Knockec Down 307 Fighters In One Day

Huge American Air Victory In Europe Is Told   Upwards Of 307 German Fighter Planes Are Bagged In 2 Raids

PHONE LINES CUT AS CENSORS HIDE MOVES BY ITALY   Swiss Reports Say Rome’s Peace Envoys Negotiate from Lisbon

Horst Asks That “Every ‘Community” Act To Help ‘In Farm Labor Crisis

HORST CALLS FOR MANPOWER AID ON FARMS   Every Community To Make Plans To Relieve Shortage 

Army, Navy-WPB Antagonism Boils Up Anew  Nelson Puts All Chips Down on New Vice Chairman C. E. Wilsor

ARMS PRODUCTION ROW FLARES ANE   PREDICTION MADE EITHER NELSON OR TWO HIGH OFFICIALS WILL RESIGN.

MILITARY MEN — _ BATTLING WPE   Nelson Won't Give In, Assigns More Duties To Vice Chairman

Baltle Between Armed Services and WPB Boils Up Anew as Drastic New Order Is Awaited

New right rlares Between Armed Services, WPB  Report Patterson, Forrestal Will Quit If Nelson Doesn't

NEW TRIAL SOUGHT FOR DOOMED YOUTH   Sticks Tongue Out at Jury for  Murder Conviction

Ist Army Losses Given As 8,400  1,200 Casualties During Final Move On Tunis

1200 British Casualties in Push on Tunis   Total of 8400 Since April 17, Attlee Reports

Britain Reports African Losses   Crushing Defeat Inflicted on Foe

CASUALTIES OF BRITISH LISTED   Total More Than 10,000, Attlee Reports

1200 Casualties in British Advance   Britons Are Told of Army’s Tunis, Bizerte Campaign

ATTLEE PUTS BRITISH LOSSES AT 10,600 MEN   Reports 50,000 Axis Prisoners Taken—Mostly German—in Tu. nisia and Number Increasing

British Lose 1,200 Men In  Tunis Drive   Attlee Reports Total Casualties Of 8,400 For First Army For Past Month

Fd Manson May Be Namex  Postmaster   Mateh Announces That Hockenhutl Plans  eS wo a

STOTT CHARGED WITHKIDNAPING “RANK MURPHY   Former Hornell Railroader Arraigned as Sequel to Hunt for Bodies of Friend, Wile

KING OF ITALY IS PUT ON SPOT FOR ABDICATION   Monarch Returns To Naples But Anti-Fascist Leader Refused To See Him

King of Italy Goes to Naples   Expected to Confer With Count Sforza On Abdication Plan

King Vittorio Believed Conferring With Italian Leaders On Abd ication Of Throne

Emanuelle In Naples To See  Count Sforza   Italian King Arrives Incognite; Conference Tilel<.

KING SEEKS SFORZA   Italian Monarch Visits Naples Incognito for an  Interview

STRIKERS END RUBBER WALKOUT AT AKRON   Output of Army Tires Near Normal Today

Soviets Also Report New Advances . gainet Kharkov and_ Rostov. Many Towns Freed Of Germans In Past 24 Hours.

SS Troops In Donets  Shattered   Russians Inflict Losses, Drive  Through Basin

107 BOYS GO INTO ARMED SERVICES, 24 OF THEM IN NAVY   Board No. 92 Finds That Majority Prefers the Water

Farm Bill Goes Back To House   Argument Expected On FSA Amendment

Nazis Abandon Corsica, Says  Alsiers Radio   Air And Rail Center Taken: Yesterday ; . Americans Advarice

KEFAUVER URGES CLOSER HARMONY   Tennessean Thinks Legislative, Executive Bodieg Should Get Together on International Affairs

Kefauver Says Time Here ‘To Bridge Gap Between Two Ends Of Pennsylvania Avenue

CONRAD F. BLESS, LONG TAILOR HERE, EXPIRES   Dies At Age Of 64 Years At His Home In Oxford Township After Illness Of Two Years

@ NO PLACE TO GO  Family Auto in East Is Like Bird in Gilded Cage

There are 14 Articles i in the Wisrants Marvin CG. -Tay-. Jor, Moderator

CONCORD TOWN MEETING MAR. 8   There are 14 Articles in the Warrant; Marvin C. Taylor, Moderator

LEWIS RAPPED AT C/O SESSION   74  Murray Flays Labor Leaders Who Encourage Strikes, fork Stoppages

MURRAY. IN ANNUAL REPORT ~FLAYS STRIKES AND OUT- . LINES POLICIES OF HIS UNION

PARACHUTE TROOPS DROPPED IN AFRIGA GET JUST NOWHERE  MOSTLY ITALIANS THEY CARRY EXPLOSIVES AND SOON ARE CAPTIRED

Believe Japanese May Be Planning Limited Withdrawals In Far Pacific

Japanese Admit Long Lines Are Being “Wedged’   Limited Withdrawals From South Pacific Outposts Predicted

‘Declaration Of Estimated Income Is Due Under New Plan By Sept. 15

Short Form May Be. Used By Taxpayers ‘When Filing In Sept.   Declaration Of Estimated Income Tro Re AAade In Fali

U.S. Makes Short Form  For New Income Tax   Treasury Announces Simplified Blanks, Allowing Average Deductions; Mav Be Used for September Filing

U.S. Offers Short Form for Tax Declarations Due Next Sept. 15   Returns by 15 Million Persons Expected, Giving Estimated 1943 Income and Deductions

SIMPLIFIED FORM FOR TAXPAYERS   THOSE WHO MUST FILE ESTIMATES OF INCOME SOON TO RECEIVE BLANKS,

‘Short, Simplified Tax Form Agreeable  For Filing Estimated Income On Sept. 15

Gomel,Kiev Red Armies Together   Thousands of Germans Doomed In Pocket to East

Thousands Of Germans Are Doomed   Red Reinforcements Sent Into Southwestern Tip Of Bridgehead

Russ Capture Rechitsa, Seal Gomel’sDoom   Nazi Defenses of All Lower White Russia Undermined by New Blow   RETREAT NEAR KIEV,   Red Army Withdrawal [s First Since Opening of July Offensive

EARLY CAPTURE G THREE RUSSIAN CITIES PREDICTED   Latest Move Offsets Retrea Reported Yesterday, First = Eour Months

Total . veces $325,000 $588,622:00   TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH T A. Pannknk. Partor

BUSES, STREET CARS FROZEN. ODT ANNOUNCES  nk oe main In cn niin — + 9 4 ©. ine Fare

OD.T. ORDERS BUS “FREEZE   Transportation Vehicles Must Continue in Present Service.

Includes School Buses, Trolley Coaches, Trucks and Ferryboats  TO HELP WAR WORKERS

BUSES FROZEN BY ODT DECREE AS PROTECTION   Federal Agency Announces -Order to Curb “Black “Market” Is Use of — - +» Sehool Buses   ABUSES CITED   Requirements of War - Workers and Students Will Be Protected In New System

Buses, Coaches, Trucks Frozen   ODT: Orders Conveyances Kept: In: Service “For. “War’s Duration

BUS FREEZE "FOR DURATION   All Vehicles Carrying Nine or More Affected

ODT Freezes Carriers in Local Service   Order Hits Street Cars, Buses and Trucks Used to Carry Passengers

ALL VEHICLES ARE FROZEN IN PRESENT JOBS   Designed To Protect Require-ments For War Workers And School Children

Transportation Vehicles Frozen  ODT Order Protects Workers and Pupils

Busses Frozen In Present Service By New Orders  ,   School Bus Black Market Nipped In Bud;  Transportaticr Protection Is Given

JAPANESE ADMIT U.S. DOMINATION   Tokyo Radio Says Japs Not Invircib’e

Gen. Krueger  In Campaign In Charge Of Phase: Of Action In Pacific

Japs on Tarawa Led Life of Riley ---Until the Marines Came Along

Japs’ Finest On Tarawa   Healthiest, Best-Fed Nips U. S. Marines Have Met

JAPS RETREAT AT SALAMAUA IN NEW GUINEA      Ground Fighting Flares Up Again In Wau Area

JAPS RETREAT IN VICINITY OF WAL   Fighting on Approaches to Salamaua, New Guinea, Is Renewed: Allied Aerial Activity Is Reduced

Japs Retreat In New Guinea   Enemy Leaves Number Of Dead on Battlefield Allied Command Says

Allies Repulse Japs, Push On In New Guinea   Prisoners Confi rm Death Of Enemy's Buna: Commander

US Submarines  Bag Six Ships   ms     Sunk; “Allies: Follow: Pa!  trols Toward Salamaua. 

ALLIES PURSUING JAPANESE PATROLS   First Land Activity on Nev Guinea Front Since Panua Fell.

JAPS WITHDRAW IN SALAMAUA AREA   WARTHUR REPORTS ENEMY’S  FORWARD ELEMENTS BEING THROWN BACK,

Japanese Retreat Further In Fighting Near Salamua  Enemy Hurled Back In Vicinity of Wau And

Allies Force Japs Back in New Guines   Enemy Dead Left Behind in Renewed Fighting in Wau-Mubo Sector

Allies Turn Jap Drive Into Chase   Death of Nipponese General Horii Is Now Confirmed

BATTLE SHIFTS IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur's Men Chase Nipponese Patrols Toward Salamaua

ALLIES RESUME NEW GUINEA PUSE   PURSUE JAPANESE TOWARD SALAMAUA, 90 MILES FROM LAE

Japs Pushed On Back In Fresh Ground Fighting   ~ Many Dead Left O: . Field In Retreat. Toward Salamua

Japs Pushed Back  On New Guinea   MacArthur Reports Wau-Mubo Gains

ALLIES PURSUING JAPANESE UNITS © TOWARD SALAMAUA   Is First Land Activity On ‘the New Guinea Front. Since Completion of Papuan Campaign

STRONG JAP PATROLS ARE PUT TO FLIGHT   Allies Pursuing Nipponese Toward Salamaua in New Guinea After Repulsinge Attach.

RESUME OFFENSIVE ‘AGAINST JAPANESE   Allied Medium Bombers: Smash at Mubo; Report Jap General Officially Dead

JAPS ROUTED AT WAU AND MUBO   More Than 1.000 Killed In Al lied Drives Thru New Guinea Area

Japs Fall Back Toward Salamaua   Engagements Reported In Wau-Mubo Area;  Te i I I i RE

Jap Commander on New Guinea Drowns Trying to Escape   Captured Documents Reveal Fate; Prisoners Confirm Story

Japanese Backing Up Farther On New Guinea   Renewed Action Near Salamaua Casts Foe More Manpower

OMAHA BATTLES FLOOD EFFECTS   Immunization Of Evacuees And Flood Fighters From Typhoid Begun

OMAHA BATTLES TYPHOID MENACE   Damage Unestimated As Missouri Flood Waters Start To Recede

The War Today   Great Pincers Drive Against Jap.  Seen as Rapidly Bulldine Up

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Becaniated Pracc War Analvet

[EVENTS IN ASIA AND PACIFIC [SECTOR INDICATE DRIVE, UPON ‘TAPS BE. TWO-PRONCED AFFAIR

The War Today— Sees Signs Of Two-Pronged Attack ‘On Japs By United Nations Soon

The War loday  woe  Events In Asia And Pacifie Emphasize Tio Pronged Allied Drive.

 UN Pacific and Asia Drives {Will Complement Each Other   Pincer Movement Will Crush Japan

East Faces Further Gas Ration Cut   Slash Of 50 Percent Said To Be Recommended By Administrator

Allies Repulse” Counter- Attacks By Nazi Troops   Fighting Is Fierce  On 15-Mile Front; Fifth Army Drive Captures 6,000 Nazis

Balkan Crisis. Menaces Nazi Defense Chain   US Heavy Bombers Raid Northwest - Germany; 138 Nazi Fighter Planes Destroyed Saturday; Allies Bloodily Repulse Nazi _Counterattacks in Italy  tt

Nazis Rush Troops Into Bulgaria: Threat _ ‘Of Invasion Now Being Made From Three Sides Of Germany And Her Subject Nations

All Signs Point Toward Another Allied Invasion   Crisis Appears in Discontented Balkans and Air Raids Batter Reich.   Allies Repulse Bloody Nazi Blows in Italy

ALLIED ASSAULT IN ITALY SENDS NAZIS BACKWARD   Reds Resume Offense While Germany Smashed by Increased Bombing   By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE

Balkans Menaced By  New Invasion Threats  BOMBERS BUSY  Germany Hammered By American Heavy Romberg

Balkan Kettle Boils   Hitler Rushes New Troops to Bulgaria Rumania and Hungary Also Explosive

Impending Crisis In Balkans Menace To Axis Defenses   Roundabout Report From Radio France at Algiers Says Sofia Again Has Been Attacked; 200 Nazi Transport Planes Near Capital   RUM*)11A AND HUNGARY LIKEWISE ARE WORRIED

Eighth Army Moves to New  High Ground   Red Army Takes Offensive West of Kiev, 1,600° Nazis Killed

Allied Bombings Push Bulgaria  Nearer Revolt   Germans Seek To Bolster Balkan Nations As Fear Of Invasion Increases

Apparent Crisis In Balkans Menaces Nazi Defense Chain   \llies Bloodily Repulse Counter Attacks of Nazis in Italy; Reds Retake Kiev Area; Rush Troops Into Bulgaria

BALKAN DISCONTENT CAUSES WEAKING HITLER’S DEFENSES  SIGNS INCREASING FOR POWERFUL NEW

Claim Plan Would Hike Miners’ Pay   Appalachian Group Opposes $1.75 Boost At WLB Hearing

Urge WLB to Enforce June 18 Order On Miners   RAILROAD CRISIS [S SEEN APPROACHING

Mines Attack Illinois Plan   linea ee tee eel  It Won‘t Increase Production, Claim

Sunbronzed, Trim Lady Fliers Fill West Texas Skies in  New Program for Army

NEGOTIATIONS REMAIN UNCHANGED WEDNESDAY   Conferences Over Coal Strike Stalemated Following Virtual Rejection by Union of President's Request That Bargeining Be Continued for An Indefinite Time — Lewis Silen?.

PRISONER WINS: ONE POINT LAV   Judge . Rules. For Him In Habeas. Corpus ‘Hearing “o*But Pavs. Up

n WE ae   Judge. - Rules. For. Him. In _ Habeas. Corpus’ ‘Hearing “ol But Pays. Up

Munitions Blast Kills 24, Injures 250 at Norfolk, Va   Most of Victims At Air Station Are Navy Men

17 DIEIN EXPLOSION AT NORFOLK   257 Injured In Blast At Naval Air Station

94 Are Killed, 950 Hurt in Norfolk Blast   Explosion of Munition: In Transit Blamed  For Disaster at U. 5. Naval Air Station

V7 DEAD, 267 HURT. ~ IN NORFOLK BLAST   Number of Inj Injured Esti mated; Ammunition Cause of Explosion.

17 Dead in Norfolk. Air Base Blast   257 Injured— Ammunition in Transit Thought To Be Cause

Norfolk Navy Air Station Blast Kulls 24. Injures 250, Ruins Base

24 dead and 290 injured  by explosion   Blast at Norfolk  navy. air station

Explosion Kills 14, Injures 250  At Norfolk Naval Air Station   Witnesses Believe Blas Originated in Ammunilion in Transit; Several Hangars Damaged

17 Known Dead; Over 250 Hurt Norfolk Naval Air Station As Result Of Terrific Explosion

AIR STATION BLAST   Ammunition Explosion Kills 17 Injures 257, at Norfolk

About 250 Others Injured In Terrific Explosion  At Naval Air Station

Blast at Naval Station Kills 24  latuieeA axe Kheedtall   Injuréd at Norfolk, Va., Placed at 250

Blast Kills At Least 24, Injuries 257   Naval Air Station Near Norfolk Is Scene Of Great Fxnilacian

17 DEAD AFTER NORFOLK BLAST   About 257 Injured As Ammunition Explosion Shakes Noval Air Station

Force Of Blast At Norfolk, Va. Is Felt As Far As 20 Miles Away   MOST OF CASUALTIES BELIEVED NAVY MEN

17 Killed In Blast   Terrific Explosion Injures Hundreds of Others: at Norfolk, Va

Munitions Explode; 17 Kalled   Norfolk, Va., Scene of Terrific Blast: 257  Injured

250 Injured In Norfolk Blas   Navy Withholding Names Of Victims Of Big  Explosion

17 KILLED AT NORFOLK AIR STATION   257 Others Infured, 14. Critically.  in Ammunition Blast af Naval PeteLlichewwent   FIRES REPORTED   Buildings Damaged—Firs! Reports Had Said Explosion in Tank of Gasoline

24 LOSE LIVES INEXPLOSION ATNAVY BASE   About 250 Hurt by Blast ot Norfolk Air Station   PROBE 1S STARTED BY NAVY OFFICERS   Huge Hangar and Several Other Buildings Damaaqed

“ Dead, 257 Hurt At Norfolk Base  Nice Of Munition: Truck Raises Havoc

17 Killed, Believe 257 Injured in Mysterious Naval Station Explosion

Slowdowns Invited By Injustability   Flying Fortress Makers’ Walkout Could Happen Again

Ickes Appeals to Coal Miners To End Strike for Nation’s Sake   Must Have Production for War tflort, Regardless ol Wages, Sec retary Says

DECLARES COAL MUST BE MINED REGARDLESS OF WHAT !S DONE ABOUT WAGES IN RADIO ADDRESS

Ickes Makes Appeal To U. S. Miners To Return to Jobs  Says Coal to Be Minec Regardless of What Is Done About Wages

Resume Work, Ickes Urges Idle Miners   Dig Coal, Contract or No,  He Says, Pledging Av A Bio ny

Secretary Ickes — Makes Appeal To  Striking Miners   Urges Return To Their Jobs For The Sake Of Nation Regardless Of Waae Settlement

Ickes Appeals To Idle Miners   Declares They Must Aid in War Effort

Ickes urges miners to resume work   ‘Must have coal for war efforr’

Kastornaya Rail Jct. Captured   Reds Only 8 Miles From Kropotkin; Gen. Repke Gives Up Trapped  Garrison.

SOVIET SHOCK FORCES TAKE RAIL CENTER   Army at Stalingrad Begins Wholesale Surrender

Lower Lakes Navigation Opens As Tankers Leave Cleveland and Toledo

FORTRESS RETURNS WITH BOMB IN WING   Plane, Hit by Explosive From Own Formation, Flies Safely 400 Miles to Home Base.

Trains Are 7 Orphans =. the Fiooe   Two Crack Passenger Cayriers Wander About -Toward Destinations   NEARLY 1,000 ON BOARD AND HUNGRY   But Red Cross Feeds All at Chanute, Kas., and Gives a Dance as Well

Cc haanute’s Red Cross Canteen  Aids Marooned        Provides Food as Well As Entertainment for Folk on Two Tarins

Frisco and Katy Trains, Orphans of The Flood, Leave Chanute Station Hopeful of Reaching Destination

Allied Aircraft Batter Nazi Areas in France   Naval and Landing Craft Fill Channel in Daring Dress Rehearsal for an Invasion Expected at Any Time

Nazi Ports and Airfields ’ Are Given Severe -Blasting  MULTIPLE TARGETS STRUCK BY AIRMEN  Eight Allied Planes Reported Lost. During Raids

American and British Planes Batter Enemy Areas   CHANNEL FILLED   With Allied Craft in Unprecedented Rehearsal of CrossChannel Invasion

Record Fleets of Allied Airmen Blast af Europe   Rout German Planes From Skies; Rehearse Invasion

Mighty Fleets Lash At France   Dress Rehearsal Of Invasion Also’ Held:

ie AL’ _e-ense as _nvasion Txercises 40c< ing isi G1anne_ ery Air cover -rovec’s wat

Invasion Rehearsal Is Stagec  Plane Umbrell: Placed Over Channel

U.S.,RAF Rock Europe With  Terrific Blows   Airfields, Ports in France Are Hit; Fliers Protect Naval, Landing Craft in Dover Straits; Loss Light

RAIDS ON FRANCE REACH. NEW HIGH      RECORD FLEETS BLAST PORTS AND AIRFIELDS— MOCK INVASION HELD.

Record Fleets Of Airplanes Attack Germans   Americans, British, Cover Wide Section

Allies Batter Nazi Air Bases   Invasion Rehearsal Staged in Channel

Allied Airmen Batter French  Ports, Airfields   Nazis Routed From Skies in Channel Invasion Rehearsal

Allied Planes — Pound Airfields  in North France.   Sea - Horne Invasion Hchearsal Carried Out fn Channel Under Acrial Umbrella

Wheat Crops Pass  Growers’ Hopes  Corn Makes Rapid Growth in Flooded Mid-Western Arenc

SHOE STORES ~ ARE SWAMPED   Customers Rush to Spenc No. 17 Coupon Before Night

Rush For Shoes ~Reaches Clima   Today ‘Is Deadline “Fo! Nuivber 17 Stamp

Soviet_Ambassador to London Echoes Words of Stalin  WARNS ENEMY . ". 18 NOT DEFEATED  Russia, Making Gains at  rma ae a a ee ed      Russia, Making Gains at Great Costs, Looks for _Aid From Allies

SOVIET. SEEKS  SECOND FRONT   Decisions at Casablanca Must Be Speeded, Says Ambassador

PUSH DRIVE TO MARSALA   American and Canadiana Reach North Coast Of Sialy

Nazi Defense Crumbles As They Retreat North: Catania Still Holds Out

AMERICANS DRIVE AT MILE-AN-HOUR CLIP AND PERIL PALERMO   Capture 18 More Towns In Swift Advance Toward North Coast; British Batter Slowly Toward Catania

BRITISH LOCKED IN GREAT FIGHT IN CATANIA ARE   Large Enemy Elements Believed Isolated By Yanks In Western Sicily About 18 Miles From Coast.   ALLIES IN POSSESSION OF IMPORTANT FIELD   Orel Battle Approaching Final Stage as Russians Dic Deep Into Enemy Fortifications.

City’sFallImminent; Other U. S. Forces Near North Border   Casualties Light, Patterson Reports; Axis Defenses Collapsing Rapidly; Yanks. Canadians Take 18 Towns

FALL OF MARSALA ~ NEAR-PATTERSO!   American Forces in QOutskirts, Says Acting Secre  tary of War.

AAIS DEFENSES COLLAPSE IN WESTERN SICILY   Americans and Canadians Capture Eighteen More Towns; Push Swiftly on Towurd North Coast

DROP PLAN FOR GRADE LABELS   Housewives to Buy Can ned Goods Under Pres ent Trademarks

Long-Recognized Labels Allowed   Plans For Grade Labelling Abondoned

CAN LABELS UNCHANGED   OPA Abandons Plan To Have Canners Label All Grades

Prisoners me War i in United States Number Over 140.000: Stimean

War Prisoners Perform Labor   More to Be Diverted To Essential Jobs, Stimson Says

OVER 140,000 WAR PRISONERS IN U, §   Plan To Use Men To Ease Labor Shortage

PRISONERS OF WAR TOBE GIVEN WORK   About Fourth Now Employed In Maintenance Work About Army Camps.

Prisoners Get _Various Posts   140,000 “Are Being Used To Relieve Manpower  Shortage In U. S.

U.S. Planning Prisoner Use   Has About 140,000 in Camps Here, Mostly Germans

Weds Iwo Sailors, One Soldier and Merchant. Seaman   Mrs. Loyal Shufflebarger Well Paid through Allotments

EA SPOUSES, CHARGE   Navy ~Allotments—in—Mails Basis of Federal Court Action

G.0. P. Opens Sessions Today   Republican Leaders To Map Campaign

Republican Confah Sees Backers of Major Candidates  Willkie, Dewey and Stassen Boosters Put in Appearance

The Shangri-La war stamp sale in Cedar Rapids today totaled:  $13,252

the Shangri-La war stemp sale in Cedar Rapids today totaled:  $8.097

SHIPS ACTIVE NEAR SYRIA.   Speculation on British 9th Army Is Stirred

BRITISH NINTH MAY BE MOVING ON BALKAN VENTURE   Allied Naval Activity Olf Pal. estine and Syria Obsarvad.

British 9th Army May Be Ready to invade Balkans   Much Allied Naval Activity Observed Off Palestine. Svria

Speculate On Possible Invasion Of Balkans By The British 9th Army

Nazis’ Desperate Stab in Salerno Area Said to Be Move to Keep Allied Armies from Attempting Invasion of the Balkans.

British Ninth: Army Believed on Way. For Possible Invasion of Balkans. .”

THREE Ul. 8. FORCES BATTCRING NAZIS IN TUNISIA   Seek to Trap Them and Alsc Cut Off Rommel’s Troons.

Raves American’ Columns .; ‘Attempt.  Tig’ ts Pepa TEA Ter Neninints  of Field Marshal-Rommel’s Afrika  Korps — Flying Fortresses Bomb Tunis Port Again,

U.S. Forces Shape Trap For Rommel   Three Yank Columns Balter Nazi Troops _ In Southern Tunisia 

U.S. COLUMNS BATTER NAZIS IN TUNISIA   Americans Assisting In Plans to Trap Remnants of Afrika Korps.

U.S. Columns Strive to Bottle up Rewumel at Vital Pass in Southern Tunisia   Montgomery’s Army Poised for Blow At Rear of Retreating Afrika Korps;  Flvine Fortresses Batter Tunis

Yanks Take Town From Germans   Three Columns Attempt To Slam Trap on Rommel

STEPPING STONE TO WALY NOW TAKING POUNDING   Ruler of Great Sritain Visits American and British Coastal Encamoments.

BOMBARDMENT IS KEPT UP BY ALLIES DURING HOURS OF DAY. NIGHT   Big Invasion Stepping Stone Istand !s Subjected to Round-the-Clock Attacks As King George YI Pays Surprise Visit to tense Mediterranean War Theater—Stiff Axis Oppasition  i. @.....1_

FOOD PARCELS, CLOTHING HELP FOR PRISONERS   Packages Going To Americans Ir Prison Camps

British Ready for Grand Assault On Rommel’s Forces In North Africa

Birth Prevention Program  Instituted i in Franec by Axis  May Have Dire Consequences __

3-MONTH RAID IN BURMA ENDS IN SUCCESS FOR MOTLEY UNIT    Operating On A 300-Mile Front, British And Provincial Troops Wrecked Railroads And Destroyed ’ Bridges In Harrassing Jap Occupation Troops

English, Burmese, Indians And. Native Tribesmen Kept Japs Busy in Burma

Overrun Long Trench  Americans Inch Forward  On Both Flanks at Munda

DUMMY CITIES OUTSIDE BERLIN      Fakes No Puzzle tc RAF Bombardiers

Allied Drive Directed At Cracking German Defense Line Below Rome; U 'S. Warships Shell Axis Rear Position

SOLONS BUSY ON KEYSTONE PAITAL HILL   Administration F a vors Repeal of 99-Year-Old Mercantile Tax.   LIMIT MOTOR FUNDS MOVE ON ITS WAY   Erie Assemblyman Wants to Be Rid of Mercer County.

PAROLE LAW RIPPER BILL IS REPORTED   Fight Over Nine-Month Old System Shifted to Floor Of Senate by Commit tee Action  TO ABOLISH OLD TAX

LEWIS GROUP AGAIN SHUNS WLB. SESSION   Panel Continues” To Hear Testimony In. Disnute

Latchstring out for Lewis ButNoLewis   WAR LABOR BOARD RESUMES HEARINGS ON SOFT COAL WAGE DISPUTE; DIMOUT TC CONSERVE COAL.   Miners Earnings Higher

IGNORED BY LEWIS, WAR BOARD PLANS CONCESSIONS TO MINERS   But Giving Them Increase in Wages Does Not Figure in New Plans To End Troubles

WLB Tackles Coal Case Again, But Is Warned To Get Set For New Crisis

LEWIS IGNORES WLB EFFORT IN WAGE DISPUTE   Panel Resumes Hearings Behind Closed Doors; UMW Not Represented

Miners Still Ignore WLB Wage P: Parley  fVt. 24%... Tv... FT. Wm oe end   Testimony Is Resumed Despite Absence of Union Men

John L. Lewis’ Mine Union Ignores Efforts Of WLB To Hold Hearing On Coal Dispute

WLBE Hears Soft Coal Operators   WPB Officials Indicate Nationwide Blackout If . Miners Walk Out Again

Today In Washington:  WLEB Tackles Coal Case Again; GOP Rum! Plan Backers Get More Support

Mine Union lenores WLB Panel   Panel Resumes Hearings — Ickes Sets Up Seizure System

‘LEWIS’ UNITED MINE WORKERS CONTINUING TO IGNORE BOARD  WAR LABOR BOARD PANEL, HOWEVER, CONTINUES ACTIVITIES

LEWIS AGAIN IGNORES WLB; DOOR ISOPEN   Panel Goes Ahead With Hearing of Coal Dispute

WLB Holding Coal Hearing Without Lewis   Mine Union Leader Snubs: Goverment Aveney’s Efforts

Lewis Ignores War Labor  Board Hearing   Mine Workers Stay Away From Washincton

WLB Continues Coal Hearing   Hears Data Despite Absence’ of Lewis

WLB RESUMES INTERROCATION IF OPERATOR   Testimony !s Taken Behind Closed Doors with Lewis Absent.   ICKES SETS UP SYSTEM TO HANDLE EMERGENCY

Lewis Continues To Ignore WLB   Hearings Resumed By Panel Without UMW Representation

LEWIS IGNORES PANEL OF WLB   Concessions To Miners Other Than 82 Raise Are Suggested

LEWIS ABSENT FROM HEARING IN WASHINGTON   Board Panel Conducts Sessions Without Miners’  Chieftain   MEETING MAY LAST FOR NEXT 2 WEEKS

MINERS IGNORE EFFORTS OF WAR LABOR BOARD   NELSON MAY ORDER NATIONAL DIMOUT IF TRUCE FAILS

J ohn L. Lewis Again Ignores  Panel of WLB   Group Explores Idea Of Granting Concessions Other Than S2 Raise

WLB continues trial on mine controversy despite Lewis’ snub   May recommend concessions due coal miners; UMW say board prejudiced

WLBF ight: ToughCoal z ‘Problem  ‘Sioral “to Safety  Men to Get Set in

Coal ‘May .Be Seized for ‘Essential-Use and Dini: out May be Ordered in ‘Emergency Shortage.

John L. Lewis Again Ignores Labor Board’s Effort To Prevent Strike —   W.L.B. Tackles Coal Case, But Skeptical Administration Signals Safety Men To Get Set For New Crisis.

LEWIS IGNORES PANEL HEARING   Coal Dispute Concessions May Be Granted to Miners

Lewis Absent As Mine Wage  Hearing Begin:   Panel Admits Reporters Since UMW Has No

Mine Workers Ignore Efforts Of Labor Board   Operators Give Testimony Today At Panel Hearing

LEWIS CONTINUES: TOUGNORE PROBE WAR LABOR BOARD   Panel Resumes Hearing Without Miners Being Represented   3 POSSIBILITIES GIVING CONCERN

Lewis Stays Out Of Meeting  UMW Not Represented  Aé TE nan ewieay Ve UT UF

‘Character of Meeting’ Cited by Tass Agency; Churchill Visits Niagara

Russia Says Stalin Not Invited   Answers Criticism About Absence of Delegation

Russian Participation “Was Not And Is Not Suggested’’,  Moscow Says   NATURE OF PARLEY PRECLUDES SOVIETS

RUSSIA NOT ASKED, GOVERNMENT SAYS   Participation in Conference “Was Not and Is ‘Not Suagested”

Soviets Not Invited To Allied Meet   Churchill In United States On Thursdoy

Russians Left Out Of Talks   Moscow Says No Invitation Was Received: Or Suaaested

Russians Deny Receiving Bid To Conference   Criticism of Absence From Quebec Meet Ils Answered by Tass

STATE POLICE —- GATCH CONVICT   Run Down Escaped Cleveland Rapist After 18-Mile Auto Chase

Military Board Orders Hanging Of U. S. Soldier   Twenty-three Year Old Negro Is Sentenced For Murder

YANKS TAKE MANY ITALIAN WEAPONS   OFFER THEM FOR SALE CHEAP—NAZIS LEFT AXIS PALS TO BEAR BRUNT.

‘USED ITALIAN RIFLES AND PISTOLS 'FOR SALE IN TUNISIA, ARMY REPORTS

For Sale Cheap on Battle Field at Kasserine Pass -- Italian Ordnance

Americans Find ltalian Weapons Left In Retreat   Soldiers Have Choice of Souvenirs Strewn On Deserted Field

Flying Hospitals of U. S. Army Air Forces Great Aid in Care of Wounded

Army Flying Hospitals Carry 30,000 Wounded Men From Combat Zone:

Form Approved. Budget Bureau No. 08-R.126-42   OPA Form No. R-1801  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  OFFICE. OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION

FATHER DRAFT LAW RAISES QUESTIONS   Effect Depends on Application Thru National or State Pool

FATHER DRAFT LAW RAISES QUESTIONS   Effect Depends on Applica tion Thru National or State Pool   LIST DOWN TO DADS

Germans Retreating  On 700-Mile Front   ON THE RUN FROM SEA OF AZOV TO BRYANSK; SMOL. ENSK, BIG NAZI CENTRAL FRONT BASE, FACES INCREASING THREAT

RUSSIANS APPROACHING SMOLENSK   Soviets Indicate Confidence in Capturing Base

BECOMES ROUT IN SOME AREAS; BOOTY IS TAKEN   Bryansk Threatened With Encirclement; Russians Capture 100 Towns EF.very 24-Hours.

Two Overdue Submarines  Likely Lost   Amberjack, Grampus Had Taken Toll Of Japanese Shipping

Two U.S. Subs. And Crews Lost   Total Ship Losses Nlow Plared At 9R

ARE OVERDUE AND PRESUMED L051   Amberjack and Grampus, Carrying an Estimated 60 Men Each, Fail to Return From Operations.   "BELIEVED ASSIGNED TO THE PACIFIC AREA   Navy's Report Raises Wat Loss to 98 Vessels—American Undersea Craft Have Sunk 169 Enemy Ships.

TWO AMERICAN SUBS ARE REPORTED LOST   120 Men Of Crews Presumed To Have Lost Lives

Undersea Craft Fail to Return  From Patrols  Skippers of Both Held Navy Crosses For Their Heroism  KIN NOTIFIED U. S. Naval Losses  wr ,., F~-NnRO VU. 4

160 Aboard Two U-Boats Believed Lost, Navy Says   Amberjack and Grampus Fail to Return From Patrol

Amberjack And Grampus Missing   60 Men Aboard Each Were On Patrol

Probably in Pacific; Both Commanders Held High Decorations For Exploits

FEAR TWO U.S. U-BOATS LOS!   Navy Reports That Each Ship Carried 60 Men

TWO AMERICAN U-BOATS LOST   Amberjack And Grampus Fail To Return From Ocean Patrols

TWO AMERICAN SUBS LOST ON WAR PATROL   Amberjack and Grampus  Fail to Return From Operations, Believed in Pacific Areas   HAD 60 MEN EACH   Both Commanders Had Received Navy Crosses  for Successful, Heroic   Combat Actions

Two U. S. Subs Are Believed Lost: Toll Is Now 98; Score Against Enemy Is 169. According to Navv’s Figures

TWO U.S. ‘SUBS’ BELIEVED LOST BY NAVY DEPT.   Amejack, Grampus Fail to Return from Patrols— 60 Men Aboard Each

U-Boats Carry Average Crew Of 60 Men Each   Location of Last Patrols of Vessels Not Revealed By Navy

Two American Subs Overdue, Presumed Lost   Submarines Amberjack And Grampus Each Had Crew Estimated at 60;  Next of Kin Notified

New Fight In Congress   Farm Bloc Leaders Plan to Contest Corn Freeze Prices

AEE ZING ORDER STIRS FARM BLOL   Charge Setting of Corn  Prices Violates Price   Stabilization Law

Food Prices. Up 42 P.C. Since 1939   New Fight Arises Between Farm Bloc, Administration

HEAVY DEMAND FOR FEED IN LAWRENCE   Local Producers Are Doing Their Best to Meet Food Goals 

HEAVY DEMAND FOR FEED IN LAWRENCE   Local Producers Are Doing Their Best to Meet Food Goals   SHORTAGE: OF PROTEIN

Surprised Congressmen  Score Food Subsidy Plan   Threaten Legislative Action to Halt Move, Cite Earlier Rejections of Proposal

HINT AT ACTION 10 BLOCK FOOD SUBSIDY SCHEME   ‘Congressmen Angered by Administration’s Proposal to Make Payments to Processors.   PLAN INFLATIONARY, REP. TABER ASSERTS   Part of Opposition Grows Out of Lawmakers’ Refusal in Past to Authorize Sten.

Plan to Lower Food PriceDraw: Fire in Congress   Cool Reception for RFC in Subsidy Plan; Cannon in Criticism

Foody Subsidy Program Draws Fire Of Solons   Proposal Would Pay Processors Caught In Squeeze

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN hil BY CONGRESSMEN   Hint Legislative Action To Prevent Carrying Out Move

Fines, Prison Sentences Put Teeth In Ae   Require Certificates For Persons Changing Work; McNutt Tells Wha Can't Shift

DADER BACKED BY PENALTIES. UP T0 $1,000   ‘McNutt Clamps Controls te Prevent Job-Switching for Higher Pay,   WOULD SHIFT WORKERS: INTO ESSENTIAL PLACES

MOVE DESIGNED TO DISCOURAGE LABOR SHIFTS   New Regulations Require Certficates for Changing Positions

McNutt Clamps Controls on Hiring of Men   Seeks to Regulate Job-Switching for Higher Wages

Violation Made : Criminal Offense   Workers In Essential Activities Affected; Farmers Are Included In Order

Order Forbids Job Switching For More Pay   Job-Wage Freeze Backed By Heavy Penalties For Violation

Millions  Wee J In  Var Jobs   yoNutt Announces De cree On Direct Orders  Of Roosevelt To Halt Lahor Switches   pALE OF NATION’S ‘-ORKERS AFFECTED   rovide Penalties For Violations Of Edict Designed To Hike War Production :

Hiring Control Edict Affects Vast Numbers   27,000,000 Civilian Workers Included In New Nationwide Job-Wage Freeze; Violation Is Made Criminal Offense

Stiff Control  Clamped on Hiring in U.S. Half of 52 Million U. S.  Workers Affected by Freeze Order  PRESIDENT’S ORDER  Penalties for Violations TT. ¥...7. Qy ANM TTWr'..n-

ALL WORKERS UN Coo ENTIAL JOBS “FROZEN   “Job-Wage Freeze” Clamped Upon Civilian Workers In Essential Industry

Violations ot Federal Orde Made Crime   Change-of Work for Higher Pay Is Out for Duration for Many

Job Freeze Order » Issued By McNutt At FDR Direction   Half Of Nation’s Civilian Workers Are Involved: Violation Is Criminal Offense

McNutt Clamps " Job -Wage Freeze ° On Civilians —   Violations Criminal Offense; 27 Million Workers Affected!

WAKE VIOLATIONS CRIMINAL OFFENSE   Order Affects 27,000,000 in Essential Activities   WOKERS CURBED   In Shift to Non-essential Job @ °r From One Essential Employer to Another

CONTROLS. PLACED ON JOB-SHIFTING BY PAUL M’NUT!   War Workers and Farmers Forbidden to Leave Present Tasks for Non-Essential Employment.   VIOLATIONS ARE MADE A CRIMINAL OFFENSE   Leaving Essential Post for Another at Higher Pay Banned—Order Affects 27,000,000.

Exchanging Is Made A Crime  For Duration   Employer And Employe Alike Subject To Prosecution Under McNutt Edict

M’NUTT ISSUES ORDER FREEZING LABOR TO JOBS   Wage Advances Also Nipped By Directive Affecting 27 Million Workers

Job Freeze Order Issued By McNutt At FDR Direction   Half Of Nation‘s Civilian Workers Are _Involved; Violation: !s Criminal Offense   \Ciwilians’ Synthetic Tires. (Mau Be Ready Late In 1944

Job and Wage Freeze Order Takes Effect  52 Millions Are . Affected By New Progra

Half Of Nation's Workers Will Be Affected By Lav   New Regulations Are Now Effective Shifting Jobs Is Curbed

All Jobs On Essential List Are Frozen   Order Backed By Prison Penalty Bans Wage Lures For 27,000,000   NATION WIDE SCOPE   WMC Edict Seeks To Encourage Shifts From Non Essential Work

LABOR SHIFTS TOBOOST PAY NOW ILLEGAL   BIG PENALTIES ARE PROVIDED FOR VIOLATIONS

PENALTY FOR ; MOLATION OF - WAGE. FREEZE   Practically Half of Nations _ Civilian Workers. Must . Stay With Their: Present  Occupation.   ‘McNULLT ORDERS   Shift tre om. One Industry to  _. Another Possible . Only  ; if Release is Obtained  by . Worker, ©

Job-Wage Freeze For Millions Of  Civilian  Workers; Violations May Bring $1000 Fine, Year In Prison

Worker Shift From Plant to Plant Barred   Manpower Commissioner Issued Order by Direction Of President Roosevelt; Penalties Provided

Workers Frozen  ire   VIOLATION OF ORDER CARRIES $1000 FINE AND YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT

Has Chance For Life —   Brady May Escape Gallows By Order of Governor or Supreme Court

Reds Push Steadily Toward Novorossisk   German Airfields Get Brunt of Air Attacks

AIR FLEET GIVES RUSSIANS SUPPORT   More Land, Air Successes In Pacific Theater Are Reported For Allies.

NOVOROSSISK IS NEXT OBJECTIVE QF RED ADVANCE   Russians Pushing  Steadily Forward—Nazis Fail to Stam Attack.

Nazis Fall Back Before Russians   Soviets Gain Steadily in Caucasus Drive

RED ARMY, AIDED BY STRONG AIR FORCE, MOVES STEADILY ON   Push Through Mountains Toward Big Black Sea .‘Naval. Base Of  Novorossisk

RED ARMY POUNDING AT AXIS BRIDGEHEAD   Threat To Black Sea Base Grows As Russians Cut Vital Highway, Oceupy Strategic Hills; Great Air Battles Rage

REDS SAY 470 NAZI PLANES ARE DOWNEL   Russians Are Report~ ed Pushing Steadily  Through Caucasian Mountains.

AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   5 Nazi Counterattack: _ Are Beaten Back By  Russian Forces

Red Army Pushes Southwestward Against Germans   Novorossisk Reported In Imminent Danger As Assault Continues

REDS PUSH FORWARD IN CAUCASIANS.   Russian Threat To Black Sea Base Is Growing

MAN IDENTIFIES SELF   Alex J. Benware Tells of Experi - ence Southeast of Eudora

FINED $28.38 ~ FORBAD PACK   Half of Apples In One Bushel Are Found Under-Grade

OCCUPY CORFU, GERMANS SAY   Nazis Also Claim Yugoslav Port of Split Taken By Reich Troops

BERLIN CLAIMS CORFU OCCUPIED   Hitler’s Forces Spread Thin To Protect Balkan Flank

Early Activity in Demobilization of Industry is Urged   Reduction of Military Output Cited; News of Day in Washington

5 TROOP-FILLED NAZIBOATS ARE SUNK BY REDS   Russians Smash Across Pronya To Threaten En emy’s Dnieper Defenses   SOVIET AIRMEN HIT HARD AT GERMANS

Soviets Drive Toward Gomel  And Mogilev   Loss of Virtually Last Foothold in Caucasus Admitted by Germans

Soviets Smash Across the Pronya River   Five Troop-Filled German Boats Are Reported Sunk

UPPER DNIEPER DEFENSES ARE PUT IN DANGER   Enemy Apparently Tries “To Evacuate Rear - Guard From  Caucasus

PRONYA RIVER LINE CRACKED BY RUSSIANS   Five Troop - Laden German Boats Also Sink in Evacuation of Caucasus; 70 Villaves Seized.   Red Armies Massed

Gains Imperil Roil Junction Cities of Gomme! and Mogilev  BRIEF BULLETINS  PCr me Res Aas ie se   Liberation of the Crimea - by Pincers Movement Indicated

Soviets Smash Across the  Pronya River  Five Troop-Filled German Boats _

Soviet Airmen Sink Five  Troop-Filled Nazi Boats   Reds Smash Across Pronya River Line In White Russia; 2,000 Germans Slain, 70 Village Seized in Drive Toward Gomel

Gains Imperil Rail Junction Cities of Gomel and Mogilev   BRIEF BULLETIN IS ISSUED BY SOVIETS   Liberation of the Crimea by Pincers Movement Indicated

Pronya Line Smashed by Red Forces   Soviet Airmen Destroy Five Troop-Filled _ Vessels. Trying To Evacuate

ed Army Cracks Main Nazi Line n White Russia   Five Troopships Sunk by Soviets

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Nazi Troops Forced to  Give Ground   Red Army Cracks Pronya River Sector, Threatened Upper Dnieper Defenses And Sinks Boats of Fieeting Enemies

Pronya River Line Cracked By Red Army   Five Nazi Ships Loaded With Men Sunk By Airmen

PRONYA RIVER LINE CRACKED BY RED FORCE   Soviets Sink 5 Boats Filled With Nazis  Fleeing Caucasus

Russ Crack ‘Nazi Line  Along Pronya   Soviet Airmen Sink Troop Boats Fleeing Caucasus

eee eee cate te  LAD KILLED AS HORSE THROWS HIM UNDER GAS TRUCK WHEELS

Huge Blazes Are Set by Fortresses   Tens of Thousands of Incendiaries Reported Dropped

EPISCOPAL BISHOP TO VISIT IRONWOOD   Rt. Rev. Herman Riddle Page to Be Here Sunday, January 17.

Russians Seize Ukraine Gateway   Nazi Forces in Corsica Squeezed into Trap; Soviet Drive — Kiev

FIGHTING GERMANS RETREAT FURTHER ON BURNING NAPLES  FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARM IES ROLL UP GAINS OF TED TO FIFTEEN MILES

GERMANS SINK JO VESSELS IN GREAT HARBOR   Gains Of 10 To 15 Miles Are Chalked Up By Fifth And Eighth Allied Armies

TAX PAYMENT PLAN ALTERED   House Sponsor Modifies Bill Based On Ruml  Suggestions

PAY-AS-YOU-60 TAXES MODIFIED   New Measure Provides For Skipping Income Levy of 1942

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Proposal Modified  Safeguards Against Afi dtl lee oad   Knox Says U. S. Will Utterly Destroy Japanese Fleet Before War Is Over and Forbid Building of Another

—  Food To Be Ample But Not To Waste   Not Enough to Feed Everybody All Kinds They Want

Pilots Bomb Naples Port   Cagliari, Sicily Ripped in Daylight Aerial Thrusts

PEAGE PLEDGE   Vote in Favor of Fulbright Post-War Resolution Is , 300 to 29.

Fulbright Proposal Sure Of House 0.K.   History-shaping Docu. ment Assured Of Passage Tuesday

HOUSE OKAYS PEACE BILL   SOLONS FAVOR POSTWAR WORLD COLLABORATION

Pass Fulbright Bill 360 to 29   House Takes Positive Stand Favoring U. S. Collaboration in Post War World Affairs

House Passes Fulbright Bill   Overwhelmingly For Postwar Collaboration

House Passes  Fulbright Bill   Post-War Collaboration Approved. 300 to 29

Approval Stamped On Resolution Calling For Collaboration With Other Natiens To Insure Lasting Peace.

House Passes Fulbright Resolution Favoring Post-War Collaboration

HOUSE FAVORS COLLABORATION   Both Farties Supporting Resolution for Americar Participation in World Post-War Plans

HOUSE IN HISTORIC STAND IN FOREIGN POLICY TUESDAY  WOULD PLACE CONGRE  OU DECHDDR AC CPAUND .   WOULD PLACE CONGRESS ON RECORD AS FAVORING JUST PEACE

Favor Post-War Collaboration  House O. K.’s Bill By Big Majority

Congress Favors Post-War Parley To Plan Peace   House Makes First Congres: sional Pledge of Its Kine by Big Vote.   Change in Sentiment Shown in Big Vote

Loot Suited Negro Sought In Shootinc  Matron Of Juvenile Home Wounded Twice

Bill Repealing Hitler Law  Passes Senate ‘Closed Primary’ Law Urged by State Solons

Senate Favors Closed Primary Flection Bill   Also Kills Measure To Shift Cascade To Western District

Several New Measures Before House   Senate Passes Bill To Abolish Hitler Act; House Is Busy

Consider Plan As Coal Miners Are Again Shut Down By Wage Dispute

Third Strike In  Two Months Hits Nation’ s Fields _   Government Setup’ , ‘Would. Be In Charge For Duration of War

LEWIS NOW WAITS FOR MINE OWNERS JO ACT ON WAGE   “No Contract, No Work”  Still Workers’ Cry. FOR May Act-

 Next Move In Mine Dispute Left  To Coordinator Ickes, As War  Labor Board’s Proposed Pact  Is Rejected By UMW   ‘ICKES WILL TRY TO REOPEN MINES

Ickes Plans Unit To Run Mines For War Duration   Word Awaited From F. R. Or Labor Board

NEW WALKOUT THIRD STRIKE IN 2 MONTHS   Reports Indicate That Work Stoppage In Organized Pits Is Complete.   BULLETIN

ASK DENTISTS TO MOVE INTO OTHER CITIE'   Manpower Requests May Distribute- ° Practices

A gl le ere os > anes 3070. Aussia Aaforvy   Roure’ -aroug a8. 4a, a--erson  Savs in ~e-ense 0- Ti 2re’ecc

AIR FERRY ROUTE TOLD AT HEARING   Canol Oil Project Reveals Use of Alaskan Base to Defiver Planes to Reds.

Canol Oil Project Sped Delivery of Planes to Russia   War Department Gives Explanation of Deal  With Canadians

WARREN OKAYS TAX SLASHES   MEASURES WILL SAVE $67,300,000 IN TWO YEARS

ARGENTINA TAKES RAP AT AXIS BY DECISION   Bans All Radio Code Messages to Foreign Countries and All Secret Communication from the Western Hemisphere Is Cut Off—United States and England Still Have Cable Facilities.

New Argentine Regime Hits Axis _ With Ban on Secret Code Messages

ARGENTINA BAN ON CODE NOTES BLOW T0 AXIS   Slap Comes Soon After Germany, Italy O. K. New Regime

Argentina Bans Secret Messages   Order Diplomatic Slap At Germany and Italy

LANDING-OF « AR TROOPS. 1S SUCCESS   ALLIED AIRBOURNE SOLDIERS DID NOT SUFFER LOBSES AS HAPPENED AT,  CRETE .

ENDING OF BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING SEEN   New York Auto Club Head Told A Rations Will Be Increased, Not Deducted from B.C

RELIEF AHEAD FOR RASTERN AUTOISTS   Head Of New York Auto Club Says They Will Soon “Find Themselves Back In United States”

GAS RATIONING MUDDLE TO END WITHIN 2 WEEKS   N. ¥. Auto Club Head Says New Program Is Drafted

Early Change In Rationing Of Gas Hinted   New York Auto Club Official Says New Program Being Mapped   END DISCRIMINATION

Predicts End Of Gas ‘Muddle’  East Allotment Will Be Equalized With That Of Wect

ANTHRACITE STRIKE ENDS   Last Group Of Strikers Vote To Resume Work.

STARS AND STRIPES FLY ON TARAWA   Seabees Already Hard at Work on Landing Strip

PATERNO FALLS T0 ALLIES; COLLAPSE OF AXIS LINE NEAR   Other Key Strong Points In Northwest Sicily — Cracking Under Heavy Drive

CATANIA AND PATERNO LOST; AIR BASE GONE   Enemy Defenses Being Battered Down In Shattering Drive By Allies.   BULLETIN

Green Asks for Veto Of Strike Legislatior   Says  Bill  Is ‘Fascist’ In Character; Prepares Decision On Miners’ Portal-To-Portal Pay

Labor Leaders Ask Veto of Strike Bill   President’s Approval Ts Still Expected by Demo Chieftain

Green Denounces  Anti-Strike Bill   AFL Chief Terms  Measure ‘Fascist

Green Asks Veto Of Bill Designed To Curb Strike:   Declares Plan is Fascist it Character, Conceived in Anger

GREEN REQUEST RODGEVELT VETO ANTI-STRIKE BILL   American Federation of Labor Head Says Bill Is ‘Fascist in Character’   WLB PREPARES GIVE MINE WAGE DECISION   Ruling on Portal-portal Pay Expected To Be Short of Miners’ Demands; Lewis Calls UMW Policy Commit.  tee to Washington

Green Urges Anti-Strike  Measure Veto   Fascist in Character, AFL President Says In Messave to F.D.R.

GREEN PROTESTS STRIKE MEASURE NOW BEFORE FOR   AFL Head Says Workers Will Never Be Reconcil- ed To Legislation

Anti-Strike Bill Veto Requested By AFL Leader   Green Writes President Labor Will ‘Rehel’ At Walkant Ban

No Optical I[lusion!   Columbus Woman Meets Twin Sister She Had Never Known About—Separated When Babies

NARU ISLAND IS ATTACKED   Heavy bombing raid by U. S. planes against Gilbert Island base

Yank Airmen RipEnemy On Nauru Island   Navy Announces Another 10 Raid Day On Japanese In Aleutians   7 ZEROES DESTROYED   U. S. Engineers Build Air Bases ‘In Shadow' Of Kiska Stronghold

YANKS BLAST GILBERT BASE   All American Planes Return Safely From Attack on Nauru

JAPS BOMBED.   Navy Air Force Hit Nauru Island, Gilbert Island Jap Base,

Nauru Island Japanese Base, Bomb Target   Large Force Of U. S. Bomb ers Attack Island 675 Miles From Guadal canal   MUCH DAMAGE DONE BY AIR RAID

RUSSIANS DRIVING STEADILY TOWARD PORT OF MARIUPO   Moscow Reports Remnants of Trapped Nazi Garrison Being Liquidated at Tag-

Hitler's Biggest Base Falls, Stalin Reports   Reds Drive Into Dnepropetrovsk Suburbs, Zaporozhe

Nazis Reinforce Denmark Forces   Danish Garrison Holding Out To ‘Last Cartridge’ After Hundreds Of Their Countrymen Die; Report King Under Arrest

STALIN ORDER OF DAY TELLS DEFEAT OF AXIS DEFENSE   Smolensk Base Is Cracked and Yelnuya, Communications Center Is Captured Announcement Reveals.   GERMANS AT TAGANROG BEING ANNIHILATED   Allies Crush Japanese Forces Near Salamaua, Nearly 50 Enemy Planes Shot Down at Wewak. ~

SOVIET ARMIES NEARING GATES UF GRIMEA   50-Mile Gains Since Melitopol Fall Saturday Achieved By Russian Forces

U.S. Fighter Planes Hit Jap Destroyer   Ship Set Afire In Raid on Base On Faisi Island

Yank Planes Set Fire to Jap Vessel   Enemy Admiral Meets Death in Sinking Warship

U8, PLANES FIRE JAP DESTROYER   Navy Reports Damaging Attack on Enemy Base in  Solomons,

Interpreting e War   Japs Showing Lively Interest in Burma-India Front

Japanese Seek Test of Foe in Burma Thrust   Nipponese May Find Wavell Holds Powerful Position

Interpreting the War News-—  Jap High Command Shows Interest in’ Burma - India

ACTOR IS INTERNED BERLIN RADIO SAYS   Germans Claim Robert Taylor Wa:  Forced Down In Bomber In     Spanish Morocco

SAYS UNION CAN OBTAIN STRIKE VOTE   First Ballot Under New Anti-Strike Law To Be Held

Japs Rushing Reinforcements  To Marshalls   Twenty Enemy Ships Are Sighted Tuesday At Kwajalein Lagoon

JAPS GET HELP TO MARSHALLS.   BIG -CONVOY GETS THROUGH ALLIED LINES

220 TO APPEAR AT BLOOD BANK TODAY   Lawrence Citizens Are Aiding With the War. Effort  ~   LOCAL LADIES HELPING

220 TO APPEAR AT BLOOD BANK TODAY.   meres Citizens Are Aidg With the War ; Effort   LOCAL LADIES HELPING

PREPARE DEFENSE FOR DE MARIGHY   Wife of Accused Reveals Retaining of Specialist for Investigation Purposes

AFTER VIOLENT UPRISING BY VOUNG OFFICERS   Victor Pas Estensoro Described As Leader Of Revolution. Bloody Street Fighting. —

NATIONALISTS AND ARMY OFFICERS TAKE OVER REINS   Bloody Street Fighting Said To Have Occurred

REVOLUTION IN BOLIVIA SUCCESSFUL   President Forced To Resign; Few Hours of Violence

Brief Burst of Violence Which Resulted in Some Deaths.   TAKE POSSESSION AT 9 THIS MORNING  All Garrisons of Interior Rolivia Fall in Line

President of ..  Bolivia. Ousted   Revolutionists Set Up New Regime

PENARANDA QUITS UNDER PRESSURE   Revolt Leaders Say They, Too, Will Support United Nations

BOLIVIA CHIEF ‘COUP’ VICTIM   President Overthrown In Army Revolt

BOLIVIA REVOLT BY ARMY HEADS SS SUCCESSFUL   President Penaranda Unseated: Deaths Reported In Violent Upheaval

SUSPECT SABOTEURS IN ATTEMPT TO WRECK FAST MONTREAL TRAIN      Spikes He Found R emoved ion Tracks

Canadian Rail Saboteurs Shoot  Section Worker   Spikes Removed From Curve; Wreck Narrowly Averted

Worker in Canada Averts Train Wreck But Is Shot From Ambush; Police Suspect Saboteurs, Launch Scrutiny

Man Shot, Sabotage  Suspected   Crack Canadian Flyer Escapes Derailment

Soviet Force Cuts Through To Azov Sea; Black Sea Force Sets Up Beach head.

LAST CORRIDOR OF ESCAPE CUT ON LAND ROUTE   Germans Preparing Folks at Home  For Losses

Roosevelt Vefoes Armed Service Day   Says Memory of Dec. 7 Is One of Japanese Infamy

NAZI, ITALIAN CHIEFS BIGKER   Report Fascist Troops Quit French Defenses

DR. J. S. TALLEY PASSES AWAY AT HOSPITAL HERE   Beloved Physician Of Troutman For 30 Years  Dies After Heart Attael

DR. J. 8. TALLEY STRICKEN AFTER SHORT LESS   Funeral Friday. at4 P.M. From Home At Troutman   WAS GOOD DOCTOR AND FINE CITIZEN

Allies Mopping Up Enemy Pockets As Attacks Weaken   Gen. Giraud Predicts Vic tory For Allies There This Month.

TUNISIAN FRONT QUIET; ALLIED PATROLS ACTIVE   Lull Expected To End Soon With AIllOut Drive

EXPECT LULL IN FIGHTING TO END SOON   Yanks Firmly Established On Important Hill   GEN, GIRAUD   Predicts End Of African Resistance This Month; End Of Axis In 1944

Bradford Electric Company's ‘Merger Wins Approval of SEC   _ Local and Oil City Firms to Become Part Of Pennsylvania Electric Company; Plan Proposed to Effect Economy of Operations

SEC Gives PennelecOK For Merger   STONE PUBLIC SERVICE AND BRADFORD SERVICE BECOME PART OF JOHNSTOWN CON JERN; ONCE OF AGE,   Formerly Parts Of AGE

SALERNO STRUGGLE ‘HOTLY CONTESTED’      Knox Says Surrender. Rids Mediterranean Of Surface Enemies

: Smashing Allied Attacks in Southwest Pacific Area Recenily ‘ Indicate That at Last MacArthur Has Planes to Do the Job

Pacific Air Victory Is Evidence That MacArthur Is Being Well Supplied

Yanks Blast Jap Ships — And Aircraft   Triumph Indicates Big Increase In Aerial Strenath

New Air Blows Indicate MacArthur Has Warplanes  Four Japanese Warships, A Tanker And Two Cargo   Four Japanese Warships, A Tanker And Two Carg: Vessels Sunk, 49 Airplanes Downed

ASSASSINATION FAILS   Insane Man Planned “to Get Rid of Roosevelt” —~

PLOT TO KILL FOR THWARTED BY G-MEN   Mentally Deranged Man Is Nabbed on Wife’s Tip

PLOT FOR FR. DEATH BLOCKED   SECRET SERVICE THWARTS ASSASSINATION SCHEME

FOIL ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE FDR ON NOV, 13   Secret Service Reveals Mar Now in Asylum; Wife Disclosed Plot

ROOSEVELT'S ASSASSINATION PLOT THWARTED   Story Revealed In Detroit Today By U. S. Agents

FBI GETS MAN " THREATENING LIFE OF FDR   Pontiac Worker Told Agents “Elec. trodes in Brain’ Told Him to As-; sassinate Presideni ;   WIFE TIPPED PLOT   ‘Man Revealed He Entered White House Grounds While Soldiers Unloading Truck  :

Widely Separated - Jap Bases Bombed by Mac-Arthur’s Fliers.   LULL IN PACIFIC.  ' . MAY BE: PORTENT

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT JAP BASES   Two Cargo Vessels Blasted And Left in Flames—No Opposition Encountered

CONTINUE TO POUND BASES   Jap Bases 1,700 Miles Apart Ir Island Arc Above Australia Hit By MacArthur Bombers

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT JAPS BASES   Blast Rabaul Again, Raid Amboina, Northwest of Darwin, Hard

Hit Jap Bases Allied Planes   MacArthur's Bombers Blast Rabaul And Amboina; Find Two Cargo Ships.

Warship Forced Aground, lwo More Damaged   Big Cargo Vessel Also Hit As Forts Ranae Over Area

' JAP BASES ABOVE AUSTRALIA BOMBED   Two Enemy Cargo Vessels Hit in Amboina Harbor. Fires Started

Enemy Vessel Strikes on Reefs  Dodging Bombs  10,000-Ton Cargo Ship Also Blasted In Rabaul Attack  LAE POUNDED AGAIN  Americans, Japs Trade Aerial Blows  In Solomons Area

MacArthur's Men Bombard Islands   Rabaul Smashed 2nd Time In Week

Held Post Three Days and Nights   New Jersey Youth  Receives Congressional Medal of Honor

‘A Mew lersey Tailor’s Son. Plafoon Sergeant John Basilone Is The Hero Of Pacific Fighting

Marine Sergeant Honored For Battle Against Japs   John Basilone Awarded Congressional Medal of Honot For Holding Strategic Machine Gun Post For Three Days and Nights With Jap Bodies — Serving As His Barricade

Tailor’s Son Won Congressional Medal For Holding Off Entire Jap Regiment -

Suicide Charge  Made By Japs  Every One Killed In Hand-To-Hand Battle

Aerial Warfars Continues in South Pacific   Jap Cargo Vessel, Four Planes Shot Down by Allies

ENEMY CARGO VESSEL HIT AT JAP BASE   Heavy Storms Braved By Bombers to Strike New Blows

5 SCHEDULED   Navy Secretary Regrets Not Getting Justice Department Goinion.

Knox Agrees To Inquiry On Oil Dea!   Naval Committee Orders Investigation of Elk Hills Contracis

ELK HILLS OIL PROBE ORDEREL   House Committee To Request Inquiry In Navy’s Policy

Investigation Of Navy's Oil Policy Slated   Committee Acts After Knox Testifies; Says Nation Faces A Crude Oil Shortage

INAVAL COMMITTEE OF  HOUSE ORDERS PROBE  NAVY'S OIL POLICY SECRETARY KNOX IN FULI  ACCORD WITH PLANS ABOUT FIR HITTC

Knox Admits His Error In  Elk Hills Case   Regret Failure To Ask Justice Department's Opinion Before Deal Was Put Through

POLICY TO BE INVESTIGATED   Naval Committee Acts After Secretary Knox Explained Contract

Yank Army Takes Over in Solomons   Enemy Crumbles in Guinea as Yanks Mop Up Pockets

Jap Detense Crumbling   Last Survivors of Nip Army in Papua Make Effort to Escape

WESTWARD MOVE IS CONTINUED   JAPANESE SEEK TO BREAK TRAP   Australian War Minister Says Aussies Will Bomb Tokyo Before '43 Ends

TRAPPED SURVIVORS OF 19,000-MAN JAP ARMY SEEK ESCAPE  AMERICA AND. AUSTRALIAN FIGHTERS FURTHER  TMM FIAMT PAIrestr BMA ET.

Trapped Japs In Desperate Jungle Fight   Survivors of 15,000 Man Army Seek to Escape Into Jungles  MARINES REPLACED Allied Bombers Hit Foe  Bases From Burma to South Seas

Trapped Japs Are Trying To Break Out Of Papuan Pocket   U. S. Flying Fortress Scores Bomb Hit Oo Jap Destroyer Off Bovaainville

Trapped Japs In Desperate Jungle Fight   PULIg, gw 2 Egg All  Survivors of 15,000 Man Army Seek to Escape Into Jungles  MARINES REPLACED  Allied Bombers Hit Foe Bases From Burma to South Seas

Trapped Japs Try To Get Into Jungle   Defense Crumbling As Americans And Aussies Close In   Hit Enemy Destroyer And Down Eight Planes

Jap Survivors Try to Break From Pocket   Ground Troops Replace Marines In Solomons

U. S. Airmen Bomb Japanese Warship In Solomon Isles   Nipponese Position in New Guinea Desperate; Army  _ Troops Replace Marines on Guadalcanal.

Enemy Defense Breaking Down   Remnant Of 15.000 Jap Troops Attempting To Escape Trap In New Guinea.

19,000 TRAPPED JAPS ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT   Efforts Futile as Half-Starved Enemy Faces Complete Annihilation

Japs Are Trying To Escape Trap Into Jungles   Army Has Relieved Solomons Marines; Destroyer ls Bombed

Last of New Guinea Jap Nests Being Mopped Up   Allies Squeeze Nips On Papuan Coast, Air-Blast Bases Facing Australia.

TRAPPED JAPS TRY : neal THROUGH JUNGLE      Ground Troops Marines in ) Solomons

JAPS NOW SEEK JUNGLE ESCAPE   ‘Enemy Forces In Papuar Region Faced by An nihilation.

Further Reduce Jap Pockets   Fortresses Score Hit on Destroyer Off Bougainville

Troina Falls After Bitterést Fighting Of Entire Campaign   ‘Axis Armies Falling Back From Their  Crumbling Mt. Etna Line Toward New  Positions 40 Miles From Messina

Axis Flees To Messina In Sicily   Famed Yankees’ First Division  Takes Troina

TROINA FALLS TO AMERICAN 1ST DIVISION   125,000 Prisoners Captured During Campaign

Yanks Rout Foe in Sicily   More Italians Yield Arms to British Unit

F, R, Endorses Senate Post-War Plan Principles  Denies Coolness To Resolution OF  Four Solons

HARMON TELLS OF CRASH OF PLANE IN SOUTH AMERICA  HAD HARD TIME GETTIN   HAD HARD TIME GETTING THROUGH TRACKLESS : JUNGLES HE SAYS

Ship Wouldn’t Come Out of Spiral Harmon Describes His Escape From Plane, Rovings in Jungles

HARMON BAILED OUT WHEN HIS PLANE FAILED OVER JUNGLE   Former All-America Footb all Star Tells Of Four-Day Trek Through Dense Underbrush And Swamps To Reach Safety Of Native Village   BY LIEUT. THOMAS HARMON

Tommy Harmon Tells Story of His Escape from Death in Plane Crash

Tom Harmon, Former Football Star, Tells Story Of Wanderings Through Dutch Guiana Jungle

SCHNEBLY (HOSEN ASSISTANT. AGENT      Countian Named to Farm Post by County Com - MWAlecInnerc 

SCHNEBLY CHOSEN ASSISTANT AGENT   Countian Named to Farm Post by County Com. missioners

Russians Blast Nazi Defenses   Leningrad Sector s Scene of Shelling

German Posts Knocked Out by Red Forces   Four Nazi Planes Shot Down on Leningrad Front

Leningrad Front Stirs Into Action   Heavy Artillery Activity Reported For Both Sides.

HEALTH QUIZ   Tes De you have poor digestion? = Ba you fee! headachy after eating? (7) (Be you get sour or upset easily? [3 L Ina yaw fee) tired—lietlece? ne

HEALTH. QUIZ   =  Bo yoo have poor digestion? = 7} Do you feel headachy aiter eating? (9) Be you get sour or apset easily? a  Be wan feet tired __tetlace?

Mopping Up On Attu Isle Continues  400 Japs Slain By Yanks on   400 Japs Slain By Yanks on Saturday Nighi  7 ees

KILL OVER 400 JAPS ON ATTUIN ONE NIGHT   Three U. S. Units Join Near Chichagof Harbor

Over 400 Japs Die In Final Day of Fighting on Attu   Americans Stamp Out Pockets: of Enemy Resistance in Hills

400 Japs On Attu Killed In Fighting On Saturday   Three U.S. Forces Join And Wipe Out Last Large Enemy PRasictance

AILL 400 JAPS ~INDAY ON ATTU   Mopping Up Operations on Island Are Stilt Continuing,   BOMBERS ATTACK KISKA

OVER 400 JAPS KILLED ON ATTU SATURDAY NIGHT   Slain As Three Columne OF WU. 5S. Troops Moved In To Join At Chichagof  Harbor.

400 JAPS ARE SLAIN IN NIGHT   Three Columns of U. $. Troop: Fight Way To Junction on Attu Island.

ARMY CONTINUES MOPPING-UP OPER. ATIONS ON ATTU; OVER 400 JAPS KILLED AS TROOPS JOIN

Attu Island Resistance  Nears End   400 Japanese Meet Death When U.S, Army Takes Key Chichagof Harbor

ATTU BATTLES   Big Batch of “Nips” Wiped Out Saturday Night, Navy Reports   U. §. MOPPING UP LAST REMNANTS   Operations of Three Yank Columns Disclosed By Navy

400 Japanese Were Slain on Attu Saturday   Mopping up Operations Continue; Organized Resistance by Enemy- Broken Up; MaeArthur’s Fliers Bomb Lae

No Organized Resistance On Attu Island   Mopping Up Continues, American De  liver Blows To Kiska

Organized Resistance  Is Broken   Three American Columns Joined On Shores Of Chichagof Harbor In Their Final Drive

Three Columns of U. §. Troops Con: verge on Chichagof Harbor in Fi-; nal Concluding Operations   MOP UP ENEMY   Pockels of Jap Resistance Leff in Barren Hills Apparenily Being Cleaned Oui .

YANKS MOPPING UPENEMIESON   ATTU ISLANE      Stamping Out Pockets O Japanese Fighters In Barren Hills of Aleutian Sector   RESISTANCE BROKEN   :  More Than 400 Nipponese  Killed Saturday Night   In U.S. Advance On Chichagaf Harbor

Mopping Up Continues On Attu Island   But All Organized Resist: ance: by Enemy. Has ‘Been Broken -  400 NIPS. SLAIN IN SMALL ACTIONS      Patrols Continue Clean-Up After Crushing Al! Main Enemy Forces

4) Japs Slain In Vain Attempt To Check Yanks   All Organized Resistance on Attu Ceases

KILL 400 JAPS ON ATTU ISLAND SATURDAY NIGHT   NAVY REPORTS ALL ORGANIZED ENEMY RESISTANCE BROKEN

Allied chieftains may see Franco   Ankara atmosphere one of ‘fateful decision

United Nation leaders may see Franco   Ankara atmosphere one of ‘fateful decision

Planes Strike at Crete, Yank Troops From Palermo  Drive East Toward Messina

AXIo-HELD CRETE SUFFERS oAVAGE BOMBING ATT ALK   U.S. Troops On Sicily Drive Lastward rom Palermo Toward Messina

Social Security Plan Submitted   F.D.R. Offers’ Enlarged Program

President Asks Congress Pass Legislation Providing for Greatly Expanded Social Security System

F. R. Sabmits Post-War Plan For Security   Work At Fair Pay And Pensions  Proposed When Peace Returns

Vast security expansion is FDR request   Transition after war in 2nd plan sent to converess

Russian Counter Drive Holding Germans To Standstill; Losses Huge

Aftempt to Break Into Russian Lines Seuthwest of Moscow.  30,000 NAZIS DIE; 1,500 TANKS LOST  But Hitler Is Pouring New Reserves Into the Battle.

AUOOTAN LINE HOLDING UNDE FRANTIC ATTACK   German Pincers Seeks To Trap 400,000 Soviets;  Moscow Unworried

HITLER CALLS HALF-MILLION MEN TO RUSSIA   Makes Frenzied Attempt to Break Through Nazi Lines

PRESIDENT ORDERSENDTA AKRON STRIKE   Sends Telegram Giving Unti Noon Today For Rubbe: Workers To End Their  Defiance   Shocking, Inexcusable

FDR Orders Akron Rubber Strike Ended   Workers Given ‘til Noon  Today to Resume Te 0 0ltiSE > me

Streamliner Train  ~ Derailed; Five Hurt Twelve Of The Fourteer  ~ Coaches Leave Rails

Crack Train Derailed   5 Hurt When Miami-N. Y. Streamliner Wrecks

DEMOCRATS TURN AGAINST ED FLYNN   Republicans Already Aligned Against FDR’s Choice For “Down Under’ Post

FLYNN ENEMIES GAIN STRENGTH IN CONGRESS   Many Democrats Reported Opposed To Flynn’s Confirmation For Job

Few Democratic “No” Votes May Beat Him .  Confirmation Of Ed Fiynn Is In Doubi

CONFIRMATION EDWARD FLYNN NOW DOUBTFU!   Signs Multiplying of In. creasing Democratic Opposition to His Diplomatic Appointment   COMMITTEE TO ACT   One Member Says An Un. favorable Report Would Not Surprise Him; Showdown In Week

Dems May Fail to Vote Flynn Nomination in   Committee Will Ballot on! Nomination Wednesday and Upset May Be Recorded

Administration Moves to Keep Up Farm Labor Without Cutting Size of Proposed \Army; Men Over 37 To Be Reclassified

Draft Changes - Due For Action   Deferment For Farm Workers Studied : .

MOVE TO KEEP   Special Commiltee Studies Agri culiural Situation and Man power for President   Men -38-45 io be Reclassified for Service, Restrictions Put on Drafting of Farmers

Army To Share Men WithFarm   Administration. Is Seeking . To Obtairr Balance In Vanpower Field

Recommend No Change  in Army Size   Drop “‘H’ Classification; to Encourage Shift. to Farms by 38-Year-Olds

COMMITTEE 10. MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON FARM DRAFT ISSUE      To Urge 1943 Military Goal of 40,800,000 Be Held  Unrhanced

CARRIER LOST — OFF GILBERTS   HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED BY NIMITZ IN” SINKING OF ESCORT CARRIER

LOSS OF LIFE ON CARRIER HEAVY   Admiral Nimitz Announces Losses Heavy When Carrier Was Sunk

STATE SENATORS TWERRIDE NEELY VETO OF MEASURE   Pass Act to Prohibit Governor From Reappointing t Rejected Officials   GOVERNOR COMPLAINS OF ACTION OF SOLONS   "Declares Time Has Come for Legislature Quit Efforts to Punish Someone for Factional or Political Offenses; Pleads for Unity

APPOINTMENT BILL PASSED DESPITE VETO   State Senate Votes 21-9 Approval Of Measure  Banning Rejected Officials   Legislature Rapped

AMERICANS ON RUSSELL ISLANDS —   Group Less Than 100 Miles From Japanese Bases

U.S. Soldiers Seize Islands In Solomons   _ Russell Group Taken Over—Nearest Jap Base 100 Miles

RUSSELL ISLAND GROUP OCCUPIED BY U. S. FORCES   Reveal Islands Immediately Northwest Of Guadalcanal Now In American Hands.

Russell Islands Are Occupied By Yanks   U.S. Now Has Bases Close to Jan Positions   Occupation Was Carried  Out in February Withand+ TTeanhla

Russell Islands Under Occupation  of U. S. Troops   American Grip On Solomons Extended By New Possessions

AMERICANS TAKE PACIFIC ISLANDS   Navy Reveals Yank Occupation of Russell Group, Above Guadalcanal

Americans Get New Stepping Stones To Tokye   Russell Islands, Off Guadalcanal, Seized; Japan Jittery

AMERICAN FORCES EXTENDING GRIF   Soviet Spearhead Beats Of German Infantry In Attack In Ukraine.

U.S. OCCUPIES RUSSELL ISLES INSOLOMONS   Lies 18 Miles Northwest o Guadalcanal, Taken in February

AMERICANS OCCUPY ISLES IN SOLOMONS   Russell Group Northwest Of Guadalcanal Are Taken Over by Mac Arthur's Men Weeks Ago

U. $. FORCES SEIZE RUSSELL ISLANDS IN SOLOMONS » GROUP   Americans Now Have Bases Less Than 100 Miles From Nearest Jap Positions

Russell Islands Are Cantured In  Solomons Area   Japs Admit Reserve  Material Left Is For Only ‘Short War’

U. 5. Occupies Island Chain In Solomons   Russell Group Near (ruadalcanal Taken Over By Americans

Extend Hold OnSolomons   Navy Announces U. S&S Has Occupied Russell Islands Since February

Repel Jap Fleet West 7 Of Alaska; Americans Occupy Russell Islands

Americans Occupy  Russell Islands   Fortifications Being Set Up On Islands Occupted In Iebruary.

Yankees Take ‘Russell Group Near Solomons   Navy Declines to Discuss Operation Which Resulted in Capture of Islands

YanksOccupy New Islands  in Soiomons  Take Russell Group Northwest of Guadal s, canal, Navy Reveals  BOMBERS HIT JAPS  Munda and Rekata Are Strafed as Eight More Qaenane Wit Kicka

U.S. Occupation of Russell Islands Revealed by Navy   Group Is 18 Miles From Northwestern Tip of Guadalcanal

U.S. Extends Hold In Solomon Islands   Russell Islands Taken By Yanks

Russell Isles  Occupied by U.S. Forces   Americans Extend Grip on Southeastern Solomons

U. S. Occupies Russel] Islands   Group Near Guadalcanal Was Taken Over In February, Navy Reveals Move Marks The Second Announced This Month   R. W. Davis, Bangor, Chairman Of Supervisors For 34th Year   Repel Thrust At Aleutians

YANKS SEIZE RUSSELLISLE IN SOLOMONS   Navy Repells Nip Ship: In Battle West of Aleutians

LOCATED OFF GUADALCANAL BY 18 MILES   Strengthens Our Position in That Area. Darwin Raid Demonstrates Jap Ability

Russell Group Near Guadalcana Seized By Yanks   Bases Are Less Than 10¢ Miles From Foe; Munda Rekata Bay Attacked

RIDGE AND WATERCOURSE BETWEEN TROOPS AND TEROURRA   U. §. FORGES OCCUPY RUSSELL ISLANDS

YANKS OCCUPY RUSSELL ISLES   Americans Extend Grip on Solomon Group

YANKS MOVED IN LAST FEB., NAVY BUREAU REPORTS   Occupation Carried Out After Capture Of Guadalcanal

U.S, BROADENS SOLOMON HOLD   Takes Over Russell Islands In Guadalcanal Sector

OCCUPY MORE PACIFIC ISLES   Russell Islands Taken Without Resistance, Navy Reports

AMERICANS OCCUPY RUSSEL ISLANDS TO EXTEND HOLD ON SOLOMON ISLANDS   Two Main Islands of Group Lies Only 18 Miles From Northwestern Tip of Guadalcanal. Islands Occupied in February Without Opposition

Yanks Occupy  Russell Isles   Navy Communique Tells Of Capture Of Islands Near Cuadaleanal.

Riissell Islands Occupied By U.S.   Jap Official Respectfu  of Allied Production

U.S. Forces Occupy Russell Islands In Solomons Group  Are Northwest Of American Positions On Dpwadaleanwal« Adltéitanel Tamlktnw Dawetaal fic

AMERICAN FORCES EXTEND HOLD ON SOLOMON ISLANDS  HAVE OCCUPIED RUSSEL! GROUP NORTHEAST OF  CITAPAT CANAL

ARE OCCUPIED BYU. 3. FORGES   Group North Of Solomons Taken Over In February Navy Reveals Today

Yanks Occupy Islands Near  Guadaleanal   Russell Bases May Be Used As U. S. Outposts

U.S, OCCUPIES MORE ISLANDS IN SOLOMONS   Unopposed Seizure of Russell Group Revealed

YANKS UGUUPY RUSSELL ISLANDS   Now Within 100 Miles of the Nearest Jap Positions.

U, §, OCCUPIES RUSSELL ISLES   Extends American Grip On Solomons

MAKE ANOTHER RECORD DRIVE   Legion Wants Old Dises Te Get Music For Soldiers

New Year Born Amid Prophecies Of Grim, Hard Struggle Toward Victory

Forecasters Look to ‘43  With Hope, but Warn of - Grim Battle Lying Ahead

Grim Struggle Is Predicted   Year of Extremes Seen .As Allies March on Rood to Victory

OFFICIALS PREDICT GRIM & TORTUOUS STRUGGLE IN 1943   Forecasters See New Year As One of Extreme; Nelson Says -Severe Privations On Home Front Necessary To Winning War.

1943 To Be Year Of Victories And Defeats With Entire U. S. Facing Hardships Of Conflict

NEW YEAR IS BORNWHILE ‘NATION WORKS   . Advent Is Received With Variety of Fetes as Victory Pursued   SOTHAM IS DIMMED   “Var Plants Continue, to 7 Fight. on the Home i . Front

Year Of 1943 Is Born Under The Grim ‘Shadow Of War, But Washington Is Hopett ‘That All Will Come Oul The Right Way

Grim 1943 Held Out fo America By Washington   Year of Extremes Is Forecast. By High Officialdom

Nation Faces New Year Of Grim Struggle With — Confidence In Victory

NATION WARNED NEW HARDSHIPS AHEAD IN 1943   But Further Progress In Victory Drive Predicted

Forecast 1943 as Struggle to Victory   War, Economic Dangers Will Peril All Nations; See ‘Allied Triumph

New Year Arrives in Mixture of Emotions, and 1943 Seen By Leaders as One of Extremes in Struggle for Victory

EIN ATASON CITyv      U. a Begins Year of Extremes in Grim Strugesle Toward Victarv

Nation Ushers In New Year 0 Grim War Toil   Leaders Warn Of Hard Road In 1943 Toward Eventual Victory.

GRIM. OUTLOOK  JS SEEN FOR YEAR OF 1943   U. 8. Officials Prechet ‘Real _ Simuggles) :   SEE EXTREMES   Believe Reverses ‘Will “Be Mixed With Mili> tary’ Eripmyhe 

Say 1943 to Be Year of Many Extremes   Officials Predict 365 Days. of  - Grim, Tortuous Struggle Toward Victory; New Type Cargo Ship

Nation Facing Dire New Year   Year Of Extremes Looms In U. 5.5 1942 Passes / ‘Amid Gaiety

NEW YEAR BORN ON NATION EXPERIENCING GRIM AND TORTUOUS STRUGGLE FOR PEACE   New Year Received With Mixture of Gaiety and Revelry; Reverence by Watch Night Thrones In Churches Throughout Nation .

NEW YEAR BRINGS  GRIM STRUGGLE FOR  VICTORY TO AMERICA YEAR OF EXTREMES PRE  DICTED IN WAR AND ECONOMIC LIFE

W ar And Flood Cool Ardor Of Ohio’s New Year Party   Outlook Seems Brighter Than Year Age Although Hardships Are Seen For °43

KNOT PARTY LINES FOR TRADE BATTLE   Republicans Call Meeting. to Put Party Solidly Behind Veto Attempt

GOP LINING UP, ON TRADE BILL   Seek To Get Party Solidly Behind Move To Apply Congressional Check To President’s Trade Author tee

G.O.P. Backs Move to Batik Trade Pacts   ‘Members Called Into Con~ ference to Line Up Solidly Against Plan

OPEN CAMPAIGN IN JAP-HELD BURMA   Arrival Of Lord Mountbatten, Allied Chief, and End Of Monsoon Season Foretells Drive.

BURMA CAMPAIGN NEAR, IS BELIEF   Japs Voluntarily Giving Uf  Kolombangara Island

Allied All-Out Offensive Against Burma in Progress   In the Central Solomons the Japs Are Giving Up Kolombangara.

INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK AFTER — WAR LOOKS UNFAVORABLE   62,400,000 Persons Employed in Industries at Present For Highest Level, Work May _  Continue For Some Years.

BABSON 1S BULLISH ON BUSINESS OUTLOOK   The Rehabilitation Of Europe After The War Will Continue A High Level Of Industrial Activity.

Surprise Air Blow Seals . Jap Doom   Enemy Garrisons at Lae and Salamaua Caught in Trap By Well-Timed Attack

CLOUDS OF AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN TROOPS POURED FROM SKIES  JAPANESE AGAIN CAUGH NAPPING IN SALAMAUA- LAE SECTOR

MACARTHUR TRAP TIGHTENS ON JAPS   Massed Paratroopers Drop From Skies, Close Trap

M’Arthur Sees US Paratroopers Trap 20,000 Japs At Lae   Air Attack Cuts Off Valley Escape Route

Trap Closed On Japanese   Paratroopers, Artillerymen Close Lae Outlet

Paratroopers Encircle 20,000 -Salamaua Japs   Daring Attack Seals Off Markham Valley Escape Route Of Four Divisions

Allies Trap 20,000 Japs   Parachute Troops And Artillerymen Surprise Nips

20,000 JAPS - IN YANK TRAP   Not Likely to Break Thru Ring Around Lae and . Salamaua

Robber Hits Dallas Bank   Nitroglycerine Bottle 1s Used In Robbery

CAR GOES INTO DITCH   Six Sunflower Employes Injured in Accident This Morning

Nazi’s U-Boat Tales Scoffed By Churchill   Allied Fleets Gain, He Says; Enemy Fishes » for Information

LARGER FLEETS AFLOAT NOW --GHURCHILL   Improvement Is Continuing, He Says: Gives No Figures

Eastern States Return to GOP in Off-Year Voting   Democrats Beaten in New York, New Jersey and  Pennsylvania.   Voting Heavier in 7 States Than Expected

Japanese Bomb New Guinea Base, Attack Shipping  Allied and Enemy Patrols Clash in  Salamaua Region

Japs Bomb Allies Base in Flareup Of Aerial Battle   Enemy Is Concerned with Seizure of Village near Salamau

Gen. Eisenhower's Victor Prediction Made Without ‘Is’   Statement Follows British Sinking of Reich’s Scharnhorst

Eisenhower Sees Victory Next Year    ‘We Will Win the European War in 1944,’ General Eisenhower Says

WE WILL WIN WAR IN EUROPE IN 1944 SAYS EISENHOWER   NEW EUROPEAN INVASION COMMANDER MAKES UNQUALIFIED PREDICTION

‘Allied Commander F For Western Invasion De~clares Without Qualification: “We Will: Win The: European War. In-:1944" Speaks Confident Words As attion © Press Attacks On Foe — we

‘WE WILL WIN IN 1944, SAYS EISENHOWER   Allied Commander Confident as Russians and Allies Continue Drives.   Italians Join Croats In Montenegro Battles

TWO BIG DRIVES BY REDS CRASH GERMAN LINES   Yanks Capture Two More Hills And British in Ortona in Fierce Fight in Italy

Director Suggests Drastic Change in Supply System  Vinson Recommends WPB-OPA Scheme To Adjust Buying

Plan To Avoid More Shortage Ir Civilian Goods   Move To Adjust Price Structure As Production Stimulant

To Step Up Goods  For Civilian Use   Also, Frice Agency to Maintain Profits Under a  Strict Formula.

Consumer Goods ~ Field Is Watched  Study Price, Production Program In Nation

Would Adjust Prices Of Low-Priced Items, Avoid Further Shortages.

12 TRANS-ATLANTIC TRIPS IN 13 DAYS ARE MADE BY PAN-AMERICAN CLIPPER

10 JAP BOMBERS IN RAID ON ATTU   Navy Also Reveals Two U.S. Destroyers Are Sunk in Mediterranean

Nippon Raids Attu, But Fails To Hit Target   Navy Araounces Loss Of Destroyers Bristol, Buck In Mediterranean   HIF UNDER WATER   Bombers Attacking In Aleutians Apparently Came From Paramushiro

REPORT LOSS OF TWO U.S. DESTROYERS   American positions in Aleutians suffered no damage from bombs

Worst Is Yet To Come: Grim Months of Fighting Ahead, Marshall Says in Bond Appeal

FOOD STRINGENCY SEEN   A New Four-Year Plan Starts for British Farmers

Some [talians Shooting Nazi ( sidiaie ‘S   Allies Fare Well Except Around Catania, Where Germans Fight Hard

Heart of' Mediterranean Outpost Penetrated by American and Canadian  : Troops Today.      ITALIANS OFFERING LITTLE RESISTANCE

SHIP LAUNCHINGS SPED YESTERDAY   Sunday ive fan Order am Effective J

J. L. Lewis Must Decide On Course   UNION: LEADER APPEARS TO RE DETERMINED TO DEFY GOV'T.

FARM LEADERS CONFIDENT OF BANKHEAD BILL   Two Phasés of Food Problem Bring Capitol Developments

LABOR LEGISLATION, FARM AND FOOD VIEWS CAPITAL ATTENTION   FARM BILL VETO AND AL. LEGED ARMY FOOD HOARDING IN LIMELIGHT

Others Doing The Inflating   Senate Certain to Override But House In Doubt .W   VETO EFFORT TO APPEASE LABOR

FARM AND LABOR FUSSES GO ON   Veto of Farm Price Boosting Bill Has Capital Buzzing; Army ‘Hoarding’ Charged

New Kensington Aluminum Plant Loses Navy ‘F’   Loss of Production As Result of Strikes Given as Navv’s Reason

Demand Swift Action to Sell Federal Wheat   Crisis in Livestock Industries Shows Only 10-Day Feed Supply.   Higher Corn Ceiling Sought by Farm Bloc

Film ‘Pastor Angelicus’ Withdrawn By Fascists; Much Too Pacitfistic

Twelve Miners Trapped By Fire   Rescue Workers Rushed To Accident Scene

NUMBER OF MEN TRAPPED IN MINE   Twelve Miners Of A Crew Of Sixty Are Trapped In Section By Fire; Others Escape.

Twelve Miners Are Trapped By Motor Fire  Others Escape From Flames

BLAZE IN MINE ~ TRAPS WORKERS   From $3 To 15 Stilt In Mine Near Morgantown, W. Va.; Others Made Escape

TWELVE MEN ARE TRAPPED WHEN FIRE [BREAKS OUT IN MINE   {Sixty Men Were At ‘Work Hin Section; Most Escaped

FIRE ‘TRAPS 12 AN W. VA. MINE   Fate of Miners Near Morgantown Not Yet Known

BIG BOMBERS IN CHINA BLAST AT JAPS IN HAINAN   Liberator Commander Says Airport Pretty Nearly Wined Out

U.S. FLIERS MAKE HEAVIEST ATTACK FROM CHINA BASE   New Four-Motored Liberator Bombers Blast Hainan Island Off the’ China Coast and Haiphong in Indo-China

American Bombers Strike Jap Island Off China  Heaviest Onslaught By Yanks From Far Eastern Base

Yanks Rock Nippo Far Eastern Bases   Heaviest Onslaught Ruins Hainan Isle, Haiphong Dock

Hainan Hit by First U.S. Raid   Liberators Strike at Isle In China Sea

Hainan Island Is Pounded By Liberators   Other Major Jap Bases In Far East Are Attacked

MAYOR JOE POTTS DIES LAST NIGHT   ‘Mayer of Pontiac, Mich.. and Married Linton Girl; Well Known Here.

Americans Are In Position Lay  Siege To Bizerte   Haved Moved To Within Ten Miles Town

Troops Are Only 8 Miles From Axis Stronghold   French Keep Pace With Americans As Three Columns Bear Down Upon Vital Lake City; Unrelentless Drive Costing Both Sides  Much Men And Fauinment.

WILL: HEAR COMPOSER   Peter DeRose Will Be the Speaker : at Freshman Assembly

Badoglio Holds Italian Liberation, Establishing Government Chief Tasks

Duce’s Aims Revealed By Badoglio   By Mark S. Watson Distributed by Associated Press

Badoglio Says He Will Surrender ‘His Office as Soon as Nazis Are Driven From Italy

BADOGLIO BLAMES MUSSOLINI FOR PUTTING ITALY-INTO WAR   Chief of State Tells Newsmen That Il Duce Used Dead Italians In A Futile Bid For Power; Expulsion Of Germans Nation’s Prime Objective

WHEFLER LOSING DRAFT BATTLE   Congress Will Not Defer Fathers, Speaker Ray burn Declares

WHEELER FIGHT TO SAVE MEASURE   Committee Counsel Declares 300,000 Non- fathers of Draft Age Working for the Government

Committee Told 300,000 Non-Fathers In U.S. Jobs   Also Some Officials — Of Plants Make Sons Foremen To Keep Them From Being Drafted

Wheeler Fights Great Odds to Beat Dad Draft   Congress Hears Many Draft-Age Non-Father. In Federal Service: Baruch Questioned

Charges Against ‘Plant Officials Aired in Senate   Protecting Sons from Draft Revealed in “Manpower Debate”

300,000Draft Age Men In  Government   SAYS WHEELER IN CROSS EXAMINATION OF BARUCH; CHARGE PLANT HEADS EMPLOY SONS  TO EVADE DRAFT.:   Manv Available

Wheeler Pushes Antidraft Bill   Manpower Inquiry Demand Increases

Many Dodges To Evade Draft Bared In Senate Debate of Fathers’ Dratt

WHEELER BATTLES FOR BAN ON DRAFT   Charges Men Made Plant Foremen to Escape Induction

"HARGES MADE  BY SENATOR AT WIZ ON DRAFT   Wheeler Claims Some Plant Heads Help  Sons in Evasion

"W yee er C1a7ges 2 an: C “-icia.s >romo-ec Sons ‘0 ivace Sra" a aN  3° °°" "on-*acs on Sov’- 20.8

MAIN AFRICAN ACTION STILL FOUGHT IN AIR   Allied Planes Deliver New Series Of Blows At  Axis Bases In Tunisia.

New Allied  Raids On  Tunisia Begin Crahes le Maiav   Gabes Is Major Target As Allies Force Fighting

Chas. Parish  Passes. Away   DECEASED HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS

Attack Greatest In All History   City Never Can Recover From Blow, Neutral Source Observes After More Than 2,300 Tons Of Bombs Fall On German Capital

Blast Berlin in Heaviest Raid of War   1,000 Bembers Drop Loads on All Sections of German Capital

HEART OF CITY 1S RIPPED WITH FIERCE ATTACK   “Berlin Can Never Recover,”” Dispatch to Sweden Declares

Heart of City Destroyed by Aerial Armada   Thousands Dead As Result of Terrific Attack

City Is Aflame / After. Mightiest ‘Of All Attacks   Over 2,300-Long Tons Of Bombs Rained On: - Capital With-Loss Of Only 26 Planes’

British Engulf City With Fire In Record Raid Of All History   Capital ‘Never Can Recover, Swedish Sources Report

HEART OF CITY IN RUINS AFTER HEAVIEST RAID   10,000 Believed Dead Or Injured During Double Attack

HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR STRIKES NAZI CAPITAL HARD BLOW  MONDAY NIGHT’S ATTACK HEAVIER THAN EVER

Mightiest Air Assault in History Heaps Devastation On City; a Mortal Blow?

2.300 Tons OF Bombs Fall On  Nazi Capital      Berlin Correspondents Of Stock holm Newspapers Tell Of Destruction.   [AREAS STILL BURN

Marines.and Infantry Extend New: Pa Offensive, but Still 3,000° Miles fro ‘Tokyo — Russians. Halt  Germa  Counter-Attacks; Claim Big Gains  uf

Nazi Capital. ‘Can Never Recover from This Blow’;  \Engulfed in Sea of Flames

Thousand British, Canadian Planes Pummel Capital   Bomb Load Was Greater Than Any Dropped on Hamburg

Report Devastation Particularly Heavy In Central Sections   (Termed “Terror Raid” By Nazis; Historical Buildings Destroyed; Reveal 26 Planes Lost In Attack

' First Attack Barely Over as Secont  Adds to Horrors—Many Trappee  Qutside Shelters   CITY SEA OF FIRES   Headquarters of Nazi Productior Czar Razed, Many Other Govern. ment Buildings Hit

The RAF Enguifed the German Capital Last Night Wita More Than 2000 Long-Tons of Fire and Devastating Explosives,   DROPPED FROM ONE THOUSAND BOMBERS   Government Buildings and Foreign Legations Were Wrecked; Industrial Area of the City Was Still Burning from Previous Raid.

Airmen Rip Nazi Capital   NEW FORMATION ROARS OUT AFTER RECORD RAID SMASHES VITAL CITY

Night Assault Heaviest Ever Loosed By RAF   Swedish Report Says Nazi Capital ‘Never Can Recover From Blow;’ All Sectors Of City Battered; 26 Bombers Lost

2300 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON NAZI CITY   “Berlin Never Can Recover From This Blow,” Stockholm Reporter Teils Paper   RAID “HORRIBLE,” EYEWITNESS SAYS   Heart of Capital, Suburbs  and Every District Blast ed; 26 of 1,000 Bomb- _ ers Are Lost

10,000 Reported Killed, Injured   Center of Nazi Capital Demolished, Sweden Reports; Hundreds Trapped in Shelters

1,00  _ OF RAF SMASH VITAL TARGETS   @ City, in Flames, ‘Can Neve Recover,’ Reports Say; 26 Planes Lost

10,000 KILLED, INJURED; 1,000 PLANES ATTACK   Swedish Newspaper Declares German Capita! City “Can Never Recover From This Blow”

1 000 BRITISH AND CANADIAN BOMBERS MAKE HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR ONHEART OF BERLIN   Stockholm Correspondent Says Berlin Never Car ‘Recover from Bombing. Preliminary Estimates - Place. Dead and Injured at 10.000

26 Bombers Lost; Smoke Hides City   Heaviest Aerial Bombardment in His tory Rocks Nazi Capital During Night

Estimate German Casualties at 10,000 As 29 Planes Fail To Return, Continue Air Assault Today

1000 Planes Leave Capifal Sea of Flames   . Germans Acknowledg: Destruction of Art And Irreplaceable  LMictarical Ruildinac .

THOUSAND BRITISH  CANADIAN BOMBERS  BLAST NAZI HEART BERLIN TURNED INTO  MASS OF EXPLODING, EIERYV RITING

Heaviest Air Raid In History   Tonnage of Explosives Dropped Exceeds That Loosed Over Hamburg; 26 Planes Are Missing

German Capitol Swept By Flames   First Hand Accounts Come From A Berlin Correspondent of Stockholm Newspaper; Says Berlin Can Never Recover From the Blow.

Stockholm Paper Says Berlin Can’t Recover   10,000 Persons Estimated Dead in Two Attacks, Second of Which Trapped Many

Fires Ravage City Past All Recovery   Fliers Leave Miles of Streets Blazing Under 2,300 Tons of Bombs; Government Buildings, Industry Hit

German Capital Engulfed By Bombs From Heaviest Attack in History.   10.000 DEAD, INJURED

ITY CAN NEVER AEUUVER FULLY, WITNESSES SAY   Terrific Damage Wreaked Upon Germany’s Capital By British Bombers

1,000 RAF BOMBERS BATTER BERLIN.   Thousands Reported Killed; Heart Of City Laid Waste   Fliers Say. Berlin Séa Of Flames   Fires’ Seen Through Solid Overcast Of Clouds For 70 Miles - ..

HEAVIEST BLOW OF WAR WRECKS GERMAN CAPITAL   CITY REPORTED A SEA, OF FLAMES: 26 BOMBERS LOST

Thousand RAF Bombers Attack German Capital   British Unload More Than 2,300 Tons Of Explosives On Berlin In Raid Which Wrecked Government Buildings ‘And Damaged Important Industrial Areas

Believe 10,000 KilledIn Record Raid On Berlin   Nazis Admit Many Die Or Injured By Bombers

‘10,000 Killed Or Injured by RAF Bombers   1,000-Plane Attack Devastates Center of Capital of Germany

Berlin Made Fiery Mass by Allied Bombs   Thousand Planes Drop 2,300 Tons of Bombs on Nazi Capital; Russians Halt German Counterattacks

Heaviest Raid Of War Hits Capital   Reports Assert Heart Of Germany’s First City Torn Out By 2,300 Tons Of Explosive — ~ And Fire Bombs

10,000 Die  in Heaviest  ’ Air Attack in History   Toll May Be Higher and_Allied Planes Return Today. to Continue Assault   GREAT NIGHT RAID BY R.A.F, BOMBER   Government Buildings. and Foreien Legations Smashed by 1,000 Big Bombers ‘-

RAF LOSES 26 PLANES; NAZIS ADMIT DAMAGE   Fleet Probably Made Up Of More Than 1.000 Planes

RAF Drops Tons On Berlin Roofs   HEAVIEST AERIAL RAID -OF WAR STAGED BY BRITISH

1.000 Bombers  Create Lavoe   “We Have Had Horrible Hours,” Nazis Wail; Estimated 10.000 Persons Killed, Injured   Casualty Toll Heavy

Thousand Planes Shower Destruction Upon City; Government Offices Hit

Heaviest Raid Of War On Nazi Capital   26 Bombers Lost In Massive Assault By Allies

Capital of Germany Never Can Recover From Blow, Is Statement of Newspaper Which Tells of Thorough  Destruction.   10,000 Dead or Injured in Two Attacks by Four-Engine Bombers

Nazis Admit Great Damage, Casualties; Allied Losses Total 26 Bombers On All Night Missions; City Can Never Recover, Says Swedish Newspaper Account   

1,000 BOMBERS RIP HEART OUT NAZI CAPITAL   City Is Left Fiery Mass; 10,000 Persons Killed Or Wounded

R.A.F. Masses For Knockout   Dead, Injured in Reich Capital Put at 10,000 as 2300 Tons Of Bombs Spread Devastation

“Berlin Can Never Recover From Thi Blow,” Says Swedish Paper; Flames, Explosions Seen For 70 Miles   Berlin Admits Devastation

German Capital Left in Flames By Big Assault   ‘Can Never Recover from This Blow,’ Survivors of 1000-Plane Attack Say — City Sea of Wreckage

,000-PLANE BRITISH AERIAL FLEET BLASTS HEART OF NAZI CAPITAL IN RECORD ASSAULT   Government Buildings, Forcign Legations Are Hit; Industrial Areas Smashed Again; Only 26 Bombers Are Reported Lost

Destruction Runs Through Heart 93 Saturated City   City Burns Throughout Night, at Least 19,00f Killed and Injured ir “Horrible Hours.”

1.000 Big Bombers  Blast City   Worse Than Even Devastation of  Battered Hamburg.

Govt. Buildings, Foreign Legations Destroyed In Heaviest Aerial Assault In All History.

Heart OF City Laid W asteByRAFBombs   Raging Flames Visible 70 Miles After What Is Described As War's Greatest Aerial Attack; Daylight Sweeps Are Resumed Today

Industrial Area Smashed: 10,000 Killed, Injured  Second Raid Traps Many ¢ On 1 Streets,

Heaviest Aerial Bombardment Lays Waste Much Of Nazi Capital In Short Time   Devastation In Center Of City Particularly Heavy; All Sections Hit; Had ‘Horrible Hours, Swedish Newsman Save

Great Tonnage Of Explosives Rained  On Capital of Reich   Reports Reaching Stockholm Say Mighty Attack Is Heavier Than Even the Greatest Assault Launched on Hamburg   TWENTY-SIX WARPLANES ARE REPORTED LOST

NEW LIST OF MEN   Group of Those Register. ing During January Is Announced

T OF MEN   Group of Those Registering During January Is Announced

1943 Budget For County Set Up By Cole Judges   $135,000 Set Up for Departments Is $6000 Less Than in 1942

COUNTY COURT FIXES BUDGET; TAX HIKE SEEN   Expenses Will Be $6,001  Less This Year; Levy 3  Higher and Valuation Uy . About $551,000

To Return Five Mines To Private Ownership   Called First Step  Toward Ending Federal Possession, Operation;  Properties Not Named

COAL MINES IN OHIO TO BE TURNED BACK   First Step Toward Ending Government Operation

KES TO RETURN FIVE COAL MINE!   First Step To End Government Possession To Be Taken Today

Fulbright Replies to Clare Lu ce Says She Advocates ‘Policy of Grab’

Nation Faces Loss While Others Gain   Tide Now Favors U. S. Britain, But ' Orient Needs Help

teal Danger To United Nations ls That— —By Glenn Babb {  Free China May Be Knocked Out Of The War

70 OF State’s 133 Dailies  Increase Rates In 1945   Reduced Advertising And Mountin  g Expenses of Gathering War-News Arve Still Proble  ms Facing Industry

Allied Forces in New Guinea  List Advances  Long Range Attack Made on Base   Long Range Attack Made on Base by Big Warplanes

ALLIES GAIN IN NEW GUINEA   Last Japanese Positions Are Menaced.

Allied Forces in New Guinea  List Advances  Long Range Aitack Made on Base hu Ria Warnlanes

Chiefs of Staff  Arrive in Quebec   U. S. Officers’ Arrival Hints Churchill Parley

U.S. Leaders Join in  Quebec Meet   Chiefs of Staff Arrive at Canadian City

Americans Reach Quebec To Take Part in Parley:   Roosevelt and Churchill Expected To Get Together Soon

Chiefs Of Staff Sef For Parley:   Early Opening Of Conference Hinted

MILITARY MEN REACH QUEBEC FOR MEETINGS   American And British Chiefs Of Staff Will Map Future Strategy   HULL SAYS SOVIETS WILL BE INFORMED

U. 3, MILITARY AND NAVAL CHIEFS ARRIVE IN QUEBEC   Marshall, King, Arnold and. Others Will Meet With British Chiefs of Staff Today.   PRESENCE SUGGESTS EARLY F.D.R. ARRIVAL   But No Announcement Has Been Made as to When President Will See Churchill.

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Military Chiefs Are in Quebec  F. D. R., Churchill Conference Near

STAFF HEADS INQUEBECTO BEGIN TALKS   Roosevelt and Churchill Parleys Soon Will Begin   ARMY-NAVY HEADS WILL PARTICIPATE   Generals Marshall and Ar. nold and Admiral King Head Delegation

U. S. CHIEFS ARRIVE FOR WAR PARLEY   Presence In Quebec Presage Momentous Conference Between Prime Minister Churchill and Roosevelt   Canada Is Host

Presence of “Americans There Suggests Conterenos : Soon to Begin

WAR PARLEYS TO OPEN SOON   American Staff Chiefs Arrive To Take Part In Momentous Conference

American Chiefs  Arrive in Quebec   Presence Suggests Conferences on War Strategy Imminent

: au TALKS   Roesevelt and Churchil Parleys Soon, Will * Begin :   ARMY-NAVY HEADS _ WILL PARTICIPATE   Generals Marshall and Ar‘nold and Admiral King _ " Head Deleaation —

Military Leaders *Arrive In Quebec For Conference  No Mention Is Made About Churchill-Roosevelt Talks

EARLY START OF PARLEY AT QUEBEC SEEN   American Staff Chiefs Arrive At Scene Of Conferences

WIFE TAKES STAND   Nancy De Marigny Last Witness in Oakes Case; Defense Closes

Senate Beats Ellender Tax Amendment   Would Collect Full 1942 Levy in 10 Semi-Annual -~Installments

Senate Rejects Change   In Cancellation Clause; First Test of Sentiment

AIG 1 PAY-GO TAXING. BILL REJECTED  Provided For For Collection of Full 1942 Tax In Ten Semi-Annual In- . stallments  VOTE IS 57 TO 21     Provided First Senate Test of Sentiment On Can  Provided First Senate Test of Sentiment On Cancelling Income Tax Obligations

Senate. Favors. ~ Tax Abatement   Amendment. Brings Up First Major ‘Test

SENATE FAVORS TAX ABATEMENT   Rejects Amendment to Collect Full Amount At   Future Date

Amendment to Tax Bill Is  Turned Down   First Senate Test Today  On Abatement. of 1942 Taxes.

ABATEMENT OF ~ TAXES LOOMS   Senate, In First ° Test, Kills Ellender’s “Pay - InFull” Program

Amendmentto. Pay- -as-You-Go Bill Defeated   George’s Proposal to Abate 75 Per Cent . Of a Year’s Taxes To Be Voted On

Reject Plan To Collect Full "42 Tax   Expect Vote Later Today on Plan to Abate 75 Per Cent.

SOLONS VOTE DOWN CHANGE IN TAXING BILI   D Reject, by 57-21 Ballot, To Credit Current Payments

NEW PAY-A5-YOU-G0 PLAN IS REJECTED   Senate Now Can Vote on 75 Percent Abatement Pian of Senator George

Livestock, Meat Session Called  Ceiling Prices for   Ceiling Prices for Live Hogs Planned

Three-Day-Old Infant Is Abducted From General Hospital at Albany, Oregon; Search Is Started

Three-Day-Old Girl Kidnaped   Infant Stolen From Hospital Nursery

TWO-DAY OLD BABY STOLEN AT HOSPITAL   Mystery Kidnapping Shocks Oregon Community

Germans Employ Paratroops In Tunisian Valley   Axis Tank Push Stalled Yank Troops Move Up Te Support British

GERMAN PARACHUTE TROOPS DROPPED IN EFFORT WIN TUNISIA   MOST OF INVADERS, HOWEVER, REPORTED QUICKLY MOPPED UP

Yanks and RAF Blast Equipment in Tunisia   Attack Takes Place in Ousseltia Valley Below Pont du Fahs, Where German and Allied Land Forces Continue Fighting.

TRY TO BREAK DEFENSEFROM TANK ATTACKS   Fast Roundup Reported By Headquarters Of Alhes   PURPOSE UNKNOWN   Allies, Nazis Continue Ousseltia Valley Battle

Allies Round Up Chutists   Tunisian Fighting Grows Furious in Southern Sector

NAZI. ‘CHUTISTS FAIL TO BREAK LINE IN TUNISIA   British and American Troops Move In to Help French Forces

German’ Chute Troops i in Tunisia  Are Gathered in by the Allies

AMERICANS THRONG JERUSALEM TO PAY HOMAGE TO CHRIST  JERUSALEM, BETHLEHEM PERMITTED TO LIFT BLACKOUT RESTRICTIONS

NO BLACKOUT ~ INJERUSALEN   For This Xmas, As Amer. ‘ican Soldiers Trave the ‘Trails of the Pas'  “2,000 . Years, Cere. monies ie ;

Americans From Battle Stations Pay Homage ToPrinceOf Peace   Christmas Drama That Has Lived 2,000 Years Reborn: Generals And Doughboys Participate

American Troops Honor Prince Of Peace  At Shrine Of Christianity In Bethlehem

Soldiers Visit Holy Cities   Hundreds Visit Scene x Of First Christmas

U. S. Troops Make Pilgrimage To Shrines of Christendom   From All War Theaters

Throng 'To Holy  Shrines   Thousands of Americar Soldiers Join Other Pilgrims in Visiting Bethlehem. Jerusalem

AMERICANS IN JERUSALEM FOR CHRISTMAS DAY   Soldiers To Get Turkey Dinner At Bethlehem

HOMAGE PAID AT BETHLEHEM   Generals “And Doughboys Visit Gethsemane And Golgotha

AMERICANS OF ALL RANKS VISITING SHRINE OF CHRISTIANITY TO PAY HOMAGE 10 THE PRINCE OF PEACE

' Pay Homage to Prince of Peace   American Soldiers And Others / Make Pilgrimage To Shrine:

YANKS IN NEAR EAST JOIN PILGRIMAGE   (MERICAN FIGHTING MEN OF ALL RANKS VISIT BIRTHPLACE OF PRINCE OF PEACE

Jerusalem Is Thronged With Fighting Men   Doughboys, Generals Walk Elbow To Elbow To Worship King Of Al

Tr ‘OOps Mingle With Pilerims   a ine Of Christianity Ts ‘Visited By Thousands * Before Christmas

Americans Throng to Jerusalem to Pay Homage to the Prince of Peace

Doughboys And Generals Pay Homage.....  Americans Of Ail Ranks Visit Jerusalem Today

Americans At Jerusalem   They Converge on Holy City From All Middle East

BETHLEHEM BURSTS INTO CANDLELIGHT   Drama That Has Lived For 2,000 Years is Reborn With Intense Reality For Doughboys   RESTRICTIONS LIFTED

Yanks Worship In Jerusalem, The Holy Cit   Fighting Men Of All Ranks Pay Homage To Prince Of Peace

Br GLADSWIS HILt.   Americans of All Ranks Throng Scenes of First Christmas

Generals, Doughboys of American _ Army Reverently Visit Jerusalem

AMERICANS AND FRENCH JOINED [N NEW DRIVE   British Overrun Vital Hill District In Push To- ‘  4, Ward Tunis   ROMMEL MISSING   Captured Document Red veals Von Amim Now  Directing Axis

PATTON'S ARMY HITSIN NORTH; GAINS 6 MILES   Americans Move Swiftly into New Area and Launch : Full Scale Attack,   CAPTURED DOCUMENTS: REVEAL ROMMEL GONE

French Troops Join in Three Pronged Drive   Secret Shift Puts Striking Force On Northern Front

Allies Fighting Fiercely For Remaining Tunisian   FRENCH FORCES ONLY 23 MILES FROM NAVAL BASE

Allied Troops Approaching Bizerte;  Rommel Leaves Africa Reports Say

Nazis Apparently Left to Their Fate   Rommel Reported Out Of Tunisia; British -Overrunning Axis Resistance In Drive

Allies Report Rommel Not in Africa   British Overrun Strategic Hill Near Tunis

Army Advances As British Threaten Tunis   French Troops Join Americans To Hit Foe on Three Sides; Montseomery Overruns Vital Hill

AFF Secretly Moves To North Tunisian Front   8th Army Chief lares Rommel Has Left Africa

Yanks Seeretly Transferred From Southern Front In Brilliant Move: 2       Tn Midst : of- New. Ouily

Americans Fight Wat From Hill to Hill, Gain ing 6 Miles, After. Se cret Transfer to North       MARSHAL ROMMEL FLEES FROM AFRIC         British Moving Agains Tunis Capture Vita Long Stop Hill, Key.‘ Coastal Plain.

Yanks Shifted 'To North Zone   Three Columns Closing In On Bizerte: Rommel ‘Gone’

Three-Pronged Drive Closing Pincer On Important African Objective; ‘Fox’ Out, Document Hints

Yanks Launch Full Scale Attack On  Bizerte; Rommel Leaves War Area   Von Arnim Takes Over; Americans Fight Way Toward Mateur; Alexander Says Final Phase of Africa Conflict Is Now Underway

Allies Move Close on Tunis Goal   French, British Act Quickly to Make Three-Pronged Vise

YANAS SHIFT T0 NORTH 10 HELP IN FINAL KILL   British First Army Said to Have Taken  German “Verdun”

Americans Push For Bizerte As" French Move Up   U. S. Artillery Pounds Nazis Night And Day; German ‘Verdun’ Bastion Falls To Bap let Army

AMERICANS PUT SECRETLY INTO AFRICA BATTLE   Transfer of Troops and Supplies From Central to North Sector Outstanding Achievement   FULL-SCALE ATTACK LAUNCHED IN HILLS   Captured Document Re veals Marshal Rommel  _ Has Been Out of Bat tle Since March 19

AMERICANS IN SWIFT ASSAULT UPON BIZERTE   Captured Document Reveals That “Fox’”’ No Longer Commands Axis In Tunisia.

Allied Advance Begins Close-in For Final Kill   Americans launch Full-Scale Attack On Africa Corps

Northern Italy, Germany Raidec   25 U.S. Planes Lost In Ruhr-Rhine Areas

MILAN HEAVILY BOMBED BY RAE   SWISS SAY BLOW WAS ONE OF MOST SAVAGE EVER DEALT BY BRITISH.

JAP CONVOY TURNED BACK   Allies score direct hit on warship; another probably sunk

New Jap Convoy Is Driven Back At New Guinea   Heavy Allied Bomber Attack Is Made—One Warship Believed Sunk   OTHER ATTACKS ARE MADE BY BOMBERS

One Warship Blasted in Night Attack   Enemy Vessels Headed Off Near N. Guinea

FDR RECOMMENDS COSTLY POST-WAR EDUCATIONAL PLAN   Billion Dollar Program Would:-Offer Year's — Training Soldiers _ In Service

Classes Proposed   CONGRESS OKAY ASKED ON POSTWAR COURSE FOR SERVICEMEN, WOMEN

i SUGGEST FREE EDUCATION IFOR SERVICEMEN   Would Provide Year’s School.

FIVE OAY LULL S ENGED: FORTS HIT AT FRANCE   Nazi- Held Air.elds Blast ed; Nine Ships Admitted Lost After Sortie.

ALLIES MAKE HEAVY RAIDS’ “OVER EUROPI   nis TO DAWN SWEEPS INCLUDED WITS ON BERLIN 2 AND MANY OTHER TARGETS

Kansas Labor Law Is Loser  Setback For Effort To Requlate Unions

Labor Wins Ist Skirmish Before Court  State Motion To Halt Litivation

Correspondent Gives Kye Witness Account OF U.S Raid On Japs At Wake

THIRTY ADDITIONAL TOWNS RECAPTURED FROM NAZI INVADERS  DONETS VALLEY SECTOR REACHED IN QUICK ADVANCE ON 25-MILE EFRON’

Battle for Gate to Caucasus Expected to Begin Soon—30 More Villages, Towns Taken, Millerovo, Kamensk Encircled

RUSSIANS SWEEP THROUGH 30 MORE TOWNS T0 DONETS   REPORTS INDICATE BATTLE FOR ROSTOV ABOUT TO BEGIN

Reds Steadily Closing Ring About Rostov   Several Strategic Points on Opposite Flanks Are Captured

Battle to East Bank of Donets River   Sweep Through 30 More Towns—Throw Semi-Circle Around City

BATTLE FOR CITY ABOUT 10 BEGIN   Reds Prepare To Cross Donets, Last Natural Barrier To Rostov

Red Semi- Circle © Around Nazi Base At Rostov Closed   Russia’s Armies Engulf 30 More Towns In Synchronized Drives in the Don. River Region and in the Caucasus

MAJOR BATTLE LOOMS FOR KEY CITY OF ROSTOV   30 More Towns Are Engulfed in Drives of Russian Troops

Battle for City at Mouth of Don Is About to Start   Renewed Activity on Libyan Battlefront; Lorient Bombed

MOVE TOWARD ROSTOV IN A SEMI-CIRCLE   Dispatches From War Front Indicate Battle for City Itself Is About to Begin — River Last Barrier, ale

RED ARMY FORCES SWEPT THROUGH 30 MORE TOWNS TODAY   The Soviets Battled to the East Bank of Donets, It Was Announced.   NEAR TOWN OF KAENSK   Troops Steadily Closed in a Semi-Circle Around Nazi Base.

Reds Fight To East Bank Of Done?s River  Advancing Forces Sweep Through 30

30 Towns in Soviets’ Hands   Indications Battle For Rostov About To Get Under Way.

25-Mile Gain  Forms Circle About Rostov   U.S., RAF Planes Blast Axis From Tunis Skies

‘Indicate Fight - For Rostov to  /  ~ Commence Soon   Climatic Drive Started to Cut Off 500,000 in Nazi Army  TUNISIA DOG FIGHT  American and RAF Planes Blast Enemy in Skies, On Land

SWEEP THRU 30 MORE TOWNS IN VICTORY MARCH   Forces Reach East Bank Donets River  South Of Kamensk

Soviets Back — In Valley Of  Donets River   Close Semi-Circle On Major German Base At Rostov; Battle For City Nearing

30 VILLAGES RECAPTURED IN ADVANCE   Closing In Semi-Circle On Nazi Base Of Rostov   SOVIETS SET   For Drive Across River; Captured Cities Have Strategic Value

DONETS VALLEY PENETRATED BY SOVIET FORGES   Advance on 25-Mile Front, Engulfiing Thirty More Towns in Two Synchronized Drives   REPORTED WITHIN 60 MILES MAJOR GOAL   Battlefront Dispatches Indicate Battle for Rostov Itself About to Begin; Many Nazis Killed

Capture 30 More Towns in Caucasus, ~ Don River Section      Front-Line Reports Indicate Battle for German - Held Sea Base About To Begin

Nazis Admit Great Army Is Trapped   Axis Lose 23 Planes To U. N. Fliers fn Tunisia; Japs Lose Pacific Posts

RUSSIANS BRACEFOR SMASH OVER LAST BARRIER TO ROSTOV   Thirty More Towns Back Under Soviet Banner iIn Drive

Sem1-Circle Around Big  Gasman Base   30 More Towns Fall; Germans Admit Troops In Stalingrad Trapped

SEMI - CIRCLE IS CLOSED AROUND FOE AT ROSTOV   More Than 30 Towns Engulfed In Sweeping New Russian Gains; Soviets Battle Way To East Banks Of Donets  River.

ROSTOV BATTLE NEARS AS REDS NOW CLOSE IN   Thirty More Towns Rescued From Invaders as Soviet Forces Surge Ahead   AXIS HIT IN AFRICA TOO   Aerial Attack Gathering Momentum Against Japs On Many-sided Front

AUSUIANS TAKE HO MORE TOWNS   Battle ta Donets River in Encireling Move Around Rostov.   60 MILES FROM -KEY BASE

Triumphant Soviet Armies Sweep Into Thirty More Towns   Axis Planes’ Blasted From African Skies;  Lorient Pounded   Associated Press War Editor By ROGER fT). GREENE

Semi-Circle Is Closing In On Key Rostov   General Gain Reported By Moscow As Winter Offensive Rolls Germans Back

Allied Warplanes Pound Targets in Western Germany, Holland and Belgium— Flurry of Action on Long-Stalled Libyan Front—Attack Jap Survivors on Papua Peninsula

ON 13 FRESH ~ VEGETABLES   Retail Ceilings Cut : to Guard Against  = JVanwnine

New Tax Plans In The Making  Excess Profits Tax On Incomes Hinted

STUDY TAX ON ‘WAR INCOME   Would Take Greater Share On Increased Salaries

Tax Experts Study Higher  Income Levy   Would Apply Excess Pro fits Principle to Private  Incomes

NEW TAX PLA AIMED TO TAKE WAR PAY HIKES   Treasury Experts Confer With Congressmen to Draft Formula For Getting Revenue   EFFECTIVE IN ’44   House to Begin Study In September, Higher Levy Predicted to Siphon Greater Wages

Plan to Put: New Tax on ‘War Wages   Experts Draft Levy On Increased Earnings To Meet Deht.

New Tax Plan Draft Would Take Profits   Would Apply Excess Principle to Individual

NEW TAX PLAN  ae - BEWIG paRpne   Those With Big Pay Hikes  Would Pay More

Those With War Incomes Would  Pay Higher Tax   Congress And Treasury Go Into Huddle On New Program.

EXPERTS CONFER ON NEW TAX PLAN   SEEK ADDITIONAL LEVIES TO MEET COST OF THE WAR

TAXATION PLAN TO TAP PROFITS NOW CONSIDERED   Persons With War Incomes Will Be Hit Under Scheme

STO HOW TO-TAX HIGHER WAR INCOME   Individuals Who Hi Have. Profite “May. Pay More

NEW TAX PLAN FOR WAR WAGES   Will Draft New Formula for Persons With Increased Incomes.

Aim Tax Study At War Profit   Proposal Would Apply “Excess Profits’ Principal To Individuals.

TAXES MAY CUT BIG WAR PROFIT   Congressional and Treasury Drafting New Formula; No Retroactive Levies

Draft New Tax Formula   Experts to Study Ways To Raise Vast: Sums Needed in Coming Year

REDS OPEN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   Nazis Retreat on 500-Mil Front, Soviet Units in Kharkov Suburbs

RUSSIANS FIGHT IN KHARKOV   City’s Suburbs Scenes Of Fierce Battles; Gain On Bryansk

311 lowans Officially Listed As Missing in African Action   Another Creston Man

Victory-Gardening Families Fight to Last Ditch to Keep Chicago Housing Project From Over-running Plot

utland Fortifications _ Speeded; Italy Dazed   aa Protection Sought As ievasii Worries Increase; Anti-Tank Trench Renorted Made .

Tialians Frightened By Bombings   Attempt To Blast Axis to Knees Appears Underway

Nazis Bolster Defenses as Blow Is Fearec   Italians Pictured as Fleeing Storm of Allied Bombs: Nazis Raid English Coast

Bomb-Scared Civilians Fleeing From Sardinia, Other Italy ‘Toe’ Ports   Abbeville Raided by Americans, as Accumulated Devastation Cripples Axis European Industries; Trapped Japanese on Attu Slowly Being Wiped Out

~~ SERVICE LINES   Extensions Less Than 5000 Feet Are Planned Eirct .

REA To Extend Lines In County Early This Fall   Cooperative Plans To Serve More Farms: With Electricity

~~ SERVICE LINES   Extensions Less Than 5000 ' ~ Feet Are Planned Bivete -5 >

55 NAZITANKS DESTROYED IN SEVSK SECTOR      Russians Meet German Aloft With Equal O1 Slightly Superior Air Might  Raid Nazi Base   May Day Slogans Laud U.S.

Soviets Break Nazi Attaek in Sevsk Sector   29 German Tanks Destroyed in 3-Day Battle; Large-Scale Air Battles Fought

Russians Repulse Three Day Germat Drive near Kursk   Destroy 55 of Attacking Force of 100 Tanks with Artillery

Al) TO THE BAND   Council Rescinds Action Taken at Meeting on July 12

President To Use Power ‘As Commander If Appeal Is Unheeded On Saturday

If Miners Do Not Return by 10 A. M. Saturday, President Says He Will Use All His Power to “Protect The National Intesect?!

Saturday Morning Is Set As Deadline For Men to Return Under Threat of Intervention

I’. R. Orders Miners To End Strike   President Will Declare Mar.  tial Law

Roosevelt Orders Mine Strike Ended By10A.M.Saturday   Strongly Worded Telegram Sent John L. Lewis Demanding End Of Shutdown

FDR, Just Back from Trip, Brands Strikes as Inter- © ference with the War Effort.      LEWIS’ ACTION IS  _ CHALLENGE TO GOV'T

President Sets Deadline Saturday; Appeals to Men To Return to Their Jobs

Roosevelt Steps Info Growing Mine Crisis   Threatens Full Use of Power Unless Work is Resumed

10 O’Clock Saturday Deadline Sent To Stop Strikes Against U. S,.’

WORKERD GIVEN UNTIL OATURDAY TO RESUME JOBS   Warns John L. Lewis He Will Use Powers ToKeep War Work Going

Saturday Is Fixed As Deadline To End Strikes Over U.S.   Strongly Worded Telegram To John L. Lewis  From President Warns Interference With  War Production Not To Be Tolerated  

CALLS ATTENTION TO INTERFERENCE WITH WAR PLANS   Will Exercise Powers as Commander-In - Chief Te Prevent General Strike In Soft Coal Area.   ALLEGED STRIKE ORDER BRANDED AS TREASON   Lewis, Still In New York City, Refuses to Comment on President’s Order Until He Sees Messaae.

Wires Lewis and. Kk  nedy to. Submit Wag Dispute to WLB.            SEES VIOLATION — NO STRIKE PLE       CU RE ESS 8 Oe ee eee  Says Men - “Who © H Struck: Are — Defyin  Government 

Blunt Order Contained in Wire fo Lewis   President Calls it Strike Against U. S.; Deadline is Saturday

Saturday Set As Deadline In Coal Tieup   President To Act If Miners Refuse To Resume Work

Dispute Over  Waces Goes To President   Charges Strikes Direct Violation of -Pledge and Interferes With War

Warning Given Coal Workers By Roosevelt    Deadline Set by Executive for Return to Jobs or Action by Him To Prevent Interference with War Effart

More Than 65,000 Miners Already Have Stopped - Work. Roosevelt ‘May  Intercede.

USE OF TROOPS _ MAY BE NECESSARY   Strikes “Against Government Itself” Says President Roosevelt

President Sets Saturday At 10 To Halt Strike   Messages Sent To Lewis And Kennedy By Roosevelt Today   WARNS STRIKE IS AGAINST NATION

Calls Walkouts ‘Strikes Against U. S. Government Itself.’   SATURDAY {S DEADLINE

SATURDAY A DEADLINE SET BY PRESIDENT   Says If Order Is Ignored, He Will Use Full Power To Secure Action   ASKS WLB HANDLE CASE   Strikes Classed As Direct Interference With Prosecution Of War

10 USE POWERS TO KEEP MINES IN OPERATION   Calls on Lewis and Ken nedy to Submit Their  Case Over Wage De  mands to WLB   ‘NO STRIKE PLEDGE” VIOLATED, IS CLAIM   Strikes, President Says, Are Not Merely Against Employer, But United States Government

UMW Is Forcefully Reminded It Has Defied WLB Order On Panel Hearing

ROOSEVELT APPEALS MINERS RETURN TO WORK IMMEDIATELY   SETS SATURDAY 10 A. M. AS DEADLINE FOR ACTION IN CRISIS

President Takes  A Hand in Strike   Roosevelt Gives Coal Miners ‘Until Saturday To Re sume Work   70,000 MEN ARE OUT   Chief Executive Says Walkout Is Against U. S: Government

President Terms Walkouts of 70,000 Miners “Against the United States Government Itself,” in Making An Fdict.   Senate May Act to Authorize U.S. to Take Over Struck Plants

Roosevelt Sets Deadline at 10 A. M. Saturday for Return to Mines Before Acting as Commander-in-Chief

Strikers Given Until Safurday To Resume Work  Fall “Powers” Will Rae Fmnlaved. Chief   Fall “Powers” Will Be Employed, Chief Warns UMW Gronn

Fixes Deadline on Their Return to Work — Noe Hint of Possible Action

President Appeals To Miners To Return; Threatens Action; Saturday Is Set As Deadline ©   Threatens To Use ‘All’ Power To Prevent Interference With War Effort

lans Action Unless Miners  Back To Job:   Wage Dispute Turned Over To Roosevelt After Lewis Ienores WLB.   USES FULL AUTHORITY

MINERS GIVEN UNTIL SATURDAY TO GET TO WORK   Ten O'clock Saturday Morning Is Deadline Set By Chief; More Than 70,000 Miners Now Idle.

SETS DEADLINE ‘IN TELEGRAM TO DEFIANT LEWIS   ee), cals Recsevelt Appeals “As Friend” Of Miners Work Stoppages par

Lewis Ordered To Send Miners Back To Posts      Saturday Morning Deadline Set For _ Resumption of Work

THE PRESIDENT IN AN ULTIMATUM TO COAL MINERS   Deadline Set for 10 o’Clock Saturday Morning to Return to Work.   IS READY FOR ACTION   Roosevelt Will Use All His Power to Protect Na- _  tional Interest.

Otherwise He’ll Use  All His Power to Protect Country .  —__y REVIEWS CASE  Veo,  ‘Sends Identical Tel. egrams to Lewis and Kennedy

Lewis Warned _ Mining Of Coal  Must Continue   73,000 Miners Already Out On Strike; WalkOut of 450,000 Feared by Midnight Friday When Contract Expires

Sets Saturday Deadline; Will Use Full Power To Avert Tieup   Terms UMW Walkout Direct Interference With War

IDLE MINERS ARE TOLD TO RETURN   .. Ready To ‘Use All Powers’ As Nation’s Chief

PRESIDENT GIVES OUT HIS ORDER   Executive Says That Work Must Be Resumed at Mines by 10 A. M. Saturday.

Use of Power ‘AsArmyChief _ Threatened  ‘Union Urged to Submit  Case to War Labor  Board  VIOLATE PLEDGE ‘Strikes Called Direct’ In ; terference With War Befort

WILL TAKE ACTION AS WAR CHIEF IF IDLE AT 10 A.M.    Worntag Given Lewis in Statement Declaring Walkouls Are Strikes Against  qd Hisarenmannt

Action Called Strike Against Government   President Sets 1O A M. Saturday Deadline For Compliance

FIXES 10 A. SATURDAY AS MINE DEADLINE   Informs Miners Hell Use Full Powers After  That Hour   FDR IS FACING TEST,   Major Part of Nation’s War Production Is Threatened

COAL STRIKE MUST END, F.R. WARNS   President Wires Ultimatum To John L. Lewis

DEADLINE SET FOR SATURDAY BY PRESIDENT   Lewis’ Men Told to ind “Strike Against U. S. Government”

Gives Miners Until 10 a. m. Saturday To Return To Work   If They Don’t Comply He Promises to Use His Powers As Commander In Chief

F.D.R, Warns Miners to Work  10 A.M. Saturday  C..s .. PF. .. Jt. ]

President Gives Coal Strikers Ultimatum   Deadline Set at 10 o’'Clock Saturday Morning to Return to Work; Bill Would Empower Seizure Where Strikes Occur.

WALKOUTS TERMED ‘STRIKES AGAINST UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ITSELF   10 A. M. Saturday SetAs Deadline For Miner: To Return to Their Jobs or Action by President to Prevent Further Interference With War Effort.

Asks Miners To Return To Work   If Miners Do Not Return by 10 A. M. Saturday, President Says He Will Use All His Power to “Protect The National Interest”’

SETS DEADLINE AT 10 O'CLOCK SATURDAY A.M.   Wage Dispute Turned Over to President By Labor Board

His Appeal. Is Made As Their Friend   Terms Walkouts-. ‘Strikes Against the United States Government?   ‘CLEAR VIOLATION’-OF NO STRIKE PLEDCE   Asks Men to.Return by Saturday and Let ‘Labor: -‘Board Handle Case: >...

Appeals To Miners’  Patriotism      Tells Them to Resume Work by 10 A.M. Saturday

Roosevelt Sets Deadline For ~ Mine Strikers   Ultimatum Is Coupled With Appeal Not To  Slow War Effort 7

President Will Act :: ‘After 10A.M. ,UMW Chieftain Is Warned   Walkouts Not Only Against Ow nergy ‘But Against Government Itsel ae  Tb averte Told j +) White House Messae

WILL PROTECT WAR INTEREST AFTER MAY 1   Workers Have Until 10 A. M, Saturday To Return To “Work

Terms Strikes Move Against United States   Declares He Will “Use All the Powers Vested In Me As President and Commander-In-Chief, To Protect the National Interest”

Deadline Set For Return to Work by Miners   President Voices Appeal for Men To Return to Jobs

ARMY ACTION ~ S FORECAST “IN MESSACI   PRESIDENT GIVES MINERS UNTL “18 O'CLOCK -SATURDAY MORNING. TO GO BACK TO THER WORK

Appeal Made To Soft Coal Miners By . FDR   SETS “DEADLINE  Threatens To Use Full Power To Protect . Nation

SATURDAY FIXED ‘AS DEADLINE FOR OBEYING DECREE   eee eee  Message Asks Workers To Leave Case With Labor Board For Decision

STRIKES ARE AGAINST U. S. GOVERNMENT ITSELF, FDR SAYS IN MESSAGE TO LEWIS   President of United Mine Workers Refuses to Comment on Directive

Plans To Use His Powers If  Appeal Fails   Calls On Lewis, Union To Permit Board To Handle Affair; 70,000 Alreadv Idle

Inject FDR in Coal Fight      War-Time Powers of President Tested as WLB Gives Up Mediations

‘Must Return to Work (By 10 A. M. Saturday Is Presidential Order

NATION AWAITS INITIAL MOVE » BY PRESIDENT   Wage Controversy Likely To Result In Use Of U. S. Troops   LEWIS MUM ON PLANS   teen a nencnnemeinen  ’ Total Of 61,000 Sappers Already Engaged In “Silent Strike”

If Operations in Bituminous Coal Regions Are Not Resumed by Deadline, Chief Executive Asserts He Will Use All His Power to ‘Prevent Further Interference’ With the War Effort.

FD Gives Miners Until Safurday fo Return to Jobs  President Says He'll Then Use

DEADLINE NEAR IN NATION-WIDE MINE SHITOQWI   Lewis Refuses To Give In To WLB  Wave Prorosals ‘> ba

FD Orders Mines Qnen Saturday Or He Will Act   Miners Are Striking Against The U. S. Government, He Charges

Given Until Saturday ©   10:00 A. M. SATURDAY IS FINAI ‘DEADLINE SET IN STRONGLY: WORDED EDICT TO JOHN L: LEW

New Offensive Line Taken By  Russian Troops   Reds Break Through ~ German Defenses In  Advance Above Orel

2,000 Tons of Bombs Dumped in Hour’s Raid That Costs British 38 Of Its Huge Bombers   37,000 GERMANS REPORTED HOMELESS  100,006 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Germany Since Conflict Becan

R.A. F. Stages Record Raid On Dortmund   2,000 Tons of Bombs Are Dumped on City; 38 Raiders Are Lost

37,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS IN CITY PRODUCING MUCH OF GERMANY’S WARPOWER; HEAVIEST AIR RAID IN HISTORY. vf :

RAF Makes Record Attack on Dortmund   Over 2,000 Tons of Bombs Rained on Big Industrial City in Ruhr Causing Great Damage; 38 British Bombers Are Lost

Record Air  Raid Made on German City   Dortmund Js Hit by  More Than 2000 Tons We Tee Ee

New Record Set By RAF Assault   War’s Worst Raid Lashes Dortmund

Heaviest Raid In History  Stuns Nazis   RAF Hurls More Than 2,000 Tons of Big Bombs on Dortmund, Primary Source of Enemy’s Power for Conflict

ortmund Blasted ith 2,000 Tons fR.A.F. Bombs   itish Report Greates Air Attack in History on Nazi City   so Pound Other Posi: ions; Lose 38 Big Bombers in Raids

Daring Bombers Fire Dortmund;  Hit Ruhr Valley   Raiders Drop 2000 Tons of Busters Incendiaries in Record Drive; Batter Down Antiaircraft Forces

RUHR CITY HIT BY 2,000 TONS OF BIG BOMBS   BRITISH AIR ATTACK RATED HEAVIEST IN HISTORY

RAF BLASTING “ OF DORTMUND   7-000 Tons of Bombs Devastate German Industrial City

RECORD SETIN RAF BLASTING * OF DORTMUND   fr000 Tons of Bombs Devastate German Industrial City

RAF BEATS DOWN RUHR DEFENSES IN RAID ON DORTMUND   Two Thousand Tons of Bombs Dropped in Unprecedent--ed Assault — Great  Blazes Started.   BRITISH SKY FLEET LOSES 38 PLANES   Nazi Fire-Fighting and Civilian Defense Forces Said ' to Have Been Caught Off Guard.

HEAVIEST FLAK BEATEN DOW N: 38 CRAFT LOST      More Than 8 Pounds For  Ever Person In Big  Industrial Center — Loosed By Fliers   New Attack Indicated

LARGEST RAID IN HISTORY IS MADE BY RAE   2000 Tons of Bombs Droppec On Industrial City of Dortmund   BATTLE WORLD’S THICKEST ANT- AIRCRAFT DEFENSES

40 CITIZENS HEAR ABOUT RECREATION   J. Patrick Rooney of "Na‘ tional Association Gives — 7 Address   INOT A FEDERAL: AGENCY

40 CITIZENS HEAR» ABOUT RECREATION   J. Patrick Rooney of "National Association Gives Address  —_ «* ee oe a Pie EPG NIN Kee Se ji Mmeememaee £¢ eam

Planes raid enemy coastal shipping, railway targets; five supply ships damaged   Score five-to-one victory over axis fishter craft in all-day offensive

Enemy Vessels in Straits.  PARAMUSHIRU ONLY 1200 MILES OF TOKIO  American Troops Reach Outskirts of Munda on New Georgia.

LIBERATORS BLAST AT PARAMUSHIRU   First Report 2 Navy of Raid On Jap Base

Amount Available Isn’t Guaranteed  Just Because You've Points Means Nothing

Rationing Doesn’t Mean Ample Supply Ot Meat Next Week   Livestock Not Ration Book, Source, Packers Point Out; Can Points May Go Farther

No Guarantee Giver Of Meat Supply  Product Comes From   Product Comes From Livestock, Not Ration Books. Packers Say

Meat Comes From Livestock, Not Ration Books; Amount Available Isn‘t Guorenteed

MEAT PAGKERS SEE NO SHORTAGE HELI   Claim U. S. Buying To Check: mate Rationing

Ii) Threatens Plan Of Point Ration:   Govt. Will Take 30-80 P.C. Of All April Production, More As Army Grows

Remember Meat Comes ‘From Livestock Supplies, Not From Your Ration Books

BUYING MEAT IS STILL PROBLEM, PACKERS REPOR)   Rationins Points No Assw:2nce Of Gettins Meats

Packing Industry Offers Timely Advice to the Public   PRODUCTION SLUMPS

Note [o Housewives:  Meat Comes from Livestock  ‘And Not from Ration Books   April Stamps Valid Today But OPA Hints They’ll Be Worth More Next Month

Rationing No Guarantee for Meat; Markets Still Have To Get Stocks

27 Coal Miners Given Probation  By U. S. Judge  SF foo Lanions Ute Van   *TAie Lenient With You, US. Judge Aroies, PPh scascurs lalissk”

Suspended Sentences and Probation For 27 Miners under Anti-Strike Act

CONTINUE IN AREAS   Russian Army Forges Ahead and Germans Are in Wild Flight in Sectors...

CAUCASU  OFFENSIVE CLOSING IN ON NAZIS   Main Axis Defense Points Are Threatened   RETREAT BECOMES ROUT   Capture Of Georgievask Is ‘ Held Important Gain

Red troops drive in from two directions; Cossacks make 13-mile night gain

NAZI HETREATMAY RUN INTE HUOOIAN THAR   German . Withdrawal from Some Sectors Close to Becoming Rout.   REDS DRIVING TOWARD ARMAVIR, VOROSHILOVSK

Twin Drives May Cut Of Many Nazis   Berlin: Admits Situation Now Serious One”

Russians Advance in Caucasus   Threaten to Cut Off Enemy Withdrawal—Near Stra tegic Towns

Cossacks Mareh 13 Miles During Night of Attack   Russians Press Closer to Greatest Victories of Winter Offensive

Germans Admit Reverses   Fleeing Forces of Axis Facing Closed Trap

CONTINUE TO ADVANCE   13 Mile Gain Made By Cossacks In the Caucasus

U. S.Commander Says Allies in Final Phase   Planes Pound Axis é Preparation for the Death Blow

SUGAR STAMPS TOBE IN BOOK 4   Stamp 29 to Be Good Until Jan. 15, 1944; Book 4 to Be Distributed Soon

BOOK 4 FOR SUGAR   Stamp 29 In New Book To Be Valid For Sugar Noy. 1

Brief Sessions Held Today At Which Mostly Local Business Is Taken Up; Extra Funds For Hospitals Approved.

Yanks Capture Caltanissetta,  In Mid-Sicily   British Only 3 Miles From Strategic Catania; Canadians Advance.

ALLIED ) FORCES GAIN IN SICILY   Yanks Capture Caltanisset ta; British Near Catania

SEIZE VITAL TOWN, SPLIT ENEMY FRONT   British Eighth Army, Meanwhile, Captures Some of Most Important Strong Points of Catania’s Defenses.

Yanks Capture Caltanissetta In Mid Sicily Push   British Seize Some ©} Catania's Defense Key: Three Miles From City

15 States Eyed By Republicans   Control of Both Houses Hoped For

The Results of 1943 Electiors Have Encouraged  Republican Leaders To. Hope For More Successes.

GOP AIMING AT FIFTEEN STATES   REPUBLICANS HOPE “TO CONAROL BOFH HOUSE AND SENATE

House Control. ‘Is GOP Target   Republicans Confident Of Getting ‘Majority In_ “1044 Rallop

With House Apparently Cinehed, Republicans Draw Bead On 15 States For Senate Seats In 1944 Campaign.

VICTORY-FLUSHED 6. 0.° EYEING 15 STATES: HOPES TO CONTROL CONGRESS

ith Help of Anglo-American Allies—  REDS EXPECT TO CRUSH NAZIS IN YEAR

Reds Confident Of Win  Before Next Anniversary   Tunisian Victory, Russian Offensives And New Weapons Make Them Optimistic

Ten Airmen Killed in Army Transport Crash   Transport Wrecked i in Landing Mishap at © Indiana Airport

10 DIE AS ARMY PLANE CRASHES WHILE LANDING   Aircraft Burns After Accident at Evansville, Indiana Airport

12 Men Killed ‘In Plane Crash   Accident Occurs as Army Plane Attempted To Make Landing

10 Killed In Crash Of Army Plane   Withhold Names Until Next of Kin Are  Notified

12 ARMY FLIERS DIE IN CRASH   Plane Stalls Just Before Landing—Flames Flare on Evansville, Ind., Field

12 Army Men Dead In Plane Crash At Evansville, Ind.   Names are Withheld Until Kin Is Notified: Craft Burned

10 KILLED, ARWIY MAJOR REPORTS AFTER ACCIDENT   Flames Destroy Plane At City’s Landing Field

Army Transport Plane Wrecked At Evansville   Names Of Victims Are Withheld By WU. S. Wor Department

ARMY AIRPLANE FALLS, KILLING DOZEN PERSONS   Stalls When Pilot Decides  to Make Another Circle  of Evansville, In-.  diana Airport   FIRE DESTROYS SHIP   Two Men Thrown Clear of Ship Are Killed; One - Was Pilot; Other Names Withheld

10 Men Killed In   Army Plane Crash  Pilot Apparently Making Circle Of Field

12 Killed In Crash  me A werszr DI...  WA SAL Uy © IGIC   Crashed And Burned While Making Landing __ ~ At Airport.

10 Army Fliers Killed In Crash   Accident Occurs During Routine Flight

NO NAMES REVEALED THURSDAY   Information Is Withheld  _ Until Relatives Are Notified — Type of Plane Undisclosed.

Plane Crash Kills 10   Army Ship Burns Up After Crash Landing At Indiana Airport

12 ARE KILLED IN PLANE CRASt   Mishap Occurs at Indiana Airport As Army Pilots Makes Landing

Ten Men Killed in Army Plane’s Crash at Evansville, Ind      Names of Victims of Midnight Tragedy Withheld by Official

(A) MIEN KILLED IN AAMY PLANE CRASH   Ship Falls and Burns in Trying to Land at Evansville. Ind.

Twelve Killed As Army Plane  Loses Control   Bursts Into Flames After Crash At Evansville, Ind., Airport

CRASH KILLS 12   Army Airplane Cracks Up as It Comes In at Evansville.

CRAOH OF ARMY PLANE KILLS 17   Mishap Occurs As Craft Is Making Landing At Evansville, Lud.

50 Mile Drive Flanks Japs; Guadalcanal   Americans Now Within 5 Miles of Enemy Headquarters on Island

AMERICANS IN SURPRISE MOVE ENCIRCLE CAPE:   Navy Has No News Of Sea And Air Battles Reported Shaping Up   SALAMAUA IS MENACED   Allied Aerial Forces Smash At Nippon Island And Burma Bases

Americans Set To Strike Japs Hard  Blow, Guadalcanal!   Flank Movement Places Troops Near Esperance

Jap Headquarters On Guadalcanal Target of Yanks   MacArthur's Forces Nearer to Salamaua New Guinea Base

U.S. FORCES CLOSING IN ON DWINDLING JAPANESE ON GUADALCANAL ISLAND   40 or 50 Mile Overland Thurst Puts Allied Forces in Strong Striking Position Against Japanese Main Baise at Titi on Northern Coast

‘American Troops Advance Within 5 Miles Of Japs’ ‘Main Base On Gaudalcanal

AMERICANS GAIN IN GUADALCANAL   Flanking Move Threatens Enemy Headquarters

AMERICANS WIN NeW POSITION IN SOLOMONS   Flanking Attack Pushes Ta Within Five Miles Of Jap Headquarters

Japs Blasted On 2 Islands  Guadalcanal GHQ Is D1... Ob. 4...I....

1 $. TROOPS IN 5-MILE ADVANCE (ON GUADALCANAL   No Further Light On Report Of Shaping faa Ratti

U.S.FORCES FLANK JAPS ON GUADALCANAL   Take Strong Position on Northwest Coasi—Allies Menace Salamaua __ Alter Aerial  Victory... (Sunes

ARMY CLOSING IN ON JAPS   Flanking Movement Put U.S. Forces in Strong  Striking Position -

Swift Flanking Thrust Tightens U. S. Ring  Around Japanese   Americans Now In Strong Striking Position Only Five Miles From Enemy Headquarters On Cape Esperance On Guadalcanal

Poise U.S. Force In Siriking Spot On Guadalcanal   50-Mile Overland Thrust Accomplishes Flanking Move In_ Northwest

Move Flanks Jap Position   ‘U.S. Troops Within Five Miles of Nip Stronghold in Selomons

JAPS FLANKED  IN NEW DRIVE   U. S. Troops Gain on Guadalcanal and Also in New Guinea.

Yanks Flank Japanese On Guadalcanal   U. S. Trcops Now In Strong Position In The Northwest   No Additional Light On Naval Engagements   Americans Report Successes Against Japs In New Guinea

FLANKING MOVE CATCHES JAPS   American Troops Are Placed In Strong Position

Japs Flanked By Americans  In Solomons   Enemy Appears Trapped; New Guinea Drive Continues

U. S. TROOPS IN POSITION FOR VITAL THRUST   ‘MacArthur's Force Menace Salamus; RAF Blasts  Rangoon

M’ARTHURPLANES CLEAR SKIES FOR ALLIED ADVANCE   AMERICANS WITHIN 5 MILES OF JAPS’ HEADQUARTERS

Jans Caught In Pocket on Guadalcanal   U. S. Flanking Move Squeezes Enemy at  Tip of Island

Allies Closing in On Japs   Maneuvers Into Advantage Near Guadalcanal Base.

U.S. Outflanks Japanese Units On Guadalcanal   Navy Still Silent On Developing Sea Clash In Solomons

Outflank Japs At Cuadaleana!   Yanks Drive io Within 5 Miles of Foe’s H. Q.

Yanks Closing In on Japs   Guadaleana! Troops Only Five Miles From Enemy Headquarters

US Troops Near Cape  Fenerance   Flanking Movement Puts US Forces in Strong Striking Position Just Five Miles from Jap Headquarters

U, 5. UNITS GAIN STRONG GRIP ON GUADALCANAL   Just Five Miles from Japanese Headquarters on Cape Esperance

WIN STRONG POSITIONS ON 'GUADAL'   Drive Within Five Miles Of Enemy Headquarters

Americans Gain Strong Position On Guadalcanal   No Word Given On Air and Sea Movements

Americans Gain On Guadalcanal   Sudden Flanking Movement Puts Yonks In Position to Strike

FLANKING MOVE HAS PUT U. 5, TROOPS IN STRONG POSITION  NO EVIRTHER LICHT HOW

50- Mile Advance Made By Yankees On Guadalcanal   Fleets Still Spar And No Major Contact Is Yet Reported

Yanks Gain New Position In Solomons   Report Indicates Americans Closing in on Dwindling Jap Forces   RESISTANCE IS MILD

Americans Close In On Japanese   U. S. Forces Take New Positions On Guadalcanal

U.S. TROOPS IN STRONG POSITION   Flanking Movement Puts American Forces In Good Striking Position In Guadalcanal; Japs Hard Hit.

Yanks Make A New Thrust On Guadal   Position Strengthen. ed By Sweeping Flank Move

YANKS SET TRAP IN SOLOMONS   Advance Through Jungle Is Accompanied by Renewed Allied Aerial Assaults

Yanks Nearing Main Jap Base On Guadalcanal   Close In On Cape Position; Also Menace Salamaua On New Guinea.

5. TROOPS GAIN STRONG POSITION ON GUADALCANAL   Americans Within Five Miles of Enemy Headquarters; Allied Airmen  cs eT Sk career ts

Yanks Outflank Solomon Nippos   Guadalcanal Force Is Poised for Kill

Yanks in Thrust Against Nippons   They Win Strong Positions on Northwest Coast of Guadalcanal.

Outfiank Japs On Guadalcanal  Apparently Closing   Apparently Closing In on Dwindling Forces on Island

TORPEDOES COST $10,000 TO $12,000 BUT NAVY SAYS THEY ARE WORTH IT

Navy Figures to Get Big Return from 3-Ft. Torpedoes Costing Over $10,000

ONLY ROSES FEATURED AT SHOW   Many Visitors on Hand to View Lovely Display.

Hull Lavishes Praise On China   Speaks On Anniversary of Manchuria Dispute

HOLT IS CHAIRMAN FOR TOWN MEETING      Gov. Sparks Names County Officer

Kiska Is Bombec Four Times in Day  American Warships Join with Shells

U.S. Warship Shells Enemy Positions On Kiska Again    American Drive To Re-capture Strongly Fortified [Island Is Held Imperative This Year For Thrusts At Japan Proper

U.S. Warship Shells Kiska   Fourth Surface Attack On Enemy Base In An Ejight-Day Period

LIGHT WARSHIP BOMBARDS JAP KISKA DEFENSES   Fourth Surface Attack Made on Enemy Held Teland in Ficoht Davs

TIME SHORT FOR DRIVE ON KISKA   ALEUTIAN STRATEGY . DECLARED HINGING ON WEATHER CONDITIONS

NAVY BOMBARDS JAP POSITIONS ON KISKA BAY   Operations May Presage New Attacks On Japan's Toe-Hold There

Navy Reports Surface Unit Bombards Japanese on Kiska for Fourth Time

RECAPTURE OF KISKA ISLAND IMPERATIVE   Responsible Opinion In Washington Says Time Is Growing Short   WEATHER BIG FACTOR

WARSHIP SHELLS SAPS ON KISKA      Attacks May Presage an Amphibious Assault by Troops

Yank Warship Shells Kiska   Might Presage an Amphibious Assault On Jap-Held Island

—ALEUTIANS—  TIMEFORORNE GROWING SHORT   Fourth Navy Attack On Enemy Base In EightDay Period   MUST ACT SOON   Recapture Of Strategic Island May Be Sought Soon By U.S.

Japanese Are Given  Another Severe  Attack at Kiska Isle Warship Shells Area With Impunity; Conquest Expected

With Fierce Weather Impending, U. S. Drive To Retake Kiska Imperative   Amphibious Attack On Aleutian Island Seen As: Logical Follow Up Of Conquest Of. Attu Month. And Half Ago.

Bombardment Stirs Speculation Invasion of Island May Be Imminent

American Warship Bombs Positions Of Japs on Kiska  Time Grows Short For U. S. Offensive Against Island Base

Time to Attack Kiska Growing Short as Weather Changes from Bad to Worse   ‘By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER)

Weather Conditions Slated To Force Early Invasion If Kiska* Base Is Seized

Allies Close In On Munda; New Attack Started   Americans In Ful!  Charge Of Drive

ON KISKA HIT      Time for Offensive Against Enemy in Aleutians is Growing Short.   WINTER WEATHER HARSH

Assault on Kiska May Come Soon   Another Bambardment by Warship Reported by Navy; May Precede a Landing   TIME FOR ACTION GROWING SHORT   Weather Conditions Make It Necessary That Any Drive Begin Soon

JAP POSITIONS ON KISKA ARE RAIDED BY YANK BOMBERS   Four Attacks Conducted Thurs. day; Surface Shelling is Also Reported

Time Is Short For Attack on Kiska Islanc   ‘Weather Will Soon Prove Effective Block to Any i US. Landing

TIME GROWING SHORT FOR BIG DRIVE ON KISKA   Operations Must Begin At Once If Strategic Japanese Base In Aleutians Is To Be Recaptured This Year.

AMERICAN GUNBOAT SHELLS JAPANESE POSITIONS, KISKA   is Fourth Surface Aasault on Nipponese Base in Eight Days—There .Was No Return Fire Navy Reports

NAVAL VESSELS BOMBARD KISKA   Conquest Of Last Enemy Toehold In Aleutians May Be Under Way

ARMY BOMBERS . RAID JAPS ON . KISKA THURSDAY   Several Fires Started Among Enemy’s AntiAircraft Installations

Time Grows Short For Drive on Kiska   Offensive Must Be Started Soon on Island If It Is to be Recaptured from Foe This Yea

KOKA 15 RAIDED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Jap Positions Are Attacked Four Times; Fires Are Started

KISKA ISLAND HIT BY NAVY   Attack Possibly Aimed At Preparing For Conquest

Little Time Left If Kiska Is To Be Regained In °43   ‘ Associated Press )

Time s Short For An Attack On Kiska   Weather Conditions Will Soon Make Invasion Difficult

Assault Is Fourth Sur‘face Blow Against Enemy Installations in Eight Days—May Presage an Invasion.

Time Waning For Offensive Against Kiska By U.S. Force   Weather Will Soon Make Impossible An Attack; Enemy Can Be Starved And Frozen Ou

KISKA DRIVE  ~ [SIMPERATIVE   Fierce Weather Ahead Must Bring Recapture Soon

TIME SHORT FOR U.S. DRIVE ON KISKA THIS YEAR   Japs Have Strong Defense Installations on Island, Also 10,000 Men

KISKA SHELLED AGAIN   American Ship Again Steams tna for Concentrated Bombardment

WEATHER HOLDS KEY TO KISKA   Observers Feel Early Assault Necessary If Base Is To Be Eliminated

DUE TO WEATHER, TIME SHORT FOR U.S. TO TAKE OFFENSIVE AGAINST KISKA DURING 1943

Americans Must Strike Quickly to Take Kiska  ‘Ry JOHN MW RICWVTOWED

RETURN OF STALIN ADDS. SIGNIFICANCE TO TRIPLE PARLEY   Soviet Premier Receives Eden In Kremlin — _ Expected To Meet Hull Soon: -

Stalin Confers  With Eden, Kerr   Believed Significant Premier Left Front

Stalin Returns From Front to Meet Allied Diplomats; Parley May Settle Question of Second Front

Stalin Talks With Eden At Moscow   Leaves Battle Front t Meet British and Amer ican Diplomats

Stalin Joins Ally  Confab   RUSSIAN PREMIER BACK FROM EASTERN FRONT FOR MOSCOW CONFAB

MEET IF   Leaves Critical War Front to Talk With British. Ame: erican Gonferees: ©

Stalin Returns. To Meet With — Foreian Minister   Leaves Front at Critical Hour * Of Fighting

Yanks Raid Kiska And Mid-Solomons   Strike At Both Ends Of Pacifie Line

SOVIETS MAKE ADVANCES IN RGSTOV DRIVE   Red Army Columns Also Smash Forward Toward NaziOccupied Kharkov   NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLE   Thousands Of Enemy Slain As Scores Of New Towns Are Occupied

REDS ADVANCE ALONG ENTIRE SOUTH FRONT   Gain Headway In Drive Toward Rostov

LENINGRAD A STORY OF MASS HEROISM   Unfailing Faith in Rescue by Soviet Army Is Finally Rewarded.

JAP-HELD AREA IN BURMA HARD HIT BY YANKEES   Thirty Tons of Bombs Are Dropped On Toungoo Yesterday by FourEnvined Liberators   DAMAGE IS GREAT   Enemy Headquarters and  Other Buildings Blasted;   Nyngyan, West of   Maridalay Raided

Cabinet, Members Ready To Trade. Titles For Roles. In. Workaday World

RED ARMY TENSE AS JUNE 22 NEARS   Land Warfare Lapses Into Land Scouting Operation: and Sporadic Artillery Bombardment.

Soviet Warfront  Shows Fight Lull   Activity Lapses Into Scouting Operations

SOVIET FRONT HAS QUIET DAY   Only Scouting Operations And Sporadic Artillery Fire Mark Battle Of Rus ein.

NAZI ESCAPE CORRIDOR   Chase German Forces Out of 110 Additional Towns

RUSSIANS CUT NAZI ESCAPE CORRIDOR   Chase German Forces Out of 110 Additional Towns

ROOSEVELT DOLLAR POWER VOTED OUT   Senate Passes” Currency Fund Bill With Item Eliminated

Senate Approves Stabilizing Fund   Power to Devalue  Dollar Rejected

DENY FDR POWER OF DEVALUATION   Senate Extends Stabilization Fund for Two More Years

Senate Declines to Permit President to Devalue Dollar ‘After His Power Ends June 30

Senate Rejects Longer Period For Devaluation   Stabilization Fund Receives Approval For 2-Year Extension

STABLE MONEY FUND EXTENDED   Authority To Devalue Dollar Taken From Roosevelt

DOLLAR POWER. 18 WIPED OUT   SENATE EXTENDS LIFE OF STA. " BULAZATION FUND BUT ENDS   ROOBEVELT'S BROAD VAL * YATION AUTHORITY —

Senate Okehs Retention of Monetary Plan   Committee Refuses Extension of  Devaluing Powers

SENATE CURBS FDR MONETARY DEVALUATION   Stabilization F und Extended 2 Years, However

Senate Extends Stabilization Fund   Committee Sidetracks Action on Presidential Devaluation Powers

FBI Probes Philadelphia Station Blaze   Damage Of §: Of $250, 000 Done: Only’ Minor ‘agueies Réported ©”

300 INJURED IN STATION BLAZE   Philadelphia Depot Fire Loss $250,000

HUGE FIRE SWEEPS RAILROAD STATION IN PHILADELPHIA      Broad Street Terminal Train Shed, Baggage Room Damage Amounts To $250,000

ITALY REGIME TAKING STEPS TO END RAIDS   Declaration To Be Made Immediately in Face of Repetition of Air Attacks hy Allies   MUST DENUDE CITY OF ALL WAR ACTIONS   Military Installation, Troops, War Industries “ and Defenses Must  Be Removed

Milan Again Bombed by RAF Aviators   American Planes Make Attacks Against German Oil Centers

British Follow U.S. in Big Raidon Milan   ~ Americans Crash Through Great Defense To Strike Industrial Cities; RAF Staaes Giant Raid on North Italy

RAF BOMBERG POUND MILAN   Following Devastating Attacks by American Flying Fortresses in the Ruhr and The Rhineland on Yesterday

FORTRESSES HAMMERED AT RHINELAND   Deliver Daylight Attacks On Synthetic Oil Plants and Industrial Targets; Shoot Down 20 Planes.   RAF Takes Rest

Milan Believed Blasted By RAF   US. Forts Batter Ruhr, Rhineland

SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS SEARED   Fortresses Sweep Over Ruhr Defenses For Blows On Nazi  Industries

Turin Affacked Again By RAF   Friday’s Bombing Has Shattered City Fugitives Report

New Raid on North Italy . Is Indicated  Action Last Night Follows Attack in

FLIERS BOMB MILAN AFTER - RUHRBLASTS      Objectives in Germany and Italy Pounded by Airmen-   FORTRESSES TAKE PART IN DAY RAID   Twenty-five Planes Lost in the Daylight As anulb

CHARLIE ROSS’ — BROTHER DIES   Walter, 74, Co-Victim in Weird Kidnaping of July 1, 1874

Davis, OWI! Director, Is Displeased   Wants Information or Publication of Dispatch by Russian Agency

RUSSIAN AGENCY SAYS “BIC THREE” “CONFERENCE OVER   Davis, Angry Over Second  Scoop, Asks Probe by  ro a aoe

CHINESE TROOPS CLEAN UP JAPS   Advance Made All Along Yangtze Front; Threat To Chungking Eased

Jap Forees Annihilated  Pp. ee eR   Chinese Advance On Yangtze Front.

CHINESE MAKE NEW SUCCESSES   Smash Forward Along Yangtze Front In New Offensives After Victory

Chinese Keep Up Triumphan  Drive on Japs   Remnants of Nippons’ Forces Annihilated; Places. Recaptured

Chinese Annihilate Japanese Army In Hupeh and Continue To Advance

Fighting Spreads To South Sector On Soviet Front   Reds Recapture Many Towns in Drive to Encircle Nazis at Orel.   Futile Counterattacks Are Made by Germans

RUSSIAN ARMY EXTENDS GAINS   Red Army Recaptures More Towns As It Maneuvers To Encircle German Forces At Orel.

Another Pincers Attempt at Orel   Russians Move to Cut Off -Germans-at Their Ad' vanced Base   FIGHT ON WIDE FRONT   Desperate Nazi Counter At- tacks’ Repelled With Heavy Loss -

SOVIETS EXTEND SWEEPING GAINS   Fierce Clashes Spread to Donets Sector—Many Towns are Recaptured

Russians Spread Their Offensive Far Southward   Mius and Donets Rivers Are Crossed By Soviet Troops

Red Battles Are Moving Into Sector  FarInSouth   Town After Town Is Falling To oy Russians

SOVIET TROOPS RETAKE TOWNS IN NEW DRIVE   Activity Along 40-Mile Front  Is Annovnced

Red Drive ” Extended  » fo Donets   Also Edges Into Minus River Sector as Soviets Push le Nearer to Orel   BITTER FIGHTING IN ALL SECTORS   esperate Nazi Thrusts Are Accompanied by Heavy Loss of Life

RUSSIANS FIGHT ON WIDE FRONT   Many Towns Recaptured In Drive To Circle Orel

long ront  Open   N—(AP)—A Reuters from Moscow sald tothe Red army had Ermolaeva, which it s less than seven st of Orel.   ILLIAM McGAFFIN

Russ Press Big Summer Offensive   Fighting Spreads to Southern Donets and Mius River Fronts

SOVIETS CONTINUE 10 ENGIRGLE OREL   Fighting Spreads as Russians Recapture Town After Town in New Offensive

RED ARMY TROOPS DRIVE TO ENCIRCLE GERMANS AT ORE!   Fighting Along the Russian Front Spread to Donets and Mius Areas.   MANY TOWNS TAKEN   Russian Armies on Move Extending 400 Miles South From Orel.

REDS CAPTURE NEW TOWNS IN NAZI ASSAULI   Drive to Encircle Germans Spreads to Donets, Mius River Fronts

REDS RECAPTURE SEVERAL TOWNS   Fighting Spreads To Southern Donets and Mius River Sectors As Russians Seek To Encircle Germans At Orel.

Battle Spreads. To River Area On Lond Fron   Heaviest Fighting Rages -Around Key Orel Base. Now .Held: By Germans

Reds Recapture Several Towns  soay Fight Rages   In. Qeal €Rartae

Soviet Troops Recapture Town after Town; Half of Sicily Now in Allied Hands

Encirclement At Orel Goal Of Russians   German Counterattacks Are Beaten Off With Heavy Loss of Life

Soviets Take More Towns In Orel Area   Armies on Move On Front Extending Some 400 Miles

SQUEEZE UPON BASE AT OREL IS TIGHTENING   Fighting Along the Russian Front Spreads to Southern Donets and the Mius River   VITAL TOWNS CAPTURED

RUSSIANS OPENED NEW BATTLE FRONT IN SOUTHERN AREA  RED ARMIES ON MOVE ALONG APPROXIMATEL} 400-MILE FRONT

Battle Spreads On Red Front   Town After Town Falls To Soviet Troops

Fight On Russian Front Extends To Donets Area Now   More Towns Capturex As Encirclemen:  Of Nazi Armie:  Continued

SOVIETS WIDEN OFFENSIVE, OPEN DRIVE IN SOUTH   Launch New Campaigns i Lower Donets, Mius River Fronts

Russians Retake. Towns in Drive To Regain-Orel    Red Armies Strike Germans on 400-Mile Frant ond Are Closing in on Nazi Supply Base, Despite Stiff Enemy Resistance

‘German Supply Base Of Orel Still Threatened; Soviets Continue Sains Alona 400-Mile Front

Red Squeeze  On Orel Base Is Tightened   Advancing Soviets Recapture Town After Town; Smash Ahead On 450-Mile Front

Key Railway City Falls to Soviet Drive  Fighting Spreads te Minus River and Southern Donets Sectors  OREL NETTIGHTENS  Constant Nazi Attacks Routed by Russian Forces         OREL NETTIGHTENS

Reds Continue Their Campaign To Circle Nazis   Heavy Fighting Still Raging In Vicinity of Orel

REDS RE-CAPTURE TOWNS WEAR OREt   Russian Army in Drive to Encircle Nazis at Their Supply . Base.

Russian Assault Spreads   More Villages Recaptured by Red Army as Heavy Toll On Invading Forces

Soviets Take More Towns in Orel Area  Armies on Move   Armies on Move On Front Extending Some 400 Miles

Russian Fighting Spreads To South  Many Towns Recaptured In Orel Encirclement  ny. WTF caer se Area

RUSSIAN FRONT ACTION MOVES TO NEW AREAS   At Orel Soviet. Troops Continue Drive To Erfcircle German Forces.

Massing Troops  On Soviet Front   Both Sides Are Preparing For New Battles Along Russian Battlefront   BITTER FIGHTING FOR NOVOROSSISK

COUNTY EXCEEDS BOND QUOTA   Granite City Highest tr Madison County Sales.

BOND SALES FOR VESSEL LAGGING   First Computation Shows One-Fifth of Quota Set For July and August.

Baltic Forces Seize Gorodok   Canadians Fight Slow, Bloody, House-To-House Battle At Ortona.

RUSSIANS SEIZE FORTIFIED TOWN IN VITEBSK AREA   Smash Model German Line to Take Gorodok, 20 Miles North of Great Enemy Bastion.   ADVANCE THREATENS NAZI SUPPLY ARTERY   Heavy Fighting Continues Southwest of Zhlobin— Reds Turn Tide in Kiev Bulge.

Russians Smash Heavy Defenses   Nazis OQutguessed And Town Captured  . Oo. TARFOC weT owt

Red Armies Crush I! Nazi Counterattacks; Air Flights Raae In Southwest Pacific

SEVENTH U, 8. ARMY FORCES MOVING FOR SHOWDOWN BATTLE  GEN. PATTON TO TAKE ON ELITE GERMAN DIVISIONS

Marsala Is in Allied  Possession   American, Canadian Troops Turn to Attack German Forces Before Catania... °

U.S. 7th Army Moves Eastward Toward Catania   Marsala Falls in Sequel to Palermo Victory; Italian Mainland Bombed

AXIS EVACUATION OF SICILY BEGUN, BERN REPORT SAYS   Russians Storm Across River To Drive on Orel; Bitter Battle Raging in South  QD *c_

Elite Divisions of Nazis Have Held Out for Eight Days   Marsala Is Added To Bag of Sicilian Cities Taken by U. 5

Reds Crush 11 Counterattacks; Fierce Air Battles in Solomons, New Guinea; Jap Seaplane Tender Sunk; Two Allied Craft Lost; Nips Claim Destroyer, Transport, 10 Barges

Marsala Capture Announced   Allies Take Over 60,000 Prisoners So Far  On Sicily

AMERICAN TROOPS MOVE FOR SHOWDOWN WITH NAZI FORCES HOLDING BRITISH AT CATANIA

American 7th Army Captures Marsala;  Trapani’s Fall Near   Report U. 8. Forces Race To Join In Battle With Elite Nazi Units Holding Out In Catania Sector

Swift Drive Brings Fall Of Marsala   Showdown Battle With Nazis on East Coast Is Near   ‘TRAPANI IS CUT OFF   Prisoners Total 60,000  With 50,000 More  Expected

Showdown Batiles in - Sicily Near      Americans, Mopping Up as . They Go, Rush to Join   the British Forces   HAVE TAKEN MORE  THAN 40.000 PRISONERS   Germans Cut Off by . the American Sweep, Major Battle Developing -.

Patton's Troops, Victors In Western Sicily Closing In On Elite German Divisions 1 Eastern Sector — Thousands Of Prisoner Captured :

60,000 Prisoners Taken As Marsala Tumbles in Sequel to Palermos Fall

Seventh Army Moves Ahead  ForShowde'wn   Americans Reported Driving Northeast from Enna for Clash with Nazi Divisions Around Catania; Two More Major Cities in West Sicily Captured

YANKS IN DASH TO JOIN WITH BRITISH FORCE   Germans Fighting Fiercely In Catania Area as Other Axis Troops Seek Escape   THOUSANDS ARE GIVING UP   Bombers from Middle East Begin ‘Softening Up’ Other Invasion Paths yw *

PATTON'S MEN TAKE MARSALA, RUSH TO EAST   Move For Showdown Bate tle With Nazi Forces At Catania   PRISONER BAG GROWS   Allied Raid On Crete Hints Eastern Mediterranean Invasion

Nazis Admit That Patton's Army Captured Two Northeast Towns  Allies Take Marsala, One Of The   Allies Take Marsala, One Of The Last Two Major Cities In the West

CLOSE IN ON FEW GERMAN TROOPS LEFT   Marsala, Most Western Port, Taken by Americans, Dooming Trapani; 60,000 Prisoners

Attack On Crete Hints At Invasion   Patton’s Army Moves In After Knocking Out Western Sicily; Opinion Grows That New Offensive May Be Imminent To East

Marsala Yields: All West Sicily In Allied Hands   Americans Turn Drive To Support British On East Coast

TAK COLLECTION: PLAN (5 STUDIEL   Wider Collection At Source Of Income Is ’ Advocated

Senators Back Pay as You Go Revenue Plan      Finance Committeemen Push Rum!l Tax Plan as Only Remedy

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan Gains Favor   Cancellation of One Year’s Levy Needed

Larger Tax Cuf Of Wages Urged   Plan Advocated By Three Leading Senators

Taxes At Source Sought   Congress Would Implement Pay-AsYou-Go Plan

Advocate Wider Collection Of Taxes At Income’s Source   DETERMINED DRIVE FOR ECONOMY STARTS

Wider Tax Collection Plan Sought   More Money Would Be Taken at Source By Congressional Leaders

NEW TAX PAYING PLAN WINS FAVOR   CONGRESS LEADERS ADVOCATE VERSION OF RUML SYSTEM

Senators Advocate Wider Collection of Tax at Source  *   Seen as Only Way to Implement  Pay-AsYou-Go Scheme

Pay-As-Go Wins Support ‘Of Leaders   President In Endorsement of Plan Insisted That Poor Treasury May Suffer Under  Arranvcement

Income Source Seen Best Spot To Obtain Taxes   Solons Advocatung Action In Move To Implement Pay-As-You-Go Plan

‘LEADERS ADVOCATE WIDER COLLECTION ‘OF TAXES AT THE SOURCE OF INCOME

Wider Collection of Taxes at the Source of Income Advocated by Some

SENATORS FAVOR . TAX COLLECTION AT SOURCE OF INCOME   Proposed To Supplement Pay-As-You-Go Lovy Plan

Advocate Modified Pay-As-You-Go Plan.....  Talk Of Collection Of More Taxes At Source

Wider Use Of Pay Check Tax Ts Advocated   Three Senate Finance Committee Members Support Plan

Tax Collection At the Source Again Proposed   Senators Favor Change in Present Government Policy

CONSIDER PAY CHECK TAX PAYMENT PLAN   Would Prevent Delinquencies at End of War

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 GAINS HEADWAY   “ongressional Leaders Urge Wider Collection.of ‘Tax at Source of Income

Wider Collection Of Taxes At Income Source Sought  By Congressional Leaders

SOVIETS CONTINUE PUSH ON KHARKOV   Overpower Another German Stronghold, Take Towns   PRISONERS TAKEN   Reds Renew Drive in Direc@ tion of Kerch Straits and Novorossisk

Reds Crush Another Axis Strongpoint   Soviets Repulse German Drives  In Kharkov Aréa

AXIS EFFORTS TO CRACK RED ‘DEFENSE FAIL   Russian Lines In Kharkov Hold Firm Despite Repeated Attacks Of Enemy.

NAZIS UNABLE TO CRACK RED UARAINE LINE   SOVIETS TAKE MORE TOWNS IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK

Reds Claim Capture Of Nazi Strongpoint On Road to Smolensk   STILL HOLD LINE EAST OF KHARKOV * Claim Nazi Attacks Have Collapsed In Belgorod Sector

Russians overpower nazi strongpoint in Smolensk drive   Repulse German efforts to shatter defensive lines in Ukraine area

‘Red Offensive On Smolensk Gains Power   Soviets Repulse Axi: Efforts fo Crack Defensive Line

REDS STABILIZE SOUTHERN FRONT ABOUT KHARKOV   Soviets Capture Several Villages In Drive On Smolensk   WEATHER CONDITIONS CALLED APPALLING

Russians Continue Advance On Smolensk, Repulse Axis Thrust Against Ukraine Line

More Towns Fall ; To Reds, German Drives Repulsed   Nazi Strongpoint Overpowered In Smash Toward Smolensk, Only 32 Miles Away .

Russian Drive For Smolensk. Gaining Power   Foe Weaker at Kharkoy;  Soviets Again Push i ners i a ie

Strongpomt — Taken on Way To Smolensk  Nazis Repulsed in Efforts to.Crack

Russian Troops Report Advance Near Smolensk   Overpower Germar Strongpoint, Capture More Villages

RUSSIANS SEIZE MA STRONGPUINT ON CENTRAL FRONT   One Soviet Column Moves to Within 50 Miles of Smolensk While Another Is 32 Miles Away.   GERMANS STOPPED IN BELGOROD SECTOR   Moscow Says Enemy Attacks Have Collapsed Both Above and Below City of Kharkov.

Americans, British Land Near Naples   Fierce Fighting Indicated as Invading Forces Land on Italian Coast

Army Figures Not to Be Reduced, But Industry Should Step Up.   PLANS, PROCESSES TIED TOGETHER

Franchise for Horse-Draw Taxi Service Is lésued, Surreys Are to Be Built

Sale of Jellies, Preserves, Jams Frozen  Rationing Will Be Started on Oct. 31, OPA Savs

JAMS, PRESERVES, JELLIES FROZEN   RETAIL SALES HALTED PRELIMINARY TO START OF RATIONING OCT. 31,

Freeze on Sales Of Jams, Jellies pirated By OPN   Action “Taken - Prior-- te Start of Rationing . On Oct. 3)

JAMS, JELLIES ARE FROZEN AT 12-01 MIDNIGHT   Rationing to Begin Last of This Month

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FREEZES SALE OF JAM, JELLY      Price Administration Prepores for Starl of RaHoning ‘Oct. 31

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JAM AND JELLY *RATIONING NEXT   Preserves And Spreeds Frozen; Stamps To we Required Oct. 31

PRESERVES SALES STOPPED OCT. 31   New Rationed Food items Added This Month; No Report on Supplies Required.

Sale Of Jam, Jelly Halted   Sales Freeze Is Set Unti] November First

OPA FREEZES IANS, ELIS, PRESERVES   Ston Retail Sales At Midnicht: Plan Ratonme

Jams. Jellies. Fruit Spreads To Be Rationec   Sales Freeze Midnight Will Continue for  8 Days—Marmalades Excluded From Order

JAMS, JELLIES AND PRESERVES ORDERED FROZEN   Action Is Taken By OPA Preliminary To Rationing On October 31   CITRUS MARMALADES ARE BEING EXCLUDED

Fruit Preservers Ordered Frozen: Te Be.on.Ration List  ~~ Sales Ordered Halted for 8 Days By OPA Office

SALES OF JELLIES AND JAMS FROZEN   OPA Orders Step Prelim. inary to Start of Rationina

Jams and Jellies Ordered Frozen   Rationing to Start On October 31

Allied Forces Massing for ‘Their Greatest Blow of the War.  NAZI TROOPS MOVE NORTH IN ITALY  Allied Planes Are Hammering All Highways and Bridges.

FIRE UPON MAINLAND FIRST TIME   Allied Forces Gather For Greatest Blow of War   STRIKE 2 KEY POINTS   Planes of United Nations Hammer Escape Lines

Red Plunge Southward  Is Unchecked   Soviets Near Ore Center Of Krivoi Rog In Drive  To Seal Off Crimea And Mestanaw RP iewar Rend

Russians Are 18 §  Miles From Key City OfKrivoiRog  5   Berlin Says Soviet Landing Attempt Was Beaten Off

Reuters Dispatch Say Longer Has Sufficien By Russian Airmen. Fourths of Melitopol

Soviets Thunder Forward   Three-Fourths Blazing Melitopol Won By Reds

Reds Closing Trap on Large Nazi Forces   Fifth Army Captures Two Highway Towns in 10-Mile Advance; Eighth Army Consolidates Positions; Allied Planes Destroy 17 Jap Aircraft

NAZIS IN ITALY KEPT IN FLIGHT BY YANK DRIVE   Balkans Get More Help from Allied Bombers as Slav Guerrilla War Grows   By RICHARD MeMURRAY

CLARK'S TROOPS MOVE AHEAD 10 MILES IN ITALY   Soviet Units Advance Toward lron, Rail Center of Krivoi Rog

Withia 18 Miles of Kev Point   German Positions Before Krivoi Rog Lose All Marks of Line

Stalingrad Vets Leading — ~ Bold Charge   Mighty Drive Directed at '. Kirvoi:Rog, Great. Iron:  and: Rail-Center .          -RUSSIANS.-MOVE Pees _ TO SEAL RAILROADS’   Nazi Position’: Extremely: Dangerous, Say Nervous .~ German: Accounts

RUSSIAN TROOPS  THUNDERING SOUTH  FROM KREMENCHUG RED ARMY WITHIN 18  MILES OF KRIVOIC ROG. KEY TO VICTORY

Face Difficulty In River Bend   German Position in South Russia Now Considered Serious.

Fleet-Landing By British In Sfax Harbor Reported   Algiers Radio Tells Of Disembarkation; Churchil Hails Freyberg As Hero

British Land  Force at Sfax   Disembarkation Claimed Second Major Naval Action in Tunisia

HOT ON TRAIL OF ROMMEL'S RUNNING ARM)   8,000 Axis Prisoners Have Been Seized by Allied Forces in Their African Offensive

Naval Forces Hit Sfax From Sea as Axis Troops in Rout   GABES, EL HAMMA FALL AS EIGHTH ARMY STORMS ACROSS DESERT; AXIS ARMOR IS HAMMERED BY BLOWS FROM THE SEA, AIR

ALLIED PLANES STRAFE ROMMEL ON COAST ROAL   Americans. Fighting in Gafsa Sector; Many Axis Prisoners Taken:

Argentina, Aroused by Winchell’s Charges, Strengthens Guard. Over Graf Spee Internees

ARGENTINA PUTS GUARD ON NAZIS   Sailors From Scuttled Warship Graf Spee Making Escapes

Gasotine Taxes ~ May Soon Total 5 1-2c A Gallon   New Bill Is Listed To Be Heard This Week Before Committee On Taxation

Ki ive Fleeing Members Of Cabinet At  Montevideo   Castillo Also Is Expected There; Pro-Allied Elements  Cantrol Arventina

FIVE MINISTERS OF GASTILLO'S CABINET REACH MONTEVIDEC   Landed There Today From the Uruguayan Gunboat, Salto.   CASTILLO TO FOLLOW   is Expected to Arrive Soon Aboard Mine Sweeper, Drummond.

TAKE CONTROL IN ARGENTINA   Reasons Back Of Uprising Still Obscure; May Switch To Side Of Allies

No Holiday, Gen. Rawson  Tells Public    Military Government Will Meet Later Today To Perfect Plans

OF ARGENTINA STILL AT SEA   ‘Believed Preparing To Land At Montevideo Today   5 AIDES DISEMBARK   Pro-Allied Gen. Rawson Assumes Governmental Powers

BRITISH CONSIDER BOMBING VESUVIUS   Might Stir Up Wrath Of Volcano Against Italians ‘

RAF Wonders if Bombs M ight Activate  Mounts Vesuvius and Fujivama  -

POLES BLAMED FOR FALLING FOR CLAIMS   Reds Accuse Poles Of Stirring Up Fals: Nazi Propaganda

Soviets Break Relations With Polish Regime   Quarrel Over Fate Of Polish Officers Is Of Berlin Origin   ACT NAZI TRIUMPH   Russia Charges German Frameup Against Two Allied Nations

RUSSIANS, POLES BREAK RELATION!   Charge Poland Use Naz Propaganda In An Effor' To Snatch Territory.

Moscow Says Neighbors Join In Hitler Plot   Brands Story of 10,000 Slain Officers Nazi Proparanda

Reds Break Off Relations With —  Pole Government   Assert False Nazi _ Propaganda: Charge  Was “Stirred Up”

Soviet Union Breaks Off Relations With Polish Government in Exile, Charges Poles Believed Nazi Lies

MOSCOW CHARGES EXILE REGIME IS “ALLY OF HITLER”   Diplomatic Rift Follows Nazi Propaganda Claim Reds Slew 10,000 Polish Troops in Russia.

Rationing of Milk Is Near.   Shortage in N, E, to Be Severe in Week ©

Dikes and Cuts To Save Wells At Cumberland   Washita River Is to Be Detoured Almost a Mile East of Big Marshall County Oil Fields

To Save Big Oil Field By  Moving River   U.S.Engineers 0K: Plan To Prevent Area Inundation

House Heads Hit Salary Slashes   Plans to Take Fight to Governor Are Disclosed

TEACHER PAY CUT AROUSES RESENTMENT   Revision of Legislation Brings Protests From Leadership Members in House   WILL CARRY ON FIGHT

HOUSE REVOLT FLARES TODAY AT HARRISBURG   Leadership Protests Paring Of Teachers Salary Boost

Australian Peril Reiterated By _ MacArthur Aide   Say Great Japanese Onslaught Impending In South Pacific

Attack on Australia Expected   Official Warnings of Jap Preparations Come from  Gen. MacArthur

Russians Are Pressing Forward Against Stiff Nazi Defenses   Reds Take 30 Villages and Kill 2,400 Germans Yesterday.

Reds Cut Deeper Into Axis Escape Corridor; Advance On All Fronts

CHINA DOESNT WANT ANYTHING FOR WHICH IT CANNOT PAY  Mme. Chiank Kai-shek Says Chinese Poor

Hall, Welles Affirm U. S. Good Neighbor Policy In Speeches   53rd . Anniversary of Pan - Americanism " Marks Oecasion for Statements’ on Basis of Future World Peace

WOULD BUILD PEACE, ON 00D NEIGHBOR BASIS   Hull, Wells Suggest Extension 9! Policy: Repudiate “Regional” Organizations on PostNew World

SUGGEST GOOD NEIGHBOR AN IN PEACE PLAN   Sec’y Hull and Under-Sec’y - Welles Stress Policy for After War.   HIT AT CHURCHILL’S “REGION APART’ FEARS

6000 NEIGHBOR POLICY UPHELD   Hull and Welles Propose Principles as Basis Of Peace

RUSSO HURLS YANKS TO WIN BY 2-1 SCORE      Twirler Also Stars at the Bat for New York Victare   YANKS-HOLD LEAD IN SERIES. 3 TO 7

New Yorkers Take 3.1 Edge in Games In Series: Teams Meet Again Today

Russo Is Hero as Yanks Top Cardinals   Southpaw Pitches and Bats Club to Third Win, 2-l

RUSSO HURLS YANKS TO WIN BY 2-1 SCORE   Twirler Also Stars at the Bat for New York Victors   YANKS HOLD LEAD IN SERIES. 3 TO 1   Thousands Watch Tense Struggle at St. Louis Pork

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Russo Brings Y ankees 2-1 Victory By Superb Pitching, Timely Hitting   Cards Back to Wall, Rely on Mort Cooper Mondav to Stop New York in Fifth Sertes Game

4,200 NAZI PLANES LOST, REDS ASSERT   Mistake To Think Struggl Easier, Warning, However

HEAVY NAZI AIR LOSSES   Germans Lost 3,000 Planes In Rus~sia Last Year, Says Moscow

PANORAMA OF FLAMING WAR FRONTS TODAY   Brief Reports of Action Involving United Nations Forces Against Those of Axis

BODY OF MAN iS FOUND IN RIVER NEAR THE VALLE   Coroner’s Jury Finds ‘‘Death Wa: Apparently Due To Homicide’ And Sheriff And State’s Attor ney Are Notified.

Jurists Uphold Smith Sentence  Convicted of Manslaughter in Pulaski

BOWLES BEGINS RESHUFFLING JOB IN OPA   Starts Work From Business Man’s Point of View

NEW PRICE CHIEF LISTS HIS AIMS   Bowles, Former Advertising Executive, Promises No Miracles

BOWLES PLANS OPA REVAMPING   Lists Seven Principles He Hopes To Put In Effect Under Reshuffling

Slavs Launch New Smash Against Nazis   GUERRILLAS TRY THRUST TO DRIVE GERMANS FROM PELJESAC AREA

SOVIETS DRIVE ON POLOTSK ON SO-MILE FRONT   Reds Crack Nazi Lines  For Gain of Nearly 20 Miles

200 Villages And Hamlets Fall to Reds   Believed Only 40 Miles From Goal of Polotsk In Northern Offensive  CLOSER TO TATVIA

Russians Atfack With Huge Army In Baltic Area   Crack Nazi Units Routed by Sovieis

German Lines Cracked by  Red Assault   20,000 Nazis Killed in Fighting, Moscow Announcement Says

Soviets Drive 20 Miles in New Thrust   20,000 Germans Die as Reds March Toward Polotsk

New Offensive Carries Reds Far Toward Latvian Border; 20,000 Nazis Slain in Five Days

CORN RESERVES HIT NEW HIGH FOR OHIC   Oat Stocks Up, Wheat Sup plies Low

Authority To Ration Foods Is Extended   Evaporated Milk Among Various Products To Be Under Control Of  Price Administration

OPA GETS POWER T0 RATION CANNED MILK. RELISHES   'Wickard Signs Order Dele gating Authority On iFood Products

WICKARD SIGNS RATION ORDER   Delegates Power to OPA For Wider Control

Enlarge List Of Products  For Rationing   Condensed And Evaporated Milk Now Included

Now to Be Rationed: Milk, Jams, Jellies Relishes, Fish, Products Containing Meat

More Foods to Be Rationed   Evaporated Milk, Fish, Jellies,  Jams Included

Wickard Adds Several Foods To Ration List   Condensed Milk, Jams Relishes Are Included Fo: Future OPA Action

More Food to Be Rationed   Jam, Jellies, Preserves, And Products Containing Meats Under Order

WICKARD AUTHORIZES 0. P. A. TO RATION CANNED MILKS. FRUIT PRESERVES, FISH

List Of Rationed Items Is Enlarged   New List Includes Canned Milk, Jams, Jellies, Preserves, Fish

RATIONING LIST TO INCLUDE NEW GROUP OF FOODS   Wickard Reports Issuing Control  Rights To OPA

TO RATION MORE PRODUCT!      OPA, To Act On Canned Milk, Boiled . Fruits

Rationing Is To Be Extended   Many Additional Food Products to Be Placed on List

Hard Coal Miners Cast Split Votes On Return Orders   Eight Of Twelve Locals Defy WLB Ultimatum To  Resume Operations

Recheck Adds One Zero To Those Credited To Col. Kearby Over Wewak

Rush for War Jobs After U.S. Draff Order  Employment Service   Employment Service Applications Jump After Recent Warning

Thousands Seek War Work   U. S. Employment Offices Jammed. As Result of Order Reclassifying Non-deferrable Jobs 

THOUSANDS SEEK WAR PLANT JOBS   WMC ORDER SLASHING DEFERMENTS START RUSH EVERYWHERE

DRAFT-AGE MEN RUSH FOR JOBS IN WAR PLANTS   Hundreds of Thousands Seek _ Essential Employment on Heels of Selective Service Warning.   TELEPHONE INQUIRIES SWAMP WASHINGTON   Applicants Cautioned Against Changing Employment Until Boards Have Classified Them.

USES FLOODED BY JOB HUNTERS   WMC ‘Work or Fight’ Order Starts Stampede by Service Eligibles

‘Hundreds of Thousands of Men of Age ‘Of Draft Are Seeking War Work ‘As Deferment Policy Is Announced

STAMPEDE ON FOR JOBS IN WAR PLANTS   Hundreds of Thousands Seek Essential Work As Result of Warning By Selective Service   HEAVY LOAD HANDLED

DRAFT ELIGIBLES SEEK JOB CHANGED   Many Men Seeking Positions In Essential Industries

MEN CLASSED IN NON-WAR GROUP SEEK NEW JOBS   U. S. Employment Offices Flooded With Applications

Thousands Rush To Work after Drastic Warning   Manpower Commission Order Starts Many Hunting for Jobs   Employment Service Of. fices Flooded by Anxious  Inquirers

Hundreds of Thousands  Seek Work   WMC Warning That Nonessential Workers Face Immediate Induction After Anril 1 Causes Rush

VAST THRONGS OF MEN JOIN IN WAR WORK HUNT   New York Sets Pace With 29,000 War Job Applications In One Day; Hundreds Of Thousands Join March.

HUNDREDS NOW SEEKING WAR — WORK JOBS   Employment Offices in All Parts of Country Swamped With Inquiries And Applications

Workers Rush For War Jobs Before Apr. 1   Man With Children Swamp Every U. S. Employment Agency   A Warning Against Precipitate Action   Head Of New York Draft Board Urges All To Use Heads

MANY ALREADY ARE SEEKING NEW JOBS   Men of Draft Age Acting Result of WMC Ruling

Jap Shipping Being Blasted By U.S. Flyers   Two Day Toll In Pacific Area Mounts Up To Ten Vessels   INCESSANT RAIDS MADE ON JAPANESE

10 ENEMY SHIPS HIT IN 2 DAYS   Widespread Raids By American Airmen  Smash At Japs

Roosevelt, Churchill To Confer   Meet This Week In Quebec to Draw Up New War Plans

NEW PLANS FOR WAR STRATEG\ ARE DRAWN UIP   Will Be Submitted to Churchill, Roosevelt at Quebec This Week

ROOSEVELT 10 QUEBEC THIS WEEK, — MET CHURCHILL   FDR,--Prime Minister Spent - -Three Days Together ~ - it Hyde Park.

NEW WAR PLANS TO BE OFFERED   Roosevelt and Churchill To Consider Them

CHURCHILL BACK IN QUEGEC AFTER ~ AYDE PARK VISIT   President Roosevelt and Prime Minister To Begin  War Conferences This w,.L

Program Greatly Revised and Expanded; Churchill and Roosevelt Met Last Week at Hvde Park.

CHURCHILL AT HYDE PARK FOR WEEK END   Conference at Quebec to Cover  . A Wide Scope

Withholding Tax Bill Is Called ‘Monstrosity’ by -Republican House Leaders   G. O. P. Will Support Ruml Plan Next Week When Ways and Means Committee’s ‘No Forgiveness Plan’ Is Proposed

THREAT OF MINE CLOSING AVERTED   Additional Period Agreed Upon For Wage Negotiations.

COAL UNION, OWNERS ‘AGREE ON EXTENSION   ‘Action Holds Off Threat Of Strike Call

WORK STOPPAGE IN MINES AVERTEL   Coal Operators and Union  To Continue Parley Until Awnril 20

WORK STOPPAGE IN MINES IS CHECKED   UMW, Southern Operators Reach Agreement

Italians Prepared For Possible Allied Invasion  Berlin’s Propaganda Says New Order {ls Well Received

ITALY CALLED WAR ZONE BY GERMANS   Berlin Radio Says Fascist Law Will Put Civilians Under Military Rule,

AMMUNITION PRICES SET   For Civilian Uses, Shells Come Under 0. P .A,

Bank Is Cited For War Bonds Sales   National Bank of Lum. berton Gets Certificate From Treasury for Ef. forts in Bond Cam.paign.

Bank Is Cited For War Bonds Sales   National Bank of J.umberton Gets Certifiente Ikrom ‘Treasury for Iifforts in Bond Camnuign.

FARM AND LABOR GROUPS MAY JOIN TO ACHIEVE ENDS   Lewis May Join Leaders Of Farm Bloc To Get_ Price Increase And Wage Raise

‘Hint Labor, Farm Bloc May Join In Effort To Boost Wages, Farm Prices

Farmer:Labor Coalition Is Rumored Jo Boost Wages and Farm Prices

FARM, LABOR TO JOIN FORCES?   Move On Foot For Cooperation In Attempt To Boost Wages, Farm Prices

Farmer, Labor May Unite For Higher Prices   John L. Lewis May Try T« Organize Both To Force Roosevelt’s Hand

Labor-Farmers May Cooperate   See Effort To Boost Wages, Product Prices

LEWIS-FARM COALITION ON INCOME SEEN   Action To Boost Wages and Prices Being Rumored In Washington.   DISCUSSIONS HELO   Rural-Leaders See Little  Chance of Compromise With Brocidan?

JAPANESE BOMB CHINESE FORCES   Nips Launch Heavy Assault On Mountain Positions With 40,000 Troops

French Youths Defy Nazi Labor Draft,  Ovcanize Guerrilla War in Mountains

GUARDS RUSHED 10 SUBDUE GUERILLAS   Ranks of Revolters Are “Swelled by Many French Youths

French Lads Join Fight Against Axis   Vichy Attempts To Curb Unrest With 800 Guards

FRENCH YOUTHS ARE GUERRILLAS   Several Thousand Rebel Against Compulsory Labor For Hitler

Nazi Demands For Labor Cause Revolt   Thousands of Young Frenchmen Take Arms Aaainst Vichy

Vichy Sends Armored Cars to Alps After Guerrillas Who Dodge Nazi Labor Draft

Nazi Demands For Labor Cause Revolt  ON i i seca a cee Ok,   Thousands of Young Frenchmen Take Arms Against Vichy

BRICKER PLANS MACKINAC TRIP   Preside ntial Prospect Says He'll Stick To Party Platform

Would Observe Ideas Of Party   Bricker Would Not Substitute Own Platform

Eden Calls On Duce to Surrender  Allies Won't Hesitate to Romb Rome.

Eden Calls On Mussolini To Capitulate   Declares Best Thing For Italian People Is to Accept Allied Terms

Rome Not Immune: Eder   Allies Will Bomb Itolien Cepital ‘If And When Expedient’

Germans Rush Anti-Invasion Preparations   [Rommel Masses 350,000 Troops’ in Rhone Valley; Allied Bombers Raid  Italy and France; Reds Attack Niazvi-Held Taman

SAYS TO QUIT IN INTERESTS OF HUMANIT)   Secretary Declares Mussolini’s Best Move Is to Accept Unconditional Surrender Terms Offered Him.

EDEN ASKS IL. DUCE TO QUIT   Leaflets Are Dropped On Italian Cities

Mussolini Is Advised To Get Out Of War   Best Thing For Count To Surrender, Assert: Eden In Address T: House Of Commons

Eden Calls Upon Italy to Surrender ‘And Warns Rome May Be Bombed

Eden Calls on Italy to Yield; Axis Hammered   R. A. F. Makes New Attack on Southern Italy and Sicily; Yankees Raid France

EDEN CALLS ON MUSSOLINI TO SURRENDER   Britain Has Not and Does Not Intend to Approach Italy in Regards to Rombinoe Rome

Eden Calls I! Duce To Take Surrender   Rome Will Be Bombed Without Hesitation, Warns Secretary

Eden Calls on Duce to Give  Up as Axis Broadeasts Italy Near Zero Hour of Invasion

EDEN WARNS ITALY ROME THREATENED   Ancient City to Be Bombec tf Action 1s Convenient and Helptul-

Eden Calls On Mussolini To Accept Unconditional Surrender For His People

Eden Calls On Duce to Surrender   Allies Won't Hesitate to  Bomb Rome, He Declares

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IS OFFERED DUCE   Eden Assures Commons Rome Will be Bombed If Need Be, Responsibility Mussolini’s

Eden ealls o1 Mussolini to accept terms   Says surrender would be aid to humanity

Eden Calls on Mussolini To Surrender   Says Britain Does Not Intend  To Approach Italy Regarding Question of Bombing Rome

Mussolini Called On ToGiveUp   Eden Discloses Possible Plans Fo Bomb Rome

Better Quif, Eden Warns Mussolini   Will Bomb Rome If That Becomes Convenient

ARMY BILL PASSED   House Unanimously Approves 71 Billion Dollar Appropriation

Largest Appropriation Bill in Congressional History Voted by House

Forts Lash Two Big Nazi Plants   RAF. Dumps Record Load On Hamburg  By RICE YAHNER —

Allies Again Hit Great Enemy  eee in Europe  Bomb Load Is Said  To Be Greatest  In World’s History

Fortresses Blast Airplane Plants.in Central Germany; Hamburg is Battered Again

Americans Make Record Raid on Inferior Germany   smash Aircraft Plant j Oschersleben, Southwest of Berlin   Also Give Much-Bombec Hamburg Another Hard Going Over

HAMBURG GIVEN SIXTH BLASTING   R. A. F. Dumps Greatest Bomb Load On City; Airplane Plant Is Pounded

Fortresses Bomb Plant Near Berlin   British Raiders Strike Hamburg In Night Attack

FLYING FORTS PUSH DEEPER INTO GERMANY   WORST BOMBING IN HISTORY BATTERS HAMBURG AGAIN

U.S. Bombers Make Raid Far  Into Germany   Plane Factory Smashed Following Record RAF  Rtn: at Taavikiccoux

Fortresses pound deep in Germany in mightiest raids   Shatter Oschersleben airplane factory 80 miles from Berlin

Forts Lash Two Big Nazi Plants   RAF. Dumps Record Load On Hamburg

Forts’ Shatter Plane:Faetory At Oschersleben      Greatest Bomb Load in History Cast on Sub Center of Hamburg.

Fortresses Hit Aircraft Plant At Oschersleben   British Night Raiders Shower Mightiest Load In History ov Hamburg

Allies Again Hit Great Enemy    Bases in Europe Bomb Load Is Said   To Be Greatest

FLIERS BLAST NAZI PLANTS INDAY RAIDS   Flying Fortresses Penetrate Deeper Into Germany

‘Forts’ Smash Plant Deep In Germany   RAF Drops Record Bom) Load on Batlered Hamburg

Forfresses Hit Plane Plants   Penetrate Deeply in Daylight Attack

Yank Forts Down 69 Nazis In Reich Raid    U.S. Smashes Air Craft Plants At Kassel, Oscher‘sleben, Near Berlin   HAMBURG HIT AGAIN!   RAF Returns To Nazi Port With Anether 2,300 Tons Of Bombs 

Forts Shatter German Plane Factory   60 Nazi Fighters Are Downed: 23 Bombers Lost

NAZI AIRCRAFT PLANT DAMAGE BY FORTRESSES   23 U. S. Bombers Lost In Attack On Oschersleben, 80 Miles From Berlia   HAMBURG SUBJECTED TO TERRIFIC RAID

FLIERS BLAST NAZI PLANTS IN DAY RAIDS   Flying Fortresses Penetrate Deeper Into Germany   PLANE FACTORIES STRUCK BY BOMBS   Daylight Attacks Follow Night Assault on Hambura

HAMBURG 1S BLASTED FOR SIXTH TIME   In 72 Hours; 5000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped In Great Series Of Raids   U-Boat Bases

FDR Tightens  Up Upon News   Data Of Security Value ~ Will Not Be Moved At Advanced Dates

Reuters Scoop Results in A Policy Change  Release News on Spot Roosevelt   Release News on Spot Roosevelt Orders Bureaus

Leaks in News Are fo Be Fixed   Roosevelt Bans Advance Release on Items of National Security

ADVANCE ON WAR NEWS RESTRICTED   ROOSEVELT ACTS TO PREVENT “LEAKS” OF IMPORTANT INFORMATION,

Directs Bureaus to Refuse to Issue in Advance News of Security Value for Release To Public at Future Hour —

Roosevelt Acts to Block Leaks of Vital War Information, Bans ‘Future Releases’

CHANGE IS REJECTED   Fouse Refuses to Kill Portion o Bill Relating to Newspapers

Bougainville Invaded; Bay Taken by Yanks   © Big. Move: Threatensto Unhinge Entire Jap Positions in S.W.

YANKS INVADE BOUGAINVILLE IN DAWN RAID   Little Opposition Met From Jap Occupants; Challenge Issued To Enemy Navy

Bold. Thrust Takes Japs By Surprise   General MacArthur Challenges Japanese  Navy to Come Out and  Fiaht After ! anding

Yank Landing Karly Monday Takes Enemy By Surprise   Empress Augusta Bay Captured in Hurry; Allies Only 260 Miles From Kev Rase. Rabaul   NIPPON FLEET DARED TO SHOW AND FIGHT

Americans Landed On Bougainville islanc   Bold Solomons Invasion Followed by Challenge by _ General MacArthur to Japanese Navy to Come Out and Fight—Enemy Surprised by Attack

Japs Are Caught By Surprise In Bold Landing At Empress Augusta Bay   MacARTHUR DEFIES JAP FLEET TO FIGHT

Bougainville Is Invaded By Yanks   Empress Augusta Bay Is Captured In Bold Attack

Jap Navy Dared To Show If self For Open Fight   Drive For Rabau! May Unhinge Whol

Yanks Capture Bougainville’s ‘Key Positions   M’ Arthur HopesLanding Will Force Sea Fight "Wal Tananeca

U.S. Holds Threat ‘Over Entire \Japanese Position  Ground Forces Seize Vital Bay During   Bold Invasion Move

Jap Navy Dared To Show Itself For Open Fight   Drive For Rabaul : May Unhinge Whole Japanese Position 

MacArthur Defies Japs: Dares Fleet To Come Out and Fight As Americans Invade Bougainville

\Americans Attack Last Big Japanese _ Base in Solomons; Landing Made With Little Enemy Opposition

Yanks Land On Bougainville   Ground Units Take Empress Augusta Bay; MacArthur Challenges Jap Fleet to Come Out and Fight

Walter Kehrberg Weds Edna Manz  Marriage Takes Place At Fort Dodge

EDNA MANZ WEDS AT FORT DODGE   United in Marriage to Walt-. _ er J Kehrberg—To  Live: Here

Army Vehicle Misses Curve, Lands In Rive   Soldiers Were Returning * To Air Base Barracks From USO Club Party

Five Soldiers Killed, 15 Hurt At Camp Devens  Army Truck Off Road Into River

FARMERS 6 WEEKS BEHIND SCHEDULE   Late Fall Only Hope for Record Crop

CHILD SLAYER TRIES SUICIDE   Cleveland Reform .School Parolee Freely Admits Killing Twins

Slayer of Twins Cuts  Own Wrist   Cleveland Boy Thinks He Will - Get 10-Year Term

Allies, Hitting Day, Night At Southern Italy, Blast Salerno Area Heavily   Kharkov Falls to Reds Who Reveal New Break-Through 70 Miles Northwest of Rostov; Last Nazi Rail Line to Taganrog Is Broken

Soviet Troops Battling For Bigger Prizes   Allied Bombers Leave Salerno, South Of Naples, Battered And In Flames

Battle for Guadalcanal Entirely Over   Old Glory Flies Unchallenged Over Entire Island

First Cocyplete American Victory in South Pacific Announced — Batile for Island Ends at Sundown— Ola) Glory Flies Unehallenged Over All the Isiand,

Remnant of Jap Force Is Knocked Out   VANKS ANNTHTILATE OR CAP. TURE LAST VESTIGE OF NIPS THERE.

Eighth Air Force Shot Down 307 Of  (Nazi Planes   Lost 50 Of Own In Two-Ply Raid On Regenstturg And Schweinfurt Aug. 13

09 FORTRESSES LOST IN AUG. 17 RAID ON 2 GERMAN CITIES   New High For U. S. Opera tions In This Theater; 307 Enemy Fighters Downed   4 CREWS ARE RESCUED

307 Nazi Planes Downed By Forts   Americans Lose 59 Of Own Planes

U.S. FLIERS DOWN 307 PLANES IN RAIDS   Set New Record in Attacks on August 17

AAPTHA EXPLOGION HITS MMT. PLEASANT   6,000 Barrels in Roosevel Oil Co. Refinery Burn it $100.006 Fire

U.S. Troops Drive Down Mountain Slope Into Valley   Fights Forward With Knives And Grenades Against Strong German Resistance On Road To Rome.

Clark‘s Force Cracks  Nazi Positions   Drives Down Slope: to Valley Leading to Rome

F.D. R. HOST TO NEWEST SOLONS   “Freshmen” Congressmen Invited To White House; Talking Of Organizing A, ates A ab testit nn

CONGRESSMEN INVITED TO GET-ACQUAINTED SESSION BY FDR   Invitation Comes Simultaneously With An- _  nouncement of 40 New  Members Plan to Band  Tovether

An Unusual Bid  To Congressmen   Baby Members of Lower House Are Invited to White House Session.

New Congressmen To Chat With FD   President Invites Them to White House Get-Acquainted Meet

New Solons Get White House Bid  From President   10) Freshmen Democrats Plan Contribution To Government Thinking

New Members Invited To Get-Acuainted Meeting With President  NEW BLOC IS FORMED

\FDR Woos New Congressmen With Unusual Invitation To White House For Get-Acquainted Meet March 10

New Congressmen are Being Wooed by Chief Executive      White House to Extend Unusual Invitations to New Senators and Representatives As Democratic Control Both Houses Appears At Times  ’ to Be Getting Out of Wand

CONGRESS GROUP TO SEE PRESIDEN I   F.D.R. Letter Asks Freshmen to Come _ to See  Him in White House. _   NEW MEMBERS GETTING BALKY

American Air Forces to Blast Japan   Munda Seen as New Base for Huge Aerial Offensive

Congressmen Start Debate on Nation’: Part in Postwar Activities; Collaboration Appears to Gain Favor

House Rexly-toVote onlasting PeaceProposal  Members Gra Supgert "To Fulbrint Bil! —— ee oa

HUGE TO VOTE ON PEACE POLICY   Will Ballot Today On Fulbright Resolution; Firs: War-Time Expression Or Foreign Policy

House Favors Action  On ‘Lasting Peace’   Chamber ¥ otes Today on Resolution for International Collaboration to Assure Peace: Bill Gets Bi-Partisan Support

House Argues On Fulbright Resolution   Much Support- Appear: ‘for Post-War Policy Declaration

Collaboration Policy Wins  House Favor   First Skirmish on Peac Resolation Points TY Pa     we

House Nears Vote on Postwar Plan   Debate on Floor Shows Division; Passage Assured

HOUSE STUDIES PEACE PROBLEW   Bi- Partisan Support I: Given Proposal For Collaboration

House Displays Desire To Assure A Durable Peace   owerful Bi-Partisan Sup port Given to Fulbright Resolution

House favors collaboration   Vote on Fulbright  resolution today

‘House Backs Effort For A Fixed Peace   eat ats DEBATE SHOWS OVERWHELMING SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF  FULBRIGHT ESOLUTION FOR COLLABORATI)N    Preserve Sovereignty

‘ase Sentiment ng for World  ‘ice Resolution   Jote Set Today on n to Commit Nation +» World Co-Operation

House Favors International Collaboration  Give Powerful Bi-Partisan Aid

High School Pupils Urged To Stay After School To Learn Essential War Industry Skills

Red Bombers Hit Airfields   They Also Smash at Installations of Nazis at Bryansk

Reds Strike New Blows At Germans   Little Ground Activity Reported On Front

SOVIETS GLAST NAZI AIRDROMES   Raiding Russian Fliers Wreck Score of German Planes

RED BOMBERS HAMMER NAZIS   Rear Airfields And Rail In. Stallations Hit; Ground Activity-la Lull -

Soviet's Big Guns Batter German Forts   Russian Airmen Smash Anew At Nazi Airdromes

Russian Bombers Hammer German:   Artillery Destroys Nazi Fortifications

RED BOMBERS HAMMER AT NAZIS   Little Ground Activity Reported in Mid-Day  ‘Russian Communique

Russians Smash Nazi Airdromes  Scouting, Artillery Bombardments Only pm i ef gt oy,

Soviet Bombers Pound Germans   Reds Report Little: Activity On Ground

Red Fliers Hammer Nazi Airfields And Hit Sea Units  Rail Lines Also Get Strafing, Soviet Communique States

Soviet Bombers Pound Nazis — in Bryansk Are   Large Fires Are Started at Station and Rail Junction; Other Airmen Sink Patrol-Ship in Gulf of Finland

Soviet Bombers Raid Airdromes   REDS STRIKE GERMAN LINES ON LENINGRAD BATTLE FRONT

RUSSIAN BOMBERS HAMMERED AGAIN AT NAZI AIRDROMES   About 20 German Planes Were Destroyed on the Ground.   HIT BEHIND DEFENSES   Three Enemy Planes Were Downed in Air Combat Near Rostov.

Russian Bombers Pound Airfields  Reds Report Little Ground Activity

EIGHTH NIGHT ATTACK MADE ON GERMANY   Berlin Radio Carries Threat Of Retaliation And One Report Says Hint Of Gas Use Is Seen.

Biitish Bombers Hit Reich Avain; Nazis Bluster   Germans Threaten Heavy Retaliation ‘Next Spring’

RAF 9th Day Raids Shower DeathonReich   Report French Coas' Town Near Lorient ‘Totally Destroyed’

AERIAL BLITZ HAS BREATHER   Western Reich Area Hit As Nazis Promise Retaliation in Spring

SUGGESTS NEW PLAN   Germans Propose to Make England ‘Beg for Mercy’ Spokesman Declares.

SENATE TO GET BILL OUTLAWING STRIKES IN U.S.   Capital Predicts Roosevel Intervention in Coal Dispute

SOVIET PILOTS ARE ACTIVE   18 German Planes Are Destroyed In Northwest Caucasus

Axis Attack ls Broken Up   Enemy Is ‘Bled White’ Communique Claims

Axis Defeat In Tunisia  May Be Near   Defenses Collapsing Before Allied Armies And Air Superiority  PRITICO DOrACYY Mr 2 Te

Americans Smash German Lines in Vicinity of Goal   Capture of Massicault, 15 Miles from Tunis, Is Reported   Yanks Closing in on Ferry: ville Eight Miles from Bizerte

Broadening Urged   Board Chairman Suggest All Who Work Should Get Benefits

Leaders Of French Factions Form National Committee Of Liberation

Executive Group Is Organized   Giraud And De Gaulle To Serve As Joint Heads Of Governing Body Formed At Algiers

FRENCH SET UP UNITY ? COUNCIL   ‘Committee Of Liber ation’ Made New Title

‘New French Committee Is Oraqanized   Executive Group Formally Brought Into Existence and Given Name of National Cammittee of Tiheration  °

COMMITTEE OF LIBERATION SET UP BY FRENCH   Established Aiter 2 Day Deadlock: Tension Reported in Algiers

French Namé Executive Committee   Peace Between Giraud And De Gaulle Seen In New Action

TENSION HIGH AS FRENCH LEADERS FAIL TO AGREE  RESUME ALGIERS DARI EY: EXPRESS

New French _ Committee Is Formed   Tension Remains High in Algiers as DeGaulle and Giraud Fence

French Chiefs End Deadlock   National Committee of Liberation Formally Brought Into ’ Existence at Algiers

Form French Governing Committee   DeGaulle and Giraud As Joint Heads; Compromise on DeGaulle Demand for Purge

vIRAUD, DE GAULLE SET UP COMMITTEE   Agreement Finally Reached Between Frenchmen

FRENCH GROUPS REACH AGCORD   National Committee of- Liberation Formed in Conference.

Allies May Halt De Gaulle’s ‘Try For Dictatorship   See: Britain ‘And. America Stopping :-Finaneial:: Aid Tf’ Confusion -Coéntiniies

FRENCH COMMITTEE OF LIBERATION HAS BEEN ORGANIZED  GIRAUD AND DE GAULLE WILL ALTERNATE AS PRESIDING OFFICERS

French Chiefs Set Up Board   Deadlock Broken With Establishment Of GiraudDeGaulle Committee.

Faet Ends Tension m  Algiers   Important Changes In Leadership Agreed Upon

GIRAUD, DE GAULLE TO HEAD FRENCHMEN   Name Board ‘National Committee of Liberation’

FRENCH UNITY COUNCIL TAKES OVER CONTROL   National Committee of “Liberation Chosen as Name — De Gaulle Housecleaning Promised

French Agree On Chiefs of Algiers Regime   De Gaulle, Giraud Preside Jointly Over Committee

French Executive  Committee Set Ur  Leadership In Algeria. Morocco To Change

French Leaders Agree On Aides  Of Liberation Formed Ry DeGaulle-Girand

Personnel! Of Group Unchanged; Algeria And Morocco Likely To Get New Leaders

FRENCH COMMITTEE OF LIBERATION HAS BEEN ORGANIZED  GIRAUD AND DE GAULLE   GIRAUD AND DE GAULLE WILL ALTERNATE AS PRESIDING OFFICERS

Giraud, De Gaulle Break 2-Day Deadlock. Set Up Liberation Group 7

F reneh in Africa Form Liberation Committee   Giraud and de Gaulle Named Joint Presidents of Organization To Fieht for French Freedom

FRENCH UNITY IS ACHIEVED TODAY   Executive Committee  Formally Named to Rule Over Liberated Areas

RENCH FAIL 70 AGREE ON GOVERNMENT   xecutive Committee Conyenes After Two-Day Deadlock   PURGE IS SOUGHT > BY GEN. DE GAULLE   Asks That All Officials of - Pro-Vichy Tendencies Be Ousted

Moves to Abolish  State Income Tay   Rep. Keating Has Bill That Would Repeal Every  State Income Tax.

End to State Income Taxes Is Proposed   Proposal Introduced in the House by Rep. Edgar J. Kealing.

Potatoes Now Glut Market  Over-Supply Drives Price Under Ceilings

POTATOES, RARE WEEK AGO BECOME DRUG ON MARKET AND PRICES GO DOWN

CHECK USE STAMPS   State Wide Drive Against ~ Delinquent Motorists Isa Success

Simple Priority Plan for Farmers   WPB Eases Rein On 178 Vital Items

SELECTION OF JURY STILL UNDERWAY IN POTATO CASE   Government Completes Its Selection of Jury Shortly After Noon; Defense Begins Its Part In the Selection of the Jury This Afternoon.

STOP RELEASING JAPANESE, SAYS INVESTIGATOR OF CAMPS   Rep, Costello Tells House There Has Been No  Investigation of Fitness of Those Turned Loose

MILAN, COLOGNE HIT BY RAIDER IN NEW ATTACK   Two Big Axis Industrial Centers Suffer Battering By RAF Planes

NAVAL POWER SUPPLYING BIG PACIFIC PUNCH   Bulk of Fighting Power to Remain There Until Tojo’s Final Day, Knox Says

SEA AND AIR POWER TO BE USED ON JAPS   Then, Says Navy Secretary, Troops Will Hit Japan

Sea-Air Power Still Big Punch In Pacific War      “Navy Will Continue To: Operate Against Jans.

Navy’ s ‘Big Puneh’ Is In Pacific Area 1   Knox Says U.S. Is Adding A Warship A Day To Fleet

WFA To Make Loans To Growers On 1943 Cotton Crop   Rates Equivalent To 90” Of Parity; Higher Near Mills

Wheat Loans To Average $1.22   AAA Compliance  Gaiinec EFliaqihility

Base Loan Rate On Cotton Adds. Over Two Cents   WEA Says Plan Is  Equivalent To 90 Dar Cant OF Darien

NAZI AIRPORT IN FRANCE HIT BY RAF PLANES   2 Ships Damaged By Planes; Eight  Bombers Lost

Strong Force Is Raiding Europe   Fly Over English Channel In Daylight

Allied Aerial Armada Heads  Towards France   Continue Bombing Assaults Begun Last Night.

DESTROYED EIGHT ~ ENEMY AIRCRAFT, DAMAGED 2 SHIPS   RAF Bombers and Fighters in Attack Last Night on Nazi Airport Facilities.   SHIPPING WAS ALSO HIT   Ten Locomotives Damaged and Railway Targets Were Bombed.

Marine Major General Dies In Plane Crash   Upshur and Aide, Captain C. Paddock, 4 Others Killed

GENERAL UPSHUR; CHARLES PADDOCK DYE IN AIR CRASH   Marine Officer and Former Fleet-Footed Track Star Among Six to Perish in Alaska.   AIRPLANE BURNED ON HITTING GROUND   Navy Announces There Were No Survivors of Crash-— Bodies of Victims Are Recovered.

Maj.Gen. Upshur Dies as Plane  Falls m Alaska   Captain Charles Paddock, Once ‘Fastest Human,’ Also Among Six Killed

PLANE CRASH KILLS GENERA!   Upshur, Marine Leader Capt. Charles Paddock, 4 Others Die at Sitka

GEN. UPSHUR, AIDE, 4 OTHERS DIE IN CRASE   commanding General of Marines in Department of the Pacific Meets Death Near Sitka. Alaska.   Aide Charles Paddock

GEN. UPSHUR, FIVE OTHERS DIEIN CRASH   Marine Corps Commander . ond Capt. Paddock Lose Lives   LATTER IS FORMER! OLYMPIC CHAMPION   No Survivors of the Accident, Navy Department Reports

3 JAP MERCHANTMEN BOMBED BY ALLIES   Vessels Destroyed or Badly Damaged Off Dutch East Indies Port of Ambon.

HITS MADE ON 3 ENEMY SHIPS   Merchantmen Destroyed Or Damaged In East Indies; Rabaul Raided Again

Bombers Hit Three  Jap Merchantmen  Allies Kill 129 More Japs in New Guinea

Big Jap Base At Rabaul Is Bombed For Seventh Straight Night   AMERICANS ADVANCE ON GUADALCANAL

Three Jap Cargo Ships Are Struck   Navy Silent On Air, Land Action In Solomons

Bombers Pound Cargo Vessels In Guinea Area   Two Other Small Boats Sent Down  In Sweening Raids

Bombers Damage  Jap Merchantmen   American Troops Block Help to Guadalcanal; Ambhon. Rahanl Bit

GOVERNORS BLAME “PRACKPOT” IDEAS FOR FOOD CRISIS   Farm Regimentation by Visionaries, Planned Scarcity Attacked at Des Moines Mesating.

Nation on Brink  Of Famine Because Of Swivel / Chair  Farmers. ‘Bricker

SRICKER FLAYS ‘SWIVEL CHAIR’ * FARM PLANNING   Tells Des Moines Parley Visionaries Bring U. S. to Famine Brink

; : GOVERNOR FLAYS “VISIONAR YES" IN ATTACK ON HAND LING OF THE FARM   \ PROGRAM  -

[FARM STATE GOVERNORS DEMAND RECOGNITION OF INDUSTRY AS ESSENTIAL

OHIO GOVERNOR ATTACKS FARM REGIMENTATION   Committee to Draw Up Definite Program Is Approved

Munda Pounded By 100 Allied Heavy Bombers  70 Tons Bombs Are Dropped On Tan Preaitinne

Victim Of Heaviest  Bomb Raic   Big Allied Air Fleet Drops 70 Tons Of Bombs On Japs  In New Guinea.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Plan for Rommel and Staff to Fly to Italy. It is Claimed

Price Warning Given   Smaller Container Must Coat Leas. Save OPA

CENSORSHIP OFFICE SEEKS FREER NEWS   Authorities Liberalize Codes Of Press And Radio

Ban ‘E’ Awards . 1f- Absenteeism. Hits War Plants   Navy Will Withhold Flag If Organization Record Shows Excessive Loafing

Wahlgren Makes Final Forecast   Weather Man Goes To St. Louis for New Assianment

Wahigren’s Last Is Favorable Report   Little Chance of More Rains, He Tells State

C. A. P. IS TRANSFERRED   Executive Order Places Group in the War Department

COUNTY WAY OVER TOP IN CAMPAIGN   ~— County Citizens Subscr  bed $24,748.61 for Red Cross

COUNTY WAY OVER TOP: IN.CAMPAIGN    latte: ee County Citizens SubSeribed $24,748.61 for Red Cross

Writer Describes Unforgettable Experience of Landing With U. S. Troops on Beaches Near Salerno

Eight Jap Barges Sunk By Allies   ‘Heavy Toll of Enemy. . Aircraft ‘Is Taken

PLANES SINK JAP BARGES ALONG NEW GUINEA COASTLINE   Allied FHers Also Take Heavy Toll Of Enemy . Aircraft In Air Battles

POUND JAPS IN PACIFIC AREAS   Allied Planes Blast Ship in. Australian Theater; Yank Troops Strangle Nip on Attu

Allied Planes Sink Barges  Loaded With Jap Soldiers   Air Battles Rage Over South Pacific Area—22 Nips Downed

30 PER CENT OF COAL MINE WORKERS IDLE      UMW Officials Promise Normal Operations “About Next Monday’ —Say Men Dissatisfied but Will Work.

THOUSANDS OF MEN STAY FROMPITS   Union Officials Promise Norma} Operations Soon

MINERS REVOLT CONTINUES IN PENNSYLVANIA   60 Per Cent Of Miners Refused To Work Yesterday

Many Miners Are Still Out   Leaders Expect Normal Operations About Next Monday

MANY REMAIN OUT OF PITS INTHE STATE   Revolt of Thousands of Hard and Soft Coal Diggers Continues Today   OFFICIALS CONFIDENT

60 Per Cent Of Workers Still Revolt   Union Officials Expect Normal Operations Monday

Miners’ Revolt: Is Continuing   Monday Seen As Big Tes For Resuming Normal Production.

Liderators Set Koepang Afire In Heavy Raid   MacArthur Steps Up Ail Drive, Deals Heavies: Blows In Weeks

3 WLB MEMBERS RAP COAL PACT   Claim Wage Line Held But Other Factors Cause Great Anxiety

Predict Crisis { Unions Hold Too Much Power   See Possibility Of Early Strike

WLB Trio Flays  Ickes-Lewis Pact   Agreement Means Crisis Later, They Say

WLB Members Fear Pact May Lead fo Crisis   Wage Line Held but Other Factors Cause Anxiety —

3 WLB Public Members See  Crisis in Coal   Wage Line Said ‘Held, But Other Factors  Piwteee, fees

AGREEMENT OF ICKES, LEWIS IS UNDER ATTACH   Public Members Of WLB Say Pact May Lead To Another Coal Crisis   WARNING IS GIVEN TO ORGANIZED LABOR

FD. R. Is Silent On Salary Measure  Statement, Today Will Outline Stand

FDR Lets Deadline Pass Without Saying What Plans For Debt And Salary Bill Are

ACTION DELAYED ON DISNEY BILL   Salary Limit Repealer May Go On Books Unsigned

Debt Limit Bill  Draws No.Action  FDR Lets Deadline Pass, Will Issue Statement Sunday

President Mum  On Debt Bil   May Let It Become  Law Without Signing

Still Move Supplies To Africa   British, Americans Con. tinue Advance and Take  Many Prisoners

Axis Troops Fight Delaying Action   Thousands Captured; British Army in North Makes Headway

Allied Forces Capturing Thousands  Of Axis Prisoners In African Drive

AXIS RETREATS HEFORE DRIVES ON ALL FRONTS   Enemy’s Bridgehead Slowly Shrinks Under Pounding Of Allied Armies

Over 2000 Tons (f Bombs Dropped Upon Frankfort   Air Raids On Germany Reach New Pitch Of Intensity London Reports   OTHER NAZI CITIES ARE ALSO BLASTED

British Bombers Blast Frankfort In 2000-Ton Raid   42 RAF Planes Lost In Assault Which Also Hits Mannheim And Ludwigshaven After U.S. Airmen Batter Port Of Bremen

Murder Charge To Be Pressed Against Youth  Farm Hand To Be Ar raigned Today; Girl May Go Free

Young Farmbhand To Be Arraigned On Murder Count  Youth Admits Shooting Two; Denies Killing  Biescnwtincenels YARES

HULL TO ATTEND QUEBEC PARLEY   World Politics Involved: Expect U.S. General Will Direct Invasion

U.S. Army Officer May Be Named to.  Command Alfled Invasion of Europe 

INDICATE AMERICAN OFFICER — MAY HEAD INVASION. FORCES   GEN. MARSHALL AND GEN, EISENHOWER MENTIGNED IN_ CONNECTION WITH EUROPEAN INVASION

LABOR SOURCES SAY LEWIS’ POWER OVER MINERS Is MENACED   Say Present Rebellion I; One Link In Long Chain Of Reactions To  Lewis

Mines Halted 4 Times in 2d World War   Coal Stocks for War Plant Operations Depleted in Few Davs

American Woman Wife No. 3 Of WealthyIndian Potentate   Attractive Brunette, 29, Divorces Employe of Aircraft _ Company to Marry Maharajah, Who Also Geis Reno Decree; His Father Also Married Te OS Woman. Later Ahdicateod

WHEELER AGAIN SUGGESTS EARLY SESSION ON DRAFT   Various Aspects. of Selective Service. Rulings . Leave Washinoton -Confused.

FATHERS PUT AT BOTTOM OF DRAFT LIST BY DIRECTIVE   Sen, Wheeler Not Satisfied With New Plan—Wants Legislation To Handle  Issue

WHEELER THREATENS EXTRA SESSION, ACCUSES McNUTT OVER FATHERS DRAFT

FATHER DRAFT ROW FLAMES   WHEELER DEMANDS SESSION OF CONGRESS ON ORDER

Draft Fathers  Issue Remains In Limelight      Sen. Wheeler Not Satisfied With McNutt’s Stand On Calling Fathers

Draft Fight Looms   Newest Directive Fails To Quiet Opponents Of Calling Dads

WHEELER WANTS CONGRESS 10 ACT ON DRAFT DISPUTE   Scheduled October Call of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Arouses Senator From  Montana.

CONGRESS MEET ON DAD'S DRAFT   Directive Placing Fathers At End Of List Not Deemed Satisfactory

CONFUSING FATHER DRAFT DISPLEASES SENATOR WHEELER   Dads on Bottom of National Draft List   MAY BECALL CONGRESS SOON TO DELAY ACTION

: Draft Picture Confuses Even Washington; ‘ New Order Fails to Assure Fathers of Stay

U.S. Fliers Bomb Japs In Burma On Anniversary   10th Air Force Formed One Year Ago In Ohio: War Records Notable

Four Waves Of Bombers Attack Japanese Installations ln Burma To Celebrate First Anniversary

YANKS BOMB BURMA BASES HELD BY JAPS   Four-ply Attack Launched by Veteran Squadron

Four Units Are Sent Against Jap Installations   Bomber Formations Concentrate on Rangoon Railways -

Rangoon Bombed Heavily   Four Bombing Mission: Carried Out — Railway and Bridge Blasted

Japs In Burma Raided B. TIS  MOG ALAW UA wae S,   Four Formations Cause Enemy Losses

U.S.AIRFORCE HEAVILY BLAST JAS INBURMA   Installations of Enemy Are Raided by Four Units Of Army’s Tenth _ Air Force   RANGOON. ATTACKED   Railway, Myitnge Bridge, Already Wrecked, Tar - gets of One Bomber  a Wave

PLANES SMASH JAP POSITIONS   U. S. Force Celebrates First Anniversary With Raid Over Burma

HERSHEY TELLS DRAFT BOARDS DEFER FATHERS   Chairman May of House Commilfee Satisfied Director to Do All Possible to Spare Fathers

Will defer fathers as long as can   Hershey before  house committee

Ask Hershey How to Slow  Father Draft   Instructions Are Sent to Local Boards to ‘Eliminate 3-A Classifications

Hershey To Do Best To Avoid  Taking Fathers   Some 4-F’s May Be Called Back For Reclassification, It Is Now Planned

Draft Boards Urged to Defer Pre-War Dads   Use Ever Other Possible Means to Fill Quota: Says Hershey

Hershey Explains Draft of Fathers   Selective Service Head Called By House to Tell of New Policy

pre Fights For East Asia   Desires to Save It From Anglo-American Greed, Tojo Says

SEVERE BLAST AT ~ NAVY MINE DEDOT   Section of Virginia Rocked by Explosion at Yorktown

Explosion Rocks Big Naval Depot   Yorktown Officials Withhold Details

Blast at Naval Depot Rocks  Virginia Area   “Windows Broken in Norfolk, Portsmouth, 20 Miles From Scene

Blast at Naval Mine Depot Rocks Lower Virginia and Hampton Roads

BRITISH WAR SECRETARY GIVES TRIBUTE TO MANY PEOPLE—WAR \ANALYST ‘REMEMBERS OTHERS:

Libyan Defeat A British “Show,” But U.S. Planes In Stellar Roles

The War Today  U.S. Took Major Part In Defeat Of Rommel In Africa Camnaieon.

—The War Today— U. S. Planes Played Vital Tripoli Role   Big Long-Distance Bomber: Were Only Ones Able To Hit Rommel’s Bases

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   U.S. Air Force, Supplies  Had Important Roles vIn Routing Rommel

Income Taxes Are Attacked   Many States Abolish Or Reduce Levy for Duration, It Is Said

Income Taxes Reduced In Four States   Abolished In Some and Movement Grows in Several Others

JAP AIR BASES GIVEN POUNDING   Australians 0 Miles From Coast; Over 100 Nipponese Slain

President and Mrs. H. W.  invite all seniors to the  SENIOR RECEPTION Saturday. August the fourteenth  Hine to eleven p.m.

3 STUDENTS TO GRADUATE ATSULROSS   Only Three Men Included Among The Candidates For Degrees

President and Mrs. H. W. Morelock —~ invite all seniors to the SENIOR RECEPTION Saturday, August the fourteenth  Nine to eleven p.m. Deacidant‘«e Mame

SYSTEM OF MERIT RATING APPROVED      Measure Advances to the Third Reading in State  Senate

SIRENS AGAIN WILL SOUND “ALL CLEAR”   Fifteen-Second Blast Decided Upon As Signal That Future Air Raid Tests Are Over In State

15-Second Blast For All Clear   Regular Signals Will Be Used For Sounding End Of Raid

Sirens Will Wail All Clear ©   Gen. Record Gives Rules for Future Blackouts

To Sound Audible All-Clear   Signal For All Clear Alter Raid Alarm To Be Fifteen  Minutes Duration.

NEW SIGNAL FOR BLACKOUT - 1S APPROVEI   Sirens And Whistles To Wail For 15 Seconds

Late News Bulletins   Polish Premier at Headauarters of Army in the Fast

Reich Pounded By 15,000 Tons Of Bombs In May   Two Thirds Of RAF Explosives Poured On Ruhr Valley

R.AF. Dumps 15,000 Tons Of Bombs On Germany In Month Of Offensive   Germany’s Industrial Ruhr Bears Brunt Of Aerial Assaults; Industrial Production Said To * Have Fallen About 35 Percent.

not Hitler Hurtt 15.060 Tons Of Bombs Have Been Dropped On Germany By Brifish Airmen In 30 Days

DRADLY CARGO  re DROPPED ON REICH HUGE   More Than 15,000 Tons of Explosives Unloaded On - Germany In the Past Month, Revealed   “DESTINY OF NAZIS” ‘NEARLY PULVERIZED   Germans Makng No Attempt to Conceal Devas tation, Terming De  struction “Incredible”

Germans Admit Chaos In-Ruhr Is ‘Incredible   Production Down 35%, Five Million Are Made Homeless

15,000 Tons Of Explosives Fell on Reich   War Production Reported Cut 35 Per Cent

15,000 Tons of Bombs on Ruhr Area   ‘Incredible’ Destruction in Vital Area Admitted by Germans   MORE TO COME, ALLIES DECLARE   May Be the ‘Second Front,’ Swiss Say;Now Most Bomb . Battered Area in World

BATTLE OF RUHR REACHING PEAK   Nazis Admit  “Incredible’ Devastation; Output Of Factories is Slashed

ible Devastatio  15 000 Tons Of Bomis Rained Down On Nazis Within Month

More Than 15.000 Tons Of Bombs Dumped On Ruhr Valley During May In  Allied Offensive::Germans Admit Devastating Damage To Industrial Area

Deadly Cargo of More than 15.000 Tons of Bombs Dropped  On Germany in Month, Two-Thirds on Ruhr Industries

RAF RAIDS ON GERMAN CITIES HIT NEW HIGHS   Unleash 15,000 Tons Of Bombs In Single Month   RUHR IS HEAVIEST HIT   Berlin Admits Damage To  Industrial Regions Is  “Incredible”

Great Bomb Cargo Unloaded on Reich   Fifteen Thousand Tons of Explosives Fall On Germany in Month to Cause Heavy Loss

DEADLY CARGO OF MORE THAN 15,000 TONS BOMBS DROPPEL   MONTH’S ACTIVITY OF GIANT BRITISH  BOMBERS RECORDED

"Incredible? Destruction  Done In Ruhr By RAF Bombs   ‘Not Eyen Keenest Foresight Could Have Foreseen It,’ Savs Deutsche Allecemeine Zeitun:

DUMP 15,000 TONS IN MONTH   Ruhr Bears Brunt of RAF Assaults; Fill Suffer More Yet

——————————  RAF Drops 15,000 Tons of Bombs On Germany During Single Month

RUHR OUTPUT CUT 35 PC BY ALLIED RAIDS   15,000 Tons Bombs Dropped on Germany in Month, Two-Thirds Total on Seven Ruhr Cities   U-BOAT BASES HIT   German Fighter Strength Inade quate, Eaker Says, Has Lost Batdle of Rubr

15, 000 “Fons ~ “of: Bombs - “Unloaded” : “On: Germany: In. Last’: Month

FDR And Churchill Talks Are Ended, In Agreement On  Offensive Plans

Orlly Available Soldier Candidate Is Considered In High Circles— Post-Election Developments Are Seen   VOTING TRIUMPH TO BE ARGUMENT POINT

DR. JOE J. TAYLOR, EDITOR OF DALLAS MORNING NEWS, DIES  PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER OF NOTE PASSE  IN HIS 73RD. YEAR

Small Nations Weary Of Wai   Rumors Of Separate ' Peace Are Growing

RELEASE GOAL FOR MICHIGAN   125,000 Tons Ordered Sent ‘Michigan by Secretary Ickes to Ease Shortage

Parks Will Give Space To Gardens   School Children Will Till Vegetable Plots in Se: lected Areas; Six Parks in Southeast Area.

EARLY THAW BENEFITS NAZI ARMY IN SECTOR   Supreme Effort, Aided by Milder Weather, Give Nazis the Opportunity to Extricate Themselves from . Extremely Bad Position in Southern Russia— Kharkoy Is Again Threatened by Invaders,

Strong Units NowDriving At Kharkoy   Early Thaw Helps German Position

(Reg. U.S. Pat. Office) By LOUIS F, KEBMLE  Binttnwl Denes CWEleaw A sacs beara 4

Russian-U. §. Conference Will Be Held Soon,  President Announces

U.S. and Russia Will Hold Talks   F.D. Reveals Parleys as He and Eden Reach  Accord on Problems

FDR, Eden Set Allied Patter   Avree onW orldOutlook ; Red Parlevs Promised

KUDSO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD SHORTLY   Roosevelt Announces Talks Will Be Along Lines of Those With Foreign Secretary Eden.   LATYER WINDS UP MISSION IN CAPITAL   Goes to Ottawa En Route Home—Agreements Reached on Many Problems During His Stay.

Deanna Durbin  After Divorce   Singing Star Of Movies Charges Husband With Mental Cruelty.

hth Army Launches Offensive Aimed at Naples   Seven Air Transports Shot Down Attempting To Evacuate Germans From Corsican Trap

Allies Strike By Sea, Land, Air In Italy   Advance Upwards 0: 30 Mile Drive In Southern Italy

Anti-Subsidy Legislation  Is Offerec   Variety of Plans Being Prepared to Thwart  Administration

Farm Groups Hit Subsidies   Organized Labor, On Other Hand, Favors Price Rollback

ANTI-SUBSIDY GETS BACKING   Farm Groups Join Parade of Food Price Rollback Bills

NEW BILL HITS AT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY PLAN   Farm Organizations. Back Legislation Provid ing Middle Ground

LATEST PLAN WOULD LIMIT PRESENT PLAN   Opposing Solons’ Consider Measure To Limit Allocation Of Money

Expect Battle Over Subsidy   Measures Ready To  Prohibit. To Advance, To Limit Subsidies.

FARM GROUPS OPPOSE PLAN   Anti - Subsidy Legislation Wins Support of Agriculture Orgfinizations

New Anti-Subsidy Plan Supported By Farm Groups   Direct Prohibition

Farm Blocs Back Move To Prevent Subsidy Program   Substitute Scheme Proposed; Labor Wants Roll-Back

DISASTROUS STRIKE IS LOOMING FRIDAY ~ AT CHRYSLER PLAN]   Production at Tank Arsenal Heads Toward a Shut-Down As Walkout Goes On. ©

F.D, R. DISAVOWS TERM ‘NEW DEAL’ AS SHIBBOLETH   Act Interpreted by Some as Bid for Fourth Term

SEE ROOSEVELT EYEING CHANCE FOR NEW TERM      Disavowal Of Term “New Deal’ Believed Move Toward Candidacy

D A FOR ‘Win THE WARY   Some See First Move In Fourth Term Campcign   PRESIDENT DISCUSSES POST-WAR PROGRAMS

Fourth Term “Move Seen By Roosevelt   Disavowai of New Seal Term-Called First:Im-portant Step

JETTISONING  OF ‘NEW DEAL’ MAY BE MOVE TOWARD FOURTH TERM CAMPAIGH

Sharp Increase In Living Cost Marks Month   Farm Products Up Five Points Over Preceding Period

HIGHEST POINT   Figures Disclose American Farm ers Are Getting Top Prices.

FARM PRICES HIGHEST IN. 23 YEARS   Survey Shows: Index At Highest Point Since 1920

INDEX OF FARM PRICES SOARS; COSTS STABLE   Food Price Freeze Is Failing As Market Figures Advance

Draft Evader Says U. S. Has Done Nothing For Him, Faces Expulsion

Objector Told To Fight For U. S. Or Become Man Without Country   No Further Word

Allied Planes Wreck Wewak      Destroy Seven Ships, 58 Jap Aircraft

Yanks Virtually Wreck Japanese Base at Wewak   “58 Planes nd Seven Vesseis Are Destroved

‘Allies Nearly Destroy Japs’ Base At Wewak   At Least 58 Planes Shot Down; Seven Supply Ships Sunk

60 Planes, Seven Ships Destroyed   Australians Press Closer to Port of Finschhafen

Wewak Blaster By Terrific Bomb Attack.   More Than 50 J ap Aircraft Destroyed ; Ships Are Struek

BIG ENEMY BASE AT WEWAK RUINED BY 200 ALLIED PLANES   Probably 61 Jap Aircraft, ' 7 Vessels Of Newly Arrived Convoy Destroyed

58 JAP PLANES BLASTED ON GROUND   o : Allies Wreck Wewak ‘In Surprise Air Raid

ALLIED PLANES SMASH WEWAK BASE OF JAPS   58 Enemy Aircraft Downed And Seven Vessels Sunk During Heavy Attack

WEWAR AIR BASE RUINED BY BOMBERS   American Flyers Hit Jap New Guinea Airdrome and Crush Many Planes On the Ground.

58 Jap Planes And 7 Vessels Lost At Wewak      Over 200 Allied Fliers Virtually Wreck Big Japanese Base

Allies Wreck Japanese Base InNew Guinea      Seven Ships, 61 Planes “Destroyed In Raid On Wewak Base

IS GIVEN JAPANESE   Knockout Blow 1s Admin; istered Enemy by Allied ‘ Foray on Base at Wewak.

Wewak Is Virtually Wrecked by 200  Allied Pianes   At Least 58 Jap Aireralt Destroyed   Allied Victory Appears Near Aét VMincehhafan

ALLIES WRECK 98-61 PLANES, / JAP VESSELS   200 Raiders Virtually Destroy Base At Wewak

Wewak Base Is Smashed By Allied Plane:   Sixty-One Enemy Planes Believed Destroyed And Seven Vessels Sunk By Allied Raiders

ALLIED PLANES. WRECK. WEWAK: AIR; SEA-BASt        Riflenien ap Held Fin achhafen * Sea-".

8 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED BY US. IN RAID ON WEWAK   Seven Vessels of Newly-arrived Convoy Also Hit By Bombers.

58 JAPANESE PLANES ARE DESTROYED   200 Allied Aircraft Sink Seven Ships In Wewak Harbor

U. 5. Planes. Again Smash Wewak Base   61 Enemy Aircraft Are Destroyed On Four New Guinea Air Fields   SINK 7 FOE SHIPS   Allied Victory At Finschhafen Appears Imminent As Aussies Close In

ALLIED PLANES WRECK WEWAK BASE OF JAPS   Aussies Pile Up Enemy Deac In Drive On Finschhafen Seaport

Hope of Effective Aid to Boys Held By Japs Grows  _ Exchange Vessel Due To Sail With Medical _ Supplies Sept. 1 COMMITTEE REPORTS Capital Visitors Find Recent Death Lists Are Accumulated   Exchange Vessel Due To Sail With Medical  Sunnhe< Sent. 1

ALLIED PLANES LASS CHANNE!   Bombers Follow Up Night Raids On Northern Italy and Munich

Form Newspaper Council To Aid War Bond Drive   Victory Campaign Starts April 12

Allies Take 21 More » Villages, Towns‘in Italy   Armies Drive Ahead In Mud, Rain; Yanks Advance Five Miles

2) Italian Towns Fall To Allies   Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance In Rain And Mud

21 Italian Towns Fall to Allies  C4? Orr FF   Rain, Mud Hamper Forward Drive

Allies Smash On In ltaly, Taking 2i More Towns   Drive Hampered By Mud And Raia, But  on oe ee ae 1

ALLIES DRIVE AHEAD IN MUD, RAIN IN ITAL‘   Teano, {inportant Road  Junction, Taken  By Clark’s Men

Armies Gain  Despite Rain, Mud   Americans, British Slog Through Storm To Capture 21 Towns, Take Control Of Strategic Roadways; Fight Is Fierce

Allies in Italy Take21 Towns   ‘Two Mountain: Bastions Fal] ta Sth Army

Allies Smash On In Italy, Taking 21 More Towns   Drive Hampered By Mud And Rain, But Blows Taking Toll

Allies Capture 21 More Towns On Italian Front   Important Road Junction Of Teano Is Captured By American 5th Army

Rain Slows Up Allied Advance   Capture 21 Towns in Italian Offensive

11 More Italian Towns Captured   Allies Advancing In Mud and Rain

Allies Seize 21 Towns on Italian Front   Road Junction of Teano Falis in Push Against Nazi Line

Allied Troopers Advance in Italy   Uphill Fighting Being Waged With Infantry Close to Nazi Line

MORE ITALIAN TOWNS TAKEN BY AMERICANS   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES GAIN IN MUD AND RAIN

ALLIED ARMIES IN. ITALY TAKE TOWNS   Advances Reported by Troops Despite Rain  and Mud

ALLIED PLANES RANGE AHEAD OF CROUND FORCES   o_o ‘Tunis Welcomes British With , Flowers As Eisenhower Or ; ders Finish Fight.

Enemy’s First Daylight Air Attack On Guadalcanal Since Nov. 11; Army and Marine Fighters Engage Them In Bitter D- ul High Over Island. —

‘Stores Will Be Closed Thursday For the Holiday   Thanksgiving Day to Be Observe ed by Nearly All Places of susiness in Washington

20,000 Trapped In Pocket   Gen. MacArthur Flies In Lead Plane  Of Surprise  Attack.

Ring Closed Around Enemy Force   MacArthur at Head of Armada That Seals Death Trap

House Approves ‘Pay-As-You-Go,’ Effective July 1   Vote Is 256 to 114, Ending Four Months of Bitter Debate — Measure Carries 20 Percent Withholding Levy, Cancels 75 to 100 Percent of Year's Tax Liability.

Passage, 256 to 114, Is Quiet Climax of Hot and Historic Fight   Measure Cancels 75 to 100 Pct of One Year's Personal Tax Liability

HOUSE MEETS 10 VOTE ON NEW TAX BILL   Party Lines Dissolved; Quick Approval Seen

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Wonca Adonts Plan.

House Passes Pay-As-You-Go Tax Compromise   Cancels :75. To 100 Per ” Cent Of Year's Levy; - » Goes. To Senate

House Passes 20 Per Cent Tax Measure   Bill Would Abate 75 To 100 Per Cent Of One Year’s Levy; Senate Gets It Now

COMPROMISE ON PAY-AS-Y OU-6O BILL READIED   Administration Leaders Pre dict FDR Will Let Measure . Become Law

HOUSE FINALLY PASSED PAY-GO TAX BILL ON TUESDAY   HOTLY CONTESTED MEASURE NOW GOES TO SENATE FOR APPROVAL

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX BILL WINS VOTE OF HOUSE   Compromise Plan Gets Approval by Vote Of 256-114

HOUSE PASSES THE COMPROMISE PAY. AS-YOU-GO. BILL...   Is Passed By Vole of 256 to 114—Goes to Senate Where Quick Approval Is Expected

Pay-Go Tax House Vote Due Today   Leaders Expect Passage With 75% Abatement and 20% Withholding

Expect Pay-Go lo Pass House  75 To 100 Per Cent Of Year's Income Taxes To Be Abated   WASHINGTON, (#) — The compremise pay - as-you-ge tax bill won House approval on a standing vote of 159 te 68 today. ,

TAKES ACTION BY VOTE OF 159 10 68   Roosevelt Gives Assurance He Will Siegen the Measure

ww ASHINGTON, June 1—The  compromise pay-as-you-go tax pill won house approval on a standing vote of 159 to 68 today. A roll call vote was orst tenmmadiately.

HOUSE OK’S COMP. PAYAS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN   Assurances Given FDR Will Sion Bill   Senate Approval Is Expected Without Fight

Partisan Lines Erased For Vote On Tax Skip Bill   Roosevelt To Let Pay-As-Go Measure Become Law

Party Lines Dissolve As House Meets To Pass On Tax Measure   Salary Reductions Would Start Next Month On Basis Of 20 Percent Deduction From Taxable Part Of All Wages And Salaries.

President Jo Sign Bill, House ear   75 Per cent Abatement of “42 Tax Allowed

HOUSE TO PASS ON NEW INCOME TAX BILL SOON   ‘Party Lines Dissolved As Lower Branch of Congress Meets to Enact Pavy-Go Measure   PERATURES OUTLINED   All Taxpayers -Must Pay Second Installment 1942 Tax June 15; Withholding Tax.-Opens July i

Income Tax Compromise Is Accepted  House Gives PayAs-Go Measure A

House Tax: Vote Assures PayAsYouGo   256 To [14 Decision Speeds Compromise Tc Senate, Okeh Expected   TO START JULY IST   44,000,000 WiH Be Shifted To Current Basis By Legislation

House Votes Compromise  Pay-Go Tax   Calls for 20 Per Cent Tax On All Wages and Salaries

HOUSE VOTES PAY-GO INCOME TAX MEASURE   Collection of Levies Likely Te Start One Month from Today.

House Passes Compromise on Tax Legislation  New Income Levy.   New Income Levy Is Ready to be Sent to Senate

Tax Plan  Past House   Quick Approval of Withholding Tax Expected In Senate

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Passec  By The House   A compromise from original Ruml plan; Roosevelt agrees to  ee a eee

House 0.K. On Pay-As-You-Go Compromise   Standing Vote Shows 159 to 69 Approval Of the Measure

Compromise Plan Which Cancels 75 Per Cent Of One Year's Tax Liability Is Passed

HOUSE TO VOTE ON INCOME TAX MEASURE TODAY   Political Leaders of Both Parties Predict Bill to Pass

Pay-Go Tax Bill Backed By Solons; Sent Senate   Collection Of Tax Slated To Start On July Ist

PARTY LINES DISSOLVE ON TAX MEASURE   Compromise Bill Provides For 20 Percent Deduction From Taxable Part of Wages  APPROVAL IS PREDICTED

HOUSE ADOPTS PAY-CO BILL BY 159-68V0T!   Act Means 20 Per Cent Deduction From Wages July First

HOUSE APPROVES OF COMPROMISE   Pay-as-You Go Tax Bill Wins in Lower House by 159-68 Vote

NO PARTY LINES IN TAX FIGHT   Showdown on Pay-as-you-go Bill Draws Near—Would Be Effective in Month

PAY-AO-YOU-GO BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE   Compromise Measure Passed By Lower Chamber

House Passes  Pay-As-Go Tax   Compromise Measure Cancels 75 To 100 Percent Of One Year's Tax.

Pay-As-Go Plan , Reaches House For Final Vote   Leaders Of Both Parties Say Bill Will Receive  Presidential Approval!

HOUSE VOTES U.S. INCOME TAX MEASURE   Bill Cancels 75 to 100 Pex Cent of One Year’s Liability and Puts Citizens on a Pay-as-YouGo Basis.

Compromise Tax Plan Approved   FR Gives Assurance  He Will Sign Measure

TAX BILL IS PASSED IN HOUSE   Pay-as-You- Go Plan, Almost Certain’ of Adoption, to Start In. One Mouth   TAX CANCELLATION ©. ALSO PROVIDED   House. Votes. 256:to.114 for, Compromise, Climax to 4 Months’ Debate

COMPROMISE TAX BILL WAS PASSED BY HOUSE TODAY   It Cancels 75 to 100 Per Cent of One Year’s Individual Tax Liability.   THE VOTE, 256 TO 114   Quick Approval Is Anticipated in the Senate, It Was Said Today.

HOUSE APPROVES PAY-AS-YOU-GO INCOME TAX BILL   DISSOLVE PARTY LINES TO ADOPT TAX COMPROMISE

HOUSE PAaoED  NEW TAX BILL   75 to 100 Per Cent of Orie Year’s Taxes to Be Abated.   NOW GOES TO SENATE

House Passes Compromise Tax Bill After Roosevelt Promises Signature

HOUSE VOTES COMPROMISE TAX MEASURE   Assurances Given By President He Will Sign Measure

NO FlonT LEFT IN nOUSt FOR TAX PROPOSAL   Small “Token Resistance” \s Expected in Vote on Compromise.   MEASURE NOW HEADED FOR WHITE HOUSE

FORGET PARTIES TO PASS PAY-60   Congressmen Ready To OK Abatement of 75 Per Cent of One Year’s Taxes.

Compromise Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill Up For House Action  Abates 75 To 100 Per Cent Of One Year's  NWayvac And Pate Al On Currant Pavmantc

‘HOUSE SET 10 VOTE TODAY ON NEW TAX PLAN   compromise Pay-As-You-Go Expected To Get Speedy Approval Of Congress

House 0. K. On Income Tax Measure   Compromise Pay-AsYou-Go Program Is Passed On To Senate.

War Office Seeks Means Of Easing Anxiety Over “Missing In Action’ News

MISSING MEN ARE PROBLEM   WAR DEPARTMENT. HOPES ‘TO DEVELOP SYSTEM TO PRO“VIDE RELATIVES. MORE INFORMATION

JOHN 4 § WSISTNG ON HIS TERMS   Says ‘His No Strike Promise ' Was Made cn Certain Conditions. °   IMINERS ARE AT WORK   Every: Indication the 15: _ Day Truce Is Only a. aa Breathing Srell. 

JOHN L. LEWIS ID INOTOTING UN filo Tena   Says His No-Strike Promise Was Made cn Certain Conditions.   MINERS ARE AT WORK   Every Indication the 15: Day Truce Is Only a Breathing Srell.

Must Pull Up Our Belts   Wickard Fears Nation’s Food Crop Will Fall Far Short of Goals Set

SENATORS BACK DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS   Committee Sees Prospect for Food Crop as Large  as That of 1942 “Almost   — _Hanelece ”

Cheek Asked On Shift Of Farm Labor   Wickard Tells Solons U. S. Must Tighten Its Belt; Deferment For Workers Sought

FARM LABOR LEGISLATION 1S SUGGESTED   Military Committee Reports Recommend Measures to Avoid "Tragic Food Situation"   SHORTAGE IS FORECAST

Wickard Admission Revealed   Americaus Must Tighten Belts To Provide Army, Lend-Lease And Relief

PUT FARMS ON WAR BASIS SAYS DRAFT OFFICIAL   Cemmittee Hear Report Urging Greater Economy In Manpower Use in Agriculture

4) FARM GOAL SO HOPELE Oa, SENATORS TOLD   Crop As Large As Last Year Hopeless Of Realization Committee Reports   DEFERMENT OF FARM LABOR RECOMMENDED   Americans Must Tighten Their Belt On Food Issue—Wickard

’43 Food Shortage Seen by Wickard,  Senate Committee   Report Advises Deferring Draft Of Farnr Labor for Rest of Year; ‘Tishten Belt” Nation Is Advised

RECOMMEND DEFERMENT FARM HANDS   Senate Military Committee Says New Legislation is Needed.   SIZABLE DROP IN FOOD CROP SEEN   Committee Minority Opposes Deferment of Farmers as a Group.

Lack Of Labor Will Cut Food Output Below ‘47  Senate Military Group Supports Deferment Of Farm Workers; OW

Shortage of Food Alarms  Congressmen   Senate Group Calls For Deferment of  Farm Workers Now

FARM LABOR IS PROBLEM FOR NATION   Committee Favors Bill: Searcities . Threaten

LABOR MUST BE KEPT ON FARMS TO PRODUCE FOOD   Task of Growing Sufficient Food For: :Needs “Almost Hopeless of Realization”

Passage of Bankhead Bill Urged   Senaie Military Affairs Committee Asks Defer ment Measure

* Prospects of 1943 Food Crop Gloomy   Solons Considering Legislation to Assure Labor for Farmers This Year

BK 1943 FOOD * CROP DOUBTED   Senate Group Favors Re straining Movement of Labor From Farms

Prospect for food not good   Committee see: little chance for big crop

May Defer Farm Labor During ‘43   Senate Committee Moves To Avoid Tragic Situation   Crop As Large As Last Year Almost Impossible   Present Legislation Ineffective Because  Of Federal Red Tape

HD ROP FOR 1943 ELD CERTAIN   jenate Committee Reports Prospects of Meeting ’42  Yield “Almest Hopes Jess of Realization’   ATURE ‘TO DEFER ‘ARM LABOR BLAMED   its Administration of Exsting Legislation; Held “Circumscribed By Red Tape”

‘43 FOOD CROP GOALS DOUBTFUL   Senate Military Affairs Group Urges Deferment Of Farm Workers

Senate Military Committee Urges Bill to Prevent Loss of Farm Labor and ‘Avoid Tragic Result

Reduced Food Crop Expected   Military Committee Recommends Deferment Of Farmers To Senate.

Keep Labor On Farms, Is Plea  Of Committee   Deferment Of Inductior Urged To Avert Furthe: Shortage Of Food 1: Asked By Senators

Food Crop Like 1947's Improbable   Rigid Control of Pork Prices. Ordered

Crop Prospects Not Favorable.   Approve Passage Of Bankhead Bill

FOOD PRODUCTION TOOROP IN 1943   Diseuss Bill To Restrain Movement Of Labor  Away From Farms

Senators Told Americans Must “Tighten Belts”   Wiekard Lava Fand   Wickard Lays Food Scarcity To Farm Labor Shortage

FEAR U, WILL FAlL TOMEET “49 A€ COM   Wickard Says Nation Mus! Pull in Belt; Demands Wil not Be Satisfied

Food Crop Like 1942 Not Likely   Americans Must Tighten Belts, Wickard— Will Not Meet Demands

1943 FOOD CROP NOT EXPECTED 10 EQUAL LAST YEAR   Passage of Bankhead Bill to Defer Farm Workers For Military Service Urged By   Committee.   SUGGESTS AG BE PUT ON WAR PRODUCTION   Committee Learns Tidings Amendment fs Failing to Accomplish Desired ReSults.

Food Crop As Large As 1942's Is "Almost Hopeless Of Realization”

Prospects for Large Food Crop ‘AlmostHopeless’   Senate Committee Passes Deferment

SENATE PANEL ASKS FARMERS BE DEFERRED   Declares Equaling of 1942 Food Qutput Record Almost Hopeless.   INACTION ATTACKED   Wickard Reported Increasingly Alarmed Over Lack of Rural Labor.

Farmers Lack Manpower to  Achieve Goal   Senate Military Group Recommends Legislation to Keep Labor on Farm

Smaller Food Group Cited Committee Urges A Halli On Calling Farm Labor

SHORTAGE OF BOR BLAMED ‘OR OUTLOOK   Rill to Defer Needed Men on Farms Urged By Senate Group

Americans Warned They'll Be Forced e To Tighten Belts   There’s Not Going To Be Enough Food to Satisfy * All Demands

Declares Food Crops In 1943 To Be Smaller   Senate Group Asks Deferment Of Farmers For  Rest Of Year.

iF rom Bal To Worse Possibilit y Of Food Shortage This Year Seen By Wickard   Agriculture Secretary Says ‘We Are Going  t ra i re. a; Le Cr cr: Cr © foe wee 

Weird Bill Passed at Austin During Heated Debate Over Alcohol and Snuff

Synthetic Rubber Or High Octane Gas Starts Battle, Army vs Jeffers

(HARGERUBBER CHIEF CAUSING GAS SHORTAGE   (0 Octane Gas Supply For Army Short Last Month

RUBBER CZAR JEFFERS, ARMY CLASH OVER GAS PRIORITIES   AVIATION OCTANE BATTLE BELIEVED DUE TO SOLIDIFY STAND OR CAUSE AGENCY’S DEATH

JEFFERS FACES ARMY GAS ROW   Octane Fuel Is Needed For Tires, Also War Planes

RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING ON RAIL JUNCTION   fed Army Rapidly Ap proaching Escape Gap Northwest of Gomel Cutting Off Retreat   50 VILLAGES SEIZED

REDS CAPTURE 180 VILLAGES “INGOMEL ARE!   3,800 Nazis Killed ir Action on Russian Frontin Day

RED ARMY MAKING RAPID ADVANCE ON RAILWAY JUNCTION  GERMANS CONTINUE HEAVY UKRANIAN AT-

‘Russians Advance Swiftly to Cut Escape Corridor   Broken German Forces Are Attempting Flight to West; Heavy Fighting Ranes in White Russia, Near Gomel

Red Armies Sweep Up 150 Villages   Moscow Denies Fall Of Korosten To German Troops

Russians Near Zhlobin In Drive To Trap Nazis   Other Forces Surge West In White Russia, Kill 3,800

RAIL cENTER   Sweep Up 150 Villages and Take Many Prisoners in Push for Zhlobin Along Escape Gap  Northwest of Gomel. _

About 200 Communities Occupied By Russians in 24 Hours; Rail  Center Captured

180 VILLAGES IN GOMEL ARE!   3,800 Nazis Killed in Action on Russian Front in Day

REDS ADVANCE RAPIDLY ON RAIL JUNCTION   Russians Sweep Up 150 Villages and Seize Many Prisoners

SOVIET ARMY ADVANCES TE RAIL CENTER   Germans Attempt Retreat Along River Banks

SOVIETS PUSH T0 WITHIN 20 MILES OF RAIL CENTER   SEIZE 150 VILLAGES AND MANY PRISONERS IN DRIVE ON ZHLOBIN

RUSSTA—  Reds In Rapid Advance On Vital Rail Junctior   Broken German Forces / Attempting To Flee Through Escape Gap Northwest Of Gomel; Many Russian Villaces. Taken

Reds Plunge Near Zhiobin On Railroad   Sweep Along Escape Gap Of Germans from Gomel Area; Nazis Attack Ukraine

REDS CONTINUE DRIVEAGROSS WIHITERUSSIA   Menacing Rail. Junction of Tholobin- As. Broken ‘Nazi Forces Attempt. © te Bee’

SOVIETS MOVING TOWARD ZHLOBIN   Russians Seize 150 Villages, Many Prisoners in New War Successes

Great Offensive Takes Russians Near To Zhlobin   London Report Says Reds Bat 15 Miles From City; Gain On Berezina, Pripet

RUSSIANS ADVANCE TOWARD ZHLOBIN   Nazi Attacks Repulsed West Kiev

RUSSIAN TROOPS “WAKING DANE TO -GLOSE ESCAPE GAP      Zhiovin Is Important Rail Junction in  North   3,800 GERMANS ARE  DECLARED KILLED

Reds Near ‘Lhlobin In Fast Advance   Seek To Smash Germans Fleeing Through Escape Gap Above Gomel.

Russians Near Rail Junction   Drive Aimed At Smash. ing Nazis Retreating £Leam Gomel.

RED FORCES ARE MOVING ON ZALORIN   German's Infantry. Tanks Employed In Fiehting

Soviet Troops Push Forward At Gomel   German Communique Claims Russian Forces Are Wiped Out" After Occupying Korosten

Red Army Occupies 150 Villages, Takes Many Prisoners Along Nazi Escape Route

Reds Pound Nazi Troops Near Gomel   Nazis Claim Capture of Korosten

Reds Drive For Another Major Rail Junction   Thousands Of Nazis Killed In Heavy Fighting In South

SURGING REDS NEAR ZHLOBIN, RAIL JUNCTION   Occupy 150 Villages, Tak Many Prisoners; Nazis Claim Korosten Falls

Reds Move Toward Key Rail Junction   Soviet Spearhend Reported Only 15 Miles From Zhlobin

Report 3,800 Germans  Are Killed   Berlin Claims the Recapture of Korosten, Near Kiev

Soviet Troops prive Toward Railroad Hub   Red Army Sweeps up 15¢ Villages, Seizes Many Prisoners   MANY NAZIS SLAIN   Qne Russian Spearhead Is Reported Only 15 Miles From Zhlobin

Lines Holding At Korosten, Russians Say   Soviets Punch Deeper Toward Main Defenses  Of Nazis West of Gomel RSTRATICHITEN Tee

RUSSIANS ADVANCE RAPIDLY TOWARD ZHLOBIN IN DRIVE AT GOMEL ESCAPE CORRIDOR

Reds Move To Close Trap On Nazis   Advance On Railway Junction Of Zhiobin

Many Prisoners Taken by Soviets In 10-Mile Surge   More Than 3,800 Germans Killed as Russians Capture 150 More Towns.   Advances Reported Alone Entire Front

GERMANS CLAIM KOROSTEN HAS BEEN RETAKEN   Russian Armies Sweep Powerfully Toward Main Nazi Defense Wall   MORE COMMUNITIES FALL TO RED ARMY

More Than 150 Villages Taken During Offensive  KOROSTEN CAPTURE CLAIMED BY NAZIS  Red Forces” Massed for First Real Winter Battle

Russians Race To Trap Nazis Above Gomel   Driving, Toward Rail Junction of Zhlobin; Other Forces. Surge Ahead In West And Southwest White Russia. Heavy German Attacks Continue - In Ukraine.

Broken German Forces Fleeing Toward Dnieper   German Casualties Mount As Russians ‘Continue Advances

Red Army Push Nears Rail Key   Take Many Prisoners In Heavy Fighting Beyond Gomel; Hold Nazis West of Kiev

Reds Continue Rapid Advance Along Gomel Gay   Many Prisoners Reported Seized By Russian Army

Reds Gain as  Germans Flee  ' Advancing an lmnartant   ' Advancing on Important Zhiobin Rail Junction; Capture 150 Villages

Many Prisoners Taken in Drive In White Russia   3,800 Nazis Killed Northwest of Gomel

Soviets Closing Trap at Zhlobin  Escape Gap Northwest nf Gamal Clacina Fast

Reds Batter Germans in “Escape Gap’   Russians Speed Aheac - Toward Important Rail Junction

Zhlobin In Pathway Of ~ Red Advance   One Spearhead Reportedly Within 15 Miles of This Vital City

RED ARMY ADVANCES TOWARD ZHLOBIN, VITAL RAIL POINT   Other Russian Gains Scored in West, Southwest Parts of * White Russia   150 VILLAGES ARE TAKEN

REDS CAPTURE 150 TOWNS IN ZHLOBIN DRIVE   Vanguards Reported 15 Miles froz Rail Junciion Through Whic! Germans Fleeing   MANY NAZIS SLAIN   More Than 700 Reported Killed ir Eftcircling Movement Culling Off One Unit

Germans Hur! Heavy Tanks Into Battle   Russians Near Zhlobin In Push To Trap Enemy

RUSSIANS DRIVE TOWARD ZHLOBIN   Advancing Rapidly In Direction Of Important Rail Junction, Sweeping Up 150 Villages.

REDS SEIZE 190 TOWNS IN DRIVE FOR RAIL CENTER   British Say One Soviet Uni Only 15 Miles From City

Berlin Claims Korosten Back  In Nazi Hands   Reds Assert, However Their Acmy Holding in’That Vicinity

Reds Lunge . Toward Vital Rail Junction   Advance Along Nazi Escape Gap To Within 20 Miles of Zhlobin

Russians Advance Rapidly On Zhlobin In Drive To Cut Off Enemy’s Escape Route Northwest Of Gomel— Soviet Forces Report 3,800 Nazis Slain In White Russia Fighting—Other Units Forge Ahead In Rerezina Area And Below Kremenchug

British Bag of Axis Ships In Mediterranean Since Africa Invasion is 204

Preliminaries to Conference Seen  Moscow Principle Is Reiterated

Tri-Power Parley Views Expressed  Reds Claim Nations De - cide Own Policy

SURE OF DESTINATION   Intoxicated Man Phones Long Distance for Jail Reservation.

PLAN SUMMER PROGRAM   Family Night Will Be Observed This Ivening at Cordley

LAKES ORE otlPo NOW AT NORMAL   Ice Conditions Finally Ease to Permit Free Movement of Big Ore, Coal Carrieds

ORE SHIPMENTS AT NORMAL PAGE NOW   Severe Ice Conditions Have Caused Much Delay This Spring.

BLAST JAP BASE FROM ALL SIDES; TROOPS ADVANCE   HEAVY BOMBARDMENT SEEN AS PRELUDE TO LAND ASSAULT

Attack On Land Looms   Ship, Plane And Antil lery Guns Pointed At Jap Base

Naval Units Artillery; Bombers Used   Prelude to Land Assault By American Troops on Air Base

Final. Blasting Of Munda Is Under Way. .   “Warships, “Planes. ma “And Ground Troops’ -Join in Attack :

—P ACI IC  U.S. Warships, Planes. Ar +tillery. Blasting Japanese Base At Munda

U. S. Ships, Planes Begin To Reduce Munda’s Defenses   Press Two-Way Drive Three Miles Of Base

PULVERIZING BLOWS SEING DEALT MUNDA AIR BASE DEFENSES  NAVY, AIR FORCE AND GROUND ARTILLERY POUND JAP POSITION

Japs’ Defenses at Munda Are Being Pulverized by Blows From Land, Air, Sez

Munda Defenses  Shelled, Bombed  Artillery, Warships, Planes Participate

3-Way Assault Seen Followed By Land Attack   Explode Variety Of Bombs -- Without. : Encountering Any Enemy Opposition

ALLIES POUNDING MUNDA DEFENSES   Warships, Bombers and Artillery Rain Pulverizing Blows; Bombardment Believed Prelude of Long Assault.

Munda Poundec *By Yanks From Sea, Air, Land   Americans Press Sys: tematic Reduction Of Jap Defenses.

MUNDA UNDER ATTACK FROM LAND, AIR, SEA   American Planes Drop Huge Block-Busters on Big Japanese Base

WARSHIP FIRE RAKES MUNDA   Southwest Pacific Forces Begin Reduction of Jap Defenses

NAVAL UNITS, PLANES AND ARTILLERY POUND JAP BASE ON MUNDA   3 Way Bombardment Called Pretiminary to Assauit  By. Land   iAP OPPOSITION LIGHT

Prelude To American Land Assault.....  Japanese Defenses On Munda Are Pulverized

Salamaua, Lae Blasted by Allied Bomber:   Fires Are Left “Burning In Native Villages

Allied Bombers Strike at Salamaua, Lae   Raiders Meet Ligh’ Gunfire but No Intercevtion -

Government Experts Claim 19/3 Feod  Will Exceed Total Produced Last Year 

FOOD SURVEY — REPORT MADE   OVERALL PRODUCTION TO BE  LARGER THAN IN 182 (BUT PICTURE NOT BRIGHT

POPEBELIEVED READY TO STAY INTHE VATICAN   Pontiff Expected to Turn Down Germans’ Offer Of Refuge Outside Of Danger Zone

Pope Pius to Stay in Rome Reports Say   INDICATE CHURCH HEAD TO REMAIN IN VATICAN DESPITE NEARING WAR

Reports Indicate Pope to Stay in Vatican City   Declines Nazi  Offer to Flee

Pope Won't Leave Rome   Reported To Have Turned: Down Nazi Offer of Haven

Pope fo Remain In Vatican City   ~ Pontiff Continues His Usual Activities, Reports Indicate

Pope Plans to Remain At Vatican City Even Though Rome Becomes Battleground

“FULL BATTLE” ON IN SICILY CHURCHILL SAYS   Allies- Seize . Key Strong Points Approaching Mt. Etna

Ships Shelling © Escape Highway   Landslides Block Axis Messina Road

ALLIES POISE KNOCKOUT FOR AXIS FORGES   Americans, Canadians and British Drive on In Final Phase of Battle.

LOST BUTLER ‘CHILD FOUND   Missing 20 Hows, Wayne Shoemaker, 3, Safe on ’ Crane Steps

URGE EVACUATION OF BEARDSTOWN AS WATERS RISE  SEE LITTLE HOPE   SEE LITTLE HOPE OF SAVING CITY FROM INUNDATION

Waters of Illinois River Threaten To Roll Over Seawall   Army of Men _on Guard  on Mississippi

American Warships Drive Back Nipponese Fleet on Way to Aleutian Island:

YANKS SHELL JAP CRUISERS IN ALEUTIANS   Navy Reports Engagement From Which Enemy Force Retired Westward Without Leing Driven Back.   Jans Raid Canton Is.

Naval Forces Waylay Jap Pacific Fleet   American Vessels Shell Nip Ships Bound for Aleutians

JAP FLEET Is FOUND HEADED TOWARD KISKA   Light Force Of Service Vessels Turns Ships Back After Long Range Firing   Full Results Unknowr

Americans Divert Jap Attack In Aleutian Zone  Big Enemy Force Flees U. S. in First Surface Engagement

Americans Shell Japanese Fleet At Long Range   Enemy Force Headed for the Aleutians Put to Flight

Navy Attacks Jap Vessels In Aleutians      Engagement Broken by Japanese; Results Are Not Yet. Known

Jap Ships Turned Back Or Diverted by Shelling West of Aleutians  BATTLE IS FOUGHT  IN MURKY WEATHER Fight Jap Warships, Including 4: Cruisers, Protect 2 Caron Shine

U.S. Vessels Chase Eight Warships, Two Cargo Craft   Navy Reports Our Surface Craft Halted Or at Least Diverted Enemy Convoy Near Attu; Japanese Planes Strike Canton Isle in Mid-Pacific

Surface Ships Shell Nip Craft At Long Range   UL. S. Forces Locate Enemy West of Attu: Yankee Planes Make Five Raids on Bases

U. §. Navy Halts Japanese Thrust In North Pacific   Shells Enemy Battle Force 200 Miles Off Kiska Air Base

Mareth Line Points Are Penetrated   Long-Awaited Double Squeeze Is Being Applied to Germans

Yanks, British Begin Squeeze  Of Foe Forces      Nazi Rear Guard in Kasserine Pass Badly Slashed as Tommies Push Into Mareth Line in South

Long - Awaited Double Squeeze Reported Under Way   KASSERINE PASS IS SAVAGELY CLEARED   Axis Positions at Sbeitla and Ousseltia Are Threatened

ROMMEL FACES DOUBLE SQUEEZE   Allies Push Enemy Through Kasserine Pass   STRONG AIR COVER   British Eighth Army Seems Set for Large-scale Attack On Mareth Line

Allies Slash Through Axis Cover   Strong Offensive in Western and Southern Tunisia Also Penetrate Mareth Approaches

Penetrafe Positions Near Mareth Line   Double Squeeze on Enemy Bridgehead Launched by Allies

BINUSeIasso WSs s wn Another Large Town West of Kharkov  ADVANCE ON OREL  Nazis Continue Pouring Supplies Into Tunisia Despite Allied Blows

Long- Awaited Do uble   KASSERINE PASS IS SAVAGELY CLEARED   Axis Positions at Sbeitla and Ousseltia Are Threatened ©

Double Squeeze Drive Launched   _Big-Scale Assault From South Opens

iDouble-Squeeze Upon Axis Bridgehead Gets Underway   Axis Still Getting Large Numbers Of New Troons And Supplies Through Bizerte Port

SAVAGELY CLEAR KASSERINE PASS OF ROMMEL’S GERMAN ARMY THAT, CRASHED THROUGH LAST SUNDAY.

KASSERINE GAP CLEARED OF GERMANS   Allies Reach Edge of Mareth Line Which British Eighth Army May Attack Shortly.   BOMBS RAINED ON ENEMY’S REAR   Transport Columns Are Pounded, but Marshal Is Still Getting Reinforcements.

Deadly Barrage  From Air Poured On Rommel’s Army At Kassarine Pass

LONG AWAITED DOUBLE SWEEP 1S LAUNCHED   Strong Air Cover Provided In Both Western Area And Southern Tunisia.

Slash at axis rear guard thru pass, menace major strongholds to northeast

British-Americans ~ Push Through Axis  In Kasserine Pass   Allied Tank Columns And Infantry Reported Threat: ening German Positions At Sbeitla And Ousseltia Above Gap   Rommel Is Now Periled By — Backfire Of His Offensive     ‘Desert Fox’s Own Waistline Flank Is Endangered: Shattered Columns Reeling Backward

ALLIES PURSUE AXIS ARMIES AT KASSERINE   British Troops Penetrate Advance Position On Edge Of Mareth Line   ENEMY IS GETTING NE W REINFORCEMENTS

MYSTERY WITNESS REPORTED LOCATED   Spotlight Again Turned on Dempsey Divorce

Skis dl ooe Fy vy oe ev eee  Nazis Warn French 10 ‘Hostages Will Be Shot For Each Soldier Killed

TOKYO RADIO HAS REPORTS ON WAR   Allied Resources Fathomless and Pacific Reverses . Are Admitied.

SIR KINGSLEY W000 SUCCUMBS IN LONDON   Dies on Eve of Announcing His Pay-Go Tax Plan

Allied Plans for European: Invasion Now Taking Shape   Extensive Preparation Underway; Restrict Area; Muster Forces

ENGLISH COASTS ORDERED CLEARED FOR MILITARY USE   Area May Become Springboard for Invasion of European Continent in  Opinion of Observers.   ZONE TO EXTEND 10 MILES INLAND   Action One of Many Indicating U. S. and British Ar-. mies Are Preparing to Begin Offensive.

Signs Point to Allied Invasion Of Hitler Domain   Britains South and East Coastlines fo Depth of Ten Miles Restricted

Allied Invasion Plan Shapes Up   British Coastline Strip Restricted

Preparations For Invasion  Take Shape   Long Coastal Strip  To Be Restricted  To Military Activities OFFICIALS RETICENT

JAPS AT MUNDA TO DIE AT POSTS   Biggest Air Raid in South Pacific Believed Last One Needed.

Teale Loud All-Out Push on Mundc After 200 Planes Blast Jap Lines

Gen. MacArthur Reports U.S. Troops Led by Tanks Are Making Final Assault on Jan Positions.

U. S. Troops Begin Final Munda Drive   Troops Move In—Invasion of Kiska Looms

AMERICANS ARE ADVANCING ON JAPS AT MUNDA   Start Big Task Assault As Jap. anese Take Death Stand

Yanks Launch Final Assault Avainst Mund:   Tanks Spearhead Big Drive To Bag Vital Japanese Base

‘Japs Reported Making Death Stand   Air Attacks Are Pulverizing Fnemvu Pasitione

Yanks Begin Final Push on Munda Field   Tanks Lead Assault On Death Defying Jap Garrison

5 ARE GAINED BY TROOPS   Entire Jap Garrison Expected To Perish In Death Stand

U.S.FORCES ALL OUT AGAINST MUNDA IN TANK-LED ASSAULT   Aided By Planes, Warships, Jungle Fighters Slash Ahead In Push Begun On Sunday

YANKS ACHIEVE 500-YARD GAIN IN MUNDA ARES   Second General Advance Reported In Siege Of Jap Base

Tank-Led Drive Makes Headway On Stronghold   Entire Garrison Will ‘Die Rather Than  - Surrender, Belief

Americans Hurl Tank Led Drive To Take Munda    Jungle Fighters Slash Forward After Planes, Ships Pour 286 Tons Of Steel On 'No Surrender’ Foe

MUNGA GIVEN LAST GLAST IK FINAL BATTLE   Tanks Lead Assault Against Death Stand by Jap GarTison Forces.   SLASH THRU JUNGLE AFTER BIG BOMB RAID

RESORT MEN HOLD PARLEY   Review Successful Yea Despite Wartime Curbs

Yanks Attack Enemy Isles   American Forces Raid ‘Tarawa, Nauru; Pound ‘Air Bases On Bougainville.

AMERICANS HIN} NEW BLOWS AT. JAP DEFENSES   Air Attacks On Island Strongholds.In Various Sections Reported

Jap-Held Isles Are Pounded  Tarawa and Nauru Battered— Bougainville Also Hit

YANKS BATTER JAP OUTPOSTS   Bougainville Island Is Hit By Day-Long Aerial Attacks

TWO ISLANDS HELD BY JAPS ARE POUNDED   American Forces Blast Enemy-Held Gilbert Islands

Naval. Units. Hit Tarawa   Enemy Toll of Planes Destroyed by Yanks Raised to 100 Since Sept. 11

Americans Last Out at Jap Islands   Air and Naval Attacks of Considerable Strength Are Reported

Yank Sky Blows Hit  Nip Isles   U. S. AIRMEN LASH AT TARAWA, NAURU, POUND BASE AT BOUGAINVILLE

AIR FIELDS BLASTED BY BIG BOMBERS   Over 100 Jap Planes Have Been Destroyed Since September 11 Says MacArthur   ISLANDS ARE ATTACKED

Air, Naval Blows On Japs  Americans Smash  ee et aaa We   Americans Smash At Important Bases On Three Islands

Yankees Blast  Jap Isles»  Tarawa, Nauru Bougainville in  Solomons Also Hit By Bomber:

JAP DEFENSES UNDER ATTACK   Sixteen Enemy Planes Reported Destroyed

Tarawa, Nauru Are Pounded By Naval Air Units   Length Of Assault Hints Light Defense, Thorough Destruction Of Target

U. §. Planes on New Offensive   Bougainville Chief Target in Solomons

JAP DEFENSES IN PACIFIC ARE HIT BY ALLIES   Pound Tarawa, Nauru Islands; Bougainville Installations Attacked

TOKYO} FINALLY ADK TST OSS TARAWA ISLAND      Indirect Acknowledgement Made In Saying Area Was — Bombed; New Blows Struck by U. S.-

Nazis Claim Defensive’  Win Over Reds   Russian Reports Tell of 131 German Planes Destroyedin Battle

SURVIVES FALL   Man Drops 10 Stories Withou' Breaking Single Bone.

ost of Coal Mines in Illinois Closed  e as 20,000 Men Quit   Some PMWA_ Members Ignore Policy Boards » §$Recommendations

MOST MINES IN STATE SHUT BY UNION DEMAND   25,000 Miners Refuse To Work  In Illinois

WOMEN VOTERS IN WHIP SEAT   Balance of Power in Feminine Hand for 1944, They Say; Bricker Spotlighted

GOP WOMEN END MEETING TODAY   Gov. Bricker Guest of Honor at Closing Session of Conference

RAF BOMBS STEEL PLANT IN HOLLAND   ATTACK FOLLOWS RAID ON RUHR VALLEY — SEVEN PLANES ARE LOST.

} RAF Blasts Holland Steel Works; Use U.S.-_Made Ventura Bombers

R. A. F. Hits at German Plant   Smash at Ijmuiden Iron and Steel Works In the Netherlands

RAF. Hits Naz Steel Plants   * U.S.-Built Bombers Blast Holland Mills And Raid Ruhr Anew

RETURN 10 WORK GAINS SUPPORTERS   Miners in Southwestern Pennsylvania Soft Coal Mines Return. ©

PENNSY MINERS RETURN TO JOBS   Four Majer Steel Company Pits Resume Operations

Showdown IsTroops Kill Due Today In Negro In Riot Coal Fields At Shenango

PENNSYLVANIA ‘MINERS START BACK T0-WORK   Four “Captive” -Pits Em. ploying: 3,000 °*Men Resume Operations After Last Week’s Strike   WEST VIRGINIA "MINERS TO WORK   14,000. Men Still Absen From Work; Coal Shortage Shuts Down 12 Fur“naces Pittsburgh Area

REPORT DEATH ~ OF HARRINGTON   Former Iowa Congressman Stricken in England

Former Governor Is Given Severance;  His Trial Delayed   Ine-time Parole Officer and Ex-Chief Executive of State Face One Count of Conspiracy After Prosecutor Asks Dismissal of Other Counts—Opposing Attorneys Clash,

Naming Jury For Trial Of Fitzgerald   Phillips Trial Deferred:  Bribery Charges Dismissed Without Prejudice

QUIZ SEVERAL IN WAC SLAYING   Mystery Deepens in Sioux Falls Murder

Huge Tax Biil Causes Revolt.....  Congress Wants Tax Figure Cut In Half

Lawmakers Ask For Five Billion Tax Plan in Place of Original Treasury Request

Five Billion Tax Plan Is New Demand   Lawmakers Are In Revolt Against Large Increase; New Proposition

SOLONS DEMAND SUR TAX Bll   Throw Out 10 1-2 Billion Tax Plan and Demand One of Not More Than 5 Billions

5 Billion: Tax Program Sought By Lawmakers   Treasury Plan Is Rejected By Revolting Congress

SOLONS OPPOSE BIG TAX HIKE   Committee Refuses To Follow Treasury in Huge Tax Estimate

NEW TAX BILL IS DEMANDED BY LAWMAKERS   Micht Raise Half As Much; Vinson Fights For Bill

FIVE BILLION TAX PLAN DEMAND   Lawmakers ‘Revolt - At “Ten”, Fought for by Vinson

PROSPECT OF MORE ACTION HIGH SEAS LESS ON HIGHWAYS  WEEKLY RATION OF GASO LINE IN EASTERN STATES

PROSPECT OF MORE ACTION HIGH SEAS LESS ON HIGHWAYS  WEEKLY RATION OF GASO LINE IN EASTERN STATES ‘ AGAIN CUT

LICENSE TRAP WORKS   Car Drivers Rush to Get Squared; Some Pay in Court

U.S. Bombers  Hammer Axis   Heavy Air Attacks Are Made On Enemy Installations At Sousse   TUNIS-BIZERTE BADLY BATTERED

AMERICAN AIR FORGE ACTIVE IN TUNIS AREA   French Repulse Nazi Attack Naar Piphnn

AIR AIDS WN NOATE ATAIGA BELO AEOULTS   Axis Communications, Airdrome and Warehouses Are Attacked.   MANY HITS REPORTED   Claimed That Axis Shipping at Tunis and Bizerte Is Discontinued.

Red Forces “apture Velizh 65 Miles From Smolensk; Near White Russian Line

Smolensk Totters in Drive   REDS 160 MILES FROM POLISH BORDER AS 1200 TOWNS ARE TAKEN

LIQUIDATE NAZI   French Terrorists Shoot Boss Of Manpower In France

Long War With Japan Is Pictured      Returned Men Paint Gloomy Picture Of Far East Situation

Martinique Troop Movement Denied   Transfer of Force Held Unimportant

Canadians Light Christmas Season With ‘Molotovs’  Grim Battle to Push   Grim Battle to Push Nazis From Ortona . Continues in Italy .

Canadians Blast Nazis At Ortona  Use Molotov Cocktails In Bloody Battle

CANADIANS USE “COCKTAILS” IN ORTONA BATTLE   Americans Gain On Road To Rome

Genades, Bayonets Used By 8th Army To Clear Germans From Coastal City

U. 5. Fifth Army Seizes Hills In German Line   Canadians Employ ‘Molotov Cocktails’ To Mop Up Ortona

Allied F orces — Gain In Ttaly   Molotov Cocktails’ Used ’ By: Canadians; Ortona  Fall. Is: Claimed

Grim Battle Is Raging on Italian Front   Enemy Defense Point Is Taken by Allies

Italian Cellars Hide Nazis In Ortona Fight  Canadians Use ‘Cocktails’ To Oust Enemy

WEATHER   Tanks Make Cellar Forts For German:   Toe Hits Back Savagely as Canadians Throw “Molotoy Cocktails’      ‘KS WIN 2 ILILLS   Ancient German Cruise: Torpedoed by PT Boats Off Yugoslavia

FIERCE BATTLE FOR SECTOR OF QORTONA RAGING   Canadians Striving T¢ Push Germans Out of Italian Town; Fifth Wins Two Positions

Yanks Storm Two Hills   Rain Slows Italian Fighting Ortona Struggle Grim

Allies Take Two Hills on  Italian Front   Ortona Is Captured, According to Report From Cairo

TWO HILLS TAKEN BY FIFTH ARMY   CANADIANS USE GRENADES AND “MOLOTOV COCKTAILS” IN ORTONA FIGHT.

Canadian Troops Hurl “Molotov Cocktails’ In Christmas Day Battle

Ortona Reported Taken As Allies Push On In Italy   Americans Storm  And Capture Two hAneo Hill Sante

FOOD PRODUCTION IS DECLARED AS. ~ BIG WAR VICTORY   Roosevelt Tells Nation That Farmers. Hold. . !mportant ‘Place In War Strategy of Nations.   RADIO PROGRAM ON MOBILIZATION DAY   Food Weapon to Keep Fighters Fit For Service, Helps Earn Friendship Among Many Others.

FOR CALLS FOR FOOD PRODUCTION   Praises Farmers For Record During 1912.

F.D.R. Says Farm Production Is  Major °42 Victory   Executive Warns It Is Going to Take a Lot More to Win Final Conflict and the Peace That Will Follow

ARMY-NAVY EXAMS GIVEN 10 STUDENTS   61 Take ‘Specialized Course at Local High School

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘Foday,   Tnvestization to he Completed

BYRNES PROBES GAS SITUATION    Rep. Talle Protests Plan To Lowel : Ration In Mid-West

Report About Gas Rationing Will Be Made   Hope To Settle Question Of Whether Midwest Is To Be Cut And Eastern States Increased

LIQUOR PERMITS “GRANTED THREE COUNTY DEALER   Board Votes by Usual 3 tol Margin to. Approve -. - Applications.   ‘LEGION BACKED. OUT   Group-Decides to Withdraw Petition — May Apply in. Future. -

LIQUOR PERMITS GRANTED THREE COUNTY GEALERG   Board Votes by Usual 3 to 1 .Margin to Approve Applications.  é   ‘ LEGION BACKED OUT   Group Decides to Withdraw Petition — May Apply in Future.

All Out for Bougainville:  MacArthur and Halsey Positive Of Early Capture of Key Island

NAVY COMES INTO ITS OWN IN SOLOMONS   Leaders Confident As Last Doors to Rabaul Are Being Flattened; Japs Still Trying to Repair Field.   Warn For Japs

BRITISH OPEN DRIVE ON AXIS MARETH LINE   Claim Germans Now Using Policemen to Fill Gaps On Soviet Front

Nazi Drive In Tunisia Has  Been Halted   Rommel’s Attack Appears To Have Spent Itself For Time Being   AMERICANS HOLD LINE IN MOUNTAINS   Bad Weather Hampers Ground Operations, Allied Headquarters Reports Today

MONTGOMERY MOVES UP T0 MARETH LINE   American armored units retire to hills after bitter battle

No Activity On The Ground Says Report   Relieve Germans Gain Their Objectives

i A HEAVY BOMBING,   Jap-Held Burmese Fort of Akynob Attacked_by [Hritish. *

A HEAVY BOMBING.   Jap-Held Burmese Port of Akyab Attacked by British.

Strike Truce May Bring More Money for Coal Miners   New Contract Negotiations Are Scheduled to Start Tomorrow

Miners Willing And Eager To Return To Pits Following Roosevelt’s Appeal And The UMW Chief’s Strike Truce

MINERS RETURN UNDER TRUCE, AS F, R. SPEAKS   Lewis Calls Off Strikes, 20 Minutes Before Broadcast

Soldiers Of U. S. Army Railway Service Build Hospital Train {n Sicify

Allies Await Peace Feeler From Rome;  Riots Spread   Archbishop Spellman Hinted En Route To Vatican; Nazis Getting Nervous Over Situation

Nazi Embassy Staff Said to Have Fled From Rome.   BADOGLIO ORDERS  NAZIS FROM ITALY   Italian Government and Germany Reach the Explosive Stage.

MILAN RIOTING, GAYDA SUICIDE, ARE REPORTEL   Definite Move By Rome Toward Separate Peace Awaited

AU Workers Leave Jobs; Shots Fired; Outbreak Is Verging On Revolution, Border Reports Say   Islands Of Fascist Resistance Holding Out Against Regular Army; Uncertainty Over Government's Course ls Angering People

_ LOO OT ES eT IT et —_  ' Dissolution of : National Fascist  Party Is Ordered

Fascist Party Dissolution ls Ordered   Special Tribunal Suppressed; Grand Council Law Out

New Cabinet Acts At Its Initial Meet   Popular _ Insurrection, Marked By Gunfire, Breaks Out At Milan; Crowds Crv For Peace

BADOGLIO BANS FASCIST PARTY   NEW ITALIAN CABINET HITS AT DICTATORIAL RULE UNDER IL DUCE

UNREST SPREADING ~ TOOTHER LOCALITIES   One Dead, Many Wounded as Inmates in Milan’ Prison Attempt Jail Break  <

Badoglio Faces Grave Problems   30 Casualties Reported in Series Of Clashes; Germany Apprehensive

Rumors Persist But No Proposals Received In  London Or Washington

FLIES NORTH TO UNDISCLOSED DESTINATION   Archbishop Hag Been Often Mentioned as Negotiator   Bulletins

Cabinet Under Badoglio Ends Organization at Initial Session   Also Wipes Out Law Link. ing Grand Council to State

MILAN MOBS RIOT, SHOUT FOR PEACE   Bloodshed Marks Uprising In Birthplace Of Fascism: Rumors Of Deal With Allies Heard

Italians Stage Many Demonstrations at Milan, Plants Idle   Urge People To Be Patient; Newspaper Claims It’s Impossible To Make Peace in 2 Days

FASCIST PARTY DISSOLVED BY NEW COUNCII   Special Tribunal for Defense of State Also Ordered Suppressed by Council of Ministers

MOBS BATTLING INSTREETS OF NORTHERN CITY   Ignore State of Siege to Stage Demonstrations ; Shots Are Fired to Check Rioters   REPORT SITUATION EXTREMELY GRAVE   All Workers Leave Jobs In Industrial Areas, Shout “We Want Peace” In Spreading Revolt

FDR WANTS MORE COST INFORMATION   Is Unready To Scrap Little Steel. Wage Formula: : At Present — 

Munda Defenses Split By Yanks   Another Enemy Naval Force Chased By Allied Planes

Americans drive wedge between two Jap forces.   Liberators intercept Nip naval reinforcements for Mimda area

A DENIAL ENTERED BY SAMUEL FOLEY   Said He Did Not Improperly Conduct Grand Jury Which Cleared Flynn.

Denies That Jury Cleared Ed Flynn   Bronx Attorney Is Second Witness in Behalf of FDR’s Appointee.

Samuel Foley Defends Flynn   Declares Grand Jury Found No Evidence Of Wrong Doing

Appointment Investigation Is Resumed   Bronx District Attorney On Stand Denies Charges Of Irregularities  LOAN IS EXPLAINED

NEW YORK OFFICIAL DEFENDS ED FLYNN   Foley Denies Grand. Jury Probe Improperly Done

Bronx D. A. Testifies at — Flynn Hearing   Denies Grand Jury Misconducted in ‘Paving Block Case

FOLEY DENIES, WHITEWASHING! EDWARD FLYNN,   Bronx. District Attorney Tells Senate Group Grandjury Probe Was. Properly Conducted   NAMED BY BRIDGES   Termed Austratian-Ap‘ pointed. Envoy’s. “Political Stooge;” Berle Tells of Flynn Transactions

New Dealers Whitewash Edward Flynn   Foley And Berle Support Ex-Boss For New Post

BERLE IS HEARD IN FLYNN PROBE   Tells Of Investments Made With New York Funds

Issues On Farm Prices, Federal Agencies, Rubber Program Top List

SEEK PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS   Senator Wheeler May Present Plan to Senate

PREFERENTIAL  PRIMARY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SUCCESTED BY SEN. WHEELER

Repatriates Complete Long ~ Voyage Back To Homeland   Liner Gripsholm Docks At Jersey City; Many Who Lost Weight During Intern-., ment Gain Aboard Ship

1,500 Americans Home from Japan   Plead for Speedy Return of Others

F.D.R. FORMS POST-BATTLE COUNCIL UNIT   Advisory Meetings Held To Discuss War  Phases

GROUP NAMED ON POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT       Roosevelt Forms Permanent Post-War Advisory Committee

Jap Retreat Continues In  New Guinez Tempo Of Air Raid On Nip Bases Is  Stepped Up...

Japs Continue Retreat on New Guinea   225 Enemy Troops Are Killed or Found Dead

Japs Continue Retreat  on New Guinea  225 Enemy Troops Are Killed  > aa 2 ie ae ,,

JAP RETREAT AT SALAMAUA STILL ISON   Nipponese Stragglers Being Liquidated By Allies

BELLS OF MOSCOW CONTINUE TO PEAL VICTORY TIDINGS   Repeated Russian Army Blows Sending the Enemy Reeling Back.

RED OFFENGIVE ROLLING ALUNG /O0-MILE FRONT   Germans Real Backward Under Series Of Sledge Hammer Blows

ARMY AIRMAN GIVES: LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS   Stays With Plane Until It Is Close to Ground to Prevent Crashine Into Crowd.

The War Today   Rommel Likely to Lash Out Avain Refare Mareth Line

REPULSE OF ROMMEL’S ASSAULTS EMPHASIZES GROWING TROUBLES OF GERMAN DEFENSE. IN AFRICA

GEN. ROMMEL TRIES TO UPSET OFFENSIVE PLANS Nazi Leader May Strike Again

ROMMEL’S REVERSES EMPHASIZE GROWING NAZI DIFFICULTIES   German Attack on   German Attack on Montgomery’s Army Was Effort to Upset. Another Allied Offen sive—MacKenzie

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rommel’s Craft Tactics Only Serve To Delay Tunisian Showdown

Rommel vs. Montgomery is Seen as Battle of Wits; Both Masters of Strategy

The War Today— Von Arnim And Rommel Realize Task \Futile But They’re Doing Good Job

STATE APPOINTMENTS   Governor Schoeppel Fills a Number of Positions

FARM BUREAU GOAI 18.500 MEMBERS   ‘Stroburg Heads Campaigt . “Kick-Off? meeting Oct, 2(

30 ZEROS DOWNED 4JAP SHIPS HIT   YANK PLANES FROM GUADALCANAL SCORE BIGGEST VICTORY

30 Jap Planes Brought Down  Big Enemy Ban of Jar  EES eee Seb See ee

ROW SPLITS WLB   Member For Public Assails Bosses’ Union Attitude

KennedyOut After Policy Rift in WLB   Morse Lashes Board In Wake of Exodus O€£ Labor Member

Split in War Labor Board Breaks Open   Employer Member: Are Under Fire as Kennedy Resigns

BIG DECREASE IN TRAFFIC DEATHS   Drop 45 Per Cent Below July of 194]

Darker Side Of Capital Is Pictured   Washington Unseen By Visitors Not So Pretty

Convicts Map 4-Point Bill Of Complaint   Insurrection at State Penitentiary Put Down By Flying Column of Highway Patrolmen

Gen. Ramirez Succeeds Rawson As President   Proclaims Friendship to American Peoples in Speech

Argentine leader pledges  friendship to Americans   Ramirez says country’s policy will be one of neutrality toward others

General Pedro Ramirez Is New President Of Argentina  General Rawson Resigned After His Failure To Oraanize Cabinet Suitable To The Peoole

NEW REGIME OF ARGENTINA IS MADE OVER   GENERAL BECOMES PRESIDENT; FOUR QUIT CABINET

Gen. Rawson Quits as Chief In Argentina   _ Leader of Army Coup Succeeded at Once By His War Minister   NEW REGIME MAY BE LESS REACTIONARY   Four Conservatives Reported Following Rawson’s Example

Ramierz Becomes  Argentinas Head  As Rawson Quits   Revolutionary Regime Now Appears to Be Less Reactionary

RAMIREZ IS HEAD OF ARGENTINE REGIME   General Rawson Resigns in Series of Fast Devyelooments

Rationing of Tires Again Liberalized  Brown’s New Order Terr. .2*'.. AK Wt] Wd

MORE CAR TIRES MADE AVAILABLE   PRICE DICTATOR BROWN LIBERALIZES RATIONING FOR THE SECOND TIME.

Forrest May Be Captive   U. S. Air General, Lost Over Kiel, May Have Parachuted to Ground

Brig. Gen. Nathan Forrest Reported Mising After Fortres' Raid on Kiel]

Hope Held Out For Lost Genera   American Missing In Raid Over Kiel

SEE LIKELIHOOD FORREST SAFE   General May Have Bailed Out With Others When Bomber Was Shot Down Over Kiel.

CHILDREN SLAIN, FATHER SUICIDE   Parent's Fear of Separation  byDivorce DecreeBlamed  for Tragedy.

UKRAINE CITY'S FALL MATTER OF DAYS. SAIL   Soviets Close In Along 85-Mile Arc, Take 180 Localities

RUSSIAN ARMY IN ARTILLERY PANGE OF KIEV      Smolensk Is Expected To Fall Momentarily; Capture Of Kiev Near

Russians Are Within Artillery Range of Kiev   Soviet Armies Cut Through Smolensk and Tinenronetrovek IT ineec

Reich, Stirred By Unrest, Stepping Up Preparations To Block Invasion

NAZIS TAKE MORE “PRECAUTIONS 10 BLOCK INVASION   Axis Jittery As Tunisian Campaign Appears Nearing ae End.

46 Dead in Raid ~ - On Italian Port   Big U. S. Bombers Make Damaging Daylight Raid On Palermo.

AIR RAID ON PALERMO      Italians Report 46 Persons Killed -_and 272 Injured

Palermo Paid  . Bomber Visit   Sicily “Harbor Is Raided By “Allies; Land Force «Still Inactive «-

ALLIES HOLDING FIRMILY AGAINST GOUNTER-ATTACKS   Americans Gain But Nazi Opposition Is Stiff   BRITISH STAND OFF HARD NAZI ATTACK

Casualties Are Heavy In Tunisian Battle   British First Army Feels Brunt of Bitter Fighting— Americans Win. Local Gains

ALLIES TAKE FIRM STAND ALL ALONG TUNISIA WAR FRONT   Germans At All Key Points Fight Desperately To Defend Last Range Of Hill. Posts

“ALLIES HOLD FIRM WHEN AXIS LAUNCH ROUNTER ATTACKS   Germans Show Great Fight In Tactics Designed To Prevent Allies Reaching Final Range of Hills.   TWO SUPPLY SHIPS, MINESWEEPER AFIRE   Nazi Gestapo Agents Are Reported to Have Arrested 15,000 Former Members of Dutch Army

American Units Make Slight Gains   Both Sides Suffer Heavy Casualties In Fierce Fighting

BIG AREAFLOODED © WHEN DIKE BREAKS      Homes in the Residential Areas of Toledo Surrounded by Water

Lake Erie Breaks Through Dike  300 Toledo, Ohio, Homes Inundated

Airmen Hammer Mesina Strait; Cut Life Line   Action Brings Alexandria To "Within 3,000 Miles” Of Great Britain

ITALIAN FERRY LANE POUNDED   RAF Fliers From Middle East, Africa Converge On Messina Strait; Sicily Blasted

Allies Smash af Sicilian Ferry   Seek to Isolate Isle For Invasion Thrust

SMASH AT AXIS LINE T0 SICILY   Allies in Twin Raids Seek To Isolate Island From Italian Mainland

MESSINA STRAIT GETS POUNDING   Ferry Connecting Sicily With Mainland Pasted In Twin Raids

SMASH FERRY FROM SICILY ANDITALY   ByPlanesFromBasesHundreds Of Miles Away, To Isolate Island Base In Event Of  Inuaetae   Forays Over Greece

Complete Air Umbrella (ver Straits   RAF Bombers Attack From Middle East, North Africa

British Bombers Smash Italian Lines of Supply   Strike Heavy Blows from New Bases in North Africa

K.C. Stockyards Have Record Run   Largest Run in History Tallies 57,000 Head

Leaves for Unannounced Destination After Viewing Cataract From Both the American and the Canadian Side.

TAPERING OFF OF WAR TALKS SEEN AFTER COMING ONE   Believe, Fiowever, That a New, Sustained “High” Will Be Reached When Roosevelt and Churchill Confer

FDR Will Go To Quebec For War Talks   Date of Roosevelt-Churchill Meeting Is Military Secret; Prime Minister En Route to Unannounced Destination

CHURCHILL IN Ud; oTOPS AT NIAGARA FALLS   Leaves for an Unknown Place After Brief Visit at Honeymoon City.   QUEBEC CONFERENCES WAITING ON ROOSEVELT

NO DATE ANNOUNCED FOR SESSION   Prime Minister On SightSeeing Trip; Invasion Talks Likely To Go On For Several Days

Churchill Leaves for Secret Place   Continues Trip After Viewing Niagara Falls From Canadian Side

Churchill Maps War Strategy With Canadians  Roosevelt Slated To Join Him At Onebec Confab

Churchill Leaves On Secret Journe)   Prime Minister Views Niagara Falls Today And Then Gets Away for Unannounced Point

DESTINATION OF PRIME MINISTER NOT ANNOUNCE   Special Six-Car Train Carries Official, Party From Quebec   ON SHORT VISIT   Plans To Meet Roosevelt In Canadian City For War Conference

ROOSEVELT,  CHURCHILL  NEAR PARLEY   President io Go to Quebec for War Planning Conference but Date is Militarv Secrei   CHURCHILL ON TRIP   Prime Minister Revealed io Have Passed through Montreal in Six Car Special

CHURCHILL AND KING MEET FOR SEVERAL HOURS   Meeting Between FDR And Prime Minister To Last Several Davs

FDR-Prime Minister Talks Expected To Reach Peak After Canadian Parley

World Awaits Conference Of Allied Chiefs   Prime Minister On Way To An Unannounced Destination

Churchill Sees Niagara Falls   Then Leaves For Unannounced Point

No Details Are Given Out As to When Two Leaders Will Start Conferences   STALIN 1S CONSULTED

CHURCHILL SEES NIAGARA, ENTERS UNITED STATES   Prime Minister Takes Sightseeing Trip: Stalin's Talks With Allied Envoys In Moscow Linkec  With Churchill-F. D  R. Conference.

BOARDS 6-CAR SPECIAL TRAIN ON U.S. SOIL   Premier Leaves Niagara  Falls With Large  Party   DESTINATION SECRET   War Planning Tapers Off  Pending Meet With  Roosevelt

ALLIED PLANNING OF WAR STRATEGY TO TEACH NEW PEAK  ‘NEITHER CHURCHILL NOR ROOSEVELT IN QUEBECK

Churchill on Secret Trip in U.S. After Stop AtNiagaraFalls   Boards Special 6-Car Train: Destination Unknown

Churchill, Accompanied by His Daughter, Crosses To American Side of Niagara Falls After Hour and A Half Sight-Seeing Trip.

F. R. Soon To Q pen Session  With Churchill   Conference Will Be At Quebec; British Prime Minister Pays Visit To Niagara Falls

Churchill At Niagara   This Morning   No Details as to His Itinerary Is Available, Security Reasons

SECRECY VEILS PRELIMINARIES TO WAR COUNCIL   Churchill at Niagara Falls And Crosses Into U. S.- And Censor Steps In   ROOSEVELT IS SILENT, TOO   Two of Allied Leaders Are Expected To Lay Plans For Next Step Soon

British Chief W. Churehill  Leaves Quebec   Prime Minister Views Niagara Falls From Canadian, United States Sides.   SECRET DES T INATION

Churchill Visits Niagara Falls) Then Leaves For Undisclosed Destination

WAR PLANNING BIDES ARRIVAL OF ROOSEVELT   President And Churchill Wil Hold Conference In Quebec Chateau   TO PLAN VICTORY ORIVE   Second Anglo-American Offensive Against Nazis in Europe Expected

CHURCHILL ENTERSU.S. VIANIAGARA   Visits Falls Before Resuming Trip; His Destination Secret

EXPECT CONFAB TO EXTEND OVER SEVERAL DAYS   British Minister Spends Forenoon at Niagara Falls, Continues Trip

(CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT PARLEY MAY LAST SEVERAL DAYS AFTER TALKS WITH CANADIAN PREMIER

FDR-CHURCHILL MEETINGS SOOK   Momentous Decision Ex  pected to Be Reached

PRESIDENT, CHURCHILL EXPECTED 10 MEET ON WAR’ PLANS SOON   British. Prime Minister Has - Left Quebec; Destination Not Revealed   GOES THROUGH MONTREAL

Fight Killed In Tunnel Collapse  Two Others Injured In State’s Worst Mine Disaster

GERMANS ATTEMPTING TO RECAPTURE LEROS   British And Pro-Allied IYalians Are Fighting Side-By-Side To Dislodge Enemy

DEVERS SAYS AIR CAMPAIGN WILL CONTINUE   New Commander of U.S. Army in European Theatre to Co-operate with RAF

~ FOR DEFENSE   State Fund ‘for Distribution of Counties and Towns Is Proposed.

Bill Proposes That Local Activities Be Financed by State  DRIVE TO CUT TAXES

Greater Loss  Looms When  Crest Comes Oklahoma Suffers  Disaster; Waters Recede In Kansas

FEARED FLOODS 10 WIPE OUT LEVEES ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER  : BRE ABIU CTPA WES ALT SCAM   MANY STATES AND COMMUNITIES BESET BY WORST FLOODS IN ANY YEARS

Flood Danger To Large Area   Many Levees Along Mississippi To Be Wiped Out  Engineers Believe.

Floods Spread  Destruction In Six-State Area   Big Threat To Levees Beween St. Louis And  Cane Girardeau.

FLOOD WATERS BRANCHING OU]   Engineers Fear Levees Will Break on Mississippi; 10 Persons Dead

Civilian, Military Crews Fight Flood  Waters in Midwes   Death Toll Reaches 10 Mississippi Levees  Are Threatened

Crews Fight River Crests In Mid-West   Army Engineer Officers Feel River Levees  Will Hold

MY HOPEFUL SOME OF THEM PAN BE SAVED   Dikes Between St. Louis And Cape Girardeau In Grave Peril   ‘SOME CERTAIN TO GO   Civil and Military Crews Push Fight Against Rising Waters

Flood Menace Increased On Mississippi   Express Doubt Whether Levees Will Be Able To Hold Water From Rich Farm Lands

River Levee  Break Feared   Civilian and Military Emergency Crews Fight Against Flood Waters

M ississippi Levee Strength Debated   Water Is Rising Below St. Louis

SOME LEVEES WILL HOLD IN FLOOD AREAS   Opinions Differ, However, as t How Well Barriers Will Do Along Mississippi Branches

Fear River Levees May Be Wiped Out   Federal Engineers Believe Those Between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau Will Give Way

Levees May Hold Along Mississippi  Crest Rising Between St. Louis. Girardeau

Fighting To  Save Levees   Civilian and Military Crews Battle Climbing River Crest Over Wide Area’

‘Seer “Wickard: Directs FSA. Ts “Heli ‘Farmets Step. ‘Up Produétion -

OPA WORRIES AS HOG MACKETING CONTINUES FALL   Deliveries Far Off Follow: s ing Ceiling on Hogs Set Last Monday.

SHARP CUT SEEN IN PORK SUPPLY   Federal Officials Worried Over Slash In Marketing

Experts Fear Cut In Pork Supply   Big Decline In Receipts At Buying Centers

9 Jap Ships Sunk Dy U.S. Raiders   New Sinkings Boost Total of yf Vessels Sunk by U.S. to 745

Worse Than The Invasion Jitters Bombings Are “Damned  Serious’”’ In Germany  ~Hitler’s Paper Thinks  4 2-4

Just Find This Out, Adolf?  War Is ‘Damned Serious,’ Hitler's Newspaper Admits

Germans Admit Raids Effective   Hitler’s Paper Says It’s A Serious Thing

Colonel Wm. C. Washington Succeeds Col, James Dus~ enbury at K. U.

NEW R. 0. T. C. HEAD   Colonel Wm. C. Washington Succeeds Col, James Dus~ enbury.at K. U.

Britain Gives Partisans of Yugoslavia Greater Support in Guerrilla Warfare

Allied Help Goes To Tito   Partisan Forces Are Favored By British’

HELP IS GOING ~— JO YUCOSLAVS   Tito’s Men Doing Good Job Against Germans, British Disclose

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Key Plays Against Axis Soon Will Be Unfolded On All Battlefronts

NEW CLIMAX PREDICTED IN GLOBAL FRAY   UNITED NATIONS DUE TO STRIKE ON TWO FRONTS

TEXAS FIGHTING MEN CARRIED SPIRM OF ALAMO INTO BATTLE AND UPHELD ITS HONOR WELL

Texans of the Fighting 36th Division Carried "The Spirit of the Alamo Into Battle With Then

Lewis Raises Threat After UMW Committee Demands Withdrawal Of Dispute from WLB  BITTER ASSAULT MADE ON BOARD  Work Stoppage Grows And 28,000 Miners Idle by Tuesday Nioht

Lewis Hurls Threat of Coal Strike  Sees No Chance For Settlement  pore? IAM

Miners Threaten Strike Saturday   _ Walkout Would Seriously Hamper Output - from Factories Depending On Coal For Fuel

57 Pits Shut Down As 31,500 Men Stop  WLB Calls Panel Hearin; Today on Disnuie .-

Lewis Threatens Full Scale Soft Coal Strike  UMW Group Demand: Withdrawal of  Dispute From WLB

— WANTS WLBOUT OF CASE   Policy Committee Attributes “Malignant Prejudice” to Labor Board   UNAUTHORIZED STRIKES SPREAD OVER COUNTRY

LEWIS THREATENS GENERAL STRIKE OF COAL MINERS   Telis Newspaper Men Workers, in Absence of Contract, Will Not Return to Pits After Apr. 30.   STOPPAGES SPREAD; 31,500 NOW IDLE   Union Committee Assails WLB as Prejudiced and Demands Withdrawal of Dispute From Board.

Full-Scale Mine Strike Now Feared; UMW Demands WLB Withdraw From Wage Seran

Lewis Indicates Walkout of Miners After April 30°  31,500 MINERS NOW OUT IN THE NATION  Withdrawal of Mine Dispute From Boord Sauokt ©

Mine Strike Threat Grows; _ WLB Spurned   Withdrawal of Dispute from Board is - Demanded; Over 31,500 Men Idle As Work Stoppages Spread

5] Coal Mines Close as 31,500 Miners Quit Work  _UMW Closes Doors. Cotisideratior vue Waae Dispute

LEWIS REFUSES TO DEAL WITH FEDERAL BOARD   Miners Will Not “Trespass” On Mine Property With out Contract   31,500 HAVE LEFT MINES IN PROTEST

Withdrawal of Case From WLB Demanded   UMW Committee Virtually Closes Door Against Consideration By Board: 57 Mines Have Walkouts

Lewis Raises Threat  Of Full-Scale Strike   Union Committee Demands Withdrawal of Dispute From WLB; 57 Mines Closed and More Than 31,500 Workers Idle in U. 8S.

Broughton Recommends Record Budget Of Over 105 Millions For N. C.

“War Bonus” Includ ed In $105,060,538 Expenditures For Next Two Years

NYA Target _ Of Senators   Committee Votes To Liquidate Depression-Born Agency for Trainiag of Youth

R. Plendl Seeks To Break  Of Father, Late Geo. Plend!   aud, Duress, and Influence By  Family

R Plendl Seeks To Break lOt Father. Late Geo. Plend   irene: and Influence By  Family

EASTER VISITORS THRONG NEW YORK   Railroad and Bus Lines Crowded; Churches Expect Large Congregations

Red Magazine Urges Turkey Get Into Wa   Sees Nazis’ Flank Aided: Denies Refusing Fight Ae Gidlan af Alliwnce

Roosevelt Threatens lo Induct Striking Miners: UMW Orders Job Return   Congress Urged To Boost Age Limit To 65: Leaders’ Action Called: 'Intolerable’: Anti Strike Veto Seen

Truce Puts End To Strike of: Nation's Miners   Main Issues Not Settled In Action To Return to Work

Kaiser Named Air Firm Chairman   Move Designed to Speed Plane Production

Miners Return To Their Jobs      Have a New Boss; Keen To Mine Coal

Senate Votes 36 to 28 to  Ban Subsidies   Bill Also Continues Commodity Credit Corporation; House to Decide Status of Federal Crop Insurance

SENATE PUTS STICKER IN CCC APPROPRIATION   Congress Can’t Make Up Its Mind About Roosevelt’s Anti-inflation Strategy

Rollback Hits New Barrier   HOUSE FACES ISSUE AS SENATE VOTES TO CONTINUE THE CCC

PRICES ROLLBACK PROGRAM HITS NEW BARRIER IN SENATE  NOW UP TO HOUSE TO D   NOW UP TO HOUSE TO DE. CIDE ON PRESIDENT’S RELIEF PLAN

‘Subsidy Plan ‘Booted Again Up to House   Senate Reopens In-and-Out Issue by Banning Roll-Back ‘Money Tuesday

LEWIS, ILLINOTS OPERATORS SIGK   Contract Calls for Increase 01 About $3 a Day for Miners: WLB, Other Agencies Must Approve Pact

MINERS WIN ILLINOIS HIKE   Pact Grants 35,000 Diggers About $3 a Day Boost In Wages

Lewis Signs Pact For $2 Illinois Hike   ONE DOLLAR A DAY MORE THAN HE ASKED FOR APPALACHIAN MINERS; MUST GET APPROVAL.   40 Percent Increase

Illinois Miners Sign Contract  Se Sone 8 een Ete ner ee mee   Win Wage Increase Of $3 Per Day

Illinois Miners Sign Pact for $3 Pay Increase   Lewis's Group May Ge Dollar a Day More than Asked   Approval of WLB Neede To Complete Deal with Operators

$3 DAILY WAGE INCREASE GIVEN 35,000 MINERS   2-Year Pact Signed With Lewis By Illinois Mine  Qinaratare   CONTRACT MUST BE APPROVED BY WLB

PAY INCREASE FOR - MINERS APPROVED      Contract Signed by UMW and Illinois Coal - Operators

JUNGLE FIGHTERS SWARM ALL OVER  JAPS’ DEFENSES   35-day Battle Ends Victoriously—ftout of Enemy on Island Goes an.

American Dead in Sicily Up to July 22 Only 50i   Eye-Witness Account of Capiure of Munda Airfield   \merican Soldiers Seize Airstrin After 35-Day, Yard ky Yard Struaale

Flame Throwers Are Answer To Jap Pillboxes; Cannon Barrage Demoralized Enemy

Battle For Munda Ove Except For Mopping U Js Japs Fight To Death ©

‘Weary Jungle Troops Relax On Scarred Munda, Won After Bitter 35-Day Struggle

Big Soviet . T riumph In  Kieu Area   Cherkasy, . Last. German. ~ Stronghold . on-. Middle Dnieper. Is ‘Captured     REDS TURN TIDE...  AGAINST GERMANS’   Seize Initiative ‘on’ Entire: Front, Overcoming: Great::: Counter-Offensive .- "

TO DRAFT FATHERS   Calling of Parents to Start About May  and Be come General

Fathers To Be Drafted   Seme Local Boards Expected to Start Taking Married Men with Children May 1

Others: ‘Expected: to: be. = Up. -For Draft in:Summer:. Program Not: Adjusted

IRS'FOR ‘PAY INCREAS!   Calling of Parents to Start About May  and Be come General

Call Seventy-Five For Army Service   Fifty-One Men Will Leave Late This Week For Fort  Leavenworth.

It’s Reasonable Guess Fathers Will Receive  Summons Early in May

Fathers Soon To  -BeGoing To Army  Call To Go Out Around May 1. Officials Claim

FDR PRAISES BALDWIN   FSA Chief Lauded By President And Agency Defended

Yanks Destroy Japanese Convoy   Some Troops Landed a On Vella Lavella  ~

NAVAL FORCE INTERCEPTS JAP CONVOY   . Destroy ; Major - s Portion of. Jap Troop Ships

ENEMY SOUGHT TO LAND TROOPS ON VELLA-LAVELL   Battle-In Moonlight Began A 1 a. m—Many Barges area funk.

JAP CONVOY IS HESTROYED OFF VELLA LAVELLA   American Task Force Intercepts Convoy Seeking To Land Troops

PLEASURE RIDES FOR IOWANS CUT   OPA to Check Cars at Amusement Places in Foreign Ccunties

CROP’: JFFER FRC. . ACK OF RAIN   Every Additional Day Without Moisture Increases Damage

Interpreting ‘ine War   By KIRKE U. BEMPSON {Wilde Warld War inalret’

HAVE KEPT PLEDGE UNITED NATIONS HAVE CAUGHT UP WITH AXTS IN LAST YEAR.

Germans Seek To Halt Threat Jo Railroad Hub   Tanks and Troops Hurled into Fray On Russian Front

Germans Hurl Tanks, Men Against Reds   Seek to Hold Back ’Chute Troops Threatening Vital Rail Junction

Sermans Hurl In Tanks and Troops fo Half Russian Drive from Capfured Cherkasy   RED FORCES UNITE   Yon Mannstein’s Renewed Drive For Kiev Creates ‘Tense bui Noi Desperate’ Situation

i Run » Trouble   ans Making Some y Near Kiev;  ns Gain In South

New Russian Offensive Threatens to Engulf Two Industrial Centers

GERMAN ARMORED  FORCES ROLLING  FORWARD TO KIEV FURTHER SOUTHEAST,  HOWEVER, RUSSIANS WERE ON MARCH

RUSSIANS ARE NEARING KIEV IN NEW DRIVE   Germans Rushing Fresh Troops To Front

GERMANS SOUGHT TO HOLD OFF ATTACKS RED PARACHUTISTS   Hurled Tanks and Troops Into the Smela Sector, Near Cherkassy.   A RAILWAY JUNCTION   Soviets Contact Other Red Units Along the Dnieper River.

GERMANS MAKE DESPERATE NEW. EFFORT TO CAPTURE KIEV: REDS : ‘THREATEN TO ENCIRCLE CERMANS   Russian Army of Probably 300,000 men Captures Strategic City Near Cherkasy and Spreads West of: Southwest. Nazis in Heavy Drive on Kiev ~-

HEAVY ENEMY BLOWS DRIVE REDS BACK   Field Marshall Von Mannstein's Armored Divisions Within 55 Miles of Vital City of Viev   REDS PRESS OFFENSIVE

Tanks And Men Hurled At Reds In Smela Area   Nazis Stage Counter-Drive In Effort To Hold Off  Russian Paratroopers

NAZI ThnQW TANKS AGAINGT CHUTE TROOPS   Seek to Stop Soviet Attacks Threatening Smela, Vital Rail Junction,

Aerial Infantry Groups Threater Key Rail Center   Germans Pourins Tanks Into Area Around Smela

REDS MENACE NAZIS’ VITAL SMELA BASE   Germans Place Tanks and Troops Before Vital Rail Junction in Move to Hold Off Attacks by  Daratrannara

Germans Battling  To Hold Advances   Soviet Parachute Troops Threaten Vital Railway  Junction   AXIS TANKS INTO USE   Russians Fighting To Halt Reinforced Nazi Divisions

ENTER RATT   Germans Try to Hold Off Strong Attacks Near Cherkasy Today.   NAZIS DRIVING ON KIEV

Germans Hurl In Reserves   Red ’Chutists Push On Smela; Nazis Threaten Kiev

RUSSIANS OPEN ~NEW OFFENSIVE   Nazis Report Soviet Campaign In Far North Near Nevel   MENACE OTHER TOWNS

Mortar - Armed Reds Battling Nazis 14 Miles Past Cherkasy   300.000 Soviets Moving Against Krivoi-   Rog 

Nazis Hurl Men Into Smela Area   Rommel Reported Slated for Nazi Over-All Command

‘Germans ‘Hurl Fresh: Tanks,. Troops: Into. Flaming. Battlefront:

Red Airborne Foree Threat To Nazi Base   Germans Try To Stop Russian Advance On Smela; Von Mannstein  55 Miles From Kiev

New Drive Launched By Reds   Heavy Fighting for Rai Junction Near Cherkasy, Which Fell Yesterday   NAZIS CONTINUE DRIVE IN: KIEV   Situation Tense. But Not Desperate, Moscow Says; ‘Big Winter Drive Planned

Nazis Hurl Tank: Forward But Soviets Advance   Russian Paratroops Give Foe New Threat; Reinforcements Rush to Assist in Drive for Strategic Enemy Rail Center

Russian Forces Converging From Kremenchug Join Red Army Which Captured Cherkasy; Nazis Battling Desperately.

Parachute Troops Move On Rail Key   Nazis Use Armor Against Russian Threat; Fury in Kiev Bulge Mounts

lialy Calls Up 2,000,000 Women  Light Million Prepare To Repel - Invasion

Ring of Steel on Nazi Home Front Will Never Break, Hitler Declares   Fuehrer Tells People He Can't Be Overthrown ; Warne af Tactical Retreats. Ignores Russia

Fuehrer, in Grim Speech, Attacks Badoglio Government      SAYS ITALY’S FALL iS NOT IMPORTANT   Declares Ring of . Steel Forged by Nazi Front Wilt Not Break

Hitler Breaks Out with Wild Victory Claims   Fuehrer Predicts Victory for Nazis

Tells People That Germany May Have To Yield  Some Ground   SAYS POSITION IS PERSONALLY STRONG

HITLER TALKS “INSSTORT TO RALLY PEOPLE   Asserts, Desertion of Italy of Slight Im- . portance to Nazis

Hitler Hitler Seeks To Bolster Morale   . Italy's Desertion Drcead Off  inhtly

Says Home Front Sound And Virtually Ignores Huge Losses in Russia, Still Sure of Victory

Hitler Admits Germans Might Cede Territory   People Told Italy's Co}lonse ot Sieht ~~ Importance

LER TALKS IN EFFORT 10 RALLY PEOPLI   Asserts Desertion of! Italy of Slight Importance to Nazis

Hitler Breaks Radio Silence, Saying “German Home Front Never Will Break’

Hitler Appeals for Strength on Home Front  Declares Surrende: of Italy Is of Sliaht Imnortance

Hitler Tells Folk Italian Action Is Inconsequential  Fuehrer Delivers Grim Speech About “Tactics”

Hitler Breaks Silence to Rally German People   Says Fatherland’s Home Front Will Never Break .

Fuehrer Says Italy Collapse  Unimportan; Germans Are Tol Home Front Is Secure

‘Mighty New Thrusts Against Enemy ‘Expected From Meeting Of British, U.S. Soviet And Chinese Wer Chiefs

RECON LONNON ANN WASHINGTON KEPT GUESSING ON DISCUSSION OF ALLIED LEADERS GOING ON IN PERSIA. IT IS REPORTED      To Surrender, Wanglo Peace Terms That Would Enahle Tham ¥o Rebpild Military

Allied Leaders Supposedly Talk With Joe Stalin   Meeting With Chinese General on Jap Situation Given Credence,   Reports From Lisbon  Get Wide Circulation

New Blows At Enemy In Making?   Stepped-Up Action on All War Fronts Seen  As Result of Rumored Meeting of “Big Four”

LAPERTS FEEL AAP MMAY BE LIKELY TOPIG   Psychological Effects Lined Up with Military at Conferences,

Measures To Win War Are Primary Topics Of Talks   Mental As Well As Physical Strokes May Be Prepared

MIGHTY NEW BLOWS AGAINST ENEMY MAY RESULT FROM TALKS   HIGHEST ALLIED LEADERS REPORTED IN CONFERENCE OVER WAR

Conference on, Berlin Asserts   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek In Teheran. Nazis Savy

Conference OF Leaders Of Nations Provides Chance To Reconcile Divergent Views

BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL BLOWS MAY COME FOR AXIS AS RESULT OF REPORTED PARLEY

Conference May Result In Heavy Blows At Enemy      Winning the War First Task of Con. ferees — Japan Must Be Made Impotent

Reports of Parley Of Allied Chiefs  Gaining Credence   oosevelt and Churchill Said To Be Speeding To Conference With Stalin In Iran After Meeting With Chiang Kai-Shek   REUTERS DISPATCH IS GIVEN WORLD BROADCAST

MIGHTY BLOWS AGAINST ENEMY ARE FORECAST   Epochal Conversations of Allied Leaders Are Believed In Progress

Roosevelt, Churchill. Stalin. Chiang Kai- Shek Reported Conferring In Iran On “Axis Blows Following ‘Big Three’ Meeting Held In Cairo

Pychological and Physical Blows Are Aimed Toward Axis   Expected From Talks by Highest Allied Leaders Abroad

Climax Seen  In Report Of Meeting   Primary Concern of Big Four Chiefs ls Agreement on Winning War; Final Smash on Germany Sighted

ALLIED LEADERS  Mighty  Blows  Poised   FDR, Churchill And Chiang Hare Met

Mighty New Blows Against The Axis Seen Imminent   FDR, Churchill, Chiang Reported To Have Conferred In Cairo; New Thrusts May Be Mental As Well As Phvsical

To Reduce Jap cmpire To Size  Prior To 1914   Rumored Agreement To Take Jap Pacifie Islands Including Mandates.   CHIEFS PLAN VICTORY

Winning War Prime Object of Conference   Authorities Guarded in Speculating on Possible Outcome

See Mighty Blows Direct Outcome Of*4’’ Conference   Meeting Of World Leaders Expected To Determine Final Strategy For Victory

OWI Director Raps Reuters For Releasing  Parley Story   Spontaneous Enterprise, British News Agency Replies   Big 4 Are Apparently Meeting Now — Nazis

SAYE.D.R., CHURCHILL, CHIANG MEET   Psychological As Well As Physical Benefits Are Expected: Stalin To Join In Session?

Winning War Primary Goal   Speculation Rife Over Rumored Big Four Conference

LEADERS MEET TN IRAN ARTER : CATRO SESSION   Roosevelt and Churchill Confer With Stalin to Map Final Strategy For Ending War   CHINESE CHIEF ALSO ATTENDING PARLEYS   United Attacks.On Japs Believed Mapped, Plan For Reducing Nippon to Minor Power

Berlin Says Big 4 Sittin g At Teheran   Communique: Seen Likely ‘This. Week: On. War- Meeting

New Blows toF ollow. ~ War Talks      Washington. Officials’ Ex. pect Mighty Actions.to-FoljJow ‘Allied Conferenci            WINNING THE WAR? +.) IS. MAIN CONCERN:               First: Conferetice Reporte

SF-YEAR-ID “   Filth Winter of War Liked} to Mobilize Possible” Hornacwer

SOLONS READY TO OPEN FIRE ON ABSENTEES   Congress In Work Or Fight Mood Mans Swift Vote On Legislation   KNOX CALLED TO TESTIFY   Bill May Be Amended To Encompass All Work For Government

NAVY SECRETARY URGES ABSENTEES FROM WAR WORK BE “HIT IN- THE POCK ETBOOK”  ::

1,000 JAPANESE SLAIN   Casualties Heavy In China Battle, Chungking Reports loeday

BROWN, TAFT DISPUTE PAYING OF SUBSIDIES   Price Administrator Tells Senate Commitiee Rollback Otherwise  Imnaceihis   SUPPORTED BY FDR   Rooseveli Challenges Critics to Offer Better Method of Holding Bown Living Costs

Subsidy Needed To Hold Prices Of Food in Line   Brown Testifies At Hearing Over Payment Program

MURRAY WARNS STREL STRIKES ARE PROBABLE      CIO. Head Says WLB Ruling Against Retroactive Pay Increases Creates “Grave Situation

Steel Plant Stoppage Is Threatened   Murray Points to Lack of Contract By Union

Stoppages In Steel Plants Held Likely   Murray Warning Accepted as Meaning Shut Downs Next Week

ASSEMBLY LEADERS SEEK ADJOURNMEN]   Hope to Clear Obstacles So That “Vacation” Can Soon Be Started.

U.S., Chinese Halt Japs’ Campaign In Shanghai Area  Enemy Loses Throng Of Fighters as Allied Troops Gain

Chinese Smash Jap Offensive.   Town Retaken, And 1,200 Nios Killed?:1

EASTERN CHINA DRIVE SMASHED   Over 1,200 Japs Killed: Yank Airmen Slug Burma Invaders

Confesses Slaying  K-State Student Cottonwood Falls Jail Breaker  _ Admits Shooting Bruce Smol}

Legion Leader _ Favors By-Passing One Tax Year   Plan Is Similar to Ruml’s; Other Leaders Indorse Principle

LEGION HEAD PUTS 0.K. ON RUML PLAN   Waring Recommends Pay-asyou-go Proposal

Serious Fuel Oil Bottleneck Faces Nazis in Failure  To Take Grozny

Failure of German Armies To Seize Grozny Vil Fields ~ Brings New Fuel Problem:

RUSSIANS REPORT NEW GAINS IN OIL REGIONS AS GERMANS ARE ‘BEING STEADILY DRIVEN BACK   Mozdok and Malgobek Have Fallen to Reds and Soviet Offensive Rolls On With Wedges Being  Driven In Nazi Lines. Many Germans Slain

Axis Radios Call Defeat ‘Glorious’   Wait Full Day To Tell Germans, Italians That Bizerte And Tunis Fell

Axis Holds Back News for Full Day   People Told Today of Loss of Tunisian Cities to Allies

AXIS PROPAGANDA PREPARES PEOPLE FOR SEVERE SHOCK   “nother Stalingrad” Coming.  Tunis, Bizurte Fall Net Yet Announced.

- Asks $3,500,000 From North American, Allied Utilities for; Loss of Job  Ps   ‘ORDERED’ TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS   ® alleges Part of Secret Funds ‘Were Used in Moberly, Other Missouri-Cities :

REPORTS KEEP COMING IN OF FEB. U7 FIGHT   Southern Part of State Hard Hit; Total for State Now Past 100.   MAJORITY BELIEVED PRISONERS OF WAR

Blast Souvenirs Called: Dangerous   Civilians Take High Explosives

[Famed 19th Bomb Group Closes Its Career ‘With Every Officer and Man Proclaimed Hero

Wy ee I OR ke ok Famous 19th Bombardment Group, M ost. Be-Medaled Of Air Fiahters. Dichande _.-

x* * & k & wk & © & & kK wR wk Ks Famous 19th Bombardment Group, Most Be-Medaled Of Air Fiahters. Disbands

Reinforcements   Help Turn Tide   Powerful Sea-Borne Reinforcement Being’ Landed Along Front as Allies "Weather. Fierce German Delaying Action; Report . British Ninth Army on the Move Na

Foes Still Locked In Bitter Struggle.   Powerful Reinforcements. Landed; Fifth Army Weathering Grave Crisis

Sea-Borne Reinforcements Arriving While Brifish Eighth Army Drives Northward To Trap Germans: Enalish Ninth Is Moving

SALERNO SCRAP RAGING ON, NAZI STABS CRUSHED   Gen. Eisenhower Reports Some Ground Yielded—New Po-. sitions Consolidated

Help Arrives, But Yanks’ In Hot Spot   Terrific Fighting Continues; See Little Improvement For Yanks

Reinforcements Landing in Italy   Yanks Battle To Enlarge Bridgehead South of Naples; British Forces Race To Effect Junction

Nazi Attacks Beaten off by US Fifth Army   Allies Forced Back at Some Points Despite Reinforcements; Red Armies  Advance Within 90 Miles of Kiev

Capture Famed Isle of Capri at Tip of Sorento Penirfsula—Allied Warplanes : in 2,000 Sorties—Reds Within 80 Miles of. Kiev; Allies Within Mile of Lae Stronghold

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY TROOPS BEAT » OFF VIOLENT ATTACKS   ALLIES FORCED. GIVE GROUND DESPITE ARRIVAL REINFORCEMENTS

ALLIES WEATHIR GRAVE CRISIS AND RALLY 10 MOVE INTO NEW POSITIONS   Unconfirmed Reports Reach London That Power ful British Ninth Army Is On Move In Middle East. British Officials © Withhold Comment’

Bitter Fight  Rages   Allies Forced Back At Some Points in Spite of Arrival of Fresh Reinforcements

Allies Regain Some Lost Ground   Fascist Party Revived in Germany

Violent German Attacks Absorbed By Invasion Force   Today's Fightin ‘Little More in Our Favor,’ Officer Says

~ Clark Adjusts: _ Lines; Air-Force ’ Supports Attack On German Tank:

BITTER BATTLE SEE-SAWING AT SALERNO TODA‘   Gigantic Aerial Umbrella Operates Over Allies, Helping Beat Off Violent Nazi Attacks 

Stop Vicious Nazi Thrusts Against Line   Northwest Afriean Air Force Hurls All Planes Into Heavy Raids.  eT

OHIO IS PREPARED FOR ARMY GAR LAW   Series of Conferences Being Scheduled

SIMPLIFICATION OF EDERAL INCOME TAX 1S PROMISED   Returning Congressmen Call For Action After Figuring Out Own Returns; Even Doughton Had To Seek Aid of Experts.

Simplification Of U. S. Tax Rerurns Likely, But Not Now   BY JAMES MARLOW

Real Headache Is Coming Next March  Will Simplify Federal  ~ Income Tax Blanks, But Job Will Require Time

Send Notices lor Drattees   Few Married Men Without Children Called In June Induction Quota.

Mili Atoll Expected to Get First Allied Blow of Invasion.  HOWEV ER, JAPS DO, NOT RULE PACIFIC  Installations on New Guinea and New Britain Raided.

JAP) LIKELY  TO PUT UP REAL FIGHT FOR THEIR MARSHALL ISLES   Enemy Is Reported Sending Troops and Plane Reinforcements Into Mid-Pacfic Stronghold.

JAPS SENDING REINFORCEMENTS TO MARSHALL ISLES   Real Fight Expetced When  Americans Open Drive _

BOMBER MsaiNG WITH 14 ABOARD   Five Men Killed in Crash of Bomber in Kansas Yesterday.

U. S. Navy Force Seeking To Lure Jap Home Fleet   Radio Tokyo Warns Homeland Endangered After Marcus Attack

MOVE MAY BE PLAN 10 TEST STRENGTH OF JAP HOME FLEET   Radio Tokyo Warts Japs Attack On Island Is A Prelude To Fema Of Mainland .

‘Task Force On The Loose In The Pacifie   Whereabouts Not Reported Since Raid On Marcus Island

TASK FORCE I$ ON LOOSE   American Navy Dares Jap Fleet To Come Out

Naval Task: Force In Pacific Seeks — Battle With Japs   Attack on Marcus Island, First Move in New Offensive Against’ Japanese Involving Several. Carriers

MARCUS ISLAND ATTACK WAS DEEP IN ENEMY. LINES   Raid May Have Been Diversion to Conceal Real Offensive Elsewhere.

‘Details Lacking About \Powerful U.S. Armada Hunting Japanese Fleet

U. S. Task Force Roams Pacific In Tokio Dare    Nervous Japanese Say Fleet Com, tained Two Carriers, 160 Planes When Marcus Island Smash Was Made

Believe U.S. Probing Jap Navy Power      Raid Possibly. Bid © For Scrap.to'Test Enemvy’s Sea Micht

FLEET IS SCOUTING   Powerful Force on the Loose in Pacific Daring Japs to Come Out and Fight.

Churchill Presages  Big Blow   Europe Invasior “Termed First  - BRuciness

Churchill Sees ‘Death Grapple   Armies in England Are Ready for Task

20,000 CHRYSLER WORKERS REMAIN OUT SECOND DA   Most Serious Work Stoppag: In Detroit Since Pear Harbor; Entire War Ef fort of Chrysler Corpora tion Threatened,

20,000 Quit Work At Chrysler Plants  Company Has Most   Company Has Most Serious Strike Since War's Stort

20,000 CHRYSLER WORKERS ARE IDLE   Three ‘Detroit Plants. Close: May Force 85,000 to Quit Work ,

CHRYSLER WAR ~ PLANTS GLOSE   Strikes Most Serious  Detroit Since Pearl Harbor

20,000 Chrysler Workers Remain Away From Jobs   Entire War Effort Of Great Corporation Being Threatened.

STRIKES KEKP CHRYSLER CORP. PLANTS CLOSED   Entire War Effort Threatened by Most Serious Walkout in Detroit Since 1941   NOT AUTHORIZED   Men Quit in Protest Over at > * . “Legitimate and Serious rievances, Union Head Says

CHRYSLER WAR EFFORT THREAT   20,000 Membe rs of UVAW-CIO Idle for Second Day

10 Million Good Meat Meals Going To Waste! Crow-Eating Is Proposed 

rat So Often We Hear About ’em  Why Not Eat Crow to Ease  Meat Shortage in Nation?

Would Solve Meat Shortage, Depredations On War Crops By Slaughter Of Crows

Russians Smash > Toward Zhlobin   Capture Of City Would Aid In Cleaning Up Nazis Remaining On East Bank Of Upper Dnieper; New Red Gains In Ukraine

Reds Just 8 Miles From Zhlobin, Vital Rail City   Nazis Fleeing Gomel Area; New Gains Made In Ukraine; 3rd°‘Offensive Hinted

REDS TAKE MORE THAN 80 TOWNS   New Soviet Advances 3s Are Reported In Gomel Sector

INITIATIVE IN OTHER SECTORS TAKEN BY REDS   Pound Out New Gains in Ukraine in Drive To Link Kremenchug and Gherkasy   COUNTER BLOWS BY ENEMY IN REAR FAIL   Germans Routed Before Thiobin; Leave Great Quantities of Booty an Rhicht

Soviet Drive Nears German Escape Exit   Town Eight Miles From Zhlobin Captured And Naw Gainc Poarnded Orit In blk raine

Reds Within Kight Miles Of Zhlobin   Pursue German Forces Fleeing From Gomel

Reds Within 8 Miles of Zhlobin  Big Trunk Railway Crossing Menaced

SOVIETS ONLY 8 MILES FROM ‘ZHLOBIN BASE   German Counterattacks Beaten Back

RAF Fliers Pound Berlin, Ruhr Cities   Warships Bombard Pantelleria; U. S. Bombers Wreck Sicilian Harbor

Heavy Battle Is Raging For Island In West Aleutians   Axis Broadcast is Second Indication Within a Week That Determined Campaign is Planned in North Pacific   DETAILS OF OPERATION ARE BEING WITHHELD

JAPANESE IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS TELL ALEUTIANS ACTIVITY  BITTER FIGHTING RE.  RAT Trem Br mr

Tokyo Radio Reveals Move to Oust Foe   Fighting Is Fierce After Three Days; U. S. Navy Is Silent on Attack

BATTLE RAGING IN ALEUTIANS AS LANDING MADE   New Offense Against Japs Looms After Victory of  Allies in Tunisia .   BOMBERS BATTERING ITALY   Softening Up Process for Invasion of Europe Is Pressed on All Sides

Have Landed. On Attu lsland   Heavy Battle Raging as American Troops Fight To Clear Route to Tokyo; RAF Bombs Berlin, the Ruhr and Czechoslovakia

Heavy Batile Still Raging Three Daya After -Landing Of American Troops On Island ‘In Effort To Clear North Sea Route To Tokyo — RAF. Continues ‘To Hammer Nazi-Held Countries In Europe .

HEAVY BATTLE STILL RAGING THREE DAYS AFTER LANDING ON JAP-HELD ISLAND   U. S. Troops Fighting to Clear North Sea Route to Tokyo. Washington Says Details of Operations Will be Released When  Situation Clarifies.

U. S. Seeks to Oust  Enemy From Islands   Long-expected Drive Begins In Apparent All-out Bid for Early Decision; Japan Reports Fierce Battle Under Way.

U.S. Troops Strike fo Clear North Sea Route to Tokyo   Believe Yank Forces Landed In Strength on Jap Garrison; Enemy Reports Attack Started May 12; British Bomb Pontelleria Island

Russ Armies Push Ahead  In Center   Take Many Towns in Sweep Toward Smolensk Admit Rostov’s Fall

Loss of Kharkov May Be Offset   Moscow Admits Steel City Again Taken by Ger ‘mans, but Tells of New Gains in North

Claim Many Cities Captured On Road  Toward Smolensk   Offsets Nazi Capture Of Kharkov In South   British Eighth Army Advances On Tunisian Front At Sedjenane

Smolensk Offensive  Suecessful   Axis Offers No Resistance To Advance Of British In Sedjenaue Sector

GENT HAL FRONT FIGHTING [a ALL IN REDS: FAVOR   Steady Drive On Smolensk May Offset Growing Crisis In Ukraine

Russians Admit Loss Of Ukraine Steel City; British Push Ahead In North  Tunisia.

Russian Gain Offsets Loss Of Kharkov  RAF Relents In  ar ‘On Factories  i rato»

Soviet Gains Partly Offset Kharkov Loss   Four Russian Columns Approaching Smolensk; British Ist Army Makes Advance in Sedjenane Sector; 8th Army Has Quiet Day

Reds Admit Capture of Steel City   Russian Armies Continue Their Drive Towards  Nazi Pivot

Soviet Pressure May Force Nazis To: Withdraw Men From Offensive At Kharkoy

RUSSIAN ADVANCES ON CENTRAL FRONT MOST SPEGTACULAR   GERMAN VICTORY AT KHARKOV CREATED SERIOUS SITUATION UKRAINE

Reds’ capture of 47 ‘towns offsets loss of Kharkov to nazis   Drive to Smolensk on central front continued by 4 columns

GAINS THREATEN 10 OFFSET GERMAN CAPTURE OF KHRKOV IN UKRAINE   47 Towns and Villages Taken in Drive West of Moscow. Four Russian Columns Approaching Vital Axis Supply Base, Nearest of Which is 50 or 60 Miles Away .

NAZI CAPTURE OF KHARKOV IS ACKNOWLEDGED   Allied Gains in North And Central Tunisia Are Reported

COLUMNS IN ADVANCE ON “SMOLENSK   Spectacular New.- Gains i ' Center May Offset Nazi~ Victory. at- Kharkov.   SEVERAL GERMAN. * POINTS THREATENED      Hitler May’ Bé . Forced.’ to ‘Shift His ‘Reserves to.the North

RUSSIAN DRIVE SURGES ON IN CENTRAL SECTOR   German Victory in Ukraine Partially Offset by Soviet Advance on Smolensk   AXIS SQUEEZED IN AFRICA   British Advance in Two Sectors of Tunisia and Yanks in Another

JAPS. IN NEW THREAT: ACCORD IN U-GOAT WAR BEDS CAPTURE 47 TOWNS         Gains on Central Front in a Measure Offset Nazi Victory at Kharkov; U.S. Britain and Canada Act as One in Atlantic; Nips Into Islands Immediately Above Australia.

SOVIETS CHALK UP NEW GAINS ON MID-FRONI   At Least 47 Towns, Villages Fall to Conquering Reds. South Front Still Critical

HELPS OFFSET NAZI VICTORY OVER KHARKOV   Germans in Smolensk Imperiled by Advance of 4 Russian Columns

Loss of Kharkov Admitted by Reds;  Take New Position   Nazi Victory Is Offset Some by Russians’ North Success

Russians Caplure 47 New Towns In Smolensk Drive   Two Jap Troopships In Convoy. Blasted By Allied Airmen ‘Today

Soviets Stop Germans After  Kharkov Loss   Threat To Smolensk May Force Hitler To Shift  Troops From South,   AFRICAN FRONT QUIET

Reds sare of        Russian Armies Continue ~ Their Drive Toward Nazi Pivot —

RUSSIANS SCORE IMPORTANT GAINS ON CENTRAL FRONT   [Situation in Ukraine Critical; Red Army Admits Kharkov Taken by Ger man Forces.

Smolensk Drive Gains New Speed      Four Columns Pointed Toward Ger‘man Base, Nearest Only 60: Miles Away; May Ease Pressure on South-, ern Front; Allies Gain in Minor Actions in Tunisia. Lats

Advance Units Are 50-60 Miles From Central Pivot City   Tunisian Front Has Little Activity; First Army Gains Slightly

Have to Rush Aid to North   Kharkov Falls to Germans but Red Gains Wipe Out Advantage

Soviets Make New Gains in Central Area   Situation in South Remains Extremely Critical

Sirst Army Moves Forward Slightly, But Africa Front ‘Senerally Ouiet

Critical Battles Still Raging Ih. Kharkov Vicinity   British-First Army. ‘kes Strategic Height Near Axis-Held Bizerte.

Reds Swarming Over Dnieper River Plains   Smolensk May Soon Be Menaced As Nazis Retake Kharkov Month After Loss

BRIDGE BONDS TO BE PAID OFF   Bonds On Two Ohio Bridges Which Mature Will Be Redeemed

There'll Be Some More Surprises!   ‘Sudden’ Rationing Plan Preferred To Curb Hoarding

FAR FROM SULLEN, CAPTURED JAPS ARE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, TAKE TO OUR SLANG

Japanese Are Not Sullen War Prisoners      Astonished At Being Treated As  Human Beings

Captured Japs Held In Camp      WRITER TELLS ABOUT HUGE MARINE BASE FOR NIPS

Jap Prisoners Eat and Are Happy; Spirit Would Not Please Mr. Tojo

JAP PRISONERS "NOT DESPONDENT   Good Treatment by Am ' ericans is - a Surprise, Food Is Another,  PICK UP SLANG, _  we

Jap Prisoners Upset Trite Opinion; Become Human, Once Given a Chance

Jap Prisoners Held By U.S. Are Happy Lot, Correspondent Says   No Brooding There; Like Bountiful American Food, Good Treatment And Swing Music. Tou

Captured Japs Become Happy-Go-Lucky Prisoners; Take Up Slang, Swing Tunes

Jop Prison Camp Good Upsetter OF Notions On Inscrutable Nipponese

Reds Expand New Big Push In Nevel Area   Also Make Advances On City of Kherson, Near Mouth of Dnieper  GERMANS PULL BACK

REDS SEIZE 70 MORE VILLAGES SOUTH OF NEVEI   Russia’s Baltic Army Nearing Old Polish and Latvian Borders in Winter Offensive.   4 ENEMY DIVISIONS CHOPPED TO PIECES   One Thousand Square Miles Wrosted From Nazis and 24,000 Enemy Troops Killed in Drive.

1,000 Square Miles Of Territory Recaptured   Berlin Broadcast Says Germans Retreat From Dnieper Bridgehead Opposite Kherson; Axis Equipment Abandoned

GERMANS LOSE BRIDGEHEAD GF KHERSON   Endangering Defenses All Way To Bug River; Reds Smash Toward  Polotsk And Vitebsk.   Near Black Sea

REDS CAPTURE 70 VILLAGES IN BIG THRUS   ABOUT 1000 SQUARE MILES REGAINED BY SOVIETS

Nazis Abandon Huge Stocks of Arms And Ammunition in Retreat; Give Hla Kharson Bridgehead in South

Nazis Retreating South of Nevel, Moscow Reports   10 More Villages And Hamlets Taken   foeunter-Atlacks Fail

Reds Sweep On In Offensive In North   570 Localities Claimed Retaken, And 24,000 Enemy Said Killed Or Captured

OPPOSE CHURCH BINGO LICENSE   Milwaukee Archdiocese : Against Licensing of Activity on Premises.

Oppose Move For Legalized Bingo Games   Milwaukee Archdiocese  , OF Catholic Church Does Not Sponsor Bill Now In Legislature

Nurse Sensation On Guadalcanal  ~* Soldiers Think Girl Must Be Mirage

FIRST U8. NURSE ON GUADALCANAL   Second Lieut. Mae Olson Causes Furore on Far  Pacifte Island.

Blond Is First American Woman To Reach Guadalcanal; Nurses To Help Fly Wounded From Sector

F Father And Son Killed As _ Planes Collide In Mid-Air  . NATIVE NEBRASKANS

IN APASON CMry   Trains Collide in Tunnel in Wyoming; No One Injured   8 Cars of Westbound Los Angeles Limited Derailed in Wreck

Willkie Challenges Idolization of Individual Men Throughout World

Willkie Pleads For Liberal Arts Education in US.   Decries Idolization of Individual Men in -Address at Duke Liniver:  tata. ved ee

Willkie Pleads iF or Liberal Arts Education in US.   Decries Idolization of Individual Men in Address at Duke Univer. sity. 

FDR. (QUILINES POWERS OF NEW FOOD. DIRECT OR  Says Chester: Davis Will Bdrm: Land      TELLS OF. PLANS   Steps. Taken To’ Insure: More Farm Machinery ~~

Davis Will Replace Wickard as Boss Of All Food Programs   First Task To Be Establishment of Some Sort of Land Army To Assist in Food  Production, Says Roosevelt _

C. C. DAVIS SUCCEEDS WICKARD AS  FOOD-CHIEF; FARM ORGANIZATIONS . WANT HIM TO GOVERN FARM PRICES   Already Given Power Over Production and Distribution of Foed and Farm Labor. Wickard May Resign in Near Future.

Plan Land Army lo Help Turn — Out Food Supply   New F Food Administrator To Give Plan Immediate Attention.

Pupils And Women Will Help Turn Out Nation’sFoodSupply    (aver 3 Million Farm Workers Will € Given Deferment This Year; May Use Furloughed Army Men

Plan Land Army To Produce Food   Food Administrator Davis Will Tackle Problem  at Once   MORE TO BE DEFERRED   WPB Has Taken Steps tc  Insure Larger Supply of Machinery

New Ag Chief to Formulate Land Army   President Says Plans Under Way to Defer More for Farms: Release Equipment

Davis To Form Land Army To Help Farmer:   New Food Administrator To Have Full Authority Over Barem Prices. .   DEFER MORE FARMERS

FOR SAYS DAVIS WILL FORM LAND ARMY FIRST THING   Chief Executive Insists 3,000,000 Farm Workers To Be Deferred This Year

Plan Forming of a Big Land Army   ‘New Food Administrator. Chester C. Davis, to Take  Up Question at Once.

To Form A Land © Army    Will Be First. Job of New Food Czar; Davis To Be In Full Control Of Food Program

PAIGE CONTROL 0 NEGEOOAR   New Food Czar Given Plenty of Authority Ly the 7 President.

Farm Easement Seen as FDR Reveals Food Administrator fo Begin Formation of Land Army

FORMATION OF LAND ARMY 10 BE DAVIS’ JOB   New Food Administrator To , Have Autonomous Agency, President Says   BOOST MACHINERY SUPPLY   Wickard To Lose Control Over Wartime Farm Program And Prices

Food Chief Will Form Land Army   Chester Davis Will Assume Control Of Farm Production   Takes Duties Formerly Held By Sec. Wickard   President Says More Machinery Will Be Made Available

FDR PLANS FARM-CULTIVATING LAND ARMY UNDER CHESTER DAVIS: DEFERMENTS FOR FARM WORKERS   Davis Will Take Up Immediately Question of Forming Land Army to Produce Sufficient Foor To Keep Nation From Going Hungry

FDR FDR Says Davis to Take Up at Once Question of Forming a Land Army

DAVIS TO FORM BIG LAND ARNIY TO AID FARMER   Food Administrator Given Vast Powers To Improve tl). S. Production   550,000 FARM WORKERS GET DRAFT DEFERMENT   Steps Taken To Alleviate Machinery Shortage Also, FDR Reveals

Land Army to Raise Crops Is Considered   Subject to Be Given Immediate Attention of New Food Administrator — More Farm Machinery Will Be Made, F. D. R. Says.

President Says Civilians Will Not Starve   Food Chief To Raise Land Army; Deferments, Farm Machinery Promised   GIVEN AUTHORITY   Davis Gets Price Powers: Wickard Is Stripped Of Most Jurisdiction

—— eT —_-.AAirNineNenhim  Organization Of Land Army One Of First Jobs Facing  New Food Administrator

Defer Big Total of Farmers   SUPPLY OF MACHINERY FOR WORKING LAND IS SLATED FOR INCREASE

Food Supply Of Nation Is Up To Chester Davis   ‘Land Army’ Formed To Produce Food: Farm Workers Tc Be Deferred

FOOD PROGRAM STATIC; AWAIT NEWEST BOSS   Davis Says He Wants to Be Answerable Only to FDR

Davis, New Food Chief, Gets Autonomous Power; We'll Not Starve, President Asserts

Food Boss Will Recruit Huge Farming Army   K XK OK OY¥ Draft Revolt

First Job For New Food Czar Land Army For Nation’s Farms Will Be Studied

Plan Land Army To Produce Food   Food Administrator Davis Will Tackle Problem  at Once   WPB Has Taken Steps tc Insure Larger Supply of Machinery

FORMATION LAND ARMY PRODUCE FOOD PLANNED BY DAVIS  THIS WILL BE ONE OF FIRST ACTS OF NEW

00D~  FANE Uf ~— OMILLION SEEN   iNew Food Administrator To Take Over Capital Post Monday   MORE MACHINERY   President Sees No Conflict Between’ New Ageney And Wickard 

Final Decisions Will Be Made by President, Himself   Some 3.5 Million Workers Are Slated For Draft Deferment

3 Million More Farm Workers  To Be Deferred   Thousands Of Soldiers Will Be _ Furloughed To Help In Crop Pro gisembescen

DAVIS 10 BE FULL RULER OVER FOODS   President Says He Will _, Be Independent of Sec- retary Wickard.   FARM WORKERS : BEING DEFERRED   Farmers Also to Get More Machines, Revealed at Press Conference.

FD Says More Farmers Will Be Deferred  WPE Takes Steps _   encore: SS ae Bk lenge ened

Need Labor To Turn Out Food Supply   3,000,000 on Farms Will Be Deferred From Military Service

New Food Boss Will Form A Land Army   FDR Makes Plain Davis to Be in Full Charge: Farm Bloc Would Have Him Control  Prices’

Consider Organizing  Land Army   Roosevelt Gives Outline Of Davis’ Duties In His New Office As Food Administrator

FOR FARMS UNDER NEW FOOD BOSS   ‘More Machinery Also Plan_ ned; More Farmers to  Be Deferred   ® FULL POWERS “TO CHESTER DAVIS   President. Explains Order , Giving Wide Authority to New Administrator

New Food Boss Ready To Form U.S. Land Army   Chester Davis Gets Full Authority Over  Production. Prices

FOOD PRICES UNDER CONTROL OF NEW CHIEF   Wickard Authority in Relation to Food  Is Removed

Davis, New Food Czar, Will Form  Army For Farms   Students, Women Will Be Members

New Food Czar Will Form A Land Army To Help Boost Food Supply   Davis Will Operate Virtually An Autonomous Agency, Says President; Question Mark Envelopes Wickard’s Status: Farm Leaders Hail Choice.

Land Army to Be Organized For Farm Work, Says President   Deferments, Furloughs for Workers, More Farm Machinery

DAVIS STATUS IS OUTLINED BY PRESIDENT   New Food Administrator fe Take Up Immediately Formation of a Land Army   PLAN MORE MACHINERY

Land Army to Turn Out Food Supply Considered   President Says That 550,000 Form Workers Already Deferred, About 3 Million Others Won't Be Inducted; More Machitiery to Be Available

Congress, Farm Chiefs Hail Naming of Davis   Agricultura! Organizations Demand New Food Boss Be Given Full Control Over Prices.

Greater Supply of Farm Machinery Assured This Year   NDUTIES OUTLINED   BF NM NN ED le NS Bat Bll        Davis 40 Take Over Nearly All Wartime Work af Wieckard

TTAND ARMY’ I$ PLANNED ~ FOR NATION   THREE MILLION MEN TO RE DEFERRED FROM MILITARY SERVICE FOR FARM  WORK

Army For Food Production Is  Planned By FR   That's One of First Jobs For Davis, New Food Czar, Says He

NEW DIRECTOR, CHESTER DAVIS, AIVEN CONTROL   Vill Cooperate With Agriculture Secretary With Roosevelt Making Final Decisions   DAVIS TO RULE ON ALL FARM PRICES   fo Recruit Farm Army From Among High School Boys and Girls and Women

President Stresses Program to Inerease Food Production as He Announces Chester C. Davis as Supreme Authority Over Food

Other Steps Being Taken To Increase Food Supply: Indicate High School Youths And Women May Be Called To Work On Farms

DAVIS IS MADE ANSWERABLE TO PRESIDENT   New Food Administrator to Tak Over Most Phases of Food Pro gam from Wickard   Roosevelt Reveals Steps to Pro vide More Farm Machinery, De fer 3 Million Farm Workers

Davis begins work on land army soon   Estimated 3,000,000 more farm workers to be deferred in 1943

PRODUCTION OF FARMS 10 ~ BE INCREASED   Chester C. Davis Will Replace Wickard as Boss of the Nation’s Food Program.

Land Army  To Be Set Up To Boost U.S Food Supply   Mostly From Boys And Girls; 3,000,000  More Farm Workers To Be Deferred

Food Chief To Establish Land Army   Replaces Wickard As Production, Distribution Boss

AG DEPARTMENT AWAITS ORDERS FROM NEW CZAR   Duties Of Chester Davis Unknown Ir National Capital  ~sT TY FTF 7S Sets a

DAVIS SUCCEEDS CLAUDE WICKARD AS FOOD CZAR   Men Will Be Deferred from Selective Service to Form Its Neucleus

GIVES DAVIS FREE REIN ON FOOD CONTROI   New Food Czar Will Have Authority Over Prices of Farm Products.   To Form Land Army To Aid in Productior

LAND ARMY TO AID FOOD PRODUCTION   . ++ Farmers Assured Deferments, Machiners

ADMINISTRATION S FORMING ARMY 10 ASSIST FARMERS   Chester C. Davis, Announced to New Position, Has Autonomous Agency Roosevelt Declares.   550,000 FARM WORKERS GIVEN DEFERMEN’   Executive in Long Discussion Says WPB Has Planned to Provide More Equipment For Farms.

LAND ARMY PLAN TO BE TAKEN UF   New Food Head to Act a Once: President Discusses Farm Problems -

Chief Favors ‘Land Army’ For Farming  Food Director   Food Director Given Power To Set Up Program

Davis To Organize Land Army To Insure Full Production Of Food Supply; Deferments Made

To Consider Land Army, FDR States   Will Be Taken Up By Davis—To Defer More  Farm Workers

Plans For Gigantic Land Army Disclosed By President Today   Rural Workers Will Be. Exempted : From Military Service. And Others Furloughed; Control: ‘As, -"Mested In New Chief, Chester'C: Davis) *. °

Nazis Make Advance on Land Front   Drive Toward Kiev, Despite Heavy Losses—British Gain in Italy

Nazi Counter Blows Push Soviets Back   Eighth Gains Six Miles in Italy; Fifth Still Mired

F.D.R. Rejects Proposal  for Food Czar  OPA Rollback and ‘Subsidy Plan   Foreign Affairs Committee Urges U. S. Participation in World Organization

Foreign Affairs Committee Urges U.S. Participation in World Organization

Rev. S. A. Jones  Leaves LeMars  Will Preach Farewell Sermon Next Sunday

. S. A. Jones To Leave ‘Dec. 29th For Independence   hurch After Seven Years Service  ss Le Mars Baptist

CUT ORDERED © ~ IN DELIVERY   RETAIL DELIVERIES OF. FIF’ TEEN. COMMODITIES. DIS- , GONTINUED IN EASToo... BERN STATES

MANY KILLED AND  INJURED IN WRECK  CRACK PASSENGER FOURTEEN LISTED AS  DEAD AND EIGHTY-NINE OTHERS HURT

14 PERSONS DIE IN RAIL WRECK   At Least 89 Others Injured In New Jersey Accident

Penn Crash Said Worst  In Years   Sireamliner Was Carrying 1300 Passengers To N. Y. From Atlantic City

14 ARE KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH   Pennsylvania, With 1.300 Passengers, Leaves Rails in Southern New Jersey

14 Killed, 89 Hurt In Train Wreck   Engine Left Rails On Sharp Curve

Crack Penn Train umps Curve In New Jersey Area   1,300 Week - Enders Aboard A fte1. fT To Shore  Sunday

$9 OTHERS OF 4300 ON FLIER HURT IN CRASH   Engine, Four Cars Run Of! Tracks On Sharp Curve, Pile Up Along Bank

Pennsy Train Wrecked; 14 Weekenders Are Killed   Crack Flyer Was  En Route From Atlantic City To

FAST PASSENGET TRAIN CRASHES, 1,300 ABOARD   14 Killed, 89 Injured In Accident

14 Dead, 89 Hurt In Train Wreck   Pennsylvania Train Wrecked On Curve In New Jersey

14 Lives Lost In New Jersey Train Crackup   Eighty-Nine, Injured As Enght; ju gine. Four Cars Plunge Down Embankment.   MANY UNIDENTIFIED

DECLARE TRAIN WAS EXCEEDING LIMIT ON CURVE   Engine Leaves Tracks and Plunges Down Embankment on Turn

Holiday Specia Wreck Probed   TRAGEDY STRIKES PACKED PASSENGER TRAIN EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK WITH 1300 ABOARD; CAUSE OF WRECK UNKNOWN, SAY OFFICIALS

15 Persons Die, 89 Others Hurf In Train Wreck   Fast Train Carrying 1300 Bound for New York After Visit at Atlantic City Derailed

14 Killed And Many Hurt In Train Wreek   New Jersey Smashup Worst In Years On Penn. Road

14 PEOPLE KNOWN DEAD AND 89 HURT IN TRAIN ACCIDENT   Crack Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Train Wrecks On Curve In Delair, N. J.; Train Crowded With 1,300 Passengers.

4 PEROONG KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK   Excessive Speed On Curve Blamed By Officials

Fourteen Die When Crack Passenger Train Wrecks   9 Others Injured In Pennsylvania Line's Worst Wreck In Years; Investigation Indicates Speed Was Cause

14 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK   89 Injured As New York Bound Limited Jumps Tracks

14 Dead; 89 Injured in Railroad Wreck in East This Morn   Crack Pennsy Passenger Train Leaves Rails on Curve in New Jersey

Scenes Of Panic And Horror Re-Enacted. .. .  14 Dead, 89 Injured As Train Is Wrecked

14 Killed, Many Hurt In Wreck on Pennsy;  Syracusan Is Injured   Crowded Train From Atlantic City to New York Jumps Curve at Delair, N. J.; Wreckage Piled Across Main Line

14 PERSONS KILLED IN A TRAIN WRECK   89 Others Injured When ~ Pennsylvania Train Jumps Track

?  89 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK   Pennsylvania Passenger Carrying 1,300 Persons Leaves Rails and Goes Down Embankment in New Jersey.

14 KILLED, 89 INJURED IN WRECK   > R. R. Train Carrying 1,300 Passengers from Sea Shore

Crack Passenger Train, Carrying 1,300 Back To New York From Week End at Atlantic City Piles Up at Curve in New Jersey — Worst Disaster in Years

TRAIN JUMPS 1401      Crack Pennsylvania Train, 1,300 Aboard, Derailed Near Delair   -F. B. I. TAKING PART  IN INVESTIGATION   Engineer Exceeding Speed Limit, Rail Official Indicates

14 DEAD IN NEW JERSEY PENNSY CRASH   Crack Passenger Train  With Nearly 1,300   Aboard Leaves Rails * On a Curve

Fourteen Lose Lives  In Wreck   Passenger Train Bound For New York From Atlantic City Goes Into Ditch At Curve

At Least 14 Dead, Scores  Hurt In Wreck   Fast Pennsylvania Train Derailed On  New Jersey Curve

14 Die In Wreck Of Crack Train  Many Others Hurt By Crash In New Jersey

Atlantic City Express Jumps. Track On Curve   Victims Are  Horribly _ Mangled In Wreck - At Delair, N. J.-

14 Killed, Scores Injured In New Jersey Rail Wreck   Speeding Train, Loaded With Passengers Returning From Holiday At Atlantic City, Plunges Down Embankment On Sharp Curve.

14 Killed in Train Wreck   88 Others Hurt When Train Leaves Rails in New Jersey

14 Killed, 89 Hurt As Train Wrecks On Curve   Many Unidentified As Rescue Crews Probe Wreckage

MOTHER, NEW-BORN BABE DECAPITATED   14 Killed, 89 Pleasure Seekers - Injured in New Jersev Train Wreck

CRACK PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED: 14 PERSONS KILLED AND 89 OTHERS INJURED   Train On Run Between Atlantic City And New  York Carried 1,300 Passengers. Cause Of Wreacrk lIndatermined

14 DIE, 89 HURT IN NEW JERSEY TRAIN ACCIDENT   Pennsylvania Flyer Wrecks or Curve with 1,300 Passengers Aboard

FOUR COACHES LEAVE RAILS WITH ENGINE   89 Others Injured In Wors' Pennsy Line Disaster In ~ Pecent Years.

Coaches Follow Engine Down Embankment at Sharp Curve Near Delair. N. J., Hunt More Bodies.

PENNSY FLYER WAS CARRYING VACATIONISTS   Mother, New Born Child De: capitated in Crash

14 Killed When Pennsy Train  Is Derailed   Scores Of Others, Enroute Home From Resort, Ren Tniaead_ a

14 Die In Rail Wreck   «++ 89 Injured As Train Plunges Down Bank

14 Killed In Wreek   89 Injured When Crack Pennsy Train Leaves Tracks

14 Killed, 89 Injured in . Train Wreck   Engine Leaves Rails on Sharp Curve, Plunges Down Embankment, Dragging Four Cars Behind It

14 Are Killed as Fast Train Misses Curve   At? Least 89 Others Injured as 15-Car Train Plunges Over Embankment

89 Others Hurt As Flier Leaves Rails On Curve   Disaster Occurs As 1,300 Passengers Roll North From Vacation To Beach

14 DEAD, 89 HURT IN WRECK OF PRR TRAIN   Only Five of Dead Identified, Nine Badly Mangled—include Moth er, New-Born Baby   CAUSE NOT KNOWN   Train Carrying Weekenders North from Ailantic City Smashes Up on Curve

Nazis Suffer Rebuffs in Italy As Well as Russia   ‘Real Second Front’ Not Far Away, Reds Are Informed

Russian Army ~ Regains Kiev   Reds Win One Of Greatest Victories Of Yeat On 26th Soviet Anniversary.

NAZI ALSO LOSE “SDESTROVERS IN BISCAY BAY FIGHT   British Admiralty Reveals Other Successes Incident te Sinking Battleship Scharnhorst.   ORTONA PORT: FINAL’ LY TAKEN BY BRITISH   German Airfields Near Rom Are “Blasted By Stronc Forces of American Med. ium Bombers.

British Intercept -German Convoy ‘In Bav of Biscay   Allied Chieftains Hint Reich Attempt to Resume Surface Raids Acainst Convovs Nines

British Sink Three German Destroyers and Blockade Runner   Enemy Attempting To Throw Invasion Time Table Off

Nazis Lose Three More Warships To British Guns   Axis Blockade Runner Also Sent to Bottom   By Robert Richards ‘Tinttod Press Staff ©

Four MoreNazi  Ships Are Sunk   Three Destroyers, Axis Blockade Runner Sunk By British Warshios

Homeward - Bound Axis Blockade Runner Also Destroyed NiP ‘CONVOY RAIDS  Appearance of Warships         Appearance of Warships Believed Attempt to Delay Invasion

Royal Navy Follows Up North Sea Fight   Three Destrovers and Blockade Runner Sent to Bottom by Gaprfare Shins and Planes

FOUR MORE NAZI ‘SHS DESTROYED “BY BRITISH NAVY   German Attempt to Raid  Allied Convoys Ends : in. Disaster

GERMANS LOSE 3 DESTROYERS IN NEW ACTION   Shrinking Of Nazi Fleet Continues In Bay Of Biscay

GERMANS LOSE 3 DESTROYERS IN BISCAY BAY   British Ships and Planes Also Sink Blockade Runner and Damage Other Nazi Raiders.

Harbor Jammed  Before Invasion  Like A ‘Pot - Bellied’ Cannon Aimed At Italy

James F. Byrnes Gets Control of War Mobilization   Given Wide Powers Over Economic Life of United States

BYRNES NAMED 10 HEAD NEW OFFICE OF MOBILIZATION   Ex-supreme Court Justice I: Appointed By Roosevelt Today.

Will Be Top Man Over All Phases Except Military   Virtually UnlimitedAuthority Granted To New Office Head

BYRNES NAMED HEAD OF WAR MOBILIZATION OFFICE BY FDR   Vinson To Be Successor As Eeonomic Stabilizer

Byrnes to. Head New U.S. Agency   Will Direct  War Effort On Home Front

Byrnes Named Super Czar On U. §. Home Front   Lays Down Policy of Ending Quarrels at Conferences 

GREAT POWER HANDED HOME FRONT FIXER   FORMER JUSTICE TO BOSS HIGHERUPS IN WASHINGTON

GIVES OFFICE SUPREME POWER IN WAR EFFORT   Former Economic Czar Gets Authority Over All But Actual Military Qperations.

Byrnes Is Named Head Of Office Of Mobilization   New Bureau To Rule Home Front

, Byrnes Czar Of Economic  Life. Of U.S.   PRESIDENT MAKES FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ARBITER WHERE CIVILIAN AND MIL; ITARY NEEDS CONFLICT.      Roosevelt Still Tops

DIRECTOR GIVES UP ANOTHER JOB FOR BIGGER TASK   Unified Programs, Establish ment of Policies Includec For Maximum Uses of Resources.   JUDGE VINSON IS NAMED TO FILL VACANCY   Uniform Activities of Federai Agencies, Department anc Several Officials Are on Committee.

BYRNES HEADS NEW OFFICE OF MOBILIZATION   To Exercise Virtually Complete Powers Over All Home Front War Efforts :   VINSON TAKES OLD JOB   President Hopes To Unify Activities, Settle Disputes Of All Agencies

NEW OFFICE OF MOBILIZATION AT WASHINGTON   Streamlining War Effort Means Avoiding Of Overlapping And Eliminating Departmental Friction. Declares Roosevelt   WILL CONTEOL ALL EFFORT POR CIVILIANS

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Top ‘Czar’ Job Given To Byrnes   President Name: Mobilization Arbiter

Byrnes Heads New Office Wan Mobilization    Judge. Fred M.. Vinson Takes Over Job as Eco: noniic Stabilization Director” ‘s

Generalissimo Of Mobilization Of Home Front   Stimson, Knox, Hopkins, Nelson And Vinson On War Mobilization Cabinet With Full Power To Iron Out Inter Agency Disputes.

FDR ESTABLISHES NEW OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION   To Be Headed By James F Byrnes, Former Economic Stabilization Director

BYRNES 10 HEAD UNIT   Super-Board Is Given Virtually Complete Home Front Power

BYRNES TO HEAD NEW WAR BOARD CREATED BY FDR   GIVEN NEW POWERS AS DIRECTOR OF WAR MOBILIZATION

SUPER-WAR GROUP _ HAS BEEN NAMED BY ROOSEVELT   Top Man In the New Agency Is Former Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes.

Office of Wat Mobilization Established    Will Develop . Plans for Maximum Lea af Reenureac ~

NewWar Oifiece Set Up   To Coordinate Natural, Industrial Resources

BYRNES WILL DIRECT HOME FRONT EFFORI   New ‘Agency To Unify Work of Existing Agencies’ In President’s Control.   VINSON’S ‘STABILIZER’   Kentucky Judge Takes Over Byrnes’ Old Job as Economics Director.

(Will Unify Programs And ‘Policies   Complete Powers Include Control of Resources, Manpower, Civilian Economy

Byrnes Becomes Home Front Czar   President Roosevelt Sets Up Office of War Mobilization

New Office ta Control All Phases of War Effert   WAR MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE SET UP

Great Powers _Given Byrnes _ By Presiden:   Former Justice is Made Director o « War Mobilization; Has Czar-Like Control as Head of Committee

START OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION   James Byrnes to  Head Powerful  PL ccs Ee dapihiiis iie

Far Greater Power Given Ex-Justice   Roosevelt Makes Him Boss of Many Agencies

Byrnes Given Vast Wartime Economic Job   FDR Delegates Wider Power to Ex-Jiulges  i Pee eg fhe

President Creates New Post With Unprecedented Power; Also Announces Special Cabinet

i resident Names Byrne: Home Front Super-Czar  Makes Him Director Of War Mobilization With Power Second Only to President  TO UNIFY ACTIVITIES

‘Former Justice Head of All Civilian Effort   Will Control Production, Transport and Manpower

Vinson Will Take Stabilizer Post   NEW “STREAMLINED” SETUP PLACES BYRNES IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF HOME FRONT WAR EFFORT; COMMITTEE NAMED BY PRESIDENT   Interprets Power

War Mobilization Office Created   Byrnes Leaves Stabilization Job To Head New Unit

: amed by Roosevelt   Given Virtually Fatal Au thority Over War on the  Home Front

BYRNES HEADS U.S. WAR UNIT   He'll Unify Agencies of Production, Supplies, Distribution

Given Unlimited Authority Over U. S. War Effort   Five-Man War Mobilization Committee Is Named to Aid Byrnes to Direct Produe-tion, Manpower and Civilian Supplies

Unified Programs and Policies  Will Be Sougth   Fred M. Vinson Will Be Economic Stabilization Director

FOR CREATES NEW WAR OFFICE   *  Byrnes to Have Power Over All Home Front Efforts

JAMES F. BYRNES GIVEN NEW POST UF ‘SUPER-CZAR   President Roosevelt Makes Him Director Of War Mobilization   WAR CABINET IS FORMED FROM CLOSEST ADVISERS

Will Unify War Efforts On Home Front   Presidential Appointee Has Powers Second ~ Only to Roosevelt

BYRNES IS MADE BOSS OVER U. §. ECONOMIC LIFE   Given Powers Greater Than Ever Wielded by an American Outside Office — of Presidency.   AUTHORITY TO VETO NELSON’S DECISIONS   He Also May Issue Orders to Other Government “Czars” —War Cabinet Set Up by F. D. R..-

Byrnes Is  Chairman   To Coordinate Military-Civil Needs of Nation

GROUP NAMED TO SUPERVISE NON-MILITAR}   All Agencies Under Control of New Executive

Byrnes Named Super-Czar On Home Front By FDR   Vast Wartime Controls Over Economic Life of Nation Given by Executive Order—-War Cabinet fe Named

Is Given _ Unlimited Authority:   WILL CONTROL VIRTUALLY: ALI ACTUAL MILITARY AFFAIRS *

FDR Names Byrnes — Super-Czar of Natio:   Vast Wartime Controls Over Economk Life Centered; New Post Created With Great Powers

Places In Him Wartime Control Over Nation’s Economic Life   Creates Post of Director Of . War Mobilizatiori And Appoints South Carolinian to.’ Position Of Suner-Czat

PRESIDENT NAMES MOBILIZATION ACE   James Byrnes Has Been Named as Mobilization Officer.

FDR Centralizes Over-All Authority In Newest Board   Manpower, Production Under Unit; Power Virtually Unlimited Except Over Actual Military Operations

MADE HEAD OF POWERFUL NEW OFFICE BY FOR   War Mobilization Office Is Given Sweeping Power Over War Effort.   FRED M. VINSON is. STABILIZATION CHIEF

Byrnes Appointed  Home Front Czar   President Says Time Has Come To:-Streamline Nation’s Efforts Toward Total War

JAMES F BYRNES TO DIRECT OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION   New Organization Will Have Authority Over War Effort On Entire  HUame Front ...

President Creates New Officer With Complete Control Of Home Front

THCAT, OCRRPRVATIONS   Americans Smash  At Kiska Island   Navy Also Lists Destruction of Il Japanese Surface  Craft.

Kiska Rocked With Six New Air Attacks   ‘Softening Up’ Raids Number 22 In Four Days

Stalin Pleased With American Help in War   Asks Full Support Of War Loan Drive

Russ Troops Open Drives In Five Key Areas Of Eastern Front, Berlin Reports

Russians Launeh Attacks In Five Main Sectors  ~ Germans Report Big Activity

Lower Prices for Some Foods Seen   Several Agencies Hasten to Comply With F. D. R. Order

SOME PRICES MAY DROP, IT IS INDICATED   Agencies Speed Work on _ Price, Wage and Job ‘ Curbs

FDR's Order Causes Major Repercussions   Byriies aiid President Tell of Plans to * Gavera Living Costs

OPA Drafts DollarAnd-Cents Ceilings On Some Ifems   Hope To Roll Back Prices In A Number OF Inetancac

Lowered Prices For Some Food Indicated  OPA Drafting Ceiling Limits for Many Feepntial Items

‘Lowered Prices For Some Foods Seen Under Order   Byrnes Says OPA To ‘Roll Back’ Costs  In Number of Cases NEW CEILINGS TODAY  Finance, Commodity Markets React

LOWERED FOOD PRICES SEEN AFTER ORDER   OPA Drafts Ceilings for Items To Carry Out FDR Inflation Plan   BYRNES SEES CHANGE IN ‘NUMBER OF CASES’

CUT IN SOME FOOD PRICES * 1S INDICATED   OPA Drafts Ceilings For Cost-of-Living Items

FOOD CEILING FREEZING MAY ~ LOWER PRICES   NEW LEVELS BEING MADE READY BY OPA

Agencies Hurry Draft Of Specific Ceilings In Line with Order Issued by President  WLB OFFICES TOLD TO STOP WAGE HIKES  McNutt and Aides Act To Implement Order Halting Job Shifting

CUT IN SOME FOOD PRICES 1S INDICATED   OPA Drafts Ceilings For Cost-of-Living Items   Manning Table Plan Is Explained by Draft Heads

OPA Drafts —  Price Ceilings   Lowered Prices Slated For Some Foods in  Line with FDR Order

Lower Prices In Foods as OPA Drafts Ceilings   Markets React Sharply to Presidential Edict to Halt Inflation

FOOD PRICE CUTS FORECAST IN WAKE OF EDR. ORDER   OPA Predicts Reductions as It Drafts Ceilings for Many Items Affecting Cost of Living.   EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF TOPS IS PROBABLE   Washington’s Reaction to Anti-Inflation Decree Is Mixed — Commodity Markets Tumble.

Expect Battle of Atlantic to Reach Peak in Spring, With Nazis Using 700 U-Boats Against Allied Convoys

U-BOAT FIGHT SEEN IN SPRING   7006 Nazi Subs Expected To Hit at Atlantic Ship Lanes

Move fo Halt Coast Toot Suit Rioting   Naval, Army, Civilian ! Authorities Act

Zoot Suit Fights Getting Serious   Army, Navy Increase Patrolmen on Duty

Action Taken to Halt Rioting  ‘Zoot Suiters’ and Military. Clech

ON SUBSIDIES   Action on Bill to Ban Payments is Being Delayed In House

TRUCE LIKELY ON SUBSIDIES   Action on Bill to Ban Pay. iments is Being Delayed In House

Coal Walkout Spreads Over Kentucky Pits   Nearly Four Thousand More Miners Quit Work; 22,000 Out In Alabama.   STRIKE UNAUTHORIZED

COAL STRIKES SPREAT IN KENTUCKY MINES   3,840 Miners Stop Work at Two Companies

—MINERS—  1 TOOKENTUCKY MINERS ARE IDLE   Lack Of Contract Seen ' Cause Of Spread Of Work Stoppage

KENTUCKY COAL MINERS LEAVE WORK TODAY   7,700 Miners Now Idle in Kentucky Coal Field.  Majority Alabama’s Miners rh

3840 Miners of Harlan, Ky. Quit Making Over 22,000 Striking Over United States

MORE COAL MINERS IN KENTUCKY FIELDS STRUCK ON FRIDAY   MAJORITY OF ALABAMA’: 22,000 UNION MINERS STILL ON STRIKE

Messina Falls  Without A Shot   Same Platoon That First En. tered Palermo, Duplicate At Messina   ITALIANS SURRENDER TO GENERAL PATTON

40,000 DEFY PLEDGE GIVEN BY PRESIDENT   Lewis Silently Allows Walkout Against Government to Start

IGNORE PLEDGES OF NO STOPPAGE GIVEN TO F.D.R.   Lewis Permits Walkout Despite Operations Under U.S. Flag

FOOD PARLE! PARLEY ~ HAS PROGRAM   FIVE OBJECTIVES DECIDED ON ___FOR. THE PRESENT MEETING: BEING HELD IN HOT SFRINGS a

RAF Raids Designed To Halt Flow Of Nazi Men And Materiel To Italy

BRITISH NIGHT RAIDERS JOIN BATTLE FOR ITALY   Berlin Raided For 80th  Time.

Polities Found. Ruling Nation   London Press . Is Critical “Of 02S) Labor Trouble And Complacence’

OWI Book Reveals Horror  Of ‘New Order’ in Poland   Brochure Focuses Attention of World On Appalling Plight of Conquered People Crushed Under Heel of Nazis

Reveal Nazi Plan Of Extermination   OWI Officials Tell Of Poland’s Fate

FLYNN WALKS CORRIDORS AS JURY DEBATES   ‘Going Nuts,’ Movie Actor Says, Waiting lor Verdict

U. 5. Secref Service Conducting Drive To Know Endorsers   Try To Prevent The ‘Theft And Forgery Of Government Check:

Nazi Bomb Wrecks Dance Hall, Inns in London  First Raid Causes Many Deaths; Anathear le liaktar

Germans Raid London Again   ‘Single Plane Breaks Through To Do Damane

LONDON DANCE HALL WRECKED BY NAZI BOMB   Number Of Allied Service Men Killed In Sundav Raid   NORTHERN FRANCE IS ATTACKED BY BRITISH

German Raiders Blast London   Three Speedy Planes Reported Destroyed

GERMAN PLANES AGAIN RAID LONDON   CASUALTIES HEAVY IN WRECKING OF 2 TAVERNS AND DANCE HALL SUNDAY.

TRAFFIC CASUALTIES DOWN HALF IN U, S.   Safety Council Reports Drop of 6,998 Deaths \

a le ee ee ee ee a  Bucks Poultrymen Fourth Largest Producers in 194

Jap Forces Retreating At Salween   Chinese Troops Capture Three More Villages

AFTER TUGWELL   Vandenberg Plans to Ask His Ouster From Puerto Rico.”

County Bond Sales Close to 2 Million   All Previous Records, for Speed in War Financing Smashed, Easley Says — Joplin’s Sales Alone Reach $1,500,000, Report Shows.

NOWORDFROM U.S, ARMY HEADS ON LATE GAINS   Last Official Communique Had U. S., French Troops 12 Miles from City

Mateur Falls: Nazis Retreat To New Lines   American, French Units Tighten Pressure On Africa Corp

SLAIN FLEEING GUADALCANAL   Jap Patrol Wiped Out: U. S. Flyers Hit Foe Bases in Solomons

Jap Patrol On Guadaleanal Is  Found, Killed   How It Came To Be There Is Not Disclosed In Cryptic Naval Communique

Small Jap Patrol On Guadalcanal Wiped Out By Americans Wednesday

Jap Patrol ‘Wiped Out   Officer and Eight Men Killed on Gauadalcanal; Reason for Patrol Unknowr

Americans  Wipe Out Jap Patrol   Guadalcanal Is  Scene Of Attack

Kill Jap Patrol On Guadalcanal  Officer And Eight Men Slain By Americans

WIPE OUT JAP PATROL   Sight Men and . An Officer Are Found on Guadalcanal

Americans Force Germans Back To  Tunisian Hills   Ist Army Also Beats  Counterattacks Of _ Nazis; Defense Is Stiffening

Wipe Out Jay Patrol On Guadalcanal   Nine Japs Discovered  25 Miles Weat OF Airfield

Jap Patrol Shot On Guadalcanal  Reason For Presence Undisclosed By Navy

Jap Patrol Wiped Out,  Guadalcanal   Navy Gives No Reason for Patrol Being Found on This Island

JAP CRUISER IS DAMAGED BY BOMBERS   Enemy Continues Its Attacks in New  Guinea Jungle

Allies Hit Ship In Celebes Raid   Much Damage Done In Second Longest Flight

Allied Bombers Stage Second Longest Raid of War by Land-Based Planes   Liberators Attack Macassar on Cealahec Teland

SMASH JAP SHIP IN LONG FLIGHT   Red Army Patrols. Successful In Series of Jobs at German Positions.

FIREMAN HURT IN FALL FROM TRUCK   Peter Bender, Jr. Taken to Hospital Following Accident

FIREMAN HURT IN “ALL FROM TRUCH   Peter Bender, Jr. Jr. Taken te  Hospital. yelp i Accident —~.

Measure Callinc Highway Bond Election Passes   Proposal on Midnight Closing of Bars in Military Areas Killed

Vatutin Forces Reach Point Ninety  Miles From Rostov   30-Mile Advance Made to Railroad Points; Russian Gains on Three Fronts Are Reported

Tank-Led Troops Gain 30 Miles, Capture Rail Station After Bloody Battle In Donets River Region

RUSSIAN GENERAL ADVANCES TROOPS ~ IN SUDDEN BLOW   ‘New Lines Are Within Strik ing Distance of RostovMoscow Railroad Junctior at Likhaya.   AREA OF 900 SQUARE MILES NOW CLEARED   Lorient, Important German  ’ Submarine Base, is Bomb ed Second Night, Big Firer Are Started.

DONETS RIVER NAZI DEFENSE LINE CRAGKEI   30 More Towns Engulfed In FastMoving Russ Offensive On Frigid Battlefields

BROKEN BY RED ARMY   Russians Crack Defense Line On Donets Front

Allies Seize 12 Air Strips   STRONG BRITISH MOBILE ARMORED COLUMN RACES 25 MILES THROUGH KESSELRING LINES; CLARK TAKES LIONI, CASTELNUOVO, MELFI

New Destruction Record Set as: 74 Planes. Lost   Eight-Day Blitz Ends with Total Bag of 269 Down

U.S. SETS NEW RECORD OF 74 PLANES DOWN   269 Nazi Fighters Destroyed in Eight Day Blitz

FLIERS WRECK OR DAMAGE 95 AXIS VESSELS   London Warns Italy Will ‘Strongly Resist’ An Invasion

Chicago Board Of Trade Trading Floor To Have iFirst Girl Messenger

NEW FLOOD DANGER   Flora . Expects Kaw ‘te Handle the Additional High Water

Downpours In East Refill All Streams   Flead Situation In Kaw And Missouri  Valleys Repeated

GERMAN CAPITAL IS HEAVILY RAIDED BY BRITISH BOMBERS  AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY LAUNCHES NEW OFFENSIVE IN ITALY

Gerken to Rest In Cathedral   Arc hbishop's Rites To Be Saturday

2,000 Tons Of Explosives Rock Capital   Fortresses Raid France And Paris Broadcasts Say That City Raided  AIRFIELDS TARGETS

RAF RESUMES BLASTING OF NAZI CENTERS   Hundreds Of British Bombers Unload Over Leverkusen Chemical Works And Rhineland War Plants   5 Bombers Lost

Berlin Pummeled By 700-Bombers In Greatest Raid   Reported To Be Twice Weight Of Any Ever Heaped On Capital

Air Assaults On Hitler Stepped Up   Rhineland Centers Hit by British; New Attacks Made

Allies Continue Raids on Europe   American Bombers Attack Continent

Destruction Rained Over Four-Square Mile Area; 58 Bombers Are Lost; Forivesses Blast Airfields

ALLIED AIRMEN WINGING OVER EUROPE. AGAIN   Silence Of Berlin Radio Indicates Bombers Busy

Seek Increase In Allowances   Bill Would Raise Allowance for Service Men's Children

URGES INCREASE IN ALLOWANCES   Reynolds Offers Bill: Backed by Army, Nav,

Army Allotments May Be Raised   Drafting of\F athers  Prompts Increase Bill

Increased Payments To Dependents Of Men In Armed Services Provided Fog In Bill Introduced By Senate Military Committee And Endorsed By Army-Navy Officials

Next Shoe Stamp Must Last 6 Months  OPA Says Military Drain Causes Cut

LONGER TIME BETWEEN NEW PAIRS OF SHOES   Six Months Is Set For Validity Period For Next New Ration Stamp

SUE RATIONING PERIOD CHANGED   Will Be Six Months Instead of Four Between New Pairs of Shoes; Ration Stamp 18 Extended

Shoe Rations fo Civilians Cut OPA Announces   ~No. 1 Stamp i in “Book 3 Must — Last 6 Months

CUT 1S ORDERED IN RATIONING SHOES   Six Months Between Issuance of Footwear Is Decreed

SHOE RATIONS CUT BY PRICE OFFICE   CIVILIANS MUST WAIT 6 MONTHS, INSTEAD OF 4, BETWEEN NEW PAIRS.

Shoe Ration Cut To Two for Year   Life of Stamp 18 Extended by OPA

CIVILIAN SHOE SUPPLY IS CUT   meneetmam eh  Military Needs Increase; Stamps Run 6 Months Instead Of 4

Authority Of W.LB. Defied By Head ()f Miner:   Lewis Refuses To Appear At Hearing Before W. L. B. At Washington  STAGE IS SET FOR COAL STRIKE

MINERS MAY LEAVE JOBS NEXT WEEK   WLB Calls Meeting t Take Up Dispute Over Wages

OBTH VARIETY ENDS AT HEINZ   ‘Brief Strike Over, Hund: reds Are Back At Work

Award Purple Heart Medals  For Bravery   Mothers Of Young Soldiers Receive Posthumous Honors

Award Purple Heart Medals For Bravery.  Mothers Of Young Soldiers Receive  Dothan: seal Raman

COAL CONTRACT MEET RESUMES   Operators and Miners in Effort to Break Deadlock

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM : BUREAU NEWS LETTE   (By County Extension Director)   Women May See Canning, Freezing  Ramnanstan$ian

JUNE 3 CAN-FREEZE DEMONSTRATION HERE   Frat, Tomatees, Vegetable to Be Canned, or Frosen, by Mian Nas. ters at College H, Ee. Boom

Agencies Halt in Fund Lul   F. R., CONGRESS VETO TUSSLE ON SUBSIDY MEASURE IS PREDICTED

Seek to Expedite Ohio Time Change   Legislators Ask ‘Emergency Clause

“TIME CHANGERS” IN ASSEMBLY HAVING A HOT TIME ON ISSIE   Bill Is Passed But Emergency Clause Is Omitted —Gray Amendment Voted Down.

TIME CHANGE DELAY SEEN IN ASSEMBLY   House Ready To Restore Emergency Clause In Measure

House Defeats Move To Kill Connally Bill   Indicates, a sentiment _for:strike-control  leg: islation; twenty strikes “in four months.

HOUSE VOTES DOWN MOVE TO KILL BILL   F. R. Expected to Act Soon to Halt Coal Strike

Parents of the Missing Organize co Effort to Get Official Information

PARENTS OF BOYS MISSING IN ACTION ASK INFORMATION - KANSAS CITY WOMAN  ” GETS ACTION ONLY BY APPEAT. TO QUEEN

Russia and Czecho-Slovakia Are Pledged To Fight Nazis, Satellites to Finish

WAACsS Take to Airplanes Like Thow Used to Take to Fancy Spring Hats

WAACS TAKING WELL TO DUTY IN AIR FORCE   Do not get much flying but handle planes in ground service

Local Women Will Take  Course In War Training   Enrollment Opens Here Today For Penn State College; Tuition-Free Instructions

Chaplin to Face Charges by Girl   Actor to Appear In Court Thursday

Japs Hold Big Raid On Bena Bena; Casualties Averted  Allies Return Blow By Sinking 12 Of Enemy’s Barges

Forty Jap planes raid Bena Bena   Four others hit at Port Moresby

Allied Planes Drop 24 Tons of Bombs on Wewak  Third Heavy Attack On Jap Supply Base North of Lae

Allies Pound Japanese Bases On New Guinea  Enemy Planes Cause Damage, Casualties In Wau Region

Nips Attempt New Raids In Australia Area  Allied Planes Hi Transport And  CQ nnhkine

WEWAK, JAP SUPPLY BASE, HIT HEAVILY   Allies Continue Stepped Up Attacl on Enemy’s New Guinea Stations.

TOLL OF WAR LOSSES RISES FOR ENEMIES   UNITED NATIONS ARE CLOSING IN FOR THE KILL

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Great Allied Victories Nearing On All Fronts Says Kirke Simpson

NEW HOURS.   Filling Stations Adopt 72-hour. week Schedule Saturday.

NEW HOURS.      Filling Stations Adopt. 72-hourweek Schedule: Saturi.

Cedar Chest Yields Body      tint of Shotgun Found in Columbus Home

BODY OF MAN FOUND STUFFED IN CEDAR CHEST   Columbus War Worker Killed Two Days Before Relative Makes Gruesome Find   DEATH WEAPON NOT FOUND   Wife Is Missing - - Not Seen Since Day Coroner Set as That of Killing

FIND BODY IN  CEDAR CHEST   Columbus Man Is Shot Ip Head; Wife Away Since Last Week.

HUNT SLAYER OF COLUMBUS MAN   Find Body in Chest He Gave His Wife for Christmas

COLUMBUS ¢ PROBE STRANG TRUNK MURD           Body of Man, 47, Found i Christmas Gift, Cedar Chest i

Cripps Urges Peace Plans  Be Laid Now   Fears Delay Will Loose Totalitarianism  On World

MISSISSIPPI SENATOR. ADVOCATES DEMOBILIZATION PAYMENT TO PERSONS IN ARMED SERVICE

FOR 4th TERM   Alaskan Democrats Endorse Roosevelt At Convention  .

Fourth Term   Move Recommending Unqualified Support Of FDR Withdrawn

UAW Endorses FR  For Fourth Term   Conditioned: On Administration Effort for Sound ‘and Progressive Pro: gram..Wallace Also En a pereeern ta

Knox Hints 1944 Jap Fleet Battle   Believes U. S. Units To Seek Them Out

Japanese Fleet Faces Showdown Sec. Knox Says   Predicts Pacific Battle during ‘44

More Than 50,000 Germons Killed in Of fensive  BOLKHOV {S TAKEN BY SOVIET ARMIES  Number of Villages Cap~ tured by Victorious Armies

BOLKHOVY IS TAKEN BY SOVIET ARMIES   Number of Villages Cap tured by Victorious Armies

Bolkhov Falls To Red Army After By-Pass   Berlin Terms Fight Greatest Battle of Alirition Ever Fought

Soviets Claim Nazis Have Lost 56.000   Bolkhov Falls in Big Drive and Whole Hitler Line Wavers

SOVIETS ENGULF Orel DEFENSES; BOLKHOV FALLS   Heavy Pressyre [s Main tained On Vital German  Defense Point   MILLIONS OF MEN REPORTED ENGAGED

LINES AROUND OREL PIERCED BY RED ARM)   OFFENSIVE COSTS GERMANS OVER 90,000 DEAD

Russian Armies Move Closer To Doomed Orel   6,000 Germans Captured In Day's Fighting

NAZIS LOSt STRONGPOIN] OF BOLKHO\   Russians, Moving On City From Three Sides, Score Gains of Four to Five Miles.   ENORMOUS TOLL TAKEN BY DRIVE   Moscow Reports 50,000 Germans Killed = and 6,000 Captured in Last Ten Days.

Reds Wipe Out Orel Defense Belt   Bolkhov Falls To Onrushing Russian Army

RUSSIANS. STRIKE BAM THREE SITES   Termed Greatest Battle of » Attrition Ever Fought   CASUALTIES HIGH   Reds Claim Successes in Belgorod Sector and Donets Basin in South

RUSSIAN ARMIES ENGULFING OREL AS NAZI DEFEAT LOOM!   More than 50,000 Germans Killed and 6,000 Cap. tured in Ten-Day Drive for Important Position

Red ForcesSmash Strong Nazi Fortiications North Of Strategic City of Ore   Soviet Non-Sto; 10-Day Drive Take: Toll of 50,00 Foe Lives; Many Villages Castured By Russians

Infantrymen Hampered By Mist, Fog. _   Advance ‘Follows: Artillery.Barraae.

U5. INFANTRYMEN FACED EXTREMELY HARD CONDITIONS  BATTLE WAY UP SLOPE!

Freedom Pledged To Filipinos On Japanese Defeat   Roosevelt Promises Philippines Independence “The Moment The Power of Enemies” Is Destroyed In Pacific

PHILIPPINES T0 BE INDEPENDENT FOLLOWING WAR   Roosevelt Speaks To People Of Islands In Anni wareary Ceremony   ACTION COUNTERS TOJO’S PROMISES

Full Independence Promised Filipinos by F.D.R. as Soon as Japs Are Defeated   Conquered Peoples Will Be Redeemed, Says President in Recorded Address; Remarks Counter Enemy Propaganda

FOR PLEDGES PHILIPPINES FULL FREEDOM   Republic Promised Soon As Japs Defeated

F.D.'R. Pledges Independence To Philippines   Will Be Granted as Soon as Japanese Foes Are Destroyed

FILIPINOS GET PROMISE ~ OF FULL INDEPENDENCE   The Moment The Power Of Our Japanese Enemies Is Destroyed:’’ Promise Made In Broadcast By The President

Filipinos Get Promise  Of Freedom  Roosevelt Vows   Roosevelt Vows Full Liberty When Japs Fall

F.D.R. Promises Independence to Filipinc People  Assures Them of Own Government when lanc

Full. Freedom Is Pledged By FDR To Philippines   Japanese Must Be Crushed First, He Says !n Broadcast

FREEDOM PLEDGED THE PHILIPPINES ON JAPS’ DEFEAT   Roosevelt Telis Islanders by Radio Full Independence Will Come Moment Enemy Is Destroyed.   STATEMENT COUNTERS PROMISE OF TOJO   President Says Assistance Will Be Given in Repairing Damage Caused by War.

FREEDOM FOR PHILIPPINES — REAFFIRMED BY ROOSEVELT   PRESIDENT IN BROADCAST. TO ISLANDS BAYS INDEPENDENCE WILL FOLLOW OUSTING OF JAPS

FIR ?romises 7 1 1in0 2e09. e 4u. “acepenc ance <1e ‘fomenower 0- Javanese ~es-rovec;

GRIP ON KHARK ov PUSH TO BRYANSK   Rampaging Armies Make Great Strides Toward Rie Nari Steanwhald: :

Russian Forces Are Hammering the Nazis on All Fronts.  KARACHEV TAKEN BY RED ARMY SUNDAY Soviets Hold Initiative: Can Now Switch Their Attacks.

SEEKS-1.0-END  Py b eg or es  LEBANON FIGHT   British Government Urges DeGaulle to Prevent Near East Violence

French Seek to End Lebanon Struggle As Disturbances Flare in Beirut

Catroux to Seek Settlement-of Lebanon Trouble  Disturbances Break Out in Beirut After French Make Arrezt«

FD Arbitratier Of Lebanese Dispute Asked   London Instructs Its Envoy to Take Matter Up With French Grou, —Moslem Ire Mounts

SEEKS 10 END LEBANON FIGHT   British Government Urges  _DeGaulle to Prevent Near East Violence

ZOUX DISPATCHED TROUBLED BEIRUT   1 Is Empowered By Be sie To Settle Rebellion In Little Republic

Britain Stirred By Situation In Near East   _Avpeals. tode Gaulle. _ ‘To Bring End: to Strife” - Between: French; Arabs

huoting Flares In Beirut, Mobs Are Fired Upon   DeGaulle General Se “nh ae Desi Re Ae 1

French Group Sends Officer to View Lebanese Disputes  DeGaulle Committee I: Active in Settling Nation’s Disturbance

Urge De Gaulle To Put End to Near East Feud   Rodsevelt Arbitration of _ Dispute Proposed by Cairo Paper

ltaltan Naval Base Of Spezia Bomb Target   Heavy Attack Is Made On Base Southeast Of Genoa Last Night   ATTACKS IN GERMANY ARE ALSO REPORTED

NAVY B AT SPEZIA ATTACKED   Big RAF Bombers From England Smash At Italian Harbor

Cabinet Boost Asked By Western G.O.P.   Additon of Secretary of Veteran Affairs Suggested; Demand Place for Returning Service Men

CHURCHILL EXPLAINS.   Says Bombing of Sub Bases on French Coast Is Necessary.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Defends Allied Bombing Raids of Nazi “Suh” Base

AP. ANSWERS U.S. GHARGES   Arguments on. Summary Judgement Motion to Be Heard July 8.

AP Prepares To Reply To Suit Of Government   Noyes’ Affidavit Contends Freedom Of Press Is Endangered.

Publishers File Affidavits Opposing Government's Trust Contention

File Affidavits In AP Case    Oppose Government Move for Summary Judgement in Case

’ AP PREPARED TO BATTLE LAWSUIT OF GOVERNMENT   Fight for a Free Press To Bi \ Waged Before Three Judges

, ASSOCIATED PRESS PREPARES TO FILE AFFIDAVITS IN CASE  GOVERNMENT ASKS SUM  MARY JUDGMENT IN ITS y SIT ACAINST ACENCY

Assoc. Press Ready to File Affidavits in Government Suit   Chicago Tribune’ and Others File Answers in Federal Court

AP FILING AFFIDAVITS IN OPPOSITION TO GOVT ANTITRUST SUIT   Chicago Tribune, A ~ Co-Defendant, Also to File Other Affidavits  In Cage

Nazi Base Stormed By Reds   Other Soviet Drives ‘Roli On Unhampered By German Forces

RING TIGHTENS ABOUT TRAPPED GERMAN FORCES   Chernishkovskaya Field Falls Leaving Jaws Of Prong Drive 30 Miles Apart   Much Booty Taken

Important Nazi Air Base Will Aid In Closing Jaws Of Second Pincers, Trapping 22 Divisions.

Reds Capture Air Base And Railroad Station West of Stalingrad  RED COLUMNS NOW ONLY 30 MILES APART  Offensive Rolls On Despite Continual Nazi Connter-AHacke

Reds Capture Big Nazi Base   Jaws Of Big Second Pincer _ Draws Closer At Stalinarad

IANS CONTINUE ADVANCES, THREATEN TO CLOSE NEW TRAP   Jaws of Second Pincers About Nazis At Stalingrad Driven Closer; German Losses Are Immense

Reds Take Naz *Air Base, Rail Depot in Trap  30 Miles Separate Jaws of Pincers;

Russians in Battle At Rostov   Stockholm Report Says Soviet Troep: Inside City; Red Drives on Several Lines Continue Unchecked

TRAP CLOSING ON NAZI ARMY IN STALINGRAD   GAP IS ONLY ABOUT 30 MILES BETWEEN RUSSIAN PINCERS

Caucasus Oil Saved in Push   Pincer Movement Stops German Drive on Rich Area

AUSOTANG CLAIM CAPTURE OF BIG NAZI AIR BASE   Two Arms of Pincers Now Apparently Separated by Gap of Only 30 Miles   REDS REPORT CAPTURE OF PLANES, SUPPLIES   Other Russian Army Units Drive Ahead Southwest and South of Stalingrad; Push On Toward Latvian Border On Central Front

‘Russians Save Oil Field, Take Big Air Base    Mozdok Falls To Reds In Caucasus Sweep Along Terek River; Capture Of Chernishkovskaya Tightens Trap

HALF-MILLION BOMBS AMONG BOOTY TAKEN   Quantity of Shells and 17 Planes Fall Into Hands of Reds as They Occupy Chernishkovskaya.   THREAT TO 22 NAZI DIVISIONS GROWS   Jaws of Second Pincers Closing on Germans in Stalingrad Area Driven Closer Together,

Reds Take 13 Towns   Desperate German Efforts To Halt Thrust Fail —

PINCERS ARE CLOSING UPON NAZI DIVISIONS   Railway Station Is Also Seized In Latest Advances Of Soviet Forces.

German Avir Base And Railway Station Taken   As Russian Pincers Close About Poor Remnants of Trapped Nazis Who Cling to Lines in Stalingrad Area

Sink 6 R-Boats And Damage 3   Only 3 Of 12 Nazi Craft Mahe Escape

Gripsholm To Depart Friday   American Repatriates Forced To Twiddle Thumbs at Mormungvao Another 24 Hours

NIP EXCHANGE SHIP LEAVES FOR JAPAN   Report Gripsholm Not To Sail Until Friday

Daniel Grady Will Serve As U. W. Regent   Portage Attorney Named  By Gov. Goodland To   Serve In Place Of Mrs.   Vergeront

Wisconsin Is Possible Target Of Attack By Japs, Asserts Grew In Talk At Milwaukee

Cites Danger In Wisconsin  @e «2 £8 82S Mg. ina?   State Held Potential Air Target

AOOAULT FORGE DADLY MAULED, FAIL TQ GAIN   27 Crack Nazi Tanks Knocked Qut, 500 Prisoners Taken By British

British Capture Troops   Allied Armies Whip As. sault—Dawn Arrives to Show No Gain

Canadians Push On For Pescara   Fifth Army Absorbs Tough Nazi Blows

ORTONA SEIZED BY CANADIAN FORCES   Italian Town Found in Ruins After EightDay Battle

PRESS DRIVE FOR PESCARA   Canadians Push on in Bad Weather After Capture Of Ortona

Canadians Push On For Pescara   Fifth Army Absorbs Tough Nazi Blows  By WES GALLAGHER

ORTONA SEIZED BY ’ CANADIAN FORCES      Italian Fown Found ir ' Ruins After EightDay Battle

Canadians Push Up Adriatic in Terrific Drive   Capture Ortona In Hard Battle

Town Now Piled High With Debris And Bodies Of Dead   i Full Seale German Attack On Town Of Ponte Fiume Repelled By Forces From Fifth Army

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Canadians Push On From Ortona   Advance on Pescara In Face of Storm

Ortona Falls To Canadians;  Rome Bombed   German Airdromes Hit; Nazis Say Bombs Fall  Near St: Peter’s Basilica

GREAT-DRIVE LAUNCHED TO SELL BONDS   Treasury Reveals $70 Billion Borrowing Program

SECOND BOND DRIVE OPENS WITH A BANC   AMERICANS CHIPPING IN THEIR MONEY TO CRUSH AXIS

Bond Sale Is Tremendous On First Day      AMERICANS, AS USUAL RESPOND TO COUNTRY’S CALL; DIG INTO JEANS, MATTRESSES AND TEAPOTS FOR CASH.   Not Savings Accounts

Americans Turning Billions of Dollars Into Ammunition To Help Uncle Sam Eliminate Hitler And His Stooges

New Bond Drive Gets Good Start In All Sections   Treasury Reports ' Tre. mendous Success on Opening Day

Drive Gets Off To Fine Start   Treasury Says Bond Effort Tremendous From Coast to Coast

WAR BOND DRIVE MEETS SUCCESS ON FIRST DAY   Treasury Is Pleased With Response Of Nation’s   aap, peered   MARYLAND’S QUOTA PUT AT $119,000,000

Navy Prepares to Smash Japs  Dozen New Aircraft Carriers Launched

New Carriers Get Task of Beating Japs   Naval Aviation Gets Set for Blows, Says Admiral McCain

12 NEW COMBAT PLANE CARRIERS NOW COMPLETED   Many “Baby Flat-Tops” Are Also In Action, Navy  Discloses

Plane Carrier Force Grows   Dozen Great Flat-Tops Built Since Pearl Harbo:

Many New Plane Carriers Ready To Battle Japs   Big and Small Ones Prepare for Action

Allied Columns Drive 65 Miles Up Eastern Coast   German Claims of Allied Evacuation of U.S. Fifth Army Not Confirmed; Strong Counter-attacks Hit Americans

However Seizure Of Bari By Allies Good  News   Enemy Throwing Elements of Three Divisions Against American Forces

Adjournment Hinges on Meets   Parties lo Caucus On Suggested Meeting OF Leaders

C 0 MPROMISE SOUGHT ON FILIBUSTER   Hopes for Early Adjourn. ment of Legislature Rest On Outcome of Party Caucuses   TAX JOB IN BALANCE

First Blow At Capital Of Bulgaria   Heavy Attack Designed To Disrupt Axis Traffic Over Entire Balkan Rail enw Swetans

Hit Rail Lines In Sofia Raid   First Air Attack On Bulgarian Capital Aimed At  Disrupting Balkan Traffic

Balkan Transportation Bottleneck Hit; Other Air Strafing Continues

Allied Fliers Blast Bulgar  Capital, Sofia   Ground Fighting in Italy Seesaws, as Nazis Press Counterattacks

American Airmen Pound Bulgarian Capital For First Time Sunday: Nazi Traffic Sit

Accuracy of Bombings Is Notably High   Ground Fighting Is Unchanged in Italy—Beat Off Counter-Attacks

Sofia Bombed For First Time By U. S. Planes   Blow Designed to Dislocate Traffic Over Whole Balkan Rail System.   Tons of Explosives Dropped on Capital

ATTACK MADE ON BULGARIAN CAPITAL TODAY   American Bombers Blast Railroads Along Border

gee’ oak Bene  Attack Bulgar Capifal City   Americans Hit at Sofia in Effort’ to Dislocate Traffic  Over Balkan Lines

Sofia Battered In Attempt To Disrupt Traffic   Other Targets Feel Allied Bombs; Major Battle Expected Soon

U.S. Fliers Hit Bulgarian Rail Terminus   Allies Repulse Nazi Attacks In Italy Battle

Yanks Bomb Sofia to Slow Traffic   Battle Lines In ltaly  Are Virtually Unchanged

Bulgarian Capital Blasted by Bombs   Balkan Rail System Attacked; Little Activity Today in Italy

BLAST TRAFFIC FAGILITIES AT BAIL CENTERS   Attack on Sofia Designed to _ Disrupt Entire Balkan Railway System.

FIRST AIR ATTACK WAS MADE ON SOFIA BY U. S. BOMBERS   The Raid Yesterday Was the First From the Algiers War Theatre   OTHER BOMBERS ACTIVE   Swept Into France For Their Third Attack on Important Railway Viaduct.

AMERICAN BOMBERS DISLOCATE TRAFFIC OVER BALKAN LINES   RAILWAY CENTER OF SOFIA BLASTED HEAVILY IN PRECISION ATTACK

Sofia Blasted as Allies Oper Balkan War   Fliers Push Through Fierce Interception to Smash at Railways

Medium Bo ‘   Allied Blows Designmihaite Dislocate Whole Bak Rail System        FRENCH RAILROADS HIT   Ground Fighting .in Italy Slows Slightly From Bad Weather

ITALY'S BATTLE LINE UNCHANGED   Air Blow Designed To Dislocate Balkan Rail  Tratfiece   ‘DOWN NINE. PLANES

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST RAILWAY YARDS AT SOFIA   Spokesman Says Successful Opening of Balkan Campaign Will Have Far Reaching Effects   AMERICANS REPEL GERMANS IN ITALY   Both Sides Consolidating Positions Building Up Reserves for Im pending Batlle

US. Bombs ‘On Capital . Of Bulgaria   Blow Designed to Dislocate Traffic Over Entire Rail  “Qustem in Ralkang

U_S. BOMBERS POUND BALKANS IN NEW RAIDS   Sofia Rocked by First Allied Attack; Nazi Rail Lines Hit

Bombers Visit Sofia Railway Yards Sunday   Blast Balkan Communica. tion Line: Nazi Planes Over Allies’ Lines

Down Nine German Fiehters in Raid on Railroads in Sofia   Mediterranean Airmen Also Hit Rail Targets in France; Land Fighting in Italy Near Standstill

North Italy City Of Lino Under Attack   Waves Of Mitchells Hit Bulgarian Capital; 5th, 8th Armies In Inconclusive Fight

Range Over § fia   Allied Blows Desi Dislocate Whole Bz  Rail System       FRENCH RAILROADS HIT   Ground: Fighting in Italy Slows Slightly From Bad Weather

Bulgarian Thrust Aimed At Nazi Supply System; Italian Lines Unchanged

AT BALKANS RAIL SYSTEN   All Transportation in $8. Ek. Europe Linked Up “With Shops, Depot and Yards Hit in Force by MIitehalls.

Two Big Formations Rip Up Heart Of Balkan Rail System   “Far Reaching Consequences” Ascribed To Raid In Which Americans Lose Only One Plane

Open Air Offensive In Balkans   Rip Up Key Nazi Railroad Lines Running Into Balkans

Bulgarian Capital Blasted In Move To Disrupt Balkan Railway System

Medium Bombers Range Over Sofia In Blow At Traffic Over Balkan Rail System—Other Aircraft Blast Routes In Southern France—Eighth Army Stages Successful Patrol Actions—Fifth Army Maintains Firm Defense—Major Battle Looms

Airmen Shatter Sofia   BALKAN RAIL SYSTEM TWISTED; GROUND LINES IN ITALY UNCHANGED

Blow On Sofia ofia Designed To Dislocate Traffic Over Whole Balkan Rail System; Other Bombers Take Third Crack At Cannes Viaduct.

Bombers In Wide Sweeps   Blast Nazi Communications; Little Change on Land

Both Sides Bring Up Reserves For Impending Major Battle In Italy; Germans Send Fighters Back To Battle After Long Absence

Yank Planes Raid Capital Of Bulgaria.   Supply Routes: Also Blasted in. France and Haly

War Bond Score   Raid Designed To Dislocate Traffic Over Balkan Rails

2 FORMATIONS OF PLANES HIT BULGARIAN CITY   Official Reports Show Bombing of Targets “Extremely Accurate”

American  Bombers Hit Sofia   First Air Attack On Bulgar Capital By Force in Italy.

CUPIAL DESENED TO BLOCK TRAFFIC   Would Dislocate Whole Balkan Railway System   BATTLE LINE IN. ITALY UNCHANGED

U.S. Bombers In Air Attack On Bulgaria   Capital of Sofia Hit; Battle Lines In Italy Unchanged

Railroad System In Balkan Capital Is Badly Dislocated   Third Crack is Taken at Important Anethor Viaduct Near Cannes in France, While Vital Harbor on West Coast of Italy is Also Attacked   SUCCESSFUL OPENING OF THE BALKAN OFFENSIVE

._-By Glenn Babb   PACERS TICS) © CE  Aerial Warfare Has Spectacular Results

Ur Citet Says This Is Pause Before The Storm, Citing Air Of Confidence In Londen And Other Allied Avcne

King Says Subs Will Be Licked   SomervellTells Chamber Army Not Hoardine

Blast Reich In Whipsaw Air Attack   Lash Out at Germany From North Africa — As Well As Britain;  Haven Hit Last Night

ALLIED BOMBERS IN GROSS-FIRE   Attacks Made from Britain And New African Bases

Red Army Is Making Gains In Orel Drive   Report Advance Of Four To Six Miles Liberating 130 Towns And Villages   NAZI RESISTANCE NOW DESPERATE

RUSS. ADVANCES. FREE 136 TOWNS ~ ON GREL: FRONT   Red Army Drive Gains Fcur to Six Miles Against Heavy Resistance.   FIGHT “IS -DESPERATE   Final “Assault on Orel Be Jieved Near—Losses. on Both Sides. Large.

nUOD AUVANGEO Face 138 TOWNO UN Gnich ran]   Red Army Drive Gains Fceur to Six Miles Against Heavy R:sistance.   FIGHT IS DESPERATE   Final Assault on Orel Be. lieved Near—Losses on Both Sides Large.

CAPITOL SHOWS FEAR OF LONG WAR WITH JAPS   Early Victory Hinges On Aid Sent MacArthur, Solons Believe   WARNINGS ARE CITED   Chandler Plans To Request Senate Order For More Strength In Pacific

Stimson Says Pacitic Zone To Get More Planes   Increasing Flow Of Supplies Being Sent To That Region, He Declares   WAR SECRETARY'S WEEKLY REVIEW

t. RICKENBACKER PRAISES RUSSIANS   Russia May Be World’s Greatest Democracy at End of War.

LESSN 4,000 JAPS LEFT ON GUADALCANAL   Lt. Col. Lewis Puller ‘Says Yanks Will Have No TrouLle cleaning Them Out OF Ielan’d.   8,000 Killed

No More Than 4,000 Japs Left On Guadaleanal   So Says Marine Officer On Return to U. S.; Cleanup ‘No Trouble’

ABOUT 4 ,000 JAPANESE ARE ON GUADALCANAL   Marine Officer Says That Approni. mately 11,000 Of Enemy Have Been Accounted For

4,000 Japs Left OnGuadaleanal   Marine Colonel Expects Enemy To Surrender

FDR Has Hope For Victory In 1944   Admiral Stark, Back From Warfront, Also Joins In. Cautiously implied Prediction ”

Turks Reported Ready To Fight German Hordes   May Soon Join United Nations

BEER OUTPUT UIP 3 PER CENT   Breweries Increase Pro duction Despite Curb On Malt

Invasion Proceeds According to Plan; Axis Loses Coast   Success Achieved in First Phases; Resistance of Enemy ‘Desperate’; Eventual Triumph Seen Assured

Communique Says Landing Proceeds According to Plan   Crack American, British, Canadian Troops Participate in First Great Blow ToLiberate Enslaved Lands

Men, Materials Continue to Pour Ashore on Island; Air Forces Batter Roads and Enemy Airdromes; Communique Reports Invaders Struck in Night

Desperate Resistance Seen  From Axis Units On Island  Allied Warships And Planes Deliver Heavy Barrane Lar 1 hdilee Inland Ta Aid Attack

Resistance Put — Down in 3 Hours As Drive Succeeds   Crack Allied Troops Seize Miles. of Beaches i din. Sudden Stroke Covered by Guns of Six Nevies; . Great Armada of Planes Meets Little Opposition

TAFT HITS HS. VICTORY CORPS   Studebaker Interrupted by Ohio Senater

VICTORY CORPS BRINGS GLAS   Senater Taft Opposed tec Granting of Federal Funds for Plan.

SHURIAUE OF ‘COAL FEARED. INTHENATION  Ick es Soys Serie 3 Situa tio n Will Grow   DEMAND FOR FUEL STILL 1S MOUNTING

COAL SITUATION GETTING WORSE   Need For Fuel In Italy Complicates Supply Problem In U.S.

CKES SAYS GOAL OUTLOOK (5 DARK   Cites Need to Furnish Coal to Military Services in Italy; Hesitates to Order 48-Hour Work Week

ICKES PONDERS 48-HOUR WEEK   Says Coal Situation : Bad Now And Will Become Worse In Winter

Need Fuel for Italian Operations  Coal Situation Is Bad Now And Getting Worse, Says Ickes

CRISIS LOOMS   Bad Situation “Is Going te Get Worse,” Secretary Ickes Declares

FORECAST OF SHOWERS   Biota Predicts Relief from the 100‘Devree Heat in Kansas

RAMIREZ FIRES ALL SIGNERS OF MANIFESTO   Argentina’s President Wants No “Tampering’

Argentine Employes Who  Signed Manifesto for Re  turn to Constitutional  * Doctrines “Fired”

Ramirez Fires All Who Protest His Dictatorship   Argentine Employes Who Signed Manifesto Lose Their Jobs

Reprisals Threaten Liberals   Moscow Frariey  Reds Ready To Discuss Political And War Issues

NAZI PRISONERS FLEE   Five Of Escaping Germans Sull Al Liberty In Texas

Two Of 5 Nazi: Fugitives Caught   Texas Officers Still Seeking Three

Two Escapees  Sull at Large   Five Other German Prisoners Who. Got Away from Camp in Texas Are Recantured

Tighter Gasoline Rationing Likely   Ickes to Confer With Congressmen

MEETING ON ’ GAS RATION   ICKES OFFERS TO DISCUSS PROPOSED. CHANGE WITH " MIDWESTERN CONGRESSMEN AT CHICAGO

WMC Views Tightening Situation   McNutt Still Believes a General Labor Draft Is Inevitable

WMC Studies  Labor Problem   May Bring Renewal of Support For National Service Legislation

American Comedians Send Birthday Greetings To No. 1 Public Enemy, Adolf Hitler:

“You've Lived Too Long, Adolf!’ Ils Theme — Of ‘Greetings’ to Hitler on His 54th Birthday

Congratulations on Last Birthday, Hitler    Americans Join in ‘Hate Parade’ as Hitler Celebrates His 54th Birthday,

HEIL HERR SCHICKELGRUBER! THE WORLD’LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, YOU AWFUL RASCAL YOU!   Civilized World Mourns Day of Hitler’s Birth Which Was 54 Years'Ago Today

Here’s to Schickelgruber, Head of ‘Hate Parade,’ With Best Insults From U.S. on 54th Birthda’

American “Greetings” Hope This Will Be A. Schickélgruber’s Last Birthday

FLIGHT SURGEON DECLARED CAFES “OUT-OF-BOUNDS”  COUNTY HEALTH DI RECTOR SAYS CHARGES MAY PRE EFITENTATER

FLIGHT SURGEON DEGLARED CAFES “OUT-OF-BOUNDS”  COUNTY HEALTH DIRECTOR SAYS CHARGE:

STRIKE AT COKE FIRM EXPANDING   Number of Pickets Growing as Federal Agents Investigate Stoppages.

PROBE COAL MINE STRIKES IN EAST   INVESTIGATION BY FEDERAL AGENTS I$ NOW IN PROGRESS

TROUBLE .AT MINES   Insurgent Strikers — Block Gates and Stop 500 Diggers

Oh Homme Front!   Ne EE NTE FN  "2  As U. S. Troops Invade Sicily, Pickets Close Caal Mine.

Pickets Stop Coal Miners   Insurgent Strikers Block Mine Gates In Spite of UMW ,Pleas

STRIKERS BLOCK GATES OF MINE: KEEP 500 AWAY   Insurgent Coal Miners Hold  Back Workers—Federal In vestigation of Stoppages Un. der Way

TRAFFIC REACHES NEW LOW RECORDS   Car Owners Are Garaging Their Autos.

War Dept. Soft With Claims On It   SUCH AS CHARGES FOR TRANSPORTING A DOG AND FOR AN EMPLOYE’S SET OF FALSE TEETH   “Wining And Dinino”

Wild Spending Ts Charged To War Dept.   OK’s Claims for Liquor, Juke Boxes, False Teeth, Aecounting Officer Save

KENTUCKY IN. GOP COLUMN   IREPUBLICAN ELECTED . Gov_ ERNOR AND MOST OF STATE’  WICKET MAY ALSO WIN

Chester C. Benson To Succeed H. E. Goertz   New County Extension Director Was Former Farmer and Teacher OF Schoo! Agriculture

FLYNN’S ATTORNEY, BITTER, WILL FIGHT AGAINST MISTRIA   Judge Calls Talkative Lady Jurors In For Talk

RIGHT OF A WOMAN TO TALK HOLDS UP FLYNN CASE TODAY   Prosecution Seeks Mistrial Because Females on Jury “Gabbed” Too Much.

JUDGE STUDIES MISTRIAL PLEA   Women Are Questioned About Out-Of-Court Statements In Flynn Case

Home slanted  Exceed Those In Armed Forces   Safety Council Calls For An Accident Decrease

 More Casualties On  Home Front Than  In Armed Services   State Capitol News Letter As’ Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Quimby Soldier Soldier Killed In Crash   Brother of Robert Totman of This City

Quimby Soldier _  Killed In Crash  ’ Brother of Robert Totman of This City

U.S. Infantry Takes on Nazi Tank Altack and Wins Out   Used Lone Anti-Tank Gun on Hill 41 to Repel 20 Tanks Which Attacked on Three Sides; Americans Hurled Hand Grenades at Advancing Armer Sciiing Then Afire

BY DON WHITEHEAD i Press Correspondent! Representing the Combined American Press«

INFANTRY BATTLES GERMAN TANKS WITH ONLY SINGLE GUN  HILL 41 IN SICILY HELD DESPITE INADEQUATE ARMAMENT

British Mideet Submarines Penetrate Hideout and Cripple Nazis’ Big Warship   Three Small Craft, Hitherto Undisclosed  Weapon. Missing From Attack That Apparently Immobilized the Tirviz

Midget Submarines, In Daring _ Raid, Damage Big Nazi Ship   British Vessels Penetrate Heavily Guarded Norwegian Fjord to Crippfe Mighty Battleship Tirpits— Three Raiders Lost

BRITISH MIDGET SUBS BLAST NAZI WARSHIP   Small Submarines Penetrate Heavily-Guard ed Norwegian Hideout To Cripple Battleship Tirpitz, Pride Of Fleet

British Midget Subs Cripple, Immobilize Powerful German Battleshin Tirnitz

Nazi Battleship Tirpitz Damaged In Daring Raid   Midget Submarines Torpedo Sea Giant

MIDGET SUBS CRIPPLE Bib GERMAN SHIP   Yirpitz Céncealed in Heavily Guarded Norwegian Hideout Attacked and Rendered Immobile.   1000 Miles Away

British Midget Subs Have Crippled Great Battleship Tirpitz   Airplane Rocket . Guns Came Too Late To Save Luftwaffe~

British ‘Baby’ Subs Put Tixpitz Out  Midgets Cripple   Midgets Cripple Big Nazi Ship In Norway Hideout

Subs Penetrate Norwegian Fjord  Midget British Ssubmersibles Damage Nazi W arship Tirpitz

Local Group To Leave Tuesday   Draft Board No. 1 Announces Names Of Those Called To Draft.

Group Is Leaving  Here Wednesday   Number From Hagerstown Going To Baltimore For Induction.

MANY LEAVING WEDNESDAY      Draft Board 1 Announces List Of Those To Be Inducted.

Name Accepted For Army, Navy   Local Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Of Inductees.

Many To Leave Here Tuesday   Local ‘Draft “Board “An nounces Names Of Those To Be Inducted. ‘

Local Inductee List Announced   Group Accepted December 6 For Service In Army And Navy.

GROUP LEAVES ON SATURDAY   Draft Board. No. 1. An. nounces Names Of Those Taking Finel Exams.

Local Inductee  List Announced   Three Branches Of Service Accept Nov. 24 Group.

Many To Leave Here Saturday   Draft Board 1 Announces List Leaving For Inductian.

“LIGHTNING” HITS TWICE IN FRANCE   Americans in Brace of Raids with Same Bomber

Fortress ‘Corn State Terror’  Honors Eagle Grove Pilot Who Raced Against Death For Home

DEATH IN SPITE OF LONG ODDS   Crew Renames Flying Fortress in Honor of Eagle Grove Pilot

Reveal Details Of Oct. 15 Bombing   Lt. Christensen Hero; Kenneth Homuth Was Plane Navioator

Rommel Loses I New Attack To Break Ring   21 Of 30 Armored Vehicles Smashed “In Futile Assault

ATTACK FAILS   Axis Attempt to Beat Back Allied Ring in Tunisia Repelled by Planes

Air Forces Pound Rommel, Convoys   Marshal’s Second Atte mpt To Beat Back Al. lied Ring Fails; Von Arnim Makes Three Frsten Local Assaults

RAF Forces Enemy To. Withdraw   Effort fo. Beat Sack Allied: Ring Around Germans Futile -

Rommel Attempt To Beat Back Allied Ring Fails   Air Forces Pound Axis Forces and Convoys While Al. , fies. Repufse Van Arnim in Northern Tunisia

RAF Forces Enemy To Withdraw  Effort fo Beat Bac Allied Ring Arour

Allied Ring Drawn Tighter  Marshal Rommel Fail ~ To Break Through

Rommel Fails Second Time  To Break Ring   Leaves Vehicles, Guns Wrecked on Battlefield Victims of RAF Attacks

Second Rommel Thrust at Allies Fails   Sweeping RAF Low-Level Bombing Attacks Force Axis Armored Units to Withdraw Leaving Wrecked Vehicles, Guns

Rommel Loses In New Attack To Break Ring  21 Of 30 Armored   21 Of 30 Armored Vehicles Smashed In Futile Assault

NAZI ATTEMPT TO BREAK UP RING CRUSHED   Armored Units Forced To Back Up After Heavy Losses; Arnim Is Repulsed   Sea Lanes Bombed

R. A. F. Bombers Defeat Second Rommel Atfemp   Three Axis Thrusts In North Tunisia Also Meet Failure

ALLIES REPULSE VON ARNIM IN NORTH TUNISIA   21 Wrecked Axis Vehicles Litter Battlefield; Convoy Is Attacked

Rowmel Fails In New Lunge  To Elude Trap   Low-Level Attack By RAF Takes Toll of Axis Arms

British Force Rommel’s Troops Back   Axis Units Suffer Heavy Losses in Tunisian Fichi

Rommel Fails To Break Ring Around Troops   RAF Forces Axis Lnits to Withdraw: Allies Repulse Foe In Northern Tunisia

ROMMEL FAILS T0 BEAT BACK ALLIED RING   Aerial Attack by RAF Forces German Armored Units to Withdraw from Krar Rhi lane   Loses 21 Vehicles

ROMMEL ATTACK ON CLOSING TRAP IS BEATEN BAGK   Allied Planes Bomb His Troops and Force Their Withdrawal From Ksar Rhilane.   21 VEHICLES AND 7% GUNS ARE WRECKED   Von Arnim’s Forces Repulsed in North Tunisia—Hour of Showdown Draws ° Nearer.

AXIS ARMORED UNITS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   ROMMEL’S ATTEMPT TO BREAK ALLIED  RING FAILS

Dill and Arnold Have Talked With Chiang Kai-shek   Concerted Action Against Japs Plannec By United Nations

Eisenhower Nominated Full General   Arnold And Dill Confer With Chia  Concerted Offensive Against Japs Hinted

United Nations Agree On Drive  In Far Pacific   Pledge Cooperation In  Recent War Conferences

MANY JAPANESE KILLED IN DRIVE AT SALAMAUA   RAF Planes Cary Bombs To Burma In Two-Hundred itwile Sweep

OFFENSIVE IN PACIFIC AREA   Dill, Arnold Confer with Chiang Kai Shek, Wavell to Meet Mac. Arthur—Gains in N. Guinea

LEADERS TALK WITH KAI-SHEK, WAVELL OF INDIF   Delayed Dispatch Tells Story of How Long Battle of Guadalcanal Came to End.

“American and British Military Leaders Met China’s  Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in Chunking To Coordinate Plans It Is Revealed as Allies Continue   To Mop-up Nips on Pacific Islands

U. S.. British Leaders Meet With Kai-Shek   Plans For Concerted Action Against Nips Agreed On at Vital Session

Arnold And Dill Hold Conferences With Gen. Chiang On Strategy Against Japs; Further Discussions Are Scheduled Between MacArthur And Wavell

Concerted Allied Drive Against Japan Possible   High-ranking United Nations Leaders Agree or ‘Offensive Plans’

Yank, British Leaders Meet  With Kai-Shel   Field Marshal Dill, Lt. Gen. Arnold In Conference, Agree On Offensive.   DRIVE FOR SALAMAUA

UNITED NATIONS DRIVE SOON T0 BE RELEASED IN PACIFIC; CHIEFTAINS AGREE ON PLANS

Allied Drive Against Japs Is Expeeted   Plans for Offensive Reported To Have Been Made by American, British and Chi. nese Military Leaders

Concerted United Nations Drive Against Japan Looms Series Of Important Conferences Of  Wikktary Mon Procagcesc Things Ta Came

DRIVE ON JAPAN ~ FORESHADOWED   Jirited Nations’ Officers Confer; Allies Gain on New Guinea *.

FAR: PACIFIC OFFENSE SEEN TAKING SHAPE   American; -British, “Chinese Leaders © Confer .””

UNTo Deliver Heavier Blows Against Japs   High-Ranking US, British and Chinese Military Leaders Meet and Agree on Offen  sive Plans

U. Ss. British, Chinese Military Leaders Map Offensive  FROM CHINA: BASES Yanks Outflank Nippons  To Take Guadalcanal, - General Says

UNITED NATIONS CHART CAMPAIGN TO BLAST JAPS   U. S., British And Chinese Military Powers in Accord on Offensive

NEW POWER TO BE. TURNED ON JAPS   Concerted Offensive Expected After Conference of Leaders,   WAVELL TO CONFER WITH MacARTHUR

HEAVY. ATTAGKS AGAINGT JAP ARE INDICATED   American, British, Chinese Leaders Discuss Plans For Concerted Drive

Allied Council Maps Jap Plans   High-Ranking Officials Meet with Chinese! Military Leaders to Lay Strategy for New  Offensive Against Enemy in Pacific 

CHIANG AND ALLIES CONFER ON PLANS FOR DRIVE ON JAPS   Churchill Tells Parliament Dill and Arnold Conferred With Generalissimo at Chungking.

United Nations Map Concerted Smash At Japs   U. S., British, Chinese Leaders Agree On Of faneive Plane

ALLIED MILITARY LEADERS MEET AND AGREE ON “OFFENSIVE PLANS” AGAINST JAPS IN PACIFIC THEATRE :   British, American Officials Meet With Chino Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek And Agree on Fully Coordinated Offensive. Chiang Kai-she Satisfied With Strong Additional Help Promise

Allied Leaders Meet In Pacific   Agree On Concerted Offensive Against Japanese

Offensive Plans Against Japs Mapped   Allied Generals Meet: With Chiang Kai-shek

Allies Gradually Blasting Japs Out of Munda:      -to-Pravent Aid ‘From . Reing Given Base _: -

ATTACKS ON MUNDA AIRBASE CONTINUE   Methodical B Blasting of Japanese Forces Car.. ried On ~~

Yankees Blast Japs Out of Foxholes In Munda District  Methodical Pounding Used to Drive Foes From Defense Positions

Battle of Munda Settles Down to Blasting of Japs — Gut of Foxholes, Bunkers

Battle of Munda Settles Down to Blasting of Japs Out of Foxholes   United States Air Force Continues To Pound Shipping and Enemy Airdromes

American Plane: Pound at Jap — ‘Base, Shipping   Battle for Munda: Appears to Be Settling Down to Methodical Blasting of Nipponese Defenders From Their-Foxhole:

Yankees Blast Japs Out of Foxholes In Munda District  Methodical Pounding Used to Drive Foes

Slow But Sure Tactics Used Against Munda  Shipping, Airdrome: Are Smashed By Allied Raiders

BLAST JAPS FROM POINTS NEAR MUNDAS   U. 3. Airforce Continues Tc  Pound Shipping And Airdromes Which Might Be Useful To Enemy   Destroy darges

Yanks Pour Shell Blasi On Munda   U. S. Air Force Sinks Jap Ship Off New Georgia.

MUNDA BATTLE SETTLES DOWN TO SLOW GRIND   Americans Blasting Japs Out Of Foxholes; 2 Large Barges Destroyed   Buka Airdromes Hit

American Flyers Pound Japanese Bases, Shipping   Methodically Blast  Enemy Forces in

All Attempts By Japs To Reinforce Garrison Fail   Enemy Ship Losses Reach 13 to 17 Before Sharp-Shooting Gunners Of The US. Navy

Munda Battle Settles Down To Siege  Planes Blast at Japs,   Planes Blast at Japs, But Ground Activity Appears Tapered Off  JAP BARGES SUNK

JAP STRONGPOINTS ON MUNBA BOMBED   SHIPPING AND AIRDROMES ENEMY MIGHT USE UNDER ATTACK FRBOM SKIES.

MINE OPERATIONS PICK UP SLOWLY   MINERS STRAGGLE BACK TO WORK IN EASTERN FIELDS

STRIKING COAL IMINERS SLOWLY RETURN TO PITS   ‘Walkouts. in Some Sections  and Fact That Thousands  Still Hold Out For Higher  Wages Darkens Picture

More Coal Miners Back To Work   139,000 Men Still Idle, But Return Movement Shows a Definite Gain

‘ALL KENTUCKY MINERS BACK ON THE JOB   Few Sporadic Walkouts In Other Sections. Thousands Still Holding Out in Penn. and Ala.

All Miners Back on Job In Kentucky   Thousands Still Hold Out in Pennsylvania and Alabama

All Kentucky ‘Miners Back *) Work   Few Sporadic Walkouts in  - Other Sections Of Nation

Officials Expect All Will Gradually Resume Work; More Than 100,000 Out

Minority Unit May Alte Fulbright Peace Plan   ‘Republican Demands for Reservations Forecast Revision of Measure Refore Securine Approval of House

Fulbright Plan May Be Revised   G. O. P. Reservations Seen as Big Factor

FUTURE PEACE RESERV ATIONS MAY BE ASKED   Post-War Resolution Ti Come Up For House Vote; Insertion  May Be Added

Reservations Demanded For Peace Resolution   Republican Demands May Force Revision As Action Comes Up For Honce Vate Tadav   TO BE FIRST TEST ON FOREIGN POLICY

R ESERVATIONS IN RESOLUTION UN PEACE SEEN   House Republicans Expected to Force Some Changes

Republicans May Cause Revision In Fulbright Peace Resolution   Guarantee that Constitutional Processes Be Observed Is Demanded

“lobal U.S. Issue Up In House Today   REPUBLICANS WOULD SAFEGUARD SOVEREIGNTY OF THE UNITED STATES IN ANY INTRWATIONAL ENGAGEMENT.   ‘New Deal Proposes Gag

Revised Peace Resolution Up ~—For House Vote   Republican Demand for Reservations May Chanae Measure

ace Resolution anges Reach owdown Stage  louse Committee Meet: Today to Consider

RAF Hits Nazi  Submarine Bases   Double Blow Aimed At Lorient, St. Nazaire

BLAST 2 GERMAN U-BOAT BASES   Strike in Force at Lorient, St. Nazaire

ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBS LORIENT AND ST. NAZAIR   German Submarine Bases on French Atlantic Coast Raided Again; Two js papeand pear Mitecinag 

BRITISH BOMB ST, NAZAIRE, -BOAT BASE   Lorient Also Blasted by R. A. F. in Attacks On Sub Pens

British Bombers Return To Nazi Submarine Bases    Lorient, St. Nazaire Struck in Double Blow,  Ending Four-Day Lull Forced by  H Weather

German U-Boat Bases Bombed In RAF Raids   Lorient And St. Nazaire Are Rocked In Attack During Night

BRITISH BOMBERS STRIKE NAZI SUB CENTERS IN FORCE   Only Two RAF Planes Lost In Raids Over Lorient And -St. Nazaire  Last Night °

BIG PLANES SMASH AT SUB BASES   Only 2 British Craft g@ Reported Lost In Heavy Attacks

RAF HA  NAZI SUB BASES   Resumes Night Attacks In Heavy Raids On France.

DAUTOM OTRIAE “AT NAZ BOAT BASES INFRENCE  Lorient, St. Nozaire Targets Of R.A.F. Last Night   -FOUR-NIGHT LULL IN i OPERATIONS ENDED

R.A.F. RAIDS MAJOR NAZI ‘SUB’ BASES   Heavy Shower Of Bombs Reined On St. Nazaire, Lorient

ST. NAZAIRE AND LORIENT U-BOAT BASES BOMBED   Anglo-American Aerial Offensive Is Resumed As Weather Improves.

Worse Than Bombing Tokyo—  Crowded Chinese Plane Ride Scared Doolittle

ASKS LENIENT CROP CONTROLS   Artificial Planning Is Rapped by Senator-Elect Revercomb

Will Be Sworn in as Senator Wednesday; Says Restraint Placed on Farmers Should Be Eased Quickly

RESTAURANT PRICES FROZEN AT DAYTON   OPA Issues es Order Effective Saturday

RESTAURANT PRICES IN DAYTON FROZEN   Quality and Quantity Not To Be Sacrificed

First Resistance Seen Since Tunisia Defeat:  RAF Again Raid Berli

AMERICANS RUN INTO OPPOSITION IN ITALIAN RAIDS   But 73 Enemy Planes are Wrecked In Sicily Attank.

At Least 73 Axis Planes Destroyed Over Mediterranean   U. S. Squadrons Meet Strong  Ate Dastselbamae

Yanks Destroy 73 Planes in Raids on italy   Down 29 in Fight, 44 on Airfields 

STRONG RESISTANCE FROM ENEMY IN AIR _ S MET ON ISLANDS   Squadrons Hammering at Stepping Stones to Italy Are Bitterly Opposed.

AT LEAST 73 ENEMY. PLANES DESTROYED IN ITALY ISLANDS      4 Axis Airfields In Sicily, And Sardinia Targets Of African Based  Plane: ‘

Italian Raiders Meet Resistance   Fortresses, Other Planes Blast Axis

AXIS RESISTS AS AMERICANS BOMB ITALIAN CENTERS   73 Enemy Pianes Destroyed  “In Raids on Sardinia and Sicily, African Headquarters Says.   RAF BOMBS BERLIN FOUR TIMES IN WEEK   Russian Planes, Artillerymen Destroy 23 German Defense Positions Under Very Heavy Pressure.

AXIS AIRMEN PUTTING UP DESIST ANCE   But Americans Shoot Down 75 Planes in Fights

U.S. AIRMEN DESTROY 73 AXIS PLANES   Meet Strong Air Resistance In Raid On Sardinia

OFFICERS ELECTED AT CHURCH SESSION   United Brethren In Christ, Meeting In Johnstown— 107th Gathering

REV. BUNGARD. -NEW SEGRETAR'   United Brethren Confer ence in Johnstown Blaction

Interpreting  The War   Nazis May Have More Somber Story to Tell Folks at Home

interpreting “Tne War NGWs «wer  , Larger Trap Seen ‘Forming For Nazis

Air Activity Mounts in Fight For North Africa   American, British Troops Squeeze Vise on Rommel

Sardinian Port of Cagliari And Three Airdromes Hit, 14 Fighter Planes Downed— Meanwhile Yank, British Armies Put Pressure on Enemy’s Retreating Troops In Tunisia.

BRITISH AND YANK TROOPS APPLYING SQUEEZE ON NAZIS   Hundred BombersBlasting Sardinian Port And Airdromes   CUTTING ESCAPE ROUTE OF ROMMEL

ALLIES SMASH AT ROMMEL'S SUPPLY LINES   British And American Troopg Squeeze Vise Tighter On : Afrika Korps   BATTLE NEARING CLIMAX   First Army Moves Nearer Ble zerte, Narrowing Possible i Escape Route 4  w

FIVE MERCHANT SHIPS HIT AND BIG FIRES SET   Nearly One Hundred Bombers Make. Up Attacking Farce, Greatest Ever: Massed   STH ARMY ATTACKS” REAR GUARD OF FOE   Yankees’ Junction With  British Near Despite:  Handicap of Deep *: Mine Fields

Vise Squeezed lighter Around Axis In Africa  U. S. Bombers Blast Sardinia Without Lace OF Plane

BRITISH, AMERICAN TROOPS SQUEEZED AXIS VISE TIGHTER - ROMMEL’S REAR GUARD‘  DIG IN ON COASTAL HICHWAY TO SEAY

5 Merchant Ships, 21 Smaller c raft Hut; Fires Spread Across Acres Of Industrial Tarcets   Every American Plane Returns; British And U.S. Troops Closing In On Axis Forces; Enenty Sets Up New Defense Line Near Oudref

Yanks Smash Port, Damage 26 Vessels   Record Fortress Mass Blow Staged; Mine Fields Hinder Patton Advance

Allies Mass Air Forces to Maul  Ships, Airfields   Marshal Rommel Sets Up a Defense Line 24 Miles North of Gabes.   Rome Says Battle in Africa Near a Climax

BATTERED BY ‘FORTS’   100 Big U. S. Bombers Attack Enemy Ships At Cagliari

Nearly 100 Fortresses Blast Shipping and Air Fields in Sardinia   Montgomery’s Patrols Begin Skirmishes With Rommel’s Rear Guards — Patton’s Men Encounter Mine Fields— Anderson Troops Push On Forward in the North

British 24 Miles Above Gabes Gap   Fortresses Spread Destruction On Sardinia: British First Army Still Advancing

100 BI7's Cripple Cagliari Port; Allies Tighten Vise; Rommel Digs New Line

Skirmishes 24 Miles North of Port Highlight Axis Retreat—100 U. S. Bombers Cripple Italian Base, Three Airdromes

5 MERCHANTMEN, OTHER VESSELS HIT IN ATTACK   NEARLY 100 U. S. FORTRESSES TAKE PART IN PORT ASSAULT

ROMMEL DIGS IN TO NORTH OF GABES   Americans Pushing Eastward in Fl Guetaria Pace Area

U. 5. BOMBERS IN HEAVY RAID ON SARDINIA   8th Army About 24 Miles North Of Gabes  Sits i mwa as   Of Americans And British Appears Near: 31 Nazi Planes Shot Down

ROMMEL MAKES STAND ON ROAD NORTH OF GABES   Americans Fight Closer To Junction With Men Of Eighth Army

BRITISH-AMERIGANS TROOPS TIGHTEN VICE ON THE AXIS   Largest Single Force of U. S. Flying Fortresses Ever Massed, Blast Shipping.   AIRFIELDS ALSO SHAKEN   Nearly 100 Fortresses Struck Yesterday at the Sardenia Port of Cagliari.

Yanks Deal Hard Blow to Rommel’s Hopes for Aid With Raid on Supply Port

Try To Wreek Axis Hope To  Flee Tunisia   8th Army Moves Ahead, Skirmish With Enemy Rearguards Dug In Above Bottleneck

TWO IN THE HOSPITAL   Mr. and Mrs.. Harold Johnson In’  Jured in Auto Accident

Aerial Attacks Feature Action in New Guinea   Forces Regrouped for Drive on Sanananda; Japs Send Ships to Aid Guadalcanal Troops

Air Attacks  Feature Pacific War   Allied Troojs Are Regrouped to Attack Scnananda

Lae, Other Enemy Bases Are Lashed   Japs Pretty Well Cleaned Out of Buna Area—Push On Sananandn Naan

House Committee Rejects Senate Bill   Stabilization Measure Held Up

MOSCOW CLAIMS GERMANS WILL BE ANNIHILATED IN NEXT FEW DAYS   Military Experts Think the Nazis Stand To Lose At Least 100,000 Men In Southern Rus-

RUSSIANS PURSUE  FLEEING NAZIS   Battle of Krivoi Rog Is Stil Raging

‘Great Battle of Krivoi  Rog Is Still in Progress.  GERMANS RETREAT WITH GREAT SPEED  Russians Are Keeping Silent About Crimea  é ‘ Campaign,

J.d, GAGUALTIES PLAGED AT 91 00   *hilippine Campaign Most Expensive Of War Thus  Far For Nation

[U.S ARMY'S TOTAL CASUALTIES TO DATE IN WORLD WAR II SET BY SECRETARY STIMSON AT 63,958

U.S, CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED AS 87,304 THURSDAY   Philippine Campaign Held As Being the Most Expensive in Losses  So-Far, -—~:--—-

CASUALTIES IN ENTIRE WAR 10 DATE PUBLISHED      Grand Total Of All Armed Serv» ices To Date Is 00.860

U.S. Casualties Total 90,860   Army Hit ‘Hit Hardest.  Stimson Reveals

TOTAL CASUALTIES ENTIRE WAR GIVEN   Army and Navy Total Is Ninety Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty Now.

ALLIES COULD NOT HAVE HIT VATICAN   Eisenhower Says Planes No Nearer than 28 Kilometers; Report Seeing Lone- Plane

Must’ve Been Nazi Plane Over Rome    State Department Hints Germans Bombed Vatican

Admiral King Points Out ‘Meaning Of Shifting Powe  No Change !s Made In Plans To Defeat Hitler

JAPAN TALE) VAST ATTACK KING STATES  Admir al Reveals eals Plans for   oe. + 4 ae ee   Admiral Reveals Plans for Full Offensive During 1944   FALL OF GERMANY SEEN DURING 1944

KING PROMISES HUGE 1944 DRIVE AGAINST JAPAN   Admiral Discloses Plans to Shift Power From Atlantic to Pacific Before Germany Falls.   STRATEGY FOR VICTORY ALREADY DETERMINED   Commander Doubts Nipponese Can Launch Offensive Due to Their Short age of Shipping.

JAPAN FACES VAST ATTACK KING STATES   Admiral Reveals Plans for Full Offensive During 1944  FALL OF GERMANY SEEN DURING 1944  Program Already Laid for the Shifting of  Power

Shift In Power To Pacific Near   Tremendous Blows Planned For 1944  Ry WAMILTON W. FARON

Shift In Power To Pacific Near   Tremendous Blows Planned For 1944

China Reports Japs Girding For Big Move   Spokesman Declares a Enemy Plan Is To Mop Up One Area At Time

Register For “A”  Gas Books. Now   ‘Registration Will Con.  tinue Through Thurs day of This Weck.

REVEAL NEW U.S, SECRET WEAPON   Has Power of 155MM, Can Be Assembled in Three Minutes

America's Secret Weapon Is Holding Its Own in All Major War Theaters

Roosevelt Sees Possible End To War in 1944   President Gives Out Hopes Based onSummary of Progress  bv Adm. Stark

U. S. Offensive Striking Power Takes Initiative   Shoe On Other Foot Now; Japs Thrown Into Defensive Position

Large German Coa! Mines Out of Production After RAF Bombing of Ruhr Area

F.D.R. Rejects: Plea To Name ‘Czar For Food   Also says no one has offered better suggestion than ‘the _ re ‘subsidies.””

YANGIZE RIVER DRIVE OPENED   Jap Force Concentrated In Ichang Area Of Hupeh Front

AKRON AIRMAN IS AWARDED D. F.C.   Staff Set, L, Rademacher Was Severely Wounded In Action Over India

COURT REVIEWS STEPHAN PLEA   Convioted Traitor Slated To Hang July 2

HEAR ABOUT TRIP   President's Family Kept Him Uj Until After Midnight

Grade Labeling Plan Scrapped   Brown Retreats From Henderson Policy

Figure Nazis to Make Bitter Stand at Pas:   'Bern Sources Indicate Delaying Actior  Up Through Italy to Bren-

Indications Appear  Germans Plan  Delaying in Italy Occupation by Allies  Would’ Endanger Every Reich City

Soviet Envoy ToLondon Says Action Expected   Churchill’s Pessimism May Be Hint of Delay Of Allied Invasion

EXPECT UTMOST   Reds Want U. S., Britain To Act tn ‘Nearest Euetura?

Soviet Envoy Says Russia Expects Allies to Exert Maximum Effort Against Enemy in Nearest Future

pag Expected To Lead United Nation—— =——By Glenn Bal  ‘Changes In India Clear Way In Pacific War

Mrs. Roosevelt Talks to Women   Meeting Held in Wellinaton, N. Z.

ALLOTT EXTRA MONEY      Additional Funds for Food Produce tion Loans in 24 States

BATTLE REPORTED — IN SICILIAN STRAITS   British Destroyers Said to Be Engaged With Axis Warships BHecortine Convay.

Treasury Planning Another Drive For Victory Loans  Nine Billion Minimur   Nine Billion Minimun Set as Goal to Help Curb Inflation

NINE BILLION IS SET AS GOAL FOR SECOND WAR LOAN   Treasury Officials, Federal Reserve Board Members to Hold Conference to Plan Patails_   DECEMBER LOAN WAS — GREATLY OVER QUOT!   Wider Buying of Government Securities Being Asked to Keep Down Inflationary Pressures.

Treasury Planning Another Drive For Victory Loans  Nine Billion Minimur Set as Goal to Help Curb Inflation

Treasury Plans  New Victory Loan  9 Billion Sought For War Effort

“OFNEXTULS. LOAN DalVE   Greater Victory Goal To Be Aim For ‘Campaign

Lhe War I oday— American Planes Play Major Part In Hurling Back Japs Along Yangtze

The War Today   U. S. Fliers Play Big Part In Chiane’s Counterdrive

China Still Faces Menace Despite Recent Successes   New Offensives  Believed Mapped

IRECENT SUCCESSES OF CHINESE ‘TROOPS AGAINST JAPANESE DOES INOT MEAN CHINA DANCER FREE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Airpower In China Wroves Good Substitute For Big Land Force

Enemy Moves North by Land Knox Asserts   Barges Which Have Also Been Used by © Japs Have Been  Attacked by Yanks

JAPS EVACUATING SOUTHERN PART OF BOUGAINVILLE   Indications Point That General MacArthur Is About Ready To Speed Offensive Against Rabaul.

JAPANESE ARE MOVING NORTI   Nips Evacuating Southerr Bougainville—Knox

Quit Southern Bouaainville.         my 9. North on Island, Secretary States

Knox Says Japs Leaving island   Secretary Tells About Enemy Retreat In Pacifie

EVACUATION BY LAND AND SEA NOW UNDERWAY   Barges Carrying Nips  From Untenable Area   Subjected to. Heavy  Attack by Allies   U.S. GRIP ON NEW BRITAIN TIGHTENS   Sixth Army Expands Six!  Miles From Cape Merkus  i Beachhead to Take.   “Arawe Air Strip

Thinks Japs Are Quitting Southern Bougainville   Knox Says There's Evidence They Are Gathering Forces In Northern Sector

JAPS APPEAR T0 BF QUITTING MOST OF BOUGAINVILLE   Southern Part of Island Toc - Hot.for Nips Who Board Barnes.

Japs Evacuating Southern Portion (f Bougainville   Secretary Knox Announces Enemy Being Forced Back On Island   HUGE AIR ATTACKS IN PACIFIC SECTOR

JAP GOES NORTH ON BOUGAINVILLE   Foe Concentrating Forces as U. S. Knocks Out All Air Bases

Japs Fleeing Part Of Island   Trying to Concentrate In North Bougainville

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Japanese Evacuating Southern End. Bougainville Island

Yanks Capture Arawe Airstri  In 6-Mile Push   Aussie Tanks And Artillery Cross New Guinea River In Parsuit Of Japanese

JAPS SHOW SIGNS OF ABANDONING PART OF BOUGAINVILLE   Stepped Up Drive On Rabaul  o Indicated

New Britain Piastered With ‘Yank Bombs; Invasion  Forces May Land Soon

Japs Leaving South Part Of  Bougainville   Obvious Effort Made To Concentrate Thei Forces In  Northerr Part, Asserts Knox

JAPS LEAVING SOUTH TIP OF BOUGAINVILL   Moving North To Meet Growing U.S, Threat, Knox Savs

Refurbishing Locomotives Just Like Cleaning Stoves, Say Clinton Women

KNOWN DEAD FROM MINE 36      Hope All But Abandoned for Safety. of Other 88

Naval Force Hits Foe On Attu Island   Enemy Ammunition Dump Blown Up During 25 Minute Bombardment,

SHELL JAP POSITIONS   Americans Made a 25-Minute Attack on Attu Island April 30

Freight Engine Pilot Blamed for D.L&W. Wreck   Complete Probe of Train Crash Killing 29 and Injuring 150

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Wied Tunisian Victory Yan Mean More Action Against Japanese

Hitler's Story of Superrace _ Is Just a Fairy Tale After All Many Believed It for a Long Time

 Allied Leaders Believed Planning Next Move Against Hitler Fortress

“WORK OR FIGHT” BILL PASSES SENATE; 9 COUNTIES AFFECTED   Only One Vote Cast Against Measure in General Assembly—Juvenile Delinquency Measures Are Offered

"Work or Fight” Bill Passed by Sfate Senate   Affects Men between 14 and 60 in Nine Counties of Maryland

JAPS WIPED QUT IN ATTU SECTOR   MacArthur Reported Contin uing Aerial Assaults on Two Jan Centers.

AMERICANS ON ATTU STILL ADVANCING   Only Two Pockets Of Jap: ‘Resistance Remain on Island

JAPS FORCED T0 » YIELD POSITION ON ATTU ISLAND   p Troops Wiped Out In Chi chagof Valley, Navy Dept. Reports

YANKS WIPE OUT ENEMY POSITION   Japs Driven Out Of Chi chagof Valley In Battle For Attu

Chichagof Action Won By Yanks   Report Americans Follow  Up With Drive- Against Second Main Position

Follow Up With Drive Against. Second Positions Around Chi ehanof Harhor   AIDED BY PLANES   Assault Made by Combined North. ern and Southern Forces Report ed Continuing

Yanks Folow Up On Other Attu Pockets   Chicagof Valley Sec. tor Cleared Of  Enemy Forces

Japs Crushed In Chichagot Vailey Ares   U.§: Troops Wipe Gut the Enemy’ Positien; Bombers, Fighters Attack   TRAP Is BEING DRAWN TIGHTER   Small U. 8. Auxiliary Ship Sunk in South Pacific; Crew Taken Off

Attu Valley Clear ofJaps   American Troops Wipe Out Chicago! Area Held By Enemy on Island

JAP POSITION ON ATTU WIPED OUT BY YANKS   Only Two Pockets Remain; Cleared On Monday

Attu Jap Troops Are Wined Out   YANKS MOPPING UP ID ONE SECTOR OF ISLAND

U.S, TROOPS TAKE JAP POSITION IN CHICAGOF VALLEY   DRIVE AGAINST SECOND OF THREE MAJOR POINTS STARTED

Americans Reported Following Up With Drive Against Second Main Position Of Enemy On Attu Island— Army Heavy And Medium Bombers And Fighter Planes Supporting Assault, Navy Announces—Two Points Of Resistance Still Indicated

Enemy Loses Chichagof Valley Position   Americans Continue Drive Against Two Remaining Sectors

Second Main Position Now  Under Attack   U. S. Ship Is Sunk After Attack By Warplanes Off San Cristobal Isle In Santh Pacifie

Americans Clean Up Japanese In Chichagof Valley   Follow Up With Drive On Position At Harbor

U.S. TROOPS DRIVE QN ATTU CONTINUES   Japs: Entrenched On High Ridges — Americans - Moving Ahead

JAPS’ VALLEY ~ BASEIS TAKEN   One of Foe's Three Major Strongholds On Attu. Is Overthrown

Japan Loses 1 _ Of 3 Remaining Attu Bulwarks   Chichagof Valley Cleared Of Japanese; Followup Drive Hits Second Main Position In Harbor Area

PRESSURE: Japs Admit U. S. Attacks Continuously on Attu   RULLETIN

One Of Enemy's Three Positions On Isle Taken  Drive To Smash Other Hold-Out

Yanks Wipe Out Main Jap Attu Force   Clear Chichagof Valley, Push After Remnants; Vila. Rekata Bombed

YANKS FINISH JAPS IN AREA OF CHICHAGOF   Valley Position Constituted One of Three Major Sections Held by Enemy on Attu—Second Pocket Attacked.

PLANES AID IN FORWARD PUSH   Fierce Fighting Continues In Two Other Areas

U. S. Troops Continue Attu  Mopping Up   Hampered By Bad ‘Weather, “Preventing Air Force Operations, But Ground. Forces. Con‘tinue Operations Against Stubbornly Re: sisting Japs...

Clear Out Jap Nest On Attu   U.S, Troops Drive Enemy from Chiehagof Valley to Harbor Refuge

Annihilation of Japs Continues  On Attu Island   Bad Weather Hampers Drive of 16 Days; Down Nip Bombers.   Yanks Force Enemy To Jettison Bombs

Battle Of Attu Is Nearing End Navy Believes   Report One Of Three Re. maining Jap Positions On Attu Is Wiped Out   U.S. FORCES KEEP UP STEADY ATTACKS

DEFEA ATTU MATTER OF DAYS   U.S. Picking Off Enemy Outposts  One-by-One

Nipponese Position In the Chichagof Valley Wiped Out   Second Main Bastion Now Is Under Attack Final Stand to Be Taken {n Harbor; Break In Weather May See Airplanes In Action

Jap Position In Chichagof Valley Taken   One Point Of Resistance Wiped Out As Troops Continue Their Drive  On Attu Island

5. Forces llow Up w Gains   ‘ound Troops pported by rial Assault

HEAVY AOUAULT UPON. ANOTHER JOLONTINUING   American Planes Supporting Attacks Upon Japanese Pocketed On Island

DUESSELDORE HiT HARD BY RAF HEAVY BOMBERS   U. S. Fortresses Raid Messina, Others Assault Sardinia, Pantelleria

Chichagof Valiey Cleared of Foe; Drive Against Harbor Area.   ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY

WIPE OUT JAPS IN      U.S, FORCES CLEAR SECTOR ON ATTU Al LAUNCH NEW DRIVE

Japs Wiped Out By U.S. Troopers In Island Sector  Chichagof Valley   Chichagof Valley Scene of Clash For Japanese Base

Jap position in Chichagof valley wiped out by Yanks   Follow up with drive on second harbor position: U. S. ship sunk

Driving Now On Second Main Enemy Position   Valley Area Cleared Of Enemy Forces; American Auxihary Shin Lost In Solomons

U 6, TROOPS WIPE OUT JAP POSITION   Chichagof Harbor Pocket is Eliminated by Yank Forces in Attu —~

Victory Followed Up With Drive On  Second Jap Base   Army Bombers, Fighter Planes Support Continuing Assaul; Bad Weather Reported Hampering Americ an Advance

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ATTU TO SERVE AS BASE TO HIT JAPAN PROPER   Comfortable Quonset Huts and Office Quarters Being Set Up For Attacks to Come

Series toOpen Tuesday   LANIER, CHANDLER TO PITCH AS YANKS, CARDINALS SET CLASH

SONG SHOHT-WAYV EI) EU LN Sister Sings ‘White Christmas’ To Revive Mentally I] Seaman

Court Holds Service For Late Justice   Memorial For Judge Parker Is Held at Opening Session in Pittsburgh  os

Caronia Seized In New Advance  ByU.S.7th Army   Allied Warships Shell German Transport Lines as Battle Climax Is Near

Japanese Prisoners In New Guinea Sectors Are Scrawny   For Most Part They Are Underfed Members of Forced Labor Gangs Who Had Worked in Papua; One Answers Questions With Fair Intelligence and Much Humility; Poorly Dressed

CROWN WITNESS IN OAKES TRIAL TAKEN TO TASK   Judge Criticises Police Corporal For Changing Testimony From That Given At Hearing

'FEW MINES OPERATING   Miners Are on the Job in Some Areas Near Pittsburg

MINES NEAR HERE ARE OPERATING   Binkley Strip Field in Ma. con. County. Is Idle, Renorts: Show

RUMANIA REJECTS GERMAN DEMANDS      Nazis Threaten Reprisals For Refusal

RUMANIA WON'T HELP GERMANS   Report Antonescu Has Refused Nazi Demands

Germans Lose Rumanian Aid   Premier Antonescu Refuses To Send Troops To Russian Front.

HOUR WORK WEEK ORDERED   Order Affects Every Man and Woman In 32 Labor Shortage Areas

COUNTRY WILL O ON 48 HOUR WORK WEEK TO 'AID WAR EFFORT   Economic Boss Byrnes States That Farm Workers Now In Indus - try Should Be Sent   Rark Ta Farms.

Cans, Soup, Sweat And Then Tears   Canned Goods Ration Need History Outlined

Seven Japs Are Downed In Raid   Marshall Islands Airdrome Pounded

ARMY BOMBERS HIT JAP BASE ON TAROA   Liberators Shoot Down Seven of 85 Zeros During Raid in Marshall Islands.

GAIL CHIEFS SEE VOTE ON STRIKE   Ay Five Chairmen Assemble - to Consider Four-Cent ‘Insult’ Raise

RAIL UNIONS - STRIKE VOTE AS PROBABLI   OFFICIALS OF “BIG FIVE" wu 8 EXPECTED TO RESOT SMALL WAGE IN‘GREASE OFFERED * "WORKERS ~~

CHIEFS OF RAIL UNIONS TAKE UP WAGE QUESTION   Debate 1-Cent Hourly W awe Increase or Strike Vote

SENATE HEARS MORE ‘SECRET’ WAR REPORTS   Debate Over Russian Bases

Senator Says MacArthur Has Best War Plan   Road to Tokyo Leads Through Manila, Wat Parma

Tax Problem Is Put Off Again  Committee Refuses Tx   Committee Refuses To Reopen Consideration

VOTE DOWN NEW PAY-AS-GO PLAN   House Ways and Means Group Refuses to Reopen Talk

HOUSE COMM. AGAIN TABLES TAX PLAN   Local Retailers To Do Their Part in Effort.

Reopen Consideration  [Vote Down Effort To lor Pay-As-You-Go Plan

Pay-as-You-Go Plan Again Voted Down ©   All Democrats For Reconsideration Relection

Ruml Plan Vote Rejected Again   House Group Turns Down GOP Move 16-9

HOUSE GROUP  TABLES MOVE 10 RECONSIDER TAX   GOP Committee Membe: Loses In Effort to Put Rumi Plan Qn Calendar Arain

Revival Of Ruml’s Tax Plan Is Defeated   House Ways And Means Committee Rejects Proposal Hiv 16 To 9 Vote

Move To Reopen Pay-As-You-Go Plan Rejected   Democrats And One Republican On Committee Vote It Down.

1¢.0.P. EFFORT TO IRE-OPEN RUML TA} PLAN FAILS   House Committee Votes Reconsideration Plan  Down 16 to 9

Pay-As-Go Tax Plan Rejected  In Committee   Votes 16 To 9 Against Considering It Again At Present Time   TRADE PACTS FIRST   Only 2 Months To Act Before Authority Will Expire

Votes Down Move  To Revive Pay as You Go Tax Plan   Republican Motion — Is Squashed in Committee  by 16 to 9 Vote.   Hull Puts in Plea to Extend Trade Pacts

PAY-60 TURNED ~ DOWN AGAIN   House Group Votes Against Reconsideration, 16-9, Along Party Lines.

Committee by Vole of 16109 Reiects Move   Republican Members Sought Another Vote In House on Ruml “Skip a Year” Plan

NEW PAY-G0 TAX MEASURE BLOCKED   House ‘Committee Refuses to Lay Aside Reciprocal Trade Legislation.

a eEeESEe—eeeEOEOeeer—vXreEeEeEeEeE—eO  COMMITTEE VOTES DOWN PLAN TO REOPEN TAX BILL

Move. To Reoper Tax Fight Spikec   House Committee Vote: Down G. 0. P. Effort

NEW TAX DRIVE MEETS FAILURE   House Committee Squelches GOP Effort To Revive Pay-As-You-Go Tax Legislation.

Republicans Foiled In Effort to Reopen Pay-Go Tax Study   House Connittee’s Vote of 16 to9 Balks Move to Renew Ruml Battle: Hull Pleads Trade Pacts Fxtencian

Pay-as-Go Tax Plan is  Again Tablec   House Committee Democrats Defeat  Reed’s Motion

PAY-AS-EARN TAXIS TABLED BY 16-9 VOTE   Reciprocal Trade Policy Slated Next Act By Committee

‘PAY-AS-YOU-G0' REVIVAL KILLED   Republican's Move to Gain Reconsideration Is Voted Down, 16 to 9

SERVICES IN THE PARK   Rey. Ray O. Cooper Will Bring the . Message Sunday Evening ™

HARMON SAVED BY. FRIENDLY. NATIVES   Ex-Michigan Gridder Bails Out Of Plane In Junglea

NATIVES BROT TOM HARMON TOSAFETY   Had Wandered Four Days; Others in Crew Still Missing

BIG DETROIT PLANT CLOSED BY WALKOUT EARLY ON THURSDAY   More Than 20,000 Work. ers Reported on Strike Due to Upgrading of Negroes.

WFA Preparing to Provide Substitutes for Foods Which Civilians May Lack

Meat Substitute Output Pushed By Food Officials   Provision to Replace Cut in Meat, Milk, Egg Production Sought  USE SOYA, PEANUTS  Quantities Expected To Be Available Late This Fall

U. S. WON'T STARVE SOYBEANS FOR ALL   WFA Says, Soybeans and Peanuts Will Replace Meat

WEA Readies _  Soybean Diet  More Re stricted Quote - gh BRBecese UTZ Saanm

FOOD SUBSTITUTES BEING STRESSED   Sharn Expansion of Meat, Dairy Ones Planned - By WEA

Last Vestige Of Nazi Siege Army Being Wined Out   One Time Nazi Army Of 330,000 Men Before Stalingrad Is Near Ex tinction 4   COMMANDER AND 16 GENERALS TAKEN

Yank Fliers -Pour.Bombs. On Jap Bases   Devastating Sweeps  Made Against Koepang  and Rabaul

ALLIED FORCES, RENEW BOHBING JAPAN'S BASES   [mproved Flying Weather ‘Sends Fifth Air Unit°on Devastating Sweeps in Pacific   KOEPANG BLASTED   Forty-two Tons of Explosives Dropped on Area; Rabaul Given Shower of 19 Tons

FIERCE BATTLES RAGE IN CHINA   Break in Bad Weather Is Used by Allies To Blast Jap Pacific Bases

New Attacks On Jap Bases   Improved Weather Brings Heavy Assaults Against Kopang and Rabaul

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5TH AIR FORCE IN DEVASTATING SWEEP VS, JAPS   Improved Weather Sends American Bombers Against Koepang And Rabaul.

Air Assaults On Japs Resumed   Better Weather Brings Renewal Of Aerial  Basiwdin oe.

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST KOEPANG   Fliers in Pacific Take Advan. tage of Weather To Attack Japs.

Japanese Bases Badly Battered  : Weather Breaks In South Pacific

Germans Report Landing On Italy   Sr. dl British Force  Penetrated Interior

LONDON IS SILENT ON REPORT; NAZIS” SAY MOVE: FAILED   German Military Spokesmen Claim Small Maneuver Probably Was Meant To Serve As Preparation For Major Bridgehead

LONDON STILL SILENT ABOUT NEW MANEUVER   Official Nazi Agency Claims “a Few” Men Are Still On Mainland.

BRITISH FORCE LANDS IN ITALY   Germans Say Most of Small  Group Wiped Out

DNB REPORTS BUT oO FROM AND ESCAPEL   London Silent on Berlin News and Claim Maneuver Was "Frustrated.   15 ALLIED PLANES LOST AFTER NAPLES AREA RAID

Landing Made By British On “Toe” Of Italy   Force Of About 400 Men Broken Up, Is Report Broadcast Today By German News Agency

sinres at Airport   Aveust Calendar   British Landing in Italy Reportea

NAZIS PREPARE DEFENSE PLANS   Hurry To Replace Losses Suffered In Russia,  Tunisia

GERMANY PREPARING FOR DEFENSIVE WAR DURING THIS SUMMER  INDICATED HITLER WILL _ NOT LAUNCH ANY OFFEN  SIVE DRIVES SOON

Nazi Offensive Is Not Expected   Neutral Observers in Berlin Do Not Expect Drive for Months

NAZIS 10 FIGHT DEFENSIVE WAR   Germans Hope No Allied Invasion Will Come During Summer Months

NAZIS REALIZE THAT THEY ARE WHIPPED AGAIN   Repatriates Says German Morale Cracking

WORALE GROWS WEAKER DAILY DUE TO RAIDS   German People Realize They Are Licked

Huns Know They’re Licked Exchanged Britons Say   _jap Air Force Whacked Again

German Hope And Morale Cracking, Say Returned Renatriated. Soldiers

German Hope And Morale Cracking Under Allied Bombs   See Allied Victory But Russia Is Skeleton Hehind Door: Fortress Attacks Level Plants

German Morale Cracked By Air Attack  Returned Prisoners Sav. Hozyvewer. Russia Is Biooest Fear

a ele i tl  German Hope and Morale Is Cracking Under Air Attacks Repatriates Declare

WOUNDED STATE NAZIS CRACKING   Exchanged Soldiers Be-. lieve German Morale About Gone   BOMBING DESCRIBED

German People Admit Failure   Br itishers, . - Freed: From “Prison Camps. ~Tell Of Low Morale

German Morale Cracking, British Soldiers Released from Prison Say

German Morale is Cracking Freed War Prisoners Clam   I Strai n of Steadily Ineseastirs British and American Air ! Attacks Causing Nazis to Lose Hope; One Tells of How Yankees Smashed Focke H Wulf Aircraft Plant

New Allied Landings Loom Above Naples   Nazis May Try Delaying Action On Mt. Vesuvius; Shuttle Bombing Tactics In Prospect

FOOD AGENCY PROPOSED TO SPUR OUTPUT      United Nations Group Would be Formed Under Plan ;

New United Nations Agency To Spur Food Output Is Being Considered

Mobilization of Agricultural Resources to Swell Amount of Food for War and Relief Needs May Be Proposed to United Nations

United States May Propose Joint Allied Food Plan  Creation of Body to Mobilize Farming Output Is Suggested

WALLACE SPEAKER AT ClO CONVENTION   Outlines Duties Producers Owe to Themselves and Country.

FOR ULTIMATUM FAILS TO SHAKE SUBSIDY FOES   House Group To Stand Fast Until Administration Offers Compromise   BITTER BATTLE LOOMS   Presidential Supporters Hail Long Message As “Convincing”

ANTL-SUBSIDY GROUP WILL . "STAND FAST" IN FACE OF ROOSEVELT DEMAND  FOR PAYMENTS —

ITALIANS ARE MOVING INTO THE CAPITAL      At Least 500,000 Have Gone to Rome Since the Invasion of Sicily, Travelers From Nation Report in Madrid.

Thousands “In March  - a On Rome   Some Hope That They Wil Escape Bombings There; Others Have Political Plaus   500,000 SAID TO HAVE ENTERED CITY.   Badoglio and . Gverworked Police Particularly Wor— ried Over Situation

THOUSANDS MOVING INTO ROME KEEP BADOGLIO WORRIED   Think 500,000: Thousand Are ‘Added: to: Normal Populstion—Those Coming for Political Purposes Anhoy Government

TTALIANS POUR INTO ROME TO ESCAPE BOMBS   Population of Eternal City Reported Increased by Half Million As Result Latest Raids

Thousands Expect Haven If Capital Is “Open City”; Badoglio Worried

THOUSANDS ARE POURING INTO ITALY'S CAPITAL   Population Of City Reported To Be Up Some 500,000

Rome Population Soaring As Thousands Flock To Capital To Escape Bombings

ITALIANS CROWD INTO ROME  WHEN DECLARED OPEN CITY: BADOGLIO’‘S WORRIES GROW

ITALIANS FLOGK TO CAPITAL, SEE SHELTER THERE   Badoglio’s Worries Increasing As Thousands Move Into Rome

CIVILIANS SEEK ROME SHELTER   Crowds, Expecting to Escape Bombings, Cause Premier New Worry

500,000 Italians Seek Sanctuary, Crowd Into Rome   Believe “Open City? Will Protect. Them From Allied Bombing Attacks

ITALIANS FLOCK TO CAPITAL FOR Aik PROTECTION   Handling Of Large Group of Civilians Major Problem

MARCH ON ROME FRETS BADOGLIO   PEOPLE CROWD INTO CAPITAL; REBELLION FEARED BY DICTATOR

March on Rome Grows With Allied Bombings  Assault Renewed On Peninsula  By U. 8. Planes

Many Italians Pour Info Rome   Population Boosted By 500,000 Since Landing In Italy

Italians March To Rome to Seek Air Raid Shelter   City Now Contains Half Million More Than It Did Before Allied Landing.   But Some Opposing The Badoglio Regime

Thousands Seek Shelter FromBombs   Uprising Feared; Allies Hammer Airfields Aaain

Badoglio's Worries Increase —   Thousands Of Provincial Italians Moving Into Rome To Avoid Bombs

HUGE CROWDS IN ROME 10 SEEK SAFETY   Despite Efforts of Police And Military Great Throngs are Invading  Capital City   IS INCREASING DAILY

ITALIANS MOVE. TO ‘OPEN CITY’   Report Says Provincials Are Swarming Into Italian Capital.

Rome Dubious Host To Crowds  Pouring In Now   Half Million Invaders Seek Shelter Or Have Political Motives

MARCH ON ROME BY  PROVINCIAL FOLK  ADDS TO TROUBLES BADOGLIO GOVERNMENT  FEARS MANY OF NUMBEI HAVE PEACE IDFAS

WILLKIE off He CAN BE NOMINEE   Tells Congressmen He Can Win 1944 Nomination If He Wants It

. 5. BOMBS GERMANY AT WILL NOW   Gen. Anderson Reviews Growth Of Air Force

Wilhelmina Guest at Hyde Park   Dutch Queen Spends Week End With  President’s Family

MR. AND MRS. FDR HOSTS LAST WEEK° END TO WILHELMINA  OFf Netherlands at Hom   Of Netherlands at Home At Hyde Park, N. Y. Was Only A Social Visit

Queen Wilhelmina Visits Hyde Park   President and Mrs. Roosevelt Hosts To Dutch Ruler

Dutch Queen Is Guest Of FDRs At N. Y. Estate   Resumes Her Canada Visit

Queen Wilhelmina Guest Of President And Mrs. Roosevelt At Hyde Park

NETHERLANDS QUEEN ROOSEVELTS’ GUEST   Discussion of War Effort Believed Likely

Union Protests  Stassen Signing of Labor Bills   Accuses Governor of Promising To Veto Secondary Boycott Act

Viscious Thrusts of German Armored Divisions, Infantry, Thrown Back with Heavy Losses   SCORE 732 TANKS   German Casualties Reported as High as 50 Per Cent of Atlacking Forces

Germans ‘Strike On 165Mile Front In LongAwaited Blow   MOSCOW DECLARES ENEMY REPULSED   Losses Reported High As Nazis Attack With Air, Ground Forces

Thrusts By Armor Meet Powerful  Resistance   Battle Extending Over 165-Mile  Front

EARLY THRUSTS BY NAZI ARMIES UNSUCCESSFUL   Hurled Back With Heavy Losses All Along 165  Mile Orel-Belgorod   Front      DESTRUCTION ENEMY UNITS “TERRIFIC”   ‘Keep Boring In’ Despite Reverses to Pierce Soviet Lines In Isolated Sectors, Moscow Says

German Losses Reported Heavy On Long Front   Nazis Bore In Despite Terrific Destruction Of Armored Units

REPORT HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES IN ALL AREAS   Only Isolated Gains Achieved by Foe, Soviet Says

Hundreds Of Tanks ~ Destroyed   Fighting In Area North Of Kursk Ie Assuming Ever Greater Vielence, Says German Report

VICIOUS GERMAN THRUSTS ARE FLUNG BACK BY RUSSIANS   Long-Expected Nazi Summer Offensive Moves Into Its Second Day.   4000 GERMANS SLAIN   Two Thousand Others Were Killed in the Belgorod Area.

Nazi Offensive Hits Buzzsaw Of Soviet Defenses   Enemy Hurled Back All Along Active Front With Heavy Losses, Reds Say

Enemy Denies Capital City Coal Of Push   Russians Claim Heavy Losses Inflieted On Nazi Armored Forces.   INFANTRY HOLDS STAB

GERMANS SAY ATTACK ‘1S-OF LOGAL-NATUR   Action Terrific On 165-Mile ‘Central. Front From Orel - To‘ Belgorod

Buzzsaw Of Red Defenses Slowing Push   3,000 Germans Slain, Hundreds Of Tanks Knocked Out During First 24 Hours

Enemy Presses Drive Despite Heavy Losses. Moscow Says   Soviet Communique Lists _ 586 German Tanks As Destroyed

LONG - AWAITED SUMMER DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY   Russians Report Germans Flung Back With Heavy Losses In First Big Battle Of Summer Offen sive.

—RUSSIA— ,  1O5-MILE FRONT (5 BATTLE SCENE   Hitler’s Long - Expected Summer Offensive Believed Under Way   - GOAL NOT CERTAIN   Heavy Fighting Is Re- ported Raging From Orel To Belzorod

Long-Awaited Drive Strikes 165-Mile Front   Russians Report Invaders Repulsed With Heavy Loss

CUNMER DRIVE   Nazi Thrusts By Armored Divisions and Infantry Are Hurled Back.

REDS DESTROY 386 TANKS, 204 PLANES   Invaders Are Thrown Back On 165-Mile Front From Orel To Belgorod: May Go After Moscow

NEW NAZI DRIVE HURLED BACK ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Germans Lose 738 Tanks 10,000 Soldiers in 36-Hour Battle

738 Nazi Tanks Are Knocked Out   Russians Say Germans Throwing In Everything; Some Small Breaks

Suffer Heavy Losses All Along 165-Mile Central Front  From Orel to Belgorod, With Armored Units Losing G pple Be   Too Early to Speculate Whether Hitler Aims to Capture Moscow

Russians Hurl Invaders Back With Heavy Losses From Oriel to Belgorod

Nazis Boring in Against Heavily Defended Russian Positions on 165-Mile Line

Attack in Areas North Of Kharkov   Moscow Claims All Attempts Fail With Heavy German Losses

More Than 700 Tanks, 203 Planes Wrecked by Reds; Thousands of Invaders Slain

All Cerman Attacks Are Beaten Off,  Russians Say   Fierce Fighting Went On Through Night; Heavy Destruction Of Enemy Armor Reported

NAZI STABS PROGRESS IN FEW SPOTS   Vicious Attacks by Armored Divisions and Infantry Prove Costly to Iinvaders— More Than 700 Tanks Destroyed.

VICIOUS GERMAN ATTACKS THROWN BACK BY REDS —  wwe we wane ee wl]

NAZIS PUSH ON DESPITE TOUGH RED RESISTANCE   Battle Raging Along 165-Mile  Russian Front

Russians Repulse Thrusts by Nazis   German Offensive Rolls into Second Day With Enemy Desperately Driving at Reds

BRITISH BOMB NAZI SUB BASE   Heavy Damage Believed Inflicted On French Atlantic Coast At Lorient

RAF Makes Heavy Raid On Sub Base At Lorient   Attack Continues Almost Daily Bombing Of Germany And Nazi-Held Kurope; Two Planes Missing   Today’s War Moves

RAF Planes Bomb Lorient, Imporfant Nazi Sub Base On French Atlantic Coast

ROYAL AIR FORCE STRIKES AXIS SUB BASES AT. LORIENT      British Strike At Home. Of a Growing ‘Nazi Menace To United Nations’ Shipping

LORIENT, GREAT SUB BASE Hill BY RAF BOMBS   Menace to Shipping Serious ’ and Air Force Squared nett.

Lorient Base Is Blasted By RAF Bombers   Concern Over Operations Of German Submarines Causes Raid On Vital Atlantic Coast Base

U-BOAT BASE AT LORIENT   Determined To Neutralize Nazi Submarine Menace

Bombers of RAF Strike Nazi Sub  Base at Lorient   Menace from U-Boats Holds Front Pages Of British Press

4 U. 5. SHIPS SUNK BY AXIS   First Submarine Wolfpack Attack Made In Western Atlantic

FOUR SHIPS IN AMERICAN CONVOY SUNK   U-Boat Wolfpack Makes Attack In South Atlantic

Axis Wolfpack  ‘Hits Shipping   Subs Sink 4 U.S, Vessels Of South America In Surprise Move

Soviet Hurl: Back Nazis 12 Miles   Wolfpack Of German Subs Sinks Four Escorted Ships

Submarine Pack. Blasts Convoy   New Tactics Used In South Atlantic

SUB WOLF PAGK GETS 4 VESSELS   25 Men Lost, 28 Missing In Attack On Convoy Off South America

AXIS WOLFPACK OF SUBS LOOSE   Operations In South Atlantic Cost Allies Five Shins Already

Huge Merchant Convoy Atfacket  Nazi Wolfpack of ~ Subs Sinks Four Boats

AXIS WOLFPACK OF SUBSSINKS ROUR U.S. SHIPS   Twenty-five Men Lost anc  28Others. Missing Foi_ lowing Raid In West * . ern Atlantic   ATTACK BY NIGHT   Action Lends Emphasis to High Government Officials’ Warnings On "Sub Menace

Axis U-Boat Pack Sends 4 American Ships Down   49 Lost, 28 Missing After Subs Attack Convoys Off South America.

AXIS SUBS SINK FOUR AMERICAN VESSEL   Wolfpack Attacks off Coast of South America

U-Boat Pack Raids Convoy   Four American Ships In Escorted Fleet Sunk Off South America

Nazi Wolfpack Sinks 4 Ships   Twenty-Five Men Lost, 28  Missing From Vessels Sent Down Off South America.

Victorious Allied Forces Carry Battle To Heights Above Beachhead; Stretch Attack Line Width of Italy

Fifth And Eighth  ‘Armies Are Joined   + Americans Smash Forward Three Miles; Take ’Theaa Imnartant Tawne In Salernn Attache

Soviet Flanking Columns Capture More Villages and Stronghold 77 Miles Southwest of Kharkoy Appears to Be in Increasing Danger—Large Town on Objective's Outskirts Being Occupied Todav.

RUSSIAN THREAT TO POLTAVA GROWS IN FLANKING MOVE   Bryansk Action Centined t Patrols—Donets Basin Drive Slower.

RED THREAT TO POLTAVA GROWS, VILLAGES TAKEN      Germans Retreat After Losin 806 Hien. 15 Tanks In Counter-Attacks

POLTAVA NOW THREATENED BY RUSSIANS   t noe . Soviet. Flanking Col  umns Capture Many  xy. More Villages

Red Threat To Poltava Increased   Several More Villages Taken By Soviet Troops

Russian Drive Is Continuing   Poltava Threatened As Offensive Grows

RED ARMY RAPIDLY NEARING NAZI-HELD POLTAVA GARRISON      Russians Engage In Fierce Street Fighting — Resistance Heavy

Berrien Man, 49, Burns His Home, Hangs Himsell   Burton Price Commits Suicide In County Jail Ceil

HOME AND BUILDING   One Escapes From Burnin Dwelling; 2 Others Rescued   PUT IN INSANE CELI   ing Wrists and Hang Suicides Later By —a ing Himself

Ration Book Mailing Lags   Dallas Office 700,000 Behind, Schedule, Woman Director Asserts

Ickes Aide Quits  To Become Sailor   Abe Fortas Annoved By Delays at Capital

RADIO RULING ACTION SEEN   CONGRESSMAN BROWN DE CLARES CONGRESS WILL REWRITE ACT TO OFF- — SET SUPREME COURT _ _ DECISION

Raids Force Nazi Retreat   Allied Attacks On Western European Bases Cause Germans To Withdraw.

TELLS OF NEED FOR SUBSIDIES   Bowles Says Holding Line In 1944 Depends on Congress Decision

11000 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON WAR PLANTS  Yank, RAF  Planes Over Tt ;* Tf.

Allied Bombers Again Hit Ruhr Valley, Hundreds Of RAF Planes Rock Sector

* Allies In New Air Assaults On Ruhr Valley   Step-Up Raids to Bomb Nazis Out of War; Rome Is Next

Industrial City Of Mulheim Latest Target Levelled By British Bombers

No Explosion, No Damage In This Incident   Army Unable at Once to Determine Origin of Bomhs

Platte County Town Bombed   Home At Tarnov Hit As Planes Overshoot Range; No Casualties, Explosions.

NEBRASKA VILLAGE HIT BY SIX BOMBS   No Explosions or Casualties, Planes Unidentified

Six Bombs Are Dropped On Small Nebraska Town   Evacuate 11 larnov Fam-' ilies as Safety Precaution.’

BOMBS HIT NEB, TOWN, AIRCRAFT NOT IDENTFIED   No Explosions Or Casualties, Army Officers Report

NEBRASKA VILLAGE IS HIT BY BOMBS   No Explosions and None Hurt But Town Evacuated

Five Are Killed By Torpedo Blas   Railroad Signal Devices Explode

ALLIES SMASH JAP SUPPLIES   Supply Base at Hansa Bay, New Guinea, Blasted By Air Force.   /FORCES NEAR SALAMAUA

BASES BOMBED   Yank Airmen Pound Hansas _ Bay in New Guinea Area

ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB JAP BASE INNEW GUINEA   ‘Huge Force of Liberator and Flying Fortress Bombers Wreck 45 Enemy Barges

BEING CROWDED INTO HOT SPOT   Allied Bombers Pound Them from Air Ground Forces Near Great Supply  nr...

JAP BASE ON N. GUINEA IN ALLIED REACH   Belated Dispatch Teils of U. 5. Marine Corps Pilots’ Victory at Vela Lavella Island,

FREIGHTER, 45 BARGES DESTROYED   Salamaua Tottering As Allies Drive To Edge Of Airdrome

—PACIFIC—  BIG AIR ARMADA SMASHING JAP   More Than 180 Tons Of - Bombs Dropped On Salamaua Supply Base

Powerful Force Of Big Bombers Hits New Guinea  180 Tons Of Bombs CU ae nu] fi. FF...   180 Tons Of Bombs Showered On Jap Base Near Salamaua

Salamaua Supply Base Is Blasted   ws and Installations at  ‘  Bay Wrecked by Bombers   GAIN ON THE GROUND   MBiied Forces Push Withir a Mile of Salamaua  Airdrome

Bomb Japanese Salamaua Base On New Guinea   Send 180 Tons of Bombs Down On Supply Base

RECORD BOMB LOAD DUMPED: ON HANSA BA   Allied Forces Within Mile: of Prized Air Field; Shell Town Hiself.      BOMBERS SMASH DUMPS, E WRECK ‘INSTALLATIONS

Pacific Front  Flares Up Anew   ALLIED . BOMBERS DROP TONS OF BOMBS ON JAP BASE

Heavy, Megium Bombers Strike At Low Altitude   45 Barges Wrecked, Freighter Sunk, Ground Installations Destroyed

Allies Smash Jap Ships And Base In Southwest Pacific's Biggest Raid

Salamaua Supply Base Is Blastec    ues :  and Installations at  t Bay Wrecked _ by Bombers   Alied Forces Push Within a Mile of Salamaua Airdrome

Salamaua Supply Base ls Bombed   Allied Planes in Large Formations Drop 180 Tons of Explosives.

Allies Attack Japanese Base On Hansa Bay   Nearly 100 Planes Make Assault, Sinking Freighter, Destroying Barges, Installations

Allies’ Medium, Heavy Bombers Pound Salamauc   Liberators, Flying Fortresses and Mitchells, Escorted By Fighters, Send 180 Tons of Bombs Crashing Into The Supply Base.

Salamaua Base Seen On Verge ~-OfFalliné-Today   American And Australian Troops Reported But Mile From Objective

ALLIES NEAR EDGE OF BASE AT SALAMAUA   Artillery Pounds Town as Bombers, in Record  ~ Raid, Drop 180 Tons of Missiles on Airfield’s Supply Point.

Allies Drop Heavy Load Of Bombs On  New Guinea Base   Sink Freighter, Wreck  Barges Near Salamaua

Jap Aviators Flee In Path  Of Americans  Raiding Bombers Meet Heavy Ground Fire But No Planes  BOMB SUPPLY BASE Big Fleets Of Allied  Bombers Devastate  Enemy Airfield               Raiding Bombers Meet Heavy Ground Fire But No Planes   BOMB SUPPLY BASE   Big Fleets Of Allied Bombers Devastate  Enemy Airfield

SALAMAUA REGION HAMMERED ANEW BY ALLIED FLIERS    Heavy and Medium Bombers . Send 180 Tons of Missles Crashing on Hansa Bay, Supply Port for Salamaua

100-Plane Assault On Jans’ Base   Salamaua’s Supply Center Target of Biggest Allied Raid So Far in $.W.Pacific   TROOPS AT EDGE OF PRIZED FIELD      Bomber Attack Sinks Big Freighter, 45 Barges and Destroys Installations

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST JAPS IN HANSA BAY ZONE   Freighter Sunk, Barges and Ammunition Dumps Blown Up; Tighten Pres.  eon1rma gore Ralamana_

SALAMAUA’S SUPPLY BASE AT HANSA BAY BOMBED WEDNESDAY   Allied Heavy and Medium Bombers Flying in Greater Force Than Ever.   IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC   Nearly 100 Liberators, Flying Fortresses and Mitchells Participated.

Allied Nations Rap Salamaua  With Bombs   Send 180 Tons Of Bombs Crashing Down On Base At Hansa Bay—Heavy Bombers Used

Record Number Of Bombers Hit Jap Base.   Salamaua’s Supply ” Base Smashed With 180 Tons Of Bombs

NOOSE TIGHTENS  ON GUINEA NIPS  AT KEY AIRBASE ALLIED FLIERS RAKE SUPPLY CENTERS USEI  OV CAL ABMAIIA TOeAHnKDC

QUEBEC CONFERENCE ENDS WITH AX1I8 STILL GUESSING AS TO BACKGROUND OF REPORTS

AP ANGLE PURPOSE OF - GONFERENGE   'QUEBEC PARLEY SHAPES i” UP AS POLITE NOTICE  TO REDS ”   Five Facts Quoted   Accent on Pacific Informs Stalin He’s Slowing Up His War By Attitude.

Momentous Conference at Quebec Comes  to Close: Few Decisions Yet Announced :

SUSRARHTT RHA RE REE Re awn  Waukegan Doolittle and Rommel Allies

BEING RAIDED FOR WORKERS   Laval’s Conscription Order Results. In Threats

Police Raids Made on French Theaters To Draft Workers for Labor in Germany

ALABAMIAN GETS SUB   BAsemer “Man Aboard Plane Sights t-boat Which Is Sunk

WALLACE ADDRESSES COSTA RIGA OFFICIALS   Predicts This War To End Al Conflicts

Nazi Orators Are Stumping Country, Appeal for Faith In Victory and Hint Purge   “Gruess Gott’ Takes Piace of Heil Hitler; Many Executions; Smuggle Arms or Buy Them With Coffee

German Morale Reported to Be Sagging, Gestapo Seeks to Tighten Grip

‘Damned Serious’, The Nazis Admit   Police Tightening Their Grip  Signs Of Sagging Morale In Germany

Gestapo Has A Firm Grip On Germany  Early Crack-Up Not Likely With. Executions Rife

German Morale Sagging   Nazi tapo Takes Efficient Steps to Brace It; No Crackup Likely At Present

GESTAPO TIGHTENS GRIP ON GERMANS AS MORALE SAGS  ORGANIZED RESISTANCE   ORGANIZED RESISTANCE REPORTED FROM AUSTRIA IN SWEEDISH DISPATCHES

Gestapo Clamps Down in Germany, Fear Break in Morale of People on Home Front

Eess Heiling of Hitler; No Home-Front Crackup Of Morale Yet In Sight

GESTAPO TIGHTENS GRIP ON GERMANS AS MORALE SAG5   ORGANIZED RESISTANCE REPORTED FROM AUSTRIA IN SWEEDISH DISPATCHES

Gestapo's Grip Tightens On A Sagging Reich   No Crack-Up Likely Until Military Collapse Also At Hand.

GESTAPO WORKS OVERTIME, TRIES TO CURB UNREST   Himmler’s Police Widen Ruthless Acts to Offset Sagging Morale

Gesfapo Head Tightens Hold As Morale Saas   Nazi Leaders Stump Country Appealing For Faith in Final - Victory of Axis

10 VILLAGES. AND oTOWNS CAPTURED   Fifth and Eighth Stand Be. fore Massive Nazi Line   AIR FORCE STRIKES   Rains Dev stating Blows at German Strength Behind Front; Genoa Hit

AMERICAN AND BRITISH MAKE FRESH GAINS   Put More Than Twenty  Towns and Villages Into  Their Bag in Yesterday's Drives Tow ard Enemy   GENOA SUBJECTED TO SHATTERING RAID   Great Formations. of American Flving Fortressés Pound Vital Area  Serving Germans

Allies Facing Main Defense   Drive to Massive Line Across Southern Italy

ALLIES JOLT MASSIVE NAZI LINE IN ITALY   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES BAG 20 MORE TOWNS

Yanks, British Poised Before Nazi Defenses   Fifth, Eighth Armies Register Gains In Sharp Fighting

Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance In Three Sectors   Genoa Pounded In Daylight Raid By Flying Fortresses

Advance in 3 Vital Sections Of Italian Front   Allies Poised Before German Defenses; Genoa Is Bombed

Allies Gain Positions Close To Massive Nazi Line Im Southern Italy

ALLIED TROOPS POlotD BEFORE GERMAN LINE   Fifth and Eighth Armies Bag 20 Towns and Villages in Three Sectors.

Allies Wheel Into Position For Vital Clash   Clark, Montgomery Troops Deployed Along Nazi Line

ALLIED TROOPS ‘REGISTER NEW. GAINS IN ITALY   Fifth and Eighth Armies Take Over 20 Towns, Near ‘Nazi Line

ALLIES DRIVE STEADILY ON TOWARD ROME      Advances Chalked Up In Three Important Areas Of Italy Against Nazi Forces

Armies March Steadily On in Italy   U. S., British Seize 20 Towns, Poise Before Massive Line

ALLIES GAIN IN 3 ITALIAN SECTORS; SEIZE 20 TOWNS   Fifth and Eighth Armies Now Before Strong Enemy Defenses Barring Way to Rome.   ADVANCES SHORTEN FRONT TO 91 MILES   Fortresses Make Daylight Raid on Genoa, Smashing at Docks, Rail Yards and Factories.

Allies Mark Up Gains In Italy  Operations Preliminary To Hard Fighting

Allies Occupy More Than 20 Towns in Italy   Fifth and Eighth Poised for Attack On Massic German Southern Line

ldo German Planes Destroyed in Past  21 Hours,  AXIS AFRICAN AREA ’. THAT OF N. JERSEY  American Forces Mopping Up Behind Main Fronts.

Great Activity By French Patrols, 1000 Prisoners Taken. Pincers Closing On Rommel From Ali  Sides Of His Last Af rican Dart

REORGANIZATION OF PRICE CONTROL SETUP DEMANDED BY TAF   President Challenges Critics To Offer Better Plan If They Have One

Congress Gunning ForOPA   Subsidy Foes to Demand Brown Give Agency's Progrant

SENATORS IN OPPOSITION IGNORE THRUST   Roosevelt Tells Press Conference Cost Net High

Russians See Domes Of Kiev   ANOTHER GOAL IN GREAT SUMMER OFFENSIVE

Soviets Smash Last Barriers  Before Dnieper  Move Into Chernigov. Advance Toward hiev:

Reds In Sight Of Kiev Now   Badly Mauled Nazis Reel Back to Dnieper River Wall

NAZI HOSTS REEL UNDER RUSS BLOWS   Badly Mauled Hitlerites In Headliong Retreat Along Whole 750 Mile Front   HUNS BASE CAPTURED

Russ Push On Toward Kiev   Germans Now Are Forced Back to Lines Held Two Yeors Ago

Russians  In Sight Of Kiev   Another Goal of  Summer Campaign Looms for Soviets

Russ Near Kiev As Chernigoy  Area Captured  Red Arinies Als 18 Miles  From Smolensk

Reds Approach Kiev In Same Way Nazis Did   History Turns Back Upon Itself As Cherniqov Falls

NAZIS REELING ALONG DNIEPER   German Defenses Reported Cracking; Armies Split Into Small Units,

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE CHERNIGOV   Russians Push On Toward Kiev After Capturing City MOSCOW HOPES SOAR

RUSSIAN TROOPS WANT KIEV NEXT   Victorious Reds Are Rolling ‘ Toward Objective After Chernigov Falls

GERMANS ARE RETREATING UNDER FIRE   History Reverses Self As Reds Gain Ground

Armies of Russia See Domes of Kiev   Another Objective of Rus- sian Summer Campaign Comes in View   CAPITAL OF UKRAINE   The Germans; Dangerously - Weakened, Breaking Into _- [solated Units

Hammer Near Rich Prize In New Advance   Germans’ Mauled Divisions Reeling Back On Dnieper

HARD-SLUGGING SOVIET FORCES NEAR SMOLENSK   Germans Reel Back Under Savage Blows to Last Defense Zone Along Dnieper River

N azis Reel Back To Defense Wall On Dnieper River   Russians Score New Gains On All Fronts

Broken German A rmy Legions Reel Backward   Fall Back to: Eastern Defensé Wall: of Dneiper. River as Surging -Red Tide Batters. Down Desna River Line; Last Formidable Barrier. -

Reds Force Nazis Back To Dnieper   Shattering Blows On Broad Front

Hitler’s Armies Cracking Under Russian Offense   Weakened by Hammer Blows, Nazi Legions  Break Into Isolated Units   Can’t Halt Russians Along Dnieper River

Soviet Units Pressing On Toward Kiev   Hitler’s Badly Mauled Divisions Reeling Back to Defense Line

BATTERED NAZIS BEATEN BACK 10 DNIEPER RIVER   Hitler’s One-time Invincible Horde Being Broken Up For Annihilation   GATEWAY TO KIEV OPENED   Red Spearheads Are Nearing Smolensk in Move To Drive Germans from Russia

Germans Being Driven Toward Kiev Defenses   Nazis Back To Line They Held Two Years Aqo In September

REDS CAPTURE CHERNIGOV AND PRESS ON KIEV   Victorious Russians, Advancing All Along 750-Mile Fron!, Follow Way Nazis Carved   CAPTURE 34 TANKS   Spearbeads Within 18 Miles of Smolensk, Red Arlillery Blasts at Melitopo}!

JOVIET TROOPS ARE NEAR KIEV   Red Army Pushes on After Capture of Chernigov, Gate to Bneiper.   GERMAN LEGIONS CRACK

Chernigov, Gateway To Dnieper, Taken By Surging Soviets  As Nazis Fall Back

Germans Reeling Back On Dnieper Defenses   Badly-Mauled Enemy Divisions, Cracking Under Terrific Russian Punishment, . Being Broken Up Into Isolated Units.

CHURCH DOMES OF KIEV ARE IN SIGHT OF REDS   Russian Army Has - Another Vital Goal In Sight: Capital Of The Rich Ukraine; Germans Reel Back  Under Pressure.

German Divisions Begin Te Crack Under Blows Of Great Soviet Drive

Reds Push Nazis Back. Near Kiev   Gilt. Church Domes..of City Visible to Fast- Driving Bussian Troon:   ENEMY BROKEN INTO ISOLATED UNITS   Advances Are Scored on Whole. Length of the 750-Mile Front

‘Nazis Reel Under "Red Blows, Flee -To Dneiper Wall   Badly-Mauled Divisions Crack Under Terrific Soviet Thrust; Gains Scored on Entire Front

Germans Crack Under Blows of Russian Armies   Nazis.Pushed Back To Lines Held by Them 2 Years Aao

Soviet Army In Sight of Kiev Domes:   *Melitopol on Crimea Escape Route Under Russian Shell Fire ~

GEAMANS FALL BAC BEFORE AED DRIVES   Soviets Record Advance Along All of 750-Mile Front; Chernigoy Falls

SURGING REDS INSIGHT OF VITAL CITY      Nazis Reel Back To East Defense Wall On Dnieper River

RED ONSLAUGHT CRUSHES NAZIS   Germans Fall Back As Russians Score New Gains In Dnieper

HISTORY. TURNS BACKWARD IN RUSSIAN DRIVE   Reds Capture Chernigov And Drive On Toward Kiev Thru Valley

NAZI TROOPS LEAVE GOMEL IN RED DRIVE   Soviets Open Wide Gap In German Lines Today

SOVIETS TEAR GAP IN LINE NEAR GOMEL   No Immediate Confirmation of Latest Soviet Success Given Out At Moscow

DNB Reports Withdrawal After Destruction of Military Installations in Stronghold.   ARMIES FIGHT FOR LINE ALONG DNIEPER RIVER   Thunder of Guns Heard in Kiev as Stalin’s Troops Push Closer to That City.

CITY'S FALL TO REDS GLIMAXES 3-WERK BATTLE   New Offensive by Soviet Forces Appears to Have Cracked Wide Open Road to Minsk   2,000 NAZIS KILLED IN 3-DAY ADVANCE   One Hundred and Eighty Villages Liberated and Enormous Quantities of Material Seized «=

New Russian Drive Cuts  Wide Gaps   Enemy Attack Toward Kiev Reported Weakening

Nazis’ Key Bastion In White Russia Is Abandoned   Railrvad Northwest Of Rechitsa Is Cut By Red Army In Another Drive

Germans Admit Russian Troops Capture Gomel   Principal Nazi Base Falls As Reds Tear 37-Mile Hole In Enemv’s Lines

Might Try Siingshot Weights-— Shirttails Will Be Shorter; Wool For Zoot Suits Banned

Clothing To Be Scarcer   Shirttails Sher ter And Stocks Decrease

SHIRT TAILS 10 BE THREE INCHES SHORTER, AND MEN CAN START ROLLING LONG SOCKS

NEW FINNISH CABINET FORMED   Nothing in Record of New Leaders That Would Make Them  Unacceptable to Russia

New Cabinet Of    Finland Chosen     i'NEW PREMIER SAID TO   - ACCEPTABLE TO RUSSIANS

New Finnish Cabinet Formed      Prof. Edwin  Linkomies Becomes Premier in Shake - Up Termed Acceptable To Russia.

GREEN CHARGES LEGION HEADS ATTAGK LABOR   AFOL Leader Cites U. S. Workers’ Record During War, Claims “False” Criticism Made

Green Assails Labor Critics   Tells Legionnaires Even Some Veterans Guilty

GREEN DECLARES U. S. WORKERS DOING GOOD JOB   LABOR PLAYS VITAL ROLE IN WAR, AFL CHIEF TELLS LEGION

Green Flays Unreasonable Statements   Declares Workers Doing As Good Job As The Soldiers

Green Backs War Job by U. S. Unions   A.F.L. CHIEF SAYS LEGION HAS MADE “RASH STATEMENTS”

Labor Doing Its Part, Legion Told  ‘Unreasonable’ Claims  Rapped By Green

Blow At Labor Not Justified   Green Tells Legion Workers Doing As Good A Job As Soldiers.

AFL Head Lauds Labor's Efforts   Speaks Before The Legion Convention

Labor Defended At Legion Meet   Green. Charges Legion Spokesmen. With Rash and Unreasonable Statements Toward La as

GREEN PRAISES J. §. WORKERS   Spokesmen Have Been Unfair, AFL Head Tells  American Legion

GREEN HITS SLURS AT ORGANIZED LABOR   Workers Have Done Good Job, AFL Chief Says

LABOR CRITICS HIT BY GREEN   AFL Head Declares Legion Spokesmen Guilty of Unreasonable Statements.

WORKERS HAVE DONE AS GOOD A JOB AS SOLDIERS   William Green of AFL . Tells Members of Legion At' OQmaha —

GREEN PRAISES LABOR FOR ITS EFFORT IN WAR   Accomplished as Much As Soldiers, He Tells  Legionnaires

TIRE QUOTAS INCREASED   City Panel of the Ration Board Was in Session Friday

TIRE QUOTA INCREASED   Douglas: County  Will Receive More ‘Tires During May

150 IN SEAR FOR MURDERER IN WOODS AREA   Bremer and Black Hawk Counties Areas Combed by lowa Guar

GERMAN UNITS RACE BACK 10 KASSERINE GAP   Reinforced Americans, British in Pursuit; Planes in Action

PUSHED BACK FROM THALA   Rommel Reported Trying to Make Stand 3 Miles From  Kasserine Gap

Allied Planes Help to Hurl Enemy Back   To Retire to Mountains; German Leader Forced Nearly Reached Thala

Axis Tanks - Said Trying © For a Stand   Nazis Claim to Have Tak-, en Many American Cap-' tives Unconfirmed

Axis Retreat Toward Rasserine Marks a Loss of 14 Miles   Big ‘Churchill’ Tanks and American Planes Aid Allies’ C ounteroffensive

[Germans Retreat. 14 Miles With  Heavy Losses   On Russian Front; Ger. mans Rush 22 New Divisions, ‘Tanks,. Infan: try; Aérial Forces’ in Rallving Onslayshr-

YANKS, BRITISH IN PURSUIT ON FRONT IN TUNIS   Heaviest Blows of North African Campaign Delivered Against Retreating Axis Army.

Luftwaffe Active In Rostov Area; Flying Fortresses Hit Jap Warship

ROMMEL FORCE IN FULL FLIGHT ACROSS TUNISIA   Fleeing Columns Raked and Blasted by Allied Planes With Troops in Pursuit   HITLER OFFENSE BROKEN   Nazis Reported Trying To Rally for Grim Stand in Russia’s Donets Basin

Allied Might Pushes Nazis Back 14 Miles   40-Ton Churchill Tanks Pur-. sue Enemy While Planes Rake Foe in Flight os

AMERICAN, BRITISH TROOPS REPORTED IN PURSUIT OF GERMANS  NAZI GROUND FORCES BEING HEAVILY RAKED BY ALLIED AIR POWER

Hundreds of Planes Support Allied Assault   Axis Withdrawal of At Least 14 Miles Indicated by Reports

May Allempt Stand Near Kasserine Gap  After 14-Mile Less   Reinforced By Big Churchill Tanks _Aliies Pursue Axis From Thala; Nazis Try To Rally In Russia

Axis Tanks Said Trying For a Stand   Nazis Claim to Have Taken Many American Captives Unconfirmed

U.S.Planes Turn Tide   . . Deliver Heaviest Blows Of Tunisia War

SWEEPING TO ENCIRCLE GERMAN TROOPS IN CRIMEA   Ruseians Only 43 Miles From Zaporozhe, Main German Escape Route.

REDS THREATEN TO CUT OFF GERMANS IN THE CRIMEA   Bryansk Still Burning As Reds Push On

 Ten Ships Shot At, Ten Hit  [American Submarine Has Perfect Fight Record

A GRADUATE RETURNS   Capt. N. C. Cooksey Added to K. U. Military Staff

U. S. Fliers Pulverize Jap Plane Base at Rekata Bay      Army. Navy and Marine Corps Planes Levei Portion of Target On Santa Isabel Island With 2.000Pound Daisy Cutter Bombs; Houses Seen Being Blown to Bits

U.S. Air Attack Pulverizes Jap Seaplane Base   Devastating Raid Made On Rekata Bay Positions

Stresses French People Will Pick Government After Germans Ousted

¢ The Price Of Steaks Or Sell Fish” - - Save Points   ‘rice Will Scare Of! ¢ Future Steak . Ustomere -' . °

# The Price Of Steaks Or Sell Fich” ~ - Save Points   “tice Will Scare Off € Future Steak . ‘Uustomers

Pay $50 a Seat To Hear Willkie   Republicans Financing His Presence at St. Lou'g, October 15.

Nazi Papers Tell OF Ruin   Martial Law Declared In Bombed Out Essen

Essen Is Scene Of Wide Devastation  Nazi Newspapers Tel At p...tilawx  Nazi Newspapers Tell Of Problems Created by Bombings

Big Nazi City Put Under Martial Law Essen Is Pictured as  a: 5s. Se aes, ee

Nazi Press Pictures Essen As Scene of Devastation Officials Proclaim Martial Law,   Officials Proclaim Martial Law, Evacuate Thousands Daily After Blasting by R AF Raids

Essen Is Scene Of Wide Devastation  Nazi Newspapers Tel   Nazi Newspapers Tell Of Problems Created by Bombings

RESCUE 25 MEN ON PACIFIC FOR 15 DAYS   Two Biscuits, Milk Tablet Daily Rations

25 Men From Torpedoed Ship Saved After 15 Days Adrift In Lifeboat

25 MEN FLOATED T5 DAYS ON SEA   *Jammed*i in Lifeboat: “After Torpedoing.

FAMOUS RAINBOW DIVISION WILL BE RECREATED SOON   Otd 42nd Infantyy of First World War to Have Replica,  Stimson Says

Gen. Collins To Command Rainbow Div.   Assistant Division Commander Will Lead 42d Infantry at Camp Gru-ber, Okla.

RAINBOW DIVISION WILL FIGHT AGKIN   Famous Unit Will Be Reconstituted July 14 at Camp Gruber,

Belle Plant to Get ‘E’ Flag   Ceremonies Planned for da Poot Ca. Jan. 14:

Fear Sea And Land Attacks   Nazi Wrecking Harbor and Trying to Stop Italians Helping Allies

HITLER GOES TO RUSSIAN FRONT AGAIN  Sth Army Makes   5th Army Makes Slow Progress;  8th Moves Fast

Report Nazis Have Fled From City To Escape Possible Trap; Hitler Orders Retreat In Russia Stopped

U-BOATS TRAPPED IN PENS BY RAIDERS   American Attack on Bordeaux Im: mobilizes Many Submarines Preyine on Atlantic Shipping.

Declares Cause Already Lost, In Report to U.S.   Nation’s Chief Warns of Hard Fight: Ahead; Asserts Allies Will Accept Nothing But ‘Total Victory’

loosevelt Promises  } — . lussolini, Fascists  ‘o Be Brought to Tria   Repeats Unconditional Surrender Demand Jpon Axis Nations in Rosy Picture of War; Jutlines Program for Our Veterans

Roosevelt Hints Great Things Due   \taly Virtually Counted Out Of War In Talk: ‘Biager Fights’ Ahead Of Allies

President Virtually Counts italy Out of the : War   BIGGER FIGHTS TO COME, HE ASSERTS   Roosevelt Refrains From Going Into Future Plans

Mussolini And Fascists Will Be Punished For Crimes Against Humanity   STERN WARNING IS GIVEN TO JAPANESE

President Says Total Victory   Will Accept Nothing Less President Asserts in Talk fo Nation   Praises Russia, Urges Aid for Our Soldiers : after the War

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER [5 STEP TQ PEACE   FDR Paints Optimistic Picture Of War At Present T ime; ‘Warns’ Japs   Plans For Veterans

‘Mussolini and His Gang to Be Punished He Says   Warns of Difficult Task; Calls for AllOut on Home Front

Supply Czar For Civilian Needs Named   Whiteside Named Head of New Ageney With Broad Powers

CIVILIAN SUPPLY OFFICE CREATED   Director Is Spokesman On Consumer Goods And Services

CIVILIAN RATIONING BUREAU IS CREATED   Nelson of WPB Appoints Arthur Whiteside to Head Office of Civilian Reauirements.

Whiteside Named As Civilian Czar  Nleealenn fraonteac Naw   Nelson Creates New Office Within WPB; Full Powers Given

Whiteside Made Civilian Czar   Authorized to Decide Rationing Policies, Issue Directives

Nelson Creates  Powerful OCR   Civilian Requirements  Under A. D. Whiteside

-WHITESIDE IS BOSS OF NEW BODY   g Has Power To See That Civilians Share In Consumer Goods

CONGRESS GETS FORMAL REQUES! FROM PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Sends Mustering-Out Pay Message

MUSTERING OUT PAY I ASKED BY FDR   Sends Message to Congress Urging Solons to Draw Up Plan for Soldiers

FDR ASKS FOR MUSTERING OU PAY PLANNING   Nation Must Not Wai Until War’s End

Legislation Asked For  Veterans   Mustering-Out Pay Is Urged By Roosevelt In Message Sent Tc Congress Today

Congress Gets Request From Roosevelt   Wants Action For Care Of Men And Women In Uniform

Asks Congress fo Provide for Armed Forces   President Requests Action at Once on Mustering Out Pay

PRESIDENT OUTLINES PLAN FOR VETERANS   Request Covers Muster ing Out Pay, Social Security Credits

FDR REQUESTS ACTION ON AID TO SERVICEMEN   President Demands Congress Provide Mustering - Out Pay, Security Credits

Urges Definite Measures For Unemployment Allow. ances Also For Men And Women in Uniform

F.D.R. Asks Congress To Consider Postwar Program To Aid Soldiers

Congress Asked to Fomulate Plan for Mustering-Out Pay   President Sends His Request in Message to  Both Houses

MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT ASKES   Roosevelt ‘Urges Congress To Begin Consid” eration ‘Of Pian  -

Roosevelt’s Service Aid Plan Offered      Ashs Congress tut Pros   Payments to Cover Mustering Out   SEES ACTION AUW ‘This Time We Must Have Plans Ready for Our Re dp pning Vetorane’

F. R. Calls For Mustering-Out Pay Provision   Unemployment Benefits For Vets After War Also Declared Vital.

Asks Security Legislation — For Veterans   President Roosevelt Urges Congress to  Act Now to Cushion Return to Civil Life

MUSTERING-OUT PAY FOR YANKS IS CALLED FOR   Roosevelt ‘Requests Con  gress to’.Do. Something  About Providing Unemplovment. Allowances

Asking Congress Not to Wait Too Long.  ‘FDR Wants ActionOnDischarae Pay

Roosevelt Asks Solons te Provide Mustering-Out  Pay for Veterans of War

OW REQUEST: GUNGREGS PAdG VETERANS BILL   Mustering-Out Pay, Jobless, Social Security Credits Among Proposals

FR. Request Benefits for Servicemen   Mustering-Out Pay, Jobless Allowances Asked of Congress

Post-War Soldiers Aid Urged   FDR Calls on Congress To Adopt Program

MUSTERING OUT BENEFITS ASKED   President Asks Congress To Do Something Now About ‘Providing Compensation After War For Men And Women In Uniform.

FDR Asks Action On Soldier Aid  Cunntict& Ta CARA PR eE   Suggests To Congress Special Program For Discharaed Men

Urges Action on: Aid to Veterans.  Roosevelt Would  Have Congress Act Now on Post-War  Assistance Program

Mustering-Out Pay Sought For U.S. Vets  Congress Told By F. R. to Prenare Bill

Asks Muster-Out Pay For Soldiers   President Says Legislation Must Be Made For Re turning Veterans.

F.D.R. Calls for Soldier Scheme   PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT PROVIDING MUSTERING-OUT PAY, UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCES, SECURITY CREDITS

F. R. Requests Legislation For Veterans   Seeks Mus‘ering-Out-Pay, Jobless Allowances and Social Security Credits

Mustering Out Pay Is Requested   Roosevelt Asks Congress to Act. Without Delay to -Provide for War Vets   MERCHANT MARINE INSURANCE ASKED   Must Not ‘Let Them Down,’ President Says,Urging Plans Now for Service Men

URGES ACTION ON MUSTERING-OUT PAY BY CONGRESS   PRESIDENT STRESSES PLANNING FOR RETURN TO PEACE-TIME WORK

PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS TO PLAN TO AD SERVICEMEN  MUSTERING-OUT PAY ANT OTHER ALLOWANCES  QrATITA Br RRATSArr

Roosevelt Asks Congress Act Now to Provide for Soldier:   Proposes Mustering-Out Pay, Job Insurance and Social Security Credits for Men. Women  Wearing Uniforms of U.S.

Requests Congress to Act Immediately.   Wants Action on Providing Mustering Out Pay and Unemployment Allowances.

PRESIDENT REQUESTS PEACETIME CARE FOR ALL IN UNIFORM      Mustering - out Pay, Unemployment Allowances and Security Credits Asked   CONGRESS GETS MESSAGE:

ASKS PLANNED SECURITY FOR cFAVIGE UNIT   Roosevelt Urges Congress to Have Legislation. Ready When Vets Return.

FDR REQUESTS SOLDIER All   Asks Congress for Mustering Out Pay for All Armed Forces

Reds Break Through Nazi Lines And Pose New Threat fo Large Enemy Forces in Dnieper Bend   Russians Inflict ‘Worst: Rout of. Germans Since: Crossing : ‘of Dnieper as They. Unite: ‘Kremenchug:Dneprepetrovsk: Bridgeheads   Roosevelt Asks Immediate Action on Post-War Jobs for Servicemen

DR Requests Securitv For Armed Forces   President Asks Prompt Enactment Of  Unemployment Insuranee Law.   PLANS FOR VETERANS

CLASH STARTS PROBE OF FCC   Chairman Threatens to Call Police to Force Counsel to Keep Seat

HOME IS WRECKED BY GAS EXPLOSION   Woman Shoots Self When She Survives Blast

EXPLOSION WRECKS BUILDING IN MARION   City Police Believe Suicide Attempt Reason

ROSTOV NOW IN HANDS OF RED FORCES   Rail Town Taken; ' Germans: Flee  - Kharkoy

Nazis in Full Retreat From Rostov   Germans Pulling Out Under Ferocious Attack

Nazis Still Flee Back From Rostov   Midnight Russian Communique Reports An Unbroken Round Of Spectacular Successes

DENIES WASTE IN. ARMY CONTRACTS   Patterson. Answers Charges Made By Comptroller General

ARMY CHECKS ARE DEFENDED _ BY PATTERSON   99.95 Percent of Vouchers Approved by Warren, He Says in Denying Charges of Waste

Denies Waste Charge   Patterson Vigorous in Defense of Army Contracting Officers; Cites Excellent Record

Patterson Defends   Army Contractors  ‘Officers Not ‘Inept And Inefficient.’ He Says

DENIES CHARGE OF CONTROLLER   Patterson Replies, to Claims Of Waste and Inefficiency.   ISAYS RECORD IS GOOD

No New Taxes Until Waste Stops—McNary .. Patterson Denies Charge  Money Being “Dished Out With Reckless Abandon”

Patterson Defends Contract Officers  Charges of Inefficiency of Men Bee EJ

War Aide  Denies Charges   PATTERSON HITS CHARGE ON WAR CONTRACTS BY MILITARY OFFICERS

WARREN CLAIMS ARE DENIED BY R. PATTERSON   ‘Undersecretary of War  Says Contracting Offi cers “Not Spending   Money With Reck- .  { less Abandon”

Patterson Defends Army   Denies Charges of Lindsay C. Warren, Comptroller General

Army Officers Are Defended   Patterson Denies to House Committee Property and Money Is Being Wasted

Waste Of U. S. Funds Is Denied   Contracting Officers 0: War Department Are Protecting Public, Is Patterson’s Claim

GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE SLOWS  DUE TO STIFF NAZI COUNTER-ATTACKS   Communiqves From Both Sides Indicate Battle Is One Of Huge Propor tions.

Offensive Stalled in  Donets Basin   Germans Stiffen  With Fresh Troop:

Long-Awaited Offensive In Belgorod Area Costs Nazis Heavily In Men And Materials

Moscow Claims Heavy Casualties Inflicted, Many Tanks Knocked Out

Nazi Gains Wiped Out In Rollback By Soviet Lines   Lost Ground Retaken 738 German Tank: Smashed By Red: On Battlefield

Nazis Use Huge Tanks Without Regard for Loss   Reds Admit Slight Enemy Gains as Offensive Starts

GERMANS IN DRIVE ON RUSSIANS   Fierce Fighting Costs Nazis High Toll In.Casualties

Fierce Fighting  Continues on New  Russian Front Soviets Beat Off  Germans, Inflict Heavy Casualties

FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUED ALONG EASTERN FRONT  MANY NAZI TROOPS SLA   MANY NAZI TROOPS SLAIN AND HUNDREDS TANKS ARE REPORTED WRECKED

Third Wear:Bond Sale Will Start Thursday, Sept. 9   Open Booth at Fair; Banks in Charge of Sales   All Elements Considered

THIRD WAR BOND DRIVE SEPT. 9TH      Quotas Not Yet Announced, but They WHI Re a Little Over Halt of Spring Pledges

Airborne Rocket Guns Can’t Keep U.S. Out...  Nazis Must Do Better Than Aerial Rockets

Recent Big Scale Air Raids  Prove ''Secret Weapon’  Not Succeeding  cs oF \  DUMP HEAVY TONNAGE!

More Than Rocket Guns Are Needed To Stop Allied Bombing Raids On Germany

Cermans Need More Than Rocket Guns to Stop Allied Bombing: American Fighter Planes Are Besting Nazis

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Berlin Radio Broadcasts Bangkok Partly Destroyed By Five-Hour Allied Raid

BOOKS WILL BE PICKED UP HERE FRIDAY, FEB..12   Collections in Chariton Are to Be Made From 8 a.m, Until 10 a mm.   BOY SCOUTS TO DO JOB   Trucks Will Collect Books at Salvage Stations in Outlying Towns.

BOOKS WILL BE PICKED UP HERE FRIDAY, FEB. 12   t - 7 é Collections in Chariton Are i to Be Made From 8  a. m. Until 10  \ 9. +m.   BOY SCOUTS TO DO JOB   Trucks Will Collect Books  at Salvage Stations in  Outlying Towns,

Morgenthau Tax Proposal Given Cool Receptior   Sizeable Hike In Income Corporation, Luxury Levies Seen

Request 40 percent increase in personal income tax levies   Heaviest collections would fall upen the individual tax’ paver

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Silence Of American Armies Worries Axis   Menace Of U. S. Fifth and Seventh Hangs Over Whole Of Southern War Theater; Two Or Three Blows Expected

Axis Fears New Allied Landings  Are Worried About American Actions

Silence About  U. S. Troops Worries Axis   Berlin Radio Claims Axis Prepared for ‘Two or Three Blows Against Continent” Simultaneously; Patton’s Army Stands By

Speculation Rife _ On Allied Invasion   Whereabouts of American Forces Prompts Guess That Assault on West Cecast of Italy. Is Pending —

Silence Regarding Yanks Brings Belief Europe is Facing Series of Attack   Speculation Heard Over Whereahouts "OF American Seventh and Fifth  emies: Other Blows Likely

Whereabouts Of Americans Worries Axis   Berlin Radio Says Axis Prepared for Several — BRlows at Cantinent   POWERFUL ARMIES  POISED FOR ACTION

Yankees May Give Enemy Great Surprise i in Italy   Plans of Army Are  Greatest of Current Enigmas

U.S. forces expected in action soon   American silence worries Germans

ITALY MAY BE HiT AT. SOME NEW POINTS   Speculation Rife As Silence Hides Plans Of Invasion Generals, Crack Armies Poised To Strike   Clean Up Strait

American Force Reported Ready lo Attack Nazis   Invasion of Balkans 's Hinted in London

Believe Yanks To Strike Soon   Ponder Whereabouts Of American Forces

Cash Subsidies to 3,000,000 Dairymen Are Ordered Today   Restrictions Placed on etail Consumption  of Milk by WFA

WFA Orders Curb on Milk  Consumption   Cash Subsidies to Producers te Avoid Increase in Prices

Order Subsidies To Dairy Farmer:  Producers Oppose Benefits; Want Higher Retail Prices

; SUBSIDIES TO DAIRYMEN AND CUTS IN "CONSUMPTION ORDERED T0 CONTROL MILK

COVT. ORDERS — CASH SUBSIDIES FOR SOME DAIRIES   Restriction of Retail Consumption Planned In Heavily Populated Areas

MILK CONSUMPTION BEING RESTRICTED   Cash Subsidies, Restrictions Placed In Effect

House Approve: Draft Measure By Voice Vote   All Non-Fathers Would Be Taken before Fathers Are Drafted   Measure Increasing Servicemen’s Dependency Allowances Signed

Dependent Pay Bill Is Signed   Service Men's Families To Get More Cash

DEPENDENCY BILL —SGNED-BY+F DR   Service Allowances Raised By Action; Caution About Delay

ROOSEVELT SIGNS DEPENDENCY BILL   INCREASED PAYMENTS TO RELATIVES OF SERVICE MEN GO INTO EFFECT.

PAY INCREACED TO DEPENDENTS   Families Of Servicemen (;et Bigger Payment From Government

DEPENDENCY BOOSTS APPROVED BY FDR   Monthly Payments to be Raised Under the Measure *

Servicemen’s Dependents To Get. Higher Allotments ‘As Roosevelt Signs Bill

U.S. Bomber Hits Big Jap Ship, Leaves It Afire  Allies Keep Striking Over Pacific; Raids Are Continued

SKIP- BOMBING DAMAGES VESSEL   Liberators Flush Jap Transport in Humboldt Bay in Dutch New Guinea; Nips Stage Flea-Bite Raid

Lone American Bomber Blasts Jap Transport   Single Liberator Hits Bi Ship Twice, Sets If Afire

FDR’S WIFE EXPECTED  IN ATISTRALIA NEX’  AU   Nation's Capital Preparing Series of Functions In Anticipation Visit

Air Superiority Is Held by Allies   Japanese Admit South Seas Ratio”

Senate Puts Final Stamp Of Approval   Measure Is Now Awaiting Action By President.

SENATE PASSES AND SENDS NEW TAX BILL TO PRESIDENT   Measure Is Expected to Become The Law   THINK PRESIDENT WILL NOT VETO [IT

TAX MEASURE PASSED; SENT TO PRESIDENT   Pay-As-You-Go Bill Is Approved by Senate, 62 to 19

Pay-as-You-Go ls Finally Passed   New Tax Measure Sent to President

TAX MEASURE GOES TO FDR   President is Expected to Let Pay-As-You-Go Bill Heciaelsw 

New Tax Bill Goes To FDR   Long Battle Ends As Upper House Passes Plan 62-19

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Bill Given Senate Approval   Now Goes to Roosevel Who Is Expected To Sign It Soon   Revised Measure Abates Large Part of One  Year's Taxes   Some of the Change«

Tax Bill Voted By Senate, 62-1'   Measure Now Goes To White House

Senate Sends Tax Measure To President   Pay-as-Go Bill Passes Upper House 62-19

Abating Provision  Included   Final Historic Senate Vote Is 6? To 19.

SENATE SENDS TAX MEASURE TO ROOSEVELT   Compromise Pay-Go Bill Approved 62 To 19; Abates 75 To 100 Per Cent   Radical Changes Due

Final Approval Given By 26 To : 19 Vote After’ ~  Lone Debate   Plan Abates 75 to ft Per Cent of Year's Pay ments; Senate Appro yal Follows Approva By House:

TAX MEASURE EXPECTED 10 BECOME LAW   President Said to Have Assured Congressional Leaders He Would Not Veto Plan.   ENACTMENT ENDS  4-MONTH BATTLI   Compromise ‘Legislation Abates 75 to ‘100 Per  - Cent: of One Year’s Payments.

_ Senate Approves ” Pay as You Go Legislation   Expect Measure to Get Presidential Approval Soon

GOES TO FDR   President is Expected to Let Pay-As-You-Go Bill Become Law

Senate Votes Compromise Tax Measure   62-19 Vote Recorded ~ On Bill: Awaits FDR's Favor

SENATE VOTE ‘ENDSTAXROW OF 4 MONTHS   Compromise Bill Gets  ’ Congress

Tax Bill To President  Me Bh ele Pox:   Mr. Roosevelt To Lai It Become Law

NEW INCOME TAX MEASURE PASSES, 62-19   PAY-AS-YOU-GO BILL ABATES PART OF LESSER LEVIES

Senate Passes Compromise Tax Measure   Report President  Will Let Bill  Become Law ENDS LONG FIGHT   Withholding Levy  Scheduled to Go Into Effect July 1

: Four Months of Bitter Congressional Battling Ends as Senate : Stamps Final Approval on Compromise Pay-as-You-Go Tax Bil

WILL WORK IN MARICOPA AND PINAL   Solons Protest Plan Will Prove inadequate

TROOPS ASSIST JIN GATHERING COTTON AT PHOENIX, ARIZ.   FDR Approves Policy. Of Using Army Units On Farms Where  Wisk oe wee

Army Orders Soldiers To Harvest Crop:   Troops Will Work in Cotton Fields in Arizona

Troop Units to Help Harvest Cotton Crop in Arizona Under New Policy Approved by FDR

Troops to Help Harvest Cotion   Step to Ease Farm Labor Shortage

TROOPS AID IN COTTON FIELDS   ARIZONA LINT HARVEST FIRST ARMY FARM JOB

First Lake Trip ~ Friday Evening   City Of Grand Rapids   Raady For Service

‘Sth Army Opens New Drive: Seizes Two Strategic Heights  German Line Before Rome Reported   German Line Before Rome Reported Cracking; Retreat Under Way

Yanks Take Key Heights   FIFTH ARMY NABS RIDGE OF MASSICO, SAN CROCE MOUNTAIN IN NEW WINS

GERMANS START RETREATING 10 THE NORTHWARD   Strategic Ridge Taken by Amer ican Fifth While British Also Pursue Advantage in Italy.

NAZIS RETREAT AS LINE BREAKS UNDER POUNDING   Bombers Raid Austrian City

ECONOMY DRIVE TO PUT CRIMP IN CONGRESS’ FUND   House Committee Moves To Cut Expenses for Ye~ Starting Next July   OTHER FUNDS ARE CUT   More Than Million Dollars Lopped from Estimates Included in Budget

CONGRESS CUTS ITS OWN FUNDS   Committee Votes Less Money For Senate, House

CONGRESS TO GET — ALONG WITH LESS MONEY THIS YEAF   House Appropriations Committee Slashes $217,374 From Bill.   BUDGET ESTIMATE DOWN   Eliminates Clerk of the Dis. trict Court Here, It Is Said.

epuly U. S. Court Clerk ob Here May be Abolished   lgressional Appropriations Committee Recommends Position Be Dropped At Cumberland, Big Stone Gap and Charlottesville, Va., In Line With Drastic Economy Move

CONGRESS 10 OPERATE WITH LESS MONEY   Appropriation For House And Senate Is Out

 House Committee Trims Funds; Says . Painting of Capitol Dome Must Wait

ECONOMY DRIVE STRIKES HOME   CONGRESS ASKED TO GET ALONG WITH LESS MONEY

ECONOMY MINDED COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS CONGRESS GE ALONGONLESSMONEY      Recommended Expenditure For Various Governing Branches Wil)/Be $3,166,819 Below Current Year’s Appropriations.

House Committee Proposes Congress  Get Along With Less Money Next Year

HOUSE COMMITTEE  WOULD CUT ITS OWN  EXPENSE ACCOUNT ECONOMY GOES SO FAR  AS TO REFUSE PAINT CAPITOL NOME

Chinese Open Counterblow in Burma Area   American Airmen Help Inflict Heavy Casualties

CHINESE STRIKE ALONG SALWEEN   Heavy Casualties Are Inflicted, Many Jap Prisoners Taken

DONATION BILLS WILL BE VETOED   Time ‘Inexpedient’ For Tax Remission, Goyernor Says

ORIENT'S PLACE IN BRAVE NEW WORLD   Some of Problems To Be : Discussed At Public  Civic Forum

Civic Forum To  Meet Wednesday  Discuss Post War Status Of Orient

Taxicab Driver  Held In Slaying   Police Say New Jersey Man Admits Slaying Wife Who Joined W.A.C.

Land Cites Need For More Ships   Have Greater Tonnage  Than One Year Ago

LAND SAYS SHIPS SHOULD BEFIRST IN CONSTRUCTION   Denies German Claim Rela: tive to Heavy Loss, Ton: nage ls Now Greater Thar It Was Year Ago.   BUILDING IS UP 4000  PER CENT IN 5 YEARS   $9,000,000 Tons This Year _Js Near Capacity, Output “Last Year Is Reported at 8,000,000 Tons.

INDICT FIVE MEN IN LYNCHING CASE   Grand Jury Steps In; Charge Jailer Failed to Lock MobProof Door

U.S, JURY INDICTS ® 5 AFTER LYNCHING   Southerners See Invasion of d State’s Rights

FIVE INDICTED FOR LYNCHING IN MISSISSIPPI   Jones County Deputy Sher. iff and Jailer Among Those Charged In Federal Indictment   HANGED NEGRO   Move Regarded As Another, Federal.Attempt On, Invasion States’ Riglits;” Editorial Claims

Five Indicted InLyneh Quiz   Federal Government Acts “Tn Mississippi. Death ; © ’ Protest Atoused

SOUTHERNERS IRKED BY LYNCHING PROBE   Invasion of States’ Rights by Government Hinted

USS. Tags Five In Southern Lynch Party   Jailer Among Accused Indicted Under Civil Liberties Statute.

Japs Waging Fierce Fight   Rear Guard Battles Fouaht In New Guinea

No Iowa State Fair In 1944 Says Sec. Lloyd Cunningham   State Capitol’ News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent

to Liven ¥. Year iva at State Capital ©   ‘Some Think That Johnson ‘May -Run for. Goverrtor

Attack Is Called Heaviest Of War   Nazis Desperately Flying Fresh Troops To Tunisia In Effort To Avert Disacter

SOUTH PARTY — S PROPOSED   SENATOR BYRD SAYS HE IS ‘ NOT CANDIDATE FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR. PRESI' REC Y

Senator Byrd Not Candidate   Says He Would Not Accept Nomination Of Southern Democrat Area   GUFFEY CAUSE OF TURMOIL IN PART’

ALL OF AKRON’S TRANSPORT IDLE   Strike of 200 Ties Ap Car, Bus and Trolley Lines 50,000 Walk

AKRON STRIKE “STOPS TRAFFIL   ALL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION  “BYGPPED BY SUDDEN  WALKOUT BE MEM  BERS OF CIO. UNION .

STRIKES STALL CHRYSLER LINE   Six Factories Closed With 27,500 Men Idle

27,500 Leave Chrysler Jobs   Employes of Sixth War _ Plant Join Strike; Region WLB Opens Conference

CHRYSLER PLANTS FAGE WORK STOPPAGE   Strike May Stop Firms Complete War Effort

Strike Spreads To Six Detroif War Factories  Conciliatory Move \ Is Made By War 5 ahawe Ranava

21,500 Chrysler Workers Strike; 6 Plants Close   85,000 Will Be Idle If Walkout Spreads To *. Tank -Arsenal

85.000 May Be Affected By Striking   27,500 Staying Away From Their Jobs In  Chrysler Plants; No Authorized Action

CHRYSLER WAR PLANT WORKER‘ CUT ON STRIKE   Employes of Sixth Plant Join U. A. W. Strilkers.

27,500 Strike In War Plants   Six Chrysler Corporation Units Join In Unauthoriz  ed Walkout.

Strike May Tie Up All Of Chrysler   War Effort to Get Real Setback If Workers Dc ' Not Return Soon

Union Director Blames CI0UAW Leader As Principal Figure.   20.000 WORKERS IDLE

MEETING CALLED 10 ATTEMPT SETTLEMENT      is Detroit's Most Serious Work Stoppage Sinca Pearl Harbor

OIATH OF CHRYOLER PLANTS SHUT DOWN   Union Official Blames Fellow Leaders For Strikes

DETROIT STRIKE GROWS      Walkout at Chrysler Plant In“eludes 27,500 Men.

10,000 ‘OUT IN CHRYSLER STRIKE   Work Stoppage Threat ens 85,000 Workers Of  Cerporation

TWO WOMEN HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Car Struck by Tractor. Trailer in Square at Downsville

LAST JEWS SENT FROM HOLLAND   Germans Have Completed Deportation Of All Netherlands Jews To Poland.

LAST OF DUTCH JEWS DEPORTED   Reported Taken to Poland by Germans

Last Jews In Amsterdam Deported To Poland By Germans: -180.000 Gond

Alleged Berth ‘Slayer's Hearing Is Postponed Until Attorney Arrives

FARM LOANS.   Ernest Vawter Named County AAA Loan Représentative.

Iowa Firms To Pay More Security Tax   Employer Contribution to Security Fund Is Raised - As of July 1

‘African Air Force Hurls Full Power at Nazis Near Salerno   Every Plane in Northwest Command Used in 24-Hour, 2,000-Sortie Blow to Set Record in History of Mediterranean Flying.

Terrific Air Attack Hits Nazi Forces   Allies Hurl Every Plane In Command Into Blistering Assault on Germans

Airforce Hurls Every Plane in Salerno Battle   More Than 2,000 Sorties  Made by Americans in Greatest Aerial Attack.   Concentrate Attack on Few Miles of Italy

Every Plane Hurled Into “* Salerno Area   More Than 2000 Sorties Are  Flown By Allies in Backing Up Infantry   NO OPPOSITION 4 FROM THE ENEMY

FLYING FORTS POUND NAZIS IN SALERNO AREA   Big Bombers Join Fighters in Greatest Air Aifack in Hislory of Mediterranean Fighting

In Terrific. Air Attack   Allies Hurl Every Available Plane Into Struggle for Salerno

Warplanes Fill Skies of Italy  Great Air Attack Staged by Allies

Nazis Take a Beating Forts Pound Germans for 24 Hours In Salerno Area

Oil Wells Out Of Action Due To Floods   Sabine River Roars Out Of Banks To An All.Time High

Hundreds Of Oil Wells Flooded In East Texas   Sabine Out Of Banks  3 Major Highway: Closed; Farmland: Inundated

East Texas Wells Flooded as Sabine Swirls Over Banks   Wood, Van Zandt, Smith Counties. _ Are JInundated

Puerto Rico Conditions Reported Ill   SENATCR TAFT BACK FROM ISLAND REPORTS CONFUSION, OVERLAPPING, DUPLICATION OF GOVERNMENT.   Adopt Socialistic Ideas

Churchill reprimands politicians   ‘Fools to count on nazi collapse’

Churchill Raps Politicians Of United States   ‘Fighting Equally As Hard As Soldiers,’ He Tells House

U.S. Policies Under Fire By Churchill   Squabbling. as War Rages Censured in Addtess'to Commons

F, D. ANSWERS SENATORS ON U. $. POLICIES   Two Senate Committees Delve Into Foreign Relations

War Critics in U.S. Assailed : By Churchill   Politicians Are ‘Rebuked for Banoninatin Row

kekRekk * kk ek * W artime Political Quarrels  In U. S. Irk Prime Minister

HOPE IN COOL BREAK   May Help Stem Spread of Infantile Paralysis

Polio Cases On Increase   84 More in State Last Week; Only One, So Far Listed in Allen County

General Visits Fighting Front   Clark Congratulates Men at Salerno

Exchange Ship Sails for Orient   Carries Supphes For Prisoners of Japs

Exchange Liner Sails for Orient   Will Return Interned Yanks From Japan

EXCHANGE LINER ~ OFF FOR ORIENT   Gripsholm Leaves New York to Return Internees of Japanese

For Orient With Japs for Exchange 1250 Americans  May Arrive in U.S. in December

Gri 3S.10.m._eaves Wi21_,22 . .2)8, anh 0 Sine 3a¢<”.,25 > /.mericans

Gripsholm Leaves For the Orient   To Bring Back 1,250 American Citizens Held by Japanese

GRIPSHOLM Ott ON 2ND VOYAGE   Swedish Exchange Liner Will Meet Japanese Ship In Portuguese India.

Gripsholm Sails to Get 1250 Americans Who Hav Been Japanese Prisoners

Gripsholm Will Bring — Back 1,250 Americans Now In Hands Of Japs

Honor Memory Of Abe Lincolr   Birthday Fete Held At  Peace Temple   Wreath In Memory Of Abe Lincoln's Mother Is Placed

Honor Memory Of Lincoln’s Mother On His Birthday   Indiana Grave  Is Shrine Site

rRIBUTE PAID TO MEMORY: OF LINCOLN’S MOTHER; WREATH IS PLACED ON GRAVE BY CROUP

In Tribute To Abe’s Mother   Annual, Pilgrimage To Burial Place Held

PUSH ACTION ON CONNALLY STRIKE BILL   Senate prepares to rush through measure outlawing walk-outs

KNOX PREDICTS TRIUMPH. SOON   Navy Secretary Says Resist.   ance on Guadalcanal to  End in 30 Days

Guadalcanal fo Be Cleaned Up   - Organized Resistance To Disappear, Asserts Secretary Knox

AGSE . STEED iG: WORLD WA   NO PATRONAGE. RAIDS   Local Opticn  Drive Slows Down.as: Legislators P Keep Silent.

ASSEMBLY Io AFFECTED GY WORLO WAR   Policy of Streamlining Session Keeps Bills at the Minimum.   NO PATRONAGE RAIDS   Local Opticn Drive Slows Down as Legislators Keep Silent.

Nuns Who Operate Hospifal in Tunisia — Prove Themselves Real Angels Of Mercy To Wounded American And British Men

SEAL DOOM OF LAST JAPS IN SOLOMON   K olombangara Isle To Be Flanked  By Americans

YANKS DRIVE JAPS OUT OF NEW GEORGIA   Japs Sneak Out of Bairoko Harbor Under Cover. of Night

Jap Garrison Faces Threat   Kolombangara Group Is Nearly Encircled

RADICALLY REVISED TEXAS ELECTION LAW HEADED FOR SENATE   AUTHOR OF BILL SAYS IT WILL HALT “NEFARIOUS CAMPAICN SPENDING”

Bill Revising Campaign Expense. Law. Passes Initial Lesislative Test

Big Hagerstown Plant Swept by Fire; 7 Injured   Paint Shop Is Nearly Ruined

High Command Announces ‘Evacuation of City Held Twa Years     A HUGE RED VICTORY  NE LE   Retirement From “the Cit Was in Good Order, . Nazi Assert

High Command Announces ‘Evacuation of City Held — _Twg Years  ‘A HUGE RED VICTORY      Retirement From “the City Was in Good Order, .  Nazi Assert ~

Italians Calm as They Learn News  Telephone Lines and Traffic Reopened ™w fF ' . 4 - 

English Authority Claims No Move Made For Wars End; Duce’s Wherebout Unknown

Churchill Says War Will Be Pursued Against Italy Until That Nation Surrenders Uncondftionally

Allies Awaiting Formal Move By ltaly For Peace   British Report Says No Formal Step Has As Yet Been Taken   WAR CONTINUES WITHOUT LETUP

Allies Pouring Stream of Munitions Into Bari, Italy for Next Invasion Step

Says Rains About Over   Floods in Northeast And Neosho Slopping Over at Burlington

CLEARING UPRIVER   Kaw Recedes Slightly at  Topeka; Blue Crest Nears the Kaw

Check Blackout Test in State   Two Operations Performed at McKeesport Hospital

Blackout Success In Co. Sector   “One and a Half” Violations Reported in Borough

Rural Eighth Grade Examinations Will Be Held From May 1 to May 14   County School Head Names Date And Place

Rank And File To Heed Order Only If Lewis Says So   Drastic Exercise Of Wartime Powers May Be Necessary For Roosevelt To Break Idle Front, Specific Action Is Not Indicated.

Japs in Marshall Islands To Face Death or Retreat   Authorities Convinced Strategic Location Cannot Be Held By Enemy Without A Decisive Fleet Action

Enemy Forces There Havre But Two ‘Choices: Retreat or Annihilation

A Minister Stabbed By Man He Shot   New Orleans Rector Held Under Guard In Weird Tangle

STABBED MINISTER HELD FOR SHOOTING   Rector Admits Turning Gun On Ex-secretary’s Husband

Rector Is Held After Shooting   New Orleans Minister Ad mits Shooting Former Sec‘ vetary, Husband.

Wounded Cleric Held by Police Atter Shooting   Former Secretary And Her Husband Shot by Clergyman

Attu Casualties Final Total 1,535   With Organized Resistance Ended, U. S. Dead Set at 342.

34 AMERICANS DEAD ON ATTL   58 Missing, 1135 Wounded In Capturing Island

Attu Victory Cost 1,535 Casualties   Navy Says Japs’ Losses Are Higher

YANKS LOSE 342   Total U. S. Casualties on Attu Listed at 1.535.

4] AMERICAN TROUPS KYLLEL IN ATT! BATTLE   Total Casualties Only 1.535 Navy Announces Today In Its Communique

FDR Message Delivered To  Pres. Inonu   Turkish Leader Thanks U. S. Chief For Expressions

Committee Approves Bill Authorizing Sale O1 Treasury-Held Silver

OF SILVER   Compromise With “New Englanders On 71.11 Cents Ounce’

Weekend May Tell The Story   British Going Forwaré Slowly on Mareth Line, Is Reported

EIGHT TEACHE COLLEGES MAY BE SOLD   Executive Cites Increasing Cost of Education

Martin Urges Sale or Lease of 8 Teachers’ Colleges to Government

SOAP SALES TOP OUTPUT   Gov't Officials, However. Discount Possibility Of Rationing

Federal Funds to Combat Farm Labor Shortages Sought   War Food Administrator Marvin Jones Outlines Program

Farm Labor ~ Plan Is Up For Action   House Appropriations Committee Disagrees on Administration 

Disagree on Plan For Farm Labor   House Committee to Reconsider Bill; Jones Asks  For Financing.

Butter Scarce  Jn Washington   First Lady Is. Foreeds Te Do Without Car -Use ‘Proves ‘Problem. .

Post-War Experts Named By Legior  Will Present Medal Te Gen. Marshall

Yanks Advance Upon Randazzo  As British Gain   American Seventh Army Penetrates To Within Four Miles Of Strategic Hub   WARSHIPS AIDING LAND ADVANCES  (RITT.T.FTIN \

Forty-three axis planes destroyed in fierce battles   Targets near Rome pelted by allied raider power

Land Patrols Raid Crete   Destroy Enemy Aircraft On Ground, Get Out Safely

Axis Airfields Blasted In U. 5. Raids On Sicily   43 Enemy Planes Shot Down: Aerial Resistance Mounts

Withdraw After Striking At Air Fields   Five of Sicily’s Major Landing Fields Feel Brunt of Bombing Attacks; 43 Axis Fighters Shot Down.

British Land Forees Raid  ‘Crete Airfields      First Commando Raid On Island Carried Out Successfully.

British Commando Raids Hit Crete; Axis Loses 43 Fighters Over Sicily

Allies Beating U-Boat Menace   ‘More Than Holding Ou Own’—Churchill

HOLDING OUR OWN IN U-BOAT WARFARE   Knox Report of March Shipping Losses Brings Statement by Churchill

More Than Holding Our Own Against The Subs, Mr. Churchill Declares

CHURCHILL SAYS WE ARE MORE THAN HOLDING OUR OWN   Reiterated Statement in the  : House of Commons  : Today.   AGAINST NAZI U-BOATS   The Prime Minister Agreed With Statement of Secretary Knox.

Churchill Scotfs At Sub Danger  Allies Holding Own, Primo MAinicter Save

‘Ar ‘e More Than Holding Own Tn U- Boat War   Churchill Tells House Of Progress Of Atlantic Battle

Allies Gain in U-Boat Warfare   “We Are More Than Holding Our Own,” Says Churchill

United Nations More Than Holding Own in Atlantic, Churchill Advises Commons

MORE THAN HOLDING OWN IN BATTLE AGAINST SUBS IN ATLANTIC, CHURCHILL SAYS

‘HOLDING OUR OWN’ WITH SUBS, BELIEF      Churchill’s View of Sea War Growing Brighter

U-BOAT WAR PROGRESSING FAVORABLY   Churchill Says Allies Are Holding Own

OTTAWA TALK IS SCHEDULED BY ROOSEVEL   COMPLETE HARMONY IS REPORTED IN WAR STRATEGY

FDR TO TALK TO CANADIAN PARLIAMEN]   Hull Joins Parley For Discussion of Political Problems

PRESIDENT TO GIVE ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT   Churchill May Not Accompany Roosevit To Ottawa Next Wednesday   HULL ARRIVES FOR QUEBEC CONFERENCE

F. D. R. Will Address Informal Meet of. Canada’s Parliament   Brief Speech Will Be Broadcast Next Wednesday, Following Completion of Strategy Conference Held at Quebec

Canadian Parliament  ToHearF DR   Address To Come Wednesday Alter Quebec Conferenc:

FDR, Churchill Make Progress In War Talks   Parley to End Tuesday: President to Address  QenntiagT ecsicclk:.

President Plans Talk to Canada  Parliament   Speech Wednesday To Mark End of War  Conference at Quebec

FDR To Speak To Canadian. Parliament  Conference at Ouebec to End   Conference at Quebec to End Next Tuesday

HULT, JOINS © QUEBEC WAR CONFERENCE   President and Churchil Catch Up On Current Tasks. Work In Har. mony

Koosevelt to speak at informal meet of Canada parliament   Matter of closer co-ordination with Russia one of foremost problems

QUEBEC GROUP DEALING WITH BIG PROBLEMS   Closer Coordination - With Russia Is  Foremost

iConference Makes Excellent Progress: President Roosevelt Will Address  Canadian Parliament Next Wednesday

Roosevelt Will Address . Canadian Legislators , At Ottawa  HULL ARRIVES TO JOIN IN PARLEYS  Secretary of State and Anthony Eden to Discuss - .Pegaram'

Conference To Close Tuesday   Complete Harmony Reported In Talks  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

TWO-MEN BRITISH SUBMARINES ATTACK GERMAN BATTLESHIP  LITTLE U.BOATS OPER  LITTLE U.BOATS OPERATED 1,000 MILES FROM THEIR BASE

Two-Man Subs Damaged Tirpitz   Knox Tells Of Daring  Norse Invasion

KEEP STEADY ae         Algiers Report of With-: drawals Are Denied as New. Advances Develop.   AMERICANS DRIVE TOWARD F RE Uk   Germans Admit - ‘That Rommel Is Now on the Defensive. = 9 3...   BULLETIN

BRITISH 8TH ARMY  MAKES NEW GAINS  IN TUNISIA FIGHT AMERICANS LAUNCH  SURPRISE DRIVE TOWARD FONDOLUK

Rolling Eighth Army  Batters Down Foe Barriers at Mareth   AMERICAN TROOPS SLASH TOWARD FONDOUK IN SURPRISE MOVE; BRITISH FIRST ARMY LASHES OUT IN “RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE”

Keeping Up Steady Drive On Defenses   British Meeting With Determined Resistance; Yanks in New Smash

U.S. Launches Surprise Push In Mid Tunisia   Americans Make Gooe Headway Toward Fon: douk In Central Zone   BTH ARMY SCORES   Montgomery Overcome: Stiff Resistance In Mareth Line Thrust

Americans Hit In Mid-Tinisia   ~+- Push Toward Fondouk Making Good Headway

Sales Tax Levy Rejected By  {louse Committe   Had Information Roosevelt Would  Veto Measure

MOSCOW REPORT IS UP TO HULL, SOLONS BELIEVE   House Members Hope Secretary Will Reveal Work at Parley

Congressmen Want Details On Conference   Resolutions Adopted Inviting Secretary Hull To Tell Congress About the Russian Meeting.

U.S. Increases  Lend-Lease Aidto Russia   Shipments Show 35° Gain Over Year Ago: Planes, Trucks. Tons of Foodstuffs Sent

Report on Aid Sent To Soviet  Nearly Two Billion Bin Ccommitcnn Gand

AID TO RUSSIA NOW RUNNING INTO BILLIONS   ‘SEVERAL THOUSAND’ PLANES SHIPPED LEND-LEASE

U. 5. Increases Aid to Russia By 35 Per Cent   Thousands of Planes, Jeeps, Trucks, Tons Of Food Sent Reds

Lend-Lease To Reds Speeded Up   Almost Two Billion In Goods, War Material Now Sent

AID FOR AUGGTANG NEARLY 2 BILLION   Large Majority of Shipments Reached Destination Safely.

Russia Gets US. Products   Report On Lend-Lease Given By Stettinius

UNITED STATES ARSENAL OPENED   Lend - Lease Administration Gives Detailed Report on Aid to Russia.

Increased Aid  To Reds Reported   35 Per Cent Boost In U. S. Lend-Lease

Most Senators Favor International Collaboration, AP Survey Reveals

OPINIONS VARY ON POST-WAR COLLABORATION   AP Polls Senators on Fulbright Peace Resolution

SENATE MAJORITY FAVORS POSTWAR COLLABORATION   HOLD DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS ON FOREIGN POLICY

Senate tas Varied View on Peace Plar   Poll Shows 42 Out of 89 Senators Favor House Approved Fulbright Resolution

Senate Divided on Postwar Plar  ‘Many Different Viewpoints Found

MOST OF SENATORS FOR COLLABORATION   Associated Press Poll Shows There Are Many Viewpoints.

Solons Favor Collaboration After The War   Forty-Two Favor Principle Of Fulbright Resolution

ASSOCIATED PRESS BELIEVES ‘ITS STAFF WILL CONTINUE TO \MERIT APPROVAL DURING WAR

oat ca Here On Military Mission, General Pledges France Will Fight, Help Build Peace

NO RECOGNITION OF FRANCE DOMINATED BY NAZIS, SAYS FDR   Giraud, In U. 5, To Discuss Allied Military Questions, May Be Unable To Avoid Politics

LOSS OF SIX WARSHIPS BY U.S. DISCLOSEL   Brings to 124 Total Vessels Lost by America in War

FOOD SUBSIDY LIMIT VOTED   Senate Committee Favors  . * 500 Million Top

Food Subsidy Bill For 500 Millions In Senate Fight   Congressional — Legislation Is Intended to Force  Down Food Prices.   Administration Sought Billion Dollar Limit

Food Subsidy Fund Voted   Senate Group Favors $500,000,000 Yearly in Government Payments

Subsidy Limit Is Voted   «By Senate Committee: Floor Battle Ahead

Price Subsidy Foes Demand  Finish Fight   Rollback Program Taken _ To Senate Floor Today As Compromise Fails

Half Billion Limit on Subsidy Fund Is  Proposed in Senate   Finish Fight on Fate of CC on Senate Floor   Demanded Today

Suggest Limit For Subsidies   Banking Committee Approves Measure To Limit Payments To $500 Million

LIMIT IS PROPOSED FOR FOOD SUBSIDIES   Most Liberal Offer Yet Bul Scrap Is Expected

Hike Limit On Subsidy  Payments   ‘Taft Proposal Revised in  Committee, Permitting a  Fund of $800,000,000   & STIFF FLOOR BATTLE LOOMS   Administration Is Seeking One Billion; Various Other Proposals Offered

Subsidy Issue Is Forced Onto Floor Of Senate   Fight To A Finish Is Assured As Compromise Efforts Fail.

Allies Stop Counter-Attacks At Mareth and Central Tunisia   Rommel Strikes at Mareth Line: Afrika Korps Repulsed by Yanks

Rommel Makes © Counter-Drives  Against Allies   Churchill Warns Hard Battles ' Ahead in Tunisia as Axis TLines Stiffen _

300 Strike Protesting Deferment   LOADING MACHINE OPERATOR HELD ESSENTIAL TO OPERATING MINE HAS HAD TWO DEFERMENTS AIDREADY.   Montour No. 4 Short 100

Girl Goes On Spending Spree With $2,000 Taken From Employer's Flat

Munich, Nurnberg Badly Battered   Lull Occurs in Tunisian Fighting; Double Threat Confronts Rommel

Nazi Press Admits Vast Devastation In Wake of Raids   Effectiveness of Allied Raids Indicated by Angry Comment of the German Press; Seek Pope’s Intervention ©

Numberg Also Gets Blasting   Nazis Reported Appealing to Pope to Stop Raids on  German Cities

Army Fliers Reach Safety After 2 Weeks In Badlands   Five Of Comrades Were Rescued Beside Plane Yesterday ——Bomber Forced Down On Shores Of Loon Lake

Three Army Flyers Safe After Two-Week Struggle _ Through Frozen Badlands

3 Half-frozen Army Fliers Hike to Cabin After Bomber Cracks Up on Frozen Lake

Ohio Assembly Aims to Close Session in April   Conferences Held With Bricker on  Remaining Work

ASSEMBLY LEADERS SEEK ADJOURNMENT AROUND MAY FIRST   Apply Pressure on All Proceedings So That Legislative Sessions May End.

SLAIN AS QUISLINGS   Yugoslav Partisans Execute 17 Accused of Aiding Nazis

/ THREE JAP SHIPS HIT IN RAID ON NEW GUINEA _BY MACARTHUR BOMBERS

Three Jap Ships Smashed in Raid  On Amboina Base   Large Trans port Left Aflame; Also Raid Ship. ping, Supply Stations

Germans Are Not Trying to Hold Line at Dnieper   Nazis Are in Full Flight From Kuban Footing in Caucasus

CHEMINBURG THREATENED BY RED ARMY   Elsewhere On War Scene. Big Bombers Are Given Rest And Allies Gain On New Guinea

NEW DEFENSE PAST DNIEPER   Spokesman Asserts Troops Will Retreat On West Of River Before Stand

Germans Retreat West Of Dnieper  To New Defenses   Reds Blast Caucasus Force In Full Flight

NAZIS RETREAT BEYOND RIVER   German Official ‘Indicates New Defense Line In Russia Planned

Reds Slash Ahead   Nazis Appear Headed For New Defense Line West of Dnieper Rirer

Instructions On Filing Out Consumer Declaration Forms .. Published In News~Herald Today

Blank To Be Filed  In Registering for Book Two May Be Filled Out at Leisure

Here Is How to Fill Out Your Consumer's Declaration Blank for War Ration Book 2

Exposure Victims Treated  In Townsend  Car Stalls, Party of Five People

Exposure Victims Treated In Townsend  Car Stalls, Party of Five People Seriously Frozen

DENY BOMBING VATICAN CITY   ‘Allies Say Nazi Propaganda Claims False, Have No  veowledge of Raid

Vatican Attack Denied by Allie   Report Thorough Investigation Made

Arkansas Hit By Floods   Six Known Dead, Many. Missing, Crops Washed Away By Raging Water.

Expect Big Death Toll In Oklahoma   Camp Gruber Soldiers Make Heroic Rescues. Savina 100

Allies Doubtful Whether Nazis Can Muster Power for Another Major Aiiack on Reds

Doubt Grows That Germans Will Be Able to Launch  Another Invasion of Russia

Syseaierdet ead  Nazi Inaction Is Held Proo!  Of Desperation  Delay In Strikins Russia Held Omen. Of Quick Defeat

Reds Mass Troops for Winter Drive   Americans and British Gair In Italy In Drive Toward Rome

U. S., British Forces Drive On Key Points In German Defense Lines In Italy

British Eighth Army Capture Town On Adriatic Coast While Russians Mass For LongExpected Winter Drive

Americans Close In on San Pietro Key City in Italy   Allies Attack Anchor Points of German Defense Line; Soviets Mass Troops for Big Winter Offensive

AXIS DEFENSES PIERCED WEST OF STALINGRAD   Land Fighting Flares At Both Ends Of North African Front

GERMANS RETREAT IN DISORDER; REDS DRIVING AT HEELS   ‘500,000 Nazis } Fleeing Az Cossacks Step Up.Pace Soviets Open New

SOVIETS TAKE 6 KEY TOWNS IN BIG PUSH   Start Final Drive To Wipe Out 22 Foe Divisions Near — Stalingrad.   NALCHIK DRIVE ROLLS   Half Milton Germans Are Reported in Retreat Before Russians.

‘Smash Through Pirst Line Of  Axis Defenses Directly West Of  Stalingrad; 500,000 Germans . In Fall Retreat   ACTIVITY NOTED ON : AFRICAN BATTLEFRONT

German Armies in Caucasus, on Don Routed; Russ Take Vital ‘Hill in Battle for Stalingrad

SWIFT-MOVING RED ARMY IN HOT PURSUIT   Pace of Soviet Advance Stepped Up to Turn Retreat of Enemy Into Rout.   BULLETIN

NAZI DISORDERLY RETREAT GOES ON WEST OF MOZDOK   Germans Blowing Up Bridges, Mining Reads te Make Escape From Advancing Cossack Forces.      REDS STEP UP PACE iN HOPES FOR ROUT   Caucasus Winter Campaigr ls Apparently Nearing Ar End, 2000 Square Mile: Liberated.

REVEAL NAZI AS JAP ASSISTANT   Germon Spy Had Big aiole in Sneak Attack on rearl Harbor

GERNIAN SPY GAVE TIP 10 JAPANESE AT PEARL HARBOR   Nazi Played Major Role ir Giving intormation on U. S. Fleet.

German Spy’s Work Told Aided Pearl Harbor Jap:      bi S. Fleev Is Berrayec

JAPS AIDED BY NAZIAT PEARL HARBOR   German Spy “Operated System Of Signal Lights”

Nazi Aided Japs At Pearl Harbor   Conviction of German Spy for Arranging Signal System Revealed

serman Spy Played Big Role in Sneak _ Attack at Pearl Harbor, OWI Reveals

German Spy Played Major Role in Pearl  Harbor Attack   OWI Reveals Work Of Julius Otto Kuehn  With lananece

German Spy Played Major Role In Jap Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbo:

Nazi Had Major Role in Attack On Pearl Harbor   Gave Valuable Information  To Jananesce

Reveal Nazi Spy Played Major Role In Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor:  50-Year Pen Sentence Is Punishment

DISCLOSE NAZI SPY'S PEARL HARBOR ROLE   OWI Reveals How German Agent, Now Serving Sentence, Aided Japs And Was DoubleCrossed By Hangman Heydrich

Nazi Agent’s Role At Pearl Harbor Told   How German Spy Aided Japanese To Carry Out Sneak Attack Revealed By OWI Today

MURRAY CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DIES GROUF   CIO President Says Com. mittee Has Record of Disruption and Har rassment of Labor   FLAYS POLL TAX   Asserts Levy Keeping Millions Out of Democracy; Calls For Sound Tax Bill

ClO OPPOSES SALES TAX T0 FINANCE WAR   Murray Says Dies Committee and Poll Taxes Should Be Eliminated

fore Germans Being Caught In Caucasus Trap; Black Sea Base Attacked

ENCIRCLEMENT OF KURSK IMPENDING BY SOVIET FORCES   Russian Army Wheels Inte Position For Grand Assault On Kharkov—. Caucasus Situation Is Most Critical

MUGH EQUIPMENT IS ABANDONED IN VERY FAST FLIGHT   Red Forces Are Now Within 10 Miles of Rostov, As Another Army Moves for Assault of Kharkov.   JAPS MORE ACTIVE IN ° AIR AT GUADALCANAL   Bombers Spend Three Hours In Attack on Buin, While Other Assaults Are Made On Rabaul.

Red Army Threatens To Encircle  Kursk; Units Of British And  Americans Make Junction In  Sonthern Tunisia    PIERCE AIR BATTLE IN TUNISIA SECTOR

HITLER ARMY OF CAUCASUS RETREATING   Heavy Equipment Is being Left to Pursuing Soviets

RATION BOOK IS OUT IN OCTOBER   Registration for Book 4 ir School Houses Through. out State,

Reds Push Nearer Nazi Escape Path Toward Taganrog   Tighten Arc About Orel In Slashing Offensive

REDS ADVANCE IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST OREL   Capture Town Only 30 Miles From Nazi Base,  ~ While Other Units Sever Taganrog’s Lifeline N. W. of Rostov.

ZALEGOSHCH CAPTURED BY RED ARMY   Tagenrog Lifeline of German Army Cut Northwest of Rostov

NAZI DEFENSES INQREL BEING CHIPPED AWAY   Soviet Forces Capture Zalegoshch, Only 30 Miles East of City On Rail  way From Yelets   PRESSURE ON FOE IN DONETS GROWS   Germans Huddled. Against Sea Coast Being Driven Toward Taman Penin . sula, Moscow Advises

RUSSIAN TROOPS CONTINUE SWEEP   Many More Towns Seized by; Rolling Red Legions; Poltava Objective

Nazi Defense Lines in Ore!  Area Crushed   Hard-Hitting Russians Capture Zalegoshch Which Is on a Railway Line.   Force German Troops  Closer to the Sea

Reds Drive Into Orel Province   Moye Within 30 Miles  Of City; Taganrog’s Lifeline Severed

NAZIS MAY TRY ESCAPE ACROSS KERCH STRAIT   Russians Continue To Drive Huddled Germans loward Taman Peninsula; Zale goshch And Other Towns Captured.

RUSSIANS CLAMP GRIP ON DONETS   Drive Germans in West Caucasus Area Back Against . Black Sea

Red Forces Smash Ahead Toward Orel   Taganrog's Life Line Severed: Above Rostov

RED ARMY DRIVES GERMANS TOWARD TAMANPENINSULA   UNIDENTIFIED TOWNS TAKEN BY MOBILE SOVIET TROOPS

FIGHTING RUSSIAN ARMIES CONTINUE UNCHECKED DRIVE   IN WESTERN CAUCASUS RED ARMY CONTINUES DRIVE NAZIS TO SEA

PRESSURE ON DONETS BASIN IS INCREASING   Remnants Of Kharkov Army Said Fleeing In Wild Disorder

Reds Pursue Fleeing Axis Troops   Soviet Headquarters Announce Continued Successes West of Kharkov and in South

Russians Seek ToCut Corridor Along Azov Sea   Mobile Red Units Harass Germans On Retreat March

Nazis’ Escape Path Toward Taganrog Is  Threatened by Reds   Russian Arc Against Orel is Tightened;  Nazis on Coast

RED ARMY GAINS IN CAUCASUS   viet Clamp Around Donets Basin Is  Tightened

RUSSIANS CUT RAIL LIFELINE TO TAGANROC   Smash Nazi Defenses in Orel Province, Drive Germans Along Sea Toward Taman Peninsula

Russians Push Toward Orel In New Thrust  Zalegoshch Taken;   Zalegoshch Taken; Only 30 Miles From Strategic Base

Russians Smash Into New Towns   RED ARMIES MARCHING THROUGH OREL PROVINCE

AUGUIAN ABNEY MENACE ORE L IN HARD DRIVE   Highly Mobile Red Forces Operating Ten Miles Inside Nazi Line

Reds Smash Orel Forts And Railway   Taganrog’s Lifeline Severed In Capture Of Mateev-Kurgan   Push Germans Acainst Sea Coast Near Kerch   German Communique Claims Failure Of Leningrad Drive

Mobile Units Are 10 Miles Behind Nazis   Taganrog's Lifeline Severed Germans Huddled Against Azov Coast Hammered  w.. E'VaPvi”’ S°SRE teri ee

Foe Hard-Pressed  In Orel Province   Russians Slash Nearer German Escape Path Toward Taganrog

Red Armies Still Push Nazis Back   Lifeline of Taganrog Is Severed Northwest of  Rostov   DONETS BASIN CLAMP   In Caucasus, Russians Herd Germans Toward Kerch Strait

MOBILE TROOPS BEHIND LINES GET SEVERAL TOWNS   Reds Smash Axis Counterattack West Of Kharkny

SOVIETS MASH QREL DEFENSES   Red Artillery Stops German Counterattacks West Of Kharkov.   CUT TAGONROG LIFELINE

JAPS EXPECTED 10 ~ATTAGK TO EASE PRESSURE (N AY   Allied Strategists. are Watch‘ing Tokio Closely for Oft. ensive Move.

ALLIES ARE. KEEPING EYE ON JAPAN   Look for x Move to sRelieve Pressure On Germany

JAP DRIVE SEEN TO EASE PRESSURE AGAINST GERMANY   A Number Of Avenues Of Attack Open To Enemy . Have. Had Time 7 “To Reorganize. ”

One Couple Has Children, Other Childless, They Swap Mates; Now They’ve Restored Former Status

Coal Institute Calls Seizure Like Fascism   Role of Ickes Deplored. Resolution Alleging 8 Pee   ws Jager

FEDERAL MINE HANDLING SCORED   Mining Institute Says Industry Has Been Humiliated, Coerced and Depressed; Deplores WLB Failure

Giant Air Base Heavily Bombed,  Enemy Contusec   Fighter And Bomber Planes Pour Deadly Load On ‘“. Italy’s Large Air Base   LEADER GETS DFC FOR DARING WORK   Planes And Men Destroyed. As Yank Raiders Swarm Over In Waves

FAGGIA GIVEN [-2-3 PUNCH IN BOLD RAID   Lightnings Launch Attack; Followed by Liberators and Forts

TOWN AND FARM IN WAR TIME.   TOWN AND FARM IN WARTIME . THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE

TER BATTLING IW RUSSIA   Nazis Fight To Expand Slim Wedge ven In Red Lines

Nazis Battle To Broaden Soviet Wedge  Some, Positions Change Hands Several Times in Fighting HEAVY AXIS PRICE  Russians Declare Attack Pressed With ‘Crazy Stubbornness

Belgorod Front Scene lof Bitter Clash; Nazis 1Seek to Extend Wedge

Reds, Germans .  ‘Remain Locked ‘In Bitter Battle   Some. Positions ‘Reported ’. Changing Hands Often In Course Of Fighting

Nazis-Reds Locked in ~ierce Fight   Germans Fight Frantically  To Expand Slim Wedge

—RUSSIA—  Nazis Pay High Price  For Gains   Germans Battle Fran« tically To Expand Slim Wedge Near Kurks

GERMAN AND RUSSIAN TROOPS LOCKED IN BITTER CONTESTS   ATTACKING NAZIS FIGHT FIERCELY TO EXTEND NARROW WEDGE IN LINE

'Nazi-Russo Troops Locked In Combat In Series Bitter Battles On Belgorod Front

RUSSIANS HOLD NAZI HORDES IN BITTER BATTLE   Germans Attack Franticelly in Ef. foris to Exend Slim Wedge on Beloarnd Franti   RED TACTICS SHIFT   Trap Germans with Stationary, Camouflaged Tanks, Shift Ariillery fo Meet Aitacks

GERMANS PRESS ATTACKS ON THE’ BELGOROD FRONT   BATTLE FRANTICALLY TO EXPAND WEDGE IN RED ARMY DEFENSES

BITTER BATTLES RAGE ALL ALONG BELGOROD FRONI   Attacking Nazi Forces Fight Frantically To Expanc Slim Wedge Driven Int Red Army Lines Twe Days Ago; Some Position: Change Hands Sever a! Times.

RUSS HOLD NAZIS’ GAINS TO WEDGE AT BELGOROD   One Dispatch Says Bulge in Red Lines Wiped Out by Furious Counter-attecks ~

‘Nazis, Soviets Locked In Series of Bitter’: _ ‘Battles Near Belgorod

Germans, Russians Locked in Battle   Desperate Nazi Forces Seek to Expand Wedge Driven into Red Lines Two Days Ag:

eNAZI, RUSSIAN FORCES FIGHT “FIERCE BATTLES   @Germans Pay Heavy Price For Small Gains 

Germans fail in frenzied soviet drive   Unable to expand Belgorod wedce

Reds Fight Off  Frenzied Blows   Nazis Press ‘With Crazy Stubborness’

Nazis, Reds Still Locked In Fighting   Positions In Belgorod Area Change Hands Several Times In  24-Hour Period

Troops Still Deadlocked  in Russia   German, Red Armies Continue Violent See-Saw with No Clear Decisions

SOVIET, GERMAN TROOPS LOCKED IN HARD BATTLE   Nazis Seek To Expand Wedge In Red Lines

‘Nazis Battle To kxpand  Slim Wedge In Russ Line   Reds Withdraw, Get Reserves, Then Retake Their Former Positions

Red Lines Hold Against Furious German Assaults   Attacking Nazis Force Fight Frantically Enlarge Wedge Driven In Soviet Front; Bitter Battles Raging

Germans And Russians Locked In Series Of Bitter Battles; Hitler’s Forces Fight Desperately To Expand Slim Wedge In Belgorod Area.

NAZIS STILL PAYING WITH HUGE LOSSES   Little Change in Positions of Forces Reported in Last Few Hours

U.S. Chamber GivesBacking To Sales Tax   Uniform Levy Without Exemptions Would Yield 6 Billions. Alvord Savs 

Arguments Offered for Sales Tax   C. of C. Official Says Plan Fair To All Classes

BRITISH BOMBERS CONCENTRATE ON ECCEN ARMS CIT   Four-motored Craft Follow Swiftly After Mosquito - Raid an tena.

Essen Undergoes Heavy Bombing By British Planes   Hundreds of Ships Rain New Destruction On Flooded Valley

RAF TAKES MORE BOMBS FOR RUIN IN RUHR VALLE’   Essen, Where Arms Are Made, Zeiss Instrument Works and Glass industry Are Three Targets.   AMERICAN BOMBERS PLASTER ITALIANS   ftallans Say Allies Are Preparing For Invasion In Massing Barges at Tunisia Racsac_

HUGE BOMBERS RAID ESSEN   Spread Destruction on Germany’s Bomb-Pocked and Flood-Ravaged Ruhr Valley Friday Night.

LOCKBUSTERS tAIN ON ESSEN, NAZI ARMS CIT)   A. F. Blasts Ruhr Valley: African-Based Planes Plaster Siclly

CLEAR NAZIS OUT   Russians Sweep Germans _ From Tamen Peninsula  Near Caucasus

Flanking ‘Move Aimed At Kiev Is Developing   Reds Rush Heavy Tanks - Acroas River On Logs Over Pontoon Spars

PROTECT ‘EI   Men and Materiel Rushed in Every Hour to Prevent Encirclement in One of Greatest Struggles of Entire War.

Vast Pincers Being Clamped Around Kiev   Bridgeheads 100 Miles Apart Across Dnieper River Are Enlarged; Thousands Killed

RED ARMY BLASTING HUGE WEDGES.IN NAZ DNIEPER RIVER LINE  FIERCE GERMAN COUNT. ER ATTACKS HAVE BEEN HURLED BACK

All Nazis — Swept Out  of Taman  ~ Daninenla   Hitler’s ‘Costly. ‘Efforts. to Win Caucasus Oil Ended,  Stalin Announces   GREAT STRUGGLE IN KIEV. SECTOR   Reinforcements. Brought. Up on. -Both Sides in: Battle ‘Along ‘Duieper

IN NAZI LINES   Night Attack Takes Germans By Surprise on Front at Kiev.

Red Advance Forms Great Kiev Pincers   One Of Biggest Battles Of War Raging On West Banks Of Dnieper.

Stalin Says Taman Peninsula, Cleared of Nazis; Red Pincers Are Closing on Strategic Kiev      Berlin Admits Flight Inte Crimea Now Under Soviet Threat

Balkan Guerillas  Get Instructions   BBC Warns Against  Premature Revolt

Senators Seek Time Extension On Water Pact   Memorial Would Set dune 1, 1945 as Agreement Dead Line

Time Sought on  Water Compact  Senate Asks Delay in Signing Treaty

Extension for River Pact Being Sought   Senate Has Memorial On Yellowstone Water Division Plan

Germans Claim Victory In Air  Tall of Qanocitian   Tell of Opposition To RAF Bombers

Germans Admit Berlin Damage   They Say About 350 Planes Broke Through Nazi Fichter Fleets

Nazi Defense Trick Against RAF Night Raid Backfires--Bombers Drive Through

GERMAN MILITARY EXPERTS CLAIM BIG VICTORY OVER RAF  NEARLY 1,400 NAZI NIGHT FIGHTERS SOUGHT TO PROTECT BERLIN

Nazis Claim Vietory vy in  Berlin Raid   1400 Night Fighter: Used—Admit Damage Heavy

GERMAN MILITARY EXPERTS CLAIM BIG VICTORY OVER RAF  NEARLY 1,400 NAZI NIGH FIGHTERS SOUGHT TO

GERMANS HINT HEAVY DAMAGE AROUND BERLIN   Hitler Sends Up 1,400 Fighters In Effort To Halt RAF

Made Desperate Effort To Protect Berlin... ..  1400 German Planes Met RAF’s Bombers

Nazis Claim Air Victory   Germans Mass Nearly 1.400 Fighters To Keep British  From Berlin.

FOURTH OF YOUTHS UNFIT FOR SERVICE   Deficient Vision Biggest Cause For Rejection

J. S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Northwest Area Pounded Again by Yanks

1,000 Dead In Raid On Bari, Italy   Surprise Attack Dec, 2 Revealed by Sec. of War Stimson

American Heavy  Bombers Visit  Germany Again Nazi Shipbuilding,  i ea ee... Ae een   Nazi Shipbuilding, Submarine Center Cordially Blasted

AIR ARMADA HITS GERMANY   Smoke Columns Seen Rising Over Targets

GREAT FLEET         Northwest Part of Nation Is Object of Attack— Towering Columns of Smoke Surge Up Into Substratosphere.

ITALY LOOKS FOR INVADERS IN FEW DAYS   “Weak Link” in Axis Being Soften. ed up Apparently in Anticipation of Invasion.

Pre-Invasion Move Softens Axis Defenses   Bombardment Sets Fire In “‘Hell’s Triangle Area”’

Soften Htaly For Invasion   Allied Guns, Planes And Ships Attack

U.S. Warships and Allied Planes Bombard Italy Again in ‘Pre-Invasion’ Holocaust

US Warships Again Shell  Hell Corner   Landings on Narrow Beaches of Rocky Island Made August 15; No Japanese Found; Last of Aleutians in Enemy Hands

American Naval Guns Again Shell ltalian Mainland   Russians Gain in Drive to Encircle City of Kharkov

AMERICAN WARSHIPS POUR HOT STEEL INTO COASTAL CITIES AS PLANES BOMB FROM OVERHEAD   “Mell’s Triangle” On Toe of Italianboot Blasted And Big Fires Set in Towns—Russians closing Pincers on Nazis as Kharkov

U.S. ARMY GROUND FORCES REPLACE SOLOMON MARINES   Jap Destroyer Bombed Off Bougainville Island — Eight Enemy Planes Downed at Shortland Island Area

COUNTY 4-H GIRLS HOLD RALLY AT CALL PARK FRIDAY   Newly Elected County Officers Are Installed; Prizes Awarded to Contest Win nore: Fine Procram Given

RAF’s Big Bombers Blast Northern Italy: Milan Target Of Heavy Blow   H Berlin Also Attacked During Night By Speedy Mosquito Bombers; Exploding Bombs Could  Re Heard In Switzerland

RAF MADE HEAVY ATTACK ON NORTHERN ITALY LAST NIGHT  BERLIN ALSO BLASTED

ST, BARBARA’S Festival Saturday nicht.—Ad.      VTRmwe PEATAITRANT

TRY TO EXPLAIN MARIGNY BURNS   Defense Contends Hair Burns Could Have Been Caused By Sun As Murder Trial Continues In Nassau.

Burned pair Again to Fore In Oakes Case  Detective Admits Sunburn Might Alter Appearance of Hair  SEEN AS DEFENSE  De Marigny Smiles in  Prisoner’s Dock at Surprise Turn

GRILLS BARKER IN OAKES CASE   Defense Seeks to Upset Miami Detective’s Testimony

Take Over 100 Towns InNewDrive   United Nations Forces Ad vance Slowly in Italy, Reported Today

RAIDERS PUNCH EUROPE AGAIN   iC esibieae Record-Breaking Offensive in Air

Russians’ Winter Drive Pounds Wedges Toward Baltic States: Tank Battle Rages in Italian Town   APY Wseseeu £40S9/  THE RED ARMY’S WINTER 0:

Yanks Step Up Air War During Day   500 Bombers in Big Parade of Yank Air Might

U.S. FLYERS RAID GERMANY AGAIN   Northwest Reich Attacked by Davlicght

ATTACKS ON RUHR VALLEY FACTORY AREA CONTINUE   Mosquito Bombers Keep Fires  Burning—Day Planes Take Off Anain.

Greatest Air Offensive of  War Under Way   Giant Fleets of Bombers Out; Army Reveals Attack on Kiel

Fortresses Raid Northwest Germany   Bremen Believed  To Be Target of Gan Fakoar’ec Attack

Big Nazi Port Hammered In  Daylight Raid   Americans Carry Into Action FR’s Promise To Smash Hitler

AMERICAN PLANES, BOMBS USED FOR FIRST TIME IN THIS WAR ON GERMAN SOIL   Conviction Growing ‘Unconditional Surrender Phase Only Part of Talks

U S. BOMBS FALL ON NAZIS SOIL TODAY   American Fliers Make’ First Daylight Raid On  Germany

First U. S. Bombs Fall On Germany   American Heavy Bombers Batter Port: On Initial Attack

Planes Atfack Enemy Naval   Exact Target of First U. S. Raid on Nazis Secret

BABY DIES IN BLAZE TODAY ~ AT MARIETTA   Infant Suffocates; Three Others Are Saved

Jap Divisions Routed by Chinese Units   Enemy Fleeing After Three-Day Fight

Allies Report New Gains In  Sub Warfare   Five Craft Sunk lr  10 Days By Giant Dieweac

Five Nazi Submarines Sunk in Ten Days, British Air Ministry Says

J- BOAT MENACE SA EING BEATEN TE   CE SABOTEURS TRY EN TO WRECK TRAI   At Least Five German Subs Have Been Sunk In 10 Days By Aircraft

U. S. Flyers Hit Norway, Greece   Germans Bomb Training Area In England

U.S. Airmen Rain. Bombs On Norway    Attack Follows  _ Another Heavy American Blow at Athens Airfields

SECOND ATTACK AIMED AT BASES IN ATHENS AREA   Results Not Given at Once in Norwegian Raid—Yugoslavs With Airforces

BELIEVE SHIPS IN NORWEGIAN PORTS MAULED   Nazi Planes Hit Again In Renewed Assault On Britain

U.S. Bombers Strike Heavy Hit On Norway   Yugoslav Airforce Enter War In Mediterranean Theater With U. S.   RAIDS ON PLYMOUTH

AMERICAN BOMBERS STRUCK TARGETS IN NORWAY TUESDAY   Raid Followed Another Heavy Blow at Athens Airfield in Greece.   Yugoslav Airforce Has Entered the War in Mediterranean Theatre.

Americans Bomb Targets In Both Norway, Greece   Yugoslav. Air. Force . Takes Part In. Raid On Athens Airport

HITLER’S RAMPARTS  IN NORTH AND SOUTH  BLASTED FROM AIR AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT  TARGETS IN NORWAY ANI AN ATHENGC AIRFIEID

Germans Hit U.S. Invasion Training Site   4 eg Sh  ern Germany; Yugoslav Bombers Raid Athens

Nazi Raiders Hit London Suburbs, Invasion Practice Area Along Coast

BIG AMERICAN PLANES SMASH NORSE TARGETS   Allies Bombers Also Hit At Greek Airfields

Yanks Bomb *Nazi Areas In Norway   American-Yugoslav Raid Team Also Pounds Aijrfields At Athens.

U. 0, BOMBER HIT NORWAY IN HEAVY RAID   American Aerial Offensive In South Is Maintained Simultaneously

U, 5. FLYERS BOMB NAZI TARGETS IK NORWAY, GREECE   Yugoslav Airmen Take Part in Attack on Athens Airfields

YUGESLAYS JOIN U, 5. AIRMEN Ih RAID ON ATHENS   Hint Norwegian Attack May Have Been on German Warships

Targets in Norway, Airfield in Athens Bombed by Yankees   Southwestern England Under Air Raid With  Some Casualties

NAZIS RENEW AIR ATTACKS ON BRITAIN   Invasion Center In Southwest England Receives Considerable Damage; London Also Hit

Wide Air Raids Made in Europe   American Bombers Strike in Norway After Heavy Blows in Greece.

Targets Blasted By Yank Planes NotMadeKnowr   Reorganized Slav Airforce Reported Entering War In The Mediterranean

U.S. Bombers Atfack Norway And Hit Athens   Germans Hit Region In England Where U. § Troops Rehearse for Invasion in West

Second Raid To Be Made On Norway   Yugoslavs Now Using Some Lend-Lease U. S. Heavy Bombers

Other Bombers. Reinforced By Slavs, Hammer  Greek Airfield   Nazi Planes Attack Area in England Where U, S. Troops Train

Allies Blast at Axis In North and South   Bombers Rake Norway after Another Blow At Athens; Yugoslavs Now Participating in Allied Attacks.

U.S. Bombers Raid Norway For 2nd Time   Other Airmen Deliver Blow To Airfields At Athens: Nazi Planes Hit Southwest Britain

PLANES oTRIKE NORTH, SOUTH   Attack on Norway Follows Heavy Blows at Airfields In Greece.

YUGOSLAVIANS ENTER AIR WAR AGAINST HITLER   Participate In Aerial Assaull by Fifteenth U. 8. Force On Elevsis . Atpfield   BRITISH MOSQUITOS STRIKE AT GERMANY   Region of American Man -euvers for Invasion of Continent Bombed By Hun Fliers Last Night

Norway, Greece Are Battered ° By U. S. Planes   Yugoslav Fliers Enter Conflict On Side cf Allies

Americans Bomb Norway, Hit Airfields At Athens Heavily; Yugoslav Fliers Join Attack   . Nazis Renew Air Offensive, Raid Area Where U. S. Troops Rehearse

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST NORWAY: STRAFE ATHENS   Yugeslav Airmen, Flying Liber ajors Under Own Commander Join in Atiack   RAID ON ENGLAND   Plymouth Reported Atfacked, ir Area Soon to be Evacuated for Invasion Troops

NAZIS ATTACK BRITISH SITES   Assault Made On Region Where American Troops Training   YUGOSLAVS FLYING

YUGOSLAV AIR. GREW ATTACK ATHENS FIELDS   Double: Blow at Germans as Nazi Planes Strike at “Yank Troop Area.

BOMB TARGETS IN NORTH AND SOUTH EUROPE   AMERICAN AIRMEN STRIKE IN NORWAY AFTER ATHENS BLOW

 Aerial Attack Made on Norway Where Hitler Has Kept Number of Big Warships in Hiding  Meanwhile, German Bombers Hit England in Region Where Americans Massed For Invasion of Europe—American Fliers Also Blast Enemy Bases

Yugoslav Bombers Back In War: Nazis Hit Troops Rehearsing for Invasion

Nazi-Held Territory Under Ia  ASbone Arndialads   Athens Airfields Blasted in Greece; . Nazis Raid Plymouth:

YANK FLIERS RIP NORWAY   YUGOSLAVS AID ALLIES IN BLOWS AT GREECE

AMERICANS BLAST HITLER RAMPARTS   U. S. Bombers Strike at Tar gets In Norway and De liver Heavy Blow A Greek Airfields.

U. S. Fliers Widen Attack On Germany   Yugoslav Aviators Also Join in Mediterranean Raids

YANK BOMBERS STRIKE NORWAY   Deliver Another Heavy Blow To Athens Airfields

NORWAY STRUCK TODAY BY RAF BOMBER PLANES   Yugoslav Airforce Reorganized And Ready For Fight

ISLE SOFTENED BY STEADY AIR, SEA ASSAULTS   Italy Prepares Sicily. Sardinia To Meet Direct Attack

Madrid Claims Italy Abandons Some Airfields On Sicily. Sends New Garrisons To Bolster Island And Defend Sardini2z   NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN OVER RUSSIA

Naval Units Blast Italy’s Island Base      Pantelleria Under Fire; Reds Down Ace Nazi Planes

Italy Gets  Prepared For Big Assault     PANTELLERIA HIP HARD {WICK WITHIN 12 HOURS.

Allies Destroy  48 Jap Planes In Sunday Battles  Widespread Combats Cost Seven of Our Cratt = MacArthur

Air Fighting Rages in South Pacific   48 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Bitter Combat

Allies Destroy 18 Japanese Planes  In South Pacific   U.S. Ground Troops Closing in on Enemy Near Bairoko Harbor

Japs Lose 48 Airplanes to Allied-Flyers   Only Five Aircraft of United Nations Lost in Engagement

JAPS LOSE 48 MORE PLANES   Air Battles Waged at Both Ends of Southwest  Pacific Front

43 Jap Planes Destroyed in Day  Allies Lose Five On Pacific Front

Probe Murder of Hollywood Woma   Police Hunt } Man; Body Mutilated

SLAIN WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN A FLOWER BEL   Man Named Paul Sought at Hollywood. Victim Was Wife of Sergeant in Army

WAR CASUALTIES OF U.S, TOTAL 61,126   Latest Figures Include All Categories

CASUALTIES OF ARMED FORCES TOTAL 61, 126,   New Figures Given Out Include 8, 531 Dead, 7,389 Wounded and 42.9740 Missine.

Price Parleys Being Planned  To Confer on Fruit And Vegetable Price

=e The War Today ==  Germans New Offensive in Russia Fails  BY DEWITT MACKENZIE  \/ 2 tAsane Amatlased

The War Today— Best Russian Fighting Weather Is  Near; Gomel Drive May Be Tip-Off

GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE ON RUSSIAN FRONT APPARENTLY HAS EATTET) AS REDS LAUNCH DRIVE

JUGOSLAVIA KING ARRIVES IN EGYPT   To Aid Allies In Planning For Liberation Of His — Homeland

King Peter in Egypt.      Will! Help" ‘Prepare “for Allied Offensive

KING PETER IN EGYPTIAN CITY   Helps Prepare for Allied  Offensive

4,000-POUND BOMBS ON SUB BASES   St. Nazaire and Lorient Blasted In First Night Raid Since Monday

Europe Now Entering Lull Before Greatest Military Storm In World’s History

U. S. Promises  Higher Prices  For Farm Crops No Change For  4, Semen. Somes a

MOTORISTS FACE GAS RATION CUT   TRIBUNE SAYS FUEL CURB DUE MONDAY IN MIDWEST AREAS

VALUE OF GAS COUPONS CUT TO 3 GALLONS   A, B and C Coupons Are Reported Included In Order   WAIT ANNOUNCEMENT   Two Gallons of A Coupon Will Be For Pleasure Driving

THREE -GALLON ALLOTMENT PER COUPON NEARS   OPA Action Covering States In Midwest Expected By Sunday, Say Reports.   COVERS WIDE TERRITORY   Move Expected To Bring End of Ban on Pleasure Use of Cars In East.

Cut Gas  Ration Sunday   Slash 25% Off Value Of A, B, C, Coupons; Ickes Will Tell Why In Radio Talk Sunday

Newspaper Says Gas Ration To Be Cut 25 Per Cent   May Announce  Change Today

Gas Ration Cut Forcast By Tribune   Chicago Newspaper Gives New Figures; Expect Announcement Sunday

CUT IN GASOLINE RATIONS EXPECTED NEXT FEW HOURS   DALLAS SAYS BE ANNOUNCED SUNDAY; WASHINGTON SAYS LATE FRIDAY

GASOLINE TO BE. SLASHED SUNDAY   Chicago Newspaper Says 25 Per Cent Cut Will Be Ordered —

New Garment Factory To Open In LeMars July 19  Thos Kohout, of  Fort Dodge wiil Manage Plant

JAPANESE LIES ARE PUZZLING   Greatest Non-Existent Naval Victories in History Are Claimed.

NAVAL BATTLE VICTORIES BY JAPS A DREAM   Knox Denies Reports Issued By Japs About Losses

JAPS REPORTING NON-EXISTENT NAVAL VICTORIES   Washington Speculates Over Possibility That Jay Morale Needs Lifting

Extremity of Japs’ Falsehoods Puzzle American Command   May Mean Morale of Nips Is in Bad Need of Bolstering

VOLUN & lbh ~~ aNOe SO  TR Ler ate tary Claims Aimed to Boost Home Front Morale

JAPANESE CLAIM NAVAL VICTORIES   EXTREMITY OF LIES TENDS TO PUZZLE U. S. HIGH COMMAND

Japanese Lies About Sea Victories Are Puzzling to U.S. High Command

JAP REPORTS PUZZLE    They Claim Greatest Non-Existent  Naval Victories

United States Much Puzzled by Jap Claims   See Possibility That Home Morale Needs Bolstering

Non-Existent Naval Victories Must Be For Home Morale   American Fleet Hasn't Been Able To Lure Enemy Out

MARTIN WONT BE STUBBORN   ‘Governor « Unwilling to Insist on County Relief Plan.

UNRRA OVERALL ~ COST ESTIMATED      Initial U.S. Contribution Is Figured Under Half a Billion

FR, DETERMINED TO CONTINUE SUBSIDY FIGHT   Drafts Message To Congress

Another Subsidy Fight In Making   Farm Group Proposals For Compromise Spurned By F. D.

President Rejects Farm Organization Compromise Proposals on Subsidies; ‘Is Drafting Message to Congress

Prepares. to Send Congress. Strong   iy. -Worded Message: in‘ Support of  His Food’ ‘Subsidy: Program}:

FD Refuses Food Subsidy  Compromise   Prepares to Send Congress Message  On Subject

FR Rejects Farm Compromise, To Support Subsidy   Message To Congress Outlining Program Expected Tomorrow

Allies Smash At Seapower Of Japanese   Two Destroyer Groups Intercepted, Attacked In Southwest Pacific   WEAVY EIN OFLET OO SULINK  IN SATURDAY RAIDS

Allied Planes, Warships Hit Jap Sea Power   U.S. Troops Start Attack Against Enemy at Munda

Jap Destroyer Formations.  Are Smashed  Surface and Air Craft Take Part in

Planes Turn Pacific Battle   “+ U.S, (Officiat) By ociated Press

NINE MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK OVER WEEKEND   Heavy Blows Struck at Foe Fleet; Yanks Attack Munda

Allied power hits heavily  at Japanese   Prepared enemy positions lashed

Jap Base At Munda Assaulted   American Unit: Hit Ground  Defenses

HITS SCORED ON JAP SHIPS IN SOLOMONS   U.S. Troops Attack Enemy Pcsitions NearMunda; Other  Places In South Pacific Bomhed   Dili Attacked

OPA to Roll Back  Liquor Prices Specific Ceilings Will Be Ordered

Truman Probe Subpoenas Head of UMW  Called to Testify On Strikes, War Production

TRUMAN GROUP 10 QUIZ LEWIS   SUBPOENA ISSUED TO MAKE SURE THAT MINE UNION CHIEF WILL APPEAR.

UNIT ISSUES SUBPOEMA FOR LEWIS FRIDAY   ‘Maybe’ Answer Ike ’ Senate's Truman

Bertin Reports Troop Landing onKeylsle   Claim Italian Forces Turned Down Ultimatum

Air Raid on Berlin Renorted   In Another Attack German Sub Base Is Strafed

Puny Assault on English Capital Follows Berlin Blasting  AMERICAN SOLDIERS TAKE RAID CALMLY  Heaviest Raid on German City Since War Reported

Ruhr City Hit By 1,500 Tons Of Explosives   German Communique Admits Great Damage From Block-Busters  34 AIRCRAFT LOST   Russian Planes  Raid Warsaw

Russians Slaughter 140,000 And Continue Amazing Win   Trapped Germans Reject Ultimatum To Quit And Face Starvation And Disease

Allied Airmen Hifs af Berlin, lt ls Reported   Berlin Correspondent Of Stockholm Paper Says Anti-Aircraft Barrage Is Heard

Allied Landing Made Without  ‘Serious Loss’   Invasion Of Italian Strong. hold Proceeding Accord. ing To Plan.   STRONG AIR SUPPORT

Navy Guns Pound Defenses As U. S.. British. Canadian Troops Open Second Front

First Blow Struck ‘Without Serious Loss,’ Report; Axis Makes No Claim Of Having Repulsed Eisenhower's Troops; Aerial Rule Overwhelmingly With Invaders

U. S. DESTROYER REPORTED SUNK   Ship Went Down Off Bougainville Wednesday

USS MKEAN IS SUNK BY JAPS   Destroyer-Transport Is Lost Off Bougainville

FROM 2 DIREGTIONS   Mediterranean: Based Planes Hit Inssbruck and Augsburg

AIR BLOWS HIT GERMANS FROM WEST, SOUTH   American Heavy Bombers Follow Up Raids From Mediterranean

U.S. Fliers Throw One-Twe Punch ‘At Nazi Industry   Innsbruck and Augsburg Hit In Sunday’s Raid

AMERICAN BOMBERS FOLLOW UP SUNDAY RAID ON GERMANY   Strike At Targets in North west Germany — Mediterranean-Based Planes Blast ed Innsbruck, Angsburg, [a Pn

Yank Air Fleet Strikes for First Time ‘At Nazi Industry From West, South

Germany Dealt Double Blow ~ By Air Armadas   Northwest Germany Is Smashed Today; Many  Enemy Planes Downed.

U.S. BOMBERS RAID SERMAN TOWNS TODAY   Crisis Appear ng In French Rai!  Centers Now

American Heavy Bombers Strike Germany by Day   Fighter Escorted Planes Hit Favorite U-Boat Nest Taraets

BOMBERS LASH GERMANY IN 2 WAY ASSAULTS   Nazis Send 100 Fighter Anrplanes in Futile Effort to Halt Raids

Big Yankee Bombers Hit On Two Side:   Attack on North Germany Follows One From the South

Sub.Ship Bases Blasted   .U.S. Heavy Bombers Hit Shipbuilding Centers

AMERICAN BOMBERS FOLLOW UP ALLIED RAID ON AUGSBURG AND’ -ENNSBRUCK NEAR BRENNER PASS   Renew Onslaught On Their Favorite Target; 16 Mediterrean Based Allied Planes Lost In Operations; Augsburg Raid Longest and Deepest Nazi Attack.

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS STRUCK AT GERMANY TODAY   Was a Quick Follow-Up to Yesterday’s Big Assault on Innsbruck and Augsburg.   BRENNER PASS ROUTE

Germany Again Takes Pounding  Innsbruck, Augsburg Hii Hard By Bombers

HEAVY BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   U-Boat Nests and Ship-build. ing Ports Likely Targets of Yanks

YANK BOMBERS BLAST FRANCE   Innsbruck, Augsburg Hit By Mediterranean Based Planes

U. S. Bombers Blast Northwest Germany Following Raids From South and West

U.S. Bombers Go Out From West, South   Daylight Raid by 8th. Air Force Follows Sunday Blow From Mediterranean:   AERIAL WAR INTO... HIGH GEAR. AGAIN   Yanks Show Ability. to * Launch Great Blows ~ From: Two Sides .~

GERMANY HARD HIT IN RAIDS   American Bombers Strike From West Today; From “South Yesterday.   IN BRENNER PASS AREA

Yank Planes Hit Targets In Germany   Strike at  U-Boat Nests, Shipbuilding  Ports on North Sea

Yank Bombers Smash Germany From Two Sides   One-Two Punch Carried Out With Raids From Two Directions in Same Day

DAYLIGHT RAID GIVES GERMANS ONE-TWO PUNCH   U. S. Heavy Bomber: In Britain Follow Allied Attack From Mediterranean

U. S. HEAVY BOMBERS HIT N. W. REICH   Daylight Foray Is Renewal of Onslaught on Recent Favorite Targets— U-Boat Nests and Shipbuilding Ports.

AMERICAN HEAVY  BOMBERS BLAST AT  GERMANY BY DAY ATTACK COMES FROM  WEST AND SOUTH AS RPENNER PACE ROTITE HI

AMERIGAN HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST AT GERMANY BY DAY  ATTACK COMES FROM WEST AND SOUTH AS BRENNER PASS ROUTE HI

American Bombers Again Strike At Devastated Northwest Reich After Innsbruck, Augusburg Hit

AMERICANS CAPTURE   U. S. Planes Raid U-Boat Augsburg Submarine Base

HEAVY RAIDS FROM WEST, SOUTH MADE   Auchburg, Innsbruck Blasted; Northwest Gatmany Also Hit

New Assault Follows Raid fear Munich   Enemy U-Boat Nests Pounded In Heavy Attack

'U. S. BOMBERS ' HIT AUGSBURG  AND INNSBRUCK   Britain-Based Planes Today Follow Up Attacks from Mediterranean, Blasting Reich, Franze   Attack on Augsburg First from Mediterranean Theatre—i6 U. S. Bombers Missing

Daylight Raids Follow Blows From The South   Innsbruck And Augsburg Transportation Centers Damaged

Yanks Strike At Battered Reich Again   Quick Follow’ Up Staged to Attack on Brenner  Pass. Route   FRANCE ALSO. HIT   Allied Airmen Down 37 Enemy Planes During, . Raids ~

Dortmund Raid Cost 30 Planes   Bomber Force Is Largest Ever Used By Britain For Attack On Reich

GREATEST FORCE YET OF FOUR-ENGINED BOMBERS TO HIT NAZIS BLASTS DORTMUND   Pin Fighter: at Hame

OATURATION RAID HITS OORTMUND, NAZI] WAR GENTER   Largest Concentration of Big Bombers Ever Sent Out Plasters City   LONDON SHOWS LOSS OF THIRTY PLANES   Two-ton Bombs Drop at Rate Of Four Per Minute in Massive Quenching of Defenses And Destruction of German War Production

RAF LOSES 30 BOMBERS OVER RUHR VALLEY   Night Attack Follows U, S. Daytime Blow At Antwerp

Dortmund Feels Full RAF Fury’   Heaviest Raid Of ‘War  ache Cite,

BIGGEST RAF FORCE RAIDS STEEL CENTER   British Action Follows American Attack on Antwerp

BIG FORCE BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS IN RAID ON DORTMUND  GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CITY HEAVILY BLASTED; 30 BOMBERS WERE LOST

GERMAN CITY ATTACKED BY BIGBOMBERS      Great Concentration of 4-Engine Planes Bashes Dortmund

RAF Soaks Dortmund Foundries In ‘Saturation’ Raid On Axis; 30 Bombers Fail To Return

Four-Engined Bombers Raid Dortmund   Hundreds Of Tons 0: Explosives Dumped On Industries

30 BOMBERS LOST DURING RUHR ATTACK   Loss Not Considered Excessive, However, in View of Damage Done Another Nazi City

POWERFUL RAF BOMBER FORCE HITS DORTMUND      Saturation Raid Follows Flying Fortress Atiack on Anitwerp— Nazis Raid East Anglia   1500 TONS BOMBS   Largest Force of Four-Engined Bombers Yet Sent Over Germany, RAF Commentator Says

GERMANS DOWN 30 RAF PLANES OVER DORTMUND   First Large Air Attack Against Nazi Industrial City

Big Industrial City ls Bombed By RAF Fliers   1,500 Tons of Bomb: Are Dropped on City of Dortmund

Biggest Heavy Bomber Raid   Dortmund Target Of 1,500 Tons of Bombs

BRITISH BLAST WAR FACTORIES IN REICH CITY   Dortmund Raided By Big Bombers, Industrial Area Hammered In Major Assault   30 PLANES MISSING IN BOMBING FORAY   J. S. Forces Hit Belgian Plants Manufacturing War Material; All Bombers Return

RECORD ATTACK ONDORTMUNDIS MADE BY RAF   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi City; Huge Fires Started

By Biggest RAF Affack  30 Bombers Lost In ‘Sat. curation’ Asiault On (ndustrial Center   YANKS HIT ANTWERP   Ruhr City Feels Weigh Of Four Ton Super Sloe! Buster Bombs

RAF Sends Biggest Force of 4-Motor Bombers to Reich   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on City of Dortmund

30 RAF BOMBERS ARE LOST IN RAID   U. S$. Bombers Launch Smashing Attack on Belgian City of Antwerp

Dortmund Raid Among Biggest Of This War   Aerial Effort of RAF Greater Than Classic One at Cologne

R.A.F. In Big Raid On Dortmund, Transport Exit   Thirty Planes Fail To Return From Ruhr Vallev Raid.

Dortmund, Germany Under Nearly 1500 Tons of RAF Bombs   “Saturation” Raid I: Conducted by FourEngined Bombers

RAF Pounds Germany in Biggest Raid   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi Industries

HIRST MAJOR ATTACK MADE ON RUHR CITY   Several Hundred Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped.   ANTWERP HIT   By U. S. Forces Including Youth From Middletown: Hague Also Struck

Big RAF Force Hits Dortmund   Huge Concentration of Bombers Hammere War Industrial City

HUGE FORGE OF BRITISH PLANES HITS DORTMUND   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Ceal, Steel Center   30 PLANES ARE LOST; OVER 700 IN ATTACK

Great RAF Force Raids  Dortmund   Strike at German Industrial City; 30 Planes Reported Lost

BOMBS RAINED ON DORTMUND INHEAVY RAID   GREAT RAF ASSAULT SPREADS RUIN IN NAZI PLANTS

RAF BOMBERS —AITDORTMUND   Year's First Major Attack On Industrial Area Is Reported

Big Bombers Smash at German City   Heayiest Raid in World History Meade on Dortmund

df) PLANES ARE REPORTED 1057   Nearly 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Ruhr Industrial City   IMPORTANT AREA   RAF Spokesman Says Nazi Air Force Outnumbered On Fronts

Raid on Nazi Industrial City‘ Carried Out By Largest RAF Force Ever Sent Over Germany — 30 Bombers: Are Lost. :

1,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED DURING ATTAGK   City Of Dortmund Blasted By FourMotored Planes

R.A. F. Strikes At Dortmund   Thirty Bombers Fail To Return From Raid On German City

Nazi City of Dortmund Blasted With 1,500-Ton Blockbusters. 'In Record 4-Engine Bomber Raid

Huge Concentration Of Bombers Blasts Nazi City  1,500-Ton Blockbuster Saturation Raid

1500 TONS OF BOMBS DROP ON DORTMUND   Largest Attack By FourEngine Bombers Ever Sent On War Mission: RAF Loses 30 Planes   45 U.S. Bombers

RAF Bombs ‘Saturate’ Dortmund; 36 British — Planes Fail To Return   Industrial Metropolis Of Ruhr Valley !s Target For Mighty Attack; U. 5. Flying Fortresses Deal Smashing Blow On Antwerp

BRITISH LOSE 30 PLANES IN LATEST RAIDS      German Industrial City Of Dortmund Pounded

Dortmund Is Given Heavy Attack By  British RAF   Thirty Planes Lost In Concentrated Raid On German Industrial City And Inland Port

DORTMUND IS NIGHT TARGET OF BRITISH.   Railroad Center at Head of Ruhr Pounded by RAF With 30 Planes Lost: Americans Hit Antwerp.

Dortmund Feels Full RAF Fury’  t DAiH TE   Heaviest Raid Of Wor Lashec City

NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITY VICTIM OF HEAVY RAF RAID   At Least 30 of Powerful Force of Britain’s Big Four-Motored Bom bers Fail To Return From Raid On Dortmund.

Huge British Force Pounds German Town   Nearly 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Dortmund: 30 Planes Lost.   A. A. F. HITS ANTWERP

Dortmund Blaste By Giant Fleet Of Big Bombers   Blockbusters Smash Ger. man City in One of Greatest Raids of War

Dortmund Is, ‘Colognized’ By the RAF   Huge Fleet of Flying Forts Hits Antwerp in  Dav Light

RAF BOMBS DORTMUND HEAVILY   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Ruhr Valley Industrial City.

RAF POUNDS RUHR VALLEY ARSENAL   1,500 Tons of Bombs Fall or Dortmund

1,500 TON BOMB ATTACK EQUALS COLOGNE RAID   Largest Force Of RAF Planes Yet Sent Over Germany Pounds German Machine Tool And  Gasoline Center.

RECORD ARMADA OF RAF BOMBERS HITS DORTMUND   German Industrial Center Ripped By 1,500 Tons Of Bombs In Raid

700 RAF Bomber Blast Nazi Coal And Steel Center   Heavy Raid Follows American Bombing  Of Antwerp

Largest Force Of Four-Engined Bombers Yet Sent Over Reich Pours Explosives On Dortmund, Ruhr Valley Community Near Essen—Attack Costs Thirty Planes—Operation Follows Smashing Daylight Assault By U. S. Fortresses On Antwerp

JAP TERRITORY IN ‘RAID ZONE   U. S. Now ‘In Striking Distance’—Stimson

Sovernment to Take Idle Farm Machinery   WEA to Requisition and Distribute to Those Needing It Unused Tools Under Price Ceiling, And Appraisal System   Skip-a-Day Milk Deliveries .. Balked by Drivers’ Refusal

Swift Knockout Of Axis Troops In Sicily Seen   Drive across Supply Line Running through Messina May Turn Trick

Hope Grows For Swift Knockout   Plain Of Catania Highly Strategic

CHANCE TO CRUSH AXIS QUICKLY SEEN   DRIVE ACROSS SUPPLY LINE IN SICILY WOULD IMPERILL DEFENDERS,

KNOCKOUT OF AXIS IN SICILY ENVISIONED   Drive Across Vital Supply Line Running Through Messina Seen In London Ag Axis  Tactic.   Big Battle Impends

Chance Given For Quick - Knockout By Victories   Gerbini Airfields Threatened as Combined Allied Forces Bite Deeper Into Sicily—Enemy’s Air Arm Already Crippled

Allied Attempt At Sicilian Knockout Seen   Drive to Cut Vital Axis Supply Line From Messina Opens

Allies Seek Quick Victory In Sicily   May Attempt Drive To Cut off Messina From Rest of Island   GERBINI AIRFIELDS MAY BE MENACED

Albany To Kill Faited Calf In Celebration Of Return Of Bill Duese. Missing Since Blaodu Fall Of Bataan

Consul Meets With Levelland Citizens   Charges Expected To Be Filed As Result Of Near Serious Clash There Saturday    Albany y Ta Kill Fatted Calf In Celebration Of Return Of Bill Duess. Missing Since Bloody Fall Of Bataan

Americans Fail To Reach Summit Of Important Hill  German Troops Are  eee oer oo Oe Sk a   German Troops Are Counterattacking. Against U. S$. Linas

American And French Detachments Reach Point Twenty Miles From Bizerte

Advances Proceed on Both Wings of Tunisian Front: Sdanes Yield One Section

Patton's Troops Locked in Battle Wesi of Mateur   Russia Plans All-Ow Drive on Invaders; ‘Jap Bases Bombed

U. S. and French Force: Smash to 20 Miles From Bizerte JEFNA LINE DENTED British Repel Desperate Counterattacks by Von Arnim’s Panzers

POWERFUL AXIS DRIVES ROUTED BY FIRST ARMY   8th Forces Take Hill Positions In Hard Battle

British First Army Repels Savage Counter-Attacks, Holds All bui Small Section of Gains   Scores Local Advances Throug! Mountains in North Toward Tu nis and Bizerte

BRIT FIRST ARMY HOLDS ALL BUT ONE BATTLE AREA   Fierce Fighting on Sector Southwest of Mateur Brings Active American Artillery Fire During Night  rp... USETereyrian waa Dp  BEFerRIs™

Axis Forces Struggle To Hold Defenses   First Army Fights Off Powerful Nazi Counter-Attacks

Allies Edge Ahead As Desperate Foe Attacks Furitously   Americans Repel Repeated Attacks; British Ist Army Yields Small Area; Heavy Losses by Germans Reported

Allies Gain OnBothFlanks In Tunisia   Doughboys Hurl Back ; Nazi Jabs In North A: British Battle Axis   FOE SHOWS POWER   French, Yanks Reported 20 Miles From Bizerte, Near Lake Achkel

U.S. Troops Advance In Big Tunisian Battle   British First Army Beat Off Violent Axis Counter Attacks As Enemy Battles isaperately To Guard Open Plain.

Allies Gain On Wings Of  Enemy Line   Yanks Withstand Three Violent Assaults By Reinforced Foe, Then Smash Germans Back

FIRST ARMY FOUGHT OFF POWERFUL AXIS ATTACKS THURSDAY  ATTIICM FrHNNHnMAHe rrr   ALLIED TROOPS EDGED FORWARD ON BOTH WINGS DURING DAY

Meet Strong Axis Resistance   Seek to Dislodge Allies From New Positions Gained.

Allies Make Slight Gains On Tunisian Battlefront   First Army Holds Most Of Positions; U.S. Corps Advances Throucvh Mountains

LOCAL ADVANCE MADE IN NORTH BY AMERICANS   First British Army in Medjez-el-Bab Area Fights Off Strong Counter-Attacks   YANKEE BIG GUNS BLAST AXIS FORCE   Allies Tighten Trap On Nazis, Push Foe Back Toward Bizerte and Tunis Bases

NAZI ATTACKS. STOP BRITISH 1ST ARMY MEN   Patton’s Forces Within 20 Miles Of Bizerte

Allied Troops Edge Forward In Tunisia Area   Enemy Showing. Stiff Resistance To Allied Armies

Allies Tighten Tunisia Vise   FIRST ARMY HURLS BACK ENEMY FORCE AS NAZIS TRY DESPERATE COUNTER DRIVE; AIRMEN SINK TWO MORE AXIS VESSELS

ARMY FANS OUT FROM ARAWE BEACHHEAD   ‘Australian Troops’ Capture New Guinea Stronghold of Lakona

ere eA Tara ll  Moscow’ s Conference Comes to End   (DeWitt MacKenzie, regular conductor of this column, is away on a brief trip.)

NEWS FROM MOSCOW OOD   Despair Must Have Settlec Over Axis at Failure to Drive Wedge Between Allied Nations.

[NEWS FROM MOSCOW TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE DECLARED ALMOST UNBELIEVABLY GOOD BY ANALYST

REUNION DRAW blbbES! GROWL   Nearly 1,000 Persons At tended 17 Gath‘rings at Local Park Sunday.

WEDNESDAY FOR VIRGINIA ZANLLER   William E. Carpenter. Also Injured in Same Acci- dent Last Week, —

6000 Police Guard Harlem After Riots   Six Dead, 543 Injured and 500 Afrested Following Disorders

6,000 Police Patrol — - Harlem After Rioting Kills 6, Injures 543   ‘timated At $5,000,000; Arrests  Reach 500 Mark in New York .

6.000 Policemen Patrol Harlem to Avert New Rioting   Disorders Cause Five Deaths, Injuries to 543: Damage Is Heavy

Racial Riofs Flare Again  Thousands Of Police Patrol Harlem Area

“)0 Policemen pd Against w Harlem Riot   - uiet Restored After dy Negroes Slain, 543 4 sher Persons Injured

Mrs. Juanita Barr Granted New Trial  Court Formerly Had Affirmed Sentence Dar Nallac Slaving

flatnview Puot Miraculously Brings Back Banged-Up Fort After Strange Battle With Ratt And Own Bombe

Plainview Pilot Miraculously Brings Back Banged-U p iFort After Strange Battle With Raft And Own BRamhe

Soviets Drive Enemy To Trap On Seacoast    Split Axis Forces, Pinning One Body Against Sea And  ~Pressing Other Back Toward Rostov Into Trap  Russians Are Fashioning.

Nazis Attempt  To Reinforce   Trapped Forces’ May Get Out Through Sea In Caucasian Area .

GIGANTIC RING IS CLOSING IN ABOVE ROSTOV   All German Forces In on Basin Face Trap; 17,000 Germans Killed, 27,000 Captured In Voronezh Sector.

GERMANS FACE ENCIRCLEMENT   Rush Tanks, Divisions  Infantry Into Big Batiles in Russia

Nazis in Don Basin Above Rostov Face Giant Encirclement   Desperately Rush Tanks, Infantry As Reds Push Deep Into Ukraine; Pinnéd Avainst Sea in Caucasus 

Germans Rush Reserves into Krasny-Liman   Nazis Counterattacking in Effort to Hold Base at Rostov

Trapped German Divisions Face Stalingrad Fate   Axis Forces Counter-Attack; Caucasus Army May Be Forced To Cross Dangerous Kerch Strait

Nazis Desperately Rush Reserves To Russian Fronts   Face Encirclement In  Don Basin

NEW DISTURBANCES HAVE BROKEN OUT IN DANISH CAPITAL   Nazi Militarists, Stifle Resistance —— Large ©  - Factory Ia ‘Blasted

DISTURBANCE IN DENMARK: TOLD BY ‘AFTONBEADET   ‘Large Factory Blown Up; 1,000 Killed; Meat, Bread Scarce

ELIEVE NAZIS HAVE BLOCKED DANISH REVOL'   Ruthless Use Of Arm: Supresses Revolt: Nation Hungry

New Outbreaks of Sabotage In Denmark Claimec   Germans Generally  Stifle Resistance By Ruthless Use of Arms

Report New Outbreaks In Denmark   Large Danish Factory Reported Blown Up: Many Die

Conditions Still Tense in Denmark   Most Resistance  Reported Stifled

NEW DISTURBANCES IN DENMARK ANNOY NAZIS   sabotage Reported ‘in Copenhagen and Other Places -—Germans Reported to Haye Succeeded in Stifling Resistance. Through the Ruthless Use of Arms—Hundreds Are Slain Since Martial Law Wace Imancad

Large Vanish Factory Is Blown Up   Over 1,000 Persons Killed or Wounded  Tes ft ‘aman i ‘«eram

F.D.R. Will Say Nothing About Marshall's Status   President Expresses Dis pleasure over Some of Reports on Change

President and Marshall Resent Command Rumors  Implications Read  Tate Armeu Changes   Implications Read Into Army Changes Declared Harmful

Marshall Affair Irks Roosevelt   Reports of Alleged Motives Attacked

F.D.R. Declines to Discuss General's Status  White House and War Department Show Deep Concern

FDR Quiet About Marshall's Status Until Right Time White House and Wa Department Manifest -

MARSHALL STIR IRKS PRESIDENT   Political Implications Involving General Are Resented

FARMERS TQ FILE   Farm Agents and Others t« Help = Income  Tax Estimates

FARMERS TO FILE   Farm Agents and Others tc Help Prepare Income Tax Estimates

Lend-Lease For Britain Assailed   Title To Holdings Ackacd Vea: DoarcJine wore

Lend-Lease For Britain Assailed   Title To Holdings Acked In Payment

Group Decries  Army as ‘WPA   Truman Committee Asks BRritich OV], Metal

House Passes Labor Bill   Measure t to Regulate Kans. Unions Approved After a Stiff Fizht

‘KANSAS PUTS CURB ON LABOR LEADERS WITH LICENSE LAW   Financial Reports. and Check : On Fees Required

More Meat For Nation   War Food Bureau Increases Slaughter Quota for August

MORE BACON AND PORK CHOPS SOON   To Increase Quota of Pork Slaughtering for Civilian Use.

Cape Gloucester Again Blasted By Allied Planes   Hit Two Jap Vessels, Down 14 Warplanes Foe Bombs Arawe

GREEK SURVIVORS * REACH BALTIMORE   12 Crewmen Off Torpedoed Vesse Refused Provisions Offered By i Sub

New Liberty Ships Will. iCanry Own Helicopters For U-Boat Protection

FIGHT ON TAX BILL SOON 10 COMETO HEAD   Republicans Fail to Line Up Solidly Behind Rum! Plan

Steps Will Be Taken Not Tx Benefit War-Made Mil honaires, However

FIGHT ON TAX BILLSOON TO COMETOHEAD   Republicans Foil to Line Up Solidty Behind - Rural Plon

RUMI'S TAX PLAN SUPPORT RALLIES   0. P. Leaders Predict 11 ah Pass With Aid of — Democrats

GOP Fails To Line Up On Ruml Plan   Leaders Predict Most Party Members Will Support Measure

AUML TAK PLA GIVEN SUPPORT   Conference Fails to Line up Republicans Solidly Behind Skip-a-Year Proposal; Success Forecast, However

Martin Believes  Modified Ruml Dian Will Win   Minority Leader Confiden Many Democrats Will Join Republicans

GUP 15 DIVIDED ON RUME TAX PLAN   BUT MARTIN PREDICTS ITS PASSAGE AFTER CONFERENCE OF HOUSE MEMBERS.

STATESBETWEEN ATLANTIC COAST AND ROCKIES CUT   Broadcast at 9:15 Tomorrow Night Will Explain

Plenty of Confusion But ‘No More Gas in East   Midwest, Southwest Coupons Cut as Pleasure Een Remains in East

21 MORE STATES - ARE AFFECTED IN - NEW GAS RATIONS   Supplies Reduced 25- Per Cent But Eastern Drivers Are Not Getting Early Benefits:   ARMY REUQIREMENTS ARE REPORTED CAUSE   Eastern Shipping Facilities Recently tmproved, Ban on Pleasure Driving May End Shortly.

East Drops Hope for More Gas as Other Sections Cut   Problem Solved

Transportation Problem Is Solved But Demands Of Military Prevent An Increase Of Ration In Eastern States   CUT IN WESTERN STATES TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT

Value of Gasoline Coupons to Be Cut In Midwest and Southwest Monday

/ALUE OF GAS X0UPONS DROPS )5 PER CENT   Midwest Cut Starts Monday

Cut Value Of Gas Tickets In 21 New States   Confusing Statements Issued By Federal Control Groups

Value Of Gas Coupons Is Cut 25 Per Cent   Reduction In Value In 21 States, Including Wisconsin, Will Go Into Effect Monday

Value of Gas Coupons Cut By 25 Pet.   Slash in Midwest, Southwest to Be Effective Monday

FuelCoupon  Value Sliced In 21 States   3 Gallons a Week Limit After Sunday; East Not Boosted

N o Gasoline  For Pleasure.   Midwestern Rations Are Slashéd, However

DISAPPOINTED EAST POSTPONES HOPE OF EARLY GAS RELIEF   Series “Of” Statements By 3 Government Agencies Fail To Clarify Situation

Value of Oil Coupons to 3 Gallons   One-Fourth of Ration Elim inated by New Orders = Issued Today fe

Midwest Coupon Values To Be Reduced By One Fourth; Eastern Pleasure Driving Ban  May Be Lifted

So Says Caesar!  Petrillo Intends to Stop Transcription Industry Permanently.

Primary Is Exciting But Mild Interest   Only 98 Candidates File for 49 County Judgeships At Stake  432 ARE INCUMBENTS

ONLY 98 FILE FOR FORTY-NINE CO. JUDGESHIPS   Candidates Have Un. til July 31th To > Withdraw.

OUT-OF-HAND PRICES TO BE ROLLED BACK   Brown Also to Further Extend Price Controls

PREPARES BROAD PRICE ROLLBACK   Administration Promises Cuts In Food Charges as Reply to Labor.

ROLL-BACK OF HCOL PLEDGED BY PRICE CHIFI   Brown’s Action Designed To Head Off Labor Assault «

FOOD PRICES 10 BE ROLLED BACK   Meat, Fresh and Canned Vegetables, Coffee, Others Are Affected.

Administration Prepares General Rollback Of "Out Of Hand Prices”

“ROLL-BACK” OF. PRICES BEGINS   GPA to Force Return of Out- ofLine Prices in Move to Forestall Wage Increase Re ninaete

Charges Single Men of Military Age Should Be Sent to Farms or Put Into Uni-

‘RICK’ CHARGES DRAFT DODGING   FAMOUS FLIER ALSO TELLS SENATE COMMITTEE INDUSTRY ‘SHOULD GO ON PIECE WORK BASIS.

SHATTER AXIS. DEFENSE LINE WITH GUNFIRE   Eighth Army Breaks Thru 20 Miles North of Gabés After: Barrane. .   AMERICANS MOP UP. : GERMANS AT MAKNASSY

H. B. Steagall, Congressman, Heart Victim   Banking Committee Chairman Dies In Washington Hospital

REP. STEAGALL SUCCUMBS 10 HEART ATTACK   Lined Up Farm State Opposition to Consumer Subsidies

Congressman H. B. Steagall Heart Victim °   Was Leader Of House Battle Aqainst U.S. Subsidy Program

House Banking  Chairman Dies   Alabama Solon Lead Battle Against Food Subsidy Program.

HEART ATTACK; ONE CREMATED   Representative Henry B. Steagall, Stricken After Speech Friday, Suc cumbed Today   LEADER OF FOES ON SUBSIDY MEASURE   Congressman Ditter Burn. ed to Death In Crash of Navy Plarie In Penns¥lvania

Subsidies Foe Dies Suddenly  Death Comes to Rep. Steagall Monday

REP. H. B. STEAGALL DIES IN CAPITAL   Leader in House Battle Anainct Subsidies

Steagall  Succumbs   Death Removes Leader Of Battle Against Food Subsidy

Heart Attack Fatal To Third District Solon At Height Of Subsidy Fight

REP. STEAGALL, SUBSIDY FOE, SUCCUMBS TODA’   Alabama Congressman For 30 Years Has Heart Attack

Heart Attack Proves Fatal To Steagall   Chairman House Banking Group

Alabama Man. Dies Suddenly  Henry B. Steagall, * Leader of Fight on  Subeidiac Daceae

Rep. Steagall Dies Suddenly In Hospital   Deceased Was The Powerful Head Of Banking Committee

South Solon Steagall Dies in Capital   LEADER OF BATTLE AGAINST U. S. SUBSIDY SUCCUMBS AT AGE 70

CONG. STEAGALL “TIES SUDDENLY WE WASHINGT   Chairman of Powerful House Banking, Currency Committee.

HENRY B, STEAGALL DIES UNEXPECTEDL   Veteran Congressman’ was Chairman of House Banking Committee.

Blast Emden, Destroy 138 Nazi Planes   Other United Nations Blows Send Enemy Reeling Over World

20 American Craft Are Lost In Terrific Aerial Conflict During Bombing of Emden

U. S. Loses 17 Bombers, 3 Fighters. Big Port City Is Lett in Flames; Stiff Fighting Raging in Italy   Yankee 5th and British 8th Make Progress; Reds Strike Heavy Blows Against Germans; Drive to Win Back Kiev; New Slash at Japs

ARMY AIR FORCE HAS TAKEN OVER CIVILIAN PATROL   Col. Earl Johnson, Nationa! Commander, Announces Recent Transfer.

Civil Air Patrol ls Now An Arm Of Army Air Forces   Transferred to War Department; O.:lahoma yring Is Included

A 6-Month Hitch Hiking Pass—  OPA Cracks Down on Wri        Bootleg Gasoline User Is Rapped

Heavy Battle Breaks Out in White Russia  Berlin Expects Opening of Full-Scale Winter Soviet Drive KIEV AREA IS QUIET Red Army Strengthens Encirelement of City. of Kirovograd      KIEV AREA IS OUIET

Reds Tighten Encirclement (Of Kirovograd   German Sources Report Heavy New Fighting In White Russia.   Attack In Nevel Area.

REDS TIGHTEN ENCIRCLEMENT OF KIROVOGRAD   ‘Yaiutin's Smashing of von Mann. - stein’s Drive in Bulge Termed ‘Decisive’ Victory   DRIVE ON BALTIC   Berlin Reports Growing Russian Offensives in White Russia but Mescow Maintains Silence

Kirovograd Is Approached By ~ Soviet Troops   Capture” OF. ‘ a “Wo nk German  Garrison At ‘Krival Rao: oo”: 

Ukraine Army Strengthens Ring About Kirovograd   Terrific Battles Under Way in White Russia; Tank Battle at Kiev Dies Down

ENCIRCLEMENT OF KIROVOGRAD BEING DRAWN TIGHTER   HUNDREDS OF COUNTER. ATTACKING GERMANS REPORTED SLAIN

RUSSIANS UNDER GENERAL KNOEV SCORE SUCCESS   Strengthen Encirclement of Kirovograd; Moscow Reports New And Heavy Fighting In White  Russia.

Russians Tighten Noose About Kirovograd Base  Heavy Battle Flares In White Russia  Be Cactus Adloanew

BELIEVE RED BALTIC DRIVE   Berlin Reports Terrific White Russian Battles - Which May Herald Full Scale Soviet Winter Of  . os  fensive.

KIROVOGRAD IS NOW MENACED BY /RUSSIAN ARMIES   Principal Source of Manganese for Germany’s  Machine Now Endangered

Soviets Closing Kirovograd Trap  2nd Ukrainian Army Strengthens Hold

Second Ukraine Army Strengthens Encirclement of Kirovograd; Germans Await New Red Baltic Drive.

Report Great Battles in White Russia   Germans Hint at Opening of FullScale Soviet Drive For the Baltic

REDS INCREASE ENCIRCLEMENT OF KIROVOGRAD   Meanwhile, Nazi Sources Report Strong Russian Offensive in White  Russia   Smashing Of Nazi Industry DependentOn Good Weather

Russians Tighten Noose About Kirovograd Base  Heavy Battle Flares In White Russia As Soviets Advance

Red Ring Around  Kirovgrad Closes  White Russia Offensive  Reported By Nazis   Fail To Break Through

KIROVOGRAD ISBEING ENCIRCLED   Nazis’Report Big Russian Offensive In White Russia

Russ Tighten Net on Nazi Supply Base   Berlin Reports Terrific Battles Raging as Heralds of Big Drive

Red Drive for Baltic May Be On   Germans Tell of. Heavy Fighting in White Russia, a Possible Prelnde-.   LITTLE NEWS GIVEN -. GUT- FROM MOSCOW   But Official Report Tells ot Steady Gains Toward City of Kirovograd

ENCIRCLEMENT OF KIROVOGRAD IS NOW MUCH STRONGER   Eight Hundred Counterattacking Germans Were Reported Killed.   MENACE NAZI GARRISON   Kirovograd Is the Principal Sourse of Manganese for German War Machine.

Nazis Report Big Battles In W. Russia   Reds Strengthen Encirclement  Of Kirovograd, Industrial City

Russians Are Encircling Kirovograd   Konev Army Tightening Its Grip on Industrial Citv; New Attacks

SOVIETS BATTLE FOR KIROVOGRAD   800 GERMANS KILLED IN COUNTER-ATTACKS; REDS TIGHTEN RING

Reds Circle  Kirovograd   Tighten Noose and Kills 800 Germans In Heavy Fighting

REDS ENCIRCLE KEY ORE CITY   Kirovograd Fall Is Near; Report Violent Fight In White Russia

Close In On Kirovograd   Russian Troops Reportec To Be Closing In On Key City

Reds Advance In Drive On Kirovoarad   Germans Report New Intense Fighting In White Russia

 Expert Help Coming For Backyard’ Farmers!  Kiwanis Club To ‘Boost Gardens -

Bie Guns Open Bombardment  Of Vital City   Observers See Nazis Pushed Back To Dnieper By Spring   The War:

ICKES SLASHES CIVILIAN GAS   SOUTHWEST EXEMPTED IN NEW QUARTERLY CUT

Chester Bowles States Ickes’ Predicted Cut of Gas  For West Coast Unnecessary

vw  New Start Made In Negotiating Coal Wage Pact   Lewis and Operators Confer for Two Hours, To Meet Again Today

LEWIS MEETS MINE OWNERS ON CONTRACT   New Stert Made Toward Negotiating Pay. Scale   PARLEY 1S HELD AT ICKES’ INVITATION   Renewal of Conferences May Lead to New Coal Crisis

NEW START MADE ON COAL CONTRACT   John L. Lewis and Operators Representing Majority of Soft Coal Tonnage Start Conferences

COAL MINERS RENEW TALKS ON CONTRACI   OWNERS AND UMW LEADERS CONFER IN WASHINGTON

NEW ATTEMPT MADE TO WRITE MINE CONTRACT   Lewis, Operators Meet In Interior Offices; New Agency May Be Set Up

SPORTSMEN URGE BUILDING OF PARKS   Claim Ohio’s Program Under Neighboring States

HALSEY HAILS ISLE INVASION   BOUGAINVILLE THRUST SEEN AS STEP TO JAPAN

CALL BOUGAINVILLE GREATEST VENTURE   Invasion of Isle Termed Major Step Toward Heart Of Japan. e

Butcher Gets Meat From Army Supply   Utah Resident Faces Charges

Navy Discloses Cruiser Helena Is Lost In  Naval Engagement With Japanese At Kula  Two Engagements Are Grim Warning To Tokyc That American Fleet Can Cover The Pacific

U. 5. Warships Bombard Kiska   Jap Shore Batteries Fail to Return Fire

Warships Shell Japs On Kiska~   Move s Believed - Invasion Prelude

ASSAULT COMES AT TIME WHEN COMBINED LAND, SEA AND AIR FORCES IN SOUTH PACIFIC ARE BUSY.

Japs on Kiska Are Targets For U.S. Navy   Loss of Cruiser Helena in Solomons Battle Is Disclosed

U.S. Fleet Opens Barrage On Kiska   Hundreds Of Shells Poured Into Japanese Defenses Possibly As Prelude To  Reconquest Drive

Warships Bomb Kiska As Airmen Continue Attacks   Few Details Given on Isiand Bombing by the Navy— Light Cruiser Helena Lost in Kula Gulf Battle

US. warships shell Jap  defenses on Kiska island   Seen as possible preliminary to new blows against enemy-held positions

WARSHIPS ATTACK ~— JAP-HELD KISKA   SHELLING SEEN AS POSSIBLE PRELIMINARY TO DRIVE TO RETAKE ISLAND.

NAZIS FOLLOW UP ON VISIT BY CHURCHILL   VON PAPEN ALSO CALLS ON TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER

SENATE VOTES ON BONUS BILL   ‘Approval Given $200 War _ Bonus For Teachers And State Employes

Senate Voles $200 Bonus To State Teachers   Defeat Plan To Increase Pay $20 Monthly .

WORK STOPPAGE IS BLAMED FOR COAL SHORTAGE   Manpower Commission Denies It Is Due To Lack Of Workers

Heavy Inductions Of Men 18 To 25 Seen During February And March By Official

"Heavy Induction in February, March of Men Between Ages 18-25 Predicted hy Rep. May

REPEAL OF GAS BAN APPEARS POSSIBLE   FDR’s Talk, However, Gives Little Hope For Major. Relaxations

May Lift Pleasure Ban By Late Vacation Season   But It Will Be At Expense Of Western Motorists, It ; Is Snid

Serves Notice More Than 77,000 Men Must End Strike Saturday 10 A. Ms _ Will Use Full Powers as Commander

WITH 77,000 MINERS IDLE, SHOWDOW i) BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND UNITED MINE WORKERS IS AT HAND.

Executive Sets Deadline for  Men to Return   Mine Workers Leader Preserves Silence: Nationwide Shutdown of Pits Threatened

Lewis Silent As Deadline Ts Set by FDR   Many Courses Open to President if Strike Takes Full Effect

F.D. RB. Orders Coal Miners . Back to Work   Showdown Between President, Lewis Is at Hand

Ultimatum Issued By Roosevelt   Miners Ordered To End Strike  Saturday

Roosevelt-Lewis Showdown Seen In  \Coal Mine Strike   President Orders Miners Back To Work By Saturday: 77.000 Now Idle In Nation

ROOSEVELT SERVES NOTICE HE WILL KEEP MINES OPEN   President Declares He Will Use His Vast Powers Ti Protect the National Interest

nsevelt Orders  “k Resumed Saturday   sident Tells Union ~'ll Protect Nation’s erest Resolutely  1S 1S SILENT  yonally Moves for  Fw to Seize Mines Paandaned hu W arker:

NATION- WIDE COAL STRIKE DUE TODAY   Union Threat Spurs Spurs Roosevelt Wire Demandi

President Serves Notice He Will Use His Powers   Message From Roosevelt Orders Miners To Resume Work Saturday.

Lewis Remains Silent And 77,000 Strikers Reveal No Tendency To Return to Coal Pits  SATURDAY 10 A. M. F. D. RS DEADLINE  Several Courses Open To Chief Executive, Including Martial Law

Showdown Ir Strike Near   AFL Miners Will Not Join CIO In Strikee

Lewis Preserves Deep Silence After Ultimatum; 17,000 Are Idle   President Tells Mine Leader Strike Has Same Effect as Crippling Defeat in Field; Calls Stoppage Violation of Pledge

President Issues Ultimatum to Strikers ‘That ‘they Must Be At Work By-10 A. M. Tomorrow

PRESIDENT TO USE VAST POWERS TO AVERT WALKOUTS   Saturday Deadline Set for Work to Be Resumed: 77,000 Now Idle

ROOSEVELT ASKS MINERS TO END PRESENT STRIKE   President Appeals To Patriotism Of Workers  In Coal Controversy   SHOWDOWN NEARING WITH JOHN L. LEWIS

Notice Served by President as Mine Strikes Expand   MINE UNION HEAD PRESERVES SILENCE   Roosevelt Promises Action Saturday if Watkouts Continue

President Tells Union Head He Will Use His Powers to Protect War Effort; 77,000 Men Now Out

Fleeing Nazis Hotly Chased   Reds Advance 26 Miles In Day In Caucasus Campaign

Soviet ‘Tank = Men and Cossack Calyary In Hot Fursuit of Retreating  Nazi

TOTAL GAIN NOW AMOUNTS T0 129 MILES   Cossacks And Red Tanks Pursuing Retreating Nazis Across Steppes.

COSSACK CAVALRY AND TANK FORGES ON HEELS OF FOE   More Towns Occupied in Swift Advance—Red Army Now Approaching Kalmyck Region.   SOVIETS MEET STIFF RESISTANCE ON DON   (Germans Counter-Attack Re peatedly to Ease Threat to Rostoy, but Are  { Beaten Off,

Red Army Rolling Northwestward Through Caucasus Now More Than 125 Miles From Start; Nazis Strike Back on Don

Reds Advance Near Steppes: Pursue Nazis   Occupy Sofnikovskoye; Columns Drive West; Steady Gains Made

Our 100,000 Jowawts  Suducted ot  Camp Dodge and FDL, Des Moines  Se   Army Pleased With Work at Towa Centers.:

Over 100,000 Iowans Have Gone Through  State Induction Camp   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Snecial Correspondent

OWAN RETURNS, WAS CASTAWAY   Radio Man From Glenwood Was “Absent” 218 Days After Being Shot Down by Japs

_ Allied Air Force Said Far Superior  Luftwaffe Past Peak, Is Belief

ee LOST ITS POWER      Little More Than Remnant Compared To Allied Air Force

R. A. F. Makes Heavy Attack Upon Hamburs   Germany Under Air Raid Attack For Eighth Consecutive Night   NAZIS IN FEEBLE RAIDS ON LONDON

LATEST SALES BOOST TOTAL TO S1.001519   E Bond Purchases, However, Still $17,000 Below Goal

ST SALES BOOST TOTAL TO $1017.51   E Bond Purchases, However, Still S176,00 Below Goal

MORE FOR PRODUCERS   UPA Prepares Order Permitting  Higher Milk Ceiling Prices

Order Effexvtive April 26 Covers All Meats and Food Items Including Wines and Other Alcoholic Beverages Sold In  eastern States.

OPA Places Ceiling Prices ‘On All Meals, Food Items Sold In Eating Places   Prices Limited To Point No Higher Than Those Charged During Week Of April 4-10

CEILING PUT ON EATING PLACES   All Food Items, Alcoholic Drinks Come Under New Ceiling Price Order By.  OPA,

CEILING PLACED ON PRICE OF MEALS   Food Items and Drinks Pegged at Level Of April 4-10

Price Ceilings Put On All Meals. Feed liems Im Seuthbeastern States

CEILING PRICES PUT ON MEALS WN CAFES   April 4-10 Is Base Perioc For Determining Price

Senator Sees Early German Collapse, Predicts Newly Drafted Men Will ‘Miss Combat; Wheeler Flays Bureaus

Dads Won't See ~~ Combat, Belief  Wheeler Renews Drive For Deferment

Senator Sees Nazis Licked In 4 Months   Says Many Fathers In Draft Will Never Do Fighting

BELIEVES DADS DRAFTED NOW WILL NOT FIGHT   Senator Sees Collapse Of Germany In d Months

SEES NAZI FALL IN   Downey Thinks Most Married Men Will Never See Combat

DOWNEY THINKS FATHERS ‘SAFE   Senator Opines Men Taken This Fell Will Never See Combat

War’s End Seen  Saving Fathers   California Senator Savs Nazis Near Collapse

Early German Collapse Seen  Sen. Downey Says Dads Will Never  Sae Camhkat

SOLON PREDICTS REICH COLLAPSE   Married Men Scheduled For Induction Won't : See Combat

DOUBTS FATHERS WILL SEE COMBAT   SENATOR DOWNEY FORE CASTS COLLA  abe Le ie oar EN Sa crear SOIT K,. OF. GER a  MANY WITHIN 4 MONTHS,

Senator Sees Early Collapse Of Germany, Canie Manu Inductees Won't See Combat

Big Axis Base  Falls; British Open Offensive   Big Drive To Push Germans Out Of Nortt Africa Under Way   The War:

RUSSIAN DRIVE GETTING CLOSER TO NOVOROSSISK   Germans Are Fighting Desperately In Defense Df Soviet City   3-PRONGED ADVANCE APPROACHES OREL

SOVIET FORCES GAIN NEAR BELY   Berlin Finally Admits Ring Around Leningrad HasBeen Broken

Russians Capture Railway Town  Bul German Resistance in  Aven Cozce   NAZIS CLAIM LINES IN . RUSSIA ARE HOLDING

REDS = TOPPLE MORE GERMAN STRONGHOLDS   Heavy German Counter Attacks With Tank and Plane Support in the Don ets Basin   Thaw in Ukraine

REDS CAPTURE RAIL TOWN OF DUROVO   57 Miles East of Smolensk on Main Moscow Rail Line. Another Column Driving  ‘Toward Bely

RAILROAD TOWN OF DUROVO IS TAKEN BY REDS    Russians Are Beginning To  Stabilize Lines On  Southern Front   COUNTER - ATTACKS OF GERMANS DRIVEN BACK

RUSSIANS MOVE STEADILY TOWARD VITAL SMOLENSK   Report Death of 5,500 Nazis   in Last Three Days—Cap  ture Town 57 Miles From Stronghold.   STIFFEN RESISTANCE ON SOUTHERN FRONT   Reds Appear to Be Holding Against Ccunte r-Drive That Swept Them Back to Donets River.

Soviel Lines Are Stabilizing Against Nazis   Germans Launch Fierce Counter Attacks in North

Russ Capture Key Rail City, 40 Other Point:   Reds Stabilize Lines On Long Front  In Southern Area

Axis Strongholds Captur. * ed in Westward  — Campsign EFFORTS CONTINUE - TO ENCIRCLE OREL Heavy German Counter. Attacks in Some Areas Reported

Reds Take Durovo on Rail Line to Smolensk; Battle Near Kharkov Is Growing

Great Russian Battle Grows In Ferocity   Reds Claim Durovo Taken; Nazis Stemmed at Kharkov

Axis Strongholds Captured in Westward Campaign  EFFORTS CONTINUE TO ENCIRCLE OREL  Heavy German CounterAttacks in Some Areas Reported

Soviet Advance Tightens Pocket Around Remnants Of Germans In Caucasus   Reds Drive To Within 25 Miles Of Novorossisk; Steamroller Crushes Relentlessly To West Enveloping Towns

Donets Basin Battle Growing in Ferocity   Reds Report Progress in Smolensk Drive, Capturing Railway Town 57 Miles East of the City—Concede Loss of Belgorod.

RED TANKMEN PUNCH HOLES IN NAZI LINES   UKRAINE MUD FAILS TO HOLD UP PUSH; KIEV IS GOAL

Reds Lake Towns Near Smolensk  Line Stabilized”   Line Stabilized” From Belgorod To Below Kharkov

Russians Also Capture 40 Populated. Places On Road to Smolensk  LINES STABILIZE BELOW KHARKOV  3.900 Germans Killed In One Secter of Front Try) Three Dave Rede Sa

Hard Fighting ~ On Russ Front   Reds Take Rail Point 'Ir Smolensk Drive.

Durovo Falls To Soviets in Fierce Fight   Nazis Throw Masses of Men and Tanks Into Donets Area

REDS STIFFEN ARTER GIVING UP BELGOROD   Germans Try Repeatedly to Cross Donets River Only to Be Thrown Rack   SOVIETS PROGRESS  -NEAR SMOLENSK   Capture Railway Town of Durovo; Berlin Says ‘Thrusts of Reds Repelled

REDS MOVE NEARER SMOLENSK, HOLD NAZIS AT DONETS RIVER   Capture Railroad Town Of Durovo, 57 Miles East Of Key German Base; Admit Battle Of Donets River Line Growme In Ferocity.

Railroad: Town of Durovo _ Captured in the Drive      LINES STABILIZING IN SOUTHERN REGION

Railway Town Occupied By  Heavy Force   Fighting In The Kharkov Sector Is Continuing

Gains Scored By Russians Near Moscow   German Tanks Repelled In Southern Fight

Russians Take New  Territory   Durovo Is Occupied By Same Force Which Broke Through German Lines At Vyazma

RUSSIAN ARMY TAKES THE RAILWAY TOWN OF DUROVE   Located 57 Miles East of Smolensk on Main Line of the Red Drive.   DONETS BATTLE GROWS   Advance Through Durovo Made in Face of German Counterattacks.

REDS CAPTURE RAILWAY TOWN OF DUROVO   CONCEDE LOSS OF BELGOROD, 25 MILES NORTH OF KHARKOV

SOVIET TROOPS CAPTURE VITAL RAILWAY TOWN   Russian Lines Holding After Losing Belgorod

REDS CAPTURE DUROVO, ADMIT BELGOROD LOSS   Russians Report Nazi Forces Unable to Cross Donets River

Russians Make New Progress in Southern Drive   Capture Railway Town of Durovo, Which Is 57 Miles East of Smolensk.   Donets’ River Battle Increases In Ferocity

Russians Concede Loss of Belgorod, but Report They Are Holding Stubbornly East and Southeast of That City

Railroad Town of Durovo Captured in the Drive  LINES STABILIZING IN SOUTHERN REGION  Counter- attacks on the Southern Front Are Smashed

Reds Admit Losing Belgorod But Claim Gain Near Smolensk   Battle for Donets River Line Increasing in Its Ferocity

Reds Race to Act Before Spring Thaws   Counterattacks in Some Areas Are Admitied hy Soviets

Take Durovo In Central Front Drive   Reds Capture City In Face Of Counterattack   Say Stubborn Defense Holds Nazis In South   Communique Admits Loss Of Belgorod;  No Donets Crossing

SOVIETS REPORT NEW SUCCESS IN SLASHING DRWE   Rail Town of Durovo Falls To Reds—Fierce Fight For Donets Line

Nazis Halted In Southern War Region   Durovo and 40 Other Places in Hands of ‘Russian Allackers

Reds Advance On Nazi Base   Many Towns Ketaken, And Kharkov Defense Tightens.

Reds Capture Durovo, Move Farther West   Battle For Donets Area Growing In Ferocity: Hold Stubbornly In Chuguev Sector

REDS KEEP UP STEADY SURGE TO SMOLENSK   DRIVE ON NAZI BASE NETS 40 TOWNS, KILLS 5500

REDS CAPTURE RAILWAY TOWN   Drive Nearer to Smolensk.   Nazis Gain in South

IN DONETS CONTINUES   Belgorod Admitted By Russians To Be In German Hands

Russians Drive Toward Big  German Base   Railroad Center, Other Towns Fall to Rec Legion; Southern Lines Stabilize Against Nazis; Enemy Loss Is Heavy

Battle For The Donets River Area Grows In Ferocity   REDS MAKE STAND EAST OF BELGOROD

Reds Take Several More Strongholds In Ukraine Sector   Heavy Nazi Counterattacks Admitted In Donets As Russians Surge On Westward

Soviets Pushing 300-Mile Front West   Russians Topple Several More Germar Strongholds in Drive Toward Rail Junctions Guarding Dnieper

Soviets Race Against Mud For Victories   Surge Toward Poltave and Knotop; Gain in Orel Vicinity

MORE AXIS STRONGHOLDS FALL TO ONRUSHING RUSSIAN ARMY   Fresh Gains To Encircle Orel Reported in Latest Official Moscow Communique

Russians Surge Nearer Smolensk   Capture Railroad Town Of Ourovo And 40 Localities North Of Nazi Base; Lines Strengthen B elow Kharkov

NAZIS OFFERING RESISTANCE IN DONETS BASIN   Reds Admit Heavy Enemy Counter-Attacks With Plane And Tank Support   SEVERAL COMMUNITIES FALL TO SOVIET ARMS

Russia’s machine unhalted   Topple defenses in race against thaws of spring

REPORT LINES ‘ARE FIRM IN SOUTH SECTOR   Railroad Town Of Durobo Captured By Soviets Moving Toward Smolensk.

Lone Town Blocks  Way to Smolensk  Belgorod-Kharkov Line Held by Russians

Reds Topple Nazi Defense   Thaw In Coucasus Is Hampering Movements

Rail Center Is Taken Over by Red Forces   Russian Offensive on Central Front Is Rolling Ahead

Battle For Donets River Line Below Kharkov Reported  Growing In Ferocit

RAIL STATION AT DUROVO IS TAKEN BY REDS   Soviets Continue Drive Toward Great Enemy Base At Smolensk   NAZIS CLAIM CHUGUEV   Germans Throw Huge Forces Of Tanks And Men Into Donets Battle

Russians Now Only 57 Miles From Strong German Base   Red Army Captures Durovo, East Of Smolensk On Main Moscow Rail Line

POCKET DRAWN TIGHTER UPON NAZI REMNANTS   Akhitiraskaya Captured By Red Steamroller In Continued Gains  On Wide Front   Battle Hits Dnieper

Reds Drive on Smolensk Admit Loss of Belgorod   Fierce Defensive Engagements Fought By Russians as Nazi Stand Stitfene

REDS CLAIM ‘CAPTURE OF RAIL CENTER   City of Durovo, 57 Miles East of Smolensk on Main Line to Moscow is Taken   NAZIS TAKE BELGOROD

Reds Capture Durovo R.R. Key   Smash Way Into Axis-Held Town, 57 Miles East of Smolensk

Germans Yield Durovo In SmolenskZone   Reds Advance In Face Of Heavy Counter Jabs Donets Battle ‘Grows .   HOLD NEAR CHUGUEY   Berlin Radio Concedes Russians Have Broken Leningrad Ring

Belgorod Loss ls Conceded As Reds Evacuate   Nazis Thrown Back In Repeated Attempts To Cross Donets

Donets River Battle  Increases In Feroctiy   Reds Concede Belgorod Lost; Continue Drive on Smolensk

RED ARMY CAPTURED ANOTHER TOWN IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   RUSSIAN RESISTANCE   IN SOUTH REPORTED  TO BE STIFFENING

Soviet Units Take Durovo Rail Town   Rattle for   Donets River “Lie Grows  In Feracity

REDS CAPTURE DUROVO, ADMIT BELGOROD FALI   Moscow-Also’ Reports Capture o! Important Positions Seuth’ 9! Bely—Thaws Impede Advance

Reds Near-Novorossisk - After 37 Mile Advance   Last Remnants of Germans in the Caucasus Caught _in Tightening Pocket—Numerous Towns a Teken by the Soyjets —-

RUSSIANS PRESS UN IN UKRAINE, GAIN NEAR OREI   More German Strongholds Toppled as Reds Push Toward Approaches te Enemy’s Dnieper Line.   NAZIS IN DONETS STIFFEN RESISTANCE   Launch Heavy Counter-Attacks, Driving Wedge Into Soviet Lines at One Point.

Russians Seize  40 More Places   Reds Stabilize Lines Near Kharkov Against  Nazi Counter-Drive

AUSUIANG TAKE RAILROAD TOWN   Soviets Use Veteran Troops To Capture Durovo Near Smolensk.   ADMIT BELGOROD LOSS

British Capture — Key Post On Hills West of Tunis   Germans Falling Back To Cape Bon Area For Last Big Stand

U.S. Forces Break Down Jap Defenses   Hard-H lilting. Leathernecks Take Ful Possession of Air Strips Afler  Bombers Soften Pill Bauxes .

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Marines Capture Vital Airdrome In New Britain   Crack Stubborn Enemy Defenses

Stubborn Japanese Defenses Cracked by the Marines   DETAILS OF FINAL FIGHT ARE MEAGEI   Japanese Fillboxes Soften.  ed Up by an Air ) Assault

MARINES CAPTURE VITAL ARDROME   KILL, HUNDREDS OF JAPS IN TAKING TWO STRIPS AT CAPE GLOUCESTER.

Air Assaults Clear Way  For Marines   Two Air Strips Fall Only Four Days After  Borgen Bay Invasion  MANY JAPS KILLED

U. S. Forces in Terrific Assault Take Cape Gloucester Base; Hundreds Of Nipponese Are Killed

Marines Capture  Airdrome on ‘Cape Glouceste1   Hundreds of Enemy Are Killed in Final Assault That Carries ‘Devil Dogs’ to Their Objective; U. S. Losses Light

VITAL JAP BASE ON NEW BRITAIN FALLS TO YANKS   Marines Crack Defenses At Cape Gloucester After Intense Bombing

GERMANS ADMIT NOVOGORODLOST IN RUSSIAN DRIVE   Reds Take Lake Ilmen According to Map In Berlin Paper

Soviets Hold Novgorod, Berlin Hints   Map in Hitler’s Paper Places Hedgehog Base In Red Hands

NAZI BROADCASTS INDICATE REDS HOLD NOVGOROD   Map Published in German Paper Shows Novgorod Exactly in Front of Lires.

Russians May  Hold Novgorod   Indication Of Loss Comes From Berlin

MAP HINTS REDS HOLD NOVGOROD   Nazi Report All Lake Ilmen Rests In Russian Hands

NAZIS INDICATE RUSSIANS HAVE TAKEN NOVGOROD   Berlin Admits All Lake Ilmen In Red Hands—<Air Activitv Grows

Hint Red  Wave in Novgoroc   BERLIN RADIO REVEALS RUSSIAN LINES SHOVED PAST STRONG KEY BASE

GERMANS HINT GAINS BEYOND SOVIET CLAIMS   German Version Of Front Line Clarified; Aerial Activity In Battle of Russia Hits New Peak of Fury.

STIMSON SAYS DANGER EASED   Tension Over Jap Strength In Pacific Drops

BEGIN PUBLIC TESTS OF SYNTHETIC TIRES   Start 500-Mile Trial Spin at Indianapolis Speedway

Four (Jualily  For Training   Late Bulletins   Warnan tc Metected.   Synthetic-Tired Automobile “Roars” {round Speedway at “35 Per”

 WEATHER TO WARM UP   Lowlands of Northern Kansas Had Light Frost Last Night -

Riofs Spread in Lebanon   French Naval Forces Sent To Beirut Area

Revolution. Grips Beirut   ‘Violence: Flaring Jn‘ Lebanon: Capital

REVOLT FLAMES OVER LEBANCN   Three American Students Hurt In Street Firing

SAILORS SWARM ASHORE; POLICE DISOBEY ORDER   Natives Set Fire to Tanks; Senegalese Circle Beirut

358 JAPS DOWNED IN 37-DAY FIGHT   American Losses Total Only 93 Planes

ENEMY’S MUNDA LOSSES LISTED   Yank Fliers Bagged 358 Jap Planes in 37 Doys, Navy Reports

RAF Keeps Nazis Awake Thr ‘ough Another Nieht   Targets In Western German Hit: Mines Sowed In Sea Lanes

ALLIED PLANES AGAIN ATTACK GERMAN TOWNS   ‘Pin Point” Bombing Most Successful  Of Conflict

AXIS THREAT TO OWK   Relatives of Surrendered Germans Will Be Punished

Reprisals Ordered Against Families Of Nazi Soldiers Who Surrender In Tunisia

Surrendering Nazis Threatened With Reprisals Against Families At Home

Rationing of Fuel Oil Is Extended to States of Washington and Oregon

Extend Rationing Of Heating Dil  Regulations Cover Washington. Oregon

NILES WOMAN DIES IN CRASH   Mother of Five Killed A: Car Crashes Headon Near Cassopolis

NEW SQUABBLE  AMONG FRENCH   gion ee OF GOVERNOR ; GENERAL OF ALGERIA

Extend Attacks On Jap Bases   American Bombers Hit Jap Base At New Britain For First Time  oo. ££ Eee ard” AK TTA

Germans Claim U. S. Fifth Army Leaving Salerno Bridgehead, American Casualties Are Heavy

Slaying of Co-ed and Negro Baffles Police; Bodies Found [In Auto on Road Near Akron

UNIVERSITY CO-ED, NEGRO CHEF KILLED   Bodies of Pair Are Found in Motor Car — Both Had Been Shot to  Death. 

CRY GROWS TO CURB STRIKES   Administration Brings Out Own Bill In House

Narrowed Anti-Strike Bill Aimed at Miners   Penalties Reserved for Persons Instigating or Directing Strikes in Government-operated Plant<  ‘MINERS SUBJECT TO DRAFT CALL   President Declares Rule Simple, Applies to All Granted Occupational Deferment—Dependents also Covered

ADD HEAVY FINE, PRISON TERM 10 ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Labor Measure Gains Strong Support Among House Members

Does’ Not Reveal If He Has Work-Or-Fight Or. der In Mind   UP TO MINERS   “Must Decide Whether To Heed President Or Wait For Contract

REQUIRES VOTE ‘AEFORE STRIKE   Legislation Continues Major Provision of Senate Connally Bill.   MAXIMUM ~$5,000 FINE

Anti-Strike Bill Aimed At Miners  Refusal To Work. In Government Industry Wauld Be Pennlizad

4 Alcatraz Felons Attempt to Escape  Iwo Captured, Others Believed Drowned

Allies Hurl New Heavy Aerial Blows Against Hitler’s War Centers   Eighth Army Also Continues Advance In Italy; Reds Capture 30 Towns Near Gomel: American Planes Hit Airfield in Holland

U. S. Fifth Breaks Deep Info Heart Of German Winter Line: 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped on Leipzig   Reds Hammer at Zhlobin and Rogachev Rail Link in White Russia; British 8 Takes Lanciano; Bomb Jap Airbase at Cape Gloucester

U. S. Fifth Army Crashes Into Heart of Nazi Winter Lines in Southern Italy

Reds Hammer Toward Hub of Polotsk   RUSSIANS SPURRED BY CAPTURE OF GORODOK, GERMAN DEFENSE CENTER

RUSSIANS LESS THAN 20 MILES FROM POLAND   Push Forward After Capture of Gorodok, Key Nazi Defense Point

TDR Rebuked As House Nullifies Wartime Order  President’s Power To Limit Salaries

Vote nullify Roosevelt’s  salary limit   Overwhelming vote against ‘usurpation’

SALARY CURB OF PRESIDENT IS VOTED OUT   House Coolition Deals Decisive Blow to Ad. ministration

SALARY CEILING RULE NULLIFIED   Administration Is Dealt Stiff Blow By House Repeal Measure

HOUSE VETOES SALARY. LIMIT GF PRESIDENT   By Vote Of 268 To 129 Rider To Debt Raiser Remains; Blow At Presidential thirectives.   Democrat Sponsor

House Votes To Banish $25,000 Ceiling On Pay   Marks Severest Blow Yet Dealt Administration; House Votes Own Level Of December 7, 1941, On Salaries

House Votes To Nullify  Salary Order   Clearest, Sharpest Blow Is Dealt Administration By Strong Coalition  WOULD REMOVE $25,000 CEILING  Own Regulation Made As House Approves Debt Limit Increase

FOR SALARY LIMIT ORDER NULLIFIED   House Substitutes Ceiling Plan of !ts Own in Protest —

rDR Rebuked As House Nullifies Wartime Order .   President’ s Power To ‘Limit Salaries Called Weurndtisen

Votes to Nullify Salary Limits  Administration Is Dealt Severe Blow

House Passes Bill To Nullify $25,006 Limit on Salaries  Is Most Severe Slap Given Administration

Roosevelt Given Severe Setback In Salary Vote   Coalition Nullifies His Ef forts for $25,000 Pay limit

House Votes Enc To Salary Order   Attaches Repealer To Debt Measure

ADMINISTRATION HANDED DEFEAT ON SALARY BILL   House Beats Roosevelt Directive To Establish $25,000 Ceiling   DEMOCRATS JOIN WITH REPUBLICANS

HOUSE PASSES REPEAL OF FDR SALARY LIMIT   Bill Also Hikes Ceiling on National Debt To $210 Billions

SERBS CAPTURE 2,135 GERMANS   Report.Livno, Kupresh Have Been Liberated

JUGOSLAY “NAVY” FIGURES IN TAKING 258 NAZIS, STORES   Guerrilla Amphibious Army ' Occupies' Island Of  Lussino In Gulf’ Of Guarnaro

SLAVS CAPTURE 2100 AXIS TROOPS   General and 30 Officers in Group Taken by Guerillas

Guerrilla Army In Jugoslavia Takes 2: Cities   Captures 2,135 Troops Of Axis, Killing 500 Others

Jugosiavs Seize 2,135 Axis Troops   Two’ Towns Are Also Captured By Patriot Army

OFFERS SLAVES   Laval Approves Use oof French Frisoners for Wark. Report.

GUFFEY HAS NEW COAL ACT   Old One to. ‘Die. August 23, Followed by Conservation One

RED FORCES MIP ANETS oe “A GAIN   «ake Several Favor: able Positions South of Izyum

7 Nos ‘2 . - ry “yr, 50eE)I€ Sa SES 1-0 _TUT), "Warns  azts 70 4x Jec- Se7)ac<s

Allied Bombing Powér Is Nazis' Chief Worry   And Forthcoming Three-Power Parley Will Have Aviation As Uppermost Invasion Issue

Japan Drive Said Costly   Abortive Offensive Cost High In Deaths

LOST BY JAP EXPEDITION   Victorious Chinese Lay Siege to Changyang

Yanks and British Push Northward Four to Kight  Miles on Italian Front   Allied Warplanes Hammer Dusseldorf, Cologne and Wilhelmshaven Following Lull Due to Unfavorable Weather

RABAUL GIVEN HEAVIEST RAP OF THE WAR   Allies Rain 50 Tons of Ex ' plosives, 3,500 Incendiaries on Jap Stronghold—Start Big Fires, BH3¢ Then Shine

Fifty. Tons of Explosives  and 3,500 Incendiary   Bombs Are Drop  ped On Area   WAR’S WORST ATTACK   Large Fires Started Over Wide Rar ge of Base  That Has Become  Regular Malta

Rabaul Pounded By Bombs, Incendia  Allied Bombers Stage Greatest Pacific Raid

U.S. Bombers Set Fires in Rabaul Raid   50 Tons of Explosives Rain for 2 Hours on _ Jap Island Base

MASS BOMBING DAMAGES BIG AIR-SEA BASE   Allied Bombers Carried Out Continuous Attacks And Dropped 50 Tons Of Explosives On Japs.

Bombers Give Rabaul Worst Aerial Hammering Of War   Allies, In Greatest Mass Raid Yet On Pacific Area, Leave Port Aflame

60 Tons of Bombs Rained On Japs   3,500 Incendiary Bombs Scattered by Thirty Heavy Bombers   TWO SHIPS HIT AND HUGE FIRE STARTED

Allies Scourge. Japs At Rabaul In Mass Aftack   50 Tons Of Explosives, Incendiary Bombs Are Rained On Foe

50 Tons Of Bombs, 3,500 Incendiaries Dropped On Japanese Base At Rabaul

Bombs Rain on Japanese Base Of Rabaul   Four Waves of Fortresses-Liberators Attack New Britain

FLYING FORTS BOMB RABAUL IN MASS RAID      Biggest Mass Raid By Allied Bombers In That War Area

Ina Great Mass  Raid on Rabou   Four Waves. of Allied Bombers Rain Tons of Explosives on Jap Base.

Japanese Base at Rabaul Blasted in Largest Mass Air Raid in That Theatre

Invasion ‘So Shrouded In ‘Secrecy * That Even. ‘Washington: Stirprised:. 50 Words Announced At .Midnight

Sicily invasion  Catches Capitol By Surprise In Early Morning   WHITE HOUSE QUIET

U. 5. Capital Is Caught By Surprise Move   Allied Invasion Plans Were Kept Secret Until Troops Began To Invade the Island.

DAVIS GIVES ANALYSIS OF WAR SITUATION   Says Germany Strives To Prevent Allies From Launching Their Grand Offensive.

Local Firm’s Restraining Writ Against OPA Ordered Dissolved By U. S. Court

WILL FIX MAXIMUM PRICES FOR FOODS   Have Already Been Placed Int Effect In Philadelphia And Pittsburgh Areas

RADIO BRGADCAST SAYS SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND , INDUSTRIES WILL  BE MOVED

POD PaGDUG TION 6 PER GERT LOWER   Nation’s Program Labelled Satis‘actory

NATIONS FOOD PRODUCTION OFF SLIGHTLY   Blame Weather as Less Favorable Than in 1942

Pontiff Says “Only Gospe  Can Bring Nations To gether Again”; Papal — Letter Broadcast *

Pope Designates Dec. § as Day For Public Prayers for Peace   While Arms Rumble and Crash, E-aternal Voice of Charity Is Silent,  * He Says

DAY OF PRAYER URGED BY POPE   Only Gospel Can Bring Nations Together, Says Pontiff

Pope Pius XII Sets Dec. 8 Day of Prayer for Peace  Catholic Prelate Calls on Faithful Throughout World to Turn to God

AVA WEEK  Japanese Handed Bloody Setback In Landing Atlemnt      4 Destroyers Put To F light And: Barges Smashed In Vella Lavella Clash.

JAP ATTACKING FORCE ROUTED   Attempt Made to Land on Vella Lavella Island

ENEMY LANDING ATTEMPT FAILS   U.S. Warships Drive Off  Japs at Vella Lavellai.., Barges Are Sunk

YANKS REPULSE JAP EFFORT TO REGAIN VELLA   Believe More Than Thousand Enemy Troops. .

Yank Forces Slay Hundreds Of Japs On Vella Lavella   Smash Attempt To Land On Newly Captured Isle

Japs Fail In Landing On Lavella   Large Force Annihilated By American Warships Off Vella Gulf

Jap Attempt to Land Troops Is Smashed   1,500 to 2,000 Jammed Aboard Barges Before Vella Lavella Island

Japs Beaten Off in Bloody Fight   LANDING BARGES BLASTED IN ATTEMPT AT RECOVERY OF VELLA LAVELLA ISLAND BY NIPS; WARSHIPS INTERCEPT ENEMY FLEET

Smash Jap Land Party at Vella   Americans Kill 1,500 Sol-. diers jammed Aboard  Ba rges in Solomons.

Enemy Tried fo Regain Captured Vella Lavella Isle   Hundreds of Nips Killed or Captured By American Forces

Navies Ready For Invasion   Axis Reports July 3 Set For Invasion Day

U. §. Fleet Reported In lialy Area   Nazi Controlled Agenc Says Yank Battleships Ari In Mediterranean   JOIN ROYAL NAYY   Italian Sea Force Is Reported On Move, May Be Seeking Safaty

DISPUTE MAY BE GIVEN FDR   Premier Said to Be On Way To U. S. With SovietPolish Problem

Polish-Russian Mediation Seen  May Ask Roosevelt To Settle Dispute

Polish-Soviet Break Brings Premier Here   Roosevelt May Mediate Quarrel

38 YANK FLIERS DECORATED   DARING ATTACKS ON JAP SHIPS REVEALED IN CITATIONS

FLYING FORTRESS ‘ATTACKS ON ENEMY WARSHIPS REVEALED  AWARDS TO 38 MEN FOR GALLANTRY IN ACTION : IN PACIFIC AREA

38 U, §, AIRMEN DECORATED FOR DARING ACTION   Made Low-Level Attack With Flying Fortresses on Jap Warships in Pacific   ONE BOMBER LOST   Posthumous Awards Given Crew of Eight for GalJantry and Heroism August 26

LIEUT. PHIL REESE IS DECORATED POSTHUMOUSLY   Indiana Man Honored With 38 Other Officers and Men for Gallantry In Pacific Fighting   SILVER STARS

DEPENDSN AUTOS      73 Per Cent Use Private Cars to Get to Work, Survey Shows

Many Workers Drive Motor Cars To Jobs  Three-Fourths Of Tires Are Half Worn Out

Jack Kempker Killed In Action Overseas Oct. 2  In African Carpal: Enlisted With Co. K ; Te ee oes 410A1 ©

Jack Kempker Killed In Action Overseas Oct. 2   In African Campaign. Enlisted With Co. K In F ebruary, 1941,

GREAT TANK BATTLE RAGING AT KRIVOI ROG   Germans Throwing Waves of Ceunter-Attacks and Stop Russians in Effort to Gain Time to Evacuate the Dnieper Bend

SOVIET COLUMNS DRIVE TO ISOLATE NAZIS IN CRIMEA   Powerful Cossack Armored Forces Crumbling German Defenses.

Sicilians BackTo Sunlight After Long Dark Period Under Cruel Huns

Story of Pain, Disease and Misery Told Against Background of German Brutality; Hospital Workers Not Allowed to Help

Hundreds Lived In Big Tunnels   Terrified Sicilians Emerqe From Caves

PEOPLE LEAVING SICILY'S CAVES   Tell How Nazi Officers - And Soldiers Fought For Shelter

Territied Folk Of Sicily Leave Caves  Stories of Pain,  Disease and Se en be er ee I

‘CONTINUED UNITY OF NATIONS URGED   Senator Burton Urges : Furtherance of Plan for ; Lasting Peace in  : ’ World.

PACIFIC AREA TO GET AMPLE PLANES STIMSON. DECLARES   Supply To- “Be Sufficient To Replace Losses And Build Up Force To Counter Enemy

Stimson Says Pacific Will Get Plenty of Planes to Stop Japs   leeds of MacArthur! \Japs Ha Understood, He Plane Declares : A

Stimson to Aid Aussie Plane Floun   U.S. to Replace Losses, Build Up Air Force Against Nips

MORE PLANES PROMISED BY STIMSON   War Secretary Says South Pacific Will Get Aircraft

Stimson Unexcited  By Reports   Declares Adequate Supplies Will Be Sent to Southwest

8 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Allied Air Forces Hit Enemy Over Wide Island Area

French Forces Are Revealed Fighting on Front in Italy   Score Outstanding Successes Alongside  Allied Troops

Sees Italy’s Surrender Omen Other Europeans  Will Welcome Allies

STIMSON SEES OMEN IN ITALY   Surrender Held Sign Other Europeans to Rise Up Against Nazis

The War Today— Hitler's Vaunted Secret Weapon May Be Poison Gas Or Rocket Gun

The War Today  Big Three Have Power to Bnforce Any Edict Which They Issue.

The War Today   “Big Three” Can Carry Out Any Edicts to Smash Axis

Fifth Army Holds Vital Heights 75 Miles From Rome After Struggle   Moscow Reports Heavy Tank Battle Rages West of Kiev; Turks Continue to Be Cagey On Foreign Policy; Much Fighting in Yugoslavia

FEAR DELAY IN SETTLEMENT OF RAIL DISPUTE   Union Fears Of Pay Freeze Fo! Duration Is Causing Worry

REGISTRATION TO BE HELD TWO DAYS IN THE SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT UNION  COUNTY

Allies Fool Gestapo On Peace Move   Story Told Of How Nazis Were Outwitted In Three Capitals

INSIDE STORY IS REVEALED OF THE ITALIAN SURRENDER   ALLIED AND ITALIAN REPRE-BENTATIVES OUTWITTED GESTAPO IN THREE CAPITALS DURING NEGO- ° TIATIONS

43U USUCITCUYOCE s2reaticsS Or Engagements At Teheran or Cairo  HINTS BIG BLOW SOON  Russians Recognize Import ance of Long-Range Bombings, Commons Told

No Undercover Treaties Or Engagements At Teheran or Cairo  HINTS BIG BLOW SOON  Russians Recognize Import ance of Long-Range Bombings, Commons Told

No Secret Treaties at Confabs: Eden   BRITISH SECRETARY REPORTS ON TALKS AT TEHERAN, CAIRO

Late News Bulletins   No Secret Treaties Made at Parleys, Eden Says

iden Assures Allies Sten No Secret Treaty   Declares Russians Attach ‘Greatest Importance’ Tc Long-Range Raids.   NEED ALL RESOURCES

Allied Action Imminent, Eden Says; Huns Watch The North   NAZIS EXPECT BLOW AT NORWAY AND DENMARK

EASE UP ON SOME SHOES   WPB Authorizes Increase in Chil.   dren’s and Men’s Work Shoes

Increase In Infants’, Children’s, Men’s Work Shoes Okaued Ru WPR

DICKINSON RITES T0 BE SATURDA'   Governor Kelly,. Other Officia's to Be Honorary Pallbearers.

Nazis Desperate In Attempt To Stop Soviets   Another Jap Ship Sent to Bottom hy Allies

Allies Score Hits on Jap Destroyer   Cargo Ship Also Is Blasted; Both Ships Aflame

Bombers Fire Two Jap Ships   - Destroyer And  ransport Pounded Off New Britain

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT JAP WARSHIE   DESTROYER AND ONE OTHER VESSEL LEFT BURNING FIERCELY IN PACIFIC.

HITS REPORTED ON 2 JAP SHIPS   Destroyer And Transport Added To Victims Of Allied Planes

JAP WARSHIP IS SET AFIRE   Transport Also Left Ablaze Following Raid By U. S. Bombing Planes

FLIERS SCORE HTS UPON TWO NIPPON SHIPS   Both Left Burning Fiercely Report States; Heavy Attack  Continues On Munda Air Dom   Transport Gone

Jap Destroyer, Cargo Ship Set Afire by Bombers   Direct Hits Scored  Despite Screen of  Enemy Fighters MUNDA BOMBED AGAIN  Allied Airmen Take  Heavy Toll of Barges A...)  alta A seawnts

JAP DESTROYER AND TRANSPORT BADLY DAMAGED   ‘Nine Allied Planes Shoot Down Six Out Of 15 Jarne In Rattle   OIL STORAGE TANKS FIRED ON NEW GUINEA

Jap Warship Left Burning  By Bomber:  Vlunda Battle New Blacks Out; Nip Bases Blasted

Enemy Warship And Transport Heavily Bombed   Destroyer and Companior Ship Left Blazing in Southwest Pacific   Seven Japanese Barge: Destroyed and Three  Damaged

Clark Praises 36th Division   Letter to Texas Governor Expresses Commander's Thanks

Wound From Bird's  Spur Kills Child   Rooster Attacks Boy Near Emporium

Nazi Thrusts Repulsed By Red Defenders   Three Attacks At Different Points Are Made By Nazi Troops   ARTILLERY DUELS IN KUBAN AREA

SEGRET'Y OF WAR STIMSON DENIES MARSHALL STORY   DECLARES CHIEF-OF-STAFF WILL NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE.   CURRENT GOSSIP, NO FOUNDATION   Senator Taft to Introduce Substitute for Wheeler Bill Which Is Facing Defeat—War Expense Over 20 Billions in 8 Mos.

Reports About Marshall “Folly”   Stimson Says Ourrent “Gossip? About the General Discredits War Effort

STIMSON BLASTS TRANSFER REPORTS AS GOSSIP, FOLLY   Tells Press Talk ~ About ._Marshall Aims At Discrediting U. 5S, Conduct.Of War

NO POLITICS, SAYS STIMSON   Denies FDR Uses Influence To Further Political Matters

U.S. African Casualties ‘Many More’ Than Announced, Legion Head Says

Waring Says U. S. Casualties Heavy   Legion Commander Returns From Tunisia

U, S. CASUALTIES TERRIFIC, SAYS HEAD OF LECION   More American Dead and Injured Than Have Been Announced, Asserts Rasne Waring.

Yank Losses Heavy, Waring   May Expect More Before Rommel Is  Driven Out, He Says

U. S. FORCES HAVE SUFFERED HEAVY CASUALTIES IN AFRICA   National Commander of Legion Warns Many More Will Follow Before War’s End.

‘TERRIFIC CASUALTIES’ SUFFERED BY AMERICA   Commander Of American Legion Says Many More Can Be Expected In North Africa

CASUALTIES OF U.S, “TERRIFIC”   National Legion Commander, Returning From Tunisia, in First Hand Report of Situation

WARING BACK FROM TUNISIA   Says Heavy Casualties Suffered by U. §. Forces

LEGION HEAD. SNS LOSSES VERY HEAVY   WARING DECLARES ALI AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN - TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN  NOT Yet AN‘ NODNCED

VETERAN CLAIMS » YANK CASUALTY LIST ‘TERRIFIC’   p National Legion Head, Back From N, Africa, Says All Figures Not Revealed

EEE EE  U. S. Casualties in N. Africa ‘Terrific’, Legion Head Says

Suffer Heavy Casualties In  North Africa    More, Can Be Expected Before Enemy Can Be Driven Out, Reports Legion Commander —

Heavy Casualties Reported in Africa   Legion Chief Tells of Losses

Declares U.S.  Losses ‘Terrific’   Legion Head Back  From N. Africa

BIG CASUALTY... LIST IN AFRICA   And Many More May Be Expected, Says Legion Chief, Home From Front

AFRICA HEAVY   Legion Chief Describes Casualties As ‘Terrific’ in Campaign.   WILL HAVE MANY MORE

‘HEAVY LOSSES’ SEEN IN AFRICA   Legion Commander Reports On Tour Of War Front

WARING SAYS U.S. LOSSES ARE TERRIFIC   Legion Head Declares Casualties in North Africa Are “Many More” Than Those Given Out  - by General Eisenhower.

LOSSES TERRIFIC WARING ASSERTS   Legion Commander Predicts Yanks’ Hard Fighting in Tunisia

Stresses Heavy African Deaths  Legion Head Back From Front Says All Not Yet Reported

MINERS MAY END STRIKE DURING DAY   Important Parleys Slated; Walkout Favor Fades

UNION MINERS WANT TO WORK   Sentiment For Settling Walkout Grows In Coal Fields

Miners Wait On Meeting To End Strike  * Back o Work Movement Growing: WLB

Sink Cargo Ship, Beach Another, Damage Third   Japanese Raid Allied Airfield; Lose 20 Planes

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LARUE JAPANESE CARGO SHIP SUNK   ALLIED FLIERS DAMAGE AN: OTHER VESSEL, FORCE THIRD TO BE BEACHED.

Another Ship Is Forced to Beach and Third Is Damaged  ALLIED AIRFIELDS RAIDED BY ENEMY  Twenty Jap Planes Shot Down During the Assault

8,000-TON JAP CARGO VESSEL SUNK; TWO OTHERS DAMAGED   9,000-Ton Enemy Ship Beached After Attack By Al lied Airmen; Aerial Support Is Accorded Ameri can Ground Troops On Bougainville Island

LABOR UNION BILL. FINALLY PASSED BY STNATE THURSDAY   AMENDED RAGULATORY MEASURE NOW GOES BACK TO HOUSE FOR ACTION

BEEF SITUATION LOOKS HOPEFUL   More Steaks, Hamburger And Roasts Due To Appear Soon

Wider Meat Choice  tor Housewives in Near Future Seer   Situation for the Next Eight or Ten Months Looks Hopeful; Pork Supplies Will Decline in Next Few Weeks

OPA Says Variety, Of Meat Will Be Better Soon ”  Officé Expects Change  In Products; Pork _ May Become Scarcer

MORE HOPEFUL   Larger Supplies Of Beef Fore. cast As Output Of Pork Turns Lower

SPECIAL MESSAGE ASSENT 10 GHINA ON ANNIVERSARY   Roosevelt Sends Short  ' Wave Radio Greeting te People Resisting Japanese For Six Years.   TRANSMIT MESSAGE FROM SAN FRANCISCO   Chiang Kai-Shek Appeals to United Nations to Strike Blow, Ready Resources Near Exhaustion.

FOR SENDS MESSAGE TO CHINESE TODA)   Reassures Aid To People of China in Broadcast

FDR Sends Greeting To Chinese   Marks Sixth Anniversary Of Attack  By Japanese

Chinese Radioed By FDR   ..Sends Message On Gth Jap War Anniversary

GREETS CHINA   Roosevelt Sends Message on Sixth War Anniversary.

FDR IN RADIO TALK TO CHINA   a  President Sends Greetings On 6th Anniversary of War

PRESIDENT SENDS GREETING TO CHINA   Special Tribute on, Today’s 6th Anniversary of Their Resistance to Jans

Ewe ————————— (ee  ————e—e—e——————————————————EEEE eee  Roosevelt Sends Greeting Te China On Anniversary of War

a : President Sends a Message of Encouragement to People of China

President Sends Message To China   Promises Made To Nation Borne Out

DeGaulle Urges Giraud To Join In Political Talk   ‘Internal Confusion’ In Af rica Cited; Vichy Hold overs Assailed

UNITY TALK ASKED BY DE GAULLE   Discloses Suggestion. Made to Giraud; Reports -Con-* * fusion Increasing - 7   DEMANDS OUSTER._ OF VICHY MEN   Continued Embarrassment for Allied Operations Permits No Delay

FRENCH CHIEF ASKS MEETING   DeGaulle Would Talk With Giraud In Africa

DEGAULLE CALLS FOR CONFERENCE FRENCH LEADERS   Vichy Collaborators Due for Dismissal and Steps Toward Unity Sought

Demand Purge Of Vichy Group In North Africa   Fighting French Charge Many Hold Key  Positions   DeGaulle Proposes Parley With Giraud

Sweeping Reorganization Of Army Troop Units, based On Patlo T.cecane OF Present War. Geng Inte Ettect

QUICK ACTION ON TAX BILL URGED   GOP Leader Martin Moves to Bring Pay-Go Legislation To Vote by Forcing Discharge From Committee

Move Launched To Force Pay-As-You-Go Tax Vote   Rayburn’s Proposal for Levy Without Tax Abatement Rejected by Martin—Petition May Force Measure Out of Committee

Martin Rejects Rayburn’s Plan For Income Tax   Insists the House Vote Again on the Ruml Proposal

Move to Recall Runl Tax Plan Besun by GOP   MartinWould PryPay-Go Bill From Committee Rw Harnco Patttinn

Martin Rejects Plan by Rayburn   Bi-partisan Backing for Bill Proposed

BELY FRONT IS STIRRING ANEW   Russian Forces Resume Artillery And Intantry Action.

Eighth Army Dominates Heights Commanding City, Harbor; Fires Rage

LONE JAPANESE RAIDERS ATTACK U.S. POSITION   Nuisance Raids Reported in New Hebrides and on Guadalcanal; Americans Blast Enemy Bases.

"RAIDS ON .$. POSTS   Second Phase Of Drive > Is Believed Opened On Guadalcanal

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Russia Reports Destruction of Bia Enemy Army   lotal of 330,000 Virtually Put Out of Action, Moscow Asserts   Field Marshal and Many High-Ranking Officers Captured

Huge Force Destroyed by _. the Advancing  etna   FIELD MARSHAL IS  HELD AS PRISONER   Armies at Siege of Stal: ingrand Numberéd 330000 Men

Only One Nazi Pocket Left In Stalingrad   Annihilation of Foe Almost Completed By Russian Armies

Survivors of Nazi Army Still Helc In Caucasus Face Capture; Immense Loot Falls to Soviets

HITLER'S ARMY DESTROYED Al STALINGRAD   Field Marshall And 16 Generals Captured By Reds In Liquidation Of German In waders.   330,000 Lost

LIQUIDATION OF HUGE SIEGE FORCE OF FOE CLAIMED BY SOVIETS   100,000 Germans Killed in 20 Days And Field Marshal, 16 Generals Taken Prisoner, Reds Say

‘Nazis Nearly Wiped Out in Stalingrad   Field Marshal, 16 Generals Taken by Soviets

FIELD MARSHAL IS HELD AS PRISONER   Armies at Siege of Stalingrand Numbered 330,000 Men

Newly Promoted Field Marshal, 1 Generals Captured; Army Once Numbered 330,000

330,000 NAZIS AT STALINGRAD APPEAR DOOMED   100,000 Germans Have Been Killed In Last 20 Days, Reds Announce      FIELD MARSHAL IS TAKEN A PRISONER

George Deatherage Again Under Arrest By G-Agents   ‘One of Group Indicted on Charges of Violating Wartime Sedition Act; Refers All Questions to “Wendell Willkie, My Atiorney;” Willkie Says He Does Not Know Man

Nazis Forced _ To Retire 21 ‘Milesin Tunisia   Tide of Battle in Africa Turns; Retreating Foe Blasted

Crack German Unit Gets  - Besting And Moves To Kasserine Pass In Hail Of Plane Fire

Six More Enemy Vessels Are Lost  In Pacitic Area   ‘Majority Of Latest Convoy Sunk Or Damaged By Allied Planes   GRIP ON MUNDA BEING TIGHTENED

ALLIES SINK OR DAMAGE 6 OF 11 JAP VESSELS   Airmen Attack Convoy Seeking to Reinforce Vila

ALLIES WRECK CONVOY OF 1 JP WARSHIPS   Sink or Damage Six Enemy Craft Attempting to Reach Vila.   DIVE BOMBERS ASSIST ATTACKS UPON MUNDA

ALLIES SINK OR DAMAGE: olX JAP SHIPS IN CONVO   Group Seeking to Reinforce . Nipponese Base at Vila Is Hit. ©   THREE SHIPS DOWN   Cruiser and Two Destroy_ ers Definite,.Two Oth-  ers Probable.

Doolittle Claims Air Theory Proved  Says Pantelleria Gain No Surprise

Conquest Is Hailed By . General Jas. Doolittle   Capture of Pantelleria Definitely a Landmark in the history of Military Aviation, Noted Flier Declarec

OPA SUSPENDS GAS RIGHTS OF 7   Deprive Three Ohio Motorists Use of Gasoline Until Next Year

EISENHOWER ASKS ITALY QUIT NAZIS   SAYS ITALIANS CAN HAVE PEACE IF THEY CEASE AID TO GERMANS.

Controversy Over Drafting Of Fathers  Continues   Manpower Chieftain Refuses To Extend Call Beyond October 1 At Wheeler’s Reauest   SENATOR SEEKS TO CALL CONGRESS  Would Press Efforts To Override Ruling Of McNutt’s Office

FATHERS’ DRAFT DELAY OPPOSED   Montana Solon Seeking To Override Nation's Manpower Chief

Mc Nutt Rejects Plea ‘To Delay Father Draft   Wheeler Asks Congress’ Return

McNutt refuses to allow extension on drafting of fathers   Senator Wheeler seeks to recall congress, would override chief

MeNutt Refuses To Extend Draft  Immunity of Dads   Wheeler Acts to Have Congress’ Recess Cut Short in Effort to Override Oct. 1 Order

DRAFT DELAY TURNED DOWN   McNutt Refuses to Extend Immunity of Fathers  Beyond October 1

Draft Immunity Is Refused Fathers By WMC Director   Says Action Imperative To Protect Production Of War Industries

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‘Soldiers Like Cheerf ul, Newsy Letters OWT Reports, in Telling What to Write

Write Cheerful Lettors to Men in Service, OW! Advises After Survey

Appoint Two Loan Drive Committees   Pulling Back Jap Defenses   PIONEER KRANSAN DEAD

Naples Blasted in Devastating Raid by Allies   Other Italian Bases Damaged in Daylight Assault

Naples, Sicily, Sardinia Ripped By Allied Bombs  A_MENITEDDANEAN

BiG AMERICAN BOMB PLANES BLAST NAPLES   FIGHTING ON LAND RESTRICTED BY HEAVY RAINS

Naples Blasted By Heavy Allied Raid      Smashing Blows Also Delivered Against Axi: Bases In Sicily, Sardinia From Africa: Land Action Is Restricted

YANKEES RAID CAGLIARI. AND NAFLESBYDAY   Big American Bombers Are Followed Up At Night On Sardinia; Two Allied Planes  : Geers   From No Africa

Smashing Blow Laid On Naples   Sicily, Sardinia Also Bombed  By Alhies

Powerful Air Blows Struck Against Italy   Naples:Waterfront Is Smashed; Sicily and SardinigAre Targets

HeavyDamage Is Admitted By Italians   Most Powerful Raids By Planes from Africa Against Italy So Far  AMIERICANS ACTIVE

OHIO RELIEF ROLLS HIT NEW LOW MARK   Wartime Employment Enables Reduction

WAR BOOM CUTS 43 RELIEF ROLL   Present Load Believed To Be ‘irreducible Minimum’

STATE'S RELIEF COSTS SLASHED   ‘Rolls And Expenditures Cut   Below “irreducible jMinimum,” Chief Reptrts

BATTLE VIEWED BY EISENHOWER   Commander Says Allies To Start Major Fight With Nazis Soon

Eisenhower Goes  Into Front Lines  Says He’s Satisfied With Allied Progress

EISENHOWER FULLY DATISFIED HIS MEN WILL WIN BATTLES  COMMANDER OF ARMY FORCES IN MEDITERRANEAN VISITS FRONT

Eisenhower Visits Italy And Is Pleased With Situatior   Travels To Front Under Gunfire At Salerno; Says Yanks Ready For Major Attack

Eisenhower Well Pleased  General Under Fire During Inspection OFf Salerno Front

‘Ike’ Visits U.S. Units at Front   Completely Satisfied’ With Invasion Progress

Eisenhower Satisfied With Progress In Italy After Front-line Inspection

‘Ike’ Satisfied With Operations   U.S. Commander Travels Over Italy to Inspect the American Forces.

6,000 BACK ON JOB AT PLANE FACTORY   ——  Workers Adopt Truce—End_  ' 4-Day Walkout Over  Guards’ Arrests 7

FORCES OF RUSSIA SEIZE OFFENSIVE      Strong German Position Attacked by Soviet Troons

Strong Germar Positions  Under Attack   Russian Forces Take Offensive, Capture Height

REDS RETAKE KALININ POINT   Strong German Position In Moscow Area Is Occupied

RedsMake N ew Gains on Kalinin Front   Seize Important Height Dominating Entire Battle Area

FIGHTING FLARE UN KALININ FRONT   Russian Forces Hit Strong German Positions; Capture Vital Heights Against Repeated Counter-attacks

‘ARIZONA REPUBLIC  ~. Phoenix, Arizona  -- Friday, Feb. 19, 1943 Pace 4   Your Income  Tax   No. 47 Tas anay OF FARMERS

ASSERT CHIANG AND WIFE ALSO ARE IN TEHERAN   Axis Broadcasts Show Sensation Created in Nazi Occupied Europe

LIODON REPORT UF CONFERENCE NOT CONFIRMED   Chinese Leader and Wife Also Reported At. Iranian Capital

Conference Opened At Teheran Says Lisbon  CHIANG KAI-SHEK ALSO SAID TO BE PRESENT AT MEETING   Importance Attached to Talks Because Of Presence of Stalin; Indications Are That Berlin Is Taken by Surprise

CHIANG KALSHEK AND WEALSON ~ IRANIAN CAPITAL   ‘Berlin and Axis Europe Stunned at News  of Meetina

F.D.R., Churchill Pledge to Back China; Chiefs Speed to Iran for Stalin Meeting   UNITED NATIONS HEADS ACCOMPANIED BY MILITARY, NAVAL, AIR FORCE ADVISERS; MME. CHIANG FLIES WITH HUSBAND TO ATTEND CONFERENCE; MOUNTBATTEN, STILWELL, CHENNAULT, MILITARY COMMANDERS PRESENT

Iniran After Their Cairo Meetings?   Reports from Lisbon Say Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Hold Meetings

THREE-POWER MEETING HELD PREVIOUSLY   Roosevelt, Churchill, Kai-Shek In Iran to Meet with Premier Stalin.   BULLETIN

Plans For Defeat Of Nazis Will Be Drawn Up In Iran   Synchronization Of Combined Allied Drives To Crush Axis Expected To Be Completed As ‘Big Three’ Hold First Conference

Berlin Surprised by “Big Three,’ Generalissimo, Mime. Chiang On Hand; Sessions Since Nov. 22

CONFERENCE IS REPORTED IN PROGRESS   Indicate Chiang Also May Meet With Stalin

Announcement of Epic Meetings Predicted by Shorf-Wave Radio: ‘Reprehensible’ Says Elmer Davis

NAZI ATTACKS AREFUTILE ON ORTONA FRONT   Canadians Fight Akead Yard by Yard in Adyiatic Region

ARE FUTILE ON ORTONA FRONT   Canadians F ight Ahead _ Yard by Yard in Adriatic Region

GERMAN ARMORED SMASH AT EIGHTH ARMY IS COSTLY   Artillery Concealed in Hills Breaks Up Attack With Heavy Enemy Losses in  Tanks and Men.   CANADIAN TROOPS PUSH ON DOGGEDLY   Win Heights Overlooking Road Junction of Ortona —Farther Inland Brifish  Press Toward Chieti.

CanadiansCheck Counter-Attacks On Italian Front   German Losses Heavy In Efforts To Remove Threat to Pescara

Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Tanks and Men   EFFORT MADE TO  STOP CANADIANS  Clark’s Fifth Army Limited to Duels and Patrols

Suffer Severe Losses in Men And Material   ‘ail in Effort To Prevent Canadians from Closing In on Ortona

ALLIED ARTILLERY HIDDEN IN HILL   Nazis Send Reserves Against Canadian Troops   PUSH TOWARD PESCARA   Activity of Fifth Army Limited to Artillery Duels and Patrol Clashes

Canadians Stop Desperate Nazi Counterattack   Allies Advance Toward Italian Town of Pescara

Germans Suffer Heavy Losses In Adriatic Attacks   Desperate Counter - blows Launched In Futile Effo To Prevent Canadians From Closing In On Ortona

Canadians Gain In Biffer Fight   Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses in Italy

Canadians Close In on Junction Near Ortona   Current Thrust Hinges on Taking of Italian City

LOSSES HEAVY FOR GERMANS NEAR ADRIATIC   CANADIAN FIGHTERS AIM AT SEAPORT OF PESCARA

3 Are Asphyxiated At Point Pleasant   Overcome In Sewage Disposal Plant

Six New Battle Wagons Give Navy Greater Power Than Before Dec. 7, 1941

KNOX REVEALS SIX NEW BATTLESHIPS IN ACTION; FLEET AT TOP STRENGTH

Mexico Will Furnish Harvest Labor to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona

- REPORT JAP SUCCESSES   Nazi Radio: Tells of Destroying 5 ' Allied Transports

REPORT JAP SUCCESSES   Nazi Radio Tells of Destroying 5 ied Transports

UNIONISTS PERSIST IN HAMPERING WAR WORK WITH STRIKES:   Despite Pleas of Leaders, Wildcat Walkouts Continue.

STRIKES ENDED AT TWO PLANT?   Three Other War Plants Still Hampered By Walk outs, However

Slavs Battle Nazi Troops   Four Major Cities Threatened ![n Drive

FR, INTERVENES ‘IN ARMY DEBATE   SS: Establishes Manpower Committee As Congressmen Fight Huge Army.

War Department Plans To _ Release 546,000 Men For Service On Home Front

Pool of single men ‘nearly exhausted,’ Hershey reports   Says many married men face call;  40,000 in state hit by 4-H order

SUPPLY OF SINGLE MEN AT LOW EBB, HERSHEY REVEALS   Farm Workers To Be Deferred; Men Over 38 May Be Used to Ease Man-

No More Single Men for Army, Savs Hershev   Several. Million Married Men Face Early Call to Colors.

MEN 37-45 10 GO BACK INTO ACTIVE LISTS   New Classification Orders Designed to Ease Farm Labor Problems.   AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS   Boards Believe New Ruling Planned to Put ‘Oldsters’ In Non-Cambat Poetic

Married Men Must Go, Says Draft Chief   Many Over 38 Also Likely To Be Called To Military Service

Draft's Pool of Single Men Exhausted; Several Million Husbands Face Call Shortly

Married Men Face  Army Call   POOL OF SINGLE MEN VIRTUALLY EXHAUSTED, SENATE GROUP TOLD

Married Men Face Call to the Colors.  Announces Hershey      Pool of Single Men Capable ‘of Military Service “Practically Exhausted” in 4 February, Says Director :

SINGLE MEN POOL ALMOST ‘EXHAUSTED’   March to Finish Up Single Men Eligible for Duty

Draft Director Tells Senate Group No Hope of Escaning Call of Married Mon

MARRIED MEN TO FACE CALL, HERSHEY SAYS   Pool of Single Men Near Exhaustion, He Tells Senate Group

Congressmen Would Attend Food Parleys   Senate Committee Makes Demand Of State Department

FOOD MEETING   Congress Moves to Have Representatives at Con-— ference.

Congress Moves to Send Own Observers to Food Conference; First- Hand Information Sought

MERCURY SKIDS ~ JO COLD LEVEL   Much Colder State Forecast   For Tonight—Snow or  : Sleet Expected

Rain or Snow Ts Forecast   Wintry Weather to Make Another Invasion Of State, Predicted

GUARD ON NAVY HEALTH   Seagoing Strength of Medical Corps Increased Hundredfold.

U.S. AIRFORCE. BOMBING GRETE WITH SUCCESS   Part of Great Effort to Knock That Greek Island Out As German Air Base   RUNWAYS SMASHED   Hope to Do to Crete What Germans Failed to Do to Malta After Months of Attacks

‘Eyewitness Account Of Crete Raid  By U.S. Airmen Given By AP Winter      Attempting To Knock Out Great German Air Base "As Axis Did Malta; Liberators Strike First,  Followed By Medium Bombers.

Long Way To Go, Grew Says  Again Warns People Taswrel Daal Tinc Akane

GIVILIAN ECONOMY WILL SINK LOWER   ‘Goods And Services Expect~ ed to Decrease 15 Per Cent This Year.

CUT PREDICTED IN CIVILIAN SUPPLIES   Less Goods and Services for Stay-at-Homes to  Buy

CONSUMER GOODS TO BE CUT 10 TO 15 PERCENT THIS YEAR   Civilian Standard Of Living In United States In 1943 Will Depend To A Large Degree On The Fartnnec Of War

PARLEY SOUGHT ON LABOR LAWS   Views Are Wide Apart On Pro posal To Relax Female And Child Rules

FACTORY-LABOR MEET SOUGHT      Seek Conference on Bill To Relax Labor Laws

Pe’ at 24 tA 28. i bay 9 -— VUMMUMM MRM NMMBR RRM MMMM Be BAO ASA BU RAMRB BRR MMMM MMM  )S0 YOUR HUSBAND'S GONE TO WAR!      “44% by ETHEL GORHAM « whose husband is at war *%%%%%%4%%

Nancy Marigny Ready To Testify   Will Defend Husband On Witness Stand

DE MARIGKY'S WIFE WILL TAKE STAND   Daughter. of ‘Slain Sir Harry Oakes Will Defend Husband

Wife To Speak In Defense  Of de Marigny   Taking of Testimony In Nassau Murder Trial Mav Wind Up This Week

BRITISH AND NAZIS TRADE AIR BLOWS   Considerable Number Casualties in England.

UNDA NEAR FALL Ao YANKS oHOWER BOMBS ON KloKA   Outer Defenses of the Base Taken and Kncck-Out Blew Seen.   ACTION IN ALEUTIANS   Central Sclomons and New Guinea Campaigns Are    Moving Fast. Zo

arin Claims Raiders ‘escue’ Mussolini; 32 ‘arships Reach Malta   critish Forces Take Brindisi, Port on Adriatic oast of Italy; Germans Reinforce Army -attling U. §. Fifth Army in Naples Region

BERLIN SAYS DUCE _  er Siar ttn ane A IN SE  ' ‘NOW AT LIBERTY’      Salamaua Airdrome Captured; 2 Sia able South Italy Cities Taken As Are 10 lmportant Air Fields -

Feeders Ease  Rollback Blow   Nebraska-lowa Group Asks Changes To Allow Cost Of  Production.

Story Of Italy  ~ Under Mussolini   WRITER RELATES HOW IL DUCE RULED COUNTRY

WILL ANNOUNCE STORE NUMBERS   FERGUSON STATES HE .WILL GIVE NEWSPAPERS TELEPHONE  NUMBERS OF LIQUOR STORES -

Many Govt. Agencies Get Short Checks   No Money Because Of Lack of Cong. Appropriations

SHORT PAY CHECKS RECEIVED BY MANY ~ FEDERAL EMPLOYES   Failure of Congress to Complete Appropriation Bill Reason for  . Situation.

SHORT PAY CHECKS HI HUNDREDS ON AGENCY PAYROLLS   WPB and OW! First to Fee Effects of Congressional Stand.

PAYCHECKS OF MANY FEDERAL EMPLOYES CUT   Congress Still Delays Money Bills Action

Congress Delays US. Pay Checks   Federal Employes ait on Salaries

GREATEST U. § ATTACK MADE ON SUB BASE   Yanks Also Raid Targets In Belgium, Holland   NAZIS ADMIT   Great Damage _ Inflicted; Some Plants Capacity Reduced By Half

GERMAN-OCCUPIED EUROPE IS RAIDED BY THE AMERICANS   Was the Greatest Force They Have Mustered in the War.   Kept the Air Offensive Going last Night With Intruder Flights.

U. §. PLANES IN SWEEPING RAID   Nazi Sub Base at Kiel Gets Heavy Pounding

PLANES SWEEP EUROPE   ooo “Heaviest” Air Stabs . Prelude To Invasion

lialy and Germany Michtily Assailed   American Planes Batter Kiel and Strike Close to Rome in Continuing Assault

Heavy Bombing Raids Seen by Some As Prelude for Battle for Europe

Massive Air Raids Seen As Prelude To Invasion Of Europe   Four-Ply Sweep by U. S. Bombers Tops Off Two Days of Paralyzing, Record-Shattering Aerial Blows of Hitler-Held Territory

Bombs Rain Over Nazi Territory   Allied Air Forces Drop More Tonnage in 24 Hours Than Germans Did in %4 Raids During Battle of Britam .

AERIAL WAR SEEN AS CURTAIN RAISER FOR BATTLE OF EUROPI   5,000 Tons of Bombs Dumped On Foe In Last 48 Hours By RAF Alone

INTENSE AERIAL BLOWS SEEN AS NEW OFFENSIVE   British Patrols Activity Over French Areas

Four Raids By Bombers   -U. S. Deals Heaviest Blows of War At Far Flung Nazi Targets

AXIS HITHARD BY U. S., BRITISH AERIAL FLEETS   American Flyers Over NaziOccupied Territory Four Times Friday

Germ % iit Lasning Blows   Italy Pounded Also in Prolonged Air Offensives.

Record-Breaking Aerial Blows Are Dropped on Europe   Greatest American Raids Matched By Our Allies

BOMB GERMANY FROM ALL SIDES   British, U. S., Russian Blows Top Off TwoDay Raids

Greatest U.S. Air _ Blows Are Struck On European Soil   Many Enemy Industrial Plants Pounded B; Bombs; Americans Penetrate Deepest In Enemy Territory To Blast Kiel

Raiders Smash Plants   ‘Allies Reveal 5,000 Ton: Of Bombs Dropped In 48 Hours

U. S. BOMBERS _ BLAST KIEL IN _ HEAVIEST RAID   Former GM Plant in Antwerp, Base in Belgium and Velzen Industry Also Blasted   11 BOMBERS LOST   RAF Continues Raids in Nigh ' Plighis, Adding to Huge Total of Bombs Dropped

HURL LARGEST FORCE OF WAR AGAINST NAZIS   I ROAR cat nace rnc ets al  Kiel, Antwerp, Dutch Bases Among Targets Blasted In Four-Ply Sweep

Four-ply Sweep by American Bombers Climaxes 2 Days Of Paralyzing Blows   CHANNEL COAST BLASTED   Eleven U. S. Planes Lost But Germans Admit Damage Was ‘Most Severe’

Allied Aerial Fleets Pound Axis In 48 Hours Of Record Assaults   American Air Force Raid On German Naval - Sub Base At Kiel Marked Deepest Penetration Of Europe.

48 Hours of Record Shattering Attacks Stuns Nazi Europe   Americans Send Biggest "1.000 Mile Trio

American Planes Strike Heaviest Blow at Nazis   Bombers Attack in Four Areas Including Important German Navai and Sub.Base at Kiel.

Reversing Itself, House Okays School Amendment Measure or Second Reading After Rejectior

GERMAN CAPITAL BLAZING INFERNO AFTER Bl ATTACK   More Than 1,000 R. A. F Bombers Take Part in  Twineemach

Biggest Air Fleet Ever Assembled   Russians Plunge Ahe After Capture of Ko sten, Rail Center

BLOCKBUSTERS ROCK BERLIN, LUDWIGSHAFEN   Flying Forts Make Day Raid

Massive Weight of Bombs Falls ‘On Nazi Targets   Berlin, Ludwigshafen Undergo Assault By Heavy Bomb Loads

PLAN TO RUSH LIQUOR PROBE   TWO-POINT PROGRAM OF TAXES AND NEW DISTILLING. ~ PROPOSED BY MICHIGAN SENATOR

ALLIED PATROLS» SEEK SURVIVORS ~ OF BISMARCK SEL   Life Boats and. Rafts Drifting Over Wide Area—Foe Strengthens Air Forces.

MINE CAVE:IN STOPS TODAY ATPITTSON   Many Homes Damaged By One of Worst Caveins In Pennsylvania  Coal Field In Many Years

EARTH SINKS AT PITTSTON BIG. DAMAGE   ‘High School Building, 8( - to 90 Homes, Streets Affected.   SUBSIDENCE STOPPED TODAY   Yawning Crevices in -Lawns and Pavements; Mains Snapped.

Destructive Mine Cave-in At Pittston   Over Eighty Homes and $400,000 School Building Damaged   ‘COVERS EIGHT BLOCKS

Earth Settling In E astern Mining Town Sends Many From Their Homes

Homes And High School Damaged At Pittston, Pa.   18,000 Inhabitants ‘In Panic As Huge. Holes Open [n Lawns

Pittston Mine Cavein Big Loss   80 Homes, $400,000 High School Building Are Damaged

PENNSYLVANIA TOWN CAVEINS HAVE HALTED   Earth Cracking Mine Subsidence Does Damage Running Into Thousands of Dollars   UP TO 90 HOMES HIT   School House Badly Dam‘aged; Gds and Water Pipes Snap; Holes 25 Feet Deep

'Many Homes, Streets Damaged As Ground Sinks Beneath City   Mine Subsidence Causes Heavy Loss Today To Coal Mining Region in Pennsylvania

RUSSIANS DRIVING NAZI TROOPS FROM TWO MORE CITIES   Germans Withdrawing From Gomel and Melitopol, Two Thousand Nazis Mopped Up Yes terday.

FIGHTING IN GOMEL STREETS   German Main Troops Have - Withdrawn “Far to West” of City

LABOR LEADER IND FARM BLOL BRING PRESSURE   Laborites Want Higher Wage Ceilings; Farm Price Boost Sought

Baby Tossed Four Floors To Safety   Her Brother And Grandfather Burn To Death

Baby Tossed To Safety In Fire  Thrown 4 Floors; Cauaht Ry Cabhie -

Baby Dropped From 4th Floor Into Cab Driver's Arms: Three Others Die

Man Catches Baby . Tossed From Window   Taxi Cab Driver Proves Fire Hero

Early Settler In Kingsley Passes  Mrs. Blewett Dies After Long IfIness

$175,000 Blaze At Greensb’rg   75 Tons Of Molten Glass Pour From Glass Plant Tank T., Canse Binze

Yank, British Bombers Pound  German Targets  arce Numbers Of   Large Numbers Of Planes Over Europe During Daylight

Big British Guns Pound Rommel Hard   Bombarding Forces Below Mareth Line as Bad Weather Halts Operations

IN TUNISIA REPULSED   Patrol Activity Increasing But Bad Weather Prevents Any Large-Scale Moves   ENEMY -SEEKS MORE ROOM ON COAST   Allies Beat Back Efforts to Advance, However;Aer. lal Activity Light

British Shell Rommel Units   Heavy Rains. Snow And Mud Bog Major Operations In Tunisian Theater.

Slam Into Main Defenses at Two Points on Sangre   ‘& Enemy Fights to Hold Heights Over Allied Positions

New Vantage Points Taken Over   Adriatic Defenses Threatened in British Advances

Nazi Troops Hurled Back   British Eighth Army Cracks ‘Winter Line’

British Smash German Lines In ttaly   Fierce. Attacks.” Launched. Across Sanaro: River .

BRITISH SMASH FORWARD IN NEW _ DRIVE IN ITALY   Germans’ Main Defense Line Across Sangro River Attacked at Two Points by Montgomery.   NAZI POSITIONS ARE PLACED IN PERIL   Massed Artillery Fire Opens Offensive — Planes Rain Down Bombs as Infantrv Slugs Foe.

Main Defenses Broken at Two Points on River   Gain High Ground Across the Sangro

Sth Army Drives Forward in Italy; Gain Vantage Points   " British Forces Strike Fiercely Backed by Artillery and Heavy Aerial Bombings—Nazi Counterattacks Fail to Halt Drive

Fierce night attack slams at 2 points   Main defenses are threatened

Vantage Points Taken On River   Germans Aware Of Peril Fight Hard

Eighth Army Hops Sangro 'At New Point   Increases Pressure On Main Defenses And Makes Advances  STH MOVES STOWT Y

SECOND WEDGE ACROSS RIVER IS BROADENED   New Gains Threaten All Of Winter Line; U. S. Fifth Breaks Up Counter Raids

BRITISH PERIL END OF ENEMY ‘WINTER LINE   Montgomery’s Men in Advance; Repulse Counterblows

FEAGE ATTACKS BEAT BACK NAZIS   Artillery Fire and Bombings Pave Way for Drive   HIGH GROUND TAKEN   American Troops Gain More Ground West of Venafro; Nazi Attacks Halted

8th Army Hits Nazis’ Sangro River ee   Vantage Points from Which More Advances Can Be Made Taken: Fifth Gains Ground

8th Army Shatters Nazis Winter Line In Furious Attack   Two Of Germans’ Defenses Smashed, Threateninc To Clear Adriatic Sectors; Fifth Fights On As Airmen Strafe Loaded Transports

Germans Routed From Towns In Belgorod Area   Soviets. Getting Upper Hand As Nazi Drive  Bogs Down In Russia

REDS LAUNCH FIRST SUMMER CAMPAIGN   Two Great Gaps Smashed in Enemy) Lines Near Orel

Russ Launch Own Drive on  Orel Salient   Red Army Advances 2’ ~ Miles in Violent Fighting

REDS SMASH TWO GAPS IN NAZI LINES   Russians Advance Up To 27 Miles; Kill More Than 12,000 Nazis

REAL WINTER HITS   Reading Is Three Below Here; Lowest Temper- ature in a Year   TWO INCHES OF SNOW

MERCURY DIVES AS REAL WINTER HITS   Reading Is Three Below ‘ Here; Lowest Temperature ina Year   TWO INCHES. OF SNOW

‘If Enemy Knew Of Plans They Would Want To Quit Now’   Roosevelt Pledges End ‘Once And For All’ Of ‘International Gangsterism’ In Talk  At Ottawa; Lauds Canadian War Effort

PRESIDENT PROMISES UNITED NATIONS WILL RID WORLD OF 'GANGSTERISM’   Roosevelt, Speaking at Ottawa, Warns of ‘Secret’ Decisions

CONGRESSMEN STUDY OUTLOOK — FOR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN   DEMOCRATS EXLIEVE ROOSEVELT WILL HEAD THEIR TICKET—RBEPUBLICAN RACE WIDE OPEN

Young Yugoslavia Ruler To Take Princess Alexandra f Greece as His  Bride   MET ATETLOANINAN torn       MET AT LONDON RED CROSS SNACK BAR      Bride-To-Be Still Works in War Effort; Not Recognized as Princess at Rirth

FRESH OFFENSIVE BY FIFTH ARMY BRINGS IMPORTANT GAINS   TREMENDOUS VICTORY IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC REPORTED BY MACARTHUR

Fifth Pierces Nazi Defenses On Volturno   Fresh Offensive Forces Several Bridgeheads Across River; Major Victory Scored Over Japanese at Rabaul; Russians Gain at Four Important Points

Gain In Italy; — a Win In Pacific             Fresh Offensive By: Fifth  Army . Forces _Bridgeheads Across Volturno River; Tre: ‘mendous Victory. Scored : In Southwi ft: Pacific By MacArthur’s Forces

Gen. Clark’s Troops Launch Fresh Offensive Against Germans Less Than 100 Miles South Of Rome— British Eighth Army Moves Ahead Slightly Along Adriatic—Allied Bombers Blast Tirana, Capital Of Albania, And Axis Bases South Of Crete

Russians Threaten Four Big Cities — ‘In Keeping Up  Successful Drive

Blasted by Allied Bomb Squadrons   German Defense Lines Swag Power of Russian Armies; , Kiev in Flames... “

Eighth Army Moves Forward Slightly As Bombers Hit Albanian Capital; Tremdous Victory in Southwest Pacific.

4 Key Nazi Fortresses Threatened   Allied Planes from Italian Airfields Hit Albanian Capital-of Tirana

British 8th Moves Ahead in Adriatic ;RAF Blasts Albanian Capital—Major. Jap-.      anese Base of Rabaul Graveyard of ' :  117 Smashed Planes, 123 Ships

Fifth Sets Up  Good Crossing   British Reported To Have Made New Landings To  Flank Nazi Line.

NAZI MAIN DEFENSES PIERCED   British Eighth Army in Adriatic Area Moves Ahead Slightly

POINT VALUE RULING MADE   OPA SAYS BUTCHERS MUST LOWER PRICES WHEN RE. DUCING POINTS ASKED: FOR MEATS

Roosevelt Terms America’s 1942 War Output ‘Miracle’; 1,500,000 Men Across Seas

AMERICA ACHIEVED PRODUCTION MIRACLE FDR TELLS CONGRESS   “THE ARSENAL OF DEMOC RACY IS MAKING GOOD,” PRESIDENT SAID

WAR PRODUCTION CALLED MIRACLE BY MR. ROOSEVELT   Million and Half Men in Armed Services Outside Continental U. S., Presi dent Announces.

MIRACLE OF PRODUCTION WINS PRAISE   “Arsenal of Democracy is Mating Good" Commander-in-Chief Reports to Lawmakers   FARMERS ARE LAUDED

Marriage Bill Is  Signed by Donnell   The New Measure Requires a Three-Day Wait After Application.

GOVERNOR DONNELL SIGNS MARRIAGE BILL   Measure Requires 3-Day Wait for License—Effective Date Remaing in Douht.

LOCAL OPTION TO BE HELD SEPT 14   97 Communities To Vote On Wet-Dry Issue, Survey Shows

Youth Held as ‘Twin-Slayer      Says He Shot Two “for Heck of It”

YOUTH CONFESSES SLAYING OF TWINS   Reform School Parolee Leads Police to Bodies

TWO BOYS SHOT FOR HECK OF IT   Cleveland Reform School Parolee Leads Police To Bodies Of Twins

YOUTH CONFESSES “SLAYING OF TWINS   Reform School Parolec Leads Police to Radiance

YOUTH ADMITS KILLING TWINS   18-year-old Psycopathic Case Youth Confesses; Abducted . Boy Monday, Beat Him

GREAT DAMAGE DONE   Last U. S. Bomber Formations Say New Ruins and Old in Rome

Fighting Coast Guard Cutter Campbell Gains Glory in12-Hour Battle fo Hold Axis Sub Pack From Attack on Convoy

‘NAZI SUB PACK ROUTED 'BY COAST GUARD CUTTER WHILE TRAILING CONVOY

STORY OF THE CAMPBELL; SIGHTED SUB, SANK SAME   Holds Wolf Pack of Axis  U-Boats at Bav on Convov Scane

Coast Guard Cutter Rams Submarine, Fights Off Five Others In 12-Hour Period

KANSAS WILL FREEZE   Colder Weather from North Replacing Rain and Snow

BRYANSK RAIL CENTER FALLS TO RED ARM)   RUSSIANS ANNOUNCE HUGE GAINS IN UKRAINE

REDS KILL 4,300 GERMANS; OCCUPY dol MORE TOWNS   Gains Scored Along Entire Front — Nazi Anncuncement of Abandonment of Bryansk Ignored.   PLUNGE 12 MILES WEST OF STALINC   Other Forces Push Closer to Dnieperopetrovsk — Progress Made Along Sea of Avzov.

Germans May Be Trapped as Reds Capture Key Rail Center of Bryansk   Reulers Dispatch Says Red Army Forces Are Storming the Bastion as Nazi Squads Fire Everything

EEMENTS EADY HAVE V REACHED   alled In  United Nations n Possible

F.D.R. Reveals Asreements Made In Moscow Parley   President Hails Big Three Meeting As Great Success

19 To 45 Groups To Carry Cards   Draft Boards Say Registrant Must Be Classified Binvat.

REPLACEMENT OF TROOPS OVERSEAS   Senate Leaders Think Nien Long Overseas Should Be Replaced by  Fresh Traons

Replace Troops Long Overseas With New Units, Growing Urge In Senate

SENATORS DEMAND  REPLACEMENTS FOR  OVERSEAS VETERANS SENATOR LODGE TAKING  LEAD IN MOVE BRING MEN HOME

SENATE SUPPORT GROWS FOR PLAN TO. REPLACEU. S. TROOPS LONG OVERSEAS.

Urge Relief. For Troops   Units Long Overseas Should Be Replaced, Say Touring Solons

Move To Bring Soldiers Home For Rest Grow:   Fresh Troops Would Be Sent Overseas To Relieve Them

May Shuffle. U.S. Troops   Men Long Overseas Will Be Brought Home

Fighting Men, Long Overseas, May Get Relief   Senate Supports Move to Bring Troops Back Home

URGERETURN TO U.S. OF TROOPS LONG OVERSEAS   Would Be B Replaced _. By. Pr sh. Units...

Powerful Senate: Support “for Move Grows to Shul  fle Troops As Aid  a To Morale

Support Grows For Plan to Replace Troops Overseas With Fresh Men

URGE SOLDIER REPLACEMENT   Globe Touring Solons To Recomment Fresh Men For Fronts —

Relief for Front Line Troops Urged   Trained Units in U. S. Want Action

SCLONS FAVOR TROOP RECALL   Senators Urge Replacement of Soldiers Overseas Long Time  : *

REPLACEMENT OF VETERANS LONG OVERSEAS URGED   SENATOR LODGE TO RECOMMEND RETURN OF TIRED SOLDIERS

‘U.S. LightBomber Squadron Hang UpRemarkableRecord    Carry Out Forty-One Raids on Germans in Tunisia With Less of One Plane Crew—And That One is Safe; All They Had on Reaching Base Was Their Toothbrushes

U.S.Bomber Group, Attacked Daily by Luftwaffe Makes 41 Attacks on Nazis Without Losing Man

Bomber Crew In Great Mark   MANY AXIS PLANES ARI SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS

Remarkable Record: Set By Bombers   Lose Only One Plane Crew in 41 Raids on Germans in North Africa, and © That Crew Is Safe a

41 AIR RAIDS ON GERMANS IN TUNISIA   American Light Bomber Squadron Makes Remarkable Record, Losing Only  One Plane Crew

ONE BOMBER GREW LOST IN 44 RAIDS   Remarkable Record Made by American Squadron on North African Bat. tle Front.

Allan Wash, Sparta, In ‘Most Experienced’ Of Light Bomber Squadrons

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SECRETARY KNOX SAYS ALLIES NOW HAVE INITIATIVE   NAVY HEAD ADDRESSES GRADUATING MIDSHIPMEN AT ANNAPOLIS

lifiative By Allies, Declares  fe And Tokyo   x And Tokyo Defensive, Navy Chief

Eight Fronts In Operation, Asserts Knox   Feeling In Tokyo And Berlin Akin To Ours After Pearl Harbor, Secretary Contends

‘TIME AND PLACE FOR STRIKING IS OURS,’ sia KNOX   Navy Secretary Declares Allies Now Fighting Axis on Eight Fronts

KNOX DECLARES EIGHT §=FRONTS!   Choice, Place, Time to Strike, Ours, Annapolis Grads Told

Choice For Striking Has Changed—  Axis Feelings Now Like Ours After Pearl Harbor

Knox Declares Axis Feels Like We Did After Pearl Harbor         Choice, Place,’ “For, Striking: No Ours: He Says

Choice, Place And Time for Striking Ours   Knox Says Feeling in Tokyo and Berlin Is Akin to Ours After Attack Made on Pearl Harbor

Initiative INow Ours, Knox Tells ‘Middies   Navy Secretary Says There Are Now Eight Fronts; No Future Scrapping Of Fleet

Choice, place and time for striking is now ours—Knoy   Warns axis thousands of landing  barges comins: ‘won't scrap fleet’

Feeling in Tokyo and Berlin Like Ours After : Pearl Harbor, Knox Tells Academy Graduates

KNOX VOICES DETERMINATION TO KEEP NAVY   No Scrapping This Time, Graduat ing Midshipmen Told — Warns Axis Landing Barges to be Used

‘Initiative ‘1s Now Ours Knox States   Feeling in Berlin, Tokyo Like U.S .Afte: Pearl Harbor

ALLIES NOW SET PARE SAYS KNAY   Choice, Place, Time For Striking Now Ours, He Declares   EIGHT FRONTS   Navy Secretary Declares Berlin And Tokyo Are Worried

KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK  “Initiative Now Ours’ Declares Naval Sec. Knox

Axis Worried Over Future Asserts Knox   Navy Secretary Reports Victory On Ejiaht Fronts

KNOX TELLS NAVY CLASS OF CHANGE   Lauds Allied Transition tc _Offensive War at Graduation

Axis Powers Feel As U.S. After Dee. 7   Initiative With United Nations On All Eight Fronts After Two Years.   Never 10 CUT FLEeee

KNOX DECLARES BERLIN, TOKYO WORRIED TODAY   Telis Annapolis Class War Initiative Has Switched To Hands Of Allies

Initiative Is Now With Us, Knox Reports   Eight Fronts Now, Says Navy Chief; Place And Time For Striking Is Up To Allies. Claim

Initiative All Ours Knox Says   Axis Todayin Same Position We Were After Pear) Harbor   WE CAN PICK THE PLACE. TO STRIKE   Second Front Talk Most Ir. responsible; There Are Bight Fronts, He Says

Navy Secretary Declares Huge Fleet of Barges Being Built In U.S. For Final Blow   Graduates At Annapolis Are Informed American lanes Rated Best Now In Combat

Axis Capitals Uneasy, Claim   Picture Has Changed Since Pearl Harbor 

Initiative Now All Ours, Knox Tells Graduates   Sec. of Navy Addresses Largest Class in History of Annapolis

Axis Stand Comparable ToDayAfter Jap Attack   Eight Fronts Are Now Operating Over World

CHOICE IS OURS FOR STRIKING AT FOE, SAYS KNOX   Initiative Now Belongs All To United Nations, Secretary Tells Annapolis Craduatee

Feeling in Tokyo “Akin to U. S. After .Pearl Harbor Raid   Sec. Knox Declares Choice, Place And Time for Striking Now Ours;  WVawe ta Continue Past.War Navv

Initiative Is ‘All Ours Now.  Knox Asserts   Nota. Second Front, But Eight Fronts, He Tells Annapolis Graduates

KNOX DECLARES INITIATIVE IN WAR NOW OURS’   Fesling of Foe Akin to That Which We Had After Pearl Harbor

Axis Morale Not So Good  -They Feel As We Did ‘after Pearl Harhor

MIDSHIP ME HEAR ADDRESS BY SEC. KNOX   "Initiative is Al Ours" Chief of Navy Declares In Graduation Speech At Annapolis   DESCRIBES 8 FRONTS

AXIS AWAITING NEW BLOWS BY ALLIEN ARNHES   United Nations Hold Initiative, Navy Sec’y States   EIGHT-FRONT BATTLE)   ‘No Post-War Scrapping, of Fleet Annapolis Grads Told

INITIATIVE NOW ALL QUAS-KNOX   Allies Are Fighting An Eight Front War, Says Navy Secretary.

Unity Pledged By Gen. Mihailovic  Unity Sealed By Common Fight Against Nazis

Sardinia Rail Lines Blasted ‘tn RAF Rai Rome Radio Assert Royal Palace Hit  In Palermo

Chief Port Of Sicily Hit By Heavy RAF Bombing Raid   Greek Guerrilla Bands Are Made Pari Ot United Nations Organized Battle Forces

R. AF. Pounds Sardinian Area   Enemy Air Oppositior Continues Light

EIGHT WELDERS ARE HELD FOR SABOTAGE   Charged By G-Men With Turning Out Bad  Operations

‘SABOTAGE CHARGE FACES 8 WELDERS   Shipyard Workers Nabbed By FBI; 6 Seized in Baltimore -

Fight Baltimore Welders Charged With Sabotage   Accused by FBI of Doing Faulty Work on Liberty Ships

Patton's Irip to Cairo Renews Rumors of Balkan Invasion: Expected to Keep His Command

PATTON VISIT STIRS BALKAN INVASION HOPE   Leader of U. S. Campaign in Sicily Tours Mid-East As Germans Reinforce Threatened Area.

MILITARY TOUR OF INSPECTION BY GEN, PATTON   Trip in Middle East Fans Speculation on War Action in Nerveedge Balkan Area.

PATTON obANa WAR ZONES IN WADDLE EAS]   Tours Strategic Military Points with British Commander.

PATTON'S TOUR FANS TALK OF BALKAN ACTION   7th Army Head Visits Key Military Zones In Middle-East

Patton Tours Middle East Springboards      ay Inspection of Mile fary Zones Linked With Invasion, Turk War Move   HELD SIGNIFICANT      isits Palestine, } See Greck and Yugoslav Leaders in

Gen. Patton On Tour of Middle East   Military Secrecy Shrouds Mission

PATTON'S TOUR OF MIDDLE EAST MAY MEAN. INVASION   Visit te Caira. Stirs ‘Speculation About Coming: Bal ckan Offensive.

Secrecy Shrouds Intents of Trip; Nazis Bolster   Germans Said Diverting 40,000 Men From Italy To New Danger Zones

PATTON TOURS MIDDLE EAST   TRIP FANS SPECULATION ON ACTION IN BALKANS

Inspection Trip Made By Pattor   Middle East Military Zones Are Visited By American General And His Staff

Gen. Pation’s Visit Stirs Middle Kast   Germans Bulwark Balkans—Senate To Retain Soldier

Nazis Rush New Troop: To Vassals   Appearance of Yank Commander Revives : Fear of Invasion

Patton tour fans Balkan’  blow rumors   Nazis rush in reserve force

Patton Tours Vital Military Zones In Middle. East; Fans Idea Of Early Balkan Action

Patton Tours Middle East, Plans Invasior   Generel Is Guest of British os Balen Thrust Is Hinted

Gen. Patton's Tour of Middle East Fans Speculation on Likelihood Of Imminent Action in Balkans

GEN. PATTON IN TOUR OF MIDDLE EAST   Causes Speculation As to Possible. Action in Balkans

PATTON VISIT 10 CAIRO AROUSING BALKAN RUMOR’   Tth Army Commande: Tours Strategic Areas   SPECULATION STIRRED ABOUT BALKAN BLOW

PATTON TOURS MIDDLE EAST WLITARY ZONE   Speculation on Activities in Jittery Balkan Theater’ - -

Report Italian Officials Confer On War Action   Allied Threat Of Early In. vasion Demands Quick Decision By Italy   END WAR SENTIMENT IS SEEN IN ITALY

STRIKE AGAIN AT GERMANY   Brest Is Bombed; British Bombers Blast Cologne

Battering Of Germans Continues   RUSSIANS ADVANCE AT ONE POINT, BOG AT ANOTHER.

Fury of Bombing Attack Mounts   Battle of European Skies Enters New Phase; Rommel Pushed Back

Nazi ‘Chains’ Assault Area Of Leningrad   Too Early to Determine If General Offensive Kuban Slackens

Germans Launch Attack on Reds   Massed Infantry Used in Offensive

ARRESTS IN 1942 REACH HIGH MARK   Increase of 612 More Offenders Than in 19414 Reported

OPA To Redefine Seed Potatoes At Hearing Today  — <a ee  Maine Men Attend Canital Meating

of the very first to come to the aid of these 1200 with your cash which you will loan your government. Iowa County War Finance Committee Bert Hanson, Chairman.   Ration Timetable

FINAL STEPS 10 RIGHT NORMANDIE STARTED TODA)   93 PUMPS ARE BEING USED TO PUMP WATER OUT OF THE HOLDS OF THE GREAT FRENCH LUXURY LINER.   MAY FINISH JOB IN A FEW WEEKS   Then Will Come Task of Rebuilding the Imposing Ship Which ‘Will Cost About $20,000,000— Now U. S. Lafayette.

20 OHIOANS DIE VIOLENT DEATHS OVER WEEK END   Auto Accidents Head List, Explosion Kills War Plant Supervisor

DEATH COMES “SUDDENLY T0 - NOTED JURIST   Served Three Years on Highest Tribunal; 8 On Superior Court

SUDDENLY TO NOTED JURIST   Served Three Years on Highest Tribunal; 8 On Superior Court

Higher Prices for Five Crops Planned   Davis Announces Encouragement for Production

Guaranteed Price ls Davis’ Offer   Higher Values to Replace Incentives

Higher. Prices On Five Farm Foods Fixed   Incentive Payments, However, to Continue on Other Articles

FARMERS TO) GET BONUS FOR FIVE VITAL WAR CROPS   Guarantees Higher Prices for Dry Beans, Peas, Peanuts, Soybeans, Flaxseeds   ENCOURAGES GREATEST POSSIBLE PRODUCTION   Higher Prices Will Replace Incentive Payment Program Previously Announced By Wickard; Prices Will Top Present Ceilings

Hike Farm Prices On 5 Vital War Crops in Nation   Greater Production for Dry Beans, Peas, Soybeans, Peanuts

FARMS T0 GET HIGHER PRICES   Food Administrator Says Five Vital Crops Will Be Upped

Higher Prices For Beans Assured   Big Production Program Includes Soybeans

Farmer Gets Higher Prices   Government Supports Five Vital War Crops

PRICE BOOST. FOR CROPS IS GUARANTEED      Food Boss Announces Higher Prices for Five Crops

Price of Beans To Be Boosted   Davis Says Increase Will Be Guaranteed

HIGHER PRICES ARE GUARANTEED BY GOVERNMENT   Farmers To Be Rewarded For Growing Vital War  Crane   PROGRAM REPLACES INCENTIVE PAYMENTS

CLATTERBUCKIS FOUND GUILTY IN MURDER CASE   Leesburg Jury Recom. mends Death In Electric Chair For Defendant   CONFESSED SLAYER IN NO SHOW OF EMOTION

QUARRY WORKER IS CONDEMNED TO DIE   William T, Clatterbuck, Slayer of Five, Found Guilty

JAP CONVOY  {S SIGHTED  IN PACIFIC   ‘CONCENERATION ~- OF---TWENTY ENEMY BREPS REPORTED IN ": MARSHALL ISLANDS AREA

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   ‘Jan’ Ship Concentration May Be Under Attack

Local: Hospital Rates Boosted   Higher © Costs Make Increase Necessary

UP HOSPITAL RATES HERE   Increases To Average $ Per Room, Effective   July 1

Today’s War Commentary  Pacific Fleet  Holds Edge, Despite Jap Claims

Edward Flynn Is Reelected to Post   Chosen Leader of 8th District in Step to Reaain Old Post

Quota for Region ts $35,000,000; Campaign Will Start Next September 9 for Entire Nation

War Bond Drive Plans Mapped  ‘Avenge the Helena’ Will Be Keynote

‘Avenge the Helena’ Is Chosen State Slogan for Third Loan Drive   Montana’s Goal Is Set at $35,000,000; Campaign Is Scheduled September 9 to 30

Youth Admits Killings Near Chardon, Ohio: Girl Denies Any Part in Murders

Farm Hand And Girl Seized In Triple Slaying —   Youth Admits To Murde: Because He “Just Got Mad.”

Pittsburgh C. of C. Urges Construction of the Kinzua Dam Prior to the Conemaugh

SHIPS BOMBARD JAPS AT KISKA   Shattering Bombings Sotten Enemy For Land Attack ~ In Solomons Area 

ALLIES BLAST NAZI U-BOAT LAIRS AGAIN   Photographic Evidence Proves Effectiveness Of Hammering Of Nazis Continental Bases By Air Raiders.   Lorient Badly Mauled

RAF Plasters Lorient in Heaviest Raid   U. §. Liberators Bomb Sub Base At St, Nazaire

Price Tops Ordered on ~ Soft Wheat   Ceiling on No;.1.Grade:- cat Chicago and. St; Louis Is).  . SL.66°Per Bushel~-

Consumer Prices Fair.   Price On No. I Soft Wheat Is Fixed at 81.66

CEILING PRICES SET FOR WHEAT   Maximum Of $1.66 Fixed At Chicago, St. Louis

ALTIES CHASE AXIS LEGIONS INTO TUNISIA   Extent of Rommel’s Flight Extended Beyond Pass

Rommel Extends Retreat in Tunisia After Yielding Pass Without Fight; U. S., British Planes Blast at Germans

Court Upholds Inheritance Tax Transfer   Challenge of Constitutionality of Act Dismissed In Dauphin County  AFTER ROSS WARNING

GEORGE FIELD PUT UNDER QUARANTINE  (a a) oe es meee See bone oe ee ee nl wei

TIME CHANGE DATE IN OHIO STATE TO BE SET NEXT WEER   Assembly Decides to Turn Clocks Back But Exact Day Is Not Designated

EFFECTIVE DATE OF OHIO TIME CHANGE IS STILL UNDECIDED   Some Cities Beginning To Voice Opposition To Old Time

OBSERVERS SEE ACTION ON TUESDAY   Senate Must Act on Emerg. ency Measure as Passed By House 106 to 26.   OPPOSITION GROWING   Legislators “Might Change Minds’ After Week-End   Rarpec at Hnmoc

b. 0. P. CALLS TAX CONFAB   REPUBLICANS SEEK SWIFT RUML PLAN VOTE

INCOME TAX FIGHT AGAIN IN HOUSE   House Republican Leaders Call Strategy Meeting To Make Plans

Looks Ahead Toltaly’s  Surrender   ' War Correspondent Says War Against Germany Would Be Greatly Shortened

Hitler's Reich Threatened By Italian Crackup   Surrender Would Shorten War By Many Months

Italy’s Fall Would Speed Allied Blows   Entire Strategy Would Be Altered If Nation Surrenders; Could Hit  Germans Hourly

SECOND FRONT 5 POSSIBILITY      Surrender of Italy Would Alter Allied Strategy, Shorten War.   LIABILITIES ALSO SEEN

ltaly's Surrender Seen As Opening Bloodless Second Front Overnight   Veteran Associated Press War Correspondent Lists Advantages To Allies If Italians Drop Out ‘OF. Wor—Northern Italian Airdromes Vital Im Rambina Germany

Surrender of Italy Would — Shorten War   Wes Gallagher, AP Correspondent, Points Out Fruits of Such Allied Victory .

“BLOODLESS” SECOND FRONT IS EXPECTED AS RESULT DOWNFALL IL DUCE. CORRESPONDENT SAYS

Man Trapped in Cave Fats Coyote Pups to Stay Alive   Pinned Down Six Days by Fallen Rocks. He's Rescued in a Critical Condition

GOPs Name Own Post-War Planners   33-Man Committee Created by Group To Studv Problems

REPUBLICANS STEAL MARCH ON CONGRESS   Mastin And His Colleagues Name  Committee To Work On PostWar Penhieme

HOUSE GOP GREATES PLANING BOARD   33-Man Committee Set Up to Study Post War Problems Relating to America

Second War Loan Biggest ‘Touch’ For Uncle Sar   13 Billion Dollar Campaign, Starting On Monday, Is All-Out, Ail-Front Drive To Smash Our Enemies Ouickly

War Bonds Are Attack Bonds Now   It Costs More to Keep Army Going Forward Than It Does to Operate on the  ._ Defense

Mines Closed as Confab Fails   BITUMINOUS WORKERS CLAIM DESIRE TO WORK; URGE RENEWAL OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH INDUSTRY OPERATORS

UMW Tells Roosevelt that Miners Want To Work, but No Other Reaction Is Forthcoming.   LEWIS REFUSES TO MAKE ANY COMMENT

Miners request negotiations with owners resumed   Tell F. D. R. they want collective baraaining

DECARES RAID © ~ AN AGGRESSION   Marshal. Petain Says Bombing of Paris Factory Unwarranted. _«

CONTROVERSY EXPECTED TO BE SHOWDOWN OF ATTEMPT “FREEZE” INDUSTRIAL WAGES

Miners Demand $2 Day Increase   ‘Showdown Struggle Over  Government’s Wage Ceil: ing Formula Looms

French Planned Shift To Africa  Blames Failur Aa 4 lienal: Lauds

French Vice Premier Tells Of Cabinet Plans to Flee : Which Laval Thwarted

LAWYER GROUP ATTACKS DIES   Extension Of ‘Committee Is Opposed By Guild

GERMANS REPORTED RUSHING TO KJEV   Ankara Radio Says Nazi Tanks and Soldiers Are Pouring Team Western Europe.

‘Coroner Says Dakes Alive When Burnec   Slaying Time Fixed; De Marigny Dinner Guest Takes Stond ©

STEEPLE JACK DIES AFTER CAFE BRAWI   Plunges Fist Through Window, Severs Artery

State Rations Liquor Sales   Stores And Individual Buyers Affected

Hull, Eden Due in Cairo for Confabs   SCHEDULED CONFERENCES MAY LEAD TO TURKEY'S ENTRY INTO CONFLICT

BLUE DEVILS Ald ARCADIA TANGLE   Local Boys Hosts at Gym Tonight

BLUE DEVILS Ak ARGAOIA TANGLE   Local: Boys. ‘Hosts ‘at.Gym Tonight

Unit Sees Step To Cooperation   Cites Impossibility To Blueprint Plan

SOLONS BACK POSTWAR PLAN   COMMITTEE SAYS SET BLUEPRINT ‘MPOSSIBLE

RED ARTILLERY LAYS BARRAGE   Big Guns Lash Out Along Hundreds of Miles of Eastern Front; Heavy Air Fighting Is Reported

RED ARTILLERY GOES IN ACTION   Prelude To Offensive Is Believed In Making In Caucasus And Orel

Reds Assail Nazis In Heavy Blow Over Wide Area  Air Battle Grows More Intense; Artillery Fights

REDS START HEAVY ARTILLERY ATTACK   BARRAGES REPORTED LAID DOWN ALONG HUNDREDS OF MILES OF EASTERN FRONT.

ARTILLERY BARRAGES ON EASTERN FRONT   Moscow Communique Ignores German Claim That Red Army Is  On Offensive

Heavy barrages set up on eastern front in offensive prelude   Russians launch strong artillery attacks along hundreds of miles

TELLS JURY OF MARRIAGE TO NANCY OAKES   Courtroom Packed for Appearance of Accused Slaver

‘Another Set of Dikes’ . Needed to Dam Tide of Inflation, Says Henderson

Messina Raided By U. 5. Planes  Tl arhaxw Inctallatinanec   Harbor Installations Blasted

ATTACK SICILIAN HARBOR   All .U. S; Planes Returned Safely From a Davlicht Raid

Sabotage Damage In Danish Plants   British ‘Chutists, Danes Accused by Germans

EDITORS SAY GIVE PEOPLE ALL NEWS   Public Can Take Good With Bad, Committee Advises Owl.

FD.R.. PLEDGES YHLIPFINE FREEDOM   OFA TO GRANT  GAR DEALERS RELIEF

Distinguished Flying Cross To Sikeston  -LIEUT. NUS AWARDE! FOR EXTRAORDINAR'

as Flier Wins New Honor   LT. LLOYD FINCHER IS AWARDED HIGH U.S. MEDAL

NAZIS TO QUIT PO RIVER LINE   New Defenses Planned for Northern Italy

Nassau Council ‘Invites’ de Marigny, Friend to Leave; Count to Be Re-Wed

, Political Bigwigs Scurry To Climb Off ‘R Street’? Social Bandwagon

MONROE PLANS TO ‘TELL ALL’   Declined Last Week to Tell His Name

DOWN 600 GERMAN PLANES IN MONTH   AMERICAN 8TH AIR FORCE LOSES 174. BOMBERS WHILE  CARRYING OUT RAIDS,

U. S. Air Force Finds Gooc Evidence That Luftwaffe . Is Seriously Weakened .

Yugoslavs Cut Nazi Rail Line  Spread of Bloody  BRiahtna Ranariacr

Guerrillas Sever Link Near Trieste      Bitter Fighting Rage: On Daliatian Coust

Yugoslavs Cut Vital Rail Line   Used to Send Troops To Italian Front

Slavs Cut German Rail Line to Italian Front   Allies Directly Assisted

Yugoslavs Cut Nazi Rail Line  Spread of Bloody Fichting Reported

Yugoslavs Cut German Supply Line fo Italy   Trieste-Austria Railroad Broken

Soviets Hold Against Nazi Attacks   Broaden Two Prongs of Drives on Nikopol, Krivoi Rog

NAZIS CONTINUE TO HURL FORCES AGAINST REDS   Bitter Fighting Still Rag ing In Northern Ilkeraine   RUSSIANS WITHSTAND MECHANIZED MIGHT

Another Tax Plan Fails To Get O. K  Seek Solution Saturday To Pay-As-You-Go

New Tax Bill Again Evades Committee   - + « Hope Fer Vote In House On May 3

WORLD AWAITS NEWS FROM QUEBEC PARLEY   Indication Of Allied War Plans Expected Today.

13 Allied Ships Sunk This Month, Nazis Say  oe. re Abeireyr es oes 6 Eee

ALLIED CONVOY ATTACK CLAIMED   Axis Radio Reports U-boats Sank 13 Vessels in North Atlantic This Week

Attacks On Allied Shipping Claimed   Berlin Says Convoys Suffer Heavily .

RANGERS HALT TEXAS RIOTING   Two Killed in Beaumont, Texas Fighting

RACAL FEUD ENDS IN BEAUMONT, TEX.   Guardsmen, Rangers and Police Called to Scene.

MARTIAL LAW FOLLOWS RIOT IN TEXAS CITY   Troops Restore Order; Two Killed In Disorders

STATE MILITIA BRINGS ORDER   Twenty-Four Hours of Race ‘RiotIng Brought to End — City Placed Under Martial Law.

MARTIAL LAW ——— QUIETS CITY   Texas Rare Riot Which Caused Two Deaths Subsides

MILITIA ENDS RACE RIOTING IN BEAUMONT   Texas City Is Placed Under Martial Law

Radio Rome Says Tremendous Allied Pre-Invasion Activity In Medit. Area   Order Restored In Beaumont, Tex. After Race Riots

Order Restored Alter Two Killed in Texas   Martial Law on As Scores Hurt in Rioting

FREIGHT PILES UP BECAUSE OF STRIKE   Millions of Pounds Tied Up Because of Wildcat Walkout.

CENTRAL RUHR GETS ALLIED AIR JOLT   Strategic Rail And Industrial Targets Hit

CENTRAL RUHR HIT VERY HARD BY RAF AIRMEN   Blast Gelsenkirchen, 27 Miles West of Dortmund, Resume Daylight Raids

RUHR BLASTED AGAIN BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Many American Warplanes In Renewed Assault

CENTRAL RUHR RAF'S TARGET   British Report “A Very Heavy Attack” On German Industrial Area; Ten Bie Rombers Missing.

RAF BATTERS GERMANY ANEW   ‘a Ez hm i Hg he ayy Sa wot Second Nighi ot Offensive Coincides with Invasion

Air Assaults on Europe Aid Invasion   Ruhr Valley Area, Other Points Visited by New Swarms of British, U. S. Bombers

RUHR FACTORY CITY HIT HARD BY RAF BOMBS   Gelsenkirchen Under Heavy Raid. Subsequent Bomber Waves Over Reich Areas

HEAVY BOMBERS BOMBARD REICH IN NEW ATTACK   Ten Big Planes Reported Lost During Raids

DAYLIGHT ASSAULTS ALSO MADE   Only Ten Bombers Missing Despite Size Of Attack: Gelsenkirchen Is Amonc Targets Blasted

BUT NOTH  APPY   Crooner Fails Physical Examination; Has Punctured Eardrum

Flowers Strewn in Path of Troops When They Chase Axis Out of Sfax

SFAX CIVILIANS WELCOME 8TH ARMY TROOPS   Forces Given Tremendous Ovation, British Soldiers, Correspondents Kissed

Greeted As Conquering Meroes-—  Allies Given Wild Welcome In Sfax

Sfax Welcome: British Army   Women Throw Flowers At Feet of Soldiers

LEADERS FAR APART ON TAX   Disagree On What Part, If Any, Should Be Abated

Tax Accord Effort Seems: Near Failure   Demos and GOP Men in Conumittee Disagree on ‘Fergiveness’ Issue

TRUCE BREAK ON TAX LOOMS   REPUBLICANS PLAN NEW VOTE ON SKIP-A-YEAR

FEAR COLLAPSE — OF COMPROMISE   Republicans Are Still Insisting On Waiving 1942 Tax Payments

Compromise Is Virtually Won On Tax Scheme   Details Withheld, But 1941 Rates Are Believed Used For 1942 Tax Debt

Breakdown of BiParty Compromise On Ruml Plan Seen   House Democrats and GOP Still Far Apart on Tax Abatement

Clark’s U.S. Troops Fighting Hand Tc _ Hand’ Through German ‘Defenses North Of Salerno—Naples Battle   Rages Toward Crisis      SWARMS OF CORPSES FILL = __. RIVER—FIGHTING IS FIERCE

Hit Two Defense Lines, City   Sth Army Takes Base While 5th Army Slugs Nazi Near Naples

RAF Levels Hanover in  Mighty Raid   Yanks, British Pound Away at Naples Defenses

ALLIED ADVANCE IN ITALY Germans Retreating Across Dnieper   Royal Air Force Bomb _-Banoyer Twice in  Week. .

RUSSIAN DRIVE CLOSES ON OREL   German Summer Offense Was Real Thing Dispite Reports To Contrary

Most Of The Rumors About Japanese Or Attu Have Proved To Be Without Fact

Rep. Dies Wants Showdown on Federal Employes  Presses Demands for Dismissal of Hundreds of Workers

Youth Killed On Highway: Two Local Men Held   Alfred Wager, 15,Victim; C. C. Rowlee, Robert VanAvery Jailed

AUTO HITS AND KILLS BOY SIX FEET OFF ROAD   Twin City Garage Owner And Mechanic Admit Hitting Youth

HOUSE HEARS REPORT FROM ~~ TOP GENERAL    MARBITALL, GIVES REVIEW OF MILITARY SITUATION AT CLOBED SESSION OF ; HOUSE MEMBERS

GIVE CONGRESS ARMY SECRETS   Stimson and Marshall Talk at Unprecedented Session ‘Off Record’

Widow Blames Reta As Murder Trial Nears Enc   Mrs. ‘Rogers’ Hysterics Halts Arguments To : Jury Today

RETA BECOMES HYSTERICAL AT MURBER TRIAL   Throws Court Into Turmoil, Interrupts Arguments

ELKS DONATE $500 TO THE RED CROSS   Contribution Is the First to Be Made in Douglas County   34. MEN IN SERVICE

ELKS DONATE $500 TO THE RED CROSS   Contribution Is the First to Made in Douglas County

AXIS REPORTS LANDINGS AT SEVEN POINTS   Berlin Admits Allied Air Power Played  Leading Part

REPORTS GIVEN BY AXIS ON LANDINGS   Seven Points Stormed, Correspondents in Berlin Report

Axis Dispatches Report Allied Landings at 7 Points in Sicily   Admit Allied Air Forces Have Cut Off Island from the Mainland

Berlin Admits Allied Thrust   Claims It Was Made To Satisfy Russia

Allies Land At Seven Points On Island Coast   Sea «Transport Between Sicily And Mainland Smashed; Germans Say Terrific Fighting Can Be Expected

Axis Admits Isle Cut Off   Foe Reports 7 Landings Viedsn be Ales

JAP'S BASTION FALLS TOU. §   All Serious Enemy Opposition Disappears After Capture of Harbor.   EIGHT ISLANDS TAKEN

CITRUS FRUIT HAS GEILING   COST TO BE BELOW LAST WIN: TER  LEVELS—B UTTER SHORTAGE TO CONTINUE _ 3

Cars Disappear From Highways In Many States   Iraffic Greatly Reduced As OPA Closes in on Violators

Trolleys Buses Jammed   Motorists Store Cars In Fear of Federal Crockdown

LITTLE TRAFFIC MOVES IN EAST OVER WEEK-ENI   Motorists From Maine To Florida Kept Their Cars  Indoors Sunday

Pleasure Cars Slay In Garages   Travel in East Said Lightest In Many Years

IN GARAGES IN MOST PLACES   Traffic in Large Cities Lightest Since Advent of Auto

SHARP DECLINE IN ~ TRAFFICREPORTEL   Some Cities Say Traffi Lightest Since Advent = of Auto -

AUTOS IDLE; EAST OBEYS GAS RULES   Lightest Traffic Reported In Years By Large Cities

Driving Ban Cuts Traffic Drastically   Some Larger Cities See Lightest Sunday Since Automobile Came   WIAINY INSrBRCiORS CHECK FOR OPA LaGuardia Has Plan  To Move More Oil, Dewey Starts Probe

‘ Auto Owners Kept Cars In Garage Sunday  As OPA Inspectors Checked On Drivers

SHARP DECLINE IN TRAFFIC REPORTED   Some Cities ‘Say Traffic Lightest Since Advent of Auto

Auto Traffic in Eastern States Light   Most Motorisis Observe Ban on Pleasure Driving

29 Allied — Ships Arrive  at Gibraltar   Move into Mediterranean to Make Way for More Transports. Germans Claim

ASK FARM PROTECTION   Congressmen Report Many Dairy. men Are Selling Their Herds

Save Dairy Herds from Meat Market, Cry of Congressmen From Rural Areas on Friday

‘Hear the ‘Dramatic: Adventures of  War Correspondent: Eddie Gilmore  i TUESDAY. 6:30'P. M., WOAI

NAVY ANNOUNCES JUNE 16 BATTLE COST US 6 PLANES   Great Air Fight Took Place Yesterday Over Guad4aleanal.

Japs Lose 77 Planes To U.S.6   Smashing Air Victory Over Guadalcanal Won by Our Flyers

LOSE ONLY Si   New Record Set by Big Victory in Solomons   32 BOMBERS, 45 ZEROS ARE INCLUDED IN BAG

KNOCK DOWN 77 ENEMY PLANES TO SET RECORE   UG. S. Loss Held to 6 In Latest Guadalcanal Victory

U.S. LOSES 6 © INFIGHT OVER GUADALCANAL   New High Record Scored By Yanks in Air Battle

Record Attained In Single Clash On Wednesday —   Only Six U. S, Ships Lost During Struggle Over Guadalcanal

YANKS SCORE VICTORY IN CUADALCANAL   Yanks Set New High Hecord in Air Battle In Pacific

Writes Gov. Kerr Offering To Help Legislative Committee With Inquiry  HAS CHANGED MIND  Knows All of Story About Who He Got Money From, to Whom Was Paid

DANIEL OFFERS TO ‘TELL ALL’ ON TEXTBOOKS   Former House Speaker Would Give Full Story—He Writes to Kerr

New Post-War Planning Bill Is Expected   Ideas Brought Out in Studies May Require a Substitute Measure   REPORT IS SUBMITTED

Johs Uppermost In Minds of Voters Today   Gallup Poll on List of  New Features

OPA Search Of Cars Called Off As Goodland Assails Snooping Activity

Nazi Press Begins To Prepare People For Loss Of Islands   Alibi Already Prepared In Case Mediterranean Bases Fall In Invasion Launched Last Night

Nazi Press Prepares For Loss Of Sicily: More Landings Are Intimated

DEATH RACE S REVEALED   FRANCTIC. ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT. TRAIN WRECK DISASTER TOLD DURING INQUIRY

Rhineland City   400 Planes Swarm Over Battered Island Ramparts of Italy — 27 Planes Lost In Raid on Duesseldorf and 11 Are Missing in Mediterranean Action

900 Planes Hit Axis In 2-Front Aerial Assault   Tremendous Weight Of Bombs Rained On Nazi City; Italian Islands Blasted

Italy’s Fire- Grimed Ramparts Also. ~ Pounded.   By CARL C. CRANMER: AD Wan Bititeay

Allies Use 900 Planes In Big Raids On Axis   Churchill Bids Italy To Get Out Of War Now

500 Bombers Over Rhineland City   400 Planes Swarm Over Battered Island Ramparts of {taly —- 27 Planes Lost In Raid on Duesseldorf and 11 Are Wiissing in Mediterranean Action

Twin Raids Hit Italy,   Attack is Near Tempo of 2,000-ton Raid Staged on Dortmund .

African Based Bombers Blast Italian Bases   Duesselworf Object Of 500.  Plane City-Wrecking RAF   Bombers.   IBOOST EFF ECTIVENESS

uesseldorf Target f Approximately 500 Giant Bombers   eport From Northwest Africa States That 400 Planes : Battered Islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria   SSS” —-  ~—  MESSINA VISITED BY U. S. LIBERATOR WARPLANES   Doubt Expressed That Allies Will Invade Italy This Year

Allied Armadas Of 900 Or More Planes Batter Axis In Gigantic Twos Front Assault.

Heavy Load Of Explosives Dropped: Other Warplanes Batter At Italian Islands

900 or More Planes Raid Duesseldorf   Ships Use Big and Little Bombs, Cannea and Machineguns

ALLIED ARMADAS WREAK HAVOC OVER WIDE AREA IN RHINELAND AND IN SOUTHERN ITALY   Another One of Hitler’s Great Industrial Cities With 429,000 People Left in Ruins by Blockbusters Drssned by RAF.—27 RAF Planes Missing

Blockbusters, Ordinary Bombs, Cannon And Machine Guns Used By Allied Armadas Against Another Of Hitler’s Arsenal Cities And Island Ramparts Of Italy In Two-Front Assault — Attack On Rhineland Believed Equal To Dortmund Raid

Bombs Denting Axi: Ramparts, Industry   ‘British Pulverize Dusseldcri-— U. 8. Batters Italy-—Allies Lose 38 Bic. Planes

Duesseldorf and Sicily Victims of Great Air Raids   Some 900 Heavy and Medium Bombers In New Offensive

Nazis Know R.A.F.   U. S. Planes Smash At Messina, Sardinia and Pantelleria

Duesseldorf Is Blasted; Strate Italy Defenses   Sicily, Sardinia and Pontelleria Under Constant Fire from Ait

Island Ramparts Of Italy Also Blasted _ From Air HEAVY BOMBING Allied “Aerial Drive . Continues To Blast  xia:

DUESSELDORE IS RAIDED BY 500 BOMBERS   Mediterranean Islands Also Attacked by Allied Raiders

. «sf@S Hammer Axis in Blows On Two Fronts   Attack Duesseldorf, German Industrial City and Also Outer Defenses of Italy

RAF Smashes Arms Center In Another 2000-Ton Raid   xk k& Kk Kw Storm Of Bombs Batters Italy ©

Allied Planes From Africa Also Deal New Misery To Vital Italian Points

Believe Allies Used 2000 Tons Of Bombs In Duesseldorf Raid   400-Ship Air Armada From Africa Again Inflicts Heavy Damage On Sicily, Sardinia And Pantelleria

GIANT FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS IN BLASTING DUESSELDORF ATTACK  SICILY, SARDINIA AND PANTELLERIA OBJECTS MEDITERRANEAN DRIVE

Blockbuster — Assaults on Duesseldori      Great Rhineland. City Hit Hard in Fourth SuperRaid:of Month   U. 8. LIBERATORS -- BIT MESSINA   Other . Italian Centers Are Bombed in Allies” Big Two-Front Assault: .j

RAF Makes Super-Raid on Duesseldorf   27 Planes Lost in Attack; Nearly 400 Planes Swarm Over Sicily, Sardinia, Pantelleria: Messina Heavily Hit

Approximatety JUV bDomoversS Visit Destruction on City  Underside of Europe Given No Rest From Bombing Amid Hints Italy  May Have to Quit War

me Air Armadas Strike the Axis   U. S. and R. A. F. Bombers Pour Destruction on Two Fronts   DAMAGE IS IMMENSE   Duesseldorf One Target; Italian Islands Also Suffer Heavily

900 allied planes blast reich, island ramparts of Italy   Restart Duesseldorf fires; British lose 27 bombers

Teeth-Pulling Sitting Ah  Anti - ‘Strike Bill In For Sharp Trimming

ANTI-STRIKING BILL NOW FACKS MODIFICATIONS  ae iene nt t of Co al Strike Cri s Cools Con nal Ardor Por * Harsh Law  CORS TO CONPREREES   GOES TO CONFEREES   Teeth-Pulling Expected As  Amended House-Passed Measure Is Taken Up By Joint Committees

Anti-Strike Legislation   To Be EFased   Bill Rushed Through the House Yesterday Faces - Modifications

EXPECT 10 MODIFY HOUSE LABOR BILL   Representatives Unaware o Lewis’ Move at Time of - Passage

SEE CHANGE IN NO STRIKE ACT   Interest Of )f Solons Wanes  As Coal Strike Is Settled

Expect A Sharp Modification Of Antistrike Bill   House Measure Likely To Have ‘Teeth’ Pulled  In Conference.

EXPECT STRIKE BILL TO BE MODIFIED   Some Congressmen Seek. Ta. Remove Punotive Section

Labor Bill's Teeth May Be Pulled   Lewis’ Recommendation That Miners Return to Work Changes Attitude of Some Congressional Leaders

ANTI-STRIKE BILL FACES PROSPECTS OF MODIFICATION   MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE HEADS FOR TEETH-PULLING

Anti Strike Act In Committee Hits at Miners   Senators to Mect Monday On New Bill

Anti-Strike Bill To Be Modified  End Of Coal Strike Softens Congress; Wide Prohibitions

STRIKE BILL IS BEFORE SOLONS   Cannte - House Committee To ‘Pull Some Teeth’

ANTI-STRIKE BILL MAY SEE MORE PRUNING   House Votes Penalties 231 to 14! but Passing of Coal Crisis Coal: Congressmen

STRIKE BILL FACES BATTLE   Conference Committee May  Meet on Monday

Cologne and Milan Under Severe RAF Aerial Poundings   Double-Barrelled Air Attacks Staged in Bright Moonlight

Germany and Italy targets of bombers   Cologne, Milan and Spezia hit in R.A.F. raids

GERMANY AND ITALY BOMBED   Cologne and Milan Pounded By Large RAF Force

BRITISH BLAST NAZI, ITALIAN ARSENAL CITIES   Double-Barreled Assault ts Concentrated On Cologne And Milan   BLOCKBUSTERS DROPPED   Axis Defenses Are Reported Weak; 11 Bombers Fail To Return

Axis Blasted In 2-Pronged Air Assault  R.A.F. Strikes Savagely at Cologne, Milan and Spezia Bases  BIG FIRES STARTED  Naples and Crotone Hit by U.S. Planes From N. Africa Airfields

Rhineland City Of Cologne And Italian Arsenal Of Milan Given Bombing Assault

RAF STAGES MIGHTY RAID ON COLOGNE   Milan Also Hit: Described As Large Scale Operations

GERMAN, ITALIAN CITIES BOMBED   RAF Carries Out Sweeping Raids, Aimed Chiefly at Cologne and Milan

COLOGNE, MILAN BLASTED BY BIG BOMBER FLIGHTS  ELEVEN BRITISH =P, ANES RERBORTEND

Britain Blasts Cologne, Milan   Fortresses On Large Scale Operations

BRITISH AID AXIS. CITIES   Cologne, Milan Hit in Large Scale Operations Last Night.

TWIN BOMBINGS STAGED BY RAF ON AXIS AREAS   Cologne In Germany anc Milan In Italy Targets In “Large Scale’ Operations   11 PLANES ARE LOST   Defenses In. Attacked Sectors Weak; Double-Barrelled Attack Follows Lorient Blasting

RAF ATTACKS  MAILAN AND  COLOGNE   Attacks on Both Areas Carried Out on Large Scale. 11 Bombers Failed to Return

COLOGNE, MILAN RAIDED; ELEVEN BOMBERS LOST   Heavy Assaults On Enemy Bases Are Successful

Rhine City Shaken By Big Bombs   Eleven British Planes Fail  Te Return From Their   Night Attacks On Axis  Objectives

Big Fleets Rain Destruction On Germany, Italy   Rhineland’s Cologne and Italian Arsenal At Milan Bear Brunt of Raids

Double Barrelled Bombing Assaults On Reich, Italy   Cities Are Blasted in Raids on Saturday and Sunday Nights.   Great Weight of High  Explosive on Cologne

RAF Strikes Powerful Blow At Axis Cities   Cologne and Milan. Blasted; 11 Bombers Fail To Return

Big Bomber Unit Blasts Cologne, Milan Factories   Follows Twin Assault Upon Lorient Sub Base

Cologne, Milan Night Attacked By RAF Bombers   Italy’s Naval Base of Spezia Also Hit by Allied Airmen

BOTH ATTACKS ARE REPORTED LARGE-SCALE   Naval Base Of Spezia In Italy Also Blasted      LORIENT BURNS   From Saturday Explosions: Few Nazi Planes Fly Over Britain

Bombs Again Blast Milan And Cologne   Spezia, Italian Naval Base, Also Battered In Heavy Double-Barreled R. A. F. Assault.

REICH, ITALY, FRANCE HIT IN RAIDS BY RAI      Concentrated Aitacks Made on Cologne, Milan and U-Boat Base ai Lorient

NAVY BASE AT SPEZIA IS BOMBED   11 Bombers Are Lost In ‘Large Scale’ Air Operations

RAF PLANES BOMBARD AXIS CITIES   Cologne and Milan Targets In Large Scale Opera-tions   1 RAF BOMBERS LOST

Double Barrel Raids Blast Germany, Italy   Great Weight Of High Explosives Rained On Cologne For Half Hour; Large Fires Started In Milan With Italian Defenses Very Weak; 11 Bombers Lost.

Great Air Foree Bombs Cologne  And Milan   Italian And German Centers Of War  Work Heavily Pounded Bv British Planes

11 BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN, BIG FIRES STARTED   Described Both Attacks a Large Scale Operations on Enemy Cities

Airmen Dump Explosives On  Milan, Cologne   RAF Attacks Describec As ‘Large Scale’; 11 Planes Fail To Come  Rack To Port

DOUBLE BARRELLED ASSAULT MADE BY ROYAL AIR FORCE   Attacked Rhineland City of Cologne and Italian City of Milan.   SPEZIA ALSO BOMBED   A Great Weight of Explosives and Incendiary Bombs Were Dropped.

Cologne and Milan Fired In Bombings   Big. Double-Barreled RAF Raids Follow Assault On Lorient   BASE AT SPEZIA ALSO ATTACKED   Major Forces Take Part in Raids and Eleven Bombers Are Missing

ARSENAL CITY OF MILAN IS RAID TARGET   Naval Base of Speia, on Italy's West Coast Alsp Attacked by British Bombers   ELEVEN FAIL TO RETURN

British Bomb Germany, Italy  Attack Rhineland City   Attack Rhineland City Of Cologne, Italian City of Milan

Major Axis: Cities Under IRAF Attack   Large Seale Attack On Cologne, Milan During The Night

RAF Bombs Cologne And Milan in Force   Fliers Also Attack Italian Naval Base of Spezia—Great Weight of Explosives Hits Rhineland City—11 Planes Missing.

GERMANY, ITALY TARGETS OF TWIN ASSAULT BY RAF   Rhineland City of Cologne and Italian Arsenal City of Milan Attacked Last Night; Both Attacks On ‘Large Scale’.

AIRMEN: BLAST RHINELAND CITY   Rome Admits Heavy Dam _age in Italy; Great Fires Set at Lorient

Th @ytne af     Dependability:   WIFE OF FORMER CHAMPION WAS ___. FRIENDLY WITH OTHER MAN, SAY . WITNESSES AT DIVORCE HEARING.

DEMPSEY DIVORCE TRIAL (9 STARTED      Former Champion Names Fighter, Trainer As Corespondents.

Dempsey Trial Opens in NY.  Divorce Witnesses Taney Agoinst wit.  Bi BB

Jack’s Wife Affectionate  Witnesses Say Hannal Hugged And Kissed

START DEMPSEY’S DIVORCE CASE TODAY   Both Seek Custody of Two Children

ENEMY POUNDED “ACROSS A WIDE PACIFIC. EXPANSE   Three Vessels In Jap Convoy Crippled While Making Way to Wewak In New Guinea

3 OF 9 JAPANESE SHIPS CRIPPLED   Flyers Continue to Blast Nipponese Boats

Promise of Planes Spurs New Action   ‘Bombers Range Out _ To Blast Japanese Bases Ringing Outposts   ; ; 

ALLIED FLIERS CRIPPLE THREE SHIPS OF JAP‘   Continue Atiack on Nine-Ship Con voy Off New Guinea, Bomb Jap. anese Bases

Americans Press Attack on Convoy   Cripple Three Jap Vessels in Opening Assault Off New Guinea,

’ SHIPS ARE - CRIPPLED IN U.S. ATTACK      " MacArthur’s Bombers Are ‘Continuing Assault on 9-Shin Convoy   @ POUNDING VESSELS NEAR NEW GUINEA   Allied Fliers Also Make Raids on Various Other * Southwest Pacific Points

MacArthur's Plane Attack 9-Ship Japanese Convoy   Enemy Casualties In New Guinea Are Nearly 4 Times Ours

Jap Convoy Under Attack   Three Vessels Hit In Opening Assault; Other Targets Hit

MACARTHUR'S AIRMEN CRIPPLE THREE SHIPSIN JAP CONVOY OFF NORTH NEW GUINEA   One of Ships Left Sinking, Another Lying Lopsided in Water And a Third Ship Was  ’ Beached. Allies’ Disclose Casualties in  South Pacific Campaign ;

ThreeDamagec In Opening Air Assault   Flying Fortresses Pound Enemy Ships In Pacific

Allied Planes Cripple Three Jap Vessels   MacArthur’s Fliers Press Home Attack on 9-Ship Convoy; 11 Bombing and Strafino Attacks Made on Nivs 

Bombers On  Trail Of Big  Jap Convoy Three Of Ships  Crippled During Le ee ee oes

Allied Planes Cripple 3 Jap Convoy Ships   Blast Three Major Japanese Airbases In New’  Guinea, New Britain,   :   rNAITD PDD Te TAVIS CET, 

ENEMY TARGETS POUNDED OVER BIG BATTLE ARC   American Planes, Promised Reinforcements, Striking  Hard In Pacific; At tack Is Continuing.

Planes Spurs New Action   Bombers Range Out To Blast Japanese Bases Ringing’ Out  noatea

BIG JAP CONVOY IS SMASHED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Fortresses Carry Out Sweeping Assaults—Three Ships Already Crippled

MacArthur’s Eagles Continue Assault on Remnants of 9-Ship Jap Convoy

Press Attack on  Jap Ship:   Three Vessels Hit, Other Areas Are Blasted From Aijr.

Notre Dame Sets Swift Grid Pace   Crushes Unbeaten and Untied Navy 33-6; Undefeated Army, Pennsylvania Battle 13-13 in Philadelphia Mud

Bertelli Paces Notre Dame in 33-6 Triumph Over Unbeaten Navy Before 82,000 Grid Fans

25th Annual State Legion Convention  Will Open Today   Half of Delegates Already Registered: Martin Will Speak

LEGION MEET ~ GPENS TODA   4,000 Expected. at Wilkes: Barre Sessions; Many Resolutions Ready

BACK IN LONDON   Admiral Stark Returns After Six Weeks In Washineton.

GREATEST HERO IN'UNITED STATES TO THE AMERICAN MEN IN SERVICE IS CAPT. EDWARD Y. RICKENBACKER    By Barry Faris

All Physically Fit Men Facing Draft, Lodge Says   Senator Declares Family Status Will Make No Difference

More Protection  For Families  Of Men Drafted Lodge Says All Males Physically Fit  Are to Be Needed

U. S. Coast Guardsman Victor Mature Loses. Another Movie Redhead

Mandalay Attackec By Allied Bombers  Railways and River Shipping Blasted

Allied Fliers Hit  Central Burma City of Mandalay   Jap Communications And Installations Disrupted by Raiders

Wickard Is Stripped Of Powers As Boss Of Food   St. Louis Banker Named By President As War Food Administrator For U. S.

President Puts Davis In Control   Move to Defeat Lewis and Farm Bloc May Cause Secretary to Resign.

4 JAP VESSELS  AREDAMAGED   Allied Bombers Lambast Shipping, Airdromes In Buin Area

Jap Airfields, Ships Blasted   Heavy,Medium Bombers Strike in Solamanc

JAPS USE SUBS TO RUN SUPPLIES TO NEW GUINEA   That’s Belief of Allies After 22-ship Convoy Sunk In Air-sea Battle   AIR ATTACKS INCREASED   British Warships Lay Down Devastating Barrage on Jap Positions in Burma

Bombard Jap  Positions   British Warships Strike In Donbaik Area in Burma; Wavell Advances

British Warships Blast Jap Positions in the Donbaik Area.of Burma

British Warships Hit Japs   Blast Positions In Burma; More  Allied Air Attacks.

British Ships Bombard Japs   Support Land Operations On Burmese Front

BURMA BASE SHELLED BY BRITISH SHIPS   Men-o’-War Lay FireSetting Barrage on Donbaik, North of Akyab, as Ground Forces Move Toward the Town.

British Advance On Burma Front   Aerial Attacks Continue in South

BRITISH WARSHIPS AID WAVEL’S TROOPS IN BURMA PROGRESS  CONTINUING ALLIED AERI  AL ACTIVITY IN SOUTH wreoevT PACICIC DODOADTCHR

Fires Started By English Ship Barrage   Wavell’s Forces Make Preg Yess Toward Donbaik; UN Airmen Destrey Jap Sab in

BRITISH NAVY VESSELS SHELL JAP POSITIONS   Meet No Effective Resistance in ’ Attack on Donbaik Area—Jap Island Bases Strafed

Jap U-Boat, Used as Transport, Is Destroyed at Lae   United Nations Airmen _ Apprehend Sub at  Harbor There  1

WARSHIPS LAID DOWN BARRAGE ON BURMA COAST   Vanguards of Wavell's Forces Driving Down Coast Make Progress; Start Fires In Jap Bases.

Bombardment From Sea  Aids British   Wavell’s Men Make Some Headway In Burma

British Warships Lay Down Fire-Setting  Barrage On Japanese Positions In Burm:

WAVELL'S TROOPS DRIVE DOWN COASI   Allied Airmen Continue At tacks on Bases North _ of Australia

WARSHIPS SET JAP POSITIONS 'IN BURMA AFIRE   Nippon Infiltration Tactics Continuing East of Mayu River

British Ships Batter Jan Burma Lines   Wavell’s Men Make Progress Toward Donbaik North of Akyab

British Fleet Blasts Jap Bases   BURMESE POSITIONS ARE HARD HIT BY WOVELL

anlPS BOMBARD JAPS AT BURMA   British Vessels Start Numerous Fires; Nips Bomb New Guinea,   AMERICANS RAID KISKA

Regain Offensive In Burma   British Advance to  Donbaik After Warships Bombard Japs On Mayu Peninsula

WARSHIPS HIT — JAPS IN BURMA   Shore  Positions Shelled By British-to.-Aid-Progress of Gen. ‘Wavell.

BRITISH SHIPS ASSIST GROUND UNITS IN BURMA   Gen. Wavell’s Forces Gain Toward Tip of Mayu Peninsula

Breil Troops Make Progress.  : In Burma Drive   Chinese Armies Suppress + Japanese Counter-Attack South. Of Yangize River

German Cities Hit by Bombers   U.S. Airmen and RAF in Big Raids:

RAF Bombers Raid Hamburg   ‘Large Fires’ Set—16 Aircraft Missing   Americans Bomb Reich in Daylight

RAF BOMBERS RAID HAMBURG   Losses Indicate Force of 300 Planes Took Part

YANKS STAGE DAYTIME RAID ON GERMANY   Assault Is‘Second of Its -Kind by U. S. Fliers— British Heavily Bomb Hamburg, With Sixteen Planes Missine.

U. S. BOMBERS HIT TARGETS IN N. W. GERMANY   Follows Heavy RAF Attack on Hamburg; 16 Planes Missing

Americans Hit Hitler Germany   Big U. S. Bombers Carry War Into Reich In Daylight Raid

Size of Force, Targets Not Disclosed   Marks Second Big Day Assault; British Lost 16 In Raid Against Hamburg

U.S. ARMY'S STH AIR FORCE ATTACK SHIPPING HARBORS   Daylight Reid Was Made on Palermo and Messina, Sicily.   ATTACKED IN WAVES   British Patrols Were Active on All Sectors of Western Libyan Front.

U. 5. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY   Second Daylight Foray Follows Night Attack at Hamburg by British

LATE NEWS DEVELOPMENTS   U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST NORTHWESTERN GERATANY

NAZI NAVAL. BASES ARE BLASTED IN  ~ U.S. RAIDS   ‘Second, Daylight “Attack ‘Follows’ Big British Raid ve on: Hamburg:   SIZE OF AMERICAN FORCE UNDISCLOSED   R:A:F. Reports *-16:" of “Tits - Planes Missing’ After: Earlier’ Blow!

U. S. Bombers Raid Targets In Germany   Second Daylight Attack By American Bombers Dur ing War   HAMBURG IS DAMAGED

U.S. Bombers Hit Germany By Day  Northwestern Area _ Is Attacked; Large RAF Force Blasts Hamburg

RAF Sets Huge Fires In Night Hamburg Raid  Datd4.   British, American Forces Believed On New Assaults

U.S.AIR FORCE RAIDS GERMANY   Carries Out Daylight At tack, RAF Heavily Bombs Hamburg

U.S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY IN DAYLIGHT   Aitack Targets in Northwestern Reich in Their Second Daylight Raid of War   BRITISH HEAVILY ATTACK HAMBURG   Great Fires Left Raging in German U-Boat Building Port — 16 Planes Heported Missing

Bomb-Battered Nazis Becone Punch Drunk—~ ae bsyY SNOW. PAY Vt)  Prospects For Invasion From West Look Good

GETS JAP SHIF   Resourceful American Pilots _ Spray Gas, Thenig- — nite It

American Fighter Pilots Sink Japanese Freighter and Destroyer Without Using Bombs

6 Dr aft Boar ds Balk at Order On Married Mer   Hershey Asserts Calls For Fathers Probably Will Start About July 1

Inexperienced Local Team: foes Match for Opponent in League Match

prin S.         Inexperienced Local Team: No Match for Opponent  in League Match

“Jail-Mosley” Mob Battles  London Police   Parliament Stormed By 1000 Crying  “Morrison Must Go”’

THREAT POSED BY 8TH ARMY 2-MILE PUSH   British Grab Two Towns As 5th Army Masses For New Drive

U. S. CASUALTIES IN ITALY UP TO VOLTURNO TOTAL 6774, STIMSON "ANNOUNCES: INCLUDES 879 KILLED

Allied Troops In Possession  Of San Croce   British Eighth Army Has Captured Bonefro And Riccia; Allied Gains Are General

Allied Troops Pushing Ahead  Against Nazis   Sth Throwing Patrols To West In Direction Of Rome; 5th Army  Tecete Fae’<« Defense«

Satter Down Strong Foe Positions  Punch Nine Milee Ahead   Punch Nine Miles Ahead To Capture San Croce

SAN GROCE IN ALLIED HANDS   Captured by Fifth Army; British Seize Riccia And Bonefro

Allies Drive Ahead Nine Miles in Italy  Eighth Army S Gains   cores Gains

Allies Plunge On For Gain in Italy   The Eighth Army Smashes Ahead Against Strong German Resistance   DUEL ‘OVER VOLTURNO   Nazi Lines Are Being _Strengthened Against  _ Fifth Army

ALLIES PUSH NINE MILES IN INTERIOR   Flank Is Drawn Further Arounnd Volturno Line

Riccia and Bonetro Also Captured as British Push Vigorously Westward   ARTILLERY IN DUEL   Fifth Army Patrols Active, Posi tions Gained Consolidated, War Bulletin Says

SOVIET ATTACK SPREADING OUT   Yank Fliers Spread Havoc Over Jap Squadron

POWERFUL NAZI POSITIONS ARE BATTERED DOWN   Allied Forces Seize San Croce; Eighth Army Advances Along Its Entire Front, Capturing Two Cities.

F. R., Stalin, Churchill In On Play   Former Axis Partner  Turns On Germany; Badoglio Announcement

oth Army Takes san Croce After Stalemate Ends   British Troops Race’ Ahead Along Entire Front On Adriatic

TAKE TOWNS IN CENTRAL ITALY WITH ADVANCES   8th Army Smashes On From Termoli; Duel by Artillery Is Continued

Allies Continue Smashing Drive In Central Italy   Capture Strong German Positions; Nazi Flanks Endangered

ALLIES GAIN IN CENTRAL ITALY, TAKE 3 TOWNS   Advance Nine Miles, Report Nazis Evacuating Gomel in Russia

ALLIES SMASH ANIS LINES TO GAIN IN ITAL   Seize San Groce In Driving Ahead Nine Miles; 8th Army Takes Towns

ALLIES TAKE MORE TOWNS FROM NAZIS   Fifth Army Furthers Flanking Move Againsi Volturno Line and British Gain Along Theiz Entire Front.

Allies Drive Nine Miles fo Win San Croce   Eighth Army Advance: On Its Entire Front To Capture Riccia And Bonefco

BATTER DOWN NAZI POSTS IN CENTRAL ITALY   Positions Gained Are Consolidated: Volturno Line Being Outflanked

ENEMY POSITIONS ARE BATTERED DOWN BY ALLIED TROOPS   Advanced 9% Miles Northeast of Ponitelandolfo to Seize San Croce  THE STH ARMY ACTIVE   Advanced Along Its Entire Front, Capturing Two Other Towns.

Volturno Line Endangered By  New Advances   8th Army Smashe Above Termoli Artillery Due Is Raging

Report-Yanks aloe a operee In 9-Mile Push   British 8th Army Advances Along Entire Front To Capture 2 Other Towns

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES ON ENTIRE LINE   Towns of Riccia and Bonefro, Captured by Allies, Official Front Line Dispatches Say   ARTILLERY DUEL RAGES

ARTILLERY DUEL IS RAGING ALONG VOLTURNO RIVER   SAN CROCE SEIZED BY FIFTH ARMY IN FLANKING MOVEMENT

ALUIED TROOPS BATTER ENEMY   Punch Nine Miles North to Seize Town of San Croce, Italy.   EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES

Allies Take San Croce In Central Italy   Gains Also Registered on Eighth Army’s Adriatic Salient

BOTH ARMIES ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT   San Croce, Riccia, Bonefro Captured: Big Artillery Battle Rages Along Volturno

ALLIES PERIL VOLTURNO LINE   Fifth Army Captures San Croce In Move Outflanking Nazis

Army Positions. Pierced in Italy   Allied Troops Advance Nine Miles To Capture More Towns from Nazis

YANKS BATTER STRONG NAZIS STRONGHOLDS   Allies Advance Nine Miles in Central Italy to Take San Croce.   Outflank Germans on Volturno River Line

Allies Take 3 Towns in Italv Drive   Force in” Central Area Captures San Croce as Tommies Forge West   ARMIES NEAR UNION   Night Bombers Hammer Nazi Road Junctions North of Termoli

AMERICAN UNITS TAKE SAN GROCE IN ITALIAN PUSH   Gain of Nine Miles Is Reported — Eighth Army Also Advances

ALLIED FORCES ‘GAIN IN DRIVE TOWARD ROME   Fifth Army Is Massing Fo: Assault On Volturno River Line; British   Push From East   BOMBERS HIT COs, NAZI SUPPLY LINES   Americans Seek to Flank Germans Defending Road  to Eternal City; Take Strategic Town

5th Allied Army Breaks Througt Germans’ Lines   Nine-Mile Advance Scored As Enemy Brings Up More Troops: Heavy Artillery Duel Rages   San Croce Falls To Fifth Army While Eighth Under Montgomery Captures Two Towns And Makes Progress On Its Entire Front

ALLIED TROOPS BATTLE NAZIS IN CEN, ITALY   Artillery Duel Raging Along Volturno

U.S. Rips 9 Miles in Italy   CLARK TAKES SAN CROCE AS EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT

Allies Capture San Croce in Threat to Nazi Volturno Line   Guns Duel Across River: ‘Sth’ Advances on Entire Front

—ROME DRIVE—  FIFTH ARMY IN NINE MILE GAIN   American Spearhead Pushes Northward In Outflanking Move    BOMBERS ACTIVE   British Eighth Army Continues Advance Along Its Entire Front

Allies Extend Drive In Italy Northward   _Seize San Croco, Northeast of Pontelandolfo; Eighth Army Advances All Along Front, Captures Two Cities.

Allies Move Up In Italy   Advance in Central Areas And On Eastern Coast

Push 9 Miles Northward In Central Italy      Kighth Army Gains Along Entre Front; Captures  Riceia, Bonefro.   STRONG OPPOSITION

REPORTS BALLET DANCER IN OEW   DIES SAYS APPOINTEE HIRED AS A $5,600:A-YEAR ECO-NOMIG. ANALYST.

VIEW NEWSPAPER VIA TELEVISION   EXPERTS AGREE 'T CANNOT SUPPLANT PRINTED VERSION

NOT A SUBSTITUTE  AIR NEWSPAPER CANNOT SUPPLANT REAL THING EXPERTS AGREE.

News Via Television   General Opinion Is That Printed Version Won’t Be Supplanted

‘Television Can’t Supplant Print   This Is Opinion of Critical Jury About “Newspaper on the Air.”

Air Foree Maintains  Offensive   Heavy Guns And Shock Troops Are Pounding Nazis.

MRS. JOHN NULL DIES AT SLAYTON   Former Struble Resident Laid To Rest On Wednesday ~--

JOHN NULL DIES AT SLAYTON   Former Struble - Resident Laid To Rest On Wednecday

Mme. Chiang Is Near Collapse Twice In N. Y.   Requires Rest At Recentons

STATE'S 1943 INCOME BEST IN HISTORY   Tax Receipts From All Sources Total $113,795,419, or Two Million Dollars Above Collections Last Year.

THEN-PEARL HARBOR  HULL SAYS U. S. OFFICIALS KNEW JAP PT ANS FIVE YEARS AGO.

Documents Reveal Details Of Jap’s March Of Aggressions Before Pearl Harbor Attack

Attu Village Is Destroyed; Final Battle at Hand   Depot, Installations Fire; Japs Refuse to Surrender

NIPPONESE 10 CHOOSE DEATH OR SURRENDER   Forces Cut Into Three  Groups by Victorious Yank Advance

Japs Split Into. Three Isolated Groups On Atty   Village OF Attu {s _Destroyed As Nips   ap Sn Oe

Jap Remnants on Attu Split Into 3 Isolated Groups   ‘Fighter-Bombers Destroy Enemy's Supply Center   (First-Hand Account of American Landing on Attu told on Page 12.)

Attu Village ls Destroyed By Warplanes   No Indication of Japanese Surrender Is Revealed

U.S. Prepares For Last Grim Battle   Airmen Aid Ground Troops; Village Is Blasted Down

Yankees Split Japanese Info Three Parties   Fighter-Bombers Destroy Attu Village, Enemy Supply Center

Leger Forees Divided Into Th ree Groups   Fight Due To Go On Until All Nips Are Destroved

Planes Give Support To  Infantrymen   Japanese Appear To Be Determined To Fight To End.

AttuJaps Split Inio — Three Groups   Fighter-Bombers Aiding Ground Troops Destroy Supply Center

JAPS ON ATTU ISLAND SPLIT INTO 3 GROUPS   AMERICANS GETTING SET FOR FINAL BATTLE

Americans Split Japs on Attu Into 3 Pockets   Enemy Shows No Sign of Surrender, Kiska Is Raided

Japs Split Into Three Isolated Groups On Attu   Village Of Attu Is Destroyed As Nips Doggedly Hold On  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

Americans Split Comered Japs In Three Groups   Nips Still Hold Several Areas In Heichts

Jap Forces on Attu Split by Americans   Nip Supply Center Is Destroyed by U. S. Bombers

JAPANESE DIVIDED IN ATTU BATTLE      ENEMY FORCES SPLIT. INTO THREE GROUPS—SUPPLY  CENTER DESTROYED.

Final Battle © Being Planned  By Americans   Enemy. Gives No Sign of Intending to Make Surrender

Japs on Attu Face Final  Yank Smash   Fighting Divides Foe Three Ways; Kiska Comes Next

ENEMY STILL HOLDS SEVERAI HIGH POINTS   Nipponese Have— No Intentions Of Surrendering

JAPS NEAR END OF ATTU FIGHT   Yanks Split Enemy Troops Into Three Isolated Groups on Island

BATTLE FOR MMUNDA IS NEARING CLIMAX   American Troops Are Almost On Top Of Japs

Americans Near  Edge Of Munda   Canteen Saves Life Of U. S. Soldier In Sicily

Yanks” Destroy Jap. ‘Defenses On Munda Front   Advance Takes Americans . To Edge Of. Strategie Airfield In New Georgia

Yanks Push Almost to Edge of Strateric Munda Airfield   Tanks, Flame Throwers and Artillery Support Advance of Americans

BATTLE FOR MUNDA NEAR CLIMAX TODAY   American Forces Are Near Edge Of Airfield   ILL MANY JAPS   Nippon Stronghold At - Salamaua Is ' Blasted

Battle Of Munda Nearing Climax: Yanks Near Fiele   Japanese Defense Is Flagging; Another Vital Air Field Is Attacked

“AMERICANS ON EDGE OF "AIRDROME   eLattle Held Nearing Climax; Salamaua  Is Under Fire

MUNDA DRIVE NEAR CLIMAX   U. S. Forces Advance Almost to Edge of New Georgia Airfield in New Rushes.

Yankees Break Down Final Jap Munda Defenses   Battle For Jap-Held Pacific Position Is Nearing Its Climax.   Americans Drive Close  To Edge of Airfield

Americans Push Toward Climax In Munda Battle   Yanks Break Down Jap Defenses In General Advance

U3, ADVANCE. NtAR EDGE OF JAP AIRFIELO   Battle of Munda Approaching Climax as Enemy’s Defense Broken,   BEAT JAPS IN AIR, BOMB WARSHIPS AND HARBOF

MUNDA BATTLE IN FINAL PHASE   United States Forces Break Down Final Japanese Defenses.   BIBLO HILL IS CAPTURED

TAKE POSITION ON MUNDA HILI   General Advance Carries Troop: Nearly to Edge of Viial Nev Guinea Airfield   NEARING CLIMAX   Medium Artillery, Wrestled into Position Through Jungles, Turned on Salamaua

STRONGPOINT OF JAPANESE IS CAPTURED   Americans Break Down Final Enemy Defensive “Positions at Munda  After Advance   DESTROYER IS FIRED

DRIVE AGAINST JAP POSITION NEARS CLIMAX   General Advance Carries Jungle Troops To Edge Of Strategic Airdrome   BIBLO HILL CAPTURED   Artillery Bombards Salamaua As Allied Planes Score One-Sided Victory

BATTLE OF MUNDA NEARING END DUE AMERICAN ADVANCE   FINAL JAP DEFENSES BROKEN DOWN IN GENERAL ADVANCE THERE

U.S. Troops Reach Edge Of  Munda Field   Climax Is Near In Drive Of Americans To Gair Possession Of Base : New Georgia

MUNDA BATTLE SEEN NEARING FINAL STAGE   American Troops Move To Within 1400 Yards Of Airfield

Final’ Japanese. Defense: Lines “Of Before Munda Are Broken By Americans: Climax Neat

MUNDA BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX; JAPS BREAKIN   Yankees Advance Up to Within 1200 Yards Airbase; Portion Enemy Defense Seized

Yanks Bring Munda Battle Near Climax   U.S. Forces Break Down Final Jap Defensive Positions And are Now  Almost at Edge of Field Salamaua Brought Ur: der First’ Artillery Bombardment.

CLIMAX NEAR IN  GRIM FIGHT FOR  MUNDA AIRPORT YANKS SMASH WAY  TO EDGE OF VITAL new QOOPRIA RACE

Yankees Near Airdrome al Munda Field   [Many Japanese Killed in  Drive With Flame-Throw1 ers, Artillery and Tanks   FIRST ARTILLERY FIRE ON SALAMAUA   Gains in New Guinea Are Announced Along With News From New Georgia

AMERICANS GAIN ON MUNDA BASE, FALL IMMINENT   U. S. Troops Near Edge of Jap Airbase; Nip Resistance Lighter

BATTLE OF MUNDA » NEARING CLIM A)   U. S. Forces Break Down Final Jap Defensive After General Advance Almost To Edge of Strategic Airfield.

Munda Battle Nears Its Climax Today as U.S. Units Break Final Lines

MUNDA BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX   American Drive Ahead in Jungle But Japs Have To Be Killed - - Won’t Retreat

Battle Of Munda Nears Climax: Advances Measured In Yards   Americans Move Forward to 1,200 Yards to Reach Edge of New Georgia Airfield

AMERICAN FORCES ARE ALMOST TO THE EDGE OF MUNDA   Battle for This City Neared Its Climax Today, It Was Announced.   NEAR EASTERN EDGE   United States Troops Captur ed Biblo Hill, an Enemy Strong Point.

Jans Will Detend Marshall Islands   Seeking To Reinforce Defenses To Repulse Expected U.S. Attacks   U.S. FORCES OPERATE FROM GILBERTS NOW

MAJOR RAIDS “ON RAILROADS ~ BEHIND LINE:   SMASHING AIR ATTACK SHATTERS GERMAN COMMUNE CATION LINES FROM ’ SUPPLY BASES

MUNICH BOMBED BY GREAT AIR FLEET   Record Daylight Offensive Over Europe Into Its Sixth Day

Munich in Southern Ger many Gets Fearful Battering Last Night.  SIXTEEN BOMBERS FAILED TO RETURN  American Bombers Cross Channel to Attack Belgium and France.

Rail Men to Ask  Revision of Rules   Trainmen to Include on Ballot Chanaes in Working Conditions

Repeal Measure Now Awaits Ford Siqnature  Powers Bill to Be Stricken Pram Gtertiuta Ranke

‘Hitler’ Law Repeal Waits Ford Signature   House Votes 66-20 For Bill Already Passed by Senate

Repeal Measure Now Awaits Ford Signaiure   Powers Bill to Be Stricken From Statute Books

Hitler Repealer  ls Passed by House Member:   Senate Measure Approved and Bill Now Goes to Governor; Variety Of Proposals Given to Legislature

ILLINOIS UMW TO WORK SIX DAYS   SIGN AGREEMENT ON 42-HOUR WEEK WITH ONE DAY OVERTIME

CONCERNED BY SENATE DEBATE   Connally Resolution  Is Cabled to Hulf

CONNALLY PEACE RESOLUTION NOW IN HULL'S HANDS   Administration Is Concerned Over Lengthy Senate Oebate and Unfavorable Impression Abroad.   TISCUSSIONS MAY CONTINUE ANOTHER WEEK   Senator Pepper Resisting an Early Vote to Secure Pubhic Sentiment For Amendmont.

DEBATE CONTINUES ON PEACE PROPOSA   Hull is Wired Text; All Appear for it but Debate Still Rages in U. S. Senate

TEXT OF CONNALLY ‘POST-WAR RESOLUTION CABLED TO HULL   Would Pledge U. S. to Join Free and Sovereign Nations \To Prevent Aggression

Hull Is Sent  : Text Of . Pact   Secretary: Of State. Kept Informed -About Act -; ? Of Connally ©

Lewis Demands Minimum $8 Day  Asks Basic Increase of $2  a Day for All Coal Miners

WOULD STOP MAILING GOVERNMENT MATTER UNLESS REQUESTED REP. HARLESS OF ARIZONA  SAYS THIS WOULD WIPE  OUT PAPER SHORTACE

BLOOM IN THE SHADE   WOMEN OF ACKLEY GARDEN ALrITDpD TBIT OP TTIBRAT

THE GARDEN CLUB niscl/SSES “CHINA”   Discuss “China,” Flowers  Members and Vegetables.

AFT OF FATHERS REMAINS UNLIKELY   Keeping War Production Up Figures In Plans

CONSIDERS GHANEE IN FAVOR OF DADS   Fathers of Children Conceived Before Pearl Harbor May Not Be Called.

PRE-WAR DADS MAY BE EXEMPT   New Induction Plan Would Leave 38-45-Year-Olds For War Jobs, Too

DISCUSS PLAN OF INDUCTION TC FAVOR FATHERS   Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers And 38-45 Age Group May Be Favored

Men Not Likely To Be Inducted Considered in  Tentative Plans   Sen. Wheeler Says Army to Cut July Quota Almost in Half

Exemption of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads, 38-45 Year-olds Under Consideration

Fathers Before Pearl Harbor May Not Be Indueted For Army Service

PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS ARE NOT LIKELY 10 SERVE   Army Re-examines Needs, May Revive Plans to Lower Total.

CONSIDER PLANS TO STOP DRAFT OF FATHERS   Also Draft of Men 38 to 45 Years Old to Be Halted

TENTATIVE PLANS TO CUT INDUCTION RATE CONSIDERED   Men In 38 To 45 Bracke And Pre-Pearl Harber Fathers Would . Not Be Called

Administration Studies Tentative Plans  Hope To Avoid Draft of Fathers

What Body Will Govern Air Traffic?   Practical Problems 1 ‘Freedom Of Air’ Discussed

GERMANS BECOMING DEFENSIVE MINDED FOLLOWING UPSETS   Reverses Acknowledged But Few of Them Be. ~tieve They Face Deci;_...   sive Defeat.

YANK LOOSES BERLIN BOMBS   CLOUDS SWEPT AWAY IN HUGE R. A. F. RAID

WINKLER BOUND OVER TO EVANS   Waives Examination Be. for Rody On Three  Arson Counts

British King Sees Harder Fight Ahead   Christmas Message of Monarch fo Empire Praises Aid of Ales

BRITISH MONARCH ON RADIO FORECASTS 'VICTORY, LAUDS U.S. WAR EFFORT

KING Viol0No VICTORY Tail AID OF ALLIES   Britain’s Ruler Pays Tribute to War Strength of Amer- — ican Forces.

‘Navy Loses Two Vessels   Escort Carrier Sunk And Sub Is Missina

U.S. Sub Famed For Blows at Jap: Reported Missing   Marshalls Base’ Bombed; Four Enemy Ships Suffer Hits

Service Men, Fiscal Reform; Poll Taxes and Lynching Major Subjects

N umerous Issues  Before Congress  Service Men, Reform And Poll Tax Plans Introduced

Various House Bills Go Into Hopper Today   Service Men, Lynchings Among Major Subjects At Opening

More Than 150 Bills Ready for  New Congress   Ruml Plan, Poll Tax and Lynching Among Subjects

Bills Fall Info Hopper First Day   Service Men, Poll Taxes, Lynching  . Measures Submitted

MANY SUBJECTS ARE COVERED IN BILLS  FACING CONGRESS _ SERVICE MEN, FISCAL RE  FORM, POLL TAXES,

150 BILLS INTRODUCED IN HOUSE   Measures Offered In Advance Cover Numerous Subjects

MANY BILLS INTRODUCED   Service Men, Fiscal Reform, Poll Taxes Among Mesior Subiects.

About 150 Bills Introduced in Congress Today  Service Men, Fiscal Reform, Poll Taxes, Lynching Subiectes

‘Over 150 Bills Tossed Into ‘The Hopper On Opening Day      Dewey Calls For Increased State Participation in War

BRIDGEHEAD ON DONETS   Germans Lose 300 Men In Attempts To Take Position

Nazis Fail To Shatter Red Position   Russians Push Toward Big Nazi ‘Base in Caucasus

GERMANS HURLED BACK NEAR IZVUN   Japanese Cruiser Beached at Kavieng Where Fleet Was Recently Attacked.

SIRONG NAZI DRIVE STOPPED BY SOVIET ARMY NEAR IZYUM   Attack Is Latest OF Series Designed To Push Russians From Donets —

TOE-HOLD OF SOVIETS — HELD DESPITE THRUST   German Attempt to Loosen Grip on South Bank of Donets River Fails But Red Army in Other Sec-. tors of River Has Been Pushed Back to the North Bank—Bridgehead Near Izyum Ile Holding      Another Push Expected Against Afrika Korps by British Troops

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE — PART OF INFLATION FIGHT   Putting Money Into. Bonds Cuts Your: ‘Gost: ‘of <> Living .

Buying More War Bond During : September Will Help War Effort   Plymouth County’s Quota For the Month Almost $1.000.000

Reno County To Surpass Bond Quota   Raral Section Buys Less Than Half Of Allotted Amount

More Small Bond Sales Are Needed   Tuesday’s Buying Lagged; Farmers Not Taking Hold

Bond Quota Exceeded By  Hutchinson   Navy Formation Announces ‘Drive Here Successful

‘APPROVE MERGER   Western Union Stockhold ers Favor Acquiring Postal Telegraph

Ludwigshafen And Mannheim Heavily Raided   Large Forces Operate, But Only 9 Planes Lost; Heavy Damage Admitted

RAF Hammers Germany for Ind Successive Night   New Attacks Follow Great Raids on Ruhr And Rhineland Areas

BRITISH BOMBERS. POUND: GERMANY    SOUND OF MOTORS INDICATES RAID IS BEING MADE BY LARGE FORCE.

‘Axis Dynamite Roads to Slow Allied Advance   » Push on Despite Detours; Allies Shell Exposed Roads   Bulletin!

War Objector Loses 22 Lbs. In ‘Gandhi Fast’  Lives On Water In N. H. Camp

REYNOLDS PACKARD ACCOMPANIED ARMY ON TRIP-TO ITALY      gér of U. P. Bureau at Rome Vividly - Deseribed.:linvasion.

Coal Edict Brings on  Final Test   Two Executives Come to Tilt Long-Time Waited

President Faces Test of Power In Mine Crisis   Long-Delayed Decision Finds Union President Silent   Success of War Effort Declared Involved in Outcome

Long-Delayed Showdown  Between President and Lewis Apparently at Hand

National Resources Planning Board Appropriation Denied; Senate Has Own Idea of Postwar Program

Senate Answers FOR Criticism   Funds Denied For -Post-War Planners

ONLY ONE-FIFTH OF BUDGET OK'ED   Ways and Means Com Seeks Economies

GOVT. ECONOMY MAY PLUG GAP IN U. S. FINANCE   Evidently That's Goal of Congress As Result of “Shortage” From Taxing People

Fifth of Revenue Goal Approved   Committee Studies Economy Measures

HOUSE SPURNS MODIFIED PLAN OF SALES TAX   Committee Approves OneFifth Of Federal Revenue Goal

U. §. WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAPS ON ATTU ISLAND   Results of Shelling Westernmost Aleutian Isle Are Not Observed

U.S. Warships Bombard Jap Positions On Attu Island   Action Believed To Have Been Carried Out In For: Enemy Also Attacked In Solomons

U. §, WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAPS ON ATTU ISLAND      Enemy -Pasition at. Holtz Bay and at Chiagoe Harbor, Western Aleutians, Shelled   RESULTS NOT GIVEN   U.S. Aircraft Shoot Down Two Nipponese Float Planes Attempting to Attack Americans

U.S. Warships © Bombard Attu   Naval Force Assaults Jap Positions

U.S. Warships Bombard Attu  In Aleutians   Navy’s Big Guns Batte Jap Positions; Result: Not Known.

YANK WARSHIPS STRIKE AT ATTU   WESTERN ALEUTIAN ISLE SMASHED BY U.S. GUNS

U.S. Warships Bombard Attu   Damage, Size of Naval Force Not Known

U. S. WARSHIPS BOMBARD JAPS   os ou an AE ON ATTU ISLAND IN ALEUTIAN CHAIN

U.S. Naval Force Blasts Attu Island   Two Japanese Float Planes Shot Down by Aircraft

AMERICAN WARSHIPS BOMBED JAP HELD ATTU ISLAND   Significance of Bombardment of Island Unclarified by Naval Authorities

Jap Installations in Far Aleutians Are Big Guns’ Targets   Two Seaplanes Shot Down in: Defense Of U. S. Positions

x kK K KW. Tennessee Strikers Face Quick Draft         x «*—K KK OF Reaction

PARLEY HELD ON POST WAR   Roosevelt, Hull Take Up Problems With Group Of Specialists

Peace Rumors Follow Parley . Between Roosevelt, Hull and Five Foreign. Affairs Experts

POST WAR CONFAB HELD IN CAPITAL      Specilalists, Roosevelt Chat As to Possible Developoments —

UNION THREATENS TO GALL STRIKE   Differences Between Consumers Power and Union Must Be Worked Out

Ships Get-to. Malta After Nazi Attacks   New Battleship Chief Casualty of Bombs From German Planes

Additional Italy Fleet Units Are Awaited At Malta   Most Of Rome's 1,60 Man Crew Is Lost In Sink ing By Germans

17 WARSHIPS SAIL INTO [MALTA HARBOR   One Battleship Lost To Germans In Sea-Air Battle

Escape of Italian Fleet Bloodless Victory For Allies   Vessels Fight Off Nazi Planes, With Loss of One Battleship, Reach Malta

Four Battleships, Six Destroyers and Seven Cruisers Sailed Into  Allied Hands.

One Battleship Ts Sunk by  German Planes   Additional Fleet Units Expected at Malta Shortly

7 Vessels Stop at Port In Spain, Others Said’ Goins to Gibraltar

ITALIAN FLEET DELIVERED 10 ALLIED HANDS   ONE BATTLESHIP Is LOST IN RUNNING SEA BATTLE

Backbone Of Fleet Sails To Malta, Battles Off Germans   SB WES» £2444—~0 4547 OW 4 FEW EES  GERMANS SEIZE NORTHERN ITALY  King Still Reigns Despite German Reports He And Badoglio Had Fled To Sicily

Most Of Italian Fleet Is Safe In Hands Of Allies  One Battleship Is Sunk By Germans As It Fled Italy  Peet Will Add Greatly To Allied Power Ir biedisorranenn Sea When It Goes In Actio:

17 Italian Warships Reach Allied Ports   Backbone Of Fleet Reaches Malta After Running Battle With German Air Force

Running Battle With Germans Costs One Ship   Seventeen Vessels Steam Into Malta Under British Naval Escort; King Rumored Still Reioning in Capital

Germans Sink the Battleship Roma During Spectacular Running Battle

MAIN UNITS OF TTALAN FLEET NOW IN MALT   Four Battleships, 7 Cruisers and Six Destroyers Escape Germans.   ONE NEW BATTLESHIP SUNK BY NAZI PLANES

DIED IN: ENGLAND.   Captain Willard Baker Was. Vie.  “tin of Pneumonia.

DIED IN ENGLAND.   Captain Willard Baker Was Victim of Pneumonia,

‘PLANE PLANT ‘STUDY OPENED   MANPOWER PROBLEM IS SHIFTED TO McNUTT

OPA ANNOUNCES REVISED POINT SCHEDULE FOR STEAKES, ROASTS, FISH DURING MAY

RAISE ONE POINT STEAKS, ROASTS   Varicty of Meats and Canned Fish Get Similar Reductions

OPA CHANGES POINT VALUES OF MEATS   Many Round Steaks and Roasts Increased One Point

Some Changes In Point Values In Meat Rationing   Sixteen Advances And 25 Reductions Are An.nounced For May   BEEF AND PORK VALUES RAISED

NEXT PERIOD MEAT VALUES ~ ISSUED TODAY   ONE POINT REDUCTIONS ON  28 MEATS AND POINT ADL,  YANCE ORDERED ON 167: OTHER TYPES

Bizarre Murder Defies Solution  Investigators Run Into Blank Wall

Pullman Slaying Is Still Unsolved      Dining Car Waiter Held For Questjoning, Marine Ace Material Witmess

Bizarre Murder Defies Solution  Investigators Run TInt Riel &27. iT

RAILMURDER IS BAFFLING 10 OFFICERS   Murder on the Main Line _ Still Defies Solu ton

Murder On Limited Yet Baffles Law   BRIDE OF NAVAL OFFICER IS SLAIN IN BERTH 13 OF SLEEPER, HER THROAT CUT

Taranto Naval Base Seized by Allied Forces; Armies Driving Up Italian Toe, Widen Hold; Virtually All of North Italy Now in Nazi Hands

ALLIES BLAST TWO ChUToERS AND 27 PLANES   Flying Forts Get Direct Hits on Heavy Warcraft in wtalian Naval Base.   FIGHTER PLANES SEND 18 JUNKERS INTO SEA

AMERICAN PLANES SCORE IMPRESSIVE VICTORY OVER AXIS IN MEDITERRANEAN   Two Heavy Cruisers Blasted By Concentrations of Forts

BIG ITALIAN SHIPS SUFFER HEAVY DAMAGE   One of the Largest Concentrations  Of Bombers

Nazis Still Retreating   Soviets Also Push Forward in Drive On Kharkov

Reds Drive Nazis Back .  From Bryansk   Russians Push On From Fast

Russians Gain In Drives On Axis Bastions   More Than 10,000 Germans Killed In Twin Ufensives. t

RACE RIOTS FOUND NOT AXIS INSPIRED   FBI Reported a as Finding no Connection With the Enemy

Axis Agents Not Blamed for Race Riots, FBI Say:   ). C. Speaker Says Bu reau Finds No Direct Connection

New Allotment: Up for Debate  $100 Month Figure For Mother and Two Gains Considerution

HOUSE READY TO ARGUE AID   Would Raise Allowance to  Service Families

Vote Expected Friday On Pay For Dependents   House Considers Plans 0 Providing More Money to Dependents of Those in Service

House Ready To Boost Payment To Dependents   Some Talk Of Paying Wives With Two Children $100 A Month.

Fortresses Strike Orfe Rail Center For First Time   Complete Lack of Defensive Action In Messina Strait

NEW ATTACKS BLAGT ITALIAN HAIL TARGET?   Forts Hit Torre Annunziata; Other Bombers Range Toe of Italy.   FIND LITTLE OPPOSITION; AREA NEARLY DESERTED

RAIL CITY NEAR ROME IS BLASTED   Most OF Enemy Forces Withdrawn From Italian Toe

RAILWAY CENTERS CONTINUE TARGETS IN ATTACK ON ITALY   METHODICAL DESTRUC. TION ITALIAN COMMUNI. CATIONS SYSTEM

ALLIED AIRMEN CONTINUE RAIDS _ QN RAIL LINES   Orie, Torre Annunziata Hit in Weekend Bombings — Enemy Flak Scant on Toe of Italy

Railway Point North of Rome Heavily Raided   Softening Up of Southern Italy by Air Is Intensified .

U.S.Fliers BlastRailway Center * North Of Rome   ‘Other’. RR Targets Also ‘ “Bombed By Yanks And ’ RAF In Wide. Sweep

Orte Hit For First Time In Raid Made Bi Flving Forts   Heavy New Blows In Vicinity OF Bay Of Naples Also Struck By Allied Planes

Fortresses Strike Orte   Go North of Rome While Smaller Bombers to South

—ITALY—  BOMB RAILROAD. NORTH OF ROME   Axis Resistance On Toe Of Italy Has Practically Disappeared

FLYING FORTRESSES STRUCK AT ORTE; A RAILWAY CENTER   Medium Bombers Also Delivered Blows at Rail Targets in Torre Annunziata.   ON THE BAY OF NAPLES   Light and Medium Bombers Ranged Over the Toe of Italy, It Is Reported.

TARGETS OV TOE OF ITALY ARE ATTACKED   Railway Center of Orte, North of Naples. is Visited For First Time During War   OPPOSITION IS SLIGHT

FORTRESSES HIT RAILWAY CENTER   Orte, 40 Miles North of Rome, Is Pounded by U. S. Bombers

Forts Blast Rail Center  Near Rome   Other Vital Railway Targets Hit; Twenty Enemy Planes Downed

U. S. Flying Forts  Blast Orte, R. R.  Center In Italy ioe Of Boot is

ALLIES SMASH RAIL CENTERS AROUND ROME   Mainland Points Battered By Warships; Many Planes Downed

4) MILES FROM ROME   SEA Ca om eR  American and Canadiar Fliers Were in on Heavy Pounding

ORTE, RAILWAY CENTER NORTH OF ROME. HIT   Bombers Encounter But Slight Opposition in Raids on Toe of Italy

Methodical Aerial Smashing Of Rail Lines Continues; Taranto Base Hit

KEY JUNCTIONS HIT BY AIRMEN  IX NEW BLOWS   Flying Fortresses Rip Rai Yards North of Rome; Withdrawal Troops Reported

Orte, 40 Miles North Of Rome, Struck For First Rome, Struck For First Time By Flying Fortresses; Bay of Naples Also Raided.

Pound Italian  > & i rail Centers   RAF, Yanks Lay Waste  ~ To Communications At Orte, Torre Annunziata.

Orte, Big Rail Point North Of Rome, Blasted   Fortresses Continue To Pound Communication Lines In Italy   AREAS LAID WASTE   Toe Of Italy Close To Messina Reported Abandoned

RAILWAY CENTERS CONTINUE TARGETS IN ATTACK ON ITALY  METHODICAL DESTRUC- TION ITALIAN COMMUNI

Forts Strike Above Rome   Smash At Key Rail Centers, Now 40 Miles North Of Rome ~

ITALIAN RAILWAY CENTER BOMBER   Orte, 40 Miles North Of Rome, Struck For First Rome, Struck For First Time By Flying Fortresses; Bay of Naples Also Raided.

U.S, FORTRESSES HITR, R. CENTER IN ITALIAN RAID   Twenty Aircraft Destroyed During Allied Operations

ALLIES BLAST AIL CENTERS   Flying Fortresses Strike at Orte, Railway Center Near Rome.

American Planes Lash At Orte, 49 Miles Above Rome      Other Allied Planes Continue Hammering At Southern Italy.

“Forts * Hit Rail Center Near Rome   Report Axis Troops Leaving Seuthern Italy

ALLY BOMBERS POUND TWISTE RAILROAD LINES IN ITALY   FLYING FORTRESSES STAB ORTE FOR FIRST TIME AS MEDIUM CRAFT HIT TORRE ANNUNZIATA

Most Of Axis Troops Quitting Toe Of Italy   Allied) Bombers Continue To Pound Railway ~ Centers.

Keep on Pounding Italian Railways   Allied Bombers Continue Methodical Destruction of Communications.

talon Rails  Take Pounding  Methodical Smashing By Bombs Continues

ITALIAN RAIL POINT NORTH OF ROME HIT   Fortresses Make Their First Raid on Strategic Orte—20 Axis Planes Downed There and in Other Raids.

Toe Of Italy Is : Almost Deserted   Allied Fliers Encounter Only Slight Op- . position   BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMBARD COAST

American, British, Canadian Bombers Strike Heavily At Military Centers

New Blows Rain ‘On Rail Lines In Southern Italy   Allies Destroy 20 _Planes In Attacks

Methodical Bombing of Italy Noted   Allies Continue to Blast Communication Ser vices Along Peninsula

FORTRESSES BOMB RAIL CENTER OF ORTE   Medium Bombers Deliver Heavy Blows at Vital Rail Targets at Torre Annun wratea

FAILS TO GAIN FREEDOM   Supreme Court Rules A gainst Man Serving Life Sentence

Texas Labor Group Endorses FDR's 4th   Federation Returns Andrew McBride To 9th Presidency

LEWIS INDICATES NEW TACTICS IN FIGHT FOR RAISE   Miners ‘Would Be Paid From Time They Entered Mine   ‘PORTAL-TO-PORTAL’ PAY IS BACKED BY COURT

Lewis Hint On Pay Boost Seer In Testimony   Observers Believe He “Will Rest Case On - Recent.Court Decision

Detroit Prepares For Hot Election   Big Vote Expected Monday When City Elects A Mayor.

2,000 WORKERS STILL NEEDED   Lima War Plants To Hire 350 Per Month Under Program

NEWEST BASE IN ALEUTIANS DOOMS KISK?   Yanks On Amchitka Tighten Noose About Japs

U.S. Navy Tells Of Aleutian Isle Seizure   Map of Anichitka Ishind on Page *  + U. S.—(Official) By United Press

Gas Cut Fixed For August [   Chicago Newspaper Says Order Out To Reduce Midwest Rations One Fourth.

(S HELD NEAR   Chicago Tribune Says Mojorist In Central and Midwestern States Will Be Affected   piasi EFFECTIVE MONDAY, IS CLAIM   a B and C Coupons Now  Worth Four Gallons Will Be Reduced to Three Callons Sunday

To Cut Gasoline Stamps to 3 Gal.   Slash in Stamp Value to Become Effective After Midnight Sunday.

Gasoline Cut Seems Due Fo! Sunday Night   A-B-C Coupons to Be Cut From Four Gallons To Three Starting Monday

Says Gas Cut of 25 Percent Due Sunday   A, B, C Coupons to Be Cut to 3 Gallons in Mid-West, Newsnaner Asserts

CUT TO 3. GALLONS   Reduction of Gasoline Allowance Effective in  Midwest Monday

GAS SLASH OF 25 PERCENT REVEALED   A, B and C Coupons To Be Worth 3 Gallons.

GUT MIDWEST GAS, REPOR]   Chicago Paper Claims Ration Will Be Cut 25 Per Cent Sunday.

May Slash — Gas Ration fo 3 Gals.   Chicago Tribune Reports  Cutin Midwest Will Be Made Monday   ANNOUNCEMENT IS EXPECTED SUNDAY   Ickes Tells Arkansas Senator He Will Act at Proper Time

PAPER SAYS GAS T0 BE CUT SUNDAY   Chicago Tribune Gives News; A Cards May Be Worth 4 Gallons

Probe Murder Of Red-Haired Girl   Body Is Found In Bakery Delivery Truck At Los Angeles, Calif.

Eight Persons Perish in Explosion  —_— and Fire in Filling Station-Cafe

EIGHT PERISH IN BLAST, FIRE   Four Others Injured’ at Roadside Restaurant Near Massena—Can of Gasoline Blamed

Fight Dead, 4 Hurt In Fire   Restaurant Destroyed As Gasoline Explodes

Eight Persons Perish hy At Massena, N. Y.   War Workers Trapped As They. Stop For Meal On. Way To Aluminum Plant

EIGHT DIE IN BLAST, BLAZE   Believe Can Of Gasoline In Restaurant Ignited And Exploded.

Eight Persons Perish in Fire   Four Persons Injured, Four Seriously in Smoll Restaurant

Threat Of “Wildcat” Strike ‘Over Coal Fields As WLB  Seeks Solution To Crisis

FINES LEVIED BY IGKEO MAY BRING STRIKES   Miners Very Angry eni Trcuble in Coz] Fie'ds Is Fear<d.   ANOTHER ANGLE ALSO   Boost in Wages for Miners Expected to Bring on Other Demands,

LEWIS AND MINERS “READY TO EXPLODE” OVER STRIKE FINES.   Other Unions Watch   If Miners Get Big Wage Inereases, the Lid is Off Demands from Everywhere.

Give to the Hed CTosta———  NAVY, ARMY AIDS HIT CHANGE IN WAR TIME

Russians Repel German Attacks   “Moscow Says Heavy Losses Inflicted In Clash On Southern Front   NAZIS ATTEMPT TO CROSS DONETS RIVER

Deadlock. Stalls Ross Labor Bill   Republicans Differ On 48-Hour Week

WIDE SPLIT COMES — ON LABOR LAWS IN REPUBLICAN RANKS   jenate Is Stalemated on  Relaxation of Proposed  Revision In Ohio.

Chinese Announce Important Gains   Reach Suburbs of Three Major Jap-Held Towns

Chinese Gain In Rice Bowl   Chinese Forces Reach Suburbs of Three Jap-Held Towns

Chinese Press Gains In Rice Bowl; Take Three Towns  Ring Is Tightening ~ Around Enemy;

Chinese Press Gains In Rice Bowl;  Take Three Towns  Ring Is Tightening — Around Enemy; Many Japs Perish

FRENCH GUERRILLA TROOPS ADD TO THE PROBLEMS OF AXIS   Fight Italians in Haute Savoie Section; 6,000 at The  Swiss Border   PLANES DROP ARMS   Nazi Nervousness Betrayed In Broadcast of Blaring Threat

i War Bond Drive In Final Week: Will Pass Goal   F'xpected Go Two Billions Over Quota Set

PROGRAM OVER KFKU   Mrs. C. V. Kent Will Speak Tonight Over K. U. Station

PROGRAM OVER KFKIT   Mrs. C, Vv. Kent Will S Will Speak Tonight ’ Over K. U. Station -

140,000 TONS OF USABLE SHIPPING AT MARTINIQUE   Consists of Eight Tankers and Two Dry-Cargo Vessels— Warships Unlikely to Be Serviceable for Months

BRITISH BOMB NAZI NAVY BASE AT KIEL INTERRIFIC ATTACK   Raid Follows Bombing Of - Renault Automotive And Arms Works In Paris

BRITISH BOMB BASE AT KIEL   Following Raid on Renault Works Bombers Batter Naval Base

RESULT IN THE AREAS   TIst Raid of the War Is Made on Center by RAF —Paris Suburb Raided  by Fortresses.

roung -Cople ple Will Reside 1 Pittsburgh, Pa., Where * Groom: Works: boo

‘oung Cople mle Will Reside in Pittsburgh, Pa., Where ¥ ~ Groom Works Coe

SINK MORE THAN: JAP SHIP OUTPUT   Roosevelt Says Yank Subs Destroy 130,000 Tons Monthly

JAPS LOSING - SEA CONTROL   SUBMARINE FLEET SINKING  ENEMY SHIPS FASTER THAN "JAPANESE CAN BUILD  . THEM.

Shipping Losses of Japs Heavy   American Subs Take Toll in Pacific

FD.R. Reports Japs Lose 130,000 Ton Of Shipping Monthly for Six Months

WAR TOLL fo 1212 IN AMERICAN LES   Only 42 Casualties Separate Army and Navy in Killed in Action Total

121,319 YANK WAR CASUALS   25,742 Soldiers, Sailors Killed Since Pearl Harbor

29,/24 AMERICANS KILLED IN THE WAR   Announced Casualties, Including Wounded and Missing, Totaled 121.319 Nov. ll.

GERMANS BUSY.    Stimson Explains Why. Russian Offensive Is Delay ed.

PEACE NEAR IN MINE DISPUTE   WLB Approval Seen For New Illinois Contract

ACCORD IS SEEN ON MINERS’ PAY   Operators to Serve as Key  i Contract With Illinois for Nation

Savage, Running Battle With Subs Described by Survivors   ‘Sevéral Merchant Ships  » Torpedoed;: Canadian... Destroyer Is:‘Sunk ”

New Type Of Torpedo Used By Germans   Former U. S. Destroyer Torpedoed While On Convoy Duty; Only One Of Crew Rescued

Allied Offensive In Pacific Looms   MacArthur, Curtin Discuss Strategy

Reds Are Pressing Znamenka   Tighten Dnieper Bend Escape Lines But * Yield Points In  Kiev Bulge.

Nazi Escape Line Doomed  aa pan Ape Sutter   German Army Suffers Heavy Loss In Drive

U. S. Casualties Expected ?o Mount In Next 90 Days  Government Officials Say Number Killed in

Birthday Party For Missing Son   Parents Ask Guests To Buy War Bonds

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL BELIEVED PLANNING ON CONFERENCE WITH STALIN

PER CAPITA SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT IS RAISED BY SENATE  DECLARED ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP SCHOO! TEACHERS IN TEXAS

Bricker Resents Federal Meddling With State Affairs   Army Protests Bill To Tax Plants For Jobless Aid

FIGHT OVER ‘STATE RIGHTS’ IS REVIVED   Bricker, Government Tangle On Bill

CLOSING DAYS OF — ASSEMBLY PEPPED UP CONSIDERABLY   Bricker Revives “State Rights” Fight—McCulloch Gets Wire from Patterson.

G. 0. P. Charges Loosed Against Flynn  Senate Committee  Will Open 

Bridges Has 4 Objections To Flynn      NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATOR OFFERS REASONS WHY EXCHAIRMAN OF DEMOCRATS SHOULDN’T BE CONFIRMED.   Discounts Grand Jury

BRIDGES CLAIMS FLYNN IS UNFIT REPRESENTATIVE   GOP Senator Places Four Charges Against Roosevelt Appointee   STOOGE FIXED UP GRAND JURY PROBE

Bridges Renews Charges in Case of Flynn and Senate Committee Is to Grant Hearing on Matter

senator ruris Four Charges At Appointee  Bridges Takes Lead Against Confirming   COMMITTEE PLANS TO HOLD HEARINGS

Hearing to Be ‘Held on Flynn Appointment  GOP Barrage at Democrat Brings an ® Assurance From Senatt

FLYNN IS HIT IN SENATE AS ~ BEING UNFIT      Charges Mode by Bridges Against Democratic Chairmen

Senate Group Plans to Hold Flynn Hearings   Barrage of Charges From Republicans Brings Assurance

FLYNN PROBE TO BE HELD BY SENATE GROUF   Barrage of Republican Charges Fired at Appointment

CHARGES AIRED AGAINST FLYNN   Appointment of Minister to Australia Stirs Up Fuss In Senate

Yanks First See New Year   In South Pacific Just Across International Date Line

Americans in South Pacific Greet New Year Hours Ahead . of Their Fellow Men

YANKS IN PACIFIC GREET NEW YEAR   South Sea Island Troops First to Celebrate

WEATHER FORECAST   CHURCHILL DECLARED CAMPAIGN IN ITALY NOT: SUBSTITUTE FOR SECOND FRONT BUT WAS NECESSARY STEP   Says German War Industry Being Destroyed by Bombing and British Aircraft Now Outnuimber Germans Four to One.Reviews War Situation

Warning Of Gas Use  Given Axis   Full Retaliation Is Pledged By  Roosevelt

Quisling Told He’s Living On Borrowed Time   Biddle Message To Be Broadcast To Norwegians

London Filled With Rumors of New Lunge Against Axis   CRIES FOR SECOND FRONT ARE MADE   Feeling Persists Denouement in the War Approachine

Invasion Talk Spurred by End Of Campaign  Clear British Coastal Area i Raadinec

Britons Feel Fateful Blow At Continent Impending   Cries for Second Front Renew in England And Soviet Russia After Fall of Sicily   INVASION, HOWEVER, MAY BE DELAYED

NEW INVASION TALK STIRRED BY VICTORIES   FINAL LAND LUNGE AGAINST EUROPE BELIEVED NEAR

London Speculates on Next Allie Move as Occupied Nations Seethe   All Nonresidents of Barricaded Coastal Regions in Britain Aré Ordered Out

Britain Clears Coastal Areas   New Fateful.Lunge Expected Any Time

London Filled With Rumors of New Lunge Against Axis  CRIES FOR SECOND  rnorAkRIT ADE AAArAL   Feeling Persists Denouement in the War Approaching

London Sees New, Crucial Blow at Axis   Clearing Beaches, Air Raids Point To Decisive Move

London Foresees AnAlliednvasion Of Europe Soon   Feeling Persists In Britain _ That A Denouement In War Is Near

Feeling Persists That Denouement in War Near   THIS EMPHASIZED   By Britain’s Emptying Coast Line as Non-residents Are Cleared Away

Invasion Talk Spurred By Conquest of Sicily    Barricaded Coastal Areas Are Being Cleared In England Amid Speculation Of Where Next Blow Will Fall

Britain Clears Coastal Areas   New Fateful.Lunge Expected Any Time  By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

British Coastal Area Cleared for  Likely New Blow   Invasion Talk Spurred By Windup of ‘ar Of Axis in Sicily

Next Blow Against Enemy In Europe Expected Soon; British Clear Coast Area

’ rere FOR BLAGK OU   Military if, Charge of Tip. * ton gunty’s First : ‘Thtal Test,

IN REAUINESo FOR BLACKOUT   Military in Charge of Tip. ton County’s First Total Test.

Outgoing Legislators Move To Collect $200 For ‘Secretaries’ _  Senator Brands It ‘Unethical’; Comptroller's  Office Heseeched To Forward ‘Lame Duck’ Checks:

Hits Move To Collect Expense ‘For Secrelaries   Dulin Cites ‘Unethical’ Some By ‘Some’ Legislators

Accused of Trying to Collect $200 Each for Secretarial Services   During 1942   REQUESTS RECEIVED   Senator-Elect Dulin. Says Move Sanctioned Originally by Legislative Council

Seek To Collect  For Secretaries   Some Legislators Would Collect For Services In 1942, Says Dulin.

114 Billions App ropriated By Congress   Huge Sum, Mosily For War, Dwarfs All Others

Total Approved Was $33,000,000,000 Short of Previous High For One Session; Congress Recessed Thursday Night Until September 14.

TOTH CONGRESS ‘MOST’ LIBERAL   114 Billions Appropriated By Group In 6 Months

$7,000 WORTH OF BULLETS FOR EACH 'SOLDIFR OF AXIS   te + That is. Breakdown of Approz!   priations Approved by Con4 Ron      wees Se

78th Congress Spent 114 Billien In Last. 6 Months   Appropriated Enough To Send. .$7000 In Bullets At Each Axis. Seldier

U. 5. TO HAVE LARGEST AIR, NAVAL FORCE   $7,000 Worth Of Bullets Aimed At Each Axis Soldier

Lawmakers Provide 114 Billion Dollars In Six Months, Enough for $7000 Worth of Bullets for Each Axis Soldier

PRESENT CONGRESS APPROPRIATED 114 BILLION DOLLARS  STUPENDOUS SUMS TO GIVE U.S. BIGGEST AIR AND NAVAL FORCES

Congress Appropriated 114 Billions For War  That’s Enough To Aim $7,000 Worth of Bullets At Each Axis Soldier

LNBU VY 0 6OVV CR BRR UU VEY  CONGRESS PROVIDES STUPENDOLS SUM GOR ARMY AND NAVY NEXT YEAR.

Lawmakers Provide 114 Billion In Six Months To Wage War On Enemy   Enough To Aim $7,000 Worth Of Bullets At Eack _ Axis Soldier; Most Of Appropriations Went To Army And Navy.

'CONGRESS VOTES ENOUGH FUNDS TO FIRE $7,000 WORTH OF  BLLETS AT EUACH AXIS SOLDIER

Congress Votes {14 Billions In Six Months   War Appropriations Give U. S. World’s Strongest Forces

PAY HIKE DEMANDS — OF WORKERS DENIED   War Labor Boa Board Stands Against Upswing

180,000 ARE DENIED PAY BOOSTS BY WLB   Board Stands Firmly Behind ‘Little Steel’ Formula

M’KELDIN TAKES OFFICE MAY 18   New Baltimore Mayor Says He Will Cut Down On Speech-Making

M'KELDIN TO TAKE OFFICE ON MAY {8   Mayor-elect of Baltimore Plunges Into Round of Conferences

PROPOSES FLYNN HAVE ROOSEVELT WITHDRAW NAME   Would End a Bitter Senate Controversy, Says Sen. Van Nuys.

GOP Drafts Plan To Absorb Vets Into Industry  FDR Program   FDR Program Termed Dole; Jobs For Soldiers Urged

Gop Lawmakers, Opposing Roosevelt's Plan, Draw Up Bill for Absorbing (War Veterans Into Private Business

GOP HITS PLAN FOR WAR VETS   REPL 3LICANS WOULD HAVE MEN ABSORBED BY PRIVATE BUSINESS

GOPs Don't Like FDR's Dole For Vets So Make Own Post-War Security Plans 

4-H EXHIBIT CLASSES, DIRECTORS ANNOUNCEI   FAIR TO BE HELD AT FLORA FOUR DAYS BEGINNING AUGUST 17

YANK INVASION OF SICILY TOLD BY ST. JOE MAN   Troina Falls To Yanks After Fierce Artillery Assault   KEYSTONE AXIS POINT   Sees Battle With High Officers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

CORONER BELIEVES RAIL DEATH ACCIDENT   Will Withhold Verdict Unti’ Luggage Inspection

OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION IN NEWS REPORTS   Weekly Digest Of News Stories Relative To The War Effort, Which Have Direct Bearing On Lives Of Many People.

Many Small and Large Orders of 0. P. A. and Other Government Awencies Explained

Daily Temperature Report South Texas   Maternity Care For Servicemen’s Wives

ENEMY OUSTED FROM CHANGTEH   Planes Help Chinese Regain Ground In Rice Bow! Area

HOUSE GROUP DECIDES UPON TAXATION PLAN   Ways And Means Committee Gives Endorsement To  Withholding Plan.

Western Union-Postal Merger Here Makes For New Service  More Efficient Communications Available: Dupli  More Efficient Communications Available; Duplicate Equipment To Be Removed

WESTERN UNION POSTAL COMBINED   Consolidation of Two Ma. jor Telegraph Companies.

Coast Guard Magazine Editor Makes Forecast!   Predicts Japenese Will Be Defeated In 1944 And Germany Shortly Thereafter

PREDICTS JAPAN'S DOWNFALL IN 1944   Coast Guard Editor Says Japs To Attack Russia

WAR'S END IN 1944 PREDICTED 10 USCG   Attack on Russia by Japs Also Is Foreseen

SEES JAPAN’S FALL IN 1944      MORE BAD NEWS FOR TOKYO’S ADMIRALS ENS ADMIRALS  Allies Certain To Knock Out Italian Fleet

Democrats Losing Fight On Donnell’s Tax Plan   Measures Creating Single Agency to Collect Revenue Headed Toward Almost Certain Passage ini House—Thirty of 33 Bills Perfected With Republicans Voting Solidly for Them—Fate in Senate Remains Uncertain.

Republicans Push Donnell Tax Bills Toward Passage   Perfect 30 Measures of Consolidation Plan, GOP Support Solid

Warns Neutrals On Giving Haven To Mussolini   President Roosevelt Announces How Italy Can Surrender To Allies   AXIS WAR HEADS TO FACE JUSTICE

Would: Take Surrender from Non-Fascists   President A'so Warns Neutral Nations

NON-FASCIST LEADERS MAY HANDLE PEAGE   Roosevelt Outlines United. Nations Rules: Warns Acainst Hideouts.   BRITISH LEADERS GO INTO TWO. MEETINGS

NEUTRALS WARNED NOT 10 TAKE IN ANY AXIS LEADERS   U. S. Determined to Bring War Criminals to Justice, Says Chief Executive's Farmall Staternent.

NEUTRALS TOLD NOT TO GIVE AID TO MUSSOLINI   Roosevelt Says Peace Way Open to Any But Fascists   President Recalls Statement That War Criminals to Be Punished

NEUTRALS TOLD NOT 10 ASSIST AXIS LEADERS   Roosevelt Says Surrender Will Be Accepted From King Or Badoglio   ITALIANS FIGHT NAZIS   Germans Appear Intent On Oc~ cupying Ail Territory North Of Po River

Baseball Scores  Natianal f enaue   American Leaque   Marines Call For Students

Twp. Taxpayers’ Assoc. Organized; Officers Elected   Non-Partisan Group Formed to Study Public Spending, Seek Tax Control

NEW ASSOCIATI WILL KEEP TRACK OF S. COOK TAXES   Frank Prindiville Named Officer of Township Organization

NEW ROARD IS SET UP   ..~- Te Act On Increases Asked by Railway Men

Board Set Up To  View Rail Wages  Emergency Panel Named By President

Re ie ee  THREE-MEMBER BOARDT0 WEIGH RAILWAY ISSUE   Roosevelt Names Panei To Reconsider .Request: of ~Non-O} erating: Railway mploves

New Railway Pay Board Is Set Up   President Calls For Report On Waae Request By November 15

Discussions Believed Primarily Concerned With Crushing of Hitler

ROUND THE WORLD OFFENSIVE (SNOW NEAR COMPLETION   “ABCR” Supreme War Council Formulated as Basis to Carry on Without Considering Luck.   UNIFIED PROGRAM IS GREATEST PACT FEATURE   Squabble of French Africa to Be Eliminated, Command Consolidated, War Against Use of U-Boats.

Allies Map Strategy ‘Of Defeating Hitler,  Then Trimming Japan   Naval Transport Plane Overdue  Report 19 Persons Aboard Seaplane

Supreme War Council Seen Being Formec   Winning, Around-World United Nations Plan Believed Nearing Final Approval   Nazi Defeat in “43, Jap in "44 Indicated   U-Boat Menace, Supplies To China, Russia Given Main Consideration

Allied ‘Big 4’ Maps High War Council   London Hears ABCR Charts Winning Strategy for 1943

SUPREME WAR COUNCIL 10 BE SET UP. BELIEF   United Nations Are Re ported Near Agreement on Strategy

WAR WINNING STRATEGY IS BEING DRAWN    Plans Under Way to Complete Round-the-World Otfensive

STRATEGISTS HOPE TO DEFEAT HITLER, ITALY THIS YEAR   Might of Allied Nations Then Would Be Turned to Far East for Gigantic Assault on Japan.   EXPERTS IN LONDON PLANNING OFFENSIVE   Special Attention Likely to Be Given U-Boats, Regarded as Germany’s Best Chance.

Allied Chieftains Mapping Strategy   -Four-Pour Supreme War Council Set As “Primary Plan Believed Near Settlement 

FOG AIDS ENEMY)   War Secretary Says African Struggle Is ‘Preliminary Skirmish’

WAR JUST STARTING AMERICA IS WARNED   War Secretary Declares at Draft Inquiry

SECRETARY SAYS AFRICAN BATTLE ONLY SKIRMISH   Major Fighting Yet To Come Thruout World

British Warships Boldly Challenge The Italian Fleet      Land Forces in Sicily Crowd ‘Axis Defenders into “Coffin Corner Trap”

Fall Of Catania Key Defense Port  Is Expected Soon   British Warships Shell Mainland Near Taranto

J. S. Troops Seize Sciacca and Airport at Castelvetrano-Bitter Fighting Rages — Before Catania—Within Few Thous-  and Yards of Jap Base at Munda— Reds Crush Frantic Huns

WILL CONDUCT INQUEST IN FARNSWORTH DEATH   Husband of Bette Davis Died Last Wednesday After Fal) At Hollywood

PLANS INQUEST   Coroner to Investigate  Farns. worth Death In Holliacand

Fear Teache Trapped In School Fire   Gilmore City, Ila., Gym And School Burns In  Serious Fire

FLOWERS ARE NEEDED   Legionnaires Are Making an Ap‘peal to Lawrence Housewives

BLOCKBUSTERS ROCK PORT OF NAPLES   Key Sicilian Airdromes Feel  Allied Attack

Tension Over the Mediter, ranean Nears Breaking Point. Big Italian Per  _ Rocked By Allied Bloc

Allied Air Fleets Dealing Smashing New Blows to Italy and Sicily.  NAPLES DOCK AREA TARGET FOR R.A.F.  Greek Guerrillas Ignore Nazi Ultimatum to Lay Down Arms,

OWI BLUNDER MAY BRING SHAKE-UP IN PROPAGANDA UNIT   Office. Sharply Rebuked By FDR For Calling King Of Italy  Moaronir

BROADCAST ABOUT KING INVESTIGATED   Roosevelt Denounces Remarks Unauthorized During Press Conference.

Japanese Radio Tells Of New American Landing In Northern Solomons Island   Dp. ch Danartriatec Cay German Deonte Scrambled Madly For Food Thrown From Their Train Windows: Fear Russians More Than Brilish, American

F ormer Football Star Fights Japs Single -Handec   Naval Officer Saves Two Men, Holds Out 43 Days After Destroyer Sinks

‘Mighty Mite’ Fights 43-Day One-Man War Against Hordes of Japs on Arundel Isle 

FIRST LADY PLANS ANOTHER JOURNEY      Reported Planning To Tour South America This Summer; Details Said To Be Taking Shape But Definite Itinerary Not Decided Upon.

bresident’s Wife Plans Tour of South America   {fice of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs 1: Known to Be Working Out Itinerary for Journey; First Lady Does Not Deny Such Undertaking Is In Her Mind

Mrs. Roosevelt Plans To Visit Her Neighbors This Summer--That Is, Her Neighbors In South America

Mrs. Roosevelt May  Tour South America  Good Neighbor Trip: Would Re Her Second Abrand in 10 Yaare

Mrs. Roosevelt May MakeTour   Planning -Visit To South America. Report

S. American'Oil Contract Trip PlannedIs Discarded By First Lady By U. S. Navy

Additional Planes to Solomons   Enemy Forces Aground Driven Back—Drop Bombs   on Jap Air Bases

JAPS GETTING MORE PARES      Reinforcements Reaching Them in Southwest Pacific

MERICAN FORCES GAIN NEW GROUND ON BOUGAINVILLE   Japanese Pouring Aerial Reinforcements Into Pacifie Sector

aa, i a a ar  KING MICHAEL OF RUMANIA AND PRIME MINISTER IN CLASH

UNREST GROWS OVER BALKANS   Neutral Turkey, Key To Area, Reported Still Cautious

Chinese Trap  100.000 Japs   Great Enveloping Movement in Hunan Province Completed

CITRUS FRUIT PRICES TO BE FIXED BY OPA   Fruit to be Next Target For Action In Aftermath of Lowered Vegetable Prices.

FRUIT PRICES WILL BE NEXT OPA OBJECTIVE   Flat Cents-Per-Pound Prices For * Citrus Fruits To Be Fixed

REACH ACCOR ON WAR RELIEF   United Nations Relief Ad ministration Delegates Adopt Policy

FOUR GROUPS 10 WORK OUT GREAT RELIEF PROGRAW   Committees at. Atlantic City Have Entered Study of  _ General Plans One Week Ahead of Time.   DELEGATES DETERMINE AGREEMENT OF POLIC)   Political Use of Relief Supplies Barred, , All Races and Creeds Will Share Equally.

PLANS ALL SET “FOR WAR RELIEF   Program for Rehabilitation Ahead of Schedule

Attack Main Relief Job .   UNRRA Delegates Reach. Agreement On Policy Principles

Gen. H. K. Ramet Lost in Action  Commander of Fifth Bomber Force Fails

BRIG. GEN, RAMEY MISSING IN ACTION   AMERICAN AIR COMMANDER FAILS TO RETURN FROM MISSION IN PACIFIC, ‘

SIXTH GENFRAI LOST IN ACTION   Airforce Commander : Reported Missing With His Crew

Report Aviation General Missing   Fifth Bomler Force's Head Lost In Pacific

[Fresno General Is Lost Leading Bombing Raid On Japanese In South Pacific

Mother of 5 Sons Lost in Action — Appeals fo Baltimore War Workers   Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan and Husband Pay First Visi fo Eastern Production Plants

ANOTHER 1,000 TONS OF BOMBS FROM THE RAI   Stoke Huge Fires Set Previous Night. Need 25 to 30 More Raids for Knockout Blow

RAID ALMOST AS HEAVY AS PREVIOUS ONE   “Walls of Flame” More Than Half-Mile Long Sweep Capital After the Second Successive At« tack by the R. A. FF. ,

SEE RED TRIAL CHALLENGE T0 OTHER NATIONS      Trial. Eecution Of Four War Criminals Held As Example

Search Light. Is Turned On Rubber Mess  Senate Wants To Know Why Progran  REEL. AL. Dp.

NELSON 10 BE ASKEL TO EXPLAIN DELAY IN FRSATZ RUBBER   Sen. Gillette Wants To Know Why Jeffers Hac Reen “Imnaded™

Lee Winters Among Cadets To Pass Pre-Flight Training Course at San Antonio

Plan Post-war Aid to Veterans   Program Advocated by President to Be Accorded Support by Both Parties

Support For President’s  Plan Assured      Veterans’ Program Hailed On All Sides Following Broadcast

Post War Plans. For Veterans to Get Support.   Program Is Outlined by Mr: Roosevelt.

6-POINT POST-WAR PROGRAM FOR WAR VETERANS FAVORED   FDR Reasonably Assured Of Strong BiPartisan Support Of ‘Plan For Soldiers

Six-Point Postwar Program For Men And Women In Services Outlined By President

SIX-POINT PROGRAM FOR WAR VETERANS   Little Opposition Seen for Plans  Outlined by F.D.R.

RETAIL STORES DRAW BIG FINES   5 Firms Plead Nolo Con. tendere In N. Y. Boycotting of Times Newspaper

STORES SETTLE ON AD. BOYCOTI   N.Y. Dry Goods Assn and Members Fined Under Anti-Trust Laws

DEPARTMENT STORES FINED 1N NEW YORK   Ordered To Pay Fines Within 48 Hours

15 New York Firms Fined   Nela Contendere Plea Made to Charges Of Bovcatting Times

FIRMS FINED FOR BOYCOTT . OF N.Y. TIMES   New York Dry Goods Assoc. and 1! Department. Store Members Assessed $5,000 Each

Withdrawal of Ads from N. Y. Times. Brings Fines to 15 New York Stores

Retail Group, 15 Deparfment Stores Fined.   Firms Plead Nolo Contendere to Charge Of Violating Anti-Trust Laws in Boycott of Pape

15 New York Stores Fined For Boycotting Newspaper Because It Hiked Ad Rates

New York Retail Dry Goods Association Fined For Boycotting Paper

STALIN WAS IN HAPPY MOOD - DURING CONFERENCE IN IRAN   TEHERAN UNDER HEAVY ‘ GUARD AND BORDERS: CLOSED WINILE WEET-. INGS WERE HELD

Premier Stalin Was Life of the Party at Birthday Celebration for Prime Minister

Huron County To Take Part In Blackout    BIG BLACKOUT TEST WILL INCLUDE 23 OHIO COUNTIES

CKOUT SEI FOR ALL OHI   Test May Be Held In June: Preliminary In County Planned May 25

Test Blackout Set for March 4   Northern, Eastern  Counties Affected

23 OHIO COUNTIES TO BE BLACKED OUT   Test To Cover 10,336 Square Miles

SEEK DIRECT SUBSIDY PLAN   Administration Forces Try To Salvage RollBack Program

Would Shift  Subsidy Pay   See Need Of Readjustment Of Ceilings To Balance Buying Power.

SEN. GEORGE WANTS PRICE CEILINGS 'READJUSTED   To Balance Purchasing Power of War Workers With That of Farmers

OF oUBolDt PLAN STILL SOUGHT   Equalization Of Purchasing Power Proposed

George Asks A Price Ceilings Rearrangement   Would Balance Buying Power Of Farmers And War Workers.

EFFORT BEING MADE 10 SAVE PART SUBSID)   Direct Payments to Farm. ers Sought As Adminis-, tration Tries to Salvage Rolfback Program = ~'   GEORGE HAS PLAN   ‘Senator ‘Believes Farmers Will Accept “Reason  able” Price Ceilings   On Their Products

READJUSTMENT PRICE CEILINGS MOVES TO FINAL APPROVEMENT    WOULD BALANCE PUR.  CHASING POWER WAR  WORKERS WITH FARMERS

Swashbuckling John Paul Jones Lives  Again on Deck of American Destroyer

U.S. Destroyer and Nazi U-Boat Crews Battle with Shotguns, Knives  ON ee a Se ee ee

Nazis Scheme To Foment °  Unrest in U.S.   State Department Study Exposes Tactics of Enemy

ENEMY LOSES 1539 TANKS IN 3-DAY BATTLE   30,000 Men Killed, But Onslaught Continues

Nazis Capture Several Towns  Near Bel sorod   Suffer Severe Losses In Men  And Material

State Dep’t of Agricullure a Lansing Assigns 40 In snectors to Job

IMPORTANT POINTS TAKEN FROM NAZI      Many Russian Successes Reported From Voronezh To Northwest Caucasus

VORONEZH HAS BEEN EVACUATED BY AXIS TROOPS   A Communique Said “In Order to Shorten the Front.”   ACCORDING TO PLANS   The Russians Never Have Conceded the Axis Were in Possession of City.

SUCCESSES REPORTED FROM ALL RED DRIVES   k Peschanokopskoye In North Caucasus Captured  DRAW NEARER KHARKOV  B Soviets Occupy Many New Populated Towns

Voronezh Lost By Hiflerites   Another Key Position Falls To Russians

GERMANS ANNOUNCE RETREAT ALONG DON   ‘Withdraw According To Plan, -_ Without Interference

EVACUATIO! OF VORONEZ! IS ADMITTE!   Soviet Communique Re ports Large Number of Successes to Farthest German Outposts   APPROACH KHARKO   Bt LIETIN

Troops Pulled Out to Shorten and Straighten Line, London Keports

RAILROAD CITY IS RECAPTURED BY RED ARMY   Soviets Move Within 78 Miles Of Kharkov   NAZIS CLEARED   From Eastern And Central ’ Regions Of Caucasus; Cossacks Kill 800

BENITO SAID DENIED ARMS   Counter Proposal Of Adolf Hitler  Is Turned Down.

Mussolini Plans to Leave Rome After Hitler Spurns His Plea for More Guns

Hitler Won't Send More Planes; Guns To Aid Duce; Offers Extra Nazi Guards

Hitler Refuses More Guns and Planes  For Defense of Invasion-Jittery Italy ~

Duce’s Aid Plea Futile   Hitler Refuses Guns; lialians Are Panicky

Russians Cut German Main  Line At Orel   Nazis Report Gaps Closed With Severe Loss Inflicted On Reds.   scsi  SOVIETS PL ANES BUSY

Is Biggest Red Aerial Offense   Russians Hurl 700 Warplanes Against Airfield, Destroying 150 Ships.

GERMANS SAY REDS ATTACK IN GREL AREA   Declare Waves of Soviet Infantrymen Break Main Nazi Line in Some Places, but Later Are Thrown Back.

Condemn Lewis... For His. Attitude ‘On “No- Strike”   Lalor Has Dutiés As Well  As Rights, Senate . Probe ‘Com. Declares.

ATTITUDE OF LEWIS   Truman Committee. Says Labor Leaders Must Show Statesmanship   ‘LABOR HAS DUTIES AS WELL AS RIGHTS   Comment Is Made on Recent Attitude Regarding No-Strike Promise

SENATE WAR PROBERS CONDEMN LEWIS FOR RENGUNCING NO-STRIKE PROMISE

REBUKE TO LEWIS   Senate Committee Con demns Hedging on NoStrike Promise

Lewis Is Given   »® Dressing Down  By Committee   No Man Has Right To Jeopardize War Effort

COMMITTEE CONDEMNS JOHN L. LEWIS’ STRIKE ATTITUDE   Labor Leaders Must Demonstrate Patriotism As Well As Fact They Are Paid Advocates of Worthy Cause

LEWIS STRIKE STAND SCORED   CONGRESS GROUP HITS U. M. W..HEAD ATTITUDE   Doughton Walkout Blocks Pay-as-Go Tax Legislation

Truman Committee Condemns John L. Lewis Attitude That No-Strike Pledge Not Binding

SENATE GROUP SCOLDS LEWIS   Nation Expects Labor Leaders to Recognize Duties,  It Says.   OBLIGATION TG COUNTRY

Senators Condemn Attitude of Lewis   Labor has Duties Reports Committee

JOHN L, LEWIS ATTITUDE DRAWS CONQEMNATION   Senate War Investigating Committee Says Labor Leaders Must Show They Are Patriots As Well As MB A emncten ""

Duty Is Owed By Lewis To His Country   Committee Points Out National Interests First In Wartime

‘Senate War *Probers Rap Lewis Stand   Truman Body Flays View No-Strike Pledge Not Binding

‘Senate Committee Condems Lewi. Attitude On Strikes; Says Leaders ‘Must Now Show Their Patriotism

Pacific Battle Takes Jap Toll   U. S. SINKS JAPANESE CRUISER OFF  JSLAND.

JAP CRUISER PROBABLY SUNK   2,000 Enemy Dead on Bougainville Reported

sEABEES MONE. WTUILBERTS   Navy’s Construction Gangs At Work On - Newly-Won. Islands   HEAVY LOSSES   More Than 2,000 Japanese . Estimated Killed On ~ Bougainville

PROBABLE SINKING OF JAPANESE CRUISER BY PATROL BOMBER  TWO THOUSAND ENEMY DEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLAND REPORTED

Jap Cruiser Hit; : Enemy Loss Heavy On Bougainville   At Least 2,000 Japs Killed In Battle. For Island. Allicd Bombers Strike  .dn.. Southwest _. Area. Construction Crew's Move Onto Gilberts.

Jap Cruiser Believed Sunk; Yanks Slay Two Thousand on Bougainville

ANOTHER JAP CRUISER HIT IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Report 2,000 Nip Troops Dead on Bougainville Island

Jap Cruiser Hit Squarely By Yank Bomb   Pierces Ships Armor And Explodes; Enemy Bougainville Dead 2,000

2,000 Japs Killed on Bougainville   US Bomber Drops 1.000-Pound Bomb on Jap Cruiser: Seabees Move Into Gilberts; Aerial Activity Intensified

ALLIES DRIVE ON IN PACIFIC   Jap Cruiser Hit; 2,000 Enemy Dead Reported On Bougainville

2000 Jans Dead At Bougainville: Air Raids Pushed   Yank Bomb Squarely On Cruiser; Alls Offensives Gair  In Pacific

Launch Sea, Air and Land Blows at Foe   Probable Sinking Of Jap Cruiser Reported; Big Toll On Bougainville

EIGHT MAJOR ENEMY POSTS ARE BOMBED   Nips Lose 2.000 Troops On Bougainville; Rabau Again Attacked: SeaBees On Gilberts

Navy Seabees Begin Work In Gilberts   49th Enemy Warship ._ Believe Sunk in’  PeRaE RRO A 1eee

Jap Cruiser Probably Sunk— Aerial Activity In Pacific Area Intensified; 2,000 Japs Reported Killed’ In Bougainville Fighting.

Allies Continue To Win Against Japs In Pacific  Another Nip Cruiser Beliewed Prectenued

JAP CRUISER HIT SQUARELY BY BIG BOMB   Resulting Explosion Is Believed To Have Sunk Ship In Pacific

Probable Sinking of Japanese Cruiser on Friday is Reported   2,000 Nipponese Killed on Bougainville; Week End in Pacific Busy

1,000-Pound Bomb Explodes Inside Jap Cruiser; 2,000 Enemy Dead On Bougainville   Construction Work Rushed By Allies In Newly-Won Gilberts: Intensify Raids

2,000 Killed In Battle For Bouaainville   Construction Crews Start Work In Newlv-Won Gilberts

2,000 Japs Dead On Bougainville  Enemy iihai Believed Sunk By Bomber

2,000 NIPS DEAD ON PACIFIC ISLE   Another Jap Cruiser Is Believed Sunk in Action Off Bougainville

ALLIED VICTORIES HIGHLIGHT BUSY PACIFIC WEEK-END   Believes Jap Cruiser Sunk by _Liberator Bomber —~ Report 2,000 Nips Killed on- Bougainville Island

ALLIES HAVE BUSY WEEKEND IN PACIFIC   Enemy Cruiser Probably Sunk and 2,000 Enemy Dead Reported at Bou gainvilla

More Air — Activity in Pacific   \Jap Cruiser, Probable. Vic tim of Bomber,Is 49th Ship Wit in November   BOUGAINVILLE COSTS JAPS 1,000 MEN   Buka Island, Buin, Wewak and Boram Bombed; Seabees To Gilberts

ARE DEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE   Allied Dead and Wounded to Date Total 1,000— Enemy Cruiser Hit and Probably Sunk in the Solomons. :

Jap Cruiser Explodes In Bomb Attack   2,000 Enemy Dead  On Bougainville

ENEMY CRUISER HIT; 2,000 JAPS REPORTED SLAIN   Viany Japanese Killed On Bougainville; Fierce Aerial Activity Accompanies U. S. Gains In South west Pacific.

JAP CRUISER HIT INSIDE BY BOMB   2,000 Nipponese Reported Dead On Bouganiville

BUSY AGAINST JAPANESE IN S'WEST AREF   Claim 2,000 Japanese Slain on Bougainville—An Enemy Cruiser Probably Sunk.

Weekend In South Pacific Is Busy One   Probable Sinking of Jap Cruiser Reported With 2,000 Enemy Dead  U. S$. CASUALTIES LIGHT

* BELIEVED SUNK sIN PACIFIC AREA   Armor of Jap Warships Pierpe ced By’ — ;   LAND FIGHTING BRISK   ee  o Ae yo  " Construction. Crews Move into Newly Won Gilberts

Jap Cruiser Reported Sunk   Officials Say 2.000 Japs Killed Or Wounded On  Roneainville.

Jap Cruiser Destroyed by 1000-lb. Bomb   Huge Missile Pierces Ship  And Explodes Inside— Busy Week-End

U.S. CASUALTIES IN SOUTH PACIFIC GIVEN AS 1,000   DIRECT HIT SCORED ON ENEMY CRUISER IN ST. GEORGE CHANNEL

Yanks Having Good Hunting   Construction Crews Have Been Moved Into Gilberts   2,000 JAPS KILLED ON BOUGAINVILLE

Report Jap Cruiser Sunk, 2,600 Enemy Dead on Bougainville.   CONSTRUCTIONISTS BUSY

Smashed by Bomber   Allies Strengthen Positions on Captured Isles Where 2,000 Of Nip Foe Slain in Bitter Battles

Allied Bomb Hits Jap Cruiser   49th Enemy Warship Sunk or Damaged In November

2,000 Are Killed And Cruiser Sunk   Explosion. Lights Sky When Bomb Makes Direct Hit on Jap Ship   AIR POWER INCREASED   All American Casualties. Dead and Wounded, Total 1,000

Japs Die On Bougainville   Jap Cruiser Hit; Construction Men Busy on Gilberts .

Bougainville Yields 2600 Enemy Dead   U. 8. Bomber Blows Up Japanese Cruiser  With One Hit

Bomb Pierces Jap Warship   Explosion Which Follows Destroyed Ship, It Is Believed

NLRB Has Eighty Cases Each Month   Jurisdictional Rows In Labor Circles Are Frequent

bathe Ur Midway, Turning Point In Pacific, Stands -As Showdewn In Jans’: Ainbitiane Fffart At Inngeian

Midway Naval Action, Termed by FDR Most Important in Pacific ‘War, Recalled on Anniversary

Battle Of Midway, Turning Point In Pacific, Stands . As Showdown In Japs’ Ambitious Effort At Invasion

CONTINUE HUNT FOR AIRLINER   Authorities Have Litile Hope of Finding Surepn are

Highway Bidding Method Changed By Legislature      Food Tax Repeal Still Has Chance For Approval

SENATE HEARS MESSAGE 10 CONTACT MEN   Letter Shows Pressure Put on Local Chairmen and Legislators.   REINERS REVEALS NOTE   Exposure Made In Debate on Bill To Withhold Road  fact Ectimatac

HIGHWAY: BIDDING METHODS-IN OHIO FACING A GHANGE   Senate Passes Measure fo Revise Plan Previously Passed by the House.

Four Yanks Are Lost At Licata   Warships Silence Dillbaweac Achara

Ickes Returns All Coal Mines To Operators   Here’s One Reason  For Wedding Delay   Draft Dodger Asks Some ‘Penalty Other Than Exile

ALLIED BOMBERS SWEEP LOWLANDS   BLAST AIRPORTS, DOOKS AND FACTORIES—SPITFIRES  DOWN 2 PLANES.

British Fliers Add New Destruction To European Cities  Medium Bombers Hit Several Targets, Beat Off Defenders

TWO LONG SWEEPS MADE BY BOMBERS   Installations in Belgium and France Are Attacked

NORTH FRANCE [1 HIT BY BOMBERS   British Planes Make Two Long Sweeps Over Area   AMERICAN BOMBERS   Pound Naples and Foggia, Italian Centers; Hold Mastery in Mediterranean

Americans, in Full Stride, Move Along Road to Rome   Enemy Showing Signs of Cracking Unde: Heavy Blows; Furious Rear Guard Battles Are Fought by Retreating Nazis

STORM TO MISS COAST   Hurricane To Pass New England Offshore This Morning

N. England Gets Storm Warnings   Hurricane Moves  Northward Off  EL. ,..... ¢e

STORM WARNINGS ISSUED IN EAST   HURRICANE DUE TO PASS NEW ENGLAND COAS7 150 TO 250 MILES OFFSHORE.

STEELMAN AT CONFERENCE ON MINECONTRACT   Director U. S. Conciliation Service of Department of Labor Attends New York Meeting   PURPOSE UNKNOWN   Enters NegotiationsAs Southern Operators and Unionists Dispute Pact. Extension Terms

Steelman to Act In Coal Dispute   Wage Conference Continues Today

Lines broken By Russians,  Germans Say   Great Red Offiensive Also Presses Forward In Rich Donets Basin  FIGHTING VIOLENT

NAZIS BOLSTER FORCES WITH FRESH TROOPS   Wide Gaps Torn In German Defenses By Red Army Of  General Vatutin.

REDS TIGHTEN SEMI- CIRCLE AT KHARKOV   Battle Fer Ukrainian Prize Mounts To Peak Violence Seven Miles Distant From  City.   Repel Counter Drives

REDS TIGHTE KHARKOV RING; ROSTOV FALLS   FIGHTING RUSSIANS RACE FORWARD IN DONETS BASIN

American To Become Saint   Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini To Be Cannonized By Catholic Church

 Mother Cabrini to be First American 'Canonized Saint by Catholic Church

Mother Cabrini, Famous Nun, To be Ist American Ever Canonized A Saint

WAR STRATEGY MEETING HELD   Nimitz, King Aud Halsey Confer On Plans  In Pacific

High Commanders Of Navy Draw Up Pacific rate  da als Nimitz n¢ d Ha als sey Conte

NIMITZ, TALSEY AND KING CONFER   TALKS ON STRATEGY MAY BE FORERUNNER OF NEW BLOWS AGAINST JAPAN,

King, Nimitz And Halse; Map Strategy At Pearl  Harbor Conference      OFFENSIVE ACTION ANTICIPATED SOON

U.S. Navy Heads Map Strategy.   Admirals King, Nimitz, HalseyConfer

PACIFIC WAR TALK ~ HELD ATHONOLULU   Top Ranking N Navy ‘Com‘ manders Gather for Conference

King, Halsey, Nimitz Meeting At Pearl Harbor May Pressage Increased Tempo of Offensive

THREE OFFICERS CONFER OVER WAR   ‘Aom. Nimitz Meets Others to Talk Strategy In South Pacific Area.

HITLER STRIKES HARD IN RUSSIA   THROWS SUPERIOR FORCES AGAINST SOVIET LINES

RUSSIANS REPORT FEROCIOUS FIGHTING ~ SOUTH OF KHARKOV      Germans Hurling Numerically Superior Forces Against Red Lines   REDS STILL ON DEFENSIVE

‘Feracious Engagement’ Is Raging Against Soviets South of Kharkov,   BRING UP FRESH TROOPS:

FEROCIOUS’ FIGHT RAGES AT KHARKOV   Germans Throwing Masses Of Troops” Against Russians

NAZIS THROW MORE TROOPS “AT RED LINES   Russians Say 400 Killed. 15 Tanks Destroyed   TRAP CLOSING   On Foe’s Base Of Vyazma: Germans Also Rallying West Of Rostov

Allied Planes In Long Flight Over Denmark   Points In North Germany Also Reported As Attacked In Night   MANY INTRUDER SORTIES ARE MADE

MACKENZIE SUGGESTS WATCHING UNFOLDING OF ITALIAN INVASION  ! Commentator Suggests Anather Invasian Mav

‘Wee:  The War Today—  Possibility Of Two-Pronged Allied Invasion Of Europe Still Good

WASHINGTON AWAITS NEWS OF ROUND TWO INVASION OF ITALY   INVASION OF ITALY EXPECTED TO} BE FOLLOWED SOON WITH OTHER DASHES INTO HITLERIZED EUROPE!

Etna Line Anchor Surrenders Without Battle     GERMANS FLEE   Road Demolitions and Heavy - Minefields Slow Pursuit Toward Messina

HINT OF ALLIED VIGTORY PLAN   lmportant Announcement Expected Soon; Gloom  Grips Axis Leaders

EXPECT BIG NEWS ON ALLIED 1943 WAR STRATEGY IN NEAR FUTURE   Germany and Italy Newspaper Headlines Re: veal Only Gloom Over Russian and African Situations.

HOUSE TO MAKE TAX. DECISION   GOP Leaders Predict Ap: proval Of Rumi Plan Can~celling ’42 Levy

TAX SYSTEMS ~~ PFOR VOTE   FINAL, SHOWDOWN ON! THREE PROPOSED PLANS TO BE, o- BeT by TS AREERNOON S <

House To Take Ruml Plan Vote   Controversial Pay-As-YouGo Tax Measure Again Before Congress   RFPUBLICANS SEE POSSIBLE APPROVAL

London District Town Bombed by German Planes   ive Reported Killed and Damage Is Believed Heavy

LONDON BOMBED IN NAZI RAID   High Explosives Cause Alarm; Vicar Sees  Church Wrecked

Nazis Drop Bombs On London Sector   Heavy Gunfire Heard In Some Sections

Plans Shaping For Financing R ehabilitation   Manner in Which 44 Nations Will Try to Aid War  Zones Unraveling   THE MAIN OBJECTIVES

Indiana Becomes First State To Exceed Second War Loan Drive Quota

Stalin Apparently Preparing For Another Devastating Winter Offensive In Russia’

The War Today—  Soviets Already Doing Part Toward Opening New Land Front In Europe

STALIN APPARENTLY SEEKING TO MANEUVER HIS FORCES INTO POSITION FOR WINTER OFFENSIVE

The War Today   Stalin Maneuvering at Kiev For Sledgehammer Winter Rlaw

The War Today  Red Army’s Shift To Initiative Provides New Crisis For Hitter.

LATEST GAINS BY RED ARMY SEEN AS PRELUDE TO WINTER OFFENSIVE ALL ALONG RUSSO-GERMAN FRONT   Russians Seen as Keeping Hitlerites Busy Whi Allies Drive Forward in Italy and Prepare for: Invasion in West. Axis Camp Jittery 

‘Americans Are Nearing Main Road to Rome   Meet Germans Jin Hand.to ... Hand Struaale

SMASHING ATTACK T9 REACH ROME ROAD STARTED BY YANKS  Hand-to-Hand Struggle Takes Place at nn a we - a ' -—/. Rs i Meee

YANKS LAUNCH ATTACK AIMED AT ROME ROAD   Reds Beat Off Nazi Thrusts In Advance Toward Key Road Junction

HAND-TO-HAND ITALY BATTLE   SMASHING YANK DRIVE PERILS SAN PIETRO

YANKS MILE FROM MAIN ROME ROAD   Clark's Men Hack Way Through Nazi Detense Position

Yanks Smash Way At Main Road To Rome   Hand-To-Hand Fighting At San Pietro, Mile From Vital Highway

Yanks Begin Drive Toward Road to Rome   French Troops Enter War in Italy, Says Official Report

Hand-to-Hand Fighting by Fifth Army   Americans Smash Way Through Strony Defenses

SLASHING 3TH ARMY ATTACK ACROSS ITALY   ‘Battling Germans Hand to Hand  -'In Villiage One Mile From  Vital Highway to Rome.

Yankees Launch Smashing Attack ‘(in Road to Rome   French Division Enters Fight Against Germans

Yankees Landing Behind Lines Is  Stunning Blow   Germans Collapsing Rapidly In Sicily After Ranger Maneuver Upsets Touted Army; Seven Key Towns Taken As Pinch Tightens.

ENEMY FLEES TO MAINLAND OVER STRAIT   British Now Halfway Around Base of Mt. Etna

MEASURE HEADED FOR EARLY PASSAGE   Action ts ‘Propelled By 8i- partisan Senate Coalition.

SENATE PASSES SOLDIER VOTE   HOUSE APPROVAL OF ABSENTEE VOTE BILL IS PREDICTED

RIGHT OF SERVICEMEN TO VOTE MAY BECOME STATES’ RIGHT UNDER NEW BILL

Soldier Voting Left To States  Lucas Bill Is Killed  R., Ganeta Antiam

AIRBASES OF AXIS RAIDED BY BOMBERS   Sharp Daylight Attacks Follow Hamburg Assault   AXIS PLANES ARE DOWNED IN BATTLE   Targets in France, Holland and Belgium Struck

3 LABOR SPAT CAUSES LISTED   Survey Shows Reluctance For All-Out Effort Due To Distrust Of Factions

PUBLISHERS TOLD TO THROTTLE FEARS   Cincinnatian Addresses Annual  Convention

U. 5: Marines Take Strategic Cape Gloucester   Main Positions of Peninsula Now in American Hands

Marines Take Jap Airdrome On Gloucester   ‘U. S. Forces Inflict Heavy Toll; 18 Enemy Planes Shot Down

Marines Take Big Air Field   Cape Gloucester Is Captured In Assault

New York’s Rail Stations Jammed With Holiday Mobs   Public Transport Record Shattered; Milady Dispenses With Hosiery and Leg Makeup, Wearing for Travel Bare Legs She Was Born With; Odor of Roast Beef or Coffee Prevails

JAPS DESERT SANTA ISABEL IN SOLOMONS: TASK FORCE ACTIVE   Action Would Mean Abandonment Of Most Of Central Solomons; Yanks Make Advance On New Guinea

Enemy Troops Are Cut Off  At Salamaua   Scattered Japs Wage Bitter Defense _Of New Guinea Base

Japs Abandon Santa Isabel, British Hear   Unconfirmed Report Says Enemy Quits Mid-Solomon Base

Central Solomons islaid Believed Evacuatedby Jez:   If True, Depariuce Leaves Only Isle of Kolombangara

Japs Evacuate Santa sabe, British Report   Tokyo Says 150 U. S. Airplanes. Raided Maréus

PLANE CARRIERS ARE BEING BUILT   HENRY J. KAISER INDICATES LARGE NUMBER ARE UlDER CONSTRUCTION.

Finn Group Seeks Peace   War President Ryti Nation Sliding Toward Dangerous Path

RYTI WARNED BY FINNISH CHIEFS   Political Leaders Urge Move for Peace

Enemy Countei Attack Broken   Allies Hold Ground _ In Salamaua Area

Ultimatum expired at 6 o’Clock Tuesday Evening.  ITALIANS ORDERED TO CONTINUE FIGHT  Allies Making Average of Twelve Raids a Day on Mediterranean Base.

Ultimatum Is. Sent Pantelleria   Italians Report Surrender Sought

Report Ultimatum Expiring Yesterday Re ecived; London Expert Speculates Landing Already Made

ISLES GARRISON TO RESIST ANY LANDING ATTEMPT   ‘High Command Claime Planes  Dropped Leaflets De mandinn Surrender.

SEVERE BOMBING FROM AIR, SEA PRECEDES ORDER   Demand Made By Leaflets Is Answered With Order to Prepare With All Means Against Invasion.   SMALL FORCE LANDED ON PAMPEDUSA ISLAND   Russians Break Up Big Force of Enemy Pianes Preparing for Bombing of Leningrad.

FDS MESSAGE gb FOOD GUTLOGK   Says Commodity Credit and Price Control Must Be Continued.

PRESIDENT TAKES DIRECT PART IN CONTROVERSY OVER PRICE CONTROL  ' CONTROVERSY

FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN IS VITAL. FDR DECLARES   Message Is Answer to Committee Move to Outlaw Payments

Germans Claim        -In Daring Coup   Believe, Ousted Dictator Will Be: .Made Leader Of New Fascist Govt,

German Dnieper Bulge  Position  Cracking  RETREATING ENEMY UNITS BEING CLT   RETREATING ENEMY UNITS BEING CUT TO RIRRONS   Over 3,000 Nazis Die Trying to Save Nizhny Serovozhy Tunctian

Reds Smash Stronghold; Nazis Flee  Coaccacke Carve Un   Cossacks Carve Ur Trapped Units of  German Armies

LEAGUE OPPOSES STATE CONTROL   TAKE STAND AGAINST MUNICIPAL UTILITY CONTROL BILL

Aleged Killer of Three Babies Is  Pronounced Sane   Findings Clear Way for Trial Bue to Start 25th

ll  WAGE INCREASES LEAF WORKERS ARE AUTHORIZED   Fourth Regional WLB An. nounces Authorization of Wage Increases for More Than 43,000 Seasonal Employes at Bright Leaf  Markets.

ersPalermo Ha ike Long History ingFor Battlin:   Leaf Workers Get Pay Hike Under Ruling

Wage Increase Ordered For Leal Markets   'WLB Authorizes Increases Ranging From § Cents to 10 Cents Per Hour For Seasonal Eni. ployeess Of Brigh Leaf Markets.

COUNTRY CLUB MEETS FRIDA\   At The Penn-Wells Hotel For The Annual Meeting.

THIRTEEN VITAL AIR FIELDS FALL TO EIGHTH ARMY   Montgomery’s Forces Push 20 Miles in One Day Across Plain

UMW CHIEFTAIN NOW IN CAPITAL   Lewis Postpones Scheduled Announcement; Won't  Talk To Officials

WAR FAGTORI Ea NN REICH oUF FER NEW RAF ATTAGK   Great German Industrial City Left Aflame; 44 RAF Bombers Lost

Americans Seize Important Ridge Near Salamaua   Capture Threatens Japs’ Northeastern New Guinea Stronghold   BOMBS STRAFE VELLA LEVALLA

Germans Rush Their Balkan Defense Plans   Axis Divisions Being Placed at Strategic Points

DEFEN SES °S STRENGHTE “ED   Germans ‘Have Taken Over Coast Towns in Greece

NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE   Lewis And Mine Operators Discuss Portal-to-Portal Pay

BRITISH LAUNCH      Allied Smash To Drive Axis  From Tunisia Believed Nea;

NAZI OFFICIALS BELIEVE MAJOR ATTACK OPENER   DNB Says Coastal End Assaulted Following Big Artillery Barrage

INDICATES BIG DRIVE OPENED AY ATH ARMY   British Thrust Made Tuesday Night at Coastal End of Defense Line.   ALLIED PLANES SMASH AXIS BARGE CONVOY

Axis Braces For A Major Assault   «++ Heavy Artillery Fire In Tunisia

British Eighth Army Attacks Mareth Line On Seuthern—Front   Fall Of Tunis, Bizerte Seen Near; Rallying After Loss Of Kharkov, Russians Win Big Tank Battle

Berlin Calls It A Major  Offensive   No Confirmation In London That Final Push Has Started

BEAVERROOK SAYS CONQUES! OF TUNIS NEAR      DNB Report Says Scale of Fighting  Cannot be Judged but Berlin} Considers It Major Aitack   Allied Headquarters in Africa Reports Rommel's Artillery in Ac. fion Yesterday

‘No Reports to Judge Scale Of Fighting   Lord Beaverbrook In London Predicts Conquest  In Africa Near

Tunisia Drive © Begins, Reds — ReportVictory   Reds Sweep into 32 Towns in Drive Toward Smolensk; Climactic Allied Offensive in Tunisia May Be Near

 Axis Convoy Off Sicily Hit By Allied Planes; Africa Land Fighting Lags

Zero Hour May Be Near in Tunisian Campaign, Belie!   Allied Aerial Activity Supports Speculation; War News  nee Summary

MARETH LINE, AIRFIELD ARE PLANE TARGETS   Rommel’s Dug-In Positions Hard Hit From Air

Russ Claim Victory In Great Tank Battle For Control Of Vital Donets River Valley.

Lord Beaverbrook Declares in London He Thinks -Conquest of Tunis and Bizerte Is Nat Far Off; Russians Gain

Reds Rally On Central — Battle Line   Destroy Force of Germait Tanks in Donets Area; Take Towns ,

ALLIES MAY BE READY T0 RUN NAZIS INTO SEA   London Quitt On Reported Smash By Montgomery

ALLIED PLANES BATTER GABES, MARETH LINE   Attacks Seen as First Blows In All-Out Offensive Against  Rommel.  EIGHTH ARMY READY  Yank Pairois Threaten Big Axis Base at Gafsa With Advance.  BULLETIN:

MAJOR ASSAULT, GERMANY AVERS, BEGUN AT NIGHT   Lord Beaverbrook Sees Conquest of Tunis, Bizerte Coming Soon

BERLIN BELIEVES MAJOR TUNISIAN DRIVE UNDER WAY   British Forces Smash at Coastal End of Axis Defense Line After Heavy Artillery Barrage.

Allied Airmen Smash at Convoy AndGround Area   Heavy Artillery Dueling Along African Line

British Declare Offensive Plans Ready; Commons Told Of Readiness

Nazis Claim Major Drive. ls Under Way   Allies Fail  To Confirm © Berlin Report

Reports Not Confirmed in London; Planes Pound Mareth Line Positions   Beaverbrook Declares Conquest Of Tunis and Bizerte May Not Be Far Off — Axis Convoy in Sicilian Straits is Blasted

AXIS SHIPS. “ARE RAIDED ~ OFF SICILY   Allied. Air Force Raids Rommel, Airfield 

MIGHTY ALLIED AIR FORCE BLASTS AXIS CONVOY IN SICILIAN STRAITS   Berlin Quarters Believe Attack is Full Scale Affair. Other Reports Say British Steadily Rolling Up Guns Towards Mareth Line   By DANIEL DE LUCE

ALLIED OFFENSE PRELIMINARIES SEEN IN AFRICA   Dash of Mystery Comes from London Where Reports of Big Battle Circulate   AIR ATTACK STEPPED UP   Meanwhile, in Russia Reds Smash Nazis Near Kharkov And Surge on in Center

Lively Artillery Fire Preceded Thrust Of British Eighth Army, Berlin Reports

Allied Conquest Of Africa Near, ‘Says Beaverbrook   Berlin Reports Belief Assault On Rommel’s Defenses Is Major Drive

Reports Indicate Big Drive May Be Pending   Preparations on Part of Allies Intensified; London Hears Reports Major War Development Imminent

Point Attack At North End Of Axis Line   Russians Claim Defeat Of German Forces In Tank  Battle Near Kharkov.   REDS GAIN IN NORTH

Announcement Of Attack Is Made By Nazis   ‘Hour Approaching’ For Allies To Drive Foe From North Africa. Savs Broadcast

DNB Asserts Heavy Shelling Preceded Blow At Coastal End   Nazi Quarters — Believe Major Drive May Be Under Way

CONQUEST OF TUNIS, BIZERTE CALLED NEAR   General Montgomery's Fighth Army Launches Assault Along 60-Mile Mareth Line.

Kighth Army Hurled Against Mareth Line   Montgomery Strikes at Rommel in Force After Planes Soften Up Defenses

BERLIN REPORTS MAJOR ASSAULT ON MARETH LINE  BRITISH THRUST   BRITISH THRUST MADE AT COASTAL END OF LINE

Beaverbrook Thinks Tunisia WillBe — Conquered Soon   Allied Planes Are Heavily Pounding Rommel’s Positions

PORT OF GABES HIT BY ALLIES   Airmen Smash At Rommel’s Positions At Mareth

AERIAL FORCES BLAST CONVOY AND AXIS LINE   London Reports Indicate Major Offensive Looms © to Drive Axis Out Of Tunisia   FLYING HAMPERED BY DIRTY WEATHER   Germans Use Artillery to Check Montgomery’s Eighth Army Before Mareth Line

— Reports British Attack ‘On Mareth Line   Believes Tunisian Battle One Of Major Importance; London Hears Recurring Rumors

LONG AWAITED URN oT ARTED Io INDICATION   Allied Headquarters Silent On Berlin Reports Today; Russians Score Gains

End of Nazi Control in Africa Near   Reds Sweep into 32 Towns in Giant Tank Battle Be low Kharkov

GEN, MONTGOMERY'S ARMY REPORTED 10 HAVE OPENED ATTACK   BRITISH OFFICIALS BELIEVES CONQUEST OF TUNISIA NOT FAR AWAY

Major Offensive, Says Berlin Broadcast Heard In ‘London;  Thrust Made At Coastal End   Drive Opens After Violent: Artillery Barrage, Lord Beaverbruuk Sees Conques! Of Tunis And BRizerte Near

Launch Blow To Oust Axis From Tunisia   Allied Planes Smash Southern Defense in Fierce Bombardment

NAZIS HALTED NEAR KHARKOV; ODETS DRIVE ON TQ SMOLENSK   Whole German Battle Line Again Threatened;; Prepare For Crucial Battle On the N. African Front

POSITIONS ON MARETH LINE ARE BLASTED   German Artillery Opens Up on British Eighth Army in Mendenine Sector   RAIN RETARDS ACTIONS

Berlin Broadcast Hints Big Battle Begun To Crack Axis Defenses On Southern Front

BRITISH ATTACKING MARETH LINE IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA   Lord Beaverbrook Says In London That He Thinks Conquest of Tunis and Bizerte Is Not Far Off. 

Hits Mareth Line in Southern Tunisia, Believe Major Drive   Russians Claim Giant Tank Victory Be~ low Kharkov, Soviets Recapture 32 More Towns on Central Front

Tunis And Bizerte Fall Hinted Not So Far Away Now   Russians Claim Major Win In Battle For Don Valley, Take 32 Towns

London Hears © ot Major Move   Rumors That Big Allied Offensive Has Started, Supported by Report of Attack on Mareth Line; Russians Claim. Tank Victory Near Kharkov, Con _ tinue Gains Toward Smolensk.

Victory Is Seen by Leader   BEAVERBROOK DECLARES CONQUEST OF TUNISIA IS NOT FAR OFF

Johnsonburg Hit Again by Flash F lood   Ridgway and Wilcox Also Suffer Damage, Roads, Bridges Out  FREIGHT IS WRECKED

EARTH SHOCKS FELT      Sections of East Shake—Distant Disturbance Recorded

SOLDIERS CHEATED BY THREE CONCERNS   Accuse d of Misbranding Christmas Gifts

Address Your Answer Form to — COMMUNITY SURVEY  tw prnrve AT Rte rawenaner   HOW THE GALLUP POLE WORKS

Asks Consolidation Of Vets’ Relief  Wisconsin Senator Says Unity Needed

Rommel s Use Of Mareth Line Close to an End   American and British At tacks Endanger Strong Fortifications

FPALLON S&S tans NHOEAUY TO OTA FAAS  Mareth Line Of No Use Now To Rommel

REDS DRIVE TO WITHIN 7 MILES OF OREL BAST   Attack Last German Supply Line to Beleaguered Garrison

Japanese Land Troops From Barges On Solomons’ Island   American Forces Now in Contact With Enemy Forces —Bomber Formations Attack Gun Posite ‘tons of the Japs .  Hoos

JAPS LAND ON BOUGAINVILLE   Marines Battle Foe Forces  Put Ashore Near Em press Augusta Bay

JAPANESE LAND MEN, SUPPLIES ON ISLAND BASE   Force Put Ashore North Of Empress Augusta Beachhead; Fight  In Progress

U.S. Troops Make Gontact With Enemy   Japs Land Several Hundred Troops, Supplies Sunday

Japanese Land Reinforcements At Atsinima Bay   several Hundred Reach Shore from Barges under Cover of Darkness

Jap Soldiers Get Ashore In Darkness   American Forces Now In Contact in South Pacific Zone

Marines And Japs Engaged In Battle On Bougainville; Tanks And Artillery Clash   Several Hundred Enemy Troops With Supplies Landed North Of American Beachhead; Nipponese Surprise Allied Airmen With Phosphorous Bomb

Marines Battle Japs Landed on  Bougainville   Nips and Supplies Put Ashore on 21 Barges: Air Operations Cut

Enemy Lands Men And Supplies During Night   Brought Ashore by Barges; Bad Weather Cuts Activity

JARS SEND TROOPS TO BOUGAINVILLE   U. S. MARINES CONTACT FORCE THAT LANDED UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS,

U.S. Forees In Contact With Enemy,   Nippons Land Sunday North of Beachhead Hewn Out by Marines  TRAVEL IN BARGES

PAIN RELIEVER IS DISCOVERED   Painless Childbirth And Relief For Wounded  Soldiers Forecast

New Drug Will Make Childbirth Virtually Painless, Doctor Says   Drug Will Also Bring Re lief to Wounded Soldiers, Dr. Dixon Asserts

SOVIETS PUSH FOR FRONTIER OF RUMANIANS   Ukranian Plain About to Become Staughter Pen for Trapped Armies of Adolf Hitler

Mercury Soars To Year's High 0 106 Degrees   ‘Altus Appears to Be Hottest Spot in State As Seasonal Records Are Made at Many Point:

EFFORTS TO GET FINLAND OUT OF WAR THROUGH NEGOTIATED PEACE BELIEVED BE GAINING

The War Today   U.S. Aiding Finns’ Efforts To Ohtain Separate Peace’.

Tssue Between Finland And Russia Is Small Strip Of Land, Navy Base

U. S. Planes Catch Foe. — Off Guard   Liberators Roar In on Messerschmitt Works at Wiener Neustadt   FIGHTER AIRCRAFT ON GROUND BLASTED   Italy Surveys Its Damage and Thousands Cluster About Pope Shouting Peace

Long Trip Made To” Hit City   Wiener. Neustadt Industries Blasted -In Raid

Yank Bomber: Strike Deep In Austria   War Industries of Wiener Neustadt South Of Vienna Blasted

American Pilots Bomb War Plants  Close to Vienna   Strike Deep Into Southeast Europe at Former Unreachable Industries.   Planes by Hundreds Take Part in Attack

Hitherto Sate Areas    Attacked   Penetrate Deep Into What Hitler Considered His Unreachable Industry

KEY INDUSTRIES IN AUSTRIA HIT BY U.S, PLANES   Base For Surprise Attack Not Told In Dispatches

218 DEAD AND 3/0 INJURED IN RAID ON ROME   Swiss Border Hears Thousands of Halians Made Cries for Peace

Liberators In Heavy Dip Into Former Austria   Factories, Hangars Are Blasted; Milan’s Rail Service Is Cut.

Bombers Ge Deep Into  Austria For Latest Blow   Hundreds Of Liberators Smash Nazi War Plants Near Vienna; Germans  Seem Taken Ry Surprise

D BOMBS STRIKE AUSTRIA   Few Details of Attack But : Liberators Bomb Wiener Neustadt, 30 Miles South  of Vienna.

ADOLF HITLER'S ~~ WAR INDUSTRIES HIT BY BOMBERS   American Liberators Attacked Wiener Neustadt, Near Vienna.   IS ONLY 30 MILES AWAY   ii Was First Time Since Sept, 1942. Allied Bombs Had Fallen on Austria.

AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT NAZI FACTORY CITY NEAR VIENNA   Liberaters Fly Long Distance ..To Blast Wiener Neustadt  In. Heart Of Hitler's: Hith-erto Almost Unreachable  + Dee tceet mee

‘DROP THIRD OF MILLION ‘POUNDS   Direct Hits Scored On Factories In Outstanding Raid

U.S. Liberators Bomb Factories  South Of Vienn:   Heavy Raids Coincide With Shattering Assaults On Rome, Milan And Turin

Fliers Hit Hard At Axis Points Over Wide Area   Town Near Vienna Bombed By American Airmen

VITAL GERMAN WAR. INDUSTRIES BOMBEL   Hundreds ‘Of Liberators. At: “tack Hitherto Unreachable Section

City in Austria Pounded   Wiener Neustadt, 30 Miles South Of Vienna, Raided By Yank Airmen

American Bombers Strike Near Vienna   Wierner Neustadt Blasted in Growing _ Widespread Bombing of Axis Territory; Heavy Damage In Italy

AMERICAN LIBERATOR BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON WIENER NEUSTADT  INDUSTRIAL TOWN NEAR VIENNA OBJECT OF ROMRING FRIDAY

Liberators Hit War Factories Near Vienna   Bombers Leave Havoc In Rome; Nazis Rush Troops Into Italy

RAID ON WIENER NEUSTADTNBAR VIENNA HEAVY   Factories, Assembly Plant -Hangars Smashed; Yanks Range 2,000 Miles to Surprise Enemy

Austria Raided By U. S. Bombers   Shattering Blows Deolt to Enemy

U. S. Airmen Stage A Raid on Austria   Striking at Hitherto Almost Unreachable - Southeast European War Industries, Yanks Attack Town Only 30 Miles From Vienna.

Yanks Attack © Near Vienna In  2500 Mile Hop   Liberators Striking From Africa Blast Huge Messerschmitt Works Without Loss: 400 Planes Bombed On Ground

AMERICANS RAID AUSTRIAN CITY IN LONG FORAY   Wiener Neustadt Attacked By Liberators, Following Up Damaging Raids On Rome, Berlin And Other Axis Targets.

Aged Gandhi Growing 'Progressively Weaker" on 4th Day of His Fast

FAST WEAKENS GANDHI; PAPER ASKS RELEASE   Indian Leader, Now In Fourteenth Day of Fast, Grows “Progressively Weaker”   DEATH MAY RESULT   London Daily Chronicle Asks Churchill to Free Gandhi. As: Act of Moral Courage

GANDHI CONTINUES TO LOSE STRENGTH   Ask Churchill To Free Indian Leader

Tire Inspection Deadline Sunday   Last Chance for Holders of B or C Mileage Ration Books to Get Checkup.

Farm Problem Plan Outlined   Jones to Submit Ideas to Congressmen in Future

Leaders Ready To Confer Over Farm Policies   Various Branches in Washington Express Willingness to Meet Each Other HalfWay on Issues.

U. S. Sweeps Forward  Over Sicily   Axis Defenses Totter as Americans Take Nine Key Towns, Continue Gaining; Germans Are Forced to Retreat in North

U. 8. Troops Take Nine Sicily Towns   Swift Advance Puts Yanks Two Miles From San Stefano

ALLIES TAKE KEY TOWNS IN NORTH SICILY   Sweep Ahead 9 Miles in 2 Days; Are Within 2 Miles of Anchor of Mt. Etna  T fna   Crash German Lines

NAZI TROOPS TO FALL BACK   Nine Key Towns Taken By Americans; Turn German Flank

Americans Now Menace San Stefano   May Have Decisively Turned German Flank Along Northern Coast  NAZIS WITHDRAW

TOWNS TAKEN BY U.S. FORCES   Americans in in ~ Northern Sicily Score Wide Gains

Yanks Capture Nine Key Towns in Sicily   American Troops Advance to Within Two Miles of San Stefano, Turn Nazi Flank On North Coast; British Nearer Catania

TOWNS TAKEN BYU.S. FORCES      Americans in Northern Sicily Score Wide

Americans Take Nine Key Towns In North Sicily   Patton Surging Ahead From Nicosia Threatening Junction City

Americans Take Nine Key Towns   Believe Nazi Flank Turned by Yankees

Allies Capture 9 Sicilian Villages   Americans Take Five Towns in Northern Field While Rolling Germans Back; British Make Advances Toward Catania

Americans in Sicily Take  Nine Places   Nazi Flank Believed Turned by U, S. Trooneon North Coast

Americans seize nine more towns   Believed to have turned nazi flank

YANKS FORCE NAZI TROOPS TO FALL BACK   Nine Key Towns Taken By Americans; Turn ” Geenan Flank

ALLIED TROOPS CONTINUE GAINS AGAINST NAZIS   Nine Key Towns Threatening Mt. Etna Line Captured By Americans   ADVANCES MADE IN SPITE OF ARTILLERY

Allied: E lighters © Down, Eight Jap_ Planes at Wewak   New Air Blows in the Solomons and Mopping Up at:-Finschhafen*

41. 3. PLANES WIN AGAINST 32   DOWN 8 AND POSSIBLY 10 JAPS —AUSTRALIANS KILL 400 ENEMY TROOPS,

NEW ALLIED AIR BLOWS IN SOLOMGNS   Follow Battle of Four Thun derbolts and 30 Japanese Fighters Over Wewak, New  Clasiveen.   Spread Fires

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Jap Subs Sink 5 Allied Ships But  Convoys Continue   U. S. Loses ist Vessel  Sent Across Pacific

Five Allied Ships Sunk By Jap Subs; Report Gains In New Guinea Fighting

5 ALLIED SHIPS SUNK BY JAPS IN 5. PACIFIC   Allied Ground Troops Make Gain

JAP SUBS SINK ) ALLIED SHIPS NEAR AUSTRALIA   One U. S. Freighter Among Group, All Members of Crew Rescued

Five Vessels Are Torpedoed By Japanese   Allied Freighters Are Sent To Bottom By Submarines . Operating.  East Of Australia

JAPS SINK FIVE... SHIPS, ONE U.S   But Big Convoys Keep Coming Says Word from Australia

Enemy -Boats Sink Five Allied Ships in  Australian Life Line   However Gen. MacArthur Reports Big Convoys Keep Arriving

Jap Submarines Sink Five Ships, One American   Convoys Go On Despite Attacks In Pacific Area

5 Ships Sunk By Jap Subs; One American   But Big Convoys Keep Coming To Australia With Men, Supplies For Future Operations

JAP SUBS SINK FIVE VESSELS OFF AUSTRALIA   One American Freighter Victim in New Campaign but All of Crew Rescued

JAP SUBS GET 5 ALLIED SHIPS OFF AUSTRALIA   American Freighter Is First Incoming Trans-Ocean Vessel To Be Sunk   CREW MEMBERS RESCUED   Allied Ground Forces Rout Nips In Surprise Raid On Bobdubi Base

ENEMY UBAG FREIGHTERS INS, W. PACIFIC   One U S. Vessel, Four ‘Others Are Sunk By Japanese

FIVE ALLIED VESSELS SUNK BY JAP SUBS   One American Ship Goes Down In ‘Life Line’ Waters East of Australia   - ALL OF 81 ABOARD FREIGHTER SAVED   Huge Flow of Men and Materials Is Carried On,  However

TAP SUBMARINES SINK FIVE ALLIED FREIGHT VESSELS   One American, Others Australian Ships Are Recently Lost In Moving Suppties In Pacific.   81 MEN ON AMERICAN SHIP ARE ALL SAVED   Announcement Made Few Days Ago of Japs Making Sub Attacks on Supply iine to Australia.

JAPSUBSSINK RIVE VESSELS: ONE AMBRICAK  Torpedoed Rec ntly Ie “Life Lin Water s East   U.S. CREW SAVED   Only Two of Seamen From Biggest Ship Lost; Big Allied Convoys Continue Undiminished

THE INFANTILE PARALYSIS DRIVE STARTS TOMOR’OW   Mrs. Ralph R. Breckenridge iT) Local Chairman of ‘‘Mrach of Dimes’’ Collection

PLEA IS MADE TO REVIVE CROP INSURANCE PLAN   Southern Senator Describes House-killed FSA as ‘Poor Farmer’s Friend’   SOLONS LISTEN IN ON OWI   Pay-as-you-Go Tax Plan Compromise Would Grant 50 Percent Abatement

SEE NEW HOPE FOR CONTINUING FARM SECURITY   Pay-as-you-go Compromise Seems Assured

Allies and Axis Differ on Effect Of Raid on Rome   Some Catholics in ‘Allied and Neutral Nations Critical .

PHOTOS SHOW RALL YARDS IN  "ROME IN RUIN   Ammunition Train and Large Hangar Also Blown Up

SOLDIER VOTE - NOT DECIDED   LARGE NUMBER OF AMEND" CMENTS - BEING: TAKEN ‘UP -. ; BEFORE, FINAL SEN ‘ ATE ACTION

a emacs  FACES ATTACKS   GOP Winning Soldier Ballot Amendment Victories

—By Glenn Babb   Goebbels Admits U-Boat Sinkings Leas—   EES tA EA ERED ee  Hitler Puts AL Into Battle Of Atlantic

MOVE AGAINST M’NUTT   Would Strip Him of Authority . Over Selective Service

McNutt ls Under Congressional Fire  Monts Dawusar \A/Ari lA   Draft Power Would Go Back to Hershey

Yank Airmen Renew Blast at Solomons   Jap Command Post Falls to Army on Guadalcanal

Americans Win Solomons Post From Japanese   Damage Two Jap Carg Ships, Two Destroyers, Tanker, Down 10 Planes And Kill 36 Soldiers '

TEN ENEMY "AIRPLANES BAGGED IN NEW BURST   36 More Nips Killed In Army Ground Fighting  AIR ACTIVITY FURIOUS  & etniiasniah 2 Destroyers Among Vessels Hit By Fliers

Americans Take Guadalcanal Command Post   Two-Day Solomons Brush Costs Enemy 10 Planes and 36 Prisoners

2 BNEMY GARGU SHIPS, WARSHIP AND TANKER  Ten. Nin vnese Plan es Are   Ten Nipponese Planes Are Destroyed and ThirtySix of Foe Are Killed   fhree Prisoners and Large Amount of Equipment Captured In Two Days of Furious Combat

Two Cargo Ships, Two Destroyers And Tanker Damaged And Ten Planes Downed

FURIOUS FIGHTING  IS AGAIN REPORTED  SOLOMON ISLANDS NUMBER OF JAPANESE  SHIPS: HAVE BEEN DAMACED RV AMERICANS

NAVY AIRMEN _ DAMAGE FIVE JAP VESSEL   U. S. Forces on Guadalcanal Take Strong Jap Post, Kill 36 Japs— One Ship Probably Sunk

 Damage 2 Cargo Ships, 2 Destreyers ‘Tanker. Destroy 10 Planes, 36 Japs

DAMAGE 9 JAP VESSELS NEAR SOLOMON ISLES   U. S. Planes Destroy 10 Nippon Aircrait; Advanceon Guadalcanal

U.S. FLIERS BLAST JAPANESE SHIPPING   Damage Two Destroyers, Two Cargo Vessels And Tanker

Enemy Ships Are Pounded  In Solomon:   Furious Fight Lasts Two Days; Cargo, Warships Are Damaged In Yank  Ate Accault«

DAMAGE FIVE ENEMY SHIPS IN SOLOMON   American Forces Also Capture Jap, Command Post

TEN PLANES ARE FELLED AN ACTIONS   Capture or Enemy Post Included  In News

U. 5. AIRMEN BOMB JAP DESTROYERS, DOWN TEN PLANES   Two Cargo Vessels and Tanker Also Damaged; Enemy Post Captured on Quadaleanal.

AMERICAN AIRMEN HIT FIVE .JAP SHIPS, DOWN  ;10 PLANES IN SOLOMONS

10 Enemy Planes.  Are Destroyed      American Lose 4 Planes in Furious Battle: Take Nipponese Command Post:

5 JAP SHIPS IN SOLOMONS ARE DAMAGED   FEN ENEMY PLANES ALSO DAMAGED, BUT 4 OF U. S. MISSING

FIGHT IN SOLOMONS   Jap Ships and Planes Smashed in [wo Days of  Furious Action

Americans Hit Japanese On Land And Sea   Damage Cargo Ships And Capture Enemy Post On Guadalcanal   Two Other Pockets Of Resistance Wiped Out   Four U. S. Planes Missing; Ten Jap Aircraft Destroyed

Navy Reports OnTwo Days Of Furious Battling   Enemy Command Post On Guadalcanal Captured And 36  Of Foe Killed

U.S. Forces Damage Five Jav Vessels   Ten Planes Destroyed; 36 Japs Captured in Furious Solomons Battle,

Yankees Seize Jap Command  Post In Figh   Damage Two Japanese Cargo Ships, Two Destroyers, Tanker, Down 10 Planes.   BOMBERS START FIRE

Yanks Damage  9 Jap Planes, Bag 10 Planes   Two Destroyers, Two Cargo Ships, Tanker Blasted By U. S.

Seize Jap Outpost   U. S. Forces Destroy Ten Enemy Planes in Attack Near Munda 

“AMERICANS ROUT FIVE JAP SHIPS, " DOWN 10 PLANES   Two Destroyers, Two Cargo Vessels And Tanker Hit In Solomons Area

TWO FURIOUS DAYS OF FIGHTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS   American Forces Damaged Two Japanese Cargo Ships, 2 Destroyers, a Tanker.   Thirty-Six Japanese Troops Were Killed; a Command Post Was Taken.

FURIOUS. DAYS OF FIGHTING IN SOLOMON ISLES      Americans Damage Two Jap Cargo Ships, Two Destroyia a re ee DOpe Fan bl ep.      TEN ENEMY PLANES ARE REPORTED -DESTROYED

 Navy Reports Damaging Of 3 Jap Ships  And Destruction Of 10 Enemy Planes [In Two Days Of Furious Fighting

NIPPON LOSES 10 WARPLANES   Fighting in South Pacific Wipes Out Pockeis of "Enemy Resistance

Two Jap Ships Said Damaged   Navy Reports 56 Japanese Killed In Solomons

o> JAPANESE SHIPS HIT, TEN PLANES SHOT DOWN   Enemy Command Post in Solomons Also Taken in 2 Davs of Firhtines   FOUR AMERICAN PLANES MISSING   At Least One’ Enemy Ship Believed Sunk in the Furious Engagements

Five Jap Ships Hit in Solomons By U.S. Airmer   Six Enemy Planes: Believed Downed, Yanks Lose Four

U. S. Forces In Solomons Score Victory   Two Japanese Cargo Ships And Destroyer Are Damaged  COMMAND POST TAKEN

YANKS BOMB JAP VESSELS, CAPTURE BASE   Japs Taken Prisoner a End of Two Furious Days’ Fighting

Furious Fight InS. W. Pacific   Five Jap Ships Hit, 10 Planes Downed

iUe.S. Airinen Blast — Five Japanese Ship:   Ten Enemy Planes Destroyed And 36 Prisoners Taken In Capture Of Enemy Command Post In Fighting In Solomons

US Captures Enemy Post In Solomons   American Forces Damage Two Jap Cargo Ships, Two Destroyers, a Tanker, and Destroy 10 Enemy Planes

U.S. Warplane Smash Attack  On Solomons   Destroyers, ‘Cargo Ships Damaged; 10 Enemy Fliers Downed

AMERICAN UNITS DAMAGE FIVE JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC   Kill 36 Japanese Troops in 2 Furious Days of Fighting in Solomons

Americans Take Enemy Solomon Island Position   Jap Loss of Planes Since Campaign Start Is 791  Destroved

U. S. FLIERS DAMAGE 5 JAP SHIPS   Americang s Renew Aerial  Retivity Off Selo ee Islands

5 Jap Ships Sunki in Solomons   Enemy Command Post Taken—  Ww Jap Planes Downed

FIVE JAP SHIPS HIT BY BOMBS   10 Enemy Planes Destroyed In Solomons Battle

Yank Bombs "Damage Five Jap Vessels   Ten Nip Planes Shot Down; Enemy Post Taken On Guadalcanal.

Five More Jap Ships Damaged in Solomon Islands   Ten More Enemy Planes Destroyed In Past Two Days

Brown Seeks  Packers’ Aid   Attempts to [ron Out Meat Ration Problems Due in Ist Few Weeks

Brown Acts To Smooth Meat Ration Plan   Extraordinary Demand for Meat in Past Few Days OPA Reports

Brown Asks Aid From Packers  OPA Chief Wants  Coupons to Be Good

Violence Is Reported In Mine Areas   U. S. Attorney Making Complete Report at Request of Attorney Gen.  WOMEN ARE PICKETS

First Violence  In Mine Areas   Pickets In Strike-Bound “Captive” Areas Defy Union. U. S$.

ICKES PROMISES BALTIMORE GAS   Steps Being Taken To Prevent Closing Down . War Plants

Gasoline Will Be Sent to Baltimore Ickes Declares   Will Be Enough To Prevent Shutdown of War Indusfries, O'Conor Says

STATE TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL GAS   Ickes Promises Fuel te Prevent War Plant . Shutdowns

Air, Naval Blows at Supplies   American, British, French Land Forces Going Ahead Slowly

China President  Is Improving  Aged Official 111  Since Suffering Bevatvcs baa TS

CARL MITCHELL -BADLY WOUNGEL   Mother. Here Notified’ ‘That ‘He Received the Purple Heart Decoration.

CARL fhTGiELL ‘BADLY WOUNDEL   Mother Here Notified That He Received the Purple Heart Decoration.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAMATION FOR LEBANON   Senegalese Troops Reported To Have Broken Into President's Home, Taken Him Away

American Subs Sink Five More Jap Ships   Intensify Thrusts at Enemy Supply Lines

FIVE JAPANESE VESSELS SUNK   American Subs Damage Two. Other Supply Ships.

U. S. Subs Sink Five Jap Ships  Two Damaged in Supply Line Attack

House Votes To Cut Income Tax      Measure Calls For 50 Per Cent Reduction

Joseph C. Grew Warns  CS SETS TR atone os Half-Effort Will Not Defeat Japan

ATLANTIC CHARTER MEETS GIRAUD VIEW   French High Commissioner Voices Hearty Acceptance of Roosevelt-Churchill Principles.

Former Milkman Gets ‘Milk Bill With Interest After 40 Year interim

New Allocations Of Civilian Gas Soon   Smaller Amounts For All Except Southwest District

SOUTH DAKOTA QUOTA, ceT AT 640 AAN Ant      Gas Allotment Cut In Midwest

Axis Plane Losses At Least 422 Since Sicily Drive Begar   Targets On Sicily Are Pounded —German Morale Is Dropping, Is Report

AXIS LOSING "MANY PLANES   AT LEAST 422 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED SINCE BICILIAN INVASION WAS OPENED

NIPPON RAIDERS ARE SHOT DOWN   Americans Bag 7 Zeroes Out Of 9 In Attack On Chinese Base

Accurate Firing of Big Guns Paved Way For  Allied Invasion Force

Accurate Artillery Fire Opened by U. S. ‘Long Tom’, Bombardment from Warships Silences Some Enemy Big Guns   SCILLA, REGGIO CALABRIA HELD   Enemy Reports Say Tanks Lead Advancing Troops from First Landings—Ailied Bombers Pave Wavy for Attack

Heavy Artillery Barrage Preceded Landing of Troops  lea Amnhibinuc laen   Use Amphibious Jeeps In Crossing Narrow Waters to Italy

Troops Sweep To Mainland In Darkness   Terrific Pounding Accompanies Forces Invading Continent

Allied Artillery Knocks Out  Enemy Guns Before Landing  em mee me

4 JAP ZcROS oHOT DOWN IN SOLOMONS   Number Of Enemy Planes Destroyed Now 680

OVER ONE-THIRD INATTAGK WERE LOST NAVY SAYS   ‘Americans Lose ‘Seven Planes In Encounter With Enemy Aerial Armada. Roared: In From Bases. .   HARD FIGHTING GOES ON IN BURMA AREA   Germans Continue Their Vain  Efforts In Red Bridge - head Izyum, Fight Been on For Week.

FOUR JAP BOMBERS UOWNED IN PACIFIC   American Fliers Intercept Raiders Over Malaita

Attack Enemy Positions In Solomons. . . - .  Marine, Army Fliers Get 4 Jap Bombers

CRUSHING VICTORY SCORED ON ENEMY AMONG SOLOMONS   More Than One-third of Nipponese Air Fighters in Battle Destroyed by  Be

FOUR JAP ZEROES ‘DOWNED IN ACTION IN THE SOLOMONS   One U. S. Navy Plane Lost When Flight of 12 Enemy Planes Attack Dive Balter Porce

Fierce Duel in Sky Crushes Daring Raid   Remnants of 98-Plane Force Flees — After Thrust at American Shipping

Navy Pilots Down our Jap Bombers   Yank Airmen Blast  Bases In Solomons

‘Only Seven American Fighters Lost   Allied Shipping Near Guadalcanal Ohiect of Nin Attemnt

FOUR JAPANESE ZEROS SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS   One U.S. Fighter Was Lost, According to a Navy Announcement.   ‘AN ATTACK BY THE JAPS   Twelve Japanese Zeros AtTacked Between Santa Isabel, New Georgia I.

Italian Gen. Messe Put In Command Of Tunisia—Rommel And. Von Arnim Would Escape The Responsibility Of Defeat, Londor Hears   AXIS FORCES LOCKED IN 20G-MILE SHGTOR

Yanks Down Four Japanese Pianes in S. E. Solomons   Enemy Vila Positions Ave Attacked From Air

U. $. FLIERS KNOCK OUT; ~ «JAP PLANES   an ai or ee  Americans Score Crush:  ing Victory Jn New: © Solomon Battle ~

Air Action Occurs in Solomons   American Fighters Attack Big Planes—Blast At Jap Air Bases

Four Solomon Zeros Downed   U.S. Fighters Bring Total of Jap Air Loses Up to 680

DOWN 37 OF 98 PLANES IN ATTACK FORCE   Armada Had Sought to Atteck Shipping Near Canal

JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN SOLOMON   U.S. Wildcat Fighter -Re ported Lost in Central Part of Islands

“TLONIN AREA   force Of 98 Japs Try New Attacks On U. S. Bases   CRUSHING VICTORY REVEALED BY NAVY

4 Jap Zeros Shot Down  In Solomons  -—One U;S.-Plane Lost in Enemy Attnek an Fliah!

Yanks Bag. Four Jap Planes in Solomons   Two. Others Possibly Destroyed, Against Loss of One U. S. Fighter, in Attack by Ene“amy Zeros on Force of Dive Bombers.

FOUR ENEMY ZERO PLANES SHOT DOWN   Jap Aircraft cs “Tn Solomons Campaign Stands At 686

4 Jap Fighters Shot Down   One Yank Plane Lost in Attack On U. S. Bombers

NAVY IDENTIFIES 11 SHIPS SUNK BY JAPS IN SOLOMONS   CARRIER HORNET WAS COMMISSIONED IN OCTOBER 1941

U. S. Planes Shoot Down Four Japanese Fighters ‘In Solomons Air Battle

Japs Lose Four Warplanes In Solomons Fray   Americans Lose Bomber  In Attack Upon Flight

AMERICAN PILOTS SHOOT DOWN 37 JAP WARPLANES   LOSE ONLY SEVEN PLANES IN BREAKING UP 98-PLANE JAP AIR ARMADA SEEKING TO BOMB SHIP CONCENTRATIONS IN SOLOMONS PORT

NIPPONESE AIR FLEET ATTACKS U. $. SHIPPING   Americans Lose 7 Fighter Planes in Crushing Victory

Japs Lose 4 Zeros in  Air Battle   One U. S. Plane Shot Down—New Gnuines  Fieht Near End

FOUR ZEROES DOWNED IN SOLOMONS   Brings Total Jap Aircraft Losses There to 680

CRUSHING DEFEAT HANDED NIPS (VER SOLOMONS   Was Greatest Armada of En: ~emy Planes Ever Sent Avainst Yanks.

AMERICAN FLIERS GET 37 JAP PLANES IN SOLOMONS FIGHT   98 Planes In One Of Biggest Air Armadas Ever Thrown Against Island

U: S. Force Gets 37 Nip Planes In  Solomons Clash   Americans Lose. Only Six Aircraft During Furious Engagement

Four Zeros  Shot Down   One American Fighter Plane Lost in Raid  In Central Solomons

SHIPS LISTED AS LOST ARE IDENTIFIED   Names of Aircraft Carrier Hornet and Ten Others Are Made Public By Navy Department   JA?S PAY HEAVY TOLL

Bomber Escort Downs 4 Zeros; Fighter Is Lost   Foe Shows Burma Resistance: Aussies Probably Sink Warship.

FOUR JAP ZEROS LOST IN BATTLE   Navy Reports. One Am- -erican ‘Plane: Lost’ in: -. ~Solomon-Islands;.. -) -.-

Miners Request A New Contract With Operators   But They Say Labor Board Has Prejudiced the Min ere” Caco   Wouldn’t Stop Strike At Midnight Tonight

J Miners Wait Word  From John Lewis   Walkouts Sweep. Toward Tie-Up of Soft Coal Industry   SAY U. 5S. PLAN UNFAIR.   Closing of All Mines at Midnight Tonight Is _  Expected

War Industry Faces Crisis In Coal Fuel  A re Unmista kable  ame wte., Fak Ga *h _

FOR SHOWDOWN FIGHT AGAINST NAZIS AT ROME   Fifth and Eighth Armies Have Combined In Coast-To-Coast Drive

Seven Major Towns Were Japtured in New Advances.   PRESS VATICAN TO OBTAIN PEACE   Germans Trying to Avoid Humiliation of Unconditional Surrender.

GERMANY, ITALY TO BE SUBJECTS OF EXPERIMENT   Aviators Get Chance To Prove Ability To Win War Alone   CHURCHILL GIVES HINT   Invasion Forces Will Be Put In Action If Test Proves Failure

A \lies Expected to Try First to Stifle Italy and Germany by Air Attacks

ALL-OUT. BFFORT. ‘TP: RE MADE’  TO -CRUBH: GERMAN ‘AND... 7 TALIA DU aTRHeS, i,   AND TRANSPORT

ARMS PRODUCTION JUMPS 7 PERCENT   April Output Better Balanced,  WPB Chief Donald Nelson . Reveals

Nelson Reports An April Jump In Arms Output   Aircraft Shows Bigges' Dollar Gain But Stil Short Of Goal.

ARMS PRODUCTION DURING APRIL IS. GREATLY BOOSTED   All Major: Categories of Munitions Are Increased 7 Per Cent In April. Over Mate . Nelson Says.   AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION  OVER BILLION AND. HALF   Big Bombers Jumped Up 18 Per Cent as Single Engine Fighters’ Nearly Double During Month.

igs Production ci Shows i Over March   jreraft Increase High  aa Net Enough

ARMS FLOW UP T PCT. IN APRIL   Aircraft industry Reports Month’s Best Showing

Doing We ll, But Must Do Better  Arms Production In ~ April Showed Gains

All Major Categories of Munitions Show Big Gains Over Those of March; Best Balance Since Pearl Harbor Says Nelson. )

Arms Output in April Gains   Increase of 7 Per Cent Over March Is Reported

Arms Production For April Jumps  Report 7 Per Cent Increase in Month

ARMS PRODUCTION JUMPS 7 PERCENT   Aircraft Otuput Shows Increase

Arms Production Shows Increase  A ircraf t Production   Aircraft Production Up 8 Per Cent

Arms Output Showing Gain   Production During April Jumps Seven Percent; Passes Expectation.

Arms Output Well Above  Expectancy   Nelson Says April Was 7 Per Cent Above the March Figure

‘Arms Production  ~ Increases In April  ‘Nelson Discloses Seven Per Cent Jump

ARMS PRODUCTION IN APRIL 7 PER GENT ABOVE MARCH, DONALD M, NELSON REPORTS

All Major Categories Show Gains  Arms Output Jumps 7 Pct. During April

ALL MUNITIONS CHOW INCREASE   Nelson Reports 7 Per Cent Arms Production Jump In Aoril.

HAMBURG IS HIT AGAIN BY GREAT BRITISH ARMADA   6th Raid in 72 Hours Again Smashes Vital Port   RAF SEEKS TO BLAST CITY OFF THE MAP

Greatest Air Offensive Of War Launched   Germany’s Biggest Port A Mass Of Flame After 72-Hour Attack

The Great Game of Politics   ~ By FRANK R, KENT Part Of A Pattern

THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS  By FRANK R. KENT  (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)

Treasury Challenges Figures On House Tax Billi: Will Seek Hikes From Senate

TREASURY PROTESTS HOUSE TAX MEASURE   Says Estimated Revenue Is $93.000.000 Higher Than Can Be Obtained Under Seiup

BRITISH SHIPS SHELL COTRONE   Great Fires Started During 5-Minute Attack On Italian Naval Base

Naval Attack On Italian Mainland Base Of Cotrone   British Naval Unit Makes Heavy Attack On Enemy Naval-Air Base   NAVAL VESSELS ESCAPE DAMAGE

GABLE. IN WASHINGTON   ‘Former Film Star to Edit Actiat Training Films

BRITISH ARMIES POISE FOR BLOW   Reported Equipped And Ready To Strike On  3 Continents

British Predict Major Offensive At Early Date   Generals Say Their Armies Are Poised in Three Continents

Set Limit on Coal Buying In 12 States   OPA Acts to Let All Homes Receive Their “Fair Share”

New Outbreak At Japanese Segregation Center; Army Takes Over, Restores Order   Score Injured In New Clashes; Troops Patrol Camp To Prevent Further Trouble

Troops Move to Restore Order at Troubled Camp; Twenty Persons Injured

SOLDIERS STOP JAP OUTBREAK   Nips Settle Down as Tanks, Troops Move In

U. S. Army Troops Take Over Jap Relocation Camp   Move Follows Assault of White Guard by Disloyalists in California

Soldiers Take Over Segregation Camp; Jap Riots Quelled   500 Troublemakers in Tule Lake Center Are Rounded Up

Army Subdues Disloyal Japs In California   Thousand Troops With Dozen Tanks Take Control of Camp Center   ROADS BLOCKED OFF

JAP CENTER IN CALIFORNIA IN TROOPS’ HANDS   20 Casualties Inflicted in “Explesive” Situation at U. S. Center Of Segregation.

ARMY MOVES IN “ON TULE JAPS   1,000 Troops and Dozen .Tanks to Control Disloval Internees

).$. ARMY HOLDS JAPANESE GAME   Segregation Center At Tulelake Under Strict Military Discipline

Force Order In Jap Camp   Army Takes Over Relocation Center for Disloyal Japs After Guard Is: Beaten Up

U.S. TROOPS TAKE OVER JAP INTERNE CAMP AT TULE LAKE      500 ‘“Disloyal” Japanese , To Be Questioned —— Demonstration Is  Held Monday

TROOPS GUARD JAP CAMP FOLLOWING SERIOUS OUTBREAK   Director Held Prisoner by Unruly Mob During Demonstration

ARMY TAKES OVER JAPAN PRISON AREA   Moves Swiftly To Restore Order; Twenty Injured

Army Restores Order In Camp ‘Of Disloyal Japs   Troops Arrive At Center After Civilian Guard Beaten Up.

Army Takes Ove! At Tule Lake  Japanese Camp   Situation ‘Explosive After Disloyal Nips Hold WRA Members

PRESIDENT. HOLDING . SERIES OF CONFERENCES TODAY IN CONNECTION WITH TRIP TO AFRICA

President May Reveal Further  Details Of Trip   Roosevelt Back In White House After Precedent Breaking Journey   MAKES NUMEROUS STOPS ENROUTE HOME

NEWSPRINT PRICE RAISE BECOMES EFFECTIVE TODAY   $4.00 Ton Advance Is ‘Second Price Increase in  White Newsprint This Year

TIRPITZ BLOW ‘SUCCESSFUL   Midget British Sub Hit Nazi Super Warship

Knox Says Nazi Ship Immobilized   Midget Submarine Attack Successful

CCC: -Brings _ On New Corn. Buying Plan   Elevators Must Ship in _. 24 Hours After Car -.- Zot Is Received. —

NEW PURCHASE PLAN FOR CORN AIDS FARMERS   Commodity Credit Guarante: Supplementary Payment If Price ‘Rises.

30,000 Axis Soldiers Are Prisoners; Eighth Army Is Delayed by Heavy Artillery   More Planes, War Supplies Promised for Pacific Area As Enemy Attacks Increase

37 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over Port Moresby, 15 Others Elsewhere; Jap Sub Sunk

NEW DEAL TEST AT STATE POLLS   Dewey Prestige Rides On Special Vote

WLB MAY ASK FDR TO INTERVENE IN CELANESE DISPUTE   UMW District 50 Contends It Represents Majority Of Workers Rather Than CIO

WLB NEARING LEWIS FIGHT   Clashes Expected to Come Over Coal Wage Demand

PURCHASE OF FOOD FOR ALLIES LISTED   60,000, 000 Pounds of Pork Products Included

SCOUT PLANES DO SHARE OF BOMBING   Help in Crushing Sky-Borne Blow Against Bases At Gilbert Islands   CATAPULT FROM SHIP.

CRUISER ACTS AS ON A PEACETIME CRUISE   Crew Sets Ship in Readiness For Assault on “Jap” Islands   IN THE TARAWA AREA

SEVERAL ALA. COAL MINES RESUME PRODUCTION  4,000 of State’s 24,000 Miners Have Returned To Jobs

U.S. AIR FORTS BLAST GENOA   HUGE FIRES STARTED AS FLIERS BRAVE STORMS

Russian General Confident Bryansk Will Be Recaptured; Says Red Army Now Far Superior to Nazi Forces

PLANT LOSES ARMY-NAVY “E   Plant Penalized Because of Time- Loss Due. to Strikes.

CALL OUTFOR MORE STENOGS   Free Training and Train Fare, Higher Pay, New Washington Offer.

TRANSPORT PLANES DOING GREAT WORK ON CHINA FRONT  NOTED BOMBER PILOT HIGH PRAISE OF AID OF NON-FIGHTERS

House Approves  Repeal of State Income Tax Law   Measure Goes On To State Senate After 80 To 1: Victory; Ratification In Upper Chambei Believed Certain

BRITISH SHOUT FOR INVASION   Mass Meeting In Lon: don Attended By Thousands

CIANO APPOINTED  AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN   Appointment Announced  After Mussolini’s Cabinet Shake-up of High  Officers ;

CANO GIVEN VATICAN POST   Appointed Ambassador te Holy See Following Cabinet Shakeup

Obscure Vatican Post Given. Ciano  ‘{talians Discount Cabinet Shakeup  Ae Incianifticant

Rome Reveals Ciano Chosen Vatican Envoy   Changed Role of Mussolini:  Son-in-Law Is ‘Devoid’  Of Significafie.  : Savs Radia   ‘Ossified’ Regime ’ Dreaded by Duce   Remains Pillar of Italian - Foreign Policy, Say Pronagandiats.

Duce Names Ciano Envoy to Vatican   Finds Another Spot For Son-in-Law

CHANG RELEGATED TO VATICAN POST   Rome Attempts to Cover Up Cabinet Shakeup with ‘New Blood’ Excuse

COUNT CIANO IS APPOINTED NEW VATICAN AMBASSADOR   Son-In-Law Of Mussolini, Ousted Last Week After Six Years As Italy’s Foreign Minister To Succeed Late Prof. Attolico

Ciano Is Now Vatican City Ambassador   ‘Former Foreign Ministe — Now Fills Comparabls Obscure Post

Ciano Is Shelved By Appointment As Vatican Envoy   Rome Radio Attempts To Explain Cabinet Shakeup As 'New Blood’ Search

MUSSOLINI GIVES iCIANO A NEW JOB   Becomes Ambassador T: Vatican: Japs Praise Cabinet Shake-Up

WOMAN’S CLUB HOME 1S NOW FREE OF DEBI   Mortgage Js Burned At Meeting On. Saturday 

HOME 1S NOW _ BREE OF DEBI   Mortgage .IIs Burned - At Meeting On .Saturdav

DORIS DUKE CROMWELL MOVES TO NEVADA   Says She Likes State’s Divorce and Tax Laws and the Country

Doris Duke May Seek a Divorce   Heiress Establishes Nevada Residence

RELIEF FROM OL SHORTAGE IN EAST SEEN THIS YEAR   Administration Official Says That If Requirements Remain Normal That Rationing May Become Unnecessary.

SUBS DESTROY 688 ATLANTIC. VESSELS   Two Latin American Ships Sunk Are Added Dur_ ing Week

2 LATIN AMERICAN VESSELS ARE LOST   Panamanian Freighter And Columbian Ship Missing As Result of Caribbean U-Boat Attacks

F. D, R. URGED 10 SEEK 4TH TERM   President Is Optimistic About War On [0th Anniversary

FDR Urged To Seek 4th Term   President Confers With Party Leaders

EARTHQUAKE SHAKES ‘NEW ENGLAND STATES   Homes and Buildings Rocked ir New Hampshire—Dishes Rattled in Other Areas.

ALLIES TURN BACK JAPS IN MOVE TO BOLSTER DEFENSES   Fourth Major. Effort: This Month Fails — Finsch Harbor Blasted—  I Ship Bombed

DIRECT HIT SCORED ON DESTROYER   One Enemy Ship Held Probably Sunk In  Latest Action

Allied Fliers Turn Back Jap Destroyer Group   One Vessel Is Struck by 500 Pound Ramh

ALLIED FLIERS. BREAK UP JA CHDBLY FLEET   Blast One Destroyer, Force Three Others to Flee ’ for Cover. .   PLANES KEEPING UP RAIDS ON JAP BASES

YANKS SINK NEW GUINEA JAP WARSHIP   Allied Aces Foil Attempt To Land Supplies; Bases Bombed

JAP WARSHIP SUNK, 3 FLEE   New Effort To Bolster Island Force Fails

RAF Gives Duisburg War’s Heaviest Raid; Big Industrial Center   More Bombs Dropped on Inland Port Lost Night Than Fell During Big Raid on Coloane 

Produetion Or Armament Ts Cut Back   Many Shifts Meade To Prepare For Offensive

Production Peak Passed on Several important Parts of Military Program   Heaviest Emphasis Next Year on Ships, Planes, Heavy Construction Machinery, Signal Materiel

Iredell Native Is Drowned At Bryson   Ray Morrison, Assistant Farm Agent In Swain --Cotinty; ‘Dies “While  Swimming; Interment  Liave Ps Biase Oh ROE i we

TRAGIC DEATH OF MR. RAY MORRISON   Drowned In Oconalufty Kiver Near Bryson City Saturday

SENS ir ~ ST. BERNARD'S   Month of May To Be Busy One at Concord Church

SERMIGS AT ~ ST. BERNARD'S   Month of May To Be Busy One at Concord.

Action Deferred On UMW Petitior To Rejoin AFL   Decision Seen As Rebuff; Lewis May Drop Out

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Ris Week Sees Allies core Big Successes n Every War Front

HOUR IS NEAR FOR BIG BLOW AGAINST AXIS   CRUSHING OF JAP MILITARY CASTE ALL PLANNED

Ickes To Speak On Air Tonight To Coal Miners   Bureau Of Labor Shows ~~ Strikers “On” Thicrease  During Month Of Mav

‘Ickes ‘On Air sat 7:05   Four R. & P. Plants  Idle; Arcadia Exception for NYC

ICKES TO ADDRESS MINERS ON NETWORK   Thomas Appointed Aide To Newton, Director Of Operations

COAL SITUATION ICKES’ RADIO THEME TONIGHT      Federal Custodian Expected to Address Remarks to Miners—Steel Production at Low Ebb

Nazis Fall Back on Whole Front   French Hit Corsica, U. S. Aids in Sardinia

Italians Join French in Chasing Nazis From Island; Fifth Army Storms Key City.

Eboli Seized By Yanks, Foe Swings North   Showdown Battle For Naples Expected As Soon As Kesselring Can Re-form Lines; Allies Command Three Roads Into Gateway Port.

Germans in Full Retreat On 2 Fronts   Steam Roller Advances in Italy by Yanks—Reds Take 1,130 Towns

Italo, French Troops Join In Drive To Take Corsica; Yanks Push Toward Naples

“THE FOURTH A GALA ‘DAY IN MISSOURI A "HUNDRED YEARS AGO.   MUCH ORATORY   ‘Preparation Included. Many Weeks of  Hard Work andPlanning for the Annual Event,

Jap Warplanes Hit Chungking And Wanhsien   Believe Raids  For Propaganda

JAP AIRMEN  _ MISS TARGETS _ AT CHUNGKING   Sialy Enemy Bombers Reported Over Szechwan Province—U. S. Fliers Bomb Hankow

Jap Bombers Open Attack   Targets In Vicinity Of Chungking Raided; City Not Touched

Japs In Aerial Raid On China   Believed To Have Beer Staged For Propaganda Purposes.

JAP WARPLANES BOMB CHINESE   Chungking Area Raided by 60 Bombers; Reported Attack Intended As Propaganda Mave

60 Jap Bombers Raid Over China   Attack Targets “Near Chungking, But Do Not Raid Capital City

Favor Pay Boost For Dependents   War and Navy Departments Oppose Limiting Aid to Dependent Wives

Wives Need No Proof Of Their Dependency Now   Army And Navy Both Oppose Plan

ENDORSE PLAN FOR MORE All   War, Navy Departments Op: pose Making Wife Prove Denendency.

Three Tied As Air  Aces In S. Pacific  Pennsylvanian One With Ten Victories

INTENSE UNREST HITS SATELLITE BALKAN STATES   Peace Demonstrations Flare in Sofia; Evacuation of Capital Ordered

Six U-Boats . Sunk by Planes Tn Eight Days   Americans and British Strike Hard at Germans Menacing Allied Convoys

Six German Subs Are Sunk  In Atlantic Area In 8 Day:   Fifteen Attacks Made on Nazi U-Boat Walf Packs Seeking to Attack Atlantic Convoys— One RAF Liberator Lact

Plans Destroy Suis Altacking lied Convoys  Six bern mon U - Boats Fel Prey Withi Elta Days

Allied Planes Bag 6 Nazi Sub:   U.S. Navy, R. A, F. Divide Laurels

Planes Destroy Six Subs Trying to Attack Convoys   Sharon Officer Survives Dramatic War Adventure

6 NAZI U-BOATS SUNK BY ALLIES IN NEW OUTBREAK   15 Attacks Made By Pack of Subs on Three Convoys In Atlantic, One Liberator Is  Il net   CANVOYS REPORTED AS SAFELY IN PORT   Bad Weather Saved Other Subs From Destruction, Sinkings Are Contirmed, Apout 90 Survivors Seen.

6 GERMAN SUBMARINES SUNK IN 8-DAY ATLANTIC BATTLE   American Naval And British Coastal Command Planes Safely Protect Convoy From Wolfpack Attack; Enemy Unable To Fire Single Torpedo

U.S.. British Planes Sink Six Nazi Subs   Coastal Command Fliers Destroy U-Boats In Atlantic in Eight Days as Germans Try to Attack Three Convoys; Plane Lost

UNREST GROWS WITHIN FRANCE   Germans Take Over Job Of Rounding Up Boys For Defense Work

CONDITIONS IN NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE WORSE   Germans Take Over Job 0! Rounding Up Youths for War Industry and Defense Work   FLEE TO MOUNTAINS         las’ Ranks to Escape Forced Labor at Hands of Conquerors

Conditions Worse  In France, Report  Germans Rounding Up ~ Youths For Labor

STATES’ COUNCIL BEGINS SESSION   ‘Terrifying’ Inroads by U. S Into State Rights Laid At Own Doors

SWEDES MAY HALT TRAVEL BY GERMANS   Public Resents Army Traffic Through Country

SMASH STATE BLACK MARKET   2,750,000 Ibs. of illegal meat has already  been uncovered

Says Black Market Has Been Ended   ‘State OPA Office Will _ Continue Probes in This  Area

Over 2 000 Tons of Bombs Fall On Two Taxgiti   ‘Munster Also Blasted : - As RAF Planes Resume Attacks Over Europe —

ITALY TARGET AS INVASION PLANS STUDIED   Allied Fliers Hit Bases, With Little or No Apposition

Sardinia Base  Raided By RAF   Port, Airfield Hit By Allied Bombs.

AIRFIELDS NEAR ROME BLASTED   Bombs Fall Close To City As Allies Hit Hangars, Runways

Airports Near Rome Hit by Allies   Canadians Push. Toward Peseara

Allied Fliers Hit Airfields In Rome Ares   ‘azis Report Attack or Capital Itself; Pope  = Sees One Attack

Airfields Near Rome Raided By Allies; R.A.F. Pounds Rocket Coast Of France   INVASION PLANS MADE AT CAIRO

Airfields at Rome Are Targets Of Allied Fliers  Nazis Claim Bombs Were Dropped Upon Eternal City

Allied Bombers Blast Airfields  In Rome Region   Paris Says Pope Witnesses Raid

Bombers Pepper Axis Airfields In Rome Vicinity   Allied Planes Hit Fields South And East Of City; Blast Rocket Coast

American Planes Hit Airfields   Pope Watches as Stalian Capital Ts Assailed From Air

NAZI AIR FIELDS HIT NEAR ROME   Allies Spike Reich Claim 01 Assault On City Itself

Allied Planes Raid Targeis Near Rome   Enemy Sources Make Wild Claims Of Heavy Assault on Capital Itself

ALLIES’ BOMBS HITNEAR ROME   ‘Air Fields Raided, Germans Claim Attack On Eternal City

ALLIED BOMBERS BLASTED AIRFIELDS IN ROME DISTRICT  ALLIED PLANES ALSO CON TINUED TO STRIKE AT WESTERN GERMANY

Allies Blast At Rome Airfields   Fields South and East of Rome Accurately Bombed; Nazis Claim Outskirts of City “Shattered”’.

Bomber Attack Encircles City   Nazis Cry Heavy Damage Done to City; Ailied Communique Says Only Hangors, Dispersal Areas Were Attacked

SHOOTING STARS WILL BE AT BEST AUG. 10   Annual Perseid Meteors Will Reach Peak Two Following WNichte«.

Pantelleria Is Subjected to Heavy Assault   Stronghold Rocked to Foundations by Aliied Airmen

133 Heavy U. §, Bombers Raid Paris Section   Motor, Armament  Works Bombed With: Deadly Effectiveness

INQUIRY INTO - DRAFT STATUS   REPORT NEARLY -HALE MILLION DRAFT AGE CIVILIANS "HAVE WAR DEPART MENT JOBS

 Government Draft Deferments Are Now Up to 10,000 and Likely to Go Higher

French Fail To  Reach Decision   Committee Of National Liberation Argues Over Commander-In-Chief Position.

French Fail To Reach Agreement   Military Powers Are Major Snarl

DEGAULLE IS THREATENING TO WITHDRAW   Fate of New French Regime Hangs in Balance as Leaders Resume Parley at Algiers   COMMITTEE IN SESSION

DEGAULLE AND GIRAUD UNABLE TO REACH PACT   Continue Deadlocked Over Division of. Military - Power With. Fighting French    SHOWDOWN AVERTED   Committee of Nationa! Liberation Defers Decision in Face of DeGaulle Withdrawal Threats

TERMS NOT MADE ON ARMY RIGHTS   French Committee Members In Session Nearly Three ~ Hours in Algiers.

DE GAULLE-GIRAUD SQUABBLE GOES ON   French Troops Slowed as Politicians Bicker

FAIL OF AGREEMENT   Boundary Between Powers of Giraud and DeGaulle Not Defined

FRENCH UNABLE TO AGREE AGAIN   DeGaulle And Giraud Continue Scrap Over Division of Military Powers

FRENCH COMMITTEE IS UNABLE 10 AGREE      Split Over Division of Military Powers Between Two Leaders.

Senate Irate At Secrecy Of Food Parley  State Department Will Try To Explain It  To ‘Senators  ASK OPEN I DEALING        Nye Demands To Know Why Congress And Press Barred :      State Department Will Try To Explain It  To Senators   ASK OPEN DEALING   Nye Demands To Know Why Congress And Press Barred

IMITTEE TS TO BE RESENTED  ec Alen Rarred           ss Also Barred m Parley At Springs, Va.

EXPLANATION OF FOOD MEET IS DEMANDED   Acheson Questioned At Extraordinary Committee Meet

SOLON ASKS WHY PRESS EXCLUDED   Ass't. Sec. Of State Quizzed About Food Conference

SENATORS ASK EXPLANATION Of SECRET MEETING   Agriculture Official Heats Protests  Against Closed Session of Food Conference '

SENATORS LEVEL BARRAGE AT OFFICIALS ON FOOD CONFAB   ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FACES DEMAND FOR EXPLANATION OF SECRET MEET

House to Study New Wartime Taxes   Ways, Means Committee to Begin Parley on September 8

FDR’S VETERANS REQUEST STRIKES RESPONSIVE CHORD   Senators Wagner and George To Introduce Bill This Week Embodying President’s Reauest

Plan Bill For Soldier's Pay   Plea Gets Good Response In Congress

VETERANS’ PAY PROPOSAL GETS MOR ESUPPOR'   Congressmen Voice Strong Approval of Roosevelt’s Plan For Benefits to Men After War -

AR VETERANS’ BENEFITS      Early Legislation Wiil Embody President’s Reaquests

Congress Ready to Begin Planning for Mustering-Out Pay Legislation

Congressmen Like FDR's Proposals   Bills to Be Introduced For Veteran Legislation

ns ‘WAGNER AND GEORGE   WILL INTRODUCE BILLS  £6 VETERAN BENEFIT:

DEMOCRATS READY WITH BENEFITS   Answer President’s Request with Bills for Mustering Ou' Pav for Soldiers

Benefits Plan Gets Support   Roosevelt. Requests Will - Be Placed: In Form — Of [exiclarion.

GEN. ANDREWS CRASH VICTIM   U. S. Commander Of All Forces In Europe Is Killed In Iceland Plane Mishap

Lt. Gen. Andrews Killed In Plane Crash In Iceland:   Distinguished Flying General Was Comman-, der of U.S. lForees In  turopean Area,

HIGH AMERICAN GENERAL KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Lieut. Gen. Frank M. An. drews In Command Of  Euranean Theater

WPRB_ GIVES CHANGED RATION POINT . VALUES   Those Lacking Book TI Ma; _ Now Apply for It at  Local Board.

OVERLAP PERIOD FOR RATIONING TO BE LENGTHENEE   Board Will Now Receive Application for Book 3

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  F ai , tr a * a ft .   Campaign to Destroy Nazi Aircraft Production Centers Advances

PLANES BATTER GERMAN FLIGHT FROM MESSINA   7th Army Takes Randazzo After Hand-to-Hand Fighting

British Press Cautions Against Expectancy That Turkey Will Declare War

MANY NEW BOOKS ARE ON SHELVES OF THE LIBRARY   Late G. S Rosborough Is Donor of 228 Books And Pamphlets, by His Will

‘ARE ON SHELVES OF THE LIBRARY   Late G. B. Rosborough Is Donor of 228 Books And Pamphlets, by His Will

Badoglio orders Italians cease fighting allies but  oppose German. attacks   ‘Russia joins British and America “in approvines terms of. armistce

Seven Enemy Ships Attack Near Rendova   U.S. Troops Maintain Pres.  sure On Japanese Munda Air Base.

PLEDGES DESTRUCTION OF AXIS   Wildly-Cheering House of Commons Hears Minister

PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS BEFORE HOUSE OF COMMONS   Warns That Large Scale Amphibious Operations Are Impending.

FRENCH GUERILLAS GO INTO ACTION   Number Army Of Over 25, 000, Say Reports

Black Market Smashed   Ration Coupons For Mitlior Gallons of ‘Gas’ Seized

LIVELY DEBATE IN PROSPECT ON TAX ISSUE   CIO and Seven Other Organizations Demand Drastic Changes in Proposed Revenue Bill   PROPOSALS OUTLINED

Coste, French Patriot, in U.S.   Underground Leader, Famed for Sea Fight, Flees Mazi Frence

Congress Group  For Bataan Aid   Fernandez Coming Here  On Land Relief Plan

NAVY PLANES SLASH AT JAPS   . id ei Allies Score On Three Pacific Fronts

ALLIED TROOPS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA READY TO MEET JAP INVASION ATTEMPT   U. S. PLUGS HOLE IN SOUTH PACIFIC SUPPLY DEFENSES WITH BASE IN ELLICE ISLANDS

8000-TON NIP VESSEL 1S BOMBED   fnemy F ields Capable Of Handling 2000 Planes Reported

Nippons Develop Big Plane Bases   ‘Allied Troops Ready To Meet Invasion Try

JAPS. HAVE BASES FOR 2000 PLANES IN ARC OF ISLANDS   Allied Forces’ Prepared For Any Invasion Attempt By  oy eee .

SO. PACIFIC JAPS DEVELOP BASES FOR 2000 PLANES   Australian Army Minister Says Invasion May Come At Any Time.

Australian Official Says Japs Have Bases For 2,000 Planes in Island Arc

With Soap and Cigarets, U. S. Service Men Can Enter Capri’s Best Homes

Senate Votes to Require Proof Non - Dads Are Indispensable   Action Seuttles Wheeler Bill; Taft Measure Next

SENATE GROUP TAKES UP NEW TAX MEASURI   Little Can Be Done Until Finance Committee Members Set Their Reve- _  * pueGoal. . ..

Excise Taxes Cut Down by © Senate Group   Liquor Tax Boost-to $9 Rati fied But Other Rates Are Whittled

Senate Finance Committee Ratifies Increase, Whittles Other Rates.

TAX BILL GETS TRIMMED AGAIN   Liquor Increase Approved; But Totals Reduced

Senate Cuts Kxeise Rates   Changes Estimated To Amount To Net Loss Of $112.000,000 In Taxes.

Coal Agreement  Waits OPA Data   Operators, Miners Recess for a Day

VICTORY IN 1943 ‘AIM OF PARLEYS SAYS U.S. CHIEF   FDR Reveals Casabianca ‘Strike Hard’ Decisions Uranimous

ALLIES WILL STRIKE HARD “DURING 1943   ROOSEVELT, IN FIRST PRESS. CONFERENCE, TELLS OF POSITION GF RUSBIA AND CHINA...

Conference Held To Plan Victory Says Presiden   Roosevelt Holds First Press Conference Since Return From North Africa

Committee Disregards FOR's Request To Extend Coal Act   Opponents of Extension Say It’s No Longer Needed Now That Government Has Taken Over Coal Mines

Committee won't extend coal act   Recommendation of F.D.R. reiected by house aroup

EWI 5 MAY CALL ON MINERS TO STRIKE IF WLB STEPS IN   Labor Board Has Debated Full Week Whether To Take Over Coal Issue

Lewis May Call Strike To Dety WLB      Federal Agencies Squabbling Over Which Has Charge

WLB EYES COAL STRIKE IMPASSE   Observers See Clash with Conciliation Service

LEWIS IS AGAIN THREATENING 10 GALL MINE STRIKE   if WLB Assumes Jurisdictior In Dispute 450,000 May Walk-out.

»VETO LOOMS FOR BANKHEAD BILL “AIDING FARMERS   Solons Ignore Warnings That Measure Will Increase Cost Of Foods   UNIONS PLAN ACTION   WLB Ueclares Law Would Force Quick Revision Of Wage Formula

VETO ACTION ~1S EXPECTED BY CONGRESS   ROOSEVELT REPORTED PREPARED FOR -810W DOWN ‘WITH CONGRESS ON FARM PRICES BILL:

Msermans Joon 16 reel Sung OF Red Air Power— —By Elton (  Soviet Air Bases Move Close To oil Fields

Reds Are Moving To Lessen Eastern Line; Baffle Nazis  Russians Will Gladly Cooperate With Germans— vy. tun A dnb mn FE Sawa’ Bona

A NEW MILK ORDER   OPA Says Regulation Is to Help Producers Out of  Tough Spot

PAY BOOST ASKED... “FOR LOCAL JURORS   Bailitfs Would Also Get $1 a Day More Under * 4: Measure =:

PAY BOOST ASKED FOR LOCAL JURORS   Bailiffs Would Also Get $1 a Day More Under Measure

DAVIS ASSUMES FOOD J0B AS [FADERS MEF   Successor to Wickard Takes Over. Complex National Ditias. ©

QUERIES ON TAXES   Revenue Men Besieged With Questions on Income Tax Declarations

Roosevelt In Brazil To Meet Vargas   Two Presidents Meet at Natal  For Conference

F, R, CONFERS WITH VARGAS, BRAZIL PRES   U. S. Executive Also “Called On” Liberian President On Way Back From North Africa

AXIS FORCES OFFER STIFF OPPOSITION   Russians Gain Initiative  In East

First Phase Designed To Establish  Beachheads; Axis Offering Strong   Resistance, Many Men   Landed By Allies

Vandegriff Heads Marines   Succeeds Lieut. Gen. Holcomb Retiring Because of Age

Guadalcanal Leader, 34 Years in Service, Succeeds Lt. Gen. Helcomd

Gen. Vandegrift Named To Succeed Holcomb As Marine Corps’ Leader

VANDEGRIFT NEW. HEAD OF MARINES   Succeeds Lt. Lt. General ~ Holcomb Who Is  Retiring

NEW MARINE CORPS HEAD   General Vandegrift Will Take Over. New Duties January 1

British, American Bombers Round Out ~~ Week of Activities      Germans Begin to Wail Under Almost Con. stant Attacks

Heap New Havoc on Germany   British Sky Fleets Blast Steel Cities of Bochum  and Gelsenkirshen.   Germans Begin to Wail Against Devastation

Goebbels Launches Hate Campaign Against Americans   Mediterranean Air War Is Increasing In Its Violence

BRITISH AIR FLEETS HEAPED DEVASTATION UPON RUHR VALLEY   GERMANS BEGINNING TO WATT AND WHIP Tip

Allies Heap New   Destruction on Old   RAF Blasts Steel Center, Americans Hammer Sicily— Fighter Opposition Increase:

aa apnea tees nena eae  Ruhr target of new devastation   Messina and Olbia pounded by Yank fliers and R.A. F.

Ruhr Reels Under Allied Air Blows —   Report Great NaziIndustrial Region Almost Neutralized By Weeks of Bombing

Launch Embittered “Hate Campaign”   New Devastation Heaped Upon Ruhr Cities, While Flying Fortresses Stage Heaviest Raid on Messina.

British Keep Up Devastating Raids On Ruhr   Bochum and GelsenKirchen, Nazi Steel Cities, Are Blasted

British Sky Fleet Heaps Devastation On Ruhr Industries   German Propagandist Trying to Whip Up “Hate Campaign.” Between 4 and 5 Million People Have Fled from Bomb-Torn Ruhr Valley

WAR PRODUCTION IS SEVERELY CUT BY DEVASTATION   Italy’s Invasion Gates Also Given Another Battering By Allied Air Fleets   AXIS OPPOSITION GROWS   Peoples of Germany and Italy Getting Panicky Under Terrific Assault

NAZIS LAUNC HATE DRIVE TO RAISE MORALE   Meanwhile Aerial Attacks in Mediterranean Increase Violence of Their Assaults

1 1thAssault In 2 Weeks Hits Ruhr   RAF Loses: 30 Borithers: _ Blasting Steel Center

HATE CAMPAIGN TO AID MORALE   4 Million Flee Area; Large Air Forces Rip Sicily and Sardinia

The Steel Cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen Were Struck Hard Before Dawn Today.   GERMANS LAUNCH  A “HEAT CAMPAIGN”   Great Fires Were Left Raging in Both Cities; Thirty RAF Bombers Listed As Missing.

RAF Heaps Devastation  On Ruhr Cities   Great Fires Left Raging in Bochum and Gelsenkirchen; 30 RAF Bombers Listed as Missing; US Fortresses Bomb Italy’s Outposts

Germans Wailing About Damage   Thirty Planes Fail to Return---Millions Have Fled Bomb-Torn Ruhr — Aerial Assault on Italian Bastions in Mediterranean Continues

Embitiered Hate Campaign By Goebbels   Conveniently Forgetting Bombing of London, He Assails Allied Blows   AIMED ‘CHIEFLY AT UNITED STATES   ‘Horror’ Broadcasts Go Out as Aerial Blows. Wreck © the Ruhr Area

Terrorized Germans Flee Target Area   Goebbels Ignores London: And Coventry: in New Denunciations

New Destruction Is Loosed on Ruhr   Great Fires Rage in Steel Cities Blasted by Sky  . Fleets   ITALY’S OUTPOSTS HIT   Weeks of Heavy Bombing Cause Exodus From  German Centers

GREAT FIRES RAGING OVER STEEL CITIES   Bern Dispatches Revea Millions Evacuate Ruhr District

Great Fires Rage After Heavy Raids   Swiss Report Millions Evacuate Bombed Area:

RUHR’S STEEL AND MESSINA AIR TARGET:   Millions Flee Ruhr as Campaign to Neutralize Nazi Industries Nears Success   NAZIS SHOW FIGHT   Americans Shoot Down Many Fighter Planes Launching ‘Suicidal’ Attacks

Steel Cities Of Bochum, Gelsenkirchen Blasted; Flying Fortresses Batter  Meecina.

House Votes Down Luce Amendment T Rum! Tax Plan  Voting Begins Cr   Voting Begins Cr Levy Proposal; , Outlook DoubHul

LARGE FORCE NOW 450 MI. FROM TRIPOLI   Gen. LeClere Reports Axis Airdrome Raided

NAVY CAPTURES U-BOAT CAPTAIN   Man Decorated For Feat Of Sinking Ark Royal Now U.S. Prisoner

REPLACABLES IN INDUSTRY TO BE SCARCE   To be Claimed by Armed Forces, McNutt Says In Article   IMPACT TO BE HEAVY   43 Withdrawals Likel; To Be Equal To  Total To Date

Japs’ Supply Lane Severed   Enemy Still Has Precarius Foothold On New Georgia, Salamaua.

Supply Lines Cut But Japs Hold Posifions   Resourceful Foe Clings to Bases In Solomons Area

Jap Supply Line In Solomons Cut   Enemy Retains Hold On New Georgia and Clings to Salamaua

Japs’ Supply Line Is Cuf In Solomons   Enemy Weakening on Both Flanks of Allies’ Drive in the Pacific

Japs’ Supply Lines Virtually Severed By U. §   Enemy Keeps Hold In New Guinea Despite Setbacks

Weather Forecast   Enemy Clings To Precarious Hold Upon New Georgia Despite Setbacks

JAPS RETAIN FOOTHOLD ON NEW GEORGIA   Reports From Both Ends Of 750-Mile Arc Emphasizes Character Of Pacific War   SALAMAUA HOLDS OUT

Jap Supply Line In Solomons Cut  Enemy Still Clinging To Slim Footholds

Jap Supply Line In Solomons Cut   Jungle Troops on Islands Active

Japs’ Supply Line Cut Buf They Persist   Hang to Footholds in Nev Georgia and Salamaua In Jungle Warring

Japs Cling To New Georgia  And Salamaua   Precarious Footholds Retained, But Enemy Supply Lines Cut Off In ‘Solomons And Sorely Strained In New Guinea. Americans Occupy “Vella Lavella Island.

JAPS CLING TO PACIFIC ISLES   Tenacious Nips Slow Up Munda Cleanup, Hold  Salamaua

JAPANESE CLING TO JUNGLE AREA   POCKETS OF ENEMY RESISTANCE FOUND HARD TO DISLODGE

IAPANESE SUPPLY LINES SEVERED IN SOLOMONS ZONE   Enemy Still Clinging te  Foothold on New Georgis  Island, Allied Headquar~ tere Reveals.

ALLIES HUNT JAPS OUT ON PACIFIC ISLES   Foe Clings to Atolls and Jungle Positions Though Supplies Lines Cut

Precarious Hold On New Guinea Is Maintained   Allies Drive Nea Salamaua: Vell: Lavella Islanc Captured

Japs Clinging Desperately To Island Bases   Lines Cut But They Hold “On -Grimly In New Georgia, Salamaua

BATTLE FIERCELY TO RETAIN BASES   ‘Resourceful Enemy Still Clings To New Georgia, Salamaua.   SLOW PROGRESS   Japs Are Being Hunted By Yanks On Atolls And Islets

JAP SUPPLY LINES CUT AND STRAINED SOUTHWEST PACIFIC _._ ENEMY STILL HOLDS TO SOME POINTS ON NEW   CIUNNEA ANN NCU COCOADCT

JAPS HANGING ON IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   Despite Severed Supply Lines, Nips Hold At Salamaua

Japs Hold On Tenaciously In Pacific Despite Cutting Of Main Supply Line

Yanks Go After Jap Pockets In Munda Vicinity   Enemy Clings To Islets Despite Cutting Of Sea Supply Lines.

Japs Cling Stubbornly to Isolated Footholds on South Pacific Islands

JAPS STILL CLING TO ISLAND HOLDS   Hard-pressed Enemy Main. tains Foothold On New Georgia, Salamaua

Ally Push  Grows in Pacific   JAP FORCES CLING TO SALAMAUA, NEW GEORGIA IN PERSISTENT STAND

JAPS GLING TO MENACED POINTS   Nippon Supply Lines in Solomons Severed  By C. YATES 40ND ANTET.

ENEMY SUICIDE POCKETS WIPED OUT BY YANKS   Americans, Australians Within 3 Miles of Salamaua

JAP'S SUPPLY LINE IN THE _SOLOMONS CUT   And Sorely Strained .in New Guinea, But Enemy Still Has Foothold on. New Cresidia tnd Salarnaua) 

Solomons Supply Line Is Severed   New Guinea Lines Sorely  Strained But Nip is Resourceful

Also Cling to Salamaus Despite Fact Her Supply Line Has Been Cut to Solomons

JAPANESE SUPPLY LINE IN SOLOMONS CUT BY ALLIES: ENEMY HOLDS ISLE POSITIONS

ENEMY'S HOLD ON SALAMIAUA 5 WEAKENED   Japanese Continue Battle on Small Islets in Munda  Araq   COUNTER THRUST BY NIPPONESE REPULSED

JAP SUPPLY LINE IN SOLOMONS CUT   Enemy Still Maintains Foot. Hold in New Georgia, at Salamaua.

Cut Jap Supply Line in Solomons   But the Nippons Still Hold a Foothold on New Georgla.

Japs Cling To Salamaua   Holding Out Against Allies Despite Fact Supply Lines Are Cut

Japs Cling To Footholds As  Allies Push Drive in Pacific   Yanks Take to Jungles To Clear Out Pockets of Resistance or Atolis and Islands Near Munda.

YANKS THREATEN JAP SUPPLY ROUTES   Yellow Peril Clings Tena: ciously to Pockets in South Pacific Sector

FIND MISSING PLANE WITH 9 ABOARD DEAD   Bomber Lost Since March 3 Was Wrecked Southwest of Springville, Ariz.

10-Day Island Battle Costs Japs 17 Ships   Cruiser Chicago, One Destroyer Lost By UJ. &.

Mystery of Solomons Fioht Told   U. S. Heavy Cruiser Chicago Lost With Destrover

U.S. Loses Destroyer  And Cruiser   Navy Recapitulation Covers Ten-Day Period Of Sea-Air Action  CRUISER CHICAGO MATIOR U. S. LOSS

Blast two more Jap warships   Raises enemy’s Solomon losses to 17 hit or sunk

Cruiser Chicago and Destroyer Only U. S. Ships Lost  STORY RELATED OF SEA - AIR ATTACKS  All Enemy Resistance Is Smashed at Guadal canal

Cruiser and Destroyer Lost in Action   Enemy Air Forces Lose 63 Planes in Sea-Air Battle

Effort To Take Island Beaten   Mystery. Of Naval Battle Cleared Up

Allied bombers Pound Jap Bases At Lae, Salamaua  Washington Ends _ Mystery of ‘Vanishing Battle of Solomons’  CRUISER TORPEDOED   Enemy Fleet Refused

AIR TORPEDO GETS CHICAGO, NAVY CRUISER   GUADALCANAL PUSH BY TOKYO FORCE FRUSTRATED

17 JAP SHIPS ARE BLASTED IN LONG FIGHT   Several Sunk in SeaAir Battles; Two U. S. Vessels Lost

17 JAP VESSELS KNOCKED OUT IN SOLOMONS FIGHT   Navy Reveals U. 8S. Cruiser Was Sunk, With Most of Crew Surviving, and Destroyer Lost.   ACTION EXTENDED OVER 10-DAY PERIOD   Yanks Blasted 68 Enemy Planes Out of Sky Against Loss of 22 of Own Craft.

AMERICANS ARE WELL NORTH OF SEIZED NAPLES      Allied Spokesman Says “Road to Rome Ie Now   Open;” Benevento Di  rectly Threatened   GERMANS OFFERING SHARP OPPOSITION   Allied Troops Find Naples Waterfront Solid Area of Ruins: Rest of City Orderly

Road to Rome Said Open: Battle Tempo Increases As Allies Press Germans

Yanks Surge Past Captured Naples   Fifth Army Now North of City; British Push Up Adriatic Coast

Benevento, 32 % Miles Beyond Big Port, Is Threatened   African Air Forces  Initiate Raids on Germany From Below

Benevento - Threatened ~ By Advance   Bomb Shocked Citizens of Naples Cheer Allies as They Enter City

EIGHTH ARMY SPREADS OVER FOGGIA PLAIN AS SAN SEVERO, LUCERA FALL; MONTGOMERY TAKES MONTE GARGANO PENINSULA IN THRUST

Opposition Stiff; Good Gains Made   Allied Troops Find City Waterfont In Ruins; Troops Welcomed

NAPLES’ FALL OPENS FINE SUPPLY PORT   Eighth Army Captures San Sevro And Lucera, North Of Foggia; Gen. Clark Enters City

Push Ahead In Two Directions   Germans Reported Withdrawing for Stand Near Rome.

CLARK'S STH ARMY FORGES ON PAST DEVASTATED CITY   ONRUSHING TROOPS DRIVE NORTHWARD; ROME ROAD OPEN

Allis Advance Toward Rome  At Full Speed   British 8th Army Captures Two Towns on Adriatic Coast; Reds and Nazis Engages in Terrific Battle for Kiev

SURVIVING POPULATION OF WAR-RIDDEN CITY GIVE AMERICAN AND BRITISH SOLDIERS A FEVERISH WEL.  COME—CLARK’S FORCES REPORTED MAKING GOOD ppnocpr¢ee noeermrre APpPNHTION .

Our Troops Already Are Fav North Of Naples   Forces Of Liberation Given Feverish Welcome By Inhabitants Of War-Racked City

Say Road To Rome Is Now Open   Clark’s Men Make Good Progress Despite Stiff Opposition—British Eighth Spreading All Over Foggia Plain— Naples Dock Area In Ruins

POPULATION OF NAPLES GREETS ALLIED TROOPS   People of Ill-Fated City Feverishly Welcome Pursuers of Germans

ROME ROAD NOW OPEN, Is CLAIM   Town Of Benevento Is Threatened, Allied Spokesman Says

All Surviving Neapolitans  Welcome Allied Troops as Americans Find City Ruined

Believe Germans to Build Defense Line Near Capital   British Based Bombers Attack Ruhr City of ‘Hagen While Northwest African Air Force” Bombers Attack Messerschmitt Factory Near Vienna

Naples Tenders Big Welcome To  Passing Troops   Allied Spokesman Says Road To Rome Is Open, But Forces Face Stiff Onnosition

Report Americans Advance To North Of Ravaged Naples   Town Of Benevento Threatened; Nazis Offer Sharp Opposition; British Capture 2 Other Towns

Benevento Is Directly Threatened      ‘Germans Sharply Oprose Advance     North and Eas! W tars. Machinerrss       a 539 2 LBRES, inGr    ‘GOOD PROGRESS’   Surviving Neapolitans Welcome Allies — Moved Mines from Streets to Trap Nazi Retreat

Allied Airmen Open Two-Way Assault On Nazi Homeland   Planes Strike from Britain, North African Bases; Expect Germans To Try Stand At Rome

FORCES OF AMERICAN  FIFTH ARMY PUSHING  ON TOWARD ROME BENEVENTO, NEXT TOWN TO NORTH OF NAPLES,  PRPERAR erm Wert A Tree

Allies Advance 32 Miles Past Naples Ruins   Reuters Say British, Americans Are Threatening Benevento, Northeast OF Canturad City

fitth Army Approaches  Benevento, 32 Miles Beyond Italian Port Necunied Friday

Reds and Huns: in Terrific’ Battle Ukranian Capital of Kiev. — -Pressur Driving Japs Out of Solomons Strike Burmese Port of Akyab — Gen. Clark Enters Naples"

ALLIES WELCOMED BY NAPLES SURVIVORS PUSH NORTHWARD  BRITISH FICHTH ARMV   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SPREADING OVER FOGGIA PLAIN IN EAST ITALY

General Clark's Fifth Army Advances 30 Miles Toward Rome Against Nazi Armor

Allies Advance On Rome Road From Naples   Most of Damage At Water Front, Troops Report

Clark’s Fifth Army Already Well North of Captured Naples   “Road to Rome Now Open” Allied Headquarters Spokesman Says

Naples Taken Allies Start Rome March   Germans Said to Have Selectd Alban Hills for Their Next Stand

NAPLES FEVERICHLY WELCOMED ALLIED TROOPS IN NAPLES   British and Americans Pushed Through City After Retreating Germans.   MOVED TOWARD ROME   The Town of Benevento Is Directly Threatened in March to the North.

American Forces Storm Past Naples In Steady Advance   Fall Of Naples Opens Strategic Supply Port For Allied Armies; Clearing Of Demolitions Expected To Require Week

ADVANCE GOINGFULL SPEED AHEAD TOWARD ANCIENT CITY, NAPLES CLEARED OF GERMANS   American Fifth Army Moves Ahead In Two Directions Today As British 8th Army Plunges Forward On Adriatic Coast for New Gains 

Eighth Army . Also Widens. ~. Hts Holdings   Benevento, 32 Miles North of Naples, Directly. ‘Threaten-.: : ed In Continued. Push:   ENEMY TRYING* TO DELAY: ADVANCE    Port Is Found-a: Wreck’ and: -, Much ’of Naples Ruined’ * By Nazi Terrorists ° ~

ALLIES PUSH WELL NORTH FROM NAPLES   Military Spokesman, Referring to Clear Route to Capital, Says Bene  vento Is “Directly  Threatened.”

STH ARMY GOES AHEAD DESPITE SHARP BATTLES   Town of Benevento Js Threatened With Advance by Allies

Making Progress On Road to Rome   US. F ifth Army Presses _ Northward in Pursuit of _ ~ Germans   CLEAR FOGGIA PLAIN   Montgomery's Men Take Towns and Gain Ground ~* on East Coast

Benevento Is Directly Threatened By Yanks.  HEAD FOR ROME  Germany Is. Is Lashed From Air. By Bombers

THREAT TO ROME INCREASING AS GERMANS FLEE   Retreating Hitlerites Blasted By Warplanes from New Bases in Italy

Allies Follow Retreatina Nazis in Naples Area   British Eighth Plunges Forward To Back American Fifth

Smash on Toward — Rome   5th Army Troops Move Swiftly. Forward from Fallen Naples; Eighth Army on Past Foggia

Yanks, British Push Northwar Beyond Naples   Fight Way Toward Rome And Next Defense Line Of Germans.

oth Army Well North of Naples   .. BRITISH 8th SPEEDS UP ADRIATIC COAST

Fifth Army Welcomed in Naples   Now Driving Toward Rome; Opposition Sharp.

Germans Put Up Stubborn Resistance in Withdrawal to New Line.   NAPLES BADLY DAMAGED

AMERICAN 5TH ARMY PUSHES TOWARD ROME   Road to Capital Is Now  Open, a Spokesman For Allies Declares.   Damage to Naples Is Less Than Expected

Was } ! “Will Be Kept   WLB: Warns Labor Group That’ ‘Little Steel’ Is - Still’ In. Effect 

WLB Still Stands by Little Steel Formula, Davis, Chairman, Warns

a: gone  BY LITTLE STE FORMULA   Announcement Apparent: -ly Made to Clear Up Board’s Position on Recent Miners Wage Hike

WLB Wars Labo: lt Will Adhere To Wage Formula  Stand Reaffirmed Ag CIO Steel Men Ask Pay Increase

“LITTLE STEEL" FORMULA HOLDS   WLB Chief Says Policy Unchanged By Mine Verdict

WLB Retains  Steel Formula   Notice Clears Lp Position OF Board After Hike In Coal Miners’ Wages.

WLB Firm On Wages   Intends No. Relaxation Of Little Steel Formula, Says Chairman

Labor Warned Steel Formula Will Continue   Board ta Stand By Wage Scales

Basis For Wage Scale to Stand   War Labor Board Will Stand by Little Steel Formula, Davis Says.

Little Steel Formula Wi Stand--Davis   WLB Chairman Warns Ldbor There Will Be No Chance in Policy

WLB Will Not Change Formula   LABOR WARNED NOT TO EXPECT ANY WAGE ~ HIKES

Little Steel . Formula Holds   William H. Davis, WLB Chairman, Sticks Hold-Line Policy

WLB Declares No Surrender On ‘Little Steet’ Formula   Just Begun to Fight’ Asserts Chairman Davis Declaring Wage Rule is Essential to American Worker

LABOR WARNED ‘LITTLE STERL’ FORMULA STAYS   ‘War Labor Board Believes : It Can Not Discard It, — and Wouldn't If i It Could

WLB HOLDS TO WAGE FORMULA   Chairman Cledts Up. Board’s Position on Mine

Little Steel Formula Will Be Continued   Board Chairman Insists It Cannot and Will Not Be Discarded

Little Steel Formula Will Stick.  Labor Is Warned WLE Standing By Its Guns

WAR LABOR BOARD BACKS FORMUL   Chairman Clears Board Positions Regarding Wage Increases

61500 U.S. PLANES SENT 10 RUSSIA UNDER LEND-LEASE   Effective Collaboration = r War Indicates Cooperation When Peace Comes. .

PEAGE T0 HIKE RATIONING NEED   Wickard Warns Congress Postwar Requirements Exceed Present

AS - YOU - 60 TIX OKEHED TENTATIVELY   ‘Full Ways. And Means  Committee Favors - 90 Percent Cut

When The Guns Ceased In 1918   Uncanny Silence Spread Over Battle Front™

Silence Of Peace Settled. Over France’ So. - Blood-Drench Battlefields 25 Years Aga

Americans Capture Attu Air Base and Anti-Aircraft Unit   Sec. Stimson Reports U.  S. Forces on Island — Making Progress

AirfieldIs Captured By U. S. Forces    Defenders Are Caught in Chichagof Harbor Area  Backs to Sea .

U.S. TROOPS CIRCLE JAP FORCE   Americans Have Captured the Partially Completed Airfield   SARAN PASS IS TAKEN   Warships Help in Smashing ‘the Resistancé of the Japanese

Sea-land Trap Is Tightened; Pass Captured   Stimson Reports Difficule ties Of Campaign; Guad+ alcanal Raided

UNFINISHED AIR BASE I TAKEN BY U.S.   Mikado’s Men Are Caught In Chichagof Area: Sarana Pass Seized   FOE FIGHTS WITH BACKS TO THE SEA   Progress Is Satisfactory.. Says Secretary of War Stimson

Yanks Circle Remnants of Enemy Army   Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses; End is Near

CAPTURED IN BATTLE   Sarana Pass Falls To Yanks; End For Nips Believed Near

Knemy Fights Now With His Back To Sea   And The U. 8. Navy Has Control Of The Waters

Yanks Seize Partially Completed Airfield; Tokio Admits Heavy Nip ponese Losses.

NAZIS REPORT BRITISH ARMADA OFF GIBRALTAR   Light RAF Bombers Raid Berlin for Third Time This Week

Enemy Battles With Back to ~ Sea on Island   Yanks Seize Airfield Army Hopes to Use In Wiping Out Last of Nip Resistance; Navy Reveals New  Attack on Guadalcanal.

AMERICAN TROOPS ENCIRCLE JAPS ON THE ATTU ISLAND   U. S. Forces Captured the Partially Completed Enemy Airfield There.   SARANA PASS IS TAKEN   Japanese Were Caught in the Chichagof Harbor Area, It Was Said.

Remnant Of Jap Forces Wholly Encircled Now    Tokyo Admits Two Thirds Of Nips Killed; Says U.S. Loss Heavy, Warship Blown Up

“ENEMY’S FORCES , ARE TRAPPED BY YANKS ON ATTL   Complete Encirclement of Jap Troops Announced; Airfield Is Captured

TAKE AIRBASE ~ONATTU SL   Stimson Reports Troops Are ‘Making Satisfactory Progress.   CASUALTIES ARE LIGHT

PARTIALLY COMPLETED NIPPONESE AIRFIELD IS CAPTURED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS—THE ENEMY, NOW FORCED INTO THE CHICHAGOF HARBOR AREA, FIGHTING WITH BACKS TO THE SEA

WAnoHTPS POUNG FOE FROM REAR   Remnant Of Enemy Forees Reported Trapped In Chichagof Harbor   ATRFIELD §{S HELD   Tokyo Radio Broadcast Admits Serious Jap Losses In Battle

Americans Now      Japanese Reports. Adn Heavy Losses Among Trapped Forces.

Stimson Insists U. 5S. Losses Comparatively Light; Soys Americans Are Well Supported

Best Route To Be Opened with Conquest; Japs Admit Heavy Losses in Fighting

Americans Have Captured the Partially Completed Airfield   SARAN PASS IS TAKEN   Warships Help in Smashing the Resistance of the Japanese

JAP FORCE ON ATTUIS ENCIRCLED      Americans Capt ture Airfield Partially Completed by Enemy Troops   BOMBERS BLAST ~ HARBOR AREA   Light Naval Forces Also Join Attack; Bomb-J apan Campaign in Sight

HOLD AIR BASE PARTLY BUILT AT HOLTZ BAY   War Secrelary Reveals Maj. Gen. Eugene M. Laundrum, Veteran ol Aleutians, in Command   SURPRISE LANDING      Large Quantilies Enemy Equipment Captured, Including AntiAircraft Battery

ATTU CIRCLED BY U.S. FORGE   Jap Airfield Seized - - Navy Backs Army in Conquest In Aleutians

Fleet, Planes ~ Pound Enemy  At Chichagof   United States Forces Capture Sarana Pass Flanking Jap Positions.   NIPPONESE LOSS HIGH

Airfield Is a ik: By . Forces   Defenders Are Caught in Chichagof Harbor Area Backs to Sea

U. S. Warships Aid Blows In Aleutians; Partially Finished Airport Seized

Americans Now Driving Attu Japs Into Sea   Japanese Reports Admit, Ileavy losses Among Trapped Forces. ox.

STIMSON SAYS AMERICAN PROGRESS SATISFACTORY IN ALEUTIAN FIGHTING

American Forces Capture Airfield   Enemy, Admitting Tremendous Losses, Fighting With Backs To Sea and U. S. Warshins

‘Partially Completed Airfield Ca ptured By Our Forces, Navy Says, Telling More Of Battle

TOKYO SAYS JAP LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Maj. Gen. Landrum Directing U. S. Troops   SEC, STIMSON   Tells Of Army’s Progress In Aleutians: Weather Extremely Cold

Partly Completed Airfield Taken   Japs Caught in Chicagof Harbor Area ‘After Aniericane Take Sarans Pass — Stimson Details Operations — Japs Surprised — American Casualties Relatively Licht

Enemy Forces Encircled by lj. §. Troopers   Japs Fighting With Their Backs To Sea on [sland

U.S. UNITS GAIN ON ATTU ISLAND AGAINST ENEMY   Men Specially Trained, War Secretary Says

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Patriot Revolt In Europe Yay Speed Invasion Myogram Of Allies  ”

fne wear foaay Revolts In Lowlands May Upset Allied And Nazi Plans For Summer, Writer Predicts

The War foday  Spontaneous Anti-Axis Revolts In Europe May Alter Allied War Plans

Widespread European Revolt Would Necessitate Change in Allied Plan

The War Today   Wide Uprising in Europe Micht Rrine Ouick Invasion

SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS _ MAY COME REPORTED UPRISINGS YN CERMAN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

European Uprising Would Create New Situation Might Hasten Allied Attack

The War Today  Revolts In Holland, Bel gium Might Lead To Big Developments

MARINE UNITS STAGE LANDING ON ABEMAMA   Speedy Victory Possible Unless Nips Bolster Garrisons

onde UF Dalle WIDERS. Ac Au ATOLL f° ll   Move to Crush Nip Hold on Citibcre Group Under Way ia Force

Much Sought Soldier Found   Unharmed by Dog; Trousers Torn But  Skin Unbroken

NOT DOG-BITTEN   Wide Search Ends When Pittsburgh Mon Reports Unhurt.

Gasoline Coupon No. 6 Goes Into Use Thursday   A” Coupon Holders Must Make Three Gallon Tickets Last To Nov.

GOV. KELLY CALLo FOR CHERRY PICKER:   ‘Too Complicated’ Governor Terms Plan to Use Boys from Vocational School

MARTIN GIVEN BROAD POWERS RV TECIO ATURE   Action Taken To Aid War On. Home Byront   SESSION ENDS   General Assembly Concludes Its Brief Meeting

GOV. MARTIN CAN SUSPEND STATE LAWS   Legislature Gives Authority to Meet Almost Any Situation Impeding War Effort   LONG FINAL SESSION

Legislature Gives Governor Broad Powers To Strengthen Pennsylvania’s Home Fron

“WAR DAIS   Joseph L. Wetrosky Was First Reported Missing In Action

WAR PRISONER   Joseph L. ‘Wetrosky Was First Reported Missing In Action

 German Army Must Re-equip And Re-organize— —By Kirke L, Simpson  Fleeing Nazis Leave Heavy Arms Behind

“azis ~ave an © Cursice! Jyance © C: scaring Jrom Sniever Zen¢ “ra?

Morale Of Nazi Troops Is Preventing Complete Rout  porielenny Of German Staff Also Works For Long Chance Escape From Crimea

Morgenthau Hints Invasion Is Near   Tells Bond Salesmen lt Will Aid Drive

Morgenthau Hints Invasion Coming Soon Good News Predictec  For September As Rond-Selling Aid

Morgenthau Hints That Europe Invasion Will Come This Year In War Bond Letter

GROW MORE MEAT   But Civilians Will Ge' Rather Less of It Next  Year

Legislature May  Work This Week   ‘HOSPITAL MEASURES DUE  TO GET ACTION NOW

3 Jap Vessels Sunk In North Solomons   Allied Bombers Send Destroyer and Tw Cargo Ships to Bottom in Bougainville Strait; Aussies Tighten Noose on Japs

Pacific Bombers Sink Three Japanese Ships.   Action in Bougainville Strait Is in Area Nipponese Evacuating Hard-Pressed Garrison From New Georgia Section

PLANES SINK THREE MORE JAP VESSELS   Destroyer, Two Cargo Ships Hit in Boug ainville Strait

Allied Bombers Sink Three Japanese Ships   Australian Troops ~ Tighten Noose Around Finschhafen

Part of Enemy Convoy Trying To Run Blockade In Northern Solomons

Mrs- Caraway Boosting Cotton   U. S. SENATOR, PLANS TRIP OVER ENTIRE NATION

Hard-striking Americans score five-mile gain in Northern Tunisia

FRENCH FORGE ONLY 24 MILES FROM BIZERTE   Furious Tank and Infantry Drives Mark Allied Gains in Tunisia   BULLETIN

ALSO STEP UP WAR OF NERVES AGAINST AXIS   Record Advances on Every Sector of Tunisian Front

WAR AIMS LOOM   By LOUIS F. KEEMLE  United Press War Analyst. {Reo Tl S Wet eee...

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Soviet Russia’s Postwar Aims Remain Secret Of Red Government

Two Thousand Nazis Hurled Back at Sevsk   Russians Take Toll Of 400 German Officers and Men

NAZIS REPULSED IN BITTER FIGHT ON KURSK FRONT   2,000 Assault Soviet Lines But are Thrown Back to: Previous Positions.

400 OFFICERS, MEN LOST IN BITTER FIGHT   “Feeler Thrust” by Nazis Thrown Back; 1,500 Germans Killed in 24 Hours of Battle

SEES DEMOCRATS CRUCIFYING LABOR   Daniel J. Tobin Charges Party “Forgets How Hungry It Used To Be.”

DRIVE THROUGH JUNGLE SEEKING OUT ENEMY   Believe Japs Prepare to Strike Back by Air, Land or Sea

YANKEE TROOPS DRIVE THACL ON NEW GEORGI   Japs Fall Back in the Scl. omons, But Battle Still Not Won.   NAVY ACTION IS SEEN   Axis Predicts Great Naval Engagement !s in the Offing.

Rotary Club Met Monday      No Meeting Scheduled for Monday, July 5th

BOND BUYING INVESTMENT RISE SOUGHT   Morgenthau Seeks “Goat Abandoned —

Treas  Reduces Goal In New Taxes To 12 Billion   Abandons All Hope Of Getting 16 Billion In Additional Taxes In Next Wiceal Vaan   TO CONCENTRATE ON BOND SELLING

Treasury Cuts 1944 Tax Goal To 12 Billions   Hopes Of Collecting $16,000,000,000

Treasury 5 Tax Sights Lowered   Abandons Hope for 14 Billion Goal‘

US Troops Are Within 3 Miles Of Faid Pass   i  Allied Forces Fall Back Four Miles in Northern Sector of Tunisia; Red Offensives Gain Momentum; Hamm and Rotterdam Bombed by Fortresses

Lost Ground Is Recapiured By Americans   United States Forces in North Africa Now Within Three Miles of Pass Where Their Recent Retreat Started

Yanks Three Miles From Point Where Retreat Started   Germans Gain Four Miles From British Along Mediterranear

Rommel Has Sent Part of Troops South   Shifts to Meet British 8th Army; Allies Fall Back in Northern Area

American Troops Within Three Miles of Faid Pass,  - Where 66-Mile Retreat Was Started. ,

NAZIS PREPARE FOR THREAT TO MARETH FRONT   Germans Make 4 Mile Advance in Northern Sector of Tunisia

Yanks Near a Faid Pass © Area Again   Allies Forced Back Four Miles By Germans in North Sector

Yanks Within Three Miles Of Faid Pass: Russians Capture More Villages    American Airmen Blast Hamm As RAF Keeps Up Round-the-Clock Raids On Occupied Countries

Rommel Shifts Part Of Armored Force To Mareth Line   In The North Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim Forced A Four-Mile Withdrawal by Allied Forces Near the Sea. -Allies Reoccupy Sidi Bouzid

Yanks Press To Entrance Of Faid Gap   Allies Withdraw Four Miles In N. Tunisia; Rommel Swings South  To Meet British.

xis Troops oncentrate  n 2 Fronts      Russians Continue Gains Near Moscow But Germans Claim They Are Now Menacing Invader’s Flank

UJ. §. TROOPS BACK AT FAID PASS AFTER STAGING COMEBACK  GERMANS CONCENTRATE ' STRIKING POWER NORTH ERN, SOUTHERN TUNISIA

Allies Regain Most of Ground  In Tunisian War   But They Fall Back Four Miles Before Gen. Von  Arnim’s Army.   Renewed Air Fights Give Edge to Allies

SBEITLA Is REOCCUPIED BY ALLIES   In Northern Sector Enemy Attacks Lose Their Momentum.

Metals Mines Leaders Map Three-Point Output Plan  Speakers at Colorado Meet Stress Price Raise, Priorities, Men; Senators Demand Naming of Director

Three Remedies For Mining Are Proposed  Better Prices, More Men and Priorities Asked

SHIPYARD: WORK STOPPAGE ENDED   Day Shift Reports Following Incident That Gets Capitol Action

SHIPYARD WORK © CREWS RESUME   Stoppage of Several Hours @ Occurs at Bethlehem Company; Independertt Union’s Activities Challenged

ALLIED BOMBINGS TOP GERMANS’ BEST   They'll Be More Effective In Blasting Hitler Out Of War

WHAT CHANCE HAVE ALLIES OF BOMBING HITLER INTO GIVING UP HIS WORLD RULE AMBITION?

 Nobody in Authority Claims  War Can Be Won by Air Only  }Raids Reduce Axis Strength

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Bombs Alone Can't Beat litler, But Can Ruin findustrial Machine

 The War Today—   Will Allies Succeed Where Hitler Failed In Use Of Planes For Kayo?

Japs May Seek To Destroy Chinese. Armies Before Allies Can Give Aid

JAPS BEGIN BIG DANE TU FINISH CHIN   Success of Plans Would Make Task of Beating Japs Longer.   GREAT COUNTRY  NEARLY WALLED IN   Chief Dependence Is on Aid from Allied Na tions.

JAPANESE THREAT TO CRUSH CHINESE RESISTANCE MAY BE RIUFE OR THEY MAY MEAN IT

FINNISH PEACE DEBATE OPENS   Showdown On Foreign Policy Expected In Parliament

 MAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: Lt. James Wright  Of Victoria ‘Chutes To Safety in Texas

BRYANSK NEXT, SOVIET FORCE MOPPINGUP    Germans retreat from al sectors near Orel; : fear encirclement ?

REDS AND NAZIS HGHT FIERCELY INSIDE OREL   Main Force of Germans Flee After 22 Months

Helicopter Looks Like Answer to Senators’ Prayer  Believe They rey Can Use It Ti. .?  Pam Ser reney fan   Believe They Can Use If in Their Future Campaigns

JOINS OPPOSITION TO FATHER DRAFI   Sen, Davis Offers 6-Point Program As An Alternative

Davis Wants Draft Taken From WMC   Six-Point Program To Exclade Fathers Offered by Senatars

Senator Blasts  Draft Schedule   Six-Point Program  Would Save Fathers

BEEF FAMINE  IS FORESEEN      Stockyards Almost Empty As Civilian Supplies Dwindled Today

Cattle Pens Empty, Silent As Beef Famine Settles In   Supplies Vanishing Rapidly; Cquntry Feed Lots _. » And Ranges Crowded With Stock Ready For Market

Stock Pens Empty In Chicago Yards   Ronges and Feed Lots Filled with Cattle But Beef Famine Threatens Army and Natior

Armed Forces Face Beef Famine Threat      Civilian Supplies Drop Swiftly Toward Van. ishing Point as Packers Ask Federal Action to Bring Cattle Onto the Market.

BEEF FAMINE NEAR   Hundreds of “Cattle Pens - Are Empty in Chicago* Stockyards 

Beef Supply in U. S. Dwindles   Hundreds of Cattle Pens Empty at Chicago

Catile Pens Empty; Beef Famine Feared   Livestock Being Withheld in Price Controversy; Byrnes Ureed to Act

AUSTRALIANS FEAR JAPANESE IN NORTH   Believe Nippon Preparing Major Military Operation ; Troops Concentrated

JAPS MAY STRIKE AT AUSTRALIA   Canberra Says Enemy I: Increasing Troops Off Northern Area   MAY HIT NEAR AN ALLIED BASE   Reports Come'as Tojo Says Pact With Russia Will Be Resvected

Japs Plotting Major Military Move On Australia, Belief  MacArthur Air Forces Have Been Active  Dheenew Foland Demon: Wane SGhinc (Macthawina

Believe Japan Planning Atfack   May Be Planning War On Australia

BELIEVE JAPS PLAN ATTACK    Major Offensive Against Northerr Australia Believed In Making By Aussies

NO PLANS YET 10 RATION CLOTHES   WPA _ Regional Director Warns Against Heedless Buying Now Apparent In Some Regions.

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Coal Report Opens Way (For Pay Boost   Fact-Finding Panel Completes Study; WLB  To Issue Decision

Coal Decision Expected Soon   War Labor Board In Effort To Have Opinion Ready  Early This Week.

WAR LABOR BOARD  EXAMINING REPORT  SPECIAL COMMITTEE WAY LEFT OPEN FOR  MORE MONEY TO MINERS W VARIOUS FORMS

DOOR OPEN FOR WAGE INCREASE TO COAL MINERS      War Labor Board Expected to Announce Decision Next Week After Weigh ing Panel Findings   SEVERAL WAYS OPEN   Could be Granted Pay Boost by Portal-to-Portal Payments and Increased.  Vacation Pay -

Decision Near in Coal Wage Controversy   Panel Report Received by War Labor Board; Pay increases Oren to Miners

Decision Time Nears In Mine Wage Dispute   Panel Report To W. L. B. Leaves Way Open For Additional Pav.

WLB Delves into Report Of Panel   Expect Decision Early Next  > Week—Ne Hint In Report

Decision at Hand in Coal Pay Dispute  Panel Reports On Its Findings

WAY LEFT OPEN FOR SOFT COAL WAGE INCREASE   WLB Gets Panel Report for Study Over Weekend, Hopes to An. nounce Decision Early in Week   NO OPINION VOICED   Notes Miners’ Arguments 1941 Increase Not Cost-of-L iving Hike, Contract Barred Others

Panel Report Opens Way To More Money For Coal Miners; Report Early In Week

WAY IS LEFT OPEN FOR INCREASE IN WAGES OF MINERS   War Labor Board Studies Voluminous Report Submitted By Panel   DECISION EXPECTED SOON

Parents To Face Court   ‘Charged With Manslaughter In Death of Baby

SYNTHETIC RUBBER QUALITY ANSWERS REQUIREMENTS   Jeffers Tells Senate Committee in Defending Curtailment of Guayulo Planting

SYNTHETIC RUBBER QUALITY IS HIGH   dJefiers Shows Senators Heavy Duty Truck Tire Made  From Aleohot

IEFFERS DISPLAYS NEW TRUCK TIRE   Rubber Czar Tells Senators Artificial Elastic Perfected

OYNTHETIC RUBBED PROCESS PERFECTED   Substitute Tire Just As Good As Crude, Says Jeffers

SYNTHETIC RUBBER EQUALS REAL STUFF   Quantity, However, Still Not Enough for Needs

Jeffers Shows Truck Tire   Synthetic Quality Meets Requirements— Quantity Still Critical

Jeffers Sees Hope In Synthetic Rubber Situation  Chief Warns Agains! Optimism Despite Encouraging Signs

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Deal Smashing Blows at Pantelleria and Sardinia

Four Day Toll Of Axis Atreratt  ~ Tnereases To 305   Pantelleria And Sardinia Are Again Heavily Bombed By Allies   ‘BLOCKBUSTERS ARE USED IN ASSAULTS

SHOULD APPLY THE CALYX SPRAY SOON   Last Year’s Weather Ideal for Plant Dineanes, and They Should Be Guarded Against

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS LETTER   {By County Extension Director)   Caivy Snray Should be Anoliad

CABBY 1S OHIO POTTERY MAN   Man Who Could Buy Out His Patrons Gives Up Government Job

RESIGNS WPB OFFICE TO DRIVE TAX! CAB   William Smith Disgusted With Government Red Tape

Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Enemy Of Fascism, -Put In Command Of Italian Forces   BID FOR PEACE MAY COME FROM SHAKEUP

Berlin Hints Health Forced Duce to Quit; German Officers Negotiate With Badoglio

eee NAR Sens Se SSR ESE EY Fee  Nazis See Resignation Due to Duce’s Health

Germany Stunned By Developments: Radio Is Silent   Fate of Mussolini Remains in Doubt

TURKEY FOR US. TROOPS   Every Yank in Italy to Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner of radi. tional, Bird and Cranberry, Sauce ~—Jceb Will be Important One. ”

AMERICANS IN ITALY 10 EAT TURK THURSDAY   And Cranberries, Too, No Matter What May Be Going on During Thanksgiving Day

Victory in Tunisia Key To Other Developments We Are Out for a Quick Kill

CLIMAX OF IMPORTANT ACTION MAY BE NEAR—FINAL TUNISIAN OFFENSIVE TO DRIVE AXIS OUT

Allies Out For Quick Kill In Tunisia And Invasion Of Western Europe, Italy

me a F  ao 8  Allies, Rommel May Be At Climax of Important PRattlo

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Mareth Line May Meet Same Fate As Maginot As Allies Attack

 Lhe War today Climax Approaches In Africa War As Montgomery Hits Mareth Line

The War Today   Developments Indicate Final Tyxtea Te nn in Tinijeia

Soviets Steam Furious Onslaught in Caucasus—Romimel’s Counter-Thrusts May Have Slowed Allied Squeeze —British Improve Their Positions

Enemy Loses 27 Tanks and 500 Soldiers   Montgomery’s: Eighth Army Drives Three Miles Through Hills That Were Once Studded with German Defenses

New German Offensive Seen In: Caucasus Area Of Russia   Churchill Warns Hitler Against Using Poison Gas

Rommel Loses 27 Tanks, 500  Nazi Troops   Blows by Germans Fruitless; British First and Eighth Armies {mprove Positions

27 Big Tanks Destroyed by First Army   500 Prisoners. Taken ‘and “German Gasualties Are Reported Heavy   NOT ONE BRITISH °°  . POSITION YIELDED   Enemy Counter Action Only Adds to Losses, But Allies Face. Stiff’ Going

TANKS DESTROYED AND 000 PRISONERS CAPTURED IN NORTH   NEW POSITION OF EIGHTH ARMY IN SOUTH HELD AGAINST ASSAULTS

O00 NAZIS. TAKEN 27 TANKS RUINED BY 1ST, 8TH ARMIES   Violence of Fighting ir Caucasus Suggests Majo Operation Against Rus sians Under Way.

27 GERMAN TANKS DESTROYED AND 500 PRISONERS TAKEN IN ONE SECTOR OF FRONT   British Eighth Army Has Driven Three Miles Thru Hills Heavily Studded by Nazi Defenses. First Army Inflicts Heavy Damage on Big Enemv Tank Force.

Destroy 27 Tanks, Take 500 Prisoners  In Northern Tunisia   Stage Great Battle In Moonlight; Nazi Mountain Positions Strong: Reds Kill 1700 In Single Sector

Ist, 8th Armies Beat Off Thrusts   Soviets Steam Furious Onslaught in Caucasus--Rommel’s Counter-Thrusts  May Have Slowed Allied Squeeze British Improve Their Positions

Hitler Preparing to Use Poison Gas ir Russia, England Learns; Churchill _ Warns That Britain Will Retaliate

27 Nazi Tanks, 500 Prisoners Taken Thursday   Tunis - Bizerte Arez New Battleground 3 Counterattack: Repulsed

EIGHTH ARMY ACHIEVES NEW 3-MILE GAIN   500 Prisoners Taken In Single Sector, Allies Report

Destroy Big German Tanks And Press On   But Two-Way Squeeze On Rommel Has Been Slowed Some

First Army Inflicts Havoc  On Nazi Tanks   British Armies Beat Off Three Violent  German Counterattacks; Reds Stem . Furious Nazi Onslaught; Aberdeen -Bombed 

27 Axis Tanks Destroyed In Single Seetor   Heavy Casualties Inflicted By Allies On Counterat Papitene Is . wae E Seo aot   “ALLIED DRIVE SLOWED

BRITISH DRIVE PIERCES DEEPER INTO AXIS LINE   Nazi Elite Grenadiers Are Hurled Into Fray Only To Be Beaten Back   REDS STOP NEW ASSAULT   Hitler’s Horde Is Suffering Heavy Casualties in Fight in Caucasus

Japs, Russians In Mongolia Border  Clash Is Rumor   Speculation Heard Of Attack On Russia; Reds Advance In Ukraine

Report Mongol, Japanese Clash   Speculate on Jap Attack on Soviets

 Speculation Over Possible Japanese Alfack On Soviet Russia Is Growing In Washington

Uncomfirmed Reports That Border Clash, First Reported In Some Time, Has Occurred Along Mongolian Frontier. :

NAZIS REPORTED PRESSING JAPS. TO ATTACK REDS   Speculation Revived In Washington About Jap Attack On Russia In  Mann aonka

Battle Revives Theory Of Jap Attack On Reds   Forces Clash At Mongolian Rorder

NIPS MAY TRY STAB AT REDS   Reports of Border Clash Indicate Japs Would Attack Russia

HITLER'S TANK NOT SO TOUGH   Armor of New Mark V! Pierced By British Six Pounders

SEVEN U. S. BOMBERS LOST IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS, ONE OF THE WAR'S HEAVIEST AERIAL OFFENSES.

lying Forts Blast Nazi U-Boat Lair  U.S. Bombers Raid   U. 8. Bombers Raid Wilhelmshaven, British Hit Dunkirk

German War Areas Bombed For 20 Hours  Allics In Greatest Sustained

Allied Airmen Deliver 20-Hour Attack on Nazis  Dartracene Pound   Fortresses Pound Wilhelmshaven; RAF Hits Dunkerque Thrice  DAMAGE HEAVY

Fortresses, Liberators Pound U-Boat Lairs In Great Offensive  SEVEN BOMBERS LOST HEAVIEST TOLL YET  20 Hours of Blasting Maintained by Allies, Nuérnbers Hit. Heavily

YANKS BOMB SUB LAIRS IN GERMANY   TWO SILOAM SPRINGS MEN AND BRANSON MAN ON RAID—7 PLANES LOST,

Nazis Lashed In Sustained Raids   Wilhelmshaven And Dunkerque Blasted

U. 5. Flyers Pound af Nazi U-Boat Lairs   - Bomb Withelmshaven;. RAF Strike Thrice  at Dunkerque

Chungking Meet  Significant  Suggests Emphasis On Air Power And Sunolies

CHUNGKING WAR COUNCIL MAY PROVE. MOST SIGNIFICANT OF SOME CASABLANCA OFFSHOOTS

Beef Famine If Cattle Run Is Continued   Livestock Leaders Foresee Shoriage in Spring Under -Present Conditions   MEAT MANAGEMENT PLAN ADVOCATED   15 States Represented in Meeting Opening Tomorrow at Kansas City

DE GAULLE. GIRAUD © AGREE TO PROPOSAL   French Leaders Accept Compromise Plan on Army Organization.

BELIEVE FRENCH LEADERS READY ON COMPROMISE  Organization Of Army Chief Point  In Arguments

COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT ON FRENCH ARMY ORGANIZATION BELIEVED FINAL

FRENCH LEADERS NEAR SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES  mmaaaaierTr ee Ar Ere   COMMITTEE OFFERS COMPROMISE TO RESTORE HARMONY

Goes Beserk: Shoots Seven   Utah Man Slays Five And Dangerously Wounds Two More In Shooting Orgie   DISTRICT JUDGE ONE OF VICTIMS

FIVE DEAD AS WILD MAN RUN IN OGDEN   Austin Cox socks divorce ed wife, kills judge and 4 others

JAP TROOP MOVES MAY BE DEFENSIVE   some Observers Think Enem Troops May Be Intended To Ward Off Attack °

Bill Requiring Declaration of Party Is Filed   Withholding Tax Measure in State Is Proposed

Offers Primary Election Measure    State Voters Would  Declare Allegiance

Closed Primary Bill Comes  Before Senate   Voters Would Be Required to Declare Party Allegiance Under Proposal; New Measures Come Before Members

Congressional Tax Staff Rows With Morgenthau   Dispute Over Obtaining O{ Information May Delay New Measure

breaks Out Hashinylon lver Tax Data  oy lantarl   hau in Jleated versy With tonavess Staff

TAX EXPERTS IN DISAGREEMENT   Doubt Is Expressed That New General Revenue Act Will Be Passed

DOUBT NEW TAX LAW THIS YEAR   Heated Controversy Between Morgenthau. Congress Unit Flares

TREAQURY, TAR EXPERTS DIFFER   Schism Causes Doubts In Capital Hill Quarters New General Revenue Act Can Be Written in 1943

ROW MAY PREVENT TAX BILL IN 1943   CONTROVERSY BETWEEN MORGENTHAU AND CONGRESSIONAL TAX STAFF RAGES,

TREASURY AND TAX STAFF IN HEATED SCRAP   NEW REVENUE ACT NOW DOUBTFUL FOR 1943

Treasury Chief, Tax Staff War   Morgenthau Would Bat  Arprees ta Rerarda

GANDHI STARTING JHREE-WEEK FAST IN INDIAN PALACE   British Government Says It Is Not Intended As “Fast To Death”

Gandhi F asts To Force Freedom   Indian . Leader Weakened From. Previous Starving

Gandhi Is Starting New Fast   Interned Leader Of Nationalists Declines Offer

GANDHI STARTS 3 WEEKS FAST AS A PROTES}   Seeking Unconditional Freedom From Internment, Government, However, Stands Fast.

Hourly Temperatures   Gandhi Begins Three-Weeks last: Internment Continues

FASTISSTARTED BY GANDHI TODAY   73 - Year - Gld Spiritual Leader of Indion Nationalists in Another  Protest. .

Nazi Capital Raidless, Pulls  Self From Smoking Wreckage; Mosquito Planes On Sweeps   Catastrophe Squads Race Through Streets, Removing Injured—Gobbels Warns of Future “Hurricanes.”  Thousands Buried Alive.

BERLIN GETS SECOND HAID RESPITE; FIRES IN CAPITAL CHECKED   Speedy RAF Mosquito Bombers Stab At Western Germany And Day Shift Hits Axis Targets On Continent

AAT BOMBER HT Ge AM ANY IN WEST AREA   Berlin Gets Brief Respite From Fury Of British Air Attacks

RAF Mosquito Bombers Raid  West. Germany   Berliners Are Searching Ruins Vor Attack Victims

BRETISH POUNG WEST GERMANY “SUNDAY NIGH!   Berlin Subdues Fires During Two-Night Respite

BERLIN HAS TWO NIGHTS OF RESPITE      Western Germany, Pounded Last Night, However

Poles Unlikely To Get Old Borders Back   Exile Government Strives To Change Russian Mind

Poland’s Hopes Of Regaining He: Frontiers End   Poles Are Accused By Red Officials

Canned Food Ration Begins On March    Sales Of More Than 200 Items Will be Included In Suspension Order Feb, 20

‘Schreiner Institute Enrolls 247 Civilians for Twenty- First Term, -Manv Out-of-State Students on Roster

British Torpedo Boats Clash ‘With Nazi Convoy In Channe   Berlin Reports Battle Off France, Claims Losses !nflicted On British

Licensees In Pennsylvania Now Rationed   New Liquor Board System ls Based on Purchases Made Year Ago

Floods Increase Shortage of Gas In Eastern Aree   Situation Will Become “Progressively Tighter’ ODT Asserts

SOLDIER WILL HANG FOR GIRL'S MURDER OFFICER ANNOUNCES  NO DATE OR PLACE OF EXECUTION: HAS BEEN SET. SAYS GENERAL

Soldier Will Be Hanged Soon for Slaying Child   Execution Reportedly Will Take Place March 26: Washinaton Approves Decision

LAST NAZI BASTION “BEFORE STAUNGRAD SMASHED BY RED   Russians Push One Wedge of ‘Arc Around Rostov Within 40 Miles Of City   CLOSE IN: ON KRASNODAR

Last Axis Bastion in Stalingrad Now in Russian Hands   Berlin Admits Death of German Commanders in Siege of City

FORMIDABLE BASE ESTABLISHED FEW HOURS AFTER FIRST ALLIED LANDINGS ON CALABRIAN SHORE   American Planes Accompany British and Canadian Sea and Land Operations With Pulverizinge Air Attacks

VIERECK VERDICT UPSET BY JURISTS   Conviction of Author Reversed by the Supreme Court

Viereck Freed By High Court  Nazi Propagandist Held Improperly Convicted

VIERECK VERDICT. “UPSET. BY JURISTS   Conviction of Author Re. versed by. the Supreme : urt- a

What Mission Has Hitler For Italian Navy ?— By Glenn !  Skulking Italian Warships Worry Allies

NAVY IS SEEKING 194,500 MORE MEN   2,150,000 Now In Sea Branch Of Service

Benelits Sought For Servicemen In Post-War Era  Payments of $15  Tm. Gof DBD...   Payments of $15 To $25 Per Week Proposed

Legislation To Provide Mustering-Out Benefits  For Servicemen, Women Introduced In Congress

Social Security ‘Credits, Jobless  Insurance S ought   Bills Introduced in Both Hlousegs For Benefits Asked by FR. Tlouse Committee To Act On Bill, Providing $300 in Mustering-Out Pay.

Congress Moves To Provide For Refurning Vet   Mustering Out Pay And Job Insurance Up_ For Action

Soldier Security Bills Presented  Congress Takes Steps To Assure Benefits

Bill Calls for $300 Payments   Chairman May Says Plans dent’s Wishes for SerTET in Compliance with FDR’s Wishes for Servicemen

CONGRESS GETS VET AID BILLS   Unemployment Insurance Of $15 to $25 Per Week Requested

Bills Ask Pay For Veterans  Muster-Out Fund, Job Insurance Urged In House. Senate

Veteran Aid Bills To Congress   Provide Unemployment Insurance, Social Se-. curity Credits, and Mustering-Out Pay

Mustering-Out Pay Program Before Solons  Unemployment Checks Of $15-825 Weekly Proposed; Seek $300  . R Pea: Seren See Pa

Unemployment Help For Servicemen is  Provided in Bills   Congress Gets First of Proposed Laws to Pro vide Funds

Congress Gets Bills to Aid Soldiers   Work Benefits and Credit on Social Security Proposed

Congress Gets Bills to Aid Soldiers  Work Benefits and att awe Ca ateel   Work Benefits and Credit on Social Security Proposed

WTRODUCE BILLS TO PRODUCE WAGE FOR SERVICE MER   Compensation as Unemployment Insurance of $15 to $25 Weekly Is Suggested {n Proposed Measure.   BICIAL SECURITY CRED17S ARE ALSO INCLUDEL   Payments Proposed For Period of 52 Weeks, Allowance Would Supplement State Benefits.

Mustering-out Pay  For Servicemen 1s :  _ Sought in Congress   Bills Providing Unemployment Insurance of From $15 To $25 A Week for War Veterans on Discharge Offered in Both House And Senate

INTRODUCE RILLS FOR BENEFITS 10 U.S. SERVICE MEN   $300 MUSTERING OUT PAY, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SOUGHT

CONGRESS HAS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL   Would Benefit Men And Women Now  In Uniform

Bill To Probide Unemployment Insurance Up To $15.-$25. A Week; Benefits Asked By Roosevelt; Identical Bills Introduced In House and Senate.

Benefits for Servicemen In Congress Bills   Both Senate and House Are Confronted With Identical Measures

BILLS INTRODUCED FOR SECURITY OF THOSE IN SERVE   Provide $15-25 a Week Unemployment Benefits and Social Security’   $300 MUSTER-OUT PAY

Service Men's Bills Offered   Give Unemployment Insurance and Social Security Credits

PLAN BONUS WHEN MEN MUSTERED OUT   To Provide $300 And Also Certain Weekly Benefits

Servicemen 7 Benefit Bills Introduced   Unemployment Insurance and Social Security Credits Provided

MUSTERING-OUT PAY MEASURE IS INTRODUCED   Bill to Provide Unemployment Insurance and Social Security Credits for Servicemen

Benefits For War Veterans Are Proposed   Unemployment Insurance: Of $15 To $25 A Week Included In Program Offered In Congress

MUSTERING OUT PAY BILL READ BEFORE SOLONS   Measure Provides $300 Maximum Payment to U. S. Servicemen, Women

Servicemen Bills  Are Introduced  Propose $300 as Pay When Mucteread Out

Jobless Pay For Servicemen Proposed In New Measure   $15 To $25 A Week May Be Paid Men And Women After War: Lump Sum Added

Jobless Insurance Of From $15 To $25 A Week Is Among Aid Proposed

BILLS INTRODUCED  PROVIDE SECURITY  FOR U. S. SERVICEMEN UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR ANCE AND SOCIAL SECUR Irv RENEEITS PLANNED

SOCIAL CREDIT —. SBIEES-OFFERED       i een, anil’ fee Idle~ Insurande’ 0 » $15 to: ‘$95 in New, *: ‘Measures

VETO BENCEHT BILLa PLALED IN CONGRESS   Jobless Insurance, Social Security Credits Main Features Of Plan

Bills Offered To Provide For Men Musfered Out Of Service   ie  Security Credits, Mustering Out Pay As FDR Asked

SERVICEMEN'S BILL BROACHED   Swift Committee Action 4s Promised On Measure

Bills Provide * Out-Of-Service Help For Vets   Unemployment Insurance, S. S. Credits, Mustering-Out Pay Planned.

Launch Moves Giving Aid to Service Men   Bills Introduced in Both Houses of Congress Friday

BILLS UP FOR SERVICE ASSISTANCE   Both Houses Get Legislation For Men And Women

AFTER-WAR AD BIS. BEFORE SENATE- ROUSE   Call For Idle Insurance, Mustering Out Pay and Social Security Credits to Servicemen   3300 MUSTERING OUT _ PAY IS REQUESTED   Unemployment ‘Insurance Of From $15 to $25 Week-_ ly Called ¥or In Measures Now Pending -

58 Transports Shot Down In Greatest ~ Battle In History   Ground Forces Await Outcome of the Great Aerial Struggle; Allies Lose Only 11 Planes in Air Encounter

EX-PROBATE JUDGE CALLED TO TESTIFY      jurist Says He Was To Get Bribe

BRIBE ADMITTED AT BILLINGSLEY TRIAL   Judge Testifies He Agreed to » $1,500 Proposition

— Buy War Bonds — ‘54 GESTAPO AGENTS [SLAIN LAST MONTH BY POLISH PATRIOTS

SABOTEURS ON JOB IN EUROPE   Underground “Takes Care of” 54 Gestapo Agents in Poland While Bombs Explode in Denmark

By LT. THOMAS HARMON  (As Released by the Antilles ming TMenle BDarnan WRAATR)Y

WEIGHT OF NAZI ATTACK SHIFTED TONORTHERN ENT   Despite. Heavy. Losses. German Assaults are With Unabated Violence.

Germans Shift Weight to Orel Kursk Front   Russ Attacks May Develop  Into Full-Fledged fC'aunter. Attack

Germans Shitt Main Weight of  Summer Drive   Nazis Intensify Pressure At Northern End of Red Front

NAZIS SHIFT MAIN  WEIGHT OF ATTACK TO NORTHERN LINE   Intensify Pressure Near Orel-Kursk Front As Attempts Fail To The South

Karsk-Orel Front Scene Of German Pressure   Reds Take Two Villages as Huns Lose More Ground

RUSSIANS GAIN ON KURSK FRONT   Germans Throw Weight To Northern Sector To Halt Advance

RUSSIANS GAIN ON OREL-KURSK FRONT   Germans Press Attack De spite Loss of More Than 40.000 Men.

NAZIS SHIFT . OFFENSIVE T0 KURSK FRONT   Move Follows Failure to Gain In Belgorod Area

GERMAN DRIVE VEERS TO OREL FRONT, REPOR]   Russians May Develop Big Offensive In That Area

SCHOOLS GIVEN SUPPORT; MORE FUNDS ASSURED   Legislation Now Up To Governor Dwight Green

W.L.B. To Seek New Formula In Wage Crisis   Appeal Is Made To Director Brynes To Scrap “‘ Little Stee] Formula’

WAR LABOR BOARD MAKES AN APPEAL TO WHITE HOUSE   “Hold-the-Line’ Order Virtually Strips Authority, May Scrap Little Steel Wage Formula.   “GOING RATES” PAY IS NOW SUGGESTED   Byrnes Indicates Possibilities of Wave of Strikes After Warning From Labor Leaders.

‘WLB Resumes Hearings 'As Ickes Plans To Keep \Coal Mines Operating

Police Begin Enf orcement  of New Edict   Ban On Pleasure Driving Effective Here [mmediitely

Deny Request To Limit Gas   OPA Refuses To Cancel A. B, C Coupons On East Coast To Help Farms.

T-Ration Cut Held Enough To Meet Crisis  OP.\ Rejects Proposal to Cancel B and C Books in the East  TRACTORS GASLESS Repair of Pipeline Break Will Take “Two Weeks  at T anct”

(OPA DECLINES 10 CANCEL ALL ‘A, B, G RATIONS   Proposal From Agricul tural Department, to Meet Food Production  ' Crisis, Rejected   TO CURB T CARDS   ‘Will Depend: on. Curtail ment of Their Use-and-on  Pleasure. -Driving : Ban  to-Meet Emergency. -

OPA REFUSES TO CANCEL ALL AUTO RATIONS   Turns Down Agriculture Departmenis Plan, Counting on Other Means to Meet Crisis   CURTAIL RATIONS   Lessening Commercial Use, Banning Pleasure Driving Believed Sufficient 

Further Gas Cut Opposed By OPA   Proposal: To Cancel Coupons Rejected

Transit Workers Threaten Strike In Baltimore   Tieup of War-Booming City Now Believed Highly Probable

Senate Yields To Pressure on Farm “Ceilings”   For higher ceilings on some products; Senator Barkley fears runaway inflation. .

SENATE APPROVES CEILING IKE ON FARM PRODUCTS   Legislation Shoots Through Senate by One-sided Vote of 78 to 2   ADMINISTRATION FOES AND FRIENDS SUPPORT   How Much Bill, if Enacted, Will Add to Food Bills Is Question; Legislation Bars Farm Benefit Payments in Fixing Geilings

Senate Votes Ceiling Hoist   Would Permit An Advance On Some Farm Products

Higher Price Ceilings On Vegetables   Legislation Is Voted Through Senate With Backing Of Solons

Senate Revolts On Farm Measure   Higher Price Ceilings Approved, 77 to 2

Senate Passes Bill To Force’ Farm Prices Up   Benefit Payments Out In Setting Up Of Ceilina Scale

Senate Votes 78-2 to Raise.  Farm Ceiling   Barkley Joins Stampede In Overriding FDR, Bu Is Fearful

HIGHER FARM CEILING BILL PASSES, 78-2   ‘Senate Votes to Nullify Part of Roosevelt's _ Price Orders. 

Senate Votes Farm Price  Ceiling Boost   Would Mean Hike In Food Costs; Carries By 78-2

SENATE APPROVES HIGHER CEILINGS ON SOME FOODS   Friends and Foes of Administration Back Proposal to Give Farmer More Income.   COST TO CONSUMERS REMAINS IN DOUBT   But OPA Declares It Will Be Considerable—Legislation Now Goes to the House.

Senate Approves Higher Rate For Some Farm Goods  Expected To Add "Considerably" To Cost Of  Consumers Food Bill

HIGHER CEILING ON PRODUCTS OF FARM APPROVED   Senate Action Will Add Considerable To Present Cost Of Living   BUT TWO VOTES ARE CAST AGAINST BILL

Senate Passes Farm Price Bill  bb en er on OT  ee   Higher Ceilings Favored, 78 to 2?

Senate Passes Bill To Force’ Farm Prices Up  Benefit Payments   Benefit Payments Out In Setting Up Of Ceiling Scale

Senate Approve: Bil for Farm Price Increases   Legislation Passed By 78-2 Vote, but Must Go to House

8,000 Pennsylvania Miners Stop Work As Unrest Spreads   Commercial and Captive Workings Affected by Widening Strike Wave; Bosses Shun Demands to Join UMW

7,000 COAL MINERS IN STATE STRIKE; PROTEST WLB MOVE      Attempts To Have Miners In Other Workings Only Partially’.  Successful

WAVES OF STRIKES HIT PENNSYLVANIA   Resentment Is Shown by Miners on Wage Issue Over Large Area.

WAR PRISONER NAZI THREATS ALARM ALLIES   Churchill! Is Reported Giving Matter His Attention

ALLIES SLATE BERLIN ANSWER   U. S., BRITAIN, RUSSIA WILL REPLY TO THREAT

ALLIES DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER - NAZT THREATS   Will Send Representations te Berlin Delivering Our Attitude.

Seek to Prevent Nazi Retaliation   Allies to Appeal for Prisoners’ Safety

Allies Will Protest German Threat To Retaliate For Kharkov Hangings

‘Guilt Trial’ Protest Due   Allies: Take Up Issue Raised by Germany“

“BIG THREE” TO GIVE ANSWER TO NAZI THREAT   Representations To Berlin Tc Be Transmitted Thru Swiss Sources

ENEMY WEAKENS AS RUSSIANS INCREASE POWER OF ATTACK   900 Square. Miles In Donets Area Cleared Of Axia Invaders—Aim Ta. Cut Supplies

All Opposition Crushed; Heavy Gains Reported   Three Armies Smashing Forward In Caucasus, Donets, Don Sectors

“Red Star”, Russian Army Newspaper, Claims Reds Have Broken Inte Open Country Of Up. per Ukraine.

TRIO EXECUTED FOR TWO GOLF CLUB MURDERS   One Robber’s “True Story’ Of Miley Slayings Is Released

Thies Executed  For Glu Werser One Tells Story Of  "Marion Miley Killing

THREE DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR   Trio Convicted Of Slaying Golfer And Mother At Lexington Country Ciub

3 MEN DIE IN THE CHAIR FOR CRIMES   Trio Pays Penalty for Slay ing Miss Marion Miley, Mother, in Kentucky,

Today’s War Moves   BY THOMAS J. DONOHT?)  OT 6. BA RTS: , ee « Shes

Today’s War Commentary  World War 3  May Be Inevitable. Wallace Fear:

CLAMOR AGAINST ~MINUTT RISES IN CONGRESS BLOGS   John G. Winant Mentioned As Probable Successor In Mannower Joh.

Administration May Accept Lower Tax Bill   Officials Work Hard to Prevent Sales Levy Proaram

Administration May Accept Tax Bill Reduction   Treasury Force Still Battling Sales Tax

Administration May Accept Lower Tax Bill  Officials Work Hoar:   Officials Work Hard to Prevent Sales Levy Program

Lower U. §. Tax Goal Is Seen   Treasury Indicates Compromise Action

Petrillo Agrees To ~ Talk On Music Ban  Admits Opposition Has  Some Justification

ITALY TO DECLARE WAR TODAY, REPORT   Allies Said to Have Agreed te Recognize Her as Co-Belligerent Against Germany.

Wardwell Elected Selectman for ° be Term; Rev. E. P. Daniels and Mr: : . Florence Damon Win Contests

Wardwell Elected Selectman for Third Term; Rev. E. P. Da.siels and Mrs. _  Florence Damon Win Contests

Threat to Australia Is Believed Growing Despite Losses.   OUTPOSTS IN ISLANDS DANGER OF ATTACK   Air-power Is the Only Defense Hope of Allied Forces.

JAP NAVAL FLEET GATHERING FORCE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   MacArthur Asking For Planes To Fight Off Expected Attack. 106 Jap Planes Shot Down In Last Few Days.

Hit $25,000  Salary Limit   Attack Repealer To Measure To Inerease Debt Top: Flynn Stand Close.

Battle Due In Congress Over Salaries Limit   Repeal Move Launched; Administration _ Fights For Flynn O. K.

ROW OVER SALARY LIMITATIONS IS LOOMING, CONGRESS   Battle Forseen Even As Administration Forces Struggle For Senate Votes For Flynn Appointment

Congressional Battle Looming Over Administration Efforts To Limit Incomes At $25,000

LOOK FOR FIGHT OVER WARTIME SALARIES   Struggle for Votes To Assure Flynn Nomination

COPGRESS FIGHT OVER LIMETATION ‘SAE ARIES SHAPES [IP   ADMINISTRATION IS STRUGGLING ALSO FOR VOTES TO CONFIRM FLYNN

FIGHT LOOMS ON SALARY LIMIT   Congressional Battle Over President’s Order Taking Shape

Flynn Approval Poll In Senate Five Under Tie   Administration Has Only 43 Votes; Withdrawal Again Hinted In Capital

CONGRESSIONAL BOUT ON SALARY LIMITS STARTED   Administration Seeking Votes To O. K. Flynn

FIGHT SEEN OVER $25,000 LIMIT ‘ON SALARIES   ADMINISTRATION TRYING TO MUSTER MAJORITY FOR FLYNN

‘Administration Seeking Votes For Flynn OK  Only 43 Certain To Confirm, Five Short Of Necessary

Drive to Set Aside President's Salary Limit Order Gains   Foes of Executive Tres® pass Rally Around Rep. Gearhart’s Motion

Fight Expected On Salary Limit  Move Under Way To Balk F. D. Rs Plan

CONGRESS GIADS FOR SALARY FIGHT   Administration Forces Seek  to Round Up Enough Dems to Assure Flynn Nomination:

Fight Looms Over Limit To Salaries   Congressmen Oppose F. R Order; Senate Approval Of Flynn Sought

SALARY LIMIT ~~ BATTLE LOOM   Administration —_ Leaders Seek Votes to Assure Com --firmation of Flynn

$925,000 Salary Limit Promises Congress Fight   Flynn May Ask That His Name Be Withdrawn

French Battleship Escapes to America   30,000-Ton Richelieu, Cruiser And 2 Destroyers Run Axis Sub Gantket From Dakar to U.S.

Richelieu Defies Subs, Gale to Gain U. S.; Battleshin’s Arrival Held ‘Allied Virtary’

FRENCH BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU, TWO CRUISERS REACH U. S. FOR REPAIRS   Ry YORLETH MORTON

French Warships Arrive in U. S. To Be Repaired   Richelieu and Other Ships Elude U-Boats in MidAtlantic

Giant Pincers Again Threat To Axis Force   German Armies In Caucasus Ordered To Hold Positions At All Costs

COUNTER BL BY GERMANS IS REPELLED   Turned Back In Attempt Tc Rescue Troops In Trap  shattered inti tin   SOVIETS GAPTURE   Enemy Air Base, Seize 17 Airplanes, Two Million Shells, And Many Bombs.

Report Hitler Orders Eastern Troops to Hold   Declare Nazis Will Open ~ Sea Lines If Land Way Fails

Supplies May be Routed by Sea   U, S. Air Forces Aid with Attacks  In Southern Tunisia.

Russians Report Un broken String Of Suc cesses In All 5 Ke Battle Sectors.

Collapse of Whole Drive in Caucasus Seemingly Certain   Aerial Activities in Domination of News From  peer tO

LAST DITCH STAND REPORTED ORDERED FOR NAZIS IN EAST   HITLER’S ENTIRE CAMPAIGN CAUCASUS THREAT. ENED WITH COLLAPSE

NAZIS ORDERED TO HOLD POSTS   Armies in Caucasus Told to Prepare for Being Cut Off at Rostov.   -REOS TAKE NEW POINTS

Heavy Battles Rage on Five Russian Fronts   Entire Nazi Campaign in the Caucasus Threatened with Collapse; Hitler Orders His German Armies to Hold at All Costs

Hitler Orders His Nazis to Hold On   \Directs Last Stand in Cau' casus,. Where Germans  ' Face:Collapse   ‘MAY SUPPLY BY SEA   Soviet Army Triumphs Re‘ported in Five Key Sec : tors of Line

Axis Prepares For Red Push Across Rostey   Gather Fleet In Black Sea For Use When Land Sup. ply Route C ut By Foe.   AAF AIDS IN TUNSSIA

Pincers Snap Around More German Men   Russians Capture Big Air Base, Much War Material

NEW RED TRAP IMPERILS MORE OF NAZI TROOPS   Hitler Wants Front Held Even if Rostov Should Be Cut Off

hitler Orders Army To Hold At All Costs   Even If Russians Cut Off Escape Corridor At Rosto:   American Aircraft Score In Africa   Axis Air Strength Being Worn Down Ry The Allies

Nazis Battered On Five Fronts   Soviet Columns Only 30 Miles Apart In Don -

HEAVY FIGHTS RAGE ON FIVE VITAL FRONTS   Fresh Russiar: Trap in Don Bend Looms as Troops Advance

Germans Rushing Plans to Supply Armies by Sea   U.S. Planes Aid Ground Troops in Battle for Tunisia

ANOTHER SOVIET PINCER ABOUT TO CLOSE ON NAZIS   17 PLANES AND HALF MILLION BOMBS CAPTURED BY REDS

TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES ABOUT TO BE JOINED   Giant Forces Lack But Thirty Miles of Forging Final Link in Ring  Around Garrisons   GAIN ON FIVE FRONTS

Masses Fleet To Supply His Armies By Ses   Disaster Confronting Axis Legions On Five Fronts; New Trap May Re Snrung Rv Vatuatin

On Five Great Fronts Battles Rage in Russia   Red Armies Threaten to Spring Fresh Trap On Nazis in Don Bend.   Lack Only 30 Miles  Final Encirclement

HITLER ORDERS NAZIS TO HOLD OUT AT ANY COST   sermans In Russia Ordered To Stand To Last Ditch; May Try To Supply Them By Air; Big Battles On  Five Russian Fronts

REDS MENACE GERMANS WITH ANOTHER TRAP   New Hazard Faces Nazis In Don Bend. Berlin Claims Denounced as “Hitler Lies”

Nazis on Caucasus Front Are Told to Hold at All Costs  Germans Plan to Supply Armies Tt Fy. &__

GERMANS FACING ANOTHER TRAP IN DON RIVER SECTOR   Spearlieads of Two Red Armies Only Thirty Miles Apart; British Airmen Ramb Ruhr Again.

Order Nazis To Hold Firm  In Caucasus   Germans Plan to Bring Supplies by Sea If Rostov Route Is Cut

Hitler Orders Troops To Hold at All Costs   Australians Believe Large Scale Operz tions in South Seas Imminent—U. S. Planes Active in North Africa

Hitler Orders Armies Hold At All Costs   Entire: Axis Campaign In Caucasus Threatened - With Collapse by Fieree Red Army Offensive

Tunisian Fighting Now Settled Down To State Of Long, Bloody Siege

‘ Kisenhower Warns Future Advances Will Be Costly: ‘U.S. Bombers Hit Bremen   American Casualties Are 5.372

U.S. Russian Planes Attack German Cities   Reds Attack Koenigsberg, Tilsit; Yankees Blast Bre men In Day Raid.    FIX LINES IN AFRICA

SLASH SEEN IN VEGETABLE CROP   13 Per Cent Reduction Is Blamed On Poor Weather, Midwest Floods

DROP EXPECTED IN VEGETABLE ~  PRODUCTION DUE TO WEATHER   SLASH OF. 18 PER CENT IN FRESH VEGETABLE PKODUCTION 18 PREDICTED ——--» BY AGRICULTURE  DEPARTMENT

FRESH VEGETABLES.   Reduction of 3 Percent This : Year Is Predicted.

ALLIED AIR 105 INITALY   312 Persons Reported Injured in Naples and Palermo According To Broadcast

105 ITALIANS DIE IN ALLIED AIR ATTACKS   312 Persons Injured at Naples, Palermo

Repeats Charges Of Feud Between Hull And Welles In U. S. State Department

Congress Will Convene on Wednesday   Ten Major. Problems Post Knotty Issues for Solons

LUNGHEoo I TARE HAND IN PEAGE PLANG   Convenes Wednesday Hoping to See Victory Before Session Ends.   G, 0. P. TO BATTLE FOR MORE iNDEPENDENCE

78TH CONGRES. OPENS otoolllh ON WEDNESDAY   Democrat And Republican Battle Holds Greatest Interest Of Nation   IMPORTANT MATTERS UP FOR CONSIDERATION   Independence Of Congress From Pres. Roosevelt Is GOF Objective

78th Congress Facing Stormy War Questions   Legislature To Convene Wed: nesday With High Hopes Of Victory And Peace-Making

PEACE TERMS MAY BE TASK FOR CONGRESS   LAWMAKERS FACE CRITICAL YEAR OF WAR

NewCongressMay Have Stormy Year   Will Convene for 78th Session Wednesday ‘ May Have Chance to Help Dictate Peace Terms

CONGRESS FACES CRITICAL YEAR   Session Opening Wednesday Expected To Show Upsurge In Leadership

gress Hopes  To Win War and To Write Peace  OO ee EA Be   Those of Nationalist And Internationalist Views Seek Advantage

Congress Meeting Wednesday. . Hor Hope. Of Seeing Victory : ~ WonAnd.Of Preparing Peace

Congress Faees Session  Fraught With Headaches   Close Division of Republicans and Demos Will Bring ' Much Political Jockeying; Problems Related to War in Offing

Congress Faces Critical Period   a New Session To ~ Open Wednesday

°43 Congress May Write Peace Plan      78th Congress To Convene Wednesday With Hopes Of Seeing Victory For U. S.

C ongress wil Big War —   Critical Year Ahead In Moves For Victory  Over The Axis

CONGRESS FACES » CRITICAL YEAR OF WORLD WAR   Lawmakers Convene Wednesday With Hopes of Victory In Next 12 Months

FDR, EXPECTED TO FACE TROUBLE IN NEW CONGRESS   Strengthened Republican Minority to Fight for New Independence From White House.   SESSION TO GET UNDER WAY JAN, ¢   Tax and Wage-Hour ProbJems to Come Up—Factions Maneuver for Places ot Power.

NO MY DITY TO GOD AND MY COLINTRY’   STEVENSON MAY ACT ON LABOR BILL SOOK   RUML PLAN DEFEAT PLEASES MORGENTHAU

NEW PLAN ON TAK SEEMS NECESSARY   Morgenthau Does Not Expect Any Pay-As-You-Go Plan For Present Year.

Sees No Pay-Go Fffected For ’43   Wartime No Time For Discussing Forgiveness

Suggested Anti-Strike Measure Needs Teeth . . Strikes Averaged Ten Per Day In November Despite No-Strike Law

GOODLAND ASKING — BBENTER ECONOMY   People Misled Into Thinking . State Has Big Surplus, He Says.

Goodland Puts His Signature  On Budeet Bill   Calls On Legislature To Eliminate Further Appropriations; = No Big Surplus, He Says

Goodland Paints Gloomy Picture of Cash Balance   Says People Have Been Misled; Asks Care In Spending

OPENS DEBATE ONTAXES   With Denunciations of Rum Skip-A-Year Plan. Declares Plan  Unsound -

Start Debate On Pay-As-Go  Tax Program   ey : Fee ‘  Ruml Plan Called ‘Unsound  — By Demos, ‘Progressive’ Bv Republicans.   LOOK TO COMPROMISE

Ruml Program Is Termed “Tax Heresy” by Doughton   Chairman Declares System Would Bankrupt Business Unite Hurt L awer Inecame Crnun

QOUGHTON nila RUML TAX PLAN   Democrat Denounces Proposition As ‘Immoral, Unsound, Heresy.’   BILL LACKS PRECEDENT

DOUGHTON FLAYS FORGIVING TAX PLAN   Rum! Measure Is Unsound, Says Carolinian

Rum! Plan Attacked By Doughton   Proposal To Skip Year Of Taxes Is Called Immoral And Unsound By Committee Head

Pay-As-You-Go Compromise In House Foreseen   Would Abate A Large Portion Of One Year’s Income Taxes.

BRANDS UML PLAN ERE ANG UNSOUNE   Doughton Opens Tax Debate in House With Defense of Compromise.   KNUTSON SAYS “SKIP YEAR” PLAN PROGRESSIVE

Ruml Plan Is Declared “Tax Heresy’   Rep. Doughton Launches Debate for Democrats in ‘Fight Over Tax Bill .   ‘NOT THE/TIME TO EXPERIMENT’   But Republicans Say There Is Nothing Wrong With Frovosal

Calls Ruml Tax  Plan ‘Heresy’   ‘Immoral and Unsound,' Says Doughton

Doughton Flays Ruml Tax Plan   “Tax Heresy,” He Says—‘‘Immoral And Unsound”

TAX BILL DEBATE OPENED IN HOUSE ‘WITH COMPARISONS  _ DOUGHTON OPPOSES ANY ” REBATES AND KNUTSON HEARD IN ANSWER

DEBATE OPENS © ONRUML PLAN   Doughton Denounces. Tax   Idea as immoral: and - Unsound,.” 

Debate Opens InHouse on Tax Proposals   Doughton Leads Opposition to Skip-a-Year Plan

Abatement Compromise Anticipated  ALddla.Raad Plan   Middle-Road Plan Adoption Seen As House Debate Opens

SKIP - A- YEAR PLAN CALLED “TAX HERESY’   Chairman Doughton Opens Debate on Legislation With Scathing Denunciation   COMPROMISE SOUGHT

DENOUNCED AND PRAISED   . ++ Doughton And Knutson Open House Debate   Knutson Replies.

HOUSE,. SENATE TO GATHER NEWS EVEN DURING VACATION   No Recess For: Investigators ‘Of Administration’, Conduct Of War

HOLD oTRATEGIC CAPITAL POINTS   Bloodshed Occurs In  Clash On Outskirts Of ' Ruenos Aires   LED BY RAMIREZ   President Castillo Transfers Seat Of Government To Warship

LONDON LAUGHS AT MUSSOLINTS "LIBERATION?   “Never in Alhed Hands,” Reply to German Claim

ALLIES SCOFF AT NAZI CLAIM DUCE IS FREED   Mussolini Never In Allied Hands  een ena  REICH BOASTEUL German Chutists Involved

Let's Go To Wilhelmshaven In A Flying Fortress For A Whack At Nazis  Reporter On First Trip With Death-Dealing Bomber Over German Soil Says He’s Awed. Not Frightened   By GLADWIN HILL Associated Press Siaff Writer

HILL TELLS GF BOMBING OF GERMAN POST   Associated Press Correspond ent Rides With Raiding Party to Wilhelmshaven; American Air Armada   Like Quiet Motoring

eeiemmets:,.  Tees 9 19 Wilne:msnaven In A Flying Fortress For A Whack At Nazis  Reporter On First Trip With Death-Dealing Rowler Over German Soil Says He’s Awed. Not Frigqhtonod

NAVY INCREASE TO BE 500,000   Expansion Necessary To Man Growing Fleet, WMC Reveals

POCPCECCSC COE EPE DDD OOTP]  500,000 To Be Added To Navy by July, 1944

'Navy to Increase Strength 500,000 in First Six Months Of 1944: Army Little Changed

CLAIM BRITISH SUBS LOST AFTER ATTACK   Nazis Declare None Return; British Reveal 3 U-Boats Lost in Tirpitz Action

Pacific Drive To Be Costly   Losses in Gilbert Islands Are Heavy

Costly Campaigt Lies Ahead In Pacific, Seen  Heavy Losses Suffered in Gilberts Drive

USE OF FORCE MEANT   Framer Of Senate Peace Resolution Admits “Police” Possibility

Solon interprets Resolution As ‘Embracing Possibility of Military ‘Force to Suppress Aggression

GAS OVERCOMES “IN AGED COUPLE   Bill De Vos of Ireton Called To Parents’ Home *

FLOOD SPREADS AS DIKE BREAKS   Qmaha Airport Inundated: Waters. Cover. Thousands: .Of Acres In 2 States.

Would Curb Pistol Sales In Maryland   Speaker Conlon Drews Measure Providing Drastic Regulations

WIDESPREAD RAIDS MADE BY BRITISH   NORTHERN FRANCE AND LOWs LANDS BOMBED WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE PLANE.

Swarms of Allied Planes Range Over Lowlands   Northern French Area Raked by RAF and Reich Bombed Also

ALLIES RAID NORTH FRANCE AND LOWLANDS   Caen, Cherbourg, Flushing And Airdrome Near Le Havre Suffer; 3 German Planes Destroyed.   New Type Plane

Bombers Swarm Nazi Held Areas   ‘Northern France And. Lowlands Hit.

Swarms of Allied Planes Range Over Lowlands  Northern French Are:   Northern French Aree Raked by RAF and Reich Bombed Also

RAF BOMBERS BLAST FRANCE AND LOWLANDS   Le Havre And Cherbourg Are Major Objects Of Heavy Attacks; New Fighter Used   London Toll Mounts

155,000 WORKERS RETURN TO WORK, PASEVELT FIR   Pittsburgh Union Members Are Leaders, 50,000 Strong, Under Orders of Murray, CIO Executive.   2500 REMAIN IDLE AT CRUCIBLE STEEL CG.   Some Men Resume Operations on Midnight Shifts After War Labor Board Issues An Order.

News Day And Night   FDA AGT Fo TO PREVENT Ua AAIL STOPPAGE   ClO President Murray Orders Steel Workers Back To Work

REICH RUSHING CIVILIANS FROM GERMAN CAPITAL   Fear Repetition Of Attacks On Key Coast Port

German Authorities Said to Have Ordered Evacuation of Non-Essential — Citizens Immediately ©   “NEAR PANIC" PREVAILS

LEADERS FEAR CITY NEXT ON ALLIED BLITZ   Women. Children, Elderly People Told To Find Homes In Safer Areas   “NEAR PANIC” REPORTED   Danish Workers Say Uncontrolled Fires Rage In BombBlasted ‘ Hamburg

EVACUATION OF GERMANS FROM BERLIN STARTS   Authorities Speeding Removal of Women, Children and Non-Essential Males From City   FEAR ALLIED BLITZ; MANY ARE PANICKY   Population Warned it Must Be Prepared For Fate That Has Befallen Hamburg

Nazis Reported Leaving Berlin To Avoid Raids  Capital OF Reich   Capital Of Reich Expects It Will Be Next On List

Berlin Jittery Over Air Raids   Authorities Speed Evacattion of Civilians in Fear  of a Blitz.

Berlin Fearful Hambure’s Fate May Await It   City In Near Panic As Nonessential Persons Hastily Evacuated

Evacuation Of Berlin Ordered   Fate of Hamburg Spreads Panic in Reich Capital; “We May Be Bombed Teday or Tomorrow,’ Residents Warned

 Hamburg Caused It ‘Berlin in. Near Panic As. Civilians Are Evacuated

NON-ESSENTIAL CITIZENS TOLD TO LEAVE BERLIN   Authorities Speeding Evacuation, Fearing That German Capital Will Be Next On Allied Blitz List.

Evacuation Of Berlin Speeded By Nazi Chiefs   Children, Old People Urged To Leave As Panic Strikes City

Germans Speed Evacuation Of All Unessential Civilians From Berlin   Anticipate Aerial Blitz Similar To That Which Has Left Great Port Of Hamburg A Heap Of Smoking Rubble.

—BERLIN— .  EVACUATION OF BERLIN SPEEDED   Leaflets Circulated Instructing Women Anc Children To Leave   CITY IS PANICKY   Harbor District Of Hamburg Reported Wiped Out By Allies

CIVILIANS FLEE BERLIN IN FEAR OF AIR ATTACK   Mass Evacuation of German Capital Comes After Hamburg Devastated   NAZIS ADMIT NEW THREAT   Schools Close and People Flock To Country and Dig Shelters in City

BERLIN GETS BLITZ JITTERS   Civilians Evacuated, Public Is Warned To Expect Rain of Allied Bombs.

BERLIN DIGS IN TO ENDURE A COVENTRY   Women, Children, Others Or . dered Out; Hamburg In Ruins

CIVILIANS ARE WARNED 10 GET OUT OF BERLIN   Authorities Speed Evacuation Of German Capital; People Told To Expect Bomb Attacks On Unprecedented Scale.

Germans Rush Evacuation Of Unessential Civilians . From Berlin; Fear: Blitz -

German Capital Panic - Stricker   Berlin Fears Fate O Blasted Hamburq

Vice President Declares RFC Head Has Harassed Board of Economic Warfare in Its Efforts to Help Shorten the War.

Commerce Leader Assailed By Wallace   ‘Obstructionist Tactics’ Employed Tx Harrass Economic Warfare Board, Say: Vice-President In Statement

WALLACE HITS AT REG HEAD   Jones Counters With Accusation of ‘Malice and Mistatements.’ a.   SERIOUS CHARGES MADE

Jesse Jones FloutedBEW, Wallace Says   “Declares RFC Failed to Build Up Stockpiles of Essential Goods

JONES FEELS LASH   Secretary of Commerce Labelle! ‘Obstructionist’

Wallace Raps RFC Head For ‘Obstruction’   Failure To Build Up Stockpiles As Ordered By Congress Charged   JONES SEES ‘MALICE’      BEW Chief Declares Sec. tetary Created ‘False Im. pressién’ In Testimony

Secretaryof 3 Commerce Branded ‘Obstructionist’   Economic Warfare Board Statement Carries Charges

R. F. C. Failed Dismally, Says Vice Presideni      ‘Sense of Public Duty Outweighs Reluctance to Discuss Facts’   STALLED FOR MONTHS. ON PLANTING OUININE   Tells of MacArthur’s Wire to Plant Seeds Without Delay;Quick. Denial by Jones

_ New Feud > In Washington   Shortage of 75,000 Teachers Predicted

Chairman, In His Reply, Charges Vice President With ‘Malice And Mis statements.’

Contends Board Has Been Hampered In Efforts To Build Up Stocks Of Strategic Materials

Jesse Jones And Wallace In Bitter Row   Accusations Hurled By Heads of R. F. C. And B. E. W.; Dispute Of Long Standing

Feud Breaks Out Over War Buying   Vice President Wallace and Jesse-Jones in Bitter change   BLOCKS ECONOMIC WAR   Charge He. Obstructed is Malicious Misstatement, Says Jones .

BITTER DISPUTE OF 2 OFFICIALS FLARES FORTH   Secretary Jones Says’. Statement by Vice. . President Has “Malice”

Mussolini Says He Is Head of Sfafe   Allows He’s Chief of Republican Fascist State

German Peace Offer Due Soon, Neutrals Say   Hitler Hopes To Use Spain And Sweden As -Go-Betweens

U.S. UNITS PICk UP 9 MILES AND BRITISH GAIN 4   Bright Sunshine Replaces Heavy Rains of Past Week

CHRISTIANS NEED TO KEEP GROWING   ‘Abounding’ The Theme Discussed By Rev. Jos. L. Grier

JAPS WEAKEN IN SOLOMONS, ABANDON VILA   AUSTRALIANS MOVE UP VALLEY TO MADANG

Strategy For Japs Talked   Retreat Shows Weakness’ Of Foe In Solomons, FDR Says

W.L.B. Is Being Defied As Anthracite Strike Is Not Ended   BOARD MAY GIVE CASE TO PRESIDENT

Italian War Prisoners At Camp Perry Get Fair, Firm Treatment; Help On Farms

Cold Snap Here Just Like Good Old Summer Time in Iceland, Girl Says

Icelandic GirlHappy = ="  Tech Student Says Cold Snap Her “Summertime’”

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Fleet of 13 Warships, Sink Three and Damage 4 Others

JAPANESE WAR VESSELS SUNK   One Heavy And One Light Cruiser Are Included.

Russians Gain On The Dnieper, Lose Near Kiey   20-Mile Advance Reported Scored By Reds After Push Through Nazi Line

NEW 20-MILE ADVANCE   ‘Russians Break Thru Nazi Defenses East of a Railway

NAZIS MENACED IN RED SMASH AT KRIVO! ROG      New Russian Offensive Apparently Designed To Avert Germans

KIEV DRIVE. OF GERMANS STIPCEFDING   Soviets Get Twenty Miles On Dnieper River Bend

Reds Advance In Dnieper Bend Drive   But Germans Gain In Counter-Blow West of Kiev

NAZI POSITION MENACED TODAY BY RED ARMIES   Report 3,000 Slain Yesterday In New Soviet Assault

NEW RUSSIAN SUCCESSES OFFSET THE GERMAN GAINS   Nazis Counterattacked West of Kiev, Moscow and Berlin Reports.   SOVIET GAIN 20 MILES   Broke Through Nazi Defense East of Kremenchug-Znamenka Railway.

RUSSIAN TROOPS BREAK THROUGH IN DNIEPER BEND   Soviets Making Drive To Encircle Krivoi Ror   GERMANS PUSHING: BACK TOWARD KIEV

Thrust May Be Designed to Di. verl Altacks in Korosiyshev Sector of Ukraine   GERMANS ATTACK   Russians Report Eight Nazi Defense Bases South of Kremenchug Overrun

SCORE GAIN IN DNIEPER RIVER BEND   Germans Register New Successes ‘Near. Zhitomir.

Soviets Gain in Dnieper Bend; Nazis Advance  In Push on Kiev   Reds Break KremenehugZnamenka Rail Link

Nazi Attacks East of Zhitomir Beaten  Off by Red Forces   Russians Score Gains on Other Fronts of Long Battle Line

HED GAING ON HIVE OFFatT WEST OF KIEV   Russians Advance 20 Miles in Dnieper Bend to Cut Railway.

Berlin Claims Nazi Gains West of Kiev, But Moscow Seys Zhitomir Tide Is Turning

Red Gain Offset By  Germans   Counterattacks in Dnieper Bend Are  Continuing

New Russian Successes Offset Gains By Nazis   Soviet Forces Advance 20 Miles Afier Break Through Line; Germans Successful Near Kiev

Fresh Red Gains — Offset by German Push Near. Kiev   Nazis Claim Break-Through in Line West of Key Dnieper River Fortress: Soviets-_Drive 28 Miles at Znamenka’

SOVIETS GAIN 20 MILES IN ONIEPER BEND      Troops Crack German Defenses East of Kremenchug-Znamenka Railway—Nazis Claim Advance West of Kiev.

CONTERATTACK WEST OF KIEV CONTINUES   Nazis Have Little Except Dead To Show In Offensive

SOVIETS SCORE SUCCESSES IN DNIEPER BEND   Offset by Further German Gains In Their Counter-Attacks West of Kiev   NAZIS MENACED IN KRIVO!I ROG AREA   Russians Advance 20 Miles After Breaking Through Hun Defenses of Kre menchug-Znamenka

New Russian Gains Reported In Dnieper Area   Successes Offset By Further Nazi Advance Near Kiev

MINERS URGED TOTRIMDEMAND ON OPERATORS   Told Unionization of Personnel Below. Superintendents Might Destroy  Private Enterprise _   ANSWER TO O’LEARY   Head Producers Association Seeks to Vote On Unionist’s Demand For Expanding Membership

Operator Warns Union Demand Endangers All U. S. Private Enterprise

MINERS URGED 10 MODIFY DEMANDS   Union Membership Proposal Seen Death Blow to Private Enterprise.

NAZIS BUILD IN JUTLAND         Camouflaged Military! Towns to Base Units =, for “Invasion”

Germans Build Strongpoint To Defend Denmark   Camouflaged Military Towns In Jutland To Be Nerve Centers.

Nazis Build Strongholds In Jutland   "Nerve Centers" Designed to Check Invasion

INVASION DEFENSE IS STRENGTHENED IN DENMARK BY NAZIS   Troops Concentrated at Strategic Centers

GERMANS BOLSTER DENMARK DEFENSES   Anti-Invasion Steps In Jutland Area Are Taken By Jittery Nazis

GERMANS BUILD TOWNS AGAINST ALLIED THRUST   Well-Camouflaged Military Villages Spring Up in Jutland td House Troops   DEFENSE GATEWAY © TO REICH BOOSTED   Estimated 200,000 Nazis in  Denmark; Meanwhile,  - Danish Sabotage Con  tinues Unchecked

Germans Build Camouflaged Military Towns In Jutland Aqainst Invasion

‘Little Steel’ Formula Center Of Controversy   Defended by WLB Rule In Face of Demands For Inerease in Wares

Davis Holds toWLBRule As to Wages   JOHN L. LEWIS ISSUES CRITICISM OF “LITTLE STEEL” FORMULA FOR DETERMINATION OF WAGE INCREASES.   Themas Joins Outcry

Assail “Little Steel” Wage Formula Unions to Demand Pay Increases

Predict Revision Of Wage Scales  Union Demands Flood War Lahar Raard

Wage Policies  Of WLB Shake   Board Faces Growing Demands From Labor Unions For Wage Increases.

LITTLE STEEL PACT RAPPED   Lewis ~ ounces WLB’s Wage Formula As ‘Outrageous’

LABOR CHAFING OVER FORMULA OF LABOR BOARD   Union Leaders Claim Federal Agency’s 15 Percent Wage Policy Is Silly   DIRECT ACTION CAN BE EXPECTED SOON

Truce Is Approved By Russia; Capitulation Called Greatest Allied Victory Of The War

Haly Orders Troons to End Fight   To Oppose “Attacks From Any Other Quarter”

Badoglios Forces to Fight It Hitler Tries to Interfere   Sailors Asked Not to Scuttle Ships, Told That Germans Are Their Foes

All Hostilities To Terminate Immediately   Italian Troops Ordered to Drop Fighi Against Allies But Oppose Attacks from Any Other Quarter

Eisennower Announces Axis Partner ‘Asks For Unconditional Surrender;  Greatest Allied Victory Of Conflict

HITLER'S ‘EUROPEAN FORTRESS’ CRACKED AS ITALIANS QUIT — WAR ON ALLIED PEACE TERMS    Greatest Victory for Allied Arms In Four Years I: Accomplished As War-Sick Junior Axis Partner, Bombed and Battered and Seared Gives Up

Eisenhower Grants Military Armistice To Badoglio’s Government; Action Approved By Great Britain And Russia

Berlin, Rome, Tokyo Entente Loses Member   Announcement Comes as Italian Troops Give Up In Droves

Armistice Plan Okayed By U:S., Britain, Russia   General Eisenhower Announces Greatest Vic tory For Allied Forces In Four Years Of Fighting

Armistice Is Announced by Gen. Eisenhower   Decision Was Made Friday; Meaning in Full Yet Unclear

ARMISTICE IS GRANTED BY EISENHOWER   Agreement Is Reached By Allies, Italians Week Ago

Orders Italian Troops Cease All Hostility to Anglo-American Forces but Indicates Ficht if Germans Interfere   FLEET TOLD MAKE ALLIED PORTS   Armistice Announcement Purposely Delayed by Eisenhower for ‘Moment Most Favorable to Allies’   Russia Joins in Annroval

Marshal Badoglio Issues Order to Italians To Cease Fighting At Once   BY EDWARD KENNEDY

Italian Government Orders Troops to Drop the Fight Against Allied Forces; Germans’ Report 200 Transports of Yanks Moy-"  ing for More Attacks =

Armistice Signed Last Friday Effective with Eisenhower's — Announcement; Italians Asked To Rid Italy of the Germans   Badoglio Government Accepted Terms Stated At Casablanca After Weeks of Negotiation; Allied Planes Rain Pamphlets on Italy with Appeals To Clear Out German Oppressors

Unconditional  Armistice Is Granted Italy   Swift Break-Up Finds Enemy Troops Beating Hasty Retreat

Armistice Effected On Terms Of Unconditional Surrender: Italy May Fight With Allies   Badoslio Tells Italians Cease Firing  ‘On Allies But Repel All Other Inv aders

Fe  Italy Admonished Not to Scuttle Its Fleet or to Allow Capture

Soldiers Ordered To Cease Fighting Against Invaders   Armistice Granted After Surrender On ‘Unconditional’ Basis; May Turn Forces On Germans At Invitation of Allies

Eisenhower Grants Military Armistice As Unconditional Terms Are Accepted By Foe

Eisenhower Announces Unconditionat Surrender in Great Victory.   REDS OKEH ARMISTICE

ACCEPTS TERMS BY EISENHOWER: FIGHTING STOPS   Effective at Once, Armistice Binds Italy to Gomply With Conditions Which Allies May Impose Later,

Fighting Ceases  At Once   Armistice Signed in Sicily Five Days Ago With Approval of Both Britain and Russia

TALTANS QUIT THE WAR! (IVE UP; LAY DOWN ARMS   ‘Surrender is Unconditional; Italian People Rejoice at Being Freed From Slaughter.

BIGGEST ALLIED VICTORY IN FOUR YEARS OF WAR   P~ RTWARN KENNET Y.

Meets Full Terms of Allies; Hostilities are Ended Immediately      Eisenhower Grants Military Armistice With Approval of United States, British And  Russian Governments

This Announcement Was Made Today by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Greatest Knockout Victory for Allied Arms in 4 Years of War.   ORDERED 10 DROP FIGHT AGAINST THE ALLIES   Che Armistice, Which Was Signed in Sicily, Last Friday, Was Approved by Russia, the United States and Great Britain.

rategic Pass Falls; oscow Reports New rieper Basin Gains   gonaut, Largest American Submarine, Is Lost Pacific; U. S. Flyers Strike Italy Again; itish Armies Rush Aid to African Battle Center

rm “ARE DENTED IN TUNISH   Successes OFSoviet Army Keep Mounting

Beginning Of Allied Invasion Of Europe Likely To Come Soon  GLENN BABE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Final Crushing Of Axis Resistance In Tunisia Mere Matter Of Time

FIGHTING INVASION   Despite Opposition, Blasting Continues — Allied Landing Now [mminent,

Alsiers, London Report. Allied Landing Blockade  OF Pantelleria Imminent

Twelve Enemy Planes Are Shot Down   Italians Continue To Ignore Warning Pespite Bombardments

Wave After Wave Of Air Force Drops Bombs And Navy Pounds Batteries

Newest invasion Surprise   MacArthur Taunts Japanese Fleet To Come Out, Fight

Greater Awards for Production Efficiency Sought by Congressman Dewey; Would ‘Encourage Investment of ‘Risk Capital’

Bulgaria Threatened By Civ   As Army Demands Peace Army Guns Smash G Preparations For Couni fensive   ROUNDUP BY GESTAPO STARTS IN RUN

Victory Is Certein-Stimson   American and British Ar mies Join Forces—Ant werp Is Bombed

iu'sPartisans faling Back. in Balkan Fighting   jes, However, Improve gsition on Aegean leaned of Leros.

Tito Pushed Back by Nazi Troops   But in Balkan Fight To East Allies Strengthen Position

Labor of Axis ls U 5. ‘Enemy   Workers Are Urged To Recognize Fact

Leaders Appeal To Workers on Labor Day Eve   Roosevelt Praises Production Effort

Leaders Urge Workers  To Boost Production   Greater Efforts Needed to Shorten War, Save Lives of Soldiers; Axis Laborers Viewed as Enemies

Labor's Efforts In War Lauded   Axis Workers Cited  As Deadly Enemies

American Workingman Is Urged to Still Mightier  / Effort in Building Materials to Shorten War

‘Beat Axis,’ Is Call to Labor   Foreign Workers Weld SPorpcanal Pruaemsiect

Nation’s Leaders Praise Labor, Ask Continued All-Out Production: Cite Axis Workers as Powerful Foe

GIRAUD HEADS FRENCH ARMY   DeGaulle Is Reported President Of Council

lhe War ft oday— Italy Invasion Not Second Front, ‘The Big Show In Europe Yet To Come

THE WAR TODAY  INVASION OF ITALY INDICATES STRIKING POWER OF UNITED NATIONS.

INVASION OF ITALY HEARTENING EXHIBITION OF ALREADY GREAT AND GROWING POWER OF ATIIFS

The War Today  Invasion of Italy Indication of Rapidly Growing Strength.

iVAR NEWS ‘ANALYSIS   Allied Invasion Of Italy Not Opening Of Main Battle: In Europe

Not The Big Show, Hints MacKenzie Keep An Eye Cocked For Other Tricks

Invasion of Italy Is Not Much Debated "2nd Front’ it’s a Job Which Had To Be Done

INVASION ITALY EXHIBITION OF ALLIED POWER   Shouldn’t Assume its The Anxiously Awaited Conti nental ‘Invasion—MacKania

‘Big Show’ Yet to Come States Famous Analyst Of New Allied Offensive

Berlin Admits Situation Is ‘Critical’   Nazi Broadcast Says Germans and Italians Will Fight to End

OW! Chief: Stirs: - Congress Ire   Elmer Davis Accused -Of S\Muzzling:Polic’

Senator Bridges Flays Elmer Davis, Asserts He Seeks to Become Propaganda ‘Boss’   PRESS DEFENDED   Davis, In Speech Before _ Newspaper Guild, Held Washington Coverage ‘Not Adequate’

Congress Hits At Elmer Davis   Criticism of Press By OWI Director Arouses Storm

Chief. Of OWI Criticized For His Attack On Pres:   Davis Accused Of Effort T« Cover New Deal’s “Sins Of Mal-Administration In War Effort’’

Billion Dollar Flood Control Project ls Approved   Everybody Was For It Al Conference in Sioux. .~ City Tuesday «

JAPANESE POSITIONS ON KISKA BLASTED 10 TIMES IN ONE DAY   Allied Aerial Strength in Solomons Put at 4,000 Planes.

GERMAN HOME FRONT CRACKS:   Moral Dissolution Com plete, Is Report

Not Wishful Thinking, But Cold Fact  German Morale Now In Complete Collapse

SPECIAL WRITER IN STOCKHOLM SAYS GERMANS CRACKING  _ NAZI HOME FRONT IN _ COMPLETE MORAL DISSOLUTION IS CLAIM

OPECIAL WRITER  IN STOCKHOLM SAYS  GERMANS CRACKING NAZI HOME FRONT IN  COMPLETE MORAL DISSOLTIITION IC CLAIM

Nazi Home Front Breaking Down, Morale Wrecked   German People Lose Faith In Everything; Hitler Silent

Farm Leaders Ask Increase In Prices   Also Urge 54-Hour Industrial Work Week And No Overtime Pay  DEMAND MORF HFETP

Increased Farm Prices Asked _   Farm Leaders Call for Legislation

Farm Groups Seeking Price Raises   Ask Increase in Industrial Workers’ Hours

Small Force Of Marine Paratroops Frighten Japs For More Than Week

JAPS ON CHOISEUL FOOLED BY MARINES      Small Force Harassed Enemy to Cover Bougainville Landina.

Japs Fooled Completely in Island Clash   Marines Atiacking Choiseul Harried Enemy While Big ger Move Was Launched

Marines Fool Japs   Landings on-Choiseul a Feint to ‘Cover Action on Bougainville

Battle Tide Against Axis In All Areas   Italians Surrender By The Thousands

TWO-WAY COURT TEST UNDER WAY FOR MINERS PAY   UMW Files Suit in Federal Court at Birmin pom for Portal-to-Portal

Red Offensive Reported by the Nazis   Big-Scale Attacks on Novorossisk Declared Under Way

GROUND ACTION INTENSIFIES   Russian Army Is Reported To Have Opened Offensive.

Reds Angry Over Delay In 2nd Front   Communist Paper Accuses Allies of Breaking Promise

iLondon Predicts ‘Epochal’ Event  ! Pictures Chiang, Benes  Attendine Parlew

S. we qe : whene wen = are OL pe ey al  - 99  we P-ss.> cy   Ze.ieve aang anc. enes ave ~atnec ‘fomencous Con-2"ences

Epochal Allied Move Awaited   ‘Big Three’ Plans  For Nazis Expected By RICHARD G. MASSOCK  Beaenrintan DOvracae GVtanlts Ul elitae

Peace Principles Expected to Be ‘Announced Shortly   Document Expected to Be Dratied at Meeting of President Roosevelt, and Premiers Stalin and Churchill

‘Big Three Tolnsist Germany Qui   ‘Declaration Due ~ . From Allied Leaders Within Few Days

Vital Document Expected from  ‘Big 3’ Parley   Possible Demand for German Surrender May Be Made Soon

Declaration of Epochal Importance at Meeting Of “Big Three’ Expected

Epochal Declaration Signed by Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt Expected Soon

Allied Demands For Peace To Be Announced Soon   FDR, Churchill, Stalin May Issue Statement

Big ‘3’ May Ask German Surrender   Epochal Declaration Expected At Coming Diplomatic Meeting

Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Rumored En Route to Meeting   Statement Of Epocha! Importance Is Expected Within A Few Days, According To Foreign News Dispatches

ALLIED ULTIMATUM MAY GO TO NAZIS   EXPECT THREE-POWER * PAR-LEY TO LAY DOWN EXACT  TERMS OF SURRENDER,

Allied “Big Three” Expected ‘To Soon Make Declarations   Document, Reported to be Outgrowth of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, May Involve Possible Demand for Germany's Surrender

Epochal Allied Move Awaited   "Big Three’ Plans  Eor Navzic<c Exnecter

U. S. Flying Fort  Downs Four Nazi  Planes In Fight New Englanders i i

Montreal's Car, Bus Strike Ends  Company Recognizes Union As Sole Baraginina Agency

U.S. Marines Took Foothold on Isle Without Loss  Record Force Lands On New Britain; Resistance Is Weak

DRAFT OF FATHERS HITS SNAG AGAIN   Drive On in Congress To Put Them at End of List

FIGHTING WORDS BY PRESIDENT IN REFERENCE PEARSON  COLUMNIST, HOWEVER, STICKS TO GUNS ABOUT STATE DEPARTMENT

New Curbs Seen in OPA Fund Request   }Completion of ‘Big Inch’ Pipe  ‘Line Will Drain Off Midwest Suoplies

NEW RATIONING IS IN PROSPECT BUT STILL VAGUE   Lawmakers, However, Warr Against Too Much Drain On Domestic Economy   MIDWEST GAS IN DANGER   Food Subsidy, Economy and Federal Personnel Cuts in For Discussion

Business Club Women Hold Fall Meeting   Public School Faculty And Instructors Are Guests -

Business Club  Women Hold  Fall Meeting — Public School Fac  And Instructors

Wettest And Hottest Summer In Many Years Says Weather Man   Each of Three Summer Months Were Warm and Wet

OTH ARMY GAINS: GERMANS SEEN TOE BASES   WEATHER STILL KEEPS Sth ARMY INACTIVE

BAIT ofl tibniT Ht ARMY MOVE A MORE MILES   Montgomery's Troops Advance Third Straight Day On Italian Front

TWO NAZI BASES THREATENED WIT ~ BRITISH ADVANCE   Defying Cold Wind, Renewed Rains Allied Army Moves On With Bombers Renew "ino Attacks.   GERMAN RADIO CLAIMS  SAMOS HAS BEEN TAKEN   Allied Landing Craft at Gi braltar Indicates Possibi Pians For Invasion o Balkans.

EIGHTH PUSHES. ON, VITAL ROAD NOW THREATENED   Fifth’s Front !s Quiet—Nazis Bringing .Up More Strangth.

Concessions Likely to Be Accepted By Lewis; Negotiations Ordered  On Portal-to-Portal Issue

War: Labor Board Hands Down $1 Per Day Wage Hike For Coal Miners

Board Denies Request for  Basie Increase   Lewis Expected to Go Along with Ruling Union, Operators to Meet Today on Pact

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WLB Turns Down $2 Raise But Makes Concessions Permitting $1 Boost; Lewis Expected To Go Along With Ruling.

WLB DECISION GIVES MINERS CONCESSIONS   51 Per Day Increases May Result From Further Negotiations      _EWIS WILL PROBABLY GO ALONG WITH RULING

Labor Board Opens Way To Boost Miners’ Pay   Request for $2-a-Day Increase Denied But Concessions Made—Lewis Expected to Accept Decision of the Group

PROEGQMCSICE Dara-Vay Turned Down by Board But Indications Seen Lewis Will Go Along  MORE TALKS DUE ON TRAVEL ISSUE  Further Concessions Mean More Money In Pockets of Miners

‘Mine Operators Are Direcled To Negotiate with Union on Compensation for Underground Travel; Other Concession Ordered Which Will Mean More Money for Miners

Board Opens Way For Raise in Pay  For Coal Miners  Orders Portal-Portal Wage Negotiation With Operators  MAY MEAN $1 MORE  Decision, However  Refuses $2 Demand; Lewis O. K. Forecast

STRAIGHT §2 BOOST DENIED BY DECISION   Operators Directed To Negotiate With Union Terms For Portal To Portal Wage   Lewis May Approve

MINERS TO CET PAY INCREASES   John L. Lewis Expected To Go Along With WLB Ruling

WAY IS OPENED FOR WAGE BOOST ~ TO COAL MINERS   Labor. Board Orders Concessions Expected to Result in Increase of $1 a Day or More.   DEMANDS OF UNION. FOR $2 ARE DENIED   Ruling Raises Payments in Lieu of Vacations and Calls for Negotiations on Travel. Pay.

War Labor Board Approves Miners Pay On Portal - To - Portal Basis

WLB DECISION OPENS WAY FOR WAGE INCREASE   Boost Of $1 Per Day For Miners Possible Under Re commendation Of Board    LEWIS EXPECTED TO AGREE TO VERDICY

WLB Agrees To Increase For Miners   Lewis Appears To Be Willing To Take Raise.

WLB Opens Way For Increase In Miners’ Wage   Denies Demand for $2 Day Hike, But Grants Concessions; Observers See Early Acceptance

WAY TO WAGE HIKE OF $1   Denies $2 Aday Wage Incr. ease, But Directs Negotiation ‘On Compensation For Underground Travei   Expect Lewis To Go Along

$2 Raise Is Rejected For Miners   Loopholes Left Open by WLB For Negotictions

INVASION PLAN SET AT CAIRO   Vast, Well-Equipped Armies Continue Preparation for Zero Hour

linronmen sc SOURCES IN ,CAIRD SAY MEN NAMED AS LEADERS PRESENTED PLAN Ap? CONFERENCE

SENATE COMMITTEE RESTORES FSA FUND   $100,000,060 Is Also Appropriated For Soil Conservation; Farm  Bureau Overriden

NEWSPRINT LIMIT ~ CALLED UNTIMELY   Publisher Is § Suspicious _ Of What Is Behind It

B. R. T. Cites Arnold Probe  of Railroads   Transportation Monopoly Charges Brought Before Wage Panel by Whitney   ACTION POSTPONED BECAUSE OF WAR   Trainmen‘s President. Also Testifies on ‘Stupend-. ous’ Rail Earnings

RAILROAD “PLOT CHARGE 1$ AIRED   Head of Trainmen’s Group — Talks of Domination.

SAYS RAILROADS PLOT MONOPOLY   Brotherhood Chief Asserts Rule of Government Itself Aim

LEGISLATORS TOOUIT TODAY   Passage of Teacher Bonus, War Powers Bills in in Senate Clears Way

RED ARTILLERY, AIRMEN POUND GERMAN BASES   Russians Hold Toehold on West Side of Donets, Continue Bombarding Novorossisk’s Defenses

Soviet Fliers Blast Nazi Supply Links   Huge Fires and Explosions Reported in Three Depots

SOVIET PLANES AND ARTILLERY POUND GERMANS   1300 Nazi Aircraft Destroyed In Two Weeks

SOVIET AIRMEN BATTER ENEMY   In Last Two Weeks, Germans Have Lost 1,300 Planes To Russions

REDS HOLD 3-1 EDGE IN THE AIR   Have Destroyed 1,300 German Planes In Two Weeks, While Losing Only 339.

BLOCK NAZI DRIVE   Russian Planes and Artillery Continue Harassing  Operations

Summer Drive of Nazis Is Overdue   Red Planes Have Been Dealing Crippling Riows   GOOD RESULTS FROM ARTILLERY

Soviet Planes And Big Guns  Rake Germans   Harass Preparations for Any New Offensive; 1,300 Planes Downed

RED ARMY EMPLOYS PLANES, ARTILLERY TO HARASS GERMANS  NO DEFINITE SIGN OF AN TICIPATED GREAT NAZI OFFENSIVE SEEN

Reds Harrass German Forces   Use Artillery and Planes to Get Nazis Off Balance

uagece “CRMAN TARATIONS OF > NEW OFFENSIVE   No Definite Signs of the Great Summer Campaign Shown.   Soviet Air Force Spread Fire and Explosion Behind German Line.

Reds Harass Germans Set  For Big Push   No Sign Yet Of  Summer Drive

RUSSIAN LAND, AIR UNITS HIT AT NAZIS   .Hinder German Preparation for New Drive

Soviets Harass Enemy Plans For A Summer Drive   Air Force Spreads Fires, Explosions Behind  i

REDS USE PLANES          heck Nazi Preparations For Any New Assaults--No Definite Sign Yet Seen of a Great Summer Campaign

Russians Wreck © Nazi Drive Plans   Artillery, Planes Hit At Preparations

Japan Bases Hit In Raids   Allied Planes Carry Offensive To Enemy

J aps’ Kahili Airdrome Hit By Bombers   Central Solomons Believed Cleared Of Enemy Troops

HIMMLER TAKES NEW NAZI POST   Chief of German Police Is Named Interior Minister In Hitler Shakeup

War’s Havoc Rivals Vesuvius At Pompei; Trembling People Welcome Allied Troops   Sweeping Successes By Russia ~ Speed Up Three-Power Confab

Henderson May Endorse  Consumer Investment Plan   Morgenthau Opposes Post-War Delivery Plan — View: : ' OF ‘President Roosevelt Not Known

Henderson Expected to Endorse Nugent Plan for Purchase of Goods For Delivery After the War

MAKING PLANS ON POST-WAR BUYINC   Certificates ‘May Be Adopte To Regulate Sales In Future Months.

Predict Henderson Will Endorse Revolutionary  [Anti-Inflation Plans

ee oC es ae So a Oe aS: SR oe Cee RY a  Clothing Is Not Rationed!   Officials Warn Not Tx  Cause Run

ICKES TQ EXPLAIN GAS RATION PLANS BEFORE COMMITTEE      Western Leaders Oppose Equalization Of Gas Rationing Over ‘Country

GASOLINE RATIONS EAST OF ROCKIES MAY BE EQUALIZED   Ickes Lashed at Criticism of Government’s Policy at  . Conference With Group of Legislators.   ‘ALLOWANCE CHANGES RUMORED FOR SEPT. 1   Ickes and Brooks Engage In Words Over Purposes For Which Supplies Are Used In War Areas.

Ickes Lashes Out Against Critics Of Gas Rationing   Petroleum Administrator Tells Midwest Group That Gasoline, Oil Curtailment There Will Help Win the War

, Ickes Lasnes At Critics Of Gas Policy  Curtailment to Help Win p War, He Avers

Light Engine Strikes Train At Leetsdale   Report 37 .Persons Are Hurt; None Reported As Seriously Injured

Germans Face Orel  Annihilation   May Still Be Able to Make Quick Withdrawal

NACI MAY FAGE IOASTER UNLEoo THEY FALL BAGK   Successful Withdrawal O} Orel Defenders Possible Through Bryansk

TRUCEIN MINE DISPUTE FAST IS RUNNING 0U1   Operators and Union 62 Cents a Day Apart In Wage Parley; Strike Possible

Operators, Miners, Government Prune Down Their Negotiations To Differences In Wage Seales

MINE DISPUTE NARROWS DOWN   Strike Possible Unless Con tract Is Signed By Oct. 31

Owners, Miners Apart As Coal Truce Near End  War Labor Board  Continues Case

STRIKE LOOMS. IN COAL ELD   Contract Negotiations Appear “To Be’ Stalemated“Wage’~ Hike Sought

MINERS TRUCE ~ EXPIRES SOON   Conferees Hope to Sign New Contract Before Expiration Oct. 31

Mine Workers, Railroaders Map Wage Plan  Coal Output Drops as Strike Grows

WAGE NEGOTIATIONS MINING INDUSTRY STILL DEADLOCKED  MINERS WANT $1.75 DAY   MINERS WANT $1.75 DAY INCREASE; OPERATORS OFFER 88 CENTS

SEE COAL STRIKE NEAR UNLESS CONTRACT SIGNED   Wage Negotiations of U.M.W.. War Labor Board and Soft Coal Operators Narrow Down To Pay:-Differences

COAL STRIKE IN VIEWUNLESS TERMS SIGNED   Agreement Runs Out Last of Month, Work on Contract

PERSIA ONE OF WORLD'S HOT ‘SPOTS OF WAR, WITH RUSSIA AND BRITAIN UNWELCOME THERE

Today’s Wat Moves   Allied Heads Stress Cooperation as War Swells

 The War fl oday : \Persians Hope U. S. Will Protect Them Against Postwar Rivalries

Iran Is Example of Need For Allied Understanding  Persians Fear Foreign Domination

New Allied Food Board.  Being Formed   President Promises Also To Discuss Subsidies With Congress

Combined Food Board Changed  Wickard Is Chairman; Canada New Member

Wickard Head Of New Allied Food Control   Marvin Jones Represents U. S. In Handling Interna. tional Problems.   OFFER SURVEY SOON

A New Food Board Setup      Wickard the “Neutral” Chairman; FDR Mes-. sage To Congress Soon

CHANGES MADE  IN FOOD BOARD   FDR Says-Cost of Food Has Gone Up Not at All Or Only a Little.

WICKARD NEW HEAD COMBINED BOARD ON FOOD   Jones Also Appointed to AngioAmerican Group, Canada Given Membership, FDR Reveals

 Punishmert of Axis Leaders Holds   Number of Lecal Puzzles for Allies

DIFFICULTIES IN WAY, IF TRY ON WAR GUILT   No precedent exists and no method has been decided upon yet

NOT DECIDED      WIDELY DIVERGENT VIEWS ARE NELD AS TO TYPE OF COURT FOR AXIS “CRIMINALS

CHINESE ADMIT BREAK IN LINE   Japs May Be Aiming At Chungking; Burma Targets Blasted

Nipponese Suffer Heavy Loss in Chinese Struggle  Japs Break Through At One Point But Checked Elsewhere

Bad Weather Slows Battle In Italy  German Airfields  Athens Area Hit By Americane

Rains Delay War in Italy   German Counterattacks Repulsed; Yank Bombers Raid Athens Airfields

ATHENS AIRPORT BOMBED AGAIN —  - American Planes Attack Two Nazi Airfields In Greece As Heavy Rains Reduce Ground Operations In Italy

Ground Operations Reduc. ed to Minimum; German Airfields Blasted

AIRFIELDS INGREECE HIT BY U. 5. BOMBERS   Ground Action In Italy Reduced By Bad Weather

FLOODS AGAIN SLOW GROUND ACTION IN ITALY   U. §. Aircraft Attack Two German Airdromes in Area of Athens.

AIRFIELDS ARE BOMBED   American Aircraft From Bases in Italy Make Attack Near Athens — Rains and Floods Slow Ground Action.

U, S. FLIERS RAID NAZI AIRFIELDS IN ATHENS AREA   Heavy Rains Check Ground Operations in Italy

YANKS BLAST ATHENS BASES   RAINS, FLOODING RIVERS SLOW GRCUND ADVANCES ON ITALIAN FRONT

NO CHARGES FILED YET   Condition of James: Be Reers Ta ‘About : the Same Today

Maryland First State to Reach Quota of Bond:   More: Than Two-Thirds Of 15 Billion Goal Already Bought

TWO STRIKES OFF; ONE CONTINUES   Greyhound, ~ Johnstown Walkouts End; MeKeesport Grows

Red Note Is Sealed  Davies Home ‘With      Castillo Quits Struggle; Rawson New President

RAWSON 10 HEAD SET-UP IN ARGENTINE      Military Government Formed Pledged For U. S. Solidarity

Junta Regime Picks Chief In Argentina   Gen. Rawson, One Of Revolt Heads, . Named President

RE GIGI RATIONG UNDERWAY FOR HATON BOOK 2   Lach Individual Limited To About Four Average  Cans During Month

Each Person Registered This Week Will Receive a Book With Blue and Red Stamps.

STATE FAIR BOARD PLANNING 4H SHOW   To Be Held on State Fair Grounds, Indianapolis, September 4-11.

AP Columnist, Hurt In Africa   George Tucker Operated Upon In New York

AP CORRESPONDENT INJURED IN ALGIERS   George Tucker Returns te New York for Operation On Brain.

17.9 Million in Hickenlooper s Biennial Budget   Figure Is Higher Than Appropriations For Current Period

$17,990,000 {s ASKED IN STATE 7 YEAR BUDGET   Nothing Sought for New Buildings in . Hickenlooper Report

Governor Asks A $17,990,000 Yearly Budget   No Appropriations For New Buildings Asked Of General Assembly.

THE WEATHER   0 FUNDS FOR NEW BUILDING ARE PROVIDEL   ‘tate Institutions te Require 7 Million Of Total Budget

Assembly Given State Budget of $17,990,000   Total Askings of Various Departments Amounts To $19,101,668

PT BRITISH TO BATTLE JAPAN   Knox Urges “Carry-On” Spirit After Hitler Topples to Pen U.S.

Knox Stresses tae of - Pacific Fight   Tells British Press Not to Under-Rate War with Japs

Reds Deeper Into White Russia: ©   To the South Soviet Troops Reach Dnieper River in Many Places; Face Kiev on 3 Sides

MORGENTHAU EXPLAINS — HIS PLAN   U. S. Would Have Veto Powers in ‘Monetary Set-Up

POST-WAR MONETARY PLAN 1S- DISCUSSED      Stabilization Program as Set Up Gives to United States Veto Power.

U.S. WILL HOLD VETO POWER IN MONEY PLAN   Morgenthau Says Nation Could Say What Others Could Not Do   DETAILS ARE OUTLINED   2 Billion Contribution Would Give America 25 Per Cent Of Votes

TREASURY PLAN GIVES U. S. VETO   Monetary Program Would Leave Final Decision in Important Matters To This Country.

Post-War Monetary Plan Gives U.S. Veto Power In Some Affairs   Morgenthau Says United States Would Not Dictate To Other Nations But Could Say No

UNITAS PROPOSED BASE FOUNDATION IN MONEY VALUE   Morgenthau Outlines PostWar Monetary Stabilization Program Providing For Vast Sum of Cash.   BRITISH ALSO HAVE — PLANS ON CURRENC’   United States Will Have Veto Power Over Other Members on Certain Important Onerations.

Veto Power in World Currency Stabilization Proposed for U.S.   Morgenthau Explains Plan to Control International Stabilization Fund

Stabilization Veto Proposed  _ Power Would pn. frre... It @  i oalnern

Currency Plan Gives U. $. Veto   We Could Block Certain Operations

DR. L. P, WALTER GETS STATE JOB   Florida Man ls Successor At County Health Unit

Dr. L. P. Walter Gets State Job   ‘SUCCESS OF LOCAL UNIT HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING—DR.  WALTER TO AUSTIN

AMERICAN GENERALS HONORED BY KING   Eisenhower And MacArthur Awarded Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Bath

 King George Gives Honorary Rank — Of Knight, Order of Bath, to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and MacArthur

High Honor To Generals   British Bestow Order Of the Bath Upon Mac Arthur, Eisenhower

King George Honors Two U. S. Generals  Eisenhower, MacArthur Are Honorary Knights

AMERICAN GENERALS KNIGHTED BY KING   Britain Honors MacArthur and Eisenhower

NGRESS BLOG TO DECENTRALIZE HEAV) INDUSTRY 15 FORMED  SEN. CONNALLY BLASTS  AT ACTION BLOCKING TEYAS STEEL PLANT

Recruiting Program Begins For Workers In Ship Repair Units.   Qualifications For Enlistment Same.As . Seabee Requirements

Interpreting he War   New, Grave Portents Of Disaster for Germans in Russia

BOMB TWO ENGLISH TOWNS   German Raiders Made Attack or  Southeast Shore

NAZIS BOMB 2 ’ ENGLISH TOWNS   Raiders Coast in With Rising Sun Behind Them, But Soon Are Driven Away

NAZIS BOMB BRITAIN   Two Towns Hit By Sneak Raiders In Morning Hours

Germans Bomb England af Dawn   Anti-Aircraft Barrage Put Raiders To Flight

Federal Government’s “Excessive” Purchases of Processed Foods, and Buying Up of Items by Millions of Families Held Responsible Situation by American Institute of Food. Distributors

“HUGH PURCHASES OF CANNED FOOD FOR ARMED FORGES   hese Sales and Hoarding Are Given as Cause For High Ration Point Vaiue For Consumers.   FOOD INSTITUTE OF 3000 GIVEN FACTS   Government Buys 40 Per Cent of Canned Fruits, Vegetables Packed During 1942 Season.

ZAGREB IS GOAL OF TITO’S ARMY   PARTISAN TROOPS ARE ADVANCING ON CROATIAN CAPITAL

250,000-Man Slavic Army Nears Zagreb   London Terms Campaign of Tito’s Forces a Major Battle—12 Enemy Divisions Engaged in Main Fighting Areas.

Slavs Move  On Zagreb   250,000 Partisan Army ances in Major Against Germans

Yugoslars Advance On Zagreb   . +. Tite Forces Engage Nine Nazi Divisions

Partisan Army Nearing Zagreb In Major Battle   Report Tito’s Slava Engage Nine German Divisions In Main Fighting Areas

TIT0’S YUGOSLAV ARMY NOW APPROACHING CROATE CAPITAL   London Terms Campaign A Magor Battle; Engaging 12 Divisions.

YugoslavsHit At Nazi-Held Croat Capital   Smash Way Close to Zagreb; U. S.-British Aid Sat Faw Rie Th

Yugoslav Arm Drives Toware  Croat Capital  250,000 Partisans  Pinning Down

YUGOSLAVS MOW DOWN GERMANS   Tto’s Troops Advanice Near Croatian Capital—Major Battle Develops

Titos Army Nears Zagreb   Lendon Declares Yugoslas Advance To Croatian Capital Major Battle.

Yugoslav Army Moves to Major Fight With Axis   Partisan Force Under Tito Advances Into the Vicinity of Zareb.   Agree With American Officers on Campaign

Slavs March Toward Croat Goal   Large Army Presse: Toward Zagreb In Major Activity

YUGOSLAV FORCES SMASHED WAY INTO ZAGREB VICINITY   NINE GERMANS AND THREE PUPPET DIVISION FIGHTING TITO

Yugoslav Partisan Army Engaged in Major Battle With Big Nazis Forces

‘Only Military Objectives Hit by 'U. S. Bombs in Rome, President ‘Explains in Letter to Archbishop

Crops Damaged In Auburn Area   High Winds Reaching Near Tornado Proportions Cause Much Damage.

BishopOxnam Flouts Boston Anti-Semitism   Demands to Know Who Is Flooding Country With Propaganda

Jap Army Approaches India-Burma Borders   italian Radio Says Nips Have Crossed Into Bengal, Penetrate Deeply

Axis Suffers Jitters — Over Invasion   Fear Allies Will Launch Attacks  Over the Week-Fnd

Tense Nerves Seen on Every:  Hand Just Now   AXIS DECLARES GUNS -TO OPEN UP VERY SOON NOW.

Enemy Broadcasts Expect ‘The Guns To Open Up Soon’   Smut Says Invasion “Near the Zero Hour;” Axis Radio Guessing That Allied Preparations Set For Attack

KING CONFERS WITH NIMITZ ON THE WAR   Knox Infers Talk Was to Communicate Strategy Outlined in Washington, Like Marshall. Meeting With Eisenhower.

Nimitz And King Confer On Pacific War Plans   Talk Linked With Conference In  North Africa

KING AND NIMITZ GET TOGETHER   Admirals Have Been Conferring On West Coast, Knox Reveals.

ADMIRALS KING AND NIMITZ GONFERRED PACIFIC WAR PLANS  TALK WAS INFORMALLY LINKED WITH NORTH AFRICA CONFERENCES

Admiral King Meets Nimitz On West Coast   Knox Admits Possibility Of Follow-Up on Big Plans Meeting

ADMIRAL NIMITZ 1$ DR NIMITZ. TOO      Admirals Confer On War Strategy   King and Nimitz Meet on West Coast to Map Pacific Plans; Knox Comments in Washington

War Plans Discussed At Meeting On West Coast   Talk Informally Linked With Other Recent Conferences In Other Areas

ce King Conters  With Nimitz   Hint Connection With Conference Of Marshall And Eisenhower In Africa.

King, Nimitz in War Plan Talk   Believed To Have Carried Information On Conference Plans.

ADMIRAL KING, ADMIRAL NIMITZ TALK WAR PLANS   Conferred on the West Coast, It Was Officially Announced.   CARRIED INFORMATION   Linked Informally With the Marshall-Eisenhower Conference.

Admirals Meet On West Coast   KING AND NIMITZ IN CONFERENCE OVER STRATEGY

ADMIRAL KING HOLDS PARLEY WITh MMIT?  Talk of Naval Leader i Linked Informally With Recent African Con ferences     t loepING RARE KEW   GETTING BATTLE KEY   Knox Refuses to Comment On Rome’s Reported Jnvasion Attempt and   =Churchill’s Statement

NIMITZ AND KING TALK. OVER PLANS   Confabs Linked With Parleys In North Africa

Navy Sees Paeitie War Until 1949   Public Optimism Unwarranted Knox Declares

'Y PLANS [FIC FIGHT IL, 1949   uction Hurt Complacencv  fi Says War

American Optimism  Is -Flayed   Navy Makes Plans On The Basis Of Having War In Pacific Last Until 1949 Officials Reveal

NAVY PLANNING WA UN JAPO TIL (4g   Unwarranted Complacency) Given Rude Jolt By Knox

Secretary Knox Warns Against “Silly” Optimism   Continued Efforts On Home Front Urged By High Naval Official

NAVY READY 10 FIGHT TILL °45   Admiral Joins Knox In Warning Against Over-Optimism

GRADUATES’ ARMY SCHOLARSHIP SET   Specialized Training Program Planned for Males Between 17, 18

CONGRESS REFUSES TO.SWAP. SALARY PEG FOR SUPER TAX   Expected: To: Repeal Salary Limitation “Order Of” President By Big Majority

Houston Feopie “Make Possible — Second Warship  Carrier Built Witk  _ Surplus Fund of

OE AMAN ALAN DROP BOMBS ON SCOTLAND AREA  Nazi. ‘Attackers: rs By Thre vere raft     Fire On ae  eg Pe ee og   DROP INCENDIARIES   Four of Estimated 25 Planes Shot Down; _ Heaviest Enemy Raid On Southeast Town

NAZI BOMBERS HIT SCOTLAND © IN SMALL RAID   Second Attack On Scots This Year

GERMAN REPRISAL _ ASSAULTS MADE ON SCOTLAND TODAY   Enemy Bombers Dropped In cendiary Bombs Inland © This Morning.   UNTROUBLED BEFORE   Allied Fighter Planes Machine-Gunned Railway Installations.

GERMAN PLANES RAID SCOTLAND   First Nazi Attack Since Spring of 1941, Assault Very Light

SCOTLAND RAIDED BY NAZI BOMBERS   Germans Fly Through Heavy Fire To Drop Incendiary Bombs

Nazi Bombers  Strike Back At Scotland   Incendiaries Dropped in Second Attack This Year

Scotland Is Hit By Fire Bombs   Nazis Pierce A-A Barrage, Drop Ineendiaries

ASKS HOUSEWIVES TO CAN MUCH FOOD      Martin Says Huge Demands Of Army Causing’: “. Shortage

NIP POPE KIDNAP PLOT, NAZIS SAY   Ring of Republican Fascists in Italy Reported Smashed

NAZIS REPORT KIDNAP PLOT AGAINST POPE   RUMORS FROM ROME INCLUDE REPORTS GERMANS ARE  TAKING ART OBJECTS  1 TO HERLIN :

PLASTIC GOODS COING TO WAR   Will Replace Vital War Ma. terials Also Gives Better Results

ROSTOV DESCRIBED AS A MAN-TRAP   Whole German Line From Rostov to Orel Imperiled. —

4 SOVIET COLUMNS CLOSE IN ON NAZIS AROUND KHARKOV   Russian Troops Now Only  - 41 Miles Away From Kharkov On the North Side.

Four Russian Columns Hammer Toward Kharkov,  Sheli Western Fringe

LAUNCH FULL  OFFENSIVE In BOSNIA   Timed to Coincide With Series of Allied Successes

Yugoslavs In  Attack On Nazi   Cairo Hears Full-Scale Of fensive Is Launched In Bosnia Area   CHETNIKS TAKE SEVERAL TOWNS

REPORT DRIVE: BY YUGOSLAVS : AGAINST AXIS   ‘7 = FULL SCALE OFFENSIVE BAID TO HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED: AND SEVERAL TOWNS CAPTURED

Germans Announce Mussolini Is Back tn Haly  Remaining Two Axis Partners Mark Treaty Anniversary

DUCE CLAIMED BACK IN ITALY   Axis Spokesmen Whistle In The Dark On Third Anniversary

Benito In Italy, Says Nazi Radio  Allege Fallen Dictator Makes Speech

Chief of Staff Predicts Absolute Defeat of Axis  TRANSITION PERIOD SKETCH DRAMATIC  Declares Enemy Has Lost Initiative in Every Theater

General Avoids Predicting How  Long [tll Last   Enemy Being Crushed By Tightening Ring  Of Air, Land and Sea Power. Stimson Told

GEN. MARSHALL SAYS WAR’S IN “FINAL PHASE”   Avoiding Any Prediction Of How Long Conflict Will Last, But With Assurance Of Victory   End Not Visible,

Offensives Now Started ‘Assure Allied Victory, U.S. Army Chief Asserts

Chief of Staff Avoids Prediction on ~ Conflict’s Length; Blockade of Foe Now Complete, General Says

Final Victory Is Assured, General Says   Asserts United States Did Not Have Means To Aid Philippines  TELLS OF LEND-T FASE

TOTAL DEFEAT OF AXIS SEEN AS CERTAINTY   U. S. CHIEF OF STAFF REVIEWS STRUGGLE TO BUILD ARMY

General Marshall Reporis War fa Final Phase With Defeat Of Axis As Guicoze

General Marshall Reports:  War In Final Phase; Axis Faces ‘Absolute Defeat   Army Chief-Of-Staff Reviews War, Pointing To Increasing Allied Might; Reveals Crushing Offensives Are Prepared

Axis Defeat Is Assured   Foe’s Strength Is Declining, Chief of Staff Says in Reoort to Stimson

Allies Poised for Delivering Knockout Blows to Axis, Chief Reports to Stimson

U.S. Army Chief Cites Victories In Europe, Pacific   Promises Constantly Increasing Blows Against the Axis

Allies Mounting Series Of Offensives Heralding Final Defeat Of Axis Adversaries   Gen. Marshall, In Historic Report, Says War Has Entered Last Phase; Nation’s Transition From Unpre paredness To Military Power Cited  =

Reds Penetrate Stalino Suhurbs  4,000 More’ Nazi Dead   Germany Growing More Worried Over Whereabouts of Americans   \War Enters Final Phase, Allies Seize Initiative, Mount Multiple  Offensives, Doom Enemies to Absolute Defeat, Gen. Marshall Reports

hief of Staff Report.on War   ing Development of United States Forees Reviewed By General Marshall

War Into Final Phases Marshall Reports to Secretary Stimson   Chief of Staff of Army Reviews 2 Years of Conflict; Enemy Now Reduced to Defensive in Every Theater; United Nations Stronger

AVOIDS: MAKING PREDICTION ON LENGTH OF WAR   Declares Blows Being Struck and Those to Be Dealt Later Will Crush Axis Powers,   REVEALS U. S. PLIGHT AS CONFLICT BEGAN   Says Men and Guns Were Not Available to Aid Philinnines—Sea Battles Stopped Japs.

Marshall Says War Is  Now in ‘Final Phase’   Chief Of Staff Writes In Report That Allies’ Mounting Victories Will End With Absolute Defeat Of Axis

Allied Bombs Leave Rabaul Smoking Ruin   Greatest Mass Bomber Raid Ever Carried Out By Allies from Australian Theatre; Flames Visible for 100 Miles

Leave Rabaul  Smoking Ruin   Fifty Tons Of Bomhs, 3.500 Incendiary Bombs Loosed On New Britain,

Japanese ‘Malta In New Britain — Is Smokina Ruin   British Bomb Cologne and Milan In Double-Barreled Air Assault

Raiders Leave Rabaul in Ruins   Allies Unload 50 Tons of Explosives On Japanese Base

Blast Rabaul To Smoking Rubble Pile   Allied Airmen Wait Week To Burn Jap Base Down Again

RABAUL, JAPANESE “MALTA” IN PACIFIC, REPORTED IN RUINS   GREATEST MASS BOMBER RAID EVER CARRIED OUT BY ALLIES THERE

Rabaul, Japanese ‘Malta’, Smoking Ruins After Raid   Fifty Tons Of Explosives, Thousands ‘ Incendiary Bombs Blast Base

U.N. Stages Major Raid On Rabaul   3500 Incendiary Bombs,  50 Tons Of Explosives  Unloaded On Jap Base

“Mass Bomber Raid Leaves Raubaul, New * Britain a Shambles   Jap Base Smoking Ruin; “Enemy Fleet Dodges ) Battle With VU. S.

MacArthur's FourMotored Planes Stage Greatest Raic   Dispatches Reveal That Jap Fleet Did Not Want to Fight

Robaul Laid Waste By Greatest U.S. Air Force To Operate from Australia

AABAUL BASE. 1S OMOKING AUT AFTER AIR RAID   Japan’s “Malta” In Pacific Hit By Massed Bombers Of Allied Command

BOMBERS LEAVE RABAUL IN RUINS   Greatest Allied Mass Raid  From Australian Theater

PABA 5 TARGET IN BIG ALLIED RAID   Correspondent Reveals That Japs Backed Down in Attempt to Retake U. S. Base

JAPANESE BASE ATRABAUL BOMBED   MacArthur’s Airmen Drop 50 Tons of Bombs And 3,500 Incendiaries On Jap “Malta’”’

U. S. Bombers Turn Rabaul  Into Ruins —   Planes Drop Greatest Load of Missiles — Of War on Jap Base

Rabaul, Big Jap Base, Left In Ruins After Four Waves of Bombers Hit Objectives During Sunday Attack

Bombing of Japs Is Now — Qn Increase   Crews of Pacific Fleet Warships Vision New Phase of War

An Increase — In Bombings. on Japanese   Warship Crews Believe United Nations Are.Shifting to. the- Offensive:   AUSTRALIA’ AREA : NOT YET CLEARED   Authorities. Warh Against Too Much Optimism; Jap: Concentration Noted

Pacific Rout Is Minimized   Tokyo Claims Many U.S. Planes Downed

JAPS REPORT 7 VESSELS IN CONVOY SUNK   New Phase in Pacific Fighting Reported By U.S. Crews

Dispatches From VU. S. Pacific Fleet Report General Feeling Among Warship Crews That War In Pacific Is Entering A New Phase.

UNITED FORCES HIT JAPS FROM AIR IN PACIFIC   War Enters New Phase for Warship Crews in Southwest Area

Allies Pour Bombs on Japs from Burma to Solomon Islands   Crews of Warships Think War in Pacific is in New Phase

Allies Shift To Offensive In Pacific   UN Planes Bomb Japs from Solomons to Burma; Japs Make Half-Way Admission at DNafaant in Ricmarck Gan !

Allies Shift To Offensive In Paeifie   -Bomhs Shower Down on Many Japanese Ba:

Pacific Drive ~ Taking Shape   Cascades Of Bombs Are Hurled On Japs .

Allies Rain Bombs On Nips Throughout Pacific Isles  Tokvo Admite Tace nf Caen. Cli.   Tokyo Admits Loss of Seven Ships, Seven Planes; Mum On 15,000 Men.

War In Pacific  Seen Entering  On New Phase   United Nations Planes Bomb Japs On Big Scale

ALLIED PLANES POURING ICASCADE OF BOMBS ON \JAP BASES IN PACIFIC

ALLIED PLANES STEP UP HAND UPON JAPANESE   War In Pacific Entering New Phase, Navy Members Indicate Today   SPIRIT OF OFFENSIVE SPREADS AMONG ALLIES   Relentless Aerial Attacks Against Jananese Bases Being Maintained

United Nations Air Offensive  Grows In Pacific   Japs Pounded: From Solomons.- To,” Burma; Tokyo in First: Acknow_ ledgment_ of Bismarck Sea Defeat adinits. Loss of 7 Ships and’7. Planes.

WAR IN PACIFIC ENTERING NEW PHASE, NAVY MEN BELIEVE; JAPS ADMIT LOSSES  Enemy Bases Heavily Raided By Allied

War in Pacific  To a New Phase   United Nations Pour In creasing Cascade Bombs on faps.

Generai feeling Of Optimism Seen  Men Who Man Mian Warships  . Think They Have What It Takes  TOKYO ADMITS SOME REVERSES

ALLIES TAKING OFFENSIVE ON PACIFIC FRONT   Japan Grudgingly Admits Naval Losses North of Australia

Pacifie War On Verge of New Phase   * Big Jap Fleet Conrentrations Reported Scen North of Australia

Allies Continue Bombings In Pacific, Indicating Shift To Offensive Action   Losses In Bismarck Sea  No Sign Japs Are Beaten

Heavy Bomber Raids Hint At Pacitie Drive   General Feeling Among Warship Crews That Bat. tle Entering New Phase.   JAPS CULT DOWN LOSS

Warship Crews in Pacific Feel That a New Phase of War is Beginning. Optimism Given Boost by MacArthur’s Airmen’s Successes Acamat Jan Convov

Bombers Blast at Japs Over, Wide Area   Warship Crews Feel New Phase of Pacific War at Hand; Japanese Admit Two Destroyers and Five Transports Lost.

Allied F lyers Pound Japs   Pace of Air. War Speeds Up in Pacific from ° Burma to Seuth Seas —

JAPANESE BARE. SOME SINKINGS   Give First Grudging Report On Bismarck Sea Action

Japs Admit Some Losses in Recent Battle; Allies Shower Bombs on Enemy

UNITED NATIONS’ AIR POWER FELT BY JAPS IN INCREASING FURY  WIDESPREAD BELIEF AMONG NAVAL MEN THAT  TRICRAY AINUT OA NOCCACIVUEr

ALLIES LAUNGH — DRIVE ON JAPS   War J in New Phase With Offensive Ainiéd at Nip Pacific Bases

Bombing Attacks On Japanese Are Ever Increasing   Pacific Fleet Crews Feel War in East Enters New Phase

New Phase Of Pacific War Believed Near   Latest Successes Indicate Allies Shifting to Offensive  ADMISSION IN TOKYO

In The Pacific Bombs Poured On  Japanese Bases   Allies On Offensive On .Wide Front

Bombs Falling On Japs From Solomon Area To Burma; Shift To Offensive Seen

WAR IN PACIFIC ENTERING NEW PHASE, BELIEI   Crewmien of U.S. Warships Believe Offensive Imminent Japs Ad . mit Part of Recent Loss

War in That Theatre Believed Entering New Phase: Enemy Admits Convoy Losses

Pacific War Stepped Up By Bombers  Alliee Rain Dana   Allies Rain Death On Jap Positions Over Wide Area

Japs Are Bombed In Pacific Area   United Nations Navy Ap‘pears to Have Taken  the Offensive   ENEMY ADMITS LOSSES   Latest Communique Tells of Allied Attacks on Jap  Airfields

Pacific Front May Be Near New War Phase   Offensive Shift Is Prediction of Men Who Have Watched Recent Trends There

SWEEPING RAIDS HIT JAPS HARD   Nips Blasted from Solomons To Burma—War Entering New Phase at Sea

UNITED NATIONS’ AIR POWER FELT BY JAPS IN INCREASING FURY  WIDESPREAD BELIEF

60 Jap Ships Peril North Australia   ‘United Nations’ Victories in Pacific Indicates  _ Initiative Passing to-Allies; Tokyo Half   Admits ‘Loss of Convoy in Bismarck Sea

c AASCADE OF BOMBS wl NUE TO DROP ON ENEMY BASES   ALLIES OPTIMISTIC AFTER DESTRUCTION OF JAP CONVOY

Warship CrewsinPacificArea Believe New Phase Beginning With Allies Taking Offensive

ALLIES BOMBING JAPS FROM BURMA 10 THE SOLOMON:   Dispatches From U. S. Pacific Fleet Report General Feeling Among Warship Crews That War In Pacific Is Entering A New Phase.

Fourteen First Aid Lay Instructors Added To Red Cross Teaching Staff   Thirty Volunteers As Instructors Now On Oualified List

SPECIAL COURSE. FOR FIRST AID   Are Now Authorized As Red Cross Lay In structors

War Anniversary Finds Italy in State of Alarm   Landing Near At Pantelleria, Also Mainland

ALLIED THREAT OF INVASION ITALY GROWING      Italian Nation Enters Fourth Year of War With” Landing On Pantelleria Possibiy Imminent   BOMBINGS RESUMED ON LARGE SCALE   Expiration of Deadline For Island’s Surrender Marked by Devastating Air and Sea Attacks

ALLIES CONTINUE ASSAULTS UPON PANTELLERIA AND SICILY, MORE SHIPS SUNK IN AEGEAN SEA   Third Anniversary of Italy's Entrance Into War Finds Her Mediterranean Outposts Under Heavy Allied Assaults

Italy’s Hopes Fade In Three Years Of War   Third Anniversary Of  Fighting Results In Disaster   INVASION IS NEAR   Allies Rain Bombs On Island Possessions And Mainland

Third Anniversary of Italy’s Entry into War Finds Nation on Verge of Invasion

Anniversary Unhappy One   Italy’s Defense Under Attack, Faces Invasion

ITALIANS START FOURTH YEAR OF WORLD WAR II   Outlook Very Dark as They Expect Allied Invasion Soon

ITALY ENTERS — FOURTH YEAR   Faces Both Surrender Ultimatum and: Invasion Threat

THIRD ANNIVERSARY ITALY’S WAR ENTRY FINDS MUCH TROUBLE  ISLAND OUTPOSTS UNDER HEAVY ASSAULT AND INVASION THREATENED

jittery Italy Enters Fourth Year Of Battle   Now Has Isle Outpost Under An Ultimatum: Homeland Is Facing Invasion Threat

Italy’s Third Anniversary Ot Entrance into War Just Another Date Now to Natior

Italy Enters Its Fourth Year of War; Homeland  Faces Invasion Threat

Italians Facing Mainland Attack As Siege Starts  Bnulverssry Of Wa Entry Finds Italy On Eve Of Defeat

Wort Cooper Evens Series  For St. Louis   68.576 Fans Look on As Cards Win 4-3: Hurler Takes Mound Despite Dad's Death

MORT COOPER EVENS SERIES BY 4103 WIN   Stirring Drama Marks the Second World Series Contest   BIG TWIRLER IS - HERO OF CONTEST

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Death of Father Fails to Halt Cooper Battery   Nearly 70,000 Fans See Stellar Game Unaware of Tragic Setting;  Yanks Gleaned Only Half Dozen Hits

Cards Win, 4-3 to Even Series: Borowy and Brazle Pitch Today   Cooper Battery Plays Despite Father's Death Few Hours Before, Defeats Yanks

MUR? WOPcR EVENS SERIES " 4103 Wit  Stirring Drama Marks the Caecand Wrarld Series   Stirring Drama Marks the Second World Series Contest   BIG TWIRLER IS HERO OF CONTEST

Assaults by VU. S. Fliers Follow Record Ham. burg Raid  FOUR PLACES ARE HIT IN GERMANY  RAF Drops Tons of Bombs on Industrial City

History's Greatest  Raids Hit   U. S. Fortresses  Follow RAF Ty Acsaults-

American Fliers In Mightiest Of Single Day Raid:   Four Places In Germany And Target In Belgium Visited On Sunday

Yanks Batter Germany in Deepest Raid  Bombs Pound Five Stratesic Areas:

U. 5. Bombers Hammer Four German Points   Yanks Follow Up Big Attack by R.A. F. On Hamburg Area

2300 Tons of Bombs Droppe¢ On Hamburg.   Giant Night Attack Made by RAF; U. S;  Planes Aclive

GREAT DAMAGE IS INDIGATED AFTER ATTACK   19 American Bombers Lost In Deepest Penetration Into Germany   MIGHTIEST ONE-DAY ONSLAUGHT OF WAR

Round-Clock  Air Offensive On Germany  Is Renewed   Fortresses Batter 5 Continental Points After RAF Plasters  Hambure on Saturday   2.300 TONS OF BOMBS CASCADE ON CITY

Americans Bomb Nazis in Record Attack of War   Batter Five Places; RAF Attacks Hamburg

Hull Will Talk with  Stalin Soon   Conference of Adinisters Is. mn Fourth Day

SWPC Gets Into Civilian Goods Field   Begins Reconversion Of Small Business To Peace

Britain Issues World Banking Plan Similar to Morgenthau’s   Increase of World Trade Is Aim: World Ban U.S. ‘Veto’

Far-Reaching World Financial Plans Proposed   British Suggestion Similar but Larger Than Morgenthau’s

Briton Offers International Banking Plar   Proposal Calls For Clearing Union To Make Loans To Assist In Trade.   COPIES U. 8. PROGRAM

BRITISH HAVE OWN PLAN OF . WORLD BANK   Lord Keyzes Publishes White Paper on Clearittgy Union Similar fo Morgenthau Proposals

World Banking, Currency Plan Proposed   British Plan Similar but Goes Farther Than U. S. Proaram

BRITAIN OFFERS CURRENCY PLAN   New World Banking Idea Proposed to Expand Trade After War

GOES CONSIDERABLY -FARTHER -IN. SOME. RESPECTS) THAN THE U. S. PLAN: FOR A‘CURRENCY: STABILIZATION SYSTEM . . r

6, B, PROPOSES FAR REACHING WORLD BANKING PLAN   Publication of a White Paper by Lord Keynes Is Announced.   EXPANSION OF TRADE   It Goes Farther in Some Directions Than the U. S. Treasury Proposal.

New Bank For Nations Proposed   British White Paper States Currency Plan Would Work Like Nat'l. Bank

Britain And U.S. Evolve Money Plans   Stabilization OF World Trade Goal, Proposals Differ

Britain Offers World Banking Plan More Far-Reaching Than That Of U.S.

Britain Offers New Post-War Currency Plan   World Trade Expansion Move Revealed in London

Money Plan Proposed by Britain   White Paper By Keynes  Published by Government

England Proposes Currency Plan Exceeding That Of U.S.   World Banking Program Even More Far-Reaching Than American Plan

MONEY PLAN EVOLVED BY MORGENTHAU   ‘Treasury Program Sub‘mitted to 37 Nations for Discussion. ~   WORLD CURRENCY CONTROL SOUGHT   Proposes 5-Billion Stabilization Fund to Steady Exchange.

BRITAIN OFFERS CURRENCY PLAN   PROPOSAL GOES EVEN FARTHER THAN U. S TREASURY PROGRAM

‘Britain Proposes World Banking &   Carrency Plan   Most Par Reaching Proposal Yet. For Expansien of World Trade.

BRITISH PROPOS INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY PLAN   Voters Asked To Even More Sweeping Than U.S. Proposal

Britain Offers New Fiscal Plan   LORD KEYNES OUTLINES REVOLUTIONARY CURRENCY ARRANGEMENT FOR POSTWAR STABILIZATION OF MONEY PROGRAMS

Plan World  System   British Stabilization _ ‘Proposal Is More FarReaching Than The One ‘(Advanced By IJ. 

‘WORLD: BANK’ FOR NATIONS IS PROPOSED   Plan Offered in Britain, Though Similar to U. S. Post-War Monetary Scheme, Is Most FarReaching to Date.

GOES FARTHER N SOME WAYS THAN U,§. PLAN   White. Paper by Lord Keynes - Proposes. International Clearing Union. .   MAKES NO FIXED LIMIT - ON AMOUNT OF CAPITAL

Morgenthau Outlines Gold Money Plan   Stabilization Program Would Cost U. S. Little Or Nothing   ANTE IS ON THE TABLE

Yanks Score Important Victory in One Sector; Brit- ish, French Also Advance.      LULL IN FIGHTING  ON RUSSIAN FRONT

U.S. Second  Army Pushing  (cermans Back   British Eighth Takes Strong Defense Point, French  Grab New Heights

Troops Equipped by U. S. and Britain  Two Superbly-Trained Polish  Armies Await Invasion Signal

Anxious to Fight  ‘Two Well Equipped Polish  ‘Armies Await Invasion

Polish Armies Ready to Fight  : Commanders Await  Tnvacian Siena!

Two Powerful Polish Armies Await Chance To Fight on the Continent

WARNING IS ISSUED TO AUTOISTS BY OPA   Told Violation Of Pleasure Ban May Result In Further ‘Cut In Value Of Gas Coupons

Towa Cold Wave Spreads to All Parts of State   Garner Reports 28 Below: Sibley Fights Fire in Bitter Cold

Cold Wave Intensified as Mercury Dips to -26; Real Relief Is Not Yet in Sight

Italy Battlefield Described As Like Scene From Dante's Inferno, Sulphur Steam Coming From Holes

Wie eae WY Gl Toclaye=  European Aerial Campaign Begins  To Show [Ef fects

BOY, 13, GOES ON TRIAL AS SLAYER OF FISHKILL GIRI   Edwin Codarre Accused of Killing 10-Year-old Elizabeth Voiat

PUBLISHERS SEE  HARM IN SECRECY   State Convention Votes ‘for More Light, Especially on North Africa.   POTTSVILLE MAN . NAMED PRESIDENT

PUBLISHERS AT ROUNDTABLE   ‘Consider Labor and Newsprint in Capi tal Meet

WAACS BAR WOMAN LINKED IN KILLING   Se a ee  Failure To Admit Arrest Given As Reason

Doubtful Whether Montana Senator. Can. Block ‘Ser* Vice Leaders‘ Pressure.

Quiz Baruch On Drafting Of Fathers   Senator Wheeler — And Aids Resume Questions Today

SEN, WHEELER HOPES TO WIN BARUCH OVEF   Byrnes’ Adviser Urges Marshall Be Backed Or lired

WHEELER TO ARGUE AGAINST DRAFT OF FATHERS THURSDAY   Montana Senator to Try to Convince Baruch Manpower from Elsewhere Is Available.

World Looks Back on Armistice Day As Still Greater War Moves on Toward New Defeat for Aggressors

Twenty-five Years Ago: Anniversary of German Surrender Finds Second War Nearing Climax

Armistice Day 25 Years Ago — Ended Slaughter of 8,538,000; Now Worst Battles To Come

Armistice Day, 25 Years After, Finds World Again in Grip Of Bitter Conflict   Guns Of Bloody Conflict, Hushed Quarter Of A Century Ago Today, Roar Anew; People Look To Another Armistice

SCARS RECALL ARMISTICE OF ~ WORLD WAR 1   HEAVIEST LOSSES IN PRESENT CONFLICT YET TO COME

Armistice Day Again Finds. World In Fearful Strugcle   Quiet Dav'Is Scheduled Wasa

Allies Look Hopefully to  New Armistice   First Armistice Day Came to Europe 25 Years Ago Today

Pe eT aC ee ea oe ee  Road Deaths Drop To 14 During May   Oklahoma’s Record Far Down Below Last Year

lO Soldiers on Lonely Mountain Top Watch for Jap Movement Toward India

All Organized Resistance On Attu Broken By Attack  Navy Department Announces That Three U.S   Navy Department Announces That Three U.S. Columns Haye Now Joined At Chicagof Harbor

New Type Bombing Plane Being Used By Allies; Germans Evacuating Ruhr

GIANT PLANES FLY 10 APIA AND BACK AGAIN   RAF Hits Southern Germany On Way Over And Italy’s Naval Base On Return

Only Eight of 69 Railroad Wreck Victims Identified   48 Servicemen Among Dead: Crash  Investigation Begun

WRECK DEATH TOLL 69; SEEK 6 MORE BODIES   ix Service Men And 2] Civilians Known Dead In Crash

General John Harris Loses Fight for Life   National Commander U. V. C. Succumbs at State Confederate  Home Here Saturday

More Federal Help In State   Employes Of Government Over Double That Of Two Years Ago.

FDR, Churchill. Inonu Express ‘Closest Unity’ At Cairo Parley   No Turkish Move Believed Imminent Unless Nazis Attack

Foreshadows Events of Much Significance in Middle East.   -HAS MANY POSSIBILITIES

Cairo Meeting Of Turkey’s President Inonu, President Roosevelt And Prime Minister Churchill Viewed As Foreshadowing Events Of Great Significance In Middle East And Mediterranean Areas—Identity Of National Interests Affirmed By Leaders

ATTITUDE OF TURKEY WILL SHORTEN WAR   May Give Needed Bases For New  Balkan Raids

PACT SEALED AT CAIRO BY INONU, FDR, CHURCHILL  CESSION OF AIR   CESSION OF AIR BASES TO ALLIES SEEN AS LIKELY

‘Part Nation Will Play  ‘Not Known   May Join in Active War or Allow Use Of Certain Airbases

—TURKEY—  MAY ENTER WAR AGAINST NAZIS   ‘See Events Of Far Reaching Significance In Middle Fast   MET IN CAIRO   Roosevelt, Churchill And Inonu Hold Three-Day Conference

Newest Parley Resulfs To Be Far-Reaching.   -FDR, Churchill End Conference With Ismet Inonz

Three-Day Conference Between Chiefs Of Three Nations Results in Decision of Turks to Classify Selves With Allies

CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT TURKEY WAS HELD IN CAIRO  EVENTS OF FAR-REACH.  shi 2eaeRe hr BIS SMS

Conference Viewed As Foreshadowing Important Events   Guess in Cairo, Based on Some Supporting Information, Is That Country Will Not Enter War In Near Future   NO IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENTS ARE EXPECTED

VIEW RESULTS OF CONFERENCE   Roosevelt, Churchill and Inonu Affirm Identity Of Interests

World Awaits Events Atter Cairo Talks   Roosevelt, Inonu, Churchill ~ Complete Three-Day Conferences.   HOPKINS AT MEETING

Talks With Turkish President Viewed As Forerunner Of New And Far-Reaching Development:

PARLEY BRINGS TURKEY CLOSER      Vague Decorations of Friend: . Ship Called Sign-

New Moves Seen After 3-Day Parley   FDR, Churchill And Inonu in Close Unity

PARLEY WITH TURKS STESSED   Taiks Between FDR, Churchill And Inonu May Hasten Axis’ Defeat

MIDDLE EAST DEVELOPMENTS ARE EXPECTED   Inonu Conferred With FDR and Churchill For Three Days

War Bond Score   Pledges Of Unity May Mean Great Deal In The East

President Inonu, FDR And Churchil Close Conference; Big Events Loom

Significance. Attached to 3rd ° ‘War Meeting; Turks Apparently to Enter on Side of the Allies

THE AFTER CONFERENCE   Active Participation Not Expected For Some Time But Air Bases May Be Given Soon

Allies and Turks Pledge ‘Close Unity’   Great Significance Attached to Talks; Guess on Nation’s War Participation

Turkey Seen Ready to Act With Allies   Positive Decision Reached at Parley Somewhat in Doubt

Cairo Conference ' Seen as Presaging Events of Impor'   U. S., Britain, Turkey Affirm Identity of National Interest

End Of Neutrality Cession Of Bases Are Possibilities   Washington Awaits Final Word From Presideut On Ultimate Decisions

Major Events In Middle East Are. Expected Shortly   Full Scope Of Aid To Be Offered By Country Unknown

FR, Churchill and Inonu Declare Their Nations Bound by Closest Unity

Turkish Position Friendly   Close Unity With Allies Expressed But Not Expected to Enter War.   Could Play Important Role in War on Nazis

WINNING OF CONSERVATIVE NATION INTO UNITY WITH ALLIES 1S MAJOR VIGTOR

Cairo Parley May Bring A Balkans Push   Close Unity Proclaimed By Inonu, Roosevelt And Churchill.

But Far-Reaching Effect Expected By Latest Pact   Belief Persists Turks Will Fight If  ..azis Give Them ‘Direct Cause’

Cairo Meet May Bring Big Events   Roosevelt, Churchill  And Inonu Confer on IDealigiea! Cibintinn’

CONFERENCE WITH “NONU BELIEVED "AS FAR OEAPHINE   Three Nations Are Bound “By the Closest Unity” According to Announcement From Cairo.   FUTURE POSSIBILITIES — HAVE WIDE LATITUDE   Cairo 1s Flooded With Rumors After Meeting, Some Believe Balkans Campaign Js Planned.

Conference Is Highly  Significant   Far-Reaching Results Are Iexpected From Allied Talks With Turkey

TURKS, ALLIES FIND ‘CLOSEST UNITY’ EXISTS   Cairo Conference Statement Raise Possibility of Closer Collabore tion Against Axis   STATEMENT VAGUE   Chservers, However, Doub! Turkey Will Take Active Part in Wat Actions Immediately

ALLIES MIGHT GET AIR BASES FROM TURKEY   Far Reaching Events Seen In Middle East

Conference Of Suprem:  Importance   Cairo Gives No Iadication When Turks Will Act

PLANES AGAIN BLAST SICILY   Airports at Comiso and Biscari Pounded; Raid Made on Naples

Raids Bent On Destroying All Air Cover   Over 125 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Camiso and BRisearj

SICILY AIRFIELDS AND NAPLES DOCKS BOMBED BY ALLIES   Fifty American Liberators Drop 125 Tons of Explosives on Comiso and Biscari.   ALL PLANES RETURN SAFELY TO BASES   Rome Broadcast Reveals ' Raids Have Caused More Than 90,000 to Flee Cagliari, Sardinia,

American Liberator Bombers Smash at Island ~  Aaain   HEAVY EXPLOSIONS MARK THE ATTACKS   Airdromes Wrecked and Two Enemy Planes Destroved

Foe Suffers Heavy Air Attacks   Naples, Sicily Are Scathed; Hangars, Airfields Sustain Great Damage; RAF Spitfires Accompany Liberators

BOMBERS SMASH ITALIAN SICILY   Drop Tons of Exploding Steel On Airdromes   BASES ARE RAIDED   Follows Heavy Night Attack By British Wellingtons on Port of Naples

liberators Bomt Fields  in Sicily  we et ts   Comisé and Biscari Are Raid Targets

Italian Sicily Heavily Bombed By Liberators   Americans Drop 125 Ton of Explosives on Two Airdromes

ALLIED BOMBERS LEAVE 25 GREAT BLAZES ROARING   Naples Pert Area and Aj Stores Depot at Nearby Can cello Are Targets — One Fire Is Mile m Diamcler

25 GREAT FIRES LEFT BURNING ‘AT NAPLES   By African Based Allied Bombers in  All-Day Attack

Naples Devastated Under Bomb Attack   Twenty-Five Fires Are Observed, One Covering a Mile in Diameter, That Were Left Blazing by Allied Attack.   Italian Toe Cities Suffer Heavily From Bomb Attacks by U. S. Planes

ONE BLAZING “AREA A MILE AN DIAMETER   Other Points Blasted in Long Assault in Keeping With Threats to Attack Il Duce’s Cities  and BRartariec.

TWENTY-FIVE GREAT FIRES LEFT BLAZING IN PORT OF NAPLES  ALLIED BOMBERS CART NAV.IONC ATTACK TO

ALLIES TURN FULL FURY ON ITALY   25 Great Fires Raging In Naples; Other Points Hit

95 GREAT io SRT IN ITALY’S BIG PORT CITY   One Covers Area Mile In Diameter As Allied Bombers Smash Axis Supply Base   ITALY’S TOE CITIES  ALSO UNDER ATTACK   Harbor Mole Demolished In Wake of Warning Raids Will Extend to Mussolini’s Inland

25 Huge Fires ‘Are Started In Naples By Air Attacks   One Is About Mile In Diameter; Fortresses Take Up Where British Wellinetons Leave Off

Allied Fliers Hit Naples, Key Invasion Cities  De Gaulle, Girand Shake Hands

AERIAL BLASTING  STARTS FIRES IN  ITALIAN CITIES ALLIED BOMBARDIERS FIND TARGETS IN  AMifrfoe Aaim MARIA TY ¢

ALLIED PLANES IN BIG ATTAGK   Italians Warned Air War to Be Extended to Other,  Cities. .   NO U. S. PLANES LOST

25 Fires Seen in Port of Naples After Allied Planes Pour Bombs On Military Objectives Monday

e ey  AIRMEN BLAST _ ITALIAN CITIES   25 Great Fires Rage in Port of Naples, Reggio Calabria and San Giovanni Again Hit   RAILWAY TARGETS   Axis Broadcast Indicates Trans. port Problem in Italy, 532 Rail. way Men Casualties

25 Huge Fires Left Burning at Naples By Long Allied Air Attacks: Other Planes Blast Island. Mainland Points

Flying Forts Bomb Italian © Port All Day; Four Other Cities Are Heavily Attacked

25 GREAT FIRES LEFT BURNING IN NAPLES AREA   Allied Attack On Italian Port And Air Stores Depot Continued From Dawn Until Afternoon; Other Areas Also Bombed.

0 GREA BLAZING IN PORT OF NAPLES TODA’   Blazes Started By Allies Who Began Attack Before Dawn Monday and Continued Into Afternoon; Doolittle Bombers Carry Out First Mission Against Italian Mainland.

Bombers Sef Large Fires In Naples With Long Attack   Also Start Carrying Out Promise to Smash Inland Factories, Cities

Allied Heavy Bombers Rain Blows Throughout Naples Industrial Area

25 Great Fires © Left Burning 1 in. Raids on Naples   Armada. of. 100 Fortresses Follows Attack by Wellingtons; Liberators From Middle East Blast Toe Cities

Italian Mainland Under Air Blows  Tons Of Explosives Are Dumped On Targets

TWENTY-FIVE GREAT FIRES WERE SET IN PORT OF NAPLES   i  ‘One Covered an Area a Mile in Diameter, It Is  Announced.   CANCELLO ALSO HIT   Allied Bombers Began Attack Before Dawn, Continuing Into Afternoon.

25 Fires Are Left Blazing In Chief Port   Air Depot and Railroad Yards on Mainland Are   Also Damaged

HES OF ARTED IN NAPLES, KEY PRES DEPOTS  Hy Railr oad Yar rds,      Railroad Yards, Other Vital. War Positions Hit

Great Fires Left . In Italian Cities  By Allied Bombers   Sritish . Blockbusters, Doolittle’s Twin-Engined Bombers and Arm: ada of 100 Flying Fortresses Wreak Destruc: tion in Dawn to Night Attack,

Solons Will Get Tax Plan Today   Treasury Program Faces Opposition

DIRCTOR OF AREA OFFICIAL OF THE B. & 0.   Roy Barton White to Head Emergency Organization In the Allegheny Region   PUBLIC NOT AFFECTED

R-Street Host Tells New Deal Names In Secret  Denies Any Orgies At Bia Red House:

Senate To Act On Repeal Of $25,000 Limit   Appears Ready To Join House In Repeal Of Salary Limit

SALARY LIMIT REPEAL LOOMS   Senate Expected To Follow Action Of House

178 PERSONS DIE IN LONDON RAID SHELTER “PILE-UP”    People Suffocate In Great Heap at Foot of Stairs After t §=Woman.Tripped and Fell

RAF STRIKES AT HAMBURG AGAIN IN NIGHT ATTACK  GERMAN BOMBERS AN «  ulirT AT LT OANNHNOH

178 Killed in Accident at London Subway Entrance in Air Raid Alert

Odd Mishap Kills 178:   Londoners: Suffocate When Bodies Pile Up After Woman Trips or Steps to Raid Shelter

178 Killed In Accident During Raid   Sixty Others Are Injured When Bodies Pile Up at Entrance ta London Subway Shelter After Woman Trius

178 Perish In Jam At Raid Shelter Entrance  TaweryTys?T?eervTaer

There Are Plenty of Tunes for WAACS, But Women Would Prefer Writing Their Own Selections

Allies Take Toll Of Submarines In South Atlantic  Added to Results of Brazilian War Against Sea Enemy

Allies Take Offensive Against Subs: Sink Five in South Atlantic in Month

Five Axis Subs Sunk By Allies In Southern See  Score For Last Montt Brings Total To Ten In The South Atlantic

Fourth Hearing On Bill to Relax Labor Laws Set   Friends and Foes Asked to Try  For Agreement

RAIDS RESUMED ON AXIS EUROPE   Planes Sweep Across Channel To Batter French Targets

Large Formations of Allied Planes Raid German Positions on Continent

Divorce Granted To Mrs. Cromwell  Nevada Court Rules Her State Resident

TOBACCO HEIRESS GRANTED DIVORCE   DORIS DUKE CROMWELL GIVEN DECREE FROM FORMER U. S. DIPLOMAT. '

DORIS DUKE GRANTED DIVORCE IN NEVADA   Heiress To Muge Tebacco Fortune Had Been Wed To James H. R, Cromwell, Ex-Diplomat

STRICT ECONOMY 18 URGED BY GOVERNOR WITH NO NEW TAXES  LEGISLATURE TOLD JOB WAS TO HELP STATE MEET WAR EMERGENCY

PRAYER 1S HELD. ~ QUIBBLER’S BOON   Gillette Demonstrates How Wrangling Possible in Senate

Chillicothe Boy One of 4 Rescued from J ap-Held Island After 10 Months with Natives--Snakes Part of Slim Diet

Safe After 10 Months In Jungle   Three American Fliers Have Thrilling Experience In New Guinea

Three U.S. Fliers Back at Base After Hiding 10 Months on Japanese Island   Chillicothe. O.. Private One “of Trio Forced Down on Enemy  Occupied Land. Last. May.

OFFICIAL REVIEWS RAILROADS’ RECORL   Work Is Example of Triumph of Free Forces of Enterprise.

OHIO CROP OUTLOOK IS FOR REDUCTION   Survey Claimed to Reveal Lack of Farm Help

152 DRAFT BOARDS LIST DELINQUENTS   361 Registrants Reported to U. S. Attorneys for Action.

GUERRILLAS IN GREECE JOIN ALLIES   Under Direct Orders Of United Nations Command

Allies Enlist Guerrilla Bands   Greeks Become Part Of Organized Army

‘Greek Guerrilla Bands Now Have Become Part ‘of United Nations Organized Forces and Will Be Under Direct Orders of the Allies

Merciless In Putting Down Revolt   Eyewitn ss Reports From ‘Denmark Tell .

Nazi Gunners Mow Down Dane: In Copenhagen   Danish People Refuse to Crack Despite Executions

King Christian's Guarded Words Encourage Danes   Nazis Shoot Down Civilians in Streets, Refugees Declare

DANISH PEOPLE STILL DEFIANT   King Gives Encouragement  As Nazis Take Over

King Christian Cheers Danes In Nazi Revolt   Nation Resists Military Rule

Danes Refuse To Crack Under Nazis  Merciless Executions In  Streets Reported

DANES MOW DOWN BY NAZI MACHINEGUNS   Mechanized Troops Pour Volleys of Bullets Into Groups Waiting on Platforms   HEARTENED BY KING

REICH TROOPS FIRE ON DANES IN COPENHAGE!   Danish Peaple Heartened By King’s Address; Nazi _* Soldiers Mow Down   Many In Streets

KING HEARTENS DANISH PEOPLE   ‘Merciless Street Execu tions Enforce Martial Law Decree

GERMANS MOW DANES DOWN IN CITY STREETS   Clamp Iron Hand on Kingdom but Fail to Prevent 1,000 Cheering King, Hearing Encouragement

KING OF DANES HEARTENS HIS BRAVE PEOPLI   Nazis Mercilessly Enforcing Their Orders Against Congregating Amongst Danes.

Germans Slay Many People in Cold Blood   King Heartens Little Nation with Encouraging Words; 2,000 Feared Dead

King Christian’s Words Of Encouragement Give New Strength to Danes

Street Executions Fail To Daunt Danes: King Encourages Resistance

King’s Words Spur Danes To Greater Resistance In Fight Against Nazi Yoke

KING'S WORDS CHEER DANES   Thousand Ignore Assembly Ban to Cheer as King And Queen Appear

Danish People Heartened by Words From King Christian.   Refugees Say”Nazis PouredVolleyt Into Groups of Danes

WORDS BY KING CHRISTIAN X HEARTEN DANES   Germans Shooting Citizens Down Throughout Nation

Valiant Danes Continue Defy Nazi’ Invaders   Thougands _ Gather” to Cheer King as Latter Speaks Words of Chee? and Approval. Germans Conduct Street Exeott  Pera

BARBARIC MURDERS OF DANES FAIL BREAK SPIRITS OF PEOPLE  KING CHRISTIAN, VIRTUAI PRISONER, ENCOUR-

Danes Heartened By King s Words   No Cracking Under Nazi Dictatorship

King's Words Cheer Danes In. Resistance   Throng Ignores Prohibitior Of Assemblies to Hear, Cheer Ruler

Germans Clamp Military Rule Over Denmark.   Nazis Gunners Mow Down Danes On Street Corners

KING BOOSTS REVOLT SPIRIT AMONG DANES   Tells Group On Auto Tour To Continue Speaking Danish Language     STREET KILLINGS RISE   Drastic Measures Ordered B} Nazi Dictator To Restore *“Normaley”

ee  ENCOURAGING bes BS FROM KING      German Mechaniaéd Trdops Pour Volleys Machin : Gun Fire into fiawes Waiting in Safety Zones ner *traat ara 2 hy

MASS MURDERS IN DENMARK TOLD BY DANES WHO ESCAPED GERMANS IN DASH TO SWEDEN

Danish People Have Refused To Crack Under German Military Dictatorship.

DANES HEARTENED BY KING'S WORDS   Increased Resistance To Jron Rule Of Nazis Is Indicated   REVOLT CRUSHED   Merciless Street Executions Carried Out By Invaders

[Danish Citizens Ruthlessly Shot ‘By Nazi Troops   King Encourages Danes In Brief Appearance

Senate Preview of War Fronts. May.Lead to Lend Lease Operations Probe

FAULT FINDING SPAWNS PROBE   War Zone Touring Senators End ‘Secret’ Reporting

SENATORS VIEW OPERATIONS OF WAR AGENCIES   PROBE BODES ILL FOR OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION

To Investigate Lend - Le  Private Senate Quiz Is Causing Trouble

Solons Wrangle About OWI, Lend-Lease Fund  Row Occurs In Senate Over Report

SENATE GETS TWOWAR FRONTS’   . Investigation of LendLease Spawned By — Hearing

SENATE WILL INVESTIGATE LEND-L EASE   Private Review Of Trip Held  In Secret

SENATE “REVIEW” MAY BE CAUSE OF LEND-LEASE PROBE   May Bode Ili For FDR’s Re‘quest For OWI Fund—Some Members Desire for Look Into Manv Agencies

SENATOR'S REVIEN BODES ILL 10 0.W.1   Senates War Front Review Spawns Investigation of Lend Lease Operations.

WAR FRONTS REVIEW SPAWNING PROBES  FIVE TOURING SENATOR CRITICIZED SEVERAL Prrnrp ar saNnmracire

Lend-Lease Let In For An Inquiry   ‘Touring Senators Sharply  Critieal of Activities Overseas

LEND-LEASE PROBE URGED BY SOLONS   War-Touring Senators Ex: press Views at Senate Caucus

Senate Plans fy Into War Agencies   Lend-Lease Act And OWI Facing Official Action

War Agency ProbeLooms   Report of Globe-Trotting Senators Stirs Row Over Activities:  _ Of Lend-Lease and OW!

Senate's Review of War Fronts Spawns Quiz of Lease-Lend   Also Bodes Ill for More Money for OWI; Other News From Capital

OWI Activities Abroad Arouse Senate’s Anger   Touring Senators Report In Secret Session; Agencies To Bo Investigated

ENEMY FORCE TO USE BASES ON MAINLAND   Allied Troops Advance to Gateway of Catania

Axis Mobile ArtilleryForced To Withdraw   Allied Sea Fire Used Against  Railway Guns

GAINS IN SICILY ‘BEYOND HOPES’   Patterson Warns that Hard Fight Will Precede Final Clean-up

PATTERSON IS PLEASED; FULL VICTORY SURE      Mellioli taken and British are advancing along east coast \

TO USE BASES ON MAINLAND   Allied Troops Advance to Gateway of Catania

British Repel  Heavy Attack Near Augusta   Americans Drive Six Miles Deeper Inland, Capture Airdrome and Another Italian General as 275 Bombers Blast Messina.

PUSH ON TOWARD PORT CATANIA AND AGRIGENTO   “ermans Use Heavy Tanks But Number Are Destroyed by Yanks and Canadians; Advance on Both Coasts

Casualties Said Fewer  Than Foreseen   Patterson Points To Value of Thorough Training

Sicilian Job Easier Than U.S. Expected   Patterson Says Progres: Is Faster Than Antici.  pated and Losses Fewer

Mine Explosion In Montana Traps 69   Rescue Crews Work Desperately Against Potson Fumes;  Three Bodies Removed

HOPE WANES FOR TRAPPED MINERS   Three Bodies Removed Fron Montana Shaft—69 Men Still Missing

FEAR 69 PERISH IN MINE BLAST   Rescue Workers Entertain Little Hope; Bodies of Three Removed

QUEER   Freak Happenings in the News o! the Day Gathered Hither and Yon by Associated Presa.

PRICE PEGGING LAMBASTED BY LIVESTOCK MEN   Subsidies For Dairy Cattle Feed Described As Wasteful Program   ROLLBACKS HOIST COST   Periodical Adjustment Of Values To Regional Market Urged

U0, FAR GROUPD DEMAND THAT CPA OGHAP FARM PLAN   Subsidies Scored as Major Organizations Hit Price Policy

Marshall Back After Pacific: Conferences .  ‘Meets General — MacArthur  and.   Marshall. Passes. - as

Gen. Marshall Returns to U. S. After Conferring in Pacific With Nimitz And MacArthur on War Strategy

GEN, MARSHALL TOURS PACIFIC WAR THEATEI   Trip Indicates Decision To Retain Him As Chief Of Staff

MARSHALL BACK INU, 8, AFTER PACIFIC JAUNT   Confers With MacArthur, Nimitz After Strategy Agreed On At Cairo

GEN. MARSHALL IN CONFERENCE WITH M’ARTHUR   Co-ordinated' Pacifie Plans

MARSHALL BACK AFTER MEETING WITH M’ARTHUR   Chiat of Staff Returns After 35,000-imile Tour of Remote Fronts.

HIT NAZIS AT 1ZYUM   Reds Capture 2 Towns In Brief Fighting Near Smolensk

FAVORABLE POSITIONS   Take Initiative From Germans South of Izyum

REDS WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD ON DONETS   Seize Initiative From Exhausted Germans

RED ARMY WRESTS INITIATIVE AWAY FROM ‘TIRED NAZIS   Soviet Bridgehead On Bank Of Donets River Is Widened—Smolensk  Front Ouiet

RUSSIANS WIDEN BRIDGEHEAD 10 SOUTH OF DONETS   Red Army Takes Initiative After Repulsing Numerous Nazi Attacks.

Reds Widen Bridgehead On Donets   Russians Wrest Initiative from Exhausted Nazis

SOVIETS SLASH DONETS NAZIS   RED ARMY RIPS WIDER BRIDGEHEAD IN ADVANCE

Old Man Summer Moves Into State   No Relief in Sight For Warm Weather

THOUSANDS OF CHINESE SLAIN IN AREAS WHERE FLIERS HID   SLAUGHTER AT LIDICE REPRODUCED ON WHOLESALE SCALE, CHIANG KAI SHEK REVEALS

JAP ATROCITIES REVEALED BY MORGENTHAU   Says All Civilians Slain in Areas Where U.S. Flyers Landed

ew er ONL Nl nf Oj  Japanese Slaughtered All Chinese In Areas Where U.S. Fliers Landed

CHIANG REVEALS JAP ATROCITIES   Everyone Slain In Chinese Areas Where Raiders Of Tokyo Landed

CHINESE ADVANCE ON THE YANGTZE   Columns Enter Japanese River Base of Itu in Pursuit of Fleeing Enemy Forces; Foe Punished by Allied Airmen

Nip Retreat Declared  Complete Rout   Street Fighting Is Reported in Enemy Base at Itu

Chinese Armies Beat forward More Swiftly   Last Of Japanese Invaders Are Thrown Out Of Area North Of Lake Tuneting.

Japanese Flight Becomes Rout   American Aviators Aid Chinese Armies

NEW GAINS BY CHINESE ARE MADEIN DRIVE   Japanese Being Rapidly Pursued Down the Yangtze

Chinese Gain On Enemy At Fast Clip   Foe Chased Out Of Area North Of Lake Tungting

Allied Airmen Fiercely Lash  Japs in China   Last of Invaders Driven  From Tungting Area; Fees Peace TP.

CHINESE ARMIES MAKE NEW GAINS   JAP RETREAT DESCRIBED AS ROUT—FLEEING COLUMNS RAKED FROM AIR.

JAPS ON RUN; CHINESE TARE BLOODY TOL   RETREATING ENEMY POUNDED BY AIR AT YANGTZE

Chinese AndYanks  Rout Japs Drive May Trag  Warships : - ‘Inland -

Chinese Push Into Yangchi, Take Ansiang   Last of Japs Driven From Area North of Lake Tungting; Allie  Fliers Rout Enemy

Chinese Throw Last of Enemy Out af Tunting  istangFalls.to Armies; Japanese

CHINESE TOSS! JAP OUT LAKE TUNTING AREA      Chiang Kai-Shek Reports His Columns Are Entering Jap River Base Of Itu Pursu ing Enemv.   Nips Retreat Disorderly

FIVE SHIPS IN ENEMY CONVOY HIT   Night Attacks Follow Daylight Sweeps By U. S. Planes

British Find Targeis in Southern Germany, Northern France, Beigium   SHIPPING STRAFED   American Bombers Pound Lorient, Bordeaux and U-Boat Base of Keroman in Daylight Raids

Planes Resume Mighty Drive Against Reich   Targets Bombed In Germany, North France, Belgium

Allied Aerial Offensive Against Europe Reaches New Peak in Heavy Day and Night Attacks

RAF Bombers Attack Lewis Agrees To Extend Truce: Germany and France Strike Temporarily Averted

Bombers Attack Targets In Southern Germany and Fighters Sweep Northern France and Belgium; Five Enemy Ships In Convoy Damaged.

Air Raiders In New Blasts   Targets in Italy And Germany Get Further Lashing.

British Blast Nazi Taraets   Attack Southern  Germany, Northern France and Belgium

BRITISH selytne   Attack Targets In South. ern Germany, Northern France, Belgium

ALLIED AERIAL DRIVES SMASH NAZI INDUSTRY  ive Ships Of Enemy Convo   LONDON ATTACKED AGAIN   Communication Centers fh France, Belgium Hit By ] Airmen

‘Tar vets In Widespr ead Area Again  WitBy RAF   Five Ships In Enemy Convoy Left Sinking; Alghero In Sardinia Is Bombed

British Bombs Again Fall On Germany   Fighters Also Sweep France, Belgium; Five Axis Ships Hit

RAF Bombs Targets In Germany   Coastal Planes Attack  Enemy Convoy Off Dutch Coast

Bombing Of Axis Still Going Strong   British Busy Over Europe Last Night and Today— Convov Struck

Five Enemy Ships'in Convoy Are Damaged; Allied Bombers Over Continent Tuesday

) ALLIED AIR FORCES CARRY ON UNRELENTING ATTACKS AGAINST AXIS ISLANDS

ROUND-CLOCK RAIDS MADE ON CONTINENT   Germany, France, Belgium Heavily Attacked   In Enemy Convoy Bombed: Assault On Southern Europe Continues

REICH, FRANCE, BELGIUM NIGHT RAID TARGETS   Coastal Aircraft Damage Five Ships In Enemy © Convoy Off Dutch   ’ Coast   AIR ATTACKS ARE UNDERWAY TODAY   Blasting Of Two Huge Dams In Germany Bring-. ing Untold Destruction to War Machine

RAF BOMBERS POUND BERLIN FOR 3R0 NIGHT   Allies Destroy 96 More Planes Guarding Italy Bases

Allies Press Air Attacks Against Axis   67th Raid Made on Berlin ‘And Planes Downed At 22 to  Ratio

Three-Day Toll of Axis Planes Increased to 282   Berlin Raided Again; Air Bases on Sicily and Sardinia Badly Battered

AiR WAR PREDONILNATES PACIFIC   MacArthur Airmen Blasting Japs All Over Australian Theatre.

JAPS FEELING MIGHT OF U. S.  BLYING FORCES   Flying Fortresses Bomb Rabaul Airport Doing Considerable Damage To Javanese Base.

PERRY PORTER ON GRDA BOARD   New Setup Will Try to Regain Control of Project After War

HINT TIME NEAR FOR U, S. DRIVE IN PACIFIC AREA   American Submarines Hit 11 Jap Ships; Increase Air Raids on Nips

U.S. Fliers Slam .Japanese Units In Pacific Area   Bomber, Submarine Raids Indicate Offensive Push Might Be Underway

U.S. SLAPS JAPS IN NEW ORIVE   Hint at Push-Back Campaign; 18 Surface Craft Sunk

JAPS BEING PUSHED BACK IN PACIFIC   Enemy Land and Sea Forces Slammed With Mounting Fury By U. S. Bombers   ‘MANY SHIPS ARE SUNK

Major Campaign On Japs Opened!   Enemy ‘Land, Sea Forces Pounded

Yanks Step Up Pacitic Blows      Navy Lists 13 Bomber Raids, Destruction Of Il Jap Ships By Subs.

Yanks Strike From Kiska To Solomon:   Jap Land and Sea Forces Pounded by UG. 5. Air Baiders and Subs

JAP FORCES BEING SLAMMED MOUNTING FURY IN PAGIFIC  BOMBING RAIDS AND SUI   BOMBING RAIDS AND SUB MARINE ACTIVITY FROM KISKA TO SOLOMONS

American Pacific Forces Slap Japs In Mounting Drive   Push-Back Campaign Is Hinted By Latest Move

JAPS HIT HARD ON LAND, SEA   Washington Sees Orive a: New Campaign To Press Enemy Back.

AT JAPANESE ARE USTED ©   American Bombers Raid Bases From Kiska to Solomons and Offensive May Be in Making.

Jap Land And Sea Forces Being Slammed Furiously   ASSAULTS MAY MARK OPENING.OF NEW ALLIED CAMPAIGN. -

Win War or Be Slaves—Hitler   Proclamation on 10th Anniversary Is Issued

Must Win or Be Enslaved, Hitler Says   His’ ” Proclamation... Raises Spectre of Bolshevism . ‘Before: » Gérmans      STILL GREATER. 2-2. ‘SACRIFICES URGED      And Goebbels:           Warns: :

Hitler Warns       Goebbels Denies ‘Nation. To Be Put Under Martial Law

00-OR-DIE 16 HITLER WORD TO BERMANS   Proclamation to Reich By Absent Dictator Is Read By Goebbels.   NO MARTIAL LAW, BUT DRASTIG RULE   People Face Harsh Punishment if They Are Found Shirking.

RADING RAF PLANES MAKE SAFE RETURN   Anniversary Address of Goering Delayed Hour During Attack. Hitler With His Soldiers? 

Bolshevists Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out—Hitler to Germans

Berlin Struck By RAF It Daylight, Delaying Speech; Last Reserves Are Called

Germans Urged to Fight On   Must Win or Be Slaves to Reds, Hitler Declares

Hitler, Via Goebbels, Tells Nazis Must Win-or Else!   Nazi Fuehrer Warns German People to Be Victors or Bolshevist Slaves

GOEBBELS SAYS GERMANY MUST BE VICTORIOUS   Delivers Hitler's Anniversary Proclamation To German People; “Win The War Or Be Enslaved By Bolshevists.”

RAF Raids German Capital as Marshal  Prepares to Speal   No Speech From Hitler ~on Tt0th Anniversary of  of His Accession

French Coast Is Battered   Hundreds of Big Planes Swarm Over Narrow Channel

Hitler Tries To Scare Germans  Into War Work  Raises Spectre Of   Raises Spectre Of Being Bolshevist Slaves If Defeated

WIN OR BECOME SLAVES-HITLER   GOEBBELS DELIVERS PROCLAMATION FOR GERMAN FUEHRER

Seering Address, *romising Victory.  Jelayed One Hour   ‘irst RAF Daylight Raid On City; Claim Fuehrer With His Armv; Reich Told Of Reds’ ‘Deception’

Hitler Says Slavery Is Facing Reick   Goebbels Reads Proclamation Gf Fuehrer

CHINESE REGAIN YANGTZE POINT   Gen, Chiang’s Forces Take  — Owchihkow After Routing  Japanese Troops

CHINESE UNITS GAIN, RETAKE OWCHIHKOW   Advance on Upper Yangtze River Sector

‘Chinese Score  New Triumphs  Along Yanotze   Large Part Of Owchihkow ~~~ts~Reported-RecapturedBy Chiane’s Armies

King Takes Over Italy With. _Life-long & Enemy of Il Duce i in ~ Power? Mussolini. under Arrest

Marshal® Pietro Badoglio Heads Dictatorship As Mussolini Quits   Whereabouts Of Fallen Fascist Head Matter Of Much Speculation

Driving of Southwest Motorists to Be Cut In Near Future Under OPA Curtailment

Argentina Stops Code Messages To Axis Powers   Makes It Impossible To Send Ship Information to Enemies

Argentina Cancels  Code Rule for Axis   First ‘Act’ to Show Pan-American Policy

Argentine Hits Axis Countries   Code Transmission Facilities Tied Up

ARGENTINA HITS AXIS ESPIONAGE   Code Message Facilities Taken Away From Embassies

‘Argentine Checks Axis Activity, Stops Code Work  New Act Is Hindrance To Nazi Spies,  Will Impede U-Baoants

Argentina Halts Axis Messages   ‘Germany And Italy Recoanize Regime

ARGENTINA CURTAILS AXIS COMMUNICATION   Regime’s ‘Cancellation of Message Facilities Looked on as First Pro-Allied Move,

Argentine Gov't Moves _ To Halt Axis Espionage   Facilities Which Have Permitted Embassies and Notionals to Transmit Code Messages to Their Capitals Cancelled

AXIS EMBASSIES ARE RESTRICTED   New Argentine Government Prohibits Trans mission Of Messages

Argentina cancels nazi’ wire rights   Take step to halt espionage

Argentina s Hitfing Axis   Code Messages Halted By Government Order

ARGENTINA STOPS’ WIRE FACILITIES      ‘Step Thought Blow at Axis "Espionage; Codes Are Barred

Four-Motored Planes Hit in Ruidoso Area, One Crashes in Flames   One Crew Member Parachutes to Safety, Rancher Reports; 13 Bodies Recovered ; Wreckage Strewn Over Wide Region

BOMBERS COLUIDE; 17 BELIEVED DEAD   ARMY PLANES CRASH IN NEW  MEXICO—ONE MAN PARACHUTES TO SAFETY.

OHIO FARMERS WORK FROM DAWN TO DUSK   Labor Long Hours To Meet Production Goals

GERMANS FORCED FROM KRYMSHAYE   J. S. Troops Are Convertine Russell Islands Into An Air Base.

Russians Press New Offensive   ~ Wipé: Out-Nearly' 1,000  Enemy Troops In Drive

RUSSIANS DESTROY ENEMY TROOPS AND TAKE TANKS, GUNS   New Offensive of Soviets Presses Forward Relenttessly on Wednesday,

Police Seek To Establish Identify   ee ee ee ee ee ee eee  ® Mysterious Stranger  Appears at Station; Arnnavrantl, Rahhead

Pelle SeakTo Estanlish identity   ! Mysterious Stranger Appears at Station; Anmnarantiss Pabhad

OnIO RUM RATION PERIOD EXTENDED   Virtual Cut Result of Ac! On Term From Today _ ta Jan. 15

SERVICE WARNS OF DUST BOWL RETURN   Heavy Snow or Rainfall All That Can Prevent Condition.

PRISONERS EXECUTED BY JAPS   F. R. Reveals Some Americans Killed By Nipponese

JAPS EXECUTE YANK CAPTIVES   President Reveals ‘Barbarous Execution’ of Americans After Tokyo Raid

Crews of Bombers Are Put to Death by Nippon   Roosevelt Announces ‘With Horror’ Information That Tokyo Has Taken Lives of Yanks; State Dept. Protests

U.S. Fliers Executed By The Japanese   Roosevelt Reveals Fate Of Crews Which Were Taken Prisoner   EXTRA!

War Department Reveals Story of Tokyo Bombing; Promise Early Repetition

ROOSEVELT ISSUES STATEMENT ABOUT BARBAROUS FATES   Hints Made That Doolittte’s. Visit Was Just Prelude to Pounding to Come on Futupe Visits.   AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS USED FOR BASE   20-Cent Sight Used By Bombers to Save Secret, One Aviator Killed, 8 Others Cantured.

REDSKINS NOT. INVOLVED WITH ~ BETTING RINGS   Owner.of W: ashington Grid Team Offers $5,000 For — Proof of.Gambling By Players:

Tawes Explains His Trip South In a State Car   Went to Son's Wedding it Georgia, Comptroller Declares   Not a Pleasure Trip He Says; Scores Princess Anne Editor

TAWES IS ACCUSED OF VIOLATING BAN   Comptroller Says He is Ready to Accept Decision After Hearing

Hull Is Due to Report on Parley   Secretary, with Success at Moscow Behind Him, Returns to Report to FDR

WASHINGTON WILL GREET BULL TODAY   Roundup Presented For Past Week; No New Tires

HULL DUE FROM MOSCOW TODAY   RETURNS WITH ACCORD VIRTUALLY ASSURED AMONG WORLD POWERS

HULL DUE BACK FROM MOSCOW POLICY TALKS   Spain Denies Recognition of Jap Regime in Philippines

EXPECT HULL AETURN TODAY   Secretary of State Has Diplomatic Feather in His Cap.   GEN. FRANCO EXPLAINS

CONGRESS MAY TAKE HAND IN RAIL WAGE NOW   Hull Due Back from Moscow With Diplomatic Feather: Other Problems Faced

Edward J. Hynn’s Senate Support Might Be Lacking  Opposition Reports Enough Votes to Deny Appointment

Virginia Senator Bitterly Opposes Flynn Nomination   Demands Senate Assume Responsibility Of Reject: ing Appointment

FLYNN’S FATE HELD BY 30 SENATORS   SENATOR BYRD CALLS FOR REJECTION OF ROOSEVELT’S APPOINTEE.

BYRD DEMANDING FLYNN REJECTION      Insists Senate Assume Full Responsibility in Action

Byrd Calls On Senate To Reject Edw. J. Flynn   Appointment Will Not be Helpful to War Effort, Sen. ator Declares—Thirty-six Senators Committed in Opposition to Nomination

Byrd Demands Flynn Rejection   Senator Expresses Fear of Resentment

SENATOR BYRD AGAINST FLYNN   Virginian Says Roosevelt Appointee Not Qualfied  For Pasitian

BILLS PASSED   Edward J. Flynn’s Senate Support Might Be Lacking  Opposition Reports Enough Votes to Deny Appointment

REJECTION OF FLYNN URGED   Byrd Demands Senate To Turn Down Selection For Ambassador

Byrd Urges Rejection Of Flynn’s  Nomination   Demands That Senate Assume Responsibility And Opponents Gain Another Obiector   OPPOSITION GROUP CLAIMS 49 TOTAL

RUNAWAY CAUSES A DEATH   Mrs. Lucinda Jett Is Fatally Injured in Chetopa

Air Authorities Believe German Power Is At Limit   Increase In Allied Air Offensive Has ‘“‘Tremendous” Possibilities.

Believe German Air Power May Have Passed Peak   Increase In Allied Striking Power May Come Soon

Milan, Turin Are Raided By British   Attacks Expected to Affect Italian Morale—Make Gains in Sicily

YANKS’ ARMADA ~ RAIDS BY DAY   British Mosquito Squadrons Hit Nazi Capital While Turin, Milan in North ttaly Get Plastering in Night Assault—American Army Drives for Patti.

Italy Cities Rock in Smash   YANKS MAKE GOOD ON THREAT AS WAVES OF PLANES SHATTER VITAL ITALIAN RAIL YARDS; BRITISH MOSQUITOS DROP DEATH ON NAZI CITY

Plan Program ~ Armistice Day   ‘Legion; V.F.W., High ' School To Sponsor _' Joint .. Observance

British Dump Explosives on Chemical City   American Liberators And Flying Fortresses Strike at Bremen, Cater Nazi U-Boat Campaign

5, W. GERMANY NEXT ON LIST AFTER BERLIN   U.S. Bombers Swing Offensive to New Quarter to Put Air War , Back on Full Scale Basis

9,240 TONS OF BONS DROPPED ONMETROPOLIS   ‘One of Largest Loads of ; Explosives Poured On  i One Target In Attack In War   SMOKE SURGES 16,000 FEET FROM BIG FIRES   Twenty Bombers Lost In Series of Attacks During Last Night; Berlin Admits Damage Heavy

U. S. Bombers Hit 3 Sides   Blast North Franee. Northwest And South German Industrial Targets.

“Late News Bulletins   U. B. Marauders in Daylight: Raid on France

Judge Lindsey, 73, Died Friday   His Death Occurred in Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

JUDGE LINDSEY DIES OF ILLNESS   Suffered Heart Attack Wed nesday Night

Judge Ben B. Lindsey Dies   Prominent Jurist In Colorado and California Courts for Children

Judge Lindsey Dies in California   Marriage Views  Made Him Famous

Judge Ben Lindsey Dies At 73   Was Juvenile Court System Founder

COAST JURIST PASSES AT 73   Judge Lindsey Creditec With Children's Court  Procedure

JUDGE LINDSEY FAILS 10 RALLY   Famed Jurist Who Advoc at ed ‘“Companionate Marriages’ Dies Today

Present Situation Caused By Bungling, Chicago  Report Declares      MILK PRICE SUBSIDY OFFERED BY JONES

Congress Urged To Aid in Maximum Farm Production   Unification of © Food, processing Programs Needed

IN DAYLIGHT ATTACK      Targets in Enemy Qeeupied Territory Hit by U. S. Bombers

U.S. Bombers Lash Lorient   Uther Targets Pounded In Heavy Daylight Assaults

Not Any of Measures Submitted Has Executive Tag of Approval  PUBLISHERS MEETING

Today In Washington:  Congress Moves Toward Probe of Communications, Slowing Draft Inductions

FCC Quiz May Take In Radio, — State Leaders      Congress Getting Ready To Open Its Inquiry In. Two Fields ---

FCC Will Face Congressional Investigation   Food and Laber Questions Also Debated At Capitol

RADIO INDUSTRY PROBE POSSIBLE   Congress ~ Concerned With: Current Labor Problems

INVESTIGATIONS ARE LINED UP 10 SPICE CONGRESS   Lawmakers Keeping Eye on White House for Something On Mine Strike

Radio Probe Threatened By Congress   Committee Approves Five-Man Inquiry Into FCC Activity.

CONGRESS EYES RADIO INDUSTRY ‘IN FCC PROBE   COMMITTEE OPENS SWEEPING INQUIRY OF COMMUNICATIONS

CONGRESS MAY PROBE ENTIRE RADIO INDUSTR)   Proponents To See If Terrorism Campaign Set  Up; FCC A Target

American Fighters Average Only Two Hours Sleep In 24 In Eicht Days Of Battling

CALTANISSETTA’S FALL DESCRIBED BY . P. CORRESPONDEN  AMERICANS PUSH IN  FROM THREE SIDES DESPITE LACK OF SLEEP

Chutes Save Eight Fliers  - Bomber Lands Near Cumberland, Md., ~ Crew Near Johnstowr

Big Bomber Crew Bails Out At Cherry Tree; Plane Crashes At Cumberland

Congressman, Lt. Commander Burn - in Plane 2, Vv z Army Transport Hits Locust Mt.,         Punxs’y Cadet Injured After 7,700Et. tame 3 in Ohio   Girl Army’ Ferry Commando Chutes Safely. Altoona 

MINE SITUATION GROWS BRIGHTER   Back-To-Work Trend Boosted Altho 100,000 Still Are On Strike

DROUGHT HITS CROPS IN EAST   Damage Runs Into Millions With Conditions Worst In 20 to 25 Years

Dronght in East ~ Worst in Years, Bureau Reveal  Damage to Crops it Po, a an , Snes

HIGH ANACONDA MEN ARE FINED   Prison Sentences On Frauc Charges Suspended

COPPER FIRM FINED FOR FALSE TESTS   Employes of Anaconda Company Draw Fines, : Prison Terms

RUSSIA DEMANDS BRITISH ACTION   Isles Should Be ‘Main Base For Invasion of Continent, Paper Says

Invasion Should Be From England   Communist Party Paper Gives War Strategy

SOVIET NEWSPAPER SAYS THE BRITISH ISLES SHOULD BE MAIN BASE FOR EUROPEAN DRIVE

Invasion Possible From British Isles  Russian Press Pointe To Advantages

Stalin's ‘Game. Puzzles Allies   Litvinoff! s- -Recall Is Partly Explained’   Moscow: Paper Says Russ Saved England

Reds Smash Through Last Major Link in  Orel’s Defense—-Claim New Aerial At-*  tacks Near Rome—Fresh Violence sf  in Balkans—U. S. Bombers Blast ~ Java Naval Base.

Berlin Broadcast Admits British Eighth Army Had Breached Axis Lines Before Catania After Americans’ Victory   Axis Flees Toward Escape Port

Palermo, Biggest Campaign Prize, Falls To Invaders   British Break Through German Main Defenses at Catania } Plain

THOUSANDS DRIVEN INTO NARROW TRAP AS YANKS ADVANCE   Berlin Broadcast Says British Broke Through Into Catania Plain but Suffered Heavy Losees,

Escape Route for Axis Forces  inWestSealed   Sicilian Capital Occupation Biggest Prize in 14-Day-Old Campaign; Eighth Army Makes Progress at Catania; Reds Closing in on Orel

7 Axis Forces Are Trapped in Pocket    British Succeed in Breaking Through Outer Defenses’ ot Catania

Palermo Is Biggest Prize of 14-Day Allied Offensive   British Appear to Be Flanking Catania En Route to Messina

SICILIAN CAPITAL, ‘BIGGEST PRIZE OF ‘INVASION, FALLS  BELIEVED GEN. MONTGOMERY IS NOW FLANK ING CATANIA

SEALS TRAP ON AXIS IN. WEST HALF OF SICILY   Sicilian Capital Is Biggest Prize In 14-Day- Old  Campaign   iTALIANS ARE STUNNED   Surrender To Onrushing  Yanks With Little  Opposition

Biggest Prize, Palermo, Taken By Invaders   Russians Continue Advance, Storming Into Outskirts Of Orel

British Plot Cirele Around Catania Point   General Patton’s Yankee Troops Advancing At High Speed Over Island.   DEFENSES WITHDRAWN

Johnson to Call Session lof Legislature   Emergency Session for Purpose of Appropriating §$2,000000 to Increase Pay of School Teachers

CABINET OF VICHY IS RECONSTRUCTED      Three Ministers of Laval Regime Reported to Have Ouit

3 MINISTERS LEAVE LAVAL IN SHAKE -UP   14 Quit Embassy Posts At Madrid, Adding To Tension At Vichy   Crisis Developing

Vichy Cabinet Reorganized in Mystery Shakeup   Three Ministers Resigt and May Support Gen. Giraud   Fourteen Members of Dip lomatic Service in Spain Quit

Allied Armies Drive Forware Against Axis   Sicilian Campaign, March On Orel Proceeding Well

Chief States Draft Can Call Only Few U.S. Workers   Wheeler Expects Bill  To Defer Fathers  Te. ow ee, Dueme mnt

Chief States Draft Can Call Only Few U.S. Workers  Wheeler Expects Bill To Defer Fathers

Relatively tew Federal Workers Qualify for Wa  Wheeler Acknowledge  Tye. ..*hf. wmf. ig CL   Wheeler Acknowledges Possible Defeat of Draft Bill

WHEELER BILL SEEMS DOOMED   Senator Admits Father Deferment Measure  Likely To Fail

Federal Workers Drop in Bucket   112,399 Deferred, Says Draft Official

Probers Hear Of Deferred U.S. Employe:   Liaison Officer Says Group Is Drop in Bucket’

GENERAL MARSHALL TO APPEAR MONDAY   Chief of Staff to Testify on Drafting of Fathers

Committee Is Told 112,399 Federal Employes Deferred as of August 15

FEDERAL MEN DEFERMENTS HELD SLIGHT   Wheeler Says Father Bill’-May Be Beaten

SET MOBILIZATION MEET IN RICHWOOD   Panel Discussion On : Farm Problems Is Planned

MOBILIZATION MEETING TONIGHT   Farm Problems Will Be Discusse  Also Food Prodaction Goals : for the Year 1943

EMPIRE SHATTERED BY FALL OF TRIPOLI  Last Stronghold in Italian Domain

Tripoli’s Fall Marks Shattering Of Dream Of Roman Empire  _ Mussolini's Last African City Smashed By 8 Eighth Army; U.S. Fought There Years Ago

INew Tax Bill Nearly Ready For House   Carries $2,142,000,000 im New Taxes; Believed WLB Needs Shof m Arm After Ceal Dispute

New Tax Bill Leaves House Committee   Bill Is One-Fifth of What Treasury Asks, No Retail Tax Included

Governor Vetoes Laws To Allow Larger Trucks On Illinois Highways

WAR DEPARTMENT SAYS AXIS SHOWS NERVOUS TENSION   invasion Jitters” Clearly Revealed By Martial Law Status of Halland.

OPENING OF NEW FRONT INTIMATED   Seizure of Sicily Looks Like Next Development

War Department Sits Back Calmly and Enjoys Axis Invasion Jitters

OLLUND FRONT UPENING NEAR UWI PREDIGTS   Invasion Jitters Keep Axis Leaders In Wild Turmoil Throughout Europe

Invasion Jitters Hit Axis, Says War Department   Next Major Allied Ster To Europe Expected To Be Into Sicily

SECONC FRONT PROMISE ABOUT TO BE REALIZED   Smashing Blows On Islands Near Tunisia Indicate Sicily As Next Step

MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED IN HOLLAND   Smashing Air Blows Delivered Upon Islands Nearest to Tunisia.

AXIS ‘INVASION JITTERS’ HIKED BY WAR OFFICE   Odds Favor Sicily, But  Blow May Fall Klsewhere

AXIS HIT-BY INVASION JITTERS   Such Is Comment Of State Dept. At Washington

AXIS STRUCK BY INVASION JITTERS, AUTHORITIES SAY   Second Front May Come At Almost Any Point In Axis Europe — Italy Or Greece Best Bet

REICH AGAIN RIPPED BY RAF   Mighty Triple Blow Delivered  Thirty-Eight Heavy Bombers Lost

GERMANY GIVEN TRIPLE BOMBING   Hanover, Brunswick, Emden Targets of RAF and Yank Heavy Raids

Bombers Make ” Triple Attack Upon German   Hanover, Brunswick And Emden Are Again Heavily Blasted From Air   RAIL AND INDUSTRIAL «CENTERS ARE SMASHED

Draft Officials  Revise Policies   Local Boards Have No Orders to Take Man With Dependent Child

FATHERS STILL QUT OF DRAFT   Order Not Yet Given To Call Registrants With Dependent Children

Conquest of Attu Island Cost U.S. 1,535 Casualties   Total Includes 342 Dead, 1,135 Wounded and 58 Miss. ing Up to Tuesday Night; Deaths Represent Ratio of About Five Japs Killed For Each American Lost, Navy Announces

‘American Army Casualties in Attu Battle 1791 Including 342 Men Killed

Five Japs Killed For Each Yank   Casualty Figures On Ati Favorable To United States -

Victor yOn Attu Cost U.S. Army 342 Men Dead   Report ‘Five: Japs Killed ‘For Each U.S. Soldier; Only Snipers. Remain

U. S. Attu Casualties Total 1535   342 Americans Killed in Taking Island Fram Japs

U.S. CASUALTIES LIGHT ON ATTU   INCLUDES 342 DEAD, 1,135 WOUNDED AND 58 MEN MISSING

Pe Ged Vy] tage FOUR) ATTU CONQUEST COSTS 1,535 IN U. S. CASUALTIES

Navy Reports U. 5. Casualtie On Attu 1,535   342 Men Dead; 1,135 Wounded; 48 Missing

342 AMERICANS KILLED ON ATTU BY JAP TROOPS   Casualties Total 1,535 Up To Tuesday

CASUALTIES ON ATTU AT 1,535   Says 342 Army Men Dead, 3,135 Wounded, 58 Missing Up to Midnight of Tuesday   JAP DEATHS 1,791   Small Groups of Japs Reported Still Roaming Island, Harassing U. §. Forces by Sniping

Army Casualties Number 1,535 fn Conquest Of Atiu   Yanks Kill Five Times As Many Japs In Fich!

ATTU CASUALTIES NOW TOTAL 1.505   342 Men Dead, 58 Missing, And 1,135 Wounded js Naval Report.

Indictment _ For Sabotage Ts Quashed   Federal Judge Breaks a  Precedent of 23 Years - Duration

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE   ODT May Requisition Idle Trucks in the Future

NAZIS REPORT ON POLISH CASE   Hand - Picked Commission Says Polish Officers Were Killed More Than Year Before Germany Invaded Ruesia.

Reds Slew Poles In “40, Nazis Say  German (Commission’s ‘Findings’ Announced

Nazi Picked Group Still Blames Reds   Continue to Exploit Pol. ish-Soviet Rupture of Relations

NAZIS GIVE STORY OF RED EXECUTIONS   Polish Officers Shot Before Invasion, Claim

Nazi Finding. : Is No Surprise   “Packed” Commission Accuses Russians

‘Germans Claim Reds Killed And Buried Polish Officers   In 7°40, Before Nazi Invasion

BRITISH HOL BRIDGEHEAD IN MARETH LINE   Montgomery Gains Ground In Loop Drive Around Rommel's Flank   PRISONER LISTS GROW   American Forces Rout Tank Units And Continue March Toward Sea

MEO Ls TNE AS SD  HEAVY PRODUCTION GIANT FLYING BOATS URGED UPON WPB  NOTED AIRCRAFT DESIGN ER AND BUILDER MAKES  seasrainr 4 wThhic

U5, SUBS HIT JAP SHIPPING      List 150 Vessels Attacked: Only Five American Boats Last,

Subs Taking Heavy Toll From Japs   150 Enemy Ships Listed by  Navy Hit With Loss of Only . Four United States Subma. Pines

Subs Taking Big Toll Of Jap Ships  (150 Are Listed Hit, But Destruction Is Over Figures Released

Manpower Heads See Delay in Demanc For Drafting of Fathers, List New Rules Concerning Occupations

‘Reclaimed’ Men Going ~~ to Service   ‘Lowering of Standards to @ ©=Bring in Many, Delaying Induction of Fathers   BUT MANY DADS WILL BE CALLED   Somewhat Brighter Outlook for Family Heads Given in Manpower Review

Hint Delay In Drafting Dads Until October   Occupational Deferment Of Childless Men 18 To 25 To End.

May Delay Father Draft   Lowered Standards of The Armed Services  May Reclaim 2,800,000 Men Formerly Reiectec

18:25 YEAR OLD CHILDLESS WILL PRECEDE FATHERS   Drafting of Fathers May Be Delayed Until Around October 1, Selective Board Indicates’   NAVY REQUIREMENTS UNDER CONSIDERATION   Work Deferment For Fathers Is Not Necessary Unless Period Extends Beyond October 1. F

DRAFTING OF FATHERS MAY BE DELAYED   Move To Speed Induction Of 18-25 Childless Fathers

Delay Seen In Fathers Dralt: ‘Young Men Ge   Induction Speeded O 18-25 Year Group Employers Notifiec Of Action

May Be Later Than . August 1 -- May  Cut Inductions  By End af Year

Many Rejected Men Slated To Be Called For Service Before Fathers Are Called

‘Induction of Childless Married Men Being Speeded Up; Drafting of Fathers May Be Delayed for Time

MANY OF 2,800,000 MEN REJECTED BY ARMED SERVICES MAY BE TAKEN IN NOW UNDER LOWERED STANDARDS   Testimony Before Hous2 Committee By Manpower And Draft Officials Reveals Great Majority of Physically Fit Fathers May Be Called Eventually

Dratting of Previously Delerred Men May Deiemie Induction of Fathers

Drafting of Fathers May Be Delayed Until About October , Says Officials

Sees Further Deferment For Fathers   Men Previously Ruled Out Reclaimed for  War Service

Dratting of Fathers May Be Delayed. Selective Service Officials Indicate

MANY REJECTED MEN LIKELY 10 BE CALLED   Only 17 Out of 100 Fathers In Draft Age Will Be Inducted This Year

Army, Navy May Reclaim Many Rejected Men   Lowered Standards May Result In Delaying Induction Of Fathers.

TIME OF DRAFT FATHERS STILL UNDETERMINE   New Induction Instructions to Employers Hint of. Delay to October 1   FATHERLESS FIRST   Selective Service Officials Move to Speed Induction Of 18-25-Year-Old Childless Men

Armed Service May Recall Men Rejected for Physical Reasons; Delay Father Draft

RECLAMATION OF REJECTED MEN LIKELY   Mental And Nervous Disorders Revealed As Most Common Cause Of Rejection By Services

Conscription Of Fathers  To Be Delayec Few Months    To Speed Induction Of Childless Men Deferred at Present Reprance af War Wark   FATHERS’ DRAFT DUE BY LAST QUARTER   Selective Service Revises Schedules For Replacements

TO ot DELAYED UNTIL UCT. 1   18-25-Year- Old Childiess Facing Early Induction Despite Deferments

LOWER DRAFT STANDARDS MAY AID FATHERS   Could Delay Induce tions Three Or Four Mosnths   NAVY EASES UP   Hint Drafting May Not Start On Aw muet 7

Men Rejected Because of Physical Disqualifications  Will Be ‘Reclaimed’ First

FATHERS MAY -BEDELAYED   Selective Service to Speed - Induction of Childless ’ Men

Men Rejected Jn Past May Be Recalled   Outlook for Family Heads ls Brighter

Delay in Draft Of Fathers Js Announced   Childless Men Now On Deferred List Will Be Inducted

Father Draft Delays Seen   Speeding Induction Set For Deferments

MAY DELAY CONSCRIPTION OF FATHERS   Selective Service Officials Moved to Speed Induction of 18-25 Childless Men   CHANGE IN STANDARDS

Father Dratt Will Be Eased Next Year   Many Men Rejected Fo Physical Reasons May B Reclaimed, Delay Call   DECEMBER DEADLINE   Army Inductions Are Te Be Reduced By 60 Par Cent In 1944

DRAFTING TIME FOR FATHERS 15 STILL BANDIED BACK-FORTH HERSHEY AND M’NUTT, HOWEVER, SEE MOST  Zar AT asar “2A sa

Drafting of Dad Still Uncertain, Officials Asser   Now Seems Likely He Wil Not Go until Late in Fall

DRAFTING TIME FOR FATHERS I$ STILL BANDIED BACK-FORTH   HERSHEY AND M’NUTT, HOWEVER, SEE MOST FATHERS IN ARMY SOON

Army-Rejected Men Likely Te Be Reclaimed   This Policy May Post pone The Drafting Of Fathers

FATHERS MAY NOT BE CALLED UNTIL AROUND OCT. 1ST   DELAY INDICATED BY MOVE TO CALL CHILDLESS MEN

DADS GIVEN ANOTHER BREAK   Plan to Take Several Millions from Deferred Lists

DRAFT OF WORKERS MAY HELP FATHERS   5,500 Firms File Schedules For Replacement

4F'S FACE NEW ‘CALL TO ARMY   Essential Workers May Be Inducted to Delay Dad Draft

Drafting Of Fathers May - Be Delaved   Induction Of Men Who Have Children Will Be Started Around Oct. 1, Say Officials

Fathers Confused By Rule:   Now Comes New Hint Induction Delay Until Oct. 1st.

New Draft Instructions Knox Says Hint Fathers May Not'y S. Subs Get Calls Before October Hold Own

New Draft Instructions Hint Fathers’ Induction To Be Delayed To Oct ist

To Speed Up Induction of Childless Men   New Instructions Are Issued by Selective Service

DRAFT REJECTS MAY BE CALLED YET TO SERVE   Lowered Army, Navy. Standards Could Postpone Draft of Fathers 3 or 4 Months   2,800,000 REJECTED   Present Program, However, Calls for Drafting Fathers Beginning in Auqust

DRAFT DELAY IS INDICATED FOR FATHERS   Childless Men With Job Deferment to Be Speeded Into Service   OCTOBER LIKELY DATE FOR DADS’ INDUCTION

von A Tighten Up On Occupational Deferment. . . .  Father-Draft May Be Delayed To October

SEE DELAY IN DRAFTING DADS UNTIL OCT. 1ST   Still Another Change  ‘Made By Selective  Service ;

May Reclaim Some Rejected for Physical Reasons and \Delay Induction of Fathers   Armed Forces Will Have 9,200,000 by End of June—McNutt

Fathers Draft Said Withheld For 2 Months        Service Gives sed Tnstructions

Drafting Of Fathers Slated To Be Put Off Until Fall; Youth Induction Speeded

Rejected Men May Cut Down Father Draft   Many Tu rned Down On First Trip To Enter Armed Forces

DRAFT SPEED-UP FOR CHILDLESS MEN UNDER WAY   Men Deferred For Occupational Reasons Next In Line For Call

FATHERS T0 GET CALL ON OCT. 1   Tentative Date Set By WMC For Drafting Of New Contingent

Father Draft Delayed to Ociober 1   Induction: of Childless Married Men To Be Speeded

DRAFT OF FATHERS TO BE POSTPONED   vee  Occupational Deferment To Be Reduced

Drafting Of Fathers May Be Delayed By Army Reclaiming Many Rejected Physically

FATHER DRAFT MAY BE DELAYED   Selective Service Takes Steps To Speed up Induction of Childless Men Now Deferred by Occupation

PLAN 10 DRAFT DEFERRED MEN   Will Draw Some from Pre viously Essential, 4-F Groups

Lower Standards Tn Navy May Delay Draft of Fathers   Physically Qualified Men-to’be. Reclaimed; Induction May: be Cut

WORKERS 18 10 25 FACE EARLY DRAFT   Induction Of Deferred Childless Men In Younger Age Group To Be Speeded— Call Of Fathers Delayed

DRAFTING OF FATHERS MAY BE DELAYED   Selective Service to Speed Induction of Childless Men

Say Lowered Standards Will Delay Induction of Fathers   Reclaimed Men to Postpone Drafting of Married Men With Children Beyond Aug. 1; May Cut Inductions By Dec. 1

HAY HOLD UP PATHERDRART THO MONTES   Selective Service to Speed Induction of Childluss Men

Drafting of Fathers May Be Delayec    Possibility Seen Now That Calls Won’t Be Before October 1

FATHERS WILL BE DRAFTED BY CLOSE OF YEAR   May Delay Induction For While By Drawing On Childless Married  Registrants   To Revise Schedules

Fathers’ Draft May Be Delay ed  Several Months   Speed Up Induction Of Childless Men Deferred Because of Their Occupations

Recall Of Early Rejectees May Delay Fathers’ Draft   Many Men Turned Down For Physical Disqualifications May Be Reclaimed Under Lowered Standards

Fathers Call Again Delayed   Speedup Plannec In Inducting  Childlecc

SEE DELAY IN FATHER DRAFT   Move to Speed Calling of Deferred, Childless  Selectees

FATHERS GET RESPITE FROM DRAFT’S CALI   INDUCTION SPEEDED UP ON CHILDLESS REGISTRANTS

DRAFTING OF DADS MAY BE POSTPONED   Many Men Rejected for the Army Will Be Called  to Service   LOWER THE STANDARDS

NEW DELAY IN THE DRAFTING OF FATHERS FORSEEN   May Not Be Called Until Around. October 1—Indaction of Deferred Childless Married Men to Speed Up

Reclaiming — *Draftees May Spare Fathers   _ Lower Service Standards, Recall of Rejected, to . Cut Demands   CALL STILL STANDS   Hint First Group of Dads May Net Go Until Autumn

Hopes Brighter For Fathers to Escape Dratt   Lower Standards May Delay Call For Family Heads

MAY DELAY CALLING OF FATHERS THREE OR FOUR MONTHS   May Reclaim Many of the 2,  800,000 Men Rejected as Physically Unfit.   STANDARDS LOWERED   May Postpone the Calling of Fathers for An Undetermined Time.

TWO-MONTH DELAY IN INDUCTION OF FATHERS LIKELY   Selective Service Indicates it Will Not Begin Draft. ing Them Until About October 1.   TO SPEED CALLING OF CHILDLESS MEN   Employers Told to Prepare to Release Occupationally Deferred Workers With in 6 Months.

Father Drafting  May Be Delayed   _To Induct Defectives, Oth‘ers Deemed Necessary To Industry.

Fathers’ Draft May Be Delayed Until October   Induction Of 18-To-25 Year-Olds Will Be - Eypedited

Fathers’ Draft May Be Delayed   Men Deferred Upon Occupational Grounds To Be Called First

Drafting of Dads May Be Delayed Until October   New: Instructions Are To List’ Fathers for. Job: Deferment

Father Draft Deferment to Oct. 1 Likely  Federal Officials Move te Speed Induction of Child. less Men, 18-25  SCHEDULES ISSUED  Employ: ers Told Rules on Deferments; Navy Cuts Physical Tests            SCHEDULES ISSUED

May Delay Dads’ Draft to Oct. 1   Selective Service Officials Speed Induction of Men, -18 to 25

Induction of Fathers May Be Hels Up Until October 1, Orders Hint

POSSIBILITY THAT FATHERS MAY NOT BE DRAFTED BEFORE FALL PLANNED TO SPEED IN DUCTION OCCUPATIONALTV NEFERRED MEN

OFFICIALS HINT FATHERS T0 BE ~ DRAFTED OCT. 1   Delay Seen As Selective Ser: vice Speeds Induction of Men 18-25

May Postpone Father Draft   Revised Instructions Seek To Draw From Deferred Childless Men.

PLAN TO INDUGT 4-F REGISTRANTS   Many Necessary To Industry Face Call

MAY POSTPONE DRAFT CALL FOR DADS UNTIL FALL   Plan To Speed up Inductior of Deferred Childless Men

FATHER DRAFT MAY BE PUT OFF FOR TIME   Officials Hint “Reclaiming” of Rejected Mer  _ May Delay Call of Par / ents Beyond Contemplated August 1 Date.

Draft Status Of Fathers Slightly  Improved Now   Armed Services May Reclaim Many of 2,800,000 Rejected for Physical  ; Disabilities 

‘OUTLINE NEW POLICIES   Steps Are Taken in Africa to Bring About Internal Reforms

French Start Reform Step   Create Commission to Restore Officials Ousted by Vichy

WAR SITUATION ‘GRAVE,’ TOKYO RADIO ADMITS   Japan To Concentrate Entire Keonomy On War Materials

JITTERS AGAIN ATTACK NAZIS   Mass Results Expected In Denmark As Rommel’s Invasion Fear Mounts

French Slashing At Nazis’ Flank   Enemy's Counter-Attacks Are Repulsed at Every Point

JOINS HOUSE GROUP TO PARE LEND LEASE   Senate Appropriations Committee Decides to Team Up with House Truman Group

ECONOMY CAMPAIGN IN CONGRESS GROWS   Lend-lease Investigation Given Backing

SOME SENATORS WOULD HALT DRAFI FOR APPRAISAL   Fill Manpower Requirements First, They Urge; Transport Lack 1s Brought Up

ALLIES CLEANING UP 4 POCKETS OF JAPS NEAR SANANANDA      Heavy Casualties Inflicted On’ Enemy—One Small Allied Ship Sunk In Repion

Partisans Stop German Attacks   Operating Close To Albania Border

Final Assault on Trapped Nips Nears   Hand-to-Hand Combat at Attu  Att og

‘MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA’ DIFFERENT ON JUNGLE ISLE      MUD AND JUNGLE GROWTH ON NEW GEORGIA ISLAND AND JAP SNIPERS PROVIDE NIGHTMARE

SHERMAN RIGHT, YANKEES LEARN   Heroic Deeds © Performed As Americans Crawl Through Jungles

Reich Is Feeling About for ) Clue As to When An Allied  Invasion Will Be Launched

JAPS TAKEN COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE   Army Planes Return Without Loss After Raining Destruction.

Great Fires, Visible for 75 Mites, “Sel by Army. Planes, ‘Navy. Says in Revealing Christmas Eve Affack .

U.S. Bombs Slay Half Nippon Force On Wake In Biggest Pacific Raid   Massed Army Planes Dump 76,000 Pounds At Low Level, Return Safe From Christmas Eve Attack

75,000 POUNDS OF BOMBS USED AGAINST ENEMY   Bombers Escaped With No Losses During Surprise Attack

Attack Caught Jans Completely By Surprise   All U. S. Planes Return ahaa Perconnel Toss

BULLET HOLES. IN WING FLAP. 5. LOSSES"   Bombers Plaster Island with Explosives in Dives Out. ~ of Dark.   LARGEST MASS BOMBING: ATTACK IN PACIFIC WAR

IT’S INDIAN SUMMER    Warm Day Follows a a Snappy Night in Kansas

All Exchanges May Be Closed to Prevent Inflation  Fear “Boom” Market May Develop And Cause Unrest

CHAIN FOOD STORES UNDER INDICTMENT   Safeway and Kroger Face Anti-trust Charges

President Not Predicting War’s End In Year 1944   Says He Did Not Mean To Make Prediction On End Of War

UAW Officer Recommends 48-Hour Week   Walter P. Reuther, C10, Says Plan Would Eliminate Labor Hoarding

SOVIET SURGEONS WORK “MIRACLES   One Scientist Transplants Nerves from Corpse to Living Man.

Soviet Scientist. Said to Have Transplated Nerves From Corpse to Living Man; Longevity Serum Found

Hitler Turns On Burst Of  Aerial Power   Reds Down 123 Planes At Kursk

BVVIVVV VV VV VV VV VV VV VT Service League  Puts Prize Cash  In Ciaaretie Fund

 LAA AAA AAAAAAAAAAAA Service League  Puts Prize Cash  In Ciaarette Fund

Rhine Area Hit By RAF as U.S.  Bombers Score   ! .  Yank Marauders Hit German  Power Station, Air Fields ; In North France

 No Immediate Allied Corfirmation. Is Given; RAF Reopens Aerial Offensive Against Western GerMmaNnT   BOMBARDMENT OF TPALY CONTINUES

LIGHT COMMANDO ATTACK IN BURMA   All Installations Useful To The Japs Destroved

Gen. Wavell's Raiders Destroy All Military Installations In Jap-Occupied Village In Burma

JAPS VISITED BY COMMANDO   Village Enemy Center in Burma Raided at Nicht.

Commando Raid Made On Burma   Entire Village Destroyed By British

ALLIED RAIDERS DESTROY BASE   Attack Small Village In Burma And Destroy All Installations Useful To Japs

RAIDISMADE. AGAINST JAPS BY COMMANDOS   British Carry Out Attack  On Small Enemy Occu ‘ pied Village 60 Miles Southwest Akyab   ALL INSTALLATIONS OF FOE DESTROYED   Troops Landed From Vessels; Remain In Possession of Place Five Hours

BRICKER FAVORS POST-WAR GROUF   Ohio Governor Takes Definite Stand for VU. S. Participation

Gov. James Says-He Has _ No Political: Ambitions   Executive Plans For A “Few Months’ Rea? Before Returning To Law Practice “At Plymouth “Es

OPERATORS REJECT MINERS” PROPOSAL   “Portal To Portal” Wage Plan Turned Down

Hold Chiropractor  For Federal Cour  Committed To Jail In De fault Of Bail

Army Leaders Warn Nation: Germany Combat Strength Greater  ‘Than Four Years Ago, They Caution   Also Discount Possibility of an Early Collapse of Japan; Worst Is Ahead

Army Men See Long, Hard War   Germans T ermed Stronger Than In 1939

NAZIS FIRMLY ON DEFENSIVE SAYS STAFF   But Strength Greater Than Four Years Ago; Will Wage Desperate Bloody Struggle to Stave Off Defeat.   Build Fighters

Army Men Claim Nazis at Record  = Cunhat Strong General Strong Looks for  ’ Bitter Battle From — i nn wen arae

- ati Som ya § eng: Greaer Taan 4 Vears'/.g0 Sesatce Sits "9 le-ensive: .adS crow “oug ier

Army Leaders Say frazis To Wage Fierse Struggle To Avert Outright Deteal

Army Leaders Warr On Increased Nazi Fighting Strensth:   Hope Of Victory Abandoned, They Say, But Desperately Bloody Struggle Seen  By WILLIAM Peer

Nazis Battle Now For Best  Peace Term:   U.S. Army Leaders Say Germans Stronger hae fa TE20

COMBAT STRENGTH OF NAZIS GREATER THAN 4 YEARS AGO   Major General Strong Says Foe Has 3 Times as Many Divisions as When Poland  Was Invaded.   AIR FORCE BIGGER DESPITE HEAVY LOSSES   Japan, He Warns, Has Tremendous Resources With 4,000,000 Men She Can Call When Needed.

2200 TON ATTACK MADE ON GERMAN CAPITAL LAST  NIGHT BY BRITISH   Losses Were 20 Bombers. Next Big Battle Shaping Up In Italy.

Day Shift of Bombers Out Over Continent Again Today.  BRITISH LOSSES WERE 20 BOMBERS Allied Airpower Also Is  Sweeping Across Italy.

Hit Cape Gloucester   De Gaulle Partisans Honor Grave of Youth Who Assassinated Darlan

T8TH CONGRESS WILL CONVENE AT NOON TODAY   Roosevelt Will Deliver Message To Legislators On Thursday   FACTIONS DIVIDED ON DOMESTIC ISSUES

Piecework Basis  Not Yei Settled   Public Member Morris Casts Only Dissenting Vote Against Agreement Providing Daily Earnings Of $8.50

New Mine Wage Scale Approved   One Point Is Left Onen Ear Arciimant

WLB Approves Ickes-Lewis Coal Agreement   Move Leaves One Minor Point of Controversy Still Without Decision

WLB Approves Coal Contract   Qualification Leaves Room for Controvers:

Board Leaves Point Open To Controversy   Vote 11 to  on Pay Dispute, Provides $8.50 Daily Scale

WLB APPROVES COAL WAGE AGREEMENT   Board Splits 11 To 1 In Giving In To Demands Of United Mine Workers

WLB Approves Ickes-Lewis Wage Scale   Board Votes 11-1  To Give Miners $8.50 Per Day, An Increase of $1.50

ACCEPTS ICKES - LEWIS WAGE SCALE   One Point Still Open to Possible Cantraveray

W.L.B. Approves Main Points in Mine Agreement   Piecework Wages Still To Be Set

eement On Coal Pay Approved by T ahar Roard   Board Qualification On Piecework Angle Leaves One Point Open Ty, Paccihle Dehate

ICKES - LEWIS COAL PACT IS APPROVEL   One Point Is Left Open to Possible ControVersy

New Mine Wage Scale Approved   One Point Is Left Open For Araument

ICKES - LEWIS COAL SCALE is PARTLY OK’D      One Point Is Left Open to  ~ Possible Controversy; Wayne L. Morse Files Dissent,   Coal Shortage Pinches

ICKES-LEWIS PACT ON COAL PAY APPROVED   ee ee  Board Votes 11 to 1: One Point is Left Open to Dispute

Nation-Wide Service Act Ils Proposed   Bill to Defer Draft of Fathers Opposed by Patterson, M'’Narney

ARMY OPPOSta WHEELER BILL TO DEFER DADS   Undersecretary Patterson — Urges National Service Act To Get Men

Industrial Manpower  Bill Asked of Senate   Secretary Patterson and Gen. McNarney Also Object to Change in Draft Bill

‘General Warns Change Would Force U.S  To Alter Military Strategy as He   Faces Senate Committee.

National Service Act Is Called For   Undersecretary . Of War Testifies

[UNDERSECRETARY OF WAR PATTERSON CALLS FOR ENACTMENT OF ACT   Shortage of Manpower in Industry Makes Move Necessary

Ask Congress For Drafting Of Manpower   Patterson. Calling For National’ Service Act Enactment

U.S. ARMY.MUST BE 7,700,000 STRONG BEFORE 1943 ENDS   Lt. Gen. McNarney. Warns Reduction Would Mean Change In Conduct  Of War _

ARMY OPPOSES MOVE 10 EXEMPT PRE-WAR FATHERS   Deputy Chief Insists Drafting Must Continue   PRESIDENT FAVORS DRAFTING OF LABOR

Patterson Calls for National Service Act to Recruit Industrial Manpower: Opposes Bill to Defer Father Draft

Gains Reported in the Belgorod Area in Fierce Conflict  RED ARMY HOLDING EN OTHER SECTIONS  Nazi Casualties Reported to Have Passed 35,000 Mark

BOLIVIAMAY DECLARE WAR ON THE AXIS   Wallace Greeted With Spectacular Demonstration on His Arrival

EXPECT BOLIVIA TO DECLARE WAR   ACTION FORECAST AS U. S. VICE PRESIDENT VISITS REPUBLIC

BOLIVIA PLANS TO ENTER WAR   Action Forecast as Nation  Welcomes Wallace

RECOMMEND MORE POWER TO REGENTS   Legislative Council Would Abolish State Board of  . Education   TO UNIFY FUNCTIONS

RECOMMEND MORE POWER TO REGENTS   islative Council Would bolish State Board of  cation

Cossack, Chinese Influence Seen in Fashion for Fall   Russian Hats and Other Style Notes From United  Nations Predominate In Pre-view of Fall Clothes  Before Visiting Editors At New York  . = i ; Ose Wien’? Linantnea , Sie wpasetee Cs eee seaseeg

900-YARD GAIN MADE AT MUNDA   Allies Close In Under Air And Naval Fire; 11 Planes Are Destroyed

ADVANCE ON MUNDA BASE IS REPORTED   Ground Forces Edge Near er to Japanese Air. base

'500-YARD GAIN ON MUNDA MADE BY THE ALLIES   Ground Troops Given Support By Air And Naval  . Bombardment   ADVANCE FOLLOWED TERRIFIC POUNDING

ALLIES MOVE NEARER MUNDS TO POUMD JAP   In Heaviest Aerial Assault of Entire Pacific War; 11 Jap Planes Destroyed Over Sal amaua   Navy Supports

Allied Units Make     In Drive a Mund   Troops Closing in ‘on Japs With Aid of: Air, Naval Bombardment

GAIN IS MADE ON JAP BASE   U. S. Ground Forces Act. vance 500-Yards in Drive To Capture Munda

MINERS TOLD TO UONTINUE WORK UNDER OLD PACT   War Labor Board Issues Order That Operations Must Not Cease April.30   HEARINGS PLANNED   Wage Demands to be Arbitrated by Panel; Lewis Ignored Summons to Conference

DRAFTS PLANS TO ARBITRATE WAGE DEMMANL   Orders Bituminous Mines -to Continue Work Under Present Contract.   CELANESE STRIKERS OBEY FDR’S “REQUEST”

LEWIS FAILS 10 ATTEND LABOR MEET   —Boa rd-Will Continue Study Without UMW Head

WLB PREPARES TO GO AHEAD DESPITE LEWIS   Board Orders Continued Operation of Mines, - Pending Hearings

PITTSBURG MINERS AT WORK AS USUAL   Production Normal So Far, but Union Heads Silent on Midnight Strike Proposal.

OWI DIRECTOR GIVES IMPRESSION THAT HIS OFFICE WANTS GIVE PEOPTE TRUTH ON ALL POINTS

Flimsy Tokyo ls Tempting Bomb Target   Former Prisoner Tells Experiences on Raid Anniversary

Tomorrow Is First Anniversary of U. S. Raid on Japan   Tokyo Tempting Target for Bombs Says Hill, Who Heard Planes

JAPS JITTERY AS YANKS ITCH TO BOMB TOKYO   Capital Is Tempting Target For Air Raiders But Bases Needed First   FIRST ONE SCARED THEM   American Newsman Held in Prison Describes Reactions And Predicts More

Would Abolish Mercantile Tax   To Be Recommended By Martin in Budget Message

WORK STOPPAGE ~ ENDS ON COAST   Bus Service Restored at L. A., But Another Strike Threatens

Trolley Strike Set for Sunday In Los Angeles   Men Return To Work Today But Not for Lond

End 24-Hour Strike in L. A.   Service Normal Again; Walkout on Interurban Line Called for Sunday

Plenty Of Food Is In Prospect   No Shortage of Basic Commodities Likely

False Air Raid Warning Ties  Up East Bay   Army Probes Source; Commuter Traffic to City Tn Confusion

STANDLEY IS ON WAY BACK TO THE U.S.   Ambassador to Russia Returning With War Re. port and Perhaps Red View Toward Proposed Tripartite Parley.

OT ANDLEY WILL RETURN TOU. S.   Envoy to Russia Brings War Report, Data on Soviet Stand.   AROUSES SPECULATION 

Standley on WayHome To  Conferences   Hint of 3-Power Parley Contained in News of His Return

Envoy to Report Russian Attitude   Admiral Standley Returning to U. §. From Moscow With War Report.

—ADMIRAL STANDLEY—  Enovy Coming Hiome   Ambassador To HKussia to Report on Big 3 Meet

STANDLEY RETURNING FROM POST IN MOSCOW   Ambassador to Russia Not Expected To Return After He Delivers Report

Standley Will Bring Report From Moscow   Ambassador Is On Way Back To Washington To Make Report Or Attitude Of Soviets

Standley Coming Home fo Report   May Be Step Farther Toward Three-Nation Policy

Envoy Standley  To Return Home Admiral Coming From Russia For Report

Envoy toReds Coming Home   ) Standley Returning for Consultation

SCRAP COLLECTION HERE NEXT WEEK   Campaign Will Be Conducted Tuesday, Wednesday And Thursday—Various Materials Are Wanted

TYDINGS WOULD FREE PUERTO RICO   SENATOR INTRODUCES BILL GRANTING INDEPENDENCE TO THE ISLAND.

ASKS FREEDOM FOR ISLANDERS      Sen. Tydings Urges Independence for Puerto Rico

TELLS JURY HE DID NOT KIT TENA   /Welsh Makes Denial From the Stand; ‘I Loved Her,’ Brother Adds   TENSE SILENCE IN COURTROOM   Brief Cross-Examination by State Before Accused Teaves the Stand

TOOAL GORRER VATION   Welsh on Stand  In Own Defense   Ka sas Citian Denies That He Killed His Sister, Leila A. its

HITLER ON AIR ADMITS REICH NOW WAR ZONE   ‘Announces 542,000 Nazis Killed S« _ Far; Boasts He Has Thousands  of New Troops

HITLER SHOUTS AND-SCREAMS LACKING IN LATEST SPEECH   USUAL HYSTERICAL BOMBAST OMITTED IN ADDRESS PROMISING GERMANY “FINAL  : VICTORY”

HITLER ENDS LONG SILENCE WITH SPEECH   Brief address quiets rumors of Nazi leader’s  death

Federal Usurpation of State Powers Opposed by 0'Conor at Conference

Declares Federa! Usurpation Of State Rights Would Be Great  falamity

APPEAL-MADE OF RIGHTS OF STATES      Maintenance of Dual Government Vita!, O’Conor Declares

FLIER WINS CROSS FOR ROUTINE JOB’   Detroit Naval Commander Given High Award

Late News Bulletins   Gandhi Revorted Sleeping Poorly Doringe Fact

American Doughhoys Gain 14 Miles in Race for Messina; British Troops Block Foe Flight in Center

U. §. and British Troops near End Of Sicily Drive   Capture Oliveri Onl 21 1-2 Miles from Port of Messina   British Block Escape ¢ Nazi Forces in Central Sector

British Troops Block Central Escape Road   Doughboys Tear Through Collapsing German Flank On North Coast: Battle Believed Nearing End

British Block Escape Routes  As Nazis Flee   Battle of Sicily Is Nearing Conclusive End; Warships Bomb Italian Mainland Port

Americans Tear Hole in German Flank: Move In on Messina   British Troops Block Escape of Nazis in Central Sector by Swift Seizure of Vital Road Junctions

 e ; . Americans Take Oliveri in  Dash to Messina   Yanks Smash Through Germans’ Flank on North Coast; Warships Pound Escape Routes

fi  wore Towns  Fall to Allies En Sicily   Germans Break Off Rearguard Defenses Along Eastern Coast  BATTLE NEARING ENT

Oliveri, 272 Miles From Evacuation Port, Held ,  ESCAPE OF GERMAN FORCES IS HALTED Battle for Sicily Nearing  ts Conclusive End

Americans Rip German Lines          oughboys Gain 14 Miles Toward Messina, British Pen Up Foe

OLIVERI IS TAKEN BY AMERICAN TROOPS   Doughboys Are Now Only 27': Miles From Messina; Siciilan Battle Nears An End

Tear Through Nazi Flank, Take Oliveri   Doughboys Charge te Within 28 Miles Of Gateway City; Germans Are Withdrawing From British Onslauvaht

Rake Sw. Pacific From Shortland  To Buka-Wewak   Airdromes Strafed, Supply Points And Coastal Areas Pounded In Program To Soften Rabaul  Perimiter; Bougainville Hit Hard.

BLOWS AGAINST SUBS STEPPED UP IN APRIL   Knox Says It’s Impossible To Determine Success

Ailies Hit Japs Over Big Area   Invasion Forces In Pacific Suffer Widespread Blows.

; Widespread Blows ‘truck At Jap Invasion Forces   nemy Bases Raided. Two Destroyers and ~ Four Other Ships Sunk.

Jap Invasion Forces Are Hit   Two Enemy Destroyers And Four Other Ships Sunk by U. S. Subs

JAP INVASION FORCES HIT   ‘Babo Fired In Dutch New Guinea; Seven Jap  Ships Smashed

ALLIES DELIVER BLOWS AGAINST JAP INVASION FORCES: TWO JAP DESTROYERS AND 4 SHIPS SUNK   - ‘American Liberators Fly 1400 Miles to Set Fires to Japanese Aird:ome at Babo. Shoo Down Two of Six Float Planes.   AMERICANS 4NU FRENCH REACH POINT TEN MILES FROM NAVAL BASK

PLANES, SUBS HIT JAPS HARD   Dutch New Guinea Base Raided; 2 Destroyers, 4 Other "Ships Sunk

Keep Up Air Blows On Japs  Liberators Complete 1,400-Mile Flight Toa Bamh fan Race

Allies Prepare For Direct Assault On Tunis And Bizerte   British First Army Captures Strategic Hill Commanding Allied Supply Roads

British Counter-Attack At   Night To Recapture  Strategic Position. Heaviest Raid Yet Made On Naples.

British Beat Off Fierce Nazi Counter Attacks in North.   BRITISH DRIVE FROM HILL TO HILL   Despite Bad Weather Allies Continue Air Attacks.

Senate Approves Hospital Plans   ‘Use'For Veterans’ ~ Home ls Widened -

Unions Suffer Major Defeat In Legislature.  _ Ward ‘Bill Sent To Warren for

6 REELS OF FILMS   Routine Business Was Transacted at Meeting Last Evening   APPROVE NEW EMPLOYE

HEALTH UNIT SEES 6 REELS OF FILMS   Routine Business Was Transacted at Meeting ‘Last Evening   APPROVE NEW EMPLOYE

Brown Defends  Subsidy Plan   Says We Must Not Lose Priee Front Baitle

SUBSIDY ROLLBACK — DEFENDED BY BROWN   OPA Chief Says Price Control Will Be Crippled if Agency’s Funda Are Cut.

Bizerte Hard Hit By Allied Flyres   Land Armies Consolidate Gains In Tunisia; Sfax Area Bombed

Major Break-Through Made by. Russian Arm,   ‘Life in Italy Comfortable in ‘Comparison With That Writer Finds With Yugoslav Partisans

German Retreat Indicated in Berlin Report   9.000 Hiflerites Reported Killed

Enlire Nazi Dnieper Line Near Fall   Reds Cut Behind Dnepropetrovsk Inside River Bend

Soviet Troops Smash 15  Miles Forward   New Crossing Below Gomel Is Made, Russiens Renort

EARLY FALL OF DNIEPER LINE IS EXPECTED   Reds Smash 15 Miles Inside River Loop, Also Making New Crossing Below City of Gomel.   “Hdemmed In”

soviet Troops Smash 15  Miles Forward  New Crossing Belov   New Crossing Below Gomel Is Made, Russians Report

Lehman Tops Plan to Feed Axis Victims   Made ‘Vitamin Diplomat for Needy Millions at -Nation Parley

2000 Calories A Day Pledged Hunery Europe   Lehman Says 20,000,000 Persons Must Be Repatriated

Lehman Promises  Food Plan   PEOPLE OF EUROPE TO GET 2000 CALORIES A DAY UNDER SCHEME

Promises Aid to Starving Europe   Lehman Pledges Relief After War

Nazis Confrontec With Necessity Of New Retreat   Serious Breaches in Enemy’s Front Made by Fifth

Allies Smash Through Defense Line   Mountain Positions Fail to Stop Fifth Army Attack

Yecond Rome Line Punctured   Massico Bastion Is Dominated By Yanks

2 HOLES RIPPED IN NAZI DEFENSE LINE BY oT ARM   Breaches Expected to Force Germans to Fall Back 14 Miles to New Mountain Positions.   ARTILLERY PREPARES TO SHELL RETREAT PATH   Valley Lies Before Clark’s Forces, but Mines May ' Hold Up Advance Temporarily.

GENERAL CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY AN NOUNCES; SERIOUS BREACHES MADI IN ENEMY FRONT ON ROAD TO ROME.

"MASSICO- RIDGE o BASTION RIPPED   Nazls Face Necessity Falling Back to New Line   HEIGHTS CAPTURED   Nazi Defenses Spring An* other Leak on Adriatic Front; Eighth Advances

German Massico Lines Punctured At Two Points   .Clark’s Men Slug Way To Dominating ’Mountian Heights

LINE CRACKED IN TWO PLACES   Fifth Army May Force Foe to Fall Back 14 Miles

Clark's Men Smash Nazi Lines Twice   Germans Forced Back 14 Miles  To New Bases

GERMAN LINE IS PIERCED BY ALLIED FORCE   Defenses Before Rome ' Punctured by the 5th Army   ANOTHER STRETCH SEIZED BY ALLIES      Artillery” of Fifth” Army Rolls Into Commanding Positions

CLARK BREAKS THROUGH AT 2 VITAL HEIGHTS   Enemy Faces Necessity Of Falling Back 14 Miles; Valley  Is Exposed

Allies Breach  Germans Line At Two Points   Nazis Face Necess Of Falling Back .: Least 14 More Miles

Clark’s Fifth army cracks  Massico lines   German positions made untenable

Tide In Tunisia ls Said Turned   New Nazi Thrust Reported Halted

NAZIS FAIL IN THRUSTS AT ALGERIA   General Alexander Takes Command Upon Land.

Tunisian Tide Has Turned, Say Leaders   Alexander Takes Command, Maps A Bie Offensive

Alllied Force: Hold Back Nazi Thrust   Eighth Army’s Leader Alexander Takes Personal Command To Organize Supreme Offensive

Alexander Pu In Charge Of Allied Forces   Eighth Army Advance Make: Gabes Untenable For Axis As A Supply Base

Rommel Push Thrown Back By U.S., British  Gen. Alexander Takes Personal Command at Ground Farrac

Tunisia ‘Tide Turns’; Axis Port Crippled   Gabes Is Believed Ren: dered Useless To Rommel! By Djerba Island Capture   YANK LINES HOLD   U, S. Supplies Move Up Te Front; Many Missing Tanks Rejoin Units

AFRIKA KORPS THRUST HURLED RACK RY ALLIES   Axis Beaten In Mountain Passes Near Sbeitla,  Kasserine   ISLAND SEIZED   British Forces In Contact With Nazis At Mareth Line

Command of Ali : Ground Forces _  Rommel’s Patrols” Hurled Back at. 2 Tunisian Points 

ALLIED FORCES REPULSE DRIVE BY DESERT FOX   Alexander Takes Charge Of British- Americans To Hurl Axis Army From Africa   PLANES GROUNDED BY SNOW AND WIND   Germans Claim Capture Of 3,000 Prisoners,  Mostly Americans, During The Week

Alexander — Plans Supreme ‘Allied Drive ©   British Chief Takes Personal Command Under American Gen. Eisenhower

U5. AND BRITISH UNITS HURL BACK ROMMEL'S FORCES   Alexander Takes Field Command in Tunisia and Begins Laying Plans for Drive.   MARETH LINE SHELLED BY BRITISH 8TH ARMY   Virtually All Planes Grounded in Fighting Area by Dust Storms, Snow and Rain.

Nazis halted  as Alexander takes charge      Briton heads ground forces

Alexander Rules  Ground Troop:  British Officer Take: Command In Tunisia:  Rommel Checked

Allies Now  Ready for  Counterblows   Gen, Alexander Is Given Command of All Ground Forces

Declares Tide Has Turned In Tunisia   British Units Open With Big Guns on Mareth Line

All Ground Forces Led By Alexander   British Eight Army Shells German Positions in Medenine Area   PLANES GROUNDED   Americans in Mountains Near Algerian Border Get Fresh Supplies

DRIVE STARTS TO TOSS NAZI ARMY IN SEA   ALEXANDER, BRITISH EXPERT, DIRECTS AFRICAN PUSH

EIGHTH ARMY NOW SHELLING MARETH LINE   Allies Prepare To Throw Quarter Million Germans Into Sea

Tide 7 Turns in Tunisian Battle Area   Alexander Takes Command of All Ground Forceg

Montgomery Takes Command Of Ground Forces   Germans Claim Capture of Men And Equipment

‘PRIGE SQUEEZE’ ON MEAT - ASSAILED BY COMMITTEE   PACKERS MAY BE FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS UNLESS CHANGE MADE, CONGRESS TOLD

ONE THIRD OF MEAT PACKERS FEEL SQUEEZE   Large number may be forced out of business  by OPA rules

 Pilot Roams 16 Days in the Pacific  After His Plane Plunges Into Ocean

PLANE BREAKS IN TWO; PILOT GAINS SAFETY   ‘Wildcat’ Pilot Collides With Another Craft Over The Pacific

BRITAIN TAKING GROUP OF JEWS FROM BULGARIA   Four Thousand Jewish  Children and 500 Adults   to Be Given Haven   In Palestine   OTHERS WILLFCLLOW.   Negotiations Being Made For Removal of 29,000 Jewish Children to Palestine by 1944

Two Slayers Die in Chair   Eli Shonbrun and John Cullen Meet Death in Sina Sina

Claiming Innocence to the End, Eli Shonbrun Dies at Sing Sing After Reading Miss Webb’s Note

Shonbrun Reads Last Love Letter From Madeline Webb And Goes To Chair With Cullen For Siaying

CONVICTED: KILLERS DIE AT SING SING   Shonbrun, Cullen Executed in Electric Chair

HONBRUN EXECUTED FOR HOTEL SLAYING   Brunette Madeline Webb’s Paramour Dies in Electric Chair at Sing Sing

THEY MEAN IT   Youthful Gang Break Windows to Fie: oe den sh tesnacl

DOMBERS COLLIDED.   ~  Pour Officers and Five Enlisted Men Werte hilled.

Rroposal Is to Move to, ithe ‘Basement of Community, Building .   CHANGE HILL ROADWAY,

RATIONING OFFICE NEEDS MORE ROOM   Proposal Is to Move to ithe ‘Basement of Community, Building    CHANGE HILL ROADWAY;

GO FOR BERTIE   ‘Revivalists’ Seek Publisher as GOP Candidate For '44.

Oil Supply Developed When Needed  Patterson Defends _ Army’s Canadian  Project

ARMY DEFENDING CANOL OIL PLAN   Undersecretary of W a Thinks Field Will Yield 100 Million Barrels.

TWO CRIMINALS ARE SENT TO IOWA PEN   Plead Guilty To Series Of Robberies, Including Depot At Westfield

Two Men Sent Tio Penitentiary For Five Years  Pled Guilty To  Breaking and Enterin. A Frm i pf. . a ae

Axis Boasts Of Readiness For Invasion   Fartification On 1,625 Mile Front Reported By German Broadcasts   UNEASINESS GROWS   Hitler And Bulgarian King Confer, Probably On Balkan Defenses

Nazis Claim Impregnable Wall Of Fortifications Now Surrounds Eurove: Petain To Speak To French Today

Vazis ULaun Impregnable Wall Of Fortifications Now _ Surrounds Europe: Petain To Sneak Ta Froneh, Trcic,

 Boasting of Adequate Steps to. Protect Continent If Attacked—  Axis Counters Invasion Threats

Jittery Axis Blusters Europe Safe   Steps Taken to Make Continent Safe

Axis Také."3lustery View Toward Invasion Of Europe  y Berlin Broadcasts Continue To Boast Of t Fhe lewinnihthty af Ceemany’e Defancec

King Boris Returned To Bulgorio After Visiting Hitler at His Headauarters

GERMANS ANSWER INVASION THREAT   BERLIN BROADCASTS BOAST THAT AXIS FORTRESSES ARE INVINCIBLE,

BULGARIAN KING MEETS WITH HITLER AS NAZIS FIGHT INVASION THREATS

Axis Takes Blustery Attitude Toward Threats Of An Alfied Invasion Of Nazi-Held Europe

Fledderjohn Is Speaker at Meet  Of Farm Bureau   Burlington Trio  High  School Vocal Fine

STEPPING UP FIGHT   Speed Threatens Germans With Disaster at Seyeral Points on Eastern Front.

wes ihe VNhest Mepenas YN Tou.  PCURRAN OF MARITIME UNION PLACED IN 2-A

COPPER SCRAP NO. 1 SALVAGE PROBLEM   Industrial Salvage Must Produce Necessary Material

U. S. DIMOUT?   ider Nationwide Ac el Power,  Agencies Con lion To *

MINERS RETURN TO OHIO PITS   Will Take Up Protests Of Fine Through The Regular Channels

HUNDRED! NAZIS HURLED INTO DNIEPER   Russians Storm Banks of River on 250-Mile Front

Russians Cross Dmiegar River At Many Point   Moscow Report Says ‘‘Hundreds’’ Of Nazi Soldiers Drown In River   RED FORCES DRIVE INTO WHITE RUSSIA

BERLIN REPORTS ITALIANS LEAVE AEGEAN ISLANDS   Indicates Allies May Soon Open Invasion Through Balkans

Hitler Boasts No Conquest, Mourns Big National Socialist Losses, and Says Only Reich Secure Against Foe

Allied Conference Disturbs Germans   Propagandists Gallop In All Directions

NAZIS ASSAIL CAIRO PARLEY   Broadcast From Berlin De clares Conference Communique “Grotesque”

LAY POST-WAR RESORT PLANS   To Be Discussed At Meet of Tourist Industry ~ Leaders

State Prepares For Resort Boom   Air Travel Will Play Big Part After War

LEWIS DEFIANT; REFUSES 10 END MINE WALKOUT   Paralysis of America’s Wartime Industry Is Being Threatened   PRESIDENT TO MOVE NEXT   Thousands of Miners Idle Pending Word from Czar Of Their Union

Complete Shutdown Looms Unless Union Chief Tells Men to Resume Operations

Miners Label Strike Peace  Plans Untan   Workers Line Up Solidly Behind Lewis, Await Final Inetricthons.   DEADLINE MIDNIGHT

Thousands Walk Out Of Mines   Roosevelt’s Plan For Settling Dispute Is Unfair To Workers, Contends Lewis

WLB IS AGAINST WORKER, POLICY GROUP ASSERTS   44,000 Miners Now Oui, Report Shows In East

MINERS LEAVE JOBS IN FACE OF FDR ORDER   UMW Members Waiting For Cue From John L. Lewis

Miners Quit As Deadline Approaches   Many Workers Fail to Report to Jobs in Advance of Time Set by President’s Ulti matim

More Than 40,000 Miners Are Out in Pennsylvania; West Virginia's 130,000 Miners Threaten ta Lay Down Tools

Call Wage Plan Unfair Settlement   Miners Claim WLB Is ‘Prejudiced Against — - Labor; Ask Renewal of ‘Collective Bargaining

MORE WORKERS CONTINUE TO WALKOUT TODAY   United Mine Members To Stand Back of Their Union Boss

Bushy-Browed Miner Leader Says Miners Will Not “Trespass” On Property After 12 P. M. Tonight

More Strike As’ ‘Deadline Nears   Work Stoppage Is Greatest in Western Pennsylvania, More Than 40, 000 Idle; Union Policy Committee Meets at Lewis’ Call; Emergency Laws. sene Talked Of,

Mine Leaders Tell Roosevelt His Plan Is Unfair   Contracts Expire At Midnight and Deadline at 10a. m.

WALKOUTS IN SOFT COAL INDUSTRY ARE INGREASED FRIDAY   MINERS DECLARE ROOSE VELT’~ SETTLEMENT PLAN UNFAIR TO THEM

NERS WAIT OR CUE FROM NION LEADER   housands Leaving Mines in Appalachian Area; Lewis Calls Policy Group Sessiori   OCAL CHIEFS SAY JOHN L. “IS BOSS”   ppeal From Roosevel  Will Not be Heeded  Even Though Miners Dislike Quitting

Walkout Spreads; UMW Asks  Roosevelt For ‘Justice’’   U. S. Breaks With Martinique

COAL MINERS  TELL FDR. HIS PLAN IS UNFAIR   Reply To Appeal Made By Pres. Roosevelt   IMORE WALKOUTS   Industry Tie-Up Is Threatened By Action

'Lewis, In Reply, Tells President His Plan Unfair   Workers Quitting In Droves Despite ‘White House Plea; It’s Up To Lewis

Lewis Calls Policy Group Together To Decide Problem   Deadline Set At 10 A. M. Saturday By President For Full Scale Resumption Of Mining; Miners Wa it For Cue From Lewis

More Quit Work: Looking To Lewis   Miners Call For Renewal of Collective Bargaining In Message to President—  Some Lawmakers Talk of Law Legislation on Strikes

Thousands Quit Despite Deadline Set by Roosevelt   Expiration of Contracts at Midnight Tonight May Find Both Hard and Soft Coal Mines Tied Up

Lewis Keeps Silent On Strike Order; UMW Leaders Openly Defiant Of Roosevelt Charge

U. Mi. W. BOSS SAYS W.L. B. PLAN UNFAIR   Asks Renewal Of Collective Bargaining   NO HINT   Of Action President May Take If Strikers Fail To Return Tomorrow

Workers Say President’s  Plan Unfair   Complete Tieup of Coal Industry Appears in The Making

MINERS STAND PAT, WAITING CUE OF LEWIS   Increase Numbers Quit Work a: Midnight Deadline Nears—Senti meni with Lewis

MRS. W. B. RAMSAY WILL RETIRE. AS ~~ MITPHET HEAR   Resignation Effective at Close of Present Col'ege Year   RICHARDS LAUDS HER FINE RECORD

Strain On Health Given As Reason. No Successor Named By Board ‘As Vet.

F BOMB NEW RECO  2,000 TONS  pn   RAF Hands This Prize Package to Dortmund War Plants and Other Targets in Europe Are Hit.

'2000 Tons of Bombs Dropped Upon Dortmund   ~38 Planes Lost In-Great.Atiack -Méde by British

HIT DORTMUND WITH 400,000 TONS OF BOMBS   Lose 38 Planes in Record Attack On German Industry Center

OVER 2000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON DORTMUND BY RAF   Greatest Tonnage Ever Loosed. In One Raid— . Billowing Fires Started

FEDERAL SUBSIDIES CONSIDERED AS BALM FOR PRICE CEILINGS   Capital Officialdom Worries Over Anti-inflation Moves; Salary Limit Repealed

ACCENT ON FATHER IN CAPITAL TODAY: DEBT LID IS LIFTED   Thousands of Dads Given First Deferment Status; Kilday Bill Would Defer All Fathers, Until All Childless Men of Draft Age Have Been Cailed.

PRUPUSE FUNDS FOR EDUCATION   President Believes Nation Should Provide Training.

Attorney General Biddle Charges Fire Insurance Companies Trying to Get Exemption From Sherman Anti-Trust Law.

TEACH VETERAN AFTER WAR-E.U.R   Roosevelt Says Proposal Is Moral Obligation T ¢   Those In Service

BERLIN REPORTS FALL OF KHARKUN TO NAZI FORGES   Enemy Claim Unconfirmed; Reds Now Have Easier Road To Smolensk

NEW SPRING OFFENSIVE NEAR CLIMAX   Two Great Battles In Progress On_ the Eastern Front

GERMANS SAY KHARKOV NOW IN NAZI HANDS   Rommel Strikes Out at Flanking Forces in Tunisian War

Threat to Kharkov  Increases   Nazis Report Evacuation of Vyazma Planned

48 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN SUNDAY   Victory Supplies Evidence That Allied Might  In Pacific Is Increasing

YANKS DOWN 48 NIPPON PLANES   FIVE ALLIED CRAFT LOST IN DOGFIGHTS OVER PACIFIC AREA

A8 JAP PLANES ARE BAGGED IN PACIFIC ARBA   Success. Achieved At Cos Of Only Five Allied Planes and No More Than Three Pilots

Allies Down 48 Jap Planes   Allies Lose Five Planes, But No More Than Three Pilots

—PACIFI Cc—  48 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWA   Twenty-Three Enemy Bombers Destroyed In Pacific Air Fights

YANKS DESTROY 48 JAP PLANES   Allied Bombers Batter Nip Bases In Pacific  Area

ALLIED WARPLANES  OHOT DOWN 48 JAP  PLANES ON SUNDAY ONLY FIVE PLANES AND  THREE PILOTS LOST IN AFRIAL COMRATS

Jap Raiders Are Smashed Back In Pacific Air Battles   Allies Shoot Down 48 Planes For Dav’s Bag

48 Jap Warplanes Downed By Allies   Sunday Victory in the Skies Is Reported By MacArthur; 23 Bombers Included in Tol!

Yanks Down 48 Japs In Air Battles   Score 10-To-1 Sunday Victory In Southwes De etter Area.

Allied Pilots Win Good Edge   Claims 48 Japanese Aircraft Downed With Loss Of  Only Five Planes.

Only Five Planes:Lost   Allies Down 48 Japanese Aircratt In Renewed Activity Over Solomon Islands And: New Guinea War Areas

ENEMY’S AERIAL FORCES THINNED IN PACIFIC WAR   48 Jap Planes Knocked From Skies—Only Five Allied Aircraft Lost

Allied Planes Shoot Down 48 Jap Aircraft  Only Five Allied Planes And Three Pilots Lost

Allies Down 48 Jap Warplanes   Feat Cost Only Five Craft, Three Pilots

Growing Allied Strength Shown   U. S. PLANES ATTACKED JAP AIR FLEET IN PACIFIC

ALLIED WAR BIRDS BAG 48 JAP PLANES   Twenty-three of Them Are Bombers—Success in Southwest Pacific Is Achieved at Cost of Only Five Craft.

48 JAP AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN SOUTH PACIFIC SUNDAY   Allied Air Ascendancy Re‘flected in Enemy Plane Losses—Allies Lose Only Five Planes ‘and Three Pilots

Pouring On Air Power in Pacific, Toc   48 Jap Aircraft, 23 of Ther Bombers, Shot Down by U. §. Air Force   AMERICANS SHOW INCREASED MIGHT   Many Operations Carried Out in WeekEnd of Almost Céaseless Activity

Allies Down 48 Jap Planes  Lose Only Three Pilots; Bombers Raid Balikpapan

48 Jap Aircraft Blasted   Japs Harassed Over Wide Area at Small Allied Loss.

ALLIED AIRMEN SHOOT DOWN 48 ~ JAP AIRCRAFT      27 Enemy Crall Infercepted, Sho! Dewn, Airacobras Ambush and Gel Kine Others   BOMB JAP BASES   lap Oil Port on Berneo Among Weekend Targets, 19 More Enemy Barges Sunk

43 Jap Planes Downed Sunday In Air Battle   Our Losses Total Only Five, Making Ratio Nearly 10-To-1

Allies Knock Down 48 Jap Planes Over Southwest Pacific, Lose Five

Bag 48 Japanese Planes; Allies Lose Only Five   MacArthur's Airmen Chalk Up Big Weekend Total

ALLIES DESTROY 48 JAP AIRCRAFT      Raiders Attack Jap-Held 0 Port of Balikpapan

48 JAPANESE PLANES DOWNEL BY AMERICANS   Japs Hit Hard On South Pacific Front; Airfields Bombed

48 Jap Planes Shot Down In Pacific War   Ratio of 10 to 1 In Ain -_ Fighting Shows Grow:  ing Allied Power

Score 10-1 Win Over Jap Planes   Americans Shoot Down 48 Nippon Machines Over Solomon Area.

And Only Three Allied Pilots Lost “3 Jap Warplanes Shot Down By Allied Fliers  In The Pacific Sunday

43 JAP AIRCRAT T SHOT DOWN OVER SUNDAY BY ALLIES   Enemy Planes, 23 of Them Bombers, Shot Down Over Southwest Pacific Battlefront; Only Five Allied Planes Lost.

Japanese Lose 48 Planes in Air Battles   Series of Fights Staged; American Ground Troops Gain

DOWNED IN DAY   Increasing Allied Aerial Might Proven By Day’s Battie.   ENEMY BASES BOMBED

Allies Wonder if Air Power in Connection With Sea, Land Forces Can Win the War

Moscow Reports Major Assaults On Three Fronts   Allies Bomb German Airdromes in Greece; Italy War Slows Down

WARN FOES WORST - [S YET IN FUTURE   Broadcast Reminds Soviet Troops Winter x Best Time To Complete  Enemy Annihilation

30 Jap Raiders ‘Shot Down Over Milne Bay Area   Three Small Ship: Hit; Allies Hit Jap Shins

Nips Step Up Effort In Air War   MacArthur Fighting Hard to Hold Sky Control Over Pacific Bat tle Zone.

Fall Rains Slow Russian Attacks, Create Vast Bog   Nazis Aitempt To Evacuate Remants Of Army Over Narrow Kerch Strait

Luil Reported on Russian Front  Activity Confined to Two Sectors

RAIN BRINGS LULL ON THE SOVIET FRONT   Situation, Which Is to Be Expected, Limits Red Attacks to Gomel and Mogilev Areas of White  Russia.

Rains Slow Up Russian Advance   SOVIET SCOUTS BUSY AS ACTIVITY HELD DOWN BY MUD

Rains Check Soviet Drive   Only Activity in Gomel and Mogilev Sectors, Say Reports

Mud Slows Up Reds   Anticipate Russian Front Stalemate Until Middle Of November

Autumn Rains Slow Attacks   Russians, However, Continue Drives in Gomel-Mogiley Areas

RED ARMY ATTACKS IN THE GOMEL AND MOGILEV SECTORS   Autumn Rains Prevailed Over Most of the Long Battle Line.   ACTIVITY SLACKENS   Clashes With Russian Troops Which Had Forced Crossing on the Dnieper.

AAING HOLDING Filla BAK ON MOT FRONTS   Activity Confined to Attacks in Two Sectors of White Russia.   BERLIN ANNOUNCES FALL. OF STARO-TAMAN SKAYA

Autumn Rains Bring Lull On  Russian Front   Activity Is Limited To Red Attacks In Gomel And Mogilev Sectors.

‘Autumn Rains Slow Russians  Fighting Confined te Gomel and Moailev

RAINS BRING LULL ALONG BATTLE LINE   Germans Evacuate ‘Taman in Flight From Caucasus

REDS ADVANCE IN CAUCASUS, WHITE RUSSIA   Autumn Rains Give Germans . Breathing Spell at Kiev, Elsewhere Along Dnieper Wall   WAIT FOR: FREEZE   Germans Threatened With Loss of Last Toehold on -Taman Penin Sula as Staro- Tamansheys Taken

AUTUMN RAINS SLOW SOVIETS   Lull in Military Activity Reported—Only Few Attacks, Nazis Say

Rains Slow Activity In White Russia   Reds Advance  IInon Mogilev

PACIFIC WAR MAY REMAIN IN ‘STATE OF RELATIVE CALM UNTIL ALLIES READY FOR OFFENSIVE

fhe War ft oday— Pactfic War Is Calm As Japanese Consolidate Bandit-Carved Gains

Little Change Expected in Pacific Until Allies Launch All-Out Drive

‘Pacific War Remains in State of Relative Calm When Will Day of Reckoning Come:

Today’s War Moves   Pacific Battle Area Calm While Allies Plan All Ont Drive

The War Today   Japs Busy Consolidating Gains As United Nations Do Halding Job.

PACIFIC WAR IN STATE OF RELATIVE  CALM=M’KENZIE   Japanese Busy Consolidating Gains Of Their Banditrv.

Russians Now Cleaning Up Stalingrad   Digging Out the Last of Former 220,000 Nazis—One Regiment Said Surrendered

Annihilation Of German Infantry Divisions Nears   Russian Offensives Continue Forward On Approaches To Rostov

GROUND FORCES PRESS ON JAPS   Enemy Under Pressure In Wau-Mubo Area; Airdrome At Kendari Blasted

AIR ACTION IN GUINEA HEAVY   Ground Forces Increasing Pressure On Jans :

Allied Bombers Extend Attacks In Pacific Area   Jap Base On Netherlands East Indies Included In Latest Raids   JAPANESE ARE GIVEN SURPRISE

Bumper Corn Crop in Spite Qf, Drought-USDA  Dwn2awl V:alde re A ay   Record Yields of. Vegetable Oil, Bean, - Potato, Rice, Crops -

WAR FAILS TO DAMPEN SPIRIT OF AMFRICANS   Service Men Mingle With Celebrants

WAR FAILS TO DIM HOLIDAY'S HILARITY   Record Crowds Celebrate New Year’s Eve

3 CHILDREN KILLED BY DAYTON MOTHER   Two Beaten To Death and Third Drowned in Bucket

Fresh Torrents  Into Big Muddy   Missouri River Is Due For Its Worst Flood Since 1915.

East Kansas  And Missouri  Face Floods Heavy New Rains  To Cause Streams wT. ts Wok bk

TS BIG MUDDY’ IS U   Serious Flood Conditions on the Missouri Below Kansas City

‘Worst Flood Since 1915 From Kansas City on Down Expected on Missouri   SNEW BATTLES TO SAVE DIKES, LEVEES   Rising River Holds Threat to K.C. Muny Airport; Big Farm Crop Loss

General Kai-Shek China's President  Pledges To Recover Their Lost Territory

Jap Sailors Jump Overboard, Swim Away, Navy Relates in Disclosing Details of 13-Ship Bag by a Sub

U. S. Sub Sinks Three Jap Ships  10 Cargo Vessels and   10 Cargo Vessels and Three Warships Are Included in Baa

SINGLE U. 5. A. U-BOAT BAGS 13 JAP SHIPS   SUBMARINE RETURNS - FROM RAIDS IN TOKYO WATERS

THIRTEEN JAP SHIPS SUNK BY AMERICAN SUE   Ten Cargo Vesseis and Three Warships Bag of U-Boat so Far in War   EXPERIENCE CITED      Entire Battle Fleet Passes Over U-Boat as It Lay Submerged, Not Dar-' ing to Move

‘One American Submarine Destroys Three Warships And Ten Cargo Vessels

TwO MORE JAP DESTROYERS SUNK   Single U. S. Sub Sinks Three Jap Warships, 10 Others

‘Navy Discloses Single American Submarine Sinks 13 Jap Ships—10 Cargo, 3 Warships

Japs May Delay Action by Fleet   Still Formidable, Experts Declare

Russian Army Scores Major BreakThrough   Germans Reported Moving Out of City

RUSSIANS GET STILL CLOSER 10 KHARKOV   Great industrial center is surrounded; can’t hold  out long

Ring Of Steel Being Tightened Around Kharkov   Russians Score Another Break-Through In Nazi Fortified Positions   . ONE COLUMN IS 36 MILES PAST KHARKOY

CUT NEW HOLE IN LINES OF GERMANS   Surround City on Northeast, North and West

Red Army Scores New BreakThrough in the Nazi Fortified Positions Around Big City

De Gaulle On Losing End Of Struqale   British Are Believed on Verge of Abandoning  Fighting French Leader   AMERICAN ARMS GOING TO GIRAUD   Dispute Not Ended, But It Appears Giraud Has Upper Hand

ROTTERDAM SHIP YARDS TARGET OF U. $. FORTRESSES   Shipping at That Center Is Also Bombed by American Warplanes. Today ~~ One Bomber Missing

ACTION SLOWED ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT BY SPRING THAWS   Almost a Week Has Gone by With No Major Activities Reported.   SOME SHARP CLASHES   German Command Claims Russian Thrusts Were Repulsed.

U.S. Bombers Hit Rotterdam   Flying Fortresses Attack Shipping. Shipbuilding In Davlight Sweep.

Laurens Group Leaves for Army   Dick Binkard is Among Latest List of Men to Be Inducted

AP Denies Any Monopoly In News Gatherinc  Replies To Federal   Replies 10 Federal Charge; Summary Verdict By Court Stronaly Opposed

Start Hearing In ‘Trust’ Case   AP Denies Charge Of Monopoly, Defends Right To Choose Members.

NO EVIDENCE OF MONOPOLY SHOWN, IS AP'S ANSWER   Associated Press Gpposes De. partment of Justice Plea ‘ For. Judgment

CLAIMS GOVERNMENT HAS SUBMITTED NO MONOPOLY EVIDENCE  ASSOCIATED PRESS OPPOSES PLEA FOR SUM-

ARGUMENTS IN SUIT AGAINST AP ARE HEARD   News Agency Fights Government's Move for Summary Judgment in Anti-Trust Action

CLAIMS GOVERNMENT HAS SUBMITTED NO MONOPOLY EVIDENCE  ASSOCIATED PRESS OPPOSES PLEA FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN CAS!

Governors Join Oil Price Fight   New Mexico’s Chief launches Program

Governors Launch Campaign for Higher Oil Prices  Seek to Interest All Chief Executives In Crude Production

Lt. Comdr. Wells Carroll Is Officially Listed As Missing By Navy Officers,

EASIER THAN RUNNING      Former Mile Champion Comments on Attack of Wake Island

Former Mile Champion Is Bombardier   Finds It Easier to Face Japanese Antiaircraft Fire Than to Compete on Cinder Path

ARTILLERY, «— PLANES BANG AWAY AT BASES   Russians Crash Through Nazi Bridgehead

Allies Smash Barriers With Swift Blows   HARBOR AREAS ARE NOW SCRNES OF MANY BLAZES.

Tunis and Bizerte Under Heavy Fire From Allied Guns   Allied Armies Crash Strategic Barriers Along the Approaches to Last Two Axis Strongholds in Tunisia

London Express Announces Secret Planes Hitherto — Believed Impossible

REGUHU ATTAGK UPUN OUlonURG UEOTAUYS GHY   163,000 Prisoners In Allied Hands As Tunisian Battle Results In Victory

SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR  ESUME   nAF Hits Hardest Blow Of War At  Germany Industry

UNION IGNORES OFFICIALS’ PLEAS   1.200 Rubber Plant Strikers Carry Walkout Into Third Day

Six Rommel Attacks From Mareth Line Fail As Allies Take Big Toll   Allies Regain Initiative in Northern Tunisia While Reports Show Central Situation Unchanged ; Flyers Down 15 Axis Planes Without Loss

NEW ATTACKS ‘BY RED ARMY: ~~ WITHIN: BEND   ee BERMAN DEFENSES REPORTED STARTING TO CRUMBLE IN FACE OF “FOUR-FOLD  OFFENSIVE” '

150U.S. Planes Turn Airfields To Smoky Ruins   Fortresses, Liberators Leave Trai Of Explosion And Fire In Twin Thrust At Italian Bases;- ~~ 14 Enemy Aircraft Lost.

Nazi Officials Show Jitters; Renew Effort to Split United Nations

SAYS LONDON SOURCES ARE ITS AUTHORITY   Asserts “Tip” Is From “Well-Informed Quarters”—Day Is Third Anniversary of the French Armistice.

BERLIN CLAIMS DATE OF ALLIED BLOW IS KNOWN   Invasion Jitters Grow In Germany; Propaganda Flies Thick And Fast.

GERMANY SETS THE DATE OF THE ALLIED INVASION, JUNE 22   The Radio Attributed Its Information to Well Informed London Quarters.   TRY TO SPLIT ALLIES   German Press Says “Hitler First” Strategy of United Nation Is Dangerous.

Nazis Say June 2? Is Invasion Day   Germans Attribute Information to. London Sources

Nazi Jitters Grow As Radio Says Invasion Date Is Set for June 22

AS INVASION DAY  NEARS GERMANY IN  EFFORT SPLIT ALLIES BERLIN PROPAGANDA LINE IS THAT ROOSEVEL]   —s)§F;ALDNEDC CTATIA ADATINIA

NAZIS SUGGEST INVASION DATE   Jitters Intensify in Germany; Renew Effort to Split  Rittenn   JUNE 221S SUGGESTED

GERMANS SUGGEST JUNE 22 AS DATE FOR ALLIED INVASION OF CONTINENT, BASED ON ‘REPORTS

"Der Tag’ Seen Sef for June 22   Germans Reiterate Invasion of Europe To Start Then

NEAR UNITY, TIP FRENCH FORCES   De Gaulle and Giraud Said To Be Smoothing Troubles For Combined Action

Fighting French Groups to Unite   Gen. De Gaulle and Gen. Giraud Expected to Amalyamate Forces.

FRENCH LEADERS NEAR AGREEMENT   GIRAUD-DE GAULE ACCORD IS NOW SEEN AS LIKELY

Agreement By French Groups  Is Foreseen   De Gaulle And Giraud Complete Amalgamation Of De Gaulle And Giraud Factions May Be Obtained Soon

MAY UNITE THE FRENCH IN AFRICA   Complete. Amalgamation. of De Gaulle and Giraud Forces in Prospect   BOTH MAY SERVE IN TOP PLACES   Another Plan Calls for ’ Bringing In a Third French Leader

Early Fusion of de Gaulle And Giraud Forces Under a Joint Command Is Predicted

FOR FRENCH FRONT   De Gaulle and Giraud Fac‘tions May Be More  Closely United

Tire Situation In Brewster County ‘Deplorable,’ Local Chairman Say:

Tire Shortage Sericus In Luna County   Conditions Reported by Local Rationing Board

Tire Situation In County Critical According To Ration Board Report

AGED ATLANTA “WOMAN: PASSED. AWAY IN TIPTON   Mrs. U. G: Phifer Victim o! - Diabetes ‘at Emergen-., ‘ ‘cy Hospital.   ate, _ Leaves Husband and ‘Several Children to  Mourn Death.

AGED ATLANTA WOMAN PAGDED AWAY IN TIPTON   Mrs. U. G. Phifer Victim of Diabetes at Emergency Hospital.    : ‘LAST RITES FRIDAY   She Leaves Husband and Several Children to Mourn Death.

: i  State Population . Shows Decrease  La Crosse County Total Drops 3.333

Japs Lose Sea Batile   U. S. Navy Catches Task Force Trying To Bombard Rendova

Louisiana Already Contributed More Than Quota Doctors   Army Plans To Procure 6,900 Physicians And 3.000 Intearnes

Largest Capital Of Italian Empire Falls To British Imperial Forces

CHANGE DRAFT CLASSIFICATION   MeNutt Sees All Fit Men Excent Essential Workers Between 18-38 In Service By 1943

Plan To Save Baby Chicks Is Advanced   Latest Help-Win-TheWar Idea Makes Sense, At That

WARN LEGISLATORS TO SPEED WORK OR FACE LONG SESSION   Whip a By Leaders Because Of Slim Calendar

LONG SESSION FOR OHIO LEGISLATURE HELD AS PROBABLE   Leaders Tighten Discipline in Effort to Shorten Outlined Program.

NELSON OUSTS VICE. CHAIRMAN IN WPB SETUP   Replaces Eberstadt, Army Chiefs’ Friend, With Charles E. Wilson

Nelson Fires Aide as Showdown Nears  in WPB’s Struggle   Eberstadt Ousted by Chief Whose Place Is Threatened  __

Eberstadt Asked To Quit WPB Post  Nelson Transfers Broad Powers To Wilson To Squelch Disputes

Nelson Plans Dismissal Of WPB Official   One of Two Top Vice Presidents Said to be Slated to Go   APPEAL TO PRESIDENT

Nelson Releases Eberstadt In a Showdown tor Control — Over Nation’s Production

EBERSTADT OUT OF WAR BOARD   Nelson ‘Asks Rerighation To. Aid Harmony of 

NELSON ASKS -EBERSTADT'S RESIGNATION   Names Charles E. Wilson fo Suc- ceed Him in Charge of All WPB Programs .   APPEAL MADE FDR   Bbersiadi, Regarded as Baruch Proiege, Backed by Army-Navy Officials in Materials Fight

AIDE IS FIRED   Program Vice Chairman Askec to Resign in New Showdown on Priorities   MOVE MADE TO CONTROL JURISDICTIONAL TOPIC

WPB Official is  Asked fo Resign,  Replaced By Wilsor Eberstadt Is Out As” Showdown. Near on  ne RY 2) OES cp ce Wee

Asks Eberstadt To Resign Post   First Such Public Request Made by Nelson

Nelson Requests That Eberstadt Resign from WPE   Clash Between War Board and Armed Services

Production Chief Takes Strong Action To Avert Military Control Productior

WAR BOARD CHANGE 1   Nelson Asks for the Resignation of Vice Chairman Eberstadt

INELSON REQUESTS RESIGNATION OF WPB VICE CHAIRMAN   CHANGE MADE TO END SITUATION THAT WOULD “HAMPER WAR EFFORT”

Nelson QOusts Army and Navy Pet From Post   Wilson Given Full Power Over Supplie And Praduetion

Asks Eberstadt to gut WPB position   Wilson named by Nelson to have control of ‘all board’s proarams’   See Rift With Baruch.

Nelson Reported Ready to Oust Eberstadt from — Top Post.   CHIEF OPPOSED BY ARMY AND NAVY

DONALD NELSON QUSTS EBERSTAMT FROM WPB POST   War Production Chairman Dismisses Aide, Sequel to Recent Dispute With Armed Services.

To Bump a Top WPB Executive   Donald Nelson to Oust Ebersadt to Bring About  Harmony.

Eberstadt Dismissed By Nelson   ...WILSON MOVED UP   Ouster Is Showdown In Fight Between WPB, Armed Forces

Nelson To Fire Vice Chairman  To Oust Eberstadt In Fight To Control WPB Against Army

N elson Asks Eberstadt To Quit Job   Names Wilson Chief of All Programs Under WPB Jurisdiction

Nelson Ousts Kberstadt In  Harmony Move   Removed Official Had Support Of Army and Navy Officials

Nelson Fires Top Aide in WPB   CHARLES E. WILSON NAMED EXECUTIVE VICE-CHAIRMAN

EXTRA!   Nelson Ousts Eberstadt As WPB Official   Places Wilson In Charge Of All Programs Of Production Board In Move For Harmony

Chairman Says Leaving Will End Jurisdictional  Questions or Production

NELSON TO FIRE ONE OF TOP MEN IN FAST SHAKE-UP   DISPUTE ON CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION COMING TO CLIMAX

Nelson Fires Chief Aide, Defies Army   Rew With Military Flares Inte Open, Mey Reach President

Nelson Dismissed Two WPB Heads   BITTER DISPTTE WITHIN RANKS BROUGHT INTO OPEN

‘Row Within WPB May  Reach White House; Nelsou Is Criticized      SOME ARE ASKING BARUCH TAKE OVER   Conflict Over Production Sees Armed Services Lined Acainst Wilson Group

Officials of WPB Having Internal Row   Differences Appear to Stem from Struggle with Armed Services for Control over Production 

Nelson Fires Top Assistant   Action Of WPB Chief Believed Added Step In Fight With Army, Navy.

F. D. R. Receives Postwar Plans   Executive May Scrap Suggestions

Informal Plan Seems Favored   Business Men Are On Advisory Body  By JOHN M. _HIGHTOWER

President Seeks Post-War Ideas  From New Group  Eric Johnson Told to Speak Mind Frankly

BUSINESS TO AID POST-WAR PLAN   Roosevelt Projects Informal, Piece-Meal Program

Groups Join In Making  Postwar Plan  Business Men,  President See TR ge eee coe WES cess

NEW POST-WAR SYSTEM HINTED      Roosevelt May Spike All Elaborate Planning By Experts

Flying Forts Bomb Munich   Longest Round Trip Bomb Flight Is Made

Munich Is First To Feel Blow   Fortresses Fly 1,800 Miles To Pour Dynamite On Hitler's Home.

B-17’s Fly 1800 Miles To Bomb  Munich Sector   Flying Forts Are Stationed In North Africa

2 ft be  oo oh OO 2B 00 ah OS OR 4 OE DE HE OG Od  Clarion Call To Gaston County

SECOND WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN IS ON   To Help Ralse Thirteen Billions Dol. lars, Think: “They GIVE Thelr Lives, You LEND Your Money”

LEGION OFFICERS WILL SDEAK HERE   Twentieth Annivarsary to be Marked on . Bridav: .-.:

LEGION OFFICERS WILL SPEAK HERE   Twentieth Anniversary tc be Marked on Friday

LEND-LEASE AID TOTALS 8 BILLIONS   Stettinius Reports on Materials Sent Allies Up to Dec. 31.

Leipzig Feels Heavy Weight Of RAF Bombs   Raiders Get Berlin Defend. ers in Air, Turn and Blast Railway Center

R.A.F. Feints At Berlin,  Br’. 3  Bow 3s x se y a o> -  . & One .      0°. .ack Ok «man’s Third Industrial City

AAT FEINT PROVES HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL   Big Bombers Hit Leipzig As Nazi Fightérs Scattered

HAF FLIES AT BERLIN, THEN HITS LEIPZIG   Feint Attack Draws German Fighters Away from Real Target.

Allies Feint At Berlin And Hit Leipzig With Heavy Raid   Colossal Bluff Catches City Flat-Footed; German Defenders Fooled By Trick

Great RAF Fleet Blults  Nazi Fighters   Bombers Headed For Berlin Fool Defenders By Cutting Off To Leipzig.   RAIL CITY UNAWARE

LEIPZIG LEFT IN FLAMES BY BRITISH RAII   German. Industrial City _ Caught Flat-Footed by Feint of Big Bombers Over Berlin

R.A. F. Blasts Leipzig in Tricky Attack   Germans, Expecting Raid on Berlin, Caught Off Base

FEINT AT BERLIN, ATTACK UEIPZIG   KR. A. F. TRICKS NAZI FIGHTERS BEFORE BLASTING INDUSTRIAL CITY.

Heavy R.AF. Planes Pound Leipzia   Fool Nazis Into Believing Berlin Torcget of Raiders

FOE BLUFFED WHEN PLANES DRUB LEIPZIG   BIG FORCE SHIFTS AFTER FEINT AT BERLIN

Nazis Caught By RAF Ruse   Bombers Head For Berlin, “Turn And Batter Leipzig

Bombers Feint Toward Berlin In Colossal Bluff   Many Fires Burning In Leipzig After Assault By Heavies

1,500 TONS OF BOMBS HEAPED UPON LEIPZIG   RAF Feints At Berlin Germans Caught Off Guard

WAR LOAN DRIVE STARTED BY FOR   ‘They Give Lives, We Lend’ Slogan for Campaign Opening April 12 

APPOINT GROUP TO PROBE REDS IN NATION’S PAY   House Near Vote on 2-Yeai Extension for Dies Committee

FIVE-MAN GROUP TO START IN QUIRY NEXT WEEK OF:  .” CHARGE: “REDS” ON FEDERAL PAYROLL ©

Doctors Operated On Wounded Within Range Of Enemy Guns   New Technique Adopted To Speed Help To Americans Taking Part In Sicilian Battle

MEDICOS SAVED MANY IN SICILY   Medical Science Moved Up Within Range Of Enemy Guns And Performed Miracles Of Surgery.

MEDICAL SCIENCE KEPT CLOSE FRONT IN SICTLTAN DRIVE   MIRACLES OF SURGERY PERFORMED WITH SHELLS “BURSTING NEARBY

MEDICAL SCIENCE. KEPT CLOSE FRONT IN SIGILIAN DRIVE  MIRACLES OF SURGERY PERFORMED WITH SHELL

Lend-Lease in Reverse Aiding  Britain Supplying   Britain Supplying Much to Yanks There, Stettinius Savs

A.EF. In Britain . Costing Little   Stettinius Reports U. 5. Is Sending Only $25,000 Cash A Month.

Administrator Tells Senate Reciprocal Contributions From Nations “Inspiring Chapter”   STETTINIUS URGES ITS CONTINUATION   " ¥5 Act Makes It Unnec  scary to Pay $25,000  Monthly for Maintenance Yanks Abroad

US Spending In England Very Small   As Result of Lend-Lease Putting Out Less Than $25,000 a Month in Cash; LendLease Report

Stettinius Argues For Extension... .. U.S. Cash Expenses Cut By Lend Lease

Lend - Lease, in Reverse, Cuts Cost Of Maintaining U.S. Army in Britain

AMERICAN FORCES IN ENGLAND COST - $75,000 MONTHLY   Stettinus Tells Senate Foreign Relations Committee About Small Army Cost In British Isles.   ‘LEND-LEASE LAW EX* TENSION 1S FAVORED   Over Two Billion Spent In Past Year, This Year Total Will Not Be In Excess of One Billion.

U.S. SPENDS MONEY AND ALLIES BLOOD   That's One Analysis of LeaseLend in Reverse

Value Is Seen  Of Lend-Lease      Stettinius Says England Is Repaying Us With Care For Army‘

Britain Pays Cost of Yanks In England   U. S. Spending Less Than $25,000 Month There, Stettinius Says

LEND-LEASE IS SAVING MONEY, DIRECTOR SAYS   saat ee temnns mecanni mama  Costs Only $25, O00 Per Month For’ Army In England

Lend-Lease Is Working Both Ways   Britain Supplies Americans, Who Are On Islands

DEAN TO CONTINUE HEAD OF SCHOOLS   Is Reelected for Two-Year Term by Board of Education   ISOME STAFF CHANGES

HEAD OF SCHOOLS   Is Reelected for Two-Year Term by Board of Education   ISOME STAFF CHANGES

Many Killed and Damage Is Extensive   Other Allied Bombers Ravage Italian Bulwarks of Sicily and Sardinia

RAID ON GREEK PORT HINTS AT INVASION BASE   Other Allied Planes Shate ter Ruhr, Sicily and Sardinia Targets   DEVASTATING RAIDS   Heavy Property and Civil ian Losses Admitted By Nazis

DRASTIG CUT IN CIGARETTES — BEING PRE DIGTED FOR 1944   WUGE INCREABE IN SALES COUPLED WITH NEEDS OF SERVICEMEN 18 AFFECT ING THE SUPPLY 

ARE SETTLED AT TRIPARTITE MEET   Atmosphere Continues Friendly as Hull, Eden, Molotov Talk

Agreement at Moscow Paney Is Indicated   Foreign Ministers Round Out Week Of Discussions

AGREEMENT AT MOSCOW SEEN   CONFEREES END FIRST WEEK IN RED CAPITAL

GROUP REACHES AGREEMENT ON KEY SUBJECTS   Moscow Conference Te Continue At Least Another Week

CHIEF OF PULPWODD PRODUCTION QUITS   Hansen Is President, General Manager of Green Bay Paner Mil.

(PAYMENT OF SUBSIDIES. AS ! PRICE CONTROL MEASURE "19 OUTLAWED UNDER fs BILL :

SUBSIDIES PLAN NOW UP TO FOR   Congress Repudiates Proposal; Veto Possible

BILL BANNING SUBSIDIES GOES TQ PRESIDENT   Measure Deprives Executive of Giant Credit “Corp”

Nazi Attempt To Recross Dnieper Is Beaten Back   Moscow Report Says Ger. mans Lose Several Thousand Men In Effort   GREAT QUANTITIES OF BOOTY TAKEN

REDS RF’ ~ sE NAZI EFrudT TO RECROSS RIVER   “Several Thousands” Killed and Much Booty Seized

WRECK 58 JAP PLANES   Also Seven Surface Vessels And Many Supply Barges  Te  a Se = Me Ste Yl eee lee

Seven Jap Ships Sunk At Wewak   58 Enemy Planes Bagged In New Assault

Japs Are Dealt New Heavy Blow In Wewak Area   Fifty-Eight Planes And Seven Surface Vessels ‘Are Destroyed   MANY BARGES ARE  AT.SO T.OST RV TAPS

1) JAP PLANES AND 7 SHIPS DESTROYED   Allies Land Powerful Blow at Nips in New Guinea

ALLIES SMAS 08 JAP PLANES, AND 7 VESSELS   Devastating Air Raid on Wewak Area   DESTROY BARGES

Says Mine Town Prices In Line   OPA Nears End Of 3-Months Price Study

! ‘Le Havre fo ‘Be Evacuated   Children to Be Sent Away First, Paris Radio Announcec

Allied Troops Forging Ahead In Sicly Drive   Make Progress Despite Stiffening German Resistance To Attacks   REPORT TROIMA HAS BEEN TAKEN

U.S. 7TH ARMY GRUMPLES AXIS LINES IN NORTH   Allies Clip Average of Ten Miles From German Holdings

ALLIED FORCES CUT MESSINA BRIDGEHEAD   Series of Smashing Blows Crumples Axis’ North Coast Defenses

British Government Approves the Policy of General Eisenhower in North Africa

NO SPLIT OVER. ” FRENCH POLICY   AUTHORITATIVE QUARTERS “DISCLOSE U.S. AND BRITIBH GOVERNMENTS HAVE BREN IN AGREEMENT

British Government . A pproves the Policy : - of General Eisenhower in North ‘Africa

Germans Facing Annihilation in Battle in ltaly   Large Force May Soon Be Trapped

NAZI COMMAND SUFFERS MAJOR BLOW IN SOUTH   Hitler Stripped Of 27 Italian Divisions In Balkans; Line Weakened   New Invasions Likely

DIOASTER GRABS ADOLPH BY THROAT   Nazi High Command Faces Greatest Strategic Upset   NEW WAR PHASE   Bloody Campaign Looms, However, Before Germans Are Driven From Italv

FLYNN TRIAL IS. APPROACHING ENT   Jury May Receive the Case Tomorrow Afternoon if Nothing Sntervenes.

FIGHTING LINES, NEAR MUNDA ARE BEING EXTENDED   All-Out Ground Assault Will Follow Bombardment That Pulverized Jap Defenses Ir That Sector.   REQS ASSUME LEAD JN BELGOROD BATTLE   American Warship Shells Jap Kiska Positions Several Hours In Second Attack ty Three Days.

Yanks Open Up Final Attack on Munda Field   Shattering Bombardment Precedes Blow by : Trfantre

‘Massive U.S. Bombardmen (From Sea, Air And Land Razes Munda Defenses

MUNDA POUNDED FROM SEA, AIR, LAND ARTILLERY      U. S. Warships Lay Down The Initial Barrage Under Darkness

Yank Jungle Force Set to Seize Munda   Air Bombs and Artillery Blast Way for Advance sy Ground Troops

Jungle Forces Deploy Around Base At Munda   Planes, Artillery, Ships Pour Fire On Japanese Center

AMERICAN JUNGLE FORCES PLAN FOR ALL-QUT ATTACK      Munda Defenses Pulverized — Largest “Aerial” Armada In Big Operation

Ground Attack On Munda And  Salamaua Near   U.S. Warships Bombard Jap Base In The Solomons

 Butte Duckhunters Facing a Shortage of Ammunition May Want One > of These ‘Pocket Guides to Iran’ for the Coming Season in Montana

MAYBE ARMY WILDFOWLING TECHNIQUE FOR IRAN IS JUST THE OLD SNIPE HOAX’

Wildlife Chief Has Doubts That Duck Would Fall for Plan Recommended to Be Used by Soldiers in Iran Marshes

CENSORSHIP      Used For Political Purposes, Governor Tells Newspapermen

BRICKER HITS NEWS “HUSH   Tells NEA Administration Withholds Information

WAR CENSORSHIP HIT BY BRICKER   Ohio Governor Tells Editors System Perverted Into Propaganda Device

Q Conor Urges State Approval Of Bond Report   Reorganization of Mary: land Courts Necessary, Governor Says

O’CONOR FAVORS REORGANIZATION OF JUDICIARY   Governor Says Onponents Of Bond Report Lack   Contidence In Voters   INCOME TAX SLASH TO SAVE $12,000,000

CHANGES IN COURT SYSTEM APPROVED      Governor O’Conor. Urges Passage of Bond Commission Plan

REFUSES A CLOSED SHOP   Tulsa Plant Brief Sa E It Ends -Worker’s Fr

REFUSES A CLOSED SHOP   Tulsa Plant Brief Says It Ends Worker’s Freedom

Qld Charge Against Chandler Aired By Senator Langer, Who Avers O.C. Man Disqualified Self for Judgeship

NAZIS WEAKEN ON PLANS FOR DANISH RULE   Effort Made To Get Out Of Bad Situation By Forming 18-Man Council

Germans Shy From Army Rule  Over Denmark   Seek King’s Approval For Governing Council Like Setup °1 Norway

PLAN COUNCIL FOR DENMARK   Nazis Trying to Step Out Of Role as Military  Dictators

Nazis Seek to Set Up Council To Rule Danes   Formation of Board Would be Way Out Fer Germans

DANES REMAIN LOYAL TO KING   Administrative Council Proposed By Germans; Sabotage Continues

ermans Trying o Form Council o Govern Danes   Plan 18-Man Setup To Govern Norway

GERMANS TAY TU FASE DANISH IRE   Seek to Form Council Similar To That Set up in Norway; Would Step Out of Dictatorship Role

Nazis Seek to Form Administrative  Council for Danes  King Still Controls Situation, Has

Danes To Get New Council  Nozis Plan Governing Bad Fitba Fa Riaccuemu

Nazis Would Step Out of Denmark   King Appears to Hold Key to Situation

Nazis Seek to Form Administrative  Council for Danes  King Still Controls Situation, Has Loyalty of People

A COLUMN ABOUT IOWA   Announce Over 225,000 Iowans Now in Service

Mail Application for Ration Book 3   Those Who Fail to Do So Will Have to Wait Until August.

Protests Using Youths Under 20 ln War Areas   Congressman Kelley Files Complaint With Sec Stimson; Cites Death Of District Solaiers

NeW COMMANDER OF NAVAL FORCES   Vice Admiral Kinkaid Is Transferred to Southwest Pacific.

SHIFT KINKAID 10 SOUTHWEST PACIFIC   Commands Sea Forces In That Theater

SHIFT KINKAID TO SOUTH ARE?   U.S. VICE-ADMIRAL TO DIRECT NEW NAVY BRANCH

Vice Admiral Kinkaid Transferred To Command in Southwest Pacific

Vice Admiral T. Kinkaid ls New U. S. Commander Of Pacific Naval Forces

NAVY TRANSFER ADMIRAL KINKAID INTO SW PAGIEN   Leaves North Pacific Command To Take New Post Under MacArthur

PRESIDENT SAYS RIDER VIOLATES BILL OF RIGHTS   Charges Ban on Three Employes in Bill of Attainder

Solons Overstep  Authority—FDR   Challenges Ouster Of Three Officials

Supply Rider Hald Moral  ALUAU haat gus  By Roosevelt   Plan to Drop 3 Federal Employes Called Bill of Attainder

FDR IS EXPECTED TO CLINCH CHARGES ‘AGAINST CONGRESS   Rider To Appropriation Measure Hailed As Unconstitutional—  Many Agree

Expect Rider To Be Withdrawn   Think Objectionable Law Will Be Cast Out

JAPANEOE Lot 0000 TROOPS IN GILBERT   Capture Of Island Defenses Virtually Complete Today; Few Prisoners Taken

Asks Public Hearing  On Nomination Of Edward J. Flynn As Minister To  Australia, Protests Are Continuing

TAKE 4-H AWARDS   Douglas = aaegg 2 nty Boys and Girls Win at Topeka Fair

MAY ASK OFFICE ABOUT E. J. FLYNN   Concerns His Qualifications As the Minister to Australia.

ee eae ee i cosuennnnentinnineeennienammmmminteemend  City Woman Will Work On Farms

SUPPLIES SENT RUSSIA DURING PAST YEAR WORTH NEARLY TWO AND HALF: BILLION DOLLARS

‘Pilot Tells Story Of First Trans'Allantic Fliant   Skeptics Offered 5 To 1 Against Success Glider Trip  By SQUADRON LEADER VIlTEREH © erve

Squadron Leader Tells Of Historic Trip By Heavily-Loaded Glider Across Ocean

Squadron Leader Tells Of Historic Trip _ By H eavily-Loauded Qlidey Arrace Necan

CROSSES IN GLIDER   By SQUADRON LEADER RICHARD G. SEYS  ae eS ae ee Ul

U S. WAR AIMS ISTO ACHIEVE A WORLDWIDE PEACE   MacKenzie Thinks Three Axis Partner Heads Should Be Interested In Cordell Hull’. Sneech -

The W ar T oday— : Writer Thinks Uprooting Prussian Clique Will End German Aggression

THREE WAR LORDS SHOULD. CAREFULLY STUDY HULL'S REMARKS; PUNISHMENT OF INSTIGATORS OF WAR IS BIG PROBLEM

Pee ee ee: ee eS ee a a  THE WAR  TODAY  By DeW deli vakabaicominanass  =ewwe « =w @ “a wee

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Out Of Circulation  fic ot War. Criminals an Insure Peace

iw PrN  Columnist Writes Open Letter To Three War Lords On What To Expect After Conflic

WAR ANALYST CALLS ATTENTION OF HITLER, ET. AL, TO PROGRAM U. S SECRETARY OF STATE HULL

The War Today  Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo Should Take Heed Of Hull's Speech,

60 NAZI SUBS DESTROYED IN THREE MONTH:   Alliés Announce Sue: cess in Their War On U-boats

Allies Sink Nearly Five Submarines Each Week in Three Months, Cut Own Shipping Losses in Half

Merchant Ship Losses by U.S., Britain Drop   October Sinkings of Cargo Vessels Hit Second Lowest of  Any Month of War

Jap Torpedo Got Ship Off Gilberts; Admiral, Task Commander, Skipper Lost

U.S. Must Police World After War, Knox Says   Discuss Problems Of Printing News

Editors and U. S. Censors Meet In A Closed Session  owl Savs. . Conferenc  ee TE iene

AMERICANS, BRITISH, CANADIANS STORM ITALIAN STRONGHOLD   Strong Aerial and Naval Support Given Invaders, Striking Early in Morning After Crossing Water From North Africa

STRONG AIR, SEA SUPPORT IS GIVEN TO SHOCK TROOPS   Amphibious Operations Follow Two Weeks Of Mounting Aerial Onslaught—Heavy Fighting Is Now In Progress   REGARDED AS FIRST MOVE FOR A SECOND FRONT

Nazis Are. Putting Up Resistance    AMERICAN, BRITISH AND... CANADIAN SHOCK TROOPS:  INITIAL LANDING; PROGRESS)" UNDER HEAVY AERIAL COVER”:

Allies Report Invasion Is Proceeding According To Plan, Protected By Aerial Umbrella; Axis Report Severe Fighting

AMERICAN SHOCK TROOPS MEETING STIFF OPPOSITION   Roosevelt Views Invasion as “the Beginning of the End” For Both Hitler and Mussolini.   PRESIDENT TELLS OF INVASION AT DINNER   Three Formations of Fortresses Visit French Points But Clouds Prevent One Unieading.

Munda Again Attacked By U.S. Planes   Anti-Aircraft Guns Silenced ; Grounded Planes Are Fired

Sweater Controversy Problem Now for Washington Labor Experts   No Ann Sheridan There to Solve Puzzle For Conciliation Service

15 KILLED IN POWDER BLAST   100 Injured As Explosion Wrecks Nine Buildings In Maryland

Army Gives Highest Honors to 19th Bomb Group Before Dispersal in Texas   Three Jap Destroyers Are Sunk by Yanks

Mass Hero Citations For Men Of 19th Bomb Group On Eve Of Dispersal

AERIAL SQUA WINS TOP HONOR   Lima Man's Bomber Unit Saluted By Army As Greatest Fighters

Gives Cold .  Wave Warning   Temperature To Fall Rapidly Tonight

New Submarine Threat For Japan In Pacific   Nimitz Strategy Calls For Air And U-Boat Forays On Japanese-Held Outposts

Nauru Base Of  Japs Scourged New Attack Reduces Its Value To Enemy

Miners Expect Speedy Action To End Strike   West Virginia Men Anticipate Shutdown Not To Extend Beyond Tonight.

Allies Smash At Iwo Big Enemy Bases   Fliers Score Severe Blows Upon Ships And Important Dock

Alhes Continue Air Offensive  Against J aps   Plaster Rabaul Again And Hit 2 Cargo Ships In Attack 6n Amboina

Allied Airmen Blast Two Enemy  Ships at Amboina   Jap Rabaul Base Also Is Target of Heavy Bombers  SET HEAVY FIRES  New Guinea Points Feel Continued Wrath of Our Flyers

ALLIES SCORE HITS ON TWO JAP VESSELS   RABAUL BASE AGAIN PLASTERED WITH BIG BOMBS

ALLIED FLIERS BOMB RABAUL 2 JAP VESSELS   Enemy Cargo Ships at Amboina Struck; Explosives Rained on Rabual for Two Hours   Large Fires Seen

Allies Bomb Two Japanese Ships  Stage Heavy Raids on Amboina Island

BOMB HITS SCORED ON TWO JAP SHIPS   Vessels Attacked Off Amboina— Other Allied Airmen Blast Nipponese Base at Rabaul.

Man Reported Dead 3 Times, ‘Buried’ ‘Once Enlists to Fight Nazis, Jans

STOCKS ON HAND BOON 10 KITCHEN      Housewives Get Bargain As But 8 Points Per Can ls Deducted

Chinese Kill 1000 Japanese   Invaders Checked in Yangtze Valley, Mass Reinforcements

Japan Outlook Bad In Paettie Sav Official   United States Forees Soon. May Attack Island Onutposts According To Nimitz   BLAST AIRDROMES

Japs, U.S. Agree War Is Worse For The Japanese   Jap Naval Claims Scoffed By U. S.;  Beachhead Is Won At Bougainville

Bad Days Due For Japs   Jap Naval Victories Termed A Myth; U. S. Plans Big Sea Attacks

Tokio and U.S. A. Agree: War Looks Gloomy for Japs   America’s Growing Offensive Power May Be Unleashed Soon

ALLIED FORCES PLIN &-PRONG “ALOW AT FOES   Nimitz, Denying Jap Claims -of Naval Victory, Hints at New Offensives.

STRONG INDICATIONS THAT U. 8. TO LAUNCH DRIVE AGAINST JAPS  ADMIRAL NIMITZ SAYS PLAN IS TO GIVE ENEMY NO FURTHER REST

CHINA PROMISED AID   “You're Going To Get More Help, Chennault Tells Chinese

Axis Disappointed In Expecting an Invasion Today   Rome Now Boasts Of Preparations for 30 Years of War

Rome Broadcasts Italy Has But One Goal---Peace  Madrid Says First Peace Feelers —

Army’s Cook Held In Death   Ravished Body Of 3-Year Old Tot Found U nder.  Apartment. Sink’

THREE YEAR OLD GIRL IS FOUND DEAD   Army Cook Is In Custody; Accused Of Her Murder

Army Cook Kills Child   Entices Girl, 3, to His Apartment; Denies Knowledge of Crime

YEAR-OLD GIRL. SLAIN BY SOLDIER   Lures Denver Girl into Apartment Who Is Brutally Slain by Drunk Army Cook

SOLDIER FORGETS MURDER   Army Cook Can't Remember Killing Little Girl

Bursting Shells Rock Village For 3 Hours   Explosions Follow Rail Wreck and Fire; At Least One Man Killed

Gene Tierney ls Mother Of Girl   Baby Born In Kansas, Where Hubby Stationed

Bomb Explodes Inside Jap Light Cruiser  Liberator Scores Direct Hit   Liberator Scores Direct Hit on Nip Warship

Score Direct Hit On Japanese Ship  Liberator's Crew Bags It: 49th Warship

Bomb Explodes Inside Jap Light Cruiser   Liberator Scores Direct Hit on Nip Warshin

Jap Cruiser Hard Hit by Allied Bomb   Vessel May Have Been Sunk by Hit Which  Liberator Scared

1,000-POUND BOMB EXPLODES INSIDE JAP LIGHT CRUISER   Vessel Is 49th Enemy Warship Sunk Or Damaged In North Solomons During November; Allied Airmen Active Over Widespread Area

Allies Sink Jap Cruiser In Pacific   Yank Plane Raises November Total To 49 Sinkings

Japanese Cruiser Is Hit By ~ Bomb From U.S. Liberator   Forty-ninth Enemy Ship Casualty in the Solomons During November Reported—Air Forces Strike Heavily

Liberator Drops 1,000-Pound Bomt On Jap Cruiser   Explosion Wrecks Vessel in Channel

HIT SCORED ON JAP CRUISER IN SOLOMONS AREA   Spectacular Explosion Follows Bombing Of 49th Warship In  November

Airmen Seore Direct Hit on Jap Cruiser   Ship Is 49th Blaste«] In Solomons: 13 Planes Are Bagged

arren Urges Independent Crop Action   Governer Favors State Manpower Plan’ As 55th Session Reconvenes   MESSAGES PROMISED   Tax Reduction, Pensions, Guard Listed As Other Vital Issues

Warren tc Speed Messages   GOVERNOR VOWS QUICK STATEMENTS ON STATE WARTIME PUZZLES

Quinn states Butler made ‘about face’   Calls senator ‘opportunist’

OCTOBER DRAFT CALL {S$ FOR 312,000 MEN   re-Pearl Harbor Fathers In NonEssential Work Will Help Fin Quota

Fathers’ Draft  Hinges on  Job Necessity WMC Discloses  WAT... J ofewennhl ne   WMC Discloses Nondeferrables May Fill Quotas

Fathers’ Draft Seems Definite  For October 1   But Likely To Call Ones In Non-War Jobs Only; No Quota Cuts Expected

ON DRAFTING FATHERS   Dads in Non-Deferrable Jobs May,  Be the Only Ones Called .

Fathers to Be Called Oct. 1   WMC Says Non-Essential Workers Onlv Will Go

OCTOBER DRAFT QUOTA 312,000   Fathers On Jobs Rated Non-deferrable To Be Called First

Only Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers In Non-Deferrable Jobs To Be Called In Oct.

Will Not Reduce Armed Force Goal   aovernment Still Plans to Induct Fathers in Its October Quota.

Wave Of Bombers Strike.   FEW DADS IN 1943 DRAFT   .. . But Induction Begins October 1, WMC Insists

Man Power Board Sees No Cut in Fall Draft Quota   Prewar Fathers Seem Cer tain To Be Called in October

No Deterrable Dads May Get Draft Orders   War Manpower Commission Savs Only Non-Deferrables  Likely To ( 0, INO OUOT A REDUCTIONS

OCTOBER TU-SEE 312,000 DRAFTED   PROBABLY ONLY FATHERS TAKEN WILL BE THOSE IN NON-DEFERABLE JOBS.

FATHER DRAFT ORDERS EASED   Only Those In Non-Defer. able Joks Likely To Be Called

October Draft  Quota Is Fixed   Pre-War Fathers Appear Certain To Be Needed Jf Allotments Are Filled

MODIFY PLANS TO DRAFT DADS   Possibility that Only Those In Non-Deferable Jobs Will Go.

DRAFT OF FATHERS WILL BE LIMITED   Only Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Likely To Be Taken In October Are Those In Nondeferable Jobs

312,000 DADS IN FIRST CALL   " Only Non-deferrables To Be Taken In October Quotas

October's Draft Quota May Get A Few Fathers   About 312,000 To Be Inducted; Jobs  Materemingn Cteatiin

NUMBER OF DADS MAY BE DRAFTED   Those In Nondeferrable Jobs May Be Included In October Draft Quota.

Non-Deferrable Fathers Facing October Draft   No Others to Be Taken, War Manpower Board Indicates

DADS IN WAR JOBS MAY ESGAPE DRAFT   Rumors That Armed Forces _ Are to Be Cut Are Branded   ace False

Only One. License’ : Few  a Plate for Each” . Automobile in 1944

More Axis Shins Are Destroyed   Two Merchantmen Are Sunk And Two _ Destroyers Damaged By Fliers

Navy Describes Goree Waugh’s Fatal Flight   Bluefield Navy Office Killed In Battle With U-boat

GALBRAITH QUITS ~— DEPUTY PRICE JOB      Conflict With Maxton Term: ... inates With Resignation

Galbraith Out of OPA,  Says Brown   Resignation Follows Row With Lou Maxon, Detroit $1 a Year Man

Dispute Rids OPA Offices Of Galbraith   Lou Maxon Victor In Policy Wrangle As Opponent Quits

Pruning Started In Price Office   Elongated Princeton Professor Is Out as Deputy Administrator.

Galbraith Out of New Deal As Price Administrator Aide  Hopes are Expressed in Nation’s Capital Departure will Restore Harmony in Office

GALBRAITH RESIGNS OPA OFFICE MONDAY   Resignation May End Strife in Brown’s Department

Official Resians After OPA Fight   Will Harmony Now Prevail in Office, le Question Rajsed

OPA Pot Boils Over   Deputy Administrator Galbraith Resigns After Policy Dispute

Galbraith Out As A Climax To 0), P.A. Dispute   Will Professor’s Resignation Restore Harmony To Brown’s Agency?

PROFESSOR OUT AS KEY MAN IN OPA’S POLICIES   Resignation Brings Hints 0 Overhauling ‘Down The Line’ In Office

Hint Changes In OPA Foree   Galbraith Resigns After Controversy, Other Henderson Men May Quit.

Galbraith Quits OPA After Row With Maxon   Resignation Of Deputy Price Administrator May Restore Harmony To Strife-Torn Office Of Price Administration

SCRAP IN OPA COMES TOHEAD   Deputy Price Administrator First To Resign as Feud Flares in Open

Db. A. V. TONIGHT Orchestra. Members oni        NOTICE TO ote parronve

Draft Boards Getting Ready On 3A Fathers   In Some Cases Notices to Report for ‘Screening’ Have Been Sent

COLD WAVE IN NEW ENGLAND — CAUSING-CRITICAL SITUATION   WAR PLANTS MAY BE FORCED TO CLOSE IN RHODE ISLAND —-MASSACHUSETTS FACING CRISIS

FLYING ACE LAUDS SCOUT TEACHINGS      Rickenbacker Says American Soldiers Are Better Fighters.

Fight it Carried By Farm Bloc   Hints of Compromise Are Heard As Senate Gets Into Agri Rift

Farm Bloc Takes Fight To Senate   Fear Food Prices Will Increase

LAND APPOINTMENT NRAWS SENATE FIRE   Charges of Collusion Brought Up over Confirmation of Maritime Commission Head

Senate Contests Land As Chief Of Shin Board   Fight To Finish Expected As Opponents Charge - €ollusion With Builders

Today’s War Commentary  Mongolian Incident  Raises Possibility Ot Russo-Jap War

Resume Depot Probe Today   Jury Prepares To Call Score Of Witnesses

Plane’Bridge’ Guards Huge Allied Convey   Air Cover From America to Europe; Attacks by _, Subs Beaten Off

Air Cover Gets Convoy To Britain   Submarine Attacks Are  Thwarted Without a  Single Loss

Great Convoy, Protected By Planes, Crosses Atlantic; German Sub Sunk

Great Convoy Crosses Ocean   U-Boats Often Attacked  But Convoy Was Undeterred.

Great Conv 07 Makes Ocean  C rossing  In Safety   Land Based And Carrier Planes Protected Through entire Long Trip

PLANES GUARD GREAT CONVOY   One Sub Destroyed and Others Damaged

Great Convoy Makes Atlantic Crossing Under Cover Of Planes From Shore To Shore

AIR CONVOY GUARD   Land Based and Carrier Planes Protect Ships,   Sink Sub

Convoy Crosses Atlantic With Aerial Cover Aiding Surface Escort All Way

GIANT CONVOY PLOUGHS ACROSS ATLANTIC UNDER AIR SCREEN   TWO SUBMARINES CRUSHED AS POWERFUL SKY, SEA ARMADA SHEPHERDS VITAL ALLY SHIPS

SHORE-TO-SHORE AIR COVER SHIELDED GREAT ATLANTIC CONVOY FROM U-BOATS

CONVOY GROSSES ATLANTIC SAFELY   Reaches Destination Under Shore to Shore ‘Cover of Planes.

ONE SUBMARINE SUNK; ANOTHER BELIEVED HIT   Others “May Have Been  Damaged,” During Cross  ing, British Admiralty and Air Ministry Say   SURFACE CRAFT AID IN ATLANTIC BATTLE   Axis U-Boats Make Series ~ of Attacks Over Period  of Two Days, But Convoy is Undeterred

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   U.S. “Subs” Inflict Heavy Losses on “Jap” Shipping

PRESIDENT IN RADIO ADDRESS SPEAKS ON WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS—WARNS AGAINST OVER-OPTIMISM

BIGGER TASKS AHEAD, SAYS PRESIDENT   Italy to Get Helping Hand After Capitulation, He Promises

FUR AcoUnits U 8. AND 13 GUE FOR GHUGHING GLOWS   President Tells Naticn Al( lies Are Preparing Heavy. New Onslauzhts.

President Says Allies Prepare Greater Attacks   Increased Effort In War On Germany And Japan Is Now Planned   ROOSEVELT SPEAKS ON MANY SUBJECTS

President Assures People That Allied Forces Are Preparing To Crush Germany And Japan   Italians Promised Peace By Eisenhower WhenThey Cease Aiding Germany

POST-WAR PLAN LOOMS FOR OHIC   Bricker Completes Committee To Draft Program for Peacetime Jobs

Thrust Would All But Outflank  Buin-Faisi   Western Arm of Pincers on Rabaul  Being Closed

Tokio Reveals Allied Landing On Mono Isle   Northern Solomons Thrus' May Open Drive On Ra  baul From Eastern Flank   FOUR DAY ATTACK   Aerial Offensive Raise: Foe Planc Toll To 1/8, Threatens Bougainville

TOKYO REPORTS ALLIED FORCES LAND ON MONO   Island Is Near Bougainville: 101 Rabaul Planes Hit; Plan Japan Raids

DRIVE DIRECTED AT LAST MAJOR ENEMY ISLAND   Would Open New Way to Rabaul

Japanese Say Allies Land on Mono Isle   PURPOSE WOULD BE TO FURTHER FLANK BOTH BOUGAINVILLE AND, RABAUL

Allies Land on Mono Island In Pacific War  Pincers Close On Rabaul, Planes Active

MANOR JAPANESE STRONGHOLD LAST TOBE THREATENE!   Thrust Constitutes Opening Wedge. in Drive to Open Rabaul Flank, Pearl Harhar of Jans.   BUIN-FAIS! SECTOR IS BOMBED FOUR DAYS   ‘Americans and British Drive Wedges Into Swaying Defenses of Germans With 4-Mile Advances.

Report Allied Landing In North Solomons   Would Outflank Main Jap Bases In Buin-Faisi Area

Japs Report Allied Force Has Landed On Mono Island in Northern Solomons

Jap Radio Broadcasts Story Of Amphibious Attack 30 Miles From Buin-Faisi Base

TOKIO REPORTS LANDING ON NEARBY ISLE   No Confirmation, But Move Has Been Anticipated

GERMAN ATTACK IS REPULSED BY RUSS   Nazis Driven Back Near Donets River Below Kharkov

Reds Repel New German Attacks   Nazis Try to Crack Soviet Positions in Donets. Volkhov Area

GERMANS REPULSED IN DONETS SECTOR   Moscow Dispatches Indicate That American-Built Planes Are  Baines Wtilized

RED BAYONETS STOP GERMANS   Attempt To Crack Donets Line Fails; 1,000 Nazis Killed

AYONET CHARGE » REPULSES NAZI   Germans Fail in Another Attempt to Crack Red Posi » tions Near the Donets River Below Kharkov

Russians Repel Another Attack By Nazi Forces  “Germans Lose 1000 Men in Day’s Fight, Moscow Declares

Nazis Repulsed In Attempt To Smash Red Line   German Troops Driver Back on Donets and in Southeast

BAYONET CHARGE REPULSES NAZIS BELOW KHARKOV   Germans Move Over Bodies of Own Dead in Unsuccessful Attempt to Crack Russian Line.   1,000 ARE KILLED IN DAY’S FIGHTING   Reds Let Hitlerites Approach Close to Donets Positions and Then Open Fire.

DONETS FAILS   Red Army Bayonet Charge Drives Nazis Back With Heavy Loss

Axis attaek is repulsed  by Russians   Germans drive aver awn dead

DeGaulle-Giraud Conference Will Open in Algier   Await Only Arrival of Former, Now Nearing His Destination

GIRAUD READY FOR DE GAULLE   french Leaders To Form New Government In North Afriea

Tokio Tells of New Bougainville Landings by Yanks   Report Possibly Indicates Pinchers Move in Solomons

Start of American Pincers Effort on Bougainville Seen   Tokyo Announces New Landing on _ Island;  Pacific War News

Tokyo Says More Americar Troops Have Landed On Bougainville Island

Possibility Of U. S. Pincers. Move Is a Seen Ut TOKYO -REPORTS Claims More U.. S. Troops On'Bougainville

TOKYO TELLS OF U. S. LANDINGS ON BOUGAINVILLE   ANNIHILATION OF 2 LANDING UNITS IS CLAIMED BY JAPS

Tokyo Reports New Landing On Bougainville By Yanks   Indicates Pincers Maneuver To Crush " On Japs’ Last’ Major Sofonion’ Holding

Americans Reinfo rce ‘Bougainville   Australians Capture Bonga Allied Warships Bombard New Guinea Coast: Hong Kong Raided by UN Plenes

JAPS HINT U. 8, PINCERS MOVE ON PACIFIC ISLE   Nip Radio Claims Americans Land More Troops on Bougainville

TOKYO REPORT NEW LANGINGS IN SOLOMONS   American Pincers maneuver Against Final Japanese Forces Indicated

Tokyo Announces New Landings By Americans On Bougainville Island

BONGA OCCUPIED -BY AUSTRALIANS   Pincers Movement Believed Underway To Crush Jap Resistance   WARSHIPS HELD   Chinese Report Improve ‘ment In Battle Fox . ‘Rice Bow?

U. S, PINCERS MOVEMENT ON JAPS IS SEEN.   Tokyo Report Indicates Americans Try to  Japs from Last Solomons Baothald cag ekg

Yanks Believed Planning Pincer Movement Against Last Jap Solomons Base

Pincers Move Aimedat Japs  In Solomons   Tokyo Reports New U.S Landings in Bougainville Island Today

American Pincers Movement To End Jap Resistance On Bougainville Isle Likely After New Marine Landings

Aussies Capture Jap Base   Tokyo Reports New Allied Landings on Bougainville; Jap installations Hit

Japs Report New Landings   Tokyo Radio Says More U. S. Troops Land On Bougainville

New Gains Herald Pincers Move On Pacific Foe  Tokyo Announces U. $ Advance on Japs’ Last Maior Holding

PINCERS MOVE SEEN OPENING IN SOLOMONS   Aussies Take Bonga To Less. en Japanese Hold On Huon Peninsula

Ho MOVE A POSSIBILITY   American Maneuver Would Crush Resistance on Last Maior Holding.

PINCERS MOVEMENT  SEEN AS PLAN KNOCH  JAPS OUT SOLOMONS NEW LANDINGS OF U. S.  FORCES ON BOUGAINunit ICraANn

New Landings Squeeze Japs   Yank Pincer Imperils Foe On Bougainville

New Landings Are Made On  Bougainville   Pincers Move On Part Of Americans Told In Report Broadcast By Japanese Radio

Another Solomons Push Seen With Capture Of Bonga; Hongkong Raided, Report

ASSAULT MAY BE TIMED TC AID GERMANS   Washington Keeps Close Eye On Session Of Diet In Tokyo   DANGER BELIEVED GREAT   Special Session Held Just Before Pearl Harbor is Recalled

Japan May Be Planning Move Against Russia   Attack May Be Planned Tc Coincide With Drive By Germans   JAPANESE DIET NOW IN SESSION

A Momentous Decision May Come Soon From Jap Diet And Russia May Be Answer

JAPANESE ATTACK ON RUSSIA NOW REGARDED AS POSSIBLE   SPECIAL SESSION OF JAP DIET MAY BE RASED ON PLAN  OQ STRIKE SOON

It’s Two To One Against Robertson   One Still Loves Him, Others Want Him Convicted

Fifth Army Is Only TT Miles From Naples   Berlin Reports Says City Has Been Evacuated

POUND TORRE ANNUNCIATA   Sky Over Naples Barren of Nazi Defense Aircraft

British Kighth Army Has Driven 22 Miles Beyond Foggia.  3,900 YANKS KILLED, WOUNDED IN SEPT.  Italian Guerrillas Carrying Out Raids on German Posts.

Allies Now Have Germans Down On Plain And Bay Of Naples, Hammer Enemy With Pile Driver Blows   ARTILERY SHELLS  TORRE ANNUNGIATA

as  Closing © Last Gap Before           “LT. GEN. CLARK’S MEN POU TORRE ANNUNCIATA, FALE WHICH WOULD OPEN ROAD TO NAPLES

BRITISH TAKE CITY 100 MILES FROM JUGOSLAV COAST: SHIPS AID SLAVS

FIFTH ARMY WITHIN 11 MILEC NOW   Clark's Troops Sweep Beyond Ancrent Pompen

FALL OF CITY IS EXPECTED   Filth Army Now Within 11 Miles of City — Allied Troops Sweeping Beyond Ancient City of Pompeii.

Late Reports From Frorft Say Naples Is Expected To Fall At Any ae British:Gain In East.

Nazis Forced To Withdraw From Naples   Heavy Bombardment By Allied Artillery Cracks Line

YANKS SWEEP AHEAD BEYOND POMPEII RUINS   Germans Act To Quell Uprising In Naples, They Report

5TH ARMY CLOSING LAST GAP ON PLAIN. - BEFORE KEY PORT   Fighth Army Drives 22 Miles T: Take Manfredonia - Nazis Say “Communists” Stage Uprising

NAPLES FALL IS BELIEVED IMMINENT   Fifth Army Gains As Much As Five Miles In Day

RAILROAD WAGE HEARING FINISHED   BOARD TAKES CASE AFFECTING NON-OPERATING UNIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION.

Court Instructs Jury Marra Not Guilty   Wikner Marra, Hall Resident, Exonerated And Released On White Slavery Charge

Wilmar Marra Hull, Exoneratea   Released on White Slavery Charge

SOLDIER VOTE MOVE STARTEU   NEW BILL BEING DRAFTED FOR “CONGRESSIONAL ACTION— . DEMOCRATS REPORTED CONFIDENT

Fail To Arrest Suspects In McCoy Murders; Triple Funeral Being Held Today

INITIAL SEARCH FRUITLESS FOR McCOY’S SLAYER      Sheriff To Attend Funeral Services of Trio This Afternoon

Major Invasion (f Europe May Come This Year   Diplomatic Sources See Probable Result Of Roosevelt-Churchill  - Meeting   LOCATION FOR BIG PUSH IS SECRET

Soldier Killed, Five Are Hurt In Train Crash   Miami Bound Steamliner Hits Observation Car; Mass. Sailor Injured

wiuR INTO SHIP REPORT   NAVAL AFFAIRS GROUP TO IN ” WESTIGATE STORY INVOLV ‘ING CARGO UNLOADING AT GUADALCANAL

Miller Upholds  Ersatz Rubber   Representative Believes Abandonment Of New Industry Mistake.

ANOTHER IMPRINT FOUND ON SCREEN CITED AS EVIDENCE   New Fingermark Admitted In Trial Of De Marigny — Weight Of Point Uno. To Jury

Championship Fight Is Off   Joe Louis Not to Fight Billy Conn, Stimson Declares

NO LOUIS-CONN BOUT IN 1943   Stimson Spikes Reports Army To Sponsor Match

Economy Theme  Of Governor's Talk to Solons   Public Works Program to Ease Postwar Unemployment Urged in Message; Laaislative Proposals Are Offered

Governor Ford Voices Econamy Plea   Asks Legislators Not to Levy New State Taxes

WAACS MAY GET ARMY. BENEFITS   House Group Favors Making Them, Under New N Intearal Part

Farm Machinery  To Be Doubled   To Abolish Rationing On Many Articles

Torpedo Boats Attack Jap Destroyers   Nips Seek to Aid Their Force on Guadalcanal Island

Navy. Indicates Japs Ma anage To Get Supplies. By Warship To Their Giuadaleanal Units

“Japs Succeed. In Reinforeing  Guadalcanal   . Eight Destroyers Attacked by Torpedo Boats: Hits Scored on Several

JAPS SUCCEED IN EFFORT 10 GET SUPPLIES   To Forces On Guadalcanal; Most Successful In Si  Weeks; Attacked By To  pedo Boats.   Attempts Rare

ENEMY LANDS SUPPLY BOATS IN SOLOMONS   BUNA AREA CLEARED OF JAPS; ACTION MOSTLY IN AIR

U. 5. TORPEDO BOATS ATTACK ENEMY VESSELS   Navy Reports Hits On One Destroyer And Possible Hits On Two Others.

THINKS JAPS COT SUPPLIES   Navy Says PT Boat Hit One Destroyer in Fight Off Guadalcanal

CONGRESS IN REVOLT OVER TAX PROGRAM   S ceeememmmnetimenl  Committee Witness Withdrawn  CAPITAL ROUSED  Federal Sales Tax Urged

REVOLT GREETS ADMINISTRATION TAX PROPOSALS   Not Since Days of Garner in 33 Has Congress Seen Such Rebellion

SPONSORS SEEK TIME TO BACK UP PROGRAM   Administration Fails to Follow Up With Explanation

POLISH PLOT IS EXPOSED BY RUSSIA   Exiled Government's Agents Admit Guilt, Already Dealt With

POLES ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE. WORK, RUSSIANS CLAIM   Red Vice Commissar For Foreign Affairs Says Some In” yvelved Have Admitted Guilt and Been Sentenced :

Russia Levels Spy Charge at Government of Poles in Exile   Former Ambassador Ad. mitted Guilt, Red Official Says

New Charges Against Poles Made in Moscow   Claim Governmentin-Exile Group Engaged in Espionage

Polish Agents Reported To Have Admitted They Acted As Spies On Reds

ESPIONAGE PLOT IN RUSSIA TOLD BY RED LEADER   Says Some Poles Have Confessed To Activities

Poles Engaged In Espionage in Russia Says Red   Vice Commander Asserts Envoys  Admitted Guilt

POLES. ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE WHILE LIVING IN RUSSIA   High Official Tells Reporters "Sera Polish Representatives Confessed

Soviets Accuse Poles Of Spying Within Russia   Red-Polish Break Widens; Envoys Leave U.S.S.R

Reds Hurl. Spy Charge At Poles   Soviet Official Claims Polish Representatives Guilty Of Espionage Activities In Russia

MANY POLES ARE ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE   Representatives of Government-in-Exile Charged With Engaging in Activities   SOME ARE DEPORTED

Reds Accuse Polish Agents Of Sabotage   Say Some Already Have Admitted Guilt

POLES ACTIVE IN ESPIONAGE, MOSCOW SAYS   Soviet Vice Commissar For Foreign Affairs Makes Charges Against.  “ "Polish Regime _.   ACCUSATIGNS NEW   Premier. of Polish Govern. ‘ment-In-Exile Confers With Anthony Eden  - In London

RED OFFICIAL (CUSED POLES Of ESPIONAGE   Says Some Have Beer Punished for Spy  Activities

'POLES ENGAGED INESPIONAGE IN RUSSIA   U. S. and British Are Told By Russian  “Vice Commissar. .

Nazi, Rumania Forces Split In Red Smash  Violent Clashes Rage As Russians Move In   Violent Clashes Rage As Russians Move In On Novorossisk; Cut Enemy Supplv Lines   : Soviet Spokesman Accuses Poland’s Agents Of ‘Espionage In Russia. Fuel Added To Dispute

REPRESENTATIVES OF POLISH GOVERNMENT CHARGED AS SPIES   SOVIET OFFICIAL DECLARES SOME OF THOSE INVOLVED ADMIT GUILT

Reds Leave Door Open to Polish Peace   Vishinski Declares Some Polish Officials in Espionage Net

Soviet Vice Commissar For Foreign Affairs Tells American And British Newsmen Some Representatives Of Government-In-Exile Have Admitted Their Guilt And Have Been Sentenced—Former Ambassador Kot Allegedly One Of Those Involved

Poles Sentenced For Espionage   Their Government Admits They Take Part in Ac tivities in Russia.

Poles Are Accused Of Spying in Russia   Red Official Says Some Representatives of Polish Government-in-Exile, Including a Former Ambassador, Have Admitted Guilt.

Red Official Charges Poles In Espionage   Soviet Vice Commissar Says Many Of Those Proseéut. ed Plead Guilty.   MAY RENEW RELATIONS

REDS CHARGE ESPIONAGE TO POLISH AGENTS   Former Ambassador Koi, Among Others, Accused hy Moscow— Door Not Closed to Accord

POLES ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE   Russians Make Charge and Hint Exile Government Had Gone Mercenary

Poles Acted _ As Spies, Russ Leader Charge:   Efforts To Restore Relations Of Nations Are Continuing

Poles Spying, Says Russian Commissar  Serious Charge Brought Against Clover fsa Batt

Russia Charges *Polish Envoys Acted As Spies   Espionage Activity Accusation Adds New Fuel To Dispute.   Break Not Irreparable.

Jap Torpedoing of Allied Hospital Ship) ~ Example of Tokyo Savagery,- MacArthur Say:

MacArthur Says Sinking Of Red [Cros Ship Fits Jap: Pattern Of Barbarity

Good Shooting Repulses Night Torpedo Raids   Flares Light Up Sky As Waves of Planes Aim at U. S. Ships

PONTIFE SEEKING PLEDGES AGAINST VATICAN BOMBINE   United States, Britain and Germany Urged to Give  ies wa ee

Pope Pius Asks U. S., Great Britain and Germany for Guarantee on Vatican

Land, Sea, Air Forces Collaborate In Launching Long-Heralded Move; Eisenhower Directs Action

Eighth Army Leads Attack On Continent   New Blow Against Axis is Struck at ’ Dawn; Invasion Announced By  Headquarters in Africa

British 8th Army Leads Way Across  Strait of Messina   British and American Warship: Join in Long-Heralded Attack  Against European Continent

Troops Cross Messina Straits in Friday's Dawn To Attack Continent   Eisenhower Directs Move; Communique Reports British and Canadians of Eighth Spearhead Forces, Aided By Strong Land, Sea and Air Power

European Continent Invaded By Allied Troops; British 8th Army Leading Advance   Allies Began Streaming Across Narrow Straits Of Messina Into Southern Italy Early This Morning; Landing Follows Terrific Aerial And Naval Bombardments

British Eight Army Storms Across Messina Strait. To Land On Continent

ALLIED FORCE IS LANDED ON TOE OF BOOT   BRITISH 8TH ARMY SPEARHEADS BLOW ON CONTINENT

Long Awaited Invasion of Continent Is Underway   Crack British 8th Spearheads Invasion Force

LaGuardia Under Fire by Council   Probe Ordered Of Administration

VOTE INQUIRY OF LA GUARDIA   Riotous Council Meeting Approves Probe

City Council Orders Administration Quiz   Charges of Theft, Misappropriation Mark Post-Midnight Special Session

BIGGEST FORCE OF FORTS EVER TO LEAVE AFRICA POUNDS SICILIAN PORT

ALLIES OPEN NEW AIR OFFENSIVE IN SOLOMONS...   Raids Aimed To Sap “Growing Jap Air Strencth .

ALLIES CARRY OUT HUGE RAIDS AGAINST BASES IN SOLOMONS   Jap Air Strength in Solomons Stronger Now Than Ever.

Willkie Not Ready to Toss Hat in Ring   But Is Willing to Be GOP Candidate for President in '44

WILLKIE IS DEFINITELY A CANDIDATE   Will Be 1944 Nominee of a  ‘Liberal’ G. O. P.

WILLKIE PREPARES TO -SEEK THE PRESIDENCY   Discloses Today in Magazine Article He Is Willing to Be the 1944 Presidential Candidate of a “Liberal” _Republican Party—Formal Opening of Cam paign for Nomination Seen Today by Observers.

Willkie Is Willing to Run Again   Magazine Article Believed Opening of ‘His Campaign

WILLKIE WILLING TO BE '44 REPUBLICAN ‘LIBERAL’ NOMINEE   His Look Article Viewed As Formal Opening Of Campaign

Plane Searchlights Disclosed As One Of Secret Weapons Used In Sub Hunts

Powerful Searchlights Are Revealed As Key To Plan To Curb Nazi Subs

Huge Spotlights On Planes Revealed As Secret Weapon In Winning War On U-Boats

Wallace, Other Washington Officials Dine On Muskrat   Moke Test In Capitol Dining Room To See If Louisiana Animal ls Good For More Than Its Fur—Vote ‘Yes’

Muskrat Gets Official O. K.   San Led  Wallace, Raburn and Others Smack Lip Im Frndarsement Of Cajun Delicacy

Muskrat Meal Satisfies Capital Lawmakers ‘And May ! Become Nation’s Favorite Morsel

ea a a i rte  ‘Muskrat--A La Louisiane ‘Not. Such a Bad Dish, Really

Wallace And Others Sample Swamprat Meat Menu And Ones Thar tk nny

Lonergan Says Wife Changed Her Wil  Killer Suspect Signs A Pauper's Oath

 Jakes Fauper's Oath Lonergan Returned to Crime ‘Scene and Left Tov for Son

Lonergan Is Indicted As Wife Slayer   IN SIX HOURS HE PARADED IN POLICE LINEUP AND WAS ARRAIGNED IN HOMICIDE COURT.   Hearing Next Tuesday

Wary Lonergan Araigned for Wife’s Slaying  RCIF Cadet Clears Way Fr Court fo Assign im Attarnay

Lonergan Faces First Degree  Murder Charge   Told Police He Knew Four Mouths Ago Wife Left Him Out of Will

Berlin Broadcast Asserts Vatican Under ‘Protection   Madrid Says Pontiff Fears Abduction To Germany as Hostage

325,000 AUTO PLATES ISSUED TO MOTORISTS   Number Js 13,064 Under Las Year's Deadline Sales, Elgin  Rannrvtic

Allies Advance Slowly At Munda  Long Jap Trench Taken, Cutting Off Retreat To Sea

U. S. TROOPS BREAK THRU JAP TRENCH   On Southern Fringe of Munda Air Base. Threaten to Cut off Enemy’s Last Route of Escape

LAST LINE OF JAP RETREAT THREATENED   American Troops Break Through Long, Covered Trench on Fringe of Munda Air Base   FIGHTING SLOWING UP

DEFENSES OF JAPS PIERCED   Enemy's Last Route Of Escape Is Threatened

AMERICAN TROOPS BROKE THROUGH JAPANESE LINES   Trenches on the Southern Fringe of Munda Air Base Rushed.   ESCAPE THREATENED   U. S. Infantrymen Fighting at Close Quarters With Japs at Munda.

MENACE MUNDA ESCAPE ROUTE   Japs Virtually Cut Off By Yanke; Fight Near  Salamaua Base

YanksMayCut Jap Escape Path on Isle   American Troops Break Through Long Nip Trench to Threaten Retreat Route

American Troops Break Through Covered Trench   Allied Forces Are Now Only Five Miles From Salamaua

Threaten Jap Eseape Route  American Troops Break Through dan Trench

Americans Straddle Lest Escape Route  We bh Blinded Bc Wee Babidn

Stettinius Wins High Praise for Lend-Lease Work   Both Republicans anc Democrats Pleased with His Report

Rep. Jensen Broadcasts To Denmark   Iowan Tells Captive Peo. ple to Keep on Witl  Sabotage

Italian Troops Cut Brenner Pass Railway; Still Resisting In Rome

Brenner Pass Rail Cut Near  Bolzano   German ’Chutists Bar Devout From St. Peter’s Basilica

MILAN ANNOUNCES BRENNER. RAILWAY CUT BY: ITALIANS   Swiss ‘Dispatches Report Nazi Parachutists -* Bar Devout From Basilica

40 PERSONS INJURED IN TRAIN COLLISION   One Illinois Central Passenger Crashes Into Back of Another at Chicaro.

AQ INJURED AS TRAINS COLLIDE   Sunchaser Smashes Into Rear of Creole

Pacific Thrust Pleases British   Blow Regarded.As Genera! Offensive

British Showing Great Interest In Pacific War   Pleased with Allied Abil — ity To Fight on Both Sides of World

Pacific Thrust Pleases British   Blow Regarded As  General Offensive Ry YTAMES M. LONG

British Hail Drive By Allies In The Pacific   Campoign Sean os Part of Master Offensive—Axis : Continues to Hommer on July 3 as ~ lavacinn Date

Axis Insists Invasion  Set for July 3   Allied Operations Near Climax in Mediterranean

Britons Applaud MacArthur's Offensive In Pacific: Axis Invasion Clamor Mount

Nazis Expec ‘Invasion’ By Saturday  i   British Focus Attention on Pacific Drive

NEW BRITAIN BASTIONS ARE ‘SOFTENED UP   AUSTRALIANS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN RAMU VALLEY

Record Weight Of Bombs Falls On New Britain   Gasmata Area Bears Brun of Assault; Australians Repel Japs

Record Heavy Raid Made On Japs on New Britain By MacArthur’s Bombers   Little Big Inch's” Last Section is Welded Ir

Allies Smash At Gasmata In Record’ Raid   Australians Repulse Three Jap Attacks In Ramu Valley Area

Allied Airmen Pour Record Weight of Bombs on N. Britain   Assault on Gasmata by 100 Bombers; Hit at Lakunai Airdrome; Machine Guns Strafe Islands as 248 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped

248 Tons Of Bombs Dropped ‘On Gasmata; Huge Fires Are. Left After Raid On Rabaul   More Than 100 Heavy Allied Bombers Carry Out Nea: Record Pacific Aerial Mission; Australians Re pulse Counter-Attacks In Ramu Vallev

New Britain Feels Full Fury of Rising Allied Power; Hit by Record Bomb Load

Record Heavy Raid Made On Japs on New Britain By MacArthur’s Bombers

LOSSES OF U.S. LIGHT   Losses Of Enemy  Air Forces Three Times That Of U.S. A.

ANETA REPORTS SEVERAL ALLIED SHIPS SUNK   - Probably Eight Ships , Sunk by Enemy Action Off French Guina

8 Allied Ships Renorfed Sunk   Losses Off French Guiana Reported

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Sinking Of Swedish Ships ‘By Nazis Might Bring Mweden Into War

The War Today Sweden Nearer Brink Of War After Germans Sink Two Fishing Boats

REPORTED ATTACK ON SWEDISH FISHING BOATS BY GERMANS MAY ALIGN SWEDEN AGAINST HITLER

LAUNCHINGS EVEN LOSS BY SINKING   Five Cargo Ships, Destroyer and Sub Make Up for Five Allied Ships, Prey of Subs

BALANCE ENEMY SINKINGS WITH NEW LAUNCHINGS   By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Titantic Battle In Air   60 U. S. Bombers Lost ‘In Raid on German Ball Bearing Plant; Target a Shambles

Nazis Down 61 Fortresses In Aerial Battle   104 Enemy Fighters Lost As They Make a Record Bomber Kill

Germans Lost 104 Planes In Gigantic Air Battle Thursday   U.S. Admits To Losing Sixty Fortresses But Report Three Big Nazi Plants Blasted From Map.

Greatest Air Battle Fought Over Germany   Americans Lose 60 Forts in Assault Upon Schweinfurt

NAZI FIGHTERS SHOOT DOWN 60 U.S. BOMBERS   Americans Bag 104 Planes, Smash Bearing Plants During Air Battle

Americans Lose Sixty Fortresses   German Planes Use New Rocket Apparatus In Fighting Off Attacks On Schweinfurt

60 FORTS LOST BUT GREAT NAZI FACTORY RAZED   American Airmen, Batiling Way To and From Schweinturt, Blast Roller Bearing Plant   TWO HOUR BATTLE   Successful Bombing May Shorter War by Six Months, American Airmen Told in Advance

Germans Shoot Down 60-U: 8.  Fortresses   Americans Suffer Record Plane Loss But Shoot Down at. Least 104 En. emy Planes in Greatest Air Battle Ever Fought Over Europe.

60 FORTRESSES LOST; 104 NAZI FIGHTERS DOWN   Americans Lose Heavily Over Continent

104 Nazi Fighters  Shot Down in Raid   ‘Swarms of Enemy Planes Challenge Yanks. Bombine Ball Bearing Plant

GERMANS GET 60 AMERICAN BIG BOMBERS   Fortresses Down 104 Nazi Ships In Huge Raid

PROPERTY CHANGES ANNOUNCED TODAY   County Recorder Frankie Justus Makes Following Transfers,

LIST REAL ESTATE CHANGE IN COUNTY   Frankie Justus, Recorder, Makes Conveyances During Week.

PRUPERTY CHANGES LISTED IN COUNTY   Frankie Justus Records Recent Real Estate Transfers.

PROPERTY ChANGE LISTED IN COUNTY   Transfers Made by Recorder Frankie Justus Recently.

PROPERTY CHANGES LISTED RECENTLY   County Recorder Makes Records During Past Week.

PROPERTY CHANGES LISTED IN COUNTY   Conveyances Made During Past Week in Office of Recorder.

LIST REAL ESTATE CHANGE IN COUNTY   County Recorder Justus Makes Conveyances This Week.

PROPERTY CHANGE ANNOUNCED TODAY   County Recorder Justus Makes Transfers During Week

PROPERTY CHANGES LISTED IN COUNTY   Recorder Makes Recent Transfers of Real Estate.

RECORDER LISS RECENT CHANGES   Real Estate Transfers Arc Made in Office of Recorder.

CANNED BABY FOOD TO BE RATIONED ‘UNDER POINT PLAN   Milk, Milk Formulas, Prepared Cereals Exempted Sram OPA Order

Baby foods Are To Be Rationed   To Be on Same Point System as Fruits And Vegetables

SOME BABY FOOD TO BE RATIONED   CANNED CEREAL AND MILK FORMULAS NOT TO BE INCLUDED

OPA To Ration Foods Of Baby      ‘Strained, Chopped Fruit, «. Vegetables’ Or Meats "Are. Included

To Ration Baby Foods By Points   Program To Work Like That Of Processed Fruits and Veretables

Found Guilty InDeath of Boy, 10   Convicted of Tossing Boy Off Mountain

AFRIKA KORPS RUSHES NORTH TO GABES GAP   Allies Seize Sedjenane, 28 Miles West Of Axis Naval Base At Bizerte   [AMERICANS HIT FLANKS   Evacuation Of Entire Southern Tunisia Pocket Seen _ Probability

Allies 28 © a Miles From Bizerte    AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOR@ ONLY 50 MILES APART; ROMM!  MUST AVOID BEING CAUGHT -:

8th Army Captures Two Towns, Ist Advances, Americans Reach Goal   lmoarieans Reach Kebili Road Junction

ROMMEL FLEEING, -HARRIED BY LAND, SEA, AIR ASSAULTS   British Army Captures Two Towns ’ North Of Gabes Gap—Forces Of Montgomery And Patton . Only 50 Miles Apart

Rommel is Seeking to Withdraw Through Narrow Corridor   North of Gabes   Is Pushed Along by British Eighth Army While Americans Close in Beam the West.

Planes, Ships Pound Coastal Escape Path   Patton’s Forces al Immediate Goal; Nazis Plan Chott Corridor Stand

Home Edition   PLANES BATTER ENEMY FLEEING ALONG COAST   Americans Reach Kebili Junction; British Take Sedjenane, In North And Towns In Gabes BoHleneck °

SEDJENANE, ONLY 28 MILES FROM BIZERTE NAVAL BASE, IS CAPTURED BY FIRST ARMY   American Forces Advance to Important Road Junction

REPORTS INDICATE ROMMEL LEAVING SOUTHERN TUNISIA   Airplanes Make Many Attacks as British Navy Blasts Coast Road Where Enemy Is Withdrawing.   GERMANS SPEND TIME ON REAR DEFENSES   Place Where Germans May Make Final Stand Is Uncertain But They Are Be ” Jieved to Have Strength.

HOUSE READY TO CONSIDER SALARY LIMM   Bitter Controversy Between President And Congress Comes Up

PURCHASE OF NYA CENTER CONFIRMED   Dates for Auctions of Merchandise and Supplies Set

SOVIETS EXPECTED TO SUBMIT PLANS FOR VITAL CONFAB   Designed To Bring Out ‘Nazi Defeat Before Winter Snows  Melt -

REDS EMPHASIZE MILITARY PHASE AT CONFERENCE   Suggest Concentrated Allied’ Drive to End War By Early Spring.

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ARMIES MASS; MAY TO BRING MAJOR BLOWS   Allied Air Fleets Smash Italian Island Base Of Pantelleria

SURPRISE DEFENSE BY URSULA PARROTT   Novelist Hints ‘Escapade’ Was To Help Uncle Sam

Rommel in Smash at Allied Tunisia Battle Lines   Planes of United Nations Hammer at Axis Positions as Yanks Stiffen in Counterattack by Enemy

U.S. Retakes Faid Area But Yields Gafsa   Axis Boasts Thousands Of Americans Killed In Driva Now Halted   BASE IS EVACUATED   Fighter Plane Umbrella Helps Smash Back Nazis In Six Mile Push

QUIT GAFSA, HOWEVER, TO AVOID TRAP   U. S.Gains Made Against Rommel’s Veterans in Faid Area, Where Ger mans First Scored 20Mile Break-Throuch,.

Axis Troops Enter Gafsa, Allied Base   Tank Battle Raging In Sidi Bouzid Area; Foe Throws Huge Force Of Vehicles Into Battle

TUNISIAN SCRAP SEES U, S. PLANE ACTION GROWING   Rommel Given Hard Pounding; But Enemy Forces Evacuation of Gafsa   BULLETIN

Smash Back Six Miles at Rommel’s Veterans in Tunisia      GAsSA TO THE ENEMY   Both Sides Suffer Heavy Losses in Fight Near Sidi Bouzid

GERMANS FORCED BACK SIX MILES IN THE FAID AREA   Was the First Big Armament Battle of North Africa, It Is Announced.   USED AMERICAN TANKS   Were Aided by an Umbrella of American Fighter Planes.

Yankee Tanks Smash Back at Foe in Tunisia,  Gain Six Miles   American and French Troops Abandon Gafsa   arti rrTin

GERMANS SHIFT HIGH COMMANDS   Invasion Fears Increase With Report Allied Fleet Assembled Near Sicily

Axis Invasion Fears Aggravated as Nazis Warn of Possible  New Russian Drive

INVASION FEAR HEIGHTENED IN AXIS CAPITALS   Nazis Realign Generals, Warn of New Russian Drive

NAZIS POST TOP GENERALS FOR INVASION   Axis Fears Are Heightened With Reports That Allied  Fleet Is Massing Near rc   Belgians Derail Train

 Allied Fleet Massing _ Off North African Port: And Sicily, Italians Say  NEW RED OFFENSIVE FEARED BY GERMANS  Reich’s Star Generals Realigned All Around Defense Perimeter

AMINO HALON iia LOT FIGHT UN NEW TAK BIL   Issue, Unveiled Only Three Days Ago, Already Dead as a Doornail.

VINSON’S PLEAS FOR TAX FALLS ON DEAF EARS   Opposition ~ Strengthened Rather Than Lessened By Testimony   CERTAIN DEFEAT LOOMS   New Deal Trouble Shooter Expect To Waste Time In Return Thursday

HUGE NEW U.S. TAX PROGRAM APPEARS DEAD   Stabilizer Vinson Is Helpless   SALES TAX GROWS

Big Tax Bill Appears Dead   Efforts To Save Administration Measure Failing

FEDERAL TAX PLAN IS DEAD AS DOORNAIL   Vinson’s Testimony Before House Group bails to Save lt

Bombs Away ! Help!!! Live Bomb Hangs to Bay  20,000 Feet in Air; Crew  Wins Str. sole to Dump It

SENATE, HOUSE MEMBERS WILL DISCUSS DRAFT   Wheeler Wants Action Now To Help Fathers

Senate And House Seek Accord On Father Draft   Hope To Speed Bill Tc Defer Calling Dads Into Service

Prepares To Put Into Execution Plans For Big 1943 Offensive       Last Stage of 'Priji Made By Spe Miami Alter light Fron Br  Praia From

FDR GONE 23 DAYS ©. ' ON HISTORIC TRE       Probl Other Than Active P; “i cution of War Confront Presi- dent Upon Safe Return

Makes Trip from Brazil To Miami, Fla., by Air; Finds Home Problems

F.D.R. Returns Home From Trip to Africa  Many Problems at  Home Face . “FS 2 y=

F.D.R. Returns Home From Trip to Africa  Many Problems at Home Face Chief Pracitive

ROOSEVELT BACK IN CAPITAL AFTER 14,000 - MILE VOYAGE   President Preparing for ‘Active and Concerted Ex. ecution’ 1943 Offensive Campaigns

PRESIDENT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE FOLLOWING TRIP   Chief Executive Made Last Leg Of Unprecedented Journey By Train   RADIO ADDRESS TO NATION IS PROBABLE

FDR ENDS 23 DAY JOURNEY   Returns To Capital By Train After 14,000 Trip, Much Of It By Air

Pres. Roosevelt Home From Epochal Trip   He Brings Plan for Allied Offensive Against Axis Powers; Domestic Problems Await His Consideration

PRESIDENT IS BACK AFTER LONG TRIP   Last Stage of Journey Is Made by Special Train From Miami -

Savage German Counter-Attacks Again Repulsed   U. S. Troops Advance Six Miles East Of Maknassy Says Allied Report   FIERCE BATTLING ON MARETH LINE

Report Fierce Fighting Along Mareth Line   Americans Repulse Germans In One Sector

BRITISH TROOPS INBITTER SCRAP AT MARETH LINE   Eighth Army in Flanking Move Captures Axis Hill Positions

MIAKE B-MILE: ADVANGE tAaT UF MAKNAGOY   Confused Fighting Continues Day and Night Along ’ Moareth line   AIR ATTACKS. CONTINUE ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT

Wheeler to Seek Action on Bill  Regrets Congress Won't Be Called

Wheeler to Seek Early Draft Action  Plans to Ask Quick Adoption of His Bill

\Soviet Voronezh Offensive Rolls Up Advances O As Much As 31 Miles In Three Days; Seven Axis Divisions Are Routed

Russians Tear Nazi Lines Apart In Bloody Drives   Caucasus Railroad Junction Captured  SFAX IS BATTERED  American Bombers And Fighters Strike  Axis Tunisian Port

Yugoslav Forces Take Offensive On Broad Front   Drive Is Described as One of the Great Campaigns of War

ARMY OF TITO ON OFFENSIVE   250,000 Partisans Open Big Drive Against 12 Divi sions of Nazis

TITO'S FORCES ON OFFENSIVE   Partisan Army Numbering 250,000 Ties Down 12  Divisions

SLAVS ON OFFENSIVE ALONG BROAD FRONT   Tito’s Partisan Army Reports Continued Mopping Up Operations in Close Liaison With Allies.

ALABAMIANS COME TO AID OF FARMERS   All Citizens Urged To Take Part In Harvests

JAPO TN ALEUTIANG NG ARE POUNCED ANEW FU   NOTORIOUS GEORGI FUGITIVE CAPTURED   Attempted Holdup Results In Harvey's Capture

Bulgaria Faces Growing Revolt And Air Attacks   Alliance with Axis Brings Much Grief

Bulgarian puppets faced by feverish srowing discontent   Third hammering of Sofia  declares allied intentions

Bulgaria Fights Growing Revolt  - Germans Bolster - Balkan Defenses

REVOLT FLARES IN BULGARIA   Puppet Government Takes Steps To Suppress Pro-Russians

'Pro-Russian  Bulgari 1ans  Seek Way Ou   Pressure from Allies Among Many Factors Firing Balkan Crisis  UNREST INCREASES

ProRussian Populace Demands Breach of German Alliance; - — Bombing of Sofia Increases Unrest

Germans Feverishly Bolster Their Defenses in Balkans   SOFIA IS BOMBED FOR THIRD TIME   Hull Warns the Satellites They Must Share Consequences of Defeat

Government’s Soft Wheat Is Ordered Sold   Prices To Be $1.50 at Kansas City; $1.55 at Chicago

TEXAS CROPS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS AND SUMMER RANGES FAIR  WIDELY VARYING MOIS. TURE CONDITIONS BRING:  VARIED SITUATION

UMW Apply for "Return fo AFL Membership  No Advance Noti ce of Lewis ‘Act tion   No Advance Notice of Lewis Action Green Tells Press

United Mine Workers Ask For Charter   Green Reveals Latest Act Of Former Rehel

Lewis to Return  Miners to A. F. of L   Asks Readmission  After 8-Year Schism

Miners Would Reenter A. F. L   Lewis’ Union Applie: For Reaffiliation

Lewis Leads Mine Workers  Back Into AFL   Green Reveals UMW Has Formally Applied For Reaffiliation With Federation

LEWIS LEADING , MINE WORKERS BACK INTO AFI   Makes Bid for Re-entering ‘Body He Tore Asunder Eight Years Ago ©

Lewis Leads UMW Back to Fold Of Federation   Miners Present Formal Application to AFL for Reaffiliation

Re-Entry Into AFL Sought By Miners   Green Welcomes Action, Assures Orderly And Sympathetic Hearing Of UMW Appeal

Lewis Leads UMW Back To AFL Fold   Asks for Readmittance To Labor Organization He Broke with in 1935   ACCEPTANCE SEEN  AS MERE FORMALITY

Application Made By Lewis’ Unions   Green Says AFL Council Welcomes Group "Back Home’ Final Action fs Thouaht Near

JOHN L. LEWIS’ BIG MINE. UNION 70 REJOIN AFI   William Green Reveals That UMW Has Made Formal Application for Re affiliation.   HISTORIC BREACH . HEALED BY MOVE   Effect of Action Upon CIO Cannot Be Judged at Once —Will Give AFL 7,800,000 Members.

LEWIS LEADS MINERS BACK TO AFL FOLD   Green Reveals Application Made for Reaffiliation

Healing of Breach In Labor Ranks Is Revealed by Green      Formal Application Of U.M. W. Believed Certain To Be Favorably Acted Upon; Will Boost Federation Rolls To 7,000,000

Mine Union Applies For _ - Membership In The AFL   Formal Application to Return to Federation Made by " Lewis’ UMW—No Advence Notice Given, According to William Green.

Mine Workers Seek Reafhliation With the A. F. of L.   Green Discloses Formal Application Has Been Made by John L. Lewis’ Union; Readmittance Believed to Be Certainty

Application Of UMW Made To Council   Readniittance Seen as Almost Certain When Group Acts

United Mine group asks to be reinstated in AFL organization   Lewis and miners split with group just eight years ago to form CIO

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LEWIS LEADS UM W BACK INTO A FL   President William Green Announces; Lewis Makes “‘Formal” Application In ‘Orderly Wav”   Drive Vs CIO

MINERS BACK TO AFL FOU   Green Reveals Action Healing Union 5 Breach

WIFE AND CHILDREN SLAIN BY ALABAMA}   Six of Family Fall Before Gun - - Suicide Fails

GADSDEN MAN KILLo WIFE. FIVE CHILDREN   Mechanic Mortally Wounds Himself As Finale

REGIMENTATION HIT BY BRICKER   Ohio Governor Emphasizes Private Enterprise

Late Potatoes Put Under OPA Ceiling   Will Prevail Until June of Next Year

LABOR BOARD MARKS TIME   REPORTED WITHHOLDING DECISION ON WAGE REVISION: DEMAND UNTIL ROOSE " VELT “STUDIES. “QUESTION (

WAGE FORMULA RULING AWAITED   AFL And ClO Demand Upward Revision By WLB To Meet Living Costs

the War loday — Invasion Of France This Year Still Possible; Must Bomb Coast Guns First

Invasion of France This Year Deemed Possible Bombings Will Give- Advance Notice

Allied Planes Conduct Heavy Raid In Pacific   30.000 Rounds From Cannon And Machine Guns Poured On Positions In New Guinea.

Allied Fighters Strafe Japanese Lines At Mubo  30,000 Rounds Fired Into  Fnemv Positione

5 PCT. MENACE LIQUOR FUTURE   Monopoly States’ Group Told To Seek Aid Of Brys In Control Work

Floods Menacing The Osage Valley   Worst Flood Since 1844 Is in Prospect; People Evacuate Towns.

Most All Streams Are Ris. - ing; ‘Worst Flocd in History in: Some Areas

Car Salesman  Taken By Death   : Ray Kaiser Succumbs ‘ To Long Illness. _

Car Salesman Taken. Br Death   Ray Kaiser. Succumbs * To Long’ Illness

HIGHER POSTAGE — RATE PROPOSED   Liquor, Cigarets, Candy And Pop May Be Hit By Revenue Bill

Sharp Postal Rate  Hike Recommended   Increase Also Proposed In Luxury Levies After Most Of Treasury's Plan Rejected

Higher Postal   Rates Favored   Congressional Expert: Taps Revenge

BOOST IN POSTAL RATES PROPOSED      ADVISORY STAFF ON TAXATION SUGGESTS 4-CENT CHARGE ON LETTERS.

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BOOST IN POSTAL AATES PROPOSEE   Larger Excise on So-called Luxuries, Including Liquor And Cigarets Urged by Tax Advisers

Boost in Postal Rates Proposed For New Revenue  Increased Excises on All Luxuries Also aate Amnmravn

Suggest Boost In Postal Rates   Congressional Tax Group Offers Plan

BOOST IN POSTAL ~~ RATES PROPOSED   Large Levies on So-Called Luxuries Also Ackod

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1500. Yankees, Canadians, _Latin- Americans Also Reported. ‘Well-Clothed

[900 REPATRIATED ARRIVE IN INDIA   ‘Americans, Canadians, Oth ers Will Be Exchanged For Jap Prisoners.

GIRAUD STUDIES ANTILLES ISSUE   CONFERS WITH U, S, OFFICIALS ON NEW MARTINIQUE SET-UP

MARTINIQUE DISCUSSED AT WHITE HOUSE   Installation of Pro-Allied Administration in Island Subject Considered By Giraud   DISTURBANCES OCCUR

Vast Nazi U-Boat Fleet Ready for Spring Drive   Germans Building 20 To 30 A Month; Fleet Of 500 To 700 Is Seen

OUTLOOK REGARDING. U-BOATS NOT GOOD FOR ALLIES; NAZIS BUILDING THEM AT RATE OF 20 OR MORE MONTH

NAZIS PLAN BIG U-BOAT CAMPAIGN   Will Have 500. To 700 For  Spring Action

Yanks Down 85 Fighters In Kiel Raid   Total May Be 105, Stimson Says. Slight Loss Over  Pantelleria

85, Possibly 105 Axis Fighters ‘Shot Down In Allied Raid Friday   Between 15,000 And 16,000 Prisoners Taken At Pantelleria And Lampedusa, Stimson Says

Mediterranean Islands Cost Only 40 Airmen  Sec. Stimson Declares

Nazi Plant Areals Hard Hit.   Stimson Also Reveals Aerial Cost Low in Pantelleria Victory

Destruction Of 85 German Planes Told   Possible Toll Of 105 In Last Friday’s Raids On Two Cities Reported By Secretary Stimson

STIMSON TELLS OF BIG DAMAGI TO NAZI POWER   Air Blows Well Worth While Despite Losses, War Secretary Savs

Today’s War Commentary  Litvinov Goes  Viav Help Lav Soviet Post-War Plane

Today’s War Commentary  Air Superiority  Alliod Vietory Reine Written In S

British Move to Halt Leaks of Information   Troop Movement Possibility Cited; Turkish Officials Disclose Nothing

DUCE SOLDIERS AT GUNS; NAVAL MEN ON WATCH   Commentator Says “Decisive Phase Approaching With Every Italian Girded for Battle   ALLIED WARSHIPS SAT TO WAVE MQVED  IRA AVS   Not In Sicilian Straits} Island Under Almost Constant Attack From Air

Allies to Close Turkish Border  British Commander Holds Conference With Ankara Chiefs

ALLIES CLOSE SYRIAN BORDER   No Official Report; Under Control of Fighting French

All-out Drive to Force the Japs From the Island.   2 JAP SUBS BOMBED BY YANKS; SINK ONE   Plans for Victory Are Well Advanced, All But Carried Out.

STOPPED WITH HEAVY LOSSES ON TWO FRONTS   500 Germans Captured on Medjez-elBab Sector

5 Nazi TanksDestroyed nFutile Tunisian Attack   Counter-Attack Repulsed With Bloody Losses to Axis Forces

Open Inquiries At Jap Camp   Armed Troops Patro Segregation Center

Troops Guard Riot Probes At Tule Lake   Evidence Mounts Of Buoku Kai Activity at Center

Veterans of Pacific Battlefronts Guard Japs Interned at Tule Lake

Furious Battles  Raging in China   Heavily Armed Soldiers Guarding Jap Internees

TROOPS KEEP EYE ON JAP INTERNEE!   Investigations of Upris ings at Camp Get Under Way

$377,376 In County Taxes   September Collections Hit A High Figure; Above Those Of 1942

NAZIS FIGHTING 13 FINISH FUR OREL   German Command Issues Fight to Death Order Around Orel.

Finish Fight at Orel By Nazis Indicated   GERMAN GENERAL POURING THOUSANDS OF MEN AND ARMORED EQUIPMENT INTO AREA

Roosevelt Demands  Crop Aid   Insurance Law’: Abandonment  Deplored

CROP INSURANCE VETO DEPLORED   President Says System Will Prove Popular As R.F.D.

F.D.R. Deplores Abolition of Crop Insurance   Expresses Hope System Will Become as Popular as RFD Mail Service

ABOLITIONOF INSURANCE ON CROPS IS HIN   Roosevelt Deplores Con. gressional Action in ’ Sianing Bill

Crop Insurance Death Protested   Roosevelt Reports Plan Really Needed

PRESIDENT FOR CROP INSURANCE   Executive Says He Hopes Congress Will Reconsider Matter

ALLIto GLEAN UT JAP Neat IN NEW GUINEA   New Territory On Northern Coast Won By MacArthur With 700 Japs Slain

Allies Clean Up Jap Nests   700 Nipponese Are Killed, Many Taken

MacArthur Troops Clear Nipponese From Valley, Kill 700, Capture 100

Allies Put Tight Hold on New Guinea Coast —   Clean Out Jap Nests; Kill 700, Capture 100

SOVIETS PIERCE CERMAN LINES   Pose New Threat To Nazis In Dnieper Bend

NAZI LINES ARE ~ PIERCED BY REDS   Yugoslav Partisans Fight Successful Defensive Action Against Enemy.

Soviets Break Through, Peril  German Forces Hundreds Of Thousands   Hundreds Of Thousands Of Germans Caught In Fresh Trap   Narrowing Escape Path Furiously Shelled By Russians

RAMPAGING REDS POUR ON PRESSURE IN ALL SECTORS   "Break Through Nazi Lines South of Kremenchug. Gomei Js Near.

Seek to Trap Large German Force At Gomel   BREAK THROUGH IS  HAILED AS BIG VICTORY

UMIETS SCORE HARP GAINS HOUT GERMANS   Greatest Defeat Of Nazis Since Dnieper Crossing Revealed By Moscow

Red Plunge Cuts 12 Miles  Into Nazi Line   Smash-Through Puts German Dnieper Bend Army on Spot

SOVIETS CRACK ENEMY LINES IN 12-MILE DRIVE   Thousands of Nazis in  Dnieper Bend Face New Threat

SOVIETS UNITE ) BRIDGEHEADS   Russians Cross Sozh River To Threaten Gomel

"Red Forces Rout .Nazis in Dnieper; Gomel Fall Nears   Russians Break Through Foe’s Line For 12-Mile Gain Near Kr emenchug; Artillery Hammers Escape Corridor

Bridgeheads on Dnieper River United, Endanger Hundreds of Thousands of Germans.

REDS MOVE AHEAD IN 12MILE LUNGE   Pose New Threat ‘ To Germans In Dnieper Bend

Nazi Tanks Drive Another  Wedge Info Russian Lines  History’s Greatest Armored Conflict Said Raging In Belgorod Sector As Nazis Gain

BUT LOSE HEAVILY IN MEN, TANKS AND PLANES IN BELGOROD SECTOR, RUSSIANS REPORT.

Soviet Army Stands Firm Elsewhere   304, More Nazi Tanks, 161 Airplanes Smashed. Moscow Bulletin Says  HUGE FORCES USED

Nazis Pierce Russ Lines  At Belgorod   German Casualty Toll Mounts To 35,000 Mark

Germans Drive Wedge Into  Russian Lines   ‘Soviets Say Nazis ‘Are Suffering ~Tremendous Losses

GERMANS PIERCE BELGOROD LINE   Russians Claim Nazis Allowed To Get Through   CAUGHT IN TRAP   Moscow Reports Four-day Toll of 1,843 Tanks and 810 Planes Smashed

Over 35,000 Nazis Les! In Fighting   Reds Describe Greatest Tank Battle of War

Germans penetrate Belgorod area in big armored battle   Russians claim 810 planes are downed in four days of fighting

Red Forces Stand Firm Elsewhere Moscow Reports   Recover Some Lost Ground; Nazi Death Toll Now 35,000

Another Wedge Is Driven Into Soviet Lines But Foe Loses 35,000 Soldiers —

Nazis Slash Soviet Lines   Reds Claim 304 More Tanks And 161 Planes Destroyed _

NEW OFFENSIVE HELD FIRM ON OTHER SECTORS   304 More Tanks Smashed, 161 Planes Downed; Germans Tell Of Secret Weapon   Enemy Losses Heavy

ENEMY DRIVES NEW WEDGE IN SOVIET LINE!   Nazi Casualties Now 35,000; Over 1,800 Tanks Destroyed

Hopkins Pace foo Slow For Federal OPA   Confesses Killing Cleveland Youths

Find Bodies of Two Slain Boys  19-Year Old Youth Admits Shootings

KNOWN JAP DEAT TOLL OW ATT RISES   Total Raised To 1,791 By Navy Communique Today

Hirohite nimits War brave   From 131 to 203 Jap Planes Are Smashed by U. 5S.

Jap Aireraft  Losses Grow   Hirohito Admits To Parliament Situation Is Grave

Reject Change — In Trade Pact   Senate Turns Down Amendment Providing For Termination Of Treaties.

Trade Pact Restriction _ ~— Is Rejected   Danaher Amendment. Voted Down, 51-33 in= Senate; Other Curbs Asked-:.   HOUSE. APPROVED . EXTENSION OF LAW   Senate Now Considering Requirement: for : Congress.” to Approve Deals ~~.

SENATE REJECTS TRADE MEASURE   Refuses to Approve Bil Passed By House

Sat U-Boats   Clashes Along Shipping Lanes Increase as « ‘Steps Up Sub Campaign

Awaited Sub Drive Begun In Atlantic   Allied . Escort Vessels, RAF, in 72-Hour Fight With Raiders

U.S. British Sink Subs In  Renewed Serap   Running Battles With Submarine Paeks Indicate Nazi Campaign Launched.   CUTTER RAMS. U-BOAT

COAST GUARD CUTTER BATTLES UNDERSEA SHIPS   North Atlantic Scene Of Dramatic ThreeDay Running Battle; Allied Convoy Sus tains  osses.

’. S. Coast Guard Cutter Sinks One U-Boat, Damages Five Others In Furious Fight With Wolf Pack: At Least Three Others Sunk In Atlantic

‘U’ Boat Offensive Believed (On In Full Force; Two Big \Sea Fights Bared By Allies   72-Hour Battle Last Month Against Pack {n Atlantic Told By British Admiralty; U.S. Cutter Attacks, Sinks One Large Sub, Seatters Five Others

NAZI U-BOAT CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED:   At Least Three U-Boats Sunk During 72-Hour  * Battle With Convoy  In Atlantic

GERMANS LOST AT LEAST THREE SUBS ~ IN RUNNING FIGHT   72-Hour Battle In North AtJantic In February Just Made Public By Navy Department Officers.   PACK OF U-BOATS INDICATES CAMPAIGN ON   Coast Guard Cutter Campbell Rams One Sub, Two Others Are Assaulted With Depth-Bombs.

THE ATLANT  IC ~ BATTLE BEGINS   U-Boats Making Mass Attack On Allied © Shipping

Nazi U-Boat Campaign Has Started   Running Battles Between Submarine Packs and Convoy Ships in North Atlantic Announced

Sub - Convoy Battles Indicate Hitler Has Begun Mass U - Boat Campaign Against Atlantic Shipping

NAZI ALL OUT U-DOAT ATTAGK NOW UNDERWAY   Mass Attack By Submarine Pack On Allied Convoy Results In Losses

Battles Between Subs and Convoys Indicate Awaited Nazi U-Beat Campaign On

Packs Raid Ship Lanes In Atlantic   Expected Mass Attack On Convoys Materializes In Two Farious Clashes

U.S.C. 6. CUTTER SEA SAGA HERO   Dramatic Story of Battle In Atlantic Revealed But Without Details

Battles With U -Boats Indicate Nazis ‘Have Launched Submarine Off ensive

Allied Escorts Destroy Four U Boats As Nazis Strike In Packs Of 20-30

Convoy Vessels Battle U-Boats  At Least Three Nazi  ng tate SS GU a A .

Mass Submarine Attacks Started   From Both Sides of Atlantic Come Reports of Attacks on Convoys.

Sub-Convoy Battles Indicate Nazis . Have-Launched-Their Long-Expecté Mass U-Beat Campaign In Atlantic

NAZIS LAUNCH U-BOAT DRIVE   SUB PACKS STRIKE AT SHIPPING IN NORTH SEA

Allies Battle Great Packs Of Nazi Subs   Successes In Two Engagements Are Announced

Sub-Convoy Clashes Termed Indication  Germany Resorting To Mass Campaion

ENEMY SUBS AND CONVOY SHIPS CLASH   Furious Running _ Battles On Both Sides Of Ocean

Axis U-Boats Are Reported More Active   Convoy Battles Indicate Long-Expected Campaign Under Way  MANY ARE SENT DOWN

Fierce Sea Battles Already Under Way   Cutter Rams One in Fight With Six—Convoy Suffers Los: But Sends Three ta RBattran

NAZIS LAUNCH LARGE ATLANTIC SUB CAMPAIGN   Allies Set Up Plan To Com: bat German Sea Menace

Nazis Launch  Sub Campaign   Furious Clashes with U-Baat Packs” Reported from Both Sides of Atlantic

U-Boat Campaigr Directed Against Allied Shipping   Furious Battles Are Reported in North Atlantic

Cutter Rams Axis Raider and Depth Bombs Five. Others.in Atlantic

Sub-Convoy Battles Indicate Mass Nazi  U-Boat Drive Is Or   Furious Clashes Are Reported From Both Sides of Atlantic

‘NEW SUB BATTLES INDICATE GERMANY HAS LAUNCHED STIFF CAMPAIGN AGAINST SHIPPING

North Atlantic Scene Of Action  U. S. Cutter Rams Large Sub And Sinks It

FIGHTS AT SEA SHOW INCREASE   Furious U-Boat Clashes Reported in North Atlantic

Expected Menace Begins.  FURIOUS CLASHES BETWEEN CONVOYS AND HITLER'S RAMPAGING U-BOATS REPORTED ON TWO SIDES OF ATLANTIC:

Running Battles Between Subs And Convoys Are Seen   At Least 3 U-Boats Sunk In One Fight; Cutter Rams, Sinks Another

ALLIED ESCORT SHIPS SCORE ON NAZI U-BOATS   At Least Four Sunk, Several Oth ers Damaged in Two Battles ir North Atlantic

Running Battles Between U-Boat Packs and'Con- ’ -”voys Indicate Nazi's  +: Drive: Launched   AT LEAST 5 ARE SUNK   U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Rams. and, Sinks One; Depth Bombs Five  — . § Othere.

THINK GERMA SUB CAMPAIGN IS UNDER WAY   Valiant Action by U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Told by Navy

TEMPERATURES:   Allies Win First Round : In North Atlantic. Driv.          Ih: Uy “S.. Coast. ‘Guard : Escort .-Ship’ Sinks Submarine ‘In. Furious’ Battle; : Two Others: =" Destroyed,-Many Damaged. In:Battles.

Battles With U-boats Indicate Wolf Packs Of Nazis Loosed In Atlantic

Uncle  Sam Tells 38-45-Year-Olds to Get to War Production, Or Else

7 CUT APRIL DRAFT QUOTAS   All 38-45 Year Olds Must Be in War Production by May 1 Hershey Writes

Require 38-45 Age Group To Find Essential Work or -Face Possible Army Call

MEN, 38-45, GET DRAFT MANDATE   Hershey Tells ‘Over-Age’ Group To Aid War Effort or Fight

38-45 Year Olds Are Told To Enter War Work or Fight   Men in Older Age Groups May Be Drafted Unless They Leave Their Non-Deferable Jobs

38-45 Group Ordered to War Work   Face Draft Call After May  Unless Aiding In War Effort

Germans Capture Samos   CANADIANS HURL BACK NAZI ATTACK AS BRITISH SMASH NEARS ALFEDENA

Altes Take Randazzo, Stronghold Of Axis, in Center of Sicilian Front

9 MILE CIRCLE AT ENFIDAVILLE LAST HOLD-OUT   Tens ef Thousands of Prisoners Taken; Tanks Split Up Peninsula

Vast Surrender Is Continuing   Only One Fighting Center Remains On Peninsula! Air Bombing by Allies Halted to Protect Own Ground Forces

Nazis Outflanked By Yanks;  Axis Evacuation Continues   130,000 Axis Prisoners Captured To Date Allied Wings 35 Miles From Messina

‘Only Troops Offering Any Resistance Are In Mountains West Of Bou Ficha

Von Arnim Is Captured In Big Rout   A Few Stragglers Waging Desultory Fight On British

TTH ARMY TAKES BASE ON ISLAND FROM CERMANS   British Advance Four Miles Along  Sicilian Coast

NAZIS STEP UP SPEED AX OF FLIGHT FROM SICILY:2 I PATTON ARMY CAINS Cn   AXIS CAPITALS RAIDED; 2 ITALIAN INDUSTRIAL  CITIES CIVEN BLASTING

GAPE ORLAND fo CAPTURED BY U3. TROOPS   German Coastal Stronghold Falls After Flanking Move By Americans

U.S. Seventh Army QOecuptes  Cap Orlande   Capture Of Randazzo In Sight As Yankees Battle On Outskirts Of Town.   INAZIS SHORTEN LINE

German Evacuation To Italian Mainland - Said. Accelerated   Report British / And U. s. Wi ings] «Now: : Within 35 Miles Of Messina; Occupation Of Randazzo Near

Orlando In U.S. Troops Hands Todat   Capture German Coastal stronghold As Nazis Evacuate Sicily

Cape Orlando Captured by U. §. Soldiers   Seventh Army Seizes Point Only 40 Miles From Messina; 130,00( Axis Prisoners Held

Only One Large Group of Germans, Italians Still Fighting.   WIPE OUT SICILIAN PORT

COMPLETE CIRCUIT OF GAP BON 1S MADE BY BRITISH ARMOR  ISOLATED ENEMY FORCE! ARE REPORTED SUR- .

BRITISH ARMOR MAKING COMPLETE CIRCUIT OF PENINSULA: ONLY ONE POCKET RESISTANCE LEFT   Resistance in Africa Reduced to One 9-Mile Circular Pocket. British News Agency Says Gen. Von Arnim Captured.

Cape Orlando Is Taken by Allies      Nazi Stronghold Falls, Out_ Henkes by American Landing 7   Axis Rear Guard Anchor Is Menaced by U. S. Flank,  Drive

AMERICANS IN SICILY TAKE CAPE ORLANDO   Allied Aviators Kill Many Germans As They Flee Across Messina Strait Into Italian Mainland.

Outflanked Germans by Sea Landing   Stronghold Little More Than 40 Miles From  Messina; British Advance

Yanks Take Axis Coastal Stronghold   Americans Within 4 Miles Of Randazzo; Take 130,000 Nazis  Ry DANIFI NE TUCK

Allied Forces Seize  Salamaua Airdrome   Success Gives MacArthur's Men Hold of One of Two Strategic Points in New Guinea; Paratroops Contact Japs at Lae

Battle for Germany Near; Result of Axis Debacle in Tunisia   Hitler Suddenly Moves His Headquarters to Somewhere in West

Seventh Army Pushes Ahead To Seize Cape   Fall of Randazzo Now in Sight; Nazis Rush to Mainland

British Armor Rings Cap Bon, 100,000 Quit   Allied Bombing Ceases Because of Danger Of Hitting Allies

Armored Forces Hem Remnants Of Africa Corps   Aerial Bombing Of Area Called Off By Allies

Von Arnim Is Captured By Britist   Axis Holds Small: Area On ly Nine Miles : Across. and It Is Crumbling   GREAT PARADE... OF PRISONERS   Hitler’s Invincibles . Are Driving Themselves. : Unescorted, to Prison Pens

Axis Prisoners Now Exceed 130,000 And Include Halian General Captured With His Donkey; British Threaten Taorminz

Strong Sicilian Port of Orlando Taken by Yanks   Fall of This Cape Comes After Americans Establish a Junction,   Axis Prisoners Now  Total Over 130,000

Both Allied Wings Make  * Gtrann Gain   American - Oceupation of jz, Rearguard Anchor City Is = Reported in Sight   AXIS PRISONERS EXCEED 130,000   “Doubt Enemy Evacuation Bas Reached Full Scale; Allies Closing Trap   RTT TETIN

Yankees Seize Cape Orlando, 40 Miles from  Messina Strait   Nazis Flight to Italy Quickens; Rear-Guards  Cover Retreat

—— Victory for the _ Allies in Northern  Africa.   ‘SURROUND LAST POCKETS OF AXIS  Germans and Italians Are Surrendering With Full Equipment.

Cape Orlando Captured By Seventh Army    P  Narrowness of Messina  Strait Favors Enemy   Withdrawal

Seventh Army Of U.S. Takes Cape Orlando   Patton’s Forces Spring Forward Eight Miles On North Sicily Coast.

Axis Prisoners Now More Than 130,000 Including  Ranking [talian General

Key Cape Captured By Yanks   Italian General, 130,000: Prisoners Seized —

TAKES ORLANGI   Allied Troops Within 36 Miles of Messina; Randazzo Menaced.   GERMANS STILL FLEEING

Yanks Make New Gains in North Sicily   Capture Cape Orlande In Outflanking Nazi Lines

BRITISH GAIN 4 MILES ON EAST COAST   Fall of Cape Follows Wednesday’s Amphibious Assault—Naso and Brolo Seized in EightMile U. S. Advance.

U. §. SEVENTH ARMY CAPTURE IMPORTANT NORTH COAST POINT  BOTH ALLIED WINGS HAVE ADVANCED TO WITHIN 35

Near East Campaign Imminent?   Speculation Aroused Over Plans—Still Some Fight ing in Tunisia

Americans Take Nazi Stronghold   Cape Orlando in Sicily ls Captured After Germans Are Outflanked;, Axis Prisoners Now Esiceed. 130,000 -

Axis Continuing Withdrawal From Sicilian Battle  t  . Fae... ths’ ot.*   Allies Drive Within 35 Miles Of Messina In Furious Attacks

YANKS CAPTURE CAPE ORLANDO, PUSH FORWARD   Messina Beaches Scene of Increasing Enemy Evacuation Activity

‘Only Center Of Fighting Under Attack   British Armor Completes Circuit of Peninsula; Thousands v* Prisoners

U.S, SOLDIERS OVERRUN MORE ISLAND TOWNS   Axis Prisoners Exceed 130,000; Italian General Is Seized; British Threaten Taormina

Plunges Past To Take Two Other Towns   130.000 Prisoners Of War Taken So Far In Allied Drive   EVACUATION SPEEDS   Armies Four Miles To Go Yet To Randazzo; Nearing Riposto

Junction Is Established By Yanks   Occupation Of Randazzo Near; Seq Blawe Denl+

British Completely Encircle Cap Bon Peninsu la; End Clearly In Sight  For Foe In Tunisia.  *» es cee & oO

STRONGHOLD O} COAST TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Enemy Outflankec By Yankees On North Coast: British Advance

BRITISH CAPTURE AXIS COMMANDER      Col. Gen. Von Arnim a Prisoner of War in Tunisia

LAST ENEMY POCKET BEING CLEANED OUT   Axis Resistance Collapses or Peninsula; Troops Now Herding Captives.   AMERICANS CREDITED  WITH 37,998 PRISONERS

BROLO AND NASO ALSO ARE TAKEN   Randazzo Fall Near: 7th Army, Landing Forces Joined

The Fall of the Cape, a Little  More Than 40 Miles West  of Messina, Came After a Junction of Troops.   ADJACENT TOWNS OF NASO, BROLO, OVERRUN   Axis Prisoners Now Exceed 130.000, With the Americans Rounding Up About  100,000 of Them.

Yanks Capture Vital Cape On Sicily Coast   Nazi Rear Guards Give Ground In Bitter Fichtinag

SUICIDE TROOPS HOLD ALLIES IN SICILY STRUGGLE   ENTRENCHED SQUADS KEEP MESSINA PATH OPEN FOR COMRADES

Von Arnim Taken As Last Tunisian Resistance Fades   Only 9-Mile Circle Of Enemy Forces Not Yet Subdued

Yanks Seize Outflanked Cape Orlando   Allies 35 Miles From Messina on North Coast And Also on East Coast

‘Ameicans Take Cape Orlando As Enemy Evacuation of Sicily  Speeded: 130,000 Held as Prisoners

AXIS PRISONERS TAKEN ON ISLE EXCEED 130,000   U. S. Units Only 40 Miles from Messina, British Forces Advance

Commander In Chief Of Axis Armies Surrenders As Last Pockets Of Resistance Crumble

GEN. PATTON'S TROOPS ADVANCE 8 MILES      British Move Up East Coast 4 Miles Threatening Taormina

SEVENTH TAKES CAPE ORLANDO   Allied Wings Move Within 35 Miles Of Messing

Both Wings of Allied Armies of Conquest Push Nearer Nazi Escape Port of Messina   130,000 PRISONERS   Germans Speed up Evacuation with Narrow Strait Favoring Escape of Large Number

Yanks  Capture Orlando   SEVENTH ARMY TAKES STRONGHOLD AS BRITISH MOVE UP EAST COAST

British Armor Circles Cap Bon Isolates Enemy   Air Bombing Called Off to Protect Allies

Cape Orlando Is Taken by Allies   Nazi be age Falls, Outnked by American  Landing   FIGHT FOR RANDAZZO   Axis Rear Guard Anchor Is Menaced by U. S. Flank  Drive

AMERICANS SEIZE ARUNDEL ILE I SOLOMONS ZONE   Yankees Within Shell Range of Vila; Allies Suffer Slight’ Setback in New  _Guinea.

YANKS tlt ISLE; TIGETEN HOLD ON JAPS      Within Artillery Range of Vila Garrison: Americans Are Forced Back in New Guinea.

YANKS OCCUPY ISLAND CLOSE TO JAP TROOPS   MacArthur’s Forees Are Thrown Back Along New Guinea Line

DRINKING PARTY 15 FATAL 10.5   Brothers Are Taken Ill During Night; Find Bodies of 3 Others in Shack

ULS.S, WISCONSIN 1S LAUNCHED   Huge Battleship Will Mete Our Retbution

Daily femperatures   By UNITED PRESS   U.S.S. Wisconsin, 45,000 Ton Battleship, Is Launched Today

New U.S. $. Wisconsin Launched On 2nd Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor

NEW BATTLEOHIP JOINS US FLEET   ‘Gigantic 45,000-Ton U. S. S. Wisconsin Launched  At Philadelphia

Kasserinels — Lost to Axis Tank Forces   Rommel Leaves Italians In Rear Guard to Meet, Yanks, British 

Allies Seize Gap, Pursue  Rommel Men   Hitler Admits Loss Of  Strategic Kasserine Pass

Hitler Admits Axis Push In Africa Ended   American, British Infantry, Tanks Clean Out Import. ant Paes   -REDS GAIN IN SOUTH

VITAL PASS IN HANDS OF U.S. BRITISH FORGE   British Fighth Army Meanwhile Exerting More Pressure On Battered Forces Of Rommel

Yanks Retake Kasserine Pass; Rommel Pinned Between Ridge and Sea

ALLIES TAKE INITIATIVE IN AFRICA.   German High Command Says ‘Our Offensive Operations Have  Reen Concluded’

LOSS ADMITTED BY GERMANS AS DRIVE ROLLS ON   Hapless Italian Rear Guard, Left by Nazis, Passed Up By Onrushing Yanks   ROMMEL’S ARMY SQUEEZED   Reds Closing Jaws of Trap On Another Big © Nazi Force in Caucasus

Allies Pursue Battered Forces  Of Rommel   Hitler’s Caucasus. Army  _ Fights For Its.Life As _ Soviet ‘Troops Close ' Jaws Ot Trap. :

Hitler Admits Offensive In Tunisia Fails   British And American Infantry Attack Rear Guards In Retreat   High Ground Around Pass Also Is Taken   Germans Reported Abandoning Italians In Retreat To Sea

Nazis Claim 4,000 Prisoners Captured In Africa; Montgomery Drawing Closer  RUSSIANS CLOSING JAWS OF TRAP  Americans Don’t Bother To Guard Italians;  Just Take Guns, Wave Them To Rear

ALLIES CAPTURE KASSERINE GAP IN HOT PURSUIT   Hapless Italians Left Te Cover German Retreat

Allies Capture Kasserine Pass, Continue Drive   Rommel, With U.S. And British Close On Heels, Falling Back Toward Sea

GERMANS ADMIT INITIATIVE NOW HELD BY ALLIES   Reds Near Novorossisk As Nazis Also Lose  On Russian Front

Yanks, Tommies Shove Nazis Out Of Tunisian Gap   ~ommel Backs Toward Gatfsa, Sea: -wo Blows Rock Foe in Northeact

Fleeing Nazis Leave Ifalians As Rear Guards   Rommel May Have to Swing Southeast to Battle Montgomery

Allies Race Onin Pursuit Of Rommel   . Axis Forced Out of Kasserine Pass; to Italians Falls Duty Of Rear Guard Action

Rommel Falling Back Across Tunisia Toward Sea; Russians Close In On Novorossisk.

‘NACI HIGH COMMAND HAS ADMITTED LOSS “i TUNISIA BATTLE  BRITISH AND AMERICAN   BRITISH AND AMERICAN INFANTRY FORCES ENEMY WITHDRAWAL

Allies Clear Kasserine Pass of Foe   Allied Planes Strike at Nuernberg, Crotone and Naples in Air Offensive

Kasserine’ Pass Now In  Allied Hands   Nazis Admit Loss of Initiative; Other Allied Columns Advance in the Sbiba Sector; Bombers Blast Naples and Nuernbera 

Allies Clean Out  Kasserine Pass   Lively Action In New Guinea   Reds Report Big Gains   TAPS AND CHINE

Yankees and — Tommies i ins Hot Pursuit      eu “Apparently. Falling Back’ to. GafsaAs Allies’. i.)  Seize Initiative      Nazis IN FLIGHT." =: FROM: SBEITLA      Allied Planes. Both - From North Africa and...Middle “East Spread Over. Front:

Loss of Initiative in Africa Admitted by Hitler Command   All Axis Troops Are Driven Out of Vital Kasserine Pass

Rommel Leaves His Italians in Rear Guard Positions   Gafsa and Bizerte Are Targets for American Bombs

Anglo-Americans Force Withdrawal Of All Enemy Units   Axis Tank Units Flee Toward Sea; ‘Reds Nearer Nazi ‘Escape Port; Reich And Halian Cities Bombed

Enemy Forced to Withdraw From Hot:: ly Contested Area With Americ and British in Pursuit; Germans Hel Under Heavy Plane Attack; Re ¢ Report Two Towns Taken in Fac  Renewed Nazi Action. Pease

A “JUJITSU” PEACE   Japan May Try to Trick U.S. at Finsh, Is Warning by Grew

GREW WARNS OF JAP PEACE PLOT   ‘Jujitsu’ Methed of Nips ls to Hit When Off Guard, He Says

Grew Warns Nation That Japs May Attempt To Trick Allies With A “ Jujitsu’ Peace Plan

Former Ambassador Says Enemy Is As Treacherous About That Ae At Pearl Harbor

NATION WARNED: 10 BE ON ALERT  FOR JAP TRICK      Former Ambassador Grew Says: Tokyo May Attempt “Jujitsu” Peace Plot by  Pretending Defeat   SURPRISE PLANNED   Urges U. S. Forces Not 4 Be, Luiled Into Drop- ping Guard by Inactiv ity of Enemy

JAPS MAY TRY A “TRICK” PE ACE PLAN GREW SAYS   Former Ambassador Who Warned of Pearl Harbor Attack Tella of Possible “JuJitsu”? Peace Plot

‘Jujitsu’ Peace Plot May Be Tried by Japs In Hopes of Catching Nation Off Guard

GREW WARNS JAPAN  MAY TRY “JUJITSU”  PEACE MOVE SOON MAY PRETEND DEFEAT T! CATCH U. S. OFF GUARD  TAD CATACUING DIAW

REW WARNS OF JAPAN “JUTSU   x-Ambassador Says Nippon May Pretend Defeat to Lay Trap for Allies

Pacifie War Will Enter New Phase   Australia Jumping Of Point for AlHed Drive

Allies Ready For Offensive  “InS. Pacific   Fight to Hold Japs Won, Australia Safe, Says Premier Curtin

MANY AT FUNERAL OF R. W. SPANGLER   Officers And Directors Of York Kiwanis Club Serve As Honorary Pallbearers—Held Sunday Afternoon

U.S., British and Russian Parley Opens   First Tri-PartiteParley Brings Together Leaders of United Nations  In Moscow to Plan War Prosecution.

Hull And Eden In Moscow For  War Conference   Second Front Issue Still Is Vital Russian Concern,

'RUSSIANS SAY “SECOND-F RONT IN WESTERN EUROPE WiLL [BEAN IMPORTANT TOPIC   Preliminary Discussions Held at Kremlin Last Night Shortly After Arrival in Moscow of Secretary Hull and British Secretary Anthony Eden *

EDEN AND HULL BEGIN GONTAL WITH MOLOTOV   Tri-Partite Conferences Underway In Moscow Between Big 3

Hull, Eden: And Molotov Start Conferences --- In Moscow With Second Front Issue Likely

Plan To Reduce “T” Book Values   Will Cut Deliveries Further In East

Cut In Value Of T’ Coupons To - Be Next Step InGasoline Crisis   Major Effect Of Plan Will Be Further Curtailment OF - Home Deliveries By Stores, Laundries, Ete,

Japan Will Be Bombed  Again and Again Says War Department Report   Official Story of the Bombing of Tokyo: is Told For the First Time; All But One of 16 Planes Wrecked in Landing  eee ce ae ee ar

:Hard Luck Dogged Tokyo Raiders, but Jap “Capital Will Feel American Bombs Again

Japs Warned Of Future Bombing As Story Of Tokyo Raid Is Told   Tale With Happy Climax Has Sour End Because All But One Of Planes Wrecked In Storm

War Dept. Reveals Story of Tokyo Bombing; Heroism, Success, Hard ‘Luck: All But One Plane Crashed

16 Carrier Bombers Hit Nippon; 15 Crashed, But 64 Men Reached Safety

WARNED TO EXPECT MORE DOOLITTLE’ RAIDS   Army Reveals Planes Took Off From The Hornet

Japan To Be Bombed A gainer. Full Story of Tokyo Raid      Success, Failures Of Venture Tole

Gets Seven Bombers In Single Action   Official Story of Tokyo Raid Revealed Promise Repeated Japan Bombing

Uncle Sam Warns Japan : Of Bombs   CNEPS” TO BE BOMBED TIME AND AGAING SAY LEADERS.

Japan To Be Bombed Again, War Dept. Warns, Reveals All Details Of Tokyo Attack

Japan Will Be Bombed Again And Again   War Department Makes Public Tokwvo Raid Account

REDS STRIKE FOR TWO RAIL CITIES   Soviets Six Miles From Key Points In Dnieper Bend Struggle

Big Transports Fall Into Sea While Taking . Troops From Corsica  ADVANCE CONTINUES  Epidemic Of Disease Hits Naples To Add New  Terror

Americans In Sight of Naples After Advance   Demolitions, Rugged Terrain Slow Up  Big Yank Offensive

PASSAGE OF SEIZURE BILL ~~ PREDICTED IN THE HOUSE   COMMATTER CHAIRMAN MAKZS ‘CONNALLY BILL FIRST OfDER OF” BUSINESS   PUESDAY = *

HOUSE SPEEDING CONNALLY BILL   May Says No Need To Hold Hearings, Predicts Quick Passage

Hull Expected To Urge Unitied Foreign Policy   Secretary of State Will Tell Congressmen of Russian Meeting in Talk Thursday Noon.

Cordell Hull Will Discuss  Moscow Paet   Thursday To Be Big Day For House, With Speech, Subsidy Vote On Full Schedule

U. S. Naval Task Force Sinks 2 Jap Destroyers ‘And Bombards Two Bases

Two Nipponese Warships Sunk; Munda Shelled   Vila Air Base In Central Solomons Also Bombarded By Task Force; Lae Land-Air Offensive Indicated

Task Force Shells Munda, Vila Air Bases   No American Ships Lost in Surface Battle in Solomons

“Work Or Die” Edict Is Issued By Nazis To Men, Women In Occupied Countries

Washington s Government Girls Put On Typical Parade in Spite of War

WATSON McCORMICK RESIGNS AS APPEAL AGENT CARROLL COUNTY   Rally Day and Home Camine   BRIDAL SHOWER   RATION NEWS

CHURCHILL 10 MAKE REPORT   Prime Minister Slated For Broadcast At Close Of Washington Parley

Turning Over ‘Full Amount’, ~ Wells Says   Collector at St. J oseph Paying $1,195, 060. to Various Divisions   BUT HE DISCOVERS $23,560 SHORTAGE   Makes Plea of Innocent. to, Charges That He Embezzled Funds 

TURNS OVERALL. FUNDS 10 STATE   Accused Buchanan Collector Withholds Only $23,560 Shortage

LIST PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS   ‘OMAHA WORLD-HERALD RECEIVES NEWSPAPER AWARD; WILDER DRAMA

Ickes Asks: Where Are All These New Deal Bureaucrats  We Hear So'’Much About?

Businessmen Running War, Ickes Contends   Says Any Breakdowns Comes from Inexperienced And Untrained Personnel

Ickes Declares Businessmen Are Running the War   Says New Dealers, Brai Trusters or Bureaucrats Are Not Responsible

Business Men, Not New Dealers, Are Running The War, Says Sec’y Ickes   Braintrusters Can’t Be Blamed If Things Go Wrong, He Claims; Many Influential And Busiest Of Executives Have Been Drafted. *

SAYS BUSINESS HEADS RUN WAR   Ickes Disclaims Hitches In Efforts Can Be Laid To New Deal

ckes Blames War nags on Drafted usinessmen  Declares New Dealers, ‘Brain Trusters’ Not in Control  )EFENDS BUREAUS   ‘Clankings’ Due To New Hands —_  ee Tw He Savs

EDICT UPHELD   Supreme Court Rules UL 58. Can't Prosecnte Tinion.

Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Musicians Union Cannot Be Prosecuted For Refusing to Make Juke Box Records

PAY-GO PLAN SNAGGED AGAIN   Conference Disagrees Ove What Was Agreed— Doubt Outcome

SENATE-HOUSE CONFEREES CALL SPECIAL SESSION TO IRON OUT INCOME TAX PLAN

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 GROUP IN NEW DISAGREEMENT   Amount Of Abatement Not Made  Clear

Now Tax Conferees Disagree On Their Agreement To Agree   Members To Meet Again To Decide What It Wa Thev Meant By Cancellation And Absiement

Pay-as-Go Bill Ready for Senate   Plan Would Wipe Out 1942 Taxes

YEARS TAK [0 GE WAIVED BY SENATE GROUP   Hope To Have Final Passage Of Measure Before End Of Week

SENATE TO ACT ON TAX BILL APPROVED BY FINANCE BODY   Committee’s Bill Provides Forgiveness Of 1942 Tax For Almost All Individuals 

ALLIED BLOWa SIAGGEA AXIs UN ALL SIDES   Berlin Gets Heavy Battering At Hands Of RAF Bombers, Warships Shell Italy °

Pope Pius Appeals For Just Peace This Year   Staggering Blows Against Axis On Fourth Anniversary Of Polish Attack

Pope Appeals ‘For Peace; — Berlin Blasted   By UNITED PRESS    Italian Peace Efforts ‘May Be Spurred By Pope

w Records Set In Air Attacks on Mais During Week   Experiment to Knock Italy, Germany Out By Bombina Started

Interpreting e War   Allies Win in War Of Nerves and In Actual Battle

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   I'nited Nations Offensive surging Into High Gear As strength Grows

ITALIAN PEACE GROUP SAID T0 BE IN ALGIERS   Reported Headed By - Prince Umberto And Marshal Badoglie   BLAST ITALIAN ISLES   Biggest U, S. Air Armada Pounds Sardinia and Sicily

Yank Raiders Pound Sicily and Sardinia   Algiers, Hotbed for Rumors, Says italians Send Peace Envoys

Emissaries In Algiers To Talk Terms, Says Unconfirmed Report   Rumor Comes As Yank Air Force Plasters Sicily And Sardinia With Greatest Might  Ctnepn Pantellariaq Fall

Crockett, Authority On German Army, Joins European Command   Appointment Probably Part Of Preparation Fo Advancement Of Europe ,

Gen. Crockett, Expert On German ‘ / Army, Added To ‘Invasion’ Staff

Invasion Plans Are Advanced   ‘Expert on ‘German Army Is Assianed

GERMAN EXPERT ON U.S. STAFF   Authority On Nazi Army Joins European Weadquartlers In Pre-Invasion Work

GEN. CROCKETT ASSIGNED TO FUROPEAN HO.   “Mave: ‘Seen As... “Another Step  Toward Invasion

Crockett Named To Europe Staff   General Authority On German Army

JAPAN ADMITS LACK OF WAR MATERIALS   Greater Plane Production Is ‘Ne c¢ssary Despite “Brilliant”  Jap Successes

Reject Easing of Biockade   Anglo-American Refugee Delegates Meet—Approach  ‘‘Explosive’’ Problems

Conference Reported To Have Rejected Proposals For Easing Allied Blockade To Feed Starving In Axis Europe

Bond Quota In County Is Over By Wee Margin   Preliminary Check Reveals County Achieved Its Huge Assignment with at Least ‘$10,000 to Spare.

Nazi Mistakes In Air Listed   Sicilian Invasion Reveals Weakness

Germans Fumbled  Ball in Sicily  Defense Scheme Failed to Assign  Fighter Planes To Invasion Spot

Japanese Navy Loses Ten Warships As Our Forces Score Smashing Victoiy

Japs Are Given Good Licking  Declares Knoy   Secretary Of Navy Says En. emy Got Another Notable Naval Defeat  Ry JOSEPH 4 Rare

Syracuse And (ther Key-Pomts In Sicily Taken   Capture Of Syracuse Pro. vides Big Harbor To Land Weapons   TWO THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN

Jittery Capital Realizes Now That It Will Be “Hamburged”; Biggest Bombers Poised Again      Nervous Ground Defenses “Go Haywire” as Little Planes Come Over. All Parts of City Are Hit by  Ineendiaries.

New Destruction Is Heaped On Big Nazi City   BRITISH PLANES R AID CAPITAL

REICH CAPITAL KEPT ON EDGE BY MOSQUITOES   Light Bombers Fly Thru Clouds Of Smoke Still Rising From Monday Blow   GROUND DEFENSE HEAVIER   Four-Engined Planes Await Clearing Weather For Sesond Heavy Assault

CAPITAL ROCKS UNDER LATEST BOMBER BLOW   Three Air Fleets Pound Foggia, Important Base In Italy

Berlin Gets Third Raid   Lightning Mosquitoes Acain Hammer City.

OFFENSIVE CONTINUES ON TARGE]   Mosquito” Bombers Heap  ‘New Destruction on ®  - Capita!—'Hamburg” May Be Repeated.

HUGE ALLY AiR FLEETS CMACH EAAAIA ADEA. .  ViIMVEl FE YVUUIN ALLA  NA7I CAPITAL BURNING

PLANES. HEAP DESTRUCTION ON CAPITAL   Only One R. A. F. Plane _ Is Lost ‘In Latest Raid On Capital

Nazi Capital Is Rocked By Alhied Raid   Fires Blaze After Third Attack In As Many Days

SOLDERING CITY (S AGAIN BOMBED FOR THIRD NIGHT   Plywood Mosquitoes Ar’ Over Hitler’s Capitol HalfHour to Bomb, Start Ad . ditional Fires.   GROUND DEFENSES OFFER HEAVY RESISTANCE   American Flying Forces Strike at italian Positions To Paralyze Southern Part of Country.

BERLIN SUFFERS BOMBING THIRD NIGHT IN ROW   Pl ywood Mosauiotes. Dart Through Clouds of Smoke Loosing Explosives

Bad Weather Grounds Big Planes of RAF   Neutral Dispatches Say Unrest Marks Citizens of Capital

BOMBS FALL ON BERLIN 3RD NIGHT   Mosquitos Used; Weather Grounds ..Biager Aircraft

Berlin Rocked By Bombs in Third Assault  German Capital Stunned, City Smouldering

ADVANCES UP 10 25 MILES MADE + TOWARD DNIEPER   Coordinated Offensives Give , Promise of Reaching Riv er Before Battlefields Be{ come Mud.   JAYS REPORTED IN DESPERATE STRAITS   Japanese Earthquake Kills  at Least 1400 With 4000  Homes Demolished, Big  Fires Race.

JAPS DANE CHINA RICE BOW   Open New Offensive in Hunan and Hupeh Provinces; Tojo Says Japs Ready to Deal Crushing Blows

Chinese Halt Enemy Attacks Upon Vital Food Region   Japs Note Anniversary _ Of Corregidor’s  Fall With New Threat

FOE LAUNCHES DRIVE IN CHINA   Japs in New Offensive in Hunan and Hupeh Aimed At “Rice Bowl”

gap Action Was Forecast  By Chinese   Tojo in Philippines Says Japanese Ready To Deal Crushing Blow  FIGHTING INDECISIVE

Japs Launch New China Offensive   Tojo Voices Brags  On Corregidor Day

Japanese Are Hitting At Chinese Bases   Nips Stage Big Celebration  In Manila

NEW PUSH ON “RICE BOWL"   Prepared For Decisive Blow In East Asia Manila Dispatch Stztes; Initia!   Phase Unsuccessful

Japs Open New Drive In China   Chinese Say First Attack Hurled Rack

JAPS IN DRIVE AGAINST CHINA   Enemy Trying To Destroy  China’s Source Of poo

Army Would Take Over 7 Million  Cars, Spare Tires   No Synthetic Rubber Has Been  Produced

Army Would Requisition Automobiles  : Banning of Long Disfance Hauling A  lea Comaactad

Army in Favor Of Taking Over 7,000,000 Cars   Would Also Requisitior All Spare Tires Now on Private Autos   Suggestions Made to Jeffers Who Continues His Criticisms

ARMY REVEALS PLAN TO BUY PRIVATE GARS   Says Suggestion Was Made To Jeffers Last Dec. 8

ARMY WANTS TU TAKE SPARE TIRES   Would Requisition Some T,« 000,000 Autos in Coun. try, Ban Long-Distance Truck, Bus Hauls

CARS AND TIRES ASKED BY ARMY   About 7,000, 000 Private praia Listed for Requisition

REQUISITIONING.OF CARS IS PROPOSED   Army Wants Drastic Steps to Meet. Military... Needs

ARMY DEMANDS PRIVATE CARS   House Committee Learns 7 Million Are Wanted, Also Spare Tires; Jeffers Heard

Army Wants Requisition Of 7,000 000  Automobiles    Also Wants Government To Take Spare Tires And Ban Long Distance Bus and Truck Trips   COMPLAINS ABOUT JEFFERS’ INACTION   JEPEERS BPNAULIOIN  Facets Brought Out As Committee Probes Rubber Czar’s Chareves

REQUISITION OF NATION'S AUTOS   Army Favors Taking 7,/oa0,000 Private Cars And All Spare Tires

ARMY WOULD SEIZE (000,000 AUTOS   URGES GOVERNMENT TO REQUISITION ALL SPARE PASSENGER CAR TIRES,

Requisitioning’ of 7,000,000 Autos Proposed  Army Would Also Take All Spare Tires From Owner:

Requisitioning of 7,000,000  Autos Proposed Army Would Also Take All Spare  SS . Sere es ~_

Suggest Government Requisition of Seven Million Autos and Spare Tires

Traveling Ban Also Is Urged   Congress Unit Hears About ! Amy Plan

EXCESS CARS MAY BE REQUISITIONED   Army Wants Government t Assume Control of About 7,000,000 Autos.

TOTAL STILL MOUNTS   i on scent speed dtitcsamen ete tinted  Red Cross Fund for the ( ‘ounty Has Reached $24,338.06

TOTAL STILL MOUNTS   Red Cross F und for the ( ‘ounty Has Reached $24,338.06

eoOrT’ NAZI DisvisseD   Dow Platoon Accompanies Marines In Landing on Bougainville Island

‘To Establish Bougainville Beachhead,  ‘Dea Platoon Lands With Marines

Russians Hang Up New Gains West of Kharkov   N.D. War Bond Campaign Dedicated to Men of 164th

Nazis Halt Russians In Donets   Soviets Advance  In Other Sectors

Hint Political  Row In France   Connection Apparently Deals With Marshal Petain; Reported Ll.

German Radio Hints at Certain Inner Political Tendencies in France   ATTACK IS ‘RUMORED

Yank Fliers Bomb  TP racne re mde ak  Jap DUITHCAS UL”  Burma Rodd Post

NEW AUTO LICENSES GO ON SALE IN OHIO   Paper Windshield Stickers Replace Metal Plates

Martin Says War Could Well End Much Earlier Than Military Expects

People Have Right to Expect Sanity — and Economy in Government: Martin

MARTIN FEARS TAX INCREASES   DECLARES HIGHER TAX LEVIES CAN STRANGLE MIDDLE-CLASS GROUP

@SLLASGBAAA A,  Today’s Editorial           ..FOR THE Goon  OF TIS AT.T.??__

REDS ARE WITHIN TT MILES OF AXIS HOLDING KHARKO\   Enemy Possibly Withdrawing Forces With Increasing Threat of Encirclement of Larae City.   SOVIET GUNS ABLE TO SHELL RAILROAD LINE   Jap Salamans Base Is Being Softened, Vila Airdrome Plastered By Bomber For Second Day.

L   FALL OF BIGGEST CITY IN  UKRAINE IS IMMINENT AS RUS TROOPS OVERCOME ALL -_RESISTANCE

Russian Armies Within 11 Miles Of Nazi Bastion   Germans Reported Already Beginning To Withdraw From Site

NEW THREAT TO NAZI GARRISON ‘AT KHARKOV   Russ Artillery Perils Escape

REDS DRIVE CLOSER TO KHARKOV   Have Only One Rail Route Of Escape

Russians Are 11 Miles From - Kharkov Area   Russian Army Is Only 11 Miles From Area It Is Seeking In The Ukraine Today

BEGINS T0 LEAVE CITY   Last Major Railroad Is Brought Under  Soviet Guns

Soviets Only Eleven Miles From Kharko\   Trunk Railroad Put Under Fire; City's Fall Sean

REDS DRIVE CLOSE T0 KHARKOY   Germans Show Heavy Loss Of Material

NAZIS IN HASTY. RETREAT ABANDON ARMS. EQUIPMENT   Russian Forces Converge on Kharkov from Many Dirpectione.-

ONLY ONE WAY OF ESCAPE LEFT FOR NAZIS AT KHARKOV   Soviets Within Eleven Miles of City As Foe Withdraws   DEFENSES SMASHED ON N. UKRAINE FRONT

Soviet. Spearheads Moving Toward.   Poltava And —  Sumy  ALL COUNTERATTACKS FAT

REDS BRING TRUNK RAIL UNDER FIRE   German Garrison Left Only. Qne One Route

BIG GUNG LAY FRE ON MANN ESCAPE OAL   Army Only 11 Miles Away’ and Germans Pulling Out of Many Sectors.”   NAZIS REEL FROM TANK,  _ ARTILLERY, AIR ATTACK

Nazis Believed To Be Leaving To Escape Encirclement   Russians Trap Garrison After Garrison; Germans Have Onlve One Escape

Reds Report Battle Lull   Spreading Spring Thaw Responsible; Advance On Smolensk Continues

THAW HALTING RUSS FIGHTING   Soviets Continue Successful Local Actions, However. Karkov Offensive Slackens.

Campaign Ahead Of Schedule   Sharp Fighting, Heavy Casualties Expected, Patterson

Heavy Losses Seen In Drive   Undersecretary Of War Pattérson Warns Toughest Fighting To Come,

Sicily Campaign Ahead Of Plans But Sharp Fight Lies "Ahead For Allies

“IN SUMMER eINDICATED   Vast Bombing To Be Hiked; Woe For  ) Japs Promised

Churchill Forecasts Heavy Fighting i in Mediterranean Area Before Autumn Comes

remier Reveals lied Mastery Of U-Boat Peri   Re-pledges British To Help Defeat Japs After Axis Falls

30 SUBS ARE SUNK DURING MAY ALONE   Heavy Fighting Before Leaves Fall, He Warns

Churchill Promises Axis That  Bombing Will Increase; — Sees Battles by Fall

British Prime Minister Announces Allies Gained “Total Victory’ Over Nazi Submarine Menace During May, Sinking 30 Enemy Subs That Month   Churchill Also Forecasts Heavy Fighting In European Theater “Before Leaves Of Autumn Fall”

‘U.S. Bombers Hit Antwerp   Weather Is Good Over Taraet Area Of Port

‘ANTWERP RAIDED BY LARGE FORCE ‘OF FORTRESSES   Erla Airplane Repair Works Target Of Heavy Aerial Assault   AIRMEN ENCOUNTER HEAVY OPPOSITION

Daylight Attack Follows ~ British Assault on ; Kiel “GOOD RESULTS” IN _ ASSAULT REPORTED Altied Bombers Believed  Again Over the Continent

BOMBS RAINED ON NAZI-LAND AROUND CLOCK   AMERICANS FOLLOW RAF WITH BLOW AT ANTWERP

YANKS POUND ANTWERP, KIEL FOLLOW RAF   Fires, Destruction, Heavy Losses Reported From Belgian City Where Erla Plane Factory Operates.   5 Planes Missing

Americans Stage New Raids ‘On Continent   Great Enemy Airplane Plant Is Prime Target; Results Are Declared Good: Many Allied Planes Are Used

AMERICANS BOMB PLANT IN BELGIUM FIVE PLANES LOSI   Number of Germans Shot Down During Raid on Erla Airplane Repair Works _ Near. Antwerp.   MANY FORTRESSES _ TAKE PART IN ATTACK   Onslaught Follows British Assault on Kiel and U. S. Blasting of Factory ‘in Paris.

PLANE PLANT IN BELGIUM IS BLASTED HARD   U.'S. Bombers Follow Up Heavy British Attack on Kiel

Erla Airplane Works Poundec In Heavy Raid   Withering Aerial Atfack Carried Out with "Good Results”   Liberators and Fortresses Escorted by Many Spitfires

‘Planes Raid Antwerp Plant   be Plane Works Follows RAF Hit Nazi Radio Stations Off Air Again

Bomb Nazis Day, Night   Germans Admit Americans Hit Blocks of Houses

U.S. Bombers Follow Up R.A.F. Raiders   ‘Good Results’ Are Obtained in New Attacks

PLANE PLANT IN BELGIUM IS   U. S. Bombers F ollow Up Heavy Attack on Kiel

ANTWERP PLANE WORKS POUNDED BY AMERICANS   British Assault Kiel In Day And Night Drive; Brest Docks Are Also Raked   New Raid Indicated

Big U. S. Bombers  Devastate German Plant at Antwerp   Great Armada of Fortresses, Liberators With Heav' Fighter Escort Battle Way to Blast Erla Motor Works; Five Allied Planes Lost

Name Four to Game Commission   Two Appointed to Turnpike Body—Torrance to Be Named Later

Appointments Announced By Gov. Martin   Number ot Vacancies on Turnpike and Game Commission Are Filled  LEFFELER i$ RETAINED

DRASTIC RATION SAID TO POINT TO FOOD CRISIS   Farm Bureau Spokesman Declares Disaster Is Ahead Under Present OPA Policies   Consumption Halved

Nazis Claim Soviets Lose   German High Command ‘Declares Sudden — Thrust Succeeds

Russia Refutes Axis Claims of Gains at Kuban   Reds Declare German Plans For New Attacks Smashed; Berlin Sees Another Offensive in Offing

Sudden Nazi Thrust In Kuban Area Overwhelms Russians, Germans Say

NAZI HIGH COMMAND REPORTS SUCCESS IN BRIDGEHEAD ATTACK  GERMANS CLAIM MANY  RED TROOPS CAPTURED, ROATS CMACHEN

NAZI THRUST GAINS ~INKUBAN DISTRICT   Muddy Highways Make Extension of Offensive Now  \ Unlikely   REDS GAIN IN NORTH

Danish Riots Against Nazi Rule Increase      Danes Storm German Arsenal And Steal Thousands Of Weapons In Bold Move

Danes, Germans Stage Riots As Sabotage Grows   Six Cities Placed Under State Of Emergency Diile a

PEOPLES REVOLI BRINGS STRONG NAZI RULING   Six Danish Towns In State Of Emergency After Uprisals

DANISH REVOLT GROWS   Six Cities Placed Under Emergency) State By Nazi Conquerors

Six Danish Cities Under Emergency  Riots Between Danes   Riots Between Danes, Soldiers, Sabotage Result in Decrees

Danes Revolt against Nazi Occupation   State of Emergency Declared for Six Towns; People Steal German Rifles

Danish Revolt Rapidly Gains   Six Cities in Denmark Placed Under State Of Emergency

YUGOSLAV ARMY ENTERS TRIESTE   Inhabitants Of City Aid - Slovenes In Fighting German Invaders

Slav Troops Besiege Nazi Trieste Force  Italian Division  Reinforce Strong Core], P....].

Pay-As-You-Go Income Plan Will Pass   Some Form Readied N. Y. Banker Tells Pittsburgh   NATIONAL SCRAP   Retail Sales Levy Proposed for FDR $16 Billion Kitty

Who Broke Lock on Bedroom Door Occupies Jury at Errol Flynn Trial

TEST OF SUBSIDIES MAY COME SOON   Agricultural Committee Plans Meeting Thursday to Consider Milk Price Hike Bill

SUBSIDIES WILL FACE BIG TEST   Solons To Study Plan To End Dairy Feed Payments

RABAUL INVASION ' ROUTE IS SOFTENED   Scattered Attacks Made on Many Key Installations

AIR AND SEA BLOW TAKES HEAVY TOLL OF JAP SHIPPING   Plane and P-T Boat Assaults Account For Three Jap Ships And 13 Barges In Scattered

M’ Arthur Hits At Finschhafen   Landing Off Key Bas Opposed by Japs

Churchill Shows  Some Improvement   Recovery Of Prime Minister Appears To Be Assured Is Cheering Word

JAVA BASERAIDED — BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Round Trip of 2400 Mile: Made to Attack Seaport

Bombers Make 2,400 Mile Trip To Attack Sourabaya, Former Dutch Base Taken By Japs In ‘42

JAP MERCHANT SHIP BLASTED   Wireless Station Also Destroyed as MacArthur's Bombers Continue to Strafe Enemy

Liberators Fly 1,200 Miles To ‘Attack Surabaya   American Planes Also Attack Enemy in Other Sectors   Blast Three Warships near Buin, Bomb Munda Sector

JAP VESSEL AND WIRELESS STATION BOMBED TUESDAY   4,000-Ton Merchant Shir Blasted By 500 Pound Bombs; Station Destroyed As MacArthur’s Bombers Took Advantage of Im: proved Weather.

[JAP SHIP A SHIP AND re STATION BLASTED TUESDAY   Liberator Attacks Two’ 4,000-Ton Enemy Ships Scoring Hit ori One and  Two Near Misses on Other.

MacArthur's Planes Sink Ship, Wreck Wireless Station   Enemy Positions in New Guinea Targets For Strafing Attacks

BOMBERS RENE AAIDS ON WEWAK   Liberators Bomb Town and Supply Installations; Allied Ground Troops Advance on Salamaua

j/ALLIED PLANES DESTROY \JAP WIRELESS STATION, DAMAGE MERCHANT SHIP

4,000- TON JAP SHIP BLASTED   MacArthur's Bombers Take Advantage Of Improved Weather To Strike At Enemy.

Jap Merchant Ship Blasted by Bomb   Better Weather Aids U.S, Airmen

WEWAK LASHED IN ALLIED RAID   Record Load Of 112 Tons Of Explosives Rained On Jap Stronghold  In New Guinea

U.S. Liberators Again Bomb Wewak Base   Drop 112 Tons of Explosives on New Guinea Coast

JAP MERCHANT SHIP DAMAGED IN AIR RAID   Hit in Arafura Sea Off Aroe Islands

LIBERATORS RAID WEWAK NEW GUINEA   RecordLoad DroppedOnTown And Supply Installations;  Down Nine Jap Planes At Vella Lavella   Start Fires

Former Dutch Base Pounded   Other Raidrs Hit: Wlarchince At Buin

Japanese Basé In Java Is ‘Bombed By American Airmen   Round Trip Of 2,400 Miles Is Made By U.S. ( Damhore Ta Blact Refinery And Oi! Reserves

MACARTHUR BOMBERS BLASTED SHIP AND WIRELESS STATION  _ IMPROVED WEATHER ~  CONDITIONS BRING ALLIED

4000-TON NIP VESSEL DAMAGED   Jap Wireless Station : Wrecked; Other Bases Raided

South Pacific Air Warfare Undiminished   Liberators Again Visit Wewak on New Guinea And Drop Record Load

FORMER NAVAL BASE AT -SOURABAY A HIT   Allied Planes Cover 2,400 Miles In Damaging Attack On Port   MUNDA SUBJECTED TO ANOTHER RAID

MacArthur's Airmen Hit Java Base   Raiders Fly 2400 Miles to Bomb Surabaya Seaport

Nazis to Select leader of France offen Allis Land   Preparing Steps for Control Against Sabotage

SAFE AND SANE CELEBRATION IN UNITED STATES   Only 145 Fatalities Recorded Over Holiday. Drownings, Traffic Deaths In Lead

HOLIDAY DEATHS IN NATION ARE LEAST IN YEARS   Safest, Sanest Fourth Of July In Decades Recorded Over Fourth

Holiday Death Toll Reduced. By Gas Drouth      Safest And Sanest Fourth In 20 Years Recorded By Natian

Holiday Deaths at Minimum; Rails Bring Vacationers Home   Railroads Move ?Em

July 4 Week-end Traffic Toll Low   Celebration Costs Far Fewer Lives

Bevan Assails War Operations As Big Blunder   Blames Churchill For Red Losses

HIGH COURT UPHOLDS JAP RESTRICTION   Another decision permits communist to hold U. S. citizenship

FORTRESSES JAR BREST, LORIENT   Three Bombers, Two Fight. ers Lost in Raids on Nazi-Held Bases

Two French Ports Given Heavy Dose   Yanks Hit Brest And Lorient; Essen Bombed By RAF

Bomber s Hit  Nazi Bases — im Daylight   Armament Works Center Blasted on Previous Night

Yankee Planes Hit af Lorient. Brest Targu  wren    R. A. F. and Alli. * “Fighters Escort U. S. ‘Bombers, But Little  Opposition Is Met

Americans Bomb Brest, Lorient  Five Planes Missing In Daylight Operations

French Corsica Is Handed to Allies;  Salerno Is Taken   Terms of Armistice Revealed—lItaly Agrees to Move Naval and Air Units to Allied Territory and Release All Prisoners—Premier and Monarch Believed to Have Left Rome

Italy Gives Up French Corsica, Naval and Air Units, to Free Thousands of Allied Prisoners

NTALIANS URGED TO RESIST NAZIS   APPEALS TO PEOPLE ISSUED BY MARSHAL BADOGLIO AND KING EMANUELE,

‘King and Marshal Urge Italian Folk To Assist Allies and Abide By Terms of Newly Signed Treaty

Final Terms Of Armistice Made Public   Prisonera-of-War Released; War and Cargo Ships Made Available

NAZIS SEIZE VICHY GOVERNMENT REINS   Three French Generals and Marshal Petain Under Guard

Fleeing German and Italian Troops Take to Boats But Allied Airmen Pound Ships to Wreckage in Harbor; Rommel’s Forces Race for Tunisian Frontier as British Finish 1,400-mile Sweep Across Desert.

CONTROL GROUP IS APPOINTED   Commission Named To Carry Out Terms In Italy

CONTROL BOARD FOR ITALY NAMED   GROUP CHOSEN BY EISENHOWER WILL CARRY OUT ’ TERMS OF ARMISTICE.

Control Board ln Italy Named   Nation Must Help Allies To Eulfect

Nazis Moving More Troops Inio Italy   Hitler Apparently Plans to Make Real Fight for Northern Region   ALSO TAKES OVER FRENCH COAST AREA   Troop Move Reported as Al. lies Tell Europeans to Be Prepared

MAJOR DOINGS IN TALY ARE COVERED UP BY CENSORSHIP   Correspondents Prevented From Disclosing The News   FRICTION EXISTS BETWEEN THE AXIS

HINT NEW CHANGES OF ITALIAN LEADERS   Censorship Prevents News in Regular Dispatches

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IS HINTED IN ITALY   Badoglio Scented But Censors Tighten Up on Reports   Late Bulletins

PEGLER PICKETED   Maritime Union Assigns Perma. nent Pickets Against Columnist

NAZIS KILLED BY FRENCH PATRIOTS   Announcement of As. saults Made in Bold Communiques

french Guerrillas Boldly Announze Attacks Against Nazis, Including Train Wreck With 950 Cacualtioe

GUERRILLA FRENCH WRECK NAZI TRAIN   MORE THAN 250 GERMANS KILLED AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS WOUNDED.

French Guerrillas Issue Bold  Announcement Of Activities   Unprecedented Communiques From Inside France Report Hundreds Of Germans Killed, Wounded ; Violence Grows

‘TO HONOR PAST RULERS   Special Meeting Will Be Held at Elks Lodge Wednesday Night

Nazi's Birthday Celebration Interrupted As Raiders Drop First Daylight Bombs On City   Marshal Goering Speaks After An Hour’s Delay, and Urges Repeatedly of the Need For German Unity—Says Russians Were Underestimated—German Festivities  Greatly Dimmed.

Axis Armies Still Dangerous Foe, Japs Must Be Stamped Out Individually

AXIS MORALE WILTS UNDER AIR ATTACK   That's What West Pointers Told by Yank General

Decisive Year ror Lhe Aities  Me: A ee Ol   Arnold Says Axis Morale Is Cracking

Axis Morale In Cracking   Air Blows - Bring Crisis In War — Arnold

FORMER HITLER FRIEND AIDING U, S$. GOVT. NOW   He Filed Reich in 1943, Going to Britain, From Where He Was Sent to Camp in Canada,

PUTED HELPS AGAINST AXIS   ONE  OF. miriai’d ~ cLOskat  ' FRIENDS FOR 14 YEARS NOW: ASSISTING THE UNITED =~ BATES —_

Ex Confidante Of Hitler Now Is Adviser To U. §.   Propagandist's Wh ere. abouts Guarded: Officials Deny Knowledge

Schoeppel Takes Oath   Inaugural Address Pledges To Reduce State Expenditures

‘Schoeppel Is New  Kansas Governot   Complete Set of Republican «State Officials Induct' ed. Today   FIRST FROM THE WEST   House and Senate in Joint Session Tomorrow to Hear Message

Schoeppel Assunes Command   ‘Governor Says War Must Take Precedence: All State Offices  Held By Republicans

WLB PERMITS RAISE FOR OHIO CANNERIES   Approve 10 Cents Increase for 17,000 Workers

CANNERY WAGE BOOST GRANTED   17.000 Employes Of 68 Ohio Plants Benefit From WLB Order

Revival of Fascist Regime Is Great Service to Allies Italians Do Not Want Mussolini

HITLER’S REVIVAL OF FASCIST REGIME IN ITALY UNDER IL DUCE — GREAT SERVICE TO ALLIED CAUSE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Attempt To Revive ascism Merely Effort To Gain More Time  b f

Hitler’s Move To Revive Fascism \More Help To Allies Than To Axis

BRITISH WATCH LEBANON CRISIS   Troops On Spot Ready To Take Over In Trouble Zone

British Ready » To Stop Riots   Lebanon Warned. It Will “Be Seized If Order © : “Ts: Not Restored

BritainReady To Take Lebanon   British Troops. Are On Spot Prepared to Act If Ordered ,

British Will Seize Lebanon If Need Be   Make It Clear to French They Will Take Control Of Vital Area; Troops Are Already on the Spot

Britain Ready to Quell Row in Lebanon   Attach Importance to Maintaining Peace “in the Near East

BRITISH SEEN READY 10 TAKE OVER LEBANON   May Move To Protect Strategic Middle East

British Ready lor Lebanon It Necessary      Clashes Between French. Lebanese Nationalists Start: Treops Ready.   GERMANS IN ACTION

British Ready to Act Quickly in Lebanon Trouble  French Assertions of Area Being’ Quiet Are Not Accepied

Banners of All United Nations Massed To Form First Jomt Celebration

FLY NEW FLAG   EMBLEM OF FOUR FREEDOMS APPEARS PUBLICLY FOR FIRST TERVIF TODAY.

President’s Proclamation Calls for Tribute to Emblems o ‘Massed Angered Forces of Common Humanity’

Flags Of United Nations Flown   First Joint Observance Of Flag Day .

Allied Banners Fly With American Flag   Flags of 32 Nations Marching Together in Celebration

United Nations Join With US. for First Time in Flag Day   “Flag of Four Freedoms” Is Hoisted for First Time in Washington as 31 Allied Nations Help America Celebrate

United Nations’ Flags Massed   Americans Work To Bring New Glory To Old Glory

United Nations Joir In Flag Observance   Tribute Is Paid To Emblems of 32 Countries

FLAG DAY OF ALLIES MARKED   America Joined for First Time by Other United Nations in Display of Colors.

NATIONS PAUSE FOR FLAG DAY   Four-Freedoms Flag Serves All United Nations

United Nations Observe American Flag Day  [Flaq of Four Freedoms Is Flown

New Flag of Four Freedoms Unfurled for First Time Today in Washington

British Leapfrog Tactics Clinch Adriatic Gains   Yanks Threaten To Turn Volturno Line By Crossing Calore River

Goums Enter Escape Port Of Bastia   Remnants of Naz Forces isolated ace err

FRENCH FORGES ENTER BASTIA   Final Collapse of Corsica [s Marked

Clark Surges _ Ahead To Cut  Calore River   Rome-Appennines Defense Also Threatened By New Moves

British Eighth Races Along Adriatic Coast   Germans Continue Retreat Into Central Italy With American Forces Pushing 32 Miles North Of Naples

New Foothold Gained 50 Mi. From Foggia   Americans Clean Up Melfi Salient, Occupying Montemiletto   Retreat in Quick Hops After Series of Rear Guard Delay Actions

FRENCH SEIZE CORSICA PORT   Bastia Is Captured As Naz Resistance Collapses

American Forces Threafen Flank Of Nazi Retreat   German Defense’ Line At Volturno Now Jeopardized

British Eighth Army and U. S. Fifth Army Make New Advances in Italy

Sth Army Is 30 Miles Past Naples   Allied Forces Moving Northward Faster Than Expected

British Force Lands Far Up Italian Coast   Thrust Eastern Prong Halfway Up Adriatic Shore; Nazis Falling Back In Central Area

GERMANS MOVE OUT   Final Nazi Resistance it Corsica Is Broken by Allies

American Fifth Surges Forward Toward Rome   Advances of Allied Forces Threatens to Turn Nazi Defenses

ALLIED FORCES MOVE HALFWAY UP ITALY COAST   strike Behind German Rearguards. Beat Off  Counter-Attacks and Take Priseners      YANKEES CONTINUED STEADY ROME MARCH   Fighth Army Threatens to Turn Defenses of German Marshals Rom. mel and Kesselring

Located Between Po  Mouth and Italian Heel   Clark's Troops Surge from Benevento, Capture Calore Crossing from Naples To Rome; Fifth oniy Cas Support.

American Troops Surge Forward, Capture Important River Crossing   Montgomery’s Drive Up Coast Threatens to Turn Deferises Of Rommel.And Kesselring

Fifth Surges Forward On Rome March   Eighth Clinch Hold at TermoliThreaten to  Turn Defenses

French Forces Enter Bastia, Pursue Nazis   With Fall of Chief Port on Corsica Nazi German Resistance On Island Breaks

CLINCH HOLD ON ADRIATIC COAST HALF WAY TO PO   American Fifth Army At Same Time Advances Toward Rome From Benevento.

NAZI DEFENSE COLLAPSES IN CORSICA ZONE   French Forces March Into ~ Bastia; Axis Remnants ~ Being Cleaned Out  WT TT T TAMTaArT

Nazi Resistance On Corsica Ends   Moroccan Goums Enter Northeastern Tip Of Island

TERMOLI ON ADRIATIC COAST 15 CAPTURED; AMERICANS ADVANCE  GEN. MONTGOMERY GETS NAVAL SUPPORT IN HIS

ALLIED ARMIES TAKE POSITION NEAR PO RIVER   Termoli Is Taken; U. S. Troops On Way To Rome

Sea-Borne Hop Gives 8th Army New Positions   Operation at Termoli is Successful; ‘Clerk's Forces: Continiie to Advance

TERMOLI ON ADRIATIC  COAST 15 CAPTURED;  AMERICANS ADVANCE GEN. MONTGOMERY GETS  NAVAL SUPPORT IN HIS NORTHWARD TREK 3 .

BRITISH FORCES CLINGH HOLD ON ——ADRIATIC COAST   The Move Threatens To Turn German Defense of Rome   AMERICANS CROSS THE CALORE RIVER

SEA-BORNE LANDING OUTFLANKS ENEMY MIDWAY TO PO RIVER   Clark’s Fifth Army Surges Forward In March On Rome: Cross Calore River

NEW ADVANCES MADE IN ITALY   Both 5th and 8th Armies ) Still on Move

French Take Bastia as Germans Land in Some Force on Coo   British Eighth Army on Italian Mainland Oc. cupies Termoli

THREATENS AXIS FLANK   8th Halfway To Mouth Of Po; Yanks Cross  Calore River

Eighth Army Grabs Termoli   CLARK TAKES KEY CROSSING ON CALORE RIVER AS NAZI VOLTURNO DEFENSE LINE IS BLOCKED; YANK MARAUDER BOMBERS SMASH CASTELVOLTURNO

Flanking Of German Defenses Hinted: Raid On Termoli  Is Surprise

Troops Leapfrog To Take Termoli   “New Advance on Eastern Italian Coast Made by ‘ - Eighth Army   MAY FLANK. NAZI LINE   American _ Advance May Force Nazis From the Volturno River

CORSICA FALLS. TO THE ALLIES   Only Scattered Remnants of German Forces Left On Beaches.

American Fifth Army Takes Carole River Crossing; British 8th Capture Termoli

Naval Forces Aid in Drive Against Nazis   Yanks Threaten To Turn Flank Of Enemy Defense

EIGHTH ARMY IN LANDING AT TERMOL   Clark’s Forces Move Forward From Benevento; Resistance Stiffens North Of Naples

ALLIED TROOPS SURGING AKEAD   Eighth Army Units in Amphibious Landing on Adriatic Coast.   YANKS PUSHING NORTH

British Land From Sea, Hold Military Positions at Termoli   American Troops Capture Important Crossing on Calore River; Airmen Blast Freight Yards in Italy

Nazi Resistance  Ends On Corsiez  French Announce Force: Now In Corsica  —_ees, ab ene

Seize And Clinch Positions At Termoli Between Italian  Heel And Po River To North   Fifth Army’s Progress Also Threatens Enemy Pram Another Secter; Monteemery’  Peeeteray  Forces Capture German Prisoners

French Enter City of Bastia   Remnants of German Forces In Corsica Seattered

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY. GLINGHED HOLD ON TERMOLE   Is Almost Midway Between Italian Heel and Mouth of the River Po.   ON THE ADRIATIC COAST   U. S. 5th Army Captured an Important -Crossing on Calore River.

American Troops Driving Forwara In March on Rome   Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army Surges on From Bercvento Capturing Important Crossings on the Calore River   MONTGOMERY ADVANCING UP ADRIATIC COAST

Fifth Army Captures Benevento in Its Drive Toward Rome and ~Sirafes Nazi Columns Retreatina.

French Forces Enter Bastia  Beehive ee: ee F   Resistance Ends Today on Corsica

sone” army in surprise Move Takes Termoli   This. Move as Well As American Advance Threaten to Turn German Flanks

-ighth Army ands at eed  ‘anks Capture  gain fmamceinnm   ‘anks Capture ain Crossing *'Calore River

FRENCH RETAKE CORSICA   German Resistance Virtually Ended On Mediterranean Island

POINT HALFWAY BETWEEN ITALY HEEL. PO RIVER   5th Army Captures Important Crossing of Calore River

‘British 8th-Army Clinches Its ‘Position at Termoli; Americans :Cross Calore in March on Rome   FRENCH FORCES IN CORSICA OUST LAST OF NAZIS; SCATTERED BANDS MOPPED UP

Seize Town Of Termoli On Adriatic   Eighth Army Employ: Leapfrog Tactics in Speed Drive Alongs Coast OF Italy

 River Crossing May Force Withdrawal of Germans Farther North; Allied Airmen Blast  Bridges, Roads on Retreat Routes

Woman Shot Dead  In Hotel in Tulsa   Victim Was Wife of  Promiment Oil Man

HORSEWOMAN SHOT DEAD IN TULSA   i MRS. T. K. SIMMONS KILLED) IN HOTEL ROOM—ANOTHER  WOMAN QUESTIONED,

BROWN CAUSES GROUP PROTEST   Asks Bigger Appropriatior For Farmer Incentive Payments.

BROWNFAVORS INCENTIVE PAY FOR FARMERS      OPA Chief’s Suggestion Brings Storm of Protest at Committee Hearing in Which He Opposes the Pace Bill.

‘Storm Raised By Price Boss        Brown Proposes Increased Appropriations for Incentive Payments to Farmers

Higher Subsidy ls Urged   BROWN RAISES STORM OF PROTEST BY FARM SENATE COMMITTEE

BROWN URGES INCENTIVE PAY FOR FARMERS   Says Pace Parity Bill Would End Stabilization Effort, Hike Living Costs

Cash-to-Farm Plan Rouses New Storm   Brown Telts Committes Idee Is Better Than Bill Causing inflation

PACE BILL IS INFLATIONARY BROWN THINKS   Asks Senate Aggy Committee For Sympathy and Understanding In Effort to Hold  Down Prices

Brown Backs Incentive Pay For Farmers   Price Administrator Favors Benefit Over Bankhead. Pace Measures.   BRINGS OBJECTIONS

Commando Unit Joins Patriots ToOustGermans   Land on Key Island Under Guns Of Nazis to Battle for Port; Allies Move Steadily on Naples

‘Commandos Aid Patriots On Island   French High Command Says Corsica Fighting Takes Favorable Turn  MOVE IS SURPRISE

FREE FRENCH WAGE BATTLE FOR CORSICA   GERMANS SURPRISED BY SWIFT ACTION OF COMMANDOS

Naval Forces Participate In Swift Action to Take Island Off Italian Coast   French High 1 Command Reports Battle Takes “Favorable Turn;” Corsican Patriots Battle Nazi Troops

Giraud’s Forces Land to Back Up Patriots—“Favorable Turn” in Fighting Is Reported.      NAVAL VESSELS TAKE PART IN OPERATION   Ousting of Germans Would Place Great Air Prize in Hands of Armies Under  BRisenhower.

HIGH COMMAND ANNOUNCES SWIFT SURPRISE ACTION TO GRAB KEY MEDI. TERRANEAN ISLAND LESS THAN 50 MILES FROM MAINLAND

French Announce Surprise Action Against Nazis: Fight With Patriots: Say Battle Takes a Favorable Turn   Island Considered a Prize; Capture Would Add to French Morale; Italian Forces Hold Sardinia; Yankees Enlarge Bridgehead

Giraud Men Aid Island Patriots   Fighting Seen Taking ‘BPavoralbe Turn’

Corsica Fighting Said Favorable ©   Commandos To Aid Patriots On Island. ::

French troops are swarming onto Corsica   Commandos fight  ja. exiozn icland

Frenchmen Battle Against Nazis To Seize Corsica  - Commandos Effect Surprise Move On Strategic Isle

Commandos Join French Patriots In Battle To Rid Corsica of Nazis   Fighting Takes ‘Favorable Turn’’ after Surprise Aclion To Capture Key Mediterranean Island.

CORSICA ISLAND IS INVADED BY FRENCH FORCES   Fighting Against Germans Has Taken Favorable Turn,  Communique Says   OCCUPATION TO BE OF HELP TO ALLIES

Commandos ot French Allies Land on Isle   Corsican Fighting _ Going Against Nazis According to Reports

Americans Ahead Of Their Schedule   British Also Advance In North As French’ Take Positions In South. Montaomery Rests

MONTGOMERY'S BIG GUNS INTO ACTION   New Attack on Axis Positions in Tunisia Expected to Be Launched. Shortly.

DEFENSE HOPES TO SHATTER EVIDENCE      Crown Says De Marigny’s Fingerprints Gave  -Murder Clue

Launch Effort To Balk Ickes On New Pipeline   Nine Senators Criticize Al leged ‘Government Bungling

The Spyhunters Head G- Man Wanted To Be Preacher: First To Eliminate “Third Degree”

Work to Head Off a Farm Bloc Revolt   Threaten to Override FDR’s Veto of Bankhead Bill; Battle Brewing Over Antisabotage Bill  :

Bloc Threatens Parity Bill Veto   Democrats in Congress Work To Stem Tide

Farm Groups Plan Fight To Override Veto   Showdown Set For Tuesday When Senate Will Vote

Senate Due To Get Roose velt Rejection Next Week For Test; House Counted  As Main Defenge Line 

Labor Supports Farm Bill Veto   Bloc Marshals Strength to Override FDR

Mobilize For Vote On Veto Of Farm Bill   Administration Works Feverishly To Stem Revolt By Farm Bloc.   LABOR BACKS €. OD: h.

LEADERS SEEK T0 UPHOLD VETO OF FARM PARITY BIL!   First Showdown Expected in Senate Tuesday; Union Labor Leaders Support President’s Stand.

NEW FARM BLOC REVOLT FEARED ON PRICE BILL   Administration Forces Striving to Stem Movement to Override Bank ____head Bill Veto. __      MAY LOSE IN SENATE   Democratic Leader Con cedes Odds Against Chancesto Uphold President; House Will, Is Belief

WILL ATTACK VETO   Farm Bloc Threatens Revolt and Odds Are in   Its Favor

Farm Block’s Revolt Threatens Veto of Bankhead’s Measure   Roosevelt’s Rejection of Bill -May—Be Over-— ridden Next Week

Try To Halt A Farm Bloc . Veto Revolt   Bankhead Bill Opponents Seek Votes; Showdown On Tuesday

Farm Bloc Pans Veto   Scores F.D.R. Sum-up Of Parity Bill; Labor Takes Opposite View

MAY OVERRIDE FDR’S VETO OF BANKHEAD BILL   Labor Organizations Support President’s Stand

Barkley Concedes sedes Odds Agains! Sustaining President in Senate on Bankhead Bill Kill   COUNTS ON HOUSE   Farm Organizations Disagree with Roosevelt, Labor Unions Back Presidéni’s Arquments

MOVE TOHALT REVOLT OVER VETO BY EDR   Farm Bloc Threatening To Override Veto Of Bankhead Parity Price Bill

Threaten To Override Veto Of Farm Bill   Administration Chiefs Struggle To Head Off Farm Bloc Revolt On Bankhead Measure

Farmer Bloe May Override  Veto By FDR   Administration Forces Work To Stem Revolt Against Action

REVOLT OF FARM BLOC THREATENS ON CAPITOL HILL  ATTEMPT TO OVERRIDE VETO OF FARM BILL

ADMINISTRATION SEEKS TO STOP A FARM BLOC REVOLT   Fear: Revelt by Farm Group That Threatens to Override FDR’s Veto of Bankhead  Manacura

FARM BLOC REVOLT THREAT   Talk Threatens to Override Bankhead Bill Veto

Work Against a Revolt by Farm Forces   Roosevelt Veto Will Gome Up in Senate Tuesday; Other Battles Brewing   HOUSE INQUIRY OF OPA BEGINS SOON   Sen. Smith Also Attacks Price Spread Between the Farmer and Retailer

Farm Bloc Will Try To Override Veto On Parity”   Administration Seeks Votes To Sustain . President; Senate May Kill Sabotoae Bill

F .R. Forces ‘Work to Back ‘Up Farm Veto   New Farm Bloc Revolt Threatens to Override His Action

ADMINISTRATION WORKS TO STEM FARM BLOC   Threat to Override President Roosevelt’s Veto of Bankhead Bill

Overriding Of Farm Bill Veto Mappec   F.R. Feces Showdown On Action Tuesday; Sustainment Doubted

labor Lines With Administration lp Support FDR's Veto Farn Prices

Farm Bloc Threatens to Override Roosevelt's Veto of Bankhead Bill

Seek to Check Farm Bloc Mave   Test of Veto. of Bankhead Bill to Come Tuesday.

FARM BLOC IN REVOLT ABOUT VETO BY FR   Possibility That Presidential Action May be Overridden on Bankhead Parity Measure.

Senate Likely To Upset Farm Price Bill Veto   Showdown Due Tuesday; Administration Sees Hove In House.

Farm Revolt May Override Veto of FDR      Administration Forces Marshall Strength to Stor Farm Bloc

Would Halt Move  To Override Veto \rtratchonid eet   \dministration Forees In Congress Struggle With New Farm Bloc Revolt

Bombing Offensive In 11th Day   Nuisance Raid Made  Against Berlin — Ruhr Area Is Bombed

Hanover, Bremen On Receiving End   Fifth Army’s Big Guns Hammer  Nazi Positions Beyond River

Allied Planes Hit at Jap Base of Halona   Explosions, Fires Are Caused, Communique Says

Jap Seaplane Base Battered By Bombers   Fires, Explosions In Barracks  And Hangars

EDITORS INVITED TO ADVISE OW   Newspapermen to Present Views on Domestic Policies.

JUDGE ROSENMAN NAMED FDR AIDE   Veteran Jurist Returns As Roosevelt’s Advisor

JUSTICE ROSENMAN TO QUIT POSITION   ‘Supreme Court Jurist To Be President’s Counsel

Enormous Damage Done At Bremen and Berlin. Hand-to-Hand Fighting  ....In Italy.

Losing 30 Bombers in This  and Diversionary R.A.F. Raids.  BREMEN ALSO IS HIT IN YESTERDAY’S RAID  Repaired Water and Gas Lines Knocked Out Again.

NAZI GOVERNMENT — BUILDINGS ARE HARD HIT, SAY SWISS   Damage at Bremen Describ ed As Tremendous

3 Unions Balk. At Arbitration ‘Of Rail Wage:   Governnient Readies: Plan Te Operate B Railroads

Railroad Strike Situation Still \n Tight Tancle   Trainmen, Engineers Call Off Walkout; Others Stand Pat

Rail Situation Still Tangled Two Unions Call   . Off Strike but  Three Stand Pat

RAILWAY OTR STILL IN TANGLE Ad GRISIS NEARS   Cecember 30 Deadline Still Goes With 18 Unions Talking Strike

Non-Operating Unions Silent On Arbitration   Two Brotherhoods Call Off Strike, Three  Stand on Demands

RAIL WALKOUT PLANS ARE IN TIGHT TANGLE   TWO UNIONS CALL OFF STRIKE AND $8 STAND PAT   Rad News For Axis

FR, Churchill Conclude Sixth War Conference   “Declaration of Quebec” Issued By Leaders; Tri-Partite Meeting Seen’

Forward Action All Over Globe  Now Imminent   New Allied Blow About To Fall, But Action Will Reveal It   WILL MEET SOVIETS   Tripartite Conference Likely; New Parley Yet This Year

WOMAN DIES AFTER FALL      Inquest is called after widow plunges from  hotel window

New Advances Threaten To Pin Nazis In Pocket   Army Advances Within Seven Miles of Rail Line Supplying Sector

SOVIET TROOPS SEIZE ILINSKOYE IN OREL SECTOR   Smashing Drive By Russians Is Designed To Lash Supply Line

RUSSIANS SMASH AT LAST. SUPPLY LINE INTO OREI   Bryansk Threatened By Con certed Drives Into Big Salient.

Soviets Threaten  To Cut Off Orel   City Now Within Artillery Range

Red Army Pincers Closing Around Nazi-Held Base   With Corridor-On Orel Closing,-Russians Liken Situation To That At Stalingrad —- Nazi Treops Now In Sack

Russian Pincers Are  Tightening   ‘May Cut Off Bases Held By Nazis —- Situation Likened To Stalingrad Last Winter

Russians Within 25 to 30 Mi. of Cutting Off German-Held Orel   Closing Corridor Likened to Stalingrad Situation Last Winter

Three Hour Raid On Buin One of Most Devastating   Great Damage Believed Caused by Latest American Attack

THREE- -HOUR AIR RAID ON BUIN   Other Jap Bases In Pacific   Attacked By. MacAr thur’s Bombers

Plans Being Worked Out To Shift Relief   Arrangement Will Not Include Boosting of Real Estate Levies   FLAT FEE FOR AUTOS

TERRIFIC RAIDS BOOST JITTERS   Full-Scale Allied Amphibious Exercises Carried Out in Channel Area

NORTH FRANCE i) RAVAGED BY SLUIED PLANES   Invasion Practice in Progress at Channel Ports

HUGE ALLIED RAID SOFTENS NORTH FRANCE   English Coast Areas Rockec By Reverberations From ~ Ravaging: Attack.   OPPOSITION WEAK   Army, Navy Stage Amphibious -Test in Channel as Corresnondents Watch.

U.S, WILL CARRY WAP INTO JAPAN-HALSEY   Issues Statement on 1st War Anniversary in Pacific

WAR TO BE CARRIED TO JAPAN   Admiral Halsey . Promises U.S... ‘Ultimate Victory’

U.S. Will Push War to Japan   ‘Entering the Second Year of  Conflict With Every Cou' fidence, Halsey Says   ALLIED POWER HAS BEEN ORGANIZED   ‘We. Will Destroy Enemy,’ He Declares; Munda Base to Be Used by Our Planes

UNITED STATES WILL CARRY WAR INTO JAPAN ITSELF DECLARES ADMIRAL WILLIAM F HALSEY JR.   Battle of South Pacific to Become Battle of Japan He Says On First Anniversary of Fighting ‘In Southwest Pacific Theatre

ATTACK ON JAPAN HINTED BY HALSEY   Bloody Experience Teaches How To Deal With Japs

JAPS TO FEEL WAR   U.. S. Naval Commander Says Attack Will Be Car ried to Enemy

“We Will Carry War To Japan,” Halsey Promises On Anniversary Of U. S.Landing On Guadalcanal

Will Carry Fight to Japan, Says Halsey After Year of Pacific War

Biggest U. §. Submarine Is Sunk, Avenger   Japanese Destroy Argonaut, But Yanks Score On Convoy Transports

AVENGE LOSS OF SUBMARINE   Argonaut, Largest U. 5S. Submarine Lost In ’ Fighting Convoy

BIGGEST U.S, SUB FALLS TO THE JAP FORCES IN BATTLE   Argonaut Is Lost to Enemy But Vengeance Is Quickly Exaeted by the Americans.

Argonaut, Largest U. S. Sub, Sunk; Loss Avenged   Destroved Month Ago

U.S. LOSES ITS LARGEST SUBMARINE   Sinking by J aps Is Avenged Only Two Hours Later

Largest U.S. Submarine Sunk By Japs   Argonaut Is Lost In Convoy Battle Off New Britain

Nazis Make. Ready Quit Smolensk, Great Base   Germans Have Already Begun Evacuation Of Civilians; Take All Metals With Them

Army Dictatorship For Reich Rumorec   ‘Wishful Thinking’ Says Writer of Reports Hitler Will Be Replaced In September; Berlin Reported In Near-Panic Over Raid Threat.

RUMOR IN GERMANY   Military Dictatorship May Be Set Up in September,  Report

Military Dictatorship May Be Established in Reich, Travelers Say

HIGH MILITARY! EADERS WEIGH WUBHRER FATE   erlin Propaganda Bureau Reveals Important Meeting Held in Dictator’s  Headauarters   ‘ERLINERS, FEARING RAID, ARE PANICKY   urhorities at Wits End to Control Mass Stampede  from City; May De clare Capital “Qpen” !

‘SECRET SESSIONS OF MILITARY LEADERS REPORTED AS POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO DOWNFALL OF HITLER   Travelers Reaching Neutral Country Tell of Stampede of Populace From Berlin, and Militar Reverses May Bring New Changes

REVENUE BILL IS ABOUT READY FOR > ARTIONIN SENATE   House Approval of Mess ae to Provide “Slightly Over Two Billion Is Expected During Day.   DOUGHTON OPPOSES MAKING HEAVY DEBTS   Second Wartime Tax Bill Supported By Both Parties Has Little Revision on Those Who Pay.

Leaders Frankly Opposed ‘ To Administration’s Desires On New Tax Measure

HOUSE ACTION ON TAXES NEAR   Vote on Two Billion Dollar Bill Expected To Come Shortly.

TAX BILL BEFORE HOUSE   New Revenue ‘Measure Far Below Treasury Estimates

Revenue. Bill Ballot Nears   Economy Needs Stressed By Leaders; Subsidy “.. 2) Vote Is Blow

House Moves To Approve New Tax Bill  Slash of $8 Billions Body Blow to Treasury’s Estimates  G.0.P. LEADS FIGHT  Speakers Hold Bigger Levies Dangerous. Call LoS) Heaviest ‘Paved

Tax Bill Cut By House Is Due To Pass   “Drop In Bucket” Measure Would Provide Less.Than One-fourth Sum Asked By Administration’   SUBSIDY PROGRAM IS GIVEN SETBACK   Deughton Joins Bi-Parti. san Chorus Against Further Tax Boosts As Werse Than Inflation

House Opens Argument on Tax Measure   Administration’s Anti-Inflation Program Comes Up for Another Mauling After Defeat of Food Subsidies

Compromise Only Hope For Subsidies  House Approval Of Tax Bill To Be Second Body Blow To Anti-Inflation

House Takes Up Another Matter   NEW REVENUE BILL TO GET CLOSE SCRUTINY

REVISED REVENUE BILL HEADS FOR HOUSE APPROVAL   SLASH SEEN AS BODY BLOW AT TAX PLANS OF ADMINISTRATION

Revenue Bill Before House For Final Vote   Treasury Gets Small Part of What It Sought

Tax Bill Before House After Subsidy Defeat  Tax Increases Hit By Both Parties;

NEW TAX BILL IS EXPECTED PTO BE PASSED   House Is Moving Toward Quick  Passage Now

House Starts Its Study of New Tax Bil   Anti-inflation Pragram of Administration Due for Another Setback

Congress Moving Toward Approval Of Revenue Bill   Measure Calls For Tax  Of $10,500,000,000

PASS ON TAXES   ‘Drop In The Bucket’ Bill Almost Assured of Passage

HOUSE ROLLING TOWARD APPROVAL OF REVENUE BILL   Badly Mauled On Subsidy Issue, Administration’: Controverted Anti-Infla. tion Program Up For An. other Body Blow Today.

TO OUTLAW SUBSIDIES   Counter - Predictions . Advanced by Opposing Forces As to Results

EXPECT WORD OF NEW, HARD BLOW! AGAINST JAPAN      Navy Now Poised To Strike Ox Surface, Under Surface, In The Air

NEW BLOWS COMING FROM U.S, FORCES   Japs Are Warned in Radio Talk That Marcus Raid Was But a ’Token” Prelude.

Japan Warned U. S. Plans To Attack Tokye      Await New Word From Naval Task Force Roaming Pacific

WARNS JAPAN MARCUS RAID ‘UST TOKEN   Admiral Says U. S. Ready Tc Strike on Sea, in Air; New Blows Hinted.   CARRIERS ON PROWL   Washington Believes Force Making Other Attacks Foe Won't Admit.

MISSOURI RIVER BEGINS TO DROP   Recedes at Rate of Tenth of Foot Per Hour

FOR SOLOMONS NOW UNDERWAY   Invasion Of Jap Stronghold At Bougainville Is Big Undertaking For  Americana.

FINAL BATTLE FOR SOLOMONS UNDERWAY WITH JAP RETREAT   Japs Leave 35,000 Troops Stranded on Bougainville Island.

GREATEST VENTURE ISIN PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC   Jap Cruisers Run, Leave  35,000 Troops to Fate

Roslavl Loss Ils Announced By Nazi Army   Reds Say Kiev, Ukraine  pital, Next To Fall

Germans Admit Also the Loss of Roslavl, 65 Miles Southeast of Smolensk While Reds Indicate Kiev Soon Will Be In The Hands of Russian  Troons

Huns Acknowledge Disastrous Defeat   Reds Snap Backbone of German Defense Along 1,200-mile Battle _ Line; Fifth Army Fights on

Admit One of War’s  Disastrous Defeats   Russians Snap Backbone of Nazi Defense on ,200-mile Line, May Mean Collapse of Attempt to Beat Soviets.

Enemy High Command Reveals Evacuation Of Great  ) Central Front Bastion In One Of Most Disastrous Defeats Of War—Roslavl Also Lost By Nazis— Capture Of Ukraine Capital Appears Likely Momentarily—Soviet Attack May Expand

Capture of Kiev ls Also Imminent, Moscow Indicates   Two Thirds of Area ~ Once Held by Nazis Has Been Recovered

Russian Shock Troops Within Mile of Kiev   Fifth Army Fights Way into Hills Overlooking Naples Plain; 8th Army Advances; 19 Nazi Transports Shot Down Off Corsica

Greek Patriots Battle Nazi Reign of Ter. ror—Allies Capture Finschhaven Airs. field, 75 Miles from Japanese- Held —  New Britain

Allies Big Warplane Smas! German Units Attempting To Flee From Corsica Area

‘Russian Shock Troops Are Reported Attacking Within One Mile of Ukraine Capital; Roslavl, a Rail Town, Abandoned.   Russians Snap Backbone of Nazi  Defense of 1.200-Mile Battle Line

Capture Of Kiev  Imminent   Victorious Red Armies Have Won Back TwoThirds of Territory  Occupied By Invaders

Commission Orders Milk Price Boost Over State   Order Is Subject  To Approval of OPA And May Not Receive Comrlete Sanction   HIKE THREE CENTS IN THIS DISTRICT

New Milk Rate Hike Must Get OPA's Approva   Pittsburgh District In. crease Goes Up To 17/2 Cents

SECOND RAID ALARM SOUNDS ACROSS ROME   No New Attack Developed in Eternal City, However. Some Parts of City Minus Water

{2 KILLED IN BUS AT ANIL CROSSING      Speeding Canadian Train Shears Bus in Two; Pair Escape Death

COUNT'S FATE IS NEARING JURY   /2 Men To Decide If Playboy Hangs Or Goes Free

DE MARIGNY TRIAL MAY END   Count Accused of Murdering Fatherin-Law

MARIGNY MAY HEAR FATE LATE TODAY   Nassau Murder Trial Is Ready for Jury

MARIGNY CASE I$ NEARING JURY   Accused of Slaying _ Wealthy Father-in-Lav -

Change Likely In Peace Resolution   Two Paragraphs of Moscow Agreement May Go In

FOURTEEN SENATORS URGE CONNALLY T0 MAKE SOME CHANGES  WOULD SUBSTITUTE TWO PARAGRAPHS MOSCOW

UIST MURDER-SHICIDE i DEATHS OF FOUR   Cleveland Officers Issue Report on Investigation

MAN, 36, SLAYS FAMILY, SELF   Killer Ex-Inmate of State Hospital

Berrien Guernseys Take  Top Honors At Cass Shov   AH Six* Championships Captured At Annua. Cassopolis Exhibition Tuesday; Entries Number 74: Attendance Is 300

Rev. Otto P. Spelir and Lydia Fenske Pledge Vows  Pretty Wedding Take:  Place In Preston Townshin Church

Miss Carol Hofert Married Dec. 23 To Pfc. Nelson   Ceremony Takes Place in Plover Methodist Church

Hershey Opposes Bill Deferring Fathers In Dratt   Senate Includes  Federal Workers

SABOTEURS CUT GERMAN OUTPUT   —  Desertions In Nazi Army Adds To Hitler’s Worries

Black Market Big Headache For the OPA   Public Is Not Taking : Hand in Policing of Meat Going to Bic Cities   MANY ‘RAIDS’ ON SMALL TOWN STORES   Operations Recall the Capone Era; Something May Be Done

Celanese Workers Ready To Return 10 Work in New Jersey Plant Today

TEXTILE STRIKE IS CALLED OFF   Celanese Workers Will Report To Factory Before Deadline

WEWAK ROCKED BY NEW-RAIDS   Allied’ Flyers Sink Three Jap Ships and Leave Two — Others Wrecks

Three Nazi Army Officers,  One Traitor Executed As War Criminals At Kharhov

WAR CRIMINALS ARE HANGED BY PED OFFICIALS      Crowd Of 50,000 Russian People Watch As Four Are Erecuted

THOUSANDS CHEER AT FOUR HANGINGS   Three Germans, Red Traitor Executed In Public Market In Kharkov.

50,000 APPLAUD HANGING OF FOUR ~ WAR GRIMINALS   Kharkov Is Scene of Executions Atter First Trials toe Atrocities.

Three Nazi Soldiers, One Russian Traitor Hanged in Market Square of Kharkov for War Crimes There

90,000 Russians See Three  Nazis Die For War Crimes   Soviet Traitor Also Goes to Gallows After Historic Trial; Nazis Confess

RUSSIANS HANG WAR CRIMINALS   50,000 Witness Execution Of Three ‘Murderers’

Soviets Hang Three Nazis,  Russ Traitor  50,000 Crowd to  See War  Criminals Die

60,000 RUSSIANS SEE FOUR HANGED   Convicted In First War Criminal Trial

War Criminals Die for Crimes  In Russia   Thousands Witness Public Hanging In Kharkov

30; 000 Watch Pour nang eu  ~ Tn Kharkov   Three. Germans, Russian Convicted in First War Trial

Allied Radio Urges Italy To Surrender   Tripoli Short Wave Warns Alternative Is Ruin of Cities

School Bill May Die in Senate   Constitutionality Question Raised

Court Orders  Fifty More Petit  Jurors Drawn Two Thirds Of First  Panel Excused For: Farm Work

Court Orders Fifty More Petit. Jurors Drawn  Two Thirds Of First Panel Excused For:  ee at ed . a

SOVIET FORCES POUR THROUGH GAP   Tighten Semi-Circle at Snow Covered Donets Industrial Center

Reds Thrust Three -Prongs at Kharkov   Strong Forces Are Pouring Through New Bel. gorod Gap—Other Troops Repulse Counter- Attack Against Second Are About Rostov.

THRAWEH GAP   Kharkov Menaced By Tightening Semi-Circle of Russian Army.

Kharkov Is Menaced By Russ Split O!  ‘Nazi Line   Red Army Forces Pour Through Gap North Of Great Industrial City

COUNTER-BLOWS AT ROSTOV ARE HURLED BACK.   Germans Making Desperate Effort To Break Trap

STRONG RED ARMY FORCES POURING THROUGH NAZI GAP  KHARKOV MENACED BY TIGHTENING SEMI-CIRCLE "OF ASSAULTS

Reds Tighten Arc Around Kharkov Foe   ‘Desperate German Counterattacks at “Rostov repulsed”

Counter-Blows Are Repulsed Around Rostov   Greatest Gains Reported Between Kharkov and Orel After Whirlwind Aassaults  Ry FNDY GIVMORFE

Reds Pouring Through Gap At Beleorod   Tightening Semi-Circle Of Assault On Kharkov

RUSSIAN FORCES — THROUGH BELGOROD PASS DEFENSES   Where the Invaders Still Hold the Line Launched in 1942.   KHARKOV IS MENACED   The Red Army Is Tightening Semi-Circle of Assault, It Is Announced.

Soviets Push On Kharkov From 3 Sides   Vhirlwind Drive Pressed After Capture of Belgorod   ‘REL IS MENACED   ussian Forces Closing on Rostov Face Bitter Tank Attacks

RUSSIANS POUR THROUGH BREAK AT BELGOROD   MENACE KHARKOV WITH DRIVES FROM THREE DIRECTIONS

Tighten Pincers  On Kharkov   Break-through at Belgorod Heightens Menace to Great GermahHeld Industrial City

Semi-Circle is  Tightened On Industrial City   Red Army Pours Through Belgorod Gap; Offensive May Pinch Off Rostov Defense Force

waa tS POUL Through Gap te Hit at Kharkov   Advance Enables Red  Army to Tighten Circle Around Great Donets Industrial City

eds Rip ig GapIn  azi Line   ssians Massing’ F orces  round Kharkov, After  Taking Belgorod, 50 Miles to North   po? ASSAULTS  TAKE MANY TOWNS   a Tanks and Ski roops Pave Way For   Surprise Attack At Dawn On City

SEMI-CIRCLE IS DRAWING ON KEY CITY   Counterattacks On Rostov Front Beaten Back   NAZIS STRIVE   To Hold Escape Corridor; Belaorod, Shebekino Reported Retaken

ONLY POINT WHERE INVADERS STILL 'HOLD 1942 LINE   Reds Repulse Enemy Counterattack At Rostov

REDS SWEEP THROUGH GAP WAZ LINE   Tighten Semi - Circle About Kharkov, Enemy  =Key Point.   THREE ADVANCES AIMED AT CITY   Germans ‘Fight Hard to Hold Back. Columns Closing on Rostov.

Armies Approaching Kharkoy from Three Sides; Pressure on Rostoy Increased

Reds Pouring Through Nazi Belgorod Gap   Industrial City of Upper Donets Held by Germans Is Thus Menaced.   Resist Nazi Attacks On Front Near Rostov

Reds Draw. Tight Noose At Kharkov.   Russians Pouring Through Belgorod. Gap te Menace Foe

MAY CUT OFF NAZI FORCE ATROSTOV   Kharkov is Only Point Nazis Hold From Which "42 Offensive Was Reoun Rede Sav

Nazi Anchor City  Defenses Cracking   Germans Throw in Powerful Reserves in Effort To Stop Danscerons Soviet Drive

Three Columns Less Than 50 Miles Away as Russians Press Offensive Info Ukraine   ‘CRUSH RESISTANCE   Part of Nezi Artillery af Rostov Silenced, Donets Basin Army Continues Advance

Russia pours troops thru nazi defense   Tighten pincers around Rostov

Eneircling Of Kharkov  Progresses   Belgorod Taken By Bolsheviks, Who. Press Forward-

RUSSIANS PRESS THROUGH NAZIS’ WEAKENED LINE   Kharkov Is Menaced as Rec Forces Prepare for Sweeping Gains

Nazi Defenses Near Kharkov Crumbling   Russians Storm Toward Great Ukraine Steel City From Three Sides After Smashing Through Belogrod, Shebekino Barriers

Counter Attacks Repulsed By Reds   Russian Army Forces Are _ Pouring Thru the Belgorod Gap   IN. A SURPRISE RAID   German Defenses Crumble ‘Before Monster Tanks of Soviets

SOLONS WIDEN LEASING PROBE   APPROPRIATIONS GROUP ADDS TO EXPERT STAFF

F. D. R. Visits Fort Riley Post   President Spends Quiet Easter With Armored Forces

At Ft. Riley On Easter   Gov. Schoeppel Joins President As He Tours Kansas Military Post

ON ALL FRONTS,   British Troops’ on Four ontinents Awaiting Big Push.

IKE ASKS FOR HARDER EFFORT   Allied War Chief Lauds Re: sults Of Past Year

SPAIN REPORTED TO HAVE WITHDRAWN HER TROOPS FROM FRONT   Allied Deal With Spain May Develop   Franco’s Diplomats Ar. Sent to London

NOW SPANIARDS LEAVE HITLER'S ~ SINKING SHI   FRANCO'S FAMOUS BLUE DIVISION SAID TO HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM THE RUSSIAN FRONT.   SPANISH DIPLOMATS ARRIVE IN LONDON   Observers Believe German Satellites Will Continue to Withdraw From the Support of Hitler at a Lightning Rate.

Nazis Mount Defenses Before Kiev, Smolensk  After Fall Of Bryansk

Punch-Drunk Germans Flee Before Soviets   Dnieper Line In Jeopardy Before Kiev And Smolensk After Fall Of Bryansk; Germans Leave Great Stores Behind. F

REDS MOVE UP TO OPEN ATTACK ON DNIEPER BASES   Punch-drunk Nazi Horde Is Folding Up Everywhere on Russian Battlefield   KIEV NEXT RED OBJECTIVE   Capture of Byansk Paves Way for Soviet Drive to Recapture Smolensk

Interoreting  The War   Churchill’s Visit With Turks Is Slap to Hitler

Ciano Out as Vatican Envoy  Mussolini's Son-inLaw Also Reported To Be in Arrest

\Ciano Resigns . Post As Envoy To The Vatican   Son-In-Law Of Mussolini Assigned There Feb, 7: Report Pair Arrested

ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN RESIGNS   Mussolini and  Son-in-law Held at Palazzo Chigi

Count Ciano Has Resigned   Was Ambassador To the Vatican for The Past Six Years

Green, Murray Ready To Talk  Labor Peace   AF Of L President Would Agree Now To Halt Jurisdictional Strikes,   ATTACK WORK DRAFT

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Will Reopen Necotiutions.

SAYS C10 FIRM AGAINST LABOR ‘DRAFT MEASURE   Murrzy Leads Parade of Union Chiefs Called Before Truman ’ Committee.

GREEN CLANS. ClO AIDS GAR TO PROGUGTION   Charges WLB Has Helped CIO in Creating Menace to War Effort.   MURRAY ASSAILS GOV'T FOR BAD MANAGEMENT

Heads OF Rival Labor Groups May End Costly Jurisdictional Disputes

SHORTAGE OF COAL   Moving: ‘of Local Supply on Hand Pampered d by La ortage

SHORTAGE OF COAL   Moving: of Local Supply on Hand ‘Hampered by Lalor Shortage

Eisenhower Marks First Anniversary Of African Landing With Statement That Victory Is Certain

Germany s Utter Defeat ‘Certain’   Eisenhower Assures Forces of Victory Ahead

FDR PRAISES FOOD DELEGATES   Says Cenference Gave “New Hope” to World

RAF Blasts Duisburg in Heaviest Raid   Big Four-Engine Bombers Crash on German Cities   ‘Death’ Gives ‘Monty. to Allies   leader's Personality ls Insp tration to His Men

Gen. Montgomery An Inspiration To Soldiers Fighting Under Him   Noted Leader Of British Eighth Army Lives With His Men —Frequently. Goes To Battle Front

TAKE 4 MORE STRATEGIC TOWNS   Threaten to Sever Another Enemy Lifeline at Nicosia

Italian State Police Charge Crowds In Genoa Protesting Badoglio Regime

 All "r wees Sede ney  miny CU RUS LAU  Proposal Said —  ToBeFromE R.

Badoglio Holding Out for Time in Hepe of Better Terms.   MASS PRESSURE FOR PEACE IS GROWING  Italian Senators Want Out Even on Unconditional Surrender.

Left-Wing Manifesto Calls ® For An Army Revolt — Leaders Discuss Peace. Terms  BADOGLIO WARNED War -Workers Deserting  Factories—Peace  TY . w. 2 wr rhunbinwa

Purported Plan For Armistice  By FR Assailed   Rome Radio Says Allies Have No Intention of Giving Peace To Italy

ARMY REVOLT CALLED FOR IN MANIFESTC   Disorders Decreasing In Industrial North —Milan Being Deserted.   BULLETIN

Axis Lists Purported Offer Said Made By Allies   CIVILIANS FLEEING   Manifesto Urges Army To Break With Badoglio

Popular Plea_ For Peace In Italy Renewed   Rome Radio Criticises Purported Peace Plan Suggested By President

=nd Of Italian Resistance And Nazi Collaboration Main Points Of Terms

Nazi Radio Lists ] Points Credited To Roosevelt   Opposition To Badoglio Grows In Italy As He Plays For Time

PURPORTED SEVEN-POINT PROGRAM HIT   Manifesto Calling For Army Revolt Is Reported

Grant District Attorney Ousted  Governor Gives Him Six Davs To Resign

Successor Named By  Governo}   Resignation Is Demanded By Goodland Following An Investigation Of Gambling In County

Obstacles and Hardships On Road to Victory Seen For 1943 By U.S. Leaders

U.S. Leaders See Hard Year Ahead  Victory Will Come Nearer, But   Victory Will Come Nearer, But Sacrifice Needed

BROWN CONFERS ON OPA DUTIES   Radical Changes Not Aimed At Present By New Director

SYSTEM FOR PEACE MINUS THE TREATY PLAN OF BELGIAN   De Baer Urges Simple Declaration of Peace Instead of Ever Signing a Treaty With Germany .

URGES NO PACT WITH GERMANY   Belgian Would Merely De clare State Of Peace After Victory   WANTS PUNISHMENT

Allies Weigh U Jnwritten _ Peace Plan”      i Special: Courts. to “Try Axis.Leaders‘Also Are Proposed

Suggests Simple Peace Statement   Oppose Signing Any Peace Treaty With Germany

May scra Pp idea of ever signing pact with nazis   Belgian has plan; asks world court for trying Hitler

Would Scrap Old Idea of Peace Treaty   Belgian Advances New Plan for Dealing With Germany at War's End

Peace Treaty May Not Be Signed   United Nations Court Favored to Try Main Axis Leaders

Peace Treaty With Reich Is Opposed   Belgian Would Have Declaration Of Peace Issue

Nasi Pact May Never Be Signed   ..Jdust Peace Protocol By United Nations

May Not Sign Any Peace Treaty   Declaration of Peace May Be Used Instead

Declaration Of Peace Plan, Departure Fron International Practise, Presented To Allies

Plan To Delay Signing Peace Treaty With Nazis Laid Before The Allies

Japanese rlee Into Hills In Viru War Zone   "Americans Mount Heavy Artillery On Rendova 2 Hours After Landing

Rendova Falls To Allies In  Pacific   Taken In Surprise Attack; Drive . Continuing

Remsen Youth. . Weds Akron Girl   Roy Duster and Viola Smith Exchange Vows

AKRON GIRL AND SIOUX CITYAN WED   Miss Violet Smith And Roy Duster Take Vows Monday Morning

Germans Admit Fifth Red Front Is Now In Operation   Dozen More Towns Retaken By Russians; New Offensive Said In Voronezh Area

Tokyo Rose, Nip Siren of the Jap Air Waves, Is Due for Big Surprise

Three Chicago Youths Kidnap Money Exchange Manager; Plan Big Robbery

DEATH COMES TO IOWA GAR HEAD   Thomas J. Noll, 98, Dies in  Des Moines

Today’s War Commentary  Costly Lessons  Allies Profit From Early Mistake

Yanks In Britain Had Their Turkey   Pound of Turkey For Every Man, General to Private

1.000 NAZI Ot IN EFFORT TO HOLD ITY   Major Military Setback Handed German Forces; Italian Front Lulls

BALDRIDGE I$ E GIVEN POSITION   AID-WESTTO BA FEEL SHORTAGE 6I   Baltimorean Is Made State Meat Marketing Supervisor  :  By Government

WAR MEAT GROUPS TO BE ORGANIZED   Local Supervisor Expected to be Named This Week

MANY BOMBS DROPPED ON ITALIAN TIP   Targets on Maintand Including Reggio Calabria And San Giovanni, Are Damaged     “ss 2 ml Fe asreaet?nTr *, Ae AIA

FLYING FORTS BOMB NAPLES’ RAILWAY YARDS   Rome Admits Heavy Damage; Other Ports Attacked

SENATE, FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS, MAY HAVE NO PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES

Morgenthau Will Continue Battle For Huae Tax Bill   Senators May Be Out Of Race

Navy Says Cruiser Helena Was One of ‘Fightingest Men-o -War That Ever Scoured the Seven Seas’

U. S. Bombers Hit Jap Base At Amboina   Localized Thrusts Build Toward Climax in Butma

ALLIED AIR RAIDS KEEP JAPS BUSY   Localized Fighting Continues Between British And Enemy In Burma

Nazis Gain At Only One Tunis Spot   GEN. MacARTHUR'’S MM EN PROPPING BOMBS ON NIV LOCATIONS.

Japs Kept Busy Protecting Bases   Air Thrusts Are Made Through Pacific Area

RAF Pounds North Italy   British-Bases Planes Nit Turin Factories

Dempsey Pushes for Action As Meat Problem Grows   Governor Asserts Milk Shortage Impends Because of High Feed Price

800 Walk Out of Four Coal Mines   Workers Quit in Kentucky, Most of Them UMW Members

Nation Awaits  Mine Act   STRIKE TRUCE EXPIRES AT MIDNIGHT; LEWIS MAY NOT EXTEND PERIOD

Japan Loses More Than A Ship A Day   Allies Sink 558 Within 523 Davs

[pexaury FOR PRODUCTION OVER QUOTAS 18 ABOLISHEND—TO  RELEASE  WHEAT FOR FEED

Allies Bomb Crete Airfield  Explosions ond Fires Caused; Calato, on Bhade«c Alen Blacted

Both Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance In Mud   British Capture Perano In Italy's Sangro River Valley.

JAPANESE TO RETAIN SAME WAR POLICIES   : Mussolini’s Resignation Not Te  Change Pacific War

Kansas City Usurps Chicago's Crown as World's Greatest Cattle Market

FURIOUS RED DRIVE AIMED AT BRYANSK   Desperate German resistance increased by fresh reserves

Reds Approaching Bryansk As Nazis Bring Up Reserves   Southern Russian Units Reported Within Mile Of Center Of Kharkov   RED ARMY DRIVE MOVING FORWARD   Thirty More Towns Liberated And 3,000 Germans Reported Slain

Elliott Wins House Contest For Speaker   Defeats Farrarr In Easy Caucus Victory; Democrats fo Cauxus

MISSOURT HOUSE SPEAKER CHOSEN   HOWARD ELLIOTT OF ST. LOUIS SELECTED FOR POST IN GOP CATCUS,.

Three Kulled in Bay Area Hotel Blaze   POLICE SAY FLAMES SET DELIBERATELY; MOTHER, BABY ESCAPE

BACON'S WIFE IN HOSPITAL   MASKED MARVEL BROTHER ARRIVES FOR INQUEST

Nazis Predict War Will Reach Climax in Next Four Weeks  Hitler Is Definitely on His Way Out

 The War Today—  Six Weeks May Tell How Long Nazi Armies And Home Front Can Resist

GERMAN ARMY LEADERS PREDICT NEXT FEW MONTHS WILL BRING CLIMAX WORLD WAR SITUATION

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   (Next Month Will Bring ‘Answers To Important Questions Of War

BRICKER SEEKS NEW FORMULA IN TIME ISSUI   Power Survey Indicates Little Saving By War Time

Bricker May Discuss Time Question In Message To Genera: Assembly Monday

Gen. Beightler Warns U. S. Soldiers Against Return To Easy Life After War

ICKES RETURNS > COAL MINES TO OWNERS      None Had Contracts wilh UMW and None “Were Struck, bul Others Under Survey

> Mines Baek To Companies   Savs No Need To Possess Them Insure Uninterrupted Coal Production,

Restore 5 Coal Mines to Private Ownership; Others Soon to Follow

Five Mines Back to Their Owners   yovernment Releases Possession of Four in Ohio, One in Alabama.

U.S. Restores Ownership Of Five Mines  Act First Step Following Anti-Strike Act

Those Slated for Release tc Owners Listed as NonStruck by Interior Secretary

5 Mines Given Back To Owners   Say U. S. Possession Not Necessary

Five Mines Going Back To Owners  Ickes Takes Action To Give Up Control

ICKES YIELDING PITS TO OWNERS   5 COAL MINES ARE LISTED FOR RETURN TO PRIVATE OPERATORS

U.S. Returns  Five Mines   Returned to Private Ownership; None Had UMW Contracts

Government Possession of Mines Unnecessary to “tnsure Production,

Ickes Frees +5 Mines From  U.S. Control   First Steps Taken to Put Mines Back in Hands of Private Owners

Five Mines Are Returned   Government Satisfied Their Production to Continue

NEW SCRAP DRIVE TO BE POSTPONED   Collection In County Will Be Made On February 6

RUSSIAN TROOPS SMASH AHEAD IN OREL VICINITY   Engulf More Than 100 Hamlets in 5- to 714-Mile  Drive

PAY-AS-EARN TAX POLICY IN DEADLOCK   Plan Would Cost People More Than Normally, Leaders Find

Tax Plan Accord Appears Doomed   Forgiveness Feature Meets Opposition

Objections Dim Truce on Pay-as- You-Go   NEAR-AGREEMENT IS STIFLED BY UPROAR FROM PARTY MEMBERS

HOPE FADES FOR TAX COMPROMISE   House Members, Refuse To Back Committee’s ‘Amortization  Plan.

AGREEMENT NEARER ON PAY-GO TAX   Tentative Plan Provides “Forgiveness” Of 50 Percent

Rationing of Milk Indicated Coming In Short Time   Production Is Lower, But Consumption Stays At an All-Time High  LESS BUTTER, CHEESE  Wheat Outlook Is Poor Unless Parity Price Assured. Farmers Say

List Of Service Men Whe Received National Road Traveler Last Issue— Their Latest Address

WOULD AVOID TAX HARDSHIP   Doughton Says Incomes Unaffected by War To be Considered

Seeks Protection For Fixed Incomes  Doughton, Treasury Head Talk on Taxes

OPPOSES HIGH TAX ON FIXED INCOMES   DOUGHTON WOULD PROTECT THOSE WHOSE WAGES ARE AT PRE-WAR LEVELS.

Leon Phillips Held for Trial   Former Governor Bqund Over to Court In $8000 Payoff

ITRY FORMER GOVERNOR   Leon C. Phillips Faces Charge of Bribery and Conspiracy

WAR STRATEGY DECISIONS NEAR   Churchill And Roosevelt Study Reports From Chiefs Of Staff

Conference At Decisive Stage   - Fateful Decisions  Are Believed Near By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK  a a Te ™/. . ges». #e t€07.%2a

DECISIONS ON WAR STRATEGY DRAW NEARER   Roosevelt, Churchill To Study Suggestions Of Chiefs Of Staff  Over Week-End   Blows At Japs Seen

ALLIED STRATEGY PLANS TAKE SHAPE   Stage of Fateful Decisions Reached in Conferences at  Capital; Chiefs of Staffs to Make Recommendations

FT) ., Churchill  Moar Decisions  ‘They Discussed China, Tone of Other Ploewoc?

Stage Of Great Decisions Reached InFDR-Churchill War Strategy Conferenves

War Decisions Being Reached At Conferences   Final Plans for Future Action May Be Made in a Few Days

SAY DECISIONS ON WAR NEAR   Roosevelt ond Churchill te Get Recommendations of Staff Heads Soon

FIRE AT MINISTER   Argentina Official Was Attacked As He Left His Home

ATTEMPT TO KILL GUILLERMO ROTHE   Fire Shots at Argentina’s Minister of Justice

ROTHE ESCAPES ASSASSINAT   Assailant Fires Shols at Argen: Ning: Mitedateral dustios

Third Truce Ends at Midnight After Negotiations Break Down; Next Move in Dispute Up to Ickes

Union Willing For Men to Work As Employes of U. S.   UMW Offer Comes After Negotiations Break Down On Eve Of End Of Truce; Next Move Is Put Up To Ickes

UNION OFFERS TO MAKE AN AGREEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT FOR OPERATION OF MINES, SCORING LABOR BOARD.

WLB DECLARES IT WAS HOLDING LINE PRIOR 10 ORDER   Davis fssues Report, Letter to Wallace on Voluntary Increases In Eight of 3000  _ Cases.   WAGE CHANGES DID NOT AFFECT LIVING COSTS   Report Prepared on Requests of Senate Resolution Discussed Boards Work Uy to April 1.

WLB Denies ‘Its Awards ' Raised Costs   Report Tells Senate ‘Agency Is Holding Line at Its End   PAY RAISES FEW   Varied From 2c to 6c an Hour; Most Increases Voluntary

AGE PROBLEM   ys It Was Holding Down ts End of Line Against Inflation Before the   Roosevelt Order   AIMS FEW RULINGS FFECTED PRICES   tes Only Eight Cases Out  Jf 3,000 In Compounding Its Criticism of President Decree

War Labor Board Reports fo Senate   Continues Fight Against Inflation

Severe Cold Not Expected   Mercury Will Drop As Low As 20 To 25 Degrees Tonight

STATE IS CHILLED   But Forecaster Expects No Severe Cold for Kansas

Yankees Down 27 Nazi Fighters   Sulmona Rail Yards Heavily Bombed

Germans Retreat To New Positions To Protect Rome   Americans Advance in Force 15 to 20 Miles on a Broad Front.   Strategic Railway Is Captured by Yankees

oth Advances Despite Heavy Rains, Mud   Patrols Cross Volturno; Hint of, Leap-Frog. Landings on Adriatic Coast

RIVER LINE PIERCED ON BROAD FRONT   Cairo Radio, - Reporting Action, Says Germans Are Retreating to Another Stream 15 Miles Farther North.

Another Division Sent Into Action In Effort To Break Up Allied Advance On Rome

Caserta Falls To oth Army; Fight In Muc   Another Flanking Move By Leap-Frog Method Hinted In Shelling By 1’. S. Shins

Allied Patrols ' Fight Way : Across Lower Section ' of Stream   MORE NAZI ARMOR IN   General . Allied Advance “ Continues Despite Bad Weather

Allied Headquarters Dispatches Said Merely Patrols Crossed River. Probing Defences   CAPTURE. CASERTA   British on Adriatic Side Hurl Back German Counter-Attacks Trying fo-Regain Termoii

Cairo Hears — Gain Made on Broad Fror:   Allied  Headquarters: Says: ‘Only That Patrols. Have Crossed River   BUT INDICATES BIG. MOVE IS EXPECTED.   Germans. Bring Up. New Forces, Apparently Mak . ing Every. Effort.to-Hold.::

RAIL AND HIGHWAY CENTER OF CASERTA HAS BEEN CAPTURED   GERMANS THROW AN. OTHER DIVISION INTO DE FENSE OF RIVER LINE

Frantic Nazis Hurl New Force   FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES STRATEGIC RAILWAY, HIGHWAY CENTER OF CASERTA AS LAST AXIS RESISTANCE HALTS; ADRIATIC FRONT LULLS

Patrols Of U. S. 5th Army Cross Volturno River   Allies Capture Caserta And Slog Slowly Ahead Through Deep Mud.

Germans Hurl New Division Into Battle at Italian River   Fighting Subsides on Adriatic Coast After 8th KO's 15 Tanks

Florence Man Tells Of Heroism. Ot Lieutenant In Battle Over Sicily

Colored Youth Admits Selling 2 Stolen Bikes       Mistrial Ordered in Hope Of. More . Evidence - About Other Bieyele   Thefts. :

Colored Youth Admits Selling 2 Stolen Bikes   Mistrial Ordered in Hope Of More’ Evidence About Other Bicycle Thefts.

Allies Thought To Have Bombed Huge: Bases for Rocket Guns in No. France:

77 Jap Planes Are Downed by Yankee Airmen   Only Six U. S. Craft Lost in Greatest Air Battle of Pacific

American Airmen Knock Down 77 J ap Planes Over Guadalcanal Island

AMERICANS CHALK UP 13-T0-1 TOLL IN GREAT FIGHT   Bag Includes 32 Bombers and ° 45 Zeros—Force Largest ~ Ever Sent Toward Guadaleanal.   DAMAGE TO ISLAND DESCRIBED AS MINOR   Enemy Scores Bomb Hits on Two American Vessels— Nine Men Aboard One Killed.

U.S. Troops Control Part Of Airdrome   AH Possible Lines of Retreat for Nipponese Cut Off

Heavy Losses  Are Inflicted On Jap Forces   Paced by Tanks, Infantry Has Advanced in All Sectors Against Munda, Headquarters of MacArthur Renorts

TELLS INSIDE STORY ABOUT JAPS’ MORALE  U. S. Prisoner ~ Captured Two

Japanese Morale  Is Still Strong   Food Is Scanty But Commoners Are Geared to Wartime Practices.

AP Correspondent, Held By Enemy Two Years, Tells Of Condition.   WAS ON EXCHANGE SHIP

Fnemy Morale High in Japan Despite Setback   News Writer Tells Of Conditions in Far East Empire

Japanese Are Taking War Stoically  War Reporter Just Out Of Japan Says Morale Of Nipponese Excellent

Japs Not Cracking Under Hardships, Exchangee Says   Re RISSEFLI,. RRINES

WARTIME FANATICISM RAMPANT IN JAPAN; NO CRACKING SIGNS  A.P. WRITER, BEING REPATRIATED, GIVES ACCOUNT OF INNER JAPAN

Japanese People Show No Signs of Cracking Travelers Say; Hardships Accepted as Wartime Necessity   Re RISSELEL BRINES.

Jap Morale Holding Firm  ‘No Cracks In Jap Home Front Despite Hardships   JAP CIVILIAN DOCILE   By RUSSELL BRINES

 SWEPT BY FANATICISM  NO INDICATION OF ANY CRACK IN JAP MORALE   People Will Support War Effort For at Least Five More Years

PROPOSES M ARTHUE AD TOPS WN PACIFIC   Senator Chandler, Back from War Tour, Says General Should Be Top Man

Senators Back From Pacific [War Scene, Want MacArthur  ‘Supreme Allied Commander

CIVIL CONTROL FIGHT LOOMS   RHOWDOWN . TOMORROW. ON MOVE TO REDUCE ARMY'S, ’ POWER OVER PRODUC‘ TION GOALS

Crooner’s Home Burns   Christmas Tree Fire Raze: Bing Crashby Dicelline

ARREST BEER MAGNATE KIN   German-born Grandson Arrested For Draft Evasion Charge.

FBI Nabs Kin Of Brewer as Draft Evader  Four Other Persons Held for Aiding

'Germans Sound Double Alarms as ‘Hour of Allied Invasion of (Hitler’s Fortress Europe Nears

Jittery Nazis Report Double Commando Thrusts at Islands   NAZFE APRIEIRATL RESIGNS

YANKS DRIVE. JAPS TOWARD SEA ON ATTU   Stimson, Says Americans Have Seized the Partly  - Completed Aix Base Built by Nips in ‘the Holtz Bav Area.

Nip Casualties Upto 66P.C., Tokio Reveals   Enemy Claims  U.S. Casualties Also Heavy

Yankees driving encircled enemy back toward sea   Nip broadcast admits loss up to 66 percent

Enemy Losses eln Aleutians Very Heavy   Tokyo Admits 66 Per Cent But Said U.S. Lost, Too

British Blast Nazi Plans for an Attack   Flying Fortresses Smash at Enemy in Greece

re -e AMERIGANS SMASH NAZIS IN GREECE  : l aeitich Huey: Artillery Palle: Medi. Attack in fale   Nazi Forces in White Russia Split by Capture of Korosten

GERMAN PLANS FOR - ASSAULT SMASHED   8th Army Artillery Concentrates Fire on Enemy Positions -

Sth Shatters Nazi Plan For Attack   Flying Forts, Mitchells Bomb Airdromes in Athens Area — Rains Soak Italian Front

Smash Nazi Plans Against Sangro Front:   Heavy: Rains on. “Atalion Front Again Slow Warfare

BIG GUNS CUT OFF NAZIS AT SANGRO RIVER   COUNTER ATTACKS SMASHED BY 8TH ARMY

Nazi Plans For. Attack Smashed   Heavy Rains Make Torrents Of Rivers

Eighth Army Blasts Preparations  For Counterattack  Continued HeavyRains Slow Activities Along Italian Front

STH ARMY UPSETS NAZI ATTACK PLAN   GERMANS MASSING FOR COUNTER-BLOW ROUTED BY  ARTILLERY FIRE.

Heavy Bombers Concentrate On Enemy Airports   Nazis’ Counter-Attack Ir Italy Frustrated By British

German Attack Preparations Are Smashed In Sangro Area  Unfavorable Italian Weather Forces Air

Kighth Army Guns Smash Nazi Preparations For Counterattack in Central Italy

British Blast Nazi Plans for an Attack  Flying Fortresses Smash at  7 i

NAZI PLAN FOR ATTACK ALONG SANGRO NIPPED   Concentrations Smashed By Allied Artillery; Bombers Pound At  Athens Fields

ARTILLERY FIRE BREAKS UP DRIVE   Rains Convert Rivers, Creeks Into Raging Torrents   FORTRESSES HIT   ER my Airdromes in Athens Area; Fifth Army Sees “Little Activity

GERMAN PLAN TO STRIKE AT SANGRO UPSET   Heavy Rains Hold Up Large-Scale Action On Italian Front

Mrs. Mary Nadler Is Victim Of Accidental Shooting In Drug Store Following Joust About Quality Of Coffee      WAS ENROUTE TO FUNERAL SERVICE

Call Married MentoArmy In March   SELECTIVE SERVICE HEADQU AR. TERS SAYS FEBRUARY WiLi EXHAUST SUPPLY OF SINGLI MEN IN STATE.   Mcre Women In industry

MARRIED MEN TO BE CALLED   March Quota to Include Those With Wives Only As Dependents

Missouri House Democrats Open Fight Against Higher Taxes, Including Sales Levy

ASK MORE MEAT FOR LOGGERS   OPA To Recommend Extra Ration In First Break In Raculations.

Reds Recapture Salsk, Encircle Donets Capital   Swiftly Advancing: Troops Take Many Points On Railway

Soviet Army Overcomes Stern Stand   Troops Encircling Donets Basin Capital, Moscow Announces  fs. rer wee we ewe eee a .ltiwwCWl’Ci‘“‘‘CONRN.it

German Air Base Falls To Russians  Reds Closing Death Trap on Enemy

Rail Junction Seized — In Russian Advances   Soviet Troops Also Fast Encircling Capital of Donets " Basin—Stubborn Resistance Put Up by -. tha Germans

RUSSIANS SEIZE. IMPORTANT NAZI BASE OF SALSK   Other Fast-Moving Soviet Troops Are Encircling Capital of Donets Basin Above Rostov.   FIGHTING IS BITTER IN CAUCASIAN AREAS   Reds Continue Mopping Up Stalingrad Siege Army, Now Numbering Less Than 50,000 Troops.

REDS CAPTURE SALSK, GAIN ON BROAD FRONTS   SWIFT RED DRIVE CLOSING IN ON ROSTOY

SALSK FALLS TG RUSSIANS: RAIL CENTER   Reds Continue Drive On Rostav; Seek To Capture Second Rail Network In The Ukraine.   No Red Reverse

Russians Admit Gains In Every Sector Of East ern Front   OTHER IMPORTANT TOWNS LIBERATED

Soviets Closing In on Rostov  From Iwo Sides   Important Rail Junction and Air Base of Germans Taken; Donets Basin Area Encircled

Nazis Lose Air Base At Salsk   Fast Advancing Russians Moving Toward Rostov

Poultry Prices To Drop; Butter Points Increased  New Order Reflects Production Drop; - Pork Chops up

Point Values Rise Sharply On Butter   Some’ Meat Cuts Advance Slightly, But Poultry Ceilings Lower In OPA Order

Increase Butter Ration Value To.16 Points:   GHICKEN TO BE CHEAPER BUT WHAT GOES ON BISCUITS? RATION CHANrEc

Chicken Dinners Should Grow More Popular as OPA Lowers Ceiling Price

Point Value Of Butter Up To 16 a Pound   Price Shifts on Poultry Shave Cost of Some Of Fancier Grades

OPA Orders Some Changes in Value Of Ration Points   Ceiling Prices on Chickens Will Be Lowered Slightly October 12

WAGNER'S BODY WILL BE FLOWN TO JOHNSTOWN   ‘Found Iu Florida About 25 Miles From Take Off Point

110 Towns Overrun By Soviets, 12,000 Of Enemy Slain; Fresh Opposition Stopped

REDS OPEN UP NEW OFFENSIVE   Russians Claim 28-Mile Advance and Capture of 110 Towns.

 Jap Treatmert cf Priscners Is Net  as Bad as Pictured, London Hears

 Jap Tr eatment ef Pr isoners Is Not’ [ >. . as Bad as Pictured, London Hears

Germans Claim Parachute Troop: And SS Men Have Rescued Mussolini

WITH 32 ITALIAN WARSHIPS NOW IN  ALLIED HANDS; FORMER FASCIST LEADER NOW AT LIBERTY.

Agreement Reached Between. Lewis,   Pennsylvania Group  Operators Headed by Charles O'Neill Withdraw From Conference RBftarp Announcing Dienute I< Sattlad

Agreement Reached Between Lewis,   . Pennsylvania Group   Operators Headed by Charles O'Neill Withdraw From Conference 4   Operators Headed by Charles O'Neill Withdraw From Conference After Announcing Dispute Is Settled

Operators Ass'n Forms Separate  Pact With Lewis   Terms Of New Contract For This Field To Be Signed Today Are Not Revealed; Believed To Be Based On $1.50 Portal-To-Portal Pay.

COAL OWNERS SPLIT, MAKE LEWIS DEAL   Central Operators Sign Pact; Others Dicker Today

Berlin Claims Americans Flee   London Observers Warn of Propaganda

Wild Flight Claim ls Later Changed   Military Observers Admit Situation Is Now Critical But See Hope For Eventual Victory

COUNT IS FREED IN OAKES DEATH   Nassau Jury Recommends That French Nobleman Be Deported

ACQUITTAL IN NASSAU TRIAL   COUNT FOUND Nor GUILTY OF KILLING MULTI-MILLION. AIRE-—DEPORTATION 15 * . RECOMMENDED .

DE MARIGNY ACQUITTED BY JURY   Left With Threat of Deportation Hanging Over Head, However

OPEN PACIFIC AERIAL DRIVE   Raids Follow Closely on Gen. MacArthur’s Warning of Danger.   DETAILS NOT ANNOUNCED

In U.S. Attack   MacArthur Warns Japs Ready To Strike, Asks For  More Planes

Strong Force Of Japanese Planes Makes Daylight Attack On Milne Bay, New Guinea   Heavy Raid Follows By 12 Hours MacArthur's Prediction Of Enemy Attemnte To Gain Air Contral In Southwest Pacific Area :

Rommel Moves Experts From African Front   Report Axis Troops Being Taken From Tunisia, Landed At Sicily.   -WARPLANES HIT AXIS

GEN, MACARTHUR CITES NEED FOR U.S. AIRPOWER   Claims Nips Have Complete Control of Far Pacific Sea Lanes

o' eh  Of Jap Phares Hits Milne Bay   Raid Made in Daylight, General MacArthur’s  Headquarters Asserts; Details Not Announced

MAC ARTHUR WARKS JAPS ARE PREPARING FOR MAJOR ATTACH   Says That Air, Rather Than Naval Power, Is Key to Situation

ASSERTS JAPS HOLD CONTROL OF SEA LANES   Warns of Enemy Strength in ~ Pacific, Says Air First . Line of ‘Defense,   STRONG FORCE OF JAP > ’. PLANES: RAID. MILNE BAY

Attack Comes On Heels of New Warning   Gen. MacArthur Says Enemy Controls Sea

“84 More Axis Planes Destroyed,  a Nazis Massing Troons In Russia

General MacArthur Says Possibilities of Thrust at Australia Rests on Ability to Top Allies.

MACARTHUR        “Japs Control Sea “Lanes; ‘Allies: Muat Control Air’

ENEMY SEEKS SKY CONTROL. iE REVEALS   Says Nips Hold Sealanes In Western Pacific   Called First Line Of Defense: Great Claims Made In Tokyo

JAP BOMBERS STRIKE AT MILNE BAY   ‘Enemy Launches Attack In Strong Force Against Base

‘No Dunkerque,’ Says Berlin, Indicating Sacri fice Of 200,000 Men To  SOR, Seno

MARTHUR WARNS JAPS PREPARING EARLY ATTACKS   Refutes Knox, Who Discounts Jap Strength

Japs Strike Harder at Allied Bases   Latest Attack On Milne Bay  In New Guinea

atk Is Made Only Few Hours After MacArthur’s Statement On Danger Of Jap Attempt To Wrest Aerial Supremacy som Allies In Southwest Pacific

Allies Attacking Rommel’s Tunis-Bizerte Defense Line   x kK k * Finish Fight Believed Certain   Nazis Deploy For © New Smash At Reds

Japanese Raid Milne Bay In Air Rule Drive   MacArthur Warns Foe Controls West Pacific, Outer Australia Seas, Says Air-Ground Supremacy Is PowerKey

JAPS CONTROL SEA LANES IN WESTERN PACIFIC - M’ARTHUR   Line Of Airmen Is Only _Hope For Stopping Reinforced Attack  ° By Enemy

Strong Force Of Jap Bombers Raids Milne Bay During Day; Part Of Rising Air Drive

Unconfirmed Reports Tell Of Evacuatior   United Nations Destroy 84 More Planes for Enemy

[MacArthur Says Big Aerial Offensive Begun By Enemy In Southwest Pacific Area

German Radio Says There Will Be “No Lsunkerque” For Rommel’s Troops. Indications Are They Will Be Used As Time Saving Sacrifice As At Stalinerad

Allied. Base at Milne Bay In New Guinea Raided by Strong Japanese Air Unit

Rommel Reported Evacuating Germans From Tunisian Trap   Messages From Rome And Marseille . Assert Italian Troops Are Seen Landing At Sicily And Sardinia

GEN, MACARTHUR WARNS AGAIN OF 'ENEMY'S POWER   F. R. May Be Called On To Settle Question Of Sending More Planes

Germans Say No Dunkerque for Axis Army   Allied Airmen  Destroy 84 Enemy Planes; Rommel Evacuates Technicians

Nazi Troops In Africa To Be Sacrificed   Allies Drive into Rommel’s Main Defense Lines; British 1st Army Makes Further Advances; RAF Pounds Both Ends of Hitler’s European Fortress —

Some Germans Are Evacuated   Axis’ Dwindling Air Fields Are Roundly Pounded.

MacArthur Warns Japanese Control Sealanes in Western Pacific and Approaches to Australia — Germans  Said Massing Forces for Heavy Attack in Russia

Allies Reach Fixed Axis Defense Line   Reports Say Rommel Has Begun Evacuation Of Some’Troops From North African Trap

Axis Troops Evacuation Is Reported   Nazi Commentator Sees ‘No Dunkirk’; 145 Planes Blasted

Nips Now Control Sealanes, To Seek  Superiority In Air Next, He Declares

Germans Massing For New Assault On Russian Front      Berline Radio « Declare és . There Will be‘no. Dun‘kerqtie F or 200,000 Beleagureéd 3: Abi can Troops. Indicates’ Mén To Be Left‘as Sacrifice ° Tol Gain: Time. For AXIS. : :

Report Rommel Starts Evacuation Of Technicians  FLEEING TRAP   Axis Troops Slipping Out Of Tunisia At Night -

Nippon Now Controls Sea Lanes, Claim   MacArthur Warns Foe Attempting To Seize Aerial Supremacy In Sonthwest Pacific

ROMMEL SENDS TECHNICIANS TO ITALY, REPORT   Allied Spearheads Hit Main Nazi Defense Lines in North

MacArthur, Curtin Issue Warnings  Jap Bombers Smash At Milne Bay

Japs Emphasize Warning  With Heavy Air Raid   Strike Powerfully at Milne Bay After MacArthur Says Enemy Ts  ne: ee  Ane nmtearntin

Says Japs Control Sealanes in SouthWest War Theater   Sees Nips Preparing to oS Attempt to Gain Air  Supremacy Soon

No Dunkerque Boasts Nazi Commentator   Jap Offensive Still Is Held Imminent in the South Pacific

MacArthur Warns Allied Supremacy and Supply Lines in Far Pacific in Danger—Greater Air Power, Rather Than Naval Power, Needed To Meet Threat, He Says

Details of Strong Attack Not Given   Attack Follows Warning By MacArthur That Enemy Plans Aerial Offensive

J aps Raid Important  Allied Base   MacArthur Says Japs In crease Air Strength in  Australian Area

RESULTS OF ‘ACTION NOT ANNOUNCED   MacArthur, Curtin Re2 iterate Warning Of Nip Threat

JAPANESE HAVE STRONG FORCE, GENERAL SAYS   Control of Sealanes In the Western Pacific Held   By Nipponese, Chief  Of Allies Claims   MUST BOOST POWER IN AIR, HE CONTENDS   Allied Airmen Hit Two Jap Ships Off New Guinea, As Menace to Australia Is Emphasized

Milne Bay Hit By Day Raid   MacArthur Says Japs Control Sea Lanes

Enemy Aircraft Raid Milne Bay  Bombing Is Prelude To Aerial Offensive

Allies Narrow Rommel’s Hold - Around Tunis   Flying Fortresses Wreck 73 Enemy ‘Evacuation Planes’ In Raids Over Sicilian Airports;  Nazis Leaving, Report.

Big Squeeze On Axi In North African Cage Is Under Way  German Technicians and Some Italians   German Technicians and Some Italians Evacuated Under Cover Of Night

ONLY MORE AIR POWER CAN HALT OFFENSIVE OF NIPS, SAYS M’ARTHUR   Jap Fliers In Strong Attack Against Allied Base At Milne Bay, New Guinea; Curtin Warns of General Offensive

Algiers Radio Reports that Nazi Technicians Are Being Evacuated; Other Reports Say Italian Troops Getting Away to Sicily; MacArthur Warns of Situation in Pacific. :

CLAIM SPEARHEADS DRIVEN INTO ROMMEL LINES BY ALLIES   ALGIERS BROADCAST SAYS GERMAN TECHNICIANS BEING EVACUATED

JAPS.SEND BIG AERIAL FLEET AT MILNE BAY   Fourth Heavy Raid In Week Follows Warnings From MacArthur On Danger

MILNE BAY IS RAIDED BY BIG JAP AIR FORCE   Emphasizes MacArthur Warning of Nipponese Rid for Air Supremacy

Start Evacuation of German Technicians from North Africa, Report —“‘No Dunkirk” for Rommel,  German Commentator Says

Expected to Keep Fighting To Very End   Some German Technicians Being Evacuated; Allies Attack Enemy’s Airfields

NORTH AFRIGAN TRAP GLOSING AROUND ENEMY   German Technicians Being Evacuated; Many Italians Escape to Sicily   SEE TIME SAVER IN ‘STAND’ ORDER

JAP WARPLANES HIT MILNE BAY   Continue Big Aerial Drive In Southwest Pacific

ANNIHILATION FACING HITLER'S  ARMY IN AFRICA   Reports of Evacuation to Italy Discounted - - Escape Believed Impossible   NAZI AIR FORCE RIDDLED   In Russia, Reds Expecting Heavy Attacks Soon from Massing Enemy Force

JAP: AIR FORCE HITS MILNE BAY   General MacArthur Reports “Strong Force” Attacks in Daylight,   NO DETAILS GIVEN OF LATEST ATTACK

Htalians and. Nazis Slipping Out of Tunisia   Hitler's Armies to Be Used as a Time Saving Device

ARE HELD UP TODAY   Three Daring Bandits Take $50,000 in Jewels, $10,000 in Cosh from  Vaults. 4d

No Change Until Next October   Jones Expected to Urge Farmers to Sell Hogs of Lighter Weights

RETAIN CEILINGS "ON CORN, HOGS   Food and Price Officials Agree to Hold the Line

Corn, Hog Prices Held  Stationary      Emphasis Placed On Sale of Hogs Of Lighter Weight

Desperate Nazis Battle to Halt Sicily Campaign   Counterattacks Cut to Pieces by American Troops

Air Force Smashes New  Reinforcement -Attemp! by. Shooting Bown. 2! Huge German. Junkers Americans Driving Inte Harder Core of. Enemy Recistance.

Savage Nazi Assaults Are Beaten Back   Allies Down 21 Axis Transport Planes Over Messina Strait

J o., CANADIAN TRUUPS MOVING ACROSS SICILY   Savage German Counter Attacks Are Beaten Back By Allied Forces

ALLIES EXTEND ~ GAINS IN SICILY   Fierce Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Crushed by Yank, Canadian Troops

SICILY FIGHT   American, Canadian troops Repulse Savage Enemy Counter Attacks

U. S., Canadians  Pushing Eastward In Drive To Seize Axis’ Escape Port

ALLIES CUT NAZI ATTACKS TO PIECES   Airmen Shoot Down 21] Big Air Transports, Smashing New Attempt to Land Reinforcements on Island.

Allies Cut to Pieces Savage Nazi Attacks   Continue Advance In Central Sicily; 21 Huge * Junker Transports Shot Down

Germans Fight Desperately To Hold Cafanie   U. §., Canadian Troops In Spearhead Of Savage Battle

TROOP PLANES WERE DOWNED   ‘Effort to ‘Reinforce Nazis ‘at Messini Fails and Allies Advance to ‘Close Them in Corner of Sicily.

Enemy Losses Skyrocket In South Sicily   21 Huge German Transport Planes Downed By KAF

Yanks, Canadians Crush German Counter Thrusts In Continuing Advances

GERMANS MAKE SUICIDE STAND um MESSINA  i”e FA CACRAY   ALLIES FOIL ENEMY ATTEMPTS TO HELP BESIEGED WARRIORS

Americans and Canadians Advance Over Ground Strewn With Axis Dead; 21 Huge Junkers Transport Planes Shot Down.

HAMMER NAZIS HARD IN SICIL)   Their Counter Attacks Broken Up. Troop Planes Shot Down Over Messina Straits

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED   Americans and Canadians Cut Savage German Assaults to Pieces,   TRANSPORTS SHOT DOWN

U.S., Canadian Troops Drive Deep Into Sicily Heart   Battleground Littered With Bodies of Axis Dead; Transports ' Shot Down

Horatius at the Bridge Emulated by Germans   Allies Crowd Them Toward Corner Of Sicily—21 Big Troop Carriers Are Shoat Dawn

Counterattacks By Nazis Cut To Pieces In Sicily   Big German Planes Continue To Attempt To Bring In Troops

U.S., Canadian ‘Troops Smash © German Attack   Atiempt At Reinforcement Beaten As Transports Are Shot From Skies

COUNTERATTACKS OF THE NAZIS ARE CUT TO PIECES   American - Canadian Troops Ramming Forward In Sicily.   GERMAN JUNKERS DOWN   Twenty-one Shot Down in a Battle Over Messina Strait.

21 BIG TRANSPORT CRAFT DESTROYED   Attempt To Reinforce BeJeagured Axis Forces Is Blasted   SEVERE LOSSES   Battlefield In Northeast Section Reported Strewn With Axis Dead

Americans Break Up Attacks, Then Move On Forward   Airmen Shoot Down 21 German Transports Over Messina Strait

Allies Drive Pell-Mell For Messina Port   Savage German Attacks Cut To Pieces; Down Big Planes Bringing In Reinforcements

Savage Counter-Attacks In Central Sector Cut To Pieces By U. S. and Canadian Troops; Enemy Reinforcement Attempt Is Smashed.

NAZI BATTLE TO HOLD BACK ALLIED DRIVE   Americans and Canadians in Sicily Cut Up Savage Counterattacks. ©   AIR FORCES SHOOT DOWN TROOPS IN TRANSPORTS

AMERICANS, CANADIANS SMASH FIERCE NAZI COUNTER-ATTACKS IN SICILY

Assaults Of Axis Smashed.   Battlefield Is Strewn With German 7 Dead. 8

Big German Transports Sho! Dawn as Nazis Strive to Reinforce Baltered Defenders   HEAVY TOLL TAKEN   Canadians, Advancing With Americans, Bear Bruni—Field Lit. tered With Nazi Dead

U.S. AND CANADIAN _., TROOPS CUT GERMAN ut, ATTACKS TO PIECES  ALLIED AIR FORCE SHOT - DOWN HUGE NAZI

SMASH NAZI ATTEMPT TO AID SICILY   Allies Shoot Down Giant Transport Planes and Armies Drive Forward.   Germans Take Over Defense of Island

21 BIG GERMAN PLANES DOWNED OVER MESSINA   Allies Block Enemy Attempt To Reinforce Trapped Divisions   GERMAN LOSSES MOUNTING   Ground Strewn With Bodies Of Axis Dead; Eighth Army Stalled

AXIS SQUEEZED BY ALLIES INTO ‘COFFIN CORNER’   Americans Dashing Toward Messina To Block Off Escape Port There

Savage German Counter Blows Cut to Pieces   21 Air Transports Carrying Reinforcements to Sicily Are Shot Down   ALLIES ADVANCE OVER ENEMY DAD   German Forces Spread Out, More Sent In at Sacrifice, as Showdown Nears

Yank-Canuck Forces Press On in Sicily   Smash German Counter-Attacks Ih Central Sector of Area

Allies Smash At Nazis In Sicily   NEW GERMAN TROOPS HELD BACK BY AIR FORCE

21 GERMAN JUNKERS TRANSPORTS DOWNEI   Enemy Losses Skyrocket li Central, Southern,. Portions of Line

Americans, Canadians Push Ahead Over Sicily   Twenty-One Large Junkers Troop  Planes Lost.

ALLIED TROOPS' SMASH SAVAGE NAZI THRUSTS   A merican and Canadian Forces Advancing In ‘Sicily Over Ground Strewn With Dead   REINFORCEMENT ATTEMPT HALTED   Twenty-One Huge German Junker-52 Transports Shot Down Over Messina Strait

Nazi Counter ‘Blows Beaten   American and Canadiar Troops Inflict Heavy  ~ Losses on Germans

Allies Meet With Strong Opposition   But Savage German Counter Attacks in Sicily Are Defeated   IN A WAITING PHASE   Planes Harags Enemy Areas as New Thrust Is Prepared  x

TRANSPORTS SHOT DOWN   Allies Throw Back Fierce German Counterattacks: Action At Catania Is Confined To Patrols

Allies Cut To Pieces Axis Counterattacks In Central Sicily Area   Advance Over Ground Covered With Dving

Nazi Counterattacks Are Cut. To  Pieces ALLIES GAINING  Canadians Are Bearing Brunt Of

21 JUNKERS-52 SHOT DOWN BY ALLIED PLANES   Strong Resistance In Northern Area Announced Today

ESCAPE PORT’ OBJECTIVE OF ALLIED DRIVE   Two Giant German 323Mersebergs Capable of Carrying 100 Soldiers  Are Shot Down =s« gS   RESISTANCE STIFFENS

Hil PROBATE, ~-DORGE FILEL   Will cf Late “Mary -’Heroa Leaves City Prorerty to.“ " : Ghurch Group: > 

WiLL PRORATED) VOREE FLED   Will cf Late Mary Heron Leaves City Prorerty to Church Group.

ASKED TO SAVE FUEL   ‘Chancellor Sends Out Letter to All Faculty Members

ASKED TO SAVE FUEL   Chancellor Sends Out pater to All Faculty Mem

No Stub Is Needed For Book No. 3   New Ruling Permits Mailmen To Deliver To Family Representatives.

BEGIN DRIVE TO CHECK ON TIRE WASTES   Will Crack Down on Pleasure Drives,

GERMAN PROGRAM CONTINUAL RAIDS   Eden Praises Churchill During Address To Conservative Meeting.

 Allies Will Will Ins! ist on Unconditienal J. « Surrender Despite Government Change

Allies Will Insist on Unconditicnal Surrender Despite Government Change

U.S. FIRM ON UNCONDITIONAl SURRENDER   Washington Hails lialian Development as Beginning of End

GUIANA JOINS GIRAUD BANNER   CA reer French Unity Spreads to Western Hemisphere; Other Possesfons Expected to Follow Lead.

FRENCH UNITY MOVE SPREADS   Possessions In Western Hemisphere Expected To Join Giraud Forces

UNITY OF FRENCH NOW SPREADING T0 THIS HEMISPHERE   Admiral Robert, Vichy Satellite, Rapidly Becoming Isolated By New Spirit.

Guiana Now Under Banner OfGen.Giraud   Martinique Expected .Soon to Sever Ties With Vichyites

2 Trainmen Meet Death in Gallup Wreek   Santa Fe Train No, 3 Piles into Switch Engine in Yards

Will Confer With Ickes   Pennsylvania Miners Vole To Resume Work

U.S. Search Plane Fights Off 5 Zeros   ONE ATTACKER DOWNED, ANOTHER LISTED AS PROBABLE IN GILBERTS —

ZEROS ATTACK U.S. PLANE IN GILBERTS   One Of Five Japanese Ships Shot Down Over Air Base

Rommel Hurl: Tank Waves Into Breach.   Meantime, American : Airmen Blast Many Important Axis Points   The War:

DOTTIE TO WED   Glorifier Of Sarong Will Marry Air Force Captain.

M'NUTT, WARING ADDRESS LEGION   Tell Veterans U. S. Must Throw Full Strength Into War; McNutt Says Fathers Must Be Drafted.

Warren Signs Tax Cut Bills, Pension Boost   _ Sales, Use, Income, Bank And Corporation Levies ) Slashed $65,890,000   AGED AID [5 $50   Two Other Money Saving Measures Are On Desk: Appropriations Pile Up

Warren Cuts State Taxes   Governor Signs Five Bills; Two More On Desk for Study

RED ARMY APPEARS HAVE GAINED UPPER HAND WEST OF KIEV  GERMANS STOPPED AFTER FIVE WEEKS OF HEAVY FICHTING

REDS DOMINATE FIGHT NEAR KIE\   Counter-Attacks Launched in Teterev River Sector Weaken Nazis

Russians Tighten Grip on West  Kiev Territory  Nazis Are Dislodged From Holdings,  : —_——— Al acar Ti. Se

Reds Gain Upper Hand Near Kiev  SS ee   Soviets Press Attack Toward

Russians Gain Upper  Hand In Kiev Bulge   German Radio Admits Three Soviet Offensives Under Way In — White Russia.

Red Ukraine Army Appears Firmly Established West Of Kiev: Beat Back Nazis   Russians In Other Sectors Move Forward; Press Twin Drives On Smela, Kirovoarad -

Reds Regain Advantage   Five Weeks of Desperate Fighting Swings To Russians —

SOVIETS HAVE UPPER HAND BEFORE KIEV   Apparently Control Situation Firmly After Five Weeks of Desperate Fighting Against Big Nazi Force.

Soviets Score In Kiev Bulge   Definitely Gain Upper Hands After Battle Of Five Weeks

Vatutin’s Army Dislodges Foe,  Resumes Drive   Nazi Hold On Kiev Sectors Threatened By New Red Gains, Counterattacks

REDS HALT NAZI ATTACK ON KIEI   Desperate German Drive  Toward City Stopped

Ukraine Army Takes Upper Hand  Five Weeks of Hard Fighting Climaxed West of Kiev

RUSSIANS HAVE UPPER HAND NOW   Red Army Firmly Establishes Hold West Of Kiev After Weeks Of Desper. ate Fighting.

IST UKRANIAN ARMY HAS THE UPPER HAND TODAY WEST OF KIEV   Had Been Waging Desperate Fight Against Heavy German Infantry Attacks.   Routed From Several Settlements in the Teterev River Sector.

Soviets In Control After Five Weeks Of Fighting; Nazis Report New Drives

Vatutin Has Upper Hand West of Kiev   (;ermans Dislodged Along Teterev River 55 Miles West

AINS AGAIN  aN ARMY EST OF KIEV   Vatutin's Forces Appear To Have Established Upper Hand After Five Weekof Battling   SETTLEMENTS ARE TAKEN

FIRST UKRAINE ARMY HAS UPPER HAND AT KIEV   Dislodge Nazis in Teterev River Sector; Cherkasy Drive Continues

Soviets Break German Attacks  Vatutin Wins Upper Hand West of Kiev.

Vatutin’s Army Gains Upper Hand West Of Kiev After Fierce Attacks

NAZIS THROWN FROM SEVERAL STRONG POINTS   Reds Press Attacks Toward Smela Base

WEST OF KIE\   Hold Upper H: Hand After Five Weeks of Desperate Fightina.

SOTEETS HOLD     KIEV FIGHTING   Geni’ Vatutin’s First Ubyainien iArmay After Five Weeks Fighting Seems to Hold Upper “Hand =§3©-

Russ Break Back of Nazi Drive on Kiey   Red Army Has Upper Hand After 5 Weeks of Desperate     Fighting

VATUTIN STOPS VON MANNSTEIN IN KIEV BULGE   Germans’ Hold on Radomys! Threatened by Advances Scorec  hy Ryesiane   N&R TY NAZIS SLAIN   Kirovograd Parily Encircled, AS Konev Drives on Smela—Olfen-: sives in While Russia 

Reds Gain Control Of Kiev Fighting  LN newt ne we be a See   Counter-attacks Dislodge Enemy From Settlements.

Russians Gain In Kiev Area   Five Weeks of Heavy Fighting Turned In Favor of Reds

RUSSIANSGAIN UPPER HAND IN WEST KIEV AREA   Red Counter-Attacks Dis- lodge Germans From Sev eral Settlements In the  . Terey River Sector

Russians Tighten Ce An Wact  ai ip UE TY UOL  Kiev Territory  Nazis Are Dislodged From Holdings,  Biaenn RAbasar Thenwka

Soviets Gain Again In Kiev  Bulge Battle   Vatutin’s Army Gain: Upper Hand After 5 Weeks Of Violent Tank Struggles

GERMANS ARE DISLODSED i TETEREY AREA   Russians Capture 900 Prisoners And Equipment

Russians Gain Upper Hand Near Kiev   Red Forces Resume Push After Nazi Attack Halted

REDS ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS   VATUTIN'’S ARMY GAINS UPPER HAND IN THE KIEV BULGE

RED ARMY GRINS GROUND AT KIEV   Dislodge Nazis from Points Near Tetrev River,”

"WREN’ Data Sought Eonr LIS WAVES   India Acceots Bid   Air Raid Siren Test Sunday

Strike Delaying Ship Launchings   (rane Operators Slow War Effort

STAGE IS SET FOR WORK ON CONSTITUTION   First Convention in 20 Years for That Purpose Gets Under Way   May Last Year and  Cost State $800,000.

Constitutional Convention Is Called To Order   Sec. Brown Swings Gavel; Anti-New Dealer Has Lead.

Professors Are Dropped By OPA   Outline Plans To Simplify Program

OPA Drops Professors   Out of Policy-Making Posts; Bowles Plans To Simplify Program

We'll Simplify OP A---Bowles   Pr is 0 n os YT ses ng el e in u Liv in r AUg st De

REPLACE PROFS IN OPA SETUP   General Manager Bowles Outlines Plans to Simplify Procedure.   APPOINTS NEW DEPUTY

BOWLES OUTLINES PLAN TO SIMPLIFY 0 P-A’S PRICE. RATIONING PROGRAM

OPA TO SIMPLIFY PRICES, RATIONS   Professors Taken Off the Policy-Making Jobs in New Program

BRITISH STRIKE IN BURMA.   Tiny Cracks Are Beginning To Appear In Structure of Home Front of Nazi Germany

What Is Happening Inside Germany? Nazi Home Front Cracking Slightly; Break Not Near  ; ‘

GERMAN HOME FRONT MAY.  BE CRACKING Small Indications  Appear; No Dange OF Onuick Callanae

Reds Destroy : Nazi Convoy.  , Ih Barents Sea   Nine Transports, Patrol Vessel... Sunk by Russians 

Report of Russo-German Peace Negotiations Viewed  As Propaganda a la Goebbels

ALLIED-SOVIET SPLIT AIM OF PEACE FEELER   Hand Of Goebbels Seen In Nazi - Russian Report

PEACE FEELER IS PUT OUT BY GOEBBELS   Story, However, Is Thought to Be Nazi Propaganda

PEACE BALLOON SIGNALIZES NEW GOEBBELS DRIVE   No Credence Given ‘to Talk of Negotiations By Russia and Germany.

Reds Scorn Peace Hints   Nazis Seek to Keep Baltics. East Poland

loday’s War Commentary  Axis Propaganda Takes New Tone With Reverses

IMPORTANT GERMAN RAIL AND HIGHWAY JUNCTION 1S TAKEN   FRENCH FORCES ALONG COST IN NORTH SWEEP NEAR RBIZERTE

FRENCH DRIVE NEARS BIZERTE   Enemy Defenses Collapse in Many Places As Allies Renew Attacks.   MANY PRISONERS TAKEN

Within 18 Miles of Bizerte, 34 of Tunis   French and U. S. Troops Along Coast Drive to 15 Miles From Bizerte; Axis Now in Last Mountain Lines.

FRENCH FORCES ONLY 15 MILES FROM BIZERTE   Nazis Quit Positions After Being Pounded for Nearly 2 Weeks

ALLIED ARMIES SEIZE GROUP OF HILL POSITIONS   Germans ‘Tiring, But Continue To Offer Stiff Resistance in Tunisia   BULLETIN

IMPORTANT GERMAN RAIL AND HIGHWAY JUNCTION 1S TAKEN  FRENCH FORCES ALONG  COST IN NORTH SWEEP

‘Key Point But 18 Miles  From Bizerte   Highway Junction 34 Miles From Tunis; Lull On Front Near End

Nazis Making Stand In Last  Mountain Area  French, Yankee Forces Advance To Within 12 Miles Of Bizerte In  Qmachine Drivee

Americans Take Mateur After 12: Mile Push   Others Smash With French To Within I5 Miles Of Bizerte; Hundreds Of  Germans Are Taken Prisoner

Yanks Take Key Junction, ~* Forcing Nazis to Retreat; French and Goums Sweep On’

Drive 12 Miles to Cut Roads Between Bizerte and Tunis .  CLOBE IN ON : BIZERTE U.S. and French Troops Sweep to Within 15 Miles of Base

LAUNCHING DRIVE   Seventy-Five Red Cross Workers Attend Session  in Lawrence   HEAR SEVERAL TALKS

PLANS MADE FOR LAUNCHING DRIVE   Seventy-Five Red Cross Workers Attend Session  in Lawrence

Many Young Married Men Called for Service      REGISTRANTS SELECTED FOR INDUCTION BY LOCAL COUNFY BOARD

PRESIDENT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE   Back On The Job After 7,600-Mile Trip

PRESIDENT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE   Seventeen-day Trip Covering 76,000 Miles Ends Today.

GAFSA FALLS TO ROMMEL'S AFRICA CORPS   Tanks And Dive Bombers Lead Attack Against Allies

ESSENTIAL JOBS ARE  LISTED FOR GUIDING  BOARD DEFERMENTS EMPHASIZED THAT LIST INGS MERELY GUIDE AND NOT Niperctriuc

NEW RULINGS ON SERVICE IN ARM   Federal Bureau Issues Lis! On Workers Classified As Essentials,

NEED REPAIR ~~ MENATHOME   Selective Service Says Hand Tradesmen May Be Deferred.

Draft Officials Class 79 Jobs As ‘Essential   Repair and Hand Trade Services Are Included in List

To Cut Red Tape On Gas   Farmers To Benefit From Bill Passed By Kansas House

Editor Indicted Over Gas Expose   Publisher Demands Official's Ouster

STEPPED-UP ATTACK AGAINST NAZI WAR PLANTS T0 CONTINUE   DESPITE MOUNTING BOMBER LOSSES RUHR RAIDS TO BE PRESSED

‘Woe To Nazis In The Weeks Ahead. .... Germany In For More And Greater Attacks

Greater Allied Bombings Expected To Continue On German Objectives

Around-Clock Bombing Will Go On Despite Recent Heavy Plane Losses

NEW HORROR IS DISCLOSED BY THE PRESIDENT   Remainder Of Fliers In Hands Of Enemy Fails To Receive Prisoner Rights.

President Discloses New Horror By Enemy; Nipponese Warned Criminal Barbarity Will Be Punished

AMERICAN HEROES ARE PUT TO DEATH   Japan Has Executed Some of the Eight Captured Flyers.

U.S. AVIATORS ARE EXECUTEL BY JAPANESt   Violates CovenantsConcerning Military Prisoners; Japanese Warned By United State: Of Just Punishment   Brutal Mechods

U.S. Promises Japan Punishmen  For Flyers Death   Reveals Execution of Some of Men Who Were in Tokvo Raid

F.D.R. Assails Jap Violation Of War Rules.   Calls It ‘Barbarous,? Promises Punishment For Those Responsible  NAMES NOT CIVEN

F. D. Diseloses New Horror by Pacific Enemy   State Department Warns Japs Against Any Future Acts of Criminal Barbarity

JAPS KILL YANK PILOT PRISONERS      Roosevelt Protests Criminal Barbarity  Acts Upon Tokyo Raid Vic tims in Statement .

F lood Threat Diminishing      Army Gains Control Over Raging Arkansas River’s Worst Rampage

Greatest Arkansas River Flood Under Control in Area of L. R.  War-Born Prosperity Reduces Sharply

FLOOD UNDER CONTROL   Recent High Water in Arkansas.  Set An All Time Record

CIO. Favors Fourth Term For Roosevelt   Machinists Return to AFL, YZembership

Factional St plit : Develops in UAW   Charleston Transit Workers Get 5-Cent Hourly Increase

FIVE JAP SHIPS HIT IN U.S. RAID   25,000 TONS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN HARBOR OF RABAUL

AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT FIVE JAP SHIPS   Harbor Of Rabaul Pounded In Three-Hour Raid

0 JAP MERGHANTMEN ARE SUNK AT RABAUL      Allied. Bombers Also Attack . Bacco At lao

Five Japanese Supply Ships Sunk Or Damaged In American Bombing of Harbor of Rabaul   Enemy Foctholds Blasted Over Wide Area In The Southwest Pacific

FIVE JAP CARGO SHIPS TARGETS OF U.S. BOMBERS   Sunk Or Badly Damaged in Harbor of Rabaul, New Britain During Three-Hour Raid   MEET STILL DEFENSE   Airdromes Also Blasted Into Flames; Japs Attack Allied Base At Milne Bay

U.S. BOMBERS HIT 5 JAP SHIPS   Three Waves of Flying Fortresses Attack Rabaul Harbor Saturday

PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON SLOW PRODUCING PLANTS   Speed-Up Orders Given Factories With Unsatisfactory Gutput Records

4-Motor Bombers Hit Nazi Centers   Chemicals Works in Rhine land Are Targets of  Heavy Assault   SIX RAIDS IN 4 DAYS   American Fortresses Unopposed in Raid on Western Germany

LEVERKUSEN IS TARGET OF BIG RAID   Round-Clock Attacks Con tinue Today: Chaos Is  Reported Evident In Nazi Capital

LEVERKUSEN TARGET OF MAIN RAF ASSAULT   American Bombers Blast Germany Without Loss Friday

REPORT CHAOS IN BERLIN FROM EARLIER RAIDS   Night Attack Against Leverkusen Followed by Daylight Sallies

RAF Raiders, Returning To Continent For Third Successive Night, Blast Leverkusen And Nearby Areas— American Flying Fortresses Return Without Loss From Daylight Assault In Western Reich——Thousands Of Persons Reported Homeless In Berlin

OTHERS BOMBED IN RHINELANT   Thousands Homeless Ir Berlin After Raid, Reports Say

‘ALLIED BOMBERS FOLLOW-UP BLOW ‘AT LEVERKUSEN   FIVE PLANES FAIL TO RETURN FROM SECOND BIG RAID

Leverkusen, Other Cities In Rhine Hit   More Planes Sweep Out In Daylight; 3 Of 5 Night Bombers Lost  Are Canadian

GERMAN POISON GAS PLANT HIT   Light Allied Planes Follow Attack By RAF on Chemical Works.   BOMB RHINELAND POINTS

Russia Suffers A Setback Tho   And Going Continues Slow In Italy; Aerial “Blitz” Holds Spotlight

Poison Gas Factory Is Bomb Target   R. A. F. Attack On Leverkusen A Continuation  Of New Aerial Offensive.

GERMANY HIT BY ANOTHER HEAVY RAID   R. A. F. Bombers Blast Chemical Center of Leverkusen, Where Poison Gas Is Made—Fliers Cross Channel Today.

Offensive Goes Into Third Night   Rhineland Cities Targets Hit — Five Planes  Fail to Return

Leverkusen Target Of Follow-up Raid; 5 RCAF Craft Lost   Blast Home Of Poison Gas Plants: Attack Second Within 12 Hours; Skies Lighted By Fires In Berlin

Nazi Poison Gas Center Is Bombed By British   Leverkusen Hit For Fifth Time; Traflie In Berlin Frozen; Thousands Homeless

LEVERKUSEN, THE GERMAN CHEMICAL GENTER ATTACKED   Hit Last Night by the RAF jn Continuation of the In  tensive Aerial Offensive.   SIX RAIDS IN FOUR DAYS   Formation of Light Allied Planes Swept Across the Channel Today.

Six Heavy Raids From Britain In Four Days Indicates Intensity OF Aerial Offensive

‘Berlin Blasting Followed ‘By Heavy Attack on Poison Gas Works; New Sweep Today

Poison Gas Works Hit By Bombers   Allies: Keep Air Drive Go. ing, R.A.F, Making Heavy Assault in Germany   CHEMICAL CENTER. AGAIN BLASTED   Thousands Made Homeless in Berlin, Chaos: Evident "Following Raid:

Allies Reach New Heights ir Air Offensive   Chemical Center Near Cologne Hit Friday Nicht by RAF Bombers

Light Planes Continue Offensive in Daylight Today While Chaos Reigns in Berlin   FORTS UNSCATHED   Kepner Says Need Only Increase Number of Bombers, Fighters to Crumble Germany

RAF BOMBERS RETURN TO. GERMANY FOR SRD SUCCESSIVE NICHT   Leberkusen and Other Rhine‘land Targets Bombed; Mines “Laid In Foe’s Waters   FIVE PLANES LOST IN RAIDS

Leverkusen, Center of Chemical Plants  Blasted Last Night   Blazing Suburbs of Berlin Still Light Up Dark  Skies

BERLIN AFIRE ATER ASSAULT BY AIR ARMADA   Light Bombers Follow Up Night Attacks As Allied Aerial Offensive On Germany Expands   CANADIAN AIRMEN / HAD LEADING ROLE   ‘Record Raid On Capital of  Reich Brings Chaos in   City, Swedish Press   Advises London

RAF Bombs Targets In Rhineland   German Chemical Center Blasted In Aerial Offensive

Intensive Aerial Raids on Germany  Made by Allies   Light Planes Sweep Over Channel After Six Heavy Raids in 4 Days.   Chemical Center of Leverkusen Is Target

NAZI POISON GAS PLANT I$ HIT BY BOMBS   New Heights Are Reached By Air In New Raids

Light Planes Follow Allied Big Fellows   RAF Bombers Attack Poison Gas Making Plants

RAF Fleet - Returns to  Rhineland   Leverkusen Was Principal Target of Last Night’s _ Attack

Leverkusen and Other Rhineland Targets Hit; Five RAF Planes Lost

Allies Follow Up RAF Assault With Bombardment of Nazi Gas Center

POISON FUMES MAY HAVE BEEN TURNED LOOSE   Suburb of Colgne Latest Point in Reich to Feel Power of Big British Bombers.

Reich Area Under Six Heavy Raids   Daylight Smash Today Follows RAF Blasting of Leverkusen at Night

U. S. Income Tax Paymenis Due Tuesday   Tomorrow Last Day for Second Installment— Rush Begun.

Payment on Income Tax Is Due Tuesday   Will Be Last for Most Taxpayers

Second Payment On Income Taxes Is Due Tomorrow   Installment to Be Last Quarterly One For Most Taxpayers

Tax Payment Is Due Tomorrow; Pay-Go Plan Will Take Effect July 1; System Effects Nearly All Citizens

Alexander to Be Deputy Commander   British Officers To Take Command Of Land, Sea, Air

Alexander To Be Chief Aide To Eisenhower   Tedder, Cunninghan Put in Charge of Air, Naval Forces 

Fall of Salerno  Spurs Americans   British Gain 15 Miles in 24 Hours; Warships, Planes Aid in Assault

Vast Air Umbrella Covering Advances  por er ee ee eee Ce eee   Salerno Fall Marks First Victory Kor United States Fifth Army

FIGHTING - REPORTED   German Panzers Try Desperately to Hold Open Escape Corridor for Troops.

GERMANS TRYING T0 KEEP ESCAPE ROUTE OPEN TO NORTH ITALY   Americans Battle Nazi Tank Units Within Sight Of Mount Vesuvius; Fighting Is ‘Very Heavy’

ENEMY TRYING TO DELAY CLOSE UF ALLIED TRAP   Holding Open Escape Corridor For Forces In South Aim Of Resistance

Bitter Battle Is Raging in Naples Area   American 5th Army Captures Rail and Port City of Salerno

Adriatic Port Of Bari Is Thoroughly Bombed by 9th U.S. Air Force

DUISBURG IN GERMANY HIT BY THE RA   One of Heaviest of British Air Raids Made on River PortSteel City in Reich

BARI SMASHED BY 250,000 LBS. OF BIG EXPLOSIVES   Largest Fleet of Bombers Yet Sent Against An Enemy  Raco

BIGGEST FLEET OF U.S. BOMBERS HITS AT PORT OF BARI   Enemy Base In Italy I Target For 250,000 — Pounds Of High  Explosives a

Adriatic port is devastated   Liberators sting new area in Italy

JAPS PRESSING OFFENSIVES IN CENTRAL CHINA   Chinese Artillery Fire Inflicting Heavy Losses

Nation Will Launch Ship in Honor Of George M. Cohan  U. 5. Pays Homage to Famed Original Yankee Boodle Boy

Officer Class Escapes Injury   75-MM Shell Explodes Short of Target at Fort Sill

Bill To Legalize Bingo Is Beaten  15-15 Tie Senate Vote Defeats Measure

Harlingen Youth Is Prisoner Of Japanese   Army So Short Of Weapons And Material That Training Equipment Sent To Troops

ARMY USING TRAINING WEAPONS IN COMBAT   General Writes That Production In May Dropped Off Alarmingly;  Denies War Is Wen

Gen. Somervell Says Army Is Short Of Guns; Blames Over-Confidence

Mrs. Clark Pleased With Birthday Giff  Husband Promised Her City of Naples

OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED RELIEF PLAN   ‘Democrats Against Legisla tion to Tax Counties   Ten Per Cent of   Expenses

_ SMASHING WAY ~ TOWARD ROSTOV   Soviet* ‘Célumns Choking Off the Last Avenue Of ; - Escape’: F or Axis In Caucdens 

Divorcee Acquitted In Tulsa Slaying   Jury Deliberates Hour and 50 Minutes

ELLA HOWARD SET FREE IN SLAYING OF TULSA WOMAN   Jury Deliberates Manslaughter Charge Against Fort   Worth Divorcee for   Nearly 2 Hours.   DEFENDANT TELLS OF STRUGGLE FOR GUN   Testifies She Wrested Weapon From Mrs: T. Karl ' Simmons After Life  ‘Was Threatened.

ry Acquits exas Divorcee   Cleared of Hotel Room Slaving of Woman

Has He Been Here Long?  Army Captian Says Oklahoma's Weather Is Not Unpredictable

SECOND FREE WAR ‘COOKING SCHOOL IS NEXT MONDAY   Miss Gladys Dabler Wil Give Demonstra.tions.

SCHOOL TO BE CONDUCTED BY GLADYS DABLER   Presented by County Nutrition Committee of Civil ian Defense ==  Conncil.   TO BEGIN AT 1:30 P. M.   Will Show the Preparation of Breads, Rolls and Cereals.

Today’s War Commentary  Argentine Coup  Seen As Distinet Blow To \Xis

IPA Head Sees Oil Lack Soon   Buttram Says Boost In Price Needed to Find More Petroleum

Rocket Bomb Powerful Russian Army Weapon   Described As Capable Of Piercing Seven Inches Of Armor Plate; Vast Possibilities

Rocket Projectile Used Successfully On Russian Plane:   New Weapon Capable o Piercing Heavy Armor Plate

Foe Must — * Run or Be .  Encircled   5th Army Repulses Three Counter Attacks and Then Pushes Inland   CLARK’S FORCES NOW HOLD INITIATIVE   berlin Reports Three Allied ’ Convoys of 60 Ships Are Geading for Salerno

Salerno is Junction for 5th, 8th Army Forces   Nazis Caught in Bulging Salient Are  Faced With Necessity of Retreating; Clark’s Troops Capture Albanella.

French Dictatorship By De Gaulle Feared   Britain And U. S. Expected To Block Plan; ‘Acreement’ Reached Today?

83 Lives Lost In Collision And Explosion:   Tanker and Ammunition Freighter Crash and Take Fire   Survivors Land at Norfolk with Thrilling Tales of Tragedy

Munitions Vessel Is  Exploded   Only Three Men  Survive From Freiohter

Tanker And AmmunitionLaden Freighter Crash Off U.S. East Coast  DEBRIS IS HURTLED QUARTER MILE AWAY

SHPS COLLIE, * ~ BLASTS KILL 83   Ammunition-Laden. Freighter,-Tanker Crash OW East Coast .

84 Men Perish as Tanker, Ammunition-Laden Vessel Collide Off U. S$. Coast

CARGO SHIPS IN CRASH: 83 KNOWN DEAD   Tanker and “Ammunition Laden Freighter Crash Off East Coast

83 Men Die In Collision Of U.S Ship:   Munitions Freighter Blows Up After Ramming Tanker

$3 Lose Lives In Collision Of U.S. Ships   Tanker and Freighter Carrying Ammunition  Sink off East Coast   TERRIFIC BLAST SHATTERS FREIGHTER   35 of 67 Victims Gun Crew Members; Many Survivors Burned

AMMUNITION-LADEN FREIGHTER RAMS TANKER OFF EAST COAST: AT LEAST 183 ARE KNOWN DEAD

Tanker and Munitions Ship Collide With Terrific Explosion   U. S. Flyers Attack Japanese Shipping

84 Perish as Tanker And Freighter Crash   Blast Tears Freighter to Pieces. Sending Her to Bottom at Once: Blazing Oil Slicks Devour Tanker’s Lifeboats: 67 Are Saved

IFORMER HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT IS VAMED SECOND LIUT.   Corning Workers Told Of Vital Glass Needs

Home Edition   U.S. And British Forces Stiffen, Hold In Tunisia; — 8th Army Tests Axis Line

NAZI LOSSES HEAVY IN MEN. TANKS   Battle Raging At Point 4 Miles From Thala

CASUALTIES ARE SUFFERED BY GERMANS   American and British Forces Take Prisoners In New Ene counter.

ROMMEL HELD IN CHECK BY U. S., BRITISH   Allies Inflict He avy Casualties. Take Many Prisoners

GERMANS STOPPED  FOR TIME BEING 4. ~ MILESFROMTHALA   Germany’s. Position Not Clear—May Be Planning To Upset United - Nation’s Timetable Of  Oneratione

All Points —   HEAVY FIGHTING IN KASSERIN] AREA BUT GERMANS ARE HAL’ AT LEAST TEMPORARILY

CASUALTIES HIGH, MANY PRISONERS DURING FIGHTING   Axis Seeks to Knock Out Americans Before British Eighth is Able te Hit Enemy Flank.   HEAVY DESTRUCTION TO JAP POSITIONS   Flyers Strike New Blows Upon Jap Bases at Kiska and In Solomons According to Navy Report.

BIG CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON ENEMY FORCES   Mechanized Attaek Halted Four Miles ‘From Thala

AXIS SUFFERS CASUALTIES IN FIGHTING   Allied Air Force Back in Action To Aid Troops

Prisoners Taken As Allied Lines Stiffen After Setbacks, Offset By Continued Russian Army Successes

Are Inflicted On Nazi Army   American Forces Aided By British Stop Drive North of Kasserine: Many Axis Troops Taken Prisoner

Americans and: British Stiffen. Against Rommel   inflict. Heavy Casualties and Take Prisoners

INK TROOPS STIFFEN LINE AT KASSERINE   —  ck Nazi Mechanized Advance  ks Air Force Swings Into Action

Golden Ea; gles Trim Yaalefin   £ Greyhounds? Trail * Lively Stridé:

Golden Eagles Trim Yanko in   GreyhoundstT  Lively Stridé:     rail

Ba ckstage Gossip From Capital Life   Henderson, As Private Citizen, Plans Some Fun

New Blackout And Air Raid Regulations Issued By Army  5 rr  ) oa ee ee eee  ) To  we on Ls

LONG BLAST OF SIREN MUST GO   Volunteer Fire : Companies Must Stop It; Conflicts With Warning.

WILL SEE MORE COLD   Arrival of Normal Warmth in Kan sas Deferred

DEATH TOLL FROM MINE BLAST MAY REACH 14 MEN   Explosion In Pennsylvania Coal Mine Caused By Gas. Tunnels Filled With Deadly “Black Damp.”

SECOND- CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT SCRAP   Drive to Collect W te Metal Will Open in —  ALL GROUPS TO AID

SECOND-CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT SCRAP   Drive to Collect W te Met' al Will Open in County ~ Monday oe

GERMAN DEFENSES PAST NAPLES AR GIVEN GREAT DENT   Most of Naples - Termoli Highway Now Under Gunfire of Allies, Flanking Operation Extended.   RUSSIANS STORM NEAR APPROACHES TO KIEV   Japs Smashed Back at Fins shhafen In Attempt to Re gain Former Base, Losses   Are Heavy.

FOUR BIG TOWNS ARE CAPTURED   Allies Hammer 100-Square-Mile Dent into Nazi Line

DENT POUNDED INTO AXIS LINE ACROSS {TAL\   Adriatic and Center Defenses Give Way Under Assault

ALLIEo EXTEND FLANKING MOVE ON AIVER LINE   100-Square-Mile Dent In Nazi Line Across Italy Opened By Advances

Aerial Offensive On Island Bases Of Japs Expanding   Attacks Increasing On Enemy Bases In Central Pacific Sector

Erickson, Starkey Auction Sales October 4-5  Charles Erickson Art Starkev

Martin Praises Legislature  Says GOP-Controlled Session Was Efficient Cites Bills Passed

QURIMEH OUHOUL PLAN GEVELOPEL   Children of Working Moth ers May Attend School This Summer.

SUMMER SCHOOL. PLAN OEVELOPED   Childrén of Working Mothers May Attend School ~ ‘This Summer. . ~ 

13-Year-Old Boy Rescues Army Pilot When Plane. Crashes Into River

'Thirteen-Year-Old Jackie Schuler Saves  Army Pilot's Life After Crash In River

ANXIOUS EYES WATCH MEDITERRANEAN  Tide of War Nerves Favors Allies As Europe Invasion Draws Nearer

STRIKERS TOLD TO BE ON JOBS WEDNESDAY   Refusal to Subject Men to Penalties of Anti-Strike Law

GOV'T RE-ENTERS MINING BUSINESS Directs Half-Million Coal   Miners To Report Back To Wor  TO OPEN TOMORROW

Anti-Racial Discrimination Blamed  Sponsors of School Aid Bill Write Measure Off as Dead

LATEST THREAI IS IN STEEL INDUSTRY   Rail Dispute Unsettled: President Hurries Back to Capital

WORKERS NOT HEEDING PLEA OF ROOSEVELT   ESTIMATE 115,000 MEN EMPLOYED IN 214 STE EL PLANTS AWAIT ORDER  " FROM CIO LoAvEeER

STEEL WORKERS AWAIT MURRAY ANSWER TO FOF   135,009 Now Idle May Jump Unless Back to Work Plea Heeded

Steel Workers Await Word Of C. 1.0. Leader   Estimate 135,000 Steel Workers Out On Strike Despite Roosevelt's Appeal   FEAR STRIKE MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY

MEN AWAIT ADVICE OF UNION HEAD   135,000 Now Out And Total May Rise To 350,000 Tonight

Underground Pamphlets Flood Three  ltalian Cities   Milan, Turin and Genoa Smouldering From Lancaster Bombs

Call for Italian Strike to Protesi Peace Failure   Pamphlets Are

UNDERCOVER CRIES FOR ITALIAN STRIKE FOLLOW AIR RAIDS   Pamphlets. Say Badoglio ~ Government Betrayed ~ The People Of  - tally”

MILAN BONG CAVING NEW PEAGE Ghlct   Underground. Pamphlets Call for General Strike as Protest.   THREE NORTHERN ITALIAN CITIES GET PLASTERING

ITALY STILL. WANT PEACE   -Agitate General Protest Strike Against Badoglio

ITALIANS RENEW PEACE DEMANDS IN WAKE OF RAIDS   Fires Still Raging in Milan, Turin and Genoa; Pamphlets Call for General Peatact Strike,

Byrnes Says Next Year Will Be One of Toughest  Economist Urges All Citizens to Speed _ ae a +.

Tough Year Ahead for This Generation Says James F. Byrne:   We Must Win the War Quickly, Editors Told in Address Which Assails Those Favoring Slowdown of Fiforis

BYRNES CHIDES HOME FRONTERS   Must Win War Quickly And Stop Fighting Among Ourselves,  Tells Editors

Byrnes Says Next Year Will Be One of Toughest  _ Economist Urges All  Citizens to Speed

Byrnes Demands All Out Aid On Home Front Now   Views The Year As Toughest During Generation; Scores Black Markets

Byrnes Expects ‘Tough Year   Urges Support for Price Control Plan

BYRNES DEFENDS BRASS HATS ‘AND FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS   ' Stabilization Director App eals To Critics Not To Un dermine Confidence In Government; Favors 48  Hour Work And Incentive Payments

Second Attack Published Within 24 Hours Upon Those Suggesting Possible Slowing-down of Some Mil. itary Aspects of War Effort

MAYOR AMONG ~ AIR VICTIMS   ST. LOUIS MAYOR AND NINE OTHERS, INCLUDING SEVERAL PROMINENT MEN, ARE KILLED

ST.LOUIS CRAS! KILLS MAYOR AND § OTHERS   5,000, Including Wife of Mayor, See Glider Plunge to Earth

GLIDER CRASH KILLS MAYOR » AND 9, OTHERS   Army Air Corps Officers a Investigate Tragedy at St. Louis

‘MAYOR OF ST. LOUIS IS AMONG TEN KILLED IN ‘GLIDER DEMONSTRATION

Axis Is Bracing For Big Battie In Tunisia Area   British’ Eighth Army Sweeps Closer fo Rommel’s Weary Troops

British Mop Up Around Tripoli   Eighth Army Sweeps Closer to Tunisia’s Mareth Line; LeClerc’s Fighting French  Troops Enter Tripoli After Long Trek

BRITISH ARMY YET CLOSER 16 MARETH LINE   Gen. Montgomery’s Men Cap. ture Zania, Half Way irm ‘Lripoli to Zuara, 30 1.) -3 West   Frenchin Tripoli

NATION'S TRAFFIC DEATHS ARE LESS   Show 20 Per Cent Drop From 1942; About 40 Per Cent From 1941.

RURAL GRADE SCHOOLS HOLD GRADUATIONS   Districts Complete Picnics And Exercises As Summer Vacations Start.

FINAL RURAL GRADE SCHOOLS HOLD PROGRAMS   Districts With Nine-Months Terms Complete Long List Of Events.

Expect More  Surge Milkers  For Lebanon — County   Quality Chicks ;

Axis-Held Key Port Subjected To Aeri ‘ ial Attack ee And Other Targets eased ms <r Air Field At Tunis Also Raided—Forward Elem ss : i Of British Eighth Army Said To Have seid . e  Tunisia

Allied Planes Blast Bizerte   Axis Convoy Hit t in Aerial Sweeps

Italians Regard Associated Press Correspondents As Prize Prisoners of War

LARRY ALLEN STILL CHEERFUL THOUGH IN ITALIAN PRISON GAMP  - VETERAN A.P. CORRE- SPONDENT CONSIDERED  ESPECIAL PRIZE RY ITALY

Ex-Prisoners Tell About Larry Allen   AP War Correspondent Is Still a Reporter Although a Prisoner of Italy

Increase School Money Allotment   Chillicothe Will Receive $5, 883 More Under New Apportionment Law.

$7,050 More for Schools — in Moberly   Nearly All Cities, Some Small Town and Rural Dis tricts, Get More   BASIC QUOTAS ARE UNCHANGED

Maryville to Get More School Aid   District Will Receive $3790 More as Result of New School Law.

13 Army Nurses Feared Lost In Plane Near Italy   Plane From Africa Overshot Italy, Last Hearc Over Adriatic Sea

13 UNITED STATES ARMY NURSES ARE REPORTED MISSING   Transport Plane in Which They Were Flying Overshot Its Destination.   MISSING SINCE NOV. 8   Were En route From Africa to the East Coast of Italy.

ARMY PLANE WITH 25 ABOARD MISSING   Thirteen Nurses and 12 Soldiers or Transport Lost on Flight From Africa to Italv.

'REPORT 13 NURSES MISSING    Were Passengers on Transport Plane From Africa to Italy

13 U.S. Army  Nurses Missing  Trea nenort Plana   Transport Plane Struck Bad Weather

The Aftermath Of World War  Was Made To Order For Mussolini's Rise To Power

She Thought: Simmons In Howard Room   Oil Man’s Wife Bound To Go To Room, Witness Says

STATE RESTS IN ‘MURDER HEARING OF MRS, HOWARD   YWitness Declares Mrs, Sim mons Expected to Find Mate In Tulsa Hotel Room

State Suddenly Rests Case In  Divorcee Trial   Rendezvous Suspected Witness Says

STATE RESTS WITH DRAMATIC ACTION IN HOWARD TRIAL  ONLY FEW WORDS OF

Epidemic Eases Off   Only 77 New Cases of Infantile Paralysis — Last Week; Not Sure Peak Has Been Reached

POLIO IN DECLINE   But State Health Authorities Not Suré Peak Has  Been Reached

Texas Labor Bill Sent to Governor By Senate Action  Stevenson's Intention Unannounced; Austil

Law Regulating Labor In Texas Up To Governor   House And Senate Complete Action To-Ban Rackateers

PAY-AS-YOU-GO CANADIAN PLAN      Government Will Fore. go Half of 1942 Ta  Liability.

Canada To Have  Pay-As-We-Earn  Taxation Plan Will Make Levy  On All Incomes

Ohio Democratic Leaders, Irked At Patronage Setup, Demand More Jobs - Or Else

AMERICANS MOPPING UP GILBERT ISLANDS IN SYSTEMATIC WAY  CAPTURE OF BETIO AND  SLAYING OF 4,000 TAPS TATEOCT ACT

New Thrusts To Come From Isles   Japanese Lose 4,00¢ Men as Yanks Capture Gilberts

AMERICANS MOPPING UP GILBERT ISLANDS IN OYOTEMATIC WAY   CAPTIIRE OF RETION AND   CAPTURE OF BETIO AND SLAYING OF 4,000 JAPS LATEST ACT

All But A Few Jans Anmbilated In Gilbert Area   Outnumbered U. S. Fleet Sinks Four Jap Ships, Damages A Fourth Today

Wipe Out Japs or Gibert Islands  Canquest Completed With Takina of Ratio

Japs Annihilated in 4-Day Battle on Gilbert Islands: Airfield Ours

ALL BUT FEW OF JAPS KILLED IN 4 DAY BATTLE   New Thrusts May Soan Come From Strategic Airfield an Atoll

Islands Fall After Bloody Four Day Fight   Most Of Japanese Defenders Killed, Few Taken Prisoner

Yanks Settle Gilbert Scrap   Capture Strategic Airfield; Mop Up Remnants

MARINES ON BETIO   Japs Annihilated in 4-Day Battle on Gilbert Islands; Airfield Ours

RAF Keeps Nazi Bombers at  Home Airfields   Repeated British Attacks Give Enemy “Mosquito Fever,” Cripple Attack Power, Halt Transportation

“Mosquito Fever’ Spreads To Nazis— Goering Keeps His Bombers Away From RAF’s Intriudoy<

Senator Rearets That No One Has Gone  to Jail for Defrauding the Government

BRITISH ATTAGK JAP: HELD BURMA TOWN   Strike Across Border Of India By Land And Air

ANGLO TROOPS IN ATTACK ON JAP-HELD TOWN   R.A.F. Dive Bombers Also Figure in Action at Maungdaw, Town on Burma's West Coast

ROOSEVELT HAS VETOED CREDIT ‘CORP’ MEASURE   Will Hold Action Is Necessary to Avoid Inflation Spiral

PRESIDENT 10 EXPLAIN STAND TO CONGRESS   Action Kills Giant Commodity Credit Corporation At Least Temporarily    DECISION MAY BE UPHELD   House Democratic Leaders Confident Body Will Back Roosevelt

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS SAY HOUSE WILL UPHOLD VETO —MESSAGE EXPECTED _ LATE TODAY

FOOD CONFERENCE GETS UNDER WAY   Society Must Meet Obligations, FDR Says

Food Conference Sessions Resumed  Society Must Meet Its Congeien-e. R.  ert mae”.—6UlUcRre ree ke ar ee ee

Food Conferees Settle Down To Tremendous Jot   Confidence In Success Of Parley Expressed In FD. R. Message.

FAITH KEYNOTES FOOD CONFERENCE   ROOSEVELT DECLARES WORLD OWES EVERY MAN HIS DAILY BREAD

GLOBAL NEEDS ARE DISCUSSED   World Owes Every Man His Daily Bread, Says F. D. R. Message

FOOD CONFERENCE  OF UNITED NATIONS  SETTLE DOWN WORK PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DECLARES WORLD OWE!  EUPrpY BEAL TT

FOOD CONFERENCE DOWN 10 BUSINESS   Keynote of Faith In Ultimate Achievement of World Freedom From Want Sounded In President’s Message.

DELEGATES Gt FOLR. MESSAGE   Atmosphere of Hope and Cautious Realism Marks Opening.   PRESS BAN PROTESTED

Unity in Peace Days Goal of Food Parley   FDR Sounds Keynote of Faith  In Gaining Freedom From Want

PASS ON HELVERING SOON   Public Hearing on N on New Proposed Judge Will Be Be Wednesday

NAVY REPORTS 850 LOST WHEN SUBS SANK TWO SHIPS   Victims of Disaster in North Atlantic Early This Month Were Mostly Service Per-

TWO UNITED STATES PASSENGER-CARGO SHIPS TORPEDOED   MORE THAN 600 MEN FROM ONE SHIP AND OVER 9°97 FROM OTHER [OCT

VICTIMS ARE LARGELY MEN IN SERVICES      Vessels Attacked by Submarines Four Days Apart in North Atlantic Early This Month, Navy Department Reveals.

MOST VICTIMS FROM SERVICES   Navy Announces Torpedoing of U. S, Cargo-Passenger Shins.   NEXT OF KIN INFORMED

Most Passengers Are Service Men   Vessels, Believed With Convoy, Torpedoes North Atlantic Early This Month :

850 Are Lost An Sinking of Two Vessel:   American Passenger, Cargo Ships Sent to Bottom by Enemy Subs   ATTACKED AT NIGHT IN NORTH ATLANTIC   Both Sunk. in Thirty Min utes; -Next.of Kin Have Been Notified

North Atlantic Sinkings Came Within Four Days   Loss of Life Was Heavy; Dead Were Mostly Service Men

Over 850 Lost In Two Ships   Pair Of American PassengerCargo Vessels Victims Of Atlantic Subs.

Toll In North Atlantic Is Heaviest Felt By [United States At Sea

Sink Two U.S. Ships   Enemy Submarines Torpedo Passenger-Cargo Vessels: 850 Are ‘Lost

2 Torpedoings Take Big Toll   850 Americans Killed . Ore Micecing

Most of Victims . Army Men   2 American Vessels Sent Down Within + Tinpureial Bach Oink

In Atlantic of Two Cargo-Passenger Ships. Mostly Service Men Abhnard

OO MEN Moai Nb AFTER TORPEDOINGS   Two Passenger-Cargo Ships Sunk In Atlantic

TORPEDOINGS IN NORTH ATLANTIC ‘WORST OF WAR   Navy Reveals Victims of Sub Attacks on Passenger-Cargo Ships

Two vessels sunk in Atlantic; most dead service men   Navy says cargo ships sunk in four dave early in Fehruaryv

EXTRA!   Only A Few Of Victims Are Civilians   Navy Discloses Heavy U-Boat Blow In North Atlantic Lane.

850 Dead Or Missing As 2 U.S. Cargo Ships Sink In North Atlantic

850 A\re Lost In U-Boat Atlantic Raids   Two American Passage-Cargo Vessels Sink Four Days Apart; Casualties Military Personnel, Civilian Workers

Torpedoes Take Big U.S. Toll   OVER 900 “MEN LOST AS TWO SHIPS SUNK

Torpedoes Gef Atlantic Craft. In Night Raids   Service Personnel Lost as Vessels Go Down in Half Hour

Cargo Vessels Were Torpedoed in the North Atlantic Early This Month, the Navy Announces.   SINKINGS WITHIN 4 DAYS OF EACH OTHER   Both Attacks Occurred at Night and Both Ships Sank Within Thirty Minutes.

v0 Medium-Sized U. S. Passenger-Cargo Ships Torpedoed By Enemy Submarines Early This Month With, Heavy Loss Of Service Personnel, Navy Reports

Vessels Sunk in Atlantic   U. S. SERVICEMEN LOST IN DOUBLE SHIP CATASTROPHE

‘Axis Discontinues All Attempts to Break Orel Sector  *BOMBING RESUMED  Soviet Airmen Make Fierce Attack on Orel Rail Junction

Russian Forces Stall Nazis In Armored Drive   Soviets Launch Coun: terattacks With Gain: ing Momentum 

Russians Halt Nazi Drive in Belgorod Area   Red Army Dislodges Enemy From Several Positions in Local Counter-Attacks

Red Army Stems Nazi's Big Push   Russ Counterattack In Belgorod Sector

Soviets Dent German Lines In Orel Area   Red, Axis Tank Force: Trade Blows In Renewed Fighting

RUSSIANS HALT ATTACKING FOE   Report Germans Stopped Everywhere In Belgorod Sector   NAZI FIRE IS INTENSE

viet Armies Smash Heavy Attacks In Belgorod Sector _—_Enemy Discontinues Assaults On Southern End Of Battle Line—Nazis Say Red Forces Are On Offensive Near Orel—More Tanks, Planes And Men NDeectroved

LOCAL SUCCESSES FOR THE RUSSIANS   Soviet Tanks, Supported By Mobile Artillery, CounterAttack To Trade Blows With Nazi and Infantry Forces.

SOVIETS STALL GERMAN DRIVE   Red Army Halts All Attacks In Belgorod Area

Red Troop: Halt Nazis With Vigor  Over Front   Invaders Are Put Into Flight At Some Points

Check All Nazi Thrusts At Belgorod   Local Soviet Counterattacks Daily Gaining Momentum

NAZI ATTACKS HALTED BY RUSSIANS   Enemy Dislodged in Several Sectors With Local Counter-Attacks Gaining Momentum

NED ARMIIES HALT  ATTACKING NAZIS   Germans 'Discontinue Attacks; Report Hitler Leaves Battle Front, Reins

Weather Is - Turning Say Nazi Sources   Local Counterattacks By  Soviet Forces Gaining  Momentum

NIGHT ATTACK MADE AGAINST RAIL JUNCTION   Germans Said to Have Discontinued Assaults Altogether on One End of Kursk Salient   LOSSES ARE STILL HEAVY

RUSSIANS HALT GERMAN ATTACK   Red Counter- Attack Gains Momentum—Nazis Quit Orel Push

RED ARMIES GAIN DAILY ON GERMANS   Nazis Discontinue Attacks On Kursk Salient Front

Russian Army Halts Germans And Hits Back   Nazis / Discontinue “Attacks Around Orel Sector; Red Airmen Join Fight

OFFENSIVE STARTED BY RED TROOPS   Nazis Driven From Several Positions By Counterattacks

Russians Stall German Drive, Counterattack   Local Red Gains In Belgorod Sector Reported

STALIN ARMY — STALLS NAZIS AT BELGOROD   Russian Counter Attacks Gaining Momentum Daily With Their Air Force Attacks Nightly.

CERNIANS HALTED A ALL PONTS IN ~ BELGOROD SECTOR   Nazis" Discontinue All Attacks _ ) On Other End ‘of Kursk > -Salient   RAID. OREL: RAIL:- HEAD

Red Armies Halt  Nazi Offensive   Belgorod Sector Finds Stalin Victorious

RUSSIANS HALT NAZI DRIVES IN HEAVY FIGHTING   ‘Germans Cease Attacks in Orel Secfor, Red Counter-Attacks in Belgorod Area Increase   CRACK NAZI LINES   Russian Airmen Renew Night Operations with Atfack on Orel Rail Junction

AUSOIAN DRIVE AT BL LBOROD GAINS IMPETUS   Germans. Have Discontinued Offensive, ls Moscow’s Assertion Today

Russians Halt ‘Gérman Attacks   NAZIS BALKED AS REDS THROW BACK ALL. - “ASSAULTS

RUSSIANS GET IN GOOD BLOWS   Increasing Soviet Successes Reported In Belgorod Area.

HALT ATTACKING ~ GERMANS IN THE BELGOROD AREA   Red Armies Have Dislodged Them From Several Positions.   BATTLE LASTED 3 DAYS   Was Fought Along a RussianHeld Highway; Nazis Driven Back.

Structure Defect Blamed in Crash   Senator Gets Report On St. Louis Tragedy

Flaw in Glider  Blamed for Crash   Senator Bennett C. Clark Receives Report on Cause of St. Louis Tragedy.

STCCKHOLM HEARS OF NEW GERMAN PEACE: OVERTURES   Efforts of Nazi to Discuss  Armistice with Russia Fell  Through When Demands Were: Made...

NEW PEACE RUMOR TOSSED INTO RING   Stockholm Reports Nazi Emissaries Now Making Attempts To Contact U. S. and Britain Thru Madrid.

Nazi Peace Offer Turned Down By Reds   Rumor Soviets Called For Turning Over Of Hitler; Other Reports Circulated

MORE RED-NAZI PEACE RUMORS   CLAIM PLANS FAIL AS. SOVIETS GIVE DEMANDS

Nazi Peace Feelers Are Again Hinted   Latest Reports Say That Russia Was Contacted Through Japan

Favor Ouster Of Nelson  Byrnes, Hopkins And Rosenman Reported T  TW. TY. W... ne  Three Said To 

PRESIDENT 10 STAND BY WPB CHIEF NEESON   Removal Favored By Byrnes. Hopkins, Rosenman; They Bavor Raruch

REPORT BYRNES URGED NELSON -OUSTER DENIED   White House Brands ‘Absolutely Untrne’ Tale Three Advisers “Urged: WEB Change

ATTACK ON NELSON GAINS MOMENTUM   Three Major Advisors of White House for Ouster

Deny FDR : aides tried to oust Nelson   Hassett announces statement of Byrnes, Roseman and Hopkins

Deny Removal Of WPB Boss Nelson Askec   Statement That Byrnes, Rosenman, Hopkins Sought Ouster ‘Untrue.’   PRESENT CHIEF STAYS

White House Makes Denial   Says Advisers Have Not Suggested That Nelson Be Removed

Nelson May Be Out Soon Capital Says   Claim Byrnes, Hopkins and ‘Rosenman Fabor Baruch as New WPB Head Man

Advisers Of FDR Said To Favor   Weéelson hemoval   Link Names Of Byrnes, Hopkins And Rosenman In Washington Report

THREE KEY MEN  7 ROOSEVELT “CHT NELSON   tl ba o ae ames Byrnes, Harry Hop kins and Judge Samuel Resenman Held Seeking His Ouster   NOT SUPPORTED BY EXECUTIVE, CLAIM   President Reported Standing by WPB. Chairman; Opponents Favor Baruch for Job

Byrnes, Hopkins and Ros'-enman Said to Have Joined Opposition.   ARMY, NAVY LIKE _ BERNARD BARUCH

White House  Denies Nelson Ouster Sought   Aide Makes Report on Story F. R. Was Urged To Replace WPB Head

ROOSEVELT NOT ASKED 10 ‘FIRE WPB CHAIRMAN   ReporteThat-Threes Key Aides to President Were Seeking Nelson’s Regoval: Denied   TRIO ASKED DENIAL   Meanwhile, at Baltimore, Nelson Says He Considers Differences With Military “Minor”

NELSON SAID — “ON THE SKIDS”   Bymes, Hopkins and Rosenman Said to Favor Action

Russians Closing In on Nazi Army On Gomel Sector   New Wedge Perils Thousands of Men   Take Five Villages

Red Pincers Closing In on Nazis   Key Rail Center Captured in New Drive

RED UNITS PUNCH NEW WEDGE INTO NAZI LINE; REOPEN DNIEPER DRIVE   Advance Threatens Key Bastion For Thousands of Nazis In Gomel Escape Hatch; Strong Pincers Develops

Another Arm of a Pincers Closes in Tighter From Southeast   ATTACK REOPENED IN DNIEPER BULGE   Some 40 Communities Enveloped in Red Hammer Blows

SOVIETS RENEW ONSLAUGHTS IN DNIEPER. BULGE   Shock Troops Push Ahead Toward Zhlobin To Tighten Grip On Escape Route

‘Rassians Narrow Nazi Escape Hatch   Soviet Shock Troop Capture Stryeshin, Near Rail Center

Red Pincers Closing  In on Nazis Kav Reil Center   Key Rail Center Captured in New Drive

GERMANS ESCAPE -INTERNMENT CAMP ‘THRU A TUNNEL   Led from Closet Within Camp to Bushes Outside

High Officials Almost Come — To Blows Over Fourth Term   Tempers Rise As A Governor, College Professor And Two Republican Senators Debate -

SCHOOL DELAYED BY WAR WORK   Pupils in Cincinnati Will Start Late So War Jobs May Be Kept Going

AVIATION ACE ALSO MAKES IMPASSIONED’ PLEA FOR MORE PRODUCTION TO HEL? MEN AT. FRONT

PROTECTION FOR "MEN AFTER WAR, AIM OF HERO   Jobs Without Any Strings Must Be Assured For p Soldiers, Says Flyer   LEGISLATION IS URGED   @Detroit Audience Cheers Proposal Made By Ace Of Aces

Rickenbacker Asks Law To Assure Returning Fighting Men Jobs ‘Without Forcing Them To Join Labor Union

HUBBYB GROWS ~— OVER GAS BAN   East Cries ‘Politics’; Midwes' Hits Extension of Pleasure Driving Cut Unnecessary.

Rescue Crews Dig In Building Wreckage a Trapped Victims  OF oi ea Se   7 Firemen Die With Occupants Afte: ¢ Structure Collapses

SEVEN FIREMEN LOST IN BLAZE   Chicago Building Traps Fighters; Five Are Killed Outright

Five Firemen Die in Crash Of Building   Rescue Crews Risk Death jn Efforts To Save : Trapped Men

¢ DIE AS BLAZING BUILDING TOPPLES   CHICAGO FIREMEN TRAPPED -—RESCUERS DIG OUT LIVING AND DEAD.

DESCRIBES NAZI ROCKET PLANES   Germans Keep Out of Range mt Ramber (one

British Bombers In Heavy Attacks On Rubr District   Several Hundred Bombers In Raid On Duisburg, Production Center   MARKS 57TH RAID MADE ON CITY

CHANGE IN TAX LAW   Must Pay Half Personal Tax by December 20, or All Is Due

Oregon Goes Over Top So Seven Men On A Raft Are ‘Rascued’ And Get Square Meal -At ‘Sea’ 13 Dave

Argentine President Says Friends of Allies Will Lose Public Jobs

TEAPOT HOME SCANDAL   Contract In Force 5 Months To Lease Elk Hills Oil Reserve Is Held Up   ROOSEVELT’S APPROVAL ALREADY GIVEN LEASE   President Signed Contract On Knox Recommendation Says Drew Pearson

Turning Over Of Choice Oil Land For Period Of Five Years Blocked By James Byrnes

“19 ARE INJURED ~ IN TRAIN WRECK   Three Coaches Leave Rails Near Independence—8 Persons Seriously Hurt

AP Survey Shows 91 Violent Deaths Recorded During Welcoming of 1943; 60 Occured in Traffic

TRAFFIC Tl DECLINE OVER HOUDAY      Violent Death Drop Due to. Less Volume  of Traffic

TRAFFIC DEATHS CONTINUE DECLINE   MOTORING FATALITIES IN WELCOMING NEW YEAR NUMBERED ONLY 51.

Holiday Toll Sharply Reduced   68 Violent Deaths  Recorded in Nation

s Can Be Won From [he Arr  INCALCULABLE VALUE OF AIR POWER IS SHOWN IN TUNISIA

Allies Have Downed 1,700 Axis Planes In North Africa Since Nov. 8

5,000 Taken      Value Of Air Power Demonstrated In Reports Of African Campaign

First Army Takes More Towns; U. S.  Count Prisoners   Air Power Paved Way For Allies In Victorious African Campaign

Vaunted Nazi Luftwaffe Put ToShame By Allied Air Force   Hy FDWARD KESNSEDY

‘African Camnaian Demonstrates Whaf Allied Air Power Can Do Toward Winning The War

Naval Victory Seen as Severe Defeat for Japs   Smashing of Fleet ir Kula Gulf Shuts Off Supplies

Kula Victory May Mark New Phase Of Campaign   Reinforcement Of Japanese Air Base At Munda Prevented; First Week Of Offensive Knocks Out 171 Planes

Enough Steel Only For Majo War Needs  Senaie Commiiiece Wants Entire Scrap

3 REASONS GIVEN IN STEEL SHORTAGE   ‘War Committee Thinks Scrap Collection Program Should Be Revamped

Committee Sees Steel Shortage  Under-Production Is Stumbling Block

U. S. WILL PRODUCE BARELY ENOUGH STEEL FOR WAR NEEDS, SAY PROBERS

Steel Output Barely Enough   Will Just About Fulfill Needs Of Armed Forces

Senators Rap Poor Estimates On Steel Needs   Supply Declared Barely Enough For Military

IRAVAGES OF WAR HAVE BADLY SHAKEN ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF CHINA WAR ANALYST FINDS

The War Tod China Needs Only 100 Transport  Planes To Keep O pen Supply Route

China Needs More Planes   War Analyst Sees Serious Situation In Personal Tour

The War Today  No: Raw Materials, Machinery Replacements Bamner Ohinag

ALL-STAR BALL TEAM IS TO GO OVERSEAS   American Sport To Be Taken To Far Pacific Bases

FOR TROOPS OVERSEAS   All Star Baseball Team to Tour ( After World Series

(Continued On Page Four)  TROOPS TO SEE BALL GAMES IN PACIFIC AREA

All-Star Teams  Going Overseas   Will Play For Men In Pacific Area

BASEBALL TEAMS 10 GO 10 PACIFIC AREA   Two Teams Will-Play Series of Games for Overseas Troops.

Soviets Struggle Against Weather And Transportation To Smash At Nazis

Reds Struggle To Speed Drive Against Enemy   )Mud and Slush \Fail to Check ‘Russian Attacks

Soviets Capture Nazi-Held Base  Reds Overcome Mud In Spring Drive

REDS CAPTURE KUBAN BASE OF NAZI INVADERS   Rapid Consolidation of Gains in Other Sectors Worry Foe; Russians Lack Transport

Weather-Held Russian Drive Renews Life   Transportation Difficulties Partially Overcome By Reds

Russ Troops Boost Tempo Of Fighting   German Hope That Spring Would Brivg Lull Not Working Out

REDS STRIVE TO SPEEDUP TEMPO OF OFFENSIVES   jOvercome Werst Kinds of ; Transportation Difficulties Despite Bad  W eather      NAZI BASE TAKEN   Russians Drive On From Anastasevskaya; Gains Elsewhere Giving Germans New Worries

REDS CAPTURE NAZI BASE ON KERCH STRAIT  RUSSIANS STRIVE FOR OFFENSIVE

RUSSIAN RED ARMY INCREASING TEMPO OF ITS OFFENSIVES  QUICK CONSOLIDATION OF GAINS BY SOVIETS WORRYING GERMANS 

GERMANS GIVEN FRESH WORRIES BY THE RUSSIANS   Red Army Overcame Worst Kinds of Transportation Troubles.   ARE DRIVING FORWARD   Nazis Were Confident Mud and Slush Would Halt Operations.

RUSSIANS RENEW DRIVE IN KUBAN AREA, CAUCASUS   Evidence In Other - Scctor: Show Soviets by Quick Con. sclidation cf Gains Giving Nazies Fresh Werries   Ry EDDY GLMORE

NEW ADVANC( ON KERCH STRAIT MADE   Russians’ Ability To Operate Despite Mud Worries Nazis

SOVIETS HURL BACK SERIES OF ASSAULTS   Reds Overcome Difficulties To Increase Tempo of Drive Despite Bad Weather  CONSOLIDATING GAINS

TEMPERATURES:   Reds Overcome Mud, Strike New Blows Af Nazis   Renewed Activity Or Soviet Front ls New Worry For Hitler

Russians Beset By Problems of Moving Troops   Struggle to Increase Tempo of Its Offensives Despite Bad Weather.   Nazis Send Reserves Into Smolensk Sector

Russ Struggle To Increase Drive’s Tempo   Make Some Gains Despite Adverse Weather Conditions

Russians Take Nazi Base On Kerch Strait     Attempt To Increase Tempo Of Their Drive In Spite Of Adverse   Ground Conditions

Russian Army Battles: Weather in Great Effort To Add Pressure On German Arm

Activity Picks Up In Vital Caucasus Area; Stalled By Mud In Other Zones

‘REDS TAKE ANASTASEVSKAYA FROM GERMANS AND DRIVE ON TOWARDS KERCH STRAIT   Russian Soldiers Overcoming Worst of Transportation Difficulties in Struggle to Increase Tempo of Offensive Against German Pasitione

REDS NOT GIVING NAZIS THE SPRING PERIOD OF REST   Russians Find Ways To Keep Offensive Rolling   PUSHING AHEAD ON SOUTHERN FRONT

Russians Make New Gains Now   RED ARMIES. FORGING AHEAD IN DEEP MUD

STOP RIUISSIANS   Consolidation of Gains Toward Smolensk Surprises Germans: Battle in Donets Area Continues.

SOVIETS GIVE FOE WORRIES   Quick Consolidation Of Gains Noted; Tighten Squeeze On Nazis In Caucasus

o DAME ON IN KUBAN AREF   Russians Overcome Trans: port Difficulties Caused By Mud.

CONTINUE TO FIGHT   Red Army Keeps Up Its Offensive Despite the Bad  Weather

SOVIET TROOPS QUICKEN TEMPO OF OFFENSIVES  Push On Despite Weather On All  Roatsds beanie

Reds Speed Up Fight Despite Bad Weather   Surprise Germans With Advances In Spite Of Deep Mud :   CLEARING POSITIONS   Enemy Fails To Expel Soviets From Any Land Gained

SOVIETS QUICKEN FORWARD STRIDE   Germans Beginning to Wonder If ‘General Mud’ Will Be Able to Help

Reds Strive To Increase Drives Tempe   Push on From Anastasevskaya In Kuban Valley  Of Caucasus

“Nazi Worry Rising ~As Reds Increase Tempo of Offense   Soviets Smash Forward Despite Bad Transportation Conditions, Routing Foe by Artillery at Various Points

Reds Struggle To Increase Success; Overcome Deep Mud   No Material Change in Situations on Long Front Reported

Bad Weather Hampers hed  Offensives   German Base On The Kerch Strait Is Occupied

BATTLE. AGAINST BAD WEATHER   Reds Straggle to Speed Up Offensives

Wounded U. 8. Soldiers From N. Africa Arrive On Canada Hospital Ship

Bus Overturns in River Near Denver; 12 Person: Are Taken fo Hospifal

ENGINE CASTING FRAUD ALLEGED   Grand Jury Indicts Bohn For Violations Of Sabotage Statute

Aluminum, Brass Company Indicted   Three Employes Charged With Attempt To Defraud

SOVIETS SEIZE MELITOPOL IN I1-DAY BATTLE   500,000 Germans May Be Trapped In  Crimea

‘Soviets Clear Germans From Melitopo!   Effort to Hold City Costs Nazis Over 20,000 Men

Crimean Door Unlocked By Citadel's Fall   11-Day Fighting Ends In One Of Greatest Gains

CRIMEAN GATE UNLOCKED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   HITLER'S SOUTHERN FORCE IN GRAVE POSITION

SEES CONGRESS GETTING TOUGH OVER SPENDING   Byrd Sees Legislation To Halt Extravagance

Army Collecting Scrap in South Part of County   Soldiers From Camp Barkeley Will Cover Entire County ve

LEGISLATION ASKS  PROBE NATURAL GAS  RESERVES OF NATION INTENDED AS BLOW AT  PROPOSED TEXAS EASTERN PIPELINE

Fight Launched On Texas: Gas Pipeline      Inquiry Into. Reserves. Sought In Bills -:Pronoced In Roth Heatueec OF Condrece

LEGISLATION ASKS PROBE NATURAL GAS RESERVES OF NATION  INTENDED AS BLOW AT PROPOSED TEXAS

Fight Launched On Texas Gas Pipeline   Inquiry Into Reserves Sought In Bills Proposed In Both Houses Of Conaress

FBI Hunts Out Draft-Dodgers   —e—— Locates 86,545 Men For Armed Forces

U. §. Woman Who Has Resided in Japar For 50 Years Broadcasts for Enemy

NORTH PACIFIC BASE BLASTED, FIRES STARTED   Meanwhile Navy Lays Plans for War Against Japs Which Will Last Until in 1949

YANKS BLAST  PARAMUSHIRO   Fires Left Raging On Jap Base Nearest To : Tokvo

CHURCHILL SEES 2 YEARS OF WAR   Prime Minister Promises Big Air Forces to Hit Heart of Foe

Santa Claus Killed On Eastern Front, Berlin woaunacters Being Told

GIRLS DORM 70 START MONDAY   Contract Is Let To Clinton-Parke:of Houston at $30,000

LOCATION IS ON FOURTH STREET CLOSE TO DEPOT   Will Be For Use By Girls Employed In Dow Industries

STORY IS GIVEN OF GREAT SEA BATTLE   Scharnhorst Sunk After Being Outwitted and Trapped

Scharnhorst Was Trapped By Britain’s Powerful Duke Of York In Arctic Sea

Scharnhorst Was Outwitted, Then Trapped   “ruiser Fired Death Salve following Destroyer Torpedo Attack

Tell of Sinking Of Scharnhorst   British Give Details Of Naval Battle

British Admiralty Reveals How Fleet Outwitted and Sank Nazi Scharnhorst

Admiralty Tells Story of Ratt Off Nor th One   Official Version offe:zi Sea Disaster Pe sented ‘

SERIES OF BLUE STAMPS EXPIRES NN WEDNESDAY      K, L. And M Not Effective After Tomorrow; Stamp Dates Given

SLAYING OF U.S. PILOTS IN TOKYO AROUSES NATION   Army Air Forces Swear Revenge for Violation of Rules of War

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Japan Promises Execution of All Enemy Airmen Downed

Japan Threatens To Execute All  Future Raiders   Radio Broadcast In Japan Makes Threat Against Fliers Who Attack Tokyo

NEW BOMBER 10 BE IN USE SOON   Craft ts Reported as “Three or Four Ycars Ahead” of Fighting Class.

U:S.HAS3 NEW TYPES OF PLANES      ‘Will Greatly Increase Nation’s Air Force Strength

New Planes to Give More Punch  r * * * Lal *® * * * » * * * * * *  ¢ ‘kT ~ ‘ Amorican Airnlnanoac Taday Ara Lor elie “fare: gees es Battle

U. S. War Planes Prove Superionty  New Bombers To Boost Air Powe1

FATHER DRAFT AT SHOWDOWN   Tax Boosts All Along Line In Prospect as Congress Takes Up War Financing

CONGRESS REACHES SHOWDOWN ON FATHER DRAFT   Military Heads Warn That Germany and Japat More Powerful Than Ever Now ;

Father Draft Fight Opens in Senate   Report Says Axis Stronger; Now Than When War  Started; Tax Raise Hinted.

MEASURE IS UF FOR SHOWDOWN BEFORE SENATE   Sentiment Against Ban As Military Leaders Demand Men

Showdown on Father Draft Issue Reached   Army Intelligence Chief Rejects Idea of Early Axis Collapse; Big Jump in Taxes  Pietured by Tax Expert 

CONGRESS REACHED SHOWDOWN TUESDAY ON WHEELER BILL  MATTER OF ADDITIONAL TAXES BEING SHAPED

HAROLD LLOYD HURT IN BLAST AT HOME   Movie Star, Seven Firemen Overcome by Fumes

ee et eee - bl bd raf  Harold Lloyd Bardi Escapes With Life As His Home Burnt

ACTOR ESCAPES DEATH IN BLAST   Harold Lloyd Dragged To Safety By Wife

LADY OAKES TELLS OF FAMILY BREAK   Considered Daughter's Marriage “Bod Baraain”

Oakes’ Widow Testifies In Bahamas Trial   Lady Eunice Tells of Break In Family After Marriage of Daughter  A TWADBALAATICC BOLO! TT A I

WIDOW TAKES  ‘STAND TODAY. IN OAKES CASE   Tells of Family. Br eak With Accused--—— ; -Man

Lady Oakes On  Witness Stand Family Break Described By Sir Harry’s Widow

TRIAL IS NEAR END   Widow of Slain Sir Harry Oakes Gives Testimony

MRS, OAKES ON WITNESS STAND   Says Daughter's Marriage Was ‘Bad Situation’

Widow Tells Of Ill Feeling   Widow Of Murdered Sir Harry Oakes Takes Stand At Trial. 2

Mother-in-Law Of De Marigny Heard at Trial   Lady Oakes Tells Of Family Break With Accused Man

Lady Oakes Tells Events Up to Crime   Sobs as Defense Counsel Begins Tearing at Tale of Family Strife

LADY EUNICE OAKES WITNESS IN TRIAL OF SON-IN-LAW  SAID FAMILY TRIED MAK!  BEST OF BAD SITUATION IN WENDING

OAKES WIDOW IS WITNESS AT MARIGNY TRIAL   Says Son-In-Law Caused Daughter to Break With Parents, Leave Home; Flavs Accused

Valley Coastal Canal Will Be ‘Pushed Speedily   Mansfield + Als Plans » At State Meet .

Murder Probers Seek Uniform   Estranged Husband Held In New York My stery

Green Smoothes Path For Lewis to Returnto AFI.   Sets Up Committee to Negotiate With Miners to Come Back to Fold

WFA ANNOUNCES TOBACCO ‘PARITY   Federal Loans To Be Offered To Support Prices In 1943

GIRAUD, DE GAULLE THOUGHT. WORKING FOR FRENCH UNITY   Appointment ; OF touts ? Thought To Mean That ' Leaders Now See  "Eye To Eve

Fighter Plane: Raid Kiska  Nine Times   Speedy Craft Score Many Bomb Hits On Jap Locations

Miners Troop Back to Pits For Overtime   Back of Strike Broken. Leaders Say; Expect Fuil Shifts Tuesday

TRADITION SMASHED BY MINERS TROOPING BACK TO WORK TODAY  COAL PICTURE BRIGHTER THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE JUNE 1

MINERS START BACK TO WORK   Break Back of Nation's Stubbornest Strike

Miners Pouring Back Into Pits To End Strike   Workers Shatter Tradition By Resumption Of Labors On Holiday.

BACK TO THE MINES   Coal Picture Is Brighter With Miners s Trooping to i

‘Miners Celebrate Fourth By. Trooping To Work, Breqking Back Of Prolonged Walkout   Remainder Of Rebellious Workers Pick Holiday To Return To Mines

Coal Picture Is Brightest Since June 1   Miners Celebrate July 4 by Going Back to Work; Strike Expected To Be: Ended Before End of Week

Miners Celebrate Holiday By Trooping Back To Work And Breaking Coal Strike

MINERS TROOP BACK INTO PITS   Strike Backbone Is Broken; Comparatively Few Coal Diggers Off Job

ANTI-INFLATION ORDER APPROVED BY OPERATORS   Lewis Says Miners Should Get Raise Since They Are Underpaid   URGE EXTENSION OF PRESENT CONTRACTS

Lewis Insists ‘Mine Wages Are Below Standard   Points to Possible Advant age in Roosevelt's Sweeping Order

Evacuation On Central Front Is Announced  Defeat Considered One Of Most Disastrous In War; Roslavl Also Taken By Soviets

Stalin Announces City Taken in Stiff Battles   One of Greatest Victories of Russian War Follows on Capture of Roslavl, Communications Center   NAZIS BELITTLE RED TRIUMPH      Claim Evacuation Began Three Weeks Ago, War Plants Moved, Defenses Destroyed—Reds Press on Dnieper

Loss Admitted By Berlin; Red  Army Only One Mile from Kiev   Fall of Bastion Rated as One of Nazis’ Worst Defeats of War   RIiLLETIN   Rie JAMES M. LONG

GREAT VICTORY: FOR RUSSIANS   Great Fortress Taken In . Stiff Battles, Says Stalin Report. \   ROSLAVL ALSO CAPTURED:

Capture of Kiev Is Near at Hand   Loss of Rail Hub and Key Defense Point: Shatters German Chances in War with Russia; 5th Army Meets Opposition in Battle  witr Germans Above Naples

Smashing Soviet Attack Regains Key Base; Roslav! Also Taken; Capture Of Kiev Imminent.

Held By Nazis For Two Years   Badgered Red Army Accomplished Two Thirds of Task To Hur! Out Invaders; Evacuation Begun Three Weeks Ago.

ROSLAVL ALS ABANDONED, BERLIN SAYS   Soviets Apparently Score One Of Great Victories Of War: Fall Of Kiev Declared Imminent

JAPS ON RUN ~ IN NEW GUINEA   Aussics Gain First Major Triumph Since Papuan Campaign.

Japanese Are Fleeing Toward Mubo Village   Enemy Move on Wau Airdrome Is Frustrated

Jap Troops Driven Toward  Mubo Village   Nearly 1,000 Japs Are Killed During Fight In Wau Sector’ Which Lasted 12 Days

JAPS DEFEATED ~—INNNEW GUINEE   Tenth U. $. Air Force Celebrates Anniversary Bombing Japs In Burma.

Beaten Japs Flee Toward Mubo Village   ] 2-Day Fight in Wau Sector Costs Enemy 1,000 Dead

Allied Forces Kill 1,000 In Wau Battle   Decisively Defeated Enemy Flees Toward Mubo, 12 Miles From Salamaua   MANY ARE WOUNDED   American Artillery is Driving Force In First Triumph Since. Papua

Japs Again Beaten Back Ii  New Guinea   1000 Killed, Many Wounded In The Wau: Sector

JAPS ARE FLEEING JN NORTH   American Artillery Is _ Given Credit For Breaking Drive

BEATEN JAPS FLEE AS ATTACK FAILS IN REGION GF WAU   12-Day Fight Costs Enemy 1000 Dead And More Wounded—Aussies ped ‘Pursue Foe

Murray and Green Threatened to Withdraw Labor Support Today   Ask for Quick Action to Roll Back Prices to Sept., 42 Level.

Plan Advanced To Pay Teache Salary ‘Increases In State At The Expense Of Federal Government

ASSEMBLY PLANS FINANCES FOR TEACHER GROUF   “At Expense of Federal Government,” No Tax Raise

About $30,000,000 Would Be Secured at Expense Of Government   OTHER CAPITAL NEWS

CHARGE SMEAR OF RUML ADHERENTS   REPUBLICANS PLAN TO DEMAND PROOF OF ACCUSATIONS

PAY-AS-YOU-60 BATTLE RAGES IN WASHINGTON   Michigan Democrat Says GOP Has Slush Fund At Stake

Tax Question Stirs Strife  Inter-Party Battle Grows; Rationing Effective Manday

REPUBLICANS 10 DEMAND PROOF OF ACCUSATION   Charge Desperate Plans Being Made to Smear Ruml Plan Supporters.   AFTER REP. BINGELL   Accused of Having Keen Promised “Abundant Campaign Fund.”

GOP Demands Proof of Smear Charge   Democrat Says Ruml Backers Offered Campaien Funds

BACKERS RUMI PLAN SMEARED LEADERS CLAIM   Republicans Demand Proof of Charge They Had Been Promised “Abundant Campaign Fund”   MARTIN HITS CHARGE   Minority Leader Says it Shows Desperation of Those Fighting Losing Taxation Rattle  met ee

GOP Charges That Desperate Attempts Are Being Made To “Smear” Ruml Plan Supporters

PARTY LINEUPS INTENSIFIED IN DEBATE ON TA}   ‘Republicans Angered by Accusa tion Campaign Funds Promised by Ruml Plan Backers

Rum! Plan Made Partisan Issue      Skip: AY ear! THIS Poli — tical: Football :

Believes Advocates Of Skip-A-Year Tax Plan Promised Campaign Funds

OF RUML PLAN   Author of Tax Bill Says _ Foes Resorting fo Demagoguery,

PAY-AS-YOU-60 DISPUTE BITTER   House Continues Debate i First Saturday Session; Charges Made

CHARGES IN TAX BATTLE STIR GOLPIRE   Minority to Call on New - Deal Speaker to Sup- port Statements...   ATTACK CALLED “SMEAR” EFFORT   House Continues Debate -on Rum! Plan. in First - Saturday Session.

House Group's Tax Bill Seems Certain of Being Defeated   Republican Supporters Charge Democratic “Smear” Campaign

Fire Smear Charge in Tax Debate   Rum! Backers Will Demand Proof of  Charge Made

Pay-As-You-Go Income Tax Plan Dispute Shares Spotlight With Food Shortage Problems In Capital; Meat Rationing Starts Monday.

HONORABLE PEACE OFFER GIVEN ITALY   Would Have to Cease Aiding Germans Now In Italy

EISENHOWER OFFERS PEACE   Says Italians Must Promise to Cease at Onee. Any Assistance. to Ger. man Troops in Their Country.

FINISH BY 1949   President Doean’t Say How Long Befere Ouring Interview

INTENSIFY DRIVE ON KHARKOV   Reds Draw Nearer to  City’s Suburbs

DONETS BASIN TRAP BEING. NARROWED   Defenses of Ew emy Northeast of Rostov Smashed

Asphalt on Berlin Pavements Boiled in Inferno After Giant Bomber Attack, Eyewitnesses Say

Raid Witnesses Declare Berlin  Infernal Scene   City “Still One Big Fire;” Heat Collapses Streets; Few Haped. To Survive

Even Asphalt In Pavements Boiled After Raid On Berlin   Intense Heat Made Walking On Some Streets Impossible; ‘Like Going Through An Inferno’

BERLIN BECOMES A CITY OF FIRE, REPORTS STATE   Eyewitnesses Describe Scenes Of Destruction in Heart Of Nozi Capital

Berlin Fires Melt Streets   Fugitive Describes Horror of Blazing City During R.A.F. Raid

‘Eyewiinesses Say Thal Berlin Was An Inferno \Of Indescribable Herror Following RAF Raid

Asphalt Boils . - After Attacks   Berlin Becomes. Inferno As Result Of Heavy. Bomb Raids. 

Another Great RAF Fleet Sets Out For Raids   Guided By Fires Set In Previous Onslaught; 10,000 Killed In Hitler Metropolis  FUEHRER’S HOME

Sean OI U.S. Tax Schedules  Congressmen Looking Vor Additional Revenue

RUBBER PROBLEM ~ EASED ~ JEFFERS   Synthetic Plant Output Due to Optimism Over Future :

LARGE SECTIONS OF RUHR CENTER ARE LAID WASTE   Allies Still Fail to Draw Out Full Weight of Nazi Air Defense

Western Half Of Wuppertal Laid Waste By Mass Bombing Attack   HEAVIEST BOMBERS ATTACK IN WAVES

VAoT AREAD UF ELBERFELD LAID WASTE   Half of Industrial City in Ruhr Valley Almost Destroyed.   BY BRITISH BOMBERS   Many Tors of Bombs Are Dropped by Huge Raiding Forco.

HEAVY ASSAULT HITS EASTERN HALF OF CITY   Western Section Was Plastered With 1,500 Tons Of Bombs On May 29   133 PLANES ARE MISSING   Devastating New Attacks Leveled At Italian Mediterranean Islands

LONDONERS PROTEST RELEASE OF MOSLEY   Police Break Up Crowd of War Workers Angered by Decision to Free Ex-Fascist Leader.

EXTENDED DEER SEASON SOUGHT   Conservation Officials Ask 30-Day Period For Hunting

Limit on Salaries. Banned by Congress   President Gets Tandem Measure

LONDON SOURCE SAYS ITALIANS BEG FOR PEACE   Also Predicts Landing on “Boot” Shortiy As Badoglioites Clamp on 8 po. m. Curfew.

Badoglio Seeks to Stile  Clamor for Peace in Italy   Curfew Clamped on Northern Area; “Peace at Any Price” Spurned

CLAIM ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY NEARS   Badoglio Government Has Clamp. ed Curfew On North Ttalv

Hopes For An Early Italian - Withdrawal Fade; Predict Allied Invasion ‘Any Time

NORTHERN ATALY IS EFFECTEL   No Terms of Peace from New Government in Sight As Action Proclaime.

Badoglio Clamps 8 P. M. Curfew on North Italy; Believe Allies Will Invade Mainland in Near Future

Northern Italy Gets Curfew   Hopes for Early - Capitulation Fade

HOPES FADE FOR ITALY’S CAPITULATION   Badoglio Clamps 8 P.M. Curfew On Worthern Italy Population

Badoglio Puts North  : Italy Under Curfew; _ Quells Peace Clamor   Hopes for Early Surrender Fade; Allie Expected to. Invade Soon, Maybe Before Sicily Falls

NORTH ITALY PUT UNDER CURFEW BY BADOGLIO REGIME   Hopes For Italy’s Early Capitulation Fades — Allied Invasion Very Near   MAY LAND BEFORE MOPPING UP ENDS

Barkley Warns Of Great Debt   Says Nation Faces Big Postwar Task

Nelson’s Chief Aide in WPB Resigns Post; Shake-up in High Command Is Forecast

TOP COMMAND CHANGES DUE IN WPB UNIT   Wilson Going to Private Industry; Nelson Takes Reins

WILSON QUITS HIS WPB JOE   Donald Nelson to Take Over Job; Wilson To” Leave About First of Year.

Nelson Resumes WPB Control As Wilson Leaves   Speculation He Would Resign Ends; Visits White House

WPB SHAKEUP IS IN MAKING   Wilson To Quit Post As Vice Chairman By January 1

Allies Fly 2,000 Miles to Hit Japs   Blast Maccassar, Hit Cruiser

2000-MILE TRIP MADE TO STRIKE MACCASSAR   Allied Fliers in Southwest Pacific Reach Out to New Distances in Flight from Australia to Attack Celebes Island—Longest Bombing Foray of the War Is Revealed.

Allied Fliers Make 2,000 Mile Flight To Bomb Japanese Bases In Pacific

DICK LACY'S STEER GRAND CHAMPION   Kansas, Ill., Youth Scores Again With T. O. Monogram

WPB Official Says Long, Hard — Period Is Ahead  Wilson Says Americar Production Will Ra Tavad ta limit

WPB Official Says Long, Hard Period is Ahead  Wilson Says America Production Will

CAPITAL TURNS EYES ON STALIN   Hope Prevails That Russian Leader Soon Will Agree To U. N. Conference

Stalin May Agree To Meet FDR Soon    Developments Give Ray Of Hope; Churchill Begins Final Week Of Conferences On Strategy Plans

RED VICTORIES PROVIDE STRONG SOVIET POSITION   Russians Expected to Take Full Advantage of Their Status in Coming Conference

 Soviets fo Be in Strong Position for Tripartite Talks   Massive Advances Making It Possible for Russians to Exploit Advantaade:

RED ADVANCES PUT RUSSIA ‘IN STRONG’ FOR COMING TALKS   Expect Soviets To Exploit Advantages Fully At Tripartite Session At Moscow

PICKING UP DOGS,   Chief Plake Dons Fatigue Uniform to Round-up Canines,

Flag In Every Home Object Of  National Drive i ie Race Leads Mere

FORESEES NEED FOR STRONG WORLD FORCE AFTER WAR   Doubts Atlantic Charter Plan Will Suffice

Committee To Decide If Monroe’s Bad Memory Is_ Grounds For Contempt

MYSTERY MAN HAS VERY BAD MEMORY   House Committee To Decide What To Do With John P. Monroe

WITNESS AT HEARING HAS BAD MEMORY   Conte mpt Proceedings Might Be Started Against Monroe

Congressmen Investigating Dinner Parties Stymied \By Host’s ‘Very Bad Memory’

Continue Probe Of Big Parties .   ’ Washington Host Has Poor Memory.

Consider Contempt Citation Against John P. Monroe As Inquiry Of ‘Mystery House’ Parties Is Continued

U. S. TALKS TO REVIEW STRATEGY   Discussion Of Plans For Next Move Is Believed Topic

Roosevelt And Churchill Review Invasion Pians   Strategists Are Holding Pifth Conference Tn 47 Bionths

Review Invasion Plans, Plot Moves To Speed War End   War Aainst Japan Believed Figuring in Discussions, Along With Soviet Relations, Post-War Programs

President and Churchill Review Plans   u. 9., British Leaders Holding fifth  Conference in Seventeen Months   Polish, French Problems May Be  Sey BERR Be. pe eeaee

HERE FOR NEW PLOT   Master Strategists of Allies, Top British, U.S. Experts Confer.

CITIZENS MAKE PLANS FOR U. S, MEAT SATIONINE   Today Last Day For Unrestricted  Sales At Retail

MEAT BUYING PANICKY AT LAST MINUTE   Full Stocks Expected Monday as Ration Stamps Valid °

Buy With Coupons Starting Monday   OPA Head Asks Packers to Speed Flow of Meat Supplies to Stores.

Next Week You Are Rationed  Tonight's Closing in Most Stores Means ‘al ak Exo Calan

It’s Final Day For Purchase Of Unrationed Meat  Coupons Good On Mondav. Savs OPA

RATIONING OF MEATS, CHEESE OPENS MONDAY   For Most Americans Today Marks Deadline’ for Purchases Except With Coupons   MEATS ARE SCARCE   Many Markets Forced to Close Today; 75%e of Cincinnati Dealers Suspend Business

Meat: Shortage : In Cities Acute      Much: Hoarding. Before . Rationing Starts. .*

Allotted Sales Begin Monday ~---+-+-0-.--.-«.  Unrationed Meat Is Near Memory Stage)  Pte a BES ne Binet He. Bi..4 2....2%. 3 a.

Nation At End Of Unrationed Era For Meats   Those Red Stamps Must Be Used In Buying, Beginning Monday.

Red Coupons to be Needed For ~ Purchases of Meats, Butter, Fats and Oils   HEAVY BUYING CLOSES ‘ SOME CITY MARKETS

‘OPA, PACKERS SEEK TO INSURE  MEAT SUPPLIES   Brown Notes Heavy Pre-Rationine Purchases, Is Concerned—Roose ‘velt Optimistic

DEADLINE FOR BUYING MEATS, CHEESE NEAR   Store In Many Cities Forced To Close When Supplies Fail  > Ula in B TT. Usl4 In Rush

Rationing of Meat Supply In Nation Starts on Monday   Red Stamps from Ration Book No. 2 Good For Cheese, Butter, Meats, Fats and Oils

Meat Ration Starts Monday throughout US      Metropolitan Meat Markets Are Short of Meat on Eve of Rationing

MOST STORES 10 END MEAT SALES UNDER NEW ORDER   - Red Stamps’ Are- Required "Next Week: to Purchase Meat, Canned Fish, Butter “Athar Artiptec,   MANY BUTCHER SHOPS ~~ SUSPEND DURING DAY   Packers; Retailers Asked to  > Cooperate . In Speeding Flow of Rationed Foods to Stores.

MEAT RATION COUPONS UP : FOR MONDAY   Today's Last Day to Buy Meats and Cheese Without Book

Most Of Nation’s Stores Bare Of Meat On Eve Of Rationing   And Slaughter Quotas Indicate Civilians Will Get Even Less During Summer Months

NATION’ PREPARING FOR RATIONING {K EARNEST NEXT WEE!      Deadline at Hand for Purchase of Meat, Cheese, Butter Without Stamps   PROGRAM STARTS MONDAY

From Now On You Buy Meat With Stamps   OPA Plans To Make Red Tickets Good Monday; Many Shops Closed In Nation Today

RATION HOUR NEAR   Red Staimps From Book Ne - 2 to Be Used, Too, for Oils, Canned Fish

TODAY MARKS END OF MEAT BUYING WITHOUT COUPONS   Stamps From Ration Book Will Be Necessary Next Week To Buy Thaece Favarite Meate

TODAY IS DEADLINE FOR PURCHASE MEAT, CHEESE UNRATIONED  RATIONING PROGRAM IS AIMED TO COMBAT SCARCITY AND BLACK MARKET:

Russians Also Gain Victory Near Kherson   Strong Counter-Blows Mounted by Germans In Several Sectors  HIT WEST OF KIEV

Russ Forces Near Vitebsk   Baltic Army Storms Toward Rail Junction

Nazi Bastion Now Menaced On Two Sides   Soviets Liquidate Enemy Bridgehead; Whole Front Blazes

Surging Soviets Slash Forward   Key Nazi Bastion Menaced In Narth

Red Armies Close In on Nazi Defense Bastion of Vitebsk From Two Sides

RUSSIANS ADVANCE NEARER TO VITEBSK   Reds Now 20 Miles From Nazi Defense Bastion: Much Enemy Booty Is Captured

BATTLES RAGE ALONG FRONT OF 800 MILES   SOVIETS WITHIN 20 MILES OF VITEBSK, NAZI BASTION

RUSSIANS TAKE HUGE TOLL OF NAZIS IN NORTH   Also Announce Liquidation of Foe’s Kherson Bridgehead

SOVIETS MENACE GERMAN BASTION FROM TWO Sito   Baltic Army Storms Down From Nevel to Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk   HUNDREDS OF GERMANS ARE SLAIN IN SECTOR   Russians Announce Liquidation of Bridgehead on South Bank of Dnieper Across From Kherson; Front Blaz, es in Other Areas

GERMAN DEFENSE BASTION MENACED BY SOVIET DRIVE   Russians Plunge to Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk as They Storm South From Nevel.   KILL 1,600 GERMANS, OCCUPY 100 VILLAGES   Nazis Lash Out in Two Counter-Offensives—Push Toward Kiev Takes On New Momentum.

Red Forces Reach to Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk  BASTION MENACED FROM TWO SIDES  Many Nozis Are Reported Slain in Dnieper River Bottle

Reds Near Vital Nazi Northern Vitebsk Bastion   Four Other Storm Centers Blaze on 800-Mile Front

Capture Hundred Towns And Kill . 1,680 Germans   Hallic Army Is. Now Within 20 Miles of Nazi Stronghold, Bitter Bat‘Ue Rages On 8 -Mile Front, As 9 Germa’ Launch Counter : fensive 7

Reds Capture 100 Populated Places  Are 20 Miles From Nazi-Held Vitehck

100 POPULATED PLACES TAKEN IN NEVEL DRIVE   German Bridgehead South Of Dnieper Liquidated In Widespread  Successes

100 More Towns Are Captured By Soviet Army   Kill 1,600 Germans in Reaching to within 20 Miles of Vitebsk

U.S. Fighters Operate On Attu  Only Small Jap Units — Left.In Pockets With  Thaie Backe Ta Sea

Attu Air and Sea Control Won by American Forces   Disrupt Jap Bombing Attempt to Tighten Hold on Island Beachheads.   New Air Push Seen as  Possible Future Action

Attu Bombing. Attack Fails   Japs Are Driven Off Without U.S. Loss

APS BEATEN OFF G0   Attempt of Enemy Bombers to Hit Attu Broken Up by Yanks

BIGGER POST FOR GENERAL PROBABLE   52- Year-Old Gen. Gen. Eisenhower Has Brought Glory To Himself, Troops

Noted Editor And Wife tll   William Allen White And Mrs. White in New York Hospital

WHITES ILL IN NEW YORK   Emporia Editor and Wife Stricken With Influenza

Seventeen Reach 18th Birthday      Register With Selective Service In May

Eleven 18 Year Old Boys Register   Reach Draft Age During Month of Julv

Eleven Registered During February   Youths Became 18 Years Old In The Month

SupremeCourt Rules Raisin Prorate Legal   Tribunal Declares Act Does Not Interfere With interstate Cammerce   DECISION IS REVERSED   Judges Brush Aside Plea Of Justice Department Plan Is Illegal

Raisin Program ‘ls Held Valid   U. S. Supreme Court Rules California Law Constitutional

Aluminum Firm Indicted For Sabotage   Supplied Defectively Cast Aluminum Superchargers For Airplane Engines

INDICT OFFICERS OF FOUNDRY FIRM   Charged With Furnishing Defecting Castings for Airplanes.

Charge Firm Heads With Sabotage   Seven Officials Of Cleveland Firm Indicted, Biddle Says

FAULTY CASTINGS DELIVERED PLANE MOTOR FACTORIES   Seven Officials, 2+ Company Workers Charged With Sab otage Violation

Foundry and Top Officials Are Indicted  ( harged W ith § onspiracy  gg, SR Tae   Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud—Vioiation Of Sabotage Law

Foundry and Top Officials  Are Indicted  \ Charged With Conspiracy re rw Ot +t ‘wZyT* Bb gat...   Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud—Violation  Of Sabotage Law

Firm Indicted For Conspiracy  Defective Superchargers ~ Furnished, Claim

TOP OFFICIALS INDICTEN   Seven Face. Charges. of Violating the Sabotaze Law

COMPANY INDICTED   feundry Concern Charged With Fraud In Selling Defective Wares

Cleveland Firm Facing Charge   Report Conspiracy To Defraud Government

Foundry Company, Seven Top Officials Indicted On Charges Of Violating Sabotage Law

SABOTAGE AND FRAUD CHARGED AGAINST MEN AND FOUNDRY PLANT  CHARGED DEFECTIVE CASTINGS WERE DELIRERATELY WELDED

Charged, “With S Supply “Def Pai         _o Airplane E dine B ‘Made For Gove:

Officials Named In Sabotage_   Charge They Conspir. ed In Defective —Parts.

CLEVELANDERS  CHARGED WITH SABOTAGE PLOT   Officials of Bronze and Aluminum Company In dicted For Alleged Defective Work   OTHERS INVOLVED   Biddle Charges Firm Supplied Defective Superchargers for Airplane Motors

FIRM AND NINE MEN CHARGED WITH SABOTAGE      Foundry Men Accused of Conspiring to Supply Packard with Defective Superchargers

Face Charge Of Sabotage   Foundry Company And Officials Indicted At - Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Foundry Faces Charge Of Conspiracy   Company. 21 Employes Aeeused Of Supplying Defective Plane Castings.   BREAKS SABOTAGE LAW

Charge Firm Heads With Sabotage  Seven Offidials  Of Cleveland De poy gd   Seven Officials Of Cleveland Firm Indicted, Biddle Save

Indict Foundry, Seven Officials For Sabotage   Charges Based On Alleged Plot To Supply Packard Co. With Defective Parts

Crop Forecast for Nation Is at Three-Year Lov   Rain, Rain and More Rain Puts Damper on Record Production Goal

SUGAR SHORTAGE HAY RESULT 1 MEAT SHORTAGE   Decline in Sugar Beet Production Hurts Westerners

~ DISPUTE OVER TAX SYSTEMS   HOUSE PREPARES TO VOTE TODAY WITH SPOKESMEN FOR ROTH SIDES PREDICT. ING VICTORY.

HOUSE NEARING VOTE ON TAX ABATING PLAN   Roosevelt And Willkie Revealed In Active But Opposing Roles   RULE QUT COMPROMISE   Clear Cut Showdown On Issues At Stake Is Hope Of Leaders

HOUSE EXPECTS TO VOTE TODAY ® ON RUML PLAN   Roosevelt Advises Leaders @- He Favors Doughton ‘re Proposal   Willkie Writes GOP Chiefs Calling for Passage ' Of Pay-as-Go

HOUSE READY FOR VOTE ON PAY-AS-GO TAX   President And Willkie Take Opposing Roles In Surging Controversy   MARTIN SEES _ VICTORY   F. D. R. Notifies Leaders He Stands Firmly Behind Counter Proposal

House Nearing  Rum Plan Vote   President Is Regarded As Opposed To Measure— Willkie In Favor

Nazi Newspaper Scores Franco's Spanish Regime   Frankfurter Zeitung Says He Is Co-operating with the Allies

GERMAN PAPER SCOLDS FRANCO   Editorial Says Dictator Is Doing Little To Check Rumors Of  Restoration

German Paper Flays Franco for His Tolerating Allies  Nazi Press Declares Spanish Leader Is Cool to Axians

PLACES BLAME FOR BLACKOUT HITCHES   State Defense Director Claims Officials In Various Communities Failed “To Stay On The Ball’

DEFENSE HANDS LIGHTLY SLAPPED   State Council Head Says “Not On Ball” in Surprise Raid Test

in 10 Informed, Hull   ce Of Russia InChurchill Meeting ar Plans Only

School Girl Assaulted And Slain   BODY “OUND IN NEW YORK FLAT OCCUPIED BY PORTO RICAN HOTEL WAITER; REPORTED BY ROOMMATE.   “W ell-Behaved”’

N. Y. GIRL, 12, SLAIN   Police Seek Hotel Waiter in Whose Room Body Is Found.

RESTAURANT PRICES LIKELY TO BE FROZE   Establishments In Pennsylvania And Maryland Will Be Affected By Expected OPA Announcement

Committee Is Appointed For Paral ysis Work   Local Groups To Direct Work  In Communities

J. F. Stevens Dies in North Carolina   Famed Engineer Extended G. N. from Montana to Coast

RUSSIAN TROOPS WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE KRIVOI ROG  MOSCOW REPORTS GER MAN LINES APPFAR

ED ARMY NOW WITHIN EXTREME RTILLERY RANGEKRIVOIROG, RON, COMMUNICATIONS CENTER   Germans Face Greatest Catastrophe of Was. From 500,000 to 1,500,000 Enemy Troops May Be Tranved by Onrushing Muscovite Armies .

Thousands Facing Annihilation Under  New Red Army Blows   Allies Mop Up asolated Points In Italy

Reds Tighten Squeeze on Nazi Troops   Fifth Army Captures Commanding Heights; Two Ships in German Convoy Torpedoed; RAF Makes Attack on Kassel

NAZI AERIAL RAIDERS BACK OVER ENGLAND 48 IN SCHOOL DEAL   Probe London School Bombing Charges As Rescue Squads Hunt More Victims; RAF Heads For Dieppe

SINGLE CARRIER DOWNS 65 ENEMY PLANES IN 60 DAYS   Other Craft are Up in th Running But “2” Claims Biggest Score.

PLANT SEIZURE BILL MAY 60 TO COMMITTEE   Republicans Expected To Join In Move

Connally Bill May Be Sent  to Committee   Amendments to Labor Bill Threaten to Induce Senate to Remit Legislation

Anti-Strike Bill Hits Snags   GOP May Join in Move to Send Bill Back to Committee

DEN ATE OTRIAE BILL RUNS INTO COMPLICATIONS  Connally Plant Seizure Bill Enc nters Swift   ‘Connally Plant Seizure i Bill Encounters Swift    Freshet of Amend  ments   PLAN PENALTIES   Republicans Might Join In Move to Send Measure Back to Committee For Study

Lowlanders Seek Highland At Fort Smith   -U. S. Engineers Express Concern Over Fourche Island

100,000 HOMELESS AS FLOOD WATERS SWEEP OVER MIDDLE WEST   Arkansas Flood Refugees Busy

RUSSIAN PEOPLE. ARE INFORMED OF STALIN'S RETURN   Radio Repeats News Frequently, Press Has Né Comment on Conference at Teheran.   THREE MAIN FACTOR, © ARE SIMPLY RUMORS   Ultimatum To German Peo: ple to Overthrow Hitler Greater Bombings, Nev Front Expected.

MOSCOW ANNOUNCES BIG THREE DECIDED FATE OF GERMANY  a me cre ee ee lm elt   CONFERENCE UNITED NATIONS LEADERS AT TEHERAN SAID BEEN ENDED

THE DEPARTURE OF PREMIER STALIN ANNOUNCED TODAY   Attend the Conference With Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran.   THROUGH SOVIET PRESS   Received With Whole-Hearted Welcome by the Russian People.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISIONS EXPECTED 10 BE MADE SOON   Russians Hail Conference As Sign Of Ever-Growing Friendly Relations Among Big Allied Powers; Formal Ultimatum To Nazis Seen

END OF PARLEY HELD IN IRAN IS TOLD BY REDS   Historic Decisions Reached at Sessions to Be Revealed Soon

Reds Announce Conference At Teheran Ended   Churchill, Roosevelt, And Stalin Meet In Iran Capital   Historic Decisions To Be Announced Soon, Possibly Today

Historic Decisions Applying to Battlefield and Political Issues Expected Hourly   EXPLOSIVE DECREE TO GERMANY LOOMS   Moscow News Agency Breaks News of Conference and Its Conclusion  to Russians

Committee-Catts~ Special- Parley In Mine Strike   Effort Being Made To End Wildeat Walkout That =Closed 13 Big Collieries

GOVT. SEEKS END COAL MINE STRIKE IN PA.   Ickes Urges Group to Arrange “Prompt Resumption of Work”

Strike Groups.  Jn Conference   Anthracite Walkout May Be Settled Today By Comniittee Chiefs

ICKES, LEWIS URGE MINERS T0 END WILDCAT STRIKE    Governing Body Of Anthraicite Industry Holds Emerlgency Session a

Hard Coal Miners Still On Strike  - Protest Dues:Increase \By UMW; Ickes Urges  Beale Dacnmntian

Strike Parley Held Today at Philadelphia   Anthracite Committee Of Twelve Confers at Request of Ickes   PROTEST OVER DUES

CUAL STRIKE GROUP IN EMERGENCY MEET   Wildcat Strike of 15,000 Miners Threaten Hard Coal Supply 

Call Meeting To. End Coal Strike   Emergency Session Hopes To Ease Shortage

STATE WILL WARM UP   Mercury Down to 22 at Goodland and Phillipsburg Today -

POPE CALLS FOR PEACE PRAYERS   CATHOLIC CHIEF CALLS FOR FAITHFUL PLEAS

POPE PIUS MAKES CALL FOR PRAYER   His Action Comes in the Midst of More Warlike Utterances by Badoglia

Pope Calls for Peace Prayers  People of italy and All Catholic World Get Pontift's Plea

Peace Prayers Urged by Pope   Ribbentrop - Guarliglia Parley Reported

Pope Pius Calls For Peace Prayers   He Asks Roman Catholics Throughout the World to Turn to God in Prayer.

Pope Calls  for Prayer   Peace 'Hopes Fade as Badoglio Regime Makes WarLike Noises

Nazi Defense Line Smashed   Reds Believed Near Final Blow In Black Sea Sector

Nazi Forces Hurled Back   Russians Smash Into .Seeondary Defenses

REDS ADVANGE INTO SECONDARY NAZI DEFENSES   Mass Shelling Of Germans At Novorossisk Presages Rie Push   AERIAL BATTLES BEING INCREASED

RUSSIAN GUNS BLAST WEDGE AT BLACK SEA   BIG PUSH BELIEVED NEAR TO MOP UP NOVOROSSISK

GERMAN FORTS AT NOVOROSSISK BLASTED 10 BITS   Russian Cannon Smash Enemy’s Secondary Defenses —Final Push Toward.  Sea. Believed Near.   SHELLING OF NAZIS __ IS ON LARGE SCALE   Air Battles in Sector In crease in Violence—Weak ‘ness Believed Developing in Axis Ranks, -

Russians Smash Into Defenses  OF Novordssisk   Attacking Under Heavy Barrage of Big Guns, Break lite Secondary Defenses oo f Blac a Port

RED BARRA BATTERS FOE   Big Guns Smash Foe for Russian Advance at Novorossisk

19 Artillery Batteries Are Silenced   Nazi Fortifications Being Blasted to Bits by Big Guns

j e  Soviet army smashes into secondary nazi defenses in Caucasus   Red bombers start fires in enemy ammunition dumps and rail stations

British Navy Shells Isle Near Sicily   Heavy Russ Barrage Opens  Wedge in Axis Caucasus Line

REDS SMASH INTG GERMAN IN CAUCASUS   Hundreds of Guns Pave Way for Infantry and Tank Wedge In Nazi Second arv tne   Pushing Enemy Into Sea

REDS HIT NAZI SECONDARY LINE   Soviets Attack Under Heavy Barrage of Big Guns

Reds Push Wedge In  Nazi Lines   Heavy Barrage Augurs Final Drive To Sea

Russians Smash Into Defenses of Novorossisk  Final Big Push on Black Sea Base Held By Nazis Gnminent

U.S. Patrols Repulse — Enemy Force   Positions on Other Parts of Island . Are Consolidated

Yank Troops Stab Nearer Goal of Munda   Americans Within Three Miles Of Jap Airdrome

MUNITIONS ON TRAIN EXPLODE   Shells Screech Over Town After Wrecking Freight; One Man Killed

OHIO VILLAGE T0 PLAN POST-WAR ACTIVITIES   Sets Example for Other Towns to Follow

Pian For Discussing Post-War Life Is Pioneered By Yellow Springs

MARSEILLE IS QUIET AGAIN   Nazi Troops Kill 300 Frenchmen To Down Resistance.

YANKS CLAMP ASSAULT ARC NEAR MATEUR   One Plane Smashes Five Nazi Air Transports

ISLAND BASE S ABANDONED BY JAPANESE   ALL OF IMPORTANT CENTHAY SOLOMONS ISLAND ARE NOW IN HANDS OF MatAR THUR'S FORCES: = -*

ALLIES NOW RULE KOLOMBANGARA, YILA’S AIRDROME   Mac Arthur Announces Foe % in Flight from Central Solomons

U.S. FORCES TAKE VILA AIRBASE   Flight of Japs From Central Solomons Confirmed

REDS MOVE CLOSER T0 KHARKOV   Gains Made At Rostov And Near Orel

RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING OA KHARKOV, OREL   Artillery Bombards RostovKramatorsk - Mariupol Area At Two Points   BELGOROD IS OCCUPIED   Huge Quantities Of Booty Seized; tmportant Rail Lines Threatened

Russians Capturing New Towns and Villages — Capture Belgorod, Anchor Point in German Ukcaninn Defense System,

MORE GERMAN TROOPS FACE TRAP THREAT   Major Nazi Bases O Kharkov and Orel Rre Threatened

ARTILLERY ‘HAMMERS “AT ROSTOV   Key Nazi Position At » Belgorod In North Is Captured

TWO MAJOR BASES OF NAZI FACING CAPTURE SHORTLY   Russian Armies Sweep Forward Toward Kharkov, Orel as They Retake Towns and Villages.   ALLIES OPERATING OVER TUNISIAN LINE   British Eighth Army Along Coast Is Making Slow Progress Owing to Heavy Mines and Resistance.

BELGOROD IS TAKEN: ORE BASE MENACED   Artillery Bombardment Opened by Reds In Another Man Trap In South.

DEGAULLE IS /JNDER FIRE   NITED STATES AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS IRKED BY ‘ ATTITUDE OF FRENCH * " ERBADER

Renewed Air Offensives Continue Over Continent   RAF Bombers Range From Denmark To France; Berlin Indi cates Raiders Near   Yorkshire Farm Lads Vital Cog In Invasion Plans

Heritage Of Famous British Navy Rests With Farm Lads And London Truck Drivers

New Amphibious Force Training For Invasion   Britons Stage Intense Drills

BRITISH TRAIN INVASION UNIT   Drill New Recruits To Handle Shallow Draft Landing Barges

New Amphibious Force Set \For Invasion of Continent      Intensive Training Completed At British Coastal Bases By Hard-Hittnig Forces; “Vest Pocket Fleet” Contains Hundreds of Men Prepared to Land Allted Armies In Europe

INVASION FORCES IN ENGLAND READY   Yanks and Tommies Trair    For Special Assaults

New Amphibious Unit Prepared To Lead Allied Landing Parties Onto Axis-Occupied Territory

Amphibious Force Training at British Coastai Base for Invasion Zero Hour

Home Frent News Of Interest To Everyone   To Keep You Posted On Point Events

Errors In Filling Applications Hold Up Ration Book :   More Than Half of TwoMillion Forms Filled Out Are Incorrect

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Allied Airmen Down 48 Japs   New Guinea Nipponese Lasse Mare Crannd

Education Week Will Be Observed November 8 to 17   LeMars Schools To Take Part In   National Event

.  EDUCATION WEEK — TQ BE OBSERVER   Visiting Days and. Special ‘Programs Planned at oo Schnoole

MOTHER TO GO TC TO JAIL FOR NEGLECTING FAMILY TO WORK IN WAR PLANT

MOTHER JAILED IN CHILD CASE   Smith Township Womar Found Guilty of Neglecting 7 Children

DRAFT DELINQUENTS  IN COUNTY REPORTED   Nine Registered With Two , Boards Are Sought   General Dean Urges Those Know: Ing of Wheresbguls of Men To Tell Authorities

Nine Registered With Two  Boards Are Sought   General Dean Urges Those Knowing of Whereubouts of ‘Aten To Tell Authorities

MARINES BATTLE FOR JAP AIRFIELD   Allied Planes Join Fight in New Britain

Ickes hopes to return mines to owners shortly   No nationalization of coal industry desired, planned

Several Thousand Men In Central Pennsylvania Vote To Stay Out And A Few In Ohio Are Idle. —

ICKES TELLS HOUSE COMMITTEE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLANS TO NATIONALIZE COAL INDUSTRY   Government Wants To Return Mines To Private Owners At Earliest Possible Moment. Committe Had Called Ickes To Learn of Plans

Ickes Says U. S. Has No Desire to Operate Mines   Hopes to Return Mines to Operators at Earliest Mament.   This Depends on When  Miners Sign Contract

HOPES TO RETURN MINES TO OWNERS   ICKES SAYS GOV'T HAS NO DESIRE TO RUN COAL INDUSTRY

COAL MINERS SLOW GOING BACK TO PITS   Reports Indicate Movement to Restore Full Shifts in Some Fields Is Being Opposed   UNIONS HOLD MEETINGS

Ickes Ready To Turn Mines Over To Owners   Declares Government Has No Desire Or Plan: For Nationalization

No Desire to _ Nationalize Coal Mines   Ickes Says They Will Be Re. turned to Owners Soon as Possible   CHAOTIC SITUATION  PREVAILS, HE SAYS   ‘Absolutely Necessary’ That There Be a Contract With Workers, He Holds

Mines to Go Back to Owners   Nationalization of Coal Industry Not Planned, Says Ickes.

TIME FOR RETURN OF MINES 1S VERY INDEFINITE. ICKES   Assurance Miners Will Work For. Private’ Owners: Or Reach Pact With Operators Necessary. .   FAVORS EXTENDING STABALIZATION ACT   Reports Indicate Many Locals Are Voting to Resume Work, Men Vote at Sundav Meetings.

g Tells Congress Group Bvernment Hiss “Ne Desire to Nationalize Industry”   AOTIC SITUATION RISES FROM STRIKE   anwhile, Miners Are  wy to Return to Pits In  ennsylvania; One Steel Firm Idie

No Nationalization Plans      sary ickes: Says Government: ‘Plans ToReturn:Mines To Private Owners At Earliest Possible Time’

BUT THAT CAN'T BE DONE UNTIL MINERS AGREE?   House Hears Interior Secretary Testify to Aims; Workers Back on Job

ASSERTS GOVT HAG NO DESIRE TO HOLD MINES   Quick Return to Operators Is Hoped for but Nat in Sight, Ickes Says.   MINERS IN NO RUSH TO GET BACK TO WORK

Fuels Co-ordinator and Government Boss of Mines Pessimistic Owners Soon Can Take Over   MINERS SLOW IN RESUMING WORK   Some Improvement Reported from Coal Fields bu! Thousands Still Away from Pits

Hopes ta Return Mines to Private Ownership at Earliest Possible Moment, He Tells Ways and Means Committee

Miners Returning  To Jobs Monday   Full Operation Seer By Union Heads

GOVT. DOESNT WANT MINES   Ickes Tells Committee Mines Will Go Back To Owners

TO PRIVATE HANDS   Nationalization of Coa! Mines Not Contemplated, Says Ickes .

Strikers to Be Fined $1 a Day   30,000 Coal Miners in Walkout To Be Penalized

United Nations Complete Plans For Conference  Big Three Will Meet Ir Either London Or  Moscow

Plan About Ready For Meeting of Allied Statesmen  Whether Session Will Be in London or Moscow Not Decided

Negotiations for. Big Three Parley Near Completion  Conference to ‘be Held   Conference. to be Held In Either Moscow © Or tendon

Tripartite Meet Plans Progress   Arrangements Said Almost Complete

Plan About Ready For Meeting of Allied Statesmen  Whether Session Will

TRIPARTITE TALK DECISION S NEAR   Selection of Either London or Moscow as Site Exnected Shortly

YANKEES BLAST JAP AIRBASES   Nips Hit New Guinea Area, but Damage Slight

JAP THRUSTS STOPPED ON TWO FRONTS   12 Jap Planes Shot Down In Raid On Burma Area

ALLIES CRUSH ‘JAP AIRBLOWS   ENEMY AIR BASES HIT IN SHATTERING RAIDS

APS CONTINUE TU GET Whol UF AIR BAT ILE   Allied Forces Stem Thrusts Of Enemy And Deal Out Heavy Return Blows

Says China Could Refake Hongkone   Rickenhacker Says Jap Line Threatened

S. F. Meatless, Butchers Have ‘Worst Day’   Many Markets Close; Shortages in Other Coast Cities

‘ontiff Expresses Hope For Harmony Among Nations In Message On His Namesday

Pontiff Asks Mercy in Air   Address in Vatican Urges Humanity for Victims of Struggle

ASKS HUMANITY IN AERIAL WAR   Pope Asks Belligerents te ‘Respect Laws of Humanity.’

Stops Police Car: : Tells Officers He  Murdered Woman   Had Urge To Kill For 15 Years Prisoner Calmly Tells Police

MAN HELD FOR FATAL STABBING OF WOMAN  Tells Police He Had Urge To vill :

Committee Favors Curb On Absentees   Work-or-Fight Legislation Bill  Coes to House

‘Absenteeism Curb Approved By Committee   Measure to Come Before House Monday or Tuesday

Germans Plan Sea Smash At Supply Route !   Powerful Warships Concentrated In Trondheim Area

Say Nazi Armada Gathers   Enemy Battle Ships Reported Assembling In Norway; May Strike At Soviet’s Supplv Line

NAZI WARSHIPS ARE BEING MASSED   TALK STIRRED OF POSSIBLE ATTACK ON ALLIED SUPPLY ROUTE TO RUSSIA.

Only Oil Stains On Water Are Left Of 22-Ship Convoy   Nazis Believed Planning Drive On Supply Lines To Russia

LONDON SPECULATES OVER POSSIBILITY OF GERMAN NAVAL ATTACK ON ALLIED SUPPLY LINE TO RUSSSIA   British Papers Carry Story of Powerful German Warship Concentrations Assembled ln Trondheim Area of Norway

Battleship Tirpitz May Lead Attack On Allied Supply Line To Russia

Attack on Allied Route Looms Nazis Concentrate Warships in Norway

LARGE GERMAN FLEET SATHERS AT TRONDKEIM   Great Battleship Tirpitz Is Reported In Force Put Into Norway To Hit Convoys   Great Hunt Foreseen

Allies Watch Hitler Fleet Off Norway   British News Tells Of Concentration For Possible Sea Dash.

REPORT GERMAN FLEET MASSING. ON NORWAY COAS]   May Be Planning Major Attack On Allied Supply Lines to Russia   STORY 3S NOT OFFICIAL

GERMAN NAVAL ~ ATTACK HINTED   Powerful Concentration... of Ships May Strike at. Red Supply Line

Attack on Russia or Battle at Sea May Be Nazi Plan   News From War Fronts Today Summarized by Associated Press

Nazi Stab at Ally Lines to Russ Hint   CLAIM GERMAN SHIPS MASSING IN NORWAY WATERS AT TRONDHEIM

NAZIS MASSING FOR ATTACK ON LINE TO RUSSIA   Naval Strength Assembled Off Norway for Major Assault, Say Reports

Germans Massing Big Naval Force   May Be Planning to Attack Northern Supply Route to Russia

German Warship: Concentrating In Norway Area   May Plan Attempt To Stop Delivery of Goods to Russia

Nazi Attack On Ships to  Soviet Hintec      Off Coast of Norway, London Papers Say

GIRAUD TAKES STEPS TOWARD CLOSER ACCORI   Cooperation Believed Improving Between French Factions

GIRAUD TAKES FIRM GRIP ON FRENCH RULE   WAR EFFORT MAIN CONCERN; JEWS GET RELIEF

GIRAUD FRENCH AFRICA POWER MORE SUPREME   Becomes Civil and Military Commander in Tighten. ing Grip on Empire’s  War Effort   EASES BAN ON JEWS   Leaves Door. Open: fat ‘Possible Place for De Gaullist as-Consultant  in: His Government

ENEMY HEMMED IN BY ARMORED UNIT {ST ARMY   ‘Forces Complete Break  Through At Hamman Lif and Advance to   Center of Area   GERMANS, ITALIANS HAVE LOST NERVE   Prospects of Last Stand Diminishing; Enemies Surrendering At Every  Opportunity

Resistance On Cap Bon Collapsing   Hitler’s Famed Shock Troops Now Are Running for Their Lives; Reds Edge Deeper into Nazi Defense Lines Around Novorossisk 

British Drive Closes ‘Trap On 80,000 Men   First Army Reaches Hammamet After Advancing Across Western Entrance To Peninsula; Enemy Appears To Be Losing Nerve And Yielding Quickly

8th Army Hurls Rommel Back To Mareth Hills   Tunisia Headquarters Source Hails British ‘Round One' Victory; Allies Score Local Gains In North

Resistance On Cap Bon Collapsing   Once “Proud -Nazi.. Troops Become. a Desperate Rabble, Running for Their Lives.   BRITISH FORCING - .  PANICKY RETREAT:   Only Enemy: Forces’ in Ex- treme South Are’ Offer: “ing. Any Fight

Remnants of Axis Force  On Peninsula Penned In   Capture of Hammamet After Drive Across Neck Cuts Escape Highway of Axis  Troops Fighting to South      AXIS TROOPS LOSING NERVE   Resistance on Cap Bon Reported Collapsing With Number of Prisoners Increasine Hourly

British 1st Army Slams Door Shut On 80,000 Men   “It's AH Over. There Isn’t Going To Be Any Dunkerque,” Says General

AXIS STA CAP BON AREA NEAR COLLAPSE   Resistance Rapidly Crumbling: More Prisoners Surrendering   DEATH TRAP IS SEALED   Reds Edge Dteper Into Nazi Lines; New Crisis  In Balkans

LINE BROKEN NEAR NECK OF PENINSULA   Hit From Land, Sea, Air, Enemy Is Folding   NAZI AIR FORGE   Completely Blotted Out; 5,000 More Prisoners Reported Taken

‘BRITISH FIRST ARMY  SLAMMED DOOR SHUT  CAP BON PENINSULA BRITISH WARSHIPS SMASH  AXIS BOATS ATTEMPTING TAWE MEN AWAY

british Cut Off Cap Bon   Hitler's Shock Troops Rebhles Surrender Ta ¥

British Armored Forces Seal Off Cap Bon, Sealing Trap On Last Axis Forces

French Refuse Axis Request lor Armistice   Trapped Axis Soldiers Inclined To Surrender At First Opportunity.   TAKE MANY PRISONERS

RESISTANCE IS FADING, ALLIED REPORT CLAIMS   Troops Surrendering By Thousands as Defeat Grows

Axis Soldiers Losing Nerve Quit Fichting   British and Americans Expect No Bataan At Cap Bon

Enemy Troops Surrendering  By Thousands   British Armored Forces Break-Through On Neck of Peninsula, Pocketing Nazis, Now Scorched by Allied Fire From Land, Sea and Air

British. Warships Smashing Axis Boats Trying Escape   Japanese Troops Push Back Wavell’s Men In Gravest Threat To India  g%,.0      BRITISH CASUALTIES ARE VERY LOW.   Russians Dig Deeper Into Novorossisk; Turk< Bulgarian Phdnes Are Cut !

BRITISH CLOSE DOOR ON 80,000 TROOPS IN TRAP   Enemy on Cap Bon Faces Fate Worse Than Dunkerque

U.S. Second © Corps States Work Is Done   Opposition Slight Along Entire Front; British In El Hammamet ‘-

PENINSULA ISOLATED BY BRITISH   First Army Drives To Town On Hammamet  On Southern Edge

‘Fate Worse Than ©  teat 2. + i et  Dunkerque’ Await ‘ Nazi Africa Corps

Hitler's Once Proud Shock Troops Now A Panicky Rabble H umbled In The Dust Of Africa   Five Thousand Nazi Infantrymen Surrender To One Armored Brigade; British Fleet Lies Offshore And Smashes ‘Rescue’ Boats

British Close Neck of Peninsula, Dividing Axis  Groups  SOME STILL FIGHTING      More Hourly Comply With Demand for Unconditional Surrender   Reallwiin

Axis Resistance Crumbling; Disorganized Army Facing Fate “Worse Than Dunkirk”   Enemy Surrenders in Large Numbers  As End of African Fighting Held Near; Allies Pound Last Remaining Positions

British Close Neck of Peninsula, Dividing Axis ~~ Groups  SOME STILL FIGHTING More Hourly Comply With  Demand for Unconditional Surrender

Warships Crush Axis Escape Try   Fleets of Allied Bombers and Fighters Rain _ Death and Destruction on Remnants of Bloody Axis Corps, Penned in Shrinking Cap Bon Trap

BRITISH ARMOR BREAKS ENEMY COASTAL LINES   Trap Is Closed On Axis Troops On Peninsula  DINTCTING

Cap Bon Defenses Collapsing   Axis Troops Trapped On Peninsula Thought To Be On The Verge Of Wholesale Surrender

Eighth British Army Is Bearing Brunt Of Battle On Cap Bon Peninsule

Allied Report Says Cap Bon Resistance InComplete Collapse   British Spearheads Hit Heart Of Enemy’s Last-Stand Defenses; Ask Newsmen Accept Surrender

PENINSULA DOOR SLAMMED SHUT BY QUICK DRIVE   Germans and Italians Are Dazed by Swift Conquest Of Bizerte and Tunis   BATTERED FROM ALL SIDES   Warships and Planes Make Escape Impossible - - And Few Now Attempt It

Nazis Quit In Zaghouan  Mount Area   French Report They Have Asked For Terms olf Surrender

ESTIMATE RAIDS ON NAZIS ~~ QUT PRODUCTION BY FIFTH   CONTINUED ALLIED BOMBING OFFENSIVE HITTING HARD AT SOURCES OF GER. MAN -MELITARY STRENGTH

RAF BOMBS CUT HUN PRODUCTION BY 20 PERCENT   British Ministry Figures Fail To Include Last Devastating Raids   GERMANS FEELING PINCH   Destroyed Factories, Labor Shortage Hamper Hun War Effort

BOMBING CUTS WAR INDUSTRY OF REICH 20°.   Estimate Doesn’t Cov: er Dortmund Raid and Ruhr Floods

\As Allies Bomb Factories, Transportation,  20 Pct. Nazi Wor Output Paralyzed

TO BEGIN JULY AIN CONCORD          Services Will Be. Be Held at 10 a. m. for Next Ten  Weeks

RED ARMIES PERIL MOGILEV   SOVIETS SQUEEZE NAZI LINES IN GOMEL AREA

Hungarian Army Back  From Front   Troops Weary Of Rear-Guard  Pata tee Descsts

Hungarian Army Back  From Front   Troops Weary Of Rear-Guard  Rale See Deeoeta

Renort Raid By Commandos   DNB Bradcast Attempt Made at Larvik; Two Boats Reported Sunk

1,100 AMERICAN PLANES RAID NAZI CITIES   Pound Gelsenkirchen and Muenster in Heaviest Attack

BEST DRESSED WOMEN NAMED   CAROLE LANDIS CHOSEN TOPS IN HOLLYWOOD

Draft Brought Near For Many More Workers   Dairy Farming Given First Deferment Class

May Draft Workers For Dairying Jobs; ‘Halt Outright Releases For Older Men

FARM LABOR RELIEF CHIEF AIM   Deferred Men Who Have Agricultural Experience May Be-Drafted

WORK- FIGHT HINT GIVEN DAIRY LABOR   FDR Reveals New Manpower Program To Relieve Farm Worker Shortage.   SOME TO LEAVE ARMY   Older Men Will Be ‘Urged’ Te Return To Jobs tn Nyairiae

Thousands Brought Closer To Draft Through Manpower Action Aimed At Easing Dairy Labor Shortage

Kule To Help  Dairy Farms   Program Would Give Dairy Workers Priority On Draft Deferments.

MANY MEN BROUGHT CLOSER TO SERVICE UNDER NEW PROGRAM  NEW SEMI-COMPULSORY   NEW SEMI-COMPULSORY MANPOWER ACT DESIGNEL TO AID DAIRYING

FARMER DRAFT POLICY WAPPED   Soldiers Past 38 May Be Recalled on Request For Manpower

Manpower Program Instituted to Relieve Shortage of Dairy Workers

Seven-Point, Semi-Compulsory Plan Designed Jo Relieve Shortage of Dairy Farmers

THdbsAtu NEAR INDUCTION AFTER MANPOWER STEP   Program Announced by FDR To Relieve Shortage of 50,000 Dairy Workers

MANY BROUGHT NEARER DRAFT BY NEW RULE   Certain Groups Will Be Urged To Do Dairy Work

Thousands Brought Closer To Draft Under New Setuy   Seven-Point, Semi-Compulsory Program To Ease Dairy Worker Shortage First—System Of Releasing Men Over 38 From Service Changed

Bring Thousands Closer To Draft In New Program   Plan Is Designed To Ease Dairy Work Shortage

PRESIDENT MOVES TO EASE SHORTAGE OF DAIRY WORKERS   Farm-experienced Men, Now Deferred, May Be Drafted If They Refuse to Take Paem Inha,

Farm - Experienced Men Told To Take Jobs Or Face Call Into Military Service

NEW MANPOWER ACT DESIGNATED TO RELIEV; ‘LABOR SHORTAGE   Under New Program ‘Announced, Men That Refuse Dairy Jobs May Be Inducted

More Help For Dairies   Manpower. Move Aims At Directing Workers Into Essential Jobs

FDR’s plan  brings many  nearer draft   Semi-compulsory action to relieve dairy shortages

New Manpower Program Brings Many Near Dratt   Farm-Experienced Men Must Go to War or to Dairies

Thousands Brought Closer To Draft Under Manpower Move Announced Today

DEFERMENT FOR DAIRY WORKERS   ADOPT NEW PROGRAM TO RELIEVE SHORTAGE OF 50,000 DAIRYMEN

Many Men Brought Closer to Military Call As Reclassification Gets Under Way.   MANPOWER NEED OF FARMERS IS CITED   Roosevelt Hints Action May Be Taken to Call Men With Experi ence to Farm Work

New Seven-Point Manpower Action  To Aid on Farms   System Is Changed in Regard to Releasing Soldiers 38 or Older.   Hint at Drafting Men With Farm Experience

Thousands Brought Closer to Draft by New WMC Program   Is Designed to Ease Shortage of Dairy Workers First

Wider Draft Seen in New 7-Point Plan   Designed to Relieve Shortage of 50,000 Dairy Workers

'Thousands Brought Closer To Draft Under New Seven-Point Semi-Compulsory Regulation

Thousands Are Brought Closer to Draft As More Men Deferred for Farm Work

DAIRY WORKERS GET PREFERRED DRAFT STATUS   President Anpownces Semi-Compulsory Manpower Directive Aimed at Providing Farm Workers   SEVEN POINT PLAN   Increased Draft Possibility Held as Threat Against Those Refusing fo Accede to ‘Urging’

SEMI-COMPULSORY PLANS ON MANPOWER OUTLINED   President Announces New Program To  Help Solve Worker Problem On Farms

Deferred Men May Be Forced Into Dairy Jobs   New Program Hints At Active Army Service As Alternative.

Thousands Closer To Draft Under New FDR Program   Action Designed to Relieve Shortage OF Dairy Workers

Draft Boards To Seek Farm Help   NEW ORDER TO SUPPLY DAIRYES WITH MORE MEN

Program Established to Provide 50,000 Workers For Dairy Industry

Tens Of Thousands Brought Closer to Military Service Under Semi-Compulsory Draft Plan

DRAFT BROUGHT NEAR TO MANY BY NEW RULE   Semi - Compulsor y , Memories Action ‘Outlined   Will. Help . - Relieve "Shortage Of Dairy. Workers. :

NEW DRAFT PLAN AIMED TO EASE LABOR SHORTAGE   Would Require Experienced Farm Helpers to Accept Agriculture Jobs

Thousands Brought Closer To Draft  Under 7-Point Manpower Program   Designed To Ease Dairy Worker Shortage First; New Presidential Order Changes System Of Releasing Soldiers 38 Years Or Older.

Many Nearer Draft with Program te Ease Shortage of Dairy Workers

ONRY HANDS PRESSED 10 HOLD T0 J0BS   Hinted Army May Get “Them. If Under 45 and In Other Work.   DRAFT BOARDS TO =" DO SOME “URGING’   “Back to Farm” Movement Seen as Result of , Draft Deferment.

Acts To Curb Shortage Of Dairy Labor   Semi-Compulsory Order Might Be Extended Further   Could Draft Deferrable Men Who Refuse Jobs   Overage Discharges From Army Will Be Discontinued Entirely

Back-to-Farm Movement Is Set in Motion   State Adapts New Scrutiny System to Inspect Borderline Cases

Nelson Shakes Up WPB ‘for Harmony   Fires Eberstadt, “Army Man. Promotes Wilson

Eberstadt Fired By Chairman ‘In WPB Dispute   Linked to Bitter Feud Between WPB and Army Over Arms Production .

NELSON OUSTS HIS WPB AIDE   Bitter Feud Over Arms Production Leads To Shakeup

Eberstadt Is Ousted by WPB  Wilson Handed Powers Of Viee Chairman

Nelson Fires Vice Chairman   Ferdinand Eberstadt Ousted From WPB

NELSON OUSTS EBERSTADT AS WILSON RISES   Vice Chairman Pow    er of WPB Put In - New Hands

WILSON GIVEN ADDED POWER BY WPB CHIEF   Eberstadt Fired in Row Over Production of War Material

Nelson Ousts Eberstadt In WPB Fight   Removal Viewed As Slap at Military Group

Nelson Ousts Eberstadt Names Wilson   Dismissal Linked fo Feud Between Armed Services-WPB

WPB Vice Chairman Eberstadt Is Ousted by Nelson   Charles E. Wilson, Former President of General Electric, Is Given Post as Tense Struggle in Board Culminates

Muskogee Scours Brush for Indian 0 Show Britons   Sailors Who Hitch - hiked From East Will See Feath Y ered Men If One's to Be Had.

PRPAPRPRPPPP PAPA DAO AA: 200 Walk 75 Flights In Elevator Strike

NAZIS’ NORWAY BASE BLASTED   Caught Flat-Footed By U.S. Bombers  a em  Norwegians Cheer, Wave to Yanks

Marine Corps Opens Headquarters Here  Women's Reserve To Interview Recruits

Delay Calls Of Pre-P.H. Dads, Order   Boards Ordered to Scrape Up More Young, Single Men, Perhaps 4-F’s

FATHERS 10 BE LAST DRAFTED INTO SERVICES   Board Ordered To Defer Calls Long as Possible; In Quest of More Siagle Men

Red Drive on Smolensk Slows Down   Several Inhabited Places Are . Reported Captured

German Defense Delays Russians   Several Points Taken In Smolensk Drive

Thirty More Towns Taken   Russians Occupy Rail Station After Bloody Battle

Capitulation of Lampedusa, All-Out Air Attack on Silly May-Be Next Allied Move

DRAFT OF FATHERS MEETS OPPOSITION FROM REP, SABATH   Chairman of House Rules Committee Joins in Protest Against MeNutt’s Plan.

BACKS BAN ON DRAFT OF DADS   House Rules Committee Head Promises Early Action When Conaress Returns.

DRAFT LEGISLATION   Rules Committee Head Sunperts Congressional Campaign

MOVE TO PREVENT DRAFTING FATHERS RECEIVES SUPPORT   Early Hearings Promised By House Committee  After Congress Reconvenes

Congressmen  Back Move to Bor Dad Draft   Selective Seryice Plan  May Hit Snag in oot

ALLIES FORCE AXIS. ENEMIES BACK IN SICILY   40 Big German Planes, Including Transports, Shot Down In 48 Hours

ALLIES DOWN 40 PLANES OVER SICILY   21 Were Enemy Transports Carrying Reinforcements

100,000 Axis Troops Pushee Toward Sea   Allied Airmen Bag 40 Enemy Planes, 21 Of Them Transports

21 Large Axis Transport Planes Downed By Allie:   German Ships Carrying Reinforcements For Sicily Are Destroyed 

ALLIES DOWN. 40 AXIS PLANES OVER SICIL'   21 Big -'Troop-Carrying Transports Are Included.

21 BIG ENEMY TRANSPORTS ARE DOWNED IN SICIL'      Hune reds" of Troops. ‘Believed ‘Killed—Total of 40: Planes Bre Shot Down.

AXIS LOSES 4 PLANES IN SICILY   ‘Bag Includes 21 Transports Used To Re-in force Armies

40 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED BY ALLIES OVER SICILY AREA   21 Big Transports Carrying Axis Troops Bagged During Last 48 Hours

Allies Down 40 Planes; Lose Three   Yanks, Canadians Advance Steadily  In Sicilian Drive

ANIS. PLANES   Twenty-One Big. Gerinan’. “Troop _ (€ransports Hit, Over Steity’. Dur. ing Last 48 Hours — Troi ps Ad. vaneing on, Ground.

RESCUERS HUNT FOR ADDITIONAI BLAST VICTIMS   Death Toll In Elkton Blast Now Set At 15

I LEAST To ARE KILLED IN BLAS!   Estimates of Loss of Life Run As High As 25; Many Others Injured; Shattering Explosion Followwed By Fire.

FIVE KNOWN DEAD IN POWDER PLANT BLAST   54 Others Under Treatmen' After Explosion

15 Killed in Plant Blast  Rescue Workers Dig   Rescue Workers Dig Into Powder Factory Ruins for Bodies

Fifteen Die In Blast of  Explosives   54 Others Injured in i WarreBoom:-Mary-.  land City

Defense Workers From Large Area Victims of Unexplained Explosion in Maryland   STILL OTHERS MAY DIE

15 DEAD FROM POWDER BLAST   Many Injured, Rescue Workers Continue Hunt at Elkton, Maryland

HETEEN ARE DEAD AFTER EXPLOSION   Rescue Workers Hunt for Additional Victims; Five Are Seriously Injured

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND JAPANESE IN PACIFIC SECTOR   Harbor and Shipping at We. wak, New Guinea, Blast. ed; Chinese Report Minor Success.

‘BRITISH LABORITES REJECT LEFTISTS   Application For Affiliation J Is Denied

Solon Group Asks 25-Cent Cotton Floor   AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE OKAYS BILL TO FIX TOP MINIMUM ON U. S. LINT

Committee Favors Thomas Measure  Groun Onnacac   Group Opposes Ceiling Price For Cotton

Definite Farm Program to Be  Asked of FDR   Bloc in House Decide: To Place Complaints Before President

HOUSE TO PUSH FARM DEMANDS   Committee Of 48 Is Appointed To Map Program To Be Given To President

ARRIVES IN LONDON   Dr. Pugh Is Making Tour of Allied ar Fighting Theaters

20 PCT. WAGE RISE ASKED FOR PLANE PLANTS   Union Members Of WLB Say Increase Needed To Prevent Strike   CASE JS BEING STUDIED   Employes Remain At Jobs As Deadline Passes On Ultimatum

WORKERS ASK WAGE BOOST   Aircraft employees de. mand 20 per cent increase; threaten strile

ePAY INCREASE DEMANDED FOR "PLANE MAKERS   @ Board, Admittedly On Spot, Unable To Agree At First Session   @ PLANS NIGHT MEETING   Officials Reported To Be Jumpy As West Coast » Mechanics Press Case

LABOR BOARD ‘DEADLOCK ON . WAGE ISSUE   UNION REPRESENTATIVES DEUMAND RAISE BE GRANTED TO WEST COAST AIRCRAFT WORKERS

EQUAL FREIGHT AATto FOR ALL WAGED BY TVA   National Freedom Of Trade Hampered By Present Structure, Claim   SOUTH’S LONG FIGHT GETS NEW BACKING   Regionalization Contrary To Sound Public Policy, U. S. Agency Reports

HELD BACK BY FREIGHT RATES THAT FAVOR EAST   TVA Says the ° Present Schedules Retard Growth in South and West   CHANGE NEEDED FOR SAKE OF ALI   Gives Example of Unequal Standard in Report Which Goes to Congress

Freight Rate Hit  As Trade Barrier   TVA Reports Says I  Is ‘Slow Poison’

Nation’s Rate: Structure Is  Held Unjust   TVA Says American Development Hurt By Ancient Plan

TVA Hits Freight Rates   LEVIES SEEN AS BLOCK TO FREEDOM OF TRADE, OPPORTUNITY EQUALITY

Early Invasion Of Kiska Is Expected; 10 More Raids Made; Wake Also Hit

YANKS RENEW RAIDS ON KISK   Army Fighter-Bombers Hit Base With Pre-invasion Thoroughness.   WAKE ISLAND 1S RAIDED

HIT KISKA 10 MORE TIMES   Sunday Raids Followed by Unusual Single Plane Assault — Island Has Been Bombed 41 Times This Month.

Kiska Again Under 10 Bombing Raids  Sec. Knox Tells Of U. S. Attack On Wake Isle

CONTINUOUS AIR ATTACKS HINT INVASION SOON   Knox Announces U. S. Raid on Wake Island, Reports Heavy Damage

ARMY RAIDERS ATTACK KISKA   Pound Japan Installations With Pre - Invasion Thoroughness

KISKA AND WAKE ISLANDS RAIDED   Japanese Bases Pounded By Americans: Damage Said Caused

U.S. Airmen Raic Wake, Hit Kiska  Ten More Times   ‘Nine Jap Fighters Shot Down by Army Liberators Neor Pacific Isle; Single Catalina Attacks Aleutians Base

ALLIES BROADEN ATTACK ON JAPS   Kiska Is Blasted Again Tc Soften for Invasion and Wake Island Raided

ALONE BOMBER RAIDED KISKA ON SUNDAY NIGHT   The Single Plane Assault Was Probably the First Night Atack.   GERTRUDE COVE WAS HIT   Ten Raids Were Staged in Japanese Installations Sunday Night.

Army Fliers Raid Kiska 10 Times  Liberators Bomb Jap Installations On Woke Island

10 MORE RAIDS MADE ON KISKA, ONE ON WAKE   Lone Navy Catalina Bomber Fol lows up Sunday's Raids on Kis ka With Night Attack

U.S. Airmen Hit” Japanese Units OnKiska, Wake   Lone Plane Makes Raid On Aleutians Outpost ‘After Series Of Attacks

Army Raids Kiskalsland Ten Times To Get Japs   Knox Also Reports Liberators Raid Wake Island.

Army Bombers Pound Kiska   NEW U. S. ATTACK IS LAUNCHED AGAINST JAPS

KISKA AGAIN HIT BY 10 MORE AIR RAIDS, NAVY SAYS   Army Aircraft Strike Jap In ‘ stallations With  Pre-In vasion Thoroughness—Knox Says Wake Bombed ~

Two Sectors Yield Before Allied Attack   Tanks, Artillery Are Used In Assault On Beach As Last Enemy Pocket Is Narrowed To 200 Square Yards; Planes Blast Lae -

ALLIED olan JAP POSITION: IN BUNA AREE   Only One Japanese Pocket Of Resistance Is Left On New Guinea Front

Nipponese Try To Swim Away   General Allied Assault Crushes Tw. Sectors of Defenses, Leaving Only One Narrow ‘Pocket’ of Resistance

Jap Resistance Broken At Buna Says MacArthur   Clinging To Logs, Japs Swim To New Post; Air Base At Lae Is Pounded

EnemyStrongpoint Is Overwhelmed   Few Hundred Yards Around Government Station Only Sector Now Held By Nips

JAP RESISTANCE BROKEN IN BUNA   Complete Triumph For Allies Foreseen In New Guinea

Back Of Japanese Resistance Broken At Buna; Australians And Americans In Double Blow

Allied Forces Shatter Jap Resistance  , General Assault Is Made  [2k ok OS ato nee

Backbone Jap Resistance af Buna Smashed   Approach of Victory For Allies in Effort  To Gain Northeast New Guinea Is Indicated

Allied Forces. Shatter Jap Resistance   . éGeneral Assault “Is Made West of Gairopa

Back of Enemy  Resistance Near  Buna Is Broken General Allied Laud  Assault Sinashes = Dh eect) Thad ce

SWIFT RUSSIAN ADVANCE SEEKS TO TAKE ZHITOMIR   Vitebsk Threatened as Reds Press Two Offensives   UKRAINIANS THROW NAZIS OFF BALANCE

STOCKHOLM SAYS NAZIS DULLING OUT   Red A» ny Clamps Seige Airc Around Base of Vitebsk

REPORT NAZI ORDER 10 FLEE ZHITOMIR AS REDS ROAR AHEAD   RUSSIANS STORM OVER APPROACHES TO KEY UKRAINE BASE; VITEBSK TOTTERS IN DRIVE

CRACK GERMAN LINES GUARDING 2 BORDERLANDS   Second Winter Offensive Aimed For Poland And Rumania

Fathers Get Draft ‘Break’ as Physica  Standard ls Cut   Delay in Induction Rate Is Likely,  McNutt Announces

PHYSICAL STANDARDS FOR NAVY LOWERED   Action Will Result in Some Delay, McNutt Says, in Induction ‘of Fathers.

Action by Navy May Slow Up Induction of Fathers—MecNutt   Reduction of Physical Standards Will Permit the Calling of Men Who Would Otherwise Be Rejected for Duty

McNutt Says Lowering of Navy Standards May Slow Up Induction of Fathers

PHYSICAL TESTS EASED BY NAVY   MeNutt Feels Move May Slow Induction of Fathers: Eyesight Leads

sattle Scene Placed West Of Smolensk   Claim Ceaseless     Attacks Launched by Red Arms      RSHA IS OBJECTIVE   {her Forces Threaten ing to Engulf Axis in While Russia

mnt kitten nie  Say reds" open vasl new push   Plunge swiftly  toward Zhlobin

AXIS REPORT NEW AUOOIAN DRIVE OPENED   Offensive Employing 600,,. 000 Soviet Troops Underway, Berlin Declares

Germans Seize Rome; Puppet Regime Expectec   “Troaps Move In After Shelling And Bombing City

Germans Seize Rome; ~ Badoglio Flees City   British Clash With Germans In Front O Capital; Berlin Denies King Has Abdicated Throne

Other Italian Cities Occupied, Berlin Declares   Desperate Nazis Bombard Capital

Nazis Say Italian Capital Has Been Seized By Troops  _ Unconfirmed Reports- Say Allied Armies Have Landed And Are Battling The Nazis

CITY SHELLED AND OCCUPIED, GERMANS SA’   Allied Landing Mace r At Ostia, Port of  Rome, Reported

Nazis Assume ‘Protection’ of Vatican City   Swiss Report Claims British Troops Have Landed at Ostia; Capital Is Bombed

Nazis Seize Rome to Halt Allies   Rails, Airfield Fall To Sudden Attack After Night Bombing

Berlin Radio Says Capital Has Capitulated — British Reported Fighting Enemy Before City.   MARSHAL BADOGLIO APPARENTLY HAS FLED   Stefani Denies King Has Abdicated—Milan Surrounded, Italians Hold Venjee and TWirin.

Capital’s Vital Railway Sys tem And Airfield Belt In Enemy Hands   KING AND BADOGLIO ESCAPED BEFORE FALL   BY EDWARD BD. BALL

Rome Shelled Before City Taken Over  Kesselring’s Germans ‘Assume Protection’  Of Vatican City  SOME ITALIAN UNITS AID ALLIES AT NAPLES  Badoglio Believed To Have Fled Capital  WT Aevatal (e2itsira

CITY SHELLED AND OCCUPIED, GERMANS SA}   Allied Landing Made At Ostia, Port of Rome, Reported   Nazis Are Now Engaged In Two Wars in Italy

Seizure Of Rome Reported In Broadcasts Of Berlin Radio   Desperate Enemy Plans to Install Another Puppet Fas cist Regime, It Is Said—*Protection of Vatican City” Is Assumed

VIFER IMPORTANT CITIES, PORTS AND WARSHIPS WERE SEIZED BY DESPER. ATE NAZIS; BRITISH AT OSTIA. :

FOR GARDEN COMMANDOS   Group of Boys it in California Will  Grow Vegetables

SECRET MISSION   Col, Elliptt: Roosevelt Jn London After Washinetan STeetine.

Berlin Fears Mass Bombing   Report Most Of Civilians Have Been Ordered To Evacuate   FATE OF HAMBURG OCCASIONS PANIC

Wheat and Other Grains  In Demand   Provide Bright Spot Or Otherwise Gloomy National Food Picture

SHRINKAGE OF  WHEAT SUPPL   Grainmen Say It Indicates Growing Demand; More Cereals Sought

WHEAT STOCK IS HELPING FOOD SUPPLY   Surpluses vat Recent  Years Now Proving Their Value.   GRAINS MAY FILL PUBLIC DIET GAP   Supply Reduced at Doubled Rate by 22,250,000 Bushels Since Jan. 1.

Wheat Surplus A Bright Spot   Perplexing Problem — of What to Do With Surplus Solves Itself.

That Wheat Surplus Is Fading Out  - More To Be Used In Bread Result

There Once Wi as a Time Duke Visits Jersey Farm; Intrigued by Juke Box

REDS CONVERGE ON KHARKOV IN FURIOUS DRIVE   Soviet Army Batters Way Into Northeast Part Of Ukraine; Gains  Made On Bryansk   Long Drive Unchecked

Wallace Sees Destruction Of Nazi Might In Few Months   Vice-President, in Summing Up 1943 Achievements, Says Greater Civilian Sacrifice Will be Need- ed—Greatest Accomplishments Listed

Early Defeat of Nazis Forecast   Americans Ready tc Preserve Peace

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Battles Rage for Control of North Africa

NORTH AFRICAN BATTLE RAGES UN ALL FRONTS   Allied Armies Smashing at Axis in Tunisia From Two Directions.   U. 8. TANKS AT WORK   British Eighth Army Is Ad. vancing Against the Mareth Line.

Three People Are  Missing in  Flood in Oregon River Is Over Flood  Mark and Still Rising at Portland

3 More Missing In Portland Flood   Portsmouth, O., Rampart Keeps Out the Water

Oregon's Flood Toll Put At 10   Damage Placed In Millions As River Rises

Ruhr Valley Gets Another Bombing  British Renort 3 .   British Report Loss of 2 Planes; Building Damaaed

‘RAF Bombers Batter At Nazis’ Industrial Area In Ruhr Valley For Second Consecutive Night

Ruhr Valley Targets Hit   British Bombers Batter Industrial Plants of Germany

RAF BLASTS AT RUHR AREA FOR SECOND NIGHT   Berlin Radio Reports Casualties And Damage From British Attack, Which Apparently Was On Small Scale.

RAF Bombers Hit Targets In Ruhr Valley  Two Planes Lost in Second Night Raid   Two Planes Lost in Second Night Raid in Succession

RAF BOMBERS HIT RUHR VALLEY   Second Night in Succession British Planes Have Raided District

RAF BOMBERS IN SECOND ATTACK ON RUHR VALLEY   Battered at German Indus. trial Targets for Second Consecutive Night.   TWO PLANES WERE LOST   The Berlin Radio Reported Casualties Were Among the Civilians.

Royal Air Force Bombs Dropped Second Night In Row Upon Ruhr Section -

R. A, F, BLASTS _ RUHR. TARGETS   Germans Fly Head-on Into Yankees, Suicide - Technique

RAF Returns For Another. Raid on Ruhr   German Industrial Valley Hit Second _ Night in Succession

RAF Bombers Batter Nazi Targets in Ruhr Valley   Two Planes Lost In Second Successive Night Attack: Berlin Radio Reports Casualties Among Civilians As Well As “Damage to Buildings In Residential Quarters”

RUSSIANS CHASE FLEEING NAZIS   Reds Drive Beyond Kharkov, Break Enemy Lines in Lower Donets

REDS DRIVE THROUGH BREAK IN FOE'S LINE ON LOWER DONET   Whole Southern Wing Of Cerman Defenses Now Threatened

FLEEING NAZIS  HAMMERED BY - SOVIET FORGES   Reds Break Through Line In Donets, While German Troops Retreat From Kharkov Sector

NAZIS RETREAT FROM KHARKOV   Victorious Red Army Pushing On After Capturing Industrial City

AL . . Russians Drive Beyond Kharkov; Fighting Fronts; atte Bombers Smashing Italy

Japs Force Some Gains At Salamaua   Allied Troops Landed On Arundel Island Without Opposition

U. S. Air Defenses Knock Down 191 Jap Planes In Month Against 14 Losses

ALLIED TROOPS YIELD TO JAPS IN NEW GUINEA   Pushed Back By Attacks Near Salamaua; Yanks Take Island Without Nip Resistance

‘Americans Land Unopposed On Arundel  Allied Troops Forced Back In New Guinea

LAND ON ARUNDEL   Fierce Jap Counterattacks Force Allies to Yield Ground

Drive By Japs Forees Allies  To Yield Some   Foe Counterattacking In Desperation; Island Seized

Japs Force Allies Back at Salamaua   Troops Yield Only Slightly, However, Under Fierce Counter-Blows—Americans Land On Isle Off Kolombangara.

Arundel island Taken By American Soldiers   Allied Forces Forced To Retire At Salamaua; No Opposition Met On Arundel

ALLIED TROOPS ARE FORCED 10 YIELD GROUND   First Japanese Counterattacks Along the Entire Front at Salamaua.   U.S. INFANTRYMEN BUSY   Landed Unopposed on Arun. del Island Just West of New Georgia.

ENEMY GAINS IN SALAMAUA AREA   Allied Troops Forced to Yield Ground—Yanks Land On Arundel Isle

Pacific Zone Sees Jap Gains   FIERCE COUNTERATTACK FORCED ALLIES TO GIVE GROUND

FIERCE JAPANESE. COUNTERATTACKS AT SALAMAUA REPORTED  ALLIES FORCED TO GIVE GROUND; U. S. FORCES LAND ON ARUNDEL ISLANI

AMERICANS LAND UNOPPOSED ON ARUNDEL ISLAND   New Position Is Just Wes' _ of New Georgia and  Within Artillery Range o! _ Japanese-Dominated Kol.  ombangara.

Allies Are Foreed Back On Salamaua By Japanese   Fierce Counter-Attacks Made By Enemy; New Landing By Americans Om Arnndel Island

Allies Forced To Retreat In Salamaua Area   Fierce Jap Attack: Cause Allies Tc Yield Ground A  Some Points

Yankees Suffer A Setback Along  Salamaua Front   But in Solomons American Doughboys Land Unop posed on Arundel.   Hard Ground Fighting Is Forced by Nippons

Japs Launch Counter-Attack In New Guinea   Arundel Island Taken by Yankees Without Opposition

ALLIES FORCED TO GIVE GROUND AT SALAMAUA   Japs Fiercely Resisi Tightening Ring About Airdrome with Counter-Aifacks   ARUNDEL OCCUPIED   American Forces Take Island Wes! of New Georgia, Recently Held by Japs

Yanks Take A New Island Unopposed   In Artillery Range Of Japanese Dominated K olombanara

Jap Counter Blows Force Allies Back   American Troops Land Unopposed on Arundel Island, Just West of New Georgia

BRITISH BOMBERS CROSS CHANNEL   LARGE-SCALE ATTACKHS ON ITALY AND GERMANY BELIEVED UNDER WAY.

Heavy Raids on Europe Indicated Axis Radios Shut   Axis Radios Shut Down Suddenlv

Allied Bombers in Another Raid On Italian Cities  Axis Radio Stations Silent in Reich, Denmark and France

Aliled bombers Believed Out On Smashing Foray  Radios Go Silent   Radios Go Silent In All Parts Of Noavzi-Held Euranve

ALLIES BOMB RABAUL  JAPS IN 3D ATTACK   In Early Morning Blast Airmen Strike Enemy Ship. ping in Harbor and Vunakanau Airqrome   3 Cargo Ships Bombed

BIG ALLIED FORCE MAY BE ATTACKING      Air Forces Heavier Thar - -Usual May be Over: + Germany 

BIG ALLIED FORCE MAY BE ATTACKING   Air Forces Heavier Than Usual May be Over Germany

Allied Bombers Believed Out On Smashing Foray   Radios Go Silent In All Parts Of Nazi-Held Europe

AXIS RADIO STATIONS SILENCED BY RAIDS   Programs In Germany, Denmar} And France Are Cut Off The Air For Military Reasons

Bombers Strike At Germany Agatr   Axis Radio Stations Shut Down Suddenly

Indications Of Raid On Ital Vv   Bombers In Flight South Of i aeade Thursday Night

Strong Forces Seize Several Points From British   ISLAND VALUABLE AS FIGHTER BASE

Ble BATTLE RAGING OW ISLAND OF 60S   Germans Land To Contest British Occupation

Germans Land on Dodecanese Island Tr Battle British   Nazi Effort Strong; “Allied Planes Swarm:  preornm bat.

Strong German Force Lands On Island And Drives British From Several Points

BRITISH AND NAZIS BATTLE FOR COS ISLE   Enemy Landing Overwhelms Few Defense Points

NAZIS LAUNCH DRIVE TO PUSH OUT BRITISH   Some Strategic Points Reported Lost to The Germans

Germans Seize Several Vital Points on Coz   Strong Landing . _ Forces Overwhelm Defenses

WLB Favors Retroactive Wage Boost   Murray Asks Workers.to Stay on Job While ' New Contracts _ Ar Rroftod

Not Having Ordered Strike C1O President Omits To Direct End Of Strike.

Murray Asks CIG Steel Workers to Comply With Order  WLR Directive   WLB Directive Includes Retroactive Wage Adjustment

Record Crowd of 70,000 On Hand To See Cards and Yanks ‘In First Game of the Series

Chandler, Lanier Toe Siab Before Large NY Crowd   Weatherman Smiles On  World Series Rivalry

SOCIALITE DROWNS AT PALATIAL HOME   Mrs. Gloria Gould Barker Accident Victim

Coastal Guns Fire On Ships  Nazis Report Shelling On Allied Vessels

Russians Admit Important Rail Junction Lost   Korosten Retaken by Nazis; Reds Plunge Ahead in Five Areas

Skirmishing in Wau-Muho © Sector Renoried   Aerial Attacks Are Staged Against Numerous Islands

Ground Action In New Guinea Remains Slow  Patrol Skirmishes Are Principal  Awtivity

1,500 Ford River Rouge Foremen Waik Out on Jobs  Association Member:  Quit in Protest Te Pivinn Benthare

Foremen in Ford Plani Walk Out  Protest Suspension ot Soma Mamhare -

FORD FOREMEN QUT IN UNTS   Disorder Lacking at Walks out in Detroit's River Rouge: Plant

1,500 Ford River Rouge Foremen Walk Out on Jobs  Association Members Quit in Protest To Firing Brothers

Foremen in Ford Plant Walk Out  Protest Suspension of Some Members

American Campaign Chief Lays Blame For War On Mussolini-Says Germans Only Obstacle

Axis Metor Units Are In Retreat   U.S. Loses Four  Planes In Africa

»REP, M’DONALD STARTS ACTION FOR HOUSE 0. K,   Wants Immediate Hearing In The Education Unit

Proposal for USI at Carbondale To Confront Assembly   Likely To Be Liveliest Issue Before State Legislature

VERBAL BATTLEON SOUTHERN U. OF I. STIRS ASSEMBLY   OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH CALLING SOUTH ‘DRY ROT’ AREA

US. Frports of Newsprint Given ~ To House Grout  Confidential Report is Presented. Big Cut Tn Non-essantials

Henderson Urges Allies to Rally Liberal Italians  Ex-O.P.A. Administrator - Deplores Reliance

County's Quota $4,607,000 for War Loan Drive   Non-Bank Goal for See ond Treasury Campaign to Start April 12

SECOND VICTORY DRIVE TO START HERE ON APR. 12   Counties Assigned Large Quotas In Eighth District

Red Columns Are Nearing Dniener River   Berlin Spokesman Admits Scope Of Nazi Retreat

Germans Shorten Lines, Shift Men  To Meet Invasion Reds Capture 733  Towns in Advances

Boulder Dam Of Russia In Sight Of Driving Reds   733 Towns Capturec In Unchecked Push  Nazis Pessimistic  Over War

Enemy Admits Plans to Yield  Area in Russia   Sertorious,RadioExpert,  Doesn’t Know ‘Where’ Wrath. Jecrcacend Wellin

RUSSIANS PUSH CLOSER TO KIFY   REACH POINT 87 MILES FROM DNIEPER BEND—OVERRUN 733 MORE TOWNS.

13-YEAR-OLD WIFE IS GRANTED CLAIM   Industrial Commission Te Spread Payments

CHILD WIDOW AWARDED CLAIM   Girl, 13, Gets 56.000 As Result of Hiachannd’« Death,

Airdromes In  Italy Bombed   Those At Crotone And Vibo Valentia Hit

Huge Fires and Great Damage Caused As Heavy Liberators Drop 425,000 Pounds High Explosives and Incendiaries.

Tank Armadas In Heavy Battle On Soviet Front   Nazi High Command Des. perately Seeks To Halt Red Advance   RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER VITEBSK

NAZIS STRIVE FRANTICALLY TO STOP REDS   Tank Armadas Battle Fiercely on Long Russian Front

(CHINESE CLAIM BIGGEST VICTORY IN MANY MONTHS   Dispatch Says Chiang Kai-Shek’s Forces Have Recaptured City Of Changeteh.

“CORN STRIKE” DANGER CITED AT WHITE HOUSE   Friendly Senators Seek To Prevent Veto Of Bankhead Bill   INFLATION THREAT SEEN   Legislation Favorable To Agriculture Seen If Price Measure Dies

HEED FARM BLOC ADVICE TO F.D.R,   Inflation Legislation Peril Used in Effort to Avoid Bankhead Veto

PAEOIDENT {0 GIVEN ADVICE ON FARM BLO   Told to Make Concessions or Face Some Inflationary Laws.   “CORN STRIKE” SEEN   This Warning Is Given t Avoid a Veto of the Bankhead Bill,

VETO OFM “TS OPENED   ROOSEVELT TOLD HE MUST MAKE SOME. CONCESSIONS: TO. CONGRESSIONAL . FARM BLOC

Let Memorial Day, Independence Day Be Celebrated on Sundays, Says Nelson

KING OF BRITAIN: IN NORTH AFRICA TO VISIT TROOPS   Axis Convinced Invasion Will Be Launched Inside Week

Japs Reinforce Marshall Isles   American Battleships Blast Isle; Jap-Operated Refineries Bombed

MAKING RECORD PAYING TAXES      About 60 Per Cent City . Tax Payers Take Discount

Off icers’ Club At MeadeBurn:  Not Even A Portion  gel We. ttut.. w O.... dd

HISTORIC CLUB AT MEADE BURNS   Fire Of Undetermined Origin Destroys Building Where Notables Entertained

Violent Fighting Raging In Kuban   Fierce German Attacks Are Beaten Back By Soviet Defenders   GERMAN PLANES © ARE SHOT DOWN

Russians Say New Plane Proving Very Efficient In Raids Against Nazis

DEWEY GAINS NEW SUPPORT IN HOUSE   Strong Favorite in Poll Taken by Illinois Congressman

POLL TAKEN IN THE HOUSE - INDIGATES DEWEY GAINING   NEW YORK GOVERNOR HAS AC ’ QUIRED MUCH NEW POLITISTRENGTH SINCE JUNE

BOMBS RAINED ON NAZILAND BY AMERICANS   GERMAN PLANTS IN LILLE HAMMERED BY DAYLIGHT

Nazi War Plants Blasted In Series Of Daylight Raids   One Of Heaviest Sweeps Of War Pounds France And Holland: Lille le Mauled

400 BOMBERS IN RAID OVER NAZI LANDS      Flying FortressesBoreThrough ~ Swarms Of German Fight ers Register Hits On Lille  Dlawte   In Daylight

Allied Flyers Attack  Occuvied Area   Flying Fortresses Score Hits on Plants at Lille

Fortresses Hit Lille War Plants   Huge Planes Defy German Fighters In French Raid

FRENCH, DUTCH PLANTS GIVEN HEAVY SEARING   400 Bombers, Fighters In One Of Greatest Day Raids Of War Give Telling Blows   Lille Works Pounded

Flying Fortresses Rain Havoe Onn French, Holland Cities ~   Allied Bombers Stage One-of War’ 8 Most Devastating Attacks on Nazi-Dominated Industrial Centers

Nazi War Plants  Blasted In Series Of Daylight Raids   One Of Heaviest Sweeps Of War Potirids France And Holland ilies fe KAg te

Allied Airmen Swarm Over Enemy Areas   Daylight Raids Made on France, Holland; Lille Blasted Again in Series of Attacks

AMERICANS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT LOSING GOVERNMENT, MOORE SAYS   Declares Congress Ha 5 Vested Too Much Power in President; Raps Ickes

MORE JAP PLANES LIKELY IN BATTLE   Reinforcements for Solomons Forces Expected

BUS DRIVERS AT LANSING STRIKE   Thousands of War Workers Left on Corners Or Thumbinag Rides.

LANSING BUS TRAVEL HALTS   War Workers Stranded As Coach Line Employes Walk Out

SEIZE TWO WOMEN AS GERMAN SPIES   Husband of One Is Professor Received German Eagle From Hitler.

German Countess Nabbed at Deiroit, Charged With Trying to Spread Nazism

IDENTIFY TWO HELD AS SPIES   Countess and Housewife in  Custody of FBI

Two More Taken In Spy Roundup   Language Professor's  Wife One of Suspects

COUNTESS LISTED AS SPY - SUSPECT   46-Year. Old Mother Of Four Children Is Seized

Freeport Receives $1,488 ‘As Share Of January ‘Motor Fuel Tax Receipts

Stephenson Co. Receives ‘$3,768 As Share Of ‘Motor Fuel Tax Receipts

RAF Heaps Fresh  Destruction On Ruhr Industries   Steel, Communications Center Of Oberhausen Blasted In Fourth Consecutive Night Raid Over Germany

Bomb-Smashed Ruhr Valley Smashed Again By Bis Bombers   Waves of Fighters and Bombers Shuttle Back And Forth Gver Eng: lish Channel In Heavy Blows At Enemy

Ruhr Valley, France And  Low Countries Are Target   Fighters And Light Bombers Shuttle Back Across Channel By DayJiqhht For New Raids

R.A. F. Blasts Ruhr Industries   Explosives Heaped Qn Oberhausen Area

RAF PRESSES AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST REICH   Railroad Targets and Barges Blasted in France, Holland

Steel Centers and Oberhausen Are Bombers Targets   Germans Admit ‘Considerable Destruction’

RAF Heaps Fresh Destruction on The Ruhr Valley   Steel and Communications Center of Oberhausen Is Hard Hit

War Gases Not So Deadly And Anyone ‘Can Counteract Them Expert Declares

SMUTS RINTS BALKAN DRIVE   AFRICA CHIEF PREDICTS VITAL AMERICAN ROLE

Marshal Smuts Hints Allies Will Invade Balkans Before Start of Winter

Smuts Hints at Balkan Invasion      Says U. S. to Take Leading Role

Balkan Attack Is Forecast By Marshal Smuts   South African Premier, Who Ranks High In Churchill’s Confidence, Drops Hint _

HINTS ALLIES PLAN TO ENTER BALKANS AHEAD OF WINTER   Smuts Says We May Possibly Play Leading Part In Final Assault On Hitler Fortress

Balkan Invasion Seen by Smuts:   Says. U.'S. Will ° Play Big Part

MARSHAL HINTS BALKANS SOON TO BE INVADED   Smuts Says America To Play Decisive Role in Assault

Entire Axis Force In Peril As Mareth Line Is Cracked   Romme!, Von Arnim Expected to Put Up Terrific Fight

EVEN WAR ANALYST CAN SEE NO ESCAPE FOR MARSHAL ROMMEL'S AFRICA CORPS FROM MARETH LINE

The War Today—  Believe Rommel Will Attempt Dash North To Join Von Arnim’s Forces

The War hoday Cracking of Mareth Line One of Sensational BPeatse OF War.

Entire Axis Force Placed In Dire Peri   There Appears to Be No  Way for Rommel’s Army:  To. Escape   TERRIFIC FIGHT GAN BE EXPECTED      Great Teamwork By the Allied Forces; U. 8. Doing a Workmanuilike Job

German Labor  Dratt Blocked   Deportation Of Frenchmen To Work In Nazi Plants Almost Halted.

Women Lay Bodies On R ails—  FRENCH PATRIOTS THWART NAZI LABOR DRAFT

Wives and. Daughters Throw Selves Across Rails, Thus Halting French iLabor Deportation To Nazi Plants

Labor For Reich Halted By Wives  Women Lie on Track Before Draft Train

French Obstruct Labor Draft; Plan Co-operation When Invasion Launched

French Ready For Big Push; Invasion Day Plans Drafted   Organized Resistance Begins the Moment Allies Strike: Women Throw Bodies On Tracks To Stop Deportation of Men to Nazi Labor Camps

SSRs ar caeenetin mesa  SPEAKER OF OHIO HOUSE COMMISSIONED CAPTAIN

NAZIS MOVING "INTO BALKANS   .  [Modern _ Weapons Being  Sent Into Bulgaria to!  } Bolster Defenses

SUBSIDY ACTION DELAY OPPOSED   Scheme Of Democratic Leaders In Senate Strikes Snag

Postponement of Senate Vote on Subsidies Sought  But Jones Says New Delay May

Democrat Move to Delay Subsidy Ballot Hits Snag as Jones Asks Immediate Vote

Democratic Delay Move On Subsidies Strikes Snag   Food Administrator Frowns on Scheme  To Postpone Ballot, Calle fae QB axwwerlnawure.   FARM BLOC LEADERS TO PRESS FOR SPEED  J ones and CCC Head Hit Provision in Bill Raising Food Prices

POWERFUL RAF FLEET BLASTS AT NUERNBERG   Colossal Hail Of Blockbusters Rained On Germatiy

Nuernberg Struck In Eighth Assault By Allied Bombers   Greatest Allied Bomber Fleet Ever To Go Out Drop Tons Of Explosives On Axis Freight Yards; Muelheim Is Blasted

RAF SHATTERS NUERNBERG IN BOMBER RAID   POUR BLOCKBUSTERS ON INDUSTRIAL CENTER

Shattering Raid  ee eee: i. one Gee ee eee   German Defenses  Are Overwhelmed By GLADWIN HILL

Hail of Bombs  Blasts Nazi  Pageant City Nuernberg Left   In Flames by Heavy RAF Blow

RAF Smashes Foe Again In Big Raids   Colossal Hail Overwhelms Defenses, Blasts Great City of Nuernberg; Fliers Travel 1,100 Miles for Goal

BOMBS SHATTER REICH DISTRICT   33 RAF Planes Lost In Night Attack Against City Of Nuremberg

GREAT AIR FLEET RAIDS NUERABERG   BRITISH LOSE 33 BOMBERS IN ASSAULT AND OTHER STABS ON CONTINENT.

 Overwhelm. Nazi Defenses With” i Hail OF Steel   Vilal ‘German Indust: rial and Key Jimetion City Is Raided Highth Time’. On 1000 Mile Round Trip,

Air-battered axis centers lay in ruins   South Italy train traffic paralyzed

Nazi Defenses Overwhelmed At Nuernberg   33 R. A. F. Planes Reported Lost In Saturation Raids

R. A.F. Blasts Nuernberg: in Heavy Raid   33 Brit Bombers Are Lost in Saturation Blow

AMERICANS BASH “TTILY PENINSULA   Strike at Rail Installations In  Naples Area   STEADY POUNDING   Big RAF Bombers Fly 1,100 Miles to Give Nuerenberg  Heavy Pasting

Allied Bombs Hit Nuernberg Kighth Time   Russians Imperil BryanskKiev Railway In Drive From Captured Sevsk.   [ATFACK NAPLES AREA

BRITISH PLANES HIT NUERNGERG IN HEAVY RAI   33 Bombers Lost in Second Saturation Blow of Week on Reich

Nuernberg Is R.A.F.'s Target   Hail of Blockbusters Explodes on Big City

Nuernberg Latest To Feel Sting of RAF Four-Tonners   Defenders Vanquished In Raid on Nazis’ Pagan City

NUERNBERG IS SHATTERED IN COLOSSAL RAIL   German Defenses Are Overwhelmed, According to American Officer in Group

Nazis Throw Up Force of Night Fighters To Combat Raiders Above Vital City

Jap Resistance On New Georgia Ends As Russian Drive Against Nazis Rushes On And Germany And Italy. Take Punishment

Shattering Raid Hits Nurnberg   German Defenses Ara Owarwlhalwmeadt

Night Bombers Blast Italian, German Centers   ‘Kighth Attack on Nuernburg Drops Ton After Ton of Blockbusters; Destruction Spreads Among Cities

UMBERS ob AR DEEP INTO REICH   Pour Hail of Block-busters on Nuernberg   BIGGEST ARMADA   Thirty-three Allied Bombers Lost in Attack in Wide. ranging Raids

Colossal Hail of Block-Busfers Loosed on Germaan Pageant City In One of Greatest Air Assaults   33 Bombers Lost in Attack; Enemy Airmen in Fierce Resistance Are Overwhelmed; Assault Tops 12 Hours of Constant raids on Nazis

Japs Routed From Munda Pillboxes   Yanks Shoot Fire At Foes’ Positions

Suggest Spring Scrap Clean-Up   Save All Old Pieces That Can Be Used For Repair

KNOX CALLS ON U. S., BRITAIN TO LEAD WORLD   Sees in Anglo-American ‘Spirit of Understanding’ Hope for Future Peace

Increase Ceiling Prices of Corn   Proposed Teacher Salary Boost Called ‘Inadequate

WIDOWER HEL     IN MURDER CASE   Father of 5 Children. Said Answer to Capital Mystery

Signs Indicate Public Clamor May Cause Ban On Press Coverage Of Food Conference To Be Lifted

Gen. MacArthur Directs  Allied Action   Forces Move Into Trobriand, Weodlark Islands, Northeast of East Tip of New Guinea and Rendova. and New Cleoraic:

Roads To Rabaul Are Covered By Triple Attacks   Air, Land and Sea Forces Occupy Trobriand And Woodlark Islands; Fighting To Hold Toeholds On Rendova And New Georgia.

Aussie Hero. Crash Victim:   Gen. Crawford's Body Found tn Wreckaasa

Cold Wave Costs One Iowa Life   Snow Hampers Highway Travel; Subzero Read.  ings Continue.

British Crush Axis Defenses on South Front   American Troops Capture Half of Key Mountain

BABSON PREDICTS BY END OF WAR NATIONAL DEBT OF $300-BILLION   Says Land and What Is In It, Farms, Mines, Oil, Forests, Etce., Will Pay It. Thinks Those i in Merchandising Are To Be the Lucky Folks.

National Debt And Inflation   BABSON SAYS MIDDLEMEN IN GOOD POSITION

JAPS RETREAT NEAR SALAMAUA   Allies Continue Push Toward Enemy Base In New Guinea

NEW ALLIED GAINS MADE ON NEW GUINEA   Japanese Still Falling Back on Mubo—135 More Stragplers Killed.

Allies Continue Advance on Jap Base at Salamaua  Enemy Withdrawing In Wau Region, MacArthur Reports  RABAUL BOMBED  6000-Ton Nippon Transport Crippled By Aerial Attack  ALLIED HEADQUAF TERS IN AUSTRALIA, 5a

Allies Continuing Push Forward Toward Salamaua  Three Jap Destroyers Reported Sunk in Guadalcanal Action

ALLIES GAIN AT SALAMAUA   Continue To Advance On New Guinea Post; Japs Retreat

Port Of Naples Is Heavily Attacked By U. S. Bombers   Large Damage Is Reported As Result Of Latest Bomber Raid   BRITISH ARMY HAS TAKEN BEN GARDANE

RUSS BOMBERS HIT BEHIND NAZI LINES   Big Enemy. Train Concentrations Reported l= Blasted

REDS SLASH AT RAIL JUNCTION   Long-Range Bombers Hit Behind Enemy Lines In Central Area

VOLTURNO AND BIFERNO LINES FAIL TO HOLD   Cairo Radio Says Enemy Defenses Are Made Useless, While  Nazis Retreat

Reserves Join Fitth in Drive  Toward Rome   Heavy Fighting Rages Along Adriatic; Forts Wreck Rail Yards  At Strategic Bologna

Germans Make Fierce Effort To Keep Lines    Americans Brihg Up Reserves to Break Increasing Resistance

GERMANS GIVE UP RIVERS IN MIDDLE ITALY   DELAYING ACTIONS ARE CARRIED OUT AGAINST ALLIES

NAZIS FIGHT FERCELY 10 HALT PUSE   ‘Fifth Leaps Volturno Barricr and Cairo Reperts Nazi Defenses Along River Shattered.   BRITISH EIGHTH CROSSES BIFERNO   Montgomery’s Men in Savage Battle With Germans — Both Sides: Using Tanks, Avtillary.

Two Rivers Crossed in Spite of German Resistance  AERIAL ATTACK ON BOLOGNA IS MADE  Vital Installations Are Bombed by Waves of Fortresses

Yanks Smash Way Over the Volturno As 8th Army Wins Crossing of Biferno in Hard Fighting

Germans Give More Violent  Counterbiesa   U. S., British Troops Cross Two Rivers Against Fierce Counterattacks; Reserves Join U. S. Force, Aid Push

Allied Armies Cross Two Vital Rivers   Heavy Fighting Is Reported to Be in Progress

Allies Cross Two Rivers Near Naples   Fifth Army Gets Help In Drive Towards Rome

Allies Continue Gains In Italy   Two Rivers Crossed, Eightina Is Heavy

WHO ARE MAKING STAND TO IMPEDE BRITISH-AMERICAN DRIVE UP ITAL-, IAN PENINSULA: BRING UP RESERVES.

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Allies Foree Crossings  Of 2 Rivers   Volturno and Biferno Reached and Jumped Despite Resistance  MORF TOWNS TAKEN

Armies Pass Two Barriers   River Crossings Made In Spite Of Defenses

Two Rivers Crossed in Spite of German Resistance  AERIAL ATTACK.ON BOLOGNA IS MADE  Vital Installations Are RBombed hy Waves of

NAPLES AND ALBANIA ARE ALSO HELD   Wehrmacht Will ‘Protect’ Holy Vatican City

Italians Resist at Naples And Other Points: Albania Taken. Fear Allied Move

YANKS SMASH NEARER BIG NAPLES PORT   Germans Occupy Several Vital Italian Posts

GERMANS CLAIM FALL OF ROME, OTHER CITIES   Rumors Sweep Continent

Taranto sea base taken in British thrust   Vatican City is ‘promised safety

WAR POT BOILING ON EASTERN FRONT   'Russo-German Line Seeth ing Fiercely: Offensives Expected

The War tf oday—.  Russ-Nazi Front Seething Fiercely As Both Armies Spar For Openings

China Celebrates Greatest Victory Against Invaders   Multi-Pronced Drive   lhe War f oday— : . Russ-Nazi Front Seething Fiercely As Both Armies Spar For Openings

The War Today  one  Russo-German Battle Front Is In Highly Explosive State   By DEWITT WACKENZIE

IGERMAN-RUSSIAN BATILEFRONT IN HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE STATE: MILLIONS MEN FACE EACH OTHER

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Vast Soviet Battlefront ®ear Explosion Point “rom All Indications

WLB INTERVENES IN HARD COAL STRIKE   Orders Miners To End Strike “Against The. Nation At War”

BUDGET BILL PASSES HOUSE   Salary raises are rejected in departmental appropriations

eervsys 1687 LIN UaRe  Blast Jap Installations on Gliliber? Islands

MINE COMPROMISE IS STILL POSSIBLE      Dr. Steelman Says Some Spirit Of Compromise Exists:In Parley

Major Russian  Break-Through At Kremenchug   Flanking Drive Menaces  Whole Nazi Position In

Soviets Threaten German Positions   Nazi Commanders. Hurl in Fresh Troops to Halt Red Advances   TAKE A RAIL CENTER   Axis Army in the South Face a Precarious Situation

Nazis Strive To Save Dnieper Bend Position   Worst Disaster Since Stalingrad Threatens Nazis As Reds Break Through Southeast Of Kramenchud!

Russians In  Breakthru   Flank German Defenses Before The Crimean Bottleneck

FIGHT TOHALT INIEPER BEND FLANK ATTACK   Power Drive ‘ Breaches Ger man “impregnable” . De-; fonen: aks Pramanahae

Nazi Armies Imperilled In Dnieper Bend   Wide Breakthrough On Southern Front Puts Russians 70 Miles  From Dnepnronetrovsk

Whole Nazi Position In Dnieper Bend Is In Peril   Large Enemy Force Threatened By Huge Breakthrough: Escape Corridor Is Cut

NAZI POSITION BEFORE SOVIET TROOPS GRAVE   Germans Attempt to Halt Red Army’s Flanking * Move In Dnieper

FRESH TROOPS INTO BATTLE   Escape Corridor Cut With Fall Of Pyatikhatka: Russians Rout Four Crack Divisions

Russian Noose Around Dnieper Foe Tightens   Whole German Position Inside Elbow Menaced As Four Enemy Divisions Mauled. ~

Menace Grows on: Dnieper   German Position In River's Elbow Faces New Threat.

Nazis Defending Dnieper Elbow Face Disaster   Hurl Reserves Into. Fight In. Attempt To Divert Reds’ Flanking Drive

Entire Nazi Position Inside Dnieper Elbow Threatened as Crack Divisions Routed   15 TRAINS SEIZED   Russians Report Progress in Gomet Area, Demolitions Proceed in Kiev

MASS POWER DRIVE  OF RED ARMY TROOPS  BREACHED NAZI LINE GERMAN KEY RAIL  JUNCTION AND ESCAPE cnernnap cur

Reds Threaten Whole Inside  Dnieper Line   Nazi Commanders Hurl Fresh Divisions In Attempt To Stop Russians.   BEAR DOWN ON KIEV

PYATIKHATKA IS CAPTURED AFTER HEAVY FIGHTING   Main Nazi Escape Corridor Is Cut And Four Divisions Are Routed By Russians; Many Prisoners  Taken.

Reds Flanking German Forces   RUSSIANS THREATEN NAZI TROOPS WITH DISASTER

REDS TAKE R. R. JUNCTION WITH SMASHING PAIN   Russian Forces Are Geographically West of Crimean Peninsula

Break-Through Hits at Nazi Strongholds   Russians Capture Railway Junction Of Pyatikhatka  To Outflank Point:

GERMANS FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES IN DNIEPER AREA   Fresh Troops Rushed Up t Front as Reds Slash Through Defenses

NAZIS THROW NEW DIVISIONS INTO BATTLE   Desperate Attempt Made To Halt Flanking Drive West Of Dneiper

4 Crack German Divisions Are Routed: By Reds   Germans Continue. tc Hurl Fresh Forces Int Desperate Effort — te Halt Soviet Flankin; Drive to West of River

Germans Hurl New Divisions into Struggle   Hundreds of Thousands of German Troops Face Entranment in Crimea

Reds Menace Entire Nazi Position Inside Dneiper River Elbow: Cut Escape

REDS THREATEN TO TRAP ENEMY IN RIVER ELBOW   130 SETTLEMENTS FALL TO RUSSIANS IN MAJOR ADVANCE

‘Nazis Throwing Fresh Divisions Into Fight Along Southern Front   Entire German Position Inside River’s Elbow Threatened; Reds 200 Miles From Rumania

‘Russian’s Major Break Through Southeast of “Kremenchug Captures 130 Sutlernaits, 3 and Rail ‘fonction of Pvatikhatka

Nazis Hurl Fresh Units Into Effort To Halt Flanking Assault By Reds

Germans Hurling Fresh Divisions Into Big Battle   Kiev Being Sacked In Preparation For Evacuation Of City

Nazis Rush Up More Strength   Strive Desperately To Halt Red Flanking Move

NAZIS HURL FRESH ARMY INTO FIGHT   Settlements F alling As Foe Battles On Line

GERMANS FIGHT DESPERATELY 16 STOP ADVANGE   Soviets Retake 130 Small Villages, Main Rail Center of Pyatikhatka

Russians Cut Escape Route Of Nazi Army   Maul Germans  At Pvatikhatka

Nazis Inside Elbow of Dneiper Face to Face With Disaster   Threatened With Worse Catastrophe Than Defeat at Stalingrad

GARDENS   Some Japs Surrender to Get Rides in Those Yankee Jeeps

Japs Feebly Lash At Wau   25 Planes Hit At Base As Allies Pound Other Arenc

DAMAGE SLIGHT IN WAU ATTAGK   Airdrome In New Guinez Strafed By Japanese Raiding Force

Jap Raid on Wau  Is Ineffectual   Allied Planes Bomb  Rabaul, Finschhafen  ALLIFD HEADOL AR TERE IA

HARRY A. SMITH TAKEN BY DEATH   Well-Known Retired Businessman Expires At Age Of 74 Years After Extended Iilness

Gossett Urges Repeal Of Chinese Exclusion Act When Congress Meets

COURT SUPPORTS CRUELTY PLEA   EPEAL OF ANTI-CHINESE COUF ACT FAVORED BY soLON CRU

Texan Would Open Door Of U. S. To Chinese To Offset Jap Peace Bid

Reports Indicate American-born British Baronet Mi ~ Met Foul Play

MEAGER DETAILS ON OAKES DEATH   Foul Play: Is Is Indicated, However in Sudden Passing of Rich Briton

Re GMe: fee ee Se 2 Lae RS eee See AE eee Me ee ORME ee SEL: ACen! See Seeman ZONES en  Investigate Death of Man Who Got Rich by Going Broke in Canada

DOES NOT LOOK FOR RAILROAD WALKOUT   Eestman Says He Believes Workers Will Accept President Roose Sees Ween

ODT Director Eastman Says Railroad ‘Workers Won't Strike Despite Vote

EASTMAN DOUBTS RAIL WALKOUN   Believes Workers Will Ac Roosevelt

15 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON JAPHELD AIRDROMES   1,000-Pound American Bombs Cause Heavy Destruction and Fires

ALLIES MAKE WIDE SWEEPS AGAINST NIPS   Heavy Raids Made Over Wide Areas In Southwest Pacific

Tebourba The Next Objective   U.S. Forces Only Ten Miles Away—British Capture Two Hills

win Columns Of Americans Fan Out Beyond Mateur For Tunis, Bizert

Nazis Expect Invasion of Europe Soon   Doughboys Press Near Bizerte;  Red Front Flares

Sweden Reports Main Ger man Battle Fleet Sailed North from Trondheim

Axis Front Faces Collapse After Fall of Mateur   American Spearhead Reaches Point 10 Miles From Tebourba, While 2nd Army Corps . Plunges Up Toward Bizerte

DRIVE TOWARD TUNIS AND BIZERTE AFTER CAPTURE OF MATEUR   Victorious U, S. Troops Fan Out Toward Big Naval Base, Threaten To Outflank Defenders Of Tunisian Capital   Re ITNITHRT PRECS

JUGOSLAVS DRIVE NAZI TROOPS BACK IN HEAVY FIGHTING   Battle Between Partisans And Germans Rages ’ Near Town Of Sarajevo

Axis Grip on Satellite and Neutral Nations Slips at Least 50 Percent

Survey Reveals Axis Grip  On Occupied And Neutral Countries Has Slipped 50”

AXIS PRESTIGE WITH NEUTRAL NATIONS SLIPS   Grip On Satellites  Slipping; Internal Dangers Arise

AAA ELECTIONS INMEDINA CO.   Farmers Vote Friday Ti Select Committeemen

President Is Against Propcsal   Democratic Head ot Com mittee Condemns Present  ‘*Experimenting’’

Law To Provide Powerlul Food Chief Said Need   House Committee Says - Congress Will Have Ta Enact Legislation

FOOD CZAR APPOINTMENT TO BE URGED   Congress May Have To Take Action Over Food Problem

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER   (. S. May Insist Upon Capitulation of Admiral Robert.

Unconditional Surrender Of Martinique  May Be U.S. Answer To Offer Of Robert

“UNCONDITIONA L SURREND      U.S. May Insist ‘Upon Capitula‘tion of Admiral Robert.

GERMANS FAIL TO SNAP REDS DONETS LINE   Night Attack South of Balakleva Halted by Mortar lire

German Efforts To Crack Donets Line Frustratet   Moscow Reports Attacks Have Been Repulsed In Several Areas   NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES ON FRONT

NAZI ATTACK -STPED -DONETS. ARE   Enemy Night: Assault South of ‘Balakleya Repulsed ° : by Soviet.   MANY GERMANS DEAD   Russian Guerill2s Quite ‘Ac tive in Destroying Nai Supplies. .

NAZI ATTACK SIOPPED IN JONETS AREA   Enemy Night Assault South of Balakleya Repulsed by Soviet.   MANY GERMANS DEAD   Russian Guerilles Quite Active in Destroying Na‘i Supplies.

Leag Year's Sort of Empty Thing To Five Million Unmarried Women With Most of the Eligibles Away

3 Killed, 14 Hurt As Limited Hits Rear Of Freight   Cajon Pass Santa Fi Wreck Takes Lives Of Sol diers, Blocks Line

Two Killed in Santa Fe Wreck      “Grand Canyon ~ Limited Derailed.

Hull Opposed to G. 0. P. Proposals  Secretary Heard on Trade Measure

Mine Strikers Split On Issue Of Going Back   10,000 Vote To Stay Out; 2,000 Are Ready To Resume Work.

HARD COAL MINERS: ARE SPLIT ON ISSUE OF RESUMIN WOR   2,000 Promise To Go Back Tc Mines,. Defy Others To Stop Them   10.9000 ARE STILL IDLE

?.000 Miners To End Strike Despite Vote   Ten Thousand Oppose Return To Collieries, Con tinue Wildeat Walkout.   OTHERS QUIT FRIDAY

FR: WE NOW QUTBUILD AXIS IN EVERY WAY   Huge Shipments of Tanks, Planes, Guns to Russia Revealed

FDR Discloses That Russia Has Received Bulk Of Lease-Lend Fighting Equipment

Russia Got Largest Share Of ‘Lend. Lease Fighting Equipment In Past

RUSSIANS RECEIVE MOST LEND-LEASE   FDR Issues Report in Letter To Congress

Russia Leads  In Arms Help   Soviet Receives Over Billion Dollars Worth Of Lend Lease Munitions.

Roosevelt Gives Account of U.S. Lease Lend Aid   Russia Receives More Equipment Than Any Country

DIONNE ‘QUINTS’ CHRISTEN ShIPS   Launch Five Cargo Vessels at Once Sunday, at Superior, Wis.

Jai Cass La Boute  Dionne Girls Sead ‘ ‘Quint’ Fleet Off Wavs In Record Side Launching

Claims Polés Sie:   Quints All Score — Perfect Hits; Good Luck’ for Fessels

Dionne Quintuplets Swing Bottles Of Water To Launch ‘Quint Fleet’ Of Cargo Vessels

‘SHIPS ARE CHRISTENED   Dionne Quintuplets Served in U.S. Ceremony Yesterday 

Quintet Fleet Christened   Famous Dionne Sisters Officiate At 5-Ship Launching in Wisconsin

COUNTY WAR CHEST DRIVE NEXT WEEK   Fayetie’s Quota is $990; Maynard's $870; Randalfa’s $100; and for the County $22,168

Minor Gains Made by the Allies All Along the Front.  ALLIED PLANES GIVE SUPPORT TO ARMIES  General Offensive Is Already Under Way on Entire Front.

Hand Will Not be Uplifted When Pledge is Made to Fla   Legion Filed Opposition But Amendment Passes,

Jap Unpredictable, U.S. Reporter Says   By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW Vice-President of the Unitec Press

Japs Strong But Stupid Beasts, Yanks Discover   Puzzling Pattern Behind Nipponese Strategy Told By U. P. Executive Who Makes 22,000-Mile:Tour of Front

 Axis Has Lost At Least 4,000 Planes In Western Mediterranean Theatre

‘McCormick, Replying fo Challenge, Says Willkie Is Joke” in Illinois   Publisher Declares “Any body Can Beat Willkie in Ilinois’’

MCCORMICK DOESN'T  THINK THAT WILLKIE COULD WIN ELECTION   ‘Chicago Publisher Says _ Anybody Can Beat: Willkie in Ilinois. He’s A Joke There

ublisher ays Willkie s Joke In Ill.   L. M’CORM¥CK AVERS ANYBODY CAM BEAT FORMER PRESIDEY pi az, CANDIDATE; IGNORES REPORTERS.   Military Man

EE  M'CORMICK POOFS WILLKIE CHALLENGE   Political Fireworks in Illinois Increase

WILLKIE CALLED JOKE CANDIDATE   Anybody Can Beat Him In Illinois, Says Col. MeCormick

PUBLISHER MAKES REPLY TO WILLKIE   Col. McCormick Says Will. kie Is “Joke” in  lilimaice

M’CORMICK RAPS WILLKIE   Says that Foreigner’ Can't Carry State West of New Jersey, in Primaries or Election

MCORMICK DERIDES WILLKIE'S GHANCES   Says ‘Anybody Can Beat Willkie in Illinois; Silent on Own Plans

WILLKIE A JOKE, WCORMICK SAYS   ANYBODY CAN: BEAT 1940 STANDARD BEARER IN ILLINOIS, EDITOR AVERS.

MARCHING ORDERS   ECONOMIC STABILIZER BYRNES PICTURES NEW MODE OF AMERICAN LIFF.

Union to Ask Supreme Court Ruling ‘On State Labor Act’s Constitutionality

Reaction on ll Duce's Ousting   News Pleases War Prisoners In U. S. Interment Camps

Farmers May Now Get Tractor Tires   Must Show Need Before  Receiving Certificate

STEEL WHEELED TRACTORS CAN NOW BE CONVERTED SAYS LOCAL WAR BOARI

U-BOAT CREWS BEING DRAFTEL   German Undersea Offen  sive a Failure

TEN FLEETS NOW AT SEA, NATION TOLD      ADMIRAL IN CHARGE OF ANTIUB WARFARE ALSO DECLARES U-BOAT CREWS EEING DRAFTED .

BIRTH OF STATE TO BE OBSERVED   PLAN CELEBRATION OF 125TH ANNIVERSARY AT VANDALIA DEC, 3

SEE SWIFT ACTION ON PENDING BILLS IN OHIO ASSEMBL ¥   Vote Set for Biennial ApPropriations Measure and on Other Issues.

Legislature to Convene Tonight      Seek Swift Action On Pending Bills

Coffee Rations To Be Boosted   Less Cheese, Word From OPA Officials

CLERICAL WORK NOW OPEN   Civil Service Applications aa for Rationing Board

CLERICAL WORK NOW OPEN   Civil Service Applications Asked for Rationing

U.S. Casualties Exceed 100,000  Report on Military, Bd. of oes ee me

103,932 U.S. CASUALTIES: SINCE 1941   19,581 Listed As Dead, 35, .895 Are Missing. 8,748 Wounded, Have Been Discharged or Returned'to  Service

War Casualties Of U. S. Armed Forces 103,932  Total Of Dead Ic Now 19.581

U.S. CASUALTIES TOTAL 103,932   Navy Has Largest List Since Bombing of Pearl Harbor

U. 3, CASUALTIES NUMBER 103,992   DEAD IN ALL ARMED SERVICES TOTAL = 19,581—35,895 LISTED AS MISSING.

Nazis Abandon City of Cherkasi   - Announcement Is Made in Berlin

HEDO oTDRM CHERKAGI, ON ONIEPER BEND   Moscow. Announces Capture of Major Nazi Base in Order of Day.

WAY CLEARED FOR WESTWARD DRIVE BY REDS   Nazi Position Seen Crumbling

SOVIETS TAKE DNIEPER PORT OF CHERKASY   Berlin Admits Germans Lose Last Bastion on River After Long and Bitter Resistance.

Fall Of Cherkasi May Mean Crumbling Of Defenses On Northern Section Of Bend

Russ Tighten Grip on Read, Rail Network  Entire German Position  in Tiniener Bend Seen  ! Crumbling  FLANK THREATENED Capture Clears War for Westward Advance of Red Army      FLANK THRE A‘

Cherkasi, Last Big Nazi Dnieper Base, Captured   General Konev’s Ukraine Forces Move In When  Germans Evacuate

Reds Capture Last Gérman Dnieper Base   Fall of Cherkasi Announced by Premier Stain

SUPERIOR RED FORCES. TAKE BACK CHERSKY   Victory Announced by Stalin in Special Order of Day as Soviets Keep Initiative

OFFENSIVEIN DNIEPER AREA MOVES AHEAD   Germans Report Town Evacuated After  Destruction

Russians Seize Key Nazi Base   Cherkasi, Last Major Nazi Base On Lower Dneiper River, Taken

CHERKASI IS CAPTURED BY RED ARMY   Nazis Lose Last Base On West Bank Of Lower Dnieper

PREMIER STALIN. HAILS VICTORS OF STUBBORN BATTLE   Crumbling of Entire German Position In Northern Section of Dnieper Bend Is Now Expected.   CAPTURE OPENS WAY FOR OTHER ADVANCES   Mosquito Bombers Make Fourth Straight Nightly ‘Raid on Western Gen many, No Planes Lost.

a REJECT O'MAHONEY PLAN   Would Call For Constitutiona Amendment to Prohibit Collection Poll Tax

OHIO LIQUOR STORE SALES UNDER PROBE   Expose of Conditions at Cleveland Brings on Wide Investigation.

BRICKER ORDERS LIQUOR PROBE   Action Follows Disclosure 01 “Back Door” Sales At One Cleveland Store

OHIO LIQUOR STORE PROBE UNDER WAY   ‘Back Door’ Sales Target Of Investigation

Another Dutch Naz Official, Wife Shot  Report Doesn’t Tell Whether Wounds Fatal

HEAR QUISLING COUPLE SHOT   Follows Fatal Shooting Of Commander Of Dutch Nazi Legion In Front Of. His Home ©

Day, Night Shelling at Guadalcanal ‘Is Worst Experience Says General

Guadalcanal Was ‘Plain Hell’   Visiting General Wants No More Of It

IOWANS HELPED AT BIZERTE   Minnesotans Also Took Major Role in Victory

Minnesota, lowa Boys In Battle,   All-American Unit Captures Bizerte _

Iowans Play Big Part in - Final Smash for Bizerte   LITTLE RESISTANCE,

MINE DEAD MAY TOTAL 72   Slight Hope Any May Have Survived Montana Blast

Hopes Dwindle For Entombed Miners   Thirteen Bodies Have Been Found

Deaths Raised In Mine Blast   Regcuers Finding ‘Bodies In Montana Tragedy as Gas Is Removed

14 Bodies Found After Explosion In Montana Mine   Monoxide Fumes Delay Efforts Of Rescue Crews

BODIES FOUND IN  SMALL GROUPS IN BEAR CREEK MINE   Experienced Mine Men Hold Little Hope For Any of Men Entombed

13 BODIES ARE FOUND IN MINE        light Mope Held for 61 Men Sti In Shett

 Waring Asks Who Runs . Nation—J ohn L. Lewis ‘Or American People?

WARING PUTS. HNL LES ON THE SPO)   Legion’ Commander: : _ Says Union Heads Is “WouldBe’ : Dictator. u   ATTACK -IS.-RED -HOT   Are the Peorle or Lewis -Controll' ng This Gcvern- * “ment, He Asks...

John L. Lewis  Is Denounced   National Legion Commander Assails Lewis As ‘‘ Would. be Dictator’’

DENUNCIATION OF LEWIS BY LEGION SEEN   Resolutions Attacking Labor Leader to Win Approval

WARING PUTS JOHN L. LEWlo ON THE POT   Legion Commander Says Union Heads Is ‘‘WouldBe’ Dictator.”   ATTACK IS RED HOT   Are the Peorle or Lewis Controll ns This G:vernment, He Asks.

WARING CALLE’ MINERS LEADER A “WODLD-BE DIC-_ TATOR"—TELLS OF TU “ NISIA CAMPAIGN’.

Lipari and Stromboli Surrender   Are Largest of  Group and Give Help to Flank

Invasion Of Italy Near As Group Of Islands is Taken   American, British Air Fleets Continue To Batter Axis Military In Italy, France, Holland And Belgium During Day

YANK NAVAL FORCES COMPEL SURRENDER; AIR BLOWS CONTINUE   Destroy 34 Axis Planes In Round-Clock Assault On  Foggia Rail City In Eastern  Italv

Churchill Pays Tribute to U.S.   This Nation Termed Most Powerful; FD Called {Hlustrious

Churchill Pays Glowing Tribute to U.S., FDR, Congress, Army Chief

Commons Told Invasion Stage Set For Action   Prime Minister Reveals Submarine Campaign Is Being Won   Churchill Pays Glowing Tribute Toa United States

FRENCH GROUP OUSTS GIRAUD   DeGaullists Make Sweeping Changes in Committee At Algiers

Giraud Ousted By de Gaullists   Will Retain Leadership Over French Army

GEN. GIRAUD OUSTED BY DE GAULLISTS   Removed as Co-President of Liberation Committee—-Remains as Head of Army.

GEN. GIRAUD OUSTED AS CO-PRESIDENT   Old Soldier fs Still Retained As Commander-In-Chief Of French Ferces. However

GIRAUD OUSTED BY DE GAULLE   Old Soldier Remains As Commander Of French Fighting Forces

De Gaulle Becomes Supreme Chief Of French Group  Liberation Committee Ousts Gen. Giraud From Copresidency

KELLY LAUDS SCOUT WORKERS FOR AID   Tells ‘Directors ors That Increase in Delinquency Among Girls Is over That of Boys

Giraud, DeGaulle Reach Impasse   Further Meetings of Committee Delayed

FRENCH FAIL TO END SPLIT   Leaders Reach Impasse in Unity Discussions

DeGaulle Reported Demanding Post Of War Minister In French Setup

Many Rescued In Hotel Fire   10 Firemen Overcome When Rittenhouse Hotel Is Destroyed

Astride Var Une.   Fort v overcome battling fire: scores rescued

Hundreds Flee Flaming Hotel   Spectacular Five-Alarm  Blaze in Philadelphia

SUORES RESCUED AS HOTEL BURNS   TEN OVERCOME FIGHTING PHILADELPHIA BLAZE—~25 TREATED FOR SHOCK.

PERMANENT PEACE IS URGED BY SPEAKER IN LEGION ADDRESS  TOM TYSON SPEAKER THURSDAY MORNING ANNUAIL SUNRISE RRFEFAKFAST

PERMANENT PEACE 18 URGED BY SPEAKER IN LEGION ADDRESS  TOM TYSON SPEAKER THURSDAY MORNING AN-

Wheeler Threatens More Talks If “Meaningless” Plan Is Insisted On

WHEELER ISN'T QUITTING YET   Threatens Colleagues With Two More Four - Hour Speeches Next Week On Father-Draft Issue.

WHEELER VOWS LONGER TALKS   SOLON FIGHTS THREAT OF NEW FATHER DRAFT BILL

Filibuster Is Threatened By Sen. Wheeler   Montana Senat vt Says He Is Prepared To Tuik Two Days In Fighting Draft Plan

Wheeler Will Push Fight On Dad Draft   Senater Threatens To Make Twe Mere Speeches Next Week

DISCHARGED VETERANS ARE BEING GIVEN JOBS   3,400 Former Soldiers And Sailors Have Been Placed In Civilian  Employment Thus Far

3,400 Discharged Vets Get Jobs  Imanetru Diarcac   Industry Places Physically Fit

KULA GULF ~ SCENE OF ~NEW CLASH   American War ships Shell Jap-Held Islands

U.S. and Jap Naval Units Battle in Kula Gulf as Yanks Close In on Munda

American Forces Solidify Positions In New Georgia And Vila; Chase Away Enemy Fleet Attempting To Bombard Rendova Island.

Gasoline Drouth . To Become Worss   OW] Warns Military  Demands Grow

Coming Week Holds Bitter Anniversary For German Leader  Interpretattaon By Kirke  Simonson

DECLARES HITLER BEATEN IN RUSS!   KIRKE SIMPSON SAYS FALL OF SMOLENSK BLASTS NAZI HOPES OF VICTORY.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   “See Who Tires First, itler Taunt Year Ago Ri isqutely Answered

Anthracite Strike Ends   President Roosevelt Gratified at Response Of Miners to Order

Pennsylvania Coal Strike Comes to End   Thousands Return to Jobs Few Hours Before Deadline Set by F. R.

Catlin May Be Kept By Goodland   Reappointment Will Be . Made. Unless Bill  I:  Passed, Legislature “Is . Told By Goodland

Squeeze Put On State Legislature  Governor Threatens To Rename Catlin. Adams

London Meets “Vinegar Joe” Tokyo Bombing Foreseen   Stilwell Tallcs With Officials

Ban Retail Delivery Of Toys. Beer, Wine, Tobacco, Radios. Flowers, Except For Funerals

Sharp Cut In Deliveries Is  Ruled in East   ODT Bans Delivery of Some Luxury Items Entirelyv

East Facing New Shortage In Gasoline   Delivery Services Are Drasticaly Cut; ODT Warns of Greater Crisis

Deliveries In Eastern States Cut Drastically   O. D. T. Warns That Gasoline Shortage Will  Become Even Worse.

CURTAIL RETAIL DELIVERIES IN EASTERN STATES   ODT WARNS THAT GASOLINE SHORTAGE GROWS MORE ACUTE

Delivery Services Are Cut Drastically In East As Gas Crisis Grows Worse

Gas Crisis In East To Get Worse, ODT Warns   Delivery Services Are Drastically Cut. In The East.

ODT WARNS CRISIS WILL GET WORSE   Cuts Delivery Service In East Drastically

GAS’ CRISIS GROWS WORSE   Delivery Services Drastically Curtailed In Fact

Curtailment Is Or. dered By ODT Officials . HITS- TRAVEL Ruse. Truck. Taw}   Bus, Truck, Taxi Mileage Slashed 40 Per Cent

ORDER CUT IN DELIVERIES IN COAST STATES   Curtailment Of Gas Consumption  Effective Thurs.

DELIVERY OF LUXURIES   ODT Decrees Drastic Curtailment in Eastern Seaboard Area:

Order of ODT Coupled With Warning That Gas Situation On Seaboard Will Be Worse   Limitations Are Placed on Both Wholesale and Retail Trucking With Transportation Companies Rearranging Routes   40-PERCENT CUT IN MILEAGE OF BUSES AND TAXIES

DELIVERY SERVICES IN EASTERN SECTOR NATION CURTAILED  WARNING ISSUED ALREADY CRITICAL GASOLINE SHORTAGE TO BE WORSE

Delivery Runs  Cut On Coast   Both. Retail. Wholesale Firms Come Under New Gas Saving Order.

Deliveries in East  Ordered Curtailed   Gasoline ODT Edict Effects 13 States: Effective on , ee ay

Drastic Cuts Made in Use of Sas in East   Delivery Services Are Curtailed to Conserve Supplies

DELIVERY oERVIGED IN EADY CURTAILED   Drastic Cut Goes In Effect To Conserve Gasoline

EAST CURTAILS DELIVERIES OF MANY ARTICLES   ODT Declares Gasoline Situation to Become Mere Serious in East

Gas Shortage Due To Become Worse   More Bundle-Toting For East Ordered As  Deliveries Are Curtailed

Tighten Gas  Ban in East   Delivery Services Cut Drastically, and Taxi, Bus Mileage Limited

MISSOURI SENATOR CHALLENGES ISSUE MILITARY MONEY  SENATOR CLARK QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF USIN( cririu CIipDDrOrNCyv

ISSUE MILITARY MONEY OVERSEAS   SENATORS QUESTION LEGALITY OF NEW WAR ZONE CURRENCY

Military Money Issued In Africa Without Okay Of Congress Angers Solons; Legality Is Questionea

MISSOURI SENATOR CHALLENGES ISSUE MILITARY MONEY  SENATOR CLARK QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF USING cHeuw CIPRENCY

Question Use Of Military Currency   Doubt Moral and Legal Right of Allies to Use Money Which Bears No Promise of Payment

[SOUANCE ALLIED MILITARY MONEY IS CHALLENGED   Senator Clark Charges Action “Additional Appropriations for Army Without Any Action By Congress”; Legality of Move ls Questioned.

Money Coining Plan Attacked   U. S. Might Not Be Able To Pav Off

REDS AND FINNS IN BAYONET FIGHT   German Attacks in Sevsk Area Repulsed

RUSSIANS WIPE OUT FINN UNIT   Company Of Enemy Annihilated In Trenches On Northern Karelian Front.

British Navy Prepared To Aid Invasion Forces,  London Newspaper Says   Flying Fortresses Bomb Italian Seaport; Foggia Airdrome Hit; Additional Raids On Germany Believed in Progress Today

London Press Says Navy Ready; American Flyers Hit Italy And Islands .

Seaports Of Italy Blasted   American Planes Shift from Islands to Mainland --Navy Ready

No Mention of Accused Slayer In Wife’s Will   18-Months-Old Son Lone Heir of Five Million Dollar Fortune

Lonergan Disinherited:  Left Nothing in Will of Heiress Wife He is Accused of Murdering

TAXICAB IS DAMAGED   Driver Knocks Hole in Gas Tank ’ While turning Around

TEN MILLION © GOAL SET FOR ARMED FORCE   CHIEF OF NAVAL PERSONNEL TELLS CONGRESS OF PLANK OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

ARMED FORCES  AT 10,709,501 BY DEC. 3]   Rear Admiral Jacobs Reveals Expansion Plans of Navy

STRATEGY NEEDS NEAR 11 MILLION INU. § SERVICES   Rear Admiral Jacobs Backs Drafting of Fathers, Not 17 Year Olds

SENATE BOARD WAVERS AFTER EXPERTS TALK   Montanan, However, Declares No New Facts Have Been Presented   OFFICERS STAND’ FIRM   Need For More Men Under Arms Stressed Before Military Committee

BYRNES SPEECH TONIGHT   War Mobilization Director Sched. uled For Radio Address

Hints Nazis To  Quit In Russia  German Lines Crumble All Alane Frant

Reds Hack * Out Gains _ Near Kiev   Entire Dnieper Line Crum. bles Under Incessant Hammer Blows by Russians   GERMANS SEEKING NEW DEFENSES   Madrid Hears That Berlin ® May Abandon Entire Russian Campaign

‘Nazis Pulling Out Of Russia   Reds Smash On As Reports Say Front To Be Abandoned

GERMANS MAY ABANDON RUSSIA   Writer Says Nazis May Return to Polish Front

Soviet Troops Already Have Reached Gates Of White Russia After Capture Of Bryansk

NEW CEILINGS ON MEATS ARE MADE PUBLIC   Present Price Cuts Small; To Be Increased  June 1   ‘EFFECTIVE ON MAY 17      Downward Revison Complies With “Hold the Line” Order

NEW LOWER PRICES FOR MEATS PLANNED FOR NEXT MONDAY  WILL BE FURTHER REDUCED ON JUNE 1 BY

New Cents-PerPound Meat Price Ceilings Ordered   OPA Says Rates Cut in Compliance With F.D.R. Orders

Revised CentsPer-Pound Ceilmgs on Meat Given   OPA Says Retail Stores Have Reen Clacsified

New Price Ceilings For Meat   Revised Prices to Be One té Three Cents Under Those Now in Effect

OPA Revises Prices Of Meats Effective May 17 To Jane 1   New 10 Per Cent Roll-Back Prices Will Go Into Effect On First Of Month

Announce New Meat Ceilings   Reductions From One to Three Cents a Pound in New England

Set Up Price  Ceilings For Beet. Muttor   Top Limits Effective Mon. day, Further Reductions Tina lune 1.   SCHEDULE BY ZONES

Meat Prices Are Reduced   Downward Revisions Ir Retail Prices Listed

CEILING PRICES ° ON MEATS ARE CUT   A Revision Downward or Specific Cuts Announced Today.

Reduce Ceiling Prices On Meat  In N. E. Monday   More Decreases  Set For June 1

OPA Sets Ceiling  Prices For Meats New Schedule Becomes Effective Monday

New Schedule Takes Effect Next Monday   Prices on Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton te Be Cut In Some Instances; With 10 Per Cent Curb Due June 1.

MEAT PRICES FURTHER CUT . BY THE OPA   New Rates, Effective Monday on Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton, 1 to3 Cents a Pound Under Apr i) 15 Schedule.

Retail Ceilings on Beef, Veal and Lamb Announced   Prices, Effective Monday, Represent Reduction of  One to Three Cents Pound Under Previous  List, Due to FDR’s Order

New Ceiling Prices For Meat Are Cut By The OPA   Another Downward Revision Due June 1; Grades Must Be Kept Separated

MEAT CEILING PRICES FIXED BY OPA ORDER   Specific Scale Begins May 17; Roll-Back Planned June 

().P.A. Lowers Retail Ceiling Prices On Meat   New _  Cents-Per-Pound Maximums For Specific Cuts Effective Monday.

MEAT PRICES 10” BELOWER MONDAY   Further Reduction of 10 Pe  Cent June 1 Under Sub sidy Payments.

Fix New Prices  On Retail Meat   A Reduction of One to 3 Cents a Pound Effective Monday.

New Prices for Meat Announced   Retail Clothing Is Clamped on by OPA "To Hold Line”

SLIGHT CUT “IN PRICES ON MEATS   OPA Announces Néw Ceilings Which Become. Ef-. , fective Monday   FURTHER CUTS TO COME ON JUNE 1   Today’s Order Sets Up Price Tops-for Both the’ Large and Small Stores

Ceiling Prices Set For Meats   OPA LISTS PRICES TO BE PAID BY CONSUMERS

OPA Orders Slash in Price Of Meat Cuts   Three-Cent Slash on Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton Starts April 17

PER LB. RETAIL PRICE FOR MEATS [BROUGHT DOWN   Some Cuts and Grades Beef, Veal, Lamb and - Mutton Reduced in  “Hold the Line” Order.

Lower Meat Prices   New OPA Ceilings Lop 1 to 3 Cents Off Cost , Of Specific Cuts; Goes Into Effect on Monday

RETAIL MEAT CEILING PRICES ORDERED CU   Represents General Reduction of One to Three Cents a Pound   S EFFECTIVE MONDAY

OPA Lowers Price Ceilings On Meat Effective Monday   Reductions Of 1 To 3 Cents A Pound Announced Under “Hold Line” Order

PA Will ut Price r Meats   i! Ceilings Placed On cific Cuts of Beef, Lamb, Veal by Federal Agency   LOWS ORDER TO  “HOLD THE LINE”   es Effective Monday  epresent Reduction  Of Several Cents On Pound of Meat

New Meat Price Ceilings Go In Effect Monday   Present Changes Small, 10 Per Cent Slash Is Planned For June

Meat Prices Reduced Slightly   Preliminary Cuts Made Before 10% Drop in June

Afton League of 4-Leaf Clover Will Meet With Helen Carlson Saturday, February 13th

NO CRIMINALITY -FGUND AS YET IN WRIGHT AIR CASE   Justice Dept. Reg: Regards Evi"dence, So Far, As Insufficient.

Action Against Wright Corporation _ May Depend On Additional Evidence

WEIGH WRIGHT FIRM CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS   Justice Bureau Looks To Truman Group For More Evidence

HOUSE PLANS TWO BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES   Proposed Liquor Levy Halved, That On Cigars Doubled

TAK COMMITTEE AEVISES LEVIES   Cuts in Half Proposed Boost In Federal Liquor Taxes But Votes to Stiffen Several Other Levies

Proposed Tax _ On Booze Cut   House. Committee Votes To. Stiffen Levy On ‘ Other. Items

EXGIOE TAK RATES DUE FOR INCREASE   House Committee To Boost Levy On Many Items

Group Boosts Excise Levies  Whis sky Tax Increase UWeleccd UWoesorecnse

WHISKEY TAX BOOST HALVED BY COMMITTEE   Cigar, Betting Taxes Might Be Stiffened

Liguor Tax Boost Eased;  House Committee Raises  Cigar Levy 100 Per Cent  

SOLONS REDUCE PROPOSED LEVY ON U.S. LIQUOR   Ways and Means Committee Chops Tax in Half; Other Items Boosted

House Group Studies Tax Suggestions   Proposed Boost In Liquor Levy Is Cut in Half

Ways And Means Committee Backs Tracks On Liquor   Cuis  Prapused Tax In lint! and Makes Ho Up On Cigars and Light BPalhe

uor Assessment Slashed in Half to $8 Per Gallon by House Committee   GAR TAX JUMPED HUNDRED PERCEN’   ari-Mutuel Upped to 5%  5Co Levy on Light Bulbs,  100% on Jewelry Are Voted in Revisions

Liquor Tax Increase Cut   Committee Halves Proposed Boost but Hikes Cigar Levy

GROUP CHANGES TAX DECISIONS   CUTS PROPOSED LEVY ON LIQ: VOR—BOOSTS THOSE ON CIGARS AND JEWELRY.

Proposed Liquor Levies Slashed  Other Excise Taxes Are Stiffened

RAIDS RESUMED ON KISKA BASES   U.S. Airmen Pit Navigatior Skill Against Weather

U.S. FLIERS KEEP KISKA ON ALERT   Brave Treacherous Weather To Deliver Bombs

In Kiska Raids   Pilots Pit Skill Against Death To Bomb Jap Bases

YANK AIRMEN RESUME RAIDS ON KISKA BASES   Planes Grounded For - Two Days Because of Fog, © Bad Weather 

RESUME RAIDS ON JAP KISKA BASES   U.S. Fliers Hope To Slow Construction Of Aleu. tians Air Base   WEATHER IS BAD   Much-Bombed Japanese Base At Munda Is Again U.S. Target

U. S. Pilots Pit Navigation Skill Against Bad Weather To Blast Kiska

J, §. AIRFORCE L RESUMES RAIDS WW KISKA AREAIO   Gamble Navigation Skill Against Bad Weather in Aleutians to Attack - ‘Jap Base   MUNDA AGAIN HIT   One Large Fire Left Blazing, and Buildings Destroyed by Heavy  Explosions 

AMERICAN FLIERS RESUME BOMBING RAID ON ENEMY INSTALLATIONS AT KISKA

U.S. Keeps Up Kiska Attacks   Pilots Smash at Jap Base in Aleutians Despite Bad Weather

AXIS NOW FACED EXTERMINATION INN. AFRIGE   'Rommel’s Failure to Break - Through In Tunisia Seals Fate of Hitler’s Hordes In  That Sector

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Bold Gamble Of Rommel In Central Tunisia Comes A Cropper

War Prisoners Taken To Caro   Go To Beet Fields From Benton Harbor

WAR CAPTIVES LEAVE HERE   German Prisoners Taker To Caro To Harvest Sugar Beets

COUNTERBLOWS   Meanwhile, Americans Push on Toward Initial Objectives

BAD WEATHER DELAYS JAPS IN COUNTER BLOWS   Meanwhile, Americans Push on Toward Initial Objectives

‘SUBSIDY PRICE CONTROL ‘PROGRAM TO BE ENDED: STOCKPILE IS ENLARGED

New Allied Landing in North Solomons Announced by Jans   MacArthur Reports Con. tinued Relentless Assaults on Foe

Rabaul Is Hit Again   Bombers Rake Base Fifth Time in 13 Days, Destroy BQ Dlanae

NEW LANDINGS IN OULOMON ARE REPORTED   News Of Amphibious Attacks By Allied Forces Comes From Tokyo Radio

NEW ALLIED LANDING ON MONG ISLAND   Air Force Drops Bombs Cn Two Jap Bases

New Landing Of Allies Seen In Solomons   MacArthur Reports Continued Bombing Of Jap Air Bases

Tékio Claims U. S. Landing   Says Allies Land On Mone Island In Solomons

New Landing By Allied Force In Solomons Today   Tokyo Reports Drive; Japs Also Claim American Warship Is Sunk

NEW LANDING IN SOLOMONS   Allied Operation Reported By Japanese Radio

Japs Announce Yank Landing  On Mono Isle   No Confirmation Of Stab Into Northern Solomons  By Allied Units. PREDICT NEW ATTACKS

NEW ALLIED LANDING  OPERATION NORTHERN  SOLOMON ISLANDS RELENTLESS AIR ATTACKS  ON ENEMY POSITIONS CONTINITING

ENEMY REPORT UNCONFIRMED BY COMMANT   Tokyo in Report Allied Troops Made Landings on Mono, in Treasury Island Group   a. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gen. MacArthur Reports - Relentless Aerial Blows Again Rabaul and Kahili

Japs Tell Of New - Landing By Allies  Rabaul Raided Again: - §8 Planes Destroyed

CITE ATTACK MONO IN NORTH SOLOMON ISLES   Relentless Air Strikes Against Rabaul and Kahili Are Continued

TOKYO BROADCAST OF NEW LANDING IS UNCONFIRMED   MACARTHUR’S FLYERS SMASH 58 MORE NIP PLANES AT RABAUL

Tokio Admission ls Nof Denied by Halsey’s Command   Aerial Pounding of  Japan‘s Main Air Bases Is Continued

PROPOSAL IS SUBMITTED   Petrillo Would End Ban on Musi. clans Making Records

Whilhelmshaven Under Heavy Raid By RAF   Petrillo Offers Plan To Recording Firm:

Would Forgive ‘Half of 742 Taxes   Democrats Claim  FD Would OK Plan

Services Accused of Wasting Men   Improvement Asked Before Drafting Dads

U.S. Army Force: [Ready To Carry ‘Struggle To Axis   General. Marshall 7  Principal Speaker At Legion Convention

SEN. TRUMAN ACCUSESARM} OF WASTAGE   Waste of Manpower Must Be Eliminated Before Dads Called

Waste Of Manpower  Is Charged   Greater Efficiency Or Part Of Army And Navy Demanded Today By Senator Truman

National Draft Of Labor Seen Imminent Need   Consideration of Measure Registering Men, Women

Labor Draft May  BeA Necessity  Manpower Investigation Produces Prediction

Manpower Study Predicting War Labor Draf  National Service Act Imminent, Vermonter Says

National Labor Draft Law Near.  Senator Avers  Reveals Committee   Has Conducted

Labor’ s Draft. - Faving  Nation   Invasion: W ill Mean More Need Of Manpower and “Even Distribution” °-

BRITISH TURN NATL FLANK IN SMILE DRIVE   Yanks Beat Off Heavy Counter-Attacks in Venafro Area

CLARK'S TROOPS HOLD FIRM IN BITTER BATTLE   Enemy Wrecks Gaeta Harbor

NAZIS MAKING READY FOR NEV SPRING DRIVE   16 Nip Planes Shot Down; Convoy Is  Hit Bv Bombers

Home Edition   ALLIED BOMBERS SMASH AT SFAX, OTHER TARGETS:   First Army Continues Advance On Road. To Bizerte While Eighth Runs Into Stiffer Opposition

GOERING OFFICES: HIT IN RAF RAS      Report Says Records :@estroyed as It Estimates ’ Fatalities Higher

High Explosive Bomb Rocks Goering Wine      British Indian Troops Holding Own Against Japanese Attack tn Peon.

STIMSON LAUDS “ARTILLERY ROLE “IN STATE VISIT   War Secretary, at Fort Sill. Tells of Field Artillery’s Value Overseas

Stimson Visits Ft. Sill   Secretary of War Flies To Oklahoma to Inspect Huge Artillery Center; Leaves By Plane Today

Actual Battle Proves Worth Of Artillery   Field Artillery Is Needed to Accompany Infantry, Says War Secretary Stimson

Manpower Shortage Said to Be Cause Of Slump in Great Ford Plants

MYSTERY SHIPS SEEN DEC. STH      May Have Been Jap ‘Sneak Fleet’

WOMEN ALL SET TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN   Enthusiastic Meeting Was Held Last Evening at  Loc

WOMEN ALL SET TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN   Enthusiastic Meeting Was ‘Last Evening at  C. of a7  ts   SUPPLIES HANDED OUT:

Many American Wounded Brought To United State:   Men Incapacitfated ir North Africa Arrived at Hospitals

TO NEW HOSPITALS   Treatment Given Several Hundred at Valley Forge Institution.

‘MIDDLETOWN SOLDIER CLAIMS ARTILLERY WON IN. TUNISIA   Pvt. Charles E. Leatherman Now In American Hospital ; With Part Of Arm Shot Away And Facial Wounds  From Shrapnel; Roommate Also Wounded   tQhined Armr In 10149

WHAT PRICE THE SAME   50 Million Bushels Additional to Feed Stock

UNIFORMITY ON TIME. 1S SOURS   Legislature May Be Asked To Reconsider Time Change Bill

MORE SUPPORT FOR FAST TIME   Columbus Council May Ask Legislature To Reconsider

Two Thousand Soldiers and Sailors on Leave Suffer the Fury of a Woman Scorned When One of Their Number Jilis Sweetheart.

VAOT AMOUNTS — Ur NAZI BOOTY ~TANEN BY REDS   German War Material and Ammunition Go to Ad-_ vancing Soviets.   SWARM ON UNCHECKED   Russians Have Regained Control of Very Important Railheads.

Fourteen Trains Captured From ~ Nans By Reds   Vast Amount Of Rolling Stock And War Materials Taken Near Kharkov   RED OFFENSIVE IS SWEEPING ON

14 TRAINLOADS OF NAZI WAR GOODS SEIZED   Advance Slackens As Reds Clean Up Several Strategic Cities   OREL !S NEW OBJECTIVE   Soviets Straighten Out Lines, Capture Transportation Routes iw

British and Nazis Exchange Aerial Blows.  RAF Hits Zeebrugge and Luftwaffe Bombs Coastal Towns

NOMINATION OF FLYNN ASSAILED BY REPUBLICANS   Bridges Terms Appoint. ment An Insult To People Of Australia   BARKLEY CONFIDENT OF CONFIRMATION

FIGHT OPENS ON NAMING OF EDW. J. FLYNN   Nomination of Democra: tic Chairman Touches Off Fireworks

Democrats, GOP Argue Over Flynn   Republicans Hit FDR’s Nomination To Australian Post

NAMING OF FLYNN ~ DRAWS CRITICISM   BRIDGES SAYS HIS APPOINT. MENT IS “INSULT” TO PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA,

NAMING FLYNN CREATES STIR   Appointment Branded As Insult To Australia; Bronx Paving Quiz  Welcomed

Says Australia Insulted; Senate Gets Nominations  Of Rutledge and Brown

Sen. Bridges Hostile To Nomination   Flynn Wants Hearing; Brown Nominated as Henderson Successor

Bridges Flays Naming of Flynn to Post      Nomination Touches Off Fireworks In New Congress

Flynn Selection Starts Fireworks   Senator Bridges Terms Appointment ‘Insult’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Both Iowa senators—Guy M. Gillette (D) and George A. Wilson (R) —voted for the senate postwar policy resolution Friday.

Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Back An International Peace Organization

Senate Passes Postwar Policy Plan by 85 to 5   Overwhelming Vote Comes After Weeks Of Angry Debate

85-5 Vote Okays Post-War Policy   Adoption Ends 2-Week Period of Debate

SENATE VOTES, 85 TO 5, FOR PEACE POLIC   Backs Moscow Declaration for World Or panization

SENATE ADOPTS PEACE MEASURE   Plan To Preserve Order In World Approved By 85-5 Vote

Senate backs Moscow plan   Five dissenting votes are cast   Senators Butler and Wherry ef Nebraska voted for the postwar policy resolution.

SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION BY WIDE MARGIN   Vote Is 85 To 5 To Back Moscow Four-Power .  Tisslewntinn   JOHNSON, WHEELER AMONG OPPONENTS

85 705, FOR PEACE POLICY   Backs Moscow Declaration for World Or ganization

SENATE APPROVES CONNALLY POLIGY BY 85 10 5 VOTE   Overwhelming Majority Registered to Back Up Moscow Four-Power Plan to Preserve Peace.   (ULBRIGHT RESOLUTION IS NOT INCORPORATE!   Connally Resolution Has Big Punch in Two Short Paragraphs, One Pledges Support to Enforce.

ate Approves ‘ld Peace Plan Vote of 85 to 5   ads Long Debate 1 Post-War Policy;  icks Moscow Pact

Peace Resolution Passes  Senate by 85-5 Vote   Backs Moscow Declaration on Plan To Keep World Free of Wars; Action Ends Long Siege of Debate

Senate Votes To Back Up Moscow Pact   FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO KEEP PEACE IN WORLD; VOTE 85 TO 5 FOLLOWS DEBATE,

Declarations at Moscow Overwhelmingly Supported  ONLY FIVE OPPOSE-—— SENATE RESOLUTION  Final Vete on Post-war Aims Hailed by States_ men

SENATE BACKS MOSCOW TALKS   Four-Power Declaration Approved By Vote Of 85 To 5

Senators Back Declaration of Moscow Parley   OK Connally Proposal But Retain Right To Pass on Alliances

G VITAL NEW. CITIES TAKEN BY THE REDS   More Than Half a Million of Hitler’s Finest Reported “On the Run” in the Caucasus.

NINE MINERS DIE IN BOONE COUNTY BLAST   Explosion Wrecks Section Of American Rolling Mill Mine At Nellis; Mine Resumed Work Only Two Days Ago

CREW TRAPPED IN MINE BLAST   Hamlet 25 Miles From Charleston, Va., Is Scene Of Tragedy

1300 Cartridge Workers Strike   Brass Mill, Cast Shop Closed Down

1  ‘Squeeze Against Back-Pedaling ' German Army Now In Effect ; In Italy, Germany Admits Loss  Of Corsira    RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE SEEN NEARING END

Allied Air Offensive Pounds Axis — from English Channel to Greece   Russian Summer Drive Bog , ged Down by Counter Attacks, Rain.

Yank Drive Thru Italy is Slowed   Royal Air Force Hurls 100 Tons Of Bombs Into Flaming Frankfurt

Ten Block Busters In Four Days   Air Offensives Are HighEnemy Resistance Slows Down Other Advances .

BOMBERS POUND JAPS   j : ;  MacArthur's Airmen Hit Buin-Faisi  Area In Force

French Patriots Stall Italians By Avalanche  4... 85... wD.) BRnccldaewc Beam (Hfl.   Guerrillas Roll Boulders From Cliffs Overlooking Roads To Mountain Bases.

FRENCH HURL ROCKS, SNOW ON ITALIANS      Block Passes in Alps By the Use of Dynamite

Lonely Marines On Pago Pago Long To See Just One American Girl On Their island

Nazis Stab Back Against Russians Near Kramatorsk:   Reds Seize Chain Of Villages West Of Kharkov...

TAKEN BY RUSSIANS   Soviet Forces Rumble Westward Toward the Dnieper West of Kharkev Today.

HEAVY COUNTER DRIVES OPENED BY NAZI FORCE   Russians Claim Chain of Villages West of Kharkov Captured

FARM MACHINE SHIPMENTS 10 BRITISH RAPPED   Full Explanation From Lend Lease Chiefs To Be Demanded   WOULD LIST ALL ITEMS   South Dakotan Shows Dissatisfaction Over Stettinius’ Report

Start Probe — In Race Riots   Predict Lifting of Curfew Restrictions

TABOR UNION  HEADS SCORE * PAY POLICIES   FDR Shows No Sign ‘ Of Relaxing Them After Parley

Wage Control Policies Hit By Labor Leaders At Parley   Program of Administration Is Under Fire at White House Conference—Roosevelt Gives no Sign  of Corisenting to Relax Controls

Labor Heads Attack Waae Controls   Hold Two-Hour Meet With President

Pay Control] easures  Under Fire   BUT PRESIDENT SHOWS NO SIGN OF YIELDING TO DEMANDS OF  LABOR LEADERS AT CONFERENCE,   Living Costs No Hicher

FD Not Likely To Relax Wage Control Policy   Top Labor Men See Ck -* for Two Hours; WLB Hears Coal Case

Wage Control Policies Hit By Labor Men At Meeting  President, However,   President, However, Gives No Indication Government Plans Tah Relavxy Reonlatinne   TO CHECK FIGURES ON COST OF LIVING

Labor Heads Attaek Pay Control  Get Assurances Of Rollbacks in White House Talk

LABOR ATTACKS WAGE CONTROL   Railway Brotherhoods Not Satisfied With 4-Cent Raisc

Labor Criticizes Wage Control in ~ Session With FDR   President Indicates No Relaxation, Suggests Survey of Costs

New Coal Pact ls Attacked At FDR Conference   Roosevelt Sees Labo Leaders On Coal, Railroad Wages

FDR and Labor Leaders Split Over Policies   President Wants Probe of Figures

WAGE CONTROLS DRAW FIRE OF LABOR LEADERS   President Promises Prosecution Of Government Rollback Program   APPALACHIAN MINE OPERATORS PROTEST

New Living Cost Study Proposed By Roosevelt   ‘Little Steel’ Wage Formula Assailed  By Labor Leaders

The Weather   FDR Sticks To Control Of Wages   Labor Denounces Freeze: Price Cuts Promised

Two Branches Of Government In  Clash Over Plax   Solons Seek Delay, But Others Urge Action, With New Furloughs

Impending Allied Offensives Will Mean Calls For Fathers; Induction Furloughs Extended

Draft Fathers Is fo Be Issue   Army Wants Them Soon While Congress Seeks ~ Delay Until Next Year

FATHER DRAFT STIRS BATTLE   Caught In ‘Tug-Of-War Between Executive, Legislative Branches

FATHERS’ DRAFT GALL 1$ NEARER   Furlough Extension Believed Step Toward Early Induction Of Dads

Offensive To Draw Heavily  InU.S. Draft   Wheeler To Ask Blanket Deferment Of Fathers. An Action Opposed By Military Leaders

PRE-INUCTION LEAVES LONGER   Furloughs “Extended to 14 Days; Fathers Caught . In ‘Tug of War’

Dads Caught In Capital Tug-Of-War..... Large Scale Drafting Of Fathers Indicated

Army Wants Fathers To Fill Ranks   Furloughs Believed Aimed at Men Now Deferred

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN   Allied Offensive May Mean Drafting of Fathers   Senator Wheeler to Seek Blanket Datarrant fee Than

Nation’s Dads Caught in Tug-o-War. On Issue of Big-Scale Drafting Soon

Draft Calls For Fathers Hotly Debated   Army Extends Furlough Period For New Inductees to 14 Days   OFFICIALS TO TESTIFY

FATHERS FACE INDUCTION IN NEAR FUTURE   Allied Plans For Invasion May Speed Up Call   EXTEND FURLOUGHS   Senator Wheeler Seek: Blanket Deferment For Dads

Fathers Are Once Again  ‘In Middle’   Executive and Legislative Branches Can't Agree On Draft Procedure

New Offensives by Allies May Result in Caliing Fathers   Sen. Wheeler To Seek Blanket Deferment for All Sires

Senate Starts Action to Halt Draft of Dads   Extend Induction Furlough to Two Weeks, Hint Fathers Soon to Go

‘ather Dratt Comes Up For  Review Soor   lenale Starts Hearings Mon. day On House-Approved Kilday Measure.   KRMY HINTS OF CALL

U.S. Dads Caught In War Tug   Allied Offensive May Mean Drafting of Fathers

Tug of War Over Drafting Fathers On; Extend Furloughs for Inductees

Allied Offensive May Mean Drafting of Dads; Wheeler To Seek Blanket Deferment

New Allied Offensive May Mean Drafting Of Fathers   Fate Is Uncertain With Executive wd Legislative Branches of Government Differing Dn Program

American Fathers In Tug-Of-War   . To Be Drafted or No To Be, That Is The  Onuestion Now

Early Drafting Of Dads On Big  Scale Indicatec   New Congressional Battle To Exempt Fathers Until 1944 Looms.

Fathers Caught In Tug of War   Executive and Legislature Branches Differ as to Induction.

Fathers’ Draft Status Government Tug-of-War   Furlough Period of Inductees Is Extended to 14 Days; 2 Weeks by September 1

FATHERS START TUG-OF-WAR ON DRAFT DISPUTE   Seek Agreement On When Call  Is Necessary

EXPECT DRAFT OF FATHERS IN NEAR FUTURE  SIGNS POINT TO   SIGNS POINT TO NEW OFFENSIVE NOW IN MAKING

Nation's Dads Involved in Tug-of-War   Legislators Seekine Military Service For Fathers

Port Of Salerno Again Bombed By Allied Fliers   Destructive New Attacks Upon Harbor And Rail Junction City   SECOND ATTACK IN THREE DAYS

HEAVY BLOW GIVEN ITALY BY BOMBERS   FIIERS REPORT SALERNO FIRES STILL -BURNING—  MANY NAPLES INDUS  FREES IN RUINS   ,

RENEW BOMBING OF ITALIAN PORT   Flying Fortresses Pound Salerno’s Industries and Rail Yards

Legion Backs Association to Nations to Maintain Peace   Would Implement Group With Force Necessary to Prevent War Recurrence

Legion Would Use Force to Insure Peace   Adopt Resolution Favoring Participation of the United States im Association to Maintain Peace

Legion For Formation of  World Group   Admiral King Addresses Session Today; Given Decoration

LEGION URGES U. 5. EFFORT IN KEEPING PEACE   Convention Adopts Report of Foreign Relocations Body

ScEKG OTEAN JUSTICE FOR AAO. CHIMES   Policy Report ‘Says Interests of Nation Demand Foes’. Be Disarmed,   CHIEF OF NAVY WARNS -.JAPS OF BLASTS TO COME

CANADIAN OIL SECRECY AIREL   Ickes Kept In Dark About Big Expenditure

TESTS CREATE FIRING LINE FURY   Checks 240 Millimeter Howitzer Guns, Weigh Around 60,000 Pounds

Assembly to Get Budget Tonight   Leaders Promise. Prompt Action on Recommendations

Budget Will Be Presented This Evening   Legislature Returns to Listen to Governor Message at 9:30   CHAPMAN IS BUSY

BURMA IS TARGET FOR AIR RAIDS   Air Forces Maintaining Non-Stop Raids.

American Bombers Pound Burma Area   Non-Stop Allied Aerial Offensive Supports Wavell’s : Troops In Drive Towards Western Port Of AKYa)

Axis Speculates On Three-Leadér Meet   Budapest Hints Cairo May Be Meeting Spot

Berlin Expects Conference Soon   Says “Big Three” To Mall At ON on Si

NAZI SOLDIERS MISS $500,000 PRIZE WHEN THEY PASSED WIKHAILOVITCH

Martin Workers For No Union   Re ee:  Close Vote Reported By CIO; Employes Have No Union Contract:

Victory Tax Now in Effect; 5% Taken from Pay Checks   But Eventually American Worker Will Get Some Of I Back In One Form Gr Another; Single Persons Entitled to 25% Refund, While Married Men Can Cet 40%

ALL SALARY CHECKS MW GARRY LEVY   Government Places 5 Per Cent Tax On Incomes

Hepeat Idol Krupa Faces  Federal Narcotic Charges   “King of the Drums” Goes On Trial, Accused of Transporting “Dope” Cigarettes, But Hopes to Win. Acauittal Because He Is Already  Test Granta Sowing Ie: we gree: geen

Yanks’ Smash Perils New Rommel Line   Franco-British Push Takes Cap Serrat; Allies Win Air Duel

Threaten Coastal Defenses   ]   British Capture Cap Serrat As Americans Advance Six Miles Toward Coast.

4) GOUNTY MEN GET ARMY CALL; 10 LEAVE oUON   Draft Board Sending Notices Out to Last of the Single Group. :   MARRIED MEN NEXT   Call Believed to Be Second cf Three Scheduled  for Month. 

40 COUNTY MEN GET ARMY GALL; ~TO-LEAVE SOON   Draft Board Sending No“tices Out to Last of the . Single Group..   MARRIED MEN NEXT   Ne er - ks ‘Call Believed to Be’Second cf Three Scheduled © . for Month. ~~

Fierce Fighting Near Salamaue   Allied Communique Reports New Outbreak In New Guinea Area   REPORT JAPANESE GENERAL DROWNED

HEAVY FIGHTING BREAKS OUT IN N. GUINEA AREA   U. S. Aerial Power Deemed Strong Enough to Hold Japs Off in Solomons, New Guinea

SMALLPOX ATTACKS INDUSTRIAL CENTER   Fight Disease in Steubenville Weirton District

SMALLPOX OUTBREAK AT WEIRTON BATTLED   Threatened Epidemic Ir Area Brings Action

Air Blows Soften Jap  Defenses   Yanks Shoot Down 31 Planes, Lose One in China F cht

LAND TROOPS MAKE NEW GAINS INLAND   Yanks Score 31-1 Victory Over Nip Air Force

U. S. Naval Forces Cause Japs Heavy Damage In Kula Gulf   Details of Action Fought Yesterday Still Lacking Washington Autborities Consider It A Major Encounter   Ry JOHN WTIGHTOWER

RUSS DEFENSES HALT GERMANS ON OREL FRONT   10,000 Soldiers, 738 Nazi ~ Tanks Knocked Out  In First Day   JAP FLEET ENGAGED   Allied Planes Rain Death _ On Italian Islands;  Crete Raided

Warships Engage Japs in Battle in Solomon Vicinity   Americans Gain Control of Vangunu Island Against Stubborn Resistance.   American Battleships Bomb the Jap Bases

DETAILS OF BATTLE IN SOLOMONS STILL LACKING TUESDAY   CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE BELIEVED DONE TO ENEMY NAVAL UNITS

Naval Battle Is Underway in Solomons      Meagre Reports Indicate U. S. Fleet May Be Forcing Jap Navy to Come and Fight

One U. $. Destroyer Sunk; Details : Still Are Lacking   Carried 250 Men

Heavy Losses Inflicted On  JapaneseFleet   Red Armies Block Every Major Nazi Thrust on 165-Mile Front; Kill 6,000 Germans. Destroy 739 Tanks

Yanks Suffer ‘Some Damage’  In Kula Fight   ‘Japanese Forced To Expose Part Of Dwindling ~ Fleet  ;   In Struggle.   NO SHOWDOWN BATTLE

Jap Naval Losses Heavy   Few Details Given Of Battle in Kula Gulf; Engagement Annarentlv-Over Now

Appointment Of Morgan Is  se Disapproved   Former Attorney General Rejected By Senate For State Employment Relations Board

SERVICES FOR MAD. ABENDROTH ARE WEDNESDAY   Tipton Woman Died at St. Vincent’s Hosp'tal, Following Operation. '   LEAVES TWO SONS   Had Been Critically Ill and Her Death Had Been Exnected.

SERVICES FOR ‘WAS, ABENDROTH > ARE WEDNESDAY   Tipton Woman’ Died at St. Vincent's Hosp'tal, Following Operation. '   LEAVES’ TWO. SONS.   Had- Been Critically II, and Her Neath Had Been   ; }- Expected, -

College Holds  Annual Event  On Last Friday Crown Queen And Give Special Progra

College Holds Annual Event On Last Friday  _ Crown Queen And : , - ee . t - ses. & =—_— “a

ALLIED AIRMEN TRIKE HEAVILY AT NEW BRITAIN   Rising Strength of Air Power In Southwest Pacific Shows Results   BLOWS LAND ON BOTH SHORES OF BIG ISLE   Thousands cf Machinegun Bullets Added to Tons of Bombs Dropped on Objectives. Gasmata Area Bears Brunt of Assault

JAPANESE BASE IN NEW BRITAIN HIT BY ALLIES   More Than 100 Bombers Deliver Record Load On Gasmata Section

Wotje and Jaluit Are Hard Hit   Heavy Bombers Make Attacks Against Jap Pacifie Strongholds

NEW DRIVES ON JAPS IN MARSHALLS   Wotie And Jaluit Hit By Army, Navy Heavy Bombers

Wotje, Jaluit Latest fo Feel Attack   Raider Damaged During Raids on Marshall Atolls

HEAVY AT TAGKS  Bt oc ENEMT  ON ALL SIDES   Assault Upon Sicily Rounds Out Week Of Bombardment Of Italian Island

SICILY, NAPLES TARGETS OF 2 HEAVY ATTACKS   Nazi Communication Lines Bombed  By RAF Planes

SEABEES BACK FROM DUTIES ON ATTU ISLE   Navy Men Ready To Serve Anywhere

FIRST OF SEABEES BACK FROM BATTLE      Built Things - - Not Tough Jot Because They’re Tough

Germans Make Powerful Bid to Drive Invaders  From Salerno Bay Area   Claim Allied Ships Evacuating Troops; British Speed Up Advance in Southern Italy, Hoping to Aid Fifth Army

Danish Patriots Sabotage Nazi Barracks. Factories   Germans Blame Jews for Destruction, Search Danish Homes in Purge—Important Power Station Is Wrecked

DANES REPLY WITH BOMBS   Sabotage Outbreaks Dutbres Sequel To Nazi Attempts at  Purge of Jews

Danes Start Fresh Wave Of Sabotage   Blast Troop Barracks, Two Power Stations And War Factories   ANSWER TO NAZIS’ PURGING OF JEWS   Gestapo Intensifies Hunt for Non-Arayans From House to House

Danish Patriots Attack German Troops Barracks   Also Sabotage Power Factories   Five Factories Damaged

Danes Answer Purge of Jews With Sabotage   Nazi Barracks. Pow er Stations. Factories largets of Bombs

Danish Patriots Strike Back: at ~ Nazi Terrorists  Saboteurs Blast Germar   Saboteurs Blast German Barracks, Two Power Stations. Plants”

DANIOH PATRIOTS BLAST GERMANS   Troop Barracks, Two Power Stations, War Factories Are Damaged in Growing Sabotage Campaign

Danes Blast Troop Barracks, Power Stations and Factories; Nazi Purge of Jews Continues

Danes Fight Nazi Troops   Power Stations Being Wrecked By Patriots

‘Saboteurs Strike ' Occupation Army   Barracks, Power Plants. “saries Ranthed

Tax Boost This Year Opposed   Public Hearing:  Open TodayOn  Program

TAX OPPOSITION SEEN BY KNUTSON   HINTS CONGRESS MAY REFUSE TO ENACT NEW REV. ENUE BILL THIS YEAR.

MATTOON BIG ¢ MAN KILLED AT BRIGHTWOOD   Vale D. Followell Knocked Against or Under Locomotive

Axis Troops Fast Fleeing From Sicily   Russians Driving Germans From  City of Kharkov

Jap Fleet Finally Brought Out to Fight After U. S. Warships Blast  At South Pacific Island Installations

Jap Navy Accepts Surface Battle   Norman Bell! Tells Of Enemy Activities tn South Pacific

Over 3,000 Germans Killed in Attack by Soviets  SOZH RIVER LEFT BANK IS CLEARED  Outer Defense of Kiev Is Canotured. Accordina   Outer Defense of Kiev Is Captured, According to Reports

Condon Says Soviet Forces Have Penetrated Outer De. fense of Kiev; Reds Con. verge on Vitebsk, Upper Anchor of Nazi Line

REDS BATTLE MUD, GERMANS ON DNIEPER   Push On Around Kiev; Capture Gomel’s Suburbs Kiiling 30600 Nazis; Widen Grip West of Dnieper.   29 Enemy Tanks

Soviets Push Into Suburbs Of Gomel   Left Bank Of Sozh River Opposite Vital Hub In White Russia Cleared; Grip On West Bank Of Dnieper Tightened

RUSSIAN ARMY WINS GOMEL'S EAST SUBURBS   Reds Also Widen Grip On Dnieper’s West Bank in Ukraine

Over 3,000 Germans Kitl_ed in Attack by Soviets  SOZH RIVER LEFT BANK IS CLEARED!  Pa a “ae ey         Outer Defense of Kiev ‘Is Captured, According to Reports

SOVIETS EXTEND ADVANCE ON WEST BANK OF DNIEPER   London Radio Reports Pene_ tration by Stalin’s Troops of Outer Defenses. of Kiey.   FIERCE RESISTANCE OFFERED BY GERMANS   Muscovites Moving on Crimea From Two Sides—5,300 Nazis Killed in Two Day’s Fichting.

Suburbs of Gomel taken by Russians   Widening hold beyond Dnieper

Soviet Forces Penetrate Outer Defenses of Kiev   Enemy Evacuation Believed Underway in New Victory

Reds Take Gomel Widen Grip on Dnieper Sector   Kill 3,000 Nazis, Reported in Kiev

Soviets Gain Power on Wide Front   Citadel of Gomel Is Next Objective; Fall Ils Expected Now

Reds Menace White Russia Railway City   Seek To Outflank Entire German Line In That Territory  BRIDGEHEADS WIDE?

GOMEL’S EAST SUBURBS FALL TO RED ARMY   DNIEPER WEST BANK GRIP WIDENED IN UKRAINE

CROWD SEES MAN DIE AS CLIMAX TO THRILLER   “The Man Who Hangs Himself and Lives To Tell the Tale” Fails to Make Good   Car Hits City’s Painter As He Paints Safety Sians

Circus Star Who “Hangs Self and Lives” Dies in Accident with Rope

HIS LAST STUNT  THOUSANDS WATCH AS CIRCUS STAR’S ACT FATTS TO CLICK.

CIRCUS STAR DIES IN ACT   5, 500 Spectators Watch Stunt Man Hang Self  Accidentially

SURGING FiO ARMY GLOotg IN ON nOoTO   Russ Force Within 30 Miles  Gateway City, Continues Rapid Advance.   GERMAN RESISTANCE ON SOUTH FRONT CRUMBLES

Russian Forces Moving Rapidly Toward Rostov   Troops 30 Miles Southeast Of Rostov Are Continuing To Advance   ENEMY IS TRAPPED IN WEST CAUCASUS

ESCAPE ROUTE FOR NAZIS 1S BEING CIRCLED   High Command Says Forces 30 Miles Southeast Of City Continue Advance   VOLGA DISTRICT CLEARED   Troops Surrounded In Malkop Area Reported Near State Of Panic

HeD FORGED UANIKG FOR A BIG PRIZE   Russians Are Surging Ferward Across the Nerth Caucasus.   FIGHT FOR KEY CITY   Further to South Russians _ $Strike Relentlessly at the Nazis.

Eisenhower Tells People ‘Breathing Space’ Over, Bombers Will Return   Aerial Assault on Nazi Europe Continues ; British Report Gain in Catania Region ; Moscow Tells of Steady Advance Against Foe

Allies Declare ‘Breathing Space’ Has Ended and That Grand Assault Will Start

‘Temporizing Can No Longer Be Tolerated Badoglio Ministry Told   Germans Have Used Time to Strengthen Own Positions Leader Says; Fight in Sicily Nearing Conclusion; British 8th Making Progress

War Bond Score      Americans Drive North In Sicily; Slovenes Battling

ALLIED AERIAL LEC To AAD! 10 POUND ITALY   Eisenhower Warns Italians Their “Respite Is Over:” Surrender Demanded

Toledo Schools Closed by Strike      Non-Educational Employes Walk Out

AERIAL STRUGGLE IN RUSSIA RAGES OVER WIDE FRONT   Red Army Beats Off Series of Sharp Nazi Attacks ' Along 800-Mile Seg Weank

REDS BEAT BACK SHARP GERMAN PATROL THRUSTS   Russian, German Air Fleets Trading Hard Blows   SOVIET BOMBERS HIT RAILROAD JUNCTION

RED ARMY BLOCKS SHARP THRUSTS OF GERMAN PATROLS   Plane Fleets Trade Blows: Ir Struggle. for Aerial Su. premacy-

Bombing Is Main Russian Feature   Germans Hit Railhead Hard During Weekend

REDS, NAZIS TRADE BLOWS      Struggle For Air Supremacy Overshadows Ground Fighting

REDS BEAT OFF PATROL THRUSTS   German and Soviet Air Fleets Trade Blows

Oregon Valley Is Menaced by Flood Waters   Streams Cause Damage on Two Sides of Nation

56 Receive Treatment For Injuries Suffered 'As Train Leaves Tracks

First Volunteer Invalided Home   Sentinel Man Caught Rare Picture of Battle

INDIANS HELD LIABLE STATE INCOME TAXES   Stale Atlofney General Rules Responsibility One Incurred in Grant of Cilizenship

MOoQUIUS HAD BERMAN, 21. Eh ATTACK S34"   4  Assaults Fellow Up Fortress Bembing of Base at Eremen

BOMBERS AGAIN POUNDING REICH   Dense Screen of Fighters Protect Yank Heavies on New Mission

FDR TELLS LUNCHEON THAT U.N. ARE ON ‘THE OFFENSIVE   Lease-Lend And Ricipro cal Aid Will. Contribute To Axis Defeat

Lend-Lease Paving Way For Victory   United Nations On Offensive, FDR Tells Notables

no! Says Russians  [Aware of Aid   FDR Says Lend-Lease Will Contribute Increasingly to Inevitable Defeat of Axis Nations 

~A PRISONER   This Makes Three First Victims of War Reported — bos afe

vA poten   This Makes ‘Three First Vic: tims: of ‘War Reported Safe 

British Make Follow Up Raid On Frankfurt; Nazi Arsenal City Blazing

Germany Reeling Today Alter Heaviest Air Raids in History   No Sign of Let-up in Day and Night Raids on Germany.

Allied Airmen Continue Their Relentless Bombardment of Hitler’s Key War Industries

Nazis Must Draft Men for Crews Of Their U-Boats  Antisub Campaign Chills Ardor of Germany's Sailors

Nazis Play Up ‘Liberation’ Of Il Duce   Radio Tells, Retells With Gusto Details Of Mussolini ‘Rescue’  MAY REIN RERTIN

Put Mussolini in Command of New Fascist Movement   Berlin Proclaims Establishment After _ Rescue of Il Duce

MUSSOLINI IS HERO OF NAZI MELO - DRAMA      Berlin Says He Was Picked Up By Daredevil German Parachutists and _ Elite Guards.   Hitler To The Rescue

Mussolini Is Reported to Be Heading New Fascist Set-Up; Germans Gleefully Make Most of Escape Yarn

BERLIN SAYS DUKE.      Radio Claims Mussolini Cente ‘mands. New Geverti«

German Yarn on Rescue and Liberation Of Mussolini Given Heavy Nazi Play

Berlin Reports Restoration of Duce to Power   Mussolini Given Direct Command

Nazis Jubilantly Chortle Of New Fascist Regime Under Direct Command Of Musso

DUCE'"RESCUE"   Story of “Kidnaping”’ Told And Retold by Berlin Radio Broadcasters   BULLETIN

Cleveland Editor Shot In Conference  Plain Dealer Manage Given One Of Four  

Man Shoots Publisher   General Manager of Cleveland Paper in Critical Condition

General Manager of Plain Dealer, John NcCarrens, Rallies in Hospital

John S. McCarrens, Shot By Crazed Man, Has One Chance In Four To Live

OHIO PUBLISHER HIT BY BULLETS   John McCarrens, Plain Dealer Manager, Shot By Assailant Who Kills Self

PUBLISHER IS SHOT BY HUNGARY NATIVE   Plain Dealer Manager Near Death - - Assailant Suicides

NEWSPAPER HEAD RALLIES   Given One Out of Four Chances to Survive; Assailant Kills Self

JOHN M’CARRENS SHOT BY MAN HE BEFRIENDED   Doctors Give Him One-ToFour Chance For Recovery

Shot Publisher ~ In Bad Condition   Pieveland Newsman  Mav Not Live .

J.S. MCARRENS ONCE RESIDENT HERE, WOUNDED   General Manager of Cleveland Plain Dealer Shot by Man Seeking Aid—Chance for Recovery lin 4

HAS ONE CHANGE IN FOURTO LIVE   Condition Of General Manger of Plain Dealer Is Critical

PUBLISHER TARGET OF ASSAILANT   Cleveland Plain ‘Dealer Manager Critically Injured; Gunman Turns Gun on Self

M’CARRENS HAS 1 TO 4 CHANCE   Plain Dealer Manager Shot By Foreign Pubtication Editor Who Kills Himself.

Mussolini’ Calls for Re-Birth of Fascist Italy   Ghost Speaker Accuses King Victor Emmanuel of Organizing Coup D’Eta

Mussolini Blames King For Downfall In Nazi Radio Talk   Il Duce Attempts To Rally Support Behind - Waning Fascist Cause In Broadcast Over German Radio

“Mussolini” Talks Over Nazi Radio   Voice of I] Duce Urges Ifalians to Fight Allies Again

‘Voice’ From Berlin Assails E talian King  4 Point National Pr ogr. am. Fixed,

FAablol LTALY TO) Alot AGAIN. OAS “IL DUCE   Purported Mussolini Speech Charges Foul Treachery To King, Badoglio

IL OGL BAGK UN RADIO WITH FAGIT PLEA   Voice Purporting to Be That of Mussolini Slashes at Italian King.   CALLS FOR ITALIANS TO FIGHT THE ALLIES AGAIN

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allies Strike Crippli ng Blows at Gerbini Airfield Networks

Reds Within 90 Miles of Old Polish Frontier   Seviet Columns Fan Out from Kiev

HINT GERMANS PLAN TO WITHDRAW FROM ROME WINTER LINE’   (RIV YT ETING)

Russ Pound on Toward Old Polish Border   Beriin Keports Opening of - Huge Battle Above Kiev

Reds 90 Miles From Old Poland   Fan Out Beyond Kiev in Prelude to New Series of Soviet Hammer Blows

ADVANCING STH CAPTURES VITAL ITALIAN HEIGHT   Yankee and British Armies Score New Gains: Nazi Schooners Taken

May Refer Coal Strike  To Roosevelt   WLB Action Would Return Mines to Government Control

Japanese Face Annitylation In Papua Territor}   » Hopelessly Trapped In Narrow Salient Six Miles North Of Buna   ALLIED FORCES IN CONCLUSIVE DRIVE   Jap Fighting Morale Breaks For First Time As Squad Of Nipponese Surrenders

CONFINED TO NARROW GARRISON   Fleeing Enemy Being Wiped Out As Buna Taken   SOME JAPS SURRENDER   Morale Broken, Only Sanananda Point Remains

JAP SITUATION HELD HOPELESS   Annihilation Of Garrison Or New Guinea Is Goal Of Jungle Troops

Army And Marines Storm Beaches Of Makin And Tarawa   Every Type Of U. S. Naval Vessel Used To Back Invasion Designed To Oust Japs From Central Pacific Strongholds

SNOW STORM IN MOST OF STATE   Four F ‘atalities ‘Resul from Sudden Cc hill ‘Weather.

Snow Fall Is General Over Most of State   Accidents in Which Four Persons Lose Lives Blamed on Storm

Allies Capture Two Key Cities   CLARK KNIFES DEEPER NORTH OF KEY RIVER AGAINST FIERCE COUNTERATTACKS, GERMANS TRY TO BREAK FROM RIVER MOUTH POSITIONS

FTA ARMY PUSHES ON FROM RIVER   Unsuccessful in Stopping Gen. Clark’s Forces at Volturno, Enemy Now Believed Attempting to RPragak Awar

German Lines Crumbling As Allies Strike Sh Army Tes Calas   5th Army Takes Caiazzo, Hard Core Of Foe’s Resistance North Of Bridged Volturno

Nazis in Retreat  On Road to Rome   Germans Withdraw to Mountains North of Volturno  River Under Protection of Artillery Fire to Avoid a Trap ’ ap.   Bridges, Military Installations Are Destroyed as Germans Retreat

Nazi Line — in Hialy Is” Crumbling         -Allies- Take. Four. Maj  Defense ‘Towns After Mak-.. Ing Determined. Assaults.   PRESSURE. BRING. 2 STEADILY INCREASED   ‘Badly Mauled Germans Are.  Trying to. Disengage .. From Close Combat:: ©

NAZIS RETREAT TO MOUNTAINS   Fifth Army Captures Two Cities ir Thrust to Northward.   SEIZE ROAD !IUNCTIONS

CAPTURED BY ALLIES   German Planes Challenge Americans First Time In Days; Two Enemy Ships Sunk

GERMANS FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO QUIT VOLTURNO MOUTH   ALLIES MENACE WHOLE FLANK OF NAZ DEFENDERS

‘ALLIED ARMIES CAPTURE FOUR /MAJGR DEFENSE TOWNS IN SOUTHERN ITALY IN ADVANCE   British Eighth Army Captures Two Major High way Hubs, Campobasro and Vinchiaturo After Moving Up for Six-Mile Gain

TeutonsRetreat To Hights On  Road To Rome   " 5th Army Takes Caiazzo, Amorosi As 8th Seizes Road Junctions To Menace Whole Volturno Flank

Allies Continue to Advance i in Italy   Germans Appear to Be Trying To Break Away From Positions    FIGHTING IS_ BITTER   British Eighth Army Has Seized the Vital Road  Junctions

GREEKS MOVE OUT   Partial Fvacuation Of Salonika Ordered By Germans

INVASION POINTS BELIEVED PICKED BY ALLIED CHIEFS   Strategy For A Great Offensive Is Being Planned Now   TWO PRINCIPAL POINTS. BELIEVED SELECTED

Chase Italians  From Roads In North Sector   Fighters Advance In Mateur Area Near Axis’ Last Naval Base In Africa While Eighth Army Prods Forces  . Guarding Rommel’s Retreat. -

Aled Bombers: Strike at Naples Supply Center.   U.S. Planes ‘Are Believed in’ Raiding Party © -

U.S. Fliers Hammer at Axis Bases   Battle in Mountain Pass Nets 200 Italian Prisoners

FRENCH GAIN IN TUNISIA, TRAP NAZIS   Mountain Pass Captured; Battles Still in Progress

Germans Trapped In Valley Below. Captured Height —   American Planes Bomb Italian Troops "In Aerial Assault on Ghadames Oasis Deen Within Sahara Desert in Tripoli

FRENCH TRAP NAZI FORCE IN VALLEY AT PONT DU FAHS   Enemy Troops Hopelessly Encircled By Fighting Frenrh.

IMPORTANT PASS IS TAKEN, BY FRENCH FORCE IN TUNISIA   Trap , Germans ‘ In” Valley ' Below — Capture 200 Italians. In Other . E Rattle   COMMUNIQUE REPORTS HEAVY AIR ACTIVITY

Hundreds OF Tanks Surge On Kharkov   Overwhelming Numbers 4 Of Foo Press Back Soviets To City's Approaches   HOLD NEW POSITIONS   Heavy Fighting North Of Steel Center Reported; Smolensk Drive Pressed

NAZIS MASS TANK UNITS - INNEW PUSH   Outnumbered Russians Inflict Big Losses On Germans

MASSED AXIS FORCES POUND AT KHARKOV   Moscow Admits Plight of City ls Critical Now

NEW STRIKE ~ HITS AKRON   BUS AND STREETCAR OPERATORS STAGE WALKOUT BECAUSE OF WAGE ‘RULING

Mercury Down Again Tonight   Expected To Be Below Zero With Diminishing Wind

‘ZERO IS PREDICTED   Continued Cold Weather Scheduled For State of Kansas

HITLER CONFERS WITH SATELLITE   Hungarian Regent Called Before Fuehrer For ‘Fence Mending’  In Balkans

ADMIRAL HORTHY HAS PARLEY WITH HITLER   Regent Of Ilungars Conferred Tuo Days With Fuehrer; “Heat” Is Put On Satellite Nation

WITH HORTHY   Conference Seen as Part of Nazi Effort to Prepare To Meet Invasion

HITLER TALKS WITH HORTHY        Conference Séen Nazi Effort lo Prep: Ta Mect Invasion

Impression of Solidarity, Unity Hitler Continues His Efforts To Hold Balkans, Sees Horthy

Nine Men Killed  In Mine Explosion   Two Repo ted Hurt In West Virginia

9 MINERS DEAD, TWO ARE HURT   Explosion at West Virginia Property Reported to State Police

Two Others Are Reported Injured   Explosion Occurs at American Rolling Mill Mina

RAF CONTINUES HEAVY ATTACKS AGAINST REICH   15,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped During June

  Ten Thousand Tons Poured Inte Ruhr Valley, Air Ministry of Engiand Announces; Third Day of July Finds Only Secondary Attacks Reported, But Scales of Success Tip in Alties’ Favor

ALLIED BOMBS BLAST MORALE OF THE GERMANS   15,000 Tons Drop In June Shocks German People; Gives  Nazis Gravest Problem Of All.

All-Time Mark Set by British In June Raids  On Nazi Areas   Retord 15,000 Tons of Explosives Dumped On Europe

J une Bomb Load On Europe Heavy  15,000 Tors Dumped.  Mostly On Germany

Record Weight Of 15,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Europe During June By R. A. F.

STRONG FORCE OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT AGAIN BLAST AXIS   RECORD WEIGHT OF 15,000 TONS BOMBS DROPPED ON EUROPE IN JUNE

Set Bomk Record  in June   15,000 Tons of High Explo: Sives Tossed at Nazis De spite Late Start

JUNE RAIDS HIT ALL-TIME HIGH   15,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Europe Last Month By RAF.   614 ALLIED PLANES LOST

15,000 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON EUROPE IN JUNE  STRONG RAF FORCE —   STRONG RAF FORCE HEAD ACROSS CHANNE! FOR NEW ASSAULTS

15,000 Tons Of Bombs Fall On Foe in June   Allied Planes Continue Their Attacks on Reich

GAS SHORTAGE IS BLAMED ON QUOTA SYSTEM   OPA Officer Charges Ickes’ Agen cy Makes Allocafions Withou Knowing Farm Needs

PAW BLAMED FOR SHORTAGE. NEEDED FARMER GASOLINE  GASOLINE QUOTAS SET ON BROAD REGIONAL  BASES WITHOUT THOUGH

Enters Plea Of Not Guilty   Divorced Husband Of Accused To Tulsa

Bond-For Mrs. Howard Denied   —[nnocent Plea Is Entered At Hearing

ACCUSED SLAYER CALM IN COURT   Crowd Jams Tulsa Courtroom As Mrs. Howard Pleads Innocent Saturday

ALLIED BOMBERS POUNDED HITLER'S EUROPE WITH 15,000 TONS OF BOMBS DURING MARCH: ROTTERDAM BLASTED

HOLIDAY FATALITIES SET NEW LOW MARK   Report Only 230 Casualties Throughout Nation

Holiday Toll Of Accidents Light In U. S.   230 Fatalities, Safest In Years

230 Holiday Deaths Lowest In Long Time   103 Traffic Deaths, 51 Persons Drown

it Robert Butler OF St. Pauls Goes On. Bombing Raid   Flying . Fortress Sinks Carefully Camouflaged Jap Ship...

SCHOOL NOTICE TO PARENTS      The Wellsboro Elemen. tary School Opens Next Wednesday.

BOLOGNA BLASTED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Crippling New Blow Hit at Italian Rail System

BOLOGNA RAIL YARDS POUNDED   Fortresses Stage 1,500 Mile Hop To Blast Transport Lines;  ‘Toe’ Bombed

AMERICANS HIT ITALIAN RAILS   Blast Targets Near Naples Rome; Down 23 Enemy Planes

Reds Slug Way  To German Base   Nazis Rock Back and Forth Under Heavy Attack on Orel Sector.

Tecese  Drive To Cut Nazis Off In Orel Secto  Russian Armies Move Swiftly Against Foe

Nazis Faced By Critica! Pinch Move Of Red Men   Soviet Tanks Roll Deep Into Enemy Territories

Red Tanks Deep  In Enemy’s Rear   Russians About to Cut Orel to-Bryansk Railway

PRESSURE IS INCREASED ON AXIS BASTION   Advancing Red Armies Batte Away Swiftly Across ‘Rolling Fields to Cut Off Railway Base  NAZIS REELING BACK

Russians Push Toward Orel   Move Swift in Effort To Cut Off Important German Center

Soviet Army Moves Ahead In Orel Area   Germans Reeling Back Under Power of Sledge Hammer Blows of Reds

Tank Detachments Roll  Deep Into Enemy’s . Reger     NAZI ARMIES REEL   pana ARMIES REEL  Soviets Have Springboard 8 Miles Northeast of Keay Clic

GERMAN FORCES REELING UNDER SEVERE BLOWS   Soviets Drive to Approaches Of Orel, Adding Four Miles in March

Russians Advancing On Orel   Nazis Give Ground Under Red Army’s Terrific Blows

Red Armies — Move Swiftly Toward Orel   Nazis Driven Back by Russian Counteroffensive; One-Third of Sicily Now in Allied Hands; 8 Jap Ships Sunk, 62 Planes Downed

Red Tanks Cut Into German Rear At Orel   Detachments Reach Base Approaches; Massed Soviets Are 8 Miles Away   ROLL ACROSS FIELDS   Hitler's Forces Declared Reeling Back Along 165 Mile Front

Soviets Master "Fluid Defense’ Advance On Ore  Nazis Fail In Move To Pinch Off Red

Russians Drive Against Strong Bastion of Orel   German Forces Pushed Back In Counterattacks

SMASH 98 MORE GERMAN TANKS INLAST2DAYS   Soviets Mass hte Launch Drive Agains Otputha River Valley

REDS REACH APPROACHES TO OREL BASE   Penetration Made by Tanks as Main Vanguards Move Forward Swiftly Toward Base From the Northeast.

Reds Push Steadily cn, Move Fear Orel Rails   Seek to Cut Line Linking ' German Base and Bryansk; Tanks in Deep Gain   ROLLING ACROSS OPEN COUNTRY   German Losses Continue ’ Peavy as Reds Maintain 8 Fdoead Drive

SOVIET FORCES THREATEN OREL   Red Army Moves To Cut   Vital German  Railway

LIQUOR BILLS STUMP HOUSE   Adjourns After Two-Hour  Discussion of Question

0) WARPLANES LOST BY JAPS AT N. GEORGIE   US. Transport. ‘Disabled But No! Personnel Lost. Five-Pronged Drive by Americans

Was Taken After a Fierce Sea and Air Battle Off Rendova Island; Is Near Japan’s Munda Airbase.   SIXTY-FIVE ENEMY AIR CRAFT DOWNED   Seventeen U. S. Planes and a U. S. 7,700-Ton Transport Were Lost in the Battle.

JONCORD NEARS QUOTAINTHIRD WARLOANDRIVE      Last Opportunity to “Bacl the Attack” ;Buy Bonds Now

DELAYING ACTION IS ADOPTED BY GERMANS   Ease With Which Foggia Was Faken Indicates Nazis Are Fighting Without Hope of Holding the Lower Part of Italien Peninsula—Fall of Foggia Hailed by President As Highly Important.

(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE  Se se... oe 4 4onvr. og A weate Seren

BIG GUNS RAKE SALAMAUA BASE   American Jungle Troops Drive Closer To Air Field At Munda

AMERICANS GAIN ON MUNDA FRONT   DRIVE FORWARD 500 TO 1,200 YARDS TOWARD BIG JAPANESE AIR BASE.

SALAMAUA BASE IS SHELLED BY ARTILLERY GUNS   First Time Jap Base Has Been Within Range; Ad vance On Munda

Heavy Gains At Munda Reportec   Big Jap Base Now. In Artillery Range

Americans Get Closer to Jap Base at Munda   Enemy Airdrome Now Under Artillery Fire; Grourl Troops Gain 500 to 1.000 Yards

GROUND FORCE DRIVES NEAR MUNDA BASE   No Specific Details Given By Admiral Halsey Except  Material Has Been Captured   Battery Fire

Americans Gain In Munda Drive; Shell Salamaua   Steady but Slow Progress Made against Strong Enemy Base

AMERICANS GAIN ON MUNDA BASE   Ground Forces Drive Forward 500 to 1,200 Yards; Allied Artiliery Opens up on Salamaua

YANKS PRESS FORWARD ON MUNDA BASE   Report Ground Gains As Artillery Shells  Jap Positions

Heavy Gains At « Munda Reported   Big Jap Base Now In. Artillery’ Range:

American Ground Forees Gain  In Drive For Munda Air Base   Considerable Quantities of Material Captured, Re ports From South Pacific Command Re. late—Progress Slow

ADVANCES MADE AT MUNDA BASE   J. §. Soldiers, Marines Move Forward 500 to 1200 Yards in Ground Fight

Allied Artillery Blasts Japanese Base At Salamauc   Sixty-Foot Section Of Francisco River Bridge Knocked Out; Direct Hits Scored On Enemy Anti-Aircraft Batteries

BILLINGS GIVES LATEST DATA ON NEW GAS QUOTAS   Chairman Of Local OPA Board Discusses Manner In Which Gasoline Will Be Allocated Under Reduced Coupons.

Cut In Gas Ration Made Necessary By War Needs; OPA   Extra Allowances will be Granted Only for Essential Purposes

MAX STEPHAN LOSES FIGHT; TOBE HANGED   Convicted Traitor Denied Review by the Su. Ppreme Court

TRIBUNAL DENIES STEPHAN REVIEW   Action - Apparently Closes Last Avenue of Escape From Scaffold

Detroit Man Doomed to Die For Treason as Supreme Court Denies Appeal

Stephan Bid For Life Is Denied Him   SUPREME COURT BLASTS HOPE OF DETROIT RESTAURANT KEEPER WHO AIDED ESCAPED GERMAN PRISONER.   Denied Evil Intent

STEPHAN LOSES GALLOWS FIGHT   Death Sentence Against Detroit Man Upheld By High Court

High Court Spurns Plea of Man Who Aided Fleeing Nazi  Detroit Restaurant Owner Apparently Doomed to Hang  ACCEPTS OTHER CASES  Alien Curfew, Rent  Control Test Cases Mh Dp. Db

Costs U. S. $15,000 A Month For Damage Done To African Civilians

Higher Allowance  For Hero's Family  Service Men's Childrer Are Considered First

RAISE FAVORED IN ALLOTMENTS   Higher Payments Sought For Children Of Service Men

Army, Navy Back Children's Boost   Oppose Increase In Pay to Wives

Army-Navy for Higher Payments To Dependents  Oppose Boost to of Soldiers

Higher Payments For Children of Draftees Sought  Army and Navy Bacl Prapodall, Gpiesl sing  Kane? tar Wives

Army, Navy Back Higher Payment For Children   Childless Wives’ Increase Denied

Army, Navy Ask Higher Allowances  For Children  Oppose at Hearing   Oppose at Hearing Any Increases  To Childless Wives Of Men in Service   SENATE MEASURE GENERALLY FAVORED   GENERALLY FAVORED  But Departments Balk At Being Involved  In ‘Family Relations?

Army Backs Higher Pay to Servicemen Children but Not for Childless Wives

OFFICIALS PREPARE 10 DRAFT FATHERS   inductions in Maryland to Start First Week in October

Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Will Be Inducted in Maryland after Oc. 1

LOCAL GET READY T0 DRAFT FATHERS   Some ‘Objections To MeNutt Plan Are Raised   By Concrecsmen   100,000 MARYLANDERS BEING RECLASSIFIED

@ BLAME FOOD FUMBLING  Farm Leaders Demand Action to Restore ‘Food-for-All”’ Basis

Rangers Use Gas in Texas Race Rioting   Night of Violence  Result of Attack On Woman

Russians Bag 2,821 Planes ‘In FiveWeeks   Soviet Bombers Continue Steady Blows at Nazi Air Arm

AUSS DEALING. NAZI AIR ARI HEAVY BLOWS   Destroy 2,821 Planes in Five Weeks; Strafe Airfields Behind Germans.   BERLIN REPORTS BOMB RAIDS EAST OF MOSCOW

BLAST NAZI AIRFIELDS ©   Efforts ‘Have Cost Germans 2821 Planes in 5 Weeks

Soviet Bombers Blast Airfields On Donets Front   Nazi Plonis Losses Set At 2,821 Planes In Past Five Weeks

German Dromes Near Donets Front Blasted   Nazi Air Arm Loses 2,821 Planes in Bica Waaka

SOVIET PLANES CONTINUE BLOWS AT NAZI FIELDS   Destroy 2.821 Planes In Five Weeks — Leave Many Fires Burning

Valley Bank Deposits   Nassau Murder Case Is Like Story In A Play   Cast Of Famous Characters March Before Court As Oakes Killer Is Sought

Labor Opposes Freezing Order   Objections to Be Aired at Regional Board Meeting

FREEZING’ OF JOBS BRINGS OBJECTIONS   ‘New Ruling for Essential Workers Draws Criticisme.      LABOR SPOKESMEN AGREE ON PURPOSE   Union President Predicts 600,000 Soon Be Out of Work.

Coastal Area Of   France Cleared  Nazis Making Ready To  Meet Invasion

Nazis Fear Ally ? Invasion Along *  France, Get Set   Civilians Are Cleared From Wide Area *

Nazis Clear South Coast   Huge Lending Beach Area Fortified ia Pre-Invasion Frenzy

NAZIS BUSY IN SOUTH FRANCE   Civilians Cleared From 50Mile Strip; Rush New Fortifications.   —RY ERNEST AGNEW

EIGHTEEN YOUTHS — “TO FT, LEAVENWORTH   Will Undergo Final Type Physical Examination for Acceptance in Service.

29 SELECTEES TO FT, LEAVENWORTH   Five Livingston County Men Were Transferred to Other Local Boards.

EIGHTEEN MORE POTENTIALS 60 FOR ARMY EXAM   Seven Others From This County Will Be Sent From Other Points.   ED BARTLETT LEADER   This Is Second Contingent Sent From This County During October.

19 SELECTEES GO “TO FT, LEAVENWORTI   Will Underge, Examination For Acceptance By Land or Naval Forces.

TWENTY-SIX YOUTHS TO FT. LEAVENWORTH   They Will Undergo The Final Type Physical Examination for Service.

13 SELECTEES T0 FT, LEAVENWORTH   Will Undergo Final Type Physical Examination for Acceptance Into Service.

COUNTY SENDS 22 MORE SELECTEES FOR WAR SERVICE   Group Goes Today by Special Bus to Leavenworth Induction Center.   TWO ARE TRANSFERRED   James Runkle, Former High. way Patrolman, Was in Charge of Group:

16 SELECTEES 50 TO FT. LEAVENWORTH   Will Undergo Final Type Examinations for Acceptance Into the Army Services.

LEWIS, AFL CONFER   Miners Return Tea Fold subject Of f niem Segetiation

Begin Consideration Of U.M.W.'s Bid To Return To A.F. Of L. Fold

Parley Begins on Merger  for AFL-UMW   John L. Lewis .Heads United ‘Mine Worker Delegation; See ‘Problems Solved

UMW Chiefs Study Bid To Rejoin A.F.L.   Lewis and Five of His Top Executives Confer With Opposing Leaders   BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Lewis And Aides Confer With AFL  Delegation Considers Comeback Of UMW

LEWIS BIDS FOR RETURN OF UMW TO FOLD OF AFL   UNION CHIEFS OPEN CONFAB IN PLAN TO END LABOR TURMOIL

WORK ON PLAN TO RETURN U.M-W. TO CRAFT UNION FOLD   Lewis and Five Aides ‘Parley. With AFL Vice’ Présidents on Bid—Jurisdictions Chief Obstacle

Alienists Say Stencil Insane  To Be Committed T: State Institution

Son of Hitler's  Hangman Slain   Vengeful Czech Strikes for Lidice

CARNIVAL STUNT ENDSTN TRAGEDY   Sharpshooter’s First Miss in 41 Years Causes Death of Wite.

Para Voltear El Flanco Lzquierdo De Les Alemanes   los 'ngleses Se Apoderaron De Posiciones Al Norte Del Sangro

PRESTON YOUTH KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER   Rites Thursday For . Staff Sergeant Leo F. Rohlfs At Craig

Sergeant Rohlfs Killed As Army Bomber Crashes  Preston Twp. Youth ~ Was One Of Three Accident Victims

Hard Liquor Ban ‘in All Army Camps  Officers Can No   Officers Can No Longer Have Their Cocktails

War Department Quietly Bars Hard Liquor in U.S. Military Establishments

Senafe GOP's In Gesture To End Bickering  Lt. Gov. Harris Voice: Stinging Rebuke fo Canalase fiuae Rienrke

Senafe GOP's. In Gesture To. End Bickering   lt Gov. ‘Hartis Voices “Stinging Rebuke fo “Senators Over Dispute

DOCTOR TREXLER LECTURE WILL BENEFIT SCHOOL   “Christianity’s Part In Reshaping The World” Is Theme Of Meeting

Doctor Trexler — To Lecture Here   Will Speak August 22nd At Congregational Church

Legion Chief Assails Strikes  CE cee eee see   Labor Convention Hears Atherton

DISSERVICE TO LABOR   National Legion Commander De. nounces Strikes in War Time

,LEGION’S CHIEF HITS AT STRIKES   yWorren Atherton in Forceful Address Before AFL in Boston Meeting

POLISH-RUSSIAN RIFT CREDITED TO GERMANS   Nazis Are Believed to Have Smartly Fostered Friction ‘Between Two Countries — Rupture of Relations Is Viewed As Major Defeat fer Both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister . Churchill af Ennclana

British, U.S. Seek To Mend  Broken Front   Russian Suspension Of Relations With Poles Hurts Allied Lines   SOVIETS ASK PURGE   Would Have Poles Take Foes Of Russia Out Of Government

RUSSIA DEMANDS PRESENT LEADERS BE PURGED NOW   Soviets Claim Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Rests on Ousiing.

Poland May Ask F.R. Aid   U. S. CHIEF, CHURCHILL MAY BE ASKED TO STEP INTO DIPLOMATIC CRISIS

Poles Reported Considering An Appeal to Roosevelt, Churchill To Intervene in Russ-Pole Crisis

REDS’ BREAK WITH POLES CONSIDERED DIPLOMATIC DEFEAT      Nazis Chaaged With Causing _ Rupture Between Polish ; And. Russian ce, res Pn

Poles May Ask Help of US., Britain   Plans for Healing Polish-Russian  Rupture Studied

Soviet, Polish Break Seen As Defeat For FDR And Churchill: U. S., Britain Moves To Reunite Two Governments

POLISH CHIEFS MAY APPEAL TO FR CHURHCH   Moscow Wants Purge of Anti-Soviet Elements in Polish Exile Rule

'STYLE RUPTURE DEFEAT FOR US., BRITISH LEADERS   Comes At Time When Washngton Was Attempting To Appease Soviets

Rupture of Polish-Russian Diplomatic Relations Viewed « As aWMaior Defeat for Roosevelt-Churchill Diplomacy

Poush-Red Rift Seen As Defeat For Allied Heads   Consider Appeal To Roosevelt, Churchill  For Intervention

Willkie’s “One World” Purchased For Movies   Twentieth Century-Fox Pays $100,000 For Rights to Produce

MORE FIRES ARE ‘INDLED, OTHER DAMAGE IS DONE   Estimate 30°Major Raids Are Necessary to Cause Destruction te Equal That at Hamburg.   AIR ARMADA GUIDED  BY PREVIOUS FIRES   British Forces Advance Wing Six Miles For Occupation of Inland Highway Lead ing to Rome.

Sends Another Wave 01 Giant Bombers Against Burning Nazi Capital

BERLIN GETS SRD PASTING IN O NIGHTS   British Bombers Set New Fires In Nazi Capital

Third Terrific Block-Buster Raid Hits Capital; City Is Marked For Annihilation   Citizens Leaving City En masse — 10,000 Believed Dead — Only 20 Planes Lost as 1.500 Tons Dron.

NeW LOAD OF DEATH oLAPS. STRICKEN CITY   Third Assault by Air Smashes Blazing Ruins; People in Flight,

BURNING BERLIN qT AGAIN BY RAF ARMADA   Reich Capital ‘Aamburged’

RAF SHOWERS 1,900 TONS OF BOMBS ON CITY   Planes Guided By Light Of Great Fires From Previous Raids

Fires In German Capital Stoked By 2nd Straight British Bomber Raid   Explosive Tonnage Believed to he Larose: Destruction is Widespread

ITALY’S BIG CITY IN FLAMES; NAZIS SLAY THOUSANDS   Fifth And Eighth Armies Near Key _ City: As Enemy Prepares To Leave —Battle Of Salerno Bridgehead Is Néw Over _

RED ARMY NOW ROLLS FORWARD TOWARD POLAND   Great Three Front Soviet Offensive Gains Momentum with Each Passing Maur

SOVIET TROOPS CAPTURE VITAL RAILROAD HUB   Believe Nazis Unable To Stop Reds Short of Bug River

‘Reds Roll Toward 1939 ~ Border With Poland in _ 3-Pronged Advance

Russians Plunge Toward Frontiers   a berbeetinle Apnay Gaine Momentunr   -—Vetutin‘'s Army Gains Momentum In Drive Across Frozen Steppes

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON OLD BORDER   Germans Will Find Little Pro tection Before Reaching Bug River in Poland.

SOVIET ARMY ROLLS TOWARD 1939 BORDER   Germans Face Reds On Three Fronts In New Attaclxs

Russians Close to Frontier   Natural Defense Obstacles Few on Steppes

RUSSIANS ROLL TOWARDS REDS’ 1939 FRONTIER   Soviets Shove Nazis Back Nine Miles to Threaten Nikopol

Russians Roll Toward 1939 Frontier   Few Natural Defense For Germans East Of Bug River

Vatutin Expands 42 42-Mile Breach, Pursues Disorganized but Fiercely Resisting Germans   GIRDS ZHITOMIR   Russians Regain Dnieper Dam in South, Continue Envelopment of Vitebsk in North

RUSSIANS ROLL FORWARD IN THREE-FRONT ATTACK   Gen. Vatutin’s Forces Press On Toward Gorodnitza, On Old Polish Border, After Spectacular Capture Of Korosten—Germans May Be Unable To Stop Soviet Advance Short Of Bug River In Poland—Other Red Units Rapidly Closing In On Zhitomir

SOVIETS RACING TOWARD POLAND   Vatutin’s Army Within 48 Miles of Town on PolishRussian Border

Soviet Forces Press Toward 1939 Frontier   Gen. Vatutin’s First Ukraine Army Within 48 Miles of Border Town of Gorodnitza

REDS PUSHING ‘TOWARD THEIR 4939 FRONTIER   Aiming For Plunge Out of Soviet Territory; Ex- hausted Nazis Continue to Resist

BEFORE HEAVY SOVIET DRIVE   Russians Prepare For First Plunge From Soviet Territory

Soviet Army Drives Past Korosten   German Armies In Retreat Across Frozen Steppes

Russo Troops Closing On Big Zhitomir Base   Exhausted German Forces In Full Retreat; Advances Made In Vitebsk Area

Retreating Nazi Army Thoroughly Disorganized   Russian Troops Roll Through Break 12 Miles Wide In Enemy Lines; Enemy Exhausted

DERSEXTEND RATIONIN   First Group of K. U. Army Enlisted Reserves to  Report March 6

NEED FOR EXPRESS HIGHWAYS WILL BE SUBJECT OF SURVEY   Selatan Providing For Post. War Construction is Given  White House

MAGAZINE DECLARES GASOLINE RATIONING 15 BECOMING FARCE  OIL AND GAS JOURNAL GIVES FIGURES TO SUPPORT CONTENTION

Gas Rationing Termed A Farce  Oil And Gas Journal  Favors New Proocrar

Gas Rationing Becoming Complete Farce Is Charge   Rationing Procedure Should Be ‘Equitable’ And Then Enforced; Gas Plentiful

MUSTERING-OUT PAY PLAN OKEVED   Indications That Solons May Try to Raise Ante Evident in Senate

AIR FLEETS PLAN ASSAULT ON BERLIN   And Balkan Capitals With Two-Way Shuttle Bombing; Will Get Under Way In Near Future.   Prime Target

Berlin Among Objectives Battered; Big Warplanes To Hit Nazis from Italy

New Headache for Hitler: Great Fleets of Shuttle Bombers Soon To Launch Attacks on Nazis

BULGARIANS MAY ACT SOON AFTER — SOFIA-BLASTING   Three - Tremendous Explosions From Time Bombs Rock City Shortly Before Kir Attack Onens.   GERMANS IN DISORDERLY FLIGHT BEFORE RUSSIANS   Various Defenses Are Used as American Heavy Bombers Stage Daylight Attack Over Germany.

HEAVY DAMAGE IS INFLIGTED BY LIBERATORS   Resignations of Premier and Other Cabinet Ministers Are Reported.

BED BY LIBERATORS: OF U.S. FORGES   Atteck May Hasten Bulgaria Move Out Of ‘Axis   TWO-HOUR BOMBING WAS VERY EFFECTIVE

U.S. AIRMEN RAID CAPITAL OF BULGARIA   Bulgar Premier Reported To Have Resigned

U.S. BOMBERS BLAST SOET FOR 2 HOURS      Trying to to Hurry : Bulgariain = Quitting the Axis

SOFIA BLASTED BY BOMBERS AS CRISIS MOUNTS   Liberators Hasten* Attempt To Force Bulgaria From . War

Bombers Blast Sofia: Bulgarian Crisis Mounting   Premier, Two Other Cabinet Ministers “Quit Their Posts.

U.S. HEAVY BOMBERS BLAST SOFIA. BULGARIA   Crisis Mounts With Resignation of Premier and- Cabinet Officers

Yanks Bomb Sofia  As Cabinet Crisis Boils in Bulgaria   AMERICAN BOMP™ RS OVER REICH AGAIN

TOMATO JUICE POINTS HALVED   That’s Only Change In New OPA Regulations on Processed Foods.

LIST POINT VALUES OF PROCESSED FOOD FOR MONTH OF JUNE   Little Possibility of Fundamental Changes This Summer   TOMATO JUICE DOWN   Table Elective June 6th; Covers Canned, Bottled, Frozen Foods

TOMATO JUICE POINTS DOWN   One Minor Change on List Of Canned Goods Values

OPA Issues ‘CannedFoods - Point Values   Table Effective Sunday Covers Soups, Fruits and Vegetables

NEW SCHEDULE “ON PROCESSED FOODS SUNDA   Only One Minor Change for June from Last. Month’s Point List.   TOMATO JUICE DOWN   Likely That the June List Will Be Effective During the Summer.

ONE SHIFT.IN ‘POINT VALUES   POINT. “VALUE OF TOMATO  Se MOR CUR. IN. ON] CHANGE FOR PRO. CESSER FOORS

Few Changes In Point Values Of  Processed Foods   O. P. A. Table Of Point Values For June Is Announced To Nation Today   ALTERATION DURING SUMMER UNLIKELY

©.P.A. Cuts Tomato Juice Ration Point Costs in Half:   All Other Current Blue Coupon Values Expected to Stand Unchanaed

BELGIANS UNDER NEW NAZI RULES   Entertainment Banned ir Nation's Capital

LIQUOR BILL IS. OPPOSED   ARMY AND NAVY SAYS’ O'DAN" 1EL MEASURE WOULD RESULT IN PROBLEM OF SPEAKEASIES

British Forces Wage Fierce Tad : Battle on Eastern End of Italia Front   AIR WAR LIMITED   Germans Throw 5th Mountain D: vision, Broughi from Russia, i Fight Against Americans

FIFTH ARMY PINCERSMOVEMENT CLOSING IN ON SAN PIETRO  EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURED OR DESTROYED FIFTEEN GERMAN TANKS

Yanks Reach Edge Of Key Nazi Bastion   Hand-To-Hand Fighting In Italy Routs Germans From Strong Defenses.

Yanks Close In on Segment  of Rome Road   San Pietro Battle in Second Day of Bitter Fighting

5th Army Rings San Pietro Base  Hand-To-Hand Fighting Rages For Village

Fifth Army Closes Gap   Pincers on Heavily Fortified Village of San Pietro Tightened

American Infantry Closing In On Road to Rome  Battle for San Pietro Roars Through Second Day of Fury

PINCERS MOVE OF FIFTH ARMY BAGS CASSING   NAZIS SHIFT MEN FROM RUSSIA TO MEET THREAT

Fifth Closing In On Cassino   Nazis Fight Bitterly As Jaws Of Pincers Tighten

Jaws Closing  On San Pietro   Yanks Of Allied Fifth Army Closing In On Cassino Rome Road.

Americans At Outskirts Of San Pietro   Germans Ousted From Pillboxes In Fierce Close-in Fighting

Eighth Army Victorious In Series Of Tank Battles _ Bad Weather Grounds Big Bombers But Lighter Planes Range Over Balkans, Italy

Pincers Thrust Leaves Nazis One Road For Escape   Fifth Army Closes in on the Germans at Italian Village of San Pietro.   Eighth Army Captures Fifteen Nazi Tanks   Enlarge Foothold On New Britain   Meanwhile Allied = Air Forces Keep Japs on Defensive on Pacific Front.

SAN PIETRO IS ABOUT T0 FALL TO ALLIED ARMY   Would Cut Off Many Miles To Rome March

PINCERS CLOSE ON ITALY HUB   SAN PIETRO TOTTERS IN AMERICAN DRIVE -

AMERICANS THREATEN SAN PIETRO   British ‘Troops Also Score Successes On Adriatic Coast

YANK INFANTRY HAMMERS FOE   Hand-to-Hand Conflict Con tinues as Allies Push Toward Village

Fifth Army Is Closing  Pincers On San Pietro   Navzi-Held Villawe  Strongly Fortified; Kighth Destroys O1 Caplures 15 Tanks

“Yank Pincers Closing  on. ‘German Key   U.S. Troops Reach Outskirts of San Pietro; British in Armored Battles —

REACH EDGE OF SAN PIETRO IN CAINS IN ITALY   5th Army Pincers Closing In on Heavily Fortified Village

‘Eighth Army Also Runs Inte Stiff Resistance—Alflieg Continue to Bomb Ralkanc

Yanks Battle Way Into Ttalian Town   Baad-to-Hand Fighting Continues Second Dav

Americans Battle For Italian Town   Pincers Movement Closes in On Heavily Fortified San Pietro

KEYNAZIPOST BELOW CASSINO NEAR CAPTURE   Germans Routed From Pillboxes in Hand to to Hand Fighting by Clark’s Forces in Italy.   RESISTANCE OF FOE.  CONTINUES STIFF   Meanwhile, British Eighth Reports Capturing or Destroying 15 Enemy Tanks in Battles

CLARK'S TROOPS CLOSE PINCERS ON SAN PIETRO   BATTLE GERMANS ON OUTSKIRTS OF FORTIFIED TOWN

Nazis Driven Form Pillbox Strongholds   British Eighth Army Smashes German Tank Attack

Americans. Drive Into San Pietro   Fifth Army Pincers 1: Closing On. Fortifiec Village Seven. Mile: Below Cassino :

Yanks Circle Nazi Bastion  Sth Army Closes in   5th Army Closes in On Cassino Plain Gateway Below Rome

Clark Threatens ‘Important Rome, Cassino Highway   San Pietro Virtually Surrounded By American: Eighth Army Meets Stiff Resistance

Fifth pincers  close on town  of San Pietro   Hand-to-hand  fisht continues

YANKS VIRTUALLY SURROUND TOWN   Pincers Close in on Segment : Of Rome Road   HAND-TO-HAND CLASHES   Germans Struggle to Hold Gateway to Plain; Eighth — Meets Resistance

Fifth Army Closing On  San Pietro   Pincers Movement Hurled At Fortified Village Near Cassino

Fighth Army Destroys Nazi Tanks   Fifth Army Closes In on Heavily Fortified Village

US. Infantry Hacks Path To San Pietro   Jaws of 5th Army Pincers Ring Strongpoini, Trap Nazis

PRESS UPON FORTIFIED SAN PIETRO   Success in Battle, a Handto-Hand Action Against Pillboxes, Would Chop  Off Big Part of Road     to Rome.

Fifth Army Closes i ins _ on Enemy   Pincers Move: Is Developed: Near Casino as Eighth Fights Bitter Battles: >:      DIGGING: GERMANS . OUT OF PILL. BOXES      - Mountain Battles s

Americans Face Bitter Fighting For San Pietro   Village On The Road To Rome Virtually Is Surrounded

5th Tightens Pincers on * San Pietro   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages as Nearby Lagone Falls ta Assault

F itth’s Pincers Close On Nazi Stronghold —   ~ Hand To Hand Fighting Rages On Outskirts OFf San Pietro.

SAN PIETRO IS SCENE OF HARD, CLOSE FIGHTING   Doughboys Dig Germans Out Of Then Pillboxes One By One In Hand - Io. Hand Battle.

Fifth Starts Pincer Move on San Pietra   Bitter Fighting Rages in Town's Outskirts; 8th Destroys Tanks

Sth Pincers Slosing On San Pietro   Hand to “ Fighting ‘ Continues for  Second Day

A 5TH ARMY PINCER MOVEMENT CLOSED IN ON SAN PIETRO   Village, Seven Miles South west of Cassino, Heavily Fortified.   GERMANS LOST 15 TANKS   U. S. Troops Reached Outskirts of Town Where Hard Fighting Occurred.

Strike Slows Rubber Plant  ‘Construction   1,500 Laborers Go Out When U. S. Board Refuses To Grant Wage Increase

Bob. Koenig Cited As One Of Hamburg Raid Bombers   Parents Here Relieved; Haven't ‘Heard From “Him For 2 Weeks

Bob Koenig Cited As One - Of Hamburg. Raid: Bombers   Parents Here Relieved; ~ Hexen’ t ‘Heard - From .  ‘Lim For 2 Weeks

» Butter Shottage to Continue for Next Few Months Despite Federal Let-Up

SHORTAGE OF BUTTER WILL REMAIN ACUTE   Lowered milk supply has cut sharply into production

Penalties For Changing Jobs Set Up By WMC   New Hiring Controls Put Transfers Under - Rigid Supervision

New WMC Rule Bans Job Change In Vital Industry For Same Or Lower Pay

WORKERS FACING STIFF PENALTIES FOR JOB SHIFTS   WMC Tightens lts Controls Under New Rules

NEW MANPOWER RULES SEVERE   Violations Mean Loss of Jobs, Says Commission

RULINGS ISSUED ON JOB CHANGING   149 Critical Occupations Are Included on List of Essential Plants.

WMC DIRECTIVE IS ISSUED TO WARN QN CHANGING JOBS   Violation Of Hiring Plan May Result In Loss “Of New Position, Unemployment

Workers Who Violate Job Transfer Rules Face Loss of Work 60 Day:

Manpower Commission Holds Men Changing Jobs in Violation of Rules Will Be Jobless 60 Days

Penalty Set For Changes in Jobs Without Release   WMC Rules Such Workers May Stay Idle for 60 Days

Official Word on Conference in ‘Iran Is Withheld   Presumably Delayec Until Churchill, F.D. R. Reach Home

Details of Iran Parley Withheld —   Churchill and FDR Believed On Wav Home

Nazi Propaganda Setting Up Counter-Fire To Offset Effect of Statement When Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill Announce Decisions

Expect [ran Details on Monday Noor   Nazis Say Turkish President Meets Allied Heads

Official Report Of Parleys Held Up As Big Three  Travel Homeward

Official Word Withheld On War Talks   Reports Indicate European Invasion Plans Approved

BIG THREE ON WAY HOME TO. TELL DETAILS   Turkey in Significant Move as Momentous Meet Is Concluded, .

INVASION PLANS SAID APPROVED BY RED LEADER   World Awaits Revelation Of Iran Decision

Axis Propaganda Builds Defense Against Outcome  Official Statemgnt Being Delayed Until F. R., Churchill Return From Persia; Stalin Home, Hinted  By Richard G. Massock ee bay firn ni

Nazis Loosen Counter-Fire Of Propagande   Reports Indicate Stalin Approved Plans for Great Invactan af Furane

WORD IS HELD BACK ON PACT OF BIG THREE      ACCORD REACHED ON GREAT INVASION OF EUROPE

Decisions To Be Made Public At Noon Monday   Leaders Now Heading Home: FDR Meets Turkish President  Nazis Claim

“ey Joins ‘ad Parley, »in Declares Din Believed  ak in Russia ‘ter Conference

Big Three Silent On Outcome Of lran Conference  Axis Reports Stali   Axis Reports Stalin Approved Plans for Invasion

World Awaits Decisions Of Persian Talk:   Official Statement Delayed While Roosevelt. Churchill Return Home.   MEET TURKEY LEADER

Communique On Decisions Reached At Teheran Conference To Be Issued Monday; Bad News For Nazis Due

ET’S OUT  ” MOSCOW TELLS ABOUT PARLEY   FDR’s Secretary Silent, But Europe Airs Meeting Of ’Big Three’

SOVIET LINES NORTHEAST OF OREL ATTACKED   Battle Now In Fourth Day; Reds Holding Newly Won Positions

REDS HOLD FOUR TOWNS NEAR OREL   Nazis Continue Attack On 4th Day of Battle

NAZIS FIGHT FOR 4 LOST TOWNS   Tanks And Planes Bolste: Troops Attacking Northeast Of Orel

GERMANS ATTAGK IN WAVES NEAR OREL, BUT RUSSIANS ROLD   Nazis Under Orders Te Recapture Four Lost Towns

Nazis Fiercely Counterattack In Russia   Reds Holding Newly Won Positions Near Orel

Credit Alexander With Delivering Knockout Punch   Secret Shifting of Troops “Fools” Nazis In Tunisian Battle .

Naval Officer Sent to New Post   Admiral Who Dre o Subs From Gulf ‘ a Is Transfer *

USDA report on Feed Situation Reveals Heavy Increase in the Hay Crop — Feed Supply Not Dangerously Low.

New Subsidy On Beef Outlined   Payments Based On Grodes Of Cottle .

Allied African Offensive Delayed By Bad Weather   Germans Obviously Husbanding Waning Air Might; Anglo-Americans Building Forces

Every Person Must Perform A Full Duty   General Confident That With Support Victory Is Ours

INVASION BOSS aAYG NAZIG TD FALL IN 1944   Elsenhower Says Only Thing Needed is Help from Homefronts.

 Hitler's Doom Near, General Declares   Allied Invasion Commander Makes Unqualified Prediction Of Early Victory Over Germans; Hints Offensive Plans Are Completed

Eisenhower Says Nazis to Lose in 1944   Urges Everyone to Do Full Duty as Part Of War Effort

NEW COMMANDER OF EUROPEAN INVASION FORCES CONFIDENT   ALL MUST DO DUTY FROM FRONT LINE TO REMOTEST HAMLET. HE SAYS

“WE WILL WININ EUROPE IN 1944,” EISENHOWER   The Gener eral Made Above Statement, Before a Farewell Press Conference Yesterday. in North Africa °:   IS SATISFIED.

DECLARES FLATLY WE WILL WIN IN EUROPE IN 1944   GEN. IKE GIVES ASSURANCE ON EVE OF NEW COMMAND

Eisenhower Says European: War Te End During 1944   Makes Statement Before Leaving For. Britain To Take Command I[nvasion Forces.

REFUSES 10 QUALIFY HIS PREDICTION   Says Everybody Can Help Make European Victory Speedier

Promises End of European War in 1944   Gen. Eisenhower Says Conflict Will End During Next Year

‘EVERYONE MUST DO HIS PART’   ‘Ike’ Says Main Joh Is To Weld Forces  Into One Team

Cites Year’s Successes; Calls On Every Man And Woman For Full Duty.

EISENHOWER IS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY   New Commander of Main European Invasion Force Says Europe Will Be Defeated in 1944   UNITED EFFORT NEEDED

NEED SUPPORT OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN TO WIN   General Speaks Before Leaving for Britain to Lead Invasion Force

General Eisenhower Predicts. “We  Will Win the European War in 1944”

‘Every Woman, Man Must Do Full Duties   New Commander Speaks At Farewell Press Conference In Aleoiers:   COMPARES — POSITIONS

General Resists Impulse To Qualify Views...  Eisenhower Says Flatly Victory Will Come In European War In 1944

EUROPEAN WAR TO END IN °44, GENERAL SAYS   Makes Farewell Statement On New Invasion

PREDICTION BY U.S.GENERAL GIVENTO PRESS   Made Flatly and Wittiout   Qualification That Euro pean Conflict Will End Next Year   URGES EVERYBODY . TO DO FULL DUTY   Eisenhower Satisfied With Progress of War On All Fronts; French to Par ~ ticipate In Invasion

Commander of European Invasion Force Leaves to  Take Charge In Britain

NEW COMMANDER OF EUROPEAN INVASION FORCES CONFIDENT  ALL MUST DO DUTY FRON FRONT LINE TO REMOT-

PREDICTION IS MADE WITHOUT QUALIFICATION      Makes Flat Statement On Eve of Departure For Britain

“Only Thing Needed . . . is for Every Man and Woman to Do His or Her Full Duty’   NOTES 1943 GAINS   Asserls Main Task as Allied Invasion Commander to Weld Allied Forces Into One Team

New Leader Of  Second Front Doesn’t Hedge   Says Every Person Must Do His Job—Including Whole Home Front

‘Invasion Chief Seals Doom \Of Germany as He Prepares tc iLeave Africa for New Post

All Must Do Full Duty, He Declares   Resists Impulse To Qualify  His Prediction, He Says

Victory in "44 Seen by Eisenhowel   Supreme Commander of Allied Invasion Makes Forecast

COMES AS CLIMAX AFTER A 4 DAYS’ FURIOUS FIGHT   THE FIFTH ARMY ALSO GAINS IN SEVERAL SECTORS   Germans Are Suffering Very  Heavy Losses

Front Reports Say the British Are Advaneing Steadily.  ENEMY PUTTING UP TOUGH OPPOSITION Germans Suffering Heavy  Losses of Men and Supplies.

British Clear Nazis Out Of Sangro River Valley: Yanks Gain Two Miles

General Montgomery’s Forces Out To Take Port Of Pescara, Called Back Door To Italian Cantal.

GROUND FORCES ADVANCE 3 MI. THROUSH RAINS      Are Within Striking Distance of “Little Rommel” Defense  Tinn

German Position in Balkans Weakened As Yugoslavs Fight Bitterly and : Restoration of Black Sea Base Nears

BALANCE LEANS TO ALLIES ON BALKANS FRONT   Yugoslavs Kill 250 Nazis In Bitter Fighting; Assaults Beaten In Bosnia

WAR PRISONERS REACH SCOTLAND   RETURNING BRITONS RELUC  GERMAN CAMPS.

SECOND MAJOR LAND SETBACK FOR NIPPONESE   Six months of fighting costs enemy estimated  75,000 troops

Brown Insists Food Control Must Sueceed   America Faces Major Defeat, Otherwise. He Savs

Must Uphold  Price Plan, Says Brown   Breakdown In OPA Program Means Major Home Front Defeat

OPA HEAD SAYS PRICE OF FOOD MUST BE FIXED   Brown Says Regulations Are Needed To Avoid Defeat On Home Front   NEW PROGRAM OUTLINED

DEFEAT WILI BALK WINNING OF PEACE, CLAIN   Maximum “Price Regulation Described As Landmark Against Inflation ;

OPA’S FOOD CONTROL PROGRAM MUST WORK: TO AVOID HOME FRONT DEFEAT, BROWN SAYS'

Brown Says Food Price Agreement  Must Work   Otherwise Natior To Face Major Defeat

Control Program Must Work To Avoid Home Front Defeat. Says Brown

THREAT OF FLOOD   Rise in Missouri Causes Warning to Be Issued to Lowlanders

Lend Lease Law Sought In Congress   Military Committee Gets ‘ Testimony on Manpower Drafting

PLAN AFOOT TO REWRITE LEND-LEASE   Appears To Lack Sufficient Support To Pass

Amendments Urged for Lend-Lease   Fish and Vorys Want International Law Recognized

Old-Style Capitalism Gone Forevei   President Johnston Tells US Chamber of Commerce Primitive. Freebooting Is Thing of Past in America

RADICAL CHANGES ~~ FACING CAPITALISM   Freebooting and Low Wages Gone, C. of C. Told

NAZIS BUILDING DEFENSES      5,000 French War Prisoners Work. ing on Project

HIMMLER LEADS CLIQUE PLANNING NEXT GERMAN WAR   Gestapo Chief Develops Underground Movement te Function After Defeat.

NAZIS MAKE PLANS FOR UNDERGROUND POST-WAR ACTION   Hitler’s Fanatics Already Laying Groundwork-For Future World  Conquest

ALLIED AIRMEN HAVE DESTROYED 30 PCT. baa AXIS SHIPPING =  Te as Gi ee AA   Enemy Trying to Make Up. Loss in Seapower By Transport Airliners.

AXIS SHIPPING HIT   Destruction of Air and Sea Transportation Dislocates Plans 

Allied Airmen in North Africa Destroying 50 Per Cent of Enemy Shipping, Both by Air and Sea

NEW CHIEF OF STATE DRAF1   Col. Hafer Succeeds Col. Evans, Called to Wash.  inecton.

CONNALLY BILL  SUPPORT STRONG   ‘Favor International Organization tc Prevent Aggression, Pre serve Paace

‘Whole Red Front   Blazes in Action   90 Localities Recovered ; ) Revansk Threatened

RUSSIAN TROOPS PUSH TO WITHIN Q MILES OF OREL   Smash German _ Reserves  Hurled Into Struggle— Capture 90 Villages in Advance.   ARTILLERY MOVED UP TO SHELL CITY   Wazis Launch Furious Tank and Infantry Counter-Attacks, but Fail to Halt Reds.

Reds Capture More Townsin  Orel Region   German Reserves Are Smashed by Soviet Summer Drive

SOVIETS PUSH 410 9 MILES NEARER ORE   FIGHTING GERMAN ARMIES FORCED BACK AGAIN

Russians Close In on Germans On Orel Sector   Advance from Two Direc tions Perils Large Force of Invaders   Nazi Reserves Hurled inta Action, but Fail To Advance

Soviets Face   Reds Keep Gaining Despite Resistance Of Determined Foe; German Losses Soar; Many Populated Places Are Taken

RedsCapture Optukha In Rising Drive   Heavy Guns Roll Up to Shell Orel Stronaqhold

Russians Roll On Northeast Of Orel   Optuhka, Only 9 Miles From Strategic Hing Of German Lines, Captured After Reserves Are Hurled Back

Take 90 Villages Near Orel: 5800 Germans Slain  Hitler Gives pall - -to.“Hold.Orel .at All Costs”

Russian Forees Advance To .  Within Nine Miles Of Orel   German Armies Forced’ Back i in Summer Offensive o Soviets—Many Populated Places Seized by Victorious Troons

Soviets Face  Grin Fire To Advance   Reds Keep Gaining Despite Resistance Of Determined Foe; German Losses Soar; Many Populated Places Are Taken

FATHER DRAFT DEBATE RAGES   No Agreement Reached on Placing of Dads on Bottom of List

FATHER~-DRAFT HITS DEADLOCK   Congress Pitches Into Controversial Matter; Two Bills Considered.

ABOUT DRAFT IS MOUNTING   Two Separate Approaches To Solution of Problem Confront House and Senate Committee   SUBSTITUTE IS OFFERED

tConaress Pitches Info Controversy Over Drafting Fathers Again; Impatient For Sefflement

Senators Put Down Plan To  Weaken WMC   Joint Congressional Committee Delays Talk On Father Draft.   MEETING DEADLOCKED

‘REACH NO AGREEMENT   House and Senate Conferred Over the Drafting of Fathers

No Agreement Yet On Dad-Deferment   Committee Hasn’t Got To Provision For Delay

Critics Of Army Expansion Irked By Draft Issue   Settlement Sought On Move To Retard Father Induction

FATHER ORAFT lool STILL DEADLOCKED   Conferees Fail To Agree On Provisions Today

Congress Takes Another Fling ‘At Father Dratt   Big Army Crowd Grows Impatient

American Airmen Step Up Fury of Kiska Attack With 15 Bombinas in Single Day

U.S. Airmen Pound Kiska Base   Fifteen Raids in Day Brings to 103 Attacks This Month

Jan Destroyers Flee For Safety Leaving Barges   U. 8. Naval Forces Intercept Convoy Of Troop Barges morte Of Vella Gulf  i sh: Cine, el sieciniihiian: Sat lilt alia ait

TROOP BARGES ABANDONED = BY JAP ESCORT VESSELS   ENEMY DESTROYERS DEBERTED CONVOY DUTY PURING CLASH WITH U. 8. . NAVAL FORCE

Bricker Passes Up Fourth Term Bid In Favor 01 Drive For Presidential Nomination; WideOpen Primary Contest Looms

Governor Bricker Will Seek GOP Presidential Nomination   Bricker Passes Up 4th Term Nomination As Governor

Bricker Not To Run For  Ohio Governorship; Will  iEnter Presidential Race

Turks Report Soviets Ready To Nod fo Tito:   Partisan Government May Be-Favored Above King Peter

Reds to Recognize Tito’s Regime Instead of King  Peasant Army Holds Firm in Most  Immarétamt Cartian

Soviet to recognize Tito’s partisan Jugoslay regime   Increasing amount of allied supplies reach guerrillas from U.S.. Britain

Slavs Offered Plan Of Peace   Allies ‘Seeking To, Settle Dispute Among. 2. Rival ¢ Governments

Allege Big Wastage of Potatoes   Government Regulation: Blamed for Spoilage of This Year’s Crop

BRITISH PRISONERS BACK IN HOMELAND   Faces of Wounded Brighten as Exchange Ship Left

Many Men Give Lives In Defense  Of Their Country  Six Plymouth County Soldiers Listed On  WwW _f¢rTtrTrehhhhhetlt

Many Men Give Lives In Defense  Of Their Country  Six Plymouth County Soldiers Listed On Roll of Honor

Republican Leaders Debate Party's _ ~ Domestic,  International. Policies

Drafting of Platform Started by GOP Policy Council at Mackinac   Formal Meeting Is Opened by Chairman Spangler

U.S. Gains Land on Guadalcanal   170 More Japs Die; Air Force in Raid

AIR ATTACKS. LAUNCHED ON MUNDA AREA   U. S Forces Kill 170 More Japanese In. New Attacks ——

Yanks-Gain Positions on Guadalcanal   -170 Japs. Killed; U.S. Planes Bomb -: _Munda Area Aqain

ADVANCE ON GUADALCANAL   Communique Of Navy Says 170 Japs Killed

All U. S. Planes Returned From South Pacific Raid — Russian Armies Threaten To Split Germans On Rostov Eoad   GERMAN COUNTERS IN RUSSIA ARE SMASHED

NAVY REPORTS 17 MORE JAP TROOPS KILLED   Americans Capture Enemy's Positions Four Miles _ . from” Airfield,    NEW GUINEA FORCES MOVE ON SANANANDA

Raids Also Hit  Closer to Rome   Italy Faces Internal Crisis,  King Said to Have Abdicated

Berlin and Other Points Lambasted   RUHR VALLEY. FLOODED 4S WARPLANES BREAK GREAT DAMS.

Allies Carry Air Offensive Within 15 Miles Of Rome In Blasting Seaplane Base

TWO BIG DAMS WRECKED TO FLOOD AREA   Bombers Strike Within 15 Miles Of Rome

Floods in Industrial Sections   Mountains of Water Pour Down on Plants in Ruhr —London Air Raids

Alabama Mine Explosions  KGll19, Hurt25   Terrific Gas Blasts Trap Coal Miners,  Rescue Party Crew

19 MINERS DIE IN TWO BLASTS   A Raserin Crew Members Killed In Second Explosion In  Alabama

19 KILLED, 25 HURT IN COAL MINE BLASTS   Republic Steel Corp. Slope in Alabama Scene of  Accident    NUMBER ESCAPE AS . EXPLOSION OCCURS   Some of the Bu: Burned Miners Are in Critical Candition

DEATH TOLL 21 IN MINE BLASI   Origin of Explosion Is Un: " known; Probe Started

21 DIE IN GAS EXPLOSIONS IN ALA.MINE   Twenty-Three Others Injured in Two Explosions a No. 2 Sayreton Mine of Republic Stee]

19 Coal Miners Killed, 25 Hurt When Blasts Sweep Mine in Alabama

Death Toll In Mine Blast 19   Mine Inspector, Company Official Killed

‘ Mine Blast ‘th List to 18:  ‘escuers Die  ‘cond Explosion jures Many in (slunteer Crews

19 Miners Killed And 25 Injured In Mine Blasts   Four in Rescue Crews Included Among Victims Near Birmingham, Ala.

11 ARE DEAD AFTER BLAST   Twenty- Three Others Burned in Gas Explosion in Coal Mine

19 Coal Miners Killed in Blast   25 Others Injured In 2 Gas Explosions At Alabama Mine

Blast Shatters. Alabama Mine; 19 Men Killed   Menthers of Reseue Party Lose Life in Effort Ta: Saee Otharc

23 Other Miners Badly Injured In Birmingham Disaster Sunday Morning

19MinersDie In Alabama Gas Blasts   TWENTY-FIVE BURNED, THREE CRITICALLY HURT; 135 MINERS  MAKE THEIR WAY TO ‘SAFETY.   4 Rescuers Among Them

11 Men Killed In Mine Blast  23 Others Burned, Several Critically

19 LOSE LIVES IN EXPLOSIONS IN COAL SHAFI   25 Others Are Burned In Two Blasts At Bir mingham, Ala.

NINETEEN DEAD IN MINE BLAST   Gas Explosions Shatter Alabama Tunnel; Cause Is Not Determined: 25 Men Injured

19 ARE KILLED IN MINE BLAST   25 Others Are Injured in Two Terrific Explosions In Alabama

Three Senators Named ‘To Obtain Information ‘On Prisoners of Japs

NEW STEEL PENNY IS DISTRIBUTED   Present Purchases Are Limited To 50 To Person.

NEW PENNY ON WAY   Zinc-covered Steel Cent Replaces Old Familiar Copper

COR Will Swear In New Member:   Local Flotilla Meets At 7:30 Tonight -

Mexican Paper Says Butler “Sabotaging” Policy  Bw Fase AeSeeMmMriAaTrTocrn nmanrleec

Butler Charges Draw Retorts From Latin-American Press   Knox Disclosure of Sea Power Forefells Big Smash at Japan

Offense Aimed At Japan Also, Roosevelt Says   Short-wave Carries Message Abroad in 20 Other Tonques

1943 Plan Is Told by  Roosevelt   Many Roads Lead Right ta Tokyo, Says — Plenty  Trouble for Axis ~

Global Agenda For Allied Food Parley May Lead To Radical Changes In World Econom:

Outline Food Parley Plans   May Conference Of United Nations To Draw Up PostWar Blueprint.

By Food Parleys  Ranoekh fintlina OF   Rough Outline Of Program Declares Nothing Binding

FOOD PLANNERS SEEK BLUEPRINT FOR NEW WORLD   WOULD ABOLISH HUNGER, POVERTY ALL OVER GLOBE

00M PLAN OUTLINES   Agenda Is Global in Scope And Colossat in Its Implications.

PLAN BLUEPRINT FOR FOOD PARLEY   Representatives Will Not Have Power to Bind Own Nations at Meeting

Blueprint For World Free Of Want Sketched   Rough Outline Provide: Food Parley With Broad Plan -

Food Meeting Plans To End World Want   United Nations Delegate: Draft Blueprint For Peace Time Plenty   SCOPE IS SLOBAL   Food Surpluses Seen A: Evidence Of Failure Of Economic System

CONFERENCE ON FOOD OUTLINED BY SPOKESMAN   Blueprint For Further Study Will Be Made

Food Meet Agenda Is Drawn Up   Conferees Will Consider How to Build World Free From, Want

Old Subsidy Fight Due In Congress   House Committee Votes Ban On Subsidies To Hold Down Prices

HOUSE BANKING GROUP VOTES SUBSIDY END   Renews Batile With. Administra. tion Over Price Control Program in COC Bill Revision

House Committec Hurls Challenge In Subsidy Fight   (Continued on page 11)

House Group Votes Strong Ban Against Further Subsidies   Action Breaks Truce of Three Months; Other Washington News

Subsidy Truce in House Ends   Banking Committee Votes Dan on Ilse nf Plan -.-

COMMITTEE CHALLENGES SUBSIDIES   House Expects To Have Dependency Vote Moncay

Open Way For Subsidy Fight   House Banking Committee Refuses Junk or Price Lowering Poliey.

House Group Votes Ban On Food Subsidy  3 Months Truce Betweer   3 Months Truce Between F. R., Congress Broken By Action; Extension of CCC Approved

NAVY FLYING BOAT SETS NEW RECORD:   Mars, Built In Baltimore, Com pletes 4,375-Mile Non-Stop Flight To South America

Nazi Troops Pulled Back  Into Germany   Allied Landings Reported Made Close To Rome

BERLIN CLAIMS OCCUPATION OF ITALIAN AREAS   German Troops In North and Centrai Sectors, According to Hitler Military Snokesman   DISARM ITALIANS WITHOUT TROUBLE   Reich War Council Reported to Have Decided to Reinforce Line At Po For Finished Fight

LEWIS CALLS FOR SUPPORT IN FIGHT   Asks Farmers And Other Workers To Assist Miners.

Lewis Asks Farmers to  Aid in Fight   Calls for Labor To Oppose FD’s Wage-Price Order

LEWIS FIRM ON WAGE DEMANDS   Says ‘Freeze’ Order Aimed At Miners And Farmers

The War Today Cordial Spirit Among Troops From United Nations Growing Stronger

/Unselfish Cooperation Reason for Allied Success  Vast Change From World War One

GREAT COOPERATION OF ‘ALLIES BEING ‘DEMONSTRATED ON BATTLE FRONTS:AND UNSELFISHNESS IS PAYING DIVIDENDS

UNSELFISH ALLIED COOPERATION DISPLAYED AGAIN IN INVASION 'PROCRESS RECORDED IN SICTI Y

ALLIED TROOPS PULL =TOGETHER TO GET SUCCESS   Much of Old Snobbery and Antagonism Among Men Disappearing   EXCEPTIONS PROVE RULE   Yanks and Tommies Begin To Understand and Admire Each Other

QUERY ON MARKETS   Black Markets in Meat and ~ Poultry Said to Be  Extensive

NO LIVES LOST AS STORM HITS   LaPorte Teachers Keep Chil dren In At Noon, Avoid Hard-Hitting Cyclone,

Man Who Helped Write Selective Service Act In Army—He Was Drafted

Germans Have 225,000 Men In Italy, Belief, But Some May Be Trapped

NAZIS GRAB AT KEY CITIES IN NORTH ITAL’   Try to Make Death Traps on Southern -Petenses to Reich

GENERAL BUISSON QUITS HIS POST   Was Governor-General of French West Africa; Resignation Accepted By French Committee of National Liberation.

Pierre Boisson’s Territory Included Strategic Naval and Air Base of Dakar      DELIVERED FRENCH FLOTILLA TO U.S   Meanwhile, DeGaulic Geis Emphatic Notice Political Issues Must Not Interfere With War

Boisson Quits African Post   Territory Includes Naval Air Base Of Dakar; Awaits  Qieeescor.

Tokyo Leaves Men On Attu To Their Fate— —By Glenn !  Jap Navy Avoiding Showdown With U. S.

GREECE MAKES INVASION PLANS   Army Strengthened In Preparation For Balkan Battles.

Greeks Prepare for Invasion  Anticipate Allied Attacks This Year

German Bases Are Heavily Attacked  Series Of Day Raids May: Bhan prance goer Wun

FORTRESSES PARTICIPATE IN DAY RAID   Probably One Of Greatest  Series Teamed With Thun derbolts And _ Spitfires Raid Berlin  Hit Hangars

AXIS TROOPS TRANSFERRED   Experts Say Shift Would Aid Forces In Northern Italy

Japs Bare U.S. Stab at Mono   AMERICAN AMPHIBIOUS FORCES LEAP 70 MILES OVER WATER TO OUTFLANK ENEMY-HELD HUBS IN SOLOMONS; AIRMEN DOWN 58 NIP PLANES

American Forces Make Landing On Jap - Held Island, Tokio Radio Says

Three Jan Airfields Attacked   Overwater Jump Is Made to Outflank Japs

Allied Landing or Island Reported   Japanese Tell of Attack on Mono

Willkie Thinks Republicans \Can Win Election Next Year   Certain Objectionable Symbols Should Be Eliminated. He Save In Preece Interview

Willkie Objects 'To Chicago Meet  Would Wipe Out Some G. O, P. Symbol:

ARGENTINA TURNED  DOWN FLATLY WHEN  LEND-LEASE ASKED SECRETARY HULL SAYS NATION STILL HARBORIN(  ECRICRYU ACTA Te

Argentine Bid For Lend-Lease Is Turned Down   Apparently Jealous And Fearful Over Brazil’s Growing Power.

Argentina Denied Lease-Lend Aid: Too Friendly with Axis; Hull Hints

Refuse Plea For Materials By Argentina   Secretary Hull Says Country Still Is Doing Business With Axis,   EXPLAINS SITUATION

Lend-Lease Aid Is Deniec Argentina   Hull Says Argentina Is Still Doing Business with the Axis and Harbors Enemy Agents and Espionage

ARGENTINE BID FOR U. S. ARMS GETS FIRM NO   Hull Cites Relations wilh Axis, Countenance of Espionage in Blunt Denial of Lease-Lend   PULLS NO PUNCHES    Argeatina Seeks Arms to Restore Equilibrium, Jealousy and Fear of Brazil Indicated

Teesnoratires at Airport   Santember Culendar   ‘Share in U. S. Lend-Lease Denied Jealous Argentina

Hull Talks Tougt To Argentina  Turns Down Their  Bid For Lease-Lend Materinfe Fram if ¢

HULL FORCEFUL IN DENYING AID TO ARGENTINA   Secretary of Staté Pulls No Punches In Turning Down Lend-Lease Bid

‘Argentina Asks For, And Is Refused, lLend- Lease Materials From United State:

ILEND-LEASE AID TO-ARGENTINA IS DENED   Secty. Hull Flatly Refus. es Aid to Only Neutral Nation in South America

ARGENTINA IS DENIED AID OF UNITED STATES   Request From Foreign Minister For Lease-Lend Materials, Bluntly Refused by Sec. Hull  Qe 42> & 6 4 ioe oe oe oe ee na. 2 Ba ewsawe

Argentina Gets No Lend-Lease Help From U.S.   Hull, Rejecting Request, Cites Failure To Break Ties With Axis.

Hull Refuses Argentina Lend-Lease      Secretary Takes Firm Stand in Turning Down Minister’s Request for More Goods

ARGENTINA IS DENIED U, S. AID   Hull Pulls No Punches In Refusing Plea For LendLease Goods

’  ollapse          LOSS OF NORTHERN ESCAPE SENDS GERMANS INTO HEAE RETREAT KOROVOGRAD 

i thee yon -— * roughout Dnieper Bend Area Reported 'In Danger Of Collapse

NAZIS FLEE IN DISORDER IN UKRAINE   Collapse of Axis Defenses In Dnieper Bend Is Expected

GERMAN RETREAT TOWARD UKRAINE SAID TO BE ROUT   Sevict Drives to Krivoi Rog, Nikolaev and : Nikopol on Dnieper Are Resumed  Smaltaneously —

i  Making’ Way Toward Central Ukranian ‘Bastion — Impending Colrapse of iNazi Defenses Through. out Dnieper Bend Indicated,

Nazis hetreat In Disorder As Soviets Attack  AT) Moauncem Diefemeas Tem   All German Defenses Ir Dnieper Bend May Collapse   ESCAPE LINE CUT   Reds Retreat 24 Miles In Western Tip Of Kiev Bulge

ENEMY FACES COLLAPSE IN DNIEPER BEND   Disorderly Withdrawal of Hitlerites Toward Kirivigrad Reported.

Impending Collapse of  Defenses in Dnieper Bend Indicated   ONLY ONE RAIL LINE   ‘Russians Admit 24-Mil  Retreat From Kiev : Buloe

JUGOSLAY.. FORCES SEIZE FIVE MORE ADRIATIC. ISLANDS   At Least Dozen ‘Inland Towns In Bosnia And  Croatia Are Taken

Sec. Per cns  re. § oi v Wwe _2rs Ncs- 02 Livin? ~own ~ tis Suramer

(0 SHOWS DECLINE   SEO. PERKINS REPORTS FIRST SUBSTANTIAL DROP SINCE PEARL HARBOR.

Cost of Living Declines Slightly This Summer [After Having Long Rise

z ood Sets Pace  First Substantial Decline Tn Cost of Living Repent

Seven Ladies Against 428 Men in House Hurl Words, Take Stumping ‘Tours, Get Pet Legislation Through

Jinx Friday Is Designated for “Safety” Study   Gentry Urges Citizens to Be Particularly Careful On Only 13th Friday

LAE, SALAMAUA TRAPS CLOSING   Allied Warplanes Batter Jap Supply Dumps and Outposts

OPA To Establish Price Ceiling For Potatoes   North Carolina Is One Of States Chiefly Affected.

Yanks Blast ~ Last Stands Of Attu Japs   Final Splitting Up Said To Be Under Way Now; Other Pacific News

Japs in Last-ditch Attu Fight   South Pacific Bombers Attack New Guinea Area.

Blast Last-Ditch ‘Japanese at Atte   Navy Reports Intensive At- tacks’ Along Two SnowBound Ridges   PLANES ARE IN ACTION   M acArthur Says: Many Bombs Dropped on _ Enemy Bases

Ten Army Men Die In Bomber Crash  if , Pee { ‘3   Craft Burns on Field At Harlingen, Tex.

Allies Now Only Two  Miles From Randazzo. Madrid Says Axis Withdrawing Key Personnel Out Of Sicily.

ALLIESINNORTH. USE PATROLS FOR ~ ATTACK ON AXIS   Tide of: ‘Battle Continues ip - Run ‘Against: . Enemy  -.. Africa, Plane Loss Is’ Eat ” 4 fine,      HARASSING OF JAPS ~~ FROM AIR GOES ON   Russo-Japanese Fishing Pact  ‘Indicates Two . Countries Desire Peace; Shipments Are Unmolested.

INCH AHEAD AT MARETH IN FIERCE BATTLE   Allied Patrols On Move All Along Tunisian Front

Tide of Tunisian Battle Running Heavily In Favor Of Allies; Northern Front Springs Into Action

SLOW, STEADY ADVANCE MADE INTO AXIS LINE   British First Army J] Northern Tunisia On March

BRIT. EIGHTH ARMY MAKING SLOW-GAINS.   Inching Gradually Ahead Against -Mareth Line

‘Huge Block-Busters Smashing German Camps in Rear Of Fortifieations

EIGHTH ARMY BATTERS AT MARETH LINE   Air Attack With Block Busters Is Added Feature To Soften Up Defenses Of General Rommel.

British Push Forward Into Maret Line   ‘Bayonet Attack ‘Gains Ground -In Tunisia.

13 Billion Dollar War Loan Drive To Open April 12   =—_SClU  NM. oI.) Cobb County Chairman of Committec in Charge of Drive,

13 Billion Dollar War Loan Drive  To Open April 12   M. EF. Cobb- County Chairman of Committee in Charge of Drive.

DEFY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHO BADE THEM STAY ON JOB LEST WAR PLANTS BE PARALYZED.

NAZIS, (TALIAN: SPRING. HEAVY “ATTACK ON YANKS   Americans. Battling” Axi ‘ ‘Sp arhead ‘Launched: By”  "< Rammeal. g

AXIS TROOPS ATTACK NEAR FAID PASS   Rommel Believed Trying to Widen Coastal Corridor

U.S. TROOPS UNDER ATTACK IN TUNISIA   Heavy Fighting in Progress West Of Faid Pass

ENEMY HITS U.S, POSITIONS IN 2-WAY DRIVE   Panzer Division Sperrheads Attack in Tunisia

AXIS SPEARHEAD STAGES ATTACK ON U. S, FORSES   Heavy Fighting in Progress As American Position Is Threatened

lanks Used By Rommel At Faid Pass   ’anzer Mobile Unit Adyances 18 Miles in Central Tunisia   BEITLA PERILED   ‘ankees Suffer Losses at Sida Bou Zid When Caught in Pincers

lunisia Battle Rages On Front 150 Miles Lone   American And Allied Forces Prepare To Deal Knockout

BRITISH FIRST ARMY MAKING NEW ADVANCE      Americans Have Right to Be Proud for Their Part in Campaign, Eisenhower Declares

Climactic Drive Strategy Likely Formulated   Rear Positions of Axis Forces Get Unusually Heavy Bombing

Says Progress Satisfactory; Front Aflame   Reds Count Up Winter Offensive Gains; Stage Heaviest Bombings

Enemy Along 250 MileFront   British Ist Army Scores New Gains; Russia Announces End of Great Winter Offensive; Red Armies  _ Reach Eastern Gate of Novorossisk

Commander-inMareth Line Front   American Forces Are Advancing in Central Sector

~ GEN. MONTGOMERY STATES  “ FRESH FORCES CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS   American Armored Forces Reported Advancing In Drive: Towards The Sea From Maknassy. Algiers ‘Radio Says Axis Troops in North Offering Little Resistance

Troops, Guns © Tanks, Pound Enemy Lines   Russian Armies Storm ‘at Gates of Naval Base Novorossisk

ALL FRONTS IN TUNISIA   First Army Advances - in  North and Americans Keep  Uy Drive in Center   EIGHTH ARMY ALSO IS MOVING AHEAD   Generals Confer, Indicating Big Push May Be Sprung Sometime Soon

BRITISH FIRST ARMY SCORED NEW GAINS IN BIZERTE SECTOR  EISENHOWER, ALEXANDEI AND MONTGOMERY

Score New Gains In Drive Toward Bizerte   Algiers Reports New Battles Flaming in All Sections of Tunisian Conflict; Allied Bombers Blast Hard at Enemy.

ALLIES SMASH AT ENEMY ALL ALONG FRONT IN TUNISIA   Eisenhower Reports Troops Making Satisfactory Progress; Red Army Storms Black Sea Base.

Russians Reach East Gate Of Black Sea Naval Base; Close To Smolensk

Tanks, Big Guns, Planes Lash Enemy   New British Gains In Drive Toward Bizerte;  Rommel Still On Run.

ALLIES GET SET FOR ‘BIG PUSH’ IN TUNISIA, TIP   British First Army Closes In From North While Eighth Army Strikes From South   DEATH RAINED FROM ABOVE   Allied Bombers Again Blast U-boat Bases in France And Others Hit Sicily

Batter Nazis In Tunisia On 250-Mile Line   British Ist Army Scores Gains On Drive Toward Bizverte Race.   NEW BATTLES FLAMING

Russians Say Offensive Now Ended Cost Germans 850,000 Dead, 343,525 Prisoners; Mud Slows Fighting

Eisenhower and Generals Meet   Report Allies Making “Satisfactory” Progress; Montgomery’s Army Continues to Move North; Americans Advance Six Miles; First Arma u Miles From Bizerte.

British First Army In New Gains; Eisenhower Proud of U. S. Successes

Eisenhower States Fresh Allied Forces  Continue Advances   Believe Commander-In-Chief And Aides Discuss Final Offensive To  Push Germans, Italians Into Sea

Algiers Broadcast Says Montgomerv’s Forces Again Rolling North. of Gabes-Sfax Road   NEW BATTLES FLAME IN ALL AREAS, CLAIM   Gen. Eisenhower, Back From Strategy Conference at Front, Says Fresh Troops Making Progress

Warlords Must Be  Punished   Proposes Six-Point Program To Demobilize Forces At  End Of War.

FDR Warns Italy Of Impending  Allied Attacks   Unconditional Surrender Is Only Course Oper

New Pre-Flight Aeronautics Course Begins February 6   16 Weeks’ Course To Be Conducted For School Teachers

ETST(. To Offer  Pre-Flight  Aeronauties Class Will Be  Organized Gatirday

Vision of Apocalypse  German Capital Buornine With Thanesnd Binse Gass

Thousand Fires Rage In Berlin   Berliners Bitterly Complain Of Passive Defense Of Capital.

Berlin Burning With 1,000 Fires, Neutral Diplomat Says   People Complain Bitterly Of Passive And Ineflicient Defenses: Rain Of Hot Cinders

Berlin Asphalt Boils   Berlin Residents Dazed As Flames Gut Reich Capital

POPULACE IS STUPEFIED BY CATASTROPHE   _Complaints About Pagsive Resistance Made By Residents

Hickenlooper Is Inaugurated as lowa Governor   He Is First Veteran Of World War  to Be Chief Executive

Is First World War Veteran in Executive Post   RELY SY OYTO Oe  Oath Given By Chief of State Supreme Court Before Many  BLUE IS SWORN IN  New Executive Asks That  - No Radical Changes Be  Mada Naw

Is First World War Veteran in Executive Post   Oath Given By Chief of State Supreme Court Before Many  BLUE IS SWORN _ IN  New Executive Asks That No Radical Changes Be Made Now

WLB Maps Way Out In Dispute With UMW Chief   New Compliance Policy Set; Other Troubles Portend

WLB DIRECTIVE MAY CHALLENGE LEWIS DEADLINE   PRIVATE OWNERS TO REGAIN CONTROL OF MINES, SAYS FOR

W: L. B. PREPARING NEW POLICY FOR LEWIS AND OTHERS   Under New Plan Labor Disputants Will Not Have to Sign Contract as Evidence of Compliancy

FDR to Return Nation’sMines to Operators   Government Move Cones Despite Lewis’ Condition of Work Return

WLB PREPARES ~NEW POLICIES   Under Plan Labor Disputants Would Not Have To Sign Contract.

WLB To Avoid Necessity for ‘UMW Contrac'   Special Rules for Compliance Without Signing To Be Made

To Set Up New Labor Policy   No Signing of Contract To Be Needed

WLB Sites New Policy For Miners   Will Not Require Signing Of Contract as Evidence Of Compliance

V. F. W.: - Official. ‘Says * Depot. Is “Over- — «.. staffed”  REPLY Is. MADE  Claim “Many. Draft - Eligibles. Will Be  mW.

Russians Press  Closer On Three Sides Of Orel   Vital German Base Is Fast Becoming Untenable To Nazi Defenders   REDS GAIN ALSO NEAR BELGOROD

OREL RAPIDLY BECOMING UNTENABLE   Hard-Driving Soviet Forces Recapture 30 More Towns

Would Ban Bread  Price Increase   100-Million Dollar Subsidy Worked Out

Two Day Raids On Berlin Upset Nazi Speeches   Anniversary Rally Thrown into Confusion; Goering Delayed; Explosions Heard: Hitler Issues Red Warning

Shouts, Explosions Deader Goering Pledge of Victory   British Mosquito Planes Blast Nazi Capital Without Loss in Timed Blow

RAF MAKES oT DAYLIGHT RAID   Foray By English Mosquito Planes Is First in Berlin’'s History.   HITLER IS WITH TROOPS

GOP DRIVES FOR DECISIVE VOTE ON TAX   Leaders Seek Early Ballot In i Effort To Get Ruml   Plan Approved   AMENDMENTS STUDIED   Close Battle Seen Over Bil Offered By Administration Without ‘Fornivenass?

HOUSE VOTES ON TAX PROPOSAL   —— Partisan Roll Calls Expected As ‘Much-Debated Ruml Plan Finally Gets on Floor.

REPUBLIGANS SEEK AN EARLY VOTE ON DEBATED TAX PLAN      Decisive Outcome Held as Desirable by Backers of Carlson-Ruml Proposal

War Opens 2nd Year in Pacific Area   Big Carrier Fleet Joins Of fensive Against Japanese.  Held Islands

Legislature Plans To Allow Students To Help Farm Labor   Bill Being Prepared For Presentation When. Body  Reconvenes Next Monday Night

ALLIED PLANES HIT AIRFIELD   Destruction Being  Spread’ Along: Front: from France to Greeee — Allied Air Offensive Spearheaded by Flying ‘Fortresses.

ALLIED FLIERS SPREAD HAVOC ON WIDE AREA   Hundreds Of Planes In Raids From France To Greece

ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE CONTINUES   Raiders Spread Destruction On 1000 Mile Front

German Airfield Near Marseille  Blasted By Forts   Hundreds of Allied Planes Attack Enemy On 1,000-Mile Front

FROM FRANCE TO GREECE ALLIED PLANES All   1,000. Miles.Covered in Mounting Mediter- . ? panean Offensive

AIR OFFENSIVE INMEDITERRANEAN MOUNTS STEADILY   1,000-mile Front In Europe Heavily Battered By RAF and Yanks.

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST GERMANS OVER WIDE FRONT   Targets in Norway, France and Greece Under Heavy Attack

JAP OFFENSIVE ON RICE BOWL   Trying to Ruin China's "Crop; First Big Drive . Is Thrown Back

A NEW JAP ATTACK!)   Offensive Launched to Destroy Rice Crop of the — hinese

JAPANESE OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN “RICE BOWL’   Chinese Army Spokesman Warns Japs Planning Intensive Mopping Up Operations; Cites Indica. tions.

Japanese Launch New Drive in China   Great Rice Area Target of Attack

Postwar Resolution  Approved   Senate Committee Passes Measure Without Amendment

Senate Group Passes Post-War Peace Proposal   Resolution Would Provide American Participation In Work

Senate Committee Okays Resolution Urging U. S. Participation in Postwar ‘World Machinery to Preserve Peace

Post-War Plan Over First Hurdle   Senate Committee Okays Resolution Without Change

SENATE GROUP OK'S POST-WAR RESULUTION   Issue Goes to Floor Soon

HE’LL NEVER SEE FATHER BUT HE’LL KNOW HE DIED AS HERO IN NORTH AFRICA

Congressmen Hope To Avoid New Increase in Tax  Sentiment Appear: In Disfavor of ‘’‘Retroaction”’

“RETROACTIVE” TAXES OPPOSED BY CONGRESS   Increased Rates Or New Taxes Will Not Be Levied Before 1944 Is General Belief

See-Saw Over Testimony In DeMarigny Trial  Crown Witnesses (in Gland Ga baw

De Marigny Is AblyDefended by Attorneys   Are Able to Score Points in Cross Examination of Crown Witnesses at Nassau Trial

American Land Forces Only Six Miles From Munda   Enemy Fleet Losses Are Growing In America’s Decisive Naval Victory, May Include Two More Warships; Yankee Losses Only One Destroyer.

Break-Through Menaces Many  German Troops   Russians Drive Close To Warsaw-Odessa Line, Vitebsk’s Fall Immineut

Soviet Armies in Break Through Near Rumania  500,000. Russians  Din me Alike: bimac:

Huge Nazi Army Menaced by Reds In Dnieper Elbow   Moscow Reports Great Victory

RED FORCES IN DRIVE TO TRAP BIG NAZI ARMY   Push Within 17 Miles Of Warsaw-Odessa Rail Network

DRIVE T0 TRAE BIC NAZI ARMY   Push Within 17 Miles Of Warsaw-Odessa Rail Network

ESCAPE ROAD OF NAZIS CUT NEAR VITEBSK   REDS ALSO SCORE VITAL GAINS IN KIEV BULGE

Nazi Troops Facing Trap  on pean men Pinner Dinna:   German Lines Ripped By Huge Red Forces

Soviet Smashes Hint Effort At Giant Nazi Trap   Berlin: Expresses  Anxiety Over New Divar Rant hAnnne.

Soviet Smashes Hint Effort At Giant Nazi Trap   Berlin Expresses Anxiety Over New River Bend Menace

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Russians Plunge To Within 17 Miles Of Vital Rail Network   ENEMY BROADCASTS REFLECT ANXIETY

Reach Point 17 Miles From Vital Warsaw-Odessa Rail Network With Nazis Retreating on Approaches to Key Cities in Area—Other Soviet Columns Far to North Cut Nextto-Last Enemy Escape Railway From Vitebsk.

ESCAPE RAIL LINE CUT BY THE REDS   Russian Forces. in South Overrun Over 100  Hamlets

RUSSIANS AlN AT TRAPPING NAZI TROOPS   Plunge To Within 17 Miles Of Vital Warsaw-Odessa Rail Network In Breakthrough Toward Rumania.   Heavy Fighting

ARREST EX-CAPONE GANGSTER IN PROBE OF MODEL MURDEF   Police Round Up Chicago Hoodlums, Seeking Motive

Hunt Hoodlums  Murder of Model   Police Question Capone Gangsters

HOODLUMS ROUNDED UP AFTER SLAYING   Chicago Police Net [n Action After Photographer’s Model Is Murdered.

CONGRESS SHUNTS BILL TO INCREASE ALL CORN PRICES   Issue Goes To Agriculture Group As Senate-House Conferees Argue Subsidies   ccc DOOMED UNLESS COMPROMISE IS MADE

BILL TC RAISE PRICE OF CORN IS NEW ISSUE   CCC - Subsidy Measure May Delay Recess Of Congress

Conferees Fail to Agree On Anti-Rollback Measure   Senate Again to Vote on Issue; House Group Disapproves Higher Corn Price -

CONFEREES FAIL IN AGREEMENT ON SUBSIDY PROGRAN   Legislation Returns Issue to Senate For Another Vote as House Committee Disfavors Corn Ceiling.   HOUSE MAY FAIL TO CONSIDER MEASURE   Corn Ceiling Rejected on Report Some Grain Reached Market, Supplies Are Due From Canada.

N@ SETTLEMENT IS ARRANGED ON SUBSIDY ISSUE      Congress Shunts Bill To Raise Corn Price To Honse Committee

ne ee ie i ie ae ie le ie ee i  YOUR INCOME TAX  +  + ‘t+ 4 ora ++ & } +

NAMING OF MOUNTBATTEN HINTS ACCELERATION OF DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE

LORD MOUNTBATTEN SELECTED LEADER ~ FOR BUPMA DRIVE   Dashing British Military Expert Named for   Important Post at   Quebec.

‘Mountbatten Heads New Allied Commanc ‘Of Southeast Asia   Creation of New Command Is First of Many -- Important Developments Resulting '. From Quebee Conferences

Mountbatten Heads Allied India Thrust   Push at Japan Via China Route Grows From Quebec Talk

British Commando Leader _ To Direct Drive Against Japs In Southwest Pacific

Briton's Appointment Seen As Indication American Will Lead Landina [In Europe

EFFORT TO DRIVE JAPS FROM BURMA THIS FALL FORESEEN   Mountbatten Chosen to Direct Offensive Opening China to Allied Armies

OFFENSIVE 10 BE OPENED UP DURING FALL   Appointment of American to Lead Invasion In Western Europe Indicated.

Mountbatten Named Chief In East Asia   Announcement ‘Indicates’Certain Campaign In Buéma

Lord Mountbatten Will - HeadAlliedAsiaticForces   Dashing Leader Of: British Commandos Is Appointe: Commander-In-Chief Of Southeast Command During Jmportant Conference At Quebec

SEEK TO BALK RETREAT INTO CAPE BON AREA   Americans, British ‘Advance Beyond Tunis  And Bizerte   FRENCH ACTIVE   Planes Hit Shipping To Lessen Chances Of “Dunkirk”

DESPITE CONSTANT BLASTING JAPANESE BUILD UP AIR FORCE  NEW BRITAIN AND NEW GUINEA AIR BASES BEING AUGMENTED BY ENEMY

Japs Continue To Build Air Might Despite Pounding   ‘Continue To Build At Rabaul, Wewak And  Te Salarmons.

jAPS REPAIRING AIR BASES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Strive to Build Up Air Might in New Britain, New Guinea and Solomons

JAPS BUILDING UP AIR MIGHT  INRABAUL AREA   Nips Repair Bomb Damaged Fields Rapidly

Despite Air Raids Rabaul Is Rebuilt   Photos Reveal Strong  Fortifications

Throw ring around Marshal Rommel’s — Mareth line forces   Axis and British’ artillery battle  to stalemate In sontheast section

AMERICAN PILOTS LAND IN PORTUGAL   Eleven Airacobra Fighters Forced Down By Lack © Or Gasoline :

Yank Pilots Are Interned In Portugal   Eleven Fighters Downed In Storm by Lack Of Gasoline

ALLIES ATTAGK GERMAN LINES   Bombers, Fighters Begir Softening Troop Positions Of Rommel.   VON ARNIM IS REPULSED

Three Nozi Attacks Are Beaten Off in Northern Tunisia: Axis Sea Lanes Hit

TROOPS STOP AXIS ATTACKS IN THE NORTH   Action There, as Well as a Rommel Thrust in the South, Comes to a Halt Without Any Significant Gain.

FIGHT WUE FAD OF MARETH FRONT   Heavy Casualties Are Suffered by Germans in Assaults on Allies

Axis Beaten Off, Bombers Crush Enemy   Most . of Gen. Rommel’s Armored Force Near the Mareth Line Wrecked

4U'8 Uhristmas Shopping  Time—For Gifts for Men ho Are Overeaae   Should Re Mailed Between ‘Sept. 15 ana Oct, 15; Specifications Gia...

Announce Regulations For Christmas Mailing To Men In The Service

Sept. 15-Oct. 31st Period For Posting Oversea Xmas Mail   Regulations for Sending Gifts to Servicemen are Outlined

WILSON DECIDES TO KEEP WPB JOB   AGREES TO RETAIN POST UNTIL PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.RELEASES HIM.

Collin Farmers Are Urged To Obtain Their Slaughter Permits DuringThis Month      FARMERS WHO SLAUGHTER MEAT FOR SALE ARE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS BY R. L. WILSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE AAA BOARD IN THIS CITY.

‘MILITARY RITES UNITE COUPLE AT MASS. CHAPEI   Jane -Spalding Bennett Becomes Wife of Lt. Col. Sothoron in - Impressive Militare Ceremany _

Indiana W.P.B Approves New Speed-Up Unit   “New ‘“‘controlled materials plan” result of experience in dealing with problems. .

Nteel Froduction Hit as Five More Furnaces Close  President's Draft Threat Angers Many, Union Leader Says  WLB STANDS PAT Ickes Sees Need

Many Coal Mine Workers Idle   Refusal to Return Hits Steel Output

MINERS BALKING — AT WORK RETURN   Ickes Takes Firmer Control In Coal Fields; Roosevelt Threat Angers Unionists

Coal Rationing Said Likely  Thousands of Mer   , Thousands of Men ‘Refuse to Work

3 Destroyers, 12 Cargo Boats Sunk; 11 More Hit: Naval Fight Also Won

Outgunned American Task Force Whips Japs   United Press Reporter Gives Eye-Witness Account of Spectacular Battle

Fancy Prices For Cattle   American Royal Prize Animals Sold at Highest Figure on Record

Byrnes Firm on. "Little Steet’ Wage Formula   ‘.  Injunction  Holds Pay to  Pracen’ Taga!

48-Hour Week To Bring Big Paychecks   1t Spells The Doom, However, Of Lewis’ $2 A Day Increase

WAGE RAISES STOPPED BY BYRNES EDICT   Wages of Most Workers “Frozen” As Result © Of Iniunction

Wages Of Thousands Of Workers ‘Frozen’ —   Byrnes Takes Step To Step Ds mands For Higher Wares

48-HOUR WEEK WILL BRING 30 PER CENT LARGER PAY CHECK   Byrnes! Move Ii Intended ‘To Stop Wave Of Demands : For: Higher Wave Rata

CLOSES DOOR 10 WACE INCREASES   Byrnes Firm Against Rise In Pay, Farm Prices; Promises Inyvaston Of Europe

Russians Say 3,000 Germans Killed In Fighting Along Voronezh Front.

IS FACED BY NAZIS   Annihifation of the Enemy on Voronzeh Front Is Now Believed to Be Imminent.

Three Generals Among Those Cantured   Hardly More Than 5,000 Nazis Left  In Stalinorad

6000 Priseners Taken, Including Three Generals   3,000 Killed; Stalingrad Trap Being Cleaned Out, General Reported to Have Surrendered Division

Reds Capture 6,000 More Nazi Troops   Picked Units Turning - Voronezi- Front inte Another Gigantic Trap

TakeMany Nazis With This Scheme   SECOND GREAT SNARE OF RUSSIANS SUCCREDS AGAINST NAZIS.

THREE LEADERS ARE SEIZED BY SOVIET FORCES   Entire Enemy Force Of 9,000 Men Is Liquidated, Red Communique Says   33 LOCALITIES FREED      Russians Close In On 3 Junction Points Controlling Escape Route

Half-PayForMen In Service Out  _ State Supreme Court : Holds Unconstitutiona!

Halts Payments to State, County, Municipal Employes in Armed Forces   ‘CLASS LEGISLATION’ SAYS STATE COURT

Latin Policy Draws Fire   8. America ‘Playing New Deal for Sucker’

* “Good Neighbor” Policy Toward Latin Americas Rapped By Senator Butler

BOONDOGGLING, SENATOR SAYS AFTER JUNKET   ‘Good Neighbor’ Policy Ta Boomerang Against  U. §—Butler

Plan Called ‘Naive Boondoggling’? Which Should Be Changed.   COST (IS SIX BILLIONS

BUTLER RAPS U. S. AID MEASURES TO LATIN AMERICAS   Nebraska Senator Tells of Bungling and Mis-Use of Funds and Goods After Tour of Southern Countries

Latin-American Policy Is Hif   Naively Conceived, Badly Coordinated, ’ Says Senator Butler

Senate May © Not Furnish Candidates   Presidential Race May Be Run Without Host of Formal Entries

‘C000 NEIGHBOR’ PROGRAM RIPPED   Senator Says Many Nations Play U.S. For ‘Sucker’ 

Uncle Sam Being Played For Sucker By Latin Americans, Senator Says

Latin-American  Aid Plan Assailed  Good Neighbor Policy Described As Boondoaaling by U. S. Senator

Many Latin-American Countries Playing Us As "Suckers,"’ Says Senator Back From Tour

Claims Latin Americans   Senator Butler (R-Neb) Reports, After 20,000 Mile Tour That U. S. Cash Is Finding Its Way Into Political Graft

Report Made By Butler On Goodwill Tour   Latin-American Aid Program Should be Changed,  Senator Says  LITTLE GOOD RESULTING

Good Neighbor Policy Termed  Boondoggling   Nebraska Senator Says U.S. Is A ‘Sucker’ For Latin Americas

U S, AID TO LATIN  AMERICA CRITICIZED  AS NOT COORDINATED SENATOR BUTLER DE SCRIBES SITUATION AS ONE OF “ROONDOGCLING’

Latin - American  Aid ‘Boondoggled   Good Neighbor Plan Change Urged

Good Neighbor  Policy “Naive”   After Tour of Latin America, Senator Is Sharp in Criticism

Republican Senator Scores  Lease Lend Policy To  T atin A PAPAS.

Nebraskan, Reporting On Tour, Calls For Change  From ‘Naive’ Program.

MARSALA QUICK TO FALL AFTER BIG GUNS SPEAK   ‘Only Casualties Couple of Men In - jured by Snipers’ Bullets, Har old Boyle Says

GIVE UP IN DROVES   Axis Prisoners at Marsala Constitute a Traffic ’  Problem

Marsala Gave Up Without Struggle   Snipers Wounded Two Americans

Miners Stage Dues Dispute      9, 600. Have Quit Work In Pennsylv ania: Fields. Over 50:-Cents

RAISE IN UNION DUES KEEPS MINERS IDLE   Protest 50 Cent Hike, Nine Thousand Workers Stay Away from Jobs

9000 MINERS STAY AWAY FROM JOBS IN COAL FIELDS   Factional Dispute Over Union Dues Closes Seven Collieries

9,000 MINERS STAY ON STRIKE   factional Dispute — ot Inerease of Union Dues

9000 Miners Leave Pennsylvania Jobs   Factional Dispute Causes Walkout

9,000 MINERS STRIKE OVER DUES BOOS!   Walkout In Pennsylvania An“thracite Mines Condemned Bv Union

MINERS STRIKE OVER DUES AT WILKES-BARRE   Union Officials Claim Walk-out Not Called, But Collieries Are Not Operating   9,000 INVOLVED   Increased ‘Dues Given As Reason Hard Coal Miners Walked Off Their Jobs

9,000 Miners On Strike In Penna.   Increase In Dues For Union Brings Demand For Rebate

SOVIET ARTICLE RAPS AT 3 U. S. AFL LABOR CHIEFS   ACCUSE HUTCHESON, WOLL, NAGLER OF ANTI-SOVIET ACTS

‘Soviet writer accuses American labor leaders of anti-soviet acts

LEWIS AND OTHER LABOR LEADERS ARE RAPPED ‘BY SOVIETS   AFL Leaders Among Those Accused of Waging Political. Warfare Against  Riureein

SOVIET LABOR ; PUBLICATION "PRAISES ¢      Calls Lewis “Fascist, Sectarian” ;:Leaders Wool, Hutcheson, Dubinsky, Nagler Propagandists Against Workers   LABOR JOURNALIST

Red Labor Paper Places Blame For IES. Labor Solit On 3 AFL Leaders

Soviet Press _ Attacks Four AFL Leaders   Names Lewis as ‘Fascist Seclarian’ — Report: Anti-Sovietism

Russian Raps  * Labor Chiefs   Writer States 3 Leaders In U. S.-Are Strongly — Anti-Soviet-

Denounce AFL In Article In Moscow Paper   Publication Accuses John L. Lewis of Waging Political War   CALLED REACTIONARIES

Soviet Paper Hits Labor Leaders In U.S  Russian Paper  Discusses Split T.. Dante Taran

SOVIETS ACCUSE AFL CHIEFTAINS   Declare Three U. Labor Leaders Guilty Fy AntiSoviet Acts.   —BY EDDY GILMORE—

SHORTAGE OF LIQUOR REVIVING BOOTLEGGER   Widespread Illicit Operations Seen As Result of Rationing of Supplies

[LLICIT DEALS INLIQUOR ARE HELD MOUNTIN(   Revival of Bootlegging Held Imminent As Result Growing Shortages and Forced Rationing

Bootlegging’s Coming Back; Supply Cited   Shortages of Liquor Blamed As Illicit Operations Break Out in Various Parts of Nation — No Home Brew ‘Or Market’ Yet.

‘Distillers Say Revival Of Liquor ‘Rootleaaing Is Imminent In Nation

Mill Workers Say Defective Plates O. K.’d; Company Head Denies Top Men Involved.

Denies Steel  Officials in Test ‘Fakes’   Corporation President Testifies Before Committee

President Says High Officals Did Not Know of NonCompliance.   SENATE PROBES REPORT

Perry Testifies In Steel Probe   Management Innocent Witness Claims

Denies Steel Tests Faked In War Plant   Head Of Carnegie Company Says No Official Guilty   Workmen Had Charged Tests Not Adequate   Truman’s Committee To Probe Aircraft  Engine Failures

—Solons Bare Fraud— TESTS FAKED FOR NAVY'S STEEL PLATE   Foreman’s Statement.

Faked Tests On Steel Plate Going to Navy Unknown to High Officials At Carnegie-Illinois

Charge Steel Company Gave Poor Produc   Employes Say Defective Steel Supplied On War Orders Since July 1942.   FIRM ISSUES DENIAL

Faked Steel Tests Revealed af Plant   Company Heads Disclaim Blame

STEEL HEAD DENIES CHARGE   CLAIM PROPER TESTING OF PLATE PRODUCTS

FAKED STEEL TESTS CHARGED   President of Carnegie-Illinois Denies Higher Management Responsible

Steel President Says © Higher Ups Had Little TT) Do With Testing

Steel Maker Denies Part  In Bad Testing   Truman Committee Hears Analyses Had Been VFaked

CHARGE TESTS ON STEEL PLATE FOR NAVY WERE FAKED   CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS STEEL CORPORATION DENIES CHARGES

OFFICIAL SAYS MANAGEMENT NOT INVOLVE   President of Carnegie-Iltinois Asserts “Disclosures Deeply Deplored.”   /'EMPLOYES SAY TEST  ON NAVY STEEL FAKED

Victorious American Doughboys Found  : Messina Smashed To Piles Of Debris

Yanks Lonely In Battered Messina; No One To Fight: - Beautiful City In Shambles

American Troops Find Messina in Ruins: Capture of Town Is Anti-Climax After Days of Bitter Fighting in Final Battle

(Capture Of Messina Is Anti-Climax \After Many Days Of Bitter Battling

ON FDGUF   Battered Messina “All There Is, There Ain’t No More” For Victorious American Soldiers

U.S. Dou ghboys Nervous In U naccustomed Calm Of Messina   Termination Of Sicilian Invasion On 38th Day Leaves Soldiers Ai Loose Ends: Get Some Sleep

Yank Forces Find Messina In Ruins;  Troops Seem Lost As Campaign Ends

Hungry. Doughboy From Arkansas Shows Little Interest. “In. Messina As He Sits On Curb To Eat Cheese

Solons Are Told Poston Japanese Armed, May Be Santa Fe Train Wreckers

Wheeler Battles Post-War Stand   Both Sides Claim Roosevelt Support

Wheeler Urges Connally Postwar Plan Reiection: Sees Threat of Another War

Wheeler Hits Connally Postwar Plan   Sees War Perils; Move Wins President’s Okeh

Airfield Bombed   Wheeler Opposes Ties with Europe   Sees U. 5. Dragged Into Another War

Bag 18 Supply  Planes   Transport Aireraft Rushing Gasoline, Oil To Axis African Corps.   REDS CONTINUE GAINS

31 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN BY THE AMERICAN PLANES   Eighteen of Them Were Believed to Be Carrying Gasoline or Oil.   CRASHED INTO THE SEA   In the Same Action an Enemy Destroyer Was Blown Up.

Enemy Destroyer Blown Up By Yank - Pilots In Sea Battle   Other Air Operations Cost Nazis 17 Craft To Raise Day’s Total To 48; Action On Land Fronts Limited To Patrols

\U..S. Airmen Down Nazi Transport Planes; Berlin  Sees Big African Push

SURFACE SHIPS ALSO ARE HIT   Huge Formation of Transport Planes Attacked By Americans.   INAPLES AGAIN RAIDED

ENEMY DESTROYER 1S SENT 10 BOTTOM   One of Greatest Air Battles of Mediterranean War Theater Foueht

Americans Sever Rommel Lifeline   U. 8. Fighters Shoot Down Axis Supply Planes in Fierce Air Battle and Sink Destroyer and Hit Convoy Enroute to Tunisia

ROMMEL'S LINE UNDER BRITISH BOMBARDMENTS   Germans Told Yank Force Preparing for Big Attack In Central Sector   ESCAPE ROAD STILL OPEN   In Russia, Red Army Drives Toward Last Stronghold Of Nazis in Caucasus

U.S. Fighters Down 13 More Enemy Planes   Fuel Transports Knocked Down in Great Air Battle Off Tunisian Coast; Allies Blow Up Destroyer and Attack Convoy.

GREATEST  AIR BATTLE.   Lightnings Send 31 Axis Planes Crashing Inte Sea

Smash Big Armada Over Sicilian Straits; Berlin Nervous About New Attacks   Planes Blow Up Axis Destroyer— RAF Bombers Pound Naples-—Soviets Pound German Point in Caucasus—  Crush Nazi Attack on Kharkov Front

OVER HALF OF BAGGED PLANES GIANT JUNKERS   Six Dive Bombers and Seven Opposing Fighters Also’ Disposed of In 25-Minute Fight   PLANES EXPLODE AS THEY SPIN INTO SEA   Enemy Destroyer Blown Up In Course of Battle; 12 Allied Planes Lost; ~ Tunisia Oujet ;

BiG AIR BATTLE IS STAGED OFF TUNISIAN COAST   Land Activities Mainly Intense Patrol Actions on Various Fronts

ALLIES KNOCK DFFTANK OIL FOR ROMMEL   Send 31 Planes Crashing Into Sea in Biggest Baitle of . African Area,   PATROL ACTIVITY. ONLY . OPERATION ‘ON°GROUND.

Airmen Also Blow Up Destroyer And Blast Ship Convoy   Allied Airmen also Keep Up Terrific Assaults on Other Axis . Targets. Reds Hammering — at Novorossisk; Repulse Nazis in Doncts.

REINFORCED AMERICAN TROOPS SEEM TO BE PREPARINIG FOR  z MAJOR OPERATION NAZIS SAY   Cannon-Flaming Fighter Planes Send 18 Big Nazi Transport and 13 Enemy Fighter Planes Flaming Into Sea In Big Air Battle off Tunisia

TEMPERATURES:   18 Big German Air Transports Blown From Sky   Reinforced American, British Troops Set - * For Final Drive

CANNON-FLAMING AMERICAN PLANES TEAR INTO ARMADA  UNITED NATIONS AIRMER   UNITED NATIONS AIRMEN ALSO RAINED DESTRUCTION ON SHIP CONVOY

Send 18 Transports Crashing Into Sea,  Down 13 Other Craft   Axis Destroyer Is Blasted As Fier v Destruction Envelops Convoy; Great American Drive Seen Near

GERMANS SAY BRITISH GUNS OPENING: WAY   American Forces Reinforced, Shows Signs of. New Major Offensive...      ALLIES GIVE OUT.  MEAGER Soa ORTS   Russians Tighten i in. Cats casus Fighting, Report New Gains, :

‘Mass Attack’ Is Expected, Berlin Says   Nazi Broadcasts Ring  Out Series.of Alarms on Bat. tle in Tunisia   8-FRONT ALLIED PUSH EXPECTED   Stress on Allied Moves. May Be in Preparation for © Telling Bad News

18 Big Nazi Transports  Are Downed   Intense Patro! Operations Reported On Tunisian Front; Am erican Lightings Destroy Enormous Armada of German Air Transports

U.S. Airmen Down 31 Axis Planes   One of Greatest Air Fights in Tunisian War Reported

Americans Improve Positions “Preparing for Major Operation”—Reds Whittle Down Nazi Bridgehead at Novorossisk; Repel Germans on Donets

Yanks Send Nazi Planes  Into Ocean   Americans Blow Up Axis Destroyer Headed For Tunisian Coast

48 ENEMY CRAFT FALL IN DAY OF FIERCE ACTIVITY   Destroyer Blown Apart In Sicily Strait; Germans Look For New Push

Enemy Destroyer Also Blown Up In Destructive Attack On Rommel-Aid  Can VOY .

18 Big Junkers Transports 7 Shot Down In Mightiest Air Battle Over Mediterranean

ALSO BLOW UP DESTROYER IN: BiG AIR FIGHT        Action Takes Place in Sicilian Straits — 17 More Planes Bagged in Tunisia, Setting a New; One-Day Record.

31 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over Mediterranean   18 Junker Transports Are Included

Big Air Fight Occurs Over Mediterranean   Land Activities in Tunisia Consist of Patrol Operations

Allies Down 48 Rommel Planes;  P38's Get 31   Yanks Knock 18 Big Air Transports Into Mediterranean, -Hit Convoy; U. S. Troops Gain Five Miles

‘American Pilots Sink 31 Planes, Destroyer in Big Mediterranean Air Battle

AXIS AIR TRANSPORT ARMADA SMASHED BY YANK FLIERS   AXIS JITTERY---FEAR ‘BIG PUSH’ IS NEAR   German War Industries Devastated _ By Intensified Aerial Assaults

Believed Carrying Gasoline to Africa   Greatest Air Battles Of War Rage Over Mediterranean; Yanks Preparing For New Action

31 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Axis Ships Were Carrying Supplies To Rommel   DESTROYER   Also Blown Up By Yanks; Ground Fighting In Tunisia Lags

F ierce Allied Air Activity Continues W ith 48 Axis Planes Lost in Day in Tunisian Battle; Lull in Land Fighting

U.S. Fliers Bag 18 Large German Sky Transports   Send 13 Other Planes Crashing Into Sea In Spectacular Air Battle Off Tunisia

Lightnings Send 31 Axis Supply Planes Crashing Into Sea   Enemy Destroyer Blown  her Ships Set — Afive: War News

Allies Destroy 48 German And Italian Planes For Biggest Bag Scored In Single Day In Africa; Transports Loaded With Supplies Shot Down

Thirty Other Axis Planes Sent Crashing by Allie:      Destroyer Blown Up, Several Other Enemy Ships Set Afire in Attack on Sea Convoy—Land Action Minor

18 Nazi Transports In Count, Air Battle Over Sicilian Straits   Smash Enemy Destroyer in Fight; Hitler’s Planes Hit Sea at Better Than One Per-Minute Clip

31 PLANES WITH GAS, SUPPLIES ARE DESTROYED   Enemy Destroyer Also Blown Up; Other Ships Hit ,

NAZI DESTROYER BLOWN UP; SCORE ADDITIONAL HITS   Total Q* FortyEight Planes Are Bageed In Battle

s cteinieaneiimememeemtstaetuanehinesl  U3, FIGHTERG SGORE. HEAVILY IN 25 MINUTES   American, British Grou Forces Readying Attack On Marshal Rommel

US Airplanes Down 18 Nazi  Transports   One of the Greatest Air Battles of North African Theatre Reported; RAF Bombs Naples; Reds Advance

New Mass Attack Hinted Against Nazis By U. S., British  BIGGEST AIR FIGHT Soviets Make New Gains  In Black Sea Area Offensive

Allied Pilots Also Sink Destroyer And Bomb Convoy   No Major Land Engagements Fought On Tunisian Front

aT AXIO OHIP HOT OUT OF AIR GONVOY   Air Battle Over Mediterranean One of Biggest Ever Seen There.   ENEMY LOSES 18 FUEL TRANSPORTS   Other Operations Bring Total Bag of Enemy Planes to 48. .

Nazi Broadcasts Sound Alarms on Tunisia Campaign   18 German Air Transports Downet in Mediterranean; Allies Warm Up for Land Action

Enemy Destroyer Blown Up In Allied Attack On Nazi Convoy; Trapani, In Sicily, Is Raided   British Bombers Blast Naples Again; 48 Axis Planes Lost Compared With 12 Of Ours: Patton's Army Is Reinforced

Big Air Fight Occurs Over Mediterranean  Land Activities in Tunisia Consist of

U.S. Planes Engage in Big Sky Battle   18 Big Junkers Air Transports Included With 13 Fighter Craft

‘American: Attackers Send 18 Big Junkers Trans~ ports Into Sea   GET 48 AXIS PLANES   Air. War in Intense Phase; Patroli Activities in . ' . Tunisia

THIRTY-ONE ENEMY PLANES WERE SENT CRASHING INTO SEA  ONE OF GREATEST AIR  BATTLE IN MEDITERRAD FAN AREA FOIUCHT

GERMANS REPORT BRITISH SHELLING LINES IN TUNISIA   Axis Radios Also Warn Reinforced American Troops About to Launch Major  Oneration.

IN GREAT AIR FIGHT 31 AXIS PLANES CRASH   Big Junkers Transports Carrying Supplies to Africa Downed by Yanks.   Montgomery Prepares To Renew His Drive

18 Huge Transports Downed In Sea Off North Africa   Axis Destroyer Also Sunk; Montgomery Prepares For New Major Offensive

Allied Planes Attack Enemy Convoy, One Destroyer Being Blown Up; Severol Other Vessels Hit and Set Ablaze

Fighter Planes Down 18 Nazi Air Transports   One of Greatest Air Battles Off the Coast of Tunisia

Baby Dies Of Neglect   Body Lies In Crib Five. Days As Parents Argue

Regulations On C Cards Eased    Greater‘Number May Obtain Additional Gas

FEW FCMMAINING THODPO FACING CERTAIN QEATH   Axis Suffers Heavy Losses On North African Front As Air Battles Rage

New Offensive Near Voronezh Smashes Ahead   Germans Reject Russian Ultimatum To Surrender Despite Mounting Death,  ihiiesteteral coca eee  CEItZOC DAT TING TION   'SEIZE RAIL JUNCTION

19,000 NAZIS SLAIN; 17,000 ARECAPTURED   Claim Trapped Foe in Stalingrad Area Being Liquidated

Fhe Doctors Daughtors   Fhe Doctors D  py. CAITH RALDWIN COPYRIGHT,’ 1943,  ata an ee tee

TUNISIAN SUPPLY LINES CRIPPLED   Allies Blast Ships and Ports in Plan to Isolate Nazi African Forces.

10 AXIS SUPPLY SHIPS ARE SUNK BY BRITISH SUBS   Allied Planes From the Middle East Also Hammered Shipping and  Supply Dumps Of  BE rearmu

Red Troops Take  Finnish Position   Capture Strong Point on Kareilan Isthmus, Kill 300 Officers and Men.

RUSSIANS SEIZE FINNS’ POSITION   Soviets Report Victory in Action on the Karelian Isthmus Sunday

Reds Seize Stronghold in Finland   Fierce Fight On Karelian Isthmus

Kalamazoo Sets War Bond Record   Half Million Purchase Approved By City

Turkeys Scarce   banked nwy! wutsl we ee A  Despite Record Crop ©

Local Women Sought For WAACS   Army Seeking 150,000 WAACS This Summer

Knox Questions Effect of Raids  Wonders If Subs Are Hit In Nests

Knox Questions Whether Aerial Bombings Of Sub Bases On French Coast Are Getting Results

KNOX QUESTIONS SUB BASE BLOWS   Not Sure That Air Raids Do Direct Damage To Boats

Knox Questions Whether Big ‘Raids On Germany’s Sub Bases ‘Are Doing Any Direct Damaae   Disrupt Community Life But U-Boat Stalls Are Heavily Protected He Says

Knox. Doubtful About Damage   ‘Bombing of N Vaz Sub. Pen Areas Has Some Value, Says Secretary © -.

KNOX DISCUSSES RAIDS ON ‘SUBS’   Navy Secretary Says Bombings Effective, But 300 To 400 Still Left

Knox Doubts Hits on U-Boats   Says Nazi Submarines Are Well Protected In Stalls in Ports

SECRETARY KNOX — QUESTIONS EFFECT OUB BASE ATTACKS  NAVAL SECRETARY BELIEVES GERMANS HAVE 300 TO 400 U-BOATS

JAPANESE BASE AT MUNDA GETS G00D POUNDING   American Planes Attack Enemy Air Base In Central Solomons Three Times  In One Day.

Air Attacks Mount to 63 Since Nov. 23   Blast Gun Position Start Fires on Jap Installations

Routed Japs In Retreat   Allies Push Enemy Toward Selamaua; U.S Planes Bomb Munda

Munda Raided Three Times In One Day  Navy Reports On Air Activities In Solomons

MUNDA BLASTED THREE TIMES   Japs’ Central Solomons Position Heavily Bombed Again By Yankees

Bombers Batter Japanese Base  U. S. Attacks Munda Three More Times

U. S. PLANES: AGAIN BOMB JAPS AT MUNDA   _ 36rd Raid Delivered on Base of Enemy Friday And Fires Started

YanksAgain Pound Munda, Kolombangara; Dramatic Battle Meeting Described

U.S. Bombers Hit Munda 3 Times in Day Destroy Gun Position  and Set Fires at Jap  New Georgia Base  ALL PLANES BACK  Raid on Kolombangara  Repeated ; Troopship Is Attankad hv Vanke      ALL PLANES BACK   Raid on Kolombangara Repeated ; Troopship Is Attacked by Yanks

LOSSES WERE NOT ADMITTED BEFORE TODA)   Whipped in New Guinea, Japan. ese Forces Continuing Their Flight From Wau Area

Three Raids Are Made On Munda Base   More Than 100 Attacks Have Been Made By American Planes On Bases In Solomons

Munda Bombed 3 Times In A Day  Gun Position Wrecked, Fires Are Started At Japanese Base

TOKYO'S FIGURES FAR OUT OF LINE   Japanese Broadcast Their Version Of Pacific Naval Losses   COVER UP MOVE   Report Seen As Effort To Divert Attention From Defeats

Tokio Claims A Fantastic Toll Of Allied Ships   ‘Cover-Up’ Broadcast Reports 98 War Craft Sunk In 6 Months.

United States Planes Bomb Japanese Air Base At Munda   Gun Position Is Destroyed and Fires Are Started in Sixty-Third Attack on Central Solomons Island Since November; All American Planes Return From Yesterday’s Attack

BOMB JAPS ON MUNDA 3 TIMES   Marks 631d Raid on Base Since Nov. 273

Japanese Plane Base At Munda Is Raided Three Times Friday By Planes From U.S. Positions

LOSS OF SHIPS   Tokyo Broadcast Lists Toll Of Planes, Vessels for Both Sides.   TARURATE LOSSES

NEW PHASE IS NOW DEVELOPED IN THE WAR AGAINST AXIS   Strategic Initiative Is Taken from Enemy Who ts About Hamstrung,

FUROPEAN WAR NOW SEES AXIS ON DEFENSIVE   Enters Final Phase — Germans No Longer Holding Initiative

King Peter I! Accepts Resignation Of Entire dJugoslavian Cabinet

Approval For Greene Co. Bills   Springfield Group Attends Hearing for Ozark Empire Fair

Approval For’ Greene: (o-Bills.”   ’ Springfield Group Attends Hearing for. Ovark: Empire Fair:

ENTIRE WARSAW GHETTO HAS BEEN OBLITERATEL   Germans Mow Houses Down With Tanks, Butcher the People.

DUTCH REVOLT NAZI-INSPIRED ; REPORT 70 DIE   Street Clashes, Sabotage And Mass Strikes Spreading

NAZIS DESTROY WARSAW JEWS   Dutch Rebellion Flares As Poles Report Liquidation  of Ghetto

Nazis Wipe Out ‘Warsaw Ghetto   Unrest Spreads in Occupied Europe

N azis Slay 7 0 Patriots Tn Holland   Joereasing Reyolis, Strikes Reported Tn Low Countries

Tax Deadlock Break Hopes Are Revived   See Campromise on Pay-as-You-Go Plan

HOPE FOR BREAK IN TAX DEADLOGK   Democrats and Republican Committee Members Voice Optimism at Prospects for Compromise Bill

HOPE FOR TAX COMPROMISE   Leaders Seek to End PayGo Deadlock; Paper for New System Ordered

EARLY BREAK SEEN IN TAX DEADLOCK       Compromise Plan Expected to be Found by Committce

COMPROMISE DUE IN TAX STRUGGLE   Senate And House Conferees Are Expected To Reach Agreement ‘Foday

PAPER ORDERED FOR TAX FORMS   Hope Revived For Break In Pay-As-You-Go Deadlock

Hope for Break In Pay-as-Y ou-Ge Deadlock Rises   Conferees Optimistic After First Parley On New Compromise  TREASURY PREPARES  120 Carloads of Paper For Withholding Tax Blanks Ordered

Break Forecast In Tax Deadlock   Paper For Printing Of Farme Orderad

HOUSE APPROVES AMENDMENT VOTE   SUBMIT TREASURER, SHERIFF SUCCESSION TO VOTE OF PEOPLE

FALL OF SMOLENSK IS IMMINENT SAY SOVIET LEADERS; CITY SURROUNDED   Main Bulk Of Powerful Red Army Force Pressing Against Nazis Less Than Nine Miles From The City.

Smolensk Surrounded by the Red Army Nine Miles Away.  RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ON 700-MILE FRONT  Germans Claim Soviets Attempts to Cross River Stopped.

SMOLENSK NEARLY SURROUNDED BY RUSSIAN ARMIES   Greatest Nazi Stronghold Expected to Fall at Any Moment

Rumor Declares  Finns May Ask for Peace   Failure to Receive Rations Is Basis Of Alleged Intention; It Is Denied Nazis Plan Peace Overtures

FINLAND THREATENS TO DESERT GERMANY   Dispatch Says Berlin Has Been Told Helsinki Wilf) Consider Peace Unless Given Food.

Roving British Jungle [Army Returns After Secret 3 Months’ Raid In Burma

Sounds Like Exploits Of T. E. Lawrence. .... British, Native Troops Complete Wrecking Of Jap Railways In Burma

British Force Battles Japs ‘Three Months in Burma Jungles   Wingate’s Hardened Fighters Return to Frontier After Wrecking 100 Miles Railroad, Delaying Japanese Offensives

British Announce End of 3 Month Campaign in iBurma; Gain Objectives

Drive In Burma Wound Up By British Forces  Announce End of Campaign; Object awae Attained

Mission To Block Japanese Assault On India Achieved: Bomb Records Set

3-Month Burma Campaign By British Comes to an End   Objectives Attained; American Airmen Set New Bombing Records: Bitter Jungle Guerrilla Warfare Rivals Exploits of Lawrence of Ar_abia; Soldiers Eat Pack Mules

OHIO DEMOCRATS IN FAMILY FIGHT   State Chairman Is Target of Caustic Criticism

From Secret Hide-Out Hitler Launches Threats To Start Terror Wave

Hitler Repeats --Vietory Clain   Fuehrer, However, Ignores _ Wai Trends in New Year Meceave to Germans

HITLER THEME IS UNCHANGED   Tells Reich on New Year's Germany Won't Collapse or Surrender

HITLER REPEATS GERMANY WILL NOT GAPITULATE   Declares People Will Not Collapse; Fourth War-time New Year’s Message   FUEHRER DISCUSSES FEW OF HIS FAVORITE HATES   Has Nothing to Say Abou! Russian Campaign, or Rom. mel's Flight in Libya; De. clares Germany Will B« Victorious in End

HITLER BOASTS IN NEW YEAR MESSAGE   Fuehrer Says Germany Will Not Collapse Nor Capitulate

‘Hitler Repeats Pledge to Vanquish Foes   Nazi Chief Flays Jews, Roosevelt; Tenores Defeats

YOUTH PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN CAROTACE (ASE   Harvey Lee Thomas, 21 Accused of Committing 150 Acts of Sabotage In Naval Bombers   UNDER $25,000 BAIL   Alleged Deeds Held to Have Cost Aircraft Con— nancial Loss

March 1 Set For Further Hearing For H. L. Thoma:   Adamstown Rural Women’s Club Asks Commissioner To Show Teniency

Russians Driving © On Trapped Nazis   Reds on Heels of German Army Seeking to Escape from Kiev

Russians Surge Westward In A Two-Way Drive   Threaten Vital Ukraine Rail Line As Nazis Continue Mad Flight.

Amazing Fight for Life Revealed   Coast Guardsman Burned in Boston Blaze Stil! Alive

Doctors Waging Heroic Battle To Save Coast Guardsman, Almost Burned To Death In Boston Fire

savage Nazi Attacks Are Smashed   British Artillery Takes Heavy Toll of Germans

German Attacks Beaten Back on Fronts in Waly   Nazi Shock Troops Suffer Big Losses

TANK-LED NAZI ATTACK PUSHED BACK ON COAST   American Forces Brought Almost To Standstill; Enemy Suffers Heavy Loss

British Drive on Pescara Checked By Nazis; Moro River Bridgehead is Extended; German Losses Large

Counter-Attacks In Italy Slow Allied Advances   Germans Lose Heavily And Attacks Beaten Off Ou Both Euds of Front

Savage German Counterattacks Are Smashed Back by Allies  EIGHTH ARMY IS AT VIRTUAL STANDSTILL  British Take Heavy Toll of Tank-Led Nazi Assault Troops

Legislation For Paid Bond Ads Is Killed   Bill Sidetracked In Executive Session of House Committee   ‘LABELED "A SUBSIDY"

Fund Refused For Promotion  Of Bond Sale   Legislation To Authorize Paid Advertising In Newspapers Is Tabled By House Committee —

AD BILL KILLED   @U. S. War Bond Expenditure With Newspapers Out

Congress Kills War Bond Ad Bill   No Funds for Paid Advertising in Nation’s Newspapers

Committee Kils War Bond Bill  Newspaper Advertising Measure Knecked Out

BOND ADS KILLED   Paid Newspaper Advertising For Bonds Is Tabled

Kill Bond Ad Bill   Put End to Proposal That Gov’t Pay. for . War Bond Advertising

Bond Advertising Proposal Killed   Would Have Authorized Newspaper Advertising For War Bonds.

WAR BOND AD PAY MEASURE. TABLED   CONGRESSMAN SAYS ACTION HAS EFFECT OF KILLING BILL

SULONS KILL WAR BOND ADS   HOUSE COMMITTEE ENDS NEWS PAYMENT MEASURE

U. S.-Paid Ad Bill Killed   House Group Rejects Plan for Government To Pay Newspapers

 Washington Roundup  House Ways, Means Deals Death Blow To Government Newspaper Advertising

BOND AD BILL KILLED IN HOUSE   Ways and Mea Means Group . Votes 11-106 Against US. Paying for Ads

House Group Kills Paid Bond Ads   11—10 Vote Tables Bill for Government Paid Advertising

Salamaua Sighted  By Allied Forces On Rendova, Shelling Of  Munda Continues  eo... Wrwwrraast = Ora

Enemy Stronghold Visible From Peak Positions; Aussie  And U.S. Troops Make Contac   Advantageous Positions Gained; Coastal Holdings Of Americans Consolidated; First Phase Of Operations Is Completed

Allies In Sight Of Big Jap Base At Salamaua; Aussies Push Eastward

ALLIED FORCES IN NASSAU BAY SECTOR NEAR SALAMAUA BAS!  COASTAL HOLDINGS ARE  CONSOLIDATED BY AMERICAN FORCES

Nazis Break And Run in Tunisia Drive         Gen. Von Arnim’s Tank Crews Flee Pounding by Allied Artillery   PLANES HIT TUNIS:   Rommel Legions Racing for Coast Under Heavy Aerial Assaults

Allies Keep Up Pressure In Tunisia   Continue Pursuit of Rommel’s Beaten Forces; Von Arnim’s Moves Fail

Germans Break And Run Under Heavy Pounding   Hitler’s Fortunes In North Africa Are Declared Declining Steadily

‘Italian, German Forces Are Doomed To Be Pushed Into Sea Eisenhower Tells His Troops

Eisenhower Says Axis Tunisian Forces Doomed   Order of Day Cites Failure of Efforts To Break Steel Ring

Gen. Eisenhower Says Nazis In Tunisia Doomed   “Third Attempt To: . Break Ring Fails, Order Of Day Says

EIOENHOWER oAYD ENEMY WILL BE PUSHED INTO SEA   Tells His Troops That German and Italian Forces in Tunisia Are Doomed   SMASHING AIR BLOWS HIT TUNIS AND SOUSSE   Eisenhower Makes Tour of Front, Says Allies Faced with Tremendous Task in Ejecting Axis; Job Will Require Months, Not Weeks

Axis Doomed. Eisenhower  Tells Troops   Cites Rommel’s  Failure to Break Steel Ring

GEN, EISENHOWER PROMISES TO HURL GERMANS INTO SEA   Commander’s Order of Day _ Says Axis Forces in Tunisia Face Eventual Destruction,   WRITER ASSERTS TASK WILL NOT BE EASY   Tour of Battie Front Convinces Daniel De Luce It * Will Require Months for  Allies to Win.

Axis Doomed To Defeat In North Africa   Eiesnhower Tells Troops Enemy Will Be Pushed To Sea

AXIS CONVOYS OFF SICILY ARE POUNDED   8th Army Lines Unchanged After Rommel’s Attacks

EISENHOWER IS SURE OF AXIS DOOM IN AFRICA   Acual Fighting Quiet in  Widespread Raids and  Patrol Action

Nazis Tranned In Noviti Airica   Eisenhower Tells Troops Axis Cannot Escape From Doom

DMENNOWC? OBYEE  Axis Forces To Be Pushed Into The Sea   Enemy Attempts To Break Out Of Allied Ring Smashed

New Attempt To Escape Allies Fails   Eisenhower Says Axis Forces Will Soon Be Forced Into Sea

Allied Planes Blast Axis. Tunisia Bases   Enemy to Be Driven Into Sea, Says Eisenhower

African’ Coup  Ts. Predicted   a ae Pe EAS ot Be . Eisenhower, Sees Germans Facing ‘Sea;. Sousse,  «= “Punis Raided

Axis Doomed, Yanks Told B  Eisenhower   Fighting In Tunisia Is Limited To Patrol Activity

ALLIED AIR FLEETS WREAK DESTRUCTION IN SICILIAN STRAITS  BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS ? COOPERATE TO ROUND   Ager Wee CAIN DINU

NEW DESTRUCTION WAS WROUGHT UPON SICILIAN TARGETS   Lieut. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz Air Fleet Shot Down 16 Axis Fighters.   NAPLES, ITALY RAIDED   Medium Fighters and Bombers Cooperated in the Week-End Blows.

ALLIED AIRMEN CONTINUE RAIDS ON ITALIAN ISLE   Blast Key Positions on Sicily. Shoot Down 16 Axis Aircraft

Sicilian Targets Blasted by Airmen   16 Axis Fighters Reported Shot Down In Battles with Force of American Aviator:

ALLIED AIR FLEETS WREAK DESTRUCTION IN‘SICILIAN STRAITS  _ BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS COOPERATE TO ROUND

Allies Deliver New Air Blows to Sicily   Airmen Shoot Down 16 Axis Fighters in Sunday Raids, Extending Also to Naples and Four Other Cities in Italy.

ALLIED AIR FORCES INFLICT NEW DESTRUCTION AGAINST SICILY, MAINLAND TARGETS

Allied Planes Again Smash Sicily Bases   16 Axis Fighter Planes Downed; Rome Reports Mainland City Attacks

Sicily Target For More Allied Raids   BOMBERS MAKE NEW ATTACK ON CITIES OF ITALY

16 AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN NEW SICILIAN FORA)   Italian Targets Ripped by) Great Air Fleets Directed By Gen, Spaatz

TRUCK DRIVERS END WALKOUT   Reach Agreement, But Foundry * Workers To Return Monday

BOARD FLATLY ORDERS LEWIS NOT TO STRIKE   Again Insists UMW Chie Must Appear at Hearing Now Under Way

WALKOUT SEEN UNLESS “DEAL” IS IN MAKING   Ten Day Negotiations And » Then Report To Board, Is Agency Demand   UMW INSISTS ON HOIST   ” No Indication Given As To Possible Compliance By Union Chief   Would Extend Truce

LEWIS ORDERED TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS AND EX. _ "TEND “TRUCE” FOR AT  LEASY TEN DAYS

War Labor Board Orders Lewis Drop Coal Strike Threat   U. M. W. Leader Directed To Resume Negotiations With Operators On Monday   LEWIS’ ATTITUDE NOT GIVEN YET

Church Bells Usher in Observance; Parade Climaxed by Exercises at Old North Bridge; Military Ball Held:

DENT CITY DEFENSES, BATTER NAZI TROOPS CUT OFF IN CAUCASUS      Vast New Encirclement Move Started In Donets Basin; Steel Center Of Kharkov Now Threatened

ADVANCE LED BY COSSACKS IN CAUCASUS   RICH DONETS BASIN FACES VAST NEW ENCIRCLEMENT

Four More Towns as Allied In. vasion Reaches Second Week With Everything Going Well   ALY. RFANDY'

Italian, Just Taken. Prisoner, Says “We've Been Waiting for You”

PETAIN PLANS SQUELCHED BY ADOLF HITLER   SPEECH IS BARRED; MARSHAL TRIES TO RESIGN

Petain Seeks To Quit ‘When Plans Thwarted, Close Friends Arrested

PETAIN OFFERS HIS RESIGNATION   Number of French Generals Reported Arrested After Marshal Hands In Resignation In Protest.

PETAIN BACKERS REPORTED SEIZED IN FRENCH CRISIS   Marshal Offers Resignation After Germans Thwart His Attempt to Turn Nation to Democracy.   COLLAPSE OF REGIME LOOMS AS POSSIBILITY   Nazis Ready to Take Over if Efforts to Keep Aged Leader in Office Are Unsuccessful.

Petain Announces Intention to Resign His Post  Vichy Is Reportec: Trying to Hold Old: Marshal Firm

Petain Reportedly Is Seeking to Renounce Laval in an Effort to Establish Democracy

Plane Crash Fatal To 12, Wrecks Plant   Chicago Suffers . Worst Air Accident

Slacker Cry By Wheeler Stirs Senate   Legislator Demands ‘Bulging Bureaus’ Re Eased by Draft

WHEELER WILL DELAY BALLOT ON DAD DRAFT   Slacker’ Claim Against U, S. Job-Holders Stirs Senate

NO VOTE LIKELY ON FATHER DRAFI BILL THIS WEEK    Serfator Wheeler Expects To Talk For Couple Of Days * On Question

DEBATE WILL DELAY VOTE ON FATHER DRAFT   Wheeler Charges Thousands Of “Slackers” Hide In Government Jobs

Wheeler Plans Preclude Possibility of Vote This Week on Bill to Defer Fathers   Congress Bloc Demands Weeding Out overnment Workers for Military Service

QUICK VOTE ON WHEELER BILL IS UNLIKELY   Debate Probably Will Continue for Several Days

WHEELER PLANS TO SPEAK FURTHER ON DRAFT GF FATHERS   Announcement Precludes All. Possibilities Senate Can Vote on Issue This Week.

NAZIO BEATEN DACK, AUdolAND RESUME DRIVE   Tide Of Battle On Soviet Front Again Flowing Westward Toward Germany

REDS STRIKE NAZIS IN UKRAINE AREA   Tige of Battle Moving Westward as Russians Také Initiative.

Take Initiative After Absorbing German CounterAttacks; Recapture Some Lost Territory.

Soviet Army Recapture: Territory in Zhitomir Sector   RESERVES POUR IN   Nazi Panzer Units Ar Thrown Back With Teryific Losses

Soviet Tr ‘oops Gain Towns In - Lhitomir Area   Tide Of Battle Again Flows Westward With Russiens Taking Over Three Villages

Soviets Again Drive West on Central Front   Eight-Day Reverse Stopped as Russians Attack

VATUTIN'S ARKIY BEGINS 10 MOVE ON AS BEFORE   Re-capture of Zhitomir Be lieved Due Shortly—Nazi Lagses Heavy.

REDS GAIN INITIATIVE AT ZHITOMIR   Tide of Battle Again Flowing Westward

RUSSIANS TAKE INITIATIVE ON ZHITOMIR LINE   Capture 3 Villages, 2 Important Heights; Fresh Troops Help

IN PLEDGE 10 DO HIS TASK INSIDE YEAR   All That's Needed for Victory in Europe is for Everyone All Line to Do Full Duty

Eisenhower Sees Victory  During 1944      European War Will Be Won in Coming Year, He Predicts

INVASIO COMMANDER CONFIDENT   Statement Is Given At Final Algiers Conference

INVASION CHIEF CONFIDENT AS NEW JOB BEGINS   Praises Allied Cooperation

WELL WIN IN 44 EISENHOWER SAYS IN INTERVIEW   Invasion Commander Asks People At Home to Oo Full Duty.

‘We Will Win the European War in 1944’--General Eisenhower   Stalin Credited With Forcing Second Front Leader

WN gee” SANG BEN EISENHOWE   Declaration Was In Effect Pledge To Do The Jcb Within Year; Farewell Press Conference Held In Aloers   ALL MUST DO FULL DUTY TO WIN WAR

Victory In © 1944: Possible, Contends Hull   War. In Europe: Can ‘Be Ended During Year: If All. Redouble: Efforts, - Asserts Secretary

ISENHOWER ARES SAME REDICTION   oth Warm Of )veroptimism dn Part Of People

EUROPEAN WAR WILL END IN “4a —FISENHOWER   Invasion Leader Is  Confident; About to Leave Algiers   WILL SEEK AT ONCE TO WELD ALLIED TEAM

Makes Prediction On Eve of His  Africa Departure   Will Try To Do Same Job In England As  In Mediterranean Area

Allies Will Win War in 1944 Says  Fisenhower   Man Who Will Lead Invasion Makes Statement

Three Lawrence Cases Among 17 Brought by . District Attorney   CHARGES RENT EXCESS

RENT. CASES FILED IN FEDERAL COURT   Three Lawrence Cases: Among 17 Brought by . ~. District’ Attorney   CHARGES RENT EXCESS -

16 PER CENT CUT IN. GAS. SUPPLIES   Commercial Vehicle Owners In County Are Affected

BELIEVE PARLEYS WITH STALIN NEAR   ne  Announcement Made That Meeting of Foreign Office Representatives of U. S., Britain and Russia Being Arranged.

A STEP CLOSER TO 3 WAY CONFERENCE   Representatires of Russia,. United States and England to Meet

Tighten Ties With Russia      Planned Meeting of Foreign Office Representatives May Lead to Meeting of “Big Three”

Stalin Parley Looms Nearer   Foreign Office Meeting Suggests Conference of Too Allied Chiefs

ANGLO - SOVIETU. §. TALKS SET   Foreign Office Representa. tives Of Three Powers Will Confer.

MAURADERS ABOVE HEART OF BELGIUM   To Pound German Air Base At Chievres As Others Also Shuttle Across Channel To Hitler’s Europe.   Attack Vessels

500 Planes Dump Bombs On Nazi Europe   Americans Batter  German Airbase in Heart of Belaium

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS STRUCK   Allies Put On One of Big. gest Daylight Air Attacks in Weeks

ENEMY AIR BASE AT CHIEVRES IS HEAVILY RAIDED   More Than 500 BritainBased Warplanes Attack Hitler’s Europe   LITTLE OPPOSITION WAS MET: ANYWHERE

U. §. Planes Bom! Nazi Air Base   RAF Also Raids Hitler's Europe

BELGIUM AIR BASE BOMBED BYU. FLIERS      Airport at Chievres Blasted in Daylight Rod   AIRMEN ENCOUNTER LIFTLE OPPOSITION:   Land Targets in Northern _ France Feel Sting “af RAE

NAZI BASEIN BELGIUM HiT   More Than 500 Britain Based Planes Strike  Over Europe

00 PLANES FAN OUT OVER EUROPE   Marks Biggest Allied Daylight Attack in Weeks   BELGIUM BASE HIT   Few Enemy Fighters Meet Raiders; Only One Allied Plane Is Missing

CHINESE VICTORY DRIVES DANGER FROM RICE BOWL   Protection Restored to Area in Hupeh Province as a Result of Kai-Shek’s Defeat of Japs on the Yangtze

Failure To Approve Contract Doesn't Necessarily Mean UMW (Walkout, Declares Leadership

WFA TAKES STEPS TO REQUISITION CORN SUPPLIES   DECIDES UPON PLAN TO AID PROCESSORS; PAY $1.07 BUSHEL

Corn Held In Elevators  Is To Be Requisitioned ‘To Make War Products

REQUISITION OF CORN IS ORDERED      WFA Reports Elevators Are Holding Grain

WEA Seizes Corn Stocks   Requisition Elevator Supplies In 15 Principal Terminal Markets.

ELEVATOR CORN TO BE SEIZED   War Food Adminiétration Acts  “To Provide Processors ServSing War- Effort. 2

leading Scorer      South Dakota Lumber Mill Worker Gets 10 Germans In 4 Minutes

(Nete—During the temporary absence of Dewitt MacKenzie, this column is being conducted by William Frye of the Washington Bureau.)

Germans Hope for Orderly Withdrawal in Russia ‘Reds Held Off by Counterattacks ’

GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS UPON FASTERN FRONT FAIL TO SHOW STRENGTH FOR REAL OFFENSIVE

50 Tons Bombs A Minute Dropped Qn Berlin Area   New Tactics Used In Raid; Planes Are Concentrated Over Capital -

COFFEE BONUS SLATED   Restaurants And Institutional Users Ye Get 16 Per Cent More

ALLIES HIT AT LAST AXIS CIRCLE   Fight in Hills Southwest of Cape Bon

CAPE BON FALLS   Only Organized Axis Resistance Is South of Cape Bon

FAHLMAN HEADS COUNTY GROUP   Helps Plan Industry's Post-War Problems

Will Plan For Work After Wat   Fahlman Heads County Com. For Economic Development

Gen. Patton Apologizes For Striking Soldier In Hospital During Campaian   After Scorching Letter From Gen. Eisenhower, Admits Was Wrong; Man He Struck Had Excellent Army Record

Story Now Told That Gen. Patton Struck Soldie:   Commander of Seventh Army in Italy Then Makes Profuse Apologies   Incident Is Denounced By Gen. Eisenhower

biood Ang Guts Gets Keprimand  General Patton Apologized For Striking War-Sick Soldier

Patton Apologizes for Striking Shell-Shocked Soldier In Hospital Tent

Gen. Patton Hit Patient, Apolosized   Allied Headquarters Confirms Re  port — General Twice Struck  hell. Shocked Man In Hospita Tent   APOLOGIZED FOLLOWING EISENHOWER’S DEMAND

Patton Draws “Merciless” Condemnation For Striking Shell-Shocked Soldie

\Patton Apologizes for Hitting Soldier in Hospital: : Eisenhower Gives Verhal. Lashinge. No Renrimand

General Apologizes For Slapping Soldier   Patton Rebuked by Eisenhower After Mistreatment of Shell Shock Victim

APOLOGIES FOR BLOW MADE T0 CEVENTH ARMY   Repeats Apology to All Those Affected, on Ultimatum by Fisenhower.

Gen. Pation Apologizes + for Hitting  ~ a Soldier   ‘Slapped Shell-Shocked ,Man in Hospital in Fit of Fury During Heat of Battle   SSURSE AND HOSPITAL HEAD INTERVENED   Seventh Army Chief Given a ; Severe Castigation by Gen. Eisenhower -

AN APOLOGY MADE BY LIEUT, GENERAL GEO, A. PATTON, JR   Made to Officers and Men of the 7th Army for Striking a Soldier.   WAS IN SICILIAN CAMP   Patton, Reprimanded by Gen. Eisenhower, Was Not Relieved of Command.

Gen. Patton Apologizes to Seventh Army For Striking Soldier--Retains Command

GEN. PATTON HIT SOLDIER, WITNESSES SAY   Apologized Laier to Officers ant Men of 7th Army—Not Reliever of Command

Reveal Patton Struck Man in Sicily   GENERAL APOLOGIZES AFTER EISENHOWER THREAT TO “BREAK” HIM

Bie od and Guts’ Loses First ‘Battle’  ‘Gen. Patton Rebuked by Ike ‘For Treatment Of Soldier

Patton Apologizes for Slap He Gave Soldier in Sicily   Strange Story of HotHeaded General Has  Been Revealed

Apologizes For Striking A Soldier   Gen. George S. Patton Makes Amends for Act Committed in Heat of Battle for Sicily

ARMY BISCLOSES ATTACK 3 MONTHS AFTER IT OCCURS   Victim, With Excellent Reeord in Tunisia and Sicily,   in Hospital Tent  at Time.   COMMANDER BELIEVED SOLDIER WAS SHIRKING   Apologizes in Person to. Troops He Leads—Incident Brings Rebuke From Eisenhower.

Army Tells All   Eisenhower Blisters Patton For Slapping A Soldier

Apology Made To Soldier By Gen. Patton   Commander Of Seventh Army Retains Post Despite Incident In Hospital Tent

Patton Charged With Striking Shell Shock Case   Given Formal Reprimand By Eisenhower

General Severely Castigated By Eisenhower For Losing His Head In Sicilian Campaign   Slapped Man In Hospital Tent Because He Thought He Was Shirking Duty; Commander Seldom ‘Called Down’ Like He Was

PATTON AMENDS FOR ALTERCATION   Eisenhower Reprimands Seventh Army Chief for Striking Hospitalized Soldier

Gen. Patton Apologizes to Seventh Army   Admits He Was Wrong im Slapping Soldier During Sicilian Campaign; Receives Severe Reproof

Commander Of 7th Army Rebuked By Eisenhower  SICILY INCIDENT Shell-Shocked Soldier  Is Slapped In -Hospital

SEVENTH ARMY LEADER SORRY FOR HIS ACTION      ‘Blood and Guts’ Commander Struck American Soldier In Hospital During Sicilian Campaign,   ACCUSED TROOPER OF EVADING ACTION   Had Been Through. Al North Africa Battles; Nurse Lunges At General to Protect Patient

“Blood And Guts” Did Slap Soldier During fleat Of Battle In Sicity And Anclogized

REVEAL PATTON APOLOGY AFTER HE HIT SOLDIER   Official Announcement Tells How General Thought Man Shirked

Patton Apologized for Striking Soldier, After Severe Rebuke From Eisenhower

Patton's Value To Army Is  Reason For Being Retained Soldier-Slapping Incident Occurred Three   Soldier-Slapping Incident Occurred Three Months Aqo And Was Followed By Reorimend

Pation Rebuked for Striking Shell-Shocked Soldier   Incident Involving General Takes Place in Hospital Tent in Sicil

Disclosure Of Patton's Conduct During Sicilian Campaign Makes Strange War Stor:

FULL STORY OF GENERAL PATTON INCIDENT — REVEALED: HE STILL COMMANDS 7TH ARMY

Patton’ Rebuked But Not Relieved  From Command   7th Army. Chief Apolo: gized to All Officers and Men for Hitting Soldier.

Disclose Details of Patton Incident; Apologizes for Striking Soldier

GEN.PATTON LOSES TEMPER   Apologizes . to All Offi  cers, Men After Striking Soldier -

Army Releases Facts About Gen. George Patton Striking Soldier in an Army Hospital   Receives Castigation Seldom Administered a Commanding General and Later Apologizes Not Only to Victim But to Entire Command

STILL CHIEF OF U.S. 7TH ARMY AFTER APOLOGY   Officially Announced That Gen. George Patton Hit Sick Enlisted Man In Fit Of Anger; Details Of Story Revealed.

Act Called Despicable By General Eisenhower, But Patton Not Demoted

Lt. Gen. Paffon Apologizes for Striking Soldier   Gen. Eisenhower Castigates Patton For Temper Spell

Patton Apologizes To 7th Army Men After Striking Shell-Shocked Soldie:

UEUT. GEN. PATTON APOLOGIZES FOR SLAPPING SHELL-SHOCKED SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL TENT   5en. Eisenhower Describes Conduct of Seventh Army Commander as ‘Des picable’’; Soldier in Question Has Fine Record

Apology Made By Gen. Patton To Seventh Army “or Striking Soldier During Campaign In Sicily

PATTON REBUKED BY EISENHOWER   7th Army Chief Apologizes For Striking Soldier

Patton Anologizes For Assault Upon Soldier In Sicily   Draws Reprimane From Ficenhower

Patton Apologizes For Striking 7th Army Enlisted Man   General Eisenhower Delivers Stinging Rebuke to Fighting Field General Who Lost Temper; Accused Soldier Unjustly

PATTON INCIDENT BEEN OFFICIALLY GIVEN TO PEOPLE   AMERICAN GENERAL STRUCK SOLDIER, APOL.OGIZED TO EVERYBODY

Patton's Abuse Brings Apology   Distraught Soldier Berated By General  Re FTRAWARNH PVENWERY

PATTON APOLOGIZES FOR STRIKING SOLDIER  Allied Headquarters Admits Incident Involving Top General

APOLOGY IS MADE BY PATTON AFTER HITTING SOLDIER   General of Seventh Army Is Required to Appear Before Officers, Mcn Under Eisenhower Order.   MG RE DETAILS GIVEN FROM ALGIERS BASE   Shell-Shocked Soldier From Regular Army Begs That ‘Ais Wife Not Be Informed of Affair.

A Patton Apology to 7th Army.   “Old Blood and  Guts” Sorry for. _ Striking Soldier “Jn Fit of Anger

PATTON AFFAIR AIRED   Reprimanded But Still In Command Of Seventh Army

General Patton Apologizes Fo: Slapping Shell-Shocked Soidier In a Hospital Tent

Patton Makes Apology Today   U. S. OFFICER ADMITS STRIKING SOLDIER IN SICILY

General Patton Did Strike II U.S. Soldier      Apologized After Eisenhower Ordered Him To Make Amends Or Be Removed

Patton’s Abuse Brings Apology   Distraught Soldier Berated By General

Striking of Yank by Patton Admitted; General Apologizes To 7th Army Officers and Men

Reveal Lt. Gen. Patton Struck Shell-Shocked Soldier In Fit Of Rage

ADMIT PATTON STRUCK SOLDIER   Harshly Reprimanded by  Gen. Eisenhower

Precautions to Safeguard Youths Turning to Farms This Year Urged

WLB Authorized To Adjust Wages To Aid ‘Effective War Prosecution

Incipient Labor Revolt Believed Checked by Wage Raise Concessions

WLB Judicial  Power Granted   Board Holds Authority To Make Wage Adjustments To Correct Inequities.

Labor Board On Judicial Basis Again   Incipient Revolt on Part of Workers Believed Averted  ae ea ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ek ee

WAR LABOR BOARD BACK ON JUDICIAL BASIS 1S BELIEF   Lahor Revolt Probably Averted as Result of Wage Concessions Granted In Byrnes Ordar.   BOARD SOUGHT ORDER FOR MORE THAN MONTH   Davis Says Order Gives Board Judicial Discretion In Stated Limitations and Defined Purposes:

Grant Power To Make Some Adjustments   Byrnes Issues Directive Authorizing WLB To Permit Increases In Certain Instances

WLB BACK ON JUDICIAL BASIS   Labor Revolt Believed Averted as Result of  Wage Control Concession by James Byrnes.

War Labor Board Given >  Concession   May Now Be Able to Put Off Imminent Revolt of Labor

Ruins Of Hamburg Hit Again  Clothes Torn From Survivors By Concussion

‘HAMBURG HIT  AGAIN, NINTH  TIMEIN10DAYS   Thirty Big Bombers Missing Affe  Latest Aitack—Fires Set Thurs + day Still Burn   INDUSTRY STILLED   Eyewitness Reports City Burning Everywhere, Even Streets, Berlin Werried

SUFFERS 8TH POUNDING IN TEN DAYS   Fires Set In Last Raid Still Burning; 30 Bombers Missing

Hamburg a: again  Blasted   Obliteration of This Once Thriving City Is Nearly Complete

HAMBURG BLASTED BY BRITISH ANEW   Fires from “Last Thursday Light Way for RAF’s Biggest Bombers

Thirty Bombers Lost —   Great Fleet OfRAF Bombers Hits Hamburg For Ninth Time In Ten Days To Break All Attack Records

BIG RAF PLANES RAID HAMBURG; LOSE 30 SHIPS   Fires Still Burning in City from Last Attack, Guide Fliers to Target

HAMBURG HIT EIGHTH TIME   Battered German City, Vir: tually Destroyed, Again Visited By RAF

9th Raid in Ten Days on Hamburg   Great Fleet of RAF Bombers Set More Fires in German Port.

BURNING HAMBURG AGAIN BLASTED IBY RAF BOMBS   Once Thriving German Port, Now Virtually De serted. Again Bombed

Hamburg Fires Renewed Again By RAF Bombs   Fate Of City Bigges' Blow Of War So Far To Berlin   CITY STILL AFLAME   30 British Bombers In Raid Shot Down; U.S. Planes Raid France

RECORD MADE FOR ATTACKS ON TARGET   Thirty Bombers Reported Lost in Giant Raid, Which Includes Attacks On Cther Objectives   CITY HEAP OF RUBBLE

HAMBURG RUINS TARGET OF RAF   Ninth Attack in 10 Days Breaks All Records for Sustained Raids

Hamburg Gets New Pounding   Fires of Preceding Assault Were Found Still Burning

GREAT R. A. F. FLEET POUNDS HAMBURG ANEW   Fires Set In Last Assault On Thursday Night Still Burning  THIRTY PLANES LOST

Hamburg Given 8th Pounding In 10 Days Time   All Records Broken: 8,000 Tons Bombs Dropped; 30 Ships Are Lost

Smoking Ruins of Hamburg Blasted Ninth Time in 10 Days by R.A.F. Bomber Fleet

HAMBURG AGAIN RAKED BY RAF   RUINED NAZI CITY POUNDED 9 TIMES IN PAST TEN DAYS

GREAT FLEET RAP’S HEAVIEST BOMBERS BATTERED HAMBURG  EIGHTH POUNDING OF ONCE GREAT GERMAN PORT IN TEN DAYS

HEAVY BOMBERS RESUME ATTACK ON REICH PORT  Thirty Aircraft Lost; Targets In wD..k. Al... Ltn

R. A. F. Again Hits Hamburg   Neutral, Source Says, German City Reduced To Heap of Rubble

RAF Planes Renew Biows On Hamburg   Break Lull Of Past Two Nights

R. A. F. BOMBERS RETURN TQ SHAKE HAMBURG TARGET AGAIN   EIGHTH RAID IN TEN DAYS HITS BATTERED GERMAN METROPOLIS; THIRTY PLANES LOST

HAMBURG AGAIN TARGET OF RAF RUHR BLASTED   All Records For Sustained. Attacks On Single Qb- _ ject Broken; Thirty, Bombers ‘Lost

RAF Returns To Hamburg   Fires Still Burning From Thursday's Raid

30 Bombers Reported Lost As 1500 Tons Of Bombs Add To Devastation Of Once-Great Seaport

Big Bombing Force Again Hits Hambure   Once-Thriving German Port Receives Its Ninth Blow in 10 Days in a Raid That Costs British 30 Planes.

RAF Blasts Ninth Attack Upon Hamburg   Thirty Bombers Reported Lost In Raid; Northwest Germany Pounded.   MEET HEAVY WEATHER

MASSIVE ANF HOMOERS AALD HAMBURG AGAIN   Devastated German Port Given Eighth Pounding Within Ten Days

Fires Started in Last Thursday’s Raid Still Burning in Nazi City

HAMBURG GETS NINTH BOMBING   Great Fleet of Big” RAF Bombers Return to Blast German Port.

RAF Hammers Hamburg Again   9th Raid in 10 Days Rips Reich's Second City

HAMBURG HAS STH BiG RAID IN TEN DAYS   Ruins Blasted Again as New Record for Sustained Attack Is Set.

Great Force Of British Planes Hits Hambure   Big German Pori Given Terrific Pounding Ninth Time In 10 Days

GREAT FLEET OF RAF'S BIGGEST PLANES STRIKES   “jres Set In Hamburg Last Thursday Night Still Burning; City Mass Of Rubble And Virtually Deserted; Once Had I,000,000 Population.

Great RAF Fleet Blasts. Hamburg For Eighth Time   Ruhr, Holland; Norway Are Targets is ‘Attacks ~~ By Other ‘Allied Planes

‘Hamburg Suffers Tenth Pounding In Last 10 Days; “R. A. F. Loses 30 Bombers In Sweeps Over Germany

Hamburg Raided Again By RAF   Assault Breaks Lull In Air Offensive

HAMBURG LIVES UP TOITS NAME   Eighth Pounding in 10 Days—RAF Loses 30 Bombers

Battered Nazi Port Suffers Eighth Attack   Fires Still Burning From Last Raid As RAF Adds To Havoc

That German Port Was Given Its Eighth Pounding in Ten Days to Break All Records.   FIRES SET THURSDAY WERE STILL BURNING   Thirty Bombers Were Report. ed Lost in Raid Which Was Carried Out in Great Force.

Big RAF Bombers Renew Assaults On Germany   Much-Battered Hamburg Given Eighth Pounding In 10 Days.

RAF RETURNS TO HAMBURG; RUHR BOMBED   Fires Set Thursday Night Still Burning In German City

STATE 10 BUY CABIN, SITE OF h] ~=MASSACRE   Legislature Starts Packing to Go Home After 90 Day Session

REFUSED TALK WITH GANDHI   U. S. Envoy Is Denied Interview With Leaders

Vital junction falls as nazi forces reel   Fifth army hotly  pursues enelny

Sth Army Takes Isernia, Hinge  Of German Line   Nazis Stream Across Garigliano Valley as Fifth Army Captures Massico Ridge Area

LAST FORTIFICATION LOST, GERMANS STREAM ACROSS GARIGLIANO VAL LEY TOWARD NEXT REFUGE IN AU. RUNCI MOUNTAIN.

Nazis Reeling Back In Italv        Eighth Takes Vital Junction. And Whole Defense Menace:

Enemy Reels Before Fast Advance   Fifth Army Chases Germans Toward Range Of Mountains; Many Towns Fall as American, British Forces Make Gains

EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES KEY ROAD POSITION   Nazis Reeling Back in Almoét Every Part On Italian Front

British And American Forces : Drive Back Germans In Italy   Vital Road Junction of Isernia Captured by Eighth Army. While. Troops Under, Clark Drive — - Fleeina Nazis Toward Rome

GERMANS RETREAT IN ALL SECTORS QF ITALIAN FRONT   Clark Rushes Up Tanks and Artillery to Pound Fleeing Nazis on Two Roads to Rome.   EIGHTH ARMY SEIZES VITAL ROAD JUNCTION   Whole Enemy Defense System in Center Threatened by Fall of Isernia in Night Attack.

Nazis Hurled Back Along  Italian Line   Improved Weather Aids Allies Move Tanks, Guns

Eighth Army Captures  Vital Junction  Enemy Reels Back in Every Sector

Vital Junction Falls to Allies: Push Nazis Back   Allied Pressure Increases, Germans Admit in Broadcast

Nazis Reeling Back In Italy   Eighth Takes Vital. Junction:And Whole Defense Menaced.

‘Germans Retreat : To Aurunci Line U. 8. Troops on 1 Road  Om until...

CENTER HINGE SHATTERED IN GERMAN LINE   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES ADVANCE TOWARD ROME

SUBSTANTIAL BLOCK OF BONDS PURCHASE! FIRST DAY CAMPAIGN  PRODUCTION. CREDIT ASSOCIATION BOARD VOTED INVEST $10,000

SUBSTANTIAL BLOCK OF BONDS PURCHASED FIRST DAY CAMPAIGN  PRODUCTION CREDIT ASSOCIATION BOARD

YANKS, FRENCH UNITS TIGHTEN TUNISIAN RING   Troops Occuny Group Of Hills In North Africa  BIT ETIN

“On the War Fronts:  Americans Take Mateur; Nazis Quit Kuban Area; Bombers Hit Steel Center

Germans Desert Positions,  French Push Forward to Within 15 Miles of Bizerte

Germans Give Up Their Positions In Northern Tunisia After Pounding Of Nearly Two Weeks

EY JUNCTION O TUNIS AND IZERTE FALLS   laces Allied Armies 18 Miles Southwest of Latter and 34 Miles From Former   ULL CONTINUES ON OTHER FRONTS   xpected-to Be Soon Brok‘en by Bloody Fighting; Axis Supply Lines Raided

Take Mateur  reat In Tunisia ES SWEEP FORWARD WITHIN LES OF BIZERTE NAVAL BASE

CHANGE IN POINT VALUES   Sunday Papers To Reveal Rationing Program Changes

New Point Values To Be Announced   Many Reductions Are to be Ordered

Expect Easing Of Tight Reins On Food Ratior   Stamps for cannéd foods will have more value after April 1; to cover many items. _

New Point Values for Processed Fruits, Vegetables to Be Announced Sunday

Change Can Point Values   Sunday Papers Will Tell Housewives Just  What to Expect

New Point Values To Be Annuounced   Coupon Costs Expected To Drop

RELEASE NEW POINT VALUES NEXT SUNDAY   Change of Table 0 on Processed Fruits, Vegetables

HOW TO SHOP ~ FORMEATS, FATS   You Have Ration Book 2  and Here’s How Points Work

SENATE OK’S WAR AGENCY FUNDS BILL   Gives New Life to Domestic Branch  Of OWI

3000 YANKS SLAIN, SAYS NAZI RADIO      Heavy Fight Blazes As Heroic Stand Is Made

e 6 ti) Fierce Fighting Raging Along Tunisian Front   Armored Units Batter Each Other In Area

HOLIDAY DEATHS SET LOW RECORD   NATION’S TRAFFIC TOLL BUT 120—NO FIREWORKS CASUALTHES REPORTED.

Holiday Deaths Total Only 266   Number Falls Far  Below Former Years

Nation Celebrates Fourth of July Without Single Death From Fireworks; Rain Mars Area Outings   RW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Great Fire Remains Uncontrolled; Some Hope Is Seen  Many Soldiers Help To Battle Blaze In Wyoming Forest

400 More to Aid Fire Fighters   Soldiers Assigned To Big Horn Job

PUBLIC INVITED TO CELEBRATION   Cherry and Others To Speak At “Day Of Dedication’ Program At Courthouse Monday, July 5, At 10 A.

WEWAK ISLAND BASE BLASTED   Fortresses Score Hits On Ships, Airdrome, Town And Docks

New Jap Installations At Wewak Blasted   Allied Flyers Continue Widespread Raids In Pacific, Scoring Hits With Large Bombs  aYrYTrrermrm LIT A YRAFATIAD TER OC IAF ATIC TDWATL ITA Gutea

SHIFTS BY NAZIS NOT CONFIRMED HULL DECLARES   Goering, Keitel and Doenitz Now in Saddle, Says Madrid

HULE SAYS ONLY .WORD HE ‘HAS RECEIVED OF ALLEGED " SHIAKEUP 13 MADRID NEWS REPORT

FLOOD =WATERS CONTINUE FALL   Officials Estimate 3,551,000 Acres Were Inundated In Six-State Area

FLOOD-CRISIS - -§ NOW PAST   BOLDIERS, SAILORS AND CIVIL JANS STILL KEEPING CLOSE  - WATCH FOR WEAKEN- ~ ING OF LEVEES

FLOOD BATTLE WON.   One of Worst: Floods in Century  in Six Midwest States.

WATERS OF ONE OF U.S’ WORST FLGODS DROP   “Battle of Century” Won; New High Set at Cape Girardeau

FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING   Hope Battle Against Worst Flood Of Century Is Being Won

WATERS OF ONE OF US’ WORST FLCODS DROP   “Battle of Century”  Won: New High Set  at Cape Girardeau Ry ANTERNATIONAT NEW

Allies Take Up Offensive  In Tunisia   U.S. Airplanes Drop Bombs on Naples; Artillery Duel Opens

h Army Repulses Series of German Attacks Inflieting Heavy Losses. Rommel fnereases THis Artillery Activity In South

Offensive Startec By Allies in Northern Tunisia   Mareth Line Battle Has Simmered Down To Duel of Artillery

Allies Assume Offensive i in North Tunisia   British Eighth Army, Ronumel Forces Duel With Artillery

Allies Open’ Offensive in North Tunisia   Planes Pouna Away AtRommelas — Showdown Nears

Allies take up offensive  North Africa   Rommel forces. British 8th in artillery duel

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Red Army In Suburbs Of Korosten      Germans Falling Back All Along 65-Mile Front

Soviets. Push Closer To Old Polish, Rumanian Frontiers; U. S. Bombers Blast German Airfields In And Near Rome

REDS STREAM THROUGH GAP WEST OF KIEV      Germans Fall Back — Americar Position At San Vittore Improved

Plunge Through 65-Mile Gap In Nazi Defenses; A lies Smash Adriatic Anchor Of German Line In Italy

NAZI TROOPS FACE TRAP IN DNIEPER BEND   "Eighth Army Seizes Adriatic Anchors Of Enemy's Italjan Line

THIRD OF GEORG COWICTS CAPTURED   22 Escaped Prisoners Still At Large Today

New Envoy Anticipates Closer Co-operation © Among Three Countries

Dewey Hits US. Laxity in Child Care   Governor Declares State Will Solve Own Problem

Today's War Commentary  Eastern Front  Germans Now Back To Lines OF 194

MANPOWER HEAD SAYS EDUCATION SHOULD BE FIRS1   Boys Under 18 Who Want To Work Part Time In War Production May Do So Under Certain Conditions.

Central Pacific Bases Of Japs Again Bombed,  $hip, Hangars Set Afire

TWO ATOLLS BOMBED IN CENTRAL PACIFIC   One Jap Ship Hit and $8 Other: Possibly Damaged—Fires Set in Hangars and Shops.

Army Land-Based Bombers Smash at Japanese Bases on Alolls of the Gilbert Islands

Army Fliers Hit Japs’ Central  Pacifie Bases   Enemy Ship Fired, 3 Others Hit at Jaluit: Makin Also Attacked

Third Successive Day Of Raids on Jap Bases In Central Pacifie Area

U.S. Planes Smash at Jap Islands   New Blows Delivered To Upset Enemy In Central Pacific

Cretan Guerillas Ready for Signal to Strike All-Out Blow Against Axis, Leader Says

DOMBS SHOWER ON ATTU ISLAND   Series Of Seven Raids Made By U.S. Planes In North Pacific

PLANES STAGE SEVEN RAIDS ON JAPS AT ATTU   Fighter Ships Blast Inslallations At Kiska Island Base   FIRES STARTED      Navy Reveals Delayed Story Of Shelling By Task Force

JAPANESE ON MOVE IN BOUGAINVILLE   Enemy Troops Believed to EB Pulling Out of Southern Part of the Island.

Japs Said Quitting ‘Lower Bougainville   Heavy Foot Traffic Spotted Moving On Only Escape Route Left To Area’s Nips  By VERN HAUGHLAND

Most Rev. E. F. Hoban Installed As Coadjutor Bishop At Cleveland

OSU COACH’S FATHER DIES IN MASSILLON AS THIRD SON BORN IN COLUMBUS

HEAVY RAIDS ON JAPANESE IN SOLOMONS   224,000 Pounds of Explosives Are Poured Down

Allied Planes Rain Missiles Upon Enemy’s Positions In Solomon Islands

FAVOR RENEWAL OF LEND-LEASE   Bill Introduced in House by  Chairman Bloom

Lend-Lease Act Renewal Bill Is Introduced   Administration Of Aid Questioned By Senators

BILL T0 EXTEND LIFE WAR PACT 18 INTRODUCE   Measure Would Continue Administration’s LeaseLend Authority For Another Year   NEED HELD URGENT   Meanwhile, Proponents o! Investigation Into LendLease Shipments, Are Against Curbing

Urge Renewal Of Lend-Lease   Bloom Sees U. S. “March To Victory”

LEND-LEASE EXTENSION   Bill Te Continue Agency For Year Placed Before House

BILL TO CONTINUE LEND-LEASE PLAN INTRODUCED TODAY   Chairman Bloom Says Authority Needed For Another Year Especially “Now When the United Nations Are On the March To Victory.”

SET TO NOMINATE GUYER SUCCESSOR   Republicans of Second Dis~ trict to Meet in Paola,  July 20

SET TO NOMINATE GUYER SUCCESSOR   Republicans of Second Dis: trict to Meet in Paola; - July 20   10 LOCAL DELEGATES

Twelve Million “Tires Soon for «Essential Cars   Jeffers Says Texas Plant Will Be U. S. Largest

Says All Signs Point To Missouri Exceeding  Its Goal of War Crops

GOVERNOR, C. D, BODY DISCUSS CLOSINGS  Revision Of School Order Appears Probable     MeGrath Asks Education Directo fo Report On Coal Purchas-

GOVERNOR, C.D. BODY, DISCUSS CLOSINGS  Revision Of “School Order Appears: Prohable..     McGrath Aské Education Director tu Nepott On Coal Purchas-_

ICKES, LEWIS  “IN CONFERENCE ON COAL CRISIS   A _ (Steel Industry Warns of Huge j Loss In Strike

WLB Asks F.R. To Enforce Its Mine Decree   Ickes, Lewis Meet to Find Way to Peace; Mills Shut Down

ATTACK ON KURILE BELIEVED OPENING OF NEW CAMPAIGN   Islands [mportant To U. 5S. Because Of Stepping Stones To Raids On Tokyo

KURILE ATTACK HINTS OF NEW PACIFIC ACTION   Washington Feels American Invasion Of Kiska Island Is Impending   JAP RESISTANCE STRONG   Liberators Feel Out Defenses At Paramushiru, Enemy Naval Base

AIR ATTACK ON KURILES IMPORTANT   May Presage Further Action In North Pacific

Attack on Kurile Seen  As Prelude to Thrust:      ADVANCE ON BAIROKO GARRISON CONTINUES   Gains Made on New Georgia Island by Army While Adverse Weather Hampers Air Operations in Both the South and Southwest Pacific Zones —One Small Enemy Vessel Is Dectraved

HED ARIMY TAKES NcVOR, KOTELVA TN FIERCE FIGHT   Soviets Now 80 Miles South of Bryansk, 63 Miles West cf Kharkov.

RED OFFENSIVE CAPTURES TWO MORE CITIES   Soviet forces sweep on ir Ukraine crushing Ger man resistance

Fall Of Sevsk Brings Russians To Farthest Point In Campaign   5,000 NAZIS DEAD MUCH BOOTY TAKEN   Germans Launch Countet Attack South Of Kharkov, But Are Repelled  wh ame

German Lines Broken   Summer Offensive  Seen Reaching New  Crescendo

SOVIET DRIVING FOR RAIL LINK WITH BRY ANSK   Claim 5,000 Germans Killed in One Action on North Ukraine Front

HANOVER BURN FOLLOWING RAID BY RAF BOMBER:   serman Industrial City Hit By 2000 Tons Of Explosives Last Night

Nazi Industrial City Of Hanover In Flames After R.A. F. Raid; Vital Rubber Plant Is Destroyed   Refinery Hit

HANOVER SET IN FLAMES BY AIR RAIDS OF RAF   Big Industrial City Of , Germans Suffers Severe Attack Last Night.

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF RANOVER Io ~ LEFT IN FLAMES   RAF SHOWERED 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS ON IMPORTANT CENTER AND DID EXTENSIVE  { DAMAGE.   ‘AMERICAN PLANES BOMBED NANTES   U-Boat Base is Blasted By U. S. Bombers—British Bombers Said to Have Been in Training For Jnvasion Tactics.

Cattlemen in Arms after Government Designates Range as National Park

Wyoming Cowmen Are Angry Over Ickes’ Statement Regarding Use Of Monument For Cattle Grazing

Western Cattlemen Reluse To Keep Herds Off Newly-Created ‘Monument’

Swift Cleanup Of Japs ~ Promised In Aleutians; U.S. Submarines Score

Demand tor all out drive against Japs   Navy reports sub suecesses

All-Out Smash. On Japs Asked   Senator ‘Demands ‘Reviséd Strateqv:

EAST ‘SCRAPING THROUGH CRISIS IN FUEL STOCKS   Six More Weeks Will See Danger Ended—Plan Distribution for °49-’44.

EAST IS “SCRAPING” THRU OIL CRISIS   Ban On Pleasure Driving ‘ Believed Here’ For  Duration Po

Predict Earlv Allied Drive Against Italy   “Uneasy Pause” Expected To End Soon

AN INVASION UF EUROPE [0 CUNiING SOON   Believed the First Thrust Will Probtbly Fall in  Mediterrane in. o   ACTION IS AT HAND   Island Poss:ssions of Italy Are Expected tc Fall First. -

‘New Action Near By Allied Forces  In Mediterranean   London Observers Predict Karly Thrust By Allies Is Looming   ‘UNEASY PAUSE’”’ IN OPERATIONS TO END

HARVEST HELP BY PRISONERS   NEARLY 47,000 TTALIAN AND GERMAN WAR PRISONERS ’ REPORTED WORKING IN FIELDS 

Italians, Huns Help In Harvest   Nearly 47,000 Prisoners Of War Pinch Hitting On American Farms

WAR PRISONER‘ HELP HARVEST RECORD CROP   Consider plan to use Italians on farms with. out armed guards

BYRNES WOUL STOP FEUDING   ‘OWM Chief Has Lofty Air Of Ending Confusion

Byrnes Will Use Baruch In New Post   ‘Formula to End Feuding Calls for Written Plainis, He Says

War Chiefs Take Rest   New Wave of Sabotage Spreading in Denmark   Danes Wrecking Transport Facilities Iised by Nazis to Supuly Norway Unils

SABOTAGE WAVE SWEEPING OVER ALL OF DENMARK   Nationwide Campaign Under Way; Danish Patriots Systematically Wrecking Factories, Railways And Harhor Installations.

Danish Patriots  Sabotage War Plans Of Nazis Aim To Destroy  , oe 

SABOTAGE TIDE UP   Danes in ampaign ~ Wreck New: Tronkort Facilities .

Danish Patriots Systematically Wreck Factories Making German War Material   Local Folks Speculate On When Adolf, Tojo Will Cry Uncle

Danish Patriots  ‘Start Wrecking _ Nazi- Facilities   Nationwide Campaign’ of Sabotage “Hits —Planis,. Land And -Sea Routes

Danish Patriots Systemat. ically Wrecking Factories Producing War Ma terials for Germany

DANES WRECKING NAZI FACTORIES; NIP SUPPLY LINE   Extensive Campaign of Sabotage Checks Flow of Materials to Norway

SABOTAGE TIDE UF   Danes in Campaign tc Wreck Nazi Transport Facilities

Systematic Campaign Of Sabotage On  In Denmark   Factories, Railroads, Harbor Installations Wrecked; Disorders Mount, Clashes Occur

EMPLOYERS ‘bo FuRNigE_ IN. FORMATION FOR RECLASSI"FICATION OF BEGISTERED MEN WITH _. SOBLDREN. =

PREPARE 10 DRAFT DADS ABOUT AUG.    Employers Asked to List Fathers in Essential Work

FATHERS FACE CALL IN AUGUST   Selective Service Chief Opposes Proposal To Give Deferment To Dads

DRAFT CHIEFS PREPARING 10 CALL FATHERS   Employers Of _ Essential Workers Advised To File Names   MUST ASK DEFERMENT   eee ad  Local Boards Receive Instructions On Order Of Call

DRAFTING OF FATHERS STARTS IN AUGUST   Officials Opposed To Draft Deferment Law

Local Beards Ask Data for Father Draft   Set for Aug. 1: Employers Should File Names of Workers

FDR SAYS CAPITAL WRITER 1S LIAR   Drew Pearson Promptly Repeats Statement Which irked President, That Secretary Hull Is Anti-Russian

op ae  72 Cals Pearson “ atop ‘cier” a0. umnis* 4e02a58 o. aim aris “ae hy at Qyasian' Aone?

COLUMNIST 1S CALLED LIAR BY PRESIDENT   Pearson Promptly Repeats Charge Hull Js Anti-Soviet

COLUMNIST RAPPED. BY THE PRESIDENT      Roosevelt Says Plans for Tri-partite Parley Going Well

President Hits Columnist as ‘Chronic Liar   Denounces Pearson For Calling Hull  Policies ‘Anti-Soviet’

i President Brands as False Newspaper Columnist’s Statement That Hull Is “Anti-Russian”—Accused Promptly Repeats Charge and Says Soviet Union Is Fully Aware of Secretarv’s Attitude.

Name Calling Starts Again  FDR Says Columnist Chronie Liar; Latter Sticks to Story

F.D.R. Brands Commentator Drew Pearson ‘Chronic Liar’   Fails To Mention Columnist by Name,  Assails Reference rm oo... i, Wr. yy   PEARSON REPEATS ANTI-RED CHARGE   FALN 2 ReeR EL UAE AMOLE,  Says Russians Aware Of Hull’s Consistent Anti-Soviet Attityucle

Roosevell Calls Drew Pearson A Chronic Liar’’   Columnist Promptly Reif erates Charge Hull s Anti-Russian

WILLMIE AND DEWEY ON OPPOSITE siweS OF POST-WAR POLIC   Willkie Called for an Under standing Among All the United Nations:   IS ONLY PEACE HOPE   Dewey Advocates Post-War Military Alliance Between the U. S. and G. B.

DEWEY AND WILLKIE SPLIT WIDE ON AMERICA’S POSTWAR FOREIGN POLICY

Willkie and - Dewey Apart On Postwar   Willkie Calls for 4-Powe) Understanding, Dewey; For British Alliance

GOP Prospects Split Wide On Foreign Policy  Willkie,  Dewey  Express Views

Willkie, Dewey Split on Foreign Policy  Disagree on Pact War Allies

Willkie, Dewey Differ On Ideas Of America’s Postwar Foreign Policy

WILLKIE, DEWEY ARE FAR APART   Two Leading GOP Prospects Not Agreed on Foreign Poliry.

Willkie and Dewey Make Differences On Policy Clear   Governor Mentions Only Britain for Alliance With U. S.

Dewey, Willkie Differ On U. S. Post-War Aims   (By JOHN H. WIGGINS) /T!

Willkie, Dewey At Odds Over Foreign Policy   Party Leaders Not Agreed on Postwar Stand

WILLKIE RAPS DEWEY STAND   G.O.P. HEADS CLASH ON POSTWAR POLICIES   faves America

Willkie, Dewey Differ On Peace   Dewey Favors U. S. Pact With Britain; Willkie Includes All

“WULS. TODA   Expect Miners Back In _P its; Steel. ‘ Capacity Up

COAL STRIKE IS NEAR END   Union Leaders Predict All Miners Will Be On Jobs Today

COAL MEN TALK BUT DON'T AGREE   Miners And Operators Contin ue Negotiations; Some Want To Sign

Farm Financing Plans Mapped By Food Experts © Ample Prices  Slated With Federal Buving

3 ARE HURT IN 3-CAR MISHAF   ‘Leesburg, Greenfield, Hills: boro People Injured Saturday: Car Out of Gas

Publishers, News Guild To Debate WLB's “Union Security’ Policy   Question ls Whether Freedom of Press Would Be Impaired

"“KIDNAPING™ OF MUSSOLINI UNCONFIRMED   German Broadcasts Attempt to Spread Intriguing Mstery Over ‘Rescue" of Mussolini   ‘DETAILS ARE LACKING

HUNS AND JAPS. WAX ELOQUENT ‘OVER CAPTURE’   Coup Effected in Raid by Germar Paratroops, Say Hitler Henchmen As They Extol His Loyalty

‘COUP’ CALLED ONE OF WAR'S DARING FEATS   Berlin and Tokyo Chortle But OWI Points Out That Duce’s Voice Hasn’t Been Heard.   NEVER HELD BY ALLIES   British Discount Story Former Premier Was Rescued By Nazi Paratranns.

ALLIES STILL AWAIT PROOF OF NAZI TALE   Benito Is Expected tc Head New Puppet Government

Berlin And Tokyo Hail Liberation Of Mussolini As Greatest Victory

11,478,000-Bale Crop Forecast   Crop Shows Slight Decline in September, Report Indicates

AGGY DEPT. FORECASTS COTTON CROP   11,478,000 Bale Crop Predicted on Conditions As of October 1

MAJOR SHAKEUP IN WELLES’ EXIT   More Dynamic U.S. State Department Sought in Reorganization

HULL PLANS SHAKEUP IN “DEPARTMENT   RESIGNATION OF. WELLES TO RE FOLLOWED BY MANY CHANGES DESIGNED ‘TO.  _ BREAK UP FACTIONS

SERVICE FOR “ALFRED CURTIS     Funeral at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, for Local Retired Farmer

Miners Ballot Against End Of Shutdown   Keystone State Unions Balk; Dissent, 4 10 1

Many Miners Vote Against Ending Strike  Ballots Ate 4 To    ballots Are 4 lo To Reject Lewis Settlement

Girl Found Dead On Road; Thought Tossed From Auto   Coroner Says “Foul Play” Is Evident; Last Seen With Soldier at Beckley Bus Terminal

POLICE PROBE GIRL'S DEATH   Body Of Mrs. Greene Of Mount Hope Found On Highway Early Yesterday

House Defeats Rum! Tax Plan Third Time   Roll Call Vote Is 202 to 194 on Motion to Accept Senate Measure That Would Skip a Year’s Obligations on Personal Income.

GOP MARSHALS STRENGTH FOR FINAL TAX VOTE   Baekers-Endatunted By FDR’s Veto Threat

HEEDS THREAT OF ROOSEVELT TO VETO PLAN   Doughton Declares Ruml Proposal Is Definitely Killed

Republicans Ride Full Tilt For Ruml Plan Showdown, Undeterred By FDR’s Veto Threat

House Rejects Senate’s Tax  Bill In Vote   Body Stands Pat On It: Own Version Of Bill: A Possibility Of New Stalemate Seen

President May — Veto Ruml Bill   Republicans Marshal Forces to Clear Bill  from House to Send to Roosevelt, Despite   Threat of Veto Made by FDR in Letter to Leaders

F.R. Vetc Threat. Sets Vote   SOLONS STAND PAT ON ROBERTSON-FORAND MEASURE IN ROLL CALL

HOUSE REJECTS TAXATION PLAN   Votes 202 to 194 Against Accepting Senate Rumi Blan.

HOUSE REJECTS SENATE-APPROVED INCOME TAX BILL   HEED THREAT OF POSSIBLE VETO BY THE PRESIDENT

GOP Rides Full Tilt To Rum! Plan   Tax Showdown Is Near; Undeterred by FDR Threat

Push Ruml Plan Tax Bilin H Despite Threat   ‘Undaunted By FD Promise  To Veto Skip-Year Plan; Interference Is Charged

Rum! Plan IsDead   House Defeats Pay-AsYou-Go Tax Bill After Threat of FDR Veto

GOPS IN FINAL DRIVE TO PASS RUML TAX PLAN   FDR Terms Legislation ‘Highly Inadequate’ Threatens Veto

House Rejects Senate Tax Bill   House Members Stand Pat on Own Measure, 202-194

GOP Charts Final Drive For Skip Tax   House Group Undaunted by Presidential Veto Threat

TAX SKIP REJECTED IN HOUSE   Turned Down a Third Time as Members. Heed Threat of Veto

HOUSE BEATS SKIP-A-YEAR INCOME BILL   Congressmen Heed An Indicated Veto by Presi dent Roosevelt.   Opens Up Possibility Of a New Stalemate

House Rejects Ruml Tax Plan For Third Time   202 To 194 Vote Throws Levy Measure Back Into Conference   NEW STALEMATE   Administration Forces Rally Under Roosevelt Veto Threat .

House Rejects: Ruml Tax Plan For Third Time   Threat of Veto ls Heeded: as Measure Beaten, 202 to-194

President’s Veto Likely ‘If Ruml Plan Is Passed; ‘New Coal Crisis Averted

TAX BATTLE IS STILL BUG ISSUE   Republicans Hope To ‘Send Skip-A-Year Measure To F.D.R.

Ruml Plan Is Again Defeated By the House   Threat of Presidential Veto Is Big Help To Opponents

Ruml Plan Rejected By House Again   Roosevelt Veto Threat Heeded; New Stalemate Looms In Conference.

VETO THREAT UNHEEDED BY HOUSE G.°0. P.   ‘Skip-a-Year Tax Bill Will Be Given All Support By Republicans In Drive   PASSAGE IS EXPECTED

HOUSE TURNS: DOWN MODIFIED RUML PLAN TAX BILL TUESDAY   POSSIBILITY OF DEADLOCK SEEN AS ROOSEVELT VETO THREAT HEEDED

FDR Threat ‘Of Veto. Is Big Factor  Senate Bill Is Rejected On Roll  1 Ana Ina

Roml Planners Ignore Veto Threat Talk   President's Warning To Have No Effect On Tax Bill

The Ruml Tax Plan Killed for Good?   House, for the Third Time, Rejected the Measure Today, 202 to 194.

HOUSE REJECTS RUM TAX PLAN ON NEW BALLOT   Turns Down Senate Bill By Vote Of 202 To 194   STALEMATE IMMINENT   FDR Threat of Veto May  Have Influenced   Vate

House Defeats Tax Bill   Senate-Ap bigs Tax-Skip Beaten, ats “d 194.

Pian Approved By Senate Fails To Get Approval   Skip - A- Year Proposal Turned Down After Threat Of ‘Veto

GOP PLANS TO G0 ON WITH RUML SKIP-YEAR PLAN   Ignore FDR's Plea That Bill Eases Burden on Rich

MEASURE DEFEATED 20270 194   House Stands Pat on Its Own Tax Measure. Possibility New  Stalemate.

House Rejects Skip-A-Year  Tax Proposal   Turned Back Under Veto Threat By 202-194 Count

SKIP-A-YEAR TAX PLAN BEATEN IN HOUSE VOTE   Lower Chamber Rejects Modified Rumi Version, 202-194, Under Threat of Veto

GOP In House Lines Up Forces For Tax Vote  Beee' dink Leiate Ab   President Hints At Veto If Skip-A-Year Proposal Passes; Coal Truce Extended

WASHINGTON (AP) — All eight of lTowa’s congressmen voted Tuesday to instruct house conferees to accept the senate version of the Rum! tax plan.

LEWIS’ THREAT CALLED - - MINES WILL STAY OPEN   Union Boss Tells Uncle Sam Men Told To Remain on Job as Truce Ends   NEW CRISIS IS AVERTED   Congress Hears President Against Skipping Year of Taxes for Pay-go Plan

HOUSE REJECTS SKIP-TAX BILL      ‘Roll Call Vote Of 202 To 194 Defeats Senate Approved Tax Measure Third Time.

Forest Fires Race in Texas   Appeal! fs Made to Governor Stevenson For Aid in Fiaht

PRACTICE TEST SET THURSDAY 1S CALLED OFF      Permission To Hold Educationa Test Revoked By Third Service Command

Climax In Battle For Rabaul Is Nearing; Jap Losses May Force Them To Abandon Bastior

CAMPAIGN   Japs Have Suffered Heavy Damage to Fleet in Effort, To Defend Important Base

GERMANS CAPTURE ISLAND OF LEROS IN DODECANESE   RABAUL CAMPAIGN REACHING CLIMAX DANGEROUS 10 JAPS

Climax Appear Near In Rabaul   Naval Spokesman Tells Of Mounting Damage To Jap Ships. Planes.

Fleet Losses May Force Evacuation   -Tokyo’s. Toll of Ships, Planes. Mount as Allies:Push Attacks

RABAUL DRIVE NEARS CLIMAX   Heavy Losses May Force Nipponese to Flee Rabaul

U.S. Spokesman Says Japanese May Yield Base To Cut Losses   Some Observers Predict Allied Conquest by Christmas

CLIMAX IN CAMPAIGN FOR RABAUL APPEAR TO BE APPROACHING  ‘JAPS HAVE SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE TO FLEET UNITS THERE

Japs May Leave Strategic Base On New Britain   Incessant Attacks Making Vital Port Too Hot To Handle

Rabaul Drive  Nears Climay   Mounting Damage Seen To Jap Vessels; Land Area Also Hit

Jap Naval Losses Have Made Important New Guinea Base ‘Too Hot To Handle’ in Spite of Handicap of Scant Supplies of Men and Materiel Sent To Far Pacific

Allied Capture Of Rabaul Nea   Japanese Face Loss 01 Mighty Base

Naval Spokesmen of Opin: ion Damage Suffered By Nips Makes Further Defense Unwarranted

U.S. Drive on Rabaul Nears Climax a: Japanese Sea and Air Power Wanes

Japs May Quit Base af Rabaul   Climax of “American Push ‘Believed Near, Dangerously Near. for Nips   THEY HAVE TAKEN A HEAVY. LOSS   All Agree. That Rabaul Is.an Objective of Allies and May Fall: Before. Christmas

Rabaul Drive Climax Is Thought Near   Japs Hurt So Badly They May Abandon Big Base

Japs May Find Rabaul  ‘Too Hot To Handle’   Climax In Campaign Is Near; Navy Losses T« Ships, Planes Growing Serious

RABAUL FATE SEALED NAVY EXPERTS THINK   Japs Not Abte To Hold Base, Spokesman Asserts

Naval Spokesman Says Japs May Have To Leave Rabaul   Recent Big Losses Make Abandonment Of Base Possible

Yugoslavs Fight On 50-Mile Front   Slovenes Occupy Idria, Mereury Center

SLOVENES BATTLE GERMANS IN TRIESTE   Troops of Yugoslav Army Engage Nazi Garrison After Enterine Adriatic Port.

ALLIES BEAT OFF JAPS AT SALAMAUA    Enemy Counterattacks Are  Smashed — Strofig _ : Resistance

Says Americans May Look Forward To an “Airmobile”’ in Every Garage

Helicopter In Every Garage  It Will Be Made Of Wed. .2/. BF. tet.

“Family Plane’’ Predicted ‘or Post-War Generation   “mobile” Will Be One-Fifth As Light As PresentNay Passenger Planes, But Will Have Tensile Strength Greater Than Steel; Will Cost About $1,200 and Will Be Foolproof

REV. J. H. COOK 1S NAMED PASTOR OF HARMONY (HIPC   Rev. R. V. Martin I: Transferred To Stony Point      REV. L. F. STRADER IS ARMY CHAPLAIN

Americans Crack Jap Defense Hall InSW Pacific   Troops Move In With Heavy Naval And Air Support -’

CHALLENGE SERATE GUSTER AUTHORITY   Recess Trial of Judge Nolan Until May 17 to Prepare Cace

STRIKE; MINERS GET PAY BOOST   Full Production In Pits Unlikely Before Next Week

EXPECT WLB 10 APPROVE COAL WAGE CONTRACT   Miners Trickle Back to Work

SOFT COAL MINERS  _GET PAY BOOST OF ~ $1.50BY CONTRACT   UMW Policy Committee Orders 530,000 Miners To Return. Te Work At Once—Lewis And Ickes Negotiate Teyms

U-Boat Bases At Brest And Lorient Are Fired  Raid Rv American Rambers Follows   Raid By American Bombers Follows Heavy RAF Assault On Essen Friday.

Axis Reports Tell OF Gains Made On ‘Boot’   RAF Blasts Berlin With Most Concentrated Raid Ever On German City.  NO TTATV NnERPENTDEPRE

PUZZLED AXIS ADMITS, ALLIES MAKING GAINS   Enemy Making Little Fight Expecting U. S. Attack In Other Quarters —

Would Put Labor On Military Basis   Rickenbacker Proposes Draftin; Workers, Keeping “Service Recotds”

RICK’ SUGGESTS LABOR DRAFTING   Proposes Putting Workers Under Military Status For War's Duration

Now Control Sea Route From New Guinea to Rabaul.  NO INTERFERENCE DURING BOMBING  One American Ship Lost in Gilbert Islands Attack.

ALLIED WARSHIPS OPEN INVASION PATH TO RABAUL   Ships Laid Down Crush ing Barrage On Three Widely Separated En emy Bases.

Bedrock for U. S. Life Is Mapped Out in Case We Are Subjected to Total War

Experts See Drab Life For Nation  Envisage Effect Of Total War On U. S. Habit:

100 Bombers Hit Again at New Georgia   _ American Destroyers Join in Bombardment Of Jap Base on Munda   GUNS ON RENDOVA JOIN IN OFFENSIVE  Other Allied Air Units Continue Hard Blows In Northern Solomons

Fliers Pound Important Enemy Bases   New Georgia Suffers Stringent Blow; Fight Ranges Widely

U.S. Warships and Planes ~ Pound Japanese at Mund   (100 Allied Bombers Pound Position  Of Japs on New Georgiay Big Guns  On Rendova Also Batter Foe-

AXIS HOPES FOR AN ALLIED RIFT GO GLIMMERING   BY REUEL S. MOORE U.P Staff SCaorrecnandont

Ration Bank Pian Will Be Inaugurated  Dealers Will Be Allowed to Put Points on ‘Deposit’

BANKS WILL HANDLt RATION ACCOUNT:   Procedure To Speed Service On Ration Coupons

BANKING PLAN FORAATIONING STARTSAAN. 2   Stamps and Coupons Taken by Storekeepers Will Be Cleared by Banks.   INTENDED TO LIGHTEN . BOOKKEEPING BURDEN

Ration Banking System Mapped   Handling of Millions Of Rationing Coupons ls to Be Speeded

"Ration Banking’  Over Nation Will  Begin January-27: Clearing House For  Deolers to Turn in Counone le Sat Un

RATION BANKING PLAN TO START   Will Ease Bookkeeping Burdens and Speed Handling of Millions of Coupons by Boards and Dealers

Banks To Handle Ration Stamps; ‘Program To Start On Jan. 27th   Buying Later By Paying ‘Now OK'd By Henderson

RATION BANKING STARTS JAN, 27   Program Is Designed To Ease Burdens Of Bookkeeping For Merchants

Ration Banking To Aid Handling Of All Coupons   Bookkeeping Burdens Of Business Men To Be Solved By Plan

Ration Coupon Banking Nears   Program Starts Jan. 27th _Yo Ease Bookkeeping. Burdens. Of U: S:

RATION BANKING STARTS JAN, 21   Retailers To Save Time By New Method of Clearing Coupons

‘Ration Banking’ Program Devised   Retailers to Clear Stamps Through Banks as. Thougli Phey Were Checks

‘Ration Banking Plan Drafted   National Program To Start January 27

Master Singers Promise Students Fine Entertainment This Saturday, 13th

 MAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAASL Soldier Is Given Furlough to Visit His Grieving Dog

Today’s War Commentary King Victor  Allies Speculate on Abdieation

Japs Preparing To Raid America   Yanks’ Fighting Spirit Must Be Crushed, Says Tojo

JAPS PRAISE U.S. SPIRIT   Leaders Tell People Air Raids Must Be Continuous.

Key Bills of Tax Consolidation Program Killed   Senate Committee . in 10 to.3-Vote on Two. Measures

DONNELL’S TAX PLAN 15 KILLED   SENATE COMMITTEE KNOCKS OUT TWO KEY BILLS IN CONSOLIDATION SCHEME.

MAY SIMPLIFY TAX RETURNS   Congress Experts Studying Consolidation of Victory, Income Levies

Ask Tax Consolidation, ~ Return Simplification   Congressional Joint Ce are Jotning Victory Levy Wit Regular Income One

British Fliers Batter The Invasion Coast Of Northern France In Record Bay And Night Aerial Bombardment   Attack Believed Aimed At Wrecking Emplacements For Nazis Mysterious Rocket Guns; On Other Fronts Allied Armies Bend Germar Defense Lines In Russia, Italy.   RIT FETIN

NAVY CRUISER 10 BE HERE SATURDAY   WAVE Recruiting Is Main Object of Coming Visit.

Navy Land Cruiser to Pay Another Visit to Brazil Thursday, Sept. 2

WOMEN WORKERS      McNutt S-es.30 Per Cent Rise in Their Emptoyment in Civilian Lines

W. L. B. Expected to Pass on Wage Agreement by Lewis-Ickes   Many Miners Waiting to Hear From Board Before Working.

SULPHUR BOAT ——- RUNS ON REEF   Damaged Freighter Is Towed To St. Ignace; Cargo Dumped

Rejects Congressional Proposals to Stop Dads’ Induction.   WOULD HARM INOUSTRY

Solons Told U. S. Needs Minimum Army 0£7,700,000   Senators Will Hear Military Officials °.

Arm y Firm On Need ‘For Men —   Army High Command Says. Force of 7, 700, 000 Is um ired  For Hard Tasks Ahead

This Is the Minimum Force  Required, Deputy Chief of Staff Told Senators at a Hearing This Morning.   FIRST ARMY OFFICER CALLED TO TESTIF’   He Warned That Any Reduc  tion Would Necessitate a  Change in Nation’s Strategical Commitments.

SENATE ASKED NOT 10 TRIM ARMED FORCES   Legislators Told We Need 7,700,000 Men By End of Year

Minimum Arm Of 7.700.000 For This Year   Any Reduction Would Require A Change In Strategy. Congressmen Told By General

Depaty Ohier” of Stott Says Army . Demands Require Inductions at Rate. of 145,000 to 175,000 Per ‘Month for Remainder of Year.

HIGH COMMAND REJECTS FATHER DEFERMENT IDEA   McNarny And Patterson Sharply Refuse To Accept Proposal To Postpone Father Drafting Beyond October .

Army Leaders Demand Draft Of Fathers   Gen. MeNarney And Patterson Urae Induction

SENATORS TOLD ARMY REQUIRES 7,700,000 MEN   Deputy Chief of Staff Asserts It Would Be Mistake To Exempt Dads

General Warns on Draft Slash   DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS REDUCTION WOULD NECESSITATE CHANGE IN STRATEGICAL COMMITMENTS; FIGURES STAND IN ITALY FALL

Father Draft Must Stand, Coneress Told   Army Firm; President Prepares National  Service Act

Army heads reject draft delay plans   Say father draft must be allowed

U, S. GENERAL TESTIFIES ON FATHER DRAFT      Says Army Must Have 7,700,000  In Service

Army Fights Ban on Dads   Deferment Would Wreck Wer Strategy, Seys Marshell Aide; Plane Production Weuld ‘Ge te Pieces,’ Claims Patterson

Father Draft Is Upheld by Army   High Command Argues Against Congressional Plans to Postpone   AN. ARMY OF 7,700,000   Change of Plans Would Cut Plane Production, Says Patterson

Airplane Factories Would Lose Their Skilled Workmen   Force of 7.7 Million By End of 1943 Is Minimum Required

FOR OPPOSES EXEMPTING FATHERS   Agitation for Such Action Stirs Trouble in Congress

U. S. Army High Command Urges Father Draft   Rejects Proposals To Defer Dads, Say 7,700,000 Men Minimum Need By Year’s Ene

Seven Million Army Minimum Witness Says   Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, First to Testify  ee ee  'ATIMOAIL TH BE MEI AVEN

7,700,000 ARMY IS ~~ AINIMUM FORCE   Some 75.000 )00 Men Month Needed To Maintain At This Level ‘

ARMY LEADERS SAY DAD DRAFT IS NECESSARY   Patterson, Gen. McNarney Warn Solons Against Interference   IMUST FILL QUOTAS   Delay In Inductions Will  Cripple Plane Output, 7 Under-Sec’y Says

Force Of 7,700,000 By End Of This Year Ia Minimum Required For Tasks Ahead

Need Dads, Says Army   Army Opposes Congressional Move To Delay Dad Induction

Need US Army Of 7,700,000 By End OF 745   Deputy Chief Of Staff Advises Senate Committee  Not To Defer Dads.   MILLION OVERSEAS

Says Army of 7,700,000 Is Required   Army High Command Rejects Congressional Proposal Father-Draft Be Postponed or Cancelled

Interference Now Would Force Change in Whole Strategical: Commitiments, McNarney Says    BARUCH IS QUOTED   Patierson Says Excusing Fathers Wowld Disrupt Airplane Indusiry by Taking Needed Men

7,700,000 Men Minimum Needed For Army In ’43   Chief Of Staff Aide Testifies Before Senate Today On Draft Snarl

7,700,000 ARMY HELD NECESSARY BY END OF YEAR   WAR STRATEGY SEEN ENDANGERED IF CUT APPROVED IN DRAFT

Draft Of Dads Imperative, Say Army's Leaders   Deferments Would Force Change In U. S. Strategy, Senators Warned.

General Says Army Needs 7,700,000   Any Reduction Will Force Change in Military Plans, McNarney Tells Senators

Don’t Halt Dad Draft, Congress Urged by Army High Command   Patterson Says Wheeler Bill Would Slash Plane Output

Fight Opens In Moves Tc Draft Papas   Military Reverses Met By Yanks In Salerno Battle May Reduce Exemption Pleas      ROOSEVELT SLATED TO FIGHT PROPOSAL   Reported President Will Tell Congress Friday That Needs of Armed Forees Greater

Army Reduction Would Hit War Plans, General Warns.      Allied Setbacks In Italy No Sign ‘Of Major Defeat; Nazis Desperate

SENATE COMM. HEARS el      Dep. Chief of Staff Urgs No Let-Up in Draft

CUT WOULD HAMPER U. $   Gen. McNarney Tells Senators Force of 7,700,000 Needed This Year to Carry Out Tasks That Are Planned.

HIGH ARMY OFFICER OPEAKS FOR MINIMUN ARMY OF 7,700,000  ARMY HIGH COMMAND  SHARPLY REJECTS

U.S. Army Of 7,700,000 Is Mininum, General Says   Any Reduction Would N In Commitments,        ecessitate Change  He Tells Committee

McNamey Says 7,700,000 Men Needed By Army  Change In Draft Plan: Would Force Shift ‘\ In Strategy, Reports Marchall’c Accictant

Marshall Aide Sees Difficulty If Army Reduced   Military Plans ‘~ Based On 7,700,000 Men, McNarney Says

Army Requires 7,100,000 Men By Year's End   Congress Hears Experts Tell of Need for Troops

Y = ys Army l= ist Have \ re Men   Increase to Total Strength of 7,700,000 by Jan. 1 Urged by McNarney

Army Leaders Hit Delay Of Father Draft   Senate Hears Deputy Staff Chief State 7,700,000 Man Force Necessary   WACS ARE INCLUDED   Wheeler Will Press Ac: tion On Bill To Defer Pre. war Father's Draft

. MUNARNEY TELUS OF NEED FOR 400.000 MEN   Senate Committee Hears All Military Plans Depend on induction of Fathers.

WARNS AGAINST DRAFT CHANGES   McNarney : 7,700,000 ix Army at End of *43 Constitutes Minimum

Expand Army, Congress Told  7,700,000 Needed,   7,700,000 Needed, Staff Officer Savs

Army To Need 7,700,000 Men By Enc Of Year, McNarney Tells Senators

Warns Congress Of Any Changes In Draft Laws   High Command Believes Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Should Be Called.   Army of 7,700,000 by End of Year Needed

Warns Army. Figure Must Not Be Cut   Any Change in Manpower Goals Would Force: Change in Strategy, Senators Told.

Political Upheavals on Both  Sides of Mediterranean Take Spotlight From Battle Front:

Cooling Breezes  Snap Heat Wave   Temperatures Sink In Many Sections

Other Labor Disputes  Allis Chalmers Workers Vote to Strike Under Bill

Allis-Chalmers  Strike Carries   Workers Vote Walkou In *Birg El,

Workers Favor Work Stoppage Under New Law   Employes Of Two Plants Vote 1 005  mge Simic Se ee

Workers Favor Work Stoppage [Inder New Law   Employes Of Two Plants Vote 1,005  TT... O92 Cary, CteeiLa

Army Furloughs For Holidays Same As In 42   Transportation Means Limited

BEST COMPARATIVE SCORE OF WAR GAME FROM GUADALCANAL   STIMSON ALSO REPORTS  AMERICAN BOMBERS DOWNED MANY GERMANS

BEST COMPARATIVE SCORE OF WAR CAME FROM GUADALCANAL!  STIMSON ALSO REPORTS AMERICAN BOMBERS

177 Jap Planes Downed Over Guadalcanal   Senate Set for Fight on OPA Rollback Plan; House Disagrees on Appropriations for Government Agencies

Senator Says He Will Not Seek Re - Election. United States District Attorney T. Lamar Caudle May Enter  Race.

Senator Reynolds Plans to Retire  Chairrvian of Sénate Military Committee

Dempsey Given Children in Final Divorce Action   Decision Concludes Bitter Court Joust With Onetime Musicomedy Star.

DEMPSEY GIVEN TWO CHILDREN   ‘ ‘Reasonable Rights of Vis itation’ Granted  Mother

DEMPSEY GIVEN CHILDREN   Custedy Of Two Daughters Awarded lermer Boxing Champion

BRIT. SEIZE HEIGHT IN SO. TUNISIA   Hill Taken Is Of Strategic Importance

State Executive Will Meet Harlingen Group In Mexico  Railroad Commission Members To Accompany Harlinaan Delanntian: Imtasnct ....

Army Reveals Details of Raid on Tokye   Bombers Took Off From Carrier Hornet; 80 Men Made Trip

Carrier Hornet Disclosed As Shrangri-La As Details Of  Raid On Tokuo Announced

Hornet Disclosed: As angri-La As Details Of Raid On Tokuo- Announced

JAP PLANTS, REFINERIES, DOCKS Hl   Most of Fliers, Including Doolittle, Forced to Bail Out Over China—Eight Captured.

Allies Report November Is Easy on Ships   Lowest Month in Merchant Ship Losses Since May, 1940: Nazis Lose U-boats

Nazis Resume U-Boat Affacks   More Submarines Sunk Than Allied Ships, Two Leaders Say

Azores Bases Aid War on U-Boats   November Ship  Losses A re Low

NAZI U-BOATS ARE LOSERS IN RECENT FIGHTS   Enemy Loses More Subs Sunk or Damaged; Than Allies Lost Merchant men in September

SHIP LOSSES ARE AT LOWEST MARK   [Figures Not Revealed In  Joint Statement of Roosevelt and Churchill.

AXIS SUBMARINE LOSSES MOUNT   More U-Boats Bagged Than Ships Sunk, Nations Told

AZORES BASES AID ALLIES 1K SUB WARFARE   Allied Ship Losses in November Are Lowest _ Since 1940   MORE U-BOATS THAN ALLIED SHIPS LOST   President and Churchill Comment on “Notable” Success

GERMAN U-BOATS MEET RESISTANCE   SUBS SUNK OR DAMAGED ID SEPTEMBER OUTNUMBER ALLIED SHIPS LOST,

SHIP LOSSES DURING NOVEMBER ON DECLINE   Figure Is The Lowest Since 1940, Joint Statement Reveals; Azores Bases Helpful

‘Government And Press To Suffer If Public Discovers : ‘After War It Has Been Fooled On War News, Editor Savs,

Editor Attacks Censorship ‘Idea Of Army, Navy   Paul Bellamy Declares Public Should Get All the News

Public Won't Forgive if They're Misinformed Now, Newspaper Editor States

To Cut Price Of . Rayon Stockings   New Set Of Standard Prices To Go Into Effect April . 15, Says O.P.A.

Prices On Women’s Rayon Hose To Be Reduced April 15   With New Set of Standard Prices to Go Into Effect, Every Pair of Stockings Will Have to Be Stamped With Information of Quality and Price: Cut Ranges from Five to Forty Cents

Hosiery Price   ‘Slash Or ‘dered   Rayon. Stockings “Will Be Cut From 5-40 Cents Per Pair April 15:

Will Cut Prices Of Rayon Hose   Slash Will Be In Effect April 15

PRICE OF STOCKINGS MADE OF RAYON GUT   New OPA Schedule To Go Into Effect April 5

RAYON STOCKING PRICE CUT LOOM   OPA Announces Reduction of Five to Forty Cents Effective April 15.

RAYON. STOCKING PRICES TOBE LOWERED APRIL 15   Cut to Run from Five to Forty Cents a Pair.

MD. ASSEMBLY SETTLES DOWN TO BUSINESS      Approximately Two Hundred Bills, Approved By  Legislative Council, Ready for Introduction   COMMITTEES NAMED   Brice Heads Senate; Conlon Elected Speaker; Republicans Set Up Steering Group

Today’s War Moves   Americans Are Involved in Several Military, Political Crises

VICTORY HINGES ON MANY TASKS -IN GLOBAL WAR   1APID DEVELOPMENT IN WORLD CONFLICT SCANNED BY ANAYLST

The War Today eee War Picture Breaks Up Into Many Small Crises---Military, Political

'NUMEROUS INDIVIDUAL CRISES ‘IN WAR RIGHT NOW, BOTH FROM IMILITARY AND POLITICAL CAMPS

Indications Increase Hitler And II Duce May Part Ways Crises Worth Watching on All Fronts

Gen. DeWitt Orders Radio Stations Be Silenced During Air Raid Alarms

DEWITT ORDERS ALERT AIR BAN   RADIO STATIONS MUST CUT OFF AT “RED” SIGN

GENERAL RETREAT MN OOUTH AUoolA, AXIS RADIOS SAY   Vichy Quotes Official German News Agency; Says  Withdrawal Orderly

GERMANS RETREAT ON SOUTHERN SECTOR SOVIET BATTLE FRONT   Moscow Says the Battle For Stalingrad Should End In Three Days.

Aartial Law Declared at Tule Lake As Japanese Internees Act Up Again

Marlial Law Declared in Tue Camp   Action Follows Reported Demonstration By:1;000 Japs

MARTIAL LAM IN TULE LAKE   Jap Segregation Center Scene Of Disturbance

SOVIET ARMY UNCHECKED IN TWIN DRIVES   Russians Rolling on Toward Ukrainian City of Kharkov   and Bryansk to   the North    INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES

Twin Soviet Drives Roll on Unchecked   Assaults on Kharkov, :Bryansk Near as _ Russians Chalk Up Gains

Red Offensive Moving Rapidly   Kharkov Near as Russians Carry on Vigorous Assault

Reds Unchecked  In Twin Pushes  Nazis Insist 3rd Drive Aimed At Smolensk

Heavy Losses Inflicted On Fleeing Nazis   100 Towns Taken As Red Army Moves Ahead Unchecked

KHARKOV-BRYANSK DRIVES IN RUSSIA MOVING FORWARD   RED ARMY REPORTED INFLICTING HEAVY LOSS ON RETREATING GERMANS

Soviet Drive Cuts Into Rich Grain District   Army Rolls On In Twin Thrusts Toward Kharkov; Many Villages Fall.

SOVIETS TAKE 100 TOWNS IN NEW ADVANCE   Drive Far Past Kharkov. Now Almost Encircled: Also Gain Near Bryansk.

“HEAVY LOSSES “INFLICTED GN NAZIS   Another Russian Column Bites Deep into Rich Grain Territory Toward Kieu

NAZIS RETREAT AS REDS DRIVE ON VAST FRONT   Russian Forces Unchecked In Sweeping Plunge Into Ukraine Toward Vital City of Kharkov

Red Army Rolls Forward in Drive Against Kharkov   Russians Capture Many Villages and Inflict Losses an Germane.   City Is Pocketed on Three Sides by Reds

RUSSIANS HOLL CN UNCHECKEC   Reds in Twin Drives Toward Kharkov and Bryansk In North.

RUSSIANS TAKE NEW POSITIONS   Reds Threaten Kharkov Bryansk; Pursue Fleeing Nazis

VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE TAKEN IN RUSS DRIVE   5 COLUMNS CONVERGE ON UKRAINE CAPITAL IN SPREADING BLITZ

Soviets Drive On Kharkov And Bryansk   Capture Village After Village in Steady Advance Heavy German Losses

Soviet Army Drivzs Ahead Unchecked In‘ Offensives Against Kharkov, Bryansk

TWIN DRIVES OF SOVIET FORCES ARE UNCHECKED   Russians Drive On Toward Kharkov And Bryansk, a Village After Village And Inflicting Heavy Losses On Germans.

Retreating Nazis Suffer Bie Losses   Kharkov Pocketed  On Three Sides by  Five-Pronged Drive Villages Retaken

Soviets Roll On Unchecked In Offensive   Kharkov And Bryansk Objectives Of Twin Drives

REDS CAPTURE 100 VILLAGES IN TWIN DRIVES   Kharkov Pockeied on Three Sides While Half Distance Covered in Bryansk Advance

PUSH CLOSER TO BRYANSK AND KHARKO'   Russians Inflicting Heavy Losses On Retreating Nazis .

RED ARMY ROLLS ON UNCHECKED IN UKRAINIAN DRIVE   Capturing Village After Village and Inflicting Heavy Losses On Retreating Nazis In Drive Toward Kharkov and Bryansk.

RUSSIANS ROLL ON STEADILY IN MAJOR DRIVES   Inflict Heavy Losses on Nazis in Offensives  for Kharkov, Bryansk

Reds 14 Miles Outside Sumy   General Advance Along ” 300-Mile Line

‘Reds Make Twin  Drives On Towns   NAZIS SUFFER HEAVILY AT KHARKOV AND BRYANSK

Kharkov Pocketed On Three Sides by Five-Pronged Drive Villazwes Retaken

Kharkov Pocketed Now On Three Sides, Stubborn Germans Forced Back

Russians Surge Forward Along Entire Front   100 Towns Retaken In Mighty Sweep; Drive On Bryansk

RED ARMY ROLLS LONG UNCHECKED IN ITS TWIN DRIVE   iroops Moving Toward Ukrainian City of Kharkov and Bryansk.   Inflicted Heavy Losses on the Retreating German Troops.

RUSSAN FORCES THIN THE RANKS OF FLEEING FOE   Five-Pronged Stab Aimed at Kharkov——Villages Wrested From Germans

Russ Army Tightens Grip On Kharkov   Heavy Leases laflicted On Germans Battling Twia Drives en Ukraine

Reds Unchecked In Advance Upon 2 Maior Sectors   Village After Village Captured; Importan! Railway City Taker By Russians

THREATEN KHARKOV, BRYANSK   Inflict Heavy Losses On Nazis In Unchecked Drive

~ Now In  ussian Pocket   Drive Ahead On Sides; Nazis ReSmolensk Attack

Russians Twin. Offensives Roll On Unchecked.   ‘Germans: Unable. Te ‘Halt: Threats To Brvansk Kharkov

Twin Red Drives Roll Unchecked         Prongs Tighten on. Kh kov -and Reds Mak Rapid. Progress. To: ward Bryansk, Now.14 _Miles of Sumy, Impo  ant Railway Point: “2.”

Reds Making Third Push, * Berlin Says   Major Offensive in Smo@ lensk Area Again Reported by German Radio   NO SUCH REPORT IN RED COMMUNIQUE   Vent Red Army Is Said to Be Rolling Unchecked on Kharkov and Bryansk

Russians Drive Nearer Kharkot   Bryansk Also Doomed B} Soviet Offensive

Soviet Troops Go Unchecked   Drive On Kharkov. Bryansk Inflieting Heavy Losses On Enemy.

Agriculture Department Says Farm Prices Highest Now Since Boom Year of 1920

FARM PRICES REACH NEW LEVEL TODAY   Gains Attributed to Heavy Demands for Food

FARM GROP PRICES AT 23-YEAR PEAK   Schedule as. Whole Is Now Above Parity

World War Il Enters Fifth Year With United Nations On the March:Everywhere

Jream of Hitler and His Satellites of World Domination Slowly But Surely Disintegrating.

World War  Enters Fifth Year Today   The United Nations’ Are on the March Everywhere; Axis Dream of World Domination Is Disintegrating

Four Years Of War!  ++ 4+ ¢ +44 4  Nerve Of German People Is Breaking

HITLER’S DREAMS OF CONQUEST FADE AS WORLD WAR IL ENTERS FIFTH YEAR

WORLD WAR I IN FIFTH YEAR   Hitler’s Dream of World Domination Slowly Crumbling

WAR ENTERS FIFTH YEAR TODAY WITH AXIS FORCES ON DEFENSIVE THROUGHOUT WORLD

FIFTH YEAR WORLD WAR Il OPENS WITH AXIS IN BAD SPOT  FOUR YEARS AGO GREA’ GERMAN MILITARY MA. CHINE ENTERED POLAND

WAR ENTERS STH YEAR WITH U. N. ON THE MARCH   "Headlines Blazon Upware ‘Surge of United Nations Against Axis

War Goes Into Its 5th Year   Germany Invaded Poland -4 Years Ago

World War I Enters Fifth Year With Allies on March and Hitler’s Dream of World-wide Domination Slowly but Surely Disintegrating

Nazis Retreating in “Russia; - Germans Are Harried by. Air Attack, Invasion Fears : :

World War II Starts 5th Year  (Storv of Hitler’s Blunders on Page ? )

War Enters Fifth Year With Nazis on The Run In Russia; German People Harried By Air Attack and Invasion Fears

War Enters Fifth Year With Nazis On Run In Russia, German People Harried

War ln 5th Year: Nazis In Trouble  Armies Running, Home Folks Under Bombing

itler's Dream Of Conquest Is isintearatina   Signs Growing That Germans’ Nerves Are Breaking

War Tide Turns al 5th Year   Axis Dream of World Domination Slowly, Surely Disintegrating   ALLIED UPSURGE ON ALL FRONTS   Signs Multiply That the Nerve of the German. Peo‘ wle Is Breakine

World War Enters Its Fifth Year Wednesday   Four Years Ago Today Germans Invaded Poland: Allies Now On March

United Nations Crushing Axis   Hitler's Dream Of Worle Conquest Shattered

War Enters Fifth Yea: With Hitler’s Dream Smashed By Allies   German Fuehrer’s Plan  For: World Domination Slowly But Surely Disintegrating Under Heavy Blows Of IInited Natiane

Sky Battles Rage Over Italy   ALLIES SHIFT AERIAL ATTACK TO KNOCK OUT VITAL RAIL CONNECTIONS WITH NORTH; AMERICAN WARSHIPS PQUND TOE OF BOOT

Vari-Colored Money to Be € arried Into Enemy Lands Anglo- American Currency. Used in Sicily. To Be Model for Future European Occupations

Anglo-American Money Minted For Invasions   Secrecy Cloaked Every Step In Its Production: Seven-Ton Shipment Flown To Sicily

SEVEN TONS ANGLO-AMERICAN  "MONEY RUSHED INTO SICILY   Basic Printing Began In June On 24-Hour Basis After ‘Special Currency Was Desi gned After Series Of Secréi Conferences; Special P ostage Stamps Issued

Battle Hangs In Balance At Salerno   Germans Realize Defeat Means Loss of All Italy

Brifish May Turr Tide at Salerno   Montgomery's Army Lashes Up From South

SALERNO DECISION STILL IN BALANCE   Forces of General Clark Locked in Bitter Struqgle

Mrs. Kelly Talks Of Wedding Plans   Only Secret About It Is The Date, She Tells Revorters.

Wedding Date Is Only Secret  Mrs. Colin Kelly To Marry Relative Of Local Woman

Cold Wave On lts Way Out   Tonight's Temperatures Expected To Range From 20 To 25 Degrees

STATE WILL WARM UP      Recent Below Normal Tempera. tures Are Moving Eastward

CHANGE AT AIRPORT?   Reports Are That Government Will Take Control of Field

CHANGE AT AIRPORT?   Seetieeeenes)  Reports Are That Government Will Take Control of Field

Specific Retail Price Ceilings Set For Meat   O.P.A. Puts Restrictions Upon Lowering Meat-Fat Ration Points.

Moves To End Black Marketing   Rules Meat Point Rations Cannot be Reduced  Without 25 Pet. Cut  in Ceilings.

Rain, Mud Hamper  Progress   Expect Stiff Resistance in Drive to Gabes

sermans Plant Heavy Artillery In the Moun: tains, Apparently Intending To Put Up Stiff Fight When Am erirane Advanre.

OCCUPY EL GUETTAR, PUSH ON TOWARD SFAX ALONG RAIL LINE TO SENED   Drive Designed To Threaten Rommel’s Rear At Mareth Line And Aid Eighth Army’s Frontal Attack

780-MILES-AN-HOUR RECORDED IN DIVE   P-38 Taken on Fastest and Longest Plunge Yet

Combined Allied Tr ope : In South Battering Flee:      ing Axis, Many Italians pture

EXERTS PRESSURE IN NORTH AS ALLIES CHASE ROMMEI   Terrific Bombardment With 500 Guns Opens New Drive

TEACHER SHORTAGE — ISGROWING ACUTE   Virtually Every School, However, Staffed for Opening

Maryland Schools Ready lo Reopen   Teacher Shortage Partly Overcome

Food Aplenty For Japs   Charges Made That Americans Are Rationed While Internees: In War Relocation Camps Get Cream of Crop.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  ees cunener mannan camee amen eget  Tn St (eee OFS eee oY ee. ee Se. ae a ee >   Frustrate Enemy Attempt to Evacuate Troops by Air

FASCIST PARTY BANISISSUED BY ALEXANDER   Military Governor For Allies Tells People Of Sicily Rights Are Assured   Local Laws Retained

Gen. Alexander Proclaims Allied Military Rule in Sicily; Dissolves Fascists -

ORDER TASEISTS TOBE DISSOLVED   Alexander Announces Eight Injunctions To Govern Occupied Sicily.

Fascist Groups Are Dissolved  Allied Proclamation Issued in Sicily

SETS UP RULE FOR SICILIANS   Allied Military Government Orders Fascist Organizations Dissolved

SEEK IDENTITY OF DEAD WOMAN   Mutilated Body Discoverec Along N. Y. Central Near Wauseon

CHINESE KILL 500 JAPS   “Invaders Suffer Heavy Losses fn Lihsang Street Battle 

Willkie Believes Economically Free World Prime   Records Experiences, Reactions of Trip In New Book Just Out

Freedom of Trade in World After War Urged by Willkie In Book Published Today

Japs Leave Rice Boiling   American Invaders On Renodva Force Rout

Breakfast Rice Left Boiling By Enemy On Rendova Island As Yanks Make Sudden Attack

Japs Fled Suddenly Before U.S. Troops When Invasion Rendova Became Reality

Japs Fled So Quickly From Rendova Island That They Left Breakfast Rice Still Boiling

SAYS JAP SOLDIERS AEALLY SURPRISED’   Eye-Witness to Solomons En gagement Says Enemy Left  Rice Still Cooking

SALEM MAN'S GUN”. KILLS STRAY JAP   Lieut. Ellis Satterthwaite Proves Marksmanship In Brush With Enemy

Earthquake Jolts Oakland, Cal.   Roofs and Windows Reported Damaged

'U.S. Steel  Caneels Plan ‘To Cut Output   Corporation Now Feels That Any Curtailment Can Be Avoided   LOOK FOR QUICK RETURN OF MINERS  Two Small Groups of Miners Returned to Jobs Ahead of Time

CANCELS PLAN TOCUT OUTPUT   Steel Concern Says Pinch Of Coal Strike Was Being Felt

Cancel Plans To Curtail Steel Output   STEEL COMPANY SHORT OF FUEI WAS ABOUT TO SHUT DOWN; FEELING THE PINCH FROM STRIKE.   Work All Time

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MackENZIE  (Associated Prees War Analyst)

The W ar Today— . United Nations Leaders Emphasize  Role Of Religion In Postwar Peace

 The War Today— : United Nations Leaders Rill Role Of Religion In Postwar Peace

Spiritual Needs in War Effort Are Emphasized  Necessary for Rehabilitation

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES MORAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF WAR AND THE PEACE THAT IS TO COME

Success Of Operation Assured. ommunique Krom Africa States   More Troops And Artillery Pour Ashore As Warships, Planes Maintain Supremacy

Berlin Admits Break-Through   Allies In Complete Supremacy Of Skies, Water Approaches

CAPTURE GERMAN U-BOAT SKIPPER   Guggenberger The Man Whe Sunk British Ark Roval

YANKEE FIFT ARMY ADVANCES ON WEST COAST   Germans Offer  Stiffesf Resistance Yet Faced ~ On Peninsula   KURILES HIT, JAPS SAY.   Hun Retreat All Along 600 Mile Front In Russia Increases Speed

iOPnKAN Cd GERMAN OUD  SKIPPER HELD  ALIN  1] © DRINQNER   Commander of Sub Which Sunk British Carrier Ark Royal Captured  » At Sea Off Brazil   AMERICAN PLANE . SINKS SUBMARINE   Licut. Friedrich Guggenberger Among 15 Or 20 Survivors From Destroved Craft

Aid U-BOAT HERO TAKEN PRISONER   Commander Who Sank Ark Royal Now in U. S. Hands

WHO SANK ARK ROYAL CAPTURED   U. S. Plane Sinks Sub Of Brazil and Famous U- Boat Officer Taken  Due new ne

JOTED NAZI SUB OFFICER JS CAPTURED OFF BRAZIL   GUGGENBERGER PICKED UP AFTER HIS U-BOAT WAS   BLASTED BY BOMB  FROM NAVY PLANE

! ‘BOAT PILOT Ss CAPTURED   German Vessel Had Previously Sunk British . Ark Royal

U.S. Plane Sinks Ark Royal Victor   Nazi Sub Sunk Of: Brazil Coast

Special Release From  Charles B. Hoeven   Member of Congress from the Eighth  Congressional Distriet Gives Census Bureau Report

TRADE PACTS LIMIT URGEE   Vandenberg Wants Con gress Authority to End ‘Agreements After War

Premature Move   Invasion Forces Prefer Uprising With Proper Timing

BALKANS WATCHED   Allies Fear Premature Explosion Might Interfere With Program.

BALKANS “KEG” BEING WATCHED   Satellite Nations Told To Await Allied Signal For General Uprising

ALLIES DON'T WANT BALKAN UPRISING NOW   ‘Seek to Prevent Prema ture Explosion In Europe’s Powder-keg

HOW TO PREVENT PREMATURE EXPLOSION IN BALKANS VIEWED PROBLEM CONFRONTING ALLIES

Premature Explosion 'in Balkans Fear of Allies   Expect Next Major Development In Eurepe May Come  From Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Or In Two Conquered Countries of Yugoslavia ‘tnd Greece; Spirit of Rebellion Strengthened

BLOW-UPIN BALKAN ARE? SEEN NEAR   Capital Ponders Reports Invasion Fleet Is On Way

Allies Have Problem in Seeking to Avoid Premature Balkan Explosion

Delicate Problem Confronts Strategists Premature Explosion  In Balkans Might Give Allies Lot Of Trouble  ee © * *

BALKAN REGION BEING WATCHED BY STRATEGISTS   Fear Italy’s Fall May Ignite Big Powder-Keg Area

NEW WORRIES FOR GERMAN FUEHRER   Allied . Strategists Hope Explosion Will Not Come Prematurely   UNREST REPORTED   London Reports Tell Of Possible Invasion Of Albania

Balkan Powder Keg Ready To Explode; People Told To Await Allied Signal

Satellite Nations In War Councils Threaten Nazis   Balkan Powderkeg May Be Scene Of Next Major European Development

Major Battle ls Shaping; May Be Drive On Balkans   Germans Are Reported To Have Teken Over Adtiatie NakiaAn

HOW TO PREVE EXPLOSION IN 1 IS WORRYING §   Some of Next Mr Come From Ru From Conquered:

THE BALKANS ~- ABOUT READY 10 EXPLODE   ‘Timing Is the Main Worries of the Allied High Command; Major Developments Likely Anytime   ei aiceiee: \eaeeel  UPRISING

BALKAN: POWDER-KEG APPEARS PERILOUSLY CLOSE 10 EXPLOSION   _ ALLIED-STRATEGISTS .‘SEEKING WAY TO PREVENT PREMATURE ACTION

How To Prevent Balkan Explosion Before Allies Ready Is Big Problem

TRADITIONAL POWDER - KEG IS SIZZLING   Already There Are Reports Of Hastily-Summoned War Councils in Nozi  Satellite Nations   ‘DELICATE SITUATION

Initial Waves  Will Graduate   350 Take Radio Course: At Wisconsin; Shore Duties’ Planned.  

CLASSES OVER FOR FIRST WAVES IAT U OF WISCONSIN   350 Females Take Over Duties Of Men On Fact Coast

NON-DEFERABLES BE RE-GLASSIFIED STARTING THURS.   All Draft-age Men In 35 Designated Non-Deferable Occupations Warned that They Will Be Re-classified for Induction Regardless of Dependency Status.   TOBACCO

DRAFT BOARDS TO RECLASSIFY ANOTHER GROUP   Bartenders, Gamblers Of Draft Age Are ‘Non-Deferrable’

OPA to Control Restaurant Food   Allows Local Boards to Fix Top Prices

ORDER CEILINGS ON “MEALS OUT”   JPA Moves To Check Rising Cost Of Eating In ‘Restaurants ~~

Seek To Control Eating Out Cost   Ceilings Authorized  On Restaurant Meals

OPA SETS OUT TO CONTROL PRICE OF RESTAURANT MEALS      Difficulty Comes In Fixing Maximum Prices And » Controlling Size Of Portions

Heights Taken By Fifth Army  ~ [New Advance   Allied Army Plunges Deeper Into Nazi Winter Defense Line In Italy   REPORT GERMANS MASS LARGE FORCES

FIFTH PLUNGES INTO GERMAN WINTER LINE   Righth Pushes Forward to Sangro River in Italy

Prisons in 20 States Doing War Work to Relieve Manpower Shortage

FILLING STATIONS FACE INSPECTION   Move Intended To Halt Loose Gas Sales

FILLING STATIONS UNDER EYE OF OPA   Move Is To Halt Sale of Loose Gasoline Coupons

OPA TO CHECK ‘GAS’ STATIONS   Periodic Inspections Planned To Halt Loose Coupon Sales

Gen. Kenney Reports Japan's War Plane Strength Mostly Destroyed in Western Pacific

CHARGES ADMINISTRATION WITH RATIONING SUGAR FOR. POLITICAL: REASONS

LEGION AUXILIARY TO ENROLL WAVES   Enlistment of Women for the SPARS Also Will Be Made Here.

Party Honoring American Legion   Will Be Given at the Legion Home Next Monday Night at Seven o’Clock.

EDEN RESUMES CONFERENCE WITE SECRETARY HULL   Believe Prablems Involving Russia Under Discussion.

‘Eden And Hull Discuss Reds   Long, Tough War Lies Ahead, T: Declared By Secretary

RUSSIA IS TOPIC -OF EDEN PARLEY   Churchiil Stand on Post-War Planning Supported by Secretary

U.S.-BRTISH PARLEY ABOUT RUSSIA HINTED   Eden Brings Expert on Soviet Affairs To Conference With Secretary Hull,   COMMENTS ON CHURCHILL   Republican Support Develops For immediate Action on Post-War Moves.

Eden Resumes Postwar Talk With Hull   Russian Territorial Aims Revealed— GOP Backs Council

RAINBOW DIVISION CITED FOR COURAGE   Commander Says Troops Have Defeated Bold, Aggressive  Enemy

GENERAL ARNOLD RELEASES FACTS   American Pilots Carry 4 to 1 Ratio Over the Enemy.

Leaders Seal Sale Chosen   Local Chairmen Are Announced by A. H. Yeomans

Axis Lines Of Retreat Under Fire   Continuous Attacks Prepare Ground  For Allied Landing

aly Heavily tacked Fron irandSea   southern Area s Softened Up  "or Invasion

Pounded by Allied Sea, Air Attacks   Warships and Planes Keep Up Relentless Onslaught On Seaports

Curiosities Of Alphabet U.S.Agencies   Joe Eastman Violates ‘Don’t Travel’ Slogan Of ODT

Head of Camp for Nazi Prisoners Cracks Down to End ‘Petting Era   ‘Love Bug’ Bites Germans and Italians Alike in American Internment Areas

Romantic War Prisoners Must Desist:  Officials Crack Down On Love Came

Army Will Use 300 Propagandists In Africa and Europe, Davis Says

TALENT NEEDED IN PROPAGANDA   Story Of Raid On Tokyo To Be Released Soon By Army, OWI Says

Thousands of Germans Retreating Through 50-Mile Corridor  DETAILS OF FIGHT GIVEN BY SOVIETS  Area Around Gomel Turned Into a Seething — Battlefield

Soviet Troops Capture City of Gomel   Storm Eight Miles Beyond in Pursuit of Nazis

Red Army Takes Gomel, Last Nazi Defense Anchor   Russians Outsmart German Generals

Last Bastion East of Dnieper Is Taken After Furious Battle; New Pincer Move Formed

Germans tead Toward Minsk ln White Russia  20 Salvoes Proclaim Daseantirva af Gamal

RED ARMY IN HOT PURSUIT OF NAZIS FLEEING GOMEL   Hundreds of Thousands of Germans Headed Toward Minsk Through 50-Mile Wide Corridor.   STRONGHCLD’S FALL ANNOUNCED BY STALIN   City Taken in Flanking Maneuver—Enemy Leaves Behind Great Quantities of Materials.

GIRAUD PROMISED ASSISTANCE OF U. §   Roosevelt Sends Message to French Leader, Welcoming His Collnboration With Allies.

Berlin Seared, Expects Raids,  Digs Trenches   Destruction of Hamburg Causes Great Fear In Navi ¢ ‘tol

Berlin Populace Jittery As Allied Air Attacks Move In After Destruction Of Hamburg

Berlin Is Near Panic. As Threat of Havoc Seems Real  Germans See Danger Of Allied Wrath As Capitals Topple

BERLIN RESIDENTS FEAR CITY -~WILL BE WRECKED BY ALLIES   People Reported “Near Panic” At Thought Of Undergoing Terrific Pounding Meted Out To Hamburg; Parks Turned Into Air Raid Shelters

CHURCHILL RAPS U.S. BICKERING   Prime Minister Deplores Political Squabbles In War Time

‘Churchill Lecture on Wartime Unity Infers United States Might Gain ‘By Following Example of Britishers

ASSERTS BLOODIEST FIGHTING IS AHEAD   Churchill Cautions House Against Controversies

Seize Gagliano In 3-Mile Push On Coast Roae   British, Canadian Troops Making Good Progress Ju Direction Of Adrano

AMERICANS MAKE NEW ADVANCES   Nazis F ight Fiercely At Troina; 2 More Towns Captured

GAINS REPORTED BY AMERICANS ALONG NORTH COASTAL AREA  FLYING FORTRESSES BATTERED MESSINA, LAST

FORTRESSES BLAST AXIS ESCAPE POR]   Allied Troops Move Forward On Island Against Resistance

Last Chapter of Island's Conquest Is Now Unfolding   Soviet Forces Now Threaten Assault on Kharkov and Bryansk

UNITED STATES AND BRITISH TROOPS IN FINAL ISLAND DRIVE  CANADIANS ALSO ENGAGED AGAINST GERMANS

ALLIES CLOSING IN; NAZIS STILL FIGHT FIERCELY   American lroops Plunge Forward On North Coastal Road To Messina; Escape Port Hammered By Flying Fortresses.   Russians Wrest Belgorod From Enemy.... .  Germans Flee Before Triumphant Soviets

Series of Key Towns Taken During Drive   Bitter Rearguard Action Being Fought as Axis Seeks to Evacuate

Flying Fortresses Bomb Messina in Fierce Aerial  ‘Attack   GAIN ON NORTH COAST   Fierce Fighting in Center as Germans Shield  Withdrawal

ROLL BACK NAZIS WEST OF MT. ETNA   Aerial Tornado Reaches New Climax as Flying  Forts Raid Messina,   Nazis Put Up Fierce Resistance in Sicily

Military Affairs Sub-Commit-. tee Asks Probe of Selective ‘Service Quotas and . Procedure-—Wheeler Aska De Rew *   Americans Advance Two To Three Miles On Sicily’s North. Highway to Messina

Americans Advance & Miles on Highway, Blast Escape Port   Allies Hit Last Large Axis-Held Cit in Sicily With Heavy Fortresses, U.S. Takes Gagliano

GAGLIAN TAKEN AY U.S. FORRES   Flying Fortresses Batter Messina, Last Axis Escape Hatch   FIERCE FIGHTING   Key Points Of Hitler’s Defense System. Attacked By Bombers

Americans Push Steadily Toward City of Messina   US. Troops Gain Two to Three Miles Along North Sicilian Coast, Seize Gaaliano in':Central Mountain Séctor.

Swedish Public Pleased Nazis Banned From Traveling Across The Country

Americans Rip Into Sicily's Last Defenses   Russians Sweep Past Newly-Captured Orel And Belgorod

Messina, Last Big Axis Escape Port on Isle Battered by Flying Fortresses During Night

ESCAPE PORT BLASTED FROM SEA AND AIR   Fall Of Gagliano Strengthens Allied Line In Central Area Of Sicily   COASTAL BATTLES RAGE   Italians Claim Submarine Sinks Three Allied Ships At Gibraltar

Aerial Tornado Reaches New Climax as Flying Fort. esses Bludgeon Vital City   CATANIA IS EVACUATED

PORT OF ESCAPE FOR NAZI FORGE NOW IN RUINS   Aerial Tornado Is Loosed by Allied Warplanes Against Enemy Positions   NAVY ADDS TO ASSAULT   British Troops Press Drive Around Mt. Etna While Germans Back Up

PLANES ATTACK MESSINA, AXIS “ESCAPE PORT”   New Climax Reached as Flying Fortresses Lash Retreating Troops

Flying  Fortresses Bomb Messina i in Fierce Aerial ’ Attack  {   GAIN ON NORTH COAST   Fierce Fighting in- Center . ‘as Germans Shield ’ Withdrawal:

Reds Lunaing Toward Bryansk And Kharkov   British Spearhead Races for Escape Port of Messina

Allied Aerial Tornado Reaches New High To Biast Nazi Escape Hatch

YANKS PLUNGE FORWARD ON WESSINA. ROAD   British Sweep Northward ~ From Fallen City Of   Catania   AERIAL FURY MOUNTS   Reaches New Climax As _ Flying Forts Bludgeon  Messina

WEATHER FORECAST   ESCAPE PORT OF MESSINA IS OBJECT OF NEW DRIVE AT AXIS FORCES RETREATING ON ISLAND   ‘American Doughboys Ripping Into Enemy’s New wa Anchor Defenses About Mt. Etna As British yw Eighth Drives Toward Messina   FRENCH GOLD STILL SAFE INMARTINIQUE FORT   Vichy’s Order to Sink Ignored, Officials Find. Gold’s Future Use   Is Undecided

Rip Into Axis Anchor Spots, Bomb Messina  British 8th Army Sends Armored Spearhead

Heavy Fortress Raid Hits Port; Yanks Roll Along Coast, Take Gagliano

U.S. Troops Seize Gagliano In Steady Drive Against Germans In Central Sector West Of Mt. Eina

GAINS MADE IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AREA   Nazis Thus Steadily Rolled Back West of Mount Etna— Raid on Port Is Climax of Allied Air Blows.

U.S. SOLDIERS! HOVING GLOSER' MESSINA’S PORT   Plunge Forward Two to Three Miles On North Coastal Road Toward Axis ‘Escape Area”   CITY BLUDGEONED BY YANKEE FLIERS   Meanwhile, British and Canadian Forces Smash Ahead In Face Fiercely Resisting Germans

YANKS PRESS ATTACK IN NORTH SICILY   Also Seize Gagliano In Central Sector   Bighth Army Plunges Forward From — Gatania

‘Pursued by Troops, Shell Fire, Bombs   Flying Fortresses Bludgeon Messina Last Escape Post

U.S. Soldiers Take Gagliano West Mf. Efna   British and Canadian Troops in Center Make Steady Progress and  Climax Believed Near

U. S. FORCES ADVANCE ON SICILY COAST   Push Doggedly Within Two Miles cf Vital Road Junciion, British, Canadians Also Gain   Americans Face Determined Nazi Resistance in Efforts io Take Hilltop City

AmericansNear North Coastal MessinaRoad   Germans Steadily Rolled Back West of Mt. Etna, But Put Up Desperate Fight to Hold Strategic Troina.

U.S. Troops Plunge Forward on Messina North Coastal Road   Swedish Public Demonstrates Pleasure ‘Af Decision of King GuslavioBar = ‘Transit Facilities to Nazi War Materiel

MADE ON AXIS ESCAPE HATCH   Germans Resist Fiercely At Center Of Mt. Etna Line; Gagliano Falls To Americans

Fortress Raid on Last Big Escape ‘Port   Allied Aerial Tornado Is Unleashed as Ground Forces Battle Fierce Resistance   LINE STRAIGHTENED IN STEADY ROLLBACK   Savage Fighting Reported in Troina Sector, Where U.S. Has Gained Toehold

8TH ARMY HIT HARD BLOW ON CATANIA FRONT   Battleships Blast Path For Yankees Along North Route

Report Germans Retreating After Fall of 4 Towns      Red Armies Sweep Ahead in Vic torious Russian Advance, Japs Take Beating

Allies Gain on Sicilian Coasts; Heavy Bombers Raid Messina To Destroy Axis Escape Port   Fierce Battle Now ‘Rages for Troina, Once Said Entered

AXIS PUSHED BACK TOWARD SICILIAN TIP   Allies Advance Several Miles as Enemy Falls Back Toward Messina

Thundering Aerial Assault Paves Way  For Allied Gains   General Advances Scored By British, Canadians And Americans On All Fronts In Sicilian Campaign

British Send Armored Unit on to Messina   Sicilian Campaign Taking on Aspect of Last Days of Tunisia

NAZI FORCES THROWN BACK IN CENTRAL SECTOR AS GAGLIANO FALLS: TROINA BATTLE RAGES

Yanks Rip Nazi Line on Sicily In Steady Push   British Race Up East Coast Toward Port of Messina

Reds Capture Belgorod; Pursue Huns Fleeing from Orel—British in Final Drive Toward Messina—Munda Encircled, Garrison Being Wiped Out; Control Half of Airdrome

Last Axis Escape Hatch At Straits Bludgeoned By Flying Fortresses; :

Planes Pummel Axis Port As Fiercest Fight Rages Around Strategic Troini

ALLIES ROLL ay IN SICILY, ALN 3 MILES        arnado Hits Messina woe Ground Troops Try tT Block Escape.

GAGLIANO TAKEN BYU. S. TROOPS   Allied Aerial Tornado Reaches New Climax As Fortresses Pound Messina.

U.S. TROOPS CAPTURE GAGLIANO   _ Germans Being Steadily Kolled Back West of Mt. Etna

Messina Blasted; Yanks Advance   Gagliana Seized by U. S. Troops as Steady Rollback of Germans West Of Mt. Etna Continues; Fortresses Rain Bombs on City of Messina

U. S. Troops Gain Along North Coast, Roll Back Germans In Central Sector

TROOPS ADVANCE TWO T0 THREE MILES AS ‘FORTS BLAST SICILIAN TARGETS   Gagliano Wrested From Germans in Fierce Thrusts at Axis West of Mt. Etna—Enemy Is Putting Up Stiff Resistance Against British and Canadian Forces.

Steady Rollback Of Nazis On Wes! Coast Continues   Messina, Last Big Axis Escape Hatch To Maintand, Blasted by Flying Forts

Americans Rip Into New Nazi Defense Posts   British Eighth Army Rushes Toward Axis Escape Port Of Messina.   BATTLE NEARS CLOSE

Flying Forts Bludgeon Axis Port Of Escape   Canadians Also Make Steady Progress In Sicily Campaign

YANKS PUSHING AREAD ON ISLE   Allied Aerial Attack Batters Messina, Last Axis Escape Port.   GAGLIANO 1S CAPTURED

FDR Out Of Line  Congressman Says   ‘“‘Peace And Security For Lend-Lease’’ Statement Scored By Revercomb

Reports Hamburg Plants In Ruins   City Burning Everywhere, Even Streets, Say Workers.

! Paid Back In Their Own Coin  ‘Even The Streets Of Hamburg  ‘Burn; Dead Lying Every w here   Most Died With Eyes Open, Due To Air Pressure Of Bombs: Ruins Evervwhere

WILL NOT ALLOW JAPS TO RETURN 10 CALIFORNI   THREE ORGANIZATIONS IN THAT STATE HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY WILL KILL ANY JAPS THEY FIND,   SERVICE MEN TAKE SAME STAND   Mayor Bowron of Los Angeles Defles Anyone to Pick a Loyal Jap —Maps of Strategic Points Found in Jap Homes,

Bringing Jap Prisoners To West Coast Would  Start Massacre, Declared

RAIDS MADE ON NORTH FRANCE   RAF Fighters Down Seven German Planes ‘in At- ” tacks Along Coast

WORT FRANCE   RAF Fighters Down Seven German Planes in At tacks Along Coast

U.S. AIRMEN HIT HEAVILY AT NAZILAND   Northwest Germany Bombed From Britain, Augsburg From South

U.§. BOMBERS fill GERMANY FROM SOUTH AND WES)   Augsburg, Nazi Arsenal City, Among Targets Atterekac

AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID AUGSBURG AND INNSBRUCK   Eleven Bombers Lost; 37  Nazi Craft Shot Down

TWO WAY ATTACK ON REICH CITIES BY U.S, BOMBERS   Arsenal City Of Augsburg Is Hit: Also Noithwest Targets Blasted

Discover ‘Ghost’ Is Sewer Gas  Haunted House Case Solved by Plumber

Senate Passes Omnibus State Budget Bill   Way Cleared for Fina Legislative Action Today

BUDGET BILL GETS - SENATE APPROVAL   House Expected to Pass Measure at Session Today

SLIDE CRUSHES WOMAN, INJURES MATE NEAR ALTA   Husband Talks With Wite Buried Under Snow; Three Escape

SAYS EFFORTS DIRECTED 10 MINING COAL   WLB Asks Byrnes To Compet Union Compliance Or Face Punishment   WANT CONTRACT SIGNED   Thousands Of Workers Refuse To Obey Order Of Return To Pits

Congress Probe of Books Looms OW] Activities Come  Ton baw (Mw ti ndem

INQUIRY OF OW! ~ NOW IMMINENT   Rep. Taber Will Look Into _ Picture Book On FDR

‘TO INVESTIGATE OWL AND NEED (8 OF 3900 WORKER   ‘Lite of Franklin 0. Roose: velt” In Tarzan-like Book Cited.

investigation Of OW! Appears  Imminent Now   Request for Probe Will Be Approved

JOHN WILDER ARRIVES. IN NORTH. AFRICA   Is Second NEWS Executive To Leave The Country

ARRIVE IN NORTH AFRIC!   Is Second NEWS Ex. ~ ecutive To Leave The Country

ALLIED PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON 6 JAP BASES   Operational Points Are Hit In Dutch And Australian New Guinea   HUGE FIRES ARE STARTED   Chinese Armies Crush Series Of 13 Nip Attacks During Past Week

Food Administrator Jones Favors Voluntary Effort, Not Directives

FOOD PROGRAM JEAMWORK ASKED   By Food Administrator Mar-. vin Jones, to Get Nation @ Over Top in its Vast Food Program 

Jones Plans No Controls Over U. §. Food Crops   Calls on Nation to Cooperate to Put Program Over Top

JONES CALLS ON PUBLIC TO AIDPROGRAM   Voluntary “Teamwork” Is Needed in Production of Food   NO CONTROL PLANS _ MADE, HE ASSERTS   Need for Increased Production All Along the   Line —

SAYS PEOPLE MUST TACKLE FOOD JOB   Jones Says Task Is Too Big For Directives From Capital

COIN SHOW CONVENTION SUCCESSFUL   Exhibits and slides of rare and ancient coins highlight program

LOCAL BOARDS — MAY CALL DADS TO MEET QUOTAS   Col. Armstrong Gives Reasons Why Some Selective Service Boards May Have To Draft Men With Children.

“Fathers” May Be Called Early This Month; Armstrong   Many Local Bds. Lack Sufficient “Non-Father” Registrants to Fill Quotas’

REPORT Ge hills PREPARE ANIADA   Rumors of Rocket . Weapon Continuing

NAZIS PLANNING ROCKET BLASTS   Rumors Say Attack May Come Before Christmas

Skepticism Reported Regarding Nazi Plans.  For Using Rocket Shells Against Londor

BOMBARDMENT .OF LONDON FROM LONG RANGE DURING  HOLIDAYS HINTED IN   GERMAN, PROPAGANDA

$54,000,000 Is Maine Quota In  War Bond Drive  Release Figures For All Statec

QUOTAS ANNOUNCED IN WAR LOAN DRIVE   Biggest Finance Operation Starts September 9

Browder Says Churchill Made Decision Against Second European Front

Malta Was Eisenhower's Headquarters For Sicily Invasion: General Praises Island   From Offices in Rock Tunnels, Movement Of Ships and Troops Was Carried Out   ATALIANS WITHDRAWING ENTIRE ARMY FROM GREECE AND OTHERBALKAN LANDS

Reveal Malta Sicily Attack Headquarters   EISENHOWER’S STAFF LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR DRIVE IN PALACE

Eisenhower Directed Sicily Attack . ‘From Palace On Bomb-Scarred Malta

Gen. Eisenhower Stayed On Malta   His Headquarters There Waiting Sicily Attack

GEN. EISENHOWER AND HIS STAFF DIRECTED SICILIAN INVASION FROM HEADQUARTERS IN MALTA   Most Bombed Spot On Earth Was Used As Plac From Which Great Invasion Was Directed. Malta An Allied Stror chold

ALLIED HEAD DIRECTS ATTACK FROM MALTA   Eisenhower at Headquarters Four Days Before Invasion

 Eisenhower ‘Headquarters  On Malta   General Directed Sicilian Campaign From There

‘Base at Malta Used by Allies For Sicily Drive   Eisenhower Sets Up Headquarters On Battered Isle

Eisenhower Pays Tribute To The Maltese... . Reveal Malta Base For The Assault On Sicily

. . me ( *  Eisenhower Directed Invasion of  Sicily From Much-Bombed Malta

PORK POINTS — ARE REDUCED      TWO POINTS LESS REQUIRED STARTING TOMOREOW AS RESULT OF MARKET BHIPMENTS

TWO-POINT CUT IN PORK VALUES   Move Taken by U.S. to Bar Glutting of Packers and Price Drop

UAUP FORK POIN VALUE IA GE JOA Se a   Civilians Get Two Point Cut on Most Pork Products

PORK RATION POINT VALUES ARE LOWERED   Temporay Two-Point Reduction To Become Effective  On Friday

RATION POINTS FOR PORK CUT   Temporary Slash Becomes Effective Tomorrow

Witness Unable To Identify Mrs. Holt As Woman Who Purchased Poiscn In His Drug Store Last Mav   CLAIM DEFENDANT THREATENED HOLT

Reds Intensify 6-Front Sweep   Breaking Of Nazi Ring Around Leningrad Only One Of Actions In Which Soviets Press Forward

Reds Intensify Great Offensive      : Battle Stretches: "eo Along. 1250. Miles”

AUSS ADVANGE ON 1,200-MILE FIGHTING FRONT   South from Freed Leningrad to Caucasus Foothills Battles Race.   GUNS, WHEEL TO WHEEL, BLAST LAKE LADOGA BOLT

10 BE REDUCED   Immediate Saving to Public By Overtime Cut On Long Distance

‘Cut Announced In Long Distance Telephone Rates  Immediate Saving Of $34,700,000 To the Public  BY FEDERAL ORDER  Initial Call Charge Unchanged; Overtime Tariff Is Reduced

Distance Phone  Rates Reduced   Overtime Charges Slashed: Will Reduce Revenues Bs 850.700.000

AT&T To Reduce Overtime Rates   - Agreement On-Tol Charges Reached

Nazi Predicts Relaliation   Everyone in Germany Waiting for Day, Says Official

AXIS TO RETALIATE BOMBING OF ROME   Waiting for Day To Blast American Cities

Nazis Bewail Bombing Of Rome: Maltese Grateful, Duce Sticks To Shelter

OPA OPENS DOOR TO PRICE INCREASES BY BOYS’ OVERALL ORDER.   Trend General   Order Affects Low-Price Articles Now, with OPA Claim‘ing a Saving.

TELLS RADIO 10 QUIT JOKING ABOUT l). 8. CENSORSHIP   Wise - cracking Announcers Will Be Cracked Down Upon Soon.

Censor Chief Asks Radio Industry To Discipline Wisecracking Announcers

 Tokyo Muat Fight Qn Even Terms With Allies— ——By Gle   Defense Of Empire Is Strain On Japanese

Tri-Partite Meet With Reds Hinted   Sealed Battle Orders Go To Allied Commanders Around World; Canadian Parliament Will Hear FDR Tomorrow

Aerial, Land, Sea Attack On Axis ToCome Quickly   Karly Conference With Stalin Thought Likely To Plan Further Actions Against Foes; Freeing Of China Main Object

F. R,, CHURCHILL HINT AT PARLEY WITH RUSSIANS   Allied Chieftains Close Quebec Conference With Declaration “Necessary Decisions Have Been  Taken.”

War Talks at Quebec Are Ended   Decisions on Operations Caz Only Emerge in the War Actions   GREAT STEPS TAKEN, PEOPLE LAUDED   Hint of Meeting With Stalin at Some Future Time; New Conferences Planned .

Grim Quebec Conferences  Concluded   Hit Hitler First Policy Inehanged But Japs to (;et More Trouble, Too

British Prime Minister Points Out Reds Not Fighting Japs, Says Further Meetings Will be Necessary as War Speeds   CHIEFS CONFIDENT OF FUTURE   Roosevelt Stresses Part Civilians Play in Total War, Time Needed to Bring War Plans to Fruition

Strategic Plans Of Conference at  Quebec Withheld   But Roosevelt and Churchall Hint at Meeting With   Russia.   Close Their Parley  In Utmost Confidence

Hint Meeting With Russia Is Planned   President and Prime Minister Say Necessary Military Decisions Have Been Made’

War Conference  At Quebec Ended   Tn-Partite Meeting: With Russia Hinted at in - Statement   “FOR FORWARD MOVE”   Roosevelt and Churchill Expect to Meet Again - This Year

Statement Hints Meet Soon With  — Russia, Allies   Quebec Conference Ends; Decision: F or Offensive: Are Made

TRI-PARTITE MEET HINTED IN STATEMENT   Much of Time at Con ference Given Over To War on Japan

AT QUEBEC ‘ARE ENDED   eFDR, Churchill Say Meeting With Russia May Be Arranged

Roosevelt And Churchill End War Council, Hint Meeting With Russians

onference Mt 3 Powers Planned   FDR, Churchill Issue Statement On Quebec Meetine

WAR COUNCIL IS DISCUSSED WITH PRESS   President and Prime Min jster Close Conference With Meeting WithCorrespondents  Ri BAR PTITE AAPETIAIL.   TRI - PARTITE MEETING

FOR, CHURCHILL END VITAL WAR STRATEGY MEET   [Military Decisions Of  ‘Utmost Importance’   Reached   ‘SEALED ORDERS SENT   Plan of Attack Against Japs Among Many  Agreements

Tri-Partite Meeting With Russia Hinted   Quebec Conference Ends With President, Churchill Expressing Confidence; Blows Against Japan Mapped By Leaders   Te Meet Again Before Vear’< Fna   Sffart Te Spread. Deenen

Tripartite War Parleys With Stalin Hinted   Big Actions Mapped At Quebec, Say Roosevelt And Churchill.

Allied Chiets Optimistic In  Review Of War   Roosevelt, Churchill Say Jiseussions Turned Large y To Paeifie.   STUDY FRENCH ISSUE

Decisions to “sy Carried ‘Out by Armies   Hint at Tri-Partite Meeting With Russia; No Definite Plans Given

Pledge Forward Action of Allied  Arms at Enemy   Tri-Partite Meeting with Russia Included May Be Arranged Before End of Year; Jap War Moves Indicated as Reason for Soviet Absence

ALLIED LEADERS CONFIDENT, HINT AT NEW MEETING   War In Pacific Major Part Of  New Discussion

ALLIED CHIEFS HINT MEETING WITH RUSSIA   Say Decisions Made At Quebec For Forward Action Of War Forces   PARLEY 1S CONCLUDED   Pacific War. Recognition Of French Committee Were Discussed

Meeting With Russia Hinted   WAR IN FAR PACIFIC DECLARED TO HOLD VITAL PLACE IN NEW DIRECTIVES SENT TO ALLIED COMMANDERS FROM QUEBEC CONFAB

HINTS OWAY ED PARLEY; MUM ON NEWS   Roosevelt and Churchill Say “Necessary Decisions Have Been Taken,”   NO MILITARY ORDERS,  ° HOWEVER, MADE KNOWN

U. S.-British-Soviet Meeting Is Hinted   F. D. R. and Churchill Close Quebec Parley by Announcing Also Plans for Forward Action of Land, Sea and Air Units.

Roosevelt And Churchill Hint At Meeting With Russ   Leaders, Supremely Confident, Say Decisions Made To Send All Forces Into Forward Action

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL HINT POSSIBLE PARLEY WITH RUSSIA, STALIN INFORMED OF DECISIONS

Statement Js Issued ‘At Quebec   c Saye Necessary Decisions Taken To Provide Forware  ¢ Action by Allies

FD, Churchill Hint At Meet With Soviet   Churchill Says Jap Strategy Accorded Important Spot

JOINT STATEMENT HINTS AT TRI PARTITE MEETING WITH RUSSIA, FORWARD ACTION IS PLANNED   Decisions Reached Which Are Expected to Have Important Bearing on Future Action of Fleets, Armies and Air Forces

F.R., CHURCHILL END PARLEY AT QUEBEC CITADEL   Taik of “Necessary Decisions” for Forward Action by Allies Aimed Against Japan

DECISIONS ON ACTION TAKEN   FDR and Churchill Suggest Meeting With Russians Is Planned,   STRATEGY UNREVEALED

F.D.R., CHURCHILL END WAR MEETING   Accomplishments of Que. bec May Be Told In Joint Statement

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Closed Canadian War Conference Today.   JAPAN WAS TOPIC OF MOST CONVERSATIONS   Nothing of the Strategy Directives Sent to Field Commanders Was Disclosed at Conference.

Allied Leaders Close Quebec War Parley    ‘Soviet Not Invited To. Participate : Because Nation ls Not at War With Japs, Prime Minister Says

WAR STRATEGY. SESSIONS WILL END AT QUEBEC   Statement Expected From Roosevelt-Churchill To-  night, At Close of Conference    HIT-HITLER-FIRST PLAN IS FORECAST   New Blows Against Japs Also Mapped At Meet, With Supply Lines to Be Attacked

sa TATEMENT HINTS “RUSSIA MAY HAVE PART NEXT MEETING      DECISIONS REACHED FOR FORWARD ACTION ON ALL WAR FRONTS

R., CHURCHILL RECEIVE PRESS AT CONFERENCE   Declare Necessary Decisions for Forward Action Have Been Made

Quebec Huddle Ends; Action Next   Danish Revolt, Sabotage Spread

FDR and Churchill Issue Statement at End of Quebec Conference Saying Necessary Decisions Taken to Provide for Forward Action of Armed Forces

Quebec Conference Closes Amid Note  Of High Optimism; Jap War Surveyed

120,000 Prisoners In Allied Hands;  Naval Forces Bus:   Joint Armies Within Two Miles of Randazzc Pass in Sicily   War in Brief:

MIDWEST GAS CUT BUT EAST GETS NO MORI   Seaboard States Have Prospect of Larger Ration, Lifting of Pleasure Driving Ban in September

ZO PERCENT GAS CUT IS ORDERED   Ration Coupons Will Be Worth Only Three Gallons On Monday

Gas Coupons Cut In Value After Sunday   A Coupon Worth Only 3 Gallons Instead of 4 Says Ickes

Midwest And Southwest Gas Ration Coupons’ Values Cut To 3 Gallons

Gasoline Ration Coupon Value Cut To Three Gallons In Midwest States

REDUCE VALUE OF GAS COUPON   Ration Coupons in Midwest, Southwest Worth Three Gallons Now,

OPA ORDERS CU IN GAS COUPONS FEFECTIVE MON.   A, B, And C Card Holders To Get Only 3 Gallons

Auto Fuel Cut In Midwest, g\lso Southeast  Br Hy. Ty.   East Is Promised More, but no Pleasure Drives

Gas Ration Cut - Starts Monday   A Coupons Will Be Good For Three Gallons

Less Gasoline Allowed For Midwest And Seuthwest As Coupons Worth Three Instead Of Feur Gallons

Less. Gas in Southwest Ordered ‘East May. Get Increase. Sept. 1 .

SOUTHWEST RATIONS OF GASOLINE CUT; EAST T0 GET MORE  APPEASEMENT PROGRAM FINALLY PUT INTO

OPA OFFICIALLY CUTS GAS FOR MIDWEST AREA   Pleasure Driving Ban In East Continued In Effect    COUPON VALUES CUT   They'll Be Worth Three Gallons Each After  Tomorrow

SLICE VALUE OF GAS COUPONS IN CENTRAL STATES   Stamp Worth Three Gallons in Ohio Monday, To Ease Fuel Shortage in East

Says Gas CutIs Necessary   OPA Reveals Shortage Of Crude Oil Due to  Military Demands; To Give East More Soon ©

Changes in Gas Rationing Announced   Coupons in Midwest and Southwest Will Be Worth 3 Gallons Instead of 4 Starting Monday

Gas Slash Effective On Monday   3-Gallon Ration for Midwest Officially Announced Af. ter News Dribbles Ont   APPROVED BY OIL INDUSTRY   Available Gasoline in This Area Off 15 Per Cent From June Consumption

More Pleasure Driving in East   This Is Prospect With Curtailment of Usage in the  Middlewest.

 Midwestern States To Get 25 Per Cent Less  Gas Under Revised Program Effective Monday

Gas Rations In Mid West Lower   THIS SECTION TO FEEL ORDER REDUCING COUPONS

Gasoline Slashed  Quarter   Midwest Gets Less and East Soon to Get More

Less Gas More Gas  and ‘Fun’   Ohio to Feel Short. age Pinch After 12:01 A. M. Mon.   “ENGINEERED”   yp C. of C. Official Says War Production - Threatened

0. P. A. CUTS GAS RATION FOR MIDWEST AND SOUTHWEST: PROMISES EAST MORE -

LESS GAS FOR  MID AND SOUTH WEST ORDERED   Kast Promised More By U.-S. Officials   ISSUE DICTUM   May Lift Pleasure Driving Ban On. Sent. 1 .-

Gas Coupons Cut to Three Gals. Monday   May Ease East’s Shortage and Rescind Pleasure-Driv ing Ban: Ickes Backs Move

Italian Chief Of Staff Out  Wn een Bt ween fe   .Wugoslavs Charge Gen. Roatta Is War Criminal

BADOGLIO OUSTS FASCIST GENERA!   YUGOSLAVS ACCUSED CHIEF OF STAFF ROATTA OF BEING A WAR CRIMINAL,

Charged By Yugoslays With Being War Criminal; Held Responsible For Terror Reign   FIRST TANGIBLE ACT AGAINST FASCISTS   Others On List, It Is Indicated; Yugoslav Partisans Smash At Germans

Gen. Roatta Removed by Badoslio   Italian General May Be First War Criminal Tried

Italian Army Chief Removed   Yugoslavs Charge Gen. Mario Roatta With Being War Criminal.

Secret Clause in A.F. of L. and C.1.O. Unity Pact Embroils Production Front   NOTHING CONTAINED IN THE ACCEPTED AGREEMENT WILL CONFLICT WITH EITHER PARTY'S LEGAL RIGHTS   secret Clause Revealed

Secret Clause In A. F. Of L.-C. I. O. Unity Pact Embroils Huge War Production Front

Labor Board Will > Adhere Strictly to “Hold-Line” Order      J Employers’ Voluntary Offers te ~ Increase  Wages Refused

Ten Thousand Employer-Offered Wage Increases Denied By W.L.B.   Stop All Boosts

VOLUNTARY WAGE HIKES TO BE DENIED   War Labor Board Refuses To Permit Adjustment Of Inequalities and inequities   MAY AFFECT MILLION

Pay Increases Denied by Board   Voluntary Offers Will be Rejected

WLB REFUSES TO ALLOW EMPLOYERS TO RAISE WAGES   Voluntary Offers of 10,000 Employers to Raise Employee’s Wages Won’t Be Allawed

WAGE INCREASES OFFERED BY MANY EMPLOYERS DENIED   Voluntary Offers of 10,000 Employers Denied as Re-,  sult of War Labor  Board's Ruling 

DER CHECKS VOLUNTARY 1 INGREASES   Labor Board Refusal djust Inequities May fect 1,000,000 Workrs In United States   peay INSTRUCTS XIONS TO APPEAL   te Cites That “Many  qualities” Exist, But  No Correction Is Now Possible

WLB TURNS COOL TO WAGE RAISES   Tosses Out Inequality Cases Affecting Thousands

Byrnes Only Can Relax Salary Edict   Million Employes. Affected in Rule on Adjustment of Inequalities and Inequities

BOARD DENIES OFFERS 10 RAISE WAGES   To Carry Out Meaning Of AntiInflation Order

Retuse Salary Increases On  Order By FDR   Ten Thousand Employers Denied Right To Adjust Fer Inequalities.   /BYRNES MUST DECIDE

WLB REFUSES EQUALIZATION PAY INCREASES   Announces Little Steel Formula tc Rule—Byrnes Seen as Umpire in Deciding Inequalities

Pay Increases Ruled Out By. Labor Board   Voluntary Offers Made -By 10,000 Employers Will Be Denied Under Decision Of Board

THOUSANDS LOSE WAGE INCREASES   Included Are Employers’ Vol. untary Offers As Result Of New WLB Action   Affects 10.600 Cases

WLB, DENIES OFFERED PAY ADJUSTMENT   Applies Hold-the-Line Or.  der of President in Pennsylvania Case.    LOCAL BOARDS GET _ DEFINITE RULING

BAR OFFER OF PAY INCREASES   WLB Refuses to Allow Voluntary Adjustments By 10.000 Emplovers.   BASED ON FDR’S ORDER

REJECT OFFERS OF EMPLOYERS TO RAISE WAGES   LABOR BOARD ADHERES TO HOLD-THE-LINE ORDER BY PRESIDENT

10,000 Salary  Increases Banned   Voluntary Offers By Bosses Rejected

LABOR BOARD DENIES SALARY INCREASES   Predicts Over Half Million Workers Hit by Order

SALARY HIKES DENIED BY WLE   Approximately One. Millior Employes Will Be Affected By Decision

VOLUNTARY PAY BOOSTS DENIED   WLB Outlines Strict Policy In Keeping With President's Order

ERMY-NAVY GAME AT WEST POINT  Attendance Will Bs Restricted to Bona Fide Residents

OPA OFFICIALS STILL PROBING IN TAWES CASI   Possible Misuse of Gas Coupons Will Be Next Phase of Inquiry by Federa! Agency   PUBLISHER FREED   Somerset Board Reports Matter Closed, Although State OPA Plans to Continue Probe

Tawes Faces New Hearing On Type Of Coupon Used   State O.P.A. Seeks To Learn If “C”’ Coupons Used In Trip.

BUSINESS. BOOM AFTER WAR SEEN   COMMERCE DEPARTMENT POINTS TO FACTORS ExXPECTED TO SPUR TRADE.

Fresh Peace Feelers Sent Out To Labor   Advocates of Compulsory Draft for Women and Men Seek Support   MURRAY IS A WITNESS

Reds Within Five Miles Of Dnieper   Flying Columns Tear German Protection From Ukrainian Capital; Nazis Backed To Last Foothold In Caucasus

WUT ROUOEVELT, WILLKIE PLEADS   Administration P olicies Criticized By Unsuccess ful 1940 Nominee

REPUBLICANS MEET TODAY IN ILLINOIS   Committees From All Districts  In Session

ILLINOIS GOP TO NAMECANDIDATES   APPROVAL SLATED FOR GREEN, CROSS, LEUDER AND BARRETT

ESCANABA COUPLE HELD FOR MURDER   Boarding House Operator And Housekeeper Face Charges.

Foreign Relations Group Begins Draft of Resolution Favoring League Membership

1 e , iSTATEMENT THAT CONGRESS  FAVORS POSTWAR PEACE  ! COMBINATION TO BEPRESENTED

iUNIREIRIR Imei:  tei carat ein  Money Prices Must Be Cut If Points Lowered

LOWER PRICE ALSO   Butchers Warned Toe Reduce Prices Same As Coupen Values

Butchers Ordered to Reduce Prices When Lower Points Go Into Effect

Must Cut Meat Prices   OPA Orders Reduction In Point Values Must Also Affect Prices

Point Drops To Cut Prices   Dealers Ordered to Reduce Meat Cost Te Equal Retion Valu

OPA Halts Point Abuse   Retailers Must. Charge Less For Goods . Whose Point Value Is Cut.

POPE SAYS PRIVATE PROPERTY — FOUNDATION OF SOCIAL ORDEF      HEAD OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MESSAGE WARNS LABOR AGAINST “INCONSIDERATE ACTION

British First Army Beats Off Another Enemy ‘Attack In the Sedjenane Sector.

ALLIED FORGES TAKE OTRATEGIC TUNISIAN TOWN   French Troops Occupy Metlaoui, 16 Miles From Axis’Held Gafsa

Russians Racing Toward Biack Sea To Complete Encirclement of Crimea

RUSSIAN TROOPS SCORE ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY IN CRIMEA AREA   Red Army By-Passes Gateway City Of Perekop To Cut Laet Rail Line Out Of Crimea.

Final Ceiling Set on Eggs At Wholesale  0-Day Price Top on To     60-Day Price Top on Tomatoes, Beans, Cabbages. ‘ Peas and Carrots   WHEAT QUOTAS OFF   Dehydrated Soup Ration Points Set at 16, Dry Beans, Peas, 8

CEILINGS PUT ON LETTUCE, SPINACH: SUGAR RATION CU   Tire Distribution Rules Are Made Tighter; Actions On Fresh Vegetables Aimed At Preventing Sharply Increased Retail Prices.

POPA Puts Ceiling Price On Eggs And Vegetables   Emergency Order Issued On Produce; Egg Average Raised

CEILING PLACED ON SALES PRICE OF BEANS, PEAS   95 Per Cent Of All Fresh Foods Under Control

LETTUCE AND SPINACH PRICES ARE FROZEN   Retailers and Wholesalers Forbidden to Charge More Than in Last Five Days.

Egg, Vegetable Prices Pegged   Point Values for Other Items Given

New Vegetable Placed Under Price Ceilings  OPA Action Taken To Combat ‘Scare’  “Buying; Wholesale Roe Date Die

CEILING SET ON WHOLESAL EGG PRICES   Emergency Price Ceilings Ordered Today On Five Fresh Vegetables

Fresh Vegetable Rush ‘Trips Price Ceiling Trap   Emergency OPA Order Puts Limit On Charge For Five Major Creaane

See Slight Reduction In Prices   May Result in Saving t  Consumers — Ceiling  About 40 Cents

OPA Puts Price Ceilings On 5 Fresh Vegetables, Lists Dried Food Pomt Values

Permanent Wholesale Egg Ceiling Prices Announced by OPA; Rises Indicated

Price Ceiling  On Vegetables   OPA-To Control Cost O1 Tomatoes, Beans. Peas  And Cabbave

Egg, Vegetable Prices Fixed  By OPA Ruling   Tomatoes. Green And Waxed Beans. Carrots. Cabbage. Peas Included.   OTHER CEILINGS SOON

Peg More Food Prices   Ceiling Prices Put On Some Fresh Vegetables and on Eggs 

PRICE CEILINGS ON LETTUCE, SPINACH   Action, To Take Effect Today, Fol. lows Earlicr “Freeze” On Cabbage, Carrots, Etc.

Ceilings Sef on Egg Prices fo Wholesalers   OPA Also Fixes ~ Top Charges for 5 Vegetables

ORDER CEILING OVER SPINACH AND LETTUCE   IPA Seek Equitable Distribution of Vegetables

Price Ceilings On Vegetables And Egg:   OPA Acts To Stop Soaring Costs; Sharp Increase In Past 7 Months

CEILINGS ON MAJOR FRESH VEGETABLES   Tomatoes, Green and Waxed Beans Carrots, Cabbage and Peas Included

Price Levels Placed On Major Fresh Vegetables Nearly 95 Per Cent Of Food Now Under Control

Ceilings Ordered On Prices Of Five Fresh Vegetables   Nearly 95 Per Cent Of Food That Goes On Tables Now Under Government Price Control

MORE CEILING PRICES ARE ANNOUNCED   Affects Wholesale Egg Prices, Five Fresh Vegetables

5 Fresh Vegetables, Egg Prices ‘Frozen’  Step Taken to ‘Halt Profiteeri ing  ne “dass

Ceilings Set OnEggs, Fresh Venetahles   Permanent Wholesale Lid Set On Peultry Product; Other Is Temporary   MARKUP ORDER IS DUE   Tomatoes, Carrots, Cab bages, Peas, Snap Bean: Kept From Skyrocketing

OPA PINS CEILING ONFRESH VEGETABLES BUYING’ PRICE RISE TO COMBAT ‘SCARE

Price Level Nailed On Five Major Fresh Vegetables   ‘Brings 95 Percent” Of All Food Under ~ Government Control

YEAR-AROUND FG LEVEL 18 FIXED BY OPA   ae Fresh Vegetables Placed Under Price Limit by OPA

Nearly Allof Food Now Under Control  OPA Moves to Com bat ‘Scare’ Buying « Cusack VWansatahkiac

Emergency Price Freeze Ordered For Vegetables   95 Per Cent of All Food Now Under Control

NEARLY ALLFCOD (SUNDER CONTRO   Price Levels For Five Majo Vegetables Have Also Been Ordered.

Ceilings Put On Lettuce And Spinach, Others Unregulated   Action Taken To Prevent Increased Prices Of Vegetables

Nearly All Our Foods Now Under Federal Control   Emergence y Order Issued to Fix Prices on Fresh Veyetables.   Ceilings to Be Made  On Seasonal Items

Scare Buying over Nation Brings Action   Price Levels of Tomatoes, Beans, Carrots, Cabbage and Peas are Controlled

Ceilings Put On Spinach And Lettuce   Items Cannot Be Sold Above Price Charged During Last Five Dave   CANNED FOOD CUT FOR RESTAURANTS   But No Coupons Needed For Those Patronizing Public Eating Places

OPA NAILS PRICE LEVEL ON FRESH VEGETABLES   95 PER CENT OF ALL FOOD NOW UNDER PRICE CONTROL

OPA SETS TOP ON EGG PRICES   Immediate Benefit To Consumers Seen

EVERY DEALER EXCEPT GROWER 1S AFFECTED   Point Values For Items Covered By New Program Are Announced

Ceilings Set For Two More Vegetables  Sugar Rations Cut. for 11-Week Period Starting March 16

Move To Check ‘Scare Buying Of Vegetables   Emergency Price Ceilings Placed On Five Maior Items.

Lettuce, Spinach Price Ceilings Ordered by OPA   Increases Allowed In Other Ceilings / On Vegetables  _— RULING   Sugar Rations Slightly Reduced Under Stamp 12

VEGETABLES PUT UNDER CONTROL   Sudden Order Intended to Halt Scare Buying of Fresh Stuff.   WEEKEND PRICES TAKEN AS BASIS

Sugar Ration for Next Pe riod Cut Slightly; Tire Action is Taken

Price Ceiling On Vegetables   OPA Acts To Prevent Store Profiteering

PRIGES FROZEN ON MORE FOODS   Eggs and 95 Per Cent of All Items Now Under U. S. Control

Emergency Ceilings Combai ‘Scare’ Veaetable Buyina    GANDHI'S FAST.

Nearly AllUS Food  Is Now Rationed   Fresh Vegetable Price Control Put On Monday To Combat ‘Scare’ Buying

Price Lids Set On Lettuce And Fresh Spinach   Producer Prices Not Affected By Latest OPA Edict

PRICE CEILINGS PUT ON FRESH VEGETABLES      Tomatoes, Beans, Peas, Carrots Cabbage Included— Points for Dried Vegetables Announced

CEILINGS PUT ONTWOMORE VEGETABLES      Lettuce and Spinach Listed in New Order of © the OPA

UPA CONTROLS MORE PRICES   Emergency Order to Combat ‘Scare’ Buying of Fresh Vegetables,   NG CEILINGS FOR FISH

PAIGE GEILINGD URDEAED TODAY UN VEGETABLES   Close To 95 Per Cent Of Al Food For American Tables Now Under Control   LATEST ACTION IS TAKEN TO AVERT SCARE BUYING   Tomatoes, Green Beans, Peas, Carrots, Cabbages Newest Additions

PUT PRICE CEILING ON VEGETABLES   Government Acts To Prevent ‘Scare’ Buying By Public

Wholesale Egg Ceiling Prices Announced   Emergency Level Put on Five  Ts 

Add Fresh Vegetables To Control   Tomatoes, Beans, Carrots, Cabbages, Peas Beneath Ceilings

...Of Fresh Vegetables   Five Items Included In Action To Overcome “Scare” Buying

Ceiling Put On Prices  Of Vegetables   ‘Government. Moves To Stop Upswing — In ‘Food: Costs ..:.-

Government In ~ Food Price Move   ALL FOOD SAVE FISH NOW UNDER OPA CONTROL

Fix Ceiling On Supply Of Fresh Food:   OPA Battling ‘Scare’ Vegetable Purchases By Issuing Order As Emergency

OHIO TIME CHANGE NOW COMPLICATED   Two Choices Possible Under Ruling Herbert Gives Leoislature = —

Two-Way Raid  Over Channel   Allied Bombers Batter Continent. Nazis Attack East Anglian Town.

RAF AND NAZIS SWAP AIR BLOWS   Two-Way Traffic Fills Sky Over Channel; Continent Raided; Many Girls Killed In Hit On English Inn.

ALLIES RESUME RAIDS ON EUROPE   Planes Cross Channel This Morning; Germans Hit Village Along Coast

Large Formations of Planes Resume Smashes At Europe   Raiders Stream Across Channel: British East Coast Town Attacked

SHARP ACTION OVER CHANNEL IS REPORTED   Allied Bombers and Fighters Batter Continent As German Raiders Visit Coast   BIG GUNS BEING HEARD

Nazi Bombs Kill British Girls   Allied Planes Again Batter Targets On Continent

Perfect Weather For Bombing—  Sky Over English Channel Is Filled With Aircraft'En Route Fo Europe.

ALLIED AIRCRAFT BATTER EUROPEAN WAR CENTERS   Several Britishers Killed In German  Plane Attack On Small English Town

ALLIED AIRMEN RESUME RAIDS AGAINST NAZIS   Big Formations. of Bombers and Fighters Soar Over Channel For Daylight Attacks   IHUNS OVER ENGLAND   Swoops Down On East Anglian Town, Causing Casualties; Sicily Bombed;   Japs Are Hit At Babo

PLANES ACTIVE OVER CHANNEL   German Hit-Run Raiders Kill Service Girls in East Analian Town.

AMERICAN PATROLS KILL AVERAGE 19 JAPS ONE AMERICAN   SERIES BITTER ACTIONS IN JUNGLES OF GUADALCANAL RECENTLY

American Officer Estimates Japs Lose 15 Men for Each Yankee Shot In Bitter F ighting on Guadalcanal

But Fight Is Slow and Difficult Americans Kill 15 Japs ‘For Every Yank Lost

American Guadalcanal Patrols Exacting 15 Japanese For Each U.S. Soldier Slain In Battle

‘Just Matter Of Time’ Before Japanese Out Of Guadalcanal   15 Japs Killed For Each Yankee Lost ‘Says Col. Jeschke; But Long Fight Ahead

JAP LOSSES ARE 15:1 ON ‘CANAL’   JUST A QUESTION OF TIME, SAYS GENERAL IN SOUTH PACIFIC

Japs Good Jungle F ighters But American Boys Are Better  Fifteen Of Enemy Killed For Every One Of Our Men Lost In Guadalcanal Fizhting

15 Japs Killed For Each Yank   Only Question of Time Until Guadalcanal Will Be Cleared, Reported

15 Japs Killed To Each American In 14 Days Of Battle In Solomons

REDS DRIVE.12 MILES NEAREF LATVIAN BORDEF   Important Leningra dVitebsk Railway Reported Cut By Soviets      MOZD OK RECAPTURED IN CAUCASUS AREA

TWO CITIES IN MID - CAUCASUS   Air Fighting Marks Activity In Tunisia

SOVIET UNITS GUT RAILROAD   Sever Vital Moscow-to- Crimea Rail Line; Narrow Circle at Rostov.   REACH 1942 BATTLELINE

REDS NARROW ARC AROUND ROSTOV: NAZIS FACE ROUT   RUSSIANS STEP UP GAIT ALL ALONG FLAMING FRONT

REDS STEP UP “ADVANCES ALL ALONG FRONT   Narrow Circle of Envelopment Around Rostov While Threateninc to Soli? Foe   UKRAINE LINE CUT      Germans Hurl Tanks, Motorized Infantry into Fighting South o! Rostov

ENEMY FORCES ARE TRAPPED IN CAUCASUS AREA  aan s Black Sea See sible Hope   “Dunkirk’’ Across Black Sea Seen Only Possible Hope For Hitlerites   RAILROAD LINE SEVERED   Soviets Capture Kupyansk, Gradually Close Circle About Rostov

RED ARMY STEPPING UP ITS GAIT ALONG ENTIRE BATTLE LINE  TADORTARNT NATIT. StIPDEL 3   HAPORTANT NAZI SUPPLY LINE CUT; ROSTOV CIRCLE NARROWED   LOSS OF GERMAN SIXTH ARMY BEING USED BY GOEBBELS TO PUT NEW IRON INTO NAZI SOUL

Russians Swiftly Closing in on Nazis Encircled at Rostov   Hold Threat of Black Sea Dunkerque over German Armies Station at Novorossisk

Second Caucasus Town 60 Miles from Grozny Falls in Russian Drive  TUNISIAN AIR WAR HITS HOTTEST STRIDE  Allied Airmen Destroy 28 Planes, Damage 34, Axis Ports Pounded

REICH I$ FACING A DUNKERQUE IN BLACK SEA AREER   Red Army Seizes Strategi City and Shortens Circle About Rostov

RUSSIANS NARROW ~CURCLE ABOUT ROSTOV   Enemy Being Pushed Into .Thin Escape Corridor  Beniind KMawasncents:

VITAL RAILRGAD CUT; KEY CITIES TAKEN IN DRIVE   Germans Forced To Retreat In Southern Area

Soviet Forces Narrow Circle About Rostov   Cut Moscow-to-Crimea , Railroad and Copture  Strategic Ukrainian  City of Kupyansk

Leningrad-Vitebsk  Railway Cut by Advancing Forces  MOZDOK CAPTURED IN THE CAUCASUS  Soviet Troops Reported Nearing the Latvian Rorder

Entire Mediterranean Area Resounds With Allied Bombs; New Raids Across English Channel

BLACK SEA DUNKERQUE THREATENED   Moscow Railroad Line Cut, Kupyansk Captured   Below Rostov Is Narrowed; Six Strongly Fortified Towns Taken

U. S$. Bombers Drop 13 Tons Of Bombers On Japanese-Held Refinery

Bombers Pound Jap Oil Refinery  Fires Reported Visible 50 Miles Away

‘A PLEASANT WEEK-END   Last Night Was One of the Coldest of the Season for Kansas

‘Attack On Rabaul Greatest Single ‘Blow Yet Struck In Pacific War

London Hit By Bombs of Nazi Flyers   Germans Retaliate for RAF’s Heavy Blows on Their Capital

Nazi-Planes  Raid London   As Reprisal   Fire Engines Race to Area . Where Incendiaries Fall, and Explosions Are Heard in  Center of City

House Votes To Keep Dies Committee Active   Acrimonious Debate Precedes Approval Of Group Investigating Un-Americanism.

NAZIS BOAST THAT IE DUCE IS NOW SAFE IN GERMAN)   Hitler Hopes to Pump New Life Into Deflated Fascist Party via Ex-Premier.

MUSSULIN 10 HEAD FASCIST GOVERNMENT   Germans Exploit "Rescue" Of Italian Ousted Leader And May Set Him Up Again Is Report.

Turning Back Nazi  Offensive   Claim to Have Knocked Out 1,843 German Tanks, 810 Planes

Nazis Suffer Terrific Losses In Four Days Of Fighting Without Great Gains

‘Charge Officials, Social Service Workers  “‘Coddied’’ Japs interned At WRA Center

REVEAL HOW JAPS ACQUIRED KNIVES   Internees Stole 1,000 And Made Others   By tinited Drees

49,000 Rubber Workers Strike In Akron, Ohio   Greatest idleness in His tory of Rubber Capital” Halts Production

45,000 Rubber Workers Idle  Akron Strikers Refuse TT, Oheav WIR Oedar

49,000 AKRON WORKERS STILL REMAINING OUT   Rubber Capital Strikes Over Wage Increase Of Only 3 Cents  Continue   7,000 Out In Mobile

50,000 RUBBER WORKERS STAY ‘QUT AT AKRON   Workers Ignore. Warning Given by War Labor Board

Strikes Keep Three Rubber  Concerns Idle   WLB Refuses to Take Up Case Until Men Return to Jobs: Two Transit Systems Hit

RUSSIANS BOOST NAZI PLANE BAG   Land Battle Develops into See Saw on Kuban Feninsula.

CONTINUES ~ IN SECTOR   Russions Continue Ai Supremacy Over Germans and Ruin Offensive in the Caucasus.

AIR AND LAND BATTLES RAGE ON RED FRONT   Soviet Army Reported In ‘Stubborn’ Drive In Caucasus

SOVIET TOLL OF GERMAN PLANES RISES 10 253   23 More Bagged Thursday In Air Battles Over Northwest Caucasus   LAND ATTACK IS RAGING   Warships In Black Sea Sink Enemy Submarine And Transport

PRESIDENT’S CLIPPER BACK AT HOME BERTH   Weather-Stained Craft Returns To New Work After Historic Trip To North Africa

T. Bernard Sheehan, Ex-Mgr. Of Airport Pilot Of Big Clipper   Pan-Am Planes Carried President And Party On History-Making Trip To Conference In Africa

 A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   Bill to Cut Income Tax Passed by State Senate

Europe Squeezed in Air Pincers  Targets in Austria Heavily Bombed

Allies Apply Air Pincers   Five Countries Are Pounded By Bombers

Europe Squeezed in Air Pincers  F e Targets in Austria Barratler “Deaesteucal

18 NAZIS REPORTED KILLED JIN FRANCE      Bomb Said to Have Been Hurled Into German Unit and Train Wrecked bv Patriots.

Breaking Up Last Jap Resistance   US Troops Have Captured New Ridge Positions on Attu; Bombing of Kiska Resumed

YANKS CAPTURE NEW RIDGES IN ATTU ADVANCES   Nipponese Still Hold Out on Number of High Peaks in Isle

Take New Attu Posts   U.S. Troops Disclosed To Be Attacking 3d Jap Pocket

Close OF Attu Struggle Near   U. S. Troops Capture New Ridge Positions, Breaking Last Resistance.

GOP Drive For Ruml Plan Gains  Two Democrats Retire From - Opposing Forces

Krueger Heads  New U.S. Army      Arrives In Australia To - Form: Field. Foree In Southwest - Area

KreugerCommand: U.S. Fiel d Army In: South-Pacifie~   Heads Newly Organized Field Army in Southwest Pacific at Request of MacArthur,

KRUEGER HEADS SIXTH U, S. ARMY IN PACIFIC AREA   Former Commander in Texas Sent to Australia At M’Arthur’s Request

6THU.S. ARMY IS FORMED IN AUSTRALIA   Lieut. General Krueger Placed In Command

Krueger Will Take Command In Australia    Lieutenant _.General Goes,  To War'ZonmQn: Plea: Of Gen. MacArthur To Lead Sixth Army

Krueger toCommand Yanks in Australia   General Arrives to Organize a Sixth Army of Americans Already in the Southwest Pacific, at the Request of MacArthur.

Krueger Now in— Australia to Command 6thArmy   American Field Unit Organized; Hodges  Will Take Over Leadership of 3rd Army

Krueger Will Direct Army In Australia   Hodges to Take Command of 3rd Army at Santone

Sixth. Army Formed in Australia.   Gen: Krueger. Named to Command _Growing Forces

een ercee ene ~~ enemas  KRUEGER PLACED IN COMMAND © OF SIXTH ARMY IN AUSTRALIA   New Field Army of American Troops To Be Formed of Units Already In the Southwest Pacific; Krueger Requested By General MacArthur.

Krueger Will Lead Pacific Field Army   General From Texas  Sent To Australia At Mac Arthur's Request   HODGES 1S PROMOTEC   Eichelberger Unaffected, Commander Is Military Expert, Disciplinarian

Knockout Of China,  Japs’ Aim   Would Crush Chung: king Resistance Bes fore Aid Can Arrive

Krueger Goes To Australia   Will Command New American Army Being Formed

Gen. Krueger To Command  6th Army  In Australia  Dee Bt ek eae 8 ae Pr   Formation Of New American Force Is Announced By  Qarretary Stimson

Gen. Krueger In Command   Heads 6th American Army In Southwest; MacArthur Still Commander-in-Chief

Gen. Krueger  In Australia   To Command New Field Army Of Americans

KRUEGER HEAD OF FIELD ARMY   New Command. Organized in Australia to Be Under MacArthur.

KRUEGER 10 HEAD SIXTH U $. ARMY   Most of Combat Troops in Southwest Pacific Included in Unit.

San Antonio Army Head Not To Take Foreign Command   To Form New Units For MacArthur Ir Pacifics Record Is iauded

Gen. Krueger Heads New Pacifie Army   Arrives in Australia to Command American Troops

KRUEGER WILL LEAD NEW UNIT   To Command U. S. Army in Southwest Pacific

NEW AMERICAN ARMY SET UP IN AUSTRALIA   Lieut. Gen. Walter Kruéger to Command, Stimson Heveals—-U. S. Pacific Forces Increased

General Krueger Goes to Australia to  Take Command of New Field Army

LETTUCE, CABBAGE PRICES ARE LOWER   Order Effective On July 20 Other Vegetables, Fruit to Cost Less.

SLASH PRICES OF VEGETABLES   Lettuce, Cabbage Cut 25 To 50 Per Cent; Other  Reductions Seen

A Price Cui On Leliuce And Cabhage   O. P. A. Orders 25 to 50 Per Cent Reduction, Effective July. 20  TO ACT SOON'ON?

Many Here Pass For Induction   Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Of Those Drafted.

Many Accepted For Army, Navy   Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Of New Inductees.

MANY LEAVING FOR INDUCTION   Large Hagerstown Group Going Thursday For Final Exams.

MANY LEAVING FOR INDUCTION   Draft Board No. One An . nounces List Leaving On Tuesday.

MANY LEAVING ON THURSDAY   First Married Men In Category 3 Included In First April Call.

Assignments Of Men Announced   Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Of Those Inducted.

Many Accepted For Induction   Local Draft Boards An nounce List Of Lecal And Caunty Boys.

Many Local Boys  Leave Tuesday   Draft Board No. 1 Announces List Of Inductees.

Announce List Of Inductees —   About Equal Number Here Assigned To Armv And Navy.

Many Inducted . Into Army, Navy   Draft Board No. 1 Announces Names Of Those Who Passed.

Other Nazi Groups Face Isolation As Troops Smash On  mm. WTS rias Fat Farerasay

KEY TOWN ON DNIEPER RIVER   Race 40 Miles Beyond Perekop; Push Near To Kherson

N azi Forces  Pushed Back  Above Crimea   Stalin Army Drives To Capture Kherson At Mouth of Dnieper  ONLY 30 MILES AWAY

Soviets race past Perekop  near Kherson   Move 40 miles in new advance

Red Troops Race Past Perekop; Take Important Dnieper Crossing; Isolated Nazi Forces Liquidated   Reduces German Chances of Cutting Escape Door for Trapped Forces in the Crimea; Reds Report Landing on Crimea; Nazis Retreat

REDS SEIZE VITAL TOWN ON DNIEPER   RUSSIANS CAPTURE KAKHOVKA AFTER RACING 40 MILES FROM PEREKOP.

Russians Race Past Perekop   Retreating Nazi Are Slain By Thousands

INMATE FATALLY INJURES GUARD   RECAPTURED AFTER ESCAPE FROM ILL. SECURITY HOSPITAL

2 EARTHQUAKES RECORDED   Reports Were Made by the Califor. nia Institute Laboratory -

MINERS UNION DEFIES ORDER TO END STRIKE   Musicians’ Officer Promises to Form Peace Plan

Plan for Tokyo Raid Conceived Shortly After Pearl Harbor   By JOE JAMES CUSTER  Siaff Clarracnandent

17 Axis Planes . Bagged In Raid.   Communications Again  Hard Hit By Allies

BAG 17 ENEMY PLANES IN NAPLES AREA   Had Sought to Stop Allied Air Attack

17 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED AT NAPLES ALLIED LOSS LARGE   Drive To Smash Railroads, Airfields Continues Throughout . Italy

ALLIED FLIERS KNOCK DOWN 17 ENEMY PLANES   Running Dogfight Over Ocean Follows Railroad Raids

17 MORE AXIS PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Allied Fliers Bomb Rail Yards in Naples Area

FRENCH TROOPS TAKE TOZEUR IN TUNISIA      ‘Committee Turns Potwn Pay-As-You-Go

Elmer Hawkins To Be Arraigned   Closing Chapter Seer In Case of Persian Princess’ Lost Jewelrs

Yanks Capture Controlling Hill on Italy Line   Smash Nazis’ Tank-Supported Counter-Attack

IMPORTANT HILL TAKEN INITALY   Yanks Capture Commanding Height From Germans

aTH ARMY CAPTURES VITAL HILL   Italian Front Relatively Quiet As Allies Mass For New Drive

PUSH TOWARD GERMAN LINE   Smash. Tank-Supported Nazi Coun. ‘ter-Attack — Allies “Exploiting” Seizure’ of Hill on Central Sector: of Fifth Army Front. ¢ 

YANKEES GAIN HEIGHT ALONG DEFENSE LINE   ‘Nazi Counter Attack, With Tanks. Smashed.—German Vessels in Convey Sent to Bottom.

YANKEES CAPTURE IMPORTANT POINT   Allied Bombers Blast Kassel, Two Other Nazi Cities With Great Blasts.

COMPROMISE PLANS QUT. Aa FIGHT WAGES   Republicans Would Continue to Press for Passage of Carison Bill.   FAVOR LETTING SENATE ' ADJUST DIFFERENCES

FINAL DAY OF DEBATE ON TAX   House Supporters Hope To Pass Rum! Plan, Leave Compromise To Senate

RANDOLPH otto ANTI-STRIKE LAW   House Member Advocates 48-hour Work Week; Says Labor Is Being Led Astray By Racketeers, Saboteurs

COAL HEAT = “HOLIDAY” NEW   Fuel Heads Suggest Little Shivering Now Won’t Hurt

Nationalists Take  Control In Bolivia   Young Nationalist Army Officers Overthrow , Government Of President Penaranda in Four. * +'Hour Revolution And Immediately Promise To ~* Support United Nations

Bolivian Rule  Overthrown By (Revolutionaries   Penaranda Ousted After Four-Hour Battle In Streets

Pro-Ally Officials Are Out   Young Officers of Army Take Over New Government

LAPAZSEIZED AFTER BLOODY OTREET BATTLE   Young Nationalists and Army Group Announce They Will Fight ‘Axis.

ARMY REBELS TAKE OVER COUNTRY   New Chief Says Pro-Allied Policy To Be Maintained

Bolivian Revolt Lasts Four Hours  New Regime. to Be Friendly to Allies.

BANDCRATION  > HOLDERS MUST >: SEEK RENEWAL   Majority of Extra Ration. Books Expire Pebruary Zim Can” Mail the Application,

Transport Is Oil Problem   Eastern States Need Fuel Oil and Also Gasoline

Germany Raises Neutrality Issue   Says Swedish Vessels Entered Banned Zone

TURKEY AND NAZIS SIGN TRADE PACT   Germany Will Send Industrial Goods in Return For Raw Materials to Turkey

TURKEY & REICH SIGN AGREEMENT   New Commercial Pact Is Reached To Exchange Goods Equivalent To Agout $30,000,000 Each In Next Year.

Heavy Allied Plane Loss Reported in New Attacks Upon Nazis’ War Centers

Reds Within Twenty Miles of Vitebsk   Fifth Army Advarices Despite Snow Storm to Capture Mt. Srinuccio

BRITISH BOMBERS IN GREAT STRENGTH BLASTED FRANKFURT   RUSSIAN BALTIC ARMY REPORTED WIDENING OFFENSIVE IN NORTH

2000 Long Tons of Bomb Hit Chemical Plant at Frankfurt   Russia’s Baltic Army Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk; Nazis’ Leningrad Positions Endangered

Mannheim, Sofia And Other Targets Are Also Bombed   Reds 20 Miles From Vitebsk; Americans Take Mt. Spinuccio

Allied Air Forces Rock Reich Again With Heavy Blows   Continue Day And Night Attack Against Germans

GERMAN FORCES KEPT MOVING BY NEW RED DRIVES   Americans Fight Way Toward Rome Through Mountains And Snow Storms

VITEBSK GOAL DRAWS CLOSER FOR RED ARMY   Yanks Capture Mt. Spinuccio In Crawling Offensive Toward Rame

Massive Air Assault Made On Frankfurt   Allies Lose 25 Heavy Bombers; Reds Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk; US' Troops Advance 23 Miles in Central: lealy 

One Of Most Massive Air Raids Rips  German City.  SOFIA ALSO. -HIT  Allies Step Up Aerial Offense Against  Navis

Release Over Two Thousand Tons of Bombs   American Troops Plow Through Snow Storms in Italy  kor Slow Gain

Center Is Crushed   Reports of General Evacuation In Capital If Bombardment Continues.

One-Third Reich Center Is Crushed   Reports of General Evacuation In Capital If Bombardment Continues.

Nazis Prepar e For Even Bigger Raids on Berlin   Consider Bombardment Prelude to Invasion Of Continent from West

(Germans Also Note Blows to French Areas  Unconfirmed Reports Say Evacuation of

Berlin Waits Invasion Move   Believes Bomb Raids Prelude to Thrust

CATANIANS HAIL BRITISH FOREES   Joyful Crowds Give Noisy Welcome to Winners.

HITLER TAKES HIS NATION'S WORST LICKING   Raid Over Rhine City Lasts Only 20 Minutes: 100 Two-Ton Bombs Fall.   TUNISIA FIGHT GROWS   Allied Bombers Batter Sfax As Ground Troops Repulse Heavier German Attacks.

NAZIS END FIGHT FOR STALINGRAD   Soviet Triumph Greatest Land Victory Since War Started

Immediate Expansion of U.S. Air Force in Britain Expected As Result of Eaker Statement

AUGMENTATION U.S. AIR FORGE IN WAR LOOMING   Observers ‘of Opinion Ex pansion at Bases in Brit ain Pre-Invasion   Program   HINTED BY EAKER   Major Gen. Says Experimental Phase of Daylight Precision Bombing Passed Successfully

U. 3. AIR FLEET IN BRITAIN SOON TO BE EXPANDEI   Bombers Expected to Cross Atlantic in Continuous Stream as Peak Produc tion Is Approached.   FASTER AND BIGGER SHIPS WILL BE SEN'   American Plan Is to Match RAw Plane for Piane and Bomb for Bomb in Drive Against Hitler.

US. Air Force Will Expand, Match R.A-F. Plane for Plane   Huge Stream of Bombers, Fighter Craft Will Augment Eaker Fleet in Britain

U3, AIR POWER GAINS STRENGTH   Immediate e Expansion Expected in Britain Following Eaker’s Declaration Experimental Phase Passed

NAZIS RETREAT IN DISORDER ON SOUTHERN LINES   Invaders Fall Back With Heavy Loss Of Men And Material To Bug  River Area

‘Nazis Driven Westward in Disorder   Russian Forces Recapture Nearly 100 Towns

Soviet Drive Takes Big  German Toll   Three Red Armies Force Nazis Back in Disorder Toward Bug River and Recapture Towns in Steady Conquest

U.S. BOMBS ON JAPS IN BURMA   Many Targets Blasted and Air Offensive Continues . jn New Guinea Area

AMERICAN AIRFORCE  ACTIVELY BLASTING  ENEMY PACIFIC AREA JAPANESE SHIP LEFT  SINKING; JAP-OCCUPIED TOIINCAD DAINEN

U.S. Bombs Jap Bases In Burma   HEAVY DAMAGE DEALT TO NIPS BY YANK FLIERS

U. S. BOMBS HIT BURMESE BASE   ae eee ee  Yanks Pound Toungoo, Sink Big Jap Chin

AMERICAN AIRFORCE ACTIVELY BLASTING ENEMY PACIFIC AREA  JAPANESE SHIP LEFT  me ee wie cca, lime, vail ili ia a at

Bombers Blast - Japs In Burme   30 ‘Tons OF Explosives Dropped On Toungoo

BURMA AND NEW GUINEA RAIDED   Thirty Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Toungoo; Jap Ship Left Sinking Off  Guinea.

U.S. PILOTS HIT JAP OCCUPIED BASE IN BURMA   Also Set 5,000-Ton Nip Warship Afire Off New Guinea Coast

Allies Bomb Japs in Burma   U. §. Liberators Hit Jap Ship off New Guineo And Leave It Sinking

TOUNGOO, BURMA UNDERGOES RAID   Iver 30 Tons Bombs Rained On Jap-Occupied Area by U. S. Bombers; 6,000-Ton Enemy Ship Left Ablaze Off New Guinea.

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS DROP 30 TONS BOMBS ON JAPANESECCCUPIED TOUNGOO IN BURMA   Liberators Leave 5,000 Ton Japanese Ship Sinking in Flames off Coast of New Guinea. Rail Targets at Nyngyan Blasted.

JAP POSITIONS   30 Tons of Bombs Rained Down On Toungoo In Nip-Held Burma

Burma Japs Blasted by U. S. Bombers   Ground Fighting Resumed—Chinese Fly on Hainan Raid

JAP BASES SMACKED BY [ALLIED PLANES AS TOO HINTS OF NEW OFFENSIVE

JAP SHIP SUNK OFF NEW GUINEA BY U.S, BOMBERS   Attempt To Intercept Yank Raiders Ends Disastrously For Nine Nip Planes   CHINA EXPECTING ASSAULT   American Bombs Have Balked Jap Plans To Construct Air Field on Kiska

YANKS HAMMER JAPS IN BURMA   30 Tons of Bombs Fall On Toungoo—Enemy Vessel Is Sunk 

Trading Ceilings Up to President   Congress Lifts Debt If He Drops Wage Lid

CONGRESS ASKS CEILING SWAPS   Lift Debt Limit, Forget Salary Order; Is Deal For President

Red Baltic Army Cuts Railway   Next fo Last Escape Route for Germans

German Escap Route Cut hy Red Forces   Railway Section Is Seized in Bitter Assault -

RAIL CENTERIN FRANCE RAIDED   RAF Sweeps Follow Attack By U. S. On St. Nazaire

Kiska Sut Base Hit  by Yanks   THREE RAIDS BATTER ALEUTIANS OUTPOST; 392 BOMBS 4IT RABAUL

ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER RABAUL   Drop 392 Bombs; Tojc Warns Japan Situation is Hore Serious

JAP CABINET TO HAVE ADVISERS   Premier Tojo Says War Situation Is Becoming More Serious _

t  AMERICANS AAT AISA:        2 Enemy. Aireraft “Are Shot Down Jn Actions: ©.

Blast Enemy Sub Base on Kiska Island   MacArthur's Airmen Drop $92 Bomhs on Jans’ Rabaul Base

YANK PLANES BLAST SUB BASE AT KISKA   Jap Installations Are Hit in Second Successive Day Gt Raids.

Kiska Again Under Attack   American Bombers Blast Island Sub Base Three Times Tuesday

American Bombers Make Three. Attacks In Single __Day, Navy Depart ~ meiit Reports   HITS ARE OBSERVED   Two Enemy Planes Shot  Down ‘and Two Others Probably Destroyed;  Munda Attacked 

‘Four Attacks Ine a mo wet aU VU INIsina  ‘By U. %, Planes   American Bombers Blast Enemy Sub Base in Aleutians

BOMBERS. STRIKE  -AGAIN AT KISKA        Three Tuesday Raids on Jap Island Base. Follow Those of Monday.   HARBOR IS B BASE . FOR SUBMARINES

Base at Kiska Is Blasted Three Times in One Day   Rabaul Is Bombed Again; British Hit in Burma

NEW ATTACKS MADE ON KISKA   3 More Assaults by Bombers Are Reported

U. S&S. FLIERS BOMB KISKA; DOWN JAP PLANES WASHING. TAN Slaeek 18 

Allied Bombers Smash Big Jap  Base At Rabaul   Enemy Outpost In Kai Islands Is Bombarded

American Bombers Blast Jap  Sub Base At Kiska Three Times In Extension Of Aerial Raids

BUMBt Ho HAID JAP AT NORA, DOWN 2 PLANES   Invaders Of Aleutians Get Four Smashing Attacks In Single Day

Union Labor Is Given A Boost   BABSON SAYS “CLOSED SHOP” MAY PROVE BENEFIT

UNION LA ‘ns Wak   Babson Asserts Closed Shop May Prove Benefit Because Involving Certain Control Of Labor Organizations,

SUVIET TROOPS STORM AGRA ONIEPER RIVER   Natural Defense Line Fails To Stop Rampaging Reds’ Gigantic Offensive

British Nearing Foggia, Soviets Across Dnieper   Yanks Drive 10 Miles Into Mountains East Of Key Italian Port As Allies Approach Big East Coast Air Base;  U. S. Bombers Blast Emden.

REDS DRIVE CLOSER TO CITY OF KIEY   Soviet Paratroops Land On West Bank Of Dnieper River

RED PARACHUTE TROOPS SHOWER GOWN ON WEST DNIEPER BANK   Rumors Say That Germans Are “vacuatineg Kiev

FORCES UNABLE TO STEM TIDE   Unconfirmed Reports Heard That Nazis Are Evacuating Kiev

KIEV MAY COLLAPSE. ANY TIME   Great Forces of Red Army Center on Objective As Enemy Lines Yield.

Soviet Troops Cross Stream; Fight For Kiev   Russians Now Holding Almost Entire East Bank Of River; Fall Of Dnepropetrovsk,  Kremenchug And Zaporozhe Imminent

KIEV EVACUATION BEGUN-ACCORDING TO SOME REPORTS   Other Russian Columns Pout Into White Russia Where Wide Gaps Were Made at Twe Sectors.   RUSSIAN AIR FORCE 1S NOW UNCHALLENGED   Desperate Jap Garrison Stiffens Finschhafen Resist: ance, Planes Preventing An Escape.

Russian Army Battles For Several Crossings— Invests East Bank Nazi Positions  HITLER WARNED  Red Columns Pour Into White Russia Through 2 Wide Gaps —

Parachute Troops Land Outside City   Columns Pour Into White Russia; Nazi Garrison Said Fleeins City

GERMANS BEGIN EVACUATING     WAS TO HAVE BEEN  NAZI WINTER LINE 

City Reported In Process OF  Evacuation   Pa rachutists Land On Wést Bank: Of Great River

CHUTE TROOPS LAND AS RUSS eTADM RIVE   Soviet Units Effect Crossing at Several Places in Kiev Area,   GERMANS USE ARTILLERY TO COVER THEIR RETREAT

PARATROOPS SHOWERED 0) DNIEPER AREA   Battle For Bridgeheads On West Bank Ot River Continues And Main Bases Of Germans Menaced.

Reds Storm  Across River Towards Kiev   Russian Parachute Troops Aid in Attack as Nazis Fiee from City

Soviet Flanking Columns Storming Over Water Barrier As Other Armies Pour Into White Russia   Ivy HENRY SHAPIRO

Paratrooper Help Red Army   Parachutists Shower on Dnaieper's West Bank While Army Gains on East Side

MARKET KEEPS BALANCE WELL   Aid Offered By Scattered Rails, Specialties; Small "Gains Near Close

ALLIED LOSSES IN PAPUA ONLY. HALE THOSE OF JAPANESE   Allied Planes Raid Japs: In Many Sectors — Lae Bombed 15th Day  In Succession

7,000 OHIO MINERS IN ANOTHER WALKOUT   Paychecks Under Scale Union Spokesman Says

HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS SEEK CONFERENCE WITH REPUBLICANS ON TAX PLAN LEGISLATION

Seek To Force Action On Tax   House Democratic Leader: seek Conference On Withholding Tax   PAY-AS-YOU-GO DEMANDS AIRED

COAL MINE ROW IS NOW MOVING TOWARD CRISIS   Southern Operators Balk As Contract Negotiations Reach Final Stages

French Play Vital Role in Tunisian Conquest  OS Ge Sime Quieter gee 2 eS ee ee * gin, GO WES + €) AA mr hs 3 au an eer ivr? i ees al  ore Fe 7 mt 7 man ‘

Coast Dim-Out May End; Jap Ban Continues   LT.-GEN. EMMONS SAYS LIQUOR RESTRICTIONS MAY BE SLACKENED

o2 Senators Oppose Action On Post-War Police Force   Poll of Senate Shows Divided Sentiment On Committing Country on Issue at Present

World Police Force Poll Splits Senate   32 Oppose, 24 Favor, 32 Undecided, 8 Unavailabl.  For Comment on Past-War Onuecdian

British Seaman and Australian Woman Alone in Lifeboat for5i Days in Atlantic

City Of Kakhovka Captured By Reds   Another Nazi Force Said Driven Back To Shores OF Sivash Lagoon And Annihilated

Two Way Aerial Blows Dealt Vulnerable Railroad Routes Funneling Into North. Italy   Bombers From Britain Hit Tunnel From - France; Brenner Pass Struck From South

VULNERABLE RAIL AUT: BATTEREI   Allied’ Air Forces In Britain, Mediterranean ‘Strike Hard =

POWERFUL ALLIED AMR FORCE STRIKE AT NAZI RAIL LINES  BRENNER PASS AND MT. CENNIS TUNNEL ROUTES ARE RIASTERD

Allied Warplanes Strike — At Tunnels Pouring German Reinforcements Into Italy

STRIKE AT NAZIS” VULNERABLE RAIL ROUTE INTO ITALY   Powerful Allied Forees in Britain and Mediterranean Theatre Join in Attack.   THROUGH BRENNER PASS   RAF Heavy Formations Last Night Struck at Modane, France.

POWERFUL ALLIED AR FORCES BLAST AXIS RAIL ROUTES   Attack on Mt. Cenis Tunnel Prevents Axis from Mokina Pannirc

BLAST NAZI RAIL LINES INTO ITAL’   Powerful Allied Air Forces Attack Germany’s Vunerable Routes Funneling Into Northern Italy Last Night; Daylight Raids  “Going On Today. ~~

AIRMEN BLAST BRENNER PASS, MODANE RAILS   Dual Blows Struck al Axis Supply Lines into Norihern Italy from Britain and Italy

Allied forces lash two key  railway lines   Tunnel and pass in Italy pounded

Nazi Routes To Italy Bombed  Fortresses And RAF In Heavy Attacks

WLB’s Back To Wall In Labor Cases   Doubt Board Can Last Much Longer In Present Form

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Offensive In Russia ( guld Bring Invasion i Western Europe

Nazi Drive May Bring Showdown i in Europe  Offensive i in Russia Invites Allied Invasion   By DeWITT MACKENZIE.

Earlier Loss of U.S. Destroyer Strong Revealed   ‘Details. of. ‘Action In’ Kula: ‘Gulf Still Lacking 2.   German Offensive May Be Followed by Storm Over Europe, AP Writer MacKenzie Believes

(OPENING OF HEAVY OFFENSIVE BY GERMANS ON RUSSIAN FRONT MAY SICNAL BREAKING OF STORM

\The War Today : New Offensive On Russian Front May Develop Into Big Show-Down

NAZI ATTACK ON REDS MAY SIGNAL BREAK OF STORM   This May Be Crisis That Will Disclose How Long Germany Portion of War May Last—MacKenzie

iThe War Today - .— New.: Offensive On Russian: Front \May Develop Into Big Show- Down

Snowstori Ties Up Traffic Over The Past Weekend  _ Trains. Delayed, Roads Blocked and  Travelers Marooned

Snowstoria Ties Up Traffic Over The Past Weekend  Trains. Delayed, Roads Blocked and

BLACK MARKET ARREST MADE   Farmer Accused of Selling Meat Not State Inspected.

Name Negro Coed’s Slayer   Coroner, However, Holds To Original Verdict Of Double Murder

PURSE OF SLAIN CO-ED 1S FOUN!   Discovered At ‘Silver Lake, 12 Miles From Scene Of Death

taly Due for Quick. Knockout Punch ~ With Fall of Sicily Say Observers

LONDON PREDICTS KNOCKOUT PUNCH AIMED AT ITAL   Military Experts Believe Allies Will Strike Quickly to Take Advantage of Peace Sentiment.

MARTHUR PLANES RAIN 21 TONS OF BOMBS ON ENEMY   Seek To ‘Frustrate Any Japanese Attempt To Build Up  Bases

Nipponese Under Heavy Assault   Allies Rain Bombs On Jap Installations

‘EQUALIZATION’. “PLAN OPPOSEL   BEN. VANDENBERG JOINS _ GROUP OPPOSING ICKES’ « PROPOSAL TO HAVE UNIFORM GAS AL*OYMENTS -

OPPOSE CHANGE   Midwestern Solons Attack Gasoline ‘Equalization’

MIDWESTERN CONGRESSMEN FIGHT GAS CUT   NAZIS RETREAI IN OUTSKIRTS OF OREL   Sen. Vandenberg Says Proof of Necessity Must Be Given

MIDWESTERN CONGRESSMEN FIGHT GAS CUT   Sen. Vandenberg Says Proof of Necessity Must Be Given

Few Ragged Remnants ¢ o Nazis Left —              LAST ORGANIZED GROUP OB: : GERMANS SURRENDER; ORIGI FORCE NUMBERED 870.000 ME

Only Few Germans  Are Left   Commander of Nazi Force: Captured—Battle Begun in August, 1942

Million Germans Lost in Battle   Field Marshal Von Paulus and 14 Generals Surrender with 5000 Men

Epic Fight : Drawing to — Conclusion   5% PICKED DIVISIONS OO} HITLERITES COMING TO TRAGIC END. he

Workers to Ald Detinguents Until 5 P, M,; Regular Schedule Starts Wednesday

REVENUE OFFICE STAFF TACKLES HUGE MAIL   Local Office Reports Little ‘Rush at Deadline   Workers to AlI Delinquents Until 31, My Regular Schedule Starts Wednesday

Tax Bill Hit As ‘Breeder Of Inflation   Eight National Group: Protest. to Senators On Evo of VTlearing

EIGHT GROUPS FLAY PENDING TAX MEASURE      Coalition Headed by * CIO Calls Bill Inflation Breeder

NEW TAX BILL IS DENOUNCED   Eight Organizations Go On Record As Against  New Measure

ax increase bill lashed by eight sroups   Measure termed inflation hreeder

TAX MEASURE ATTACKED BY UNION HEADS   Pending Bill Called Inflation Breeder  by CIO   EIGHT GROUPS ASK DRASTIC REVISION   Boost in Taxes on Incomes Over $3,000 a Year Souaqht

Ask Higher Boost On Large Incomes   C.1.0. Spearheads Denunciation of New Tax Bill As An Inflation Breeder.

Ask Higher Boost On Large Inco          ation of New Tax  C.1.0. Spearheads 3]  Bi  An Inflation Breede

Fight Big Labor Units Criticize New Tax Measure   ClO Takes Lead In Opposition

ORGANIZATIONS IN OPPOSITION TO TAX MEASURE   CIO Is Heading Attack On Revenue Bill Now Be fore Senate

FLAY PENDING TAX MEASURE   Coalition Headed by CIO Calls Bill In flation Breeder

New Tax Bill Is Denounced By 8 National  Organizations   CIO and Other Groups Label Legislation “Inflation Breeder’   JOIN IN DEMANDING ‘DRASTIC REVISION’  Want Taxes Boosted On Personal Incomes

CIO Sparks New Attack on Income Tax Measure   Wants an Increase On Personal Incomes  Above $3000 Yearly

  (palition Hits fax Bill; Quick (tion Slated   (J0 Leads New Attack (m Measure Terming it Inflation Breeder:  lieve Income Tax Hike

Where [heres Fropaganda Lheres gome iruth-—~ —by “lenn Bb  Tojo Fixes Program For Greater East Asia

TWO YOUNG GIRLS! EWERE PIGKED Uf   Elwood Girls on a Shoplifting Expedition in Tipton Stores.

HR PIKED U    - ing/ Expedition id Tip-'   Elwood Girls on a Shoplift  ton Stores,

Pay-as-you-go tax returns. to ways, means committee   Ruml- and majority plan fail to pass in hot fight

House Rejects Ruml Plan By 215-198 Vote   Roll Call Defeat Follow: Tentative Approval Or Teller Count, 199-188   SKIP-YEAR SET BACK   Solons Also Shout Down Clare Luce Abatement Up Teo $25,000 Income

House Rejects Skip-Year Tax Plan of Rum   Strict Enforcement Of Law Promised Earlier Approval

CHICAGO WILT VOTE ON MAYOR   For Third Time In 10 Years Republicans To Fight Kelly

CHICAGO MAYOR 10 BE ELECTED TODAY   Republicans to Attempt to Unseat Edw. J. Kelly at Polls

Chicago Voters to Cast Ballots  Edward J. Kelly Seeks Re-election

CHICAGO MAYOR HAS HOT RACE   Republicans Attempting To Unseat Kelly; Vote To Hit Million

Chicagoans Ballot For Mayor Today  , Republicans Seek to  Unseat E. J. Kelly

OL CONTRACT UNDER PROBE   Navy Withdraws Request For Funds to Develop Project

NAVY OIL DEAL UNDER PROBE, BIDDLE SAYS   Navy Department Withdraws Request for Funds to Cover Elk Hills Contract

Navy Holds Up Oil Lands Deal With Standard   Withdraws Request For Appropriation To Cover Elk Hills Contract.

DEWEY RENEWS PREDICTIONS OF FEED SHORTAGE   Babcock’s Commitiee Reports In. ability to Buy Corn in West— Crisis Declared Imminent

REDS OPEN DRIVE ON MINSK; NAZIS’ LINE 15 PIERCED   German Radio Dispatch Tells of New Soviet Offensive Rolling Down From Smolensk.   RUSSIANS ALSO GAIN NORTHWEST OF GOMEL   Overrun 80 Villages and Kill 1,500 Enemy Troops in Sweep That Threatens  Thiobin.

OL OPERATORS OF TEXAS PLAN ADDED EAST TEXAS OUTPUT   WARNING IS GENERAL THAT. CRUDE OIL SHORT. AGE IS IMPENDING :

To Test New Labor Law .   Unions File Suit Asking That Union Control Act Be Found Invalid

Abandon  Illinois Town   RISING WATERS FORCE BEARDSTOWN EVACUATION

FLOOD WATERS STILL RISING   Evacuation of Women and Children From Itlinois Towns Necessary.   LEVEL NEARS 29 FEET

Flood Forces Evacuation At Beardstown, Ill   4,000 Persons, Including Women, Children And  Infirm. Leave City.

FOUR STATES HARASSED BY FLOOD WATERS   4,250 Troops Patrol River Front in SixState.Mid-West Flood  Zone.

BEARDSTOWN EVACUATED AS ILLINOIS RISES   100-Mile Front of Mississippi from Alton, Ill, South Immediate Dancer Zone   CROP LOSSES RISE   Situation in Beardstown, Il. Grave as Illinois River Rises Again After Falling

Flood Forces Evacuation Of Illinois Towr   Women And Children Leave Beardstown As River Reaches Level  Of 29 Feet

To Evacuate: Illinois City. of Beardstown   Aged, Infirm, Young Seek Safe Levels, Army : Patrols 100-Mile Front:

Women and Children to ~ High Ground   4.000: Are . Compelled:. to Leave Beardstown, ‘IIL, Because of Flood   DOUBT CITY CAN : . ESCAPE DELUGE   Muskogee, Okla.;. Without Water Service as Flood Damarce Increases’

Raid on Cherbourg Docks Follow Up Last Night’s  Heavy Attaek on Lorient

British Hit At Cherbourg   R. A. F. Follows Up Raid on Lorient, Nazi Submarine Base

BIG NAZI  ‘SUB BASE IN FRANCE  ~ ATTACKED   British and Canadian Bombers Make Heavy Raids. on Lorient   FOLLOWS BLAST BY U.S. BOMBERS   Explosives’ Are Dumped On. Concrete Pens’ Shelterine German: U-Boats

URGES REDUCING PLANE MODELS   Aviation Subcommittee De. elares 67 Military Varieties Should Be Trimmed,

‘Ohio’ s 37th Division Has Glorious) ‘War Record In Southwest Pacific

War Department Releases Account of >7Tth Division in Battle for New Georgia Isle

Eastman Asks Public to Pass Up  Train Trios at This Christmas Time

GENE KRUPA ACCUSED ON NARCOTICS CHARGE   Drum-beating Orchestra Leade. Says He Is Not Addicted To Use Of Marijuana

Rushton Says Witnesses Are Too Forgetful      Milk Distributers Attack Milk Marketing Legislation in Open Letter to Governor

AUSHTON AKED BY WITNESSES   Attorney General Skeptical Of Faulty Memories Of Some.   SUGGESTS JAIL TERMS

POOR MEMORY OF WITNESSES IRKS. RUSHTON   Threatens To Cite One Or Two For Contempt Of Court   JAIL TERMS HINTED   Declares ‘About 30 Days’ May Improve Their Recollections

Grand Jury Witnesses Denounced By Rushtor   Attorney General Threatens To Jail Those Who Display Faulty Memories During Investiaation Of Bribe Charaes

BRITISH 8TH ARMY WITHIN. 30. MILES OF TRIPOLI TODAY   Billy Mitchell Bombers Attack Town: Where Rommel’s Quarters  Are Located 

American Bombers Attack Town Where Rommel Reported   Parachutists Descending Behind Axis Forces to Blow Up Roads; German’ Diversion‘ Attack in Tunisia Gains Seven Miles:

French Force Presents Newest Menace to Rommel, Now In Full Retreat

REPORTED IN OUTSKIRTS OF CITY   Axis Trying To Remove Some Troops By Sea

AXIS FACES THREE-WAY ‘SQUEEZE’ IN TUNISIA   Nazis Assert Allied Units Have Reached Suburbs  fLANes HOUND RETREAT  U. S$. Bombers Range Over Most Of. Front

British Within 30 Miles Of Tripoli; Rommel In Flight Burns Supplies

HEAD IN SICILY   Prof. Wesley A. Sturges to Be U. S. Area Director.

Miners Going Back To Pits   Strike Is Tapering Off In Alabama Area

WMC TO REQUEST LOWER 10 FORCE CHANGES IN. JOBS   Want  National Service _ Legislation, For» All. Country’s Men): And Women

Seek Early Congress Action On Draft Law   Last Ditch” Method Of Coping With Shortages Of Manvower

Reds Cut Orel Escape Corridor To Thirty Miles   Russian Forces North and East of City Fighting in Main Defenses; Decisive Stage of Battle Nearing

BATTLE FOR OREL NEARING DECISION AS REDS ADVANCE   Soviet Troops Driving Ahead at Three Other Key Sectors Along South. ern Front.

Briton Urges End To Minor Strikes  Sees Intensified Allied Offensives

Allied Moves Are Stressed   New Phase Of War Is Pradicted By Crinne

11th Hour Plea May Stop Strike   Officials Try To Bring About Wage Agreemen

PEACE TRAFFIC TO BE PROBLEM   Speeding Binge Foreseen When Soldiers Return And Rationing Ends

10 Are Injured as Pennsy Flyer and Freight Crash   Great Traffic Headache Seen for Post-War Era

Traffic Expert Predicts Greatest Headache After the Boys.Come Back

But Claims Real Offensive Cannot Be Made  Nazis Concentrate   Nazis Concentrate on Guerrillas in Greece, Yugoslavia

Leaders Contend Defenses Ready   Invasion Attempt Soid Deadiv Rick

Germany Reports Eisenhower Ready To Attack Europe   Says American Command: er Has Million Tons of Shipping Ready   But Asserts That Allies Cannot Launch Real Invasion

Leaders Contend Defenses Ready   Invasion Attempt Soid Nendly Rick. -

Bui Claims Real Offensive Cannot Be Made   Nazis Concentrate on Guerrillas in Greece, Yucoslavia

German ns Report—  MILLION TONS OF ALLIED ‘SHIPPING SET FOR INVASION

Nazi radio tells people of huge fleet   Claims allies massed shipping in Mediterranean

Germans Assert Allied Invasion Is Not Possible   Berlin Broadcast Tells O: Million Tons Of Ship: ping In Africa

Germans Say Allied Leap Near   Report Million Tons Of Shipping Ready for Invasion

NAZIS DISPLAY MORE JITTERS   Tell Their People Allies Have Huge Fleet Massed  For Invasion

‘Allies Concentrating Huge Amount of Tonnage for Invasion, Germany ‘Asserts.

Allied Invasion Certain ToFail, Germans Boast   Axis Endeavors ‘To Calin Followers, Dishearten

GERMANY REPORTS SHIPS MASSED FOR ALLIED INVASION   Declares 1,000,000 Tons Concentrated to Move Eisenhower’s Forces Across Mediterranean.   SAYS AXIS DEFENSES WILL STOP ENEMY   Vichy Dispatches Assert U. S. and British Planes Are Supplying Greek and Slav Guerrillas.

Nazis Say General Eisenhower Readies For Move fo Europe   Concentrates Allied Shipping for Leap Acrass Mediterranear

Two Nazi Counterdrives Near Novorossisk Re pulsed; Russians Report Air Battle In Which 6% Enemy Planes Were Shot Down

NAZIS REPULSED ON RUSS FRONTS   Four Attacks Made to Try to Knock Soviets Out of War

KUBAN VALLEY BATTLE FLARES   Nazis And Soviets Intensify Fight From Novorossisk North To Temryuk

Red Attacks Dent  ~ The German Lines   Major Battle Evidently Being Fought For Novorossisk   OTHER SECTORS  ALSO COME ALIVE

VIOLENT UPSURGE IN KUBAN VALLEY BATTLE IS SEEN   Russian and German Reportg Say Intensified Fighting Is in Progress.   57 GERMAN PLANES LOST   The Russians Smashed Back Two Counterattacking German Battalions. 4

RUSSIAN FORCES CRUSH ATTACKS   German Troops Are Turned Back in Fierce Fight For Kuban Valley

London Sombing Invasion Step  Says Hitler Had 2,500 mae for Attack 3  i ee I cia

Nazis Planned Britain Attack  2,500 Barges. Ready ‘But RAF Halted  German Bambarc

NAZI INVASION PLAN AGAINST ENGLAND WAS FRUSTRATED   Heavy Air Raids On . London Three Years Ago Was to “Soften Up” For Invasion

‘MARCH LEND-LEASE AID OF 688 MILLIONS SENDS TOTAL TO 10 BILLIONS

Chemists Find Way to Put More ‘Rubber’ in Rubber   Development and Production of Unsaturated Nitrile, Ingredient From Soybean Oi! Acid, Will Improve Durahility of Synthetic and Natural Rubber; Ingredient Produced on Commercial Seale

STEPS PLANNED 10 CURB ABSENTEEISM   —enentianettn mame  “Work or Fight” Warning Issued by House Committee

‘Work or Fight’ Warning Issued by House Naval Committee as It Moves to Halt ‘Absenteeism’

Filibuster in Assembly Ends   GOP Leaders Seek Final Adjournment Next Week

Republicans Announce Plans For Final Adjourn  ment Next Week   LABOR DEVELOPMENTS

HARRISBURG QULONS HAVE PEACE AGAIN   Democrat _ Filibuster Against GOP Program   ADJOURNMENT BY NEXT WEEK   Senator Woodward Ask: “Decent Burial” fo1  His Labor Bill.

Lapham Wins Mayor Race in Bay City   INCUMBENT ROSSI THIRD; REILLY RUNNER-UP AS SHIPPING HEAD VICTOR

-DEWS HOME ON LEAVE   Entomological Work in Fourth Service Command Under K.U. Man

Germans Suffer Heavy Blow On  Tunisian Front   Rommel Makes Daring Attempt To Break Ring

HEAVY AIR RAIDS   Allies’) Continue Attacks Amid Further Signs of  Preparations

Move Along on Invasion Plans:  Kinox Talks of An lnvasion of Europe

Knox Reports Second Front Plans Moving   Map Invasion Of Continent

Secretary Rejects Talk (Of Second Front; Says Supplies Reach. Russia

Knox Won't Talk About “Second Front” but Says Preparations for Invasion of Europe Moving Along

Invasion Plans Pushed, Reports Secretary Knox   Allied Preparations To Attack Europe ‘Moving Right Along.’

Second Front Preparations ‘Moving Along  So Says Knox In Reply to

INVASION PLANS MOVING ALONG, KNOX DECLARES   U. S. Supply Line te Russia Across Pacific Functioning Steadily

INVASION PLANS GOING FORWARD KNOX DECLARES   SAYS PREPARATIONS FOR EUROPE ATTACK STILL IN PROGRESS

Knox Asserts Invasion Plan Progressing   No Cessation of These Activities. Navy Chief . Declares

Preparations For Invasion  Going Ahead   [Knox Declines to Call  Europe Only the Second Front

Opening of Seccnd Front Is Nearing   Preparations Going ‘Right Along’. Says Knox

Going Forward Secretary of Navy Asserts   STRONG PLEA FOR INVADING EUROPE MADE BY RUSSIA.

Invasion Plans Moving Along      Knox Answers Russian  Plea For Action

Big Invasion Plan Moving ‘Right Along’   ‘Obviously, We Can’t Talk in Specific Terms,’ Knox Tells Reporters   RUSSIA INSISTS ON SECOND FRONT

TO DRIVE HOME HARD BLOWS   SECRETARY KNOX PROMISES REAL ACTION  (RY JOSEFPU ft 060 CURA.

U. S. INVASION PREPARATIONS MOVING ALONG   Secretary Knox Tells Newsmen When Asked For Comment on Sacnnd Front

New Smashes By U. §. Coming Soon In Pacific Areas   Secretary Knox Says U. S. Getting Ready To Drive Some Hard Blows   ALLIED STRATEGY BECOMES APPARENT

Preliminaries Out of Way,  Asserts Knox   Tokyo's View Gloomy, Warns of “Fathomless”  Allied Power Closing In

Plans For Alhed Push Moving “Right Along,”   Secretary of Navy   Knox Says  DECLINES COMMENT  ON RUSSIA URGIN(      Dislikes Term “Second Front;” Line to Russia Functioning, He Claims

INVASION PLAN ppl RIGHT ALONG’--KNOX   Preparations Under Way For All-Out Drive

Invasion Plans Move Along-Knex   Secretary Sees no Tangling of Supply Lines by Japanese

Allies: ‘Readying Europe hivasion, Knox Declares   “Samreey , “St rategy ices ‘Confidence:  Secret ry. "Sa ve

Invasion Plans Move Along, Says  Secretary Knox      Knows Of No Jap Interference With Supplies Tea Russia.

SECRETARY KNOX  DECLARES INVASION  PREPARATIONS MADE NAVAL HEAD REFUSES,  HOWEVER, TO COMMENT ON RUSSIAN REMARKS

Invasion Plans Going Forward  Er... O6EV?..2. ff ..... .1*.....   Knox Hints of Landings When Time Rine

Invasion Plans Are Moving Right Along Knox Says  re  day s Preparations Going   Says Preparations Going , Forw ard Vor Allied * Attack On Europe.

Knox Predicts Hard Pacific Blows by U.S.   “Proliminaries Over.” He ass in Summary of Yank Successes

U.S. Prepares For Powerful’: Pacific Blows   Preliminaries > “Are Over; Says” Secy. Knox...

US. READY TO. DELIVER NEW HEAVY BLOWS   Past Operations Have Been Part  OF Bie Plan

Knox Asserts Second Front Work Goes On   Doubts Japan Has “Interferred with Red Supply Lines.

KNOX SAYS U.S, JAP BLOW NEAR   Yankees Get Stronger and Stronger, Preliminaries Now Over

INVASION PLANS TAKING SHAPE KNOX REVEALS   Secretary of Navy Knox To Comment on Second Front

U.S. Ready for Pacific Showdown   Knox Savs Preliminaries are Over With Main Bout to Start Soor

U. S. READY TO DELIVER STRONG BLOWS AGAINST JAPANESE, KNOX ASSERTS

INVASION PLAN BEING READIED   Knox Says Arrangements Tc Hit Europe Progress

Knox Reports On Invasion   Preparations Move Along, He Announces

U. S. ‘MOVING RIGHT ALONG’ FOR INVASION   Secretary Knox Replies to Russian Insistence For Second Front.   Says Japan Doesn't Want to Fight Reds

Equipment and Trained Men Ready for Great Offensive Against Nippon Empire

INVASION PLANS MOVING ALONG KNOX DECLARES   Preparations Are Going Forward, Secretary Says; Supplies Getting Through To  Russia.

LATEST NE‘ S BULLETINS  Americans Ready to Drive Hard Blows In Pacific

‘Knox Assures Russians Second Front -Preparation ‘Moving Right Along

SAYS INVASION PREPARATIONS MOVING AHEAD   Knox Leaves No Doubt Attack to be Made When Time Right

ALLIES PLAN FOR INVASION   Preparations Are Moving ‘Right Along’. Secretary Knox Declares

Knox Says U. S. Is Now Ready to Deal Offensive Blows to Japanese

SECOND FRONT PLANS MOVING RIGHT ALONG   Knox So Declares 1: Comment On Soviet Plea

Tnvasion Plans  Are Moving Right  ‘Alone. Knox Says   Says Preparations Going Forward For Allied Attack On Europe.

INVASION PLANS MAKE PROGRESS   Knox Gives Assurance Of New European Front Soon

Preparations Are Moving Forward For Invasion of Europe, Knox Says

HEAVY BLOWS AGAINST JAPS ABE PREPADET   KNOX DECLARES “PRELIME“NARIES" ARE OVER IN FACIFIC AND HARD “ BLOWS COMING

Navy Head Says Kiska Japs Feeling Ammunition Pinch; island Well Blockaded

PLANS GOING RIGHT ALONG KNOX STATES   Says U. S. Supplies To Russia Are Not: Molested By Japs

KNOX SEES Bib PACIFIC DRIVE   NAVY CHIEF SAYS FIRST ACTIONS OUT OF WAY

Half Million Is Lopped Off House Budget   “But Despite Senate's Economy State Will Spend More ©

CUT DOWN BUDGET   ‘Half Million Dollars Lopped Off By ) Committee.

CHECK @N 2 WARS   Kansas Legion Convention ~ Delegates Hear of Current Fighting =

WARSHIPS LASH ISLE WITH PEAK FURY IN ATTACK   Spectacular Assault Shows Synchronization of Air and Sea Forces

Halians Thought Invasion at Hand When Allied Sea, Air Units Attacked

KINNICK LOST: JUNE 2-NAVY   Forced Landing Mace in Sea; Body Lost

ILLINOIS COAL CONTRACT MAY TEST SUBPOENA   War Labor Board Expected to Caf Hearings, Summon John L. Lew. is, on Wage Increase

MINE WORKERS SIGN CONTRACT IN ILLINOIS  War Labor Board To Rule On Pay PLAN. HEARINGS ‘Portal-To-Portal Pay Of $1.25 Is      PLAN. HEARINGS   Portal-To-Portal Pay Of $1.25 Is . Aorveed

‘Selective Service To Restore Ohio ' Doughboysto Pre-War Occupations

GEN. HUGHES NAMED — DEPUTY COMMANDER   South Dakotan Will Handle All Supply, Training And Personnel Problems In Africa

G.0. P. STAND FIRN QN TAX PROBLEM      Republicans Said Agaifs! Any Compromise Ignoring Abatement

Leaders Renew Tax Discussion   Bi-Partisan Group to Try to tren Out Points Still at Issue

Republicans Holding Out For Half-Year Abatement + In Pay-Go Tax Compromise

GOP LEADERS HOLD OUT FOR REBATE ON TAX   Will Agree To No Plan Without Cancellation Of Half Year's Obligations   Vote Expected Soon

Compromise On Tax Bill Likely Soon   Republicans Hold Out For At Least Half Year Tax Abatement   BUT VOTE IS SEEN IN HOUSE THIS WEEK  Bi-Partisan Group Holds. Sunday Session To Speed Decision

German Wedges Exposed To Fire From Red Forces   ‘Berlin Reports, However, Soviet Tank Reserves Totally Destroyed

WEDGES RAKED BY CONTINUOUS ARTILLERY FIRE   Germans Are Confined To Small Gains Made At Outset, Moscow Declares   Losses Are Heavy

Fall Kills Baby, Another Hurt   Both Tumble From Second Story Window

Growling Attitude Snarls Between House And Senate Over Agency Employees

Give-and-Take On Appropriations  House, Senate Adopt Compromise to End

CONGRESS MAY TAKE OVER WAR AGENCY POWERS   Give-and -Take Attitude Spreads in Legislative Halls ;

SEEK COMPROMISE IN BATTLE OVER APPROPRIATIONS   CONGRESS ANXIOUS TO CLEAR DECKS AND QUIT FOR SUMMER

Appropriation Compromise  Now Possible   Senate May Retire From Stand on Approval of Federal Employes —

Reich Can’t Win, Prisoners Think   But Germans Are Told the. Nazis to Stage War of Revenge Next Spring. _

Nazis Pin Hope On Offensive Next Spring   Look Forward To “War Of Revenge”

HUNS PIN HOPES ON MIGHTY PUSH DURING SPRING   Told‘by Commanders Ger many Is Reserving Power  For War of Revenge, Prisoners Say

Nazis Talk — of Final Big Smash   German Front Line Troops Pin Hopes On a Great Spring Offensive   WAR OF REVENGE,  -. THEY TERM I   Prisoners Volunteer . Story, But Few Believe “Their Country Can Win

Find Nazi Soldiers Pin Hopes _ Of Final Victory For Fatherland On War Of Revenge Next Spring

Prisoners Reveal German’s Plans  German Soldiers Pinning Hope Of Victory On Big Offensive In The Spring

‘Nazis Pin Hopes of Victory On Great Spring Offensive They Call It a War of Revenge

German Front Line Soldiers Pin ‘Hopes Of Victory On Spring Drive

German Soldiers Are Pinning Their Hopes On Great Offensive Scheduled In Spring

BUOY FADING NAZI MORALE   Front Line Soldiers Told ‘Revenge War’ Will  Rescue Them

NAZI DRIVE FOR MEN IN ARMY RANKS   Drive For Total Mobilization Has Failed to Produce Man-Power Now  Greatly Needed   APPROACH CAPTIVES

HITLER'S ARMY IN NEED OF MEN   Nazis Plan To Put Capture: Russians in Service To Fill Shrinking Ranks

Report Germans Trying To Raise Army Among Captured Russ Soldiers

LOLOL LALLA LLL ALLEN CAA LALLA CCAD  Germans Seek to Form Army of Reds

Nazis Trying To Recruit a ~ Russian Army   Want Captives to Fight Under Soviet General Vlasov

Axis Pressed lor Manpower   Germany Attempts To Raise Army Of 300,000 To 500,000 Captured Russians,

SEE BLOCK 10 FATHER DRAFT   Quick Passage of Legislation Predicted By Solons

SOLONS SEE DAD DRAFT BAN   DEWEY, CANNON PREDICT FATHER LEGISLATION

Pre-War Dads May Be Exempt From War Duty   Congressmen Expect Action

FATHER DRAFT BILL PROMISED   Republican Dewey and Democtatis Cannon Join in Declaring Congress will Bar Induction

Father-Draft Fight Seen In Congress   Solons Predict Congress Will Seek to Prevent Drafting Fathers   Be JAMES MARILOW AND GPRPORGE ZIFIL KE

Father-Draft Fight Seen in Congress   Solons Predict Congress Wil} Seek to Prevent Drafting Fathers

Party Chiefs Sound Keynote For New Session of Congress   No Time for Partisan Politics in War Effort Says Republican Leader Martin in Statemen’

Dozen Americans, Barricaded In House In Italy, Subdue 24-Man German Squad Attempting To Take Them Prisoners

Courageous American Patrol Victor hela Nazi Squad Twice Its Size

Blasts Mrs. Roosevelt in Demand for Probe of Motion Picture Industry

WILL ASK PROBE OF MARINE NEWS REEL   Charges Eleanor Roosevelt Classes Republicans With Japs.

Armed Forces to Claim Replaceable Male Employes  Withdrawals from Industry Will be

ARMY TO SPEED INDUCTION GOAI   McNutt Predicts Eligible Men, Regardless of Essentiality, to Get Calls

McNutt Predicts — Drafting of All Mer Of Military Age   - Employers Urged fo Calculate Time To Train Replacements, Dependency - Almost Out as Deferment Reason

F.R. Makes Known Choice In Broadcast   British Offer to Take Command In Mediterranean Area

MERGER ROMMEL’S AIM   Nazi Marshal Seeking To Join Axis Force In North, Belief

Rommel Heads For Union With  Tunis Force   Secretary Indicates Powerful Force  Will Oppose Allies

ARMY SET IN AREAS   Divisions from U. $. to Take Part in Final Phase in Africa, Stimson Says.

NO TRPROVEMEN OnOWN Ih oALED   County War Bord Effort Remains at Low Ebb, - Despite Sud Visit.

NO UNPROVERIENT SHOWN IN SALES   County. War Bord Effort Remains at Low Ebb, .’ . + Despite Sub Visit. .

AMERICAN BOMBERS SUPPORT CHINESE   Chiang Kai-Shek’s Forces Batter Way To Huajung

AMERICANS AID CHINESE DRIVE   Bombers, Fighters Support: ing Hupeh Advance

CHINESE, U.S, PILOTS CONTINUE OFFENSIVE   Hit Japanese Along Yangize River, Damage Boat

U, $. BOMBERS HELP CHINESE IN ATTACKS   Japs Reported Forced Tc Fall Back Steadily

Chinese Army Is Given U. 5. Suppor!  Bombers Carry Out  Extensive Operations Awawiner® LARA Rmee

YANKS ON TRAIL OF FLEEING NIPS   Bombers Hit Large Boat. Damage Gunboat in Chinese War Zone

ONE KILLED IN CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION   15 Others Injured in Series of Explosions Occuring at Rhom And Masse Plant

CHEMICAL BLAST KILLS 1, HURTS 15   $100,000 Damage Recorded Heavy Guard Is Throwr Around Plant

SCOUTS ARE TOLD OF LINCOLN’S VISIT   About 100 Boys And Their Leaders Hear Address By Henry A. Haas, Now 91 Years Old

HOFFMAN IN REPLY 10 CIC   No Individual Or Group  Can Block War, Says   Congressman

‘ ‘Family Food In Wartime’ To Be Discussion Sucject   Sessions Are Scheduled Fo: soe “Henry, Union and °° anion

BOUGAINVILLE, KOLOMBANGARA HEAVILY BOMBED   Army, Navy And Marine Planes Bore Through Stiff Enemy Defenses To Plaster Jap Positions In Solomons.

U.S. Income Returns Off   First Quarter Produced Fund $145,623,247 Les Than in 1942 Period

REPORT DECLINE IN TAX RECEIPTS   March 15 Collections Below Last Year’s Mark, Treasurv Reveals.

TAX RECEIPTS OFF MARCH 15   Treasury Got $145.623,247 Less On Deadline Day Than Year Ago

INCOME PAYMENTS LISTED MARCH 15 BELOW LAST YEAR   Treasury, However, Contends Figures Do Not Reveal True Picture of Revenue’

Says Nips Ready For Next Blows  Offensive Preparations  Made, Says General

Japanese Hint At New Drive  Spokesman Suggests ‘Assault On Australia

HINT INVASION OF AUSTRALIA   Jap Army Spokesman Indicates ‘Mikado’s Forces Preparing To Attack Aus tralian Continent.

JAPO HINT AT NEW ASSAULT   Way Paved for Invasion of Austrafia, Says Army Snokesman.

HINT ASSAULT ON AUSTRALIA   Jap Spokesman Says Bases Are Completed  By The 46@nrracEen pre“ee

Japs Say British Jittery   Hint Australia -To Be Attacked; Two Kansas Pilots Play Heroic Roles

Tokyo Hints New Attack   Jap Army Spokesman  Indicates Assault on r eSmece Serene 2 ee ee

Japanese Hint At New Attack   Army Spokesman Declares Strategic Bases In Pacific Campleted.

Japs Ready For Assault On Australia   Army Spokesman Says Japan Has Completed Establishment of Strategic Bases in Southwest Pacific

Kill Japs On Guadal   Presence of Enemy oni Tatand Not — ; Explained hy Nayy

JAPS HINT AT INVASION OF AUSTRALIA   Bases Established And Way Paved For Contemplated New Operations.

COUPLE'S HOPE FIVE SONS MIGHT BE ALIVE BLASTED   Letter to Thomas F. Sullivan and Wife of Waterloo, Ia., Tells How Sailors Met Death.   4 DOWN WITH CRUISER, OTHER DIED ON RAFT   Brothers’ Loss in Pacific  Probably Heaviest Suffered _  by a Single Family in : Naval History.

First Unstamped Cigars Seized in Grant County Under State Tax Law

ALLIES CARVE NEW GAINS IN ITALIAN WAR   Seaborne British Troops Strike Halfway Up Adri atic to Land at Termoli.   Yankees Surge Ahead  In Advance on Rome

Relieve Man-Power Shortage; Hours For Recreation Under Best of — — ‘Livine Conditions 

Refugee Problem Difficult for Allies   U.S. Britain Hosts To More Than Million

Handicaps in Helping Refugees Take limelight at Conference of British, American Social Workers

Daubendick Is Found Guilty At Jefferson   Telephone Manager To Be Sentenced Feb. 4; May Ask New Trial

LT ET AL  JURY CLEARS GIRL WHO KILLED FATHER      Stabbed Him, She Says, While He Was Choking Wife

_DIES OF PNEUMONTA   ‘Richard L. Jervis Was Head of  White House Secret Service

Rommel, Repeatedly Gambling All On Single Toss, Repeatedly Losing, Driven Deeper Into Tunisian Foxhole

Five Mistakes  Made By Rommel  In Big Gamble And Now British Have Called All Bets Of ‘Desert Fox'

Manpower Problem Declared Critical   Lack of Planning Blamed for Delay

NAVY TRAINS GUNNERS FOR DEADLY AIR FIGHTS   Fliers Get Thorough Training In Art of Hitting The Bull’s-Eye   ‘GREAT SIGHT TO SEE

NAVAL FLIERS HAVE STORIES TO RECOUNT   Good Eye-Witness Accounts Are To Be Found At  Pensacola Station   PRAISE “JAP” FLIERS

U.S. NAVY TURNS OUT FINEST FLIERS IN WORLD   Recruits Go Through Tough Training Period Before Being Approved

Reds Smash Ahead On Dnieper Bend   New Crossing Made Between Kiev And Gomel In General Advance On 28-Mile  Front; Defenses Threatened

Reds Gain 15 Miles Inside Dnieper Bend   Big Losses Inflicted on German Troops Counter-Attacking for Fifth Day in Melitopol; New Dnieper Crossing Made

Germans Begin Demolitions East of Rome  Prepare to Blow   Prepare to Blow Up Strategic Areas in the City

WRECKING CREWS BUSY NEAR ROME   NAZIS BEGIN DEMOLITIONS TO DELAY ENTRY OF ALLIES INTO CITY.

Germans Begin  Demolitions  East of Rome Prepare to Blow  Up Strategic DGiicrn: ty dew FT

AXIS TROOPS ARE FLOWN INTO ARES   Great Force of Fortresses Blast ‘Dunkerque’ Port   SARDINIA TARGET   Rommel Continues His Tortured Retreat; Bombs Shower Fleeing Foe

AXIS IN NORTH OPENS ATTACK   Foe Tries to Retrieve Large Store After Precipitate Flight

(00 FORTRESSES BLAST ENEMYS ~ SARDINIA BASE   Port Dealt Crippling Blow Without Loss of Plane— Bombs Continue to Rain on Rommel’s Fleeing Army.

Desperate Axis Flies Fresh Men Into Tunisia   Allies’ in Mighty Effort to Forestall Landings, Escapeway

Yankees Take 700 Prisoners In Coast Drive   Flying Forts Blast Axis’ Cagliari Base; Rommel Continues His Tortured Retreat

‘Important Enemy Supply Base On Sardinia Serious  ly Crippled By Raid   ROMMEL’S RETREAT IS POUNDED FROM THE AIR

Axis Trying to Fly Fresh Forces Into Tunisia SARDINIA BOMBED BY AERIAL ARMADA  resses Take Part in Operation

NEARLY 100 FLYING FORTRESSES BASH IMPORTANT AXIS SUPPLY BASE AT CAGLIARI ON SARDINIA.

Allied Armada Attempts To Forestall Axis Reinforcements   Greatest Force of FourMotored Bombers Ever Massed For War Operation Pounds Sardinian Port Into Rubble

100 Flying Forts Bash Axis Base In Terrific Aerial Onslaught; Desert ‘Fox’ Seeks Evacuation Port

Germans Attack British Forces In North Africa   Fleeing Axis Troops Attempting To Make Real Stand   Seek To Retrieve Valuable Stores Lost fo the Allies

Axis Trying To Relake Equipment   Nazis, Italians Strike on North Tunisian Front

Hifler Making Desperate Move To Save Romme'   Allies Hurl Great Fleet of Planes into Action Off Coast   More Than 700 Italians Captured by American Forces

AERIAL FLEET POUNDS SHIPS AND SEAPORTS   AMERICAN PLANES WRECK SARDINIA SUPPLY BASE

Axis Troops Attack British in North Tunisia After Being Thrown Into Precipitate Flight

Germans In North Tunisia Hit Back   Counterblow Follows Precipitate Flight When Big Quantities Of Equipment Lost

GREAT ALLIED AIR ARMADA BLASTS PORTS   Captured Italians And Nazis Reveal Recent Arrivals To Bolster Forces.

New Enemy Forces Are Intercepted in Cruel Thrust by U. S., British; Fleeing Germans Get Steady Rain of Fire, Bombs

GERMANS ATTACK IN NORTH TUNISIA   ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE STORES OF MATERIAL CAPTURED BY BRITISH.

Fresh Troops Are Flown In by Enemy   Flying Fortresses Smash Vital  Rerea an Sardinian

100 Flying Fortresses Raid Cagliari, Sardinia, To Forestall Attempt At Axis ‘Dunkerque’  OTHER PLANES POUND RETREATING ROMMEL   Allied Advances Continue To Narrow  Ground Held by Axis

Cagliari Left In Flames by Yank Bombers   Mighty Allied Aerial Fleet Battles To Prevent Fresh Troops Reaching Tunisia, to Block Rommel Escape

SARDINIA BOMBED   BY AERIAL ARMADA.   Nearly 100 Flyi Flying Fort vesses Take Part in Oneratian ws

MAXIMUM PRICES ON FOODS EXTEND J0 LOCAL STORES   1,500 Items Included in Latest List Issued by the OPA

LATE MAILING WILL MAKE MANY MEN GO GIFTLESS   Only Few Days Remain For Overseas Christmas Packages

Destroyer Escort Ship Named For Navy Flier Killed In Midway Battle

Deadlock Fearec On Tax Measure   Opposition Party “Leaders Adamant

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Legislation May Be Deadlocked  Republican Leader Is For No Compromise, Democrats Stand Pat

Compromise on Taxes Refused By GOP Chief   Elmer Davis Attacked by Proponents of Ruml Plan Measure

RESCUE 7 ON ‘LOST YACHT   Picked Up Near Lakeside After Drifting For Eight Hours

MONTREAL STRIKE ENDS   Police, Firemen, Public Werks Employes Get Contract

L COPS NI FIREMEN END  TAHOUR STRIKE   4,500 Public Employes Go Back to Work; Bargaining Agent Recognized.

Seek fo lrap German Army Near Rostov  Cossacks Push   Cossacks Push Nazis Back In Furious Fighting

DRIVE ENEMY INTO KUBAN RIVER REGION   Colorful Horsemen Make Glorious Homecoming   GAIN 80 MILES   In Nine Days Since Fall Of Mozdok: Georgievsk Rail Center Taken

Make Gains in ‘Kuban River Area   Cossacks Slash Way ‘Triumphantly Back Into Their Homeland—Cavalry Drives 15 Miles Into Enemy Positions After Capture of Six Key Towns

TOCAT., GCRSETRVATIOWNS   RUSSIANS ROLL NAZIS BACK TO KUBAN REGION   Cossacks Slash Their Way Triumphantly Back Into Homeland.   Narrow Semi-Circle Around the Invaders

Cossacks Lead DriveBack — Into Homeland   Six More Key Towns Captured by Soviets on Caucasus Front

More Towns Recaptured In Caueasus   Famed Cavalry Units Lead In Penetration Of Kuban Region

REDS SMASH ALL NAZI RESISTANCE IN FURIOUS DRIVE   Soviet Troops Tightening Ring Around Rostov; Naples Again Bombed by Aliied Airmen.

SOVIETS FREE PROVINCES IN CAUCASUS   Russian Cavairy Makes One Of Most Dramatic Home‘ comings OF War

REGION PIERCED: ARTER CAPTURE TWO PROVINCES   Red Army's Cavalry Drives 15 Miles Into Enemy's Positions In Fierce Night Fighting   RECAPTURE OF AREA DRAMATIC EVENT   Enemy Losses Heavy In Its Effort to Stem Soviet Drive In Lower Don Sectors

COSSACKS ROLL GERMANS FROM THEIR HOMELAND   It's a Dramatic Homecoming For Black-Caped, High Hatted Horsemen Of Caucasus

Red Cavalry Leads Drive on Kuban Region   Horsemen Slash ‘Their Way Back To Former Homes

REPORT GAINS INTHE KUBAN RIVER REGION   Cossacks "> ‘Triumphantly _ Lead Way Back . Into Their Homeland, Driving Forward 15 Miles in Nicht Fichting.

SLASH WAY. BACK INTO HOMELAND      Germans. Rolled Back. in Kuban River Region, More Key Towns Taken   COUNTER ACTION ON. LOWER DON   But Reds Say They Are Being Broken and Berlin.Ackuowledges,. Red Drive

COSSACKS PUSH GERMANS BACK IN KUBAN AREA   Two Provinces Freed From Nazi In Continuing Winter Offensive   ROSTOV PINCH GROWS   Shattering Advance Brings Nearer Recapture Of Maikoo Oilfields

Soviet Cavalry Drives Fifteen Miles Into Foe’s Lines   Narrow Trap

Triumphant Reds Return To Homeland   Crushing Russian Offensive Continues To Gain Momentum As Germans Fall Back

COSSACKS LEAD OFFENSIVE TO TAKE 6 TOWNS   Germans Rolled Back As Cavalry Men Drive Into Homeland

Germans Driven Back Into  Kuban River Region Of Western Caucasus By Reds

Soviet Forces Are 60 Miles  rom Rostov   Kuban Area Penetrated by Reds—Germans Put up Frenzied Counter Attacks

Nazi Arm Rolled Back In Western  Caucasus Cossacks Slagh   Cossacks Slagh Way Back Into Kuban Region OF Their Homeland

Germans Rolled Back By Sweep   Kuben Region Penetroted by Daring Band Of Horsemen Intent on Recapturing Home Region; Recent Advance Totals 15 Miles

Horsemen Slash Way Tris umphantly Back Into Kuban Homeland.   TAKE NAZ! STRONGHOLOS

Red Army Drives ho*,}> sack Into Kuban River Region, ‘ Western Caucasiw Between the Mountains and Don River

Cossacks Lead Red Thrust In Kuban Region   Fierce Russian Cavalry Warriors Smash Back Into Homeland; & Towns Fall!   15 MILE ADVANCE   Mountain Troops Also Get Credit For Gains’ In Southern Fighting

REGION PENETRATED AFTER TWO CAUCASUS PROVINCES HAD BEEN FREED OF GERMANS   Red Cavalry Drive 15 Miles Into German’ Positions In Fierce Night Fighting. Six More Towns In Caucasus Retaken By Russians.

Cossacks Are Leading Drive  In Caueasus   Slash Their Way Back Into Homeland From Which They Retreated  Last Summer

CONVICT SLAIN IN WISCONSIN PRISON BREAK   2 Others Wounded as Attempted Escape Proves Failure

Break At Wauputigigd State Prison Frustrated Rarly Friday Morning

 Elaborate Thank Offering Program At Lutheran Church Sunday   Missionary Circle

EDWARD FLYNN APPOINTMENT IS DEFENDED   Foreign Relations Committee OK’s Nominee

EDWARD FLYNN IS DEFENDED   Nominee Has Very Narrow Squeak In Committee Vote.

AXIS CAPITALS BLASTED BY AMERICAN, BRITISH PLANES; SICILY EVACUATION MOUNTS   Yankees Advance Eight Miles Along Coast In Seizing Cape Orlande As Germans Quicken Efforts To Withdraw Beaten Forces

YANKS PLUNGE AHEAD MORE MILES IN ARFA   Gain Eight Additional Miles on North Coast of Sicily, Capturing D‘Orlando and Two Towns Beyond it Fierce Rear Guard Action Covers “Quickening” German Evacuation of the Island.

American Troops Seize Cape. D’Orlando—Nazis Evacuating By  Thousands .  CAMPAIGN IS NOW

Yanks Capture 2 More Towns Cain 7 Miles   Naso And Brolo Fall As Drive-In Sicily Moves Forward

YANKS ADVANCE “IN SICILY, AXIS REMOVES TROOPS   Evacuation from Messina - Continues Amid Aeriat ~ Atlacks By  Determined

D’Orlando Overrun By Yanks as Flight Of Axis Continues   Enemy Tacitly Admits Sicily Lost Amid Quickening of German Rout Planes Blast Fvacuation Veccels

PLUNGE ON IN NORTH SICILY   Allied Bag of Prisoners Reaches 130,000 As Axis Admits Battle Lost.

KAZIS SPEEDING EVACUATION OF SIPILY, REPORI   Cope d’Orlando Falls To 7th Army; Axis Hold Slipping   130,000 PRISONERS IN ALLIED CAMPS NOW

YANKEES CAPTURE CITIES TO HASTEN AXIS EVACUATION   Allied Bag of Prisoners Now Totals 130,000, Italian Naples Division Commander Included.   PMERICANS ADVANCE EIGHT MILES IN SICIL)   Adverse Weather Slows Up Advance on New Georgia Island, One Small Jap 's Sunk.

FINAL STAGES BEING REACHED BYU, S. IN SICIL   Allies Now E Have 130,000 Prisoners; Warships Bomb Coast

Allies Hold 130,000  Prisoners   U.S. Troops Gain Eight Miles on Northern Coast

HOOVER URGES STATEMENT ON PEACE TERMS   Former President Say: Provisional Peace May Shorten War

Peace Plan Reiterated By Hoover   Avoid Mistakes Of Versailles, Ex-President Urge:

Diplomatic Monkey Wrench Tossed into Postwar Program   Russia’s Break With Poland Poses Question On Who May Speak for Nazi-Held Nation

Rift in RussianPolish relations blow to confab   Aemricans and British in London confer upon break

Russ-Polish Break Perils Postwar Aim   Soviets Believed Likely to Recognize Independent Setup

Reds Throw Diplomatic Monkeywrench Into Machine for Postwar Planning

RED-POLISH RIFT BLOW T0 ALLIED PLANS      Question Is, Wha Would Speak for Poland in Contemplated Parleys on United Nations’ PostWar Problems?

Soviet Break With Poles Shakes Plans   Postwar Program Jolted; Spokesman for Prostrate Country Now Unknown

Russia May Sponsor New  Polish Group  Peace Question Is   Peace Question Is Complicated By Soviet Action

Who Speaks for Poland. Query   Some Fear Russia May. Recognize Polish Graup in Moscow

EMD OF RELATIONS HINTS OF TROUBLE   Task of. Including Nations in Conferences Grave; Moscow Legation Favored

Russian Severance Of Tie With Polish Government Snarls Postwar Planning 

Post-War Planning Is Now in Muddle  Soviet-Polish Break Brings Problem; Who Snoenke Far Peland?

WARNING. OF ee THRUST ~ 1S RENEWEL   SAPANESE STRONGHOLDS — IN “ISLANDS NEAR AUSTRALIA WAVE BEEN REAVILY  REINFORUED 

Aussies Advance Through New Guinea Juneles  On Southern Outposts Of

Allied Ground Forces Move Against Madanc   Southern Outposts Of Jap Base Are Engaged by Troops

CALL FOR MORE TAXES SEEN AS A MAJOR ISSUE   BITTER FIGHT LOOMS OVER NEW PROPOSALS TO PAY FOR VICTORY

Taxes Occupy ‘New Congress   BIG PROBLEM IS FACING LAWMAKERS AFTER RECESS

Four Officials Support Nationwide Uniform Freight Rate Structure

Fifth Army Troops TakePontelandolf In Flanking Move   Montgomery’‘s Eighth. Army. Also Advances Two to Three Miles Despite Heavy aang? German Resistance Stiffening :

PLAN TO GET BEHIND NAZI RIVER LINE   Push Through Mud te Take Town 12 Miles Be~ yond Benevento — No Progress Reported Before Swollen Volturno,

TAKE CITY NORTHWEST OF »BENEVENTO   44-Mile Front Established Along Volturno River; Bombers Blast Enemy Fields In Greece

ITALIAN MUD MAKES: MCTOR TRANSPORT ALMOST USELESS   Yanks Are Meeting Stiffening German Resistance   EIGHTH ARMY FINDS THE GOING TOUGH

Weather Slows Allied Advances Aloné Volturno   Say German Resistance Stiffens Against Yank Army Flanking Attack

Fifth Army Captures Pontelandolf After Plodding Forward Thru Mu Against Stiffening Nazi Resistance   British Eighth Army Encounters Heavy Going In Drive Along Adriatic Coast; Airmen Pound Enemy Communications

GEN, CLARK'S FORCES CAPTURE NEW TOWN FLANKING MOVEMENT  CEN MONTCOMERY’S   GEN. MONTGOMERY’S EIGHTH ARMY REPORTED GAINS ON ADRIATIC

Allies Plod Forward In  Italian Mud   German Resistance Stif fens Against Flanking Move Near Benevento

GERMAN RESISTANCE AND ITALIAN MUD ARE SLOWING ALLIES   Clark’s 5th Army Moves Ahead on Foot; River Battle Is Caming   RALKANS ARE .ROMBED

Allies Beat Down Stiff Nazi Resistance; Troops Boq Down In Italian Mud   Weather Slows Allied Flanking Move Along Voltuno; Yanks Capture Pontefandolfo

AlliesMoveUp Through Mud   Bring Up Forces, Guns For Difficult Job Of ‘Crossing Volturno in Strength; Allied Airmen Busy Over Eastern Mediterranean

Americans Plod Through Mud to  Flank Germans   Motor Transports Useless Against Stiff Resistance in Italy,   British Eighth Army  Advances on Adriatic

—ITALY—  M-MILE FRONT ALONG VOLTURNO   Crossing Of River Is Made Difficult By Flood Waters   TOWN CAPTURED   Pontelandolfo Is CapturedIn Flanking Move By Fifth Army

GEN. GLARK’S FORCES  CAPTURE NEW TOWN  FLANKING MOVEMENT GEN. MONTGOMERY'S  EIGHTH ARMY REPORTED CAINS ON ADRIATIC

Mud Helps Slow Allied Drive Against German Line In Italy   Fifth Army Captures Pontelandolfo, Near Benevento; Volturno River Proves Tough Barrier For Clark

PONTELANDOLFO IS CAPTURED BY GEN. CLARK’S STH ARMY   Attack in a Further Flanking Move Against Volturno River Line.   IS NEAR BENEVENTO   Plodded Through Italian Mud Against Stiffenine Ger man Resistance.

Heavy Going. for ‘Americans at Volturno   No Fresh' Gains Reporied-as ‘Troops-Battle High Water and: Mud:    FLANKING: MOVE:  “IS NOT RELAXED   Bit Both:the American and ~: British. Positions Are: Most Difficult:

Fifth Army Flanks Nazis On Volturno   Pontelandolfo Taken In Muddy Advance Up Backbone Of Italy.

Clark Hammers River Wedge   U. S. CAPTURES PONTELANDOLFO IN FURTHER FLANKING MOVE AS MUD SLOWS ITALY DRIVE; MONTGOMERY CLAWS AHEAD ON ADRIATIC COAST

Nazi Volturno Line Flanked By Clark’s 5th   Yanks Strike 12 Miles Northwest Of Base At’ Benevento: 8th Cutting Westward

Mud Slows Drive On The Volturno   Fifth Army Takes Additional Ground in Flanking O Movement    MOVING UP THE: GUNS   Allied Air Forces Continue Attack on: Enemy ~. Communications

RESISTANCE OF ENEMY IS STIFFENING   Allies Plod Forward On Foot Through Italian Mud Which Makes All Motor Transport Useless  BRITISH SCORE GAINS

Fifth Army Moves Ahead Despite Mud   Forced to Travel on Foot; Germans Offer Greater Resistance

Plod Through Italian Mud   — Army Also vances Slowly  in Heavy Going

5th Overcomes Mud And Stiff Nazi Defense   British 8th Army Encounters Slow Going on Adriatic Side of Peninsula

Gen. Clark’s Force Slowed by Weather   \Opportunity for Allied Invasion of Yugoslavia Brightens; Russians — Gain Ground

DRIVE THROUGH NAZI MOUNTAIN DEFENSE UNITS   General Clark's Porces  Capture Panrelandolfo  In Bitter Battle  For Rome   BRITISH KEEPING FOE UNDER PRESSURE   Montgomery’s Army. Too, Encounters Heavy Going in Thrust Westward From Adriatic

Major Battle on Volturno Looms Large   Clark Consolidating Positions With Army Makina No New Gains

Fifth Army Thrusts at Enemy Flank   Pontelandolfo Falls; British Drive Onward On Adriatic Coast

Enemy's Growing Resistance, Mud Slow Fifth Army   British Forces Edging Way Up Adriatie Coast

ALLIED FORCES MOVING TOWARD gy stop bis  ensive   Aerial Offensive Knocking Enemy From Skies

Units Edge Forward On Foot, Take City Despite Hazards   British Inch Ahead on Adriatie Front. Americans at Standstill Along Volturno River

BigGunsRoar As Nazis Mass At River Line   ‘Allied Advance North of   Benevento Opens Way   for Flank Attack   ‘BRITISH PUSH WEST   Clark’s Men Drive Ahead on 44-Mile Front: Air Offensive in Aegean

Americans Take Italian City of Pontelandolfo   Fifth Army Advances Against Stiffening German Resistance

Enemy Resistance Stiffening In Battle For Rome as Clark's Forces Move Slowly In Italian Mud—— Capture Of Pontelfandolfo, 19 Miles Northwest of Benevento, Is An naincad

Resistance Of Germans Stiffenineg   Allied Force Plods Through Mud—Eighth Pushes Ahead

RIVER AND MUD ARE DELAYING CLARK'S MEN   British Eighth Having Difficulty on Adriatic Coast

Yanks Battle Mud fo Forge Ahead In Italy   Flanking Movement Made Against Nazis By American Army

YANKS, ENEMY PREPARE FOR BIG SKIRMISH   Sth Army Captures Pontelandolfo; Germans Stiffen For Fight

Continue Hunt “For Cab Driver Tn Death Probe   Hub: Official ‘Said Ready “To.. Call. Witness. Who ‘Miewed: -. Fatal + Attack

PARISH READY TO FIGHT   Armed Resistance To Governor's Order Planned In Louisiana

Power probe backfires   Special group may investigate   The jegislature meets Monday at 3 a. m.   A FGISLATURE—

Power probe backfires   Special group  may investigate   The legislature meets Monday at 9 a. m.

ANOTHER JAP PORT MENACED   Pressure on Madany Increased Nips’ Bases of Supply Smashed

FLOOD WATERS INUNDATE RURR, EDER VALLEYS   Allies Raid Port Of Rome, Only 15 Miles From Italian Capital

MORE STRINGENT CONTROL ASKED   Reynolds Wants Military Rule Over Jap Camps.

JAP ‘PAMPER’ CHARGE MADE BY SENATORS   Return of Relocation Camps to Army Ts Wanted

YOUTH SENTENCED TO DIE IN CHAIR   BNF A3AFERD GL NRE Seventeen-Year-Old Grins As Celina Judge Orders   ee ore

BOY GRINS BROADLY AT DEATH PENALTY   Convicted “of Murder o Employer’s Son

LIMIT OF ARMY SIZE PROPOSED   Kentucky Solon Prepares Measure To Halt Draft Of Young Fathers

Congress To Gel Bill To Prohibit Fathers’ Draft   House Military Committee Chairman Would Limit Size of Army

Jays He Will Introduce Measure Sept. 14, Day Congress Convenes; Would Limit the Size of Armed Forces— Probably at 10,000,000

BILL T0 PROHIBIT DRAFT OF FATHERS   MAY’S MEASURE WOULD LIMIT SIZE OF THE ARMED FORCES TO 10,000,0v0.

Ban On Drafting Of Dads Sought   Solon Claims Army  Has Reached Limit _By FRANCIS M. LeMAY  i ee  2 ee

MAY TO OFFER LAW TO LIMIT SIZE OF ARMY   Measure Would Also Prohibit the Draft of -. Fathers   FATHER GROUP TO BE RECLASSIFIED   Men to be Made Available for Induction, McNutt States

FATHER DRAFT BAN PROPOSED   May Says He Will Offer Bill Revising Army Inductions

‘WILL INTRODUCE BILL TO CHECK FATHERS’ DRAFT   Rep. May Says War Department Admits.Men Over 38 Not Army Material   WOULD LIMIT SIZE TO 10 MILLION MEN

SOLON WOULD BAN FATHER INDUCTION   Chairman May Proposes Law Introduction. Soon As  Conaress Meets

Ban On Drafting Of Dads Sought.   Solon Claims Army’ _Has Reached Limit  By FRANCTOC wr otemay

Legislation To Ban Draft Of Fathers  Is Proposed   Will Be Introduced  Day Congress Returns From Summer Recess. Rep. May (D-Ky) Says  wEANXT BOW WA VTCNO_avdDer   MAY ASK DISCHARGE OF ONES SERVING

May to Seek Ban On Father Draft   Speedy Congressional Action to Be Asked

TORNADO TAKES 12 LIVES IN GA.   Fort Benning Is Damaged To Extent Of $100,000.

RIVAL MINERS ATTACK LEWIS      Claim He’d Attempt  ‘To Wreck AFL

Citizenship Is.  Lost by Kuhn   Nine Other Former Members of German-American Bund Are Similarly Penalized

KUHN, TEN OTHERS LOSE. CITIZENSHIP   Bund Members Denounc: ed in Decision by Federal Judae

Kuhn Deprived Of Citizenship By Court Ruling   Ten Former Fellow Bundists Also Become ExAmericans

BUNDISTS LOSE U.S, CHIZENSHIF   Federal Judge Announces His Decision In New York

KUHN LOSES CITIZENSHIP   German Bund Leader, Ten Others Lose American Righis

U.S. Troops Drive Forward Near Randazzo   Americans Are Expected To Effect Junction With British Forces Near Mount Etna

Yanks in Shadow Of Mt. Etna   Battling Before ‘ Town of Randazzo

WILL TELL ELKS ABOUT AIR TRAINING COURSE   Lester J. Sipe, Chief Pilot In Charge Of Hanover Airport, Will Adf dress Birthday Club

Halifax Credits Churchill with Tunisia Victory   ays Prime Minister Start ed Working on Plans in 1940

Two to Five Nazi Undersea Prowlers Destroyed By Escort Vessels In Five-Day Battle to Save Convoys; Pocket Size Escort Carrier’s Planes and Big Bombers Detect Submarines

Allies Beat Off U-Boat Attacks   {Gerlin admits U-boat campaign fallure, Sec Page 2-B),

Convoys Win Long Battle With U-Boats   Two to Five Enemy Subs Are Reported Destroyed in Engagement   NEW TECHNIQUE USED

FORCES TEAM UP, BEAT OFF U-BOATS   Five Undersea Craft Probably Destroyed, Others Damaged In Sea Battle.

N. Y. State On A Corn Hunt  ..WFA Inability to Solve Feed Crisis Is Ranvned

1,000 OF FOE LEFT DEAD IN JUNGLE FIGHTS   Nipponese Admit Loss of T Warships in Last Half Year in Solomons

Jap Troops Continue Flight From Wau; 225 More Nips Join Ancestors

Japanese Rou! Continues In Wau Battie   1,000 Of 3,000 Enamy Are Killed; Others Flee To Mubo Through Jungle   TRANSPORT [5S HIT   Flying Fortress Fires Rapopo Airdrome; Ubili Zone s Attacked

JAPS CONTINUING RETREAT BEFORE WARTHUR AY WAL   1,000 Out of 3,000 Nips Wht Tried to Take Airfield are Dead In Jungle.

JAP: TROOPS STILL FLEEING FROM WAU AREA, NEW GUINEA   1,000 OF 3,000 Who Tried To Capture Base Died In Jungle——Many  ee Re pep teers

KNIVES ARE AWAITING JAPS, -__ GALIFORNIA OFFICIAL: SAYS   CALIFORNIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY DECLARES KOREANS AND FILIPINOS ARE PLAN. “JING MASBACRE

JAP MASSACRE FEARED IN WEST   Koreans, Filipinos Buy Knives To Use If Nips Are Freed

COMMANDER OF U. S. INVASION ISLAND CLAIMS SURPRISE  ADMIRAL IN CHARGE AMPHIBIOUS ACTION SAYS TAPS OFF CIJARD

Even German Propagandists Admit Terrible Damage To Industrial Area

RUSSIA EXPECTS — TURKISH SUPPORT   DECLARES DIRECT AID WOULD BE FACTOR IN REDUCING WAR’S DURATION,

Marigny Says He Will Not Leave Nassau  Defies Departing Move by Jury; To Sail, Fish

De Marigny Defies Deportation Vote  Declares He Plans Ta Stay in Naseay

FOES CLAIM RUML PLAN IS LOSING   Battle Continues As Special Session Is  Held In House

GAINS SUPPORT FOR TAX BILL   Administration Says Debate Costs GOP Votes For Rumi Plan.

Crest of River (Moves Southward   Guardsmen Struggle To Erect Levee

 Crest of Missouri Flood Is Moving ‘Toward Hamburg; Remove Families

Fort Lupton Sailor Helped Blow Up Life Raft with Own Lung Power as ‘Navy Land Plane Crashed in Ocean

Hitler Relinquishes Active Military Command; Directs Submarine Offense

Hitler Takes Sub  War Command —   Fivahrat Goes Off Water-Wagon To Cure Russian Headache

CLAIM HITLER HAS GIVEN UP ARMY COMMAND      Now Directs All-Out Submarine Campaign. Is Repert Consensus

HITLER OUT AS NAZI ARMY COMMANDER   New: Ie: Personally jirecting German  / Submarine “Campaign

HITLER TAKES ON U-BOAT COMMAND IN ALL-OUT DRIVE   Reliable Reports Indicate Generals are Supreme oan Land.

Hitler Quits Red Front, Personally Heads  U-Boat War, Consensus of Reports Indicates

HITLER QUITS ARMY COMMAND   Fuehrer Heads . U-Boat Campaign Against — The Allies

Glum Hitler Tries Hand At Sub War   Russian Reverses Drive Tectotaler Fuehrer to Drink

HITLER DIRECTS SUB CAMPAIGN   Reports fram Reliable Sources Say He has Relinquished Active Military Command in Russia.

Hitler Takes Over Direction Of Sub Drive   ALL-OUT CAMPAIGN OF NAZIS HEADED BY SCHICHKELGRUBER.

IELIEVE HITLER DIRECTS NAZIS’ BIG SUB DRIVE   tid To Have Given Up Active Command In - Russia For Supervision Of 500 UBoat Campaign

HITLER BELIEVED TO  HAVE 500 U-BOATS   HITLER IN PERSONAL COMMAND OF NAZIS SUB DRIVE, REPORT   Lets German Generals Run Campaign In Russia

Hitler Is Directing His — U-boat Campaign After Failure Against Russia

TEMPERATURES:   Italian Ships Sunk At Naples; Docks Blastec   Explosions Continue As Fifth, Eighth Armies Sweep Forward

U.S. FIFTH AND BRITISH EIGHTH MAKENEW GAINS   Three More Towns Fall to Combined Forces Advancing On Naples, Shrouded by Smoke   ALLIES IN SIGHT OF  BOCHE DESTRUCTION   Meanwhile, French Troops and LI. S, Rangers Shove GermansFarther Back On Carsica

ORO BAY ATTACKED BY ENEMY BOMBERS   Second Successive Assault Made on Allied  Base

Six Jap Planes Attack Allied Oro Bay Base   Slight Damage Is Done In Raid By Nipponese

JAP BOMBERS HIT ORO BAY   Six Planes Follow Up Sunday’s Mass Raid; Slight Damage Reported

SIX JAP BOMBERS IN RAID ON ALLIED BASE   Slight Damage And No Casualtie Reported Following Attack On Ainnday

Jap Bombers Raid Allied Base  Allied Warplane:   Allied Warplanes Also Active in South Pacific

JAPANESE BOMBERS ATTACK ALLIED BASE   Assault Made on Oro Bay on East Papuan Coast—Allied Airmen Pound Targets.

Two U. §. Subs Listed Missing   Amberjack, Grampus ‘Presumed Lost’

De Gaulle Is Permanent President   Newly Formed Group For National Defense Will Unify French

French Forces Again Unified  Giraud, De Gaulle Settle Differences

MADE PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE   Spurred By Imminent Collapse Of Italy, French Committee Unifies All Fighting Forces; Long Dis pute Is Ended.

FRENCH ARMY Now UNIFIED;-GIRAUD:NAMED COMMANDER   General Charles DeGaulle Is Appointed Permanent President of Newly Formed Committee of National De , ee

) UNIFIED UNDER GENERAL GIRAUL   De Gaulle Appointed Perm. anent President of Newlyformed Committee of Na: tional Defense; Spurred By Imminent Italian Col. lapse.

Giraud: Heads French Army In Unity Move   De Gaulle Named Leader of Civilian Activities

French Unity Is Now Assured   Giraud To Head Armed Forces, DeGaulle Defense Groun.

Giraud To Lead  All Forces Of  New France DeGaulle Is Made  Permanent President Of Committee

French Crisis Broken   Present United Front For Future Action  After Compromising On Military Fusion_

French Armed Forces Unified  Under Giraud   DeGaulle Named Perma nent President Of De  fense Council.

UNIFICATION OF FRENCH FORCES   Gen. Henri Giraud Has Been  Made Commander-InChief of the Army.

Giraud Is Head Man for Army   All French Forces Are Uni- ted Under Him as the Commander-in-Chief   DEGAULLE HEADS NEW COMMITTEE   New Move Regarded As Solution to Eight-MonthOld Dispute

Giraud-De Gaulle Dispute Is Ended   Former to Be Commander-in-Chief: of Al French Armed Forces; and Latter Will Head National Defense Committee.

DeGaulle and Giraud Split Responsibility   Giraud Will Head Army, DeGaulle President of Committee

French Armed Forces Unified   Giraud Commander; De Gaulle Committee Head

FRENCH LEADERSHIP DISPUTE (S BROKER   ‘Giraud New Commander 0 Armed Forces, DeGaulle : President of Group

French Armed Forces United Under Giraud   De Gaulle Appointed Permanent President of Newly Formed Committee of Nae tional Defense

French End $-Month Row   Giraud Heads Military; De Gaulle Civil Chief

French Bedy Names Giraud ‘Army Chief   De Gaulle Lb Appointed  Commnittas

UNIFICATION PLAN FOR FRENCH MADE   Giraud and Gaulle Will Act Halian Collapse Spurs National Committee.

French Body Names Giraud ‘Army Chief   De Gaulle Is Appointed President of Committee

Giraud Commands  Forces Of French  De Gaulle President Of Defense Committee

French Control Spheres Definec  Giraud To Command Army, De Gaulle Heads Defense

GEN. GIRAUD WILL LEAD FRENCH ARMED FORCES FOR WAR  GEN. DEGAULLE NAMED PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE

Giraud To Head French Forces   Agree on Unification of Armed Units

New Pipe Line to East Can Deliver’ Eight Grades of Petroleum Products

CHICAGO GRAIN TABLE  Onen Hioh Low Closa Prav   INEW PIPELINE TQ EASI WILL CARRY SE nia KINDS OF FUEL: -

Oil, Gasoline, Kerosene, Etc., in ae Same Pipeline Without Being Mixed

NATION 15 FACING SHORTAGE OF COAL   Dwindling Coal Supplies Regarded As Serious

U. S. Fuel Supply Low, OWI Reports   Coal Shortage to Become More Acute, Warning

Dangerously Low  Coal Stock Seen   OWT Reports Consumers Facing Acute Shortage

RY. ESUMES “ER PERIOD f SUNSHINE   “Temp” Soars to 81 Sunday; Precipitation in 48 Hours 1.23 In.

Hupeh Victory Shows Chiang Isn't Licked— =——ae  Amorican Air Power Gives China A Lift

RAF Sky Fleets Smash At Nazi Steel Cities   Great Fires Left Raging In German Ruhr Valley Industries  Ry LYNN HEINZERLING

BRITISH POUND AT RUHR VALLE}   Neutralizing of Great Industrial. Valley Near Completion.   30 AIRCRAFT MISSING

REPORT MANY PLANTS CLOSED DOWN IN VALLEY   RAF Has Lost Over 500 Planes in Past Three Months in Industrial Area

PRICE—THREE CENTS   30,000 Tons Of Bombs Have Fallen  On Ruhr   Neutralizing Of Great Industrial Area Nears Completion, Report After Latest Smash  3

Evacuations Bleed Ruhr  of Civilians   Between Four and Five Million People Have Fled Bomb- Blasted Industrial Center

Attack Bochum, Gelsen. kirchen In Industrial Ruhr Area   30,000 TONS OF BOMBS \ FALL IN 3 MONTHS   Neutralization of Ruhr Has Cost Great Britain

AXIS CRINGES UNDER BOMBS   RAF Hammers Industries  In Ruhr: Yanks Bat' ter Sicily

Battered Ruhr  Takes New Beatinc   Neutralization of Nazi Industrial Region Nearing Completion Declare War Observers

Steel Plants  And Mining Targets Hit  Observer Calls Neutral izing of Industrial Area Near Completion  30 BOMBERS LOST  Attack Closely Follows  Heavy Assault by U. S. Fliers

ALLIES NEAR THEIR GOAL OF ‘DESTRUCTION   Have Been Dropped on War Plants in 314. Months — Two More, Steel Cities Hit.

HEAVY FORCE OF RAF  BOMBERS SPREAD NEW  RUAR DESTRUCTION MILITARY OBSERVER DE CLARES NEUTRALIZING OF INNIICTRIAT AREA NEAR

Two Ruhr’ Cities Are 'Hammered   Neutralizing Of Grea Industria! Valley I: Nearing Completion, Contend British

NEW DESTRUCTION SPREAD BY HEAVY BRITISH FORCE   Targets In Bochum And Gelsenkirchen Blasted By RAF With Loss Of Thirty Big Aircraft—Assault Follows Attack By American Planes, Seventeen Of Which Fail To Return—Observer Says Neutralizing Of Ruhr Industrial Area Nears Completion

Vital German War Industry “Area In Ruins   London Reports Extent Of Ruhr  Raunctatian

RAF Hits Gelsenkirchen, Bochum After Yank’s Bomb North Germany In Daylight Assault

ALLIES LOSE 900 BOMBERS IN 3 MONTHS   New Destruction Spread As Heavy Raids By British Follow Assaults Made By American Airmen

Ruhr Valley’ S ‘Neutralization BT “As Result: Of Heavy Attacks: By Allies: Reported. Near

Heavy RAF Force Hits Ruhr Again   Neutralizing of Great Industrial Area Near  Says One Observer

industrial Heart of Germany Nearly Neutralized,’ Flames Envelope Coal, Steel Plants

RAF RAIDS STEEL CITY OF BOCHUM   30 Giant Planes Are Lost In 11th Foray In Two Weeks

BOMBERS SPREAD DEVASTATION IN THE NAZI RUHR   NEUTRALIZING OF INDUSTRIAL VALLEY NEARS COMPLETION

Ruhr Bomb Campaign  - Is Nearing  _ Completion   New Heavy Blows Spread Fresh Destruction in Big German Industrial Area   SWRITISH FORCE LOSES 30 PLANES   Americans Tell of Battle in qi vevious Raid; Many War Plants Wrecked

Fortresses Hit Submarine Base at Emden   Raid Follows Attack on Ruhr Valley by B.A. F. Bombers

Germany Caught In Aerial Pincers   1000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi Navy Center; RAF Htis Ruhr

Asks National Socia Security Officials to Come fo Missouri   Junge Seeks Reason Why Government Makes Demands

‘War Prisoners In U.S. Now Total 170,000      120,000 Are German, 50,000 Italian, Report By War Department Says

170,000 Axis Prisoners of War Now in U. S.; 120,000 Are Germans, 50,000 Italians and 62 Japanese

WAR PRISONERS IN U.S. NOW NUMBER 170,000, REVEALED   Fewer Than Hundred Jap Captives Included In Total

News Fragments  Indicate Extent Of Bomb Damage  Done in Berlin. .

Yes, WeHave No Potatoes; Price Is Cut   OPA ADMINISTRATOR BROWN ORNERS 7 PER CENT. CUT IN RETAIL PRICE; WHOLESALER TAKES THE RAP.   “To Boost Production”

Potato Price ls Reduced   Price To Growers Is Increased By Order

CUT IN POTATO PRICE ORDERED   Farmers Are Reported Holding Back On 1943 Crop

OPA Orders Slash In Retail Price Of Potatoes, Approves 20-Cent Hike For-Producers

Payments to Farmers Increased cece eet LD  OPA Orders 7 Per Cent Slash In Retail Price of Potatoes

POTATO PRICE -CUT ORDERED   Wholesalers Markups are Reduced One Half; Farm ers Get Increase

Davis Says Meat Shortage Minor  Declares Our Belts Not Much Tightenec

Meat Supply Seen Nearing Demand Level   Davis Belittles Food Ration ‘Troubles’

BADOGLIO GIVES RADIO PEP TALK   Italian Premier Implies Return Of Sicily To Motherland

Badoglio and Former Leader Console Italians  Orlando, Pre-Fascis' Statesman, Gives Address aon Radin

SERVICE MEN MAY LOSE VOTE IN 1944   Aug. 14 Last Day To File For Military Ballots ‘ For Primary

High Altit Altitude, Long Range Corsair s, Now Qarve in Solomons

DUTCH GUERILLAS STILL FIGHT JAPS   New Year Certain To Bring Attempts By Allies To Regain Bases Lost To Enemy

NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPS IN’44 CERTAI   Allies Will Attempt‘te Regain Bases. Nipponese Grabbed Two Years Ago

KING DISCLOSES BLOWS T0 COME   Admiral Reveals Supreme Strategy To Defeat Japan Will Get Under Way Shortly.

New Offensive To Rout Japs   PLANS MADE TO WAGE BITTER WAR IN PACIFIC

New Year Is Certain to Bring Allied Attempts to Regain Bases from Japs

“44 Certain To Bring Allied Attempts To Regain Bases Japs Seized 2. Years:Ago

20 Villages  On 3 Fronts  Are Captured Red Army Moves  Within 65 Miles of Vital City aft Dactnay

TWO BIG OHIO ‘MINES IDLE IN NEW DISPUTE   1,200 Men Oui, Refusing To Pay Fines for TwoDay Layoff   RAIL AND RIVER, WILLOW GROVE HIT   No Formal Contract Existed At Time, Stand of Unionists

CABLE WINS HIS GUNNERY WINGS   Former Screen Star Now Lieutenant, Craves Foreign Action

CLARK GABLE WINS SILVER WINGS OF AIR FORCE GUNNER   Hollywood Star Completes Tough Course at Florida Field——-Actor Hopes He Will be Assigned to Combat Service

Held for John Bernard Me Carthy, 32, Who Died After Long Illness

Home of Diesel Engines Evidently Marked for Hamburg Treatment — Fortresses Raid France, Ruhr Cities Blasted

HUGE FORMATIONS ~ OF BRITISH PLANES SWARM (VER CIT   Bombers, Germany - Bound, Pass Over British Coast For More Than 2 Hours

Wide Operations During Night—Mosquito Planes Attack Rhur—Intruders Sweep Over France—33 British Planes Lost— Raid Reply to Ley Statement

Nuernberg Again Target Of Bombers   Vital German War Industrial City Hit; Other Points Raided

Light British Planes Attack Ruhr; Axis Targets in France   Coastal Observers Claim Formations Largest Unit Ever To Be Sent Over Germany

Giant Bomber Fleet Pounds At Nuernbere   “Greatest Force’ Of Planes Goes Out In Dusk-To-Dawn Assault On Hitler’s Europe

Great Nazi Industrial City Is Latest Target In Allied Obliteration Cam paion.

BIG AIR FLEET HITS GERMANY   Greatest Force Ever Sent Over Germany Smashes At Nuernberg.   MOSQUITOS BOMB RUHR

Believed Biggest Force Sent Out   Wide Operations During Night—Mosquito Planes Attack Rhur—Intruders Sweep Over France—33 British Planes Lost — Raid Reply to Ley Statement

Night Bombers Sweep Europe In Great Raid   Huge Armadas Of Planes Hurl Bombs aot Enemy

Nazi Center  Bashed By Monster Raid   Obliterating Assault Made By Greatest Force Of British Bombers Ever Used On Single Target, Took Two Hours To Pass Coast

Bombers Pass over Channel For More Than Two Hours; German Radios off the Air

Nazi Industrial City Hamburged   HUGE FORMATIONS OF BRITISH PLANES THROW TONS OF EXPLOSIVES AT SOUTH GERMANY METROPOLIS IN “SATURATION” AIR ATTACK

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF NUERNBERG SMASHED BY TONS OF BOMBS  ATUECD- DOINTC OF HIT.   OTHER POINTS OF HITLER’S EUROPE VISITED RY ALLIED RAIDERS

Hundreds of Tons Of Bombs Rained On Industrial. City   Immense Formations of British © Bombers Termed Greatest Force: Ever Sent Against Reich Cities

HEAVY BLOW DEALT CITY OF NUERNBERG   Hundreds of Tons of Bombs Rained on That Center of Nazidom— Ruhr, France and Low Countries Attacked.

Huge RAF Bomber Fleet Blasts War Plant City: “Forts” Hit Air Bases

Huge Number Of RAF Bombers hit Nuernberg  - (YL Tance OOF   Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Hit German Industrial Center

WAR FACTORIES IN. NAZI HEART ARE LAID WASTE   Greatest Force Ever Sent Over Germany Virtually Obliterates All Targets   NUERNBERG IS IN RUINS   British and Americans Take Part in Assaults That Go On All Night   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

NAZIDOM CENTER SMASHED BY RAF IN RECORD RAID   BOMBERS RIP HEART OUT OF BIG GERMAN INDUSTRIAL REGION

German Beast of City’s Security Shattered in Biggest Raid on Nazis

Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Hurled Ou Nazidom’s Citadel; 33 Bombers Lost By RAF   Great Diesel Plants, Metor And Electrical Works Were Targets; Other Raids Made In Ruhr France And Axis Bases ln Low Countries

RAF Delivers Hardest Blow At Nazi City.   Watchers Describe ‘Raiding Force as Greatest of War.

000 PLANES HIT NUERNBERG   Hundreds Of Tons Of Ex: plosives Bash Nazi Arms Center

City Bashed by Greatest Plane Force Ever Sent Over Germany   Yanks Attack Nazi Fields in France; Canadians  Over Holland

Immense British Air Formations — BashNuernberg   Observers ‘Say Force Hitting So Called ‘Well Protected’ City Is Greatest Ever Sent Over Reich

GREATEST RAID QF WAR LEAVES PLANTS GUTTED   Nuernberg Shattered,  Huge Fires Started in  RAF Assault on German War Industries   NAZIS CLAIM YANKS IN “TERROR ATTACK’   Observers Believe Reich City Put On List for “Hamburg Treatment” By British Airmen

Largest Armada Ever Sent Over Germany   Indications Attack Mapped to Obliterate ‘Target; RAF Reported Renewing Drive Over France Saturday

Observers Claim Raiding Force to Be the Largest Ever Sent Over Germany

Site Of Great Diesel Plants, Motor, Electrical Works, Given Hamburg Treatment; Also Strategic Railwav Junction. :   Follows Heavy Fortress Raid   Rv WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

GERMAN FIELDS IN FRANCE HARD HIT IN ASSAULT   Thirty-Three RAF Bombers Reported Lost During Night

Hundreds Of Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Industrial City In Southern Germany By Raiders Described By Coastal Observers As Greatest Force Ever Sent Over Enemy Territory—Ruhr And Axis Air Fields In France And Low Countries Hit

BLAIRSVILLE SOLDIER DEAD   Corp. Joseph Corso Drowned in Landing Barge Crash

FEAR 14 DIED AS BARGE SANK   Army Authorities Say Five Rescued in Accident in Florida Maneuvers

es rTrvrrv  Erie, Kane Men Among 14 Dead In Army Mishap   Men on Landing Barge Lose Lives off Florida, Five Others Are Saved

14 DROWN OFF FLORIDA COAST   Army Barge Grounded In Night Maneuvers; 5 Rescued

14 SOLDIERS MAY HAVE BEEN DROWNED IN GULF MANEUVERS   Two Officers and Three Men Rescued .When Landing Barge Runs Aground of Reef Near Carrabelle

MINERS HEAD GIVEN CHANCE FOR SHOWDOWN   Possibility of Strike Raised by Charge Leveled Against Operators.

LABOR SUPPLY SHIFT NEEDED: FOR MANPOWER   Netion’s Executives Hear Viewpoint of Army

STANDS FILL SLOWLY AT FIFTH SERIES TILT   Chandler, Cooper Pitch As  Vanlaonc Maan Mraum

Fans Slow In Arriving For Fifth Series Duel   Interest In-Baseball Classic Appears To Drop Afte Cards Are Defeated Sunday, Chandler Ant Mort Cooper Opposing Hurlers

Hatch Act Rule For U.S. Judiciary   Federal Court Body  Adopts Advisory Plan

Opposition Expressed fo Jurists Engaging in Political Activities

U. §. Sea Patrols Rout Jap Fleet “Off Aleutians   Cruisers, Destroyers And Cargo Vessels ‘Are Turned Back

KISKA-BOUND JAP CONVOY TURNED BACK   Jap Ships Run From American Vessels; Kiska Bombec

U.S. Patrols Turn Back Jap Force Headed For Aleutians   Americans Victors In First Surface Battle Of Area; Nip Vessels Flee

Jap Naval Force Turned Back In Aleutian Clash   -Enemy Avoids Close Engagement Near Kiska Island

THE WEATHER   Nazis Open Sensational New Drive   Reds Admit Foe’s Tron Caterpillars Are Deadly Device

‘Brooks Introduces Bill [To Reduce Interest ‘Rate Paid By Veterans

MIDWEST AROUSED (VERCAS CUT PLAN   Coupon Value Reduction Hit Before Senate Unit In

PROTESTS FILED 10 "GAS" PROGRAM   Midwest Officials Score Plan to Shear Their Rations

est Unwilling Cut Gas Use for  rn Pleasure   rs Hear Plea More Basic Car Instead of Less”

MIDWEST BALKS AT CUT IN GAS   Proposals To Bring Back Pleasure Driving In East Not Popular

MIDWEST FIGHTS PLAN TO SLASH GASOLINE QUOTA   Against Lifting Eastern Driving Ban At Their   ICKES WOULD EXTRACT OIL FROM SHALES

Midwest Bristles As East Demands Gas ‘Equality’   ‘Willing to Make  Sacrifices for U.S. Army-Navy Needs

Governors Fight Gas Ration Cut For Midwest   Oppose Plan If It’s To Restore Pleasure Driving in East  SENATE HEARING  Kansas Executive Raises Equality in Other Things Issue

Judge Rimer Of Clarion Dies Today   Well Known Jurist Succumbs After Brief Illness

Nazi Elile Guard Paper Says Germany Will Need Army 20 Years From Now

Stabilization Fund Approval ls Sought   Morgenthau Sees House Committee

tate Depariment Plans To Send Medicines to  Aynerleane in Pay Ract

BOOTLEGGING OF GASOLINE INVESTIGATED BY THE OPA   ARREST IN MIAMI MAY LEAD TO ’ LEADERS OF THEFT AND FORGERY RING IN CAPTTAL ~—

OPA Closing In On Gas Bootleggers   Arrest Miamian On “Black Market’’ Charges Of Selling Stolen Ration Books

New Veto Battle Between FDR, Congress Expected Over Price Subsidy Bill

GOVERNGIEN DEPART#EN “LACK FUN   Unhappy Fi@fcal Year  Begins Togfay For the Gov ent

Veto lussie Threatens On Subsidy Bil   Leaders Predict Roosevell Will Reject Despite Extension Of Credit Agency   VACATION IS DELAYED   Regional OW! Offices Begin To Close Doors As Funds Are Denied

Unhappy Fiscal New Year Comes To Washington   Four Departments, 18 War. Agencies Without Funds 

AGENCIES, FOUR DEPTS. “ORPHANS”   Veto Tussle Between President and Congress Is Seen

NEW FISCAL YEAR FINDS 10 WaR AGENCIES WITHOUT FUNDS, CONGRESS’ VACATION DELAYED, SUBSIDIES BANNED

Federal War Agencies Without Funds; Congress Holds up Appropriations   Food Price Rollback Blocked; Veto of Bill Expected Despite Extension It Gives Commodity Credit Corp.

‘See Second Tiff  When FR Gets _ \Subsidy Measure   Many Agencies Without Funds As. Congress Fails To Finish Work

Government’s New Fiscal Year —  Finds Agencies Without Funds   18 War Setups And 4 Departments Drained—Veto Tussl ae Between Congress And FDR Looms

18 WAR AGENCIES ARE WITHOUT FUNDS TODAY   Four Departments Are Also Minus Finances and Indications Are That Another Veto Tussle Between F.D.R. and Congress Is Nearing— Tempers Are High.

SENATE, HOUSE UPSET PLANS OF PRESIDENT   Congress To Delay Vacation As New Tussle On Veto  Seems Probable   ARMY MEASURE PASSED      Price Roil-Backs Outlawed: Roosevelt is Without Emeraency Funds

Fiscal New Year Start Not Happy For Government   18 War Agencies ‘Penniless’; Congress Kills Food Subsidies And Another Veto Struggle Looms

CONGRESS PUTS IN OVERTIME ON APPROPRIATIONS   May Wait Till President Acts on Bill Which Killed Roll-Back

Moulinie Found Guilty ._  Qn Charge of Shooting  Fellow Warrant Officer

Hamilton Keeps Mum On Willkie   Former GOP Leader, Ti Duke City, Finds MacActhur Popular

CRISIS NEAR IN ANTLSTRIKE LEGISLATION —   Breakdown in Nego: tiations Distinct Possibility

Bond Sales Creep Toward Quota; Drive Nears End.   $55,327 Lacking in. Cole; Block Busters of Job; Nation Buys   What Your Bond Buys

Old Resident Of. Stanton Dead  ‘ Georgé' Plendl Passed Away On Friday

Old Resident Of: Stanton Dead.  » George PléndhyPasse “Away On Friday"

PRESIDENTS BACK OFICE COMES I FOR CRITICISM   REP. WOLCOTT CHARGES ADMINISTRATION IS PLANNING A SYSTEM OF SOCTALIZED AGHiCULTURE,   ROOSEVELT’S STAFF WORKING OUT PLAN   Felix Frankfurter, Harry Hopkins, and Samuel Rosenman Are Among the Advisers in President's Back Office.

REP. MARCANTORIO LEFT OUT IN COLD BY PARTY SCRAP    American-Labor Congressman Turned Down for Maior Committee Post

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  y s nn ~~, oom      Allies Continue Advances in Most Parts of Tunisia

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   American Invasion Troops Consolidate Beachhead

YANKS OCCUPY ARAWE AREA IN SURPRISE MOVE   Aussies Expect Fall Soon of Lakona in Companion Campaign

VASION DRIVE GUE GOOD Will JAPS RETREATING   Report Light Casualties; No Ships, Planes Lost in Comb ned Assaults

American Troops Battling Inland In New Britair   Advancing From Three Mile Beachhead Established At Arawe   RABAUL BASE IS. GOAL OF INVASION

‘Losses Light On N. Britain   Jap Defenders of One Town Flee In Rout

Chicago Eating Places Without Milk or Cream  as Truck Drivers Quit

Dispute Closes Three Windsor  Ford Factories   Alleged Speed-Up Order Held To Blame For Labor Row In Ford Plants

DISPUTE CLOSES 3 FORD PLANTS   Union Blames “Speed-Up” Orders To Machinists At Canadian Factories

“BLOSED DOWN   THREE FACTORIES SHUTDOWN AND 18,000 WORKERS IDLE AS RESULT OF STRIKE  OVER “SPEED-UP” ~~

Canadian Ford Plant Has Strike   Operations Halted  -In Three Factories

FORD PLANTS IN WINDSOR HAVE DISPUTE   Work Halted in Three Plants in Canadian City

CANADIAN FORD PLANTS STRIKE   Dispute Over ‘Step-up’ Production Order

Labor Dispute Closes Ford’s  Canadian Plants   Alleged ‘Speed-up’ Order Blamed for Work Stoppage

Buddies Write That Hast Jannberton Man “Sérv. yd Bravely and Well,’  a ‘Lid, Tis Share for  eH ris Country," 7"

Buddies Write That East Lumberton Man “Serv. ed Bravely and Well,” “Did His Share for  Jiis Country.”

TEMPERATURES:   Work On Vital Wafer ‘Material At Standstil   Army Officer Appeals To Men To Return; Tieup ‘At Chrysler Plant

TROOPS TAKE PALMI; CONTROL 70-MILE STRETCH OF BEACHHFEAD   American Seventh Army Still To Appear In Invasion Picture.

WHEREABOUTS OF AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY STILL UNKNOWN AS BRITISH SLOWED ONLY BY TERRAIN.

TRA FIGHT TURNING POINT, NAVY DECLARES   BATTLE BLOCKED POSSTBLE INVASION ATTEMPT—SENATOR FLAYS, PEARL HAR. BOR COMMANDERS

NAVY REPORTS ON WAR SINCE PEARL HARBGR   Jap defeat at Midway Island probably saved  U. S. from invasion

Mosquito Fib Judged Best Lie of 1943   Soldier Wins Title in Burlington Club  Competition

Sergeant Winner Of Liars Club Medal With Story About Ferocious P-38 Type Maryland Mosquitoes

Plane Production To Reach 100.000  Figure For 1943 Will Double Last Year's

To Restore  Full Service By Tonight   Will Also Supply Towns With Electricity; 650 Still Without Phones

Full Restoration Of All Service ’ By Wednesday   L o Damage But Sleet Is   Feared; Walkers Hurt

Russian Forces Driving Ahead  ~ For Kirovograc   Follow Up Capture Of Znamenka And Khirovka, Twin CommunicaCations Centers   REDS GIVE GROUND IN BATTLE FOR KIEV

SOVIETS PUS ON TOWARD KIROVOGRAD   Give Ground, However, in Face of Nazi Drive on Kiev

DEADLINE NEAR ON TAX REPORTS   615.000 Ohioans Expected To File Estimates On Their 1943 Income

onto 0 TAXPAYERS FILE ESTIMATES   Perplexed Citizens Jam Re«  Vvenue-Offices

American Bombers Stab  Into Germany   War's Record Attack Blasted Four Bases With 2,300 Tons Bombs

Union Orders Ford Strikers.’ Back To Work   Estimate _ places _ idle men at 15,000 in a walkout called “wild: ‘eat strike.” 3

Appeal of Leaders Is lgnored   Thousands of Employees at River Rouge -Plant in  Wildcat Walkout

Union Officials Attack Walkout as Unauthorized   Plant Must. Reopen Without Delay, Seys Head of CIO Local

TWO HAVE MBNINGITIS    Sunflower Plant Ropkers Live in Kensas Bitty

Congress: Considers Sweeping Change, in’ : Draft Set-Up as Call for Fathers Begins

FATHER DRAFT ~~ IN SPOTLIGHT   SENTIMENT FOR-EEVISION OF SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT AS ONE PHASE OF CONTROVERSY

‘Strong Demand Rises ‘For Sweeping Revision Of Selective Service

DEMAND FOR REVISION OF DRAFT GROWS   Move Spearheaded by Taft, Backed by Bipartisan Group

TAFTS DRAFT PROPOSAL GAINS   Age Classifications. National Pool Arc Considered

Brewery Heir Held On Draft Charge   Claim He Conspired To Evade Induction

Moroccan. Sul “Awards High. ‘Decorations. to U. 3. ‘Army's General: Clark ©:

WORLD AWAITS “LOWDOWN” ON BIG 3 PARLEY   Washington Indicates Revelatior Not Coming Soon. Speculate on What Took Place   MEETING TURKS By Associattd Press

TURKEY CUTS PHONE SERVICE 10 HALT INONU-ALLIED MEET RUMORS: BERLIN

VEEL EREMO VRE MOET GOT st essnle 3  TURK PREC NT  CONFERRILE "ITH  FDR -C LL Turkish, Ar——Also Leaves for ig  Sez  i". Calen Try.

Big Yankee bombers make first daylight attack on Germany   Nazi broadcast indicates target was Helgoland bight naval base

COUNTY WIDE GARDEN PROGRAM   Plans Formulated for County-wide Organization With Gale W. Baldwin as Chairman

VICTORY GARDEN PROGRAM SET UP   Committee Organized  To Head Move In County

ASKING FOR BLOOD   Appointments for Donors -’ Will Be Made Beginning Monday

RATION BOARD cers cw Hint   Approves 174 Applications ’ at Thursday Night . - Session.

RATION GUARU ETO NEW HGH   Approves 174 Applications at Thursday Night  Session.

WAGE CONTROLS RAPPED BY WLB   Final Modification Request Te Byrnes Prepared   DRIVE DELAYED   Success Of 2nd War Loan Effort Postpones Third

THIRD BOND DRIVE      Campaign Scheduled fo: August Is Postponed to September.

CEASE HELPING NAZIS, ADVISES EISENHOWER   Badoglio Troops Reported Fighting or Massed Against Nazis

Asserts Nazi — Troops Only. Obstacle Now   U. S. General Says Immediate Cessation Of Hostilities Possible If Italians Quit Aiding Nazis, Free Captives; Situation In North, East Tense.

Badoglio Regime Overthrow May Come From Delay   Indications Italian People May Seek To Speed Peace In Nation   MUCH UNREST IN NATION REPORTED

See Possibility Of Overthrow of His Regime   Italian People May Be Demanding Peace

“ightning Fiahters Fly Sea by Scores ~  to Combet Areas, Saving Ship Space

Mass Flights Of Lightning Fighter Planes Now Span Seas En Route To War Fronts Under Their Own Power

Lightning Fighters Being Delivered By Own Powe   Twin-Engined Lockheed Craft Crossing Both North And South Atlantic In Mass Flights

‘Fighter Planes Are Now Crossing Oceans Under ‘Own: Power, Army Reveals

Large Numbers Delivered  I ighter Planes Cross Atlantic Under Own Power, Army Says

Nazis Have Quit Kidding Themselves; They Admit Now ‘Fortress Europe’ Can Be Taken

Nazis’ Delusion of Impunity Is Spoiled By Allied Triumph in Sicily; Warlords Are Now Planning Defense

Germans No Longer Have Idea That Their European Fortress Is Invincible

Forecast Is Same, For More Showers   West Side of State. Needing Rain, Getting It

PRETTY WEDDING AT LONE RORK   Colorful Affair Unites Gloria Bramson and Everett Vannorsdel

POINT CUT ON / TOMATO JUICE   No Changes in Processed Foods Other Than the ' Vegetable Juices —

POINT VALUES FOR PROCESSED FOODS EFFECTIVE JUNE 6   Will Be Confined te a Single Food Classification, It Is Announced.   TOMATO JUICE DROPS   Vegetable Juices Placed on Same Level as Most Fruit Juice.

Vegetable Juice  Values Lowered  Other Processed Foods Unchanged

Vegetable Juice  Values Lowered  Other Processed Panda TIluchancad

Solon Says British ‘Gun’ For Marshal!  General’s Demand For U. S. Rights  Seen Cause

Must Take World View, Says Wells  Doubt As To US. Post-War Policy

Welles Advises World Policing To Avoid Wars   Isolation After Present Conflict Pictured

POST-WAR POLICY CONFUSES ALLIES   Wells Says Plans of U. S., Source of ‘One of Gravest  ~ Doubts in Minds of United Nations’

WELLES TELLS ALLY DOUBTS   U. S. POSTWAR POLICY IS SEEN AS VITAL

“Our Allies Now Are Asking Themselves- If “We Will Again Follow Same Course.” America Must Assume Its Share of Responsibility  For Maintainine Peace After It Is Won

Allies: Doubt US. Postwar  Intentions   Welles. ‘Says ‘Relations Hurt by ‘Unknown: Po'icv

Postwar Policy Of U.S. Doubted By U.N. Partners   Welles Declares We Must Not Follow Steps Of °18 When We Withdrew

FUTURE POLICY OF AMERICAIS ALLIED CONCERN   Welles Says Grave Doubts Exist As To Nation’s Post-War Plans

WELLES FEELS U.S. ‘ON SPOT   Declares Rest Of Allies Uncertain Of Policies, Want Reassurance

Says Grave Doub On United Siat Post-War Policy         dering If U.S, WilEF low 1918 Is 8 ol at  Canrenp °°

Post-War Plans Creating Doubt, Welles Declares   Undersecretary of State Urges Adoption of Definite Policy

Says Grave Doubt ‘On United States Post-War Policy   Welles Says Allies Wondering If U.S. Will lollow 1918 Isolati on Course.

TO DESKS AT CAPITOL TUESDAY   Foreign Policy Also T Get Scrutiny.

PLEDGES FREEDOM TO PHILIPPINES   President Roosevelt Says Batan Fight Earned Recognition as Free State

PHILIPPINES T0 HAVE OWN RULE AFTER WAR   Fight at Bataan Wins Isles’ Independence—FDR

lphexice Asks Retionine      VALOR AT BATAAN EARNED FILIPINOS INDEPENDENCE. THEY'LL GET IT, SAYS F. R

Philippines Gain Right To Freedom   Will Have Voice In Peace, FDR Says

FILIPINOS TO HAVE FREEDOM FDR SAYS   Islands To Get Our Government When Japs Ousted

Full Freedom Is Pledged Filipmos   FD Says They Won It On Bataan

Gen. Arnold Says Allies to End War By Bombing Military Objectives

ARNOLD EXPECTS AIRPOWER TO LEAD WAY 10 VICTORY   “We Are Going to End the War and End It Soon,” General Save.

ALLIES EXPECT TO BOMB AXIS OUT OF WAR, ARNOLD SAYS   ‘Ready For Decisive Year’ Class At West Point Told

West Point Grads Hear Gen. Arnold   Allies. to End War Soon. He Says

ALLIED VICTORY SEEN FROM AIR   Axis Can't Take Bombing Of Military Bases, Says Arnold

Many Imponderables In Dad-Draft Situation   selective Service Director Hershey Refiises To Venture Guess As To What 1 May Happen Jn Father-Draft Issue

Bill To Stop Induction Of Dads Planned   ‘Chairman May of House Military Committee Will Tntroduce Measure   IMAY DECIDE ARMY TS BIG ENOUGH   Too Many Conflicting Statements, the Kentucky Conoressman Says

DAD DRAFT IS BIG PROBLEM, SAYS HERSHEY   Selective Service Chief. tam Admits Definite  Policy Impossible   ‘MANY IMPONDERABLES   Solons Assured Single Men Will Be Called Before Fathers

DRAFT DEPENDS ‘ON WAR COURSE   Imponderables Cited by Hershey in Outlook

Hershey Admits There Are Too Many Imponderables Involved to Guess What May Happen in Father-Draft Situation —

Set Bill to Halt Dad Draft   MEASURE MAY PROVIDE DISCHARGE OF FATHERS ALREADY IN ARMY

Father Draft Fraught With  Uncertainties   Hersey Unable To State Need

May Would Ban Father Dratt   Post-Pearl Harbor Dads Also Included

FATHERS’ ‘DRAFT I$ QUESTION-HERSHEY   Too Many ‘Imponderables Involved SS Head Says

Father Draft Can’t Be Set To Hard Rule   Hershey Says Only Trend Of War Can Be Basis Of Forecasting

HERSHEY OOUGES D- “DRAFT QUERY   Says too Many Imponderables Involved; Will Cal Fothers Last

EXTRA!   Proposes Ban On Induction  Of Fathers   Chairman May Of House Military Committee Will Introduce Legislation At Close Of Recess

PLANS ACTION ON FIRST DAY OF CONGRESS   Possible Provision for _ Father Discharge Is Discussed

May Will Offer Bill to Prohibit Draftof Father:   Military Chairman Says  Congress May Decide Army Ris Be 1

Draft Calls Depend On War Situation  Hershey Says Father Call Based On Need: That Imponderables

Dad Draft Undecided. Hershey   Could Predict Only If War’s Progress Could Be Decided

HERSHEY TALKS OF DAD DRAFT   Progress Of War To Determine Future Course, Says Director

Would Prohibit Draft of Dads   Sen. May Has Bill Ready For Conaress

FATHER DRAFT PREDICTIONS BEING EVADEL   Selective Service Director Hershey Says “There Are Too Many Imponderables Involved”

Hershey Would Take Dads Last   Wants Manpower Barrel Scraped Clean

Impossible To See Far Ahead In Draft Needs   Changing Situations Affect Father-Draft Chances, Hershey Says

Nay  REP. MAY PLANS To! ° INTRODUCE BILL TO !>PEVENT FATHER DRAFT

Will Introduce Bill To Ban Father Draft   Chairman May of House Military Committee Says He Will Present Measure Sept. 14, the Day Congress Reconvenes.

Seek Legislation _ Against Dad Draft  c hairman May To Offer Se ne

IMPONDERABLES TOO NUMEROUS   Hershey Says War Situations Are Too Uncertain To Predict on Draft

ICKES ORDERS COMPANIES TO OPERATE MINES   Brig. Gen. David C. McCoach, J., of Army Engineers, Assigned to Fuel Administrator

MINE OPERATORS  GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS  IN NAME OF U. 5. TOLD TO APPLY FOR  TROOP PROTECTION IE THEY NEED IT

APPALACHIAN COAL GPERATORS FLAY PROPOSAL OF UMW      Against Contract Between UMW And Operators Of Illinois  eo. Mines

MINE CONTRACT UNDER ATTACK   Eastern Group Hits Illinois Pact: Southern Pits Idle

Thunderbolts Down Jap Planes   Four Take on 32 Jap Fighters; Eight Knocked Down

THUNDERBOLT PROVING NEW JAP MENACE   Latest Fighters Pile Into 32 Enemy Planes Over Wewak, and Send at Least Eight Down

THUNDERBOLTS SMASHING JAPS   New Sky Menace Is Hurled  Against Enemy in New . Guinea.

Japan’s Fliers... ee New ea  In Thunderbolts   Four New Fighters -Piling Into 32 Enemy Planes Send Down At Least 8

Four P-47 Thunderbolts Scatter J ap Formation At Wewak After Downing At Least Eight Planes In Air Fight

Four of Them Whip 32 Jap Fighters, One Texan Knocks Down Five Zeros; Jap Planes Strike At Guadalcanal and Base At Lae

NEW PLANES WRECK HAVOC ON JAPANESE   Enemy’s Bases On New Guinea Are  Badly Scarred

Thunderbolts To Harass Japanese   NEW FIGHTER PLANES IN ATTACK ON ENEMY SQUADRONS

P-47S MAULING JAPS IN GUINEA   Thunderbolts Furnish New Menace To Enemy Air Force In Pacific.

P-47 Thunderbolts New Sky Menace To Jap Air Force   MacArthur Reports Big Damage In Wewak Raids

Thunderbolts Rude Surprise For Japanese   Top U. S. Fighters Turn Jap Raid at Wewak to Shambles

THUNDERBOLTS NEW. MENACE TO JAP AIRMEN      Four P-47s Altack 32 Jap Fighters Over Wewak, Shoot Down ai Least 8, Probably 2 More   NEW ACE HAILED   Japs Do Damage af Guadalcanal, Lae, New Zealanders in Action on Vella Layella

NEW FIGHTERS DISPERSE JAPS   Allied Ground Forces Coxtinue Slow Advance In New Guinea

NEWSKY MENACE POINGINE, JAS   MacArthur Reveals P-47 Thunderboits Knocking Down Enemy Zeros

THUNDERBOLT» IS NEW MENACE TO JAPANESE  Nip Airforce In New Guinea Mauled a DA ea      Texas Flier Becomes Ace In Single Rattle

JAPS FACED WITH NEW SKY MENACE   FOUR NEW AMERICAN FIGHTERS DOWN 8 ZEROS IN DOGFIGHT

Thunderbolts Down Japanese   Four New Fighters Attack 32 Jap Planes And Destroy Eight

Hunt Ex-Convict Charged With Slaying Of Detective   Officer Shot In Attempt To Arrest Suspect On Robbery Charro

EX-CONVICT KILLS COUNTY DETECTIVE   8-State Search Started For Man. Who Resisted Arrest

COAL SHORTAGE BECOMES ACUTE   End Of Lake Shipping Te Ease Pinch; Panic Buying Blamed

Coal Shortage Brings New Regulations — Through East   Written Statement On Current Supply Needed from Buyer Of Anthracite Coal   BITUMINOUS RULES EXPECTED SOON

Rules Governing Anthracite Deliveries Anriounced; Expected to Extend to Bitum ~ jnous Coal Soon

REPORT ACUTE LACK OF COAL   Many Communities Feeling Shortage; Deliveries Being Restricted

Coal Shorfage Reported-Acufe   Anthracite Control Regulations Listed

Coal Shortage Faces  Many Communities   Lack of Fuel Forces Some Plants to Close; Deliveries Cut to Bushel or Two At Time; New Regulations in East

‘Acute Coal Shortage in Many Places ‘Threat in Eastern Sections But Less Serious in Rocky Mountain Area

OTH CLOSES IN ON NAZI BASE IN ITALY   Yanks Stand Ground, Beat Off Nine German Counter-Attacks

Eighth Army Is Now Closing In (n Agnone Base   Several More Towns Seized In Allied Advance On Italian Front   GERMAN ATTACKS ARE BEATEN BACK

ON NAZI BASE IN ITALY   Yanks Stand Ground, Beat Off Nine German Counter-Attacks

COUNTER BLOWS ARE BEATEN OFF BY FIFTH ARMY   Eighth Closes In On Agnone Base In New Advuance

8TH ARMY NOW CLOSING ON AXIS BASE AT AGNONE   Fifth Yields No Ground Despite Nine Strong Counter Attacks

TOPEKAN DRAWS 25 YEARS AT LANSING   Harold Farrar Pleads Guilty to Second Degree Murder Charge

TOPEKAN DRAWS 25 YEARS AT LANSING   Harold Farrar Pleads Guilty to Second Degree Murder Charge   [BEFORE JUDGE MEANS

ltalian Port Is Raided By ~ 100 Bombers   Trail Of Devastation Left At Leghorn, One Of Important Bases Of Italy North Of Rome

Shipyard Hit. In Big Attack: Damage High   italian Fleet _. Also May Have Been Target

Bombers Blast ltalian  Mainland Port   100 Flying Fortresses Reach Far Into Northern Italy to Dump Hundreds of Tons of Explosives

Fortresses Devastate . Italian Port Of Lechorn   Penetrate For 160 Miles North Of Rome; Large Fleet Units May Have Reen Thera

GREAT DAMAGE INFLICTED ON HARBOR WORKS   100 Fortresses Sweep Tx Northern Italy To Strike Railways,  War Plants   Five Vessels Struck

ALLIES RANGE FARTHER INTO DUCE'S REALM   MAINLAND PORT OF LEGHORN UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

Oil Refineries, Docks, Shipyards Sirafed in Longest Raid Yet from Africa   OTHER BASES HIT   Sicily, Sardinia, Pantelleria Again Bombed, Americans from Cairo Blast Foggia 

100 FORTS HIT LEGHORN WITH DIRE RESULTS   Spread Destruction In Harbor Railway Yards And War Plants; Not One Fortress  T oat   Not A Plane Lost

Destruction Spread In Port Of Leghorn   No American Losses Suffered As Cruiser And Carao Vessels Are Hit By Larae Bombs

Leghorn Shipyards, Oil Refineries Damaged; Other Planes Hit At Airports

FLYING FORTRESSES IN MOST DISTANT OF RAIDS AGAINST ITALY  OTHER MEDITERRANEAN COAST OBJECTIVES ALSO BLASTED

NEARLY 100 OF BIGU., S. PLANES REGISTER HITS   80 Tons of Bombs Also Smash Foggia, Another Fascist Port

FORTS MAKE LONG TRIP TO LEGHORN   80 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Foggia Airbase   May Have Been In Bombed Harbor: Great Damage Believed Inflicted

Italian Cities “Visited” By Nearly 100 Flying ©  Fortresses From Africa

100 Fortresses Blast Aspe Port af Leghorn   Harbor, Rail Yards, War Plants Hit By Tons of Bombs

Italian Mainland Pounded By Yanks Three Cities Raided In Heavy Attacks

Italian Oil Plants, Shipyards Blasted In Leghorn Attack   Two Waves Of American Liberators Strike Foggia To Score Hits On Hangars, Bombers, Allied Airmen Strike Furiously At Sicily.

LEGHORN RAID DAMAGE HUGE. ITALIANS SAY   Fortresses Hit Cruiser, Cargo Ships, Set Refinery Afire

FLYING FORTRESSES RANGE ARTHER ON ITALIAN MAINLAND AS ALLIED BLASTING CONTINUES

100 U. §, FORTS RAID LEGHORN FOR FIRST TIME   Strike Most Distant Objec tive Yet Assigned in Attack on Italy From North Africa   MUCH DAMAGE DONE,  RISENHOWER SAYS   All American Planes Return; Meet Little Opposition; Foggia and italy’s  Islands Again Smashed

Forts Range Far North on Italian Boot   Believe Italian Fleet ‘in Leghorn Harbor — Heavy Damage

100 Fortresses Strike Hard at Leghorn Plants   Distant Targets Are Attacked by American Planes

FLY FARTHER INLAND THAN EVER BEFORE   Almost 100 Fortresses -Bomb Refineries, Docks and Shipyards at Leghorn, 160 Miles North: of Rome. :

MINERS TO ASK FOR PAY BOOST   Coal Contract Parley Opens At New York

BOMBS DROPPED ON KEY JAP AIRDROME   Allied Liberator Bombers Attack Enemy Supply Base

LIBERATORS BOMB CAPE GLOUCESTER   Key Japanese Airdrome And Supply Base On Western End Of New Britain Island; Set Big Fires.   Score Hits

KEY JAPANESE DROMEBLASTED   Allied Fliers Drop 153 Tons Of Bombs On  Britain Base

Allied Liberators  — Drop More Busters  Hit Key Jap Airdrome, Supply Base

Cape Gloucester Heavily Bombed By Allied Fliers   Japanese Attack On Arawe Fails

Bitter Fight Rages On Kharkov Front   66 Enemy Tanks Knocked Out In 24 Hours As 25-Division Attack Repulsed By Reds

Repulse Nazi Attacks Near Kharkov   Soviets Threaten to Wipe Out German Salien}

NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES NEAR KHARKOV   66 Tanks Smashed a: Attacks Hurled Back

EXTRA!   Vandercook — Is Indicted By Federal Jury   Sheboygan Men Included ‘In List OF Alleged > Victims Of Scheme To  Defraud Contractors

RAF. Smashes > At Targets. in Western Reich   BritishKe eep Watchful Eye for Signs Ge ermanN aval. Concentrations at Trodheim Plan To Go to Sea

GERMANS HINT. AT USE OF GAS   Nazis Massing Fleet Off Norway; Naval Action Believed Near

Doenitz May Attempt Aid For U-Boats   Allied Air Offensive Beginning to Hurt; Nazis Out-Gunned

BILL IS PASSED ON ABSENTEEISM   House Committee Votes, 19-7, For Act to Halt Needless Layoffs

Attendance Deferment Claim Base   House Naval Com. Would Force War Contractors To Report Absent Help

Absentee Bill Gets Approval of Senafe Group   Draft Deferment Would be Made - Tighter by Measure

Absenteeism Bill Approved   Naval Committee Of House Votes 19-7 In Favor of Bill

UMMITTEE OKAY ABSENTEEISM CURB   Bill Is Approved, 19 To 7, By House Group

HOUSE GROUP FOR ABSENTEEISM CURE   Backs Bill Aimed at Wai Plant Workers Out With oat Permission

House Group Okays Plan to Curb War Plant Absenteeism  Measure Requires  Records Be Given To Draft Boards

GROUP PASSES BIL TO CURB ABSENCES   Employer Would Have tc Furnish Attendance Records of Workers.

VOTE NEAR ON DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS   Post-war Planning, Anti. Sabotage Legislation Uncertain

Measure To Discourage Absenteeism   Legislation to Tighten Selective Service Act is Approved  TO CHECK WORKERS

Bill To Curb Absenteeism Is Approved  Bios Mlmwecasl Ft mascnntdeé.

Absenteeism Curb Approved   House Naval Committee Passes Bill 19 to 7

MAKES GROUND READY FOR BIG ALLIED DRIVE   Allies Taking Full Advantage Of Break In  Weather To Prepare Dl wenn Cimn Sillaweoteca

Bailey Loses Point in Suit   “High Court Upholds Daily Mail’s Plea

Italy’s Morale Seen Ripe For Invasion Blow  Nation. Is Picturec As Broken, Sick’ Of Warfare

Tanker Takes Fire After Collision;  39 Survwors Landed in Delaware   Other Vessel Manages to Head for Post; Rescue Crews Sent Out by Coast Guard   U-Boats’ Western Atlantic Toll 690  Since Pearl Harbor

39 Survivors  Of Collision At Sea Land   Undclcrinined lumber of Men Missing as Two Tanke: s Collide in I leavy Fog Off Delaware Capes

Two Tankers In Collision Off Coast Of Delaware   One Limps to Port, Another Catches Fire And Number of Men Are Reported Missing 39 SURVIVORS LANDED AT LEWES Navy Investigating  Accident 58 Miles Of Cane Hanlanen

Two Tankers Collide; 39  Men Rescued   Undetermined Numbe: Missing in Crash Off Delaware Capes During Heavy Fog

Two Tankers Collide Off Delaware Capes  Thirty-Nine Survivors Are Landed At Lewes

County Scrap Meeting At Sioux Center Today   Sioux County Serap Quota 1°14 Tons; Will Plan Intensive Farm and Town Drive te Collect

County Scrap Meeting Today   Sioux County Scrap Quota 1514 Tons   Will Conduct Intensive Farm and Town Drive

Sioux County Serap “Quota 1514 Tons  WILL conpust INTENSIVE FARN

WAC Found Slain In Hotel Room In Indianapolis  Only Clue Is Scream Heard 1 in Soldier's  Y—_ - s SAS een  Seep Ca e«

PRICE INCREASE HITS CONSUMER   Certain Vegetables Anc Fruits Up; No Control On Home Canner

OPA Passes Price Hikes to Consumer  Revised Regulations Effective Dec. 14

Albert Stoessel Dies in Theate   Noted Symphony Conduc tor Stricken on New York Stage

NOTED MUSICIAN DIES DURING PROGRAM   Qver 500 Persons Witness Death of Albert Stoessel

Notec Conductor Collapses, Dies   Falls to Stage While Leading Orchestra

ANOTHER CUT IN NEWSPRINT LOOM!   WPB Anticipates New 5 to 7 Per Cent Reduction Oct. 1.

Newspapers Face Further Paper Cut   WPB Announces Additional Slash Of 5 To 7 Per Cent On October Ist

EXPECT NEWS PRINT 10 BE CUT AGAIN   War Production Board says reduction will come  October Ist

Reveal AntiBlack Market  Gasoline Plan   Additional Check  On Gasoline Users

OPA TO IMPROVE CHECKUP ovoTEM ON GAS COUPON   Plan Calls For Numbered Coupons Together With Coupon Banks )

‘Numerous Peace Talk Rumors Run Through Europe; Berlin Denies Contact With Moscow

IMPORTANT VATICAN MESSAGE PREDICTED   Listeners Asked to Avvalt Announcement Following Mass Service Broadcast Today.

LEWIS WANTS MORE TO JOM   Desires Virtually Industry: Wide Agreement Among Producers.

COAL SETTLEMENT AGAIN DELAYED   Producers’ '~ Dissatisfaction Ou.17-Cent Increase Solws -' the Negotiations 

FOOD POLICIES HIT BY BRICKER   Ohio Governor Speaks ir Wisconsin But Silent on Presidential Plans

House Has Votes  To Repeal Surtax  But There’s Doubt That House Can Override  Goodland’s Veto

U. S. Silences Remnants of  Munda Force   MacArthur Notes Isle Conquest By Yank Fighters

COMMUNIST PARTY TO HAVE BEARING ON FOURTH TERM   Democrat Machine Of Mayor Frank Hague Of Jersey City Endorsed Last Week

1943 Was Year of Prosperity in lowa   Farm Income, Retail Sales, Payrolls High

Records On Every Hand Mark lowa'’s Prosperity Say Statistics   Retail Sales And Payrolls At High Mark

This Friday Is Third War Bond Day In County  Every Person Urged To Buy All They Can September 17

This Friday Is Third War Bond DayInCounty   Every Person Urgec   Every Person Urged  To Buy All They Can September 17 ©

MINE OPERATORS AND UNION ARE AT LOGGERHEADS   Southern Group Would Submit Differences To War Labor Board   NO ANSWER GIVEN TO PRESIDENT’S MES SAGE

CONTROVERSY TAKEN TO WLE   Northern Operators Accept Proposal of Roosevelt

Mine Operators Accept Proposal For Production During Meetings   Southern Group Urges Differences Be Given to WLB for Hearing, Final Determination

Send Dispute To WLB, Urge  Southerner:   Northern Group Accepts FDR’s Suggestion “On Condition’

Coal Operators Accept F. D. R. Mediation Plan   Southern Producers Urge Immediate Submission to WLB

WAR LABOR BOARD ACTION IS SOUGHT   Cool Operators Would Submit Differences: Over Woces

WLB Decision On Mine Wages Asked   Urge Immediate Submission Of Differences Over Contract For Hearing And ‘Final Determination’

Coal Operators Accept FD Plea   Lewis Fixes Definite Time Limit on Talks Over New Wage Pact

Angry at Itahans   United Nations Look for Help On Continent   Believe Dominated People Will Fight

ALLIES ISSUE GFFICIAL CALL FOR UPRISING   In Axis-Dominated’ Lands Which Will Be Informed When Time Comes For Each To Strike   Assemble Fleet

italian People Asked To Sabotage Germans— —~By Eiton C. Fay   How Much Help Will Allies Get From People 

Black Market In Eggs Developing   New York Receipts Continue Decline

TINY ISLE. OFF TURKISH COAST ‘OVERWHELMED’   British Admit Loss of Dodecanese Positions and 3,000 Fighting Men

A Major Setback For Allies   May Disrupt Plan of Offensive in Balkans; Suggesta Changein Middle East Command

Allies Suffer Major Setback : In Balkan Area   Island In Dodecanese Group Overwhelmed By Germans -

Nazis Win Out After Aerial Bombardment   Germans. Claim 300€ British and 5000 Italians Captured in Seizure of Island

Nazis Take Island In Aegean Sea   Had Been Taken As Stepping Stone Past Turkey Into Greece

‘Loss Major Blow to Plans In Middle East   Overwhelming Bombing From Air and Fresh Troops Decide Battle

GERMANS CAPTURE ISLAND OF LEROS BRITISH ANNOUNCE   Nazi ‘Victory Is Another Setback for. Allied Attempt to . Take and Hold the Dose:  enanese Islands

BRITISH LOSE GOOD HARBORS IN AEGEAN SEA   GERMAN BROADCAST REPORTS CAPTURE OF 8,000 PRISONERS

GERMANS TAKE LEROS ISLAND FROM BRITISH   After Air Bombardment Resistance to Nazi Attack Ceases in Island.   Nazis Throw Veteran Troops Into the Fight

Heavy Aerial Bombardment Precedes Fall  Germans Report 8,000  ’ British And Italian Prisoners Taken; Foe Gains Harbors

Loss Of Strategic Island Admitted As Germans Pour In Reinforcements

Leros Falls To German Invaders   Dodecanese Island Is Captured After . An “Overwhelming Air Bombardment”

Middle East Command Concedes Nazi Victory   Axis Hints Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill Will Meet at Cairo

FRESH GERMAN TROOPS LANDED IN SMALL AREA   Believe Hitlerites Seek to Keep Turkey it Non-Belligerent Role

Nazis in Control Inthe Aegean Sea   Capture of Leros by German Invasion Force Conceded by Allies   IS A MAJOR SETBACK   Strong German Blow Deliv‘ered Partly to Keep ' "Turkey Neutral

Nazis Win Battle Of Four Days   Regain Full Control Of Sea Lanes In Aegean When British And Italians Capitulate

UPSETS ALLIED ASSAULT PLANS IN DODECANESE   Nazis Claim Control of Shipping Lanes in Aegean Sea

Major Sethaek In Allied Hold  On Dodecanese   Organized Resistance Ceased Late Yesterday After Air Bombardment.   'EXCELLENT HARBORS

IMPORTANT ISLAND  CAPTURED BY GERMAN  INVASION FORCES NAZI BROADCAST SAYS  3,000 BRITISH, 5,000 ITALIANS TAKEN

A MAJOR SETBACK FOR THE ALLIES BY NAZI INVASION   Attempt Made to Seize and Hold the Dodecanese Islands.   LEROS LOST TO GERMANS   ‘Orwanized Resistance Ceased Yesterday After a Heavy Air Bombardment.

Major Setback for Allied Strategy in Dodecanese is Told   Huns Gain Control of Sealanes in Aegean:  Other War Events

Enemy  Grabs  New Isle   GERMANS TAKE SECOND OF DODECANESE GROUP IN AEGEAN VICTORY

British Forces Surrender After Air Bombing   Loss Major Setback To Allied Efforts In Dodecanese Area

Leros Falls to Nazis After Air Assaults; 8,000 Taken Captives   Allies Admit Loss of Dodecanese Nava Base; 3,000 British and 5,000 Italians Captured

New. Setback In Dodecanese   Germans Say 3,000 British And 5,000 Italians Taken

TRAFFIC FATALITIES 11,780 IN 7 MONTHS   Total Represents Decline of 31 Per Cent From Total for Similar Period tn 1943.

11,780 Die in Traffic Accidents in U. 5. First Seven Months of 1943

“HEROES DID NOT RETURN’   Le Se TE Se eee ee, ee  Guadalcanal Private Demurs at Beine Called. “Hero”

“HEROES DID NOT RETURN’   Guadalcanal Private Demurs at Being Called “Hero

CAN DEPOT ON BUTLER LOTS   School Children To Collect ' CansFrom Porches’ — Friday. .

BRITISH RAIDERS PCUND GERMANY   Mosquito Bombers Return For Fourth Time

CENTRAL FIGURE IN MINE STRIKE SOUABBLE QUITS   Walter Chaffon, Machine Loader At Montour Will Go Into Army Or “Anything”

GANDHI BLAMED IN WHITE PAPER   All-India Congress Party Helc Responsible For Disturbances

Nazi Troops Strike Back Desperately   But Reds Move Ahead Strengthened by Men From Stalingrad Area  KUPYANSK CAPTTIREN

FD Sets Up Farm Advisory Board  Group Asks That Food Boss Davis Get Full Powers

Urge Power For Davis   F.D.R. Sets Up Farm Advisory Board; To Meet Again Next Week

F.D.R. Fails To Clear Up  Davis Power   No Definition Of Food Administrator’s Authority Offered At Meeting.   WICKARD NOT TO QUIT

GERMANS FLEEING RED JUGGERNAUT   Reds Near Kharkov in Blinding Snowstorm.

BRITISH 8TH ARMY BLASTS OUT GAINS ON SOUTHERN LINE   Americans Capture Over 100 Prisoners In First Action Reported Since Joining 8th Army Over Fortnight Ago

ALL-OUT DRIVE IN TUNISIA      First Time United States Troops Reported in Action’ Since They Joined British Eighth Army — German Counter-Attacks Fail.

Two British Armies Also Open Offense   Germans Hurled Back Heavily in Counter-Attacks in El Bab Area

JOINING IN ALL-OUT DRIVE   Allied Forces Open Onslaught to Ram Axis Into African Coffin Corner.

CARL F. DELA FIRST. LANSING PROBE WITNESS   Kazoo Solon To Be Follows ed By Nugent And Higgins   ‘REPLIES TO PRESTON   Not Interested In St. Joe Man’s Blast At Sift, Rushton Says

Investigation Of Legislature Starts Today   400 To 500 Scheduled For Questioning In Secret Inautry

Gall First Grand Jury Witnesses   Banking, Milk Price, Smal  Loah Bills Are Under Scrutiny. Renort

Offset Losses In One Sector   German Counter Attacks In Italy Repulsed

ADVANCES ARE REPORTED ON OTHER FRONTS   Cold And Rainy Weather Slow Down Activity Of Armies in Italy

Russian Drive Toward Poland Being Delayer   Germans Throw In Huge Re. serves In Effort To Prevent New Advances   REDS PROGRESS IN NORTHERN WAR ZONE

Steel Output Is Threatened By Walkouts   Possibility Of Immediate Intervention By President Seen As Lewis Continues To  Openly Defy War Labor Board

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS QUIT IN 4 STATES   Lewis Promises All-Out Strike Friday Night Unless Demands Are Met   'WLB STUDIES PROBLEM   Presidential Intervention Looms As Steel Officials Cite Dangers

Lewis Hints General Mine Strike Friday  WLB Likely to Turn Dis pute Over to Roosevelt Today  WAR WORK PERILED  Steel Mills Would Close Within Two Weeks, ' Says Olds   WAR WORK PERILED

GIRAUD ASKS PARLEY DELAY   Agrees in Principle to Meeting De Gaulle

Gen. Giraud Says German Defeat ~s ‘Certainty   Urges All French Tc Unite Now

Liquor. Traveling. Candy, Tobacco  On High Levy List   Higher Income Levy Also Sought to Help Raise 10 Billion Extra

'S: {22 ew Tax. 2109088. "NOL.C Soos: ~icuor anc. 2 1er UX. ies A so -is ncome, Jord. evi2s

PRUPOOE HEISE Hl LUAURY TAR   Unprec:dezt2d Incrzases in Luxury Rates Suggested by Administratio a.

Tax Bill Drafters May Sock Luxuries   Stiff Increases Are Likely If Liquor, Tobacco And Travelling Go On Wartime Footing

New Taxes on Luxuries: Liquor, Beer, Soft Drinks, Smokes Appear Likely To Cost Much More

Tax Drafters Turn Attentior To Luxuries   Stif. Increases on Liquor, Beer, Pop And Tobacco Likely

Stiff Tax Increases - Likely On Luxuries   Indications Hint Administration To Ask Congress I For Levy

Sharp Raise In Taxes: ToBe Asked   Administration Plan On “Luxury” Items Going to Congress

Treasury Drafts Sharp Tax Increase On Liquor, Tobacco, Gum, Travel

BIG LUXURY TAXES WILL BE PROPOSED   Liquor, Beer, per, Tobacco and Travel Levies Face Huce Boost

ON LUXURIES 10 BE ASKEL   “‘Inprecedented In creases to Be Sought By Administration

Tax Drafters Plan Severe Increases  On TDarcnries   Turn Attention To Pop, Liquor, Beer, Tobacco, Gum and Traveling  In New War Measure   TO BE PRESENTED TO CONGE™SS TODAY

Stiff New Taxes on Many Common Luxuries To Be Sought by Administration

British Troops Reach Dominica   Report American... -Navy Movina In

BRITISH TROOPS 60 TO DOMINICA   Axis Reports Say U.S. Moving on Martinique

INDIANS SENT 70 DOMINICA   Yankees Ready to Attack French Possessions, Says Berlin

Axis Claims U. S Plans to Attack French Islands   British Sending Barbados Troops To Isle of Dominica

Report American  Navy Forces Are  Moving Against 2 French Islands

Axis Warns Martinique  OfU.S.Grab   Navy Forces Said To Be Moving Upon  French Possessions

BRITISH MOVE ON DOMINICA   Axis Reports U. S. Preparing To Seize French Islands In Caribbean

AXIS CLAIMING MOVE AGAINST FRENCH ISLES   Report Unconfirmed U S. About To Attack Martinique

Axis Reports U. §. Move on Martinique   Washington, London Refuse to Comment.

BARBADOS TROOPS MOVE TO DOMINICA   No Comment On Report That “U.S. Will Attack. i“ . French Islands

Representatives, . Senators Drifting Back for Opening of New Congress

ARE RETURNING   FDR Will Deliver Annual Message To Congress On Thursday.

Seabees Save Comrade By Daring Dive   Heroic Rescue In Aleutians

dAPS ENVISION ASIATIC ARI      Dream of Huge Indonesian Army to March Against White Race.

NIPPONS VISION RACIAL CONFLICT   JAPS PLAN TO RAISE UNITED ASIA ARMIES TO WAR ON WHITES

Partial Evacuation of Jap Cities Shows Tojo Digging in for War Siege

Lewis Plays His Hand In Boldest Bid   Moves To Make AFL Tor Labor Movement In Country

John L. Lewis Plays His Hand   By PETER EDSON PROGRESS Washington  Kaeracmnmil amt

Another 36-Ton Raid Hits Lae   Crew of Fortress  Fights Off 16 Zeros

British Seize Fight Towns in Sweep in Italy   Approaches to Nazis’ Main Defense Line Is Virtually Cleared

Advances 10 Miles to Take Two More Towns Along Sangro River   Nazix Hold Heights

Eighth Army Gets Two Towns onItalian River  Aunroaches to Germatr   Approaches to German Main Defense Line Cleared for 43 Miles

British Take Two Towns Clear Approach:   Clear Approaches to Nazi Defenses

EIGHTH ARMY CLEANS UP APPROACHES TO NAZIS’ WINTER DEFENSE SYSTEM   Montgomery Stabs Forward To Take Eight Towns; Heavy Artillery Duels Rage On Fifth Army Front

EIGHTH ARMY “DRIVES AHEAL   Advances 10 Miles.to Take Two More Towns Along Sangro River .

British Capture Two More Towns Near Adriatic   Advance Ten Miles In Rough Terrain

Champion Liar of 1943 May Learn Plenty Listening to Berlin Radio

28TH VETERANS - IN CONVENTION   Delegates 23 to Be Wel: , comed at Altoona Tomorrow

GOMEL SECTOR SCENE OF NEW NAZI RETREAT   Poltava, Gateway to Ukraine Abandoned _ By Germans

Pound OPA As. Driving U.S. To Ruin      AND RETAIL GROCERS RAISE VOICES AGAINST INFAMOUS SETUP.   Unwilling to Yield to Dreamer:

Congressmen Informed; Jersey Representative  Would Liquidate OPA   National Grange, Retail Grocers  Hit OPA Policies as Ruinous

Berlin Says Conference No Surprise   Nazi Munitions Chief Tells Hitler German ‘Atlantic Wall’ Is Set To Meet Invasion

Fears Revealed By Axis Radic   Broadcasts Seek To Bolster Morale

BERLIN RAID PUTS ON onOlW UF CONFIDENCE   Washington Conference Is Neo Surprise, Broadcast Tells Germans.   AXIS SAYS NEXT PHASE BATTLE FOR GERMANY

AXIS PROPAGANDA IS ATTEMPTING A CALM CONFIDENCE   ‘Prime Minister Churchill's  Visit to Washington Has Brought on Uneasiness.   CAUSED NO SURPRISE   Berlin Radio Was Fishing Yesterday for News of His Whereabouts.

Axis Trying To Present Calm Front   Churchill’s Arrival in U.S. ‘No Surprise,’ Savs Berlin

Nazis Reported  Speeding Plans To Meet Attack  Hitler Transfers Headquarters To Western Front

AXIS AGENCIES MAKE PEP TALKS TO QUIET UNREST  ATTEMPT TO PRESENT  AiiP sis rm FOAAIT AL   ATTEMPT TO PRESENT OUTWARD FRONT OF CALM CONFIDENCE

Axis Propaganda: Tries to Present an Outward Front of Confidence

Axis Feigns Outward Calm   “Atlantic Woll’ Built, "Victory Without Compromise’ Waited

Battle for Germany _ Next Phase   Axis Propaganda Agencies Attempting to Present an Outward Front of Calm Confidence

“4ITLER GIRDS FOR “BATTLE OF GERMANY"   Axis Propaganda Agencies Try to Shaw "Calm Confidence’ Front

AXIS TRIES TO, "MAINTAIN CALM   (First Ignores FDR - Churchy! Meeting, Then Says it, ‘ Causes No Surprise. -

HITLER GIRDS FOR "BATTLE OF GERMANY”   Propaganda Agents Attempt to Present Outward Front of Calm Confidence   IS IGNORED IN BERLIN

AXIS TRYING 10 MINIMIZE CONFERENCE   Trying To Present Calm Front; Gird To Save Germany

Axis Attempts To Present a Front of Calm   Berlin Says Church. ill’s Visit To U. S. No Surprise

HITLER PREPARES FOR ‘BATTLE OF GERMANY’   Victory Without Compromise Still Axis Goal

Axis Propagandists Seek to Show Calm  Front to Populace   Work Feverishly While Account of Unrest in Europe Increase

It’s Diffieult Role to Undertake. sul Axis Avencies Are Attempting To Assume Air of Confidence Now

IMPENDING “BATTLE FOR GERMANY” GETS AXIS ATTENTION  HITLER STATIONED IN   HITLER STATIONED IN WEST WHERE “ATLANTIC WALL” UNDER WAY

Axis Propaganda Tries For Air of Calin Confidence  Chuechille Trin ta   Churchill's Trip to Washington “Caused No Surprise”

Hitler Girds For “Battle Of Germany”   “Atlantic Wall’ Ic Constructed

Statement By Lewis Postponed   Government Looks to Four Quarters for Help in Dispute   Hitler Girding for Battle of Germany: la West, Germans Told

AXIS COUNTRIES ARE PREPARING FOR INVASION   ‘Battle for Germany’ Soon To Begin, Nazis Believe   HITLER QUITS FRONT   Propaganda Agencies Attempt To Present Calm Front

AXIS TRIES 10 APPEAR CALN   ‘Hitler Reported to Have Re turned From Eastern Front to West.

HITLER CLAIMED ON ‘WEST FRONT   Axis Tries To Appear Calm Over Battle For Germany

Hitler Would Quiet Peoples’ Nerves As Invasion of Germany Threatens

G. 0. P. Council Writes Policy  Condemns Fascist Tendencies at Home

GOP Outlines Limited Peace  Role For U.S   American Titerests Put First in Post-War

POLICY IS ADOPTED _ BY GOP LEADERS   Foreign Policy Charter : Written at Mackinac Gatherings

GOP Leaders Pledge Foreign Policy Charter   , Seeks to Halt Future Military Aggression — -

6.0. P. Writes Postwar Charte   Favors Aid by U. S. In Antiwar Setup

GOP Leaders in Apparent Accord Over ‘Responsible Participation’ Decision

REPUBLICANS ADOPT POST-WAR PLATFORM   Group Also A‘tacks Domestic Policies Of New Deal As Having “Fascist” Tinze

Advisory Council Urges U. S. Participation in International Organization to Prevent Attacks on Free Nations—Approval Given Domestic Front Statement Condemning New Deal for “Fascist’’ Tendencies,

Foreign Policy Charter Written By GOP Council   Party Pledges To Foste U. §. Participation in Postwar Group

PARTY RALLY ALL HARMONY AT MACKINAC   POST-WAR POLICY CHARTER FRAMED BY GOP CHIEFS

Jap Subs Sink 5 Allied Shins   ’ Majority Of Crews Saved; Troops On Guinea Advance

Jap Subs Sink > Allied Ships Off Australia   Majority of Crews Rescued: Ground Units Seize Village Near Salamaua, New Guinea

Jap Submarines Sink Five Ships Off Australia   GAIN IN NEW GUINEA

5 ALLIED SHIPS FALL VICTIMS TO SUBMARINE:   One American Vessel Lost ; Most Of Crewmen Res cued In Pacific   M’ARTHUR’S PLANES ON EXTENSIVE RAIDS

FIVE ALLIED SHIPS SUNK BY JAPANESE   Submarines Attack Ves. sels Off Australian Coast

Five Allied Ships Sunk By Jap Subs In South Pacifie  Gains Announced  By Allied  Forces  fawarTr a er

JAP SUBD SINK AMERICAN SHIF   Four Allied Vessels Also Sunk Recently Off Australia: Majority of Crews Rescued By Naval Units

FIVE ALLIED SHIPS ~ SUNK BY JAPANESE   Submarines Attack Ves sels Off Australian a et .

Five Allied Vessels Sunk   Japanese Subs Active Off Australia Coast

Willkie Praises Comintern Act   ‘Removes Suspicion  Of Other Nations

Press Still Contends Unconditional Surrender By Nation Inipossible

Badoglio Keeps Iialy On NaziSide   Italian Radio, Press Indicate War To Continue

ltaly Appears Set Against Allies’ Terms   Badoglio Is Reported to Be Favoring Germans, Demanding That Nation Keep Fighting; Eden Repeats Warning

CLAIM ITALY NOW CLOSER TO NAZI SIDE   Declarations Indicate - That Will to Fight  Is Strengthened

Italy Brought Closer to Its Axis Partner   Eden Declares Allies Still Demanding Complete Surrender.

WEARY ITALY KEPT IN WAR BY BADOGLIO   HOPES FOR PEACE TALKS DWINDLE IN ROME

Badoglio Aiding Hitler War Plan Reports Indicate   New Regime Regarded a Opposed to Allied Peace Terms

Badoglio Is Binding Italy Closer ‘To Axis, Reports Say   Italian Cabinet Called Into Session Today—Eden Reiterates Demand of Allies for “Unconditional Surrender”

ITALY EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WAR AT NAZIS’ SUDE   Reports From Country Indi cate Badoglio’s Government Is Lining Up With Germany.   CABINET. MEETING . TO BE HELD TODAY   Washington and London Apparently Are Standing Firm for Unconditional Surrender.

Badoglio Seeks To Force Italy Closer To Axis   Cabinet To Meet  Teday In. Session Called laynartange

Badoglio’s Regime Knits Italy Closer to Germany as Allied Demands for Unconditional Surrender Are Rejected; Cabinet Meeting Called

Badoglio Regime Binding Italy Closer to Axis: Stiffens Will   Italian Press Rejects Allied Dematds for an Unconditional Surrender; Cabinet Called for Important Meeting; “No Other Terms,’ Eden

Badoglio Binds Italy  Closer To Axis Cause   Press and Radio Try to Stiffen Resistance to Allied Appeals for Surrender; Berlin Says Step Impossible

Italian Peace Hopes Fade Out   Badoglio Is Moving Closer to Axis

American Guns, Warplanes Turn Back Rommel’s Tanks; Soviet Army Threatens: Orel

Heavy Fighting  Still Continuing; Soviet Closing Jn On Novorossisk -

Allies Smash At Nazi Troops In Tunisian Battle Report Says German:  Stopped In Tracks A  Kaccorine Gan

ALSO STOP NAZI TANK DRIVE IN TEBESSA FRONT   Bitter Battle Reported Still Raging Near Thala, Central Tunisia

German Armored Columns Stopped ‘At All Points’. Says  Eisenhower He: adquarters

TANK-LED ALLIES HOLDING AXIO IN GENTRAL TUNIS: AEDS DEEPER INTO UKRAINE   One of the bitterest battles of the Campaign Rages in Near Thala; Continuous Relays of U. S. Warplanes Turn Back a 40 Tank Thrust Toward Tebbessa.

ROMMEL THREAT IS SMASHED BY YANK ATTACKS   Fierce Fighting Rages as Tanks Break Path for Infantry Advance   TABLES TURNED IN AFRICA   Red Armies, Meanwhile, Surge Over Ukraine and Take Heavy Nazi Toll

Thala Fight On: Tebessa Is Held   Alhed Warplanes Help To Reverse Tank Columns: Reds March Ahead.

Dangerous Thrust To Crack Allied Junction Halted   Nazi Column of 40 Tanks Runs Into Murderous Fire of Americans.   Under Continuous Fire  Of Yankee Warplanes

NAZIS STRIVE TO GAIN CLEAR FIGHTING ARFA   Allies Hold Armored Troops Inside Rugged Terrain Near Thala

TANK-LED ALLIED FORCES HELD ENEMY PUSH AT ALL POINTS   GEN. EISENHOWER REPORTS BRIGHTEN TURN TO NORTH AFRICA FIGHTING

U.S. Forces Repulse  Dangerous Thrusts   Nazis in Hills North of Kasserine Pass And Column Striking Toward Tebessa Turned Back by U. S. Guns, Warplanes.

Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Nazis By Allied Defense   Red Armies Plunge Deeper Into Ukraine In Drive To Dnieper; Report Success In Push To Orel

Nazi Column Of 40 Tanks Is Hurled Back By Yank Unit   Russians Plunge Deeper Into Ukraine And Smash Nazi Fort-Towns In Orel Area

Foe Suffers  Heavy Losses   Rommel Points Three Spearheads at Allied Mountain Defenses in Tunisia Battle

Eisenhower Reports Brighter Turn In African Battle; Yanks and British Given Strong Support In Air   RUSSIANS SCORE NEW SUCCESS

Brighter Turn in Battle for Tunisia Is Reported Today   Americans and_ British Smash Back at Axis; Say Enemy Held

Headquarters Says Enemy Checked “At All Points” _ North and Northwest of Kasserine Gap; Bitter Battle Continues; Enemy Making Desperate Drive Russians Continue to Gain on 700-Mile Front. Q

AMERICAN AND BRITISH UNITS SMASH AT FOE   Rommel Stopped Since Monday, British Agency Says

Furious Fray  About Thala, Central Area   Allies Inflict Heavy Casualties On Enemy

Westward Thrust By Germans Toward Tebessa Also Spiked; Russians Crash Ahead.

Tunisia Picture Is Reported Brighte   Tank Led Americans and British ‘Hold the Enemy’ To Halt Nazi Thrust, Turn Back German Advance

Three Jap Vessels Are Blasted by ~ Big Allied Bombers   Transports Totaling 20,000 Tons Are ' Hit in'Raid'on East Indies Naval DRieens: Pavweth. Shia Ta Daxkactadn Sicale

Three Jap Vessels Are Blasted by Big Allied Bomber:   Transports Totaling 20,000 Tons Are Hit in‘Raid on East Indies Naval Base; Fourth Ship Is Reported Sunk

SEA BATTLE STILL 15 ON, NAVY STATES   MacArthur’s Airmen Keep Pounding Nip Bases

Timilty Orders Police To Arrest Rumor Monger:   Commissioner Is Advised Tales Probably Spread By Axis Agents In Hub

BACK TO WORK PLAN SPEEDED IN MINE AREAS   Nation Gradually Freed From Grip Of 3Day Strike

SHOWDOWN NEAR IN. FATHER DRAFT   TREND OF WAR SEEN AS REASON TO DEFER MEN WITH FAMILIES

Showdown ls - Asked on the ~ Draft of Dads   Senator Downey States Armed Forces Number Enough Men

Downey Scores  Draft   SELECTIVE SERVICE HEAD CONCEDES WHEELER BILL “MIGHT NOT_DO HARM”

SHOWDOWN ASKED ON DRAFT ISSUE   California Senator Says Army, Navy Still Not Bia Enough

Declaring Army and Navy Have Enough Men, Senator Calls for Draft Inquiry

Senator Calls For Show down On Issue: House Group to Probe Draft Set-Up

CONGRESSMEN AGREE UPON SIZE OF ARMY   Showdown Seen In Near Future On Drafting

SHOWDOWN ON DRAFT IS ASKED   Downey Believes’ Present Numbers In Armed Forces Sufficient.

HOWDOWN ON DRAFT ASKED   owney Thinks Present Number In Armed Forces Sufficient

ASK SHOWDOWN ON DAD DRAFT   House Group Prepares To Probe Selective Service Setup

Showdown Is Seen on Army Size Increase   California Senator Says Number Now Sufficient} Hershey Hints Eased Call

Fight Increase  In Size of Army   Italy’s Fall ‘Strengthens Stand of Solons Who Oppose Enlarging The Armed Forces

Senator Seeks Showdown fn Dad Draft  wT... Law Brnoanc   ~ Number Enough In Service, Downey Thinks

ASKS SHOWDOWN ON ENLARGED. ARMY AND NAVY   Senator Downey of California Says We In the West are Short of Man ' power—Draft Fathers   GEN. HERSHEY

Downey Wants Showdown Now On Army-Navy  Would End Drafting; Query Ousting Board  in Mass; Congress a ‘ale dla wwe

Ask Showdown On Army Size   Downey, May Differ With High Command Claims

Showdown on Draft Question to Be Asked: Would Probe Whole Set-Up

FATHER DRAFT   Claims Increase in Fight: ing Forces May Cause Production Slumn.

Senator Downey Declares Present Size of Armed Forces Is Sufticient

Sees Breakdown In Production If Army Is Bigger   Draft Official Says Wheeler Bill May Do No Harm

Modifying Draft Gaining Support   Downey Says Arms Output in Danger

Asks a Showdown On Father Draft   Sen. Downey Says Increase in Army Means Breakdown in Production.

DOWNEY GALLS FOR SHOWDOWN ON DRAFT ISSUE   Rep. May Projects General Investigation of Selective Service

SELECTIVE SERVICE  OFFICIAL CONCEDES  POINT ON DRAFT DEFERING FATHER INDUC  TION MIGHT DO NO WARM SAVS NEFICER

HUGE OIL PLANT IS BEING BUILT   lo Produce 100-Octane Gasoline at Cost of 13c¢ per Gallon

De Marigny Alibi to Face Sharp Attack      Cross-Examination Hits Property Deal With Divorced Wife

NAZI SUB TORPEDOES SWEDISH VESSEL IN SOUTH ATLANTIC  Made Three Ranking Officers Prisoners Crew Reports at Miami

Reds Hard Pressed by Nazi Attack   Soviet Troops Rushed Across Middle Dnieper

Red Army Pours Troops Across  Middle Dnieper   Attempt To Counter Intense Pressure On  Nose of Kiev Area

Reds Increase Army Strength West ‘Of Kiev   Men And Machines Pour Across Dnieper To Reinforce Army   BATTLE IS INTENSE   Germans Pull Off Some Of Troops From Rest Of Line To Aid

Bitter Resistance Shatters Any Belief Germans Plan General Retreat to Shorter Lines.

Reds Pouring Men, Tools Across Dnieper   Russians Suffer Some Losses in Chernaikhavy Arana

KIEV BATTLE INCREASES IN INTENSITY   Indicates Nazis Seeking to Retake Dnieper River Line

Reds Attempt To Shatter Nazi Drive   Pour Men Across River as Enemy Beads far Kiev

Death Summons EK. E. Ellinwood Arizona Leader   Attorney And Political And Educational Chief Was 81

Helen Russell In Navy School   Trains In Women Reservis: Yeomen Class

WARREN WARNS  ON DEPRESSION   Tax Reduction Anticipated; Cautions on Preparation for Postwar Financing

Actor’s Whim Led To Development Of Air Ambulance; Beery Credited

Movie Actor’s Whim Is Responsible For New Air Ambulance for Navy

COAST GUARD FREES TUG FROM ICE JAN   Shifting Winds Enable Three Carferries to Leave lee Field.

AMERICANS PUSH ARAL AT SALERNO   Allies Hold Underside of Italy   of italy  cee a  NAZIS STUBBORN  er ee  Fight Desperately at Naples

MacArthur Uses Japanese Own Tactics To Capture Important Position

ALLIED FORCES IN NEW GUINEA   .Wily Nipponese Outwitted at Qwn Game of Sneaking Up From Behind—Mubo Only

Salamaua Gateway Taken From Enemy   Brilliant Allied Maneuver in New Guinea Results in. Wiping Out of 950 Surprised Japs

MUBO FALLS TO ALLIED FORCES   Surprise Maneuver Opens Up Jap-Held Gateway To Salamaua

*MUBO DEFENSES COLLAPSE AFTER ” JAPS OUTWITTEL   MacArthur's Men Use Same ; Tactics Nips Invoked At Singapore

950 Detenders Of Salamaua Gateway Killed During Battle Brilliant Air Vietorv Seored

WIN GATEWAY TO SALAMAUA   In Surprise Maneuver, Alles Wipe Out 959 Defenders of Mubo.   CLOSE IN ON MUNDA

ALLIED TROOPS OUTWIT JAPS BY STEALING UP FROM BEHIND, CAPTURE CATEWAY TO SALAMAU

JAPS OUTWITTED, MUBO CAPTURED   GUINEA NIPS YIELD SALAMAUA GATEWAY TO MACARTHURMEN

950 SURPRISED JAP DEFENDERS WIPED OUT   Allied Troops Used Jap Infiltration Tactics Against Mubo StrongPoint Successfully

Salamaua’s Gateway Is Captured   Japs At Mubo Taken By Surprise When Allied Troops Come Upon Them From Behind

Allies Take Mubo; Kill 950 Japanese   Use Enemy’s Own Jungle Tactics to Take Key Position

MUBO FALLS TO ALLIES, JAP AIR LOSSES MOUNT   Down 45 Nip Planes Over Rendova, Advance on Munda

KILL 950 JAPS IN MOVE ON SALAMAUL   45 Jap Planes Shot Down in Central Solomons

ALLIED FORCES NOW CONTROL SALAMAUA DOOR   45 Nip Planes Downed Over Rendova; Smash At Munda

Mubo Gateway Captured From Japs In Pacific   Surprise Raid Catches Foe Unprepared

950 Japs Wiped Out At Mubo As Allies Capture Key Base   Meanwhile, Yank Fliers Shoot Down 45 Out of 80 Planes Over Rendova Island With Loss Of Only Three Planes in Spectacular Air Battle

Allies Capture Mubo From Japs   Ee  JUNGLE TACTICS USED BY YANKS AND AUSSIES

US Fighters Outmaneuver Japs at Mubo   45 Planes Shot Down Out of Enemy Squadron of 80 Near Rendova Island; Jungle Fighters Close to Munda

Yankees Clear Mubo Vicinity   Use Japanese Tactics Of Infiltration To The Rear To Take Point.

SALAMAUA IS BESIEGED BY JUNGLE FORCES   45 Nip Planes Are Shot Down In Spectacular Sky Fight Over Rendova   MOVE CLOSER TO MUNDA   Enemy Routed From Hill Positions; Loss Of U. S. Destroyer Revealed

Allies at Mubo Beat Japanese AtOwnGame   Capture Gateway To Salamaua With Attack From Rear

ALLIES OUTWIT JAPANESE AT JUNGLE GAME   Latest Brilliant New Guinea Maneuver Results In Slaying of 950 Enemies

Allies Take Page From Jap Book   Jungle Fighters Filte: Behind Enemy Lines To Take Mubo

MUBO GATEWAY 10. » SALAMAUA TAKEN BY. ALLIED TROQPS   950 Japs Wiped Out: By Brilfant Maneuvers . In ‘ New Guinea   AIR VICTORY. ALSO SCORED

Allies Outwit Fathers Given Japs In Raid Further Time AtMuboHoldFrom Service

Allies Capture Mubo, Wipe Out Jap Defenders   Hold Gateway To Salamaua; Yanks Score Rendova Air Victory.

Allies Take Mubo  Gate to Salamaua   Secret Moves Inland Thru - Jungle Surprise the Japanese   45 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down Out of 80 Over ~ Rendova

Japs Outwitted At Own Jungle Game   Americans And Australians Kill 950 Surprised Defenders

Using Jap Infiltration Tactics  Yanks, Aussies Take Mubo   (Picture and eyewitness accounts of Pacific fighting on Page §-A).   : Delivering Atlantic Convoy Safely  ‘Baby Flat Top Beats Off 10 U-Boats

Mubo Captured And Allies Closing In On Salamaua Base   Bold Move Spoils Jap Defense Plan; Yanks Win Big Air Battle Over Rendova

Mubo Falls To MacArthur; 950 Foe Slain   Allied Airmen Destroy 45 Japanese Planes Over Rendova Isle   SALAMAUA 1 NEX’   Jungle Fighters Move Closer To Key Enemy Ail Base At’Munda

Capture Wipes Out Last Barrier to Salamaua Air Base 12 Miles Away: 35 Jap Planes Shot Down. Secretive Infiltration From Rear Brought " Mubo Collapse. :

Edging Closer To Munda And Salamaua.....  Yanks And Australians Capture MuboGateway

Japs Fooled ByOwnTrick  InNew Guinea   Allied Jungle Fighters Infiltrate to Cut Off Prin cipal Hills

Allies Take Mubo  Gate to Salamaua   Secret Moves Inland Thru _ Jungle Surprise the  Japanese   950 ARE WIPED OUT   45 Enemy Planes Aire Shot Down Out of 80 Over  ’ Rendova _

ALLIED FORCES POSSESS MUBO GATEWAY TODAY   Gen. MacArthur Used Japanese Tactics In Attack

950 Japs Killed As U. S., Aussie  Jungle Fighters Smash Garrison

Allied Forces Outwit Japanese 7 At Own Style Of Jungle Fighting; Take Mubo, Threaten Salamaua

JAPS, CAPTURE (MUBO GATEWA)   Beat Enemy at Own Jungle Tactics: 45 Japanese Planes Downed

Base Periled As Mubo Falk   45 Jap Menes Shot. Dews in Ale Action Ga Sefomen leles

Heavy Aerial Raid on Italy Is Indicated   Large Bomber Foree Passes Over English Channel

Bombers Roar Toward Italy, British Learn   Switzerland Hears Alerts in South; Nazis Raid London

BELIEVE ITALY TARGET OF RAE   Hour-long Parade of Heavy Bombers Roars Across Channel; Alerts Are Sounded in Southern Switzerland

Northern Italy Bombing Seen   Swiss Report Large Plane Force Heard

Allied Air Fleet  Over Continent   Heavy Force Out;  London Has Alert

RAF Is Believed Out Over Italy   Hour-Long Stream Of Heavies Heard

RAIDS MADE ON NORTH FRANCE   British Planes Pound Industrial and Transport Targets

BOMBERS OFF [0 CONTINENT BY MOONLIGHT   Steady Stream Of Britain  based Planes In Hour  long Parade To Bomb Italy   London Alert

NAZI TARGETS IN FRANCE HIT   Locomotives, Barges Are Bombed By RAF In Daylight Raids

ANOTHER RAID ON ITALY INDICATED   Bombers Roar Across the Channel for Attacks on Continent

British roar over English  channel again   Alerts indicate Italy objective

Forts From Africa Bases Hit Munich   Liberators Crack Nazi Aircraft Factory Near Vienna

Ration Changes  Are Announced   Beef Ration Points Increas_ ed For Month Of July  0. P. A. Reveals   MANY CHANGES IN CANNED GOODS

SUPPLY OF BEEF WILL BE SMALL DURING JULY   As a Result, Your Ration Values to Be Boosted a Point

onl POINTS” ARE RAISED   “TON: ALSO REQUIRE MORE "POINTS —CANNED ~ + @00ODB CHANGES

Beef To Cost 1 Point More   Seventeen Changes In Points  On Canned Goods

Beef Point Values Go Up As Market Supply Goes  Down; Rises Are Genera!

SHIPMENT OF LIVESTOCK IS AT LOW POINT   On other hand, some vegetables are reduced in point value

TRANSPORT PLANES SHOT DOWN AS FRENCH, “AMER  CANS AND ITALIANS CLOSE  “GN NAZI FORCES

1,200,000 Nickels Sought by Nickell from School Children in Thirty Days

CANNED FOOD POINT: VALUES “CHANGE TODAY   All Dried: and Dehydrated Fruit - Temporarily Removed from Ra~ tioning, Points for Juices Lower

OPA Announces Numerous Changes in Point Values of Key Foods for April.

hangteh Battle vosts Japs Sver 5,000 Men  American Warplans   American Warplanes Support Allies With Two Attacks

MRS, MARIGNY SHOWS STRAIN MURDER TRIAI   Husband, Accused“of. Kill  ing Father, Sir Harry akes, Continues To Grin Confidently

De Marigny Is Calm at Trial   Defense Scores as State Presses Case; Wife Shows Strain

N ancy de Marigny  Displays Strain Misses Meeting Mother At Airport

Strain Weakens Nancy de Marigny   Her Husband Smiles as . Trial Progresses

Prisoner's Wife  ls Showing Strain  De Marigny Retains Confident Bearing

CHANGE OF VENUE WILL BE REQUESTED   Counsel For Eastern shore News Baper Editor Says Oefendant Cannot Get Fair Trial There

EDITOR WILL ASK © CHANGE OF VENUE      Affidavit Will be Filed, Attorneys for Newspapermoan Announce

‘Testimony In » Waynesville Trial Ends.’   Moslev and Blalock : Denv>Confessions: tie ddAan’s Murder -

Testimony In » Waynesville Trial Ends   Moslev and Blalock Denv Confessions in. Aan’s Murder

Cape Gloucester Raided by Allies  300 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Base

Nazi Merchant Ship Scuttled by Crew .-’   Men are Taken War Prisoners

ENEMY VESSEL SCUTTLED      ‘British Reports Action in the At : lantic Ocean

ENEMY VESSEL SCUTTLED   eitih Reports Action in the At. lantic Ocean

A THIRD ISLAND SURRENDERS TO A BRITISH DESTROYER   Mediterranean Control Now  Firmly In Allied Hands

Americans Blast Two Airfields on East Coast.   3 ITALIAN ISLANDS CAPTURED IN 3 DAYS   Six Enemy Vessels Are Damaged Off the Dutch Coast.

Smalt Island - OF Gives Up To Britiol Destroyer. Without ¢@  - Fight Yesterday. =

AMERICANS BLAST TWO AIRFIELDS   Under Bombin From Allied Planes Since Friday

Eight Cities  Lost to New.   Allied Assault on Mareth: Line May Be attempted In Tunisia

Fight Cities Lost to New Nazi Hordes   Allied Assault on Mareth Line May Be Attempted In Tunisia

FREY SAYS WAGE RISE IS NOW DUE TO SHIPBUILDERS   Head of 1,100,000 Workers Declares Increase Is Due If Government Fulfills !ts Promise to Labor.   MEN ACCEPTED LOWER WAGES WITH PROMISE   Workmen Are Employed In 188 Shipyards, Question is Up With Two Disputes Ungattled.

Higher Living Costs Pointed Out During Hesring — Members Of Beard Are Opposed.

ASK PAY RAISE IN SHIP YARDS   — Three Unions bay Ancrease Must Be Granted to Cover Higher Costs

ship Workers Ask Pay Raise   War Labor Board Told by A.F.L. Leader It Must Approve Demand to ‘Keep Faith’ With Unions Under Alleged 1942 Promises

Says Shipworkers Need Wage Hike   Claims Rise In'Cost _ of Living Main Cause

Asserts Stalin Calling “Tune”   Thomas Says Britain, U. S. Lax In Planning

Capper Says GOP Can Score Total Victory. in 44 With Dewey, Eisenhower, MacArthur

\Nazi-Planted Time Bomb Explodes In Barracks Killing 25, Injurina 30

TIME BOMB BLAST "MILLS 30 SOLDIERS   Delayed Mine Wrecks Bar- tacks in Naples

Dynamite Mine Left By Nazis Fatal To Many   Explosives Had Been Planted In Cellar Of Naples Building.

NAZI BOMB KILLS 25 IN NAPLES   DY S. LL SOLON  Representing The Combined British Press  Distributed By The Associated  De mecc

German Time Bomb Kills 25 In Naples Artillery Barracks   Br 8. L. SOLON Representing The Combined British Press Distributed By The Associated

NAZI PLANTED BOMB KILLS 25 IN BARRACKS   Clark Inspects Explosion in Naples, Others Hurt

MODIFIED RULING EASES RUM SALES   Customers To Be Permitted To Make Purchases Upon Identification as a Resident Of the State

Italy Due For Hammering Such As No Nation Ever Saw, Says Correspondent

Predict Allied Airmen Will Give Italy  Hammering No Country Ever Received

‘Newsman Sees Italy Undergoing  Air Hammering    Correspondent Foreseces  Heaviest Raids Of War  Aimed At Italian Lands

WILL SMASH ITALY FROM AIR-KENNEDY   AP Foreign Writer Back from Front States Claim

Italy Will Get Worst Raids Yet   = Veteran Reporter Sees Merciless Bombing

DUE FOR A HAMMERING   News Correspondent Reports Con.) ditions Perfect for Bombing

Conditions Perfect For Allied Plastering  Correspondent Predicts Italy In For Worst Hammering In History

AP Writer Ed Kennedy Predicts Terrific Bombing Of llaly By Allied Airmen

YOUNG PUPIL EXAMS APRIL 2   To Test Reactions to Army’s Specialized Program

Go on Strike Four Days After Getting Army-Navy Award for Efficiency

FORD WORKERS — STAGE WALKOUT   Nearly 8,000 Involved at  River Rouge; Reason Not Revealed,

G.OP.. POST-WAR PLANNING BILL NOW IN: HOUSE   Reported, ... Tc To, ; Haye ‘ApprovalO

sTAIKE IS VOTE BY RAL UNION   Believe, However, Walkout Set For Dec. 30, Will Be Averted

Rail Strike Not Expected   Union Leaders and Government Officials Expect Settlement

CALL CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO OVER RAILROAD STRIKE   Spokesman For One of Five Operating Brotherhoods involved Thinks Settlement Is Possible.   SUSPENSION 1S THREATENED ON DECEMBER 30   Claiming “Just Case” Announcement Is Made That 97 Per Cent of Five Unions Voted For Strike.

Settlement of Rail Strike Is Forecast   Railway and Government Of.ficials Believe Strike Will Fail to Materialize; Believe Terms Can Be Arranged.

Rail Unions Set Dates For Strike   U.S. Officials Believe Walkout Will Be Averted

LEADERS FEEL RAIL WALKOUT CAN BE NIPPED   Operating Brotherhoods Fix Dec. 30 As Beginning Of ‘Progressive Strike’

EXPECT 10 SETTLE WAGE DIFFERENCES   Leaders ‘Just Can’t See Nation’s ‘Railroads Tied Up’ After Dec. 30 Strike Date

Believe Rail Walkout Can Be Called Off   Brotherhoods Setting Dates For Strike; Meeting Monday To  Titeanee laeanec

Rail and Government Officials Confident No Strike To Happen   Mediation Meeting Set For Monday; Workers Assert Eventual Effect to Aid War and Postwar Welfare

Rail Strike Danger Fades  Mediation Meeting  Expected to Iran  a, ean cy 7 Cee

Railway, Federal Officials Seek to Avert Great Strike   All Concerned Optimistic as Government Agency Steps in

BELIEVE RAIL STRIKE THREAT WILL PASS BY   Union, Government Officials Think Settlement Possible

SETTLEMENTIN RAIL DISPUTE ANTICIPATED   Spokesman for Operating Unions Sees No Reason Why Agreement Cannot be Worked Out   DECEMBER 30TH DATE

RAIL LEADERS AWAIT TERMS   Officials Expect Nationwide Travel Tieup  Will Be Averted

RAIL STRIKE TO BE MEDIATED   Officials Confident Scheduled Walkout Can Be Averted

Railroad Strike  I  Compromise Urged Hopes Held Out That Walk-Out   Hopes Held Out That Walk-Out Of Union Workers May Be Averted

Railroad Strike Threat Challenge To Inflation Union Statement Says

LEADERS BELIEVE RAILROAD STRIKE WILL BE AVERTED   Hope for Settlement of Wage Dispute at Meetina Next Monday

CALL MEETING OF MEDIATION BOARD   GOVERNMENT, RAIL OFFICIALS HOPE FOR A SETTLEMENT

10 S10 RAT], STRIKE VOTED DEC. 30   Company and Government Officials Optimistic As Conference Scheduled to Open Monday in Chicaco.

EXPECT RAIL PAY AGREEMENT BEFORE STRIKE   Government, Railway Officials To Meet in Chicago Monday

Officials See  Opportunity to Avert Strike   Mediation Board to Meet lor Discussion of Rail Unions’ Demands

RAIL STRIKE SET DECEMBER 30 BY UNION   Officials Believe Agreement Can  Be Reached

OFFICIALS HOPEFUL RAL STRKE THREAT ~ WONT MATERIAL?      Mediation Meeting Schedulec Monday in .Chicago By. Unions, Government   WAGE. BOOST .IS GOAL

STRIKE OF RAIL BROTHERHOODS HELD DOUBTFUL   Railway and Government Officials of’ ‘Opinian Walkout. Set For: December:

Doubt Rail Workers Will Go on Strike   Railway and Federal Officials Believe a Compromise Possible

OFFICIALS SEE PREVENTION OF RR. WALKOUT   Expect Agreement tc End Union Dispute Before Deadline

Railroad and U. S. Officials Express Belief That Strike of Workers May Be Averted

Railroad Strike Truce Predicted   MEDIATION MEETING SET FOR MONDAY AS UNION HEADS SEE SETTLEMENT POSSIBILITY; FIRM OFFICIALS, BROTHERHOODS TO CONFER

Fall Stoppage Of Trains Not Likely   Union and Government Think Solution Possible

Railway, Government Officials Believe Transpor tation Strike  May Be Averted With Mediation

Think Rail Strike Won't Be Called   Spokesman For Unions Says There’s No Reason For Not Compromising.

= STRIVING “sO RECONCILE REDS, POLES   Task of Healing Breach Admittedly Difficult

“ 0 RECONCILE REDS POLES   Task of Healing Breach Admittedly Difficult

HOPE TO MEND ~ SOVIET BREAK         VU. 8. STRIVING TO ‘PATER QUARREL BETWEEN M06." ' COW AND POLISH, EX."  : PLE GOVERNMENT 

US. To Urse  Reconciliation   Seeks To Effect Understand. ing Between Russia And Polish Exile Government   woviet Note Violent

EXCHANGE SHIP DOCKS INN. Y.   1,500 American, Canadian Nationals Home From Japan

Gripsholm Lands With No Fanfare   Few Relatives on Hand to Greet 1,500 Nationals From China.

Exchange Ship Reaches Dock  1.500 Repatriates   1.500 Repatriates Reach Home

LABOR LEADERS BACK SUBSIDY   Farm Bureau Chief Tells Senate Banking Committee Subsidies Give Labor Advantage

Orel Battles  een Hint OL  Major Drive   Nazis Fight Desperately - to-Recapture Lost  Ground

NAZIS ATTACK 10 REGAIN GROUND   FIGHTING INCREASES ON RUSSIAN FRONT; KILL 2000 GERMANS

Nazis Hammer Red Lines in  Counter-Jabs   Observers Believe New Action to. Emanate From These Thrusts.   Both Sides Report  Ore! Concentrations

CONTINUED NAZI  COUNTER ATTACKS  HELD SIGNIFICANT FIGHTING ON OREL  - FRONT HAS BEEN  OTRONCER RECENTIY

AG ATTEMPT TO RETAKE POSITIONS   ‘Attacks Aimed at Points Northwest of Mtsensk in Grel Area.

Execution of Traitor Stayed  Supreme Court Grant: Order After Once Bafucinn tn Uoeview

Floor For Sweet Corn  $17 a Ton   Canners to Offer 35 Per Cent Increase to Iowa Farmers a

LOSSES HAVE BEEN SMALL   eer ten,  Most of the United Nations Ships Have Reached Port

LOSSES HAVE BEEN SEALE   Most of the United Nations Ships Have Reached Port.

Ciano Retains. “Hitler Stiema   Foreign  - Minister's. Loss _ Of Post Held’ Morale “Move -Bv Il: Dare

Ciano Still Nazi Despite Ousting   Shake-Up Termed As Show For Italians

MELLETT RESIGNS POST: TO AID FOR   Keeps Job -as“Administrative Assistant After Quitting OW! Movie Rerth

Airlines Chief Defines Four Air Freedoms   Planning now for postwar commercial air. “routes to cover’ entire world. ..

Housemaid Witness At Nassau Trial   Domestic Is First To Take Stand In De. Marigny Case

NEW BREAK IN DAKES’ MURDER CASE EXPECTED   Housemaid Testifies She Provided Insecticide Used In Fire

AMERICAN, CANADIAN ARMIES SWEEP THROUGH WESTERN, CENTRAL PARTS OF ISLAND

Armies Drive To West   Axis Resistance Strong On Catania Plain; British Warships Shell Italian Shore.

Hitler And Mussolini Attempting To Weld Satellites Into Final Struggle

Hitler Promises Satelite Nations ‘Expansion’ In Exchange For Troops

Japanese Bases  In Pacific Raided   Airport Installations in Flames In Gilbert and Marshall Islands

Jap-Held Isles Again Blasted   U.S. Airmen Strike Marshall, Gilbert Groups  From Secret Base.

MID-PACIFIC JAP BASES. HIT ANEW      ‘Marshall, Gilbert Islands Attacked By U.S. Bombers

Rapid Changes in Europe Have Made It Necessary for Meeting.   CUT TIME BETWEEN DECISION, ACTION   Churchill, Wife and His Daughter Arrived in Canada Tuesday.

Strategy Of Wer Wi Likely Be Discussed By President Roosevelt and Churchill When They Meet Saon. -_

CHURCHILL IN CANADA SINCE TUESDAY   No Russian Representative  Will Attend

Crown Confuses alibi: Witness With Statement  Word of Experts on Prints Conflict; Wife to Testify -

De Marigny’s Friend  Mixes Testimony   Bench Questions Memory Range, But Defense ‘Saves Day’; U. S. Detective Brands Prints Fake

Alibi Witness For de Marigny {sSurprised .   Prosecutor Comes Up With Signed Statement Contrary to Testimony

Most of Miners: Return to, Work   Widespread Revolt Brought to End

MOST MINERS RETURN TO PITS TODAY   ‘Steel Production Already Hard Hit By Lack of Coal

Funeral Services Fer Miss Tyler Wilkinson Held Sunday Afternoon In First Christian Church

PLANES MAKING WIDESPREAD RAIDS ON. JAP BASES IN CHINA AND INDO CHINA "

Yanks, British Penetrate Deep Through Collapsing Axis Lines   Key Nazi Tunisia Cities Now Within Rance of Big Guns

Byrnes to Speak on Inflation at gy P. M.   24% Rillien 1. 8. Income

GERMAN UCFENGE INGREASES WIT HEAVY FIGHTING   Allies Are Confronted With Stronger Resistance at Messina Bridgehead.

Allied Armies In Sicily In Furious Battle With Reinforced German Units

FIRST SINCE BRITISH WON AERIAL FIGHT   Only Few Of About 30 Fighter-Bombers Reach City   ELEVEN SHOT DOWN   Many Civilians Killed, Some Trapped In School

LONDON BOMBED IN HEAVY RAID   Only Few Planes Reach City But Many Are Killed

THANKSGIVING DAY  RAID SMASHED BIG  FORMOSA AIRBASE CHINA-BASED MITCHELL BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS  Reeser OMe

FORMOSA BASE HIT   U. S. Bombers and Fighters From China Raid Shinchiku Field

AG 1 PLANES WER FORMOS!   China-Based Yank Bombers Smash Big Japanese Air Base on Isle.

Big Air Base Of Japs On Formosa Is  Smashed   China-Based Mitchell Bombers Deal Hurtful Blow To Enemy Island Stronghold Near Home

Yanks Enter Last Mile Of New Georgia Drive 14 Pillboxes Capturec

Enemy Paying’With ‘Lives for Each Yard Our Forces Advance.  ALLIES GAIN 200 YDS. AT MUNDA THURSDAY  Two Jap Ships Destroyed by American Airmen Near New Britain.

Compromise Tax Plan by Easter   GOP Leader Martin Threatens No Holiday Until Income Tax Bill Passed,   “Now We Must Begin Lending U.S. What We Cannot Sparel’

LOUD DAMAGE MOUNTS HOURLY   Dozen Levees Along Mississippi, Illinois and Wabash Rivers Break; 100,000 Persons Are Homeless

Levee Breaks Flood Fertile Farms, Spare Cities From Rushing Waters

Greatest Havoc Yet To Come   Raging Waters Drive 108,000  From Homes

Levee Breaks  Spread Flood  Several Cities Saved; 100.000 Homeless

Floods Break More Levees, 100,000 Flee  From Homes   Damage.in Millions,  - Thousands of Acres Of Farm Land Covere In Mid-West States   RISE OF STREAMS STILL UNCHECKED   Levees Break Along Mississippi, Illinois And Wabash Rivers

Many Thousands In Area Are Homeless   Property And Livestock Damage Throughout River Valleys Will Run Into Many Millions

Rising Rivers In Midwest Spread Ruin  108,000 Flee Home As Levees Break; Damaves Mount

Old Man River Floods Farmlands  ‘OL Middlewest   Dozen Breaks Appeal In Levees Along. Miss issippi, Mllinois, ane Wabash Rivers; More Than 100,000 -Made Made Homeless; Losse: Run Into Millions

tg of Three 's Cause Big ‘in 6 States  pr AnKk   CMAk VW WEEMS YY  000 Persons ‘'Homeless and  »s Reach Millions “TROOPS AID  'y Evacuated ‘ Homes; Water ine in Muskogee

Thousands More Are Homeless as Flood Increases  Army Continues Aid To Victims and Repair of Levees

BYRNES PROBES GAS SITUATION      Inquiry Requested By Brown. Thinks Civilians “Need More Gas

QUIT - THE - WAR PRESSURE PUT ON GOVERNMENT   Rumania Is Afraid Of Bombings by Allied Planes

Drop In County Population   lt Is Estimated That County Has Lost Over 11,000 In  Past Few Years.

142 TONS BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON GASMATA BASE   35,000 Rounds Of Ammunition Also Fired  Against Japanese   AERIAL LOSSES BY ENEMY ARE HEAVY

JAPANESE BASE OF GASMATA BOMBED      More Than 100 Planes Raid Airport in New Britain

Japanese Base At Gasmata Is Heavily Raided   100 American Bombers and Fighters Drop 142 Tons of Bombs

FIGHT TO SALVAGE GUFFEY COAL ACT   Law Sets Up Machinery To Stabilize Soft Coal Industry

Guffey Coal Act Survival Doubtful   House Committee Tables Proposal

New Strike Officially Began At Midnight. Efforts To Solve Wage Dispute Have Failed.

Senate Group Votes 2 to 1 For Former Governor of ‘Texas For Federal  Appointment   REJECTED BY VOTERS FOR SEAT IN SENATE   Charges He Was Promised Federal Job In Evert of His Defeat Denied By Him

VOTES 2-1 TO OKAY ALLRED   Senate Committee Favors Confirm. ation Of Former Governor As Appeals Judae

Senate Committee Votes Two to One ‘In Favor of Allred Confirmation

Allred Approved for Seat on District Court of Appeals by Senate Judiciary Committee

Allred Wins Job Approval   Two-to-One Vote in Favor of Him for Appeals Court Post

ALLRED-CONFIRMED IN COMMITTEE VOTE   Rocky Road Still Lies Ahead For FDR’s Appointee

WLB TACKLE! COAL DISPUTE AGAIN TODAY   Three Member Panel Resumes Consideration of Mine Wage Question.

WLB CONSIDERS COAL SITUATION; TAX PLAN GAINS      Ickes Sets -up System ‘Fo Emergency Diversion. of Coal

ALLIED PATROLS CROSS RIVER IN DRIVE ON ROME   March of 8th Aymy Continues

VOLTURNO IS FORDED BY U.S. PATROLS   Sound of Battle Is Reported Heard In Rome

Penny Milk In Every School   Half Pint Daily Now Available To Every Child

GREAT AERIAL ONSLAUGHT PLANNED AS.PRELUDE TO “INVASION, DIPLOMATIO SOURCES SAY

Radio Device ls a Wonder Weapon It “Sees” the ‘Approaching Enemy

‘Magic Eye’ Aids Allies   Radar. Secret Weapon Of War, Now Revealed

RADAR, ONE GREAT WAR SECRETS, HAS FINALLY EMERGES  INSTRUMENT AIDED INFERIOR RAF TO DEFEAT NA7I LUFTWAFFE

MacArthur Planes Beat Off Jap Raid   Down 25 of Enemy in Heavy Attack on New Guinea Bay

Reds Explait Absence From Meet   Participation ‘Not Fitting,’ Says Government

REDS REPLY 10 CRITICISM OF ABSENC   Participation Is Not  _ Envisaged, Moscow Reveals, Because of Character of Parleys.   PRESS HAD URGED THEIR ATTENDANCE   Soviets Take Recognition of Comment on Lack of Russian Representation at Meeting.

(Russia Stops Reports OF Participation in FDR-Churchill Meet   Sudden .Change in Italian Attitude — Reported in Bern

SOVIET EXPLAIN ABSENCE AT TALKS   Say Russian Participation at Forthcoming RooseveltChurchill Confab ‘Was Not And Is Not Envisaged’

Russ Deny Bic Came to Join ° Quebec Parley  Moscow Says Nature Of Talks Obviales Need of Attending

Churchill Says Worst Fighting Is To Be Faced   Fools Count On Enemy Collapse

Churchill Warns “Worst to Come’  Tells Commons Trying Days Are Ahead

War's Worst Fighting Is Still Ahead   So, Churchill Tells British, Now Is Not Time To Wrangle Over Coal Policy

Warns British Not To Depend On Fall Of Nazis   Churehill Tells His People Worst Fighting Of War Is Still Ahead Of Them

CHURCHILL HITS U.S. SENATORS   BRITISH PREMIER DEPLORES POLITICIAN FIGHTING

Churchill Warns Commons Let Controversies Alone Worst Fighting is Ahead

RiCK’ ATTACKS REGIMENTATION   Says Boys Now At Front Want To Return To Live Lives In Freedom

Rickenbacker Wants Equal Work Rights   Says Returning Soldiers Will Refuse To Be Regimented

Regimentation, Planned Economy Draw Eddie Rickenbacker’s Fire ..

Capt. “Rick” Hits Planned Economy   Regimentation Opposed by Vets

Heavy Barrage, With Invader:  Fight Put Up By Foe South Of Salerno

21-¥ear-Old Student Pilot Made Brilliant Record and: Won High Honors:   Made Brilliant Record

JAPS DECAPITATE 22 AUSTRALIAN CAPTIVES   Travelers From Indo-China Say 350 Others Are Worked Hard and Forced te Ber

KING BORIS SHOT BALKAN REPORT   Condition of Bulgarian Ruler Desperate, According to Swiss Dispatch

King Boris Shot Berne Declares   Bulgarian King Said To Have Been Shot In Sofia On Tuesday

SWISS REPORT SAYS KING: os NEAR DEATH FROM: WOUNL   BULGARIAN “RULER, SAID TC _ HAVE BEEN AKOT THREE TIMES AFTER VISITING HITLER

K. C. Convention to End Today  Election of Officers te Marl Sacelian

K. C. Convention to End Today  Election of Officers to Mark Session

PICKETS BLOCK 8 COAL MINES   5,000 Miners Planning To Work Kept From Pennsylvania Operations

Miner Pickets Keep 5,000 Men From Working   Eight Mines Remain Idle In Southwestern Penna.;  Called ‘Outlaw’? Action

ae ARRIVED INQUEBEC.    High Commands Have Detailed Next Military Operation

Pres, Roosevelt Arrived At Quebec Yesterday And Drove To Historic Citadel For Meeting With Enelish Leaders *   ENDORSEMENT OF PLANS MEANS QUICK ACTION

Military Plans Submitted at Quebec Conf.   President is in Canada to Meet With Churchill

ALLIED PARLEY CHARTS BODY BLOW FOR AXIS   President Roosevelt Joins Churchill In Quebec for War Conference.

CHURCHILL'S ~ HATS, PANTS   Premier Wears Both of ’ Them Declares _ “His Wife ;

NAZIO OT AIKE AT SEVERAL POINTS   Allies Regain Lost Ground. Taken by Germans   WIN NEW POSITION   Eighth Army Patrol Crosses Sangro River; Occupies Important Heights

Allies Face Storm, Bitter Foe, but Advance in Italy   Despite Hazards, Fifth and Eighth Gain; Enemy Resistance Is Harsh; Chiefs Announce Recasture of Vital Hill Sites

See-Saw Fighting Continues As Winter Descends On The Whole Italian Front

FIFTH ARMY IN GRIM, SEE-SAW FIGHT IN ITALY   British Eighth Moving Into Positions Against   Enemy As Winter Grips Whole Front

Yank Forces Report Local Gains   Winter Descends on Itelian Front in Earnest

Despite Hazards, Fifth and Eighth Gain; Enemy Resistance Is Harsh; Chiefs Announce Recapture of Vital Hill Sites

Height Regained By Fifth Army   Winter Descends On Italian Front

Fifth Smashes Back fo Seize New Positions   Capture Two Towns In Addition to Regaining Ground Previously Lost

Allies grimly battle foe hand-to-hand as Italian winter falls   British-Polish warships bombard  Gaeta port aided by allied airmen

Yank Forces Report Local Gains  . rr.   Winter Descends on Italian Front in Earnest

Locai Advances Made In Italy; Winter Strikes.   Stiff Resistance _And Rough Térrain Hamipering Allies

Winter's Rigors Beset 5th Army  Yank Forces Locked In Dogged Fighting  arcaeyT 2am arsame 4 Aw Tk

Yanks Locked In Battle With Nazis in Italy   Winter Descends On Front but War Goes On as Usual

Allies Capture Two Towns In Stiff Fighting   Winter Descending On lielian Front Slow: tio Acvancec

FIERCE FIGHTING IS REPORTED IN ITALIAN HEIGHTS   American Fifth Army Makes Short Gains on Main Road to Rome

Winter Takes Hold in Italy   Allies Retake Height Near Mignano, Win New Gains

REAL WINTER “HITS ITALIAN ~ BATTLEFRON   Fifth Army Advances In Spite of Stiff  Foe Resistance

GRIM WINTER FIGHT WAGED BY 5TH ARM)   STIFF RESISTANCE SLOWS UP DRIVE TOWARD ROME

British Moving Against Enemy Along Sangro   Winter Weather Locks Whole Front in Northern Italy

FIFTH MAKES SHORT GAINS BEFORE ROME   Americans, Germans In Grim See-Saw Battle

Clark Wages Grim Battle For Heights   Sth Army Reports Stitt, Resistance to Local 

OTH ARMY SEIZES 2 TOWNS IN GRIM SEESAW STRUGGLE   Clark’s Forces Meet Stiff Resistance as They Push Forward in Difficult Country.   WINTER DESCENDS ON BATTLE FRONT   Reinforced German Army Entrenched in Strong Positions to Delay Advance on Rome.

Sth Army, Nazis See-Saw In Grim Italian Battle   Winter Hits Allies In Italy; Bogs Advance; Germar  Gains Told

Clark's Army in Grim Battle With Germans   See-saw Fighting as Winter Sets in on the Italian Front

MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEARS FLOOD STAGE   Heavy floods pile up toll of destruction in eight states

Ten Persons Dead In The Flood Zone   Swollen Tributaries Cause Anxiety Along Mississippi

POST-WAR FOREIGN POLICIES — HOLDING SENATE ATTENTION   PARTY RANKS BEING SPLIT AS SENATORS . DISAGREE ON PLANS TO PREVENT FUTURE WAHS

AG CHIEF ASKS DRAFT CHANGES TO HELP LABOR   Brewn Declares Food Production Will Drop in ’43 If Methods Are Continued

FARM HANDICAPS CAUSE CONCERN   Modification of Draft and Farm Programs Sought by Ohio Director

Cites Ohio [Food Labor Emergency   Brown Tells Bankhead Machinery Is Lacking To Replace Men.   Third Less, Maybe   ‘Aggie’ Chief Pictures Farm Help Dilemma As At Cricic.

Senate Expected To Approve Bill   Would Repeal China Exclusion Act

Pump Firm Thrives On ‘Navy Gravy’   Fight Excess Profits Of Fifth Best Paid American

Will Test Accuracy * of Claims for Oleo   lowa Dairy Groups to Name Committee

DAIRYMEN WILL TEST COLLEGE OLEO BOOKLET   Controversy rages over statements made in lowe State pamphlet

TWO SHIPS SENT DOWN IN CHANNEL   Another Is Forced Blazing Onto Beach, Three Made Helpless

ENEMY CONVOY IS BATTERED BY BRITISH PLANES   Two Ships Sunk, Third Fired And Three Damaged In Hits Off Dutch Coast   RAIDS ENTER NINTH DAY   New Series Of Air Blows Forecast At German’s Strained Railway System

2 AXIS SHIPS ARE SUNK BY RAF FLIERS   Third Is Driven Blazing Onto a Beach and Three More Are Brought to a Standstill Off the Dutch Coast.

TWO ENEMY SHIPS * SUNK AND THREE. SABLEL         The Engagement Takes Place Off Dutch ‘ Coast "   RAIDS ARE MADE DEEP INTO FRANCE

RAF Squadrons Sink Two Ships   CONVOY OF AXIS BOATS HIT HARD BY ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE

TWO GERMAN > VESSELS SUNK   Action Occurs Off Dutch Coast, With RAF Attack7 ing Five Ships

TWO ENEMY - SHIPS TO “DAVY   British “Typhoons, Hur. ricanes, Mosquitces Are Active

‘Stalin Explains Soviet Views on Extinction of ° 7 World Revolutionary: Body

Amount Listed By Secretary Morgenthau Is Four Billion Dollars Less Than the President’s Objective.

Coal Strike Spreading Thru Nation   Roosevelt Warns “Decisive Action”  Slated Next Weel

Nation Faces Stoppage of All Coal Mines   Complete Walkout See: Monday Despite TY R Threat

PICKETS SHUT “CAPTIVE” PITS   12,000 Idle in Southwest Pennsylvania; Production of Steel Hit

Cancel Plans To Refire Furnaces In Steel Mill  Delegation Of Stee Company Officials Meet: With U. S. Attorney

ROVING PICKETS HAMPER MINERS   Steel Furnaces Cancel Plans To Reopen As Idleness Mounts

12.000 OUTLAW STRIKERS OUT   Firing of 3 Steel Mills Postponed Due To Mine Stoppage

Pickest Halt Relighting of 3 Furnaces   U. S. STEEL CORPORATION FINDS COAL SHORTAGE FORBIDS FIRING REMAINDER OF 14 STRIKE CLOSED.   Uhl In Conference

BATTLE FOR AIR BASES IN FULL SWING   Navy Aviation Chief Points to New Emphasis in Pacific

PREPARE FOR AR ATTACKS: ON JAPANESE   U, 8. MOVING TO’ ESTABLISH NUMEROUS ISLAND. AM BASES FROM WHICH  “To fOT ENEMY a

See New Use of Air-Land Power  ’ MacArthur Visions A Fast Victory

Papuan Victory Promises New Pattern For Allied Decisions By ‘Swift Strokes’ In Pacific

A New Strategy Against Nippons   MacArthur Proposes “Swift Massive Strokes” by Air and Land Forces.

RM'ARTHUR HA DROUND NEW WAY AITO-BEAT JAPA}      Says of L  Air Paar Points Way to. Victory-In Pa' ciffc Areas   STRESSES AIR ARM   Sees Victory: by “Swift Massive Strokes” Rather. Than Island to  ; Island Advance

, Regiments, Artillery Flown  ‘MacArthur Sees Prospects For Swift Pacific Strokes

Allied Victory in Pacific by ‘Swift, ‘Massive Strokes,’ Says MacArthur

New Tactics Point To Pacific Victory   MacArthur Says Plan, Tested and Proved at Papuan, Calls for “Swift, Massive Strokes” by Air-Borne, Air-Supported Forces.

\ } T \\ ] = “ . A /  Pa 1s Ses he [ ests   MacArthur Sees Prospect OF Allied Victory By ‘Swift Massive Strokes.’

Mac Arthur Reveals New Plans To Crush Nippos   ‘Swift, Massive Strokes’ By Co-ordinated Air And Land Forces, Learned On Papuan Peninsula, To Be Strateay

M’ARTHUR SEES NEW TACTICS IN PACIFIC WAR   Papuan Campaign Demonstrates Success of Swift, Massive Strokes Over Long Distances

MacArthur Points Way To Victory   Sees New Use of Air. Land Power in  Pacific

M’ARTHUR FAVORS ‘MASSIVE’ BLOWS   NEW STRATEGY HAS PROVEN EFFECTIVE, GENERA CWAIMS

DANGER OF INFLATION   Act To Increase Farm Prices Returned To Senate Unsigned

Regarded as ~a Threat. to War Effort   Senate .May. Override’ ‘the White. House, But. House. : May: Sustain’ Action: ~":      GOES BEYOND GOAL; ROOSEVELT. SAYS   Sees - Danger of Setting Loose-an' Inflationary: Tor-nado: Hurting All... 2

FDR VETOES BILL TO HIKE FARM PRICES   Bankhead Bill Excluding Benefit Payments Is Termed Inflationary.   He Urges Adherence To a Stabilized Plan

PRESIDENT VETOED BANKHEAD BILL T0 HIKE FARM PRICES   MEASURE BRANDED AS IN FLATIONARY AND DANGEROUS BY ROOSEVELT

FOR VETOES BANKHEAD BILL   Calls No Benefit-Farm Price Increases Inflationary

Parity Price Bill Vetoed; FDR Calls It  ‘Dangerous’   Measure Is Termed Inflationary And Seen Adding To Consumers’ Burdens

FARM PRICE BILL VETOED BY FAD. AS INFLATIONARY   President Warns Against Further Increase in Living Costs and General  ' Wage Boosts.   DRIVE TO OVERRIDE HIS ACTION LAUNCHED   Stage Set for Critical Battle When Legislation Comes Up in Senate Next Tuesday.

Plan to Increase Farm Prices Held Inflationary In Message Sent Senate

BANKHEAD BILL VETOED: WAGE RULE AFFIRMED   Congress Battle On Farm Bill Foreseen; Unions Get Warning Against Excess Boosts   Hits Group Advantage:

Balks on Excluding Bene. fit Payments  in Figur. ing Parity.   VIEWS MEASURE “AS INFLATIONARY   Declares It Would Give Farmers an “Unwar-. ranted Bonus.”

Brands Measure to Hike Farm Prices as ‘Inflationary   Says Bill Would Break _ Down All Barriers — Now Established

Bill Boosting Farm Prices Is Vetoed   Prasident Seys Bankhead Parity Plan ‘Inflationary Wholly Inconsistent’   UNWARRANTED BONUS   Roosevelt Appeals To Judgment Of Congress, Sees Living Cost Rise

President , Vetoes Fa arm  Price Bill   Roosevelt « Tells - Congress Bankhead Measure’ Inflationary

Bankhead Bill Inflationary Declares FDR   Proposal Called Dangerous in Chief Executive's Message

Bankhead Bill Is Termed As  Inflationary   Wholly Inconsistent With Stabilization Program, FD Says

Bankhead Farm Price Act Vetoed As Inflationary   President Returns Bill To Senate With Warning Enactment Would Start Uncontrolled Spiral In Living Costs And Wage Demands

PROPOSAL TO ADVANGE FARM PRIGES FALLS   Measure, Unsigned, Returned to Senate; Branded as “Inflationary.”   WOULD “BREAK DOWN BARRIERS,” FOR SAYS

ROOSEVELT FINDS INCREASE IN FARM PRICES DANGEROU   Bankhead Bili !s Vetoed and Is Returned to Senate With Brief Comments on Reasons.   WOULD ADD BILLION AND HALF TO COSTS   Executive Says Measure Would Go Beyond Parity Goal and Give An Unwarranted Bonus.

FDR Vetoes Bankhead. Measure  Farm Price Bill Termed Ioflahianesc:

FDR. VETOES BILL TOBOOST _ FARM PRICES   President Brands Bankhead Measure Both Inflationary And Dangerous

FARM CEILING BOOST VETOED BY PRESIDENT   STAGE IS SET FOR CRITICAL FIGHT IN CONGRESS

President Vetoes  Bankhead Bill       Terms Legislation Dangerous to Entire War Effort

BRANDS MEASURE AS INFLATIONARY   Tnconsistent With: Government’s Stabilization Program, He Says   CALLED DANGEROUS   Sf Would Give Farmer ‘Unwarranted Bonus’ President Declares

PRESIDENT VETOES . BILL 10 INGREASE l). §. FARM PRICES   Calls It Inflationary and a Menace to Our Whole War Effort

Farming  Bill Is Vetoed   F. R. BRANDS MEASURE INFLATIONARY AND DANGEROUS IN ACTION

STAGE IS SET “POR CRITICAL PRICE BATTLE   Effort to be Made to Override Bankhead Bill Veto

FDR Vetoes Bankhead Farm Bill   President Says He Is Convineed the Measure Is of Inflationary Character and Dangerous to War Effort

BANKHEAD BILL VETOED TODAY BY ROOSEVELT   President Declares It Is ‘In. flationary in Character’, Would Hike Prices

VETO OF FARM BILL TO BRING BITTER FIGHT   Bankhead Says Effort Will be Made to Override — Veto 

BANKHEAD BILL 10 HIKE FARM PRICES 5 VETOED BY FOR   President Says That Present Checks on Prices, Wages Must Be Maintained   DRIVE TO OVERRIDE VETO TAKES SHAPE   Roosevelt's Message in Effect Serves Notice on Labor Leaders They Must Not Expect Pay Hikes Above Little Steel Formula

BANKHEAD FARM PRICE MEASURE VETOED BY FOR   Believes Change Would Disrupt Farm Policy, War Effort

BANKHEAD BILL VETOED TODAY   Preicdent Brands Plan to Boost Farm Prices As Inflationary.

Farm Bloc Plans Hard Fight To Override FDR’s Veto Of ‘Bankhead Hiaher Pripo-Ri]

Texas. ‘Senate: a   Roosevelf Vetoes. Bankhead  farm Price Increase Bill        I lationary: ond: Dan gerous, “President Says lt Would Be: Reus Threat to War Effort:

Roosevelt Vetoes Bankhead Bill To Boost Parity   Action Sets Stage for Big Battle In Congress on Farm Prices; President Calls for Sacrifices

Farm Bill May Be Passed over Roosevelt Veto   3arkley Sees Victory for Bloc in Senate; House in Doubt

BILL TO HIKE FARM PRICES IS RETURNED   Bankhead Measure Branded by President in Veto As Inflationary and Dangerous  AEC BEVAAIR BDADITY

WOULD RAISE WAR COS FDR ASSERTS   Appeals ito Congress to Avoid Breaking Down Barriers Erected to Prevent Living Cost Soaring.

BANKHEAD FARM BILL VETOED   Roosevelt Condemns Measure As ‘Dangerous

President Not For Loosening  Ot Cost Reins   Higher Farm Prices Mean Boost In Wages And General Disaster, He Points Out

FDR CHARGES PROPOSAL IS INFLATIONARY   Threatens Entire War Program of U. S., Says President

BILL TO BOOST FARM PRICES IS VETOED BY FDR   Brands Bankhead Plan As Inflationary And Dangerous

Farm Bloc Plans Hard Fight To Override FDR’s Veto Of Bankhead Higher Price Bill

tne EAN RLU TO  President Vetoes Farm Price Bill  sAnd Asks U.S. To Stop Inflation

VETO GIVEN 10 BANKHEAD BILL   Labels ' Measure To Boost Farm Prices As “Too IJnflationary”

Bankhead Bill Termed Danger To Inflation   Bill Would Add 5 Percent To Cost Of Living President Estimates In Report

VETO. SLAPPED   President Points To Peril 01 Inflation; Says All Of Farmers ‘Better Off’  Than In Last War

F. R. Vetoes Bankhead  Farm Measure   Stage Is Set for ‘Battle Over Increased Prices

President Vetoes  Bankhead Bill   Calls Measure Inflationary and Dangerous

Bankhead Measure Returned To Senate; Termed Inflationary   President Says Farmers Must Not Expect To Better Their Living Standards; Points To Dangers

Measure Is Branded as Inflationary  President Calls Ba nkhea d Bill

Excluding Benefit: Payments From Parity ‘Dangerous   President Declares Farmers Must Share Price of Stabilization

SAYS MEASURE IS DANGEROUS, INFLATIONARY   Act Had Passed Easily In Senate And House   LEGISLATION   Involves Raising Prices By Excluding Benefits In Figuring Parity

Brands Act Inflationary Dangerous   Bankhead Measure Would Exclude Benefit Payments In Parity Formula

President: Vetoes A Farm Measure   Bill Would Extlude Benefit ' Payments From Parity ’ Formulas   ‘IT #IS INFLATIONARY’   Would Give Farmers Bonits : at Expense of Consumer,   Says F. DLR.

Brands Bankhead Bill Inflationary And Dangerous; Congress May Override Veto

BANKHEAD BILL IS VETOED BY PRESIDENT   Says Measure Is Dangerous To Inflation War

President Turns His Thumbs Down on Measure To Exclude Benefit Payments from Parity Price Formula   WOULD RAISE LIVING COST   Chief Executive Makes Plea To Avoid Inflation by Upsetting Plans

Veto or Farm Bill May Open Major Fight   President Gives Warning to Farmers and Labor Leaders

Prosident Refuses To Sign Bil To Include Benefit Payments In parity Formulas

Act Would Forbid Bene) fit Payments in Figuring Parity Formulas y

Bankhead Bill  Gets Veto   ».. FDR Deciares Parity Measure Inflationary

WOULD BOOST LIVING COST U.S. FOOD BILL   President Wants Farm Benefits Included in Figuring of Parity

Declares It Breaks Down Barriers Which Must Be Maintained To Avoid All Disasters of Inflation, Is Inconsistent With Stabilization Program, and Dangerous To Farm Policy and Whole War Effort.

Bill Scored as Inflationary, Dangerous    Measure Would Have Increased Farm Prices By Excluding Benefits From Parity Formulas

PRESIDENT’ DECLARES IN MESSAGE THE MEASURE BREAKS DOWN BAR. RIER AGAINST INFLATION

Plan Called  Inflationary  In Character   Breaks Barriers Erected To Avert Disaster, President Declares In Rejecting Measure

BANKHEAD BILL 1S VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT TODAY   'Mr. Roosevelt Branded It Inflationary and Dangerous in His Message.   EXCLUDED BENEFITS   It Breaks Down the Barriers Erected and Which Must Be Maintained.

FD. R. Rejects Bill To Boost  Parity Price:   Measure To Exclude Benefit Payments From Parity  Marked Inflationary.   RETURNED TO SENATE

Measure Is Dangerous,  Is Message   President Believes That - Passage Would Lead to  Inflation

Presidcnt vetoes  Bankhead measure   Bill to boost farm prices ‘dangerous and inflationary’

F.D.R. Vetoes Bankhead Bill And Warns Of Inflation   Author of Measure To Boost Farm Prices  Sees Stern Effort La ow (iveeseastl a Watekn

Roosevelt Vetoes Bankhead Farm Price Increase Bill Branding It As Inflationary   Estimates It Would Increase Living Costs At Least 5 Per Cent, and Several Hundred Million Dollars te Cost of Feeding Armed Forces and Allies; Congress Strong for It

First State Bank Deposits Increases $90,593.91   Spinney and Yeager Named to Board of Directors.

Bank Deposits  Show Increase o  $132,797.52   Total Deposits of $1,440,511.30 In October Report.

Nazis Expend Thousands To Check Soviets   But Their Best Efforts Are Failing To Do More Than Slow Up Russians

NAZIS HURL HEAVY FORCES AT SOVIETS  IN CAUCASUS AREA      All Attacks By By Nazis Are Thrown Back With Heavy Enemy  ; Losses

Russians Repulse Repeated Attacks By Nazis in Northwest Caucusas

NAZIS HURL HUGE FORCES AGAINST: REDS IN CAUCASU   But Soviet“Armies are. Push: dng" *Relentlessly to Crush Axis Bridgehead.

Hurl Thousands Into Red Clash   Russians Say Attacks Repulsed With Losses

Russians repel all attacks   Germans hurl new troops and planes in fray

6 7 Nazi Planes ~ Downed By Reds      Germans Hurl Thousands Of Men Into Effort  To Stop Soviet Drive In Caucasus

Chicken Pie Supper At Legion Hall November 11  Auxiliary Ladies es Os Th. p,.kit.

Chicken Pie Supper At Legion Hall November 11  Serving Starts At , 5:30 P.M. Today

TIME CHANGE ISSUE FOR MICHIGAN, OHI TAKEN 10 WASHINGTON      Govs. Kelly And Bricker Head Delegation To Confer With WPB Officials   NELSON DOESN'T OBJECT

MAXEY TAKES OATt AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF PENNSYLVANIA   Attorney John Arnold of Clearfield, Bar Association President, Welcomes New Chief As Lawyer and Oratot  lSTRARNE SWORN IN

NAZIS REJECT SWEDISH CLAIM   Germans Also Voice Warning to Press

Nazis Reject Swedes’ Note  On Ship Loss      Berlin Papers Declare Germany Will Not Tolerate Prejudiced Press,   ISAY VESSELS WARNED

GERMANS REJECT SWEDISH PROTESTS   Zerlin Press Rants over Anti-Nazi Views Taken by Sweden’s Newspaners

BERLINREIECTS SWEDISH PROTES]   Nazis Say Lost Fishing Boats Were Operating in Blockaded Waters.

® Berlin Rejects Swedish Protests  Says Fishing Boats Operating in Waters Narvic Had Rlackodac

NAZIS REJECT PROTEST MADE BY STOCKHOLM   Warn ‘Suitable Steps’ will be Tak. en in Future Against Boats— Swedish Press Castigated

ITALY PLANS Der sii FOR. INVASION —      Naples Raid Forces. Italians To Take Notice

Italian Cabinet Session Is Called   Reports Circulate That Armistice Proposal Will Be Considered   CENSORSHIP IN ITALY EXTENDED

UNCONFIRMED. REPORT SAYS TEN-POINT ARMISTICE PROPOSAL TO BE OFFERED THE ALLIES

ITALIAN CABINET MEETING TO PLAN DEFENSE OF ITALY   British Broadcast Says Matters Of Utmost — Importance Will Be Considered

ITALY CONSIDERS PLANS 10 COMBAT [INVASION THREAT   Cabinet Expected to Meet To day—Fate of Tunisian Forces May Be Decided.

ITALY TO HOLD CABINET MEET   ‘Important ‘Decisions’ Are Expected To Follow

Italy Plans to. Meet Invasion  Cabinet Expected ‘Tos Convene Todav

Italian Cabinet In Special Session   Unéonfirmed Reports State - Armistice Is Being Drafted

ROME MEETING STUDIES PLAN TO END WAR   Fall of Messina only few days away; Nazis in tight trap

GH ITALIANS “0 PROPOSE ARMISTICE   Offer to Allies May Be Held Up Until Sicily Falls

OFFICERS PLANNING DEFENSES   Cabinet Is Expected to Meet Today to Further Program to Meet Threat. .

POST-WAR POLICE PLAN SEEN- NEED   Meeting of Allied Chieftains Which wi Suard Peace .}

POST - WAR PLAN TO GUARD PEACE   Big Three Likely To Discuss Police Force  For Eurove

Re or: 2 ae Dareai: aac Sai i ‘fee ing Var he on 0s W. at - > ar ) %o ice trove anc. “ICC e Sasé

Big 3 Leaders To Meet Soon, Reports State   European Peace Police Proposed as Subject Eocene Oreasctdlac

U.S. Weapons Aid French in Terror Raids   Even Field Artillery Is Being Used by Patriots in Sabotave

RUSSIA REPORTS STEADY ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT   Three-Fourths Of Kharkov Province Cleared Of  Axizt Traonnse   CLEAN-UP PROCEEDS IN DONETS REGION

Reporter Journeys to...  Knothole of the West  And Lives to Tell

CITES NEED FOR FARM WORKERS   Boost Of 287.600 Required To Meet 44 Goals

FOOD DIRECTOR ASKS MORE AID FOR 1944 CROP   4% Increase Over 1943 Asked; Thousands of Workers Imported

GERIMANS SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES   Russians Take Great Toll of Germans and Materiel.

RedsRepulse Attar, ‘s On Southern Sect —  Enemy Losses [ lenis Ly

HERSHEY SEES BACK-T0-FARM MOVEMENT   Draft Chief Says Outlook Brighter in Agricultural States

Prisoners of War May Work on Farms      Many German and Italian Prisoners In United States

“AXIS PRISONERS SOON MAY WORK "ON U.S, FARMS   Back-to-Farm Trend Now © Apparent, Says Draft Chieftains

Case Heads For Courts To Decide  Settlement   Portal-To-Portal Pay Issue Is " At Stake

Decision May Favor Miners   War Labor Board Likel) To Allow Travel Pay, It Is Believed

TO THROW DISPUTE INTO LITIGATION      Labor Members of WLB Expected to Vote Against Move

 Board Eays It’s A Case For The Courts  WLB Rejects Miners’ Portal Wage Demand

Portal-Pay Ruling By WLB Expected Today   Award May Be Substantially Less Than $1.30 Per Day Agreed Upon By Groups

MINE DISPUTE DECISION IS ABOUT READY   War Labor Board Expected to Rule Today on Award For Underground Travel

New Crisis Appears in Coal Dispute   WLB Expected to Toss Portal-to-Portal Pay Issue Into Litigation

Decision Handed Down By Board In Vote Of 8-4   Demand Refused On Ground That UMW Request Is Court Case That War Board Is Powerless To Settle

WLB DECISION 1° EXPECTED SOON IN COAL MINERS CASE   Definite Sum Is Expected T« Be Awarded Soft Coa Miners for Undergrounc ‘Travel Time; Board Mem bers Believed Favorablk To This Decision.

NEW CRISIS IN MINE DISPUTE IS FORECAST   War Labor Board Decision Throwing Portal-to-Portal Pay Into Litigation Is Expected   STILL TALK STRIKE

—WAR LABOR BOARD—  Lewis Turned Down   Underground Travel Pay Denied Miners

Labor Members Dissent In 8-4 Decision; John L. Lewis Comment Withheld

Powerless To Act, Contends Federal Board   New Crisis Anticipated As Result Of Decision  On Portal - To - Portal inn  Beeere

Miner Pay Plea Is  Rejected   Portal-to-Portal Demand Left Up To Court by WLB.

WLB Rejects Miners’ Pay Plee   Beard Helds Pertal-to-Pertal Wege Demend Is Issue for Court and One Thet it is Powerless te Settle

WLB May Rule On Coal Today   Miners May Get Definite Sum for Underground Travel

SOFT COAL WAG DISPUTE PENDS NEW CRISIS      Expected Decision May Put Portal Issue Into Litigation

Courts May Get Coal Dispute   War Labor Board to Suggest Court Test, It Ils Believed

Miner Travel Pay Demand Rejected .....   WLB Asserts Portalto-Portal Issue a Lawsuit Which They May Not Decide .

WLB 10 RULE SOON ON PORTAL TO PORTA MINE PONTROVERSY   Award Expected To Be Less Than $1.30. Granted Penn-. _.sylyania Miners   UMW REVIEWS THE CASE

NEW CRISIS LOOMS IN COAL DISPUTE   WLB Decisions Throws Portal-Pay Issues To Litigation

WLB Rejects Miners’ Portal - to - Portal Pay Demand By 8 to 4 Vote

PORTAL TO PORTAL PAY DEMAND OF THE MINERS REJECTEL   The War Labor Board An. nounced It Constituted a Law Case.   The Vote Was 8 to 4, the Labor Members Casting Dissenting Votes.

Coal! Strike Decision May  Come Today   Board Expected to Leave Travel Pay Issue Up to Courts

Decision Due Today In Coal Wage Dispute   WLB May Refer Case To Courts

SEE DECISION IN MINE CASE   WLB Expected To Rule On Underground Travel  Pay Issue

o Receive age Boost  a Due   War Labor Board Slated to Grant Increase to Workers for Travel  Under Ground   DECISION ON UMW’S - DEMAND EXPECTED   ‘nion Policy Committee Meets This Afternoon io Review Dispute Over Pay Boost

Portal Pay Demand Is Rejected   A Case for Courts, Says the War Labor Board in Decision on Miners’ Case   NO IMMEDIATE COMMENT BY LEWIS   No Strike Agreement Must Be Carried Out, Says Van A. Bittner

WLB Decides Can't Decide   Turns Down Miners’ Demand, Says Is Law Case

Travel Pay in Pit Is Denied ‘By 8-4 Ballot   Ex-UMW Official on WLB Says No-Strike . Agrsement Stands

WLB Decision May Precipate New Coal Crisis   8-4 WLB Vote Expected, Thereby Throwing Wage Issue Into Litigation. 

LABOR BOARD REJECTS MINE TRAVEL PAY   Says Workers May Still Seek Settlement Through Other Means

WLS Rejects Coal Miners’ Pay Claims   Declares Portal-to-Portal Compensation Demanded by UMW Is a J.aw Case Which the Board Is Powerless to Settle.

REJECT PORTAL PAY   Coal Miner Plea One fox Court to Determine, ,  WLB Rules

Coal Dispute Expected To Go to Court   WLB Believed Ready To Pass Up PortalTo-Portal Decision

WLB Decision On Coal Issue   SCALE OF PAY FOR MINERS DECIDED UPON

Expect 'WLE To Decide  Travel Pay      May Award Definite Sum to Miners Rather Than Throw Portal To Portal Issue Out

New Crisis Looms In Miners’ Wage  Dispute On Rumored W.L.B. Decision   Board Reported To Be Ready To Throw PortalTo-Portal Pay Issue Into Litigation; May Announce Decision Late Today.

Eve terre iesienennieneneenenmemmemesanennenentenenenmmemmnenadinemnemmabnemmnnemmncieettiend  WLB Expected to Fix Miners Pay

Mine Portal Pay Rejected By WLB In 84 Decision   Issue Is Subject For Courts, Wage Group Contends

Portal Pay May be Lett To Courts   Ruling May Say Miners May  Go to Courts  If They Choose

WLB rejects UMW portal pay demand   Constitutes law case. board says

LB PASSING ANY RULING  MINE WAGES   ported Ready to Leave io Litigation Issue of Portal-to-Portal Pay   NERS TO DECIDE™ ON COURT ACTION   specte d Eight to Four ecision to Precipitate few Crisis In Nation’s Coal Industry

WAR LABOR BOARD REJECTS PORTAL PAY DEMAND OF MINERS  PORTAL-TO-PORTAL MAT.  TER INVOLVES LAW CASE   AWN BNAADNK DAUWCDI cree

Reject Miners’ Wage Demands   WLB Says Portal-To-Portal Pay Question Out Of Its Jurisdiction.

‘Vote Eight to Four with Labor Members Dissenting—Bittner, Once Mine Work. er, Says No Strike Pledge Holds   ‘Decision of Government’

Report Vote To Be 8 To 4 Against Demands Made By Lewis’ Body   Ruling May Come Late Today; Might Precipitate New Crisis In Coal Row

NEW CRTG{G EEN IN GOAL BATTLE   Portal-To-Portal Pay Issue May Be Sent To Court By WLB *

WLB Rule On Mines  Soon   Underground Travel Pay for Portestants Top Problem

WAR LABOR BOARD REJECTS U. Mi. W. PORTAL PAY CLAIM   Declare it Constitutes a Law Case Which the Board Is Powerless to Settle—Vote Was 8 to 4.

Decision Of WLB To Put Portal Issue In Courts   New Crisis In Long Dispute To Be Precipitated By Ruling Due Today

WLB ON VERGE GF MINE WAGE ‘DECISION   Board Members Reported Leaning To Definite Sum for Travel Time

Expect Decision of WLB in Portal-toPortal Issue Today   Capital Opinion Is That Finding Will Throw It Into Litigation

SENATE GROUP GETS EARLY DRAFT Of MANPOWER - STUDY   Shows. Possible Ways Of ‘Solving Present: Muddle Not To Be Published . At Present

HOUSE TO HOUSE DRIVE TO START THIRD WAR LOAN   State And County Organizations Perfect Plans For Bond Selling Effort Which Will Begin On September 9.

‘Billions From Millions” Is Keynote Of Third War Loan Drive Beginning September 9

rrench Koyalisi Plot In Africa Claimed Nipped  Darlan Apparently   Darlan Apparently “Refused To Play” In Monarchy Deal

French Royalist Plot In Africa Claimed Nipped   Darlan Appareritly “Refused To Play” In Monarchy Deal

GERMAN-INSPIRED PEACE TALK GOES ROUNDS IN EUROPE   Purpose Appears to Be to Lead Allies to Believe That Russia May Step Out of War.   RUMANIA IS SAID TO SEEK ARMISTICE   Balkans Told Nazi Retreat in Russia Is Being Made Under Agreement With Stalin.

Rumors Of Separate Peace Heard   Nazis, Losing In Russia Try to Split Allies

BERLIN STARTS PEACE FEELERS   Propaganda Campaign Is Launched From Many Different Angles

GERMANS START PEACE OFFENSIVE   Want Allies To Believe Truce With Russia Is Likely

Nazi Lie Mill Grinds Out  Peace Feelers   Hints Withdrawal From Russia Under Agreement

PEACE FEELERS AGAIN RIFE IN AXIS CAPITALS   Nazi Disasters Jn Russia Bring Flood of German Propaganda; Rumania  Is “Guinea Pig”

Kumanians Seek Armisf ice  Campaign Of Peace Rumors Is Opened By Germans

Nazi Disaster in Russia Inspires Flood of Peace  Rumors From Many Points

Germany Springs New Peace Rumor  Would Frighten Allie: On Russian Stalemate

U. S., Britain, Russia And China Stress Unity, Vow To Punish Guilty

United Action for Pos!-War Security Has Been Assured  Closest Military

UNITED NATIONS PLEDGE UNITY IN POST-WAR PEACE   DECLARATION SIGNED BY U. S., BRITAIN, RUSSIA AND CHINA

Control Over Italy Will Be Set Up—Regulation of Armaments Will Be Attempted

Allies Pledge United Action in Peace Days   Decisions Reached at Moscow Conference Announced Monday

Allies Pledge Kreedom For Axis Victims   Ouiline General Interna - tional Organization For   Maintaining Peace.   MAP FATE OF REICH

All For One, One For All Pledges Made In Moscow   Complete Surrender By Germany, Satellites ls Demanded

ALL AGREED UPON STEPS FOR FUTURE   Ruissia Is Included In Agreements  ‘Of Powers

4 Nations Plan Post-War Body   China, Russia, Britain and U. S. Sign Declaration at Moscow — Stress Unity of Action and Consultation Against Common Enemy

Big Four Agree On United Action  In Postwar Peace   US, Great Britain, Russia and China Pledge Themselves to Establish an  ' International Organization for Maintaining Peace and Security

TRI-PARTITE DECLARATION PIVEN TODAY   Four Nations To Unite In Peace Requirements

Tri-Power European Advisory Commission to be Established to Examine European Questions as they Arise   .FREE ITALY, AUSTRIA PLEDGED   ‘Powers Agree After War They Will Not _ Employ Armed Forces in Other States Except as Agreed Upon

Will Fight Until Foes Defeated   A Free Italy and Free Austria Are Also Pledged

U. S., Britain, Russia, China Pledge Unity   Far-Reaching Decisions On War Accord Reached At Moscow Conferences Announced

Russia, U.S., Britain And China Agree To A Free Post-War Austria   Three Powers Set Up “European Advisory Commission” In London

RESTORATION NON-FASCIST TTALY PLANNED   Agreement Provides RooseyelChurchillStalin Pledge to Punish Those   «= Guilry of Atrocities   MILITARY ACTION ALSO IS REVIEWED   “General Internationa! Organization” for Maintaining Peace and Securitv Provided For

United action in peace to follow defeat of enemy   Hull, Eden, Molotov sign careement at conference

Promuse To Punish Hitlerites   Non-Fascist Italy Also Cited in Moscow Conference Document

Consultation, Unity of Action By Three Powers Stressed at Moscow Meet

U.S., Britain, Russiaand  China Pledgeto Maintain . Peace and Securityin World   They Also Promise Establishment of Nor. Fascist Italy and Free Austria and Agree To Closest Military Cooperation

An International Organization Aim  Of Allied Nations   Declaration Is Result of Tri-Partite Conference Held at Moscow.   To Punish Those Who  Committed Atrocities

Russia, Britain, U.S. and China Sign Compact   Moscow Parley Comes to End With Aqreement

Organization To Maintain Peace Will Be Formed   Non-Fascist Italy And Free Austria Will Be Rectnred   HARMONY REPORTED   Persons Guilty Of Airocities Will Be Punished By Allies

Agreements Of Moscow Meet Given   General International Group to Be Formed; Stress Action Unity

FOUR NATIONS - PLEDGE SELVES > JOUNITED ACTS   Declaration: for Pe Peace Af‘ter Defeat of Enemies:: Agpreed

Four Powers Pledge Ful Collaboration for Peace   Joint Statement From Moscow, With China Concurring, Demands Unconditional Nazi Surrender, Fixes Terms for Italy Truce

BIG 4’ SIGNS PACT TO KEEP WORLD PEACE   Moscow Conferees Agree On International Pe= lice Force

China Joins Big Three In Signing Moscow Pac As Details Are Revealer

United action for peace and security to follow defeat guilty aggressors   Agreement signed at Moscow calls for international organization

Joint Action For Victory ls Promised   Restoration of Italy As Non Fascist State Stands High On List

RIVER TO HIT CREST IN CINCINNATI TODAY   Residents Prepare for “Mopping up” Procedure

BOMBER LOST AT KISKA   One American Plane Shot Down By  Anti-Aireraft Fire

JONES ASKS FOR BILLION TO PUT INTO SUBSIDIES   Marvin Jones Urges Congress To Extend Life Of CCC, Add $500,000,000 To Fund To Give Farmers Higher Prices In 1944. :

JONES. ASKS JUMPIN CCC   FOOD HEAD URGES SOLON: TO GRANT $500,000,000

Funds for © Subsidies. Requested   Marvin Jones Gives Con gress an Outline of Program on Food Production   PRICE GUARANTEE TO FARMER ASKED   Would Extend Life of CCC in Order to Meet the Increased. Costs

Jones Appeals for Food Subsidy Fund   Says Production Costs Are Higher

NEW LIFE FOR COC IS SOUGHT   Increase of Half Billion in  Funds Also Asked

JONES ASKS THAT C. C. C. BE EXTENDED   War Food Administrator Urges Life of Commodity Credit Corporation Be Continued   TO GUARANTEE PRICES

MORE FARM AID URGED BY JONES   Offers Price Subsidy Plan; Would Extend CCC’s Life

MARVIN JONES OPENS FIGHT FOR SUBSIDIES   Urges Guaranteed Prices at Some. what Higher Levels for Crops, Asking Funds for CCC

Jones Asks CCC Funds,  Extension   Would Add $500 Millions To Borrowine Power lor Subsidies

Asks Funds for Food Subsidies   Half - Billion Requested by WFA Chief

Says Would Let Government Guarantee Farmers Higher Prices For 1944

CONGRESS ASKED TO SUPPORT CCC   FOOD ADMINISTRATOR URGES AN INCREASE IN BORROWING POWER

Urges Funds For C. C. C.   Food Administrator Opens Fight for Farm Price Support Plan .

Think European  War WillEnd =  Next Summer Experts Advance Date for Close

Observers Believe Collapse of Nazis Will Take Place Next Summer or Fall

OBSERVERS AGREE WAR WILL CLIMAX BY NEXT SUMMER   Collapse Of Germany Is Expected To Come ’ Before Winter Of 1944

ALLIED OBSERVERS SEE WAR'S CLIMAX BY MIDDLE OF 1944   Collapse Of Germany Predicted Before Next Winter

Observers Agree European War Should Reach Climax By Middle Next Summer

EUROPEAN WAR CLIMAX IS SEEN BY NEXT SUMMER        nm Of tern Europe Is Believed Set For Next Vear

REDS: PUSH CLOSER 10 NAZI] KEVS      Vyazma Below Moscow and  Staraya Russa Are Hard Pressed   MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN GREAT SMASH   Russians Are Pouring Through Gaps in German Limes on Central Front

In Times of Stress Make More Out Of Less, Says Author of Article

NHARKUY oGENE UF oTREET WAR: LAPIURE oUEt   Fall of Russia’s. Fourth Largest City Expected Momenter ly.

FIRES RAGING UNCHECKED Ik AHARKGVY   Germans Applying Torch Before Leaving Doomed City

FIGHTING IS RAGING IN STREETS   Soviets Continue Tc Gain In Summer Offensive

Germans Prepare  To Flee Kharkov   Nazis Put Torch To Ukrain. ian Industrial City As They Begin Evac nation

CAPTURE OF KARACHEY IS NOW REPORTED   Key to Bryansk’s de-fenses fell yesterday after bitter fighting

REDS BATTER DOWN DESNA RIVER LINE   Last Barrier Before Dnieper; . Pour Toward Smolensk  and Kiey to Clinch Double Victory.   Last Escape Route

Soviet Forces Crack German Line at Desna   Troops Within 3 Miles Of Melitopol Start a ee 5 bee cc

Reds Shatter Desna Line, Pour Towards  Smolensk and Kiev   Clinching of Great Double Victory Would Hurl Germans Back to Poland: 1,117 Towns and Villages Recaptured

SOVIET DRIVE GAINS SPEED   Desna River Line Battered Down by Red Armies

RUSSIAN ARMIES SPEEDING TOWARD SHOLENSK, KIEV   Reds 18 Miles From Bastion on Central Fronf and 25 From Capital of Ukraine.   LAST NAZI BARRIER BEFORE DNIEPER FALLS   Strongly Fortified Chernigov, 30 Miles From River, ' Taken After 3-Day  Pattia.

ARMY CASUALTY LISTS GROWING   Stimson Reports Total fo Clark’s Forces at 10,659 Since Sent. 9

CASUALTIES IN ITALY>   Stimson Gives Figures From Salerno Landing to Date

Fifth Army Losses Rise   Total 10,659 in Italy, With 1,613 Known Dead

Author Dies Unexpectedly  Stephen Vincent Benet Heart Attack Victim

Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, Author, Dies in New York   American Poet and Story Writer Succumbs After Tilness of Several Days; Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1929 With His “TIohn Brown's Body”

AUTHOR BENET ‘DIES IN NEW YORI   Heart Attack Fatal to Pulitzer Poetry Prize Winner

Benet, Noted Author, Dies   Succumbs After Short Iliness; Widow and Daughters at Bedside

STEPHEN BENET DEATH VICTIM   Well Known Author Dies Following Heart Attack; Aged 44.

STEPHEN. BENET, ‘NOTE POET, DEAD   Author of “John Brown’s Body” Halted Writing To Do War Work.

OTEPHEN V. BENET DNES EARLY: TODAY   Noted Author, Poet Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry In 1929.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET STRICKEN IN NEW YORK   Ameriean Poet and Story Write Tiex Tnday.

INTENSIVE ADVANCE TICKET SALE FAIR, RODEO 1S PLANNED  THOROUGH CANVASS OF  CmIECe KHICTDITT pr   THOROUGH CANVASS OF BUSINESS DISTRICT BE STARTED AT ONCE

INTENSIVE. ADVANGE TICKET SALE FAIR, RODEO I$ PLANNED  THOROUGH CANVASS OF BUSINESS DISTRICT BE STARTED AT ONCE

Giraud, DeGaulle May Meet Soon, Make Final Arrangements for Fusion Of French Command: Notes Exchanged

Giraud Proposes Action at Once   Agreement Foreseen With DeGaulle

RT... . .14%..A LWEWS bDEeuoina  The News   WASHINGTON By Ray Tocker

Aerial Fleets Rock German Cities, Coast Paris, Berlin Radi  Silence Points  - To New Raid

Invasion Coast of Europe Heavily Bombed  ‘Berlin and Paris   ‘Berlin and Paris Radios Fall Silent in Raids

LEGION PLANS FOR ARMISTICE PARADE   Banquet to Precede Pro cession on November secs Eleventh _

LEGION PLANS FOR ARMISTICE PARADE      Banquet to Precede Pro. cession on November Eleventh

COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES   Congress Opposes, bul No Ban on Food Payments

Congress Studies New Compromise  For Subsidy Plan   Would Place “Blame”

 An Eventful Day In Lives Of Correspondents; They Capture Italian Town Ahead Of Britist

TRIUMPHANT, CRAZY DAY RELATED BY WAR GORRESPONDENT  FIVE AMERICAN CORRES_ PONDENTS CAPTURE TOWN THEMSEIVES

Victory Hailed As Greatest In Italian War  _ Salt Laker on   _ Salt Laker on Battleground, ‘Enjoying Show’

Admiral Standley Leaves Moscow  Believe Ambassador Will Not Return

ADMIRAL ST ANDLEY IS EN ROUTE TO CAPITAL   Moscow Considers It Unlikely ‘American Ambassador WU  Return To Soviet Post

BADOGLIO FLED NAZIS AT ROME; SAFE WITH ALLIES   Premier Negotiates Armistice Phases With Con, Fisenhower

Report Says _ Badoglio Safe In Allied Hands   German Effort To. Set Up Mussolini Gains Little Support.

Standley Coming Home from Soviet   Badoglio Safe in Italy In Allied-Held Territory

Smash Forward From Salerno, Take 2 Islands   Bring Big Italian Port Within Range Of Artillery; Germans Admit Fierce’ Attacks as British, Americans Seize Town of Roccadaspide.

BADOGLIO SAFE IN ALLY-HELD PART OF ITALY   )  Made His Escape Through Nazi  Lines Around Rome.—No Following for Il Duce Regime.

BADOGLIO ESCAPES GERMANS IN ROME; SAFE WITH ALLIES   Premier Busy Mapping Out Various Phases Of Armistice By italy

Moscow Dateline   ‘Everyone, Except Those Who Should Know, Realized Germany and Russia Were About To Come to Grips’.

You'll Want To Follow This Factual And Dynamic Story  “Moscow Dateline? 28 S582  At Moscow

All But Those Who Should Know Predicted Soviet War   Former Correspondent In Moscow Gives Th Inside Story Abouf Russian-German War

Battles Rage in Bend of Dnieper   Russian Tanks and Assault Troops Press in on Encircled Germans

British Eighth Drives Forward Four Miles Over Rain-Drenched Italian Battlefront; Reds Advance in North   FIFTH ARMY FRONT  REMAINS UNCHANGED

Claim Nazi Attacks Are Now Stalled   New Threats to Germay Positions in Big Russian  Offensives

BEND IS ON IN EARNEST   100,000 Germons Reported Attacking Soviets in Waves

Powerful Soviet, Nazi Forces In  In All-Out Fight For Dneiper Bend   Sth Army Advances On Italian Front

Interpreting he War   Hitler Perhaps to Pose Again As Army Chief

Says ‘Newspaper Axis Fosters Ill Will Between UN   Ickes Accuses Hearst, Patterson, McCormick of Hating Leaders

ICKES FLAYS ANTI-SOVIETS   Says Hearst - McCormick ‘Axis’ Fosters Hate Against Allies

Sec. Ickes Scores Hearst Press And Patterson-McCormick Papers   Chicago Publisher in Reply Says Cabinet Officer Does Dirtiest Work for New Deal

ICKES LETS LOOSE ATTACK ON PAPER!   Hearst Press and Patter. son-McCormick Publications Hit

Hull’s Ideas  Would Alter  Peace Codes   Would Abolish Pact-Making as Club Held Over Enemies

HULL'S FREEDOM FROM ALLIANCES IS SOMETHING NEW  SINCE TRIBES AND STATE!   SINCE TRIBES AND STATES EXISTED THERE HAVE BEEN ALLIANCES

Separate North African’ Theatre of Operations Is Created, :   FRENCH IN NEW GROUP

British 60 Miles In side Tunisia; Russian: Move To Close Rostov Trap On Nazis.

Willkie, Stalin ‘Aid in Romance   Newsman to Be Wec To Russian Girl

REDS DOWN 44 GERMAN PLANES   SHARP ACTION FLARES AGAIN NEAR RUSSIA IN THE SEVSK AREA

FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ON KURSK AREA AGAIN   Reds Down 44 Nazi Planes Last Saturday

SHARP ACTION FLARES ON SEVSK FRONT   44 German Planes Shot Down Saturday In That Region

Reds Disperse German Planes   HEAVY AIR ACTION Is REPORTED BY RUSSIANS

Action Flares — Up Near Kursk   Russian Artillery Disperses Two Nazi Battalions With Loss

Reds Disperse Nazi Infantry; Down 44 Planes   Points to Major Activity Near Russian Kursk  Rase.   Heavy Soviet Troop Movements Reported

Heavy Movement  Of Troops Noted   But Russian Artillery Fire Disperses Nazi Forces   SOVIETS IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS

Action Flares In Region Of Kursk  Nazis Are Reinforcing Front For Assault

Sevsk Area Scene Of Sharp Fighting  Two Battalions Of Nazi Infantry Are  Deukler Ame thketl abn

HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN ROMMEL 'GTH ARMY GOES OA   Churchill Told Commons,  Nazis Had Restored Mar eth Line Breach.

NAZI TANKS ‘KNOCKED OUT: -BYULS. ARMY   Germans Regain Ground Formerly Lost To British Army

First Round In Battle Of Tunisia Ends In Draw, Churchill Reveals; Yanks Drive Six Miles Past Maknassy

8th Army Falls Back; Yankees Smash Ahead   Montgomery Loses Most Of New Mareth Bridgehead, Then Holds   V. 5. GUNNERS SCORE   35 To 40 German Tanks Blown Up By American Artillery Fire

Battle Continues; { Abandonment Of Mareth Line Due   Communique Announces 2,000 Taken Prisoner by Eighth Army; Retreat From Line Begun, Algiers Reports Say

AMERICANS, BRITISH IN HARD FIGHT   German Counter-blow All but Wipes Out Bridgehead of 8th Army.

35 Rommel Tanks Left In Retreat   U. S. Artillery Fire Too Hot for Nazis; British Lose Grip

Americans Destroy 30 Tanks, Take Prisoners;  Sth Army Has Setback

SA oe is encanta omer ol RET SSR: Ee  Italy Admits Heavy Losses In Russia

MINES IDLE AS MEN AWAIT INFORMATION   Meeting Called Here Tomorrow Night At 7:30 O'Clock

MINES IDLE AS MEN AWAIT INFORMATION   Meeting Called  Here Tomorrow Nigh At 7.91 OSMack

NEW CASES REPORTED    State Health Board States Polio May Be on the Upswing .

DR. SHELDON IS 86      Author of “Ty His Stepa” Is Still Crusading

EXTEND RUSSJAP FISHING LEASE   GIVES JAPAN ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF FISHING PRIVILEGES

RUSSIA EXTENDS JAP FISHING PRIVITECES   Fishing Rights Allowed On Basis of Original Agreement. Rate Increased 5 Per Cent

Treaty Renewed By Reds, Japs   Fishing Privileges For Japanese Extended

Powertul Offensive Continues  Nip Plane Loss Totals 123 In  ° a oan aoe Tincre

NEW BLOWS ARE STRUCK AGAINST FOES   By Land, Sea And Air Ag Allies Push Forward In  Powerful Offensive In Pacific   Crop 23 Tons

‘CAN SOLVE’ SMALL PLANTS PROBLEM   Johnson Gives Self Six Months For Job

Aid Promised Nation’s Small Industrial Plants      Sub-Contracts _ To Be Forced, ‘New Chief: Savs

SEES CHANCE FOR SMALLER U, S. PLANTS   New Chairman Thinks Problem Can Be Licked In Sie Months

S CLAIM THEY BEAT OFF ALLIES ON SOUTH PACIFIC   Tokyo Says S. Pacific Move Was Defeated

JAPS CLAIM VICTORY IN SOLOMONS   Beat Off Allied Invasion Force, Tokyo Reports

JAPS SAY YANKS TRY NEW ATTACKS IN SOLOMONS   Allies Do Not Confirm Tokyo Report; Hankow Raided Sy Ameri rar Pleanea.

COAL MINING HAMPERED   Operators . Appeal to Governor ‘to id Draft Change

Investment Firms Face  Suit by SEC   Groups Charged With Have Perpetrated Fraudulent Practices

Business Frozen In Investor Co.   Suit Is Filed Against Large Group Claiming Fraud Perpetrated.

FRAUB ‘CHARGED IN SEC SUIT   Business of Investors Syndicate Is “Frozen”

S.E.C. Sues. Investors Syndicate   One of. Nation’s Largest Groups Charged With ‘Frandulent Practices’   ‘FREEZE’ ORDER FOLLOWS ACTION   Such Restraint Is Held to Be Necessary Pending Hearing in Court

Big Investment Concern Indicted By SEC; Gaston _ People Are Stockholders

WLB INTENDS STICKING TO PAY FORMULA   Board Vice-Chairman Expects Pressure From Wage Earners Soon

Increased Corn Ceilings May Aid Dairymen In East   OPA Boosts Prices Nine Cents Per Bushel To Relieve Shortages

Premier Stalin Congratulates British — And Americans On Tunisian Successes

NAVY REVEALS ATTACK BY U.S. FORCES   Nipponese Claim Fierce Battle Now in Progress

STRONG FORGES MOVE 10 OUST NIP INVADERS   Tokyo Reports Severe Fighting—Washington Withholds Details   U. S. DRIVE NO SURPRISE   Likelihood Of Assaults On Islands Subject Of Recent Conjectures

NAVY. REVEALS FEW DETAILS OF LANDING AND FIGHTING FOR JAP\HELD ALEUTIAN ISLAND CLOSER TO JAPAN THAN ENEMY-KISKA BASE. “TTS TERRIFIC. ‘AERIAL BLOWS BEING “St STRUCK BY ‘ALLIED PLANES      Ry INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

Influenza Hits Michigan With Epidemic Force   15 To 20 Per Cent O: State’s Population Affected   Germany Stricken By Flu Outbreak

PLENTY OF EXPLANATIONS   Berlin Radio Offers Two for Resig. nation of Giraud

: A COLUMN. ABOUT IOWA   Muscatine County Man Industrial Commissioner

Two Inspectors Suspended After Glider Crash   War Dept. Makes Public Report of Findings in St. Louis

PROBERS SUSPEND TWO INSPECTORS      St. Louis Glider Mishap Brings Inquiry By 3 Groups

LIQUOR PROBLEM IN OHIO STUDIED   State Bulk Purchases Are Suggested as Possible Solution for Shortage

GES OTTLE ITS OWN LIQUOR   esentative Says Stat uld Relieve Shortage By Buying In Bulk. °   TAIL RATION SOUGHT   rs’ Association Would mit Package Sales To Qiart-2-Week.

ACL NAMED 1 FOREST POST I MARTI REGIE  Cabinet Is Completed; Kell Is County   NAYNESBORO PUBLISHER COMMERCE SECRETARY

700 JAPS SLAIN IN DRIVE NORTH FROMTENGYUEH   Abortive Attack From Nip Advance Base of Salween River Dealt With by Chinese   BATTLE CONTINUES   New Attack Follows Renewed Assaults by Jap Forces. Attempting to Pierce China’s Rice Bowl

American Planes in  Big Raids   Fortresses Bomb Sicily and Other Axis Bases in  Mediterranean

SIX GERMAN GUNBOATS ARE SUNK   British Fliers Damage 3 Others Off Cherbourg

BRITISH AIR FORCE MAKE RAIDS OVER ENGLISH CHANNEL   Desiroy 6 Axis Gunboats And Damage Three More  ‘Off Cherbourg _  Paninenrla

British Destroy Enemy Gunboats   Six Vessels Blasted In English Channel

Treton Pioneer — Buried Sunday  Donald Johnson Came Here Fifty Years Ago

FOUR INJURED AS HOME BURNS   Jonnst’. an Woman, Falls from Third Lloor Apartment

More Power Given A. D. Whiteside   May Fix Amount of Rubber Allocated to Civilians, It Is Announced.

MAN KILLED, 30 INJURED: STREET CAR COLLISION   Resident Of Donora Is Seriously Hurt In Mishap

107 Listed as Available for  Service Calls   102 White and 5 Colore« Registrants in Draft Ouota

38 More Alton Men Eligible  F or Induetion   White Registrants Listed By Draft Board for Next Call

41 More Alton Men Available  For Induction   29 White, 12 Colored Registrants Listed by Board

56 More Alton Men Eligible  For Induction   Registrants Listed by Board for New Call in Draft

68More Alton Registrants on  Elivibles’ List   {3 White, 25 Colored Men Certified by Draft Board

44 More Alton Men Eligible  ForInduction   33 White, 11 Colored Registrants Listed By Board

39 More Alton Men Eligible  For Induction   Registrants Listed for Nex! Contingent by Draft Board

REDS CONTINUE CAUCASUS DRIVE   Seeking To Wipe Nazis Out Of Oil Field Invasion Springboard

AUSUIANG DRIVE AT NQVORDSSIOK   Capture Of Big Naval Base Would Smash Foe To  Black Sea

Dies Committee Finds Jap Camps Improperly Run   Lists 10 ‘Undesirable’ Conditions After Visit To Arizona Center  MUCH TESTIMONY Allowed Too Much  Self-Government, Report Declares

Fierce Battle Rages For Tiny Leros Isle   Germans Land More Reinforcements to Outnumber Defenders; City of Leros Still in Hands of British and Italians

Nazi forees © on Leros are strengthened   Anglo-Italian bodies split

Nazi Troops Clamp Tighter Hold On Aegean Island  Defenders Continue Fierce Fight For Strateaic Leros

TOTAL BOND SALES HERE $3,386,900   Washington County Quota Is Exceeded by Over $800,000

Bond Drive Past 3 Million Mark   Complete Reports Not In From Theatres, Stores, Other Agencies.

RESULT MAY SHAPE SPRING OFFENSIVE      Slow Attempted Envelopment of Nasi  Tunisian Army Proceeding;  Smolensk Salient Broken

Russians Admit Retreat To New Defense Line West of Ukraine City  NAZIS CLAIM HOLD ON WESTERN SECTION  Capture of Vyazma Opens Way for Drive By Reds on Smolensk

Sally From Mareth Line Proves Costly For Africa Corps  KEEP UP AERIAL WAR  U. S. Bombers Strike Rouen, All Return; Nazis Hit England

~ INFORD PLANT   Strike at Highland Park Due to Interference in Dice Game.

ee ee  War Workers Stop Labor When Crap Game in Ford Plant Is Broken Up

DISPUTE OVER DICE TIES uP FORD FACTORY   4,200 Workers Stop Jobs Because Game Is  Broken Up   SOME RETURN LATER   Work Stoppage Halts Production On Armored  War Vehicles

Work Delayed At Ford Plant  Dice Game Dispute   Dice Game Dispute Holds Up Schedule

4200 Highland Park Workers : Walk Off Jobs   [Rouge Foreman Beaten To Death By Negro ~ in Factory Ficht

RATION BOARD IN WATERLOO QUITS   Object to Order for Membership Increase

Waterloo OPA Board Resigns; Protest Move   Objects to Increasing Its Membership to 15 Under OPA Orders

Writer Back From Tunisia Gives Axis Few Weeks’ Grace There   BY ROBERT G. NEXON  >. at &€ Gia CE fF adeome rawasnaw

NAZI RADIO REPORTS DEATH OF A GENERAL   Berlin Broadcast Announces Majo1 General Von Reuss Killed in Don Bend Action.

WAR. STRATEGY IS DISCUSSED   President Moves Quickly To Translate Fighting Pledge Into Action

People Cheer War Pledges   FDR, Top Aides Swiftly Implement Strategy

JAPS: REPORT SUCCESS   Enemy Claims a Successful Air Raid on Rendova Harbor

BERLIN SAYS 'U. S. WARSHIPS IN MEDITEAN  _ Axis Convoy Off Holland Is Wreck acd -

Air Fields In Greece  Bombed   American Planes Blas’ Targets Near Athens— Naples Blasted

U.S. Bombers Pound Axis Airdromes Near Athens; Nazis Report American Battleships Now Are In Mediterranean

TWO AIRFIELDS NEAR ATHENS BOMBED BY DAY   Raiders Fight Off Swarms Of Nazi Fighter Planes In Sortie Over Greece

Reaction in Capitals Of the World   It Is That Tottering Italy Seeks Separate Peace With Allies

Murder Denial Read In Court   Maltese Cat Enters _ Oakes Slaying Mystery

Maltese Cat Gets Into Murder Case   DeMarigny. Says He Had No Reason to Kill Oakes

MERCURY WILL CLIMB   Flora Predicts Warmer Weather for State of Kansas

PORTER SMYTH LISTS CEILS ON MEAT CUTS   Latest Action Brings Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mut-«: ton Under Con- ;{ ,  : trol,  =   EFFECTIVE APRIL 15   Agsures Consumer of Get. ting Standard Quality’ Meat.

Allies’ Grim Courage Wins Salerno Fisht   American And British Infantrymen Credited With Brilliant Stand Against Germans

Naval Units Act Following Land Victory   U. S. and British Forces Merge on Ttaly’s Mainland

ISCHIA, PONZA AND PROCIDA IN ALLIED HANDS   Places American and British Forces Within 2 Miles of Northern Land Arm of Metropolis   HUNS FLEEING TO AVOID ENTRAPMENT   Retreat as Allies Smash 1! Miles Infand To Enlarge Bridgehead Into Full Fighting Front

ALLIED NAVAL UNIS FLANK BIG SEAPORT   Germans Cling Tenaciously to Gateway to City After Losing Battle at Salerno.   NEW PHASE OF FIGHT FOR ITALY OPENED   Two Great Armies Under Eisenhower Moving Northward With Third Held in Reserve.

Allies Set For Blow On Naples   3 More Isles Are Seized Near Mainland

Fourlslands Taken  By Allied Naval Units   Allied Naval Units Open New Phase In Italy Battle; German Troops Cling Savagely To Naples Gateway

Ground Forces: Lunge Forward   Maneuver Bottles Up Naples Harbor

OALEANG FIGHT WON, ADVANGE NORTH STARTS   American 5th Army, British 8th Join Forces To Drive Germans Out Of Italy

NAVAL FORCES MOVE 10 GAIN VITAL POINTS   Germans Reported Retreating From Salerno Battle Area

Troops Occupy Three Islands Guarding Port   Infantry Credited With Great Victory In Salerno Battle

Naval Forces Take Islands Commanding Approach to Naples.   Infantry Made Victory Possible, Naval And Air Power Won It; Germans Retrecating To South But Hang Grimly On to Naples

New Phase in Battle for Italy Opens   Naval Units Occupy Ischia, Ponza, Procida and Capri

Fighting Front Is Enlarged By Fifth, Eighth Armies   Germans Expected To Make Next Stand Before Naples: Elba Occupied By Nazis

Foe Yields Islands  Near Goal.   Fierce Salerno Battle Ends in Victory For U. S., Britain; Infantry, Air Forces Are Given Most of Credit

ACTION OPENS NEW PHASE IN ITALY BATTLE   Three Isles Command Immediate Sea Approches To Naples   NAZIS RETREAT   Combined Fifth And Eighth Armies Win Bitter Salerno Fight

ALLIED TROOPS ROUT ENEMY IN SALERNO FIGHT   Aerial Superiority Gives Yanks And British Decided Edge in Italy

GRIM COURAGE OF AMERICANS WINS SALERNO   NAZIS IN SOUTHERN ITALY FLEE TO ESCAPE TRAP

ALLIES OBTAIN COMMAND OF SEA APPROACH   Capture Roccadaspide While Nazis in South Flee to’. Escane Trap,   GERMANS WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM NORWAY

S. B. Crosby Enters the Race For City Mayor   Announcement Makes Three Seeking Mayorship.

Hoil Turner and Harry K. Willer Seek Mayor Office   Crumly, A. A, Allen, Clayborn and Huff Seek Commissioner.

Filing Deadline Saturday, March 6th at Midnight   R. L. Spencer Files _For Mayor in Coming BKlection.

MEMBERS OF GIRAUD FAMILY ARE PRISONERS OF GERMANS   DAUGHTER AND GERANDCHIL DREN TAKEN TO BERLIN AND WIFE AND DAUGHTERS IN INTERN MENT CAMIP

SICILIAN DEFENDERS FROM RUSSIAN FRONT   Prisoners Taken by Allies Were Young Nazis Withdrawn From East Last Winter.

CAPTURED GERMANS HAD BEEN IN RUSSIA   Troops Taken By Alties In Sicily Young Men With Ragged Uniforms, Soldier Savs

Share Checkup On Steel Firm   Senate Group Dissatisfied With Attitude Of Carnegie Steel President.

IN STEEL CASE   Chicago Man Files “In. former’s” Suit to Re. cover Losses.

PRESS INQUIRY ~ IN STEEL CASE   Justice Department Seeks Company's Records

U. S. Inquiry In Test ‘Fakes’   Justice Department te Sean Steel Records

Hint At Fraud Action In Navy  Steel Scandal   Justice Department To ‘Develop’ Case Of Fake Tensile Tests.

File Suit in Pittsburgh to Recover Losses Suffered By Government.

Justice Department War Frauds Unit Looks Into Faulty Steel Charges

Defective Stee! Plates Story To Get Probe   Justice Department Unit Will Obtain Company's Records

Charges Of Faulty Plates To Be Probed   Justice Department Plans Inquiry Into Sensational Claims,  FAKE TESTS ALLEGED

SLAYER OF WARDEN IS DECLARED SANE   Emil Schroeder Will Face Trial for Murder of Albert Reif.

MAKE WEDDING GOWN FROM PARACHUTES   Bridegroom Sends Goods from Training Base

Nazi Planes Raid Coast of England   Attack Is Called ‘Worst in Months’

Menus Due » For Tumble   Restaurant Rations  Will Be Cut jinx Half

Hotels, Cafes Face Cut in Food Ration   40 to 50 Per Cent Less To Be Allowed in U.S. Beginning March 

SKIMPIER MENUS IN RESTAURANTS SEEN IN NATION   Rationing of Food to Cause Radical Change in Eating Habits is Belicf.

RESTAURANTS FACE CUT IN FOODSTUFFS   Must Take Slash In Rationed Articles

Cafe Food Supplies Will Be Slashed   OPA Announces Cut O Nearly 50 Per Cent Be comes Effective March Ist   SKIMPIER MENUS  Baby Food, Hars D'Oevres Also ‘Included In Point Rationing Program

Supplies for Hotels, Cafes To Be Cut   Slash Will Be Between 40 and 50 Per Cent

Administration Must Not Be Given Any More Blank Checks Says Landon

AFL LANDON SCORES ‘HUSH-HUSH’ POLICY   Americans Conditioned For Power Alliance, He Says

Landon Fears Power Alliance Is on Program   Restraint Urged On Imperialism By Kansas Speaker

Jail Sentences —~ For Booze Haulers  Purchase of Liquor For Friends Costly

“No News Is Good News” Says Knox   Refused to give reasons why no reports come from Kiska

Germans Lose Subs At Rapid Rate      Losing Them Faster Than They Can Replace Them

Secretary Knox Has No Comment  On Pacific Action   Says Bad Weather Has Hampered Operations Against Kiska, No  Report On Activity   TOKYO RADIO SHOWS SIGNS OF JITTERS

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Soviet Reversa! Of Nazis Occurs  On 50-Mile Front   Allies in Italy Make Slight Gains: Lull in Channel Sky

Soentember Calendar          Dieon homer. Cunninsham Elated as Italian Fleet Passes in Keview

Kisenhower and Cunningham Together on British Ship as , Italian Fleet Surrenders

First Major Test Of Adminstration Strength Is Near   Congressional Lines Are Forming For Test Vote On PayAs-You-Go Tax Plan By ROBERT HUMPHREYS

NEW DEAL TO MEET TEST ON RUML PLAN   G. 0, P. To Take Tax Plan Te Floor Of House

HOUSE TEST ON TAX PLAN SEEN   GOP’s Preparing For Figh Over Ruml Proposal

LATE WITH INSPECTIONS   Kansas Motorists Warned Not te Put Job Off Too Long ©

FRANK PORT DIES. AFTER LONG SIEGE   Succumbs After Four On Five Years Continued  Poor Health

FRANK PORT DIES AFTERLONG SIEGE   Oe etiaialiat ie  Succumbs After Four O1 Five Years Continued  Poor Health

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T. J. BYRON, 62. PASSED AWAY. IN HOSPITAI      Life-Long ~ Resident Was Active in Fraternal and Church Groups

ARGENTINE IS TO SUPERVISE PLANTS   Six American Enterprises Are Included in List

FRENCH RULING BODY CREATED   Giraud and DeGaulle Will Take Turns at Presiding Over Committee

Free Freneh Reach Accord   Giraud. De Gantle Se Up Joint Goserument

Plea To United Nations To Impose a Just But Not Harsh Peace On German People Seen In Pope’s Christmas Message

Patriots Prepare to Assist Allies  93 Nazi Soldiers Slain by French

STORM GATHERS IN CONGRESS ON THREE ISSUES   Rolt--Back—ot- Prices and Sale of War Material Take Spotlight

Conaress Takinc More Control  Senate Investigates OPA Rollback And Subsidy Policies

Critics of Subsidy Program Preparing for Congress Fight   Drive Under Way to Ex. ert Will of Nation’s Elected Law Makers

Says Miners Who Struck Will Be Fined   Treasury Has Plan for Raising $16,000,000,000; Senate and House Conferees Agree on Antistrike Bill

FDR Rounds Out Speech: To Congress   ‘Address Seen as__ Most Difficult  One of Presidency

ARMY REVEAL DRAFT PLANS FOR COLLEGES   Campuses will become military centers; eliminate major sports

COLLEGE SPORT KNELL SOUNDED   Army Will Draft Leading + Schools for Training Technicians

YANKS CLAMP PINCERS HOLD IW SAN PIETRO   Key Nazi-Held City Nearly Encircled: 8th Army Advances to Outskirts of Orsoana.

2 KEY NAZIHELD TOWNS ATTACKED   Eighth and Fifth Armies In Outskirts Of Orsogna, Pietro

SAN PIETRO 10 FALL SOON 10 YANKEE FORCE   Germans Rushing Mountain Divisions From Russian Front to Throw Against American 5th

 ALLIES FIGHT NATE TROOPS      BE ees age Fight way Into Guiskirts of Key Germaniteld Towns on Both Ends of Etaliin Front,

AMERICANS HOLD HEIGH THREE SIDES; BRIT. EIG ADVANCES TO EDGE OF:0

ALLIES FIGHT TO: KEY NAZI-HELD ITALIAN TOWNS   American Troops Encircle ‘San Pietro: in Three-Day Fight; British Army Knocks 7 Out 13 Nazi Tanks -

Ble ROAD 10 ROME 1S NEARBY, NAZIS RUSH AID   American Troops Nearly Cam plete Encircting Important City.

Germans Lose Anchor Points On Italy Line   Hitler Rushes Aid From Russia; Italy Planes Aid Ales

GERMANS RUSH AID T0 ITALY   Allies Near Key German-Held Bases On Italian Fronts

YANKEES CAPTURE SAN PIETRO WITH ENCIRCLING PLAN   British at Opposite End of Line Knock Out Tanks to Advance Forces to Edge of f -sogna.   BAD WEATHER SAVES BERLIN FROM RAID   Gen. Eisenhower Reported as Chosen Commander In Moving Men Over Channel For invasion.

SAN PIETRO IS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   U. S. Troops Seize Center Only a Mile From Main Road te Rome.

Nearly Normal Coal Output s Believed Near   Workers Returning To Pits In Most  TYNE DenAbAsririnn Aranc

Some Workers Go Back To Pits As  Showdown Nears   55,300 Miners Idle in Anthracite Fields; Officials Weigh Powers Under War Labor Disputes Acts; WLB Stands Pat

NORMAL COAL PRODUCTION SEEN MONDAY   Back-To-Work Movement. Growing In Nation

PENNOYLUANIA {a SLOW 10 RESUME   Situation Uncertain as More Mines Are Closed   SHORT VACATION PAY   Causes 4,500 Kentucky Miners Halt Work; Absenteeism Clouds Estimates

‘Many More Coal Miners Return to Jobs ‘But Pennsylvania Pits Are Still iQuiet Despite New Antistrike Law

SIGNS POINT TO RESUMPTION OF MINES MONDAY   Nearly Normal.Production in Appalachian Fields Being Predicted by  e Union Leadérs   MINERS RETURNING   Thousands Enter Pits in West Virginia, Kentucky; Pennsylvania Situation Confused

DAGK-TO-W ORK TREND. GAINING IN GOAL FIELDS   Nearly Normal Production May Be Resumed Soon, Indication Today

U. S. Coal Miners Expected To Return to Work   Large Number of Men Remain Away in Three States

Normal Work Is Hoped For This Week   Many Still Out, However. Some Of Them On ‘Vacation’

THOUSANDS BACK TO MINE PITS   BACK-TO-W 0 R K MOVEMENT MAKES ‘GAINS—7,600. REVOLT . .IN PENNSYLVANIA,

Alt hough Many dirikers Return ~.  ‘More Mines Close After Anti-Strike Bill Passage

Coal Production May Be Near Normal This Week Despite Pennsylvania Lag

Coal Production May Reach Normal   Pennsylvania Area  Remains Uncertain; More Mines Close

Nearly Normal Coal Output 's Believed Near   Workers Returning  To Pits In Most “PY Dearletanw Avrane

Appalachian Coal Mines Reopening But For One Uni   Pennsylvania Strikers  Won't Work

Mine Showdown  Due Monday   Normal Production Forecast in Fields

[Radio’s Leader Blasts AFM Recording Ban   ‘Broadcasters Hear Plea to Settle. Dispute at Once

LOOT HOOULUMa PROMISE PEAGE   “We're Good Americans, Los Angeles Delegation Tells Police

Texas Officers Accommodate Labor Leader With Arrest at Pelly Meeting

Judge Orders Second Arrest Of ClO Leader   Test of Texas Labor Control Law Heads For Highest Court

Catastrophe Remains Poised Above Italians As Warnings Continue   Force of 175 Liberators Dumps Explosives on Nazi Fuel Sources, Setting Great Fires; American Soldiers Capture Nine More Key Sicilian Towns

U. S. LIBERATORS  BOMB NAZI POOL   "Unhapey Poole Bt Unenower ed By Marsha! Badoglio

Girl Says She Saw Man Who Looks Like Accused Slayer Talking to Victim

Passengers ell Story of Murder In Pullman Car  _~,   lestify They Saw Man Run after Killing of Martha James

BRIDE SCREAMED BEFORE MURDER, WITNESS SAYS   Mrs. James Seemed As Though She Was Trying To Speak, Jury Is Told

FLIER KILLED IN CRASH   Two. Others Were Injured in CrackUp at Smoky Bill Base -

Pencillin- Saves Life of Child   Girl Winning Fight Against Poisoning

Aircraft Workers Given Pay Boost 'By Labor Board   Union Leaders Say Increase Should Have Been Greater

WLB PAY INCREASES TO PLANE WORKERS ‘UNFAIR’ UNION SAYS   But West Coast Leaders Pledge No More Work Stoppage

NAZIS IN RETREAT   50-Mile Retirement in Caucasus Claimed in Soviet Dispatches

Nazi Caucasian Armies  Retreat 50 Miles More   High German Officers Desert 22 Divisions  :  in Don-Volga Death Trap as Hitler Calls Up Men Previously Deemed Unfit 

Soviets Seize. 12 More Towns In Rostov Push   Germans Admit Russian Tanks Break  Main Axis Line In Caucasus: RAF   Follows Daylight Raid With  Smashing Attack on Ruhr.

Axis Main  Line Broken  By Red Tanks   Soviets Capture 12 More Towns in 50-Mile Advance; High German Officers Flee Stalingrad Area by Plane; RAF Strikes at Nazi War Foundries

Allied Aerial Blows Dealt Axis In North Africa Where United Nations Fliers Blast Transport Conveys And Troops

50-Mile Retreat In Caucasus Is  Made By Nazis   Essen Bombed Again; Battle Over Africa Grows; Japs Raided  Over Burma

Soviets Take 12 Towns Jn Rostov Drive   Crush Counter-Attacks, Allies Raid Contintent

Nazis Retreat: Berlin Admits Line Smashed  Russians Move Up 50 Miles in Drive Taward Ractayv

RAF Hits German-Occupied France and Holland for Eighth Night—Allies Rain Havoc on Rommel’s Africa Corps; Surprise Raid South of Tunis; Rain Slows War in Guinea

R. A. F. Hits German War Plants in Ruhr on Third Night in Row; Allied Bombers Hammer Axis in Africo

Berlin Admits Caueasus Line Is Penetrated  Russians Continue  To Batter Enemy Ti. £1) Baxncete

ADDITIONAL TOWNS  GAPTURED IN DRIVE  TOWARD ROSTOV BASE GERMAN BROADCAST HEARD THAT SOVIET  hRaninmvroe NNFrAaAwy Trim i7riey

Admit Line In Caucasus Broker   Industries in Ruhr Blasted, Heavy Attac In African Battle.

RUSS FORCES TAKE TO MORE VILAGES ON WAY TO ROSTOV   High German Officers Reported Fleeing Stalingrad  Area by Plane to Escape  i i

Nazis Fly To Escape Reds’ Trap   Soviets Report Foe Caucasus Armies In 50-Mile Retreat.   Germany Blasted   France. Holland and North Africa Feel Allied Air Micht.

Axis Officers Flee Stalingrad Area By Plane   .. To Escape Russian Death Trap

Soviets Continue To Drive Toward Rostov  NAZIS FALL BACK ‘Europe Subjected To Heavy Aerial :

GERMANS BACK FIFTY MILES  BEFORE REDS   British Planes Again Bomb Essen; French Capture Two Strategic African Heights

Nazi Broadcast Admits Axis Line In Caucasus Broker   Allied Planes Give Another Display Of New Air Power

AXIS MAIN LINE IS SMASHED BY RUSSIAN TANKS   Hitler‘s Forces Slaughtered As They Try To Escape Stalingrad Death Trap   AFRICAN WAR IS IN SKY   German War Factories in Ruhr Again Blasted by Allied Bombers

High Officers Of Foe Forces Leave By Plane   German News Agency Says Reds Have Broken _ The Nazi Line ALLIES BOMB RUHR Battered City of Essen  Again Main Target of RAF Flvers

TEXAS ENTERS  ~~ MERCER CASE   Husband of Slain , tc Waive’ Extradition to New Trial

Nazis Lose 2000 Men in Bitter Fight at Volkhove   Hand-to-Hand Fight as Soviet Soldiers Push Back Germans

NAZIS LOSE 2,000 MEN IN 0 ATTACKS BELOW LENINGRAD   German Lunge Breaks Long Lull in North—Troops in Bitter Hand-to-Hand Struggle.   EACH ASSAULT BEATEN BACK BY RUSSIANS   ‘Invaders Also Are Repulsed Along Donets—Soviet Artillery Pounds Foe in Smolensk Area.

MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN FIERCE BATTLE   Germans Beaten Back ir Hand-to-Hand Clash in Russia

NAZI ASSAULT BEATEN BACK: 2,000 KILLED   WEDGE IN RUSSIAN VOLKHOVO LINE WIPED OUT

VAIN EFFORTS TO CRACK LINE COSTS GERMANS   Soviet Communique Reports 2,000 Axis Troops Killed In Day Of Fighting.

Five Fierce German Attacks On Soviet Line in Leningrad Sector Reported Hurled Back

Soviets Hurl Back Savage  Nazi Attacks   2,000 Germans Are Killed in Fighting South of Leningrad; Air Raids Continue

Nazi Dead Are Said to Total Over 2000   Volkhovo Sector Is Active Following Months of Oniet

Waves Of German Infantry Swarming From  Jrenches Are Thrown Back In Five Drives  Nazis Hove Not Been Able To Regain Air = Supremacy In Spite Of Accelerated Action

NAZIS BEATEN IN 5 ATTACKS ON LENINGRAD      Lose 200 Men In Bitter Flareup Of Hand To Hand Fighting On Northern Sec ; ee iry   Red Air Force Active

Nazis Open Five Surprise  Attacks, Fail   Russians Inflict Heavy Casualties, Great Material Loss Upon Enemy, Keep Holdina Firm or Gainina on Every Front

Reds Beat Back Volkhovo Push   Nazis Lose 2.000 Men In 5 Bitter Assanhts

FIGHTING FLARES oN NORTH SECTOR   Nazis Spring From Trenches To Launch Heavy Attacks  » South of Leningrad; Lose More Than 2,000 Men

Five Heavy Attacks by Germans Are  Broken Up by Reds   More Than 2,000 Dead Left by Enemy After Bitter Hand-to-Hand Struggles; ‘Several Dozen’ Prisoners Are Taken

2,000 Nazis Are Killed In Flare-Up   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Costly ‘On Russian Front

LEWIS TOLD BY ICKES TO DEAL WITH LABOR BOARD IN MINE PAY DISPUTE

LEWis TOLD HE MUST DEAL WITH WAR LABOR BOARD — IN WAGE DISPUTE NE- .  : GOTIATIONS =.

Communications By Air And Land Made Targets   LAND FORGES STALLED   94 Axis Planes Downed To 97 OF U.S. Since November 9th

U. S. PLANES ARE ACTIVE IN AFRICA   “Ground Operations At Standstill ~ Beeause OF Rains

LIQUOR RATIONING TO START AUG, 2   ‘New Date Revealed by Commission Is Two Weeks Later Than Planned

French Given Firm Warning Against Politics In Africa   Italy Steeling Its People For The Blow Of Expected Allied Invasion

De Gaulle Warned To Quit Politics   American Commander Says He Will Brook No Interference With War Plans

DEGAULLE TOLD TO ‘EASE OFF   Eisenhower Gets Authority To Act As He Sees Fit

DE GAULLE TOLD TO END POLITICS   Allied Commander Demands Unity As Invasion Plans Are Developed

WARN GEN, DEGAULLE OF POLITICAL MOVE   Allied Governmenis Clear Way for Eisenhower

NO MEDDLING IN INVASION PERMITTED   Americans And British Tc Support Gen. Eisenhowel To Limit: Giraud Will Re. tain Control

ON OE GAULLE   Free French Leader Served Notice No Interference Will Be Tolerated

DeGaulle Warned by Gen. Eisenhower   Gets Emphatic U. S. Warning Against Playing Politics in Africa; Places Invasion Plans Above Ail Wrangling

Italian Newspapers WarnofImminence Of Coming Thrust   Papers Attempt to Rally Populace - to Defend Cities Street by Street with Guns and Knives   De Gaulle Told Allies Won’t Brook Trouble

U. S. Serves Sharp Notice To de Gaulle  Eisenhower Given Backing To Protect

Politics Must Not Interfere,  French Told  Allied Leaders Won’t   Allied Leaders Won't Tolerate Controversy Hindering War Moves. Is Indication

U.S. And Britain Support Eisenhower. ..  French Warned Allies Want No Interference

NOTICE SERVED ON DE GAULLE TO QUIT POLITICS   Leader of Fighting French Is Told Allied Commander Is Going To Clamp Down   GIRAUD GIVEN SUPPORT   Bickering To  Get Political Power Brings Warning Against Interference

Warn DeGaulle That Politics Must Not Interfere With Invasion Plans

: French Leader Cautioned Against Making Political Moves   8 EISENHOWER MAPS OFFENSIVE ACTION   Allied Policy Regarded Vital To Success of African Campaign

De Gaulle Ordered To Stop Playing Politics; Told Invasion Plans Come First

“on. Eisenhower als Full Power  Commander-i -in- “Chief   Commander-in-Chief To Straighten Out French Dispute

ALLIES RESENT INTERFERENCE BY DE GRULLE   General Warned. Assault on Europe Comes Ahead of Political Rows.   EISENHOWER TO CLAMP DOWN ON CONTROVERSIES

Anglo-American Policy in North Africa Will Stand No De Gaulle Interference

‘DeGaulle Receives Warning From U.S. On Playing Politics   -Free French Leader Gets Notice Not to Interfere With War Plans Being Made by Gen. Eisenhower

Invasion Campaign Will Not Tolerate Bickering, French Leader Cautioned

Allied Command Wants To Fight   De GAULLE AND AIDES GIVEN STERN HINT  mv reg

DeGaulle Gets Blunt US. Warning Aqainst Playing Politics In Africa

French Quarrels Hurt Allies  Eisenhower Will Brook No Interference Wiith NAilisers Canteral

DeGaulle Draws An Emphatic Warning From Allies Against Playing Politics In Africa   U. S. Will Brook No Interference With Plans To Invade Europe

DE GAULLE GETS WARNING NOT TC PLAY POLITICS   EISENHOWER PUTS INVASION PLANS ABOVE WRANGLING

INVASION PLANS ARE FIRST, GEN. DE GAULLE TOLD   Warned To Stop Political Strife In North Africa

French Get Allied Order End Bicker   Eisenhower Insists Giraud Must Retain Authority over French Army Units

Claim 1,000 RAF Planes Blast Milan, Turin in Night Raid   Heaviest Assault of War on Northern 'taly, Rehit Railway Targets in Italian Capital

Jap Ship Losses Mount Steadily   J.-S. Submarines Are Cutting Off Enemy ©

YANKEE U-BOATS INCREASE TEMPO IN S$. W. PACIFIC  Averaging One Jap Vessel Per Day Woaew Phoclacacs

U.S. Subs Sink Jap Ship a Day   33 Supply Craft Sent Down Since June 1

New U.S. Sub Successes Given  10 More Jap Vessels Sunk In Continuing . War OF Attrition

Ship A Day In Pacific   U. S. Underseas Craft Taking Steady Toll Of Jap Shipping

33 Jap Supply Ships Sunk Since June   U. S. Submarines Doing Excellent Work In Pacific

Japs Losing Ships at Rate of One a Day   U. S. Subs Slicing Pacific in Growing Numbers

National Leaque   American league   U. S. Submarine Sinkings !n Pacific Reach  A Day Rate

U.S. SUB TOLL IS ONE A DAY   American Undersea Raid_ ets Gradtially’Reducing Nippon Fleet

ONE JAP onIe DAILY fo TULL OF Ud. oBo   38 Japanese Vessels Sunk Since June 1 By American Subs In Pacific Area

SINK JAP SHIPS AT AATE OF QNE & DAY   Since June 1, American Sub Packs Have Sunk 33 Jap Vessels.

U. 5. SUBS KNOCK UT JAP SHIPS AT RATE OF ONE ADAY   This Terrific Toll of Enemy Ships Prompts Navy To Issue Three Special Bulletins In Little Over Month; 33 Sent To Bottom Since June 1.

BRENNER PASS “BRIDGES ARE HIT RY BOMBS   Heavy Aerial Attack Made On Link Between Italy and Germany- By Heavy Planes   PHOTOS SHOW MAIN - ARTERY CLUTTERED   Mitchell Bombers, Light- ning P-38’s Defeat 66 to   70 Nazi Fighters Over Cancello

Bombers Blast Brenner Pass   Fortresses Knock Out Vital Railroad Connecting Germany, Italy.

FORTS KNOCK OUT RAILROAD   Americans Bomb Vital Rail way From Brenner Pass Into Italy.

Bolzano Bridge Destroyed and Bolzano, Trento and Bologna Sirafed   One Forlress Missing from 1,500 Mile Aitack—Railroads Far to  Sonih BRomned

RAIL LINE THRU BRENNER PASS KNOCKED OUT   Artery of German Supply To Italy Cluttered With Wreckage

Planes Smash Brenner Pass Rail Lines   Fortresses Hit Bolzano, Trento And Bologna In North Italy

Allies Smash Brenner Pass Railway-tine.   Supply Route Between Axis _ Partners Cut ©

FLYING FORTRESSES KNOCK OUT BRENNER PASS RAILWAY LINE   GERMAN HIGHWAY FOR DEFENSE OF ITALY TEMPORARILY WRECKED

Knock Out Rail Lines  From Pass   Flying Fortresses Hit Brenner Area; Other Targets In Italy Are Plastered In Raids

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Vital Rail Lines Are Knocked Out   U. S. Flying  Fortresses From North Africa Strike : in Italy   \GREAT FIRES ARE SET   Freight. Yards, at Bologna ‘Are Torn Up by Huge xplosions .

American Fliers Bomb Rail Line At Brenner Pass   Nazi Artery Into Italy Knocked Out By Bombers

Allied Bombers Smash Key Railroad Line From Brenner Pass Into Italy

Brenner Pass Line ~ Wrecked By Bombs   U. S. Fortresses Knock Out Germany's Main Artery of Reinforcements in Prelude to Invasion; Big Air Battle

RAILROAD LINE AT BRENNER PASS BLASTED   Vital Link Considered German Highway for Defense to Peninsula Smashed   BY FLYING FORTRESSES

‘FORTS’ DELIVER KNOCKOUT BLOW TO AXIS TRAINS   Rail Line From _ Brenner Pass Into Italy Is Wrecked by Yanks

Brenner Pass Railroad Lines Knocked Out   Heavy Damage Done To Vital Route From Germany

IS HIGHWAY FOR DEFENSE OF PENINSULA   Blow by U. S. Fortresses Clutters With Wreck-: age Main Artery of Nazi Reinforcements. Ponryine Tnta Ttalv

Army Needs Control Over iProduction   Undersecretary of War Says Nobody Else Knows What  ’ We Need or Can Place the Order Competently

(MILITARY OUTPUT IS, ARMY'S JOB, PATTERSON ASSERTS   lUndersecretary Says Nobod: ‘Else Knows What We Need

Nobody Else Competent to Place the Orders, Says Patterson.   SAYS SYSTEM WORKING NOW

OWINO HAVEN FOR DRAFT * DODGERS   Elmer Davis Tells Senate Committee That Insinuations to That .  Effect Are Untrue.

DAVIS DENIES OWL HARBORS SLACKERS   1,040 of 4,000 Employes of Agency Are of Draft Auge. He Says.

CAIRO, GA. BOY MOST INGENIOUS IN HIS S0. PACIFIC COMPANY   U. §. Troops Apply Fins Squeeze to Japs on Kolambangara Island

Badoglio Declares Martial Law In Italy Amid Reports That Duce Is Held Prisoner   Anti-German Demonstrations Reported In Italy After Mussolini's Overthrow; _ Fascist Party Appears to.Be Doomed _

ihe sparks Literally Fly, And No Foolin’— « _ Statice In Air Turns Things Berserk At Wichita; ‘Man Says Own Pants Bit Hin

Investigating — Group Splits On Small Loan Rates   Three Members Refuse to Concur in Recmmendation

House Group Divided On  ‘ Loan Rates   Two Commiteemen on Record for No Change During the Period of War   THREE MEMBERS REFUSE TO CONCUR   But No Formal Dissenting Opinion Is Filed in Long Debated Case

United States Forces In Tunisia Have Suffered Substantial Losses In Men and Equipment.

Los Angeles Under 33-Minute Blackout   ‘Unidentified Targets’ Later Prove Friendly

Twenty-Two Inducted Into Armed Forces   The Following Men Were Accepted In The Armed Forces From Last Reporting Group

List Of Sioux County  ~ Men Inducted Nov.10   The Following Are The Sioux County Men Inducted Into The Armed ~ Forces Last Week

DAVIS SAYS FOOD SHORTAGE APPARENTLY SURE TO COME   FOOD ADMINISTRATOR DECLARES THERE WILL NOT BE ALL THE FOODS CONBUMERS WANT

U. S. Lottery ae System Urged   Would Provide Revenues  Need For War; Solons : Appear Favorable

Lottery Plan Up Again   Knutson of Minnesota Presents Plan for Raising More Revenue

LOTTERY PLAN BOBS UP AGAIN AS MEANS ‘OF RAISING REVENUE   There Are Few Other Sources Left Untapped, Krutean Comments

Federal Lottery Bobs Up — To Pay Part of U. S. Taxes   Advocates of National Drawing Contend Jt Has Chance Of Approval By Congress At Present Session. Because Most Forms of Taxation Have Been Tapped

Duce Worries; Wants Accord With Nazi French   Mussolini Summons  Laval; Hopes  To Ease Relations

IL DUCE CALLS LAVAL T0 ROME   Relations Between Italy And France Strained Over Nazi Demands

Mussolini Reported to Have Summoned Laval foi Conference to Ease Franco-ltalian Relations

MUSSOLINI ASKS” LAVAL 10 ROME   Strained Relations Between Countries Blamed for . Summons

LAVAL REPORTED CALLED T0 ROME   MUSSOLINI SAID TO HAVE SUMMONED HIM TO DISCUSS RELATIONS,

Russia Girding Vor big Spring Drive On Axis   Air Raids Are Continued Against Axis Bases

Russia Girds for Decisive Spring Attack   Transport System Is Placed Under Martial Law

REDS PREPARE FOR MASSIVE SPRING DRIVE   Transport System Is Placed Under Martial Law

U. S. Air Fleet Is Superior  Americans Record Dp OT eee ee Sis pene le era ae)

OWI Gives Report Accomplishments  Army Air Forces   Design Changes Will Impede  Production

HOLDING TAX BILL 15 REPORTED   House Committee Reaffirms Stand Against Abatement of Any Part of an Income Tax Year; Pay-Go Optional

Favor Bill To Withhold Tax  From Paycheck Pay as You Go Plan Optional; Hearings fo Begin Next Week

House Committee Reaffirms Stand Against Abating Any Part of Tax   Will Repor! Bill Embracing 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy; Exemptions for Service Men

Committee Stands Pat on Tax Plan   Armed Services  Members Aided

Stand Against Tax Abatement Is Reaffirmed   House Committee Votes To Report 20 Percent Pav-as-You-Go Levy

NO ABATEMENT ON INCOME TAX   House Committee Votes For Withholding Levy Of 20 Per Cent

By-pass of Burma May Be Tried   Preparations in Southeast Asia Believed Near — Action Stage

WitnessIn ~ Account of  Allied Push   Yank Forces Hold Firm In Face of Nazi Tank Attack

Yanks ‘Hell of a Gang To Tangle with;  Ask Nazis Who Tried It in Tunisia

Yank-Nazi Clash on Grand Scale   Doughboys Hold Stubbornly After Turning Back Tanks -

AMERICANS KN( TN   In Force of Approximately 100, Including Mark VI’s In Bitter  Battle

WE'RE A HELL OF AGANGTO TANGLE WITH—JUST FOLLOW US AND SFF_I] S BATTTE CRY

Brilliant American Victory In Beating Back Fierce Nazi ‘Counter Attack Is Described   Wrecked Enemy Tanks Litter Valley After Germans Are Soundly Defeated

TAX BILL IS PASSED, SENT TO PRESIDENT   Measure Is Compromise Pay-As-YouGo Plan   AWAITS SIGNING   Congress Hears FDR Will Approve Rill

Income Tax Bill Is on President's Desk: Signature Expected   Measure Passed Senate Late Wednesday by Vote of 62 to 19

Compromise Measure Will Provide ‘Pay-As-YouGo’ Plan.   NEEDS ONLY SIGNATURE

SENATE VOTES NEW TAX BILL   Measure Providing Pay-Ge Deductions Now Ready for President.

SENATE SENDS PAY-AS-YOU-GO BILL TO FDR   Compromise Measure Passed Over whelmingly by Both Senate and House, Waits Final Decision

Pay-Go Tax Fate Now Up ~ To Roosevelt   Measure Sent to White House by 62 to 19 Vote _. jn Senate

President Gets Income Tax Bill  Leaders Feel Sure That Roosevelt To Sian Measure

AWAITS PRESIDENT'S DECISION ON TAX   Congressional Le Leaders Predict FDR Will Sign Compromised Bill

New Tax Bill Passed, Sent To Roosevelt   Congress Hears He Will Sign It; Collection To Become Current In Mid-Year

TAXPAYERS AWAIT FDR'S TAX DECISION   To Put 44,000,000 -Persons On PayAs-Go Plan

President Is Expected To Sign Tax Bill   Measure Is Adopted in Sen. ate by a Vote of 62 to 19   THE MAJOR PROVISIONS

Battered Bill Is Before President; Predict Approval   Ohio Solons Taft, Burton Cast Their Votes For Tax  Moaaacnre

PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO SIGN IT INTO LAN   20 Per Cent Withholding Levy “Would Go Into Effect duly 1

SENATE LEADERS EXPECT SIGNIN(   Measure Provides For In come to Be Paid By 44 Million Persons.

Compromise Current Tax  Bill Passed   Measure Now Awaits F. R.’s) Signature, Which Is Regarded as Certain

Tax Compromise  Bill Now Up To President   Both Houses Approve Pay-As-You-Go

TAX BILL IS PASSED, SENT 70 PRESIDENT   Congress Hears FDR Will Approve Bill

Tax Bill  Awaits FDR Seal   Feel Sure President Will Sign Measure Putting Taxpayers On Pav-eac.evon-vo Rasi

Tax Bill Is Sent To FDR   . «+ President Will Sign It, Leaders Assert

Compromise Tax Plan Before FDR   CITIZENS AWAIT HIS ACTION ON NEW LEVIES

PRESIDENT HAS INCOME TAX BILL   Congress Hears He'll Sign Pay-As-You-Go Measure

Roosevelt 0. K. Is Expected On Pay-As-Go Plar   Senate Passage Speeds Compromise Income Tax  Bill To President.

COMPROMISE BILL  FOR TAX PAYMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT . WOULD PUT MINIONS.  PERSONS ON PAY-ASYOU-CO BASIS:

HEAVY SNOW IN PARTS OF STATE   Fall Heaviest: in® South. - west. Counties, . Top ‘of ' -Eicht:Inches Reported.

STRATEGY MEET IS POSTPONED   Republicans Want Full Support For Ruml Tax Plan.

Republicans Back Ruml Tax Plan   Strategy Parley Is Set Thursday

Great Risks Taken ‘By Allied Leaders   FBI Wear Head Fezzes  At Cairn Caonforence

FARM BUREAU WILL HOLD COUNTY MEET   ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE AT FLORA ON TUESDAY, JUNE 22

Rome Wiust Accept Armistice berms Joon-—— =_By Kirke L. Sinpso  Italy Must Consider Invasion Consequences

Interpreting  The War   Eisenhower Tells Italy Germans Must Be Expelled

German Airmen Predict Early Peace for Halvy   Italy Is Warned hy General Eisenhower to Scuttle Nazis

Russians Drive on Steel Center   Expect to Reach Dniepropetrovsk  At Any Hour

16 More Bodies Taken From Mint  _ Carbon Monoxide -_ Hampers Rescuers

European Front Commander May Be Named Soon   Appointment Is Thought Imminent

OPERATING FUND SLASH FAVORED   Interior Department Cut O1 60 Per Cent Urged By Committee

House Committee Asks 60 Per Cent Cut in Funds for Ickes Department

INTERIOR DEPT. FACES SLASH   APPROPRIATIONS GROUP ROUGH ON ICKES

SIXTY PER CENT CUT  IN FUNDS INTERIOR  DEPARTMENT URGED HOUSE COMMITTEE REC OMMENDS DEEP CUT IN

60 Per Cent Cut In Inferior Departmen Funds Suggested   Committee Asks That Unit Be Held To 72 Million

Slash In Ickes’ Funds Proposed  Committee Requests 60 Per Cent Cut

INTERIOR FUND CUT VOTED BY HOUSE GROUP   Funds Reduced for Every Field Except Grazing Activity

ICKES’ BUREAUS  FACE FUND CUTS   House Committee Would Slash Outlay 60 Percent

ADORE CATA R ITY   Slash of 60 Per Cent ds Urged in Funds for Interior Departmen} —

INTERIOR DEPT. FUNDS SLASHED BY 60 PER CENT   House Committee Criticises WPB for Stopping Work on Irrigation and Power Projects   FOOD NEED CITED   Ickes Ouilines Increased Food Output Planned Next Year in Meai, Milk, Potatoes

60% FUND SLASH ASKED FOR ICKES   House Group Attacks WPB For Halting Power Work

SIXTY PER CENT CUT IN FUNDS INTERIOR DEPARTMENT URGED  HOUSE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS DEEP CUT IN APPROPRIATIONS

Recommends That Funds Be Slashed  Would Cut Interior Denartments Funds

FUNDS SLASHED FOR SEC. ICKES   Solons Would Cut Interior Department 60 Per Cent

Munda Bombarded By U. S. Warships   American Ground Forces in Advance Of 500 Yards Through Jungles

Yanks Gain 500 Yards  in Munda Area   Stiff Battling Is Reported as Pressure Increases

Americans Down 71 Jap Planes Over Rabaul Sink 4 Enemy Ships   Destroyer and Three Cargo Vessels Sent To Bottom of Pacific; Marshall Islands Suffer Bombing for 17th Consecutive Day

Soviets Halt Nazi Advance   Red Fleet Is Active In Black Sea Sector

Reds Crush Enemy In Tremendous Air, Land Attack  Axis Loss Skyrockets As Fight Becomes Steadily More Bitter

Air and Artillery Barrage Kills 1,000 More Axis ‘Troops and Shoots Down 77 Enemy Planes in Drive to Black Sea

REDS CONTINUE THRUST TO SE!   Nearly 1000 Axis Troops Killed; 27 Planes Shot Down At Novorossisk

Soviets Crush Axis Line At Novorossisk   1,000 Nazis Killed, 27 Planes Destroyed In Drive to Reach Black Sea Port City

Soviets Knock Out Nazi Defense Line  77 PeRameu Dinnac   77 Enemy Planes Are Downed in the Caucasus

Reds Report Heavy Gains   _ Nazi Defense Line Broken - 350 Planes Said Battered

Reds Push Bloody Black Sea Drive   Take Another Nazi  Line in Caucasus

REDS RIP MORE ENEMY DEFENSES AT NOVOROSSISK   Kill 1,000 German Troops and Shoot Down 27 Planes in Drive Toward Black Sea,   VITAL HILLS SEIZED, FOE’S THRUSTS HALTED   Three Nazi Transports, Three Torpedo Boats and Two Invasion Barges Sunk by Soviets,

Soviets Crush Another Line Near Novorossisk   27 Enemy Planes Knocked Out In Relentless Drive Tc Black Sea: 350 Aircraft Claimed Destroyed Thursday

Soviets Knock Out Nazi Defense Line in Caucasus   Annihilate 1000 More Axis Troops; Down 77 Enemy Aircraft

Russians Smash German Defense At Novorossisk   Kill 1,000 Axis Troops anc Shoot Down 77 Enemy Planes

Another German Defense Line Before Novorossisk Crumbles   MANY AXIS TROOPS REPORTED KILLED   Nazi Vessels Sent Down in Black Sea by Airmen

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN GROUP MEETINGS SET   ——nt * Women’s Assecintion To Holc N_ First Sessions In Member’s Homes

CHURCHILL REVEALS GEN. EISENHOWER INTERVENED IN FRENCH DISPUTE, ASKED GIRAUD BE RETAINED AS COMMANDER

STEPPING UP AIR ATTACKS ON JAP POSTS   Enemy Shipping Also Coming in For More Attention Across Widespread Front at Sea

Jap Outposts Prey of SeaRoving Planes   Continual Pressure Costs Nipponese_ Ill-Spared Shipping and Bases

Pacific Allied Bombers Active   JAP SUPPLY BASES ARE TARGETS OF SEA ROVERS

ENEMY SUFFERS LOSSES AT SEA   Allies Report Probable Sinking Of Two Large Jap Vessels

STEP UP RAIDS ON JAP BASES   Allied Bombers Flay Six Nip Ships; Batter Bougainville

Step Up Raids On Jap Ships   Latest Advices Embrace Probable Sinking Of 2.500 Ton-Enemy Ship.

Air Attacks Intensified By Allied Force   Ships And Air Bases Of Japanese Are Pounded On Various Islands And Chinese Mainland

Bombers Hit Japs On Many Fronts   Enemy Continues to Claim Sea Victories

Two Enemy Ships Probably Sunk and . Piihcand Tons ' Bombs on Airfield on Bougainvil Hanger Installations Set’ Fire at Marshalls and  Me es Tol...

HIT SHIPPING, AIRFIELDS IN BLOWS TODAY   Enemy Supply Ships Damaged: Marshall Islands Also Attacked

TEMPO OF Alk WAR BOOSTED   More Enemy Shins Sunk, Bases Hit From New Guinea to China.

—PACIFIC—  STEP UP RAIDS ON JAPSHIPPINE   Sea-Roving Allies Bomb’ ‘ers Playing Big Role In co Pa cifte ~ a

Step Up Attacks In Pacific Area   Sea-Roving Allied Bombers Range From New Guinea to China.

OEA-ROVING ALLIED BOMBERS RANGE OVE! WIDE PACIFIC AREA  MOUNTING BLOWS TO ENEMY SHIPS AND BASES REPORTED

Jap Islands Under Attack   ww 242N4Nh £ BELEWS!  Allied Bombers Hit Marshalls, Gilberts and C..ecek Beahkarntl Aca:m

Hint New Air Bases  Are Used   Raids Follow Up Promise by Admiral Nimitz of Offensive Against Janan

Step Up Assaults On Jap Supply - Strained Outposts In The Pacific

Bombers Range 1000 Miles To Hit Jap Line:   Two Enemy Ships Sunk, Airfield Blasted By U.S. Flyers

Allied Bombers Smash at Jap Ships and Bases   Fifty Cargo Vessels Damaged or  Sunk in Month

ALLIED BOMBERS COVER BIG AREA   Sea-Roving Planes Ranging Along 2,000 Miles Of Japan’s Outpost Defenses.

Bombers Range For. -2000° Miles . To Get At Jap:   Smash At Shipping ‘And Air Bases From Unrevealed. Fields. In South: Pacifie

PACIFIC AERIAL WAR STEPPED UP   ALLIES RAID JAP BASES IN GILBERT, MARSHALL ISLANDS

ALLIES DEAL HEAVIER BLOWS TO JAPANESE   Sea-Roving Bombers _ Ranging Along 2 000 Miles

Allies Step Up Air Blows Against Japs   Bombers Range Over Wide Area To Chalk Up  Wlow Gwerraccaqd

Use Bases Not Disclosed to © Hit the Japs   Third Attack in Three Days Against Marshalls and Other Pacific Outposts   NO RESISTANCE BY ': THE JAPANESE   New Air Punch Follows Admiral Nimitz’s Report of © Plan for Offensive

Allies Step Up Attacks ‘On Jap Bases   Bomb Ships and Air-Bases from Northeastern New Guinea and Marshall Islands to Chinese Mainland

Jap Air Bases, Shipping Bombed ‘Allies Step Up Blows  Against Nipponese

Allied Fliers Range 2,000 . Miles Of Japanese Outposts To Hit Ships And Air Bases   Bombers Rove Over Pacific From New Guinea To Marshall Istands

Puerto Rican Home Rule fo Be Studied   Group of Eight Will Meet Monday

Ickes, Seven Men To Go Into Huddle  Puerto Rican Home Rule To Be Subject Of Discussions

Policies Formed For 1943 Services  On Paisano Grounds   Preaching Emphasis This Year; Dates Chosen: Property Not To Be Rented

PAISANO MEET WILL BE HELD THIS SUMMER   Transportation Problem Is Expected to Materially Affect Attendance

Swoon On, Gals . Sinatra, Hole In Ear Drum Unfit for Military Service

SINATRA REJECTED FOR ARMY SERVICE   Bad Ear Makes Singer 4-F In the Draft

‘Poor’ Sinatra —Hole In Ear Drum, Army Says—So He'll  Have to Croon for Girls

It’s All Right, Girls! Frankie Isn’t to Be GI   Sinatra Is Rated 4-F After Examination - By His Draft Board.

Sinatra Is Unfit For Army Service   Crooner Is Turned Down at a Pre-Induction Draft Board Center.

SINATRA PUT IN CLASS OF 4-F   Crooner Is Told He Has Hole in Left Ear Drum

ENEMY AIR OFFENSIVE HELD BACK BY:ALLIES   cesratee te Received from. General. MacArthur States That Victories Over the Japs in Single Day . bs “Gost Them:52.:Planes.-~=- ‘Immediate: aati fees  Dislocated . by . Punishment. ‘Delivered...  i 7 -by United Notiene  -

ALLIES CHECK JAP AIR OFFENSIVE; GET 32 PLANES IN 1 DAY   Enemy Has 200,000 Men In Island Are And Is_ Increasing Air Force

J apanese             ALLIES BAG 37 OUT OF 100  ENEMY PLANES WHICH RAID! PORT MORESBY; DOWN 15...  ET CFWUERE

ALLIES DOWN 52 NIP PLANES IN SINGLE DAY   37 of 100 That Raided Moresby Are Destroyed

PREMIER STALIN TAKES PART IN MOSCOW PARLEY   TALKS WITH EDEN AND IS EXPECTED TO SEE HULL SOON

SMOKING RULE FOR TEACHERS   House Refuses:to Interfere; School Code Debate Continue

Increase in US Air Fleet in Britain Is Highly Significant  Air Supremacy Is Necessary

Today’s War Moves   United States Air Power  Increases Monthly Nivarenac

The War Today—  Combined U.S.-British Air Fleets Beginning To Hurt German Morale

MACKENZIE SEES BOMBER STRENGTH IN BRITAIN REACHING POINT OF REQUIREMENTS SET OUT LAST YEAR   Disclosure of New Reinforcements to American Air Power Coincides With Nazi Newspaper Admission That Bombing is “Damned Serious Lhing’’

HITLER’S NEWSPAPER DECLARES BOMBINGS SERIOUS; INCREASED U.S. FORCES READY FOR ACTION

Hitler Admits  Heavy Damage   HUGE U. S. AIRFLEET IN BRITAIN IS READY

COLLETT FACES FIRST DEGREE MURDER CHARGE   Prosecutor, Sheriff Leave Town, Hint Another ‘Major Break’

Prosecutor And Sheriff Disappear Again As Another ‘Break’ In Murder Case Loom:

MAJOR BREAK HINTED IN M’COY DEATH QUIZ   Collett Will Be Charged With First-Degree Murder

MURDER CHARGE BEING PREPARED   Officials Predict Major Break In Triple Slaying

Rail Wreck Kills One, Injures 25   Passenger Irain Derailed in Georgia

CRACK SEABOARD TRAIN DERAILEL   One Dead and Twenty Hur! In Accident; Wreck Oc cured At Pass Switch and Apparently Caused By Broken Rail.

Big Bond Will Be Asked For Harrell   Oklahoman Accused Of White Slave Ring Operation

Rancher Held For FBI Agents   Charged With Being Head of Extensive Whiteslave Operations

No Income Tax Returns Needed Under New Plan   Proposal of Lawyer Provides for Payment from Income..........

Filing Income Tax Returns May Be Abolished  House Comniittee to Consider Peonosal

‘Pay-Go’ Tax -Go’ Taxes  Grow in Favor   Scheme to Obyiate Returns For 20 Million Persons Given Committee

GROUP WILL STUDY NEW TAX PROPOSAI   Plan to Eliminate Tax Returns Next Year to be . Cansidered

House Committee Will Consider Proposal to Remove Necessity for Millions of Taxpayers to File Federal Income Returns

Committee To Consider Permanent  (Pay.Co’ Plan   Would Eliminate Income Tax Returns For 20,000,000, Starting This Year

Automatic Tax Gams Favor Of Lawmakers   Philadelphians’ Plan To Do Away With Forms Gets Support

NEW TAX PLAN IS SUGGESTED   Proposal Would Do Away With Future Returns By Many Millions

PROGRAM  TEXAS THEATRE  — SEALY —   Thur-Friday-Sat. May 13-14-15  Heart of The Golden West   NOTICE! Toall con am maw meawl

Allies Gain Ground on  Pacific Isles   Jap Forces on New Georgia Face Annihilation

ENEMY IS BATTERED BY BLOWS   Allies Make Solid Their  Holdings in Solomons—  Military Is In Opera- — tion.

MOVE AGAINST NEW GEORGIA’S 2 MAIN BASE!   Record Aerial Smash Near Salamaua Reported

SOVIET ARMY SMASHED WAY INTO GOMEL   Nazis in Crimea fight desperately to prevent encirclement

FALL OF NAZI WHITE RUSSIA GARRISON NEAR   Red Forces Move Nearer Kiev From Bridgehead Thrown Across Dnieper

REDS SMASH THEIR WAY INTO GOMEL   Inflict Heavy Losses on Nazis at Garrison in White Russia

FRENCH REVOLT IN ALPS FADING   Shortage of Food and Arms, Lack of Leadership Blamed

Nazi Gestapo Agents, Vichy Police Work Furiously as the Revolt Spreads Over France

WLB Head Makes Subsidy Appeal   Bankhead Irked By Delay in Action

Food Subsidies Are Necessary, Davis Asserts   WLB Chairman Says Ban ning Them Will Affect Prices and Wages

[HEAR ABOUT PRO-BALL   Mike Getto Was Speaker at Lawrence Rotary Club Today Noon

Mussoiini Lakes Over Foreign Ministry Post From Count Ciano  THREE CABINET MEN ALONE UNAFFECTED  Crown Prince Umberto Reported Appointed To Top Russian Post

ll Duce Puts Ministers Outin Cold   Count Ciano Included In Thorough Job Of House-Cleaning

Son-in-Law Dropped From Foreign Minister Post  In Cabinet Shakeup

Duce Takes Job Of Count Ciano   Dino Grandi Among Victims of Shakeup

SHAKE-UP IN WAR CABINET   Il Duce takes over Foreign Minister post held by son-in-law

lI Duce Ousts Son-in-Law As Minister  Takes Over Foreign ~ Post, Ciano Given - Emply Honor

MUSSOLINI OUSTS CIANO AS MINISTER   Thorough ‘House-Cleaning Ordered Following Losses

MUSSOLINI OUSTS CIANO IN SHAKE-UP   Takes Over Portfolio Of Foreign Minster From His SonIn-Law, Once His Heir Ap nmarant.   Due To Unrest

DUCE OUSTS IANO FROM HS CABINET   TAKES OVER FOREIGN PORTFOLIO HERETOFORE HELD BY SON-IN-LAW.

Mussolini Ousts Ciano In Overhauling Cabinet   Il Duce Adds Post Of Foreign Minister To His Other Duties; Move Interpreted As Need For Scapegoats For Reverses

MINERS READY TO QUIT AGAIN IF FINES STICK   Ickes’ Dollar-A-Day Levy Arouses Protests In Coal Circles

VOICE THREATS OF NEW STRIKE AT TRUCE END   WLB Indicates Disapproval Of Wage Pact With Pennsylvania Operators   NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF   UMW Asked To Supply Pacts In Support Of Portal To Portal Demands

MINERS OBIEGT TO DOLLAR FINE THEY ARE ASKED TO PAY   Notice Is Served to Gov. ernment They Are Prepared to Stop Work Aacin.

NEW TROUBLE THREATENS COAL MINE STRIKE SETTLEMENTS OVER $1-A-DAY FINE IMPOSED BY THE GOVERNMENT

COAL MINERS THREATEN 10 STRIKE AGAIN   Assessment Of $1 Fine ‘By Ickes Resented By Workers

Miners Angry, May Quit Over Fine by Ickes   Union.Parley With Soft Coal Men Over Warne Baile

FNES CAUSE RESENTMENT ~ OF WORKERS   Local in Pennsylvanie ness to Quit Rather Than Pay

Resentment of Men At Ickes Action Mounts   Lewis Terms Order of Fuel Administrator Unwarranted, Illegal

U, 5, SOLDIERS ONLY 98 MILES SOUTH OF ROME   British Still Fighting on Island of Coo; Reds Move at Leningrad

Voifurno Forced By Fifth Army: Two Towns Fall  Germans Hurling Wea Nivicinne      Germans Hurling Five Divisions Into Fray

Enemy's First Rome Defense Line Is Piercec   Aversa, Maddaloni Captured; 8th Army Runs Into Heavy Fighting.

GERMANS FIGHT STUBBORNLY T0 DELAY ADVANCE   Clark Uses Reserves; 8th Army Also Engaged in Heavy Fighting

Bologna Is — Bombed With  Great Force   Germans Attempting Delay Actions Against the Sth and 8th Armies

VOLTURNO RIVER 1S CROSSED, PIERCING NAZIS’ FIRST LINE   HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED ON ADRIATIC SIDE OF ITALY TODAY

ALLIES STORM OVER RIVER ON ROAD 10 ROME   Force. Crossing of Volturno, Nazis’ First Strategic . Line of Defense,   TAKE FIVE MORE TOWNS, STRAIGHTEN ALLIED LINE

Yankee Vanguards Are 98 Miles Away From Rome Now   British Garrison On Coo Continues Against Great Odds

Volturno Is Crossed By  Yank Forces   Clark Troops Capture Aversa And Maddaloni

Force Advance To First Line _ OF Nazi Defense   Aversa And Maddaloni, North Of Naples, Said Taken By U. S. Troops

Main Nazi Body Retreating Beyond Volturno River   Allied Airmen Pound Brenner Pass Lifeline; Believe Reds Massing To Turn German Flanks

Volturno River Crossed in New Drive for Rome   First Defense Line Of Enemy Broken By Yankee Traans

CROSS RIVER, TAKE 2 TOWNS   Clark Throws Reserves Into Action; Nazis Bolster Line

TAKEN BY 9TH ARMY   Nazis Were Expected To Make Stand At  River Barrier

Offensive Heads Toward Capital   Flanking Move by Gen. Clark Makes Defense of River Line ‘Untenable

Clark’s Fifth Army Crosses Volturno in Northward Advancs   Germans Throw Heavy Reinforcement Into Battle of Italy

Aussies Within 60 Miles of Next Jap. At Madang, New Guinea—Four. pon Divisions Strike from Manchur: —Denmark F reed of Martial Law

FORE ROME   Has Been Considered the “cene of Enemy Delaying Action — Feat Accomplished by Unit of the Fifth Army.

Force Nazis Back   American Fifth Army Crosses Volturno River, and Continues Slowly to Advance

FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN ITALY ON ALL SECTORS   Air Force Helps by Blasting Brenner Pass Supply Route; New Red Drives Scented

Two Towns Captured by Fifth Army   One Unit Forces Crossing  of Volturno River 20  Miles From Naples   NAZI LINES STIFFEN   Kighth Army Engaged in  Heavy Fighting Near Termoli

CAPTURE TWO NEW TOWNS IN ROME MARCH   Reserves Help Gen. Clark: British Engage Germans In Heavy Fighting

ALLIED STH ARMY HAS CROSSED THE VOLTURNO RIVER   It Is the German Strategic First Line of Defense in the Road to Rome.   CAPTURED TWO TOWNS   One Unit Crossed the Volturno at Unspecified Point North of Naples.

German Resistance Met In Mountains —   Fifth Army Crosses Volturno, German — First Line of Defense to Rome; Eighth Fights Enemy Along Biferno River Line.

Flving Forts Hit Bologna, Brenner Pass Rail Center   Montgomery's Men Encounter Stiff Opposition Along Adriatic Side

Cross River, Take Towns   Fortresses Smash Supply Routes in Northern Italy

NAZIS THROW 4 TO 5 DIVISIONS INTO BATTLELINE   CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY FORCES CROSSING OF VOLTURNO RIVER

YANK §\PTURE TWO. 1OWNS IN ITALIAN THRUST   Reserves Arc Thrown Into Action Above Naples to Smosh Defenses

Crossing Puts Yanks 98 Miles From Rome; Aversa, Maddaloni Are Captured

YANKS ADVANGE TOWARD ROME NAZIS FLEEING   ‘Reserves Are Thrown Into Battle bv General Clark, Flanking Moves Rout German Forces   ALLIED) AIR FORCE HITS BRENNER PASS   Nazi Divisions Slugging Back At British Army Along Adriatic and North of Naples

US 5th Army ls Advancing Toward Rome   Clark Throws Reserves into Battle of Western Italy; Red Armies Capture  46 Towns in Spite of Mud and Rain

ALLIED AIR FORCE STRIKES — AT BRENNER PASS, RAIL YARDS AND OIL REFINERIES   Lieutenant Mark W. Clark Throws Reserves Int< Battle for Western Italy and Begins Flanking Movement Inland Across Calore River

Allies Surge Over Volturno River On Way Toward Rome   Towns Of Aversa An d Maddaloni Taken North Of Naples; N azis Increase Lines Of Resistance To British Eighth Army

Yanks Force Crossing of The Volturno   Bologna Is Heavily -Bombed es Nazi Supply Line Key

Volturno River Crossing Made By Americans   Yugoslav Liberation Army Cuts Railroad Lines From Austria  To Trieste

Yankee 5th Army Pushes  Toward Rome  ,   Cross Volturno River, Advance In Coastal Region 98 Miles To South OF Citw

Volturno River Bastion Broken   Flying Forts Rain Hundreds of Tons Of Bombs on Bologna in One of Most Successful Raids Launched From Afric:

Towns Of Aversa And Maddalon Taken By Hard-Charging Troop:   Montgomery's Forces Engage Nazis: In “Heavy Fighting tn Biferno River Area

Win Towns North Of Naples; British Meet Stiff Opposition   Flying Fortresses Pour Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs On Bologna, Rail Junction On.Brenner Pass; Other Targets Battered By Allied Air Squadrons !

TWO TOWNS ON WAY TO ROME CAPTURED BY CLARK'S FORCES  BRITISH GARRISON ON COO ISLAND FIGHTS

Gen. Clark’s Fighters Force Crossing Of Volturno River; 2+, Army Meets Resistance

Fifth Army Forces VolturnoCrossing   Attack Pierces German ; First Line of Defense  _ North of Naples   MORE TOWNS TAKEN   Enemy Opposes Monigomery Advance With Strong Delaying Action

Clark’s Reserves. Are Activated As Resistance Grows   Montgoinery’s 8th Arniy  Battles’: Strong Eneniy - Delaying Action On Adriatic Side.

CLARK USING HIS RESERVE   Germans Throw Four to Five Divisions Into Battle Line,   TWO TOWNS CAPTURED

ne Towns Conard i a “US. ‘Nivanee          Allied Line ‘Straightened: as  Dare “Carries: ‘to: _ Within: Ee - 98 Miles: of: Rome.            AIR ‘ATTACKS FAR™* * AHEAD OF TROOPS   Germans- Using’. Using. Additiona Planes, Presaging - Hea

Germans Slug Back At Eighth   Allied Air Forces Strike at Brenner Pass Lifeline — Stronger Air Opposition Encountered — Fifth Inches Ahead Through Craters and Minefields

CAPTURE AVERSA, MADDALONI   Nazis Had Been Expected To Make Stand At Volturno; Heavy Aerial Raid On Bologna

Flanking Move Forees Nazis  To Quit Line   Germans Leave Only Rearguard In Retreat Beyond Volturno River,   '\COO FIGHT CONTINUES

Gen. Montgomery’‘s Eighth Army Engages Germans in Heavy Fighting Along Biferno River Line on Adriatic Side

Progress Is Slow, Strong Nazi Forces   Montgomery Runs Into Heavy Fighting On Adriatic Side

Volturno  Crossed By Fifth Army   Germans Fail To Make Stand At River Which Runs 20 Miles North Of City Of Naples

ALLIES FORCE CROSSING OF GERMAN LINE   Fifth American Army Advances in Coastal Region  South of Rome.   British Outnumbered In Fight on Island

“LARK SENDS iS RESERVES NTO ACTION   Volturno River, Germans’ Strategic First Line Of Defense

Fifth Army Surges Across River Barrier   Brenner Pass Rail Junction Again Pounded

Clark Captures 2 More Towns   AVERSA, MADDALONI FALL AS FIFTH ARMY DRIVES NORTHWARD; MONTGOMERY CLASHES WITH NAZIS TRYING DELAYING ACTION ON BIFERNO RIVER

Air Power Seen Key To Victory   Crushing Attacks By Great Fleets Of Planes Certain

Miners Declare Order from FDR Would End Strike   Assert That Simple Re quest Will Not Reoper Mines

MINERS AWAIT DIRECT ORDERS   McDowell Workers Will Return To Pits If President Gives  Direct Word

Three In District Win Rankings As Captains   Rabies Death Probed

Reciprocal Pact Veto Is Rejected   Final Action on Law's Extension Due Today

House Block:  Effort to  Control Paets GOP Loses Ficht   GOP Loses Fight To Use Veto on Trade Accords

HOUSE DEFEATS LIMIT ON TRADE PACT MEASURE   Effort To Submit Reci procal Trade Agreement  To Congress Loses   IMPASSIONED PLEA MADE BY RAYBURN

Democrats Kill. Plan To Reduce Power of F.D.R   But Republicans Succeed in Limiting Life of Trade Pacts

PACTS LIMITED TO TWO YEARS   GOP Effort To Subject Trade Act To Veto Powers Beaten

House Defeats Veto Restraint On Trade Pacts   Republicans, However,  Succeed in Limiting “Ane ae. OO WL

U.S. RAF Hit. Nazi Area, Bomb Airfield   All Planes Return; Rheims Drome Is Prime Objective

Foriresses Hit Rheims Airtield  Hundreds of Planes Attack Europe

American Planes Blast Rheims in Spectacular Raid  Layer Upon Layer o Bombers. Fichters

FORTRESSES RAID RHEIMS   Champaigne Airfield Raided By American Planes As  Air Drive Continues

YankBombers §mash Kassel Plane Plant   Fortresses, Thunderbolts } Destray 52 Foe Fighters On Long Sweep   HAMBURG AGAIN HIT   RAF Night Raiders Usload 3rd 2,300 Jon Cargo On Nazi Seaport

AMERICAN FLIERS ATTACK AIRFIELD   Nazi Base at Rheims, France Bombed by Fortresses

PROCESS BEING USED AT 8T LOUIS PLANT SAID. TO BE ‘ BIGHLY SUCCESSFUL

SYNTHETIC MEAT BEING PRODUCED   Yeast, Water and Molasses Chief Ingredients of New  “Baaf .

DEMOS SUFFER VOTE SETBACK   Set About Tightening Lines, Strengthening Organization.

DEMOS DEFEATED IN TEST BALLOT; BOLSTERING LINES   Solid Republican Minority, Aided by Few Democrats, Upsets House Routine

Democrats Stiffen Lines After Defeat   Lose Amendment te Treasury-Postoffice Funds Bill

Democrats in House Learn Lesson About Being Present the Hard Way

Yugoslavs  Retake City   Ifdustrial Center Held After Bloody Struggle

PARTISANS CAPTURE VARES   Industrial Center Regained After Bitter Fighting — ¢

First Objectives Taken By British   Rommel’s Need For Fuel So Great Transports Hau! Oi] But Prove Easy Prev Of Fiahters

British Eighth Army Moves North, Reducing ‘Fox’s’ Position; Yanks Tighten Trap in Swift Move

Americans and British Move Ahead   53 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down by Allied Airmen

EIGHTH ARMY STRIKES AT WADI AKARIT   53 Enemy Airplanes Shot Down by Allies

Air Forces Supplement  New Offenses With Tremendous Suc Cesseés.

‘Cleveland And Suburbs ‘Suffered-From Storm; \Newark, Cincmnati Hit

SEVERE STORM Mins SEVERAL OHIO SECTORS   Rail and Street Traffic Tied Up In Cleveland

In Africa, In Europe, In Pacific   Tells House of Commons of Strategy — American to  Command in Africa

Plans Include Ousting Of Axis From Africa, Attack On Europe, Possible Air Assault On Jap Islands   /MONTGOMERY EXPECTED TO KEEP OWN COMMAND

Offensive  Plans Told In Common:   Details of United Nations’ Coming Campaign Bared

TUNISIA FIRST UPON oGHEDULE WORLD 15 TOLD   Attack On Hitler’s Fortress Of Europe And Bombing ~ Of Japan Planned

Machias Has $125,000 Fire This Morning   Six Commercial Buildines Burn

ORCL DEFENSES   German Sources Report Violent Battle In Progress On Leningrad Front

STRIKERS VOTE ON WALK-OUT   Union Grievance Group Welcomes Federal intervention

MINERS VOTE TODAY ON RETURN 10 WORK   WLB Demands End Of Strike “Against Nation At War”

Strikers vote on proposal resume work   ‘Let government settle dispute’

COAL MINERS TAKE VOTE ON WLB DEMAND   ‘Let Government Settle It,’ Strike Leaders Declare

MANY THOUSANDS OF MINERS WILL VOTE WEDNESDAY   Workers to Cast Ballots on ‘Labor soard’s Demand to Terminate Their Strike.

Miners. Ordered To End Strike   Vote Taken After WLB Issues Order

GOAL MINERS VOTE ‘ON ENDING STRIKE   War Labor Board Demands Anthracite Men Return to Jobs.

Flood Damage Feared in Iowa   Water High After Ice Gorges Form Between Trac y and Ottumwa in Des Moines

ARMY AND NAVY WASTE CHARGE   HEAD OF “SENATE WAR INVES- 'TIGATION COMMITTEE DEni OE ABER INVEBTIG As SION WILL BE ‘LAUNCHED

CHARGES ARMY AND NAVY WITR EXTRAVAGANCE   Sen. Truman Promise: Investigation of $72,000,000,000 Bill

MOB CONTROL TECHNIQUE IS TAUGHT GUARD   M-P’s at Camp Zaleski Demonstrate Bone-Crushing Flying Wedge Attack

STATE GUARD TAUGHT HOW TO CHECK MOBS   100 Military Police Conduct Classes at Camp Zaleski

PLANREJECTED BY COMMITTEE   Pay-as-You-Go Must Be Studied More _  In House

Owners of All Unused Cars Ordered To Surrender Gasoline Ration Books

Interpreting  The War   Rommel! Wrecked By Offensive That Has Failed

Faculty: Will Greet Mostly ~ Girls’ at Western Union — - CNollece

Western Union © College Opens Tuesday, Sept. 7  Small Enrollment  Of Male Students  wT RP -e ee. , ¥

Jugoslav Patriots Trained In America, Take Part In Raid Against Enemy.

Europe Staggering Under Allied Bombardment,   CRISS-CROSS OVER AXIS CONTINENT

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEARSON (Tra demark.)

liberalize’ New Car Sale Rule   OPA: Will: Ease. Rationing - Restrictions:March 6:

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Plans In Africa ‘Given Rude Setback By Rommel Attack

TROOPS GUARD DETROIT; TOLL MOUNTS TO 25   City Fairly Calm Again; Governor Lifts Two Restrictions

Negroes Are Returning to  War Plants   Governor Kelly Abolishes Two of  Six Restrictions

PRODUCTION UP AS CITY QUIETS   Detroit Negroes Back at Work After Violence Subsides.

TROOPS, POLICE STILL GUARDING HETRAIT AREA      Death Toll In Race Riot Set At 29; Emergency Restrictions Rased

petroit Is Calm  Under Armed  Siege of Troops Death Toll 29;  Liquor Ban, Curfew V oted

DETROIT WORKERS GO BACK 10 JOBS   Gov. Kelley Lifts Two af Six Restrictions, 29 Killed and 600 Injured.

Detroit Quiet After Riots Which Kill 2S   One White Woman Victim Of Bullet; U. S. Troops Still On ; Duty: Arrests Reach Total Of 1250

SPORTS EVENTS RESTRICTIONS BEING LIFTED   Curfew Remains, Liquor Sales Banned In Effort To Quiet Situation   WAR PLANTS ARE AFFECTED   Negro And White Leaders Seek Ringleaders Of Outbreaks Starting Sunday

Negro Workers Back to Plants   Kring Prodaction Back Near Nurmal in Detroit After Kace Riots——25 Negroes Killed

TROOPS, POLICEMEN. STILL ON GUARD IN DETROIT WEDNESDA\   As Rioting Ends--Negro Section Is Badly Battered, '

DETROIT BACK 10 NORMALCY. 4 RIOT DEAL   Negro Workers Flocking Back Into War Plants As Tension Eases

DETROIT RIOT. DEATH TOLL 29   Governor Lifts Restrictions on Ball Game and Races as Troops Stand Guard.

IN egro Workers (Return To Jobs In Detroit Plants      Tension Diminishes - After Toll of 29 — Registered In Riots

Forces Destroy Nazi Convoys.   Sink’ Escort. of One in Battle in Aéawan Sea

Germans Block Harbor, Allies Drive on City   Yanks, British Roll Up Gains of 10  - To 15 miles as Nazis Fight Fierce _  Delaying Action; Rangers Helping ~ French Corner Foe In Corsica. —

SECOND WAR BOND DRIVE TO CLOSE ON FRIDAY. APRIL 30   Public-Urged To Make Additional: Effort, To Helv Exceed Quota.

This County’s War Bond Quota Two-Thirds Met  Should Be Complete  np. £... YF... FfrALl

This County’s War Bond Quota Two-Thirds Met  Should Be Complete Before Close Of This Month

WALSH SAYS U. S.. WILL BE SHOCKED BY WAR PROFITS   To Oppose Changes In War Contracts Renegotiation Law When Tax Bill Which Carries. Them Is Debated

SENATOR WALSH SAYS PEOPLE BE SHOCKED RESULT WAR PROFITS _ MORGENTHAU AND SEN  ATOR GEORGE AT OUTS nure TAY RITT

Walsh Says War Profits To Shock U. §   Senator Will Oppose Changes In Contract Laws

Shock Is Seen For Taxpayers   Walsh Finds’ War Profits Approaching Scandal; Hits Revenue Act

War Profits Are Shocking, Says Walsh    Is Planning Fight On War Contract Change In Senate

WAR PROFITS TO BE SHOCK TO CITIZENS   Revenue Bill Gets New Criticism

FAIR TREATMENT FOR ITALY UNDER ALLIES   Eden Tells House Of Common: ' United Nations Ready To Take “Reasonabl: Attitude”

EDEN OAYS ALLIta WILLING 10 AUCPT LENIENT ATTITUDE   Declares Departure of Mus: solini Puts Italy in a Different Status   NAZI RADIO REPORTS ARMISTICE PROPOSAL   Seven-point Plan Said to Have Been Submitted to Italy by President Roosevelt; Lacks Confirmation From Any Allied Source

Humbled Italy Promised Help   British View Given In Surprise Debate  Re TEWISG waitwerare

Statement Is Surprise To Members Of Commons   Deporture Of Mussolini And End Of Fascist 6 pasime Is Cited As Reason For New Attitude

HOPE FOR PACT DIM AS ALLIES RESUME RAIDS   Washington Silent About 7-Point Proposal As Reported Through Axis Sources   Mainland Is Quiet

‘Reasonable’ Attitude to Italy Planned   Eden Says Fascisni’s End Gives Nation  Different Status

Allies Ready to Adopt Reasonable Attitude Toward Italy  REPORT BROADCAST OF ARMISTICE PLAN  Hopes for Early Peace With Italians Grow Dim

Despite. Allies «Pledge Hope Wanes For Early Peace With Italians

Eden Says Allies Anxious for Italy  To Accept Peace   Nazi Radio Reports 7-Point Armistice  Proposal by F. D. R.

Eden Says Italy, Without Il Duce, Has New Status   Allies “Only Too Ready’ To Adopt ‘Reasonable Attitude”

Weather in Helena —     Continued coal Weduecday.   Hope Grows Dim for Peace With Italy; Axians List Terms of Allied 'Offer: Badoglio Appears Pro-Nazi

VIEW TOWARD ITALY IS SEEN   Eden Says Allies Ready For Peace That Will Aid War On Nazis

Weather in Helena By U. 8. Weather Bureau   Hope Grows Dim for Peace With Italy ‘Axians List Terms of Allied Offer: Badoglio Appears Pro-Nazi

Eden Says Allies Only Too Ready ToBe Reasonable   ‘If They Got What They Wanted for Fighting Nazis’

Allies Anxious to See Italy Accept  Terms of Surrender   Eden Discloses United Nations Ready to Adopt Reasonable Attitude Now That Mussolini Has Been Deposed

Allies Ready to Adopt Reasonable Attitude Toward Italy   REPORT BROADCAST OF ARMISTICE -PLAN

Eden Outlines Peace Outlook   Germans Claim F, R Offers Armistice

Allies Amenable To Peace Talk With Italians   Axis. nation on different status since oust“ing. of Mussolini, An-theny Eden declares.

ALLIES WILLING TO DEAL JUSTLY WITH ITALIANS   Eden Tells Commons Enemy Nation’s Status Changed With Overthrow of Mussolini and Fascists.   BUT HOPE FOR PEACE . WITH ROME IS DIM   German Radio Reports Roose. velt Submitted 7-Point Armistice Proposal to Badoglio Regime.

Eden Outline: Policy on Italy Status   Urges Reasonable Attitude lo Get Base to Hit Reich

ALLIES 10 BE REASONABLE WITH ITALY   Eden Tells House of Commons In Surprise Debate; Situation Is Changed, He  2 nwan te   Bevan Starts Debate

New Indictments Will — Show “Nazi Conspiracy” (On Part Of Aliens

Hill 41 In U.S. Hands After ‘Hell’   Infantry Wards Off Enemy Tanks With One Gun, Pistols And Hand Grenades   Two Men In A Sicilian Barber Shop: They’ve Been Through A Nasty Mess

) Soldiers Tell of Exploits In Sicilian Fight   Parachute Troopers Did Their Share In Battle

DAVIS, JEFFERS AGAIN INVOLVED   Each Accuses Other  on Rubber Seating

OW! Director Davis Has Another ‘Run-in’ With Rubber Chief Jeffers

JEFFERS AND DAVIS HAVE RUN-IN OVER RUBBER SITUATION   Each Accuses The Other Of Not Telling Public The Truth On  Program

FOR NEW COURSES   More Are Needed, However, for Aeronautical Technicians

50 WOMEN SIGN UP FOR NEW COURSES   More Are Needed, How. ever, for Aeronautical ‘Technicians   TO CLASSES WEDNESDAY

POSTWAR HIGHWAY PLANS DISCUSSEL   Representatives from Cceunties, Cities Attend Meet

POST-WAR PROGRAM FOR ROADS PLANNED   Ohio Highway Director Te Meet Local Officials

American Leaque   House Is Hit As L. A. Planes Fire On B24. Force Landina

GERMANS ANNOUNCE ROMMEL IN DENMARK   His Arrival in Copenhagen Accompanied by Feverish Activity Improving Coastal Defenses.

Eisenhower Spends Birthday Near Front   General's Staff Prepares Surprise Anniversary Dinner

Soldier Finds His Grandfather  Old Man In Sicily Inquires Of Americans And Finds Him

House Committee Abolishes F.S.A.   F.C.LC. and Parity Payments Are Also Left Out

FARM PROGRAM - BUDGET SLASH “1§ ANNOUNCED   HUGE CUT MADE IN FUNDS AND ABOLISHMENT OF TWO “AGENCIES AND PARITY  PAYMENTS °

Call Off Speech By Willkie Foe   “78 Club” Cancels Talk by Sparks

Award Air Medal To Lieut: Koenig LeMars Youth  Is Now. In German. War Prison From. - Letters Received

Award Air Medal To Lieut. Koenig LeMars Youth  Is Now In German War Prison From TL attare Reaerarvarl

HONOR SYSTEM IN RATIONING FAILS IN PLEASURE DRIVING   Failure  Dissuades OPA From Relying. ren i dt, To  Enforce. _  Regulations...

HONOR SYSTEM OUT, OPA SAYS   Failure to Prevent Pleasure Ride In East Causes Method To   Be Discarded

Admits Honor System Failure   Plan Will Not Be Extended, Says OPA

Slew Tot For Laughing At His Tumble   THAT’S STORY TOLD BY EARI PERRY, 17-YEAR-OLD CAND‘ FACTORY EMPLOYEE, OF MURDER.

YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING GIRL   Tells Pittsburgh Police of Strangling and Burying Tot, 4, in Cellar

Youth Admits Attacking And Slaying 4-Year-Old Girl  Whom He Had Rocked to Sleep When She Was a Baby

Youth Calmly Admits Slaying Of Young Gir Earl Perry Tells Police He  Killed Theresa Williams

BOY TELLS OF SLAYING CHILD   17-Year-Old Youth Held For Raping, Choking Girl Of Four

RECEPTION HELD AT ST, JOSEPH   Reception, Jubilee land Pro: fession Took Place Fri-_ -day Morning.

RECEPTION HELD AT ol. dOOtPr   Reception, Jubilee and Pro. fession Took Place Friday Mornings. ~

JEEPS BEING EYED AS LURE FOR VOTES   One Congressman Already Is Planning Disposal

Congress Might Change GI To CI   “Jeep” Platform Seen For Politicians

Disposing Of Equipment To Be Problem   Hatch Suggests Sale Of Jeeps To Farmers After War Is Ended

‘A Jeep tor Every Farmer’ May Be Campaign Cry in Next Election, Capital Sins Show

HEADS ITALIAN DIVISIONS,   Crown Prince Umberto in Charge On; Russian Front

HEADS ITALIAN DIVISIONS   Crown Prince Umberto in Charge On R Front

Gene en eee eee eee  NAME NEW HEAD IN CHARGE OF ITALIANS ON RED FRONT

German Troops  Occupy Susak After Battle Siav Guertllas  Withdraw After 20-Day Fight   Soviets Besire Friendly Relations  With U. S. People

GREW WARNS OF JU-JITSU PEACE   Japanese May Try To Fool American People.

Strange Sight Scares ** Auto - Proof’? Horse  Into First Runaway

Duce’s Men Didn't Have Time To Eat   Flee In Great Haste Before American Drive

\Italians Flee in Haste  From Americans, Abandoning Meatballs and Spaghett:

Italians Flee Sened Under Attack   Intermittant Opposition Offered After Sharp Gunfire

No Time To Eat While Running  Italians Leave Their Spaghetti Behind

Brutal Attack Made on Parachuting American  Jap Pilot Tries to Cut Marine Flier to Pieces With Propeller

Charge Jans Use Propeller Weapon  Parachuting Marine   Parachuting Marine Slashed in Attack

PROPELLER USED IN JAP BUTCHERY   ENEMY FLIER CUTS OFF RIGHT FOOT OF KANSAN DESCENDING ON PARACHUTE.

DIES COMMITTEE NEEDS MORE FUNDS   Asks For Two-Year Contin uance To Investigate UnAmaviean Acitivities

Dies. Expects Okeh On Work   Investigating « Committee oN ‘eathering Charges Of Few Doubts

DIES ASKS FOR CONTINUANCE OF COMMITTEE   Group on Un-Americanism Stands on Record As House Considers Renewal Request   APPROVAL FORECAST    Critics Charge Group Spent Too Much Time Fighting United States Ally At War

Army Cancelling Hotel Leases    Will Drop 206 Now Used By Technical Training Command.

Army To Drop Leases Held Or 206 Hotels   Made Possible By. Movement Of Air Units Overseas

Army Cancels Leases on  206 Hotels   Movement of Air Units Overseas Saves Money

ARMY CANCELS SHORE HOTELS      Leases On 206 “Training Camps” Will Expire Middle of July

GERMAN ANCHOR IN SOUTH RUSSIA IS TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Defense Line Unhinged By Advance.

A Smashing Red Victory   INDICATES NAZIS WITHDRAWING FROM  ‘THE DONETS AREA   One of Most Important Military Occurrences of Recent  Weeks

Chiefs Renew  No-Strike Pledge   Need More Workers In War Jobs, Savs McNutt

Rival Labor Leaders Both Call for More Production And Banning of Strikes.

100,000 Veterans Of World War Il Get 17 Millions   Government Gives Out Some Ficures

Italian Girl Is Held As Plotter   Member Of Wealthy Fam ily Seized With Others For Sabotage.

Sicilian Fascist Plot Is Spoiled   Sixteen Young Italians T: Be Tried for Sabotage

16 YOUNG ITALIANS FACING CHARGES OF OABOTAGING ALLIES  WEALTHY GIRL, LAW  STUDENT, ACCUSED OF FINANCING PILOT

Yanks Smash PASCISE © 10t;  16 Face Trial   Wealth “Gitl-Accused’ as ‘Leadet ‘of Sicilian Group  sof Saboteurs- 7

County Exceeds ]-Million Mark For Third Loar  Old Favete Racke The   Old Fayette Backs The Attack; Drive Closes Saturday

Fayette Ending Record Breaker Loan Campaigr   Subscriptions Total 31, 662—Highest In The County's History

War Loan Drive Goes Well Over County's Quote   Total May Reach 7!/2 Mil. lion; Tabulation Is Incomplete '

F. D. R. Occupied With Allied Victory Plans On Birth Anniversary

Nations Honors President On Olst Birthday   Birthday Balls To Aid Infantile Paralysis Battle National Feature   TENTH BIRTHDAY IN WHITE HOUSE

China’s Aim Praised by  Roosevelt   President May Be Reading Object Lesson to Russia

OUTLINE OF ALLIED POLICY   Chiang Kai-Shek Statement Related At Press Meeting

SENATE OPENS WHISKEY INQUIRY   Hoarding And Evasion Of Taxes To Be Revealed In ‘Startling Expose’

Liquor Stock Up To $100 a Share   Distilling Company Offers Barrel of Whisky — for Each SHare.

Liquor Probe Voted by Senate Group   ‘Distilling Firm   ‘Distilling Firm Offers Whiskey To Stockholders

Startling Results Are Promised   Senate Committee Votes Probe, to Get Under Way Next Week

Approve Probe Of Liquor Industry  *Real Revelations’ To  Be Made, Claim

Liquor Probe Is Authorized By Committee   Startling Developments Promised By Van Nuys As Senators Voted To Investigate Shortage

SOLONS WILL PROBE LIQUOR ~~ SITUATION   Van Nuys Promises Some Real Revelations of the Industry’s “Tax-Dodging” and Hoarding of the Supply.

INVESTIGATION TOBE LAUNCHED   Senate Committee Seeking Cause For Boost In Liquor Prices

From the Whiskey Front: Senate Committee Votes Inquiry,  Promises a’ Startling Expose”

SDINLINE HERE 1S LIQUOR STORE QPENS RATIONING   Wide Brand Selection \s Available; More Clerks Added   WAR RATION BOOK NO. 3 NEEDED FOR PURCHASES

Senators Vote Liquor Probe   Wel Stock Dividend Dus For Inves     watian

Senate Group To Investigate Liquor Industry   Hoarding for Evading Of Taxes and Raising Of. Prices Is Charged

Jean Ray — Is Prisoner   Tech. Sgt. Jean Ray Prisoner Of Germans; Missing Since Sept. 3.

RUSSIANS SCORE AT NOVOROSSISK   Fight Pressed To Oust Germans In Caucasus; 4,000 Killed

4,000 Nazis Slain In New Soviet Pust   Russian Troops Near Novorossisk: Claim Foe Fired On Allied Rumanian Troonxs

GERMANS LOSE 4,000 TROOPS ON RED FRONT   Nazis Using Rumanian Troops For Shields

Soviets Press Fight to Gain Novorossisk   Nearly 4,000 Nazis Slain in Last Two Days of ° Fighting.

Russian Troops Renew Fight To Oust Germans From Last Foothold Near Novorossisk

REDS DRIVE ON NOVOROSSISK   4.000 Enemy Killed In Renewed Fighting Ouring Past Two Days

REDS KILL 4,000 NAZIS IN FIERCE CAUCASUS FIGHT   Throw More Planes and Tanks Into Effort to Drive Invaders From Novorossisk Area,   HITLER’S MEN USE RUMANIANS AS SHIELDS   When Latter Turn and Flee Under Soviet Attack, Germans Open Fire on Them, Moscow Reports.

SOVIET TROOPS KILL HUNDREDS [N SOUTH ZONE   Moscow Reports Renewed Fighting Around Base Of Novorossisk, With 4000 Slain   NEARING SEAPORT   Rumanians Flee, Russian Communique Says, And _ Are Shet-By -Nazis  For Retreating

Reds Kill Off 4,000 Nazi Soldiers In Two Days of Fighting Near Novorossisk

SOVIETS BATTLE TO OUST GERMANS   Kill 4,000 of the Enemy in Last Four Days in Effort to Push Remaining Nazis From Caucasian Foothold

Reds Say 4, 000 Germans Killed   .Much Equipment : Claimed Destroved

Russ Kill 4000 In New. Drive   Soviet Army Advance ’ Teward Black Sea

pent Anniversary Ur First Armistice Nears mm F RPE Ase ANNE PON!   Wer News Offers Only Headaches For Hitler

Soviets Are Only 100 Miles  From German Escape Route   Nazis Appear Doomed To Renew Backward March; Enemy Delaying Move Seems Waning

$19,250,000,000 ‘in Circulation in United States in October; Prices Up

PRISONERS TO : “SET PACKAGES   AMERICAN PRISONERS IN GEE: MAN CAMPS WILL BE RE-: MEMBERED ON CHRIST/MAS: DAY -

Five U.S. Marines Meet 75 Japs; When All ~ Is Over, Five Yanks and One Jap Are Left

CHILDREN COFFEE RATION      Those issued When Holder Was “ai May Be Used _

GOP {5 URGED TO DRAFT M ARTHUR   Rep. Fish Suggests Republican Candidate on ‘Win-theWar’ Platform With One  > Term Plank

No Recognition For Bolivia Yet   ‘American Republics  Will Decide Action

Output Of Food Likely To Top ‘42 Mark: Davis   But Still Won’t Meet Tremendous Demand, Administrator Warns.

New Record - Farm Output Davis Hopes   Admiral Land Says U. S. Will Double Cargo Ship Construction

—SPRING PLANTING—  Food     Rises   Davis Foresees Possible Topping of °42 Record

Farmers Getting More Gov t Hel;  Davis Says Output Will Top Last Year; Jan Farces Checked

Provo “Medic” Parachutes Aid To Marooned Survivors in Burma Jungle

FLOODWATERS AND LIGHTNING BRING DEATH FOUR TEXANS  RAINFALL COVERED LARGE AREA OF EAST

Lewis Will Not Attend WLB Meet   OPERATORS WILL BE REPRESENTED WHEN MINERS WAGE PANEL HEARING IS RESUMED TODAY IN WASHINGTON.   Truce Expires Tomorrow

Lewis Refuses. To Have Unior Before WLB   Coal Mire Leader Attacks Government Agency in Stalement

Lewis rejects order of WLB to appear at  Washington meeting   But miners ready to negotiate when operators show up, leader declares

President of Mine Union Refuses To Appear When Called To Discuss Case   Declines To Say Whether Stand Means Miners Will Strike When Truce Ends Tomorrow Night; Charges Board “Has Demonstrated the Malignity of Its Purpose To Block Wage Agreement”

UMW Leader Silent on End of Truce   Operators Urged By Mine Chief To Resume Talks

Lewis Again Ignores WLB In Continuing Coal Dispute   Announces Miners ; Not To Appear Today As Sessions Resume In Washineton   LEAVES WAY OPEN FOR BARGAINING   BN AL. SPB BURL UI  Tension Grows Again As Tuesday’s End Of Truce Approaches

Lewis Rejects  Order of WLB To Join ‘Talk’   Charges board blocked wage boost and denies it, has jurisdietion in mine dispute. —

Germans Being Prepared for  More Bad News   Cavallero Is  Succeeded in Téaler Awe Amhracin

NAZIS PREPARING PEOPLE FOR NEWS OF NEW DISASTER   German Naval Chief and !talian Army Head are Dismissed from Jobs.

Berlin Admits Troops Beaten At-Stalinarad   - Sweden Says People Being Prepared-for~ Vorcnezh Disaster

Hitler Prepares Nation for New Army Disaster’   10th Anniversary’ Is Marred by Air Raids

OneFascis' Leader Is AtLarge   Italian Troops Revolt at Milan, Refuse Orders

Fascist Grand  Council Seized   German News Agency Reports Only One Facaned Arrest.

REPORTED UNDER ARREST   -Transoceanic Reports Detention of  Fascist Grand Council

Arrest All Members \Of Council   Group Includes Benito Mussolini And Count Ciano

DUCE BEL  IEVED  TTOHAVE ASKED  ~ FOR NAZI HELP   Meeting of Leaders Probably Foreshadows Collapse of Healy.

EXCHANGES SERVING AT BATTLE FRONTS   General Jos. W. Byron, Back From Tour, Tells of PX Function<

JAP AIRDROMES ARE LASHED BY ALLIED FLYERS   MacArthur Harrying Nippon Effert to Build Offensive Ar Power

Japan’s Effort To Rebuild Air Forees Blocked   Allied Airmen Over Wide Arc In Pacific Are Harrying Japanese Constantly

 Overpowers Strongpoint ‘And Capture Additional  Villazes In Power-Drive   East of Kharkov, Russians Repulse Axis Efforts fo Crack Their Defensive Line; Enemy Drive Lostue Power 7

REDS CAPTURE MORE. PLACES FROM NAZIS   Repulse Axis Efforts To Crack Defensive Line East Of Kharkov; Develop More  Power.   Disable 7 Nazis Tanks

B and C Gasoline Card System To Be Changed Soon   Will Cover All Occupa tional Mileage for Four Months

NEW GAS RATION PLAN IS SET UP   B Books To Be Tailored To Meet Additional Driy-ing Needs

NEW "GAS" RATION POLICY ANNOUNCED   System of ~ Determining Supplemental Rations Outlined

New Guinea Jungle \Front Flares Anew   Aussies Launch Drive inland. To Drive: Japs From Hills; Air Activity Is Heavy

New Guinea Jungle ‘Front Flares Anew   Aussies Launch Drive Inland. To Drive Japs From Hills; Air Activity Is Heavy  By WILLIAM ¥. BONI

Action Flares Again in New Guinea   Aussie Jungle Troops Driving Inward Against Japs

PRESIDENT OF NATION FLEES BUENOS AIRES   Pro - Allied Triumph Is Reported; Battle In Capital

Expanding Military Power May Force Raise in 38 Year Age Limit.   HITS JOB ABSENTEEISM

A WORK OR FIGHT PLAN 1S TALKED   Job Absenteeism Given First Consideration in the House   PART OF TROUBLED MANPOWER PROBLEM   Wickard Makes Protest To Draft of Skilled Farm Workers

MANPOWER SITUATION KEEPING CONGRESS BUSY; ACTIVITY ‘ON WASHINGTON FRONT INCREASES.

Absenteeism ‘Cost 42 Ships In December   Congress - Moves Toward Work or Fight Policy; Wickard Deplores Loss of Farm Workers to Army

CONGRESS MOVED IN DIRECTION OF WORK OR FIGHT ORDER   LEGISLATION PLANNED TO CHECK ON RECORDS OF WORKERS IN WAR PLANTS

HULL SAYS NO SECRET PACTS ENTERED INTO   Secretary Urges All Parties to Support Foreign Policy

No Secret Hid In Red Parley, Hull Declares   Ailantic Charter Terns Not Compromised,  we: cz

No Secrets in  Moscow Agreement   Hull Pleased by Public’s Reaction

HULL SAYS NO SECRET AGREEMENTS MADE IN MOSCOW   Secretary of State Makes This Statement in First Public Report Since Moscow Meet

U.S. Given Chance To Cooperate   Hull Emphasizes Importante of Pact Made at Moscow; Wo Servet Aoreements   MUST CO-OPERATE AT HOME, HE SAYS   Declaration On Italy’ the Principles to Be’ Followed in Other Nations Freed

Investigator Recommends Cheyenne Be “Out of Bounds” for All Soldiers

Old Pompeti is damaged by modern battle   Many citizens die in crossfire

Marshall Reports ‘Polly’ Stimson   Chauman Cow Quits   Historic Pompeit Sulfers trom Allied Invasion   ruptionin Year /9   iern ttalian City Damaged More by borabs than by Eruptio

Defense Strikes Back In D-C Suit   Shipyard Salaries In Court Spotlight

Naval Cadets and Kerr Flying Service Take Over New Louis Schreiner Field

NO MENTION IS MADE OF 15 - DAY TRUCE DECLARED BY LEWIS TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.

Roosevelt Says Coal Stoppage Would Peril Nation, Puts Responsibility Squarely Up to Union Heads

Agreementreached pending resumption of negotiations John L. Lewis announces   . President Roosevelt expresses hope ‘every mun will be at work Monday’

The President Addresses Nation Sunday Night After 15-Day Truce Signed With United Mine Workers   STATED THAT EVERY IDLE MINER IS DIRECTLY AND INDIVIDUALLY OB STRUCTING WAR EFFORT; STOPPAGE OF COAL SUPPLY WOULD INVOLVE GAMBLE WITH THE LIVES OF Lo ee CAN SOLDIERS AND SAILORS AND FUTITRE SECTIRITY OF OTR PEQP

President Tells Nation Coal Will Be Mined Despite Any Individual   MINES WILL RESUME CPERATIONS TUESDAY

ASKS STRIKERS TO RETURN T0 JOBS AT ONCE   Work Stoppage For Even Short Time Would Endanger Lives Of Americans   Appeals To Patriotism

ROOSEVELT MAKES PLEA TO MINERS   President Appeals To Patriotism of Striking Miners

President Speaks 20 Minutes After  Truce Is Revealed  Declares Coal Will Be Mined Regardless of ‘Any Individual;  AT ®RST Ol tt

President Lays Down the Law In Strike Issue   Says work will go. forward “no matter what any ‘individual thinks  pe Pape Ue tied: ig

ROOSEVELT PLEA ON COAL STRIKE FOLLOWED TRUC   Broadcast Delivered Without Change Despite tckesLewis Agreement.

Lewis Announces Decision  Shortly Before FDR Address   ‘Coal Will Be Mined, President Roosevelt Says on Eve of Government Control of Operations

Pits Will Resume Operation Today Under U.S. Rule   Lewis Announces Two-Week Agreement with Government Shortly Before President Gives Talk: Union Officers Blamed for Crisis

‘Germans ? Almost Get Gen. Clark With Time Bomb in Naples Street

Explosion of ‘Nazi Time: ‘Fused Mine in* "Naples Street ~ Narrowly. Missed Clark

Explosion of Nazi Time Fused Mine in’ Naples Street Narrowly Missed Clark

Congress To GoAheadOn Plan For Tax   Pe  DESPITE SKEPTICISM OF SOME LAWMAKERS THAT TAXPAYERS CAN BEAR’ ADDITIONAL BURDENS.   Simplify Returns

QULONS TO START NEW TAX SEARCH   Some Lawmakers Skeptical Of Ability of Taxpayers to Bear Additional Burden; Hearings Scheduled

HOUSE TO HUNT MORE REVENUE   Lawmakers Skeptical Of Taxpayers Ability To Bear Bigger Load

HOUSE GROUP 10 BEGIN TAX {IEARING SOON   Ability of Taxpayer to «Bear Greater Burd en Questioned

Tax Discussions To Start Oct. 4   Higher Levies May Be Strongly Fought

CONGRESS WILL GO _ AHEAD WITH TAXES   Hearings on Program to be Opened Week From Monday

Congress Girds to Tackl  New Tax Measure   Two House Committee Members Doubt Ability to Raise 12 Billion More; Hearings Arranged to Begin October 4

SOUTH CAROLINIAN CONFIRMED FOR JOB   Samuel M. Derrick Elected To War Manpower Comnfission.

WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES MANY REPORTS OF COMING CRACK-UP OF HOME FRONT OF GERMANY!

WORK, NOT WISHING, WILL BRING ABOUT FINAL COLLAPSE OF NAZIS. ON ALLFRONTS, SAYS MACKENZIE   7m: yet Discusses Signs Pointing to Crack 7 Home Front and Military Status..» Pressure Must Be Continued

The War Today—  Says Anything May Happen In War Now---Nazi Collapse Or New Spurt

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   \ Germany May Be On Edge Of Collapse, But Allies Must Keep Pushing

Reports Of Impending Crack Up Ot German Home Front Still Numerous

Moscow Pact Blasts Hopes Of Japanese   No chance now for compromise or negotiated peace in Pacific

MOscOK CONFERENCE HITS — JAP HOPE OF COMPROMISE      DECLARATION I8 FIRST TIME CHINA HAS JOINED U, 8. AND BRITAIN IN PACT

PARLEY ealiLt BLAST JAP IPE FOR EASY PEACE   Moscow Conference Decisions Seen as Blow to Nipponese

EXPECT E LIST TO SET NEW RECORD   Retailers Serve as (‘o-Sponsor With Journal-Gazette

Bad News May Come F rom Pacific   That U.S. Losses May Be Heavy   By REAR. ADM, YATES STIR LING JR., USN. (RETIRED) CWritten frre the Iinited Precc)

Might Be Well For American Public To Prepare For Possible Bad News From South Pacific Battle Sectors

SOVIET DRIVE WEDGES WINTEF DEFENSE LINE   Kherson Lost, Germans Admit

RUSSIANS OPEN WINTER OFFENSIVE   Cut Nazi Line On Baltic Front, Then Swing Southward

Moscow Claims 500 Communities Overrim and 20.006 Germans Kille€d—Berlin Admits Attack

BEGIN WINTER OFFENSIVE IN NEVEL SECTOR   Veteran Troops Chop 50-Mile Wide Hole  - In German Lines

20,000 Axis: Troops Slain In Five Days      ‘Long Dela y ed Soviet Winter Offensive Picks Up Speed   VITEBSK FLANKED

GREAT MANY ARE CAPTURED. DEAL   Reds Crash German “Iron Wall” as Yanks Make Progress In Rabaul Battle.

Siberian Vets Outflank Vitebsk in Power Thrust   Nazi “Iron Wall” Below Nevel Crashed   Germans Hurl in  All Reserves But mm... Bln Awad l

SHOCK TROOPS BUT 19 MILES INTO DEFENS}   Beginning Winter Offensive Russ Kill 20,000 in Five-Day Battle.

'20,000 NAZIS ARE  KILLED AT NEVEL   Great Russian Winter Offensive Nears Latvia

Bypass Vitebsk In Opening of Winter Drive   Baltic Army Smashes Formidable Defenses  Along North Front

VICTORIES ARE MARKED UP IN WINTER DRIVE   Berlin Admits Loss of Bridgehead Across Dnieper Estuary

Hits Farm Machinery Limitations   lowa Governor at Corr Belt Meetings, Talks or Rationing

RATIONING OF FARM TOOLS IMPRACTICAL   lowa Govenor Addresses Cornbelt Officials

FARM MACHINE RATIONING HELD -IMPRACTICABLE   Hickenlooper Tells Corn Belt Governors Plants Stocked With Machines They Can’s Sell

ee eee ee ee  Rationing Of Farm Machinery Foolish Governors Told

HIGKENLOOPER TITS AT FARM TOOL RATIONS   Governor Says Combines in Frozen Storage: When Needed for Use,   SPEAKS AT MEETING OF ~ MIDWEST EXECUTIVES

CALLS MACHINERY RATION ‘FOOLISH’   lowa Governor Scores Federal Regulations

FARM EQUIPMENT      Cornbelt Governors Told Plan Impractical in Food Program

Tenderloin Steak For  Governors   Cornbelt Executives Also To Feast On Prime Ribs Of Beef

Home Edition   PRESIDENT ASKS MINERS TO WORK FOR GOVERNMEN'   Secretary Ickes Instructed To Call For Troops If Necessary

Asks St tri eect,  ing Workers To Resume Operations   With U. S. Army Providing Protectior

ickes Directed to Take Over Struck Coal Pits: Troops Use Authorized

Ickes Is Empowered To Use Troops If Necessary For Protecting Workers

ACTION OW FOR VETO DELAYED IN SENATE   Coal Wage Settlement Would Aid Farm Bloc to Override Prasiqant

FARM BLOC FIGHTS TO DELAY TEST ON PRESIDENT’S VETO  SEEK TO SEND FARM   SEEK TO SEND FARM PRICE BILL BACK TO AG. COMMITTEE

Farm Bloc To Try To Delay Vote On Veto   ‘Shotgun Behind Door’ Move Assailed By Democratic Leader Barkley

VOTE ON VETO   Farm Bloc Fights ‘Rear Guard’ Action to Hold Off Showdown.   BARKLEY SEEKS ACTION

Rear Guard Action F ought By Farm Bloc After Rout Of Bankhead Bill, Vetoed

DELAY DRIVE TO WIPE OUT VETO ACTION   Farm Leaders Seek to Send Bankhead Bill Back To Agricultural Committee   BARKLEY STILL FIGHTS

FIGHTS 10 DELAY SENATE ACTION ON FARM BILL VETO   Farm Bloc Routed in Efforts to Override President's ” Action   HEADS FOR COMMITTEE

FARM CHIEFS RENEW DRIVE AGAINST VETO   Leaders Seek Settlement After Wage Battle Of Lewis

Lewis Silent on  WLB Wage  Offer to Miners 15 More Rail  Unions Join  In Strike Vote

LEWIS WITHHOLDS COMMENT ON WLB’S PAY BOOST OFFER   Board Rejects Proposed ‘Agreement With Coal Operators In ILlinois

Lewis Silent On Offer of WLB   $10 Week Increase. For Coal Miners Proposed

Basic Pay Of $8.12 Offered Coal Miners   Increased Earnings Of About $10 Weekly Are Proposed In New Plan Of War Labor Board

WLB REJECTS ILLINOIS MINERS WAGE BARGAIN   Lewis Silent on WLB Offer to Increase Earnings $10 a  Woaok

Next Move Up to Lewis   Increase Less Than Proposed in Ilhnois Agreement

Makes Confession In Shooting Case   Fugitive Taken From Virginia Bus

ARMY REMUVES 2 WRIGHT OVERSEERS   As Result of Truman Accusations Against Wright Corp.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Berlin And Tokyo Show Leaders’ Uneasiness Over Allied Power

Airdromes And Harbors: Lashed   _ Six Planes ‘Dowied In One Encéunter::

Allies Attack 14 Jap Bases   Bombers Range Over Many Islands Held by Japanese Forces

JAP BASES RAIDED BY ALLIED PLANES   Bombers Cover a Wide Range in Attacks on * the Enemy

More Jap Bases Hit By Raiders   Bombers Attack Eight En. emy Bases In New Guinea Area Monday   HEAVY DAMAGE TO INSTALLATIONS

14 JAP BASES IN PACIFIC RAIDEL   MacArthur’s Bombers and Fighting Planes Range Far And Wide; Jap Base on Kiska Under Attack

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT JAP BASES   8 Enemy Strongholds Are Battered In Attacks

Allied planes bomb 14 Japanese bases, southwest Pacific   Raid areas where enemy is massing air, shippines power: planes downed

The War Today— ‘Second. Front Threat Prompts Hitler  (In Mad Dash To Recapture. Kharkov

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler’s Kharkov Drive Is Defensive Action Against Turkey

‘Hitler Strains to Achieve Objective Before Allies Can Open Second Front

OMPETE AGAINST TIME  Fowrete Aca HITLER. ne Seeks 2nd Front, One Delay

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MackENZIE (Associated Press War Analyst)

RUSSIAN AND NORTH AFRICAN ACTIONS EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF INTERDEPENDENCE WAR THEATER

RACE FOR TIME IS ON IN RUSSIA AND TUNISIA NOW .   Hitler Trying. Desperately to Repair Lines in Russia; Rommel Trying To Hold Allies i in  Tunisia

‘Political Story’ of French North Africa Unusual in That There Are No Politics, Virtually No Names

OFFICIALS SEEK TO KEEP POSTS   Giraud Harassed By ‘Struggle of Vichy-Placed Men In Africa,   DISSENSION INCREASING

Sheds Light On Mystery   Says: French North Africa Suffering From “Axis Sickness”

FATHER DRAFT NOT SETTLEL   Director At Butler Says No Definite Induction Date

NO DEFINITE DATE FOR DRAFTING OF FATHERS   Must First Be Determined On Nation-Wide Basis That Such Course Is Necessary, Col. Hafer Says

17 Americans Killed In Crash Of Transport Plane At Rio de Janeiro

150 Japs Die In Mubo Sector   Heavy Losses Are Inflicted on Nipponese In New Guinea

200 JAPA KILLED IN NEW GUINEA BATTLE   Bears Out Indications of Intensified Fighting in Comparatively New Sector of Mubo   RABAUL AGAIN HIT   Every Bomber Gives Town and Harbor Area Pasting Causing Jap Ship to Explode

SENATE AND HOUSE IN AGREEMENT UPON JUDICIARY BILLS   ONLY APPROXIMATELY SID  THOUSAND DOLLARS  DIEEERENCE IN CUTS

K. U. HOMECOMING TO BE THIS WEEK      Military Motif Will Be Theme of Activities at* University

K. U. HOMECOMING TO BE THIS WEEK   Military Motif Will Be eme of Activities at” University   A CO-ED IS CHAIRMAN

"43 AUTO TAGS AVAILABLE TODAY      Small Metal Sticker Attached to Old Plate Saving

WEE 1943 AUTO TAGS GOOD NOW   Abbreviated Plates May Be Applied to Old Ones Today.

' ON IMPOSSIBLE ROAD   Dictators Cannot Survive, Davis Tells Rotarians

LIEUT. GEN. SOMERVELL, LOUISE WARTMANN WED   Chief of Army’s Services of Supply First Met Bride When At West Point

Yanks Knocking Down Enemy Planes With New Electrical ‘Dream’ Weapon

‘Dream Weapon of United States Army Is Doing Good Work in Foreign Skies

ELECTRICAL DEVICE HELPS DOWN PLANES   Gun Director, Which Grew Out of. Dream, Increases Hits of AntiAltenenft CGunnora. 

‘DREAM’ WEAPON DOING GOOD JOB   Gun Director . Developed Following Dream Proves } — Tough on Axis

Worldwide Groups Asked To. Consider Plea By Committee   Soviet Russia Proposes To Destroy Basis For Bolshevist Bogey-Man ~ Which Reich Holds Up To World   By EDDY GILMORE

ALL BRANCHES OF MOSCOW UNIT WILL BE ENDED      Resolution of Executive  Committee Issued Amid  Signs of Growing SovietAllied Cooperation   GERMANY DESCRIBES "Tp ‘GIGANTIC BLUFF’   Qne Communist Authority in London Says Com- : intern Never Would be Resurrected

REDS DISSOLVE WORLD CENTERS OF COMMUNISM   Russian Executive Committee Decides Comintern Methods Obsolete: Seen As Move To Aid War Effort.

Co-operation In Full With Allies Seen   Executive Committee in Moscow Issued Order Requesting Support

MOSCOW ASKS FOR DISSOLUTION OF COMMUNIST PARTY   ACTION SEEN AS MOVE TO SOLIDIFY UNITED NATIONS

Comintern Ends. World Network   EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF COMMUNIST GROUP ASKS DISSOLUTION OF CENTERS OVER GLOBE IN MOVE TO STRENGTHEN BLOWS AT HITLER

Red International _   Executive Comimittee Asks Centers Throughout World to Approve Step, Saying Comintern Forms and Methods Have Become Obsolete.

COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL TO DISSOLVE   Forms, Methods and Regulations Have Become Obsolete Committee. States.

COMINTERN > BRANCHES JO CEASE   Communist ~International Says Methods, Regulations . Have Become Obsolete   “ASK ALL PEOPLES. JOIN: WAR EFFORT   Historic Differences : Cited, @But Work at Home to Beat . Hitler Is First: Duty

Says Comintern Is Now Obsolete   Communists Sections in All Parts of World Asked to Approve Dissolution.

Russians Invoke Significant Move For Nazi Defeat   Executive Committee — of Communist Internation al Asks for Dissolution.  Says Comintern Rules Have Become Obsolete

International Comintern To Dissolve   Decision By Committee In Moscow Step Toward Greater Unity Between Russia And Its Allies

Asks Communist International  Be Dissolved   Wants All Members Tc Concentrate On Defeating Axis.

Action Considered Sign Of Further  War Cooperation   Berlin Propagandists Call Action ‘Gigantic Bluff’; Comintern Forms, Methods Declared Obsolete By Moscow Committee.

COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL DISSOLVES ITS CENTERS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

Organization Is ‘Obsolete,’ Say Moscow Chiefs, Urging Units to Quit, Support War   U.S. COMMUNIST PARTY SEPARATED FROM MOSCOW, SINCE '40: BROWDER

DISSOLUTION NOW BEING SOUGHT BY. SOVIET COMINTERN   esolutions Say Forms, Meth eds, Regulations Are Ob solete and Hinder the Work. ers of the World.”

World-Wide Dissolution Called For   Action Interpreted As Move For Closer AngloRuss War Co-operation.

COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL MAY DISSOLVE   Resolution of Presidium in Mos cow Interpreted as Move to De stroy Red Bogey-Man — -

Full Cooperation With Allies Aim Of Soviet Action   Shows Disposition To Get Down To Job Of Defeating Adolph Hitler

DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET COMMUNIST BODY RECOMMENDED   - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL TAKES ACTIO!

GermanRadio Calls It Huge — Allied Bluff   Allied Sources See It as Closer Tie With Reds In War Front .

Communist International Proposes to Drop Activities  ke 6 PR oc elactla a af Dad Poeenn tock ns   _ Move for Dissolution of Red Organization Seen as Gesture Towdrd War Cooperation

Communist International Asks All Sections In All Parts Of World To Allow Dissolution

British Smash Counter Drive Near Catania   Italians Reported Mutinying Against German Officers As Resistance In Sicily Weakens; Patton's Troops Approach Palermo.

Allies Hit Troop Ships in Raids On New Britain  ~ Attack on Solomons; Clean Up Papua Foes

BASES BOMBED IN NEW BRITAIN   N ipponese Springboards Raided; Stragglers In New Guinea Slain

New Britain Is Severely Lashed        Launches  sal Tal With Troofia

BOMBERS RAID © JAPANESE BASES   New Britain Island, One of Points Which Enemy Could Be Using in Latest Offensive, Hit By Planes

Lewis Uses  Pay Wedge   Illinois Agreement Offered as Basis  For Wage Increase

TRE RBEBOREREBER RR ERE RSE RRS ERS Prisoner Wants to be Nearer Home

ITALIANS ADMIT DRIVE TO MESSINA   Invasion Raises Doubts it italy

Japs Are Preparing Attack On Australia Report Of Allied High Command States   Enemy Is Reinforcing Positions North Of Continent In Readiness For Invasion Attempt; Surprise Raid Is Staged On Penfoei Airdrome      NAVAL BOMBARDMENT OF JAP INDUSTRIAL CITIES HINTED

May Be Preparing For Major Drive, Communique Says   Could Be ‘Offensive of Defensive’ Statement Asserts   Enemy Concentrating Main Effort on This Particular Front

Pay.asYouGo. Tax Plarr Stil May Be hank   Indicate House Committee . May Give In -

Indicate House Committee May Give In to Demands for New Pay As You Go Income Tax Plan Before Recess

HOUSE COMMITTEE MAY PRESENT NEW INCOME TAX PLAN      Democrats And Republicans Are Trying To Force Immediate Action On Tax

HOUSE GROUP MAY BOW 10 DEMANDS FOR PAY-AS-YOU-G0   Representatives of Both Parties Join In New Move for Fast Action.

OPA Admits Food Prices Are Practically Out of Control   Prices of Fresh Vegetables Are  Cantinnine ta Sniral

LITTLE PROGRESS IN PRICE CONTROL   OPA. Officials Admit Food Prices Continue To Spiral

OPA SAYS PRICES OUT OF CONTRO   Prices Continue to Spiral Fresh Vegetables Begin With Shipper.

OPASaysFood Prices Are Out Of Hand   Ceiling Violations Cited By All Dealers From Wholesalers Down   NO PROGRESS MADE   Brown's Promise To Roll Back Prices Believed Im: possible To Fulfill

ee Ye  OPA SAYS FOOD PRICES SPIRAL   Officials Say Fulfilling ‘‘RollBook” Pledge Willi Take Month, at Least

Officials Admit Many Violations In U.S. Program   Little Progress Made In “Rolling Back” of “Out of Hand” Values

FOOD PRICES OUT OF HAND, OPA ADMITS   Point To Spiraling Charges on Vegetables, See Little Chance of Quick Check.

LAOLLETTE RAILS AT POST-WAR PLANS   Says Any United Nation Organization Would Not Be Binding in 'U. S.

Postwar Plan Resolution  Called Futile   LaFollette Points Out tt Is Not  Binding on Anvone

ADVOCATES OF POST-WAR PLANNING CHALLENGED BY SEN. LA FOLLETTE T0 SHOW HOW SYSTEM WOULD BE BINDING

Joint Postwar Plan Is Futile: Sen. LaFollette   Proposed Organization Declared Not Binding On Any Country.

Postwar Planning to Face Tests   Move for Joint Action Called Futile By Several Senators

POST-WAR PROPOSAL ATTACKED   Would Not Be Binding on Any Country, Says Sen. LaFollette   DOUBTS DEBATE NOW WOULD HELP   Rep. Bloom Says It Is Not Deep Enough; Would Go to Bed Rock

Advocates Challenged To Show How Proposal Would Be Binding  DDFA\HODCV\AICAITC LISANOC rit

Move For Joint Post-War Plans Termed Futile  Senate Proposals   Senate Proposals Declared Lacking In Cohesion

OCT. 20-23 ARE’ DATES SELECTED. FOR APPLICATION   Only One, Over Fightéen, Should. Register For ‘Bis tire Family; Board . Expects to Issue: 25.000- Books

Hit Rumor That Reds May Quit   Bracken Calls It insult To Russia

Separate Peace  Rumors Spiked   Bracken Says Such Talk Is An Insult To Russian People

Scys Ss: Te 4 / “Ps ve ry : =a! od ~ or , . re Nez £8   raccen reci ics, irae -"Ch 26 ace furcen “= "Zuesia 1.

BRITUN. SCOFFS AT IDEA RUSSIA MAY SEEK PEACT   Brendan Bracken Blames Germany for Rumor That Reds May Drop Out of War.   CALLED NAZI ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE ALLIES   If Hitler Succeeds in Doing That He Will Have Won a Political Victory, Minister Says.

Rumors Reds Might Make Own Peace  Are Assailed   British Minister  Of Information Hits ‘Lot of Unconscious Hifeh Coalumouicts?   STALIN TOO BUSY TO LEAVE, HE SAYS  Contends Spreading Of Rumors Helping Nazi Propagandists

Separate Peace Talk Deplored   Briton Says Hitler Would’Split Allies

Bracken Assails  ‘Unconscious  Fifth Columnists Germans Hope: to:  Split Allied Home Front Unity

Bracken Raps Talk of Russ,  German Peace   Britisher Brands Authors as Fifth Columnists

BABSON PREDICTS A GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR U). 5. WORKING MEN   Anticipates After-The-War Era of Unemployment With Millions Of Working Men Thrown Out Of Jobs

SMASH HITLER BEFORE SPRING, COAL OF ALLIES   Germans in Full Retreat on Adriatic Sector in Italy

Three allied leaders plan  final drive   ‘Japanese will lose war loot

Nazi Line at Sangro Collapses   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin May Be Plotting Quick End of German War

Believe Roosevelt, Churchill Are Meeting With Stalin in Persia After Cairo Session

“Big Three” Confer As Nazis Retreat In Italy, Bombers Hit War Industry

BIG 3 MAPS DRIVE TO CRUSH GERMANS BEFORE WINTER ENDS   Talks Follow Decision with Chiang at Cairo To Strip Japs of Stolen Lands.

Stalin Meeting Is Next   Great Drive Looms To Crush Germany Before Winter-End

GIGANTIC EFFORT TO END WAR ‘BEFORE WINTER ENDS SEEN AS RESULT TEHERAN CONFERENCE   _ British-American. Experts Plan for New Invasion of __Extobe As Aid to Russian Drive Against I Nazis. .. New- Invasion in Balkans May Be Made.

‘ROOSEVELT, STALIN  AND CHURCHILL ARE  CLAIMED CONFERRING AS FATEFUL DECISION FOR  GERMANY AS THAT FOR  JAPAN IMPLIFEN

Propose To Crush Nazis This Winter   Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Reported To Be Making Fateful Decision for Ger. many at Persian Caailaj

Crush Germany-Teheran Subject   UNDATED INTERNATIONAL BY RICHARD McMURRAY

Crush Germany  Before Spring Is Aim Of Allies   Leaders Promise Doom Of Jap Military Power

Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Are  Believedin I eherar   Unrelenting War to Thrash Japan Into Unconditional Surrender and Tear Away Whole Empire She Won in Conaquests Decided at Cairo   BRILLIANT DEVELOPMENTS SAID TO BE PENDING

U.S. to Clamp Price Ceiling On Livestock   Method Considered as Means of Bringing End To “Black Markets”

PRICE CEILINGS ‘ON LIVESTOCK MAY BE NEXT MOVE   Prentiss Brown Thinks It May Be Necessary To Halt ‘Black Markets’

US. MAY SET MEAT CEILINGS   Set Prices Are Proposed As Move-to Check Black Market

PRICE CEILINGS MAY BE PLACED ON LIVESTOCK TO END MEAT BLACK MARKET

PRICE CEILING ON LIVESTOCK HINTED TO CURB MARKETS      Meat Amimal Price Control i Suggested to Eliminate “Black Markets’

MAY FIX PRICE __ON LIVESTOCK   Farm  Selling ’ May Go Under. Ceiling to Com bat Black:-Markets. :

COLD- WAVE TO REACH IOWA   Mercury to Dip Below Zero in Some Areas

Churchill Confers With War Leaders  Report to Parliament  Delayed by Parleys

Britons Clamor For Second European Front   Newspapers Reopen Drive as Churchill Talks With Leaders

MIXED RESPONSE IS:GIVEN PROPOSAL FOR LONGER WEEK   General Endorsement, However is Tendered 48-Hour Week For Industry

Mixed Response to 48-Hour-Week is Heard in Capital   Is Another Subject of Study Along With Pay as-You-Go Taxes

Mixed Response Greets New 48Hour Work Week   Congress Considering Many Other Questions Including Skipping 1942 Taxes

TO REGISTER NEXT WEEK FOR BOOK 2   Citizens of Lawrence Will Sign Up at Community Building —

TO REGISTER NEXT WEEK FOR BOOK 2   Citizens of Lawrence Will Sign Up at Community “ Building   FOR POINT RATIONING

eieus TAX nc an, oe a Es 4 te ce 2 a ee ae a) eee of ee ee A Od See VA 4, . SULAGI.-Selaman th  Latrot Boat Plows Into Jap Sub, Rides Pissy-Back in Fierce Brttl

-TJHREE DAYS OF ACTION   Fourteenth U. S. Air Force Has : Been Active in Attack

April 30th is the War Loar   Only: eight days left for Palo Alto to meet bond auota.

SECOND BOND SALE ‘WILL CLOSE FRIDAY   A Three Week Drive for Selling Bonds to Carry on War Ends on April 30th.

BAN EXTRA GAS FOR EASTERNERS   Honor System Of Sunday-Driving Control A Failure, Figures Show

NO EXTRA GASOLINE FOR SUMMER HOME COMMUTING IN EAST   Release Of Statistics Shows Breakdown Of. _ Honor System — Driving

Ban Extra Gas,  F or Commuters   Honor System For Pleasure Driving Fails

NO EXTRA GAS FOR COMMUTERS DURING SUMMER      “Honor System” On Pleasure Driving Is Failure. Report Shows

ISHAM CONVICTED ON LESSER CHARGE   Jury Returns Verdict of _ Guilty of Assault and  Battery   PICKENS JURY IS OUT

ISHAM CONVICTED ON LESSER CHARGE   Jury Returns Verdict of Guilty of Assault and — : Battery     DICVTKIe (Tmy re Arr

London, Berlin  In “Nerve War” By ROGER GREENE Ascoriated Precs War Fattar

London-Berlin War of Nerves Opens in Air   RAF Bombers Strike Bremen U-Boat Base and German Capital

Both Cities Hear Roar OfPianes Again; Invasion Jittery South Is Blasted

Fresh “War Of Nerves” For London And Berlin Apparently Under Way

LONDON, BERLIN AERIAL TARGETS   New Plan Of Hit-Run Raids Begins To Function

Red Artillery Crushes Nazi  Tank Attacks   Russians Open New Offensive

Jap Bases in Southwest Pacific Raked   Indirect Support of American Farces in Solomons Area

Japs’ Buin Base Is Pounded Hard By Flying Boats.   Fires Started And Seven Other Area Positions Blasted

Denmark Was Model Nazi  Protectorate   Revolt Crushes Hitler’s Hopes Of New Order

OO Me eS LENTS AWE  Manish Revolt Crushes Hitler’s ‘Model Protectarato      People’s Uprising Smashes Nazi Pattern For ‘New Order’ In Europe

§’ Revolt In Denmark Blow To Nazi Plans 0 Fires Blazes Among Scuttled Ships As Fugitives Shot

FLYING FORTRESS PILOTED BY TEXAN SHOOTS DOWN ELEVEN OF ITS ATTACKERS OVER GERMANY

FORTS BLAST EMDEN IN DAY RAID SATURDAY   Russians Continue Shove German  Troops Back

Disney Bill Is Reported Out   House Group Discusses, Ignores “Super Tax’

Japanese Plane Losses in Air Battle Total 39   Defeat of Invaders Off Guadalcanal Worse Than First Known

Legislature Clearing It: Decks To Handle $104, 000,000 Tax Measure A: Soon As It Comes From Committee.

9 TOP-RANKERS CHECK USE OF U.S. MANPOWER   Prepare Initial Report While Congressional Furor on Size of Forces Gréws.   STIMSON CHALLENGES   War Secretary Says Civilians Seek to Avoid Sacrifices War Effort Demands.

Whole Civilian War Organization May Be Changed   Congressional Furor Over Many Points Reaches New High

Legislative Curb on Army May Be Sought As Manpower Furore Grows, White House Committee Meets to Study Civilian Dratt

CONTROVERSY. WIDENS ON BITER ISSUE OF MILITARY’ EXPANSION   Urge Meastire-to Block Funds ‘-:For. Enlargement -of - Army   STIMSON PLEADS FOR IT

BLOC AIMS ATLIMITING ARMY SIZE   Fight Due On Type Of Law Needed To De fer Farm Workers

SPECIAL GROUP MEETS ON U.S, DRAFT PROGRAM   Harry Hopkins Byrnes Serving On Committee

 Legislative Curb On Army May Be Sought As Manpower Furore Grows: Group Meets On Civilian Draft

CURB ON ARMY MAY BE SOUGHT   FIGHT ON MILITARY EXPANSION RAGES ANEW IN CONGRESS

CONGRESSIONAL ACTION TAKEN ON SIZE OF ARMY   May Increase Number of Inductions, Include 3-A Men by August

CONGRESSIONAL CURB ON ARMY MAY BE SOUGHT   Overhauling of Entire Civilian War Organization Possible

Move Opens To Restrict Army’s Size¢   Senate Bloc Will Ask Committee-1o Refuse Wonde

FIRST MOVE T0 LIMIT SIZE OF ARMY IS MADE   Plans For Mobilizing Labor Are Being Studied

MANPOWER ~ DISPUTES MOUNTING   Controversy Soon May’, Be “Brought to a Head in ° * the Senate   FARM DEFERMENT : DEBATED TODAY   “*Can't Win Easily,’ WarSecretary Says; Top Roosevelt Advisers Tackle Problem

Legislative Attack on Size Of Army Looms   Civilian Labor Draft, Deferment of Farm Workers and Military Expansion Tangled

Manpower Row Brings First Move To Limit Army; Civilian Service May Be Reorganized

NO AGREEMENT IN COAL DISPUTE SO “FAR IS POSSIBLE   Factions Are Far Apart in Their Stands — Operators’ Attitude Withheld.

PORTAL-TO-PORTAL PAY NOW KEY ISSUE IN MINE DISPUTE   UMW And Operators Said To Be Far Apart In Views.On This Subeict

Wage Conferees Still Far Apart   UMW, Coal Operators Continue Parley

COAL ISSUES AT STANDSTILL   OPERATORS DEBATE U.M.W. STAND ON PAY DEMANDS

U.S. Chamber Chief Says Problems of Postwar Period Can, Will Be Met

Russian Gains On Widening Front Reported   Zenkov, 85 Miles Northwest Of Kharkov Falls To Red Army

REDS ONE-THIRD OF DISTANCE FROM KHARKAV Tf KIF\   Russians Are Driving Straight Through The Heart of Ukraine

Russians Drive On Kiev; Blows Stagger Enemy   Red Army Cuts Through Heart Of Ukraine As Novis Weaken

BELIEVE REDS ARE RUSHING TOWARD KIEV   Striking Through Heart of Ukraine, They Have Covered Third of Distance Between Kharkoy and Citv on Dnieper.

Nazis Being Forced Back To Dnieper   Russians Pass High-Water Mark Of Winter Offensive; Zenkov, 60 Other Villages Taken

Reds Still Rolling Off Big Gains   They Have Covered a Third of Distance From Kharkov to Kiev   ‘CRUSHING GERMANS BACK UPON DNIEPER   Steady Progress Made on Fan-Shaped Front; Nazis Tell of Mius River Action

Rus’ Sash  v  Vs = “Heart 5 Ukraine   . Army Captures .. enkov; Passes High Water, Mark of Its Winter Advance

RUSSIAN ARMIES CAPTURE ZENKOV, ADVANCE ON KIE\   Reds’ Surge Has Now Taken Them,,Actoss High Water Mark of Winter Ad wanrce

Soviets Smash Through Heart Of Ukraine Ares   Russians Scatter Reinforced Nazi Units At Zenkay

Russians Drive 85 Miles Westerly From. Kharkov In Sweep Toward Kiev: Germans ‘Forced To Withdraw On Several Fronts: -

REDS BEYOND  nie WATED  MARK OF 1949   Russians Forging Ahead On Ever-Widening and Deepening Front In the Donets

Reds Advance Towards Kiey   One-Third Of Distance From Kharkov Taken Through  Heart of Ukraine.

REDS SURGING FAST THROUGH UKRAINE AREA   Russians Cover One-Third of Distance From Khar kov to Kiev,   Nazis Are Forced to Retreat From Zenkoy

Kiev May Be The Objective Of Red Drive   Russian Surge Carries. Advance Guard 85 Miles West of Kharkov   ZENKOV IS OCCUPIED

REDS ONE-THIRD © OF WAY TO KIEV   Drive From Kharkov Endangers  Wide German Front

Nazis Attempt To Make Stance ls Cracked   Reds Beyond High Water Mark Of Winter Offensive

Forces Capturing -Zenkov Pursue’ Germans Directly Toward West, With Poliava on Flank   AKHTYRKA TAKEN   Russian Forces Widen Breach in German Lines, Push Deeper IntoDoneis Basin

REDS ROLL ON; KIEV NEW GOAL   Third of Distance to Next Objective Already Reached By Sovict Army

Red Army Drives To  New Deptk   Passes High Water Mark Of Winter’s Campaign In Ukraine

Soviets Sweep Above Kharkov  Toward Kiev   Surge Through Heart of Ukraine, Capture Zenkov and Force New German Retreat.

Soviet Troops Drive for Kiev   Germans Still Retreating; Russians Report Troops Have Captured Zenkov

QED ARMY THIRD * WAY 10 KIEV: hAZIS RETREATING   pussian Surge Forces Enemy io Withdraw from Region of Zenkow, Which Was Captured Wednesday; Reds 85 Miles Beyond Kharkov.

VETO COVER TINO OF TOWARD KIEV   Highwater Mark Of Winter’. Drive Passed As Zenkov Falls To Russians

Hull Hits Charges on U.S. Policy   SCORES ACCUSATION BY PEARSON THAT RUSSIA iS TO BE BLED WHITE

HULL HITS AT “FALSEHOODS”   Lashes Charge Officials Want Reds “Bled White’

‘Hull Hits at ‘Drew Pearson   Brands Charges as Monstrous, Diabolical Falsehoods

STATEMENTS ARE DENIED BY HULL   Brands as Monstrous and Diabolic Falsehoods the Statements by Drew Pearson.

RUSHING IN RESERVES   Powerless U.S. Cruiser Chicago Was Easy For Four Japanese Torpedoes After First Attack   By CHARLES McMURTRY

Sinking of Chicago Detailed   Cruiser Never Had Chance; Loss of  Life Small

Death of Cruiser Chicago Described  by Defense Officer   Crippled Cruiser Never Had a Chance During Second Attack

JAPS SUNK CRIPPLED CRUISER CHICAGO WHILE IN TOW: NEVER HAD A CHANCE

Despite Terrific Attack Of 11 Torpedo Planes, Cruiser Chicago Lost Osily 6 Officers, 56 Men

Japs Picked the Chicago for Attack   Believing Cruiser. Was. : Battleship, They Poured All Fire on-Her™.   NO OTHER AMERICAN SHIP. WAS HIT   Despite the Terrific Pound. ing, Cruiser Lost Only -62 of 1,100 Personnel

ELEVEN TORPEDO PLANES ATTACKED, SUNK CHICAGO   Fired Salute to Herself And Went Down With Flag Flying. 62  Livee I net *

ONLY 62 MEN OF CREW LOST ON USS CHICAGO   First Detailed Account of Sinking Narrates Attacks by Jap Planes in South Pacific

RED ARMY BEATS OFF ATTACKS ON DONETS LINES   MUD SLOWS DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK; CAPTURE VILLAGES

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH ON THRU SWAMPY AREA   Bad Weather, Mud Slows Campaign For Smolensk

REDS WRESTLE MUD AND NAZIS   Advance On Smolensk Slow; Germans Keep Up Drive To Cross Donets

REDS CAPTURE 3 VILLAGES IN BELY SECTOR      Troops Drive a Strong Wedge Into German Defenses Following an Attack Upon a Strong Bastion in That Area. -

MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN SOVIET DRIVE   Bad Weather and Swampy Country Serve to Slow Up Campaign in Direction of Smolensk   MANY NAZIS KILLED

SLOG AHEAD IN BAD WEATHER   Reds Gain on Smolensk Despite Swampy Country

Reds Slog Ahead In Bad Weather   Take Three More Villages in Their Drive Toward Smolensk.

REDS GUNTINUE MOVING TOWARD SRL ENSK CITY  Rus ns Force Forced to Slog   Ahead n Bad Weather  Thr ough S Se wampy Cou   ae 7     ATSTER! TAT DOU &   ‘Strong Enemy Bastion in  Sector Attacked and Wedge Driven Into German Defenses

Soviets Occupy More Towns In Smolensk Push   Report Repulse Of German Thrusts In Donets Battle

Russ Storm Nazi Bastion In Bely Area   Soviet Army Slogs Ahead in Drive to Capture Smolensk

Weather Slows Red Offensive   RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO MAKE GAINS IN DRIVE

Russians Plod Through Mud For New Gains  Three Villages — Fall Into Red ft Tie, oe ee  ee

NEW ADVANCI ON SMOLENSK IS REPORTED   Donets Defenders Beat Off Another German Attack

Three More Villages Seized by Driving Soviet Army, Continuing It’s Advance Toward Smolensk

Russ Pushing For Smolensk   Slog Ahead in Bad Weather And Through Swamp Against Defenses

Russians Moving  Toward Stholensk   Soviet Soldiers Take. Three . More Villages From ” the Nazis =   300° GERMANS KILLED   Mid-Day. Bulletin Tells ’ of 14 Axis Planes Being’ Shot Down -

Reds Continue Smolensk Drive, Take 3 Villages   German Garrison In Bely Sector Is Partly Exterminated

Russ Advance On Smolensk   Three More Villages Token in Drive That Defies Bad Weather

Soviet Troops Push Ahead Through Rain and Mud in Advance Toward Smolensk

Bad Weather, Marshy Country Slow Russians — In Advance to Smolensk

RUSSIANS PUSH RELENTLESSLY ON TO SMOLENSK   Drive Ahead Despite Bad Weather And Swampy Terrain; Several More Villages Captured.

Reds Continue Smolensk Drive   Three Villages Taken by Soviets South of Bely

RUSSIANS SLOGGING AHEAD IN SMOLENSK SECTOR TUESDAY  IN OTHER BATTLEFRONT   IN OTHER BATTLEFRONT AREAS RED ARMIES ARE HOLDING POSITIONS

Reds Making Slow Advance on Smolensk      Russians Slog Ahead in Bad Weather and Through Swamps   GERMANS TELL OF LENINGRAD ACTION   Soviets Continuing to Hold Their Positions in the Donets

RUSSIANS SLOGCING TOWARD SMOLENSK   Strong Enemy Bastion Attacked in Bely Sector Of Line,

REDS CONTINUE  MOVE TOWARD SMOLENSK   Three More Villages Fall To Russians South of Bely

Russians Push Slowly On To  Smolensk   Clinging To Footholds On Western Bank Of Donets

SLOWS DRIVE. ~ ON SMOLENSK   Russians Consolidate Newly Wor Positions in North, Stave Off Nazi Attacks in Donets

Munitions centers raided   More than 600 British bombers rain destruction

55 Bombers Lost In Greatest Attack Of Yeer   TONNAGE OF BOMBS ALSO MAKES RECORD

Pilsen Area Is Target   Mannheim Also Attacked; British List 55 Bombers Lost 

DROP 1800 TONS OF BOMBS © ON: TARGETS; 55 BRITISH. BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN AFTER RAID

RAF Bombs Mannheim  And Pilsen   More Than 600 Planes Used in Raids: 55 Lost

,450 British Planes Blast - Skoda Plant   53 Bombers Lost In One of War's Greatest Attacke

600 Planes In — Heaviest Night Attack of War   Shatter Huge Skoda Arms Works Ir Czechoslovakia and Tank, Motor Plants In Germany; British Lose 55 Planes In Raids.

600 Planes Raid Nazi War Plants   Bomb Mannheim and Pilsen Factories

British Lose 99 Planes in. Record Attack   Pilsen, Mannheim . War Centers Hit  By 600-Plane Raid

SIX HUNDRED PLANES BOMB ARMS CENTERS   British Lose 55 Bombers in BlockBuster Assault on Hitler’s Big Plants.

BRITISH IN RECORD RAID ON GERMANY   55 Bombers Lost In Attacks On Two Armament Centers

Mannheim And Pilsen Works Hit   RAF, In Biggest Night Attack Of Year, Loses 55 Planes In Raid

600 RAF BOMBERS STAGE 2 RAIDS ON KEY ARMS CENTERS   55 British Planes Lost In Twin Raids — Both Attacks Said Te  Be Success

MANNHEIM, PILSEN ARE TARGETS FOR  TERRIFIG RAIDS   Fifty-five Giant Planes Lost In Twin Raids—1,800 Tans Dropped.

Mr. And Mrs. Charles Duhigg Golden Wedding   Their Son Celebrated Anniversary Mass

Many Attend Anniversary Fete Here   Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Duhigg sr. celebrate golden wedding.

New Army Regulation On Soldier-Politicians Causes Stir In Political, Legislative Circles

Soldiers on Active Service Barred from Seeking Election   Officers Take Steps to Keep the Army Out of Politics for Duration of Conflict

BURTON WILL BACK BRICKER GANDIDACY   YU. S. Senator Pledges Self On ‘Favorite Son’

FOLLOWS PARTY   Button Says He'll Support Bricker As 'Favorite Son’

Senate To Act On Raiiroad Pay Boost Proposal   Approval by Senate Com. mittee Clears Way for Consideration

Committee Approves Resolution  On Rail Pay   Would Give 8-Cent  Increase in Wages - To Non-Operating  Ratlena, WW nwlenecs   VINSON PROTESTS IGNORED BY GROUP   Congressional Order Would Crack WLB’s Little Steel Formula

AT CHURCH MEETING   63 Out of Town Delegates Attend Baptist Session

AMERICANS IN SAVAGE FIGHT ABOVE CLOUDS   German Stronghold is Isolated by Fierce Yank Drive

Americans Drive Through First Barrier of Winter Line   PANZER GRENADIERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS   Eastern and Southern Bank of Garigliano River Held .

First Great Barrier on Road to Rome Hurdled in Savage Fight Above Clouds

MIGNANO CUT OFF IN DRIVE TOWARD ROM!   FIFTH ARMY HOLDS MAIN HIGHWAY ON WINTER LINE

Hand-to-hand ‘cloud battle’ won by Fifth   German losses extremely heavy

SEIZURE QF PEAK CLIMAXES CLARK'S EIGHT-DAY DRIVE   American Infantry, in Hand~ to-Hand Fighting, Routs Germans From 3,000-Foot  Mount Samucro,   LARGE QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES TAKEN   One Enemy Division Suffers Heavy Losses—Small Arms and Grenades Used in Grim Struggle.

Allies Astride Main Highway And Railroad  444, Aumwu Taba   Fifth Army Takes Mt. Sumaco in Climax to Drive

Yanks Isolate ‘Nazi Bastion   First Terrible Barrier Of Famed Winter Line Broken

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Allies Are Astride MainRoadToRome   Little Ground Gained, But It Represents Herdest Fiahting In The Mediterranean War

BERLIN GETS TWO ATTACKS DURING DAY   Goering Is Forced To Delay Speech Over Hour; Goebbels Is Also Delayed.

Capital blow ends biggest  raid month   s # Mosquito planes sting Germans on anniversary

NAZI PARTY MEET STOPPED BY AIRPLANES   Defenses Are Caught Napping in Bold Forays

Nazi Claims OfCapturing Rome False   Nazis. and Italians Locked. in Battle  ¥or City’s Control

THE HIGHEST PAID _ PRIVATE IS BROKE   Man With Wife and 10 Children Comes  High in Army

FBI Conference On Law Enforcement Due Monday   Valley Police To Hear Federal Officers Tell Of New Crime Methods

LEADERS OF “BIG FIVE” REJECT SMALL WAGE INCREASE OFFER—250,000 EMPLOYES AFFECTED

Strike Vote By R. R. Men Looms   Brotherhood Representatives Gloomy As Meeting Opens.

Railmen Say They Will Strike Unless” 10 Month Pay Hike Demands Are Met

Rail Strike Appears To Be Imminent   House Committee Rejects Prow posals for Increase in Im come Taxes; Attempt te Strip McNutt of Authority

STRIKE VOTE IS IMMINENT, SAYS RAIL SPOKESMAN   REPRESENTATIVES OF BROTHERHOODS MEET TO DISCUSS DEMANDS

Representatives of 5 R. R. Brothers Report  Strike Vote Imminent

ive Operating Brother  oods Determined to Bring to Head Fight For Higher Wages   jos SATISFIED TO WAIT NEW HEARING   ank and File of Union Jemberships Demanding Showdown, B. L. F. & E. Head Savs

NEW WAGE PLANS   Strike Voté Considered ' Possiblity by Union -Heads at Meétine —

Rail Strike Imminent: Sales Tax Is Expected: McNutt’s Power Shaken

Strike Vote Near Among Railroaders   Representatives of Brotherhoods Meet, Angered Over Wage Settlement Delay

Rail Strike Vote Held Imminent  Brotherhoods In Session  At Chicago on Strike lesue

Railroad Men Hold Meeting to Decide on Vote on Strike   Mine Work  Stoppages Increase Throughout the Nation

MEMBERS RAILROAD  BROTHERHOODS MAY  TAKE. STRIKE. VOTE. CONGRESS. LEADERS SAY  _ SALES TAX MAY BE ONLY WAY OUT

Rail Strike Wote Held imminent  - Brotherhoods’ “In Session At Chicago on

UNION CHIEFS FORECAST RAIL STRIKE VOTE   Assert Hundreds ol! Rank and File Demand Call

AAILADAD WORKERS VOTING ON OTRIKE   Vote For Walkout Certain, Say Union Officials

GATHERING W CHICA 18 Tony   Higher Pay Scale Demanded, Less Meetings

EXPECT STRIKE CALL VOTE IN RAILWAY MEET   Representatives Of 350,000 Workers  Attend Session

‘BIG FIVE? RAIL BROTHERHOODS IN STRIKE VOTE   429 Leaders Reject 4-Cent Boost, Ballot ‘Yes or No’ on Walkout

Rail Union Heads Talk Strike Vote   Recommendation of Ballot Regarded As Almost Certain

Rail Workers Expect Strike   Five Operating Railroad Brotherhoods Say  Hearings Not Satisfactory,

35,000 MINERS IDLE; WILDCAT STRIKES SPREAD   Trainmen’s Brotherhoods T¢ Discuss Walkout Resolution

Poll Of Unions Opened   Coal Strikes Spread With 35,000 Miners Now Idle

Expect Rail Strike Vote   Trainmen Dissatisfied With Recommendation Of 4 Cent Wage Hike

Rail Workers to Conduct Strike Poll   Wildcat Coal Strike Spreads to Seven, States as Pleas to Return Go Unheeded

RAIL WORKERS PREPARE FOR STRIKE VOTE   Wildcat Walkouts Spread in Coal Mines, 55,000 Men Idle

Railroaders Map Steps In Wage Dispute   Chief of Five Operating Brotherhoods to Meet During Day  STRIKE VOTE IS HINTED

RAIL GROUPS 10 VOTE ON STRIKE   Fight for Higher Wages Would Be Expedited, Union Chiefs Opine

LABOR TROUBLES GROW SERIOUS IN VITAL SPOTS   Coal Production Already Of As Railroad Unions Move To Strike for More Pay

Railway Union Chiefs Meet to Consider Strike   Vote Expected For Walkout in Dispute Over Pay

CHASING JAPS OUT OF KISKA TOBE COSTLY   ALEUTIANS ARE NO SIDESHOW, WAR WRITER SAYS

Kiska and Attu Hard To Take, Writer Asserts   Fugene Burns Discusse Difficulties of Attack on Islands

Guerillas Gain More Ground In Yugoslavia   Fighting Intense As Gains Made In Slavonia. Slovenia. Bosnia.   ENCIRCLE GERMANS

Guerrilla Fighting in Yugoslavie Mounts With Three Towns Captured

Tito’s Army Expands Hold  In Yugoslavia   Three More Towns Won By Partisans; Can Put 150,000 Troops In  Actian If Arms Came

Jugoslav Battle Becomes Fierce   Nazis Giving Ground In Some Sectors

Announce Capture Three More Towns   Nazi Communications Are Badly Disrupted   ARMORED RAILWAY TRAINS DERAILED

GUERRILCA FIGHTING  CONTINUES TO MOUN  YUGOSLAVIAN FRONT PARTISAN FORCES OF  DRUG TITO CAPTURED TUDEE MADE TOHWNc

Yugoslav Partisans Achieve Successes in Scattered Areas   Drive Germans Back on Trieste; Announce Towns Captured

Yugoslays Win Fresh Victories  Fighting Mounts in Guerrilla Warfare

FIERCE GUERRILLA FIGHTING IN SLAY. REGIONS MOUNTING   These More Towns Taken By Partisan Forces Under General Tito — Communications,  Attacked

YUGOSLAVS WIN 3 MORE TOWNS   Guerrillas Intensify Attacks On Wide-Spread Fronts

Partisan Forces And Germans in Stiff Battle Around  Seanart af Suealk

YUGOSLAVS WIN O MORE TOWNS   Gerrillas Continue Attacks Against Germans on Scattered Fronts.

FIGHTING IN YUGOSLAVIA GROWS FIERCE   Guerrillas Attack Germans and Take Three Towns

Jugoslavs Force Nazis to Retreat      Big Battle Rages Around Susak

Fighting Intensity Grows in Yugoslavia   Guerrillas Claim Capture of Three More Towns as They Continue Attacks on Nazi Communications in Scattered Areas.

Fighting Mounts In Intensity.  Yugoslav Guerrillas Announce New Gains

GUERILLAS TAKE 3 MORE TOWNS IN YUGOSLAVIA   GERMANS FORCED TO WITHDRAW AT SEVERAL POINTS

GUERILLA WAR IN BALKANS MOUNTS   Yugoslav Radio Annources Capture of Several Towns; Direct Warfare so German Key Bases.

MEAT RATIONS 10 BEAT SAME LEVEL   WFA Is Figuring Possible Allowances of Food During Coming Year.

70% OF FOOD FOR CIVILIANS   Civilian Meat Ration Will Remain At Present Levels.

Civilians Will Get 70% Of Expected - Record Food Supply Next 12 Months

She 1944 Political Pot  To Simmer   Rep. Gilchrist Once More Is Candidate.

Liberty Ship Will Honor Name Of Leo J. Duster   State Capitol: News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special. Correspondent

AUTO UNION. FIGHT SEE      PROPOSED TRIP OF CIO AUTO UNION HEAD ABROAD I8 CAUSING BITTER IN‘TERNAL 'DISSENTION —

Pay-As-You-Go  Tax Plan Gains “Growing Support   Senate Finance Committee Chairman Favors Enactment of Pay-As-You-Go Plan By:Congress Before March 15

Pay-as-You-Go Proposal For Income Tax Boosted; Seek Move Before March 15

PAY - AS- YOU - G0 INCOME TAX PLAN GETS BIG. BOOST   Senator George Calls For Enactment Of Such Plan . Before...Macch... —-1... : Fifteenth £

PAY-AS-YOUGO INCOME TAX FAVORED   Sen. George Is. Latest to Come Out for Plan

Now A Mirage—Meat, Lois Of 11! \Capital Shoppers Amazed When \One Store Presented Full Cases

RUSSIANS CITE NAZI TORTURES   Reds Made to Dig Graves For Selves, Jews Shot Down

Says Natives Won't Return to Mund Wrecked by Shellfire and Bombs

Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill Meeting Considered Assured   Temper of Moscow Conference Seer Encouraging for Chances of Talks Among Leaders Before Year's End

MINISTERS SET STAGE SWIFTLY FOR BIG THREE   Moscow Conference Working Smoothly Toward Bigger Meeting Later.

Accord Due At Moscow   Way Believed Cleared For ‘Bie Three’ Talk

TRIPLE PARLEY IN MOSCOW IS MOVING TO UNDERSTANDING   Prospects Enhanced For Meeting Between FDR, Churchill And Stalin

TRIPARTITE MEET MOVES SWIFTLY TG WS FINALE   ‘Cordial Atmosphere  Prevails; FDR-Chur— chill-Stalin Conference Hinted

MOSCOW TALKS MOVE TOWARD HAPPY ENDING   All Going Smoothly I: Word From 3-Power Allied Parley

CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW MOVINE TOWARD FINISH      Way May Be Cleared For Three Allied Leaders To Meet Later

HOUSE UNIT KILLS MARGARINE BILL   Makers to Seek Senate Okeh In Ficht to Lift U. S. Sunervision

OW! Chief Does Nel Relieve  Se SS Ee  Mass Raids Will Beat Nazis

Italy Could Have Avoided War  Duce Said In Last Interview   DAVIS PREDICTS THIRD FRONT

po lt. Se  ELMER DAVIS CONVINCED GERMAN ARMY MUST BE IPEATEN TO END WAR

Hitler’s Rise Aided by Funds - [rant Americe  Witness in Gevernmen   Witness in Government Case Says. Aid Given Back in 1925

MOSIGY HheicaSé Brings Praest _-Fromil aborites  Se ..2 Bocce Hideki. 3%   Home Front Workers in Mass Demonstration Aaainst Action

Mosley’s Release From Prison - Brings Storms Of Protests   Labor Angrily Denounces Freeing of Fascist in Stormy Mass Meetings—Action Called on Insult  to Those in Service

11 GAR OLYMPIAN DERAILED IN WES]   20 Persons Inj Injured, None Seriously, in Montana Accident.

LARGE JAP SHIP BOMBED IN PORT   Three Hits Scored by Allied Planes on Cruiser or Destroyer in Harbor

Scores Hits On Jap Ship   Flying Fortress Drops Three 500-pound Bomb: On Enemy Ship

Aerial Attacks Are Intensified Over Wide Area in Pacific Offense

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES BLAST JAPANESE WARSHIP  OTHER ALLIED WARPLANES BLAST ENEMY OVER WIDE SECTOR

Flying Fortress — Scores Three Hits On Jap Cruiser   Air Warfare Is Spread Over Wide Area of Pacific

Fortresses Score Hits On Jap Ship   Allied Planes Blast Enemy Over Wide Expanse of Seuthwest Pacific; MacArthus Drives an Salamanua

Fortresses Score Hits on  Jap Warship   Score Three Bomb Hits on Vessel  In Rabaul Harbor

U.S. Air Forces Pounding Japs   Direct Hits Scored On . Enemy Cruiser

ENEMY CRUISER OR DESTROYER: SUNK IN RABAUL HARBOR   Jap Airdrome At Keopang Hit By MacArthur  Aicman’

‘Forts’ Batter Knemy Cruiser   Allied Activity Against Japs On Wide Expanse Of Southwest Pacifie,

U.S. PLANES HIT ENEMY CRUISER   Allied Airmen Blast Japs In Widespread Area

Fortresses Score Three Hits on Ship   Big Jap Warship is Hit Amidships, Fore and Aft in Rabauf Harbor

U.S. AIR FORCE SCORES 3 HITS ON JAP WARSHIP   Drop 500-Pound Bombs on Enemy Ship Docked ~ at Rabaul

FORTS SCORE THREE HITS ON JAP WARSHIF   Cruiser or Large Destroyer Lifted Out of Water by Blasts—Near Hit on Transport

Alllies Bomb J ap Cruiser, New Britain   Score Hits In Raid On Rabaul

Red Paratroops Close Kiev Trap   SOVIETS BATTLE FOR SEVERAL CROSSINGS, INVEST NAZI POSTS ON EAST BEND BEFORE KREMENCHUG, DNIEPROPETROVSK, ZAPOROZHE

Dee FIAUT WAV. 4uTH. RUGO FIGHT WAY INTO  KIEV, HAMMER BLOWS DELIVERED In SUUTH

ITALIAN FEARS OF INVASION SEEN GROWING      Rome Reports Bombing of Allied Landing Barges in North Africa      MUSSOLINI SAID TO BE IN SECRET MEETING

Mussolini Said To Be Preparing To Defend Port:   Reports Indicate Ifaliar Fears of Invasion Are Increasing

FEAR OF INVASION MOUNTS IN YTALY   iL DUCE SAID TO HAVE DECIDED TO STRENGTHEN SICILY AND SARDINIA.

May Make Determined Effort To Hold Outposts: Fears Of Invasion Rise

Ta ian ivasion Tears S2en N ance sarge %om:ing S-orv   Awai: / ttiva_ 0: 7e Zait_e Jor S-ar-o- ‘renc’ onion” ais

MUSSOLINI ACTS TO STRENGTHEN HIS DEFENSES      Axis Broadcasts Report Sighting Troopships Near Gibraltar   INVASION JITTERS GRIP POPULATION

Reports Hint Fear Of Invasion Increases in Italy  Peace Move Appears Unlikely; Allied Baraes Are Bombed

Italians Fears *Rise as Invasion Draws Nearer  Mussolini Holds a Secret Meeting; tc

SET CANNED GOODS SUPPLY AT 10 GANS   To Start Food Rationing Around March 1

ANOTHER REPORT ON CANNED GOODS AND SUPPLY ON HAND  INDICATED TEN CANS PER _- PERSON MAY BE PER- ° MITTED RE KEPT

OPA RULES CANNED GOODS   Probably Limit of 10 Without Losing Any Coupons

OPA Sets Limit Of 10 Food Cans  For Each  Person   Drafts Measure To Hit Hoarding

Ten Cans May Be Allowance   Limits Under Rationing ~ Without Coupon Loss Prove Ouestior ~~

LIMIT 1S SET   OPA Tentatively Fixes Food Ration at 10 Cans Per Person.

TO PERMIT TEN CANS A PERSON   Won't Lose Coupons If Supply Canned Goods Doesn’t Exceed That Total

CONSIDER LIMIT ON CANNED FOOD   EACH PERSON MAY BE ALLOWED 10 CANS WITHOUT PENALTY

OPA Plans Ration Penalties for Families With Excess Cans of Food

10Cans Allowed Each In Family  May Be Trimmed To 8 Or 9 By The OPA

May Allow 10 Cans Of Good: For Each Member Of Familt   This Limit May Be Adopted Tentatively By OPA Before Family Will Be Deprived Of Any Coupons

FOOD RATION REGULATIONS BEING FORMED   Mach Individual Expected to be Allowed Ten Cans of Food Without Loss ot Coupon.   REGISTER SOON   Rationing Expected to Begin March 1; Probable Limit Adopted to Discourare Hoarding,

ACQUITTED FLYNN HAPPY BUT BROKE   Actor Says ‘Charges Were Filed In Effort Tp Discredit Him

THE SENATE VOTES $3,900,000 FOR AID   Rejected an Attempt by Committee to Boost the Figure to $5,610,400.

Senate Votes $3,900,000 for General Relief   Rejects Effort to Increase Fund in Sharp Debate

HOME BLOW TO LEWIS   Springfield, Illinois, Federation Opposes Readmission of Miners.

Lieut. Tom Combiths To Accept County’s Honor Roll Board As Part Of Dedication Ceremonies

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ¥ Conference At Adana Is Direct Warning To Adolf Hitler

STARTLING SEQUELS FOLLOWED CASABLANCA CONFERENCE WITH ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL LEADING

Startling Sequels Stemming From Talks in Casablanca   Churchill's Conference In Turkey Another Stroke In War of Nerves United Nations Are Now In Position to Wage Against Axis; Now It Is Hitler’'s Turn to Worry Over Activities

The War Today   Churchill’s Parley in Turkey Tichtens Chain Around Hitler

Truman Ship Loss Report. Said In Error   Describes Conclusion Losses Have Been Greater Than Building As Serious Error

Knox Claims Truman Ship Report Wrong   Navy Sceretary Says. Construction Exceeds: Sinkings

SHIP LOSS REPORT HELD INACCURATE   SECRETARY KNOX SAYS NEW CONSTRUCTION IN 1942 EXOEEDED SINKINGS.

SHIP BUILDING EXCEEDS LOSS   Knox Takes Strong Issue With Truman Report That Sinkings Top  Construction

AnOxisputes Figures on Ship Losses  _ Allied Construction Last Year Exceeded Sinkinoc Was Awexwcus.

Fox Hunters Bring About Arrest Two Pen Escapees   leland Harvey and D. C. Black, Two of the Leaders in Break From Georgia Penitentiary, Found Asleep in Car by Officers; One Tries to Reach Gun; Beth Submit to Recapture

Fox Hunters Gave Tip On Fugitives   Two Of Leaders In Georgia Prison Break Caught As Result. -

Hannett Attacks Tobacco Tax Law   Cites Constitutional Ban on Money Grants

WAREHOUSES, COTTON MILLS DOCKS IN RUINS FOLLOWING ATTACK BY AMERICAN PLANES

New High Mark In Exhibits At 4-H Club Show  Saddle Horse Sho  J. . yy? F

New High Mark In Exhibits At 4H Club Show   Saddle Horse Show Friday Night Also Has More Entries

Files DeSoto Plant Charge   Claims  Contractors _ Encouraged Inefficiency and Disorder

POINTS ON BUTTER JUMP: MEATS SAME      New Red Point Values to ' Go Into Effect on Sunday

BUTTER 10 C0 UP TWO POINTS   Canned Tomato Juices And Frozen Foods Also Advanced

TRAITOR’S LIFE SAVED BY FDR   Commutes Max _  Stephan’s Death Sentence to Life Imprisonment

PRESIDENT SAVES TRAITOR’S LIFE   Max Stephen’s Sentence Changed to Life Imprisonment.

SENATORS GET REPORT    Wisconsin Man Leads Move Te _ Make War Frent Report Public

Man Walks Again After Spending 3 Chri ishmasee: in Erie Hospital

NINE ARMY FLIERS KILLED IN CRASH   8-24. Bomber Crashes and Explodes Near Elver‘ son. Pa)

Nine Fliers Die In Bomber Crash   Only Two Survive Crackup and Fire

Bomber Crash Kills Nine Men.  Injures Two   Plane on Routine Flight Falls Near Elverson. Pa., Explodes and Burns

NINE ARMY AIRMEN KILLED IN CRASH   Two Others Seriously Injured When B-24 Bomber Pancakes  Near Reading. Pa.

ON A PAYING BASIS   Marshall County Farr Farm Sold $6,000 in Products Last Year

ON A PAYING BASIS   Marshall County Farm sont $6, 000 in Products Last Yea

Outlook Continues Good, Navy Officials Soid in Releasing First Communique Giving Details of Fighting on Attu’

Congress Back  To Normal Again Atter Tax Tilt   Rum! Tax Plan Voted Down and It May Be Weeks Before Compromise Measure Is Presented.

New Classification Given Husbands of Expectant Mothers   Draft Officials Place Them in Same Status as Fathers Today

SECTY. STIMSON GIVES TERSE . REVIEW OF WAR    Says Nazis Have 20 to 25 Divisions in Italy But Their Intentions Are Not Clear

Stimson Offers Americans Terse Survey Of Fighting Fronts Throughout World

Stimson —_ In Brief War Survey   Gives Fairly Optimis_ tic Picture of Allied Position on the .  - World's Battlefronts

PICTURES THE WAR   Stimson Reports Nazi Strength in Italy Is on  the Increase

STINSON GIVES VIEWS ON WAR   Germany Increasing Its Strength in Haly to Over 20 Divisions.

Nazis Bolstering Forces In Italy  Strength Now Is 20-25 Divisions. Says Stimson

THE DOLLAR-AND-DIME CEILING PRICE ON PORK   Comments by Chairman of W. P. and R. Roard

Fleet of German Transports Shot Down by British   Twenty Planes Destroyed in Air Attack over Mediterranean   rurious Fighting Favor: Allies on Tunisian Battlefront

20 Mammoth Transport Planes Downed   Furious Fighting Covers Most of African Front

Fighters Smash Entire Fleet Of Axis Sky Giants   ‘Three Salients In’. Rommel’s’ Defense Line Are Cracked

ALLIED PILOTS SCORE GREAT AIR TRIUMPH   Entire Fleet Of 20 Nazi Transport Planes Destroyed With Cargoes.

20 TRANSPORTS ARE SHOT DOWN BY AIR FORCE   Huge German Planes Were Carrying Troops And Supplies To Rommel   TAKROUNA IS TAKEN BY ALLIED FORCES

ALLIES CRACK AXIS LINES IN 3 PLACES   20BigEnemy Planes Downed in Aerial Triumph

Intense Land War Follows Air Victory   Entire:Fleet of Nazi Transport Planes Are Deatroved

Entire Fleet of 20 Axis Transport Planes Loaded With Troops and Gasoline Shot Down in Battle

FIGHTER PILOTS CELEBRATED ANOTHER SMASHING AERIAL TRIUMPH IN THEIR DESTRUCTION OF 20 MAM.MOTH NAZI TRANSPORTS.

10 Transport Planes Destroyed: Crack 3 Salients of Bridgehead   Entire Convoy Wiped Out Over Gulf of Tunis in 10 Minute Scrap; Victory One of Most Important of Tunisian Conflict

arty one and that Finland  could possibly be in the path ef an Allied invasion of Europe.

Axians Lose 20 Great  Transports   Furious Fighting Blazes on Two-Thirds Of Tunisian Front; American Army Continues Crue] Assault on Hill Nests

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Furious Battle Covers Most of Tunisian Front   Allied Artillery Fire And Infantry Attacks Aimed at Opening Pathway to Tunis

Sth Army Stabs German ‘Verdun’   Hill 28 Miles From Tunis Pounded By Heavy: Barrage Before Infantry Attack; First Army Gains 3 Miles

Air Convoy ‘Blitzed’ in 10 Minutes   Heavy Artillery Fire Cripples Axis Bridgehead

British Forces Attack the Enemy on Several Fronts * ADVANCES GAINED > IN ALL SECTIONS Lightning. Like. Action  Features the Aerial Warfare .

NATURAL COVER LACKING ON ATOLL   TREACHEROUS CORAL REEFS PROBABLY HELPED SWELL LOSSES IN GILBERTS,

Hint Heavy U.S. Losses In Gilberts   PEACE FEELER IS CREDITED BY UNRA

A cling Presidents of University, College Selected   Dean C. W. Leaphart, Dr. R. R. Renne Temporary Heads of State’s Institutions of Higher Education

Falls Man New Industrial School Head   Dean Anderson, Dr. Swingle Picked As Vice Presidents

NEW ACTING HEADS OF STATE SCKOOLS ARE NAMED   Leaphart MSU Prexy; Renne State College Pres.

[Acting Heads Named for U. and College   Leaphart Chosen for Missoula and Renne For Bozeman Post

WAR PRODUCTION. “FORYEAR TO BE -NFARLY DOUBLE   Nelson: Talks to Econdmies Club Members on Greatness of Transformation In * ta War From Peace Basis.   PRODUCTION FOR YEAR TO EXCEED 80 BILLION   WPB Chairman Says -With  “Few Regretable Exceptions Management, Labor Work Voluntary.

Marauders Force Nazi Air Forces To Move Inland   Bases Destroyed By Light Bombers

Italian Fliers Join the Allies   Marauder Blows at. Airfields Are Driving Luftwaffe Inland

NAZI AIR STRENGTH _SAPPED BY AIRMEN   Air Force Being Driven Further Inland by Attacks

Today’s War Commentary  Soviet Buzz-Saw  Mav Put Crimp In German Plans

Allies Continue  Relentless Pace 0{ South Pacific Air War on Japs   fourleen More Enemy Planes Destroyed ir Batfle over Northerr Solomon Islands

BIG AERIAL BLOWS STRUCK BY ALLIES   Fourteen Additional Jopanese Planes Shot Down

Enemy Loses 14 Planes Over Pacific   Allies Meet Challenge Presented as Japs Increase Air Power

Recent Feud Apt To Have Longe Effect   Many Repercussions Of Wallace-Jones Row Predicted

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 WAITS SIGNATURE   Legislative Action Completed on Measure Forgiving Bulk of One Year's Income Taxes

PAY-GO INCOME TAX BILL SENT TO PRESIDENT   Awaits Roosevelt Signature After, Which Will Become Law j

NEW TAX BILL BEFORE THE PRESIDENT TODAY   Measure [s Awaiting Signature of Chief Executive After Legisiation Is Completed—$6,533,000,000 Is Forgiven But Bill Wil! Still Raise $3,006,000,000 More Revenue.

Compromise Tax Bill Sent To President   Raises Over. Three Billion More Than. Present Measure: .

Tax Bill Goes To Senate Approval   About $6, 300,000, 000  ._To Be Forgiven _Under New Measure.

Tax Bill On F.D.R.’s Desk   COMPROMISE PAY-GO ACT CLEARS LAST CONGRESS HURDLE

‘Compromise Pay As You Go Tax Bill Sent to White House by Senate

TAX BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT   Five-Month Debate Ends As Senate Passes Compromise

Compromise Tax  Bill Awaiting  F.R.S Signature Act Forgives Much but to Collect More

Small Wage Earners Will Gain Most Benefits From Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Measure Is On FDR's Desk Awaiting Sionature   Those With Small Incomes Will Benefit Minet Fram Rill

Congressman Asks Foreign Policy Link   Dirksen Suggests Joint Committee

HERO'S WIDOW WEDS QUIETLY AN Pi      Mre Colin Kelly Is Brice Of Lt. J. Watson Pedlow

Mrs. Kelly Weds Lt. J. W. Pedlow  Dr. Wesley Pedlow Best Man; Corky Will Go On Honevmoon

WAR HERO'S WIDOW IS MARRIED AGAIN     Honeymoon Spot Impossible To Find, She Says

MRS. COLIN KELLY QUIETLY WED   Air Hero’s/ “Widow Becomes Bride of Lt.  Watson Pedlow

Paid Government Ads Are Favored   Senator Clark Says Plan Is Not A Subsidy

Anti-Strike Law Nearing A Vote   Backers Of Bill To Outlaw Strikes Show Strength.

AMENDMENTS DELAY ACTION ON STRIKE BILI   Connally Measure Develops Unexpected Strength in House Committee Itself Divided

Six Jap Planes” ’ Wrecked, Fires Sef Af Macana   Bombers. Sweep Ir Low To Hit Nips  hee: Serivten: Datet

Six Jap Planes » Wrecked, Fires Set At Madang   Bombers Sweep In Low To Hit Nips In Surprise Raid

Allies and Japs Trade Damaging Blows From Sky  Tokyo Flyers Sink Four Naval Vessels; Smash Enemy Bases

Liberator Strafes Big Jap Cargo Vessel in Pacific  _ Foe Also Loses Grdup  Of Float Planes  And One Zero Craft

Japanese Cargo Vessel Blasted   One Zero Shot Down By Allied Planes .

SIX JAP PLANES — DESTROYED IN RAID   ALLIED AIRMEN FIRE 63,000 ROUNDS IN ATTACK ON MADANG, NEW GUINEA.

Japanese Ship, Planes Blasted  Enemy Airdromes Art Bombed; Swarms of Zeros Foucht OF

Allied Bombers Blast Madang   Destroy Six Enemy Planes on Ground

LARGER NUMBER OF FLANES FOR ‘USE IN OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPANESE IS . RECOMMENDED

SENATORS ASK QUICK ACTION AGAINST JAPS   American production gains cause wave of optimism in congress

MOVEMENT TO STOP WILLKIE” “SPURRED BY DEWEY DENIAL   Former National GOP Head Reparted Swinging Around _ Country’ Promoting Opposition

Hamilton On Stop-Willkie  Movement   However, Dewey Still Maintains He Will Not Run for President

AMERIGANS ote TL MURE TOWNS   Advance Steadily Toward Naples   GERMANS SAVAGE   Ships In Naples Harbor Scuttled

Stalemate Broken By Red Army  River Is Forced oan ind UOT ,   River Is Forced On Front. West Of Rostov

FARMHAND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER   Youth Is Acquitted of Two Other Murder Charges In Mercer, Pa., Slayings

Mercer Man Acquitted On Two Charges   Jury of Six Men and Six Women Finds Defendant  Innocent on Indictments   Sint WILL BE TRIED

CALLING FOR YOUR TIN CAN SALVAGE   Collecting Depots. In Each Locality

Possibility Of Third Party Being Talked By Democrats   Anti-Administration Demos To Bolt if FD To Become Candidate For His Fourth Term

Threat Of Third.  Party Mounting   Southerners Fight Fourth Terr Plan

MORE OF THEM   Anti-Administration Democrats Threatening Third Party If Roosevelt Seeks Fourth Term

3rd Party Hinted If FD Runs Again   4th Term Is Urged I  War Continues

FIGHT ON FDR, “SEEN IF HE BIDS FOR FOURTH TERM   Anti-New Deal Democrats in Congress Discuss Possibility of Putting Third Ticket in Field.   HOPE TO PREVENT - ANY DRAFT MOVEMENT   Lf Efforts Fail They May ‘Turn to South in Effort to End President's Tenure in Office.

Conservative Democrats Talk of Third Party if Roosevelt Seeks Fourth Term

STRONG TALK OF A THIRD PARTY   Should FDR Run Again, He May Find Old-Line Democrats Bolting

NEW DEAL FES STAR HSUSSIOh   Fourth Term May Split Up Party In 1944 —

STRONG TALK IS HEARD OF THIRD PARTY   ANTI-ROOSEVELTS SEEK TO SPIKE FOURTH TERM

Sub Fails To Appear for Maneuvers Back In 1941, Has Sunk 8 JapShips Since Then

Submarine Reported Missing In Maneuvers Before Start Of War Stages Comeback To Sink Eight Jap Ships And Damage Others

IMPERSONATOR HELD AFTER MANY FRAUDS   Trail of Disillusioned Women Left Behind

NO FEAR FOR U. S. INDUSTRY   NAM Heall Sees No Danger ir Industrialization of Other Countries.

Manufacturers Hear Witherow   Business ‘Men ‘Told Not “Yo Fear Industrializing Of Other Nations -

SWPC Help For Smell Business Nil   Situation Surveyed With Relations To War effort

STEEL WORKERS TO ATTACK PAY RATES   WLB’s. Little Ste Steel. Formula Denounced Yesterday. At Clo: Session 

Plans to Ration Butter, Fats, Cheese and Oils April 1 Are Considered

LIQUOR REFERENDUM STILL “UP IN AIR   Senate Declines To Take Bill From Committee Hands

Oil Shortage State In N. E. Is Effective   Backman Issues Priorities List

More Foods  For Civilians   WFA Will Release Canned Goods Supplies Set Aside for U. 5S.

RELEASE CANNED FOOD   renee Asparagus, Corn, Revert to Civilians

PUT ON MARKET   Canned Pineapple, Figs To Be Available For Civilians

RELEASE CANNED FOOD   Pineapple, Asparagus, ‘Corn, Revert to Civilians

HALE MMILLIQN CRACK TROOPS KNOCKED OUT   Stalin Says 70,000 Germans Have Been Killed and Vast Loot Taken.   CONGRATULATES SOVIET GENERALS IN REPORT

Allied Fliers Devastate Big Japanese Base   Mandang Battered In One Of-Most Effective Raids In S. Pacific

'BINGO TONIGHT 7:30 O'CLOCK St. John’s Auditorium, Jefferson St.

HEAR WOMAN WRITER   High School Assembly Is Told of Need for Scrap for War

New Jersey Representative Presents Bill Outlining Objectives    PROVIDES FOR TOLLS

SUPERROADS AND AIRPORTS URGED   Would Spend 70 Billion After War For Network Aimed At Absorbing Jobless

Senate Group’ Votes To Restore OWI, OPA Fund   Committee Approves Bill Providing Money For 16 War Agencies

DISPUTES MAY LEAVE AGENCIES WITHOUT FUNDS   Only Few Hours Of Fiscal Year Remain To Act On Rills

RUSH TO PASd AGENCY ILS BY NEA   Committee Restores OPA and OWI Funds Knocked Out by House.   SOME APPROPRIATIONS MAY BEAT DEADLINE

Senate Votes To Restore OPA Slash   Three Billions Are Approved for 16 War Agencies

Approp. Committee Votes Restoration  Of OPA Slash; OWI To Get More Money

THEY MAY BE MINUS FUNDS   Congressional Scrap Over OWI, OPA May Leave Several War Agencies High and Dry

AGENCIES MAY LACK FUNDS   Midnight Deadline for Appropriations for Sixteen

Senate, House Controversy On OPA, OWI Funds Threatens 16 Other War Agencies As End Of Fiscal Year Nears

Senators Vote To Restore OPA, OWI Fonds  Enactment of   Enactment of Bill Looms Before July 1

OPA, OWICUTS RESTORED BY ‘SENATE UNIT      Employes Paid $4500 Per Year Require Senate's Okeh

Congress. Splif On OPA-OWI   Senote Committee Votes te Restore Fund; Deadlock Looms

Committee Qkays OPA, OWI Funds   Makes Changes In War Agency Bill

Australians Take Hill in New Guines  Americans Advance On Bougainville

FLYNN DENIES GIRLS’ CHARGES   Dapper Film Star. On Witness Stand. Seeks To Refute Assault Stories

GERMANS USE GIRL GUNNERS IN BOMBERS   Report Told by Wounded U. S Soldiers

GIRL GUNNERS ON NAZI PLANES   Yanks Report Feminine Fighters Over Tunisia.

Wounded Soldiers Tell Of Girl Gunners In Nazi Bombers fa Tunisia

Germany Used Girls In Her Bombers In Africa Battles   American Sergeant, Wounded in Campaign, Says One Female Gunner Shot Down Near Him, “Was a Pretty Blonde;” Another Says Nazi Tanks Vulnerable if Hit in Side

GIRLS ARE GUNNERS ON NAZI BOMBERS    Wounded Yanks. Say Pretty  Blonde Shot Them Down

GOVERNMENT HAS NEW LOU th TO AID FARMIER   Redemption Program’ To Encourage Production, Keep Prices Down

Kingsley Woman Dies In Hospital ©  Mrs. Rathbun Suffered Long IlInéss .

Kingsley Woman  Dies In Hospital  Mrs. Rathbun Sufferec Long IIIness

BINGO TONITE  INS OF ITALY 7:30-10:5   BINGO TONIGHT—8 O'CLOCK Bierer Wood Acres Com. Hall

DIRECTOR'OF LONDON ~ OWESTAFF RESICNS   Wallace Carroll and Three of His Assistants Will Leave * Posts January 1

Reds Expecting Political Side To Soviet Talks   But Russians Still Demand Discussion Of Second Front

Red Paper Says Postwar Issues To Be Discussed   However, Matter Of ‘Second Front’ Is Placed First

Russia Willing To Talk Political Problems, Also   Still Holds That Second Front Should Come First On Conference Schedule.

Russians Place Military Moves First On Agenda   ‘Second Front? Discussion, Then Post-War Problems,  Bierce: Riccartcck: TBasaeven:

SOVIETS WOULD DISCUSS POST WAR PROBLEMS   Russians Say Military Phase Of War Most Important

Russia Willing To Air Politics But Wants Action   Second Front Still  Major Issue

REDS 10 PUSH DEMANDS FOR SECOND FRONT   Government Paper Says Matter Should Come First

Soviets Ready To Talk About Postwar Plans   They Hold, However, Second Front Is No. 1 Problem for 3-Power Moscow Conference

Russia Willing to Discuss Post-War Issues   But Insists That War Questions Be Decided First

Russia Willing  To Discuss Varied Problems  But Second Fron ‘Must Come First. Rod Press Avers

Russia Still Asks for a Second Front   Intimates Post-war Problems Are Not Quite as Important

AMERICANS AT SALERNO HAVE TO FALL BACK’   Heavy Fighting on American Line, in Italy as British Press to Join Yank Forces

Nazis Retrieve Part Of Ground Held By Allies   British Battling Up Peninsula To Aid 5th Army

Germans Gain At Few Points In Hard Fight   Mediterranean Alive With _ Ships And Planes; Berlin  }   Claims Victory.   BRITISH 8TH ADVANCE

BRITISH STH ARMY MOVING UP FOR JUNCTION WITH AMERICANS WHO ARE UNDER HEAVY ATTACK   Gen. Ejisenhower’s Headquarters Acknowledge Germans Have Regained Some Ground, Taken by U. S. Troops. —Germans { p ica  Abandoning Beachhead. °

Nazis Counterattack Strongly; British Troops Push North On Coast   _Bryansk Falls To Russians; Australians In Salamaua

Heavy Allied Reinforce‘ments Thrown in to Hold   _ Bridgehead : LIKENED TO GALLIPOLI      Powerful Enemy Attacks __Endanger the American _ KifthA

British Eighth Army Rushes to Battle Sector   Yanks, Allies Reported Driven From Positions Near Eboli In Bitter Fighting As Montgomery Drives Within 120 Miles Of Salerno.

Americans Lose Some Ground But Their. Beach-Head Not Imperilled; British 8th Racing Northward Up Both Sides Of Italy

Germans Claim British Beaten, Americans Flee   ‘Mediterranean Alive with Ships and Planes’ as Fresh Allied Troops Move in No Hint of Withdrawal      LIKENED TO GALLIPOLI BATTLE   British Capture Cosenza, Push Toward Salerno on Both Coasts—Allies Concede Some Ground Lost

Berlin Says British and U.S. Troops in Flight After Heavy Losses From Counter-Attacks

Nazis Pouring Troops InItaly   British Continue Rapid Gain; Fighting Grows Bitter, Bloody

Struggle Is Touch And Go    American 5th Army  'Hard Pressed by Des‘perately Counter-Attacking Nazi Troops

Huge Allied Forces Land At Salerno   British 8th Army Within 100 Miles of Junction with US 5th Army; Nazis Counterattack with Suicidal Frenzy to Reaain Some Ground

Landing Party Facing Fierce Enemy Thrusts   Heavy Reinforcements Are Being Poured Into Bloody Salerno Sector.’

Allied Troops Pour’ Into Naples Sector   American Fifth Army Engaged In Bloodiest Combat Of War; Germans Regain Some  Lost Ground; British Racing North

Nazi Counter-Attacks Regain Some Ground In Bloody  Battle At Salerno =

[British Eighth Moves Nearer To Give Relief To Battered Yank Fifth

FRESH AND HEAVY ALLIED FORCES ARE LANDING AT SALERNO   FIFTH ARMY INVASION FORCE REPORTED IN DANGEROUS POSITION

ALLIED FORCE LOSES GROUND   Allies Battle Fiercely to Stem German Counterattacks.   BRITISH UNIT ADVANCES

Allies Reinforce Salerno Troops As Germans Gain   Bloody Fighting Claimed Equal To Desperate Battles at Callinali in World War One

BRITISH ARE RACING — TOWARD BRIDGEHEAD   Fighting Rivals Desperate Clash at Gallipoli of World War One; Yanks Yield Ground in Some Areas; Mediterranean Is Alive With Ships

SPEED “TROOPS  VIA SHIPS TO AID FIFTH ARMY   Huge Reinforcements Seek To Stop Fierce Nazi Counter-Attacks   BRITISH RACE NORTH   Nazis Throw Crack Force Into Battle To Break Allied Bridgehead

Mediterranean Is Alive With Ships and Planes Speeding Reinforcements Under Direct Supervision of Eisenhower.   In Fierce Counterattacks Germans Are Waging Bloody Battle in Italy

Germans In Desperate Iry To Clear Coast As British Army Advances

BLOODY BATTLE HALTS ADVANGE AGAINST NAPLES   Huge Invasion Armada Is Reported Moving Across Mediterranean To Salerno   NAZi FORCES BOLSTERED   Desperate Germans Retake Some of Ground Lost in Early Stages of Drive

SEA-BORNE ALLIED REINFORCEMENTS ARE MOVING INTO ITALY  SEA REPORTED ALIVE WITH SHIPS AND PLANES TUESDAY

GERMANS GAIN SOME GROUND FROM ALLIES   American Troops Fighting Way To Mountains

British Are Pushine Northward Toward Junction With 5th   Nazis Have Taken Back Some Ground From Americans

Germans Regain Some Ground In Salerno Sector   British Rush North To Form Junction With Embattled  Americans

GERMANS CLAIM BIG GAINS N BLOODY SALE DEAD ALIVE WITH ALLIED SHIPPING

Hleavy Reinforcements Are Rushed To Coast By Gen. Eisenhower To Stem Counterattacks

GERMAN PANZERS DRIVING DOWN FROM MOUNTAINS SAID T0 HAVE CUT OFF AMERICAN LANDINGS   Berlin Claims Tanks Are Being Used Effectively to Break Enemy Detachments In Salerno Region.  Claim British Chutists Wiped Out

Nazis Say Allies Abandoning italy Following Deteai   British Within 100 Miles Of Junction

Nazis Make Gain: At Some Points   Mediterranean Alive With Ships and Planes Rushing Men to Fierce Struggle At Salerno — Bloody Fighting Equal To Desperate Gallipoli Battles

/ANKS ORIVEN, BACK YNZ CQUNTER USA   Give Ground at Some Points; Says Announcement by Headquarters,   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ONLY 100 MILES. AWAY

Fresh Troops Reinforce _ Fifth Army   British Swesbing, North To Join: ee   Binciteaw Eareac

Nazis Claim Yanks Give Up Operation; Battle For Italy May Determine War

Planes, Vessels Speed Toward Scene of Fierce Invasion Fight   British Army Hurries North to Relieve Pressure

BRITISH RUSH FROM SOUTH TO JOIN FIGHT   Less Than 100 Miles From Junction: Berlin Claims Allies Are Withdrawing; Titanic Struggle

Reserves Arrive As Allies Suffer Loss Of Ground   Huge Sea-Borne Reinforcements Thrown Against Nazis; 8th Army 100 Miles Away

Sth Army Said But 100 Miles From Salerne   German Counter- Attacks Net. Gains._In__Italy,, According To Berlin

British Race Northward To Aid Hard-Pressed 5th Army As Germans Regain Some Ground.

ENEMY REGAINS SOME GROUND IN JTALIAN AREA   Berlin Claims, Without Confirmation, Americans Are In Flight Toward Sea   BRITISH RACING TO AID OF YANK FORCE   Fresh and Heavy Reinforcements Being Thrown Into Allicd Ranks to Stem Onslaught

Smash Into First Line of Axis Defense   FIGHTING CONTINUING T RAGE IN STALINGRAD REGION,

Cattle Receipts Drop 50 Per Cent      Protest Against Price Roll-Back Cattle Gain Meanwhile

EXPECT HEAVY CUT IN AUTO TAX REVENUE   List Travel Restrictions, Service Calis Reason

Coldest Weather In Years Recorded At Texas Points   Mercury 10 Degrees Below Zero at Pampa; Heavy Damage Result

LAST RIILE rh DOUNTT 3-0 Nici   Members of ‘‘Lost Batta licn” Receive Blood Test Notices.

LAST MILE. FOR COUNTY 3-8 MEK   Members’ of . “Lost Batta . Jicn” Receive Blood Test Notices.

SICILY STRAITS OPEN AGAIN TO USE BY ALLIES   Shorter Sea Route Will Save 5,000 Miles For Ships

Mediterranean Route Open to Allies Again   525 Axis Planes — Captured—I0 Escape Boats Were Sunk

Sees Crackup of Nazi Air Forces   British Air Chieg Says Morale of Pilots is Poor—Capture 525  Pianes in ‘Tunisia

SEES CRACK-UP OF LUFTWAFFE   British Air Chief Forecasts Early Loss of Nazi Effectiveness in Air

Mediterranean “Virtually Open Again”, British Marshal Says   Also Announces Capture Of 525 Axis Planes, Many In Good Condition, In Tunisia

New Route Of Convoys Saves  9,000 Miles   Mediterranean Virtually  ~ Open Again To Allied Shipping, Report Of Air Chief Marshal

POKES FUN AT AERIAL MIGHT OF A, HITLER   “Flatter Hun Too Much,” Declares Commander of Allied § Ajir Forces in North Africa

525 Axis Planes Taken In Tunisia.  Says Air Chief   Luftwaffe Completely Knocked Out In Africa, Marshal Tedder Claims

Mediterranean Sea Route ‘Open Again’   Seizure Told of 525 Axis Planes in Tunisia; New Ttalv Raids

Mediterranean Now Open To Shipping   Tedder Says Luftwaffe To Be First Nazi Arm To Crack

CAPTURED 525 AXIS PLANES 1 TUNISIA BATTLE   Mediterranean Route Again Open to Allied Shipper; Tedder Says

Anti- Strike Legislation Gets Support   Byrnes. Reported to Have Asked Speedy Action by Congress

ANTI-WALKOUT BILL I$ PUSHED   Fines And Imprisonment - Provided For Those  Who Stir Strikes

REVISION OF DRAFT: LISTS   ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY EMPLOYES WHO ARE NOT “NECESSARY” MEN SUBYECT TO CALL

MAY DIP HEAVILY INTO “ESSENTIAL” INDUSTRY TO FILL MANPOWER NEEDS

HEAVY DIP INTO DEFERRED CLASS DRAWING CLOSER   Only “Necessary Men” Will Be Retained On Jobs in War Plants   FEW ARE LEFT IN 1-A   » Reclassification Looms For All Workers In Scores Of Lines

_ SEEKS. AID. OF. PSYCHIATRIST   Concern . Expressed. Over. Large Number of Men Rejected For -.. - Nervious: Reasons.

NEW BLUE STAMP VALUES iSET BY OPA   OPA Boosts Stamp Value On Four Canned Fruits .

ASK SCHOOLS TO HELP IN SCRAP CAMPAIGN   Coonty Salvage Chairman Urges the Students of the Connty to Give Ald In the Drive

AKGAS SUPPLY DOW   September Demand Also Expected to Exceed That of 1942

SEPTEMBER DEMAND  FOR GASOLINE TO RUN  ABOVE LAST YEAR FURTHER CUT INTO  STOCKS WHICH HAVE ALREADY REEN CIT

The Great Game of Politics   ~By FRANK R. KENT™  Republican Nomination

NAZIS EXPECT RED DRIVE ON SEA CCAS]   Report Fighting Already on in TuapseNovorossisk Area

NAZIS EXPECTING SOVIET. OFFENSIVE ALONG BLACK SEA   Believe Russian Attac] Will’ Be Combined Land, Sea, ~Air.  : Operation

Red Drive Near On Black Sea   Germany Expecting New Soviet Thrust

GERMANS EXPECT SOVIET DRIVE ON BIACK SEA CCAS   Fighting” Begins: At. -Tuapse _ and - Novorossisk,. Berlin: Reports Say.

Truck Plunges Off Highway  _ Arthur Hill, Driver, - Instantly Killed

Oil Reserves Needed, Solons Sav   Subcommittee Delivers , Voluminous Report

HISTORIC PORT OF VENICE HIT BY U.S. AIRMEN   American Liberators Throw New Weight Into Con. quest Italy As French Mon Up Corsica   FIFTH ARMY SLOWLY PRESSES HUNS BACK   % ee a and Batters Way to Montecorvina In Sustained Push

Prime Minister Churchill Discloses . News in Speech Before Commons

Dodecanese Isle of Cos  Is Occupied   RAF Using Airfield; New Base 50 Miles From Nazis’ Rhodes

Allied Leaders Agreed On Master Strategy To Crust Germany On Three Fronts; Broad Objectives Are Outlined

Allies Gain “Complete Agreement’ As To How  When Blows Will Fall

Announce Results of Conferences Lasting  Total of 100 Hours         Invasions of Western Europe and Possibly -The-Balkans—Included—in-Plan;-Map Peate: That Should Last for Generations. mae

Three Allied Leaders Join In  Declaration That “Our Nations  Shall Work Together In War  And Peace That Is To Follow”   COMPLETE MILITARY AGREEMENT ANNOUNCED

Peace is Mapped ‘For Generations’   Roosevelt and Churchill Travel to Cairo; Stalin Returns to Moscow

Three-Front Offensive Laid Out By Big Three   Allied Chiefs Draft War Blueprint For Coming Months Against Germany

Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Agree On Campaign; Map Post-War Peace Plan

Balkan and Channel           Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill Chart Peace to. Last ‘Many Generations’; Atlantic. Pacifie Blueprints Penned

INVASION OF WESTERN EUROPE ALSO INCLUDED   Plans for Enduring Peace After War Written In Historic Pattern.

Temperatures   Warlords Time Three Drives Against Nazis   Powers to Banish War Terror For Many Generations, Say ED.R.. Churchill and Stalin

Hitler Turns Over War To Generals?   London Reports Higt Command Signs All Im. portant Army Orders   MUTINIES. RUMORED   Foreign Sources Hint Fuehrer Sick Or Forced Out By War Blunders

Hitler No Longer Signing His Army’s Communiques   Indicates German Fuehrer Not Actively Directing Army; Unusually Reliable Source in London Adds “It Looks Like Dictator’s Generals Are Making Decisions, Now”

HITLER REMAINS IN BACKGROUND   Generals Apparently Are Making the Decisions,’ Say. London Reports

Hitler Ceases Signing Nazi Army Orders   Generals May Have Taken Over Or He Has Hysteria Again

NAVY HEAD SAYS WAR NOT 10 Bt  “APMICTICE WAR   Knox Assures Graduating Class At LeJeune That We “Shall Go Through To A Definite and Final Conclusion”.

Secy. Of War Speaks At New Riv  This Shall Not Be An Armistice War—Knox

SOUTHERN RUSSIA GAINS ALSO MADE      Reds Term Nazi Withdrawal Full-Scale Retreat; Soviet Unchecked In Drive On Rostov _.

REDS ADVANCING TOWARD ROSTOV WITHOUT PAUSE   Germans In General Withdrawal In Caucasus;  Enemy Losses Heavy   ALLIES TAKE OVER IMPORTANT VILLAGE

German Armies Go Into Reverse In Caucasus: Blast Axis in Tunisia

Full-Scale Retreat Under Soviet Pressure,  Red Radio Declares  SOVIET OFFENSIVES ALL FORGE AHEAD  Many More Germans Killed or Captured And Much Booty Taken

First All-American  Assault On German)  Large-Scale Dayligh Raids Carried Out

FLYING FORTS HIT TWO BASES   First All-American Raid On Nazis Rakes Emden, Wilhelmshaven On Large Scale

CAPTURE RAIL HUB AND AERIAL BASE AT SALSK   Novy Yegorlik Also Falls to Soviet Forces, and Mere Towns Have  Been Seized Today   ENEMY DEATH TOLL STILL 18 MOUNTING      Berlin Explains Setbacks by Saying “Disengagement Movements Proceeding to Plan”

More Towns Recaptured By Red Army   Soviet Troops Continuing To Advance Swiftly

FIFTH ARMY TAKES MORE OBJECTIVES ON ROAD 10 ROME   Allies Steadily Driving Toward Plains Leading to Italian Capital

Cassino Relieved Next Goal   Eighth Army Sluas its Way Forward Against Germans

INCREASE RATIONS FOR PERSONS WHO ARE ILL   Licensed Physician Must Certify Amount And Type Needed, OPA Points Out

NURSE REPORTS HER MORRISVILLE VISITS   Red Cross Workers Meet For Their Monthly  Session

RED CROSS ACTIVE AT MORRISVILLE   Branch is Doing Effective Work in Making Sur gical Dressings   ‘MET THIS WEEK

SERBS ATTACK AT MANY POINTS   Nazis Claim Motorized Units Smash Guerrillas

YUGOSLAVIAN OFFENSIVES SWEEPING ON   « Partisans Are On Defensive Only In Slovenia Sector

Balkan Forces Smash Nazis   Gen. Broz Leads Partisans In Suecessful Offensives In Central Europe.

TITO SMASHES AT GERMANS ON WIDE FRONT   On Defensive In Only One Sector

8th Army Edges Closer To Catania But Nazis Holding   American Victory Exceeds Hopes Of Patton; Men Dash From Enna In 58 Hours

Auto Industry Produces Four Billion Dollars Worth Of Airplanes, Engines, Equipment In War Effori

AUTOMOTIVE FIRMS PRODUCING PLANES   Indusiry Has Turned Out 54,000,000,000 Worth Of Equipment In Three Years

Nazis, Italians F ighting Each Other Report   New Outbreaks In Northern Italy Told In Madrid

ITALIAN AND NAZITROOPS CLASH ANEW   Germans Reported Methodically Taking Over Northern Italy

‘OCCUPATION OF NORTHITALY BY NAZIS RUMORED   ‘Rome Reports Methodical Seizure of istrian Penin — sula and Whole of  ! Udine Region   AXIS TROOPS CLASH   Believed Italian Soldiers Sharing Conviciion of Peace Ils Near, Resisting

GERMANS MAY BE OCCUPYING NORTH ITALY   Madrid Reports New Clashes Between Italians, Nazis

Italians Clash With German Troops Moving In To Occupy Northern Italy   Resisting Italian Troops Believed To Share People’s Conviction That Peace With Alitesr Not Far OFF. .

REPORT MORE FIGHTS BETWEEN SOLDIERS   Outbreaks in Italy Increase Among Axis

ARMY IS CONFIDENT, SURE OF MISSION      Stimson Finds Great Deol - of Encouragement for the Future

Stimson Cites Huge Expansion Of Nation’s Army As Troops Begin New Year Of War ‘Confident And Sure

Army Confident Ui lis Strength   NEW YEAR IS) STARTED WITH OFFENSIVE PLANNED

Army Starts Year  ‘Confident, Sure   Stimson Looks Back, Finds Encouragement in Growth, Deeds of U. S. Force

INTIMACIES ARE DESCRIBED   Miss Saterlee Tells Court Of Relations With Errol Flynn.

THREE ENEMY SHIPS SET ON FIRE BY BOMBS   New Wedge Driven In Jap Lines On New Guinea

SECOND WEDGE   Japanese Forces In New Guinea Split Into Three Groups.

Bombers Blas! Three Jap Cargo Ships   Nipponese Forces on Buna Split Into Three Groups

SECOND WEDGE INTO JAPANESE LINES DRIVER   Bombers Set Enemy Ships on Fire  In Pacific

Governors Agree On Sugar Policy  Revisions Made In Fard Resolution

Governors Unite On Two Points   ~South and West Join On Rail Rate, Sugar Policy

West Governors Cautious on Rates   Agree to Study Southern Proposal

Boeing Manpower Problem One For Whole Community   Seattle Resorts Even to Door-to-Door Calls To Get Workers

Judge Gives Draft Dodger Opportunity to Become . ‘Man Without a Country -

‘LOST RATION BOOKS MAY BE DROPPED IN THE MAIL WITHOUT POSTAGE CHARGE

ATLANTIC COAST ALERT CANCELED   PROTECTIVE MEASURES HAD BEEN TAKEN AGAINST POSSIBLE SNEAK RAID. .

TWO POLISH ARMIES READY TO HIT AXIS   Await Invasion Signal, Armed With U. S. Equipment

ASNNGITUNMERRERSCH2. cz, <p,. .-<Rsenanmmmmutnmemeel FIFTY THOUSAND CHICKS  ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE

Seven Attacks Made In One Day ~— On Attu Islana   Westernmost Of Aleutians Is Heavily Bombed Bv U.S. Fliers   NEW U.S. BASES ARE BEING USED

Nazi Experts Say Landing Now Possible   Aésert Allies Will Suffer Heavily in Invasion Attempt

Anglo-Americans Can Land, but Cos! Will Be High, German Officers Say

German Army Experts Admit Ansglo-U. S. Landings Likely But Cost Will Be Heavy

N azis Admit Possibility Of Allied Invasion Attempt In Southern Italy

NAZI ARMY EXPERTS ADMIT POSSIBILITY INVASION EUROPE  WOULD MEAN, HOWEVER GREAT LOSS TO IN~ VADING ARMIES

GERMANS ADMIT INVASION GAN BE CARRIED OUT   “Chances of Anglo-American Landing Might Be Successful,” Nazi Experts Say   PREDICT HEAVY LOSSES TO ALLIES   Rome Commentator States Invasion Would Be Matter of Butcher. Or Be Butchered

Nervous Nazis Admit Landings Can Be Made   Invasion Move Would be Costly Germans Insist

Invasion Jitters Grips Germans; Speculating   Trying To Keep Italy In War By Warning Of Fate Of Losing..

German Experts Speculating on Possibilities of Threatened Allied Invasion of Europe and The Chances of Success

British Make  Tunisia Gain   Capture Of Important High Point In Battle Area Reported

RAIDED KISKA WEDNESDAY THREE TIMES   In Addition Eight Lightnings Battle 8 Jap Planes And Destroyed Two; Probably 2? More.   Direct Hit On Sub Base

Americans Again Bomb Japanese Base at Kiska   Numerous Hits Scored in Six Attacks on Island

KISKA JAP BASE BOMBED AGAIN   Hits Scored On Camp And On Submarine Repair Docks

Fliets Continue To Pound Kiska   Numerous Hits On_ Main Camp Séored

U. S. Bombers Blast Kiska In Three Raids   Score Hits on Camp, Facilities ‘for Submarine Repairs

F our Japanese Airplanes Blasted  U.S. Fliers Score Hits in Camp Area on Kiska in New Attacks

JAPS AT KISKA AGAIN BLASTED   Three More Attacks Made By U.S. Planes; Munda, Vila are Bombed

Organized Resistance Collapses, With Only Small Bands Of Snipers Left To Be Wiped Out; Blow At Kiska Next?

BOMBING OF JAPAN MAY BE NEXT STEP   Japanese Garrison On Kiska May Be Next To Face Yanks

Battle of Attu Is Now Won   Jap Homeland Put in Range of U. S. Bombers

Meeting With Correspondents  Described   President Has Informal Chat In Villa Garden

ones at Conference---  ; A ided President      Scribe Tells of Background

Italy May Succumb Fascist Head Admits   Possibility Seen Of Fali <o Allies

NO QUESTION ABOUT SECOND FRONT PLANS   May Not Even Wait For Cleanup In Tunisia,  OWI Head Says   CONFIRMS AXIS FEARS    Says Operations In Europe Assured By Successes  In Africa

ITALY MIGHT SUCCUMB    Fascist Secretary Says “We Must ] Fall With Honor”

Bismarck Sea Victory Affects Enemy Strategy   Jap Garrisons Must Now Face New Guinea Drive without Aid.   Divided in Tunisia   Battle Is Split into Three Fronts: News Favorable Last Week.

Fear Desperate German Move Aimed at Allies  Reich Radio Hints At Attempt Soon to Invade Continent

Attempt to Prevent Second Front Seen   Hitler May Resort to Gas Bombs, Huge Commando Raids on Britain

LONDON EXPECTS “SURPRISE ATTACK IBY GERMANS SOOK   Use of Gas may Be “Secret” Weapon of Which Nazis Have Hinted.

ossibility of Surprise Nazi.” Assault Seen --.   May Seek to, ‘Divert Opening * Of Second Front

Pearl Harbor Anniversary Finds America World’s Strongest Military.Power      “UL S. Ends Second Year of War With Victory Charted

HEAVY SNOW FALLS ~ IN MUCH OF STATE > MAIN-ROADS OPEN      Six inches Reported Today “In Jackson" ‘Detroit      THREE-INCH SNOW:HERE

TRUNK LINES OPEN DESPITE NEW SNOI   Snowfall in Many Sections of State Exceeds Whole of Last Winter

Guard Continues Search For Five   No Sign of Party Trapped on Floe

SEARCH 15 FUTILE FOR 5 ON ICE FLOE   Coast Guardsmen Seek Boys and Rescuers by Plane and Boat but See Not One

Air Battleships Soon Will Blast America’s Foes   Gen. Arnold Foresees Planes with Half-Carload Bomb Capacity   Will Dwarf Fortresses   Multiple Gun Turrets

Battleships-of Air, Which Will Dwarf Fortresses, Predicted by Gen. Arnold

U. 5. Battleship Of AirComing.   Arnold Discusses Michty Sky Giant

General Says Huge Battleships of Air To Soon Make Round Trips to Europe

Arnold Predicts Giant Bombers Will Fly to Europe and Back Without Refueling and Deal Death to Foes

Revolutionary Bombers  Soon Will Take The Air   Half-Carload Bomb Capacity And Flying Range For Round Trip To European Battlefields

Kai-Shek Calls ~~ For Jap Blow   CHINESE GENERAL IN PLEA FOR NEW ATTACK

(HIANG WOULD STRIKE AT ONCE AGAINST JAPAN   Asserts Now Is Opportune Moment For Big Attack

Chiang Kai-Shek Calls on Allies To Strike Japan   Now Is the Moment To Redp Results, Says China Leader

ASKS ALLIES 10 STRIKE AT JAPS   Feels Time Is at Hand For United: Nations “To Reap Great Results” in Reducing Time and Cost of Victory

CHIANG CALLS FOR IAP BLOW   tes Present as Time Ti : Reap Great Results Against Foe.

Strike At Japan Urges Chiang   Now Is Opportune Mom ent To Reap Great Results. He Savs.

Chiang Asks A Quick Blow At Japanese Force   Moment Is Opportune, Fighting General Says On Anniversary Of Sixth Year Of China’s War

GEN. CHIANG URGES UNITED NATIONS T0 STRIKE IN FORCE   CHINESE GENERALISSIMO DECLARES NOW IS OPPORTUNE MOMENT

Karly Blow At Japan Urged By Gen. Chiane   Now Is Opportune : Moment To Strike, United Nations Told

CHIANG SAYS ‘STRIKE NOW      Japan Is at Her Weakest Generallissimo Tells Allies On Anniversary

Morgenthau Fights for Tax Program   300,000 Men Expected To Be _ Inducted in January; ReGOPs Charged with Trying Sabotage Soldier Vote Bill

Washington Roundup  Morgentha Says $2 Billions 1s Not Enough To Run Nation At War

AOUOEVELT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE   Capitol Cheers Chief Ex. ecutive As He Return: From Conferences

Doctors Remove  a * **e  bancdlodel Shell  ue «x @ ee  From Soldier

DOCTORS REVEAL DRAMATIC STORY   Remove Unexploded Shell From American Sailor.

—SICILY—  DESTRUCTION OF BASE 1S SEEN   Flying Fortresses And Liberators In Continuous Air Raids   HEAVY DAMAGE   Photographs Reveal Terrific Bombing Is Gaining Results

FLYING FORTS, LIBERATORS IN MAJOR ATTACKS   Terrific Damage Revealed in Photographs Taken by Bombers on Non-Stop Aerial Onslaught

Big Planes Stage Double Daylight Raid   Gerbini and 4 Other Fields Heavily Hit

FLYING FORTRESSES ‘AND LIBERATORS IN” ‘DEVASTATING RAIDS   GERBINA AND OTHER AIR FIELDS BEING BLASTED INTO RUINS

Gerbini Airfield In Sicily Hit For 36 Hours   All-Out Effort ‘To Knock Airdrome “Out Cantingse

Bombing of Sicilian Airdrome Continues   Hundreds of Tons of High Explosives Dropped by Allied Planes in All-Out Effort to Knock Out Important Gerbini Field.

Air Forts Rock Base at Gerbini   ALL-OUT BLOW HAMMERS VITAL SICILIAN AIR FIELD; DAMAGE HUGE

Planes Batter Base in Sicily   Air Siege of Gerbini Airdrome Continues Through 36th Hour

Gerbini Airdrome Rocked By Mighty Air Assaults   Air Siege Of Vital Enemy Base Roars Through 36th Hour; Terrific Damage

Allies Relentlessly Pound Gerbini, Sicilian Air Base, in All-Out Siege

Fortresses, Likerators Lay-Aerial Siege:To. Gerbini Airfield, Sicily.

Southern Sicily Under Air Siege Past 36 Hours   Allies Knocking Out Five Air Fields; Fortresses Hit Hard

U. S. Heavy Bombers Hit Gerbini Bases While RAF Raiders Attack  Raile At Catania

Sicilian Base Is Battered As Air Siege Pressed   Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Gerbini Airdrome.

YANK BOMBERS HITPIBLDS IN ~ SICILIAN ARRA   Huge Force Pours Tons a! Explosive Bombs On Island Bases, Great Damage Reported   4] FOES DOWNED   Axis Fighters Dwindle In Wake of Defeat Monday, When 100 Were Driven  Off by Americans

Vital Air Base Of Enemy Unde: Furious Attack   Air Siege Passes 36th Hour; Heavy Damage Reported 

Enemy Resistence Vanishes Vital Key To Italy Crumbles   Four Main Bases Mass Of Ruin When Liberators Loose Big Eggs

Air Smash On Gerbini   Italian Airdrome On Sicily Receives Terrific Pasting

llied Bombers ound Sicily n Air Siege   Terrific Damage To Axis Airbase Revealed By Photaoz

U.S. Heavy Bombers Pound Axis Airdromes At Gerbini As British Batter Rail Targets Near Catania

SIGILIAN AIRDROME HEAVILY POUNDED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Hundreds of Tons of. Explosives and Fragmentation Bombs Poured On Gerbini By Fortresses From Africa and Liberators From Middle East.

Gerbini Hit Hard By Allied Planes   AIRDROME IN SOUTH SICILY ALMOST DESTROYED

Hundreds of Tons of High Explosives and Fragmentation Bombs Dropped by  Fortresses, Liberators.   KNOCKOUT BLOW IS NEARING COMPLETION   Terrific Damage Was Done to Administration Buildings, Hangars, Parked Aircraft  and Landing Strips.

Planes From Middle East Command Pour Tons of High [Explosives on Southern Sicily

iFortress Raiders Try to ! Knock Out Gerbini and  Four Satellite Fields

HEAVY PLANES CONTINUE NEW ISLAND RAIDS   Hundreds Of Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Italian Field

DROP MANY BOMBS   Hundreds of Tons of Ex plosives Hit Airdrome in Sicily

VITAL ENEMY BASE UNDER HEAVY SIEGE   Hundreds of Tons of High  Explosives Poured On  Airdrome in South-  ern Sicily   AMMUNITION DUMP HIT

Forts Blast Gerbini Base   Attempt to Wipe Out Vital Enemy Airfield Roars Through 36th Hour

Allies in All-Out Effort to Knock Sicilian Airfields From Map.   46 HOUR RAID ON SICILY

KNOCKOUT OF SICILY BASES ISSEENNEAR   Fortresses Rain New Destruction On Airdromes

SOVIETS FAIL TO MENTION FALL OF CITY   Axis Says Fortress Left “According To Plan”   Leading Red Army In That Territory Counter-Attacks Continue

CLAIM RETREAT IN NORTH WAS MADE ‘BY PLAN   Reds Report Italian. Expeditionary Force Has Been Smashed

Strong Point’s Fall Admitted By Hitler Army   Withdrawal From Anchor Spot ‘According To Plan,’ Says Reich High Command; More Towns Recaptured In Kharkov Area

Crack German Army Runs in North Tunisia   Americans and British Continue Gains in Central Tunisia

Nazi Forces Withdraw  From Rzhev   RAF Strikes at Western Germany for 7th Consecutive Night; Crack Nazi Armored and Infantry Units Routed bv British First Army

Germans Break, Flee In Northern Tunisia; Yanks Press On South Of Recantired Sheitla.

NAZIS FORCED 10 ABANDON DEFENSE ANCHOR IN RUSSIA   British and American Forces Slowly Winning Back Ground from Rommel’s  Army in Africa.

Nazis /.dmit Losing Big North Front Base   Axis Cracking In Tunisia

NAZI! BARRIERS AROUND RZHEV FINALLY BROKEN   New Russian Drive in North Gains Momentum with Invaders in Flight   BERLIN STILL IN FLAMES   German Attacks in Africa Stopped and Reversed by Hard-hitting Allies   Ry CARL C. CRANMER

U.N. Force Axis Back   Reich Air Drives Continue; Yanks Pour Into Africa; Ponder On Duce’s Plans

Rzhev Retaken By Red Sweep; RAF Hits Again   Crack Nazi Units Take to Heels Before Allied Guns in N. Tunicia

IMPORTANT RED FORTRESS NOW IN RUSS HANDS   Had Been Advance Strong Point for German Defense System Considered as Very Strategic

German High Command Tells Of Withdrawal   Allied Observers See Possibility of Nazis  In Far Reaching Retreat ‘On Northern Front

Fires Still Raging Today In Berlin; More Raids Launched   Timoshenko’s New Ofensive Successful Ir Forcing Nazis From Rzhev Fortress

Berlin Tells. of Important. Withdrawal   May: Mean- Beginning of E - treme Retreat:on Nort. ern Front._            ‘ACCORDING TO- PLAN,” : GERMANS SAY   No. Word From Moscow Regarding Move; Plodding’ “* Progress Elsewhere

Thrust Of Timoshenko Successful   Germans May Make a Far Reaching Retreat on Northern Front

Nazi Retreat On Northern Front Hinted   Italy Recalls Troops From Russian Front

NEW RETREATS Ut NAZL ARMY ARE INDICATED   Drive Toward Baltic States Now Possible For Reds As Barrier Removed

War Reports Are Bad for  Axis Powers   Reds Deliver Blow in Russia, Germany Is Raided Again, and Enemy Forces Are Routed in Tunjsta

‘Announcement Made by Berlin; No Mention of Front in Red Bulletins   Germans May Be Staging Far-Reaching Retreat on Northern Front Similar to Moves in South —- Was Advance Strong Point of Line

Forces of Timoshenko Driving Forward; Gains  Made on Other Fronts

Nazis Admit . Withdrawal;‘ Crack Italian Troops. smashed; Stockholm Reports Conference Between Hitler and Mussolini. 

German Sources Describe Event Withdrawal “According to Plan” bi Russians Make No Announcement; Germans in Tunisia Fall Back in Face of Punishing Attacks; Americans Push South of Sbeitla. =.

‘Afrika Korps ‘Wilts Under British Fire        Ten ma Baek  Benny 1ireetaes Taw

NAZI CAUSE IN NORTH AFRICA ALSO SLUMPS   British Planes Attack Western Germany  In Light Raid

GERMANS MAY BE IN RETREAT ON NORTHERN FRONT   General Shortening of Line May Be In Progress; Crack Axis Troops Break and Run in Africa

Fires Still Raging From RAF’s Biggest Air Attack on Berlin   Nazis Evacuation of City Unannounced by Russians, Claim To Have Left City According To Plan

Russian Advance Forees Evacuation   Great Apex Jutting Into Soviet Lines Wiped Out by  Timoshenko’s Northern Armies

Axis Fortunes Ebb in Tunisia and on Fronts in Russia   Developments Enough to Give Hitler & Co. Headaches

Germans May Clear All of. North Front.   Allied Troops Retake Most. of Territory Captured by Rommel in Recent Drive

ACTION HINTS NAZIS START BIG RETREAT      Russians Make No Claim Of Capture; Nazis Increase Attacks Elsewhere

TENACIOUSLY HELD FORTRESS HAS BEEN GIVEN UP BY NAZIS   HITLER’S WARLORDS IN BERLIN HAVE NUMEROUS WORRIES PILING UP

MONROEVILLE, OHIO, GIVEN A “SHELLING”      Ammunition Car on Rail. road Explodes.and Vicinity Is Given Peppering.

OHIO TOWN SHELLED AS CAR EXPLODES   Ammunition Set Afire As Freight Train Wrecks— One Man Killed

Americans Blast Five Jap Bases  No Planes Lost in Widespread Raids

BOMB BERLIN FIFTH TIME IN A WEEK   “New Widespread Raids Are Made Over Europe

US. Fortresses Strike A Daylight Blow at Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

FIFTH MAJOR RAF ASSAULT ROCKS BERLIN   FLYING FORTRESSES AND LIBERATORS ON ‘MILK RUN’

Yesterday s Raids Outstanding in Accomplishments   U.S. Pilots Also Dropped Explosives On Sardinian Dam

Essen Again Bombed By R. A. F..   Japanese ‘Have Begun to Evacuate Attu,’ Says Vichy—Reds Sink Troop Barges in Black Sea—Nippon Hits Allied

Yanks Blast Emden And Wilhelmshaven   Lose 12 Fortresses in Smashing Through Heavy Opposition to Attack: U-Boat. Yards— Other Airmen Active Over European Coast.

British Drop TNT On Berlin   Nazi Counter-Attacks Fuil to Break Red Ring dhe Niwaeevora:

Heavy Attacks Made by Many Allied Planes   16 Nazi Fighters Downed in Battle

R.A.F. Bombers Make Another Raid on Berlin   Fifth Major Attack Hits Nazis; Yanks Make Daylight Raid

BRITISH, NAZI AIR ARMS WAGE WAR OF NERVES   Yank Fliers Bomb Dam in Northwest Sardinia   LONDON HAS ALARM   Mosquito Craft Attack Berlin; italian Airfield Hit

Berlin Pounded Again By British   Americans Plaster U-Boat, Ship Yards

MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAID BERLIN AGAIN   British Planes Also Hit Essen, Bremen

swift Mosquitos Attack German Capital Fifth Time Since May 13 While Other British Planes Strike At Nazi Industries And Communications, Including Bremen And Essen—Factories, Trains And Searchlight Ratteries Disposed Of By Fliers

BOMB BERLIN FOR FIFTH TIME IN FIVE NIGHTS   Bremen and Essen Hit; Damage Reported Heavy

fifth Major Attack at Nazt Capital in Month   American Airmen g Bomb N.W .Germany; Bag 18 Nazi Ships

FORTS off  IKt U-BOAT BASES   Mosquito Bombers Attack Berlin; Germans Raicl England.   OWN 113 AXIS PLANES

Forts Raid Sub Bases   Heavy German Fighter Forces Down 12; Three Thunderbolts Lost

US Airmen. Destroy 113 Enemy Planes   Explosives Are Dropped on Dam im Sardinia; War of Nerves Between Berlin and London Under Way

Sardinia Dam Reported Hit   London and Berlin Keep Up ‘War of Nerves’ Attacks.

Allied Planes Blast Berlin, U-Boat Yards   Fifth Major Attack on Nazi Capital Made By RAF Bombers; Fortresses Batter Shipbuilding Plants

Drop Bombs On Dam In Sardinia   7 Mosquito Planes Bomb Berlii While  “London Undergoes Fifth Night AlarmFortreises Deliver Fiery Atsaalt On Italian Airdrome at Groaseto

Brit Bombers Smash at Nazi Capital   Aerial Blows Are Stepped Up as Reds Score Gains

A.A.F, Claims Score OF 113  Enemy Planes   Americans Pound Wilhelmshaven. Emden To Followup Raids On Italy.   RAF ATTACKS BERLIN

Berlin Bombed Again By RAF Last Night   ‘Other RAF = Bombers  — Make Widespread Raids In France And (Germany.

U.S. Fliers Down 113 Axis Planes   Terrific Toll Result — Of Softening Up Attacks On Italy And Island Strongholds

U.S. BOMBERS SMASH AT 2 BIG U-BOAT YARDS   12 Flying Forts Lost in Heavy Raids on Wilhelmshaven, Emden

Bomb Bertin Anew in Third Night in Row   R. A. F. Mosquito Planes Rock Reich Canital Aaain

AERIAL ASSAULT CONTINUES ON HITLER'S EUROPE   Nazi War Factories and Transportation System Hit Again by RAF   DAM ON SARDINIA BLASTED   Yanks Put Death Squeeze On Japs in Aleutians And Reds Stop Nazis

RAF Bombers Attack Berlin In Night Sweep   American Heavies Hit At Reich ‘Hot Spor’  Ber VR

U-Boat Yards Blasted; Berlin Again Raided As RAF. Continues Its Blows On Continent

113 ENEMY  BAGGED   In Raids Yesterday Against Italy and Sardinia. One of Most Successful Days Yet For Air Force.

VAUNTED NAZI AERIAL FORGE BADLY SHAKEN   Most Of Victories Rung Up By American Aviators; Raids Continued

Yanks Smash 113 Planes over Italy   American Fighter ~ Bombers Attack Dam in Northwest Sardinia

Italy, Sardinia Dealt Smashing Aerial Blow:   Only One Yank Plane Fails To Get Back; Another Dam Hit

RAF LASHES BERLIN AGAIN, _ BREMEN, ESSEN   Indusiries and Communications Germany and France Strafed but Only One Plane Lost   LONDON HAS ALERT   Factory Set Afire, Freight Yard Shoi Up, Trains Blasled in Rai in Bremen Area

Allies Destroy 113 Axis War Planes In Raids On Italy   U.S. Airmen Drop Bombs  Upon Dams In Sardinia

VCILTIGHsS Udll Heavy Attack ‘Terror Raid’  Canadian I -mbers Join in 4. .ult Made On Considerable Scale  AMID DPIC ARNT DATIAIN

Berlin Pounded Again By British   Americans Plaster U-Boat, Ship Yards  ee, BARBERS WD aT IRE U BA wee

Yankees Destroy ° 113 Enemy Planes   Another Dam Is Hit; Berlin Raided

Fifth Major Raid on Berliv by British Raiders Announced   NAZI RADIO CALLS IT TERROR ATTACK   Great Armada of UV. S. Planes Batters Northwect fharmany

NEW AIR ATTACK MADE ON BERLIS   ASSAULT BELIEVED HEAVY— YANKS HIT REICH, DOWN 18 PLANES, LOSE 12.

U. S. Fliers Also Bomb Sardinian Dam; LondonBerlin ‘War Of Nerves’  Is Intensified.

HURRICANE HOVERS GULF   Weather Bureau Sees It Moving Inland by _ Tomorrow

Hurricane Due To Move Inland IThis Afternoon   Severe Storm Has Been Hovering Over Gulf For ‘Several Days.

SEVERE HURRICANE HOVERS OVER GULE   Indications Are “Storm Will Move on Texas Coast

Germany Séili Great War  Sesare  Power. 9 rh Veivis paper “Trea re Says

GERMANY STILL 15  GREAT WAR POWER;  ARMY LOST MOBILITY MANY FACTORS IN NAZI  WAR PICTURES, SWEDISI  PEepnNPpTeD NECLARES

Behind the Steel Wall’  Nazi Army Still Strong But Has Lost Mohijlity

Nazis Lose Mobility But Army Still Firm   Swedish Correspondent Says Superiority In Air Gone; Spirit Has Dropped

“BEHIND THE STEEL WALL’—-GERMAN ARMIES ARE STIL! POWERFUL, BUT HAVE LOST MOBILITY   Reporter From Berlin Also Says Luftwaffe ‘Has Been Greatly Reduced By The Allies   Rv ADWIN SHANKE

WLB Labor Members  Hit U.S. Rule   View Hold-the-Line Order to Be Violation of Pact

Labor Protests Hold-the-Line Policy of WLB   AFL Members Say It Is Violation of No-Strike Agreement

WLB LABOR GROUP PROTESTS ORDER   Says Povey Hold-the Line Decree Is Flagran Violation of No - strik Agreement

Labor board AFL Members Assail Order By President  Term Hold-Line Rule ‘Flagrant Violation’  Of No-Strike Accord, Say It Will Not Work   EXPRESSION TOPS MOUNTING PROTESTS

AFL Members Of WLB Rap Pay Hike Ban   Say Hold-Line Order Violates No-Strike

EXECUTIVE ORDER   President’s Hold-the-Line Edict Irks Both AFL, CIO Who Charge It “Flagrant Violation”

Group Charges F. D. R. Broke No-Strike Pact   Claims Anti-Inflation Order Is Violation And Is Unworkable

Yank Warships Ambush Jav Troopship Convoy   Enemy Disasters Mount Steadily

IAPS GIVEN HARD BLOW IN PACIFIC, O00 MILE FRONT   Sea, Air Forces Destroy 215 Planes, Wreck Major Portion of Convoy, Damage Refinery Center.   REDS SMASH ENEMY DEFENSE ON DONETS   ‘Russians Resume Their Gen eral Advance Along Kharkoy Front, Fiercest Fighting of Campaign.

Many Japs Drown When U.S. Ships Ruin Convoy; More Victories In Air

Cost of Triumph Is Only 11 Craft   Big Fleet of Junkers Transports Ripped to Shreds in Engagement

Aliied Victory Over Transport Fleet Climaxes Week Of Record Shattering Performances BY U. S., British Air Forces   BATTLE DEVELOPING ON RUSSIAN FRONT

WESTERN ELECTRIC STRIKE   Employes Demand Sanitary Facilities For White, Negro

W. E. Strikers Picket Plants   Walk Out After WLB Refuses Separate Sanitary Facilities.

Workers, Quit - At Baltimore   Western Electric, Whites Asking For Separate Foilet Facilities

Poverty and Squalor in Middle East, but Feeling of Stirring and Change Appears in: Turkey, Determined to Preserve Its Neutrality.

OneWorld   wiet Plans on Vast Scale for Power Development; Collective Farm System Found “Very Backbone of Tough Resistance.”

ussian Society “Effective; It Works.” “We Must Learn to Work With It After War” to Maintain Peace, Says World Girdler.

POST-WAR PLAN OF EDUCATION   Roosevelt Asks Billion Dollars To Assist Ex Service Men

PRESIDENT PROPOSES EDU. CATIONAL PROGRAM POR EN-SERVICE MEN IF DESIREI

Billion Dollar Educational Program Sent To Congres:   Roosevelt Asks Funds to Provide Year’s College Study After the War for Every Qualified Man. and  Waman in tho Corvira

NATION PLANS COLLEGE HELP FOR VETERAN   POST-WAR TRAINING PROGRAM CALLS FOR BILLION

FDR'S PLAN WOULD EDUCATE SOLDIERS   President Asks C Congress to  _ Support _Billion-Dollar Program

FD Asks Funds To Educate All In U.S. Service   Year's Study Would Be Provided in Big Billion-Dollar Plan

Roosevelt Asks Year in College For Young Troops   Billion-Dollar Program Backed

ONLY 1:000,000 JOBLESS IN U. S.   Florida Benefit Payments To Idle Low

Nation’s Idle Population Has Dropped To One Million   Decrease of Nine Million Approaches, Census Bureau Says, “The Irreducible Minimum;” Labor Force Total Soars to 51,000,000 Between Mid-February and Mid-March

ONLY ONE MILLION JOBLESS IN NATION   United States Nearing “Tho Irreducible Minimum,” Census Bureau Reports.

[Sioux Co. Must Buy  Many Bonds In April   County’s Share Of Thirteen Billion Dotlar Victory Loan Drive fs $700,000.00 During April

WILLKIE BELIEVES COP WILL MAKE HIM STANDARD BEARER   States He Will Accept Nomination a Views ome On Policies’ ees  Clear

COLLABORATION OF FOUR NATIONS VITALLY NEEDED   Be ARTHUR WHIENEY   O'LEARY RESIGNS AS ~ ECONOMIST FOR OPE

Willkie Sees Self Chosen   Believes G. O. P. Will Adont His Policies

WILLKIE IS EXPECTING NOMINATION   Indicates It In Remarks at. San Francisco

Willkie Believes GOP Will Accept His Foreign, Domestic Policies And Make Him Presidential Candidate

WILLKIE CONFIDENT REPUBLICANS WILL MAKE HIM NOMINEE   Believes His Policies Will Be Adopted By Party

Tonight To Be Colder   But No Severe Weather Is Seen By State Bureau

SNOW IS PREDICTED   Cold Weather Expected to Spread Over the State Tonight

WAAC From Camp ‘Ruston To March In Monroe Bond Parade   111 Women Soldiers Scouts, Etc., To Take Part At 11 O'clock

Congress Awaits War Budget Message Today   Economy-Minded Lawmakers Expect 100 Billion Request; Foresee Need for More Taxes

Would Soften With Verse Those Landlords Who Refuse To Rent To Family Men

PLANE MISSING ~ SINCE MONDAY   Continue Search for Army Bomber in Southern Arizona

PRESS SEARCH FOR ARMY PILANE   Authorities Hunt Bomber Missing Since Early Monday,

RADIO ADDRESS WARNS NATION   Threat of Inflation Told by Chamber of Commerce Head.

HOME FRONT AIDING AXIS, SAYS NATION’S  NO. 1 BUSINESS MAN   Warns of Necessity of Revampin; Food, Manpower and Tax Policies

FIFTH ARMY STRIKING AT ~ SAN VITTORE   Push on Toward Cassino After Capture of San Pietro in Bloody Battle.

AMERICAN ARMY NEARING CASING   Clark’s Men Hit San Vittore After Sunday Capture of San Pietro

Yanks Launch ~ Heavy Attack On San Vittore   Follow Up Advantage Gained In Capture Of San Pietro In Italy   FIFTH ARMY SIX MILES FROM CASSINO

New Income Tax Plan Is House Goal   Committee Wants Unions Punished For Holding Up Freight

Congress Takes Up ~ Arduous Problem of Devising New Taxes   Curb on Union Leaders Sought in Bill Given Committee Okeh

HOUSE GROUPS _ SET TWO GOAL   ‘Aim for Pay-as-You-Go Tas Plan, Legislation on Labor Interference

Chairman Doughton Says First Session Will Be Held Tuesday  LABOR LEGISLATION

Buy A Birthday Gift For Hitler   ANice Bomb Will Do, And Delivery Is Free

Bonds Urged as Gift to Hitler   Americans Called On to Help Observe Fuehrer’s Birthday

Buy Hitler a Birthday Present, He Will Be 54 Tuesday and American Fighting Men Will Deliver It In Person

Sock Hitler on His Birthday 'By Buying a War Bond!  Send Him a Bomb for a Present —

Let’s Buy Another Bond to Help Hitler Celebrate His Birthday; Some Bombs Would Be Nice Gif

Americans Urged To Buy Birthday Present For Hitler By Investing In War Bonds During Second Loan Drive

Suggest Way to Celebrate Hitler’s Birthday Tuesday—Buy War Bonds

. FOLK PLAN BIRTHDAY GIFT VIA BONDS   “they'll Buy Bombs And Other Such Things For Hitler Anniversary

HITLER NEARS 54TH BIRTHDAY   AMERICANS CAN BUY WAR BONDS TUESDAY TO HELP CELEBRATE

CELEBRATE HITLER'S BIRTHDAY BY BUYING MORE WAR BONDS  gy ft... COP   13 German Planes Destroyed on Ground ~ At Enemy -Air Base in Lenincrad Area

‘Honrly Resding=   Anril (Calendar   Wrnna Give Adolf Something for Birthday:

ORDER APPLIES TO OGDEN ONLY   ‘Ogden Area Comprises Only Ogden Itself,’ Says WMC

Keeps Nazis Guessing. ... . Briton Knows Where Blow  Will Fall But He Won't Tell

MOVES WELL PLANNED   Russians Joyously Welcome News of. Invasion of Sicily

REDS REJOICE OVER LANDING      Welcome ilian Invasion as New Blow to Axis Forces,

Russian People Welcome. News Of Allied Invasior   Germans And ltalfans Told Of Landings, Fighting: Papers: Hinted Attack

Other Blows Seen Likely   British Hint Sicily Not ‘Only Landing’

BOMBS HIT REICH FOR NINTH NIGHT   American Adriatic Fora’ Fires Nazi Oil Works in Albania

AGREE ON COAL PAY CONTRACT   Union and Operators Reach Accord, But Mine Peace Is Not Assured

Agreement Between Coal Operators, Union Officials Fails To Assure Peace In Mines For Duration Of War

Mine Workers and Operators Agree On Terms of a Two-Year Contract   May Reopen Contract

Mrs.J.L. Yerdon Taken by Death   Well-Known Local Resident Ill for More Than Year

Former Coleville Resident Die:   Services for Mrs. Yerdon Held Monday

BRITISH TROOPS LAND ON CRETE   Attack Staged On Airfields And Supply Dumps By Small Patrols

Commando Raid  Is Made On Crete   British Patrols Make Sortie Against German-Held Is. land, London Reports

COMMANDO RAIDS ON GRETE DESTROYED ENEMY SUPPLIES   SERJES OF SMALL RAIDS ON ENEMY-HELD HEACHES TO] KEEP NAZIS JUMPY ARE FORECAST

Fathers Have  Until October   Enough Single Men Are Available To Fill Draft Calls Through September

DRAFT OF FATHERS AGAIN POSTPONED   Enough Men Available to ‘Defer Parent Calls to October

NEED OF AGGRESSIVE  ADMINISTRATOR FOR  CIVILIANS RECITED HOME FRONT DEVELOP MENTS PREDOMINANT IN CAPITAL WEDNECSNAY

Aggressive Dispenser .  Advocated   Plan for Coordinator to Stabilize Wartime Sports; Land Endorses Civil Draft Rill

Allied Invasion Certain  As Air Power Shown   United Forces Certain Planes Can Plow Bomb Furrows  Straight Into Heart of Reich

ALLIED PLANES ABLE TO BLAST ‘INVASION PATH   Doubts Removed By Air Power Display In Mediterranean

ALLIES: Now CONFIDENT iT ATR FORCES      Last Doubts Are Removed by Success In Mediteranean

Refuses to Give Data on Survey Grout   Keeton Arnett Walks. Out on House Committee-When Asked About Financing   SIZE OF PAYROLL ALSO REQUESTED   Asked to Name Some’. of Biggest Contributors - to: Taxpayers Organization

Oregon Man Assumes Job of Domestic Director for OW!  Palmer Hoyt Will Be In Charge of  U.S. News Division

Police Search For Killer Of NY Publisher   Carlo Tresca  Foe Of Il Duce

Recent Activity Implies. ~ German Stand On Manych   Also Indicates Nazi Massing For Bold Frontal Attempt To Rescue Trapped Divisions

Interpreting  The War   Red Offensive Frustrating Hitler’s Design

Chief of German Manpower Bureau in France Killed  Julius Ritter Shot By Trench ‘Terrorists’, —~ Berlin Resorts

PREPARE FOR ‘INVASION   Nazis Take Extraordinary Meas-ures to Control Shipping

State House and Senate Adjourn Until Monday "  Oryanizational and

SUNDAY MOVIE BILL FOR NEARBY COUNTY   Theaiers In Hagerstown Would Be Open Aflernoon And Night Untit End Of War

BILL FOR SUNDAY MOVIES OFFERED      Measure in House Would Open Theaters Here on Sundavs

British Losses Are Relatively Light in Tunisia   Atlee Declares Outlook  Bleak for Remaining Axis Forces

PROSPECTS OF ESCAPE BLEAK SAYS ATTLEE   Deputy Prime Minister Tells Commons About Thunderbolt Finis To African Campaign; British Lose 1200   Full Of Hope

BRITISH LOSSES SET AT 10,888   Clement Attlee Tells Parliament Prospects  ‘Bleak’ For Axis

Axis Chance For Escape Called Bleak   House Of Common: Told Of British  Caenaltics

REDS HIT AT.” NAZI TROOP MOVEMENTS ~   Sink Six German Barges and Set  Fire to Transport

RUSSIANS SINK ‘SIX NAZI BARGES - BURN TRANSPOR   Deliver Series of Blows Against Nazi Movements In Black Ga-

Six Nazi Barges  Sunk By Soviets   German Troops Moving In Black Sea Area

REDS DEAL HEAVY BLOWS ON GERMANS IN BLACK SEA AREA   Soviet Planes, Warships Sink 6 Nazi Barges, ’ And Set Fire To Transport

JAP WORKERS LEAVE FARMS   Storm of protest in Marengo, Illinois over candy company laborers

Russian Advance Troops 59 Miles Beyond Kiev Now   Push Ahead Rapidly In Pur. suit Of Fleeing Nazis In Ukraine   RED FORCES ALSO ADVANCE IN NORTH

NAZIS FLEE IN FULL RETREAT BEFORE PUSH   New advance places Rus. sians 140 miles from Rumanian border

REDS RETAKE i TOWNS IN UKRAINE   Russians 45 Miles Beyond hiev at Some Points

Cox Resigns as Head of FCC Committee Today   Slandex, Insults Given as Reason for Res'gnation

SEA SCOUTS DROWN WHEN BOAT SINKS   10 Boys Lose Lives in Easter Cruise Tragedy

Delphos Man Held After Shooting, of Granddaughter Near Ottoville

Accuse Son © In Slaying Of Invalid   30-Year-Old Stock Buyer Being Held in Wapello County Jail

BIC FIRES SET AT JAP BASES   Low Level Blow Aimed At Salamaua; Ground Fighting Quiet

Destroy two Jap bombers  at Tanimbar   Ground action strong at Mubo

Allied Planes Hit Salamaua  - Big Fires Set in - Low Level Attack

FIRES SET IN AIR RAID ON SALAMAUI   LOW LEVEL ATTACK MADE ON JAPS—2 PLANES DOWNED NORTH OF DARWIN.

Allied Fliers Start  Great Fires on  Jap Base in Pacific Airmen Also Support  Ground Fighters In Assault on Foe

Allied Planes Hit Salamaua Big Fires Set in  wes Caneel Bak aewt

Allies Set Huge Fires in Low Level  Raid on Salamaua   Two Jap Bombers Destroyed Over Tanimbar Islands

Sov iets Adv: ance Mile An Hour   Near Another Important R. R. Center

Russian Forces Drive Steadily Toward Salsh   Red Troops Crash Way Forward Through Lower  4 tr Area WITHIN 22 MILES  OF RAIL JUNCTION   Soviet Newspaper Says Nazis Suifer Big Losses As Russians Advance

REDS RETAKE RAIL CENTERS   One Soviet ‘Thrust Gains Mile an Hour Despite Nazi Resistance

VICHY JOINS ITALIANS IN ATTACK AGAINST GUERRILLA FORCES IN MOUNTAIN AREAS   Open Warfare Appears Imminent, Reports from Switzerland Say

BOMBER PLANES, ELITE SOLDIERY FIGHT PATRIOTS   Allies Reportedly Dropping Food, Arms to Partisans Resisting Enforced Labor Edict

PATRIOT ARMY DEFIES ORDER TO SURRENDER   Italian Troops Rumored Helping Germans, Vichy Police Fight Guerillas In Alps

Reds Push Foe Back, Take City   British Widen Hold in South Italy; Paratroops Tighten Death Trap on Japs in New Guinea Near Enemy Base

REDS ESTIMATE      Death Trap Slammed Shut On Japs Troons Take Pahni

Nazis Lose 1,538,000 Men in Summer Drive,  Reds Claim Officially   Allied Bombers Press Attack on Axis Targets; Stalino Under Fire From Soviet Artillery; Hold on Italian Toe Widened

British Troops Forge Ahead In Southern Italy   Allies Capture Palmi; Ex tend Grip In Cala brian Peninsula

BRIGHT SOUTHERN FUTURE   AFL President Describes Region As “The Land Of Promise”

BOY. 18, CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER   Hammer Death of Aged Woman Brings Verdict After Three and a Half Hours

10 Commandments Issued hy ODT for Americans Who Plan Vacation Trips

Thou Shalt Not, Says ODT— Ten Commandments Handed Bown On Summer Vacation

Hull Condemns Attitude of Admiral Robert,  French High Commissioner on Martinique

'Secretary Hull Condemns Martinique Commissioner’s Attitude In Holding Out Against Allies

IS HIT BY HULL   Secretary Calle Admiral’s Attitude Toward Allies Incomprehensible

NAVY ON WATCH AT MARTINIQUE   Hull Condemns Attitude Of Admiral Robert, Allied Holdout

Hull Parries Query on Italy Poliey   Tells Reporters Arms Success Is Main Issue

mn  MARSHALL MAY LEAD ALLIES   Churchill Has No Comment On U. S. General’s  Appointment

ncoura ging Sign From Guadalcanal  First Japs Give Up Voluntarily In Guadalcanal]  *eeee

JAP SOLDIERS SURRENDER AT GUADALGANAL   Told Americans Would Be Easy To Lick: Mistaken

JAPS GIVE UP VOLUNTARILY   Surrender On Guadalcanal When Yank Loudspeaker ; Offers Them Food.

JAP PRISONERS REFUTE THEORY OF ‘WIN OR DIE’   SEVERAL SURRENDER IN RESPONSE TO A RADIO BROADCAST

NUMBER JAPANESE SURRENDER; WERE SICP APD APARY  PRISONER SAYS PROMISI OF REINFORCEMENTS

Japs Surrender Without Fight At Guadaleanal   Sick, Hungry Soldiers Give Up in Response t« Broadcast

APPROVAL OF STRIKE BILL NEEDED FAST   Passage of Measure Weuld Prevent Any Renewal of Coal Strike.    COMPROMISE REACHED   Attitude of President on the New Features of B:ll Is Not Known. —

STRIKE BAN yall READY FOR ACTION   JOINT ‘COMMITTEE REACHES AQRPEMENT ON MEASURE’ “<< DERIGNED TO HAET “WORK STOPPAGE

Anti-Strike Bill Approval Sought   Joint Senate-House Confer. ence Committee Reaches Agreement On Measure   AIMED TO HALT NEW COAL STRIKE

CONFEREES AGREEMEN.<"1 NO-STR ALL  To Seek Zz dy Congre ¥ al Approve”

Martial Law At Beaumont Lifts   Situation Well In blond. Official Say.

Martial Law in Beaumont to End   Acting Gov. Aikin Lifts Order Sunday; Officers Commended

Martial Law To Be Lifted at Beaumont Today  Order Restored, Says Acting Governor; Rangers lo Stav

FORMERMAGNETIC ATHLETE DIES   Set. Floyd Milligan Gunner on Bom. ber Died October 19, in England Hospital

SEES VAST BOOST IN PLANE: OUTPUT   RUUSEVELT PREDICTS PRODUCTION OF -1,417,000,000. ' POUNDS DURING 1944.

FDR LISTS PLANE OUTPUT IN POUNDS      Thinks New Method Cleare: Way to Disclose Increase

PLANE PRODUCTION  -BEING STEPPED UP   Roosevelt Says 1,417,000,000 Pounds Will Be Constructed During 1944

British Eighth Army In Flanking Movement May Cut Off Fleeing Nazis

BEGIN MARCH ON ROME TODAY   aa foe merican and British Troops Pushing. Up Roads Leading to Italian Capital. —. Believed Drive. ; on: Rome Will Take Possible 22 Days:

Nazis Flee Allied Spearheads, Night Bombers Hit Foe              Eighth Army Surges Up Easter Coast Aréa in Flanking Movem Stand: Expected. at Volturno R:

ADVANCE ON ETERNAL CITY OVER 2 ROUTES LEADING NORTHWARD   Believe 125-Mile Drive May Be Negotiated In 22 Days; Planes Try To Split Retreating Nazi Forces   Rye RICHARD DPD. MeMil!t AN

!Tanks, Mobile Guns, Infant  Sweep Up Twin Roads Fre  Naples To Rome, 125 Miles ' ' North; Foe Is Strafed   DIFFICULT MOUNTAIN COUNTRY LEFT BEHIN

Planes Blast At Roads Clogged With Germans   Expect Capital of Italy To Be Taken  Within Three Weeks

SPEARHEADS PUSH UP TWIN ROADS IN PURSUIT OF NAZIS   Allied Bombers Blasting  Fleeing Germans On Highways——Break . New Stand Plans ~~

HAVE 125 MILES TO GO TO > REACH ITALIAN CAPITAL;  GERMANS IN FULL RETREAT

Island Fort Retuses to Surrender   Axis Reports Garrison Defies  Allied Ultmatum

ALLIED ATTAGK ADAINOT ITALY Aloo IN FURY   Most Terrific Blows Of War Are Dealt Pantelleria By Ships And Pianes

Military Convoys Streaming In and Out Of the Port Of Bari and Reports Indicate Allies Will Strike Quickly.

Allied Military Convoys Steaming In and Out of Adriatic Port.   ANGLO-YANK FORCES TO STRIKE QUICKLY

lowa: Motorists Need Not Purchase Their Licenses Before February 1.   - Ruling Handed Down. to Clarify - Any Confusion

February 1 Deadline for Car Licenses   Rankin Issues Ruling to Clarify Confusion Over Car Tags

Car License Deadline Is Changed   Feb.  Penalty Date Fixed in Rule by Atty. General

After- Wat Job Outlook Looks Tough   Employment Problem Is Approached From New Angle

Lloyd George in Favor of Reviewing League: Discusses Previous Failure

Rome May Not Escape Allied Bombing Attack   No Permanent Relief Likely until Governments Get Together

Italians Told Rome Not Yel An Open City   “Certain Conditions Must Be Met, Rome “Radio Says.

PEOPLE WARNED AIR RAIDS MAY BE CONTINUED   Badoglio Appears To Be Trying To Disclaim Responsibility For Attacks

JS. WARSHIPS SINK 2 JAP DESTROYERS   ‘American Ships Blast  Japanese Bases  In Solomons

US WARSHIPS BLAST TWO DESTROYERS   Two Japanese Bases Attacked in Solomons Area

New Partnership of Government and Business Sought in Plan F. R. Places Before Congress

‘That More Abundant Life, Just Around The Corner For A Decade, Now Promised In The Post-War Eyc

N. R. P. B. CALLS ON COUNTRY TO STEEL ITSELE   For Continued Restrictions for Months After Hostilities Cease

Abundant Life for America Following  War Seen by Board   Long Range Aims Given in Planning Board’s  Report to FDR

Cradle-to-Grave Security Is Urged  i ee ee ee oe <n   Federal Control Over Vital Industries, Rail Mergers Included in Resources Renort

Roosevelt Asks Action on Report of Delano Commission FIXES WAY OF LIFE Gradual Relaxation of Controls, After War,  Recommended 

UNRIVALED ABUNDANCE AFTER WAR. PROMISED   Labor Pledged Share.in Business Management

Planning Board Warns Nation “Ww artime Restrictions Will Continue Months After Peace

More Abundant Life to Follow Post-War Trials, Says Planning Board

Post-War Plan Holds Hope Of Better Days   Recommendatins Go To Congress For Immediate Consideration   People Asked To Steel Themselves To Sacrifice   Legislators Already Have Refused Funds  For Resources Board

Jobs For All, Security Urged in Post War Plan   NRPB Report Proposes Gradual Demobil ‘ization, Slackening of Wartime Restric. trons to Cushion Return to Peace   URGES GOVERNMENT RETAIN PARTNERSHIP IN INDUSTRY   Would Maintain Interests in Aircraft, Shipbuilding, Aluminum, Magnesium, Consolidate Railroads

PLANNING BOARD REPORT PROPOSES SOCIAL INSURANCE   DESIGN PROGRAM TO INSURE POSTWAR ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

Post-War Plan  Large Program   Would Have Government Maintain Partial Control In Many Industries.

Nation: Facing ‘Bright Future, Reveals Board   Government Control Over Business Urged After Victory In War -

Promises Post-War Abundance   Social Security Plan Calls for Carrying War-Time Rules Over Into Post-War Period

MACARTHUR VS MARSHALL MAY BE 1944 SLATE   Military leaders may be opposing candidates for president

Y SHALL VS. “ARTHUR IN 44 RACE?   Stranger Things Have Happened in U.S. Polities

'PLAN PRACTICE BLACKOUTS   State Director Warns Local Defense Councils To Bé Ready

PLAN PRACTICE BLACKOUTS   State Director Ws Lae Defense Councils To Ready

Leathernecks Put Airstrip Under Fire   New Landing Cut: Jap Supply Lines To West, South

MARINES TARE WEST END OF NEW BRITAIN   TWIN LANDINGS ARE MADE ON KEY JAP ISLAND BASE

Marines Make Landings on New Britair   Second Invasion Front Is Established

Marines Push Inland After New Landings   Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Invaded by Veteran Leathernecks—Forces Move Forward With Little Opposition   Attacks Crushed

Marines. Push Inland After New Landings   Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Invaded by Veteran Leathernecks—-Forces Move Forward ; With Little Opposition

NEW INVASION STAB SETS UP RABAUL THREAT   Leathernecks Establish New Britain Bases In Two-Hour Struggle

VETERAN LEATHERNECKS OF GUA ALCANAL MOVE WITH LITTLE O POSITION TO JUNGLE HINTE LAND OF CAPE GLOUCESTER.

Marines Advance In New Britain   Little Opposition On Cape Gloucester

North Texas Has 125 Million Dollar  Quota For Bonds  Third War Bond Drive To Get Started Sept. 9

VETERAN, DIED IN CONCORD   Service for Concord Attormey, Spanish War Veteran. at Trinity Church -

Service for Concord. Attormey, Spanish War Veteran. > at Trinity Church -

Repudiation of  Trade Act Seen As Blow to Peace   Welles Declares Agreement Is Hope For End of All Wars

FOUR MAJOR CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT LAW   Penalties Are Definitely Ap: + plicable To Employers and Workers Alike   OUTLINE HERE GIVEN

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS STRUCK      Allied Bombers Pound a  Nazi Industrial Cities And Airfield

Allied Bombers Resume Steady Raid Schedule   Unbroken Air Attack Does Great Damage To Germany's Bases

Jap Advance in burma Is Halted   Air Report Reveals Enemy Has Initiative

World Government Urged To Keep Peace After War   Governor Stassen, of Minnesota, Soys New Level of Government Myst Emphasize Humon Rights Rather Than the Rights of Nations

Stassen Asks  Global Union   Governor Seeks Peace Of ‘Human Rights”

URGES UNITED NATIONS STATE   Gov. Stassen Says Wars Prove Need Of Higher World Government

Allies Ready To Strike In:East   Linkup With Soviet  Offensive le Saan

Allies May Be Set To Deal Blow Through Balkans  Bulgar Unrest Rises Steadily; Police  Try ta Stem Rint:

THINK ALLIES TO OPEN NEW DRIVE   Istanbul Expects East Mediterranean Action

PREDICT. LIGHT FLOQD DAMAGES   Farm Lands Inundated, Traffic Halted in Some Areas as Rivers Swell

Rivers Flooding Southern States   Georgia to Louisiana Farm Lands Covered

ACRES INUNDATED BY FLOOD WATERS   Damage in Sou ther n States Expected to be » Relatively Light

ACRES OF FARM LANDS INUNDATED   Dozens of Rivers From Georgia to Louisiana Overflow; Estimated Crests of Ohio River Revised Downward

FOURTH TERM TALK PREMATURE,’ SAYS MRS. ROOSEVELT   First Lady Says Such Speculation at This Time Could Possibly Impede War Ef , ee

COLUMBUS AND 15 SMALL CITIES HIT BY POWER FAILURE   Current Off For Hour. Transit Service Stalled

Reds Battered "Back By Nazis   Soviet Admits First Major Setback During Offensive

150,000 Germans Score Advance On East Front   Nazi Losses Heavy In Furious Battle

Foe Attack With 150,000 Men Gives  Reds First Set-Back in Months;. Soviets Capture Many Towns

German Attack In Zhitomir Area Mounts   Russian Forces Gain  In Other Sections of Front, However: 2,000 Nazi Troops Killed

Mounting Nazi Calinters attack Sends Soviets... Into Reverse   RUSSIANS ADVANCE  IN DNIEPER REGION   Unusual Announcement of Red Retreat Made -in Communique

10,00 New Men in Mounting Counter Blows   Reverses in Northern Ukraine; Gains on Other Fronts

SLIGHT RUSSIAN RETREAT MADE NEAR ZHITOMIR   150,000 German Troops Hurled Into Battle In Northern Ukraine   SOVIETS CONTINUING OFFENSIVE ELSEWHERE

GERMANS @CCUPY SEVERAL TOWNS IN FULL- SCALE DRIVE   Force Reported to Total 150,000 Troops Strikes Soviets in Zhitomir-Korostyshev Area.   SETBACK IS FIRST FOR REDS IN MONTHS   One Purpose of Counter-Blow Is to Prevent Closing of Nazi Escape Route From  Dnieper Bend.

Red Soldiers  Advance in Other Zones   Russians Blocked in Small Sector of Long Front as Germans Fight to Hold Off Disaster for Their Armies

Nazi Power Concentrated  In Small Area   First Setback Suffered By Reds Since Start Of Summer Offensive  GAIN ELSEWHERE

Reds Advance in Other Vital Sectors   2,000 Nazis Die in Dnieper Bend; Towns Are Taken

Russians Gain However, in  Another Area  Soviet Armies Have First Admitted

Soviets Suffer Reverses North Ukraine Sector   GAIN ON GOMEL   Russians Score Advances, Take Towns in the Koro,  sten Junction Area

RUSSIANS PUT IN REVERSE IN ZHITOMIR AREA   Gains Scored On Gomel. Korosten Lines; Two Thousand Germans Slaughtered

Allied Armies Are Regrouping at Mediterranean Bases for Invasion

LONDON PAPERS BANNER ‘TROOPS TO MARCH SOON’   Allied Armies Grouped at Mediterranean Bases for Invasion, Repart

ALLIES PREPARING FOR ALL-OUT DRIVE ON AXIS IN EUROPE   Much) Speculation Over Date Offensive Will Open—Appeal To Patriots

“London: Papers Foresee European Invasion  When Churchill Returns

ALLIES IN READINESS FOR OFFENSIVE   Undetermined Where Blow Will Fall

ALLIED ARMIES IN RE-GROUPING PLAN DISPATCH REPORTS      Algiers Says That FullSeale Offensive Against  Europe Now Seen.

Much Invasion Talk Prevails In England   High Command Urges Patriots in France To Be Prepared

ALLIES URGE FRENCH T0 DREDARE   European Fight To Start When Churchill Back

Allied Armies Regrouping in Mediterranean   Algiers Dispatch  Sees Preparations For Invasion ; 

Allied Forces Regroup  In Mediterranean For  Biggest Invasion Yet   French Patriots Told to Get Ready for Invasion Day; Two Fronts Hinted

BROADCAST TO FRENCH   Patriots Told To Get Ready For Invasion  Which May Be Soon

ATTACK UPON EUROPE SEEN COMING SOON   Germans Claim Allies May Open “Double Second Front” Momentarily.

Air Taxi Service by Helicopters Will: * Take Passenger 8, Mail From Roof. tops

‘Aerial Taxi Service’ Evisioned With  Application For Helicopter Air Service

8,300,000 In  Service Now   McNutt Appears At Committee Hearing.

Armed Forces Total Set at 8 300,000  McNutt Gives Data At House Hearing

KERCH & SENAYA AITACKED BY REDS   Both German-occupied Ports Are On Shores of Crimea Opposite Nazi Bridgehead On Taman Peninsula.

ATTENTION DRAWN TO SOUTHERN END ‘OF SOVIET FRONT   Russ Bombers Raid GermanOccupied Ports of Kerch and Senaya on Shores of the  Oeimana

RUSSIANS ACTIVE ~ ON SOUTH SECTOR   Soviet Bombers Attack German Occupied Kerch ‘and Senaya   MAY FORECAST DRIVE

RUSSIANS ACTIVE — ON SOUTH SECTOR   Soviet Bombers Attack German Occupied Kerch and Senaya

RED BOMBERS HIT NAZI-HELD PORTS   New Russian Move Aimed at Supply Lines

SOVIET AIR FORCE SHIFTS TO THE SOUTH   Significance Attached to Sudden Action in That Area, With Bombing of Two Ports on Shores of Crimea.

Aerial Action Flares Up In  Crimean Area   Bombers Attack Nazi-Held Ports

Attention Swings To Southern End Of Russian Front   Significance Seen In  ~ Red Bombing of. Gerinan‘Positions on Both Shores of Crimea.

Red Bombers Attack Ports   Russians Blast at Kerch and Senaya “In the Crimea

LONG RANGE RED BOMBERS. ATTACK . NAZIHELD KERCH   _ Significance Attached to ‘Sudden Shifting ot . Russian Air Force to Santh

SHIFTED AIR MIGHT HINTS NEW DRIVE   Activity In Crimea As Soviets Hammer Two Nazi Bases

LIQUOR PROBERS TURN HEAT ON BIG. DISTILLERS   Farm Bloc in Congress,  Standing Pat Against Food Subsidies

WHISKEY 10 PAY NEW WAR TAXES   investigating Committee Says Big Distilleries Trying to Corner Industry

HOW AMERICA BOMBS THE AXIS: TAKES A FLOCK OF BOMBS TO SINK A FLEET

ALLIES MAKE STEADY GAIN IN TUNISIA   Troops Are Approaching Plains Leading To Tunis, Bizerte

Airmen Keep Pounding at Enemy Cities   Yankees Gain Vital Ground  Near Bizerte

Axis Forces Are Throwing Everything Into Fight to Prevent Break.

Government Sets 5c Ceiling  Per Bottle For Soft Drink   But It’s 10 Cents When ' Served In Booths.Or At Games

Four Yanks Are Lost At Licata   Warships Silence Pillhoxes Ashore

Yanks Take Licata,” 300 Prisoners aft Of Four Men Killed  ‘U.S. Warships Are  Crackerjacks’ Eye- re . witness Exclaims .._-

Americans Lose Only Four Men In Taking Town   AP Photographer Praise: Warships for Part in Sicilian Landing

Foggia, One of the Great Prizes. Of the Itakan Campaign About Te Fall To the British Eighth Army.

American Troops Advance to Threaten City in a Wide Are.  BRITISH 8TH ARMY CROSS OFANTO RIVER  Now 22 Miles From the ; Vital Airfield at Foggia.

Only Rear Guard Action Confronting Fifth Army; British Nearing Foggia

TO. URGE M’ARTHUR FOR HIGH COMMAND   Senator Chandler Confirms Report He Will Seek Supreme Pacific Post for “Winner.”

THREE FRENCH EXECUTED   Von Runstedt, in Southern France, Makes "Announcement

HEAVIEST RAID EVER S MADE ON JAP BASE   Predict Early Conquest of One of Last Two Solomon Bases

133 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Jap Base   150 U. S. Bombers Make Heaviest Raid  In Southweet Pacific

EARLY CAPTURE OF BAIROK( HARBOR IS SEEN AFTER. RAID  Allie s Pulveri ize Defen * OF 1 Of La t 2 Bas Held By Japs On ia   U.S. MARINES MOVE TO NEW POSITIONS

See Capture of New Georgia Jap Base Shortly   _ Bairoko Harbor, - Conquest Soon -Is: Predictéd 

OREL BATTLE NEARS CLIMAX   Red Armies Smash Within Seven _ and One-Half Milfes, of German Bastion. ~

New Georgia Base Blasted By U.S. Fliers   Marines and Soldier: Ring Bairoko After Pulverizing Raid

U, §, BOMBERS BLAST JAP BASE ‘ON NEW GEORGIA   a ee: Ground Troops Repulse Jap Counter-Attack at Munda

Long Sought Mail Thief, Forger, Held   Kansas City Secret Servyice Officer Reports Suspect Admitted Thefts

URGES U.S. NOT HOARD CLOTHES   Nelson Says Stocks Ample With No Rationing Planned

RAF Bombers Smash Heavily At St. Nazaire U-Boat Base, Also Raid Western Germany   Allies Close Out February As Month Of Attacks Unequalled Since War Began

ST. NAZAIRE U-BOAT BASE IS SMASHED      RAF Rains Thousands of Heavy Bombs on French City Where Nazi Subs Are Being Built

IN FLAMES FROM RAID   33 Attacks On German Bases Made During Month By Allies

FIRES ARE LEFT RAGING AT NAZI BUILDING CENTER   St. Nazaire Scarred by More Than 1,000 Tons of British Explosives

‘RAF SMASHES HARD AT SUB BASE IN FRANCE AND TARGETS OVER WESTERN GERMAN AREAS

ST, NAZAIRE IS HEAVILY BOMBED   RAF Also Attacks Targets In Western Germany.

AROUND-CLOCK JABS AT AXIS LAND GO ON   Over Thousand Tons Of Explosives Are Dropped   BELGIUM,   West Germany Also Feel Sting Of Allied Force; Five Planes Lost

St. Nazaire U-Boat Base Hit Heavily   Other Targets In Western Germany Pounded By RAF

RAF Smashes ‘Very Heavily’ At Sub Base In St. Nazaire, Targets In Western Germany

ROOUSATM &£ OMS Bombs Dropped  ‘St. Nazaire Submarine Base Left In  Flames  FIVE OF RAIDERS   FAIL TO RETURN

RAF SMASHES AT ST. NAZARRE SUB BASE      iad  Five Bombers Missing From Raid Carried Thru F ourth Night i in  [aa ce

GERMAN BASES IN FRANCE HIT BY RAF PLANES   Western Germa ny Pounded With Block Busters

ST. NAZAIRE LEFT AFLAME -BY RAF RAIDERS   Targets in Western Germany Als: Bombed as Month Ends, Cher hourg Hengelo Raided

1,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On  St Nazaire   Axis Submarine Base On Coast Of France Blasted By Roval Air Force

NAZISUBBASE AT ST. NAZAIRE BOMBED BY RAK   Targets In Western Ger many Also Battered In Attacks Carried Out Last Night   BLOWS ‘VERY HEAVY   More Than 1,000 Tons o Explosives Loosed On St. Nazaire; Five Bombers Missing

RAF Is Active: On Two Fronts   St. Nazaire Sub Base In France; . Western Areas Heavily Bombed

NAT] GuDMAnE x  BASE, ST. NAZAIRE, HEAVILY BOMBED   Targets in Western Germany Also Were Attacked Last Night by RAF.   FIVE BOMBERS MISSING   More Than 100 Tons of Ex plosives Were Declared to Have Been Dropped.

$f. Nazaire ls Hit With 1,000 Tons of Bombs  RAF Keeps Up Air War On Western  Earancan Fartarice

1,000 TONS OF BOMBS LOOSED -ONSUB BASE   St. Nazaire Heavily Bombed: 5 Craft Missing; Sardinian Port Hard Hit

Allies Keep Up Air Offensive; ~ Hit St. Nazaire   Smashing Assaults Give Occupied-Europe No Bombing Respite

Allies Close Out UnequalledMonth Of Raids on Nazis   St. Nazaire and Western Germany are Smashed as Air Offensive Continues

Smash Heavily At U-Boat Base  Briti ish Fli iers s Con tinu  ES Bee ele Be

RAF ASSAULTS SUB BASE AT ST. NAZAIRE   Pilots Drop 1,000 Tons of  Explosives in © 30-Min ute Period,. as Other  ‘Fliers Raid Targets in many.’

CONTINUE HEAVY AIR ASSAULTS ON NAZI INDUSTRIES   RAF Raids U-Boat. Base a! St. Nazaire; Blast Western Germany

British Bomb U-Boat Base   Sive Planes Lost In 33rd Attack On Continent During February.

American Ground Forces Press Toward Munda Despite Enemy Resistence

YANKS URIVE EVER CLOSER TO MUNDA   Enlarge Beachhead Three Miles East of Jap Airoase

JAP AESIOTANGE baOWa olRUKGER IN UNDA FIGHT   American Grcund Forces Meet Troutle in Drive on Jap Base,   AIR ASSAULT GCES ON   Enemy Attempt to Land Reinforcements at Vangunu Is Smashed.

Report 179 Japs Slain In Latest Drive Near Munda   Yank Forces Push Closer Tc Japanese Base In New Georgia   NEW GUINEA BASES ARE ALSO ATTACKED

Ground Forces Press Closer To Jap Munda Base   Allied Planes Blast New Georgia Base With 32 Tons Of Bombs   THREE BARGES OF JAP TROOPS SUNK

DANE CLOSES IK ON MUNDA FIELD   Allies Also Make Advances On Salamaua—Jap Maccasar Base Pounded.

Raids Are Made  On New Guinec   U. S. Bombers Blast New Gaps In Enemy’s Overland Supply Lines   LARGE NUMBER OF BOMBERS EMPLOYED

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  I] C  ae Dioat ‘ Baas” OA Raita Wide Bak aus

BASES IN NEW GUINEA RAIDED BYU S. FLYERS   Devastating Bombing and Strafing Attacks on Enemy Positions

R.A. F. Pounds At Rhineland   Heavy Raids Against Foe Tapering Off

“RAF Continues Pounding  Germany's Industrial Areas  : Convoy Of Germon Supply Ships Is Attacked ” And Six OF The Shins Sunk Or Badly Dameced

Soldier Kills Girl and Self   Shoots Half-Sister, Angered By Marriage

More Meat An Gasoline Seen For Public Use   Vegetable Subsidy Plan Likely; OPA  ~~ MAaAnanar te Namer

OPA CONSIDERS FOOD SUBSIDIES   Plan Designed To Hold Down Cost Of Canned Vegetables

OPA Sees More Beef, Gasoline For Civilians   Subsidies To Keep Down Prices of Canned Vegefables Considered

CANNED VEGETABLE SUBSIDIES STUDIED   Brown Predicts More Mea! and Gas But Others Disearee

More Meat And Gasoline Seen For Public Use   Vegetable Subsidy Plan'Likely; OPA » Manager Ile Named

OPA Consider:  Subsidies.on Canned Food . Brown Says Civilians  ‘May Get More Beef.  pha flnsnlinan Bann.

Brown Sees Possibility Ot More Beef   OPA Hea: Hopeful Of More ‘Gas,” Too, But Ickes Pessimistic  ‘GAS’ RESTRICTIONS LIKELY TO STAY  OPA Studies Subsidie To Keep Down Prices Of Canned Vegetables

CANNED VEGETABLE SUBSIDIES STUDIED   Brown Predicts } More Meat and Gas But Others  ae -Disaaree

OPA MAY USE SUBSIDIES FOR CANNED GOOD!   Considers Slash in « Vegetable Instead Of Coffee Prices

Canned Vegetable Subsidy Studied,  Brown Reveals   May Replace Planned ‘Roll Back’ on Coffee  Price, He Announces

Deferment Given To OPA Assailed   Army Commission Brings Criticism

HIT DEFERMENT CF GPA COUNSEL   Brown Cails David Ginsburg ‘Best Informed Man’ in OPA Setup.   MAY BE COMMISSIONED

Wage Minims : Are Fixed By - Labor Board   Nebraska, Western Kansas and Jowa Included in Regional Board Rule .,

ESCORT ‘BABY’. SANK U-BOATS   ONE OF SMALL FLAT-TOPS BE “LIEVED TO HAVE DESTROYED TEN OF ELEVEN RAIDERS

Ten U-Boats Are Victims   One Of Navy’s ‘‘Baby Flattops’’ Given Credit For Havoc In U-Boat Wolf Pack

RATION COINS.   Plastic Pieces May Supplant the Stamps Now In Use.

ALLIED PLANES HIT SANANANDA   Last Jap Foothold In Papua Undergoes Blisterine Attack.

HOUSE LAUNCHES TAX COMPROMISE   Middle Way Is Proposed As F. R Tells Congress Next Move In Inflation Battle Is Theirs

IN BRIEF SESSION   City Council Allowed Bills and Sal. aries at Meeting.

UNITS BEATEN   Long Delayed Attack Centered North of Orel But Its Scope is Expected to Be Exterded.

NAZIS SEEK 10 DEFEAT RUSSIA   Germans Hurl Huge Reserves into Battie Along 166-Mile Segment of Eastern Front — Final Effort to Crush Reds Before Second Front Opens in Europe.

HUGE RESERVES USED BY NAZIS IN NEW ATTACK   Hundreds Of Tanks And Planes Destroyed Along 165 Mile Front   RED DEFENSES HOLDING   10,000 Enemy Troops Slain In First Stages Of Bitter Battle  °‘

TRANSPORT STRIKE PARALYZES AKRON   Bus, Street Car ‘Operators Walk Off Jobs ...<«

FR. Is Confident Teheran Meet Will Shorten War  Huil Predicts  Joint Action   Against Nazis

F.D,, CHURCHILL BACK IN CAIRO FOR NEW TALK   President Is Elated: Swift Action On Decisions Due

New Discussions Reported Under Way In Egypt   President of Turkey Believed To Be Meeting With Leaders

LULL FOR GERMANS      President Elated Over Sessions And Sees Shortening of the War

FR. HULDS NEW CONFABS   PRESIDENT, CHURCHILL CONFERRING AT CAIRO

House Drops Ruml Skip-a-Year Plan Third Time  Chamber Stands Firm On Pay-Go Income Tax Bill

House Rejects Ruml Tax Plan For 3rd Time   Skip-a-Year Proposal is Defeated By 202-194 Vote; Future of Pay-as. You-Go Taxation is in Doubt

House Rejects Ruml Tax Plan For 3rd Time   202-194 Vote; Future of Pay-asYou-Go Taxation is in Doubt

Plan Definitely Dead, Doughton Declares After Leading Battle Against Legislation  HOUSE STANDS FIRM ON OWN MEASURE  Committee Will Seek To Work Out Scheme Acceptable to F.D.R.

House Rejects Ruml Tax Plan 3rd Time   Chamber } etes 202 to 194 Against Senate's Modified Plan: Conference Committee Will Meet Today to Decide on Kind of Bill to Back

Rum! Plan Goes Down forKnockout   DEMOCRATS WIN MOST IMPRESSIVE VICTORY OF PRESENT CONGRESS; THIRD HOUSE DEFEAT FOR PLAN.   Middle Ground Sought

Skip-a-Year Tax Plan Given Knockout Blow   Democrats Win Most Impressive Victory In Defeating Modified Ruml Measure; Not Expected To Be Renewed

RUML PLAN Is GIVEN KNOCKOUT BY HOUSE VOTE   ‘Senate Skip-A-Year Tax  Measure Goes Down  202 To 194   COMPROMISE FROM JOINT CONFERENCE

House Drops Ruml Skip- -a-Year Plan Third Time   Chamber Stands Firm   Chamber Stands Firm On Pay-Go Income Tax Bill

TAX VOTE WON BY DEMOCRATS   Ruml Income Levy Plan (oes Down For Final Knockout Blow

Threat of Veto Spells Doom of Skip-Year Move   Democrats Win 202 194; Bill Now Goes to Conference   Senate-House Group Hopes To Devise Satisfactory Measure

HOUSE KILLS /RUMLPLAN, 202 10 194   Future of Pay-As-You-Gc Toxation Remains in Doubt

Future of Pay-as-You-Go Taxation in Doubt as House Defeats Rum! Plan   Democrats Win Impressive Victory Wher Measure Is Defeated by Vote of 202 to 194: Compromise Bill Forecast

House Kills Tax Measure   Senate Approved Bill Is Anporently Dead

‘Goes Down For Knockout Count By 202 To 194   Third Defeat For Rumi Ian and Most Impressive Win For Demoerals In 78th Congress

House Kills Modified Ruml Plan   Democrats Back FDR and Votes Out Tax Provosa]

Conferees Seek New Bill After  Ruml Plan Loses   House Defeats Senate Skip-Year Proposal By 202 to 194 Vote

RUML TAX PLAN DEALT KNOCKOUT   HOUSE VOTES 202 TO 194 AGAINST ACCEPTING SENATE SKIP-YEAR BILL,

STATE CAPITOL NEWS LETTER   First of a Series of Articles Telling Activities of the lowa General Assembly

BLOC DEMANDS LANGUAGE BE MADE SPECIFIC   Senators Want. Legislative Temper Written Into Resolution

CRITICS FIGHT PEACE LEAGUE   Seek to Pin Down Language As Guide In Peace Negotiations

Connally Resolution Viewed As Blank Check To Be Used by the President

loderate Losses \lready Suffered By Both Sides   iy Battle For Solomon Islands Still In Preimmary Stage, Secretary Knox Reports — Exact Japanese Objective In Present Operations Is Uncertain

Solomon Islands Battle Still in Preliminary Stuye, Presaging Bigger Engagement; “Nothing Major” Lost Yet; Secretary of Navy Says, as Objective of Japs Still Remains Unexplained.

KNOX REPORTS ACTION STILL PRELIMINARY   Nothing Specific To Indi— cate Jap Objective   NO CARRIERS   Battleships Or Cruisers Believed Sunk As Yet; Rabaul Raided

No Major Sinkings In Pacific Fight   Moderate Losses On Both Sides In Developing Struggle For Solomon Islands.

Both Sides Suffer In Solomons Battle   Losses Are “Moderate,” However, Indicating That No Capital Ships Have Suffered Thus Far—<Action Still “Preliminary.”

New Battle for Solomon Islands Developing, Says Knox at Press Conference

SOME LOSSES ARE SUFFERED IN SOLOMON   Knox Says American. Jap Forces Lose Some Units   NO GAPITAL SHIPS   Activities Reported Ar Indicative Of Major Action Impending

Knox Reports Moderate Losses on Both Sides in South Pacific Fight

aici   Secretary Knox Says Action Is Still Im Preliminary Stages

Losses In Sea Battle Moderate   Knox Reiterates Pacific Actions Are Only Prelude   Major Engagement Is To Be Expected Soon   American Airplanes Attack Jap Positions On Island of Kiska

YANKS TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP ON GUADALCANAL   Ground Forces Advance Along North Coast to Point: Beyond Captur ed Tassafaronea   AIR AND SEA BATTLE FOR SOLOMONS RAGE   Seventeen Jap Planes Shot Down; MacArthur’s Bombers Blast 20,000  Tons Shipping

Sea-Air Struggle For Control of Strategic Solomon Islands Rages Throughout Southwest Pacific.

BOTH JAPANESE AND AMERICANS SUFFER SOLOMONS LOSSES   SECRETARY KNOX REPORTS “MODERATE LOSSES” ON BOTH SIDES TODAY

Knox Reveals Solomons Less Is ‘Moderate’   Japan's Air, Sea Forces Also Damaged: No Capital Vessels Believed Sunk: Kiska, Other Raids Reported

SOLOMONS ACTION NOT YET BATTLE NAVY CHIEF SAYS   Losses at Present “Nothing Significant,” He Asserts; U. S. Troops Advance on Guadalcanal.

Suffer Moderate Losses in Battle  Of Solomon Isles   Navy Secretary Says There Is Nothing Definite of Jap Objective.   Says Loss Includes Nothing Significant

~ ON SOLOMONS    Navy Secretary Says New Action Is Still in Prelim. inary Stages.   GROUND UNITS ADVANCE

Action Still In Preliminary Stage, Knox Says; No Major Units Lost. Secretary Adde   Action Is Of Character That ‘Would Ordinarily Precede An Engagement Of Some Size’: Ground Furces Advance

JAP OBJECTIVE UNKNOWN; ENEMY MAKES WHD CLAIM   INavy Secretary Says No United States Losses Krawn Hara

Knox Sees “Moderate Losses   Size of Conflict, Final Jap Force Still Unknown

AMERICAN: AND JAP AIR, SEA LOSSES CALLED MODERATE   Knox Says Solomons Actions In Preliminary Stages But May Indicate Engagement Of Some Size

American. Jap  LossMe te   No Significant Losses As Fleets Maneuver For Large, Showdown Battle.

Naval Losses ‘Moderate’ In Pacifie Clash   Both Sides Have Been Hit, Says Knox; Moves Indicate Large-Scale Struggle Imminent

‘Moderate’ Losses In Solomons Fight   Nothing of Major Character Naval Damages, _  Says Knox »   JAP AIM: STILL VAGUE   Objective Not . Discloséd But Set-Up Indicates Major Action

Action Continues in. the Preliminary’ Stage, Knox Tells Reporters.   ‘MODERATE LOSSES’ ON BOTH SIDES   But. Various Activities Un. der Way Ordinarily Lead - to Batile of Some Size

Says Both Sides Suffer in Air, Surface Craft bul ‘Nothing Significant’   17 ATTACKING JAP PLANES DOWNED   Not an Enemy Torpedo Plane Es caped in First of Two Attacks on TLS. Vessels

OPA Nears Reduction in Meat Points   Moves Near Slice as Sunvltes Continue  To Show Gains

AT POINTS “10 BE LOWER “IN DECEMBER   NEW TABLE OF POINT VALUES TO REFLECT HEAVY LIVESTOCK SHIPMENTS ‘TO THE MARKETS

OPA PLANS CUT IN MEAT POINTS   More Food For Public And Trouble For Black Market Is Aim

OPA PLANS CUT IN MEAT POINTS   Heavy Marketing of Cattl: and Hogs Floods Packers

Reduction in Meat Point Values Forecast for Coming Month by OPA Chief Bowles

ST. JOHN - ROBERTSON ARE GIVEN GOOD APPOINTMENTS IN LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES

JAP TROOPS FORCE RETREAT IN BURN   British, Indian Units Withdraw; Supply Line Threatened.

Appropriation. Funds Slashed   Economy. Bloc Cuts Out FDR: Planning Board ~ Operatine Budget

HUGE MONEY BILL BEARS IMPRINT OF ECONOMY EACTION   House Turns Measure Over to the Senate After Liberal  Slashes Made ~

BLOC IN HOUSE SLASHES FUNDS FEDERAL UNITS   Appropriation For Board Headed by Roosevelt’s Uncle Removed From Monev Bill   OTHER AGENCIES CUT   Largest Slash Was For Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to Force Liqui dation of Agency

DRIVE TOWARD FOURTH CITY        “Four Powerful ‘Russian Spearheads Drive’on Kahrkov, Industrial Capital of Ukraine.

BATAISK IS CAPTURED BY RED FORCES   Victorious Soviet Army Is Pushing Germans Back In Caucasus Areas.

RED ARMY NEARING. -ROSTOV; PATHWAY ‘VIRTUALLY CLEAR   Russians Take Botaisk. And Capture - Military Trainload Of Vital War Supplies—Many Enemy. Troops Killed, Others Prisoners 

FOUR RUSSIAN DRIVES GAIN ON KHARKOV   Another Red Army Getting Near To Rostov

Junior Senior High School Prom  Annual Social Event  Held Menday Night

ANTHRACITE OPERATORS OFFER FINAL’ PROPOSALS TO MINERS   Refuse Increase in Pay and Union Leaders Spurn Offer; Lewis Absent from Last Sessions

Four Perish In Floods in North Dakota   Three Brothers Drown When Wagon Upsets; Rivers Still Rising

Floods Claims Lives of Five In North Dakota   Three Brothers Are Victims; Railroad Trains Are Rerouted

WILL RETAKE PHILIPPINES      Hull Says President’s Pledge Will : Be Redeemed

TO KEEP PLEDGE TO PHILIPPINES   Secretary Hull Says Promise Of President Will Be Kept: Warns Japs.

PACKERS SCOFF AT SUBSTITUTES   ‘Victory Sausage’ May Help To Stretch Meat Supply

ENGINEER KILLED IN COLLISION OF 2 FREIGHT TRAINS   Fireman and Brakeman Injured In Accident At Hemmingway, S. C.; All Three Men From Hamlet, N. C.

Hitler's Newspaper Pleads for Loyalty On Home Front   Beobachter First Of Nazi Press to Admit War Errors

Crack In Morale Admitted: War Pians Miscarry   Plea Made As Russians Sweep On In Mighty Summer Offensive

Yugoslavs Hit Northern Italy   Partisans Wipe Out German Column, Tito Reports

6.0.P, COMMITTEE BACKS RUML IDEA   Dark Prospects Portending For Withholding Plan.

BIG FLYING FORTRESSES SMASH AT AXIS BASES ON EASTERN TUNISIAN COAST   Only Two Planes Fail To Return From Raids hich Flung Challenge Anew Into Teeth The Axis Fighting Forces

Tunisian Land Patrols Clash; Ports Bombec   French, Helped by Britons. Seize Heidous Position; Sfax Yards Aflame;  Gahes 1] ached a

GULF HURRICANE CLAIMS 6 LIVEt   Texas Cities: Hard Hit By Tropical Disturbance; Damage Is Heavy

STORM MOVES INLAND AFTER SPENDING SELF   Power And Communication  Lines Leveled

Heavy Bombers Grounded Again   Light Forces Hit  Communication Lines

British And U. S. Military Chiefs Meet With General Fisenhower To Mab Plans

I-(AY PARLEY HINTS PLAN TO ATTACK HITLER   Best British and. American Military Brains Map New ° Offensive.   ROOSEVELT CONFIDENT, PRAISES U. S. SOLDIERS

BRITISH-AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF WAR LEADERS IN AFRICA   FOLLOW-UP MEETING OF MILITARY BRAINS AFTER CASABLANCA SESSION

Africa Seen As Most Vital Spot   United Nations Need It As A Springboard Into Europe   BEST MILITARY BRAINS PRESENT

MILITARY IN WAR COUNCIL   Two-day Parley Forshadows Use Of North Africa As Europe Springboard

Unified Command Far Drive To Rid Africa Of Huns Presageds Roosevelt’s Message To Americans Fighting In Tunisia

PRESAGES DAY OF INVASION FROM AFRICA   Conference, Attended by. Best Military Brains in Britain and America, Follows Casablanca Parley.

“Discuss DLA   Best Military Chiefs of Britain, America Hold Conference.

U. S., British War Staffs In  Long Meeting   Gen. Marshall. Admiral King. Gen. Arnold, Others Confer With Eisenhower.   FIX UNION OF FORCES

CONFERENCE OF MILITARY CHIEFS IN NORTH AFRICA   Meeting Was Held in the Headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Eisenhower.   WELL REPRESENTED   Arrived There Following the Conference Held at Casablanca.

Allied Commanders Hold Two Day Conference Following Roosevell. Churchill Meetings

F.D.R. Tells U. S. Fighters Victory Sure   President Commends Officers and Men of Armed U. S. Forces In North Africa

ALLIED CHIEFS IN CONFERENCE FOR 48 HOURS   MEET IMMEDIATELY AFTER BIG PARLEY AT CASABLANCA

Leaders, Fresh From Casablanca, Chart Operations   Best Military Brains of U. S., Britain Hold 48-Hour Talks With Gen, Eisenhower

WAR COUNCIL FORESHADOWS AN INVASION   Military Chieftains Confer With Eisenhower After Seeing Roosevelt,   Union of All Forces Under One Command

High Allied Officers in Conference   Best Military Brains Of U. S. and Britain Meet; Europe Next Goal

North Afriea Springboard For Drive?   Eisenhower Heads Up Significant War Parley

NORTH AFRICA I$ POSSIBLE POINT TO ENTER EUROPE   Military Braint of Two Countries Foreshadow Day at 48-Hour Conference in Discussing Plans.   HURRIED MEETING ARRANGED: 7 ATTENDEL   Gen. Eisenhower ts Central Figure: Union of Forces of Mediterranean May Be Considered.

WAR COUNCIL HOLDS 2-DAY CONFERENCE   Top Allied Leaders in Discussion With Eisenhower

NORTH AFRICA REMAINS SCENE WAR PARLEYS   ‘Sharply Foreshadow Day  When French Area Will  Become Springboard   For United Nations   UNION.ALL FORCES SEEN IN PROGRAM   Axis Targets At Bizerte Bombed; Rain Delays Tunisia Drive; Lull Aiding Rommel

Allied Conference At Eisenhower’s Headquarters Map: Military Strategy

Mediterranean Drive Against Axis Considered Victory Bid; Meeting Lasts 2 Days, Nights   Military Chiefs OF U.S. And Britain  In Discussions With General Eisenhower; Topflight Military Men In Attendance

Council Held For 48 Hours   Leaders Speed Eastward From Policy-Making Casablanca Meeting; Allies Believed Considering Mediterranean Offensive Against Axis As One of Best Bids For Victory.

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LOSES JOB FOR HEIL” INCOURT   Man Was “Angered” by Traffic Charges

OPA Given Onus For  GasHoldur      Failure Brought on 15 Cents a Gallon at Black Mart

OPA Responsible For Gas Black Market Holdup, Oil Producer Declares

Widespread Search Under Way For Man Missing Since Sunday Morning

MARINES “AHEAD OF SCHEDULE” ON BOUGAINVVILLE   Admiral Halsey Praises Americans for F:ght in Toughest Battle in World

MARINES AHEAD OF TIME TABLES   Bougainville Battle Is Going Along Better Than Scheduled.

Lone Grove Man Wins War Medal  T/Sgt. A. W. Roberts Decorated for Work

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Russia Is Europe’s — ‘Chief Menace, Say Goering, Goebbels   Hitler Does Not Speak; His Proclamation Repeats Tirades Against Jews, Calls Versailles Treaty Historic Fraud .

BRITISH BOMBS INTERRUPT NAZI 10TH YEAR FETE   Goebbels and Goebring Do _ The Speaking While  Hitler Stays Away

RAIDS DELAY ADDRESS BY GOEBBELS   Mosquito Planes Make Daylight Raid on Berlin

Mosquito Planes Raid Berlin Twice   Hitler Fails To Put In Appearance At Big Celebration: First Day Raid On Nazi City

Freak Storm Brings New Flooc Threat on Osage   Torrential Rains Fall Above and Below Bagnell Dam

FREAK STORM HITS MISSOURI AREA   DOWNPOURS BRING WARNING OF FLOOD ABOVE AND BELOW BAGNELL DAM.

Nation Not Told Truth, Say Writers   15 Resigned Members of OWI Sign Statement; Denied by Davis

15 MEMBERS OF OWI STAFF RESIGN   Convinced They Will Not Be Allowed to Tell The Full Truth of War

15 OWI Members Protest Policy  Resign Staff Charging Pressure Promotion

PEOPLE NOT TOLD THE FULL TRUTH   Fifteen Members O.W.I. _ Staff Decide To Get Out

Claiming Impossible To Tell “Full Truth” Of War To U. S., 15 Members Of OW! Quit Posts

15 Quit As Members Of Davis’ OWI Staff   Resigning Employes Declare They Quit Posts “Be. cause Of Our Conviction That It Ts Impossible For Us Te Tell The Full Truth?

OW! Accused Of Telling Half-Truths  15 Members Resign i. Dandnrse&   15 Members Resign In Protest To “Sugar Coating”

OWI Writers Disgruntled   Fifteen Resigned Staff Members Declare It Is Impossible To Tell Full Truth

QUIT OWI STAFF BECAUSE THEY CAN'T TELL TRUTE   FIFTEEN MEMBERS FROM OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION

PROTEST T0 OW! POLICY   15. Who Quit - Department Say They Can't Tell ‘the Full Truth’   IMMEDIATE. DENIAL BY THE DIRECTOR   He Says Feud Is Due to Clash of Personalities, Which They Deny

15 RESIGNEES CRITICISE OWI   Assert Only One Issue Prompted Quitting, ‘Honest Presentation o! War Information’

Charge Full Truth Is Not Given Public   Fifteen Employes Of OW! Quit and  Issue Statement

IMPOSSIBLE TO -— TELL FULL TRUTH, STATEMENT SAYS   Fifteen Recently Resigned  Members of OWI Issued  Statement Today.   DENIED BY ELMER DAVIS   Only One Issue—Honest Presentation of War Information, They Said.

_ Repatnated Reporter Tells Story   Starvation Part Of Nip Tactics   ‘By BERNARD COVTTT

Pantelleria Is Subjected to Heavy Shelling   Italy's Gibraltar Hammered 45 Minutes But Garrison Is Not Ready to Surrender

Pantelleria Was Shelled for 45 Minutes Yesterday   Axis Says Island Rejected Ultimatum For Its Surrender

Flying Forts ‘Hit Island In Non-Stop Raid   Allied Warplanes Step Up Assault On Sardinia, Sicily, Greece.   ‘ULTIMATUM REJECTED

Cruisers And Destroyers Hammer “Italian Gibraltar” For 45 Minutes In One Of War’s Longest Naval Barrages—Enemy Reports Garrison Has Rejected Allied Ultimatum To Surrender—‘“‘Coast Reconnaissance’”’ Of Lampedusa Disclosed

REDS LAUNGH LARGE SCALE OFFENSIVE   German Military Commentator Makes Announcement, But Moscow Is Silent As Yo Operations There   In Kuban Valley

Russians Launch Major Attack,  Germans Report   - Offensive Directed At Kuban Bridgehead;  Soviets Remain Silent

BIG SCALE ATTACK ~ BY RUSS REPORTED   Assault on Bridgehead in Caucasus Under Way, Berlin Saves

NAZIS REPORT BIG RED DRIVE   Say Large-Scale Attack is Launched on Germans’ - Kuban Bridgehead

Germans Repor! Start of Great Red Offensive   Declare Russian Large. Scale Drive in Caucasus Is Under Way

rmament City it In Heavy llied Raid   Frankfurt, Cologne Hit; 44 Allied Bombers Lost

Fifteen Hundred Long  Tons of Bombs Dropped on Armament Metropolis: 44 Bombers Lost

Kassel Attack Called Effective  RAF Drops 1.500 Long Tons Of Bombs

RAF Again Strikes Vital Enemy Armament City   British Brave Clouds and Nazi Planes, Give Kassel One of Heaviest Raids Yet; Attack Costs 44 Planes But Result Is Good

Kassel Target Of Big Raid Madeby RAF.   Frankfurt, Cologne Suffer Lesser Blows From British a

RAF Bombers Drive T hrough Fighter Screen, Murky Weather To Blast Kassel Arms Center

Kassel Raided By RAF Ships   Germain’ Industrial -City Of 200.000 Damaged; 44 Craft Lost

BRITISH BOMBERS BATTER KASSEL   Great Fleet of RAF Planes Drop 1,500 Tons Bombs On Armament City 44 Bombers Lost on Mission

BRITISH LOSE 44 PLANES IN KASSEL RAID   1,500 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Armament OCGitv

SENATORS START HEATED VERBAL BATTLE OVER GASOLINE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES

However, Texans Calm About It, Figuring On Extra Coupon Latitude

Argue Over Gas Rationing Plans   Easterners Want Equalized Program

PLANNED GASOLINE RATIONING CUT 18 STIRRING COMMENT _ EAST WANTS MORE AT EXPENSE OF OTHER  QECTINNC AL CATINTDY

Gas Stretching Prompts Solon Clashes  Midwest Peeved By Threats Of D.ntit.. W4.~.?...

Debate Amount  Of Gas Ration   Wherry Says Equal Rationing Impossible. Suggests Equitable Rationing.

Gas Ration Equalization  Patman, Gossett Tranquil  While Fellows Squabble

‘Mid-Western Congressmen ‘Violently Oppose Equal ‘Rationing Of Gas Supply

JOINT GROUP 10 STUDY TAXATION   State Assembly Asks Okay of Warren on Committee to  Work With Unit 

‘Germans Retaliate Weakly in Raiding London; British Defenses Strong

LABOR SURPLUS IN PANHANDLE   About 600 Harvest Hands Available For Other Areas, Reported

Japanese Forces Reported to be Hopelessly Trapped  REPORTS INDICATE _ HEAVY CASUALTIES  Warships and Bombers Supporting the As. soults

Attu Battle Enters Final Phase   Japanese Forces Are Reported Hopelessly Trapped

AMERICAN FORCES CLOSING oo IN ON JAPS ON ATTU ISLE   Rv JOHN M. HICHTOWER

JAPS CORNERED IN FINAL STAGE OF ATTU BATTLE   Heavy American Casualties Expected After Stiff Jap Opposition

NEW AIRFIELD ON ISLAND 1 IN U.S. HANDS   ENEMY IS POUNDED FROM LAND, SEA AND SKY

Warships and Bombers Support Drive By Yank Troops; Early Conclusion Of Struggle is Predicted

U.S. Clamps Pincers On Attu Foe   Ships, Bombers Help Fighters; Japs Are in Firm Trap

Japs Hopelessly Trapped: Expect Early Conclusion   Enemy Offering Stiff Opposition; Yanks Take Base

AMERICANS BLAST TRAPPED ENEMY   Warships and Bombers Support Yank Attacks   EARLY END SEEN   Jap Airfield on Attu Now in American Hands, Casualties Expected Mount

Nips Face Death On Bleak Isle   Main Airfield Is Captured Bv Yanks. ;

Battle Of Attu Sweeping Into Closing Phase   Japs Hopelessly Trapped On Shore Of Bleak Island

Attu island battle into final phase   Japs trapped at Chichagof harbor

Warships and Planes Support Operations Against Japanese  U. S. CASUALTIES MAY BE HEAVIER  American Forces Led By Maj.-Gen. Landrum Veteran of Aleutians

JAPS ARE TRAPPED ON HARBOR SHORE IN ATTI RATTIE   Enemy ‘Pounded by Planes ‘and Warships, as’ Well as  Infantry—Fight Is Hopeless.   HEAVY AMERICAN - LOSSES PROBABLE   Cornered Nipponese. Resist Fiercely — Airfield The y. Were Building in Hands of Yanks.

Battle Of Attu Sweeping Into Closing Phase   Japs Hopelessly Trapped On Shore AL Blew tet

Japs Appear Hopelessly Entrapped   Enemy Is Driven Back To Final Stand On Shore.

AVIATOR WHO LOST LEGS TO FLY AGAIN   Col. Graham West, by Use of Artificial Limbs, to Get Wish to Return to Skies.

Legless Man To Fly Again:   Lieut. Col. West, Who Lost Both Legs in Blast, Gets His Great Wish

NEED USED CLOTHING   Sales at Social Service Store Indicate Demand

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Soldiers Storm     Strait at Dawn   Attacking Force Made Up of British and Canadians of Famed Eighth Army — Naval Units Escort Landing Barges With Planes Driving Off Enemy Overhead — U.S. Seventh Army Believed Held in Reserve.

Strong Pressure Applied to Japs  U.S. Ground Forces Continue Advance:

New Blows This Morning Make 96 Hours of Continuous Raids,   Hit TARGETTS ALONG THE FRENCH COAST   The Battle for Italy Also Hitting New Pitch in Intensity.

RAF Makes Shattering Blows On French Coast Where Nazis Are Believed To Have SecretWeanon Rocket Guna.

14 Killed In Plane Crash   ‘Army Transport Down. At Oklahoma City

GANDHI BEGINS 21-DAY FAST   Leader Of Hindus Protests British Refusal To Grant india Freedom

GERMANS GET INSTRUCTIONS ON COMBATTING POISON GAS   Educational Campaign Underway and Thousands of Masks Are Issued to Public

NAZIS TRAINING — IN GAS DEFENSE   EDUCATION PROGRAM UNDER WAY — MANUFACTURE OF. MASKS SPEEDED UP.

GERMANS PREPARING FOR GAS ATTACKS   Defense Practices Have Been Un derway For Six Weeks  Throurhout Reich

GERMANS BEGIN GAS TRAINING   Protective Courses Are Given In Preparation For Expected Attacks

Allies Bomb Junction Points For Axis Armies   Number Of Areas Attacked; Big Planes Strike At Outer Tunis Section

Official Photographs Of Rome Raid Show Deadly Accuracy OF U. S. Pilots - Doolittle Complimented

Allies Report Indications of Italian Mutiny In Sicily.   DOOLITTLE PLANNED BOMBING OF ROME  500 American Planes Took Part in the Raid; 5 Planes Lost.

SPAATZ, TEDDER CONGRATULATE FLIER, PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW CULTURAL CENTERS INTACT

Red Armies Race To Capture Orel   3,000 More Axis Troops Wiped Out In South; Report 341 German Divisions Shifted From Western Kurope

3,000 More Germans Are Wiped Out Near Kharkov   AXIS RUSHING MORE MEN TO EAST FRONT

Russians Push Three-Pronged Attack On Orel   3000 Axis Troops Captured; Desperate ° Counter-Assault Fails

$T0 - DESPITE. NEW WALI TROOPS   Garrison Annihilated as Soviets Pierce Enemy Lines, Strike From Rear and Flanks

REDS SMASH AXIS COUNTER - ATTACKS IN3-PRONGED DRIVE      Advance: Closer Ts “Dnieper Along 45. -Mile Front’ To "West. Of * Khavksy

Biggest U.S. Bomber Force Hits Germany   500 or More Flying Fortresses Attack Wilhelmshaven and Other Targets; RAF Said to Have Made Big Raid on Cologne

Operations On Sangro Intensified   Germans Report British Are Using “Very Great Forces” In Drive On Italian Front 4

Yankees Slash Through Mine Fields, Masses Of Barbed Wire   Liberators Bomb Fiume  For First Time j of War   British Attacking in ‘ent Farce’ —J NR

NAZI RESISTANCE IN WHITE RUSSIA IS STIFFENET   German Forces Struggling to Restore Their Shatterd Dnieper Line.   Their Second Major Success in Ukraine Since They Began Counterattack.

Hitler Obviously Works Against Time In Italy   Annihilation Or Unconditional Surrender Alternative Underscored By Blasting Bombs

nAuler wiriving Lieaperately For Lim —By Hamilton W. Far  Nazis Rush Towxelon Defenses Of Fatherland 

AIR POLICE FORCE FOLLOWING WAR {S BACKED BY HODVER   Former President Makes Suggestion to Assure Permanent Peace in  World.

HOOVER SUGGESTS AIR POLICE FORCE FOR POST-WAR ERA   Also Would Strip Enemy Of Airplane Plants—.   Urges Freedom   Of Air

‘cover Urges Air ‘ostwar Police   Former President Tells Plan of World Commerce

Herbert Hoover Suggests international Air Police Force After the War to Maintain Order, Prevent Aggression

It's Time to Determine Whether You Must File Tax ‘Declaration in December

INCOME TAX TIME   Taxpayers Warned To Determine Status As Dec. 15 Date Nears

Gain in Maknassy Area: Battle of Mareth Line Dwindles to Shelling   Nazi Tank Thrusts Are Turned Back in Gafsa Section —- Montgomery’s Gains In Mareth Line Largely Wiped Out — Yanks Win Control of Mountain Chain

Rommel Stabs Wipe Out Early Allied Gains   Germans Punished From Air By Constant Attacks

BATTLES RAGING FOR CONTROL OF TUNISIAN AREAS   Air Attacks Are Successful, U. S. Officers Report

Halt Gatsa Attacks, Gain at Maknassy   Battle of Mareth Line Dwindles to Artillery Duelling after German Counterattacks Largely Wipe Out British Gains.

Allied Fliers Smash Axis Panzer Drive   U. S. Forces Repel Sav-~ age Assaults Near Gafsa  and El Guetar   ENEWY PORT FIRED   Battle for Mareth Line Mainly Big Gun Duel After Bitter Battle

German Attack Is  Checked by Yanks   ' American Soldiers Make ; Gains on Central Tunisian Front   AXIS TROOPS BOMBED

Stiff Armored Nazi Thrusts Are Beaten Off  Bitter Fighting On Mareth Line

Apparently No Decision in the Heavy  Fighting; United States Troops Make Good Showing in Their Battle  Area; German Air Force Gives Scot land Its First Raid Since 1941; “No ‘Reason for Gloom” Says Londons ‘Red Armies Gain in Triple Drive. -

U. S. Forces, Pressing Toware Coast, Biggest Threat to Besieged Enemv Armv

‘German Attack Is  Checked by Yanks   ‘American Soldiers Make a Gains on Central Tu1 nisian Front   AXIS TROOPS BOMBED   ‘Flying Fortresses Launch a Heavy Raid on Nazi iH Supply Port

BIG GUNS PUT ON QUELAFTER 4-DAY BATTLE   Nazi Counterattacks Prevent Any Further Gains by Eighth Army.   SOME LOCAL GAINS MADE BY AMERICAN TROOPS

Mareth Line Fight Falls Off ToDuels   Allied Airmen Pounding Enemy Opposition To Patton, Montgomery; Hit Tank Forces

MARETH LINE BATTLE BECOMES ARTILLERY DUEL   Allied Aerial Supremacy 's Maintained On All Fronts

Rommel Able To Cheek New Allied Gains   Fighting At Mareth Line Limited To Artillery Duels

UNITED STATES TROOPS REPULSED GERMAN ATTACKS   Made Local Gains in the Maknassy Area, Central Tunisia.   STRONG RESISTANCE   Vigorous Attacks. by Marshal Rommel’s Forces Prevent Further Gains.

UJ. §. TROOPS REPULSE HEAVY NAZI ARMOREL ATTACKS GAFSA AREA  BATTLE FOR MARETH LINE DWINDLES INTO ARTILLERY DUELLING

Mareth Battle Dwindles to. Artillery Duel   Further Gains By Allies Halted By German Attacks

. S. Positions nshaken After azi Onslaughts   Attacks By German Marshal's Troops Wins Back Lost Ground

Make Some Gain in Maknassy Fight as British Fall Back   Rommel’s Strong Counter-Attacks Wipe Out Montgomery‘s Gains—

NAZIS ATTACK IN GAFSA AREA   Strong Resistance, Counterattacks Prevent Major Allied Gains.   {WIPE OUT BRITISH GAIN

Se I a cee ME ene  MILK PRODUCTION CONTINUES T0 BE ON THE DECLINE

MAY LIMIT USE OF MILK   Plans for Reducing Consumption Are Being Speeded Up

Limit On Milk. Use-Is Slated   WF Finds Production 1: Discouraging;. Quotas To Be Assigned

To Curb Milk  Consumption   WFA Speeds Plans To Limit Amount For Civilian Use.

Civilian Use Of Milk To Be  Limited Soon   Consuniption In Metropolitan Areas To Be Affected

American Women To Sail With Ships   Maritime Union Offers Program

The War Today— Three Thrones Rocking In Balkans As War’s Impact Unsettles Politics

Thé War Today   Fiery Balkan Lands May Play Big Part in Smashing Reich

BALKANS, BOTH POLITICALLY AND MILITARILY, DECLARED BE IWORTH WATCHING CLOSELY NOW

owan Named In Report of Financial Pool Formed To Ease Aircraft Firms’ Tax

Says Comfort Paid Fee of 30 Thousand   Report Paid for Effort to Write Clause Into 1942 Revenue Act

Claim High Iowa Democra Got $30,000 In “Pool” To Benefit Aircraft Firms

Iowan Named In Report of —  Financial Pool Formed To ‘S$  Fase Aircraft Firms’ Tax 5

Japanese On Guadalcanal in Serious: Plight   Reinforcements And Supplies. Are Halted

U.S. Torpedo, Boats Nip Jap Attempt to Aid Solomons Force   ‘Australian Troops Wipe Out Big Jap Base in New Guinea

JAP SUPPLY UNE IS BEING CUT OFF   Jungle-Trained Aussies Put On Daring Commando Type Raid On Jap Base.

REPULSE JAP ATTEMPT TO REINFORCE   Isolated Enemy Force in Plight On Guadalcanal

JAPS AGAIN FAIL TO RELIEVE FORCE   Guadalcanal Troops’ Of Enemy’ Are Now Hard-Pressed

Japs Frantic in Try for Supplies   Hemmed Nip Force on Guadaleanal Numbers 20,000

House Pay-Go  Passage Seen  nnn FF 4... 2... 8th   GOP Leader Says Plan Has Strons Backing

‘Republican leader Martin claims ‘good  chance’ to pass pay-as-you-go tax plan

GOP WILL FORCE PAY-AS-60 VOTE   House May Override Committee To Support Rumi Plan Proposal

Nazis Tighten RuleonFreneh   Set Deadline for Surrender of Allied Arms

NEW MEASURES AGAINS! INVASION APPLIED IN FRANCE   ' Ultimatum Issued To Frenchmen To Hand  ver Cine ta Avi

FEMS TIGHTEN DOWN ON FRENCH   Invasion Scares  Send Nazis Envoking New Edits Concerning Weapons

SABOTEURS FRET HITLER COMMAND   PATRIOTS AWAITING LIBERATION CONCEAL GUNS, DAMAGE CROPS

NAZIS PREPARE FOR INVASION   Take New Security Measures In France; Seek Hungarian Aid

Germans Institute New Measures of Security Over People of France

French Must Turn In Guns, Nazis Warn   Tension Increases In Occupied Countries: Danish King Asks Halt In Sabotage

Nazis Threaten Frenchmen Unless Arms Surrendered   Death for Destruction of Crops Promised a: Wave of Sabotage Sweeps France

Ask French To Turn In Arms, ‘Warning Given   But Nazis Confess Thal Wave OF Sanueage Is Sweeping Country

New Ultimatum Orders French Arms Turned In   Nazis Threaten Death To All Who Keep Guns

Young Deferees To Face Draft    None Under 22 to Be Deferred For Occupational Reasons Under New. Plan

Some 4-Fs May Be Reexamined  ‘To Get Quotas   Lower Physical Standards Considered To Reduce. Takins Of Dads

d-F CLASSES MAY FURNISH NEW RECRUITS   Fewer Exemptions for Young Workers to Be Allowed

Move to Aid e Fathers May Be Too Late   Selective Service Orders Draft  ® Boards to Delay Their Induc tion as Long as Possible— 4-Fs May Go.

CALLING FATHERS ORDERED DELAYED   SELECTIVE SERVICE TELLS DRAFT BOARDS TO. SEEK YOUNG, SINGLE MEN, 

Draft To Seek More Single Men Before Fathers  Boards Instructed   Boards Instructed To Delay Calling Dads When Possible

BOARDS CALLING FATHERS   Selecive Service Sets Out on Quest for More Single Men, Perhaps 4-Fs; Deferments To Be Curtailed

New Order May Cut Dads’ Draft   All Possible Delay On Calls Provided

DraftEdict May \Curb Deferring ‘Of All Under 22   Selective Service Hunts 4-F’s Also to Avoid  BDathna« gg’

Orders Delay in Drafting Fathers  More Young, Single Men to Be Sought

MAY LET BARS DOWN TO TAKE IN SOME 4-45   Sean Plan to Cut Deferment of Registrants Under 22 Years of Age.

New Order May. Cut Dads’ Draft   All Possible Delay On Calls Deeeyteied.

Won't Defer   Headquarters Would Try Out Such Plan tn Place of Dads

17 Jap Planes Are Shot Down   Greatest Yank Aerial Triumph Only Six Americans Lost

YanksWin Greatest Triumph   ‘Solomons Fight _ Nets 77 Nip  Planes

Greatest Yank Aerial Triumph  Of War Recorded   Destruction Of 32 Bombers And 45 Zeros Thwart: Attempts To Knockout Henderson Field With Loss Of Only Six American Planes.

10 Missing In Oregon Flood   Danger Of Epidemics As Water Contaminated! Evacuees Back In Homes.

Willamette River Flood Slowly Ebbs   Rich Farmland ‘Under Water ~

10 Persons Dead or Missing in 9regon  Flood; Ohio Recedes   High Water in Willamette River in Northwest ls Worst in Years

Death Toll Ten as Willamette Recedes   Hundreds Homeless as Rampaging Rivet Still Over Banks in Half Its Length

FLOOD TOLL HIGH   Ten Persons Dead or Missing in ' Oregon High Water .

EBBING TODA   Ten Persons Dead Or Missing in West; Ohio Flood Is Receding.

HUNDREDS HOMELESS FROM OREGON FLOOD   Logs Washed Away Caught And Sold at Portland

THe RUNIL PLAN MAY WIN QUI   Informal House Polls Indi. cate Substitue Measure Will Lose.

DEBATE OVER ‘TAX PROGRAM 1S UNDERWAY   RUML PLAN PRAISED AND CONDEMNED AS HOUSE STARTS CONSIDERATION GF TAXATION

LAX ENFORCEMENT OF LIQUOR LAW HIT   Nlegal Sale to Minors in Michigan Chief Source Of Complaint.

Stimson Calls Capture of Orel A Major Victory   Bryansk and Other Ger man Points Now Threatened, He Declares

MAJOR DEFEAT GIVEN GERMANS   Stimson Says Reds May Launch Offensive; 20 Per Cent Lost In Oil Raid

JAPS MAY BE LEAVING ISLAND   Kolombangara May Be Evacuated By 10,000 Nippons

Believe Enemy Trying To Quit Solomons Base   ‘Report Heavy Movement In Vila Area; Allies Gain In New Guinea

Jap Forces May Quit Island Of Kolombangara  Last Post In og 7k ee

Japs May Leave Kolombangara .  Barge Traffic From Tele Continues

Japs May Be Evacuating Island   Heavy Barge Traffic Indicates Attempt From Kolombangara On

Danville Boy ls Among Dive Bombers In Raid On Japs Wha Are Evacuating Kolombangara   Lt. Brannon Takes Part In Devastating Attacks Driving Nips From Solomons

Congress Acts To Defer Draft O£U.S. Fathers   Bills Before Both Houses  Tnsure Prehe of  ahout ren  Armv Move

Congress Acts On Father Draft   Bill to Deter Parents Indetinitely Introduced in House os Military Chiefs Are Galled to Defend Demands

SENATE TURNS THUMBS DOWN ON FOOD SUBSIDY PAYMENTS   Votes to Place Control Over Food Prices In Hands of War Food Administrator

SOLONS VOTE TO FORBID SUBSIDIES   Ban Use of U. S. Funds to Force Price Reductions

Solons Decide 19-13 to Give Davis Control Over Prices, Distribution

NELSON WILL STAY ON JOB, AIDE STATES   Reports He Is Considering Resignation Held Un. . * founded -

NELSON SPIKES RUMOR HE MAY QUIT WPB JOB   Says He Doesn’t Mean To Resign Until ‘Better Man’ Appears   Step Suggested

DONALD NELSON NOT TO RESIGN   DECLARES HE WILL STAY ON JOB “UNTIL A BETTER MAN COMES ALONG.”

Nelson Plans To Stay on Job   Will Stick Until ‘Better Man Found’

Nelson Denies He Will Quit As WPB Chief   Says He Will Stay Until ‘Better Man Comes Along’

GILBERTS DRIVE POINTS AT TRUK   Knox Reveals Short Cui Route to Tokio Aim of New Campaign

3 DIVISIONS FIGHTING   ist And 34th Infantry Battling In Tunisian, Army Reports

First, 34th Infantry Battling Toda   First Armored Division Also in’ Tunisia. Warfront

lowa Guardsmen Fighting on North African Front With 34th Infantry Unit

PONTIFF CITES PACTS BROKEN, PEOPLE WEAR’   ‘Aversion to Total War’ Increasing, Head of Catholic Church Says In World Address

Pope Sees War Reaching Its Culmination   Soul Of People Revolting Against Viclence, He Says.

RENEWS TAX “BILL BATTLE   Fights Off Sales Levy Suggestions at Senate Hearing

Heavier Taxes In War Upheld By Morgenthau   Nation’s ‘“Skyrocketed’ Income Will Bear Leyv. He Save

MORGENTHAU RENEWS TAX " BILL BATTLE   Fights Off ‘Sales Levy Suggestions at Séenate Hearing

Morgenthau Renews Plea For Larger  Tax Measure   Treasury Secretary Opposes Suggestions That Money Be Raised Throuoh Sales Tax   SENATE COMMITTEE LEARNS HIS VIEWS

 Administration Renews Its Campaign for New Taxes but Fights Off ‘Suggestions for Federal Sales Tax: Morgenthau Gives Testimony

FIGHT OPENED FOR BOOST IN TAX MEASURE   Morgenthau Renews Drive But Fights Off Sales Tax Proposals   TREASURY PROGRAM HAS LITTLE CHANCE   Cabinet Officer Questioned by Committee Members

SLASHED TAX PLAN OPPOSED   Morgenthau Renews Plea For $10 Billion  Program

lorgenthau tutles for big Tax Bill   ry Secretary  to Caution ‘net Sales Levy 4 Senate Hearing

4-Engined Army Plane Crashes Nea Mason City Today   Second Accident Of Kind in lowa During Three Days

HAVE CHARGE OF SERVICES      Local Methodist Church Joins in Nation-Wide Plan

Methodist [Laymen To Act   Nation-wide ‘Observance of Laymen’s Day on Sunday, February 21.

QUICK CLIMAX SOUGHT BY ALLIES ON ISLAND   Effort Under Way to Rofl Back the Japs Toward Tokyo As Drive Opens to Pinch Off Mubo and Subject ‘Salamaua to’ Direct Attack—U. S$. Tanks  ' + Join Assault on Munda on Solomons.

ATTACK MUBO * BEFORE BLOW AT SALAMAU!   American Tanks Joining Assault On Munda In Solomons

Cliniax Near In Battle of New Guinea   Ground Forces, With Aid of Tanks, Drive Toward Mubo

WAR BORG TIAL BELOW AVERAGE   First 10 Days of the Drive Bring But $17,028 in Tipton County.

WAn BOND oALe LOW LAST WEEK   Sales But $14,00) Against Month’s Quo'a cf A proximately $8) 0:0.

Germans Claim  Landing Blocked   RAF Smashes Hannover, Big Nazi City; Yank Flyers Bomb Nantes

Claim Landing In Jugoslavia Tried   German Report Of Tank Invasion On Coast Not Confirmed

 Landing Effort Tn Balkan Area  Is Unconfirmed   Nazi Radio Reports ~Attempt; Russians Make Big Advances

PUNISHING BLOWS ARE  STRUCK AGAINST AXIS   Hitler's Battered Fortress Staggers Under Aerial Onslaught Directed by Allies — Battle of Europe Blazes Up on Half a Dozen Fronts—Haymakers Are Swung at Germany and Occupied Torritary bTnadav.

Speedy End Of Lebanese  Crisis Sough   Anglo ~ American - Arab Pressure on French Is Increased

PALESTINE FRONTIER iS CLOSED   Will Remain So Until Lebanese Crisis Closes

FRONTIER IS CLOSED AS PRESSURE IS INCREASED FOR TRUCE IN LEBANON

Shut Border Of Lebanon                  England,.U. S. Press France for Accord: =

PALESTINE, LEBANESE FRONTIER  IS CLOSED INDEFINITELY   French Urged to Make Settlement

CLOSE PALESTINELEBANESE BORDER AS TENSION RISES   Pressure Increased On French For Speedy Settlement

PUT PRESSURE ON FRENCH TO SETTLE LEBANON GRISIS   Gen. -Catroux Expected  Beirut Today to Begin Wark,

Close Border Of Lebanon As  Crisis Grows   Gen. Catroux Arrives In Beirut With Full Power To Effect A Settlement As Soon As Possible

Lebanon Frontier  Closed   ALLIES SWELL PRESSURE ON FRENCH FOR SWIFT SETTLEMENT OF CRISIS

BORDER CLOSED IN LEBANESE CRISIS   Britain, America Press for Cattlamant

FDR Says 3,500,000 Farmers Will Be Deferred frem Military Service This Year; Others Will Be Furicughed   Indications Are That Laguardia Will Serve in Army

White House Secretary Early Says New York Mayor Will Be in Uni farm Sanon.

La Guardia to Enter Army   Stephen Early Reveals New York Mayor Headed for Service

LAGUARDIA MAY SERVE IN ARMY   Nothing , Definite Decided, Stephen Early Reports

LAGUARDIA TO GET ARMY POST   White House Indicates New York Mayor to Get Service Job,

MAYOR LAGUARDIA 15 SCHEDULED FOR SERVICE IN ARMY   WHITE. HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY FAILS MAKE KNOWN KIND OF SERVICE

La Guardia To Take Post As Army Office:   New York Mayor Wil  Enter Some Brancl Of Service, Admit Stephen Early

LA GUARDIA MAY JOIN ARMY Indications Polat To Duty In ‘That Breasckh. Save Fariy

LAGUARDIA TO BE IN SERVICE   Location 1 Not “Yet De cided; War Department Silent

New York’s Mayor Will Enter Army   Little Flower Slated for War Department Icb

Fortresses Batter Emden, Wilhelmshaven  Shipyards, Nava. ~ Shops Bombed In  Davlioht Raid

U.5. Fortresses Batter Emden, Wilhelmshaven   Daylight Attacks Follow R. A. F.'s Night Berlin Raid

LIFE OF DIES GROUP EXTENDED 2 YEARS   House Votes 302 to 94 to Continue Committee on Un-Amerjean Activities.

Allied Bombs Blasting From — Three Directions   Enemy Forces.  * Under’ Attack of Air Armada - °

JUGOSLAVS LOCKED IN BIG-SCALE FIGHT WITH NAZI- TROOPS   Swiss Radio Says Allied Naval Units Land Supplies In * Dalmatia

COMFORT HAS NO COMMENT TO REQUEST   Suggested that he resign as Democratic national committeeman

WOMEN WILL HELP ~ WITH BOND DRIVE   Zone Leaders ‘and Captains. Will Hold Meetings Next Week

WOMEN WILL HELP WITH BOND DRIVE   Zone Leaders and Captains Will Hold Meetings Next Week  ROOTH SAIF IS COON

BOMBERS POUND NAZILAND DOCKS   Factories In France and Holland Are Targets; English Town Hit

BOMBERS HIT COASTAL AREAS   Loads Dropped On Docks And Factories During Daylight Attack

British Bomb French Coast   Raiders Center Fury On Docks, Shipping

France, Holland Attacked By RAF  Bombers All Return, 6 Fighters Are Listed As Missing

British Continue Bombing of »  German Industry  Night and Day Raids On Reich, France, Holland

FRENCH FACTORIES BOMBED BY RAF   GERMAN RAIDERS MACHINEGUN ENGLISH TOWN—NUMBER FEARED DEAD.

Football Schedule   Anti-Freeze Available For Mountain Motorists

Davis Urges Farmers to Check Prices   Former Food Administra. tor Calls Use of Sub  gidies Unnecessary

Davis Advises Farmers Peg Food Prices   Former War Food Administrator Says General Level of Farm Prices Has Been High

JAPS OE T BACK ON NEW GUINEA   Brisk Patrol Fighting Drives Enemy Back Toward  Village Of Mubo

Giant Fleets Of RAF. Bombers In New Berlin Raids   Seventh All Out Attack In Five Weeks Is Given Nazi Capital   NAZI DEFENDERS TAKEN OFF GUARD

AGED RESIDENT OF AKRON DIES   Winfield Scott Passed Away in S. C. Hospital At 91 Years

They'll Do It Every Time --   of Cheers When Yanks Arrive In Sicilian Towns

Loudly Praises District Attorney, Attorneys, Court Attaches, County Department Heads fer Cooperation

Solons Get Set for Quick Farm Action   CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY POSTPONES DEBATE ON BIENNIAL BUDGET BILL AS PROBLEM OF FOOD PRODUCTION TAKES SPOTLIGHT

Gen. Marshall May Keep Post   Eisenhower Or Britisher May Direct Invasion Foree In Europe

RAISES IN SALARY PROVIDED IN BILL   Court Clerks and Registers of Wills Would Get  Roots

Alexander Seen As Commander Of Next Assault   Tripoli Falls to ‘Last Man Off Beach at Dunkerque’

Alexander Hailed Next Allied Chief   Triumphs in Egypt. Libya Portend Leadership In Bigeer Drive

Sir. Harc'] Alexander, Lifted to Forefront of Popular Acclaim by Fall of Tripoli   HELD ONE OF MOST NOTED STRATEGISTS   Appointment to Supreme Command Middle East Given Cool Consideration by British Press

Supply And DemandLaw Is Repealed   lakes Wartime Beating, Trying To Balance Hog Market

GERMANS TOUCH, GENERAL AVERS   Montgomery Soys Foe Must Not Be Underestimated in Italy

HARD FIGHT AHEAD, MONTGOMERY SAYS   BRITISH GENERAL WARNS THAT GERMANS MUST NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED,

Western Europe Raids Continue  U. S. And British Planes Attack France, Germany

RUSSIANS CUT LAST CRIMEAN ESCAPE ROUTE   By-Pass Perekop, Speed ic Coast and Trap 90,00 Nazis; Defeat One of Ger manvy’s Worst...

REDS OVERRUNNING GERMAN AT WILL IN EVERY DIRECTION; OCCUPY TWO-THIRDS OF ~* NOGAISK STEPPES

SOVIET FORCES AIM FOR COAST OF BLACK SEA   Armored Spearheads Cut Deeper Into Heart of Fleeing Germans

Red Army Gains Control OF Two-Thirds Of Nogaisk Steppes ‘Area  CRIMEA SEALED OFF. Soviet ~ Armored Units  - Cut Deeper Into. Germans

FLEET READY IN ‘BLACK SEA FOR NAZI ESCAPE TRY   Russians Gain Ground Steadily; Nearing Mouth Of Dnieper

RUSSIANS DEFEAT NAZIS AT WILL IN NOGAISK STEPPES   Nogaisk Battle May Possibly End With Greatest Disas trous Defeat In History oi Germans.   1059 PLANES LOST BY JAPS DURING OCTOBEF   New Assault on Rabaul Witt 115 Tons of Explosive. Results In Loss of Up te 63 Crafts.

NAZI TROOPS.  BEING OVERRUN              le of Nogaisk: Steppes Appear lated to Go Down in History ‘as of Most Disastrous ‘Defeats Ever Suffered by German Army.

TRAP CLOSED ON CRIMEA BY RUSSIANS   Soviets Reach Biack Sea; 90,000 Nazis Entrapped

30,000 CAUGHT BY FAST DRIVE TOWARD COAST   ‘Disastrous Defeat iz Nogaisk Steppes Sets Record

CRIMEAN TRAP BEING CLOSED ON NAZI ARMY   Defeat On Nogaisk Steppes May Be Most Disastrous In German History

Some 90,000 Germans Trapped as Rampaging Reds Over-run Enemy at Will.

Present Conference Held Amid Growing Proof Of Allied Superiority

‘Cooling Off Period Asked on Subsidies   Ellender Asks Yote Be Delayed Until After Holidays

Food Subsidy Facing Delay   Senator Proposes Holiday To Get Publie’s View On Question

URGES DELAY IN ‘SUBSIDY BATTLE   ‘Cooling Off’ Period Until After Holidays Fayored By Ellender

FAVORS SUBSIDY BATTLE HOLIDAY   Ellender Proposes “Cooling Off” Period On Subsidy Fight Until After Christmas Season.

Short Delay In Subsidy Battle Appears Likely   Brief Cooling Off Period To End Immediately After Holidays Proposed

Price Controls To Be Enforced  4-Point Program Is Outlined By Brown

~ BACK PRICES   Will Extend Controls Te Every Important ) Commedity

EXCESSIVE. PRICES TO BE ROLLED BACK, BROWN PROMISES      Price Control To Be Extended To Every Important Commodity, He Says   UMW DEMANDS OPPOSED

FIGHT MAY END IN SKIP AROUND THE MAY POLE   Jeffers-Patterson May Tour Rubber Plants

British Now 100 Miles From Tripolt   Driving Rommel’s Army Nearer Scarred Base

British éth Army Pursuing Romme Nears Tripoli.”  100 Miles From Port Believe Nazi Marshal, May Fight in Tunisia

BRITISH DRIVE ON TRIPOLI IS PROGRESSING   Rommel Continues to Fall Back; No Ac tion in Tunisia

Tripoli Is No Longer Strong Base for Axis   British Within 100 Miles of North African City

MAJOR ENEMY BASE SCARRED BY BOMBINGS   ALLIED AIR FORCE POUNDS FLEEING AXIS ARMY

EIGHTH ARMY NOW 100 MILES FROM TRIPOLI   Enemy Continues Flight Westward; Fighting In Tunisia In Lull On Ground   Supply Ports Bombed

ies Are Less an 100 Miles  om Italian Port   Pockets of Strong Resistance Guard Axis Army’s Rear  ieas=a=a ~— meijrtioerwetrfre 4 - © ©

Army Chasing Rommel Less Than 100 Miles From Port of Tripoli  RAINS HOLDING UP TUNISIAN ACTIVITIES  But New Successes _ Scored Against Axis In Mediterranean

BRITISH TROOPS GAIN IN SWEEP TOWARD TRIPOL!   Drive Takes Montgomery's Forces to Within Less Than 100 Miles of the City.   RETREATING ENEMY POUNDED FRCM AIR   Air Fields Fall Into Hands of English as They Move Toward Junction With Ejisenhower’s Army.

POWDER BLAST, FIRE KILLS 1!   100 Others Are Injured; Cause Probed

15 DIE IN WAR PLANT EXPLOSION   25 Hospitalized Wher Explosives Plant Is Demolished

DESTROY SIX JAP BOATS   Wreck Or Damage Five Other Nip Vessels In Burma

U.S, AIRMEN WRECK TRAIN CARS IN CHINA   Fliers Set New Mark, Destroy 115 Railway Cars

Allies Take Teano in Flank Move   Red Guns Comman Last Escape Lane Allies Battle’ Japs on Choiseu!

CAPTURE TEANO IN DEVELOPING ACTION TO OUTFLANK MASSICO RIDGE. NAZI WESTERN ANCHOR   "Russian Artillery Commands Last Escape Railroad For German Troops in Crimea. British Eighth Army Seizes Italian Town of Cantalupo

F ate Of Germans Sealed On Crimea As Allies ‘Drive Ahead In Italy

New Setback Handed Nazis On Two Fronts   Russians Tighten Noose Around Crimean Peninsula As Allied Forces Move Ahead In Italy

Reds Capture Last Rail Line From Crimea   Allied Forces m Italy Gain Ground Against Stubborn Nazi Resistance; 45 Jap Planes Destroyed by Men of MacArthur in the Pacific

Eighth Arnis Captures 3 More Towns   Réds Tighten n Noose at Troat of Criméa, 8 Miles  frow Last Escape Path

Allied Forees Capture Teane  In Ridge Drive   Red Artillery Commands Last Escape Railroad For Nazis In Crimea,   OPPOSITION STUBBORN

Crimean Railway  Captured By Reds   Jap Hold On Choiseul Is Tottering

IMPORTANT ITALIAN TOWNS CAPTURED BY. FIFTH-EIGHTH ARMIES   RUSSIAN ARTILLERY COMMAND LAST GERMAN ESCAPE CORRIDOR

United Fight for  - Control of Choiseul ‘and Treasury Isles; Jap Plane Losses in October 820

Campaign in Italy Aimed at Key Positions to Outflank German Bastions; Allied Air Forces Sweep Over Airfields Blasting Planes and Supply Areas   45 JAPANESE PLANES ARE SMASHED BY BOMBS

Allies Pushing Into Nazis’ New Line in Haly   Russian Artillery Commands Railway Escape From Crimea

Smash Ahead In Italy   Capture Another Town In Nazi Defense Line; Reds Threaten to Cut Last Crimean Rail Link

PENETRATE NAZI LINES IN ITALY, CAPTURE TEANO   Soviets Near Last German Rail Exit in Crimea

LABORERS ORDERED OUT   Axis-Occupied Countries Must Help 1 German Cause

LABORERS ORDERED OUT   Cn ee aD  Axis-Occupied Countries Must Help German Cause

Nazis Decree Czechoslovakia and Greece Mobilize, Threaten Czechs With Extermination If Axis Loses _

Heaviest Blow Of War Falls On Italians-Loss Of Tripoli   Morale Of Empire Expected To Fall:To Lowest Point — ' Now A Mere Continental Power

LOSS OF TRIPOL! HEAVIEST BLOW OF WAR TO ITAL'   Mussolini Spent Millions in   African Colony to Build  “Paradise” for Settlers;  Press Muzzled News. 

Fall Of Tripoli Heaviest Blow  To The Italians   Loss Expected To Greatly Lower The Morale Of Facists

Gtizens Of Naples, 5,000 Strong Cheor for Abdication Of Emanuele

TWO DIE IN’ WRECK   Italians Cheer Demands for . King's Abdicat?on

BLACK MARKET IN CITY 1§ REPORTED   Meat Violations Here Are Charged by Investigators of OPA

LOCAL FARMERS ‘ARE ACCUSED OF VIOLATING LAW   Names Of Black Markel Operators Given To Jus tice Department   THURMONT CITED BY OPA INVESTIGATORS

95 Marylanders Facing Charges Under Meat Law   Violations in Cumberlane among Many Found, OPA Declares

Ickes Will Revise Gas Quotas in  Vast U. S. Area   Program Slates More for Eastern States, Less in West District; Rocky Mountains Fixed as ‘Border

MANDALAY RAIDED BY BRITISH FRIDAY   Large Fires Left Burning In Yards of That Jap-Held Base By British Bombers; Fields In Central Burma Also Hit.

SOVIETS’ DRIVE NEARS ZHLOBIN   Reds Report Nazi Collapse East of Railway Key on Escape Route

GERMAN LINE RPEAKING FAST OF ZHLOBIN   Russian Army Closing in as Nazi Resistance Crumbles

Russian Forces Driving Ahead Toward Zhlobir   Red Troops Closing In On Vital Rail Junction Northwest Of Gomel   FIERCE TANK AND INFANTRY FIGHTING

CHINESE HOLD FIRM   Violent Fighting Continues In South and Central China

MARTIN NAMES CABINET, SEEKS TAX REDUCTION   Personal Property Tax Levy Likely To Be Discontinued   KELL MENTIONED AS FORESTS SECRETARY

Nine Additional Cabinet ‘Members Named By Marti   Huge Tax Reduction Virtually Assured State By Governar-Flect

Reduction Of State Tax Is_ Held Likely   Martin Visualizes Cut; Names Wilhelm _ As. Police Head

AMERICAN AND BRITISH OFFI_ CIAL CIRCLES DEEPLY Dit: TURBED OVER FORMATION OF COMMITTEE       By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON Tejarnetions! News Service

U.S. And Great Britain May Ask Explanation of Anti-Nazi Free Germany National Committee in Moscow

Un ited States and Great Britain: to' Seek Explanation of Russ Anti-Nazis

Democrats Refuse to Change Ratio of House Group on Trade Agreements

PAROLEE AND GIRL SOUGHT IN SLAYINGS   One Found Strangled and Two Others Blasted to Death With Shotgun on Mercer Farm  Ww Pn te ol AVL eC ee lk CL et ee a

Wrecked Car Found Near Sandy Lake   Couple Sought For Questioning In Mercer Triple Slaying

RUSSIANS TAKE SCORE OF TOWNS   ree 300 Citizens -Of One Area About to Be Sent “to Germany

GERMAN: BASE AT ~-WWATMA MENACED™ ~~ BY RUSSIAN DRIVES   Russian Wedge “West anc Southwest of Sychevka ts Expanded   \MUCH BOOTY IS TAKEN

‘ Everything’s Okay Now in the I Kitchen  ‘Knife Gone, Hubby Can Assert Himseli Anew

Give Junior Back His Boy Scout Knife—Serenity Has Returned To Kitchen As Bread-Slicing Ban Is Lifted

BREAD SLICING IS 0. K. AGAIN   Junior Gets His Scout  Knife; Hubby Is Safe in Kitchen

Kitchens Of America Aguin Safe Bread Slicing Job Returned To Bakers, Who Are Equipped For It

Men, It's Safe to Go Into Kitchen Again; Junior Gets His Scout Knife

AXIS TROUBLED BY GUERRILLAS   Dive Bombers and Artillery Meet Fierce Opposition In Balkans, Report

ABSOLUTE VETO POWER WOULD BE CURTAILED   Baltimore Delegate Would Date All Bills Within Six Days Of Passage   O’CONOR DECLINES TO COMMENT ON MEASURE

WOULD CURB VETO POWER OF O'CONOR      Resolution Is Offered tc Date Bills: Within Six Days of Final Paccane

NORSE POLICE INDUCTED INTO ARMED FORCES   Tension Increased In Norway As Invasion Fears Mount

 N orwegian Police Are Militarized   Decree Is Forcing Thousands Into Army State Of Siege On

U.S. and British Forces Closing In on Axis Army   Bring Increased Pressure on Foe in the Randazzo Sector   Naval Units Shell Bay of Naples and Other Coast Points

FURIOUS BATTLE RAGING FOR KEY POINT IN SICILY   Americans and British Strike Hard at Randazzo, Where Germans Have Burrowed Into Ruins.   EAST COAST TOWN OF GUARDIA FALLS   y Indications Multiply That Enemy Is Gathering Small Boats at Messina for  Evacuation Atiempt. -

Allies Knife Nazi Flanks   Randazzo Pressure Steps Up; Warships Shell Italy

PUTTING GERMAN BITTER-END RESISTANCE UNDER INCREASING PRESSURE; EIGHTH ARMY SIGHTS ITALIAN SHORES.

Battle for Randazzo  Grows in Intensity   British Fight Way Through Guardia as Yanks Make Gains in Battle for Cape Orlando; Planes Blast Boats Off Messina

Warships Rake Targets on Mainland   Enemy Resistance on Sicily Under Pressure

Allied Forces Drive Within Sight of Haly  a *a°*,k AAS...L*   British Warships Shell Mainland Below Naples

German Resistance In Sicily Is Put Under Great Pressure; Bay Of Naples Shelled

Tommies Battling East of Mt. Etna   Glimpse Shoreline of Italy; U. S.  Forces Gain Near Cape Orlando

British and U.S. Forces Make Contact   Signs Multiply of German Plans for Evacuation Allempl

Allied Forces Press Drive On Randazzo   British Naval Units Rake Targets on Edge of Bay of Naples

Nazis Battle  Grimly to Hold Ground   Americans, British All Make Steady Gain Despite Bitter Resistance at One of Enemvy’s Last Channels of Escane

BRITISH, YANKS » HIT NAZI FLANK’   British Naval Units Rake Targets at Bay of Naples   BRITISH TOMMIES   Fight Way Through the Town @ Of Guardia, on the East Coast of Sicily

BRITISH ARMY IS IN SIGHT OF ITALIAN COAS!   YANKS KNIFE AHEAD AS AXIS MAKES LAST STAND

Indications Increase Axis Preparing Evacuation Of Forces from Sicily

British Warships Shelli the Italian Mainland Below Naples      GAINS ARE SCORED BY AMERICAN ARMY   Indications of Gathering of Evacuation Fleet Multiply

Eden Tells Canada Axis Must Be Disarmed. Held Under Force Threat

ALLIES GET SET FOR NAPLES DRIVE   French Commandos’ Grab Corsica’s Main Port

Americans Control Main Port Of Cagliari Along With Other Bases and Airfields. French Com mandos Drive Into Cor:  e atten

More Allied Landings Clear Mediterranean Of Axis -Power;:  French And Italian Join Yanks

American Troops Seize Many Points on Sardinia.  FIFTH ARMY DRIVING ON PLAIN TO NAPLES  Friendly Italians Aid Allies in Attacks on Germans.

BRITISH U-BOATS IN GREEK WATERS   Ships Sunk and Damage Done On Shore

Changes In Formulas Studied By Solons As Expiration Of Sugar Act Approaches

Study Change In Sugar Act   Bill. Written In 1937 To Stabilize Sugar Mark Expires Dee, 31, 1945.

Sugar Act Change: Are Considered  Alen Cranrarna, rl Asie,   Also Concerned With Setting Beet Price

REPORTS VARY ON NAZI TROOP MOVES IN ITALY   Rome Radio Announces Dissolution of Fascist Party by New Cabinet

ASSEMBLY MUST SETTLE  ‘MANY PROBLEMS BEFORE.  MAY 15 ADJOURNMENT

British Again  Blast Bremen      City Is Plastered With Block-Busters

BRITISH BOMBERS ROCK BREMEN: U. §, TO STEP UP RAIDS   &th U.S. Air Force Prepares . To Start 1000-Plane. Raids Over,  ' Germany —

RAF BOMBERS ROCK BREMEN WITHOUT LOSS   Key Sub Base Battered: 1,000-Plane Raids By U.S. Near

RAF BOMBS ROCK BREMEN   U.S. Forces Preparing for 1000 - Plane Attacks

U. S. Prepares 1000-Plane Daylight Raid;   British Heavy Bombers Hammer Port of Bremen

BREMEN IS TARGET OF BRITISH RAID   Eighth U. S. Air Force Preparing For 1000 Plane Raids

Bremen Rocked By RAF Again   “U, S. Air Force: To Step Up Attack

BRITISH PLANES SMASH BREMEN   Heavier Raids Predicted By U. S. Forces

FIGHT OHIOANS DIE IN NEBRASKA AIR GRASH   Include Lima Airman in List of 13 Casualties

8 OHIOANS KILLED IN CRASH OF G-47   Nebraska Tragedy Takes Lives of 13

Engineer In Dickerson Wreck Was Sentenced To Two And One-Half Years

PAROLE URGED FOR RAILWAY ENGINEER   Raymond P. McClelland’s Application Acted Upon Favorably

Bombers Hamme: Enemy Airfields  Offensive Against Continent Heavy

Yanks and R. A. F. Continue Heavy Ail Offensive Against Nazi Bases in France

Supreme Court Convenes Today With Big Docket   Important Cases Await Decision

SUPREME COURT OPENS “44 TERM   Personnel of Highest Court Group Remains Unchanged

High Court Opens New Term Today  Decisions Expected On Wartime Cases

SUPREME COURT REASSEMBLES   400 Cases on File Now, With More Arriving Daily

Supreme Court Reassembles For  1943-1944 Term   Legal Issues Toa Re Settled

COURT RECONVENES; MAJOR CASES FACED      OPA Rent Control And Negr¢ Vote Are Among Issues

TRIBUNAL TODAY OPENS NEW TERN   409 Cases Already Oocketed fer Suoreme Court  Darizions ra

NAZI AMBASSADOR 10 SPAIN STRICKEN   German Called Before Getting Spain In The War

Nazis Seek Quarters For Bomb Victims   Wooden-Barrack: Built Outside Of Berlin. ~

RUSSIANS SEIZE MANY VILLAGES WEST OF KHARKO   German Resistance Stiffens In South—Fresh Troops Thrown Jnto Action.

REDS MAKING NEW GAINS AT KHARKO\   President Ryti Says Fins Are Seeking Security, Will Continue War,

BEAT BACK NEW ATTACKS   New Ground West Of Kharkov Is Gained by Reds

PROPOSES STRIKE MEASURE   Mississippi Senator’s Bill Would Be Tough on Strikers

REVISE QUOTAS ON FOOD RATIONING   Soda Fountains, Roadside Stands To Get Less

OPA WILL TIGHTEN FOOD CONTROLS 10 AID HOUSEHOLDERS   New Program Will Trim Rations Of Public Kating Places

lOPCT. OF BEER WILL G0 10 ARM   WFA Orders Brewers to Use Part of Allocations to Make 3.2 Per Cent Beer.

Yankee Fliers Repel Assaulis By Jap Planes   Ground Troops Reported Consolidating Positions On New Britain Front

Jap Air Attacks Hurled Back By  American Planes   Only Light Casualties Suffered By Invaders, Pincer Move On Rabaul Mav Develon

Consolidate Positions on New Britain   Air Force Repels Severa! Japanese  Air Attacks

Planes Turn Back Enemy Air Thrusts   Opposition Dwindles After Skirmishes At  Start; U. S. Losses Claneideread TI iaht

American Air Force Repels Jap Air Raids   Americans Dig in And Consolidate Positions on New Britain, Reported

AMERICANS LAND IN ARAWE SECTOR OF JAP HELD ISLE   INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN ENCOUNTERS LITTLE OPPOSITION

Fliers Repel Several Jap Air Attacks   Tough Boys from Texas Land at ‘ Arawe, on Southwest Coast With Liqht Casualties  ‘   WARSHIPS COVER   ‘Beachhead Prepared in # cance by Guns of Ships, Aerial Poundtng

Patrols Already Invading Jungles   Invasion of Island Leading To Rabaul Carried Out  With Minimum Casualties

AMERICAN TROOPS ARE CONSOLIDATING THEIR POSITIONS   Patrols Probably Branching Out Into the Rain-Soaked Jungle.

U.S. Air Force Repels Several Jap Air Attacks   Invading American Troops Consolidate Positions; Believe. Opposition Light

CONSOLIDATE POSITIONS CN NEW RDITAIN   Americans Land At Arawe In New Thrust

Troops Landed on Arawe Peninsula   Few Casualties Sustained by Sixth Army; U. S. Air Force Beats Off Japanese Attacks; Positions On Beaches Being Consolidated, MacArthur Reports

Yanks Rapidly Consolidate on New Britain   232 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Gloucester ‘Drome

HOLD STRETCH AFTER LANDING ONNEW BRITAIN   Consolidate Positions After Skirmishes in Amphibious Assaults

JAP DRIVES 10 OUST INVADERS ARE REPULSED   Air Force Beats Off Several Attacks by Enemy Fliers

Hirst News Of Action Since  Landing Told   Consolidating Positions Indicates Little Additional Opposition By Japs.   AIR SUCCESSES MADE

Few Casualties Are Reported ir Island Invasion   Japanese Attacks From Air Quickly Repelled By U. S$.

News from New Britain Indicates Little, If Any,  _ Opposition After Brief   Skirmishes  {  er  a ee a ee — om 2 & Ea OU an 44   PATROLS BRANCH OUT

TEXANS CHASE. JAPANESE OFF SAND BEACI   Enemy Bombers Driven Off as U. S. Troops Strike  Deeper in Jungle.

Assault Menaces Japs’ Southwest Pacific Foothotd   General MacArthur Opens Campaign Which Will Take Increasingly Heavy Toll of Lives

U. S. Airmen Repel Jap Raids   Little Opposition Encountered After First Skirmishes on Beaches; Aussies Making Good Progress on New Guinea

Little Opposition Reported In Wake Of Sea Landings; Texans Lead Attack

U. 5. Troops Take Arawe; Losses Light   Conquest of New Britain Entering Upon Final Phases

LATION REMINDER   Enemy Ai Attacks Repelled by Our Air Forces on New Guinea

Casualties Are ‘Comparatively Light’; Jap Air Blows Repelled   Reveal Invasion Made by \ 6th Army, Under Lt. Gen. Krueger

Jap Air Raids Repelled as Iroops Dig In   Austrolians Advance In New Guinea; Fall Ot Jap Post Imminent

Diversionary  -LandingMove Most Costly     One Quarter of Small Unit  Killed or Wounded in Bypass Attempt

SEGURE NEW POSITIONS   American’ Sixth Army Has Few Casualties After First Landing.   IN STRATEGIC POSITION

Repel Nip Air Stabs   Yankee Fighters Consolidate Their Positions On Japvan’s Main Island Base In Southwest Pacific

Warships Paved Way For Seizure of Wide  Beachhead Opposite Finschafen Base

invasion Is Directed by Mac Arthur   Pivotal Base Taker By Americans With Slight Losses

U. S. Troops Dig in on New Britain   Invasion Forces Consolidate Their Positions and Beat Off Air Attacks

U.S. 6th Army Consolidating  Grip On Arawe   Air. Foree Turns Back Several Jap Air At tacks As Invasion of New Britain Gets Uinderway. Few. Casual. ties in Landing Opera. tions.

Several Air Attacks By Japanese  Repelled   Objective Attained Seven Hours After First Assaull Was Launched Wednesday

ISLAND THRUST ‘LOSSES IN LIFE TERMED SLIGHT   ‘Greatest Number of Killed  and Wounded Occurs  _ When Commando Party Makes First Thrust   GIVEN GOOD NAVAL — AND AIR SUPPORT   Jap Aerial Attacks Repelled; Invasion Opens Back Door to Nips’ Pearl  - Harbor At Rabaul

American Airmen Repel Jap Assaults: Patrols Seek to Contact Enemy

Jap Air Attacks Driven Off As American Troops Get Toe Hold On Arawe

‘Joining U.S. Soon,’ Says Montgomery  Yank Troops Press On  Taward Maknascy

Allied Air Arm Opens Offensive Against Rommel Army in South; Montgomery Sees Early Junction

Allied Airmen Open Intensive Drive on Axis   Enemy Positions in Mareth Area Bombed;: Storms Harass Troops in Southern Tunisia

ADVANCE MADE BEYOND VITAL RAIL STATION   Two Columns Hit From Gafsa Toward Axis Supply Corridor On Coast   Mareth Area Bombed

Rout Italian troops, push on toward Maknassy; open  intensive drive on Rommel

YANKS ROUTED TALIANS FROW SENED HEIGHTS   Advance by Northernmost of Two Columns Striking from Gafsa; Allies Opened Most  Intensive Offensive.   To Join Montgomery

Vital Heights Fall as U.S. Units Advance   Allied Air Forces Open Intensive  African Campaian

Americans Drive Axis Forees Back   Italians Chased From Heights, Take Rail  Stalion in Tunisiz

PIPELINE CUTS MIDWEST ‘GAS’   Completion of New Extension To East May Be Felt Here

Gas Pinch Coming To  Mid-West   Opening Of Pipe Line To Mean Less  Fuel In This Area

‘Big Inch’ Oil Pipeline Will Be Ready Soon   Branch Hooking Up ‘Vith East Coast to Open About August 1

Midwest Will  Get Less.Gas  Tighter Restriction: Due About Auda. ]

Completion of Big Inch Pipeline To Bring Curbs In Midwest   EASTERN SITUATION WILL REMAIN SAME   New Pipeline Will Carry 300,000 Gallons a Day To the East

Sees Midwest Gas Pinch      Finishing of Big Oil Line to East Will Syphon Off Surplus

Completion of Pipeline May Curb Midwest   Tighter Restrictions for Motorists There Believed Coming

Less Gas for Midwest Seen   Eastward Extension Of Oil Pipeline Is Soon to Be Finished

Big-Inch Pipe Will Drain Of Mid-West Oil   Extra Quantities Flowing Seaward Bound for Europe

WEST FACING GUT WN GASOLINE   Completion Of Pipeline To Cut Supplies In This  Aran   DUE IN AUGUST   Less Crude Oil Will Be Available To Midwestern Refineries

AUTO DRIVING IN MIDWEST T0 BERESTRICTEL      Completion of Eastward Extension of “Big Inch” Oil line to Bring  * Curbs   EAST UNAFFECTED   Wilf Not Mean-Relaxing of  _ Driving: Bans; Army to  : Take. Eastern ° Seaboard's Share Gas

Army Will Take East’s Share Of Oil After New Pipeline Completed   ‘But Curbs To Midwest Motoring Also In Prospect; Oil Will Be Pumped Straight Through From Texas When Line Is Finished August 1.

‘Big Inch’ To Affect Midwest Gas   Completion of Giant Line To Mean Less Gasoline For Midwest Motorists

NEW PIPE LINE TO LOWER GAS SUPPLY IN OHIO   Will Move Gasoline to East Coast, To Affect Other States

“Big Inch” Not To Aid ‘The West’   Midwest to Feel Cut with Completion of Extension

Completion of Pipe Line May Bring Gas Restrictions to West   Military Demands Will ‘Soak Up Surplus of ~ Oil Sent to East

N o Hope For More Liberal Gas Supplies For East Coast Users  Tremendous Military Needs In Europe. Africa:   Tremendous Military Needs In Europe, Africa; Completion Of Pipe Line To Cut Midwest Supplies

Army Will Need Pipeline Oil  ‘Big Inch’ Supply Won't Change Short Situation (In East

Tighter Gas Curb Ahead for Midwes!   Completion of: New Pipe Line Soon Affords Way to Take Gasoline East   NO RELAXATION . IN BASTERN AREA   Military Demands Are Growing Daily as Airforce Doubles and Doubles

SAY MIDWEST 10 GET LESS “BAS” SOON   Completion of Eastward Extension of Oil Pipe  * Line Will Mean “Through” Delivery of Texas Petroleum.

LOWER 13 KILLER TO BE EXECUTED   Death fir Ofegon Gas Chamber Decreed as Leniency Out of Verdict -

Cook Convicted InTrain Killing   Death in Gas Chamber Decreed for Folkes: Jury Out 17 Hours

FolkesFaces Death By Ga: In Slaying  Negro Convicted   Negro Convicted Of Killing Wife Of Naval Officer

SHIPPING SLOWDOWN FEARED BY TRUMAN   Senator Predicts Delay in Movement of Goods if Preventive Steps Are Not Taken.

Western Union College Starts New School Year  Enrollment About Half That On First Day Last Year

WOMEN OUTCLASS THEMENATW UL      Entire Quota. Will « Equal “Previous Years At “oO " College .

WOMAN IS JAILED FOR SHOOTING GIRL   Taken To Own Home and Put In Bed Afterward

ROOSEVELT SELLS WAR BOND TO VETERAN NEGRO MESSENGER   President “Jumps the Gun” on Thirteen Billion Dollar Second War Loan Drive—Campaign Wiil be Onened Manday

Close In Under Fire To Drop Torpedoes  Destroyers Stop Big Jap Ships

How Japs’ Attempt to Reinforce Bases Was Stopped Cold by Outnumbered U.S. Filotillc

Allied Strategy includes Route By Sea fo China   Thousands of Men, Big Fleet, Needed

SEA CHINA IS FIRST AMERICAN GOAL   Allies Must Arrange To Ship Million Tons Of Supplies Monthly      LONG HARD BATTLE TO CONQUER JAPANESE

MAP RECAPTURE © OF PHILIPPINES   Growing Offensive Against o Japan Predicted   ROUTE TO CHINA   Must Carry Million Tons of hipping a Month to Supply Offensive Force

Plan Recapfure Of Philippines In New Strategy   Reconquest Will Be Long, Expensive Sec. Stimson Warns

Industries Group Honors Visitor  WLB Member Speaks at Butte Banquet

Industries Group ‘Honors Visitor  SR OS AN cc be Mh: oN   WLB Member Speak: at Butte Bancuet

2 MEN WERE INJURED   Accident Happened at Sunflower - Ordnance Saturday Afternoon

AMERICA’S LARGEST SUBMARINE REPORTED     LOST IN PACIFIC; GREW BELIEVED DEAD   Companion U-Boat Takes Vengeance B; Sinking Two Heavily-Escorted Ships

LARGEST U, S, SUB SENT DOWN   Argonaut, 2,710-Ton Submarine Lost In Action; Probable Loss Of 102 Lives.

AMERICAN SUB SUNK BY JAPS   Argonaut Was Largest Un. dersea Craft in United States Navy,

SUB ARGONAUT - SUNK IN PACIFIC   Probable Loss of 102 Lives; Jap Attackers Destroyed

Navy Avenges Lost Submarine   102 Are Missing Witt Araonaut In Pacific

GIANT AMERICAN SLBMARINE SUNK IN PACIFIC CLASI   Argonaut Sent to Bottom After Torpedoing Jap Warship; Two Enemy Transports Sunk Later.

BIGGEST SUB SUNK BY JAPS   Vessel Lost Near New Guinea with Crew of 102, Navy Reveals. _.

LARGEST SUB IN U.S. NAVY SUNK IN SO. PACIFIC   2710-Ton Argonaut Lost In Action While Stalking Japanese Convoy in New Guinea Area   102 MEN FEARED LOST   Torpedoed Enemy Destroy: ers Before Being Mortally Wounded; Sister Sub  Exacts Vengeance

LARGEST AMERICAN SUB SUNK BY JAPS   102 Lives Believed Lost in Argonaut

Yankee Sub Loss Avenged By Companion   Two Jap Transports Sunk ‘And Destroyer Also Torpedoed

Largest U.S. Sub Is Sunk With 102 Lost   Nayy Reveals Argonaut Hit in Action Off Coast of New Guinea

American Sub Sunk By Japs   Argonaut Was Stalking 2 Enemy Convoys Which Were. Destroyed: :

102 Lost In Sub Sinking.  _ Argonaut, Largest U. S. Sub, Sixth  - Miesina In Cambat

U. S, SUBMARINE ARGONAUT, SUNK IN SOUTH PACIFIC   With Probable Loss of 102 Lives, Sixth U-Boat Lost in War

Largest U. S. Sub Is Sunk  in Pacific   Sister U-Boat Swiftly Exacts ' Vengeance by Sinking Two  Jan Transports

Americans Exact Quick Revenge After U.S. Sub Argonaut Is Sunk By Jap Convoy Tn South Pacifi

LARGEST U. S. SUB SUNK, BUT REVENGE SWIF)   Argonaut, Prohably Carrying Crev of 102, Sent to Bottom—Two Jay Transports Sunk

AMERICA LOSES ITS BIGGEST SUB   Argonaut Goes Down With 102 Aboard In Attack Qn Jap Ships

U. S. SUBMARINE SUNK IN ACTION OFF NEW GUINEA   PROBABLE LOSS 9F 102 LIVES AS ARGONAUT SINKS

Quick Vengeance Taken For Argonaut’s Loss   America’s Biggest Sub Sunk With 102 Men, but Companion Serids Down Two Jap Transports

Argonaut, Largest US. Sub. Is Lost  Toll Set At ‘Probable 102°; Second Ship Torpedoes Transports

Submarine’s Pal Gets Vengeance   Sends Two Large Jap Ships Down In Pacific

LARGEST U. S. SUB SUNK IN SOUTH PACIFIC   U-Boat Rrgonaut Fails *o Return From Patrol Operations and is Presumed to be Lost   SINKING IS AVENGED

Biggest U. S. ‘Sub Sunk in - the Pacific   102 ‘Lives Believed Lost in Sinking of Argonaut Off New Guinea   HIT AFTER FIRING ON A JAP DESTROYER   Another Sub Exacted Swift Vengeance, Sinking Two Prized Transports

Loss of 102 Men   Argonaut Lost In Action Against Japs In South Pacific

Biggest U.S. Sub Sunk But Japs Pay Dearly As ‘Companion Gets Revenge

TRADE PACT IS SIGNED BY FDR   Reciprocal Agreement Is Extended For  Two Years

Pioneer Akron  Resident Dead  Mrs. J. J. Aalfs Lived There Fifty Years

RESIDENT HERE FOR MANY YEARS IS SUMMONED   Mrs. J. J.'Aaifs Came To Plymouth County From Austria In: Early Youth

Drastic Slash In Indian Bureau Recommended  Senate Committee Outlines Radical  Changes in Service

Axis Say Allied Losses Heavy  Claim Drive Against Catania Stopped

Represents Reduction Of One to Three Cents from Former Levels  ANIATUIED CLIT COMING

Set Ceiling Meat Prices  Effective in 16 Counties in This  ie Fee Geostey: Selpene

GERMANY IS AGAIN RAIDED   Great Fires Raging In Berlin From Monday’s Raid; 3 Planes Missing

BERLIN HIT BY BRITISY BOMBS   Stockholm Keports Great Fires Raging After Night Smash by RAF

RAF Bombers Hit France And Belgium   Continue Pounding of German Territory; Fires Still Burn In Berlin

British Again Raid Germany   London Admits Three Aircraft Fail to Return From Foray

R. A. F. Strikes Seventh Straight Night; Objectives In Western Germany Bombed

GERMANY AGAIN RAIDED BY RAF   Seventh Successive Night Attack Hits Nazis

REICH TARGET OF RAF FLIERS IN NIGHT RAIL   Western Germany Blasted and Occupied France Also Hit In Wide Scale Bombing   BERLIN ABLAZE   Nazis Fail to Retaliate With Raids On Great , Britain After RAF  Pounds Capital :

Western Germany Is Attacked As RAF Stages 7th Successive ‘Night Of Raids On Continent   Targets Not Identified; Big Fires Reported Still Roaring In Berlin

WESTERN REICH — BLASTED AGAIN   Mines Also Laid By R.A.F. Nazis Fail To Hit Back

Continue Raids On Nazi Target  Western Germany Is Attacked By RAF

RAF Again Rains Bombs On Europe   West Germany Attacked 7th Night: In Row. «

British Keep Up Blasts At Reich Cities   RAF Warplanes Raid At Nicht

TARGETS IN WESTERN GERMANY ARE. RAIDED BY RAF; THREE PLANES LOST

WESTERN GERMANY BOMBED AGAIN. BYTHERAF .~   Paris Radio Tells of British Air Attacks Over Occupied France

RAF AGAIN OVER GERMAN CITIES   Air Ministry Fails to Identif Last Night’s Targets, Lose 3 Planes

RAF Continues Nazi Bombings   Three ‘Planes: Are’ Noted . Lost In Raids, Mine Layine Puties

NEW BATTLES SAID RAGING ~ IN BUNA AREA   Heavily-Laden Jap Transport Sent to Bottom

“Macmen” Hit Three  Transports   Americans Mopping Up In Buna Where 15,000 Japs Were Wiped Out In Short Order.

BIG AIR-SEA BATTLE RAGES OFF NEW GUINEA   Allies Report Jap Army Of 15,000 Men Annihilated In Papua Warfare

COOPERATION ON WAR LAUDEL IBY ROOSEVEL'   President Cites Efforts of Federal, State and Local Governments In Letter to O’Conor   HOLDS TIME CRITICAL   Takes Pride In Manner In Mig Great Democratic eople Operate Thru cople © uthoritics

Italians  e Expecting  _ Drive On Mainland   @veaders Begin. Preparing People for Blow; Tell of Paratroop Action   COMMUNICATIONS ARE » -GREATLY MENACED   Rome Reports Give Lie to German Claims the Air Yroaps Were Liquidated

’Chutists Playing A Special Role   Paratroopers Endangering Axis Defenses by Operating Back of Lines.

BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN; SICILY AND ITALY HIT   Three Day Toll Of Axis Planes Totals At Least 285

Down 95 More Axis Planes, Total Stands At 285 for 3 Days   Light RAF Bombers Hit Berlin Agair For Sixth Time Since Mav 13

Berlin © Blasted 3d Time   Communist Interna. tional Asks Branches To Dissolve

Three Day Toll of 285 Planes Destroyed In Pre-Invasion Thrust—19 Enemy Planes Shat Down and 67 MorSmashed on the Ground

Allies Take New Tolls In  Axis Planes   Underside of Europe Is Still Receiving Heavy Aerial Pounding

Allies Step Up  Invasion Tempo   Ravage Hitler’s Fortress in Raids on Berlin, Occupied France; Blast Airdromes in Italy, Sicily, Sardinia; 272 Axis Planes Destroyed in Three Davs

DESTRUCTION AXIS AIRCRAFT CONTINUES AT HIGH PERCENTAGE  PRE-INVASION ATTACKS AGAINST ITALIAN OBJECTIVES UNABATED

Mighty Events Shaping Up On All War Front:   fanks Pound Italy; RAF Bombs Berlin Again; Japs Face Hunger

10th Attack On Hitler’s   Europe   Serious Blow to Japan’s Food Supply.  Forecast in Wake of American Vic- —  tory At Attu; May Close All ; Fishing in North Pacific

Fresh Allied Blows Strike Italy, oS ’ Sicily, Sardinia And Pantelleria; . Axis Loses 285 Planes In 3 Days

TOLL OF 285 AXIS PLANES FOR 3 DAYS   American Fliers “Took Care” of 86 of Enemy's Aircraft in Operations of Friday

Allies Blast at Italy, Islands   Berlin Target for Third Night; Hit Axis in Wide Range

Pre-Invasion Raids Net 285  Axis Planes   RAF Hits Berlin Again, London Has Night Alarm

Axis Has Lost 185 Planes in Past Three Days   Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria are Blasted

Allied Air Forces Pound Foes’ Bases in Germany, Italy   Indications Grow Air Assaults Are in Final Pre-Invasion Stage

DESTROY 285 AXIS PLANES OVER EUROPE   Allied Warplanes Leave Fresh Ruins Smouldering From Bombs.   Liberators Step Hard On Italian Points

DESTROYED. IN 3 DAYS    Allies Boost Score in - New . Raids“On -Ttaly:. and: ‘Nearby’ “Islands   ALLIED. LOSS ‘HELD TO 12-PLANES   British Continue Attacks on Germany: and France; Hit -Berlin Again:

Air Blows at Italy Destroy 985 Axis Planes in 3 Days   More “War of Nerves.

Allied Bombers Leave Fresh Ruins All Over Europe   285 Axis Planes Destroyed in Three Pre-Invasion Days

BERLIN THIRD NIGHT IN ROW   Italy, Sicily, Sardinia Blasted : By Allies  DPITICH IRIE   Undergo Sixth Successive Alert: No Explosives Fall On London

NO LETUP IN EUROPE RAIDS   Allies Bring 3-Day Score Of Destroyed Axis Planes to 272

RUINS SMOLDERING IN ITALY, SICILY AND SARDENI/   Pantelleria Also Came Under the Allied Warplane’s Attack.   285 AXIS PLANES LOST   This Was the Three-Day Toll in Pre-Invasion Offensive Again Europe.

Boost Axis Plane Toll To 285   Southern Italy Feels Sting Of Allied Air Might As Pre-Invasior Pounding Continues

‘3 DAY TOLL OF 285 AXIS CRAFT IS MARKED UP   RAF Mosquito Planes Strike at Berlin for 3rd Consecutive Night

AXIS AIR POWER ALSO WEAKENED BY ONSLAUGHT   Ninth Straight Night Raid Spreads More Devastation On Hitler’s Europe   ITALY IS BEING SOFTENED   Reds Blast Nazis Holding Novorossisk and Yanks Mop Up in Aleutians

86 Axis Aircraft Are Destroyed   Thrée Day Toll of 285 Planes Destroyed In Pre-Invasion Thrust—19 Enemy Planes Shot Down and 67 More”  ~ Smashed on the Ground

285 AXIS PLANES   Leave Fresh Ruins Smouldering In Italy, Sardinia and Pantelleria In PreInvasion Offensive Against Southern Europe.

Italy Again Pounded by Allied Planes   Mark Up Three-Day Toll of 285 Axis Planes Destroyed; Reds Blast More Nazi Inner Defenses at Novorossisk

285 Axis Planes Are Destroyed   "Mosquitos'' Attack. Berlin—U. S, Bombers in Heavy Raids

285 ENEMY AIRPLANES DESTROYED   American Bombers and Fighters Alone Account For 86 Craft Friday.

State Forests Inspected As Timber Source   Possibility Of Selective Cutting To Relieve Shortage Is Considered  By Commisaian

Corn Issue Is Political ‘Dynamite   Any Solution Reached Will Anger Farmers Or Consumers

Where Is Silver Service from U. S. S. Wisconsin, Scrapped in 1922?

2 PAY WITH LIVES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR   Pretest Innocence As They Meet Death In Sing  Sing. Prison 

King George Is Back In England   British Monarch Returns In Four-Engined Bomber Today.

King v George Back fram African Trip   Journey Entirely Uneventful, Pilot Says: Churchill Late   Alert Requested

KING IN ENGLAND AFTER AFRICAN TRIP   Big Bomber Rides Tailwind In Ahead of Schedule

KING GEORGE HOME AGAIN   ‘Very Good Trip, Indeed,” Says Monarch; Churchil! Late

KING GEORGE VI RETURNS FROM NORTH AFRICA   Completes Inspection Of Allied Forces. In Area

eee ee  King George Returns to England After Aerial Tour of African Battlefields

KING GEORGE IS BACK IN BRITAIN   Monarch Returns from Trip To North Africa In 4engined Bomber

KING GEORGE VI RETURNS HOME   COMPLETES TOUR OF BATTLEFIELDS IN NORTH AFRICA.

King George Safely Home  From Africa   Churchill Annoyed Wher  He's Late At Field a

KING GEORGE BACK HOME   Returns To London After Visiting Troops In Africa

KING GEORGE HAS RETURNED HOME FROM TOUR NORTH AFRICA  BRITISH MONARCH  LANDS EARLY AND  . CHURCHILL WAS LATE

King George Is Back In England   Monarch Returns This Morning, After Flying Inspection Tour Of African War Fronts

anch Fleet Interned » Alexandria Joins Ses. Berlin Reports   s Says Crews Quit Vichy Banner gause Pay Checks Were No Good; Paris tio States Ships Will Be Sent to America

French Ships At Alexandria  Transferred   Dozen Or More Vessels Immobilized  Three Years

‘rench Fleet + Alexandria  ins Allies   Berlin Radio Reveals Action — Says Vessels Till Go to New York To Join Richelieu

Nazi Report On Warships NotConfirmed   Battleships, 4. Cruisers, 3 Destroyers and Sub In Alexandria Fleet  MAY COME TOT. Ss.

FRENCH FLEET JOINS ALLIES   Warships at Alexandria Reported Under Allied Banner

Berlin Reports French Fleet Immobilized at Alexandria Has Come Under Allied Banne

FRENCH SHIPS TO SAIL SEAS AGAINST AXIS      Confirmed, Report Says Fleet At Alexandria Joins Allies :

French Fleet At Alexandria Said Given Up   T Battle Haka Cr nise rs, 31

FRENGH FLEET AT ALEXANDRIA JOINS ALLIES   Battleship, Four Cruisers, Three Destroyers, Sub marine Are Listed   VESSELS ARE COMING TO UNITED STATES

French Fleet . Joins Alles At Alexandria   Berlin Report Says Nine Ships Prepare To Enter Conflict

MoreFrench Ships Fly Allied Flags   Warships Held At Alexandria To Ficht Axis

Customs Station Closed By Nazis  ctatsghe V4 on a ry". = Rew   Chiasso, Italy Taken Over By Germans

Son of Roosevelt Boys’ Attacker Drops Objection to Entering Army

U. S. Fliers Hit  Japs Severe Blow in Indies   Strong Raid Starts Fires on Big Enemy Seaplane Base on Ambonia; Other Holdinas Nearby Also Suffer Attacks

JAP SEAPLANE BASE IS RAIDED   Liberators Start Fires Among Barracks And Hangars

Jap Base In Amboina Hit   Barracks And Hangars Are Damaged In Raid

Liberators Stage Heavy Raid on Jay Amboina Base   Seaplane Hangars  And Barracks Blasted In Morning Attack

Short Battle, Long Results   War Department Tells How Fortress Got Seven Nazi Planes

SHOOTING GOOD FOR FORTRESS   Seven German Fighters Are Knocked Down In 12 Minutes

OPP OP LDP P PPI EIEIE EPP POH SD  4,500 Wildcat Wells This Year, Ickes’ Plea

STARTED IN REICH CITY   Ludwigshafen Also I: - Hit; Yanks Get 68 Nazi Fighters

More Bombs Rained Down On Frankfurt   1,000-Ton Blow By RAF Rekindles Fires From U. S. Raid; Air Drive Against Germany Hits New Peak

Frankfurt Pounded for  Second Time   RAF Drops 1000 Tons of Bombs In Follow-up Raid

1000 TONS MORE BOMBS — ON FRANKFURT   Allies Round Out 100 Haurs of Continuous Bombing

FOLLOWS YANK RAID BY 12 HOURS DAMAGE TERRIFIC   Bombers Guided By Great Fires Kindled Earlier By Fortresses.

NAC FORTRE So AUGKO HEAVILY UNOER BOMBS   RAF Dumps 1,000 Tons Of Bombs On Frankfurt Following American Attack

Jury Conviets Mrs. Holt of Mate’s Death   Life Imprisonment Recommended for Blonde Oklahoman

WOMAN CONVICTED OF POISON DEATH   Nancy J. Holt Is Found Guilty of Killing —_ Husband °

PARIS PLANE — PLANT S HIT   Allied Airmen Give West. ern Europe Its Heaviest Bomb-Lashinag

NAZI FACTORIES ARE HAMMERED   Airfields In Northerr France Drubbed By Fierce Blow

Chinese Have Turned Down: Three Nip Offers of Peace; To Stick by United Nations

Chinese Report Peace Feelers  Three Jap Offers Have Been Spurned

France And Belgium  Blasted   Non-Stop Air Bombing: Continue After Berlin Gets Tremendous Dose.

Planes Pound Nazis Again  RAF Follows Up Raid fp Rortin On Monday

RAF POUNDS BERLIN AGAIN   Raid Is Twice As Heavy As Any London Suffered.

French Commandos And Corsican Patriots Liberate Half Of French Ccrsica, Hem Germans Apainst Bast Coast   MANY TOWNS HIT BY AIR FORCES

Battle of Salerno Bridgehead  is Over   Half of French Corsica Released Fram GCerman Hand«

INFLATION ROWS SHARE INTEREST WITH POLITICS   Hearings on Food Subsidy Start as Congress Stands Firm on Tax Cut Policy

THREATENED SENATE  REVOLT SOUTHERNER'  CAUSES MUCH TALK SPLIT SEEN, HOWEVER,  IN RANKS OF SOLID SOUTH MEMRERSHIP

NEW ZEALAND MINED BY GERMAN GRUISER   Nazis Boast It Went on Job Unnoticed by Patrols

OPA INVITES PUBLIC TO EXPRESS VIEWS   Criticism To Be Used a: Guide for Future

Russian Sweep In Caucasus  ls Unchecked   Key Towns Taken as Germans Rush More Men From East to Front; Remnant of Navziec at Stalingrad Mav Re Doomed

Reds May Hit City From South   Two Vital Rail Towns Captured By Soviet Forces

Reds Pinch Tighter On German Supply  Lines in Caucasus   Two Vital Railroads Supplying Rostor and Stalingrad Are Further Imperiled Nazis. Are Rushine Reinforcenients

Ditter Verense  By Nazis Fails  To Halt Russians Starobelsk Retaken

Russian Sweep In Caucasus —  ls Unchecked.   Key Towns Taken as Germans Rush More  Men From East to Front; Remnant of mee kk MDP wl BAe: Bea Maemo

REDS SWEEP FORWARD IN THE CAUCASUS      Deep In Ukraine, Russian Columns Push Into Starobelsk In Drive,To Envelop K harkayw.   ‘9 Mi. Of Rostov

Russians Take Town Near Tikhoretsk, Key Rail Junctions  STAROBELSK FALLS DEEP IN UKRAINE  Drive May Be Aimed To Envelop Kharkov With Southern Thrus

SUBSIDY VOTE IS DUE TODAY   Foes Accused of Making Political Issue Of Anti-Inflation

Bitier Cry of Politics on Subsidy   Both Sides Charging the Opposition With. Seeking , Votes on Issue   DEFEAT OF PLAN * APPEARS CERTAIN   Main Question Is Power to Override Veto; Strong Apneals Are Heard

More Key Positions Captured   Major Tunisian City Nea Bizerte Now Under U. §. Artillery Fire

YANKS CAPTURE 3 KEY POINTS IN TUNISIA   Close in on Mateur on Major Routes to Tunis, Bizerte

Allied Air Forees Sink  Five Ships   RAF Bombs Essen Other Places In Ruhr Valley

Rationing Propaganda Program Planned   Substitutes for Rationed Foods To he Stressed

OPA-URGES USE OF UNRATIONED FOODS IN FAMILY DIETS      Government “Agencies Plan Publicity Campaign To Boost Recommanded Foodstuffs

Campaign Planned To Induce Women To Use More of Unrationed Foodstuffs

aUBSTITUTE FOODSTUFFS   Wigh-Powered Propaganda Campaign To Have Housewives Substitute Unprationed For Eationed Foods Is Planned   FRESH VEGETABLES, OTHERS, INCLUDE

Jap Defense Site Is Occupied   Australians Take Bonga Without Serious Oppostion

Jap Defense Site Ts Occupied  Australians Take Bonga Without  Ganinua Onnnatin

American Ships Shell Nazis’ Path of Retreat   Message Discloses Enemy's Sicilian Force Was 405.000

SICILY JOIN BOMBARDMENT   Reveal Axis Forces On Island Totaled 405,000 Men

U.S. Warships Shell Italy   Nazis’ Retreat Path Cluttered By Attack

Allies Strike Ai Japanese Cargo Vessels   Small Troop Transport Attacked; Strike at Airdrome at Kihill

Vessels Blasted At Low Levels — Without A Fight   Cargo Vessel And Transport Lashed In Another Area 

Bombers Hit Four Jap Cargo Ships   MacArthur's Raiders Concentrate on Foe’s Merchant Craft

High Court Denies Stephan’s Appeal   Convicted Traitor Faces Gallows

Vinson Ready to Order Subsidy Pay to Millers   Action Is Reported Planned to Offset Bread Price Increase

AFTER HIGH RATINGS   Would Finish Lindley Hall at K. U. in Sixty Day

BRITISH GUNNERS HELD FIRE, ‘THEN OPENED ON NAZIS      27 Tanks Ripped to Pieces In Terrific Point-blank Sarrane. .

Believes Charge That Mate, Alfred De Marigny, Killed Her Wealthy Father Untrue   VISITS ACCUSED IN JAIL CELL IN NASSAU   Denies Parent’s Objection, to Marriage Caused Her  to Enter College Un-  der Maiden Name 

Nancy Oakes Will Fight By Husband’s Side      Believes Charges Made “Fantastic”

Tokens for Rations Coming Next Year; Still Much to Be Worked Qut

RATION COINS READY FOR 1944   OPA Prepares Plan for Meat, Fats and. Processed Foods

MINE PAY FIGHT STILL UP IN AIR   Owners Insist WLB Step In Controversy

SOUTHERN MINERS ALSO REJECT PLAN   Request Wage Dispute Be Referred to WLB

NEW ARGENTINE CHIEF PLEDGES LOYALTY BUT REMAINS NEUTRAL   Will Work More Closely With the United Nations.

RAMIREZ INTO OFFICE   New Argentine Chief Pledges Hemispheric Cooperation but Remains Neutral

SOLDIER DIES ON GALLOWS   Wilkes- Barre Man Hangec In Louisiana After Court Martial

Army Executes Pennsylvania  Soldier-Rapist   Wilkes-Barre Resident Convicted of Larceny And Housebreakine. Alsc

LABOR POOL TO BE BOOSTED BY A8-HOUR WEEK   Addition Estimated By Offi. sials At 10 Pct. Of 6,500,000 Needed   102 AREAS TO BE ADDED!   Lima Among Cities Which Will Be Affected Within Next Six Months

48-Hour Rule To Yield Only 10% MoreMen   President’s Directive Seen as Only Segment of Big Plan

STREAMLINERS ARE HWOLVED INN. CAROLINA   More Than 100 Others Injured; Search for Bodies In Wreckage

Propose Inquiry  Into Lend-Lease   House Republicans To Ask for Probe

ITALY’S RETURN TO 8-HR. WORK DAY IS PEACETIME’ MOVE      All, Deliveries Of Food And War Materials To Germany ~ Halted

ITALY CANCELS FOOD, MATERIAL AID TQ GERMANS   Believed  to. Be First‘ Step . Toward “Peacetime. ‘Ar-.rangement” With Allias.

ITALY HALTS DELIVERIES TO GERMANY   Sending No More Food or War  Materials

Industry Put Back On Eight Hour Day — New Peace Effort Deemed Likely

CEILING PLACED _ ON FRESH FISK   DSeries of Fast Developments _ Follow FDR Order to Halt Price Rises

To Meet Again On Tuesday   Report Government Is Planning To Nationalize Mines For Duration.

Interpreting e War   Catastrophe Looms Before Axians Trapped in Sicily

Another Cape Bon Seen At Messina For German:   Messina Peninsula Itself Has Makings Of Another Bataan With Shoe On "Other Foot’

ELAS ee eee eS Ces eae TOM EMER ee eee  Messina Peninsula Is Death Trap For Nazis

Nice Weather In The Cards   Light Freeze Is Expected Tonight Says State Forecast

\SPRING WEATHER HOLDS   Another Light Freeze Is Forecast For Tonight -

AGED VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR TO MEET TONIGHT IN CHICAGO; SEVEN OR EIGHT G.A.R. MEMBERS EXPECTED

CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT GIVE CHOICE   “Die For Hitler And Mussolini Or Live For Italy And Civilization,” Ultimatum States

Roosevelt, Churchill Give Italians Choice—Surrender Or Die For Hitler

SURRENDER IN HONOR OR BE BLASTED FROM WAR, NATION IS. TOLD   America and Britain Deliver Joint UlItimatum To Unhappy People as Allied Forces Surge on in Sicily.

‘Die For Duce Or Live For  Civilization’   Threaten To Blast Italy Out Of War Unless Nation Quits Axis.   STEP UP PROPAGANDA

Roosevelt And Churchill Give Italians Choice of Surrendering Honorably, or Being Blasted Out of War

Surrender Urged By Churchill And FDR In Statement   Given Choice Of Surrendering Honorably Or Being Blasted Out Of The War

Roosevelt and Churchill Give Bitter Choice   Call on Italians to Choose to Die for Mussolini and Hitler Or Live for Italy

WARN ITALIANS ON POSSIBLE FUTURE FOR PART IN WAR   Ultimatum From Roosevelt, Churchill Tells People Time is Here For Them to Make Decision.   HONORABLE SURRENDER OR BLASTED OUT OF WAR   600-Word Message Gives Them Choice to Die For Hitler, Mussolini or Live For Civilization.

DICTATOR-RIDDEN PEOPLES WARNED TO END CONFLICT   ITALIANS PROMISED SURVIVAL OF NATION IF FASCISTS OUSTED

Roosevelt, Churchill Make Final  Inducement   Italians Are Told To Die For Axis - Or Quit Now

Demand Italian People Overthrov Their-Leaders:   Roosevelt and Churchill Send Drastic: Message

Air Raids Shifted to Mainland   Raiders Swarm Over Italy from All Sides — J].and  Forces Gain in Sicily

Ultimatum Served On Italian People.   Rome Given Chance by Allies to Surrender Or be Blasted Entirely Out of World War

Given Choice Surrender Or  Die For Hitler   President Roosevelt And Churchill Tell People Of Italy Sole Hope Of Survival Lies In Capitulation Now

Allied Leaders Say Time Has Come for Italian People to “Decide Whether Italians Shall Die for Mussolini and Hitler, or Live for Italy and Civilization”— Honorable Capitulation to Overwhelming United Nations Power Ojfered.

Churchill and Roosevelt Issue Virtual Ultimatum To Italian People

Ultimatum Sent To Italians By Allied Leaders   Told To Die For Mussolini or Live For Italy

Surrender Termed By Allied Leaders Only Way Italians May Save Country

F. R., Churchill Call On People To Overthrow Fascism Or Suffer Terrific Battering

SURRENDER - ORDIE ULTIMATUM ISSUED 10 DUCE   Roosevelt and Churchill Tell Italy “Get Out Of War Honor. ably Now, Or Be Blasted Out.”

Ultimatum by Roosevelt and Churchill Tells Italians They Can Die for Hitler and Mussolini or Live for Italy; Honorable Surrender or Be ‘Blasted Out of War’ Alternative Offered

Joint Statement Issued At White House and London   talian People Must Decide To Surrender Honorably Or Be Blasted Out of the War; Warned That They Must Suffer Consequences If They Continue To Tolerate Fascist Regime.

DIE FOR MUSSO AND HITLER OR LIVE FOR ITALY’   Roosevelt and Churchill Make Life or Death Demand of Malian People in Radio Broadeasted Messaves

HONORABLE CAPITULATION IS ONLY HOPE   Statement Gives People Choice of Surrendering or Being Blasted Out of the War   TO AVOID DEVASTATION

Churchill and F.R. Send Out Warning   People Told to Quit Fascist Leaders and Save Fate of Nation

Two Leaders Tell Italy to Quit the Wa   Roosevelt and Churchill Issue Statement Calling on WNation to Surrender Honorably or Be Blasted Out

Jtaly Warned To Surrender Or Die For Duce And Hitler: By President And Churchill

LIMIT ON TIME NOT REVEALED   President Reosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Point Out “Sole Hone.”

ULTIMATUM GIVEN PEOPLE OF ITALY BY FDR, CHURCHILL   Keynote Of Message, “Die For Hitler _ And Mussolini—Or Live For Italy And For Civilization” — No Limit OnTime   INVASION IS THREATENED; _ CAPITULATION HONORABLE

“Quit Honorably Or Be Blasted Out Of The War, Statement Of Allied Leaders Addc.

MESSAGE CALLS FOR END OF RESISTANCE TO UNITED NATIONS   Betrayal by ‘False and Corrupt’ Leaders Cited; Airplanes Scatter Leaflets and Radio Helps Pound Message Home

“Surrender or _ Be Blasted Quit of War”   Roosevelt and Chi Churchill Tell Italians Now Is the Time to Decide   ‘DIE FOR MUSSOLINI OR LIVE FOR ITALY?’   Message Sent by Radio and Leaflets Are Dropped From Planes

Ultimatum Is Given To Italy   FDR AND CHURCHILL IN BLUNT STATEMENT TO DUCE

FDR and Churchill Warn Italians to Get Out of War or Suffer Consequences   Message Is Drummed Into Italian Ears   Overthrow of Fascist Regime Strongly Urged

Allied Leaders Tell Italians Only Hope of Survival Lies in Honorable  ‘Capitulation to Overwhelming Might of Allies. Ultimatum Beamed by Radio and Leaflets Dropped.

Surrender Or Be Blasted Out Of War Is FDR-Churchill Ultimatum To Italians

If They Continue With Nazis They'll Take Consequences   Message Calls Attention To Skies Already Dominated By Allied Air Forces

lfalians Can Surrender Or Be Blasted Out   Roosevelt and Churchill Give Hitler's Ally Her Choice

President Roosevelt, Prime Minister — Churchill Make Formal Statement °

Fascist Nation fs Offered Honorable Exit From War   United Nations Now Holding Control Of Sky and Sea

OE EEA VLEIMIA LUN ORIN PP ALY . a  Surrender Or Be Blasted Out Of War. Htalians Thiy  WASHDINGCHTH rT.

“FACE RUN, SAY "ATED MESSHEE   Appeal Contained in Leaflets and Radio Broadcasts   PEOPLE ADVISED TO REMOVE MUSSOLINI

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL SEND NOTE TO ITALY   Warn Italians Of Determination To Destroy Axis

LIFE OR DEATH CHOICE GIVEN ITALIAN PEOPLE   Must Overthrow Duce Or Face Invasion  Allies Declare

Allied Ultimatum Given To Italians   F. D. R, Churchill Issue Ultimatum, Demand Italians Overthrow Axis Leaders, Or Face Home War

FDR, Churchill Send Ultimatum To ltaly   Tell People They Must Decide Whether To Die For Mussolini And Hitler—Or To Live For Their Fatherland

SURRENDER OR BE BLASTED 10 KINGDOM COME   Whether To Die For Hitler - I Duce Or Live For Italy, Civilization Left Up To People

Ultimatum *. Delivered .  Early Today:   Prime Minister and U. S: President Act Jointly In Issuing Statement °-

‘Die For Mussolini, Hitler Or Live For Italy” People Told   President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Deliver Ultimatum Without Time Limit Saying “Sole Hope” Fer Survival Lies in “Honorable Capitulation.”

(TALIANS GET ULTIMATUM TB ~GEASE BATTLE   Roosevelf, Churchill Send Joint Appeal: “Surrender or Be Blasted.”   FASCIST LEADERSHIP i$ TERMED SHAMEFUL

Roosevelt, Churchill Serve Life-or-Death  Demand to Surrender   Italian People Asked To Overthrow Their Leaders and Make Peace or Suffer the Consequences of Total War

DIE FGR MUSSOLINI AND HITLER OR LIVE FOR ITALY’, WARNING   Life-Or-Death Choice Gliven People; Planes Droy Leaflets Urging Italians To Oust Leaders, Make Peace

Roosevelt and Churchill Issue Statement, Broadcast by Radio And Dropped in Leaflet Form

FDR-Churchill Tell People . to Rid Selves of Corrupt _ Fascists, Regain World Respect   :   Sole Hope of Survival Remains With People’s Decision; Nazis Have Used Italy Ruthlessly, Criminally to  Further Own Crooked Means.

Italian People Told Time Has Come To Make Decision   Italy And Civilization’ Says Note

Surrender or Die—Ultimatum   “Perish for Mussolini and Hitler Or Live for Italy and Civilization,’ Joint Statement Gives Nation Choice

CHURCHILL SEND MESSAGE   Time to Decide Whether tc Die for Duce, Hitler, Or To Live.   LEAFLETS ARE DROPPED

U ltimatum Is Gi iven Ttaly By Roosevelt Churchill   People Given Choice Of Honorable Surrender Or Being Blasted Out Of War By Allied Power

Leaflets, Broadcasts Call on Italians to  ‘Live for Civilization’

OFFER POPULACE LAST CHANCE TO AVOID INVASION   —_—Vv— FDR, Churchill Declare Life-or-Death Ultimatum.

Honorable Surrender  Is Offered   People Must Decide Whether To “Die For Mussolini And Mitler Or Live For Italy And Civilization”; Vast Armadas Poised

LIVE OR DIE CHOICE IS PRESENTED   Destruction Of False Leaders Promised In Statement

Italian People Told They, May Die for Duce or Live for Italy      LEAFLETS DROPPED         Churchill Joins in Demand Broadcast in Great Propaganda Drive

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Issues Virtual Ultimatum to Italian People to Decide Whether Country Will Die for Dictators Or Live  For Italy and Civilization

Ultimatum Comes As Allies Reveal Capture of 20,000 Prisoners In Sicily Campaign   British Again Beat Off German Tanks In Drive Toward Catania; Naples Battered In Air Assault

Given the Choice of Surrend ering Honorably or Being Blasted Out of the  War. i   CALL UPON ITALIAN PEOPLE TO DECIDE   Whether They Shall Die for Mussolini and Hitler or  Live for Italy and   Civilization.

ITALY GIVEN CHOICE OF QUITTING OR BEING BLASTED OUT OF WAR      ROOSEVELT AND CHURCH. ILL ISSUE JOINT VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM

Roo -velt And Churchill issu. Demand As Allies Ex; nd Drive In Sicily

ITALIANS GIVEN DEMAND 10 GET RIDORILDUCE   Dennte Advised Time Hac   People Advised Time Has  Come to Choose Their   Path; Urged to ‘Live   For Country’   MESSAGE RADIOED  BY ALLIED POINTS   Reminded That Greatest _ Aerial and Sea Force   In History Menaces   Italian Cities

DANES SCUTTLE 4) OF 6) SHIPS. IN THEIR FLEET   King Christian Held by Nazis; Death of Boris Still Mystery

Bulk Of Danish ~ Fleet Scuttled To Foi German   Report Sonte Df Danish Cabinet Members Escape Nazis—King Christian Held

Last 45 Of ‘Denmark Fleet Units Scuttled   Destruction of Fleet I: Confirmed   The Statement

DENMARK UNDER MILITARY RULE RULER PRISONER   Warships and Ammunitior Stores Are Destroyed in Copenhagen

Seek 3,500,000 U.S. Crop Corps   Nationwide Drive For Enlistments

Wickard Plans Farm Aid Drive   "U.S. Crop Corps To ._Be Organized Soon

PLAN EARLY DRIVE FOR ‘CROP CORPS   GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO ENLIST URBAN RESIDENTS FOR FARM WORK.

CHOP CORPS PLANNED TQ HELP FARMERS   Giant Army Of Volunteer: Sought For Farms

U.S. Crop Corps To Be Enlisted   Urban Folks, Pupils, Unemployed Laborers to Be Asked to Join

Abandon Fight On Dad Draft   May Presses for Induction of U.S. Workers

SEEK TO DRAFT ‘A LOST ARMY   May Scores Absence of Government Workers From Uniform

FATHER DRAFT TO GO THROUGH ~~ SOLONS AGREE   New Demand Raised for * Federal Employe Induction

Federal Jobs May Yield Men For War Service  Too Many Exempt Congress Learns,

‘Lost Army’ Faces Draft   Bloc Wants to Call . Federal. Pay-Rollers

NEW PLAN OFFERED TO PUT CURB ON DRAFT OF FATHERS   Spotlight Focused on More Than 300,000 Non-fathers In Government Work

THOUSANDS OF NON - FATHERS IN U. S.. JOBS   Congressional Block Seeks To Drive Into Uniforms Large Army of Federal Employes   HALF ARE ELIGIBLE

Drops Fight On Drafting of Fathers   Congressional Bloc Backing Deferment Move Turns to Call of U, S. Workers      BELIEVES MANY . COULD BE TAKEN      300,000 Non-Fathers of Draft Age Said to Be in the Federal Service

Fight Abandoned On Father Draft   Congress Now Moves te Get Lost Army of U. S.  Employes in Uniforms.

Father Draft Bloc Abandons Fight   Seeks Now to Smoke Out Federal Workers

300,000 Non-Fathers Reported in Government Employ’ at Washington and Demand for Explanation From Selective Service Officials is Plan ned.   WHEELER BILL IS OUT

ABANDON FIGHT TO OUTLAW THE FATHER DRAFT   It Would Be Futile to Press the Legislation, Chairman May Said Today.   ‘CALL “THE LOST ARMY”   Attempt Will Be Made to Put Into Uniform Thousands of Federal Workers.

Opponents Of Draft Are Attempting To Force Government Employes Into Armed Services

INDUCTION OF MANY FEDERAL WORKERS AIM   Contended Thousands Are Available; Opponents of  Father Draft Concede Defeat

CONGRESSMEN INVESTIGATING U, $, EMPLOYES   Says Enough Men In Washington For Draft

\Seeks Induction bee . : a  For Government   May Says Hershey Will Be: ~~ Asked For Qpinion On, ‘Lost Army’ Of 300,000

ABANDON FIGHT ON DADS DRAFT   Seek-to Drive ‘Lost Army’ Of 300,000 Bureaucrats Into Uniform.

SOLONS QUIT FIGHT TO BAN FATHER DRAFT   iNew Demand Raised for  Induction of Federal  Employes   CALLED LOST ARMY   House Committee Asks Why 300,000 Gov’t Men Are Not in Uniform

FATHER DRAFT HELD CERTAIN   Congress Foes Abandon Fight; May Check Federal Employes

Going After “‘Lost Army’’ Of 300,000 Congressional Leaders  Abandon Fight Against Drafting Family Men

DEMAND RAISED FOR DRAFT OF U. §. EMPLOYES   Father Draft To Go Through, Opponents Concede

Solons Seeks to Put “Lost Army” of Thousands of Federal Workers Into ‘Unifornis: Abandon Father Draft Fight

CONGRESSIONAL BLOC SEEKS TO CUSHION  IMPACT FATHER-DRAFT  Abandons Fight to  © Outlaw Fathers  Dreaft

Foes Of Father Draft Abandon Congress Fight   Steps Taken To Force Gov't Payrollers Into The Army

Abandon Fight In Congress To  Balk Dad Draft   Solons Raise A New Demand For Induction Of Federal Employes.

MARSHALL MAY HEAD ASSAULTS   U, S. General Expected To Direct 3-Front Blows At Axis

\Conferences Seen [As Sign of Early  Invasion By Land   Attack Expected To Be Launched This Winter Or Early Next Spring

News Behind The News  Copyright NeCiure Newapaper   WASHINGTON Re Bay Tacker

FINAL VERSION OF TAX BILL TO RAISE REVENUE      However Raise Will Be Only Slight — Bill Ready For Committee

Youth Admits Killing Boys   Reform School Parolee Also Confesses to Attacking Another Child

Hold Youth For Double Slaying   Report Confession in Cleveland Case

AWAITS GIRAUD   White House Expects Visif From French Army Leader.

Tax Secrecy Bill Is Passed By Assembly   Measure Goes Back To Senate After Debate In Which Striking Of Blows Is Threatened

New Livestock Council Seeking to Equalize Meat Demand and Supply

COUNCIL AIMS AT ~ EVEN MEAT FLOW   Want Military Orders to Be Regular, as Against Spasmodic Buying,   DEMAND BASED ON ° LIVESTOCK SUPPLY

UNIONS GET SAY ON STEEL HIRING   Granted Consultation Under 48-Hour Week Order

ROUND-THE-CLOCK BOMBING OF EUROPE CONTINUED BY RAF   Hundreds of Bombers Carry Out “Saturation Raid” On St. Nazaire, France

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   “Hitler First” Campaign Of Allies Facing Test As Jap Peril Grows

PLEDGE OF AID BY CHURCHILL HALLELUJAHED   Prime Minister Tells Con gress His Nation Will Battle With U. S. to . Destroy Japan   FEW DISSENTERS   Most Senators See ir Speech Complete Answer to Those Favoring Making Japan No. 1 Enemy

Congress Praises  Churchill Pledge   Sen. Chandler, However, Thinks Some Questions Unanswered.

Churchill to Meet With Strategy Unit Of United Nations   Premier’s Pledge of Assistance Against Tokyo Elicits U. S. Praise; Chandler Sees Questions Ienored

Churchill’s Pledge  Of Finish War on Japs  Hailed by American:   Prime Minister to Meet With Pacific War Council at White House Today and With Dominion Envoys Later

Stark Favored Leader When Invasion Opens   Will Have Prominent Role, Experts Say; British Wonder at Reports From U. S.

HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIALS CALLED TO WASHINGTON WHILE SIMILAR CONFERENCES ON IN LONDON   Germans Reported Engaged in Feverish Activity Of Counter-Invasion Nature. Allied Leaders Believed Workirig Out Final Details Big Push.

Stark’s Arrival _Bolsters Talk Of ‘Grand Slam   Sir Alan Brooke Is Back From Italy; Giraud Due In Londen For Talks

Details Of Assault On Europe Are Worked Out   Admiral Stark, Head Of ULS. Naval Forces In European Waters, Is In Washington

STARK LIKELY TO... PLAY MAJOR ROLE IN INVASION MOVE   Naval Commander In -U. S.  Capital for Talks Expected to Center on Final Details of European Assault

London Bubbles Over With Rumors   Adm. Stark's Trip To U. S. Seen as Invasion Prelude

Admiral Stark returns to Washington to confer upon final details of invasion

Stark Returns From Europe  Expected to Confer On Final Details Of Invasion

Meeting May Map Strategy for  Invasion by Sea  Admiral Stark Goes To Washington; Other Heads Confer

Push Plans For Attack On Europe      Admiral Stark Returns To U. S, Presumably To Confer On Details Of  Sea-Borne Invasion

STARK IN U.S. FOR CONFAB ON INVASION PLAN   Great Fleets Carrying Yanks Are Reported England-Bound

Map Details Of Invasion   Military Leaders Work Out Final Plans; Nazis ‘Strengthen Defenses

Staff Talks © on Invasion .  Being Held   London Tells of Moves by Top Leaders as: More U.S. Troops -Pow In   ADMIRAL STARK S “TO WASHINGTON   British Are Surprised by. Reports That Marshall Will. Not Head: Drive

Adm. Stark ir Washington   Fleet Chief to Join in Parieys on Details OF European Invasion

INVASION TALK STRESSED AGAIN   Britain Hears General Marshall May Not Lead Stab at Continent

Adm. Stark Returns To U. 5.   Pre-Invasion Conferences Believed Under Way

George Urges Byrnes To Avert Railroad Strike, Congress May Take Han

ASK BRYNES: HEAD OFF RAIL STRIKE   Senator George Appeals to Brynes to Settle Wage Issue Before Congress Intervenes

Asks Byrnes to Head Off Strike  Sen. George Requests Wage Adjustment

Byrnes Urged To Ward Off Strike  Rail Pay Adjustment Sought By Sen. George

TWO DIE AS RESULT OF FIRES IN HOMES   Madison Man and Omre Farmer Are Sutfocated By Smoke.

More Stringent Gas Rationing May Be Necessary Unless Other Sources Used

MORE SEVERE GAS RATIONS LOOM IN U.S   Better Use of Petroleum in Other Parts of World Hold Answer to Situation in America

5th Army Opens Full Offensive In Naples Area   Nazi Air Fleet Is Shot Down Over Corsica; Blockade  Intensified

Draft Rules Explained To Boards         New Selective Service Regulations Many Angles

Will Discuss New Draft Rules   Regulations to Be Outlined to Some Local Boards

DRAFT CHANGE   New Selective Service Regulations to be. Announced Monday.

Would Halt “Unpatriotic And Wasteful Expenditures”   Bi-Partisan Move On At Washington To Restrict Spending By New Deal Agencies

GROWING DEMANDS Ih CONGRESS RESTRICT NEW DEAL SPENDING  MOVE MADE TO LIMIT NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD FUND

GROWING DEMANDS Ih CONGRESS RESTRICT NEW DEAL SPENDING MOVE MADE TO LIMIT ON NATIONAL RESOURCES  BITBT OS wri tere TTB.

Bomiyer Makes Score Against Enemy Vessel in Pacific  Scouts Report Japs Are Enlarging Force at Big Base

BOMBERS SIGHT BIG JAP CONVOY   Near Miss Is Scored: Enemy Concentrates Craft At Rabaul

Allies score hear miss on J apanese ship   Strafe 5 Jap held villaces

Yanks Push To Ragusa, Join  Britons From Syracuse; Axis  Tank Wedge Is Smashed

Assaults Carry 25 Miles Inland In Sicily Drive   American, Canadian ' Forces United At Key Rail Town of Ragusa

Sky Fleets Make 1,000 Sorties in Single Day   Enemy Loses 100 War Planes, Destroyer, Ships

KNOCK DOWN 48 ENEMY PLANES, BLAST SHIPPING   = Only 12 Allied Planes Lost In i,000 Sorties Over Africa, Italy

Enemy Losses Include 18 Air  Transports   U. S. and British Troops Hold  Initiative an Crannd

Enemy Sea and: Air Lines Hit in: Mediterranean’   48 Planes Are: :.. Destroyed; Supply Ships Set Afire :

FLIERS MAKE 1000 SORTIES IN ONE DAY   All Records Smashed By Allied Fliers In Attacks

0)» Ved Fe ee es ee ee ae a a  Allied Airmen Make 1,000 Raids On Axis Forces In North Africa, ~ Blow Up 48 Planes, Destrover

Score great victory in thousand sorties   American, British armies retain initiative in Tunisian operations

ALLIES DOWN 48 PLANES, LOSE 12   Airmen Score Big Victory Over Luftwaffe

Records In No. Africa.         DESTROYED 58 PLANES, BLEW: UP DESTROYER AND SET FIRE: TO SUPPLY SHIPS EN ROUTE 2 TO TUNISIA 

1,000 Sorties Made By Allied , Planes In Africa   48. Axis Aircraft Said Destroyed; Supply Vessels Set Afire -

1000 SORTIES MADE AGAINST ENEMY: 49 AXIS PLANES LOST   Ground Troops Holding Initiative In Patrol Operations—New Battle Expected

Warren Backs Tax Findings   COMMITTEE REPORTS ON WAYS TO SPEND LEVY MONIES

House Will Act Soon On Senate Draft Measure   Measure Is Substitute For Sen. Wheeler’s Deferment sill

SENATE VOTES 10 CUT DEFERMENTS, HIKE ALLOWANCES   Quick House Vote Due On Substitute for Wheeler Bill   LARGE INCREASE FOR CHILDREN 15 PASSED

TWO OHIGANS IN BOMBER CRASH   Plane Hits World’s Largest liluminating Gas Storage Tank at Chicago

Stark Youth Meets Death  In Inferno   {Bomber Crashes Into And ignites Gas Storage Tank

DEATH TOLL TO 15, NINE MISSING   soldiers Give Up Search for Six Buddies, 3° Others In Flood Area

Hope For 9 On Pontoon  Is Abandoned   Two Dozen Lives Likely Lost In Oklahoma Flood

Flood Toll Mounting   Nine Persons, Missing Since Boat Overturned, Are Given Up As Lost

Army Abandon: Hope for Nine InFlood Zone   Soldiers Search Water Islands and Treétops To Arkansas Line Without Success

Strike May Hinder  Training OF Pilots  100 Workmen Stop Jobs At West Point

U.S. Airmen Perfect Bombing Technique In Foravs Over Axis-Held Positions

French Delay Nazi Supplies   Dispatch From France Says Derailment At Evires Made 3 Months Delav.

Sabotage Of Rail Lines Leading Into Italy Halt Troop Movements   French Underground Getting In Telling Blows Against Nazis Trying To Pour. Supplies And Reinforcements Into Italy.

Axis Claims Attack Upon Htalian Isle Frustrated  German Radio Says Combined Anglo-America Forces Wiped Out In Attempt To Take Islanc

NAZIS BEGIN LARGE SCALE RETREAT BELOW VITAL OREL   Fight Desperate Delaying Action To Cover Retreat Of Big  Forces

GERMANS FLEEING FROM OREL AREA   Large Scale Withdrawals Made Below City, Red  Nlacccoranen Asearta.

German Troops Begin Retreat tn Orel Area   Large-Scale Withdrawals Signal Success Of Reds

NAZIS BEGIN WITHDRAWING BELOW OREI   Enemy Forces. Burning Villages As They Fall Back

NAZIS LEAVING OREL, REDS SAY   Battle For South - Central Front Bastion Reported Nearing Climax

GIVING UP POSITIONS   Large-Scale Withdrawals Below Orel Reported as Russians Press Forward.

Germans Begin Withdrawals Below Orel   Enemy Fighting Rear Guard Delavine Actionn

Nazi Withdrawal From Orel Under Way, Soviets Say   ‘Large-Scale Removal Of Troops Started; Retreat  Being Covered By Desparate Rear Guard Action

“Gt Be  -  Fight Desperate Rear-Guard Action £ ~~ ** es  Nazis Withdrawing In Orel Area

MAN IS SEIZED IN GUN MURDER   Suspect Hunted For Three Months In Slaying Of Exdetective’s Wife

ARREST MAN ON MURDER CHARGE   End Three-Month Search. for Suspect in Canton Rooming House

WORKER HELD FOR SLAYING WOMAN, 45   Ambush Death of Ex-cop’s Wife Solved :

100-Plane Raid Ruins Gasmata   TWO NIP AIRCRAFT DOWNED AS BOMBERS STRIKE FROM MINIMUM ALTITUDE; RABAUL STABBED IN NEW SOUTH PACIFIC SWEEPS

Japs Retuse. To Be Lured Bv Task Force   Hammer Blow Believed Poised Now For _PRahanl __

 Nazis Stiffen Resistance In Italian  Zorle To Check Allied March On Rome   BRITISH BIGHTH ARMY HAS TOUGHEST FIGHT

SOUVENIR ITALIAN DAGGERS AND JAP MACHINE GUNS ARE SENT BACK HOME BY YANKS

Early Action On Nation's Largest Tax Bill Unlikely   “FR Announces New Revenue Plans Will Be Sent To Congress.

Higher Taxes On Cigarets and Liquor Suggested   Roosevelt Reveals  He Will Sign Pay-Go Tax Bill

TAX BILL DEBATE IS FAGING DELAY      Early Congressional Con. sideration of Measure Appears As Unlikely,

CONGRESS TO TABLE NEXT TAX PROGRAM UNTIL FALL, BELIEF   Roosevelt Expects T: Sign Compromise Pay-Go Bill

REVENUE BILL MAY BE DELAYED   House Committee Inclined To Put Off Tax Consideration Till Fall

BERLIN ADMITS NORTHERN WING 1S THREATENED   Meanwhile, Eighth Army, Prodding Fortifications of Mareth Line Beyond Medenine   AMERICANS GIRDING FOR THRUST AT FOE   U. S. Tanks and British Artillery Break Nazi Offensive, French Commander Says

British Artillery Aids In Checking Offensive, French Leader Says   Battered U. S. Forces Are Regrouping Along Algerian-Tunisian Border; Eighth Army Exnected Te PR akawa Aonnawminawc

Judge Decrees Detroit Traitor To Die April 27   German-Born Max Stephan is Appeal To President

Traitor Gets New Execution Date   Counsel Again Asking Supreme Court For Execution Stay.

MAX STEPHAN 10 DIE APRIL 27   Traitor Weeps While  Receiving Sentence

aE] STEP EXECUTION: OATE   German e Born, Convictec Traitor Sentenced to Die at Milan Prison. Anri! 27.

Traitor Must Die April 27   Only Recourse Now Is Appeal To President

Execution Date For Stephan Set   Sentenced to Die At Milan, Mich.., April 27

-EXECUTION DATE SET   Max Stephan to Pay Full Penalty for Treason

Execution of Stephan Sef For April 27   President Roosevelt Alone Can Save Traitor, Presiding Judge Tuttle Tells Condemned Man

Traifor’s Death is Sef April 27   Stephan’s Plea to Schedule Execution In May Is Refused

Stephan Weeps As Court Sets Hanging Date   Judge Tuttle Refuses Pleas To Grant Traitor More Time For New Appeal

MAX STEPHAN SENTENCED TO DIE APRIL 27   Convicted German-Born Traitor Told Only Hope Now is Clemency of President Roosevelt

Stephan’s Plea For Life Fail   Detroit Traitor Will Die On Aoril 27

Execution of Stephan Set  German-Born Detroit Man Naren whee  a ae

TRAITOR 10 DIE ON GALLOWS FOR AID 10 GERMAN   Federal Jurist Sentences Detroit Tavern Owner — to Be Executed In Prison April.27   German-born Man Assisted Nazi Flier to Escape — After Flight From Canadian Camp

Traifor Must Die Later This Month   Max Stephan Weeps At Court Hearing

Traitor To Die On April il 27  Ca. kt OT.   Stephan’s Execution Date Set By Court

Twenty-live Cent Hike In  Crude Seen   Commissioners Say OPA To Authorize  Price Advance

RED FORCES CONVERGE ON VYAZMA BASE   After Hammering Way Into Over 100 Cities Russians Plunge After Re treating Nazis   EQUIPMENT ABANDONED

AUGUIANG KEEP GLO Ot BEHIND FLEEING NAZIS   More Than 100 Settlements Recaptured In 24 Hours By Rampaging Reds

Reds Press On After Nazi Force:   Capture More Fortifications On Road to Vyazma

NAVY HURLING NEW CHALLENGE AT JAP FLEET   Strong Carrier Task Forces Pounding At Japanese In Marshalls   NO DETAILS OF ATTACK   Undersea Arm Also Strikes Telling Blow At Enemy Craft In Pacific

U.S. MOVING AHEAD ON ALL WAR FRONTS   American Fleet, Providing Contrast, Now Challenges Nips

American Land, Sea, Air Forces Pushing Ahead on All Fronts on War’s Anniversar!

EASTERN KENTUCKY TOWN GOES BERSERK   Mob Raids and Wrecks Interior of Municipal Building Protesting Curfew

GRIZZELL, FARR GANG MURDER IS MYSTERY   Hangers-On of Old Shelton Tribe Known to Coles Officers

Today’s War Commentary  Complacency Military Men Fear Tt At Home

FLOODS MAY WIPE OUT BIG LEVEES   Mississippi Awaits Arrival Of Flood Crests

FLOODS DAMAGE MIDWEST AREA   Rampaging Waters Drive 82,000 From Homes

FLOODS DRIVE 82,000 FROM THEIR HOMES   Six States Included In 500-Mile Wide - Fleoded Area

Japs Desperate In Effort To Reach Coast   Present Aim Is Not To Recapture Finschhafen Near Objective

NEW GUINEA JAPS. ATTEMPTING TO REACH THE COAST   These Forces, Pressed on Two ' Sides by Aussies, Not. Trying to. Recapture. Finschhafen But Merelv Reach Coastline

mperiled by Australian  Troops: Nor Trying toRecapture Finschhaten. Presentiv, Claim

JAPS FIGHT FIERCELY IN ESCAPE EFFORT   Australians Converge on 2 Sides

Japanese Battle  To Reach Coast   Aussica On Both Sides! Foe Makes Progress

JAPS BATTLE SAVAGELY 10 REACH COAST   Nipponese Presently Believed Not to Be Trying to Recapture Base of Finschhafen

Japs Battle To Reach Coast   Enemy Not Trying to Retake Finschhafen, Allied Leader Says

HEAVY BATTLE RAGES ABOVE FINSCHHAFEN   Japs Gain Some iround By Infiltration

Japs Striking For Coast in New Guinea      \Sharp Fighting Reported Near Katika; Six Planes Downed at Wewak

JAPANESE FIGHT TO REACH NEW GUINEA COAST   Nips Not Trying To Retake Big Air Base at Finschhafen

JAPS BATTLE DESPERATELY TO REACH SEA   Aussies Reported Imperilling Enemy Forces in New Guinea Jungle from Two Sides

JAPS BATTLE TO REACH NEW GUINEA COAST   Enemy Gives Up Hope To Take Back Town

Japs Battling To Reach Coast   Jap Airmen In Six-Hour Night Raid On Allied  Positions.

Jap Soldiers North of Finschhafen Fight Savagely to Flee Australians

JAPS DATTLING TOWARD OCEAN   Foe Not Trying to Recapture Finschhafen, Says Allied Spokesman.

JAPANESE BATTLE TO REACH COAST OF NEW GUINEA   AUSTRALIANS BEAT OFF ATTACKS BUT NIPS MAKE GAINS

Japs Attempt To Battle To Coast Of New Guinea   Furious Fights Rage At Finschhafen As Ninos Trv To Escape

JAPANESE BATTLING  FURIOUSLY AGAINST  AUSTRALIAN FORCES ENEMY IMPERILED BY  ALLIES ON TWO SIDES NEAR FINSCHAFEN

JAPS FIGHT ON TOWARD COAST   Nips Battle Savagely To Reach Haven Near Finschhafen

JAPS BATTLE 10 ESCAPE JUNGLE   Both Sides Resort To Aerial Attacks in New Guinea

Japs Battle Fiercely To Reach Coast   Apparently Not Attemnting to Retake Finschhafen But to Escane

- Chinese Army Organ Says “We Shall Soon See on ‘The Battlefields the Divisions Reached in Chung. king””” Paper Suggests Pincer Movement on Burma   JAPS BATTLING SAVAGELY NORTHWEST OF  FINSCH \ o

JAPS BATTLING TO REACH COAST   Not Trying To Recapture Finschhafen, Although Objective Is Only Few Miles To The North.

Japs Attempt To Battle Way Through Jungle   Some Progress Made by Enemy In New Guinea

INPANESE FIGHT. “TOREACH Cok  Imperiled By Australians      Imperiled By Australians, Enemy Putting Up Desperate Battle   ATTACKS CHECKED   Mountbatten Returns To India After Conference With Chiang

Japs Fighting To Hold Onto Gains   AUSSIES NOW THREATEN TO CUT OFF ENEMY

Last Week For Second  War Loan   Don’t Just “Buy a Bond,” But Buy '  Big-Last Week

Coffee Ration Not To Change But There’s Chance Of  An Increase Saon

Remember Master-Minds Of Crop Limitation? They Are Running Food Conference!

Food Meet — Gets Down To Business   American Delegates Are Prominent in Early Sessions

Governor’s Tax Plans Are Killed   Senate Committee Knocks Out Measure Calling for Merger of Agencies   COMPLETES WRECKING OF HIS PROGRAM   State Office Building and Soil Districts Plan Are Given Approval

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS POSSIBLE   : Industry Members Address Themselves to Congress — Urging Immediate Consideration

Amendments To War Labor Act Urged.... . WLB, Fearing Another  Coal Crisis, Pleading  For Greater Authority

Members Plead ‘Lack Of Power To Handle Case   Plea Made To Congress To Consider - Amendments To Labor Disputes Act

New Crisis In Coal Industry Is Perplexing   War Labor Board Pleads Poverty of Authority to Deal With Situation   ACT NEEDS AMENDING

Unsolved Coal Problems Point To New Crisis   - War Labor Board Pleads Poverty Of Authority To Deal With It.

WLB Seeks More Power for Action   Members See Possibility of Another Coal Crisis and Plead for Authority

Labor-Lew « TeethAsked   WLB Thinks Another Coal Crisis Possible

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS POSSIBLE   WLB Sees Need of More Power to Require ‘Responsibility of Unions’

Another Coal Crisis Feared   War Labér Board Members Say More Powers Will Be Necessary To Handle New Troubles

WAR LABOR BOARD  ASKS CONGRESS FOR  LAW AMENDMENTS BELIEVED ANOTHER COAI  CRISIS POSSIBLE AND WANT REAL POWER

WLBAsks More Authority   Doubts Ability to Handle Any Future Crisis Under Present Limitations

WLB ANTICIPATES MORE STRIKES IN COAL PRODUCTION   Pleading Poverty of Authority Industry Members In Move to Congress Seeks More Legislation.   ASKS THREE-WAY PROTECTION FOR FUTURE   ‘Public Members See Possibilities of New Issue Over Travel Time When Mines Are Returned.

War Labor Board Powerless to Deal With Expected Coal Crisis, It Says

WAACS INCLUDED: IN LARGER ARMY   Stimson Reveals Plans te Raise Corps Enlistments 150,000

FARM BUREAU ELECTS J. F. INGELS PRES.   ere at the GTher” Officers Were Elected at th  Anntal Meeting In the Methodist Church Wednesday Nigkt

221 TONS OF BOMBS LEVEL ENEMY BASES      Dropped By Liberators Assaulting Positions Northwest of Finschhafen, New Guinea.   Attack Lae

Enemy Jungle Strong ‘Point Smashed   Pulverizing Attack Virtually Levels Nipyronese Positions

Enemy Jungle Base Bombed   Jap Positions Hard Hit Near Finschhafen

RAIDERS DESTROY DEFENSES OF JAPS   MANY ENEMY TROOPS KILLED IN THEIR STRONGHOLD ABOVE FINSCHHAFEN,

30-Year-Old OPA Counsel Get Exemption as Irreplaceable ‘Now Seeking Commission

British Mission Arrives To Plan Cooperation In Moves Aqainst Japan

PLAN INVENTORY OF REGISTRANTS   Draft Boards Begin Check On Status Of All Men Enrolled To Relieve Drain Of PrePearl Harbor Fathers

Boards Check To Cut Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Being Called In October

Sicily, Sardinia May Be Invaded  Soon, Axis Fears   Immediate Blow Would Speed Foe’s Defeat In Tunisia

INVASION PROGRAM OF ALLIES RAISED BY AXIS ON RADIC      Question If Sicily or Sardinia May Be Raided ta Speed Tunisian Action.

es  . ES  = eS ENA NEWS AULLFING         Three Enemy Planes Destroyed Over Engiana

“Hub Artillery Officer Said. First. . American In. Italian Invasion

A NEW COUNTY WORRY   Emergency Warrants May Be Necessary to Meet Salary Hikes

U.S. Troops Gain As Tunisian Fight Grows in Tempo  Vast Forced Retreat  By Axis in Russian  Theater Indicated BLAST RABAUL AGAIN  Further Progress In Guadalcanal Sweep Reported

NAZIS FACING CRISIS ALONG ; SOVIET FRONT   HUGE GERMAN ARMY MAY BE   TRAPPED IN DONETS BABIN JAP BASES ARE   + WRECKED   By INTERNATIONAL‘N £VvsS eSprevice

NAZI LINKS IN DONETS NEAR COLLAPSE —   Germans Battle Desperately All Along 700-Mile Front

GERMAN FORGE HoHT Fn LIFE UN AOS FRONT   Red Army Advance Threat. en Collapse of Nazi Lines in Donets Bas n.

GERMAN FORCES FIGHT FOR LIFE (A RUSS. FRON)   Red Army Advance Threat: en Collapse of Nazi Lines in Donets Bas‘n.

- BALKANS REPORTED   Guerrilla Armies Locked in Struggles Over Wide Front

Guerrillas Hack At Nazi Forces   Yugoslavs, Albanians Battle Rommel

ROMMEL SENDS 39,000 MEN TO ALBANIAN LINE   Three Guerilla Armies Unite Against German Forces; Danube Is Threatened

Guerrilla Armies Battle Rommel In West Balkans  Three Groups Locked In Struggle Of Rising Ferocity

Three Balkan Armies Battle Rommel Forces   Yugoslav ‘Regulars’ Capture Two Towns; Albanians Are Active

BALKAN FRONT ERUPTS AGAIN FOR ROMMEL   YUGOSLAV ARMIES LAUNCH WIDE OFFENSIVE

GUERRIELA HORDES ENGAGE GERMANS   THREE INSURGENT ARMIES BATTLE ROMMEL OVER WIDE BALKAN FRONT.

35,000 Nazis Reported Rushed from Macedonia To Reinforce Albania

Guerrilla Armies Battle Rommel In West Balkans  Three Groups Locke  ; Re Te   Three Groups Locked In Struggle Of Rising Ferocity

Three Patriot . Armies Active   Bitter Battles Are  Deantna Tw Betlekee

BITTER BATTLES IN BALKANS REPORTED   Guerrilla Armies Locked in Struggles Over Wide Front

Germans in Full Retrea! After Losing Orel anc Belgorod; Soviet Offen: sive Gains.

MAY FLANK NAZI BASE   Encircling Drive From Belgorod Seen; Reds Head For Bryansk

VICTORY-FLUSHED REDS BY - PASS ~ THE GREAT GIT)   Meanwhile Mazi Forces are  Fleeing All Along Line.  Eryannk Also Threatened.

Orel, Belgorod Fall In Fierce Russ Onslaught   Soviets Move Ahead  In Pincers Maneuver Against Bryansk

KHARKOV AND BRYANSK NEXT RUSSIAN COALS   Nazi Armies In Chaotic Flight From Orel And Belgorod

Bryansk May Fall; Nazis Buckle Fast; Great Rout Likely   Beaten Nazis Streaming Back From Scenes of Smarting Defeats; Swi Drive Threatens to Topple Ukraine

Red Army Forces Capture Belgorod, By-Pass Kharkov   Victory-Flushed Russians Threaten to Encircle Kharkov, Great German Base As Offensive Gains Momentum

FLANKING MOVE AIMED AT NAZI KHARKOV BASE   Pincers Maneuver On Bryansk Follows Orel Fall to Russians

RUSSIANS BY-PASS KHARKOV IN DRIVE TO ENCIRCLE BASE   Reds Start Pincérs Move ’ Against Bryansk — Offensive Gains -Momentum

VICTORY-FLUSHED RUSSIANS BY-PASS . INDUSTRIAL CITY   Advance Beyond Kharkov With Flanking —Drive (In Move For Possible Encircl ~ ing of German Base.   STRONG RESISTANCE GIVEN TO AMERICANS   Yanks Seek to Break Road at Mount Etna to Prevent Escape of Enemy From Catania Front.

Wrought Fearful Vengeance On Chinese Civilians Where Doolittle’s Men Landed

Japanese Leave Path of Desolation and Ruin as They Ruthlessly Inflict Savagery On People, Returned Missionary Says

Torture, Murder and Almost Every Form of Human Punishment Used in Chinese Provinces in Effort To Force Chinese to Disclose Hiding Places of  A een an eet meen

‘American Bomber Raid on the Suburbs of Rome.   NEW ACTION ON MANY FRONTS   American Troops Going Through Intensive Invasion Rehearsals.

Americans Begin Trains ing Under Live Bullets For Second Front Invasion, Action on Many: Fronts.

Fears Food Crisis in U.S.   Senator Would Halt } Draft of Farm Labor’ For Military Service: 

SENATOR CALLS FOR HALT IN DRAFTING. OF FARM LABOR   Says It’s Only ‘Way To Avert Nation's “Gravest Food Crisis”

Drafting of Farm Workers Assailed   Crisis Feared In Food: Output

Hall Draft of © Farmers Asked   Senator Demands Steps to Avert Food Shortaae

Wants Drafting of Farm Labor Ended   Senator Aiken of Vermont Foresees Grave Crisis

ENEMY SLOWED DOWN IN BURMA   Bridge Wrecked By Big U. S. Bombers; Rail and Road Traffic Cut

Communications of Japs in Burma Cut   Enemy Compelled To Rearrange Defensive Units

Jap Lines In Burma Smashed Allied Bombers Pound  Enemy Rail Routes; Bridges Wrecked  Be BP Tia CCR LA Ee

Last Of Italian Empire In Africa Crushed Completely   Russians Take Armavir, Near Rostov, And Continue To Drive Back Nazis  LAST OF JAPS WIPED OUT AT PAPUA  Flying F oetvaanaa! Hit Nazi Sab Bases; Rabaul Convoy Heavily Bombed 

FLEEING ENEMN UNDER ATTACK ON ALL SIDES   Axis Steadily Loses Ground On Both African, Russian Fronts To Allies

German Air Force Fails To Halt Reds  Offensive Power Increases Daily  a PO eae 

LITTLE LIFE IN WET-DRY ISSUE   No Congress Action Seen As Anniversary Of Beer’s __. +»... Return Arrives

PLAN TO REMOVE THE WEAK SPOTS   Flood Control in North Lawfence Discussed at Meeting   ‘TWO SERIOUS THREATS   May Join Forces

PLAN TO REMOVE THE WEAK SPOTS   Flood Control i in North Lawrence Discussed at Meeting   TWO SERIOUS THREATS

A LIONS GOVERNOR DIES   Grant Selsor of Springfield, Mo., Stricken at Convention.

NO GENERAL CLOSING   Banks, ae Hall and Court House Will Be Closed Monday

Lewis Asking $2-a-Day Raise int Pay   Terms Steel Formula Vicious; 450,000 Miners Are Involved

Lewis Presents Wage Demands   UMW Asks $2-A-Day Basic Pay Increase With Minimum Of $8-A-Day, Without Exception, For All Bituminous Miners

Lewis Calls Little Steel Plan Vicious   $2-a-Day Basic Pay Increase Asked for Miners

Mexico Moves To Combat Rubber Crisis  Cannot Be Sold Except At Pived Prirac

SOLVING FARM LABOR-KELLY   ‘Think We Will Lick Problem,’ Governor Asserts

Possibly Half Of Jap Garrison Vode Escane   Indications Are That U.S. Troops May Have Taken Santa Isahel

KOLOMBANGARA OCCUPIED   American Forces Take Over Island, Extend Solomons Control

FINISH CENTRAL SOLOMONS DRIVE   Kolombangara Island Is Taken by Americans

ALLIES HAVE ALL OF CENT. SOLOMONS   Finish Occupation Of Last Island; Japs’ Leave  _ Equipment

Kolombangara Occupation By Yanks Finished   Reports Indicate Santa Isabel May Be  In American Hands

Tito Crushes Wing Of  Nazi Drive in Bosnia   Partisan Forces: Aided By Allies, Regain Island Of! Uljan In Approaches To Enemy-Held Fiume

Yugoslavs Break and Turn Back Wing Of German Offensive in Bosnia Area

VUGOSLAVS STILL HOLDING GERMANS      Army Under Tito Breaks One Wing of German - Offensive in Bocnjn

ADVISORY COUNCIL PROPOSED BY TAFT   Conduct of War Praised by Critical Ohio Senator

10.000 GERMANS REPORTED ol AlN IN SAVAGE FIGHT   Nazis Score Break-Through On Central Front Only To Be Repulsed

Dormant East Front Has Erupted Into Violent Action.   REDS HOLD FIRM AGAINST NAZIS   German Loss Is Heavy. Costing 203 Planes in 38 Hours.

Allies K.O. Axis Air fleets   Italy, Shaken By Invasion Jitters, Cancels All Military Leaves In European Theatre.

MAP POLITICAL, WAR PLANS TO DEAL GERMANS   London, Washington Have Ni Official News for Release

Moscow Says Three Power Parley Over   Radio Reports Decisions on How to Deal with Germany and on Number Political Questions   DETAILS LACKING      Moscow ‘Scoop’ Stirs Speculation Anew Over Possible Results o! Conference

DECISIONS ON HOW TO DEA! WITH GERMANY ARE TAKEN AT TEHERAN CONFERENCE

Moscow Says Chieftains Agree on Methods for Dealing with Germany

josing in on Italian Fronts   DECISION AFFECTING WAR AND. PEACE MADE BY “BIG THREE’ [AT CONFERENCE AT TEHERAN   Momentous Decisions Expected to Have FarReaching Effect on Achievement of Victory on Battlefields As Well As on Solving Peace Problem

SOVIET AGENCY REVEALS TALKS ARE COMPLETED   United Nations Will Ask Overthrow of Hitler

WILL DISCUSS THE  FARM LABOR PROBLEN   Meeting af Leaders of the County OrRanization, Wit He Held to View the Situation

British 8th Five Miles Inland from Captured Guardia—Red Peril to Kharkov ‘Increases Hourly—New Raid from  Aleutian Bases

Invaders Swarm Ashore East Of Cape Orlando   Russians Reach Point 74 Miles from Kharhee On Northeast

Day-Night Raid on Reich Continues; Reds Surge Ahead   Roosevelt-Churchill Talks Will Be Carried on Soon; Parelys Await His Arrival

MONTANANS  BUY OVER GO MILLIONS WORTE OF WAR BONDS   Hill County Goes Over Top in Sales During Julv

McNutt Reply To Wheeler Is Anticipated   Montana Senator Asks Delay In Induction Date For Fathers

ANSWER WAITED   MeNatt Expected To Reply To Wheeler On Dad Draft.

Fifth Army Halts 3 Counter Drives By Nazis; Attacks From 4 Directions

Pierce Key German Stronghold, Seize Important Heights   Ankara Radio Reports Gen. Patton’s 7th Army May Soon Strike Balkans: on Other Front

60,000 Reds Are Loosed  at Germans   Eighth Army Wrecks 13 Enemy Tanks in Armored Battle at Orsongna

Yanks Pierce Nazi Lines fo Outskirts Of Key Stronghold   Only One Avenue of Escape Is Left for San Pietro Defenders

NAZIS ROUTED FROM PILLBOXES ‘AND PINCERS CLAMPED ON ROAD ‘TO ROME WITH TOWNS TAKEN   San Pietro, Key German Stronghold Is Almost Surrounded: and Both British and Americans Press Enemy Hard. Germans Bring in Fresh

Pincers Qn Road To Rome   5th Army Closes in  On Nazi Stronghold Of San Pietro; Hurled Back on Central Front

ith Army Takes Key Stronghold From German:   Nazis Are Routed From - Pillboxes In San Pietro Sector

Yanks Rout Nazis from Pillboxes;. Bia Battles Raaina in White Russia

Yankees Drive German Forces To San Pietro   Capture Heights, Apply Pincers On Rome Road

AMERICAN TROOPS ROUTING GERMANS CONTINUE ADVANCE  CLARK’S FIFTH ARMY CLAMPS PINCERS ON

Yanks Applying Pincers To Road To Rome While Reds Start New Drives In Russia

Pincers Put on Roadto Rome By US Troops      Eighth Army Wrecks 13 Nazi Tanks, ‘Captures Two; Great Battles Raging in White Russia; Weather Grounds  Allied Bombers

His Seventh Army Has Landing Boats Ready Says Ankara   News of War in Italy and Russia Briefed by AP War Editor

Russia Reports Ring Tightened On Kirovograd   Berlin Said Still Burning; Balkans Seen Invaded; Badoglio Gets Support

AT LEAST SIXTEEN DIE VIOLENTLY IN WEEK END MISHAPS   Auto-Train Collision Near Apex Kills Man, His Wife and Their Five Children; Three Naval Fliers Die When Plane Crashes.

Nine Persons Die Violently Over Week Enc   Traffic Accidents In Various Parts of State Claim Nine Lives; Five Others Are Hurt.

Stettinius Defends Lend-Lease Aid   -Gives Committee Shipment Report

House Com. Hears Report On Lend-Lease Activities Says Reds Given 3200 Tanks, 2600 Planes, 81,000 Trucks

STRIKE OF TRUCK DRIVERS = ~~ BLOW AT WAR PRODUCTION   THOUSANDS OF TONS OF MATERIALS TIED UP AS RESULT OF BTRIKES IN CITIES.

STRIKE TIES UP WAR MATERIAL   Truck Drivers Halt Traffic in Nine Southeastern Cities

Largest U. 5, Submarine Believed Lost   American Destroyer Sunk in Solomons Is Also Identified

Submarine Argonaut ls Overdue: Presumed Lost      Largest Submarine in U: $. Navy and Possibly i in: the wW. Missing‘on: Patrot Operations——De-. we

U.S. sub Argonaut, ‘largest  in world,’ is lost on patrol   Vessel presumably down in Pacific; identifv sunken destroyer Dehaven

Submarine Argonaut Is Overdue; Presumed Lost   Largest Submarine in U. S. Navy and Possibly in the World Missing on Patrol Operations—Destroyer Dehaven Sunk

ARGONAUT.U.S. SUBMARINE, IS BELIEVED LOST   One Hundred Officers And Men All Presumed Lost; Destroyer DeHaven Lost Off Guadalcanal.   DeHaven Brand New

‘Sub Argonaut Lost in Action,  ‘Navy Reveals   Largest U. S. Submarine; Lost Destroyer Disclosed As Large, New DeHaven

THREE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK   Engineer Saves Lives of Two But Gives Own To Do It; Flood Detour Blocked

Engines Collide   “lood-Rerouled Pennsylvania Trains Tic Up Line For 14 Hours

PRODUCTION OF "STEEL REDUCED   Striking Miners In Pittsburgh District Caus ing Curtailment

OUTLAW STRIKE KEEPS 18000 OUT OF MINES   12 U. S. Steel Furnaces To Be Closed Today In Pittsburgh Section   Contracts Demanded

STEEL COMPANIES FEEL EFFECTS OF INSURGENT COAL STRIKE   Curtailment of Steelmaking Operations in Pittsburgh District Noted os the Result of Five’ Day Walkout

GUFFEE RATIONS TO BE BOUSTED: MEAT PRICES GU   OPA Orders New and Lower Meat Price Ceilings Ef fective Monday

Freshmen In Senate Take It Seriously   “Young” Republicans Believe New Order Wanted At Home

NEW REPUBLICAN SENATORS FORM POWERFUL BLOC   Nine Committed to Bringing About Changes, if Possible, in Way Nation’s Business Is Run.   DECLARE PEOPLE ARE DISSATISFIED   Group Works and Lunches Together Daily and Has Voted as Unit More Than Once.

TO GET TOUGH WITH DRIVERS   Threaten Revocation of Ration Cards of Motorists Who Are Violating Regulations

Seethemeneiinmestiaemeeeemanndttininmineteeemenae an  No Snooping

Surrender  Pantelleria : One Goal   CREAT ABRIAL CAMPAIGNS iN FULL SWING IN ‘ sOUTH SECTOR.

DESTRUCTION — [IS HEAPED ON PANTELLERIA      Allied Lending Believed Imminent; Algiers Paper Predicts Island’s Reduction by Rloekade

Fifty Liberator Bombers Strike Across Mediterranean, Wnioad Bombs At Gerbine And Canta i In Sicily: Hit Pantelleria   RUSSIANS DESTROY MANY AXIS PLANES

NON-STOP BOMBINGS DESIGNED 10 FORGE PANTELLERIA 10 BOW   Allied Raiders Also Smash Airdromes In Sicily; RAF Still Idle And Berlin Fears Storm Brewing

RAF 11-Day Lull  Worries Berlin   Pantelleria Under Constant Blasts; Airdromes in Sicily Hammered

200 AT CONVENTION   Annual County Sunday School Meeting Held at Clinton

Sergeant Is Held In Brutal Killing   Charge He Assaulted, Murdered Child of 3

Little Girl Found  Slain at Denver   Soldier Held in Death Of Child 4 Years Old

Three Measures Are Passed by Montana House   See Speedy Action By Senate on Bills Thursday

Hirst Bills Passed By House   hAeasure for Labor Department in For Consideration

State Labor Department ‘Soucht hy Bill   Measure Provides Proposal Be Submitted to Voters

Here Are the Wage Raises in Coal Mines   GRADUAL INCREASE IN HOURLY RATES SINCE 1940 IS REVEALED

Ttaly’s Fate At Stake In Latest Moves   Major Diplomatic War Between Allies, Axis Now Raging

Allies Marshal Forces For Big Summer Drive   Italy May Drop Out As Diplomatic War Develops

REMOVAL OF ITALY MAY BE AT STAKE   Two Campaigns Appear to Be Under Way at This Time

"RUSSIANS HIT “GERMANY FROM EASTERN SIDE   American Venturas Lead R.A.F. In Raids On Continent From Brittany To Holland.

Churchill Gets Harvard Degree   His Place In British History Cited

Rope for folks pestered by KIDNEY PAIN   igen ter quickly relieves adder pain an dee to te slaggish kideeys—makes atl leem mneninie.

pe for folks pestered by ‘KIDNEY PAIN   ap Root quickly relieves bladder pain and hacbe duc to sluggish kidneys —makes  wactiul alae masauble.

Steelman In Coal Parley Is Hopeful   U. S. CONCILIATION HEAD SAYS “SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE” IS MANIFESTED IN SOUTHERN CONFERENCE.   Both Groups Meet Today

SOUTHERN OPERATORS AND UNION CONFER   Federal Conciliator Hopes For Compromise; Northern Group Is Deadlocked

Real Sheer Ones Not Entirely Out, But—  WPB Orders Improvement In Wearing Qualities Of Hose

JOHN LEWIS. FACES BIG DECISION IN MINE LABOR ISSUE   530,000 Miners On Strike ‘As Policy Committee Meets—-FDR Sounds Warning -

Meeting of Policy Group Is Delayed   Committee Is Expected To Follow Course Set by Lewis

530,000 Walk Out   HUGE TOTAL IDLE IN PENNSYLVANIA, WEST. VA. STOPPAGE NATION-WIDE

530,000 Miners Join in Walkout   Prolonged Shutdown Will Close Steel Mills, Many Already Slowed

Vast Bulk Of Miners Idle Today   Soft Coal Production Virtually Halted In Several States As Miners Seek Contract

Coal Strike Curbs War Production   Most of U. M. W. Workers Leave Mines Today— Walkout Spreads

GOAL INDUSTRY lo PARALYZED BY MINE STRIKE   Over Half - Million Miners Remain Out Of Pits As Truce Expires

Over 530,000 UMW Workers  Leave Pits   Union Policy Group Converges on Wash., To Make Decisions

LEWIS FACES BIG DECISION AS MINES CLOSE   Coal Crisis Poses Problem

HALF MILLION COAL MINERS ON STRIKE   Walkout Becomes General Due To Truce Expiration

Nearly 530,000 Miners Idle In Walkout That Threatens To Cripple War Production

FOURTH COAL MINE STRIKE GRIPS NATION   Most Of 530,000 Diggers Leave Pits As ‘Truce’ Expires; Prolonged Shutdown Would Cripple War Production

MINES DOWN AS LEWIS PONDERS GRAVE DECISION   UMW Committee Will Meet at 3 p. m. to Adopt Policy   GENERAL STOPPAGE IS 4TH IN SIX MONTHS

Mrs. Anis D. Cramer Dies In Sioux City   Was Widow of Former Publisher of LeMars GlobePost

JAPS REINFORCE AERIAL UNITS IN SOUTH PACIFIC   General MacArthur's Bombers On Hand Tea Meet Enemy. Five Japanese Planes Destroyed.

LOCAL U. M. W, LEADERS FAVOR U, $. OPERATION   2ennsylvania Union  Leader Thinks Miners Would Return To Work Under Plan; Lewis Apparently Standing Pat.

Words Fail Eisenhower   But Sparkle in His Eyes Tells How He Feels

ADA W. PETERS SAVED IN FIRE   Burning Mattress Renders Woman Unconscious In Hotel Room

UMW WILL DEMAND $1=A-DAY INCREASE DESPITE WLB SCALE   Policy. -Committee °. Today Begins Drafting The Demands For Soft Coal Miners

UMW COMMITTEE TO PLAN WAGE INCREASE TODAY   Dellar A Day Increase To Be Asked For Bituminous Miners

YANKEES SEIZE POSITIONS NEAR ROME HIGHWAY   Soviet Tanks, Infantry Rij Deep Into Nazis’ Ukrainian Defenses

Administration Measure Would Forgive 44 Per “Cent of 1942 Levy; Debate Begins Mav 3.

Pay-as-Go Plan Meets Approval   House Group Okays Newest Measure

Committee Okays New Pay-Go Bill   Measure Would F orgive 44 Per Cent of Levy

Leo Lionizes Owner’s Meat Ration Book, So Circus Gets New Performer

Allen Charges OPA Is Seeking Price Controls   Counsel for House Committee Sees Plan for Bureaucratic System

INJURED IN COLLISION   Occupants of Two Cars to Hospitals for Treatment

Reds Crushing Resistance In  Kharkov Itself   Germans Pressed Back To Corridor On Its Southwest Side

Key City Defense Collapses   CAPTURE OF CHUGUEV SEALS THE FATE OF “UKRAINE PITTSBURGH”

U.S. Planes Big Factor  In Advance  To Yangtze   Air Domination Lost By Retreating Enemy Who Lose Machines  At Rate of 14. to One  ICHANG MENACED  IN CENTRAL CHINA 4,000 Japs Isolated, 30,000 Are Casualties.  Chinese Announce

President Says Few U. 5. Worker: Are Deferred   Roosevelt Denies Govern ment Is Haven for Draft Dodgers

AT PITA RY OPENS DFE NORE   “1.000 Prisoners Taken as Eighth Moves Up

Red Facilities Surpassed by Rate of U. S. Supplies Arriving Via Persian Corridor

Russian Warehouses Glutted With U. S, War Material Reaching Soviets Faster Than They Can Take It, Writers Say   BY CLYDE FARNSWORTH ANT Rir THICKER

‘Warehouses Are Stuffed as Supplies Move In Faster Than Russians Can Handle Them

PREDICT DRAFT OF MEN IN d-4   Estimate Is Announced Durs« ing Hearing on Compulsory Labor Bill.   CONTROVERSY GROWING

HEARING BRINGS TESTIMONY ARMED FORCES MAY GO TO 15 MILLION; ARGUE FARM QUESTION

Army Aiming At 15 'Million By End Of  [Year, Says Senator   Senators Aroused To Point Where Funds May Be Denied To Support Bis Force

15 Million Man Army Using 3-A Men Heard In Testimony By Senate Group

ARMY OF FIFTEEN MILLION BY 'END,OF YEAR FORECAST; MORE WOMEN WILL GO INTO INDUSTRY

Plan a 15 Million Army by End 1943   Senate Committee Hears Testimony Indicating ig Force   [ALL 3-A MEN IN SOON   Draft Boards Will Scrape ~ Bottom by Mid-Sum mer Is Belief.

Army Force © Might Total 15 Million   Senate Group Hears All In 3-A May Be Taken By Summer

1 5,000,000-Man Army Predicted  7 Draft Of All 3-A Man Called’ Likely

Armed Force Of 15 Million By Year End Seen   All 3-A Draft Registrants May Be Inducted  Ry Mideimmer.

Men With Dependents Will Serve   One Senate Committee Hears That Nation’: Armed Forces Mas Rise To 15,000,000

‘Senator Testifies Before Committee All (lass 3-A Men To Be Called This Summer

15,000,000 In Services  Predicted   Senate Committee Also Hears 3-A’s To Be Drafted

MAY REACH 15,000:000.   This Year. Instead of ‘11,000,000... 34A Draft Registrants. May Be Inducted by Summer

SENATE IS TOLD ALL 3-A’S WILL GET CALLS SOON   Testimony Would Indicate Induction of Fathers by Mid-Summer

15 Million Men: May Be In Army By End OF 198   Senate Hears All -3-A Registrants Will Be«. : Called Soon’. *:

Senator Says Forces Will Be 15 Million   Men With Dependent: Will Be Inducted By Mid-Summer

EVEN BIGGER ARMY FORECAST   Congressmen Told Goal Near 15 Million, 3A Draif Men All in _ Service by Mid-Summer

15 Million To Be  ~ Tn Service, Claim 3-A Registrants To Be Gone By Mid-Summer

15,000,000 ARMY BEFORE END OF YEAR   Senate Committee Informed 3-A Draft Men May Be Inducted by MidSummer   DISCUSS CHILD CARE

Armed Force Of 15,000,000 For  Predicted All”  3-A Men To Be  In By Summer

15,000,000 under arms  by end 1943   d-A registrants may be inducted by mid-summer

Will Draft All 3-A’s Before Mid-Summer Senators—Are—Told     Downey Urges Mobilizing Men And Women For Industrial, Farm  Production, If Goal Is To Be Met

15,000,000 Men In U. §. Forces _ Hinted; 3-A Draft Registrants  May Be Called By Mid-Summer

Fix Army Goal At 15,000,000 In New Repor   Senate Group Hears All 3-As To Be Drafted By Middle OOF Summer.   STUDY FARM PROBLEM

Furor Over Manpower Is Raging Anew   Downey Hears Armed Force: Will Reach 15,000,000; Taft Says 3-A Men To Go

15,000,000 ARMY GOAL INDICATED   Downey Tells House Grouy Of Possibility; 3-A Draft ~. Soon Forecast

MANPOWER MUDDLE CONTINUES TO HOLD CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT FIFTEEN MILLION-MAN ARMY AND INDUCTION 3-.  Priory AalvTce NDITRAADEH

THE WEATHER.   TO BE CALLED “SOON, BELIEF   Reports Given to Senate . Groups— Witness Says "Spraft of Men With De/ pendents Will Be Com. pleted by Midsummer.

Senator Sees 15 Million Service   Early Draft of All 3-A’s Is Predicted

ALL SA DRAT I REGISTRANTS MAY BE CALLED SOON   Senate Committee Releases Testimony They May Be Inducted In Mid-Summer and That Armed Services Will Comprise 15 Million Men Instead of 11.

U.S. WILL HIKE ARMED FORCES TO 15,000,006   All 3-A Draft Registrants May Be Inducted by Mid-Summer

Today In Washington: Lend-Lease, Army Size; ‘Moscow, Morale-Builder ‘Deferments Discussed

May Get 3-A Men In Army Before Summer Is Gone   One Senator Says That 15 Million to Be Called to  Service.   Take Up Legislation To Defer Farm Hands

“On Way Back,” Says Macarthur ‘of New Victory   Australians Occupy Big Base After 12 Days of Fighting

Bomb Lashed Lae Is Taken By MacArthur   Commander Hails Victory =! As Stride Toward Recap: ture OF Philippines   WON IN 12. DAYS   Solomons Air Activity Hints Tipoff On Climactic Battle For Supremacy

‘Lae Falls to: Allies; “Solomons F laming With Aerial Action   Gen. MacArthur Hails Victory As Stride Toward Reconquest Of Vital Philinnine Téland Racec

12-Day Battle Ended   Jap Force Flees Toward Trap; Aerial Power Fight Rages

LAE STEP T0 PHILIPPINES, M’ARTHUR SAYS   Victory Blow ‘To Jap Hopes

Bomb-Wrecked Lae, Once Great Jap New Guinea Base, Seized By Allies   MacArthur Hails Victory As Stride Toward ‘Reconquest Of ~ Philippines BOMBERS ACTIVE Serious Threat To « Bases  Held By Japs In  -Australia Area

Lae Taken By Yanks,  Australians   Defenders of New Guinea Stronghold Flee to Hills

FLEES FOR THE HILLS   MacArthur Hails Victory As Stride Toward Philippines

Allies  Capture Lae Base   MacARTHUR SAYS WIN BIG STRIDE TOWARD RETAKING OF PHILIPPINES

ANNOUNCEMENT MADE TODAY .   General Douglas MacArthur Hails Victory as Stride Toward Avowed -. Goal—Reconquest’ of Philippines.

LAE CONQUEST IS ANNOUNCED IN COMMUNIQUE   MacArthur Hails Vietory as Stride Toward. R tecovery by

LAE FALLS 10 ALLIES AFTER 12-DAY STANE   MacArthur Hails New Victory: Japs Flee To Mountains

LAE CAPTURED IN GRUELEING 12-DAY ASSAULT   Fall of Jap Guinea Base Seen Stride RPoward Philinnines

Tarkington Appeal For Dog Wins  mm   Indianapolis To Have Downtown Shop For Pets

RED ARMIES SMASH TO WITHIN SIGHT : FLAMING STALINO      Fall Of Russia’s 12th City — Would Speed Liberation © Of Entire South Half  ’ Of Donets Basin

Red Columns Drive to Within 15 Miles Of Stalino   Fall of Donets Basin Industrial Canital Imminent

STALIN'S. FALL TO AED TROOPS BELIEVED NEAR   Russians Surge Forward On Five Battlefronts As Nazis Crumble

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Uncertainty Of Invasion Plans Keeping Hitler rom Russian Drive

The War Today   Hitler’s Brain Trust Wandering In Fog of Uncertainty.

The War T oday— ‘Hitler Brain Trust In Fog Over Russian, Allied Military Intention

/Hitler’s Brain Trust Is /Wandering Around in Fog Uncertain Regarding Allied Plans

HITLER'S BRAIN TRUSTERS CANT IFICURE OUT ALLIES   Axis Big Shots Come Thru  With Maze of Predictions  Ae to Allies Intentions— ackoansa

NAZI BRAIN TRUST RUNNING INTO FOG   Varied Reports In German Capital Indicate Uncertainty

WHAT ALLIED NATIONS GENERAL STAFFS HAVE PLANNED IS LARGE HEADACHE TO HITLER AND NAZIS

SERBS SCORE DECISIVE WIN OVER ENEMY   Germans Hurled Back With Heavy Losses

Yugoslays Win In South Slovenia   German Commander Said Killed With INN Offfieere Moen

MAN HELD IN TWO MURDERS   Butler Countian Kill: Sister, Friend At Farmhouse

Interpreting the War   ‘African Phase of World War II Sweeping to a Climax

[Allied Success In Tunisia  Tops War News  Di MES a Ree   Continued Advances Keep Casablanca Plan ‘On Schedule’

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   North African Campaign Thunderously Nearing Its Final Phases

Whole African Phase. Of World War Two Is Apparently Near End  GLENN BABB

RIOTING FOR FOOD QUICKLY SUBDUED   American Forces Act in Palermo Crisis

RADOGLIO SUPPORTED   Woman’s Body Found Near Golf Links   Yanks Halt Palermo Riot With Canotured German Food

AMERICAN TROOPS CHECK FOOD RIOTS   Hand Out Italian Supplies To Palermo Civilians

YANKS SEIZE NAZ SUPPLIES OF FOOL   Food Doled to Hungry In Sicily to Prevent Rioting, Many Nearly Starved.

22 GERMANS GO DOWN IN RAW   American Score in Big Daylight. Attack Re  vealed.

American Planes Destroyed 22 German Planes In Raid On Wilhelmshaven Sub Base

DESTROY 22 NAZI PLANES   American Flying Fortresses in Raid on Submarine Base

Almost All Of Nazi Attacking Planes Lost   American Bombers Destroyed 22 Of 25 Which Attacked

ENEMY DESTROYER IS SUNK BY FLIER!   Two Japanese Cargo Vessels Also Sent ‘Dawn

Jap Destroyer, 2 Cargo Ships Sunk by Planes   Hit off New Ireland By Carrier Aircraft; Base at Wandokai Taker

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Allies Sink 3 Jap Ships Ai Kavieng   Australian Troops Capture Supply Base Of Wandokai

Jap Destroyer and Two Cargo Ships Sunk by Allies off New lreland

PLANES SINK 3 JAP SHIPS   Destroyer, 2 Cargo Vessels Destroyed at Kavieng; Rabaul is Blasted

SOVIETS CRACK SOUTH ANCHOR OF NAZI LINE   Powerful Red Army Units Oust Germans From Kherson

‘Winter Drive Surges Ahead In the North   Soviets Capture Kherson; Lunge to Within 57 Miles Of Latvian Rarder

INTO NEW NEVEL GAP   Mighty Drive In North Now Only 57 Miles  G From Latvia’

SOVIET DRIVE FORCES NAZIS TO RETREAT   Loss of Kherson Bridgehead Leaves Enemy Without Good Defense Prospect  Short of Bug River   500 VILLAGES OVERRUN

SOVIETS SMASH SOUTH ANCHOR OF GERMAN LINE   SURGE TO WITHIN 57 MILES OF THE LATVIAN BORDER

Soviet Troops Surge Toward Latvian Border   Germans Evacuate Bridgehead On Frozen Dnieper

Russians Force German Retreat At Kherson Base   Giant Offensive In North Takes 500 Villages

RED ARMY FORCES SMASHED SOUTHERN ANCHOR NAZI LINE  Y Watt thahs hal BL ee. vateant ll. Ee OBA tA ke te %   POWERFUL SOVIET UNITS POURING THROUGH BREAK NORTHERN FRONT

REDS ORE NORTHWARD SUGGEEDING   Border Of Latvia And Riga Being Approached

Russians Smash Southern Anchoi Of Enemy Front      Soviets Pouring Through Collapsed German Defenses In North Offensive

oovier Army .  Powerful Red Units Within 57 Miles Of Latvian Border

RED ARMY FORCES  SMASHED SOUTHERN ANCHOR NAZI LINE   POWERFUL SOVIET UNITS POURING THROUGH BREAK NORTHERN FRONT

Wide Breach Made  In German Lines Neor Lotyian Frontier Over Frozen Ground

Soviets Break Two Main German Lines   Reds Take Bridgehead Near Kherson, Drive Upon Latvia

Belgheat al Kherson Js Smashed   “Important Gain -Made ° ir ® ‘South-as Drive in North : Continues Strong   PUSHING TOWARD. .° “LATVIAN BORDE!   New Winter Drives Already Have: Taken Big Toll; May ~ Divert Nazi Attack

Violent Soviet Smash Takes  High Nazi Toll   Fifth Army Makes Slight Gains in Bitter Fighting— Planes Hit Germany

Foe’s Defenses Crumble Under Red Onslaught   Soviet Troops Only 57 Miles From Latvia; Kherson Taken

GERMANS IN WILD RETREAI BEFORE REDS  Report 20,000   Report 20,000 Nazis Killed  In Offensive

NAZIS ABANDON KHERSON FRONT   Russians Reported Smash. ing Ahead In Great Offensive

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. ~1S NEARING LATVA   20,000 Germans Reported Killed'in Forward Smash ~ That Gains 20 Miles --

Hitler Armies Forced Away From Dnieper   Loss Of Bridgehead May Mean Sweeping Withdrawal

NAZIS RETREAT” ALONG DNIEPER   Southern Anchor of Hitler's Russian Front Crumbles Under Red Attack

Retreat Forced In Lower Area Of The . Dnieper   Great Soviet Drive In North Pashes Near Polotsk On Polish-Latvian Frontiers

Nazi Troops In Retreat Near Kherson   Reds Smash Bridgehead On Lower Dnieper

Germans Quit Bridgehead In  Kherson Area  Recetac Kinet Rale a   Russia’s First Baltic Army Beating Ahead Through 50-Mile Gap In Enemy Line

Germans Admit — Setback   “Soviets Surge Tc - Within 57 Miles: Of Latvia.

NAZIS ABANDON BRIDGEHEAD ON DNIEPER RIVER   Base At Kherson Falls To Reds; Soviets In North Advance

REDS SMASH NAZI LINES AT 2 POINTS   Russians Break Southern Anchor of Hitler's Rus sian Front.   Surge to 57 Miles Of Border of Latvia

ROUT TROOPS IN KHERSON BRIDGEHEAD   Retreat Admitted by Berlin—Other Soviet Units to North Pour Westward to Within 57 Miles of Latvia. ¢

SOUTHERN ANCHOR OF HITLER'S SOVIET FRONT SMASHED   Red Army Forced Germans to Retreat From Their Kherson Bridgehead.   ON THE LOWER DNIEPER   Russian Units Poured Thru Collapsed Nazi Defenses in Nevel Sector.

Soviet Forces Fast Nearing Latvia Border   Northern Offensive Results in Capture of 500 Villages, Hamlets

BRIDGEHEAD Al KHERSON LOST BY NAZI UNITS   Soviets Surge Toward Latvian Border In New Winter Offensive

Force Nazis To Evacuate Bridgehead   Soviets Pour Through Broken Defenses in  The North

Forced Out Of Southern Anchor Point   Russians Smash Ahead In North To Within 57 Miles Of Latvian Border.

New Winter Offensive Reported Only 57 Miles from Laivian Border in Sixth Day   DRIVE TO POLOTSK   Dispatches Raise Possibility Vite bsk-Polotsk Railway Already May Be Severed

SOVIETS GAIN. AT BOTH ENDS OF LONG LINE   Force Germans From Kherson Bridgehead On Lower Dnieper: Advance Rapidly in North Sector.

Nazis Broken On Dnieper  And At Nevel      North Drive Heads Toward Riga, South Breaks Nazi Anchor.   BERLIN ADMITS LOSSES

SOUTH ANCHOR OF DEFENSE LINE CUT   Russians Within 57 Miles Of Latvian Border   DRIVE IN NORTH   Wins 500 Towns For Reds; 20,000 Nazis Killed, 2,000 Injured

RUSSIA Germans Driven From  Kherson Bridgehead      Retreat Across Dnieper “Without Loss” Admitted By German Radio; Advances In North, Nearing Old Polish And Latvian Frontiers

Red Army Smashes Within 57 Miles Of Latvian Border In North Drive

Nazis Retreat Again in Russia  Anchor of Defense linec Shattored

EIGHTH: v. Ss. AIRFORCE BAGGED: 186 NAZI PLANES ON SGHWEINFURT RAID

NAZIS MAY SHUN ‘RUSS CAMPAIGN   Germans Are Concerned Over Balkans and Allied Thrust

Nazis May Forego Russian Offensive; Fear Invasion   Travelers Returning From Europe to Turkey Say  Germany Preparing to Keep Large Reserves of  Men and Equipment Ready for Quick Movement to West or South

BELIEVE NAZIS MAY FOREGO RUSSIAN DRIVE IN ORDER TO BE READY TO MEET INVASION

Nazis May Forego New Soviet Drive   Are Strengthening Balkan Line

NAZIS MAY FOREGO RED OFFENSIVE   This Summer in Order to Keep Reserve of Troops and Supplies For Expected Allied  Invasion.

Nazis To Forego  Red Offensive?   Forced To Keep Men  For Invasion

Soldier Plays  Possum T wo Days   Nazis Had Machinegun Post Over His Head

19 Arkansas On Navy List   MANY MEN MISSING OR - KILLED IN ACTION

Fall Details Awaited On Battle   Marine Positions May Depend on Outcome of Naval Eneurement

JAP WARSHIPS PUT TO FLIGHT IN NAVAL BATTLE   Enemy Withdraws After Clash With American  Vessels in Solomons Araa.   DETAILS AWAITED FROM ADMIRAL HALSEY   ' Fight Took Place Prior to Invasion of Bougainville Island by United States Marines.

Jap Warships Flee in fi: With US: —   . Forces. Clash Sunday -Night..and- Early ‘Monday :

Clash Between U. S. And Jap Warship: Likely Preceded Bougainville Invasion

Yanks Repulse Jap Ships Off  Bougainville   Naval Action Takes Place After the Landing by Marines

U.S. AND JAP WARSHIPS IN BIG CLASH   Complete Reports (Lacking: Battle May Have Effect On Marines’ Control of Invasion Positions.   Attack Pomelaa

JAP WARSHIPS WHIPPED AGAIN   New U.S. Marine Landing In Solomons Backed By Naval Units

Battle Follows Marine Landing   Clash May Control Bougainville Hold

Onrushing Soviets Bag Kakhovka on Dnieper, Tighten Net on Nazis   Americans, British Weaken Rome Defense Line I), Persistent But Costly Advances; New U. S. Air Force Raids Germany From Mediterranean Bases

Navy Drives Off Japs in Sea Battle   Warships Fight It Out  In Solomons Area; Await Results

Battle Follows — Marine Landing   Clash May Control Bougainville Hold  Re CC VATES Me-NDANIECT.

CLASH WITH ENEMY VESSELS REPORTED   Details of Engagement in the Pacific Are Awaited

Jap Cruisers, Destroyers Intercepted   Result May Affect Ability To Maintain Hold on Bougainville  FOLLOWS LANDINGS

U.S. and Japanese Warships Battle In Solomons Sea   Outcome May Affect Abil. ity of Marines To Hold New Positions

jJap Naval Force Driven Off In Solomons Sea Battle By /Fleet Of American Warships   Enemy Cruisers And Destroyers Intercepted After Marines’ Landing On Bougainville ‘Island; Details Of Engagement Not Revealed: 2 Transports Sunk

U.S.Nabs  Teano   CLARK CONTINUES MARCH UP PENINSULA; BRITISH ROLL INTO NEW TOWNS

Democratic Inheritance Tax — Employes Get Indefinite Stay   Legislation Passed To Transfer Employes To Department Of Revenue Secretary—-GOP Has No Successors

Meat-for-Miners Meeting Set  Community Leaders th BbtandA Garenian -

Meat-for-Miners Meeting Set  Community Leader: to Attend Session

Two Vital Road Junctions Taken  In Offensives   Nazis Counterattack; Fifth And Eighth Armies Threaten Toa Flank Foes

Allied nrusts Threaten Flank   Fifth and Eighth Armies Gain From Five to Seven Miles Along Whole Line Across Peninsula; Dozen Towns Taken

Two Vital Road Junctions Fall To Fifth Army   Algiers Radio Says Nazis In Retreat From Volturno

German Army Seeks Escape On Volturno   Allies Take Ten Towns, Vital Road Junctions

Make Desperate Uffort To Escape Close Combat      Allies" Vress  Forwaid. All Across Halian Fran’ As Battle Reaches’ Nevy. Height of Pury. Wake Vital Points ‘al

Nazis Launch Attacks But Fall Back   Americans Disrupt Attempts at Orderly Retreat

SA ARHY CAPTURES 410 MORE TOWNS  British Eighth on Eastern End of Battle Line Seizes"  Two Vital Rail  Junctions     [BATTLE NORTH OF VOLTURNO FURIOUS   BATTLE NORTH OF  VOLTURNO FURIOUS   Germans Plan To Cover Retreat With Terrific  7 ‘Counter-Blows Upset   Vicious Allied Thrusts

Allies Wrest Dozen Towns From Enemy   French Radio Says Enemy In Full Retreat; Yanks Strike Back In F urious Fighting

CAPTURE TWO VITAL ROADS, DOZEN TOWNS   Battle North of Volturno Reaches High Point of Fury

NAZI RETREAT PLANS UPSET BY 5TH ARMY   DOZEN TOWNS FALL; ADVANCE UP TO SEVEN MILES

Two Vital Road Junctions Seized in Blows And Germans Throw Battered Air Force Into Futile Efforts to Halt Allied Advance

Nazis Strive to Avoid Close Combat With Furious Counter-Attacks; Radio Claims Enemy in Retreat

Two Junctions Ten Towns Are Captured   Germans Attack in Effort to Disengqage Troong

Allies Smash Savage Blows   Nazis Desperately Seek To Break Close Quarter Battle

SEIZE 12 TOWNS; GERMANS STRIKE BACK SAVAGELY   Enemy Makes Desperate Effort to Break Away From Close Quarter Combat Above Volturno.   FIFTH ARMY PUSHES FORWARD SEVEN MILES   Montgomery’s Men Also Advance—Both Forces Threatening to Outflank Nazi Line.

Two Vital Road Junctions Are  Taken By Allies   Enemy Trying To Avoid Close Quarter Combat With Allies: Germans Renew Aerial Support

Germans Counterattack In Futile Effort to End Combat at Close Quarters

Rapid Push of Allies Upsets Nazi Defenses   Fifth Army Takes Cerreto While Eighth Army Captures Two . Vital Junctions

LIEGLER SAY G0 TO FIGHT TRANSFER   Highway Chief ‘Tipped Off’ That Union Plans to Block Transferring Work

ZIEGLE ClO ATTACK ON ROAD PROGRAM   fo Fight Coynty Maintenance Contracts,  He Charges

Less Rationing for Nation Predicted by Deputy of OPA   Paul O'Leary Doesn’t Expect More Control Of Commiodities but He’s Getting Prepared

LESS RATIONING - NOW PREDICTED   Man Who Issues. Books Says. Nothing New Is In, the Cards Now

“Ration Man” Predicts Less Restrictions   However, Additional Plans Are Being Thought Up, “Just in Case.”

LESS RATICNING NOW PROSPEC)   O'Leary Gives  Cheering News on First Anniversary

Man Who Issues Ration Books Sees no Immediate Increase in Articles to  Be Doled Out   HELPING BUSINESS MEN

AMERICAN PRISONERS SPAT ON BY GERMANS   Russians Badly ‘Treated in Comparison, One Says

PENSION PLAN FOR OHIO JUDGES DEAD   House Reverses Vote And Kills Measure

Legislature Kills Retirement Bill   Proposed System For Judges Is Dead

New Thunderbolt Fighters Get Into Action in Europe   Squadrons of Powerful Planes are Used As Escorts on Bombing Raids on Continent

We Go Into Action— Thunderbolt Fighters Raid Nazis At 400 Miles An Hout

P-47 Thunderbolt Planes in Action   Disclosed to Have Gone Into Action In European Theatre.

THUNDERBOLT FIGHTERS GO INTO ACTION   400-Mile-An-Hour American Planes Operating Over Europe   WITH BOMBERS ON ATTACK ON ANTWERP   Able to Operate at 40,000 Feet: Ferrying Range of 1,000 Miles

P-47s Have A Speed Of 400 Miles Hour   Thunderbolt Attains A Speed of 720 Miles In Diving   ARE ALSO AT HOME SEVEN MILESIN AIR

400-Mile-An-Hour P-47 Thunderbolts Revealed In Action Over Europe

YANKEES USING NEW FIGHTERS   400 M.P.H. Thunderbolt: Down Germans Over Europe

Armed With Eight 50 Cali. bre Machine-Guns; Excel At High Altitudes of 35,000-Feet

Reveal Activities Of Thunderbolts  Over Continent   Powerful Fighters Escort Flying Fortresses In  Recent Raid On Antwerp

AMERICAN P-4/ FIGHTERS USED   Thunderbotts Taking Part in Action in European Theatre,

BRITISH RENEW NIGHT ATTACKS AGAINST NAZIS   Fortresses Out Over Continent By Daylight

Sublette County Buy: $4,087.50 In War! Bonds First 8 Daye of March

ALABAMA PLANNING JOARD 15 APPOINTED   Organization Meeting Slated For Next Wednesday

Wallace Warns Of Third World War  Speech Brings Peace Problem Into Open

KNOTTY PEACE ISSUES ARE NO LONGER SECRET   Vice President's Speech Viewed As Bringing Soviet Problem Into Open   LACK AGREEMENT   Envisions Third World War Unless-Understanding Between Soviets.and Democracies Is Reached

Third War May Follow Says Wallace   US, Russia Situation Termed Critical

Wailace Focuses Attention on Part . Russia:Plays in Post-War Problems

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ASSERTS STALIN THINKS RUSSIA DOUBLEGROSS ED   Sliced Bread Ban Is Lifted On Home Front By Wickard

Slash In Butter Production Seen  MSIL Chartaga   Milk Shortage Partly To Blame

Citrus Outlook Bright Following Rain, OPA Ruling   $8 A Ton Boost In Ceiling, Added Tc Favorable Weather, Booms Crop

DEFENOES aAb BEFORE HEAVY ALLIED ATTAGK   Nazis Begin Retreat to North as Americans Make 3-Mile Gains.

GERMAN LINE IN ITALY IS BREAKING   Nazis Begin General Retreat Toward Rome

Germans — in Marder Retreat   Allies Continue Advances in Central Italian Sector ~

ALLIES BREAKING UIP GERMAN LINE   Bombings, Slowed By Fogs, Are Resumed on Cluster of Nazi Air Fields.

GERMAN DEFENSE LINE ON ITALIAN FRONT CRACKING   Enemy Begins Orderly Retreat Northward Toward Rama

ENEMY LINE BELOW ROME CRUMBLES AS ALLIES DRIVE ON   Germans Begin Orderly Retreat To North — American Move  3 Miles

ENEMY BEGINS WITH ORAWALS NORTH TO ROME   American Spearheads Plunge Through Nazi Tank Forces To Gain Three Miles

Nazis; Have Started. Orderly “Retreat  Northward American Troops Are Fighting Through: Heavy: Nazi Tank’ “A! tacks. ‘7

BROKEN, NAZIS PEGIN RETREAT   Heavy Pressure Crumbling Defenses; Allied Airmen Raid Austria. Bag 30 Enemvy Planes.      By HARRISON SALISBURY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

Nazi Troops In Retreat  Northward.  Yank Spearheads Battle Through Aftack by Tanks

Line Near Rome Is Breaking   U. S. Spearheads, Piercing Tank Attacks, Advance

Germans Fall he to New  Defense Line   American Guns Dominate Plain Leading to Rome

Enemy Starts Orderly Retreat North, Report   American Spearheads Plunge Three Miles  Deeper Into Defenses

GERMANS GIVE UP RELUCTA BUT STEADILY BEFORE GEN CLARK’S 5TH ARMY AND BRITISH 8TH

BERLE TESTIFIES ON FLYNN'S HANDLING OF TRUST FUNDS   Senators Conduct Hearings On Untitness Charges Aaainct Mintster-Designate

WITNESSES SHY AT FLYNN PROBE   Minister Designate to Australia Under Fire Of Senate Committee

SHOWDOWN IN  WAGE DISPUTE   ROOSEVELT ASKS .RAILROAD LABOR AND OPERATORS TO AGREE TO HIS PLAN OF  KETTLEMENT 

(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) By LOUIS PF. KEEMLE  Se 2). - APA l,l as, ee °

GOP ADVOCATES REDUCED TAXES   Suggests Reduction as a4  Post War Goal

Post War Cutting Of Taxes Proposed   GOP Leader Says Load Must Be Reduced

GOP Leader Urges Cut in Postwar Tax  Republicans Back Movement to Slash ‘All Along the Line’

Reduced Tax Program Said Goal if G.0.P. Wins Control of Congress

REDUCED TAXES CAMPAIGN PLEA   GOP Leader Says Party Will Capitalize on Thot Plank in ‘44

REDUCED TAXES FOLLOWING WAR   Rep. Knutson Says Party  Favors Cuts for Both   Corporations and In{  : dividuals as Goal

MORF BILLIONS ASKED BY NAVY   President’s Request for $4,000,000,000 Cash Sent to Congress

FDR ASKS FOUR BILLIONS MORE CASH FOR NAVY   $210,000,000 Additional In Contracts Sought For Contingencies In Program   Shore Use Opposed

‘AU. 3. Colonels, Men in Ranks Win Awards For Gallant Action in the Papuan Campaien

Still More Corn Is Wickard’s Request   Livestock Feed Demand Is Greater

Heil Transfers Functions of Office to Goodland Today   GOODLAND TO ABOLISH STATE PARDON BOARD

Big Inch,’ World’s Largest Oil. Pipeline, © Delivers First Texas Oil for Shivering .East

December 15 Tax Deadline   COLLECTOR WARNS SECOND INSTALLMENT MUST BE PAID ON TIME

FEAR RESTAURANT PRICES WILL BOON   U. S. Looking For Way To Control Situation

Prices to Soar In Restaurants, Officials Fear   Philadelphia Family Declares 4,500 Cans In Ration Signing

Midnight And Sunday Closing Are Challengec   Showdown: Scrap Loom: On Amendments ToCity Ordinance

EARLY TAVERN CLOSING NEAR TS SHOWDOWN   Ordinances Introduced; Public Hearing  For May 24   FIGHT IS IN MAKING   B. H. Tavern Owners Hire Attorney To Block Proposal

Allies Suprised At Enthusiasm With Which They Are Greeted By Civilians

Italian Morale Hits Low Ebb   Troops Surrender In Oraanized Units

Chinese Tighten Trap About Japs In North Hunan  Te L ga  es      Take Over Six  More Villages

‘Gen. Fredendall Will ‘Succeed Gen. Lear As Commander of 2nd Army

Lodi School Head Resigns   White Goes To BaldwinWallace; Wakeman Man Hired

WHITE LEAVES LOD! SCHOOL, GOFS T0 B.W   W. S. Wood, Superintendent At Wakeman For 16 Years, Hired As Successor

16 American bombers lost while destroying record  German bag of 50 planes   RAF drops greatest bomb load ever placed on single target

PAY BIG TOLL FOR RAIDS ON FACTORIES   Red Air Force Now Is Taking Part in Offensive

16 BOMBERS LOST IN U.S BREMEN RAIL   Americans Shoot Down More than 50 Nazi Planes in Daylight Attack,   SKODA WORKS BLASTED BY 600 RAF PLANES

Yanks Lose 16. in Bremen Raid   55 RAF Ships Missing in Three Operations

1 6Are Lost In Big Raid   Many German Planes Shot Down [In Fights

RAF LOSES 55 BOMBERS AND U. 5. LOSES 16 IN NEWEST RAIDS OM AXIS TERRITORY   British Unload Greatest Weight of Bombs Dropped in Single Operation

16 BOMBERS LOST IN RAID ON GERMANY      Focke Wulfe Airplane  Assembly Plant Is Hard Hit

M’NUTT’S BABY   Plane Production Problems Turned Over To WMC Boss.

Russian. Drive Is Definitely Halted Now   ‘Reds Report, However That Countérattacks . of Germans Fail

FORTY-SEVEN MEN. LEFT FRIDAY   For Service In The Army  —Thirteen Join Navy And Marines.

. Btate Library 1 silva Education Be  MUKE MEN LirAVE   For Service In The Army, Navy And Marines.

THIRTY-TWO MEN LEAVE FOR NAVY   Forty-Seven Men Leave For Army Next Week + Friday,

EIGHTY-TWO MORE MEN INDUCTED   Forty-Seven Join The Army And Thirty-Two Join The Navy _ Navy Men Leave Friday.

MORE MEN LEAVE TOMORROW   From Tioga County For Service In The Armed  Forces.

TWENTY-FOUR © MEN -ACCEPTED   For Service In 1 In The Army, Navy, Coast Army And Air Force,

SIXTY MEN LEAVE FRIDAY   For Service In The Army, Navy And Marines.

SEAT Y-NINE MEN ACCEPTED  jemi.   They Will Report For Service Monday, Dec. 20,

EIGHTY-SEVEN MORE MEN LEAVE   This Week For Service In The Army, Navy And Marines.

NEWS OF T  ) OF THE COUNTY COUR}   ‘Cause Of The Death Of LeRoy Baker Is Un own,         Foe aerrica In ie. Ne “Two Leave eae! Mondas;

FORTY-SEVEN MEN LEFT HERE FRIDAY   For The Army Induction Center At New Cumberland.

"NAZIS SUFFER «HEAVY LOSSES IN TANK FORAY   Allied Fighters And Light Bombers Come To Aid Of French Ground Forces.

Tank Ring Is Blasted By Yankees   French Force Restoring Situation After Attack At Fondouk-El Aouareb.

ITALY CONCERNED — OVER POPE’S FATE   He Is Prisoner of an Undesired Protecting Power, Switzerland Hears

CATHOLICS CONCERNED OVER FATE OF POPE      “Whispers of Concern” Circulate In Rome, Swiss Newswriter Discloses

Travelers From Rome Say Pope Pius Held Protected’ Prisoner Of Nazis

Sectors Hit . Hard Licks by Air Armadas   RoTH ARMY AND NAVY PLANES BLAST HARD OVER WIDE AREA. .

ASKS BOOST IN UTILITY VALUES   Tax Commissioner Lists Assessment Increases  Of $4,982,200

LEGISLATURE IS ADJOURNED   Park Apprépriation Approved, Assembly Calls Halt to Sessions

ADJOURNMENT OF LEGISLATURE COMES QUICKLY   Senate Finally Capitulates To Songs of House To ‘Show Way To Go Home’   PARKS BILL IS PASSED   Move To Wind Up Affairs Stalls Temporarily and Then Senate Breaks

SENATE PASSES PARK MEASURE   Legislature Adjourns, To Convene for One-Day June 24

SENATE GIVES IN AS HOUSE SINGS   ‘Assembly Winds. Up’ Business  and Adjourns.

SHOOT WOLVES   Carroll County Hunters Get Four Of Destructive Pack.

‘BACK FROM MEETING      Local Group Attended Sessions of State T,. B. Association

TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS FOOD FINGH COMING   WFA Announces Civilians Will Have To Get Along With Less

LESS BUTTER FOR CIVILIANS   'Allotments Of Cheese,  Processed Milk  Also Cut

Milk Products To Be Reduced   War Food Admin ist ration Announces Cuts For Civthan Use.

Butter, Cheese Supply To Drop Civilians To Get Less In Coming Months

DAIRY PRODUCTS TO GROW SCARCE   Fighting Forces and Allies To Get More Butter, Cheese And Processed Milk

Buiter, Cheese Allotments To Be Trimmer   Home Front Also Will Get Less of Most Kinds of . Processed Milk

Cut Supply Of  Dairy Produce   WFA Says For 12 Months Civilians Must Get Along On Lower Allotment.

Says Civilian Food Supplies To Be Reduced   Less Butter,  Cheese. Milk

Less Cheese And Butter   For Civilians   Allotment of Butter to Be Cut 404 Million Pounds for Year Beginning July 1; Cheese Cut Greater

Cut Civilian Allotment Of Dairy Foods   Less Butter, Cheese And Most Kinds Of Milk Products Is Available Under Food Program

Americans Face: ‘Big Curtailment ‘In tee ‘Of Butter   Armed Forces ‘Ate Allotte:t : Pound And-A Half. Out . Of Every 10 Produced

Rum Licenses Up Before Council  Investigation by Committee Voted

Rum Licenses Up Before Council  Investigation by  on en Ce . ee 

Reds Tighten Noose on Foe In Orel Area   erent (©) wie “AG . <AMBLES OF HUGE ENciMY FUEL REGION

60 Oil Field Raiders Held   Rome Claims Cepture OF U.S. Fliers Who Beiled Out in Blitz

‘How About Some Ohio Apples!  States Offering Assorted tems To Cover Hog Wager

HURRY TO ACCEPT GRISWOLD’S OFFER   Assorted Items Are Offered by Governors to Cover the Wager

MINE OPERATORS INSIST ON WLB INTERVENTION   BOTH NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN GROUPS REJECT 6-DAY WEEK

PERKINS’ PLAN TO SOLVE MINE DISPUTE SOUT   Operators Advise Secretary of Labor Acceptance Would Violate Roosevelt Pay Freeze   ASKED 6-DAY WEEK   Government Called On Operators For Guarantee of Full Year Employment With Overtime

MME. PERKINS GIVEN DENIAL   Southern Soft Coal Operators Refuse Proposed Contract

CHARGE PROPOSAL IS WAGE INCREASE   And Violates The President’s Inflation Order

seven Transport Planes, Each Carrying 120 Men Included.  WE LOST ONE PLANE IN ALL OPERATIONS  In Other Raids Jetties, Barges and Trains Were Attacked.

113 MORE AXIS WARPLANES DESTROYED IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA BY ALLIED AIRMEN

Ninety-One Warplanes Of Enemy Destroyed On Ground. Grosseto Attacked By Flying Fortresses From Tuniro,

NATION'S TOLL OVER HOLIDAY MOUNTS TO 350   137 Are. Traffic Victims; Ohio Deaths Total io. . aoe

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLLE MOUNTING   Sallfonnla Leads State ata  Traffia

Labor Day Toll May Top 350: 15 Die in State   Train wreck pictures, complete details of both wrecks and a story of the hotel fire are on page 16.

Week-End Holiday Death Toll Soars  May Surpass Total Recorded in 1942

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL BELIEVEL SURPASSES *42   Fatalities Swelled by Two Train Wrecks and Hotel Fire Over Labar Day Weckend

LABOR DAY DEATH TOLL MAY BEAT “4?   Train Wrecks, Fire May SurPass 350 Deaths, Recorded Last Year

Crack New York Central, Pennsylvania Trains Are   Wrecked; Many Are Hurt

LABOR DAY DEATH TOLL ONE OF WORST INU.* HISTORY.   Fires and Train Wrecks Sends Total to or Above _ Last. Year’ s Total of 350 Deaths

HOLIDAY TOLL WILL EXCEED LAST YEA   Worst Train Wreck in Railroad History, Hotel Fire Swell List.

Fortresses Knock Out Aqueduct  Near Cannes   Mosquitoes From Britain Raid Western Germany

FRENCH RIVIERA AREA IS BOMBED   Viaduct At Cannes Smashed; Western Reich Hit

FORTS DAMAGE VITAL VIADUCT USED BY NAZIS   Double Track Rail Span Links Franee And North Italy

Forts Knock Out Viaduct   Smash Vital Railway Linking France, Italy

VIADUCT ON VITAL COAST RAILWAY OF FRANCE IS BLASTED   Antheor Duct Near Cannes Knocked Out With Series Of Direct  a : Witte:

DRAFT CHIEFS OKAY SHIFT IN CLASSIFICATION      New 3-A Group for Pre-December 7 Fathers

DRAFT LEADERS IN CONFERENCE   Hershey Discusses Plans To Abolish Dependency Classes.

Germany Accuses Swedes Of Spying For Allied Cause   Relations Further Strained By Nazis’ ‘Arrogant Attitude In Rejecting Protest Against Sinking Boats

Nazis Declare Swedes Act as Spies for Foes   Accuse Fishermen Of Aiding Allies

SWEDES RESENT BERLIN CHARGES   Relations Strained After German Attacks On Fishing Boats

Swedes Deny Nazi Charge of Spying  *Cchoarmen to Asie   Fishermen to Ask Naval Protection

Nazis Refuse Sweden sPles   Cloim Fishing Boats Are Harboring Spies

Nazis Claim Swedes Spying For. Allies; Press Is Called  ‘Arrogant And Pranaratine’

BATTLESHIPS IN PACIFIC PROVING  ABILITY TO FIGHT   Navy Report on Two Battles Shows Big Vessels Can Dish It Out

ATTLESHIP SHOT DOWN 32 PLANES    Navy Reports On Effectiveness of Gunfire From U. S. Vessel During Jap Attack

Battleships Withstand © Air Attacks   Also Deliver Telli Blows at  _ Night Despite Handicaps ‘of  ' Darkness on Long-Range Battling

BATTLEWAGONS ARE EFFECTIVE   Gatch’s Vessel Brings Dowr 32 Jap Planes, Sinks 3 Enemy Cruisers

Greater Use Of Battleships In Pacific War Predicted   Flying Fortresses, Fighter Planes Great Air Weapon

U. 5. Battleship Downs 32 Planes   Included Were All 20 Dive-Bombers Which Had Attacked Ship

BATTLESHIP’S WORTH UPHELD   Navy Reveals Pacific Battle Destroying Jap Planes And Men-Of-War

U.S. Battleship Bags 32 Jap Planes Then Goes on To Sink 3 Warships

U.S. BATTLESHIP PROVES ABILITY   FLOATING FORTRESS CARRIES POWERFUL PUNCH, JAPS FIND

Heat IN FICHT              : : Battlewagon™ ie Pacific Rebs Wiote New “oWar Chapter

Report by Navy Opens New Chapter in Pacific Story   Results of Two Engagements In Which Unidentified American Battleship Destroved Jap Planes and Men-0’-War Presage Greater Use of Rattlewagons In the Future

WAVELL VISITS WEST BURMA   Arrives by Plane at Advanced Airdrome

FRESH RUMORS ARE HEARD FINNS ARE SEEKING PEACE   GERMANS SAID TO HAVE BEEN HANDED. FOOD DEMAND— POPE WAS ASKED TO  » INTERVENE

House Passes Sabotage Bill with Amendment   Chamber Adopts Clause to Protect Newspapers, Critics

SABOTAGE BILL GOES TO SENATE   —x< Committee Chief Promises To Probe “Civil Rights” Aspect Of Measure

Railway Wreck Toll Hits 79   Task of Identifying Victims Proves Slow

Wreek Tolls Mount to 79   Fireman Sent to Stop 2d Tram Broke Sigal

RAL CRASH TOLL ~ INCREASES 10 78   Identification of Victims Slow as Searchers Keep Clearing jam

Wreck Toll 79; Inquiry Planned   12 Bodies Known To Be in 2 Cars

As Ball Turret Gunner On Thunderbolt, Saw Big Fires Come Up From Poix

Relief Conferees Tackle Problems   Lehman Slated for  Director's Post

2-MAN SUB COMING   Pearl Harbor Prize Will Be Exhibited in Lawrence  Monday

ALL -NAZIS DRIVEN FROM VORONEZH, ~ REDS MOVE WES!   Main Forces of Russians Ad_ Vance for. Direct Attack. on Kurek.

GERMANS ON EAST FRONT   40 Per Cent,’ Ot Axis Effectives Blasted. In Two Months .

Red Planes Blast Germany’s Shipping   American Vessels Arrive in Arctic Unharmed—Armies Draw Closer to Goals

40 PCT. OF AXIS FORCE IN RUSSIA NOW SMASHE   Russian Offensive ts Rolling Forward On All Fronts   BETTER DELIVERIES OF SUPPLIES FROM ALLIES

REDS REPORT ON 2-MONTHS OFFENSIVE   Other Quarters Say Supply Deliveries Improved

CLAIM NEARLY HALE OF NZL ~AAIMIES LOST   Cite Heartening Improvement  in Delivering Supplies by _ Convoys.   PLAN NEW TRAP AFTER CAPTURE OF VERONEZH

GO PER CENT OF AXIS TROOPS ARE LOST ON EASTERN FRONT   Red Winter Offensive Moves On Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov

RED ARMY CAPTURES VORONEZH, KEEPS ROLLING TOWARD KURSK   Estimate Axis Has Lost 40 Per Cent Of Effectives

Allied Control. Of Suppl; Routes In North - Is Also Greatly. —  ‘Improved  NAZI convoy SMASHED  Hungarians AE Voranezh Lose Nine Of Total 13  Divisions

Plane Driven From Oahu By Searchlights   Believe To Have ‘Been Jap Vessel From Submarine

CAPITAL PROBES ARE INCREASING   Manpower, Lease-Lend and Labor Disputes Slated For Congress Spotlight

WASHINGTON IN WRANGLE NV WANPAWER   Military’s Sights Set Too High for 1943, Com:  mittee Believes.   EXPECT SHOWDOWN, FARM DEFERMENTS   Shipments to Spain, War Labor Board, Among Storm Centers.

Probes and Protest Furnish Main News in Capital Today   Size of Army; Shipment p of Oil to Spain; WLB Strife Stressed

A REVOLT . IN LABOR TRIBUNAL   Controversy Within ~ the Board One of the Major Issues at. Capital.   MANPOWER ISSUE STILL UNSETTLED   U.8. Shipments to Spain Al‘so Brings Varying Reactions and: Probe

Nation's Military and Production Sights Set Too High, Solons Hold

THREE MAJOR QUESTIONS HAVE PROBES & PROTESTS COOKING IN NATION'S CAPITAL TODAY

Says Nation's Sights Are Set Too High   Military and Production Aims Cannot Be Reached with Available Manpower; Inquire into Spanish Trade

Major Questions Facing Probes   Senators Look Into Possibility of Cutting Army Size

MAJOR QUESTIONS BRING PROBES AND PROTESTS SaTURUAY   MANPOWER, SHIPMENTS  TO SPAIN AND WAR LA_ BOR SITUATION INVOLVE

DEMAND PROBE OF SHIPMENTS SENT TO SPAIN   Internal Strife. Outside Criticism Besieges WLB

Three Questions Gecany Attentior At Washington   Exports to Spain Brings Protest From Senater

3 MAJOR QUESTIONS COOKING IN CAPITAL   Probe Possibility of Trimminc Armed Service Expansion

Allied Bombs Hit Jap Bases and  Troops in Isles  All Raids Are Light But Effective; Town Area Struck

JONES PREDICTS RUBBER SOLUTION   Says 40 New Plants Now Ready to Replenish U. S. Stockpile

Rubber Outlook Good for 1944   Meet Essential War,  Civilian Needs

Lexas Playing Big Part As Nation Nears — Means Of Meeting Essential Ribher Need:

Jesse Jones Predicts Rubber ‘For All Needs by End ot ’43   Secretary of Commerce Believes Stockpile Will Be Large  _ Enough to Meet Requirements of Both Civilians and  Arméd Forces—Manufacturing Capacity Will Be in Ex-. cess of 800,000 Tons a Year, He Says.

Jones Predicts U.S. Rubber Will Meet EssentiatNeed   40 New Plants Ready to Add to Nation’s Stockpile

Jesses Jones Sees Rubber Progress  Able to Meet Needs By End of Year

Jones Says U. S. Will Soon Make Enough Rubber   Will Be Abie To Meet Al Needs by End of Year, He Declares

Drastic Action Seen to Start Struck Mines   Alabama Workers Ignore Pleas of Unions and WLR

Steel Production Virtually Halted   Only 2,500 of State’s Soft Coal Diggers Heed Back-to-Work Plea

Coal Mines In Alabama Still Idle   Appeals Ignored— WLB Says Work  Is Beings Resumed

Only Small Number Of Men In Alabama Fields Resume Work On Appeal By John L. Lewis Today, Survey Indicates   REPORTS OF RESUMPTION ARE DENIED BY FIRMS

Alabama’s Miners Defy WLB, Lewis   Majority of 22,000 Stay Out; Big Pits Still : Shut Down

MINERS REMAIN OUT ON STRIKE   Alabama Workers Fail to Heed Work Appeals

APPEALS FAIL 10: HALT COAL STRIKE.   Alabama Miners Continue Walkout — Situation Is Grave

MINERS DEFY WLB DEMANDS   MAY USE DRASTIC STEPS TO REOPEN ALABAMA PITS

FOR PAYS ViolT TO GENERAL OF YANK 7TH ARMY   “Patton Incident” Ayparently Closed; Seventh in Sic‘ly

SICILY VISIT BY PRESIDENT ~ 18 REVEALEL   PRESIDENT BAID TO HAVE APs PROVED EIBENHOWER’'S HANDLING OF THE PAT TON INE€IDENT .

FIERY GENERAL TO RETAIN POST “AS ARMY CHIEF   Mark W. Clark Receives " Service Cross For Battle Heroism  YANKEE VETS REVIEWED  nae  s Chief Executive's Visit To Sicily Revealed At White House   YANKEE VETS REVIEWED

PATTON GETS APPROVAL AS COMMANDER   President Closes “Patton Incident” in Sicilian Visit

BIRTH OF INDEPENDENCE OBSERVED AROUND GLOBE   Americans in Every Corner of the World Take Part in Day’s Time-Honored Festivities

Allied Nations Join Americans In Celebration Of Independence Day

Yanks Fete Fourth All Over World   From Hyde Park to Moscow, Africa to China Allies Join in

AMERIGANS AROUND WORLD CELEBRATED FOURTH OF JULY  _ ARE ENTHUSIASTICALLY _ ASSISTED BY THEIR

Allies Help U.S. Celebrate Fourth of July In Scattered Places Throughout the Globe

ALLIES CELEBRATE   American Independence Day Observed in Embattled Capitals

Italians Went Wild With Joy   Parade Through Rome, Invade Palazzo Venezia

This Action Was In Swift Succession to a Government Shakeup Which Eliminated  Benito Mussolini.   PIETRO BADOGLIO THE NEW PREMIER   King Emanuel Made Change as a Possible Prelude  to an Italian Bid :  For Peace. ‘

Blazing Air War Rages In Tunisia.   Allies Bag: 28 Planes, Damage 24 During Raids

28 AXIS PLANES DOWNED IN RAID OVER WEEK END   American Flying Fortresses Account For Biggest Part Of Aerial Gains’: .....

Allied ‘Aircraft Scores Heavily   Brings Down 28 Enemy * Planes In Tunisia

ALLIED AERIAL POWER GROWSIN NORTH AFRICA   American and British Planes Shoot Down 28  Enemy Aircraft In Display of Superiority   DAMAGE 34 OTHERS   Axis Supply Bases In Tunisia Area Battered Over Weekend; French Force Advances

Allied Planes Over Tunisia Rip Into Foe   Down 28 Axis Aircraft, Damage 34 Others In Battering Attacks As Ground Work Is Quiet

Ronald F. Carey  LeMars Youth  Dies In Action Killed While Bhi   Killed While F ighting On Battle Field In Tunisia

Ronald F. Carey LeMars Youth © Dies In Action —  Killed WL; lea Rahs.   Killed While Fighting On Battle Field  In Tunisia

Preview Of After- War Flying Given   Col. Gorrell Reports On Commercial Aviation Future Ideas

Farmers Are Urged To Plant To Their Limit   Food Administrator Davis in Extraordinary Appeal For All-Out Planting During Season.

Berlin Worried At Threats of Massed Attack   Germans Fear Duplication of Raids on Hambure

BERLIN; FEAR ALLIED RAIDS   Stories of Bombings At Hamburg Cause Rising Panic

Berliners in Stampede lo Evacuate City in Fear Of RAF Mass Air Raids   Already Frayed Nerves of Citizenry Said Snapping as Hamburg Refugees Spread Horror Stories — Strikes, Other Troubles Said Brewing as Morale Sags With Setbacks

Berlin Panicky Over Fear Of Allied Raids   Authorities At Wits’ End To Control Mas Stampede After RAF Drops Notes; Hamburg Refuges Arrested

Authorities at ‘Wits’ End to Control Mass Stampede  FEARS OF ALLIED AIR RAIDS MOUNT  Goebbels Warns That Ber lin Is on the Doom. S °.-.

STAMPEDE OUT UF BERLIN IS IMMINENT   As Populace Fearing Similar   Fate As Hamburg; “ Partial Evacuation” Admitted By Goebbele   Risky Route

Mass Stampede From City May Start Any Day   200,000 Casualties In Hamburg Attacks

Air Nerves Bring Mass Stampede   Civilians Haunted By Hamburg!s Fate

MASS STAMPEDE OF GERMANS OUT OF CAPITAL REPORTED BY TRAVELERS REACIIING SWITZERLAND

MASSES FLEE BERLIN; FEAR ‘ALLIED RAIDS   Stories of Bombings At Hamburg Cause Rising Panic

MASS AERIAL RAIDS OF RAF JOLT CAPITAL   MILITARY LOSSES AFFECT MORALE IN NAZILAND

REPORT NAZ MAY DECLARE  IS  BERLIN OPEN   Citizens of German Capital in State of Near Panic

EAR ALLIED PLANES SOON WILL STRIKE   Panic Seizes City as Refugees From Hamburg Tell of Devastation Wrought There.   EXODUS CALLED “MASS STAMPEDE”   Wave of Strikes Reported in Country — Goebbels Appeals for Stiffening of Morale.

BERLIN PANIC STRICKEN OVER FEAR OF ALLIED AIR ATTACKS   Refugees From Bomb-Shat tered Hamburg Have Been Arrested To Prevent Relating Tales Of Destruction In That City; People Evacuating Capital

Berlin Reported Panicky Over Prospect of Allied Air Raids   Smell of Death Pervades Bombed German Cities as Casualty Totals Mount

Nazi Authorities Try to Control Mass Stampede   Horror Stories of Refugees Snapping War-Frayed: Nerves

NAZI AT END OF WITS TO STOP MASS EXODUS   Swiss Paper Says Industrial Workers: Strike For * Peace

BERMAN GATIIAL TAERSLES FROM EAR OF EGRBS   Refugees Fion H mburz Add to Dis're_s of ihe Populace.

Nazi Capital Fears Allied Mass Raids   Hamburg Refugees  Spread Horror Tales And Trouble Brews  rRAGEECTO NHROYPYPLY

BERLIN'S PEOPLE NEAR STAMPEDE IN FEAR OF RAIDS   Turkey Hears Nazis Plan to Declare Capital ‘Open City’

Berlin Residents In Mass Stampede   Fear Of Threatened Mass Allied Air Raids Causes Residents To Flee City For Safety

Report Evacuees Streaming From Berlin In Panic   Goebbels Acknowledges Population There Thinning Out; Fear Raids

British Agency Reports Berlin Seized by Panic   Hamburg Refugees Stories Said Spreading Terror

Nazis Try To Control ‘Stampede’   Hamburg Refugee: Spread Horror Stories In City

Air Nerves Bring Mass Stampede   Civilians Haunted By Hamburg’s Fate  By JAMES KING 

STRIKES TAPERING OFF IN. WESTERN SECTION OF STATE   Miners Respond To Fleas Of Government And UMW Officials To Return

Former Dakotan Falls Into Ice Crevasse . Five Die in Attempts to Rescue 7 From Greenland

5 Die In 5-Months Struggle To Rescue Seven U.S. Airmen  From Greenland Ice Cap

we Months Of Hifert Costing Five Lives Finally Leads To Epochal Rescue Gf Seven Men From Croonland Ipo Can

Five Months Of Effort Costing Five Lives Finally Leads To Epochal Rescue Of Seven Men From Greenland [ce Cap

DEWEY WILL NAME BOARD ON  FOOD PROBLEM   Babcock Choice for Director of 10. . Member Commission — Federa’ Handling Criticised

Navy Reviews Campaign in Solomons, Places Jans’ Losses at 182 Warshins

JONES SAYS TRADE POLICY BOLSTERS) UNITY OF NATIONS   Foreign Trade Gains Mora Than Half Of Lost: Ground Since Enactment

COUNT CIANO REPORTED — ARRESTED   Arrest Made at Argentine Legation Where He Was Seeking Refuge for Himself and Family

BULGARIANS AID YUGOSLAV ARMY   Soldiers And Equipment Switch Sides To Fight Germans

SUPPLY SHIPS SET RECORDS   REMARKABLE. RECORD ON OCEAN. SUPPLY ROUTES TO MEDITERRANEAN 15 MADE PUBLIC

150.000 Red Soldiers Hit Kuban Positions, Berlin Radio Reports  MAY SIGNAL START OF GENERAL DRIVE  Germans Thrown Back More Than Mile, __ Take Stiff Battering

Bombers Give Htaly Little Rest   British Checking On Damage Dene To Dusseldorf

Send U.S. Bombers, Fighters   Large Monthly Increases Reported — Most of Planes Are Bombers

U.S. Doubles Air  Force in Britain   Will Be Doubled Again—Eakers

AMERICAN AIR MIGHT DOUBLED SINCE MARCI   U. 8. Force In Britain Will Doubic Again By Fall

U. S. Air Force in Britain  Doubled Since March; To Be  Doubled Again by September

GEN, EAKER SAYS ENEMY MUST SOO} FACE THE ISSU   Already Doubled In Size Since March—Nazi Industry to Be Leveled.

Air Foree In Great Britain  Is Doubled   American Air Power To Be Doubled Again By September, Gen. Eaker Asserts In England

Gen. Eaker Says U. S. Air Force in Britain Has Been Doubled Since March and Will Be Doubled Again by September

GERMANS SHELLED ITALIAN CONVENT   Eleven Nuns Killed at Prayer in Chapel

PROCESSING HEMP.    Pioneer to Process 26,000 Bushel of Hemp Seed.

’ PROCESSING HEMP.   : he ‘Fioncer to Process 26,000 Bush’ gl of Hemp Seed.

JAPANESE PACIFIC OFFENSIVE BROKEN   Allied Southwest Pacific Planes Attack Jap Convoy.

BACK OF JAPAN'S — OFFENSIVE BROKEN MacARTHUR SAYS   Enemy Fighting a Holding War, He Declares

o JAP NOW FIGHT A HOLDING WAR, MACARTHUR SAYS   Our Resources Still Limited But We Hold Offensive  In Pacific

Japs’ Back Broken, Says MacArthur   Allied Forces Have Assumed The Offensive

Brooks Charges Overseas Ballots Designed to Give Roosevelt an Edge

Marines in Advance on New Britain   Push Five Miles Through Jungle—Australians Take New Guinea Ridge

MARINES PUSHING THROUGH JUNGLE ON NEW BRITAIN   Americans Rapidly Nearing  Japanese Airstrips on Cape Gloucester

Marines Within  Striking Range  ~ Of Airstrips On Cape Gloucester

Tanks Blast Path Toward J ap Airfield  Marines Drive Five Miles Through Jungies of Cape Gloucester  GAIN NEAR ARAWE Aussies Win High Ridge Overlooking Enemy’s Forts at Madang         IGAIN NEAR ARAWE

YANKS GAIN 5 MILES ON NEW BRITAIN   Aussies Capture Ridge On New Guinea

Marines Near Cane Gloucester Airstrins   Aussies Take High Ridge Overlooking Jap Base at Madang

MARINES NEAR JAP AIRSTRIPS ON N. BRITAIN   Push Five Miles Through Jungle, Supported By Tanks

Marines Close in On Jap Airstrips   Australians Seize New Guinea Ridge

1.8. Forces Score Five-Mile Gain On New Britain   By Don Caswell United Press Staff

Marines Push Five Miles In  Gloucester Area   Now Only 2,500 Yards From Airfields; Aussies Near Madang

DEMAND INVESTIGATION —. OF KAISER'S SHIPYARDS   CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ‘TOLD THAT MATERIALS ARE HOARDED AND THERE  au $9 LABOR UNREST

'U. S. Fifth Army Strikes Hard to Dislodge Nazis  From Mountain Positions

ALLIES MOVE NEARER TO NAPLES PORT   Russians Crumble German Defenses  On East Front

Board Fails to Mediate Rail Dispute   Employe Demands for Higher Wage, Closed Shop Pend

RAIL BOARD FAILS TQ END WAGE FIGHT   Chairman Urges Group To Ask Emergency Hearing

Rail Labor Dispute Unsettled   Employes Insist On Wage Increase Mediator Reports

Protest End .. Ban on AAA Press Releases   ‘Gag’ Congressmen Said of Ruling by Agency

Ships, Barges Sunk: Tokyo.   Five Transports and 55 Lending Barges  Destroyed, Soy Japs

Axis Bases in Mediterranean Again Attacked   Flying Fortresses Hit Big Sicilian Air Base at Comisco From Substratosphere Height: Sardinian Targets Bombed

FLASHES   Leased Wire [ulletins on Lutes World News Today.   Impossible to “Hold the Line”

SALES TAX OPPOSED   ‘Levy Would Ruin Hold-The-Line  Policy, Vinson Tells House

Cold Wave Has Grip On Nation   Sub-Zero Temperature Is Reported From Many Sections Of U. S.

BITTER COLD _ SWEEPS OVER MANY STATES   'COLD WAVE GRIPS COUNTRY FROM ROCKY MOUNTAINS  i TO THE NEW ENGLAND  STATES _

MERCURY DIPS TO3 BELOW IN MATTOON   Coldest Weather of Year; No Relie€ in Sight Today

Once Proud Nazi Army Humbled    German Defenses On Cap Bon Collapse in . Mad Rout Before Advancing First Army

Hitler’ s Haughty Divisions Swarming By Thousands To Surrender To Allies

Germans Collapse As Well As Italians  Hitler’s Famous Shock Troops Became Rabble Before British Forces

Nazis Surrender As Quickly As Italians   Hitler's Proud Shock Troops Hu mbled, Surrender By Thousands

Worse Than Dunkirk-— Once Proud Nazi Corps Becomes Routed Rabble

/Once- Proud Nazis Running for Their Lives Fate Worse Than Dunkerque Engulfs- Them   By DANIEL DE LUCE.

‘Famed Shock Troops Run For Lives   Nazi Army A Rabble, AP Writer  Declares

F amous Nazi Shock Troops Running For Their Lives   ‘Hitler's Once Proud German Divisions Are Just Des  perate Rabble, Praying For Mercy

Vaunted Nazi Shock Troops In Utter Rout   Collapse of Proud German Divisions as Complete as That of Italians

Hitler’s Famous Soldiers Become Desperate Rabble   They Run For Lives Into Hills From Americans in Tunisia War.   Nazis Are Humbled in Their Panicky Retreat

THOUSANDS OF MEN QUIT WAR   Adolf’s Famous Shock Troops Tumbling Over One Another to Give Up

Once-Proud Nazis Giving  Up Quickly   Thousands Surrendering Or Running For Their Lives; Lack Food, Gas And Munitions

Chinese Vanguard Enters Jap-Held City Near Yangtze   Nipponese Show Sign: Of Collapse,

Chinese Vanguard Enters Jap-Held City Near Yangtze  Nipponese Show Signs  Of Collapse,  Chungking Reports

CHINESE BREAK INTO JAP-OCCUPIED TOWN   Nips Suffer Severe Losses and Are Showing Signs of Collapse, Communiaue States.

ANOTHER STORY OV EXTRAVAGANCE   Higginsvilie Confederate Home Has 13 Inmates, 34 Officers

FLYNN’S DENIAL OF CHARGES IS CALLED PERJURY   Hearing on Appointment as Minister in Recess as Witnesses Summoned   BROWN GOES INTO OPA   Senate Committee Asserts OCS ‘Gambling’ with Nation’s Food Supply

CALL ADDITIONAL FLYNN WITNESSES   Senate Hearing Postponed Until Friday When Six Witnesses from New York Invited To Appear; Include LaGuardia-

*Today In Washington:  Mayor LaGuardia Among Witnesses To Be Called  In Flynn Probe Tomorrow

Archbishop Curley Urges Catholics To Observe Rationing Regulations

AUTO LICENSES ARE GIVEN RECOGNITION   Z State Administrators Extend  Reciprocity At Meeting In Baltimore

FROM ALBANIA   Unconfirmed Report Says Mussolini, Other Fascists In Custody,   ASK ARMISTICE SOON?

ROME REPORTS MUM ON FATE OF MUSSOLINI   Black Shirt Leader Forced Out by King Victor May * _ Be Under Arrest.   BADOGLIO, NEW PREMIER, SAYS “WAR TO CONTINUE”

King’s Removal Of Mussolini A Possible Preliminary Step To Seek smo Senarate Peace.

Marshal Badoglio, New Premier, Declares Martial Law   END OF FASCIST RULE   Public Meetings Banned; Crowds Demonstrate ‘ for Peace

REDS THROW OFF GERMAN AIR RAIDS   Wipe Out Over 1,500 Nazis In Ground Fighting

800 Enemy Troops Died in Sevsk Area Alone.   RUSSIANS INVADING EAST COAST OF AZOV

OHIO CONSERVATION HAS $600,000 FUND   Credit for Balance Given To Cut in Spending

\Cocoanut Grove Official Gets Convictions on 19 Counts of Manslaughter

GERMANS EXPECT INVASION TOMORROW   SAY ALLIES WILL STRIKE ON EVE OF INDEPENDENCE DAY   True or Not, Allied Moves in. dicate Zero Hour Is Near

Nazis Still Claim That Allied Invasion Will Start Tomorrow   Enemy Has Considerable Faith in All Their Predictions.

Allies Mark Up Gains in Italy   Move Ahead Despite Nazi Resistance

CLARK'S MEN STORM THREE MORE HEIGHTS   Fight Way Up Slopes Of Maggiore; 8th Army Advances

Americans Take Three Nazi Points   Yanks Fight Way To Mountain Top Above Rome Yaller

NAZIS FORCE BACK ON ROAD TOWARD ROME   FIFTH ARMY GAINS SLOWLY AFTER GRIM FIGHT

3 MORE HEIGHTS TANEN BY YANKS IN MIGNANO AREA   Positions Captured by Americans Enabie Them to Look Down Upon German Stronghold of Cassino.   NEW GAINS SCORED BY MONTGOMERY’S MEN   British Reach South Bank of Moro River, 10 Miles Beyond Sangro, in Violent Fighting,

Three More Heights Taken 7 By Allies In italian Push   Emergency Rations Dropped to American Troops by Bombers—British Army Reaches South Bank of Moro River

COSTLY GAINS MADE BY YANKS ABOVE CASSINO   Yard By Yard Advances Scored By Infantry  As Air Support Is Grounded

Americans Break Nazi Lines on Mount Maggiore   Score Important Gains in Italy

Gulf Storm Has Shifted To The Southwest   Coastal Area Still On The Alert For  Possible Blow

DC Speaker Says Move Under Way To Retain Davis   Doubt Food Boss Will Ouit Post

Move Under Way to Keep Chester Davis as War Food Administrator; Says D. C.

ROW INTO THE OPEN      State Board of Education and McClenny Having Trouble

Nazis Hit Back For Benes Talk   Send Several Friends Of Czech President to Concentration Camps

Benes Sees Nazi Disaster   Broadcast to Cxechs Couses Arrests of Friends in Homeland

All Allied Forces Advance Toward Bizerte And Tunis   Tremendous Aerial Onslaught Supports Me De Geaund In All-Out Allied Offensives

Rommel Has Fled  Tunisia, Report   U.S. Troops Form Southern Wing Of British First Army; Big Push On

AXIS PUSHED BACK SIX AND SFVEN MILFS.   Secretly Moved. U. S.-Equipment, Troops Rip Axis

SHIFTED TC “NEW SECTOR   British Armies Seize Key Anchors In New Advance

Gen. Giraud Visit Today   To Confer With FDR At White House On ‘Military Matters

GIAAUD DUE IN GAPITAE TODAY   french Commander To Have Military Conference With F.D.R.

Gen. Giraud to meet with  I’. D. R. today   French leader in Washington

GIRAUD COMES TO WASHINGTON TO MEET F. R.   French Leader in North Africa Will Confer With Military Chiefs

Gen. Giraud Arrives in Washington   Hero of French Resistance -to Axis Is Greeted by Top Military Men   TO SEE ROOSEVELT THIS AFTERNOON   Military Nature of Talks Emphasized Again by the White House

Giraud Meets F.D.R. Today   Commander Of French Forces. Assistants Will Confer In Washington,

GENERAL GIRAUD [5 AT CAPITOL TODAY   French Leader at White House for Series of Conferences of Military Character

GEN. GIRAUD IN AMERICA FOR PARLEY   Fighting French Leader Flies Here On Military Mission

GIRAUD ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON   French Leader to Confer With Roosevelt

GIRAUD T0 CALLONFDR TODAY 4:30   . French Commander Flying To Capital

DOUBTS SON IS SHOT   Mrs. Roosevelt Takes Report “With a Grain of Salt”.

THREE CHEMICAL FIRMS INDICTED FOR ‘AX!S DEAL’   Justice Dept. Accuses Group Of Cartel in War-Vital Materials

AN INDECEMENT.   Charges Chemical Companies With Helping Germany.

Indicted for Conspiracy   Three American Chemical Firms Charged With World-Wide Cartel

Indicted. In Cartel Conspiracy   Three U. S. Chemical Companies Named in Sweeping Charges by Federal Grand Jury

_AN INDICTMENT.   Charges Cc hemi ro “al Companies ! “With Helping Germany.

World Cartel In Chemicals  Is Chargec   Indictment Asserts Three Firms Involved in AntiTrust Case

THREE OF BIG U.S. CHEMICAL FIRMS HELD   Grand jury indicts them for part in world wide cartels

INDICT AMERICAN CHEMICAL FIRMS   CHARGE CONSPIRACY TO CREATE CARTEL FOR WORLD CONTROL

U.S. COMPANIES  WWAXIG TRUST      3 American Chemical Firms Indicted By. Justice Department.

HUGE CHEMICAL TRUST CHARGED IN INDICTMENT   National Lead, DuPont and Titan Accused of Conspiring to Build World-Wide Cariel —

U.S. Chemical Companies  Are Indicted  Three of Largest Concerns Charged With Cartel Plans

Charges Chemical Sales Controlled   Three American Companies Indicted on Creating  World Cartel.

Cartel in Chemicals Is Charged   Three Big American Firms Face Charges in U.S. Grand Jury. Action   WORLD TERRITORIES WERE DIVIDED   One Company Head Says System Was Considered * Leral When. Adopted:

Three Chemical Firms Indicted  They Are Charged _With Conspiracy

"TWN COMEDY “TWO. NIGHTS   West Concord P. T. A. To Stage Show January 21, 22 at Wheeler School

“HNE COMEDY ‘TWO NIGHT      West Concord P. T. A. To Stage Show January 21, 22 at Wheeler School’ .

New Check On Bonds  Is Favored   House Conimittee Approved Senate Measure _

Put Crimp In Local Bond Issues   Kansas Legislature Committee Approves Drastic New Measure   Absentee Vote Change Proposed In Measure   Increase In Common School Warrants Is Provided By Ancther

True Hess Story Ou   Went to Britam In Effort to Oust Churchill, Says Eder

MYSTERY RUDOLPH HESS CLEARED UP FINALLY   Anthony Eden Tells House Of Commons Proposal Brought By German To Britain.

Mystery of Rudolf Hess Now Disclosed by Anthony Eden   True Story of Sensational Journey of Rudolf Hess to England.

250,000 In Retreat From Stronghold; Red Army! Takes Heavy Toll. 

CEAMANS DLGIDE UN WITHDRAWAL FROM OREL ARE!   feds Close In And Enemy Flees Through 13-Mile  Escape Corridor

RED ARMY IS CONTINUING TO ADVANCE   Narrow Escape Corridor of Hitler’s Troops   GERMANS FLEE IN PANIC   Leave Large Amounts of War Supplies Behind

STRIKE FEARED AT 3POTTERIES   Kilnmen at Two Other Ne well Plants Threaten To Leave Jobs

NEW BOLIVIAN GOVT STANDS      Troops Guard Tin Mines; Counter-Revolt Fails To Materialize

Bolivia Pledges Ally Aid   REVOLUTIONARY CHIEFS GHARGE DEPOSED REGIME WITH FASCIST LEANINGS

B16 INCH LINE TO OPEN TODAY   ‘Texas To East Pipe Will Relieve Oil Shortage

AMERICAN TANK HAS DEADLY FIREPOWER   New Land Cruiscr, Produced By General Motors, Mas Been “Excellent” In Battle Tests

US. Develops World's Best Land Cruiser   New Tank Destroyer Can Beat Anything Germans Have

Size of Engaged Jap Fleet Is Unknown at Present.  HEAVY AND COSTLY SIEGE LIES AHEAD  Our Marines Are Fighting Through Tropical Jungles.

CRUCIAL NAVAL BATTLE RAGES IN PACIFIC   Victory For American Sea Fighters Will Speed Up Allied Push To ward Japanese Homeoo

Rumors Stari Rush On ’Gas’’ Stations   Motorists, Fearing Coup. on Values Will Be Cut, Fill Up Tanks

Oni DRIVING BAN RUMORS UNCHECKED   Runs Start on Gas Stations ir Some Cities.

MAY CUT VALUE OF GAS STAMP CHECK DRIVERS   Petroleum Companies Predict New Measures To Hit Midwest

JAP DISARMAMENT BEING DISCUSSED   Committee Suggested to Con sider Sites For Air, Naval Bases.

NEGOTIATIONS ARE PLANNED © FOR PERMANENT AIR BASES   SUBCOMMITTEE TO STUDY POSSIBILITIES FOR FUTURE ° U. & BASES IN THE PACIFIC

WESTERN GERMANY iS PAIDED BY RAI   Berlin Reports, 6 Big Planes Were Shot Down

TOKYO CLAIMS.» ID BATTLESHIPS INU, 5, FLEET   Lists American Strength in : Broadcast for Home Consumption.   BATTLE IN SOLOMONS FOUGHT OVER WIDE AREA

Father Shoots His Son Who Makes Surprise Visit, Thinking He Is a Thief

ALABAMA MINERS PROLONG STRIKt   \ Few Heed Appeals To Resume Work, But 20,000 Remaining Idle

GREATER PORTION OF COAL MINERS STILL ON STRIKE   Some Hope Held for Settlement at Meeting Thursday

MINERS STILL OUT   Refuse to Work For Private Owners; Will Be Put Up to FDR

‘JAP BASES AT BOTH ENDS OF PACIFIC WAR FRONT RAIDED      Kiska Blasted Eight More Times By U. 5. Fliers _ Small Vessel Sunk

‘Give Us Two Days Of Each Month’s Plane Production And We Will Go To Town, Says American Officer On South Pacific War Fron

W. A. Jones Dies From Heart Attack   FORMER. CHAIRMAN OF TURNPIKE COMMISSION HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR SEVERAL  YEARS.   M. L. Benedtum Associate

41,000 Nazis Wiped Out In Bis Drive   Reds Also Continue Pushes on Smolensk, Stalino and Poltava  FOF RACKING TIP

Nazi Taganrog Army Wiped Out By Heavy Russ Attacks  Thousands Of Men Lost To Germany's Bottle Machine As Red Troods Continue Advances

OVER 35,000 GERMANS DIE AT TAGANROG   NAZIS IN FLIGHT AS REDS FOLLOW UP NEW GAINS

GERMAN ARMY IN TAGANROE IS WIPED OU)   With Terrific Loss In Men And Supplies, Russians Report; Greatest Single Naz. Defeat Since Stalingrad   Other Gains

RUSSIANS GAIN GROUND ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   6,000 Of Enemy Forces Fall Trying To Hold Other Points On  Broad Lines   Berlin Fears Invasion

Greatest Enemy Reverse Since Stalingrad Reported , GERMANS APPEAR IN © PRECIPITOUS FLIGHT Axis Lines Also Sagging on the 600-Mile Front

REDS DESTROY ARMY BEATEN AT TAGANROG   Nazi Reverse Greatest Since Stalingrad—120,000 Routed or Badly Battered.   SOVIETS CAPTURE . 300 MORE TOWNS   Score Gains East of SmoJensk, South of Bryansk and Deep Inside Ukraine.

NAZI TAGANROG ARMY IS WIPED OUT BY SOVIETS   More Than 41,000 Enemy Troops Either Killed Or Captured   GERMANS RETREATING ALONG ENTIRE FRONT

Russians wipe out 41,000 Germans in Taganrog debacle   120,000 additional enemy troops mauled and routed

Soviets Say German Taganrog Force Killed or Captured; Rout Eight Foe Divisions in Donets Area

35,000 Killed, 5,100 Captured, Moscow Asserts   Eight Divisions Put Out of War

Reds Wipe Out 167.000 Nazis  In New Gains   41,000 Captured in Taganrog Sector as  120.000 Are Routed

Great Nazi boss  in Debacl est   ‘Nazis Withdraw in Donets Basin; Convoys Pounded

PROBE OF FEC WILL BE CONTINUED—COX   Refusal of Military Chiefs To Testify Does Not End “Matter.

O'Neil Bill Would Give Illinois Women  Workers Equal Wage   Measure Introduced Today in Illinois House of Representatives

EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN SOUGHT   INTRODUCE BILL IN STATE LEGISLATURE; HAS LABOR BACKING

ALLIES SMAS DEFENSES ON MESSINA ROAD   Germans Fight To Bitter End

Important Road Network Seized ‘By Allied Forces   Germans Say Enemy Within 70 Miles of Last Defense Line

ALUED TROOPS SMASH AHEAD IN ~ SICILY BATTLE  essing   PATTERSON PREDICTS ; FULL VICTORY SOON

U. S. FORCES MOVE AHEAD 7 TO-9 MILES IN DRIVE TO EAST      American 7th Army Moves Forward All Along 40-Mile Front In Sicily

Nazi Tanks Overcoming  Kharkov   Red Army Units Fall Back for 3rd  Time in 36 Hours

Basil O'Connor Will Come  To Gonzales   FORMER LAW PARTNER OF PRESIDENT TO BE ENTERTAINED AT AINSWORTH RANCH

Basil O’Connor Will Come to Gonzales   ‘Tormer Law Partner of President To Be Entertained at Ainsworth Ranch. Saturday, November 6th

INVADE EUROPE, PLEA IN LONDOA   British Press Urges Invasion As Churchill Returns To England

NewDemands For Invasion Of Continent   Churchill’s Return: From ‘the Middle East.Brings Pressure —

BRITISH URGE SPEEDY ACTION   Press Clamors for Invasion of Western  Europe

CHURCHLL BACK FROM AIR TOUR OF NORTH AFRIGA   Middle East Touches Off New Demands for Speeding Invasion

Churchill Back From His Tour   Returns To London ‘After Conferences *

British Press Asks Invasion   Allies Urged to Hit Germans as Russians Smash Forward

Churchill Return Spurs  New Call For Invasion   fnglish Press Demands Push While Russians Have Acaracenre Dn...

BRITONS URGE SPEEDY DRIVE INTO EUROPE   ‘Renewed Calls for Inva  sion in Conjunction With Red Successes Follow Churchill’s Return to London.

BRITISH DEMAND DRIVE IN EUROPE   As Churchill Arrives Home. People Clamor for Action to Aid Russians

NEW DEMAND MADE FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE MADE   Action Needed While Rus. sians Have the Germans Rocking on Their Heels.      NOT AN HOUR TO LOSE   Prime Minister Churchill’s Return Started the Movement.

Churchill’s Return Brings Demands For Speeding Invasion of Europe

Invasion Demand Grows In London   Churchill's Return Sets Off Spark

London Urges “Aid To Russia   Return Of Churchill Set Off Press; Sees Need * Of Second Front

Churchill Meets Ministers To Weigh New Phases; General Cry Is ‘Hurry’

Think Could End War This Year   British Would Strike While Russians ~ Are Hot      CHURCHILL ENDS 10,000 MILE TRIP

Churchill Return Spurs New Invasion Demands   Smash at Exhausted Hitler Sought; Peomicr Holds Parlevs. Maps Report .

Britons Urge Invasion .   Churchill’s Ret Return Signal for Demand For Quick Action

Want Allies Relieve Reds Immediately      .eaders Predict Early Victory if Allied Armies Oeliver Knockblow While Nazis Reel

British Cry For Invasion  Of Europe Now   Churchill’s Return Sets Off Clamor For Quick Action

NEW DEMANDS FOR EUROPEAN FRONT GREET CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Home From Ten Thousand Mile Tour

Churchill's Return Spurs Invasion Talk   Papers Urge Capitulation On Victories Scored By Russians   M=.'3 WITH MINISTERS

INVASION CRY MOUNTS WITH BRITON HOME   Beaverbrook Wants Allies to Strike Germans As Russ Win

BRITONS RENEW THEIR DEMANDS FOR INVASION   Return of Prime Minister Churchill From War Theatres Touches Off Calls For Action   PRESS SETS PACE   Asks That Allies Strike While Russia Has Germans Rocking On Their Heels

New Demanc For Invasion Of Europe   English Papers Say Europe Should Be Invaded While Russia Has the Germans Rocking on Their Heels

Renewed Calls For Invasion Sparked By Churchill’s Return To England

NEW CALLFOR ‘SPEEDY INVASION   Would Capitalize on Red Victories with Churchill Back

Churchill Trip  Sets Off Blast   DEMAND FOR INVASION OF EUROPE GROWS LOUDER

CHURCHILL MADE CYPRUS VISIT   Prime Minister Swings Around Mediterranean.

THIRTY THOUSAND  JAP. CASUALTIES IN  CHINESE FIGHTING GEN. CHIANG’S ARMIES  STORM TOWARD JAPANESE RASE AT ICHANG

Chinese Make Spectacular Triumphs    Troops Storm Within 12 Miles of Ichang Rolling Up 36,000 Jap Casualties; Aided by US  Air Pawar

CHINESE ARMIES WITHIN 12 MILES OF KEYSTONE BASE   Have Rolled Up 30,000 Jap. - anese Casualties in Their Campaign.   INTO MANY TRIUMPHS   May Mark Turning Point in the Six Bloody Years of War With Japan.

CHINESE FORCES WITHIN 12 MILES OF BIG NIP BASK   Gen, Chiang’s Armies Have Compiled 30,000 Jap Casualties in Drive

Chinese Drive Reaches Point Near Ichana   Japs Hurled Back to Bank Across From Base, ‘Knock-Out’ Drive Fizzles

Chinese Claim Fresh Victory   Chiang Kai-Shek’s Forces Push to Within 12 Miles of Ichanq

Japs Routed, Swept Back By Chinese  Retreat To chang ” After Suffering  Heavy Casualties

Chinese Rout Jap Invaders   30,000 Foe Cusualties ‘In Great Victory

A Decisive Defeat To Japs in China   Invaders Reported in Retreat on Whole Upper Yangtze Front   WAR TURNING POINT?   30,000 Casualties Inflicted on Japanese Army  of 100,000

Japs Suffer Big Losses in China   Gen. Chiang’s Armies Storm Within 12 Miles of Jap Key Base.

CHINESE ARM THREATENING KEY JAP Bhat   Japanese ‘In Full Retreat Along Upper Yangtze, 30.000 Killed

CHINESE CONTINUE VANGTZE ASSAULT   Gen. Chiang’s Armies Win ‘Battle of Stalingrad’ Around Chihpei

Chinese Push Forward to Jap Base at Ichang   12 Miles From Keystone After Winning Battle; 30,000 Japs Casualties

Chinese Within 12 Miles Of Jap-Held Ichane  Claim 30,000 Enemy Cas ualtie: s In Rolling

CHINESE. ARE BUT 12 MILES FROM ICHANG   Drive Japs Into Retreat Along Whole Upper Yangtze River Front— Six-Year Turning Point May Be Reached.

Launch Ten Ships In NE On Navy Day   Christen Four  In Maine Yards

Ten New Ships To Be Launched In Next 5 Days   Three Subs Will Hit Water At Once For The First Time In Naval History

Last Joint In “Big Inch ” Oil "i Pipeline Is Welded Today   Ickes, Oil Administrator, Promises To Recommend Within 30-To-60 Days More Gasoline For East

ICKES SEES RELEASE OF TANK CARS   Predicts Flexible Transport But Midwest Faces Sharper Gasoline Rationing.   ‘STALLING’ CHARGED   New Jersey Congressman Hits Enforcement Action, Worse Shortage Exnected.

EASTERN AREA MAY GET MORE GAS SHORTLY      Firish Of Pipeline Symbolize Promise Of Administrator Ickes

Lewis Urges Miners to Stop Strike      Beats Order by War Labor Board By 50 Minutes

FOR NEWSPRINT CUTS   -WLB Committee Recommends a 23  Per Cent Reduction

APPLICATIONS FOR ‘A’ GASOLINE BOOKS BECINS   Blanks Now Available At Local Filling Stations. November 22 Is Expiration Date.

LOAN ASSOCIATION TO OBSERVE ‘SILVER _ ANNIVERSARY FEB. 11   $1,252,200 LOANED TO 350 PERSONS SINCE ORGANEZATION’S FOUNDING

French ‘Rebels Discouraged By Lack of Aid  Many Youths Reporte Surrendering After   Many Youths Reported Surrendering After Vain Resistance

Hungry French Rebels Give Up: Some Hold Out   Allied Assistance They Expected Fails to Materialize: Odds Termed ‘Suicidal’

YOUNG FRENCH PATRIOTS ARE SURRENDERING   Hundreds Who Took Refuge In Mountains Give Themselves Up To Work In Ger man War Plants.   Suicidal Odds

German Soldiers Are Hurled Back By Soviet Troops West of Moscow   Russian Troops Locked in Great Defensive Battle with German Motorized Forces below Kharkov   DISCOURAGED FRENCH INSURGENTS REPORTED 10 BE SURRENDERING

French Patriots Surrender For Forced Labor In Reich   Others Hold Out Against Guards Attempting to mbps Them From Hills; Expected Allied Help Fails Come

Hundreds of French  Patriots Are  Giving Up Fight Others Hold Out as  Nazis Comb Country for Men

TRADE PACTS WIN SUPPORT   MANY. REPUBLICANS RE PORTED PREPARED TO. VOTE FOR RECIPROCAL “TRADE AGREE. «. MENTS. BILL

KING VICTOR VISITS NAPLES’ PRIVATELY      Appearance Follows Close On That Of Marshal Pietro Badoglio

WATCH NAPLES VISIT OF KING   Observers See Political Significance In Action

KING OF ITALY VISITS NAPLES   Political Significance Attached To Trip

Italy P olitics Comparable To French Mixup   Naples As Situation Nears Cli

OPA: Diseloses Date On New Meat Prices Changed To May 17   Administration Hints That Some Figures On Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton May Get Further Cuts

OPA DELAYS MEAT CEILING FOR MONTH   Indicates Some of Prices May Be Cut Down Before Being Reinstated,   New Effective Date Will Be on May 17

DELAY FIXING MEAT PRICES   Further Cuts Hinted With Month Postponement

Pegging Of Meat Prices Is Postponed; New Anti-Inflationary Steps Taken

Meat Ceiling Delayed Month   Some Prices May Be Reduced, It Is Said By OPA Officials

Postpone New Prices On Meat   OPA To Re-Eexamine Retail Ceilings

Delay Effective Meat Price Date   O.P.A. Hints Some Of The Prices May Be Cut Down  Tw Maantima.

Meat Price Cuts Are Considerec   Schedules Previously Ordered Effective Tomorrow Are Postponed One Month and May ; Be Revised by OPA “a

Meat Ceilings Delayed; Price Cuts Hinted   Effective Date Of New Retail Schedule Is Pui Over To May I7th   PROTESTS RECEIV ED   OPA Fixes Horse Meat Values, Boosts Yellow Corn In Midwest

OPA HOLDS OFF ON MEAT PRICES   Beef, Veal, Lamb And Mut: ton Control Delayed

OPA Delays New Retail Beef Prices   Will Not Go Into Effect Until May; Price Cuts Hinted

No Beef Lid Till May 17   OPA Hints That Some Prices May Be Cut Before New Retail Prices Go Into Effect

Delay Meat Price Actions A Month  New Effective Date Te Be May 17

RETAIL MEAT PRICES POSTPONED A MONTH      Change May Be Made ir New Scale, Hint

Ceilings On Beef, Mutton Are Delayed  DPA Mac Ravice   OPA May Revise Price Schedule Sharply Downward

OPA Postpones Until May 17 Its New Schedule of Prices On Beet and Vea

Delay Ceiling On Meat Price   OPA Hints Some Retail Prices May Be Cut Before Being Reinstated.

OPA Postpones New Schedule On Meat Prices   Delay Authorized For Re-Examination Of Retail Charges

OPA MAY CUT PRICES AFTER STUDY, BELIEVE   New Date Set For May 17; Admit Many Protests Have Arisen

OPA Postpones Meat Price Control Date   Schedules on Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton to Take Effect May 17, Instead of Tomorrow. —Some Downward Revision Hinted.

Postpone Application of Price Ceilings on  Beef, Veal and Mutton

MEAT DELAYED   Effective Date of Ordered Postponed for Month Until May 17.

Action Delayed On Meat Prices   Effective Date Now Set for May 17

NEW MEAT RULING   OPA Postpones Proposed Prices on Beef, Veal and Mutton -

RETAIL MEAT PRICES MONTH   Recheck Ordered in Light of Price Freeze — Cora Ceiling Hiked, Ceiling on Horse Meat

(0. P. A. T0 POSTPONE EFFECTIVE DATE. GF NEW PRICES ON BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON

OPA Defers Ceilings Upon Prices of Meat   OWI Food Report  ta Ra leesmad Caan

Effective Date Of New ‘Meat Prices Postponed   OPA Hints Some May Be Cut Down Before May 17, New Time Set Today

Delay in Ceiling On Meat Prices May Mean Cut   Beef, Veal, Lamb And Mutton Order Postponed for Month

OPA Postpones Meat Ceilings   Eee  Prices May Be Cut Before Going Into Effect

Price Ceilings on Beef, Veal, Lamb And Muttcn Postponed Until May 17

Retail Meat Price Date Postnoned   May 17 Set  For Retail Beef, Veal Lamb and Mutton Prices

Date For Meat Ceiling Postponed  Detwxe Cad Ba PBA   Prices Set By OPA Won't Be Effective Now Until May 17

U.S. BOMBERS OPEN SPRING OFFENSIVE AGAINST KISKA   53,500 Pounds Demolition and Fragmentation   Bombs Dropped

Elaborate Jap U-Boat and Air Base On Kiska Blasted by Yank Bomber:   Rv EUGENE BURNS

SENATE CREATED SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PROTEIN FEEDS  RUMORED CORNER IN COT. TONSEED IN EFFORT

$200,000 Blaze Destroys Block In Portsmouth   Kittery Firemen Give Assistance

TORNADO RUINS CLEVELAND AREA   Two Killed, 200 Injured in  Severe Storm

Allies Force Japanese Air Fleets Back From South Pacific Warfronts

DECISIVE TRIUMPH OF ALLIES FORCES SHIFT OF JAP BASE   Enemy Leaves Nearly .700 Wrecked Planes Behind— Advanced Bases Laid Open To Assault

JAPS FORCED TO MOVE AIR FLEET BACK   Leave 400 Wrecked Planes On Fields In New Guinea

Japs Shift Air. Base to Dutch New Guinea.  - Decisive. Allied . ' Trlumph Forces _ Move by Enemy

JAP ALR FLEETS TRANSFER BASES TO NEW GUINEA   400 Cracked Planes Left Behind; 25 More in Wewnk

JAPS FLEE IN ALLY VICTORY   AERIAL FLEETS SHIFT BASE TO DUTCH GUINEA

ALLIED TRIUMPH FORCES SHIFT IN JAP AIR FLEE   Foe Moves Back to Outch New Guinea Leaving 400 Wrecked Planes.

NIPS FORCED 70 SHIFT BASE TO DUTCH NEW GUINEA AFTER YANK BOMBINGS

SOVIETS SEIZE STALINO FROM GERMAN FORCES   Capture Restores Last Of Great Industrial Cities Of Donets To Reds   RAILROAD LINES SEVERED      Russians Advancing Along 600-Mile Front Taking Heavy Toll Of Enemy

Red Flanking Move Forces Germans To Pull Out Of Bastion   ~ Russian Pincer Movement Forces Enemy To Flee; Soviets Gain All Along Front

wit SOLA  Reds Hold: Great Industrial City   Russia’s Great Summer Offensive Has Won Back Two-Thirds Of Ukraine’s Rich Grain Lands; ‘Rail Line To Mariunol Crossed

LAST BIG CITY — IN DONETS TAKEN   Russians Win Back TwoThirds Of Rich Ukraine Lands   NAZIS’ LOSSES HEAVY

RUSSIAN CITY EVACUATED BY REICH FORCES   Torrific Losses by Nazi Armies Reported; Reds List Many Towns Taken In Drive   KEY STEEL.CENTER OCCUPIED BY REDS   Soviet Armies Advancing  On Three Fronts, While  Foe Continues Slow Retreat to West

Russian Troops Occupy Staline   Big Industrial City of Donets Basin Retaken From Nazis in Red Drive Today—Two-Thirds of Ukraine Also Recaptured Frotn Invaders.      RAIL LINE IS SEVERED

GREAT SOVIET TEEL CENTER I$ RECAPTURED       7,080,000 Wounded mer Offensive.

Stalino Is Captured By Russians  Flanking Moves   Flanking Moves Win 12th Largest City  In Soviet

German Troop: Quit Sfalino, Berlin States   Radio Broadcast Asserts Military Installations Are Destroyed by Nazi:

VITAL DONETS BASIN CITY IS RECAPTURED   Two-Thirds of Rich Ukraine Grain Lands Already Reclaimed by Rush'  jng Red Forces  PACILAALPTIFSC FPaAIARAAAIIC

Russ Capture Stalino in  ‘Donets Basin  Two-thirds of Ukraine Won  From German

Germans Admit Russian Troops Capture Staline   Red Army Also Crosses Rail Line To Mariupol; Report Nazis Face Trap

Stalino Is Captured By Russians  Flanking Moves Win 12th Largest City  ee Gi ts

Ground Officers ‘Differ in Views On Aerial Might   Allied Leaders See No Sure Alternative For Invasion

NEW DEAL FACES POSSIBLE DEFEAT IN FLYNN BATTLE   Foes Claim 49 Votes Against Confirmation of Envoy; Reports Hint Name May Be Withdrawn.

ADMINISTRATION FEARS SENATE WILL. REIECT NOMINATION OF FLYNN   Poll Discloses Flynn's Supporters Are Able To Muster Only 43 “Sure” Votes   SALARY FIGHT SHAPES UP

SIGNS FLYNN © ~ MAYPULL OUT   Fear of. Defeat in’ Senate May - Bring Recall of  Nomination.

ISLAND JUNGLE FIGHT REVIEWED   Marine Commander Tells Story; Gains Continue On Guadalcanal

CK TO WARFARE THE INDIANS KNEW      VANDEGRIFT GIVES DETAILS OF FIERCE STRUGGLE ON GUADALCANAL,

Story Of Solomons Unfolded By Officer  Unending Day And Nigh Warfare

STEPPED-UP PACIFIC OFFENSIVE EXPECTED DUE MARSHALL VISIT   THIRTY MORE JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN AND ONE MERCHANT SHIP SUNK

Japanese Bolster Air Power   Seek to Combat Gathering Allied Offensive, Pointed Up by Marshall Visit to Pacific Area.

Allies Bag 30 Planes, 7 Ships   JAPS BOLSTER AIR FORCES IN TRY TO WARD OFF SKY STABS; CHIEF OF STAFF BACK IN U S. AFTER 35,000-MILE TOUR OF FRONTS

JAPS BUILD UP PACIFIC AIR POWER   Apparently Have Decided to Strengthen Defense of Marshall Islands and Their Rabaul, New Britain. Base.

U.S. ARMY CHIEF SEES MACARTHUR   Other Allied Leaders Met In 35,000-Mile Tour By General

. MARSHALL VISITS PACIFIC BATTLE ZONES   Trip from Teheran io India, New  Guinea, Honolulu Revealed on '  Raturn Home   JAP SHIPPING HIT   Enemy Fighters ‘Batile Invading Planes in Marshalls and Over Rabaul

30 Jap Planes Downed, One Ship Sunk   Six Vessels Damaged By Allied Raiders; Marshall Visits

Allies Tell of Shooting Down 30 More Jap Planes, Sinking One Enemy Merchant Vessel and Damaging Six Other Ships

SEES HALSEY, MARTHUR, NIMITZ   30 More Jap Planes Shot Down, Vessel Sunk   OPPOSITION   To Yanks On New Britain Light; Enemy Quitting South Bougainville

IGEN. MARSHALL CONFERS WITH PACIFIC CHIEFS   Visit Gives Impetus to Reports of Pending Offen- ,  eiva

MARSHALL VISIT BRINGS TENSE EXPECTANCY   Pacific Battle Line After Dramatic Visit from U.S. Army Chief Senses Greater Activity

CONFERS WITH MAC ARTHUR, HALSEY, NIMITZ AND RICHARDSON ALONG THE PACIFIC WAR FRONT— GIVES IMPETUS TO THE GATHERING OFFENSIVE TO RID THE PACIFIC OF ALL JAP INFLUENCE

General Marshall Makes 35,000 Mile Trip To Check Upon Growing Offensive Against! ‘Japanese In All Southwest Battle Zones

Impetus Seen in Efforts To Uproot Japanese Fron Battle Won Ocean Empire

Marshall's Pacific Hints at Offensive   He Conferred With Top Commanders

MacArthur, Marshall in War Parley   Chief of Staff ® Visits Southwest, Central Pacific  Battle Zanes

Preparations Being Made For Big Offensive   Marshall, MacArthur Other War Leadews Discuss Strateay

Allied Drive in Pacific Gains Speed   Gen. Marshall Pays Visit to Top  American Leaders

Allies Bag 30 Enemy Planes in Air Duels   Gen. Marshall Visits MacArthur on Pacific Front: Japs Step Up Air Warfare

Pacific Base Visited by Gen. Marshall   Talks with Allied Commanders from New Guinea to Pear] Harbor; 36 Jap Planes Downed

HOUSE GROUP WILL SPEED DRAFT STUDY   Mittary Committee ; May Hasten Action on Fathers’ Deferment

Early House Vote Sought — ~ On Bill to Give Fathers Dratt Determent Priority

BODY TO STUDY DRAFT STATUS OFU. 5. WORKER   Also Favors Legislation Giving Fathers Priorities

SEEK INVESTIGATION OF DEFERMENT OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS   Harness Says 1,000,000 0 Them Have Not Been Called for Induction   WANTS TO KNOW WHY

oDROPPING ALL "TO SPEED DRAFT » DEFERMENT   That Is, for Fathers! McNutt Arouses House Military

House Resents  McNutt’s Edicts   To Speed Up Laws to Give Draft Deferments to Family Heads.

TO INVESTIGATE DRAFT DEFERMENT, GOVERNMENT MEN   Special Sub-Committee I; Named to Study the Situation.   1,000,000 ESCAPE CALL?   Also Seek Legislation Giving Fathers Draft Deferment Priority.

U.S. Elerks Under Fire:   * Will Toy: eetignie: Deformenits' Press for Acton-6n Fathers tl] -

Speeding Action To Give Fathers Draft Deferment   House Military Committee Increasingly Resentful Over MeNuit's Policies

House Group Would Keep Fathers Home   Plan Speedy Action On Draft Legislation To Safeguard Family

House Military Group Presses  Fight On McNutt   Drops Everything Else To Speed Draft Defer.  ment Ener Fathare

HOUSE COMMITTEE 10 INVESTIGATE MANPOWER PLANS   will Enact Legislation To Hold Fathers; Look Into De tarment Federal Employes

WOMEN REPUBLICANS HOLD ANNUAL MEETING   Reports For Year Presented By Officers And Standing Committees—Directors Named

REPUBLICAN WOMEN HOLD YULE PART‘   Annual Christmas Event Conducted By Club—Santa Claus Distributes Gifts

INSTRUCT SWEDES TO: FIGHT INVADER   ‘Resistance to the Last’ Is Order of Prime Minister in Warning on War

REPORT LEWIS — INWASHINGTON   Prospect for Hard Coa Agreement Brighter Say Observers

Relentless Blows Continue to Fall  On Harbor at Lae   Allies Also Attack Other Enemy Bases In New Guinea Area

Planes Pound Enemy Convoy  Fleeing Lae   133 Japanese Planes Put Out of Action In Reinforcement Move

RELENTLESS IN POUNDING FLEEING JAPS   Allied Heavy And Medium Bombers Blast Convoy Making Get-Away From Lae, New Guinea.   2 Ships Hit

Most Damaging Aerial Drubbing Yet Given Enemy  133 Planes Put Out O% Action: One Transport

BOMB HITS SCORE ON TWO MORE FOE VESSELS NEAR LAE   Huge Destruction Wrought in Aerial Drubbing Given Jap Ships; Enemy Loses 133 Planes in Battle

Wiilkie Chooses To Run: Republican Leader Offers Himself ‘As Candidate, but on Own Platform

Willkie Will Run If Party Adopts  Ideas on Policies  1940 Standardbeare Stresses Far  Cmctlic lmemnarvrtnnra

Willkie Will Run If Party Adopts  Ideas on Policies  1940 Standardbeare: Stresses Far  Baeble lmnaranta

BOND CAMPAIGN FORGING AHEAD   Bulk Of Subscriptions Small In Early Stages Of Campaign

Bond Drive Far Short Of Success   Receipts To Date Tota Only Third Of Quota Set For County

Bond Drive Nears Half Way Mark   1,295 Sales For Total Of $541,922.25 Reported By Clark Will

 Tenaciousness of Jap Fighters Again ' Shown in New Georgia Island Battling

TENACITY OF JAPS  AS FIGHTING MEN  BOBBING UP AGAIN ENEMY SURROUNDED 0) NEW GEORGIA ISLAND  BICHTING TA HOA TY

JAD RESISTANCE ~ PROVES STUBBORK   Enemy Clings On Tenaci cesses In Munda Region

JAP NEW GUINEA AREA DIMINISHING   Tenacious Fighting Quality of Japanese Troops Being Demonstrated Anew.

Japs Resist To Last Man In New Georgia   Americans Move Toward Bairoko Harbor Step By Step

ee  JAP FIGHTERS SHOW TENACIT)   37th Division Part Of Trap Encircling Enemy on New Georgia e

Still Only Half Way To Obje  Tenacity Of Japanese Fighters Slews Yanks

Japs Stubbornly Hold To New Georgia Island   Process of Exterminating Remnants Of Enemy Moves Steadily Forward

YANKS CLOSE IN ON ENEMY BASE   Bitter Campaign Emphasizes Tenacity of Japan's Fighting Forces

COLORFUL PARADE OPENING EVENT OF LOCAL FAIR, RODEO  DOWNTOWN SECTION BE. ING DECORATED—AD-

COLORFUL PARADE OPENING EVENT OF LOCAL FAIR. RODEO   DOWNTOWN SECTION BEING DECORATED—ADVANCE TICKET SALE STAR

Refuse Karly  Senate Meet   Barkley Statea September 14 Date Permits Action On  Draft Bills.

Agencies For Relief Divide Work   Four Groups in Washington Seek to Obtain Fullest Results Without Duplication of Efforts

VAST JOB FOREIGN WAR RELIEF BEING WELL COORDINATE  ALATTA MHOMSA Tr   PUBLIC AND PRIVATE All FOR WAR VICTIMS WILL NOT OVERLAP

VAST JOB FOREIGN WAR RELIEF BEING WELL COORDINATED   PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AIL ‘FOR WAR VICTIMS WILL NOT OVERLAP

S-DAY TOTAL IN AIR RAIDS REACHES 275   ‘Northwest African Flyers Pound At Sardinia  And Sicily    _AIRDROMES AND  HANGARS ARE HIT   202 Planes Destroyed On Ground, 73 Shot Down In Combat

DAMAGING RAIDS CARRIED OUT ON BIG ~AIRDROMES   19 Fighters Shot Down Ant Others Knocked Out On Ground

CARRIERS EVADE JAP ATTACKERS   Task Force Gets Away Safely After Raid On Kavieng

JAPANESE BOMBER ATTACK REPELLED   FIGHTERS AND SHIP GUNNERS DRIVE OFF PLANES THREATING TASK FORCE.

PAVING WAY IN PACIFIC   Create Wide Path of Destruction Through Japanese Bases

U.S. FLYERS PAVING WAY IN PACIFIC   Create Wide Path of Destruction Through Japanese Bases

Allies Capture Mining Center   Battle Rivaling Stalingrad Struggle Appears in Offina in North Africa -

Repulse Axis Attack in N. Tunisia   Mining Town In Central Sector Taken By French

Allied Troops Repulse Axi Attack; British Eight Army Stabs At Rommel’s Forces .

METLAOUI NEAR GARSA, SEIZED FROM GERMANS   Mining Center Capture After Enemy Is Thrown Back In Northern Tunisia, West Sedjenane   NAZI AIRFIELDS - KEPT UNDER RAJ   Meanwhile, Battle Rivalling - Struggle For Stalingrad Looms In Mareth  ’ Line Sector

AXIS ATTACK INNORTHIS. BEATENBACK   Allies Capture Mining Town In Central Sector

Predict Lewis Will Withdraw His Bid For Reaffiliation In A. F. L.

Air Battle Record   RAF Fighter Downs 3 Jap Bombers in & Alinutes

TAX BILL DEBATE TO BEGIN NOV. 22   HOUSE EXPECTED TO MAKE FEW CHANGES IN $2,142,"900,000 MEASTRE,

Tax Bill Debate. Opens Nov. 22  Liquor Levy, Postal Rates Face Attacks

Sets Tax Debate For November 2?   Little or No Change Expected in Measure

NEW TAX BILL UP FOR DEBATE   Increase In Liquor And Postal Levies Main Targets Of Critics

Only Survivor Of Crashing / Bomber Relates Weird Story   Regained Senses While Falling, Lived 65 Days On Island With Friendly Natives

[Robinson Crusoe Had N othing on This  Flier Whose Plane Wus Cut in Two by Zero

Forced to Shoot Nip When He Tries to Escape; Refuses Serving of Bat Meat From Natives Who  Made Much Over Him; Slept With Chief Until Wounds Healed

CORPORAL HARTMAN LIVED WITH NATIVES SIXTY-FIVE DAYS   ONE OF WIERDEST STORIES OF WAR TOLD BY FLYING-FORTRESS GUNNER ~~

Alabama Boy Well Treated On Tiny Isle   Scorns “Flying Fox” Meat But Enjoys Native Hospitality

Cutback of Fifth Ahead In ‘43 Civil. Consumption   Te Stay Above 1939 Levels.

Civilian Level Due to Slump,  Nelson Warns   Intensified U. S. Carbs  Seen as Newry Ths: aa gt gy

oWlss EMBASGY      Entire Diplomatic Corps At Beri Protest Against Policy Of Th Vichy Government   LAVAL “FIRES” STAFF FOLLOWING RESIGNATION

VICHY’S SWISS STAFF RESIGNS   Move Is Protest Against French Policy

Late.-News Bulletins   French Embesey aff in Bwitzerland Resigns

JAP AUTHORITIES WARN OF “MORTAL” ATTACK FROM U.S,   People Consider Situation After Imperial Headquarters Talks.

JAPS WARNED OF MORTAL ATTACK PLANNED BY U. §,   Imperial Headquarters Tells People to Be Prepared for Mainland Action.

Jap People Wait Attack From North   “ Alasks, China Seen As Bases for Drive By Air on Homeland

Drive In From ‘Three Points In Rommel Pursuit   Follow Up American Attack From Other Side Of Pinched Axis Forces In Africa; Russians Annihilate Nazis Near Voranesh

CHENNAULT HEADS CHINA AIR FORCE   Appointment . Expected to Mark New Phase of War Against Japanese.

U.S, AIR FORCE IN CHINA WILL BE REINFORCED   Brig. Gen, Chennault Will Be In Command of New Air Unit Set Up By War Department   BURMA IS RAIDED   American, British Fliers Blast Airdromes, Jap . Installations and Railway Yards

Full-Fledged U. S. Air Force Command Is Created In China   Chennault In Command; Fulfills Long Cherished Dream By China For Such A Force

Aforza Accuses King of Stalling   Says Monarch Will Try To Keep Throne

Roosevelt Studies Blueprint for Possible Settlement of U. S. Rail Wage Dispute

FORMULA FOR RAIL WORKERS I$ INDIGATED   AGREEMENT EXPECTED IN CONTROVERSY THAT THREATENED NATION WITH TRANSPORTATION, CRISIS

Berlin Heaves Up Flames and Smoke  After 41st Attack   RAF Bombers Loosen Deadly Explosives on Nazi Capital

Clean Japs Out Of Korea And Formosa. ... .  Chinese Make Initial Postwar Declaration

Outlines China’s _ War Aims   Foreign Minister T. V. Soong Says Korea and Formosa Must Be Freed Of Japanese Influence

‘SOONG CLAIMS ~JAPAN MAKING PEACE MOVES   ‘Chinese Foreign Minister  Gives Aims On Post war Territory In  Far East

China’s Policy On Postwar Territory In Far Fast Calls For Eradication Of Japs In Korec

WOULD END JAP HOLD ON KOREA   Soong Also Proposes To Stop Nipponese Influence in Formosa

CHINA MAKES FIRST DECLARATION POST WAR POLICY TODAY   Japanese Are Bombarding Chinese With Peace Proposals

German Airmen Strike Back At Lon: don In Reprisal Raids Sunday Night; Little Damage

GERMANS RETREAT IN RUSSIA, AFRICA   RAF Blasts Hitler's Capital Saturday . Night; Reprisal On Britain Small By Comparison

[Phe War Today— ‘Bombs Can’t Be Withheld Because Civilians May Die, Mackenzie Says

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES DURING BOMBINGS OF CITIES DISCUSSED INTERESTINGLY BY WAR ANALYST

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   War Can’t Be Humanized So Enemy’s Civilians Have Ample Warning

Five Escape Hamilton County Jail, Offering Freedom To Other Inmates

HUNT 5 WHO ESCAPED JAIL   Hamilton County Break ‘Timed To Smallest Detail’

Senate Approves New Parole Bill To Shift Battle   Advance Teachers‘ Salary Increase Measure   For Vote Next Week

PAROLE BOARD RIPPER VOTED   State Senate Passes Bill 24 to 16; Battle Now Shifts to House

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Aerial Offensive \gainst German Reich jrowing More Deadly

ZERO WEATHER EXPECTED IN AREA TONIGHT   Warning Is Issued By Weathe Bureau—Rapid Drop In Mercury

BOMBED BY RAF PLANES   Germans Are Being Pressed Backward By Allied Forces in Italy Over Long Line   GET NEW AIRBASE

OTH ARMY WINS EBOL!, INLAND FROM SALERNO   Germans Retreating to Avoid Entrapment by Advancing 8th Army

NEW GAINS IN SALERNO AREA ARE REPORTED   Fifth Army Captures New Town As Allied Bombers Attack Venice

5th Army Storms, Capture: Eboli, Key Town I6 Miles In  land From Salerno

LIBERATORS BOMB VENICE PORT AS U.S 5th ARMY MAKES NEW GAINS IN SALERNO BEACHHEAD   Enemy Motor Convoy  Ye Woo iat Asters ge

Liberators Bomb Venice As Fifth Army Pushes Nazis Back At Salerno

S. 5TH ARMY ALSO MOVES UP SALERNO LINE   Germans Slowly Being Driven Back on  Mainland

French Troops Clear Corsica Of Nazi Forces   Eboli Captured By Yankees from German Defenders

U. S. BOMBERS BLAST VENICE TRUCK CONVOY:   Eboli, 16 Miles Inland from Saler no Beachhead, Siormed and Cap ‘ured by Troons   NAZIS FLEE TRAP   German Fighters Stay on Ground - aS Allied Airmen Blast Rail.  roads, Truck Convoys Motorized .. Tranenort

Yank Planes Bombing Venice   New Gains Registered Around Salerno; Some Yanks On Sardinia   LONDON — (AP) — Prime Minister Churchill disclosed today that American forces had landed on Sardinia.

NEW SUCCESSES BEINGSCORED IN ITALY   U. S. Fifth Army Register New Gains In Salerno Beach Head

VENICE BOMBED BY U.S. PLANES   French Troops Aid Guerrillas in Mopping Up Nazis On Corsica. ~ .   5TH ARMY STORMS EBOL!

YANKS DRIVE ON AS BOMBS BLAST PORT OF VENICE   French Forces and Natives Mop Up Resistance on Island of Corsica   HUNS IN GENERAL RETREAT   Allied Air Power Playing Important Role Breaking Grip of Hitlerites

New Gains Made By Fifth Army   French Troops and Guerillas Battle Germans on Corsica—German Prisoners Tell of Terrible Bombing on Retreating Columns — RAF Lands Planes on Coo

Historic Port Of Venice Blasted By U.S. Airmen   French Continue To Advance On Corsica

Venice Is -Bombed By  Liberators   French and Italians on Corsica Fighting to Oust Nazis

Yanks Seize Erboli:  Bombers Raid Venice   French Commandos Battle With Corsica Patriots; Americans Land on Sardinia to Aid Italians

French Help Oust Nazis From Corsica   Y. S. Bombers Carry Out Heavy Raid on Venice

5th Army Moves” Ahead Today On Salerno Front   Nazis Pressed Back Steadily; Yanks Take Eboli, 16 Miles Inland ~~

Americans PushNazis Backward And Take Eboli   Foe Swings Lower End Of Line At Bridgehead To Avoid Being Trapped

VENICE HARD LIBERATORS   Gen. Clark’s Boys Battle Way To  Montecorvino

*REICH'S LEGIONS _ DRIVEN BACK IN SALERNO SCRAP   Clerk’s Forces Push 16 Miles é Iinlend to Defeat  Si, tn floale

FRENGH TROOPS, PATRIOTS GAIN IN CORSICA FIGHT   Americans Capture Eboli, Naz Communications Center in Salerno Battle

Fifth Army \s Slowly Pushing Nazis Backward   Enemy Moving To Avoic Entrapment By The British Eighth

VENICE BOMBARDED BY U. 5. LIBERATORS; CORSICA MOPPED UP  FIFTH ARMY CONTINUES PRESS GERMANS BACK IN NAPLES SECTOR

U.S. BOMBERS — ATTACK VENICE   American Liberators Throw Weight Into Conquest Of Italy   EBOLI IS CAPTURED

French Land on Corsica As Fifth Army Captures Eholi, Expands Beachhead

DOCKS DAMAGED BY HIGH WINDS   Mackinac And St. lenace Areas Hard Hit; Seas Menace US-2

STILE HURLING THUNDERBOLTS AT NAZI EUROPI   Allied Airmen Lambast Ruhr Valley During Night

Conner Leads For Governor, Bailey Second   Wright Takes First Place in Lieutenant Governor's Race; Lumpkin, Spearman Fight for Second Place; Walker Wood Apparently Renominated

‘Allied Invasion Fleet Journey To Naples ‘Like A Pleasure Cruise’

Reich Shifts Troop Units From Russia   Allied Warships Covering Naples Invasion  Operated with the Ease of Pleasure Vessel:

‘United Press War Correspondent Gives First Eye-Witness Account  Of U.S., British Invasion Of Italy

5 U-Boats Sunk In South Atlantic  Monthly Toll Revealed By U. S. Commander; Praises Airforces

5 Axis Subs Sunk in Month   nt Down in South Ailantic, Ineram Says

U.S. Bags 5 Enemy Subs  Vessels Operating in Gawth Atlantic Mave

5 Submarines  Sunk In Month  By U.S., Brazil   Air Forces Aid Materially idding So. Atlante Of Undersea Raiders

Over Million Single Males Now Deferred   Draft Boards Grant Ex-emptions on Occupational Grounds

Million Men Now Deferred   MANY WORKERS FXEMPT FROM MILITARY SERVICE

DAY OF ALLIED ATTACK MAY BE AT HAND   Vast Machinery Already in Operation, Says British Paper

EUROPE I$ HELD NEAR   Everything Ready For Allied Offensive, ¢ Reports Claim

Reports Flood London Again Invasion Near   Preparations Are Believed Completed For Coming Invasion Of Europe   GERMANY DEMANDS ITALIAN NAVY AID

Plans Made . For Striking, Says Press   Axis Broadcasts Tell of Preparations

Nazi Raiders Turned Back   Three Planes Fail tc Reach London; Others Downed in Night Attacks

They Are Charged With Failure: To Negotiate New Union Wage Pact   WAR LABOR BOARD UNDER FIRE

LEWIS DEGLARES LACK OF CONTRACT WILL HALT MINES   Tells Operators Failure to Negotiate Pact Not Fault Of Mine Workers   REPLIES TO REJECTION OF DEMANDS OF UNION   Head of Northern Operators’ Group Proposes Each Side Appoint a Six-Man Committee to Begin Negotiations Behind Closed Doors

Leader of Coal Miners Union Issues Warning   Worl Stoppages Are Threatened as Pay Demands Rejected

POST-WAR PLA   Non - Isolationist Policy Is Predicted By Michigan Governor   GOVERNORS ATTEND COLUMBUS CONCLAVE   Dewey Also Forecasts Re) publicans Will Draft Constructive Policy

REDS FIGHT IN SUBURBS OF KOROSTEN   Battle Nears Old Polich Rorder

REDS BATTLE ‘WAY TO SUBURBS OF KOROSTEN   Grow ing Offensive May Prove Major Soviet Winter Campaign

No Rejections Chalked Up By ~ Jowa Assembly   House Passes 83 of 2-4¢ Bills; Senate 49 Out of TR9

No Rejections Chalked Up By lowa Assembly   '  House Passes 83 of 219 Bills: Senate 19 Out of  389

MINE UNIONS VOTE TO WORK   Nearly 2,500 Return To Work In Ohio Soft Coal Pits

NATION TO HAVE ~ 6,400,000 POOL   Will Meet Growing De mands of Armed Forces

WNutt Offers  Manpower Plan   Draw On Pool Of 6.100.000 To Fill Needs Of Armed  Forces, Industry.

Pool Of 6 1-2  Millions To  Fill Needs Few Men Left For: Farm  Help After  £h.1L gt. wy. g

Manpower ‘Pool Of 6,400,000 Planned by WPB   Military and Industry Needs _ Are Explained

Nelson Lists War ‘“‘Pool”’   Armed Forces and War Industry to Draw From 6,400,000 This Year

Senate Approves Brown Appointment   Morgenthau IIL Leaves for Cuba

Mine Workers Not Satistied  C’$actl Ldw ee amd   Still Hungry and Resentful, Asserts Iahn  lawre

LEWIS IGNORE FREEZE ORCA, DEMANDS HIKt   Miners’ Wages Substandard, Union Leader Declares In Statement Today

Miners’ Plight Unchang ged, Lewis’ Comment on Pay Ban   Roosevelt Order Leaves “Mine Workers Still Hungry and Resentful In Having Their Demands For Bread Made a Political Pawn,” President. of United Mine Workers Declares

Mine Problem Is Unchanged, Lewis Says   Wages in the Industry Are ‘Sub-Standard,. Union Leader ‘Declares   ‘RESENT. BEING MADE eA POLITICAL PAWN   Operators’ Spokesman Says ‘Mine Pay Is Not-on Sub-Standard Level -

FREEZE ORDER LEAVES MINERS HUNGRY: LEWIS  DECLARES ROOSEVELT MAKES POLITICAL

LEWIS (aoe A STATEMENT   Says Coal Miners Are ‘Still Hungry and Resent$iyh   RESUME NEGOTIATIONS

Lewis Hits FDR Curb OnInflation   Price And Wage Ceiling Plan May Be Outlined Specifically Tomorrow

Miners Still Hungry, Lewis   Resentful in Having Wage Demands Made  Political Pawn

SERVICE CHIEFS TALK STRATEGY -IN PACIFIC ZONE   Parley Indicates Offensive By Land, Sea and Air May -Be Due

London Expects Successive Blows   Strength Remains For More Invasions

POWER IN RESERVE ALLIED MILITARY MEN SAY AXIS FACING MICLTY FORCE.

British Hail Opening Blow  “Left Smash’ at Sicily Believed Only First of Many Allied Strokes

The First In A Rain Of Blows, Says London:   oe Se Se oe ca ete no ea ee eee 6 Nazis Being Prepared For Loss Of Islands ‘Landed A Solid Left'!Ne Surorise To Berlin

‘London Hails Sicilian Invasion, Sees Chances of Many More Allied ‘Thrusts: Axis Is Beset on All Sides

Axis Prepares People kor Loss Of Sicily   Allied Invasion Of Sicily Seen As First Of Manv Blows

Smash on Axis’ Soft Underbelly  Hailed in London  Military Observers Warn of Bitter Fighting Ahead

London Declares  Sicily First  Of Many Blows Warning of Hard  Fighting Ahead ‘. TE tiation

Plane Works In Austria,  Japs Raided   Big Jap Oil Port, Messerschmitt Plant Hit in New Attacks

MAIN: JAP OIL PORT IN BORNEO 15 RAIDED   Liberators Fly 2,500 Miles To Carry Out Attack

OLD SETTLERS PLAN CARNIVAL, MEETING SATURDAY, AUG. 14   JESSE WISE IS PRESIDENT OF ’43 OLD SETTLER’S ORGANIZATION

Sees Confusion’ in Manpower Crisis   Blames Lack of ” Coordination

BARES REPORT ON MANPOWER MUDDLE IN U.S.   Sanders Claims Co-ordination Lacking in Key Places Within Government.   CITES M’NUTT CLAIM   Confusion Over Draft -Labor Bill Pointed Out By Special Proher.

Secret Report  Blames ‘Lack of Coordination’   Report Given on Manpower Setup

REPORT ON MANPOWER SITUATION   Secret Study Is Critical of Paul McNutt

MANPOWER REPORT ANNOUNCED TODAY   Special Secret Findings on the Situation Announceed by Committee.

Nazi Reserves. . Smashed Back — - In Orel Sector   Red. Forces Beat Through “Masses Of Tanks ‘And: ‘Troops In 9-Mile Gain

‘Axis Makes Desperate Effort to Check Onslaught  90 VILLAGES TAKEN      Hitler Reported to Have Ordered Orel Held “at All Costs”

RUSSIANS ROUT ENEMY FORCES   Reds Within Nine Miles of Orel After Nipping Counter-affacks

Mounting, Battle Rages Near Orel   Russians Close in on. n Hinge _ of Nazi South-Central  Defense Line   REPEL NAZI CHARGES   Soviet Troops Take New Ground, Occupy 90 Mare:  Villages

Nazis Fail to Stop Russian Drive   Moscow Says Reds 9 Miles From Orel

Soviets Smash Back Counter Blows of Nazis   Russians Drive Within Nine Miles of German Stronghold of Orel, Moscow Announces

Smash Back Nazi Troops at Orel   In Violent Battles Reds Beat Through Masses of  German Tanks.

Russians Smash Back Vicious Counter-Attacks of Nazi Reinforcements, Sent to Front by Forced Marches.

Three - Pronged Attack _ Threatens to Outflank © Vital City of Over 110,000 = G@=RMANS LOSE HEAVILY

HITLER SENDS RESERVES INTO BATTLE SECTOR   Orders Forces To Hold Nazi Bastion Regardless of Cost

Soviet Forces Within 9 Miles Of Key Bastion  Southern Advance tle (“HR Maentinnm   Southern Advance On City Meeting Most Opposition

Russians Shatter Counterattacks. Push Nearer Orel   Red Offensive Rolls To Within 9 Miles. Orel De. spite Desperate Nazi Efforts. Hitler Report ed To Have Orderec Bastion Held At Al Costs. .

FIERCE GERMAN COUNTER DRIVE SMASHED BACK   Reds Gain Despite Hitler’s Order for Nazis to Hold Orel

GERMANS MAKING ATERRIFIC FIGHT ~ JOHALT SOVIETS   Hitler Has is Ordered Crucial Orel Held at All Costs   REDS CONTTINUE . . TO MAKE GAINS

NAZI RESERVES CMASHED BACK   Reinforcements Rushed Into Orel Breaches Fail to Halt Reds.

Attack By Russ Opens On North End Of Fron   Leningrad Offensive Has Resulted In Heavy Fighting Since Dawn

GERMANS FALL TO HALT DRIVE SOVIET FORCES   Reinforcements, Rushed {nto Orel Breach By Forced Marches, Counrer-Attacked   THRUSTS FOILED   Reds Beat Through Masses of Enemy Tanks and Infantry for Gains Up to Nine Miles

Counterattacks Of Nazis Repulsed      Soviets , Nine Miles From Orel

Reds Launch Strong Attack Near Leningrad   Nazi Reserves Attempt to Halt Russian Offensive

NEW TECHNIQUE OF _ AIR BOMBARDMENT DEMONSTRATED   Several Squadrons of RAF Laneasters Flew From Britain to Africa.   IN SHUTTLE ROUND TRIP   Bombed a German Target on the Way Down and Italian Port on Run Home.

REINFORCED GERMANS COUNTERATTACK BUT ARE SMASHED BACK  RUSSIANS BEAT THROUGH MASSES OF NAZI TANKS - AND INFANTRY

—RUSSLA—   Nazis Smashed Back I Desperate Effort To Halt Reds ‘At Orel   German Reinforcements, Rushed Into Breaches By “Forced Marches, Fail.-To Check Steady . Russian Advance

Nazis Rush In But Fail To Halt Red  Army Drive   Russians Beat Or Over Attacks In South

Russians Crush Desperate Nazi Counterattacks   Red Armies Advance To Within Nine Miles Of  German Orel Base.

Russians Smash Nearer To Orel   REDS WITHIN NINE MILES OF GERMAN STRONGHOLD

Soviets Roll on, Smashing New Forces   Hitler Reported to Have Ordered Orel Held at AD Costs   COUNTER ATTACKS TURNED BACK   Berlin Also Reports Reds Making Strong Attack jn Leningrad Area

VICIOUS GERMAN ATTAGKS SHISHED BY RUSSIAN ARM   Soviet Offensive Rolls ‘on’ to Within  Ning.” Miles~-of- Orel. oo"   90 VILLAGES’. OVERRUN

Nazi Counterattacks Are Smashed As Reds Plunge  Ahead in Drive on Orel

Russians Are Within Nine Miles of Ore'   Germans Throw  Reinforcements into Counterattacks, but Reds Surge Forward

SOVIET DRIVE NOW 9 MILES FROM CITY   Hitler Orders Stronghold Held At All Costs: Nazi Losses Mount To 3,393 Tanks, 2,342 Planes

Germans Rush Up More Fighting Men In Effort To Stop Drive On Orel

AHEAD   Axis Makes Desperate Effert Te Save Orel: Reds Rewin 906 Towns

NO STOPPING RUSSIANS ON ~——-OREL MISSION    Rushed- in German Reserves Counter-Attack But in Vain to Pre serve Key Stronghold

Reds Attack, At Leningrad. Germans Say   Counter Attacks In Orel Region Smashed Back,  Moscow Declares

SOVIETS LAUNCK STRONG ATTACK NEAR LENINGRAD   Vicious Counterattacks By German Reinforcements Fail To Stop Soviet Steamroller.

ITALIAN MAINLAND AT CROTONE BOMBED BY BRITISH NAVY   Cruisers Hurled Shells Intec the Harbor for Five Minutes.   CAUSED MANY FIRES   The British Warships Suffer. ed No Damage in the Raid, It Is Said.

‘Nazis Rush Up Reinforcements In Desperate Effort To Save Orel But Reds Continue Gains   Vicious German Counter-Attacks Turned Back By Russian Onslaught

Russians Continue To Advance On Orel Base   Now Nine Miles From City; Smash Through Grea Masses Of Hitler’s Tanks, Troops

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE THROUGH GERMAN LINES   Counter Attacks Hurled Back In Orel Sector

REDS GAIN IN DRIVE ON OREL   Vicious German CounterAttacks Turned Back By Soviets

Reds Roll Back Nazi  Reserves   Russian Forces. Now 9 Miles from Ore! Objective

NO CHANGE IN THEORY   Oil Heiress Died in a 12 Stor Plunge Fron Hotel Room 

SOVIETS MOW DOWN -FRESH GERMAN TROOPS   Russians Overrun Three Hundred More Towns.

WITHIN 40 MILES  OF SMOLENSK BASE   Reds Mow Down Nazi Re' serves As Fast As They   Arrive   ADVANCE OVER A 700-MILE FRONT   German Counter - Attacks Are Turned Into a Complete Rout

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Events Indicate Prussian Militarists Have Taken Over Hitler’s Powers

The War Today  » + 6  Looks Like Military Clique Has Foot In Hitler’s Stirrup.

The War Today— Mystery Meeting Of Nazi Big- Wigs ‘Hinted Sign Germans Realize Defeat

_ DNB Reports the Holding of Conference Called by Field Marahal-Keitel, Atended by: High Army Offi” cers and-“‘Leading Personalities in State and Party”

/PRUSSIAN MILITARY CLIQUE IS APPARENTLY BEGINNING CLIMB INTO HITT ER’S SADDLE ACAIN

Prussian Military Clique Has Foot in Hitler's Stirrup ‘Conference Called by High Command

Zanuck, L’Guardia Army Rank Is Ht By Sen. Truman   Producer Belongs At Front, N. Y. Mayor At Home, Charges  Solon

RAPS LAGUARDIA ARMY JOB PLAN   TRUMAN SAYS MAYOR HAS NO “BUSINESS BELNG A BRIGADIER GENERAL.”

ZANUCK, WAR FILME MAKER “1S, GRITICIZED   Senator Truman, Takes ‘Shots at Picture Producer and Mayor La Guardia...   MOVIE MAN DEFENDED BY SEC’Y PATTERSON

Wants Zanuck Kept In Army At Real Work   Truman Also Not ‘Sure LaGuardia Is General Caliber

SAILOR G. H. - JUHL SAVED FROMHELENA   Remsen Boy’ s y’s Name On U. S. List of . Those   - Rescued

SAILOR G. H. ~JUHL SAVED FROMHELENA   Remsen Boy’s Narne On U S. List of Those Rescued 

MARKWARDT SEES VICTORY IN DRIVE   CHEST CHAIRMAN SAYS OUTCOME DEPENDS LARGELY ON TODAY'S EFFORTS.

If You See A Coin Which Looks Like Cros: Between Nickel And Dime lis New Penny

Great German Effort May Be Thwarted   Soviets Make Rapid Advance on Another Portion of Front

T Nazi Counter Attacks Repulsec In Great Battle   Soviets Expand Bridgehead at Kremenchug

Red Army Hurls Back-Nazis For Third Successive Day   Great Tank and Infantry Battle Rages in Kiev Bulge— Back of German Assault Is Believed : to he Braken

Reds Strike Out After Blocking  Seven Assaults   Germans Turned Back in Furious Tank and Infantry Battle; Cuerillas Pave: Wav for Triumph

Great Nazi Tank Drive May Be Halted   Kremenchug Position To South Expanded By Russian Forces  GUERRILLAS ACTIVE

Russians Making Progress in Big Battle of Tanks   Advance Slightly On Kiev Sector

SOVIETS HOLD SEVEN FIERCE FOE SMASHE'   Bridgehead at Kremenchug Also Expanded by Reds

TANK- INFANTRY STRUGGLE RAGES: THROUGHOUT DAY   Russians Aided by Guerrilla Forces Hacking at Germans From Behind Enemy’s Lines.   ADVANCES IMPROVE SOVIET POSITIONS   Spectacular 20-Mile Dash Made by Other Muscovite _ Columns to Expand Kremenchug Bridgehead,

New Turn in Fight Attributed To Renewal of Air Attacks; Bridgehead Extended

‘Reds Advance In Kiev Bulge   Nazi Drive believed Broken And All Attacks Beaten Off

Reds Report New Advance   Guerrillas Help To Stop Kiev Offensive

‘HOUSTON LAND & TRUST CO,  “Authorized to act in all trust capacities under. private or court appointment.

Five American Bombers Lost In Heavy Raid   Hundreds Of Tons Of Explosives On Targets

FORTRESS RAID HITS GERMANY   Large Formations Drop Explosives Through Submarine Area

U.S. Flying Fortresses  And RAF Planes Stage  Heavy Daylight Raids 21 BOMBERS LOST,: FIVE AMERICAN  New Action Follows Heavy Raid on Hambur; By British at Night

U.S. Fortresses  Raid Reich Again   Follow Up RAF Attack on Hamburg

Fortresses Stage’Raid On Germany   RAF Also Hits Other Taraets In The Area

21 PLANES LOST BY ALLIES OVER GERMAN CITIES   Five Flying Fortresses Shot Down In Attack On Northwestern Germany   HAMBURG IS GIVEN SEVERE HAMMERING

Allied Planes Blast at  German Areas  21 Bombers Are Lost in Maior Offensive

Allied Planes Blast al eraian Areas   21 Bombers Are Lest in Major Offensive

DAY ASSAULT IS STAGED BY U.S. BOMBERS      Americans Follow Up RAI Night Raid on Hambura

Yanks, R. A. F. Blast Germany  SS] GaAwekiwoe F ace   21 Bombers Lost, Five American

el ee me me i  - Ae 4 A eee            vent -One Bombers Lost in Raids, Five of Them American   ; Attacks Believed      Delails of Air and Sea Action Off Guadalcanal Not Revealed

BIG BOMBERS HAMMER NAZI NAVAL WORKS   SUBMARINE PLANTS HIT IN HEAVY NIGHT RAID

British and American Bombers Batter Northwest'Germany in Round-the-Clock Air Offensive

Hitler's U-Boat Works Pounded   Around-The-Clock “Raids Are Costly -

Finnish Peace Tendencies Increase With Appointment Of New Foreign Minister

Ceiling on Pork Sale Is Planned   To Be First to Be Subject ed to Price Control by  Government

SHORTAGE OF MEAT FORESEEN BECAUSE OF REGULATIONS   x ci et en i ae om iniarnianccil  Producers, ‘Tis Said, Afraid To Buy Feeder Cattle

BEEF SHORTAGES MAY BE SERIOUS   Livestock Counci! Says Farmers Are Not Buying Sufficient Young Stock

Possibility of Meat Shortage   Producers Require Faith In Future

N azis Again Beaten Back  Foiled In Attempt  To Break Soviet Line:

NAZI THRUST IN DONETS HALTED   Soviets Beat Off Fresh Assault On Lines

Allies Are Poising To Launch Drive On Mediterranean  Shore Is Humming With Activity  Ae NS ow -

Another Allied Thrust Expected   East Mediterranean Troops Wait Orders

GREAT ALLIED FORCE POISED FOR INVASION   ACTION EXPECTED IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA SOON

Allies Are Poising To Launch Drive On Mediterranean  Shore Is Humming TAPE. Abii   Shore Is Humming With Activity As Climax Nears

Hardened Troops Line Eastern Shore of Mediterranean From Egypt to Turkish Border—Tour Convinces Writer Day Is Approaching When They Will Swarm Across Sea to Attack Axis Strongholds.

SURGEON BARES DAKES THREAT   CLAIM DE MARIGNY VOW TO “CRACK HIS HEAD”

Testifies Count Threatened to Crack Harry Oakes' Head - Five Months Before Killing

~ ENEMY_REPORT Nazi Troops Occupy Elba   Isle Once Napoleon's Place of Exile

LOW LEVEL AGAIN   Toll of 6 Sub Sinkings Sam In July as Reported Previous Month

SHIP SINKINGS CONTINUE LOY   Further: Evidence*is Giyer  To Failure of U-Borts  In Atlantic Waters

THRUST FROM: VELIKIE LUKI TAKES SLOBODA   Other Columns Close on Salsk in Cau¢Casus

SOVIETS ALSO NEAR SALSK, IN CAUCASUY   tussians Gathering Momentum to Oust Germans From Stalingrad.

ANCIENT CITY 1S. FORTIFIED, SALSK. ALSO THREATENED   Germans Make An Attack on Don With-Heavy Losses In Dead, Prisoners, Materials of Ware      RAF FLIES-HIGH IN. RAIDS DURING DAY   Allied Air Offensive Boosted In Tunisia Resulting In Loss of 36 Planes of Axit In Dav.

Red Thrust Perils Nazis At Smolensk    Soviets Sweep Through More. ‘Villaces: Towns

ANCHOR POINTS OF NAZI LINES ARE MENACED   Russian Forces Recapture Vijlages, Batter Germans In Stalingrad   ENEMY THRUSTS REPULSED   Reds Launch Surprise Attack On Airdrome In Black Sea District

GAINS MADE IN CITY OF STALINGRAD   Russians Moving Closer to Anchor Point of Axis Line

STALINGRAD IS RESUMED   Caucasus Gains Made As Russian Planes Enter Battle

- VICINITY 1S TAKEN   Sloboda Falls and Serious Threat Is Offered to Ancient, Fortified Town.

Soviets Threaten German’ Anchor’   Russ Within 25 Mites of Strategic Smolensk

Rampaging Soviets, Flushed With Confidence, Have Taken Sloboda; Stalingrad Battlers Are Advancing   Defenders of Battered City on Offensive - Now and Regain More New Streets, - . ‘Sections of Metropolis.

RUSS DRIVE TO 25 MILES OF SMOLENSK   Powerful Thrust South From’ Velikie Luki Is Reported

Also Close In On City       RED ARMY ALSO MAKES MOV3 TO DRIVE GERMAN TROOPS. OUT OF STALINGRAD 

RUSSIANS PUSH TO WITHIN 25 MILES OF CITY   Soviet Gains Unbroken On Caucasus And Don Fronts

ANCHOR POINT OF NAZI LINES UNDER THREAT   Other Columns Closing in on Salsk Nazi Key Point in Caucasus.   SHOCK TROOPS SMASH _ AT FOE IN STALINGRAD

Lewis Denounces Coal Operators   Always Say "No" He Tells W.L.B.

Freight Jams Due To Strikes   Thousands Of Tons Of War Goods Piling Up At Terminez!/s.

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   State af Stlere.

Flame Throwers Used at Munda   Americans Employ New Attack Method

Nazi Airfields Are Attacked   RAF BOMBERS DOWNED EIGHT MORE ENEMY PLANES

RAF HITS NAZI AIRPORTS, DOWN EIGHT PLANES   Sink Two Vessels Off Dutch Coast, Blast Rail Engines in Germary

TWO NAZI SHIPS HIT BY BOMBS   RAF Attacks Vessels in Channel and Dstrey Eight Enemy Planes,

Tito Forces Disrupt Nazi Rail System   Zagreb-Belgrade Line : Slashed {In 130 Place: East Of Zagreb   INNER STRIFE FLAMES   Partisans, Chetniks Ex. change Accusations Of Enemy Collaboration

INVASION AT HAND?  ASSAULT IN WEST MAY BE STARTED TO EIT SOVIET NEFDS.

Supreme Drive To Crush Nazis Stands Out As Probable Subject Of Gonference At Cairo

NAZIS’ DEFEAT BEFORE SPRING  BELIEVED AIM   Washingion Officials Believe In  -vasion Must Come Soon or Be Delaved to Summer   FEAR SPRING MUD      Conference of Big Three Believed Likely to Coordinate Arms ol All

Winter Offense May Be Planned   Second Front Probable Parley Topie

immediate Invasion Believed Considered      Supreme Drive to Crush Germany Before Winter’s End May Be Topic at Reported F. D. R.-Churchill-Stalin Parley.   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER.

Second Front  Believed the Prime Topic   Powers of Decision Rest With Top Leaders Brought Together in Conference   TO CO-.ORDINATE DRIVE WITH REDS   British-American Military Staff Meetings Held; Air Power Alone Not Enough

Dispatch Says Second Front  May Be Topic   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Thought In Conference At iva   STRIKE INTO BALKANS

SUPREME DRIVE T0 CRUSH GERMANY DUE BEFORE WINTER END   ALLIED STRATEGY BELIEVED MAIN DISCUSSION AT CONFERENCE   ALLIED PACT AT CAIRO MEANS POWERFUL EMPIRE OF JAPAN TO BE REDUCED TO IMPOTENCY

Second Front Seen Prime Parley Topic   Speculation Rife as Three Great Leaders Open Confernce

Invasion Plan  ; Seen As Topic   Allies. Must: Strike Soon Ov Wait Until Summer For Europe Attack

Supreme Offensive To Defeat Germany In °43-'44 Winter Probable Subject

Washington Sees Final Campatzn   ALL-OUT DRIVE TO CRUSH HITLER FORECAST

Second Front Being Talked By Big Three   Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Reported Holding Conference

Must Come Now Or Be Delayed Until Summer   Russian Strategy Said to Rule Out Participation in Coordinated Big Assault in Spring Becaus of Mud. “Big 3” Expected to Pian Winter “Finis” Attack.

“Invasion Before Spring”   Early Assault from West Reported Chief Topic of British-Ameriean Staff Talks

PLAN INVASION OF EUROPE AT IRAN SESSIONS   Meeting of Allied Chiefs And Stalin To Perfect Setup

To Strip Japan Of All Conquered Areas   Allied Leaders Pledge Reduction Of Nippon To Status Of Minor Island Kingdom; Crushing Of Germany Before Spring Also Seen As Prime Aim  mb ey wane ft amtasvahnre

Planning to Crush Reich This Winter   Supreme Allied Drive Believed Under Discussion By Three Chiefs

WhipGermany This Winter - Parley Theme   This Topic Believed To Be Uppermost in Talk With   Stalin

Russ Strategy Topic for Meet in Iran   Defeat of Reich Before Winter’s End Is Prime Topic for Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill at Historic Session

‘Germans May Be Told To Throw Out Nazi Bosses   Reds, Allies Must Coordinate Blows

Drive to Crush Germany Taken Up With Stalin   Allied Leaders Confer on Next Step in Strategy

DRIVE 10 CRUSH GLHMANY UDN T0 BE PLANNED   Coordinated West And East Drives Against Hitler Topic Of Conference

a a east et ae ee =  STORM CA US E R} HEAVY DAMAGE AT WILMINGTON

FUNKHOUSER IS GOP CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR   Says Republican Party Owes Him Nothing

Funkhouser’s   Former Local Industrialis! Would Be West Virginia- Governor.

SENATOR SMITH WILL OPPOSE POLL TAX BILI   Says Mrs. Roosevelt _and Administration “Sopport It

“Colon Fd Blames Mrs. FDR For Anti-Poll Tax Bill: Issue Will Embroil Senafe   United Relief Council Begins Work On Main Plans To Feed Hanary Worid

SENATOR SMITH SAYS MRS. ROOSEVELT IS PUSHING REPEAL BILL  FIERY SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR ALSO SAYS AD-

Senator Cotton Ed Smith Charges Mrs. Roosevelt Vith Being Behind Movement —   FILIBUSTER AGAIN BEING THREATENED   Southern Bloc to Fight  Committee - Approved  Measure to Death, Spokesman Declares

} German Command Must Make Quick Vecision— w—SY Alrke L. Simpson  ‘Nazi Offensive Against Kiev Is Boomerang

Pocket at Attu Is Wiped Out  Chichagof Pass   Chichagof Pass Area Cleaned Up by Americans

Yanks Wipe Out Jap Attu Unit   Americans Close In on Second Pocket

ALLIED AERIAL FLEETS DEAL 2 HEAVY BLOWS   500 RAF Bombers Hit Dusseldorf, 400 Raid Messina

ARMY BOMBERS AID GROUND FORGES IN WIPING OUT JAPS   One of the Three Pockets of Japs Cleaned Out.   ALLIED NAVAL SHIP NIAGARA IS LOST   400 Yank Planes Bomb Italy and Sicily  Again.

JAP “POCKET” CLEANED OUT ON ATTU ISLE   One Of Three Remaining Points Of Resistance Wiped Out

ONE POCKET OF JAP FORCES WIPED OUT   Assault Continuing On Another Of Two Units Remaining

AIR FORCE LENDS AID TO TROOPS   Bombers and Fighters Back Up Ground Fight- ers — Enemy Offers Comment Teday.

Americans Crush Nippon Pocket   Two Main Centers of  Resistance Remain

PRISONER.IN VATICAN   lye nicrge 4 History Repeats as Nazi Guns Ring Pope :

Ked Army Launches New Drive   Reds Also Regain Initiative Near Kiev, Nazis Say

STATE LABOR LAWS STAND   Federal Agencies Advise Against Blanket  Susnensions.

20 Pet. Payroll  Tax Foreseen   Easing Load on Service Men Also Likely

Compromise Move Gains   In Tax Fight   Both Parties’ Leaders Work Hard To Draft Acceptable Plan   SHOWDOWN SEEN MIDDLE OF WEEK

Tax Compromise Gains Momentum  Influential Solons Try to Solve Problem

House Veering To Middle  Course on Tax   Lawmakers Offer Compromise for Controversial Plans

Tax Compromise Drive Gaining In Popularity   But Rep. Martin Continues To Insist upon Ruml Plan

STORMY DEBATE ON TAXES SEEN   Compromise Drive Seems To Be Gaining As Leaders Reject 2 Proposals

COMPROMISE TAX PROGRAM ISEXPECTED   Outcome of Struggle Over Plan Remains Uncertain

MORE GASOLINE PREDICTED FOR EASTERN STATES   Opening Of “Big Inch’ Pipeline Will Help To Relieve Shortage

AS RATIONING EQUALIZATION PLAN 1S HAILED   re "Bag  “neredse for Motorists In Eastern Region is Seen

May Liberalize Gas Rationing   Congressional Group Cheered by Progress

GAS EQUALIZATION PROGRAM HAILED   New Jersey Solon Declares . "Kee Is Beginning to Crack”

Share-Alike ‘Gas’ Ration Pleases East   But N. J. Representative Saya More Protests

 Hariley Heads Group to Equalize Gasoline Rationing  So Eastern, Mid-Western Motorists Can Share Supply

PLEASURE GAS MAY BE BANNED   Plan to Equalize Supply To Ease East May Hit Midwest, South

Equalized Gas Rationing Plan Draws Applause      East Coast Merbers of Congress, However Want More Changes

vAS RATIONING EQUALIZATION PLAN I$ HAILED   "‘ncrease for Motorists In Eastern Region is Seen

U.S. Troops Drive On In New Georgia   10 More Actions Are Reported in Southwest Pacific   Hartley Heads Group to Equalize Gasoline Rationing So Eastern, Mid-Western Motorists Can Share Supply

Equalization Of Gas Rationing Is Promised Country  Plan Announced By Petroleum Administrator Ickes;  Big Inch Helps

More Gasoline, Less Gas, Urged By Rep. Hartley   New Jersey Congressman Sees Hope for Relief for : Eastern States

GOODWILL CO. WAS: ~IN'RED' LAST YEAR      President and Organizer  Tetts of Operating at ae Lace

GOODWILL C0. WAS IN ‘RED’ LAST YEAR   Tells of Operating at a Loss

GEN. CLARK’S TROOPS TAKE CITY OF CAPUA   Fifth Army moves forward in Italy despite downpour of rain

2} MILES NORTH OF NAPLES ON ROME ROAD   Gain Scored Despite Bad Weather; British Impiove Positions

U.S, 5TH FIGHTS ROUGH TERRAIN ~ AND DOWNPOUR   Montgomery’s Troops Repel German Armor, Seize High Ground

Take Steps Toward New Mine Pact   Ickes Calls Operator: And Union Officials  Into Session

LEWIo, OPERAT ORG TALK NEW CONTRACT   Negotiations Are Resumed Under Ickes’ Wing

AUST THINK AHEADLE   Meets With Soft Coal Producers in Move Toward ntract

Seek Wage Agreement   Lewis and Other UMW Officials Meet With Coal Operators Today

LEWIS SMOKES UE   Meets With Soft ‘Coal Pro ducers iri Move Toward  _ Contract

COAL OPEARTORS . AND U. MW. WORK FOR NEW CONTRACT   Expect .Formal . Conference Body: Will Be Organized Tomorrow ‘and Actual week ie! (a ot Me Line Beoin - -

A New Lineup Developing i in Coal Picture   UMW and Coal Operators Meet To Discuss a .. New Contract

ALLIES STRIKE AT JAP BASES   Heavy Attack Made Against Salamaua; Other Aerial Blows are Struck

Bombers Kain Death on Big Jap Bases   Salamaua, Vila . Get Hard.-Attacks;. Ground Work: Light

NOT IN BRITAIN   Secretary Eden Says Report About German Prisoner  Is Not True

MAN FATALLY HURT WHEN HIT BY CAR      Oscar J. Yorksheit, 32, Is Killed Near Hancock

MAN FATALLY HURT: WHEN: HIT BY CAR   Oscar J. Yorksheit, 32, Is Killed Near Han- ‘ cock

NEW STRIKES IN ALABAMA FIELDS   1200 Strike at Two Mines In Southern State Boost Total to 17,000.

NEW STRIKES IN ALABAMA COAL PITS REPORTED   Back-to-Work Move in Pennsylvania Regions Gains Some Momentum

PRESIDENT IS FACING  A WIDESPREAD REVOL1   Organized Labor Expected to Rise Up Against Wage and Price Stabilizations—‘Price” Is Set Upon Labor’s Support of FDR’s Program As Outlined at the Present.

LABOR WARNS ROOSEVELT ON PRICE PROGRAM   Insists Prices Be Rolled Back A Once In Change Of Stratery

Wage, Price Revolt Threat Raised By Organized Labor   AFL, CIO Serve F. D. R. With Ultimatum On Rollback

LABOR ISSUES ULTIMATUM ON PRICES   Demands Immediate . Rollback or Higher Wages

Fr ench Islands in Car ibbean May Be’ ho s  Won Over, Without an Offensive M. ove

French Islands in Caribbean May Be  Won Over Without an Offensive Move 

UI, S, KEEPS WATCH ON FRENCH WEST INDIES   Ignore Gommissicner's Reply To Washington

NEW ERA OF BOOTLEGGING =.  BEING FORECAST IN EAST   ILLEGAL MANUFACTURE ANI SALE PREDICTED UNLESA. PRESENT POLICY CHANGED

Liquor Shartaae Ceuld Easthe Rrine   Enforeed Prohibition to This Country 

DEFERMENT ASKED FOR ENTERTAINERS   Kay Kyser Is One Championed By OWL Directors.

ALLIES READY FOR OFFENSIVE, BUT MUST WAIT   Way Cleared For AllOut Drive Against Axis In North Africa, But Weather Promises Delay Of 4-6 Weeks.

BAD WEATHER SLOWS ACTION INN. AFRICA   8th Army Maintains Pressure On Rommel; Drive May  Be Delayed

Light Bombers Raid Sened In Africa Action   Rain and Snow Hampers Newly-Unified Command i Mediterranean Theatre

WEATHER MAY DELAY BATTLES      Final Showdown in Africa May Be Held Up By Rain, Snow.   BOMBERS ATTACK SENED

WAY CLEARED FOR ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE   In Africa by Unification Of Command For Drive Against Axis

WAY’ CLEARED FOR ALL-OUT PUSH ON ENEMY IN AFRICA      But Bad Weather Expected to Delay Showdown for — Several. Weeks   ALLIED ADVANCE REPORTED

Offensive Delayed by  Rain, Snow   Bad Weather _ ‘Period Used: for ; Deplovine. Troops

BAD WEATHER CHECKS DRIVE IN NORTH AFRICA   Unification of Allied Command Clears Way for All-Out Offensive

‘Weather Threatens Timetable   North Tunisia Drive Waits. But British Push On.   French Outfitted   Troops Distributed For Coming Major Clash Of Arme.

WEATHER MAY DELAY BLOW OVER MONTH   Some Air Activity But Storms Prevent Land Operations

ONLY WEATHE IS HOLDING UP BIG OFFENSIVE   British Maintain Pressure On Rommel’s Forces   By Eisenhower And Allied Officers To Work Out Plan Of Attack

30 10 49-DAY WAIT IS SEEN BY OBSERVERS   Storms Sweep Rain and - Snow Across Most of Tunisian Front — No Changes Reported in - Military Situation, —

But Weather Will Delay  Operations   Final Showdown May Be Six Months or More Off, Says Army Observer

Rain Delays Showdown in North Africa  Weather Continues te Hamper Operations of Allies  20 - MILE ADVANCE Fresh British, Americar  Troops Relieve Weary Tisseaks Wasnas:   >) . MILE ADVANCE

Heavy Mud and Rains May , Delay Decisive Battle tor Tunisia 30 Days or More

Bad Weather Halts Plans For Allied DriveOn Axis   Rain And Snow Sweep Most Of Tunisian Front; Eisenhower Planning For Action

DELAY BIG SHO'/DOWN   Allied Drive-in -Tunisia May Not Hit Full Force For a Month   MOST OF FRONT SWEPT BY STORMS   Little Change in Military Situation; Second Advance Reported, But Unconfirmed

WEATHER SLOWS WAR MOVES FOR NORTH TUNISIA   Unification Of Command Opens  Way For Allies

WAY CLEARED FOR ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE IN NORTH AFRICA   UNIFICATION OF COMMAND _ BRINGS DRIVE NEARER;  WEATHER INTERFERES

UNIFIED COMMAND CLEARS WAY FOR TUNISIAN DRIVE   Bad Weather, However, May Delay Showdown For Month Or Six Weeks; Second Advance Of British And French Troops Reported.

BOMBERS ATTACK ~-AXIS AT SENED   Renter's Report. British French Troops Advance i Mateur Sector

Wait turn in Tunis weather   All-out action expected with new command

Weather May Delay Blow In Tunisia   British Radio Reports Second Advance in Mateur Front

DELAY LIKELY AS RESULT OF BAD WEATHER   Final Showdown May Be Put Off Four To Six Weeks   STORM SWEEPS AREA   Enemy Targets At Sened Attacked By Light Bombers

Weather Delays Allied Drive on  Axis in Tunisia   Unification of Command Clears Way For All-Out Offensive.   Storms Sweep Across Most of the Front

Weather Holds Up  Drive In Tunisia   : now and Rain Sweep, “ Across Most of Front, Holding Armies   MARETH LINE STAND   Stiff Nazi Resistance, to Gain ‘Time in Europe,  Expected

NORTH AFRICAN FORCES UNITED IN AXIS DRIVE   Planes Hit Axis Targets But Storms Bog Down Land Campaign

Final Showdown in North Africa May Be Delayed Weeks   Tunisian Front Now Swept by Rain and Snow Storms

Unification Of African Command Clears Way For Push to Drive Axis Out

All-Out Tunis Drive Forms   Bad Weather Delays Thrust to Push Axis From Africa

UNIFIED COMMAND TO HELP ALLIES   British Continue Pressure Against Rommel In Southern Tunisia   TROOPS SHIFTED   American And British Take Over Posts Held By French Troops

WEATHER HALTS ALLIES IN AFRICA READY FOR DRIVE   Germans Expected To Sactifice 100,000 To Postloone Invasion OF Europe

Weather Holds Up Final North  Atrican Drive   No Big Push Yet Possible Due To Mud; Russians Continue To Gain

JAPANESE SHIP LOSSES HEAVY   Just 45 Short Of Number Built Or Under Construction

HEAVY LOSSES TO JAP FLEES SINCE START OF WAR   147 Cruisers and Destroyers Reported Lost by Senate Naval Affair  Cammittas _

JAP WARSHIP LOSSES ARE 147   Enemy Suffers Heavy Toll Of Cruisers, Des- — troyers

JAP FLEET LOSSES   Sinkings Almost Equal Amount of Building Since War's Start. :

Jap Fleet Loses 147 Cruisers   Use Of Pre-War Total Shows Only 45 Left

A SPECIAL WAR BOND CAMPAIGN   Farmers to Be Given Oppor. tunity to Invest the Surplus From Income.

TH BRITISH ARMY PUSHES WESTWARD   Rommel’s Retreating Forces Reported Bracing for Attack From Different Directions.   RULLETIN,

SURPRISE RAID RUINS ANOTHER JAP SEA BASF   Yanks Fly 2,400 Miles, Start Fires Seen 140 Miles

Java Jap Base Hit by Yanks InReeordRaid   Soerabaja Surprised by 2,500-Mile Flight; Munda Pounded   U.S. Warships Shell _ Jap Forts on Kiska

Soerabaja, Jap Base, In Ruins After Raid By American Fliers   Oil Refineries, Other. Installations Wipe ' Out in 2400-Mile Raid by Yanks

Big Jap Oil Refinery Is Destroyed   Liberators Carry Out Record Shattering Attack

Jap Naval Base At Java Mit  By Allied Fliers -2400-Mile Raid  Blasts Docks, Rails, Refinery

JAP NAVAL BASE IN RUINS   Big Oil Refinery, Warehouses and -” Railway and Dock Installations at Soerabaja’ Smouldering After ‘Record-Shattering Raid. ~

LARGE JAP NAVY BASE IN JAVA LIES IN RUINS   Recor d- Shattering 2400-Mile Raid by Allied Planes

SOERABAJA, LARGE JAP NAVY BASE, IN RUINS AFTER RAID      Round-Trip Flight Of 2,400 Miles..By Liberators Sets All-Tima’ — Record

INSTALLATIONS OF JAPS AT SOERABAIA REDUCED 10 RUINS   Record 2400-Mile Raid Made To Destroy Oi Refinery, Warehouses, Railroad and Dock Facilities.   LOCATED ON SINGAPORE RABAUL ROUTE   U. S. Warships Draw Fire From Japs in Heavy Bombing on Kiska, Last Base In Aleutians.

SOERABAJA REFINERY, DOCKS HIT   Allies Surprise Nips By Devastating 2400Mile Air Raid

Huge Java Navy Base Blasted In.  Big Allied Raid   Liberators Pound Soerabaja For 7( Minutes, Leave Docks, Warehouses Larage Ojl Refinery In Ruins 1

Biggest Jap Base Between Rabaul, Singapore Target   Munda, Bairoko Hit With Heaviest Attack of War In Pacific

ALLIED PLANES FIRE JAP BASE AT SOERABAJA   Big Oil Refinery, Warchouses, Railway And Dock Jnstallations Blasted  aa UAC a alee ead: Gaye OE Mk: GEE ERR gh acs   ‘BOMBERS FLY 2,400 MILES   Aerial Forces Smash New Georgia In Support Of Troops At Munda

ALLIED PLANES DEMOLISH BASE IN BIG ATTACK   440-Mile Fires Coincide With Heaviest Raid of War

SOERABAIA HIT BY LIBERATORS IN RECORD RAID   Visiting Allied Planes Found ‘Big. Java Base Fully Lighted on Arrival,

ALLIES WITHIN GUN RANGE OF LAE AIRDROME   ARTILLERY BATTERS ENEMY POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA

Allies Again Make Gains Through Jungle Territory  Troops Now Threaten Japanese Airfield

Allied Troops Approach Jap Airdrome   Bombs Nearly Demolish Lae’s Defenses

Advance Is Made By Australians On Lae Airfield   MacArthur Reports They Are Within 2 Miles of Goal

Allies Drive Wedge To Within 21 Miles Of All-Vital Tunis   Germans on Run Along All Fronts As British and Americans Strive For Break-Throush to Flat Land

BRITISH UNIT ONLY 22 MILES OUTSIDE TUNIS   Stubborn Enemy Resistance Broken Down All Along 125-Mile Front   NAVAL VICTORY SCORED   Planes Blast Arifields As Ground Troops Reduce Mountain Defenses

HEAVY BOMBERS LEAD ATTACK IN CONCERTED PUSH   Mountainous Entrenchment Hazard for the United Nation Battlers

Nazis Seen Preparing For Flight   Plight of Hitler’s Army Inside City Termed as Critical

23,000 NAZI OFFICERS, MEN FALL AT OREL   Germans Wrecking Big Base Before Soviets  Wedge In.

GERMANS ARE WRECKING. CITY OF OREL   Red Army Expectec To Enter City At Any Moment.

NAZIS SMASH UP OREL AS RED ARMY ADVANCES HOURLY   Invaders Prepare To Flee — Soviets Closing In From Three Directions

TH) REQ FORCES   Demolition Of Base Underway Moscow Reports Today As Drive Continues

AXIS } REPORTED * WRECKING ORE!   Soviets Say Naz Nazis Preparing For Withdrawal

NAZIS WRECK OREL BEFORE FALL OF CITY   Plight of German Garrison Called Extremely Critical

RUSSIANS FIGHT THROUGH MUD IN ADVANCE ON QREL   Germans Counter - Attack in ~ All Sectors But Fail to Halt Soviete.

GERMANS WRECK OREL IN DESPAIR   Reds Expected to Find Only Ruined City on Their En Seana

Red Army Now Pounding at the Gates of Orel.   FALL MAY COME AT ANY TIME   Soviet Troops Are Advancing in Three Directions.

ELMER JOHNSON DIES AT AN ADVANCED AGE   Former Tullytown Man Had Served at Director of Bristol Trust Co.  BORN IN NEW JERSEY

KOKA oUPPLY OAS BOMBED BY AMERICANS   Jan Efforts To Reinforce Aleutians Base Foiled By Alert Airmen

YANK BOMBERS SINK JAP SHIP    Navy Bombards Kiska As Battle Far Munda Continues

Yank Bombs Get Jap Cargo Ships   Four Sunk 280 Miles Southwest of Attu _

IN NORTH AFRICA      Political Developments Oue Shortly “As, French Struggle

Gen. Giraud Appeals for  Better Arms   Urgent Plea Is Made at Meeting; No Satisfaction

VIETS SMASII EPER INTO 47 DEFENSES   dvances In aucasus re Reported

Huntington Asks Aid In Protecting Soldiers   Seizure of Ohio Plane Factory Is Threatenec

Wright’s Told To Improve Or Army Will Take Over: Workers Found Playing

TO CLEAN UF AREAS. NEAR ARMY POSTS   Governor Martin Calls * Conference of Health  Authorities on Task.   CITY FOLKS MUST HELP ON FARMS   Agriculture Sec. Say Farm Labor Shoveaye in “Alarming Stage.”

REFUSE OPA REQUEST   Had Asked That Another Judge Be Namied for Kansas Cases

13 r owns In Sieily   Surge Forward in Bitter Fighting; Nab 18,000  Prisoner

ALLIES TAKE 13 TOWNS IN SICILY PUSt   Desperate Axis Resistance Encountered By Invaders

vaston ‘Forces Aided by Shattering: Nayal and Air Bombardments _.Pabrteen Additional Towns OcJoupled.-

BUS AND TRAIN CRASH KILLS 7   Fast 3-Car Interurban Shatters Carrier At Granite City, Il.

8 Die When Train Hits Bus   "25, Taj ed in-Granite City, Il, Collision ©

_— 5 res 5 ages ee) op Ran sn  EIGHT DIE IN CRASH      ‘Train Hits Bus on Outskirts of Granite City, Ill,

SEVEN KILLED, {HINJURED AS TRAIN HITS BUS   Infant Among Victims In Crossing Crash; Only Four Persons Have Reen [dentified   DRIVER IS HURT   Elderly Man Decapitated And Parts ef Vehicle. . ~ Are Hurled Along ' Right-of-Way

8 DEAD IN BUS, TRAIN COLLISION   25 Others Injured Near Granite City, Il.

CHANGE PROPOSED IN SPEED LIMITS   Bill Would Let State Highway Commission Fix Regulations   NO MAXIMUM IS SET

Bill Would Let State High~ way Commission Fix Regulations   INO MAXIMUM JIS SET

Legislature Talks Speed   Union Leaders Are Heard In Opposition To Labor Legislation

BLOOD BANK 1S BETUIRNING HERE   Red Cross Mobile Unit Will --Be In Tipton Again Next Month,

BLOOU CANK [9 RETURNING HERI   Red Cross Mobile Unit Wil Be In Tipton Again Next Month,

me “Protection” Of Vatican City— —By John H. Wiggii   Nazis May Hold Hostages In The Holy City

Battle Of Italy Raging As Allies Continue To Make Daring Advances   Seizure Of Rome By Germans Is Distressing To Catholics; Open Drive For Southeast Europe

4-H GIRLS RESTYLE OLD GARMENTS TO SAVE NEW CLOTH, LABOR, FOR WAR

Hourly Reports Keep Allied Leaders Abreast of War Developments; International Envoys Meet Often

Invasion Data Given F. D. R. And Churchill   Get Hour-by-Hour Report as They Continue Confabs

Allied Leaders Kept Posted on New Offensive  Rooseve It, Churchill PT eee  eee   Roosevelt, Churchill Continue Talks At  ’ White House

RIVAL FLEETS SLUG IT OUT INSOLOMONS   AMERICAN SOLDIERS SCORE GAINS ON GUADALCANAL

MAKE GAIN ON GUADALCANAL   Advance Continued as Ships, Warplanes Exchange Blows

Americans on Guadalcanal . Gain Ground   Navy Maintains Silence on Sea, Air Fighting

Americans Advance on Jap Territory  War Planes, Ships Slug Each Other fiver Wide Area

Navy Is Silent On Sea Battle   Yankees Score Gain On Guadalcanal

SABOTEUR GROUPS STEADILY GAINING IN STRENGTH AUSTRIAN PATRIOTS TAKING TOLL’

iter From Sioux Falls  Air Base Aporchended Herc   estEnd OF .  ia In Home In LeMars

Predict Discard Of Pay-as yOU-go   Little Hope Seen For Congress Agreement

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAXES MAY BE  ABANDONED   If Senate-House Committee Fail to Reach Agreement in Next Three Days.

COMMITTEE TOLD TO SPEED ACTION COMPROMSE BILL   hairman Threatens Ashcan For Pay-As-You-Go Plan If Compromise measure Noi Avcreed On

George Desires  Tax ‘Agreemeitt ~ With 3. Days   Otherwise Chairman Will * Abandon Pay-As-You-Go ‘Legislation This Session

Tax Compromise  Seems Unlikely   May Abandon Pay-As-You Go Tax Bill This   ee

George Ready To Abandon  Tax Measure   Congress Must Acree At Once

Doom of Pay-as-Gc Looms   FINANCE CHIEF GEORGE WILL QUIT FIGHT IN THREE DAYS UNDER BALK

ULTIMATUM 10 WORK OUT TAX   ‘Three Days to Get Action or “It'll All Re OF”

Nazi Line Is Cracked In 3 Places   Russians Gain Nearer To Kiev, Zaporozhe, Gomel

30 German Strongpoints Fall to Onrushing Reds, Nazis Suffer Big Losses. ;

RUOOTANG MAKE DBREAKTHRQUGHS   Crack Nazi Defenses on Long Russian Front   REDS ENTER MELITOPOL   Smash Close to Kiev, in Middle Dnieper, and Pound to Vicinity of Gomel

Reds Are Smashing _ Crimean Defense:   Sweep Into Center Of City Of Melitopol Anc Move To Capture Objective At Kiev

THREE MAJOR BREAKS MADE BY RED ARMY   SOVIET SPEARHEADS NEAR KIEV; ENEMY APPLIES TORCH

Soviets Push Close to City of Kiev   Red Army Makes Gain Near Sea of Azov And in South Ukraine

Hunt Murderers Of Five Persons   Virginia Authorities Sift Farm Mystery

5 PERSONS ARE SLAIN ON FARM IN VIRGINIA   Three Members of One Family and Two Others Victims of Beating and Shooting—Traveling Salesman Discovers Tragedy Yesterday—F.B.1. Assisting-in Investigation.

OFFICIALS HUNT KILLER OF FIVE   West Virginia Family Of Three, Tenant Farmer And Wife Slain

MARINE BASE + PLANE CRASI        BIG. ‘BOMBER STRUCK. ate ‘ BURLDINGS IN ACCIDENT  THAT. COBY FOUR LIVES 

SWEDES REJECT BERLIN'S REPLY ON SHIP SINKING   Call German Claim Absurd, May Ban Territorial Waters to Nazis

SEES CHURCHILL   Stimson Dines With British Prime SVintetor *Wntehle« 

“Flu” Epidemi Near Peak Doctors Say   British Deaths Total More Than 1060 in Week

INFLUENZA NEAR EPIDEMIC PEAK, OFFICIALS SAN   Cases Continue Mild But Danger of Pneumonia is Spbiect of Warning.

‘Schools Closed, Output Of War Plants Is IHit By Spread Of Influenza In The Nation

Compulsory Training, One Defense Proposea    Advanced By Army Officer For Consideration In Post-War American Military Policy

‘ARMY TRAINING BY COMPULSION FOLLOWING WAR   Gen. Palmer Would Co ordinate Army, Navy And Air Forces In Peacetime

Proposals for Military Establishment of U. S. in Post-War Period Are Made

Patrol Bomber Sank Submarine   Operation Took Place Off Columbia River After Pearl Harbor

U. 5. MAY POSSESS ALEUTIANS BASES   Suggested By Frequency Of Attacks On Jap Targets

Five Bases Above Australia Bombed   But Tempo of Air Struggle Slackens

FIGHT FOR CONTROL SOUTHWEST PACIFIC SKIES SLACKENED  ALLIED WARPLANES, HOWEVER, ATTACKED FIVE JAPANESE BASES

ALLIES CONTINUE TO HIT JAPS FROM AIR   Attack Five Nipponese Bases, Damage Ship

Five Jap Bases Under Attack   MacArthur’s Air Forces Strike Despite Foe’s Increased Aerial Power

U.S. AIRMEN ATTACK FIVE ENEMY BASES   In South Pacific Area Yesterday, Despite Mounting Enemy Aerial Strenzth.

Allies Blast Five Japanese Bases  Struggle By Pacific Aircraft Abates

FIVE JAP BASES ATTACKED MONDAY BY ALLIED PLANES   Targets Hit By Single United Nations Planes _Include Enemy Aijirdromes In Dutch New Guinea, New Britain and New Guinea.

Lone Planes  Heckle Japs:   Five Jap Bases. Above Australia Bombed

Allies Bomb Five Jap Bases   Attack in Islands Above Australia, MacArthur Says

Five Jap Bases Attacked In Day By Allied Fliers   Struggle Fer Control Of Southwest Pacific Shies Slackens Considerably

ALLIED WARPLANES HIT 5 JAP BASES   Battle of Southwest Pacific Slackens

AIR ACTIVITY SLOWS DOWN IN PACIFIC AREA   Allied Bombers Going Lone Missions To Hit At Jap Airdromes

WARPLANES HIT AT FIVE JAP BASES   SLASH AIRDROMES ON NEW GUINEA NEW BRITAIN ISLANDS

Rescue Attempt Kills Aviator  Dies Trying To Get Help After Crash

HERD OF FROZCN NOATH OES I AIRPLANE CRASH   ‘Harold Gillam Braved Win  ter Bound Wilderness Tc Bring Rescue To Strand. ed Group

Hero of Adventures Along Arctic Airways Dies in Attempt to Save His Passengers

Ground Artillery Also Shells Nip Air Base in Solomons   Increase Enemy Air Losses Over New Georgia Islands To 123 Planes. American’s to 25 Aircraft

U. S. DIVE BOMBERS ASSAULTED DEFENSE POSITIONS OF JAPS  SEVEN PILOTS OF SEVEN TEEN U. S. PLANES LOST HAVE BEEN RESCUED

Heavy Blows In  Wide Area   101 Jap Planes Shot own; Gains Being  Consolidated.

MacArthur Forces in Caordinated Blows on 700 Mile Front.   BIG GUNS SHELL MUNDA

123 Jap Planes Shot Down In First Two Days’ Fight. Communique Reveals

Twin-Pronged Offensive   In Central Solomons And New Guinea Area Continues Steadily

Jap Defense Positions In Munda Area Under Dive-Bombing Attack ; Offensive Goes On

AMERICAN DIVE BOMBERS ATTAGK ENEMY AT MUNDA   assault Japanese Defense Po.itions In Munda Area As Twin-Pronged Offensive In Solomons and New Guinea Continues.

Dive-Bomber Assaulis on  Jap Position   Navy Planes Fire Base in Munda Area West of the Airfield   U.S, OFFENSIVE IS CONTINUING   Warship Thrust Now Under Way May Be New Operaon or Diversionary Blow

U. S. Dive Bombers Hit Japs   Enemy Defense Positions In Munda Area Are Battered

AMERICAN DIVE BOMBERS RAID JAPS ON MUNDA   Aerial Attacks Also Made At Vila, Kolombangara Island, Navy Department Reveals   “RES ARE STARTED BY BOTH ASSAULTS   Admiral. Halsey Discloses 123 Jap Planes Destroyed In First Two Days of  _ Pacific Offensive

Twin-Pronged Offensive Is Being Pressec   123 Jap Planes Destroyed In First Days Of Pacific Invasion; Only Patrols Encountered In Isle’s Ground Defenses

Twin-Pronged Drive Continues   New Georgia, Kolombangera Islands Feel Weight of MacArthur Smash; Rendove Moo-up Near Comoletion: Casualties Liekt

Yank Warships Steam Deep Into North Solomons   Jap Strongholds Are Shelled; 123 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Action

American and British Infantry, Tanks Storm Across River;  Planes Rip German Force to Shreds

Yankees, British Storm Across River at Night  Repel Nazi Strike at Capua; Fight . 3 LJInalde

Allied Engineers - Bridge Stream Under Withering Fire _   ASSAULT ON CAPAU HALTED BY ALLIES   Gen. Clark’s Troops Push Northward After Cross-. ing River ,

AERIAL COVER MURDEROUS IN NIGHT ATTACK   NAZIS PINNED DOWN; TANKS AND TROOPS STORM STREAM

5th Army Storms Across Volturno   Troops Battle Desperately to Expand Bridgeheads Against Fierce Resitance;  Nazis Fall Back Toward Garliano River

Nazis’ Volturno River Line Gives Way under Heavy Allied Assault   Germans’ First Natural Defense Line before Rome Smashed af Severa Points on River

Airmen Keep Germans’ Force at Bay   Allied Units Thwart Enemy Attack, Storm Across River

Murderous Air Cover Aids River Crossing   Germans Fall Back Slowly in Effort to Hold On to Rome

Nazi defense line smashed by 5th army   Stream bridged under heavy fire

Bridgehead Made Across Italian River   Allies Pour Through Under Aerial Cover After Artillery Blasts  NAZIS FALLING BACK

Yanks Smash Volturno Line   Troops Storm Across At Several Points At Capua

RIVER BRIDGED UNDER INTENSE ENEMY GUNFIRE   Heavy Aerial Covering Pins German Force To Defense Positions

INFANTRYMEN AND TANKS CROSS RIVER   Nazi Line Broken at Sev eral Points Near Capua —Germans Put Up Savage Fight.   TERRIFIC - BARRAGE PRECEDES ADVANCE   Big Guns Rip Enemy Defenses to Shreds— Hoarded Nazi Planes Enter Struggle.

Yanks Fight Hard To Hold Bridgeheads   Heavy Aerial Cover Plays Havoc With Foe

ALLIED ENGINEERS BRIDGE STREAM UNDER WITHERING GERMAN FIRE; REPEL FUTILE ASSAULT ON CAPUA.

New Crossing of Dnieper Between Kiev and Gomel Announced   ENTIRE NAZI LINE  : FACING COLLAPSE   Staggering Losses Inflict ed on the Nazi  Troops

Russ Smash 15 Miles Past River   Collapse Threatens Entire Nazi Defense on Dnieper

ENTIRE GERMAN DNIEPER LINE IS THREATENED   Berlin Admits Big New “Detaching Movement” On  Russian Front   SOVIETS BATTLING IN SUBURBS OF GOMEL

Allied Delay in Opening  Burma Attack Indicates -— Year of One-l’ront Fight

Soviets Smash Ahead In Large Scale Advances   Russians Break Through Beyond The Dnieper; May Trap Nazis

New Crossing Of Dnieper Accomplished   Entire German River Line Threatened With Collapse as Russians Rip More Holes in It in Decisive Battle

Soviets Make Penetration  Of 15 Miles   ‘Detaching Movement? On Eastern Front Admitted by Germans  OTHER BREAKS MADE

WILL ‘COLLECT FATS   Eichups Will Be Be Made at Schools On Four Dates.

DETROITS RACE RIOT NOT A PLANNED AFFAIR   Was Result of Several Disconnected Incidents Provoked By Group  Of Negroes

DETROIT RIOTS “JURY” REPORT   Violence Not Premediated Nor Inspired by Subversive Elements, Committee Finds,

Racial Tension  Is Blamed For Detroit Riots   Report Negroes Provoked Trouble

RUMOR BLAMED FOR RACE RIOT   Detroit Uprising Not Enemy Inspired, Says Report To Kelly

RACE RIOTS NOT ENEMY INSPIRED   Committe Explodes Theory 0! Axis-Instigated Flareups

Detroit Riot Inquiry Ends   Committee Finds Trouble Not Planned, Premeditated Nor Enemy Inspired

Russian Advance Slowed by Rains   But Orel Squeeze Grows Tighter

SOVIETS INSIDE OREL DEFENSES   Red Drive On ¢ German Base Continues To Gain

ANGING AT OWN OF OREL   Muddy Roads Impede Progress In Bloody Battle

HARD RAINS FAIL TOSTOP RUSSIANS   Stalin Declares Enemy Losses Are 70,000 During Weeks of July.

RED ADVANCE IS SLOWED NEAR OREL   Heavy Rains Hurt But ‘Fail to Halt  Russian Progress

Nazis Fail To Hold Up  Russians      Counterattacks Being Repeatedly Crushed By Soviets —- Advance By Russians Continues

RED ADVANCES ON OREL SLOWED BUT STILL CONTINUING   Heavy Rains And. Intensified ‘Nazi Counter-Attacks Impede Progress A Of Russians -

Red Army Slowed At Orel By Rain, German Attacks   Asda Death Toll Rises To 60,000 As Russians Enter City’s Suburbs

Nazi Counter-Attack Fails To Halt Advance Of Soviet Forces On Orel

Leghorn Port Suffers 100 Fortress Blow   Light Cruiser, Four Sup. ply Ships Are Hit; Italian Oil Plants Set Afire   SARDINIA IS RAKEC   Delano Flier Wins Fourth Air Victory In Attack: Toe Of Boot Bombed

FLYING FORTS LOOSE ATTACK, DAMAGE SHIPS   Nine-minute Thunderbolt Assault Leaves Heavy Damage In Wake.

British Rake Ruhr Valley in Heavy Raid   taly Also Pasted by American Airmen; Germans Reveal Considerable Damage

Axis Industry Staggers Under Mighty Blow:   Muelheim, Oberhausen Are Targets; British -Lose 35 Planes

35 PLANES ARE LOST IN ATTACK   Allied Air Offensive Carried Through Fourth Night

Block-Busters Hit Muetheim, A Steel Center   Oberhausen Also Hit As 35 More RAF Bombers Are Missing

RAF CONTINUES RAIDS, KREFELD STILL ON FIRE   Allied Bomber Losses Heavy Lose 79 Planes in Last Two Days

AERIAL ASSAULTS ON NAZI TARGETS REACH NEW PEAK   ALLIES CONTINUE ROUND-THE-CLOCK EUROPEAN RAIDS

No Let-Up In Attack On Ruhr   RAF Blasts Mulheim in Heavy Night Raid, and U. S. “Forts” Carry on Offensive by Daylight -

RAF Block Busters Follow Fortresses in Attacks on Ruht   Return by Light of Big Fires Started in Krefeld Day Before

British  Bombers: Hammer Ruhr War Factories In ~ Round-the-Clock Air.  _.  Attacks-On Reich       HEAVY DAMAGE IS  ADMITTED BY NAZIS    . — a i\Many RAF Planes Lost Ir Massive Assaults,’ Indi‘ cating Size of Raidi Ane Rorees.

35 Big Planes Fail To Return   Muelheim and Oberhausen Feel Weight Of British Bombs -— Salerno on Italian Mainland Target for Attack — Royal Arsenal at Naples Badly Damaged

British Bombers _ Blast at Muelheim, Nazi Steel Center   Wellingtons of R. A. F. Hammer Salerno In Continuing Efforts Knock Mussolini's Supply System Out in Sicily and Italy

Steel Center Bombarded by Block Busters   RAF Loses 35 Planes In Night—Italian Port Assailed

RAF Block-Busters Hit German City of Muelheim, Big Steel Center, and Returned by Light From Great Fires Set 24 Hours Before At Nearby Krefeld

Mulheim Gels Heavy Load Of Big Bombs   Ruhr Steel Center Battered; Great Fires Still Burning In Krefeld

GERMANY BLASTED AGAIN  Allied Day and Night Offensive Hits New Peaks

Continue Raid After Hitting -Muelheim Area   Great Fires Still Burning At Krefield 24-Hours After Attack.   EASE BLOW ON ITALY

GERMAN STEEL CENTER RAIDED BY BOMBERS   Muelheim Blasted As Allies Maintain Round-TheClock Attacks: Report Oberhausen Also Hit

Block-Busters Hit Muelheim  Before Dawn   Three-Way Attack Is Continued Upon Italy

Mighty Blow Is Directed At Mulheim  Returning Crews Report Great Fires Still Seen in Krefeld 85 AIRCRAFT LOST  Intruder Patrols Active Over Holland and Trance

Muelheim Blasted By RAF’s Night Attack   Returning Flyers Report Great Fires Still Burning In Krefeld And Huls

Hit Steel Center of NMuelheim   Fires Still Burn From Earlier  Blast at Krefeld

By had P doubers Rocks. Steel. Center   Germans Say Ober hausen Also. Hit ‘As Br itish List.35 Planes Lost; Merial Blows On Italy Slacken

Muelheim Is ~Dump-Off for _ Night’s Load   Fires Still Burning From _ Krefeld Raid of Night - Previous

‘Day and Night Smashes Made  Over Germany   RAF Attacks Vital Center At Muelheim Last Night; Sorts in Day Assault

HEAVY. DAMAGE: 35 PLANES LOST   Attack Said “Well Concentrated” ; Oberhausen Hit

HIT MUELHEIM IN DAWN RAID   Return By Light of Great Fires Still Burning  At Krefeld   INFLICT BIG DAMAGE   Italian Stepping-Stone Points Plastered Anew

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES HOME FROM A BIG RAID   New Daylight Attacks Were Made on Europe It Is Believed.   FOLLOWS RAF RAIDS   Gerka Steel and Communica tion Center of Mulheim Was Hit.

AIR RAID HITS. STEEL CENTER OF MUELAEIN   RAF Continues Day and Night Assaults on German War Industries,   PLANES CARRY LOADS LIKE & CONVEYOR BELT.

German Agency Calls RAF Activity ‘Terror’ Bombing   Reports From Berlin Reveal Seriousness Of Damage Dealt

Violent New Bomb Storm Hits Ruhr ©   Steel Center of Muelheim Attacked; RAF Lists 35 Bombers Missing; US Planes Aid Chinese Troops Closing in on Japs

FORMATIONS OF U. 8. FLYING FORTRESSES RETURN FROM RAIDS  MUELHEIM, GERMAN STEEL AND RAIL CENTER ATTACKED LAST NIGHT

Allied Day and Night Offensive Reaches New   MULHEIM IN RUHR DISTRICT BLASTED   Fires Reported Still Burning At Krefeld Which RAF Visited Monday

Steel Center In Ruhr Gets Heavy Jolt   Great Fires Left Burning In Another Rhineland City

STEEL INDUSTRY IS LAID WASTE BY AIR ATTACK   Hitler Describes Results of Assault on Naziland as ‘Damned Serious’   INVASION JITTERS GROW   Battering of Italy Tapers Off But Reds Raid Bases Behind Axis Lines

MUELHEIM HIT BY BIGFORCE OF BRITISH PLANES   Flying Fortresses Return From Daylight Attacks on Europe —

Blockbuster - And Big Fire  Bombs Used   Fortresses Again Follow Up British Night Assault, the Fourth in 2 Row   GREAT FIRES SEEN IN INDUSTRIAL AREA   Two-Engined Bombers and Fighters Carry Offensive to Other Territory

FLYING FORTS IN DAY RAIDS ON GERMANY   Synthetic Rubber Plants at Huls Are f ired by Allied Rombs. , a aa   Round-the-Clock Air Attacks Are Continued

STEEL MILLS AT MUELHEIM TARGET OF RAF   Oberhausen in Ruhr, Salerno ir Italy, Sardinian and Siciliar Bases Strafed   NAZIS RAID LONDON   Russians Blast German Airdromes, Australians Beat Off Jap Allack in New Guinea

CITY BOMBED   ‘Round the Clock’ Assault On Enemy Bases in Europe Sustained.   HEAVY DAMAGE IS DONE

U.S. Fortresses Roar Low Across Dover, Folkestone   Townspeople Crowd Streets, Wave to Returning fliers

U.S. Forts Roar In, Apparently From New Day Smash at Foe   RAF Loses 36 Planes In Night Raid on Ruhr City

Nazis Complain Of ‘Terror Raids’ On Cities Of Ruhr   Salerno And Seven  Other Cities On » Italian Mainland : Attacked «#-

MUELHEIM IS NEW TARGET OF BOMBERS   ttaly Promised Help After Facing First Invasion Shock

35 HEAVY CRAFT LOST IN ATTACK ON REICH AREAS   Fighter Planes Patrol Coastal Battle Sectors  PITT RTIN

Muelheim Pounded in Night Attack   Allied Air Offensive At New Peak

RAF Fighter Planes Carry Out Patrols Over Low Countries In Strafing Raids

NAZI WAR FOUNDRIES UNDERWENT VIOLENT NEW AIR BLASTING  _ THIRTY-FIVE BRITISH BOMBERS LISTED AS  MISSING IN ATTACK

MULHEIM GETS HAIL OF R.A. F, BLOCK BUSTERS   35 Bombers Missing But Fires Were Set Which Were Seen 100 Miles From Attack Scene

OF MUELHEIM IS ATTACKED   Royal Air Force Lists 35 Bombers As Missing In Giant Raid Over Industrial Germany   BLASTS ITALIAN CITIES

Heavy Bombers Strike At Steel And Communications Center Of Muelheim As Round The Clock Aerial Offensive Is Continued—Allies’ Announced Losses Total 107 In Period From Early Yesterday To Today—Nazis Put Figure At 135

Blockbusters Hit Muelheim   Great Fites Still Rage In Krefield From Yank Attack

MIUELREIM AKL HIT BY RAIDERS   RAF Block-Busters Smash At Important Industrial Center   36 PLANES LOST   Fliers Report Great Fires Still Raging In Krefeld   RULLETIN

Sean,  IS HARD HIT   RAF Assault Is Followed by U. S. Day Raid on Continent—Today’s Tard get Not Immediately Known. oe

GERMANS CALL NIGHT ATTACKS TERROR RAIDS   Italy Continues To Get Jarred By Widespread Bombings

FRENCH YOUTHS DEFY FUEHRER   Wholesale Arrests Made In Attempt To Stop Labor Refugees

Nazis Making Wholesale Arrests For Aid Of Refugees" From Slane Labor: Number Now Said T'o Exeeed 5.000.

Fair Farm Price Measure Again Before Congress   Confirmation Of Rutledge Ils Delayed

Reduced Forces of New Deal Get Test » in Farm Parity Bill   House Committee Votes to Include Labor Costs in » Fair Price Measure

HOUSE AGRICULTURE  COMMITTEE REPORTS  OUT NEW FARM BILL WOULD MAKE LABOR  COSTS FACTOR IN COMPIITING CAID PRIrrc

Farm Price Parity Bill Is Up Again   House Agriculture Committee Approves Bill Including Labor   Bronx District Attorney Is A Witness For Flynn   Unexpected Opposition Develops Against Rutledge Confirmation

Farm Labor Cos Again Included Tn Parity Figure  “Form. Fight Brought OUp-Again; Bronx District Attorney Rhein NAM de cole bl

Battles In New  Congress   House Group Approves Bill Involving Farm Labor Prices

WOULD INCLUDE LABOR   Measure Is Introduced To Consider Wages in Farm Prices

AG COMMITEE TO TEST GOVT FARM CONTROL   Approve Measure To Count Farm Labor Costs

MUSSO’S IN-LAW OUSTED IN SHAKEUP OF CABINET   Rostov Withdrawal Claimad Succecetyu

INDUSTRY DUE TO SPREAD OUI   Postwar West And South Empire Envisioned

MAY DEVELOP GREAT EMPIRE WEST, SOUTH   Group of senators want post war aid west of Mississippi

Jams, Jellies Latest and Probably Last Foods on Nation’s Ration List

JAM AND JELLY UNDER RETAIL SALES FREEZE   Various Spreads Will Be Placed Or Ration List Beginning Sunday, October 31

Jams, Jellies ~ On Ration Lis   OPA Freezes Sales Until October 3]

Jellies, Preserves Latest Foods to go on Rationing Basis   Sales of Spreads Frozen Until Week From Sunday by OPA Order

JELLIES NEXT ON RATION LIST      Retail Price Freeze Slapped On Fruit Spreads By OPA

JAMS, JELLIES FROZEN, TO BE RATIONED OCT. 31 AS HEAVY RESERVES DWINDLE

OPA FREEZES JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES   SALES FORBIDDEN UNTIL RATIONING STARTS ON OCT, 31

Jams and Jellies Put on Ration Lis’  Scarcity of Butter Ascribed as Reason

JAMS, JELLIES ON RATION LIST   Eight - Day Retail Sales Freeze Slapped on Fruit Spreads Last Night.

FRUITSPREADS TO RATION LISI   Curb On Butter Has Hiked Demand; Sales Frozen Until October 31

Rationing Of Jams, Jellies  Begins Oct. 3]   Sale Of Preserves Is Frozen Temporarily Pending Announcement Of Point Values

JAMS, JELLIES ARE RATIONED   Eight-Day ‘Freeze’ Order. ed by OPA: Require Blue Points Oct. 31

FRUIT SPREADS ARE RATIONED   Jams, Jellies, Preserves Frozen By OPA Order

J ams, Jellies Are Rationed   Probably Last Food Items To Go on List; Frozen Till Oct. 31

Prepare to Fight  Alone, Radio Savs   Propaganda Chief Tells Natives Of Growing Allied Military Micht

Prepare to Fight Alone, Tokyo Tells Japanese   Broadcast Bares Japs’ Belief That Germany's Days Are Numbered

Food Supply Will Shrink      Less to Kat in 1944. But Production Will Exceed This Year’s

Curtailed Allowances of Meats and Dairy Products Anticipated     DIET SLIGHTLY LOWER

AG BUREAU PREDICTS CIVILIAN FOOD STIPPTIES MAY BE SMALLER NEXT YEAR

Civilian Food Supply Lower lor Next Year   Smaller Allowances Of Meats, Dairy Products; Vegetables Same.   POULTRY SUPPLY EVEN

weve ope wn 4q UlLVinatl FOVOU Supplies Next Year Smaller  Shorter Allowances Of Meat And Dairy Products Predicted

Vision Less Food for Civilians  Shortage of Many Items Seen in 1944

Less Civilian Meat And Dairy Goods In 1944   No Drop In Supplies Of \ Poultry, Eggs And Fresh Fruits Looked For.

1944 Civilian Food Supply Smaller   Meat, Dairy Goods © To Be Cut Most

Predict Shortage Of Civilian Food Supplies In ’44   Bureau of Agricultural Economics Analyzes Production Goal; Shorter Allowances of Meat and Dairy Products.

FOOD SUPPLIES FOR CIVILIANS FORECAST AS SLIGHTLY SMALLER   SHORTER ALLOWANCES OF MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS NEXT YEAR

Food Supplies May Be Reduced   Shorter Allowances Of Butter and Dairy Products Expected

FOOD SUPPLIES FOR CIVILIANS FORECAST AS SLIGHTLY SMALLER  SHORTER ALLOWANCES OF MEAT AND DAIRY   AMR MmMmETeene Bir

FOOD SUPPLIES TOGET SMALLER   Production Increased But Armed Forces Need Much

Food Supplies for Civilians May Be __ Somewhat Smaller Next Year Says BAE

Food Supplies Seen Cut In 1944. Although Production May Exceed Record Prospects Of This Yea

Production May Equal Or Exceed This Year’s, But..... Civilian Food Supplies Mav Be Smaller In 1944

Military, Lend-Lease Calls to Be Heavy; Cereals, Eggs, Chickens, Potatoes, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables May Continue Ample

NAMES C. V. KINCAID   - Independence Man Succeeds Frank Milligan as Business Managrer

REDS NEAR OREL AS ALLIES TAKE JAP MUBO BASE   Soviets Now Almost Within Sight of Big Nazi Bastion

Weapon Used To Kill Oakes Never Found   Disclosure Is Made by Jurist During Trial of De Marigny

F.R. ORDER IS IGNORED BY MINERS   Indicate They Will Not Return Until Lewis Gives Word

Conferees ‘over hump’ toward goal, Lincoln avers: open doors to. press

BATTLEFIELD METAL IS TO BE SALVAGED   ee  Returning Ships To Carry Cargo of Scrap

Troops Will Send Captured ~ Jap and Nazi Metals Back To America’s Steel Mills

Captured War Machines To Be Used  In Nation’s Scrap Metal Program

Axis Claims High Allied Leaders Have Already Met in Conference   No Official Report Has Been Given of Cairo Meeting.

Reuters Story Of Meeting Of Allied Leaders Brings Blast From OWI Chief Elmer Davis

Pension Bill Is Approved   State Income Tax Deductions Also O. K.

Nazis Admit “Evacuation   GERMANS, ITALIANS IN FULL FLIGHT FROM ONRUSHING ALLIED ARMIES; BRITISH-CANADIAN FORCES CAPTURE SANTO STEFANO D’ASPROMONTE

‘Allies Have Good Toehold on Italy   Move Further Along Coast Road and Cut Salient Inland ©   4TAKE 3,000 PRISONERS   Many Ttalians Are Happy _ to Surrender Without _- Resistance .

AIG LANDINGS IN OTHER AREAS DEEMED LIKELY   Southern Calabria Evacuated By All Military Forces, Says Berlin Report

South Calabria Evacuated by Enemy Troops   Many Prisoners Reported Taken la Alfied Attack

SEIZE 3,000 PRISONERS IN ~THE ADVANCE   British Push Inland to San Stefano as Other Units, Fan Out Along Coast From a 40-Mile Bridoehead.

Nazis Admit Evacuation   Report Axis Forces Got Out of Southern Calabria

Curley Again To Face U. 8.  Indictment   Biddle Not Through With  Former Governor

State of Wisconsin Is Considering Paying $1,183,700 Civil War Debt

WPB Replies To Patterson   Production of Some War Goods Purposely Cut. Officiel Savs

WAR MATERIAL PRODUCTION Is HELD LAGGING   Patterson Assails Record Says “Complacency” Is Cause Of Let-down By  1). S. Plants   RECLINED IN MAY   War Production Board  In Agreement, Differs  On Reason’ Output  { Shows Decrease”  :

WAR PRODUCTION SHORT OF NEEDS   PATTERSON AND WLB DISAGREE ON MEANING OF OUTPUT FIGURES.

Patterson Accuses Labor, Managers Of Overconfidence as War ‘Production Drops During Month

Officials Agree reater War Output Needed   Patterson and WPB Differ on Meaning Of Recent Figures

Nation Is Warned That Production Is Lagging Needs  Agree on Needs, Find Two Answers

WAR PRODUCTION IN MAY DECLINES   War Department and WPB Agree U. S. Needs Accelerated Production; Differ on Output Figures

Accelerated Wat Production — Said Necessarv >   Patterson Criticizes Both Labor and» Management for Overconfidence and Complacency in Reporting Shortace

PATTERSON SAYS PRODUCTION FALLING SHORT   Asserts Goods Are 514, Per Cent Short Of Goal

British Weeklies Altack American Bombing Policy   Railway System of France Said Being Paralyzed by Marauding Allied Airmen

Steady Attacks Weaken French  Transportation   Gradually Paralyzing Nazi Railway System, Sources in Bern Learn

Nazi-Held. French Railroad  System Being Paralyzed By Hard-Hitting Allied Fliere

Paralysis Seizes France Because Of Allied Raids   Railways System Falls To Unprecedented Weakness in Nation

Rutledge Nominated for Supreme Court   Prentiss M. Brown Named by President for Office of Price Administration

STEEL FIRM SUED IN FEDERAL COURT   Action Follows Charge Substandard Plates Sold to Government.

Fake Steel Test Expose Leads To Huge Damage Suit   Two Millions Asked From Corporation  By ‘Informer’

“Informer’s”  Suit Follows Steel Probe   Old Civil War Law Revived in Carnesie Case

LOCAL GIRL FRSTTOGET      Katherine L. L. Christian Completes Officers’ Training. School in WAACS

LOCAL GIRL. FIRST TO GET COMMISSION  j   Katherine L. Christian Completes Officers’ Training School in WAACS

LOUISA COUNTY FARM BUREAU NOTES,   ANNOUNCE HESSIAN FLY SAFE SEEDING DATES

BLOOD DONATIONS ARE SAVING MANY LIVES; CHAPLAIN TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE; MORE BLOOD IS NEEDED

PROMOTION OF ARRULD otal UUR WAR PLANS   All Out Aeria! Offensive Against Germany Takes Definite Shape,   ATTACK IS CONTINUED   Gen. MacArthur Must Get Alonzy With Wkat Can Be Spared H m.

Asks That Seamen Get Adequate Diet   Wants Vitamin Pills In Lifeboats

Says Seamen Stranded In Tropical Waters Could Survive With Gun, Spear

Depariment Store Sales Reported 17 Per Cent Above Same 1942 Period

OHIO AIR GUNNERS BAG GERMAN APIECE   23 Enemy Planes Downed In Raid on Naziland

INDIANA GUNNERS, PILOT HONORED   Sgt. Willis Plunkett of Brazil Credited With German Plane.

U. 5. Fighter Bombers Blast Japanese Bases ‘in Burma, Return Safely

American Fliers Hit Burma Japs  i. ,_'., or. ss. Tr   Repair Sheds. Rolling Stock Blasted

178 LOSE LIVES IN ACCIDENT IN LONDON SHELTER   Crowds Pile Up In Heap After Woman Carrying Baby Falls Down Steps   60 OTHERS INJURED IN FREAK MISHAP

Woman’s Fall in Raid Shelte Causes 178 to Die in London   Persons Entering From Street Pile Atop Those Tripped on Stairway, Far From Actual Bombing

178 Britons Die In Pile-Up During Air Raid  Woman Trips, Falls On Shelter Stairs

178 Die in Jan “Of London Air Raid Shelter  ” Woman Trips With Baby on Steps; Jim  faskatéi a Vileblee

WOMAN FALLS, AND 178 PERISH   London Air Raid Shelter Scene of Tragedy In Freak Accident

178 Walled In London Shelter Jam   Woman Carrying Baby Trips On Subway Stairs

TRAGEDY ENDS SCOUT CRUISE   KEN, SEA® SCOUTS - DROWN WHEN - CABIN. CRUISER: “GOES DOWN OFF LONG ,- ISLAND COAST >) oo:

WPB Pays Hig! Tribute to Butte Workers   Columbia Gardens Pavilion Crowded for Award Ceremonies in Recognition of Contribution to War

FINAL VICTORY PLAN IN MAKING AT WASHINGTON   President And Churchill Consider Knock-Out Of All Axis Forces   SPRING PUNCH LIKELY   Long Range Program For Crushing Japs Also Under Discussion

BOTH GERMANY “AND PAN ARE BEING OOOMEL   Post-War Questions on 2 Defeated Germany Are Also Discussed.   VICTORY NOT NEAR   Churchill and Roosevelt Are Planning We 1 Ahead cf Military Action.

THINK LEADERS  PLANNING FINAL DEFEAT OF NAZ   How to Handle Defeated Germany Also May Be Capital Topic

Committees Scrutinizing State Budget   Three Weeks Will be Re quired to Check Esti mates Says Chapman  MANY HEADS OUIZVZEN

British In Burma Are Pushed Back   ~-Japs Dig In On Another Front

Allies Loose String Of Explosives From Sicily and Sardinia To the Island Fringes Of  Cenara

Five Axis Ships And Four More Planes Are Destroyed By Allies   33 Enemy Ships and 362 Planes Destroyed in Past Eight Days

33 Enemy Ships and °62 Axis Planes Lost in Eight Days.   ALLIES LOSE 35 CRAFT IN 8 DAYS FIGHTING   Encmy Airfield in Sicily Wrecked by Allied  Remborc.

FORTS LEAD ATTACKS ON SOUTHERN EUROPE INVASION ROUTES BY MEDITERRANEAN

AUTO DEATHS DOWN 30°,   But Accidents Last Year Caused Huge Loss of Time in VU. S.

Captured Nazi Generals  ae   Quincy Second Largest City With no Auto Deaths in 1942

ACCIDENTS ON U. 8.  HONE FRONT REACH  APPALLING FIGURE. 93,000 KILLED, 9,300,00  INJURED AT COST OF ¢2 7Nn NAN NNO

Accidents On Home Front  Take Big Toll   Much Time Lost Throughout U. S.

93,000 Killed And 9,300,000 Hurt in U.S.   Annual Costin Accidents On Home Front Set At $3,700,000,000

1942 Accidents Equal To Shutting Down Ship, Plane Plants 54 Days

A) Accidents Kill 93.000 And Injure Over 9 Million   Cost {s 3 Million, And Lost Time Toll Is Heavy

COMPILE FIGURES OVER ACCIDENTS   93,000 Killed In Year, Loss By Injury Would Build 22,000 Bombers.

NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL REPORTS ON 1942 ACCIDENTS   93,000 Killed, 9 Mittion Injured At Cost Of C2 Rillinn

PICK UP LIQUOR PERMITS TODAY   Rationing Program Will Begin In State On Thursday

HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL GOES DOWN TO 115   Violent Deaths Far Fewer Than Those Last Year

U.S. Holiday Death Toll 115   Total Two-Thirds Below Last Year’s

115 Violent Deaths Occwu  Over Holiday   Total Two-Thirds Below Last Year

‘New Year Death Toll Up To 115   Two-thirds Below Total For Same Period Last Year

HOLIDAY DEATHS SHOWED DECLINE FROM LAST YEAR   At Least 126 Reported However, Showing Holiday Toll Is Still High

ILESS RAIN OVER STATE   Forecaster Sees Signs Warm- Up Is Beginning

Nimitz Claims Kiska Japs Are Neutralized   Says U. 5S. Initiative In Pacific Insured By Weapon Supplies

HELP POURING INTO PACIFIC NIMITZ SAYS   Admiral Optimistic As He Reports Operations In Section Successful

Still Hopeful Of Getting Tax Bill Agreement   Week End Conferences Fail on Compromise - Pay-asyou-go Plan, but Discussions Continue.

Acceptable Tax Program Is Sought   No Agreement Yet Reached on Pay-As. You-Go—Leaders  Go Into Huddle

Bank Deposits  Increase Here   City Institutions Report Increase Of $3,475,843 In Six Months.

HIGH SCHOOLS 10 GIVE TESTS SOON   Pre - Induction Exams ‘for Special Army Program Slated April 2.

ALLIES BLAST FRENCH COAST   Lull in Aerial Warfare is Ended As Planes Roar Across Channel

ALLIES BLAST FRENCH COAST         Lull in Aerial” Warfar Ended As Planes Roar. Across Channel .

URGES CLEAN 44 CAMPAIGN   Sen. Hatch Asks Major Party Leaders to Dispense With ‘Claptrap’

BRITISH CHIEF AND HIS STAFF ARRIVE IN U.S.   Action In Orient Seen As  ~ Wavell and Other Lead ers In the Far East Come to Capital   MAJOR OFFENSIVE BELIEVE MAPPED   Speedy Victory Scored In Tunisia Reported to Bring Change In Grand Strategy

TODAY'S WAR MOVES —  Germans in Dangerous Position Re. TMG F&F WEEMII

Brazle And Borowy Are Opposing Pitchers; Last Eastern Game Is Today

Cards Seak Edge on Yanks With Rookie Pitcher Afpha Braztie.    T2234 5GT 89 St. Louis ....0062 New York ... 6800

Hoover Sees Victory As Inevitable      DECLARES UNITED NATIONS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM TOC HASTY DRAWING OF FINAI PEACE SETTLEMENT.   Kindling For New War

HOOVER OPPOSED TO HASTY PEACE TERMS   Former President Says World Wil Ee Filled With Hatred Followine Hostliities

Herbert Hoover Sees Victory Now Inevitable   Urges Allies To Refrain From Too Much Haste In Peace Settlements

Hoover Cautions Against Haste i in Drawing Up Peace Settlements After the War

Hoover in Favor Of Delay before Final Peace Plan   Points Out Perils Of Hasty Action

Hoover Warns of Haste in Making Peace Conditions   Former -President in =~-bavor of Cooling. ; Off Period

Miners, Operators Ready To Bargain   John L. Lewis Apparently Satisfied With Board’s  Dacriainn.

Coal Operators Miners Convene  Will Attempt To De cide Partal Pav

COAL PARLEY GOES ON TODAY   Attempt to Work Out Solution of Portal-toPortal Pay

Hull Denounces Attack On Latin America Policy   Labels Nebraskan’s Charge Injurious To Inter-American Relationship; Pegises Santhern Renublies’?’ War Aid

Hull Answers Butler Charge   Says Solon Injured Good Neighbor Policy

HULL ASSAILS BUTLER TALK AS UNFOUNDED   tephes to Charge U.S, Played for Sucker By Latin America

Hull Hotly Denies Latin American Nations ‘Playing U.S. for a Sucker’

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ABOENTEEIGM URE RINGS OPPOSITION   Law Cannot Solve Problem, Says Miss Perkins

LABOR SOLVING ABSENTEEISW   Perkins Opposes Law To Control] Problem

PERKINS SHUNS FORCED LABOR   Industry, Workers Can Solve Absentee Cases, Says Secretary

ADSENTEK BILL HIT BY PERKINS ASINPRACTIOAL  Labor Sec eretary Declare est Wa ita iran   Labor Secretary Declares Workers Who Stay Away From Jobs Too Much ‘Could Be Fined   SUGGESTS PENALTY   Tells House Com mittee That. Drafting of Men =, Would Further-Siow  - Up Production .

ABSENTEEISM CAN NOT BE SOLVED BY LEGISLATIVE ACT   ‘Secretary Perkins Says Congress ~ Can Not Correct Situation  : With Laws

QUINN TRIFS   Secretary Perkins Opposed To Legislation On Absenteeism

SECRETARY PERKINS  OPPOSED TO FORCING  WORKERS STAY PUT” TELLS HOUSE COMMITTE!  LEGISLATION WOULD NO’ CORRECT MATTER

Miss Perkins Gives Viewon Absenteeism   Advises House Nava] Group Against Work-or Bicht Levislation

Two Lives Lost i in Torrent Sweeping Eastern Oklahoma With  _ More Than 5,000 Homeless—Oil Wells Knocked Out, Camp  Gruber Without Power and Dozens of Towns and Hamlets Are Inundated or Isolated.

Steel Mills’ Coal Supply  Running Lov   UMW Head Silent On Progress At Conference

“Lewis Refuses To Comment This  Afternoon To Reporters Cn  Progress Of Ccnfab With Coal  Administrator   HALF OF DISTRICT'S FURNACES GOING DOWN

ICKES, LEWIS CONFER ON COAL STRIKE   Hope Held Out For Plan To Reopen Nation's Coal Mines

DRASTIC CUT IN STEEL QUIPUT BELIEVED NEAR   Government Operation for Duration May Se Sclution   STEEL PLANTS WILL CURTAIL THIS WEEK

Nazi Propagandists Broadcast Their Version Of What Happened To II Duce

Ask 10 Millions for Flood Control Work In Middlewest  Quick Approval to Request by U.S. House Committee

SPAIN PROTESTS SLAM AT FRANCO   Speach By Mission Under OWI Sponsorship Annoys Ambassador

OCTOBER  NOW EARLIEST THEY CAN BE CALLED   All Inductions to Be Cut 60°, After Next December

FATHER [ DRAFT. ~ RULING MADE   GENERAL DRAFTING. Of - FATHERS I8 POSTPONED . {UNTIL OCT 1ET— . ' . “OBANGE IN DEFER.  . ENS

OUT OF 6 TO ~ BE INDUCTED   WMC Delays General Call of Dads By Limiting Young Husband Deferments. +   GET ONLY SIX MONTHS   Childless Men, 18 to 25, Wil Be Called First Under Mannnawer @uling.

FATHER DRAFT IS POSTPONED UNTIL OCT. 1   Deferment of Younger Men Limited to Six Months

U.S.; Britain Reach Important Decision  On African Problem   Transatlantic Negotiations Expected To. Result in Early Announcement of Important Decisions Reached

Far Reaching Allied War Plans Made   Heavily Censored Londor Dispetch Hints African Political Settlement   LEBRUN ROLE SEEN   Shift In Command May Place British 8th Army Under American

Big things expected of  current negotiations   ‘More direct means in use across Atlantic than diplomats, cahles

Parleys Hint North Africa Rift Solution   U. 5., Britain Believed Agreed on Plan; LeBrun Mentioned

ABIT FISHY   If Eggs Taste That Way, it’s Because of Feed Shortaae.

GIVE DATES IN RATIONING OF GAS AND FOOL   Office Of Price Administration Lists Important Data On Citi. zen's Ration Books,

OPA RECALLS MPORTANT DATES   LIST EXPIRATION TIME ON VARIOUS RATION COUPONS

LIST IMPORTANT RATIONING DATES   New Coupon for Purchase of Coffee Will Be Valid Mondav.

British Planes Hit Nazi Trains   Spitfires And Whirlwinds Silence AntiAircraft Cars

SOLDIER GETS LIFE SENTENCE   RIMKE CONVICTED OF ATTACK ON ACTRESS

Senate Is Warned Against Post-War Peace Blueprint   Vandenberg Supports Connally Resolution  As Debate Begins

Senate Opens Debate on Postwar Plans   Vandenberg Joins Connally on  Texan’s Proposal

Smuts Fears Britain Will Emerge Weak Member of ‘Great Trinity   Work With Small Democracies of Western Europe Urged in Talk to Parliamentary Group

LANCASTER SOLDIER GETS SILVER STAR   Aids in Capture of Prisoner: in Tunisia

NEW HANGAR  ~ AT-AIRPORT      Storm. Damage: To Planes » Convinces Of. > =: Need -

NEW HANGAR AT AIRPORT   Storm Damage To Planes .Convinces Of Need

‘OPA. Replies To Congress Charge   Bowles Sends Message To Senate Committee Defending Agencies’ Policies.

New Tax Plan To  Raise Revenue   Would Bring About One Billion More

TAX INCREASE STUDY 1S SEEN   CONGRESS MAY WEIGH “INDUCTED SAVINGS”

SOLDIERS WILL HELP HARVESTS   Farm Legislation Clamor Quiets As Ruling Is Announced; Wheat Market Eased

Congressional Attack On Spending May Cause OustingOf ManyWorkers

Some Workers  Get More Meat   Groups Living In — Remote Areas Aided

All Hogs Look Alike To Buyers Now As Price Ceiling Eases Scrambles

Good, Bad or Indifferent, All Hogs Look Alike to Packing Co. Buyers

24 HIGHWAY WORKERS QUIT   Resign In Body To Prac tically End Road Strike

Striking Road - Employes Quit   Resignations. Follow Complete. Deadlock

COUNTY UnATI BOARD MEETINE   Completing Class‘fication cf Men in the Three Registrations,

COUNTY RAFT. ~ BOARD MEETIN     Completing Classification cf Men in the Three Registrations, _

SEE WAR IN LAST PHASE   Tone of Dispatched to Spanish Newspapers Changes a

Supervisors Safely Republican; Madden and Ronan $urvive G. O. P. Sweep; Brown New Head of Board of Aldermen; Wiley Carried Troy by Almost 1,900; Hanley Leads in City and County.

Day and Night Assaults by Americans and RAF   Expected to Grow Steadily, Ending With Invasion

Increases in Naval Outlays, Suggested by President Roosevelt, Will Spell Bad News for Tokyo; Amphibious Forces Will Be Increased

See Jap Worry In ~ Transfer Of Four Billions To Navy   Also Creates Interest In Recent Comment O Secretary Knox That Some Main Junctures Of Japs Are In Jeopardy

PACIFIC FLEET BOOST PLANNED   Heavy Increases of Navy Striking Force Seen In Fund Transfer

Japs Will Suffer Heavily as U.S. Navy Grows   Allocation Appears  As Definite Threat  Toe Enemies in Pacific

FDR Diverts — Funds to Navy For Jap Drive   P4 Billion of Army's Money Transferred, President Reveal:

Navy Gets Extra Billions as Result  Of F. D.’s Action   Transfer of Funds ‘Viewed as Siecuning Bad News for Japan

Naval And Air Pounding Continued As Ultimatum Expires; Invasion Near

PRICE OF HOGS ~ HITS TOP AGAIN   Receipts At - Stockyards Below Estimates; Quick Action Demanded

 Wallace Hits Cartel Hold  Over Research   Vice-President Points to Advances Not Made

Vice President Warns Against Domination 01 Research By Large   Cereerations

HEAD OF MUSICEANS’ UNION DECLARES MEMBERS WILL STOP MAKING “CANNED” .  “wugie 7

Transcription Firms Facing Great Crisis   ... AFM Will Produce Neo Records, Petrillo Says

 (3TH CONGRESS _ CAME TO ORDER  THIS MORNING   First Session Clears Formalities. President To Deliver Annual Message Tomorrow.

PROMISES TO BE A VIGOROUS SESSION   Non-War Expenditures and Authority of Government Agencies to Be Attacked.

Cleaning Up of Staline:; grad Will Release Saver iet Troops for Action: Along Southern Front.”

BRITISH OCCUPY STRATEGIC POINT IN NORTH TUNISIA   ADVANCE WITHOUT RESISTANCE IN SEDJENANE AREA

VITAL RIDGE OCCUPIED BY BRITISH ARMY   Strong Enemy Patrols Of Armored Vehicles Are Routed In the Gafsa Area   SUPPLY LINES BOMBED

British Cain Vital Height:  In Tunisia   Intermittent Fighting Breal.s Out Along Whee Line

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY MOVES TC MEET INVADERS   Artillery Fire Repulse: Strong Armored Troops

BRITISH TAKE WOODED RIDGE IN THE NORTH   First Army’s Advance Is Made Without Opposition, but Struggle for Air Supremacy Is Renewed With New Furv.

British First Army Gains   Occupy Strategic Wooded Ridge Without Resistance In Sedjenane Area

British First Army Moves Up  Against Enemy  Other Allied Forces In Repulse Of Patrol: Near Gafsa; Airfield: Under Attacks

1ST ARMY GAINS, FAILS TO MEET ANY RESISTANCE   Take Strategic Ridge in Sedjenane Area in Northern Tunisia

BRITISH FIRST ARMY ADVANCE IN NORTHERN TUNISIA, ALLIES » ROUT ENEMY. IN GAFSA AREA   New Struggle Developj ing For Air Supremacy ~ In Tunisia. Number of Enemy Planes Destroyed ‘On Ground at Gafsa Airfield by Bursting Bomb

STRONG ENEMY PATROLS ROUTED   British Also Moving Up iv Sedjenane Area of Northern Tunisia

BRITISH FIRST ARMY ADVANCE! INN. TUNISIA ©   Both Sides Struggle For Air Supremacy

BRITISH MOVE TO KEY RIDGE   Meet No Resistance F rom, Tunisian Nazis; New F ury For Air Supremacy.

STRATEGIC WOODED RIDGE OCCUPIED BY BRITISH FIRST ARMY   OUTBURST OF NEW FURY IN STRUGGLE FOR AIR SUPREMACY IN TUNISIA

‘Germans Fail To Resist in One Sector   Allied Artillery Routs Strong Patrols of Nazi Armor

FIRST ARMY IN TUNISIA GAINS RIDGE OVER FOE   Other Allied Forces, With Artillery Support, Routs Enemy In Gafsa Sector   GROUND OFFENSIVE ISUPPORTED BY RAIDS   Mezzouna Airdrome, 62 Miles From Gafsa, Blanketed With Bursting Bombs

British Make Some Advance  In The North   Enemy Patrols In Gafsa Area Routed By Artillery

British Occupy Strategic Ridge; Feb. 14 Defeat Of U. S. Laid To Error

African Drive Gets Underway   BRITISH FIRST ARMY OCCUPIED HIGH RIDGE

British Move Up Without a ‘Battle   ms, Allied Headquarters Report Successes on Ground and in Air   BLAST SUPPLY LINES   Infantry Forces the Enemy to Withdraw to New Positions

Allies Take Key Heights   AXIS TANKS ROUTED IN GAFSA AREA; LINES OF SUPPLY ARE BOMBED

STRATEGIC WOODED RIDGE GAINED BY BRITISH, TUNISIA   Axis Patrols of Armored Vehicles are Routed by Other Allied Forces With Artillery Support

British Army Advances Witt No Resistance   Occupies Strategic Wooded Ridge While Other Allied Forces Rout German Patrols

BRITISH MOVE ON SEDJENANE   New Fury Noticed In Struggle For Air Supremacy In Tunisia

British Army Occupies Ridge   Fury Grows in Struggles for Air Supremacy.

Allied Guns Blast Gafsa Axis Patrols   Airforce Hits Mezzouna Raids Sicily Convoy, Hits One Ship

Enemy Armor Patrols Router In Gafsa Area   Battle For Tunisian Air Supremacy Rages With New Fury

BOMBERS STRIKE AXIS SUPPLY LINES   Western Desert Air Fore Attacks North of Mareth Line Strongpoint

BRITISH FIRST ADVANCES WITH LITTLE RESISTANCE   Allied Forces Rout Enemy Patrols In Gafsa Area OF Tunisia

British Move Forward in N. Tunisia   Allied Forces Rout Enemy Patrols in  Gafsa Area

LOCAL TEMPERATURE   vy Bombers Blast Axis Supply Lin  Allies In Tunisia Going Forward In Air, OnLand

Soviet Takes Heavy Toll Of  Enemy Planes   Germans Employ Five Hundred Aireraft In Attack On Kursk Base.

200 German Planes Attack Kursk Base   Nazi Air Fleet. Greatést Yet Massed in Any Sector. 123 - Planes Shot Down by. Reds:

Germans Lose 123 Bombers, Soviets Say   Five Hundred Planes Used in Mass; Attack on Kursk

GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST MANY PLANES IN ATTACKS  SOVIETS SHOOT DOWN 123 NAZI AIRCRAFT FROM FORCE OF 500

NAZI PLANES ATTACK RED BASE AT KIRSK   123 of 500 Attacking Planes Claimed. Shot Down By Russians

NAZIS SUFFER ARAVY LOSSES IN KURSK RAID   One Hundred and TwentyThree Planes Out of Force of 500 Bagged By Russians   REDS LOSE THIRTY   Signalizes New and Grow. ing Phase of Bitter Aerial Battle On  Eastern Front

Russians Down 1B Nazi Planes   New and Bitter Phase Of Air War Develops On Eastern Front

RUSSIAN BASE AT KURSK BOMBED BY 500 NAZI PLANES   Soviet Report Says At Least 123 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Attack Which Signalizes New and Growing Phase of Bitter Struggle On Eastern Front.

Russian City Is Raided By 500 Nazi Warplane:   123 Shot Down By Soviets; Land Action ‘Is Minor

123 Axis Planes Shot Down By Reds At Kursk .   One Of Largest Single Day’s Bags In Any Aerial Battle. .

GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST MANY PLANES IN ATTACKS  _ SOVIETS SHOOT DOWN

500 German Planes Hurled  At Russians   Great Air Attack At Kursk; Soviets Claim 123 Downed

Force <i 500 Attacks  Kursk; 123 Shot Down   Land Action Called Minor Except on Kalinin Front

Furious Aerial Attacks Staged Along Red Front   Signalizes Growing Phase of German Assaults on Russian Key Base.   123 Nazi Planes Are Downed in Day’s Fight

NAZIS LOSE 123 PLANES IN RAID ON RUSSIAN BASE   REDS CLAIM GERMANS USE 500 AIRCRAFT IN ATTACK ON KURSK

123 GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN AT KURSK      Russians Take Toll of Nearly Fourth of Attacking Fleet of 500 Nazi Aircrati   93 IN DUELS IN AIR   Germans Report Heavy Defensive Fighting for Kuban Bridgehead

900 GERMAN PLANES R AID SOVIET BASE   Nazi Air Fleet Represents Largest Single Enemy Concentration in Any  Sector in Months   123 ARE SHOT DOWN

Soviets Winning - War In The Air   Germans Send About 900 Planes to Blast Kursk   SUFFER TERRIFIC DEFEAT IN BATTLE

OO PLANES IN KURSK ATTAGK   Nazi Air Fleet Largest Single Mass Used in Months.

NAZI PLANES ACTIVE   Russians Report 500 German _ Planes in Attack on Kursk

BITTER AERIAL BATTLE GROWS ON RED FRONT   Fourth Of Planes Attacking Kursk Shot Down

Reds Down 123 Nazi Planes ©   Germans Fling 500 Planes Into Raid Over Kursk Arca

Parents Seek Baby's Return   Police Seek Woman And Soldier With Child

PARENTS APPEAL FOR BABE'S RETURN   Police Seek Woman with Infant Who Purchased Baby Formula

German Cities Are Devastated   One-Fourth of Total. Area Blasted By Allies Is Nazi Liability

ONE FOURTH OF NAZ CITIES WIPED QUT   Millions of Buildings Destroyed, Cities Are Liabilities, Not Assets to War Effort

Utter Ruin In Ger man  Cities   Modern Life In Some No Longer Possible

Allied Bombs Lay Waste One-Fourth Nazi Cities Area  RAF Commander  Lists Damage

Midwest Crop Loss In Millions   Red Cross Reports On Flood Damage In Five States

ENUAMUUS LUDD OF CROPS SEEN IN MIDWEST FL000  Red Cross Reports   Red Cross Reports 2,756,200 Acres Under Water   154,248 PERSONS ARE FORCED FROM HOMES

LOSS OF MILLIONS REPORTED IN FLOOD AREA OF MIDWEST   Flood Greatest In Quarter Of Century—2,756,21 200 Acres Of Land.  Inundated

ENORMOUS CROP LOSS — ~ IS CAUSED BY FLOOD   Red Cross Reports That 2,756,200 Acres of Land in Five States Are Inundated and Damage Mounts . '* . Steadily Into Millions of Dollars—Estimate ; That 154.248 Persons Are Hamelece

FLOOD WATERS FORGE 154,248 OUT OF HOMES   First Red Cross Report Notes Enormous Crop Loss

Midwest Flood Most Serious in. Quarter Century   Enormous Loss © Of Crops Is Reported

FLOOD LOSS TO CROPS IS ENORMOUS      Nearly Three Million Acres ‘Land Inundated

FLOODS RISING 0 HlGHEST LEVELS IK ~ RECENT HISTORY   At St. Louis Crest !s Great: est Since 1844—War Plants Endangered.

Uver two Million Acres Under Water   Red Cross at St. Louis Estimates 151,248 Homeless  ie Ttawern'nn 8989 ee

Former Seaman on Actor’s Yacht, the Sirocco, Says Flynn Not Below Deck at Time Alleged Attack

AFL 10 CONTINUE GIO UNITY TALKS   Executive Council of AFL Re. jects White House Peace Proposal

AFL Authorizes New Unity Talks With CIO   Administration Proposal Reported Rejected; Unified Labor Movement Seen

Authorizes AFL, CIO Unity Talks   But Executive Council Frowns on White House Peace Move.

French Coast Fortified   Nazis Will Evacuate People Along Mediterranean

NAZIS TO FORTIFY ON MEDITERRANEAN   To Evacuate French Civilians From 3-Mile-Wide Zone From Menton to Pvyrenees.

Gen. Tinker’s Son Missing   Was Flight Commander In North African Fighting

Underground Courts in Poland Sentence--and Execute--Nazi Perpetrators of Cruelties

NINE KILLED IN PLANE GRASHES   One Naval Patrol Craft Lands Near Elizabeth City. N. C.

MINES MENACE HITLER'S BOATS      Massive Pattern Strewn In Baltic; RAF Bombs Wilhelmshaven

RAF Sows Mines Across German Submarine Training Waters In Baltic Sea; Wilhelmshaven Naval Base Is Aifacked

British Planes Sow .Mines  In Sub Lanes   Gigantic Pattern Strewn Across - Waters of Baltic

RAF Sows Mines In Baltic Waters On Grand Scale   Extensive Daylight Sweeps Over France  Follow Night Raids

DOW MINES IN PATH = OF GERMAN U-BOATS              vy British Bombers Range Widely in Sea Operation— Romh Wwilkhelmshaven.,

RAF Sows Massive Pattern of Mines  ‘Across Nazis’ Paths in North,   Bombs Important Enemy Navy Base

Mines. Planted In Nazi Waters   U-Boat Training  Poems eer le Cheer

CALLS IT FARCE   Rail Engineers Leader Says Wane Hearing Futile.

Nazis Seore New Gains in Bitter Battle of Kharkov Despite Mounting Losses

MAPS LOUAPE DUTLET GLUoto ON NEW GUINEA   Enemy Efforts To Battle Way To Coastal Areas Sharply Repulsed

Strong Japan Force On Run   Satelberg Area Hit In New Allied Raids

Allies Smash Foe's Drive In New Guinea   Japanese Are Forced Te Withdraw After Stab Tc Reach Coast   GIVE UP KATIKA   Liberator Bombers Pound Bases In East indies And New Britain

Japs Evacuate Satelberg; Aussies Throw Back Enemy From Village of Katika

LIMITED REPRIEVE MAY BE GIVEN ITALY   Which Side Nation Occupies At Peace Table Depends Upon  Brand Of Cooperation

Italy’s Status in War Being Studied By Allies as Beaten Nation Turns Fighting Facilities Over to Victors

ITALIAN TROOPS IN ALLIED SERVICE   PERFORM TRANSPORT AND OTHER WORK BEHIND 5TH AND 8TH ARMIES.

REPRIEVE FOR ITALY VIEWED   Status Discussed After Reports Forces Are He'ping Allies

Haly Seems to Have Some Chance to Improve Status With Allies by Givina Aid

GERMANS EXPECT INVASION JUNE 2   Anniversary of Attack Upon Russia, Armistice With France :

MIGHTY ARTILLERY BARRAGE AIDED IN OMASHING GERMANS  SO-CALLED NAZI’ WINTER LINE IN ITALY HIT BY FIFTH ARMY

DEPOSITS WILL BE RETURNED FROM BANK TRUST FUND   Estimated More Than 90 Percent Of Old Assets Will Be. Recovered

ASK RECEIVERSHIP OLD BANK ASSETS   Present Akron  Sav. : Bank ' Has No-Connection ‘With Case

Files Application In Plymouth Count: District Court   M. W. Ellis Asks  For Appointment As Receiver

Conflict Over Job Measure   Roosevelt’ in Hot Protest: to McKellar; Asks Congress Keep Hands Off   PRESIDENT BA BACKS THE ARMY. GOAL   But He May’ Approve Use of Soldiers on Farms af Needed i. =

Conflict Between Congress and White House   Labor Shortage On Farms, Draft Problems Seen

~-PATTON INCID  Senate Presses Inquiry   Eisenhower Holds His Informal Castigation Is Sufficient Punishment

GEN. PATTON INCIDENT IS NOT CLOSED   His Future Depends on Defense That Can Be Made for Him

Patton Incident Far From Closed in U.S. Senate; Matter of a Promotion Is Issue

SENATE GROUP PLANS INQUIRY ; i. INTO PHASES OF PATTON CASE   SEVERAL ANGLES OF AFFAIR TO BE PROBED BY COMMITTEE—TERRY RECALL I MENTIONED.

Interpreting  The War   Seven Days Yields Heavy Credit In Allied Favor

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Despite Tunisian Gains, Axis Has Lost Ground In Week’s Fighting

TO MANHATTAN MEETING    Three from County Attending Farm I Bureau Conference :

TO MANHATTAN MEETING   iaeaies from County Attending Farm Bureau Conference

GOP Returning $50 a Seat Checks For Willkie Speech  QAJ°‘ULL*. Bo wt ark

WILLKIE PROTEST HALTS SEAT SALL   REPUBLICAN LEADERS RETURN CHECKS FOR BONES AT ST. LOUIS MEETING,

Allied Plane: Pound Japs In  Pacific Bases   Buka Island Receives Biggest Of Half  Score Raids

JAP-BASES HIT ON WIDE FRONT BY AMERICANS   Jap Shipping Clings Stubbornly To Kavieng

Allied Bombers-PlasterJap-Bases But Enemy Fleet Clings To Isle   Buka Island Base In Solomons Receives The Heaviest Of Series Of Bombings, With All Attacking Planes Returning Safely.

U.S. Medium Bombers Blast Solomons Base   Japanese On Buka Island Feel Series Of Heavy Raids

JAP. AIRFIELD ON BURA ISLAND HITBY ALLIES      Pounded for Three Hours! In Heaviest of Series of Raids On Enemy  Holdings   DAMAGE CARGO SHIP   Aircraft Left Burning In Wake of Attack On Airfield; Enemy Clings  to Kavieng

‘Farmers Rush to Get  Wheat-for Livestock   Heavy Buying May Exhaust Quota Before Congress Replenishes It

° Raiders Stab Far Ahead Sth Army Trio At U. S. Outpost  * * + + # %#  *  Rommel I[s Out-Distanced

Three British Raiders Make First Contact With U. $.-French Forces

Three Desert Raiders Reach Allied Outpost in South. ern Tunisia.

ADVANCE DESERT PATROL REACHES AMERICAN LINES   First Contact Is Made With British In North Africa

AGED GANDHI STARTING UPON ANOTHER FAST.   Indian leader's decision causes concern in many circles

Gandhi Starts His ‘Hunger Strike’  Proposes to Fast For Next 21 Days

Ghandi Is On Hunger Strike In Protest Against Arrest  Authorities On Watch For Disturbances To  Big. te Okeke tee. Mieke DDRRE Kk eo ke wee

GANDHI BEGINS HUNGER STRIKE   Protests Confinement Palace Grounds,  British Policy

Maryland Passes Quota in War Bond Sales   First State in the Nation To Reach Goal in Third War Loan Drive

GERMAN SUB BASE AT LORIENT BOMBED FOR TENTH TIME   Round-the-Clock Air Offensive Continued Today.

OPA Sets Up New Point List   CANNED JUICES DROP IN COUPON VALUES AS DRIED SOUPS ARE FREED

Lower Ration Point Values Are in Effect For Fruit, Vegetable Juices

Dehydrated Soups Struck From List Of Rationed Food:   Lower Point Values Assigned to Fruit And Tomato Juices

Points On Titices Lowered, . Some Soups Cut From List In Todau’s Ration Chand>ce

OPA Lists New Processed Food Rationing Value   Dehydrated Soups Removed, Most Juices Are Lower

Food Rationing Is On New Basis   Lower: Point Values Are Effective Today

Most Fruits, Tomatoes‘ Get Lower Point. Values; Other Changes Made

DRIED SOUPS ARE TAKEN OFF RATION LISTS   Lower Values Set For Most Fruit Juices In New List   FEW INCREASES   Frozen Items, Baby Foods And Dry Beans, Peas  Are Unchanged

Fruit, Tomato Juices Point  Values Lowerec   OPA Announces Canned Food Changes Effective Today

Cui Canned Food Ration Point Values   Revised List Is Ffective Today

Lower Point ‘Values Go in  Effect Today   Canned Fruit and Vegetable Juices on List; Dried Soups Off

RATION POINTS ON JUICES CUT, SOUPS OFF LIS]   OPA Changes Values Due to Slow Sales Of Commodities

Point Values of Processed Food  Are Reduced   Dehydrated Soup Now Unrationed; Canned “Tnices Mote ‘Available.

RATION VALUES ARE LOWEREL   Dried and Dehydrated  Soups Off List  Altcgether

Lower Point Values Set For Most Fruit Juices; Dried And Dehydrated Soups Removed From Lis!

NAVY DISCLOSES ‘SUB’ SUNK OFF CAROLINA COAST   Coast Guard Cutter Blasted U-Boat Months Ago, Captured 33 Crewmen

Pon COST FRUIT AND VEGETABLES   Dried, Dehydrated Soups came off Ration List Sunday.

UPA REDUGING POINTS 10 GET OT UGK MOVED   Dried or Dehydrated Soups Off; Some Vegetable, Fruit Juices Cut.   REDUCTIONS ARE MADE EFFECTIVE THIS MORNING

D JUICE POINTS LOWER   GPA Announces Changes for Most Fruit and Vegetable Juices.

Drop Point Values of Ration Foods      Fruit, Vegetable Juices Lowered; Dried, Dehydrated Soups Off List

New Point Values On Some Foods Effective On Sunday   Dehydrated Soups Removed From List While Most Fruit And Tamato Juice Points Lowered

A-chart showing the new point values on processed .foods may be found om page z

NEW POINT VALUES FOR SOME ARTICLES   Lower Number Placed Into Effect On Most Canned Fruit And Vegetable Juices By OPA

Points On Juices Lowered, Some Soups Cut From List In Todau’s Ration Chanaes

Point Values on Juices Lowered  Dried, Dehydrated Soups Off List

Sharp Drop In Point  Values   Coupon Cost Of Most Fruit and Vegetable Juices Cut In Half; ‘Dried Soups Off List

Fruit, Tomato Juice: Lowered By OPA Ir Announcement O} May Point Values

OPA REVIoEo RATION POINTS   Dried and Dehydrated Soups Come Off Ration List; Several Other Changes Effective This Morning

New Point Value On Juices; Dried Soups Off List   Changes Into Effect Monday; Reductions on Certain Can Sizes

OP A Takes Dried ‘Soups From Point Ration  List; Cuts Values on Fruit. Tomato Tuices

Dried Soups Off Rationing List All’ Fruit Juices But Pineapple Trimmed

LOWER RATION POINT VALUES ARE ANNOUNCED   Affects Most Canned Fruit, Vegetable  Thijpaaq   PINEAPPLE UP   Dried, Dehydrated Soups Off List Entirely

CANNED GOODS GIVEN LOWER POINT VALUES   Dehydrated Soups Off  List; Lower Points On Fruit Juices

‘Day Close At Hand : When Hitler Must — Fight ales. Alone  Kirke a “Cin neoe

WAR NEWS MNALYSIS   Figns Of Military Doom Rapidly Multiplying For Nazis, Japs

Two Killed In Plane Crash   lewan and New York Man Victims at Ottumwa

TWO DIE WHEN THEIR PLANE FALLS TODAY   First accident is announced at Ottumwa navy training air base

Martin Ready To Fill Important Posts On Boards, Commissions   Liquor Board, Game And Fish: Commissions And Public Utility Commission Vacancies In List

GOLOGNE POUNDED AGAIN AFTER RAF RESTS 5 NIGHTS   British Rear Back Into Act_ fon In Altack on Foe’s: Industry.

ADVANCE MADE ON BAIROKO IN PACIFIC DRIVE   American Troops Score Gain Of Mile In New Georgia Campaign  s   Salamaua Is Bombed

AMERICANS BOMB BURMA VIADUCI   British Troops Resist Japanese Assaults on Mayu Peninsula.

WAR IN BURMA HITS NEW PEAK OVER WEEKEND   American Planes And British Troops Active

JAP ASSAULTS INBURMA AREA AREINGREASEL   iBritish, However, Stub-bornly: Resist: Attacks In Ratheddiing Sector of “Mayu Peninsula   U.S. AIRMEN AID   Team With RAF to Smash Vital Enemy Communications; Two American Bombers Missing

Burma Scene Of Bitter Fighting   British Throw Back Heavy Jap Attacks; Allied Airmen Strike Blows.

Reds Claim Nazis Stopped With Loss of 30,000 Men, 1.539 Tanks and 649 Planes

Hitler's Great Summer Gamble Balked by Reds   Nazis Fail To Achieve Major Break-through in New Offensive     Invaders Lose 1,539 Tanks and 649 Planes, Moscow Asserts

SHOOT DOWN 649 PLANES IN BATTLE   Hitler Using 450,000 Treops in His Gamble to Knock Soviet Union   Out of War.   STRUGGLE SURGES. BACK AND FORTH   Trenches and Entire Villages Change Hands With . Soviets Holding at Most Points.

GERMAN TANK ATTACK FAILS TO JOLT REDS   AXIS HURLS 450,000 MEN INTO KURSK SALIENT PUSH

New Axis Economic Treaty Announced. .  Germany, Japan, And ltaly Sign New Pact

Axis Nations Sign Economic Treaty, Choosing To Ignore Allied Blockade

ECONOMIC PACT SIGNED BY AXIS   Treaty Will Enable Tripartite Powers to Exploif War Potential.

AXIS POWERS SIGN = ECONOMIC TREATY   Pact Provides for des for Interchange of Goods “

Still Confident Of Victory, Axis Signs New Economy Treaty To Exploit Resources Fully

War Pact Is Axis Gamble On Victory   Each Promises Other Supply Interchange For Next Decade.

ENEMY SHIP SUNK, 85 PLANES DOWNED   Allied Siorien : Mete Oul Heavy Biows At Axis Over Week-End

ONE CRUISER SUNK, BD AXIS PLANES __ ARE SHOT DOWN   Italian Warship Hits Bottom. Gas-filled Transports . Downed.

100 MACHINISTS CO ON STRIKE   Kensington Men. in Dispute Over Work Shifts

Group Stands By  Figures On Ship Losses Despite Sec. Knox Denial

Truman Group Stands Ground Against Knox   Charge Allied Losses Exceeded Ship Building During Past Year

Claim Sub Loss  ‘Figures Correct   Truman Probers °  Stand Their Ground

Sfafe Bond Quota Is $75,000,000  F ourth War Loan 1QO  be 2 sear CsA. A.

State Bond Quota 1s $75,000,000   Fourth War Loan Drive Starts Jan. 18

Instruct Draft Boards On 3-B  Classification   Selective Service Chief Hershey Sums Up Rule Regarding Peysons In Essential Industry

Hershey in Draft Rule  Explanation   Probable Order in Which Men Called Discussed By Service Head

Hershey Explains  Those in 3B Class   Selective Service Head Tells How Men Are Being Classified.

ANOTHER DRAFT CLASSIFICATION 18 ANNOUNCED BY BOARD  ORDER OF CALL FOR MEN VARIOUS CLASSES OUT-

Men Engaged In Essential Activity Should Be In 3-B   Not Necessary To Be Working In War Plant: Many Draft Boards Have Erred

Here’s The Answer To Who’s “3B” In ‘Draft, Order In Which Men Called

SL LI LLL LO OCLC LC LE LL LTT A  New Classifications Mean Big Headache To Officials

Man with Dependents Need No’ Be Essential But Only Doing Work That Is Held Necessary

'\Hershey Issues Rules To Clear Up Misunderstandings Of Reclassification Of Registrants With Dependents

'Who’s That Guy Now 3-B in Draft? Well, Selective Service Director  Hershey Says, He’s Not All Alone

Employees In Essential Work Are 3-E   Appeal Sent te President Points Up One of the Misunderstandings by Local  > Draft Boards

DRAFT CLASSES — RE-EXPLAINED   Large Number Of Mis. classifications Made By Boards

Forts Lash Kiel, Aircraft Factory   Down 30 Nazis In ¢ Blasting Out Path

0 AAD INSIDE GERMANY   Strong Formations Hack Way Through Nazi Fighters   TARGETS BLASTED   Tons of Explosives Rain on Kiel U-boat Base, Heinkel Plane Works

Kiel and Baltic, City Bonded by American Planes  30 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed When The  Cbisedsit Tika haeaks

Flying Forts Strike at Kiel, Plane Factory   30 Enemy Fighters Shot Down. 10 American

Warnemuende And Kiel Hit By Fortresses   At Least 49 Americans Rescued from North Sea After Previous Raids

KIEL SUBMARINE SLIPS DAMAGED   Flying Fortresses Hack Way Through Nazi Fighter Packs

Kiel U-Boat Slips Bombed By Fortresses   Heinkel Aircraft Factory Attacked; 10 U. S. Planes Lost   Some of Fortress Crews Rescued, London Reports

Nazi Sub And Plane Plants Hit   Ten Flying Forts Lost’ In. Big  - Mission:

U-BOAT SLIPS AT KIEL HIT-BY ALLIED BOMBERS   An Attack Is Also Carried Out On Heinkel Amcrait Plant At Warnemuende   MISSING AIRMEN ARE RESCUED FROM SEA

Fortresses Hit Kiel, Heinkel  Plane Factory  Battle Through Swarms of Nazi Fiahters

Nazi Radio Says American Fifth Army Hard Hit   Germans Report Fighting at Salerno Cost U. S. 10,000 Men

Nazis Claim Fifth Army  Evacuating   Report Believed Due to Numerous Ships Bringing Up Reserves

Silence Shrouds Battle   American Success Hinted In Statements By Jap Leaders

OFFENSIVE OF AMERICANS IN FIFTH DAY   Army Attack Designee ed to Open Northern Route to Tokio

But Fleets Still Spar, No Major Clash Seen Yel   All Losses Are Minot Says Knox; Rea Showdown Is Ye To Come

AIR ACTION IN AREAIS STEPPED UP   Enemy Shipping Is Hit In Series Of Raids Throughout Zone

16 Jap Planes Are Destroyed   Increased Patrol Activity Is Reported Around Wau

Americans Bag 26 Planes   Jap Cargo Ship Seen Approaching Buka Bombed

26 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN IN NEW GUINEA   Fifteen Others Damaged by MacArthur's Bombers in: Action at Wau, * ~~ Below Salamaua   ALLIED PLANES SAFE   Flying Fortresses Destroyed at Least 25 Drebding German Planes in Wilhelmshaven Raid

Jugoslavs Halt German Attack   Partisans Repulse Rommel’s Forces

Yugoslavs Balk German Drive   Guerrillas’ Fierce Counterattacks Stop Dolmatian Push

Need Of Colleges. 'To Be Deter -ritinés By Their Service   Smaller Schools: May Be Foreed To ‘Close Up, States McNutt

SENATE EXPECTED TO ACT QUICKLY ON NO-STRIKE BIL!   Connally Convinced President Will Sign Measure; Widens WLB Powers.

ACT TODAY ON STRIKE BILL   Favorable Action On Anti-Strike .. Measure ‘Expected

Antistrike Bill Assured Of Passage   Measure Expected To Reach President By Tonichi

SENATE READY TO SEND F, D. R. NO-STRIKE LAW   Think President Wil] Sign Bill To Outlaw Work Stoppages

ANTI-STRIKE LAW NEARING ENACTMEN]   Senate in Saturday Session to Consider Measure

Senate to Pass  Anti-Strike Bill   Measure Goes to  White House Next

BILL ABOLISHING LETHAL CHAMBER OPPOSED 7 10    House Committee Votes Unanimously To Favorably Report Amended “Senate Bill For Investment of $20,000,000 Surplus.

Committee Votes Against Abolishin; N. C. Gas Chamber   Appropriations Committee Favors. Amended Reserve Fund Bill. ..

NOU, S. WARSHIF LOSS IN SICILY   Knox Gratified With  Role of American Craft

No U. S. Vessels Reported Lost In Sicily Campaign   Knox Warns ‘Submachine War Not Yet Won By Allied Atlantic Force —

SAYS ATLANTIC SUB WAR NOT YET WON   Knox Well Ple Pleased With Success In Sicily Campaign —

PROTEST INCREASES AS ‘GANDHI FASTS   Fourth Day OF Political _Fast Brings Scattered Disorders

GEAMANS WIPE OUT GHETTO IN WARSAW   14,000 Jews Deported After Bitter 2-Week Street Fight in Which 5.000 Perished

300 Nazis Die Liquidating Polish Jews   Germans Attempt To Kill 35,000 In Warsaw Area

300 Germans Killed, 2,000 Wounded By Besieged Jews in Warsaw Ghettc

DESPERATE STREET FIGHTING IN WARSAW IS REPORTED: GHETTO WIPED OUT BY GERMANS

Jews Fight In Poland  a... e oa  TL, REsepie ten ES   Many Thousands Reported Killed.

Desperate Jews Kill 300 Nazis  2,000 Are Wounded in Warsaw Battle

GHETTO WIPED QUTIN WARSAW  BY NAZI PORGI   Fourteen Thousand Jews   Who Remained In Area Deported to East After Bloody Disturbances   5,000 JEWS KILLED   Shot and Burned to Death; They Killed Three Hun dred German Elite Troops

. Pite hed Battle Lasts 3 Weelss  Dene Jews Kill 300 Nazis Trying to Blast Warsaw Ghetto

Germans Crush Warsaw Ghetto After 3 Weeks O Bitter Street Fighting   14,000 Jews Deported; 5,000 Die In Bloody Pogrom; Last 35,000 Jews Condemned To Execution

DEMAND BRITToH RELEASE GANDHI   Conference of 200 Indian Leaders Take Strong Stand on 11th Day of Fast ©

Demand Gandhi Given Freedom   Indian Political Lead ers To Take Action

Second Front Call Issued By  Soviet Russia   Russia Marks Second Anni. versary Of Start Of Hitler’s Invasion Of Country   TIDE OF WAR HAS CHANGED TO ALLIES

RUSSIA RENEWS HER APPEAL ~ FOR OPENING SECOND FRONT   DELAY IN ALLIED INVASION WILL PROLONG WAR AND INCHEASE CASUALTIES,  COMMUNIQUE SAYE ~

Focus Interest Onlslands in Mediterranean   May Be Valuable. To Allies in: ‘Invasion. 

INTEREST FOCUSES ON ISLAND. STEPS IN MEDITERRANEAN   Allies Expected To Clear Out Stepping Stones  - ~ Before © Attack oe On -Eurase- =

00,000 10 GOAL LOST DAILY   Industrial Supplies Diminish With Curtailment of Steel Production Seen; Alabama Furnace Shuts Down

SENATE COMMITTEE WANTS INFORMATION ON FARM MANPOWER  MATTER. OF DEFERMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WORK

SENATE ACTS TO CURB EXODUS OF FARM WORKERS   Too Many Men Needed On Farms Being Called  Inte Army   PRESENT SYSTEM HAS PROVED A FAILURE

“FARMER BROWN” WITH SLIDE RULE HAVING GREAT PROBLEM   Way to Slaughter Half a Heifer Is Purzling--OPA Called on But Little Help Has Been  Dearceiveda

ASK POULTRYMEN 10 COMPLY WITH RULES   OPA Sets Up New Egg Grading Regulations

BROWN ASKS HELP OF EGG DEALERS   New Regulations Requires Cooperation Ag Chief Says

Byrd Says NYA Has More T raining Points Than Pupil:   Confronts Ageney’s Di rector With Some . Examples

Catholies Urge Rome Be Made An Open City   Archbishop Mooney Notes Crocodile Tears of Fascists

SEEK TO HAVE ROME MADE AN OPEN CITY   Catholics Thruout The World Put  Pressure on Italy

Pressure On To Have Rome Declared An Open City   Submission By Mussolini Would Re Allied Triumph

CATHOLICS IN U: S. FAVOR DECLARING ROME AN OPEN CITY   Should Musselini Submit, Allies Would Score. — Major Victory Over Axis

COLGGNE HAS NEW BLITZING FROM BRITISH   Hundred Planes Nullify Nazis Repairs To Plants Making U-Boat Equipment; Five Planes Lost.   Normal Assault

R.A. F. Again Blasts Cologne   Seeks to Nullify Nazi Repair Worl

RAF BOMBERS DEAL BLOW 10 GERMAN CITY   Cologne Raided at Night Followed by Other Day- heht Attacks

RAF Hammer: Sub Plants in Cologne Raid   Blockbusters Set Fires in Yards Housing U-Boats

U-BOAT PLANTS RAIDED BY RAF   Cologne Factories Get Severe Bombing As Repairs Are Yet Under Way

Mine Strike  Danger Seen   Rift Be*ween Union, Operators  Declared Widening

Veteran Flies 5,000 ‘Miles to Join Army  ' Proves Himself a True Patriot

NAVY TAKES CHARGE OF FACTORY BRANCH   Purpose ls To. Expedite Remington Rand Output

US, SEIZES FACTORY BEHIND IN WAR WORK   Navy Runs New York Plan' For Remington Rand

Nz avy Will Run -Plant’In East   Part Of -Remington-Rand Operations Seized: To. . Get. Production -

NAVY TAKES POSSESSION   Action Is Taken to Speed Up Pro. duction of War Item

Announce 2 Jap  Battleships Sunk  Navy Releases ‘Score’ On Guadalcanal Fights

NAVY REPORTS ON SINKINGS I SEA BATTLES   Claims Japs Lost Battleships in Guadalcanal Fight

WAR WRITER GLAD TO SEE BRITISH ISLES   Tame Landing Climaxes the Trip With Convoy Across the Atlantic   LANDING WAS DULL

WRITER IN CONVOYED SHIP AWAITS U-BOATS   Hints At Surprise Which Is Awaiting Nazis When U-Boats Arrive   GETS ACQUAINTED

U-BOATS CATCH UP TO WRITER’S CONVOY   Talk of Submarines Become: Stern Reality; Death Lurks In Deep   PASSENGERS ON EDGE

SUB ALARM STARTLES WAR CORRESPONDENT   Already Jittery In Anticipation of Attack On High  Seas   ALERT AT ALL TIMES

SEES ALLIES SPRING A “SECRET WEAPON’   Released on German U-Boat Pack; Writer Sees The Attack

Allies Make So Much Time Pilots Almost Strat Own Trucks, Thinking Them Italian

Almost Strafe Convoy of American Trucks Which Had Sped Inland Faster Than Pilots Had Expected Them to Make Progress

Cigarette Girl Inherits $79,000 Fund   HOLLYWOOD NIGHT CLUB WORKER WILL BUY WAR BONDS, SILLY HATS

Whooping Cough Epidemic Strikes lowa   July Prevalence Far Above Long Time Average Reports State Health Department

WPB CHANGES RULING   Cement Plants in Kansas Will Be . Permitted to Use Gas

THIS IS NO LONGER PHONY WAR BUT THERE ARE PHONIES AS WELL ‘AS HEROES ALONG FRONT LINES

Phony Officers Are Being Quickly Recognized And Weeded Out On F ar-Fluine Battlefr ‘ont

Allies Hurt By Polish, Red Break   Nazi Propaganda Machine Aided By Soviet Act

HITLER CALLS PARLEY   Wendell L. Willkie Meets 6.0.P. Freshmen’ At Dinner

WILLKIE IN CAPITAL   Former G.O.P. Nominee Will Give ’ Off-the-Record Discussion :

JAP FREIGHTER GETTING SCARCE   Knox Reveals That OneThird Of Shipping Strength Has Gone Down

ONE-THIRD OF JAPS BOATS ON BOTTOM   Secretary of Navy Knox Makes Statement Today.

MOUNTBATTEN CHOICE FILLS ANGLO PLEDGE   His Being Named to Lead Allied Drive Against Burma Proves Side-by-Side Promises,

Look-4to-"Litfle=: Americans to. Share War Cost   - Secy. Morgenthau Officially Opens War Bond..Campaian

Treasury Expects ‘Little’ Americans To Lend It 25 Billions This Year

Treasury Looks to ‘Little’? Americans  _ For Big: Bond Sale         Morgenthau Reveals War-time Borrowing Program at Opening of Second War Loan Drive at Carnegie Hall Rally

TREASURY ASKING LITTLE AMERICANS FOR BOND SALES   Secretary Morgenthau. Say: 70 Billion Is Needed ’’ To Finance War . This Year

To Continue Senate Fight for Tax Bill   Morgenthau Expected to Tell Solons of Conditions in Italy in Plea for Higher Levies

‘MORGENTHAU WILL CONTINUE BATTLE ‘FOR: $10.500,000,000 TAX MEASURE

Morgenthau Still To Fight for Increased Taxes  Senate Committee To Get Fresh Arguments Soon

Tax Hike Sought By Morgenthau  Will Testify Before  mote ( Meare

HITLER DEMANDS AID   200,000 Troops Demanded By Fuehrer Of Satellite Nations

WANTS 200,000 FOR GUARDING THE SOUTHEAST   Hopes To Use Nazis In Defense of North Italy

Hitler Asks 3 Satellites For Troops   Demands on Balkans Designed to Relieve Tied-Up Nazi Army

HITLER FEARING BALKAN ATTACK   Germans Are Being Replaced With Satellite Troops

Claims Husband Put 3 Gallon Weekly Limit  on Her Gasoline in 736

RESISTANCE BY NIPPONS IN NBW CUINEA ENDED   Allies Virtually Close Papuan Campaign Which Began Six Months Ago   725 ENEMIES KILLED   Considerable Quantity of Enemy Material and Equipment Captured; 15.000 Jans Eliminated

ALLIES WIPE OUT LAST JAP FORCES IN JUNGLE BATTLE   dapanese Army Of 15,000 Now Is Eliminated In New Guinea ........  RABAUL SHIPPING HIT

Resistance Ends On New Guinee   Jungles Combed For Last Remaining Japs

Smash Last Of Jap Defenses At Sanananda   Mop-up Of Scattered Enemy Virtually Ends Papuan Campaign.

WIPE OUT ENEMY IN NEW GUINEA, 6 MONTH DRIVE   Capture Considerable Quantity of Nipponese Material, Equipment

Lhe War Today—  Entirely New Orient Envisioned In Plans For Japan’s Early Defeat

THE WAR  TODAY  Sy DeWITT MACKENZIE  Sh tiem nantn et Beinenn Caw A metered

WAR NEWS } ANALYSIS  ,   Speeded-up Victory Pace Likely First Result Of Conferences

The War Today  pm. Mm. ee Tr.      . Pact of Cairo Dooms Japan As Step Toward Warless World

Conferees Reach OWI Compromise   Fund Bills Still Are Bogqged Down

Conferees Vote Funds for OWL.  Domestic Unit   $2,750,000. Allotment Provides: For Limited Service; . ” S9155.000.000 Granted te OPA

Mass Attack In West  To Come in Due Time   Terms Mediterranean Battlefield Third Front in Address to Commons; Gives Report on Italian Developments.

CHURCHILL CALLS ITALY THIRD FRONT   Leader Says US-British-Russian Talks Slated ‘Soon’: Tells of Italian Fray

MASS INVASION OF CONTINENT SET-CHURCHILL   To Begin At ‘Right Time,’  Prime Minister Tells  Commons   ASSURES RUSS PARLEY   Says Duce Escaped BeCause Italian Guards  Failed to do Duty

Second Front Will Be Thrown Open, He Says  Italian Guards Failed To Carry Out Duty Of Executing Mussolini,

Churchill Review Of War Progress   Calls Italian’ ~Campai “Third Front” Sonat.  Shapes Up   AMERICANS IN SARDINIA   Italian Guards Failed tc Carry Out Orders to Shoot Mussolini

ALLIED BLOWS READY, ANAT AIGHT TNE   Mediterranean War Zone Termed “Third Front” in His Review.   SWEEPING PICTURE OF WAR, PLANS PAINTED

British Chieftain Defends Conduct of War; Says Allies Will Strike Only When Ready   Reveals, in Two-Hour Speech, That Yanks Have Landed in Sardinia; Savs Guards Should Have Shot Duce

BRITAIN’S PREMIER DECLARES INVASION IN WEST DUE SOON  CHURCHILL SURVEYS WHOLE WAR SITITATIO!

‘Mass Invasion Of Continent {s ~Hinted Quick   Parliament Is Tole Mussolini Escape Due To Failure O  ‘Italians

Prime Ministerls Serenely Confident Of Allied Success —   Great Power Has Been Drawn Up for War's Big Offensive

Italian Drive “Third Front’ Commons Told   Prime Minister Gives Lengthy Review of War

Charchill Says In War Report   Mussolini Would Have Been Shot If Guards Had Done Duty; Weight Of Bombs Dropped On Germany Increased Three-Fold In Last Year

This Action Will Take Place at the Right Time and a Mass Invasion of the Con tinent Will Begin.   THE MEDITERRANEAN IS THE “THIRD FRONT”   The Prime Minister Spoke Before House of Commons, Saying the Second Front  Was Gaining Weight.

Coming At Right Time, He Declares   Defends Operations in Italy — Early Meeting With U. S.-Russia Planned — Says Guards Failed to Shoot Mussolini  American Troops Land in Sardinia

Churchill Review Of War Progress   Calls Italian~ ‘ Campaign ~ “Third Front”; Second — _- Shapes-‘Up ~~   AMERICANS IN-SARDINIA   Italian Guards Failed to Carry Out Orders to  Shoot Mussolini

NOW IN BEING   Mass Invasion of Contin« ent From West Coming, Commons fs Told.   HITS CRITICS SHARPLY;

Prime Minister Reported To British Parliament Gives Facts That Portend Smash at Germany   SUB BATTLE RESUMED

Savs Not A Moment Needlessly Lost In Italy In Answer To Critics; Mussolini Would Have Beer Shot If Italian Guards Had Nol Failed In Duty.

Mediterranean Third Front, No Substitute, Prime Minister Says—Answers Critics on Timing Italian Invasion   _ GUARDS LET MUSSOLINI ESCAPE      Badoglio Government Ordered Duce Shot if Rescue Atiempted—Says Saturation Bombing of Germany Near

Makes Longest Speech Of Hi Career And Defends Action  In Tralians Camnaion —

Talks With Russ Arranged; Yanks Are On Sardinia   Commons Told Not A Moment Being Lost; Guards Ignored Order To Shoot Mussolini

Declares ‘Second Fronv Already Exists in Speech Betore House of Commons

Churchill Promises Action   Prime Minister Scans Progress of War With Confidence in Speech  Before Parliament

U.S., Britain Will Determine Time, He Says  Thale Tac   Italy Described As “Third Front” In European War

BRITISH HEAD REVIEWS NEW WAR ANGELS   Tells Commons Of Allied Aims On Fronts

Will Hit From West: Italian Guards Fail To Shoot Mussolin   American Troops Join Italy’s Forees on Sardinia; Battle Between Allied Convoy, Nazi Subs Taking Place on Atlantic Now

Premier Calls Mediterranean Battlefield ‘Third Front’  GIVES WAR REPORT

Western Attack Will Be Started At “Right Time’   Commons Ig Told That Parley With Reds Near; Americans In Sardinia

Churchill Hints At Real ‘Second Front’   Attack From West At Proper Time Is Promised

Premier Vows Western Smash   CHURCHILL SAYS SECOND FRONT WILL BE THROWN OPEN “AT RIGHT TIME;” CALLS MEDITERRANEAN “THIRD FRONT” IN WAR

‘Mass Invasion’ of Continent to Occur At The Right Time   Prime Minister Refers to Mediterranean Battle Zone as ‘Third Front’ and Asserts Second Front Already ‘Gathering Weight’ and Is, Even Now, Harassing Germans.

Western Front Blows Pledged By Churchill   Prime Minister Tells Commons Of Land, Sea, Air War

Churchill Says Channel Invasion Army Masses For Main Blow At Reich   Italy Is Called 'Third Front’ In War Review: Commons Hears Yanks Land On Sardinia, Duce Was To Be Shot ©

Churchill Says Second Front Will Be Opened At the Right Time   Says a Mass Invasion of the Continent from the West Will Be Made; Not a Moment Lost Needlessly in the Operations Against Italy

British Chief Gives Details  ~ Onltaly Plan   Prime Minister Answers Criticism Charging Delay In Attacking.   ITALIANS GIVING HELP

WITH SERENE (CONFIDENCE   Enemy U-Boats Fail To Sink Allied Ships In September

Background of Italian Push Is Revealed   Prime Minister Views — War Confidently—Says  There Was No Bungling

Prime Minister Says Italian Guards Failed To Shoot I] Duce As Ordered; Reports Yanks Now On Sardinia   Tri-Partite Conference Will Be Held Soon, Enaland’s Leader Tells House Of Commons

Blow to Come ‘At Right Time’   Prime Minister Tells Commons Italier Campaign Not Substitute for Real Thing; Mussolini Death Order Told

Britains Supply of Aircraft Now Exceeds Germany's 4 fo 1, Prime Minister Reports to Parliament   Italian Guards Failed to Perform Their Duty and Permitted Mussolini to Escape; Sees Ear; Parley With Roosevelt and Stalin

Third Front’ Exists Now, Commons Told   Second Front To Be Thrown Open at Right Time, Says Churchill

Predict Drive On Dodecanese   Axis - Held Islands Off Coast Of Turkey May Be Invaded

Berlin And Rome Show Increasing Signs 'Of Fear Over Allied Invasion Of Europe

WAVE OF PANIC SWEEPS HUNGARY   Her Soldiers Are Surrendering to Russians by the Thousands.

PANIC SWEEPING “HUNGARY DUE T0 BIC WAR LOSSES   Six of Nine Divisions Smashed By Russians In Great > Offensive.

WAVE OF PANIC IS COVERING HUNGARY OVER ARMY LOSSES   Reports Say That.& Of 9 Hungarian: Divisions Were Lost In Riresta

UPSET BY THE NEWS   Wave of Fright Sweeps Over Country After Admission of Casualties Is Made Public.

Fierce F ighting Continues Rage  In Kuban Sector Both Sides Throw  Large Forces

Reds And Nazis Engage In Fierce Battle Near Kuban   Hand-To-Hand Fighting Is Reported When Both Sides Throw Biq Forces Into Battle

Both Use Big Forces Of AllArms   Reds Throw Back Germans’ Reckless Efforts In Bitter Hand-To-Hand  Struggle.

Reds and Nazis Battle Hand to Hand   Germans Strive for Success at All Costs

COUPLE SLAIN — ~~ IN MICHIGAN   WOMAN, MARRIED FIVE ‘TTMES, _ AND HER SECOND HUSBAND SLAIN AS. THEIR — HOUSE BURNS

Uneasy Iruce Marks Work In U. §. Mines   Strike-Curb Bill Expected To Reach President Today

MINERS RETURN TO JOBS; LABOR BILL IS PASSED   Anfi-Strike Bill Goes to President with AFL and CIO Urging Veto Action   TRUCE CONTINUES   War Labor Board Continues Consideration Portal-fo-Portal Pay Issue

Uneasy Truce Settles Over Coal Fields   ‘Pennsylvania and Ala  bama Miners Return to  Pits After Walkout In   Protest to Fines.

Truce Over Coal —  Situation Uneasy  Qlimax To Dispute May Be Reached Soon

Uneasy Truce Over Nafion's Coal Fields   In Meantime, Labor Urges Veto of Anti-Strike Bill Congress Passed

ANOTHER UNEASY TRUCE IN MINES   Three-way Wage Production Struggle Among Lewis, Government and Operators Enters What May Be Climactic Week.

Labor Enters What May Be Climactic Week   Coal Dispute Still Unsettled as Congress Halts Strikes

Uneasy. Truce Setiles Over Coal Fields   ‘Miners’ Committee Called to Meet Wednesday on‘Developments’   MAY CONCERN WLB DECISION THEN   Meanwhile, Labor Heads Plan Appeal to Roosevelt Against Anti-Strike: Bill

Truce Blankets Coal Mine Feud Pendine-Findi   Levy Of Fines ‘Revoked And Workers Return: Fight Anti-Strike Bil

Uneasy Truce Settles over  Coal Fields   Anti-Strike Bill Heads for President’s Decision After Whipping Through Congress

ANOTHER UNEASY TRUCE HAS SETTLED OVER COAL FIELDS   3-Way Production Struggle Enters on What May Be Its Climatic Week.   Agreed to Go Back to Pits After a Brief Walkout-Recently.

UNEASY TRUC PERVADING COAL FIELDS   Government, Operators And Union Chiefs Enter On What May Be Climactic Week   SOME MEN RETURNING

Mine Coal Under Truce   Await WLB Decision; Anti-Strike Measure Passed by Congress

War Labor Board's Decision in Miners » Wage Case Expectec   Uneasy Truce Moves Into Another Week; Policy é Committee Called

Uneasy Truce Settles Over Coal Fields   About 2,200 State and Alabama Miners To Return

WAGE DISPUTE NEARS CLIMAX MINERS TENSE   ANTI-STRIKE BILL NOW HEADS TOWARD PRESIDENT’S DESK

Three-Way Wage-Production Battle Between Lewis, the QGperators and Government Enters a Rossible:, Climatic Waeaek

New Uneasy Truce Settles Over Soft Coal Wage Issue   Return To Pits; Lewis Calls For UMW Committee Meet Wednes day

Coal Fields Face Climax -During Week   No-Strike Bill Is Headed for Roosevelt’s Desk

Coal Dispute In New Crisis   CLIMACTIC WEEK FOR OPERATORS AND MINERS

TRUGE SETTLES: OVER: NATION'S COAL FIELDS   Miners Back On Job After Protesting Fine; Ickes Modifies Order

Unhappy Truce Settles Over Mines; Controversy Enters Climactic Week

Uneasy Truce Settles Over Coal Mines   Labor To Seck Veto OF Stringent AntiStrike Measure

UNEASY TRUCE SETTLES OVER COAL FIELDS   Coal Dispute May Be Entering Last Week

UNEASY TRUCE SETTLES OVER WINE INDUSTRY   Meanwhile, Three-Way Production Struggle Enters On What May Be Climatic Week   MINERS IN PITS   End Strike Over Fines Labor Groups Fighting Passed Anti-Strike Measure

UNEASY TRUCE SETTLES OVER MINE FIELDS   Miners Return To Work, But Protest Fines For Strike   IT’S CLIMACTIC WEEK   Anti-Strike Bill Passed By Congress On Way To FDR’s Desk

Uneasy Truce Settles Over Coal Fields   Anti-Strike Bill Sent to President For Final Action

TAX ISSUE TO BE REOPENED   Both Republicans And Democrats Are Demanding Action.

Applications For Tractor Oil by L5th   Forms Available at Al Oil Stations or Ratior Bourd Office

Applications For ‘Tractor Fuel Starts   October 1 Date Set; To Last for Six Month Pepiod

Americans Take New Position  on Guadalcanal Important Heights Reported Captured Monday

YANKS SEIZE HEIGHTS ON GUADALCANAL   Japs Counter Attack NewlyWon American Positions Six Times Losing 150 Men Killed.   Few Beans, Balls

Jap Points Won At Guadaleanal   Important Hills. Flanking ‘Airport Captured, 170 Nipponese Killed

Pressure Kept On J apanese  On Guadaleanal   Americans Take Height Flanking Southwest Rim Of Allied Position

American Troops Take Hills On Guadalcanal; Jap Supply Ships Flee

Union Abandons  24-Hour Meeting   WLB Progress Cited As Behind Decision

WORKERS CALL OFF SCHEDULED GENERAL MEET:   War Labor Board Reports Progress In Settling Dispute

BOEING PLANT WORKERS WILL REMAIN ON JOB   Tomorrow's “General ‘Meeting’ Cancelled as WLB Indicates Wage Decision Near   BALTIMORE FIRM PENALIZES WORKERS   500 Suspended for Day fo: Leaving Work Before Quitting Time; Byrd Flays Stoppages

Boeing Plane Workers Call Off Meeting   WLB Progress on Wage Demands Believed to Be Reason

Plane, Makers Drop Protest   24-Hotr General Meetin; Threat ‘Ends As Board - Makes Progress

'WLB REPORTS PROGRESS ON PAY DISPUTE; PLANE  WORKERS GANCEL MEET

Aircraft Workers At Boeing Call Off 24-Hour “Meeting” As Byrd Demands Legislation

Civil Unrest Spreads In ltaly As Sicilian Campaign Nears End   Mob Storms Prison At Milan Releasing Hundreds Ot Political Prisoners As Allied Armies Mass For Cleanup Of Sicily

Disorders at Milan; Peace Rumors Rife   British Cabinet Gets Up Early to Discuss Italian  Situation

Mobs Storm. Milan Prison, Free Hundreds  Of Prisoners —   Violence Grows As New Government Totters Between War And Peace

I! Duce Reported  Arrested in Flight After Resignation   Press and Radio Reveal Turbulent Conditions Throughout Nation; Badoglio Is Watched Closely for Possible Peace Move

Wild Demonstrations for Peace Are Reported; Arrest of Mussolini Is Rumored in Dispatches

Mussolini under Guard In a Villa near Rome, Bern Dispatch Asserts   Marshal Badoglio and His Cabinet Rule Turbulent ltaly Under Martial Law and Crowds Demonstrate in Principal Cities; Latest Events Excite All Europe and Germany Is Speechless

Marshal, New Cabinet Seek to Hall Civil War After Mussolini's Exit   People Acclaim New Order; II Duce Called Fascist Grand Council Together Prior to Resignation; Italian Leaders Must Act Soon

Martial Law Is Clamped Down   Musso Arrested ..As He Tries To Flea ”

Badoglio Said Holding Talks In Vatican City   Repercussions of Duce’s Fall Sweeping Axis.

Mussolini Arrested After He Abdicates   Italians Overjoyed At Being Freed From The Fascist Reaime And Mussolini’s Power

Badoglio Moves Swiftly to Avert Civil War   Mussolini Reported Under Guard Throngs Clamor for Peace; Liberal. Fascist Clashes Feared

Attempted To Escape To German Sanctuary;  Martial Law Declared   Badoglio And New Cabinet Strive To Avoid Civil War Between Liberals And Leaderless Fascists

Deposed Duce Under Arrest, Bern Reports   ‘Badoglio Orders Martial Law to Avert Civ vil

Former Italian Dictator Reported Arrested Trying To Reach Germany   BADOGLIO PROCLAIMS RIGID MARTIAL LAW

Fascist Militia Made Part of King’s Armed Forces   STEPS ARE TAKEN . TO CHECK REVOLTS   Italians Exhorted to Rise in Mass Against Germans

Vatican City Reported To Be Scene of Meeting To Get Italy.Out of War

Preliminary Conference Held at Vatican City, Reuters Dispatch Says   German Ambassador fo Rome Said To Be Holding Series of Talks with Badoglio and Italian-German Statement Is Expected Soon; Italian Press Apparently Restored fo Complete Freedom ©

Peace negotiations begun at Vatican is unconfirmed report   People stage wild demonstrations at news of Mussolini’s collapse

Italy Under Martial Law To Prevent  Civil War   Mussolini Reported  By Stockholm, Bern Placed Under Arrest After Trying To Flee   POPULACE SHOUTS ALLEGIANCE TO KING   Wild Demonstrations Staged Over Nation After Duce’s Collapse

Germans Crack Soviet Lines  Situation Restored, Russians Report _

Nazi Thrust ~ Thrown Back   Russians Repulse Enemy After Linge Crapkad

GERMANS LUNGE AGAINST REDS   Furious Action Occurs On Rostov Sector; Lines Repaired

Reds Claim Nazi Gains Wiped Out   Big-Scale Attack Mav Be In Offina

Russian Forces Beat Off Naz Blow at Rostov   Germans Crack Line But Counterattack Restores Situation

Reds Repulse Nazi  Lunge at Rostov   Full Regimert Used By Germans in Raid

Foe Hurls Big Blow At Russians, Forecasts Drive  Great Assault Is Said Thrown Back With Serious Loss of Men

Foe Hurls Big Blow At Russians, Forecasts Drive  Great Assault Is Said Thrown Back With

Reds recover from sudden nazi lunge toward Rostov   Counterblow halts full regiment in likely forerunner to offensive

SUDDEN LUNGT MADE BY NA   Russian Lines Crach Near Rostov, But Rec. Regain Ground

German Lunge At Red Lines Is Repulsed   Action May Be Sign of Big Scale Warfare ‘to Break Out Soon

REDS CLOSE GAP RIPPED IN. LINES   THOUSANDS OF GERMAN TROOPS MAKE SUDDEN LUNGE TOWARD ROSTOV,

Soviels Stop Quick Lunge By Germans   Big Nazi Army Cracks Red Line In Rostov Area

Flyers Describe Raid as Tough  - Gunner Beats Fire Out With’ Hands

~ Public By Army Personnel   f You Read It In Newspapers, You May Talk About It

Jap Air Attacks Broken   Australians Capture Nipponese Strong hold

U.S. Invasion Forces Expand ~— Arawe Landing   Americans Break Up Three Jap Aerial Attacks Upon Peninsula Beachhead   YANKS HEAVILY BOMB GLOUCESTER

SENATE GETS TAX MEASURE   Rumt{ Plan to Skip All of 1942 Taxes Defeated in Closc Vote in House Tuesday.

Ruml Plan Substitute Wins Vote   House Favors Bill Cutting Tax Burden By 75 Per Cent

Rum! Plan Loses By Whisker On Vote In House   Forand-Robertsen Compromsie Measure  Adopted 313 To 95

Pol Indicates any To Support Forgiveness Plan   F orand-Robertson Bill ‘Passes House After -Ruml Act Is Defeated

Tax Fight Shifts To Senate; House Votes Compromise   Senate Poll Shows Unanimous Support For Some Kind of Pay-As-You-Go Plan; House Passes Compromise Bill

TAX PROGRAM GOES TO SENATE ON WEDNESDAY   AIL96 Members Favor Some Kind of “Pay-As-You-Go” Plan and At Least 44 Members Are Willing to “Forgive” Part of the 1942 Levies—Backers of Rum! Plan Set for a Vigorous New Ei ahky

Quick Actior Is Promised By Senate   Pee  Ruml Plan Loses; Bill Would Cancel Some 1942 Taxes

‘RUML TAX PLAN FIGHT ‘LOOMS IN SENATE AFTER  ‘COMPROMISE IN HOUSE:

HOUSE PASSES 4 COMPROMISE PLAN ON TAXES   Pay-Go Battle Shifts To Senate; Ruml Backers Lose

NAZI NIGHT ATTACK SHATTERED BY REDS   400 OF Enemy And 3 Tank: Destroyed In Futile Attempt

(Continued On Page Four}  HOMES OFFERED TO CHILDREN OF DRAFTED FATHER

COLOMBIA SENATE APPROVES STATE OF BELLIGERENCY  ACTION COMES QUICKLY   ACTION COMES QUICKLY AFTER GERMAN SUB SINKS COLOMBIAN SHIP

COLOMBIA NOTES WAR WITH WAZIS   Senate Approves Government Statement Recognizing State of Belligerency

Columbia Is Belligerent   Senate Takes Action Following Sinking Of Schooner By Nazi Sub

WAR DECLARED BY COLOMBIA   ‘South American Nation Acts Against Nazis After Sinkings

Recognize Existence of State of Belligerency Between Colombia-Reich

COLOMBIA OK’S BELLIGERENGY   U-Boat Action Brings Declaration Against Nazis

COLOMBIA IN WAR ON NAZIS   SINKING SPURS NATION “BELLIGERENCY” ACTION

HOME BY CHRISTMAS   Chaplain Predicts End Of European War This Year

New College Training Plan ~ For Navy Men   Candidate Selection Begins April 2; Rule They Can Take Part In Athletics :

Navy Sets Up Big College Training Plan   334 Schools Selected For Service Classes; Students To Draw Seamen's Pay   SPORTS GET OKEF   Candidates For Officers Will Wear Uniform, Be Subject To Discipline

[NAVY COLLEGE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR OFFICERS TO BE STARTED JULY 1

ANGRY DEBATE  OVER PROCEDURI   { =. Attempt to Force Out Banking Bilis Brings Hot  t Words in Senate

Kerr Blocks Income Tax Law Repeal   Taxation Committee Alters Plans After Governor Speaks

Kerr Wins Fight For Income Tax   Efforts to Repeal or Cut Levy in Half Seems Abandoned

Soldier Dies On Gallows For Slaying   Private Pays With Life In Child's Death

Knapp Hanged by Military Authorities for Slaying of Young Bastrop Schoolgirl

MEAL-PILL TAX REPEALER DEAD   House Committee Riddles Bill With Changes, Then Votes It Down

BRIGKER BILL TURNED DOWN   HOUSE COMMITTEE KILLS   MEASURE TO ABOLISH   MEDICINE AND RES. TAURANT FOOD TAX

Court Cites Deatherage In ‘Sedition’   St. Albans Man One of 33 Named “Fa Indictments

SEDITION 1S BEING CHARGED   Thirty-Three Persons and One Corporation Indicted — Biggest Se dition Triat in War to Begin Last of Month,

War's Biggest Sedition Trial To Begin Soon   Investigations Still Continuing,-More May. Be Indicted.

Sedition Trial Slated to Open Late This Month   Number Indicated By Federal Jury  Increased to 33

ANTI - GAMBLING BILL FOR OHIO GETS HOUSE 0. K.   Law Designed To Stamp Out ‘Numbers Racket’ With Fines and Jail Terms   UNION CURB IS APPROVED   Probate Judge Pension Bill Revised by Committee; Sales Tax Studied

VOTE-JO MIL... NUMBERS VICE   House Approves Heavy Fines, Jail Sentences For Operators

ANTI-NUMBERS BILL APPROVEL   House Reverses April 1! Defeat of Measure

GERMAN WAR PRISONERS AT CAMP CROWDER   Being Confined in New PW Camp in Southwest Part of Reservation

SOME MINERS REFUSE WORK   Demand Contract With U.S. Be Clarified Before Digging Coal

Briton Says U. §. Saved His Country   Famine Threat Ended By Merchant Fleet

SHIPPING SAVES ENGLAND TWICl   Britisher Defends America In Providing Food to Prevent Famines.

Citizens Canvass  forBonds   ‘Volunteer Salesmen Ready to Catch ) up Sales Lag   Demos and Repubs Still Reported at Logvgerheads

JOHN: Q. CITIZEN  15 APPARENTLY NOT  BUYING MANY BONDS LOCAL VOLUNTEER WAR  BONDS SALESMEN DUE Tr MAKE CATTS

War Bond Salesman to Call At John Q. Citizens’ Hom-es   Not Buying As Many As Secretary of Treasury Believes He Might: Total Purchases Up to Friday Were $904,060,060; $9,000,000.000 Subscribed But Cream Has Been Skimmed Off

PUSH CITIZENS TO BUY BONDS   ‘Little Fellow’ Lagging In Purchases, Treasury Reports

BUND BUYING OY INOWIDUALS LS EMPHASIZED   Smail Investors Must Take _ Up Slack By Purchases,  Trseaury Declares

JOHN Q. CITIZEN NOT DOING PART IN BOND DRIVE.   Cream Already Skimmed off the Pool of Money Available For War Ronds.

John Q. Public Must Buy A Lot More War Bonds If Goal Of 13 Billion Reached

Liquor Rationing By Dealers Looms   John Q. Citizen Must Do Better Than He Has In War Bond Drive

Bond Buying Up To Mr. Citizen   Biilk OF Sales So’ Far By - Big Investors . ~

NEEDED T0 REACH GOAL  MARTOA TSOCORT TTTDarTS   CAMPAIGN TURNS TO INDIVIDUALS   The Man-in-the-Street Depended Upon to Put Drive Over Top

SALESMEN. CONTINUE WAR BOND CAMPAIGN   Over Nine Billion Subscribed, Sales Low

JOHN Q). CITIZEN IS APPARENTLY NOT BUYING MANY BONDS  LOCAL VOLUNTEER WAR BONDS SALESMEN DUE TO, MAYE CAITS

I. U. GRADUATES.   Local Students Among the 405 Graduating Thursday.

PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON HOUSE FOR ACTION TODAY   Tax Exemption for Res taurant Foods, Medicines Held as   Desirable.

House Prodded To Act on Food  Tax Exemption   Levy to Build up Unemployment Func Reserves Proposed

PRESS FOR ACTION ON TAX EXEMPTION MEASURES IN OHIC   Propose War-Risk Surtax On Industrial ‘War Babies’

HOUSE PUSHED FOR ACTION ON SALES TAX BILL   Senate Has Approved Measure Lifting Levy From Restaurant Foods   FOST-WAR FUND PROPOSED.   Program Would Provide For Unemployment Benefits For 350,000

Allied Armies Move to Five  Milesof Adrano   Nazis Stull Hold Troina; Fight  Furiously to Block Yanks  50 Miles From Messina

BELIEVE HITLER HAS LOST POWER   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst  ee eg ee

2 ARE DROWNED IN RIVER NEAR HARPERS FERRY   Search For Bodies Of J. Ainsworth And R. Kidwell Resumes Today   YOUTH CARRIED AWAY BY SWIFT CURRENT

Search Renewed For River Victims      Boy Of 12 And Veteran River Ferryman Lives At Harpers Ferry.

THIRTY-FOUR OFF FOREXAMINATION   18 and 19-Year-Old Group _.2 Ready:To Be Sworn

THIRTY-FOUR OFF ~FOREXANINATION   18 and g 9-Year-Old. Group A Sw.

1943 WILL SEE NATION. ADVANCE 70 VICTORY,’ -FOR   Presidertt Gives Historic Address Before 78th Congress In Seceion Today

President Calls On New Congress To Set Aside Political Differences, Concentrate On Achieving Victory

PRESIDEN'S TALK IS WILDLY CHEERED: BY 7BTH CONGRESS   1,500,000. American. Fighting. Men-Now Beyond-Lim_ its of “Country, Armed Force Is Over 2,000,000.   WARNINGS ARE ISSUED TO THREE COUNTRIES   Enormous 1942 Production of Munitions Discussed, Tanks and Airplanes Below Goals.

Victory For Allies In °44, Hinted By FR      Complete text of President Roosevelt's history making address to the 78th Congrese will he found on Pree 8.   By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Statf Correspondent

REVEALS 7 MILLION YANKS UNDER ARMS, 1,000,000 OVERSEAS   Must Keep Axis Nations Disarmed After War, He Tells Congress; Urges Expanded Security Program

Calls for Economic Security   Steps to Provide Freedom From  Want Advocated

Tank, Plane Output Short; Says Soldiers Expect  Economic Security

ALLIED UNITY IS NEEDED TO DISARM AXIS   Chief Executive Delivers Annual State of Union Message to Congress.

IN RESPONSE TO FRANCO   Anthony Eden Reiterates “Uncon: ditional Surrender” Formula

PUBLIC SCHOOLS REOPEN MONDAY   End Vacation for Daytor Stu. dents, Employes Granted ' Wage Increase

AID GOING TO CHINA   Program Has Passed From Planning To Execution Stage, Claim

10 Persons Killed In Crash  Of American Airlines Plane  Blinding Snow Storm Blamed’ For Mishap In Tannaccoe: Witneccee Tall Ahaut Accident

10 Killed Aboard  Passenger Plane   Transport Crashes In Vertical Dive

John L. LewsS Permits Men To Leave Jobs   Washington Silent On Whether Troops To Be Sent To Break Stoppage As Entire U. S. War Plant Yield Threatened

Allies Forced Back Slightly  At Salamaua   But U. S. Forces Land Unopposed on_ Arundel, West of New: Georgia

JAPANESE MAKE DESPERATE STAND   Nips Succeed in Puishing Allies Back Slightly on New Guinea; Allies Land on Arundel Isle

JAPS BATTLE DESPERATEL’      Salemaua Defenders Force Allied Troops to Fall  Bake Slightly

ALLIES FORCED BACK BY JAPS   Minor Reverse Suffered At Salamaua Air Base; Enemy Desperate

Japs Stiffen, Make Gains At Salamaua   Allies Forced Back In Drive Against New Guinea Air Base

ISLAND 15 SEIZED BY ALLIED FORCES      Gains Made in Solomons With Slight Reverses at Salamaua

DEFENDERS Ut SALAMAUA DESPERATE   Making Final Stand By Pushing Allies Back Siightly; Arundel Island Taken By  America   Sink 31 Barges

8 PERSONS STILL MISSING AFTER LINOLEUM PLANT EXPLOSION TAKES 3 WORKERS’ LIVES, INJURES 10

Three Die in Plant Blast   Eight Others Missing At Kearney, N. J.; Ten Are Reported Injured

EIGHT MISSING IN BLAST IN KEARNY, N. J.   Mass of Rubble Hides Fate Of Number of Persons Believed Buried in Ruins at Plant   THREE DEAD, TEN HURT

Eight Missing, May Be in Ruins  Three Killed and 10  § *¢ . gf e- wg. ie   Three Killed and 10 Injured in Explosion In New Jersey Plant

Explosion Caused Death of 3 Persons   Ruins of Three-Story Building Being Searched for Other Bodies.

BLAST IN LINOLEUM PRODUCTS FATAL T0 NUMBER WORKERS  THREE KNOWN DEAD, EIGHT MISSING AND TEN OTHERS INJURED

8 FEARED DEAD INN. J. BLAST   Linoleum Products Plant Explosion Buries Victims in Mass of Ruins.

R11 DEAD IN EXPLOSION   Three Known Dead In Lin. oleum Plant Blast At Kearney, N. J.

8 FEARED DEAD IN PLANT RUINS   bas ened  Explosion Fatal To Three Persons; 10 Injured

EIGHT ARE MISSING AFTER EXPLOSION   Dig into Ruins of New Jersey Linoleum Plant for Blast Victims

Seek Bodies In Wreckage After Blast   Trio Known Dead, Eight More Missing; Believe Others May Have Been In Ruildine

8 PERSONS ARE SOUGHT AFTER FACTORY BLAST   Three Dead And 10 Injured Critically In New Jersey

Fate of Eight Persons Hid In Wreckage   Congoleum - Nairn Plant At Kearney, N. J. Damaged By Explosion

8 ARE MISSING AFTER BLAST   10 Mile Avea Rocked By Explosion in Plant

FIVE PERSONS BELIEVED BURNED IN N. J. FIRE   Explosion and Fire in Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Building Claimed 5 Lives and 10 Others Were Injured

PLANT EXPLOSION CAUSES 3 DEATHS   Eight Other Persons Believed Buried in Ruins of Building.

War Plant Blast Fatal To Three   Mass Of Rubble Hides Fate Of At Least Eight Other Persons At The Kearny Plant

ELEVEN PERSONS BELIEVED KILLED IN KEARNY BLAS   New Jersey Plant Demo. ished by Explosion; Res: cue Workers Seek Vic tims in Ruins.

3 DIE, 10 HURT IN EXPLOSION AT JERSEY PLANT   Fate of Eight More in Doubt, Believed Buried Among Ruins

BLAST KILLS 3, EIGHT MISSING   TEN OTHER PERSONS HURT AS EXPLOSION ROCKS BIG FACTORY

8 ARE BURIED IN EXPLOSION      Blast Demolishes Plant Build‘ing, Killing 3, Injuring . 10 Others

8 Others Feared Buried In Ruins In New Jersey   Cork, Linoleum Dust Is Blamed

COALITION BACK OF RUML PLAN   —er G. 0. P. Congressmen, Southern Demos, Plan Battle Against Withholding Tax InIncome.

Coalition to Battle for Ruml Plan   Democrats Join Republicans in  Skip-a-Year Fight

Allied Troops Advancing 1On Prime Objectives In New Britain. And Guinea

Marines Gain In  Gloucester Push  Allies Make Gains On All Fronts

Marines Beat Off Japanese Attacks In Drive On New Britain Air Base

YANKS PUSH ON TOWARD GOALS IN NEW BRITAIN   Advance 2 Miles Toward Gloucester Airdrome on Northwest Coast

ALLIES GAIN IN NEW GUINEA AND ON NEW BRITAIN   AMERICAN MARINES EXPAND BEACHHEAD AT CAPE GLOUCESTER

llied Troops Roll n to Objectives n Britain Jungles       ystratians Sweep Forward on Coast of the Huon Penincvia and Island, to Seize Key Enemy Base in Ramu Valley   > *1ATION PLANES RANGE OVER WIDE AREA  -

STRADDLING OF JAP DEFENSES IN BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO OBJECT OF TWIN DRIVES BY ALLIES   ‘American Marines in New Britain Beat Off Fierce Jap Counterattacks While Australians in New Guinea Move Forward Alone Huon Peninsul

JAP AIR BASE   Twin Drives Threaten Nip Defenses for Vital Archipelago

Yanks, Aussies Extend Gains In South Pacific   Straddle Foe’s Defense System Centering In Bismarck Islands

ADVANCE IN PACIFIC AREA   Japs Stiffen Resistance on New Britain; 37 Nip Planes Downed; Tojo Attempts to Boost Food Production

230 JAP PLANES — ARE SHOT DOWN   That Number Destroyed In Two Weeks Over New Britain

ALLIED TROOPS OPEED DRIVES AGAINST JAPS   Marines On New Britain Beat Off Four Nipponese Counter Attacks

Alhes Roll On  In New Britain   Marines Beat Off Four Enemy Counterattacks; Expand Beachhead.

Troops Roll on Toward Prime Objectives in New Britain, New Guinea.   PLANES IN WHOLE AREA

37 Planes Are Downed  over Arawe   Australians Carve Out Gains. on New Guinea to Give Allies Twin Striking Force

Allies in Twin Drive in Pacific   Marines Near Cape Gloucester As Aussies Seize Key Point

Yank Warplane: Pound Italians   Maintain Fierce Air Siege Over Islands

TWO ITALIAN ISLANDSRAKED  BY AMERICANS   No Opposition Met By; Africa Based Planes At Pantelleria, Sardinia   Oil Refinery Blasted

Italian bases Struck Again By Yank Fliers   Opposition Lackins As Attack Enters Third Week

U.S. Strafes Italian Spots Again   Air Seige Keeps Foe At Bay; Newest Raids Not Resisted

Allies Continue Islands Siege   era A Planes Of U.S. Air Force Hit nine tot Pantelleria

Americans Continue Air Siege of Italian Outpost Islands Without Meeting Opposition

Dutch Fliers Hit Airdrome At Koepang   Large. Formation Of Mitchell Bombers Sent Over Target

War Prisoners May Work Here   Request: Sent To WMC And War Department

CANNERIES ASK WAR PRISONERS   450 Sought To Save Ber. rien’s Concord Grape Crop

BROODER HOUSES. HOG      ‘NORTH CENTRAL MO. PRESBYTERIAN MEETING  ;

President Believes That Rider To Appropriation Bill Is Unconstitutional

4- H Clubs Start Membership Drive For 1943-44, Dates Oct. 4 to 9

SEEK INCREASE IN 4-H CLUB MEMBERSHIP   Effort Is Being Made to Enroll All  Etigthle Youth in Fayette : County Clubs

FAYETTE COUNTY FARM BUREAU: NEWS LETTER  (By County Extansian Tijraatae’   Enrollment of AfMMNOtile Youth In 4.4 Clihs ie Snunht

BOMB ROME AGAIN!   Suggestion Growing Louder To Impress Badoglio

BRITISH URGE ROME BE BOMBED AGAIN   Failure of Italians To Seek Peace Reason

Badoglio Still Shows No Sign Of Giving Up   Reaction Varied To Italian Stand

DEMAND THAT ROME  BE BOMBED AGAIN  HEARD IN BRITAIN PRESSURE WOULD BE PU’  ON MILLION ITALIANS IN ETERNAL CITY

London Urges  Rome Bombing   British Press Demands Second Attack Be Made on Italian City

WOULD REMIND ITALIANS THEY FACE DECISION   3ritish Papers Call For Repetition Of Allied Air Attacks On Eternal City; General Strike Continues To Threaten Badoglio.

SECOND BOMBING OF ROME URGED BY NEWSPAPER   London Daily Express Avers Italians Should Be Reminded of Plight

Italy Will Stay in War   British Press Urges Rome Bombing Again; Badoglio Shuns Terms

URGE ROME BE BOMBED AGAIN   British Press Stresses Need to Force Decision

London Urges Rome Bombing   British Press Asks Coordinated Action By Allies As Blow To Enemy,

War Leaders Optimistic in Greetings   Commanders Send Season’s Messages to American Ser' vicemen Everywhere

Victory Seen — - For New Year   Allied Leaders Confident — That Months «Ahead. : “Will Be Decisive:

BOO Less sles ities,  CHRISTMAS BRINGS FORECASTS ALLIED VICTORIES IN YEAR  MILITARY LEADERS OF AMERICA GIVE OUT MES SAGES OF CONFIDENCE

U.S. Leaders Predict Decisive Allied Victory Before 1944 Christmas

Victory Certain, Allies Say on  Christmas Eve Yule Messages Sent to Troops By U.S. Leader:

VISIONS OF WORLD PEACE NEXT YEAR OR YEAR AFTER SEEN BY ALLIED OFFICERS

Victory By Next Christmas   Allied Leaders Confident Germany Will Fall in ‘44

Allied Commanders Send Special Words to Fighting Forces   All Express Faith in Victory Before Another Christmas

Confidence Noted In Yule Messages  War Chiefs’ Statements Cn? Ta Lares   Praver For Preservation

‘Confident Forecasts Of Allied Victory Before Another Xmas Come From Fronls

U.S. Army Leaders Forecast Decisive Victorie For Allied Forces Before Another Christmas

Tight Livestock Feed Situation   Government May Extend Control of Corn and Oth er Feed Grains.

Distribution of Feed May Be Put In Federal Control   Requisitioning of Corn for Distant Feeders Possible

SHORTAGE IS FEARED IN LIVESTOCK FEED   Drastic Measures May Be Taken To Ease It

NAIL CHRISTMAS GIFTS EARLY   Postoffice Department Urges Ce operation of Patrons In Order for Mail to Be Delivered on-Time

ROMMEL’S LINE BREAKS, YANKS RACE FOR GABES   Air, Sea Units Aid As Allies Put Axis On Run for Coast.

Allied ships, planes join assault on base   Eighth army plunges thru Mareth line as Americans score advance

ROMMEL’S AFRIKA KORPS AGAIN SENT INTO HEADLONG RETREAT   All Allied Forces In North Africa Are Breaking Through German Defense Lines

MATMATA. ONLY 22 MILES FROM AXIS BASE OF GABES, IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH   American Forces Continue to Move Eastward from El Guettar

Success Crowns Montgomery’s 10-Day Assault, Seizes Many Prisoners; . Warships Shell Axis Base

Allies Batter Japs at Rabaul   30 Planes Give Base Terrific Pounding

RABAUL HIT BY TERRIFIC RAID   50 Tons Of Explosives Dropped On Enemy Stronghold

RABAUL IS RAIDED BY ALLIED FLIER'      Heavy Assault Is Made on ’ Big Japanese © -Raca

RABAUL IS RAIDED BY ALLIED FLIERS   Heavy Assault Is Made on Big Japanese Race

A DECISIVE BATTLE IS DEVELOPING   Reds Use Powerful Masses to Stop Nazi Assault   Russians Continue Advance  On City of Bryansk

20,000 More Prisoner's Are Captured   Only Resistance Now Facing Eighth; Aire Attacke Graw

GERMAN TROOPS CUT OFF FROM MAINLAND AREA   200 Bombers Pound At Port Of Marsala In Sicily And Start  Great Fires

Axis Forces Isolated by French {9th “After British Cut Across Cape Bon   Allied Airmen Carry Out Tremendous Raid on Mediterranean Stepping Stones to Invasion of Continent; British Reach Hammamet

Germans Surrender  To French   Trapped Forces Short Of Food, Morale Low

FRENCH FORCE  NAZI SURRENDER IN ONE SECTOR   Prisoners Near 100,00C  as Enemy Resistance Hits Low Point

Unconditional Surrender Is Made To Advancing French   Germans Agree To Immediate Transfer Of All Materiel: Practically All Are Trapped

Thousands Are Trapped In Tunisia  By French   Other Thousands Face Death or Capture  On Cap Bon Peninsula As Resictance Wanoe   ALLIES CONTINUE HEAVY AIR ATTACKS  200 Bombers Pound At Marsala in Sicily, Pantelleria Hit Aeain

‘Allies Get War Booty: From Enemy   Armistice Terms Are Unconditional Surrender Of Foe.

ENEMY AGREES TO TRANSFER OF ALL EQUIPMENT   Axis Forces Are Quitting Fighting In Disorder  By Thousands   RING TIGHTENING AROUND CAP BON

French Refuse ‘To Give Terms  To Nazi Troops   Many prisoners taken in sweep across mouth of Cape Bon; Allied bombers raid Sicily.

French Decline Armistice Plea   British Move For Cap Bon Clean-Up  Rv WIELYVYAM BR FING

Allied Airmen Make Big Rai On Sicily Port   British Seize 20.000 In Breakthrough to Base of Cap Bon: One Tank Battle Raging

FUEL OIL CUT 25 PER CENT IN 17 STATES   Latest Cuts May Mean Shorter Hour Or Closing For  Dav Or Two.

FUEL OIL CUT IN EAST STATES BY 25 PER CENT   Reduces Rations to Commercial Industrial, Institutional Users 4° PC Effective Today

Record Number of Carriers  Take Part in Assault On Gilbert Islands

Harmony Marks Texas Session   Record Time ‘Made -On First Measure

Harmony Marks Texas Session  Record Time Made   Record Time Made On First Measure

French Troops Score Against Nazis In Italy   Fight Alongside Americans And British With Marked Siiccees.

French Now Fighting In Allied Lines   Win Suecesses Avainst Germans in the Italian Mountains

French Army Joins In Italy Fight, Smashes at Nazis  Tunis Veterans Take To European Field With American Allies

FRENCH TROOPS FIGHT NAZIS IN CENTRAL ITALY   BATTLE ALONGSIDE YANKS AND BRITISH; SCORES SUCCESSES

French Troops Vietorious In Central Italy   Have Been In Forward Positions Alongside British, Americans.   CREATES SENSATION

‘FRENCH TROOPS SEE ACTION ON [ITALIAN FRONT   Velerans of Tunisian Campaign, Wearing American Uniforms, Capture Hilltop Posiiions   PADUA IS BOMBED   Raiiway Yards Pounded in Aerial Campaign Against German Communicaliens

HAPPY HEART CONTRIBUTIONS#   French In Italian Lines   Perform With Brilliance; First Troops On Mainland Since 1940

Reveal Troops On Allied Front For First Time   Report German Mountain Forces Leave Russia For European Campaign

French Troops Score Gains In Italy.    Join With Americans And British in Assaults

Take Points, Prisoners   Ground Fighting Bitter; Planes Batter German Com: munications, Supply Lines

French Troops Battle Nazis With Allies   Score Outstanding Successes in Drive in Central Italy

French Force  - Seores Gain Against Nazis  Joins Allied Troop:  In Italy; Move Inte Rattle Faninned With

Score Outstanding Success Against Nazis In Mountains   Enter War on European Mainland For First Time Since 1940; German Prisoners Taken Surprised

RE- OUTFITTED FRENCH BATTLE BESIDE YANKS   Presence Of French Soldiers In Battle Of Italy Revealed For First Time; Scoring Outstanding Successes Against Enemy.

FRENCH FIGHTING IN ITALY; SCORE NOTED SUCCESSES   Have Been With British and Americans for’ Some Time But Fact Was Undisclosed—  “Have U. S. Guns, Uniforms

French Troops Fight In Italy   Successes Against Nazis*Chalked Up By Giraud Forces

New Gains Carved Out ‘in Mountains   Enemy Supply Lines Blasted In Air Assault

French Troops ‘Defeat Germans   ~ Make First Appearance On Side Of Allies Since 19040.

FRENCH ENTER FIGHT AGAIN WITH ALLIES   Placed in Forward Positions Alongside Americans and British, They Have Scored Outstand ino Snereedacac

FRENCH TROOPS IN BATTLE FOR ITALY MEET SUCCESSES —  ALLIED HEAVY BOMBER BLAST NAZI LINES  Fe rmAaricermy Fe

Score Outsta nding Suc cesses Against. Germans In Mountain Fighting; Consolidate Gains

American Equipment Used By Soldiers Who Fought With Allies at Tunisia

French Forces Score Success Against Nazis   Fight In Front Lines Of Allied Italian Army

French Troops Gain in Italy   Beat Back Germans In Mountain Fighting; Enemy Forces Surprised

FRENCH ARMY SCORES GAIN AGAINST NAZIS  Aerial Assaults Damage German

FRENCH TROOPS WITH ALLIES IN CENTRAL ITALY   Fighting for First Time or European Mainland Since 1940 They Score  — Sticcésses

Successes Against Nazis In Mountain Battles Reported   Same Forces Which Fought With Allies in Tunisia Again Are Slashing at German Positions, This Time on European Mainland.

French Scoring Gains in Italy   Their Presence in Mountain Fighting Alongside Allies Is Disclosed.

French Rout Nazis in Italy   First European Action Since 1940 Results In Major Success

French Force In Action in Central Italy   Score Outstanding Successes Against German Troops in Mountain Fichtine

FRENCH ARE FIGHTING IN CENTRAL ITALY   Outstanding Successes Are Scored Against Germans In Mountain Engagement

F vench TroopsF: ightitig  With U.S., British In ’ Battle For Rome —   Algiers Dispatch Says They:-Have Scored: Outstanding Suecesses Against The Germans In Mountain Warfare

French Join In lfalian Battle With Success   Tunisia Veterans Fight Alongside Yanks And Brits

French Army Joins In Italy Fight, Smashes at Nazis  Tunis Veterans Take To European Field

MANPOWER SHORTAGE GIVEN EXPLANATION      Shortage of Housing and Shortage of TFransportation Are the Rea eAamea

Judge Will Ask Indictment of Lax Parents In Effort to Halt Juvenile Delinquency -

INDICTMENT OF LAX PARENTS URGED IN DELINQUENCY CASES   West Virginia Jurist Declares Step Is Major Way of Combatting Juvenile Crime—-Charge Made to Grand Jurors

Judge Says He’ll Tell Jury Indict _ Parents For Juvenile Delinquency

Wage-Price Stabilization Threatened   Showdown on Cost of Living Issue May Result

INERS SEEK 2 PER DAY WAGE BOOST   tis Calls For $1,000,000 iily Increase, Has Green, Murray on His Side.   JRMULA THREATENED   3 Appeals to Byrnes Tc ‘ttle Requests Pouring In From Many Quarters.

LEWIS TO ASK ‘$2 PAY RAISE FOR MINERS   Demand Body Blow To Shaky -Stabilization - Program —

COAL MINERS’ PAY INCREASE DEMAND PERILS PROGRAM   Action By Lewis Puts Administration In Tough Spot

WAGE DEMANDS: OF COAL MINERS: MAY SHAKE WLB..SCALE   Large ‘Labor. Organizations Are United In Asking ‘That. Formula “Ba Raised !

MINERS DEMAND $2 WAGE RAISE   Soft Coal Workers’ Action Ma; Bring Showdewn On Inflational Contrel

Coal Miners May Wreck Wage Policy   Demand $2.00 a Day Increase to Meet  Higher Costs

MINERS ATTACK "LITTLE STEEL’ WAGE FORMULA   Demand For $2 A Day Increase Seen Blow To Stabilization Program   PROBLEM PUT TO BYRNES   Labor Groups United In Agreeing Cost Of Living Going “Out Of Bounds”

DEMAND OF MINERS -FOR INCREASE MAY BE BLOW TO PLANS   Already Shaky Wage and Price Stabilization Pro atam May Be Hard . beta

HEAVY CASUALTIES SEEN BY STIMSON      Secretary, However, Confident of Allied Success in Africa

STIMSON REPORTS YANKS CONFIDENT   War Secretary Says Americans Hardened, Eager for Battle; Warns Victories Will Cost Heavy Casualties

Africa Victory Will Be Costly, Stimson Asserts   Secretary of War Points Out That Hard Fighting ls Ahead

U. S. Troops Have Proved Selves in Africa, Stimson Savs: Warns of Casualties

New Rules For Licensing Cars   Doerr Announces Transparency Stickers For Autos, Trucks In 1944

Treas. Doerr Gives the New License Rules   Stickers to be used; occupation of owner must be stated.

British Operation, Italians Called An Invasion Attempt, Only Reconnaissance Action   Malta Communiqye Reveals Foray Made By Light Surface Forces

itish Admit nding on impedusa   Commandes \re Missing,’ ‘eport Says -

No Damage At Lampedusa  Allied Reconnaissance Reported At Valletta

BRITISH REPORT RAID JUST SCOUTING TRIP   Deny Casualties In Foray Against Lampedusa

‘FIGHT TO END.   Believed Rommel Will Not Attempt ‘Large Evacuation. ©

GEORGE THINKS WAR NEAR END   Believes Japan Will Begin To Totter When Germany Falls

SOLON EXPECTS JAPRALLSOON ARTER GERMAN   Senator George Forecasts  Victory This Year Over  Nazis, Says Nips to  ” Crumble Quickly -

Victory. Claim ‘Gains Support   Senator George’ Sees Jap Foldup Soon After Our Defeat Of Nazis: -

American Airmen Flew Low Enough To Lodge Cornstalks In Bomb Bays On Ploesti Raid °

AMERICAN AIRMEN BOMBING RUMANIAN OIL AREA FLEW LOW   DALLAS LIBERATOR PILOT, JUST HOME, TELLS OF DEVASTATING RAID

STRATEGY OF AIR OFFENSIVE — MAY DELAY MAJOR INVASION   AMEBICAN AND BRITISH AERYAL PLANS DESIGNED TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES IN FUTURE

ARMY CRACKS NAZI DEFENSES   ‘American Troops Seize Mt. Samucro in ‘Battle of The Clouds.’

MI. SAMUCRO IS CAPTURED   Canadian Troops Smashing Forward On EjightMile Front   FIGHTING 1S FIERCE

Americans Take Mt. Samucro In Bloody Fighting   Canadian Soldiers Smashing On After New. River Crossing

‘Canadians Cress Moro Leading   British Eighth in Advance ox Port of Pescara   BATTLE IN CLOUDS   Americans Smash Germans Back in Surprise, Hand-to-Hand Altack in Toughest Campaign Yet

GERMAN DEFENSES ARE GRACKED BY THE FIFTH ARMY   They Were Located on Both Sides of Main Road Leading to Rome.   A NINE-DAY OFFENSIVE   American Troops Have Seized Mt. Samucro in “Battle of the Clouds.”

American Forces Smash DefensesGermansHoped  Would Stand for Months   Canadians Prive Steadily.

Battle Nazis Among Cloud: of Mountains   Clark's Army Routes Foe From Heights in Hand-to-hand Fighting

OTH ARMY PUSH HAS A SMASHING CLIMAX IN ITALY   German Defenses Broken On Both Sides Of The Via Casilina; Eighth Army Also Con tinues Its Advance.

U.S. Troops Seize Ridge In ‘Battle Of Clouds’   Americans In Bitter Hand-To-Hand Fighting With Nazis; Canadians Also Make Advance

ALLIES BATTLE IN CLOUDS 10 TAKE SAMUGHL   Crack German Line on Two Sides of Via Casilina ‘by Taking Mount.

Fifth Army Seizes Mt. Samucro After Nine Bloody Days   Wipe Out Nazi Line on Both Sides of Main  Highway to Rome

Nazis Fight Fiercely To Hold Pescara   Americans Take Mountain In ‘Battle Of The Clouds’

Yanks Capture Mt. Samucro In  Fight In Clouds   5th Army Smashes Nazi Line On Both Sides Of Main Road to Rome.

Fifth Cracks Nazi Line in Bitter Fray   Canadians Smash Ahead on Eight Mile Front. Force New River Crossing

YANKS SMASH NAZI LINE IN HARD BATTLE   Strongest Man-Made Defenses Fail to  Halt Advance

CRACK DEFENSES NAZIS HOPED TO HOLD FOR MONTHS   CANADIANS SMASH AHEAD ON 8-MILE ADRIATIC FRONT

Mount Samucro Falls As Climax To 9-Day Drive   Canadian Spearhead Forges Along Adriatic On 8-Mile Line In Steady Push

Allies Clear Both Sides Of Via Cosilina At Mignano In Bloody Offensive Climaxed By Seizure Of Mt. Samucro By American Troops-—Canadians Spearhead Eighth Army In Steady Forward Smash Against Enemy Along Adriatic Front

RID EAST SIDE OF GARIGLIANO OF ALL NAZIS      Smashing Victory Climaxes Bloody, Nine-Day  Offensive

Americans Win  Battle Ot Clouds   Climax Breaking Of Famed “Winter Line” In A Single Week

Yanks Storm Mt. Samucro, ‘BreakingLine   Capture Peak 3,000 Feet Up in Mist; Canadians Cross Moro, Hold Fast

Break Nazi Mountain: ' Defenses   Fifth .Army  Victoriou In Nine-Day Drive Climaxed By. “Battle Of The Clouds”

Mt. Samucro Seized By U. §. Troops   Smashing Victory By Americans On Italian Front

CERMAN ARMIES IN ITALY ARE LOSING GROUND   Americans Battle Way To Top Of  Mountain Pass

Enemy Is Cleared From East Side Of Upper Garigliano; Column 78 Miles From Rome

GERMANS’ DEFENSES SMASHED   Canadians Cross Mor« River Second Time In Eastern Area

GERMANS LOSE POSITIONS IN MIGNANO AREAS   Capture of Mt. Samucro Brings United States Offensive to Smashing Climax   ARMIES WITHIN 76 MILES ETERNAL CITY   Canadians of Eighth Army Smashing Ahead On Eight-Mile Front Bevond Moro River

FROM EAST BANK BIG RIVER‘ /   Canadians Drive Forward at Same Time. Allied - Gains Marked by Fighting As Violent As Any ia American. Military History. Highway to Kome

Allied Armies Forge Ahead Or [falian Front  Vaunted Winter Defenses Broken  a Sacieg en an

CLEARS BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD 70 ROME         Bloody 9-Day Offensive for Possession of Via Casilina at Mignano Climaxed by Capture of Mt. Samucro.

Fifth Army.  Rips German Mountain Line   Yanks Capture Key Height In Bitter Fichtinag

YANKS CRACK GERMAN LINE   U.S. NABS MT. SAMUCRO; CANADIANS ROAR AHEAD

Yanks Win “Battle of The Clouds’   _ American Troops Seize Mt. Samucro After Bloody 9Day Offensive

Fifth Army Victory Is _ Climax to Bloody 9-Day Offensive Néar Mignano

Canadians Force Second Crossing On Moro River; Americans Engage: In Bloody Hand to Hand Fighting

FIFTH ARMY FORCE  OMASHES BOTH SIDES  MAIN ROAD TO ROME BLOODY NINE-DAY BAT TLE WON; EIGHTH ARMY AICO ANVANGCRE

DEFENSESONRCAL TO ROME SMASHED   Nine-Day Offensive: In Mountains Comes To Smashing Climax   FIGHT IN CLOUDS   American And British Veterans Overcome Formidable Obstacles

U.S. Troops Smash Nazi Line   Battle of Clouds Is Victory for Clark‘s Soldiers

YANKS SMASH GERMAN LINES ON TWO SIDES   Crack Mignano Defenses After Bloody NineDay Offensive .

American Troops Seize Mt. Samucro, Cracking Both Sides Of Defense Line

ALLIES FORGE se ALONG      Canadians of Eighth Army Gain Eight Miles While Americans Occupy Another Ridge   \ZIGHT IN THE CLOUDS

Bloody 9-Day Offensive in  Cloud: Ended   Wipe Out Strongest Man-Made Defenses; Eighth Army Advances

Mt. Samucro Is Taken To Clima 9-Day Offensive   8th Army Forces Second Crossing Over Moro In  BMile Advance

AMERICAN ARMY “CLAIMS ‘BATTLE . OF THE CLOUDS   Clark’s Forces Smash Nazi Defenses on Both Sides of Road to Rome

Important Point  Taken by Allies   Fifth Army Cracks Nazi De_ fenses in “The Battle  of Clouds”   ION THE ROAD TO ROME   American Engagement Consisted of Bloody Hand-  to-Hand Fighting

Ailies Seize  hit. Samuecro   NAZL DEFENSES ON BOTH SIDES OF VIA CASILINA CRACKED

Mercury Back Down Tonight   Temperature In North Kansas May Go As Low As 12

‘COLD WEATHER COMING   Flora Predicts Real Winter Tem‘ peratures for Kansas

Another Cold Wave Tonight   Mercury Expected To Reach Zero  Refore Morning

SNOW IN WITH WINDS   Possible Drop, to 16 Degrees Fore. cast for Kansas

BULGARS START ANTI-AXIS MOVE   Demonstrators Storm Sofia Streets as: Dead King’s Son Takes Throne

Demonstrations  In Bulgaria   Mation Seethes With AntiNazi Sentiment Follow ing King’s Death   LARGE CROWDS ‘SURGE STREETS

Two Changes In lowa Vote  ~ Law Needed   Extension of Time and Special Type Ballots Recommended

Special Election Plans in Making  Vacancies in House, Senate to Be Filled

War Objectors Living as in Desert, Tropics   Volunteer From Denison Camp to Aid Study ot Troop Needs

Conner Named Prison Warden   Osage County Sheriff To Succeed Fred Hunt at McAlester

OSAGE SHERIFF SUCCEEDS HUNT AT STATE ‘PEN   ‘Dick’ Conner Is Appointed Warden by Kerr—Action Follows Prison Strike

GASOLINE SAID IN ACUTE STAGE   OPA Not Willing to Cut “ABC” Cards Unless Foreed

OPA PA Rejects Plan to Drop _A, B, C Books   Some Curtailment of Gas Allotments for Commercial Vehicles Likely

Enforcement Of Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Strict   Fuel Allotments For Com_ mercial Vehicles May’. Be Curtailed.

GERMAN ARMY STANDS FIRM AT KHARKO\      But Russ Advance to Point 18 Miles From Bryansk

U.S. HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK BY NAZIS OFF SALERNO: WAS PLAINLY MARKED

WELLES VISITS MAINE ESTATE   State Devartment Shake-up Imminent, Says Reports in Washington

May Shift Welles To Foreign Pos   Undersecretary ‘‘Found’’ At Bar Harbor Estate, Changes Rumored

SHIFTING OF WELLES SEEN   WIGH OFFICIAL OF STATE DEPARTMENT LEAVES WASH* INGTON AMID REPORTS OF SHAKEUP -

Lines Around Rostov Base Penetrafed   44,000 Are Captured In Battle West Of Voronezh By Soviets

SWIFT SMASH MADE TOWARD SEA OF AZOV   HITLER’S DEFENSES BROKEN, 44,000 WIPED OUT

Russian Troops Have Broken Through Powerful Fortifi cations Rimming Rostov   SOVIET COMMANDOS ON TAMAN PENINSULA

German Lines Rimming Rostov Broken   44,000 Encircled Axis Forces Are Killed, Captured

Russians Crack First Line of Fortifications Rimming That Important German Anchor

Trap Sprung By Swift Azov Push   Russians Break Through First Line Of Newly Built Defenses At Rostov: 44.000 Nazis Killed  In Voronezh Section

Swift Smashes To  Sea Of Azov Are Made By Soviets   Powerful New Nazi Fortifications At Rostov Are Penetrated By Russians.

Two Swift Smashes Mode’ -'_ Toward Sea of + Azov_ MANY AXIS TROOPS REPORTED KILLED Seizure of Towns Effect: ively Splits Enemy Forces

REDS CUT OFF ROADS LEADING TO ROSTOV; BREAK DEFENSE LINE   Soviets Also Announce 44,000 Nazis Killed or Captured in Fighting At Voronezh; Nearing Kursk

NAZIS FALL BACK UNDER HEAVY BLOW   Simultaneously Reds Cut Off Huge German Army   In Western Caucasus From City.   LAND COMMANDOS ON BLACK SEA COAST   Units Will Try to Forestall Enemy “Dunkerque” Escape— Vital Base of Kursk Menaced,

200,000 German Troops Facing Death in Trap   Two Swiff Advances Peril Large Caucasus Force   Capture of More Towns Announced in Moscow Communique

Fleet Aids Russian Storming of Shore  German Radio Admits Novorossisk Port Heavily Hit  Red Commandos Gain  Foothold Near Kereh  Seizure of 2 Towns Splits Caucasus Feee—Kursk Attacks Progress      Red Commandos Gain  Foothold Near Kereh   Seizure of 2 Towns Splits Caucasus Feee—Kursk Atlacks Progress

Reds Land Commando Force From Black Sea Behind Nazi Lines  BERLIN ADMITS BLOWS  North African War Theater Is Without  New Major Action

‘Red Thrusts Reach Azov Area; City’s  Detenses Pierced ©   44,000 Of Enemy Killed Or Captured As Strategic Kursk Swarmed On Three Sides

Annihilate Enemy Near Voronezh   Sweep: fo Encircle Kursk; German Base Is Split.

Heavy Hog Shipments Continue to Flood  U.S. Packing Centers; Embargoes Placed

‘Australians Continue Drive Against Few Remaining Jap Bases in New Guinea

AUSSIES PENETRATE JAP OUTPOSTS AT RAMU RIVER VALLEY   Drive Menaces Las Enemy Bases On Island Coast

AUSSIE INFANTRY BREAKS THROUGH ENEMY OUTPOSTS      Drive Menaces ‘Remaining Jap Bases ‘Along Coast Of: Northeastern:  ‘New Guinea

AUSTRALIANS RIVE INTO RAMU VALLEY   Penetrate Jap Outpost: That Endanger All o' Bases in Northeasterr New Guinea.

Japanese Lines In New Guinea Are Penetrated   Australians Break Through  Enemy Lines In Drive On Remaining Bases

LAUNCH DRIVE ON REMAINING BASES   Movements of Russians Indi. cate Plans For Drive to Turn Nazi Flanks.

GOP Calls For Less Government  Control, Jobs      Report Blasts At Democratic Rule’ of Home Policies

GOP Promises Full Production   New Deal Policies Scored by Council

GOP POLICY GROUP GETS PROGRAM OF POST-WAR PLEDGES   Recession’ On Both Sides Of Question Expected ~ In Interest Of -— Party Accord

Reconstruction Plan Submitted At Mackinac   Full Employment Through Full Production With Minimum Control ‘Is Urged By Republicans

RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM PLANNED   Full Production, Minimum Control of Industry Pledged By Committee.

GOP COUNCIL ASKS PLEDGE OF FULL JOBS   Taft Home Front Committee Says Democrats Will Wreck Nation.   FOREIGN POLICY PLANK - TO SIT ON MIDDLE ROAD

FIRST WACS REACH ITALY FROM AFRICA   55 Members Of Women’s Corps With Clark’s Army

LONG PACIFIC WAR SEEN WITH CARRIER ORDER      First, Of Big Carriers Will Not Be Ready For Action For Two Years

Navy Announces Plans to Build  Super-Carriers   New Type Craft To Match Largest Battleships in Size

LONG PACIFIC WAR INDICATED BYNAVAL PLANS   Two - Year Iritetvals Included in Construction of Vessels

RUHR REGION AGAIN SUBJECTED TO RAID   British Bombers Attack Important Objectives in Industrial Sections.

SOVIET ARMIES PRESS TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER   Mounting Signs of German Withdrawals in North Are Seen

GERMANS MAY FALL BACK TO NEW DEFENSES  RAF Carries Out   RAF Carries Out New Attack On Nazi Sub Base

See Possibility Nazis Withdrawing Beyond Dnieper to Prepare For Coming Battle of Europe

RUSSIAN ARMY SURGES AHEAD FROM KHARKO\   Think Germans May Fall Back To Dnieper  River Line :

Germans Staging Biggest Retreat Of Russian War   New German Withdrawals To North Might Be Forthcoming; May Attempt T Fall . Back Along Dnieper Line

SUMMONED BY COMERVEI   Conference Follows Government Seizure of Railroads   C.I. O. Chieftain Orders Workers to Return to Jobs

Steel Industry's Crisis Ebbs Away   Strikers Ordered Back To Work By Monday

CRISIS IN STEEL INDUSTRY {8 AVERTED   C. 1, 0. Chieftain Orders Workers to Return to Jobs

STEEL InQUalnit Ghlato ENDS AS STRIKERS RETURN   CIO President Murray Orders Wildcatters to Go Back to Wor«

CRISIS IN STEEL FADES AS CHIEF -GANCELS STRIKE   Expect Normal Operations by Nightfall as Murray Heeds FDR Plea

REPORT BY FDR PLANNED AFTER YULE HOLIDAYS   Message to Congress In January to Give Conference Story

Roosevell Ready To Visit Quebec   Discusses Plans With Sec. Hull

CHURCHILL AND FOR HOLD TALK   Prime Minister Returns to Quebec After Visit at Uvde Park.

President Back At White House   Roosevelt Returns From Five Weeks Trip To Find Congress Getting Ready For Christmas Vacation.

CHURCHILL BACK IN QUEBEC AFTER HYDE PARK TALKS   THREE-DAY VISIT WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS BEEN REVEALED

FDR Returns To Washington: Goes to Quebec Parley Shortly   Churchill Back in Canada After Seeing President At Hyde Park

FDR RETURNS FROM PARLEY   Return io United States Is Reported by Early; Left November 11

NO REPORT 10 JULONG BEFORE HAST (iF YEAR   Congress Plans Vacation for Holidays; Many Issues Await Return.

Congress Considering a Short Vacation Before Tackling Controversies

ROOSEVELT BACK IN UNITED STATES   PRESIDENT ABSENT FROM COUNTRY 35 DAYS—-HAS NOT REACHED CAPITAL.

Churchill Returns To Quebec After Three-day Visit With President At Hyde Park; Military Chiefs of Staffs of Both Nations Already At Hand.

Churchill Returns After Visit With FR   Three-Day Visit at Hyde Park wag Preliminary to Momentous Confer: ence to be Held at Quebec This Week.

Roosevelt May Delay Speech Until January   President Arrives At White House After Long Trip 4 Leanan   READY FOR VACATION

Churchill Visits F.R.   Returns to Quebec After Hyde Park Call;  Resumes Conferences

Churchill Back In Quebec For Meeting After Visiting President In Hyde Park

FDR BACK FROM. ALLIED PARLEY$   President Returns to White House After Historic  Conferences

WAR, POLITICAL ISSUES TO FACE QUEBEC PARLEY   Churchill Returns To Canada After Three-Day Visit With Roosevelt   MILITARY CHIEFS CONFER   Possibility Arises Eden Or Welles May Go To Moscow To See Stalin

PRESIDENT NOW BACK INU. S.A   Trip To Cairo Begun Or Noy. 11, Probably By Warship

STAGE SET FOR FDR-CHURCHIL AIIFREC CONFAB   Three-Day Conference At Hyde Park Prelude To  Discussions   10 MEET THIS WEEK   Military Strategy In Europe, Politics Will Be Planned

HULL RECEIVES STRATEGY DATA   Roosevelt Gives Inside Information On Talks With Churchill

PRESIDENT BACK IN CAPITAL   To: Join Churchill in Quebec Later  This Week

PRESIDENT SAFELY BACK IN THE U.S.   Announcement Is Made At White House

STAGE IS SET FOR QUEBEC CONFERENCES   Prime Minister Back in Canada After Spending Week-end at Hyde Park   STAFFS ARE ON HAND

QUEBEC AWAITS F.D.R. ARRIVAL      Churchill Returns to Canada After Three-Day . Visit With President

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Congress May Recess Before  Greeting FDR   President Arrives Back in Washington and_ Finds Lawmakers in a Cool Disposition.

Roosevelt In Capitol After ( 5-Week Trip!   Congress Considering a Short Vacation Before Tackling Controversies 

QUEBEC SETS STAGE FOR BIG -WAR CONCLAVE   Roosevelt Returns to Washington, Churchill to Canada After. Hyde Park Visits

~  -—CONFERENCE—  Churchill In Quebec After Hyde Park Visit      President Returns To Washington After Three-Day Meeting With British Prime Minister; Will Go To Quebec Soon

RESUME IN QUEBEC   Churchill Is There and Roosevelt Is Expected Shortly -

FDR Back in White House After Parleys   Find Congress in Jam on Numerous Controversial Issues

Stage Is Set For Meet Of F. R., Churchill   Prime Minister Back In Quebec After Visit To Hyde Park: President Returns To Canital

F. D. R. Back in U.S. From Confab Trip   PRESIDENT RETURNS AFTER 5-WEEK JOURNEY TO MIDDLE EAST

President Back In Washingfon After Parleys   Churchill Meets Roosevelt at Home In New York State

CONGRESS NOT TO HEAR FOR IMMEDIATELY   Solons, To Take Holiday Vacation, Listen to President After Jan. 1

Roosevelt Returns to Washington   Churchill Back  In Quebec After Meeting With FDR In Hyde Park

Churchill Back In Quebec After Hyde Park Visit   Stage Now Being Set For Full Dress Talks With Roosevelt.

PRESIDENT BACK FROM HIS TRIP   White House Secretary Announces Return of Chief Executive to U. S.

ROOSEVELT BACK AT NATION'S: CAPITO   FDR To Join Quebec Meeting Sometime This Week

F. Pes oS Returns to 3 ésaington After -veing Churchill   British Prime Minister Arrives in Quebec Where Joint Chiefs of Stoff of Both Nations Hove Been Meeting for Days

President Home From Conference   FDR Expected to Join Churchill Again This Week at Quebec.

Churchill Visits FDR ‘At Hyde Park   Returns to Quebec after Three-Day Visit with President; War Strategy Conference Exnected Soon

F.D.R. WILL GO 10 QuEBEC DURING WEEK   Churchill, Meanwhile, Resumes His Work There Following Three-Day Visit With President at Hyde Park.

President Back In White House After Long Trip   Rayburn Says F. D. Not To Appear Before Congress: Until Early Next Year

F. D. R. Safely Back In Executive Mansion...  President, Back In The White House, Not Ready To Report To Congress

QUEBEC AWAITS ARRIVAL OF FDR FOR WAR TALKS   Churchill Returns After Trip To Hyde Park——Meetings Set ‘This Week’

Quebec Expects F.D.R. This Week   Churchil:: Has-Returned To Canadian City

Roosevelt Never Out Of Touch With Washington   Was Ever In Four Days Flying Time From Capital

FDR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN CANADA SOON   Churchill Back In Quebec;. Roosevelt Returns To Capital

Roosevell ~ Is Safely ~ Back Home   White House Announcement Gives No Other Details On His. Return:   HIS LONG ‘TRIP BEGAN -ON-NOV. 11   Unconfirmed German Report ’ Says Air Voyage Incluadeda Forced Landing

THE PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM A THREE-DAY TRIP   Held Conference With Prime Minister Winston Churchill.   ‘MET IN HYDE PARK, N. Y.   The White House Gave No Details of the President’s Trip.

FDR, CHURCHILL WAR MEET NEAR   ‘SOCIAL’ CONFAB AT HYDE PARK PRECEDES QUEBEC DISCUSSIONS

ALLIED LEADER MAP PLANS FOR VICTORY DRIVE      Developments Suggest 4Point Agenda for Final . » $tages

F. D. R. Reports to His Aides  - Hull, Knox and - Walker Called In

Roosevelt Back In United States   Return To Capital is Expected Soon

White House Announces That Roosevel Has Arrived Back in U. 5. From Confabs

REPORT TO WAIT AFTER HOLIDAYS   Chief Executive Was in Constant Touch with Washington While at Goliferences

F. D. R. Returns To White House After 5 Weeks   Finds Congress Making Plans To Recess Until After Holidays.

ROOSEVELT GETS WELCOME TODAY AT WASHINGTON   No Detailed Report To Be Given Until January Talk On Union

CHURCHILL AT QUEBEC AFTER VISIT IN UL S   Ends 3-Day Stay at Hyde Park: Awaits Roosevelt Visit “This Week.”

Churchill Back In Quebec, FD In Washington   Hyde Park Scene Of  3-Day Meet

LLL MAMMAL LANL ALLL LA AALAND A  Report President Downed ‘in Azores

ROOSEVELT BACK IN UNITED STATES   President Returns Safel From Middle East

CHURCHELL IN QUEREC AFTER TALK WITH FDE   Spends Three Days With Roosevelt At Hyde Park

Churchill Back In Quebec After Hyde Park Visit   President Roosevelt To Join Conference Sometime This Week

Congress Plans Yule Vacation   LAWMAKERS MAY TAKE RECESS DURING CHRISTMAS

Believed to Have Talked Over Preliminary Matters Before War Strategy Conference Begins When Roosevelt Reaches Quebec

FOR MOVES TO SAVE PROGRAM IN CONGRESS   Returns From ‘rom War Talks  To Find Solons Plan ning Recess

Returns to Washington _ From War Conferences As Congress Prepares  ta Reress *   TO AWAIT SOLONS’ RETURN TO REPORT   Faces Many Unsolved Problems On Domestic. Front, Including Taxes  - and Subsidies

Roosevelt To Quebec This Week   British-U. S. Leaders. Will Take Up War Talks In Earnest, Following 3Dav Visit at Hyde Park

Churchill Is in Quebec for War Talks   Prime Minister and Roosevelt End Week-End Parley at Hydé Park

QOSEVELT TO Q THIS WEEK TQWAR PARLEY      eturns to White Howse  After 3 Days of Confer ences With Churchill At Hyde Park   ‘ONPERS WITH HULL AND SEC. KNOX   6 . pris Prime Minister’s Njsit With President Held iSecial In Character; 2 Military Staff Confers

FDR RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE AFTER CONFABS   Talked With Prime Minister Churchill For Three Days At Hyde Park, New York; Confers With Hull

PRESIDENT MAY MAKE REPORT T0 CONGRESS ON TRIP   Safely Back in This Coun try After Long Trip He May Tells Solons of Mo mentous Meetings

Allied Invasion Likely’ Will Be Ayis Surorise   Long Coastline Must Be Defended By Enemy Armiés

ALLIED AIR FLEETS MAKE BIG RAID ON PANTELLERIA BASE   Docks, Airfields Smashed In Attack — Fortreases Strike At Port Of Trapani

ALLIED ARMIES CONCENTRATED ON AFRICAN COAST   Prepared to Jump Off Toward Almost Any Part of Axis “Underbelly.

WHEREABOUTS EIGHTH ARMY PUZZLES AXIS   Appeared. to Drov Out of Final — ‘Tunisian Fighting

OPA CHARGED  WITH ILLEGAL METHODS FOOD PRICE CONTROL   Committee Reports That Citizens Are Being Denied Vital Rights and  Liberties.

SHIPYARD WORKERS HELD FOR SABOTAGE   Faulty Welding Gets Seven More in Trouble

BABSON THINKS MORTGAGES ARE NOW GOOD INVESTMENT   Discusses Continual Turning of Business and Investments, Urges No Sacrifices In Mortgages, Real Estate Now

INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE IS SUGGESTED   Senator Ball Introduces Measure

INTERNATIONAL POLICE URGED   i ‘Sen. Ball Introduces Plan  In U. S. Senate

Would — Police The World   Senator Says Proposal. For International Post: War Force Only Means of Controlling’ Wars

SENATE GROUP SPONSORS WAR GONTROL MOVE   Resolution Introduced for United States Action to Keep Peace.   BITTER CONTROVERSY. IN CONGRESS FORECAST

World Police Plans Upheld To Aid Peace   Senator Introduces Bill Seeking Control of War Plague

World Police Proposed By Senate Group   Lawmakers Would Be Placed On Record For Future

Proposes Post-War Police Force to Preserve Peace   Minnesota Man Offers Measure, Taft Sees Precipitation of Bitterness While Wheeler Says He Will Fight It to the Last —

Post-War Police Force Proposal Stirs Congress  Party Lines Drawn On Rul Tox Plan; AFL Labor Board © Members Hit Policy

FE WORLD - POLICE. AS ONLY WAY T0 PEACE   " Other Moves -Have Failed Senate Told by. Sponsors of Post:War Plan   e WHEELER. WILL FIGHT. TO. END   ‘But Proponents Declare U. S.:Must Decide Now on “World Policy

BATTLES RAGING IN CONGRESS ON WORLD POLICE   Bi-partisan Committee Has Plan To Maintain Peace After Allies Win War   'SEN. TAFT IS AGAINST IT   Meanwhile, Party Lines Are Drawn for Fight Over Pay-as-you-go Taxes

Offer Plan for World  Police Force   Bill Would Define Senate’s View on Post War Problems to Maintain Peace

Introduce Bill Asking Police  Arm For Worle   Senators Wheeler. Taft Voice Objections To Suggested Program.   ASK EARLY ATTENTION

Sen. Ball Offers *Plan To Police Post-War World   Called Only Practical Means Of ‘Controlling Placue Of War.’

Post-War Program Is Submitted   International Force Is Needed To Control Plague Of War, Says Senator Ball

World Police Force  Plan Given Senate   Old Methods of Maintaining Peace Have Failed, Ball Says  Te Tnteadnnine Measécure

Postwar Police Plan for World Is Suggested   Controversial Measure Given To Senate

World Police Force Planned   SENATOR INTRODUCES POST - WAR BILL TODAY

BALL INTRODUCES MUCH-DISCUSSED PEACE MEASURE   Move Expected to Bring Congressional Storm; Taft Fears Bitterness Will Disrupt Unity.

World Police * Plan Proposet   Bitter Senate Fight. ‘Is In Prospéct .

POST WAR POLICE “BILL INTRODUCE!   Minnesota Senator Call: Plan Only Practical Means For Peace, Stability

POST-WAR PROPOS..FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICE INTRARIICEN   DECLARED ONLY PRACTI. CAL MEANS OF CONTROLL. ING PLAGUE OF WAR

World Police Plan Offered. In The Senate   Post-War Setup Is Proposed In New Measure

Post-War Plans Offered Solons  Only Practical Means Of Control. Savs Ball

International ‘lice Force ‘ill Offered   It Is Only Practical  Means of Controlling Plague of War, Says Sponsor, Senator Ball

PRESIDENT ASKS EXGLUSION ACT BE ELIMINATED   LAW PASSED IN 1882 BARRING IMMIGRATION OF CHINESE PRONOUNCED A_ HISTORIC MISTAKE,   POST-WAR CREDITS ON VICTORY TAX   House Passes Bill Permitting Taking of Exemptions—Administration’s Tax Measure Receiving More Criticism.

Asks Repeal of  Exclusion Laws   Says Chinese Bai: Historic Mistake

CONGRESS ASKE TO REPEAL 1882 CHINESE LAW   President Terms 1882 Act As Historic Error By United States.

FDR ASKS FOR REPEAL OF CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW   “We Should Be Big Enough to Admit and Correct Past Mistakes

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AGED KEMPTON MAN [3 DEAD   Francis Theodore Mozingo, Age 74 Years, Died Monday Night.

War Advisors Tour Bases In South Pacific   Forecast Japan To Feel Scourge of Allies Soon’

Patterson, Knudsen In Pacific Zone   New Hints of Big Offensive Aired

ARMY HEADS IK PACIFIC AREA   Knudsen, Patterson Will  Confer With Gen. MacArthur

BLOWS OF INCREASING STRENGTH AGAINST JAPANESE PREDICTED SOON BY SECRETARY

New Smashes Nea Against Japanese   War Undersecretary Patterson Inspects Pacific Offensive Bases with Knudsen

KNUDSON [i IN PACIFIC SECTOR   Production Adviser and Undersecretary Patterson Tour Bases.   FORECAST NEW BLOWS

Aim Blows at Japanése   MacArthur's s Headquarters peporta Eroarrae Oh. ‘Both.

Forecasts New Blows In Pacific   Great Striking Power Has Been Assembled For Drive On Japs, Says Patterson

Patterson And Knudsen Visit Pacific Fronts   Arrival Stresses Forecasts Of Mighty New Blows At Janan.

NEW BLOWS AT JAPAN COMING   High U. S. Officers Arrive In Southwest Pacific

(J. S. War Chiefs To Pacific   Patterson And Knudsen Make Special Trip

PATTERSON VISITS FAR PACIFIC BASE   Knudsen Also at Allied Headquarters; Herald Blows at Javan.

EARLY OFFENSIVE SEEN IN PACIFIC   U.S. WAR CHIEFS VISIT HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED COMMAND

Senate Group Hits Salary Limit Order  Votes to Wipe Out Roosevelt Measure

SALARY ORDER WPED GUT BY   Substitute Statutory Ceiling Applying To Wages

Russians Capture More Villages In Smolensk Offense   Massed Russian Tanks Break Into Outer Ring Of Defenses Jn System At Smolensk

England Bombed In Longest Raid In Many Months   Convent Atiacked, Children Escape

Britain Attacked By Large Group Of Nazi Planes   Raid Reported Puny Imitation of Allied Diversified Tactics

LONDON RAIDED, NOT LIKE 1941   German Planes Come In Singly; Bombings Scattered

BRITAIN IS RAIDED ‘BY GERMAN FLIERS   Large Number of Raiders Sent Over England by Nazis

Germans Are Building Internal Siegfried ‘Line, First-Aid Posts to Bolster Morale

Geriany Trying To Avoid Crash ~ Of Home Morale   pe  Bein Newspaper Sa ys _Couritr ry in Fear  ee  ~ Of Collapse —

[Reich Frantically Builds Bomb.   Shelters, Hospitals. Aid Posts

REPORT GERMANY FIXING DEFENSES   Efforts Made To Preven Collapse of Morale, Paper Makes Comments.

Germany Reported Building Interna Siegfried Line, First Aid ) Posts to Boost Public’s Morale

‘Internal Siegfried Line’ Built  Germans Attempt to Prevent Collapse of Morale at Home

 Germany Builds Internal Siegfried Line in Effort to Prevent Home Front Morale From Collapsing Under Pressure of Allied Bombings

Bryansk Under Siege As Soviet Forces Smash On Along Entire Battletront

Congress Ends Spending Spree   Sub-committee Slashes . Funds 82 Per Cent   $1,203.71. Is Your Share Of U.S. Debt

POLITICIANS ASK HUNGARY TO QUIT WAR   Appeal Comes From Opposition Leaders in ' What Is Termed the Largest Demonstration Since the War Started.

WLB FEELS LEADERS SINCERE IN EFFORTS GET MEN TO WORK   Board Erases Back-To-Work Deadline; Nears Decision On Illinois Contracts; New Walkouts Reported

Mine Strike Is Spreading   -WLB Backs Down On Threat And Deadline

Fresh Wildeat Coal Strikes Flare in East   WPB Nears Decision On Compromise Pay Plan: Some Return

Coal Strikes Increase, Spread to  Pennsylvania   1,400 Men Quit Worl At California, Pa., 2,500 Fail to Réport In West Virginia  WAR LABOR BOARD ERASES ‘DEADLINE?’  More Than 40,000 Idle in Strike Area, Mostly in South

New Wildcat Strikes Develop In Coa! Mines   WLB Erases Deadline and Leaders Seek to Halt Strikes

FRESH WILDCAT STRIKES BREAK OUT IN MINES   War Labor Board Lets Deadline Pass Without Taking Any Action   RAILROAD EMPLOYES BROADEN DEMANDS

OVER 40,000 COAL MINERS REMAIN IDLE   ILLINOIS CONTRACT GRANTS UPWARDS OF $1.50 A DAY

BOARD ASSERTS UMW IS TRYING TO END STRIKES   Decision On Illinois Wage Proposal Is Believed Near; 40,000 Men  of Are Still Out

New Coal Strikes In East Add to U.S. Fuel Crisis   Monday’s Withdrawals More Than Offset Man} Returning to Work

Number of Mine Workeys... On Strike Grows; Board  Nears Contract Decision

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INTO HUNGRY CITY   News Men Find People of Catania Have Been on Short Rations

Non-Operating Unions Reject FDR’s Plan To Settle R. R. Wage Row   Prospects Darken For Early Return Of Lines

WAGE FREEZE FEAR OF RAIL UNION HEADS   Delay Seen In Return Of Lines To Private Management

REJECT OFFER TO ARBITRATE   15 Rail Unions Charge FDR Reverses Stand of Last May

Non-Operating Rail Men Object FR Abitration   Says Action Would Be “Gross Injustice;”  Issues No Strike Call

15 Non-Operating RR Unions Reject FOR Offer To, Arbitrate Overtime Wagel(Controversy

Railway Outlook  Darkens   ... Arbitration Attempts Of FDR Are Rebufied

Fifteen NonOnerating Rail Brotherhoods Turn Down  FDR's Proposal

FOR PREPARES TO ISSUE RULING ON RAIL WAGE   Prospects for Early Salar Settlement Appears Unlikely

Army Control of Rails Continues   Wage Settlement In Near Future Seems Unlikely

Unions Reject FDR's Offer To Arbitrate   Action of 15 Crafts Push Time for Return of Railroads te Private Management Farther in the Future

Early Wage Settlement Not In Prospect  Non-Operating Railway  Unions Reject F. D. R.’s Wage Arbitration Plan

RO REE GT ee ee  IVERTIME PAY I STUMBLING BLORK   Non-Operating Groups Insist They Are Entitled To Ruling   ANNOUNCE STAND   President’s Efforts To Settle Wage Controver s¥ Hit Snag

PROSPECTS OF RAILWAY WAGE PACT DIMMER   Union Chiefs Say FDR’s Arbitration Basis; Unacceptable ,

ARMY'S CONTROL OVER RAILROADS IS INDEFINITE   President’s Arbitration Offer Not Yet Accepted by Two Unions

U.S. Control Of Railroads  Indefinite   Two Unions Reject Arbitration Method; Strike Only Postponed

15 Non-Operating Unions Reject! President’s Arbitration Plan   Insist They Are Entitled To Ruling On Overtime: U.S. Retains Lines’ Control

RAILROAD SALARY PROBLEM STILL IN TANGLE TODAY   FDR’c Attempts to Arhitrate Wage Dispute Meets: ‘Re buffs—-Brotherhocds -’ Ruling on Overtime

Railmen Ask Overtime Rule   15 NON-OPERATING GROUPS SAY “WE DO NOT AGREE TO F. R. ARBITRATION;” ASSERT SCALE OF INCREASES ONLY LIFTS SUB-STANDARD WAGE

RAILROAD UNIONS REFUSE FOR OFFER   Overtime Wage Arbitratior Proposal Rejected

CARRIER GROUPS ASK INDEPENDENT OVERTIME RULING   Unions Contend Sliding Scale Increases Not Subiect te Borter

Army to Hold Rail Control   Two Unions Postpone, Not Cancel Strike, It Is Revealed

PROPOSED BASIS FOR ARBITRATING WAGES REFUSED   Mr. Roosevelt’s Attempt to Arbitrate Demands Met With a Rebuff.   WANT OVERTIME RULING

Unions Refuse to Accept President Roosevelt’s. Basis For ‘Arbitrating.  , Wage Dispute. _  INSIST ON RULING ON OVERTIME ISSUE   Want Decision Independent Of Every Other Consideration; Army Control Indefinite

SEE EXTENSION ‘OF ARMY CONTROL   Can’t Release Railroads, Two Unions Only Postponed Strike Until] Demands Met

ROOSEVELT’S BASIS ARBITRATING WAGE DISPUTE REJECTED  NON-OPERATING RAIL UNIONS INSIST ON OVER. TIMER RINIING

Rail Unions  Reject Otter To Arbitrate   Fifteen Non-operating Unions Notify President that Only Question of Overtime Is Involved.

‘Non-Op Rail Unions Reject  F.R. Proposal   15 Groups Ask Ruling On Overtime: Return Of Lines To Owners Raw More Remote

FA ATTEMPTS ARE REBUFFED      No Prospect Yet of Return Of Railroads to Private Management.   NON-OPS REJECT BASIS.

Non-Operating Unions Reject F.R’s Wage Offer  Rail Workers Seek Ruling On Overtime Pay

President Ready To Make Ruling In ‘Non-Op’ Case   Owners Not Likely To Get Rails Back In Immediate Future; No Early Settlement Seen  yy FP Were ae

PROSPECTS DARK FOR SETTLEMENT IN NEAR FUTURE   THREE UNION HEADS CHARGE BUNGLING BY ADMINISTRATION

Turn Down FDR Offer   Rail Peace Hodes Dim As Unions Reject Wage Settlement Suzgestion

Army Keeps Control of Railroads AsF.D.R. Stipulates Truce Basis ‘Unacceptable’ to Union Chiefs

FDR. MAY RULE ON RAIL WAGES   ASKS” UNIONS WHETHER HIS) PROPOSED BASIS OF PROCE-  DURE IS ACCEPTABLE,

Unions Ask Ruling On Overtime Pay   Leaders Spurn Proposed Basis Qt Arbitration

Non-op Unions Reject Offer of President   Insist They Are Entitled to Ruting on Overtime Question

Rail Unions Rebuff F. R.   Arbitration Bosis Rejected; Overtime Pay Award Demanded

FDR's Attempts In Rail Dispute Rebuffed Again   Prospects for Return Of Lines to Private.” Manaqement'Are' Dim

Future Army Rail Control Seems Likely   Non-Op Unions Reject Roosevelt Basis for Arbitration

Unions Refuse To Arbitrate Wave Dispute   5-None-Operating Unions Insist They Are Entitled To Overtime Ruling.   RETURN DOUBTFUL

U. Ss: May Hold Rail Control   Lengthy” Fight  Is. Likely Over: Pay. Seale; Union. } -Group Is. Heard ;

Rail Non-Operating Unions Reject Roosevelt’s roposed Basis For Arbitrating Wage Dispute

FDR Efforts In Rail Wage Case Refused   Unions Contend Lumping Sliding Scale Gains, Overtime Unfair Move

Insist On Ruling On Overtime   15 Non-Operating - Rail: Unions Reject Axbitration on Basis Roosevelt Proposes. :   HOPES OF EARLY. SETTLEMENT FADE   Army Control of Lines May Continue “Indefinitely.:Be-* cause of Differences’ .) :;

UNIONS REJECT FDR PROPOSAL TO ARBITRATE   Railroad Non-Operators Insist on Ruling on Pay For Overtime.   Army Control Over Railroads to Continue

RAILRODERS REJECT PLANS OF PRESIDENT   Fifteen Non - Operating Unions insist They Are Entitled to Independent Ruling on Overtime   SLIDING SCALE ISSUES

Rail Unions Again Say ‘No’ to F.D.R.   Non-ops Turn Down President’s Proposed Basis For Arbitration

ARMY CONTROL 10 PROBABLY GO ON INDEFINITE TINIE   Union Chiefs Say Roosevelt’s Basis of Arbitration Is  - Unacceptable to 15 Nonoperating Unions.   &TWO UNIONS PREVENT RELEASE TO OWNERS   Three Leaders of Workers Say Administration Bungled Processes of Railway Labor Act.

Presidential Attempts to Arbitrate Rail Wage Dispute Are Rebuffed

BONTINUE ITS DAITROAD JOR   Unable To Return Property To Owners Now

F.D.R. Won't Be Bound By Limits Of Unions On Wage Decision —   Non-Operating Rail Workers Told President Prepared To Issue Ruling On Demands; Army Control To Continue Indefinitely.

Army Control Of Railroads ‘Still in Force  Little Prospect Seen of Early

ARMY CONTROL OF RAILROADS TO CONTINUE   Three Brotherhoods Fail io Call Olf Strike, Only Postponing It, Criticise Government   Non-OPs Dissatisfied   ‘Unions Contend Overtime Canno!  be Arbilrated, Object to FDR's  Stipulation

RAIL UNIONS REJECT F. R. ARBITRATION   President's Offer Turned Down By 15 Unions

Prospects Dark For Settlement Rail Wage Issue   Army Control of Railroads For Indefinite Future Appears Likely; Union Leaders Say They Merely Postponed Strike.

Army Operation of Railroads for Long Time Seems Certain   Attitude of Two Unions Makes Return to Owners Impossible

TORAILUNIONS REJECT FOR AS WAGE ARBITER   Say Overtime Claim Not Subject For Arbitration   SSUE SHARP REPLY TO ROOSEVELT LETTER

RAIL UNIONS KILL ARBITRATION BID   15 Non-Operating Groups Reject Roosevelt Plan

‘Nonops Reject Proposed Basis For Arbitration   Rail Unions Tell F. R. Independent Ruling On Overtime Imperative.

F. R.’s Rail Plan Snags   Non-Operators Object To Basis For Presidential Arbitration

MeatFaminein State Feared; U.S. Blamed   Little Hope Seen for Restocking of Shelves

The Sporting Life..   Starting in Next Thursday’s Issue     U.S. Army's Pocket Guide to  INDIA

Allies Mop Up In North Africa   Von Arnim Refuses tc Sign Unconditional Surrender Terms

Organized Axis Resistance Ends In Tunisian War   Allied Air Force Moves Its Offensive Across the Mediterranean.   Will Take Weeks to Count Booty Captured

Tunisia Cleanup Will. Net Total of Nearly 175,000 Prisoners   ALL ORGANIZED [ RESISTANCE ENDS   At. Least.16 Generals : Are Captured; Knockout Punch Caught Nazis Off Guard

Stragglers Being Hunted; 175,000 Prisoners Taken   ~ Air Force Seeks New Targets Across Mediterranean.

Last Remnants Of Enemy Forces Are Being Rounded Up   ‘Nazi Gen. von Arnim Captured And Toll Of  Prisoners Expected To Reach 175,000;  Airmen Drop Last Bomb On Tunisia

[TALIANS STOP RESISTANCE ON DUCE’S ORDER   Nearly 175,000 Men Captured by Allies In Final Victory

VON ARNIM, MESSE AMONG THOSE TAKEN   Alt Organized Resistance Ir Africa Ended   ALEXANDER CALLS   Victory One Of Most Decisive And Complete In All History

‘ANTICIPATES 175,000 PRISONERS   Eisenhower Reveals Final Blow Was Clever Move

WAS LAST ONE. TO QUIT, ROME RADI BOKSTS   With African War All Over, Allies Still “Mopping Up Prisoners,      ESTIMATE 175,000 TOP WHEN ALL HAVE. COME IN.

General Messe Surrenders fo British Forces   Italian General Gives Himself to Eighth Army Allied Shipping Loss 2.16 Per Cent of Whole

Allied Mopping Up Parties’  Are Rounding Out One of the Most Decisive Vic-  tories in History. :   SAY PRISONERS WILL TOTAL NEAR 175,000   The Allied Air Foree Has Moved Its Aerial Offensive Across the Mediterranean.

Commander-in-Chief, One of at Least 16 Axis Generals ‘In the Bag’, Refuses Un conditional Surrender Terms   175,000 PRISONERS ESTIMATED    With Only Small, Isolated Pockets of Resistance Left, Allied Airmen Turn Bombs on Marsala, Sicilian Port

Organized Resistance by Axis Ends With Prisoners Expected to Hit 175,000

150,000 TROOPS TAKEN BY U.S. BRITISH FORCES   Mussolini Orders Italian General To Surrender

Count Of Prisoners May Mount 'To 175,000   Von Arnim Among Captured; Organized Resistance By Enemy Is Ended

Prisoner Count Reaches 150,000 ‘As Fighting Ends   With No More Targets In Africa, Air Offensive Moves Across Mediterranean

Victory One Of Greatest In History   Italian General Last To Surrender; Allied Airmen Turn Blows Arence Vaditerranean

N. A. Prisoners ‘Near 175,000  Sixteen Axis Generals are in the Raa

General Alexander Calls’ Victory In Tunisia One Of Most Decisive In History Of World

Von Arnim Captured; Marshal Messe Ordered To Surrender By Il Duce

Gen. Alexander Says Its Most Complete Victory in History   “xpect Enemy Prisoners To Total Near 175,000 Since May 5; Air Force To Hit New Target

Among Them Is Gen. Giovanni Messe, Commander of Italian First  Q         ‘ALL ORGANIZED "RESISTANCE ENDS   Allied Air Force Transfers Its Offensive Across Mediterranean

Tunisian Campaign Ends, Fight Dwindles fo Moppingup Axis; Captives Near 175,000 Mark

150,000 Now Counted, Mopping Up Goes on; Italian Gen, Messe Has Surrendered

ALLIED MOPPING-UP PARTIES HUNTED LAST REMNANTS OF ENEMY   ALL ORGANIZED RESISTANCE ENDED AND 175.000 PRISONERS

16 Generals Among Those Captured   All Organized Resistance In Africa Has Ended

Allies Hunting the Last Ragged Remnants of Axis Armies in Tunisia Today:

NAZI, ITALIAN GENERALS IN ALLIED HANDS   Organized Resistance Is End= ed With More Than 175,000 As Prisoners   VON ARNIM REFUSES TERMS   Acrial Offensive Moves Across Mediterranean; Ships Pa- . trol Coast i

175,000 Prisoners Total Allied Bag   Alexander Hails Greatest Victory—Mopping Up of Seattered Remnants Continue:

MOPPING UP IN TUNISIAN AREA   Victory Called One of Most Complete and Decisive In History.

‘Hunting Down Last Groups of Axis Troops   Prisoner Total to Reach Nearly 175,000; All Organized Fighting Ends   Germany’s Home Front Under  Heaviest Air Raid Of War

» ALL ORGANIZED RESISTANCE 10 » ALLIESCEASES   General Alexander Hails Victory As One of Greatest in History

Up Units Pursue Nazi Stragglers   Victory Is Hailed As Decisive With Huge Area Won

Last Remnants Of Axis Armies Are Rounded Ur   Bag of Prisoners To Total 175,000, Many Generals

Enemy Resistance Ceases In Africa   Last Ragged Remnants of Hitler’s Defeated Army  Coming In’   TOTAL MAY BE 175:000   Von Arnim, Axis Leader, .. Cornered Between Tunis and Enfidaville

Allied Victory Labeled Among Most Decisive   Top German, Italian Generals Included In Over 150.000 Prisoners Taken.   NO LETUP IN AIR WAR

Total of Prisoners Seen Near 175,000 In Historic Victory   Last Ragged Remnants Mopped Up: Aerial Offensive Moves Across Sea; Alexander Hails Smashing Success

GERMAN DEFEAT IN.NORTH AFRICA. A CLEAN SWEEP   One Of Most Complete And Decisive In History   ARNIM REFUSES TO SIGN TERMS

RAF Claims Huge Industrial Center Almost in Ruins   Big American Bombers Cross Channel to Follow Up  Last Nights Raid

Tragedy Develops When Mother With Infant Falls On Crowded Steps; Entire Families Are Wiped Out; Action Taken To Prevent Repetition

LONDONERS TAKING FURTHER PRECAUTIONS AT ALL SHELTERS   After 178 Persons Were Suffocated or Crushed In Entrance to Air-Raid Shelter

Subway Deaths Arousé London   178 Killed In Jam Upon Stairs Attributed To Woman’s. Falling

COSTING LIVES OF 178 PROBEL   Guards, Lighis Ordered for London Raid Shelfers in Aftermath -of Tragedy

178 KILLEDON STEPS LONDON RAID SHELTER   Victims Suffocated Or Crushed to-Death and At Least Sixty Others Are Injured   TRAGEDY ‘HORRIBLE’   Developed With MiddleAged Woman With Baby  Falling and Crowd Pil  ing Up About Her

178 KILLED IN RAID SHELTER   Panic Seizes Londoners Flocking Into Subway

LONDON PROBES AAD ACCIDENT   178 Die When Woman Falls On Crowded Steps of Subway Shelter.

JAM IN ENGLISH AR RAID SHELTER ~ TAKES 178 LIVES   Crowd :Piles: Up On. Womar _ After She Falls On Steps;   60 of Dead Children .   INVESTIGATION IS-ORDERED

Precautions Taken At London Shelters   Woman Whose Fall Killed 178 Survived

Bomb Shelter Jam Is Cause Of 178 Deaths   Some Adults Die Standing Up As Result Of Heavy Pressure Inflicted By Those Behind Them

LONDON GUARDS RAID SHELTERS   British Capitol Stirred by Panic Disaster During  Raid Alarm.

Berrien Pork Ceilings   Panic In London Shelter ~ Results In 178 Death:   Victims Suffocated Or Crushed During Rai _. Alarm, 60 Others Injured; Turmoil Starts . When Woman And Child Fall On Stairs

Order Inquiry Info Disaster  178 Killed In Londo:   178 Killed In London Subway Shelter

PROBE DEATH OF 178 IN BRITISH BOMB SHELTER   Constables Are Assigned Jobs Thruout London

Tell Horror Of Tragedy   Whole Families Wiped Out in London Air Raid Shelter Accident

GUT RESTRICTIONS ON WEATHER FORECASTS   Indicates U. -e Safe from Enemy Aw Attacks

WEATHER CAN ‘NOW BE TOLD   Censorship Is Lifted; U. S. “Safe” from Any Big Air Attack

WEATHER FORECAST RESTRICTIONS LIFTED   Censorship Removed By High Com. mand—Danger From Air Attacks Has Lessened

Confidence on High Command Shown in Lifting of Forecast Restrictions

Censor’s Rules Are Eased Again   Weather Forecasts To Be Allowed

BOUGAINVILLE AND KISKA HIT   New Type Bomber Indicates American Air Force Strengthened

NIP-EQUIPPED ARMY HITS AT TOKYO MASTERS   Chinese Score New Gains In Pursuit Of 30,000 Enemy Soldiers   ‘ITALIAN POSTS POUNDED   Stepped-Up Drive In South Pacific Carries Trouble To Tojo

Kennedy Resigns From The WLB   Did Not Agree With Little Steel _ Application

“Ketnedy Resigns From The WLB   ‘Did Not Agre Agree With Little Steel - Application

Kennedy, UMW Officer, Quits War Labor Board   Reason Unknown: May Be Linked With Mine Dispute

KENNEDY OF MINERS ¢ QUITS WER   Resignation _Made Known as Pay Negotiations Reach Impasse>   MUST.GO TO BOARD, OPERATORS SAY   > ‘The Only “Way “It Can Be Settled,’ Producers’ » Sualesman Savs

TOM KENNEDY QUITS WAR LABOR BOARD   UMA Dissatisfied With Wage Formula, Is Report

PEACE SLOGAN ADVANCED BY HENRY WALLACE   Says “Democracy First” Should Be Post War Cry

WALLACE SEES NEED FOR NEW PEACE SLOGAN   ‘Democracy First’ Is Suggested as U. S. Battle Cry

Scouting, Artillery Play   Bloody Harlan Scene of Striking Bituminous Miners

Rumor King Of Italy To Quit  Throne For Son  mtamrmnr   Nation Makes Ready For Allied Attack

Rumor Italian King May Quit   Il Duce Unpopularit; Reported Growing

Litvinov is Removed as  Ambassador   Relieved of Post In U.S After 22 Months’ Service

REDS RELIEVE LITVINOV AS AMBASSADOR   Gromykov Appointed To Succeed Him As U. S. Envoy

FAROUK TAKES HAND IN GRISIS   Troubles Of Lebanon Aired By Egyptian King

PRESIDENT OF LEBANON NOW IN CUSTODY   King Farouk of Egypt ‘intervenes in crisis after shooting

fowa People Asked to Buy More and Larger War Bonds; Start of European Invasion Increases Need for Funds

NEW QUOTAS SET FOR WAR BONDS   EVERYONE EXPECTED TO _INCREASE PURCHASE OF WAR BONDS

More $50, $100 Sales Needed  Guotas Based On   Quotas Based On Income Increases

BOND QUOTAS BOOSTED FOR ~1OWA COUNTIES   Hawkeyes Must Start Buying $50 And $100 Bonds Instead of 25-'ers, Leaders Show

Thousands Flee Berlin, Swiss Say   Air Raid Death Toll Estimated at 5.000

BERLIN EXODUS ON   Quarter Of Million Citizens Flee Capital After RAF Raid

Drive Is Due To Continue For 11 Days   All of April Sales Count; Farris Thanks Workers

$360,900 War Issue Total OnFirst Day   One Plane Daily !s Committee Geal in County

Keep Fleet Intact After War Is Ended   Best Guarantee Of World Peace. Rep. Vinson Declares

NAPLES THREATENED BY TYPHUS FEVER   Precautions Taken To Protect American Troops

TYPHUS BREAKS QUT IN NAPLES   American Troops Banned From City Following Spread of Fever

Naples Reports Tenfold Increase In Typhus Fever  Americans, British Ferane Fnidemic

IN NAPLES NOTED   Servicemen Escaping While _ Malian Civilians Are Suiferina  etd ..

Typhus Fever Hits Naples   City Ordered Closed To Fifth Army Units

Lewis May Take Legal Action To Force Showdown   Said To Be Considering New Strategy To Defeat Labor Board

LEGAL STEPS ARE STUDIED BY LEWIS      Mine Workers May Seek to Face Renewal! of Raragininae

LEWIS PONDERS LEGAL ACTION   Memorandum Hints He May Charge Board With Violating NLRB Act

LEWIS CONSIDER LEGAL ACTION Tt GET BARGAINING   Study Strategy Following Or. der of WLB to Operators To Refrain From Talks   BOTH SIDES MUST AGREE TO PROCEED UNDER WLB   UMW Representatives Be. lieve Instruction is - Viola. tion of National Labor Re. lations Act; Lewis Return: To Washington

LEWIS CONSIDERING TAKING LEGAL STEPS   Head Of Miners Believed Ready To Let Couris Take Action Apeainst WLE

LEGAL STEPS ARE STUDIED BY LEWIS   Mine Workers May Seek to Face Renewal of Bargaining

'ANTI-STRIKE BILL NEARING SHOWDOWN  IN-HOUSE AT LAST   Measure Aimed Primarily at Coal Work Stoppage ts Given New Support.

HOUSE NEAR DECISION ON ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Drive Pressed For Legislation Aimed At Work Stoppage In Coal Fields

Eleven Japanese Cruisers and Destroyers Are Lost.   AMERICAN MARINES GO INTO ACTION

OPA TO RESTRICT GAS ALLOWANCES   Full Car Clubs Only Ones to Receive More Rations Under New Rules

yapan [ries To Intimidate  U.S. Airmen   But Doolittle, Others Promise Vengeance For Jap Atrocities  MORE RAINS IIKRETYV

ARE PLEDGED BY DOOLITTLE   NIPPONESE EMPIRE TO BE CRUSHED, AIRMEN TOLD

Nips Threaten To Execute All Fliers Siezed   Men Who Made Initial Tokyo Raid Urge to Be In on Next One; Try To Intimidate U. 8S.

GEN. DOOLITTLE PREDICTS NEW AIR RAIDS ON JAPAN   Declares Bombs Will Be Drop. ped in Memory of Murdered Comrades Until Foe Begs  for Mercy.   TOKYO’S THREATS FAIL TO INSTILL FEAR   Nipponese. Broadcasts Imply That Every American Flier Taken in Future Will Be Put to Death.

Japanese Fail To Scare Yanks   Americans Will Seek To Avenge Killings

Retaliation for Murder of Fliers ‘Avenging Yankees  Will Batter Empire Aaain and Aaain’

DEATH THREAT FROM TOKIOTO US. FLIERS   Jap Propagandist Attempt To Intimidate U.S. Aix Force In Broadcast; Another  Raid Possible   Bluster And Threat

CONGRESS FACES STORMY ISSUES   FDR Urged To Withdraw Flynn Appointment; GOP Barrage Is Expected

'‘Democrais Face Troublesome \Political Issues   Turbulent Session Expected at Caucus Tuesday

Democrats In Congress Face Trouble  Confirmation Battles Over Marcantonio  And Flynn Impend  EARLY SENATE OK FOR BROWN LIKELY.  Flynn Opposition Requests President To Withdraw Name   Confirmation Battles Over Marcantonio And Flynn Impend

Troublous Issues Before Congress   Flynn, Tax Program Harass Democrats

DEMOCRATS IN STORMY WEEK   Hearings On Flynn Ap. pointment Will Com mence Wednesday

Thirty-Three of Enemy’s Tanks Knocked Out in Weekend Fight   Not a Single 8th Army Tank Lost, Communique Asserts

Allies Within 23 Miles Ot Tunis; Critical Stage Of Battle Near   ALLIED AIR MASTERY IS FURTHER EXTENDED

FRENGH MENACE Blt SUPPLY BASE: OF PONT BU FAHS   Here and in Medjez-el-Bab  Area Defenses of Enemy   Appear to Be Slowly Giving Way.   FIERCE OPPOSITION OFFERED BY GERMANS   Nazi Retreat Before Amer. icans in One Sector So . Fast Enemy Leaves Dead Unburied.

French Reach Pont du Fahs   German Counter-Attack Binene Veawke Bank

Tunis Battle Crisis Nears Allies Advance In Face Of.  Fierce German Qpposition

Allies Reach 23 Miles From  Tunis. Bizerte   French at Outskirts of Pont Du Fahs: U.S Forces Press Closely Behind Axis Armies

GREAT BATTLE TO QUST AXIS NEARS CLIMAX   ALLIES WITHIN 23 MILES OF ENEMY KEY BASE

French Smash Ahead  In Tunisia   Front Dispatches Indicate Critical Stage of Great Battle Near Hand: Allies 23 Miles From Tunis

Critical Stage Of Battle In Africa” ls Believed Near   German Defenses on the Tunisian Bridgehead Give Way Slowly—Allied Forces Push the Axis Line to Within 23 Miles af Tunis

German Forces Yielding Under Heavy Attacks   French ‘battle way.: to outskirts of Pont Du Fahs; fighting may be near decisive turn, —

VITAL AXIS POINTS GIVE WAY SLOWLY IN HEAVY FIGHTING   Critical Stage Believed Near as Enemy Attempts to Block Allied Drives

CRISIS NEARS FINAL STAGE IN TUNISIA   Nazi Defenses On bridgehead Slowly Giving Away At Two Supply Bases.

ALLIES DRIVE ROMMEL LINE TOWARD TUNIS   French Smash Forward To Pont du Fahs; Americans Gain  In One Area   5 Supply Ships Hit

Allies Advance Within 23 Miles of Bizerte,  Tunis Outer Defenses   Heavy Air Raids on Southern Flank, Ruhr Cripple Nazi Offense and Presage Invasion  Of Europe; Reds Reportedly Take Novgorod

French Troops Drive to Outskirts of Pont du.Fahs; Yanks Forced Back. By Attacks West of Mateur

German Defenses Give Way Slowly   Americans Forced To Rereat in One Sector But Continue Advances Near Mediez El Bab

Axis Defenses Give Slowly at Key Points   Allied Forces Push Within 23 Miles of Tunis Tuesday

Enemy Shows Effect of Pressure as Allies Drive on Tunis and Bizerte   Critical Stage of Battle Near as Bridgeheads Give Way; Axis Forces in Fierce Opposition to Surge of British, Americans and French

Critical Stage of North Africa Battle Nears as Axis Lines Crumble; French Smash Way to Objectives

' Trouble on Land and Sea Greek Guerillas Giving Axis ‘Cause for Worry in Balkans

Something Else To Worry Hitler  Greek Sea Guerrillas — Giving Axis Trouble

Sea-Going Guerrillas New Worry For Axis in Balkans: Reinforcing o ‘Troops And Fortifications in Pal

OEA-GOING GREEK  GUERRILLAS GIVING  AXIS NEW WORRIES NERVOUSNESS OF HITLER  AND COMPANY OVER RALKANS I€ SEEN Pe

Sea-Going Greet Guerrillas Worry Axis   Germans Term Them ‘Pirates’ and Bomb Their Reputed Base

New Axis Worry In Balkan Area   Sea-Going Greek Guerrillas Operate Against Merchant Ships.

GUERRILLAS IN GREECE GIVING AN IS WORRIES   Operating In Smafi Sailing  Boats Against German Merchant Ships In.  t Aeoran   NAZIS REVEAL ACTS   Berlin Papers Pwhlish Photos, Testifying to’ Increased Nervousness  Over Operations ©

GUERRILLAS HIT HITLER'S SHIPS IN AEGEAN SEA   Operate in Sailing, Motor Boats; German Papers Print Pictures

SEA-GOING WAR BANDS HARASS AXIS SHIPPING   Greek Guerrillas Attacking Ships, Germans Admit

"Pirates Are Stalking Nazis  On Aegean Sea   Sea-Going Guerrillas New German Worry  In Nervous Balk

Draft Officials Await Report   Hear Colorado Governor Or. ders Blanket Deferment Of Farmers From Selective Service

U.S, MARKS TIME ON DRAFT STAND   Colorado Governor Orders State Board to Defer Farmers

FRAUD SUIT HITS CHICAGO ~ STEEL FIRM   Justice Department May * Step Into CarnegieDinois Case .

ALL-NAZ' CABINET   Nazis Frantically Preparing Against Impending Invasion Of Europe By Allies

GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF RAILS SEEN   Federal Control Seems Certain Unless Strike Averted

Railway Strike Now Scheduleg   Government Seizure Of Rail. roads Indicated If Strike Develops   RAILROAD MEN VOTE FOR STRIKE

RAIL DISPUTE ~-GRISIS NEAR   GOVERNMENT OPERATION OF, RAILROADS FOREGONE CON-  . CLUSION "UNLESS AGREE-  MENT. REACHED SY DECEMBER SoTH

390,000 WORKER AGREE 10 STRIKE BY DECEMBER 30   Action Follows Congress Approval of Wage Boost for Non-Operators

Senate Sticks to Is Children 5 Bill  S SSRN, gered r>.   House Version Puts Aside Federal Aid

MAN TAKEN > QN ESPIONAGE   Lehmitz Said Gathering News for Huns in New York

SPY SUSPECT IS AIR WARDEN   FBI Accuses Staten Island Man of Trying to Write Enemy

New Yorker Hel On Charges Of Aiding Germany   Hoover Says Lehmitz Gathered Espionage Information

Allesed Nazi spy Arrested in New York  Nattralized Citizen Watched Shipping Is Charge

GERMAN SPY ~- 1§ -ARRESTEL      FORMER EMPLOYE OF GERMAN -OONBULATE IN NEW YORK SENT OUT CONVOY IN . FORMATION .

Lehmitz Taken As German Spy   He Is Charged With Getting Information For Nazi Espionage

‘American’  Arrested As German Spy By The FBI   Charged With Giving Enemy Information About Ship Movements And Convoys

PRODUCTION OF PLANE DELAYED   Sec. Knox Admits Factory In Ohio Experiencing Lot Of Trouble

SDIVER!.NOT-YET. IN PRODUCTION   NOX SAYS NAVY HAS BEEN “WATCHING ‘CLOSELY” ‘PLANES BEING MADE AT CQLUMBUS PLANT

POSTAL REVENUES SHATTER RECORDS   Pass Billion-Dollars Mark First Time for 12Month Period

RUSSIA GIVEN BIG SHARE OF U.S. SUPPLIES   Lend-Lease Adminis trator Tells Senate Committee of Aic to Allies.

U. §., BRITAIN SEND RUSSIA 5 600 PLANES   Lend-Lease Includes 6,200 Tanks, 85,000 Other War Vehicles For Soviet.   STETTINIUS TESTIFIES   Tells Senate Committee o! Aid To Britain, Other United Nations.

5600 Planes, 6200 Tanks  Sent Russia Lend-Lease Now Dhan nuntnn 2. AA   Lend-Lease Now Operates in 44, Countries

MUCH AID FOR RUSSIA   Great Quantities Of War Materials Sent Soviet Allies  ; ’

HEAVY AID IS GIVEN RUSSIA   Stettinius Reveals Lend-Lease Facts In Appearance Before Senate

5,600 Planes, 6,200 Tanks Are Given Soviet Union Under Lend-Lease Setup

Ten Billions Annual Is Aid To Our Allies   Greater Volume Of Help Being Sent To Russia

EMPIRE IN AFRICA S LOST BY ITALY   Eden Declares Not All of Territory Will Go Back

DISSOLUTION OF FASCIST PARTY BY GOVT, ORDEF   Long Downtrodden [Italians at Last Asserting Themselves, Crying “We Want Peace

NO RETURN OF EMPIRE   Italy Will Net Get All Colonies Back. Eden Declares

LAWONT SEEN AS LOGICAL HEAL OF MORGAN FIR          Vice Chairman of Beard Joined Old Banking Firm in L911.

US. Airmen Bomb Ports , In italy;   “Naples; Crotone: Crete AirfieldsHeavily. Blasted

American Airmen In Raid on Italian Ports  Naples and Crotone Draw Bombing From U. S. Forces

Naples Raided Again Sunday   Allied Heavy Bombers Pound Benny’s City

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT NAPLES, START FIRES   Ninth U. S. Air Force Conducts Heavy Raid

U. §. Bombers Blast ltalian Port Cities  Naples and Crotone Targets of Raiders

American Airmen In Raid on Italian Ports  Naples and Crotone Draw Bombing

Allied Victories Affect Stocks  i Be ees:   Security Prices OF Enemy Countries Marked With Rise

RED ARMY MAKING STEADY PROGRESS   Heavy Air Raids on Vital Enemy Held Bases of Orel.

REDS CLOSE IN ON NOVOROSSISK   Great Black Sea Naval Base In Imminent Danger  Of Steve

Nazis Picked Up From Sea Are Hysterical. ...  Coast Guard Cutter Gets German U-Boat, Captures Forty Members Of Crew

Coast Guard Destroys _ German Sub..   U-Boat Lurking in Path of Large Convoy Sunk with Depth Charges; 40 Crew Members Cavtured 

U-Boat Sunk By Cutter in Convoy Lane   40 Members of Crew Are Taken Prisoner by 4 Coast Guard Force

U. 5. Cutter Sinks a  German Submarine  ‘40 Hysterical Members of Crew Captured

Cutter Sinks Nazi U-Boat 42 Of Crew Saved —  After Gun Battle’ Follows Denth Charae

in Exciting Sea Battie  Coast Guard Cutter Sinks Sub, Captures Crew

Cutter Sinks Sub, Captures 40 Nazi Crew Members   Coast Guard Vessel Uses Depth Bombs, Deck Guns In Spectacular Sea Fight

COAST GUARD CUTTER SINKS GERMAN SUB, '40 MEMBERS OF U-BOAT CREW CAPTURED

Heroic Battle Of The Sea— German Submarinels Sunk,  40 Of Crew Made Prisoner

German Submarine Destroyed. Crew Captured by Coast Guard   Raider Detected Lurking In Convoy’s Path By Cutter Which Uses Bombs to Sink U-boat

Coast Guard Cutter Destroys Nazi Sub, Captures 40 Men  Raider Lurking in   Raider Lurking in Path of Important Convoy {s Sunk

Coast Guard Cutter Sinks German U-Boat Captures 40 of Crew   Raider Detected Lurking in Path-of Important Convoy in Atlantic

COAST GUARD CUTTER SINKS NAZI U-BOAT   Forty Members of Sub’s Crew Cap ! tured After Surface Battle in At  Jantic, Navy Says

German Submarine Sunk, _ 40 Of Crew Are Captured  ByU.S. Coast Guard Cutter   German Raider, Lurking In Path of Large Convoy.  Wiped Out With Depth Charges and Roaring Deck Guns

DESTRUCTION NAZI SUBMARINE BY COASI GUARD CUTTER TOLD  FORTY MEMBERS OF CREW OF U-BOAT * REPORTED CAPTURED

British Attack Japs In Burma   Bombing Attacks Carried Out On Akyab

Many Airfields Are Devastated By RAF Heavies   Important Targets In The Reich Are Smashed In Newest Attacks

AIRFIELDS ON CONTINENT IN HEAVY BLAST   Following Bombing of Munich, Birthplace of Nazi Party; France and Holland Targets of Flyers.   500 Ton Bombs

U. 5. Marauders Bomb Germany's Major Airfields   Munich Attacked By R.A.F. Fliers

Hitler Airfields Over Wide Area Get Bomb Blasts  France, Holland and Munich Pounded by li S$ and BAF Craft

U. S. Marauder Bombers Hit Enemy Airfields   Munich Is Blasted by Fortresses Based in Africa

U. S. Marauder Bombers Hit Enemy Airfields  Munich Is Blasted   Munich Is Blasted by Fortresses Based in Africa

\Liberator Makes Landing on Flat Tire Writer Describes Raid on Jaluit

STATES VIEW ADAGE DONE ae FLOODS   » L288 to Ask $55,000,-« WO toe Relief and <r0) Work

Solons Plan Post-War  State Proarar   Will Offer Bills to Impound All Surplus Funds

Democrats in Plan for Peace Period   Legislature Members Will Introduce Two-Point Program

HARD FREEZE COMING   sae Be Felt in Northern Kansas. Counties Tonight

GERMAN DEFENSES -QUTSIDE KHARKOV FALL TO SOVIETS   Drive Is Pushed to Narrow Escape Corridor and Bottle Up Nazi  Goarrican.

Axis Defenses. Are Crumbling About Kharkoy   Russians Drive To: Close Escape Corridor And Trap Nazi Troops

RUSSIANS SLASH THROUGH GERMAN LINES AT KHARKOV   Nazi Garrison Threatened with Encirclement; Reds Take 20 More Towns on Brvansk Front.

SOVIETS NEAR LAST KHARKOV ESCAPE ROUTE   Within Sight Of Only Railroad Left To Nazis; Making Slow But Steady Progress.

NAZI DEFENSES SOUTH OF KEARKOY SMASHED   Soviets Are in Sight of Important Railroad Branch

Japanese Militarists Making Every Effort To Mobilize All Of East Asia Against Crucial Attacks By Allies

JAPAN ATTEMPTING TO MOBILIZE EAST ASIA FOR BATTLES  RUSSELL BRINE TELLS 0   RUSSELL BRINE TELLS OF ENEMY PLANS TO HOLD NIPPON EMPIRE

Germans May Make Stand on Volturno River 535 Miles North.  BRITISH 8TH ARMY IS PUSHING NORTH  Con. Mantoamorw’s RA aw   Gen. Montgomery’s Men Advancing Now According to Plan.

Nazis May Make Stand  30 Miles From Naples,  _ Which Fell 22 Days  After Invasion Of Italy Started.

Postwar Air Power Issue Causes Strife   British Aré Aroused By Clare Luce’s Speech in Congress

Corb Juvenile Delinquency, Saints Warned  ‘Home Front Is » Cracking,’ Save DLO. MeKa:

ALLIED . PLANES -CONTINUE POUNDING FLEEINC AXIS ARMY WITH BOMBS AND ONLY DELAYING ACTION EXPECTED AT IMPORTANT  PORT— _' RUSSIAN SPEARHEADS REPORTED TO '. BE WITHIN. SIXTY MILES OF ROSTOV   Ry INPERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

“a jap RADIO. stMONT et OVER ORUSHING DI DETEAT  TAY Garin wAlrt

Allies Complete Destruction Of Big Jap Convoy   . Battered Destroyers Sent Down; 17 More . ~ Planes Bagged .   Japs Silent On Defeat

SHOWDOWN ON. ‘RUBBER LOOMS   BYRNES TAKING HAND IN CONTROVERSY OVER PRIORITIES FoR con-. ° STRUCTION ‘WORK 

BYRNES TO ACT   Expected to Intervene {n Synthetic Rubber Tie-un.

Nazis Order Women and Children to  Evacuate Southern Coast of France

HITLER CONTINUES TIGHTENING GRIP ON BALKAN STATES      Nazis Reported Clearing Southern French Coast ‘Of Children And  Women —

Germans Clear French Coast: For Invasion   Hitlér Also Tightens His. Grip on Balkans

SEIZURE HITS. ~ BLACK MARKE]   ARMY TAKES OVER TRUCK POULTRY CARGOES TRANSPORTED ON DELAWARE™ HIGHWAYS

Rollback of Retail Meat Prices Effective Monday   OPA Firm as Rollback-Subsidy Program Heads for Bitter Battle in Senate

OPA MEAT ROLLOACK BEGINNING MONDAY   Determined Fight In Senate On Program Looming

MEAT PRICES ROLL-BACK DUE MONDAY   Angry House Votes for Restrictions On OPA Activities

Other Offensives Can Be Expected, Asserts British Observer In Remarks On Sicily

Sicilian Blow Held Just One Invasion Step  British Observer Farecacte Hard.   British Observer Forecasts Hard, Prolonged Fight

SICILY 1S NOT ONLY LANDING   British Warn That Hard and Prolonged Fighting Must Be Expected.

Further Invasion Moves  At Other Points Likely   Assault On Sicily Should Not Be Regarded As “Th Only Landing, Nor Even As The Landing,” Planned By Allies, Observer Declares

Drive on Sicily Not the Invasion   British Warnings that Landing on Island Is Not the Only One Planned by Allied Armies

SICILY SEEN AS FIRST STEP IN INVASION PLAN   BRITISH OBSERVER WARNS OF HARD FIGHTING AHEAD

This Is Just Beginning Of Allied Smash   Coordinated Moves May Be Made _ Elsewhere As Gen. Eisenhower’s Troops Launch Attack

Sicily Not ToBe Only Point Of  Invasion   Other Moves Elsewhere At Any Moment, In Belief Of Observer; Warns Of Setbacks

LANDING ON SICILY  NOT ONLY INVASION PLANNED BY ALLIES _ HARD AND PROLONGED  FIGHTING PREDICTED FO! ITALIAN STRONCHOID

Sicily Invasion Not to Be Regarded ‘As Only Landing Planned, British Observer Says; Quick Co-ordinated Moves Elsewhere Seen As Possibility

British Hint Of Other Landings   Bitter, Prolonged : Eeahting EnrozcAc

INDUCTION GALL QUON 15 HINTEL   Number of Tipton County  Men Taking Physical  Examinations.

DUCTION: GALL ~ SOON 19° HINTED   Number. of Tipton County. . _Men Taking Physical  _, Examinations. *

Britons Named to Command Allied Air, Naval Forces in European Invasion

PAL DEFENDIVE ARG LASHED AGAIN   140 Tons Of Bombs Loosed Upon Two Main Bases Of Munda And Lae

Sympathy With Allies Shown By Italiane As They Surrender And Make Resistance Lighter — Tear Down Pictures Of Mussolini And Show Other Signs Of Friendship For The Invaders

British, Canadian Forces Within 3 Miles, Catania; — Report Italians Cracking

Fhers, Especially Drilled, Shatter Arms Objectives;  Axis Cracking up in Sicily

ENEMY FORCES NOW GIVING UP; 2 MORE KEY POINTS TAKEN   Heaviest Fighting Takes -Place In Catania — Capture Of Enna Next Goal .

ALLIES DRIVE . NEAR CATANIA   Chattering Air and Navat Bombardments Supporting Allied Ground Troops—Over Onc-Third of Sicily. Already in Allied Hands.

AXIS POSITIONS  COLLAPSE FAST AS ALLIES GAIN   Strong. Resistance Is Being Met Only At Catania   ITALIANS SURRENDER EN MASSE TO YANKS

Road Center of Caltanissetta Seized and Flanking Movement Threatened as Allies Advance.

British and Canadians Near Catania   More Than One Third of Island Blac Vallan

Big Battle Rages Outside Catania   Canadiahs Gain 20 Miles in Day; Fascist Forces Are Surrendering

Crack-Up of Many Italian Units Leaves Biggest Battle Raging near Coastal City

ALLIES REPORT SURRENDER OF » WHOLE UNITS   Hard Fighting Forecast, However, Before » Catania Falls

Pincer Push Perils Axis North Lines   Enemy Squeezed Into Northeastern Section of Island

Italian Armies in Sicily: ‘Are Beginning to Crack Up Tearcwhare Fxeent Catania   Americans, Canadians Within 10 Miles of  Main Base of Enna

ALLIES MAKE BIG GAINS IN SICILY   Italian Forces Cracking Up Except Near City of Catania

A Cold Wave Here Tonight   Mercury May Sink As Low As 15 In Northeast Kansas

COLD WAVE MOVINGIN   Light Rain, Changing to Snow, Forecast for Kansas

35 Killed Un  Plane Crash   Plane Under Contract To Army Located Near Coast Of Dutch Guiana.

Crash Near Coast of Dutch Guiana Jan. 15 Is Reported.  26 PASSENGERS.  4

35 Killed in Crash of Transport Plane Near Dutch Guinea Jan. 15th

35 Dead in Plane Crash   Accident in South America  Jan. 15 Revealed

 marae  35 Killed In Crash  Of Transport Plane Being Used By Army

35 Are Killed In Plane Crash   Transport Was Carrying Army Officers to Over seas Duty in Africa.

39 ARE KILLED IN PLANE GRASH   Giant Transport, Under Contract to Army, Wrecked Near Dutch Guiana

35 Die As U. S.  Army Transpor! Plane Crashes   FBI Agents, State Department Men Aboard Ship

Wrecking of Transport Ship Near Dutch Guiana Jan. 15 Announced Today by Maior General George.

Transport Crashes, Killing 35   Major Eric Knight, ‘ Noted Novelist, Is Among Dead, Largely American Airmen

p £. Edward Foxworth, FBI Official At New York, Also Killed In Dutch Guiana Accident

35 Killed When Big Plane Falls   None Survives Crash Of Transport Off Dutch Guinea

35 Persons Die Big Transport Plane Crashes   Disaster Occurs Near Coast of Dutch Guiana In South America,  It Is Announced

35 Killed in Dutch Guiana Plane Crash   Author Eric Knight Among Passengers of Transport Dead .

Thirty-Five Die In Plane Crash In Dutch Guiane   Prominent Americans Die In Plane Disaster, Navy Department Reveals

TRANSPORT PLANE CRASH KILLS 35   Accident Occurs Near Coast Of Dutch Guiana In South America

4-MOTOR SHIP CRACKS UP IN DUTCH GUIANA   26 Passengers And Nine Crew Members Lose Lives, War Department Says   LEHMAN AID IS VICTIM   wee kee et he PND det iw wih tte     Casualty List Also includes Maj. Eric M. Knight, Two FBI Officials

ET 8 JAP PLANES35   Trapsport Plane Under Contract to Army Crashed in South America

30 PEOPLE DIE IN. AIR LINER CRASH IN DUTCH GUINEA   Victims Inctude Maj. Eric Knight. Author of * This Ahove all"

39 KILLED IN PLANE CRASK   Author Eric Knight Among Victims of Accident

THIRTY-FIVE DEAD IN CRASH OF BIG TRANSPORT PLANE   ACCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR DUTCH GUINEA COAST ON JANUARY 15

30 KILLED IN Chon OF ARMY TRANSPORT   Plane Crash In Dutch Guina Revealed By Army

IN CRASH OF ARMY PLANE   Maj. Eric Knight, Farned Author, One Of the Victims

High Officials Lost on Jan. 15: None Survive  Author Eric Knight   Author Eric Knight Among Those on 4-Engined Craft

DRIVE MENACES NAZI DNIEPER RIVER DEFENSE   Other Units Race To Close Escape Routes In Southi ern Ukraine   VITAL RAIL LINE CUT   Hundreds Of Towns Seized As Russians Extend Gains On All Fronts

SOVIETS PUSH WEST IN DRIVE FOR KIEY   Take Nezhin and Threaten Vital Nazi Defense Line

“lacArthur Watches From Fortress as Yank Forces Trap Enemy Army In Lae-Salamaua Region

ENEMY FORCE IS ENCIRCLED BY LANDINGS   Americans Float Down Behind Foe’s Positions After Australians Storm Ashore.   M’ARTHUR LOOKS ON FROM BOMBER   Yanks Seize Strong Points Without Opposition and Cut Off Escape Route to Jungles.

PARATROOPS WATCHED BY Gen. M’ARTHUR   General Aboard Flying Fortress Sees Troops Land Behind Lae, New Guinea; Encircle 20,000 Japs   Gain Big Advantage

Paratroops . Help Bottle Up Japanese   MacArthur Watches from  Fortress as 20,000  Enemy Troops are  ~ Encircled © _

20,000 Japs Said Trapped   Paratroops. Land Behind Lae To-Cut Off Escape By Nips

American Paratroops Land  To Rear Of Jap Positions ‘At Lae In Surprise Attack   Gen. MacArthur Says Maneuver Completes The En- . circlement Of 20,000 Nipponese In New Guinea: Greatest Number Of Planes In Pacific Area Used

LAE, SALAMAUA VIRTUALLY CUT OFF BY ALLIES   Double Squeeze Applied Following Up Surprise Landing; American  Air Troops Land   MacArthur In Field

Air-borne Yanks Hit  Near Lae MacAvthur Plan   MacArthur Plan Cuts Retreat Route 

20,000 Japs Encireled on New Guinea   Trapped When Yanks Parachute to Earth Behind Jap Defenses  RING IS CLOSED, MACARTHUR SAYS  Enemy Now Pinned Between Yanks’ Guns,  Aarctemoltamec an (\nact

Pa ratroops Encircle Japs in Lae Sector   General MacArthur Watches Landings From Flying Fortress; Action Takes Enemy Forces Completely by Surprise

Paratroopers Drop Behind Lines At Lae   General MacArthur Watches Landings From Flying Fortress—Japanese Forces Caught Com. ; pletely by Surprise

General MacArthur Watches aneuver From Flying Fort   Encivelement of 20,000 Japanese Troops Is & Completed Near Lae-Selamaun Area Sunday

Allies Clos2 Ring On Japs   Paratroops Land Behind Lae, Completing Encirclement Of 20,000 Nips In LaeSalamaua Sector

Paratroopers Trap Japs Around Lae   MacArthur in Plane Watches His Men Float Into Markham Valley in New Guinea fo Finish Encirclement

U.S. Paratroops Trap 20,000 Japs Near Lae   Yank Force.Lands in New. Guinea, Taking Nipponese by Surprise; MacArthur Watches Coup From Plane

Paratroopers Hel Close Big Circle In New Guinea   Americans Join In Surprise Move  As MacArthur Watches   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Tuesday. Sept. 7

France F, aces Losing Grip on Levantine After Holding Power Since Crusades —

India Crisis  Arbitrary Establishment Of Provisional Indian Government By Britain Seen As Solution To Row

NEW EAST ASIA COMMAND WILL BE FORMED TO: DIRECT FINAL DEATH BLOW AGAINST JAPAN   . Shift. in, India .Forerunner of More Spectacular oves; Gert. Wavell Named Viceroy and Gen. Auchinleck Becomes Commander-in-Chief

CRITICS OF OUR PACIFIC WAR POLICY: MAY BE INTERESTED IN SEPARATE EAST INDIA COMMAND

The War Today— Wavell Selection No Surprise To Japanese—No Help To Them Either   Re MAY WHITT.T.

TRADE PACTS AMENDMENTS BEATEN DOWN   Continuance of Administration's Reciprocal Powers for at Least 2 Years Seems Certain   CHANGES REJECTED

MARTS LEAVES DEFENSE POST   Resigns as Head of State Council to Take Coast Guard Position.

MARTS RESIGNS AS DEFENSE HEAD      Will Become Captaiif in Coast Guard 7 Reserve 

Marts Quits To Join The Coast Guards   Executive Director of State Defense Council Has New .Assignment   POST REMAINS VACANT

MARTS. RESIGNS DEFENSE POST FOR 4.5. COAST GUARD   Gov. Martin Announces Resignation of Defense Council Head This  TWA eerestwnar

Landon Confers with Dewey; Calls Him Outstanding 6.0.P. Candidate

ORDER EALY TRIAL IN BRIBERY CASE   Carr Asks for Trial of Rep. Green Be Set in November or Early December

U.S. BOMBERS RAID TARGETS NEAR VIENNA   Nazis Admit Major Objective Was Badiy Damaged

Austria Battered In Raid   No Details of Third Raid on Austria Is Given

MINE CASE UP TO PRESIDENT   Strike Situation Is Taken Under Advisement by .  Roosevel+.

Government May Seize Properties if Precedent Established in Previous Similar Cases Is Followed—War Labor Board Goes Over Situation With McIntyre and Byrnes, After Which President Takes Walkout Under Advisement.

WLB Refers Coal Strike  To President  Move May Lead To Federal  Mines Satenra

Coal Miners’ Case Goes To President   Step Usually First In Seizure of Property Involved

Anthracite Mine Strike Put in Hands Of President   Step Usually Means Government Seizure Of Property Involved   3,000 MORE MINERS JOIN IN WALKOUT

Anthracite Miners Walkout  Is Given To Roosevelt By War Labor Board Members   Appeal To White House Is Believed Preliminary To’ Government Seizure Of Properties Involved In Wild-  cat Walkout; Some Locals Agree To Return !

‘oal Strike Action Ip to Roosevelt   WLB Places Dispute In President's Hands

Roosevelt Ponders Turn Of Events In Anthracite Strike   South Wilkes Barre Colliery Votes By Narrow Mar gin Of Four To Return To Work; Another Large Mine Decides To Stay Out

ANTHRACITE STRIKE GETS TO PRESIDENT   First Local To Strike Votes By Slim Margin To Return To Work-Four Voatec.   3 Join Strike

WLB HANDS CASE —TO-WHITE-HOUSI      Step Usually Precedes Federal Seizure of Properties Involved; Locals Vote Upon Action 

Giraud Says Nazis Won’t Collapse Soon   Declares Liberation al France Only Task His Committee Faces

Faiious ‘Battleship X' Is At Last Identified by u. S. Navy as South Dakotc

ROMMEL ARMY IN RETREAT AT FAID PASS   Enemy Gains Accomplished At Loss Of Many Men   Jabbing At Mareth Line; Sidi Bouzid Is Retaken; Tunis Blasted

Aties Re-Enter Sidi Bow Zis in Geutral Tusisia   Axis Gains Ground In North At Cost  yar L

ALLIED PATROLS REGAIN SIDI BOUZID, WITHDRAW 4 MILES AT SEDJENANE

GERMANS MOVE FORWARD FOUR MILES IN NORTH      Allied Planes Blast Nazis; Sidi BouzidTaken

Guns, Planes And Warships Pound Area   Americans 14. Miles And British 15 Miles From City of Messina  END ‘NOW AT HAND’

Rear Guard Defense In Sicily Crumbles   American Forces Are Expected To Be First To Reach Last Nazi Defences At Meccing

NACI DEFENDED HAVE CRUMBLED   Allied Field Artillery, Warships, Bombers Spread   CARPET OF FIRE   Across the Germans’ Escape Corridor, Messina Strait Ferry Lines

Messina Death Trap For Nazis   Strait Is Pounded From Sea‘And Air

German Forces Crumble Before Attack   Escape Corridor Is Blasted by Land and Air

Land, Sea, Air Forces Batter af Fleeing Enemy: Defense Crumbles   End of Sicilian Campaign ‘Now at Hand;’ U.S. Forces Within 14 Miles of Messina, Over Run Barcellona, Cut Off Milazzo; More Gains

Nazi Rearguard Defenses Reported toHave  Crumbled  END OF SICILIAN CAMPAIGN IS NEAR  Gains in Other Sections Reported by the Allies

End of Sicilian Campaign Said ‘Now at Hand’   Allies Sweep Within 14 Miles of German Escape Port; British Forces Also Advance

Carpet of Fire Sears Ferry Lanes to Italy   Field Artillery, Warships and Massed Fleets Of Bombers Concentrate On Enemy; End Said ‘Now At Hand’

Allies Rush For Big Kill At Messina   Germans Left In Sicily Have Little Chance

End of Sicilian Campaign is at Hand As Allied Warships, Planes and Big Guns Pound Foe’s Eseane Route

Messina Turned Into Death Trap For Axis Forces   End of Campaign In Sicily Near

Allied Forces in Sicily Squeeze Germans Into Bottleneck; Air and Seacralt Scourge Straits

Rear Guard Defenses of   Nazis Failing   Carpet of Fire Being Spread Across. Escape Corridor  ”

Mat ot Fire  ls Spread Over Strait   Artillery, Warships and Bomber Fleets Spray Shells on Fleeing Remnants; U. S. Forces Only 14 Miles From City

FERRY LANES OUT OF SICILY ARE POUNDED   AXIS REAR GUARDS CRUMBLE; ALLIES NEAR STRAITS

REAR GUARD DEFENSES CRUMBLE AS ALLIED FIELD ARTILLERY, WARSHIPS AND PLANES SPREAD CARPET OF FIRE.

GUNS, BOMBS TAKING TOLL AT MESSINA   Carpet of Fire Laid Down on Germans’ Escape Corridor and Ferry Lanes to Ttalv.   GROUND FORCES SPEED ADVANCE   Americans Overrun Barcellona and Now Are 14 Miles From Main Debarkation Point.

OVER DOZEN TOWNS CAPTURED IN DRIVE — OF SOVIET ARMIES   Berlin Radio Admits Withdrawal—aAllied Setback in North Africa Reported Where British Troops Are Thrown Back

NAZIS NOW ADMIT’ CAUCASUS RETREAT         More Than Dozen Towns Are Overrut As Soviet Drive Continues Toa RolliQn *

Axis Shortens’ Line as Russians  Hurl Tank Attack   Advancing Soviets Now Less Than 75  Miles From Rostov "IGHTING IS HEAVY  Red Columns Cut Wide Swath Down Don River Valley

Berlin Admits Nazis Retirement To Short Defense In Caucasus   Moscow Communique Declares Five Additional Towns Have Been Overrun By Russian Armies

SHOOTS 4 MEN TO PROTEGT nla WIFE'S HONOE   Springdale, Ark., Gambler Arrested After Fleeing  From Scene of the Vilna

IOWA'S NEW GOP HEAD HAS IDEAS   Main Objective Is to Ge Rid of Gillette

YORK AIMS AT. GILLETTE POST   Confident of Taking Demo’ s Senate Job

STEELMAN SAYS NO DEADLOCK INWAGE PARLEY   Plans To Keep In Touch With Conferees

MINE CONTRACT NEGOTIATION TO COVER NATION   All Coal Fields Are to Be Affected by Wage. Parleys As Result of Extension   MAKING PROGRESS   Steelman Pleased With Re  sults; Fear of Mine Stoppage Tomor  row Removed

Jap Airfields InNewGuinea ‘Get Pounding      Fortresses and Liberators } Drop 19 Tons of Bombs  on Three Targets

MINE SHUTOOWN ON MAY  LOOMS   UMW District Officials Agree That Miners Will Not Report for Work Unless Contract Is Completed

Textile Mills Feel Shortage Of Fuel Oil   Deliveries of ‘Only. Three-Day ‘Supply Allowed

TROPICAL HURRICANE DAMAGES VIRTUALLY EVERY BUSINESS BUILDING IN GALVESTON   Accompanied by Torrential Rains, Gale Leaves Millions of Dollars in Wreckage As It Sweeps Inland; Much Damage Also Suffered At Houston; Only Two Are Known To Have Been Killed

RESCUE PARTIES - HUNTING VICTIMS   Two Reported Dead in Tropical Hurricane In Texas, Damage Is Great.

Hurricane Strikes Galveston, Tex.   Several Lose Lives: Damage Estimated In Millions

Galveston Struck By Tropic Storm   Damage Estimated In Millions, Several Dead

RESCUE PARTIES SEARCH DEBRIS IN STORM'S WAKE   Gulf Coast at Galveston Swept by Severe Tropical Hurricane.

SEARCH FOR VICTIMS OF GULF STORM   Galveston, Texas, In Center of Storm Area

Storm Damage Running Into Millions Rescue Parties Search For Viclines

Two Pedestrians Struck, Hurt By Cars on Thursday   Young Cyclist Injured by Hit-Run. Aged Man Seriously. Hut

NAZIS MAKE DEMANDS ON SWITZERLAND   Ask use of Swiss railroads to supply German army in south

REPORT SWISS ~~ GET DEMANDS   HITLER SAID TO HAVE  DEMANDED: USE OF SWISS- RAILROADS. IN, SUPPLY ING ARMY § .

Japanese Withdrav As Allies Keep On Fast Offensive  _ Enemy Again Yields On New Guinea; Salamaua Is Falling

Jap Salamaue Line Broken, Foe in Flight   Hundreds of Dead; Much Equipment Abendoned ian Retreat

Japs Withdraw Into Salamaua  As Fall Nears   Enemy Abandons Hundreds Of Dead, Equipment; Allies Pursue Forces.   LIGHT ALLIED LOSSES

Early Salamaua Fall Pr edicted  me OUtm)hSCUR eT. Fea   Japs in Fall: Retreat, Abandoning Dead

Japanese Lines at Salamaua  Said Broken   Nips Abandon Hundreds of Dead, Much Equipment: Fall of the Vital New Guinea Bastion Said Imminent

Japanese Withdrav As Allies Keep On Fast Offensive  Enemy Again Yields On New Guinea;

PRODUCTION RAISED FOR MACHINE GUNS      Cost of Rifling Barrels Also Cut in Half

Mileage Rationing to Continue All Synthetic Rubber Plants ‘May Be Finished Durina ‘43

Tires in 743 For Essential Driver Only   Synthetic Rubber Plants To Be Completed By End of Year

70 GET 12,000,000 NEW TIRES THIS YEAR  Ickes Warns Motorists To Cut Down on Use

Will Complete Rubber Plants   _ AH Will Be Ready This Year; No Tires For Non-Essential.

RUBBER PROBLEM NEAR SOLUTION, JEFFERS REPORTS   30,000,000 New Tires Will Be Produced in 1944, He . Daclares.

Rubber  Supply Searce   Jeffers Says Rationing To Go On for Long Time

Rubber Problems Are Being Solvec   30 Million New Tires To Be Made In 1944, Says Jeffers Rubber Plants To Begin Operation Soon

No Let-Ur In Rubber Pinch Yet   Output Of Synthetic Plants Only Enough To Take Care Of Essential Replacements

Completion Synthetic Rubber Plants Seen By Year's End; Tire Outlook Reported Dark

All Synthetic Rubber Plants Finished In °43   —WILLIAM M. JEFFERS, But No New Tires For Nonessential Drivers For Lone Time.

RUBBER PROGRAM NEAR COMPLETION   Non-Egsential al Driver, However, Cannot Expect new Tires for ‘a ‘Long Time’

No Tires For A Card Auto Owners In*44.   Outlook For Plenty For All Essential Driving, However

NEW PLANTS ARE NEARLY FINISHED   All For Production of Synthetic Rubber to Be Ready By End of Year.

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANTS PROGRESS   All ta Be Completed By Enc Of Year to Make ‘Essential Tires.

30 Million Tires In ’44, Problem Not Yet Solved   Non-Essential Drivers . Cannot Expect Rubber For Long Time: Jeffers

Jeffers Says 30 Million New Tires Will Be Produced in 1944 But There'll Be None for Non-Essential Drivers

'30,000,000 New Tires in ’43— ‘But Pleasure Driving Is Out   Prediers Rulslber Grisis Wotrliin Six Monrhas

RUBBER CZAR IN HOPEFUL REPORT   Jeffers Sees Problem Conqucred, Warns Non-Essentia] Drivers Won’t Get Tires

PLANTS TO BE COMPLETED BY END OF YEAR   Essential Drivers To Get Tires This  VYear

Rubber Problem Being Solved ~   30 Million Tires. - To Be Made in 1944.

NAZIS EXPECT FIRST ATTACK IN WEST OF FRANCE   Hitler’s Newspaper Declares Attack On Continent Now Is Likely   SECOND FRONT FEAR DRILLED IN PEOPLE

Axis Envisions Invasion Blow In West France   Churchill Speech Stirs Up Flood of Nazi Propaganda

Proponents Of Independent Civilian Supply Administration Gain Support As Vote Nears

U.S. Ship Sunk Off East Coast  .-«- First In & Months   In Service Four Years.

Sub Sinks Ship Off East Coast  May Mark Reo nc Of U- Boat: ype se

40 Lives Lost In Sinking Of U.S. Ship Off East Coast   Capt. James W, Harrel, True to Tradition of Sea, Elected to Go Down With His Flaming Ship After Ordering His Men to Jump to Safety;  All Officers Among Missing

SUB ON EAST COAST   Merchant Vessel Is Torpedoed; Survivors Landed at Miami

First Sub Assault in Many Months Off the East Coast OF the U. S. Takes 40 Lives

J. S. MERGHANT VESSEL SUNK OFF  EASTERN COAS'   Navy Announces First Sinking of A Merchant Vessel Off American East Coast Since August 1942; Officials Decline Comment.

AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK WITH LOSS OF FORTY LIVES   All Officers and Members of Naval Gun Crew Missing; Blimp Aids Rescue of 18  Survivors.

Over 300 Head of — Livestock Will Be Exhibited   Auction of Baby Beeves on Last Day of Fair, Accord- , ing to present Plats

4-H Boys Enter Livestock Worth $15,000 at Fair   Entries Compare Favorably with Those of 1942

CHARLES E, WILSON LEAVING WPB POST   Resignation Expected to Become Effective in a Few Weeks.

Wilson Quits War  Production Board   G.-E. Executive Says He Has Broken Bottleneck  in Airplanes.

‘Wilson To Leave WPB   Board; Hear Resignation With Chairman Nelson

Wilson Has Quit WPB   Executive Vice Chairman Will Return to Job With General Electric

QUITS HIS WPB JOB   Charles E. Wilson Will Rejoin Staff of General Electric

Sfa x Wrecked By Raids Of U.S. Bombers  Stage Being Set For Final All-Out Assault On Axis

Lauds Bill For Newspaper War  Bond Sales Ads   Points Perils Of Propaganda

“FREE” SHOES JULY 19 10 3181   Limited Quantity of Obsolete, Odd Lots to Bé Available

ODD-LOT SHOES MAY BE SOLD   Limited Quantity Ration Free July 19 Thru BQ 1 ot

Elephant Josephine Is Dead   “PAMPERED PACHYDERM” OF PYGMY FAME PASSES OF HEART AILMENT

EFFORTS MADE BY NAZIS 10 EVACUATE AREA   Gestapo Agents Anc Invading Troops Rush Tanks And Guns To Section.

NORWAY SCENE OF NEW PLOT AGAINST ADOLE      Mutinies Surpressed With Executions, Brutality

SOVIET OFFENSIVE POINTS OUT NEED OF SECOND FRONT      Big Drive On Western Europe Necessary  - As Red Drive  Mounts

1U. S.-BRITISH PLANS FOR NEW FRONT IN  WESTERN EUROPE HURRIED BY RED DRIVE

ae eee See eet ee Se ee ee  Speed of Reds May Cause Allies To Invade Western —— Cina

Russian Successes:May Speed “Second -Front"’   "'ULS., Britain May Have to Quicken  A evairerenrvarits for West-Europe Invasion

IS KILLED ON ATTU   Cw ayne Nees, Former President of “K Club” at K. U.

DEMOCRATS TRY TO EASE WRATH   Party Leaders In Senate Try To Smooth Over Uprising Of Southern Colleagues.

Bailey Voices Secession Move   Senator Byrd Demands Guffey Resignation; Verbal Clash On Senate Floor.

DEMOCRATS ROW IN THE SENATE   SEN, BYRD DEMANDS THAT GUFFEY RESIGN HIS CAMPAIGN POST

REVOLT THREAT BY DIXIE BLOC SHAKES SENATE   Southern. Democrats Blast Guffey After Remarks , OnSoldier Vote Act;  ’ Being Scrapped - _.

LEADING SENATE  DEMOCRATS TRYING  TO APPEASE SOUTH UPRISING OF SOUTHERN  SENATORS THROWS CEAR INTO PARTV

Senate Democrats Dodge Controversy   Bailey Threatens Southern Demos Could Form Own Party

SOUTHERN DEMOS THREATEN BOLT: AGAINST PARTY    Statements. of Senator Guffey, Pa., Democratic Leader: Riles Senators  - Byrd and Bailey —

GUFFEY QUIET ON DEMAND HE RESIGN POST   Democrats Trying To Patch Up Squabble

Solons Seek To Placate  Southerners  Trate Over. Guffey » Speech; Threaten * Py Bolt Party

Democrals Threaten fo Bolt Party   Southern Senators Angered at Charge Hurled by Guffey

Dixie Democrats Angered; Third Party Threat Made   Guffey Stirs Open Revolt.in Senate With Wnholv Alianee’? Charce on: Voting Bil

SEEK 0 SMOOTH QUT DEM UNREST   Charge That t Southern Members Joined with GOP in ‘Unholy Alliance’

Doenitz Declares German Navy To Fight to End  Intensified Drive By Submarines Mav Be Exnected

Babson Surveys Mortgage Outlook   Inflation Means It Will Be Basy for Debtors to Pay Up

DO HOT SACRIFICE LAND AND MORTGAGES      Babson Predicts Inflation Is Certain To Increase Values. Of Real Estate and Of Real Estate Mortgages.

Popular Young. Kingsley Couple Married Friday  , Rith MeClarvan An   Ruth McClaran And John A. Hall Pledge Marital Vows

KINGSLEY CHURCH WEDDING SCENE   Ruth McClaran and Alvin Hall United Friday  Afternoon

Special Program Announced for Harvest Sunday   Pocahontas County Citizens Urged to Participate In Annual Event November 21

MAJ. 6A, HAWKING HEADS 8.0.7.0. HERE   Arrvies to Take Charge of Units at Ironwood and Bessemer.

SALES OF ALL CANNED MEAT, FISH HALTEL   Heavy Buying Blamed fo: “Freeze” — Butter Goes Ceiling

OPA Bans Sale Canned Fish, Meat   Order Follows by Few Hours Announcement That Increase in Price of Canned Oysters Permitted

“Hoarder” Buying Blamed For Order; Restrictions To  Ease Up In March

CANNED MEAT SALES BANNED   Canted Fish Also Come Under} OPA Order Requested by Wickard—Dog Foods Exempted

HALT SALES OF CANNED MEATS   Ban Probably Will Stand Until Meat Rationing Begins

Canned Meats Sale. Stopped   Only Fido May Get Food - Out Of Metal; ‘Action Hits: At- Wbarder

OPA HALTS SALES OF CANNED MEATS   Heavy Buying Threatens Nation’s Supply;  Wickard Requests Order

CANNED MEAT, FISH “FROZEN   et ITT  Last‘: - Midnight, Oat Late’ March. ,

CANNED FISH, MEAT FROZEN BY OPA   Sales Ban Expected To Hold Until Late in March

Sale Of Canned Meats Stopped   Fish Included In OPA Order Effective Today

OPA SUSPENDS SALE OF CANNED MEATS AND FISH   ORDER WENT INTO EFFECT LAST NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT

All Canned Meat Sales Tied Up By OPA Order   Only Pets Exempted From Ban; May Stand Until March Rationing

CANNED MEAT, FISH FROZEN   Sale of Products Is Halted Indefinitely by Order of OPA

PUBLIC SALE OF CANNED MEATS STOPPED    Sale of Canned Meats Indefinitely Postponed By OPA Order

CANNED FISH AND ‘MEATS SALES ARE ‘BANNED BY ORDER   OPA Clamps Freeze on Goods a: Heavy Purchases Dig Into Nation’s Supplies

Canned Fish, Meat Sales Are Halted   Ban Will Probably Continue Until Rationing Late Next Month

OPA Halts - Sale of These Products Probably Until Late in March.

CANNED MEAT, FISH SALES ARE FROZEN   Ban To Last Until Rationing Begins In Late March

SALES OF CANNED MEAT, SHEurISH HALTED BY OPS   Order, Intended To Stop Hoarding Which Threatens To Reduce Supplies To Dangerously Low Levels, Effective for 60 Days.

SALE OF CANNED MEATS AND FISH FROZEN IN U. S,   Government Tells Stores To Cease Sales Last Night

Canned Meats. Fish Go Under  Freeze Orde   Sales Ban Expected To Last Until Meat Rationing Late In March.   FOODS FOR PETS FREI

Sale Of All Canned Meat, Fish Halted For Indefinite Period; Rule Does Not Affect Pet Food

OPA Issues Surprise Or. der Halting All Purchasing Temporarily   DOG FOOD EXEMPTED   Run By Hoarders Threatens Supply; Ban May Be Lifted Late In March

TwoThousandAmericans Cut Off From Fifth Army Rescued By Comrades

Supplies, Ammunition and Water Were Running Low and Wound. ed Lay All Over the Gullies When Yank Tanks Arrived,

Fifth Air Force Blasts Koepana   Big Japanese Base  Left In Flames

Several Points Are Recaptured By Chiang Army   American, British Planes Operating From India Attack Japs In Burma

Bad Weather Halts Aerial Operations Of Allies Against Rommel In Libya

Eighth Army Pilots Attack Axis Airports   London Reveals Navy Has Escorted 971 Transports To America Since Nov. 8

French Troops Blast Germans From Heights   New Air Force Takes Part in Desert Clashes

French Troops Capture Two Tunisian Heights   Spokesman Says Gains Northwest of Kairouan Important

Weather Halts Air Operations  Against Rommel   British Report Shows Strength Allies Building

FRENCH CAPTURE STRATEGIC HILLS IN NORTH AFRICA   BAD WEATHER HALTS ALLIED ATTACKS ON ROMMEL FROM WEST

Blast Ay 1s Positions —   “French Troops and Airmen Capture 2 Heights

GAINS CALLE IMPORTANT TO ALLIES   U. S.. British Planes Raid Axis Motor Convoy   CONTACT MADE   Between Gen. Giraud’s Men And Fighting French Driving From Chad

Drive Axis From Hills In Tunisia   ‘French Troops Make’ Important Gain West Of Sousse; Blast Axis Supply Lines Again -

FRENCH DRIVE NAZIS FROM 2 VITAL POINTS   Troops Aided by New Lafayette Escadrille — Other Fliers Hit Many Blows—Giraud and Le Clerc Made Contact.

MID-TUNISIA GAINS SAID IMPORTANT   Allied Warplanes Continue Attacks On Axis Bases

FRENCH TROOPS A CAPTURE VITALW AFRICAN POINTS: B   'Heights of Jebel Haoub  and Jebel Bou Davouss » Described by. Spokeste. man As Important — ~  “JUT PROM-PICHON :   Meanwhile, Direct Contact Established Between  Fighting French, Gir-  ~aud’s ‘Headauarters

IMPORTANT NEW GAINS MADE BY FRENCH FORCES   Strategic Hills Taken Northwest Of Kairouan; Operations Indicate Allied Power In Africa Growing.

Ground Troops Aided By New P-40 Equipped Lafayette Escadrille Blast Germans From Strategic Points In Tunisian Mountains—Bad Weather Temporarily Halts Allied Aerial Operations From West Against Rommel’s Units In Libya

French Gain Heights in No. Africa   Misurata Area and Other Ports Hit by Allied Aircraft

FRENCH FLIERS. USE U.S, PLANES   Bad Weather T Temuorarity Halts Attacks Against Rommel in West.   TOTHER SECTORS QUIET

IMPORTANT CAINS MADE BY FRENCH   Two Strategic Heights In Tunisia Are Reported Captured   BOMB AXIS BASES   Allied Air Squadrons Operating With British Are Active

“e@ht Allied  Tans Lost Over Tunisia   Important Gains Made, Strategic Sites Taken

Attacking Forces Capture Strategic Heights: Giraud And Leclere In Contact

FRENCH TROOPS IN TUNISIA CAPTURED STRATEGIC HEIGHTS - WEATHER HALTS AERIAI   ACTIVITY AND HAMPERS

French Drive Axis Forces Out of Two Strategic Heights   Allies Are Building Up eu Tremendous Force for Coming Fight

jfrench Attackers Take Two Heights   t Points Threatening Sousse in Tunisia Are  te Captured  \   « AIR ACTION MOUNTING   ‘ Libyan Desert Force Gets in Touch With Giraud - Headquarters

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY AIR FORCE BLASTS ENEMY   Attack Air Field Objectives Near Misurata, Strike Motor Convoys

French Gain Two Heights In Tunisia   LaFayette Aces Make First Attack; Weather Halts Allies

Advancing French  Take Two Heights  Aerial Operations To Check Rommel Held Up By Weather

Germans Blasted From 2 Strategic Points in Afric:   Attack of French Marks First Offensive Operation by Escadrille.   Allied Air Squadrons Bomb Axis Air Field:

Escadrille Fliers Assist For First Time in  Offensive SICILY IS BOLSTERED Bad Weather Halts Drive  Against Rommel. In Libya

French Forces Recapture 2 Strategic Heights in Theater Near Kairouan

French Capture Two Important Hill Positions   Allies Blast Nazi Army, Hit Ports in Tunisia Sector

BASE AT ALGIERS HAS TWO ALERTS   Weather Hampers Operations; Giraud, Le Clereg ix . Direct Contact

FRENCH CAPTURE STRATEGIC HILLS IN NORTH AFRICA   Gains by Allied Force Feature Recent Fighting In Tunisian Campaign

FRENCH TAKE 2 KEY HILLS   Direct Contact Established Between The Fighting French And Giraud

peach Attackers Take Two Heights   ‘ Points Threatening Sousse - in Tunisia Are ‘ab. Captured   ¢ AIR ACTION MOUNTING   ¢ ¢ Libyan Desert Force Gets ~~ in Touch With Giraud  ts. Headquarters

NAPLESHIT TWICE WITHIN SINGLE DAY   Attack Follows U.S. Blows On Northwest Reich

State's Rights Plea Renewed   Stevenson Assails  Codoaral Llenenatinr

Six Jap Planes Raid Americans  In Ellice Isles   Last Big Defense Tc Rabaul Is Tottering: Week's Naval Score Favors U. S.

Ellice Islands Raided Twice   Funafuti Sombed ‘Ineffectually After Nanomeo Air Attack

THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS  By FRANK R. KENT  (Distributed by McNaught Syndicaie, Inc.)

The Great Game of Politics   By FRANK R. KENT The Right To A Job Idea

MOBILE BLOOD ~— UNIT CLOSES TIPTON VISIT   County Quota of 250 Persons Practically Reached ~~ (3n the Twe Days.   AT THE ELKS HOME   Twenty-two Persons Arnounced as Three T me Donors, Get P ns.

MOBILE BLOOD “UNIT CLOSES TRTON Ys   County Quota ‘of 950 Per' sons Practically. Reached - iin the Twe Days. :   AT THE ELKS HOME   Twenty - two: Persdfis Ar nounced as Three T me. , Donors, Get Pins.

‘Commando Assaults’ On Rheumatic Fever,  Killer 01 Children, Is Urged By Woman

Dutch Murder Nazi Appeaser   Is Third Attack In Past Week On Nazis

Another Dutch Quisling Slain   Latest Victim -Cooperated With Nazis In Netherlands: Slayer Escapes.

Messina Suffer One Of War's Heaviest Blows   Hundreds Of Bombers Hit Ferry Port; Others Keep Tight Battle Screen

Full Allied Bomb Power Hits Messina      One of Wai’s Heaviest Air Blows Struck at Guardian City of Strait

Full Weight Of Allies’ Overwhelming Air Power Is Turned Against Messina   Guardian Of Strategic Water Jump. Between Sicily And Italy Hard Hit

Messina Target Of Huge Attack   Hundreds of Allied Bombers in Raid

SLUG AT MESSINA   Medium Heavy Bombers in An Attack on Strategic Point —

Allied Bombers Strike Against Strategic Messina  Nine Enemy Planes Shot Down: Allies:

Allied Air Might Sent  To Messina   Water Jump Between Italy and Sicily Target  Of Tremendous Blow

Hundreds of Allied Bombers Take Part in Operation—Tanker Sunk, Another Is Set Afire and Merchant Ship Hit.

Allied Planes Bomb Messina   COMMUNICATIONS AND RAILWAYS ARE 1uT HARD

TERRIFIC ALLIED AERIAL ASSAULT. FALLS ON. MESSINA   Qne of the War’s Heaviest Blows Carried Out Against Sicilian Cities Yesterday and Last Nicht

Messina Blasted By Hundreds of Allied Bombers   Full Weight of Air Power. Turned Aaninct Saaqinars

VICHY ADMITS AXIS POSITION VERY PERILOUS   Quotes Berlin and Rome Reports In Asserting Situation In Sicily Js  “Extremely’’ Grave   AERIAL SUPPORT BY ALLIES IS SUPERIOR   [talians Admit Massive Aerial Raids On Ports In Sicily and Italy; Laud Axis Troops

MESSINA BATTERED BY ALLIED AIRMEN IN INVASION PLAN  _ VERY GREAT DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AFTER  ATTACK ON PORT

'The War T oday— Starvation Growing Worse In India; Report 50 Dying Daily At Calcutta

aN Wear SVUGy  Grave Concern Over  Famine In India Adds To Political Crisis.

Famine Adds to Concern over British-Indian Political Crisis Situation Affects Welfare of UN

BEDROCK ECONOMY ~ PROGRAM {S HELD OFF FOR PRESENT   War Production Board Re. jects Need of Imposing. ‘Restrictions Now.

WPB Rejects Bedrock Living For Civilians.   OCR Chief Warns, However, Output Will Be Limited To Essentials   9 POINT YARDSTICK   Sound, Vigorous Economy Without Hurting Military Needs Is Goal

WPB Avoids Cuts In Civilian Goods   Item Bans to Be Lifted’ Occasionally

BEDROCK ECONOMY UNNECESSARY BUT WPB WARNS PUBLIC      9-Point Policy Laid Down By Head Of Civilian  Requirements Office

Reject Need of  Bedrock Econom) For Civilians   Nine Point  Policy Fixed Ae ‘Yardstick”’

Eregk Lull of Weck to Push Nazis Back — Battling in Miserable Weather which is Hamperisig Aerial Operations — Advance “is First in Seven Days. :

STALEMATE ENDS IN ITALY: TOWN TAKEN   British Troops, Breaking Week’s Lull, Advance Five Miles To Capture Perano; Yanks Also Gain New Ground

IN FIVEMILE ITALIAN CAIN   Breaks Week’s Lull In Fighting: Fifth Army Also Advances Despite Miserable Weather.

Allies Finally Break Lull On * Front In Italy      Weather Still Hampers Fighting But Eighth ® Armv Advances Five Miles To Take Small Town Of Perano; Yanks Also Gain

INVESTIGATION COMMENCED IN DETROIT RIOTS    Fact-Finding Committee Seeking Cause of Violence; Brought Death for 31 People

Group To Begin  Riot Investigation   Will Call Grand Jury. If Affair Was Planned

INQUIRY OPENS IN ~ DETROIT OUTBREAK   Four-Man Fact Finding Committee Is Named te Probe Rioting.

Soviel Summer Offensive Halted, Messages Indicate   :  ~ Russian Forces Believed Preparing Com.nunications and Bases for Gigantic Winter Push—  . Brief Communique Issued

RED OFFENSIVE COMES TO HALT   Positions Are Being Put Into Shape For New Winter Drive

SICILY ROCKED FOR SIXTH DAY   Non.Stop Aerial Bombardment Blasting Away Airdromes and Communications — Heavy and Medium Bombers Used.

Hundreds of Allied Planes  Rain Explosives on Sicily   Twenty-One Axis Fighters Shot From Skies; Others Destroyed on Ground

ALLIES G0. ON BOMBING SICILY   Gerbini Gets Day And Night Raid; Other Fields Hit

HUNDREDS OF ALLIED PLANES CONTINUED ATTACK ON SICILY  AIRDROMES AID PORTS OF ITALY’S DEFENSE - ISLAND BLASTED

Planes Batter Sicilian Ports   Hundreds Shuttle Back and Forth Across Mediterranean

TWO-PRONGED ATTACK MADE UPON SICILY   Hundreds of Allied Planes Rain Explosives on Island Bases For Sixth Successive Day   AXIS FIGHTERS DOWNED

PLANES CARRY OUT ATTACKS IN SHUTTLE PLAN   Hundreds of Allied Aircraft Drop Bombs  on Sicilian Bases

SICILY . UNDERGOES SIX STRAIGHT DAYS OF ALLIED BOMBING      Ceaseless Waves Of Allied Planes Heap More Destruction On Airdromes

Allied Bombers Shuttle Back and Forth for Sixth Consecutive Day to Rain Explosives on Sicilian Objectives

SHUTTLE RAIDS HAMMER SICILY   Island Pounded by Planes  Six Consecutive Days

Sicily Raided For Six Days Without Stop   Aerial Bombtrdment Of Airdromes And Lines Of Communication Is Proceeding Steadily

Italian Points Under Terrific  Aerial Hammer   Allied Planes Keep Up Shuttle Raids For Sixth Straiwht Day.   Allied Attacks Too Vast For Axis Force:

‘Allied Bombers Rain Destruction ‘On Sicily. Bases   Hundreds ‘Shuttle Ow sai “Short “Run To” Blast --Fsland--For--Sixth. Day

Sicily Is Pounded By Allied Fliers   Hundreds Of Planes Shut tle Back And Forth Over Targets.

AMERICAN TROOPS ARE. REPORTED NEAR MUNDA   Late Dispatches Say That Forces Are Within Two Miles of Objective—Final Battle to Break Jap “Resistance in Sector May Be Underway Toaday—Vila and Kahill Are Attacked.      Sicily Rocks Under 6th Day of Allied Bombing

SICILY HIT DAY, NIGHT BY U, S.. BRITISH FLIERS   All Air Forces in African Sector Join in Round-Clock Offensive

For Sixth Straight Day —   Allied Bombers Smash At Sicily In Double-Barreled Blows From North Africa And Middle East

SICILY ROCKS AS WAVES OF ALLIED BOMBERS ATTACK   Non-stop Aerial Bombardment Concentrates on Enemy firdroames.

Allied Bombers Raid Airdromes   SIXTH CONSECUTIVE DAY OF BLASTING SICTT v

WARPLANES BY THE HUNDREDS ATTACK SICILY   Allied Planes Shuttle Back And Forth Across Mediterranean lo Hammer At Sicily For Sixth Consecutive Day.

Axis Plane Defenses Lessening   ‘Allied Planes Run Shuttle Service Over Sicily

AIRFIELDS ON ISLAND ATTACKED   21 Axis Fighters Are Downed In Sixth Day Of Raids

Ttaly’s Island Defenses Are  Battered Anew   Hundreds Of Allied Planes Hit Bases 6th Straight Day

ALLIED FLIERS SPREAD HAVOC IN SICILY RAIL   Pound Airdromes On 6th Day Of Non-Stop Air Blows

‘Continuous Air Smashes At Defenses Of Siciliy   Entire Industrial Area Of Catania Is Covered By Bomb Bursts. U.S. Reports

Underbelly Attacks In Sixth Day   Allied Planes Shuttle Over Mediterranean to Rip Axis Targets. ,

Double-Barreled Blows Aimed At Sicily By Allies   Hundreds Of Planes Shuttle Back and Forth Across Sea; Trains, Radio Stations Hit

Sicily Given oth Straight Day of Bombing   Five Airfields Are Heaped With  Tiact rietinn

SICILIAN PORTS AND AIRDROMES RAIDED BY ALLIES   Hundreds of Planes Shuttled ~ Pack and Forth Across  the Mediterranean.   FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE   Heavy and Medium Bombers Joined in the Mission of Destruction.

Farm Deferments Offer No Haven To Skalawags Says Adj. General   eer SU Eh ae   No Axis Dunkerque From Tunisian Beaches

LOCAL TROOP UNIT RETURNS   Demobilized After Call In Detroit Race Riot Emergency

New Britain Invasion Due:  Attacks Hint   Possible Assault Points on Arawe Peninsula Blasted From Air

BOMBING 10 BEGIK ATTACK ON RABAUL      Invasion Of New Britain Predicted After Air Smash

WAVES OF PLANES KNOCK OUT BASES -IN 150 SORTIES   Rabaul, Jap’s Naval Base, Is Probably Doomed For Destruction In Assault to Take Place Soan.   RUSSIANS PREPARING FOR WINTER CAMPAIGN   Broadcast to Red Army States Enemy Will Be Hit Harder With Weather Conditions Favorable.

Drafting Of Fathers To Start May {   Men With Children Will Be Taken Soon

DRAFTING OF ~ FATHERS EXPECTED ABOUT MAY FURST   Limited Number of Single Men and Childiess Married Men foree Action :

DRAFTING OF FATHERS IS NOT FAR AWAY   Some Boards to Begin Taking Them About May 1 and Practice May Be General Aur. 1.

Fathers Due For Induction  After May 1   Supply of Single Men, Eligible Married Men About Exhausted Now   PREVIOUS ORDER © MUST BE CHANGED  New Order Covering All Married Men Expected This Sprine

Many Areas Will Begin Drafting Fathers in May   Order Must Be Changed before General Call Can Be Issued

Drafting Of Fathers Begins May]   Boards Running. Out of Single Men for Services

MAY T INDUCTION _-BE FATHERS SEEN   Officials Hint Army Call of Parents By Early Summer

Fathers FacingDraft By May: ~   Most Others Said Already In Sefvice

General Drafting Of Fathers  In Early Summer  Many Areas Expected To Begin Calling Family Heads May 1

ROOSEVELT SCION FREED   Case Growing Out of Lad’s Slaying Permanently Dismissed

GHURGHILL GIVES CHINA ASSURANCE   Chiang Kai-shek Is Told Day Will Come For Japs to Be Driven Out.

Chiang Gets Pledge of Aid By Churchill] United Nations ‘Will Surely Drive Invader  From Soil of China’ REFERS.TO AFRICA  Similar Feats of Arms Promised by Prime Minister   REFERS.TO AFRICA

CHURCHILL } SENDS ASSURING MESSAGE TO CHINA’S LEADER      Says Day Will Come When United Nations Drive Japs From Soil Of China

DECLARE TULt PORK BURIED   ASSERT INTERNED NIPS PLAYED TRACTOR POLO

Saylight Sweep Over Europe Follows Light Raid On German Capital; All Allied Planes Return

Flying Forts hit continent in full foree   Lull in aerial raids broken

AY AT DOVER FILLED BY alt PLANE FLIGHT   Mosquitoes Attack Berlin in Night; Nazi Planes Bomb London.

Fortresses Smash at Euro pe In Resumption of Warin Air   Three-Day Lull Broken by Attack On Berlin by Mosquito Bombers— Americans Continue in Daylight

RAF, ALLIED PLANES RAID NAZI EUROPE AFTER 3-DAY LULL   Nazis Make Another Token Trip Over London, East And Southeast England

Fortresses Smash at Kurope Again   Resume Air Campaign After Mosquitos Raid Berlin

FORTHESOES STRIKE AT EUROPE AGAIN   Huge Fleet Of U. S. Bombers Roar Across Channel

FAST MOSQUITO BOMBERS MAKE RAID ON BERLIN   Allied Flyers Renew Extensive Activities Against Nazi Europe

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTHEAST OHIO HILLS AFTER WAR GETS APPROVAI

McNutt Wins First Round Over Stimson   Gets Edge in LaborDraft Legislation  Controverey

Flying Fortresses Batter Nazi Bases   Attack U-Boat Yards At Kiel, Flensburg

Much Damage Is Caused At Kiel -And Flensburg   American Airmen Round Out Greatest Air-Bombing Week of Wra With Long-Range Attacks As Nazis Strike Back Lightly At London.

SENATE GROUP GIVES APPROVAL TO JOB MEASURE   Bill Demanding Confirmation Of $4,500 Men Opposed By FDR

Roosevelt Gets Another Rebuff By Committee   Senate Group Decrees Confirmation of Employes above $4 500

DEFER U. S. EMPLOYEES   Jobs of 12,000 Keep Them Out of Service, Draft Office Reveals.

112,000 U.S. Employees Draft Deferred Because Of Federal Employment

Railroads Order 1,525 New Freight Cars To Handle Wartime Traffic

Full Of Fight And Plenty Tough— Texas, U.S. Big Brother, Is 107 Today. Still Battling

Lewis Orders Miners Back To Their Jobs  1 a TY. _. OT oe ce   15-Day Truce In Coal Mine  Disnute Sioned

Negotiations to Continus 15 Days in Effort to Settle Wage Dispute   John L. Lewis Announces Decision Just Before Appeal Is Delivered to Strikers by President: Arrangement Is Reached in Conference With Ickes

TO NAME WAR MINISTER   French Committee Yields to DeGaulle Request

NEW PLEA LOST BY MRS. BROWDER   Deportation Supervision Try Gets Coo} Reception By Raard

Many Dads to ~ Be Inducted By October   Several States Already Scraping ‘Bottom of the Barrel’

Job Rationing Ties Millions To War Tasks   Manpower Commission Te Control All “But Smal Hiring In 32 Areas   HAS GUARANTEES   Provisions Are Made For Unsuitable Work, Incompetent Employes

Rationing Of Manpower Put In Operation   Thirty-Two Areas Are Included In Program Giving War Plants Priority On Labor

Manpower Rationing Order To Give War Industries Priority On Help

MANPOWER RATIONING TO GIVE WAR INDUSTRIES FIRST CALL   Thirty - Two Widely-Scattered Areas Of Critical ‘Labor Shortage Affected By Order Which Also Bars Shifting Of Jobs.

Program Will Tie Workers to Key Tasks   WMC Plans to Put System into Operation as Soon as Practicable

MANPOWER RATION PLAN PROGRAM IS ‘LAUNCHED BY WMC   System To Give War Industries First Call On Labor Supply And To Halt “Job-Switch ing

WANG TAKES STEPS FOR RATIONING OF MEN IN INDUSTRY   32 Widely Scattered Areas of “Critical Labor Shortage” to Be Helped At An Early Date.   TWO GENERAL RULES INCLUDED IN ORDEF   Workers to be Placed According to Skili, Without Discrimination Except As Tn Low.

Job Switching In 32 Areas Is Prohibited.   WMC Moves To Give War Plants First Call on Labor

WMCY Will Hire  In Some Areas      Action Taken To Prevent Switching Of Jobs-In Shortage: Revions

War Indust:.us To Hold Labor   FREEZING ORDER PUT INTO EFFECT BY McNUTT

War Industries To Get Priority On Labor Supply   Restraints On Job Switching Planned By Manpower Group

WMC TAKES OVER  LABOR HIRING IN  ‘CRITICAL AREAS TO SUPPLY WORKERS  FOR PLANTS UNDER PRIORITY SYSTEM

WAR PLANTS GET 1ST CALL, GOV'T DECIDES   Rationing Plan For Labor Will Be Set Un

Rationing — of Manpower In 32 Areas   New. Order to Give. War Industries First Call; Restrains Switching   SPECIFIC ORDERS GIVEN BY McNUT1   Broad Regulations to Be Set Up By Area Directors of WMC

WMC SETS UP CONTROL OVER LABOR SUPPL}   Board to Supervise All Hiring Except for Small Industries, Act to Curb Job-Shifting

Start Program For Rationing  Of War Labor   WME Clamps Restraints On Job-Switehing, Gives War Industries First Choice.   ASSUME HIRING DUTY

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins an Latest World News Today,   Beef Values Redueed,

Holiday fcr Meat Ration Is Unlikely  New Point Values Ta Be Given Snan

U.S. BOMBERS HEAVILY RAID NORTH FRANCE   Axis-Controlled Agencies Report Attack on 2aris

Two District Men Missing   Republic, Carmichaels Seamen Are Lost

NIMITZ HINTS NEW JAP RAIDS   Nips Are Given Sample Of What's to’-Come, Says Admiral

Wake Raid Crews Hit Targets With All But One Bomb   Nimitz Decerates Men Fresh From Flying Schools, Promises More Attacks

Sample of Things To Come— Honor Wake Island Raider:      Bombers Catch Japs Asleep

Two Stowaways Revealed os Having Gone With Planes on Pacific Mass Attack °

RAID ON WAKE MADE BY NEW ATR CREWS   Were in Training In Texas Only Few Weeks Ago

Seeeeeaeeeauaereeaarerereeereee W.C. T. U. Leade rs to Go on “Tea Binge”

See 3-billion bushel U.S.  corn harvest   Wheat estimate is $35.816.000

SICILY GIVES ALLIES WEDGE INTO AXIS ARRA   Gives United Nations Ad vance Base for Drives  Against Southern Italy   and Greece

Sicily’s Fall Is Entering Wedge   Tactically, Mediterranean Doors Are Now Wide Oven.

What's Next  Oerunation af Sirile Qnoen:s   Occupation of Sicily Open: Door for Numerous  Operations.

Possibilities For Next Move Are Unlimited   Sicily Entering Wedge Into Europe

MEDITERRANEAN DOOR WIDE-OPEN.   Sicily Entering Wedge Into European Fortress

Four-Ton Sup r Destroyer  Dropped On Center Of  German City Of Krefeld By RAF Flyers.

Allies Broadcast Warning to Belgian People of Raid.   Italy Rushes Preparations to Fight Off Allied Invasion.

Follow Up British Raid On Krefeld   Belgians Warned  To Leave Nazi Industrial Areas

British Officially Are Informed Of Turkish Attitude  Press Says Treaty  of Assistance Is tly Annroved.

TurksReach Agreement on Line of Action   Decisions Reached At Secret Session Communicated to “Friendly” England

TURKEY APPROVES PACT WITH BRITAIN   LONDON INFORMED OF ANKARA’S ATTITUDE ON MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT,

Yank Fliers Strafe Japs   Terrific Losses Inflicted in New Attacks in China

Navy Reveals big Air Attack On Wake Island   Nine Zeros Are Shot Down During Attack

Wake 'Is Blasted By Y anks   \X/ASHINGTON, July 27—  FITS «ss ewe: “lee.

Berlin Says Allied Fleet Leaves Base   New Invasian Rumors Are Sounded in Broadcast; Discount Effective Allied Forces

BERLIN WARNS OF COMING INVASION   44 Infantry Divisions Threa ten Southern Europe

GERMANS FEAR NEW ATTACKS   Disclose Arrival of U. S. Warships to Join Medi-... terranean Fleet

BERLIN REPORTS BATTLE UNITS LEAVE THE ROCK   See Preparations For Attack On European Fortress

ALLIED FLEET. LEAVES. GIBRALTAR SAYS BERLIN   Germans “Suppose” Americans are Preparing For Attack Against Europe in Near Future

Allied Battle Units Leave  Gibraltar   Berlin Kadio Fears Attack On Europe, Ther Says It Can't Be Done

Allied Fleet Reinforced, Axis Warns   Air Bombardment of Italy Continues as U. S. Warships Join Force at Gibraltar

REPORT ALLIED FLEET AT SEA   Big Battle Units Leave Mediterranean, Nazi Broadcast Says

Big Invasion Fleet Moves   Berlin Radio Reports Battle Units Leave Gibraltar for Attack

Allied Mediterranean Fleet Has »,_ Left Gibraltar Says Berlin Radio

SHIP MOVEMENTS DENOTE INVASION GERMANS BELIEVE   Berlin Radio Says Battle Units of Allies’ Mediterranean  ’ Fleet, Reinforced By U. 5. Vessels, Leave Gibraltar

Mrs. Jansson's Funeral Friday   Nazis Report Big Fleet Has Left Gibralter

Nazis Sight Allied Fleet Sailing East   Anglo-U. S. Power In Africa Placed At 44 Divisions

Attack Against Europe Said Near   Allies Said To Have 44 Infantry, Divisions In Africa   BUT MANY MUST REMAIN THERE

THREE POWER SPHERES ARE, NEEDED IN WORLD PEACE   Century Hence When United States, England or Russia Rules World Peace Is Possible  "Babson Believes.

Capitalism VS Communism Seen   ROGER BABSON SAYS U S. CAN LEARN FROM RUSSIA

MEN EXAMINED HERE FOR ARMY   Seven Men Take First Physicals Here in Week.

SEVEN MEN TO BE EXAMINED   Will Take First ‘Physical  Exams Here Mon-   day,

WILL EXAMINE MEN FOR ARMY   Six Will Take Examination: on Thurs- : ps day. «

Nazis Offering Fantastic Wage   Competing With Mussolini’s Army In Recruiting Of Italians.

Railway Strike Meetings to Reopen Monday   Holiday Taken By Federal, Union Leaders

A, segasmseunne a ~ %8SRERD  Armless Y «- 2 * Shows His Trick =.= Jops

Eden Flies to London, Accompanied by Winant. Seems in High Spirits

TO-REAGH. GLIMAK IN NEXT 60 DAYS   ‘New Mining Trouble Foreseen; Supply Low

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS LOOMS   Indicate Wage Pact Only Temporary New Terms Might Be Less Favorable

'YANKEES SECURE : PACIFIC HOLDINGS       German Capital Still Burning; Nasi Retreat Checked In Russia; Gilbert Success Seen .

ROOSEVELT IN MEETING WITR TURKISH HEAD   Special Session Called By Ismet Inonu Today

FDR-CHURCHILE TALK WITH THE TURK PRESIDEN]   Deliberations May Be Almost As Important As .. Recent Inter-Alhied Talks

Turkey's President in Conference With Allied Executives   Meeting May Have an Important Effect on Conduct of War

PRESIDENT OF TURKEY JOINS CAIRO PARLEY   Conference Between Roosevelt, Churchill and Inonu Reported in Progress in North Africa   CABINET WILL MEET

President Inonu Has Met Roosevel And Churchill   Britain Has Held Treaty of Mutual Aid Since 1939

‘Discussions Between Roosevelt, Churchill And Inonu Have Been In Progress In North Africa, With Possible Effect On Neutral Nation’s Status—  British Correspondent Says Talks May Rank With  Allied Conferences Held At Cairo And Teheran

NAZIS ASSERT ALLIES FORCING TURKEY IN WAR   Report Hitler Moving Troops Through Bulgaria Toward Turkish Border

lnonu Back From Cairo Meeting   Germany Looks For Warlike Move From Turks

Mechanized   Units Roll South   Berlin Takes Steps to Meet Any Changes In Turkey’s Status After Session Held by Roosevelt, Churchil!, Inonu

NAZIS SAY TURKEY. TO JON ALLIES   Turkish President Reported to Be Conferring with Churchill and Roosevelt

Nazi Troops Move Through Bulgaria Toward Boundary   British Writer Sees Moslem Nation Taking Action As Germany Starts To “Bluster And Show Its Hand”

‘Allies Exerting Pressure For Declaration of War’---B er lin   Nazis Reported Moving Troops Toward Border

Turkey's Course  Charted   ‘Nation’s Position In War Mapped At Conference — In North Africa

ALLIED LEADERS AND INONU END TALKS IN CAIRO   May In Due Course Have Profound Effeet On War

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL MET WITH ISMET INONU   Results of Conference Will! Concern Turkey’s Future Position in the War.   MET IN NORTH AFRICA   Deliberations May Have AIlmost as Important Effect as the Cairo Conference.

Roosevelt, Churchill Talk With  Ismet Inonu   President Of Turkey In Conference With Allied Leaders In North Africa

Meeting Termed Prelude fo Active War for Turkey.   Germans Say Allies - Trying to Force Turks :Participation

Turkish President ‘Who, Berlin Claims, Conferred With Roosevelt and Churchill, Back Home   ANKARA CABINET TO MEET, REPORT   German Spokesman Contends Allies Are Exerting Pressure to Force Turkey Into War

REPORT TURKISH MEETING WITH FDR, CHURCHILL   DISPATCHES TELL OF TROOP MOVEMENTS THROUGH BULGARIA

Some See Important Results   Allies Trying To Force Turks Into Conflict, Berlin Declares

Turkey  Nearer  To Allies:   Cabinet Into Special Session Following  Roosevelt-ChurchillInonu Talk in Cairo

Germany Contends Turks Are Under Heavy Pressure To Move Into Allied Camp

BALKANS —  Allies Bidding Turkey   Await Results of Inonu, FDR, Churchill Meeting

Churchill In Afriell   Special Session Of Turkish Cabinet Is Called In Ankara

CONFER WIT TURKS LEADER   FDR, Churchill and inonu Meet Concerns Turkey’s Pasition.   SPECIAL CABINET MEET

Revive Talk Of Drive Up Thru Balkans   Diplomatic Capitals Abuzz Over Report Of Important Meeting

PRESIDENT TURKEY MEETS ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL   DELIBERATIONS EXPECT. ED TO HAVE MOST IMPORTANT RESULT

TURKEY MAY MOVE   Berlin Radio Says President Met Roosevelt and  Churchill

NAZIS, WAITING TURKISH MOVE, SHIFT TROOPS   Berlin Reports Inonu Back from. Parley with Churchill, FDR. Cabinet Meeting Called 

Pressure Seen  On Turk Ruler   German Spokesmen -Claim Allies: Are Trying To. Force War Entry

President Inonu Sees  Roosevelt, Churchill   German Broadcast Declares Heavy Pressure Being Exerted To Bring Entry Into War; Great Allied Balkan Drive Forecast

INONU RETURNS HOME; CABINET SESSION HELD   Important Results in Parley Are Predicted by British Writer _

Conference In N. Africa Is Disclosed   Inonu May Cast His Lot With The Allies In War Against Axis.

Turkey Now Practically In Allied Camp; Could Aid Balkans Invasion

Another Big. Conference on  > War Program   Roosevelt, Churchill and Inonu Said to Be Discussing Turkey’s Position   TURKS CAN PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE   Could Open Way for Full Scale Drive on Balkans: Shorten Supply Route

PRESIDENT INCNU IN MEETING WITH ALLIED LEADERS   Session [s Probably Based On 1939 In Which Turkey Pledged Aid to Britain In Mediterranean.   BERLIN RADIO CLAIMS CONFERENCE {$ OVER   Three Special Advisers Said to Have Participated fr Deliberations Probably In   Cairo.

U.S., British Chiefs Consult Pres. Inonu   Bulgar Premier Talked With Turks On Future Attitude In War On Axis.   NEWSMAN HINTS BREAK

Future Relations Of Turkey With Allies Mav Be Told In Near Futura

President Meets F.R., Churchill   Conferences Based on Turks’ 1939 Pact Made With Great Britain

Head of Turkey Conferring With Allied Leaders   President Inonu in North Africa Concerning Position of His Nation.   May Have Important Course on the War

Turks’ Status In War Under Discussion   Germans Said to Be Moving Troops For Any Eventuality

President Inonu Reported In — Conference With Church ill, Roosevelt

Results May © Fix Turkey’s : Future Stand   Aid From Turkey Would Shorten Lines; Open Way to Balkans aN

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL WITH INONU   British Writer Announces Meeting May Prove As Important As Teheran, Cairo Conferences

Inonu Talks With FDR And Churchill   What Turkey Will Do In Relation to Allies Highly Important Result :

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL BOTH TALK 10 INONU   Turkish President Meets Two Allied Leaders in North Africa

INONU PARLEY WITH ALLIES IS REPORTED   London Hears Turk Leader’s Talks With F. D. R. and Churchill Concern Nation’s Future Position in the War.

(Copywright, 194%, Publishers Fifiaricial Bureau, Inc.)   OUTLOOK FOR RETAILERS  Babson Believes Siluation Encourag   Awporeciate Your Retailers

Outlook For U.S. Retailers   BARSONS SAYS STORE PROSPECT SEEMS BRIGHTER

Retailers’ Outlook Improving-Babson   Public Should Keep in Mind Tremendous Handicaps Merchants Now Have

BABSON DISCUSSES: RETAILER OUTLOOK   He Believes That Prospect Is Encouraging For Business In Coming Year; Is Opposed To Too Much Restrictions.

~JIMMY DOOLITTLE, ONE YEAR AFTER BOMBING TOKYO, SAYS: us SC Air Dower Means Death For The Axis   Eisenhower Reviews Tunisia Drive

Doolittle, Year After Raiding Tokyo, Says American Air Power Means Death for Axis

 An. ‘ersary Message:   Year After Raid On Tokyo. Doolittle Says U. S. Air Power Means Axis Death

U. S. Air Power Means Death For The Axis   Written for AP Features By MAJOR GENERAL  BatCVCro 88s MM weds oD

Doolittle Sees Aviation Growth Since Tokyo Bombed a Year Ago   By MAJOR GENERAL JAMES H. DOOLITTLE Written for AP Features

POLICEMAN HURT BY ZOOT-SUITERS      Los Angeles Hoodlums in New Incidents in Outlying Areas:

OCCUPIED BY JUGOSLAVIANS   Olaim Five Taken As Springboar¢ For Possible Allied Invasion

DE GAULLE ASKS EARLIER MEETING   Opposes Delay Suggested By Gen. Giraud

MAW ASKS $8,490,000 TO RUN UTAR   Lawmakers Hear Request To Let State Program Continue

Maw Asks Legislature For $8,450,000 Budget To Meet State Needs   Governor, Making Personal Appearance Before Legislature, Asks For Continuation of Reorganization Plan

Brandon Speaks To Record Crowd  At Annual Pienic   Increase In F. B. Membership Necessitates Opening New Office

Heavy Losses Inflicted on Enemy Forces   Allied Communique Details Brighter Picture

nNevenge Obtained By Yanks   Germans. Suffer - Heavy Loss In’ Mean. Tanke

AIR FORCES GET CREDIT FOR HELPING   i\Enemy Claims 4000 Prisoners in  One Week

Airmen Help Halt Advance By Nazis   Allied Communique Tells Of Conditions In Upper Tunisian Area Being Brighter

Upper Tunisian Picture Takés On Brighter Aspect For Allied Forces.

PREDICT RUML SKIP-YEAR TAX PLAN ADOPTION   House Ready To Follow Senate In Approving Measure

House Will Adopt Bill Of Senate   Forgiveness Of 1942 Taxes Under Modified Ruml Plan Wins With ‘ Support Of 18 Democrats.

= Approves uml Plan By Vote Of 49-30   Republicans Map Strategy For Final Adoption Of Bill

6. 0. P. SEES TAX PLAN OKAY   HOUSE ADOPTION OF FORGIVENESS PREDICTED

Senate Approved Ruml Plan May Get House Okay   Total Forgiveness of (1942 Taxes: Passes . By Vote of 49 To 30

Approval Of Senate Tax Plan Predicted   GOP Leaders Confident House Will Concur In Vote Set. For Tuesday On Ruml Plan OK’d In Upper Branch 

SEE ADOPTION ‘BY HOUSE OF ‘TAX MEASURE   Bill Passed By Senate Forgive: 1942 Taxes — In House Tuesday

Predict House Adoption  Of Senate Approved Rum!  Income Tax Measure

HOUSE PASSAGE OF SENATE - APPROVED RUML PLAN SEEN   Expect Bill To Go Through Without Resort -To Senate-House . Coniaremice

WORKERS DROP DEMAND FOR $3 PER DAY RAISE   Seek Settlement Based on 64¢c Per Day Increase

blG rive fittla VITA FOR E64 N AFTER DEADLOCK   Union and Cariiers Fail to Agree on Wage Negotiations

BIG Five MEETS WITH FOR 4G N AFTER NEADLOCK   Union and Carriers . Fail to Agree on Wage Negotiations      Hoosiers Will Buy an “Extra” War Bond During January and February Loan Drive

UNION LEADERS REPORT IMPASSE TO WHITE HOUSE   FDR Parley Slated Aftei Negotiations to Block Rail Strike Fail

TRAINMEN Of EDR. o OFFER TO ARBITRATE   Committee Reports to White House Failure to Reach an Aqreement.

RELIEF 1S MANOR ~ COUNCIL SUBJECT   Civil Machinery of Countries Getting Supplies May Be Distributing Agent.

Study Political Uses of Relief   Problem May Be One  of Parley Issues

Governor Declares He Will Enforce Draft Halt Order  Coloradan Insists He

Governor Declares ‘He Will Enforce Draft Halt Order   Coloradan Insists He Has Right to Direct Defermenfs

GOP to Draft Foreign Policy Plank of Platform At Mackinac Island

GOP Leaders Meet to Discuss Foreign Policy   Will Begin Work On Platform for 1944 Convention

RESORT TRADE GOES ON WITH SUMMER PLANS   Full Effect Of Travel Curb Can’t Be Told Until Later   HOT WEATHER WAITED   Drop In State Park Attendance Attributed To Bad Weather

MANY GOOD . FOR YOUNG PEOPLE            in the Sinte Socisl Security Office vie in. Jefferson Oly Rxauy os “nations Required... wo

CANADIANS AND YANKSHITKISKA   13 Smashing Attacks Raise to 142 Number of Raids This Month

WIDOW AND ORPHAN PAYMENTS. RAISES   President Signs Bill for Servicemen’s Families

RED TROOPS SMASH ACROSS BORDER TO CAPTURE TOWN  AND WIPE OUT MORE NAZIS

Situation in Balkans Is Very Tense   Bulgaria Wants to Quit Af ter Turkish Threats of — Joining Allies

TWO LARGE JAP SHIPS ARE HIT   MacArthur Says Enemy Has Control Of  Sea Lanes

With Air Superiority Japs  Can Attack Australia, MacArthur Says   TWO NIPPONESE SHIPS ‘DAMAGED BY BOMBERS

JAPS CONTROL WESTERN PACIFIC SEA LANES MACARTHUR DECLARES   Grim Observation Temper: News Allied Bombers Blast Iwo Ships

MARTHUR WARNS JAPANESE CONTROL VITAL SEA LANES   Says Foe Rules Approaches to Australia and That Country Is Dependent on Bombers for Safety.   ENEMY FLEET WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE   Declares if Allies Lose Mastery of Air American Naval Forces Cannot Save Us.

MacArthur Says Japs Control Seas   Allied Bombers Take Initiative From the Enemy

CORN CEILING PRICE INCREASE DUE, BUT NEW TOP UNCERTAIN   WFA Favors 15 - Cent Hike, OPA Wants 7 - Cent Boost

Ceiling on Corn  May Be Boosted   Will Be An Effort to Encourage Corn Movement  From the Midwest.

OR HIGHER IS EXPECTED   WEA Asks $1.20; Plan to Be Submitted to Vinson

HIKE IN CORN CEILING SEEN   WFA and GFA Consider. Proposal to Raise Market Price to Temp! More of Grain Into East _

May Soon Boost Price Of Corn   Action May Be Taken To Encourage Movement Of Grain.

Government Expected to Boost Corn Ceiling Price to $1.14 Per Bushel Soon

RAISE IN CORN CEILING PRICE SEEN   Increase to Be Between Seven and  15 Cents Bushel

60 OF BOARD 1 QUOTA * PASS INDUCTION TEST     52 Go fo Army, Navy Takes Eight of Group  Only Namen Of Those Accepted   Only Namea Of Those Accepted Will Be Announced For ¥uture Calis

) OF BOARD 1 QUOTA PASS INDUCTION TES]   Go to Army, Navy Takes Eight of Group   ly Names Of Those Accepted yl Be Amsounced For Future Cails

"Hopper Plane May Be Used As Mountain Ambulance Now   Light Plane Used For Aerial Target Spotting Being Tried Out For New Service; Doesn’t Require Runways

Army Experiments With Grasshopper Plane As Flying Ambulances in Mountainous Are:

Army’s Grasshopper Plane May Be Utilized Soon for Removal Of Wounded From Battlefields

Morgenthau Sees Terrorism of Germans in Italy  He Says Yankees Should Thank QC.AA TT @ Snarsd

Litvinoff Move No Surprise To  U.S. Officials   Red Envoy’s Recall Is Declared Not Connected With Ouebec Parley.

Replacement Of Litvinoff No Surprise   Change in Soviet Representative Unrelated to War Parley in Quebec   PURPOSE IS UNKNOWN

Deny Recall of Litvinoff and Quebec Parley  Are Connected   High Source Says Washington Knew of Move Weeks Ago

Situation Said to Be Entirely Divorced of Quebec Meet —V—_. AWAIT WORD fim a  (\itt..*.1 CGunea....ey   Official Statement Only Can Clear Up  Dismissal

Reds Replace Litvinoff as Envoy to U. 5.   Question Raised As to Reason for Action by Moscow

DISCUSSION OF LITVINOFF RIFE   Action Declared Not Con nected With Quebec Proceedings

TVINOFF RECALL FROM WASHINGTON NOT EXPLAINED   Moscow’s Action Cause Of Much Speculation, But No Reason Given   RECALL OF SOVIET AMBASSADORS FROM WASHINGTON AND LONDON CAUSE FOR, MUCH SPECULATION   Famous War Analyst, DeWitt MacKenzie, Thinks Stalin Making A Blunt Gesture To Get A Tabling o! The Cards, With View To Future

DOUBTFUL OF SPLIT WITH U.S, BRITISt   ‘Predict Eden or Hull May Visit Moscow.—Russian Calls Isles Main Invasion Base.

LITVINOFP’S RECALL NOT CONNECTED WIT QUEBEC CONFERENCE  "THIS WAS UNOFFICIALLY   “STATED BY CONFERENCE AUTHORITY

RECALL OF RE AMBASSADOR IS NOT EXPLAINED   No Connection To Quebec Meeting, Allies Believe

Litvinoff Act Unrelated To Quebec Parley   Move No Surprise Tc Official Quarters: Heavy New Blows Tc Japan Hinted

Quebec Unruffled By Litvinoff Shiff   Change Had Been Known for Weeks

STANDLEY 10 RETURN HOME?   ‘o Complete Reshuffle 0: U. §.-Soviet Diplo mats, Report

LITVINOFF MOVE STILL OBSCURE   Recall Of Russian Ambassador To U. S., However, Has No Connection With The Quebec Conference.   —BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER-—

War Talks Are Not Affected      Recall of Litvinoff May Be sign of Disproval over Invasion Tardiness

Replacement of Maxim Litvinoff Unrelated to Allied War Conference

CAUSE OBSCURE OF RED RECALL   Litvinoff’s Recall Believed Unrelated to Allied War Conference.

Allies Clear In Red Move   Recall of Litvinoff Soviet Action Alone

Indicated Litvinoff Reeall Not Related To Current War Conference

U. S. Bombers Hammer Emden  In Fire Raid ..- First Foray of Kind Made By Americans

Three of Four Battleships Sent to Bottom in Pearl Harber Sneak Ready Again

This Is the Army, Mr. Christian; New York Draft Board Is Puzzled

BUT HE’S IN ARMY  Father of 11 Inducted  ‘Through Mistake -- and He Gets in the Money

Draft Board Baffled After Father of 11 Gets in Army   uisted In Records As Having No Dependents. He Was Inducted, Passed Exams and Becomes Buck Private; Now Uncle Sam Must Pay $140 a Month to Soldier's Family

Draftee With ‘No Dependents’ Has Wife And 11 Children Army Officials Discover

NO DEPENDENTS, SAID PAPERS, 11 KIDS TURN UP   Soldier Avers All Listed; Family Gets $140 Month From U. §.

Waters Sweep Bridges, Power lants Away   (jvilian Casualties Heavy as Result of  ~ Mtack : Picked Crews Carried Out Assault

Flood Waters Sweep Bridges Away, Inundat War Dynamos   Ruhr and Weser YalJeys Roaring With Destructive Forrents; Raids Carried Qut By Specially Picked and Trained Grews

Ruhr and Eder Valleys Flooded As RAF Bursts Two Great Dams   Rail and Highway Bridges and Power Plants Swept Away; Industrial Centers Inundated

Daring Raid Strikes Novel Blow At Ruhr, Weser River Areas; Torrents Knock Out Transport

See possible flooding -of industrial areas; Ruhr. may become unnavigable   Raids made by especially trained men after weeks of preparation

British Bombers Blast Great Nazi Dams, Causing Floods Disrupting Electric Power

Bridges, Power Plants Swept Away by Water, German Transportation Communications Hit  INDUSTRIAL PLANTS SHARPLY AFFECTED  Huge RAF Bombers Descend to 100 Feet To Lay Heavy Mines

RAF Blasts Dams To Flood Cities.   Important Transportation Systems Wiped Out In Latest Blows At Industrial Ruhr Valley

D AMS SMASHED IN RUHR, EDER VALLEY RAIDS   Dynamos, Bridges Swept Away By Released Torrents; Cities  Inundated

TELLING BLOW CRIPPLES NAZI CANAL TRAVEL   SPECIAL RAF CREWS _ BLAST TWO HUGE  RESERVOIRS

Mines Dropped By RAF Cause Floods In Ruhr, Weser Valleys; American Planes Blast Lorient, Bordeaux

Destructive Floods Loosed On Ruhr, Weser   Spectacular Blow at War Dynamos Hits Industrial Centers

RAF BLASTS GERMANY’S 2 BIGGEST DAMS   Four Engined Lancasters Drop Barrage Of Heavy Mines, Flooding Ruhr And Weser Vallawe   Stalls Power Plants

Mines Released By British Blast Open Two Of Reich’s Big Dams, Flooding Valle;   Power Production Stalled And Transportation Dis-  rupted After Daring Attack By Picked Airmen; Nazis  Report Heavy Civilian Casualties; France Raided 

2 GERMAN DAMS CRACKED; WIDE AREAS FLOODEL   Mines Laid by RAF Loose Flood on War Production Centers in Ruhr and Weser Valleys.   NEW AIR ATTACK ON BERLIN INDICATED   American Fliers Blast Lorient and Bordeaux—lItaly Hammered in Mounting Air Offensive.

Fliers Strike Big Dams,  Naval Base   U. S. Bombers Make Longest Flight, Hit Lorient Severely; Rail, Road Bridges Are Blasted; Damage $s Great

BAN ON AUTO SALES RELAXED   “Necessary” Purchase Granted “C” Ration Holders, Less Essential Drivers

TURKEY IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PICKED HER WINNER IN PRESENT 'WAR AND IS WARMING TO ALLIES

TURKEY DEALS HITLER BODY BLOW AS SHE CLIMBS OFF FENCE ON SIDE OF ALLIES   “Not Even Technical Protest Voiced in Turkey Over Closing Border of Syria to Screen Military Movements There from Axis; Other Straws in Wind

lhe War I oday— Turkey Picks Allies As Best Bet To Win; Choice No Surprise To Anyone      By MAX HILL

The War Today— mo . Turkey Picks Allies As Best Bet To Win: Choice No Surprise To Anyone.

Sent Agrees To Trim Down: two Major Fund Bills,  Police Question - “7, ~— bkhy . am ope pe geil 7,

Senate Agrees To Trim Down Two Major Fund Bills  Police Question Nearo Cook: Girls

MINERS EXPECT TO GET HEALTHY INCREASE IN PAY   If They Don't Get It, They Will Quit Work In 15 Days, Said

Valley Protests Fail To Deteat Aviation Clause   Senate Approves The Lovelady Bill In Bitter Session Tuesday

AMIENS BLASTED BY U. 5, AIRMEN   FIRES STILL BURNING IN KRUFP WORKS AS RESULT OF RAF ATTACKS,

KRUPP WORKS SET AFIRE IN RAF ASSAULT   AMERICANS BLAST RAIL CENTERS IN NAZILAND

NAZI-OCCUPIED AREAS BOMBED BY U.S. FLIERS   American Heavy Bombers Blast Amiens While Krupp Works Fires Still Burn   Territory Attacked by Flying Fortresses is Point of Possible Invasion

Yanks Blast Rail Junction   No. Fortresses Lost In Da Tight Foray

U5. BOMBERS CARRYING ON AERIAL RAIDS   Blast Key Rail Points Along French Coast After RAF Attack on Essen.   GREAT KRUPP WORKS. * ‘A FLAMING WRECKAGE

ESSEN AGAIN IS VICTIM OF RAF BOMBERS      American Planes Attack French Coastal Towns

Bombers Hit Amiens After Essen Struck   Americans Work in Daylight Shift After Miehty Nieht Raid

Greatest Aerial Attack Blasts V ital Nazi Site   RAF Strafes Huge Krupp Armament Plan As Americans Strike Rail Center At Amiens in Daring Raid by Daylight

Amiens Struck Second Time Within Week   Fires Still Raging In Krupp Munitions Works Raided Friday

1, §, JOINS WATARS ‘POW ENEMY   Double Blow Dealt Nazis; Flames  Sear Sky

ESSEN BLASTED BY R.A.F, BOMBS   Planes Drop 1000 Tons >. Of Destruction.on  - Nazi War Center

Amiens Also Target of. Fortresses    Over Thousand Tons OF Explosives -Fall: . ‘On’ Arms: Works”

RAF Raids on Nazis Continue   1000 Tons of Bomb: Poured on Essen; Amiens Blasted

IS VICTIM OF RAF BOMBERS   American Planes Attack French Coastal Towns

WPB Considers Newsprint Plan  Of Publishers   Supply Short Next 2? Months

1 ! a  Landing Made Near Reggie  Calabria Early Today After Bombardment

MINE WALKOUT GAINS HEADWAY   Wildcat Strike Spreads Through Hard Coal Field; 5,000 Go Back To Work

WILDCAT STRIKE HITS GOAL AREA   5,000 of 24,000 Miners Back ‘at Jobs; WLB : Plaade

Tens 5 large ~e “i ec  “e ferigny “ é ‘Ny {2s as Zicicu_ous   g rar

Bowles Sees Decrease in Living Costs   OPA Executive Promises Further Drop in Prices

FoeMay Lose Everything OnRed Front   Soviets Threaten Key Cities; Nazi Flight Seen

REDS BATTER KHARKOV: AlN AT SMOLENSK   SOVIET OFFENSIVE GAINS 13 MILES IN 3 DAYS

Soviets Open Third Major  Offensive   Directed at Smolensk, Southwest of Moscow, And Gains 13 Miles   KHARKOV TOTTERS, BRYANSK MENACED   Capture of 3 Points Would Crack Defenses Of Germans in Russia

Soviets Launch Smolensk Drive with 13-Mile Gain, Press Closer to Kharkov

Russians Open New Offensive  On Smolensk   Other Forces Storm To Within Mile of  Kharkov and Close In on Brvansk Base

Reds Launch New Offensive   Nazi Lines Smashed While Noose Tightens On Kharkov

Soviets Open New Offense   Nazi Front Smashed Alona 31-Mile Sector

RUSSIANS START SMOLENSK DRIVE; KHARKOV TOTTERS   Reds Only One Mile From Big Ulraine City—Other Soviet Forces Closing In on Bryansk,   OFFENSIVES THREATEN ENTIRE AXIS DEFENSE   Fall of 3 Strongpoints Probably Would Force Germans to Fall Back to Dnieper River.

REDS SURGE ON KHARKOV [ROM 3 SIDES      Storm Withia Mile of Totter ing City; Also Close In On Bryansk; Open New Of fense on SmoleneL   Stone Wall Defense

Russ Forces Open Drive  On Smolensk   New Offensive Perils Entire German Front

fficer Confesses Setting Five Fires   Arson Mystery Solved When Herbert Winkler Reveals Himself As Fire-Bug; Series — Climaxed By Loma Theater Blaze

Bricker Wants To Lift the Mortgage   Presidential Candidate Fires First Volley of Campaign

BRICKER WARNS OF FUTURE DEBT   Republican Candidate Says Continued Deficit Finaneing After War Will Bring Risin

NEED TOP PLANT OUTPUT TO MEET DEBT-BRICKER   Ohio Governor Warns ol Deficit Financing After War

Governor Bricker Calls For End of Deficit Financing by Government After War   FULL INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION URGED   Believes Debt Burden Car Be Lifted With End of System of Bureaucratic Regimentation

BRICKER SUGGESTS FULL INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AS MEANS TO MEET DEBTS

MUST THINK AHEAD   Bricker Urges Change of . ‘Policies for the PostWar Years

BRICKER CALLS FOR FULL INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, DEFICIT FINANCING HALT

Russians Push Nearer to Kharkov   Chuguev, Volchansk Are Captured by Advancing Reds

Nazi Resistance Being Wiped Out   Strongest Outposts Of Kharkov Are Token By Swift Soviet Advance: Chuquey Seized

Nine Passenger Cars Derailed In - Railroad Tragedy   Burned Out Journal on Pennsylvania Line’s Crack Congressional Limited Blamed For Worst Disaster in 25 Years

Eighth Army Threatens To  Join Forces With American Fifth To Trap Kesselring

OK MODIFICATION OF JOB-PAY ORDER   CIO-VAW Asks Members to Resign Area Manpower Policy Posts.

ALLICD ATTAGK NOT CONFINED TO ONE FRONT   Axis To Be Hit On Several Fronts, Byrnes Reveals In Opening Speech

BYRNES DECLARES CRITICAL HOUR OF WAR HAS ARRIVED   Mehilization Chief: Says Americans Must Take Major Role In Operations

burnes Keports On Overwhelming ‘Production; Gives Civilians’ Role

100,000TH PLANE ROLLS OFF LINES OF US. WARPLANT!   Byrnes Serves Notice That Critical Period of Struggle Is At Hand.

Critical Period of War Arrives Warns Byrnes In Address   Newly Appointed Héad of American War Effort and Civilian ‘Economy Appears As Spokesman For Government

CRITICAL PERIOD “OF WAR ARRIVES, BYRNES DECLARES   Information Provided. Before Hometown Audience Reveals His Full Authority In  - Activities.   100,000 AIRPLANES HAVE BEEN FINISHED   100 Fighting Ships During Five Months, 1000 For Cargo, 100 Tankers ComPleted In First Year.

Critical Stage of War Is Here, Says Byrnes   Optimistic Report on Production Tempered With Discipline Warnine

Crisis Here, Byrnes Says   We'll Have Major Role in War, He Predicts

BYRNES SEES U.S. CRITICAL WAR PERIOD   Nation Must Take Bic Role Against Axis, He Declares

Byrnes Tells Vast Strides In Productior   Americans Must Take’ $ Major Military Role,  Nation Told   REPORT TEMPERED   More Stresses Will Be Placed on Civilian Economv

CRISIS HERE, WAR BOSS SAYS   Byrnes’ Speech Indicate: Broad Stcpe of His Powers Over Nation,

BYRNES SEES CRITICAL WAR ERA REACHED   Says Americans Must Assume Major Role In Operations Against Axis   CALLS FOR SACRIFICES   Cites Qutput Figures On Airplanes, Fighting And Cargo Vessels

Byrnes Declares U.S. Must Take Big Part in War.   Critical Period. * Has Arrived, He Tells Audience

MAN WHO HELPED GUARD 6 PRESIDENTS TO RETIRE   Col, Rdewund Btarting, Whe Rerved In Harding Regime, Te: Quit.

IOWA SOW BEARS 27 PIGS   Twenty of Litter Expected to Reach “Pork Chop” Stage.

NEW OYSTER FIGHTLOOMS IN LEGISLATURE   “New. Effort’ Made’ , To Open Potomac ‘ River To Dredging

FILIBUSTER ON SEAFOOD BILL  THREATENKE      Southern Marylanders Are Ready to Talk to Death Measure to Open Po-  tomac for Oysters   YEAR BUDGET URGED   Comptroller Would Abolish ‘Two-Year System; State Guard Detail Data Given Legislators

sgt. Charles Starcher’s Plane Still In Action Despite 600 Enemy Bullet Holes

POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPMENTS IN ALEUTIANS   Two Weeks Silence May Portend New Activity

NAVY SILENCE ON ALEUTIANS CAUSE OF SPECULATIONS   Strictest Secrecy Has ‘Been Imposed By High Command Of Area

DEATHS ARE NOT. SOLVED      CORONER AND SHERIFF DISAGREE, ON THEORIES IN: SUMMIT COUNTY. : MYSTERY.

DOUBLE KILLING ANGLES PROBED   Sheriff and Coroner Differ on Deaths of Kent Co-Ed j and Negro

Simplicity Keynote Of Inauguration   OF PENNSYLVANIA’S NEW GOPERNOR EDWAKD MARTIN, REYURED ARMY OFFICER AND VETEKAN OF TWO WARS.   Godspeed From James

War Need, State Planning Charted By New Governo   Many Dignitaries Witness Induction At Indoor Inaugural Ceremony

Gen. Martin Takes Oath  As Governor   Pledges Commonwealth To All-Out Effort  Toward Farly Victaryv   SIMPLICITY CLOAKS INDOOR CEREMONY

STATE HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT IS “INDUCTED?   Workers and Machinery Will Be Pressed Into Use On Farms

CLEANUP CAMPAIGN BEGINS TOMORROW   No Back-Calls Will Be Made, Service Director ‘Warns Residents   Highway Department Trucks To Haul Crops To Canneries

Auction Sale News Of Interest To Local Buyers  Downs Nov. 11 Ruro Nav. 17   Downs Nov. 11 Burg Nov. 12 Wikert Nov. 15 Luhman-Wikert 18

Leo A. Downs Auction Sale  Armistice Day  _ K.L. Burg Black  Poland Sale Nov. 

Carthage — Visited By  Roosevelt   Gen. Eisenhower Given * Detailed Report Of Strategy Planned: For Mediterranean Area

FOR TALKS T ~ EISENHOWER . ‘AT CARTHAGE   General Given Long Fillin on New Allied Stratecy

Carthage Site Of 2Day Parley   President Details ‘Victory Strategy’ To Field General; Nazi Radio Claims Commander-in-Chief Tours Italy Front

FDR Reports To Gen. Ike In Carthage   Eisenhower Given Detailed First-Hand Report on Allies’ Newly Completed Victory Strategy

HOST eit PR AT CARTHAGE   American. Commander Gets First Harid Report From President of New Victory Strategy

Roosevelt Tells  Eisenhower Of  Allied Strategy Visits Carthage After Parlevs

Eisenhower Hears Strategy Plan In Talk With FDR  President Discusses War With Chief Of African Armies

EISENHOWER IS GIVEN DETAILED REPORT BY FR.   General, President Conduct Conference at Ancient Carthage

F.D.R. Gives Eisenhower Detailed Fill-In On New Allied Strategy   Status Of Reported Switch Of General Marshall Undetermined; President Flies Over Key Battlefields After Parleys.

PRESIDENT IN MEETING WITH EISENHOWER   Flies Over Battle Fields Littered With Planes

FDR Gives Eisenhower Details of Strategy for Allied Victory Campaign

KES ENEN STRATEGY PLAN   FOR Visits Allied CommanDer at Carthage on His Way Home.   ITELLS OF CONFERENCE

PAIR MET AT CONFERENCE IN NORTH AFRICA   General Did Not Attend Meet: ing With Premier Stalin

FDR Visits Carthage, Gives Eisenhower First-Hand Report On Allies’ Victory Strategy —      President Stays. In Villa Germans ‘Formerly Occupied In North Africa -

FDR REPORTS 10 EISENHOWER ON NEW WAR PLANS   STOPS AT CARTHAGE FOR VISIT WITH ALLIED COMMANDER

EISENHOWER ALLIED PLANS   First-Hand Report on Newly Completed Victory Strategy Unfolded During 48-Hour Stav at  Anotent Carthacve

Roosevelt Had Long Conference With Eisenhower   President Stopped At Carthage on Return From Cairo

Eisenhower s Given Details of War Plans   President Confers With Commander En Route From Cairo

Eisenhower Given Detailed Report On Victory Strategy by President

Strategy Plans Are Given To Eisenhower   President Conferred At Carthage With Head OF Allied Forces In Mediterranean Area

Confers With President Dur. ing 48 Hour Stop-over in Ancient Carthage

Roosevelt to Carthage to See Gen. ‘Ike’   President Gives Eisenhower Report On United Nations - Victory Stratery

FOR IN ITALY ON WAY HOME   Stays in Villa Recently Occupied by Nazis

President Gives Eisenhower Repor! Of Detailed Strategy for Victory —

Eisenhower Hears Strategy Plan In Talk With FDR  President Discusses War With Chief iin RB

Chief Reports To The General.  President Gives The Facts To Eisenhower

Bare Carthage Parley Of F. R.  And Eisenhower   President Gives General Detailed Fill-In On New Allied Strategy.

FDR REPORTS STRATEGY PLAN TO EISENHOWER   President Meets Allied Chieftai al Carthage, Reported Tourin Jialian Front

FDR Discusses War Strategy At Conference   President Sees Eisenhower at Stop at Carthage

Eisenhower Gets. Report From FDR>   President Spends *  Two Days With the Allied Commander : At Ancient Carthage

Americans And British Drive Forward Toware Rome; Battle For Kiev Bulge At Showdown Stage

Nazis Hurl New Divisions Against Reds   Germans Seeking To Break Through At Kiev Avain

Titanic Battle for Kiev Rages   Loss of Korosten Serious Setback To Russian Army

rmans Altempting to Break Through Rim of Kiey Bulge   ASELESS DRIVE   «s of Korosten Called Serious Blow to Soviets

NAZIS SEEK TO CUT RiM OF KIEY LINE   Soviets Report Dozens of Divisions Joining In Attacks

Korosten Rail Center Re-captured by The Nazis   REDS PUSHING NEW TROOPS TOWARD LINE

‘Russian Reserves Speeding to Front   Loss of Korosten Serious. Blow; Soviets. Keepine Defense Intact

NEW AIR LINES ARE PROPOSED   American Applies’ For Expansion; Would Cross W. Va.

REPLY IS MADE TO CRITICS OF CURTISS-WRIGHT   Warplane Company Accused Of Neglect in Practices To Safeguard Fliers   MILLIONS WASTED, CLAIM   Plant Manager Answers by Saying Most Problems Have Been Solved

SENATE UNIT HURLS CHARGES OF NEGLIGENCE   Committee Says Curtiss: Wright Guilty of Skipping Inspections

WEATHER CONDITIONS REDUCE — PROSPECTS OF RECORD GROPS   OUTLOOK FOR C300; PRODUC. TION Ta" BUCH LESS PRON. SING THAN YEAR-AGO

CAPITAL FEARS CROP SHORTAGE   Report On Conditions Indicates Food Goals May Not Be Met

BABY SNATCHER FAILS PLAN TC FLEE PRISON   Woman Who Kidnaped Child From Hospital Enjoys 6-Hour Freedom

ESCAPED KIDNAPER IS BACK IN PRISON   Convicted of Taking Baby From Columbus Hospital

FOUR DIE! IN A FIRE   An SOW Worker's ¢ rker's Children Vic. timg of Topeka Tragedy

FOUR DIE IN A FIRE   An SOW W Teen  Children Vic. tims of [opeka Tragedy

Stimson, Ickes Asked to  Correlate Plans   Reclamation Unit Adopts Many Resolutions

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION MOVE LEADS MANY SOUTHERN SENATORS TO END ‘THEIR SUPPORT

Machinists May Rejoin AFL  Nearly 6,000,000 Members In AFL As Convention Opvens

AFL CONVENTION PLANS ARE VARIED   Lewis’ Petition, Machinists Reconciliation on Agenda Which Covers Other Topics

MINERS’ CASE HIGHLIGHTING AROLMEETIN   Seek Restoration of Char ter; Manpower Problem, Politics, Prices and Wages On Agenda

POST-WAR POLICY DRAFT 1S REVISED      Moscow Declaration [: Written Into Connally  Resolution

Connally Plan Words Revised To Suit Paet’s   Early Passage Forec: As M

TAX ABATEMENT PLAN PROPOSED   Republicans Sponsor Bill to Cut Income Levy

5.0. OFFERS ACW PLAN OF TAK PAYMENT   Proposes Abatements to: Kill 6 or 7 Billion Dollars of 1942 Taxes.   WOULD TAKE 20 PER CENT OF PAY STARTING JULY 1

WOULD CANCEL SEVEN BILLIONS IN 194) LEVIES   Individual Abatements Would Range From 50©¢ to 75%

Canned Food Quota About lla Menth   Each Person Likely to Be Allowed to Buy 6, Plus 5 on Hand

Rationing ()f Canned Goods Starts March    Point System To Be Effec. tive—Register During Week Of February 22   MEAT RATIONING MAY BE STARTED

FOOD RATION IS TO START NEXT. MONTH   PREDICT AVERAGE OF 11 CANS _ PER PERSON DURING FIRST MONTH OF POINT SYSTEM

B, C Gas Coupons To Be Numbered Like Theater Tickets, OPA Declares

PROTEST A NAZI DECREE    Non-Jewish Parisians Wear Black And Yellow Colors

PROTEST A NAZI DECREE   ene Parisians Wear Black And Yellow Colors

1943  By ASHER R. JOUNSON   June Mth—Flag Day With A Glorious Flan.

President's Plea: ‘Return To Mines for YourCountry’   1 §,Flag Flies Over Shaft _-15-Dav Period to Seek Agreement

AT JAP PLANES RAID WAU BASE   Fortress Downs 4 Nips In Assault On Gasmata

L ROW DUE TO PICTURE   Republicans irked at Use of FOR Pheto on War Rond “Ad”

To Try American, British Airmen As War Criminals   German Radio Says Nation to Reply to ‘Mock Trial’

SAYS AIRMEN WILL BE TRIED   Nazi Radio Asserts Allied Prisoners Face Charges As “War Criminals”

GERMANS TO TRY ALLIED AIRMEN   NAZIS ANNOUNCE “WAR CRIMINAL” CHARGES WILL BE LODGED AGAINST THEM.

‘Belief Grows In Turkey Country Will Be Drawn ‘Into War On Allied Side

Neutrality Pleas Heard In Balkans   Istanbul's Wealthy Rush to Buy Food; Gold Price Soars

D). M. Haneoek  Dies Sudden! \   Westline Man. 86. Stricken at Kinzua on Business Mission

Business Man Dies Suddenly Near Kinzua   Dean of Charcoal Industry Is Stricken While In specting Timber  BODY TAKEN TO OLEAN

Adm. Halsey Describes Bougainville Invasion As “Greatest Venture”

JAPS KNOW THEY'RE LICKED   Myth Of Jap Invincibility Destroyed, Says Adm. Halsey

Yanks Laud Jap Pilots   American Aces Say Enemy First Class Fighting Men

BATTER DOWN ALL RESISTANCE   Soviets Maintain Control On All Other Fronts

RUSSIANS SEIZE 3 TOWNS INSIDE SMOLENSK RING   Determined Red Army Forces Refuse To Be Stopped By Fierce Re sistance Of Fnemvy.

Hitler Blamed For Cruelties On Soviet Front By Storm Trooper   Nazi Accused At Atrocity Trial Says Gestapo Chief Issued Orders To Execute According To One’s Own Aryan Feelings.

Nazi Soldiers Describe Brutal Execution Methods During Trial at Kharkov

Hitler And Himmler Led Brutality, Court Told   Nazi Prisoner, On Trial In Russia, Puts Blame On Two Arch Criminals

Bricker, an ‘Honest Harding, Is Not ‘Man for Presidency, Kansas Editor Says

WANTS NO PART OF GOV, BRICKER   William Allen White, Noted GOP Editor, Opposes Him as ‘Honest Harding.’

PUSHING FOR “MORE GASOLINE   Four from This County Participating in Protest Meet

It’s Closed Season On Mothers-In-Law   June 30 Set As National Mother- In-Law Day By Round Table Club

Seattle Club Urges Husbands To Be Kind To Mothers-In-Law June 30 (Even If It Hurts)

Mother Had Her “Day”, Father Gets His Sunday, Mother-in-law June 30

Mother-in-Law Day Is Planned   Seattle Chamber of Commerce Comes Up With New Idea

W hat Will They Think U k Up Nex Ne xt?  Mother-in-Law Gets Her Day June 30

FORTRESSES AGAIN BOMB ROTTERDAM   Only One Bomber Is Lost In Ninth Raid This Month.

Rotterdam Harbor Bombéd In Flying Fortress Raid  Raid Marks Resumption Of Allied Air War   Raid Marks Resumption Of Allied Air War Interrupted Tuesday. By Heavy Weather

Retire to Prepared Defenses   Allied Bombers Pound at Italian and Sicilian Bases Today

LONG PURSUIT ENDS Ad ENEMY HALTS TO FIGHT   Cornered Enemy Attempting To Make Counter Attacks In Several Sectors

Civilians Can Help Soldier Do His Job   'By GEN. GEORGE MARSHALL  Chief of Staff, United States Army

SOLDIER CAN DO NO MORE   By By GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL Chief of Staff, United States Army

Do Part At Home: Buy More Bonds   By General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, United States army.  t Bawa mbimtiinwt Ghia aae &

GEN. MARSHALL GIVES SOLDIER'S VIEWPOINT ON BIG BOND DRIVE (By GEN. GEORGE C. MAR-

“Buy Your Share of War Bonds”, Says Marshall  We Must Do Our Part at Home

MOBILIZE THE DOLLARS!   By GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL (Chief at Staff. Tinited Statac Armv?

SMITE GERMANS. AND ITALIANS AT REAR; EIGHTH ARMY WITHIN 20 MILES OF AXIS MOUNTAIN LINE.

Montgomery's Army Pushes 75 Miles Up Coast in 48 Hours  CAPTURE 100,000  Moscow Reports Big German Assaults  In North Smashed

Mother, 29, Has  Son In Service   Houston Woman Was  Wed At Age of Nine

Houston Believed to Have  °  Mother  e . * . *  Younaest Service

Houston Believed te Have  * . 4 *t t * & *  Y ounadaest Service Mother

DAYTON WAS FIRE RECORD CREDIT, WILL TRY AGAIN   Texas Only State Having Reward For Fire Control

U, S, TROOPS GAIN GROUND ON WAY TO MESSINA   British Bomb Naples Again

TERRIFIC FIRE rUURCD ON FOE IN HUGE ATTACK   Americans Within 55 Miles Of Axis Port Of Messina With Latest Advance

GAIN 6 MI IN SICILY   Terrific Allied Bombardment Aimed At Axis Defenses

NORTH COAST ADVANCE MADE BY AMERICANS   Axis Lines Hurled Back Under Constant and Relentless Pressure.

RIVER TUGBOAT CAPSIZES; FEAR TEN DROWNED   Nine Others Rescued By Sandwich Salesman In Lifeboat

TUGBOAT CAPSIZES IN COLUMBIA RIVER   Ten Persons A Are Feared Drowned —- 3 Others  Bucur

10 DROWNED AS TUGBOAT SINKS   Sandwich Salesman, Witnessing Disaster, Saves Captain And 8 Others

TEN DEAD AS TUG IS CAPSIZED IN COLUMBIA RIVES   Shipyard Workers Were Headed for Labors With Henry J. Kaiser.

JTcho OVER THe TNVASIEN MUST EVIDENT   Claimed Allied Fleet Is Now Massed of the Coast of Syria.   OTHER RUMORS THICK.   Germany Claims a Russ an Delegation Is Now at Gibraltar.

AXIS SAYS INVASION FLEET — - MASSED FOR AEGEAN THRUST   MERLIN RADIO DECLARES "PAGH RANKING” RUSSIAN ~ OFFICERS ARE AT GIBRALTAR

REDS GAIN 20 MILES EAST OF ROSTOV   Recapture of Oil Fields of Maikop Imminent; New Suecesses on Lower Don

Japs Admit Damage, Casualties In American Raid On Marcus Island   Navy Silence Screens Real Strategy Behind Darin; Raid On Japan’s Home Waters; Onl Tn Penorace 7”   Two Carriere Particinata

Enemy Communique Said the  Defenders of Outpost : Suffered Casualties.

Attack May Be Mask for Yanks   indicate Enemy Abandons ‘Santa Isabel Isle in Solomons: Salamaua Pressed

Japan Admits Some Marcus Island Damage   Enemy Declares 160 Fight ers. Bombers Joined In  Raid With Ships.   ‘tS. HOLDS SILENCE

Silence Shrouds Results of Raid On Marcus Island   Tokio Admits Some Damage From 160 American Planes

Is ADMITTED   Enemy Communique Broadcast from Tokyo Says Defenders of Outpost Suffered Casualties   MAY BE IN PROGRESS

JAPS ADMIT MARCUS RAID DOES DAMAGE   Report 160 U. S. Planes in Assault and Claim Bag of 12 of Them— Washington Is Silent on Developments.

U). $, SILENT ON MARCUS RAID   Japs Acknowledge Damage, Casualties; Say  160 Planes in Attack

Silence Shrouds Blow at Marcus   NIPPOS SAY 160 U. S. PLANES JOINED RAID; ENEMY CLAIMS 12 AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED AS JAP CASUALTIES FOLLOW ISLAND STEEL HAIL

U.S. Silent On Marcus Isle Blow   Japs, Say 160 U.S. Bombers and Fighters Joined in Raid on Their Base   ADMITS DAMAGE TO INSTALLATIONS   Much Speculation on Full Meaning of Strong Action by U.S. Naval Forces

Americans Sull Within Jap Waters   Salamaua Near Fall—Santa Ysobel Isle Given Up

NIPPON ADMITS ATTACK CAUSED ‘SOME DAMAGE’   Washington Thinks Raid May Have Been Feint to Cover Axsther Thrust

Official Silence Cloaks Assault On Marcus Islanc   Action In“Western Pacific May Be Feint T Conceal Major Offensive Action In Some Other War Theater

SILENCE SHROUDS MARCUS ISLAND ATTACK   Japs Acknowledge Some Damage by 160 U. S. Bombers and Fighters

FURTHER. NEW FROM MARU RAID LACKING   Tokyo Admits “Some Damage” But Claims 12 Bombers Downed In Attack

Silence Covers Marcus Attack  Americans Believed Set For New Blows

JAPS ADMIT DAMAGE DONE ON TINY ISLE   U. 8. Public Conjectures at What's  Going on in Pacific. Japs Quit Solomons Site

IAPS GIVE FACTS OF BOMBER RAID ON MARCUS ISL   Admit Some Damage Was Done to Jap Installations, Grounded Planes By 160 Ailied Crafts.   AMERICANS MAKE NEW GAINS AT SALAMANE   United States Casualties Are 103,932 Since Pearl Harbor, 19,581 In All Services Are Dead.

JAPS ADMIT “SOME DAMAGE” CAUSED BY RAID  Official Silence oaks Marcus     HEAVILY BOMBED   Assault Causes Speculation In Washincton

Silence Screens Strategy Behind Jap Island Raid   Tokyo Reports 160 U. S. Planes Attack Marcus

Japs Admit Damage on Marcus Island   Japs Evacuate Santa Isabel Island; US Artillerymen Open Fire on Kolombangara Island for First Time

Jap Resistance Crumbling In The Solomons   Silence on Marcus Fight; Japs Admit Heavy Damage ©

Tokyo Admits Damage From Marcus Attack   Nips Claim Carrier Based Planes Took - Part; Washington Silent.   Fliers Say Japs Give Up New Base

American-Egyptian Cotton For Southwest Is Urged      New War Crop May Be Introduced Here; Is Like Sea Island Cotton

Pecos County To Grow More Long Staple Cotton in "43   35,000 Acres Is Announced Quota For Texas Counties

Churchill Shows Better Health   123-Year-Old Negro Dies; Married Five Times, Father Of 29

00 MINERS STAGE WILDCAT WALKOUTS   Policy Committee of Union to Act on WLB Denial of Raise

MINERS IGNORE ORDERS TO SIGN NO STRIKE PACT   Nation Awaits Roosevelt’s Signing of Drastic Walkout Ban

3 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK BY ALLIED BOMBING PLANES   Cruiser And Two Destroyers Sent To Bottom In  Solomons Tuesday   BLOCKADE OF MUNDA BEING TIGHTENED

ALLIES SINK 3 JAP VESSELS IN SOLOMONS   Scmbers Spotted Surface Force Attempting To Land Reinfcrcements On Kolombangara Island; Forced Out   Blasts Follow

Three Jap Ships Sunk  In Pacific   Enemy Landing Party Beaten Off By Allied Planes

Bombers Sink 3 Jap Warships   Cruiser, 2 Destroyers Are Sent to Bottom

Ships Blasted In Vella Gulf  In Solomons   Japanese Force Seeks To Reinforce Garrison On Kolombangara  QR CHUIP ‘PRORARI F°

3 JAP VESSLES ARE SENT DOW)   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sent To Bottom In Solomons, Another  Probably Sunk

Third Warship is Listed as Probably Destroyed and Two Damaged in Northern Solomons Area

AIRMEN SINK _ ENEMY SHIPS   One Jap Cruiser and Two Destroyers Sent Down

Third Destroyer Probably Sunk, Fourth and Transport Vessel Damaged in Vella Gulf in Northern Solomons

Allied Fliers Sink Three Japanese Vessels in Pacific  Bombers Strike Foe On Solomons; Tighten Blockade

GOP Conference Slated for Missoula, Oct. 19   Meeting Originally Set for Helena Moved by Whetstone

G.0. P. Meeting Place Changed  Conference Will Be Held in Missoula

Russians Smash ay Aeross  River Barrier Cavalry Units Join In Attacks  On Germans

While We Fight, We Must Develop a Mechanism of Working Together That Will Survive the Fighting,” One of Will kie’s Conclusians.

OneWe orid   Secret of Communist Control in Russia/ _ Learned; “Best Educated, Most Alert, : Brightest end Ablest’’ Are Members of De ey

Willkie Insists China, Russia, Great Britain > -and-U.-S.. Must-Be- Brought in Common:-Conference to Learn to Work with Each Other.

Afrika Korps Flees Beyond Tripoli Now   NEW ALLIED STRATEGY ON ALL FRONTS COMING IN NEWS SOON.

British Push on West of Tripoli   French, Supported by American Armored Units, Halt Panzer Drive

Allies Open Terrific Air _ Attack On Fleeing German Forces In North Africa

MARINE FAILS TO IDENTIFY TRAIN KILLEI   Attorney Questions ‘The 50 Second’ - -Gpterval

3 Executed For Slaying Golfer   One Goes To Chair Maintaining Innocence In Robbery-Slaying.-

FOUR PUT TO DEATH IN KENTUCKY CHAIR   Three Convicted of Killing Nationally Known Golfer

Convicted Men Are Executed   Three Men-Go To Kentucky Electric Chair

KENTUCKY EXACTS FULL PAYMENT FOR DEATHS OF WOMEN   Trio Put to Death in Electric Chair For Killing Golfer and Mother

EXECUTE 3 MEN FOR ROBBERY-SLAYINC   Killed Amateur Golfer, Marior Miley, in Kentucky

Rare Private Gas Pool   Three Executed for Slaying Noted Golfer and Her Mother

3 EXECUTED FOR SLAYING GIRL GOLFER   Trio Of Men Pay With Lives In Killing Of Miss Miley, Mother

3 Executed For Miley Slaying  Put To Death For Killing Golf Star

Seta yp lt i ita i etc ana ee ial cea URS  Girl Refuses Compromise Verdict in  Murder Trial and Wins Her Freedor

  Chicago Girl Wins Freedom   Former Telephone Operator Gambles Fate and Wins

Woman Tried for Slaying Love Rival Gambles for Her Freedom and Wins

UNIQUE FORD WILLOW RUN “STRIKE “OW   Output _ Unimpeded Despite Foremen’s Picket Line

FORD PLANTS FOREMEN QUT   Strike Unusual in American Labor History; Production Unimpeded

Foremen of Willow Run Plant Strike And Police Prepare for Riots; Situation Is Said Without Parallel

Foremen Strike At Four Large  Ford Factories Union Reports 2700  Now Out, 9000 Expected Monday  PICKETS AT GATE  U. A. W. Members Decide to Cross Lines of Marchers

Foremen Strike At Willow Run. 3 Ford Plants   Police Get Orders To Stand by in Case Of Trouble: Work Reported Unimpeded

Move Creates Situation Probably Unparalleled In U. S. Labor History

FORD'S WILLOW RUN BOMBER FOREMEN ON STRANGE STRIKE   Leave Government Owned Plant with Approval of ClO; Work Continues, but May Stop

President and Other Dificers and Employes of Antonelli Company in Custody of FBI   FACE LONG TERMS   4en Accused of Failing Properly to Load Bombs, Grenades Made for Armed Forces

Charges Ot Sabotage In Bomb Plant   "7 Arrested in Connection With Faulty Loadings. Reports FBI

Seven Held On Charges Ot Sabotage   Failed to Properly Load Powder Charge,  Hoover Says

7 Arrested For Sabotage   Fireworks Company Officials Charged  With Making Faulty Bombs and Grenades

re OOO EO ee  SEVEN ARMS PLANT WORKERS HELD ON SABOTAGE CHARGE BY BUREAU

ARREST SEVEN ON SABOTAGE CHARGE   FBI ALLEGES FAULTY LOADING OF BOMBS — AND HAND GRENADES

FBI Seizes Seven For Sabotage In Bomb F actory   Charged With Wilfully Failing To Properly Load Powder.

7 ARRESTED   FBI Charges Sabotage In Makin, of Bombs and Hand Grenades.

FBL CHARGES POWDER LOAD ORDERED GUT   Antonelli Fireworks Plant Officials, Foremen in Custody.   PRACTICES CONTINUED - IN SPITE OF WARNINGS

’ SEVEN DETAINED FOR SABOTAGE   FBI Chief Accuses Group o! Faulty Manufacture of Bombs in East

Charged With Faulty Manufacture of Incen. diary Bombs and Hand Grenades and Instructing Other’ Emplovees Not To Load Munitions Pronerlyv.

'7 ARRESTED IN ROCHESTER ON SABOTACE CHARGE   In Connection With Faulty Manufacture of Incendiary Bombs And Hand Grenades

Seven Arrested On Sabotage Charges   Charged With Faulty Manufacture of Incendiary Bombs and Hand Grenades and Instruct: ing Other Employees Not To J-oad Munitions Properly. 

Charged With Faulty Manufacture of Incendiary Bombs and Hand Grenades For Army   PRESIDENT OF PLANT AMONG THE ACCUSED   FBI Says Employes In. structed to Make Faulty Loadings When Unwatched

Seven Seized For Sabotage   President Of-Grenade Plant Among Accused

Seven Alleged Saboteurs Arrested by Federal Bureau   Italian-Americans Charged With Making Faulty Bombs And Hand Grenades

FBI Arrests 7 For Sabotage   Manufacturers Charged PWith Faulty Construction Of Bombs, Grenades.

LS TT CT  FBI NABS WORKERS; SABOTAGE CHARGED   Seven Accused of Faulty Bomh And Grenade Work

Seven Are Facing Sabotage Charges After FBI Probes Faulty Work AtBomb Plant

‘British, American Soldiers Reject Italians’ Efforts To Be Regarded (As Allies, Rather Than Beaten Foes   Eighth Army Newspaper Recalls That, Before Surrender, Duce’s Dupes Killed Many Invaders; Allied Fighters Decry ‘Self Rule’ by Badoglio

FISHING AND POLITICS   Bricker and Landon to Meet on Wyoming Ranch

Fifty Others Injured in Double Wreck of Passenger Trains  MILITARY POLICE yi         Broken Rail Blamed by _ Coast Line Officials for Wreck

69 KNOWN DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK, AO OTHERS HUR'   Two Streamliners Figure in N. Carclina Disaster, One Hitting Other After It Is Derailed.   PILE UP AT NIGHT WITH MERCURY LOW   Torches Used to Cut Into Coaches—Victims Include 48 in Armed Forces and 21 Civilians.

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illed, 50 Hur' treamliners Up in South Victims Members  Armed Forces; mpered by Storm

Streamliners Pile Up; Many in Hospitals   48 Service Men Reported Killed

Fifty Others Injured in Double Wreck of Passenger Trains  MILITARY POLICE STOP REPORTERS  Broken Rail Blamed by Coast Line Officials for Wreck

69 Killed, More Than 50 Injured in Train Wreck; Many Are Servicemen

At Least 69 Die In Southern Railway Wrecks   2 Passenger-Laden Streamliners Pile Up In North Carolina

Scores Dead In Train Smash-Up   One Wrecks, Other Plows Into Debris

Streamliner Wrecks And Another Crashes Into Derailed Cars  _ Near Lumberton  48 SERVICEMEN  AMONG KNOWN DEAD Only One Loses Life In Original Wreck; Broken Rail Blamed

48 Service Men Among Those Killed In Wreck Of  Streamliners   50 OTHERS INJURED IN NORTH CAROLINA

STALIN TO TAKE PART   _haviet Premier Mav Aid In Drafting of Allied Atrategy

Possibility Reported In Moscow   Davies’ Mission to Russia Believed Successful—vU,  S. Bombers Raid Italy

American Airmen Pounding Pantelleria Can Look Down At Great Warships Firing

Fliers Watch Navy Blast Pantelleria; They ‘Could Actually See Earth Shake  

Lightnings Escort Forts In Raids Simultaneous With Naval Shelling Of Italian Isle

Burning City Taken Over By . British Today   Rearguard Resistance Is Shattered As Rommel Flees To Tunisia   Hull Lauds Victory

Tripoli Seizure Hailed By Hull As Big Victory   Secretary Gives Praise ‘To British 8th Armv For Important Capture

Hitler Gives Up Nazi Command: Returns to Berlin   ‘Inside’ Source Says May Be Indication Offensive Will Halt For Time.

HITLER YIELDS COMMAND   Reports From Inside Germany Claim Adolf Back In Berlin

MODIFICATION OF WAGE EDICT SEEMS LIKELY   WLB May Get Authority To Adjust Inequities In Payrcils   LOWER PRICES ASSURED   Income Tangle Takes Second Place For Day As Cost Roll-Back Is Ordered

MEAT, COFFEE AND BUTTER PRIGES DOWN   Price Reducticn Has Been Ordered by OPA Chief for June 1. . :   UNDER SUBSIDY PLAN   Lower Prices Wi 1 Be Effected With the Aid of Federal! Grarts.

MEAT, BUTTER, COFFEE PRICES ARE CUT 10 PC)   Modifying of President’s Wage Order Appears Probable

FOOD PRICES : OT ORDERED’ BY OPA HEAL   TEN PERCENT “ROLLBACK” AN; NOUNCED FOR MEAT, COFFRE. AND BUTTER CORSa  EFFECTIVE JUNE 18T ~~

WLB DESCRIBES APRIL ORDER AS “UNWORKABLE”   Meat, Coffee and Butter Prices to Be Cut 10¢- on June 

NEAT, COFFEE MND. BUTTER. PRICES OWN   Price Reducticn ‘Has. ‘Been Ordered by OPA Chief,” - for. June 4 at :      UNDER SUBSIDY PLAN   Lower Prices Wi 1 Be Effect. F 2 “ed With the. Aid. oe Federal. Grants. :

Foe’s Hate Flames Over Air Mauling, Red Criminal Trial   Gérmans. Warn Americans; British Must Share Responsibility for Death O€ Germans After Kharkov Hearings

GERMANS PLAN ON RETALIATION   Courts To Handle Violations Of International Law

NAZIS 10 COUNTER FOR RED HANGINGS   Germany To Retaliate For War Guilt Trials

Hangings in Russia Bring  Nazi Threats   Germans Say They Will Punish U.S.,  British Prisoners

Will Retaliate Against Captured Aviators For Executions At Kharkov

RETALIATION FOR RED HANGINGS NOW SCHEDULED   Say American, British, Soldiers Will Suffer for Russian Action.

Reich Vows To Retaliate For RussTrial   Berlin Spokesman Makes Threat of Reprisals on Allied Airmen

Nazis Plan Action Against U.S, British Captives  Reprisals Hinted For Russian War-Guilt Trials

Germany Threatening to Retaliate’ for Hanging . Of Three German Officers

WAR GUILT HANGING BRINGS NAZI THREAT   Reprisals Against Allied Captive Fliers Are Indicated

FEAR REPRISALS BY REICH AFTER KHARKOV DEATHS      Captured Allied Airmen May Be Made To Pay In Retaliation

Asserts Planning Board ‘Has Nothing to Show For 'Nearly $10,000 000 Spent

eaten  NRPB Has Practically Nothing to Show for $10,000,000 Spent: Nye

FARM INCOME. SURVEY MADE   FOOD ADMINISTRATION. REPORTS CASH INCOME ABOVE ESTIMATE—LAND ‘PRICES  CONTINUE UPWARD. .

FARMERS’ GASH INCOME SOARS   e  $2,264,000,000 Reached Ir November, 17 Percent Above September

WFA Reveals Farmers’ Cash Income in> October Rose to Well Over Two Billions

Government  Drops Suit  Against GE Antitrust Action.  ‘Postponed Until After War

ANTI-TRUST ACTION OFF FOR OURATION   Trial of Suit Against General Electric, Others Delayed.

G. E ANTERUST TRIAL ADJOURNED   Justice Department Reveals Actions Postponed for War Duration.

RUSS HEAR CHURCHILL STATEMENT. NOT FRrS      Rainfall Spreads. To Needed Areas

CHINESE FIGHT T0 DEATH WITH U, S. WEAPONS   Japs See War With Russia

SINO SOLDIER TRANSFORMED BY U, S. GUNS   No More Cowering Before Super ior Jap Equipment, Chinese Are Now First Class.

REPORT 102 NAZI PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN IN YESTERDAY'S DAYLIGHT RAID—THREEDAY TOTAL 335

SIX-POINT PLAN FOR WAR : FOOD   Ohio Committee Suggests Other Countries Share Burden of Supply

Allies Take Over Taranto Naval Base; Six Of Italy's Warships Reach Gibraltar

Allies Occupy Taranto Base; Strengthen Hold On Naples Beachhead   Rommel Reported In Command Of German Forces In Italy

NAZ DEFENDERS BARRICADE TOWN   Invaders, Nazis Clash in bitter Street Fighting   GERMAN FORCES   Reported Running Short of Ammunition; Yanks Consclidate Positions

Canadian Troops Smash  Into Ortona   Bitter Hand to Hand Fighting Through  Streets Continues

Eighth Army Consolidates Position on Snow-Covered Mount Spinuccio

CANADIANS SMASH WAY INTO ORTONA, NAZI STRONGHOLD   Street Fighting Now Rages in Town That Has Been One of Montgomery’s Main Ohiectives.   FALL WOULD IMPERIL ENEMY’S WINTER LINE   Yanks Consolidate Positions on Mount Spinuccio—Germans Reported Short of Artillery Shells.

CANADIANS RIP INTO ORTONA IN TWO-WAY DRIVE   Street Battle Rages In Adriatic Stronghold; Southern Europe  Hit From Air

Eighth Army On Outskirts Of Ortona _   Mount Spinuccio Taken; -Germans--Reported Short Of Artillery Ammunition

Street Fights in Ortona Are Reported   Canadians Battle Way Into City’s Outskirts

Canadian ‘Troops Battle Wav Vo The Outskirts Of Ortona   Severe Street Fighting Reported in German Stronghold Along the Adriatic—Germans Reported Short of Ammunition

ORTONA FLANK BEING TURNED BY CANADIANS   GERMANS SHORT OF AMMUNITION, SAYS ALLIED REPORT

Strikes Threaten War Production   Steel, Transportation, Coal Disputes Are Reported

Axis Screams Over Rome Raid   Threaten Axts Retaliation Par Rasehinea

AXIS PROPAGANDISTS CHARGE AMERICANS WITH DESECRATION  BERLIN RADIO SAYS CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS ROMRED HEAVILY

Axis Busy Charging Rome Bombing Barbarian, lgnore Military Losses

AXIS RAPS BOMBING OF ROME   Only Five Of 500 . American Bombers Lost On Raid

Reports of Axis Radio Are Belied   Neutral Sources Say Center of Rome Is “As Peaceful as Ever’

Rome Raid Sets Axis Propaganda Mill Grinding, Neutral Sources Indicate Damage Heavy, Casualties Are High

 They Forget The Defenseless Ethiopians Axis Propaganda Goes AU Out  To Make Rome Raid Horrible   But Italian And German Statements Are Mosily Contradicted By Reports From Neutral Sources

Berlin Radio Takes Lead: in Painting Black Picture Of Destruction   REPRISALS DEMANDED

LAYOFF FOR AIR ATTACKS   ‘Dozen Reich Cities Left Smoking in 72-Hour Period Before Un-  favorable Weather Came

POSTMAN TO DELIVER NEXT RATION BOOKS   Application Blanks To Be Mailed Late in June

Brooklyn Woman Gets Jug of Sorghum » As Oklahoma Governor Keeps His Promise

Baruch Choice Of Solons To Head  Proposed War Demobilization Unit

BARUCH MAY DRAW POST-WAR TASK   SENATORS CONSIDER HIM FOR JOB OF RECONVERTING INDUSTRY TO PEACE.

War Demobilization Board _ ‘Headed By Bernard Baruch - Considered By Senate Body

Over-All Board May Be Made   Baruch Suggested To Head Demobilization Group H Created,

SENATOR BARBOUR DIES IN CAPITAL   NEW JERSEYITE THIRD MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SUCCUMB WITHIN 24 HOURS,

Senator Barbou Dies in Capital   New Jersey Solon Served Since 1931

Sen. Barbour, New Jersey, And Rep. Steagal, Alabama, Succumb; Rep. Ditter Killed in Plane Crash

Sen. W. W. Barbour Dies at Capital   Death Follows Those Of Two Representatives

Senator Barbour Dies At Capital   Death Takes Third  Solon Durina Dav

Port Allegany Man Seriously Hurt on Lease   Ephriam Ostrander Falls From 15-Foot Pole Onto Crow-Bar

Germans Try To Bomb Bombers   High Flying Raiders Have Them Baffled

NAZIS TRY BOMBING PLANES FROM ABOVE      Efforts Are Futile But High Altitude Bombing Baf#les Them.

Withholding Levy on Wages, Salaries Pegged at Present 20 Per Cent Rate

SOAP REMOVED FROM TAX LISI   House Unit Pegs Withholding at Present Level in -Framing Draft

LEVY PEGGED BY COMMITTEE   House Group Retains Present 20 Per Cent. Withholding Tax

WITHHOLDING LEVY REMAINS THE SAME   Graduated Basis Proposed by Secretary Morgenthau Rejected

TERROR REIGN SWEPT SICILY (CITY FOR MONTH   Mayor of Catania Tells Story of Town Under German Rule and Allied Bombing

Catania’s Mayor Tells Of Terror  Nazis Know They’re To Lose ) War, He says  a eoomme, mete 2

Thousand Pickers Needed !f Fruit Crop ls To Be Saved, Says Labor Office Head

NEED THOUSAND FRUIT PICKERS   Berrien’s Berry Crop I: Periled By Lack of Workers  

‘DRAFTEE’ POOL STARTS MONDAY   Individual Preference to Get Consideration

WILL DRAFT MEN FOR FOUR SERVICES   Army, Navy, Marine Corps And Coast Guard Will Draw On Pool Of Selectees Hereafter

Set Up a New Draft System   To Put Men In All  Branches of Service

NEW INDUCTEE PLAN IN EFFECT MONDAY   eae  Services to Draw from Draftee Poo! for Manpower; Preference Mav Be Given

SERVICES TO DRAW (ON ORAFTEE ‘POOL   Plan Single Set of Physical Standards for Future’ Inductees.

Draft Pools Set To Serve All Branches   Monthly Quotas To Govern Assignment After Monday.

SERVICES TO “POOL” DRAFTEES   Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard to Meet Needs

All Services To Get Men From Draft   Single Physical Standards Agreed on For Industries; New Plan Starts Monday

TO DRAFT MEN FOR NAVY, COAST GUARD   New “Pool” System Will Be Effective Monday

PLANTS HERE NEED 2.000   Twin Cities Face Serious Manpower Crisis,  Woodley Says

Labor Shortage. Slows Twin City War Productior   Bottleneck Grows More Serious, Manpower Official Reports

ARMY RETURNS UNSPENT FUNDS   Tax Cut Urged As 13 Billions Are Released

Army Trims Its Program  $13,000,000 Lopped Off Appropriations; Will Cut Manpower

Army Returns $13 Billion to The Treasury   Congress Demands Lowey Taxes, Closer Scrutiny ef Federal Expenditures and Stone te Father Draft :

Reveal Army Turns Back 13 Billions   Congress Seizes Statement to Cut Taxes, Lower. Appropriations, Stop Father Draft

War Department Sends 13 Billion Back to Budget   Congress Demands Lower Taxes, Stop To Father Draft

Army Is Found To Have More Cash Than Needed   So Solons Urge Lower Taxes; Liquor Probe Also Gets FBI Aid Now

REFUND BY ARMY REVIVES DRIVE TO LOWER TAXES   Congress Left Gasping After $13,163,519,000 Returned; Subsidy Row Goes On

ALL-STARS WILL TOUR   jor League Baseball Stars Zo  a a teen Seal

MORE THAN 1000 BOMBERS ON LONG DESTRUCTION TRIP   42 Craft Fail to Returr. Nearing Loss of 44 Taking Part In Leipzig Blasting In October.   YANKS CAPTURE PEAK AND SEE ROAD TO ROME   {mportant Hill Is Eight Miles North of San Pietro, Scene of One of Bitterest Battles.

Mannheim, Ludwigshaven Absorb Heavy Pounding As 36-Hour Air Attack Covers All Nazi Areas   Great Chemical Center Laid Open: 44 Bombers Lost in Two Big Attacks. . Gata Athens Hit by Yanks.

BRITISH ARE READY FOR ALL-OUT ATTACK   President of A. P. Brings Back That Report on Trip

SENATORS CALL FOR NATIONWIDE FLOOD CONTROL   MILLIONS SPENT ANNUALLY FOR RELIEF: LUCAS

OVER-ALL FLOOD PROGRAM URGED IN WASHINGTON   Seek Solution To Yearly Loss By Hich Water

RULESMADE FOR 48-HOUR WORK WEEK   Regulations Effective -By This Spring, WMC States

Extend Area Of 48-Hour Work Week   Manpower Chiefs Issue Regulations For Next Spring

Allied Raid On Rabaul ls One Of Biggest Yet   50 Ton Attack Includes 1,000 Pounders, 3,500 Incendiary Missiles   ALL PLANES RETURN   Aussies Mop Up In Wau Séetor; Patrols Are Active 9 Miles North

30 BIG ALLIED PLANES RAID RABAUL AREA   Fires Visible For 110 Miles; All Planes Return

~STPIES IF RAIDS   50: Tons: of: Explosives” Drop"ped. on Japanese: Base.

RABAUL AREA IS BADLY DAMACELD   Flying Forts Attack Nev Britain in Waves .

STRANGE THINGS HAPPENED AT SOVIET EMBASSY   Scientific Films Were Shown At Reception  Honoring Outstanding Scientists

ITALY CASTS OUT FASCIST LEGISLATURE   Badoglio Uses Force Of Arms to Check Domestic Tumult

FASCISTPART} BY BADOGLIO IS DISSOLVED   Premier Also ‘Socks to Still Tumult in Fiume and Trieste Where Demonstrations Are Staged   ‘Guariglia Flies From Turkey

BADOGLIO MOVES TO QUIET TUMULT   DISSOLVES FASCIST- PACKED _ LEGISLATURE = SENDS TROOPS TO ISTRIA,

rasci House Is Dissolved By Badoglic  italian Politica Prisoners To.  Be Freed

Badoglio Seeks by Force to End Domestic Fumul+      EISENHOWER PEACE PLEA IS WEIGHED   Troops Rushed to Fiume and Trieste to Stop . Revolts

\Fascist-Packed Legislature Dissolved by Gen. Badoglio  Mass Demonstrations in Milan, Turin, Genoa Seen

RUSSIANS REPEL GERMAN ATIACKS   In Attempt to Dislodge Strong Defense Line on Donets Front,

Senate Post-War Statement Ready   Compromise on Hatch, Fulbright Proposals

cnate Foreigh Policy Measure — More Specific   ‘teliminary Draft of New Post-War Bill Is Completed

SENATORS DRAW UP RESOLUTION ON POST-WAR POLICY   Declaration a Compromise Between Fulbright Proposal ‘and Ball - Burton  Hill Plan,   TEXT KEPT SECRET FOR FURTHER STUDY   But It Is Said to Call for CoOperation With Other Nations to Prevent Aggression,

Foreign Policy  Drafted by  Senate Group  Text of Rough Draft Is Being Kept Secret for Present

PLAN SERIAL NUMBERS FOR ‘‘T” GAS COUPONS   OPA Hopes To Separate Black Market Operators From One Of Major Sources Of Supply

Gasoline "T” Coupons to Be Issued Serially Starting First of Year

OPA Starts  New “PE Plan   Hopes To Stop Chief Black Market Source By Using Serial Numbers.

Allied Planes Continue To Pound Continent “As Jitters Shake~Axis~

Britons Stir Axis Jitters   Churchill Report Coupled With Eden Appeal To Italy

New and Heavy British Volley At Axis Nerves   Nazi Propagandists Stick to July 3 Invasion Date

CADET TO 60 TO NEW YORK   Lonergan Waives Extradition in Investigation of  Killing of Wife

Question Lonergan In Wife's Slayinc  Air Cadet Still Claims  Innocence

LONERGAN T0 FACE FURTHER QUIZZING   Husband of Slain Woman Waives Extradition Proceedings

Take Wayne Lonergan To New York   HUSBAND OF SLAIN HEIRESS WILL BE QUESTIONED ABOUT MURDER; POLICE SEEK HIS UNIFORM. ;   No Charges Placed

Accused Air Cadet  Waives Extradition  Will Be Questioned In Wife’s Staying

Reds Deliver” Death Blow At Stalingrad   Germans Broadcast a Requiem of Praise to the ‘Heroes of Stalingrad” Russians Claim 240,000 Killed, and 46,000 Taken Prisoner

Gain In Three Sectors; Stop Axis Advance   Germans Captured By Russians At Stalingrad Include 17 Generals   Newly Appointed Field Marshal Also Captured   British Eighth Army Occupies Zuara Hot On Heels Of Rommel

Soviets Say Casualties Increased   3-Way Tunisian Assault Staged By Americans; Duce Minimizes Loss

Reds Estimate 286, c - 000 Nazis Are’ Casualties ©.  U. S. TROOPS sail  Smash Forward Against Axis On Tu. nisian Front

CLEAN-UP IN STALINGRAD, U.S. ATTACK IK TUNGIA MUSSOLIN BROADCASTS   Near ry 300,000 of Hitler's Finest Lost in City He Once Declared Captured; Americans Stop Axis Thrust in Faid Pass; Duce Says ltaly Will Return to Lybia.

Claim Nazi Losses Were 286,000 At Stalingrad: U. 5. Troops Make Gains

Nazis’ Mighty Stalingrad Army Meets Death   Berlin Radio Admits Defeat; U. S. Active in Three Sectors

Over 300,000 Lost to Nazis   German Marshal Among Prisoners At Stalingrad.

Reds Delivering Final Blows to  Vanquished Foe   American Troops Smash Against Three Axis Positions  DEFEATS COSTLY  Russians Take High Axis Officers Among Their  s Dal Cirh re £4 4°?

Reds Delivering Final Blows to Vanquished Foe   American Troops Smash Against Three Axis Positions  DEFEATS COSTLY  Russians Take High Axis Officers Among Their Prisoners

Last of Hitler's Stalingrad Army {s Being Mopped Up   Yankees Battling Nazi Armored Units In Tunisian Hills  Ry Acencriatad Pracc

HALF-FROZEN AND STARVING GERMAN REMNANTS OF ONCE — MICHTY ARMY BEINGDEALT WITH   Berlin Broadcast Praises “The Heroes of Stalingrad” —“They Army of The Dead.” Famed German Armored Columns Stopped in Tunisian Drive  , ,

GERMAN LOSSES AT STALINGRAD nEACH 240,000   U.S. Troops Attack on Three Sectors of Tunisian Front

Germans Extol ‘Army Of Dead’ Rally In Tunisia   Hitler Field Marshal, 15 Generals Bow To Russians; Duce’s Chief Quits.

Reds Wiping Out Trapped Nazi Force   Berlin Radio Broadcasts Tribute to Army of Dead

Russians Capture Field Marshal, 16 Generals  ALLIED GAINS  ene  vu, S. Bombers and  Fighters Help Nail  Down Attack

240,000Nazis Are Victims in Russ Trap   Allied Armies in North Africz Stop Defensive Axis Thrus' with Air Attack

Remnants of Once Mighty Siege Army Being Liquidated; An Axis Field Marshal, 15 Generals Captured; 240,000 of Enemy Are Slain

Moscow Reports 240,000 Germans Killed; American Troops Driving For-

BERLIN REFERS TO NAZI ARMY “OF THE DEAD   German People Just Now Begin. ning to Hear of Desperate Plight Of Another Force.

GERMAN RADIO PRAISES “ARMY OF THE DEAD”   German Armored Column Stopped After Drive Through Faid Pass —

Trapped Aray Of 330,000 Is Due To Give Up Soon   Nazi Field Marshal Captured By Reds, To Break German ‘Tradition

DESPERATE REMNANT QF MIGHTY ARMY IS SACRIFICE TO HITLER  GERMAN ARMORED DRIVE  W NORTH ATDICA Ic

CONFIRMS SINKING OF JAPANESE SUB   Undersea Craft Sent Down Of Mouth of Columbia, River 17 Days After Pearl Harbor.

SERVICE MEN GET REVENGE ON ZOOT GAN   Soldiers, Sailors, Marines Strip Off Fancy Clothes In “Hell Raising” at Los Angeles

ity the Poor. “Zoot-Suiters”’; Shown Little Mercy By Soldiers, Sailors and-Marines in Los Anveles Clean-Us

Late Noaws Rullatine   Treasury Penected to Rorrow 16 Billions in April

PRESIDENT WILL DELIVER TALK ON WAR PLANS   Assault on European Fortress Considered Im: : minent

Roosevelt To Visit Ottawa   U. S. PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK TO CANADIAN PARLIAMENT

President On Goodwill Trip In Canada   Speaks Before Crowd At Canada’s Capitol Today At Noon

STORES PLEASED "WITH GIFT SMES   Merchants Feel New Goodh  Assured at Start of =  New Year

Record Number of Christmas Gifts Are Sold P+ ‘Spending Spree’ Fails to Materialize ~

GAS RATIONING TO BE TAILORED   OPA Official Says Driving Not Cut 25 Per Cent By Coupon Slash

ATTEND ‘LAB’   Methodists to Study Children’s Wine nt Pablincid«

Two Men, Who Years Ago Tried To Assassinate Duce, Freed By Allies.

2 Who Tried To Slay Duce Freed  One Killed Week Later By Nazi Shell

Two Men Who Tried To Assassi nate Mussolini Long Ago Are Freed By Allies; One Is Tragically Killed

Man Who Attempted To Kill Duce Dies When Hit By German Shell After Being Rescued By Allies

SICILY INVASION FIGURES GIVEN GUT   Allied Forces Total 160,000 Men, 266 Ships, 600 Tanks.

WMC Speeding Plans To Find  Veterans Jobs   Reports Combat-Disabled  Members Of U.S. Forces Return In Big Numbers

1943 FOOD SUPPLY FOR CIVILIANS TO BE 6” UNDER 1942   Warn Of Shortages From » Time. To. -Time—Ample 2 Te Maintain’ ‘Health

Some Food Shortages Due This Year, Civillans Told, but Supplies To Be ~ Three Per Cent Greater Than "35-39

PUBLIC HEARS aN WARNINE OF SHORTAGE:   Long-Debated Survey. Shows Food Supply Is 6 Pet. Under Last Year.   HEALTH NOT MENACED BY WARTIME SCARCITY

COVT WARNS CIVILIANS FACE FOOD SHORTAGES   Report’ Estimates Supplies to Be 6% Under 1942

0. W.1. Releases Long-Delayed and Controversial Report on Food; Says Supplies 6 Per Cent Less Than in ‘42

OWI REPORTS 6 PC, FOOD CUT   Davis Again Denies Charge Of “Sugar Coating,” Says Supplies Above 1935-39 Average

Less Food Available Now, Nation Told   6 Per Cent Drop from ‘42 to Bring ‘Inconveniences’

CIVILIANS TOLD FOOD  SUPPLIES TO BE LESS   Six Per Cent Cut from 1942 Revealed But Amount Will Be Sufficient to Maintain Health—Shortages from Time to Time Will Cause “Incon . venience” and “Exasperation,” lt Ve Strtad Tk adn

OW! ASSERTS FOOD SUPPLY ‘ADEQUATE   Disputed Report Says It Will Be 6 Per Cent Less Than Last Year.   NO DANGER TO HEALTH

Food Production To Be Under ’42,  Says Government   Adequate Supply To Maintain Health,  _ Civilians Informed

OWI FOOD REPORT AFFORDS PUBLIC — BETTER QUTLOQK   Supplies Adequate for Health; Inconveniences and Ex- — asneration Predicted.

Serious Food Situation In U.S. Reported   OW! Estimates Civiliar Supplies Will Average & Per Cent Lower   ENOUGH FOR HEALTH   Survey Called ‘Sugar Coated’ By Dissidents Warns Of Shortages

U.S. fo Have Food Enough Says OWI   Six Per Cent Drep From 1942 Sugepties, But Plenty, Foreseen

FDR TERMS SELF ~ SAVER OF MONE   Scores. Congressmen Who Vote to Abolish Longtime Planning

President Hits Move to Junk  Planning Body   Board Badly Needed For Postwar Era, Savs Chief Executive

President, Picturing Himself as Watchdog of the Treasury, Says Nonplanners Are Spendthrifts

MURRAY OPENS C10 SIXTH’ CONVENTION   Union Pledges No Strikes For Duration—Backs Administration

Japs Lose 100 Troops in Attack Near Mubo Region.  3 NEW RAIDS ON JAP BASES IN SOLOMONS  Start Pushing the Japanese Back to Tokyo.

SHARP FIGHTING BREAKS OUT AGAIN  IN NEW GUINEA   General MacArthur's Fliers Make 20 Bombing Raids Over Jap Lines Yesterday.

NEW JAP GROUND — THRUST ON NEW GUINEA REPULSED   Substitute Route For Burma  Road Opened to China

BRICKER ON GRIDDLE FOR ‘JOVIAL REMARK’   Wouldn’t Announce Plans at Indian Affair, He Says

BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS   Kiwanis Members Make Gifts Hear Crafton on Kansas

MALARIA OUTBREAK IS FEARED IN OHIO   Director Markwith Cites Dangers of Soldiers Returning to U. S. Soil

HEALTH CHIEF FEARS MALARIA OUTBREAK   Servicemen from Pacific May Cause Epidemic

Four Reasons War To Last   Roosevelt Explains Why Victory Still Distant

Mediator Reaches Lebanon, Will: Urge Agreement  Britons Again Warn Of Peril, Demand Immediate Solution

Catroux Arrives in Lebanon  _ Expect Settlement _ of Dispute Soon

Catroux Arrives In Lebanon With Full Power To Settle Internal Dispute There

Lebanon Accord To Be Sought   French Take Action On British Demand

[Fighting French Trouble Shooter Arrives [In Lebanon to Settle Problems

DAKAR RESOURCES ARE AT DISPOSAL -OF ALLIES TODAY   Governor General of French West Africa Makes !tmportant  Decision. 

ADVANCED U. S,, BRITISH TROOPS MAKE JUNCTION   26 Axis Planes Downed, 26 Damaged By Yank Airmen

Nazis Fail Yo Stem  Invasion   However, Brit‘sh Meet Stiff Resistance At Catania; Americans Drive Toward Sea and Italy.

Allies Have Destroyed 40 Axis Aircraft in Past 24 Hours.  420 NAZI TROOPS ARE PLUNGED INTO SEA  Enemy Trying to Slip Reinforcements to Sicily.

The $25,000 Limitation On Salaries   Your Income From Other Sources Is Not Restricted

OVERTIME PAY BARRED, ANGRY MINERS STRIKE      Wave Of Wildcat Strikes Is Western Penna. Coal Fields

German Pilots Fight Yankees   Come at American Fliers From All Sides, They Declare

Get Reports on 5/445 Motorists  -- Travel Was Checked ~ Over July 4th

REICH CITIES AGAIN BOMBED BY RAF FLEET   Frankfort, Ludwigshafen Blasted   BIGICit MIasvucu  LEAVE BIG FIRES Fortresses Bag 78 Nazi Planes

Bond Sales Win Through Crisis  Increase of Buying In July Over June

D.L. Calkins Took . Own Life at His Home Friday   Had Been In It Health Since He Suffered a Broken Back Five Years Ago

Ends Life by Hanging at Mallard .   Delbert Calkins, 35, dies Friday in corn crib on his farm.

GIRAUD’S RETURN PROMPTS HOPE OF FRIENDLY SOLUTION   Committee Of . National Liberation Gets Down To Construtive ,  Activity

6lst Annual Meet Of County WCTU Meets Today   All Day Program Is Arranged for Parley In Port. Allegany

6lst Annual Meet Of County WCTL Will Be Thursday   All Day Program Is Arranged for Parley In Port Allegany

Drop 1,000 Tons Of Explosives on Munich Centers   Raid Nazis in France, Belgium In’ First of Day Attacks; Enemy Off Guard   War in Brief:

OHIO RIVER TO HIT FLOOD STAGE   Weather Bureau Issues Warning to People in Southern Ohio

OHIO RIVER RISING FOR ANOTHER FLOOD   Third of Spring Coming Up To Set Precedent

150 ATTEND MEETING   Rural Teachers and Pupils in Program at High School

U. S. Ambassador To Russia Gives Interview That Does  Not Meet With Full Accord

Will Americans Be More Tender With Their Money Than Lives of Their Sons

Americans Are Making Response In Bond Loan »   People Lack Home Must Make Bond Campaign a Success To Demonstrate  Faith in Fighting Men.

“Will Americans Be More Tender With  Their Money Than With Lives Of Their ‘Sons, ls Second War Loan Challeng

U.S. Air Power In North Africa  Now Increasing   Air Reinforcements Report. ed Flowing Into North Africa To Aid Drive   SOME PLANES DOWN AT PORTUGAL FIELD

POLICE PROBING MODEL'S DEAT   Authorities Investigating All Angles in Slaying of RedHaired Chicago Girl

ARMY PRISONER SHOT IN ESCAPE   Recanture Two Unharmed; One Lima Soldier

STOCKS RUN INTO PROFIT TAKING   New Highs Reached By Many Favorites While Some Leaders Turn Soft

 Yanks Battle Way Nearer To  Munda Base   Artillery Shells ip Airdrome

YANK CANNON SHELLS DROME AT SALAMAUA   Americans Advance 1200 Yards in Munda Lines

JAPS DESPERATE IN THEIR STAND   .BY LOUIS F, KEEMLE  United Press War Analyst fRon Tr & Bat Maire)

Resistance Made  ‘by Japs Called Desperate Stand   Believed Not to Illustrate Hope of Reversing Tide

Phioht Ot Jans Hopeless Unless  Aid Is Received   Attempt Of Japanese To Re. inforce Attu Defenders Would Bring Naval Battle   JAPS MIGHT RISK NAVAL CONFLICT

SOVIETS SMASH VOLKHOV DRIVE   Reds Check Reinforced Axis Troops Along Donets River

RED ARTILLERY SMASHES GERMAN  ATTACK IN NORTH   Other Russians Along Donets Hur! Back Wave After Wave of Nazis.

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI THRUSTS   DONETS TROOPS HURL BACK GERMAN TIDE

WAVES OF INVADERS ~ REPULSED   Axis Troops Are Hurled Back on Volkhov Front Southeast of City of Leningrad.

AXIS DRIVES REPULSED BY RUSSIANS   Two Pronaed Nazi Attack On Volkhov Front is Smashed

Nazi Attack on Velkhov Front Smashed by Reds   German Bridgehead In Caucasus Pushed Rack Toward Sea

REDS DRIVE BAGK GERMAN ATTACKS   Burma Fighting Is Renewed With Heavy Jap Loss, Bolivia Joins With Allies. °

SOVIET ARTILLERY HALTS 2-PRONGED DRIVE AT VOLKHOR   In Northwest Caucasus, Reds Push Germans Back Closer Toward Black Sea

Nazis Smashed h Volkhov Area   Reds Hurl Foe Back Along Donets River

SOVIETS BEAT BACK ASSAULTS ALONG DONETS   Score New Gains in Northwest Causasus: Axis Flare at Chuguev

SOVIETS BREAK NAZI DRIVE ON VOLKHOY FRONT   Red Armies Along Donets Hurl Back Waves Of Reinforced Troops   POSITIONS ARE IMPROVED   Fierce Battles Reported Ragig In lzyum And Chuqguev Sectors

Red Army on Donets River Hurls Back Wave After Wave of Germans At -.tampnting to Cross.

MUSICAL COMEDY WILL BE PRESENTED   Pratt's Studio Entertainers Will Appear In Program Thursday And Friday Evenings

JAPS PUSHED BACK   MacArthur's Troops Chase Enemy Back In New Guinea Action

ANOTHER STRIKE OF COAL MINERS SEEMS CERTAIN   ‘End of 15-Day Truce Tomor row Night Expected To Halt Production

{5-DAY TRUCE ENDS TUESDAY, WORK STOPPAGE THREATENS   Anthracite Locals Wire Lewis of Plans To Strike, Mine Chief Snubs WLB Agair

Yanks Raid Japs In China Theater   Troop Concentration Gets Blasting

Herring Says OPA Rule Isn't Enough   Higher Income Is Bringing Inflation

Men, Women! Old at 40, 50, 60! Get Pep  Feel Years Younger.FullotVim

Mea, Women! Old at 40, 50, 60! Get Pep  Feal ¥aars Younnar FallatVim

POPE MAKES APPEAL F FOR JUST PEACE   Sees Little Hope, However, for  Sudden End of War

KNIFEMAN KILLS YOUNG BRIDE, 18   Body Of Army Officer's Pretty Wife Found In Detroit Basement

Few Registrants Appeal 18-26 Youths May Volunteer As Army Aviation Cadets

D-C EMPLOYE VOTE ORDERED   Shipyard Workers to De. cide Which Union They Want

Angel Novelty  Labor Election Within 30 Days   NERB Order Will Esiablish The CIO Or AFL Union As Bargaining Agent

New Sales Tax Plan Proposed   Retail Sales Tax With High. er Exemptions For Low Income Groups Sug gested ‘

NEW SALES TAX PLAN PROPOSED   Novel Idea Would Increase Personal Income Levy Exemptions

24 HOURS OF TERROR FOR 3 CHILDREN   Witnesses of Fight in Which Their: Father, Grandfather Die on Farm Near Owatonna

Nazis Reinforce Beachheads On Leros Island In Aegean In Spite Of Heavy Casualties   Allied Bombers Support Beleaguered Britons; Blast Nazis’ Nearby Bases

Nazis Land on  Leros Island   Reinforce Beachheads and Attempt Consolidations Despite Heavy Losses

GERMANS ATTACKING  ALLIES ON LEROS  ISLAND GAIN FOOTING DESPITE HEAVY CASUAL TIES NAZIS ARE CONSOLIDATING BEACHHEADS

Heavy Nazi Attack on Leros Isle   Berlin Claims Victory In a Smashing Attack for the Aegean Stepping Stone  5   SITUATION CRITICAL ALLIES REPOR'   am ast "British Rush Bombers and Fighters to Assistance of Beleacuered Garrison

Nazis Reinforce Leros Invaders  Paratroops and Seaborne Forces Land an leland

Nazi Gains On Leros   Still Hold Beach Heads, Throw In Dive Bombers At British

In All-Out Effort To Regain Leros Nazis Hurl Great Power into Battle  With British for Aevean Island

Nazi ’Chutists Stage a Bitter Attack on Leros   British Admit Germans Successful in Putting Troops on Island.   RAF Bombers Speed to  Support of Garrison

MORE NAZIS THROWN INTO —LEROS FIGHT      Parachute Troops, Dive Bombers and Seaborne Troops Are in Action as Germans Reinforce Their Beachheads. :

NAZIS GAIN ON ISLE OF LEROS   Germans Launch All-Out Attack To Regain Aegean Outpost

N azis Hurl Giant Blow at Leros   BOMBERS, PARATROOPS SMASH AT ITALIANS, BRITISH IN AEGEAN

FRENCH REVOLT IS GROWING = ~ AS INVASION APPEARS NEAR   INCREASING TOLL OF GERMANS AND MORE SABOTAGE ACTS REPORTED FROM CONTINENT—MANY TRAINS ARE WRECKED

NAZIS, ALARMED AT GROWING UNREST IN FRANCE, —  TAKING ACTION TO PREVENT ALLIED INVASION

Preparing For Poppy Day Sales  Legion Auxiliary In  Charge Of Event

PLANS MADE FOR SALE OF POPPIES   Annual Event ” To Be Held In LeMars Saturday, May 29

SOLDIER VOTING LAW IS UPHELD   Job Too Big For States Tt Handle Alone—Worley

Disagree Over Milk Method   Senators Favor Price Boost Over Subsidy Plans

Use of Gasoline In State Shows Great Increase   McCormick, Maryland OPA Director, Urges Careful Conservation

10 Feared Lost As Tug Sinks   Four Bodies Found, Six Men Missing

The War Today—  Wonder If Hitler Has Nightmares About Wrath Of Conquered Peoples

ONE WONDERS IF HITLER EVER THINKS OF WHAT CONQUERED PEOPLES ARF GOING DO T ATER

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Germans Must Hold Line At Dnieper To Prevent Widespread Revolts

24 Lives Are-_ Lost In Crash Near Lisbor   Treacherous Air Pocket Is Believed Cause Of The Plane’s Plunge Down Into Tagus River

SAY AIR POCKET CAUSE OF CRASH   F rank Cuhel, Former lowa :  : Athlete, Is Missing

Clipper Hit Air Pocket, Say Officials   Captain Sullivan, Commander, Says Storm Was Raging

SOUTHERNERS EXPECTED 10 ACCEPT TODAY   Lewis Expected To Call Meeting Of Policy Committee

FDR CALLS ON LEWIS MINERS NOT TO STRIKE   President Offers Formula for Retroactive Pay, Says WB Will Re ~ view Wage Pact

Concerted Effort Being Made ToConcludeStrike   Union Officials And Operators Ordered To Attend Hearing Today

Allies Completely Hold 2 Solomon Isles, Says Admiral William Halsey

Civil Service Measure. Clears Hurdle  Opposition on the Floor of Senate Pyesactad. Hawavear

Civil Service Measure Clears Hurdle   Opposition on the Floor of Senate Exnected. However

Testimony as to Whereabouts of sac Pjofen ant Civ  Prosecution Seeks to Fix Presence of .  ain waa’  i « peepee

DE MARIGRY IS PUT NEAR CRIME SCENE      Prosecutor Moves to ‘Link Accused With Murder of Oakes

Attorneys Win Several Points  For DeMarigny   First Aitempt Made To Link Defendant With Oakes’ Murder

Oakes Murder Case Springs New Surprise   Crown Links Son-in-Law de Marigny Directly With The Crime

DeMarigny ear Scene  Of Murder   CROWN’S PROSECUTION SHOWS THAT HE ‘TOOK TWO LADIES  HO AT 1 A. M.; “EXCITED AND ata   Point For Defense

jindicate De Gaulle Has Won Fight Over Giraud and Will Become War -Minister.in French Government

Essen Bombed   MOST BOMBED CITY IS SHATTERED AGAIN   Thousands of Bombers Carry War To Many Parts of Germany and Italy

BOMB KRUPP ARMS WORKS AT ESSEN   Berlin Admits  Major Damage During Night

Big Bombers Roar Out Across the Channel Again Today.   2 GREAT FACTORIES RAIDED IN JENA   Italy Practically Is Defenseless Against Allied Air Attack.

Germans Admit Major Damage In Essen Raid; Mosquitoes Attack Jena

Essen Is Now the Moste Bombed City In the World. 23 RAF Bomb ers Fail To Return.

Nazi Drive Thrust Back By Russian: Reds Capture Fiele  With Pnsoners And Spoils.

Soviets Throv German  Forces Back  Up to 12,000 Nazis Attack Reds Near Novorossisk

Heavy Nazi Siege Force  Is Repulsed   12,000 Troops Are Estimated In Raid On Soviet Lines.

Heavy: Losses For Invaders Claimed   Four Regiments Of German Troops Hurled Back In Fierce Fight: Many Are Captured

Soviets Throw German  Forces Back Up to 12,000 Nazis   Up to 12,000 Nazis Attack Reds ; Near Novorossisk

STORM HITS COUNTY   Snow Started Falling Falling Early This Morning; Mercury Down to 16

STORM HITS COUNTY   Snow Started Falling Early This Morning: Mercury Down to 16

Sea Battle In Progress   US., Jap Ships Tangle Northeast Of New Georgia

Sea Battle that Points to Fall of Munda ts Raging   American Forces Control Western and Southern Approaches to New Sofomons Fighting Area and Push on Toward Objective—May Fall Quickly or Difficult Siege May Be the Result,  Cammuniaue Reveale.

Rubber Plants ‘Await Jeffers   Robert Patterson And Other Officials Making Southwestern Trip

28 BRICK AND CLAY PLANTS ARE IDLE   WLB Orders Unionists To Return to Work Pending Dispute Settlement

STRIKE HALTS OUTPUT OF BRICK, GLAY FIRMS   Workers Want Raise, Agreement Attempt Fails

EXPLANATION FROM WAR OFFICIALS IS EXPECTED SHORTLY   Explanation Due As to Sudden Postponement of Plans to Use Army  in Fields.

COTTON PICKING PLAN DELAYED   Ninth Service Command Cancels Proposed Program In Arizona Area

Eden Foresees Allied Setbacks  British Secretary Con fers In Washinaton

HULL RETURNS FROM FLORIDA FOR MEETING   Diplomat Expected to Confer With Soviet Ambassador, Chinese Minister.

Setbacks Are Certain, Says Eden in U. <S   British Foreign Minl_ ster Here To Secure Allied Cooperation:

FOR ALLIED UNITY   Eden Stresses Necessity for , Cooperation in An ‘ Interview

ALLIES FACING UPHILL FIGHT, BRITON WARNS      Anthony Eden, Here fo: Conferenceson War Problems, Says Setbacks  Absolutely Certain   STAPLE PEACE AIM   Cooperation Among United Nations, Including China, Indispensable, He Reiterates

Setbacks Must Be Expected, Eden Declare:   British Foreign Office Leader In Washington For Conferences With U. S. Chieftains

EDEN PREDICTS SFTBACKS ERE ALLIED VICTORY   Extensive Conferences With High Officials Planned by Eden

Eden Arrives In U. S. For Parley On War Problems   Better Accord With Russia High on List; Stalin Informed of Trip

ANTHONY EDEN SEES SETBACKS BEFORE WAR, PEACE ARE WON   ENGLISH DIPLOMAT TO DISCUSS ALL ASPECTS OF WAR WITH ROOSEVELT

British Envoy Says Setbacks Are Certain   Comes at Critical*Time When Talk ‘Endangers Allied Unity --to Confer with Others _

Setbacks Are Sure Before  War Is Won, Eden States   Indicates He Will Discuss Military And Diplomatic Problems While Here

Eden Advises Setbacks Sure  To Hit Allies   British Foreign Secretary In Washington To Discuss  War Problems.   TO TALK ALL FIELDS

EDEN HERE TO TALK ABOUT PEACE PLANS   British Foreign Minister Comes to Confer With President Roosevelt.   RUSSIA LEADING TOPIC OF TALKS   Visit Seen as Preparatory to Meetings of All United Nations.

Eden, Roosevelt Hold Discussion ‘Of War Subjects        British - Russian Expert's Presence Underscore> Russia’s Role In Plans

EDEN ARRIVES IN U. S. FOR SERIES OF CONFERENCES   WILL CONFER TODAY WITH ROOSEVELT ON WAR PROBLEMS

Setbacks Sure ‘Before Victory  Won, Says Eden   Briton In Washington For War Problem Parleys With F. D. R.

EDEN CLAIMS SETBACKS ARE STILL TO COME   British Diplomat Says Disappointments Likely Before Final Victory   IN U.S. TO DISCUSS WAR AND POST-WAR PROBLEMS

Eden and FDR To Confer on Postwar Plans   Conferences Designed to Clear the Way for Meetings Between All the United Watinne

EDEN BEGINS fil} CONFERENCES WIT PRES, ROOSEVELT   Historic Talks Designed to Clear Way For Meetings Between All United Nations on Problems Raising Out of The War.

Setbacks Certain Before War Over   Anthony Eden Tells of Hard Job Lying Ahead  to Conquer Axis.

Britain's Foreign Secretary, Here For War Parleys, Says Setbacks For Allies Certain

SETBACKS DUE EDEN DECLARES   SAYS ALLIED DEFEATS TO PRECEDE VICTORY

Long Road Lies Ahead. Says Briton   Foreign Secretary Is At Washington To Discuss Military And Diplomatic Problems

Anthony Eden Says Setbacks Are Certain   British Statesman In Washington To Talk Allied Problems   Arrival Follows Talk About Russia   Efforts For United France Urged; Denies Yank-British Rivalry

Eden Arrives nU.5., Sees War Setbacks   Briton Will Talk With Roosevelt, Hull; Prace Discussions Hinted   URGES ALLIED UNITY   MAWES ALLIEL INTE ST     Negotiator Of Russian Pact Also Denies Rivalry Over French Africa

VISIT WITH ROOSEVELT   Plans to Stay in U. 8. for Several Weeks for Conferences at Canital   ALSO WILL VISIT. OUR WAR PLANTS   Sees Setbacks Ahead: No Rivalry in French Sitnation, He Savs

Anthony Eden And Roosevelt Plan Conference   British Foreign Secretary Flies To Washington

Hard Job Ahead  Before Victory   Eden Sees Setbacks And Disappointments Before  Allies Win.

Eden Says Setbacks And Disappointments Sure Before The War Is Won

PHURCHILL TELLS COMMONS ABOUT _ BRITISH VICTORY   Enemy Has Lost 17 Per Cent of 80,000 In South Tunisia Besides Killed and Wounded Men.   AMERICANS HAMMER REAR GUARD ACTION   Capture of 90-Mile Macadam Gafsa-Gabes Highway Remains as Chief Job to Secure Control.

‘Churchill Announces Offensive   Proclaims New Victory, Romme Fleeing, Junction of U. S., Brit ish Forces Near

AUSSIES PUSH FORWARD ON NEW GUINEA   13 More Jap Barges Sunk In Huon Vicinity: Hit Targets On Marshalls, Gasmata, Rabaul

New Britain Is Pounded   May Become Next Offensive Target In South Pacific

Bombs Softer New Britain For Invasion   Heavy Aerial Blows Presage Early Allied Attack; No Let Up in Bombing of Marshalls

Believe Allies Preparing For Paettie Attack   Crushing Smashes At Kev Positions Of New Britsin Hurries Belief.   RAID MARSHALL ISLES

ALLIES SAID READY FOR INVASION   Aerial Onslaught Indicates Forces About To Attack

RAIDS INDICATE INVASION. SOON IN NEW BRITAIN   Jap Use of Barges Believed to Show Weakness in Shipping

MORE AERIAL ATTACKS FOR S. W. PACIFIC   Rabaul, Too, May Be Focal Point of Attack Against Japan's Outer Defense Line

Air Blows Hint Early Invasion  Of New Britain   Allied Thrust Indicated By Constant Pounding Of Important Jap Base.

Invasion of New Britain Believed Neat   Crushing Allied Air Blaws at Key Position Seen As Significant

BIG RAIDS YEW BRITAIN AINT INVASION   Bombing Timetable Indicates Allies May Attack Island Near Jap "Gibral.  far” at Truk.

Aerial Smashes In Pacitic Give Hint of Invasion   Allied Warplanes Shower Explosives in Near-Rec ord Raids.   May Attempt Landings On New Britain Island

Heavy Aerial Bombardment Paving Way   Air Assault Spreads Against Key Jap Bases; Driving for Truk

Invasion of New Britain Indicated   Japs Thrown Back ln Land Attacks

EARLY MOVES AGAINST NEW BRITAIN. SEEN   Aussies Repulse Jap Attacks In Ramu Valley; Airmen Hit Marshalls

240-Ton Raid ‘on Gasmata Softens Foe    Australian Infantrymen Repulse Three Jap Counterattacks in Ramu Valley.

Allies Ready To Spring at New Britain?   Smashing Raids  On Enemy Base Indicate Invasion Mav Re Near

New Britain Is Blasted From the Air   Aussies Repulse Three Jap Counterattacks; 13 Nip Barges Sunk; Jap Changteh Retreat Turned Into Rout

Invasion Of New Britain Appears Near   Key Positions Given New Poundings By Allied Planes

—PACIFIC—   Believe MacArthur Plans Invasion Of New Britain Soon

MAY MAKE TRY _ IN NEW BRITAIN   Crushing Air Smashes Indicate Invasion May Be Near  DESTRIICTION HEAVY

NEW BRITA INVASION MAY BE NEXT MOVE   Allied Airmen Pound Marshalls, Bougainville Area

Invasion Of New Britain Is Seen   Attack On Vital Nippon Base Indicated

INFLUENZA DEATHS SOAR IN ENGLAND   Report 1,148 Dead in Week Incerase of 439 Over Previous Week.

Throw Circle of Steel Around Resisting Nazis     Stalin Exhorts Men To Drive Enemy Out

Russian, Forces vi Forward From Voronezh   Reds Annihilating Force Of Nazis Which Refused To Surrender   STALIN REVEALS RUSSIAN GAINS

STALIN ORDERS ENEMY DRIVEN OVER BORDER   Soviets Advance Toward Ros tov And Kharkav Fighting  Bloody Battles  oi «a. ade Siok bowuceesow:   102 DIVISIONS ROUTED   Red Leader Reveals Troops Have Moved Ahead 250 Miles In Two Months

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GERMAN NAVAL BASE BLASTED AGAIN BYR.AE   Wilhelmshaven and Objectives In Western Part of  ‘Third Reich Tar [  t gets of Attack   NOQ AIRCRAFT LOST   Berlin Says Raiders Caused Some Damage and Casualties in North and South Germany

Bus, 30 Cars Are Looted By Bandits   Holdup Is 50 Miles From Mexico City

Southeast Italy Heavily Blasted    Airdrome Wrecked Islands Pounded

ALLIES BLAST ITALIAN ISLES   Heavy Damage Done As Waves Of Bombers Sweep Over Axis Bases

Liberators Smash lfalian Airdrome   Splinter Buildings, Blow Up Part of Field

Grottaleie In Italy Is Hard Hit   Liberators Raid Other Areas On Italian Mainland.

Yanks Bomb Bic ltalian ‘Airdrome   Other Allied Units Blast Island Bases

Southeast Italy Heavily Blasted   Airdrome Wrecked Islands Pounded  Re WITTTART BR WIND

NEW CAMPAIGN TO SMASH NIPS   Allies Thwart Jap Raid on Darwin—Bombers Get Hot Reception

‘Allied Planes Smash Jap Raid   (On Darwin Area   MacArthur’s Bomb ers Also. Strike at Enemy _ Bases in North in What May be Opening _ of New Offensive Phase.

BREAK UP JAP RAID ON DARWIN      Allied Airmen Fly Through Bad Weather To Hit Four Nip Positions

ALLIED FIGHTERS BREAK UP JAP RAID ON DARWIN   MacArthur’s Bombers Fight Way Through - Heavy Weather to Attack Jap Bases

ALLIES FOIL JAP RAID ON DARWIN ARE!     Increasing Tempo of. Allied. Air Offensive May Presage New Campaign Against Nippon

Allied Fighters Break Up Raid On Darwin   Washington Observ: ers Hint New Campaign Against Japs

Allies Down Japs In 18-Plane  Attack on Darwi  U.S. Subs Sink Six Nip Ships In Pacific Fight

Break Up Jap Planes Trying To Hit Darwir  Nippon Hints New Ai Bases In Operation:

SEE NEW DRIVE AGAINST JAPS   Observers Think New Campaign Opening Up; Jap Raid On Darwin Broken Up; Enemy Pacific Bases Pounded.

Allied Fighters Break Up Enemy Raid On Darwin   Increased Activity Seen As Forerunner Of Early Offensive

JAPS DEFEATED IN DARWIN RAID   Enemy Airdromes Battered In Long Range Raids By Americans

ALLILO FLIt ta DntAR UP HAL UN OAR   Japanese Lose Six Of Planes In Attempted Bombing Of Australian Port

BREAK UP JAP RAID ON DARWIN   ALLIED FIGHTERS SMASH ATTACK AND DOWN TWO ZEROS

Allies Smash Japanese Raid   MacArthur's Bombers ’ Attack Enemy Bases North of Australia

Japanese Raid On Darwin Is  Unsuccessful   Two Zeros Shot Down And Others Probably Destroyed In Fight With Allied Planes.

Rising Tempo of U.S. Attacks in The Aleutians and South. Pacific

Japanese Raid "On Australia   MacARTHUR’S AIRMEN BREAK UP ATTACK ON DARWIN

Forces in Pacific Slap Japanese in Mounting Campaign   Drive May Be Opening of ew Maneuvers to Drive Japs Back

AMERICAN FORCES STORM WITHIN NINE MILES OF BIZERTE   Other U. S. Troops Are_ Converging On Tonia   BRITISH GIVEN A DRAMATIC ORDER

General Manager For OPA Is Named After Maxon Quits Agency, Charging OPA Has No Definite Food Policy

CHESTER BOWLES IS O.P.A. MANAGER   Was Appointed Today by Price Administrator Brown.

Brown Names Chester Bowles OPA Manager   Head Refutes Statement of Maxon; Sees Dismissal of Many Officials

NEW OPA GENERAL MANAGER NAMED   Chester Bowles, OPA Admin. istrator For Connecticut, Is “Promoted”

EXPECT BROWN 10 ANSWER CHARGES AGAINST THE OPA   Lou Maxon Quit Because Office Was Allegedly Mess of Inefficiency.

Chester Bowles of Connecticut” Chosen For Post   Asserts Corn Prices Are To Be Held At Present Levels

Bowles Appointed Gen'l. Manager Of OPA By Administrator Brown   Corn Prices To Be Held At Present Levels

MAXON YIELDS OPA POST, HITS THEORIST’ RULE   Served Only 6 Months: Brown May Reply To Charges

PRICE CHIEF BROWN NAMES OPA MANAGEI   States Agency Policy After High Official Resigns

BROWN, OPA CHIEF, NAMES NEW MANAGER   Gives Chester Bowles Power To Hire and Fire, Predicts Many Heads Will Fall.   REPLIES TO MAXON   Administrator Declares Corn Prices Will Be Held at Pracant  avale.

OPA Assailec By General  Manager   Lou Maxon Hands  In Resignation To Administrator

Corn Price to Stand, Says New OPA Leader  Connecticut Mar Takes Job Left By Maxon

Brown Names Manager For The OPA   Administrator “From Connecticut Gets New Post

OPA MANAGE NAMED; GIVEN FIRING POWER   Brown Picks Chester Bowles of Connecticut OPA to Handle Agency.   REPLIES TO CHARGES OF LOU MAXON, RESIGNED

Brown Names Bowles To Manage OPA   Connecticut Man In Post Maxon Was Slated For

Brown Names Bowles As New OPA Manager   Wide Shakeup Seen; Ne Beef Ceilings Now; Cor Level Remains   “HOG PRICE STUDIED   Maxon Quits, Predicts Agency Failure Unless Theorists Discharged

Connecticut Man Named General  Manager of OPA   Brown .Refutes Maxon. Statements, Says Cattle Industry Will Be Given ‘Chance To Work Out Beef Problem

MANAGER IS APPOINTED FOR 0.P.A.   Brown Names Chester Bowles Te New Position

MAXON QUITS OPA AND TAKES BLASI AT ORGANIZATION   SAYS AGENCY IS HANDICAPPED BY LEFT WING PERSONNE AND BOOK - BOUND CLASSROOM MINDS.   ‘BROWN EXPECTED TO ANSWER CHARGES   OPA to Clamp Down Tighter Control on Fifteen Kinds of Used Consumers’ Durable Goods That Have Been Soaring.

CORN PRICES 10 BE RATIONED AI PRESENT LEVELS   Brown Announces Appoint: ment of Chester Bowle: Manager With Authority to Hire and Fire.   BROWN MET NEWSMEN AFTER MAXON QUITS   Advertising Executive Leaves Washington Aftel Bouncing In With Grea Soanfidence.

OPA Shakeup Looms; General Manager Named   Brown Answers Critical Blast From Resigning Offictal

Brown Makes Change In Staff And Announces Corn Prices Will Be Held At Present Level

OPA Assailed As Deputy Chit Resigns Position:   Attacks Confusion, : ‘Indecision, Red Tape. and- Theories

Brown Names Bowles General Manager Of OPA, Answers Maxon   ‘Brown Says Corn Prices Will Be Held At . Present Levels; Maxon Fires Blast As He Resigns His OPA Position

OPA Chief Makes Reply To Maxon   Connecticut Man i$ Nanied General Manager

General Manager  for OPA Named   Brown Answers 2 of Maxon’s Charges

New Manager Rules OPA: Purge Hinted   Brown Appoints Aide, Denies Two Charges Hurfed by Meaxea

LINER NORMANOIE LEAVES HER PIER   Nine Months Of Salvage Operations On French Ship End Today

Hitler Again Takes Over  Army Command In Russia   Generals Warn Against Major Drive, But Hitler Tries Another Costly Gamble

Fierce Fight in Belgorod Area   Von Kluge Abandons Orel Offensive   Vew Drive Reported To Be Hitler's Idea

Hitler in “Control of Big Gamble  in Russi:   “fuehrer Again Reported to Have Overruled His Military Chiefs   SEEKS TO RESTORE S PRESTIGE, STRENGTH   Drive on Reds, Broadened at His Order, So Far ., Brings Only Losses

Hitler Agair Costs Nazis In Russia   Failing in North, Nazis Try _ Furious Belaorod Attack

Desperate Nazi Attacks Balkec   Russian Line Holding Firm At Belaorod   Hitler In Charge?

Hitler Again Uses Intuition   Passes Up Generals’ Advice For Expensive Gamble

Fuehrer Takes Responsibility For Offensive   Germans Hurling Huge Armored  Force on Ruesijane

Assert Hitler Takes Control Of Kursk Push   Nazi Fuehrer Started Expensive Gamble Against Advice Of Generals.  SSE pena he Herter MIL i mas  a if a a Ai ai cin lt ala a

Hitler Takes Charge Of Army   REPORTS SAY HITLER IN COMMAND AT KURSK

Twin Engined Planes Keep Air Offensive i Rolling ~~  MUELHEIM BOMBED BY NIGHT ASSAULT Thirty-five Bombers Lost  in the Moonlight Reid

Muelheim, Nazi Steel City, Under Terrific Attack   Hundreds of RAF Bombers Also Pound Parts of Invasion Coast

German Steel City Suffers Crushing Blox   Flying Fortresses Aitack on _ Unidentitied Area

Allied Bombers Give Germans Fearful Blasts   Air Raid Schedule Kept Up for 48 Hours Without Break

Bombers hit Ruhr steel city   Flying Forts pound German invasion coast

Steel City in Ruhr ls Smashed   British Lose 35 Heavy Planes Recainst Muelheim

Invasion Coast Areas Battered   Nazi Valley Takes - Fearful: Pounding *

RAF Deals Smashing ~~ Attack On Muelheim   Steel City Showered With Blockbusters / Bombers Pound Invasion Coast; Many Fires Are Started

Ruhr Steel City Invasion Coast Targets of RAF   48 Consecutive Hours of Bombings Against Germany

HUNDREDS OF Bib BOMBERS OMAgt AUHR STEEL CITY   RAF Hurls Heavy Attack on Muelheim; Planes Pound Invasion Coast   AIR OFFENSIVE ROLLS AT A GROWING PACE   RAF Block- buster Raiders Smash and Burn Targets Respite Desperate Resistance; 35 British Heavyweights Fail to Return

Allied Aerial Offensive Rolls On at Terrific Pace; British Lose 35 Big Planes in Day’s Assault

Twin-Engined Bombers Pound Invasior Coast; Fying Fortresses Seen Returning After Expedition

Invasion Coast Is . Pounded In Attack   Allied Aerial Offensive Rolling At Mighty Pace: Block-Buster Raiderc Are Kent Bucy

HUNDREDS OF GIANT RAF BOMBERS POUND INVASION COAST TO KEEP ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE’S PACE.

Keeping Up Mighty Offensive   Twin-Engined Bombers Pound Invasion Coast; Fying Fortresses Seen Returning After Expedition

HUGE AERIAL FORCE POUNDS AT MUELHEIM   FLYING FORTRESSES ALSO ROAR OVER CHANNEL

Invasion Coast Areas Battered   Nazi Valley Takes  _ Fearful Pounding Ry FIAMER MW YoNnwe

Air Offensive Goes Unbroker For 48 Hours   British Smash, Burn Targets at Muelheim Despite Resistance  Costing 35 Bombers

Turn in Waste Fats!   Allied Bombers Rake Mulheim In All-Out Raid   Hundreds of Giant RAF Planes, Fortresses Spread Ruin; Sweep Towns on Invasion Route

RAF Blasts  Steel City  Of Muelheim In Ruhr Area   Hundreds of Bombers Keep Air Offensive Against Nazi Cities . Rolling at Great Pace  Tem 0 we wlll ee le eti‘( a; ii!   35 PLANES LOST IN LATEST ATTACK

SHORTAGE OF COAL AFFECTS STEEL PLANTS   Many Blast Furnaces Are Being Closed Down

Blast Furnaces  Forced To Close   Railroads Report Coal Supplies Are Dangerously Low.

Strikes Cut Steel Output   Blast Furnaces Being Closed Today; Railroad Coal Supplies Low

Steel Furnaces Being Closed  Railroad Officials Term Coal Supplies

Son-In-Law Of Il Duce  ~ Goes Into Retirement   Count Ciano Quits As Peace Offensive Nears Final Stag tines; Marshal Badoglio Drafts. Four-Point' ~~ Program! To) Take ‘Ttalian -Nation Gut Of. War

at CIAND AS VATICAN AMBASSADOR   Italian Peace Offensive Is Now Believed Nearing Showdown Stage—German Forces Disarm Italians In Larissa   DISORDERS SPREAD IN ITALIAN CYTYE

Will Resig Reject It _       EXPECTS IT TO BE TURNED DOV IALIATN PEOPLE DEMANDING. PEACE AT ANY COST;  CIANO 1S OUSTED

COUNT CIANO IN RETIREMENT, NEW PEACE INDICATION   Marshal Badoglio Drafts 4Point Program For ftaly to Be Neutral, May Quit If Reiected.   THREE SMALL ISLANDS QUIT UNCONDITIONALLY   1500 Tons of Bombs Drop ped on Ruhr For Addition al Damage; Total of Wee 15,400 Tons.

Italy Drafts Four-Point Peace Pact   Badoglio Will Resign If Negotiations Fail; Neutral Status Asked

Ciano, Mussolini’s Son-in-Law, Quits; New Leader Will Resign If Allies Turn Down Plan   Strikes and Peace Demonstrations Continue to Rage in Big City Area: Nazis Take Over in Greece.

Pincers Tightened On Japanese In  Solomons Area  — Allied Air Might Deals Nips

YANK TROOPS MILE FROM KOLOMBAGARA   Seize Another Island To Neutralize Jap Base

ARGENTINE-AXIS BREAK HINTED   Ramirez Statement Seen A: Leaning Toward Allies

Nine Nations To Attend Conference      President Expected To Address Opening Session

APRIL 27 DATE OF FOOD PARLEY   Roosevelt Expected to Speak at Conference to Be Held at Hot Springs

FOOTBALL LEGS SAVED HARMON   Good Physical Condition And Courage Given Credit

HARMON “LUCKIEST GUY,” TELLS OF SURVIVING CRASH   Story of Escape from Jun- gle One of Physical Endurance.   GRAPHIC ACCOUNT READS LIKE NOVEL

lieut. Harmon Tells Story Of Seven-Day Fight Through Swamps Of South America

OPA Price Regulations Killing Business, Claim      House Small Business Committee “Told That Unless  Changes Are Made Thousands of Retail Grocers   Will Be Forced Out of Business;   One-Head Control Favored

TACAyY ORS PR UVATTAN   Insist on Change  On OPA Rulings   Retail Grocers Say Small Businesses to Be Forced Out,

Retail Grocers Ask OPA Change  Aver Many Fac ed: With! (Cl osina

Retail Grocers Express Alarm At Rules of OPA   Many Concerns May Be Forced Out of Business

SCHRAMM HEADS SUI JOURNALISM   Appointment Confirmed _.by Board of Education

Foreign Minister of China Will Join. Roosevelt and Churchill in Confab On Allied Assault on Jap War Lords

SOONGTO JOIN  ON WAP ICCTIEC   Chinese Foreign - Minister Expected Within 48 Hours To Confer With  War Leaders   ro DISCUSS CHINA ROLE AGAINST JAPS   War Shipping Situation Canvassed by Roosevelt and Churchill at   -—Lancheon

SOONG TO JOIN ~ QUEBEC PARLEYS   CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER TO DISCUSS HIS COUNTRY’S ROLE IN WAR.

Chinese Foreign Minister Expected For Quebec Talk  TLV. Soong, Churchil __FDR’ Will Discuss.  fhLiinnm Dale Ve In-nan

China Participation Comes As Americans, Canadians Take Kiska Unopposed

Soong ¢ To Attend Quebec Sessions  War Secretary Stimson Also To Participate

Soong Joming  Quebee Talks   Chinese Foreign Minister Expected Within Next Forty-Eight Hours.

CHINA TO JOIN QUEBEC TALKS   Foreign Minister Soong Will Help Map War Against Japan

New Blows at Japs Mapped at Quebec War Conference   Chinese Foreign Minister, Stimson To Join Parleys

SOONG PLANS 10 ATTEND TALKS   Chinese Forcign Minister and Stimson to Participate In Quebec Meet

Stimson, China Foreign Minister Soong Are Due  At Quebec War Parley

China Speeds Leader to Quebec Parley   Foreign Minister T. V. Soong Plan: To Share in War Decisions; Leaders Hail Japs’ Kiska Defeat

Fall of Kiska Points fo New Blows af Japs   President Roosevelt Hails Victory Which Frees U. S. Soil From  lennnace 1 nuadoa re

War Talks Focus On Pacific Front   Chinese Foreign Chief To Join Quebec Session   War Observers Find Japs’ Kiska Withdrawal Puzzling

*Soong Expected To Join Quebec  War Conference   yp Bloodless Kiska Coup May Cut Design For Victory as Leaders Continue Talks Shaping Allied Invasion Move

Chinese Foreign Minister to Join Group at Quebec   Allied Chieftains Hail Bloodless Occupation of Kiska

Nipponese Make First Withdrawal Since The Start Of Pacific War   Tremendous Air Assaults Believed To Have Made Position Of Defenders Untenable   STRATEGY FOR FINAL DEFEAT  OF GERMANY BELIEVED LAID OUT

Bandit Robs Bank In Dallas of $800  Nitroglycerin Used To Threaten Tellers

Allies Make NewBombing Assault On Rabaul Destroying 60 Planes; But Admit Jap Ground Successes

Allied Forces Suffer Reverses In Ground Attack   Jap Plane Losses to 200 in Week; Ships Are Destroyed

Three Enemy Ships, Including Destroyer, Blasted to   Bottom in Low Level Attack.     A MIDMN+TraTrre WwWwonncrrm   A GROUND REVERSE SUFFERED BY ALLIES   Success of Unspecified Extent Scored by Foe in New Guinea Jungle Fichtine.

ALLIED BOMBERS OINK THREE SnIPa   Attack on Rabaul Linked With Other Air Blows   JAPANESE SCORE   Ground Success Northwest Of Finschhafen; First Setback in Many Weeks

60 MORE JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN NEW AIR ASSAULT ON RABAUL   Allies Suffer First Ground Reverse in Many Weeks in New Guinea Jungle Front

Three Enemy Ships, Including Destroyer, Also Sunk   GROUND REVERSE BY ALLIES IS DISCLOSEN      Some Progress by Jaga: nese Made Around 7 Sattothara

Allied Planes Destroy 60 Aircraft At Rabaul And Sink Three Vessels

Victory Offset By Setback To Ground Forces   Rabaul Scene Of Latest Smash By Big Air Armada

GROUND REVERSE BY ALLIES IS DISCLOSED   Some Progress by Japanese Made Around Sattelbera

60 MORE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN IN RABAUL RAID   Allies Suffer First Ground Reverse In Months At Sattelhere   \JAPANESE INVADERS HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT

Germans Score Tunisian Gain   Advance Three Mile: In Thrust at Beja

tnemy Beaten Back in Five Local Alfacks   Nazis Manage Gain in Sixth; Allied  Air Arms: Active

AXIS ADVANCE IN TUNISIA IS COSTLY MOVE   ROMMEL RETREAT SPEEDED UP BY ALLIED AIRMEN

Three Mile Gain Made by Axis in Sixth Assault :  CASUALTIES HEAVY, COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Allies Continue Advance in Central Tuni‘sia <

African Push   Half-Dozen Local Assaults Costl To Axis; Allied Forces Advance Unopposed to South

FOE ADVANCES IN ONE AREA IN NORTH TUNISIA   Axis Push Nets Three. Mile Gain; Other Assaults Fail

Nazis Gain In North Tunisia   Allies Continue To Push Rommel Back in South

Nazis Advance ‘At Heavy Cost      3<Mile Gain. Made “iy Sixth: Assault.

Germans Advance Three Miles in Tunisia Battle   Suffer Heavy Casualties ir Six Attacks in North Africa   Allied Forces Continue Their Drive in Southern Sector

NAZIS BEATEN BACK IN 3 NO. AFRICA DRIVES   But In Sixth Thrust They Make Three Mile . Gain At Cost Of Heavy Casual tae   French Repel Foe

Germans Gain Three Miles in Drive on Beja   Allies Swing Bevond Retaken Kasserine: British Eighth Army  Probes Enemy Line

THREE-MILE GAIN MADE BY GERMANS IN NORTH TUNISIA   Nazis Push Beyond Sidi Nsir at Cost of Heavy Casualties —Five Previous Thrusts Had Failed.   ROMMEL’S FORCES STILL BEING PURSUEL   Allies Meeting No Opposition Beyond Kasserine Pass— Axis Supply Port in Sandinia Bombed.

Germans Gain 3 Miles in Sixth Tunisian Attack   Thrust Successful After Five Local Assaults Were Beaten Back; Allies Continue Unopposed Advances In South

Germans Make Gains Only in Sixth Assault In Northern Tunisia  ADVANCE 3 MILES, BUT PAY HEAVILY  Alhes Push Westward ‘From Kasserine Pass In Pursuit of Rommel

3-MILE ADVANGE MADE BY AXIS AT SIDI NSIR   Short Tunisian Gain Accomplished In Face Of Heavy Casualties   EXCELLENT SUPPORT BY ALLIED AIR ARM

Nazis Gaining In Sixth  African Push   Half-Dozen Local Assaults Costly To Axis; Allied Forces Advance Unopposed to South

Fighth Army Opens Up With lts Artillery   Axis Attack Repulsed; No Indication Seen Of Opening Of Big  ein. DA Eel

First Army Drives Close To Key Point Of Tebourba   Gains Highest Ground In Northern Tunisia, Loses It And Then Takes It Again

British Only 15 Miles From Key Junction   German Counter Thrust Fails Te Gain Ground .

BRITISH REPEL GERMAN ATTACK AT OUSSELTIA   FRENCH CAPTURE 53 ITALIAN PRISONERS NEAR PONT DU FAHS

THINK BRITISH PUSH IN SOUTH WELL STARTED   Capture of Gafsa Is Accomplished With Little Trouble

REPULSE NAZI THRUST   Eighth Army In Artillery Duel -Against Rearruard

ITALY LOST TWO DESTROYERS LAST NIGHT IN BATTLE   Were Sunk Off Sicily by Two British Destroyers, It Was Announced.   INFANTRY MOVES UP   The First Army Infantrymen Drove to Within 15 Miles of Tebourba.

Drive. to Within 15 Miles Of the Key Road Junction Of Tebourba in Hard Fight

British Troops Hurl Back Strong Attack By Germans  Allied Air Force Carries Out Raids, With   Allied Air Force Carries Out Raids, With Italians Reporting Raid On Italian Coast

Hurl Back Strong Ge 5 Attack Attempting T Seize Slopes East of © Ousseltia   GUN DUELS WAGED   Eighth Army Shells Rommel’s Forces With Artil lery in Sector Below Mareth Line

Nazi Attack In Tunisia  Repulsed   Rommel Rearguard Is Engaged In Artillery Duels

FRENCH PATROL TAKES PRISONERS   bth Army Engages Armored Cars; Artillery in Action “ Along Coast

ALLIED LINE IS WITHIN 30 MILES OF TUNIS   Key Road Junction Approached In Some Of Fiercest Fighting In Tunisia   VITAL PEAK RECAPTURED   Axis Airfields Hit Altho Bad Weather Restricts Plane Operations

Allies Continue Air Assault Upon Axis Airfield in Tunisiz   Montgomery Massing Troops for Final Drive, Germans Capture Hill, Then Lose it with Additional Territory

Ist Army Gains High Ground   Montgomery Masses Strength for New Attacks.

Nazi Thrust In Tunisia Beaten Back  Stage Attack From Heights East of

First Army Troops Drive Closer to Key Junction: Enemy Air Fields Bombed

Gafsa Is Seized As U. S. Tanks Roar After Germans  Act. Doce ee Dennen dy Di, Detsttok Binbsk A wes   Axis Forces Pressed By British Eighth Army. Face Entrapment In Southeast Sector

BOTH AIR AND GROUND ACTION ARE REPORTED   Weather Continues Unfavorable But Condition Of Dirt Roads Improving.

First British Army Drives fo Near Tebourbe   Infantrymen Reach Key Junction After Some af Severest Fighting of Campaigt

EIGHTH ARMY MASSES FOR FINAL DRIVE   Fighting for Tebourba, Key Road Junction 18 Miles From Tunis, Is Among Fiercest of Tunisian Campaign.

British “First Army ‘Gains ' Highest Ground in the North   AIR SWEEPS CONTINUE   Montgomery Pauses in South While Heavy Guns Are Placed

STRONG GERMAN ATTACK BEATEN BACK IN AFRICA   Entrenched British Throw Enemy Back From Position 75 Miles South of Tunis

British Guns Hit Rommel Rear Guards   Hurl Back German Al lacks on Enirenchments at Ousseltia   ACTIVITY GROWING   Americans and R.A.F. Over Desert Bomb and Strate Nazis

British Hurl Back Germans   British 8th Army and Rommel Exchange Artillery Fire

STRONG GERMAN ASSAULT BEATEN BACK IN TUNISIA   Prisoners Taken By Allied Units In North Africa

Eighth Army Duels With Rearguard Of Rommel, Captures Axis Prisoners

Allies Tighten TunisArc,Bomb Axis Airdromes   8th Army Continues to Patrol Front Before Enfidaville as French   Hold Against Savage Blows;   450 Enemy Planes Lost.

Entrenched British Soldiers Beat Back Strong Nazi Attack From Ousseltia Range Heights

British Throw Back Strong German Attack   Eighth Army Dueling Artillery Blows With Rommel’s Rearguard  .. VPiAWTEE Prise wc

First Army Within 25-30 Miles of Port As Eighth Prepares For Next Offensive

NAZI AFRICAN ATTACK IS HURLED BACK   German Troops Strafed In Entrenched Position In Tunisia’s Waistline

PUSHES AHEAD TO TEBOURBA   Planes Continue Assaults On Tunisia Airfields   COUNTERDRIVES   Of Germans Are Repulsed; Eighth Army Limited To Patrol Activity

Nazis Strong In Counter Movements   Bad Weather Slow: Aerial Pounding Of Axis Points

British Beat Back Strong Nazi Attack  In Tunisia   Algiers Radio Says Rommel’s Forces, Screened By Tanks, Forced Ta Evacuate

ONTGOMERY’S MEN GATHERED FOR NEW DRIVE   Air Operations Curtailed By Bad Weather; Big Push Of Allies Takes Shape

Germans Hurled  Back In Africa   Eighth Army Guns Hit  Rommel s Rear

ALLIES SEIZE HIGHEST POINT NORTH TUNISIA   Sector Lies Only 18 Miles Airline From Capital; Position Overlooks Plains to City   EIGHTH ARMY MASSES POWER FOR CONFLICT   Meanwhile, Allied Bombers and Fighters Continue Assaults On Axis Air Fields In Tunisia

‘Repulse Strong German Attack At Ousseltia   Many Prisoners Taken By Patrols Operating In Tunisian — Sicily Raided By Bombers

NAZIS FAIL IN TUNISIAN STAB   British Hurl Back Attack On Main Positions; Air Activitv Grows

Beat Back Nazis In Tunis Attack   British Lines Hold Against Assault East of  Ousseltia   ACTIVITY. NEAR GAFSA   Despite Bad ’ Weather, _ Action Is Being Stepped Up

Heavy Nazi Attack Is Hurled Back By British As Artillery Attacks Rommel Rearquard

1st Army Pushes Toward Tebourbz In Fierce Battle   Fighting Is Bitterest Of Campaign; © Eighth Army Masses Strength For Blow   Reds Throw Mounting Aerial Forces Into Raids On Nazis   Destroy 13 Planes: In Bombing Enemy Airfield; Make New Gains In Caucasus

WEATHER IS HAMPERING AIR ACTION   Montgomery Massing Troops In South For New Push

AXIS AIR FIELDS POUNDED FROM AIR   1st Army Drives to Within 15 Miles of Key Road Junc*ion of Tahourha

British Beat Back Strong Nazi Attack   Two-Night Fight Staged Near Ousseltia, 75 Miles South of Tunis—Algiers Radio Reports Rommel Reserves in Southern Tunisia.

GERMANS REPORTED BEATEN BAGK AFTER ATTACKING HEAVILY   “AIR ACTIVITY CONTINUES IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA DESPITE MAD WEATHER

Drive in Mountains Carries Allied Line Nearer Capital City   Forces Now 25-30 Miles From Tunis: Ist Army Nears Tebourba. Junction: Fichting Is Fiercest of Campaign

British Repulse German Drive At Ousseltia   Allies Report More Activity in Africa Due to Dryer Roads

Eighth Masses For Frontal Assault   Allied Bombers Con tinue Attacks On Enemy Airfields

‘Infantrymen, Thtowa Back From , Djebel Ang, Recapture Peak and Greued Bevand   FRENCH HOLD GAIN   Montgomery Reported Bringing Up Artillery to Line Streiching Wesi of Entfidsville   BULLETIN

'OF TEBOURBA   First Army Holds Highest Ground In Northern Tunisia

Local Attacks Carry Troops Closer To Tunis   Ground Forces Now Gathering For Showdown

Fiercest Fighting. Of Campaign in Tunisia Underway   Allied Bombers. Still Blasting Axis Airfielde

Strong Teuton Thrust Fails In Tunisia   Allies Beat Back Jak From Hights On Range East Of Ousseltia   ITALIANS CAPTURED   Bad Weather Continues To Slow Up Air Action In Africa Theater

BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCE NEARER VITAL JUNCTION   Allied Aircraft Continue Raids  On Air Fields

BRITISH CLING TO GAINS ON TUNISIA FRONT   ACTIVITY INCREASES AS ROADS DRY UP IN AFRICA

Powerful Force Sweeps [o Within 100 Miles Of Eighth Army On South.

WHOLE TUNISIAN FRONT [5 ASTIR; NAZI DRIVE FAILS   Allied Patrols Capture Many Prisoners—British Repulse Germans East of Ousseltia,   TANKS NOW ABLE TO USE DIRT ROADS   Eighth Army’s Artillery Duels With Rommel—Italians Report Raids on Towns in Sicily.

British Hurl Back Germans  In Tunisia  8th Army Duels With Artillery Datrols at

FIRST ARNY'S TUNIS SMASH GAINS GROUND   American, British Planes in Wide Area Hit - Axis _ Damaging ‘Blows.   FIGHTING I$. FIE FIERCEST AROUND KEY: JUNCTION

AR ADOAULTS “ARE CONTINUED   Germans Win Hills in Sav= age Attacks, But Are Oriven Back.   EIGHTH ARMY MASSING

ENGLon BEAT  BAGK GERMANS   Patrols Engage Enemy Armored Cars’ in Central Tunisian Sector.   CAPTURE 53 ITALIANS

British Troops Repulse Nazi Attack East of ~~ Ousseltia, South of Tunis

Strong Nazi Attack From Tunisian Hills  Repulsed by Allies   Fight Raged Through the Night of Feb. 11-12, Communique Says

WAS A HOT, DRY MONTH   Flora Reports Past Summer Was Also Near Record Heat

Robert Nash, Confessed Ax Slayer of Parents, ‘Convicted Of Murder

NAZ! CAMPAIGN CARRIES THREAT   Ai ims to Sta Stamp Out Defeatism  _-

Nazi Belief in — Victory Ended   Reds Commemorcte War Anniversary

NOW FAVORABLE TIME TO ATTACK MOSCOW STATES   Soviets Emphasize Their  Ties With U. S. And Britain  7 ae   AXIS CASUALTIES PUT AT 6,406,000

Soviets Urge Fast Work To Beat Foe   Russians Ask Allies For New Front To Speed Victory

Russia Calls for )pening uf Second Front This Year   Official Statement on Second Anniver: ary of In vasion Says Common Cause Needs Action

RUSSIANS URGE OPENING OF 2ND FRONT THIS YEAR   Declare Germany Is “In State of Crisis” and Everything Depends on Swift Allied Blow.   RED WIN AT MOSCOW HELD DECISIVE EVENT   Put Nazi Losses in Two Years of War at 6,400,000 Dead and Missing and Own  - at 4,300,000.

Soviets, On Anniversary, Call For A Second Front   Russians Declare All Will- Depend or on  How the Allies * Will Use Favorable Situation—Morale of Red Army Grows Stronger

Anniversary Finds. Soviet Confident; — Nazis Said Weaker   Say Germans Have Stopped Believing In . Victory; Second Front Appeal Renewed  Be YTRMEO BF WIN

Reds Urge Invasion’  This Year  Allies Asked Not To Be Too Late   Allies Asked Not To Be Too Late Opening Drive

Russia Says Time Is Ripe For New Front   Postponement Will Mean Common Cause Will Suffer, Broadcast Says; Defeats Bring Military Crisis

Russians Call On Allies Again For 2nd Front   Say To Be Late Now . Means ‘Common Cause’ Wilk Seriously Suffer

Anniversary Finds  Soviet Confident; Nazis Said. Weaker   ‘say Germans Have Stopped Believing In - Victory; Second Front Appeal Renewed  We TARR? DB wrasse

Russia Appeals fo Allies to. Open Second Front in Europe This Year   To Be Late Means: Common Cause Will Suffer’ Soviets Declare on Second Anniversary of Nazi Attack; Cites Weakness of Germany

Russians Request Opening of Secone Front This Year   Anniversary Finds Nazi. Red Armies in Virtual Stalemate

SECOND FRONT ASKED BEFORE TS 100 LATE   NAZIS PICTURED AS BEING IN STATE OF CRISIS

‘New Mexico Cattlemen Charge OPA ‘Mishandled Entire Meat Situation

Cattle Men Want OPA Rule Ended  Charge Meat Program Hampered by Agency

Plan Canning Demonstrations  List Of Places And  Dates Scheduled

Short Conference Indicates Everything Ready— By Rirke L. simpson    Second Froni To Tie In With Red Offensive

DAMAGING EVIDENCE   Prosecution Resi» De Marigney Case After >ensational Testimony

GERMANS DRAFT NORWAY YOUTHS   Boys Forced To Serve In Army, Violation Of The International Law

Nazis Are Forcing Norwegian Youths To Join Work Corps In German Plants

Norwegian Youths Reported Forced To Enter German Miliary Service

United Nations Food Conference Plans Hit Snac   Post-War Session at Ho’ Springs Runs Afoul of Liquor Laws

Virginia Has Washington — Worried by Plans to Save Diplomats From Demon Rum

Delegates Must Hew To Line   Virginia Refuses To Break Liquor Laws

Snyder’ s Plan Is Opposed By WMC Officials   Most Of Men Over 37 Are Not Fit For Army Service

ARMY REJECTS IDEA FOR BUMS TO BE DRAFTEL   Doesn’t Want Misfits: Training Plan Bars Home Front Army

HANDS RAISED IN HORROR AS ARMY ‘OF "WIFE-BEATERS AND BUMS’ URGED

ROME 80 MILES AWAY AS YANKS — MAKE NEW GAIN   Flanking Operations Peril Nazi Defense Lines on Rivers

CITY CLOSE T0 ENEMY LINES CAPTURED   Montesarchio Falls; front Moves Toward Capital's Defenses

COAL STRIKE VIRTUALLY ENDED   ‘Less Than 9,000 of Nation’s 521,000 Miners Idle Today

MINE STRIKE _ ENDED, ONLY 9000 NOW IDLE   UMW Leaders Predict All Will be At Work by Tomorrow—Steel Furnaces Retired

Mine Strike Ends Today Everywhere Over Nation   Half Million Men Have Returned To Work

SPRING WEATHER IN   Slightly Warmer In Forecast for Kaastern Kansas

Announce Winners In Poultry Judging   Lowell Shelgren, Gilmore City, Took Highest Honors

‘Thousands Of Gallons 0: Gas Burned In Big Fire   Milford, Del., Explosior And Blaze Also Wrecks Property, Jars Homes, Injures Two Persons

U-S. Not To Hold Latin - American  Bases. “After “War   German Nazi “Statements . Regarding Situation: Are Declared Untruthful:

SAYS US. WONT SEIZE BASES   Welles Denies German Radio Propaganda, ‘Broadcasts Called Lies.

Schools in Two Cities Closed To Heat Homes   Camp Gruber Soldiers Shiver in Barracks  As Hospital, Mess Halls And Kitchens Get Gas

Schools, Shops Close af Tulsa And Muskogee   Panhandle Has Coldest Reading, 16 Below

16 Below at Guymon   a *7 vr a § vem eee areeees y ss  tions of Tulsa—Schools ke = Foreed ‘ to. Close é

FLYING FORTS QVER PHILA. IN AIR RAID TES]   Simulated Attack I: Made on Southeastern Pa.

FORTRESSES OVER PHILLIE   Simulated “Attack” Is ‘Most Dramatic; Token. - for War Plants

Flying Fortresses Used In Most Realistic Penna.  Air Raid Alert of War

U. §. INDUCTEES ENIOY. HOLIDAYS   Furtoughs Extended-for- Ones Home on Furlough, cialg Say

Widespread Raids By Allied Planes   Many Assaults Aré Made By Planes From Mediterranean Bases

Reds Insist No Important Nazi Gains   Battlefront Continues to Be Scene of Undiminished Fury, Devoid. of Real Decisions

Fierce Fight Continues At Belgorod   Prevent Nazis From Enlarging Wedge Made, Soviets Say

Furious Battle Is Raging Along Eastern Front   Soviets Prevent Germans From Widening Deep Wedae

RUSSIANS HOLD NAZIS DESPITE HEAVY ATTACKS   Germans, Unable io Widen Belgotod Wedge, Launch New Major Attack in Kursk Area   REPELLED BY REDS   Offensive Continues to Cost Invaders Heavily, Reds CounterAttack Successfully

Kursk Sector Also Blazes,  Indicating Possible  ’ Shifting of Nazi Weight  ‘ In Search of Easier Spot  In Unyielding — Red  Lines... Nazig Claim Red 1 nsses. ~

Russians Insist Nazi Tank Advance In Belgorod Area Staunchly Blocked

Russians Hold German Tanks, Moscow Claims   Red Army Also Stops Smashing German Blows in Orel-Kursk Area. It Is Said

Russians Holding Firmly    Nazis Unable to Widen Breach in Line At Belgorod Where Violent  Fe ehting Continues

NAZIS TRY TO CUT RED LINE _ AT NEW PLACE   Tanks Smash on Orel End of Kursk Salient but Fail to Gain.   RUSS STILL HOLDING AT BELGOROD BREACH

SOVIET TROOPS ABSORB HEAVY NAZI ASSAULTS   Kursk Sector Blazes as Invaders Attempt to Pp’ -~-- Russian Lines

Halt Germans ~ From Widening Belgorod Wedge   Russians Absorb Best of Fresh Smashes at End of  Kursk Line.   Sector Blazes With  More Furious Action

Germans Make Little Headway In Soviet  Nazis Lose 2,500 Tanks, 1,068 Planes, Make But Slight Gains In Russia

Reds Assert Nazi Wedge No Larger   More Furious Action on Orel-Belgorod Front With Each Hour

Reds Repel New Thrusts At Belgorod   Soviets Absorb Other Blows From Hitler's Armor On Kursk Salient   ATTACK SHIFT IS SEEN   Nazis Claim Destruction Of Large Russian Force Near Orel

Soviet Claims German Attael  Comes To Halt   Russian Artillery Knocking Out Enemy Tanks As Fast As They Come On.   BATTLE AREA SHIFTS

Battle Of Breach Fiercely Fought; Claim Nazis Hele   tte ‘Absorbing Best- That Nazis. Can. Give © In Belgorod Line Sector

NAZIS UNABLE TQ. olan ALL FORGES WN EAGT   Battle Of Belgorod Breach Is Raging Undiminished But Russians Holding

Fierce Battle Stull Rages At Belgorod   Russians Say Lines Standing Firm; New Action Near Kursk

Little Gain First Week Nazi Offense   After Suffering Tremendous Losses Germans Are Practically on Line Where Attack Started Week Ago

Germans Press Furious Battle For Belgorod   Reds Prevent . Enlargement of Wedae in Sector

Russians Break Up Nazi Smashe:   Fighting Is Furious At Belgorod Breach

SOVIETS HOLD LINES IN AREA OF BELGOROD      * Say They Have Blocked Further Widening of Breach Made by Axis— Action Blazes in the Kursk Sector.

RUSSIANS REPEL GERMANS; 2000 TANKS CAPTURED   Germans Drive 20 Mile Wedge Into Belgorod Area

~ BERMANS IN CHERK   Preventing Nz Nazi Tanks From Enlarging Wedge    REDS ABSORB BEST GERMANS CAN GIVE

Russians Balk German Foe In Belgorod Area   Nazis Fail To Enlarge Breach; Furious Action In Kursk Sector.

Belgorod Breach Battle Still On  Nazis Fail To oe ee. sen See YS ee Hea

Nazis Strike Hard, But Are Held By Red:   Belgorod Fight Rages With Fresh Pressure Put On = Orel-Kursk End Of Salient

Nazi Attacks On Red Lines Undiminished   Russians Insist They Are Absorbing Best Nazis Give

Kursk Sector Blazes Into Furious Fight         ij Nazis Believed Seeking’ . oR  Spot te Breach   Russian Lines       SOVIET LINES HOLD   Belgorod Battle Continues With Undimished Fury

Russ Say Gap In Line Blockec   Germens Add te Fury of Atteck in Kursk Salient but in Vein, Red Communique Seys; NMezis Declare Thousands of Russions Seized

Russians Hold German Wedae  Claim Nazi Break   Claim Nazi Break Not Enlarged

NAZIS AND REDS STILL FIGHTING   Russians Prevent Germans From Enlarging Wedge Near Belgorod.

RUSSIANS CLAIM GERMANS FAIL T0 ENLARGE WEDGE   RED LINES HOLD AS BATTLE OF BELGOROD MOUNTS IN FURY

BATTLE OF THE ~ BELGOROD BREACH CONTINUED TODAY   Russians Insisted They Have Effectively Prevented Germans Enlarging Wedge.   ARMORED COLUMN BUSY   Field Marshal Kluge’s Troops Were Also Smashing With Fresh Emphasis.

REDS HOLD HUN HORDES ALONG LINE   Huge Losses on Both Sides Reported in Communiques of Both Commanders in Field  ——

Fugitive Dies In Gun Battle With Officers   Ex-Convict Wanted For the Slaying of Detective, Is Shot Down   HAND - TO - HAND FIGHT

Fugitive Slain In Gun Battle   Sought Throughout East Since Fatal Shooting Of Detective.

Pope Intends to Constitute Self Prisoner   May Re-establish — Conditions Like Those Before Lateran Treaty

Tank Cars Burn In B. & M. Wreck At Portsmouth   Crew Members Injured, Engine, Coach Damaged

FROST FOR THIS AREA   Little Damage Is Expected From the Lower Temperatures

FROST FOR THIS AREA   Little Damage Is Ex Is Expected From ’ the Lower Temperatures

Smuts Calls for  League   SOUTH AFRICA CHIEF URGES ALLIED GROUP FOR PEACE, SECURITY

SMUTS WANTS A TIGHT COVENANT   General Urges Even Stricter Clause Against Aggressors Than Adopted By League Of Nations.

Asks tighter pact against war powers   Smuts would let the neutrals join

Smuts Proposes United Nations As Framework  South African Leader Says Neutrals Might Join With Defeated  se Fo... Pral mise.

GENERAL SMUTS HAS POST-WAR PROGRAM TO GUARANTEE PEACE TIGHT COVENANT AGAINS}   AGGRESSORS SUGGESTED  =o pw ening ARRICAN

Smuf Urges Tighter Covenant On Aggressors   ‘Proposes Big Four Basis ‘for Postwar World Police Job:

Smuts Wants Strong Peace Pact   Believes Big Four Should Lead Off

TIGHT COVENANT URGED BY SMUTS   Says “Big Four’ Must Lead. In Post-War Era

Tight Covenant For Aggressors Urged By Smuts   South African Premier Urges Tighter Covenant Than League of Nations With “Big Four” As Leaders.

Local Youth Is Missing In South Pacific   Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Scalise Received Sad News From War Dept.   FAMILY LIVING IN ERIE

Dixon Soldier, Awarded Air Medal For Achievements, Reported Missing

GUARDS AGAINST STRIKE REPRISAL   Cleveland Smelter Planl Closed as Workers Defy WPB

Americans Hit Seven U-Boats   _ Bomb Construction Slips at Vegesack, R A EF Amnnineoece

7 Subs Damaged In Vegesack Raid   Heaviest Blow. of  War Against U-Boat Je Catd Ceennk

Heaviest Single Blow of War Struck by U. S. Heavy Bombers Mar. 18

Tamwnana lt Dat Y Upvodum Meceta  Damaged 7 Nazi U-Boats  Ships Caught Under Construction In BRarant TT © At¢tark

] U-Boats Wrecked by Forts’ Raid   U.S. Planes Make = Raids on Kiska

U.S. Bombers Lef Devastation In  U-Boats Nest   Seven Of 15 German Subs In Vegesack Slips Badly Damaged.

Reveal 7 Subs Damaged In Raid  Some Nearly: Ready To Be Launched

NAZI U-BOAT BASE DAMAGE EXTENSIVE   Seven of 15 Subs Under Construction Smashed

Biggest Single Air Victory of Campaign   Thirty Axis Planes Damaged In Attack

Greatest Aerial Victory Of War Disclosed Today   Terrific Air attle Takes Place Over Sicilian Straits Yesterday   LARGE NUMBER OF TRANSPORTS RUINED

HEAVY RAID ON ITALIAN NAVAL BASE   Western desert force accredited with sweeping aerial triumph

WEEK-END TOLL IN NORTH AFRICA MOUNTS TO 104   Desert Force Credited With Great Victory Over Sicilian Straits

$104,921 ADDED IN BONDS DRIVE   County Subscribers Now 6,352, With Total Sales $2,324,837

445 NEW NAMES AS BOND BUYERS   County Total $2,039,952 With Percentage Now Standing at 153

WAR BOND DRIVE IN COUNTY NOW OVER 2 MILLION   4,393 Subscribers Recorded With Only Two Days Remaining

BOND TOTAL NOW 1S9PCT. OF GOAL   3,247 Subscribers Recorded With County Spurred to Keep Lead

Ud. WARGHIPD BUMBARD JAP BADE AT ATTU   Gilbert Island Stronghold Of Enemy Also Pounded By Aerial Attackers

Attu Island Is Blasted By  Naval Force   Several Fires Are Started At Base In Aleutians By Gunfire From U. S. “Warships

NAVAL FORCE SHELLS ATTU ISLAND BASE   Army Bombers Raid Tarawa In the Gilbert Islands

Naval Task Force Hits Attu Island   Destructive Air Attack Also Made On Tarawa Island

Fliers Blast Axis Shipping In Harbor   Land Forces Within Fifty Miles of Key City

YANKS SEWE GAGLIAND IN CHASING FOES   Airmen Begin Blasting of Ferry Port at Messina to Halt Escapes.”   CANADIANS CLOSE IN ON ADRANO’S CENTERS

DRIVE FOR LAS) BRIDGEHEAD Of AXIS IN SICILY   American 7th Army Occupies Junction Town of Gagliano

PLEASURE BAN ON MOTORISTS OFF SHORTLY   “A” Card Rations In East to Be Increased to 3 Gallons a Week.

Gasoline Cut Expected Soon   Midweat -Matorists  To Receive Less

EQUALIZATION OF GAS RATIONING IS ~~ EXPECTED SOON   End of Ban on Pleasure Driv ing and increase ‘In Al‘lowanee Coming.

Expect End Of Pleasure Driving Ban Ir East Will Be Announced Within Few Day:      Equalization Of Gas Rations Alsc Expected At Same Time

Reds Smash Nazi Counterattacks In Caucasus Fight  ~ Ten Ships Attempting To Ferry Aid to Axis    Rasene Awe Sven

Red Air Fleets Push  Novorossisk Drive    Moscow Says 930 German Planes Knocked Out.  10 Avie Shing Sink in Bridechead Ratio

Reds Halt Desperate Nazi Drive   Reds Knock Ou 930 German Planes

REDS DOGGEDLY DRIVE TOWARD ALL OBJECTIVES   930 German Planes De. stroyed Or Damaged In Single Week In Russia   NAZI TRANSPORT IS SUNK IN BLACK SEA

WOULD DECLARE WOOD PULP. STRATEGICAL   zator Chandler Urges Rejease Loggers from Army To Help in Industry

Willkie Says Republicans Should And Can Win Next Year's Election

"WILLKIE SAYS GOF oGAN WIN ELECTION   Disagrees With Contention Present Adinistration Will  > Be Returned to Office if War Doesn’t End

American Marines Land on Last Major Jap Base in the Solomon:   Island ef Bougainville Is Taken by Surprise Yesterday.

AMERICANS LAND ON BOUGAINVILLE IN N. SOLOMONS   Japs Caught By Surprise  When U. S. Marines _ Effect Landing On Is land.

Many Single Men on U.S. Payroll   Military Affairs Committee Given Information

Nazi Resistance Further Slows Allied Advance   But Fifth Drives Enemy. From Mountain Positions  And Captures New Town

Fifth Army Drives Germans From Positions Along River   Forces of General Clark, Defying Rain and Enemy Ar tillery, Make Progress—Bitter Fighting Is Reported

NAZIS SAY NEW RED DRIVE NEAR   Big Offensive Being Prepared in Kuban Region of Caucasus

GERMAN LINE Of QUUTHERN FRONT OWAYED BY PUSS   Relentless Red Armies Em ploy Anglo-American Tactics in Drive.

ENTIRE NAZI LINE SWAYS IN SOUTH RUSMA   Soviet troops employ “hedge-hopping”’ tactics against enemy

GERMAN ARMY STAMPEDED BY SOVIET DRIVE   Entire Southern Line Wavers  ed  BASES TOPPLING  eee a eee  Russians Use American Tactics

Germans In Russia Facing  Greatest Trap Of The War   Theme Of Broadcasts From Berlin And Other German Cities Is To “Tighten The Belts”

Interoreting  The War   Vaster Russian Trap Now Believed Being Prepared

“Work Or Fight’’ Order Gets Some Teeth.... Governor Orders Idle N.C. Men Put To Work

Twister Hits Town in Texas   One Home Destroyed, Six Others Damaged; No One Injured

FOR GETTING FARM LABOR   Roosevelt, Discloses Program After Meeting . Ferm Leaders

To Relieve Farm Labor Shortage   PRESIDENT DISCLOSES AFTER MEETING WITH FARM LEAD. ERS: TO RELEASE FROM ARMY EXPERIENCED FARM WORKERS   Enlisted For Duration

Steps Taken To Provide  Farm Labor   Army To Release Many Men Over 38, President Reveals  STUDENTS TO HELP

PLANS DRAWN FOR GETTING FARM LABOR   Roosevelt Discloses Program After Meeting Farm Leaders

WILL RELEASE MEN OVER 38 FOR FARMING   President Says Students to be Used, Labor {mported

FDR Diseloses Plan to Meet Farm Needs   Three Poitits. Given; President Disapprove: Price Idea Given Hin‘

Government Is Moving. Toware Allocation Step   Plan is opening wedge in creation of a land army of 31% million; need dairv workers.

F.D:R. Details Plans To Get » Farm Labor   ~Lond Army of Youth And Army Releases Are Main Proposals -

Roosevelt Acts To Relieve Farm Labor Shortage   Outlines Broad Program; Discharge of 38 Year Olds Ends

FARM WORKERS ARMY OUTLINED   President Reveals Step: Taken To Relieve Labor Shortage

STEPS ARE TAKEN TO RELIEVE THE FARM LABOR SHORTAGE   Experienced Farm Workers over 38 Will Be Released from Army

FARM LEADERS IN CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Fails To Comment On Recommenda tions Of Group   FAVOR FULL POWERS FOR ADMINISTRATOR

President Moves  To Aid Farmers   Release Some Wor kers  From Armed Services

F. D. R. Reveals Farm Labor Program as Leaders Urge Davis Be Given Price Control

Guido Zecca New  VEW Commander   Rolla Hinkle Chosen  Planning Board Membe:

Job Change May Bring Only Delay   While Induction May Be Ex tended No Assurance Given  By Transfer te Defense ‘Work

Move to War Jobs May Aid Fathers   Might Be Deferred McNutt Declares

OPEN DRIVE TO STAMP OUT BLACK. MARI   Service Groups, Ladies Organizations Ready for Campaign

Wheeler Fearful Postwar Resolution  ‘May Open Way for Treaties ‘Without Obtaining Senate’s Consent

Wheeler Says Postwar Resolution May Open Way to Foreign Alliance Threat

Senator Wheeler Voices Concern  Fears Senate May - Not Be Consulted

LEWIS CALLS MEETING   Union's Policy Committee Plans Brief Meeting Teday

LEWIS CALLED MEETING TODAY   Se Ew ee aS + OOS eS SE  Fo Meet with U.M.W Policy Committee Thiec Afternoan

ALLIED PLANES STRAFE ENEMY RETREAT ROUTE   Italian Troops Chase ExNazi Comrades Off Sardinia

BADOGLIO URGES ITALY FIGHT NAZIS   Premier In Radio Talk Advises Guerrilla Warfare

Dickinson County Farm Bureau Backs A. AA,   COUNTY AGENT RANK SETS FORTH FARM BUREAU SITUATION

CANADA URGES LOWER TARIFFS AFTER THE WAI   Dominion Is Opposed To Scrapping Washington Wheat Agreement   SURPLUS PROBLEM BEING ENVISIONED

Canada Delegates at Food Meet Speak In Favor of Present World Wheat Agreement Setting Controls

Governor Negotiates On Prices   Higher Ceiling Sought So Mines Can Be Operated at Profit

Crowley Viewed As Diplomatic And ‘Easy Going   Wallace, Jones Meek About Official Spanking

LIEUT. VAN HORN — GRADUATED   Wellsboro Young Man Received Silver Wings Monday.

Churchill   Sees Allied Victory In Two Years   RIME MINISTER TACKLES MANY POST-WAR PROBLEMS IN SOBER BUT CONFIDENT ADDRES:

Hitler Sull No. 1 Enemy, Britons Told   Allies May Need 2 Years To Kayo Nazis Churchill Says

Churchill Urges Postwar Bloc .  Calls for Greater  Effort for Victory

Mav Take Two Years to Crush Nazis--Churchill   It might take two more years to crush Hitler, Prime . Minister ‘says ; Japan ‘will be next.

Believes Two Years May Be Needed To Smash Germans; Makes First Radio Address To Nation Since Casablanca Conference.

War Agains Hitler May End in “45   Britisher Says Japs to Fall After Nazis Lose

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CHURCHILL SEES LITTLE CHANGE OF SHORT WAR   Believes Two Years May, Be Needed To Smash Germans; Makes First Radio Address To Nation Since Casablanca Conference.

‘Safeguarding world against future wars United Nations aim’   Churchill in broadcast warns it may take two vears vet to destrov Hitler

Prime Minister Says Hitler Might  Last Two Years   Immediate Steps Toward Post-War  Council Proposed   NAZIS FIRST. THEN JAPS

2 MORE YEARS FOR HITLER'S EVIL POWERS   ——CHURCHILL   After That, Japan, British Premier’s Plan; Then TriParty Alliance To Assure  = Ee re   World Wide Audience

Leader Warns, However, Against Over-Optimism; Urges Post-War Planning

May Take Two More Years -- Churchill   Urges Steps Toward Post-War Organization

Churchill Reports  Sth Army on Move   Prime Minister Warns People That It Might Take Two More Years to Crush Hitler

Churchill Says War May Last Two More Year:   Announces Britain's Tunisian Offensive Is Now Under Way

WAR WILL LAST TWO MORE YEARS CHURCHILL SAYS   Allies Will Concentrate On Destruction Of Japan After Beating Hitler   LEAGUE OF NATIONS FAVORED AFTER WAR

Defeat of Nasis In Two Years ls Churchill Guess   Prime Minister Warns  May Take That Long to Beat Hitler   Sees Little Possibility of Japanese Forces Cracking First

Japs Encircle Australia For  New Offensive   Chinese Expert Warns Of Possible Danger

McNutt Establishes Bureau of Man. Power Utilization   Agency Will ‘Find Out How Effectively the People on the Job Are Performing,’ Administrator Declares

MCNUTT FORMS BUREAU TO AID IN PRODUCTION   Newest Bureau Will Study Effectiveness Of People While  On Their Jobs.

Hopes for More Gasoline Chilled   Army Requirements Are Increasing

Shatter Hopes For Gas Raise   Davies Deelares Military Needs Of Gasoline Steadily Increases.

Military Drain On Gas Is High   Requirements Are Boosted Steadily

MILITARY NEEDS. GUT GAS SUPPLY   Midwest Drawing too Much, East May Not Be Able to End Pleasure Driving Ban

MOTORISTS’ HOPES DOWN   :  Little Easing Of Gasoline Strain Likely, Spokesmen Claim

CHANCES FOR MORE GASOLINE DUBIOUS   Official Declares Military Drain On Supply Is Increasing.

No More Gas For East, Is Davies View   Motorists’ Hopes Get Double Blow

Less Gasoline  For Civilians   Military Drain East Of Rocky Mountains Increasing Steadily

GASOLINE INCREASE UNLIKELY ANYWHERE   Military Operations To Take More of Supplies

Lieut. . Robert R. Mericle Was, Co-Pilot of : B-17—  oe - Bomber 

FIGHTING REDUCED ON SOVIET FRONTS   Spring Thews and Trans.  port Problems Slow  Up Armies

SPRING THAWS PUT FIGHTING QVER RUSSIA   Transport Problems Also Slow Up Military Activity Over Mud, Slush Of Vast Battle   eee   Floods On 4 Fronts

SPRING THAWS SLOW RUSSIANS   Little Activity Occurs On Long Soviet Lines  Due To Slush

Claim Officials Refused To Aid In OPA Checkup   West Bend, Sheboygar Authorities Are Criticized

Spain Bids For U. 5. Sympathy  Fails To Recognize Puppet Government

Didn't Mean It, Whines Franco   Note to Jap Government In Philippines Explained

GIVEN UNTIL JULY 16   Judge Hopkins Wants Facts in Sunflower Ordnance Suit

RUFUS HARDY DIED AT HOME SATURDAY; FUNERAL MONDAY A.M   SERVED AS CONGRESSMAN 16 YEARS BEFORE RETIREMENT IN 1923

RUFUS HARDY DIED AT HOME SATURDAY; FUNERAL MONDAY A.M  SERVED AS CONGRESSMAD 16 YEARS BEFORE RE WrHrekAaray FRA! 1A

Allies Blast Jap Hopes Of  Coast Eseape   Australian. American Bombers Force Enemy To Retreat In Katika.   AUSSIES HIT GASMATA

ATTAGK BLUNT JAP SPEARHEAL   Blast Foe’s Hopes of Reach: ing New Guinea Coast   JAPS FALL BACK   American Planes Sweep Over Areas, Pile up Toll of Enemy Dead

YANKS, AUSSIES ROUT ENEMY IN PACIFIC BATTLE   Japs Forced Back in Fighting On New Guinea—510 Nips Slain

dAP FORCED. TO RETREAT NEAR GOASI   Solid Escape Line Dented; Katika Abandoned

Aussies Block Jap Corridor —   Nips Driven Back Toward Inland Sattelberq Defense

ALLIED FORCES THROW NIPPONS BACK T0 JUNGLE   ‘Enemy’s Hopes of Escap ing to Sea Frustrated in  Surprise Offensive by  ' MacArthur's Men   AMERICAN BOMBERS PLAY MAJOR ROLE   Spread Devastation With 221 Tons of Explosives Around Sattelberg;  Enemy Dead Piled Up

JAPANESE THROWN BACK BY GROUND AND AIR ATTACK   Australian Troops and U. S. Planes Force Enemy Withdrawal From Village of Katika.   NIPPONESE LEAVE 510 DEAD BEHIND   Enemy’s Outlet of Escape to Coast Cut Off—Positions Heavily Damaged by Bombs.

Allies Smash Jap Drive To Reach Coast   Aussie Troops, Yankee Planes Raise Havoc With Nipponese On New Guinea

Strategic Setback Dealt to Japanese   Fall of Rabaul Would Pierce Huge Hole in Strong Enemy Defense

JAPAN FACING MAJOR SETBACK   Bat Conquest of Rabaul May : ‘Not Come ~~ Quickly

OFFENSIVE REAL THREAT TO JAPS”   Allied Seizure of Big Island With Its Base of Rabaul Presages First Strategic SetBack for Japan   DAY OF LOW.COST VICTORIES FOR U. S. FORCES BY FLANK MOVES ENDS

Business in Christmas Trees "So Lousy’ Chicago People Wouldn't Even Steal 'Em

Christmas Tree Dealers Lose $100,000 as over Supply Gluts Chicago Market

ROW DELAYS RECESS OF CONGRESS   Deadlock Develops on Anti-Subsidy and Roll-Back Plans

DEADLOCK IN SUBSIDIES PROVISIONS IS DELAYING RECESS FOR CONGRESS

‘Bureaucrats Defined. by One of Them   Ickes’ Says™ They Hold Jobs Someone Else Wants

Ickes Rushes To Defense 0:  ‘Bureaucrats’   Suggests. Critics Turn Eye To Many Dollar-A-Yeor Men

Ickes Defends New Dealers,  Raps 3 Papers   Secrétary. of Interior doesn’t think.so much of, dollar-a-year men, either:

SAYRE OUTLINES POST-WAR PLANS    Wants -World: Organization,  Backed By Force, Te  Preserve Peace

Roman Empire and British Commonwealth Cited: as lExamples for Post-War Era

CHINESE EXPECT MAJOR ROLE IN THIS CAMPAIGK   ‘Mountbatten Back at His Com- mand in India After Conferring  With Leaders at Chungking

Play On Jap Superstition   Fliers Use Idea Maple Leaf Associated With Death

Capture of Important — City Imminent; Germat . Menaced By Entrapmen

ALLIED ADVANCE IN ITALY SLOW AND DIFFICULT   Main Jap Bases at Rabaul Knocked Out - - - Germans Turn Heat on Balkans

Russians Storm Krivoi Rog, Rail And Iron Cente:   German Reserves Fail T« Check Advance Of Soviet Armies

FDR Deplores Public Airing. ~Of Administrative Quarrel Between Wallace and Jones

Blames Newspapers For-Giving Publicity To Squabbles That Arise Belween Officials  Wallace Accuses Jones OF Hamstringing The War Effort By Refusing to Furnish Maney

V.P. Wallace And Jesse Jones Fire Bitter Charges   President, Surprised, Calls On Members Of Offictai Family To Pipe Down; Blames Newspapers For Intra-Bureau Battles.

BOLIVIA PLEDGED TO ALLIED CAUSE BY NEW REGIME   Some Quarters Doubt Sincerity Because of Individuals In fh S

NEW BOLIVIAN RULERS PLEDGE AID TO ALLIES   Revolutionary Government Charges Deposed Regime With Fascist Trends

New Government of Bolivia Says It Will Adhere to United Nations Cause; Charges Penaranda of Fascism

NEW BOLIVIAN REGIME FAVORS UNITED NATIONS      Charged Deposed Regime With Fascist Tendencies In Manifesto

New Bolivia Order Vows To Aid Allies   Charges Ousted President Leaned Toward Fascists

U. 5. Bombers Batter Force of Jap Destroyers   Washington Communique Says Enemy Lost 16 Zero Planes 

ee S. Fliers Bomb Japanese Force ‘Of ‘9 Destroyers   16 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down At Same Time In . Solomons Engagements

Shoct Down 16 Enemy Planes In Engagements In Solomons — Lose Six American Planes

Five Destroyers Attacked; 16 Nip Aircraft Downed In Other Action

U.S. Bombei-s Batter Five Jap Destroyers; Fighter Planes Shoot Down 16 Foe

16 Jap Planes Shot Down By U.S. Airmen   Six American Ships Are Lost In Aerial Battle Near  , Guadalcanal; Bombers Batter Japanese Force  Of Pive Dactravare

U. $. Bombers Batter Five Jap Destroyers   American Fighter Planes Shoot Down 16 Japanese Zeros, Losing Six Planes

FIVE JAPANESE WARSHIPS HIT   U. S. Fighters Shoot Down 16 Enemy Planes; Six U. S. Planes Lost. °   ATTACK BASE ON ISLAND

ATTACKS MADE ON 5 JAP SHIPS   U.S. Bombers Patter  Nipponese Destrovers

U. S. Fighters Down 16 Jap  Zero Planes   Sky Battle Takes Place Off Kolombangara ; Naval Force Bombed

U.S. BOMBERS BATTER JAPS   Attack Five Enemy CDsstroyers, While Big Air Battle Fought Of Salamons

U. S. BOMBERS BATTER 5 JAP DESTROYERS   Allied Fighters Engage 30 to 40 Zeroes and Shoot Down 16 at  - Almost Same Time

BOMBERS BATTER JAP FORCE OF FIVE DESTROYERS   ACTION TAKES. PLACE IN SOLOMONS AREA; FURIOUS AIR BATTLE

aaa i eel a  Yank Bombers Batte Jap Destroyer Force   16 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Dogfight; Results Of Ship Damage Not Observed

U. S. Plane Attacks Five Jap Destroyers   Almost at Same Time, Fighters, Engaging 30 to 40 Enemy Aircraft, Shoot Down 16, Navy Says of Action in Solomons Area.

BOMBERS BLAST 5 JAP WARSHIPS   16 Japanese Planes Are Also Shot Down

BATTERED BY BOMRS   U.S. Fighters Also Shoot Down 16 of 40 Japanese Zeros in Solomons   FIVE DESTROYERS ARE HIT IN RAID   Enemy Force Believed to Have Been on Way to Supply Jap Base

Jap Destroyer Force Battered By U.S. Bombs   16 Enemy Planes Shot Down With Loss Of Only Six American Craft In Solomons

Yank Bombers Rout Jap Force of Five Destroyers While Fighters Bag 16 of Enemy’s Zero Planes

Fighter Planes Shoot Down 16° Nipponese Fliers   Simultaneous Engagements Fought By Yanks In Solomon Islands Area

U. S. Bombers Batter Five Jap Destroyers While Fighters ‘Down 16 of 40 Enemy Planes

Five Nip Ships Are Blasted In Solomons Area   Kiska Receives Two More Raids By U. S. Fighting Planes

NEW TERM STARTS   About 60 Enrolling in V-12 Program at K. U. for  First Time

GET A GOOD STAR}   Women Are. Busy ‘Selling War Stamps in Lawrence ‘Stores 

Hickenlooper  ‘Says Guard Is Well-Equipped   Deplores Complaint By Officer—Says Iowa Bet ter Than Most

Allies Sink Most Subs In February   Ship Production Exceeding Losses, Says Alexander

State Educator Suggests Equity In Salary Scale   Would Pass Legislation  To Further Gear Program To War Effort

BOMBERS BLAST JAP POSITION   Aerial Forces Active As Ground: Action Dies Down

Air Attacks On  Japs Continue   No Letup In Blasting Of Enemy Bases In South Pacific Area   GROUND FIGHTING ACTIVITY IN LULL

No Short Cut To Victory in Pacific Seen   Prime Minister of Australia Points to Widespread Assaults

NO SHORT CUT TO PACIFIC VICTORY: CURTIN DECLARES   Australian Prime Minister Completes Conference With MacArthur — Assaults On  . Jan Positions Wisespread

2 U.S. Ships Are Lost in Gilberts   Prime Minister Curtin Confers with MacArthur, Warns: ‘No Short Cuts to Victory’

NO SHORT CUT TO VICTORY IN PACIFIC CURTIN DECLARES  ALLIED AIR POWER DELIVERS ANOTHER SEVERE -BLOW AT JAPANESE

NO SHORT CUT TO VICTORY IN PACIFIC WAR   Prime Minister Curtin Says Assaults on Nipponese Emphasize immensity of Task Ahead   TRANSPORT SENT DOWN

No Short Cut, Curtin Tells  Australians   Widespread Allied Blows At Jap Emphasize Hi: Statement

No Short Cut To Vietory,  Curtin Says.  Marines Stage Raid Behind Jap Lincs On Boanogainvilla

Pacific War To Be Bitter   AUSTRALIAN PREMIER SAYS CONFLICT TOUGH

A LONG WAR ROAD   Australian Prime Minister Sees No Short Cut to Pacific Victory _

No Shoricut To Pacific Victory   Prime Minister Curtin Says Final Outcome Misct Await Events In Europe: Jap Ships Sunk

No Short Cut To Victory, Says Curtin,   Allied Bombers. Sunk Jap-laden: “Transport, Tanker

No Short Cut To Victory In Pacific   Australia’s Prime Minister Points Out Immensity of Task Facing United Nations

TRDOP-LADEN JAP TRANSPORT 1S SUNK   Heavy Loss Of Japanese Lives Indicated

JAP TROOP SHiP AND TANKERSUNK   21 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN IN AIR BATTLES BY ALLIES

JAP LOSSES  PACIFIC HEAVY   Allied Bombers Sink Troop Ship, Tanker and Shoot Down 21 Planes.   ROAD TO VICTORY LONG

Chief Warns Allies Still Face Long War Against Japan  New Victories Give Hope, Also Show Foe’s Strong Hold

Long, Hard Struggle in Pacific   There Is No Short Cut + Victory, Australians Are Told   WIDESPREAD AIR ACTIONS CONTINUE   U. S. Bombers Sink Enemy Transport, Tanker and Down 21 Jap Planes

Troop-Laden Enemy Transport Sunk by Bombers in Pacific   ‘Australian Prime Minister Warns of Immense  Task Ahead

No Short Cut To Victory In Pacific   Curtin Says Final Jap Victory Must Wait on Events in Europe; Widespread Assaults Made on Japs

Australian Leader‘ Says Far Flung Allied Blows Only “Emphasize” Difficulty of Job.

AUSTRALIA’ REMINDED OF HARD FIGHT AHEAD   Curtin Tells Nation There’s No Short-Cut To Victory '

Rehabilitation Big Problem, Says First Lady   Mrs. Roosevelt Visits Honolulu

TOUGHER TIMES AMEAD FOR-U, S.   Nation Now Living Off Irreplaceable Fat, WPB Declares

CIVILIANS IN U.S. TO FACE HARDER TIMES   Nation has been “living on its fat’, economy now declining

FORTRESS HITS ENEMY GRUISER   Bomber Flies Low Over Japanese Vessels in Rabaul Harbor.

B-17 FORTRESS SCORES 3 BOMB HITS IN HARBOR   Japanese Bases In Pacific Get Heavy Pounding

Flying Fortress Deserts High Altitude In Low And Dangerous Assault On Cruiser In Rabaul

FLYING FORT PUT THRU ACROBATICS TO LAND THREE BOMBS ON JAP WARSHIP

SCORE THREE HITS ON JAP CRUISER   FLYING FORTRESSES BOMB WARSHIPS IN RABAUL HARBOR

First Hand Story Of Rabaul Bombing Fortress Flies Low To Get Jap Ship; Crew Is Glad To Be Back Alive

RAF Again Attacks Nazi Points In Europe Areas  Big Aero Plant Gets Becting, More Raids Are Expected

MANY HITSSCORED ON PLANT OF AXIS   Three-pronged Independence Day Assault Made : by Fliers

BRITISH CONTINUE AERIAL OFFENSIVE   RAF BOMBERS ROAM CONTINENT AFTER AMERICANS HIT AIRCRAFT PLANT.

Munitions Are Being Produced   500 Cartridges a Second; 50 Explosive Shells a Minute Now Schedule

Army Colonel Saved by Skill Of Navy Flier   Story of Rescue Told By Former Oil City Scribe. Maurice (Dude) Moran

JAP BASES BOMBED   MacArihurs Bombers Strike Dutch Sew Guinea In Raids

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONIES. ON _ SUNDAY, MAY 30   Church Service, Parade Ar ranged by Veterans On Same Dar. -

MEMORIAL DAY IN WELLSBOR(   Committee Completes Arrangements For Annual Ceremonies.

WARN MOTORISTS RUBBER SHORTAGE   Nation Will Go Througt Most Critical Period in Next Six Months.

WARNS MOTORISTS OF CRITICAL TIRE SHORTAGE LOOMING      “A” And “B” Card Helders Told To Cut Driving To Bare Necessity—No Relief Visible:

A AND B GAS CARD HOLDERS WARNED OF TIRE SHORTAGE   Driving Must Be Reduced te Bare Necessity—No Replacemenis In Sight.

TIRE SHORTAGE MORE DRASTICIN NEXT 9 MONTHS   ‘A’ and ‘B’ Gas Card Holders Told To Cut Driving Further

NO NEW TIRES FOR A-B CARD HOLDERS   Next Six to Nine Months to Be Most Critical of War.

DEWEY WARNS MOTORISTS ON TIRE SHORTAGE   Reduce Driving To ‘Bare Necessity’, Advice Of Rubber Chief

TIRE PROBLEM 1S BECOMING MORE SERIOUS   No New Tires for Holders of ‘A’ And ‘B’ Cards

Los Angeles Hit by Flood   One Death Occurs When Wa. ter Four to Six Feet Deep Pours Through Homes

American Civil Air Lines Make Great Record in Assisting With War Effort

Nazi Glider Bomb Guides Its Way To Target Under  Own Power, Victims Say

WIFE OF MILLIONAIRE — — OIL MAN IS MURDERED   (Prominent. Tulsa, Oklahoma,: Resident 1s Shot to ; Death in Reom of Another Woman Who Is. Under Arrest and May Be Formally Charged  With the Crime Today—Slayer Refuses  i to Discuce tha Slauing

WEALTHY TULSA ODCIETY WOMAN SHOT TQ DEAT   Mrs. T, K. Simmons Found in Hotel Room and Mrs. E. B. Howard of Ft. Worth Is Under Arrest

SOCIETY WOMAN SHOT TO DEATH IN TULSA. OKLA   Mrs. T. K. Simmons }s Vietim—Mrs. E. B. Howard of Fort Worth Arresied.

SOCIETY WOMAN iS KILLED IN SCUFFLE   Wife Of Wealthy Oil Man Shot By Friend

Wife of Millionaire Shot in Hotel Scuffle; Woman Acquaintance Held for Murder

SOCIETY WOMAN SLAIN IN. HOTEL   Friend Faces Murder Charge After Alleged Scuffle For Gun Possession

BIG CHANGES IN WARTIME WAY __ OF LIFE COMING   American People Urged. To Effect a Civilian Program Of Economy. _

BIGGER CHANGES IN WAY OF LIFE   Restrictions in Civilian Goods and Services in 1943,

U. S. ‘Secret Weapon’ Is  Bazooka’ Gun  4 Charge Penetrates  Rock Masonry, . Steel  eee

FULL DESCRIPTION OF SECRET WEAPON OF U. 8. REVEALED  “NEW WEAPON PLACED 0 DISPLAY AND ARMY

KISKA POUNDED BY U. S. FLIERS   Jap Installations Are Struck In Renewed Aerial Drive

Vunda Raided for 116th Time American Bombers Hit Kiska  Again in 13 Raids in One Day

Bombers Hit Japs’ Airport On Kiska Isle   U. S. Fliers Raid Aleutian Base  13 Times in Day

JAPANESE KISKA BASE HAMMERED   Holes Ripped In Runway Carved Out Of Rock; Attu Also Hit

13 RAIDS MADE ON KISKA BASE   Fires are Started, Holes Torn in Runway by  American Bombs

Tonight To Be Warmer   No Snow Predicted As Mercury Goes Slowly Upward

24 Dead in Heat Wave in State   “Continued Very Warm’ Ts Forecast —Showers Not Expected to Aid

At Least 24 Deaths In State ‘Attributable To Torrid Wave With Little Relief In Sight

DELAY SCHOOL OPENINGS   Seven Rural Districts in Sedgwick County Open Sent. 99 .-

TO PICK UP TINS CANS. NEXT. MONDA   City Trucks to Gather Im portant. Scrap Item fron Piles on Curb

TIN GAN SALVAGE DRWE 1S ON NOV. 1   Collection of Tin Cans te Dovetail Similar Drive te Collect Scrap

Today’s War Commentary  Nazi Alibis Ready  Ligcunal Cover-[/n Polhievy Beine Pursue

Thiel Weeks Was With Con --victs Digging Potatoes  Near Mud Creek.

PRISONER ESCAPES   Thiel Weeks Was With Convicts Digging Potatoes Near Mud Creek

HULL DEFEND STAFF MEMBERS   Says He is Prepared to Account for Personnel Department

Tires For Civilians Are Still Far Off   OWI Says Gas Ration Hasn’‘t Resulted in Savings Contemplated

Motorists Can't Exped! Synthetic Tires Before Laie in 1944, if Then

EINSTEIN AT WORK.   Scientist Will Devote All Of His Time to Naval Research.

BINSTEIN AT WORK.       Scientise Will Devate ANE OF His “Time to- Naval Research.

East and South Coast Of England To Become A Restricted Area Apr. !

Set Base for Second Front Operations   “East, South English Coast Areas Restricted

British East, South Coasts To Become Restricted Area   Ten-Mile Strip Specified, Preparatory To Beginning Of Offensive Operations

South And East Coast Of England Prepared For Offensive Operation

Britain Gets Ready   Ten-Mile Deep Strip Along Eastern. Coast A “Restricted Area”

To Clear Big Coastal Area   British Pave Way For " Invasion Of Europe

GROWING SIGNS OF INVASION BY ALLIED POWERS   Sea, Air, Land Forces Being Massed. Norway, Greece Seen as Main Points of Landing

COAST OF ENGLAND IS ‘OFFENSIVE’ AREA   Ten-mile-deep Strip Is To Be ‘Restricted After April’

MORE TROUBLE AHEAD ON BIG MONEY BILLS   Question on Appropriation Measure Is “What's Money For?”

New Tests Face Administration   Senate Resumes Action On Several Big Appropriation Measures

To Sell Poppies Made - At Veterans’ Hospital   Legion Auxiliary Committee to Be On Street

AUIBIC WARN, Pag  ANOTHER SESSION OF JAPANESE. DIET THIS WEEK EXPECTED BE USUAT. RUBBER STAMP MEETING

‘ANOTHER SESSION OF JAPANESE DIET THIS WEEK EXPECTED BE TICHTAT RIIBRER STAMP MEETING

JAPANS DIET SCHEDULED 10 MEET THIS WEEK   Far East Expert Expects Propaganda-Loaded An nouncemente To Follow

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS   Soviets Gain In Drive On Port Of Novorossisk

Nazis batter at Kharkov’:  defense line   Russ beat back attacks of foe

Soviets Halt Nazi Attacks On Donets   Report Lull On Most Other Fronts  In Russia

GERMANS BATTER AT RED DEFENSES   Russians Report Attacks Beaten Back in Khar bay Gartar

FIERCENEW © NAZI DRIVES BEATEN BACK   Germans Battering At Donets Defenses With Tanks, Plartes

Nazis Batter In Vain Upon  Red Defenses   Russians Hold Recently Won Bridgeheads In Spite Of Desperate Assaults

REDS BEAT OFE NEW NAZI BLOWS IN DONETS AREA   Germans, Supported By Tanks and Large Air  Forces, Attack In   Kharkov Sectors   HOLD BRIDGEHEADS   Soviets Reported Having Secure Hold On Them South of Izyum; Lull On Other Fronts

NAZI ATTACKS REPELLED BY SOVIET FORCES   Endangered Communication Lines

Reds Beat Back German Attacks   200 Nazis Killed in Attempt to Capture Donets Bridgeheads

SOVIET DEFENSES NEAR KHARKOV ARE ATTACKED BY NAZIS   Russians Announced They Had Beaten Back These Raids.   200 GERMANS KILLED   This Number Was Added to the Toll of 1000 Slain South of Izyum.

RUSSSIANS HOLD BRIDGEHEADS ALONG DONETS   Reds Repel Determined Aitacks ir Kharkov Area—Minor Action: on Other Fronis -

RUSSIANS REFUSE. T0 GIVE GROUND FACT OF KHARK{NY   Reds Cling To Izyum On West Bank Of Donets   1,200 GERMANS ARE WIPED OUT

Nazis Batter AtRed Defenses   Russians Report Attacks Beaten Off

RUSSIANS REPORTED TO HAVE BEATEN OFF GERMAN ATTACKS  NAVIC DATTED AT COVIE'

RUSSIANS TURN BACK ASSAULTS ABOVE KHARKOV   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses  : In Recent Drives Along *  : Donets River

Reds Repulse Heavy Attacks Near Kharkov  1,200 Germans Slain in Aftempt —. .......twe  .

REDS CHECK NAZIS EAST OF KHARKOV   Lull in Fighting on Other Russian Sectors

Russians Beat Back Nazi Push Near Kharkov   Germans Assault Bridgeheads On Donets River

NAME NEW HEAD FOR OHIO NORTHERN U,   Dr. Robert McCiure of Lima To Start June 1

Strong Prices And Brisk Bidding On Lumberton Market   By Jasper C. Hutto, Supervisor Zumberton Tobacco Market

Navy Chaplain Is Hero of Solomons   Father Paul J. Redmond Highly Praised for Fighting Men

Yield or Die. Churchill Warns Italy  Tottering Nation Told to Throw

Churchill Promise: Justice  rh. -Towy ey   Ronie Is Warnec To Throw Off ~ Nazi Yoke _

OUST GERMANS, ITALIANS TOLD BY CHURCHILL   Gives ‘Grim Warning  To Yield or Be Destroyed

Surrender Now  Is Churchill Offer to Italv   Grim Warning Advises New Governmen: Nation Will Be ‘Seared, Scarred and Blackened’ if It Remains at War

MILLION GERMANS KILLED   Allied Air Raids Take Terrific Toll Of Reich Pepulace

Government Pegs.at Present Level Pay Of 27,000,000 Men   Workers in Essential Activities Virtually Frozen in Their Curent Employment by Manpower Chief McNutt’s Order

New Command Pegs Earnings of 27 Millions   McNutt Announces Move as Intended to Halt Inflation

CANNOT LEAVE PRESENT WORK FOR MORE PAY   Non-Essential Men Not Affected by McNutt Order

Government Order Pegs Present Pay   MeNutt Prevents Resignation to Get Hicher-Payine Job

27 Million Frozen in  War Work   WMC Controls Wages; Supports “Hold Line” Order

U.S. Freezes 27 Millions In Their Job:   Earnings Pegged ‘In Sweeping New  Order by McNutt

Government Pegs Karnings Of War Workers At Their  Present Levels.

Court Orders Draft Board to Give Full Hearing to Father of Twins

Welles Comments On Statement   Says Standiey Didn't Consult ; State Denariment   Court Orders Draft Board to Give Full Hearing to Father of Twins

Court Stays Drafting Of Father Of 2   Precedent Set In Philadelphia Case; Hearing Ordered

Public Works Program Bill ls Introduced   Possible Postwar Unemployment Problem Is Seen

Busy Sessions Held by Legislature   Postwar Public Works Rill Recommended By House Committee

Nazi Offensive  Punch Is Gone   Aim Said To Halt Fill Dectriuictian.

Germans Gird For Protection  Of Fatherland   Saving Of Machine Seen Strategy In Russia

OPA Pegs Prices Of Pork in War On Black Market   Wickard Will Explain Meat Control Plan in Broadcast Tonight; Seeks to End ‘Squeeze’ on Packers

Noyes Says New York Milk Output Can Meet All Needs    Elimination of Milk Advertising Tax Comes to  Vote in Senate Tonight—Dewey Opposed ~ Noyes Says N.Y.C. has Milk Surplus

NORTH AFRICA BASED PLANES SCORE VICTORY   Nazi air force challenges raiding formation of  bombers

ALLIED FLYERS AGAIN BLAST PANTELLERIA   ‘Axis Air Forces on Tiny Island Given “Suicide Order”

Battle Lines Are Forming In State Legislative Session   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s ’ Snecial Correspondent

“Mike” O'Brien To Be Chief Sioux City Revenue Office   Well Known and Liked In LeMars—-State House ! News

Poultry Dealers, Firms Indicted On Charges Of Black Market Operation

PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS CITED   Supt. Malan Urges Schoolmen Be Alert To Subtle Ideo} logical Infusions.

NAZIS TIGHTEN RULE IN NORWAY   PUT COUNTRY UNDER MILITARY LAW AFTER EXECUTION OF POLICE HEAD.

MILITARY LAW PUT ON NORWAY   Civil Police Chief Is Executed; Officers Rounded Up By  Germans

Norway Now Is Yoked by Martial Law   Quisling Decree Made After Police Chief Is Executed

Norway Under Military Law; Nazis Kill Police Chief For Disobedience

Norway Is Virtually Under - 7 Military Law, Report Says   Action Is Taken After Execution of Norwegian Civil Police Chief by Nazi Officials—tncreasing Signs of Nervousness

All Norwegian Officers To Be Held in Germany   Quisling Shows Fear Of Allied Invasion

Norway Under Military Law After Execution   Police Chief Is Killed on Disobedience Charge

VISIT 1S URGED   ’ Churchill Gets Invitation From Gen. MacArthur

McCarrens Dies  Of Bullet Wound   Plain Dealer Chief Succumbs Saturday

11 American Planes Land In Portugal   Take Off From Neutrai Field at Lisbon and Head for North Africa

HFTY  HEADED SOUTH   Severe Storms Buffet Iherian Peninsuia, Cause Severe Damage.   ILANDINGS ARE FORCED?

Eleven U.'S: Planes Reported To Have Landed In Neutral Portugal At Libson Airport

Planes Land In Portugal   Eleven American Planes Come Down Near Lisbon

120, §, Plane: Forced Down Over Lisbon   -Large-Armada Seen Heading Toward African Theatre

Report 11 U.S. Planes Land In Portugal: More Fly Over   NERVOUS AXIS EYES NEW AFRICAN MOVE

11U.S. Planes _ Land at Lishon   Storms in Bay of Biscay Held Forcing Descent “For Duration’

U. 5. PLANES FORCED DOWN IN PORTUGAL   Crews Immediately Sur. render and Are Ordered Interned

SEVERE STORMS FORCE DOWN 11 U.S. WARPLANES   50 Others In Air Armada Continue On To Unan nounced Destination   LISBON GOVERNMENT INTERNS 33 AIRMEN

11U.S. Warplanes Down In Portugal  50 More Are Sighted On Southward Flight Over Neutral Nation

MORE THAN 50 REPORTED SEEN FLYING SOUTH   Crops and Property Reported Damaged by Stormy Weather

American Planes Land in Portugal   Weather Forces U.S. Craft Down

11 U.S. PLANES ARE INTERNED   Landed At Lisbon After Running Into Fierce Electrical Storm  On Way South

‘Storm Grounds 11 American Warplanes In Portuzal. Will Be Interned

Fleven American Airplanes Forced Down In Portuga  An Armada Of 50 Oth ers Sighted Winging Toward Mediterranean

11 U.S. PLANES ARE INTERNED   Craft Bearing 33 Flyers Are Forced Down on Portugal Airfield

11 US. Plane: Foreed Down In Portugal   Among 50 Warplanes Headed Southward Toward Mediterranean  LIKELY INTERNED FOR WAR’S DURATION  Activity Over Portugal Exceptionally Heavy NDiecnite Rad Weather

12 U.S. Planes Forced Down Over Lisbon  Large Armada Seen Heading Toward African Theatra

PORTUGAL INTERNS AMERICAN AIRMEN   STORMS FORCE 1L PLANES TO LAND ON NEUTRAL SOIL— CREWS SURRENDER.

12 US Planes In Portugal .   "Crews And Machines To Be Interned 

11 YANK PLANES HAVE LANDED ON LISBON AIRFIELD   Bad Weather Conditions May Have Forced Landings on Portuguese Soil

Warplanes Forced Down By Storm, Crews Surrender   11 Airacobra P-39s Involved; 50 Others Stahted Enroute To Mediterranean Area

More Than 50 Planes Continue Southward Through Unfavorable "Weather Conditions

Thomas Denies He Sabotaged Martin Planes   Youth Says He Causec Damage So Defects Would Be Remedied

THOMAS DENIES HE SABOTAGED MARTIN PLANES   Adamstown Man Says He - Only Aggravated Dam’ age Already Done   WILL RESUME TRIAL BEFORE JURY TODAY

Patman. Calls for Jump in Price of Oil   HOUSE GROUP HEAD ASKS PRESIDENT TO OKAY 35-CENT RAISE

PRICE ROLLBACK EVASIONS FOUND   20 Per Cent Violations Are Discovered In OPA Investigation

Race Program For Wednesday   MANY SLAUGHTERERS FAILING TO COMPLY

AUSTRALIA FORCES NEAR LAE; ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCING      Japanese Suffering  Great  Losses In Men, Supplies And Ground

GARRISON REPORTED IN “HOLE”   Japs Are Trapped As AIl _ lied Advance Continues  . =-Bombers Rake Markham Valley.

AUSTRALIANS ONLY 2 MILES EAST OF LAE   Allies Cut Thru 3 Jap Plantation Strong Points

Allied Column ls Only 2 Miles FromLae Goal   Two Other Units Push Rapidly Toward Trapped  Japanese Garrison   NEAR LANDING FIELD   Solomons Enemy Plane Tol! Mounts; Yanks Lose Salamaua ‘Race’

Allies Close in On Nippons At Lae Garrison  Yanks Pursuing Beaten Nips   Yanks Pursuing Beaten Nips From Salamaua

AUSTRALIANS 2 KILES EAST OF LAE TODA’   Alfied Reinforcements Cross. Busu River; Japs Have 300 Cas ualties Up to Tues.

Australians Are But Two Miles East of Lae   Allied Progress Reported in Advance on Base

All of Stalingrad Has Been Ruined _. After the Long Months of Warfare

Pork Ceilings Set, Slaughter Permits Ruled   Fach Wholesale Cut OF Meat Must Have Permit Number Stamp   EFFECTIVE APRIL IST   Ten Zones Set Up Fer Retail Hog Sales With Small, Large Store Lid

Repeal of Tax Law Protested   Officials Say: . Negative Legislature ‘Meeting; Labor Outlook: Dull

MINERS PROTEST TAK BILL REPEAL   Conference Hears Further Criticism of Legislature; Negative Body Now Meeting in Capital, Declared

(Post-War Program Is  Suggested   Immediate Conference:   By Great Bri.ain, U. S And Russia Are Urgec By Churchill

Churchill Proposes Allies Meet to Plan Elimination of War   Awaits Reaction of U. S$. and Russia After Stressing Importance of Complete Cooperation

WAR BANNED UNDER PLANS OF CHURCHILL   Briton -Awaits Reaction To Post-War Proposal Offered in Talk

Churchill Asks Tri Partite Post War Talk   Prime Minister Urge: Angle - American-Russian Conference Immediately   PLAN IS WORLD WIDE   Asia, Europe Councils Propesed; Possible Hitler Defeat In ‘44 Seen

Churchill Proposes Allied Conference On Post-War Set-Up   Prime Minister Urges Immediate Action By Britain, U. S. and Russia To Outlaw War Forever After Axis Defeat

CHURCHILL ASKS ‘FOR CONFERENCE ON POSTWAR AIMS   Awaits U. S. and Russian Reactions to World Speech an Sunday.

SOLDIERS CHARGED UNION DUES, CLAIM   Charge Follows Work When They Met Emergency

Charge Union Takes Dues in Soldier Work   OFFICIAL SAYS WAGE DEDUCTIONS MADE IN VOLUNTEER ARMY LABOR

SOLDIERS PAY UNION DUES   Men Working In Cannery To Relieve Shortage Charged Dues

ADVANCES ~ CONTINUE   British Tank and Infantry / Units May Already Be in Sight of Their Obiective.

British Strearn .  Up ppproaches  To Tripoli. _   Axis Retreats ' At Top Speed  Towards Tunisia.

Axis Abandons Base; Transport Lines Smashed   British. American Air Forces Making ‘Hell’ Out of Axis Retreat

BATTERED AXIS ARMY CONTINUES “TOWARD TUNISIA   Stand Short of Border Unlikely; Base Cap- ture Imminent

DEATH RIDING OVER OMNEL ARMY FLIGHT   Eighth Army Nearing Tripol as Afrika Korps Races Toward Tunisia.   FRIGHTFUL CONFUSIOIN IS HINDERING NAZI RETREAT

NEW BASEBALLS "UNSATISFACTORY   But Investigation Finds the Reason and Makers Will “Make Correction

Will Use New Type Of Cement   Manufacturer Admits First Shipment Has Proved Unsatisfactory

ON SUBSIDIES   Capitol Hill Friend Tells Him Senate Majority Opposed to Plan

Observors Believe Franco’s Peace Pleading Has Failed  Spaniard Asks Seat At Peace Table, Gets Indirect Reply

*{QUSEWIVES AND CHILDREN — ARE ENTERING EMPLOYMENT FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE

U.S. TO RETAIN CONTROL OF RAILROADS   Wage Disputes of 18 Unions Remain to Be Settled

WAGE DISPUTE OF lO HAIL URIOND STILL UNSETTLED   OPA Lists Sharp Cuts in Green stamp Food Costs

PAY DISPUTE “NOT SETTLED   INDICATIONS POINT TO FED“ERAL OPERATION OF RAIL“ROADS. UNTIL AGREE.  MENTS ARE REACHED

Railroad Wage Dispute Remains  To Be Adjustec   Railroads Are In Operation To. day Under Direction Of War Department

Americans Gain In Central Zone   6,000 Prisoners Seized by Allies; Major East Coast Supply Port in Imminent Peril

Yanks Poised. On Nazi Flank; Gabes Shelled   ‘Elite’ of Foe Routed; Allies Win Gruelling BTDav Battle -

British Capture Axis Stronghold   Retreating Nazis Run Gantlet Of Guns; Americans Cut Off Escape As Warships Blast Gabes

British Capture Little Maginot   Yanks Threaten To Block His Passage  Be FEFRAIUATTH WENNERY

Shells, Bombs Blast Foe On  Escape Route   Big Guns of Allied Warships Pound Gabes Area; American Troops Threaten Rommel’s Flank

British Capture Little Maginot.   Yanks Threaten Ti Black Hie Preenna

Americans Poised  To Block Escape      Victory Comes After Eight Days Of Grueling  Battle; Warships Join In Hammering At Retreating Axis Force

‘Rommel'sForcesF leeing Aft er Collapse Of Mareth Line Forts   AXIS RETREAT .PATH IS UNDER BOMBARDMENT

Coastal Path of Nazis Turned Into Perilous Gauntlet  TOWN OF MARETH TAKEN IN ATTACK Fall of Gabes to British Eighth Army Expected

AXIS TROOPS FLEE ALONG BLAZING PATH   British Army Harasges Retreating Foe After Capturing All Strong Points in Mareth Line.   ALLIED WARSHIPS BOMBARD GABES   Rout of Enemy in Tunisia Follows Gruelling Battle— Allies Take 6,000 Prisoners.

British 8th Is Victorious After Gruelling Battle; Warships Bomb Gabes   Every Strongpoint of Little Maginot in Allied Hands; Yanks Gain Heights Near El Guetar

FLANKING BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY PRESSES AXIS ARMY THREATENING IT WITH ANNIHILATION ALONG SEA  COAST.

Escape Appears To Be Almost Cut Off   Montgomery Keeps Up Attack After Mareth Line Is Cracked After Fierce Fighting .

Allied warships close to shore bomb fortifications   British pressure forces ‘fox’? from Mareth Hine after fierce fighting

Rommel Trappec In Narrow Area By Allied Army   surviving Troops Facing Annihilation in Flight to Gabes   Brtish Hold Key Towns and Defeat of Germans Seems Certain

Retreating Nazis  Leave Positions In Allied Hands   Rommel Forces Beset By Rain Of Shells As Soldiers Push To Gabes.

- Climax of Battle for Naples Is _ Near: Yanks Now 20 Miles South of the City

Drafting of Fathers Will Affect * American Families In Many Ways

New Tax Bill Allows Personal Exemption Rates For Entire Year On Babies, Brides Acquired Before First Of July Next Year

HONOR STUDENTS AT DELONE HIGH   Names Of Eighty-Eight Boys And Girls Appear On Roll Announced For Second Six-Weeks Period

HONOR STUDENTS AT DELONE HIGH   Sixty-Six Names Appear On That Roll For First Period, Twenty Of Them Being On First List

Threaten Rostov With New Army 20 Miles Away; Millions Of New Soldiers.

NAZIS STILE REELED BACK BY RUSSIANS   Thunderbolt Advance Imperils Germans At Rostov

House Receives  Anti-Strike Bill   Measure Aimed Primarily ai Coal Dispute Emerges from § Dit aumee Pee ltee

ANTL-STRIKE BILL ON HOUSE FLOOR   Measure So Broad It May Be Used To Outlaw Walkouts In Any War Industry.

LABOR LEADERS ARE CHALLENGED BY STRIKE BILL   Might Outlaw Walkout In Government Plants

HOW DO YOU KNOW   ANTL-STRIKE ACT GIVEN REVISIONS TA WIDEN POWER

OROAD ANTI-STRIKE. BILL EMERGED FOR  ACTION OF HOUSE COULD BE USED TO OUT LAW WALKOUTS IN NATION’S WAR INDUSTRIES

WALKOUTS MAY BE OUTLAWED      President Would Have Power To Control fe Strikes a.   CHALLENGE-TO LABOR      Heavy Penalties Provided For Violations Of Measure

ANTI-STRIKE BILL IS GIVEN GROUP’S 0.K   Broad Measure Would Out: law Walkouts In U. S.Held Plants   SEEN AS CHALLENGE TO LABOR DISPUTES   Legislation Is Sent On To House Today For Next Action

ANTI-STRIKE BILL EMERGES   Would Be Used to Outlaw Walkouts in Any War Industry

Broad Strike  Measure Ready   President Could Take Over War Industries, Outlaw  Walkouts.

Anti-Strike Bill Brought  Before House   Broad Measure Viewed as (Congressional Challenge To Labor Dispute

ANTI-STRIKE BILL AETUIRNS TH HOUSE   Drastic Bill May Forbid Walkout in Any War Plant in Nation

ANTI-STRIKE. BILL SCOPE BROADENED   ew Measure Might Block An) War Plant Walkout.

Bill Aimed At Coal Strikes Goes To House   Establishes WLB As Agency With Subpoena Powers To Halt Walkouts

Anti-Strike Bill Framed By Committee   Measure Intended to Outlaw Walkouts in War Industry Prepared  HOUSE PLANS ACTION

ANTISTRIKE BILL « TO BE CHALLENGE IN WAR STRIKES   Joint Committee Completes Work, Punitive Features - Polished, House Action {s Possibly First.    ROOSEVELT’S ATTITUDE REMAINS AS DOUBTFUL   $5000 Fine, Year In Prisor Provided as Penalties For Instigating Strikes In War Plants.

STRIKE MEASURE BEFORE HOUSE   Punitive Features Of Bill Accepted By Joint Conference Committee

Corregidor Is U. S. “Holy Grail’, MacArthur Declares   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Thursday.

County Agents Seek Workers   Make Effort to Relieve Farm Labor Shortage

LITTORIO RAIL YARDS LEVELED IN BIG ATTACK   Two-Mile Long Stretch Of City Laid Waste By Bombers

Rome’s Huge Rail Yards Completely Destroved   Area Twe Miles Long And 100 Yards Wide Is A Mass Of Craters And Twisted Steel

NAZI OFFICERS SAID SHOT AS REVOLT SPREADS; AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES GAINING   Strategical Points Menaced By Seventh, Eighth Armies; Huge Damage Caused By First Raid On Rome By Allied Fliers

MORE THAN 500 U.-S. BOMBERS IN RAID ON ROWE ON MONDAY   FREIGHT YARDS BLASTED WITH MUCH ROLLING STOCK DESTROYED

FREIGHT YARDS! IN ROME MASS TWISTED RAILS   Marshalling System ‘Com pletely Destroyed,’ Aerial  Photographs of Damage Reveal   AMMUNITION TRAIN SEEN TO EXPLODE   ?  Axis Propagandists Charges of Indiscriminate Bombing Belied By Neutral Reports

Federal Employe _ Nabbed As A Spy  Espionage Charged After Seizure By FBI

Latin-American Employe of U. S. Agency Is Held on Espionage Charge

FBI NABS U. S, WORKER AS SPY   South American Translator Is Held for Espionage After Using Secret Ink

TRANSLATOR FACES ESPIONAGE CHARGE   South American Admits Guilt To FBI

CAPITAL TRANSLATOR HELD FOR ESPIONAGE   Confesses ‘He Sent Secret Information to Nazis

SOUTH AMERICAN SEIZED AS SPY   FBI SAYS ACCUSED SENT INFORMATION ABROAD ON WU. S. DEFENSE EFFORTS.

NAB oPY Wad) SENT DEFENSE DATA TO NAZIS   FBI Arrests Translator in Washington Office of Inter-Am. Affairs.   TRIED TO GET PRETTY MODEL AS ASSISTANT

FBI Arrests Translator For Federal Bureau As Suspected Agent Of Nazi Government

Townsend Is Selected For Special Post   Former Governor Of Indiana Is Selected To Represent Davis In New Program

PLAN NATIONAL FOOD PROGRAN   M. Clifford Townsend Named Special Representative By Dabis.

Food Program  Of US. To Be Streamlined More Powers To Be  Given State And Local Governments

Labor Front Quiet After Strike Threat   RAIL CRISIS OVER AS ALABAMA STEELMEN VOTE WALKOUT END

D PLANES CHECK NAZIS IN TUNISIA FIGHT   ‘Troops Occupy New  Towns; Romme!  Falls Back   BRITISH STILL FEELING OUT THE MARETH LINE

British Move Up Big Guns for All-Out Assault on Mareth Line  BWRNDTANTA OOMTIDIDN.,   FERIANA OCCUPIED  Rommel Legions Beaten Back to Gafsa; Try to  Pjarcea Raia T inac

“New Rommel Thrusts Are ‘Checked In North Tunisia   NAZI COUNTER BLOWS FUTILE. SOVIETS SAY

ROMMEL GOES ON TOWARD GAFSA ~—ALUIES ADVANCE   Northern Pushes of Enemy Thrown Back—Air Attack Aided.

Feriania Retaken; Allies Capture 900 Prisoners   Rommel Dents Allied Line In One Sector, Retreats On Other

Axis Thrusts In Northern Tunisia Checked   Indications Are  Feriana Occupied Re Alliad Traanc

CAGLIARI BATTERED   Feriana In South Is Believed Taken By Allied Forces

SHIP GOAL OVER TOP   1942-43 Goal Of 24,000,000 Deadweight Tonk Passed

Goal of 24,000,000 Deadweight. Tons Already Met With Month to  Co for New Record   164 VESSELS:OF ALL — TYPES IN NOVEMBER   Record Output of 8,789  Planes for November Announced; Warship Production Hits New High

Shipbuilding Goal For Nation Has Been Beaten  “Impossible” Total Bettered With Month to Spare

CHINABASED MMITCHELL-BOMBER RAID FORMOSA *  - ‘All American - Planes. 4

Ordinances On Handbills Are Ruled Invalid   Literature Distribution By Members Of Sect Is Legal, Members Of Supreme Court Decide

FDR Believes In Future Unity  Says United Nations Will Stick Together In Post-War Period

Will Stay United   President Believes United Nations to Work For Peace

(Continued On Lage Four)  FOOD PARLEY IS HIGHLY PRAISED BY ROOSEVELT,

FDR CONFIDENT OF POST-WAR UNITY      President Cites Results (7) 0 Food Conference

U.S. TO ‘FORGET’ OHIO TIME FIGHT   Federal Agencies, ICC Wil Continue On War Time

TWO TIMES LIKELY IN OHIO IN FUTURE   Government Washes Hands of Rumpus Over Clocks

Clock Chaos Seen Ahead By Officials   ‘Double Standard’ Looming If State Turns Honde Bex«L

HTALIAN AND VICHY UNITS OPEN DRIVE ON FRENCH REBELS   Open Warfare Looms in Haute-Savoie Province as Patriots Ignore Nazi Surrender Ultimatum.

Full Seale Battle Appears Forming  Guerrilla Armies in Alps Led by French and British Officers—Hills Dynamited

Guerrilla Fighting Is Turning Into Real Battle On Haute-Savoie Border

Nazis Rush Troops Int Alpine Area   British Planes. Dropping Arms To Patriots

Italian troops Supporting Vichy Forces   Many Clashes Between Patriots and Fascists Have Reen Revorted

Italian, Vichy Forces Start Drive Against French Guerrilla. Army

PATRIOT BANDS DEFY NAZIS IN FRENCH HILLS   Ignore Ultimatum 1 Give Up; Guerrilla War Looms

French Guerillas Fight Nazi Troops   Patriots Assisted By British Officers

BATTLING IS NEAR IN EAST FRANCE   ‘French Guerillas Have Refused  To Surrender

NAZIS REINFORCE VICHY TROOPS IN  ALPINE FIGHTINE   Experts In Guerrilla Warfare Leading French Patriots In Revolt.

Japs Claim They Know Shangri-La  U.S. Needn‘t Announce Location, Enemy Says

THE JAPS CLAIM THEY KNOW WEL!   Where Aircraft Came From That Bombed Tokvo Year Ago

"Shangri-La" Carrier Hornet Japanese Declare; War Department Is Silent

Shangri-la Is No Mystery, Japs Say   Announcement Made By U.S. Won't Be Surprise, They Add

Food Supplies of Eating Places Will  Be Reduced To Remove ‘Inequalities’

DEADLINE IN MINE STRIKE  HAS BEEN SE]   FEDERAL OPERATION OF COAL MINES MAY BE ORDERED BEFORE END OF WEEK

COAL STRIKERS GIVEN DEADLINE   Roosevelt Will Get Case Thursday; May Mean Mine Seizure

Join U. S. As States, Allies Are Urged   England, Australia Get Hint From Tribune

Russians Repulse Nazi Thrusts on All Fronts   Germans Jab at Reds in Largest Scale Enemy Activity in Several Weeks

REDS REPULSE AS AXIS MAKES JABS   Americans Gain Foothold on High Ground In Battle on Attu Island.

NAZI ATTACKS REPULSED BY RUSSIANS   Four Strategic Southern Front Points Assautied

NAZIS’ BIG SCALE MOVE ON SOUTHERN FRONT IS REPULSED   Soviet Lines At Four Vital Points Hold — German Bombers Become Active

Senators Give War Report At  Closed Session   Allied Effort Criticized And Praised By Five Senators Back From  Tour Of Fighting Areas

*hotographer for Life ‘aking Picture Series it Santo Domingo Pueblo

Jap Internees To Be Studied  Tila Laka Raginn   Tule Lake Region Said Quiet

GAIN GROUND . FROM SOUTH AND THE WEST   Pierce Meager Enemy, Rear Guard Defenses’ Below Enfidaville as Other Troops Advance in Mediez-el-Bab Sector.

AxisDriven Into Tight Tunisia Arc   . {Assoclated Press) Rommel Reerguard is Smashed near Enfidayille; Air Superiority Tells

Allies Gain More Ground On Rommel!  Circle Of Steel Closing In On Axis Armies

Are Pushing the Enemy Into a Steadily Contracting Area in the Northern Tip of Tunisia.   BRITISH 8TH ARMY NOW AT ENFIDAVILLE   Nearly the Whole of the Italian Vittoria Division Has Been Captured, the Algiers Radio Said.

Allies Push Enemy Into Contracting Tip of No. Tunisie   British Eighth Army Occupies Place 27 Miles From Sousse

AlliedPursuers Gain Ground on Both the South and '. the West   AXig IN SMALL SPACE   Beeman’ Radio Says Counterattock Checked 8th Army Progress

PUSH AXIS ARMY INTO BOX ALONG TUNISIAN COAST   ROMMEL MAINTAINS WITHDRAWAL UNDER CONSTANT PRESSURE

ALGIERS RADIO  STATES BRITISH ‘AT ENFIDAVILLE   London Quarters Think “Fox” Has 210,000 Men in Tunis-Bizerte Area

Trap Closes on Axis in Tunisia   AMERICAN, BRITISH PILOTS CLEAR SKY AS DOCKS AND AIR FIELDS ARE BLASTED; MONTGOMERY, EISENHOWER VOW END OF AXIS

‘Troops Back Of Mountain Siege Line   Stage Set for Blazing Finale to Battle Of North Africa

British Vanguards At Enfidaville; Practically Entire Italian Division Cantured.

Axis Hammered Steadily Toward Tip Of Tunisia   Montgomery's Mer Continue Pressure On Retreating Foe

ARMOR BRE REAR DEFENSES   Axis Army Gradually Driven Toward Top of Tun 2   }ALLIES GAIN IN WEST

Air and Sea Blows Struck  In Solomons  eR we      - fensive in Pacific Seen : in Wachingtion   'NO LOSS REPORTED   Six Smashing Bomber Attacks Made hy U. S.  Fliers on Aleutian Base

Strike Kiska And Objectives In Solomons   Russians Take Initiative In Donets Basin

U, §, LAUNCHES DAWN-TO-DUSK RAIDS ON KISKA   Smashing Navy Attacks May Be Prelude to Spring Drive in Pacific

Dawn-To-Dusk Series Of Raids Made On Kiska   Heaviest Concentrated Attack As Yet Made On Jap Base In Aleutians   NAVY BOMBARDS BASE IN SOLOMONS

Neutral Nations Asked to ‘Grant No Asylums to War Criminals Seeking Safety

ASK NEUTRALS TO BAR GUILTY   Nations Requested Not to Grant Asylum to Hitler, Mussolini, Others

Urges Neutrals Not fo Shelfer War Criminals  Rancaval+t Racked   Roosevelt Backed by Britain, Russia in Stand

Roosevelt Asks Neutral Nations To Bar Enemie:   Opposes Giving Asylum To Axis Leaders or "Other Criminals”

BRITISH CABINET — HOLDS 2 MEETINGS   Everywhere the e Tide of War Running for the Allies; Again Attacked   FDR Calls Upon Neutrals   Not To Aid War Criminals

NEW VICTORY IS MARKED UP FOR RUSSIANS   WHOLE HITLER LINE IMPERILED; ROSTOV TOTTERING

TALL PERILS ENTIRE NAZI DEFENSE LINE   City Occupied After Violent Assault — Soviet Triumph Puts Kharkov in Grave Danger.   REDS MAKE GAINS IN ROSTOV AREA   Muscovites Besiege Town From South While Another Column Moves Down From North.

THINK INVASION HOUR IS CLOSE   General Marshall Nominated To Head British, American Troops  VICTORIES WINDFALL

INVASION BY CHANNEL MAY WAIT UNTIL 1944   .ondon Expects Full-Scale Balkan Blow This Year

Balkan Invasion This Year, Western Europe Next, Seen After Churchill Talk 

ALLIES MAY» INVADE BALKANS THIS YEAR ©   Full-Scale Assault On Nazi Europe May . Come Next Spring

ALLIED INVASION OF BALKANS TilS YEAR IS LIKEL'   Such A Move Followed By Full Scale Assault On Western Europe Next Spring Seen As Probable; British Aerial Supremacy Is Noted.

U.S. General !s Speeding Plans For Afl-Out Blows At Once   British Hesitate To Attack Western Furone This Year

Balkan Invasion  Seems Probable   Full Scale Assault on Western Europe Next Spring  Also Likely.

Allies May Invade Balkans This Year With Full-Scale Assault Next Spring

Early Invasion Of Balkans Seer By War Experts   Western Europe Drive Expected To Come in Spring

Balkan Invasion Seems Probable During The Year   Churchill's Rev lew Gives Hope

Balkan Blow Slated Next   Invasion by Allies Expeeted: This. Year

Allied Drive Into Balkan Area Is Due   Full-Scale Assault On Western Europe Mapped For Spring, . British Observers Opine   MARSHALL SLATED AS SUPREME CHIEF   Nomination of American As Global Commander Is Seen As Prelude to Early Invasion

Speculate Over Invasion Plans   Thrust Through Balkans Probable?

LARGE BOMBER FORCE BOMBS FRENCH TOWNS   Round-The-Ciock Bombings Now In Third Day

RAF HITS NAZ ROUTE TO TALY   Mont Cenis Tunnel Ir France Is Target; Berlin Bombed

BERLIN BOMBED BY RAF PLANES   Enemy's Supply Routes te Italy Also Attacked In Night Forays

A LARGE FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS SWEPT  DEEP INTO FRANCE   ‘Made a Concentrated Attack on Enemy Railway  Stations.   MODANE WAS OBJECTIVE   Mosquitos Again Hit at Ber. lin, It Was Announced Today.

BIG TUNNEL ON FRONTIER 1S BLASTED   Railway Stations Over Which Nazis Reach Italy Wrecked

Night Bombers Hit Southeast Europe  Disrupt Nazi Lines; Berlin Attacked

War Plants In France Blasted   RAF Strikes At Nazi Efforts To Rush Reinforcements To Italy

SKY RAID RUINS AXIS RAIL HUB   MODANE IS SMASHED AS MOSQUITOES STAB BERLIN

RAF BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN LINES TO ITALY   Rails at Modane on French-Halian Frontier Blasted, Mosquitos Raid Berlin   FORTS HIT NANTES   Cognac Airfields, U-Boal Pens at La Pallice Also Strafed by U. S. Bombers

RAF Strikes ‘At Axis:Rail Lines To Italy   Berlin. Again Hit By Mosquitos As Attack Resumed

MOSQUITO BOMBERS HIT BERLIN AGAIN; OTHER OBJECTIVES  ENEMY RAIL STATIONS SOUTHEAST FRANCE ALSO BLASTED

ANF BOMBERS POUND TUNNEL INTO VTALY   Berlin Also Raided By British During Night’s Operations

DRULSH BUMB FRANCE-ITALY RAIL ROUTES   Seek To Isolate Nazis On Peninsula; Berlin Again Hit: American Fortresses   Aetive.

RAF Pounds Nazi Troop Route In Alps   Franco-ltalian Border Railways Are Blasted; Berlin Gets New Raid   HIT NEAR TUNNEL   British Attacks Follow Record U. S. Fortress Blow In Biscay Area

Bomber Sweeps Threat To Foe Bolstering Line   LY & Strike To Prevent Rush Of Nazi. Reinforcements To Italian Battleground

RAF BOMBERS SWEEP DEEP INTO FRANCE   Mosquitos Again Bomb Berlin. Lancasters Bomb Viaduct Near St. Raphael

BRITISH PLANES SMASH RAIL LINES INTO ITALY, HARASS REICH CAPITAL

RAF Strikes. Targets Deep InFrance   Nazi Supply Route Blasted; -

BERLIN NERVES “ JANGLE -ANEW   RAF and Fortresses Send ' Blasts to France and » Germany

FACTORIES IN SOUTH FRANCE ARE ATTACKED   British Raids Carry Into Third Day New Roundthe-Clock Bombing Spurt   GERMAN CAPITAL HIT

Rail Route On French-Italian  Border Blasted   R. A. F. Strikes Heavily At Channel For German Reinforcements.

Drys Present Option Measure In The Senate   Bill Would Make Township Local Option Vote Possible—Police, Firemen Bill Is Presented.

KATSER-BUILT SHIP CRACKS AND SINKS   Giant Tanker First to-Be Built at New Swan Is- land Yard.

TANKER SPLITS OPEN, FOUNDERS   Officials Report no Traces of Sabotage

BIG KAISER TANKER BREAKS AND SINKS   eee  No Indication of Sabotage Found in Investigation

MACARTHUR REPORTS BOMBING ASSAULT ON IMPORTANT FOE BASE   Australians Report Enemy Massing Great Armada for Attack; Yanks Win Fight on Guadalcanal

TEN NIPPONESE VESSELS SUNK   Bombers Pound Rabaul; Enemy Cornered In New Guinea

Allied Heavy Planes Shower Large Bombs On Harbor at Rabaul  AUSTRALIA WARNS OF ENEMY ARMADA  Possible Preparation For New Jap Offensive Seen in Pacific Move

ALLIES FIRE 9 ENEMY SHIPS AT RABAUL      Raid Follows News Of Huge Armada Japs Are Assemblying In The Southwest D.°f:..   6 Japs Drowned

FALL OF SlGil ~ MATTER OF OAYS   Yanks Take Nicosia While Canadians Nab Agira   NEARER MESSINA   ‘Peace Hinges on Italy Ousting Germans; Eisenhower Radios Peace Terms   Rome Radio Says Allied  Peace Terms Too Drastic

ALLIED PEACE TERMS DRASTIC, ROME DECLARES   Radio Says Britain Striving   Oaly To Destroy Italy As A Nation   MARSHAL DISSOLVES FASCIST PARTY UNIT

FAIR ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS RATIFY EXHIBITION PLANS  - FOOD FOR FREEDOM AN  RODEO WILL BE STAGED

FAIR ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS RATIFY EXHIBITION PLANS   FOOD FOR FREEDOM AND RODEO WILL BE STAGED HERE SEPT. 14-18

JAP-HELD ISLE BEING ATTACKED BY TASK FORCE   Japs Report Blow First; May Be Major Action

Japanese Base Attacked by Warship Force  Manke s'hallanna   Yanks Challenge Enemy Navy to Battle in Pacific

Powerful Force of Planes _ and Ships in Raid on   Marcus Island   SOUTHEAST OF TOKYO   Washington Indicates Battle May Still Be in Prog” ress Today

PLANES, SHIPS RAID JAP-HELD MARCUS ISLAND   Attack At Dawn Is Staged By Carrier Task Force On Base 1,200 Miles From Nip Capital   JAPANESE WORRIED OVER DARING MOVE   Tokyo Reveals Assault In Radio Broadcast Before Washington Issues Navy Bulletins

New Attack Carries War Nearer Tokyo   Warships and Planes Batter Vital Taraet

Japan Worried By Attack In Area   {slands Only 1,200 Miles From Tokyo —~Japan Heads Warn Mainland Could Have Been Attacked — Raid Seen as Challenge to the Japanese Fleet

Yank Task Force Seeks Foe Flest In Nippon Waters   Carrier Planes Also Hit Outpost 1,200 Miles From damanese Capital

Jap Outpost Is Raided By Ships, Planes   \tHack On Island 1,100 Miles From Tokyo! By Carrier Task Force Is Announced By Navy Department — Heavy Damage Indicaied By Japanese Radio Report

Big U.S. Armada Sweeps on Base   YANKS HURL POWERFUL FORCE OF WARPLANES, SHIPS AGAINST ENEMY STRONGHOLD iN NIPPO HOME WATERS; “ATTACK IS IN PROGRESS”

Raids Still Going On, Washington Reports, In Challenge Note   Virtual “Come Out And Fight” Challenge Put Before Japs As American Warships Only 1,200 Miles From Homeland Of Nipponese

Japanese Fleet Js  Challenged in Sea {t Claims To Have Under Its Control

Powerful Force Hurled Against Marcus Island   Shells And. Bombs Poured - Onto. Vital Enemy Defenses 1,200 Miles Off Tokyo

NAVY REPORTS CARRIER FORCE RAIDS MARCUS   Tokyo Earlier Had Said Planes And Ships Were Stabbing  At Outpost   FEAR MAINLAND ATTACK   New Allied Thrust Smashes Nippon Air Installations At Wewak

Powerful Force of Planes ': and-Ships in Raid on ' <*Marcus Island .       SOUTHEAST OF TOKYO   Washington Indicates Bata May Still Be in Prog- "yess Today

Rattl. Mow naging; May be - Part Of Major Offensive   us Islands Part Of Jap Outer Ring Of -_ Defenses; 1200 Miles From Tokyo   JAPANESE SEEM TO BE WORRIED   Tokyo Radio Points Out Task Force Now At Marcus Could Have Hit Japan, Itself

NAVY CONFIRMS JAP BROADCAST ON NEW THRUST   Authorities Say > Raid Under Way This Morning

Hit Marcus Island Only 1200 Miles  From Jap Capital           Attack By U. 8. Carrier Tas Believed in Progress. By Navy; Outpos* “uards Vital Positions

New Offensive In Pacifie Launched   Tokyo Sounds A Warning To Its Populace As Americans Attack 900 Miles North Of Wake

*Planes and Guns of Yank Navy Carry War to Jap-Owned Island for Second Time — Nips Are Badly Worried.

CARRIER TASK FORCE RAIDS MARCUS ISLE   Nips Say Many Planes. and Guns Begin Dawn Assault on Base, Which Is 1,200 Miles Southeast of Japan Proper.

Tokyo Broadcast Report That Planes and Guns of American Naval Force Had Hit the Island at Dawn.   STATEMENT ISSUED ‘BY NAVAL SPOKESMAN   He Virtually Confirmed the Tokyo Assertion; Marcus Island Is 1200 Miles Southeast of Tokyo.

U.S. NAVY FORCE IS AFTER BASE CLOSER TOJAPAN   Planes and Ships Launch Attack for Strategic Pacific Outpost   DETAILS NOT YET GIVEN   Japs Worried Because of Increased Danger of Bombs on Homeland

CARRIERS AND. WARSHIPS HIT NEARER TOKYO   Navy Says Attack Probably Now in Progress on Marcus.   JAPANESE MAKE FIRST REPORT: NAVY FOLLOWS:

Carrier Task Force Pounds Defense Base   Attack Is Second On Outpost 1,200 Miles From Tokyo

Marcus, 1ZU0 Miles rrom Tokio Hit By Task Force Of Shins And Planes

BattleSull  In Progress, Says Account   [sland But 1,200 Miles From Tokyo And 900 Northwest Of Wake; Yanks Seek Foe’s Fleet

AMERICAN RAID ON MARCUS ISLAND [5 REPORTED TONAY   JAPANESE APPARENTLY GREATLY WORRIED OVER NEW ACTION

FLEET INVITES ENEMY TO COME OUT AND FIGHT   Marcus Island, 1,200 Miles From Tokio, Object of Attack

Ke  J aps Challenged To Naval Battle Near Own Island   Navy Says Attack Ma Still Be In Progress

FORCE IN RAID   island 1,200 Miles East of Tokyo, 900 Miles North west of Wake,   IS CHALLENGE TO FOE

Strikes Far in Enemy Waters In Bold Attack On Marcus Isle   Planes Also Blast Base 900 Miles Past Wake Island

Marcus Island, Near Nipponese Mainland, Hit   Enemy Outpost Is Only 1,200 Miles From Japan's Capital

MARCUS ISLAND BOMBED AND SHELLED   Jap Broadcast Warns People U. S. Could Have Raided Mainland If It Had Wanted To

[sland But 1,200 Miles From Tokyo Being Bombarded   Action Reported By Navy Department Is First Against Enemy-Held Outpost Guarding Vital Nipponese Positions in Pacific   EXTENT OF ACTION NOT REVEALED IN CAPITAL

Carrier Task Force Hits Marcus Island Vicinity; Enemy Hit AtNew Guines

CHALLENGE JAP NAVY IN RAID ON OUTPOST BASE   Washington Indicates Operations Continuing in Nippon Home Water:

First Report OfU.S. Raid  From Tokyo   Task Force Equipped with Planes Presumed Still Attacking Island .

No News Yet On Any Simultaneous Blows Elsewhere   Island is Only 1,200 Miles From Tokyo. Jap Broadcast Issues Warning to People of Japan.

Marcus Island Base Aitacked By Big Force   “Could Have Raided Mainland If He Wanted To,’ ToKyo Saysin Reporting Push   NAVY ANNOUNCES RAID IN PROGRESS   Such a Show of Confidence Indicates-Ability to Meet Any Opposition Offered

Pacific Fleet Challenges Nip Home Sea Power   Tokyo Announces Action; Located 1200 Miles From Jap Capital.   Carrier Task Force Worries Tojo’s Staff

Fleet hurls challenge to Japs to fight   Planes aiding raid on outpost

NavyBlasts At Bases in Jap Waters   Islands 1,200 Miles Southeast of Tokyo; Nips Worried.

SHELLS, BOMBS ARE RAINED ON MARCUS ISLAND   CARRIER TASK FORCE POUNDNG BASE NEAR NIPPONESE MAINLAND

Ships, Planes : Invade Enemy’s Home Waters   Powerful Carrier Task Force Blasts . Nipponese Base in Attack ‘Still in Progress,’ Washington Announces

Navy Announces Carrier Task Force Raid On Jap Island 1,200 Miles Southeast Of Tokyo ‘Presumably Is In Progress; Japs Had Previously Announced Attack With Warning “It Could Have Been The Mainland.”’

‘Navy Announces Raid Se er To day ‘Presumably in Progress After Tokyo Rexort   CHALLENGES JAPS   Tokyo Radio Points Out Americar Force Could Have Struck at Ja. pan Itself

Carrier Task Force And Big Guns Blast Jap Base 1200 Miles From Tokyo

Boy Points Finger At His Unele  Tells Of Brutal Beating Of Siste  DW. been  Mines

Operators and Miners Resume Their Meeting   Southern. Owners Threaten to End Conference

Operators And Miners Mark Time   Resume Meeting: But Have Little To Talk About

FD To Enter Coal Strike   President Expected To Take Action Scon

Backs War Board To Limit; Lewis Has ‘NoComment’   President Reported Ready To Back Ultimatum With Draft Laws, Use Of Troops If Needed; : To Negotiate After Work Starks

CIO-AFL War Board Called To Special Conference Today   UMW Fails To Have Representative on Committee, Expect Coal Situation To Be Discussed

No Hint of Steps To End Coal Strike   Phil Murray Says Coal Not Mentioned

WANT COAL OUTPUT RESUMED FIRST BEFORE MEETING   WLE Has Forbid Operators and Miners to Bargain While Men are on Strike

White House  Strike parley Reported On   President Expected to Act, Possibly Late Today or Tomorrow, Against ©. Crippling Walkout as WLB.  Plans National Dim-Out. “

Command [s Anticipated For Today   Full Report On Strike Is Given At White House.

CIO-AFL War Labor Board In Conference   Possibility of Action Before Late Today Appears Remote

joint Union Board called To Parley; ‘VLB Order Holds   Decisive Action Before Late Today ‘Not Likely, According To Early; Byrnes Believed Participating

Miners May Be Ordered Back to Pits   Problem Thrown: Into Roosevelt's  Lap by WLB

FDR Reported Set To Order Miners Back To Work; WLB Ritterly Flaus (] MW Chiet

Action Strike Lookes            INDICATIONS ARE THAT HE HAS] DECIDED WHAT ACTION IS TO TAKEN TO END COAL WALKOU

President Conters On Mine Walkout:  Action Is Planned   No Hint Given of Decisions at Meeting—Dispute Lands at White House After a Bitter Exchange of Words

CONTINUE TALKS AS WLB FICHTS FOR SURVIVAL   nm Ue Back-to-Work Movements Spread As Nation Awaits President's Action.

LEWIS RESPONDS WITH AN ATTACK ON THE WAR LABOR BOARD; STRIKE HAS NO PARALLEL IN U.S. HISTORY.

FDR BACKS. WL IN BATTLE WITH UNION LEADERS      Use of Troops, Draft Action Seen as Next Step if Miners Disobey

Drastie Steps Likely in Case Ruling Ignore   President May Resort To Troops, Draft Laws or Other Acts; Union Heads Mum

STRIKERS TOLD TO RETURN TO POSTS MONDAY   Drastic Measures Reported in Store if Order of Commander-in-Chief ls Disobeyed—No Action on Dispute Until Work Resumed

» CHIEF EXECUTIVE DISCUSSES COAL » ISSUE WITH CI0   Possibility of Quick Action Is Believed Remote—AFL Also Represented

EVIDENCE SEEN BYRNES ACTIVE BEHIND SCENES   No Direci Indication Coal Crisis te be Discussed with AFL and CIC Leaders a

COAL CRISIS AWAITS WORD OF PRESIDENT   No Action Expected Until Late Today Or Friday   W. MB. DIRECTOR   Believed Working Behind Scenes With Roosevelt To End Stoppage

MEETING  HELIN: WHITE HOUSE   FDR And Byrnes Working Behind  Scenes for Harmony

Action Would Sustain Labor Board Position In Its Controversy  With Lewis and UMW.  FULL REPORT GIVEN TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE Further Bargaining Called off by WLB, Lewis Hotly Assailed

WILL USE DRASTIC MEASURES IN THE EVENT ANY DISOBEY; NO ACTION ON PAY CONTROVERSY DURING STRIKE.  & > : a te

President Believed Planning Action In Mine Controversy   Activities in Washington Indicate That New War Mobilization Director and Chief Executive Are Working Behind Scenes   JOINT WAGE CONFERENCE IS RESUMED TODAY

White House and James G. Byrnes, War Mobilization Director, Working Behind Scenes to End Coal Strike It Is Indicated

Expect FDR Work Order To Miners   President Reported Ready to Take Drastic Steps if Needed to End Walkout By Monday

Disposition of case to be  continued as soon as men have returned to war work   Roosevelt backs WLB to limit; may resort to use of troops if necessary

CDR MAY           Authoritative Sour Says He Is Prepared. Direct Men to Retu _at Old Pay Rates.       ACTION WOULD . _UPHOLD THE WLR            President Gets Full’ Re port of Walkout’ a Conference — Boar Says Union Flouts Lay

Labor Board Is Called Today To White House   No - Negotiation Ac Still Stands A: American Mine: Closed

LEFT IN LAP OF PRESIDENT FOR ACTION   Coal Issue Is Struggle 0 Personalities—Lewis, Roosevelt

F.D.R.Backs WLB, Monday Deadline Is Set for Return   Drastic Measures Are Reported In Store for 500,000 Strikers  {In Event They Disobey Order, Including Troops and Draft Law

Roosevelt Expected To Order Miners To Work Monday or Else   President May Act Late Today or Friday; To Have Drastic Plan in Reserve

Full Powers As War Head _ May Be Used   Selective Service Act ~ Powers May Also Be Invoked

‘May Order Miners To Work Monday   President Said to Have Program of Drastic Action ; Needed   USE WARTIME POWER   Executive's Advisers Are Confident Strike. Can  Be Ended

Nation Awaits Showdown’ Over Mine Walkout   War Production Is At Stake In Roosevelt, Lewis Feud

High Labor Chiefs Or CIO, AFL Get Call to White House   Advisory Board Receives Summons For Conference With Roosevelt; Immediate Action Believed Remote

TOEND STRIKE   Back to Work Order May Come Soon; May Take Drastic Action.   TROOPS MAY BE USED

FDR Confers With CIO-AFL Chiefs In White House Meet   Evidence Seen That White House Officials, Byrnes Are Working Behin’: The Scenes To Bring Strike To Conclusion

FDR Calls War Labor Board For Confab Amid Signs Of Action To End Strike Today   Behind Scene Effort Being Made To Terminate Walkout Of Miners

FDR Demands Miners Resume Jobs   President Supports WLB, Declares Work Must Continue

Roosevelt Expected To Take Some Actior To Restore Production Of Nation’s Coal

President May Order Miners Back To Work   More Drastic Action Is! Held In Reserve For, Use If Work Is Not! Resumed Monday 

Three Ways te Deal With Lewis’ Miners Open to Presiden   Presidential Action Now Expected Before Late Today or Friday

Drastic Action To Be Taken If He Isn’t Heeded   It Is Believed Back-to-Work Order May Come Late Today or Friday.   To Use His Wartime  Powers If Necessary

FDR May Tell Miners To Take Up Their Jobs   Indications Are That President Will Issue Orders Following Conference This Afternoon.

COAL MINERS ARE ORDERED BACK TC WORK ON MONDAY’   President Roosevelt Is Prepared to Make the Order, It Is Announced.   EXPECTED LATE TODAY   A Program of More Drastic Action Ready If His First Demand Is Unheeded.

Presidential Action On Work. Stoppage Expected  MINERS IDLE  Three Possible Roads Seen Open For cmno

Evidence That *Vhite House And James F.  Byrnes Are Working Behind The Scenes

Back to Work Command, Pending Pay Agreement, Forecast as Next Move   Roosevelt Holds Long Conference With Ickes, Byrnes, Labor Board; Lewis Charges Board Acts Illegally in Ordering Negotiations Ended

Miners Might Be Ordered to Return To Pits Monday   Military Rule Is Possible If All Other Plans Fail

Labor Body Meets At White House   FDR And Byrnes May Be Working Behind Scene To Bring Strike To Conclusion

President Reported Ready to Use Troops if  . His Demands Are Ignored and to Invoke Draft Law Against Idle Strikers—Action. Apparently Ushers In Long-Awaited Showdown With Lewis. —

Drastic Action Likely If UMW Ignores Demant   Full War-Time Powers Of Chief Face Strikers

Operators Make Threat To Break  Up Conference   Declare Discussidii of Issues Out Until WLB Gives Order

AFL-CIO BOARD 10 WHITE HOUSE   Direct Action on Strikes Expected Today or Friday

President Calls CIO-AFL Labor War Board Meet   But Possibility Is Remote Of Any Action Before Tomorrow On Coal Strike; UMW Thave Ne Representative In Grann

UNION LABOR BOARD CALLED ~ BY PRESIDENT   Increased Signs of Action Are Apparent In Coal Dispute   THREE POSSIBLE COURSES ARE OPEN   No Decision Expected Before Late Today or Tomorrow

President Acts To Put Halt to Coal Dispute   Coal Situation Remains Tangled Throughout Nation

Roosevelt toTake Action Today, Report Declares   Men Would Be Directed to Resume Work at Current Pay Rates Pending Settlement of Demands

Miners And Operators Meet But No Discussior  Of Contract Is Allowed

IFDR May Order Miners To Go ‘Back To Work   Program of Drastic Action in Reserve If First Demands Are Not Met. Back To Work Order Mav Come Late Todav.

CIO-AFL War Board Called  into Session   No Action Seen o1 on Coal Mine Crisis Until Friday or Late Today

 Meanwhile Lewis and Coal Oper { ators Reconvere Wage-Hour Conference Despite WLB Suspension Of Negotiations   ANGEY SHOUTING iS HEARD IN CONFERENCS

PREPARED, HOWEVER, TO ORDER LEWIS MEN BACK TO DIGGING COAL  DRASTIC ACTION INIIMATED IF URGING FAILS GET RESULTS

Men Ordered Back to Pits By President   More Drastic Action To Be Forthcoming If Roosevelt's Demand To Return to Work Monday Is Unheeded

MEETING WITH CIO-AFL LABOR WAR BOARD SET   Members Called For Conference At White House Today   THREE ROADS OPEN   Byrnes Relieved Working Behind Scenes To End Stoppage

PREPARED, HOWEVER, TO ORDER LEWIS MEN BACK TO DIGGING COAL   RADACTIC ACTION INTT.   DRASTIC ACTION INTIMATED IF URGING FAILS GET RESULTS

F. D. R. Orders Miners Back to Work Monday   Old ‘contract to  prevail; walkout: in wartime branded as “‘defiance of U.S.”

President Talks Over Plans with Byrnes and Ickes   3elieved Considering Personal Action in Grave Crisis   lewis and War Labor Board Exchange Bitter Statements

May Order Miners To Work Monday   President Said to Have Program of Drastic Action  If Needed   USE WARTIME POWER   Executives Advisers Are ee Strike Can  ed

Calls CIO-AFLLabor War Board To White House:  ‘Bargaining Is Renewed

JOHN L. LEWIS DRAWS IRE OF LABOR BOARD   STOPPAGE OF MINE OUTPUT ALREADY BEING FELT

White House Is Silent on Steps To Be Taken   Prolonged Conference Bitter Exchange by Lewis and WLB

White House Receives Full Report   Current Rates of Pay Would Be Used Until Settlement

Drastic Action Seen if Workers Fail to Comply.   Plan Involves Use Of President’s Wartime Power

ACTION DECIDED, BELIEF; OWNERS, LEWIS CONFER   Operators Refusing to Disenss “Issues,” However; President Expgeled to Back WLB - in Board’s Crucial Test

DRASTIC ACTION IS REPORTED T0 BE IN PROGRAM   - Informants Disclose — Full Use of Powers Coniemplated in Plan

Miners Facing Back-to-W ork Order of F.D.R.   More Drastic Action Held In Reserve If Men Fail to Heed F. BR. Demand

Workers Told To Return By Monday   Drastic Measures Reported In Store In Case Miners Disobey Orders From Nation’s Chief

NO ISSUES ARE TO BE DISCUSSEI   Miners Warned to Refrain from Any Attempt by Spokesman for Group  of Operators.

Lewis and Union Policy Committee Silent On Roosevelt Action   Chief Executive Backs War Labor Board In Fight With UMW, Spurns Compromise;  Invokes Powers as Commander-in-Chief

Miners To Be Ordered Back On Job   President Is Ready To Use Troops If Demand For Resumed Production Is Ignored.

Government Officials Are Silent After Long White House Conference   LEWIS ACCUSES BOARD OF FLOUTING THE LAW

“IF THEY DISOBEY      Neglect of “War Duties” Unmentioned In Order; Retroactive Clause:     Hope Appears Dim 

~ SOME ACTION 1 END COAL STRIKE   President and Byrnes Working Behind Scenes   SETTLEMENT MAY COME TOMORROW

F.D.R. Orders Coal Miners Back to Work   Sets Monday Deadline: Declares Strike Is Defiance of TJ. S.

May Come Late Today Or Friday   President Confers With CIO-AFL War Labor Board — Operators and Mine Workers Continue Joint Wage Conference —  Byrnes Reported Working on Matter

 e Executive Decree Orders Miners  Back on Monday   Drastic Measures Face 500,000 Men On Failure to Obey Ultimatum; Wage Negotiations Go Back to WLB

F.D.R. Backs Labor Board in Wage Fight   Drastic Measures Said in Store

Roosevelt Expected To Order Mine Work   Decision May Come Late Today or Tomorrow; More Drastic Action Possible  If Order Fails to Get Results.

Backs WLB to Limit; Says Disposition — of Wage Dispute Will Proceed When Miners Return to Their War Duties; Makes No Mention of Action — If Strike Continues

AFL-CIO Leaders. Attend Meeting On Coal Strike   FDR Maintains Silence as Union, Operators Meel In Formal Session

Presidential act in strike tieup looms   Calls union war board into white house meeting

PRESIDENTIAL MOVE TO END STRIKE SEEN   Possibility of Action 3efore Late in Day Said Remote

‘UMW and Coal Operators Resume Meetings   Threats Made That Conference Will be Broker Up If Issues Discussed

WLB Orders Collective Bargaining Halted Until Walkout is Ended; Turns Case Over to FDR

DR Seeks uce Plan  Strike   esident Confers ih Lahor Board. Coal Formula

Labor War Board Meets With FDR   Presidential Action to End Stoppage of Coal Production by UMW Expected Today or Tomorrow

jRefusal to Grant Retroactive Pay One Penalty Being Studied President Reminds Coal Workers They Are U. S.  i Employes, Says Strike Defics Government :

WHITE HOUSE THOUGHT BUSY BEHIND LINES   Mine Operators and Union Representatives in Conference,   OTHER LABOR LEADERS TALK WITH ROOSEVELT.”

Roosevelt Will . Di rect Miners Bac to Pits Pending Settlement of Wage Demands. :”

Sources Say Alien Acts Also Might Be Enforced if Miners Disobey Ex~ pected Back-to-Work Order for Monday. =~

F.R. Expected to Act in Coal Strike   President Gives No Hint of Action Planned

Byrnes, Ickes, WLB Members Attend Parley   Supremacy of Law Now Fundamental Issue, EDR Told

First Action: Is Expected _ Late Today   White House. Probably Will Issue Order for Miners to Return to Work:   IF UNHEEDED, OTHER PLANS ARE READY   President Reported-. to -Be Giving Fuil Support. to Labor Board 7

DRASTIC MOVE ANNOUNCED IN COAL DISPUTE   ROOSEVELT ORDER CARRIES THREAT OF PENALTIES

- President Conifers With CIO-AFL War Labor Board — Operators and Mine Workers . ‘Contiziue Jolt Wage Conference — " Bymes Regiorted Working on Matter

ACT TO OPEN MINES LOOMS   CIO-AFL Labor War Beard Summoned to White House   IWORK ORDER HINTED   Roosevelt and Byrnes Reported Working Be hind Scenes

Presidential Action Te End Coal Strike  Awaited in Capital    Conference With A.F.L.-C.1.0. War Board Believed Connected With Stoppage; Behind Scenes Moves Afoot

President Backs War Labor Board to Limit, is Ready to Use Troops, Draft Laws to End Walkout

Calls White House Parley After WLB Ends Negotiations   No Hint Given Out As To Action President. Will Take; Lewis, Labor Board Swap . Bitter Words On Deadlock a

Checking On Draft Classifications, Status Of Aliens   President Sustains WLB Position Coal Strike Is Defiance Case

INTENTIONOE CONFERENCE IS NOT REVEALED      Evidence Seen of Behind The-Scene Activity to Bring Walkout to An End   LEWIS NOT MEMBER CONFERRING GROUPS      Press Secretary Early Say Announcement From the President Not Expected During Day

Drastic Action Promised By President If Production Is Not Resumed   GOVERNMENT RUNNING OF MINES TO CONTINUE

Striking Coal Miners May Be Ordered to Go Back to Work Monday by President

Three Possible Roads Open To President Roosevelt In Mine Dispute   VEW APPEAL TO MINERS BELIEVED FIRST ACTION   CIO-AFL Labor War Board Called In By Chief On Eve Of Action

3 Roads Open To Roosevelt  In Mine Strike   President Can Appeal to the Workers, Order Reclassification 6r Compromise With Lewis

Monday Set As Date For  Resumption   Drastic Measures Reported In Store lf Strikers Refuse.

istic Measures Indicat. lf Men Are Not in Pits Monday        _" Order Supports ar Labor Board's  Latest Ruling

Believe Roosevelt prepared to order miners resume work   Must go back at prevailing wage pending peaceful pay settlement

RAF Lashes At Lorient Again  Wlactern German   Western Germany Is Also Blasted

Fortified Sub Pens At Lorient Blasted By RAF   New Tactics Tested In Effort To Smash U-Boat Supply Base

Nazi Submarine Base Is Blasted   Railway Centers Also RAF Targets

RAF Hits Nazi Submarine Base   Set Fires on Docks And Pens in Second Lorient Raid

Lorient Dealt Heavy Blows   RAF Returns To ‘Assault On Nazi: Sub Pens, In: Nicht Attack: --

Soviet Trap © Around Nazi Army Closing   Germans Throw Fresh Tank Plan eserves Against Russians

Reds Close Trap For Axis Caught In “Escape Port”   Capture 2 More Towns Near Coast Of Black Sea

REDS CLOSING TRAP AROUND NAZI FORCES   Take Two More Towns in Area of “Eseape Port” as Germans Fight for Their Lives,

FDR REQUESTS MINERS AVOID ANY STOPPAGE      Asks Wage’ Parleys Basis Be Kept Retroactive

GONFEREES oTUDY FOR'S REQUEST   Operators Accept as Basis For Continuing Talks   TIME GROWS SHORT   Conferees Discuss Whole List Of: Demands, but Fail Reach a Conclusion

Western Oregon Hit hy Floods  TRiamarea Featimetac   Damage Estimated at £5.006.000

Candy From South America  Sent To U.S.   Is To Help Relieve Shortage; New Types For North Americans

RISKA IS ATTACKED BY AMERICAN FORCE      Communique Tells of Raid on Enemy Posi. tions

Lend-Lease In Reverse Is Aid To Our Nation   Administrator Tells Congress That Our Allies Are Contributing Much for What We Send Out.

MAXIMUM PRICES SET FOR APPLES      Ceilings for Fruit for Home ___Consumption An nounced

PRIGE MAXIMUM SET ON APPLES   Steps Taken By OPA Te Keep Down Cost Of Living

MAXIMUM PRICES SET FOR EATING APPLES   National Retail Average Is BeWeen 10 And 11 Cents A Pound  For The Season

Japs Lose More Than 11,000  Troops on Guadalcanal 4000 Left Can Be Cleaned Out in Ten

Kill 11,000 Japs On Guadalcanal   Remnants Could Be Smashed in 10 Days

Jap’s Guadalcanal Toll Said Terrific   . Returned Marine Says 11,000 Dead, And 4 060° Left: Facina Early Annihilation ~

Liquor.Sales Are Probed   "Back Door’ Selling Investigated In Cleveland.

STATE'S LIQUOR PROBLEMS GROW   Shortages. Irregular Sales And Time Changing Causing Headaches

LIQUOR DEPARTMENT HAS TRIPLE PROBLEW   Face Shortages, Irregularities, Time Change

Zero Weather Forecast Today   Predicted for Northwest Part of State and Twelve Above for This Section of Iowa Tonight

U. 5. SUFFERS GREATEST AIR 1O$S OF WAR   60 Fortresses And 600 Airmen Are Lost in Raid

GOFORTS, 600 MEN ON NAZI TAREET   Greatest Loss of War In Attack on Schweinfurt   VITAL BEARING PLANTS  BELIEVED DESTROYED

SMASH ATTACK COSTS U.S, 60 FORTRESSES   Vital Nazi War Plants Burn

DESTROY HALF OF OUTPUT IN 3 MAJOR PLANTS   Half of Missing 593 Airmen Believed to Be Prisoners of Germany

Americans Seize Hills Northward   Ceaseless Streams of Tanks Guns, Supplies Cross the  Volturno

Rommel Again Penetrates U. S. Lines In Bitter Fight; 6 Axis Supply Ships Sunk

FOOD RATIONING HAS ‘LEVELED ALL DIETS   Rich Are Getting Thinner And Poor Are Eating Better In Britain, Professor Declares

Red troops dig 20 miles  into nazi lines   Kill over 500 Germans while thrusting ahead

Soviets Smash Nazi Attacks  in Donets Basin   More Than 200 Are Killed in Balakleya Sector

Russians Keep Firm Grip On zyum Salient   Toll Of Nazi Lives f: Boosted To 1,400 In Twe Days Of Attack   ARTILLERY EFFECTIVE   Reds Battle Furiously Te Hold Possible Springboard For Offensive

REDS REPORT MORE GERMAN TROOPS KILLED   20-Mile-Deep Salient Of Soviets Seen As Possible Springboard For Spring Offensive.

1400 NAZIS HELD SLAIN IN 2 DAYS   Renewed F ighting I: Claimed By Soviets On Central Front

(73,000 MAY NOT BE WEL   Genuiness of Nevada Mar: riages Questioned dn Legislature

THOUS MINERS BACK T0 COAL PITS  ANDS 01   President May Act to Have UMW and Operators “Sign Up”

THOUSANDS 01 MINERS BACK T0 COAL PITS   President May Act to Have UMW and Operators “Sign Up’

READY T0 TURN MINES BACK TO THEIR OWNERS   Ickes Reveals Plans, Outlines Program For Closer U. S. Supervision.   AWAITS CONTRACT OK   Fuels Co-ordinator Warns of Danger of Shortage of Caal Sunoglies.

Ickes Says Mines To Be Returnec   Will Go Back To Operators As Soon As Possible, He Says

Lominued Un rare Four)  HOUSE PRESSES TO BREAK DRAFT BILL DEADLOCK

REDS ADVANCE ON 700-MILE BATTLE FRONT      3ussians On The Move From Smolensk To ~ Sea of Azov

Germans Reel  Under Blows  Of Red Forces UL meu £UrcEes   Retreat Near Rout; Vital City of Smolensk Faces Capture

GERMANS FACE ENCIRCLEMENT NEAR SALERNO   Junction of U U. S. Fifth and British Eighth  Armies completed

RAF PLANES FROM BRITAIN   HAMMER RAILEOAD YARDS   ON FRENCH-ITALIAN BORDER DURING NIGHT

Other Targets In Ruhr Also Bombed And Mines Laid   23 British Planes Lost Jn Essen Attack, Described As Carried Out In Great Strength.

Krupp Munitions Works Is Target Of Heavy Raid   23 Planes Lost; Assault Follows Daring Mosquito Blow At Jena Plant

RAF Bombers Attack Essen  Speedy Mosquitos in Daring Rai on Jena

GERMAN KRUPP WORKS BLASTED IN GREAT FORGE      Attack Comes Few Hours After Mosquitos Make Daring Raid On Jena War Industries   NAZIS SAY DAMAGE —* IS CONSIDERABLE   23 British Planes Lost; Offensive Against Fascism Carried Into Daylight Hours

BRITISH LOSE "3 PLANES IN ~ HEAVY RAIDS   Follow Earlier Blow At Jena Delivered  3y ‘Mosquitos’

23 PLANES ARE LOST IN ATTACK   56th Sweep Over City Reported Made In ‘Great Strength’

23 Bombers Lost In Big RAF Attack   Most Bombed City in World Given Slightly Less Than Dortmund

RAF Bombers Again Blast NaziCities   War Plants At Essen and Jena Are Battered

RAF STRAFES ESSEN, OTHER RUHR TARGETS   Jena‘s Instrument and Glass Facfories Bombed, French Targets Harriad   ESSEN RAID HEAVY   23 Planes Reported Lost on Mission over Site of Great Krupp Works

THIRD GREAT RAID IN WEER BYR AF.   Twenty-Three Planes Lost Over Industrial City   ZEISS WORKS   At Jena Blasted By Light Bombers: Dam-Busters Receive Awards

SPEEDY PLANES ASSAULT JENA, PLANT CENTER   Germans Acknowledge Considerable Damage From Bombs in Essen

Great R. A. F. Fieet Pounds Essen, Ruhr   23 British Planes Lost in Heavy Raid

GREAT FLEET RAF BOMBERS ATTACK TARGETS IN RUHR   Speedy Mosquito Bombers Also Make Daring Dusk Attack On Important German War Industries In Jena; 23 Bombers Lost In Essen Attack.

Berlin Admits Great Damage; Raids Continue   War Industries At Jena Pounded In Dusk Attack

CARRY OUT 36TH RAID ON ESSEN; BLAST AT JENA   RAF AIR ARMADA STRIKES AGAIN; LOSE 23 BOMBERS

CITY IS SITE OF SPRAWLING KRIIPP WORKS   Attack Follows Dusk Bombing Of Important War Industries In Jena   GLASS, LENS PLANTS HIT   African Air Force Hits Again At Airfields On Sardinia, Pantelleria

RAF'S BOMBERS POUND AT ESSEN   23 Planes Are Lost in Raid. Carried Out in ‘Great Strength’

ESSEN AND OTHER TARGETS IN RUHR AGAIN ATTACKED   Twenty-Three Bombers Lost on Raid Which Was Car-  ried Out in Strength, —   OTHER ATTACKS MADE   Mosquito Bombers in a Dar« ing Dusk Raid on War Industries. =

RAF HAMMERS RUHR TARGETS   Essen Pounded: Explosives Dropped On War Plants In Jena

R.A.F,  Hits Jena and Esser   DARING RAID BLASTS FAMED INSTRUMENT WORKS OF ZEISS

HEAVY BLOWS ANNOUNCED; 23 BOMBERS LOST   Jena Industries Ht In Daring Dusk Assault

“SATURATION” RAID 1S MADE IN TEN WAVES   Returning Pilot Says Fires “Appeared to Weld Themselves Into a Solid Mines Over a Wide Area.’ ;

AUR TARGETS OHATTERED ff HEAVY ATTAGK   Jena Also Feels Weight of Big Air Offensive: Essen Most Bombed City.   KRUPPS WORKS SITE ’ SUFFERS 56TH RAID

Essen Is b.sted By. Big Fleet Of RA. “Bombers h ‘Saturation’ Type Attack

Bombers Attack Essen Once More In Daring Raid   23 Planes Lost In Foray; Sardinia Fields Assaulted

Essen Most Bombed City Now As RAF Visits lt Again   Fast Mosquito Bombers Make Daring Attack On Jena’s Industries

BY GREAT RAID   23 RAF Planes Lost in Attack; Follows Raid on Jena Plants.   SARDINIAN FIELDS HIT

Great Fleet Of Bombers Hits Essen 56th Time   Site Of Germany's Krupp Works Blastec By British Again;  22 Planes Lost

Essen Is Again Target Of RAF   Site Of Sprawling Krupps Munitions. Works Is Bombed For 56th Time By Great Fleet; Continue Raids On Mediterranean Bases

RAF Pounds Krupp Works ‘In Ruhr Raid   Attack Follows Daring * Dusk Assault on Jena Industries   Offensive Is Continued Today in Sweep Over France

President Approves Tax Plan   . . « Qualifies Endorsement   FDR Sees Big Problem In Forgiving Levies Currently Due

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN GETS EDR. APPROVAL   President, it, However Sees Big Problem  Tnvualved    SFES TROUBLES   Spreading. Loss Ovel Period Of Years — Outlined

STATEMENT IS QUALIFIED BY BIG PROBLEM   Question Is If Taxes Due Are To Be  Foroiven   SHOWS INANY PLAN   W ould Mean Treasury Would Sacrifice  Revenue

FOR APPROVES  NEW TAX PLAN   Real Problem Is Whether Government Will Forgive Current Taxes.   FUND CUT FOR TREASURY

FDR Indorses Pay-as-You-Ge Tax Proposal.   Shift Involves Big Problem, ‘President Says

Weather Forecast   FOR APRON PAY-AS-60) PLAN ON INCOME TAR   Endorsement Is Qualifiec Due To Great Problem Involved In Plan

Obstacles To  Pay As Go Plan Cited   Roosevelt Favors Change If They Can Be Hurdled

Pay Ai At Source  Taxes Favorec      Roosevelt Gives OK .To System But Sees. An.’ Unusual Problem

Roosevelt Favorable To  Pay-As-You-Go Plan   Main Problem Is Whether To Omit Ali Or Part Of Tax On 1942 Incomes, Asserts President In Response To Questions On Possibility.Of. New Tax Payment Legislation

President Is Luke-Warm Now To Tax Plan   At. Press Conference Today He Favors Pay-as-you-go Plan With Certain Qualifications.

Sees Big Problem To Pass Up *42 Bill, Not.Rob Treasury   Discusses Possibility Of Spreading     ft Over Period Of Years Long As Present Taxpayers’ Lives

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Is Approved Today By FDR   Roosevelt Qualifies Endorsement By Saying ‘Big Problem Involved’ For Treasury

PAY-AS-GO- TAX PLAN APPROVED   President Qualifies Endorse ment By Citing Big Problems Involved

Chief Okeys Pay As You Go Tax Plan  Payment of Current . Taxes To Hit   Payment of Current Taxes To Hit Citizens Hard

PAY - AS - YOU -C0 TAX’ “BASIS” “PLAN APPROVED BY FDR   President Cites ° Serious Problem If Policy Eliminates Back Taxes

‘PAY AS YOU 60° PLAN WINS NOD      FDR Qualities Endorsement of Popular Proposal

PRESIDENT GIVES HIS APPROVAL 10 EASY DAY TAX PLAN   But Qualifies Endorsement By Pointing Out 8ig Peohlem Involved

APPROVES ‘PAY AS-YOU GO’ TAX   But Roosevelt Cautions: Big Problem Is Involved in Adopting System

FR Approves Income Tax  Checkoff Idea   President Not Willing To Forgive Levies Now Owed. However

F. D. R. Favors Pay-as-You-Go Tax Proposal   Cites Problem of ‘Forgiving’ Portion Of Money Due

FDR Approves Pay-As-You-Go Plan On Taxes   Endorsement Admits “Big Problem” Will Face Treasury

PAY AS YOU G0 ~ TAX APPROVED   FDR Qualities, Saying a Big Problem Involved

Roosevelt Approves Pay-As-Go Tax Plan With Qualifications   Real Problem, Howeveg. Is Whether Government Should Forgive Year's Taxes

FOR NEW TAX PLAN   But President Points Out Difficulties in Change

‘PAY-AS-YOU-GO’ TAX PLAN GETS FDR’S APPROVAL   . But President Qualifies His Okay By Saying Big Problem Involved

FDR ENDORSES PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAXATION PLAN   Big Problem Is Involved, Says The President

Pay-as- You-Go Tax Plan Gets  Roosevelt O.K.   Congress Gets Ready To Settle Down to Handling of Legis lative Proble alive robtlemis

PAY ASYOUCO TAX PAYMENTS   President Qualifies Move. -B3 Saying There Is Big i rcb Jem Involved

ROOSEVELT SEES SOME ADVANTAGE UNDER TAX PLAN   Approves: Pay-As - You.- Go But Qualifying _ Indorsement on Big © Problem Which Is Involved. - °°   CURRENT TAX MUST .HAVE CONSIDERATION   Unless Shift Is Made Payers Would. Pay Installments And Be Confronted With Second Bill. .

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 ~ OKAYED BY F. R.      President Sees Huge Problem in Decisions on Proposed Government Revenue

PRESIDENT BACKS ‘PAY-AS-GO TAX   Admits Big Problem -is fn yilved; To Give Social Security Data

President Envisions Problems   Sees Difficulties in Changing Over, With a Loss ,  of Revenue

RUML TAX PLAN IS ENDORSED   President Says It Presents Problem’ to Skip Past Year’s Levy.

Pay-as-Go Tax Plan Risk Noted   Roosevelt Would Avoid Loss on Taxes Now Owed

President in Favor of Pay-AsYou-Go Tax Plan   Senator Capper First to Introduce Bill in Series

F.D. R. FAVORS PAY-AS-YOU-G0   President Qualifies Endorse: ment By Pointing To Big Problem Involved.

ROOSEVELT FOR PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAXATION PLAN   President Qualifies His Endorsement by Saying There Was Big ProbJem Involved   RUML PLAN AIRED   Agrees Treasury's Loss Would Be Temporary Under Proposal to Abandon 1942 Taxes

ROOSEVELT GIVES APPROVAL TO PAY AS VOT GN TAXES   "QUALIFIES ENDORSEMENT HOWEVER, BY SAYING BIC PROBLEM INVOLVED

SEES SERIOUS DIFFICULTY IN MAKING SHIFT   New Members of House Committee Willing To Investigate  _

FDR APPROVES PAY-AS-YOUGO TAXES   Problem is Whether Government Will Forgive Part of Current Taxes

Three German Destroyers Sunk by Allies   British, Americans Catch Warships In Bay of Biscay

U.S. Bombers Help British In Sea Fight   Other Destroyers Hit In Continuing Battle In Bay of Biscay

Three Nazi Ships Sunk In Sea Fight   Blockade Runner Also Victim Of Allies In Bay Of Biscay Battle: Others Escaped

THREE GERMAN DESTROYERS SUNK   BLOCKADE RUNNER ALSO SENT DOWN IN TWO-DAY SEA AND AIR BATTLE.

Allies Sink 3 Nazi Destroyers   Blockade Runner Alsc ls Sent to Bottom

U.S. Navy Planes in Big Battle   Liberators Aid British Units in Sinking of Three Germa on

rour More Towns Taken In Sicily =   Nazis Reported Making Plans To Quit Catania

CAPITAL THINKS PRESIDENT 10 RUN AGAIN   May Use Dual Slogan, “Win the War,” “Save the Peace”

Political Obseréers Believe Roosevelt Has Decided to Make Race for Fourth Term

SOME ‘SAY, HOWEVER, THAT ‘PRESIDENT WILL NOT SEEK ELECTION TO FOURTH TERM  z

LOCOMOTIVES BLASTED BY RAF PLANES   Sicily Ferry Ports  Take Pounding,  Fires Rage

AVA NAVY. BASE: AT BY BOMBERS “FROW AUSTRALIA   MacAt thur Amncunces Sur prisg ‘Assault by Amer- dcan - Libsrators. .   BIGGEST INDIES BASE   Surabs ‘ya “Attack Carried; “Out After 1,200-Mile Trip-  rom Darwin. —. ‘

U.S. BOMBERS RAID JAPS AT SURABAYA   2,400-Mile Trip; South Pacifie’s Biggest Air Attack Revealed

JAVA NAVY BASE HT BY BOWERS FROM AUSTRAL   MacArthur Arncunces £urprise Assault by Ameracan Libsrators.   BIGGEST INDIFS BASE   Surabzya Attack Carried Out After 1,200-Mile Trip  From Darwin, '

Japs Largest Naval Base In East Indies Hit   Surprise Assault By U. S. Bombers On Surabaya On Island Of Java   GREAT SWARMS OF FLIERS IN ATTACK

BRITISH BOMBERS RAID NORWAY PORT   Unléad Many Bombs Or Harbor Area—Possible Invasion Center

BAITTOH PLANE HET NARVIK PORT   Bombs Dumped In Harbor Area Of Norwegian Port Start Many Fires

Secretary of ‘War Stimson Says: American Soldi¢rs Have Adminis:  tered Clean Cut Repulse tu Enemy — Losses In Past 10 Days. Declared Substantiay,

U. 0. TROOPS PRUVED oELIts, OAYS oT iMGON   Americans Took Heaviest Punches From Rommel, Then Fought Back

DEFEATED AXIS ARMY BACK ON ‘RETREAT’ ROAL   Foe Backtracks Through Pass; Planes Strafe Nazi Columns

AA Countries Join to Form Relief Group   President Roosevelt Speaks After Pact  I< Signed Forming Reliel Oreanization

WLB WILL TRY ADVISORY PANEL   Special Greup Named To Con. sider All Newspaper Labor Cases

FORM 6-MAN PANEL OVER NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY DISPUTES   WLB Sets Up First Advisory Board Of This Kind— Requested By Labor,  Manzgvement

Madang Drive Is Progressing   Australians Kill 400 More Japs in Attacl

400 Japanese Killed in Bitter Fight   Forces Continue to Oust Enemy From Outposts

LIST HOLDERS OF FEDERAL LIQUOR STAMPS   State report reveals five holders of stamps in  Fairfield

Aggressive Action by See. Wickard Demanded  Otherwise, Secretary Must Be Responsible am  rw a wt gow   Otherwise, Secretary Must Be Responsible For Hunger in U.S., Senator Johnson Says   JEFFERS IS CITED AS GOOD EXAMPLE

‘Nation Faces Wide Hunger,  Says Senator   Johnson Says Wickard’: Easy-Going Attitude  Invites Piisectar

Lays Blame For Famine  On Wickard   SENATOR JOHNSON, COLORADO DEMOCRAT, CASLLUS FOR AGGRESSIVE FIGHT FOR FARM LABO!:: AND MACHINERY.   Attitude Invites Disaster

Senator Calls On Wickard to Fight  For Farm Labor   Says Secretary Must Ac! Or Accept Responsibility for Hunger

FARM SENATORS DEMAND ACTION FOR BIG CROPS   Wickard’s ‘Easy - Going Attitude On Workers Rapped As Inviting Hunger In U. S.   Labor Shortage Seen

Solon Declares Wickard  Must Make Fight   Johnson Foresees Widespread: Hunger This Year

For Uniform High Schools   Kansas House Asks Council To Make Study

FROM A NEW ANGLE   Effort Is Started to Get a Uniform Kansas H. S.  Program _

Byrnes Frowns on WLB Plea For Discretionary Power   Board Seeks Authority to Raise Pay to Wipe Out Inequalities, But Stabilization Head Not Receép ory

WLE Is Given No Hope Rule to Be Relaxed   Argues for Power to Remove Wade Inequalities

War Labor Board Seeks Power To Increase Wages   But Members Find Byrnes Backs Roosevelt's “Hold-the-Line’’

WLB SEEKS POWE TO RAISE WAGES   Members Gloomy Over Prospects to. Remove Such “inequalities”

WLB Is Given No Hope Rule to Be Relaxed  Araques for Power   Argues for Power to Remove Wage Inequalities

Drive to Wipe Out Axis Bases Before  Moscow Rolls On   88 Mediterranean Ships Blasted by Flyers In Last Four Months

Smash Nazis Back in Moscow Area   Allied Position in North Africa Is Mixed

Asks Increase In Allowance  Can't Support Son ~~ rvrm . id.... gi   Can’t Support Son On $500 a Month

IAIL ORDER HEIRESS NEEDS MORE MONEY   v's. Marion Thorne Says She Can't Support and Educate  Son On 3500 Monthly

NEW CRIES FOR PEACE  FOLLOW ITALIAN RAIDS   Allied. Aerial Offensive May Oust Badoalio From Office

Bombing of Rome  Perils Badoglio   Clam for Peace May Upset Premier

New Peace Cries Sound in Italy  Reinforced Police Called to Put Down . Churthecante ian Abdjlan

British Expect Fall Of Badoglio Regime   Crowds Appeal to Pope on Visit To Bomb-Ravaged Milan and Turin

Ttalian Plea For Peace Increases   British Say Fall Of Badoglio To Near

NEW CRIES FOR PEACE ARISING IN BOMBED ROME      Latest Series Of Raids Cause Renewal Of Peace Demands

Predicts Air Raids Will Soon Drive Badoglio Government Out of Office

Italians Cry For. Peace ‘As’  Raids Continue   Fall Of Badoglio:Regime May Be-Near, London Sources Say’

Five Ruidoso Places Re-Open   Gambling Stopped, State Police Report

JUDGE'S PENSION VOTED BY SENATE   Defeat Of Bill Is Predict. ed When It Comes Before Ohio House

LOWER HOUSE GETS BILL TO PENSION JUDGES   Opponents Say Retirement Pian Headed for Defeat

KANSAN TOLD T0 LAY OFF FDR’S SONS IN SERVICE   Both Parties Applaud Letter From, President’s Son Describing Lamber' son’s Criticism as Unfair and Improper

Lambertson Reported Told by Republicans To ‘Lay Off Criticism of Roosevelt = Sons Even Before Ellioff Wrote lelfer. 

FD. Applauds Allied Officers   Congratulates Them for Victories Over  Axis in North Africa

F. R. Praises Africa Heads on Victories   EISENHOWER, ALLIED HEADS CONGRATULATED ON TUNISIA CAMPAIGN

GRANGE TAKES UP SALES TAX   Endorsement Recommended By Committee; Floor Debate Likely

News Dening The News  Copyright McClure Newepyaper   WASHINGTON Re Rav Tucker

RUSSIANS ATTACK AFTER GERMANS. INABIE TQ PAIN   Increased Action Reported In Several Sectors   GERMANS UNABLE TO START ROLLING.

RED ARMY STORMS NAZI POSITIONS   ACTION INCREASES ON RUSSIAN FRONT DESPITE THAWS

ACTIVITY CONTINUES ON RUSSIAN FRONTS BUT CHANGES SMALL  RED ARMY STORMED  GER  MAN DNCITINAIC

NEW POSITIONS OF IMPORTANCE TAKEN BY REDS   Russians Continue To Hold Upper Hand Over Nazis, Although No Big Changes Are Reported In Past 24 Hours.

Russian Front Fairly Quiet; Some Action   Spring Thaw Hampers Military Operations On East Front

RUSSIANS BATTER NAZIS’ POSITIONS SOUTH OF IZYUN   Red Army Captures Advantageous Lines in Face of Sharp Fire from German  

SOVIETS SEIZE IZYUM SECTOR   Increased Action Noted With Battles Near . Volkhov

Russians Capture German: Lines South of Izyum, Drive Back All Thrusts by Enemy.

Red Army Storms German Positions South of Izyum   Increased Action Is Reported in Several Sectors

SPRING THAWS HINDER FIGHTING ON BATTLE LINES   Check German Counter-Attack on Sevsk Sector Northwest of Kursk

OUTED 1 Ub GERMAN SECTOR SOUTH OF IZYUN  _  Capture Advantageous Li Of Enemy Attacks,   HUN PLANS FOILED   Evident Germans Never Believed They Would Be Stopped At Donets River Line

Russians Capture Important Position In Donets Sector; Germans Repulsed At Sevsk   Increased Activity Reported fn Various Sections Despite Thaws

Reds Capture Better Spots In Izyum Line   Advantageous Positions Taken In Face Of Sharp Gunfire

NO MAJOR CHANGES ON RED FRONT   Increased Action Reported in Several Sectors Despite — Spring Thaw

Nazis Stalled In Big Attack North Of Kursk  jaan Stepped Up In Several Areas

ENEMY THRUSTS NIPPED, SOVIETS LAUNCH ATTACK   Reds Gain South of Izyum After Germans Suffer Several Reversals

RED ARMY STORMED GERMAN POSITIONS SOUTH OF IZYUM   Captured Advantageous Lines in Face of Sharp Nazi Fire.   INCREASED ACTION   This Was Reported Today ir Several Sectors on the Battlefront.

REDS STORM ENEMY LINES   Nazi ‘Attacks Are Hurled Back With Heavy Losses; New Assault Indicated

Pope Pius Make Plea for Peace   Hopes This ts Last War Christmas

Pope Pius Asks That Truly Christian Peace Manav Be Celebrated During the Coming Year

BANISH HATES, IS POPE’S PLEA   Truly Christian Peace Is Objective For Coming Year

4 AXIS BASES ON ITALIAN MAINLAND HEAVILY ATTACKED   Dwindling Air Forces At Virtually All Sicily Airdromes Driven  Off By Bombs

Car, Truek Hit Kills E. Snyder   Resident of Liberty Vicinity Dies In Road Collision — Brother Also Hurt.

Tremendous  Blows Hit By ' Massed Force   NORTH AFRICAN REGIONS SCENES OF HARD LAMBASTING,

Dump Explosives On Rear Position Of Rommel’s Forces And Naval Bases

Bizerte Naval Base Struck by British Bombs   Enemy Fails to Put Up Much  Onnacittian

BOMBS RAINED ON REAR POSITIONS, BEST SINGLE DAY   100 Bombers, Escorted By American Fighters Visited “$fax, Block Buster at Bizerte.   GROUND FORCES IN ADVANCES TO EAST   Natives Think Hard Rains Are Ending Soon, Malaria, Typhus Are Next Worry of Medicat Corps.

CONTINUED BY ALLIES   Sfax Area and Attacks on Bizerte Naval Base and Other Targets Revealed Today.

BRITISH 1ST ARMY PUSHES AHEAD IN NORTHERN TUNISIA   Americans And British 8th Army Are Still About Forty Miles Apart

MIAGO AERIAL ATTACK AIMED AT AXIS REAR   Junction of Yanks, Britons Still 40. Miles Away, : Despite Renorts.   RAIDS TO SOFTEN UP.” ENEMY. RUN. 24. HOURS

Rommel’s Afrika Korps Battles To Delay U.S., British Armies Uniting

Bomb-Dazed Axis Garrison Yields, Allies Move In   First Dent In Hitler's Defenses Around Europe Made Almost Entirely By Aerial Attacks

Soviet Advance Threatens Two More Key Bases   Drive On Toward Mariu pol, Stalinu After Takings Taganro#.

Stimson Says 17,000,000 Axis Armies   SECRETARY OF WAR UPHOLDS PLANS FOR INCREASING ARMED FURCEE TO 8,000,000; COMPARES AXIS STRENGTH.

U.S. Industry Increasing Air Strength   5,500 Planes Are Produced During Mohth of February

RESIONAL OPA ISSUES RETAIL CEILING PRICES   Will Affect Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton Starting Next Monday

MEAT PRICES ARE ANNOUNCED BY OPA   All Grades of Meat Covered in 2 Schedules

CEILING PRICES SET FOR MEAT IN OHIO   New Schedule To Go Into Effect Monday

AMUEINUEG en rage Pour)  ‘FURTHER SLASH IN NEWSPRINT USE PROPOSED

FACE FURTHER . NEWSPRINT CUTS   CUTAILMENT TO BE 13 PERCENT UNDER THE PRESENT LEVELS

YANK FLIERS © BLAST ENTIRE CITY OF EMDEN   Assault One of the First Big Daylight Incendiary Attacks of War — 106 Nazi Fighters. Battle Bombers.

AMERICAN BOMBERS TOPPED TWO DAYS OF BLASTING OF EUROPE  TREMENDOUS EXPLOSIVE POWER DUMPED ON NA7I OBJECTIVES

Bombers Shatter Nazi Port   LARGEST YANK FORCE SPRAYS EMDEN, OTHER NORTHWESTERN BASES

“ortresses Unescorted By Fighter Planes In Their 500 - Mile Round~- Trip Flight

SOME OBSERVERS THINK ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST EUROPE IS CURTAIN RAISER TO INVASION   Largest Force of American Heavy Bombers Ever Dispatched Over Germany Attack Sprawling Emden Harbor With Good Results. ~Six Bombers Missing.

ENCOUNTER 100 NAZI FIGHTERS IN BIG ASSAULT   6 Heavy Bombers Are Missing; Widespread Air Offensive Goes On

EXTRA!   Yank Bombers In Great Fire  Raid On Emden   Largest U. S. Air Force Ever Over Germany Attacks Naval Base.

Record Yank Bomber Force Raide Frden   Upwards Of 150 Big U. S. Planes Drop Incendiaries On Raich Target   OPPOSITION: STRONG   Divisionary Attacks Cartied Out As Allies Continue Air Offensive

Lease-Lending Details Asked   Senators Desire Records On..Administration Of ° Huve War Sums

- Muntingdons New Industry. on © FIBERGLAS:         0.3.. ....FIBERGLAS PROPERTIES AND WAR‘USES

Seizure of 7,000,000 US. Autos Is Advocated   War Department Recommendation Bared; Extra Tires and Cars Would Be Taken

Fifth Tire Seizure By U. S. Urged   7,000,000 Private Autos ___Also: May Be Taken. .. For War Needs

War Department Would: Seize  7,000,000 Passenger Automobiles, © 5th Tire On All Nation’s Cars

Army Suggests Auto Seizure   Would Serap Seven Thousand Cars. Take All Fifth  Tires To Save Rubber.

WAR DEPARTMENT WOULD SEIZE CARS FOR RUBBER NEEDS   Seven Million Would Go, Fifth Tire On All Cars ln Nation

Confiscation Of 7-Million Autos Urged   War Department Also Recommends Scizure  OF All Spare Tires

ARMY PROPOSES SEIZURE SEVEN MILLION AUTOS   Patterson Reveals This, Several Other Recommendations Made t0 Jeffers Not Acted Upon

War Department Urges Seizure Of ] Million Autos   Confiscation Of Every Spare Tire Is Also Recommended

Auto, Car Give-Up— War Dept.   ee  Asks Seizure Order for Seven Million Private Cars   SPARE TIRES TOO   YY  Priorities War De~geribed in. Latest. Activity

War Department Favors Seizure of 7 Million Autos; All Spare Tires

PROPOSAL FOR.. PRIVATE AUTO SEIZURE AIRED   War’ Department: Also Favored:Confiscation of the » Fifth: Tire of Nation’s . OT ANN ANN Vehicles .   IGNORED BY JEFFERS   War Department Also Recommended*‘Ban On Non- War Sunday and Holi-. ’ day Driving -

U. S. Wheat To Be Sold   Rising Prices Lead Government to Sell Grain Now in Storage

Federal Wheat Put on Market   Move Is Made to Keep Prices From Advancing Above Parity Level.

Big U. &..Owned Stocks are ~- Tossed on Market to Maintain Parity Levei      SALES PRICES TO. . ._'"BE-$133 A BUSHEL   Bread-Grain Has Been Ad vaicing; American Sup>. ply Is Ample

Government Stock of Wheat on Market   Move Was to Keep Prices From Advancing Above the Parity Level.

Federal Wheat Put On Market To Hold Price   Government Stock Of 235.. 000.000 Bushels Released To Keep Price Down.   Lit tLe: 6 6EEEECY. URS

GOVERNMENT PUTS WHEAT ON MARKET 10 HALT PRICES   235 Million Bushels Offered At Price Equivalent To Parity Level

U. S. Wheat Is Dumped On Market   Action Is Taken t  Stop Rise Above Parity Prices

Government Puts Wheat Up For Sale   Throws 235 Million Bushels Loan Grain On The Open Market   Move Planned To Keep Prices At Parity Level   Prices Equivalent To Parity At Point Where It Is Stored

WHEAT STOCK OF U.S. ON MARKET   Nation Acts to Prevent Prices From Tepping Parity Level

WHEAT ON MARKET   Government Hopes to Keep Price From Going Above Parity Level

U.S. WHEAT STOCK PLACED ON MARKET   Government Stores to Be Sold to Mainiais Parity Level.   $1.37 PER BU. NOW NATIONAL AVERAGE

GOVERNMENT’S WHEAT TOSSED INTO MARKET   OBJEC TIVE TO HOLD PRICE : AT LEAST TO BASIS OF PARITY

U.S. OFFERING WHEAT STOCK “TOCURB PRICE   Millions Of Bushels Are Put On Market At Present Parjtv Price T.evel

Large Holdings Put Up For Sale In Effort To Keep Prices From Exceeding Parity

U.S. Dumps Wheat Supply On Market  235 Million Bushels Are Freed To Keep Prices From Advancing

GOVERNMENT PUTS WHEAT ON MARKET   Offers 235 Million Bushels ' For Sale to Keep Prices  Below Parity.

U5. WHEAT Io PUT ON MARKET   Government’s 235,000,090 Bushel Stock Offered at Parity Prices.   TO KEEP PRICES DOWN

FARM PROBLEMS ARE  BROUGHT TO FORE IN  GOVERNMENT ACTION GOVERNMENT’S VAST  STOCK OF WHEAT HAS REEN PIT ON MARKET

Government Tosses All Its Wheat Onto Market   235,000,000 Bushels Unloaded To Keep  Prices From Going Above Parity Level

Action Aimed To Control  Rise In Price   Food Marketing And Distribution Still Unsettled

VAST GOVERNMENT  STOCK LOAN WHEAT  ORDERED ON MARKET MOVE MADE TO KEEP  PRICES FROM GOING AROVE PARITY TEVEL

Government Tosses Wheat Into Market   Offers Nation’s 235,000,000-Bushel Stock Ina Move Designed to Keep Prices From Advancing Above the Parity Level.

EVERY OUNCE OF SCRAP METAL IS NEEDED AT ONCE 10 KEEP STEEL PRODUCTION GOING: WARNING IS SOUNDED

THEY PUT RED CROSS CAMPAIGN OVER IN BELTON   Chairman Furnishes List Of Workers, Who Took Job in Hand in City

CROSS CAMPAIGN OVER IN BELTON   Chairman Furnishes- List Of Workers, Who Took Job in Hand in City

PLANES ISOLATE NAPLES AS SHIPS RENEW SHELLING   Rails and Roads Connecting Port With Rest of Italy Shattered

AIR ATTACKS ISOLATE PORT CF NAPLES   Blast City’s Rail and Road Links With Rest of Italy

ALL KINDS OF RUMORS POUR FROM EUROPE   War Continues on Same Basis as Before Mussolini Left

GAIN AT CENTER OF WINTER LINE   Nazis’ Attack at. Adriatic End Repulsed; Fifth in Cannon Duel

NAZI DEFENSES NEAR ORTONA IN DANGER   Snow and Rains Begin to Hamper Allied. Operations

Reds At Edge Of Krivoi Rog   Nazis Being Beaten Back From Melitopol to Sinolensk

Reds Storm Krivoi Rog Outskirts   Fateful Tank Battle Waged for Steel Center as Nazis Prepare Public for Catastrophe   REDS EXTEND BASE   Advance Both End of Pincers on Dnieper Bend, Fan Gut Into Steppes Ahove Crimea

RUSSIAN TROOPS STORMING SUBURBS OF KRIVO! ROG   Fall of the City, Key to Whole German Defense in Dnieper Bend, Was Imminent.   Nazis Are Being Pounded Back From the Melitopol Area Today.

Russians ate  ~ Krivoi Rog          City -Is. Key -to: Whole “> man Defense in the:.. Dnieper’ Bend: :   [FATEFUL BATTLE © - IS UNDER WAY:      Berlin.’ Making ‘Effort. to: Prepare: Home: Front’: for Bad ‘News

Soviet Troops On Outskirts Of Steel City   Germans Taking Gloomy View of Russian Fighting

Nazis Admit Dnieper Bend Withdrawal   Germans Being Pounded Back, From Melitopol Tra Smalensk

Reds Closing Giant Pincer on Krivoi Roc   Fateful Tank Battie Rages As Nazis Seek to Stop Red Advance

GREAT TANK DRIVE MADE BY THE NAZIS      Their Aim Is to Retard Reds, Who Are Believed About to Take Krivoi Rog — Berlin Admits Situation Desperate.

FALL OF KEY TO GERMAN DNIEPER DEFENSE IS NEAR   NAZI OUTLOOK IN RUSSIA BLACKEST SINCE STALINGRAD

GERMANS ADMIT WITHDRAWAL IN DNIEPER BEND   Nazis Throw Tanks Into Fight at Iron, Rail Center to Throttle Advance

Nazi Gloom Deepens With German Announcement Of Dneiper Bend Withdrawal

FALL OF CITY BELIEVED   German Command Takes Gloomy Tone Tow Fighting on Red Front

SOVIET ARMY HAS GERMANS ON LAST RUN   Nazi Commanders Prepare For Catastrophe

Soviet Troops Storming Outskirts Of Important Iron And Steel Center—German Command Assumes Gloomy Tone Toward Russian Front, Apparently Trying To Stiffen Public And Army For Impending Catastrophe —Hard Fighting Reported Northward From Gomel

Public and Army Being Prepared For Catastrophe   ‘Large Withdrawal’ From Dnieper Bend Admitted in Berlin

Berlin Admifs Refreat From Dnieper Bend   Tank Battle Extending Toward Kremenchug May Decide Fate of Huge German Force

NAZIS FEARFUL OF DIGASTER IN ~ONIEPER BEND   Announce Large Withdrawal Movement; Beaten on All Fronts. .

Withdrawal  On Dnieper - Bend Noted   Meanwhile Russians Are Pressing Ahead Along Four Sectors

Dark Picture Of Eastern Front As Russ Plunge On   Red Army Storming Outskirts Of Krivoi Rog And Its Fall Is  Believed Imminent

Krivoi Rog’s Fall Is Near   Russians Spread Offensive, Drive Nazis Back Near Crimea

Germany Announces Withdrawal Move   Gloomy Report of Situation in Dnieper Bend Indicates Fear of Catastrophe; Soviet Pincer Moves Ahead.

RUSS CAPTURE OF KRIVO! ROG 1S SEEN SOON   Defeat in Crimea and Dnieper Bend Hinted By High Command

IMPENDING DEFEATS   Nazis Attempt To Stiffen Public For Catastrophe

Russians May Encirele Nazis   FALL OF KEY IRON ORE CENTER EXPECTED SOON

Germans Admit “Withdrawal” Now Underway  Krivoi Rog Faces  Imminent Fall To Russians

Setbacks In Russia Are Referred To By Berlin Radio As Large Nazi Withdrawal Movement

Fall Of Krivoi Rog To Reds Imminent   ‘Main Kail Center North Of Iron City In Russian Hands; Nazis Trying To Get Out Of Disaster In Dnieper Bend

German Commanc Gloomy As Reds" Continie Gains.   Russians Forcing Enemy To Withdraw From Dnieper Bend

Berlin Announces Large Withdrawal In Dnieper Bend   Great and Fateful Tank Battle Thundering From Important Iron and Steel Center Northward To Kremenchug   SOVIETS BROADEN BASE OF TRIANGULAR SALIENT

Nazis Admit Daieper Bend Withdrawal   Pounded Back, From Melitopol F. 2B tL

GREAT RUSSIAN PINCERS DRIVE DOING ITS WORK   Soviets Capture Number Of Towns In New Advances In Various. Sectors;  Hard Fighting North Of Gomel.

Reris Steadily Drive German Forces Back   Rearguard Fights Hard In Attempts To Slow Red Advance

ATTITUDE OF GLOOM TAKEN BY GERMANS   Outskirts Of Krivol Rog Stormed By Reds

RED ARMY TROOPS  STORMING OUTSKIRTS  IRON, RAIL GENTER PINCERS MOVEMENT BEING DEVELOPED TO TRAP  CRECREU TAY COVTITLE

Fall of Krivoi Rog to Russian Forces Is Held Imminent   German Command Takes Its Gloomiest Tone Toward East Front

Germans Move Up New Troops To Stave Off New Disaster   Large Withdrawal In Dnieper Bend Is Reported From London

Meanwhile, Soviet Troops Are Pounding: at Gates to Krivoi Rog — Reich Admits ‘a Large German Withdrawal Movement’ in Dnieper Bend—Enemy Counter-Attacks Turned Aside.

Foe Admits Flight From Dnieper Bend   Gloomy Berlin Prepares German Nation For News  Of Military Disaster.

Nazis Braced For News of Disaster   Berlin Radio Admits Large  Withdrawal Movement in  Dnieper Bend   FAIL TO STOP REDS   Russians Believed to be Broadening Base of Krivoi Rog Salient

REDS STORM MAJOR RAIL, IRON CENTER   German Command Prepares People For Impending Military Catastrophe; Veseloye Taken

Germans Take Gloomy Tone In Announcing A Large "Withdrawal Movement”

Foe Announces Retreat Move At Krivoi Rog   Soviet Troops Capture Main Rail Center Near tron, Steel Town.   NAZI MORALE CRACKS

American Airman Who Watched From Skies Says Yankees Had Things All Ther Own Way

American Gets Panorama View Of Invasion   San Antonio Flier Tells Of Seeing Great Strings Of Fires Over Sicily

2 great naval sroups pound invasion coast   Eyewitness saw no Italian vessels

S APPROVE PAY HIK!   Retirement Plan Is Also Extended by Board of Regents

Board Urges End To Unequal Rates   Wants Elimination  Of Discriminations

TO REFORM RATES   Research Board Urges ‘Changes in Freight Classifications

INVESTIGATORS URGE EQUAL FREIGHT RATE   South’s Contentions Upheld In Congressional Report

AXIS PROTESTS ATORES ACTION   Neither Germens or Japs Show Inclination to Fight Portgual

Formal Protests Made to Portugal By Germany, Japan  Nazis Hint af Reprisal:   Nazis Hint at Reprisals for Granting Britain Bases in Azores

PROTEST IS FILED BY AXIS NATIONS   Notes Sent to Portugal as the Result of Granting Bases

Nazis and Japs Lodge Protests To Azores Deal   Germany Hints at Reprisals But Isn't Likely to Go to War

Axis Pariners Voice Protests  Portuguese Actior Subiect of Notes

Japs, Nazis Protest Portuguese Move  Bie: Geet: fore   Hint Reprisals but Make No War Threat

remaining Axis Powers Protest Act By Pot lugal  viglakiun of Ala oeealiey

Axis Partners Voice Protests  :  Portuguese Actior Co eee eee ae oe ere

AXIS PROTESTS AZORES BASES   Germany Hints Reprisals Planned; Tokyo Cites Abuse Of Power

A Slayer of Five Works in Movie   Former Ranch Youth Admits to Police He Killed Five in His Family.

Youth Admits Killing Five In His Family   Ghastly Crime on California Ranch in February  Believed Solved BOOKED AS MURDERER

Former Crawford Family Wiped Out in Cali fornia Slaying.  HAD LIVED NEAR

YOUTH ADMITS KILLING FAMILY   19 Year Old Says Father ‘Beat Me Often Without Cause’

Youth Admits ‘Killing Five   Confesses Shooting Parents, Grandparents And Younger Brother

Hold 19-Year-Old Theatre Doorman for Murder of Five Members of His Family

Admits Slaying Five In Family  Youth, 19, Arrested In Los Angeles

Youth Sought for Murders Found Working at Theater   Employed As Doorman At Busiest Downtown Area In Los Angeles For Nearly a Month, Young Slayer Admits He Killed Father and Four Other Members of His Familv

Nazis Throwing Everything Into Italian Battle   Nine Counterattacks Repulsed As Armies Clash In Sea of Mud

Allies Inflict  Heavy Losses On Germans   Nine Nazi Counter-Attacks Are Repulsed by Allies in Sea of Mud

ALLIED TROOPS PUSH AHEAD IN SEAS OF MUD   Germans Strive To Hold New Line In Mountains At All. Costs

ETH FORGES FIGHT IN MUD TO HOLD LINE   Repulse Nine German Attack: in Furious Battle on Way to Rome.

ALLIES TURN BACK 9 NAZI ATTACKS   Growing Battle Rages On New Line In italy

GERMANS BATTLE. SAVAGELY 10 STOP MARCH ON ROME   Captured Daocuments Reveal Foe’s Determination to Hold Winter Line.

Allies Smash Back 9 Naz  Counterattacks   American, British Soldiers Fighting In Seas of Mud

BATTLE RAGES AS. GERMANS SEEK TO ~ STOP ROME MARCH   Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Enem; y Ranks—British Eighth Advances” To Seize Two Key.  Highway Centers -

NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES INITALY   Allies’ Repulse ‘Nine German — Counter-Attacks

Growing Battle Rages: In Mud As Resistance Stiffens On Rome Road

ENEMY MOVES 10 ~STOP ALLS WN ADVANCE ON ROME   Rainstorms Sweep Italian Battle Area as Americans, British Smash Infantry,  Tank Movements.   COLLAPSE OF GERMANS MAY COME IN SUMMER   Two War Factories In Turin, Genova, Italy, Are Heav“ily Blasted By Force of Fortresses.

Yanks rive Un Eastward [nrough dicily— Dy Kirke L, oumpse  Trap Being Sprung On Axis Armored Forces

Center Of Axis Defense At Etna Near Collapse   » May Never Reach Messina Peninsula For Last Stand Or Attempted Flight To Mainland

Military Chief Warns Beaumont Ship Workers To Keep Peace; City Quiet Under Troop Rule

BEAUMONT RACE RIOTING HALTED   PROBE TO DETERMINE WHETHER FIFTH COLUMNISTS INSPIRED DISORDERS.

100,000 Remain Out Despite President’ s Plea   Stoppage Spreads From Ohio To Neighboring States; WLB Prepares for Ouick Action

APPEAL MADE TO STEEL MEN BY ROOSEVELT   jJrges Work Be Continued Under Old  Contracts

100,000 Men Reported Idle In Nation’s  Steel Mills   Serious Crisis Looms  Despite F.D.R. Appeal For Quick Settlement Of Wage Controversy   PACTS COVERING 350,000 RUN OUT

TIES re i 8 oe  0” We wy   (li,o 02 Ce in Spreacing Crisis;. Jan-s anc “Vor <ers eat oc.xec ¢

48 JAP AIRPLANES . DOWNED IN BATTLE      Pincers Closing in on Enemy Troops South of Bairoko

PINCERS CLOSE ON ENEMY BASE   48 Japanese Planes, 19 Barges Destroyed Or Damaged In New Georgia Area

48 JAP PLANES ARE BAGGED IN ~ PACIFIC ZONE   Enemy Aircraft Attempt Two Raids On Allied  Positions   BARGES WRECKED OFF NEW GUINEA COAST

STATE SPENDING TO RECORD HIGE   House Charts Course to Remain Inside Revenue Estimates, However

Plan Record High Spending Program for Next Biennium   But If Auditor Smith Is Right State Will Still Be $3,000,000 On the Right Side of the Ledger; Total $251,000,000

ROME FIRES STILL BURN FROM RAID   ALL PERSONS NOT HAVING NE CESSARY DUTIES ORDERED TO LEAVE—WATER SUP- ° PLY DISRUPTED

-Heavy Damage Caused In Rome   Bomb Attack Occasioned Much Damage To Muilitary Targets   FIRES STILL RAGE IN PARTS OF CITY

NEWSPAPERS GIVEN 30 HOURS ADVANCE   American Editors Had Casablanca Conference Story Ahead Of Release

TIME OF RELEASE HELD FAIR 10 ALL   Wednesday Morning London Papers Benefit By Story Action

Beachheads on Tarawa and Makin, Previously Invaded, Extended.  ' Marine Lt. Col. James Roosevelt Goes Ashore With Army Infaidry. Powerful Naval Units-Believed Still Covering Gilbert Operations.

Stubborn Fighting Still Goes on At Makin; Australians Drive Nearer Huon Positions

R.H. Nye Gets 6 Months Jail Term, And Fine      Lumberton Man Appeals;.Convicted of Attempt to’ Obstruct Jus. tice. ;

Sinkings Occur In Engagements  Near Munda Base   Two Large Jap Destroyers Lost In Attempt To Halt ‘U.S. Fleet Units   NO U.S. VESSELS LOST IN BATTLE

MORE BUNEING OF JAP Bate   Allied Air Force in Scuth. west Pacific Is Keeping ‘Very Busy.

Mighty U. S. Offensive Weakens Foe   End Seen Near For Allies In Sicilian Drive

Patton's American Forces Press Advance Toward Messina Strait   Maintenance of Pace May Result in Blow At German Rear North of Mount Etna

Yankees Push On To North   Lreat Strategic Victory Is  Finveeccn

Mighty U.S. offensive slices forward thru  Sicilian highlands   Maintaining crushing attack as Gen. Patton orders ‘keep striking’

Patton's Troops Continue Drive Toward Messina   Jatter Weakening Gei man Front in Northern Sicily Area   Also Attack Italian Ports on Mainland in Vicinity of Naples

U. $. Troops Smash Forward In Sicily; Now Threatening Main Defense Line of Axis

Mighty Yank Offensive Drives Ahead   Americans Knife Deep Into Axis Positions

Americans, Canadians  Push Ahead   Threaten Defenses Of Germans Hinged On San Stefano   PLANES CONTINUE TO POUND SICILY:   a SNE A eee Oe  Germans Retreating Before Canadians. Correspondent Says

BiG AMERICAN DRIVE MOVES UPON MESSINA   COLLAPSE OF AXIS MAY COME SOON IN SICILY

Spurred by “Keep-Striking”’ Orders of General Patton, Doughboys Knife Into Axis Positions and Threaten to Beat In Doors of German Defenses Hinged on San Stefano.

WHILE AIR FLEETS HIT ITALY AND SICILY; GENERAL PATTON’S ORDERS TO “KEEP STRIKING” ARE BEING OBEYED,

Yanks Slash German Lines   Defenses Knifed Deeper As Air Blows Lash Big Area

Yank Infantry Set to Shatter Me. Etna Line   American Atlach Slane Through Highlands

Americans, Canadians In Sicily Push Nazi Line Back  General Patton’s Orders To Keep Driving  Spur Americans On To New Flanking Attack

Mighty Yankee Offensive Rolls Toward Messina   Canadian and British Forces Drive Ahead

Patton Forces Continue to Knife Into Axis Positions   ITALIAN MAINLAND SHELLED BY SHIPS   Great Strategic Possibilities Open Up for Americans

U.S. Forces Launch Drive  On Messina   Slam Forward Across Sicilian Mountains Toward Strait

ENEMY DEFENSE WEAKENING IN NORTHERN AREA   Patton’s Troops Advance In ‘Several Places’ In Hills; Roads, Shipping Hit   Mainland Is Shelled

Northern Arc Of Defense ls W eakening   Americans Stream Over Mountains, Streaking Toward Strait; San Stefano, Catania Are Next

Jap American  Tells Dies Group  Of War Warning Was Laughed at  by FBI; Preference Given Aliens

Tokie Slocum Govt. Witness   Japanese-American Relates Pre-Pearl Harbor Experience

GAVE FBI WARNING OF WAR WITH JAPS   JAPANESE-AMERICAN TELLS DIES COMMITTEE HE WAS “LAUGHED AT.”

10 Killed in Airliner Crash  Crew of Four and Six Passengers Die In Flaming Wreck

British Drive On Greece Indicated   Opening Of Balkan Path May Be Next

BALKANS DRIVE MAY BE OBJECT   Allies May Be Planning To Oust Nazis From Greek Territory

Aegean Struggle Seen as Start Of Maior Drive   Allies Threaten Crete and Rhodes Held by Germans

CRASH KILLS 2   Man, Wife Fatally Injured When Tenek Car Collide.

SPECIAL CONVOY T0 AFRICA EQUIPPING FRENCH SOLDIERS   pune ice. Equipping Army - With Everything From _Knapsacks To. oe Tanks ‘

FRENCH SOLDIERS WEAR AMERICAN ARMY UNIFORMS   African Divisions Being Outfitted With Full Equipment, Including Tanks and Artillery.

CONVOY OF EQUIPMENT FOR FRENCH   _Amer. Materials JReach French Army in Africa

Clark's Yankee Ground Forces Gouging Enemy   Heavy Bombers May Hit Germany From England And Italy

Reds Widen Breach In German Defenses Along Dnieper River   Fifth Army Takes Three More Volturno R:ver Towns As Retreating Nazis Burn Supplies; Renew Air Blows at Germany

RUSSIANS GETTING  SET FOR ANOTHER  WINTER OFFENSIVE   Great Masses of Clothing. Sleds and Winter Equip  ment On Way to   Brant

REDS DRIVE WEDGES INTO NAZI LINES   Berlin --Reports Reds Massing Troops For Offensive -

TWO WEDGES PUSHED INTO NAZI SALIENT      Enemy Claims Attack Is Halted; Details Are Vague

QUESTIONED BY OFFICERS    Pair May Have Been in on Texas : Bank Robbery in 1942

NEW HASKELL COURSE   Physical Training to Be Stressed In Second Semester

FURNACE BLOWER SOLD BY OWNERS   Hope For Work Resumptior ‘At Riddlesburg Gone For Present

ARMY AND NAVY “TAKE NINE MEN   Names of Additional July Call Inductees Released By Local Draft Board   MARRIACE LICENSES

New German Forces Are Gathering in the Ukraine.  SOVIETS ADVANCING ALONG KUBAN RIVER  Most of the Soviet Front Is Bogged Down in Mud.

RUSSIANS REPORT GERMANS START NEW OFFENSIVE   Nazi Armies Preparing For Early Spring Drive In Southern Russia.

RUSSIAN FORCES ARE ADVANCING IN THE CAUCASUS   Score Additional Gains  Drive To Clear Nazis  From That Area

WATER BACKS UP BEHIND GORGE   Threat of Ficod Is  Reported in Ottumwa

Flood Menaces Ottumwa as Ice Forms in River   Reed Asks Red Cross and Police Stand By Area Threatened

WAR FINANCES MAIN ISSUE ON CAPITOL HILL   General Sales Tax Suggestec _ as ‘Last Resort’ Alternative

HOW TO FINANCE WAR IS PROBLEM FOR CONGRESS   Sales Tax Admittedly May Be Adopted To Meet Emergency Situation

Churchill, Roosevelt In Agreement      Vital Decisions for Full Scale Offensives on Germany and Japan Reached; Wartime Food Problems Studied

Leaders Reach Agreement On Future Strategy  Invasion Of Europe This Summer, Openin Of Burma Road In Fal Are Expected Moves

Farm Machinery  Output To Gain  May Be 80 Per Cent Of 1940 Level. Report

Indicted On Treason Charges   Ration Value On Butter To Be Increased

OPA Ups Value of Butter Ration By Two Points   Beef Remains Static In August Tables; Less Pork Expected

Ration Value Of Butter Advances To Ten Points Aug. Ist; Fats, Oils Down

Raise Butter Ration Pomts   ‘O. P. A. Announces 10 Red Points Per Pound As Rate For August   MEAT POINT VALUES REMAINED UNCHANGED

UITTLE CHANGE Ih OPA RATION POINT VALUES IN AUGUST   Butter Will Go Up to Tex Points, But Meats Stay About the Same.

BUTTER RAISED 10 10 POINTS PER POUND   Meat Values for August Left Largely Unchanged

RATION VALUE OF BUTTER TO BE INCREASED      Changes To Be Effective Or Aug. 1—Principal Meats Unchanged

Ration Value Of Butter to Be Increased   Jump of from 8 To 10 Points Effective Aue. 1

BUTTER POINTS TO BE RAISED; BEEF WILL REMAIN THE SAME   TWO MORE POINTS PER POUND WILL BE NEEDED FOR BUTTER DURING NEXT ‘MONTH

Butter Ration Value To Be Hiked August 1  Principal Meats, Fish, Cheese

ington Plan To Sovietize American Farmer Feared   t-Absolute Dis a Would Put  of Bureaucrats

DROUGHT MAY FORCE CLOSING OF WOODLANDS   20 Fires Now Burning in State bu Under Control— Woods Tinde Dry, Halpin Says

VITAL BILLS DELAYED BY FILIBUSTER   Governor Declares Showdown Tactics May Make Necessary Special Session   TEACHERS' PAY SLICED

Martin Hits Filibuster   May Make It Necessary to Call Special Meeting

American War Plants Reconverted   Shifting Of Contracts Is_ Bottleneck Breaker

UKRAINE ARMY IN OUTSKIRTS OF ZHITOMII   Its Fall, Believed Imminent, Would Lay Open Road to Rumania and Balkan States

THE DEFENSES OF ZHITOMIR BROKEN BY THE RUSSIANS   A German Rout All Along the Whole Front Before the City Is Reported.   A GREAT RED VICTORY   Stalin Ordered the Advance Salute by 20 Salvos From 224 Cannons.

Nazis Routed At Zhitomir   Front Collapses, Reds Cut One of Main Escape Routes

Gen. Vatutin's Ukrainian Army Strikes to Within 48 Miles of Old Poland

Reds Surge Toward Old Frontier   One Arm of Great 3-Front Offensive ' Within 48 Miles of Old Polish Border.

Front Caving In On Enemy; Losses Mount  Garrisons, Cut Off By  ED ...3.. BD .. San aw ae eo   Garrisons, Cut Off By Reds, Being Trapped; Counter-Offensive For  Kiev No. 1 Blunder

LEADERS SEEM TO HAVE LOST HOLD ON MEN      Garrisons Are Isolated, Tanks Piling Up in Snow — Hitler Blunder Gives Reich Darkest Hour Since Invasion.

Allies Make Big Landing At Garighiano   Presumably Fifth Army Tries Leap Frog Landing On Italian West Coast.   NEAR POLISH BORDER

MOVE TOWARD (939 FRONTIER   First Ukraine Army Spear: heads Great Three-Front Winter Drive.   190 MILES FROM POLANO

GREAT SOVIET WINTER DRIVE NEARS BORDER   Russians Aiming at First Plunge Outside Soviet  Territory.   Germans Exhausted By Vatutin’s Troops

‘Disaster Faces Von Mannstein, NowFighting to Save His Army   Garrisons Surrounded, Communications Cut,  Tanks Piling Up

RUSSIAN ARMIES IN CONTINUED ADVANCE TOWARD 1939 BORDER   GREAT SOVIET THREEFRONT WINTER OFFENSIVE ROLLS FORWARD

German Front Caves in Fast   Stalin Announces Triumphant Russian Advances Along Wide Front; Zhitomir's Defenses Broken; Thousands Entrapped

Kiev Front  Scene of Nazi Rout   Russians Retake Zhitomir as Forces Charge Through Broken German Lines Toward Poland; Stalin Reports New’ Soviet Gains

VATUTIN’S ARMY 48 MILES FROM OLD POLISH LINE   KOROSTEN CAPTURED; OTHER UNITS CLOSE IN ON ZHITOMIR

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WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE —   Without Calemsel—And You'll Junap Out of Bed in the Mammins Harm’ ta Ca

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WAKE UP YOUR HIVER BILE =   Without Calemel—And You'll Jump Out e!  ‘Bed in the Mamning Rarin’ te Go

WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILF —   Without Caloinel—And You'll Jump Out % Bad in the Moarsine Barr’ 2. .

LIVER: BILE =   Without Calomel——And You'll Jump Out of,  -Red in the Morning Rarin’ to Ga =

WAKE UP YOUR FIVER BILE .  Without Catomel—And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin’ ta Oa

WAKE UP. YOUR LIVER BILE —   Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Parin' to Go

PROBE OPENS INTO DETROIT RACERIOTING   Dies Committee to Deter. mine If Axis Agents Responsible

Racial Riots To Be Probec   Dies Committee Sets Public Hearings Soon

DIES TO HOLD PROBE OF RIOT   Committee Will Inquire Into Propaganda Of Japanese Agents

Detroit Race Riot To Be Probed By Dies Group  Real Inciters Will Be  Hunted Out, Say Mayor and Governor

DIES WILL SIFT DETROIT RIOTS   Committee Seeks Cause Of Race Disturbances In Motor City

PROBE OPENS INTO DETROIT RACE RIOTING      Dies Committees to Determine lf Axis Agents — Responsible

RECORD BOMB LOADS BLAST NEW BRITAIN   NIPPONESE SUPPLY BASES POUNDED; SHIPS SUNK

356 Tons of Explosives Blast Jap Barge Base And Done Without Loss

Greatest Raid in Pacific Area Staged   None of Aircraft Are Lost in Heavy Attack

Bombers Lash Big Jap Base   New Record Bomb Tonnage For Area Tears Up Arawe

Record Load Of Bombs Hit  J apanese Base   Arawe Struck by 356 Tons of Explosives From U. 8S. Planes

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Base In New Britain   356 Tons Dropped Upon Enemy's Arawe Installations

Heaviest Bomb Load Ever Carried on Mission in Pacific 100 BOMBERS AIDED BY ATTACK PLANES  No Interruption From Enemy Fighters and Little Ground Fire

(00 PLANES RIP JAP BARGE BASE ON NEW BRITAIN   Record Load of 356 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Arawe —Ships, Installations Believed Destroyed.   ENEMY CRUISER HIT TWICE OFF KAVIENG   Ground Operations Above Huon Peninsula and at Augusta Bay Marked by Patrol Activity.

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ARAWE HEAVILY HIT FROM AIR   Over 350 Tons Of Bombs Showered On New  Guinea Base

JAP AIR BASE BATTERED BY U. 5. BOMBER‘   Record Load of Bombs Dropped on Arawe In New Britain

1356 Tons Of Explosives Are  Dropped On Jap Barge Base  At Arawe In Record Assault   Japanese Also Sprayed With More Than 174,000 Rounds Of Machinegun Ammunition; Widespread Devastation Believed Caused; Little Opposition

Heaviest Bomb Load Ever Carried on Mission in Pacific‘ 100 BOMBERS AIDED BY ATTACK PLANES  “No Interruption From Enemy Fighters and Little

MRS. FOR IS --ENROUTE EAST   Will Report to President News Gained on 24,00 Mile Trip

Mrs. Roosevelt Heads for Home  American Boys Ask  About Their College Vinee and Tint. lek.

POSTPONE TAX BILL HEARINGS   QUESTION MARK HOVERS OVER 1944 LEVY PLANS

Wartime Revenu Studied as Tax Bill Slowed   Republicans Take Issue Over TDelav on Funds

MAJOR BENN SAID MISSING   One of ‘Outstanding Air Heroes ®*Was On Routine Flight

MAJOR BENN IS LISTED MISSING IBY ARMY TODAY   Washington Man Was Successful Squadron Leader — Got Many Japs

Congressman ‘Bemoans, the H igh Pay — * Pret alent in. ‘Nation’ Ss War ‘Factories

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Inexperienced War Plant Workers Making More Pay Than Generals, Solon Says After Inspection

MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE _ SAYS SOME JANITORS © DRAW MORE PAY THAN ARMY CAPTAINS

KLEYLA FUNERAL TOBE THURSDAY   Services Will Be C: cndlusted at Youngs Funeral ’ ‘Home # )

KLEYLA FUNERAL 10 BE THURSDAY   Services Will Be C:nducted at Youngs Funeral Home. -

No Easy Way, Says Marine Commander   No Fox-Holes Off Shore, No Royal Road to Tokyo

Western “Nazi ' Areas Raided      RAF Launches New Yean With Bombs: Britain. Escapes Damave

Will Pay Dairy Producers To  Aid Production   Schedule of Producer Meetings Given Below

AAA Encourages Dairy Production   May Secure Credit in The Near Future to Carry On Wark

Allies Pound At Gateway To Plain Of Tunis   Ist Army, French Exert Pressure On Two Fronts; British Hit Naples; Yanks Smash At Catania

Italy Waits Allied Army   ‘Be Polite,’ People Told by Pamphiects

Allies Slashing on Toward Goal   BRITISH, FRENCH, YANKS INCREASE PRESSURE AS FLYING FORTS BLAST PALERMO HARBOR; AMERICAN LIGHTNINGS RAKE CAP SERRAT SHIPS

Duce Recalls All Forces From Greece   Werthigs, Occupation Treeps Ordered Back Te ltely, Report

ITALIAN CIVILIANS TOLD TO BE POLITE TO ALLIES IN FVENT OF INVASIO?

Mailing Of Christmas Gifts To Overseas Servicemen Must Be Made Sept. 15 To Oct. 15

Christmas Packages To Men Overseas Must ‘Be Mailed Beginning September 15th, 1943.

SEPT. 15TH MAILING OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO THE SERVICE MEN OVERSEAS IS URGED BY THE ARMY AND THE NAVY

MUST SOON MAIL GIFTS OVERSEAS   Christmas Parcels For Army And Navy Personnel Over There Must Be Sent Between Sept. 15 And Oct. 15

rristmas Shopping Season Here For Soldiers. Overseas   ives Information On Mailing  : Office Departmen

‘MUST MAIL GIFT PACKAGES FOR OVERSEAS SOON      Must Begin By September 15 For Mer, Women In Armed Forces

Enemy's Losses To Date Ared74, Navy Announce:   U. S$. Submersibles Get 2 Transports, 2 Tankers And 4 Freighters

374TH JAP SHIP SUNK BY ALLIES   Navy Reveals 8 More Fal Victims to U. S. Subs

U.S. Subs Sink 8 Jap Ships   Two Large Transports and Two Large Tankers {ncluded in Toll

Cargo Ships Sent Down In Pacific  Raises Total Of Jap Craft  Sunk in War

SUBS SINK 8 JAP VESSELS   NEW YANK WIN BRINGS NIP SHIP TOLL TO 374

U. 5. Submarines Sink More Japs   Add Eight Cargo Vessels To “Sighted and Sunk” List of “Silent Service”

JAP CASUALTIES RAISED   Eight More Jap Ships Downed By US Submarines

U. S. SUBS SINK 8 ENEMY SHIPS   Two Large Transports and Two Tankers Included

U. S. SUBS SINK EIGHT JAP SHIPS   Brings Total to 524 Nip Vessels Hit By Submarines

8 JAP SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS   -U. S. Undersea Raiders Bring Total for War To 374

EIGHT MORE JAP CARGO SHIPS SUNK BY U, S. SUBMARINES   ‘Brings the Total Japanese  Vessels Sunk Since Start  of War to 374.   SINKINGS IN THE PACIFIC

U.S. Submarines Sink Eight More Jap Ships In Pacific   Transports, Tankers And Freighters Sent Down, Savs Report Of Navy Department

U.S. SUBS SINK 8 JAP VESSELS   Cargo Ships Blasted in Pacific Bring Total Foe Sea Losses to 374

SINK EIGHT MORE JAPANESE SHIPS   Navy Announces Lates Bag Of U. S. Submar ines Include Two Large Transports.

U.S. Subs Sink Eight More Jap Cargo Ships   Two Large Transports And Tankers Among Vessels Announced Destroved

SALERNO FIGHT GRIM: STIMSON   WAR SECRETARY SAYS COMMANDERS CONFIDENT   Japs Beaten Off in Two Air Thrusts at Yank Positions in Southeast Solomons

Japs Twice Raid SE Solomons in [Renewed Air War   Apparently Seek to Force Yanks from New Guinea

JAPS TRY TO HIT SOLOMONS POINTS   Two Ineffectual Attacks Made—No Damage Caused :

JAPS LOSE 9 PLANES IN STAB AT DARWIN   Furious 10-Minute Battle with Spitfires Breaks Up 48-Plane Raid

JAP ATTACK OM DARWIN FUTILE ALLIES CLAUS   Nine of 48°Enemy Planes Attempting Raid Over Australia Are Shot Novn   OTHERS DAMAGED   Meanwhile, American Lib-erators Drop 3! Tons of Explosives On Japs At Rabaul

Delay in Preparing Next Year’s County Tax Bills Probable   Action of Cook County Assessor Disrupts State Machinery

Parole Board Votes To Free Phil Kenname!  Kerr Will Assist Him In Getting Into Army

Parole Board Votes To Free Phil Kennamet  Kerr Will Assist Him In Getting  1.4 ; a

HRS, GUY GRAY.  “PASSED. AW   Resident pl Goldsmith Com.  ’ inunity Was, Victim of : .  Pas onia. i  ; } f3 m

Af, GUY GRAY PAGOED AWA)   Resident of Geldsmith Com munity Was Victim of Pnetimonia.

Will Conduct Registration  Each Afternoon; Requirements Proceedure Are Outlined

OUTLINE GIVEN BELOW. ON STEPS TO BE TAKEN TO OB-“TAIN NEW. BOOKS:  ' NEXT WEEK

‘Chetniks Claim Full Control OfMontenegro   Mihailovie Cites Nazis’ Defeats; Partisans Gain

MONTENEGRO IS HELD BY SLAVS   Mihailovic’s Army Pins Germans Down To  Port Of Kotor

OCCUPATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED IN DRAFT OF FATHERS      “Immediate, Heavy” Move Of Non-Deferrables And Skilled Into War Work Expected

Manpower Board Program ToDratt Fathers For Army  Family Men Contributing Least To War Effort

Maneuver to be Held Jn Conjunction With Next Air Raid Drill  STRATEGY STAFF NAMED

STATE PLANS TEST OF DEFENSE UNITS   Mobilization To Meet Simulated Enemy Attack Being Arranged For Indefinite Date. James Says

State Starts Mobilization — Of Military, Defense Units To Meet Simulated Attack

PA. DEFENSE UNITS ARE 0 RE MORTTIZED   To Meet Simulated Attack Under War  Conditions   ‘PLAN SURPRISE   In Connection With January Air Raid Drill

Two Rail Unions Prevent Return 0 Private Owner   Postponed Strike Orders Instead of Cancelling Them

UNIONS BLOCK LINES RETURK   Conductors, Firemen Don’t Cancel Strike, But Merely Postpone It

ARMY CANNOT RELEASE RAILS   War Department Asserts 2 Unions Only Postponed Strikes

Postonement of. Strikes Prevents. _ Return of Roads   War Depariment Says Two Unions Tail to— Cancel Order

2 Rail Unions: Put OFF Strike   Postponement. Can’t Bring Return. Sava War Dent.”

heer ana le ert laa et ee  COUNTY OPENS CHECK ON UNPAID TAX LISTS   Preparations Are Made Tc Advertise, Sell Parcels

EER. 5. WILKINS REPORTED MISSING   Local Youth’s Parents Notified By War Department He Has Been Missing Since November 5th In Air Raid Over Germany.

'Montanans, Inc., Executive Committee Recommends Coneress Pass General ‘Retail Sales Tax to Raise Five Billion

Montanans, Inc., Urges Sales Tax  _ Frowns on Personal   Frowns on Personal Income Levy Gains

Montanans, Inc., Urges Sales Tax  Frowns on Personal - Income Levy Gains

Canadian Kills Wife And Self,  Police Believe   Continue Double Fatality Probe

‘Budget’ Labor, Report Uraes   Baruch Hits Conflicts on Manpower Policies

SOMEBODY'S QUITE WRONG   Has ‘Unskilled Eye’ But Has Downed Eight Planes

Yank Soldiers Observe Easter Rite in London   Resurrection ls Being Celebrated By U. S.  Forces in Britain

U.§. SOLDIER: ATTEND LONDOM DAWN SERVICE   American Custom Observ. ved in Great Britain to   Commemorate Resur rection of Christ   HYDE PARK SCENE   Men Stationed Elsewhere in Britain to Observe Easter; Special Services  Planned

LONDON EASTER DAWNS FOR AEF   Hyde Park To Be Scene Of Peaceful Rites For Soldiers

Italy Warned To Stop Sending Allied Soldiers To Prisons in Germany

Bill Before House Military Group Would Check Union  Measure Is Intended To End Strife in

Sweeping Labor Bill Studied By House Group   Congress Also Weighs Protest Against Organizing Foremen

CONGRESS. WEIGHS FOREMEN PROTEST   House Unit Meanwhile Receives Sweeping Labor Measure ‘

BROAD MEASURE WOULD OUTLAW WORK STOPPAGE   Rep. Smith Offers Bil To Ban Union Rules Which Interfere With Output   Foreman Groups Hit

House Speed:  Bill to Curb  Unions’ Sway Measure Would  Outlaw Many. Labor Practices

LABOR LAW SENT TO COMMITTEE   House Studies Action To Prevent Foremen From Forming Union

SOLON RAPS AT BREWSTER COh, .   Rep Meas Suggests Cancellation ot Contract, Removal Of Union Leader

FALL FROM HORSE FATAL 10 GUDAHY   Former Ambassador Found on Country Estate

JOHN CUDAHY DIES IN FALL   55-Year-Old Defense Direc: tor and Fermer -Diplomat Killed Monday.

KILLED BY A FALL   John Cudahy Former U. S. Diplomat to European Countries

John Cudahy Dies In Fall Off Horse  State Defense Council Chairman Found Dead

WPB PLANNING CHIEF RESIGNS; OTHERS MAY   Nathan Asks Termination of Drait Deferment When Reports Shilted from Nelson to Cordiner

EUROPE AIR FRONT HAS OMINOUS LULL   GERMANS LEFT TO. WONDER AT QUIET FOLLOWING BIG COASTAL ATTACKS.

Air War ‘Calm Before Storm’  Ominous Lull Finds Germans Surveying Berlin. Coast Ruins

GERMANS STILL FIGHTING FIRES   Christmas Lull Over Air Front In Europe, But Hitler Isn't Resting

Christmas Lull Settles On Air Front In Europe   Let-Up Follows Allied Attacks On Gun Coast

Lull in Air War Follows Berlin Attack   British Count Shows Germany Has Been Hit  by 200,000 Tons

Lull Follows Fierce Action On Air Front   R.A. F. Says Total Of 200,000 Tons: Dropped on Germany

LULL SETTLES OVER FRENCH ROCKET COAST   RAF Drops 100,000 Tons Of Bombs In In 7 Months

YULE LULL HITS AERIAL ATTACK   RAF Reports 200.000 Tons Already Dropped On Reich

Christmas Lull. Settles Over Air Front in Europe   No Announcement Of Holiday Truce, Germans Fight Fires

Lull Is Noted © On Air Fronts   No Bombing ng Raids Made Over Christmas Day; ~ Patrol Is Kept

GUADALCANAL IS DIFFERENT ISLE AFTER 6 MONTHS   Reporter Lodge Describes Vast Changes Wrought In Physical Appearance And In Life Of Fighting Men On  Solomons Island.

HALF YEAR MAKES * GREAT DIFFERENCE SOLOMONS ISLAND  GUADALCANAL TRANS. FORMED FROM STINKING HOLE TO NEW PARADISE

GUADALCANAL TRANSFORMED \}COMPLETELY IN SINGLE YEAR   From A Stinking, Mosquito Ridden, War Infested Island, Base Today Has Hard Roads, Good Food, Movies And Electric Lights

Guadalcanal Blossoms Out in Lights, Movies, Clean Khaki, and Ice Water

What A Difference A Few Months Make!  —_—~ ee em  Guadalcanal Is Nice And Japs Far Away      Food Is Good, Entertainment Okay, Jeeps w  Plentiful, And Raids Are Scarce 

He Listened Too Long And Now Is Short $8,500, Says Filling Station Operator

Mammoth Tank Battle Rages Near Kharkov   Planes Fight Overhead as Monsters Clash Below

Red Lines Stem German Attacks Below Kharkoy   Russians Smash Ahead In Drive On Smolensk

SovietsMeet HugeDonets Tank Attack   Lines Unyielding As Planes Battle Nazi Air Umbrella

Big Tank Battle Rages In Donets Basin In Russia   Soviet Armies Stand Fast In Deluge of German Armor

GERMANS. TRY TO BREAK THROUGH   Mass Against Narrow Sectors, Claim Russian Losses Are Heavy

Germans Hurling Tanks Into Scrap   Nazis Reported to Be on Offensive in Region of Kharkov   RED ARMY IS HOLDING   Russians Are Swooping ~ Down Upon Scores of Enemy Soldiers

SLUUSS Stage Gigantic Air, Tank Drive  Tilanie ‘Struggle Rages Over Northern Donets Valley  SOVIET LINES HOLD         SOVIET LINES HOLD   Heavy Losses Suffered by Beth Sides in Plane Duels

Gigantic Tank Battle Is Waged On Soviet Front   Russian Lines Refuse to Give Before Masses of  Nazi Armnar   Reds Shaping a Wide Attack On Smolensk

Titantie Tank Battle Rages In The Donets   Reds Claim Lines Holding Against Nazi Assaults

GERMANS ATTACK UNDER UMBRELLA OF DIVE BOMBERS   STRIVE VIOLENTLY TO BREAK THROUGH SOVIET LINES

[Russians Claim They Have ! Not Budged Before’. ‘the.  Masses of Tanks Hurled  Against Them a

TITANIG TANK STRUGGLE NOW ON IN RUSSIA   Northern Donets River Valley Scene Of Terrific Air, Land Fighting; Reds Advance In Central,  North.

TANKS, PLANES Lock IN FIERCE DUEL IN RUSSIA   Germans Strain To Smash Forward In Donets Zone Against’ Reds’ Line

RUSSIANS FIGHT DESPERATELY TO NIP NAZI DRIVE   Gigantic Tank Battle Rages . in Donets Valley—German Stab Repulsed

Soviet Lines Holding Firm Before Tanks   Reds Continues Smolensk Drive; Ger mans Claim Victory

Tank Struggle  Raging Under Dive Bombings  Skies Over Battle Are: Alive With German. Soviet Planes; Pincers On Smolensk Near

RUSSIAN LINES REFUSE 10 GIVE IN HITLER BLITZ   Both Sides Throwing Masses of Tanks Into Donets Battle   REDS MOPPING UP ON CENTRAL FRONT

TERRIFIC BATTLE RAGING IN NORTHERN DONETS VALLEY AS DRIVE ON SMOLENSK CONTINUES

Soviet Lines Hold In Vast Donets Fight   Masses Of Tanks, Planes Clash In Titanic Battle East Of Kharkov   RED LOSSES CLAIMED   Berlin Also Reports New Attacks By Russians On Wide Orel! Front

BERLIN CLAIMS SOVIET FORCES BEING CRUSHED   Says Germans On Offensive Throughout Sector ‘From Kharkov to  : Kursk   RUSSIANS MAKE NEW GAINS BOR SMOLENSK   Overcome - Bitter Opposition On Central Front,  _ According to Moscow »  ~ - Communiques

NAZIS, REDS IN TITANIC STRUGGLE   Soviets Fashion Pincer Drive . On Smolensk

Russians Say Their Battle Lines Holding   Furious Struggle Of Massed Tanks In Donets Valley   Nazis Claim Red Casualties Heavy   Germans Using Many Dive Bombers Over Mechanized Units

GERMANS HURL TANKS, PLANES ATRED UNITS   Enemy Massing Forces Along Central Front

Huge Tank Fight  Rages in Russia   Red Planes Rip Axis Dive Bombers In Northern Don River Yalley

NAZIS, REDS IN TITANTIC BATTL!   Frerch Patriots Attempt ti Check Germans By Using Landslides.

REDS TRYING TO KNOCK OUT NAZI ARMOR   Germans Concentrating Forces in Narrow Sectors Trying to Break Thru Red Vines

SOVIET LINES REPORTED T0 BE HOLDING   Berlin Radio Declares Ger. mans on Offensive Along   Sector From Kursk   To Kharkov   CASUALTIES HEAVY

NAZI TANKS AND AIRMEN ARE MATCHED   Russians Are Holding Out About Kharkov While Making Big Gains Toward Smolensk Base.

Big Russ Tank Battle Raging   Reds Hold Nazi Armored Drive in Donets Valley; Fighting Flames From Kharkov to Kursk With Severe Losses on Both Sides

Great Tank Battle, Air Struggle Rages in Basin of Donets   Reds Beat Off Waves of Counterattacks in the Kharkov Sector

GREAT TANK BATTLE BEING WAGED DONETS RIVERY VALLEY AREA   HEAVY USE OF AIRPLANES   HEAVY USE OF AIRPLANE: REPORTED AS RUSSIAN LINES HOLD

RUSSIAN LINES HOLDING FIRM   Berlin Says Nazis On Offensive From Kharkov To Kursk   FIERCE STRUGGLE   Reds Report Capture Of Many Villages In Smolensk Sector ,

Nazis Concentrate Ailacks in Hope of Breaking Through New Russian Defense Lines   REDS SCORE GAINS   Continue-Drives fo Encircle Smolensk and Against Staraya Rusea

MASS OF ARMOR HURLED AGAINST RUSSIAN FORCES   Mammoth Machines Clash Beneath German Air Umbrella Battered by Soviet Gsarmovilk Planes.

TANK, PLANE BATTLE RAGES IN DONETS AREA   Russians Report Lines Refuse To Yield To Furious German Assault   SMOLENSK FACES PINCERS   Sharp Soviets Attack South Of Bely Lead To Seizura Of 32 Villages

REDS HOLD FAST ~ BEFORE ONSLAUGHT OF BERMAN TANK   Titanic Struggle Being. Waged in Northern Donets River Valley   RUSSIANS GAIN NEAR BEL’

TITANTIC TANK BATTLE RAGES IN DONETS VALLEY   The Russians Reported Their Lines Refused to Give Before Massed Assault.   GERMANS ON OFFENSIVE   On the Central Front Russians Reported Attacking Settlements.

SOVIET LINES HOLD FIRM BEFORE MASSED ASSAULTS   Russians Fashion Pincers About Key Base A Smolensk, While Timoshenko’s Army Continues Offensive Against Staraya Russa.

Great Tank Clash On in Donets Area   Russian Lines Hold Despite  Mass of Tanks Against Them

Wage Titanic Tank Battle In Donets Valley   Russians Report Their Lines Have Refused To Budge As Germans Use Armored Units

NORTHDONETS VALLEY SCENE OF FIGHTING   Reds Say Their Lines Hold Against: Masses of Tanks and Report Taking 32 Towns in Smolensk Camnation.

RUSSIANS STILL MOVING TOWARI SMOLENSK BASE   Soviet Lines Holding Fast Against German Mobile Forces

GREAT TANK BATTLE BEING WAGED DONET: RIVERY VALLEY AREA  HEAVY USE OF AIRPLANE‘ - REPORTED AS RUSSIAN

SOVIET LINES HOLD SURGE OF AXIS UNIT   Russians Report Progress In Smolensk Drive   By Nazis Ahead Of Mechanized Forces: Every Challenge Answered

——— eer stitcnetatn atin Butter Supply Down 3 ly, to 4 Lbs. Starting July

British Subs Are ‘Active i in Mediterranean   ‘Seek. to. Cut. Off Italy’ $ Island Outposts

British Subs Sink 4 Axis Ships In Italian Waters, Including Transport

New Allied Invasion Fleet Leaves Gibraltar; Five More Axis Ships Sunk

BRITISH SUBS HELP ALLIED AIR FORCES THRUST AT ITALY   New Allied Invasion Fleet Leaves Gibraltar Under Naval Escort—King  Victor Uneasy ;

Four Axis Ships. Sunk By British Underseas Craft   ~ Say Large Invasion -.Fleet Heading Out From Gibraltar Base

BRITISH SUBS CLOSE TO ITALY   Sink Axis Ship As New Invaston Flect Is Reporied Moving

NEW INVASION FLEET LEAVES GIBRALTAF   Italian King Reported Seeking Open City Declaration

BRITISH SUBS SINK FOUR AXIS VESSELS   Flyers From Africa Blast Ait Fields, Russians Break Through Germans.

LEWIS HITS OWI FOR PROPAGANDA PLANS   ‘Claims Bureau Wants To Use  Air for Its Schemes

OWI Attacked By Fulton Lewis, Jr  Savs Agency Trying To Run Broadcasts

U. S. Industries Growing Rapidly   ROGER BABSON TELLS ABOUT GREAT NEW DEVELOPMENT

BUSINESS OUTLOOK — WHEN WAR IS WON   Babson Discusses Prospects For Booming Business In Some Lines And Certain Declines In Others.

SENATE CHECKS ON WAR NEWS   Inf ormation Experts Will Demonstrate Their Methods

Quakes Cause Little Damage   Sections Of East, Midwest And Ontario, Canada Report Tremors.

WESTERN N. Y., OHIO, PENNA. FEEL QUAKE    Strong Earth Tremors, with Epi  center About 50 Miles From Buf  falo, Recorded

Temblor_Last Night Felt Over Eastern U. S., in  a Midwest and Canada...  SHOCKS CAUSE  BMA NnAED LET DE

rAltitaa MAY Be PUT LAGI   House Committee Approves Kilday Bill cn Draft Revision.

STIMSON HIT ~~ DRAFT PLAN   WAR SECRETARY DECLARES -PROPOSED SYSTEM WOULD BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE ‘ MPOSSIBILITY

BE PUT US   House Committee Approves Kilday Bill cn Draft:    Revision, 

Harris Shakes Angry i Inger At SAR  Tells Members TL crer bY  sucet

Senate Scolded By Gov. Harris   Warns Against Political Bickering and Withholds  His Vote.

Max McClellan Died In Africa   SPINAL MENINGITIS FATAL TO SENATOR'S SON

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Declares Liberation of Philippines is Certain

My Issouri Is: -on New Rampage   Fods Large Acreage ot Farm Land Today Near Falls City

U, 5. WARSHIPS HAMMER ITALY   Allied Airmen Batter At Railroad Junctions

American Ships Shell Left Leg Of “Hell’s Triangle” On Italian Coast

GIRAUD REGIME SEEKING UNITY   Pro-Allied Prisoners To Be Freed; De Gaulle Agreement Near

GIRAUD READY FOR UNITY WITH ALL FRENCHMEN   Spokesman Says General Is Anxious for Agreement With All Fighting Against Germany   DE GAULLE ACTS   Proposes Conference With African High Commission; Disappointed Move Unanswered

Giraud Seeks Unity Of Anti-Axis French   De Gaulle Declares He Asked An Immediate Meeting Dec. 25, But Has Received No ; Reply From African Leader

Giraud Calls For Agreement Among Anti-Nazi French   Release of Pro-Allied Political Prisoners Assured After Probe

Aide Of Giraud Uraes Anfi-Axis French To Unite  DeGaulle, African Leader Unable To gree On Meeting

Com pli cations Delay Bill To  Defer Farmers   Wheeler Will Seek Ban On Drafting Fathers Of All Ages

SENATE HITS FARM WORKER DRAFT PLANS   Votes 49-32 Against Bill On Deferments if Units Filled

HIGHER PRICES OF FOOD SEEN SOON   Government to Save Subsidies as Those With Cash Pay the Increase.

U.S. To Allow Food Prices  To Go Higher   Byrnes prefers. this step’to granting farm subsidies to hold costs down.

IN FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE SINCE RETURN FRON CASABLANCA, PRESIDENT SAYS ALLIES AGREED TO STRIKE AND STRIKE HARD DURING 1943.

DEATH RATEIN U.S. HITS LOW   General Death Rate In 1942 Lowest Ever Recorded.

1942 Death Rate Is Lowest Yet   Surgeon General Says Rate Last Year 10.3 Per 1,000 Persons.

DEATH RATE HITS NEW LOW IN U, S.   Expect Decrease in Maternal Mortality for 13th Consecutive Year

U.S. Death Rate Drops to New Low; ) Birth Rate Made Gains tn Last Year

ARMADA OF FLYING FORTRESSES BLASTS ANEW AT NAZIS EUROPE; INVASION IS TOPIC IN LONDON   Navy Correspondent Says greatest Naval Operation In History Imminent. Hitler reinforcing Western Europe With Best Motorized Divisions.

Greatest Operation in History Thought Near by Observers   i  Americans Blast Anew at ian Mainland :

Heap Fresh ~— Destruction On Mainland   Some of Duce’s Warships May Have Been Hit In 100-Plane Raid   ISLAND OUTPOSTS ALSO BOMBED   U.S. Attack in Germany Follows British Assault In Big Week-of Raids

U. S. Forts Blast Italy And Reich   ‘African « Based Bombers Batter Italian Mainland, Three Island Outposts

ITALY UNDERWENT NEW SERIES ATTACKS AMERICAN BOMBERS  MAINLAND CITIES BOMBED AS WELL AS ISLAND OUTPOSTS

Six Italian Cities Raided  By Fortresses   US Planes Attack Hitler's Domain Without Fighter Escort; Italian Morale Suffers; Activity on Russian Front

New Series  Of Jolts To  Italy Today      Rome  Jittery With Rumors of Invasion Under Air Umbrella

Allies Continue To Pound Europe   Armada of U: S. Flying _ Fortresses Blast Hitler’s  es _   FROM ENGLISH BASES   Invasion Talk Dominates the Headlines of London , Papers

Invasion Talk Dominates Headlines’ In Britain As Bombers Hammer  At Axis Cities

Naval Operation Seen as Yankees Slug at Italians   Germans Are Reinforcing Western European Garrisons With Best Troops.   Bombers Inflict Big Havoc on Italian City

‘Great Armada In New Stab Over Channel   Blast Hitler’s Defense And Invasion Jittery Italy Undergoes Assault

WAC RECRUITING FAR BELOW GOAL   Figures for Last Three Months Show Decline in Enlietmante.

ROP IN WAC RECRUITING =. -- PUZZLES ARMY OFFICIALS   ABANDON ALL HOPES OF REACHING GOAL OF 150,000 BY FIRST OF YEAR

Job Shifts Spurned By  Most Dads   Nation- Wide Survey By Associated Press Shows Little Inclination to Avert Draft   VARIOUS REASONS CITED FOR APATHY   “Considerable Confusion” Reported, Many Fathers Fail to Understand Warning of WMC

Many Fathers Ignore Order To Get Essential War Jobs   JAMES MARLOW  ArAaRiA FIFT UT

Poll Shows Work Or Fight Order Leaves Fathers Calm   NMicNutt’s Warning To Shift To War-Related Occupations Has Had Little Effect, A. P. Survey  Niiecincac

Draft- Age Fathers Take Calmly Warning That They Must Shift to War-Related Job: Or Be Placed First on Army Induction List

Many Draft-Age Fathers Not Moving To Deferrable Jobs, Survey Shows

Stimson Pleads for All-Out Effort for War   Demands Seeking Reduction in Military Answered

Agriculture, Industry Must Be Stepped Up  Stimson Replies fo Demand That Size of Army Be Cut

Key Cities Lost ‘When Nazis  ‘Counterattack   Russia admits big Nazi ‘gain in the » Donets basin; battle rages on; -Josses heavy.

DEFENDS GOAL OF 8.200000 SET FOR ARMY   Stimson Urges Home Front Efficiency Be Stepped Up

STIMSON URGES QUIPUT STEP-UP   "Army Size Reduction Possible Only {tf Efficiency Reaches Top

Sti timson Replies To Those Who Would Cut Army   Insists Agriculture, Industry Be Stepped Up to Top Efficiency

Stimson Asks [fficiency on Home Front   Manpower Goals of Army Defended by Secretary; Size Set After Lengthy Stud:

Top Efficiency Needed in Industry And Agriculture, Stimson Asserts   War Secretary Replies to Demands That Size of Army Be Reduced

Stimson Defends Big Army, Asks More Efficiency  Declares Industry And Agriculture Aren’t ‘All Out’  ANSWERS CRITICISM  Says Sizes of U. S. Armed Forces Was Carefully Calculated   Declares Industry And Agriculture Aren’t ‘All Out’

STIMSON DEFENDS MANPOWER GOALS   CALLS FOR ALL-OUT WAR EFFORT ON PART OF INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE,

STIMSON FLAYS “EFFORT TO CURB BIG U. S, ARMY   Secretary Demands Peak — Action at Home Before Cutting Recruits  i  —_—  QO mesa yo PE ae mers:

Size of Army  Is Defended  By Stimson Demands Agriculture And Industry First   Gain Top Efficiency  ASKS EACH CITIZEN  TO STUDY PROBLEM  Reiterates Advocacy Of Compulsory Manpower Lecislation   Demands Agriculture And Industry First Gain Top Efficiency

‘STIMSON URGES EFFICIENCY BY FARMS, PLANTS   Army’s Manpower Goals Strongly Defended By  War Secretary   COMPULSION NEEDED TO PROD CIVILIANS

Reply Made for Demands " to Reduce Size of Army . of the United States

Americans Seet To Isolate Nazi: Afrika Korps...      British Hammer. ES AtRearof °° Retreating Foe:

Side With President In Voting   House Rejects The Ruml Plan For Third Time Today — Would Skip A Year’s Taxes

UPHOLDS FOR NN THIRD VETO 0F PROPOSAL   Refuses to Send Plan With Instructions to Committee

FDR Threatens To Veto Ruml Plan, If Passed   House Advocates Claim Bugaboo Will Backfire

Rejects Run's tax plan   House for 3rd time refuses to skip year

VETO THREAT BY PRESIDENT SWAYS VOTE   Defeat Follows Sharp Debate Along Party Lines Following  President's Message.   FOR HITS UNFAIRNESS  Roosevelt Claims Too Many Big Taxpayers Would Benefit Too Much From Plan.

VOTE CLOSE ON MOVE TO ORDER ITS ACCEPTANCI   Senate Ruml Plan Goes  Uninstructed Conference

House Rejects Ruml Rejects — Ruml Tax Plan   - Measure now Goes To” Conference Committee  To Adjust Differences

REJECTED, 202 10 194   Action Does Not Necessarily Mean Defeat of Plan

House Sides in With President And Refuses to Accept Ruml Plan   Rejection Vote Is 909 to 194

House Refuses To Accept the Rumi Plan Again   Knutson of Minnesota Starts Move fo Bring Quick Decision on Tax Bill Today

HOUSE REFUSES TODAY TO ACCEPT RUML PLAN   Members Side In With the President for the Third Time—Reject, 202 to 194, Motion to Send the Pay-As-You-Go-Tax Bill fo Conference with Instructions to Accept the Senate Bill, Embodvina the Rum! Plan.

HOUSE REFUSED RUML TAX PLAN   Refused for the Third Time by the House.

House Votes Down -Ruml Skip-a-Year Tax Bill, 202-194   House Sides With President Roosevelt in Refusing To Accept Senate-Approved Tax Bill For the Third Time

SOVIET EMBASSY -ENTERTAINS CAPITOL CROWD   Union Opens Drive To Crack Formula

Drive to Break Wage Formula is Opened   Steel Workers Will Seek Increases in Excess of “Little Steel” Limit—Other Unions Expected to Follow Suit.

To Demand Steel Pay Increase _   CIO’s Executive Board Fires Opening Shot  In Campaign to Smash “Little Steel” Formula

Steel Workers Set to Demand Rise in Wages   ‘Little Steel Formula’  Likely Subject for Connell Aes

Open Drive lo Break Pay Code   Steel Workers to Request Increases Above Formula; Others to Follow Lead   LIVING COSTS INQUIRY BEGINS

WPB Spurns Ickes Gas Control Plea   Two Committees on Distribution Planned

SALE OF WHEAT APPROVAL SEEN   Quick Senate Passage : Forecast for House Measure

U.S. Air Force Tn Britain  Grows Steadily   Seon May Approximate British RAF in Size; Liberators Being Added

Australians Smash Thru Enemy Lines To Join Our Troops in Nassau Bay, New Guinea

Nipponese Rushing Up Aerial Reinforcements In Munda Area. Australian And Yank  Tenanmea lain Lines.

ALLIED FLIERS RAID DENMARK ITALY, FRANCE   Germany Also Visited By Heavy Bombers; Heavier Expedition Than That Of Wednesday Night   One Plane Riddled

Allied Raids  Damage Ships Of J apanese  Several Bombings : i vy ¥ a 2   Several Bombings At Rabaul And  Other Points

Allied Bombers Blast at  Japanese Shins   Damaging Near Misses Are Scored on Two Warships, a Third Is Driven Aground and Big Cargo Vessel Is Hit

ALLIES CONTINUE AABAUL ATTAGKS   Bombers Wing Across New Britain to Hit Jap Shipping; Possibly Damage Seaplane  . Tender, Cargo Ships

Allied Bombers Pound Jap Shipping In Rabaul Harbor  Allied Ground Forces Menacing Jap Bases Of Lae And Salamaua With Aid OF Planes

Allies Continue Bombing of Nips at Rabaul   Third Successive Attack Scores Bits on Four Ships

Do You Know:   Allied Bombers Blast at Japanese Ships   Damaging Near Misses Are Scored on Two Warships, a Third Is Driven Aground and Big Cargo Vessel Is Hit

Seaplane Tender. Three Freighters Struck at Rabaul  Direct Hit Scored On 4000-Ton Cargo Vessel Off Babo  STRAFE OTHER BASES   Our Ground Forces  (Continue Advance  On Lae, Salamuau   Direct Hit Scored On 4000-Ton Cargo Vessel Off Babo

U.S. Bombers Strike Ships At Rabaul   Third in Series of ‘Attacks May Have Hur Four Jap Vessels

Late News Bulletins   Wasi Airfields an Rhodes Riasted he - RAT:

Flying Forts Damage Nazi  War Vessels   RAF Continues Blow At Berlin

Rabaul Plastered; Two More Vessels Lashed Off Guinea   Fourth Successive Pre-Dawn ‘Raid Tears At Nip Shipping In Southwest Pacific

Direct Hits on Jap Ships Scored   Allies Continue Heavy Air Raids

NEAR MISSES. DAMAGE PAIR: ONE GROUNDED   One: Liberator Beats Off Flight of = 13 Japs

FOUR JAPANESE SHIPS DAMAGED   Allied Bombers Attack Rabaul, Score Hits On Warships

Bombers Strike at Jap Shipping In Rabaul Harbor  _ Fourth Successive Night of Allied Heavy Air Attacks

 OFT TN QELVINY PRUNE UU AND  Speculation High With Eisenhower Rumored at Top

EISENHOWER TO HEAD CHANNEL DRIVE IS CLAIM      Capital Speculating On Man Tc Lead Cross-Channel Invasion

Say Eisenhower To Lead Invasion   Marshall Will Remain As Chief Of Staff, Which  Means Direction Of Allied Drive To Pass To Mediterranean Commander

Today’s War Commentary  Ruhr Valley  Holds Sinews Of Nazi War Mae

BRIDGE GUARDS TO BE REMOVEL   Civilians Will Take Over Duties At Detroit And Port Huron

TRUCK DRIVER STRIKE ENDS   TONS OF VITAL WAR MATER. “TALS ARE AGAIN BEING   MOVED IN EIGHT STATES °

NORWAY UNDER NAZISQUEEZETO = PREVENT BACKING OF EXPECTED INVASION BY ALLIED POWERS

NORWAY REPORTED UNDER EMERGENCY MILITARY RULING   Nazi Occupation Heads _ Move To Wipe Out _ Suspected Fifth  Columnists

N ORWAYIS — PLACED UNDER MILITARY LAW   Nazi Occupation Heads Show Fear  Of Invasion

REDS 12 MILES FROM BRYANSK   Victorious Russian Army Sweeps Forward On All Fronts

Soviets Menace Key Nazi Defense Base Of Bryansk   Russians Within 12 — Miles Of Vital City.

RUSSIANS DRIVE NEAR BRYANSK   Key German Base on Centra Front Threatened by Soviet Artillery.

BRYANSK FACES SOVIET ASSAULT   Heavy Artillery Drives With. in 12 Miles Of Big German Base

SOVIETS DRIVE STEADILY ONTO NAZI K EY BASE   Bryansk Under Fire o Russian Guns After Four-Mile Gain of Bitter Fighting

Russian Cannon  “Menace Bryans Key Nazi Base   Red Troops In Four-Mile Drive Take, 40 Villages After Bitter Fighting

BRYANSK, BIG GERMAN BASE, RUSSIAN GOAL   Reds Move Up Heavy ‘Artillery and Are Now ‘Within 12 Miles of City

RUSSIANS ONLY 12 MILES FROM VITAL BRYANSK   REDS PRESSING NAZI FORCES BACK TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER LINE

Russ 12 Miles From Bryansh   Big German Base Under Artillery Fire

Bryansk, Key Nazi Base, Menaced By Russians; Dneiper Drive Gains

Russian Artillery Threatens Bryansk   Reds Drive To Within 12 Miles Of Nazi Base

Reds 12 Miles  From Bryansk   1844-Mile Soviet Gain ir Dnieper Push

THREATEN 10 UPSET ENTIRE NORTHERN LINE   Column Cuts BryanskVyazma Railroad, Narrowing Nazi Escape  Can

Soviets Menace City of Bryansk   Key Nazi Defense Point Threatened

RUSSIAN TROOPS WITHIN 12 MILES OF BRYANSK BASE   Key City To Nazi Defense Position On Central Front Menaced By Red Heavy Artillery; Soviet Troops Now At Belye Berega After Taking 40 Villages.

SOVIET TROOPS SURGE FORWARD FROM THE EAST   Big German Base Menaced; Russians Re: port Successes Or Other Fronts; Many Towns Recaptured.

Reds Menacing Bryansk After _ 4-Mile Advance   40 Villages Taken In Central Front ~,

Bryansk Menaced By Red Artillery   Russian Troops Cut Vital Railway To Vyazma; Big Gains R eported On Other Sectors Of Front

Bryansk Comes Under Fire Of  Russian Guns   Big German Base Key Tc Central Front Defense "Positian.

Nazis Routed By Jugoslavs Near Albania   German Column Defeated And Fortified Position At Boice Is Occupied

British Out With Plan To Avert Chaos   CONTRARY TO ROOSEVELT PLAN WOULD DENY VETO POWER TO ANY NATION OR GROUP; OPER. ATE AS A BANK.   Genuinely International

Britain Offer: Plan for ‘World Credit   Proposal Sets Up United Nations Clearing Union

PROPOSAL MADE OF POSTWAR PROGRAM   Lord Keynes Would Set Up World Credit Institution

PROPOSE PLAN T0 SHIFT USE OF GOLD   World Credit Institution, De @ signed to Expand World Trade, Is Proposed in British White Paper.

Fatal Argument Over Rationing   Sharon Man Shot To Death In Store At Elwood, Ind., Police Report

atsea Eyepraews  F ly Flays Soap Operas As  “Cheap Form of Droolery”

QUALITY OF RADIO PROGRAMS ASSAILED   Chairman Fly Of FCC Says “Soap Operas” Are A “Cheap Form Of Droolery”

Russians Retake 600 Towns, Kill 15,000 Germans   22 German Divisions in Stalingrad Area Are Threatened With Annihilation By New Russian Offensive

Allies Going __ Strong After Jap Force   STEADY HEADWAY MADB ALLIED TROOPS IN BATTLING NIPS. «

15,000 NAZIS WIPED OUT IN +N BATTLE   Retake More Than 600 Towns in 31 to 55-Mile Drive ~~ South of Voronezh,   CUT NAZIS IN STALINGRAD FROM 220,000 TO 78,000

READERS THEY WILL GET NEWS   Albert Goons Speaks To Publishers Of Pa. a

REDS BLAST NEW WEDGES INTO 30-MILE DEEP NAZI DEFENSES ON. WEST BANK OF DNIEPER   -Moscow Announces Major Break Through German Lines 50 Miles South of Ukranian Capital. Enemy Defenses North of Kiev Successfully Stormed

Red Army Hurls Back Fierce German Counter Attacks and Entrench Themselves North and South of Kiev For Huge Pincer Movement To Envelop Great Fortress.

RUSSIANS REPEL NAZI ATTACKS IN KIEV SECTOR   Soviets Charge Into Germar “Defense Zone Across Dnieper River

Reds Shatter Dnieper Line, Encircle Kiey   Breach in Main Nazi Fortifications May Bring Collapse

FIERCE GERMAN COUNTER BLOWS ARE BEATEN OFF   Russians Blast Big Wedges In German Defense Lines West Of The Dnieper  River.

Soviets Turn Back Germans   Repulse Counterattacks North and South of Kiev; Drive on City

AEDS BLAST HOLES AN DENIEPER LINE   Germans Announce Final Evacuation of Caucasus; Soviets Laying Trap

ig Pincers lamped On iev By Reds   Germans Report Evacuation Of Positions In Caucasus

Russians Aim Huge Pincer  Drive at Kiey Vast Wedges Blasted in  Nazi Line West of Dnieper  SURPRISE ATTACK  More Than 2,800 Germans .Fall in Fierce Battles      More Than 2,800 Germans  -Fall in Fierce Battles  for Bridgeheads 

Fierce German Counterattacks Hurled Back by Soviet Forces As Russians Get Set for Vast Pincer Drive To Envelop Gerrans in Kiev

Soviets Hurl Back Fierce Nazi Attacks   Soviets Seem To Be Aiming at Pincers Move  About Kiev

Soviets Blast Huge Wedges in Nazi Lines   Widen Breaches in German Defense West of Dnieper River

REDS THROW PINCERS AROUND KIEV   Drive Wedges Into 30-Mile-Deep German Defenses

Blast New Wedges In  Nazi Line   Russians Are Believed Preparing Huge Pincer Movement To Envelop Kiev Stronghold

REDS DRIVE 10 SURROUND KIEN   Rossian Secure Positions  On West: Bank of  Dnieper

REDS BLASTING HUGE WEDGES IN GERMAN LINES   Entrenching Themselves for What Appears Big Pincer Movement Aimed at Envelopine Kiev

Neapolitan Journalist Says German Soldiers Would Like to Get Out-of War

Report Germans Tired of War   But Are Afraid of Himmler’s Forces

Efficient Use Of Oil Is Uraed   Campaign to Conserve Resources Throughout World Being Pushed

STEPS BEING TAKEN FOR COORDINATION OF OIL RESOURCES   MORE EFFICIENT USE UNITED NATIONS PRODUC TION BEING PLANNED

More Efficient Use of United Nations Oil Seen   PAW, PRC Take Part In Moye to Conserve Petroleum Resources

BETTER USE OF OIL SUPPLIES URGED BY U.S   Movement Started to Spread United Nations’ ' O81 So U.S. Resources Are Not Deplered

Several Lawrence Nimrods Come Back With the Day's Limit 4   SEASON CLOSES DEC. 23

PLENTY OF DUCKS FOUND BY HUNTERS   Several Lawrence Nimrods - Come Back With the Day’s Limit   SEASON CLOSES DEC. 23

UNWED MOTHER SLAYS THREE SMALL BABIES   Drowns Them, Hides Bodies Insidé Hope Chest

Plan To Open Mines May Come F rom Conference   “Ickes,. Lewis’ Resume Discussions As Fuel Supplies. Run Low _

Japanese Raid Allied Supply Base Of Wau   Send 102 Planes Against Town In New Guinea In Effort To Lessen Pressure On Salamaua

Japanese Blast Mountain Town  Alarmed Over Allied New Guinea Menace

HEAVY ATTACKS ON NEW GUINEA BASE REPORTED   102 Planes Sent Over Targets ByJapanese Forces

Wau Again Attacked By Jap Planes   Enemy Shows Concern Over Allies’ Ground Force On New Guinea: Cause Some Damage

CAPITAL DOUBTS HITLER 15: OUT   BUT LEADERS BELIEVE ANYTHING-CAN-HAPPEN ATMOSPHERE PREVAILS,

Davis Dubious On Reports of       Washington Is Watching Reports From Spain

U. S. Leaders Are Wary ‘Of Reports Hitler Shelved   They Cite Previous Unfounded Runars of Nast Rifts But Admit (Anything Can Happen! New

Soviets Moving Close To Vital Mining Center   Reports Indicate Nazis Have Little Chance To Escape

The War Today:  Cooperation of All Allies Made Possible The Routing of Rommel   By DE WITT MACKENZIE

THE WAR TODAY   Ry DEWITT MacKENZIE   (Associated Press War Analyst)

PRESENT SITUATION IN TUNISIA INDICATES PREPARATION AS WELL ‘AS COOPERATION OF LEADERS

 CHURCHILL REVIEWS ALLIED SUCCESSES IN AFRICA IN COMMONS   “We Have Every Reason To Be Satisfied With  Proesress Made...”

The War Today   Superb Generalship and Perfect Conrdination in Tunisia Coup

The War Today   Churchill Warns Against Underrating Size Of Tack In Tunicia   By DEWITT. MACKENZIC

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Full Coordination Of All Allied Forces Brings Tunisian Success

The War Today— . Full Allied Cooperation In Africa Pavs Dividends In Latest Success

eneralship, Coordination -rogress in Tunisia Satisfactory  fener Success Depends on

New U. S. B-29 Super-Bomber Hailed By House Military Aviation Leader

Gov. Schoeppel Says Legislation Reflects Stringent Demand For Control of Unions

SALARY CEILING REPEAL SOUGHT   Debt Question Held Up By Rider; Roosevelt's Rights Disputed

VOTE ON RAISING DEBT LIMIT WAITS   ATTEMPT TO TACK RIDER ON BILL DELAYS HOUSE COMMITTEE ACTION.

Drive Under Way to Repeal $25,000  Limit on Salaries  Attempt Made to Tack To Bill to Boost Leaal Debt Ceiling

Rider Stymies Action on Bill   Solon Would Repeal Limit on Salaries

Drive Under Way to Repeal $25,000  Limit on Salaries  Attempt Made to Tack To Bill to Boost

DRIVE TO REPEAL OALARY CEILING   ‘Stymies Action by House  Committee on Bill to Increase Nation’s Debt Limit - To $210,000,000,000

Seek Repeal Of $25,000 Salary Limit   BUT RIDER TO BILL TO LIFT DEBT STYMIES ACTION BY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE.   Debt $108,000,000',000

Fight on Salary Limit Blocks U.S. Debt Action  Move to Hike Ceiling To 210 Billions Runs  Into Committee Snag CONCERTED DRIVE  Treasury Reports 96 Cents of Each Dolla  Goes for War Purposes

WAGE CEILING REPEAL SOUGHT   Rider Is Attached To Statutory Debt Limit  Measure In House

STATE-WIDE LAWS — IN EFFECT SAN. 151      Continuous Ass essment Program to Start in Stote

STATE-WIDE LAWS IN EFFECT JAN. 1ST   Continuous Ass essment Program to Start in State

HITLER QUITS AS ARMY CHIEF   Fuehrer's Intuition Séer As Aiding Russian Offensive

Hitler Reported to Be Giving Up Command   Mounting German Disaster in Russia Said to Have Caused Nazi Dissension

Hitler Gives Up Command. Is Report   yo & Von Mannstein Now Leads Armies Swiss Declare

Report Hitler Gives Up Army Leadership   Berne Dispatch Declares Generals Take Command

Hitler is Quitting Command, Report   May Turn Over Post To Von Mannstein

HOUSE CHEERS DIES AS HE ——-FLAYS "CRACKPOT RADICALS   Both Republicans and Democrats Applaud Plea To Withhold Funds from Radical Agencies   North Africa Fighting French Charge Leaders Side with Axis

OF BOM DROPPED BY 1000 PLANES   Mines Also Laid in Enemy Controlled Waters by R.A. F.

COLOGNE HIT AGAIN; RAIDS GROW BIGGEE   Hamburg Also Smashed with Bombs by Squadrons of RAF Fliers.   RHINELAND ATTACK SAID HEAVIEST EVER MADE

Cologne And Hamburg Are Both Bombed   Gigantic Twin Bombing Raid Made On Rhineland Cities   rTENTH NIGHT OF STEADY BOMBING

Reds Inflict New Blow On Germans   Forge Vital River And Push Through White Russia to Outflank Nazi Base

Russians Cross Berezina River  inflict New Heavy Blow in White Russia

DISORGANIZED NAZI ARMY SUFFERS NEW ~ BLOW. FROM REDS   German Base At Zhlobin Outflanked ‘As Reds Follow Up Victory At Gomel   BEREZINA RIVER CROSSED

RUSSIAN FORCE SMASHES OVER BEREZINA RIVER   New Blows Inflicted on Disorganized Nazis;  Zhlobin Is Outflanked

Nazis Dealt Blow Where Napoleon Lost War   Disorganized German Army Struck By Reds Crossing Berezina River: Base Outflankec

SOVIETS DRIVE ON FOLLOWING GOMEL’S FALL   Reds Cross Berezina River Near Scene of Napoleon’s Defeat

RUSSIANS STRIKE NEW BLOW AT NAZI ‘DISORGANIZED ARMY   RED ARMY PUSHES THROUGH WHITE RUSSIA IN FLANKING MOVE

Reds Inflict New  Blows on Nazis   Russians Follow Up Smashing Victory at Gomel and Outflank Germans.

Soviets Cross Berezina to Pound Nazis   New Blow Administered Along Stream Where Napoleon Was Defeated

REDS INFLICT NEW BLOW ON THE GERMANS      Forces Cross the Berezina River to Hammer Disorganized Nazi Units Following the Capture of Gomel.

RED ARMY HITS AGAIN AFTER GOMEL TAKEN   Reach and Cross Berezina  River in Region Where Napoleon Met His Final Defeat.

RUSSIAN ARMY NEARS POLAND   Reds Cross Berezine River In Push Past Captured Gomel

Red Armies _ Forge Across  The Berezina   New Blow Inflicted Upon Germans at Spot Where Napoleon Was Defeated

300,000: Nazis Facing Trap In New Red Surge   Soviets Outflank Foe Tc Sever Rail Line In  White. Russia

Soviets Drive West, Cross The Berezina   Gomel Victory Is Quickly Followed Up on the Flank

NEW BLOWS ARE INFLIGTED ON ENEMY BY REDS   Push Through White Russia After Smashing Gomel   Victory; Outflank Foes  , at Zhlobin      iW AY OPENED F OR iMOVE TOWARD PINSK   Russians Pouring Through Gap Made in Disorganized Hun Ranks Where Napoleon Met Fate

SHATSILKI CAPTURE CUTS RAILWAY   German Base Of Zhlobin Outflanked: Stiff Resistance Is Offered Along Entire Front

WEATHER   ‘oviets Cross Berezina River, Oulflanking Zhiobin   -SILROAD LINE CUT   rermans Offering Stiff Resistance lo Red Army Advance

RUSSIAN ARMY FORGES WESTWARD   Reds Driving West in Possible Advance Towards Pinsk and BrestLitovsk in Poland

Reds Pour Through Gap At Gomel   Push Toward Poland Following Capture of Nazi Base; Mud Bogs Fighting in Italy

Reds Cross *Berezina In _New Thrust   Outflank Nazi Base Of Zhlobin After Big Victory At Gomel.

Reds Inflict New Blow At Berezina River   Outflank German Base West of Dnieper River After Gomel i a tad Enemy Entrapment Threaten

Berezina River Crossed by Reds In New Attack   Advance Resumed After Break in Lines Near Gomel

Soviets Push On Toward Old Polish Border   White Russian Forces Pour Through Gap In German Defenses Left By Fall Of Gomel

Soviets Gain Position Along River   Russians Follow Smashing Gomel Victory With Capture of Railway Junction; German Resistance Is Firm in Places

REDS INFLICT NEW BLOW AT HISTORIC BEREZINA   Russians Cross Stream Where Napoleon Once Met Final Defeat, Pushing Through White Russia West of Dnieper River.

RUSSIAN ARMY HAS GROSSED THE BEREZINA RIVER   Inflicted a New Blow on the Disorganized German Army.   OUTFLANKED ZHLOBIN   Gen. Rokossovsky Pushed Through White Russia West of the Dnieper.

Qutflank Enemy In 50-Mile Push North Of Gome   New Blow Hits Nazis On Stream Where Legions. Of Napoleon Met Defeat

SOVIET FORCES DRIVE OVER THE BEREZINA RIVER   Wisorganized German Army Hard Hit In New Russian Assault; Capture Of Gomel Followed By Swift New Red Suc cesses.

NEW VICTOR)   Recs Cross Berezina River, Outflanking German Base Of Zhlobin.   RAILROAD LINE (tS CUT

REDS CROSS BEREZINA IN NEWEST BLOW   Report 300,000 Germans Caught In Red Trap

Russ Pincers Close in on Nazi Forces   Rekessevshy Armies Crees Berezine in Great Flenk Move

Reds Over Berezina; Disorganized Nazis  Suffer Fresh Blows   Germans Hit Hard at _ Site Where Napoleon’s Legions Met Defeat

Red Troops In Crossing Of Berezina   River Forced With Help of Russian Air Power

Nazi Base Ot Zhlobin Outflanked   New Blow Suffered By Germans At Scene Of Final Defeat Of Napoleon's Army

Two Other Armies Move In For Kill as Rokossovsky’s Troops Pour Through Gap   RAILWAY LINE CUT   Red Vanguards Less Than 150; Miles from Old Polish Border,  Avancing on Wide Front

Germans Deny Overtures Are Made For Peace   Nazi Spokesman Says Such Rumors Are Ridiculous — Aware of Forthcoming Allied Conference.

ROBBIE E. KILLINGSWORTH TO RECEIVE SPECIALIZED TRAINING IN KANSAS CITY

Auxiliary Lela M. Nichols To Special School   At the First Women’s Army Completes Basic Training Auxiliary Training Center At Fort Des Moines, lowa.

Berlin Asserts lunge Is Halted   Chute And Glider Troobs ’Wined tnt

 hree-Prong Drive Begun  To Seal Off Axis Forces And Bring Speedy Victory

AXIO ADMITS L009 OF SIGILY AREAS   Insist American Troops Have Been Able to Get Footholc In a Few Bridgeheads; Claim Units Wiped Out

Allied Gains In Sicily Admitted By The Axis   Broadcasts, However, Say American Troops Have Only Gained a Foothold in a Few Bridgeheads on the Southern Coast

Axis Broadcasts Report Sicilian Defense Holding   Only Small Coastal Strip i Allied Hands, Berlin Radio Says

 Axis Admits Bridgehead Won bv Allies   One German Writer Says, However, Allies Halted in Moct Areac   ALLIES ON DEFENSIVE BROADCAST. ASSERTS   Seven Divisions Land And Can Be Doubled, Sertorius Declares

Berlin Claims Some Of Bridgeheads Wiped Out   Occupation Of Coastal Strip 30 Miles Long Admitted By Axis; Nazi Broadcasts Say Offensive Is Halted

Berlin Asserts Lunge Is Halted   Chute And Glider Troops ‘Wiped Out  wm. fT Ure Ly bw tkre Tare

:  Allied Progress Admitted by Foe   Insist Yanks Only Obtain ‘Foothold’

NAZIS ADMIT ALLIES HOLD It 30-MILE STRIF   ‘But Claim Americans Have Been Able To Gain Only A Few Bridgeheads In  Sicily   Allies Command Air

AXIS ADMITS ALLIED GAINS   Say Invaders Gain Foothold Along 30 Miles Of Sicilian Coast

RAMSAY JOINS ALLIED STAFF FOR INVASION   NAVAL COMMANDER IN .MEDITERRANEAN NAMED NAVAL - LEADER OF INVASION: FORCES .

Greatest U.S. Air Victory In Pacific   15,009 Japs Annihilated By  American Force

Fleet Of 22 Warships And Transports Sunk By U. S. Bombers   Sixty-Two Jap Planes Shot Down—Over 15,000 Enemy Troops Lost   UNITED NATIONS  HEADQUARTERS IN ATTSTDATTYA Rte urlke

Foe Loses 22  Ships, 15,000. Men In Fight   Allied Planes Also Wipe Out Entire Armada of 62 Planes In Greatest Air Triumph of Pacific War; Enemy Has ‘No Survivors.’

Despite Cut, lowa Returns Hold Up  Income Tax Only 15% Below 1942

AIR-MINDED OHIO IS LOOKING TO FUT URE  4OTH ANNIVERSARY OF WRICHTS’ FIICUT FINI CTUTE AUONC Al

PLANES JOIN LAND FORGES FOR ANOCKOU   Remnants of Nipponese Are Forced Into Pockets; Tokyo Gives Up.   AIRMEN BLAST KISKA, POUND ATTU VILLAGE

SENATOR JEFF POPE PRESSES FOR EARLY ENACTMENT OF HOUSEAPPROVED SUNDAY MOVIE BILL

SOERABAJA NAVY BASE IS RAIDED   Troops Within Mile Of Jap Stronghold On  Huon Peninsula

Aussies Drive to Crush Japs  On New Guinea  U. S. Carrier Planes Hit  WWrwWy4

Aussies Attack Japanese Base.  At Satelberg   Great Jap-Held Port of Soerabaja Bombed In 2400-Mile Foray

Satelberg Defenses Crumble:   PLANES SCORE NEW WINS FROM SOLOMONS TO JAVA AS ALLIES SLASH AHEAD

AUSTRALIANS HIT JAP BASE AT SATELBERS   Finschhafen, 10 Miles S. E. Used as Base, MacArthur Says -

LAND AND AIR DRIVE ON JAPS   Aussies Attacking on Ground While Liberators Make Raid Against Fast Indies Base

Australians Attack Main Japanese Defenses On New Guinea; Allies Make Gains On Both Ends Of Italian Front

AUSSIES ATTACK JAP POSITIONS ON HUON PENINSUL!   Liberators Travel 2400 Miles to Bomb Former Duteh Naval Base.

Battles Rage On  Dodecanese Isles  Report Italian Troops Fighting Nazis

NEW MANAGER AT “SUNFLOWER PLANT   H. V. Chase, K. U. Graduate, to Succeed George  R. Foulke, Jr.   FOULKE TO DELAWARE   New Plant Manager Has Had Experience in Many Hercules ‘Plants

NEW MANAGER AT SUNFLOWER PLANT   H. V. Chase, K. U. Graduate, to Succeed George  R. Foulke, Jr.   New Plant Manager Has Had Experience in Many Hercules Plants

DADS DRAFT DEBATE RAGES IN SENATE   Issue Academic As Some Fathers Already Called

SERVICE CALLS. T0 DADS ARE BEING ISSUED   Congressional Debate Over Issue Becomes Purely Academic as Former E-A's Are Called   SUBSTITUTE PROPOSED

Draft Measure lt nder Debate   Congress Continues Study of Measure as Dads Are Called

substitute Bill Receives Study   Proposal Would Strip Federal Payrolls  of Militarily Useful Non-Fathers  , Instead of Measure Presented by "Senator Wheeler of Montana.   TAFT PLAN IS OPPOSED

Fathers’ Draft _ Starts: Today   Former 3-A’s Slated For October Colt

Senate Debates Wheeler Bill On  Dratt Measure   Two Other Senators Advocate Check of Federal Employes and Sen. Taft Presents Plan.

Germans Battle Desperately Lo Avert Orel Deteat   Russian Troops Move In Closer In Encircling Movement At Orel   NAZI GARRISON OF   900.000 IN DANGER

NAZIS BATTLE BITTERLY 10 SAVE OREL   Make Desperate Effort to Stave Off Defeat

 Push on Belgorod; Berlin radio prepares Germans for loss of Orel

HOUSE CALENDAR STILL CROWDED   All Major Legislation Except Governor’s War Powers Bill Is Out of Way,  However.

Of Sie te Asenbh Slated Next Week   Governor _War  Power Bill Still Scheduled for  wy

PUNISH WOMAN FOR GAS SALES   Did Not Deny Charge of Having Stolen Ration Coupons.

American Army Nurses in No. Africa  "Good Soldiers,’ Their Leader Says

FIRST AMERICAN NURSES BUSY IN NORTH AFRICA   Studying French, Teaching American Cooking, Trying To Replace Things Lost On Vovage.

U.S.ARMY NURSES BUSY IN AFRICA   FIND VARIOUS WAYS TO WHILE AWAY THE OFF-DUT¥Y HOURS

The War Today-— Public Being Prepared For Shock Of Heavy Casualties In Invasion —

EISENHOWER STATEMENT BRINGS UP THAT OLD COMPLACENT FEAR THAT HATINTS SOME HIGH PLACES

Siberian Winter Fighters Lead Offensive— =—By Kirke L. Simpson (/  Worse Defeats In Store For Nazis In Russia

Siberian Troops Help Russians Smash Nazis   Rugged Warriors Are Attacking Northern Sector  Of German Fortress In White Russia

Vichy Reports Italian King Abdicates   No Confirmation on Nazi-Controlled French Radio News

Lampoine Taken By Allied Naval Force   Is Fourth Italian Island Taken By Allies By Using Bombing And Bleckeding Tactics

THIRD ISLE IN CHANNEL 18 SEIZED   Allies Intensify Air Offensive Against Sicily

CLAIM ACTION OCCURRED ON LAST WEEKEND   Nips Assert Several Other Vessels Damaged

A Gas Card Values Increased, B. and C. Coupons. Reduced   Basic Ration in East is 3 *’ Gallons:but:Weekly Ration is Stépped Up.

OPA Orders New Gas Ration Ruling Today  "A" Card Holders Gain Cut ''B,” "C"' Coupons

Move Boosts ‘A’ Ration In East Half Gallon, Cuts ‘B’ and ‘C’ Cards By Similar Amount  CHANGES EFFECTIVE LAST MIDNIGHT  Special Provisions Planned in Cases OF Beerama Hardchin

Existing A-6 Coupons Will Expire on November 8 Instead of November 22 in East; House Committee Lays Plans for Probe of Fuel Rationing. Distribution

Gas Coupon Value Cut By Gallon’   Eastern Drivers Aided By Change Made By OPA"

IPA Order Becomes Ef. fective at Once—Supplies of Eastern: ‘Driv ers Increased.    pOUSE GROUP  TO INVESTIGATE   Yovernment Offitials to Be Called to Testify at Hearings Opening in Two Weeks. ‘

ycrease “A”, Cut BR’ and “C” Rations “A's” Good for 2 Gals. a Week, pt ond CO Counan Valine 2. Gal

A CARD VALUE iS INCREASED BY OPA      Basic Gas Ration to be Two Gallons With B and C Cuts

B And C Gasoline Coupons Cut To Two Gallons; A Cards In Southwest Unchanges

‘B, ‘C’ Gasoline Coupon Value Cutto2Gallons   ‘A’? Rations Are Left At Three Gallons

BAndC Gasoline Coupons Cut To Two Gallons; A Cards In Southavocé T nab oe.

OPA REVISES GAS RATIONS   Coupon ‘A’ Holders In East Get 2 Gallons; Midwest Unchanged

b-C Gasoline Coupons Cut To 2 Gallons   ‘A” Rations Left at Three Gallons

GAS RATION IS INCREASED HALF GALLON BY OPA   Eastern “A’’-Card Motorists Will Now Receive Two Gallons Weekly   NEW COUPONS TO BE IN FORCE NOVEMBER 9

But B and C Coupons Are Cut To Only ? Gals.   East Gets Raise but Other Sections Are Dropped

OPA slices ration value on gasoline   From Rockies to Atlantic seaboard

Frontal Attack on Rome Defenders Is Avoided  In Italian Advance   Further Soviet Advances at Kiev Reported; Weather Interrupts Air Blows on Germany ;  Battleship Tirvitz Torpedoed by British Sub

JURY DISMISSED FOR NEXT MONDAY   Attorneys Ask For More Time To Collect Evi dence in Suit

FRUIT RAISERS ASK VOICE IN FOOD PROGRAM   Increased Labor Shortage Predicted At ‘Hort’ Mecting

NEGRO QUITS-HITS TRAINING PROGRAM   Aide to Stimson Resigns as Protests Against Air Corps Practices

Negro Civilian Aide to Stimson Resigns in Huff  ee eS A ee   William H. Hastie Protests Alleged ‘ Discrimination’

SENATE: CONTINUES DEBATE AS FATHER DRAFT TIME NEARS      Charges Of “Slackers” In Washington Jobs And Bailey-Clark Bill Hold Attention

NAZIS GAN BE BEATEN IN 4 MONTHS, CLAIM   Air Power Can Win Quickly, Says Sen. Downey

Wheeler Charges ‘Slackers’ Hide in Government Jobs;  Father Draft Vote.Delayed.

WOULD SOFTEN DRAFT IMPACT ON FAMILIES   Congressmen Would Induct Younger Men Now on Government Payroll.   ALLOTMENT HIKE LOOMS   New Storm Gathering Over Payment of Subsidies To Producers.

OW! PROGRAM IS. CRITICISED   Policy In Handing Out News In U. S. Is Under Attack Again

House Military Group Revises Draft Measure   All Allotment and Allow ance Provisions Are Eliminated

House Commitee ‘Omits Allowance ~ Ttetns From Bill Revised Measure te  Be Voted by House Next Week

House Favors  Kilday Draft   Nationwide Quota Basi: Bill Due Up Acain

House Body Revises Senate Draft Bill  Allotment Provisions _ Are Knocked Out

Powerful Axis Forces Get Set For Showdowr   Hitler Moving Finest War Equipment Into Northern Africa” -

AXIS FEARFUL OF ATTACK BY — EIPHTH ARM)   Difficult Task Facing Allied Forces Because of Axis Superiority in Numbers.

Soldier Mail Overseas, Come: Under Changes   Everyone Sending Mail Out of U. S. Must Observe Postal Regulations Now in Effect.

Soldier Mail Rules Listed   Everyone Sending Mail Overseas Must Observe Regulations

0 PERISH IN PENNSYLVANIE DERAILMENT   18 Burn to Death in Texas: 3 Die in N. Y. Central Accident

4 BODIES AEUOVERED, EIGHT OTHERS TRAPPED   16-Car Express, Carrying 541 Passengers, Wrecked at Philadelphia   OVERHEATED JOURNAL BOX BLAMED

WRECK OF CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED WITH 62 DEAD ONE OF MAJOR RAIL DISASTERS

Train Wreck In Philadelphia Takes 65   Crack Congressional Limited  Leaves Tracks

DEATH TOLL 81 IN TRAIN CRASH   69 Bodies Now Removed With 12 Known Still in Wreckage

Stuttgart Is Newest Target  Of The RAF   23 Bombers Fail To Return From ‘Very Heavy’ Raid

BRITISH BOMB NAZI CITY OF STUTTGART   23 Bombers Failed to Return From Mission -Ministry Reports

British Hammer Stuttgart   NAZI INDUSTRY CITY SMASHED IN GIGANTIC RAID; 23 PLANES LOST

23 BOMBERS MISSING ON MASS RAID   Attack Is Called ‘Very Heavy’; Reds Resume Bombing

PLANES RAGE 400. INDUSTRIAL CTY   Target Clearly Identified and Heavily Blasted   23 BOMBERS LOST ON BOLD VENTURE

British Fliers Hit Stuttaart   Twenty-Three Bombers Fail to Return From Raid on.German City

RAF BLASTS GERMAN CITY OF STUTTGART   ‘Twenty -three Kombers Missing From 400-Mile Trip Across Europe— Raid Is Described as “Very Heavy.”

NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITY OF STUTTGAR RAIDED BY BRITISt      Powerful Four-Engined Bombers Race 400 Miles Across Europe To Strike At Important German Industrial Area; 23 Fail To Return.

Stuttgart Under Blasting By RAI  23 Bombers Are’ Los! On Long Flight

Stuttgart Is Assaulted By Large Force Of Four-Motored British Bombers; 23 Lost

STUTTGART GETS VISIT FROM RAF   Germans Strike Back With Attacks On Coast

Concentrated Attack Made  At Stuttgart   Important Engineering Center Of Germany Is Blasted Heavily By Powerful Bombers

Allied Bombers Strike at Reich   RAF Attacks Stuttgart and Russians Send Planes Over Prussia.

RAF Hammers Nazi Stuttgart  23 Bombers Lost In Long Distance Raid

Blast Stuttgart; 23 Shot Down   Engineering Center Hard Hit; Russian Planes Are Busy Over East Prussia

RUSSIAN, RAF AIR FORCES ATTACK GERMAN CITIES   British Announce Heavy Raid on Stuttgart, Vital Engineering Center

OTHER ALLIED PLANES STRIKE EAST PRUSSIA   Highly Concentrated Raid Made On German Industrial City: Three Nazi Planes Destroyed Over Britain.

Heavy British Bomber Raid on Stuitgari   23 Planes Missing But Raiders Clearly Identify Target in Germany   ‘FRENCH RAILROAD ALSO SHOT UP   Russian. Bombers Attack East Prussia; Night Raid on East Anglia

Large RAF Force Hits At Stuttgart   More Than Score Of Bombers Lost In Night Raid

BRITISH BOMB STUTTGART IN HEAVY ATTACK   Russians Join in Raids On German Arms Centers

RAF LOSES 28 SHIPS IN FAL ON STUTTCART   Make “Highly Concentrated” Attack on Home of Nazi Warplants.   GERMANS MAKE NIGHT ATTACKS ALONG COAST

Stuttgart Raid Cost 23 Planes   East Prussia Raided A: Industrial City Hard Hit.

RAF UNLEASHES HEAVY ATTACK ON STUTTGART   23 BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN FROM RAID ON EUROPE

STUTTGART BLASTED HEAVILY BY BRITISH BOMBERS LAST NIGHT  - TWENTY-THREE BOMBERS FAILED TO RETURN FROM BIC RAID

RAF Loses 23  Planes In Run On Stuttgart   RAF Fighter Squadrons Over Northern France Following Up Heavy Raid.   HIT RAILWAY CENTER

STUTTGART BOMBED BY LARGE FORCE OF RAF RAIDERS.   ‘At the Same Time Other Al- lied. Planes. Believed in _London to be Soviet Raided East Prussia

'wenty-Three Planes Lost Over Engineering Center; Other Bombers, Presumed To Be Russian, Strike Enemy Targets In East Prussia

STUTTGART HIT IN-VERY HEAVY ATTACK BY RAF   23 Bombers Fail to Return From “Highly Concentrated” Assault

RAF Bombs Stuttgart in Heavy Raid   East Prussia Pounded By Raiders Thought  From Russia

CERMAN CITY OF STUTTGART RAIDED BY RAF   Britain’s Powerful FourEngined Bombers Used In Attack On Reich Industrial Area   REDS OVER EAST PRUSSIA, IS BELIEF      “Literally Thousands of  Fires Started In Berlin;   Thousands Are   Homeless:

Heavy Raid By RAF Made On Stuttgart   British Lose 23 Bombers In Attack On Engineering City

23 RAF PLANES LOST IN ATTACK ON ENEMY CITY   Raid on Stuttgart Described As ‘Very Heavy’ by Air Ministry

Twenty-Three Bombers Fail to Return’ From Heavy Attack on German Industrial City

ne at LE  ——————E— __——E—O  TORNADO CAUSES DEATH AND — DESTRUCTION AT ROXOBEL

SOVIET FORCES PUSH ON WEST AF KIEV   Also Strengthen Positions in Crimea

Germans Blow Up Their Own Tanks During Retreat   Russiau Forces Drive Nearer To Last Important Railway East Of Polish Border   STEADY GAINS ARF MADE BY RED ARMY

GERMANS FLEEING — ITALIAN FOOT TO ~ AVOID “CUT OFF”   Spokesman Reveals U. S. Fifth Army Made Landings In Gulf Of Salerno Which Stretches 25 To 30 Miles” Along West Coast

NAZIS RETREAT FROM ITALIAN FOOT, REPOR]   Eighth Army Completes Occupation Of Italian Toe

Rites for Fire Victim Tuesday   Mrs. Nona Wray Dies Less Than Seven Hours After, Blaze

‘JAPANESE LINE AT SANANANDA POINT CRACKED BY ALLIES   Enemy Front Line Defenses “Destroyed And Large . Quantities _ OF Arms Seized

Japanese Line At Sanananda Is Cleaned Out   U. S., Austratian Troops Storm Japanese Pillboxes With Bayonets, Grenades   RABAUL IS HIT AGAIN   Relentless Aerial Offensive Continues With Sever Separate Raids

SANANANDA LINE BROKEN BY ALLIES   Pillboxes Are Stormed By U. S. Aussie Troops

CRACK DEFENSES AT SANANANDA   Jap Front Line Defenses Destroyed, Casualties Heavy

Allies Crack Enemy Lines At Sanananda   Kill Many Of Foe And Seize Large Quantities Of Jap Arms And Supplies

Nazi Weak Spots Sought   Montgomery Is Ready For Expected Assault

PATROLS HIT AXIS ARMIES ON ALL SIDES   French Successful in Daring Raid on Metlaou:

DESTROYED BY FIRE.   AVoods General Store In Nevada Burned to Ground Tuesday.

DESTROYED BY, FIRE.   AVoods. Genern} Stor Im: Nevada Turned to Ground) Tuesday,

5 Stores Burned at Sibley, la.   Damage Is Estimated at $100,000 to $150,000 in Early Morning Fire

Hoffman Blocks Effort To Extend Fulbright Debate   Early House Vote On Resolution Practically Gone

Will Searegate Disloyal Japs   Action Is Planned Within Few Weeks

Disloyal Japs To Be Put In Single Center Loyal To Be Allowe:  To Leave Camps Far Wark

MARSHALL IS SLATED TO BE ALLIED CHIEF   Washington. News paper Forecasts Naming of — Chief of Staff   WOULD BE LEADER OF INVASION ARMY   Plans for Action Across Channel Reported Under Way

MARSHALL SEEN EUROPEAN CHIEF   British Papers Predict Yank General Will Lead Invaders

Marshall Reported Allied Commander In Europe Theater  Newspaper Declares He Is Choice to Handle Invasion Job

MARSHALL T0 LEAD ANY PUSH ACROSS CHANNEL, REPORT   Washington Newspaper . Declares General Has Been Chosen Commander in European Theater,   STRONG ADVOCATE OF WEST WALL ATTACK   Story Says Either Eisenhower or Somervell Will Succeed Him as Chief of Staff.

Marshall Reported Allied Commander In Europe Theater  Newspaper Declares He Is Choice to

General Marshall Said Selected 2d Front Chief   fuvaston Leadership oe ted Assizned US. Apne Woe

BANK RECORDS ARE SUBPENAED   Prosecutor Seeks To Suppert Exfortion Charger.

BROADCAST 0 ~~. PRICE CRISIS   BROWN TO GO GN AIR TO. “ANIGHT JIN ADVANCE OF MEETING 70 BE HELD.» 5.  TOMGRROW.:

MORE EVIDENCE IN “FAKED” STEEL CASE   Higher-ups In Carnegie-Hlinois Organization Knew Of Faulty  Ship Plates

New Evidence Cited in, Steel. Probe   Fake Test Findings Forwarded to  U. 8. Legal Assistant

SAYS CARNEGIE KNEW OF FAKES   Truman Says Company Officials Knew Of Bad Steel Tests

MILLION SLAVE LABORERS   Nari Strengarm Squads Rounding Up French Werkmen

K: U. FALL TERM -TOOPEN THURSDAY   Vanguard of Students Are . Already Arriving on , . Mt. Oread

K: U. FALL TERM TO OPEN THURSDAY   Vanguard of Students Are _» Already Arriving on  - Mt. Oread   [TO CLASSES TUESDAY

ERESH RUSSIAN TROOPS SMASH 7 ENEMY DIVISIONS   Muscovites Sweep Into Orel Province, Trapping Large Force That Is Being Wiped Out.      OTHER NAZI SOLDIERS ISOLATED IN CAUCASUS   Reds Seize Vital Rail Point 130 Miles Below Rostov— Threat to Tikhoretsk Increases.

HOLES RIPPED IN AXIS RANKS AT VORONEZH   HITLER’S HEDGEHOG BASES MENACED IN RUSSIAN LUNGE

Further Gains Made  By Soviets in Effort  To Shut Caucasus Trap GERMANS ADMIT FURTHER RETREATS  12,000 Nazis Killed And 14,500 Captured In 3-Day Campaign

ltalian Fleet Will Sail To         Té: Reach: Destination - Within Seven Daves:

Claims Development of ‘Aqua Terra’ Dog; Answer to Sportsman's Dream

15 Killed © In Triumph Plant Blast   125 Believed Injured; Army, Navy and FBI QDhank Onmca

At Least 13 Killed In Elkton Factory Blast   125 Believed Injured In Triumph Explosives Company Disaster; Casualties May Mount As Check Goes On

BLAST KILLS AT LEAST. 13 IN MARYLAND   Toll in Explosion at Powder Plant Expected to Rise

Blast at Powder Plant Fatal To at Least 15  Scores Are Injured By Explosion,

At Least 13, Possibly 25, Die in Blast At Elkton. Md   Detonations Shatter Several Buildings At Explosives Plant And Fire Follows   FROM 60 TO 125 REPORTED INIURED

BLAST KILLS 15 AT ELKTON, MD   Many Of 100 To 125 Hurt Expected To Die; Fire Follows Explosion

13 Killed In Munition: Plant Blast   Fire Follows Explosion in Elkton, Marvylanc

BLAST FATALITY LIST UNKNOWN   At Least 13 Deaths, Scores __Injured In Ma  Exnlosion

Triumph Company Blast af Elkton Takes at Least  13 Workers’ Lives   Army's Estimate of Loss of Life Runs as High as 25; Scores Injured; Cause Unknown

13 Known Dead  tn Eaplosion   Blast, Fire Wreck Triumph Explosives Plant in Marvland

BLAST FATAL TO 13; SCORES HURT   Explosives Plant Is Scene of Destructive Fire

Blast at Powder Plant Fatal To at Least 15  Scores Are Injured By Explosion, Fire in Maryland

 Death Toll May Reach 25; ‘ 125 Injured; Fire Destroys Buildings   INVESTIGATIONS BEGUN ‘TO DETERMINE. CAUSE

Fire Sweeps Buildings at Triumph Works in Elkton, Md., After Térrifie Explosion—Searchers Dig in Ruins for Additional Victims—Army, Navy and FBI Take Over Direction of Relief Work—Toll May Rise.

More Than Dozen Killed And Scores Injured In Explosion. And Fire At Munitions Plant

13 Die, Many Are Hurt in Maryland War Plant Blast   Fire Follows Explosion; Search Ruins for Other Dead, Injured

15 Known Dead, Scores _ Injured In Plant Blast   Tolt at Elkton Expected to Mount—Fire Breaks Out _ After Explosion ot Plant of Triumph Exa plosives—Probe Opened

At Least 15 Die In Explosion   Maryland Explosives Plant Hit by Blast

Nazis Wiped Out Within Mile of City   Key German Base ‘Appears Doomed;  Entire Defense Line Whegse. eee

Soviet Troops Open New Offensive On Smoiensk — Kharkov A Doomed City 

NAZIS STIFFENING GROUND FORGES IN THE KUBAN REGION   Making Effort to Hold Their Positions Against Red Army Drive To Push Them Into the Black Sea.

Germans Stiffen Ground Forces With Air Units In An Effort To Hold Positions Against Soviets

NAZIS STIFFEN GROUND FORCES WITH AIR UNIT   Making Desperate Effort to Hold Positions Against Russians In Kuban Region   REDS WIN AIR FIGHT   Concentrated Enemy Counter-Blows In Caucasus Sector Are Thrown Back

NAZIS CHECKED IN CAUCASUS   German Planes Downed By Crack Soviet Pilots In Air War

Germans Stiffen. Ground Forces _ In Kuban Region       Against Red Try to” Push Them Into Seq

Germans Adding Air Strength in Caucasus Region   Russians Say 25 Planes Were Shot Down Yesterday

NAZIS STIFFENING GROUND FORCES IN CAUCASUS REGION  LARGE AIR UNITS BEIN( BROUGHT TO AID HARI

Raids Cover The Fighting Front   MacArthur Throws Everything at His Command at Ninppies

Germans Are Stiffening In Kuban Region   Trying to Hold Positions Against Red Drive to Push Them Into Sea   SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES

NAZIS STIFFEN DEFENSE LINES IN KUBAN AREA   25 German Planes Shot Down By Russians

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY) IN KUBAN AREA   Stiffen Ground Forces fo Prevent Being Driven Into Red-Sea but ~Reds Repel Attacks

Germans Rush Big Air Support To Stop Red Drive   Crack Russian Airmen, However, Taking Heavy Toll OF Foes.

Germany Sends Large Air ‘Units To Hold Positions In Kuban Area Of Caucasus   Red Army Driving To Push Nazi Forces Into The Black Sea

RUSSIANS KNOCK DOWN 25 ENEMY PLANES SUNDAY   German Counter - Attack Hurled Back After New Air Units Begin Action

DRIVE IN CAUCASUS   Russians Press Germans Closer to Sea in the Kuban Region

GERMANS REINFORCE BLAGK SEA POSITIONS   Send Air Units To Aid Ground Forces

GERMANS STIFFEN GROUND DEFENSES IN KUBAN REGION   This Is Done in Effort to Hold Their Positions Against Red Army Drive.   25 ENEMY PLANES DOWN      Eight More Were Crippled in Yesterday’s Air Battle.

Nazis Expect Red Drive In Kuban Area  Russians Threaten To Force Axis Army

NAZIS STIFFENING  GROUND FORCES IN  CAUCASUS REGION LARGE AIR UNITS BEING  _ BROUGHT TO AID HARD ~” PRESSED GERMANS

AIR ATTACKS + RESUMED BY FORTRESSES   Blast Bremen Area Following Lull Of 48 Hours

Yank Planes Batter Nazis   Submarine Yards Hit In Northwest German;

No Contract By March 31 MineNoCoal   JOUN i. LEWIS TELLS OPERATORS THEIR MINERS ARE UNDERNOURISHED, HUNGRY AND DEMAND BREAD FOR COAL.   Denounces Davis

GERMANS RUSH MORE TROOPS T0 HOLD LINES   Great Numbers Of Nazi Force In  Face Of Trap

Russians Inch Way Ahead In Melitopol   Nazi Reserves. Battling Desperately to Hold — Strongpoint —

Crimea Troops Join Desperate German Defense   Red Offensives from Eas and North Threaten t¢ Crack Criniea Gate way .and Trap Hun dreds of Thousands o Enemy Troops.

Desperate Nazi Stand At Crimea   Throw In Reserves To Russian Advances On Crimean Neck

‘Enemy Fights Desperately In Ukraine.....  Nazi Reinforcements Rushed From Crime

Nazis Hurl Reinforcements Into Melitopol Battle To Save Crimea   Trying To Prevent Trapping Of Huge Army In _ Great Peninsula As Bitter Battle Rages In Melitopol Itself.

TEMPER ATY DLE   FIGHTING RAGES HAND T0 HAND IN STREETS OF CITY   DESPERATE ATTEMPT MADE BY NAZIS TO HOLD UKRAINE BASE

GERMANS RUSK FRESH TROOPS TO MELITOPOL   Nazis Face Disaster If They Fail To Hold South Ukraine Stronghold

Nazis Battle To Keep Melitopol  Reinforcements Sent From Crimea Bases

GERMANS RUSHING TROOPS 10 HOLD MELITOPOL BASE   Some of War’s Bitterest Fighting Raging Inside Melitopol Itself; Russians Throwing Enemy Back.

Nazis Rush Troops To Melitopol   Make Effort To  Save The Crimea

GERMANS SPEED MEN TO RUSSIA   Nazis Will Make Desperate Effort to Check Reds At Melitopol

Battle Raging For Melitopol   Some Of War's Hardest Fighting Reported

Russians Take Laporozhe in Dnieper Bend   Nazis Reinforce Army Battling in Melitopol, Key To the Crimea

GERMANS REPORTED  RUSHING TROOPS TO  DEFENSE MELITOPOL RUSSIANS THREATEN.  _ TO CRACK THAT NAZI - CATEWAY TO CRIMEA

GERMANS BUSH MEN TO FRONT   Make Desperate Effort to Hold South Ukraine - Stronahold.:

Germans Reported Rushing Reinforcements in Effort to  Hold South Ukrainian Stronghold

REDS CONTINUE FORWARD PUSt   Nazis Rush Up Reinforce  : ments in One Area

NAZIS RUSH RESERVES 10 THE UKRAINE   Seme of Bitterest Fighting — OF Russian Campaign Rages Inside City of Melitopol  F's te Bee 2 kt ee Oo —aA eae eet ee =

FRESH GERMAN TROOPS HURLED INTO MELITOPOL   Drawing Forces From Crimean Manpower Reservoir In Attempt to Hold Ukraine City

Germans Rush Fresh Troops To Melitopol   Desperate Attempt Made by Nazis to Hold Strongpoint

PLEDGES DRIVE TO LOWER COSTS   OPA Chief Strikes Back At Critics.

> FLASHES   wedsed Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Renews Pladive.

Vigorous OPA Drive Pledged By Director   Price Administration Is Determined To Regain Lost Ground, Asserts Prentiss Brown

IPA DIRELTUR OT ATKED BAK AT HIS GRIT!   Agency Doing Better Job Than Ever Before. Brown Statement Declares

“OPA RENEWS PLAN 70 CUT LIVING COSTS   Wrown Scores Critics of Regime; Postpones Shakeup

BROWN VOWS PRICE FIGHT   ADMINISTRATOR ADMITS RUNAWAY U. S. LEVIES

Peetu: Cpe GS ae ae Brown Concedes   Cost of Living   Has Gotten Away 

BROWN ADMITS COSTS SOARING   Renews Pledges to Regain Ground Lost by OPA

The War Today   Rome Bombing Grim Warning Wa Tines of Allie’? Powor

‘AS FOURTH YEAR OF WAR NEARS END LONG-BLASTED ALLIES FIND THEMSELVES IN GOOD POSITION

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler's Position Today Similar To Kaiser's In Summer Of 1918   By DeWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press War Analvct

The War Today : Hitler’s Boots Now Look Like Thoss Kaiser Wore—Just Before He Lost

FIRST WARTIME TRIP FOR MRS. CHURCHILL   Prime Minister’s Wife Slender and Well-Dressed—Daughter With Anti-Aireraft Crews.

Draft Board in Minnesota Comes Up With New Idea in Classifications

160,000 DEAD IN HAMBURG   Eyewitness Reports Tremendous Death Toll From RAF Raids

Says Boys Confess To Firing Schoo!  Rockwood High Has A $50,000 Blaze

HUGHES PLANS 10 PUBLICIZE VOTING   Men In Armed Forces te Have Chances of Casting Ballots In 1944.

BROWN HEARS OF GAS RATION BASIS   New O. P, A, Chief Told of Gas Plight of Western Penna.   WILL “THINK” OF IT IN WASHINGTON

REGISTRATION FOR POINT RATIONING A SIMPLE MATTER   Housewives Asked to Prepare Declarations Before Registration Date.   WILL AID REGISTRARS ©   Don Chapman, Chairman of War Price and Rationing Board, Issues Instructions.

Consumer Peclaration Vust Be Filed Complete Refore Book II Issued

Ration Book No. 2 Issue Is Feb. 25   Registration Dates, February 25-27, Between Hours Of 8:30 And 5:30

REDS GAIN ON KARELIAN FRONT   Advance Northwest of Moscow Also Renorted

GERMANS SAY REDS HAVE STARTED THE SPRING OFFENSIVE   Fighting Reported Much Heavier Than Indicated By Communiaques

Score Killed In Big Blast   Explosives Company Plant Hit By Accident

HEAVY BLASTS SPREAD FIRE AROUND PLAN]   Crowd of Onlookers Block Fire Trucks, Ambulances

FOOD SHORTAGE THREAT GAUSES GROWING ALARM   Hear Appeals ‘on Capitol Hill for Early Action

FARM BLOG SEEKS EXECUTIVE ACTION   Carry Plea ‘for More Farm Production to White House: Want Production Army

Threats Of Food Shortage Bring Race For Remedial Laws, Demand FDR Action

Remedial Laws, . Executive Move Sought On Food   Grave Threat, Of Shoriage .- Starts-Solons” Race. For Manpower Lesgislation

Alarm Over Potential Food Shortages Starts Congressional Race For Remedial Legislation

OEEK ACTION TO PRESERVE FOOD SUPPLY   Congressmen to Apply at White House for Prompt Decision.   FARM PICTURE BADLY MUDDLED   Bankhead to’ Press for Deferment of Farm Workers.

Urge Action on Farm Problem   Alarm Over Possible Food Shortage Grows

Congressional Race On Over Manpower Point:  Growing Alarm Evident Over Potential  Res Mem

ALARM MOUNTS OVER-NATION'S FOOD BASKETS   Potential Shortages Sets  Off Congressional Race  for Remedial Man  power Legislation   FARM BLOC ACTIVE   Demands Immediate Moves on Production Program; Want Farm  Labor Deferred

Seek Action on Farm Manpower   Concern Over Potential Food Shortage Brings Pleas

FOOD SHORTAGE STIRS DEMANDS BY FARM BLOC   Pleas That Farm Workers Be Kept Out of Army Growing Louder   APPEAL MADE FOR FATHERS   Pay-as-you-go Tax Plan Is Approved in Part—‘Politics’ Hit from Two Sides

POTENTIAL SHORTAGE OF FOOD: CAUSING ~ GROWING. ALARM   Plead for Action-On Legisla‘tion to Kaep Agricultural - Labor On Farms   DEMAND PROGRAM ACCORD!

FOOD SHORTAGE — REMEDIES SOUGHT   Farm Bloc Urges Promp: * Action on Manpower Bi Production Program —

35,000,000 Home Army Looms — a eee  ‘Fear Over Food ‘Stirs Demands For Action Now   Pay-Go Makes First Hurdle, But Solons Stall on Skip Period.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS FOR ITALY REPORTED   Neutrals Report Actua Terms Being Discussed

Engineer Is Killed in PR Curve Crash   DERAILMENT OF THREE OIL CARS IN MIDDLE OF 120-CAR FREIGHT  “BLOCKS MAIN LINE AT HORSE' ‘SEIOE.‘

Revived North Africa Aids Allies With Food Supplies and Minerals   Farms and Mines Which U. S. Rehabilitated Save Shipping Space, Ease Home Demands Fruits Being Sent Back to British Isles

AXIS MOVES TROOPS TO DEFEND BALKANS   Italian Garrisons Are In Charge Of Nazi  Commanders

Americans Move Eastward From Sened In Attempt To Separate Axis Forces

ALLIED AIRMEN SET FIRE IN SFAX   Down 14 Enemy Fliers: Germans Active Near Ousseltia Valley

WEDGE MIGHT BE START OF BIG OFFENSIVE   Berlin Admits American Succcess:  German Prisoners Are Taken

German Junction Area Harassed By New Advanee   Yanks First Planned To Withdraw After Raid, But Decidec To Hold

SEIZES SENED   Had Planned ie Withdraw, But Actually !s Holding Advanced Post.

Combat Force Which Intended to : Quit Sened, Pushes Ahead  And May Harass Coastal Junction  OF Axis Forces

Americans Dig In and ~ Hold Sened   Their Wedge’ There “May Seriously. Harass Any: Joining of -Axis* Forces   SOME. PRISONERS AND TANKS TAKEN   ‘Germans Continue. to"Hold _Faid Pass, Which They... ‘Took-Last Week

REPORT FORCE WITRORAWS 18 DENIED TODAY   Hold Position East Of Sened On Line To Maknassy   GAPTURE TANKS, MEN   2-Day Attack On Nazi Forces At Faid Pass  Unsuccessful

FORCES DIG IN MILE EAST OF THE TOWN   If Wedge Can Be Devel _ oped, They Will Harass Junction of Axis Units —Allied Fliers Bomb Chav.

Fierce Attack At Faid Pass Is Repulsed   United States Fliers Smash At Supply Port Of Sfax; Seven Planes Destroyed

WEDGE DRIVEN IN AXIS LINES   Americans Hold Import ant Rail Line In Tunis ia Campaign   I THREATEN ROMMEL   Germans Admit Alked - Forces Have Piéreed Positions

US: CAPTURES BASEIN TUNISIA   Wedge Opened Up At Sened Menaces Axis Forces

Americans Dig In On Escape Route   Wedge Driven at Sened May Interfere With Axis  Junction   FAIL TO TAKE A PASS   Operation at Faid Broken Off as Axis Shows Superior Strength

Coastal Junction of Axis Forces in  Africa Threatened   Yankee ‘Combat Force Digs In After Taking Sened Yesterday

American Troops Holding Advance Post Near Sened   Wedge, If Developed, Will Harass Rommel; U.S. Beat Back At Faid Pass

Germans Repulse Attack on Pass   Combat Force Which Intended to Quit Sened, Pushes Ahead  And May Harass Coastal! Junction Of Axis Forces

Occupation May. Horass. Tunisian Coastal Junction of Axis Forces

U. §. TROOPS IN TUNISIA SEIZE VITAL POSITION   Dangerous Wedge Is Driven into Axis Forces By  Americans   STRATEGIC TOWN TAKEN   Germans Fail To Chalk Up Any Important Gains At Front

Americans Dig In Near Sened To Hold Wedee:   U. S. Forces Did Not. Withdraw From Village As Was Reported After They Entered Place

U. S. FORCES HOLDING VITAL ADVANCEPOST   Newly - Captured Positions  In Sened Area May Seriously Harass Junc ¢ tion of Axis Armies

AMERICAN FORCES REPORTED HOLDING CAPTURED POSITIONS   IF WEDGE DEVELOPED IT MAY HARASS TUNISIAN AXIS JUNCTION

U. S. Combat  Force Hangs Onto Sened   Withdrawal Report Indicated Error; Menace To Rommel

Combat Troops Capture Sened  American Force Active On Tunisian Coast

Lone Japanese Plane Bombs Guadalcanal   . Up..Air. Attack on Munda Field .-

SINGLE JAP PLANE BOMBS HENDERSON FIELD: ONE KILLED   American Warplanes Continue to Blast Jap Air Base at Munda—Ground Gains Are Made on Guadalcanal

JAPANESE RAID SOLOMONS BASE   Single Plane Drops 5 Bombs On Positions Near Henderson Field.   PLANES ATTACK MUNDA

LONE JAP PLANE DROPS 5 BOMBS ON GUADALCANAI   YANKS CONTINUE POUNDING ENEMY FIELD AT MUNDA

Lone Jap Plane Raids Air Field  U.S. Forces Pound Enemy Again At Munda

Japanese Bomb American Area   One Soldier Killed And Several Wounded; Americans Hit Back

Yanks Again Bomb Jap Base at Munda   Lone Enemy Plane Drops 5 Missiles Near Henderson Field, on. Guadalcanal, Killing One Man and Wounding Several Others.

LONE JAP PLANE RAIDS FIELD ON GUADALCANAL   One American Killed By Bomb, Several Wounded In First Raid Made Since December   MUNDA IS BLASTED   Allied Airmen Continue Assault On Japanese Base; Ground Force Surrounds Nips

House GOP May Support ~ Pay-Go Tax   Jersey and Missouri Delegations to Vote for Ruml Proposal

6.0,P, MAY BACK ""RUML'S PLAN   ‘HOUSE REPUBLICANS FORMING BLOC TO SUPFORT TAX  _' PROPOSAL OF FEDERAL pe RESERVE BANKER

6 RESCUED AFTER 12 HOURS IN MINE   Barricade Protects Them From Deadly Gas Fumes

Corn Canning Pointers Given By County Home Demo Agent;Pressure Cooker Is Recummended   Whale Grain Stvle Corn

Gillespie County Homemakers Busy Canning Corn; Pressure Cookers Should Be Used

SOLDIER RECOVERING FROM HIS WOUNDS   Sergeant John L. Lawrence Continses To Impreve In North Africa. Mother Is Informed

HOOVER. ASKED T0 TELL OF FARM FOOD PROBLEMS. OF WAR      Senate Committee’ Anxious For Recommendations Ex-President May Offer

Senate Invites Hoover Testimony   May Talk on’ Farm And Food Problems

UMW URGED T0 PREVENT MAJOR “MINE WALKOUT   Lewis Fails To Show Inclination To -Co-operate In WLB Efforts.

Planning Board Funds Voted   Move to Boost Total Defeated in Senate

BRITISH TROOPS ALSO CAPTURE 3 VILLAGES   Montgomery’s Men Lash Out in Furious New Assaults

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   British 8th Army Lashes Out in Furious New Assault

THREE VILLAGES ADDED IN SMASH BY EIGHTH ARMY   Nazis Lose Strong Defensive Positions, Center of Communications

British Eighth Army Smashes Out New Gains   Furious New Assaults C. ry Forces Forward As Much As Five Miles   FIFVH ARMY ALSO ADDING TO GAINS

Says Japs Tortured, Killed Chinese and Missionaries  Who Helped Doolittle Fliers

Labcr Unrest Is Spreading In Ohio Cities   Chiropractic Billto Become Law on Aug. 9   49 000 Workers On Strike in Akron Plant   Japs Wreak Vengeance on Chinese For Aiding Doeliities cliers   Missionaries Also Tortured and Murdered for Part They Played

JAPANESE WREAKED SAVAGE REVENGE ON CHINESE AND MISSIONARIES WHO AIDED AMERICAN BOMBER PILOTS

‘American Missionary Priest Says  Japs Stopped Only At Cannibalism  unishing Chinese Missionaries   For Giving Aid To Doolittle Fliers

HOUSE VOTES PROBE OF FCC; ASSAILS BOARD   Cox Assails Board While Committees Probe Navy Contracts, Food Scarcities

HOUSE DECIDES TO INVESTIGATE FCC; CHAIRMAN FLAYED  THIS ACTION SHARED INTEREST WITH PRESI-

ROAD DISTRICTS ARE CUT TO FOUR   Shakeup Brings ~ Curran to Indiana — Forbes Direets No. 4

WARIO TALIS O INVADING \USTRALIANS   2g, Natural Defense- Point—in Huon Peninsula Captured Afler §x-Day Assault. New Britain lases Closest to New Guinea icain Subjected to Aerial Allacks.

Japanese Lose Major Base  On New Guinea   Allied Victory Comes After Assault Which  Lasted Six Days

Wareo, Important Hub For Jap Supply Lines, Is ‘Taken   Cap-ure Announced After Six-Day Battle—-Campaign to Drive Japs Out of Huon Peninsula Is Given Impetus

Aussie Forces Capture  Japanese Base  Wareo Falls After Six-Day Assault  on Huan Paenineula

'WAREO, ENEMY STRONGHOLD, ‘FALLS TO AUSTRALIAN FORCE   Natural Defense Point Has Been Important Hub For Jap Supply Lines; Attacks Are Continuing Against New Britain; Nip Barges Pounded

AUSSIES SEIZE JAP STRONGPOINT IN NEW GUINEA   Enemy Troops Driven From Wareo, on Huon Penin- ~ sula, After a SixDay Assault.   SERVED AS VITAL HUB FOR SUPPLY LINES   Capture Accelerates Drive to Clear Out Area tor Possible New Britain Invasion.

AUSTRALIANS TAKE WAREG   Jap Strongpoint of Huon is Captured After SixDay Assault

ENEMY HOLDS POSITIONS ON HIGH EROUND   American. Fifth Army Beats Off Counterattacks by ~~ Panzer. Units. :   ALLIED TROOPS POUND: ASHORE WITH SUPPLIES

British Take Key: Port In South Italy:   Nazis ‘Resist © _ Bitterly in... Fight for Naples.

5th Army of U.S. Beats Off Attacks   Crack Nazi Tank Forces Battling American Troon.«

U §.5th Army Beat ts Off Heavy Counteratiacks   ‘Nazis Attempt . To Hold Open Fecqne Channel

GERMANS BATTLE TO HOLD OPEN AN ESCAPE CORRIDOR   British 8th Army Continues Steady Advance In Southern Italy—U. 5.  Troops Within Sight Of  Mount Vesuvius

Nazi Troops Make Desperate Bid To Hold Open An Escape Corridor For Troops Falling Back From South Italy

Americans Stop Counterattacks In Naples Area   Germans Try Hard To Keep Southern Armies From Trap

Desperate Nazis Strike at Salerno   Enemy Tries to Keep Escape Route Open

Germans Send Fresh Troops Against Yanks   American Fifth Army Bears Brunt Of Fighting; British Eighth Moves Across Toe Of Italy Without Meeting Much Opposition.

Hard Battles Reported in Naples Area   British in Southern Sector Encountering Little  Opposition

Yanks Engage Nazi Tank Units In Furious Battle, Rommel Leading German

FIFTH YANK ARMY MEETS ‘TOUGH FOE:   British, Canadians Advance North Across Toe. Italians Fight Nazis in Some Areas

AMERICANS HOLD FIRM NEAR NAPLES   Germans Strive To Hold Escape Corridor

(Turn to TUNISIA, rage ——«(jive to the Red Cromsi-——  ALEUTIANS ATTACKED NINE TIMES IN MONTH

BOMBERS BUSY INPACIFIC ARE!   Navy Reports Nine Raids on Kiska Made in February.

KISKA BOMBARDED HEAVILY IN LAST MONTH BY AIRMEN   Half Million Pounds of Bombs Dropped on Japs Without Loss of Plane

300,000 Lbs Bombs ‘Laid’ ‘On Kiska In Past Month   Ten Enemy Planes Shot Down And None Of Ours Lost, Navy Reports

U.S. FLYERS DROP MORE THAN 1,000 BOMBS ON KISKA   CARRY OUT NINE RAIDS IN ALEUTIANS DURING MONTH OF FEBRUARY

Raids Staged  {In Aleutians   Navy Reveals Nine Attacks on Jap Bases in February Without Loss of Plane

NAVY REPORTS ON ALEUTIAN ATTACKS   U.S. Aircraft Drop Half Milion Pounds of Bomb In February.

9 Raids Made On Kiska in Month  1,000 Bombs Dropped   1,000 Bombs Dropped On Jap Positions —  No U. S. Planes Lost

Huge Bomb Load Is Dropped on Kiska Positions   Four Ships Sunk In Sea-Air Battle In South Pacific

All Are Safe After Raids On Japs At Kiska   Half Million Pounds Of Bombs Dropped During Month Of February On   Japanese Positions

‘Nine Raids on Kiska Made Without Loss -Of U.S. Plane, Navy Communique Reveals

'U.S. AIRCRAFT DUMP HALF MILLION I POUINDS OF BOMBS ON KISKA, FEBRUARY

MINOR CHANGES ON RUSS FRONT TODAY   Russians Have Gained Some Ground Before Vitebsk.

ENVOY WINANT’S SON ON SHUTTLE-BOMBING MISSION  irs a . - re -—-: eee eee 6 Fee 4 eee ee Se

NAZIS ADVANGE INDONETS AREA   Recapture 8 Cities Since End of February at Cost Of 20,G00 Men.   SOVIETS TAKE VILLAGES

Germans Threaten Kharkov   Strong Nazi. C Nazi. CounterOffensive in Wide Gain; Reds Press on in North

Germans Retake Eight Towns Around Kharkov   Soviet Forces Continue Advances In North; Axis Throws 25 Fresh Divisions Into Action

pars Come Back To Take 8 Cities   { Axis Divisions Smash hie "Along 100-Mile Front in  Donets: Basin   BATTLE NEAR KHARKOV   Fresh Gérman Troops Are Shifted From the West ern Front

HITLER'S ARMY IN A SMASHING BLOW IN DONETS BASIN   Was Reinforced by Twelve Fresh Divisons From Western Europe.   Recaptured Eight Cities at the Cost of 20,000 Axis Killed.

REDS REPORT PROGRESS IN VYAZMA AREA   Push Offensive There as Troops in Donets Basin Cope With Nazi Drive That Has Brought 100Mile Advance.

Heavy Blows Are Delivered To Attackers   Large Forces Of Enemy Tanks Fought Off Near Kharkov

HITLER THROWS FRESH TROOPS INTO ATTACKS   Germans Take Eight Red Cities In Drive; Moscow Says Foe Is Halted . West of Kharkov   SOVIETS ADVANCING IN NORTHERN AREAS   Claim 12 Divisions of Nazis Have Been Drawn From Western Europe to Russian Front

25 New German Divisions In Russia  Hitler’s Armies Push Reds Back In Donets Basin

FRESH GERMAN TROOPS RETAKE TOWNS IN DRIVE   Forces Advance Over 100 Miles In Sudden Push

Fresh Divisions Have Advanced Along Front Of 100 Miles, Russian Communique Admits

RECAPTURE EIGHT CITIES AT COST OF 12,000 DEAD   RUSSIANS SAY NAZIS HAVE DRIVEN WEDGE TO DONETS RIVER

12 FRESH DIVISIONS MUIRLED AT RUSSIANS   Russians Admit Donets Basin Raverses;.. Claim Nazi  Bees: ‘ERednae

Tunisia Battle Is Near End   Surrender To French In Zaghouan Area;  British Overrun  Peninsula

STRONG FORCE ON MAINLAND STILL FIGHTS   Zaghouan Area Foes Ask French for  Armistice

(OWM. Faces Tough Struggle to Get 700,000 Increase in Employes. \Needed by Aircraft Industries .

Aircratt industry  Seeks Thousands  Mi New Workers Scant Manpower Awaiis Solution  To Boost Quotas

Many Needed In Aircraft Plants   July. Production Of TF 272 Ralaw Can!

Many Needed In Aircraft Plants   July Production Of J 2723 Relow Gon!

Aircraft Plants To Need 700,00 Workers In Year   Baruch, Byrnes Face Toughest Manpower Problem

OF ITALIAN EMPIRE FALLS   British Push On For Final Battle On Tunisian Border

AFRIKA KORPS NOW PURSUED INTO TUNISIA   Allies Control Skies Along Coast; Hit At Columns

Allied Planes Pound Retreat Toward Tunis   Rommel Striving To Withdraw Shattered Forces Behind Prepared Lines In Tunisia  With 8th Army In Close Pursuit.

Mexico President’s Wife To Give Stoves To Poor Mothers on Mothers’ Day

Russian Spearheads Cu into Retreating Nazis; Many Prisoners Taken

REDS 40 MILES BEYOND KIEV   Driving Germans Back at a Furious Pace

Demoralized Germans Retreat Becoming Complete Rout.   pPIcre MOU,  NAZIS FACE GREAT CRISIS OF THE WAR  German Morale Appears to Be Weakening This Month.

Surging Red Army Giving Nazis No Time To Dig In and Fortify Them: selves.

Navy Discovers Way To Protect Men From Sharks  Old Problem Ie Naw Salved

SHARK REPELLENT DISCOVERED, CLAN   Navy Reports Experiments Although Guarding Its Nature

On The Home Front In lowa;  News For All   Details Of Many Items Of Interest

Charge That Nazis Are Preparing To Use Poison Gas Against Russia

Britain Warns Hitler Against  Poison Gas Use   Reports Hitler Planning To Use Gas In Russia Bring Warning Of Reprisals

BRITISH PROMISE TO RETALIATE IF GERMANS USE GAS   Churchill’s Office Says Mass Attacks On Reich Cities If Threat Is Carried Out

If Foe Uses Gas Against Russians Britain Will Retaliate Severely

British Charge Nazis Preparing To Use Gas Soon   Mass Gas Raids on Cities Promised

NON-FATHERS — UNDER 30 HIT ~ BY PROPOSAL   Abolish Occupational Deferments, Plea of Senators

Another Dratt. Proposal Goes, Before Senate   Lifting Of Ban On. Non-Fathers Under 20 le Latest Plan

2 Senators Would Ban Oc cupational Deferments of  Non-Fathers Under 30

NEW DRAFT PLAN (OES TO SENATE   CALLS FOR BAN ON OCCUPATIONAL DEFERMENTS FOR NON-FATHERS UNDER 30.

FATHERS DRAFT HOLUS SPOTLIGHT   Senate Gets Proposed Ban On Occupational Deferment For Non-Fathers Under 30; Revises Taft Plan

Slower Father Draft Favored By Revercoml      7, Va. Senator Would Ban ‘Occupationals’ Linger 20

CHIO SECTION HAS MOST WAR WORKERS   10. of Every 100 Persons Produce Munitions

AREA WAR WORKER PERCENTAGE HIGH   Ten Out of 100 Aid Production In Ohio Michigan and Kentucky

OHIO RANKS TOPS IN WAR PRODUCTION   Ten Out of Every 100 Busy In Essential Jobs

SHE BELONGS IN DERBY   Gray Mare Seemingly Runs_ 100 Miles in Five Minutes,

Italians Greet Yanks Landing In Sicily With The Victory Sign   ‘Enemy’ Glad to See Invaders And Readily Trade Fresh Fruit and Vegetables for Cigarets; “Reporter Gives Eye-Witness Account of Landing

ITALIANS GIVE ‘V’ SIGN TO INVADERS   Eye-Witness Tells Of Fine Reception Given Americans

STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS AT JAPS IN PACIFIC   Bomb Borneo Base; Make Fresh Gains in New Guinea

BLOWS AT JAPS IN PACIFIC   Bomb Borneo Base: Make Fresh Gains in New Guinea

SOUTHERN MINERS OUT ON STRIKE   BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS  cP we urn

Pleasure Ride Ends in Death  Two Killed, 5 Hurt in Sioux City Crash

‘Two Killed In Auto Aceident   Five Injured As Shopping Expedition Ends In Death For Youths.

SERVICE MEN WILL GET BOOK NO. 3   OPA Says Army, Navy Wil Distribute Ration Coupons -

DEMOCRATS TAKE LEAD IN KENTUCKY   DONALDSON 38,000 VOTES AHEAD OF WILLIS IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR.

Axis Propagandists Say Civilian Rome Bombed   Allies Explain Raid

BERLIN SAYS PETAIN WILL ‘CHANGE GOVT.   : Hraportant Fundamental Changes To Be Made  ‘In Conduct of French “Rbata

FRENCH STUDENTS MAY BE FORCED 10 WORK IN GERMANY   Laval Said Considering Closing Down All French Universities So Students Can Be Sent To Germany To Work In Nazi War Industries.

WIDE-DISORDERS OCCUR IN FRANGE   Protest to Germans’  Roundup of Labor

ILAVAL MAY ‘CLOSE FRENCH UNIVERSITIES   So Students Can Be Sent to Germany to Work in Factories

Small Gain By British At Catania   Axis Forces Fighting Des. perately to Defend City  on East Coast

Planes From Carrier Are Used By Naval Task Force In Attack On Jap-Held Island

BOMBING OF WAKE POINTS 10 RISING NAVAL OFFENSIVE   Strong Task Force Heavily Attacked Island With Carrier Aircraft And From Sea

Strong TaskForce Attacks at Dawn for Second Time   Few Details Are G ven by Admiral Commanding Blow

Tak FORCE FAIDS: APS ON WAKE 1S   See New Offensive Designed To Roll Back Enemy From Pacific Outposts—Strike With Dram. atic Speed   MAKES SECOND NAVAL BLOW STRUCK AT WAKE

Naval Task Force With Carrier Planes Hits Shattering Blows         Wake Island Raid Is Seen As Forerunnerof Campaign

Shattering Raid On Wake Island Hints Offensive  Navy Strikes With   Navy Strikes With Dramatic Speed at Nip-Heid Base

HEAVY NAVAL, AIR ATTACK ON WAKE ID.   Points to Mounting Allied Offensive In Pacific Area

Raid Is Seen As Opening Blast InNew Offensive   Surprise Blow Is Believed Attempt To Force Tokio Into Naval Showdown

Tiny Island Of Wake  Smashed by U S. Air and  Sea Bombardment   New Raid Heralds  Growing Offensive In Ganarth Danifie

WAKE ISLAND IS HEAVILY BOMBED   Australian Ground Troops Are Less Than 50 Miles From Jap Madang Base.

ASSAULT ON WAKE POINTS TO NEW DRIVE   American Sea and Air Bombardment Damages Island

U.S. Task Force's Attack Tuesday on Wake Island Points to Mounting Naval Offensive in the Pacific

OTHER STRONG ASSAULTS T0 COME, BELIEF   Only Meagre Reports On Results Given Out By Navy

ATTACK ON WAKE SHOWS MOUNTING NAVAL OFFENSIVE   Beginning of Drive to Roll Back Enemy Is Believed Underway.

Most Of Planes Destroyed Are Huge Transports   ee a a ae A A _ whe  STUNNING BLOW IS GIVEN AXIS

FLYING FORTS KNOCK OUT 73 ~ ENEMY CRAFT   Attack on Sicily Catchés Big Troop Carriers Sitting on Ground.   EIGHTH ARMY BATTERS AT ROMMEL’S DEFENSE

T3 TRANSPORTS DESTROYED IN SICILY ATTACK   Eighth Army Presses Agalnst New Enemy Defense Line In Tunisia   TRAP RING TIGHTENED   Rommel Withdraws Behind Enfidaville Ridge With Sea At His Back

STUNNING LOSS DEALT ROMMEL AIR TRANSPORT   Coircides With Eighth Army Assault on New Axis Defense Line

Stunning Blow Against Axis Air Fleet   Most of Craft Were Giant  Transports

ANTI-4TH-TE CAMPAIGN IS BOGGING DOW!   Started In Indiana And = Swep! Thru Seven Other States

Anti-Fourth Term Campaign Started In Indiana Appears Bogged Down

Anti-Term Plan Bogging Down   Lack States To Go On Record Against Chief

ANTI-FOURTH TERM CAMPAIGN IN STATE ASSEMBLIES BOGS   Move Laurichéd By Indiana State Legislature Was Picked Up By 7 Other States

Allies Cautioned. On Overconfidence As Italy Gives Up.  Many However a

Hopes for Win Over Germany In 1943 Soar   Capital Jubilant Over Italian Surrender; White House Silent

Congressmen See Earlier End of War in Europe   But Some Caution Against Optimism

JOY REIGNSIN CAPITALOVER FALL OF ITALY      Some Caution Against Overconfidence, However, Sounded   SOME SEE EARLY END OF THE WAR   Answer to Some Questions Concerning Armistice Awaited

Nab Gunmar After 4 Days   Captured At Fort Dodge, Following CrossIowa Kidnap Dash

[Thomas J. Runvon, For  mer Midwest Hoodlum,  Seized After He Had Terrorized Residents

Runyon Captured At Fort Dodge   Police Win Out in Running Gun Fight

Tom Runyon Is Captured - In Ft. Dodge   Lifer’s Brief Flight From Penitentiary Ended With Gunfight

Capture Convict After Gun Fight   Escaped 4 Days Ago From lowa Prison

Killer Runyon ls Recaptured In Gun Battle   Two Ft. Dodge Officers Take Fleeing Ft. Madi.  son Life-Termer.

IS RETURNED 10 PRISON 4 DAYS AFTER ESCAPE   Gun Battle in Street Results in Capture of Midwest Hoodlum

14 DEFENSE WARDENS RESIGN AT TOLEDO   Quit After Unsuccessful Air Raid Test

Si i a a a a a a a a a a a a a ae  Nebraska’s combat casualties -

—)DUlU fe: ee ee oe ee. ae ee ae ee re ee eee  - Nebraska’s combat casualties

HOUSE COMMITTEE HITS TREASURY'S TAX ESTIMATES    CHARGED THAT NATION'S IDLE CASH IS ONLY 16 BILLION DOLLARS AND NOT 40 BILLION SET BY MORGENTHAUC,   ASSERT TAX BILL WAS MUCH TOO HIGH   Committee's Report Charges Trea sury Department's Estimate On  War Taxes Was 10 Billions Higher Than Needed.

Ruml-Plan Tax Makes Debut Tn Both Houses   Capper Bill Would Put Income Levy ‘On Current Basis

Victory Tax Special Direct Levy Aimed To Help Meet Increasing War Expenses

It Takes Both, War Bonds and Taxes, to Win —Victory Tax Special Direct Levy Asked to Help Meet Heavy War Caste

Allied Bombers Pound Japs  On New Britain Rice Bowl City Captured By Nippon Forces

ALLIES POUND NORTH COAST NEW BRITAIN   Planes Hammer At Approaches To Rabaul

Allied Bombers Pound New Britain Invasion Coast With 300,000 Pounds

AIR BLOWS ALONG RABAUL ROUTE ON DAILY BASIS NOW   Bomb Tonnage Dropped By Allies Passes At 1,199 Mark

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT NEW GUINEA INVASION COAST   For Fourth Straight Day Big Bombers Raid Cape Gloucester Area

Bombers Pound At New Britain   Rabaul Approaches Struck Once More

DROP DRAFI EVASION COUNT   Benton Harbor Jehovah  Witness Released  By U. S.

Steamboat Crashes Into Pier Of Highway Bridge Halting Road Traffic

162 Days’ Siege Of Stalingrad Is Brought To End   historic Debacle: Costs  Germany Half Million in Dead or  Prieanare

VETERAN RUSSIAN SOLDIERS FREED TO. -FIBHT ELSEWHERE   Defeat Called Worst Disaster in History Of German Military Arms

Seasoned Veterans Freed To Press Other Drives, After Taking Half Million Nazis

{OUSE LEADERS TO RUSH  MUSTERING-OUT PAY BILL   EFFORT WILL, BE MADE TO _ PASS MEASURE FO AID DIS.  CHARGED MEN BY ‘ CHRISTMAS 7

Big RAF Ferry Bomber Crashes 18 Are Killed  Five Crewmen, 13   Five Crewmen, 13 Passengers Perish  In Newfoundland NO DETAILS GIVEN  Names of Victims Withheld Until Kin Are Notified

[8 DIE IN CRASH OF FERRY PLANE   CRAFT THAT USUALLY CAR RIES DIPLOMATS AND MAIL FALLS IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

BRITISH AIR: FLEET HITS. BERLIN AGAIN          Four-Engined ‘Heavy weights Strike by Light of the Moon

HUGE FLEET BOMBS NAZI CAPITAL   Berlin Is Turned Into Sea of Fire; 1,200 Tons Dropped

RAF LOSES 41 BOMGERS BUT SETS BIG FIRES   U.S. Fliers Again Knock Out Main Nazi Rail Link With Italy

Berlin blasted  With 1,500  Tons of Bombs Nazi City Made  Sea of Fire By Incendiaries

Raid Believed Opening Gun of Campaign to Force Unconditional Surrender of Navic. ,

Berlin Again Hit In Force By R.A.F.   41 Planes Lost By British In Raids On Contitnent

MORE EXPLOSIVES. DUMPED ON NAZIS CAPITAL ABLAZE   Forty-one Planes Lost As 1200 to 1500 Tons of ‘Bombs Shower on Aavy goed ity.

Life of NYA Hangs in Balance   Senate, House Resume Tug of War Over Appropriations

NYA Caught In Congress Cross-Fire   Senators Still, ‘Fighting To Keep Youth Works Program Alive

72 MINERS ENTOMBED   Hope Held That Men Still Alive Far Beneath Surface

MARSHALL ISLAND LOSSES FIVE PLANES   Report Is Made On U. S. Losses In Daring Attack On Jap Base

1 Wounded Vets Aid Chest Drive   Tell Local Meeting 0: High Worth Of USO

Kansas Reports a Lot of Beef Coming in From the Hills and the Plains

Keep That Steak Pan, Pardner, There’s Some Beef Coming From Hills And Plains   Millions Of Pounds Of Beef Ready For Market With Ranchers Faced With Dry Ranges Or Feeding Expensive Grains

Beet Famine May Be Broken Soon   The Great Grass Ranges of Southwest Are Clogged With Cattle.

Lots Of Beef Coming From Hills And Plains, Pardner, So Hold On To That Steak Pan

Don’t Discard Your Steak Pan   Thundering Herd Of Beef Coming In From Hills And Plains.

Keep Your Steak Pan—Beef Herds Ready to Market   Red Ration Points Slated To Mean Something Soon, With Pastures Crowded.

fold Onto Your Steak Fryer, ‘ed Stamps and Sharp Knife   undering Herd Is On March Again; Millions of Pounds of Beef From Great Grass Ranges of Southwest, Are Ready for Market, Many Becticve Beef Famine Will Be Broken

Beef Famine Relief Due in Few Weeks   Grass-fed Cattle From Southwest Ready, for Market

BEEF CATTLE 10 BE SOLD SOON   Good Pasture Delays Sale ot Herds in Western States

Steak Pan May Sizzle Again As Beef Moves East From Hills, Plains

TOR RY CORPS IS ORCANIZED      Members Pledge Selves To » Work At Some Eséentjal lob ;

One Hundred Thirty-Two Students Of High School In Victory Corns   Induction Service At High School Assembly Wednesday

Tells Clerks to Ignore Senate Action   Keyes Again Stalls Bill Of Another Day with Parlia. mentary Tangle

Murray Act: To Thwart Steel Strike   Union Head,: Fearing Walkout Recurrence, Advises. Men to Work

JAP CAMP DIRECTOR DENIES FOOD CHARGE   Appears Before Dies Com mittee Thursday Evening

TRANGPORT PLANES MISSING (N CANADA   Both Cargo Craft Have Been Lest in Wild North Country,

WPB Cancels Capital Water Plan Hearings   San Francisco Meet Set on Central Valley Project

ROME ATTACK SA SUCCESS   More Than 500 Planes Took Part; Military TarGets Damaged.   ONLY FIVE PLANES LOST.

5 Allied Planes Lost Over Rome   SUCCESSFUL ASSAULT MADE ON ITALY’S RAILWAYS

Heavy Damage Confirmed In Rome Assault   More Than 500 American Bombers Took Part In Raid

RAID ON ROME IS REPORTED AS A SUCCESS   More Than 500 American. Bombers Carried Out Assault, Losing Five.   Railroad Yards Are Completely Destroyed

ROME AIR ATTACK IS “OUTSTANDING SUCCESS.” REPORT   Allied Headquarters Discloses That 500 American Bomb , ers” Participated in Raid With Loss of Only Five

Malta Is Thankful   Returning Pilots Say. Historic Landmark Undamaged In Rome Raid By Bombers

500 American Bombers Took Part in Historic: Rome Raid; Five American Planes Lost

Italians Admit 166 Killed and Paint Black Picture to World of Damage Inflicted,

SHATTERING ATTACK ON ROME TERMED AUTSTANDING SUCCESS   All Targets Heavily Damaged; _ Littorio Railway Yards Completely Destroyed: -*   5. S$. PLANES -ARE LOST

500 U. S. Bombers  In Raid on Rome   Severe Damage to All Targets Is Reported; 5 Planes Lost

HEAVY DAMAGE 1S BROUGHT TO BIG R. R. YARDS   Report “Outstandingly Successful” Raid Is Made by Americans

500 AMERICAN BOMBERS CARRIED QUT RAID ON ROME   Allied Headquarters Describ. ed the Raid as “Outstandingly Successful.”

Rome Raid Outstanding U.S. Triumph   Accuracy of Bombing Gives Lie to Charges of Indiscriminate Damage

00 BOMBERS RAID PI   Attack on Military Objec: tives in Rome Accurate and Effective

RAID ON ROME WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL   Aerial Reconnaissance Shows Heavy Damage to All Targets, Including Destruction of Littoria Rail Yards.

Only 5 Out of 500 Bombers Lost; Big Railway Yard Is Razed, War Plants Wrecked

Precision Bombing Praised   Returning Pilots Say Landmarks Unhurt in Rome

Rome Raid AGreat _ Success   Pilots Had No Trouble In Avoiding Revered Shrines; Key Railroad Yards Are Destroyed

Rome Bombing Held Sueeessful      (Further details an Rome bomb ing on inside pages this section.)

ALLIES REVEAL HEAVY LOSSES HANDED ENEM)   Littoria Rail Yards ‘Com. pletely Destroyed’ in Attack on Rome

ROME RAID OUTSTANDING OPERATION   Allied Headquarters Disclose More Than 500 American Bombers Carried Out Assault   BUT FIVE ARE MISSING

Severe Loss Revealed in Rome Attack  Rail Yards, War Plants and Grounded Aircraft Smashed  FIVE PLANES LOST  Only Slight Opposition Is Met From Enemy Pichtere

Only Five Of 500 U. §. Planes Are Lost In Big Raid   Rail Yards, Airdromes, Steel, Chemical Plants Battered By Bombs

Artillery Brought Into Play To Extend New Britain Gains   Six Enemy Aircraft Downed in Aerial Sweep Over Rabaul—Army and Navy Planes Continue Attacks on Marshal! Islande

Americans Extend New Britain Gains  Artillery Brought tin   Artillery Brought Up To Aid in Attacks

Nine Firms Get U.S. Funds to  Make Penicillin   WPB Okehs Applications for More Than $3,000,000 to Expand Plants for Producing Wonder Drug

RUSSIANS CUT NAZI ESCAPE RAILWAY   Batter Way Into Striking Distance of Krivoi Rog -

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Nazis Begin Large-Scale Evacuation of Russian Crimez

MASS REMOVAL OF POPULATION TRIED BY NAZIS   All Cattle, Portable Property Reported Being Taken from Area

Russians Are Cutting Retreat Rcad   Threat to Nazi Armies in Crimea Mounting Hourly

SEE SINGLE COMMAND OVER MEDITERRANEAN   War Conference at Allied Head« quarters Brings Belief Untfied Leadership Is Near.

Formation of Single Allied  Command Seen   Lengthy. Conference of American, British Chiefs Foreshadows Unified Leadership

Senators Okay Discharge Pay On Time Scale   Congress Freezes: Payroll Tax Level °Til M:z rch,  a re tar

Congress Shelves Subsidies, Rushes To Take Holiday   Senate Approves Mustering-Out Pay For Service People

Republicans. Make Legislative Pledge   Rep. Martin Lists Tax Reforms, Ecouomiies His - Party Will Seek

Martin Gives G.0.P. Pledge For Congress   House Solons To Devote Energies to Overhauling of Tax Structure, “Preservation of Constitutional Government”

FULL WAR AID PROMISED BY GOP IN HOUSE   Representative M artin Outlines Republican Objectives

URGE SHIPS 60 TO ALLIED PORTS   Appeal to Italians to Stay Out of Nazi Hands

‘Badoglio Orders Italian Army  To Resist If Germans i Seek to Interfere

  ‘Ambassador Announces U. S. Personne [To Effect More Co-Operation  [Among American, British, Soviets

DENMARK URGES SABOTAGE CEASE   WARNS FOOD MAY BE CUT OFF IF RESISTANCE TO GERMANS CONTINUES.

DANES ASKED TO HALT SABOTAGE   Government Fears Loss Of Nazi Food And Coal if Disorders Continue

Danish Government Asks People Halt — Wave of Sabotage   Proclamation Marks Modest Diplomatic Victory for Danes

Danes Asked To Halt Wave Of Sabotane   Government Resists Demands That Nazis Mete Out Punishment

DANES ASKED TO END WAVE OF SABOTAGE   Denmark Seen Winning Diplomatic Victory Over Nazis

Danes Asked to Halt Sabotage  Government Resist:  f" awe EWN Haws ftw al qc

Edsel Ford Is Critically Il   Has Undulant. Fever; Son Called Home

ES ea eae Pea eee pe en pC tee evn Mee ye tee eee eee  EDSEL FORD STILL ILL   Motor Car Head in Critical Shape With Unduelant Fever

EDSEL FORD STILL Iéu,         Motor Car Head in Critical Shape With Undulant Fever

fs Ford Is riously Ill   Son of Henry Ford Suffering From Undulont Fever

Would Put Tokyo Within Range of American Bombers   CONFIRMED BY U. S.   Landing Made By “Crack American Forces,” Tokyo Says

Battling Japanese  On Island   Nazi Europe Rocks Unde Heavy Blows by British, U. S., Russia

Force Lands Tuesday on Enemy Base   Tokyo Broadcasts Violent Fighting Now in Progress

U. S. Forces Land on Jap-Held Isle and Are Waging Battle with Foe

Details of Fighting Will Be Released When Situation Clarifies, Navy Says After Telling of Landing on May 11

Navy Reports Forces Land  On Attu Isle   Withhold Details Of Operations At Present

American Forces Land On  Attu Island, Start Push To Oust Jans From Aleutians

NAVY REPORTS BATTLE RAGING WITH JAPANESE   First Account Of Aleutians Activity Given In Jap Imperial Broadcast   KISKA POSITION MENACED   Northern Area Held Vital For American Offensive Against Nip Empire

Washington Announces Attack Which Has By-Passed Kiska— Island Important Base

Strong U.S. Forces Landed W ednesday; Severe Fighting Now In Progress, Tokye Says   Attack By Our Troops Followed Incessant Bombing Of Enemy ; Objective Is One Of Two Principal Nin Bases In Aleutians

Tokyo Reports Strong American Forces Land on Attu Island   PATTERN SET FOR ATTACKS   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst (Rec TF & Pat. Offire)

YanksLocked in Battie on Aleutian Isle   Navy Confirms Earlier Radio From Tokyo Announcing Invasion   STARTED TUESDAY.   Japanese Recently Reported as Building Large Air Base on Attu

Crack Troops Seeking To  Recapture Aleutian Base   Attu Would Be Spear Pointed At Japan; I: Westernmost Of Islands

LANDING BEGAN LAST TUESDAY, NAVY REVEALS   Details of Operations to Be Released When Situation Clarifies,.Washington Says   TOKYO FIRST TO REPORT INVASION   Jap Empire Within Theoretical Range of U. S. Bombers From Point of Landing

Yanks, Japs Locked On Isle in Aleutians   Navy Confirms Report From T okyo;! Details of Tuesday Action Withheld!

BATTLE JAPS ON KEY BASE IN ALEUTIAN   Move Seen as American Try at Outflanking Enemy's Forces on. Kiska.   INVADED ISLAND IS: WESTERNMOST OUTPOST

Are Now Locked In Battle With  Japanese Forces   Tokyo Radio Gives First Hint Of Action; Isle Is Only 1,778 Miles From Tokvo

Yank Landing on Attu  Japs Say ‘Crack American Forces Are Battling For Isle 196 Miles From Kiska

11 Army Mer Die In Crash Of Bomber   Start Inquiry In Washincton

ARMY TRANSPORT CRASHES KILLING 25 MAXTON BASE   ..On Routine Flight,  aking Off When Crash  Occurs; All Men Aboard Army Personnel.

ARMY CHECKS FOR CAUSE OF AIR CRASH   25 Soldiers Die in Wreckage of Transport Plane

Accord on Coal Contract Seen   Southern Operators Still Fight Formula

PRESIDENT IS NOT ACTING AGAINST LEWIS   No need for new move now in order to sup port labor board

CROP PROSPECTS CALLED POOREST IN THREE YEARS   Agriculture Department Has Little Hope Production Can Reach 1942 Level   ADVERSE WEATHER IS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE

Crop Outlook Called Worst  In 3 Years   Adverse Weather Hie Delayed Planting, >

CROP OUTLOOK IS ~ POOREST IN YEARS   Production This Year Expected to be Under That of 19427

Crop Prospects Called Poorest In Three Years  Little Hope Food Production Will Equal Last Year’s  ADVERSE WEATHER  Davis Warns Must Redouble Efforts, Waste Nothing   ADVERSE WEATHER

CROP PROSPECT NOT FAVORABLE   Poorest Start In Three Years Gives Little Hope Of Meeting  1943 Goals

Crop Prospects Hold Little Hope For an Increase   ‘Poorest in Years’ U.S. Agr. Dept. Says; Weather Adverse

Conference Ready For newContract   SAYS DR. STEELAM, WHO SAYS HE IS PLEASED WITH STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS WHICH ARE NOT DEADLOCKED.   Complicated Issues

Soft Coal Miners And Operators Are Still Negotiating   Steelman Says $2 Raise s Major Problem in Parleys

DEATH TOLL IN WRECK NOW 18   Probers Of Pennsylvania Crash Fail To Find Sabotage Clues

WRECK TOLL 1S NOW 78   SEVERAL OF 117 PERSONS INJURED IN RALL DISASTER MAY SUCCUMB TO INJURIES

JAP AIR POWER — IN SOUTH PACIFIC HANDED SETBACK   Strong Force Of Allied Bombers and Raiders Knock Out 43 Japanese

JAP AIR POWER IN S. PACIFIC GIVEN SETBACK   43 Nipponese Planes Are Knocked Out in Raid

U. S. Raid on Wake Island ‘Only Sample of Things to ‘Come. Nimitz Warns Japs

AWARDS ARE GIVEN 10 THE NAVY HEROES   Tons of Bombs Rained on Japanese-held Island   UNITY IS COMPLETE, ADMIRAL ASSERTS   Tribute Paid to Com mander and Officers of Air Force

Admiral Nimitz Says Raid  i a Only a Sample Wake Island Gets American Christmas Present

RAID IS ‘SAMPLE’ OF MORE AHEAD   Nimitz Awards Medals To Heroes After Blasting Wake

Nimitz Says Attack Is Only Start:   Admiral Warns Foe May Expect Further Air Raids

BOMBING OF WAKE TO BE FOLLOWED BY OTHER BLOWS   Admiral Nimitz Declares Raid on dJap-Held Island Is a Sample of Things to Come,   AMERICANS ATTACK FROM LOW ALTITUDES   Most of Explosives Hit Military Targets—None of Assaulting Planes or Men Harmed.

‘CONTINUED HAMMERING OF RED ARMY AGAINST NAZIS PROVIDES ISETTING FOR MOSCOW MFETING

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ‘Allied Postwar Relations Hang On Cooperation Of Military Now

BATTLEFRONT SUCCESSES PROVIDE ‘(MOSCOW THREE-POWER CONFERENCE WITH SIGNIFICANT SETTING   Muscovites Say in Blunt Terms That Topics for Discussion Aren’t Political But Military, Which May Include Second Front

Red Victories to Provide Significant Setting for Meet   Muscovites to Insist on ‘Second Front’

SOVIETS WRECK 40 NAZI PLANES   Minor Ground Fighting Scattered; Decisive Battles Promised

RUSSIANS DOWN 40 NAZI PLANES   TWENTY-THREE OF TOTAL BAGGED IN CAUCASUS—LULL IN GROUND FIGHTING.

FUEHRER DROPPING COMMANDEER TITLE FOLLOWING REVERSES .SUF“PERED BY ARMY

Yanks Smash Japs’ Air Base, Halt How of Supplies  Big Center Is Source Of Planes for Foe In Southern Pacifie

U.S: Bombers Hit Jap Air Base in-China   Enemy Planes Downed From Air, Destroyed on Ground at Canton

AMERICAN AIR FORCE IN MAJOR RAID ON CANTON   Forty Tons Of Bombs Are Sent Crashing Onto Great Tien Ho Air Base   13 Planes Shot Down

(Jap Air Base ‘At Canton Hit By U.S. Planes   40 Tons of Explosives ‘Dropped on Installation, 13 Jap Planes Downed

“FREEZE” OF CANNED FISif AND. MEAT LINKED WITH \ INTENSIVE DRIVE ON . BLACK MARKET

SENDS 1,000 PROBERS AFTER MEAT 'LEGGERS   Action Follows Freeze on Al Canned Meat and Fish Sales Today.   RATION DUE IN APRIL   Capone Mob Remnants Linked To Illegal Selling in Chicago Area.

OPA FREEZES ALL SALES OF CANNED MEAT   Sends 1,000 Officers To Chicago to War On Black Market

OPA MOVES 10 BREAK UP MEAT BLACK MARKET   1,000 Investigators Put Into Field On No. 1 Enforcement Problem   CANNED FISH IS FROZEN   Sales Wiil Be Prohibited Until Rationing Begins Late In March

CONFERENCE WITH LABOR LEAPERS UNDERSCORE ADMINISTRATION TROUBLES

FDR. SUMMONS  LABOR BOARD 10 WHITE HOUSE   Confers On -Difficulties Besetting Wage Controls

PRESIDENT CALLS LABOR HEARING AS CRISIS LOOMS   WLB SUMMONED FOR TALK ON MINE AND RAIL WAGE DEMANDS

Waves of Planes Wreak Havoc  On Nazi Capital   Vast Areas of City Laid Waste By Tons of Huge Missiles; ‘Hitler Residence Wiped Out

UII 1 AGING INFERNO Fh AERIEL Fo TINE   One Plane L:s° in Newest Raid; Cspital in Panicky State

Presbyterian Assembly Opens   Moderator Says War With Japan Result of Neglect Of Missionary Work There

COFFEE RATION TOBE INCREASED  16.0. MARCH 22   Incoming Shipments Were 20 Per Cent Above Estitimatas.

Ration of Coffee Is  Increased   Pound Will Be Good for Five Weeks Instead of Six, Beginning Mar. 22

Gallant Air Fighter Who Survived Bataan Dies a Hero's Death in Back Yard Plane Crash

LONG COURT SESSION   O. J. Lane Heard Number of Law . Violations This Morning

RUOWTON WILL DRAFT PETITION   Attorney General Hopes to  Take First Testimony On Wednesday.

RUSHTON 10 MAP PROBE PROCEEDINGS   Has Hot Tips to Give Granc Jury Next Week in Legislative Investigation

U.S. Relaxes Draft Rules ‘For Needed Farm Help .  Conference Agrees to Permit Boards to Deviate From 16-Unit Formula for Deferment

Farm Workers Deferred in  Service Call   Order Will Help to Relieve Shortage of Labor in Food Field

FARM LABOR ~— IS PROMISED   Draft Deferments to Be Liberalized for  Recantigie

1G UNIT FORMULA MADE STANDARD   Essential Farm Worker Is Required To Milk Cows or Comparable Work.

NewExemption Rule for Farm  Labor Is OK'd   Draft, WMC Heads Agree to Liberalize Defer ment Policy

DRAIN OF FARM LABOR FOR ARMY WILL BE HALTED   Officials Agree at Conference to Liberalize Draft Deferments for Essential Producers.   NEW STANDARDS SET UP TO GUIDE BOARDS   No Longer Will They Be Required to Apply “16-Unit” Formula in Deciding Cases.

Farm Senators Mark Approval! On Draft Rule   Administrative Officials Proinise Changes To Help On Labor Situation.   REDUCE UNITS NEEDED

To Liberalize Deferments Of Farm Workers   Draft Officials Prepare New Instructions Fo Boards In Order T« Keep Men On Farms

ON RABAUL  BLASTED IN AIDS   Widespread Assaults in New Guinea-Solomons Area Revealed

MENACE OF GERMAN U-BOATS DWINDLES   Believe Nazis Have Lost Many Of Best Sub Skippers

German U-Boats Not As Aggressive As Before Losses Began Says Knox

mi  “Events Rapidly Surging Forward Toward Crisis in War Duration!

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   . Crisis On Eastern Front ‘To Have Great Effect On War’s Duration

4-Y ear-Old Girl Killed By Mother   Thought Child Woule Be Taken From Her  Is Reason

Hitler Maintains Big Force Of Subs At Sea At All Times   Concentrates On Keeping Tremendous Allied Output From Reaching Armies

HITLER MAINTAINS 200 SUBS AT SEE   Germans Pinning Hopes on Ever-Increasing Fieet Ot U-Boats.

Say Nazis Keep 200 U-Boats In Action All Time  Are Built Faster ,, eS

Hitler Speeds Submarine Wai   500 U-Boats Are Taking  Inecreasina Toll

ALLIED FLIERS HIT JAP NEW GUINEA POSITIONS   --Smash at Enemy Sullpy Lines Along Road to Wewak and Madang. Bomb New Jap Bridge

Allied Bombers Hit New Guinea      Nipponese Supply Lines Pounded

JAP POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA ARE /AIRMEN’S TARGETS   Pcund Supply Lines, Especial. ly Along Wewak-Madang Road—Blast 30-Foot Gap ir Enemy Bridge

GoodlandCharge Repeated Today   Backs Up Miscarriage Of Justice Charge

‘AIR RAIDS ON  CONTINENT LIGHT   Light Retaliation Raids Made By Luftwaffe

Mrs. J.S. Harris Passes Away At Roanoke   Services Here Tomorrow For Former Resident

‘Hell-Above Earth,’ Says Newsman After Riding U.S. Bomber in Raid on Nazi Base

FORTRESSES BOMB JAPANESE CONVOY      . Warships, 6 Merchant Vessels Are Targets

HEAVY BLOWS DEALT THREE JAP VESSELS   Enemy Continues to Reinforce Bases Despite Hammering by Fly ing Fortresses   ASSAULT CONTINUING

Keep Up Attack On Convoy   Allied Fliers Strive. To Complete Rout Of Jap Ships Trying To Get Supplies to Wewak

U, S$. AIR FORGE RENEWS ATTACK ON JAP CONVOY   Scores Hits on Vessels a Wewak, Along New Guinea Coast

YankBomber: Hit 3 Ships In Wewak Area   Fortrasses “Press Attack Against Japanese Convoy Of Nine Vessels   FOE SUPPLIES LAE   Allies Raid Rabaul, Othe: Bases; Enemy Makes Ex. cessive Claims

U.S. Planes In New Jap Attach   FLYING FORTRESSES DEAL HEAVY BLOWS TO CONVOY

Nine Vessels Under Attack Off N. Guinea   Three Ships Smashed by Allied Raiders

FLYING FORTS HIT SHIPS AT WEWAK HARBOR   Three Merchantmen Knocked Out, 9 Other Vessels Aro Under Attack   ENEMY AIRDROMES HIT   Allied Casualties In New Guinea Set At 10,531; Nips Lose 38,000

Fortresses Bomb An Enemy Convoy   Japanese Naval and Mer. chant Ships Caught at Wewak, New Guinea   OTHER AIR ATTACKS   Allied *Casualties in New . Guinea Fighting Report'  edas 10,531 .

Fortresses Keep Up Attack on Nine Japanese Vessels   U. S. Bambers Roar in at Masthead Height to Blast Convoy Sighted at Wewal New Guinea, Allied Headquarters Says

HEAVY BLOWS SCORED ON 3 MERCHANTMEN   Three Warships, Six Other Vessels In Fleet   ALLIED LOSSES   In New Guinea To April 1 Include 4,554 Killed, 5,977 Wounded

Three Warships. Six Cargo Craft Blasted; Gunboat And Destroyer Hit

STRIVE TO ADD T0 BLOWS DEALT 3 VESSELS ALREADY   Enemy Convoy at Wewak, New Guinea Consists of  Three Warships and Sis BAnerhant Shimc x

—PACIFIC—  Three Vessels Are - Struck By Bombs   \Convoy, Spotted At Dusk Approaching Wewak Harber In New Guinea, Is Target For Air Attack;  Lull Reported In Jap Aerial Offensive

JAPS CONTINUE TO REINFORCE ISLAND BASES   MAC ARTHUR’S AIRMEN PRESS ATTACK ON ENEMY CONVOY

Fortresses Hit Big Jap Convoy ff New Guinea  Warships, Six Others Underway

Planes Keep Up Attack Dn Jap Ships   3 Merchantnen, At Wewak, New Guinea, Hit by Yank Bombs

CONTINU: BLOW AT JAP GONVOY   Lull in Resurgent Jap Air _ Offensive, But Allies Continue.   REPORT ON CASUALTIES

Wheat Production  Decline Indicated  44,865,000 Bushels ls State Estimate

Wheat Forecast Shows Decrease  Production to Be 44,865,000 Bushels

Judes le Divorce Case Decides Wife Entitled To Half of Canned Stuff

Leg. Committee Says That OPA. _Messes, Wor ks’   appeals To N E. Governors To. Ease. Shortage’ - Of Dairy, Poultry - Feeds

Lone Fortress Sinks Large Jap Destroyer  Another Yank Plane   Another Yank Plane Downs Four Jap Zeros In Fight

PLANE BLASTS JAP DESTROYER      Fortress Scores A Hit In Pitch Black Darkness

Rommel’s Position Collapses   British and Americans i Heavy Bombing Blasts  at Europe

SEEK END OF RUBBER STRIKE   Three Rubber Plants Are Closed As 51,000  Continue Strike

Work Stoppage Spreads To ‘Fourth Major Rubber Compan   CIO Board Meets To Consider Plea By WLB To Workers To Return To Jobs

Rubber Strike Grows; 51,000 Workers Idle   Executive Board Callec To Consider Back-to Work Plea   51.000 Ont

Rubber Strike Spreads To 4th Akron Company   Union Board In Specia Session To Study Back. To-Work Appeal.

Rubber Strike Grows; 51,000 Workers Idle   Executive Board Called To Consider Back-toWork Plea

Double ‘Second Front’ Possible, Germany Believes   Algiers Warning Broadcast Directed Primarily To People of Metropolitan France

PATRIOTS TOLD 10 MAKE PLANS FOR INVASION.   Message Brodacast in French From Algiers Radio and BBC in Londo

Tell Patriots Invasion Of Europe Nears   Prepare, Says  Allied Radio

REPARE NOW, ALLIED RADIO MESSAGE SAYS   Broadcast From Algiers Stresses Importance of Communication

ALGIERS RADIO HINTS INVASION OF CONTINENT   \ilied High Command To Give Time of Attack at Last Minute

BOLIVIA REGIME  AWAITING OKE   Day-Old Government Expects Recognition; Posts Military Guard

BOLIVIA GUARDS TIN ORE MINES   Day-Old Regime Awaits Recognition, Pledges Aid To Allies

Bolivian Regime Is Waiting For Recoanition   Military Keeps Grip On Nation; Air Traffic ls Resumed

SAYS POLICY IS PRO-ALLIED   New Bolivian Regime Confidentally Waits for Recognition

Bolivia Quiet After Overthrov  Of Government   New Regime Maintains Military Grip on Nation And Awaits “eccornition

FDR Throws Cold Water On Rumi Plan   Discount Plan te Encourage Prepayment ef Taxes Announced; Banks Reported in Strong Asset Position

GERMAN BATTLE FLEET SAILS 10 NORTH ATLANTIC   Will Make AU-Out Attempt To Cut Allies Northern Supply Route

HITLER'S BATTLE FLEET BELIEVED READY FOR ACTION   Powerfull Ships Headed for Attack on Northern Supoly Route.

Nazis Begin To Conceal Badges   Losing Faith, Fear The Consequences

Swastikas Disappear From German Lapel: First Signs Of Nazis Run  ning To Cover

Oth tells Wild Stories of Texas Shooting--AndMakes Them Stick in Italy

PN ESE ee Bee ee 5 he fs iw 5 bee — Rie er Ee oe  Tises Colosil Saks for Trusty. 45. Face to Fate With Nazi

Bolsheviks Close In On Caucasus Army While British and American Bombers. Smash Hard in Major German Industrial Points

Russians Push In To Shatter Trapped Nazis   soviet Black Sea Fleet, Planes Pound Nazi Transports Below Kerch,   SET TO SHELL ROSTOV

‘Nazi Army Racing for Black Sea Ports Faces a Dunkirk as Red Forces Step Up Attack   U, S. AND BRITISH  FLIERS OVER GERMANY   Several Strategic Points Under Attack; Allies Fight to Hold Heights In North  Afrina

Soviet Ships, Planes Strike At Transports   ‘Black Sea Dunkerque’ Seen; 250,000 Men In Narrow Coastal Strip  Te Waoetern Area

RUSSIAN NAVY HELPS BATTER NAZIS, REPORT   Black Sea ‘‘Dunkirk’’ Is German Prospect as Red Advance Continues

Enemy Is On Verge Of “Black Sea Dunkerque’?  ATTACK OPENED  Hamburg Is Blasted By RAF: Sink 14

\NaziInvaders Face Split By © Russian Drive   Reds Reporting Smashing Seaborne Escape From Caucasus  HAMBURG IS TARG ET  Nazis Retreat in Tunisia Where Rommel’s Es1 aagne Mav Re Cut ee

250,000 Nazis Facing Black Sea Dunkerque   Russion Fleet Blasting Fleeing Columns Trying To Escape From Caucasus Into Crimea; Rostov In Range Of Land Artillery

Germans if Caucasus Threatened  May Be No if one oe Oe   May Be No Verge On "Black Sea’ Dunkirk

Trapped Nazis SeekBlackSea Escape Route   Reds Threaten to Split Retreating Axis Columns; RAF Visits Hamburg, 300 Strona

Germans in Caucasus Threatened   May Be No Verge On “Black Sea”’ Dunkirk

BEATEN HORDES SEEK TO ESCAPE OVER BLACK SEA   German Transports Sent To Evacuate Invaders from Russia Being Blasted   NAZI U-BOAT BASE BOMBED   Yanks Hold Positions Taken In North Africa as Trap Tightens on Rommel

Two Corridors. Still Are Open   Estimated 250,000 Axis Soldiers Are Crowded in Narrow Coastal Strip; Way to Kerch Strait Reported. Still Open; Maneuvering for Sea Battle in  Pacific Still Going On; Allies Reported on Offensive in Tunisia. ee

Red Warships and Planes Smashing at Transports Trying Sea Evacuation

Hitler Forces Jammed Into Narrow Caucasus Coastal Strip; Rostov Squeeze Tightens.

Axis Forces Jammed Along Caucasus Coast   Strategic Railway Cut by Soviets; Tiadaten ic Split- Trapped Enemy

Quarter Million German and Satellite Troops Caught In Narrow Caucasus Coastal Strip In Grave Danger

Another Quarter Million German Troops Face Disaster: Axis Shipping Is Smashed

Estimate 250,000 Troops Caught In Trap in Caucasus   Soviet Planes Reported Already Smashing At German Troopships; Reds Ready To Shell Rostov

HITLER'S LEGIONS SEEK ESCAPE FROM CAUCASUS TO CRIMEA  RUSSIANS WARSHIPS AND : ELANES ALREADY SMASH OTDWAR TD ARCDNDTS

RED SHIPS AND PLANES SMASH AT TRANSPORTS   Allied Forces Achieve ‘Limited Success’ in Tunisian War

Russian Ships, Planes Smash At Transports   Red Advance Threatens 250,000 German Troops

“DUNKEROQUE’ ~ REPORTED ~~ [MMINENT   “Russians Said to Be Pounding Ships Sent to Rescue Nazi Army  7   “REDS TIGHTENING -ARC AROUND ROSTOV   Thousands of Enemy May ® Try to Escape . From: the “Caucasus to the Crimea

Red Warships And Airplanes Pound Vessels   Nazis Attempt To Leave Caucasus By Water Route   250,000 In Danger Of Being Split By Reds   Allied Armies In Tunisia Score An Advance Near Tunis

RUSSIANS SMASH AT HUNS SEEKING ESCAPE OVER SEA   Upwards of 250,000 Ger. mans in Imminent Dan. ger of Being Split Apar! le Rede

CAUCASUAN ARMY DENT AR BLOWS   Transports Trying To Remove Men > From Area

BRIT. BOMBERS HIT PAIR OF NAZI CITIES —   Drop Blockbusters On Two German: Industrial Centers

BRITISH BOMBERS SWEEPING OVER FUROPE TODAY   German Industrial and Railroad Centers Smashed; 28  Planes Lost

BOMBS SMASH AY TWIN NAZI HAIL GENTERS   Munchen-Gladback, Rheydt Blasted by Shower of Block-Busters,   FOLLOWS MARAUDERS’ ATTACKS ‘ON FRANCE

THE ENEMY CONTINUED   Daylight Bombing Fol lows Up Night Trip— 28 Allied Warplanes Are Lact.

TWO BiG NAZI FACTORY CENTERS HEAVILY BOMBED   Hundreds of Planes Loose 1,500 Tons on Rheydt and Munchen-Gladbach.

BLOCK-BUSTERS ARE DROPPED IN RHINELAND   Munchen - Gladbach and Rheydt Visited By Concentrated Air Assault.

Nazi Industrial, Rail Centers Are Bombed   Munchen-Gladbach _ And Rheydt Hit by  ‘Block Buctars

RAF Uses 4-Ton Blockbusters In Raid On Nazi Industrial And Rail Centers

British Dump 1,500 Tons On Industrial And Rai Centers And Then Return Across Channel On New Daylight Mission

AMERICAN AIRMEN RAID JAP MADANG   28 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On New Guinea Base.

12 KILLED WHEN BIG rLANE FALLS   Army Transport Craft Crashes in Tennessee

ANTWERP SUBJECTED TO AERIAL ATTACK   Flying Fortresses Carry Qut Successful Raid Without Loss Of A  Bomber

ANTWERP BOMBED BY U. 5. AIRMEN   DAYLIGHT RAID MADE ON BELGIAN CITY—SEVERAL ENEMY PLANES BAGGED.

Flying Fortresses Bomb Antwerp Area In Daylight Attack   All of Big Bombers Return from Mission; Three Fighters Are Lost

ANTWERP PLANT AREAS BOMBED   Flying Fortresses Make Raid On Schedule With No Bombers Lost

ANTWERP HIT BY FORTRESSES   Nazi-held Belgian City Is Made Target For ‘Perfect’ Raid

Flying Fortresses Bomb Targets In Nazi Antwerp  Second Daylight Raid  By Americans in

oy . * Flying Forts bomb industrial targets in attack on Antwerp

Antwerp Lashed By U.S. ‘Forts’   “Perfect” Mission * Plasters Targets

U. S. Planes Batter ai _ Nazi Targets   Daylight Raids Are Made Over Antwerp

Flying Fortresses Bomb Targets In Nazi Antwerp  Second Daylight Raid  By Americans in Mav Called Perfect

11 COUNTY MEN [FAVE AUG. 28   Group Left Tuesday for Navy Training; Others Await Call for Flving Training

Music Trade Gets Ready To Reform   Lull In Business Gives Industry Chance To Reflect On Sins

ALLIED AIR ACTIVITY SLACKENS   Over Enemy Hold Territory North of Australia. Fires Started In Mumba Area

ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIAN ZONE SLOWS   Jap Survivors From Smashed Convoys Captured When They Make Their Way to New Guinea,

Little Activity In Pacific Area   Medium Bomber Destroys Two Enemy Fighters

Nimitz Says U.S. leet To Give Japs No Rest   Time Has Now Come For  Attacks

Nimitz Says ‘Time Has Come To Attack’ And Pacific Fleet To Give Japs No Rest

Army Leaders Tell House Terrifie Fisht Lies Ahead   Overall Picture of War Brings Home Demand for Freer Release Of information to Counteract Optimism

HOUSE IS TOLD GRIM BATTLES AHEAD FORU.S      Military Report Stirs Demand for Freer Release of News

TOUGH FIGHT STILL AHEAD, SOLONS TOLD   Top-flight Military Leaders Paint Over-All War  Picture

TOUGH FIGHT STILL AHEAD, SOLONS TOLD   Top-flight Military Leaders Paint Over-All War Picture   CONVINCING TALKS GIVEN AT MEETING   Grim and Graphic Accounting of Situation Presented

errr nrc nm a rm mR a eee emma  ARMY GIVES GRIM ACCOUNT OF HARD STRUGGLE AHEAD

mM oy  . Gen. \/arsia__ Convinces Uor gress “1a: “"Ne’rein one -e_o-a Var”

TOUGH FIGHTING IS STILL AHEAD ON ALL FRONTS   American Military Men De bunk Optimism In Parley With Legislators   WAR SITUATION IS SECRETLY REVIEWED

House Gets Grim Picture of War In Secret Session   Japs Making Planes Faster Than Destroyed Plenty of Manpower

Generals See Great Struggle To Defeat Foes   Present Evidence To Congressmen

Graphic Picture Of War Painted   Grim Aspects Are Outlined:-To Hojjca

Tough Battle Still Ahead, Congressmen  Are Agreed ©   Hear Off-the-Record . Talks by Marshall,  Secretary Stimson  Other Military Men  TRANSPORTATION STILL PROBLEM  Informed Japanese Build Planes Faster Phan Woe mach Than

-Off-Record War Picture Given "House Members   Terrific Struggle Lies Ahead Congressmen Are Informed

Grim Account Of War News  Given House   U.S. Military Situation Debunked by Chiefs At Clacac] Ca.

AMERICAN, BRITISH AND FRENGH UNITS REPORT ADVANCES   First Army Strikes Telling Blow by Capture of Sed. jenane, Only 28 Miles  foxue Wieaces

Shells From Ships Pound Nazi Retreat   London, Speculates On Second Front: Air Raids in Lull

BRITISH NORTH ARMY STRIKES TELLING BLOW   Town 28 Miles From Big Bizerte Naval Base Reecaptured

WAITRESS WANTED Apply Friegs Restaurant.—aAd.   EeCreda TUEFSHAYT WIECH T

REP PRICE DANIEL ELECTED UNGPPOSED AS HOUSE SPEAKER  FIRST WARTIME TEXAS _ LEGISLATURE QUARTER CENTURY CONVENES

Dr. L. T. White To Head Mills  Stanford Professor Is   Stanford Professor Is Named by Trustees to Succeed Dr. Reinhardt

HEAD OF GERMAN NAVY IS DISMISSED   Adm. ‘Erich Raeder Was A Close Friend Of Adolf. Hitler

UCE, DUCHESS “BEST DRESSED’   Fashion Experts Cast Same Number of Votes for  Bark

CHILE HOVERS NEAR BREAK WITH AYIS   Chilean Cabinet Meets with President Rios to Hear Renorts

Producers-UMW Agree on Wages  New Contract Is Dependent on WLB And Price Boosts  ~ For Operators

OPERATORS olbh UMW WAGE PACT   Alabama Owners Change Mind, Accept Contract

3 FOE AIRDROMES _  FALLIN ADVANCE      Clouds Of Allied Fighters Aid After Land;

eaves rrom YYOr VOrrespongeenr 5s NOrevuounR  Hard_Times For Italians

AXIS MEDICAL EXPERTS  SAY BENITO MUSSOLINI HAS DRO AIRIEM Lit AlTLi

23 Escape In Georgia Prison Break   ‘Unarmed Guards Overpowered by Three Convicts

LOCK GUARDS IN CELL, LEAVE IN 2 PRISON TRUCKS   Steal Auto, Capture Two After Accident, 25 Miles from Jail

22 ESCAPE IN PRISON BREAK   OVERPOWER THREE GUARDS AT GEORGIA STATE PRISON

23 PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM TATTNALL PRISON   Two Recaptured 25 Miles From Prison After Truck Overturns

Prison Break In Georgia   Twenty of State’s Most Vicious Criminals Are Still At Large; 3 Taken

23 Escape  From Prison   Two Notorious Georgia Escape Artists Lead Other Dangerous Criminals

Twenty-Three Break Prison In Georgia   Governor Aroused By Break Including Nolorious Criminals

Japanese Retreat To Lae, Already  In Alhed Grip   Australians Swir River To Capture Salamaua_  Airfielc  Saturday

Only Channel of Escape Left to Imperiled Jap Garrison at Salamaua

ALLIES CLOSING tN ON SALAMAUA  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN TUF COUTOWEST PAGIFIC.

JAPANESE TELL OF U.S. RAID ON KURILE ISLANDS   British Send Many Heavier Naval Units to Far East Theater

LAE TRAIL ONLY ESCAPE GHANNE   Australian Pioneers Seize Prized Airdrome Without Opposition   @ MOVE TOWARD LAE      Surface And Aircraft Blockade Bringing Doom To Enemy

Japs Battling To Keep Trails Open   Allies Tighten Blockade ' Along Northeastern _ New Guinea   CLOSING IN ON LAE   Australian Troops Driving North and East Toward  ‘Salamaua

Aussies Take Salamaua Airdrome. ... .  Japs In A Desperate Spot In New Guinea

Salamaua Airdrome ls Seized   Australians Swim River To Seize Field "In Surprise Attack

JAPS FIGHTING BACK FIERCEL}   Hope to Keep Escape Route To Lae Open

JAPANESE GARRISON AT SALAMAUA SEEKS KEEP ESCAPE OPEN  AUSTRALIANS SWIM SWOLLEN RIVER AND OVERRUN AIRFIELD

Salamau aAir Field Overrun   Allied Troops Wiping Out Remnants Of Japs

Salamaua Airfield — Captured   American and Australian Troops Close in Relentlessly on Fleeing Japanese Forces

Daring Raid Gains Vital Airdrome   Aid In Loosening Japan's Grasp On New Guinea

 Back Their Attack With Bonds —   Allied Troops Swim River To Take Prized Jananese Base At Salamaua

Aussies Swam_ River In Advance      ALLIED FORCES CLOSING IN ON BIG JAP BASE

JAPS IN DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO KEEP TRAIL TO LAE OPEN   Prized Salamaua_ Airdrome 2 Miles From City Overrun by Australians.   ONLY WAY OF ESCAPE   Anzac Troops Reported Pushing Jap Remnants Holding Nearby Ridge.

JAPANESE GARRISON  AT SALAMAUA SEEKS  KEEP ESCAPE OPEN AUSTRALIANS SWIM.  SWOLLEN RIVER AND NVERRIIN AIREILIN

Aussies Seize Salamaua Air port; Japs‘Attempt. To:Keep: Lae Trail. Open

NIPPONS LOSE SALAMAUA AND BIG AIRDROME   Enemy Making Desperate Attempts to Keep Open Trail to Hoped-For. Haven Ar Lae   ALLIES FIND ONLY DEAD JAPS IN AREA   Decomposing Amid Ruins Of Former Stronghold; Australians Swim River  to Seize Airfield

Salamaua Airport Captured by Allies   Japanese Garrison Attempts to Flee To Lae Where It Faces More Trouble

Trail To Lae Only Channel of Escape So Tight Is Allied Surface and Aircraft Blockade Along New Guinea Coastal Barge Route.

Football Star Meets Untimely Death: Home o on  av wietieg BAU ARs  ‘7-Day Furloush

IMPROVED POSITION POSSIBLE   Returning Solons Say Policy Changes Are Sorely Needed -

WAR’ SOLONS SEEK STRONGER U.$. POSITION   Globe-Touring Senators to Submit SixPoint Program

STORIES OF NEW DISORDERS REACH _ ALLIED SOURCES   Aneta News Agency Says Sit.  uation in Holland Is Tense  and May Erupt at Any Time.      BELGIUM RESTIVE, DISPATCHES RELATE   German Crowds Said to Haye ' Rioted on Being Denied  Information About Sol- . dier Relatives.

Holland Verging On Open Revolt; Riots in Berlin   Spreading Violence .in Nazi Occupied Europe After African Defeat

Violence Spreads In. Low Countries   Relatives Of German Troops Overwhelmed In Tunisia Storm Information Office OF Novis

HOLLAND ON VERGE OF OPEN REVOLT AGAINST GERMANS; RELATIVES OF GERMAN TROOPS RIOT IN BERLIN.

Signs Indicate Invasion May Be Imminent   Berlin Crowds Revolt as Fate of Troops in Tunisia Withheld; Resentment in Norway

‘Germans Seek News of Kin In Tunisia   Soldiers Called Out; Attacks Against Nazis Increase in Europe  HOTTANDERS CTRIKG

Report Holland To Be on Verge Of Open Revolt   Balkans Also Seethe With Unrest; Berlin Riots Over Defeat

(sermans Face Boundless  Opposition   Berlin Is Scene of Bad Outbreak; Holland Threatens Violent Disobediance; Other Nations Aid

Rioting in Berlin, Revolts in Occupied Countries Reported in Wake of Axis African Disaster:

Latest W ar Conference ~ Dealing With Invasion   Russia's Tremendous and Expanding Offensive Warrants No Delay In New Attacks

Kirke Simpson Declares Successes Against Axis on All War Fronts Should Be Followed Up With Quick and Hard Punches to Clinch Victory Without Delay—Predicts FarReaching Decisions at Roosevelt-Churchill Parleys.   By KIRKE 1. SIMPSON.

FARM BLOC BID   Bill To Leave Out Benefit Payments In Computing Parity Price Fails

Spangler Going ~ To Washington For Few Weeks   Republican Chairman To Be at National GOP Office

IREDS CAPTURE 12 MORE TOWNS IN CAUCASUS   Advances At Stalingrad Are Claimed Bv Reds

Mass Attack hy Nazis Is Thwarted   Germans Attempt to Break Through Red Lines

Advance In North  Caucasus   Daily Communique Indi cates That Progress In  Big Don Bend Has Been Stalled.

Russians Hurl Back Foe’s Thrusts In Fighting Along Lower Don; Stalingrad Forces Report Successes

Knemy Lines Stiffening as They Prepare for Last Stand.  ‘AMERICAN FLIERS  BOMB JAP BASES  Japanese People Are Being Told of Allied : Strength.

WAVES OF ALLIED PLANES SHUITLING AGAINST CONTINENT   Big, Air Operations Going ‘On Over Straits — West Germany Attacked

West Germany Is Bombed By Flying Forts   Fighter-Bombers Shatter Railroad Lines In Germany In Bie Raids

German Forces Are Exhausted And Confused— —By Kirke L. Simpson  New Red Offensive Is Prelude To Invasion

Yankee “Aces Down Planes Four to One   U.S. Fliers Bag 2,587 in Year; Anti-Aircraft Gets Many More

YANK AIRMEN GET: SCORE OF FOUR 10 (NE IN WAR YEAR   1942 Record Shows Training Compensates for Lack of Experience.

U.S. Fliers Take Toll of 4 to    Claim at Least 2587 Enemy Planes

U.S. AIRMEN ~ HAVE MARGIN OVER ENEMY   Brot Down 2587 Planes in 1942; Own Losses 609

Willkie Has Definitely Decided To Enter Race ‘For G. O. P. Nomination

Announces Stand of Soldier Voting  - Roosevelt Would Give  All an Opportunity

Jap Ships —  Repulsed — ‘in Sharp  Sea Fiaht   U.S. Naval Forces May Be Pursuing Destroyers That ° Attacked Rendova   ALLIES. CLOSE IN bey ON SALAMAUA      In Evrope Air. Blows. Are Continued With New Heavy Attacks: on Italy

Yanks Balk Counter-Attack; Ground Forces Gain In Islands   Lull In Air War Persists

Enemy's Naval Counter Fails   ..- Axis-Predicted ‘Der Tag’ For Invasion Fizzles

‘Three Enemy Cruisers, Four Destroyers,  ‘Retired in Short Order’, Battle May Be Continuing   U.S. AIRMEN BLAST ATITALY   Three Airfields Bombed in Daylight by Middle East Liberators—Russians Drive Germans Back on Moscow Front   Sharp Engagement

U. S. Troops Maintain Pressure. on Munda — Attack  Crawe an Italy

AUSTRALIANS CUT THROUGH JUNGLES JOIN AMERICANS  NO ENEMY REINFORCE.  MENTS COMING FROM RA RAI KEVCTONE pNcitTin:

Nip Cruisers And De. stroyers Driven Off By U. S. Warships; Allies  Threaten Salamaua.

JAPS STRIKE BACK AT U. S. ON RENDOVA   Americans Drive Off ap  Cruisers in Their First Counter Attack.   Jap Base at Salamaua Is Under Allied Siege

Marines Senc Attack Are into Munda .      American Warships Drive Off — Jap Cruisers, Destroyers otf  Rendova

CREWS OF UNITED NATIONS AIRMEN © STATED TO FLY NEW “SUPER BOMBERS”

WLB OWAKES WITT INTERNAL STRIFE   Labor Members Lead Revolt Against What They Term Dictation by Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes

EVELOPS TRIALS MOUNT   AFI. Members Reseat Byrnes’ Di rectors, Thomas Criticises Vics Chaiyman Taylor

Labor Members Revolt Against Byrnes  Revolt Within Ranks Of WLB Is Revealed

WLO DRAWS UNION, OTHER CRITICISM   Congress Interested in Stopping Strikes, Absenteeism with New Legislation

Report Revolt Within WLB   Labor Members Attach What They Term Dictation by Byrne:

WLB FINDS SELF FACING REVOLT WITHIN RANKS   Members Confronted With   Union Protesis and   Criticism From Out-. side Sources   IDICTATION CHARGED   Accusation Aimed at Economic Director James F. _ Byrnes by Labor  ~~ Members of Board

Labor Board Resentful Of Byrnes Orders   Internal Strife Brewing Under Union Protests And Outside Criticism

WAR LABOR BOARD FACES REVOLT   CONGRESS MAY ACT TO CURB STRIKES AND ABSENTEEISM

Power Statior ls Destroyed By Americans   Japanese Positions In Solomons Are Assaulted.

Bombers Blast  At Jap Convoy Off New Guinea   Knock Out 3 Ships In Initial Attack; Other Targets Pounded.

Forts Pound 9 Vessels Off Wewak   3 Warships Among Targets of Yanks Continuing Attack

JARS RAKED IN THE SOLOMONS   American Bombers Destroy Building Believed To Have Been Power Station; Sink Shin.

U.S, PLANES SMASH JAP POWER PLANT   Also Sink Ship in Solomon Island Area

Destroy Enemy Building in Central Solomons, Navy Bulletin Says.   HEAVY RAIDS MADE ON KISKA ISLAND

Flying Fortresses Keep Up Battering of Shattered Convoy   Japanese Continue to Reinforce Bases in the Southwest Pacific

Americans Batter Japs In Solomons  Nip Aleutian Base Bombed 8 Times

Jap Power Station In Central Solomons Hit By U.S. Bombs   Navy Communique Tells Of Eight More Raids Made On Kiska By Our Biv Planes

YANKS ATTACK “JAP POSITIONS INSOLOMONS   ‘Building, Believed to Be   Power Generating Sta  tion, Destroyed During Raid Yesterday   ONE VESSEL SUNE   Raids Also Carried Out On Kiska In North Pacific; Runways and Revetments Are Bombed

NIPPON POWER PLANT BLASTED ON SOLOMONS   Eight More Attacks Made on Japanese  Kiska Installations

SHOWDOWN BETWEEN UMW HEAD AND WAR LABOR BOARD NEAR      All Parties in Coal Mine Wage Controversy Ordered to Attend Hearing.

OPEN HEARING SATURDAY IN COAL DISPUTE   All Parties Are Ordered To Ap pear Before War  j Labor Board

COAL WAGE - CASE CERTIFIED BEFORE WAR LABOR BOARD   All Parties Ordered To Appear Before Body For Preliminary Hearing

COAL HEARINGS  ‘START SATURDA)   ms =. Lewis, Irked At Operators, May Not Appear Before WLB

SHOWDOWN ON MINE DISPUTE DUE SATURDAY   WLB Lists Preliminary Hearing With Lewis And Operators Summoned   BOARD TO REVIEW ISSUES   UMW May Be Asked To Extend Contract Until Case Has Been Decided

LEWIS AND WLB SHOWDOWN DUE   Hearing In Coal Wage Dispute Set Saturday

Showdown Due Betweer  WLB, Lewis   Parties to Coal Dispute Ordered  In for Hearing

Jungle Troops Closing In On Big Jap Base   2 New Landings Staged On Monday Revealed By Gen. MacArthur   Army and Navy Appear To Be In Race to Give News

Army, Navy Are Reporting Promotly  Quick To Give   Quick To Give Results Of Southwest Pavifie Fiehting

NEWS OF PACIFIC FIGHTING SPEEDED TO READERS IN U.S.   Washington Wiseacres Surprised at Speed Given to Events in Battle Area

FIRM DEVELOPS NEW RUBBER COMPOUND   Serves as Semi-Conductor of Electricity

Well! War's All Settled— Nazis by 1944: Jaos by ‘46      Only Calamatties Can Disrwyy   e  Scheeule

Barring Strikes, Allies Expect To Beat Nazis In ’44 Japanese In 194

WAR TIMETABLE ~SETS DEFEAT OF ~~ BERMANY IN Ad   Japan’s Fate Seated for 1946: Neutralization. of  Italy. Oue Seon:

German Defeat In 1944, Japs In ’46, Allies’ Schedule   Italy Expected To Be Out Of War Before End Of Year

TIMETABLE GIVES SCHEDULE OF WAR   Italy Will Probably Be First This Year, Germans Next and Japan In 1946.

GERMANY OUT: OF WAR IN ‘442   : Allied Invasion Plans Depend on Russia’s Help on East Europe

EIGHTH ARMY DRIES NAZIS BACK 3 MILE   Advances on Central Italia Front After Terrific Slug.’ ging Match.   FIFTH ARMY THREATENS : GERMANS’ LEFT FLANK.

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES RIVER STRONG HOLD IN ADVANCE THAT THREATENS GERMAN FLANK AS HEAVY RAINS BOG DOWN ALLIED  MOTOR EQUIPMENT--RUSSIANS EXTEND  _ DNIEPER BRIDGEHEAD —

Fulbright Plan Near Adoption   Would Put U. S. In.  International Setup

House Passes Resolution On Post-War Plan   Fulbright Resolution Passes House By 60-29. Vote

House Approves Fulbright Bill   Postwar Cooperation Plan Goes to Senate

MacArthur, Curtin  Meet to Survey  Pacific Strategy Australia, Aleutians  Seen as Giant Jowes of Pincare

100 Per Cent ‘Casualties’ Given Zooters in New Raid   Sailors Finish Subduing Los Angeles Rowdies, Go Back to Bases: Toughies Face Riot Charges

NAZI FIGHTER BASES BOMBED   Air Fields in France Attacked By U. S. Air Force And RAF.   RUHR SMASHED AGAIN

A Heavy Attack Made on Ruhr by British Bombers   Swarms of Allied Fighters Follow Up With Day Attack on Europe.   Theater on British Coast Hit by a Bomb

a hase Te ge ee —_ German Bases In France Are  Bomb Target:   Airfields At Caen And Abbeville Are Among Objectives Of Raids By U. S. Bombers

RAF Assaults Central Ruhr In Night Raid   Gelsenkirchen Proves Main Target; Raid Smash in Progress

GERMAN FIGHTER BASES IN FRANCE ARE RAIDED TODAY   U. S. Heavies and RAF. Light Bombers Pound © Airfields Today After Blows at Nazi Industries Laat Night

Hammer German Fighter Bases  Allies Strike By Day After RAF Night Blows

J. S. BOMBERS AND RAF RAID GERMAN FIGHTER BASES   ‘Strong Formations Attacked  in France Today, London Reports.   AIRFIELDS ARE BOMBED   The Daylight Foray Followed a “Very Heavy Attack” on Central Ruhr.

—AIR RAIDS—  Ruhr Is Pounded By RAF   Gelsenkirchen, Oil Refin ery Center, Blasted In Heavy Raid

‘Nazi Bases In France ‘Attacked By Allies   Strong Formations Of U.S. And British Bombers Follow Up Nicht's Ruhr Assault

ALLIED FLIERS BOMB FRANCE AND GERMANY   RAF in Heavy Attack op Central Ruhr, Followed by U.S. Daylight Sweeps Over French Area.

RAF Delivers Very Heavy” Ruhr Assault   Huge Force Of Yanl  Planes Carries On Offen sive By Daylight   HIT CAEN, ABBEVILLE   Gelsenkirchen, Bochum Are Main Targets 1 British Raiders

“Heavy Air  » Attacks On France and  "Ruhr Aree   Strong Formations of U. 5 ® Fortresses and RAF Light Bombers in Aittac’   HEAVY ATTACKS ON RUHR LAST NIGHT   A Number of the Enemy’s Fighter Planes Destroyed in Daylight Attack

FLYING FORTS BOMBARD CAEN AND ABBEVILLE   Axis Airlields in France Hit as Al? lied Troops Begin Invasion of  Purone   RUHR IS ATTACKED   RAF Lashes Gelsenkirchen in Heavy Attack, Strafes Other Ruhr Targets

Bombers Attack Nazi Air Bases   Raids Follow Blow At Ruhr Valley

British Heavy Bombers Blast Central Ruhr   Big Allied Armada Then Renews Assault On Continent By Daylight.

107 AT COFFEYVILLE   Temperatures in Kansas Hovering Near the 100 Mark

Solons Fear For Smaller  U.S. Schools   Best Colleges Prizes of ‘Grab’ by Army andNavy, Claim

NAZI WARSHIPS LOSE IN FIGHT   British Chase Foe Cruiser, Leave Cruiser in Sinking Condition

Naval Battle Rages In Northern Waters   Axis Cruiser Damaged and Chased From Scene and Destroyer Hit and in Sinking Condition— Operations Continuina

BRITISH CLAIM VICTORY IN NAVAL BATTLE   German Cruiser, Destroyer Battered in Northern Sea Fight

NAZI CRUISER SEVERELY HIT   British Men-O’War Meet German Naval Force; Fight Continues

GOVERNORS OF NORTHWEST STATES MEET   Gov. Ford Tells Of Need For A Commission

Governors Agree On Water Policy  Plan Solid Front In Columbia Affaie

BLAST COLOGNE IN HEAVY NIGHT ATTACK      Northwest Africa Planes Continue Blasting of Sicily

City Suffers Death Coup   Oft--Bombed Cologne Gets Block-Bustine

Cologne Again Blitzed By British Fliers   Coup De:Grace Given Rhineland ‘Industrial Capital, London Says

SICILIAN BASES -ROCKUNDERSXTH DAY OF AIR BLITZ   Experts Believe Rhineland City May Have Received Death Blow; Nazis Pass  Brahe Teer

Strong Groups of RAF 4-Motored Bombers Heavily Attack Cologne   Planes Concentrate On Limited Target Area With Big Bombs

Planes Concentrate Raid On Limited Target Area—Light Losses  HEAVY BLOW TO NAZIS  Eight RAF Aircraft Lost Despite Weight Of Assault

REDS DISCLOSE THEIR WAR AIMS   EDEN-MAISKY TALKS LEAD LO BELIEF 3-POWER CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD,

Three-Power Meet Is Now Believed Assured, in View Of Churchill's Statement

Early. “Big Three” Parley Indicated —   Churchill Extends Invitation To Stalin And High Officials Air Plan At London

Give up Hope Of Blocking Dads’ Draft   Congressmen Seek Better Pay for Soldiers’ Families

Increase Favored In Allowance For Families of U.S. Soldiers, Sailors

CONGRESS. CEASES TO HOPE FOR DELAY OF FATHER DRAFT   Turns To Increasing Of Living Allowances ° . Of Families Of  Servicemen

Congress Looks To Funds for Draft Families   Dependency Sum May Be Up, li Fathers Inducted

DAD DRAFT ON, STUDY BOOST IN ALLOWANCES   Congress Abandons Hope For Delay In Pather Draft

LEADERS BELIEVE FATHER DRAFT S CERTAINTY NOW   Congress Turns to Proposals to increasing Soldier Allotments.

Congress Appears te Have Abandoned Hope of Delaying Draft of Fathers, Seeks to Boost Family Allotments

‘Congress Turns To Plans For Hiking’ Dependency Allowances As Bill To ‘Delay Dads’ Draft Appears Doomed!

Dad Act Delay Is  Doomed   SOLONS STUDY PLANS FOR ALLOWANCE JUMP FOR SERVICE FAMILIES

HOPE TO DELAY FATHERS DRAFT IS ABOUT GONE    Seek To Secure Much Greater Allotments For Men's Families

Abandon Hope Ot Dad Draft Delay   Focus Attention Now On Higher Dependency Allotments

GIVEUPON POSTPONING DAD-DRAFT   Congress Turns to Increasing Family Allotments

SEES SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE IN MINE DISPUTE   STEELMAN EXPRESSES HOPE OF SETTLEMENT WITHOUT GOV'T AID

UMWA AIMS IN ADVERTISEMENT   Contend Basic W age Rate 50¢ Less Than 28 Years Ago

Ally Air Blows Hit Italy Toe   FIGHTER-BOMBERS, FIGHTERS HAMMER AT RAIL HUBS, FACTORIES

FIGHTERS POUND ITALIAN TARGETS   Bad Weather Conditions Preyent New Attacks by Flying Fortresses

OFFENSIVE IS HAMPERED IBY WEATHER   Heavy Bombers Grounded, Light  Planes Carry On

Allies Focus On Italy's Toe   Big Bombers Grounded By Bad Weather

ALLIED PLANES CONCENTRATING ON ITALY’S TOE   Fighters And FighterBombers Carrying On Most of Activity For The Past 36  Hours.

ALLIED OFFENSIVE AGAINST ITALY IN AIR 15 CONTINUED  ACTION HAS BEEN CON. CENTRATED OVER TOE OF ITALIAN BOOT

Ahtes HlastFee~ Of Italy’s Boot Past 36 Hour:    Fighters, Light Bombers “Carry Ont Raids; Forts  Stalled By Weather

Italians Taking A Bad Licking   Bombers Grounded By Bad Weather First Time In Weeks   ZINC FACTORY IN SARDINIA RAIDED

Allied Air War Rocks Italy's Toe   Heavy and Medium Bombers Grounded

Smaller Planes Keep Up Attack On Italy's Toe   Damaging Air Raids Carried On With Liftle Letup

BLAST TARGETS ON YTALIAN TOE   Allied Fighter Planes Aim at Communications, Defense Posts.

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST ITALY DIRECTED AT TOE   Has Been Carried on Mainly by Fighters and Fighter Bombers.   FOR THE PAST 36 HOURS   American Flying Fortresses Held on the Ground by Bad Weather.

Toe Of Italy Hit In Heavy Attacks  Fighters Carry On As ~ Bombers Are Grounded

TOE OF ITALY HIT BY PLANES   Fortresses And Medium Bombers Held On Ground By Weather

TOE OF ITALIAN PENINSULA BESET BY ALLIED FLIERS   Fighters‘ and Fighter-Bombers  Concentrate on “Toe” for Fast 36 Howrs—RAF Hits at Aversa :

AIR ATTACKS CENTERED ON ITALIAN TOE   RAF Wellington Bombers Return to Rail Targets of Aversa, North of Naples

BAD WEATHER EASES AIR WAR AGAINST ITALY   Big Bombers Grounded but Fighter-Bombers and Fighters Strike af Points on Italian Toe

Heavy Bombing Of Southern Italy   Medium Bombers Grounded; Bomb With FighterBombers in 36 Offensive.

British Force Nazis Back Yard by Yard   Fierce Struggle Is Battle for Rivey Crossinas

ARMIES BATTLE IN CATANIA AREA IN HEAT AND DUST   Violent Struggle Goes On Day and Night With Many Clashes at Close Quarters,   TROOPS FIND LITTLE TIME TO BURY DEAD   General Montgomery’s Men Slowly Wearing Down Outnumbered German Defenders.

Struggle for < Catania Rises To High Pitch   Montgomery’s Forces Wearing Down Defenders

BRITAIN HIKES TAXES   Sweeping Increases In British Levies Announced Today

British to Pay 100% Sales Tax   Domestic Levies to Go  to $11,600.000.000

British Tax Program Is  Increased   Eleven Billions To Be Raised— Saica Tax Upped

Sees Danger U.S. May Go Totalitarian  U. S. Chamber Chief Also Sees Endangered Cause of World Peace  FEARS DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY  Gives F. D. R. Results Of Survey Journey To South America

DANGER IS FACING. NATION, HE SAYS   Chamber of Commerce Head Sounds Warning in Address

Chamber of Commerce President Sees Peril of U.S. Going Totalitarian

Warns Against lotalitarians   U.S. Commerce Bod) Chief Gives Talk

Hearing Is Ordered On Coal Wage   Possibility Arises That Lewis May Arrive At Agreement With Some Coal Mine Operators

WLB Orders Hearing On (Coal Issues    Direct Negotiations Had Collapsed; Question Now Is If Lewis Will Cooperate

WLB HEARING IN COAL MINE PAY DISPUTE 1S SET   Agreezient Between _Mimers and Some of  Operators Possible

Check Coal Issue Back To W.L.B.   Board Orders Publi  Hearing for Tomorrow; Hint Lewis May Use Divide and Sign Strategy

WLB Orders Public Hearing In Mine Dispute  Chance of Agreement Better; Lewis  tentanu

MINERS FAIL TO REACH ACCORD WITH OPERATORS   BOTH SIDES CONCEDE NEGOTIATIONS ARE IN STATE OF COLLAPSE

WLB ASKS 10 HEAR PARTIES ON THURSDAY   Fresh Possibility of Agreement Seen in lewis Action

Coal Parley Farcical Say Both Parties   WLB Orders Hearing on Issues Tomorrow—New Hope Arises

WLB Orders Public » Hearing of Dispute Over Miners’ Wages   ®Will Try to Break Deadlock in Controversy Tomorrow Morn

Coal Pay Accord Possible   UMW, North Operators May Agree Separately

WLB Orders Public Hearing   COAL ISSUES WILL BE DISCUSSED TOMORROW

Hearing On Coat Case > Is Ordered   Labor Board to Hold ‘Open Meeting Tomorrow. on  a *s Unresolved Issues   CHANCE OF PARTIAL SETTLEMENT LOOMS   “Lewis May Sign Agreement With Part of Operators; -Jalks With O'Neill

ine Parley eld Farce;  eadlocked   perators and Union Both Agree Sessions Futile and Another Walkant Jane 20 Looms      EWIS AGAIN HITS OWNERS’ ATTITUDE   "MWA Leaders In Ilinois Demand Probe of WLB; Ready to Take Hike  Of $1.50 a Day

PUBLIC HEARING ON MINERS’ PAY DISPUTE THURS,   War Labor Board Sets Day For The  Open Discussion

WLB Calls Hearing on Coal Dispute   Owners, Lewis Notified of Public Hearing On Thursday

COLLAPSE OF NEGOTIATIONS IS REPORTED   Operators and Union Leaders Conclude Conversations on Contracts Are "Farcical"   ANOTHER STRIKE LOOMS

SEE POSSIBILITY OF AGREEMENT IN MINERS’ DISPUTE   Public Hearing Ordered By WLB On Unresolved Issues In Coal Mine Wage Dispute; Some of Miners and Operators May Be Able To Agree.

Order Public Hearing On  Coal Issue:   War Labor Board Acts With Operators And Union Deadlocked In  Negoatiatiang

WLB CALLS ON BOTH lt 10 MAKE REPORT   Negotiations of Operators and Miners Admittedly in Collapse.   HINT AT POSSIBILITY OF SPLIT AGREEMENT

WLB Calls Hearing on Mine Wages   Signs Seen of Possible Agreement Between Miners and Pari of Operatlors   NO PREDICTIONS   Lewis and O'Neill Meei Privately As 15-Day Limit for Report cf Progress Expires

WLB Calls For Airing Of CoalRow  Tomorrow   Lewis Is Invited To Hearing To Be Public

WAR LABOR BOARD  ORDERS HEARING ON  MINE WAGE DISPUTE NEW PCSSIBILITY OF  AGREEMENT BETWEEN MINERS OWNERS

B otTo HEARING UPON MINE QISPUTE   Public Hearing Scheduled For Tomorrow

20 Killed When Plane Cracks Up   Army Investigates As To. Cause of Accident

Nothing Will Keep Hull Leese Moscow Talks lif Presence Necessary

Meat Rationing Starts March 29 Under Vague Plan Just What Point Allow   Just What Point Allowance Will Buy Not Yet Decided

March 29 Chosen Meat Ration Date  Other Commadities Covered by Order

MEAT RATIONING — TO BEGIN MAR. 2   SIXTEEN POINTS A WEEK TO BE ALLOWED FOR ITEMS ON NEW LIST.

Details Given On Rationing Of Meat, Oils, Cheese. Butter   Each Person Allowed 16 Points Per Week To Cover All Items,  Government Reveals   SALE BY COUPON STARTS MARCH 29

Meat Rationing Begins March 25   CHEESE. BUTTER AND OILS ALSO INCLUDED: NO SALES ‘FREEZE’ BEFOREHAND

Meat Rationing Starts March 29  Each Person to Get 16 Points Weekly

Veat Rationing  Data Disclosed   No Sales ‘Freeze’ Planned as Program Starts on March 29

No ‘Freeze’ Planned Before New Rationing Is Started   Brown Reveals Deals of Meat, Cheese, Butter and Oil Coupons

NEW RATION PROGRAM - WILL START MARCH 29   Meat, Cheese, Edible Fats And Oils Including Butter, And Canned Fish To Be Ra- ~ tioned; Point Value To Be Set 

NO SALES "FREEZE" “BEFORE RATIONING      Meat, Butter and Cheese Program to Start on March 29

Ration Meat, Butter, Oils Cheese 29th   NEW PROGRAM ee REDUCE NUAnkTPIUNAL VA! UF Aliant: CAN LIETARY is, BEING WORKED. OvT.   16 Points A Week

England- ‘Africa. ~ Shuttle Service   'Planes From England: Un load Bombs; Go to Af-. rica for Refill:

Home-Based Lancasters Complete Round Trip To Italy Last Night; Shuttle Service Across Continent By Bombers   RUSSIAN AIR FORCE HITS AT JUNCTION

RAF Bombers Inaugurate Two-Way ‘Freight Service   Hits Axis Targets Going and Coming On England-Africa Round-Trip Flight

Blast Axis c oming  Ard Going   Unload Bombs on Italian  Naval Base and Nazi Industrial Plant

Hard Blows  Delivered by , WarPlanes   RAIDING INNOV ATION  BOLD DURING APPARENT  WAR FUL

“INNOVATION. S TRIED OUT   Shuttle Service New Maneuver To Be Tried By RAF

NAVAL BASE AT SPEZIA ‘VICTIM’ OF EXPERIMENT   Attack Completes First Round Trip To North Africa

CARTHAGE AND WESTLAND RESIDENTS DIE AFTER EXTENDED ILLNESS   ‘John Julian

Nazis Destroy Ships,Docks At Two Ports   RAF Bombers Attack Railway Tunnel at Modane; Berlin Says “All Hell Broke Loose” as Russians Drive on Beyond Kiev

Germans Demolish Docks   Retreat to Line 160 Miles Above Nore Jndiestedt

SCUTTLE SHIPS, DAMAGE DOCKS IN TWO PORTS   Soviets Drive On Beyond Kiev; Marines Reinforced On Bougainville

Hear Allied Troop Masses On Corsica   Germans Following Procedure Similar To That Before Naples Retreat

Move May Forecast Retreat   Demolitions Similar to Ones Heard in, Naples Before Huns Left Port City

Desperate Germans Battle in Vain to Hold Sagging Lines   Nazis’ Difficulties in Russia and in Italy are Increasing

FEAR INVASION MAY OUTFLANK CENTRAL ITALY   American Fighters Drive Germans From 2 Fortified Mountains

FEAR INVASION BY SEA ABOVE ROME LINE   Destroy Facilities At Leghorn And Pescara

us si ! HIGH AREAS   Mountain Climbers - Storm Rotondo Near Line

Destroy Leghorn Pescara Harbors: Scuttle Vessels   May Be Prelude To Further Retreat North As Allies Score New Gains

ENEMY LEADERS FEAR SEABORNE FLANK ATTACK   Germans Scuttle Ships, Destroy Docks at Leghorn, Pescara

Fear Sea Invasion © In Central Italy   Germans Scuttle Ships and Demolish Docks as Possible  Prelude to Retirement to New Line 160 Miles Above  Rome.   Brenner Pass Bottleneck Sealed By Powerful Blows From Air Force

Fear Qutflanking Movement By Sealn Leghorn Sector   Russians Drive On Beyond Kiev Thursday; Berlin Says ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’

SHIPS SCUTTLED AND  DOCKS DEMOLISHED  AT LEGHORN, PESCARA BELIEVED GERMANS  PLAN TO RETIRE TO NEW ‘' TINE IN ITALY

Nazis Smash  Docks   Demolish Facilities  At Leghorn and Péscara; Red Army Drives Ahead on 70-Mile Front

Demolitions _ Carried Out at Leghorn   Pescara Docks -Also Are Blasted; Follows ‘Pattern of Naples. Evacuation   MAY. BE. PRELUDE TO NEW RETREAT   Allied. Planes. Again Bomk Brenner Pass, Seal-Oft Other Rail Lines

Fear Invasion by Sea May Outflank Central Italian Line   Enemy Move to New Sector 160 Miles Above Rome Seen; Yanks Hurl Nazis From Mountains

New Retreat In Italy May Be Forecast   By Richard MeMurray Accacialed Press War Editor

GERMANS MAY BE GETTING READY TO RETIRE TO LINE 160 MILES ABOVE ROME   American Seventh Army, French Army of Gen Henri Giraud and British First Army Unreporté In Italian Campaign Help to Give Germans   lowe atave Lttave

RUSSIAN DRIVE BACKS GERMANS THROUGH SNOW   Army Reinforcements Arrive To Join U. S. Marines in Battle on Bougainville

Ickes Names Anthracite Coal Chief   Aide Selected to Run Hard Coal Mines During War

PRINCE E. JINRIGHT AWARDED NEW WAR DEPT. CONTRACT   For Construction of Temporary Frame  Building in Thomas County

ALLIES SEIZE 6 TOWNS   ‘Also Score New Territorial Gains of Seven Miles

Nazi Retreat Mav Be Rout   Mines Planted To Delay Ad vancing Allied Forces

ALLIES SEIZE § MORE TOWNS IN ITALY   Also Score New Territorial Gains of Seven Miles

SIX STRATEGIC TOWNS FALL 10 YANKS. BRITISH   New © Territorial Gains Ranging Up To Seven Miles Scored   ALLIED SPEED MOUNTS   American Flyers Again Blast Jap Positions In New Britain

ALLIES OCCUPY SIX STRATEGIC TOWNS IN-AREA   Chief Prize Vinchiaturno Which Stands Astride Good Highway

THREE KILLED, 25 INJURED IN TRIPLE WRECK   Train Hits Auto, Then ‘Rams Second Train During Fog

PLAYERS 10 60 ON TOUR LISTED   Big Leagues to Stage Series for Servicemen

OVERSEAS BALL TEAMS CHOSEN   National and American Loop Squads to Be Led by Frisch, Cronin

CHURCHILL, FOR TODEGIDE FATE OF ROME, BELIEVE   Allies Not Inclined To Take Word of Badoglio

AXIS CELEBRATES TRIPARTITE PACT   Shrug Off ‘Italian Capitulation but Warn Others No’ to Follow Suit

AXIS COUNTRIES GIVE WARNINGS TO SATELLITES   Germany And Japan Observe Third Anniversary Of Pact

GERMANS AND JAPS MARK ANNIVERSARY   Warn = Satellite Nations Against Following Italy’s Lead.

Vaunted Middle Dniepef Defense Line Is Smashed  FORCES ROLLING ON ALONG WIDE FRONT  Sweeping Russian Gains Listed in Broadcast

DNIEPER RIVER LINE CRACKED BY RED DRIVE   LATVIA SPRINGBOARD ALSO CAPTURED BY SOVIETS

Vaunted Middle Dniepet Defense Line Is Smashed  FORCES ROLLING ON        ALONG IG WIDE FRONT  Sweeping “Russian Gains Listed in Broad_ cast

NAZIS. REPORT RED ATTACK: CRACK LINE   Capture Springboard to Latvia While Liquidating German Resistance in Caucasus Opposite Crimea.   Take Kirishi

CROSS RIVER, ESTABLISH 3 BRIDGEHEADS   Withdrawal of Germans Into Rumania and Poland May Be Forced by Soviet Smashes.   NAZI ARMY SWEPT FROM CAUCASUS   Two Dangerous Wedges Driven Into LeningradVitebsk Front as Offensive Is Renewed.

Soviets Gain Springboard To Latvia   Set 3 Bridgeheads On Dnieper West Bank And Capture Nevel  WHOT KE TINE UGUPRAVES

Red Armies Reported Extending West Bank Bridgeheads as Furious Foe Counterattacks Are Repelled

Nazi Dnieper Line Cracked  By Russians   1943 Offensive Renewed Along Entire Front

Reds Establish West Bank Bridge Heads Near Kiev   Repulse Heavy Counter Attacks in Fall Offensive

Russians Crack Vaunted Germar Line on Dnieper   Establish Three New Bridgeheads

Soviets Smash Nazi Line in Surprise Move   Germans May Soon Be Pushed Into Poland immense Forces Face Entrapment; Moscow Lists Numerous Great Advances

Allies Advance In New Guinea   Tempo Of Operations Around Wau Increasing

Japs Lose 6-Mile Strip On Guinea   Fierce Allied Push Drives Enemy Back: War Tempo Rises

Allied Offensive Power Flares: in Salamaua — Area; Japs. Driven Back

Allied Offensive Scatters Japs  Enemy Retreats With Heavy Losses

UNITED FORCES IN NEW GUINEA GAIN SIX MILES   Advance Toward Salamana, Action Around Wau Still on Small Scale

Japanese Lose More Ground In New Guinea   Allies’ Sudden Display Advances Six Miles Toward Salamaua

ALLIED FORCES PUSH NEARER TO SALAMAUA   MacArthur Troops Take Offensive After Checking Nip Feeler Thrusts   125 OF ENEMY KILLED   American Groups Joined To Complete Occupation Of Guadalcanal Isie

‘ALLIES PUSH FOE BACK IN NEW GUINEA   Sudden Display of Offensive Power Results In Killing of Over 125 Enemies  TAUVA, CLAIM REECLITED

Allies Drive  Jap Units Back In New Guinea Sudden Offensive  s Enemy Inio Retreat

ALLIES Thal JAPANESE BACK INNEWGUINGA   Enemy Driven Back Six Miles Toward Salamaua In Wau-Muba  Area   125 ARE KILLED   Meanwhile, Tokyo Effort: to Minimize Allied Victory In Papau Assailed by Spokesmen

Alt IE THRUST ('vS SIX MILES   ) " STORY “F BUNA Bre .DED.AL AT MAFTHUR'S -SE —

Japs Le Lose Six Miles To Foes      Allied New: Guinea F orce ~ Shows’ Offensive Powter To Push Forward:

eased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Rooonts Bill,

SAY WAGES UP 60 PER CENT   Figures On The Weekly Earnings Of Miners Given Panel

MINERS’ WAGE ABOVE. RISES   Lewis Statement Due Today to Break Silence

Merrill Residents Beat Rationing As Kerosene Gu: Gushe   Transport Truck Upsets But Some of Fuel — Is Saved

Upset Truck Spills Cargo At Merrill   Bystanders Dip Up Free Kerosene —  On The Street

Merrill Residents Beat Ra are tioning As Kerosene Gushes   Transport Truck Upsets But Some of Fuel — - Ie Saved

Denmark Getting Out of Control   Germans May Clamp Or Military Government

ALL DENMARK MAY BE“UNDER- GERMAN MARTIAL LAW SOON      Growing Wave Of Sabotage Prompts Nazis To Send Troops Into Copenhagen

Are Defeated in Hand-to-Hand Fighting In Northwest Caucasus — Red Army Coptures An “Advantageous” Enemy Line in the Ukraine in Night Attack — Enemy Summons  Benck Dacewcme

NAZI ATTACK REPULSED BY SOVIETS   Forced Back After Penetrating Red Defenses

REINFORCED NAZIS RENEW RED ASSAULT   Russians Rout Germans from Seviet Trenches

Reinforced Germans Hurled  Back by Reds   Enemy Loses 1,400 Men in Futile  PP SR SS a ay, ee

GERMANS FAIL IN ASSAULTS ALONG CAUCASIAN LINE   Nazis Battling Desperately to Save Their Shrinking Bridgehead.

Reinfcreed Axis Forces Pushing vwssians — Germans Battling ately to ve Shrinking n Bridgeheads,        > g

Nazis Pierce Red Lines But Are Repulsed   Reinforced Enemy Penctrates Into Russian Trenches But Survivors Driven Back

RUSSIAN FIGHTING AT CLOSE RANGE   Jap Airdromes Bombed or 2000-Mile Arc to Help Prevent Invasion.

Reds Stop Hard  German Assault   Battle Desperately To Save Bridgehead

NAZIS ROUTED. IN BIG. HAND-TO-HAND CAUCASUS’ BATTLE   Reds "Take; -Ac ‘Advantageous Enemy Line In‘Night> ~ Attack—Germans. Lose Heavily

Maas LOSE 1400 MENIN SUNDAY FORAY   Made ‘Seven Futile Attacks In . Caucasus. ‘Aven ie

HULL TG DECIDE HOW MUCH HE'LL TELL OF MEET   Congressional Leaders Hope to Hear: All But Won’t  ; Insist

Russia and China Must Be Considered   U.S. and Britain Given Warning

Two Killed In Auto Wreck  On Highway 29  Five Others Are Intured Whan Cax

Two Killed In Auto Wreck  On Highway 29.  Five Others Are Injured When Car Hits Utility Pole

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S PLANES DAMAGED A DESTROYER AND TWO MERCHANT VESSELS

Jap Destroyer Baaly Damaged   Two Enemy Merchant Ships Also Damaged And 16 Barges Sunk   SIX ZEROS ARE SHOT DOWN IN AIR CLASH

The War Today  Hitler May ‘Withdraw On All Fronts To Make Last Stand For Stalemate

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Withdrawal Of Germany’s Armies On All Fronts lw inevitable Move

ITTALY’S DISMAL PREDICAMENT MAY FORCE HITLER WITHDRAW /TO SHORTER BATILE FRONTS

 Ickes-WLB Feud Seen As Lewis Bans Strike   Interior Chief Prepares Formula, Waits Board Permission to Step In

Today’s War Commentary  Italian Fleet  Sull Strong and Must Be Destroyec

Plane Crash in Park Reported   Bomber Is Wrecked High in Mountains

Heavy Bomber From Lewistown Army Base Crashes in Yellowstone Park

Germans Hurled Back On Defenses of Rome   Fifth Army Smashes Through Enemy Rear Guards; Next Stand Likely to Be on Volturno River Line

Victors Aim To Continue On to Rome   Biggest City and” Port Taken by Allies Is in Ruins

WAKE RAIDERS DESTROYED 61 JAP AIRCGRAF   Enemy Island Outpost Left Flaming Ruins By Task Force

Wake Is Left In Ruins; Foe Lost 6] Planes   Bombing, Shelling On October Sth, 6th, Probably Is Pacific's Heaviest   3 SEPARATE ATTACKS   Ferocity Of Fighter Defense Is Indicated By U.S. Loss Of 13 Aircraft

Many Jap Bodies Seen in’ _ Blazing Ruins After 3   Blows at Outpost

Task Force Destroys At Least 61 Jap Aireraft   Enemy Installations On Wake Island Reduced to Ruins

Chinese Gain,  Along Yangtze   American Sky Dragons Tn “Action ; “Japs. Retreat On ‘Several Sectors),

Meet Strong Resistance At Gilbert Base Of Tarawa; Makin Opposition Light

\mericans Punch ut Bridgeheads n Gilbert Is'ands   n Making Landings on Makin and Tarawa United States Forces Apparently Run Into No Sea Forces Of the Enemy   ARTILLERY AND OTHER UNITS SUPPORT MARINES

MID-PACIFIC OFFENSIVE IS IN PROGRESS   Yanks Fight Doggedly in Gilbert Islands for Spearhead Aimed at the Heart of Japan’s Sea Power.

HOLD ON MAKIN AND TARAWA IS STILL IN DOUBT   Little Protection for Invaders in Marshall  And Gilbert Islands

Yankees Start Fierce Action in Gilberts   Marines and Soldiers Fight for Beachheads in Makin and Tarawa

Yanks Fight Doggedly On Gilbert Islands After  Invasion Makin. Tarawa

Bombardments By Naval Units Cover Tarawa, Makin Landing   Nimitz Says ‘Fighting Continues’ 24 Hours After Attack

Fierce Fighting Is Under Way   Spearhead Aimed At Heart Of Japan's Sea Power: Landings Made Saturday   Truk 1.600 Miles West.

JAP SEA POWER IS MENACED BY DARING ATTACK   Marines and Soldiers Land On Two of Gilbert Islands Under Heavy Barrage

Japs’ Central Pacific Bases Are Invaded °   Naval Units Give Cover to American Landings on Makin And Tarawa

YANKS INVADE TARAWA, MAKIN BASES   Naval Units Give Support To Landing; Resistance Heavy; Jap Navy May Be Drawn Out

HARD FIGHTING FOR INVADERS   Landing of Marines and Sol diers Covered By Naval Guns.   MAKIN, TARAWA INVADED

New Central Pacific Campaign Opened . By U. S. Troops es LAND ONISLANDS  Set Up Beachheads On Makin, Tarawa In Gilberts

force Nipponese Troops To Retreat At Tarawa, Makin   American Units Invade Isles Saturday. May Make Jap Fleet Come Out and Fight

SOLDIERS AND MARINES MAKE -TWOLANDINGS   -Punch Out Several Beach’ heads On Makin and Taraw aIn Dogged Battles With Japs   ‘AIMING AT-HEART OF NIP SEA POWER   Landing Covered by Naval Units; Invaders Supported by Artillery and Other Units

U.3, INVADERS BAIN OtACHED ON 2 (SLANG!   Marines and Troops Land to Set Spearhead Against Jap Sea Power.

United States Fleet Strikes First Powerful Blow Toward Truk Naval Base

Beachheads Yunched Out   Gilbert Islands Struggle Aimed at Jap Sea Power

Marines and Soldiers on Small Islands Supported By Battle Ships, Planes

Yanks Battle Doggedlly For Islands   Invasion of Gilbert: Aims Spearhead At Heart of Enemy

FIERCE ACTION FOLLOWS ALLIED INVASION BLOW   Several Beachheads Punched Out By American Forces As Talk Of Central Pacific Drive Is TransJated Into Action.

‘Battle Rages for Key Base   Enemy Offers Strong Resistance At Tarawa

Marines. Army Invade Makin.  Tarawa Isles   U.  S. Punch Out Several Beachheads Against Strong T? not ct et.   LAND ON BUTARITARI

America Aiming  At Jap Sea Power   Several Thrusts Are Made Against Key Air Bases  of Enemy   MARINES LEAD THE WAY   Week Long Bombs Preceded the Landings on the  Islands

Americans: Make Landings On Tarawa And Makin Atolls In The Gilberts

Admiral Nimitz’ Forces Invade Makin and Tarawa in Gilbert Islands As Major ~ Offensive in the Central Pacific

U. S. SOLDIERS AND MARINES CARRY-FIGHT 10 JAPANESE ON BEACHES OF TARAWA AND MAKIN   ‘No Further Word Has Been Had of Invasion of ‘Two Small But Immensely Important Pacific _ Islands Since Adml. Chester Nimitz’s Announce: ment Saturday

Nimitz Offers Challenge toe Jop Fleet; Gasmata Is Bombed; Allies Gain in NG,

ALLIES INVADE GILBERT ISLES IN NEW DRIVE   General Central Pacific Push  Now Rumored

JPEN OFFENSIVE IN MID-PACIFIC THEATER OF WAR   YANKS ESTABLISH BEACHHEADS ON MAKIN AND TAWARA

Warships Support American Invasion  Of Gilbert Islands   Yanks Batter Dug-In Jap Defenses On Makin, Tarawa Islands; Moderate Opposition Reported Met By American Forces

Beachlieads Punched Out By Yankees   Naval Forces Cover Landings; Fighting Heavy, Says Report Fram Tokvo

'‘Beachheads At Tarawa And Makin   Heavy Fighting Reported: New Offensive Aimed Against Truk Fortress

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Appeal to Italy to “Maintain Discipline”

JOHNSTOWN BUSES, TROLLIES HALTED   Strike Goes Into Effect At 1:30 O'clock Today

GREAT FIRES ROAR THROUGH GERMAN CITY   Hamburg in Ruins After Raids by RAF.

Nazi Airfields Battered hy Allied Bombers   Air Offensive Is Carried Into Second Week

Seven Airdromes Hit in France   Wrecked Hamburg, Remscheid Still Afire: Reds Slowed Downat Orel

Itu Captured By Chinese   Chiang’s Men Smash Inside Port City Line

Chinese Cut Behind Japs, Fleeing Ichang   Allied Planes Join To Speed Rout of Enemy

Chinese Smash Into Port Of Itu   Advance 30 Miles In v Three Days ,

Nipponese Garrison Engaged by Chinese In Fierce Street Fighting; Recaplure of Chikiang Further Hamper Communications to Ichang, Which Enemy Trics to Safeguard

lOPA Orders 15% Reduction In—  Aq UuEst- Tira Nern  te \A SEES HS _ ore Quotas             Shortage Of Tires Wil  aeceomc ©

Tires Cut By A Third   Only Class C Motorists Can Get New Tires; Other Types Reduced

Supply of Tires At All-Time Low Says OPA Head   Low Quetas to Keep Many From Securing Tires

October Tire Quota Cut By 30 Per Cent   Only C-Card Motorists To Be Eligible for Purchase of New Tires

SCRAPE BOTTOM ON TIRE SUPPLY   Local Quota Is Cut By 20% During October

ut Quotas on Passenger Car Tires 15 Percent   » Tires Available for “A” Gas Book Holders

LANDING CRAFT OUTPUT STARTED   26,000 Completed of 80,00C Ordered; Hint Use Aasinst lanan

80,000 Landing Craft Goal Set   Navy Reports 25,000. Already Completed

ay LANDING CRAFT FOR NAVY   ALL TYPES TO BE BUILT UNDER HUGE PROGRAM— 25,000 COMPLETED.

New Shortage of Sugar Is Seer   Farmers Have Asked for ar Increase in Price of Sugar Beats.

Sugar Shortage ls Threatened   Farmers Say “Other Crops More Profitable

NEW SHORTAGE OF SUGAR THREATENED   Farmers ‘Will Plant Other Crops Unless Sugar Beet Prices Incraasa

Raid Is Achieved Without Loss, ‘Reports Indicate  Leaders Believe Planes All Made Soiree Over Rome in Safety

Rome Blasted By American FTiers; First Attack Of War   Specially Trained Precision Airmen Drop Hundreds of Tons of Bombs on Rail and Airfield ln stallatiane in City

Planes in Africa Pound Lampedusa   Russian Airmen Wreck 300 Nazi Planes in Past Three Nights

BROOKLYN HOUSE PLANE'S TARGET   Sprays Apartment With Machine Gun Bullei«.

Nazi Bombers Over London as First Alert Is-‘Sounded-in a Long Period

F US STRIKING POWER  ictory of the Air Over the Sea  a DEFEAT EVIDENCE 

Threat of Jap Invasion of Australia Fades as Allies Build up Striking Power

DeWitt Mackenzie Says  Bismark Sea Battle Reflects Growing Might

The War Today— Recent Victories Evidence Of Progress Toward Victory, But Not Whole Story

MKENZIE IMPRESSED WITH U. N. VICTORY OVER JAP CONVOY   Was Evidence of Terrific Striking Power Allies Are Piling Up

‘VICTORY OVER JAP CONVOY IS EVIDENCE OF GREAT STRIKING POWER BEINC RIF TRYU S

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Great Striking Power Building In Pacific Bodes Ill For Japs

Few Showers Slip Into State Today   Surprise to Weather Bureau But Welcome Where Fell

Set Terms For Prisoner Work   Captives To Be Put In Non-War Jobs

Prisoners of  War to Work   Military Officials Have Arranged Terms for Boosting Labor Supply

Thousands Available For Jobs On Farms, Lumber Cutting and Various Kinds of Labor

USE OF WAR PRISONERS FOR NON-WAR ‘JOBS ARRANGED BY ARMY AND THE WMC

PRISONERS WILL ~ BE PUT T0 WOR   About 100,000 Now Ir Country To Get Nonwar Jobs in Labor Shortage.

PRISONERS MAY FILL LABOR GAP   AXIS CAPTIVES HELD — HERE COULD BE USED FOR NON-WAR TASKS”

Terms Worked Out For Using  War Prisoners   Employers To Pay Prevailing Wages, With Part Of Cash Going To Army

Thirteen Trapped by Fire In Mine Near Morgantown   Rescuers Inching pheir Way Through Dense Smoke Find Body of Foreman, Who Apparently Died of Suffocation; Biaze Starts In Mine Motor Three Miles From Mouth of Goeration

RESCUE WORKERS RECOVER BODY, FIGHT FIRE   Mine Motor Starts Blaze Which Traps 78 Men; Hope  Still Held

GERMAN PLANES ASSAULT-LINES:   Mass Luftwaffe Raids Try to Crack Lines

Nazis Blast At  Soviet Defenses   German Luftwaffe Operations . Continue

Nazis Launch Mass Air Raids on Red Defenses   Russians Report Drives at Both Ends of 700-Mile Western Front

NAZIS TRY HEAVY RAIDS 10 CRACK SOVIET DEFENSE   Communique Reports Fighting At Both Ends of 1700mile Front.

BU     TE POUL         Funeral for Retired Farmer at Trinitarian Church on Wednesdav

NAZIS REPORTED EVACUATING BERLIN’S PORT AT STETTIN.   Reds Roll On   British, Yankees Effect Junction in Sicily in Advance Up on Randazzo. .

British Blast Rommel Out of Defense Line:   Allies Bomb Docks and Shipping At  Nazi Bases in France and Holland

British Blast Rommel’s First Defenses   Enemy Thrust to Widen Coastal Corridor Stopped

British Sth. army blasts Rommel line   Repulse thrust to widen north axis corridor

Nazis Driven Back on Two Africa Fronts   Germans Withdraw. Despite Massive Concentration

8th Army Blasts Rommel From First Defense Line   Efforts to Widen Coast Path Fails; Tunisian Battle Acti     ty Tnerrases

First Rommel unisia Line Knocked Out   Morecce Radio Declares 8th Army Has Forced: Withdrawal In South   ACTIVITY PICKS UP   American Forces Are Said To Have Moved Up In ¥ital Faid. Pass

BRITISH HIT ROMMEL HARD IN TUNISIA   8th Army Blasts Nazi Troops Out of First Defense Lines

BRITTOn LAAT ROMMEL FROM DEFENSE UNE   Eighth Army Pushes Germans Back Despite Heavy Tank Concentration.   AMERICANS MOVE UP FOR FAID PASS ATTACK

AXISLEADER FORCED 10 WITHDRAW   Enemy Thrust to Widen Corridor Is Thrown Back

LIQUOR RATIONING IN STATE S NEAR   Plan to Be Adopted Will Be. Announced After Senate Passes the Measure.

CAPT. GOUGH WAR CASUALT   Veteran ‘of World War I Was Reporter on Sun-Telegeraph

EPLASHN AT ~~ SHELL PLANT   THREE MEN KNOWN TO BE DEAD FROM BLAST AT ORDNANCE PLANT NEAR  ' RAVENNA

MINERS WILL EXTEND TIME   Lewis Offers To Extend Negotiations Month Longer To Avert Stoppage

Miners Offer to Extend Parleys   Want Agreement to Be Retroactive to April 1

MOVE T0 AVERT STRIKE APRIL 1   Miners Offer E: Extension to May 1—Decision Then Retroactive

US. TROOPS CLOSING IN ON MUNDA   Have Bridgeheads Less Than Six Mite: _

U. §. TROOPS, LESS THAN 6 MILES FROM MUNDA, MOVE ON   Big Jap Air Base And Port Of Bairoko Harbor Geals Of  Americans

Prepare For Final Blow At Munda .   GROUND ADVANCE FOLLOWS: NAVAL VICTORY AT KULA — GULF IN WHICH NINE AND

THOOPS CLOSE IN ON MUNDA D MMILES AWAY   Surprise Landings Threaten Two Japanese Bases on New Georgia.   JAP KULA GULF “FLEET” WRECKED IN 20 MINUTES

SUPPLY LINE OF ENEMY SEEN AS NOW SLICEL   20 Minutes of Sea Battie Ends In Sinking of 11 Jap” Shins,

YANK TROOPS IN TWIN LANDINGS ON NEW GEORGI    Toll of Kula Gulf Battle Raised ‘to 9 Jan Warships Sunk

Japanese Supply Port To North Also s Isolated   Troops Go Ashore On Both Sides Of Nippon New Georgia Air Base

ENEMY FORCES ON NEW GEORGIA ARE THOUGHT ISOLATED   New Report on Naval Engagement Indicates Ener: my Japs Lost 9 Ships, Probably Total of 11.   ENGAGEMENT REQUIRED ABOUT 20 MINUTES   Jans Strike Just South of Munda, Five Vessels Hit By Hard Blows During Pacific Battie.

Jap Base ie Within Six Miles   Enemy Forces Believed Isolated From Their Supplies As Result OF New Landings —

Land Drive Follows Smashing Naval Victory In Which Nine Japanese Ship Were Sunk Cr Damaged In Kula Gulf   ENEMY FORCES ON N. GEORGIA ISOLATED

Be Ready For * Raid, CD Says   Landis Warns We Must Act Smoothly.

Jobs For War Veterans Stressed Before Legion   William Green, AFL President, Strikes Back at Critics of Labor in Wartime

POSTWAR JOBS FOR VETS URGED   Candidates for Legion Office Push Campaions

ON POST-WAR JOBS   Veterans Administrator Discusses Problem at Le gion, Convention -

ARMY'S ORDER 5 CLARIFIED   Soldier Political Activity Bar Not Aimed at Any Individual.

NOT AIMED AT GENERAL   Stimson Defends Army Regulations Banning Political Activity  :

‘Stimson Explains Ban On Polities  Regulation Not Aimed At ' MacArthur. He Savs

Deny Army’s Rule Is Aimed At MacArthw   War Department Policy Of Long Standing : Involved In Order, Asserts Stimson

QELKER-IOHR: WEDDING FRIDAY   Pretty Ceremony Held At Fordham Lutheran In New York

Ensign E. F. Jahr:  Weds Ina Voelker  At Fordham, N. Y. Bride is Daughter of Lutheran Minister  At Craig

European Invasion Time Neat   Churchill Talks With Allied Chieftains In N. Africa, Believe He Delivered invasion Plan, Eiserjhower

HEAVIEST BOMB LOAD OF WAR FALLS ON CITY   Great Buildings Tossed In Air As Block Busters Reach Targets   TERMED “CASCADE RAID”   Allies Advance § Steadily In Tunisia—Now Hold 30,000 Axis Prisoners

REICH RAIDED FROM EAST AT SAME TIME   Bombers Over Prussia Relieved Russian: 2: british Planes Lost

BRIBE REPORTS TO FORM BASIS OF JURY PROBE   Broad Inquiry Into Three Past Sessions Asked By Rushton   BACKED BY GOVERNOR   Kelly Promises Adequate Funds To Finance Inquisition

SEEK PROBE OF GRAFT CHARGES   Asks Inquiry Into Reports Of Bribery of Members  Of Leaislature. {   JS PREPARING PETITION

Rushton to Try to Find Out Bribers   Attorney General to File Request in Two or Three Days, Backed by Kelly

) VITAL CITIES HELD BY NAZIS   Stage Determined Drives for Stalino and Konotop

NAZIS’ RETREAT INDONETS BASIN NEAR FULL ROUT   Blazing 700-Mile Front Perils Two Industrial Strongholds

HOUSE LEADERS HIT ABSENTEES   $20 Per Day Penalty May Be imposed On Offenders

REPORT ABSENTEEISM IN OHIO ASSEMBLY   Nearly 40 Representatives Absent from Regular Session

12 DESPERADOES STILL AT LARGE   Hunt For Leaders Pushed Ir Atlanta On Reports Two Were Seen There

Attack Last Jap Pocket   Destroy Section Of Enemy Positions In Papua

FINAL POCKET OF - JAPSISATTACKEL   Allied Forces Break Line o Papuan Peninsula Capture Equipment.

152 Japs Slain as Allies Draw Closer Around Last Pocke   Three-Day Raid on Positions 150 Miles Northwest Completec

Allies Smash Jap Lines at Sanananda   Destroy Forward Section And Kill 152 Japs; Victors Seize Equipment

Gain Near  Sanananda   Allied Advance Destroys Jap Forward Positions

ALLIED SOLDIERS BREAK THROUGH   Last Pocket Of Jap Resistance On Papuan Peninsula Broken By Attack.

ALLIES BREAK THROUGH JAPS AT SANANANDA   SWAMPS AND RAINS DELAY CLEANUP OF ENEMY

ALLIES BREAK THROUGH AT SANANANDA   At Least 152 Japanese Killed In One Day’s Fighting Reported By Gen. MacArthur.   Airmen Active

152 JAPS SLAIN AT SANANANDA   Ailies Score Break-Through, Take Arms, Equipmeni— Many Jap: Slain at Mubo

Allies Crack Jap Sanananda Lines, Slay 152 Enemy   Capture Arms, Supplies Upon Papuan Peninsula

Allies Pierce Jap Lines  At Sanananda   152 Nipponese Slain In Single Day ~ In New Guinea

‘Allies. Break Jap ‘Lines; 152 of  ‘Enemy Killed:      Bloody Fiehiine

Allies Break Through Japs At San Ananda   Foe Post, Radio Station, Supply Station Taken al Salamua

152 JAPANESE SLAIN ON PAPUA   ALLIES DESTROY FORWARD POSITION OF LAST DEFENSE

ATTACKING LAST POCKET OF JAPS ON NEW GUINEF   Break Through to Destroy Section of Enemy Resistance on Papuan Peninsula Area

Allies Pierce Jap Line At Sanananda   At Least 152 Foes Killed on One Day’s Fighting

ALLIED TROOPS BREAK THROUGH JAPANESE LINES   Destroy Enemy’s Forward Positions at Sanananda, Last Point Nips Hold on Papuan Peninsula,   QUANTITY OF ARMS AND EQUIPMENT TAKEN   MacArthur’s Planes Widen Range of Activities, Dropping Bombs on Dutch East Indies.

Destroy Japs’ Forward Post   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Attempting To Stop Advance.

Allies Crack Jap Lines; On Papuan Peninsula; Kall 152 Enemy Troops

ALLIED FORCES BREAK THROUGH JAP POSITIONS   Kill 152 Japanese Who Attempt To Stop New Guinea Advance

Evacuees Go Back into Beardstown as City Celebrates Victory over Flood

CAPTURE CITY OF YELNYA ON CENTRAL LINE   Nazi key defense of  Smolensk crumples under heavy attack

Nazis Southern Front !n Russia Nears Collapse   Victorious Russians Already 30 Miles West Of Recaptured Taganrog   “LUNGE FORWARD ON 400-MILE FRONT  BULLETIN

New Threat At Smolensk   Red Army Only 45 Miles  From Important Center

45 BUDGET T0 BE 95 BILLION   Amount Would Mark First Drop Since War Start

LaGuardia Asks More Tank Cars   New York Mayor Says Midwest Should Depend More on Southwest

Tax Source Big Coneern  Of ( onsress   Sales Levy Mentioned In Question For 16  Billions More

SALES TAX IS” PROPOSED TO AID TREASURY   Solons Would Couple _ It With Enforced Savings to Obtain Additional 16 Billion Asked by President. i

LaGuardia Uraes More Tank Car Shipments East  New York Mayor Says Midwest Can Get Gas; Representative Protest: OPA ‘Gestapo Methods

NY Mayor — Asks Tank Cars for East   La Guardia Tells Senate Committee Midwest Should Depend More on Oil Hauled from Southwest Fields

New York Mayor Asks Western Oil   Urges Routing of More Tank Cars From the Midwest to East   Demand for Additional 16 Billions of Revenue Baf fles Congress

Congress Faces Baffling Question Of How To Raise $16,000,000,000 In Year; Probably Will Tackle Problem In 10 Days

FEDERAL SALES TAX ADVOCATELD   ‘Need For Additional Funds To Meet Budget Seen

Finding 16 New Billions Is Problem   Congress To Probe Plans For Taking Huge Added Sum

“SNOOPING ON PEOPLE” IRKS LEGISLATOR   Representative Miller Protests “Gestapo” Procedure in Discourag ing Violations   OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

New, Big Source Of Taxes  Hunted   Capitol Hill Seeks. 16 Billions For War -

CONGRESS STARTS LOOKING FOR WAY TO RAISE MONEY   FEDERAL SALES TAX   FEDERAL SALES TAX MENTIONED AGAIN; OTHER PROBLEMS

QUESTION HOW TO RAISE SIXTEEN BILLION REVENUE   Wederal Retail Sales Tax, Combines With Compulsory Loans A Possible Answer,

RETAIL SALES. TAX TO FORE ONCE AGAIN   How To Raise Additional 16 Billion For War Purposes Worries Congress

Question Of Raising 16 Billions In New ‘Taxes Overshadows All Issues

How to Raise Additional Taxes of 16 Billion Is Baffling Congress

How To Rais Great Budget Big Problem   Congress Also Considers Flynn For Australia

How To Raise $16 Billion Is Huge Problem   Sales Tax, Compulsory Loans May Be Answer To Question Posed By President's Request

MOVE OL FROM MIDWEST, URGES EASTERN MAYOR   LaGuardia Says Let Midwest Haul From South

New York Mayor Asks Western Oil      Urges outing of More Tank:Cars From the Midwest to East °   ON HUNT FOR: TAXES   Demand for Additional 16 Billions of Revenue Baf fles Congress

East Asks Tank : Cars   LaGuardia Would Let Midwest Haul Oil From Fields

16 Billion Tay Raise Faces Congress   Senate Committee May Cal Mayor LaGuardia in or Flynn Investigation

MORE TANK CARS " FOR EAST URGED   a Guardia Makes: Propos al; Senate Body Calls Petrillé.to Stand: *

New Budget Studied By Tax Experts  Congress Wonders ere a sseacie   Congress Wonders Where Added Funds Will Come From

BATTLING SUESTION  Bi NEW TAY BELL  FACING CONGRESS FEDERAL RETAIL SALES  TAX AND COMPULSORY TOANS MENTIONED

LAGUARDIA HAS IDEA ABOUT OIL   Would Let Mid-West Depend on Hauls From Oil Fields in Southwest Section of U, 8S.

Congress Seeks Way To Raise 10 Billions In  1943 For War Purposes

How To Raise Additional 16 Billion Dollars? That’s Big Question Facing Congress Today

Guardia sks More il for East   Routing of Additional Tank Cars From Midwest Advocated by N. Y. Mayor

New York Mayor May Be Queried In Flynn Probe   Sales Tax, Further Loans May Answer Problem Of Raising New Taxes

Task Of Raising Additional 16 Billion Dollars Problem As Congress Gets To Work   Sales Tax And More Compulsory Loans Regarded By Some As Answer

TAX PROBLEM AT WASHINCTO!      Raising 16 — Billior More Is Baffling Question —

16 Billions In New Revenue Requested To Help Pay Cost Of Allied Victory

Federal Retail Sales Tax Suggested; Other De“yvelopments in Con ae Sress, i

MILLIONS GREET NEW YEAR INN, ¥   LIGHTS DIMMED IN WAR-CON: SCLOUS BROADWAY AS VTOURONGS CELEBRATE,

BROADSIDE FIRED AT SEN, THOMAS   Ickes Defends Indian Bureau In 8 Page Criticism Of Senate Group

British Smash Into German Winter Lines; Take Hew Bridgehead   Flame-Throwers Used

British Eighth Army Wing Foothold In Enemy’s Line Just Inland From Adriatic. Americans Also Gain.

Nazis Use Flame Throw: ing Tanks for First Time in Italy.   ALLIES MAKE SMALL GAINS OF TWO MILES  Allied Airmen Are Giving

IN azi lroops Falling Back On Vitebsk   Red Forces Closing In On Key to Poland And Baltic States  COMEL THREATENED

New Threat To German Lines Seen   1,000 Villages Taken As Nazi Forces Are Pounded Back

Nazi Collapse On  Dnieper Imminent   1,160 More Villages Freed As Forces Surcqe On All Alono Spreading Front

Reds Tighten Grip On Dnieper Banks   Disorganized Enemy Is Pursued Into White Russia; Collapse Of Germans’ Upper Basin Front Looms

Enemy Mauled By Red Army Offensive  i Gomel-Vitebsk Rail   Gomel-Vitebsk Rail Line Is Threatened “by Red:Artillery:

Threaten Nazi Stronghold In Upper Dniepel   Soviet Forces Reportec Only 10 Miles From Next Objective

SOVIETS PERIL UPPER DNIEPER LINE OF NAZIS   Reds Take Over 1,000 Villages in White  Russia Drive

Vital Gomel Rail Line In Gun Range   Early Collapse Of Germany's Upper Dnieper Line Threatened By Newest Soviet Assaults

Russian Armies Capture 1,000 More Villages   Are Tightening Assaul Grip on Kiev, Kremenchug and Other Cities

REVIEWED AT PARLEY   Carthage Is Scene Ot Talks; President En Route Home

FAVORITE oOo LEAVE GOP FIELL   Thee Governors Heed Willkie Warning Against Seeking Nomination

THREE GOVERNORS SCRATCHED IN GOP PRESIDENTIAL RAGE   Willkie Warns Against Too Many ‘Favorite Sons’ In Field

Willkie Warns That Favorite-Son ‘Activity May Lead To GOP Disaster

Three State Governors Withdraw From Race After Willkie Warns of Threat to GOP

THREE GOVERNORS WITHORAW FROM BOP COMPETITION   Willkie Takes Steps to Keep Favorite Sons Out of 1944 Field.

Republican Nomination  List Shrinks   Three Governors Withdraw After Willkie’s Warning

Ration Book II Registration Set for Feb. 22  Schools of County to Be Used to Sian Residents

Ration Book II Registration Set for Feb. 22  (afro OER PME GR <, Eeeeeenee ee   Schools of County to Be Used to Sion Residenis

Bingham Pit, Mills At Magna Stop Work   Mediator Summoned To Settle Dispute On Railroad Connecting Pit and Mills

News Behind The News  Copyright MeCiure Newsnaaer   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucher   Forse sey er.  Undemocratic*:

Third Railroad Accident ~~ “In Less Than Four Mouths   Nine Care Derailed   ~~ Thaueands Watch in Horror

Suspected Foas Of Laval Held   Vichy Police, German Troops Make Arrests

Vichy, Nazis Raid Pro-Ally Suspect Group Pre-Invasion Dnive  Jails Frenchmen  By Hundreds

FORCES HIT AXIS SHIPS   Allies Set For Knockout Blow Against The Enemy

Allies Now Ready tor  Final Phase   Battie of Tunisia Reaches Climax, Gen. Eisenhower Says in Report

KNOX HINTS AT NEW JAP BLOWS   INDICATES POWERFUL AND --DECISIVE THRUSTS. ARE IN THE MAKING.

Island by Island Campaign to End   Secretary Says Present Methods of Attack Too Long. and Costly

Knox Predicts Decisive Blow At Jap Empire   Limited Island Hopping  Said in Preparation zx*. Tre. ssis_si i i!tiidgttsCOdy

GREAT THRUSTS ARE PREDICTED   Knox Says Present Plan In Pacific Prepares Way For Real Task  In The Future

PRESENT MOVES BUT FORERUNNER OF LARGE DRIVE   [Knox Says Powerful And  Decisive Thrusts Planned  For lananece   MUNDA FIGHTING IS SLOW AND EXPENSIVE

Heavy Blows Are  Priming for  Japs, Knox Says Islands Regarded  As Sea Steps To Nips’ Empire

Earthen Dam in Idaho Collapses  ‘Narrow Valley: Is. ‘Reported Flooded:

bi Miners Trapped By Explosion: 10 Killed   Rescue Workers Bring 21 To Safety And Locate Bodies Of Fatalities.

SPRING'S ARRIVAL MARKED BY SNOW   Mercury Drops to 27 De grees Here on Sunday

Meny Jap Planes Downed In Fights   Staggering Blow Dealt Japanese Defenses By Naval Attack: American Damaae Slight

Cruiser, Two Destroyers Are Sent to Bottom By Halsey’s Bombers; Foe Loses 88 Planes in Battle

Cruiser And Two Destroyers Sunk; 12 Other Ships Damaged By Aircraft   64 ENEMY PLANES ARE BAGGED IN AIR BATTLE

  Cruiser and 11 Destroyers Also  Damaged by Carrier-Land Based Task Force

64 Jap Planes  Lost in Attack - On ‘Flat-Tops   Adm. Halsey’s Carrier Foree Suffers Light

Carrier Planes, Land-Base Bombers Wipe Out Enemy Flotilla; Shoot Down 64 of Nip Air Armada

anes =fOMm carriers .Oin anc. 2asec Crac~ in 4a au. Smas1—_2 ‘Sore S1ins ~ amagec

Enemy Loses 64 Planes,  Three Ships   Many Jap Vessels Are Damaged; Waves Of Counterattacking Aircraft Are Shot Down in Fight for Rabaul

64 Planes Shot Down In2-Way Rabaul Assault   Frantic Nip Fight On U.S. Carriers Cattl~, ARAN Crethly

Jap Cruiser, 2 Destroyer S Sent Down   64 Airplanes Downed By U. S. Carrier Force, 24 Smashed at Rabaul  AMERICANS LOSE 17

Carrier Force, Bombers Strike Rabaul Again; 68 Jap Planes Downed   Four Enemy Air Attacks on U. §. Naval Units Repulsed With Loss of 64 Aircraft;  Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers Are Sunk

Devastating Raid Made From Carriers and Land Bases—Allies Lose 17 Aircraft and ‘Some of Vessels Are Slightly Damaged— Casualties Among American Personnel Described as Minor.

‘Three Japanese Ships Sunk. 12 Damaged   Navy Planes From Aircraft Carriers and Land-based Bombers Make Successful Assaults—Enemy Loses 64 Planes in Futile Attacks

Carriers Help Win Battle in Pacific Harbor   64 Enemy Planes Downed by Yanks

64 Planes Shot Down In 2-Way Rabaul Assault   Frantic Nip Fight On U.S. Carriers Futile And Costly

PLANES SINK CRUISER AND 2 DESTROYERS   BASTION AT RABAUL BATTERED IN RAID FROM CARRIER

1] Other Enemy Vessels Damaged: Japs Lose 64 Interceptor Planes U. 5. Ships Suffer Minor Injuries

Dollars And Cents Ceiling Prices Probably ‘Will Be Placed On All Food Commodities Affecting Living Costs —- New Order Designed To Combat: Inflation — Rigid Re:  ” strictions Planned On Prices And Wages

Plan Fixing Ceiling Prices  On All Foods   Byrnes to Act Promptly on FDR's Drastie Freeze Order

“Didn’ Le Register   Dollar-and-Cents Ceilings To Be Placed on All ‘Food Affecting Cost of Living, President Says.

Ceiling Prices for Food Commodities   Probably Would Be Placed or Those Which Affect Living Costs.

President Roosevelt Discusses “Hold the Line’ Order Designed to Freeze Wages And Farm Prices as Blow at Inflation

Washington Rushes Enforcement Plans; Authority of Byrnes In Effect: Broadened   (Text of "Fréeze Order and text of prestdential explanation

Price Freeze Planned for Most Foods   President Orders Ceilings on Foods Affecting Costs Of Living

Ceilings Soon To Be Placed On All Food:   Problem Like 4-Legged Stool, With Some Too Long, Says President In Explanation

Follow Up Wage-Price Decree   One Phase of Plan To Make Cost of Living More Stable; May Roll Back Some Prices

Director Byrnes Speeds Plans To Announce ‘Dollar, Cents’ Cost of Living Price Structure

Dollar and Cent Ceilings Expected On Al! Foods   Virtually All Costs And Wages Frozen By Roosevelt Order

Roosevelt Living Cost Order Clamps Rigid Lid On Food Prices, Wages   Byrnes Expects To Issue Specific Ceilings Tomorrow; WLB Restricts Pay Boosts To Little Steel Formula

Wages, Most Prices Frozen by Order of President Last Eve   “Inequality” as Cause for  Roosevelt Edict

wlecs To Food Prices. Wages, Rationing Anc taxes — Savings As tour Legs OF Stool

CHIEF EXECUTIVE PLANS EXTENSION OF PRICE CEILINGS   President Says All Fooe Commodities Which Af. fect Living Costs Will Be Controlled.

F.R.: CONGRESS MUST PROVIDE TAXES, SAVINGS   Byrnes Says New Plans on Executive Order  May Be Told Saturday

resident Declares Stabilization Order -Statement of Policy Involving Food Prick. Wages, Rationing, Savings   PENDING WAGE BOOSTS HELD UP   First Move to Roll Back Prices in Some Over-Extended Foods Promised on Hogs—Wage Boosts Further Limited

ALL FOODS MAY GET PRICE PEG   President Reveals Plan To Put Dollars - And - Cents Ceiling On All Food Commodities In Anti-Inflation Move.

CEILING PRICES TO AFFECT ALL FOOD PRODUCTS   OPA May Release Specific Plans Tomorrow

Will Place Dollars, Cents Price Ceilings on All Foods That Affect Living Costs

1.5. TO TRY 10 HOLD LINE’ ON DpICES, WAGES   “Aotion Taken As Answer Ti Lewis; Savings, Taxes Put Up To Congress

Ceilings Probable In Roosevelt’s  War On Inflation   K = OCUCKeOCéi<iCNRKEO—CiCYK’. Little Left To Labor Board

TLINGS 70 G0}  ALL EDIBLES PECTINGHCOL   cific Dollars-and-Cents edule May Be Ready or Issuance Tomorrow, Byrnes Says   D DIRECTOR TO ETERMINE EXTENT   Ne Minor Vegetables ght Be Omitted; To Be pol plied to Retail ‘Level ather Than At Farm

SWIFT ACTION TO FOLLOW FDR'S ORDER   President Confers With Byrnes; Plan Ready Saturday

Dollars-And-Cents Ceilings On Food  Commodities Seen To Curb Inflation

FDR and Byrnes: Explain Details of New Program Aimed to Curb Inflation   . Plans’ for. ‘Specifi c Price Ceilings May be Announced Tomorrow. Price Czer Sav<

CURBING (OF INFLATION   President’s Executive Order Called ‘Statement of Policy.’   JOBS ALSO ARE AFFECTED

DOLLAR-CENT VALUES WILL BE ASSIGNED   Specific Prices to Be Laid Down, as With r Meats

Drastic Order Issued to Aid Inflation Curb   President Acts To Place Ceiling Prices on Foods

PAY RAISES BANNED BY NEW ORDER   Object Of FDR Decree Is To Combat  Inflation

‘Dollars-And-Cents Ceilin gs Likely For Food Commodities   Specific Price Plans May Be Presented Tomorrow: Whole Problaw Four-Legged Stool

 ECONOMIC STABILIZATION DIRECTOR JAMES F. BYRNES i SAYS O. P. A. MAY BE ABLE TO PRESENT SPECIFIC  CEILING PRICE PLANS TOMORROW, FOLLOWING ' THOSE ESTABLISHED FOR MEATS   By IRVING PERLMETER

Byrnes Slates Buying Pegs   SPECIFIC U. S. SCALE ON FOOD ARTICLES MAY APPEAR SATURDAY; LEVY LIMITS MAY BE HANDLED BY REGIONS OVER NATION

Ceilings to Go on Food Commodities   Specific Price Plans May Be Given by OPA  Tomorrow

FDR INDICATES ALL ITEMS AFFECTING LIVING COSTS WILL BE ‘HELD IN LINE

F.R. Acts to Place Curb On Inflation   Decree Bans Increase In Wages; Ceilings Ordered on All Prices

May Set New Food Ceilings Tomorrow   President Says Dollars-and-Cents Price Probably Will Be Placed on All Food Commodities Which Affect Living Costs.

Dollar - Cents Retail Limits To Be Issued On All Foods   Pay Boosts Above ‘Little Steel’ Formula Are Knocked Out

DOLLARS-AND-CENTS CEILING PRICES ON FON COMMODITIES   ECONOMIC STABILIZATION DIRECTOR BYRNES SAYS PLANS DUE SOON

Byrnes may set definite maximums   Another story on inflation will be found on page 11.

War Bond Score   More Drastic Steps Against Inflation Ordered By FDR

Ceiling Prices Expected On Major Food Products; Wages Ordered Restricted

specific ‘ood Ceiling Prices:  To Conie Soon   New. - Réstrictions ® ‘Or “Prices. and: Wages Ex: plained” by FDR: ‘at  Press: Conference.

Ceiling Price On More Foodstuffs   President Made New Order Last Night to Combat  flation   IN DOLLARS-AND-CENTS   Government Intends to Roll Hog Prices Back to $14.50

PRESIDENT GALLS IT - HOLD-THE-LINE ORDER   All items Affecting Living Costs to Be Brought tinder Control

Pay Increases Held Within 15 Per Cent Limi   Workers Are Prohibited From Shifting Jobs For More Money —

SAYS CEILINGS TO BE PLACED ON ALL FOODS   Compares Entire Problem To 4-Legged Stool   OVERPLAYING   If Scarcity Or Plenty I$ Bad For Public Morale, President Says

Will Follow. Plan Used in Selling Meat   President’s:: Order. Is. Part of 4-Sided Program: to... “"Gombat.- .Inflation   TAXES ‘AND. SAVINGS. --OLEFT TO CONGRESS   Byrnes: :Is.- Delegated: .:to .« Handle, Al Border and.” : 2 Ls Wfardshin=- Cases.

PLAN SURVEYS FOR AIRPORTS   C. A. A. To Assist Board In State Aviation Program

ULYSSES S: GUYER DIES AT CAPITAL   Was Member of Congress From Kansas for a _  16-Year Period   [LOSS TO REPUBLICANS

Illness Fatal To Guyer   Representative of 2nd District For More -Than Sixteen Years Dies In Washington

ULYSSES S: GUYER ‘DIES AT CAPITAL   Was Member. of Congress From Kansas for a   16-Year Period

LIQUOR =STORES TO OPEN DAILY   Apportionment Of Supply Or. dered In Drastic Revision Of Sales Procedure

4 LIQUOR STORE ~— EMPLOYES FIRED   Rigid Store Hours Ordered By Fisher

Liquidation of Crop Insurance Voted by House   Bans Incentive Payments to Farmers for Growing War Crops

Farm Bill Gets House Approval   Liquidation of Crop Insurance, Incentive Payment Ban Voted

LIQUIDATION OF CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM IS VOTED BY THE HOUSE   Also Bans Incentive Payments to Farmers Who Grow ‘War Crops’

OPPOSES BONUS ON WAR CROPS   House Committee Votes Against ‘Incentive’ Payments

HOUSE. VOTES PAYMENT BAN FOR FARMERS   Crop Insurance Plan Also Liquidated By Actions

CROP INSURANCE IS BANNED BY HOUSE   Incentive Payments Alse Cut From Farm Measure

A-NAVAL ORDER   Public Display of A of Affections Out at Norman Station

M'CORMICK RAPS AT CENSORSHIP   CALLS FOR REFORM OF PRESENT SYSTEM, TERMED DISHONEST

PUBLISHER ATTACKS CENSORSHIP POLICY   Col, McCormick Says New Service Should Demand Reform Of Present “Dishonest” System

NEW WAVE OF IDLENESS HITS COAL FIELDS   Total of 24,000 Miners Now Out In Anthracite Coal Fields of  Pennsylvania

24,000 Men Is Strike Tol   Seek Settlement as Coal Tie Up Spreads to 16 Points; Fuel Stocks Drop

ANTHRACITE MINERS CONTINUE WALKOUT   War Department Orders Mass Meeting Today

STRIKE-TROUBLED ANTHRACITE FIELDS ARE HIT BY A NEW WAVE OF IDLENESS

War Dept. Asks End to Coal Strike   Meeting Called Today: 16.000 Miners Out; Supply Crisis Near.

MINERS CALLED TO CONFERENCE   War Department Acts To End Strike As Coal Shortage Becomes Grave In East; Strike Continues To Snread.

8, 000 More Miners Strike _ As War Dept. Seeks Peace   24,000 Anthracite Diggers Now Out, Closing 24 Collieries — New Strikes May be Against Pay for Sixth Day of Work

War Dept. Calls Miners to Meet   One Part of East Threatened by Hard Coal Shortage

MINERS CALLED TO MASS MEETINC   16 COLLERIES HIT AS STRIKE SPREADS TO NEW AREA

Urge Miners To End Strike   War Department Calls Hard Coal Workers To Mass Meeting

More Miners Join Walkout Coal Workers   Hard Coal Shortage Said to Be More Critical Than During Last War; Meeting Scheduled Today

Strikers Are Urged To Return to Mines   Anthracite Fields Remain Idle Today

Striking Miners Are Summoned  To Wilkes-Barre   Gronp Will Be Urged To Go * Back To Jobs To Relieve Gritieal Coal Shortage

WAR DEPARTMENT CALLS STRIKING MINERS TO MEETING  ELEVEN-DAY-OLD WILDCAT STRIKE, HOWEVER, STILL SPREADING

NEW WALKOUTS IN COAL MINES   War Department Summons Striking Miners to Mass Meeting.   EXPECT BIG SHORTAGE

WAR DEPARTMENT ACTS.   Calls .Session wf Coul Miners dx Effort io Selilo Sirtke

Shortage In East Worse Than Duning Last World War      STRIKE SPREADING   Walkout Unauthorized By Local Miners  Union

NEW STOPPAGES HI COAL MINES, MASS MEETING CALLED   ‘War Department Summons Strikers To Urge Quick Retuen To Work

Wildeat Coal Strike Grows; Truce Sought   More Pay And Lower Union Dues Demanded By Hard Coal Miners

Pound Jap Shipping   Step Up Aerial Blows Against Enemy Effort To Bolster Defenses

Step Up Air Attacks On Japs   Smash at Enemy Ships and Pound Air Facilities

OF JAPANESE   Bomb Transports, Cargo Vessels In Southwest And Central Areas

Pound Jap Air,  Shipping Base:  Little Damage In Nip  Bomber Raids   Tarawa Bombed

ALLIES STEP UP BLOWS AT JAPS   Planes Smash At Enemy Transport Ships And Cargo Vessels

Aerial Operations in Pacific Stepped ’ Up in Severe Blows   Japanese  Anti-Invasion Defenses Targets of Allied Bombers

JAPS BRING UP REINFORCEMENTS   Allied Airmen Carry Burden of Smashing at Enemy Troop-Supply Ships —

AERIAL BLOWS AGAINST JAPS INCREASING   Allied Planes Not Only Smash at Vessels But Weaken Enemy Ability  To Strike Back

ALLIES STEP UP PACIFIC AIR WAR   Japs Attack U. S$. Positions on New Britain

ALLIED AIRMEN HARROW JAPS   Transport, Cargo “Ships Pounded in Pacific Theatre

Bomb Jap Anti-Invasion Defenses   Nip Bombers Attack Arawe and Tarawa with Slight Damage; Two Enemy Transports, One Freighter Hit

STEPPED-UP ALLIED AERIAL OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPANESE  ENEMY SHIPS ATTACKEL AND AIR FACILITIES

ALLIES SPEED UP AIR ACTION   Deliver Blows at Jap At. tempts to Build Up AntiInvasion Defenses.

NEW ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS HIT JAPANESE-AS- THEY ATTEMPT T0-— BOLSTER ANTLINVASION DEFENSES.   Enemy Transports Ships, Cargo and Troop Supply Ships Hit, and Nips Are Reported to Have Los! 99 BRarwes Off New Guinea and Solomons

Aerial Attacks Against Japanese Are Stenped Up   Anti-Invasion Defenses Hit In Pacific Areas

JAP STRENGTHENING MOVES ARE HALTED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Fliers Not Only Smash at En" emy But Weaken Their Hitting Ability by Blasting Air  a ae} i

Allied Forces Hit Jap Bases in Series of Raids  Enemy Is Attempting To Reinforce Pacific Defense

AERIAL BLOWS AIMED AT NIPS   Enemy’s Transport Ships and Air Facilities Blasted In Pacific Area

ALLIEO ot UF AERIAL BLOWS   Smash Enemy Transports, Pound Nipponese Air Facilities In Pacific

ALL MEN, 18-06, TO BE INDUCTED   Draft Officials Hear Chief — Call for 100,000 Men from  State Later in 43

EDITOR MATTHEWS INDICTED BY JURY   Somerset Co. Newspoperman Accused as Result of Attack on Tawes

Matthews Indicted On Charges of Criminal Libel   Action Is Result of Articles About Comptroller J. Millard Tawes

Interoreting The War   Most Crucial Test Of War May Be At Hand in Pacific

MARIGNY WILL FIGHT OUSTER   COUNT ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF MURDERING MULTIMILLIONAIRE MAY GOTO “NEW YORK, HOWEVER

53rd Raid  On Essen   ONE OF HEAVIEST AIR ASSAULTS OF WAR LEVELS CITY   Arms Works At Liege, Belgium and Rouen, France, Blasted By RAF and Americans

BIG KRUPP PLANT SUFFERS DAMAGE. LONDON REPORTS   500 British Bombers Spread Destruction Around Great Arms Factory

3,000 Tons Of Bombs Dropped   23 British Planes Lost in Shattering Raid on Center

Probe Blast Killing Twenty   Explosion At Elkton, Md. Takes Large Toll Of Life —-Many Injured   HUNDRED PERSONS REPORTED INJURED

THREE INQUIRIES ARE OPENED INTO DEFENSE PLANT BLAST   MANY -KILLED AND. INJURED WHEN EXPLOSIVES LET GO AS RESULT OF FIRE  ye EAST

No Weaker  Sex Here   U. S. Army Nurses More Proficient At Training Than Many Men

THREE MORE ATTACKS    American Airmen Push Offensive : Against Japanese Bases

Observers Believe Increased Tempo Aerial Sparring North Australia of Import

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   No Signs Of Of Nazi Debacle ‘Yet Apparent In Russia Though It May Come

The War Today  eee  Battle of Giants In Dnieper Bend Reminiscent Of Stalingrad.

ine War £0aday— Says Nazi Withdrawal F rom Soviet if ront Not Yet Wild Rout Threatened

'DNIEPER BEND BATTLE IS DARK FOR HITLER, BUT DIFFICULTIES MAY HAVE BEEN OVERESTIMATEL

TO CALL FLIER © IN FLYNN CASE   State Prepares To Summon Final Witnesses

Rules Committee To Ask Feud Participants Their Views On Proposed Probe

Calliope Pioneer  Dies In Colorado   Camped Along Big. Stoux In The:Gevantia

Calliope Pioneer Dies In Colorado  Camped Along Big - Sioux In The Seventies

DRAFTED LAGOA HOR WAR WORK GAINS SUPPORT   Gap Between “All Out Talk” And Actual War Effort Cited As Dangerous

Service Men Fovor New Law   RAFTING OF CIVILIANS INTO WAR WORK URGED

National Draft Of Workers for War Is Urged   Deferment of Farmers Sought In Senate Bill

CLAIM SOLDIERS’ RELATIVES WANT — LAW TO PUT MEN. WOMEN IN WAR WORK

SENATE PUSHES FURTHER INTO. LABOR DRAETING   After Hearing That  Govt. Has No: “Really Effective Action”?-to--~Take Avainst Problem

ALL MINERS RETURN   Production In Anthracite Fields Reaches 100 Per Cent Today

NEWS OF WAR EFFORT TOLD IN PARAGRAPH   Brief Items Give Gist Of Civilian And Military Orders Effecting Most Of American People,

Decision On Maternity Aid Plan Delayed   Governor Martin Awaits Report From Health Department on Proposal  CONFERENCE MONDAY

Milan, Genoa, ‘Turin Targets Of Heavy Raids   Great Weight of Bombs Pound Italian Cities, Two Lancasters Missing

RAF Showers Italy With Bombs;  Damage ls Great —  Only Two Planes Fail  To Return; Milan,   Turin, Genoa Are Hit

BLAST THREE ‘TTAUIAN CITIES   Hundreds of British Bort ers Hit Herd at Milan, Turin and Genos

BLAST THREE TTALIAN CITHES      Hundreds of British Pombers Hit Hard at Milan, Turin and Genoa

RAF Lancasters Attack Italian Cities in North   Drop Many Bombs or Milan, Turin and Genoa in Night Raid

Italian Cities — Are Blasted By RAF Fliers   Miten, Turin and Genoa Attacked — Triple Thrust Heaviest Air Blow Landed on Italy Since Nation Was Warned

Triple Air Thrust Hits Major Cities   Limping Itdian Phints eoffer Severely

NORTHERN ITALY GIVEN POUNDING BY RAF BOMBERS   Considerable Damage Reported At Milan, Turin And Genoa After Attack   TARGETS IN FRANCE ARE ALSO RAIDED

RvA. F: Blasts Northern Italy   ‘Milan, Turin, Genoa Are Night Targets

Milan, Turin Feel Weight Of Air Might   Disaffected Factory Cities Chosen-as Examples of Power

British Lose. Only Two of  Their Planes '   Blow Heaviest Given Since Eisenhower ‘ Issued Warning

Air Blow Gives ltaly Taste of Coming Assault   Only Two Planes Lost Of Hundreds Making Attack: Great Fires  Rage in Bombed Area

RAF Resumes Mass Raids Against Italy   Milan, Turin, Genoa Take Pounding in Blow at War Plants

Tips Congress To Raise Debt Limit   Treasury Wants Amount Lifted To 210 Billions

TLLINOIS MINERS: AGCEPT $1.50 RAISE   Prepare to Write Contract or That Basis; Parley Is Farcical

Operators, Unionists Agree Meet Farcical   Only A Decision By War Labor Board Seen Preventing Another Coal Shutdown

LABOR LEADERS, MINE OPERATORS FAIL TO AGREE   Conversation On Subject Branded As ‘Farcical’

LEWIS DECLARES MINE WAGE MEET ISVERY FARCICAL   Operators, Miners Still Unable to Agree; Favorable Action by WLB Is One Solution.   LEWIS WALKS FROM CONFERENCE ON WAGES   Refers to Operators as “Sullen and Morose,” Attitude An Insult to National Intorast.

OPERATORS, UNION OFFICIALS HAND BACK COAL PROBLEMS TO WAR LABOR BOARD TODAY

Amana Society _ Gets Coveted ArmyNavy “E” Pennant.   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Jowa Proud Of WEN Au , f To Amana   German Settlement Honored By Army-Navy

Two-Prong Drive Aims At Tunis   Field Dispatch Says ‘Payoff Battle’’ Under Way

COOLER NIGHT FORECAST   But No Frost Is in Prospect for ' Kansas

MARVIN JONES TAKES OFFICE      Third War Food Administrator in Three Months— Begins Another Administration Attempt to Bol. ster Faltering Food Program.

Discord, Between  Vinson and Davis May Be Cause of  Latter Quitting

MARVIN JONES NOW JS ADMINISTRATOR OF FOOD OVERU:S   Third Man to Hold Post-in Three Months Tokes  . Over the the Reins   Tuesday.

MARVIN JONES 1S THIRD NAMED IN PHAREE OF FOOD   Chester C. Davis, St: Louis, Resigns Post, But Gives Suggestions to Provide 3Point Program.   JONES. HEADED DELEGATION AT CONFERENCE   Roosevelt’s Plan to Be Fol. flowed, Production Is Un: der WFA, OPA to Have Rations, Prices.

MARVIN JONES NEW U. S. WAR FOOD DIRECTOR   Third Shakeup In Three Months Ousts Chester C. Davis from Office.

Becomes Third U. S. Administrator In Three Months After Chester Davis Quits In Policy Dispute

 Bainbridge «..  Building Is Fire-Swept   Naval Station Blaze Under Control After Much Damage Is Done

YANK FORCES SWEEP NORTH IN SOLOMON   Land on Bougainville Island in Drive Against Rabaul

Buin and Faisi Are  By-Passed   Strong Amphibian Force Seizes Bougainville, Menaces Jap Stronghold.

Enemy s Base at Rabaul Is Threatened   Amphibious Units Land in Strength Northwest of Buin

FSA Will Shift Farm Workers  Majority to Be Sent From Areas Where — Production Low

1D BAPTIST CHURCH 13 YEARS OLD   Anniversary Observe Sunday With Special Services

American Public Engaged in Biggest Money Spending Splurge Since 1929

U. S. Forces Lose 12 Big Bombers Attacking Emden, Wilhelmshaven   Terrific Toll of Axis Planes Is Taken By Continued Allied Raids in Italian Region; Reds Report Heavy Artillery Barrages on Long Front

Four Jap Bases Fall To Chinese In ‘Rice Bowl’   Severe Losses Inflicted On Enemy By U.S. Fliers In Western Hunan Area

Chinese Take 4  Jap-Held Towns  Smashing Victory  ei ae Ceaheesieee 5 AR SOs

U.S., RAF Again Hit Vital Targets In Northern France   Fliers State Raids Cause Damage To Stratecic Fields

AIRFIELDS IN FRANGE RAIDED   Results Are Reported Gcod on 2 Targets

Europe Again Being Pounded By Air Fleets   Huge Formations Take Off Over Channel  Toward France

BOMBS ON FRANCE   American and R.A.F, Planes Blast Enemy Air Fields

AIRPORTS RAKED BY RAF RAIDERS   Sweep Over France Hits At Shipyards And Flying Fields

Allied Planes  Pound Europe   Air Fleet Carries Out Daylight Raid; RAF Bombs  France, Low Countries.

Bombers Attack Targets in France  Dutch Squadron Figures in Raid

Nazi A‘ vtields In f rE ve Are Bo ¢ j ° Fargeti   Pox ss aens-Glissy Visited by 2 -mericans and Poix Later by RAF, with Satisfactory Results Renorted

Airmen Swing at Europe   YANK, R.A.F. BOMBERS BLAST FRENCH AIR FIELDS IN NEW RAIDS

Lucien A. Aaniel Dies Unexpectedly  Had Been Ill for Eighteen Months

lucien A, Aaniel  Dies Unexpectedly Hed Been Hi for Eighteen Months  “Ene bA t, Mz.

Demands Drastic Change In Traffic Signals, Laws To Speed Up War Traffic

ODT Demands Revisionof — Trai Rules  . Chanaes Ordered   Changes Ordered ‘to Save Rubber, ~ Gasoline, Time

TRAFFIC LIGHT CUTS ORDERED   Eastman Asks Revisions In All Cities To Speed Up War Transportation

Treasury Speeds Pay Hikes For Office Workers  2-Month Muddle le Clearad [In

Treasury Now Has Green Light for Wage Increases   Two Month Muddle Over White Collar Man Whose Recommended Pay Raise Has Been Held Up to ret Authorized Increase Within 10 Days, Mythical Capital Figure Learns

White Collar Men To Get Attention  D. C. Speaker Says Full Speed Ahead On Solary Roicac

WICK ACTION ON ALARY INCREASES AS BEEN ORDERED   hite Collar Workers Soon to Know Decisions on Prof posed Raises

MOUNTAIN TOWN TAKEN BY YANKS   Fifth Army Gains’ in Fierce Fighting, 8th Repulses Counter Blows

Mountain Town On Italian Front ~ Taken By Allies   Fifth Army Captures Village Of Iagone After Fierce Battle   EIGHTH ARMY HALTS COUNTER ATTACKS

ANOTHER SEIZED BY FIFTH ARMY   Kighth Army Hurls Back Nazi CounterAttacks Meanwhile

VOTE TRANSIT WALKOUT IN BALTIMORE   Eastern Transport Tie-Up Looms as Rubber Plants Remain Closed.   5,000 IDLE AT TOLEDO   Soft Coal Dispute Appear: Headed For Accord as WLB

LAND-BAOED PLANES WILL DEGIDE [ooUE   MacArthur Says Planes and Ground Troops Will _ Bring Vic‘ory.   IN WESTERN PACIFIC   He Is Proud of the Navy But Indicates Its Value Is Secondary.

COAL OFFICIALA ARE WITNESSES   John A. Luce and Charles O’Neiil Testify in Mine Portal-pay Case Being Heard At Roanoke

Allies Drop Many Bombs  ‘On Positions      Jap Defenses Leveled, Many Japanese Killed By U. S. Liberators  NEW MOVES HINTED

GREENE URGES ROLLBACK   Subsidy Necessary To Rell Back Costs Of Living, He Says

BREEN INSISTS NO AOLL-BAGK      Predicts ‘Revolt?’ of Wage Earners Unless Living Costs Dron.   URGES GREAT SUBSIDY

Price Cuts Called For By Green   Subsidy Of Two Billion Dollars Yearly Needed To Reduce Costs, Says Head Of AFL

Labor Chieftain Pleads For Cut In Living Costs   Sees Spontaneous Revoli Among Wage Earners Under Present Prices

A.F.L. Chief Says Labor Will ‘Revolt   Strike Curb Law Passes House

REDUCE PRICES OR HIKE WAGES, LABOR DEMAND   Green of AFL Endorses Subsid) Plan, Says Workers Will Revol If ‘Promise’ Not Kept °

Green Says Living Cost Must Be Cut Via Subsidy   Labor Revolt Seen As Threatening Immediately

POULTRY DEALERS PLEAD FOR ‘THAW’   Ceiling Putting Retailers Out Of Business, Claim

POULTRY DEALERS OFFER 2-POINT PLAN   Urge Nation-Wide Ceiling on Sizes, Types

Reds Hurl Back  Nazis In Donets   Bitter Fighting Reported As Counterattacks Fail

RED ARMY TROOPS SMASH STRONGES) ~ GERMAN ATTACK   Nazi Regiment Hurted Bacl In Costly Effort to Cross Danats.

Nazis Suffer Heavy Lossin : ~~ Denets 1 ATea      Russians Smash Strong Attempt to Cross River

Kidnap Suspect Tale Questioned   Pearl Harbor Wounds Are Challenged

Kidnaping Case Becomes More Weird As Authorities Check Woman's Past

Higher Security Taxes Urged  _ Congress Inclines  Toward Sales Levy

Boost in Social Security Taxes ls Recommended   Congress Shows Signs of Inclination To Adopt Sales Tax “

Double Security Levy Proposed   Support for U. S. Sales Tax Grows

Higher Security Taxes Urged  Fg Cae,  2 ee   Congress Inclines Toward Sales Levy

SECURITY TAX HIKE PROPOSED   Congress Shows Signs Of Favoring Sales Levy Over Income Boost

SUB SINKING   [wo Jap. Transports Sunk Shortly After U. S. Sub Argonaut Was Sunk

60 000 Nazis Defend Italy, Allies Believe   Allies Make, However, 9 or 10-Mile Advance At Terminals of Line

(Se ws ll T'S hlU'’_TlhU’ we wy lULWwehlU;wrhUhWrChCUL MWC hCULCwemhUCUSmhUmTC]  Says Hitler Will  Face Disaster Soon

‘NOW IS THE TIME’ FOR VICTORY PUNCH   So Says British Laborite as Russians Drive On

BELIEVES HITLER FACES DISASTER   } Bevin Says German Armies  in Russia Are in Jeop  ardy.

KENTUCKY MOB WRECKS HALL   Windows In Municipal Building Shattered By Group

CITY BUILDING iS WRECKED BY MOB   Turmoil Reigns in Olive Hill, Ky. Over Delinquency Laws

BIG DEFENSIVE VICTORIES SEEN IN NAZI REPORT   Rerlin Radio Tries to Viinimize Successes  Of Red Troops

GERMAN AGENCY SAYS LINES IN S AREASDENTED   Soviet Successes Scored Southwest of Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoi Rog and  Cherkassy —~   BERLIN TRYING TO MINIMIZE DEFEATS   Reds Driving West of Isolated Gomel and Zhitemir In Effort to Open Avenue to Germany

REDS OPENING INVASION ROAD INTO GERMANY      Cut Nazi Armies of South From Those of Center and North

‘Nazi Lines Dented In Eight Sectors   ‘Berlin Admits Russian Gains _ While Minimizing Their Extent   “DEFENSIVE SUCCESS”   Fierce Battles in Region _ West of Smolensk to _ Dnieper Bend

Germans Admit Russian Gains In Great Clash   Violent Battle Still Raging in Bend of Dnieper

Berlin Reports Lines Dented In Eight New Spots   Battles Pictured As Successful Nazi Defensive ‘Tactics

Massed Blows Press Germans   Berlin Trying to Minimize Spreading Russian Success

RED ATTACKS DENT GERMAN LINES AGAIN   Berlin Radio Attempts To Minimize Successes of Soviet Army

SEVER RAILROAD WEST OF GOMEL   Another Important Part Of Communications Ripped Out   SOUTH OF RECHITSA

Berlin Radio Admits Gains By Russians   Speaks Of Massed Attacks; Tries To Minimize Attacks

Soviets Dent . Nazi Lines in. Eight Sectors   Germans Admit Gains by Red Troops Along Mos? of Russian Front

Berlin Seeks To Depreciate Soviet Gains   Most Violent Fighting in History in Progress in Smolensk-Dnieper Area

Soviet Forces Rush 18 Miles From Zhifomir   Canadians Encounter Flame Throwers in Ortona, Which Nazis Say Is Abandoned

6,200 Germans Slain On Soviet Front; Ortona Is Evacuated, Nazis Announce

REDS DRIVE NEAR BORDER OF RUMANIA   Another Drive in White Russia Cuts Within Five Miles of Vitebsk.   Ortona in Italy Is Taken by Canadians

NAZIS ROUTED IN ITALY AT BAYONET POINT   Eisenhower Names Deputy Commanders for Nearing Invasion of Europe

Russians in Mighty Drive Meward Border   Army of Ukraine 120 Miles Prom Rumanian Frontier  As Kiev Fight Rages

Covering New Territory in Great Sweep   Half Million . Troops Are . Charging Forward West of Kiev, Berlin Says   GERMAN LOSSES MOUNTING HIGH   Two Drives Going Strong Vitebsk Isolated;Soviets Are Nearing Rumanian Border

Russian Blitz In Ukraine Is Sweeping On   Hundred Towns Long Held By Germans Fall To Soviets.

Ukrainians Swing Southwest Of Kiev  Toward Rumania   Vatutin’s Army But 18 Miles From Lhitomir, 20 From Berdichev; Wide Gaps Torn In Nazi Lines

RUSSIAN ARMY GRINDS FORWARD AGAINST NAZIS   Berlin Preoccupied by Promised Blow from Britain

Nazis Evacuating _ Ortona in Italy,  Berlin Says—Use Flame Throwers

RedSweep Gathers Speed   Within 18 Miles of  Zhitomir in Ukraine, And Near Outskirts Of Vitebsk in North

Red Armies Push Drives on 2 Fronts   6,200 Germans Listed as Killed in Gigantic Batties Still Raging

SWEEPING CAMPAIGN IN TWO DISTRICTS MEETING SUCCESSES  ADDITIONAL RAIL LINES  USED BY GERMANS HAVE

RUSSIAN BLITZ GATHERS SPEED THRU UKRAINE   Hundreds Of Towns Seized; Germans Quit Adriatic Port Of Ortona

Nazis Lose 6 ,200 Men in Fighting   Eisenhower Picks Tedder Air Marshal; “Canadians Dig Out Foe in Ortona

HIGHER CEILING PLAUED ON HOGS   Government Order Becomes Effective Some Time in August.

Workmen Repair ‘Big Inch’ Leak ©   Oil Causes Damage To Farm Lands

Businessmen Planning for Postwar Era   Nation Must Produce Heavily “Ty Save Jobs

CONGRESS  MAY ‘SEEK TO END OPA DISPUTE OVER 'GRADE-LABELING PLAN

‘HOT CONTROVERSY ~UNDER!  WAY ON NOTING GRADES OF  PRODUCTS ON CANS OF  PROCESSED FOODS

GRADE LABELING DISPUTE WARMS   Congress May Intervene In Canned Goods Row

STRIKING MINERS RETURN TO WORK      Mine Of Janes And Laughlin Steel Corporation Now Operating

Counter Attacks By Japs Repelled   U. §S. Forces Beat Back Three Strong Pre-Dawn Attacks In New Guinea

CHEESE LISTED FOR RATIONING IN OPA SET-UP   Official Indicates - All Dairy Products Are To Be Rationed. Along _.  iff Meats   BEGIN IN SPRING   Supplies Will Increase Within Few Months, But Are Now At Record Low Amotints

Butter, Cheese Rations Likely   OPA States March 1 May Be Date. For Starting  No..2 Book Use

BUTTER, CHEESE MAY BE RATIONED   OPA INDICATES RESTRICTIONS ON USE WILL BE EFFECTIVE IN SPRING.

Butter, Cheese Rationing Schedulec For Next Spring, OPA Announce.

Butter, Cheese To Be Rationed In U.S. Next Spring   Point Rationing May Start March 

Hint Butter, Cheese Will Be Rationec   Former To Come With Increased Supplies, Latter Along With Meat. Report

BUTTER CHEESE RATIONING NEXT   OPA Official Indicates Action Coming in Spring; Butter Scarce Now

Butter, Cheese Rationing Plan Set For Spring   Present Shortage Prevents Immediate Institution Of Coupon System,  . OPA Says   ‘Catch-as-Catch-Can’ Buying Until Then   March 1 Starting Date For Canned Vegetables, Fruit Control

Dairy Foods Certain To Be Rationed   Cheese Limitations Apt To Come Same Time As Meat

Predict Rationing Of Butter, Cheese   Program Probably Will Begin Next Spring With Cheese Tied In With Meat; Three Problems Are Listed

tter and Cheese tioning Likely rly This Spring  resent Butter Stocks oo Low for Point  System, Says OPA INTED FORMS LATE  Rein on Preserved Fruits and Vegetables Scheduled far March 

With the Slogan “Back the Attack—With War Bonds,” Every American Citizen Is Asked to Buy at Least One Additional £100 Bond in September

Home Front Volunteers Start Today Te Put Over Third War Loan Campaign  For World’s Greatest Financing Drive  With the Slogan “Back the Attack— With War Bonds,” Every American Citizen Is Asked to Buy at Least One Additional $100 Bond in September

Home Front Volunteers Start Today To Put Over Third War Loan Campaign For World’s Greatest Financing Drive   THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASUR’ WASHINGTON

 A PAID AGENT FOR JAPAN   Former College, Ins Instractor Gets Year, $9,000 Fine

WAACS GROW IN: STRENGTH   Report’ Reveals 160 Field Companies In Service

WAACS STATIONED THROUGHOUT WORLE      160 Field Companies Now Or Active Duty P

¢ Christmas Is Anything But Happy Time For Nazis— —By Kirke L. Simpson (?)  ‘ Three Front Drive Against Germany Coming

“4e sig usi-0ra_ az - noc x cour Fae: “ome Sooner ~ yan You — 1in<

Airtight Censorship Cloaks Details of Air Raid Damage   Widespread Destruction Is Acknowledged By Germans as Result of Hits on Great Dams

Tight Censorship On Dam Damage   Germany Acknowledges Widespread Destruction And Death.

\Nazis Ban  ‘Mention Of. Bursting Of iHuge Dams   Neutral Observers Say Hundreds Were Drowned And War Plants Crippled

SEEPAGE STARTED BY MINE DROPPCD BY BRITISH PLAN      Threatens New Flood; Ger« mans Work Frantically to Prevent Break

FLOOD WATERS LOOSED BY RAF - SWEEP PLANTS   Ruhr Area War Factories  Inundated, Thousands of  » Workers Homeless In -Wake Of Raids   PRESS IS SILENT   Beylin Promises’ “Jewish : People To: Be Punished” For Wrecking of Dams . By  British . Fliers

New Pole Army Eager To Fight Way Back Home, Action Expected Soon by Iran Force

RAF Follows In Great Europe Raid   Thunderous Offensive Scores Bullseyes On Vital Axis Sub Bases, Other Targets; Battle Is Still Continuing

Raid Declared Heaviest  Made by Yanks   13 of Big Planes Are Lost in 3-Pronged Attack

Greatest Fleet Of Bombers In Raids   Non-Stop Allied Aerial Offensive Thunder: Into Second Week Early Sunday In Europe

Triple Daylight Assault Hammers German Controlled Region Of France

Iripie Assault. Hits Sub Lairs   Bulls-Eye Hits On Targéts Reportéd

Largest Force Of Yank Planes Hit U Boat Pens   Americans Suffer Second Greatest Loss, 13 Ships, In Daylight Assault

Ruhr Valley Air Offensive Hits Mulheim   Test of Germans’ Ability to Take It  Goes Forward

FLIERS BLAST STEEL CENTER OF MULHEIM   Allies To Find Out How Much Bombing Ruhr Area Can Take

RUHR STEEL CENTER LEFT BLAZING MASS BY POWERFUL BLOW   British Fliers Start Fires Visible 100, Miles As Allies Continue Effort To Bomb Germany To Knees

Steel center of Mulheim left as ‘blazing mass’   Allies trying to see if sector can be knocked out

Submarine Base At St. Nazaire Badly Damaged   Allied Bombers Continue Attacks on German Positions

ALLIED BOMBS LEAVE HAVOC INST. NAZAIRE   NAZILAND POUNDED IN CONTINUOUS AIR RAID

Allies Onen New Aerial Drive on Axis   Nazi War Plants Hit Day and Night By Heavy Bombs

Concentrated Attock Is Reported on St. ~ Nozoire .  LARGE FIRES RAGE . FOLLOWING ATTACK Two British Bombers Foil  to Return From Raid

ALLIES POUND NAZI SUB BASE AT ST. NAZAIRE   Fourth Of French City Blasted As Bombers Launch All-Out  Offensive   Great Fires Started

St. Nazaire Ablaze AsAllied Bombers Strike in 46th Raid   Heavy, Concentrated Raid on Docks; Nazis Bomb Brighton

St. Nazaire Fires Burn On, as Allied Flyers Hit Again  Fresh Relays of Planes   Fresh Relays of Planes Shuttle Over Channel To Nazi-Held France

Allies Again Blast at Nazi Bases   U. S., British Relay Fliers to Vital Points Over Europe

NEW AIR ATTACK MADE ON BERLIN   RAID IS SECOND IN THREE NIGHTS—TARGETS IN RUHR ALSO BLASTED,

RAF Continues To Batter Nazis   Big U-Boat Nest at St. Nazaire Pounded: Large Fires Started

Raiders Pound Axis in Relays   Bombers Cross Channel . After Firine Sab Neat

ST. NAZAIRE NAZI SUB BASE BOMBED AGAIN   Smoke Coiled 15,000 Feet Over City From Fires Estimated To Cover One Fourth Its Area.   ? RAF Bombers Lost

Clark Explains Shipyard Statu:   Given Confidence Vote At Mass Meeting

EX EMPLOYES ~ HEAR CLARK   Outlines His Position In Dispute With DachelCarter Company

*PRESIDENT OF COUNTRY SIGNS EPIC DECREE   Argentina Is Now Only Republic In South America Wit! * Axis Relations.

Chile Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations With Axis in Resnonse to ‘Mandate of Public’

ARMISTICE DAY TRIBUTES PAID   President Puts Wreath on Arlington Tomb; Work in Plants Not Halted

GERMAN DRIVE FOR KURSK HAS FAILED   The Red Army Counterattack Is Mounting in Strength.

COOL WEATHER STAYS   Temperatures Below 50 Are Forecast for Tonight

FORECASTS LIGHT RAIN   Mild Weather Is Exp Expected to Con,tinue in Eastern Kansas

‘Russians Don't  Know U.S. Aiding   That Is Statement of Ambassador to Moscow

Soviet People Are Not Being Told Extent Of — U.S. Aid, Standley Says

Russians Accused Of Nof Revealing Extent Of U.S. Aid In Their All-Out War Effort

Thinks Reds Not Told About Help   Standley Believes Complete Story Is Being Withheld

SAYS RUSSIANS NOT INFORMED ON’ AID RECEIVED FROM U.S   Standley Asserts Russia Is Getting “Plenty” of War Materials   PLANS TO SEE STALIN

Standley Says Russian People Not Told Of American Aid And Warns Of Possible Reactign On Lend-Lease

SAYS REDS ARE SILENT ON AID   Ambassador Asserts Reds Create Impression Of  Fighting Alone

Soviets Not Told of American Aid   Envoy Discloses Russian Attitude.

REDS FAILTO ADMIT RECEIVING U.S. SUPPLIES   Standley Says Russian People Misinformed

RUSSIAN: PEOPLE DONT KNOW OF U.S. WAR HELP   Red Press Has Made No Mention of Supplies Being Received From U. S. and Britain.

Claim Russian People Not Told of U. S. Help   Ambassador Says No Admission of Aid Made in Press

U, 8. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA CRITICAL OF SECRECY ON AID   ADMIRAL STANDLEY SAY  RUSSIAN PEOPLE NOT INFORMED OF HELTP

U.S. Aid Kept From Russians   ~ People Are Not Told Extent of Help Soviet Receives From U. S.

Russian People Not Told About Help They Are Getting from America, U. S. Envoy Declares and Says Soviet Policy Unfair

STALIN HAS NOT INFCRMED PEOPLE RELATIVE 10 HELE   U. S$. Ambassador to Moscow Unable to Find Announcement of Great Help Under Lend-Lease.   STANDLEY HOPES FOR CONFERENCE SHGRTL'   Learns of No Changes In Exchange of Information Since Washington Past Lact Year.

Standley Says Reds Try to Create Impression They're Fighting Alone

Reds Not Told About U. S. Aid, Standley Says   Ambassador to Russia Says People Do Not Get Complete Story

SAYS PEOPLE NOT TOLD OF RUSSIAN AID   Much Material Help Be ing Given by the U, S., ; ‘Standley Savs

Saindley says Russian People Not Told Of American. 7 , re . i ‘ me} e Aid And Warns OT Possible Pogetinn On Pp ean  De erres

Criticism of Reds by Envoy Standley * Gets Quick Replies   Ambassador Charges Ex@ tent of U.S. Aid ie Withheld From Reds

People In Russia Not Being Told of The Extent of Help They’re Receiving From U.S.

ARMY TO RELEASE 25,000 OFFICERS   Discharged Men Will Be Over Dratt Ace

25,000 OFFICERS TO BE RELEASED   25,000 Others to Be Put im Operations Jobs  ‘ies etioen omer wn  eee rneee- eee

25,000 ARMY OFFICERS SOON TO END SERVICE   Men Over Draft Age, Specialists To Doff Uniform, Resuli of Reduced Enlisted Strength

Berlin Has Been Hit Harder Than London Ever Was. Flareup Of Ground ‘ Activity In ltaly.

Total Augmentec By City Action —   Chairman Insists ‘Tough Job Ahead

Total Augmentec By City Action   Chairman Insists Tough Job Ahead  Be WW Y WIEEER

War Bond ~ Quota Is Reached   Morgenthau, Speaking From ‘Evansville, Ind., Reports Sales of $15;000,006,000   “STILL HAVE TWO DAYS MORE TO GO   What Happens in That Time « Will Measure Our Pa. triotism, He Says

Goal Reached tn Bond Drive   Morgenthau Annourices 15 Bilions Have Been Invested, * with Two Days To Go

$15 Billions Subscribed By  Home Front   Two Days Left in Third War Loan Drive—More Can Be Subscribed

More Sales Slated During Day; Drive Will Buy Bombers And Fighter Craft

Iola Over Top   Exceeds Bond Quota By $4,196.50; Small Buyers Not Doing Well

Nations Bond Goal Reached   Carter County Over Top With Gigantic Auction

HANOVER’S HUGE WAR LOAN QUOTA IS NOW IN SIGH’   Subscriptions During Campaign Up To Last Evening Amounted To $2,215,670   TOTAL OF $254,183 RECEIVED YESTERDAY   Leaves $238,330, Or Average O01 $79,443 Per Day, To Be Subscribed To Gain Goal By Saturday Night

Third War Loan Goal Reached; No Individual Sales Quotas Met.   ‘BIG MONEY’ GOAL MET

3rd WAR LOAN DRIVE GOES  OVER THE TOP.   Secretary Morgenthau Announced at Evansville, Ind. Today That Goal of $15,000,000,000 Had Been Met at Eleven O’ Clock This Morning

War Loan Oversubscribed By Substantial Total In Both Sandusky And County

HIT GOAL IN 90 WAR LOAN   15 Billion Mark Reached At 11 a. m. Today, Says Morgenthau

Third War Loan Drive Quota Met   Was Reached at 11 o' Clock  This Morning, Sec. Mor : genthau Announced.

‘REDS ARE NOW 34 MILES FROM 'DNIEPER’ RIVER   Hitler Restores Some Generals Qusted When He Took -Over. Army.

Soviets Surge To Dnieper River On 25th Anniversary   Threaten Outposts By Taking Rail Junctions

OF ENTRAPMENT. FACES GERMANS   If Nazis Escape From Caucasus The Crimea To Be New Trap   REDS WITHIN 34 , MILES OF DNIEPER

Invaders Make Counterattacks At Kramatorsk   Hitler Returning Ousted General to Russian War Theate

JOVIETS WITHIN 4 MILES OF ONIEPER RIVER   A 40 Mile Drive Will Put Them On Road To Kiev; Prepare To Celebrate ?5th Anniversary

REDS CONTINUE DNIEPER DRIVE   Russians Move Within 34 Miles of River

Soviet Troops 34 Miles From  Dnieper River   Capture Pavlograd and Krasnograd, Major Rail  Or eR I as i

SMASH AHEAD ON 300-MILE BATTLE LINE   Soviet Campaign Pointing to Climatic Battle Against German Forces at Orel

Reds Mopping Up; Threaten Dniener L'ne   Drive . Southwest From Kharkov May Develop Double Entrapment   MANY DONETS: BASIN TOWNS. RETAKEN   Another German General ‘Restored to Favor;. British Praise Soviet Sween

RaYBURN SAYS FDR WILL PLACE VETO ON CONGRESS BAN   Roll-Back « Subsidy Issue - On, Block—President Will Address  Congres,

Subsidy Bill VetobyFDR Seen Likely   Presidential Action Expected at 1 P. M.3 Stamp Plan Revived

Subsidy Ban Veto Expected ‘Bv President   Roosevelt Will Act This Afternoon, Rayburn Says

MAY’S BETTER   Knox Says Antl-Sab War Progress Tea Faeronreagvier

RUSSIAN FOOD SITUATION BAD   Soviet Gets Priority Over England On Shipments This Year

Vavy Flier Survives’ Being Shot Down — ” At Sea and.218 Days-as Island Castaway

LOCAL ORSERVATIONE   Strange Sea Saga For lowa Youth   Glenwood Radioman Lives Life of Castaway 218 Days in South Pacific.

Navy Man Safe fter 218 Days As Castaway  Natives On Tiny Island Care For  Wounded American

218 Days a Castaway  Saga of Lonely Survival On Sea and Beaches of Wound.

‘This Is the Story — of Lonely Survival of Brave lowa Boy   Saga of 218 Days as Cast# away on Open Sea and  Island Shores Told

Youth Rescued After 218 Days   Young Radioman, Shot Down, Wounded, Cared For by Islanders

Saga Of Lonely Survival On Open Sea And Island Beach   Young Flier Who Lived Better Part Of Year As Castaway, Among Rescued

W. F. A. Seizes Elevator Corn  For War Uses   Holdings At Midwestern Terminals Are Requisitioned By Government.

‘'MAJOR HIGHWAYS OPEN   Only Three Reported Blocked by High Water Today

ree ll ul         Administration Forces Win, Indicating Senate Passage Today

Attempt To Amend Reciprocal Trade Treaties Defeated   Administration Forces Beat Back Two Efforts in Senate

Rail and Union Leaders to Meet Today on Dispute  Seek Way to Accord as Strike Deadline

Railroad Men Still in Capital   May Be ‘Something Doing’  TT. daw. Gave Tnuzall

Rail, Union Heads May Resume Meets   Washington Still Feels Transportation to Not Suffer

GREENLAND VITAL TO AMERICAN DEFENSE   Congressman Randolph Says Possession Of Island Is Equivalent To 1,600 Planes

Randolph Urges Acquisition of Nearby Islands   Says Greenland s Needed for Defense

OPA Postpones Price Roll-back Beyond Scheduled Starting Date As Subsidies Hit Congress Snag

OPA Postpones Price Roll-Back By Subsidy Plan   Consider Junking Entire Program, Pending OWM Review

OPA Delays Rollback of  Food Prices   Opposition to Subsidies  Believ éd Reason: June 1 Program Out

Price Roll-Back Snagged, Won't Start on June 1   Entire Food Price Program Uncertain Under New Set-Up

OPA Put: Off Price Roll-Back   PROGRAM FOR MEAT, BUTTER, COFFEE IS POSTPONED FROM JUNE 1

Delay Scheduled Price Roll-Back   Hostility Growing Toward Subsidies

Rollback Of Prices Postponed   Congressmen’s  Opposition to Subsidies Blamed

EE a—ooerrrerrrreeeee i ee) ie  GOVERNORS ASK MARKETS GLOSE WED. THUR., FRE   W.F.A. Officials Deny Tobacco Allocation Cuts; Hope To Bolster Sagging Prices.

Tobacco Holiday Called This Week   Governors Broughton and Darden Ask Ware: houses to Close Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Least. Will Seck to Raise Prices.

TOO MUCH GAS, ROBERTS SAYS   Carolina Motor Club Head Says Gasoline Black Market In N. C. Result Of Abundant Supply That Can’t Re Sold.

U. §. Santa fo Wounded Men   Gifts Pour in to Temple for Soldiers Wounded at Salerno

A Big Christmas for Fer  ‘Nations Gifts Roll to Hospital .Housing Salerno s Wounded Men

German Defenses Cut _ - Open Before Kharkov  Heavy Fighting In Africa Threatens _ Allied Position of Gafsa; the     Caviate Srimce Parward

HOOVER SEES . BIG PROBLEN   EX-PRESIDENT “DECLARES “FOOD WILL HOLD FIRST "PLACE IN PUBLIC AT TENTION AFTER WAR

Texans Ask Why Strikes Permitted   Full-Page Ad is In Edition of Washinaton Post

Churchill Tells U.S. Ship Deal   150-200 Vessels Promised, Commons Told

U.S. 10 PROVIDE 200 VESSELS 10 ASSIST ENGLANC   Churchill Tells Commons of Plans With Roosevelt, Program To Be Carried on 10 Months.   CANADIANS TO HELP IN SIMILAR MANNER   Type of Ship Not Revealed, Some Partly Completed, Number Will Carry British Flag.

Move Made To Use Britist Manpower   Nation Is Short of Crews te Men New Vessels, 's Reason

FDR Promises Britain Ships  Churchill Says 150-200 To Be Turned Over

BRITISH TO GET SHIPS   (rreat Britain Te Get 150 ' &. Built Ships, Says Churchill

ENGLAND WILL GET AMERICAN VESSELS   Between 150 and 200 Ships Will Be Built for Great Britain.

GIVES EM AWAY   FDR Promises British 200 U.S. Ships. Churchill Reveals.

EMPLOYES LOSE 1942 BONUS BY WLB’S RULING   Nationwide Bonus Formula Laid Down In Local  Firm’s Case

BLOCKADE STOPS EVACUATION WITH MANY LIVES LOST   Ships, Barges, Small Boats, Filled With Soldiers Either Sunk or Forced Back to Shore.   GREAT DAMAGE DONE AT PALERMO PLANTS   German News Agency In Radio Report Recorded In New York Reveals Many Italian Casualties.

MEN TRYING TO FLEE IN SMALL BOATS SHOT UP   No Major Effort at Evacuation by Axis Forces Is Indicated

Home Edition   PRISONERS TAKEN IN TUNISIA NOW TOTAL 100,000   Germans Surrender To Americans; U. S. Planes Pound Stepping Stone  Islands On Italy Invasion Route _

Believe 100,000 Prisoners Will Be Taken in Entire Campaign; German Generals Surrendering   British Armored Columns Race to Cut Off Remaining Forces in Bon. Booty Is Tremendous —- Mop  Up Continues.

MANY SMALL BOATS IN WHICH ENEMY SOLDIERS ATTEMPTED ‘DUNKIRK EVACUATION’ SUNK   Estimates of Prisoners Range  From 75,000 to 100,000

BLOCKADE. AXIS ARMY REMNANT ON PENINSULA   Mop Up Booty, Prisoners Continues

Devers Says Axis “<"Crambling Begins   Declares War in’ European Theater Will Be Inten- ‘ sified Soon.

U. S. Militarists See Finale of Axis, Reveal Development of New American Materiel, Promise Victory

Supplies Pour Into Africa Area   Allies Reorganize  For Next Campaign

MANY ACTIVITIES SEEM 10 POINT TO ACTION SOON   Arrival of Supplies in Africa; Greatest Air Raid in History Over Europe, Are “Signs”

Canada First on Costs of Living   The Rise Is Held to 17 Per Cent; Advance in U. S. to 26 Per Cent.

Canada’s Anti-Inflation Holds Living Cost Rise To Only 17 Per Cent

‘SIGNALS HAVE BEEN SET FOR ALLIED OFFENSIVES IN EUROPE LAND ASTA- MAY RE SAME TIME

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   More Than One Offensive Drive Against Germans, Japanese In Cards

The War Today—  Asks Prayer Of Strength Today For Men Who Soon Will Invade Europe

The War Today  ‘Let Us Not Forget Prayer That Strength Be Given To The Living.’

Allied Fortunes Should Be Bright by Next Armistice Day War in Europe Will Likely Be Over

JUVENILE AID CHANGE ASKED   Replacement of County Welfare Agent Is Urged

in4cGee And District OPA Officials Answer Questions _ On Rationing In Open Forum Fer Connty Ragede Upc

McGee And District OPA Officials Answer Questions On Rationing In Open Forum For County Boards Here

20 ROOSTERS beet AT THREEO’ CLOCK   Humboldt and Dakot: City Produce Houses Co-operated

ALL PRODUCE HOUSES ARE C0-OPERATINE   Twenty Roosters Will be Released ion Main Street

Workers in War Func Drive Urged to Greater Effort  Total of $5,197 Reported in Silver Bow   Total of $5,197 Reported in Silver Bow County Campaign for $50,000; 60 Women Enrolled in Worthy Movemen

Workers in War Func Drive Urged to Greater Effort   Total of $5,137 Reported in Silver Bow County Campaign for $50,000; 60 Women Enrolled in Worthy Movement

ANNUAL MEETING  NEXT WEDNESDAY   Dairy Marketing Expert To Give Address — To Present Awards.

ANNUAL MEETING AT COURTHOUSE   Dairy Marketing Expert — To Give Address — To Present Awards.

Gen. Eisenliower  And Badoglio  Confer.on War New Cabinet Formed  hy Italian Premier be: Ae

 w¥° e Five Airdromes  Raided By Allies   Continue Attacks Against Jap Bases

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT JAP BASES   Single-Plane Raids Pound Enemy Installations

FLYING FORTS LEAD FORCE IN ATTACK   Meet Stronger Opposition Than at Pantelieria

Allied Airmen  Batter Island ~ ‘Around Clock   ‘Signs Increase That Lid’s. About . to Blow Off In Mediterranean Sectors: Axis Broadcasters Predicting .-Invasion ‘At Any Time.’

Increase Attacks To Bring Sicily To Capitulation   Allied Air Assaults Upon Important Bases In Sicily Reach New Fury   ANOTHER SMALL ISLAND OCCUPIED

WOMAN SLAYER KILLS HERSELE   Former Baltimore News-. paper Editor, Serving Life, Cuts Throat  With Scissors 

WOMAN “LIFER” COMMITS SUICIDE   Mrs. Mildred M. Bolton Dies in Hinois State Reforma-

BULGARIA TIGHTENS ITS COAST LINE   German Preparations Against Expected Invasion Rushed

DEMPSEY’S DIVORCE TRIAL CONTINUES   Harry Goldman Testifies for Former Boxing Champ

Bedroom Spice Told In Court.  Mrs, Dempsey’s Gay Parties Described

Hourly Temperatures   Lewis Says Miners Still Seek Pay Raise, Despite Roosevelt’s Order

LEWIS SAYS MINERS CONTINUE DEMAND      UMW President Declares FDR’s Order Doesn't Affect Parley

STEELMAN SEES CHANGE FOR NEV COAL CONTRACT   Believes Negotiations Can Re Carried Ont Successfully Despite Appeal

Fight Goes On, Lewis ag  Bite Wines Geil.   Mine Wages Still: Too Low, He Says

TO PRESS FOR RAISE DESPITE FOR WAGE EDICT   Roosevelt Fights Inflation Through Wage, Food Curb,  Rationing and Taxes

LEWIS ATTACKS — “FREEZE’ ORDER   Mine Chief Says Problems Remain Unchanged

LEWIS STANDS FIRM ON PAY HIKE DEMAND   Negotiations Continue On Agreement For. Coal Miners

nal DISASTER — SEEN POSSIBLE ON RUSS FRONT   Bay Germans May Be Able  to Save Half of 600,000 Men.

GERMANS FLEE FOR LIVES AS DEFENSES COLLAPSE IN RUSSIA   Red Army Pace May Clear Nazis From Soviet Soil By Year-lbnd; Six More Towns Captured In Italv   Ry UNITED PRESS

Polish and Balkan Borders Are Goal   Nazi Lower Dnieper Lines Crumble; Allies Seize Six Towns in Italy

Share Power In O. P. A.   Matters of Policy In Brown’s Hands; Bowles As General Manager

BANDITS ROUTED   Becline Free Mest and Leave In Worry to Fscaner Reheces_

BRICKER SIGNS NEW TIME BILL      Governor Overrides Wave ol Last-minute Protests

Bricker Signs Bill Tc Change Ohio’s Time Despite Protests      Governor Declares He Is Convinced Change Will Help Agriculture But Points Out Legislature Can Still Aet

29 OHIO CITIES WILL REMAIN ON FAST WARTIME   State To Transfer to Eastern Standard Time Next Sunday Morning

Bricker Signs Time Bill As Aid To Agriculture; ‘Change Effective Sunday

OHIO'S CLOCKS TO BE TURNED BACK ON SUNDAY   Governor Signs Measure for ‘Slow’ Time To Help Farmers, He Says   MANY CITIES STAND PAT   Legislature Still in Session And Can Reconsider, Bricker Points Out

U.S. Will Build  3 Super Carriers  Craft Will Be Able To Carry Bombers

Navy To Build Super Carriers   Two-Motor Bombers Operate From Deck

Three 45,000-Ton Plane Carriers -To Be Added To American Navy Shortly

HUGE CARRIERS WILL BE BUILT   Construction Of Two 0: Three 45,000-Ton Vessels Will Start Soon

SUPER CARRIERS BEING BUIL   ‘Capable of Carrying Big T wo-Engined Bombers; Largest of This Type In World.

Super Aircraft Carriers Soon, Says Sec. Knox   Three New Ones Wiil Be Built

U.S. to Build 3  Super-Carriers   45,000-Ton Craft  To Use Larger Planes

12 Die in Crash   3 Super Aircraft Carriers To Be Built By U. S. Navy

New Work Stoppage in Coal Mines   Miners Look to Ickes for Next Move; Steel Producers Immediately Prepare to Curtail Output of Steel

Coal Digaing Comes To Half In Many States   Miners Decline To Resume Work Without Contract

PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA MINES NOSEDIVE TO ZERO PRODUCTION   Stee] Producers Say Conditions Are Considerably More Serious Than on Last Stoppage in The. : First Week of June a   NATION'S COAL MINE CoG STALLED AGAIN

Miners Remain Away from Pits  i 2 ae   Steel Producers Prepare to Curtail Steel Operations

Order Lower ‘Butter Quota For Civilians   Wickard Takes Action To Give Adequate Supply Of Butter And Fruit  Juices For Army

WICKARD PLANS TO DISTRIBUTE FOODS IN EQUAL AMOUNTS   Adequate Supplies For Armed Forces First— Butter Soon. To Be Rationed

Two Americans Escape Germans   Get Away After Being Forced Down Inside Of Enemy Lines

YANK FLIERS IN NARROW ESCAPE   Forced Down Inside Nazi Lines, Two Pilots Beat Off Anti-Tank Crew

McNutt Told To Solve Problems Or Quit Post   Both McNutt And Madam Perkins Are Under Fire In Congressional Action.

MeNutt Draw: Scolding in Honse Speech      Congressman Asks W MC Head to Do Job or Quit Post

Solon Demands Fast Action on Man Power   Says McNutt Should Solve Problem or Resign Position

alian Citizen  New Cries for a      Pontiff Visits. Bombed Areas After New Attacks

Weather in Helena  fy U. 8, Weather Berean   Throng of Italians Pleads With Pope To Seek Peace as Cities Are Rocked by Great American Attack

Weather in Helena   Throng of Italians Pleads With Pope To Seek Peace as Cities Are Rocked by Great American Attack

ITALIAN CROWDS SHOUT FOR PEACE   POPE KNEELS AMONG THRONGS IN BOMBED AREAS TO OFFER PRAYERS,

ITALIANS SHOUT PEACE TO POPE   Residents Of Milan Hold Demonstration Against Rule Of Badoglio

BISMARCK SEA EYEWITNESS DETAILS Fighi   Capt. W. S. Royalty Reports Cn Early Phase Of Erasure Of Japanese Convoy, 22  c eon   Huge Allied Air Force

Fall of Tripoli Seems Only Matier Of Hours, Says R. P. Patterson; ‘Outlook for Allies Excellent

NORTHERN COAL OUTLOOK BRIGHT   Union Officials Say Southern Operators Have “Different Attitude”

EARLY NORTHERN CONTRACT SEEN   Negotiations to Be Resumed Next Tuesday; Deadlock Between UMW, Southern Producers Continues

GERMAN DEAT DEATH . ATE’50°A DAY      French Patriots ‘Kill . Nazis, Vichyites

NEW PRODUCTION RECORD S MADE   WPB Reveals Percentges of Advances Made During Past Month.”

U. S. War Plants Set New Record   Nelson Announces Percentage Of Increases In November.

Industry Sets New Records  Nelson Makes y Wee Pies y Cambie , ) =e

Today’s War Commentary  English Fleet  ~ May Soon See Action In Pacifie Zone

Both Sources Hint British Drive Begun   30 Axis Planes Destroyed or Damaged, Report

Complete Curve Around Rostov, Take 30 Towns   Yanks, RAF Blast 23 Axis Aircraft From Tunisian Skies In Giant Aerial Dogfight; British Hit Europe  In Sweeping Raids.

Axis Plane Losses .. Are 30 For Day In Struggle For Air   Both Sides Hint Offensive to Annihilate Afrika Korps at Hand; Encirelement Maneuver Expected by Nazis

Allies Lose Nine Planes, Axis 30   Increased Desert Patrols Indicate Early Start of General Offensive

THIRD WAR LOAN BOOK KEPT OPEN FOR BOND SALES   All ‘E’ Orders Must Be Paid by loin; ation Over 15 Billion Goal

6,235 RECORDED AS BOND BUYERS   County Goes Over 6009 Goal With Total Subscription Now $2,220,919

MILK DUMPED IN CITY SEWERS   Drivers Object Double Loads on Every-OtherDay Trips

WAR-NEEDED MILK WASTED IN STRIKE   Drivers Refuse To Conform To Conservation Schedule

WOMEN'S CLUB 10 MEET ON APRIL 15   Annual Convention To Be Held At Methodist . Church

IC TICKETS STIR UP TEMPERS   Maybe Folks Are: Parking Meter Conscious on Account of Election   TO VOTE ON TUESDAY

STIR UP TEMPERS   Maybe Folks Are: Parking Meter Conscious on Ac  count of Election   TO VOTE ON TUESDAY

STATE PROBE INTO MERCER CASE PLANNED   Verdict in Puzzling Triple Slaying on Dairy Farm Fails to Clarify Situation  INQUIRY "WELCOMED"

STATE ENTERS MERCER ~ DEATHPROBE   D, A. Says He Welcomes _ Investigation Into Triple Murder

Chinese Party Sets Washington on Its Head   MADAME KAI-SHEK’S BOARD GROANS WITH ALMOST FORGOTTEN DELICACIES

CHINESE PARTY IN WASHINGTON WAS BIG, ELABORATE AFFAIR   Congressmen Dime a Dozen Officials All Over the Place.

Noted Jurist Dies After a Short Iliness   Joseph Stadtfeld, Associ. ate Judde of Superior Court Dead in Phila.   WAS-RE-ELECTED IN 1942

HIGH COURT JURIST DEAL   Joseph. Stadtfeld,. 82 ' Superior Bench, Dies in Philadelphia’ .

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DREW PEAKSON .  (Trademark.)

Allies Attempting to Clear Air of Enemy Fighters to Open Way for Unopposed Bombings of Germany

AMERICAN FORCES HEAR SPELLMAN   Archbishop Declares America United For Victory

Spellman Addresses U. S. Troops in Africa, Saying America United to Win

SEVERE STORMS HIT OHIO, HALT WAROUTPUT   3 Die, Many Injured as High Water Forces Families To Leave Homes

3 Dead and 3 Missing in Ohio Storm:   27,000 War Workers Idle As High Waters Shut Down Power Plants

Storms Sweep  Ohio; Trio Dead   Flood Waters Halt Production In War Piants.

WAR PRODUCTION CURTAILED BY HIGH WATER   Two Lakeside Residential Areas Evacuated by U. S. Coast Guard

Three Dead in Storms over Ohio         Steubenville Area Is Hardest Hit; Lake Erie over Four Feet Above Usual Level

OHIO REGIONS ARE SWEPT BY STORMS DOING BIG DAMACE   Three Killed and Trio. Missing in Wake of Heavy Storms in Two Areas

in Ohio Storm   Sweeps Through Northern And Eostern Sections Of State

ALFRED SMITH’'S. ADDRESS   AT KFARRAGIIN 1InpAho   SGT. GHARLES VASOS DOIN

HURRICANE THREAT PAST   Disturbance In Gulf Te Die Out During Night, Is Report

Morgenthau Seeking New War Tax Levy   Wants $16 Billion More for ‘44 “While We ' Have Income”

F. D. R. Seores Congress For Discrimination   Says requirement that Senate confirm three of his “appointees is >: uncohstitutional. ~~

1000 Bombers Drop Death on Doomed City   ~ Blasting; Defenses ° " Grow Weaker

Witness Cites Basis For Two  Heil Ouster:   Mrs. Town Explains She And Earl Kidd Were Fired In Order To Save Frank Klode

Nazis Fail in Raid ‘Try Over London   R.A.F, BLASTS AIRFIELD NEAR CHER8OURG, POWER STATION AT CAEN

PRINCETON TOPS WAR BOND QUOTA BY 50 PER CENT   County As A Whole Still Short Of Goal By $400,000, According To Latest Figures From The County Chairman.

Some Expect Brie! Fight  Ry Italiane   Allied Invasion Might En counter Little Resistance by Duce’s Army   OTHERS SAY HE MAY FLEE COUNTRY   Other Possibilities Are Dis~ eussed as. the Axis’ Troubles Mount

George Peters  Leaves LeMars  Will Operate Farm In Southern Iowa

SIGNS POINT TO EARLY INVASION OF ENEMY BASES   U. S. AIRFORCE STEPS UP OFFENSIVE IN PACIFIC WAR ZONE

U. S. Offensives Mark Anniversary  Of Pearl Harbor   New Blows Hint Early  Tnvasion of Jap Mar shall and New Britain  Qutpost Defenses.

Carrier Forces Rain New Blows On Marshalls In Second Year of Jap War   20,000 U. S. Firms Have Been Given The Go-Sign To Turn Out More Invasion Craft; Total of Jap Vessels Sunk In Two Years Of War Now 516.

Powerful Air Blows Prelude  To New Jap Isle Invasions   YANKS SEIZE NEW GROUND IN ITALY

Yank Fliers Rip Marshall Isles   AMERICA’S EXPANDING AIR FORCE RAINS HEAVY BLOWS WHICH HINT AT NEW OUTPOST INVASION; AIRCRAFF CARRIER TASK FORCES SMASH BASES

Carrier Force Drives Against Marshall Isles   Stepping Stones On Route to Tokyo Bombed by Planes

Carrier Planes  Blast Marshalls  MacArthur's Airmen Hit Foe On New Britain

Early Invasion of Marshalls and New Britain Indicated   Second Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Finds  Americans Poised

BLOWS HINT AT INVASION SOON   America’s Expanding .Airforce Raining Heavy Offensive on Islands.   VITAL LINKS IN CHAIN

TWO YEARS APFTEI JAP STARB-IN-BACK     YANKS STRIKE HARD   Marshalls Punched By Carrier Forces

STRIKE HEAVY AIR BLOWS ON JAP OUTPOSTS   Strong Task Forces Smash Hard at Marshalls, 300 Miles of Gilberts.   11 More Jap Cargo Ships Sunk by Bombs

POWERFUL AIR BLOWS HINT AT NEW INVASION   Marshalls And New Britain Bombed Hard

AMERICAN’ AIR FORCE POISED. FOR INVASION OF VITAL JAP. BASES      Carrier Task Forces,Smash at Marshalls, Nimitz Announces   WEW BRITAIN IS BLASTED

AN INVASION OF MARSHALLS 1S PREDICTED   U. S. Likewise Expected to Strike Soon at New Britain, Second Link in Japanese Chain of Outnnct Nefenses.

Air Smashes Hint Invasion Of Marshalls   Islands 300 Mites From Gilberts Punished by Carrier Bombers

Air Blows Hint ‘Early Marshall  sisles Invasion   Carrier Forces Soften Japs; Landings On New Britain Also Loom.

Jap Invasion Near 2 Years After Attach   Expanding Airforce Gets In Offensive Blows ‘On  Maior Outposts

PEARL HARBOR REMEMBERED IN AERIAL BLOWS   Marshalls, New Brifain Blasted iz Possible Forerunners of New Pacific Invasions   CHIEFS CONFIDENT   Halsey Promises Action, Says Taking Back What is Ours ‘Is Just the Start’

Marshalis, New Britain Bombed   Powerful Air Blows Hint At Invasion In Near Future.

Yanks Continue Heavy Offensive In The Pacific   Marshalls, New Britain, Vital Links In Jap Chain, Seen Invaded Shortly

U.S. AIRFORCE SOFTENING UF JAP-HELD AREA   Heavy Offensive Blows — Being Rained On Marshalls and New Britain Islands

Hits Indicate Invasion Of Marshalls   Blow Soon Expected After Task Force Attacks Islands

Hint Invasion  In Pacific Area   Airforce Rains Heavy Offensive Blows At Marshalls. New Britain.

Marshalls Get Pasting By U. S. Carrier KF orce   Adm: Nimitz Announcement Hints American Drive to Take Islands

MARSHALLS AND NEW BRITAIN ON INVASION LIST   teavy Offensive Blows Hint At Early Al. led Land Thrust Into Two Vital Jap anese Defense Posts Air Force Batters Away.

CUT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FUEL   RATIONS REDUCED 10 PERCENT DUE TO ‘MILD WINTER’

RR DEFIANCE OF GOVERNMENT IS SEEN UNLIKELY   Strike Order for 150,000 Employes is Still in Effect   STIMSON ALLOYS FEARS      Trainmen, Engineers Accept President As Arbitrator

Railroads Now Under U.S. Rule   HOWEVER STRIKE MOVE STILL FACING , NATION

Railway Unions Not Expected To  Strike Tomorrow   Groups Not To Defy Government, Is Belief; Army Has Full Control Of All Rail Lines BULLETIN

STAGE ACTOR MARRIED   Miss Sara Seegar Is the Bride of : Sergeant Stone

Argentina Still-Sticks With Axis      Won't “Kick Italy When She’s Down”

Fall of Jap Base at Munda Is’  Believed Imminent   Marines Are Closing in for.Capture but Are Handicapped by Jungle Terrain; Port Is Blasted From the Land, Sea and Ai

STRIKERS: T0 RESUME WORK Al WAR PLANT   Action Follows Directive, Warning From Union President

Defense Bill Introduced In State Senate   Post-War Readjustment Plans Are Included In Program Submitted By Committee

NAZI SOLDIERS ARE. ATTACKED “IN REBELLION   Fighting Frenchmen Make Urgent Appeal For Second Front During Turmoil.

NAZIS SWEEP COUNTRY OF YOUNGER MEN   Fighting French in London Plead for Third Front

Traitor to Be Hanged On April 27   Execution to Be First for Treason In This Country

STEPHAN, TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY, WILL DIE APR 27   Detroit Restaurateur - Whe Harbored Nazi Prisoner, Sohs In fourt.

TRAITOR MUST DIE ON GALLOWS ON APRIL 27   Federal Judge Sentences Max Stephan to Forfeit His Life for Treason Against His Adopted Country —Last Door Finally Closed on Condemned Man Who Sobs in Courtroom at Deterait Tadau

British Cabinet In Extraordinary Night Session   Ministers Of Small Exiled Governments Satisfie: With Plans. Diplomatic Circles Believe Negotiations May Be In Progress.

FINAL DRAFT OF TERMS T0 _ AXIS NATION   Sudden New Move Against Nazis Js Hinted

‘Christmas Trees Are Costly But Plentiful In Nation’s Capital City

HITLER RUSHES MEN TO GREECE   Prepares To Meet Thrust Through Ralkans

Italian Foreign Undersecretary Studying “Problems of Peace”   ‘Advises Fascist Legislators Allies Expect “Surrender Without Conditions”

AATIONING LEVELING OFF FOOD SUPPLIES   Definite Improvement I: Shown In Southern States

Boy, 17, Strangles And Buries Girl, 4   ‘She Wouldn't Take Candy from Me’ Assaulter Says

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WLB May Turn Strike Over To FDR   Peace Outlook Appears Gloomy As More Quit

Uncertain Is Peace In US. Coal Mines   WILDCAT STRIKERS INCREASE TO 46,000 AND JOHN L. LEWIS IS SILENT AS TO WLB’S OFFER.   Policy Committee Monday

SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DISPUTE IS UNCERTAIN   Lewis Calls Meeting Of Miners’ Policy Committee For Monday   48,000 MEN ARE OUT IN EIGHT STATES

as 7 alain TT TT ee emia) ae atl  IN COAL UNCLEAR   Lewis Silent About WLE Proposal: Wildéat” Strikes Gain

48,000 Men Remain Idle As Deadline Approaches  John L. Lewis Silent p Tr   John L. Lewis Silent On WLB Proposal, But Calls Meeting  Of Policy Committee   TAKES NO ACTION TO END WALKOUTS

Lewis Silent On WLB Ruling,  Calls Committee  More Than 46,000 Coal Miners Idle; Deadline Today

PEACE IN COAL MINES DELAYED      Over 48,000 Now Idle In Wildcat Strikes; Lewis Silent

AS UNCERTAIN IN COAL FIELDS   Lewis Silent on WLB Proposal, Calls Committee

Outlook for Mines Is Still Uncertain   Wildcat Strikers Now Number About 46,000 Lewis Calls UMW Policy Cornmittee Meeting For Monday

MORE MINERS JOIN WILDCAT STRIKES   Outlook for Peace in the Coal Industry Uncertain

MORE MINERS JOIN WILDCAT STRIKES      Outlook for Peace in the Coal Industry Un- _ certain ai OS

Coal Qutlook Still Uncertain   Wildcat Strikers Now Total 46,000

Monday Session  Set in Capital  Wildeat Strikes Spread With 46 000 Tdle

More Miners Idle As New Deadline Set by WLB Nears   Lewis Remains Silent On Board’s Proposed Wage Compromise

Allies Abandon Base at Gafsa   Rommel Throws Most Experienced Armored Units Against Americans

British Eighth Army Raeing After Rommel’s Legions   On Russian Front Germans: Continue To Crumble - Under Rec Onslaught.

BUT AMERICANS LOSE GAFSA IN TUNGIA BATTLE   Tank Combat Teams Smash Back Rommel Troops in Faid Area

Abandon Gafsa But Score Gain _ Near Faid Pass   American Tanks Blaze Into Action  Under Umbrella Of Planes As  Nazis Admit Soviets Enter  ~ Suburbs Of Vital Kharkov

AXIS FORCES PUSHED BACK IN FAID AREA   Allies Compelled to Abandon Forward Base at Gafsa, West of the Gulf of Gabes   CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY

Gafsa Is Lost After Romme  Starts Push   Umbrella Of Fighter Plan es Eenables Americans To Regain Six of 20 Miles Lost When Germans Unleashed Heavy Blow: Key Struggle Unde rway Now

Rommel’s Forces Lose Six Miles In Faid Area But Take Over Base At Gafsa

Nazis Retreat Six Miles in Faid Area; Allies Leave Gabes   Report Both Sides Suffer Heavy Losses in Sector Around Sidi Bouzid in Central Tunisia

Advance At Faid But Are Driven From Gafsa Base   U.S. Tanks, Blazing Into Action’ Under Air Umbrella, Win First Big Battle

GAFSA LOST BY ALLIES IN TUNISIA   Base Abandoned De. spite Crushing Of Axis Tank Push

0 German Tanks Knocked Out As U.S. Fights Back   Bombers Give Cover As Yanks Turning Tide After German Breakthrough

Nazis Driven Bach In Faid Section   Yanks-French Abandon Forward Base At Gafsa, 60 Miles Southwest  Of Faid Pass — Fighter Planes  Aid Tanks in Battering Rommel

AMERICANS TEAR INTO ACTION WITH TANKS, PLANES AGAINST CREAM OF HITLER'S VETERANS    While Axis 1s Battered in Tunisia, Russia’s Red Army Crashes Through Nazi Defense Lines Into Outskirts of Kharkov: lInexperienced Yanks Receive High Praise from British

TANKS GAIN 6 MILES UNDER AIR UMBRELLA   Armored Battle Rages Where Germans Had Made , Breakthru.   AMERICANS AND FRENCH FORCED OUT OF GAFSA

American Troops Evacuate Gafsa   Inexperienced U. S. Units Rally To Force Rommel’s Veteran Army Back Six Miles In Faid Area; May Be Nazis’ Last Great Bid In Africa

Americans Hit Rommel Army In Tunisia  20 German Tanks Knocked Out I n

KEY AIR ~ BASE IS YIELDED   First Big Armored Bat _. tle In North Africa : Raging.

U.S. Tanks Smash Back at Rommel   Fighting Planes Cover U. S. Attack Against Nazis

‘Umbrella’ Of American Planes Aids In Smashing Axis Force In Faid Area Of Central Tunisia   Smali Enemy Forces Entered Gafsa Yesterday ; Rome Claims More Than 700 Prisoners Taken As Well As Considerable Equipment

Regain 6 Miles in Tank Battle   Enemy Still Holds Key Base at Gafsa Captured Yesterday; Reds Enter Kharkov, Say Nazis Are Breaking; Whole German Line’ May Buckle Under Impact. /

Tanks, Planes Smash On To 6-Mile Gain   Initial Large Armored Battle In North Africa

ALLIES ARE FORCED TO GIVE UP GAFSA   if Americans Win, Axis South: ern Arm at Gafsa Will Ba In Danger

Yanks Score — Successes in First Fights   Indications Are Entire Nazi System in Russia Is Buckling

FIGHTERS FORM BIG UMBRELLA   Raging Battle Near Sidi Bouzid May . Offset Gafsa Loss -

First Big Armored Battle Still Raging Today In Faid Sector   ALLIED FORWARD BASE OF GAFSA ABANDONED   Crack Armored Divisions Of Rommel Are Thrown Against Americans

Big Force of Tanks, Planes Launch Attack   Americans Score Gains In Faid Area But Enemy Troops Take Gafsa

Nazi Vets Set Back By Yanks   Germans Get Gaisa, Key Air Base, Lose Six Miles.   Reds in Kharkoy   Escape Corridor On Sea of Azov Is Periled By Soviets.

FIGHTER PLANES IN AID OF U. 5. GROUND FORCES IN TUNISIA   HARD-HITTING AMERICANS SCORE AGAINST ROMMEL’S VETERAN TROOPS

Germans Forced Back in Central Tunisia; Aerial Support Aids Americans

U. 5, TANK COMBA’, TEAMS SMASH BACK AT NAZI VETERANS   GERMANS FORCED BACK IN FIRST BIG ARMAMENT BATTLE NORTH AFRICA

Allies Abandon Gafsa Air Base In Nazi Drive   Fighter Planes Cover Americans in First Big Tunisia Battle

Armored Units Force Germans Back Six Miles   Southwest of Faid Pass Americans Have Been Forced to Yield Gafsa to Axis Columns

American Tanks Storm Into Fight Against Veterans   Germany Admits Russians Are in Kharkov Suburbs

BASE AT GAFS! IS EVACUATED BY U. S. FORCE   American Tanks Clash With Rommel’s Armored Troops In Faid Area   BRITISH IN BEN GARDANE   Nazi Leader Must Break Thru Or Face Trap Near Mareth  Lina:

Enemy Forces Seize Allies’ Gatsa Airport   British Eighth Army Presses Toward Mareth Line In Pursuit Of Remmel.   GERMANS SEEK SPACE

IN FIRST BIG TANK BATTLE OF AFRICA   Americans Drive Seasoned Forces of Marshal Rommel Back in Faid Region

PLUNGED INTO PIERCED LINE TO STEM NAZIS   Slow. Moving Dispatches  From North Afeiva Indi  cate Bitter Battle Is   Being Waged   ALLIED LINE BENT NEAR GULF OF GABES   Small Enemy Forces Enter ~Gafsa Last Night After  Its Evacuation By   Americans Sunday

American-French Forces Abandoned Base under Threat of Being Flanked—  Forced Also Out of Sidi Bouzid   BOTH SIDES SUFFER HEAVILY   U.S. Air Power Making It: Making Itself Felt in Vital Battle Around Sidi Bouzid—Americans Holding High Ground

USS. Tank Teams Under Cover Of Fighter Planes Strike Back At Axis Unit

YANK ATTACK DRIVES ENEMY BACK 6 MILES   Tank Battle Continues  To Rage in Struggle For Faid Pass

Advance Is Stopped by Green Troops   Reds Enter Suburbs of Kharkov; : ‘North African Front Erupts in Fierce Fight

Germans Forced Back Six Miles   Allies Abandon Gafsa British 8th Captures Ben Gardane

U.N. Regain Six Miles  In Tunisia   Germans Pushed Back By American Tanks With Assistance Of. Planes

Nazis Driven Back Six Miles In Faid Pass Area In First U. §. Tank Battle Of The War

re Persons ie in Wreck   Two Other Persons Injured When Truck And Car Collide

OVER 10 MILLION IS BEING  SPENT BY STATE FOR ROADS   Contracts For $3,000,000 More Have Been Placed, Ballard Explains After McDonald Reported Huge Expenditures In Maryland

GUN MAKERS STRIKE AN DETROW PLANT   Foundrymen at Adrian in Fifth Labor Stoppage in Two Months.

THERE WAS MOON NIGHT GIRL SAYS SHE WAS SEDUCED   Astronomer Testifies as to Celestial Conditions When Flynn Was Cruising

Call Astronomer As Flynn Witness   Cathcart-Jones’ Wife to Testify

Rawson Resigns As Head Of New Argentine Govt.   Steps Out In Favor Of Ramirez After Disagreement Over Cabinet.

OFFICERS VISIT BRAZIL   Three U.S. Generals Inspect Military Installation

Pea ee oe ae eee ee ON ce ea eT,  Altus Treasurer Under Suspension

cele   District ‘Court’. Rules Laid Out By Judges Of "9" Cireuif

SET COURT TERMS. ~ NEXT TWO YEARS   District Court Rules Laid Out By Judges Of Circuit

General Cites Beginning Of U.5. Offensive   Marshall Tells Legion Con: vention War. Is Not i Final Stages   ASIA AND EUROPE   Preparations For Support Of Huge Allied Forces Are Virtually Complete

OPA Acts Suddenly to Meet Gas Supply Crisis  EASTERN SUPPLIES HIT ALL- TIME LOW  Ban Will be Put Into Effect in the Region Today

OPA Reinstates Ban On Drivina   Curb On Pleasure Driving Includes Virginia  And Eight Eastern Counties In West  Virginia; Effective Noon Today

PLEASURE BAN IS REINSTATED   Unnecessary Driving To Be stopped In East As Gas Supply Dwindles

PLEASURE DRIVING BAN GOES INTO EFFECT TODAY AT NOON   12 Eastern States, District Of Columbia And Part Of West Virginia Affected By OPA Order; Action Taken To Ease Present Gasoline Shortage

Governors, Local Police Asked To Help Enforce Order after Noon Today   Violators Face Loss of Present Ration Cards and May Be Refused Right To Drive for the Duration; OPA Investigators Will Assist in Enforcement of Order; May Stop Motorists on Highways

Pleasure Driving Ban Reinstated Effective Today In Eastern States

‘Gas’ Supplies Hit New Low or  Eastern Coast   New Order Effective At Noon Today in 12 States; Military and  Farm Needs Increase

OPA Acts Suddenly to Meet Gos Supply Crisis  EASTERN SUPPLIES HIT ALL-TIME LOW  = Ba SooE 4 as tg tira      Ban Will be Put Into Ef. fect in the Region ‘oday

New Crisis Arises  In Gasoline Supply, Idleness Threatens Much Farm Machiner:  BAN IS EFFECTIVE AT NOON TODAY  Stern Effort Planned To Detect Violators And Revoke Rations

Order, Effective at Noon Today, Due To Military and Farm Fuel Needs; Strict Enforcement Promised

Tax Expert Calls House Bill Unfan   ‘Fails to Place All on Pay. Go Basis, Says Stam

HOUSE - APPROVED REVENUE MEASURE CRITIGIZED BY STAN   Says It Fails To Put All Taxpayers On Pay-As-YouGo Basis   WOULD STIR RESENTMENT

CONGRESSIONAL TAX STAFF CHIEF CLAIMS HOUSE BILL IS BAD  FAILED TO PUT ALL ON PAY-AS-YOU-GO BASIS; TO CAUSE RESENTMENT

DENY CURRENCY OF HOUSE BILL   Not Fully “Pay-as-You-Go,” Says Colin F. Stam.

HOUSE TAX BILL FAILS 10 PUT EVERYONE ON  SAME FOOTING Colin E, Stam, Chief   Colin E. Stam, Chief of Congressional Tax Staff Testifies.

Showdown on Ruml Bill Is ~ Slated Today   Supporters Confident of  Committee Majority in  Newest Trial

WPA Has Passed Into History   Although Criticised It Did Much Good

FARMERS HOLD CORN FOR HIGHER PRICES   Listed as Main Reason for Serious Shortage

Trans-Siberian Line Is Opened   Action Gives Hint Of Soviet Approva!

Plan Route to Supply China  The wa AA cd mu? oT   War Material to ‘Be Delivered

Trans-Siberian Line Is Opened   Action Gives Hint Of Soviet Approval  — etme esa men: mae pe: dime ile

Backdoor Supply Route to China by Rail Through fran And Russia May Be Utilized

LIGHT PLANES SMASH AT TWO RAIL CENTERS   Heavy Bombers Are Forced To Remain On Ground On 25th Anniversary Of RAF

RAF Wrecks Nazi Rail Centers In Low-Level Raids   Much Damage Is Done To Axis Railroad Shops

BRITISH ROAR JUST 50 FEET ABOVE CITIES   Bombs Hurl Debris Higher Than  ‘Mosquitoes’

R. A. F. Attacks Rail Centers  Targets in France, Relaium Are Hit

Cut In Gasoline        arper Restrictions Possible As East’s Nev P ipeline Nears Completion; Pacific Coas ~ Also Confronted With Reduction

e Rationing On West Coast Poss  West In For Tighter Gas Curb, Says Ickes

MIDWEST NEARS GASOLINE CURB   ICKES PREDICTS RESTRICTIONS BY END OF THE YEAR

Want No.Changes In North Africa  LONDON, June 1. (AP)~—Prir   TIGHTER CURB ON GAS SEEN

Getting Closer   Tighter ‘Gas’ Restrictions For Mid-west Hinted Today by Ickes

NEW PIPE LINE TOLOWERGAS SUPPLY IN OHIO   Heavy Military Needs Mai Force Severe Rationing on West Coast

See Tighter Gas Curbs in West  Ickes Says Pacific Coast Will Be Restricted

TIGHT GAS CONTROLIN AREA NEAR   Ickes Declares Midwest Closer To Tighter Gas Consumption Curbs.   PACIFIC COAST SHORT

ICKES TO CURB GASOLINE FLOW   Mid-West Will Feel Drastic Curbs Before End of The Year

Ickes Reveals Midwest Is Closer to Tighter Gas Consumption Curbs

Gas Pinch  Is Growing   Ickes Says Midwest Closer To Tighter Gasoline Curbs

LONESOME VETERAN GETS MANY LETTERS   Advertisement Gets Results In Big Way

STRIKE ACTION ‘BEING DELAYED “UNTIL MONDAY   ROOSEVELT NOT TO TAKE A {TION UNTIL MINERS'. GOVERNING GROUP HOLDS ITS MEETING

WLB Proposal Would Increase Miners rnings Through Longer Work Week; Iinois Coal Agreement Rejected

ULTIMATUM GIYEN MINERS BY LABOR BD.   Warns Case Will Be Turned Over To F. D. R. Tomorrow

NEARLY 100,000 IDLE, COAL PILES FROZEN AT MINE   President Plans ‘Decisive Action’ Unless WLB Edict Accepted

NEXT MOVE IN MINE CRISIS UP T0 LEWIS   President Says “Coal Will Be Mined,” But Awaits U.M.W. Action

FDR LEAVES NEXT MOVE TO JOHN LEWIS   “Decisive action” will be taken if strike isn’t  settled Monday

Next Step In Mine Crisis Up To Lewis   President Gives Him Chance To Settle Controversy

More Bodies Believed In Wreckage   Rescuers Working To Pry Apart Jammed Coaches

MORE THAN 50 OTHERS INJURED: SEARCH FOR BODIES CONTINUES: EFFORTS MADE(T0 CLEAR DEBRIS   Telescoped Steel Coaches Jammed So Tightly Wreckers Unable Move Them. Railroad Official  Probing Wreck. 49 Servicemen and 21 Geerliavune KM itien . ne aor

Latest Figures On Train Wreck Lists 70 Deaths   Believe Eight More Bodies Still Locked In Section Of Car Not Yet Entered

WRECK TOLL STANDS 70 KNOWN DEAD   Wreckers Strive to Pry Other Jammed Coaches Apart

10 Known Dead, Over Fifty Hur In ACL Wrecks   Search For Bodies Goes On Today In North Caroling

19 KNOWN DEAD FOUND TW WRECK   Workers Toil To Clear Tracks In 12-Degree Weather

Train Wreck Death Total Reaches 79   47 Servicemen Included In Victims; Many Not Yet Identified; Cause Sull Being Checked

Search Continues For Train Wreck Victims as Death Toll Reaches 79

Train Wreck Death Toll Is - Seventy- Nine   Additional Bodies Ar Believed Locked 1]: ‘Section’ Of One ‘Ca “Not Yet Entered: -

19 Known Dead InN. Carolina Train Wreck  Wrecking Crews Still   Wrecking Crews dtill Prying Apart Coache Which Have Blocked Atlantic Canct Line

70-Dead Toll Of Railway Wreck   Other Bodies Believed Locked In Section Of One Car.

tel TNOEAD AN RAIL wRee   Rescuers Attempt To Pry Apart Four: ‘Telescoped ) Cars °°

Death Toll Rises In Southern  Dathsas: Tu ' naiwWay Tragedy Wreckers Continue Search for Bodies of Victims

79 Killed in Train Wreck   Wreckage Searched for More Bodies; More Than 50 Injured

RAILWAY CRASH DEATH TOLL 79   WRECKERS WORKING ON TWO ATLANTIC FLYERS

Train Wreck ~ Toll Mounts to 79 Today   Coast Line Still Blocked -by _‘Jammed Cars of Two ~ Sanpam liners

WorkersContinue ToPry Apart 4 Steel Cars For Bodies Of More Victims

ACL Train Wreck Toll Reaches 79   Bodies of 47 Service Men, 20 Civilians Are Recovered

Coast Line Train Wreck Death Toll Increased To At Least 70  Four Cars, Piled One Atop The Other, Crushed   Four Cars, Piled One Atop The Other, Crushed Into About Normal Size Of One, Are Unopened

Southeast’s Worst Railway Disaster  Train Wreck Death Toll -Reaches 79; More Bodies - Found In The Wreckage

Death Toll Rises In Southern Railway Tragedy  Wreckers Continue Search for Bodies of Victims

FEARFUL MORE. DEAD IN WRECK      Ag Servicemen, 22 Civiljians Latest Toll of Coast.Line Crash

Known Dead In Rail Crash Mount to 7   Harry Clinger, Syracusan, Is Among 50 Persons Injured

Dead in Train Wreck Up to 79   47 Service Men Killed—Upwards of 50 Persons Injured

scaenmahestatnanenenaddaiamaneattiatineemmmesianmeteeniaeienetammeneniamadenialimaaammnemnsiinaamdll ee oem nama Armmremnaceracnantne  TOLL IN WRECK PLACED AT 0; PANBE STARTED   Flagman’s Red Lantern Fail. ed To Stop Speeding ‘Train, Official Says

70 KNOWN DEAD IN RAIL WRECK: TOLL MAY RISE   Eight More Bodies Believed Locked in Passenger: ) Car :

MANY KILLED AND INJURED IN WRECK PASSENGER TRAINS  SEARCH FOR BODIES CONTINUES ATFER 79 BEEN RECOVERED

KNOWN DEATH LIST IN RAIL DISASTER INCREASED 10 70   Wreckers Still Working To Pry Apart Four Telescoped Passenger Cars   MORE THAN 50 ARE HURT!

Rail Crash Toll at 70   Believe. Eight More Bodies Locked in Section of Car  Not Yet Entered :

TRAIN CRACKUP CASUALS AT 79   Wreckers Seek More Bodies In Four Telescoped Cars

Known Dead In Carolina Wreck Is 70   Search for Bodies Goes Forward During Night In Light of Torches   OVER FIFTY ARE INJURED

Death Toll Reaches 79 in Southeast’s Worst Rail Wreck in History

Death Toll From Railroad Disaster Has. Grown to 79   More Bodies Located -In North Carolina -Two-Train ‘Mishap

Death Toll Up } To 79 In Crash   Wreckers Worked With Little Suecess To Pry Apart Passenger Cars,

TOKNOWN DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK   48 Servicemen, 21 Civilians Are Victims; Seek Additional Bodies

Wreck T oll  Mounts   70 Known Dead in’ One of Nation’s => Worst Rail Disasters

-DUNNUCK HEAD _ OF PARALYSIS DRIVE HERE   1943 county-wide campaign will get under way January 15

WANT FUNDS TO TRAIN SOMEONE IN KENNY PLAN   Purpose of Annual Drive This Year Is to Secure © Technician for Lucas County.   STARTS THIS FRIDAY   Kenneth Vohs of Chariton Is Named as County Chairman.

24 MORE AXIS PLANES BAGGED IN AERIAL WAR   Rome Reports Full-Seale Attack On Rommel Under Way

Jap Airfield at Munda Gets Severe Strafing  Two Jap Destroyers Blasted by American Airmen

2 DESTROYERS, JAP FIELD HIT   One Ship Reported Left In Sinking Condition In Pacific; Munda Bombed Twice

Jap Warships Are Hit Hard  In Solomon:   ne Destroyer Let Sinking, Second Snen On Fire

RFC Will Aid Packers   Secretary Jesse Jones Orders Financing Until Subsidy Payments Start

RIC Ordered to Finance Meat Packers of Nation   Action Taken by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones to Aid Those in Necd Pending Federal Subsidy Payments, and to Prevent Threatened Shutdown of Scores of Small Slaughterers

R.F.C. To Back Meat Subsidies   Jesse Jones Orders Loans Made To Packers Lnul Payments Started.

Jories Orders. RFC To Help Meat Packers   ‘House Limits Subsidy and Curbs Domestic OW

R. F.C. ORDERED TO UNDERWRITE FUNDS FOR MEAT PACKERS   Commerce Secretary Gives Order to. Aid Packers Needing Financing Until Federal Subsidy Payments Made

RFC BACKS LOANS TO PACKERS   «Jones Orders Move To Save Meat Industry

RFC Funds Are Opened  Teo Packers   Jones Orders Financing Inmediately As Needed Pending Subsidies   ACTS TO HELP. SMALL PACKERS   Stop-Gap in Effect While Congress and OPA Feud Over Food Policies

Yanks Gain Crest Of Vital Hill   Beat Off Assaults At Hill 476; Eighth Army Gains Four  Miles.

Allies sAeport Slight Gains In Tunisia   Counter-Attacks Repulsed; Sea, Air Battles Rage

Unrest Sweeps French Cities; 350 Nazis Slain   De Gaulle Calls, for Landing to Stop Enslavement by Foe

Revolt Spreads: French Slay 350 Germans   Street Clashes Mark Nazi Attempt to Mustér Workmen

FRENCH SLAY 350 GERMANS   Guerrilla Attacks Made As Nazis Muster Workers

NAZI SLAVE PLAN MEETS RESISTANCE   350 German Soldiers Slain as Patriots  Make Attack

NAZI TROOPS DIE IN FRANCE   Guerrillas Claim Lives Of 350 Of Enemy Invaders.

FIGHT FOR LIBYA IS OVER   BRITISH TOMMIES WHO HAVE SPENT MONTHS DASH ING UP AND DOWN COAST OF AFRICA MARCHING INTO TRIPOLI MORE LIKE A PARADE THAN A BATTLE

Men Under 30, U.S. Employes Draft Tarvets   Streneth Grows Behind Congressional Dual TInductian Plan

Father-Draft  Compromise Plan Gains Strength — Would Tap Governmen  Employes, Younger Parents First

Draft of Fathers Starts Tomorrow  Canaroce Still Debating Over   Congress Still Debating Over Wisdom of Catling Family Men

FEDERAL DESK JOBS FOR FATHERS   Moves Ask Induction ! of ildlees  Emnloves

Induction of Fathers Will Start Friday   Survey Indicates Most of States Will Begin Calling “Dads” immeidiately i Order To Fill Their Draft Ouctas

To Bar Draft AgeMen from Gov't. Jobs   CONGRESSIONAL 5 TRENGTH BUILDS UP BEHIND MOVES TO  SEND YOUNGER MEN INTO SERVICES,   Replace Wheeler RjlI

Move to lighten Up on Men Under 30 Gains Suppo  Induction of Child Governinent Wor! ers

States Father Friday   taly Ten To Delay jeduction Until Atter Nov, 1

Move To Tighten Draft On Men Under 30 Gains Support   Plan Offered to Cushion General Impact of the Draft on Older Men With Children—Other Measures Are Studied

Draft of Fathers  Starts Tomorrow   Most States of Nation to Induct Heads of Families to Meet Quotas.

START DRAFTING FATHERS FRIDAY   fowa Has Enough Men to Fill October Call

Childless Federal  Employe Inductior  Congressional Strength Builds Toward Move

Survey Shows States Ready For Inductions   Congress Is Still Wrangling Over Wisdom Of Move

Move Gains To Induct U.S. Worker:  TInder.30 Ace   Under-30 Age Group Also May Get Call

Many Oppose Plan To Draft Fathers While Government Offices Are Packed with Single Men.

MOST STATES TH CALL DADS   Induction of Fathers Will Be Started By Many to Meet Quotas.

Most States To Begin Drafting Dads Tomorrow   Few Will Wait Until November 1; Congress ssh) Weanahna.

Seek fo Cushion Father Draft   Would Take Those In Under-30 Group

MOST STATES WILL START CALLING DADS   ‘Survey Shows Most Will Begin Inducting Family Heads at Once

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Father Draft to Begin Tomorrow; Debate Continues   New Proposals to Limit Induction Gain Support

DRAFTING OF FATHERS WILL START FRIDAY   Need 446,00 000 Dads Between Now. “And  Tannary let   Increased Benefits For Families Considered

Start Drafting  Dads Tomorrow   "Survey Indicates Overwhelming Majority of States to Induct Family Heads.

Fight To Draft Federal Workers Gains Strength   Solon Flays Army - Strategy, Insists On More Borhina

Dads Face Draft on Friday   STATE MAJORITY SETS IMMEDIATE INDUCTION AS SOLONS STUDY ACT

Call For Family Men Begins Tomorrow  Majority Of States To - Begin The Drafting Of Fathers Without Delay

PLAN TO CUSHION DRAFT OF OLDER FATHERS BACKED   Proposals Made by Senators to Induct Chifdiess U. S. Employes and More Men Under 30.   SOME DEFERMENTS WOULD BE WIPED OUT   Clark and Bailey Would Assign Sipgle Officers Holding Desk Jobs to Combat Duty.

MOVE DRAFT U. 9, WORKERS GROWS   Plan Offered to Call Men Under 30 in Larger Numbers So as to Cushion Impact on Draft of Fathers

Draft of Fathers Starts Tomorrow; Debate Goes On  Local Boards Ready To Call Men With

Congressional.Strength Builds Up Steadily Behind Moves for the Induction of Childless Government Employes and the Under-30 Age Group fo Cushion Impact of Draft on Older Men With Children

Draft Of Dads Begins Friday To Meet Quota   24 States Expecting To Call Pre-Pearl Harbor  Fathers In October; 10 .. Aevats Nanas 

BAILEY FAVORS WEEDING OUT OF GOV. WORKERS   Wants Able Bodied, Draft Age Non Fathers To Forsake Their Desks and Get Into The Army.

FATHER DRAFT TIME ARRIVES IN 24 STATES   Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma Are Among Those Which Must Call Parents te Fill October Quotas.

‘Most States Ready To Draft Dads — As Congressmen Continue Debate

CHANGES MADE IN DRAFT BILL   Congress Hunts Ways To Ease Impact Of Call For Fathers

MANY STATES T0 START DRAFTING FATHERS OCT. 1   CONGRESS CONTINUES DEBATE ON WISDOM OF FATHER DRAFT

Move to Induct Government Workers Grows   Congressional Strength Would Cushion Impact

Start Draft Of Fathers Tomorrow   While Congress Still  Debates Issue Most States Prepare to Call Pre-War Family Heads

Big Majority of Stafes Will Start Dratfing. Fathers for Military Service Tomorrow, Survey Indicates: Congress Still Wrangles

rather Draft Starts Friday   MANY STATES TO BEGIN TAKING DADS ON OCTOBER 1

Father Draft Plan Offered By Sen. Bailey   Would Take Federal Childless Men First

BIG MAJORITY OF STATES WILL CALL FATHERS   To Begin Calling Them To morrow While Congress Still Wrangles Over Necessity

FATHERS 10 BE DRAFTED OCTOBER 1   Most States Will Take Dads To Make Quota

Most States Will Start Drafting Dads Tomorrow As Coneress SUH Were angles

HIGH COMMAND MAKING PLANS TO CRUSH FOES   To Bomb, Burn, Des troy Japs, Germans,  Word From Quebec

WAR GUILTY 10 BE DUNISHED HE SAYS   British Minister Promises Full Fight Against Japanese

Allied Officials Discussing Battle   Will ‘Bomb, Burn and Ruthlessly Destroy’ Both Germany And Japan. Bracken Declares

War Parley Plans To Ruthessly Destroy’ Enemies   British Information Minister Discusses Session at Quebec

British Minister Reiterates — Churchill Pledge   High Official Makes First Statement of Parley

Conference Plans  Ruthless Warfare   Spokesman Says Plans Made lo Bomb, Burn And Ruthlessly Destroy'’ Enemy  By JOHN M. HRIGHTOWER

RUTHLESS BLOWS 10 DESTROY BOTH NATIONS PLEDGED   Brendan Bracker, British Minister, Says England Will Turn On Nips as Soon as Nazis Fall.   PREDICTS STRUGGLE WILL LAST LONG TIME   Signs Multiply That Allies Soon Will Invade Europe as F.D.R. and Churchill Continue Talks.

Allies Pledge  To Destroy Axis Nations   Bracken, British Official, Declares Japan And Germany Will Be Bombed and Burned; Invasion Plans Are Coming Up

fob Burn  stroy in Of Meet   FDR, Churchill Mapping Program t Smash Axis

Ways Sought To Destroy Reich, Japan   Reich, Japan  To Do It Ruthlessly, High British Official At Quebec Declares  SEC. HULL ON WAY TO CONFERENCE  Situation Indicates  Invasion To Replace Ate ‘Ww... Ofh..a? P_._.

Statement Made By High British Quebec Confere  Details Of Strategy With   Details Of Strategy With. * held; Amphibious Force Gets ''Go Ahead"

Devastation of enemies is promised   Bracken reports ov Quebec meet

QUEBEC TALKS MAY DEVELOP INVASION PLAN   RUTHLESS ATTACKS ARE PREDICTED BY BRITON

Quebec Conference Planning Ways to  ‘Bomb, Burn’ “Axis   High Offic * ed Wars in  Japan All ‘One War?

DESTRUCTION OF NAZIS AND JAPS MAIN OBJECTIVE   British Official Says Allies Plan To “Bomb, Burn And Destroy”   INVASION DESIGNED AT QUEBEC PARLEYS

Spokesman for Churchill And Roosevelt Declares Axis Leaders Are Doomed   Brendan Bracken Says President and Prime Minister Are Determined To Bomb, Burn and Ruthlessly Destroy Enemy in Every Way Available; Asserts England Will Help Defeat ‘Savage Japanese’

U. S. FLEET SET FOR OFFENSIVE PACIFIC. MOVES   Fleet Doubled In Year, Knox Reveals; 817 Ships In Action

Naval Strenath OfU. §. Doubled   40 New Carriers Amona 817 Craft

Knox Wants Japs To Come Out And Fight...  U. S. Fleet, Largest In The World, Is Doubled  In Eleven Months Time

NAVY DOUBLES IN LESS THAN YEAR, HAS B17 VESSELS   40 Aircraft Carriers Included to Make Fleet Greatest In World, 419 New Ships Are Added.   M LOST BATTLESHIPS HAVE BEEN REPLACED   Knox Comments on “Gratifying Results’ tn Steady Increase In New Subs Completed In Year.

U.S. FLEET HAS BEEN DOUBLED   Navy Now Bristles With 817 Fighting Ships, Knox Says

U. S. Now Has Largest Navy; Doubles Size   817 Fighting Ships Included in Force, Navy Report Reveals

American Naval Force Now Bristles With 817  * Fighting Ships Including 40 Aircraft Carriers

KNOX REPORTS FLEET DOUBLED IN 11 MONTHS   817 Fighting Ships Now in World's Biggest Navy, 40 Aircraft CarHers Buill in Past Year

American Fleet Doubled in Year  Now Consists of 817 Fighting Ships

4) New Carriers Join U. S. Heet   Jap Shipping Being Sunk At Almost A Ship A Day, Knox Discloses,

FLEET To DOUBLED IN LAST 11 MONTHS   U.S. Navy Now Includes Over 800 Ships, With Over 40 Carriers.

ISize Of Fleet Doubled In 11 Months; Has 40 . Aircraft Carriers —

817 Fighting Ships Make Up U.S. Fleet   Ours Now World’s Big: ' gest Navy—Production  Goals Raised

FLEET DOUBLED IN 11 MONTHS   Knox Reports Navy Now Has 838 Vessels; 40  New Carriers

STRENGTH OF NAVY DOUBLED IN 1943   Secretary _ Knox Reveal: » Additions to Elect

40: AIRCRAFT ‘CARRIERS RIDE WAFES  U.S. Navy Doubles in Year; 817 Ships in Monster Fleet

U.S. FLEET DOUBLED IN 11 MONTHS   America Now Has 817 Fighting Ships Including 40 Aircraft Carriers

U. S. Fleet, Largest in World, Is Now Bristling with 817 Fighting Ships

FLEET DOUBLED IN LAST ELEVEN MONTHS   Knox Says New Warships Include 40 Alreraft Carriers; Combat Ships Total $t7

American Fleet Is Doubled In Number  Uncle Sam Has 817 Top Fighting Ships

DOUBLING OF U. S. FLEET IN LAST 11 MONTHS REPORTED   List of Vessels Now Includes 817 Fighting Ships Which Includes More Than 40 Aircraft Carriers

U.S. NAVY HAS 817 FIGHTING SHIPS   AMERICAN FLEET HAS BEEN DOUBLED IN ELEVEN MONTHS

GOV. DICKINSON SERIOUSLY ILL      ian Reports Michigan Chief Suffers Heart Attack.

Action Taken After Meeting With Officers   Order Effective Marcel 15, To Save $285,000 ; Year

Governor Orders Guard Demobilized   Action Will Save $358,000 Annually

Action Taken After Meeting With Officers   — Effective March ~ 15. To Save $285,000 a Year

GUARDS TO BE SENT HOME   Hickenlooper Economy Move Concerns Iowa Militia Units

H. R. Safford Of Mopac Lines Dies   Rods-To Riches Story Ends Saturday

Three Navy Brides of Last Spring Refuse to Believe Husbands Lost

JONES TESTIFIES 10 CONGRESS TODAY   Has No Objection to Inquiry by Government

Jesse Jones Sees Charge As Without  AnyFooting Aid In Developing  Canadian Project le At leaua

Governor Martin Approves Plans Of Maternity Aic  Free Medical Care Pro vided 'War Babies’ Dur-

NO GRAND JURY PROBE OF RIOTING   Committee Finds No Evidence of Subversive Elements

Cologne Is Rocked Again By British   Hamburg Pounded; American Fortresses Sweep Over France

Also Pound Hamburg After 45 Minutes Over Cologne  FLYING FORTS HIT     U-Boat Nests, P Port Installations Hit by the Americans

Fortresses Blast French Targets as British Pound AtCologne, Hamburg Again

Allied Planes Smash at the Continent  & ose BO Die ta   Lose 40 Bombers in Heavy Day and Night Attacks

Five Axis Cities Are Pounded   Day And Nighi Bombings Are  Renewed

Also Pound Hamburg After 45 Minutes Over Cologne   FLYING FORTS HIT TARGETS IN FRANCE   U-Boat Nests, Port Instailations Hit by the Americans

RAF, Yankees Hit Cologne, French Bases   Hamburg Also Gets Stiff PoundingIn Day, Night Foray

R.A. F. Again Bombs Cologne   U.S. Airmen Blast Three Axis Bases

U.S.,RAF Hit NaziPoints Severe Blows   Great Raids Leave Destruction On Wide Region

Yanks Observe Raid Birthday. Hit Sub Pens   RAF DevastatesCologne ;  Both Forces Lose  AL0 Bie Planes

Allies hit targets on continent   Pound points in Germany, France

FIRES VISIBLE 150 MILES ARE SET OFF BY RAF   Americans Lay Patterr Of Destruction On Nazi Industries  By Daylight   40) Planes Lost

Allied Planes Smash af the Continent   Lose 40 Bombers in Heavy Day and Night Attacks

New Filling Station Rules Are Issued   Service Stations May Operate on Either of Two Schedules After January 23 Petroleum Administrator Says

De Marigny Enters Plea Of Not Guilt;   Hundreds Stand Outside  Tiny Bahamas Court as  Murder Trial Opens

ENTERS INNOCENT PLEA   De Marigny Denies Murder of Wealthy Father-in-Law

Manpower Board Hints at Lack Of Needed Cash   But McNutt Will Soon Re. veal Program under FDR's Order

DEATH PENALTY. FACED BY BOY   Louis Hand Convicted of Hammer Murder of Employer’s Child

VINSON APPROVES WAGE INCREASE TO RAILWAY WORKERS   Salary Boost For 1,100,000 Employes Range From 4To 10 Cents An Hour

300,000 Railway Employes of Nation Granted Hourly Wane Boost of 4 Cent:

Rail Crews. Get Increase   Vinson Seis 10-Cent Per Hour Wave Boost

Rail Wage Hike Effective Oct. 26   Will Mean About $10 Monthly for 200

FIGHTERS TAKE OVER AIR WAR; BOMBERS RES]   ‘British Planes Attack Four Trains, One In Germany

FIGHTER PLANES ATTACK TRAINS   Take Over Air Offensive as Bomber Command Rests

BRITISH FIGHTERS ARE ON OFFENSIVE ~ IN EUROPEAN AREA   Take Over Chore of Blasting Enemy Sectors While Big Bombers Take a Rest.

Rabaul! Harbor Blasted by Allied Planes   Airdrome at Buka Shattered by Bombs During Raid

BOMBERS SET SHIP ON FIRE   Flying Fortresses Again Bomb Jap Ships At Rabaul.

\tnvasion Follows Week of Bombing of ~ Jap Bases; Battle Still Rages as Enemy Fights Back Furiously

Battle Raging With Japs on One of Atolls   Landing by Marines. Army Troops Marks First Thrust into  Central Pacific Area

Mighty Yank Force Hits Pacifie Isles To Cut Enemy Ring   Adm. Nimitz Reports Resistance F ierce at Tarawa, Moderate at Makin, as Naval, Aerial Units, Ground Troops Assail Outposts  7 wee. mr   Gilberts Invasion Termed — Opening of Grand Attack

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Marines And Army Troops, With Naval Support, Land On Tarawa, Makin   FIERCE RESISTANCE _ BY JAPS ON TARAWA

Marines, Army Forces Push Ashore on Makin,  Tarawa in Great Drive   Battle Still Rages On Tarawa After Moderate Enemy Resistance At Makin; Strong Naval Force Covers Operation   2400 MILES FROM HONOLULU   PROVIDED AFRIAL COVER

New Sector Attacked by U.S. Forces  In Pacific   Marines, Army Troops Land Under Cover  Of Mighty Navy Units After Week’s Bombing   MEET RESISTANCE ON TARAWA ATOLL   Yank Attacks Mean 1,100-Mile Extension Of Pacific Operations

Troops Landed On Gilberts —   ‘Nimitz, “Hits” at . Northern End: -of Enemy's ‘Central: Outposts

pee ome See a ee ee ee ee ae a ee  Say Klan Started Packard Strike

RACIAL STRIKE LAID AT DOORS KU KLUX KLAD   «ook Themas, Pre President UAW, “Abks FBI Prebe Peckard Trovbles—Produciion Near Normal

Kian Is Charged With Instigating Detroit Walkout   Union Leader Contends That Axis - Sponsored Troup spread trouble

Blames Klan For Packard Strike   Army Authorities Seek Instigators After Union Charee.

Charges KKK Agents of Axis Led © War Plant Strike on Negro Issue

Labor Leader Blames Kian  For Walkout   Evidence Is  Furnished FR]

INGTIGATORS OF STRIKE SOUGHT   Army Conducts Probe; Union Leader Blames Plot By Ku Klux Klan.

gaiey <7  With Our Soldiers and Sailors @® @               Pvt. Donald Tilton Graduates From Air Forces Tech School

With Our Soldiers and  Sailors   Pvt. Donald Tilton Graduates From Air Forces Tech School

RECLASSIFICATION OF DRAFTEES WILL BE STARTED TODAY   Start of 48-Hour Week Ex: pected To Release Three Millton Workers

K OR FIGHT PROGRAM BEGINS   Draft Boards Begin Job of Reclassifying Registrants.

HOLIDAY SAFETY RECORD CHEERING   -203 Fatalities -New Year’s Compare With 265 Last Year

New Year Holiday Death Toll Drops    Only 224 Compared To Last Year’s 265

Deaths Reported   126. of. Holiday Fatalities ‘In Nation Are Charged > -: Po Praffie

QUICK VICTORY AGAINST AXIS NOT RXPECTED   Speed by Which Allied Troops Shattered Enemy in Africa Surprises Washington   LOOKED FOR IN JUNE   Unquestioned and Over whelming Superiority in  Numbers of Men and Equipment Key

Speedy Shattering Of Axis In North Africa Delights AULU.S.  Quick Capture Of Tunis And Bizerte Brings

Washington Reaction Capital Surprised, Delighted At Speed Of Tunisian Victory

WASHINGTON BOTH SURPRISED, PLEASED AT TURN OF BATTLE  OFFICIALS HAD REFUSED TO PREDICT LENGTH OF ’ TUNISIAN CAMPAICN

African Victory Pleases Capital   Washington Shows Delight at Action

Speed of Allied Drive in Africa Amazes Experts   Defeat of Axis Had Not Been Expected Until Middle of June.   Axis Can’t Hold Out  Long in Peninsula

Army Didn’t Know Own Strength; [Tunisian Victory Brings Surprise   Defeat Of Axis Armies In North Africa Had Not Been Expected Before June; When Hill Defenses Fell Before Americans, Bizerte Doomed.

Speed of Allied Victory Thrills Capital Officials   Capture of Tunisian Strongholds Not Expected for Another Month

SPEED OF ALLIED TROOPS IN TUNISIA WAS A SURPRISE   It Also Was An Obvious Delight in Washington Today.   STARTED A WEEK AGO   Observers Believe Defeat of Axis Armies Not Expected Until June.

U.S, AMAZED = AT SPEED OF TUNISIA WAR   We Didn't Know Own Strength, Declare Officials

U.S. Didn’t Know Own Strength   Speed of Tunisian Triumph Surprise and Delight

WASHINGTON AUTHORITIES SURPRISED AND PLEASED AT FINAL SPEED IN AFRICAN DRIVE

WASHINGTON BOTH SURPRISED AND DELIGHTED WITH SPEED ALLIES SHOWED IN SHATTERING AXIS   Officials Have Carefully Avoided Any Predictions  on Length of African Campaign to Drive Axis , Dr0rt nf Afeica

NO INSPECTION NEEDED   Applications for “A” Books Coming in With Many Errors 

HOUSE PASSES APPROPRIATION BILL TODAY   Without Dissenting Vote Measure for $71,510,782 War Dept. Fund Sent to  Senate

House Passes  Huge War Bill   Sends Record 71 Billion Measure to Senate

House Approves Army Fund Bill  71 Billion  Dollar  ON? Yeh Caeser. pie eee MS

BATTERING OF ITALY STEPPED UP BY ALLIES   Airdrome 50 Miles North Of Rome Is Raided; Communication Lines Attacked

Democrats Call Off Assembly Filibuster   Bill-Reading Rule Accomplished Its Aim, Group Declares; Re-Apportionment Act Recalled From Governor to Correct Error

Filibuster Is Called Off By Democrats   Senate Acts To Prohibit Political Contributions _By Labor Unions in State

GOV'T REQUISITIONS ~~ STOCKS OF CORN   Move Aimed to Relieve Muddled Feed Situation

Corn Stocks In MW Elevators Requisitioned   Move by U. S. to Unfreeze Farm Supplies in Nation

MCAGSES STAKE   2,000 Miners Protest Edict of Board on Pay Issue

SMALL COAL STRIKE IN OHIO CONTINUES   2,150 Men in Walkout, Ne Word from Miners

AMERICAN AIR BOMBERS SINK 10-THOUSAND TON ENEMY TRANSPORT   Huge Japanese Ship Sent To Bottom Along With Many Troops. Other Jap Ships Hit.

Tankers, 2 Destroyers Also Badly Damaged   MacArthur Confers Wit! Australian Prime Minister

Bombs Land Squarely on Decks of the Transport.  BLAZING INFERNO ; SANK QUICKLY Tanker Also Hit and Two Destroyers Are Badly Damaved.

Censor Price Fights War Of His Own   Battle Against Silly Restriction Is Reviewed

Turkish Ship Sunk  By Italian Submarine   Lives Through 700-Foot Plunge,

(Nelson Orders Priorities For: Synthefic Rubber   Clears Way for Production of ' 457.000 Tons

EFFERS GETS. WPB PLANT   Building Priorit Directive Has , ‘ Nelson Okeh

JEFFERS PRIORITY FIGHT 1S SETTLED   Nelson Gives Preference to 43.6 Pet. of Program, Considerahle T.ees Than Aslced.

RUBBER CHIEF AUTHORIZED TO SPEED UP WORK   Jeffers Gets Preference On 43.6 Per Cent Of Demands; To Rush Synthetic   ‘Loafer’ Explained

Judge Renders  Decisions In  Equity Cases Work In District  - Court Progressing  Rapidly This Week

Judge Renders. Decisions In Equity Cases  Work In District - Court Progressing

Say Nazis May Evacuate Vienna   Worth Repeating: Keep Eye Cocked For Invasion At Some Other Point

Soviets Drive Toward Dnieper River   Key German Bases Are Menaced by Advancing Russicns

Russ Armies Menace Key Nazi Points   Powerful Force Seen Driving Toward River As Kenotop Threatened

TWO KEY NAZI ‘BASES MENACED IN RED DRIVE      Rear Guard Actions Fail to Halt -Onsurze.

MERGER TO END DUAL TELEGRAPH SERVICE   Western Union Will Have Sole Communications Field

FRENCH GROUP SHOWDOWN SEI   DeGaulle Slated To Renew Demands At Meet Today

PAY-AS-EARN POLICY UPHELD   Rum! Denies Rich Aided More Than Others Under Plan

SABOTAGE CHARGED   faulty Manufacture Of Aerial Bombs Laid Te Company

GERMANS TAKE! SEAPORT   War Materials Stored, at -Split, , However, Are Saved 

HIGH SCHOOL BAND PRESENT FREE CONCERT   Make First Public Appearance In New Uniforms; Chorus, Band Numbers.

Ringling Circus Goes Back — To Old-Fashioned Trappings   Modernistic Experiment Dropped; Parades Revived; Old. Tents Brought Back

IHlyria Over Top; Clermont Close      Illyria Also Over Top; Clermont Was Very Close

WAR BOND DRIVE MAKING PROGRESS   Rome Townships Wave Met Their Quota and Others Are Practl. eally at the Goal

Brown Announces Clean Up for OPA   Personnel and Food Biggest Problems, Says Administrator

Head of OPA Charts Drive "To Clean Up’   Chief Problems Facing Director Are Personnel and Food Prices  CONFERS WITH BYRNES

OPA Head To Tackle  ‘““Mess’”’   Charts Campaign to Clear Up Ration ing Bureau

OPA HEAD SAYS HE  WILL ELIMINATE ANY  BUREAU TROUBLES CHIEF PROBLEMS ARE  PERSONNEL AND FOOD PRICES AT PRESENT

BROWN FIGHTS FOR ‘CLEANUP IN OPA MUDDLE      Personnel and Food Prices 1  Chief Problems Facing Administrator, After Criticism Mounts  :   CALLS GN BYRNES   Reported Action Demanded By War Mobilization Director; Subsidies Are Under Fire

CUTE HUGE Los      Stalin Says Red Army Carries Whole Weight of War  ‘As F. D. R. Messages Admiration of Americans

Reds’ Lone Stand Cited   Stalin Deplores Lack Of Any Second Front

Soviets Will Help Enforce  Future Peace   Tripartite meeting at Moscow termed success thus far

SOVIETS READY TO ASSIST IN KEEPING PEACE   Reported Ready To Accept Responsibility In Restraining Aggression

WILLING TO WORK WITH U.S. BRITAIN   Prepared to Accept Responsibility of Halting Aggression

MOSCOW CONFERENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISTINCT SUC-~ CESS TO DATE—MANY  KNOTTY PROBLEMS

Ry WENRY GWHWADICRODA      SICILIAN CAMPAIGN NEARING FINAL STAGES ©

Sicilian Campaign Now — Entering Final Stages   Germans, Herded Inte Messina Cul-De-Sac Less Than A Month After Initial Landing, Still Capable . ‘Of Stubborn Fight — War Wreckage Terrific

NEW AED ORWE ON VAST FRONT   Russians Strike Hard In Au and on Ground at Novo rossisk Naval Base

First Army Makes Gain Toward Tunis   French Forces Haye Broken Through Tunisian Mountain Defense And Near Pont De Fahs

Enemy Losses Set al 66,000 Men   Artillery Fire of Yanks Takes Heavy Death Toll

FRENCH BREAK THROUGH AXIS DEFENSE RING      British First Army Knocks Out 20 Enemy Tanks

2 KILLED, 69 HURT AS CROWDED BUS HITS TROLLEY   Pauline ~ Miller, Homer City; Arlene Gilbert, Core) Casualties

One Killed, 70 Hurt in Crash   Crowded Bus Collides With Trolley in Pittsburgh

500,000 Miners Walk Out: Stormy Word Battle Rages in Washington   Ickes Calls Stoppage ‘Strike Against Govern ment;’ Urges Lewis to Order Miners Back to Work; Charges Operators of Opposing Plan

ALLIED TACTICS TOO POTENT FOR ITS SURVIVAI   Ship Terpedoings Steadily Decrease—150 U-Hoats Sunk tn 3 Months.

U-Boat Losses : Exceed Number Of Ships Sunk   Nazis May Be Compelled To Abandon Wolfpack Tactics, Is Belief Of Naval Experts ,

Brothers-in-Law Contest for Seat in Illinois House Is Near Decicia:

FAVOR OUSTER OF REP. HOLTON   COMMITTEE REPORT RECOMMENDS SEAT FOR R, H. HUSCHLE

 Nazis Pour Troops Onto Leros Island ‘As Allies Retreat   Commiamnique Refutes Nazi Glain Of Isle’s Comple te Occupation; Ball of Carrison Believed Neav

Allies Unable To Stop Nazis Seizing Leros   Unless Allies Can Get More Troops Ashore Isle Is Doomed

NAZIS WINNING BACK ANOTHER AEGEAN ISLANI   Germans Itivade Lero In Dodecanese Group

Germans Gain In Aegean Isle Attack   Troops Pour Ashore On Leros, Pushing Back British

NAZIS LAND AT 4 BEACHHEADS OF LEROS ISLE   Anglo-Italian Forces Virtually at Mercy of German Invaders

Bugg's-Third Try  For Freedom Is  Denied by Hulen Farmer, Bank Head  and Labor Leader Servina 25 Years

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Tremendous Preparation Underway for Invasion Assault Is Described

Allied Planes Smother Axis Italian Bases   One Field Bombed 19 Times in 24 Hours; No- Opposition   Mammoth Preparation tor Invasion Dwarfs  Any Campaign Ever Waged in All Histary

DISCUSSES COMING INVASION   Eisenhower Working Hard to Perfect  Teamandancac Plancdc

WRITES OF INVASION PREPARATION      Hugh Baillie Gives Vivid Description OF African Moves

MARSHALL MAY LEAD INVASION   U. S. Chief Of Staff Is Reported Likelv To Head Lineup

Benito. Mussolini, Agitator, Bum, And Turncoat, Lasted ‘21 Years As Boss Of Italy

‘Many Being .Given Farm Work in This Country — Prison Camps Throughout Country Growing Own Vegetables,

LAND-AIR BATTLE DEVELOPS FOR VITAL GULF BASE IN NEW GUINEA   ASSIGN SOME WAR PRISONERS T0‘V’ GARDENS

PACE OF NEW TAA BILL 19 PLOTTED   Believe Action Will Be Too Late Give Boosted Excise Taxes Nibble at Yule Shoppers’ Pocketbooks

WRITES V-LETTER FROM ENGLAND   But Censors Eliminate All Information.

LARGER CITIES ASSIGN EXTRA COPS TO STORES   Butchers Expe:t Quick Drain . on Saturday Suppii:3

MEAT MARKETS EMPTIED BY BUYING RUSH   Police Help Keep Order ir Larger Ohio Cities as Rationing Nears

Limited Supplies Are Exhausted And Sunday  Meatless In Some Cities

yel Square Mile Of Fires in Heart Of Ruhr Region   RAF Blasts Steel @ Town; Antwerp Also a Target

Japs May Desert Port of Akyab   British Puzzled Over Activities Of Foes’ Ships

Jap Tactics In Burma Puzzling   Uncertain Whether They Will Defend Port; Will Know Soon.

Full Debate on Allowances Is in House   President Refutes War Touring Senators in Charges Made: Reveals More News

Agitation For Lend-Lease Probe Grows   Demand for Inquiry Sharp. ens Despite Assertion of Chief Executive   SENATORS INSISTENT

CALL FOR CHECK ON LEND-LEASE CROWS LOUDER   Senator Ellender Wants Te Know If Nations Are Ever To Repay

Senators Press Demand to Check Lend-Lease Act   FDR’s Statement Fails to Check Growing Movement

SOLIRS DEMAND INVESTIGATION OF LEND-LEASE   FDR Opposes Request; Probe of British Materials Loan Sought

Senate Inquiry On Lend-Lease Seen Looming   Solons Show Readiness To Investigate In Spite Of Roosevelt’s Statements

Confirmation Bill Passed by Senate  Adopted by 42 to 29 And Sent to House

Total of 150,000 Prisoners Taken By Allies in African Victory; Cap Bon Cleanup is Done Quickly

BRITISH CAPTURE GENERAL VON ARNIM AND STAFF, RICHEST PRIZE OF CAMPAIGN; AMERICANS TAKE 37, 998 PRISONERS.

African Battle Officially Considered Ended Following Capture of General Von Arnim, 150.000 Troops

Battle officially over as 150,000  troops captured   Only scattered pockets of Germans eontinne to resist allied forces

Gen. Von Arnim Among 150,000 Captives Taken   11 Other Generals Also Held; Small Pockets Hold Out

Allied Invasion Of Europe Nearer Now   General Yon Arnim, 11 Other Generals, And Thousands Of Enemy Troops Taken In Battle

Capture Of Von Arnim Is Climax   11 Other Generals And 150,000 Troops Surrender To Allies.  on a a

Gen. Von Arnim Among 150,000 ° Captives Taken   1] Other Generals Also Held; Smal! Dacleate tnt Vr ve

Captured Troops Mount to 150,000   Von Arnim and 11 Other Generals Are Taken in Final Chapter Of North Africa Phase

Only Isolated Axis Groups Still Active On Cap Bon   150,000 Prisoners In Final Eight Days Increases to 400,000  Tatal far Camnation   11 OTHER GENERALS TAKEN IN ROUNDUP

Only Small Groups At Large   African Battle Officially Considered Ended Following Capture of General Yor Arnim. 150.000 Troops

Eleven Other Generals:  150,000 Men Captured   Allied Armored Units Make Quick Clean Ur  of Forces on Cap Bon Peninsula

THE ALLIED ARMIES INFLICT CRUSHING DEFEAT ON AXIS W AFRICAISURRENDER   TAKE 150,000 PRISONERS AND ELEVEN GENERALS

German Commander-InChief Among 150,000 Axis Troops Held Prisoner   ENEMY RESISTANCE IS REPORTED AT AN END

Resistance Ends With Capture of  Gen. Von Arnim   Eleven Other High Ranking German Generals Nabbed in Drive; 150,000 Axis Troops are Prisoners

Battle Officially Ended After Six Months Fighting in African Theater   Vast Quantities of Guns, War Material, Aircraft to Allies in Triumph; 400,000 Axis Fighters Taken During Campaign

Big Battle Ends in Complete Triumph for Allied Forces — Only. Isolated Pockets Still Resist and These Are Expected to Be. Wiped Out Quickly — 150,000 Prisoners Captured.

Von Arnim, Staff Taken in Cleanuy  Of Cap Bon Area   North African Triumph Clears Way for Allied Invasion of Europe; 11 German and 26 Italian Divisions Taken in Battle

Eleven Generals. Taken Prisoners as Battle Officially Considered Ended

Twelve Generals Captured as Axis Resistance Ends   Von Arnim among Germans Held in Allied Prison Camps   Fighting Continues in Only a Few Isolated Pockets

9,000 MINERS STILL REMAIN OUT ON STRIKE   Union Threatens Dishonorable Discharge To  Recalcitrants   LEWIS TRYING TO TERMINATE WALKOUT

Miners Launch Move to  Resume Work  Many Vote to Heed F. R.’s Order * Theat Strike: End -~

Miners Call For Return To Jobs   Local Wants ‘Work, 9 000 Still [dle

2 LOCALS VOTE TO END STRIKE   Back-To-Work Movement Is Started Among Pa. Anthracite Coal Miners

Hard Coal Miners Launch Movement To Reopen Plant:   Nearly 4,000 Workers Throw Aside Parliamentary Order As Shouts Of "Back To Work Boys” Ring Through Union Halls

BACK 10 WORK SLOGAN Al UNION MEET   ‘Miners Shout And Throw  arliamentary Order To Winds; Lehigh Valley Group First ‘io Obey Order.  i Hours.   Shortage Acute

Back to Work Movement Gains Speed In Mine Area   Nearly 3,000 Strikers Vote To Obey Order By F.D.R. To Return Before Noon Today   9,000 STRIKERS CONTINUE IDLE   One Small Union Local With 800 Members Votes To Remain Out

MINERS GOING BACK TO WORK   Several Thousard Vote to Return to Jobs; Some Remain Out Yet

BACKTO MINE CRIES SOUND IN COAL AREA   Groups Launch Movement to Return to Duty Today

Back-to-Work Drive Gaining Among Miners   ‘Union Halls Rin With ries As 3,000 Vet “to Retarn”’ n-Con With Roosevelt Order

Back-to-Work Move Spreads Among Miners   3,000 Anthracite Diggers Accept Executive Order, Leaving About 9.000  Remaining Out   Shouts Ring Through Union Locals’ Halls   Que Doesn't Even Bother To Take Formal Vote Ending Strike

Mine Workers Launch Drive  To End Strike   Back-to-Work Cries Ring Out at Meeting. of Unions

American Airmen Fight Greatest Single Battle of War in Kiel Raid

MOTHER'S LEAP S FATAL TO INFANT   New-born Baby Boy Dies of Fractured Skull

Board Denies Request to Defer Kyser  Band Leader Aided OWL in War Weck Ocean Radia

Confusion Is Contounded As Muddle Over Taxes Continues   One Plan After The Other Discussed, But No Matter Which Is Adopted. You'll Have To Pav

Facts And Figures Add to ‘Confusion of Income Taxes    But Taxpayers Can Be Sure They'll Have to Pay More This Year Than Ever Before; Unless Congress Takes Quick Action First Payment Will { Be On Basis of Increased Rates

EX-DEMOGRATIC CHIEFTAIN WILL DEFEND HIMSELF   Other Major Issues Occupy Attention of Congress

NEW SHORTAGE OF SUGAR LOOMS   Echoes of Meat Bootlegging And Mine Strike Also Heard in Capital

OPA to Start ActionAgainst Black Market   Flynn’s Trial Highlights Washington Action; Rail Wage Question Arises

Senate Hearing On Appointment Of Edward J. Flynn As Minister To Australia Takes Spotlight

GOP Lines Up Forces For 44  State Republicans Want Unified Body hep mt 2«*....§§ &bé4£2 ok.

NAZIS BATTLE NAZIS   German Costal Convoy Mistaken For Allied Invasion.

HULL AVERS U.S, FOR WORLD BODY TO INSURE PEACE   Pan-American Day Speech Opposes Churchill’s ‘Councils’ Plan

TO DISCUSS PRIORITIES  Roger P, Meyers Will Be at C. of C . All Day Thursday

Will Take Wheat If Loan Unpaid   180,000,000 Bushels Being Held As Security

Government Threatens To Take Over 180 Million Bu. Wheat Held As Security

Agriculture Department Prepares To Take Over Wheat Held As Security

Gulfport Officer To Receive DFC; Seamen to Visit   Shipbuilding Plant Reopens After Six-Hour Shutdewn

Grant County s D. A. Steps Out   Complies With Request of Goodland

Mannheim-Ludwigshaven and Frankfurt Blasted. Forty - Two Bombera Lost In Twin Attack, Destruction Heavy.

2,200 Tons of bombs Were Dropped on City of Frankfurt.  AMERICAN BOMBERS OUT AGAIN TODAY  Third Day of Daylight Attacks on the Reich.

Qver a Thousand — Bombers Take Part in Widespread Raids   Frankfurt, Mannheim - Ludwigshaven, Other Western Germany Cities Hit

Yanks Nearing Arawe Air Strip   Jap Air Attacks on U. S. Positions Disniniching

Allies Push Japs Back In Bougainville And ' New Guinea Campaign:

Americans Neat Arawe Airfield;  Seizure Looms   Jap Air Attacks On Invaders’ Positions On New Britain Diminishing.

Yanks Nearing Arawe Airstrip On New Britair   Dares Strategy Of Japs; Strengthen Beachhead

Americans Near Arawe Airfield  Ground Troops, Aided From Air, Advance

GROUND FORCES BOLSTER YANKS IN NEW GUINEA   Fighter Sweeps Dare Jap Air Power In Raids Over Rabaul .

Americans Near Arawe [Plane Base   Capiure of Strip in Jungle Already Ma: Re a Fact

Japanese Air Attacks on New Britain Island Are Described As Lessening

U. S: Invasion Forces Near:  Arawe Air ‘strip; Jap Bombs Fail To Halt Drive On Base

Airfield May Even Now Be:  In Our Hands   Addition of Another Field Would Gr eatly Augment Allied Invasion

NEW BRITAIN OFFENSIVE 1S GROWING   Troops Aided By Artillery And Allied Planes

17 Alabama Coal Mines Shut Down   Resulted From Government's Release of Mines to Owners, It Was Said.

Alabama Coal Mines Shut Down   OVER 17 PLANTS CLOSE AS U. S. RELEASES CONTROL

17 ALABAMA COAL MINES SHUT DOWN   Work Stoppage Is Result Of Government’s Release Of Mines to Owners

0.00 MINERS IDLE FOLLOWING RELEASE   Union, Operator Spokesmen Says Shut Down Due to Return of Mines by Gov’t

CHINESE TAKE TWO KEY JAP BASES IN YANGTZE VALLEY   Communique Says Enemy Is Falling Back On 300-Mile Front. American Flyers Play Important Part In Battle.

ENEMY FALLS BACK ALONG 300 MILE FRONT, CHANGYANG, CHIHKIANG, CAPTURED

Abandon Airfield To Flood Water   Missouri River Reaches 22-Foot Crest

LOSE FGHT WITH ~ FLOOD WATERS   Omaha’s Airport Doomed to Complete In-  undation

BIG AIRPORT AT OMAHA IS UNDER WATER   Engineers Give Up Hope of Saving $4,000,000 Field and Carter Lake, Ia., Village From Compiete Inundation.

Flood Water Churns Over  Oinaha Port   Battle To Save Big Air Field  Proves In Vain.

) BREAKS IN DIKE   Engineers Give Up Hopes  of Saving Omaha Air- ~  -' portFrom Flood . }

FLOOD SWEEPS OMAHA AIRPORT   Army Engineers Abandon Hope Of Saving $4,000,000 Airport As Rampaging Missouri Breaks Dikes

Airport at Omaha To be Inundated  Carter Lake, la., Also in Line of Flood

OMAHA AIRPORT NOW INUNDATED   Missouri River Flood Waters Pour Through Two Broken. Dikes.

FLOOD WATERS 10 COVER NEW HUGE AIRPORT   Missouri River Rampages and Workers Give Up Hope of Curbine Inuncdation   FAMILIES EVACUATED FROM 10-MILE SECTO}

Flood Waters On Air Field   Two-Thirds of Great Omaha Field Covered; Two Dikes Break

Flood fo Cover — Omaha Airport  Hope Abandoned of   Hope Abandoned of Preventing Flooding Of Carter Lake. lowa

Aged Marshal's Plan To Draft Democratic Constitution Seen As Attempted Move To Pave Way To Meet Allied Victory.   —BY THOMAS F. HAWKINS-

Petain Aim Seen French Regime Suitme Allies   Doubtful If Aged Marshal Intends To Ease Path Fer General De Gaulle

MEDICAL CARE PLAN ADOPTED   This Plan Of Health fine surance Has Been Su . cessful. f

26 Communists Call for Action By French Chiefs   Ex-Political Prisoners Protest Being Ignored By Algiers Committee

FRENCH REDS MARE DEMAND   Have Been Ignored in Ar rangement at Algiers, 26 Deputies Say

Debate Over Food Subsidy Waxes Hot   President Expected To Be Able To Keep Prosram

Capital in Row Over. Subsidies . Whole Question  Of Inflation Is  Blown Wide Open

Subsidy Ban To Be Vetoed  Congress. Expected To Vote ‘No’ With FDR Then Upheld

HOUSE BEGINS HOT DEBATE ON SUBSIDIES PLAN   Approval Seen By Big Margin But Leaders Doubt Ability To Kill Veto

QUBSIDY FIGHT SHARLS CONGRESS   Expect President Roosevelt to Veto Any Bill That Bans Subsidies

Administration Hopes Compromise   Can Be Reached on Food Subsidies

INFLATION HOT CAPITAL TORIC   Row Over Food Subsidies Has Capitol Hill In Fighting Mood

Inflation Tied To Subsidies   Row Over Subsidies Opens Whole Inflation Question

Showdown Neat In Congress on Food Subsidies   Inflation Topic Brought to Fore On Capitol Hil!

As A Result Of The Subsidy Row.....  The Inflation Issue Is Blown Wide Open

‘Whole Question of Inflation Blown Open \by Row Over Pusanent of Food Subsidies

Inflation Is Crux.   Row Over Subsidies  Boils Down to Difference of Opinien As To What Causes Inflation

Inflation Topic : Is Opened: Wide ~ By Subsidy Row   House And Senate Gearéd Yo Halt Government Payments To Producers

Conferees Agree On Pay-Go Compromise Tax  Would Cancel Year's Levy for Some; Goes Back to House

Conferees Agree On Compromise Tax Measure   Would Cancel Year’s Taxes For Ones Owing Up to $50, 73 Percent for Others

Conferees Agree Upon New Tax Bill   BREAK — FIVE-DAP DEADLOCK CANCELING OF $50 OR LESS AND 75 PER CENT. FOR OTHERS.   Abates $6,000,000 ,000

Pay-Go Tax _ Compromise  Is Reached   Conferees Would Cancel 75 Pct. of Levy Due,  Binweete, @OD

TAX CONFEREES REACH DECISION   Senate-House Group To Back Plan Skipping $50 Or Under, $75  For Others

DEADLOCK ON TAXES ENDED BY NEW PLAN   Conferees Compromise By Part Abatement OF Year’s Levy

Tax Conferees Agree  On Compromise Bill   Plan to Cancel Year's rams for Those Owing $50 or Less and 75> of Taxes for Others: Withholding Levy to Be Installed

Pay-as-you-go commitiee breaks five day deadlock   Agree on compromise measure that would cancel part of year’s taxes

‘Conferees Agree on Plan to Cancel Year's Taxes on Persons Owing $50 or Less; Would Exempt Others 75 Per Cent

BRITISH =SMASH AHEAD RAPIDLY; CAPTURE GABES   Americans Continue Drive To Sea And Threaten Retreat Of Huns   RAF AGAIN HITS BERLIN   21 Bombers Lost In Raid On German Capital And 12 In Ruhr Area

ALLIES OCCUPY METLAOUI IN: DRIVE TOWARD AXIS ANCHOR   Another Enemy Attack in Sedjenane Sector of Northern Tunisia Beaten Off

GAFSA UNTENABLE POINT FOR ENEM   American Casualties 2242 Ir Six-Day Retreat In Tunisia Stimson Says.

ALLIED FORCES PUSH TOWARD GAFSA ANCHOR   Enemy Attack Beaten Off In Sedjenane Sector Of Northern Tunisia   AIRDROMES ARE BOMBED   ‘Lull Supports Feeling That  Bloody Fighting Due In   Near Future

Enemy Attack on Sed Jenane Sector Is Beaten Off   Axis Anchor Point Becoming Untenable Iinder Poundine

Allies Push Squeeze Play  Against Axis   Gafsa Near Fall— Titanie Struggle Shanine Up

MACHINISTS TO QUIT AFL,  CHIEF ASSERTS   Break Over Jurisdiciional Dispute with Carpenters May Cost AFL All Lewis Might Add

MACHINISTS ARE OUT OF THE AFL   Union Group With Member ship Of Over Half Million Quits American Federation.

Machinist Union Quits AFL Ranks  Half Million Membership To Be Indenendent

MACHINISTS END AFL AFFILIATION   May 31 Final D Day; Million Men to Quit in Union Row With Carpenters

MACHINISTS QUIT AFL BECAUSE OF POLICY DISPUTE   JURISDICTION ROW RESULTS IN BREAK WITH NATIONAL BODY

Machinists Union Announces Break From AFL Ranks   Leader Blames Row Over Jurisdiction With Carpenters

Machinists To Quit AFL   Break In Union Due To Long Standing Jurisdictional Row

Machinist Union  Has Quit A.F.L.   Drops Out Because Of Long Standing Jurisdictional Row. - .

Machinists Quit A.F.L.   Split Results From Jurisdictional Row Of Long Standing

Machinists In  AFL To Leave   Membership Of Over Half Million Quits On Jurisdictional Dispute.

Machinists Quit AFL After Row  Organization to Lose Half-Million MAambere ac Rae: f}

Machinists . Drop Out Of [AFL's Ranks   Rapidly Growing Union Will Remain Independent

Strong Union  To Quit A. F. L. After Dispute   500,000 Machinists To Withdraw

565,000 Quit AFL. Ranks   Machinists Charge ‘Muscling in’ by Carpenters’ Union

HALF-MILLION MACHINISTS BOLT THE AFL   Union Will Become Independent Group as of May 31 as a Result of a Long-Standing Jurisdic tianal Row.

MACHINIST UNION BREAKS WITH AFL   Half-Million Members Will Withdraw: Jurisdictional Dispute Blamed

APRIL CALL NOW FILLED   21 More Plymouth County Men Now In Actual  Servira

APRIL CALL ~ NOWFILLED      21 More Plymouth County ' Men Now In Actual  Service

LUCK RUNS OUT.   ‘Driver Escapes Death In Crash, Is Electrocuted.

MORE EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN REPORTED   Tokyo Radio Admits 1,400 Killed on Week End

Negotiations For Armistice Are Revealed   Overtures Had Been Unde: Way Almost Month Before Ita'y Stepped Out   IN DESPERATE PLIGHT

TTALIANS SOUGHT PEACE MONTH AGO   Sent Emissaries to Allies with Requests for Peace; All Allies Informed of Offer

FORMS RICKENBACKER  SQUADRON AT INGALLS Members Pledged to Sticking'to Job 

MANY PASCAGOULA SHIPYARD WORKERS FORM “RICK” CLUB   10,000 ‘Workers Pledge To Stick To lob Every Day

Capt. J. D. Ellis Dies in Jap Prison Camp   Was Former Fingerprint Expert for Missouri Highway Patrol.

GILLETTE SAYS U.S. 10 EXPAND ALCOHOL QUOTA   Must Up Figure To Meet Goal Of Synthetic Rubber

Proposed Amendment To Lower Age For Voting Heads For Senate Study

NEW ISSUE TO FACE CONGRESS IN LOWER AGE FOR VOTING  SENATE COMMITTEE TO BEGIN STUDYING PROPOSED AMENDMENT

LOWER VOTING AGE PROPOSAL TO BE PRESSEL   Senators Plan Early Consideration of Amendment Giving Youth of Eighteen Ballot

OF VOTING AGE   Senate Committee to Consider Proposal to Lower Age to 18.

To Ponder Cutin Voting Age to If   Senate Group to Take Up Proposed Amendment

TO CONSIDER LOWER VOTING AGE LIMIT   judiciary Committee to Act on Resolution Dropping Voting Age to 18

18-Year-Olds May Vote Hatch To Press Legislation Lowering Voting Age

Lower Voting Age Favored   Congress Likely to Act on Plan to Let 18-Year-Olds Ballot

Political Issue Scheduled For Congress With Efforts To Lower Voting Age To 18

Franchise For Youths Of 18 Will Be Issue   New Plan Would Give Vote To Those ‘Old Enough To, Fight For U. S.’

Voting Age Issue Marked for Fall  Session of Congres: Wallace Asked Join   Wallace Asked Join Hatch and Others In Security Rally

CONSIDERATION OF LOWERING VOTING AGE IS ON AGENDA   Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Lower Voting Age to 18 to Get Early Study by Sub-Committee ~

NEW ISSUE TO FACE CONGRESS IN LOWER AGE-FOR-VOTING  SENATE COMMITTEE TO  DECIN eTIINVING PRO.

Propose 18-Year Old Voting Age   New Political Issue Up For Discussion

PLANS MADE TO CUT VOTING AGE   PROPOSED MEASURE WOULD GIVE YOUTHS 18 RIGHT TO BALLOT

Consider Lowering Noting Age   issue Larmarked For Congress in Fall; Would Lowe: Voting Age to 18

Enemy Is Caught Fleeing Solomons  Nipponese Ship Losses Now Total 25

Three Warships Sunk; 2 Others Badly Damagec   Guns Of U. S. Navy Take Heavy Price In Men And Ships

2 Other Groups Of Enemy Ships Turn and Flee   U.S. Takes Advantage Of Tropical Moon to Go After Japs; Our Losses ‘Moderate’

Three Japanese Warships Sunk In Night Battle   Americans Balk Attempt To Flee

JAP NAVY IS BEATEN BY U.S. WARSHIPS   In Night Battle, After Trying to, Remove Troops from Solomons; U. §, Losses “Moderate”.   Must Risk

dap Navy Units Suffer Big Defeat At Hands Of Yanks   Enemy Attempting To Remove Troops From Central Solomons Hard Hit In Sea Battle

[NEMY LOSES NAVAL BATTLE IN SOLOMONS   American Vessels Blast Cruiser and Two Destroyers to Bottom — Damave Two Shins.   OTHER ENEMY CRAFT RUN AT HIGH SPEED   Force Intercepted on Way to Kolombangara to Evacuate Troops— U.S. Losses “Moderate.”

Three Jap Ships Sunk In Night Navy Clash   Cruiser and Two Destroyers Sent Down by American Warships as Enemy Units Come Out of Hiding ——Losses of U. S. Declared “Moderate”

2 Other Destroyers Damaged In Sea Battle off Vella Lavella;  American Losses ‘Moderate’

Nips’ Abortive Rescue Attempt Brings Disaster   Cruiser And Two  Destroyers Sunk; PRsleceess Paget

Effort to Rescue Fleeing Nips  Ends in Disaster   Two Destroyers and Cruiser Sunk, Three or Four Others Hit; Vella.Gulf Scene of Sea Fighting

Foe Cruiser and Destroyer Are Sent — To Bottom in Vella Gulf Battle In Move to Evacuate Troops

‘U.S. Ships Sink Enemy Cruiser, 2 Destroyers; Block Rescue Attempt   Jap Naval Force Tries to Remove Troops Fleeing Central Solomons; Two Other Destroyers Damaged; Tokyo Tells of Wake Attack

Nipponese Suffer Loss of Ships In Flight Effort  Allies Send Cruiser, Two Destroyers Down, Damage More

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Fen Battle Of Africa apidly Shaping Up In Allies’ Favor

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   American Planes Operate from Captured Field on Betio

PLANES UaING AAP FIELO UN ~ BETIO ISLAND   Seabees on Heels of Marines Get Strip Operating in Four Days.

U.S. PLANES USE CAPTURED FIELD   Seabees Restore Air Strip on Gilbert Island in Four Days

BETIO AIRSTRIP IS NOW IN USE   Gilberts Casualties He av But Ship Losses Light

JAP FLEET IN HIDING FOR FULL YEAR   Suffered Its Most Disastrous Defeat Just Year Ago

JAPANESE FLEET ENDS YEAR OF AVOIDING MAJOR BATTLE   No. POWERFUL ENEMY SURFACE FORCE HAS CHALLENGED U, 8. NAVY SINCE DISASTER IN SOLOMONS

JAP FLEET IN   Suffered Its Most Disastrous Defeat Just Year Ago

Nazis Prepared To Carry War Into ~ Hext Year Rather Than Surrender

HIGHWAYS ARE CLEAR   Crews Work All Night Plowing Thru Slush and Snow

MANY NUMBERS OF MOTORISTS TAKEN   Alleged Pleasure” Drivers Will be Hauled Before Panel

RAF AND AMER, PLANES FITTING NAZI CENTERS   FLYING FORTRESSES BLASTED U-BOAT BASE AT BREMEN IN NORTHWEST GER. MANY THIS AFTERNOON,   THREE CITIES WERE BOMBED OVER NIGH!   RAF Planes Dropped Bombs on Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen and Munich--Only Seven Planes Lost Out of Over 600,

Pounding by Allied Airmen   Nazis Make Retaliatory Raid on London With 30 Tons of Bombs.

Yanks And Japs Swap Air Blows  Over Solomons   Enemy Planes Attack U.S.Guadalcanal Base

We Lead State!   Per Capita Bond Purchases in March Headed bv Hill Counts

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Shutdown Of Coal Mines Will Have Important ‘Searing Upon War

UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTING MACHINE CONSISTS OF MORE THAN ARMY AND NAVY ON THE FIRING LINE

The War T oday— Work Stoppages Can Cost Lives On War’s Battlefronts, Mackenzie Says

Home Front Disputes Add Casualties Among Our Boys   So Writes War Analyst Who Stresses Dependence of  Men at Front Upon Men Back Home

WARREN. SOLON RIFT LOOMS   LAWMAKERS ASK GIANT STATE APPROPRIATIONS

Arms Production Shows Big Gain, Nelson Reports   Aircraft Output Hits Record 8362 During October

October Arms Output Gains   Aircraft Production Hits Record of 8,362 Planes

lArms Productior Scores Biggest Gain Since April   Nelson Says Plane Output Reached 8,362 in October

Arms Output Hits New Peak   Report for October Revea!s Aircraft Production Hos Smashed All Records; Oversupply Forces Some Reductions

PLANE OUTPUT FOR OCTOBER SETS RECORD   Arms Production Scores Biggest Gain Since Last April

Arms Production Rings Up New High Gains  Aircraft Output Smashes Record With 2362 Planes

6362 Planes Produced In U. 5. in October   Arms Production Greatest Since April Nelson Says

Production Of Arms Reported Up In October   Aircraft Output Reaches Record Total Of 8,362

GERMANS SAY ALLIES MASS 750,000 MEN   Concentrated In Britair  For Invasion Of Kurope

NAZIS REPORT ALLIES READY FOR INVASION      Claim 50 Divisions In British Isle: Ready For Next Year's Tnvasion

Nazis Brace For 3-Prong Allied Push   Marshall Elevation And Zone Shuffling Developments. Seen

Nazi Predicts Allied Invasion of Western Europe This Winter Or Spring

NAZIS BELIEVE O0 DIVISIONS ARE READY 10 INVADI   Germans Expect Attack tr West to Co-incide With  Wew Red Drive.

OO' INFANTRY, TANK AND AIR DIVISIONS READY   Western Blows to Synchronize With Red Offensive Is Pre diction

PREPARING FOR BIS INVASION   German ‘Transocean Agency Says 760,000 Men Concentrated in Brit. ish Isles for Drive on Western Europe.

TWOAY'S WAR MOVES   aud. L. ®. PATENT OFFICE) (BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE)

CANNED GOODS FREEZE ORDER ISIN EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT   UNRESTRICTED PURCHASES OF MORE THAN 200 VARIETIES ENDS--RATIONING STARTS MARCH IST

GREEN URGES HUGE SUBSIDY TO CUT PRICES   Labor Head Demand: $2 Billion Used to Push Back Costs

GREEN ASKS LATER ROLLBACK LEVELS   Living Costs_of 13 .Months  _ Ago Favored By AFL oe Chief

Green Demands S2.000.000.000 Annual Subsidy   AFL Leader Wants Prices Pushed Back To May 1942 Levels

What Your Chances Are For Pay Hike   Adjustments Made Only To Correct Sept. 15 Wage Levels   (Fifth of a series of columns eaplaining the government's wage stabilization program.)

Jeffers Not Willing To Be Muzzled  Rubher Czar Will   Rubber Gear Will , Speak His Piece ” Any Time, He Says

Loafer Charge Still Stands   Rubber Director Jeffers Continues  To Speak His Mind

JEFFERS SCOLDED FOR "SPEAKING MIND’   Don't Think He Violated FDR's Order; OW! Davis Thinks He Bid

Jeffers’ Views Will Be Told in Spite of OW!   Rubber Director Is Reminded of Roosevelt Order

HOLDS ORDERS QF PRESIDENT NOT VIOLATEL   William Jeffers Represent ed As Believing. OWI   “Madea Mistake” In — ” CSHicizine Him   SPEECH NOT MADE   Remark Army and Navy Expeditors Are ‘Loafers’ Made At Round-Table Conference

‘1 WILL SPEAK MY MIND’, SAYS JEFFERS  Warning Letter From OW! Director Will Not Muzzle U. S. Rubber Czar

OWI REPRIMANDS JEFFERS FOR NOT GUARDING TALK   RUBBER DIRECTOR RESPECTS DAVIS BUT DOESN’T AGREE

SPEAKS HIS MIND   Jeffers, Chided by OWL Says Rubber Program Must Be Started

Jeffers To Speak Mind, He Insists   Rubber Chief Believes He Violated No Order Of F. R. In Flaying  Aeweniw. Naww be  gun tee *

Jeffers — Speaks His Mind   Means No Violation of FDR Order, But Intends To Speed Up Synthetic .Program If Possible

JEFFERS PLANS TO AIR DISPUTE   Says He'll ‘Speak My Mind’ When Asked About Rubber Program.   IGNORED FDR’S ORDER

Father Dratt Legislation Is Nearing Vote   Measure To Slow Down or Stop Drafting of Prewar Fathers May Come Quicklv to a Vote.

Father Draft Settlement [s Expected Soon   Leaders Anticipate Passage of Bill Outlawing Subsidies Backed By President

Tri-Power Parley Ends Nazi Hope Of Separate Fronts   Moscow Battle Concert Is Expected To Take Up Military As Well As Post-War And Economic Developments

‘fay C ule Jars ung _Dera“ions L 2e) v-o0 Semanc -or S220n¢ “ro+

MISSING UNITED PRESS CORRESPONDENT SAFE IN. . JAP INTERNIMENT CAMP

McDOUGALL INTERNED   Defeat Of Strong Jap Army Will Take Long Time— Y oung

$50,000 Gem Theft Uncovered By FB  Former Railway Expres:  Driver Pleads Guilty

ASK OPA T0 BOW TO STATE AGENCY   Organized Dairymen Seek Way To Permit Commission To Increase Milk Prices Nov. 1

Clamp Martial Law on Jap Center After Inmates Boycott Colonel's Talk

SUBS SINK 10 JAP SHIPS, DAMAGE 4   Large Tanker, Big Transport and Eight Freighters Are Destroyed.

American Subs Sink 10 More Jap Ships  Contracts to Build Anti-Submarine  VWaceale (nneallaa

COAL MINING * GETTING BACK. TONORMAL   Full Crews Are’ Back in Most  Of the Mines

COMMERCIAL TRUCKS. TO GET USED TIRES   OPA Ruling May Make It Impossible for Passenger Cars to Obtain Second-Hand Casings.

FILES Rit FLAYING oklP TAK PROGRAN   La Follette Says Cancellation Means Tax Boost Later on Low Incomes.   SENATE WILL START  DEBATE WEDNESDAY

SENATE TO BACK OW! SLASH, NYE   Leader Declares Nation Needs No Propaganda Office to Keep It Patriotic.

OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION HOMEFRONT FUNDS IN OUR      HOUSE WIPES OUT APPROPRIATION FOR DOMESTIO SETUP--SENATE APPROVAL  1S PREDICTED

Killing Of OWI Branch Is Seen   Senate Expected To Follow House In Ending Domestic Unit Of Agency

HOUSE SET FOR RUML TAX VOTE   Both Sides Claim Victory After Roosevelt Voices Objection

HOUSE NEARING THIRD VOTE ON RUML PLAN   Presidential Promise of Veto May Have Turned Tide

FINAL VOTE ON RUML TAX PLAN SCHEDULED TODAY   President Enters Battle With Threat Of Veto If Law  Passes Congress

VETO THREAT MAY DEFEAT RUML'S-PLAN   CLOSE VOTE EXPECTED! IN - BoUBE AS. SaoWwDOWN  ho CoMER ON “RRIY-A.  WEAR" PROEOUAL::

KOENIG DRUG STORE SOLD   Vern Lovely © of Stewart, -Ja., Buys Business Today

KOENIG 1G DRUG ~ STORE SOLD   Vern Lovely. y of Stewart “Ta., Buys Business . Taday

Loyal Japs Will Be  Segregated  From Agitators Relocation Director  Favors Drafting Evacuee Citizens

DIVIDE JAP EVACUEES   The WRA Will Draw Line seciween the Loyal and Disloyal.

JANUARY BOND QUOTA EXCEEDED IN COUNT   $268,237 Worth of Series Bonds Purchased ‘~

COUNTY $19,158 SHORI OF MAY BOND QUOTA   Last Month's Sales $252,842, Palmer Penorte

Tanks Used By Aussies In N. Guinea   Alied Planes Blast Japanese In Solamons

Aussies Move Slowly Ahead In New Guinea   Liberators Continue To Pound Bases tn North Solomons

Allies Again Make Gains on Japs In Pacific Battle  Australians Continue Forward March;  ae @ pi._§_.... @z,._.°f..

Heavy Tanks Clear Way For Allies   American Offensive In Pacific Gains Momentum

AUSSIES CLOSE IN ON JAPANESE   Light Tanks And Planes Support Offensive At Sattelberg

SLOW PROGRESS BEING MADE IN HUON DISTRICT   Planes Continue Blasting Of Buka Air  Bases

NEW GAINS MADE BY AUSTRALIANS   TANKS AND PLANES SUPPORT. ALLIED TROOPS MOVING ON SATTELBERG.

Tank-Paced Australian Ar my Moves Slowly Ahead Against  Japanese On Huon Peninsuld   SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sunday. GP) — Tank-paced Australian soldiers. are eontinuing to move slowly ahead against Japanese entrench-

Aussies Push Or In New Guinea By Use Of Tanks   Planes Also Join Heavy Assaults On Japs At Sattelberg

Aussies Move Ahead With Aid of Tanks   Allied Communique Gives Lie to Jap Story of Repulse

Tank-Led A'hied Troops Advance On New Guinea  Chinese Report Japanese Gains . encive

Allies Again Make Gains on Japs In Pacific Battle  Australians Continue Forward March;

Australians Use Tanks In Drive  Near Sattelberg   Airmen Continuing Furious Onslaught To Ruin Jap Bases

Aussies Use Light Tanks Against Japs   Allies Closing in or Sattelberg, Enemy Held Base

Aussies Gain At Sattelberg   Aircraft Carrier Task Force Add Punching Power On Jap Bases.

FLIERS AlD LAND DRIVE IN GUINEA   Buka Airfields Also Battered By Heavy Air Assaults

Aussies Battle Enemy In Hills   Allied Troops Clearing Foe From Plateau Trenches in Campaign for Sattelberg; U.S. Offensive Near, Nomura Warns Japan

AUSSIES GAIN IN DRIVE ON SATTELBERG   Tanks Leading Way; Bombers Pound Baamy

APPROVE HIKE IN RAIL MEN'S WAGE   Disregards Contention of Vinson; Favor 8 Cents An Hour Increase.

RAIL WAGE HIKE MOVE. APPROVED   Senate Unit Goes on Record Favoring Overriding Vinson Position

Senate Committee Votes for Raise For Railway Men   Say 8 Cents More for Non-Operatives Won't Crack Wage Formula

Senate to Get Rail Pay Issue      Committee Action As Overrile of Vinson

Facist Party Secrefary Urces Fight To Death  Italy In “Mortal”   Italy In “Mortal” Danger, He Says In Radin Anneal

Fascist Leaders Try To Scare Italians ~ As Antidote To Demand To Surrender   Italians Surrender With Joy

SCORZA CALLS “LAST-DITCH" FIGHT   New Fascist Party See retary Says Plight Is Desperate

Scora Urges Italians Fight To The Finish   Fascist Secretary  On Radio At Bern

ITALIAN URGES FIGHT TO DEATH   Fascist Party Official Ex horts People to Stay In the War

Scorza Makes Frantic Plea To Italians To Establish Last-Ditch Stand In Fight

Resist, Scorza Tells Italians  Plight of Ita ae   , eaaEne ante Faacrut

De Marigny Case Ready for Jury   Judge Declares No Faked Evidence

GINO CHANGE TO JURORS IN MARIGNY GASI   Asserts Defendant Must Be Given Benefit of Any Reasonable Doubt.

Court Charges de Marigny Jury  Convinced There Was No Faked Evidence

JUSTICE DELIVERS CHARGE TQ JURY IN DE MARIGNY CASE   ‘Sees No Faking of Evidence;   Started Talking at 11 £2 Me

TO VOTE AT PARSONS   K.0.P. Workers to E to Express Preferences on Representation

TO VOTE AT PARSONS      K.0.P. Workers to Express Pref. erences on Representation

brates sti aat, _ <ligneemimnniiietmeanl CONDITION OF JOLSON REPORTED JUST FAIR

Reich Still Holds A Big War Force   Gen. Strong Says Germany’s Strength Greater  Than in 1939.

Says Germans Are Stronger Than in 1939   ‘Chief of Army’s Military Intelligence Division Says Jap Strength tn the Air Is on Upperade

GERMANY STRONGER, TODAY THAN IN'T93¢ SAYS U $ GENERAL   RECENT OPTIMISTIC TALES OF NAZI MORTAL BLOWS ARE DENIED

WAR STRENGTH OF AXIS GROWS   Army Officer Says Nazi-Jap Power Weakened Little

‘NAZIS STILL CARRY WALLOP   a a Rate Wavering Reich ‘Stronger Than in ’39

Nazi, Jap Strength Increases   Greater Than In 1939, Is Warning Of Allies

FOES’ STRENGTH IS STILL GREAT   That’s Warning from Chief of Army Intelligence

Axis Strength Greater Than ‘39  Army's Intelligence Chief Reports On Germenany And tans

Nazi War Strength Greater Than Ever   Fact Is Revealed by U. S. Army Intelligence Chief, Who Says Enemy Has Three Times as Many Troops as In 1939.

Reveals German War Strength . Greater Now, Japs On Upgrade   Road To Victory Still Is Thorny, Fairchild Chief Tells. Audience’   Unjustified’ Optimism Harmful To Allied Cause, Will Slow Production, Says Ward In Giving “Off The Record” Confidential Information.

Germany s War Strength Saic (Greater Than in '39; Japs Have Mighty Hold on Asia

Enemy War Strength Still Mighty   Army Chieftan Pricks Bubble of Over-Optimism By Citing the Figures to Prove It

Intelligence Chief Admits That Axis Nations Now Stronger Than Ever

Congress Acts On Refund of  Army Surplus   Plant Conversion From War to Peace Delay of Father Dralt Discussed

Budget Bureau To Get Refund From The Army   ‘Congressmen Will Demand Lower Taxes as Army Overestimated Expenses by 13 Billion.

pl STRIKE NOW MENACING  ” JOBS OF 85,001   £5,000 Out at Chrysler Ignore Leaders’ Order to Resume Work

WALKOUT HITS PRODUCTION OF WAR MATERIAL   Workers Ignore Requests Of Union Leaders To Return To Jobs   PAY INCREASES SOUGHT   ClO Members Blame WLB For Failure To Decide On Grievances

THOUSANDS OF WAR WORKERS ARE STRIKINE   ESTIMATE 78,000 DEFENSE WORKERS IDLE IN DE” TROFT AND ‘ToTaL MAY GROW !

Leader Sees No Hope ot Reaching Agreement as Sub-Committee Takes Over.

STILL THREAT OF MINERS STRIKING   Siormy Dispute Is Carried On Behind Barricaded Doors.

GUEST TICKETS READY.   Admission to “Se Proudly We Hail” Is by War Bonds

Motorists Face Loss Of B, C Cards For Failure To Join Ride-Sharing Club

Fortresses Take Part.   GROUND FIGHTING SLOWS UP DUE TO MINE FIELDS AND ) INCREASING GERMAN RESICT:

HUGE FORCE OF FLYING FORTS RAIDS SARDINIA   amid All-Out Air Offensive Blasts Enemy Forces On All African Lines

BIG RAID EXECUTED SUDDENLY;   100 Great Bombers Ma co Unprecedented For on Enemy Lines j inAfrica,

Campaign Slowed By Mine Fields. Stiff Resistance   100 Fortresses Join In Gigantic Attack On Port of Cagliari

GROUND FIGHTING IN TUNISIA SLOWS OWING 10 MINES   Axis Front and Rear Lines Are Rocked With Positions Blasted, 14 Axis Planes Are Shot Down.   ALL FORTRESSES ARE SAFE IN GREAT RAID   13 Grounded Planes Destroy; ed With 44 Others Damaged, One Ship, Other Crafts Also Bombed,

Air Offensive Rocks Axis Tunisia Lines, And Sardinia Port   Tunisian Situation Favorable, Says ‘Stimson; Bulk of Rommel Army Now Heading For Union with Arnim’s

100 FLYING © FORTRESSES IN ONE ATTACK   31 Enemy Craft Shot Down, Ground Fighting Slows

All U. S. Bombers Safe After Greatest Single Foray Of Entire War

ALL-OUT AIR RAIDS GIVE NAZIS WORST PASTING OF FIGHT   Big Planes Sweep Over Sardinia And Bomb Port Of Cagliari — Ground Fighting Slows Down Due To Mines And Strong Resistance

HOUSE WILL ACT ON ABSENTEEISM IN DEFENSE WORKS   Rider to Bill Would Turn Names of Absentees Over to Selective Service Boards Every Three Months

‘WORK OR FIGHT’   House Panel Approves Bill Tc Curh Ahsanteaicn.

Work Or Fight  Laws Proposed   Absenteeism In December Cost Enough Hours For Two Carriers.

Work or Fight Law   House Committee Acts To Curb Absenteeism From War Industries

SHORTAGE OF PHYSICIANS FORECAST   Doctors Available for Civi lian. Practice ‘Will Go Be low Safety Level Next

Russians Advance On Wide Front; Take Vast  Stores Of German Arm:

‘SIX RESCUED MINERS . TAKEN TO HOSPITAL      ; Taken-Rrom Flooded Collier Mine 1 After Being Imprisoned 1 For 40 Hours

Seek To Avoid Feeding World   Plans Include Getting Seed, Machinery Where Needed

PLAN TO INCREASE FOREIGN PRODUCTION   . e Other Nations Will Be Asked Tc Grew Greater Crops Ta Ease  Burden On United st2tes

PLAN TO STEP UP FOOD GOALS   U. S. to Stimulate Production Abroad to Save Feeding World

GLOBAL FOOD PLAN DEVISED   Program Designed To Ease Burden On United States

War Board Draws Plan for Stimulating Food Output Abroad to Lift World Bread Basket Burden From United States

War Board Has Plans For Stimulating Food Outout Abroad To Ease U.S. Load

Chart World Food Plan   Program Would Stimulate Production Abroad, Easing Demands On U. S. Food Supplies

Suggest Bright Outlook   GATHER FAT THURSDAY   Truck Will Visit the Elementary Schools in Lawrence

GATHER FAT THURSDAY   Truck Will Visit the Elementary Schools in Lawrence

THREE TOWNS, CAPTURED IN EARLY DRIVE   Southern haly Evacuated ‘By Axis Says “ - Report

Fan Out Swiftly From Beach-Head   Allied Forces Seize Air Field; Big Invading Units Reported Landed

Allies Fan Our From Solid Beachhead   Several Important Towns and Air Base Scized as Toe Is Covered

NAVY ANNOUNCES FIFTEEN JAPANESE SHIPS WERE LOST   THAT NUMBER SUNK OR DAMAGED AGAINST TWO -U: S WARSHIPS SUNK

15 Nippon Ships Sunk Or Damaged; U.S Cruiser Chicago Los:   60 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed In Recent Sea Anc Air Battle, Navy Department Reveals; Knox Bares Sub Drive Against Foe

43 Outlook Is Bright, Attlee Tells Commons   British Leader Summarizes Allied Successes  And Aims.

PROSPECTS FOR 1943 SUPERIOR   Deputy Prime Minister Pleased With Outlook

War Situation Is Reviewed in Commons   Deputy Prime Minister Views Year With Sober Confidence   WILL HEAR CHURCHILL

Clement R. Attlee Says That Great  ~ Brittain Could Look Forward to the  ~ Year 1943 With Justifiable Confidence

Confidence _ds Expressed a By Attlee   Can View Allied Gaitis With “Sober: Satisfaction, He - Tells Parliament:   HIGHEST. PRAISE  ROR RUSSIANS   Gives Brief. Review. of ‘War ‘Ahead :of Expected: Talk by Churchill

Attlee Praises Allied Forces  For Successes   Predicts Better Things To Come

Churchill fo Give War Talk   Attlee Says Britain Looks Forward to 1943 With Confidence

Britain Looks Forward to [943 With Much Confidence   Successes Scored by Allied Nations Last Year Should Be Viewed With “Sober Satisfaction,” Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee Tells House of Commons

Briton Declares (utlook Better   Clement Attlee Tells Parliament of Achievements

CONFIDENCE FOR BRITAIN IN °43   Optimism Veiced by Attlee a: Parliament Opens Session With Report on War

CLEMENT AITLEE SOPTIMISTIC   Tells Parliament That Britain Can Look Forward to 1943 with Justifiable Con fidence.

Commons Hears War Statement   Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Speaks Today

DEPUTY MINISTER TELLS PARLIMENT ABOUT CONFIDENCE   Attlee Discusses “Justifiable Confidence’ In 1943 at Reopening of British Group Today.   RED ACHIEVEMENTS ARE HIGHLY PRAISED   Differences Over Political  Lineup In North Africa Are Only Natural Circum stances.

Attlee Tells British Commons It Can Look At War in 1943 With Justifiable Confidence

340 ALLIED YEAR, PREDICTS ATTLEE   British Deputy Premier Sees Bright Days Ahead

Britain Can Look Forward Confidently   View 1942 Successes With Satisfaction

War Report To British —   Deputy Prime Minister Addresses Opening Session of Parliament

Common Fight Against Enemy Mihailovic Aim   Partisan Peace Hinted As Forces of Gen. Broz Repulse Nazi Landing

Mihailovic in Move to Unite © ~ Yugoslav Army  Announces. Willingness - ~ tt ™ ee   Announces. Willingness. To Suspend Quarrel With Tito Broz.

Balkan feud nears end as General Mihailovis issues declaration of imtentions to his ecrities

May Soon Ration Butter, Cheese   Tentative Plans For Meat Rationing Call For 1% Pounds Weekiv.

Opinions: Vary -OnFingerprini   De Marieny Hearing Is :Enlivened By Attack : On Uus. “Officer

LAWYER FLAYS TESTIMONY IN NASSAU TRIAL   Charges . Fingerprint Evidence Offered Against  : De Marigny, Accused of Murder. ‘ Fabricated”

HTS MOTE UFEXPERT ON FINGERPRINTS   Marigny’s Defense Counsel Charges Evidence Was “Fabricated.”

R AF Blasts Ruhr City in Heaviest Raid   Bombers Pulverize Wuppertal in 1500-Ton Onslaught

R. A. F. Blasts Key Point in Nazi Arsenal   1,500 Tons Bombs Rain Down on City of Wuppertal

WUPPERTAL HIT BY RAF BOMBS   Key Point In Ruhr Feel: Weight Of 1,500-Tons

Heavy Raid Staged OnRuhr Industries   Over 1,500 Tons Of Explosives Dropped By RAF On Wuppertal In One Of Biggest Aw Attacks Of The War

Tons of Screaming Steel Dropped on Wup. ”  pertal 33 PLANES. LOST .. IN GREAT ASSAULT Raid Followed Triple Daylight Attacks in --: . France

Ruhr City Hit By Heavy Raid   1,500 Tons of Bombs Poured on Wuppertal

CHEMICAL PLANT AT WUPPERTAL HEAVILY BOMBED   Ball And Roller Bearing Factories Are Also Biasted By British   1,500 TONS BOMBS — DROPPED ON TARGETS

City of 411,000 Blasted by RAF: Many Fires Set   [hirty-Three British Planes Lost in ‘Concentrated Attack”   Chemical Plants and Fac. tories Left Blazing, Fliers Report

1500 Tons ot Bombs Fall on Wuppertal   Center of Chemical Industry Had Never Been Struck Before

RAF Fleet  Hammers  Wuppertal Blow Is One Of Heaviest  Fver Dealt

Key City Is Object of Heavy Raid   Antiaircraft Fails To Check Bomb Groups on Flight

Tons of Screaming Steel Dropped on Wuppertal  33 PLANES LOST IN GREAT ASSAULT  Raid Followed Triple Daylight Attacks in France

Wuppertal Is Wrecked By Bombers   Another Key City In Nazi's Ruhr Arsenal Smashed

He Couldn’t Be Bothered   Colonel In Pacific Was Too Intent to Jump

Ardmore Auction Thriller   Just One More Paragraph—   Ancient DeHaviland Safe In One More Landing

AAA Assails Equalization  Of Gasoline   Called Theory in East; Wants Over-Use Blame Lifted from Motorists

AUSSIES REPULSE. JAPANESE THRUST   NIP ‘FORCE ATTEMPTING TO LAND NEAR FINSCHHAFEN ALMOST WIPED OU‘,

Aussie Troops Repulse Dawn Thrust at Base   Enemy Suffers More Air Losses; Activity in Burma

JAPS THWARTED IN ATTEMPT TO RECAPTURE BASE         Jungle-Wise Australians Nearly Wipe Out Invaders Of Finechhafen   NIPPONESE SUFFERING HEAVY AERIAL LOSSES

Jap Finschhafen Drive Repulsed By Australians   Enemy Troops Almost Entirely Wiped Out As They Try to Land

Australians Foil Jap Attempt On Finschhafen  Three Barges of Men Almost Entirely  WVWiined Out by Shelling

Jungle Troops Beat Off Enemy Thrust   Japs Attempt to Retake Finschhafen Base

FORCES BEAT BACK JAPANESE THRUST   Terrific Air Losses Suffer ed by Enemy During Week

Japs’ Landing Effort Fails   Finschhafen Thrust Beaten Off, Contingent Wiped Out

Tri-Partite Meeting Big Success--F.R.   Likes Resolution In Senate, But Doesn't Say That Proposal Is  Adeanate

Gripsholm Sails Today   Passenger List of Returning Americans Released About Oct. 1

GRIPSHOLM SAILS AS EXCHANGE SHIP   Vessel Will Exchange Passengers At Mormugao For American Cilizens

Liner Sails — For Exchange   Gripsholm to Meet Japanese Ship in. East Indian Port

wesid Gripsholm To Meet Jap Ship  Will Return 1,250 U. S.  Citizens From Japan

EXCHANGE SHIP  GRIPSHOLM SAILS   Carries 1,330 Jap Civilians and Tons of Supplies for Prisoners

Gripsholm Sails To Contact Jap Exchange Vesse!   To Return U.S. Civilians Interned Since War Began

Americans To Be Exchanged  For Japanese   Gripsholm Sails To Bring Home About 1,250 U: S. Citizens Interned by Enemy Since Pearl Harhar

Liner Gripsholm Sailed Thursday,   Carried 1330 Japanese Civilians to Exchange for United States Citizens.

MERCY SHIP GRIPSHOLM SAILS WITH AID FOR PRISONERS HELD BY JAPANESE

PEACE ENDANGERED BY FOOD PROGRAM   So Says Medical Journal Editor at GOP Meeting

FORMAN AGAINST PLAN T0 FEED WORLD   Would Endanger Lasting Peace Says Medical Editor

BALKAN INVASION TALK SKYROCKETS TO A NEW HIGH   General Patton Makes Tour Of Strategic Military Zones In Middle Fast.

MADAME CHIANG WILL BE FETED   Plans Made For Series Of Appearances.

Ships Wrecked On Lakes as Gale Hits East  Chicago Shivers In Sub-Zero;  Snow in Arizona

WINTER SWEEPING MIDWEST TODA)   65-mile Gale Sinks One Boat and Damages 3 on Great Lakes.

Two state game wardens, employe accused by jury   Charges .trio exceeded legal limit; Alliance men named in other case

BUTTER VALUE INCREASE LIKELY   ‘Butter Shortage Now On Nation Wide Basis.

Eighth Army Smashes Through at Coastal Anchor  SYSTEM IMPERILLED BY BRITISH GAINS  U.S. Forces Push Beyond Maknassy in New Surge

TWO-MILE WIDE HOLE 1$ MADE IN NAZI LINE   Flying Column At Southern End Of Line Is Ready To \ttack From Rear.

Savage Assault Places Rommel Armies in Peril   _ British and American Forces Forge Ring Around Desperate Foe; Pierce Line to Start Rear Attacks

Rommel’s Africa Corps Im periled By British Eighth Army’s Drive   NAZI TANKS STRIKE BACK AT AMERICANS

Another Column Outflanks Line On Southern End   Yanks Pushing On Toward Coast To Bottle Up Rommel

British Pound Way Through “Mareth Line”   Rommel, facing severing of corridor, apparently is giving Americans a battle, -

BRITISH TEAR HOLE IN FORTIFICATIONS FROM COAST TO POINT TWO MILES INLAND; GERMANS OUTFLANKED ON SOUTH.

British Smash Through Mareth Line and Sweep Around Its South End in Flanking Move — Americans Plunge Beyond Maknassy in Effort to Close Trap—Violent Battle Still Raging.

Eighth Army, Axis Waging Fierce Battle   Rommel in Dire Peril as Americans Drive From Maknassy Toward Sea To Close Trap on Enemy

tight Rages On Ferocious Scale in Africa   Rommel Slashes at Americans to Stave Off Surging Doom

Nazi Fortifications Cracked Near Coast   Strongpoint Is Also Outtlanked on the South; Americans Drive Beyond Maknassy to Close Trap

BRITISH BLAST HOLE THROUGH AXIS DEFENSE   AMERICANS SURGING TOWARD SEA IN SAVAGE FIGHT

Hitler Tells Mento Hold Firm or Die   Fighting Rages As Eighth Army Moves Forward

Americans Try To Close Trap On Axis Corps   Eighth Army Drives Around and Behind Line in Great Sweep; 3.000 Troops Seized

@ NEW LIFE IN OLD CLIT — >?  Naples’ Streets Seething With People—All Hunting Food

Naples Coming to Life Again; People on Constant Search for Food in Dead City

Camp Wallace, ‘Nation's No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Training Center, to Observe Second  a penser ner eng oer teninanettenbe-eiy ate teateta mony sonaeath éitie teeth sbenttly« cere dpe tuah a etna emt nntene  [Anniversary With Brigade Review Monday

Big Surprise Coming   That Is Prediction in ChinaBurma-India Allied Tactics

EXPLAINS LACK OF OCTANE GAS   Nelson Says Needs Of African Invasion, Not Rubber Program, Responsible

Nelson Says War Needs, Not Rubber Program, Caused Gasoline Shortage

Denies Claim Synthetic Rubber Program Cause of Present Fuel Lack

GAS SHORTAGE BLAME PLAGED UPON INVASION   Nelson Says High Octane Needs in Africa, Not Rubber, Are Responsible.   DEPRECATES ICKES AND PATTERSON PROTESTS

WPB Chief Says Patterson’s Directives On African Invasion Responsible For Aviation Fuel Shortage

Nelson Says High Octane Gasoline Shortage Caused by North African Invasion, Not Rubber Program

NELSON BACKS RUBBER PLAN   WPB CHIEF SAYS AFRICA INVASION DRAIN ON GAS   Place Priorities

NELSON TELLS OF SHORTAGE OF GASOLINE   North African Invasion Not Rubber Program Gets the Blame

CHAOS SPREADING IN ITALY ADVICES T0 BERN INDICATE   Country Approaching State of Civil War with Mussolini Heading Fascists

Duce May Head Puppei Regime   Nazis Claim Fallen Leader Rescued ond Is Now at Liberty

Northern Italy Revolt Spreads   Believe Germans Are Solidifying Hold

CHAOS SPREADS THROUGH ITALY   Country Is Approaching Civil War, Reports  Indicate

Civil War Near in North -Htaly as Nazis Announce Liberation of Mussolin  

Price, Wage Program Hard Beset  Trinle Attack   Triple Attack Shaping Up  In Conzress

PRORAM BECUN   Attampt Made To Hurry Senate Into Holiday Re cess; Subsidies, Wage: and Authority of OPA Shares Attention.

‘Suds:cy a7: e 7098 Ausy /.genca ‘+s Congress “oves }) ear <ecess

New Dealers Seek Delay in Vote on Subsidies, Wages   Hope To Stave Off Impending Defeat

TRIPLE ASSAULT ON PRICE, WAGE PROGRAM BEGUN   Attampt Made To Hurr; Senate Into Holiday Re cess; Subsidies, Wage: and Authority of OPA Shares Attention.

SHOWDOWN DUE ON SUBSIDIES BEFORE RECESS   Sen. Ellender In Favor Of Postponing Decision  Until February   OTHER BILLS PENDING BEFORE BOTH HOUSES

FIGHT AGAINST PRICE CONTROL PROGRAM SEEN   Triple Assault Shaping Up As Move To Recess Senate For Holidays Is Launched

STABILIZATION PLANS FACING HEAVY ATTACK   Fights Over Subsidies Coal and Oil Prices  Near Climaxes

Goebbels Tells Cruel Truth About Nazi Defeat By Reds,  Russ Army Breaks Loose With ‘Power Which ¢.

TERRIBLE RED PERIL IS SEEN BY GOEBBELS   Says Reich Must Act Quickly Or It Will Be Too Late

GOEBBELS ASKS GERMAN PEOPLE FOR QUICK AID   No Time To Ask Questions, He Says; Action Is Needed Now   SOVIET STRENGTH UNDERESTIMATED

Goebbels Tells Germans ‘Cruel Truth’   Declares Nation Must Act—  amd Tramadictaly

GERMANS GET CRUEL TRUTH OF GOEBBELS   Danger Is Imminent, He Tell: In Breaking News Of Collapse Of Russian Campaign At Kharkov.   Must Stand By Hitler

Goebbels Tells ‘Cruel Truth’  To Germans   Says Germany Must Act To Throttle Russians, And Danger Imminent

COEBBELS TELLS GERMANY IT FACES DANGER FROM EAST   Says Power of Reds “Eclipses All Imagination” and Nazis Must Act Before It Is Too Late.   CALLS FOR GREATER EFFORT TO HALT FOE   Declares People Must Work Longer Hours and Provide Reserves for Army to Assume Offensive.

Goebbels Tells People ‘Cruel Truth’ of War   Danger Imminent; No Time fo Ask Questions, he Says

Goebbels Tells fermans ‘Cruel Truth’  Declares Nation Must Act— and Immediately

Plan Yo Slash Teachers’ Raises   4 Million Cul in Proposed Measure Predicted

Higher Pay Hikes Soughi By Teachers   Senators Flooded by Telegrams From All Parts  Of State

Kiska Attack Is Predicted   “Attu Tactics May Be Used In The Invasion

BATTLES IN SOLOMONS CONTINUE   Navy Communique Says Troops Gain On Guadalcanal

NAVY REPORTS STILL VAGUE ON AIR-SEA FIGHTS   Jap Raids On Guadalcanal Grow In Strength

Solcmons Engagements Continuing   Navy Describes Week-Long Series Of Air-Sea Fights

Allies Continue To Gain In Italy   Artillery  Fire Fails.to Check > Fifth and Eighth  . Armies   FIGHT IN HEAVY RAIN    Germans Have Been Forced to Withdraw to New - Positions

U.S. Warships Move In, Blast Nazi Positions  Several Miles North Or Rattle Timea As

3 MILE GAINS ARE MARKED UP BY CLARK ARMY   8th Army Clashes Bitterly With Germans Along Adriatic Coast

American Warships Pound Nazi Forces Along Appian Wa   Allied Armies in_ Italy Punch Out Advances in Face of Artillery

Américan Troops Gain Three Miles in Assault Up Mountainside in “Driving Rain   THREATEN TEANO   British Fight Bitter Engagement! Near San Salvo on Coast! of Adriatic

Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Troops Smash Through Rivulets and Mountainsides for Gain of Three Miles in Sparanise Area

German Marshal's Commvnications Along Ancient Appian Way Hammered to Aid Armies   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ADVANCING SLOWL)   Fighting Through Driving Rain and Smash Through Rivulets and Up Bristling Mountain Sides

POUND ANCIENT APPIAN WAY AND MINTURNO AREA   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES ADVANCE IN FACE OF HEAVY FIRE

U.S. Warships Intervene In — Rome Battle ©   Bombard German Posi‘anks Advance  “Th. Deivine Rain.

U. S. Warships Shell Nazis In  Minturno Area   Fifth And Eighth Armies Advance Slowly In Face Of Massed Artillery.

Allies Continue To Gain In Italy   Artillery Fire Fails to Check - Fifth and Exghth  Armies   Germans Have Been Forced to Withdraw to New  Positions

Fifth And Eighth Armies Punch Ou Short Advances In Face Of Masset Artillery Fire By Desperate Nazi:   Opposition Strengthens As Allies Drive Toward Teano, Road Junction Pointing To Mountain Anchor Of Marshal Rommel’s Line

Rommel’s Line of Communications Is Blasted In Italy   Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies Make Slight Gains as Two Destroyers and Cruiser Pound Minturno Area—Clark’s Troops Advance Three Miles in Driving Rain.

U.S. WARSHIPS BOMBARD REAR OF NAZI LINES   Pound Rommel Communi.  cations as 5th and 8th Armies Continue Hotly Contested Gains.

American Battleships Support Troops In Drive On Nazi Mt. Massico Lines

PAA AY BRIADSIDES ARE HURLED   Both Armies. Make Brief Gains. In _Ttaly War

DESTROYERS AND CRUISER MAKE ATTACK   U. S. Craft Blast Communications Along Appian Way as Land Forces Advance in Face af Masced Artillery.

SHELL APPIAN WAY IN REAR OF NAZI ARMY   Clark’s Army Makes Slight Gain Thru Driving Rain Along Read to Rome.

snort Gains Made By Allied Units   Clark's Fifth Armny Fight Through Driving  Rain

Fifth Fights Forward Three Miles In Rain   American Warships Hit At Rommel’s Line Of Communication

Communications Along Appian Way Hit By Big Guns; Ground Units Gain

Cruiser And Destroyers Pour Broadsides Into Marshal Rommel’s Line Of Communications, Pounding Minturno Area To Rear Of Mt. Massico Positions— Fifth And Eighth Armies Make Short Advances In Face Of Massed Artillery—Bitter Clashes Occur

NAVY BIG GUNS POUND GERMAN LINES IN ITALY   American and Britist Armies Pound Out Short Advances

U.S. WARSHIPS ARE SHELLING ROMMEL LINE   Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies Punch Out Short Advances in Face of Massed Artillery   RAINS SLOW CAMPAIGN

Allied Land Armies Make Short Drive   Swiss Reports Sa Say 1,200,886 . Germans Killed in ‘Air Way War: Shift Commanders

Cruiser, Destroyer Get In Fight For Rome As Clark’s Men (jain Three Milec In Rain

American Warships Pound Rommel Line Of Communications   Land Forces Fight -For= ward Through Rains, Up Mountainsides

American Warships Pound German Positions South Of Rome on Italian Coast

Broadsides Rip Minturno Area; Ground Forces Gain In Face of Foe Artillery

U. §. Warships Pour Fire Into Line of Romme   Shell Railroads Along Appian Way, Pound Minturno Area, Allies Say

Allies Make Short Advances in Italy   American Cruiser and Destroyers Pound  Minturno Area to Rear of Rommel’s Line While Allied Armies Gain Three Miles.

ALLIED FIFTH AND FIGHTH ARMIES IN SLIGHT ADVANCES  Gm, f CLARK’S AMERICAN EORWARD TINDET

Warships Cover  oth Army Advance   Rain, Mud Slow Italian Offensive   Yugoslavs Cut Vital Railroad

Allies Slog Forward In Short Gains   Bad Weather Hampers American Advance In Italy

U. S. Warships Shell Rommel Supply Lines   Fifth and Eighth Armies Make Short Advances in Heavy Weather

Clark Drive Is Supported   D.-T ow :  By WTovchins  CAL VIAGAES   ‘Short Advances Made  Both by American and  British Forces   TWO TOWNS TAKEN

POUND ENEMY   American Warships Pour Broadsides in Rommel’s Line of Supply.   ‘TROOPS SMASHING AHEAD

FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES REPORT GAINS IN ITALY   sroadsides From Sea Plaster Rommel's Communications Along Ancient Italian Highway; Going Slow For Allies.

FIFTH IN THREE MILE ADVANCE   Kighth Clashes With Enemy On Adriatic Coast .

WARSHIPS AID YANK TROOPS   Shell Rommel’s Communication Line Before 5th Army In Italy

‘ALLIED TROOPS HIT ENEMY ON THREE SIDES   United Forces Are Forcing Germans From Italv

Warships Enter Battle for Rome, Pound Minturno   American Army Bristles Up Mountainside for Three Mile Gain.   Allied Planes Bomb Front in Bad Weather

U. S. Increases Meat Rations   Bowles Promises Cut In Points Next Week

Chicago Gang War s Renewed: 1 Die, 1 Wounded   Capone Mobster Shot fn Back Of Head As He Stands At Bar

CHICAGO RACKETEER SLAIN BY MOBSTERS   Two Others Are Wounded by Blast from Shotgun

Danny Stanton, Hoodlum, Slain  Chicagoan Killed In Tavern By Gunmen

PLANES DROP BALTIC MINES   R. A. F. MACHINES CROSS SWEDEN; ONE DOWNED

Pre-invasion fear grips axis force as unrest mounts   12-million-man underground army awaits signal to attack

 Rush For Rome May Precede New Invasion— —bBy Kirke L, simpson (rc;   Allies May Attempt Landing In South France

Americans’ Stakes Abroad Exceed Foreign Holdings Here, Treasury Reports

Portugal Defense Program Gets Under Way Amid Rumors of Entering War

Air Operations Up in Pacific   Japanese Troops in Disorderly Retreat In Central China

URGE OHIOANS STUDY NEW RATION BLANKS   Boards Start Mailing Applications Today

Soo Line Passengers Marooned   Mail Bags Swept Away When Locomotive And Three Cars Are Derailed Near Owen

1943 Red Cross War Fund Drive Planned  [3 ee Se ae Nm POE Ne   Helena Campaign to Begin March 7, W. A. Bell Chairman

1943 Red Cross War Fund  Drive Planned   Helena Campaign to Begin March 7, W. A. Bell Chairman

‘Need wider response in  bond drive’   One of every 5 must purchase, Kinder asserts

PAY INSTEAD VACATION   Many St. Leuis War Workers Stick to Their Jobs.

ADD AMENDMENT TO ANTI-NUMBERS BILL   Four Words, “For His Own Profit,” Caused Delay

ALLIES KEEP UP DRIVE TO FORCE ~KORPS INTO SEA   ‘Armored Forces, Infantry or Central Sector In Joint Attack Achieve Objective tn Short Time.   OVER 15,000 PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN   Enemy Submarines Reappeas In Atlantic After Absence of Seven Months, Vessel Is   Tornedoed,

Yanks Push Foe From Fondouk, Aim at Sousse   Again Threaten to Cut Off Rommel As Axis Flees Up Coast Under Constant Attack From Air; Montgomery Asks ‘Dunkirk.’

Cr AW EAT F @ Bond Rally Held SFAX FALLS Here Last Night      Smashing Blow Aft Foe

Rommel Speeds Flight In Africa (Under Heavy Fire   Mountain Strongholds of Pichon, Fondouk _ Also In Allied Hands

AXIS DEFENSES CRUMBLE ON ALL TUNISIA FRONTS   Rommel Sreeds Flight In Attempt To Reach Tunis Before Alties Spring Trap

British Take 15,000 Nazi  Prisoners   “Drive Enemy Into Sea,” Montgomery  Tells Eighth Army

MAHARES AND SFAX TAKEN BY ALLIES IN ALL-OUT. MARCH   Powerful Drive May Cut Off Flight Of Rommel’s) — . Afrika Korps To The North

ROMMEL SEEKS MOUNTAIN COVER TG REST TROOPS   500 Prisoners Added to List. Battle Nears Historic Zone.

American and British Armored Units Capture Fondouk and Pichon, Threatening New Danger to Axis Forces Fleeing Toward Sousse; “On to Tunis and Drive Enemy Into the Sea,’’ General Montgomery's Order.

MOUNTAIN POINTS TAKENIN ALL-OUT ALLIED OFFENSIVE   Kighth Army Surges Up Coastal Route at 15Miles-Per-Day Pace; Threaten to Cut Off Foe

Aireraft Carriers Act as Allied Airfields For Naval Planes Aiding Bombers In Hammering of Axis Columns

Axis defenses in Tunisia crumble   All-out offensive threatens to cut off Rommel’s korps

Battered Germans Racing for Tunis Under Air Assault   Victorious British and Americans Scent ‘Dunkirk’ as Foe Crumbles;  Pichon, Fondouk Yielded by Axis

‘Drive Enemy to Sea, Montgomery  Tells His Troops   Mahares, Pichon, Fondouk All Captured as Allied Army Overruns Tunisia

Civilian Defense Program Studied It Will Be Considered Next Week When State Legislators CBnvene

Reds Capture Olenine, 35 Miles to Westward, Contro} Trunk Railway  ALLIES IN TUNISIA MENACE FAID PASS  Drive Rommel Forces Back Nearly to Point Where Offensive Started

Red Offensive Continues to Gain Ground   Americans Retake Most of Lost Area in Tunisia

American Forces Frase Rommel s Recent Advance   Allies Continue To Dominate Air  Over North Africa SINK AXIS SUPPLIES  Russians Report General Advances On Northern Fronts

SUSSIAN THRUST BEYOND RZHEV MOVES RAPIDLY TOWARDS SMOLENSK, STRONGEST GERMAN POSITION BE FORE MOSCOW.

BRITISH AFRICAN ARMY INTO TUNISIA   Now Fighting Rommel’s Rear Guard On Tunisian Soil.

GEN. EISENHOWER DENIES DISCORL   Allied Officers All Agree, He Says; Eighth Army  Enters Tunisia

SCRAP COLLECTION NEXT WEDNESDAY   Entire Borough Will Be Covered By Trucks In One Day —Citizens Urged To Gath er Material

SURAP COLLECTION HERE WEDNESDAY   Trucks Will Make House-ToHouse Tour Of Hanover And Surrounding Communities To Gather Materials

Sun-Mon, Dec. 5-6 Behind the Rising Sun wiih  Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish   Cotton Ginners: Report

COTTON GINNING REPORT AS ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WASHINGTON

Compensation For Miners Turned Down   Men Who Participated Ir Work Stoppage Are Denied Money

Deny Idle Aid To Miners   State Official Declares Men Left Jobs Without Good Cause

Ceremony Simple As Stevenson and Smith Sworn in ©   Maintaining Fundamentals of Government Emphasized; Both GCriticize Bureaucracy

SIMPLE CEREMONIAL  MARKS INAUGURATION  STEVENSON, SMITH NEED OF MAINTAINING  FUNDAMENTALS OF COVERNMENT STRESSED

Stevenson, Smith Take Office — In Simple Inaugural Ceremony, \Criticize Bureaucracy Sharply 

New Cattle Price Ceiling Protested   Unprecedented Beef Shortage Forecast

CATTLEMEN WARN OF BEEF SHORTAGE   BY EDWARD V. ROBERTS U.P. Staff Corresnondent

RUSSO-POLISH BREACH WIDENS   Washington Concern Rises As Hope Fades For Reconciliation

WAY PAVED FOR QUICK CONQUEST OF ALL SICILY   Strong Enemy Resistance Crushed; Whole Mt. Etna Line Tottering; Escape Road Cut

MILITARY RULE HAMPERED BY STRIKE WAVE   Danish Government In Exile May Be Formed In London

Nazis Put Dowr All Resistance In Denmark   King and All Other Government Officials Are In Custody

Patriots Uncowed By Drastic Threats Of Nazi Dictator:   Troops Rushed To 9 Cities Where’ __--Business Is. Said Paralyzed; Army, Navy Officers Arrested

Christian X Threatening  To Abdicate   Plans Alr eady Being Made’ To Form New Government in Exile

Denmark Casualties Are Placed at 2,000   That Number Believed Killed or Wounded In Fighting Between Nazis and Danish Soldiers, Sailors and Civilians.

2,000 Killed Or Wounded  In Denmark   Series of General Strikes Against Nazi Dictatorship Break Out in Nine Danish Cities 

Crush Danish Revolt   But Nazis Face New Headache in Series of Strikes Spreading Throughout Country

Danes Dety German Dictatorship By Paralyzing Industries In Nine Cities; Nazis Round Up Officers   Free Danish Government May Be Set Up In London; Experts Say State Of War Exists

nN  Many Killed Before Military Revolt Tn Denmark Crushed; German Troops Being Used to Bring End to Strikes

2,000 Casualties In Danish Fight   But Danes Undismayed By Violence; Strike In Industrial Centers

Report 2,000 Dead, Hurt In Denmark   General Strikes Break Out in Nine Cities  Of Country

Danes Uncowed Despite German  Military Rule   Occupation Authorities Are  Harassed by a Series of - General Strikes.   All Military Officers Rounded Up by Nazis

2,000 DEAD IN DANISH REVOLT      General Strikes in Nine Ci. ties Are New Problem For Nazis.   CRUSH MILITARY REVOLT

Strikes Break Out In Nine Danish Towns   Endless Stream Of Refugees Arriving In Sweden  Re FOUN WW rOrpips,

DANISH CITIES SWEPT - BY WAVE OF STRIKES   Indicate Danes Are Not Cowec By Threats Of Drastic Action

GERMANS CRUSH DANISH REVOLT: STRIKES SPREAL   Denmark Workers Ignore Death Threats of Nazi Dictatorship; Army, Navy Officers Jailed.

Free Danish Government Expectec to be Set Up in London Where Moeller Heads Group   JEWS ROUNDED UP   Danish Prince Revealed to hav Led Fighting Soldiers in Batth at Svendbora

Nazis Rush New Troops To Quell Patriots Who Defy Threats Of Death

NAZIS SMASH LAST VESTIGE OFRESISTANCE   Extraordinary Efforts Are Taken to Prevent Spread Of Walkouts to Other Industrial Centers   PENALTIES THREATENED

Nazis Tighten Military Grip on Little Country After Bloody Street Fighting—Government-in-exile May Be Set Up In England and War Declared

DANES DEFY NAZI GUNS   General Strikes Break Out  In Nine Cities Of   Denmark

Danes Object To Nazi Rule With Strikes   Industries In Nine Cities Effected As German Threats lenored,

Danes Strike To Plaque Nazis   German Troops Crush Military Revolt After Violent Fighting

German Military Authorities Crush Military Revolt. Faced with New Threat in Series of General Strikes in Danish Cities

DANES STRIKE, NATIS ARREST  MANY LEADERS   German Troops Rushed to Nine Cities to Check Workers’ Walkouts In Reheallinon   VIOLENT FIGHTING MARKED UPRISING   Aged King and Members Of Cabinet Seized By Hitlerites;, Hundreds Flee to Sweden

NAZI CHIEFS IN DENMARK FACE MANY STRIKES   Hannecken Tightens Grip On  Danish Military~ Leaders

DANES UNCOWED BY THREATS OF ‘NAZI TERRORISM   MILITARY REVOLT IS CRUSHED, BUT ENEMY PLAGUED BY STRIKES

Germans Face New Threats In Fighting Danes  Series Of General Strikes Break Out

NAZIS TIGHTE MILITARY GRIP OVER COUNTRY   Free Government Expected To Be Formed In London To Work With Allies   ABDICATION THREATENED   Army And Navy Officers Destroy Fortifications Before Being Interned

Strikes Against Nazi Dictatorship Break Out In Nine Danish Cities

9 Cities Are Paralyzed   German ‘Occupation Master Taking Harsh Steps to Erase Danish Resistance

Danish Strikes Protest Troop Rule By Nazis   Germans Move To Tighten Military Grip on Country

Danish Cabinet Resigns, Put Under ‘Arrest By Nazis    Germans Seize All Court   Functions, Warn Dis   obedient Danes to Ex. pect Severe Punish: menit.

WEATHER   nish Strikes rass German ictatorship  Denmark’s Navy, Army Officers Telled Bo Navic

GENERAL STRIKES HARASS EEANANS   ime Christian, Most  Government Members Under Arrest   DANES UNCOWED   Iron Nazi Rule Fails To Dampen Nation's Fighting Spirit

King Christian - Prisoner In  Castle Tuesday   Most Of Governmen  Members Jailed i ‘State Of War F In Force?

General Strike ~ Grips Denmark   Military Revolt Put Down; Martial Law

Nazis Crush Danish Revolt  But General Strikes   But General Strikes Occur In Nine Cities

GERMANS IN DENMARK  FACED WITH GENERAI  STRIKE MANY CITIES NEW TROUBLES ARISE  AFTER MILITARY REVOLT ‘EINALLY CRIISHED

Revolt Crushed, Danes Launch General Strike In Nine Cities   German General Rushes Troops to Points of Defiance

New Threat Faces Harassed German Invaders  Strikes Sweep Denmark

BEEF RATION POINT VALUES ARE BOOSTED   OPA Seeks to Shift Demand to More Plentiful Meat

Butter Also 8 Point Per Pound; Hamburger Stew Meat, Liver Anc Spare Ribs Low.

District Court ~ To Open 6-Week Session Monday   Murder Case and Probably Criminal Assault Case Due for Trial

FARM MCSiLIZATION DAT  By The President o! he United States of America.  A PROCLAMATION

Wants Issues Settled  Soviet Labor Magazine Calls  For Tri-Power Conference

Russian Magazine Says Victory Is Possible This Year. Asks Conference

o-POWER PARLEY URGED BY RUSSIAN   EDITOR CALLS FOR CONFER. ENCE OF U. S, BRITAIN AND SOVIET UNION.

Russians Urge Strategy Talks   Labor Paper Asks  Three-Power Meet By HENRY C. CASSIDY

Army-Navy News Policy Attacked  Group Says Public Not Kept Informed

GROUP REPORTS WAR NEWS IS WITHHELD   Declares Public Is Inadequately Informed—Blames Army and Naval Authorities. s

Kiska ska Blasted  By U: S: Foree   lero’ Ts: Shot: Down, . Ship Almost Hit As ‘Airmen: " Gait: Revence ‘

KISKA HARBOR FEELS FORCE OF U. 5. BOMBS   Japanese Menace There Has Been Increased By Reinforcements

Women Fire Huge Cannon At Lake Erie Proving Grounds; Most U. S. Guns Tested There

INQUIRY INTO Bs OF ARMY. — WILL BE HELD   SENATE APPROPRIATIONS . COMMITTEE ACTION ALSO AIMED AT GIVING CON“GRESS MANPOWER CONTROL

SENATE PROBE OF MANPOWER VOTED   Governmefit Will Seek to Recruit 3,500,000 Work.  ere for Farme.

WIDOW OF HOUDINI RENOUNCES HER FAITE   No Longer DGoes She Believe 1 Possible to Reach Husband in Spirit World.

Dr. Richard J. Tanger  Succumbs in Norfolk,  Nevada, Hospital of  Broken Leg    SUFFERED FRACTURE IN FALL AT HIS HOME   Thrilled Thousands at Tented Shows in 80’s and 90’s; Spent Recent  Life in Obscurity

‘Diamond Dick,’ Who Quit Circus Sharpshooting for Country Doctor's Life. Dies

Diamond Dick of Circus Fame Dies; Had Been Leading Figure in Show World. Topic of Much Fiction

Pressman Assails New Labor Curbs   Counsel for CIO Heard by House

FURTHER SLASHES IN NEWSPRINT ARE SAID T0 BE PLANNED   A Committee Was Formed Today to Ascertain Full Reason for Cuts.   A CONFERENCE TODAY   Twenty Republicans Were Appointed to Call Upon Chairman Lea.

PROTEST CUT IN NEWSPRINT   Republican Comyhitiee’ «Is ‘Formed:Hears.50’Per Cent: - Slash Is Planned: :

PLAN PROTEST  ON PAPER CUT      Charge Reduction As High As 50 Per Cent in Newsprint Planned,

FURTHER NEWS PRINT SLASHES PLANNED   Committee to Contact Proper Authorities to Get Full Details on Plans

GINGER TO WED AGAIN   Screen Star Ginger Rogers Plans To Marry Marine 

Allies Gain In Three Sectors, Slash Rommel   Destroy 50 Tanks As Nazis’ Sixth Attack Fails, Knock Out 17 Axis Planes Over Mediterranean; Reds Sweep Toward Vyazma.

Japs Indicate New Landings Made by Allies   Cape Gloucester Area Said Scene of Action

Salt Lake City Cuts Its Smoke By 51 Per Cent   Rigid regulations put into effect in mianufacturing districts ; en‘oines changed.

WAYLAND RAIL WRECK LAID TO FLOUTED RULES   ICC Finds Operating Officers of D L. & W. Responsibles for Death: of 29 Persons

Murder Fiend Still At Large After A Week   Joins Blanton Case As Unsolved?

FIENDISH MURDERS  OF DOCTOR AND WIFE  ARE STILL MYSTERY SHERIFF AND RANGER  CAPTAIN SEEKING TO SOLVE LITTLEFIELD CASI

BODY OF SLAIN CHILD FOUND IN FIELD; BOY HELD   Fifteen-Year-Old Youth Admits Killing and Criminally Assaulting Etizabeth Voight, 16

BOY, 15, HELD FOR SLAYING GIRL, 10   !  Battered Body of Young  Victim Found in Corn field Near Fishkill.

(£0 J. DUSTER IS ‘CALLED BY DEATH      Heart Attock Fatal To Governor’s Aide—Relatives Here.

CALLED BY DEATH   Heart “Attock Fatal. Te _ Governor’ s Aide—Relativece Here

North lowa Has Surprise Blackout   Second Test Held i State Within Past Seven Days

29 North Iowa Counties Are  Included in Blackout Test; Selby Reports Good Resnonce

29 Counties —Blacked Out Last Night   Second Surprise Test in Iowa Meets With Good (Co-Operation

Peninsula Falls on New Britain   SIXTH ARMY GRABS CONTROL OF CAPE MERKUS STRIP AS ADVANCE CONTINUES; ALLY AIRMEN BLAST JAP ATTACKS ON AMERICAN BEACHHEAD

Peninsula In  Yank Hands   Invasion Forces On New Britain Now  Control Arawe Neck

Entire Cape Held by Americans   Scattered Japanese Resistance Is  Raima Elincinnmbacd

Landing’ Casualties Light; America _ Fighters Protect New Britain Beachhead oe

ENTIRE CAPE IN ARAWE SECTOR IN YANK HANDS   Gives Invasion Forces in Pacific Area Complete Control of Land Flank ing Beachhead    SCATTERED NIPPONS BEING WIPED OUT   Japs Continue Air Activity to Hamper American Gains Without Indication of Damage

Yank Troops Widen Hold At Arawe   Allied Planes Break Up Jap Air Attacks On Beachhead Positions

REPEATED JAP ATTACK AGAINST INVASION FORCES BROKEN UP BY [ALLIED PLANES: JAP BASES HIT   Nips Kept on Defensive by Allied Planes Which Bomb Positions in Marshalls and Solomons and  Sink Two Transports. Bombing Attacks on Chine and Reswern

Entire Peninsula Now Firmly Held By U.S. 6th Army   Primary Objectives Are Taken And American Forces Expand Beachhead At Arawe; Jap Air Attacks Are Beaten Off

Invasion Forces Which Landed Four Days Ago In New Britain Now Have Complete Control Of Neck Of Land Flanking Arawe Harbor—Positions Being Expanded, MacArthur Reports—Japanese Unsuccessful In Efforts To Hamper American Gains

Yanks Advance In New: Britain   Fowerful Air Attacks ;.Aid-Ground- Troops ~’

Invading Yanks ‘Hold Peninsula  On New Britain   Control Entire 3-Mile Neck Of Land Flanking Arawe Harbor.

Take Over Entire Cape  Merkus Peninsula And  Beat Off Enemy Raids

U, §. TROOPS EXTEND THEIR HOLDINGS: ON~—ARAWE” PENINSULA      5th Air Force Patrols Skies Aa Last Jap Snipers Ara - Wiped Qut   MORE JAP:PLANES DOWNED

Continue Advance on New Britain   American Troops Occupy Entire Peninsula in Arawe Sectar

PENINSULA IN ALLIED HANDS   Sixth Army Pursues Japs  Into New Britale  Jungles

U.S. Airmen Keep Foe On Defensive   Liberator Bombers Blast Refineries On Borneo

Expand Holdings After Takin: Initial Objective, Eliminate Scai fered Resistance   WOTJE BLASTED   Cape Gloucester Also Bombed, Fliers Protecting Beachhead Blast Nine Japs from Sky

U. S. Troops Now Hold Key Arawe Peninsula   Invasion F orces. Now Control Neck Of Land Flanking Arawe Harbor And Continue To Expand Position.

YANKS ENLARGE INVASION HOLD ON NEW BRITAIN   Now Control Peninsula ii Arawe Sector; Japs Lack Drive in China

Continuing To Advance Daily Around Arawe   Allied Plains Raiding On :1000-Mile Are to Harry Japanese

New Britain Cape Under U. S. Control   Three-Mile, Advance. Reported—Japs Hard Hit bv Planes

Sixth Army Contin uing To Advance On Island   Complete Control Of Three-Mile Neck Of Land Now Ours; Air Force Does Good Work

NIPPON PLANES TRY TO HAMPER TROOPS OF U.S.   Route Followed by American Forces Leads  Toward Vital Air Strip

MacArthur Issues Ravorahble Report   .. Entire Cape Merkus Peninsu'a Occupied

AMERICAN TROOPS FOOTHOLD ON NEW BRITAIN ENLARGED   Allied Air Forces Kept the Enemy on the Defensive on Pacific Front.   STRUCK VITAL POINTS   U.S. 6th Army Fought Their Way to Control of Cape Merkus Peninsula.

US Troops Advance on New Britain   Air Forces Strike at Vital Points on Pacific Front; Two Jap Ships Sunk; Oil Refineries Bombed

INITIAL GOAL OF INVASION IS GAINED   No Mention Made Of Jap Resistance At Arawe   By American Bombers At Wewak;: Other Attacks Made On Marshalls

P38’s and P40's Shoot Down 14 Jap Warplanes Without a Loss   Liberators Pour 232 Tons of Bombs on Cape Gloucester

Entire Cape Held by Americans   Scattered Japanese Resistance Is Reina Eliminated

INVASION AREA UNDER CONTROL OF AMERICANS   Japs Kept on Defensive by Aerial Assaults While Ground Attacks Stopped

Americans Occupy Entire Peninsula in Arawe Sector   Have Complete Control of Neck of Land on New Britain Coast

Have Control Of 3 Mile Neck of Land   Australians Press Northward Along Shore of Huon Peninsula

Merkus peninsula in Yankee control   Advance in Arawe sector of New Britain continues

ARAWE TROOPS MANE ADVARCE   U.S. 6th Army Registers Gains Against Japs On New Britain

U.S. Units Advancing On Key Jap Base; Casualties Are Announced As Light

Japs Are Kept on Defensive at All Vital Pacific Points   Entire Cape Markus Peninsula Firmly In 6th Army’s Hands   Squeeze on Burma

Americans In Control of Arawe Sector   Troops Still Push Invasion Forces Still Gain Ground

U.S. TROOPS OCCUPY CAPE MERKUS AREA   Have Control Of Vital Point On  New Britain

invasion Forces Now Have Complete Control of Land Flanking Arawe Harbor; No BattleLine Determined Yet; Liberators Bomb Borneo Oil Refineries.

Enlarge New Guinea ‘Beachhead   American Invasion Troops Press Inland Against Scant Resistance: Control the Air -

U.S, SIXTH ARMY  TROOPS HAVE TAKEN  ENTIRE PENINSULA PRIME INITIAL OBJEC.  TIVES OF SEA-BORNE ATTACK ATTAINED

New Britain Invasion Is Continuing   Allied Air Forces Keep Enemy on Defensive Throughout Entire Pacific Theatre

Americans Go Forward On New Brifain   Allied Planes Keep Japs On Defensive With Assaults

CAPE MERKUS PENINSULA IN THEIR HANDS   Holdings in Arawe Sector Where Landings Were Made—MacArthur Announces That Advance Is Continuing.  }

QGGUPY ENTIRE AREA ON CAPE      Sixth Army Gains Control of Sector Flanking Arawe Harbor.   GAIN PRIME OBIECTIVE

U.S. 6th Army (rains Steadily On New Britain   Cape Merkus Peninsula In Arawe Sector Reported Fully Held By Troops 

Sixth Army Expands Hold in Arawe Arc   Drive Japanese Out to Occupy the Entire Cape Merkus Peninsula

ALLIED BLOWS AGAINST JAPS ON BIG FRONT   American Air Forces in India and China Team Together to Blast Nip Holdings in Burma

Sixth Army Wrests Cape Merkus Peninsula From Japs; Continue Advance

US Sixth Army  Crushes Japs In Arawe Advance   Occupies Cape Merkus In New Britain Drive

FORGE AHEAD IN ARAWE SECTOR OF NEW BRITAIN   JAP AIR ATTACK BEATEN OFF BY ALLIED FIGHTERS

Defenses Of Sicily Virtually Wiped Out   Lack Of Resistance To Air Raids Indicates Invasion Path Practically Clear

Axis Ships Are Sunk Off Italy   Signs Point to Expected Heavy Fighting in Medi terranean Area Soon

Four-Year-Term Bill Passes Senate   Tax Exemption for Service Men OK’ed

Senate Passes  Bill Extending Officers’ Terms    Measure to Double Terms ' Of County Officials Is  Sent to House

ALLIES SINK 9,000-TON JAP PLANE TENDEI   Damage Jap Destroyer, 28 Planes and 97 Barges

1 JAP SHIP SUNK; DESTROYER,PLANES HIT IN 36 HOURS   Allied Air Force Damages Enemy Sea And Air Craft In Wide Operations

Allied Airmen Sink 9000-Ton Japanese Seaplane Tender, and Damage Other Craft and Planes

JAP TENDER SUNK: HIT DESTROYER   28 Enemy Planes And 2% Barges Wrecked Or Damaged

Seaplane Tender Sunk In Wide  Allied Bombings   Land Front Remains Static; 28 Jap Planes ‘Bagged During Combat

Jap Shipping Losses Heavy  Hard Hit By Allied Bombers During April

MURDER PAIR - BEING: SOUGHT   TRIPLE SLAYERS BELIEVED TO HAVE FLED INTO THIS STATE - ATER PENNSYLVANIA KILLINGS

Would Curb Land Boom  with High Tax   Safeguards to Keep Farm Land Stable Is ‘Demanded by lowa Senator Gillette

Gillette Asks Curb on Farm Land Booms   Legislative Safeguard Against Repitition of Last Boom Asked

Would Safeguard  Farm Land Boom   Sen. Gillette Proposes Heavy Graduated Tax on the Profits.

GILLETTE WANTS LAND BOOM CURB   Proposes Heavy Tax on Second Farm Transfers

Urges Land Boom Brake   Legislation to Curb Speculation Demanded By Senator Gillette

Uroes a Purge of “Crackpots'’  Dies Demands Radi ice  Re eee Tae  ee

AXIS PRISONERS AS WOODSMEN   Would Cut Manpower Shortage, Threat to '. Paper Famine

Food Relief Kor Europe Big Problem   sast Post-War Supplies By U. S. Amounted To ‘Gifts’

WAR FUND DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY   Committee Members Begin Calling Upon Businessmen Seeking Contributions — Quota Is $16,750

WAR FUND DRIVE HERE THIS MONTH   Alan R. Warehime Named Local Chairman — Quota For Hanover District Is Fixed At $16,750

Ball Bearing Plant at Turin Bombed   Big Factory in Italy Attacked by Two Waves of Planes

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST TURIN WAR PLANT   Ball Bearing Works Are Well Covered With Bombs

FORTS CRIPPLE LARGE ITALIAN BEARING PLANT   U. S. Heavy Bombers Hit Turin Factory In Two Waves

Forts Hit Ball Bearing Plant   Turin Manufacturing Center Is Target

WFA Gives Out Wheat Acreages   Set For 1,200,000  Minnesota Quota

FULFILLMENT OF WARNINGS   Planes Strike at Naples — Naval Squadrons” Sheli Southern Itaty— Americans Advancing in Sicily. According to Latest Reports.

STRIKE ITALY, FRANCE AFTER BRIEF RESPITE   Fulfill Warning After Italy Fails to Capitulate; Luftwaffe Plastered Again

SOUTHERN ITALY, ALSC NAPLES BOMBED AGAIN   Allies Fulfill Warning to Italy by General Eisenhower

Japan Loses 1,854 Upon Attu Island   Munda Base Is  Avam Attacked

Japs At Kiska Again Attacked U.S. Planes Also  ‘ET 1. BR... OU) te

Aim to Keep Field Nearest _ American Positions Out "Of Overation.

New Air Attack Is Made on Munda’  Enemy Losses at _   Enemy Losses at Attu Now Stand At 1.845 Killed

HIT ANEW AT JAP BASES   U.S. Airmen Over Kiska in North ~ And Munda in South

YanksMake New Attack On Munda   Known Enemy Losses On Attu Total 1845 Killed Amd 20 Taken Prisoner

Munda Base ~ Of Japanese Raided Again   Navy Also Announces Known Enemy Losses on Attu Island Now Stands at 1,845 Men Killed and 20 Captured

TEMPERATURES:   All-Out Action Impending In South Pacific   Prime Minister Curtir Of Australia Tells Of Conference

OPA WILL ALLOW GAS INVESTIGATION   Checkers Can Question Mo. torists Only After Car Is Stopped.

RURAL SCHOOLS READY TO OPEN   Lack of Teachers May Force Eight To Close

City And Rural Schools Face Teacher Shortage   Fall Term Opens Next Monday In Several © -Country Areas

Vice - President Accuses Secretary of “Obstruction”  JONES RETORTS IN SHARP STATEMENT  BEW Head Charged With “Malice and Misstatements”

JONES ACCUSED OF HAMSTRINGING WALLAGE’S ROARE   Vice President Assails Commerce Secretary for What He Terms Obstruction in Economic Field.   LATTER SNAPS BACK IN SHARP DENIAL   ‘Declares Accuser Is Guilty of Malice and Calls for Inquiry—Roosevelt Taken by Surprise.

Wallace-Jesse Jones keud Flares Anew   lice President Accuses RFC Head of Obstructing Phases of BEW ; ‘Malice And Misstatements.” Jones Declares

Jesse Jones And Wallace Bring Feud Before Public   Secretary’ Accused By Vice-President Of Hindering Phases Of Economic Warfar;   JONES HITS BACK, CHARGES MALICE

Jones Charges Wallace with Misstatements   ‘abinet Officer and Vice President in Red Hot Quarrel   prise, Refuses To Discuss Charges

WALLACE AND JONES TANGLE OVER POLICIES   SECRETARY BRANDED OBSTRUCTIONIST BY VICE PRESIDENT

Wallace, Jones Swap Hot Words   Long-Smoldering Feud Climaxes In Verbal Battle

Wallace Claims Jesse Jones Is Obstructionist   Accused Man Calls For Congressional Inquiry Into Charges

Red-hot Quarrel Develops Between High Officials   Jones Charges ‘Malice and Misstatements'; Demands Congtessional Probe

 Hot Dispute Between Wallace and Jones Confronts President With Biggest Row Yet to Occur Within Official Family

Vice - President Accuses . Secretary of “Ob. struction” JONES RETORTS IN __. SHARP STATEMENT BEW Head Charged With “Malice and Misstatemante’!

rresident Uhides Wallace, Jones  For Airing Feud  Open Break Comes As ‘Surprise,’ Roosevelt Says  rAasIYV DOW

RED HOT QUARREL BREAKS OUT BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF COMMERCE.

Clash Climaxes Feud: Jones Used Obstructionist Tactics Wallace Says   Malice and Misstatement Commerce Secretary Replies; Row Between High Government Heads Flares; Takes President by Surprise

JESSE JONES AND WALLACE INBITTER ROW   Vice-President Says REC Hampers BEW  Program

SOVIETS CROSS DONETS RIVER   Important Hill Retaken 125 Miles Southeast Of Kharkov; 500  Nazis Slain

[Lewis Says Miners Would  Work for Government;   ' All Mines Closed

Plan Federal Agency to Rim Nation's Mines   Would Operate. Coal Pits for’ War's Duration:

Berlin’s N erves  “For Third Night   RAF Mosquitos: ‘Take. ‘Part In Another Air “Raid Over German Capital

Every Able Bodied Man Fighting Fire   Loss of Life Cut Down by Evacuation Women and Children   BOMBS PUT AXIS RADIOS TO SLEEP

HIT BERLIN AGAIN   Mosquito . Bombers Keep Nerves on Edge in Nazi °  Capital

MORE MINES LAID IN ENEMY WATERS AS NAZIS TREMBLE   Evacuation of Women and Children from German Capital Kept Death Toll at Low Mark. ‘

RAF Mosquitoes Keep Pressure On Berliners  German Capital Raidad Baw M.'ed

Berlin Under Another Raid By Mosquitos   Citizens Of Capital In Panic, Report; Great Damage Caused During Earlier Heavy Assault

EMBERS STILL GLOWING FROM MONDAY NICHT   Mosquito Bombers Meet Heavy Barrage From Anti-Aircratt

BERLIN HIT FOR THIRD STRAIGHT NIGHT BY RAF   Light British Bombers Hit Naz Capital, One Plane Missing

RAF MOSQUITOS PLAGUE BERLIN   NAZIS GET JITTERS AS NIGHT BOMBERS AGAIN ROAM REICH

Mosquito Planes Add To Jitters In Berlin   British Make Third Raid In As Many Nights; Fires From Monday Still Rage

BERLIN RAIDED THIRD TIME IN THREE NIGHTS   RAF Mosquitos Return to Reich Oiher Planes Blast Airfields.  Power Plant in France

Mosquitos Keep Berlin Jittery With New Raid   R. A. F. Continues Night Stabs At Battered Ger man Capital.

Berlin Under Air Attack Third Night   RAF Mosquito Bomber: In Raid; Mines Laid In Waters of Enemy

NAZI CAPITAL NDER ATTACK AGAIN BY RAF   People of Berlin Take To the Forests to Escape Death

GERMAN CAPITAL AGAIN HARASSED BY RAF BOMBERS   Fast Mosquito Planes in Third Successive Night Raid Keep Nerves. of . Berliners on Edcre — * et : :

BERLIN RAIDED AGAIN BY RAF LIGHT BOMBERS   Germans Kept On Edge By Raids; Fires Still Burning

Nazi Capital Hit For Third Time. In Three Nights   Other Aircraft Lay: Mines tn Enemy Area

RAF Mosquitoes Keep Berliners’ Nerves On Edge   Airmen Could See Patches Of Glowing. Embers Te Denital.

Light Bombers Again Pester Berlin; Nazi Airfields In France Also Raided

BERLIN DAMAGE) HEAVIER THAN WAS REPORTED      RAF Mosquitos Keep Nazi Capital Jittery; War of Nerves !s Reaching Panic Stage

Three Nazi Air Fields Raided In  Western France   Mines Also Laid in Ene my. Waters. All AbleBodied Persoris in Berlin Mobilized for Fire Fighter and’ Rescue Wark. .

MOSQUITOS STAB ANEW AT CAPITAL   City Raided Third Night In Row; Keep Inhabitants On Edge

Berlin Under Attack Third Straight Day   Crews See Glowing Embers From Fires Started On  Earlier Raids.   SILENCE NAZI RADIO

RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAID REICH CAPITAL   Third Successive Night Bicw Made On Ge~-man City.

BRITISH BONB BERLIN THIRD NIGHT IN ROW   Pilots of Swift Mosquitos See Smoking Embers Remaining From :.Monday Night Raids.

THIRD STAB IS LAUNCHED ON REICH CAPITAL   R. A. F. Mosquitoes Keep Berliners on Edge For Third Consecutive Night   ENEMY WATERS MINED

Abolition of NYA Favored  hy Committee  Drastic Cuts Made in Appropriations

House Committee Deals Blow. To Manpower Chief McNutt; Approves Abolition of NYA

Abolition of NYA Favored hy Committee   Drastic Cuts Made in Appropriations for Federal Agencies

NO SEPARATE - TTALIANPEACE   ll Duce Advises Hitler Italy Will Fight To Finish

Anxious Anniversary In Italy. ....  Mussolini Suggests “Dead Point” Peace

Hitler Urged Not To Start  New Drives   Make Peace Together When “Dead Point” Is Reached, Is Proposal Of Mussolini

Peace Is Urged By Mussolin   Duce Asks. Hitler Ti Help End: Conflict.

Report Duce Ready To Call It Quits Whenever ‘Dead Point’ Is Reached

NO FURTHER GAS CUT   That Goes for 1943, But 1944 May Be Another Story

Stark Sees Long And Tough Fight   Denounces ‘Wishful Thinking’ About Ene

Enemy Submarine Still No. 1 Naval. Problem, Says Stark, Warning Ship Lees Heavy

REDS A ROSTOV; CRACK OTHER FRONTS   Last of Axis Caucasus Army Caught in Trap Opposite Strait of Kerch

ITALIAN CITIES BOMBED; ROSTOV STORMED BY REDS   Russians Cracking Nazi De. fense Lines Near Khare  kov; Germans Caught in pf. ah. TL

RUSSIANS SHELL ROSTOV: GAIN ON S00-MILE FRONT   United States Bombers And Fighters Score Hits on Axis Ships In Harbor At Naples

Seviets Crack 1942 German Defense Line   Reds Put Practice of Penetration and Encirclement to Deadly Use Against Nazis

German Lines at Kharkov and Kerch Reported Cracking   Russians Successful In Old Nazi Tactic Of Encirclement

U.S. Bombers Blast Naples In Day Attack   Score Hits On Three Ships In Big Axis Port, Italians Say Damage Heavy.   AFRICAN ACTION LIGHE

Ath Battle Of Rostov —  Is Underway      German Positions in City Are Under Shellfire and Assault; Liberators Make Daylight Raid on Naples and Score Hits on Three Ships

U.S. Liberators Attack Naples During Daylight   Churchill Back in London Amid Clamor for European Invasion

Soviets Sever  Kharkov And Kursk Lines   Last Of Axis Army Is  Held In Caucasus

Yanks Bomb Naples In   RAF Gives Nazi Sub Base Biggest Pounding of war

Fourth Battle Of Rostov Is Opened: City Under Shellfire   Naples Blazes After Daylight, Large-Scale Raid; Second Front Demands Grow  CHURCHILL RETURNS TO LONDON  Sweeping Changes ‘In Italian Cabinet Made By Mussolini; C:ano Is Demoted

Russians Start Fourth Siege To Drive Nazi’s Out Of Important City   American Bombers Fire Naples Water Front in Daylight Attacks; Italians Admit Heavy Damage to Supply Depots

NAZIS GIVING GROUND ALONG 500 MILE LINE   Germans Fighting Desperately to Maintain Their Grip on Rostov, Gateway to Caucasus.

Cracking Nazi Line On 500-Mile Front South Of Kharkov   Report Naples Waterfront Afire After Attack By U. S. Liberators; France, Reich Again Pounded

Crack Nazi 1942 Line Near Kursk And Khar. kov; American Bombers Blast Naples.

Fourth Battle For Rostov Is Under Way   Elsewhere Along 500 Mile Front Russians Report Cracking of German 1942 Lines South Of Kharkov and on Both Sides of Kursk   RUSSIANS ARE SHELLING RORTOYVY ACROSS NON

American Bombers Fire Naples Water Front in Daylight Attacks; Italians  Admit Heavy Damage to Supply  Depots

Russians Crack Kharkov, Kursk Defense Line:   Reds Hurl Shells And Troops Into Rostov In Fierce Battle

German Positions At Black Sea Port Being Shelled Today   U.S. Airforce Sets Naples Waterfront Afire in Large-Scale Daylight Attack Sunday

‘Soviet Army Hurls Shells  Into Defenses   Russians Trap Last Axis Army in Caucasus; Germans Rushing Reserves

HITLER'S HORDE REELS BACK ON WIDENING AREA   Lines of Invaders Begin To Break at Kharkov and on Both Sides of Kursk   YANK FLIERS HIT NAPLES   Rain and Mud Slow Allied Drive Into Tunisia But Patrols Are Active

Russians Circle Rostov, ‘Cut Rail Lines; Bombers ‘Strike Naples And France

RED ARMY REPORTED CRACKING NAZI LINE ALONG WIDE FRONT   UNITED STATES LIBERATOR BOMBERS SET NAPLES WATERFRONT ABLAZE

Nazi 1942 Line Being Cracked   Naples, Sardinia And Lorient Get Heavy Air Blasting

NEED TEN MORE MEN   State Guard Will Have Stag Party a Monday Evening

Se pet ee Ly ea ee i ee  NEED TEN MORE MEN   State Guard Will Have Stag Party Monday Evening

Thousands Are Homeless In Record Floods Of Midwest   Five-State Area Is Hard Hit; Roads And Bridges Closed: Rail Traffic interrupted

FLOOD DAMAGE IN MIDWEST SPREADS   Large Forces Labor to Bulwark Levees and Protect Plants

Floods Menace Midwest Area   Levees in 500-Mile Zone Are Bulwarked

22.000 Homeless In Rising Floods In Five States   Nine Lives Lost In Midwestern Area; Heavy Property Loss  THREAT TO INDUSTRY 50 Mines Shut Down,  Factories and Power Plants Threatened

Five Middlewest States Swept by Damaging Flood:   Troops and Workmen Trying To Profect Plants from Loss

LOSSES SPREAD IN FLOOD ZONE   Volunteers Join Soldiers To Sandbag Levees Midwest Disaster

Floods Cover Big Areas in Five Midwest States  22,000 Homeless as Result of Rises _ of Various Rivers

FLOOD WATERS ON RAMPAGE IN MIDDLE WEST   Thousands Left Homeless In 500-Mile Wide Eland Zane   ENGINEERS, TROOPS FIGHT SWOLLEN RIVERS

About 15,000 Homeless in  Flood Zone   Waters Break Dikes, Threaten Factories, Halt About 50 Mines  > STATES AFFECTED

Troops, Workers Battling Against Floods   Wild Rivers Menacing Levees, Plants

FLOODED AREA IS EXPANDING   15.000 Made Homeless As Rivers Inundate  500-Mile Zone

Floods Spread In Five States   Mines, Plants. Farms Hit by Raging Rivers In Midwest District

ARMY OF TROOPS BULWARK LEVEES   Help Protect Plants Menacec By Rivers in Midwest Floor Zone: Strengthen Seawall: In Five States

Troops, Workers Battling Against Floods  Wild Rivers Menacing Levees, Plants In Five-State Areo

BOMBERS STAB WEST GERMANY   R. A. F. MOSQUITOES UNSCATHED IN BLOW

RAF MOSQUITOS RAID GERMANY   Bombers Return From Assault Without Loss of Single Plane, British Say

GERMANY HIT BY RAF BOMBS MONDAY: NIGHT   American Airmen Shoot Down 15 Nazi Ships

RAF Blasts Reich; All ‘Planes Safe   Mesquite Fleet Follows Heavy Daylight Attack by Americans

STAB AT- TARGETS IN WEST GERMANY   RAF Mosquito Fleet in Action for Fourth Night In Row.

Keep Up Air Raids   RAF Mosquito Bombers Attack in Night; Nazi Defenses Fail

Mosquito Bombers Hit West Reich Fourth Straight Night   Night Attacks Follow Day Assault By U. S. Fortrésses And Liberators

RAF MOSQUITOS HIT WESTERN GERMANY IN FOURTH RAID   Skipped Throug the Nazi Defenses to Return to Their Bases Without a Loss.   _TARGETS UNSPECIFIED  t[. S. Liberators and Flying Fortresses Knocked Down 15 Nazi Fighters.

RAF Mosquitos Stab At Reich For 4th Night   Fleet Skips Through Nazi Defenses Without Loss, Air Ministry Reports

Mosquitoes Stab Western Germany Monday Night .   Skip Through Nazi Defenses, Return To Base Without Loss

FOURTH NIGHT’S STAB   Musquito Bombers Follow U. S, Attacks in Western Germany

Mosquitos. Hit Western Areas   Germany Raided’ Without Loss ‘During, Night To ~ Continue Assault

RAF MOSQUITOS HIT NAZIS AGAIN   Return from 4th Consecutive Trip Without Loss

Mosquito Bombers Again Hit Nazis U. S. Heavies In Attack On Western Germany

Reds Assert Italy Not Second Front   Regard Mediterranean As Secondary

WILE RECRUIT FOR NURSE CORPS AT THE COLLEGE   Mrs. Louise Weller Will Speak at Chapel on Monday, Dec. 6

Family Circles  Are Incamnlate  EE VOLIVVITiViiy   Business.Here At Virtrual Stancdetill

Family Circles Are Incomplete   Business Here At Virtual Standstil]

COFFEY. REACHES GOAL   29 Kansas Counties Pass War Campaign Quota

SLAV PATRIOTS PROMISE ACTION   Chetnicks Ready To Attack When Allies Invade Balkans, Guerrilla Chief Cays, Denying Sellout To Axis

Gen. Mikhailovitch Denies He Has Joined Axis; Says His Army Just Awaiting Allied Balkan Invasion

Chetniks Ready To Strike Axis When Allies Invade Balkans, General Says

REBEL GHIEF SAYS HES SET TO HELP ALLIED INVASION   Mikhailovitch Denies Collaboration With Axis—Plays Waiting Game Now.

CHETNIKS READY T0 AID WITH ALLIED BALKAN INVASION   Patriot Army Is Poised In Secret Headquarters In Jugoslavian Mountains

Chetnik Army Set To Strike Tf Allies Act   Poised To Pounce Upon Axis ». Rear If Allies Try To Invade Balkans

PROGRAM .TO BE SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS THIS FALL— DETAILS NOT YET - ANNOUNCED 

Quota Raised In Parts Of Texas   _ Cities And Hamlets Share In Camnaian

Texas Cities Meet Quotas Early Monday   Bond Sale Quotas In Some Counties Filled

CORN NEEDS MOISTURE   Flora Sees Little Chance for Rain . With Mercury Near 100

Chinese Trap Jap Forces   Circle Spearhead That Broke Into North Gate of Changteh

Huge Jap Army Surrounded By Chinese Force   One Hundred Thousand In Trap In Battle Of Rice Bowl.

Chinese Have Trapped Jap Forces   Isolated Enemy Units Being Reduced By Aerial Attacks

ENCIRCLE ENEMY UNITS IN CHINA   CHINESE CLAIM JAP TROOPS SURROUNDED NORTH OF CHANGTEH

RUSSIANS CALL FOR SECOND FRONT ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF WAR WITH NAZI   Say Second Front Now Would Bring War to Speedy Conclu. sion; Praise Allied Efforts, but Say Delay in Taking Advantage of Victories Will Greatly Prolong War

REDS BELIEVE ~ NAZI MILITARY MIGHT SMASHED   Soviet Leaders Given Words of Cheer on Second Anniversary.   SUPPLIES NOW FLOW TO SOVIET UNION

Democrats In Assembly House Stage Mass Protest Walkout   Administration Leaders Steam Up. Drive For Fina. Adjournment By.End Of Week

RED TROOPS START DRIVE ON LENINGRAD WINTER SECTOR   Russian Troops Drive Within Sight of Smela

Red Army Opens Big  Offensive   Attack at Many Points on Long  FrontAcknowledged

REDS LAUNCH STALINGRAD OFFENSIVE   Also Regain Part Of Lost Ground In Kiev Area

Reds Launch Attack at Leningrad   Russiaus Believed Opening Winter Offensive

Red Offensive In North Starts   Russians Break Nazi Lines At Several Points

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE IN LENINGRAD AREA UNDER WAY, REPORT   Berlin Admits German Lines Broken; 5th Army Drives To Within Mile Of Main Road To Rome

ONEEPHEADER, LEFT BOUND. DIES AFIELD   Officers Seek Sheep Thieves: Elderly Man’s Bound Body Found in Gulley

King George VI Flies To Africa   ~ Eisenhower Given Hidqhect Decoration

KING GEORGE VI VISITS. AFRICH   British Ruler Watches Amer: ican Troops Preparing for Assault Upon Europe; Flies To Battlefront

TROOPS EAGER TO MEET KING   3,000 Swimmers Rush Out Of Water During Visit

Britain's King Visits Africa   Inspects English, American Troops

Chats With Soldiers And Sailors Who Brought About Great Victory For Allied Cause

TROOPS CHEER KING GEORGE   British Sovereign Makes Spectacular Trip to African War Area

KING GEORGE NOW IN NORTH AFRICA FOR VISIT TROOPS  BRITISH MONARCH IN. - SPECTS VARIOUS WAR FORCES THAT AREA

KING GEORGE  IN NORTH AFRICA CONFERRING WITE ALLIED LEADERS   ‘Head Of English Govern ment Inspects War ships, Convalescen Camps and Americar Military Stations.

TRIP TQ AFRICA BY MONARCH IS SURPRISE MOVE   Gen. Eisenhower Honored During King’s Visit

SOLDIERS SING FOR KING GEORGE   Visit Takes Troops in Africa by Surprise

King George Visits Allies InN. Africa   Troops Rush from Swimming To Surround Royalty

BRITISH RULER GIVEN OVATION BY HISTROOPS   Soldiers and Sailors li North Africa Thrilled By Surprise Visit of King George   SING FOR MONARCH   Hundreds In Swimming At Beach Race to Veranda Of Hotel When King Suddenly Appears

King George Meets Heroes of North Africa Sees Many U.S. and British Military Bases

Ovation Given George VI In North Afriea   Soldiers Leave Swimming To Sing “He's Jolly Good Fellow”; Invasion Near

Troops Abandon Swim To Greet King “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”

British King Surprise North African Visito1   ” Sertenmara Enthosed

KING GEORGE VI TOURS AFRICAN BATTLEFIELDS   British King Thrills Sailors, Soldiers With Unexpected Visit

TRIP SHROUDED WITH SECRECY   Axis Reports Great invasion Fleet Massing in Mediterranean.   AIR ATTACKS CONTINUE

Troops Stop Surf Bathing To See King   Monarch Departs From Schedule, Goes Among Men

Troops in North Africa Receive Surprise Visit From King of England

British King la A. Africa   Troops, in Swimming Race to Villa When Monarch Is Noted

FIRST TRIP TO FRONT SINCE 1940   Inspects Troops, Ships, Allied Establishments   MONARCH   Presents Grand Cross To Gen. Eisenhower; Sees Men In Swimming

King George In N. Africa With Allies   Inspection Tour Started Saturday, Arrived by Plane

BRITISHHEAD VIEWS SCENES IN TUNISIA   Flew Direct From Britain, Algiers Report Savs

King Inspects Afriean Troops      fisenhower Is Decorated During Surprise Visit

Watches Yank Soldiers Preparing for Assault On Fortress of Europe

Soldiers Give King George Cheerful Welcome on His Arrival in North Africa

Monarch on Lour of Allied Scenes of Victory Since Saturday  TALKS WITH MEN  ae Tnweete Ricans      Personally Invests Eisenhower With Insignia of K.G.C.B.

King George Visits  North African  Allied Positions Talks With Soldiers  Watches Planning For Invasion Drive

Half- Naked Britishers Abandon Sunday Bath In Mediterranean To Talk Over War With Kina

TROOPS IN AFRICA  INSPECTED BY KING   British Ruler Also Decorates General Dwight   Eicenhkower

GERMANS SWITCH TUNE   Glowing Optimism On Salerno Battle Re ed By Apprehension

Splitting Isle In Two; Fall Near   Montgomery, In Stiff Battle At Catania, Prepares Big Push

Gen. Eisenhower Confident of Victory, But Avers Advance to Be Generally Slow In Sicily

Half Of Island Is Now In Allied Hands For Tactical Purposes: Italians Are Bitter °   Germans Blamed For Deserting Them And Rome Government Accused Of Giving Troops Poor Equipment; Allies Split Foe's Forces

Bitter Fight Ahead Warns Eisenhower   Commander-in-Chief Says He is Confident of Victory in Sicily   ADVANCE WILL BE SLOW

In the East the British 8th Army Hammered at the Doors of Catania, Shat tering an Assault.

Eisenhower Sees Bitter Fighting   Task Facing British Eighth Army Calls For Hard Fighting

ALLIES SMASH THROUGH AXIS DEFENSE ZONES   Vital Rail and Highway Town Taken by Invasion Forces, Enemy Driven   From Key Sector   BRITISH POUNDING AT CATANIA GATES   Italian Prisoners Claim Germans Speed Eastward For Quick Getaway From Island

Eisenhower, Confident of Victory In Sicily, Says Task To Be Bitter Fighting

TOUGH ASSIGNMENT AHEAD FOR ALLIES   Eisenhower Assures of Victory in Sicily

Eisenhower Confident Of Victory Ir Sicily But Says Fighting Is Slow

Confident of Allied Victory   Gen. Eisenhower Says British and Canadians Face Bit-:. _ ter Battles, However   GENERALLY SLOW ADVANCE EXPECTED:   Axis. Retreating to New Line; Powerful’ American Push Takes Intand Center

NOVEMBER TERM OF COURT IN: SESSION   James Beers and Frances Love Pleaded Guilty _ Before Judge»   GIVEN jAIL SENTENCE

NOVEMBER TERM OF COURT IN SESSION   James Beers and Frances Love Pleaded Guilty Before Judge ,

Democrat Leaders  Worried   Opponents of Measure Ad mit They Are Likely to Be Outvoted

VOTE ON FARM LAGOA BILL DELAYED TODAY   Plan To Defer Workers From Draft Believed Certain To Pass

5-Hour Delay Ordered on Bankhead Bill   Debate Discloses Administration Strength Small

Farm Work Bill Opponents Stall   Fear Measure Will  Be Recommended

SNEEZES AND HICCOUGHS AGGRAVATE TWO GIRLS IN VICINITY OF PITTSBURGH

FIVE JAP SHIPS HIT IN FEW MINUTES AS BATTLE. BEGAN   Conservative Estimates Show Enemy Lost .Eight Ships—Operations Reported Carried Out In Three Phases

asda an eeatntatinnattil  Three Jap Inductees In Army Questioned

Ohio Defense Director Says Blackout Success; Three Injury Reports —

BLACKOUT IN 30 AREAS TERMED SUCCESS BY GD   Only One Serious Accident ts Reported During Wide Tests

BLACKOUT TEST LISTED SUCCESS   30 Ohio Counties Simulate Conditions Should Air Raid Occur

TRIAL BLACKOUT SUCCESSFUL IN 30-COUNTY TEST   Cleveland Looks Like Farm Land from Air During Experiment

—ITALIAN WAR-—  dth. &th. Shove On In Italy   ... Strategic Mountains Taken From Germans

YANKEES PUSH NAZIS TOWARD ROME VALLEY   German Tank Forces Shoves Soviets Back In Kiev Bulge Battle

8th Advances to 8 Miles of Pescara —   Red Army Retreats Again in Kiev Bulge Before 2,000 German Tanks

Yanks Conquer Enemy. Barrie OnRoad To Rome   Pour Down Into Valley After Hardest Battle Of War In Italy

Fifth Pouring Into Valley On Road To Rome   American Fifth Army Captures Strategic Mt. Croce In Italy.

Americans Capture Mt. Croce, Drive Into Rome Valley   Clear Nazis From Vital Positions In Mountains

British 8th Army Within 8 Miles of Port of Pescara   Russians Retreat Again in Kiev Bulge; Balkans Seethe in After- math or Cairo Conference

Russ Army Gain   Red Fighters, How‘ever Fall Back at Bulge of Kiey

AMERICAN STH AND  BRITISH 8TH ARMIES  CONTINUE ADVANCES SMASHING DOWN WESTERN SLOPES OF VALLEY  nh rA hrs

SLASHING DOWN SLOPE LEADING NORTH 10 ROME   Strategic Mount Croce Captured By General Clark's Army, Leaving Little for Nazis.

MOUNTAIN LINE IS SMASHED AND CRISIS IS NEAR   Balkans Seethe as Aftermath Of Turk Agreement—Reds Advance and Retreat

BRITISH ONLY EIGHT MILES FROM PESCARA   Bad Weather Continues To Hamper Fighting

Fifth Army Is Slashing Down Mountain Slopes   Huge Mass of Nazi _ Tanks Forces Soviets Into Another Retreat

Mt. Croce In Allied Hands   Fifth Army Troops Command Valley Leading to Rome; 8th Army Pushes Nearer Port

New Gains Are Made by Fifth Army in ltaly   British ‘Troops Smash Down Western Slopes of Mt. Croce as American Troops tu Northeast Also Advance

Strategic Mt. Croce Taken  By Fifth Army   Eighth Army Within Eight Miles of Pescara; Red Armies Retreat in Kiev Bulge; Anarchy Reported Sweeping France

Plan To Extend Furlough Period   Move Made Preparatory To Drafting Fathers

DRAFT DADS BY AUGUST PLAN HINTED   Order Extends Furlough: From Seven to 14 Days, July !

Rebels Battle Way Info Hear 01 Argentine   Revolutionary Troops Clash With Regulars And Move Into Center Of Benuos Altres

REBELS ENTER CAPITAL   Battle Reported On Buenos Aires  Outskirts.

NAZIS WRECK HARBORS FAR BEHIND LINES   Rain, Mud and Snow Hampering Allies in Their Onslaughts Against Enemy Winter Line

FIRST SNOW HITS ITALIAN FRONT. SLOWING DRIV   Germans Reported te Be Wrecking Ports Behind Lines   WEATHER VERY SEVERE AS ALLIES INCH FORWARD

TWO. MOUNTAIN PEAKS TAKEN IN SHARP FIGHT   incessant Counter-Attacks Launched By Germans Are Beaten Off

Go Ahead For Gain of Five Miles   Americans and British Smash Numerous Nazi  Counter-attacks

First Snow Falis on Italy Front   Americans Drive Germans from Two Mountain Peaks

Felons Seize, Then Release Prison Guards   Fantastic Story of Convicts Relenting After A Lecture

CONCORD GIRL STATE WINNER IN CONTEST      Winifred " Nissen . Gains Award in Nation Poster ‘Competition —

Troops Ordered From Russia To Meet Invasior   Meawnhile New Aerial Blows Are Rained On Axis Eurone

REDS USE U.S. SUPPLIES IN GREAT VOLUME   But Are Proud Of Their Own Tanks And Fighter Planes, Preferring Them To Amer can.   Trucks, Jeeps Everywhere

TAX ON SALES _ DEFEAT SEEN   PROPOSAL FOR SALES LEVY SAID TO HAVE LITTLE SUP. PORT IN HOUSE COMMITTEE

Review Lists 3 Phases Of Winter Drive      Germans Admit Velikie Luki On Central Front Is Surrounded As Nazi Legions Are Held In Death Trap In Stalingrad City

850,000 Dead; 343,505 Are War Prisoners   Soviets Announce Official Figures on Men and Equipment

RUSSIA CLAIMS 850,000 NAZIS SLAIN IN DRIVE   Announce Terrific Toll of German Equipment

Red Offensive Costs Germans  1.195.525 Men   185.328 Square Miles of Soviet Territory Freed in Winter Drive. Russians Say   Tell of Fauinment Heavy

Russians Give Figures for Past Winter   Large Amounts of Equipment Said Taker and Destroyed:

Winter Offensive Freed Many Miles Of Russian Land   Soviet Bulletin Savs Nazis Suffered “Biggest Defeat In History Of War.”

GERMAN LOSSES OVER MILLION   Red Army Offensive Has Killed 850,000 Nazi Soldiers; 1,490 Planes Bagged

REDS SAY 800,000 NAZIS WERE KILLED IN WINTER DRIVE   Declare 343,525 Prisoners Were Captured and Enemy Swept Back 373 to 435 Miles to West.   5,090 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED OR SEIZED   Defeat of Germans at Stalingrad, Moscow Says, Was “Greatest in History of Wars.”

850,000 Killed, Moscow Reports In Communique   Total of 343,525 Captured in Great Red Army Offensive   Thousands of Planes, Guns and Tanks Reported Seized

NAZIS SUFFERED SEVERE LOSSES DURING WINTER   850,000 Germans Killed And 343,525 Captured,  Russians Declare   STALINGRAD DEFEAT BIGGEST IN HISTORY

Over Million Nazis Killed  By Russians   Theaws, Transport Problems Hamper Both Armies

 ‘ e ‘Russians Hail. Great Success  Of Winter Drive   Report Nazis Suffered 1,193,525 Casualties, Including 850.000 Dead

poet Bellaire Strongly Opposes  nv Sort. of Jeppezasement Policy   re Prisoners Will Be urdered Unless: U. S. Takes Strong Action

WLB Considers  Coal Contract   Ickes-Lewis Plan Approval Indicated

WLB Said Ready T o Approve Mine Wage Hike; Boost. Ae Coal: Prizes To: Re Sought.

Labor Board Wrangles Over Coal Wages   Coal Production Makes Slow Recovery From Strike

Coal Wage Issue Still © Hangs Fire   WLB Has Not Yet Come To Decision on U.M.W.Government Contract; Back to Pits Slowly

WLB Still  Debates Mine Pact   Spotty Production Reported as Membera Defer Final Vote

QUESTION OVER TONNAGE RATES BEING STUDIED   Most Of Board Members Favor Arrangement For $1.50 Day  Increase

y WLB on Wages  0 Decision Made For Coal Miners   Meanwhile Production Par tially Resumed as Ap proval Expected,   Vote Expected to Be 11 to 1 For Contract

WLB APPROVAL OF MINE WAGE INCREASE SEEN   Favorable Report on Agreernent Expected During Day

WLB Expected to Approve Terms of Coal Settlement  Devision on Labor Agreement Due To Bi  rr =e oe

WLB READY 10 OK PAGT UF LEWIS-IGKES   Adjourns to Study Applicacation of New Wage Scale te Workers Paid By Ton Basis.   WLB Reverses Self

COAL PRODUCTION CONTINUED ITS SLOW RECOVERY FRIDAY  WAR LABOR BOARD RE-

WLB Unable to Agree on Miners’ Pact   Continues Discussion of Agreement Between Lewis and Ickes

WLB Reported Ready fo Sign Coal Mine Pact   Fuel Prices to Rocket as Result of Agreement

WLB Delays Ruling on Proposed Coal Mine Pay Contract   Decision May Come This Afternoon; Summary of Capital News

Labor Board Undecided On  Coal Contract   Vote Is Expected Before End Of Day In Regard To Agreement Reached By Lewis And Ickes

WLB CONSIDERS WAGE AGREEMENT   Coal Production Begins Slow Recovery. ‘from. Strike. _

WLB Decision On Mines Held   Say Labor Board Ready To Assent To Ickes - Lewis Agreement.

‘WLB Said Ready To Approve Mine Wage Hike; Boost In ‘Coal Prices To Be Souaht

MINERS RESUME COAL PRODUCTION   WAR LABOR BOARD READY TO APPROVE WAGE AGREEMENT

Wait for WLB To Act On Contract   Expected Ruling Not Made ~ at Morning Session of the Board   MINERS IN NO HURRY   Resumption of Production Is Spotty in All of the  Fields

in Reported heady To Accept Mine Agreement   Boost in Coal Prices Likely

WLB GRAPPLES WITH COAL PAY PROBLEM   Voe on Question Expected To Be Taken This Afternoon.

WLB FAILS 70 REACH VOTE ON MINERS PACT   Meanwhile, Production of  Coal Throughout Country Begins Making   Slow Recovery

Nation’s Miners Await WLB  Aetion on Pact   Board Expected to Place Approval On Lewis-Ickes Deal Today; Few Out of 460,000 Return to Pits

REPORT WLB WILL 0, K. WAGE BOOST   Coal Production Continues Slow Recovery Throughout Nation

MINERS AWAIT VOTE OF WLB; COAL GOES UF   FULL PRODUCTION UNLIKELY UNTIL NEXT MONDAY

Coal Contract Approval Seen   WLB Will Act Today; Expect Price Hike

War labor board reported ready to accept agreement concluded by Lewis-Ickes   Labor members support measure; final conference, Friday mornihg

PAY INCREASE FOR MINERS 70 GET APPROVAL   *LB Reported Ready To Okay Ickes Lewis Pact

Wage Raises To Boost Coal Prices   Few Miners Resume Work; WLB Studies Pack

VOTE EXPECTED LATER TODAY: APPROVAL SEEN   Spotty Production Resumed In Coal Fields

WLB EXPECTED TO TAKE VOTE THIS AFTERNOON   Reports at Noon Recess Indicate Board Favors Agreement

LABOR BOARD MAY ENDORSE WAGE TRUCE   Coal Production Continues Slow Recovery Despite Orders Issued by John L. Lewis   SITUATION IN PENN’A

No Decision Made on Miners Wages   WLB Failed to Bring Out : Ruling on the Proposed Contract.

MAELLER BILL tT APPROVAL UF COMMITTEE   Presidential Opposition To Measure Is Ignored By Senate Group   SENATE CONFIRMATION OF JOBHOLDERS IS AIM   Good Features Of Merit System To Be Retained, Proponents Declare

Bill on Confirming Top Government Employes Favored  Group for Requiring Approval of Those In $4,500 Level

U.S. TROOPS TAKE ISLAND NEAR VILA   Now In Position To Hit Kolombangara From Two Sides

Vella Lavella Taken; Blocks  Kolombangara      Large Jap Base Left As Yanks Bypass It To Cut Supply Line

Halsey Men Astride Japs’  Solomon Line   Surprise“ Attack Takes  Vella Lavella; 34 Foe Dignse Dnwnad

Vella Lavella Island Occupied By U.S. Troops   - Northwesternmost Isle in New . Georgia. Taken

LEGION CONDUCTS MEMORIAL SERVICE   Fifty-Five Legionnaires Attended Special Church Services At Elm City Sunday Morning; Annual Memorial Day Exercises Held At Maplewood Cemetery In Afternoon.

Fifty-Five Legionnaires Attended Special Church Services At Elm City Sunday Morning; Annual Memorial Day Exercises Held At Maplewood Cemetery In Afternoon.

OCCUPATION TO BE MAIN FACTOR IN DRAFT ORDEF   Fathers In Non-Essential Work Will Be Called First,  Sneaker Reports   DESIGNED TO FORCE MEN INTO WAR JOBS

OCCUPATION T0 BE PRINCIPAL FACTOR   New System for Induc. tions Mapped by Se. lective Service

Occupation To Be Principal Factor In Drafting Of Dads, D. C. Speaker Saves

Desperate Fight Waged On Reds To Stem Drive   Russian Offensive Takes  Defenders To Within  6 Miles Of Krivoi Rog

Soviets Attack in Surges 90 Minutes Apart, Germans Say   Berlin Speaks of New Climax Developing on Entire Front

Germans Make Desperate Bid To Halt Closing DnieperTrap   Reds Push to Within Six Miles of Krivoi ) Rog   Russian War at ‘New Climax’, Nazis Admit Ry ASWwRATEh PreEeoe

Attacking in Waves 90 Minutes Apart From Kremenchug to Melitopol, Driving Closer To Points That Would Cut Off Germans In Dnieper Bend and in Peninsula of Crimea

WITNESS DENIES BIG BRIBE OFFER   Pawhuskan Says He Did Not Suggest $8,000 Payoff For Phil’s Release

Johnson Bares Parole Affemp! For Kennamer  Filling Station Operator Denies AA ww... »

‘GIFT OF GOD BABY’ PHYSICIAN RELEASED   Wife, Also Mixed Up in Bizarre Case, Still in Prison

GIRAUD GIVEN RECOGNITION   Action Taken by U.S., britain, Canada, Russia and Brazil   BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS err tice

Action Indicates Moscow Is Ready to Collaborate in Post-War Political Problems

DEGAULLE AND GIRAUD GIVEN RECOGNITION   Action Taken by U.S. Britain, Canada, Russia and Brazil

LIMITED RECOGNITION SUBJECT TO ‘MILITARY REQUIREMENTS OF ALL ALLIED GOVERNMENTS

MUST FILE PRICES   Proprictors cf all Eating Places must File Price List.

Copyright—1943—Pubji fshers Financial Bureau, Inc. BABIES, SOIL, WORK AND BOMBERS

Babies Needed ~ In This Nation   ROGER BABSON RELATES SOME SENSIBLE ADVICE

BABSON NAMES FOUR THINGS HE THINKS AMERICA 1S NEEDING   He Says We Need More Good Babies, More ‘Good Soil, More Manual Workers And More Bombing Planes!

KNOX APPEALS TO BRITISH ON PACIFIC WAR   Says People Should Realize Gravity of Japan as Enemy

Democrat Wins  In G. 0. P. Area   . Victory Of Engle In California Election Is Conceded.

French Fighi With Allies In Italy   + KILLED IN CRASH   Frontal Blows Neeessary  Allied Losses to Increase

United States Must Now Prepare to Pay Increasing Price for Victory

From Here On, Victories Will Cost More in Blood and Tears; Day of Frontal Attack Arrives   ‘Allied Casualties in Crossing English Channel May ‘. Reach 1,000000 Before Bridgehead Is Secured

Blood and Tears Price to Increase With Beginning of Rabaul Campaign, U.S. Military Chieftains Believe

e In Blood And ° e From Now On.  DAY OF FRONTAL ATTACK HERE BOTH IN EUROPE AND PACIFIC

ORIECTIVE ORTAINED   US Must Pay Increasing Price In Blood, Tears

Invasion of New Britain Marks Beginning of Attack Aimed at Japs’ Homeland   War Enters New Phase, Both Against Germany and Japan. Where Cost in Blood and Tears Will Continue To Increase

Period In Which U. S. Was Able To Buy Victory Cheaply Closed —   ‘From Here On, We Will Have To Be Prepared To Pay An Increasing Price In Blood. And Tears, Military Leaders Believe.

New ‘Breakdown fi in  Miners And Operators Meet Likely   Talks Will Be Broken Off By End Of Week, Declared At Washincton

Blackout Drills Off Until Feb. 17   Practice Alerts Will Not Be Held Until” New Signal System Is Effective

Oberhausen in Ruhr Feels Brunt of Raids On European Targets  DAY FIGHTERS HIT COASTAL DEFENSES  Considerable Damage Admitted by Germans: British Lose 18 Planes

JUNE AIR OFFENSIVE CONTINUES TO KEEP TEARING AT GERMANY’S WAR SINEWS; STEEL-COAL TARGETS.

GIRLS NO CONCERN OF FRANK SINATRA   Crooner Doesn’t Think They'll  Miss Him in Army

Germans Shoot Down Danes Stopping ~~ At Street Intersection Red Light:

Escaped Dane tells of descent  of nazi terror on Copenhagen   Reports German tank fired on group of citizens at crossing

Youthful Dane Describes How Nazis Took Over in Copenhagen, Shooting At Crowds, Attacking Garrison

Knox Expresses Satisfaction   Says Shortages in Deentizn Kin we Tea

Draft of Fathers May Be ‘Eased’  .Barkley Declares Situction Ts Fluid

SENATE AWAITS MILITARY. VIEW ON DRAFT BILLS   Court Maitial Of Hawaiian Navy Chiefs Postponed

SENATORS WORK ON SUBSTITUTE ‘DAD DRAFT BILL   Barkley Secks Stalement By War Department.

FATHER DRAFT EFFECT MAY BE EASED, 1S CLAIM   War Department's Posi tion on Pending Proposals To Limit Induc tions Awaited

Father Draft Renorts Due   War Department Will Issue Statement Soon

‘Official’ Word On Dads’ Draft May Be Coming "ee ae ae  On Families; Situation Still ‘Fluid’

Barkley Expects ‘Official Report’ From War Department on Plans To Ease Father Draft

War Dept. tc ‘Bive Views On Dad Draf   Opinion Requested by Senate for Guidance In Legislative Action

* Substitute Draft Bill Is Planned   Defeat Is Seen For Wikhealar Prannca]

Annual County Speech Festival Held Wednesday  Six Schools Were Participants In This ‘Interesting Event

Annual County  Speech Festival Held Wednesday  Six Schools Were We. 2% *  #,g Yf rg ©   Six Schools Were Participants In This ‘Interesting Event

Changsha May Be Scene Of Fourth Battle   Japanese Extending Two. Spearheads West of Tungting Lake

Fear Voiced Over Safety Of Holy See   Catholics Alarmed At Nazi ‘Demands’ For Chanced Policy

Fate Of Vatican  Drawing Nearer   Catholic Leaders Fear Axis ‘Gesture’ Before Abandoning Rome; Pope Still Defying Nazi Pressure

Fear That Hitler, Mussolini Followers May Take Vengeance On Vatican City

CHURCHMEN AFRAID HARM MAY COME TO VATICAN CITY      Catholic Leaders Openly Fear Nazis May Make ' ‘Desperate Move On Leaving Rome —

Fear for Safety Of Vatican City   Catholic Leaders See Hitler Reprisal

FEAR VATICAN CITY “GESTURE”   Nazi Measures Seen If Rome Area is Evacuated

FEAR GERMANS TODO HARM TO VATICAN   Pressure on Pope Continued By Nazi Leaders

GREAT DAMAGE AT WUPPERTAL      Surviving Distri of Key Ruhr Valley Industrial City Hit by More than Thousand Tons of Explosives — Germany Inaugur. ates New Pfopaganda Policy,

WEATHER   ighty Air Fleet Causes Heavy Damage to Industries  ACE STEPPED UP  alight Attacks Also Staged Along Wide Coast Area

KEY RUHR VALLEY INDUSTRIAL CITY I6 GIVEN POUNDING   Over 300 American Bombers In Raids on Sardinia With Another Visit at Salonike Avice Rasa.      OLDER GERMANS ARE ORDERED TO REPORT   Brig. Gen. Forrest Is Los’ While on Observation Tris But May Have Chutec Safely to Earth

KEY RUHR CITY HIT BY BOMBS   More Than a Thousand Tons Loosed in Great Raid—Alllies Lose 33 Bombers.

BRITISH RETURN TQ WUPPERTAL FOR FINISHING BLOW   Halt of Ruhr Valley Clty Dey. astated In Visit of May 90th

High Price Paid For Gilbert -Isle   Marines Take Tarawa But At Stiffest Price In Human Life Ever Known.

This Guy May Be Sample of All of Us in the Future   Wolnuts, Raw Fruit And Jackrabbits His Diet 17 Years

Man Lives 17 Years Without Spending Cent   ermit Lives On Nuts, Raw Fruit s, Rabbits, Says World All Wrong

Walnut-Eating Californian Thinks Present Day World Is In a Bad Way

- Squatter Has Never Earned a Dime or Bought Anything From Store

Man Lives 17 Years on Walnuts, Fruits Rabbits; Didn’tEarnDime, BoughtNothin;

REVEALS GREAT VICTORY OVER SUBMARINES   Expects 8-Power Meet This Year

Churchill States Hope For Allied  Planning Session   Right Time Will Be Chosen For Second Front, Says Leader.

Bloody PF ighting Lies Ahead Europe Front Coming,  Churchill Declares

CHURCHILL WARNS OF OPTIMISM   Prime Minister Speaks 3 Hours; Sees Air Control

Golden Gloves Division Crown  To Marfa AAF Man   Kenner Battles Way To Welterweight Honors In Tournament At Odessa

REDS REPULSE NAZIS IN THE UPPER DONETS   More Villages Said Caps tured in Slow Drive in Direction of Smolensk   FIGHTING IS SUBSIDING

Mud Slowing Russ Fighting   Red Army Halts Two German Thrusts in Fierce Night Botties

REDS CONTINUE TO PUSH SLOWLY ON TO SMOLENSK   FIGHTING DECLINES IN OTHER SECTORS OF RUSSIAN FRONT

RUSSIANS DRIVE ON AS BATTLE'S FURY SUBSIDES   Reds Capture More Villages In Slow Drive To Smolensk; Repulse Nazi Efforts To Crack Donets  Lines.

Reds Repulsed New Nazi Drives   BATTLE FRONT QUIETS DOWN ON DONETS RIVER

RUSSIANS ARE MOVING AHEAD TO SMOLENSK   Progress Slow But Sure; Ger. mans Appear To Have Slowed Down

Russian Front  Bogged in Mud   ‘No Material Changes,” Moscow Reports

REDS REPULSE 2 ATTACKS IN DONETS AREA   Once Fierce Fighting Has Subsided to a Series of Local Engagements — Soviets Advance Farther Toward Smolensk.

Mud Is Delaying Russian Campaign   2 Nazi Attacks Are Broken Today

Reds Hold Fast In Nazi Thrusts  bint, Tce Costioadine   Battle Line Subsides To Local Engagements

Russians Claim 4 More Villages as Mud Slows Red Drive on Smolensk

RUSSIANS TAKE AMORE VILLAGES   Fight on in Mud, Within 3 Miles of Base at Smolensk

REDS FIRM ON UPPER DONETS   Break Up 2 Efforts to Crack Defenses

Little Change in Red Battle Line   a Fighting in Mud Capture Four More — Millages   IPUSH NEAR SMOLENSK   Two Armies Use Bayonets ~ and Hand Grenades in - a Battle?

Little Change in Red ‘Battle Line   Russians Fighting in Mud Cephue Four More — ‘Villages   IPUSH NEAR SMOLENSK   Two Armies Use Bayonets _‘and Hand Grenades in 7 © g Battle t-—

REDS FIGHT ON INMUD: GERMAN MOVES FOILED   Enemy Attempts to Crack ‘Russian Lines Along Up_ per Donets River Are ‘Smashed    MORE TOWNS TAKEN   Captured by Soviet Forces In Slow Drive Toward ’ Smolensk; Once Flaming Line Subsides

Reds Repulse 2 Nazi Efforts. To Crack Upper Donets Line   Capture Four Villages In Slow Drive Toward Smolensk; Tempo Of Battle Slow:

RED ARMY FIGHTS THROUGH NIGHT IN MUD TA BLOCK NAZIS   SLOW DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK IS ALSO CON. TINUED DURING WEEKEND

Reds Battle In Mud, Thwart German Attack   Local Engagements Are Reported on Russ Battle Lines

RED ARMY BROKE GERMAN EFFORTS TO GRACK ITS LINE   Captured Four More Villages in Slow Drive Toward Smolensk.   BATTLE LINE SUBSIDES   Mid-Day Communique Said There Was “No Material Change in Fronts.”

RUSS BREAK UP RERMAN ATTACK   Soviets Fight on in Mud During Night, Seize Villaces

RED ARMY FIGHTS THROUGH NIGHT IN MUD TO BLOCK NAZIS  LOW DRIVE TOWARD   SLOW DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK IS ALSO CONTINUED DURING WEEKEND

FOUR VILLAGES TAKEN IN DRIVE ON NORTH FRONT   Two Axis Pushes In Donets Basin  Are Broken Up

Mud Slowing Battle on Soviet Front’   Fighting Dies Down; Russians Gain Toward Smolensk

Local Clashes Mark Fighting On Soviet Front  Four More Towns Taken By Reds In Smolensk Push

Reds Capture Four Villages  a. ss UB   Mud Continues To Slow Fighting

REDS REPULSE NAZI EFFORTS TO BREAK-LINE   Defend Donets River Positions, Ad: vance on Smolensk as Muc ~ Slows Both Forces

Big Chemical Works Bombed   British Bombers Return To Crushing Attacks Last Night.

BRITISH RETURN TO NAZI TARGETS   Chemical Works at Leverkusen Special Target of RAF Raiders

BRITISH BOMB GERMAN PLANT AT LEVERKUSEN   luesseldori Also Bombed, Berlin Reports—Light Bombers, Fighters, Take Up Day Raids

Nazi Chemical Works Bombed   British Bombers Resume Crushing Attack On Reich

Chemical Plant Is Attacked   Reids On Germany Are Renewed With Bombing Of Important Plant At Leverkusen

CRUSHING RAIDS AGAINST GERMAN CITIES RESUMED   3ritish Bombers Attack Leverkusen Chemical Works, Duesseldorf, And Other Targets In Devastating Assault.

Nazi Chemical Plant Smashed By RAF Raid   Nazi Radio Reports Assault On Duesseldorf In Rhineland

RAIDS ON CERMANY   Blast Chemical Works at Leverkusen After a Lay-Off cf Two Nights; Light Planes Active Today

At Leverkusen   Bomb Chemical Works, North of Cologne, Air Ministry Announces

BRITISH BOMBERS RETURNED 10 HEAVY ATTACKS ON GERMANY  IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL PLANTS BLASTED BY RAF RAIDERS

* —AIR WAR  BRITISH RESUME AIDS ON NAZIS   Chemical Works At Leverkusen, Near Cologne, RAF Target

Mass Attacks On Germany Are Resumed  By British   Chemical Works At Leverkusen, Near Cologne, Principal Target

BUMBERS RAZE CHEMICAL PLANT   BRITISH PLANES LASH WORKS AT LEVERKUSEN

RAF SMAGHES GERMANY ANE   Bombers Hit Chemical Works at Leverkusen, North of Cologne.

BRITISH BOMBERS RETURNED TO HEAVY ATTACKS ON GERMAN)  IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL war AAT ME ALTER Oh   IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL PLANTS BLASTED BY RAF RAIDERS

Chemical Works Near Cologne Hit Duesseldorf, In Rhine  Duesseldorf, In Rhineland, Again Heavily Attacked   RAIL TARGETS AND AIR FIELDS HIT

BOMBS ON GERMANY   R. A. F. Attacks Resumed After Interval of Two Nights

RAF RETURNS FOR ATTACKS ON GERMANY   Chemical Works at Leverkusen, Six Miles North Of Cologne, Reported  Special Target   DUESSELDORF ALSO HIT

Chemical Plant Target Of Raid By RAF Plane   British Bombers Return To Fresh Attacks On Reich After Two Night Interval

HUN CHEMICAL WORKS STRUCK   British Fighters and “Number” of Bombers Shot Down

RAF Attacks  Leverkusen   ea FY 4h 2 OER WEE  Chemical Works Near  Cologne Special Target; 32 i ci ts ie gy es

BRITISH BOMBERS RESUME CRUSHING ATTACKS ON REICE   Chemical Works At Lever. kusen , Near Cologne, Special Targets of Raids Resumed After Interval of Two Nights; Duesseldorf Also Bombed.

A CHEMICAL WORKS RAIDED NEAR COLOGNE   British Bombers Choose Plant at Leverkusen as a Special Target—German Radio Says Duesseldorf Also Is Attacked.

IRAE Bombers Smash Nazi Chemical Works Al Leverkusen And Hit At Duesseldort   Allied Aerial Juggernaut Rolls On Italy

RAF Resumes Its Pounding of Reich   Southern Italy Is Also Bombed Heavily

Bombers Back On Nazi ‘Run’   Leverkusen Special Target, Many Other Places Raided

REICH CHEMICAL PLANT HiT HARD IN NIGHT BLOW   Report Loss Of Five Bombers In Assault

RAF Ends 2-Night Lull With Raid On Plants Near Cologne; Other Targets Are Hammered   Leverkusen Is Special Target; Nazis Report Duesseldorf Also Attacked

RENEW NIGHT RAIDS ON NAZIS   Chemical Works North of Colosne Lashed

GERMAN CITIES SMASHED AGAIN   Enemy Raiders Hit Southeast England While Vital Nazi industries Bombed

RAF Attack: War Plants  In Germany   Leverkusen Is  Chief Target

RAF Refurns To Crushing Raid On Nazi Cities   Chemical Works At Leverkusen Target In Newest Attack

RAF Bombers Attack Nazi Chemical Works at Leverkusen in Renewal Of Heavy Assaults on Germany

BRITISH RENEW RAIDS ON REICH      End Two Night Lull, Hit Chemical Works Near Cologne

(RAF RESUMES ITS CRUSHING DRIVE ON NAZI TARCETS   Chemical Works at Leverkusen, Near Cologne, Special Obiect of Attack

Chemical Works Blasted: In Cologne Area; Nazis Report Duesseldorf Hit By Bombers

RAF Resumes Night Attacks   After A Two Night Lull,  British Bomb Chemical Works At Leverkusen.

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACKED GERMANY AGAIN LAST NIGHT   Chemical Works at Lever. kusen Were the Special Targets.   IS NORTH OF COLOGNE   The Air Ministry Said Five Bombers Were Lost in the Raid.

British Bombers Strike Germany   English Return To The Attack After Two Days

Three Men Held: As Ax-Slaying Suspects in Tulsa  Search Widens far~ Killer of Two in Town Apartnicnt.

Question Men In Model's Murder  Night Club Habitue Slain In Apartment

Seek Chicago Model Slayer   Police Investigate Brutal Killing In North Side Apartment

Model’s Death Causing Probe   Pretty Chicagoan Found - Slain. In Firé-Ruined © - North Side Home:

SEEK TO UNTANGLE MURDER MYSTERY   Police to Question Friends of Attractive Night Club Matron to Get Lead

SEEK SLAYER OF . PRETTY MODEL, 31   Killer Tried To Burn Body Police Say

SLEUTHS PROBE BRUTE MURDER PRETTY MODEL   Chicago Woman Battered and Slashed to Death In Apartment, Which  Was Set Afire ©   FRIENDS QUIZZED   Dice Girl At Clubs Was Well Known In City’s Night Life; Said to Be “Fairly Wealthy”

NACI OFFENOIVE BACKFIRED WITh Hoo DRIVE ON   Summer Campaign in Russia Turns Intc Drive by Red Army.   LOSSES MOUNT HIGHER   German Positions Threatened as Reds Move Forward Steadi y.

REDS SEEK 10 CUT RAILWAY BEHIND OREL   110 Towns and Villages Already Liber. ated in Drive

Yanks Accelerate - Pounding of Nazis  3d Quick Blow Costs  Sy Berane ae

Raiders Knock Down 102 Nazi Fighter Planes   Ambassador Winant’s Son Fails to Return From Big Attack on Muenster, Coesfeld

32 American Planes Lost Tn Attaeks   Muenster and Coefeld and Dutch Town Are’! Tareeta for Bombs

MOSQUITOS SMACK BERLIN AFTER DE STRUCTION “OF OBJECTIVES IN FORT RESS RAID OVER EASTERN EUROPE.

U. S. Raiders Down 102 _ Nazi Planes in Attacks On Germany and Holland

New Targets Hammered: Fortresses Destroy 102 German  Planes in Raids on Nazi Centers   30 American Bombers and Two Fighters Lost In Daylight Battles with German Aviators

USS. Fotlresses Neal Out Heavy Damage in Day laid ’ Un German Installations

U.S. Bombers Down 102 Nazi Planes   Fortresses Raid Muenster and Coesfeld, Germany

102 Nazi Planes Destroyed by Allied Raiders   More Than 400 Bombers In Attacking Armadas, 32 Big Planes Downed

Heavy Aerial — Blows Struck Against Nazis   Non-Stop Bombing Drive Against Germany Thunders on With 102 Nazi Planes Downed—Fierce OFfensive Launched by Fliers in North Africa

Airmen Send  102 Nazi Craft Down   Third Successive Daylight Raid Brings Destruction to Industry Centers, Strategic Airfield; British Give Help

BOMBING DRIVE IS CONTINUING AGAINST NAZIS   Pilot Son Of Ambassador Winant Missing In Raid  Over Germany   32 ALLIED AIRCRAFT MISSING FROM RAIDS

Col. T. P. Gable Dies at Santa Fe   Pioneer, 92, Came lo State in 1882

SITUATION IN INDIA FAR FROM HOPELESS  Believes Problem Can Still Be Settled

WHILE NO SETTLEMENT COMPLEX INDIAN SITUATION REACHED IT JS SUSCEPTIBLE. TO SOLUTON   By DeWIPTT MACKENZIE.

WHILE NO SETTLEMENT COMPLEX INDIAN SITUATION REACHED IT IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO SOLUTON

Anti-Aircraft Mer Bag 500th Plane In North Africa   Allied Headquarters Issues Statement  Praising Their Work

Antiaircraft Crews in Northern Africa Lauded for Making Their 500th ‘Kill’

FUGITIVES BRANDED AS "BAD MEN’   Overpower Guards And Lock Them In Prison Cells

22 CONVICTS IN DARING BREAK   Warden Describes Groups As ‘Worst We’ve Got’

22, Prisoners, ‘Worst We Got, Eseape In Ga   Overpower Guards, Wreek Phone System And. Flee wo Drison lrucks

22 Prisoners  Escape After  Beating Guard: Wholesale Delivery  In Georgia Is Led Ry Veteran Of Game

22 Convicts In Georgia Break Prison, Escape   Were ‘Worst We Got’ Says Warden

Georgia Convicts Free 22 Mates   Warden Says ‘Worst We Got’ Included in Gang That Locked Guards in Cell and Fled Prison in Trucks and Cars

22 PRISONERS FLEE GEORGIA STATE PRISON   Group Led by Two Notoridus Artists: Described By Warden “Worst We Got”   OVERPOWER GUARDS   Steal Prison Trucks anc ‘Auto Belonging to Attendant; 23rd Convict Quickly Surrenders

Georgia’s 22 Worst  Prisoners Escape  3 Unarmed Guards Are Locked in Cell; Keys Then Taken

22 INMATES  ESCAPE PRISON   ' Saas ‘Turner, Harvey and Black Lead Group in Georgia

iV Ws fia os wes  2 CONVICTS “LOOSE IN BREAK IN GEORGIA    Overpower Guards And Seize Autos To Escape

Japanese Raid Oregon Forests   Two Planes and Sub Bomb, Shell Timber

Forest Service Reveals Jap Planes Twice Dropped Bombs on West Coast

Three Isolated Jap Plane Attacks On Coast Reported  Fire Started by Enemy Bomb in Southern Oregon Extinquished

GETTING RUBBER FROM GOLDENROD   Scientists Have Successfully Achieved Solvent Extraction of Rubber From the Goldenrod Plant.

I C-ranny {i s- Dectrover é Gets Jap Battlewagon; 2 Destroy. er. s, Is Sunk:

U. S. Destroyer Attacks Jap Battleship — Head On, Like Terrier Fighting Mastiff

Laffey Finally Sunk After Narrowly Missing Ramming Jap Battleship

Soviets Sweep Closer To Kiev Bastion; 733 Towns, Villages Taken   Berlin Reported Withdrawing Troops From Front To Enforce Defenders Of Italy

Senate Changes Mind On Bingo   Pass Bill To Legalize Charity Games

YANK AVIATORS SHOT DOWN BEHIND NAZI LINES IN TUNISIA GET BACK T0 BASE -

COND G.0.P. WIN IN KENTUCK'   Carrier Elected Congressman in Normal Democratic District

Astonishing Margin of Viclory _ Seen As Clear Indication at Future.

Berlin, Ludwigshafen —  Hit: Ovruch Seized   Soviets Forced to Evacuate Zhitomir; Aussies Batter Way Just Outade Sattelbera —

U.$. Bombers hit Germany After  RAF Berlin Raid   Petain Would Quit; Turks Get Set for War;  Quiet on Italian Front

CAPTURE ALIFE AND PIEDIMONTE   Now in Position to Cut Off Ten Miles of German Line

Capture the Towns of  Piedimonte and Alife in Hilly Country.  GERMAN COUNTER ATTACK STOPPED  Allied Planes Put a Heavy Cover Over Our Troops.

Allied Planes Hammer German Lines a Bomb Enemy Shipping In Adriatic.

EAST FACING Bie CHANGE   DOWNWARD ) REVISION or FUEL AND GASOLINE SUPPLIES* AFFECTING LIVES OF  + MILLIONS

(78 DIE IN LONDON AIR RAID SHELTER JAM, 60 INJURED   Victims Crushed, Suffocated and Trampled as They Scream and Fight to Get Out.   CROWD TRAPPED WHEN WOMAN FALLS DOWN   Crying Babies Killed in Arms of Their Parents and Grownups Perish Standing Up

Smith Advised *1o Abandon the Bracket System  Rule Described as   Rule Described as Gouge Voted Out By Resolution

BREMEN PLANT IS BADLY DAMAGED   At Least Half Of Focke-Wulf Works Incapacitated.

Nazi Defeat In 1944 Predicted  Allies Concentrating Now On Air Blows

HITLER WON'T LIVE T0 G0 ON TRIAL   Men Who Know Say He Will  Commit Suicide

Explosion Toll Reaches 19   Alabama Mine Has  Two Bad Gas Blasts

19 ARE DEAD IN MINE BLAST   10 Reported to Be  in Serious Condition.

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Allies Keep Up Pressure On Rommel   Inflict Considerable Damage On Nazis

ALLIES EXPAND WEDGE, SHELLING ROMMEL SOUTH   Artillery Hammers Axis Positions While Bombers and Spitfires Range Front

Allies Widen  .. Tunisia Gains   Forces, Pressiny, Forward From. Sbeitla; Central Sector. fs Ouret

Allies Press On in Pursui Of Rommel  ressure 1s   Pressure is Maintained On Axis in North Tunisia

Allies Gain In Tunisia   U.S., British Forces Maintain Pressure on All Battle Fronts

3B below   ALLIED FORCES ADD PRESSURE ON AXIS UNITS   Inflict Heavy Losses Upon Enemy Troops in Tunisia

‘Allies Maintain © Pressure On Axis Armies In Tunisia   Heavy Artillery Fire Inflicts Damage to German Positions North of Beja. Allies Press on Toward  Recaptured Rail Town 125 Mites Southwest of — "Traei)e

ALLIES EXPAND AFRIGAN GAINS   Maintain Pressure in Northern Tunisia; Shell Crossroads Town, _   HALT SMALL THRUSTS

Expansion Of Holdings Made In One Sector   Air Assaults Carried Out Over Many Bases Held By Axis, Including Sicily

Allies Push Rommel.  ~ Back Toward Coas'      American Troops, Guns And Planes Pour’ Into _ North Africa’ As. Axis Continues Retreat -In:- Tunisia. _

Allies Make Steady Gains  In Tunisia   Artillery Punishes Axis, Town South Of Tunis Retaken

Allied Forces Keep Pressure On Rommel   Allies Push Forward South and Southeast Of Sbeitla, Rail Town, Allies Recaptured

OTHER FORCES PROGRESS IN CENTRAL AREA   Artillery Does Considerable Damage on Axis Positions Above Beja, While Planes Heavily Raid Thnis.

“AIR FORCES IN ACTION OVER TUNIS   @Axis Thrusts Beaten Back In North; 5  Planes Downed

AXIS THRUSTS IN NORTH ARE BEATEN BACK   Planes Bomb and Shoot Up Enemy Concentrations At Several Points  " In Tunisia   RACING TO THE COAST

ALLIED FORCES MAINTAINED THEIR PRESSURE ON ENEMY   Heavy Artillery Inflicted Considerable Damage on Axis Positions.   EXPANDING HOLDINGS   Allied Vanguards Pressed on to the South and the Southeast.

ALLIED FORCES HIT AXIS LINES  WITH BIG GUNS   Americans and British Continue Offensive In Tunisian Sectors to Crush Rommel   ARTILLERY ACTIVE IN NORTHERN ZONE   Pressure Maintained On Enemy In Both Areas As Afrika Korps Is Caught Between

Reports Steady Flow of U. S. Troops,  Suppliés, Into North’ Africa: Ports

Allied Armies Expand Tunisia Gains In North   Artillery inflicts Consid erable Damage On Axis Press Beyond Sbeitla   OTHER FRONTS QUIET   Only Patrol Activity Is Developed By. 8th Army In Mareth Line Drive

HEAVY ARTILLERY INFLICTED DAMAGE (IN AXIS POSITIONS  ALLIED VANGUARDS PRE   ALLIED VANGUARDS PRESS ONWARD IN PURSUIT OF ROMMEL FORCES

FOLLOW RETREATING ROMMEL FORCES BEYOND SBENLA   More Than Third OF Gains [Matte By Axis Retaken Now By Allies

UNISIAN PRESSURE KEPT UP BY ALLIES AND AXIS FORCES VE SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE

Enemy Fortunes  In Tunisia Ebb  Rebuffs Handed Out In North, Central Sectors

ALLIES HURL AXIS ATTACKS BACK IN AFRICA   Heavy Artillery Inflicis Consider able Damage on German Posi fiong in North   Allies: Press on from Recaptured Sheitle but Meet Little Opposi: tion in South

‘Allies Maintain Pressure As Big Guns Blast Tanks   Hurricanes and Spitfires Harrass Troop Columns Near Sidi Bauzid

Axis Troops In Tunisia Hard Hit By Artillery Fire   Pressure Maintained By Allies And Rommel Stil!  Retreats

Quiet Along Mareth Line   Enemy Attacks in Area Near Coast Are Beaten Back

AXIS. TUNISIAN FORCES GIVE UP LATEST GAINS   Heavy Artillery Damages Enemy Positions At Beja And Sedjenane   AIR FORCES BLAST TUNIS   Von Arnim Loses Strength As, Americans Land Big Reinforcements

Axis Troops Are Checked By The Allies   Steadily Losing - Ground Gained At A Heavy Cost

ALLIED CANNON BATTER ENEMY IN N, TUNISIA   Forces Continue Heavy Pressure On Nazi Troops

AXIS FORTUNES EBB IN TUNISIA AFTER REBUFFS   ENEMY YIELDS PART OF GAINS MADE IN RECENT THRUST

Allies Press. On in Pursui Of Rommel   Pressuré is Maintained On , Ai in North

Losses To Axis Positions North Of Beja And East Of Sedjenane Caused By Artillery—Pressure Maintained By American And British Ground Forces—Small Thrusts By Germans Beaten Back—Rommel Reported Withdrawing Toward Coast

Pressure On Axis Forces Maintained  By Allies   Considerable Damage Inflicted On Enemy Positions North of Rain

Allies Maintain Pressure on Tunisian Fron   Heavy Losses Inflicted on Axis Forces

Allies Attack Axis Positions North Of Beja   Allied Forces Maintain Their Pressure Today On Enemy Lines In Northern Tunisia

BARWICK CANNING PLANT CLAIMS LARGE NUMBER OF PATRONS DURING PAST SEASON

QUITMAN NEWS   BARWICK CANNING PLANT CLAIMS ONE OF LARGEST CLIENTELES IN NATION RANGING FROM MASS., TO FLORIDA

REVISION MADE OF AIR RAID SIGNALS   New Regulations to Gc in Effect on Feb. 17

REVISION MADE OF AIR RAID SIGNALS   New Regillationi « to: ‘Ge ‘ioc in Effect on  EFah 17

LAST ENEMY IN TUNISIA SURRENDERS   Allied Fliers Spread Wreckage Over Axis Lands

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Mounting Naval Strength Of U.S. In Pacific Bad Wews For Japanese

BADLY DAMAGED   Big Forces of Allicd Bombers in Day and Night Bombardment Offensive — Preparing Way for Invusion of Southern Europe.

Allied Bombers. Open Shattering Aerial Attacks   ‘Heavy Raids Launched On Big Airdromes — of Italian Island

Allies Deal Shattering Air Blows   Island Airdromes Smoke Under Heav: Weicht of Bombs

BOMBARDING AND NIGHT      Planes Are Concentrating -On Airdromes

BIG BOMBERS PUSH DAY AND NIGHT ATTACKS   RAF Ranges Continent From Denmark To France; Some Planes Near Berlin   CAPITAL HAS SHORT ALERT   Axis Radios Declare Huge {nvasion Fleet Is Massed In Mediterranean

Sicily Object Of New Allied Air Attacks   Night and-Day Bombardment Is Underway

Heavy Rains Fall on  Italian Dromes   Flying Fortresses And Lightnings  Maintain Parca

AXIS JITTERS GROW, RUMORS  FILL THE Alf   Enemy, by Broadcast, Reports “Massing of Allied Fleet. Turks in “Rumor Mill”

May Be Next Stepping Stone For Invasion   SHATTERING LAMBASY OF AIRDROMES PICKS Up STEADILY.

Russians Drive To Fold German Southern Flank   Reds By-Pass Crimea, Advance Within 30 Miles Of Kherson; Enemy Forces Demoralized

Soviets Stage Drive to Collapse German Flank; Peninsula Is Bypassed

DE MARIGNY NOW FACES GAS CHARGE      INegal Possession of Drums Case Threatens Jail Again

JUNGLE TROOPS TIGHTEN HOLD NEAR SALAMAUA   Jap Base Is Largely In Ruins Following Repeated Air Raids   ENEMY BARGES ARE REPEATEDLY STRAFED

ALLIES DRIVE ON SALAMAUA   Jungle Troops Tightening Grip on Approaches to Jap Air Base

Telling What the Customs Are, How to Get Along with the People and How to Pronounce Native Words

FDR GIVES NO HINT IN COAL CRISIS   Number of Idle Miners Nears 77,000 and Ex pec ted to Inc rease,   WLB Refers Strikes To the White House

NEARLY 77,000 COAL MINERS IN Tl STATES IDLE   F. R. Withholds Hints of Plans to Meet New  Crisis in Nation’s Pits

NEARLY 77,000 MINE WORKERS NOW ARE IDLE   Roosevelt. Withholds Plans To Meet Coal Crisis 7

FDR Silent On Plan to Meet Crisis   No Action Yet C Taken On WLB  Report On Work  Stoppages

F. R. Silent. On Next Coal Move   Number Of Idle Miners Now Totals 77,000 In 11 States

77,000 MINERS IDLE PENDING NEW DECISIONS   President May Order Seizure of Mines For Second Time

Almost 77,000 Miners Idle As Strikes Spread   Fourth Fuel Crisis In Six Months Confronts Pres. Roosevelt.  sininien aaee ti eninicihinittian dimiaii

FR. Silent On Plans In Coal Crisis   Nearly 77,000 Men Are Idle: UL. S. Seizure Of Mines Virtually Mandatory

FDR Silent On Coal Situation   Number of Idle Miners Still Rises Over Nation

NUMBER OF IDLE MINE WORKERS AT 80,000 MARK   Coal Mines in 11 States Handicapped by Striking Miners FDR Gives No Hint of Plans to Meet Crisis

77,000 MINERS NOT LABORING TODAY IN U.S   No Hint From Roosevelt as to What Action He Wi'l Take in This National Crisis

MORE MINERS QUIT WORK IN WAGE DISPUTE   U. S. Seizure of Mines Virtually Certain as WLB Gives Up

OVER 76,000 MINERS IDLE IN TT STATES   Roosevelt Gives No Hint Of Move He Will Take; W. L. B. Says Seizure By U. S. Imperative

NUMBER OF IDLE MINERS INCREASING   Walkouts in Mines Through. out Country Expected to Meet With Presidential Action

PRESIDENT FACES NEW COAL CRISIS; EXPECTED TO ACT   SPREADING STRIKES INDICATE PARALYSIS OF INDUSTRY MONDAY

NEARLY 20,000 MORE MINERS GOON STRIKE   Over 69,000 Diggers Out; Roosevelt Mum on Plan

77.000 Miners Now On Strike   President Roosevelt W ithholds Any Hint Of Plans To Meet Crisis.

Coal Case ‘Rests With President   Roosevelt Gives .No- Hint ot His Plans to Meet Fourth Crisis in -Six Months   SITUATION LOADED WITH POSSIBILITIES   Production Job May Be Given Over to Army Instead. of. Secretary: Ickes

NEW CRISIS IN COAL LOOMING      Spreading Strikes Indicate Propable Near-Tieup By Monday.   ARMY MAY RUN MINES

New Coal Crisis Is in the Making   Spreading Strikes Bring Threat of Near-Paralysis to Industry  TA0M) MINERS Ine      Shutdown of Steel Works From Fuel Shortage  Is Imminent

Near Coal  Crisis   79,800 “Miners Idle As President Ponders Plan to Meet Wage Issue: Deadline Oct. 31

Crisis In Coal atHand   ..+ Work In Mines May Be At Standstill Monday

Coal Crisis Faces Roosevelt Anew: He  May Order Seizure   Near-Paralysis of Industry by Monday is Thought Likely

MINE STRIKES _ SPREAD AS FDR GETS REPORT   Labor Members Dissent in WLB Decision While Board Challenges Lewis’ Figures   STEEL MILLS HIT   WLB Awards Apthracile Miners 32.2 Cents, Vacation Pay Against $2 Requested

Number Of Idle  Miners In Eleven States Estimated  Now At 77.000

ASS MEETING IS CANCELLED   Boeing Workers Change Plans For Action Monday.

Boat Service Starts June 1!   Schedule Of Trips  Announced Today

Lake Service Starts June 1   Moonlight. Trip. Wil Be Made Friday

BOAT RUNS TO START JUNE 19   City of Grand Rapids Will Dock At Michigan Ave. In Chicago

The War Today— Hitler Means To Exact Heavy Toll For Any Allied Invasion Of Europe

The War Today Churchill’s Grim Warn ing Strikes Deeply Into American Hearts,

CHURCHILL WARNS BRITISH AND AMERICANS MUST SACRIFICE MUCH LIFE IN COMING MILITARY. EVENTS   Declares Hitler And’ His Gang, Cornered and Desperate, Will Wage! Bloody Battle and Will Stop at Nothing to’ Save Their Own Necks

CHURCHILL’S PREDICTION THAT — BRITISH AND AMERICAN ARMIES FACE HEAVY LOSS STRIKES HOME

Desperation of Hitler and Gang !s Danger to Allies The Nazi Leaders Are Cornered

The War Today   Harder Days Faced by ‘Allies * Next Year. Churchill Warns -

The War Today   Two-fold Danger Confronts Allies In European War

WAR NEWS \ANALYSIS   Churchill Speech Grim Warning Of Dangerous Task Ahead Of Us

WLB CONSIDERS HEARING APPEAL   Southern Operators Seek Action As Coal Output Nears Record Marks

WLB Considers  New Mine Hearing   Operators Object To Birst Report

OPERATORS WANT NEW HEARING IN BITUMINOUS FIGHT      Southern Operators Fea, WLB Intends To Accede To Demands Of John L. Lewis

58,000 Miners Quit Work in Coal Regions   Dispute Threatens To Develop into Full Scale Strike

Labor Board Considers Appeal For New Public Hearing On Coal Case

WLB CONSIDERS SOUTHERN COAL OPERATORS PLEA   Ask For Public Hearing In Disputue Over Coal Wares

Labor board refers wage controversy to President Roosevelt   Declares Own orders and appeals have been isnored by mine workers

Southern Operators Ask __ Another Hearing; Would  Delay WLB Coal Decision

MINE OWNERS SAY PARLEY — DEADLOCKED   Appeal To WLB To Intervene In Negotiations With Miners’ Union.   NEW WALKOUT LOOMS   Lewis Threatens New Closing  of Mines To Keep Owners   a, ee eee

War Labor Board Takes Over Wage Disoute in Anthracite Coal Mines

Lewis Set To Call Miners Out April 30   Promises Mines Not To Work After Midnight Friday Night   EXPECT FDR TO ACT   Shutdown Of Vital War Industry Looms If Strike Goes On

COAL OPERATORS SEND DISPUTE BACK 10 THE WLE   Believed Government ts Prepared to Deal With Case itself Now.

Anthracite Parley Called  WLB Summons ons John L. L. Lewis Coal Operators for Monday

Every Lot Should Produce Food, He Urges; New Tractor Is His Pet Project

ALLIES CAPTURE FOE STRONGHOLDS IN NEW GUINEA   YANKS AND AUSSIES PUSH FORWARD IN MAJOR OPERATION

JAPS DRIVEN © FROM POINT   Allied Forces Capture San. anada; Enemy Now Caught In Pockets.

ALLIES TAKE 2 JAPANESE STRONGHOLDS   Wipe Out All But Three Small Pockets Of Nip Resistance

Sanananda Point In New ‘GuineaTaken  By Allies   Australian And American Troops Wrest Control From Japanese

VILLAGE TAKEN BY AUSSIES IN SHARP BATTLE   Jap Forces Are Trapped In Three Pockets, Face Extermination   SURPRISE ATTACK STAGED   8,000 Ton Enemy Ship Sunk; Yank Airmen Batter Supply Harbor

Last Japanese Strongholds Af Sanananda Fall   Remnants Of Invasion Forces Trapped In Narrow Pocket

SANANANDA AREA TAKEN BY AUSSIES, U. S. TROOPS   Remnants Of Japanese Troops Bottled Up Iv Three Small Pockets by Allies

U.S., Australian Units Mopping Up To Clear Region Of Last Resistance

Sanananda Village And Point Captured   Remnants of Japs’ Northeastern New Guinea Army Are Now Enveloped by Yanks and Aussies in Three Restricted Pockets.

Allies Capture Sanananda; Jap Army Pocketed   Aussies and Americans Envelope Foe in Three Traps

Allies Capture Two Points In New Guinea   Sanananda Point and Sanananda Village Taken From Japs

Important Jap Base Captured   Allied Ground Forces Take Sanananda Point in New Guinea.

SANANANDA POINT ~ AND VILLAGE WERE TAKEN YESTERDA)   Australians and Americans Envelop Jap Infantrymen in Three Pockets.   TWO POSITIONS FALL   Allied Bombers Sank an 8,000-Ton Japanese Cargo Ship.

REMAINING JAPS IN NEW GUINEA AREA ENCIRCLED   Australians Capture Sanananda Point And Adjacent Village; Mopping Up Three Pockets Of Trapped Japanese.

ALLIES TAKE SANANANDA, NEARBY POINT   Only Surviving Japs on Papuan Peninsula in Three Isolated Pockets After Action   ACTION NEARS END   Mopping-Up Operations Apparent ly Alone Remain Before Arez Cleared of Foe

JAPS HOLD BUT THREE POETS IN NEW GUINEA,      Australians  ‘Capture Sana nanda Point and Village  and American Troops Mop  Tp Interior. _

Sanananda Is Taken Over By Allied Troops   Remnants Of Jap Forces Are Held In Three Restricted Pockets In Papuan Peninsula

ALLIES SEIZE TWO IMPORTANT PAPUAN POINTS   Sanananda Point and Sanananda Village Captured From Japanese In New Guinea   POCKETS ENEMIES   Climaxes Series of Co-ordinated Attacking Movements Involving American Infantry

Sanananda In Allied Hands; Japs Trappec   Gen. Horii’s Troops Are Enveloped By Yank, Aussie Forces; Hold Small Coastal Pocket

'KNOX GIVES WARNING OF POSSIBLE JAP NUISANCE RAIDS ON U. S. COASTS

Chance of Raid on  Coast, Knox Says  Jap Use of Kiska to Attack West Coast Called Possibility

KNOX DOUBTS AIR ATTACKS ON U.S.   Axis Busy Elsewhere Says Secretary; Carrier Loss Denied

AXIS MAY TRY AERIAL RAIDS   Knox Warns That Attack On U. S. Soil Possible

Knox Sees Chance (Of Raids on Coast   Nuisance Attacks Called Possible

‘Nuisance’ Raids Possibilities   Knox Says Raids on Coasts ‘Very Remote Possibilities

Knox Says Coast Raids “Possible”   NAVY SECRETARY SEES ENEMY BLOW AT U. S. MAINLAND AS REMOTE

Chances Remote Of Attacks Upon Coasts Say Knox   Secretary Of Navy Says Air Attacks On U.S. Coasts Are TInhkelyv

See Possibility of Raid on U.S.  Thére’< Alwavs Danae:   There's Always Danger Navy Secretary Says

“Nuisance” Raids  Said Possibility   Knox Says Chances  Remote, However

KNOX SAYS RAIDS ON U. S. “POSSIBLE”   Adds That Possibilities O1 Attack Here Are Very Remote

Nuisanee Air Raids On West  Coast Possible  Knox Believes  Chances Of Such

Knox Sees Remote Possibility of “Nuisance” Air Raids on U.S. ‘Coasts

Officials Hint Retail Sales  Tax Program   House. Senate Tron Out Pav-Go Plan

Tax Abatement Plan Perfected   Morgenthau Asks fo 16 Billion More

Additional Taxes Said Necessary  Conferees Agree on Current Measure

PAY-AS-YOU-GO BILL REVAMPEL   Treasury Tells Congress To Dig Up About 16 More Billions

U.S. Sales Tax And Spending Levy Talked   Morgenthau Cites Need for 16 Billion  More From Taxation

Congressmen Are Considering Ways Additional Taxes  Morgenthau Asserts Capitel Hill Must  Raise More Money:

Pay-Go ‘Notch’ Abatement Set By Committees   Every Taxpayer Owing Over $50 Will Get

TREASURY SEEKS INCREASED TAXES   TALK STIRRED OF POSSIBLE ‘LEVIES ON “SPENDING” AND RETAIL SALES.

‘How To Raise $16,000,000,000 More Out of Taxpayers’ ‘Pockets Question Raised hy U. S. Secretary of Treasury

Abatement Plan On Tax Revised   Sales Tax Levy Is  Believed Impending  By FRANCIS M. LE MAY Associated Press Staff Writer

20 Per Cent Retail Sales Tax Forecast   Conferees Complete Abatement Plan, Turn Down “Notch” System

Tax Conferees Perfect Pay as You Go Provisior   16 Billions More in Taxes Needed; Talk of Retail Sates Tax

Abatement Plan On Tax Revised   Sales Tax Levy Is Believed Impending

WARTIME TAX ON SALES MAY BE PROPOSED      Question Revived as Morgenthau Calls for More Billions

Abatement Plan Is Perfected — By Conferees   But Treasury Starts Guessing Game on Ways To Get 16 Billion More

Plan Is Completed For Abatement Of Pay-Go Taxes  Problem Is Now to Get «6 Billion More, Morgenthau Declares

German Armies Split.   North and South Rail Link Cut; Berlin Hit For Fourth Straight Night: 8th Army Gains

Allies Bomb Formosa:Reds  Take Gomel   RAF Bombs Berlin and Frankfurt-amMain; Nimitz Says Few Live Japanese Remain in the Gilberts

SERIES OF ALLIED VICTORIES REPORTED ON VARIOUS FRONTS  TOKYO RROANCAST SAYS   TOKYO BROADCAST SAYS TWENTY PLANES RAIDED PORT ON FORMOSA

PANTELLERIA BOMBED TWICE IN LESS TRAN TWELVE HOURS   Sicily, Sardinia Nervously Await Allied Invasion

Allied Warships Again Bombard Pantelleria  Naval Forces Shell   Naval Forces Shell Italian Island  Twice In 12 Hours

LITTLE RESISTANCE IS GIVEN ALLIES   [Russians Bag 23 More German Planes, No Reports On Land Fighting.

serman Defeat This Year Is Predicted By Wallace If U. S. And Britain Will Make ‘All-Out’ Effort

President Warns  Americans — Face Reverses   Don't Throw Your Hats High in Air Over Great Successes on Russian Front, Admonishes Roosevelt, Misfortunes Ahead

Roosevelt Would Veto Senate-Approved Plan   President Serves Notice To Congressional Leaders On Eve Of Critical Test In House.

VICTORY NOT ~ BASILY WON   ROOSEVELT DECLARES Ih RADIO ADDRESS THAT REVERSES MAY ‘BE EXPECTED BEFORE * -WHOTORY

MANY REVERSES ARE FACING US   President: Confident of Vie. tory But Knows It Will Cost Heavily. ¢

TAY TO QUIET FOOD PARLEY CRITICISM   To Present t Congressional Committees with Preview of United Nations Conference

Congress to Hear Aims 0: Secret Meet   Officiel Mey Answer Criticiam of World Farm Perley Policy

Solon Groups do Get Preview  Of Food Parley   ® Private Explanation Of Postwar Plan For Agriculture Slated.

CONGRESS T0 GET PRIVATE PREVIEW OF FOOD PLANNING   NEWSMEN DISLIKE CENSORSHIP OF FOOD CONFERENCE

Private Preview On Roosevelt's Secret Parley   Four Congressional Bodies to Hear Why Press Will Be Muzzled

PRIVATE PREVIEW POST - WAR FOOD PLANS SCHEDULED   Acheson Will Explain Purpose and Aims of United Nations Food Conference To Four Congressional Committees.

Congress Groups To Get Preview Of Plan For Rebuilding Asriculture   Acheson ‘Will Explain Purpose And Aims Of Food Conference At Hot Springs Before Joint Committee Meeting.

Two Congressional ~ Committees To Get Preview of Scheme   Will Be Told of Plans for . Food Conference at Hot Springs, Va.

Congressmen To Preview Future  Committees To Attenc Food Conference

Postwar Meet Gets Preview  From Solon:   EEUME OULUIIS Handling Of Conference Assailed; Newspapers Up In Air Over Their Exclusion From Parley

PREVIEW (F FOR PLANS   Congress and Press Barred  From International Food , - Conference. j   CRITICISMS ARE VOICED

NAZIS REPULSED   Two Congress Grouns Will Get Private Preview Of Food Parley

Congress To Learn  Food Plan   Four Committees Slated For Preview of President’s Ideas

UNIVERSITY LEADS IN FIRST PERIOD   Bob George Passes to Carson for Touchdown;  Chestnut Adds Point - °   GAME ON MUDDY FIELD.

UNIVERSITY LEADS — IN FIRST PERIOD   Bob George Passes to Carson for Touchdown;  Chestnut Adds Point -

Drive On Italian  Islands Believed Opened By Allies      Commentators Speculate Invasion of Italian Outposts Under Way on Basis of Italian Reports— Pantelleria Is Hard Hit

REPORTS HEARD SLES INVADEL   Official Sources in London Decline Verify Action   BRITISH DISCLOSE   Only Small Unit Operated Against Lampedusa; Explode Axis Claims

HAVE STARTED. LONDON HOLDS   Demand for Pantelleria Surrender Stirs Speculation

London Hears Many Reports That Invasion Has Started   Follow Announcement Of Allied Ultimatum  For Unconditional Qurroensdar af’ Telan,   MILITARY WRITERS SEE LANDING LIKELY   Fascist Leaders Seek To Reassure People On Anniversary Eve

Action Seen As Next Move After Demand   Reports of Action on Panielleria Persist;, Officiele Silent .

Invasion May Already Be Under Way   Reports Persist but Without Anv Confirmation

Rome Tells Of Overwhelming Island Attack   Ultimatum Served For Surrender Of Italian Outpost

Fisenhower May Have Started To Invade Islands   ondon Speculating ove Possible Start of Big Offensive   Contradictory Reports Given Out by the Axis Commands

NAVAL FORCES BATTERING AT AXIS OUTPOST   LANDINGS POSSIBLY MADE ALREADY, LONDON SAYS

Observers Say Italian Thrust May Have Begur   Reports of Attacks Persist in London But Are Unconfirmec

Reuters Expresses Belief Eisenhower’s Offensive Is Under Way, but There Is No Official Confirmation—Italian Leaders Say Mussolini’s Outposts Are Standing Firm iti Face of Air-Sea Onslaurht,

Reports Persist Italian Islands Invasion Started   Possibility Landing Made on Pantelleria: Italy Marks War Entry

Rome Tells Of Overwhelming Island Attack   Ultimatum Served For Surrender Of.  ltalinae Plies wee

FRENCH TANKER’S CREW S RESCUED   More Than 100 Officers anc Men Rescued By US: Mine Sweeper, Followin;  Torpedoing .

CONTROL OVER SALES OF FLUID MILK PROBABLE   Government Would Give Homes And Stores Priority Over Eating Places

Milk Control Plan Drafted   Regulation Is Expeeted Farle tn Ovtaher

’ Hero of African Warfare Returns with Five Medals And as Lieutenant Colonel

Sec. Ickes Asks Army Discharge Of Coal Miners   Wants Those in Hard Co: Fields lo Resume Former Jobs

MINER - SOLDIER PROBLEM ARISES   Ickes Wants Army to Re: lease Anthracite Miners to Step Output

es Requests irmed Services me Miners         to Step Up Hard Production in

Germany Believed Unable to Strike Back Through Ait   Nazis Lack Adequate Power with Which   —s- Tg Combat Raids

WIDE DEFENSE BILL OPPOSED   Witnesses Protest Granting Law Making Authority To Council.

Allies Hold Hills Above Mubo Village   Allied. Patrols Within Six Miles of Base ge BS le erase

ALLIES ADVANGE IN NEW GUINEE   American and Australian Troops Now Command Hills Overlooking Mubo Village, 12 Miles South of Big Jap Base At Salamaua.

American, Australian Troops In New Guinea Get Control Of Hills Near Important Jap Base

TROOPS NOW COMMAND HILLS NEAR MUBO   Australian and American Trops Within 12 Miles of Big Jap Base  At Salamaua.

ALLIES ADVANGE NEAR SALAMAUA   MacArthur May Be Opening New Offensive In Guinea

Push Close To  Salamaua Base   American, Australian Forees Seize Hills Overlooking City Of Muhbo.

(Turn to ee , age 9  M'ARTHUR'S TROOPS CLOSE TO JAP BASE   Patrols Operate Six Miles Erom Salamaua

ALLIES CAPTURE HILLS 12 MILES FROM JAP BASE   Gen. MacArthur Discloses Patrols Are Approaching Enemy-held Salamaua

Salamaua Threatened by Allies   MacArthur’s Patrols Operate “Six Miles Away While Warplanes Visit Base Daily

YANKS 12 MILES FROM JAP BASE   Wavell’s Troops Beat off. Nip Attack South of © Buthedaung

MacArthur's Men Capture Important Hill   Not Immediately Clea: Whether General is Planning New Offensive   SALAMUA IS POUNDED

ALLIES HOLDING HILLS AT MUBO   Americans And Aussies Command Hills Overlooking Village Only 12 Miles From Salamaua.   (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Allies Close In on Jap Base   Command Hills Near Mubo Village, 12 Miles From Salamaua

Allies Advance To  ommnanding Point i  Near Big Jap Base   V enctrate Within 6 Miles of Salamaua, New Guinea in What May Be Prelude to New Offen ‘ILO:

Japs Forced Back 12 Miles Below Base at Salamaua   Whether It’s Major Offensive in New Guinea Is Unclear

Allies Hold Hills Above Mubo Village   Allied Patrols Within Six Miles of Base  At Salamaua

SOVIETS ATTACK IN NEVEL AREA   Berlin Admits Advance By 250,000 Troops Of Red Army

Reds in Ukraine Kill 1,400 Nazis, Wreck 28 Tanks   Garimans Admit to Shortening: Front In Grim Battles

Russians Move Forward in Ukraine; Berlin Admits New Breakthrough in Nevel Area   Nazi Counter-attacks on Kirovograd Front Are Repulsed; Rugged Fighting Continues in Italy for United States Fifth Army

Berlin Admits Break-Through In Nevel Sector   Moscow Is Silent About Offensive Near Latvian Border

Reds Advance Ir Ukraine Scetor   Nazis Report Hard  Battles In North By JAMES M. LONG

Soviets Score New South Ukraine Gain   1,400 Germans Killed In Kirovograd Area As Enemy Push Fails

Kirovograd’s Capture Near. Reds Report   Would Menace Nazi Garrison Stationed  At Krivoi Rog

Reds Capture Strong Points South Ukraine   Berlin Radio Mentions Heavy Attacks In North— Weather Hinders Action.   NAZI SHORTEN FRONT

Berlin Admits Breakthrough In Nevel Area   Retreating Germans Leave Great Quantities Of Material

Soviets Hurl Germans From Strong Points   Red Breakthrough Forces Enemy To Shorten Front

Reds Advance Ir Ukraine Scetor   Nazis Report Hard Battles [In North

RUGGIANS GAIN IN NEVEL SECTOR   Reds Storm Westward Near The Latvian Border   NEW BREAKTHROUGH   Counter-attacks in Kirovo. grad Area Fail; Nazis Abandon Equipment

SOVIETS TAKE STRONGPOINTS AT KIROVOGRAD   1,400 Germans Killed; 28 Tanks Wrecked

Berlin Admits  Red Successe:   Break-Through in-Nevel  Rantan Te Becca

QHIO LEGISLATIVE MILL NOT TURNING BUT “GRIST IS IN’   Appropriation Measure Is Tossed Into Hopper, _ Then Adjournment  Till Monday.

State Funds Await Okay By Assembly   Employes Unpaid Till Legislature Approves Bill

13 ADDITIONAL JAP SHIPS HiT BY U. S. BOMBS   Enemy rushing reinforcements to battered  base at Rabaul

EXPLOSIONS DEPOT OF U. S. ARMY BULGING   100,000,000 Pounds of TNT, Other Explosives Handled Without a Fatality or Fire

END COMES ON TWENTIETH DAY OF BLASTING   First Time In History Fortress Is Broken Mostly By Use Of  Warplanes   8,000 In Garrison

Another Island ls Subdued By Aerial Power   Pilot Foreed Down  ‘And Jtalians Swarrr rok TUT. C.  t

Allies Occupy Fortress  Immediately   Fall of Second Italian Mediterranean Island Points Toward an Immediate Air Assault Aqainst Sardinia

Allies Occupy Tortured Island Outpost: First Total Air Victory   Occupation of Garrison Completed in 42 Minutes; Lightning Fighters Fight Off Naz Bombers as Troops Land on Coastline

Italian Isle Topples After 94-Hour Blasi   Occupation Completed But 31 Minutes After White Flag Is Raised Rv Enemy

Landing Forces Complete Occupation in 22 Minutes  ATTACK ON ISLAND . LASTED 19 DAY$ First Metropolitan Axis “Territory to Sur render

50 To 60 Enemy Planes Repulsed Hour After Italian Garrison Fell      SUPERIOR AIR POWER DEFEATED DEFENDERS

Italians Surrender To RAF Sergeant Forced Down In Midst Of Bombing Fury

DAZED GARRISON FORCED 10 QUIT   Hoists White Flag of Unconditional Surrender   AMERICAN FIGHTERS   Beat Off Flock of German Dive - Bombers; British Troops Make Landings

Axians Quit Fight for  Pantelleria   Stronghold Surrenders Without Terms; Allies Are Now in Position To Slash at Sicily, Italian Mainland

Another Island ls Subdued By Aerial Power   Pilot Forced Down And Italians Swarrr Onit Toa Stirreander

ISLAND FORT GIVES UP AFTER 30-HOUR FIGHT   Allies Capture 15,000 Men After Fall of  Pantelleria

Allied Troops Occupy Fortress After Terrific Bombardment   Air Power Brings Submission After Huge Blasts Shake Island; Gen. Eisenhower Announces Capitulation of Italians

Another ltalian Island Fortress Falls To Allies   Sought To Surrende To Lone Fliet Whi Was Forced Dow On Island

Allies Occupy Second Fortress Taken From Duce   Vast U. S.-British Air Armada Freed For Other Attacks

Yank Planes Smash Nazi Dive-Bomber Attack on Landing Forces; Aerial Blasting Gives Allies Victory

Second Italian Stronghold Bombed Into Helplessness .   Frantic Garrison Gives Up to RAF. Sergeant. Forced Down bv Motor Trouble: Island Now Oecanedd:

Ttalians, Dazed by Bombs Surrender to RAF Flier  F orced Down on Island ©:   ‘Allies Land As White Flag Hoisted; Enenty Dive-Bomber Attack Broken Up As Pantelleria Victory Te Reneated

ISLAND YIELDS TO ALLIED AIR, NAVAL ATTACKS   White Flag Is Hoisted After 24-Hour Assault; Troops Move In

Allies Occupy Island Outpost   Battered Axis Garrison Gives Up After Third Ultimatum: Victorious Forces Poised For Bigger Prizes

SMALL ITALIAN ISLAND BLASTED FROM SEA, AIR   Occupation Forces Move In After Uncondition al Surrender   SHIPS SMASHED

Italians First Surrendered to Plane Pilot  - Sergeant-Pilot : Reported - Bombing Terrific

Invasion Cost Is 12 Planes For Allies —   Garrison Quits After Three Ultimatums— Backed Tin hy Bambs

Occupation of Strategic Isle Takes 42 Minutes  Following Surrender   U. S. Fighters Scatter German Planes Trying To Halt Invasion; Sicily, Sardinia, Italy Now Under Increased Threat of Major Assault

LAMPEDUSA QUITS UNCONDITIONALLY UNDER AIR BLOWS   Last Menace to United Nations’ Mediterranean Shipping Is Occupied Immedi ately by Allied Forces.   CAPITULATION FOLLOWS 24-HOUR BOMBARDMENT   Surrender Is by White Flag— Downed RAF Pilot Met by Fascists Crying “Can You Stop It?”

Pantelleria Conquered From Air As Italians Surrender Under Merciless Pounding

20 DAYS OF AIR ASSAULTS RESULT IN CAPITULATION   White Flags Flown Over Italian Island Outpost and Occupation Is Completed in 22 Minutes.   AMERICAN FIGHTERS CHASE NAZI BOMBERS   Dazed Garrison Quits Unconditionally After Three Al- — lied Ultimatums Were Sent Defenders.

Speed of Attack Believed to Be Evidence of Allied Purpose to Carry Assault to Italy Proper

Occupation Of Island Completed in (22 Minutes   Yank Planes Smash German Bomber Attack On British Troops  Who Take Over Outpost  SURRENDER COMES DURING HEAVY RAIDS  All of Axis Defenses Completely Crushed By 19-Day Offensive

Speed Conquest Comes as Surprise To Bombarding Officers; Defenders Have Plenty White F lags

British ‘Troops Land on the Island at Noon   Occupation of Mediterranean Fortress Is Completed Just 22 Minutes After First Allied Soldier Touched Shore

Lampedusa Flies White Flag After Heavy Air Attack   American Bombers Lead All-Out Assault On Tiny Garrison; More Than 10,000 Are Captured In Fall Of Pantelleria

American Marauders, First to Turn to Aerial Assault on Lampedusa and When It Runs Up White Flag, Allies Move In

Surrender Comes After 24 Hours Of Terrific Bombing   Garrison Gives Up To Pilot Of RAF Plane; Entire Island Shaken By Bombardment

Ttalians Yield Second Base  To Allies   Takes Only One Day Of Air Pounding To Convince Them

‘Can You Stop It?’ Htalians Ask « R A F. Serdeant Forced Down in Raid

Air Assault Shatters Axis Invasion Ring   Italians Again Show White Flag After 24- * Hour Air, Naval Bom bardment; Allied Occupation of Island Com pleted; Sardinia Next?

Italians First Surrendered to Plane Pilot  Sergeant-Pilot   Sergeant-Pilot Reported: Bombina Terrific

Turk President Meets With F.B. Churchill}   Nazis Say Meeting With Inonu Was Held in Cairo

VEIL ACROSS QUEBEC TALKS TO BE LIFTED   Roosevelt, Churchill Pre pare Declaration O-§ Activities.

FDR, CHURCHILL ~ PREPARE TO TELL OF QUEBEC PARLEY   Behind - the - Scenes Picture of Meet Expected

TATION PUTS. NAVAL FLIERS THRU IN RUSH   Glenview Hornet’s Nest of Buzzing Planes Over 1,200 Acres.   1,000 AVIATION CADETS TRAINED IN 3 MONTHS

BEW Is Looking Into Pair of Fancy Pants Off One of Der Fuehrer's Men

JANIAICANS. REBEL IN TRAVERSE AREA   Sleep in Busses After Reject ‘ing Living Quarters Provided by Growers

WAVELL TO CALCUTTA   Viceroy Will Investigate Famine in Bengal at First Hand

stream Of Aid [oO  Russia Increases  By RICHARD G. MASSOCK Aarociated Press Staff Writer

0. D. WILLIAMS 1S KILLED IN ITALY - BATTLE SEPT. 9   Message Received Here This Week; Was With U.S. Fifth Army

U. §. Authorizes Political Cleanuy In North Africa   Will Back Eisenhower In Steps to Stop De Gaulle-Giraud Feud  THREATENS SUCCESS  Britain Reportedly Will Co-Operate in Any Action by General

EISENHOWER IS GIVEN SUPPORT BY WASHINGTON   General Will Not Let French Squabble Disrupt Allied War Plans

U. 5. Will Back Eisenhower in French Turmoil   General Will Be Supported as Supreme Commander in North Africa

Washington to Back Eisenhower In French Muddle  General May Deal Wit De-Gaulle, Giraud as He Sees Fit

GENERAL FINED FOR CONTEMPT   Hold Army Commander In Hawaii Subject To Civil Court

Military and Civil Courts Collide   Judge and General Clash on Authority

JAPS INCREASE MUNDA DEFENSE   American Forces Advance To Eastern End Of New Georgia Island Base

Yanks Closing In Qn Munda Airfield   Japanese Resistance Is Stiffening Says Report From Pacific Headquarters   ALLIED PLANES HIT NEARLY 200, BARGES

DELEGATES BEAT “OFF ATTEMPT TI oSTIFLE REPEALER   Make Sure of House Passage This Week With Solid Republican Support   BOARD SHOWS RELEASE OF CONTINGENT FUND   Tells Legislature to Ask Spending Agencies If It Wants to Know What Hap ) pened to Funds; Ask Itemisation of Salaries in Budget

Labor Seen Plentiful In 85 Areas   Available Supply Reported. Not Fully Utilized On Essential Production

Awarding Of ' Contracts Here Is Requested   Three Wisconsin  Citie Included In List Of WMC On “Plentifu Laber Areas” .—

85 CITIES HAVE PLENTIFUL LABOF      Plan Production Sites in Many Communities

85 CITIES CLASSED AS PLENTIFUL LABOF AREAS BY WMC   Industrial Areas Classified For Guidance In Placino Contracts

Relocation of Disloyal Japanese Is Studied By California Committee

Damage Suit Is Before A Jury   Forsythe-Henson Case Being Tried In Court Today.

LABOR DEMANDS EXCEED SUPPLY   War Manpower Situation Still Acute, Haber Tells Newsmen

LACK OF LABOR NOT SO ACUTE   Shortage is Enced in Soune Cities by “Cutbacks” on War Contracts

Arms Output Cutbacks Help Labor. Shortage   But Manpower Situation Still Acute Over Nation, Demand Exceeds Supp],

Nation’s Labor Supply Lagging   WIC Reports Shortage Generally Acote

Labor Shortage Is sil Acute.  tne Diane   Munitions Plants Shutdown Helps

Japanese Lost. Nine Ships, Is Allies’ Report   Enemy's Attempt To Halt Bougainville Invasion Proved Costly — U. S. Losses Are Slight

Jap Navy Loses 9  Warships   NAVY GUNS SMASH NIP TRY TO HALT ISLAND AMERICAN INVASION

NINE JAPANESE: WARSHIPS SUNK AT BOUGAINVILLE      Toll Based On Preliminary Re ports Indicating Great U.S. Victory

JAPAN LOota a MORE OHI? a IN SOLOMON:   Attempt To Smash Marines’ Bougainville Invasion Ends Disastrously

9 ENEMY WARSHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED OFF BOUGAINVILLE   No U. S. Craft Lost In 90Minute Battle Staged In North Solomons Sector

No American Vessels Lost In Naval Battle; Enemy Cruiser And Four Destroyers Sent To Bottom

NINE JAP WARSHIPS. ARE BLASTED   - Either Sunk or “Damaged At’ Bougainville

Nine Jap Ships. Sent To Bottom   Bougainville’ Victory ~May Become Greater.

WADSWORTHON. POSTWAR YEARS   Suggests Fis Five-Point Way to ‘Maintain America’ 8 : - “Armed Might: :

  Compulsory Military Training And Strong Forces Are Postwar Aims    

FIVE-POINT PROGRAM TO INSURE PEACE THROUGH ARMED STRENGTH IS PROPOSED

H MILITARY TRAINING ¥ FOR W. §. ADVOCATES   Wadsworth To Suppor Compulsory Program

Urges Peace Preparedness   Rep. Wadsworth Present Five-Point Postwar Military Program.

38 Big Planes Missing   Other Bombers Smash At Ruhr And Low  Countries

Death And _ Destruction    Rained Upon ‘‘City Of Infamous Racial Laws"  THIRTY-THREE  BOMBERS LOST   Raid Intended To Knock Out Important Industrial Plants Located There

Second Largest Industrial City In Germany Hit By Greatest RAF Raid; 33 Planes Lost

ARMADA HITS ~ ARMS PLANTS AND AIRFIELDS   British Lose 33 Bomber: in One of Biggest Blows Yet Given Nazis

STRIKES ONE OF WAR'S HEAVIEST AERIAL BLOWS   Attack Marks Shift to Cities Noted for Vinished War Goods

OPA Freezes Canned Fish And Meat Sales   Ban May Extend fo Time of Meat Rationing, March 28

Canned Fish, Meat Sales Are Suspended   OPA Says That Ban For Seiling to Public ts Indefinite

CANNED MEAT AND FISH RESTRICTED   Suspension of Sales Ordered But May Return With Meat Rationing.

Canned Meat  Sales Frozen   Action to Halt Heayy Consumer Buying Taken by OPA

Sale Of Canned Fish And  Meat Ordered Suspended   Ban on Products Indetinite; OPA Says—Soles May be Permitted Agoin When Rationing of ©. : Meat Is Leunched . *   PLANS COMPLETED. ~-FOR REGISTRATION   Forty-one Schoo Schools ‘to be Used for Enrolling Citizenc

OPA Freezes Sale Of Canned Meat And Canned Fish Until Rationing Of Meat Beains _

OPA Suspends Sales of Ganned Fish and Canned Meats   Order, Effective Immediately, Will Continue Until Nation-Wide Rationing of Mact Beaqings in Ahout 60 Daves

Sale Of Canned Fish And Meat Ordered Suspended   Ban on Products Indefinite, OPA Says—Sales May be Permitted Again When Rationing of Meat Is Launched

‘OPA Suspends Sale of Canned Fish, Canned Meat Probably Until Rationing of Meat Is Ordered

CANNED FISH, ‘MEAT SALES   Public Sale Ban Put In Effect At. Midnight

Ban Hits Sale Of Canned Fish, Meats  OPA Edict Holds Until Butchers Begin Rationing

Canned Fish Canned Meat Under A Ban   KGOD ADMINISTRATOR WICKARD GIVES NO IDEA As TO WHEN BAN WILL BE LIFTED Ik EVER.   In Effect Last Midnight

SALE OF CANNED MEAT, FISH SUSPENDED LAST MIDNIGHT   Ban Not Likely To Be Lifted Until Meat Rationing Starts Of March 28, Officials Said; Frozen Products Not Affected

Ban Sales After Last Midnight   OPA Moves To Avert Con: sumer Hoarding Until Meat Is Rationed In 60 Days.

ORDER ALREADY IS EFFECTIVE OVER NATION   OPA Move Designed To Check Heavy “Hoarder” Buying Prior To Rationing.

 The War Today ‘Change In Behavior Since German ‘Surrender In North Africa Puzzling

Nazi Soldier Doesn't Think Italian Adventure Suicidal Knows He Has Chance to Live

Foday’s War Moves   Nazis Attempt To Prevent Wholesale Surrender  in Cisily

The War Today  German Fighting to Last In Sicily In. Contrast . To Tunisia.

UNLIKE BATILE FOR TUNISIA CERMANS FIGHTING FIERCELY TO BLOCK ALLIES IN SICILY

Food Subsidies Again Urged  Bowles, Business Ma:   Bowles, Business Mar Head of OPA, Tells Of Changes

CONGRESS FACES NEW BATTLES ON FOOD SUBSIDIES   OPA PLANS TO FORCE ACTION IN MOVE TO CURB COST OF LIVING

FOOD SUBSIDY PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED   SSUE CONFRONTS CONGRESSMEN. RETURNING FROM SUMMER VACATIONS AT HOME

Food Subsidies, And OPA Chief Facing Congress   Subsidy, Bonus Program To  Be Considered

SUBSIDY BABY BACK ON PORCH   OPA’s Problem Child Wears Different Clothes, But - Has Same Wail.

Soviet Army Rips Germans’ Winter Defenes Line In Drive Toward Kiev; Allied Warships Blast Nazi Convoy   BULLETIN

KNOX SAYS NAZIS WILE MAR ROME   Pret’cts Germans Will Make It Shambles Like Naolee in Leaving

Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   Knox Makes Prediction.

MEAT BOARD $      Committee Endorses Advice to Hog Producers to Withhold Shipment

ASKS FOR PLAN OF LIVE HOG SHIPMENTS   Processors Need Chance Te lear Bottleneck

SLOW-UP IS ASKED IN HOG MARKETING   Packing Houses, Unable To Handle Work, ’Tis Said

WAVE OF UNREoT STIRS IN FRANGE   Patriots Carry On Underground Warfare, Keep ing Gestapo Busy

Che Latest Wave of Unrest Is Most Intense in France.  TURKEY ORDERS MILITARY ALARM  The Balkan Situation Is Reported Growing More Tense.

REACHES HOME   Morgan’s Body Lies In State lh New York Residence.

French Slay Score of Nazi Agents   Anger Mounts Over Conscription Of Forced Labor

French Kill 200 German Soldiers   Patriots Revolt Against Round-Up Of Slave Legions

Germans Slair By Scores as" French Rebel  Resist Laval Drive To Round Up Workers for Nazis

ATRIOTS  KILL OFF SOLDIERS   Aadsacre Continues for 73 Hours After Attempted Slave Roundup by. Germans.

rench Slay '200 Nazis in - Labor Revolt  Patriots Fight Fight Atiempt to Round Up Workers ~ for Germany  SABOTAGE GROWS  Street Fighting Blazes in Many Cities Over Country

French Patriots ’ Kill 200 Nazis   Oppose Rounding Up Of Slave Labor

NAZI SOLDIERS ARE KILLED IN FRENCH REVOLT      Givilians Rebel Against Being Impressed For Slave Labor

Many Slain In French Unrest   Extreme. Tension Prevails In Paris

Nagi I Ir i Out of Standley Statement   Scores Of German Soldiers ’ Slain In I*rench Street Piots

Guerrilla Uprisings Sweep Nazi-Held Europe: 200 Germans Killed in 72 Hours by French

Scores of Nazis Slain in France   Extreme Tension Prevails in Paris Over Labor Edict

French Guerrillas War  On Germans in Paris   Strect Fighting Active and 200 Nazi Soldiers Are Killed-in Three Devs,

FRENCH PATRIOTS KILLING GERMAN!   Enemy May Launch Terro! Campaign to Get 400,000 For Slave Legions.

FRENCH KILL 200 GERMANS IN REVOLT   Oppose Rounding Up of 400,000 For Slave Labor

SCORES OF NAZIS SLAIN IN FRANCE; PARIS IS TENS!   Disorders Break Out All Over Country as Attempt Is Made to Send Workers to Germany.   TROOPS AND GESTAPO AGENTS AMONG DEAD   Hitler’s Soldiers Erect Barricades in Streets and SandBag Unprotected Barracks.

HITLER'S EDICT ANGERS FRENCH   Scores of Germans Are Slain: Guerrillas On Rampage In Paris

GERMANS SLAIN AS “FRENCH IRE GROWS   Numerous Outbrecks Follow Campaign of Laval end Hitler

Patriots of France Slay Nazi Troops   KILL MORE THAN 200 GERMAN SOLDIERS IN 72 HOURS.

French Patriots  Kill 200 Nazis   Guerrillas Refuse  To Act as Slaves

ANTI - GERMAN ANGER RISING THRU FRANCE   Scores of German Soldiers and Gestapo Agents Siain During Past Three Days  by Frenchmen

ROUND-UP OF SLAVE LABOR   Guerilla Warfare Rages In Streets of Paris; German Trains Are Attacked.  LILLE CASINO BOMBED  Murder Marks Spreading of Unrest in Belgium, Norway and Poland.   LILLE CASINO BOMBED

Great Revolt Spreads   Protests German Attempt to Round Up Slave Labor  BY UNITED PRFas

Extend Butter — Subsidy Program   Prices To Be Rolled Back As of June 10

Nazis Are Failing To Whip Italy ‘Into Partnership  ; Misery, Disorder Are On Immense Scale;

Chaos in Italy Is Revealed  Italians Fight Nazis in Large Numbers

Italians Fight Back At Nazis  Food Supply Grows Low, W Workers Stay Idle

Sabotage By Italians Hit At Germans   Disorder and Misery In Italy Like France

Italians Resist German Effort To Rule Nation   Misery Widespread As Nazis Meet Increased Sabotaqe

Nazis Are Failing To Whip Italy Into Partnership   Misery, Disorder Are On Immense Scale; Resistance Increases

lfalians Tear At Nazi Lines In North Italy   Disorder, Misery On Grand Scale Sweep Country

GEROW TAKES HARTLE POST   "Heads American Field  Forces in Europe

CHANGE IN COMMAND      General Gerow Succeeds General ‘ . WHartle in Europe = ; :

TEMPERATURES:   Allies Capfure {2 More Towns On East Coas   20,000 Prisoners Taken; * Nazis Mauled North E Of Lentini

CHANGE IN COMMAND   General Gerow Succ: Succeeds General Hartle in Europe

‘The Attack Is Coming’ Is the Nervously Broadcast . Report From Rome      ®.onNDON PAPERS EXPECT ACTION   Allies Continue..Assault as @ Churchill Confers With ‘War Cabinet

Flies Home Via Africa To Chart Invasion Details; Italian Outposts Hammered Anew.

Premier Sees Allied Chiefs   Gen. Eisenhower and French Leaders Contacted During Break in Journey Home From Washington Conference

BRITISH HEAD HELD MEETING IN NO. AFRICA   Starts Series Of Conferences With Cabinet   ZERO HOUR HERE   Papers In Britain Report: Attack Is Coming, Rome Radio Warns

CHURCHILL'S RETURN SPURS AXIS JITTERS   “The Attack Is Coming,” Rome Radio Warns, As Italian Refugees Flee Air Battering   (Churchill Return Story on Page 2)

Churchill Returns From  F.R. Parley   Invasion Talk Mounts; Prime Minister’s Plane ‘Under Heavy Escort

NEELY APPOINTS RAYMOND KENN)   Named to ‘One of Best Places in State’ Before Supreme Court Decides Constitutionality of Appointment

Governor Offers Kenny New Post   Throws New Problem At Supreme Court

Governor Offers Kenny New Post      _ Throws New - Problem At Su‘ preme Court

PORTUGAL 10 STAY NEUTRAL DESPITE ACTION   Use of Islands Granted to British Will Help Allies in Warfare Against U-Boats.

Allies Get Aid From Portugal   United Nations to Have Ac. cess to Naval and Air  Bases on Islands

MARTINIQUE YIELDS 10 ALLIED NATIONS   Only Other Territory Is Maintaining Allegiance to Marshal Petain.

CONOIDER CHANGE FOR MARTINIQUE   Vichy Losing Grip; Admur_ al Robert Makes Over ture To Washington

Vinson Authority Now Under Question   Rail Unions Argue His Right to Nullify Agreement

Railroad Men To Carry Wage Fight to Court   Question Right Of Vinson to Nullify Compact

Mining Walkouts Spread   U.M.W. CHIEF SAYS WLB PLANS REDUCTION IN BASIC WAGE RATE

CONCORD GIRL ° "BROOKLIN      Miss Priscilla Dax Davis is Bride _ of Edmund W. Beebee.  of Concord

Miss Priscilla Davis is Bride «of Edmund W. Beebee me of Concord

Soviets Drive Nazis Back at Belgorod   Repulse Savage Thrusts in Kursk-Orel Region

Russian army repels thrusts of axis troops   Fail to penetrate lines of reds at Belgorod front

Fierce Counter Attacks By  Russians Hurl Nazis Back Waves Of Axis Thrusts Repelled In Kursk  : a ea mw of. fp. mag...

Germans Hurl N ew Troops Into Fight   Mighiv Tiger Tanks ‘FallVictim. 10 “Red Artillery

Counterattacks By Russians Drive Nazis Back   Enormous Losses Are Inflicted On German Forces

Hoo HEPULSE ATTEMPTS TO WIDEN WEDEt   Moscow Says Germans Have Lost 41,900 Men “During Six-Day Battle.   NAZI RESERVES THROWN BACK BY COUNTER DRIVES

FARM EDITOR HITS FOOD RATION PLAN   Calls Measure Unnecessarily ‘Severe’

Unnecessary Food Shortage Will Be Because of Wrong Plan, Says Editor

EDITOR OF FARM PAPER LAUNCHES RATION ATTACK   Says Severe U. S. Rationing Of Food  Is Unnecessary

FARM JOURNAL EDITOR SAYS FARMERS WILL  PRODUCE FOOD   Tf Left Alone By  Bureaucrats, To Amply   ;

Rubber Raft New Boost To Morale   Rescue Of Rickenbacker teally Started Something

Crumbling Axis Lines Slashed .   Sea And Air Power Aid tn Advancrec

Allied Forces Smash Great. Holes in Etna Line; Airmen Turn Loose Heavy Offensive

DEEP HOLES TORN IN LINE OF GERMANS   Naval Guns, Field Artillery and Hundreds of Planes Pound Defenders’ Positions.   AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE 6 MILES    Gains by British and Cana dians on West Threat en to Encircle Forces  at Catania.

Raval Artillery, Hundreds of Planes Rake German Positions in Support OF Gffensive; Caronia Taken

ENEMY TAKES HAMMERING IN TIP OF SICILY   PLANES AND NAVAL GUNS HELP KNOCK OUT GERMANS

‘Pear.Deep ileles In Mt,  Lina “Lines Across Tip “OF Island, Menace Catania’s Defense

Navies Join In Big  Ally Assault   Americans Make Great Gains as Enemy Suffers Attack From Land, Sea And Air: Mighty Push Speeds Ahead

Americans Gain Ground: Take Caronia   British-Canadians Break Back of Counter Attack

Naval and Air forces Shatter foe's Positions   British Units Patrol Vessina Strait to  Blockade Isle’s Tip: Yanks Gain Ground

NAVAL AND A SUPPORT GIVEN ALLIED TROOPS   Deep Holes Are Torn In Crumbling Mt. Etna Line On Sicily   BRITISH ADVANCING NEARER TO CATANIA

‘Catenanuova Falls,  Caronia Captured:  Navy Shells Coast Roads,  Kiewstnc: Binet Bbecinnk 

Encirclement Of Catania Line By Allies Imm‘nent   Miles-Deep Holes Torn Into Crumbling Etne Defenses; American Torpedo Boats Patrol Sirait of Messina

Allies Pounding Jotfering Nazis n North Sicily   jain As Much As Six Mile: in Some Sectors of Line   mire Southern End o Axis Line Reported Crumbling

Central Push Threatens  Mt. Etna Line   Allied Naval Forces Tighten Blockade  Ararnnd Neoceina Ten   MAINLAND HIT AGAIN BY ALLIED BOMBERS   Americans Advance As Much as Six Miles Along Northern Coast

United Nations Forces Tear Deep Holes in Mt. Etna Line  GREAT GAINS MADE BY FORCES OF U. S.  Blockbusters Again Rained on the City of Naples

PASSWORD “GIMME”   Two Congressmen Wax Indignant Over the Food  Conference

FOOD PARLEY PROBE SOUGHT   Bradley Says Sessions Have “Gimme” Trend

QUAKE ROCKS JAP ISLANDS   ANOTHER IN SERIES OF EARTHQUAKES WORRIES ENEMY— “* BIG CITIES ARE.   SHAKEN ¢

WALLACE IS BACK HOME   Report on South American Trip May Be Made Today.

Caution In Signing Up Landon Way   PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE OF 1956 LEANS TOWARDS HOOVER IDEA OF POST WAR PROCEDURE; COOL OFF.   Not 1944 Candidate

NUMBER KILLED IN RAID ON SOrl   TWO WAVES OF U. S. BOMBERS DELIVER FIRST DIRECT BLOW AT BULGARIA,

RAIL YARDS IN SOFIA BLASTED   Planes Make “Successful Opening of the Balkan Offensive”

Balkan Offensive Opened, Official Statement Says   Yanks Shoot Down Nine Nazi Planes

Sofia Railroad Bombing Open:  Balkan Attack   Two Waves of Yankee Planes Smash Yards in Heart of Capital: 9 Nazi Fighters Bagged

Railroad Yards In Heart Of Sofia Smashed By Bomber:   Attack of American Fliers Termed the “Successfu Opening of the Balkan Offensive’—  Heavy Blawe Sériu-k

Yank Bombers Blast Sofia in First Move To Open Allied Offensive in Balkans

Major Blow {s Dealt Balkans   Germans Threaten Reprisals In Raid

FIRST DIRECT BLOW SHAKES CITY OF SOFIA   BULGARIAN CAPITAL RAILWAY YARDS ARE WRECKED

Sofia Takes Severe Aerial Raid   Vital Rail Site Gets Heavy Tonnage of Bombs From Mitchells

First Direct Blow Directed At Bulgaria   Raid Called Successful Opening of Offensive Against Balkan States  NINE NAZIS DOWNED

Direct Hits Made On Repair Shops   [wo Waves Of American Planes Strike Heart O Bulgarian City In First Direct Blow Against Nation

Major Blow Is Dealt Balkans   Germans Threaten Reprisals In Raid  _By EDWARD KENNEDY

Balkan Offensive Onens; Ainericans Bombard Bulgari   Repair and Car Shops, Depot and Tracks in Socia Attacked

Lucas To Offer Compromise   Servicemen’s Voting Plan To Merely Distribute and Collect Ballots For States.

BOCHUM RUHR CITY, BOMBED BY BRITISH   Block Busters Dropped On Big Arms Center

RAF HUGE BOMBERS BLAST NAZI ARMS CENTER OF BOCHUM      8 Planes Lost In Raid Huge Fires Started ‘In Ruhr Valley ‘Bombings

British Drop Block Busters In Ruhr Raid   Heavily Protected German Industrial Valley Is Jarget For Raid

RAF 4-Engined Bombers Make Block-Buster  Raid on Bochun   Huge Fires Started Among Jam-Packed Factories in Ruhr

Ruhr Arms Center Strack by RAF   Block-Buster Raid iets Eirht Planes

GERMAN ARMS CENTER BOMBED   Blockbusters Dropped By RAF On Bochum Arca

‘BIG BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST RUHR ARMS CITY   Only 8 Planes Lost in Raids

RAF EvBEiS              Great Arias Center, ¢ of Germany Hit . = “Bight

Big Arms Center Of Bochum Hit In British Raid   “Ruhr Valtey~ Again Visited In Night Attack

BOMBERS BLAST BOCHUM IN RUHR   Four Ton Blockbusters and Incendiaries Showered On Enemy City

R. A. F. Makes Raid on Largest Ruhr Valley City Last Night   Ninth Raid This Month Is Made Over Germany by R.A.F.

Over Foot Of Snow Is Reported   Highways Blocked an. Schools Are Closed in  Several Counties

TN ah a al  Men Back from Pacific War Zone So Tough Mattresses Are Uncomfortable

MARINE WITH ARTIFICIAL LEG WINS JITTERBUG CONTEST - - GIRL PEEVED

‘GAS BLOCS’ RENEW DISPUTE ON DRIVING BAN EXTENSION   EASTERN AND MIDWEST SENATE GROUPS START ANCTHER ROUND IN ~ THEIR BATTLE

EAST-CENTRAL STATES GAS FEUD IS HOT   Two “gas blocs” now working to protect dif ferent sections

‘Promises To Rid Land Of  - Germans: If They Aeccept His Terms; ;Negotations May be Underway Now.

Ferms of Peace Are in Hands of Italian Government.  GERMANS REPORTED SEIZING N. ITALY  Allies Offer to Drive Germans From Italian Soil,

DUAL HIGHWAY PUT ON POST-WAR LIST   One Lane to be Completed - After War, Engineer Announces

ONE LANE OF DUAL HIGHWAY TO BE FINISHED AFTER, WAR   Road Project Between This City And Hagerstown Has Already Cost $1,718,000; Frederick May Be By-Passed, Chief Engineer Declares he

LADY SENATOR BACKS DRAFT      Fathers Must Be Inducted If Needed, Says   Mrs. Caraway

Woman Senator For Dad Draft   Thinks They Should Be Taken If Needed

Woman Solon Favors Dratt For Fathers   Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Senator from Arkansas, Says Dads Should be Taken if Armed Forces Need Them.

Draft Fathers If Necessary  Woman Senator Say fC’ ammenae CL... Al

Senate's Only Woman Member Opposes Blocking Draft of Dads   First Order of Business.

Mrs. Caraway For Draft Of Fathers  Her Own Sons High Ranking Officers of Army

Red Army Told ‘To Stand Or Die In Belgorod Area   For First Time In Three Days Communique Fails To Mention Gains Made By The Nazis German Radio Claims Enagaement To End

Germans Claim Break-Through   Hitler Storm Troops Cross to Donets River East Bank

Stand Or Die Orders Issued  To Russians  Fierce Fighting Continues In *‘ Russian Sector

TRUMAN COMMITTEE TO VISIT BATTLE FRONTS OF WORLD  hc ny oo) Sn G ,

TRUMAN WANTS TO VISIT FRONT   Asks For Permission to Take ‘ommittee ta Balile Areas.

Ice Jam At Concordia   Republican River Overflows Banks; More Nice Weather

Southern Italy Residents Flee From Bombings  American Warplane: Continue To “Sow Rambhc like Wheot”’

Thousands Said To Be Leavir Leaving Southern Italy And Islands In Mediterranean As Warplanes Heap New Destruction On Sardinia, Sicily, Pantelleria And Mainland—Britain-Based Aircraft Resume Their Attacks On Hitler’s Northern Ramparts

Thousands Run From Heavily  Bombed Areas   Rome Admits City Districts At Cagliari, §$ ardinia, Shisdoded.   ALLIES CONTINUE RAID

U.S. Bombers Are Stepping ~ Up Assault   Axis) Toll is Mounting Steadily; Duce Prepares Invasion Defenses   PEOPLE. WARNED : BY CROWN PRINCE   Americans Waging Great Attack With Negligible Cost: Big Forces Used.

REFUGEES FLEEING NORTH FROM ITALY AND ISLANDS AREA  THOUSANDS OF BOMB-

300 PLANES IN ATTACKS   Bombs Sowed Like Wheat, Sending Thousands of Refugees Fleeing Farther Into Italy

Throngs Pour Into Rome As Invasion Seen   Mussolini Gives New Orders At Conference

Developments Favor United Nations.....  Summer War Picture For Allies Brighter

Refugees Number Thousands   Crown Prince Umberto Warns People They Are Without Arms

Rome Receiving Refugees from Southern ‘Boot’      399 Axis Planes Shot Down in Last 6 Days; 300 Planes Raid Sardinia

INVASION PATH BEING SMASHED TOWARD HITLER   Devastation Dumped on Italy And Strategic Islands By Yank Bombers   NAZILAND ATTACKED AGAIN   Meanwhile, American Force Tightens Trap on Japs On Aleutian Bases

Thousands of Refugees Flee Southern Italy   US Airmen Pound Italian Cities; SixDay Toll of Axis Planes Destroyed Boosted to 329; Italians Warned They Are Short of Arms 

Raid Victims Jam ‘Rome j in Flight North   Refugees Fleeing From Outpost Islands and Toe of Italy

Bomb-Dazed Refugees Seek Safety In Rome With Invasion Seemingly Near

Thousands of Persons Flee South of Italy   Italians Seek to Escape From Bombs Which Americans “Sow Like Wheat’

Thousands of Refugees Reported Fleeing North Following Aerial Raids

I) MAINTAINED   Panic-Stricken Thousands Converge Upon Rome To Escape Attacks

Americans Sow Bombs  Like Wheat   Heap Fresh Destruction On Mainland And Islands; 329 Asis Planes Bagged

United Nations Keep Up Pounding Of Duce’s Bases In Mediterranean

Residents Of Southern Italy And Mediterranean Isles Fleeing Homes

Aerial Blasts Shake Islands And South Italy   “Sow Bombs Like Wheat"’ in Forays Against Sardinia, Sicily, Mainland.   Mussolini Calls Aids  For Defense Measures

U.S. Warplanes Sow‘ing Bombs Like Wheat _ FLEE TO ROME Violent Aerial Attack “Bite Southern .-

WAR PICTURE LOOKS BETTER   Axis Air Power Showing Signs of Cracking Under Heavy Allied Blows.

U. 5. Warplanes ‘Sowing Bombs Like Wheat =   Southern Italy And Islands Near ‘Boot’ Get Pounding

Dazed Refugees Fleemg North As Yanks Strike   Italians Warned They Are Now Short Of  Arms And Face Struggle

U, S, AIR FORGE RAIDS SARDINIA DEFENSE POINTS   Increase Number of Jap Bombers Shot Down in Attu Assault

THOUSANDS HEAD NORTH TO AVOID YANK ASSAULT   Many Are Seeking Safety in Rome After Blows Rained on Sicily, Mainland

Allied Fliers Step. Up Drive ‘On Mainland   Islands Also Feel Fury of the American Air Attacks

Sardinia Blasted By Yank Planes; Other Bases Hit   Thousands Of Refugees Headed For Rome; Bombs Being Sowed Like Wheat

R. A. F. Resumes ‘Aerial Assaults In North.   By ROGER GREENE £P War Faditar

U.S. Planes. Plant Bombs  ‘Like Wheat’   Air Offensive Against the South of Europe Keeps Furious Pace

American Planes ‘Sowing Bombs Like Wheat’ Now   Fresh Destruction ls Heaped Upon Mussolini’s Islands

Refugees Flock To Rome As Yankees Heap Havoc On Steppingstone Isles And Toe Of ‘Boot.’

SOWING BOMBS LIKE WHEAT   Over 300 Bombers Attack _ Targets On Sardinia   R. A. F. FIGHTERS   lab At Northern France; Mussolini Calls Session Of Party Chiefs

Allies Sow Ruin Along Sea Coast   Heavy Blasting Heaped on Islands And Mainland.

Raiders Spread Destruction on Italian Islands   Mainland Also Hammered, Putting Many  Thousands to Flight Northward to Escape Bombings; 12 More Enemy   Aircraft Are Shot Down.

Yank Planes Sow Bombs Like Wheat   Fresh Destruction Heaped on Sardinia, Sicily, Pantelleria and Mainland — Crown Prince Quoted as Warning Italians They Are Short of Arms

FLEE SOUTH ITALY TOWNS   Panic Spreads As Yank Planes ‘Sow Bombs  Like Wheat’

Air Power Of Axis Crumbles   Can’t Prevent Terrible Blows on Italy and in Ruh

Italians Flee Bomb-Blasted Toe of Italy   Allied Plans Step Up Fury of Attacks Through Mediterranean Area

Ayis Defenses Grow Weaker  German Paper Says All In Ruhr Have  Suffered Loccese

AXIS AIR POWER BEING SMASHED   Civilian Defense and Morale Also Deteriorating, Say Reliable Reports

Thousands Leaying 'Sardit And Southern Italy; Umb Admits Army Supplies S

Refugees Reported Fleeing From Bomb Shattered So. Italy   329-—Axis Planes Shot Out of Service in Past Six Days

‘DETERIORATION OF AXIS AIR MIGHT IBRIGHTENS WAR PICTURE FOR ALLIES

THOUSANDS OF ITALIANS FLEE BOMBED AREAS   City Districts of Cagliari, Capital Sardinia Island, Reported Abandoned   ROME IS OVERRUN   Umberto Warns Italians They Are Short of Arms, Calls for Spiritual Strength

AMERICAN PLANES ‘SOWING BOMBS LIKE WHEAT DEMORALIZE SARDINIA SICILY AND OTHERS PARTS OF ITALY   Invasion Trail Into Southern Europe Being Blasted By Scores of Bomb-Laden Planes and Heavy Damage At Many Points Is Reported.

HURRY NORTH. TO AVOID THE ALLIED BLOWS      Crown Prince Quoted as Saying Nation Is Short: of Arms— New Orders:  Given by II Duce to Par  tv Chiefs. ;

oN BOMBS "LIKE WHEAT”   resh Destruction is Heaped on Sardinia, Sicily, Pantelleria and the Mainland        THER DEVELOPMENTS

FLYNN ANXIOUSLY AWAITS DECISION   Jury, Was In Session From / 11:19 A.M. To 10 P.M, Yesterday

Pale, Nervous, Flynn Awaits Jury Verdict  Faces Possibility OFf Snendinag Rect   Faces Possibility Of Spending Rest Of Life in Prison

Flynn Jury Still Out, He’s Getting Jitters   Butterflies At Work In Stomach, - Says-Actor,. Facing 50-Years In. ‘Pen’

THE NEW VICTORY INCOME TAX IS EXPLAINED   YEARLY EVERY PERSON EARNING MORE THAN $12 PER WEEK IS AFFECTED   By David H. Weitzenfeld, LLB.., CDA

Byrnes Will Direct Taxes   ‘Official Takes Hand In All Tax Matters

Coordination Of Tax Policy  Given Byrnes   War Mobilization Head Calls Fiseal Officials

BYRNES WILL TAKE HAND IN TAX POLICIES      Mobilization Director tc Act as Roosevelt's Co-ordinator

FD Ready to Sign Pay-Go Tax Act  New OWM Director Takes Hand  In Coordinating Tax Policies

BYRNES TAKES HAND IN TAXES   Will Confer with Morgenthau, Vinson, Smith on Fiscal Matters   Wil Hold Cenference

Byrnes Claims fa Coordinator Post  Calls Conference Of Other Officials

ECONOMIC CZAR SIZES UP TAXES   ‘Assistant President’ Has New Duties: New Levies Are In Prospect

HAS FOR OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT   ‘Byrnes Outlines Program For Coordinating Bicker ing Federal Agencies   BARUCH APPOINTED SPECIAL ASSISTANT

BYRNES WILL Bt TAX GOORDINATOF   Calls Conference Today With Various Officials; Denies  Any Ambition To Be Vice President

ALLIES NEAR BIS. AIRDROME   Takes Heights Overlooking. ‘Salamaua on New Guinea, ,Cost — Japanese ‘Resistance Faltering.

SUPPLY OF MEAT FAIR TO ADEQUATE   Housewives Found Reluctant  To Part With Points Until   They Find Out How Many  Needed for Sunday Dinner

 Housewives Hoard Red Coupons 'To Disgust of Meat Dealers; Supply Over U.S. Is Improving

HOUSEWIVES HOARDING RED COUPONS, CREATE PROBLEMS   Meat Supplies Are Reported Fair to Adequate in Most Sections of the U. S., Survey Indicotes— Few Places Report Shortaacs

MEAT COUPONS BEING HOARDED   PROBLEM CREATED FOR BUTCHERS—SUPPLIES NOW FAIR TO ADEQUATE.

Jrousewlves Now “Hoarding” Ration Points As Fresh Meat Begins To Pile Up In Some Poartians Of Nation

RED. COUPONS   Holding Back of Points for Meat Reported; Supplies Fair to Adequate

Create Problems for Grocers  Housewives Hoard Their Meat Coupons

Nazis May Quit Port Tn Italy   Explosions Indicate Germans Preparing For Fresh Retreat

LARGEST NAVAL PORT BETWEEN ALLIES, ROME   Americans Seize Heights Dominating Mignano, British Advance

Nazis Prepare To Flee Gaeta   Explosions Indicate Aban:donment Of Port; Yanks Advance.

Repeated Explosions Reported In Port Seventy Miles South Of Rome—Allied Headquarters Announces Another One-Mile Gain By Americans In Push Threatening To Flank Enemy’s New Defense Line British Eighth Army Advances Five Miles

BRITISH ON ADRIATIC FRONT GAIN   Americans In Position To Flank Mountain Line Of Germans

oth Army Push German Line Threatens New   Desperate Germans Blowing ‘Up’ Port 70 Miles South of Rome as Advancing Americans Threaten To Shortcircuit Coastal Mountiins.

ALLIED ARMIES ADVANCING ONE TO FIVE MILES   Fifth Push Threatens ic Short-Circuit Coastal Mountains Where  Foe Is Anchored   BRITISH CONTROL ALI SINELLO RIVER LINE    Within Seven Miles of San. gro Where Germans Are Preparing for New  Stand

PORT IS VITAL TO ALLIES IN ROME ASSAULT   Fifth And Eighth Army Advances May Short Circuit New Defense Line

GERMAN RETREAI   British and Americans Drive Through More Enemy i Defenses

Fiith Army Push Threalens to Outflank Coastal Mountains Chosen for New German Line   BRITISH ADVANCE   Taken Possession of Entire Length of Sinello River, Drive on To ward Sangro.

PORT 1S BEST ON ITALY'S WEST COAST   Americans Seize Heights Of Mignano; Destroyers Pound Town In Albania; Aerial Activity

Allies Knock New Holes In  German Lines   Trigno Defenses Broken By 8th Army As 5th Carves Out Gains In West And Near Center

Demolition Is Heard at Gaeta, Port 70 Miles South of Rome   Mile Gain Scored by 5th Army, 5 Miles by British

9 gt" ayo  ayaaot® ao ‘ cont yors * laiad  oan all wate Riawt  a   Germans Prepare toAbandon Gaeta, 70 Miles South of Rome, Allies Believe

Mountain Defense Is Short-Circuited  By Fifth Army   8th Sweeps Ahead Tc Take River Area O:  Sinello; Anniversary  Of Africa

YANKS MENACE GERMANS’ NEW ANCHOR LINE   Allies Advance Steadily Against Desperate   Opposition

Germans May Quit Gaeta   Blasts Heard at Port; British in New Coast Advances.

Repeated Explosions In Gaeta Lead To Belief Nazis Are Preparing To Give Up Base 70 Miles From Rome   Allies Capture Several Towns In Sweeps . To Shortcircuit Mountains Where Enemy Has Established New Lines Of Defense

GERMANS BELIEVED © PREPARING ABANDON WEST COAST PORT   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY “SWEEP FIVE MILES AHEAD ON EAST COAST

GERMANS PREPARE TO ABANDON GAETA, TOMILES FROM ROME   Allied Advance Threatens To Short-Circuit Enemy’s New Defense Line   GERMANS SHOW WEAKNESS

Germans Wreck Port Of Gaeta, South Of Rome   Ready To Abandon City; Unable To Check Twin Allied Drive.

NAZIS PREPARING ere      Bombing of The Vatican Seen As Act Of Desperation

Germans Get Ready to Quit Port of Gaeta   Repeated Explosions in Area Indicate Abandonment Eighth Army Advances

Nazi Abandonment of Port Near Rome Indicted by Blasts   Fifth Army is Poised for Sweep Up Valley of Liri; 8th Gains

NAZIS PLAN TO ABANDON GAETA PORT   Allies Announce Gain in a Push Toward Port 70  Miles From Rome.   Deliver Strong Blows Along Southern Front

Repeated Explosions in Gaeta Indicate Germany Preparing to Abandon That Important Port   PREPARING NEW STAND

EXPLOSIONS HEARD NEAR GAETA PORT   Allies Believe Germans Ready To Bomb Rome

8TH ARMY DRIVES 5 MILES AHEAD ON ADRIATIC COAST   YANKS THREATEN TO SHORT-CIRCUIT ENEMY DEFENSES

Allies Are Forcing New Nazi Retreat   First Anniversary Of Landings In No. Africa Finds Allies On Road To Rome

FOE PREPARES  FOR RETREAT   Yanks Drive Ahead Over Rough Terrain; Eighth Army Advances.   GERMANS BLAST GAETA

EVACUATION OF PORT INDICATED BY EXPLOSIONS   Fifth Army Makes New Gains; British Eighth Sweeps Another Five Miles Along The Adriatic Coast.

TEMPERATURES:   Foe’s New, Defense Line Threatened By Allied Double Push

Italian Harbor Would Be Asset To Allied Cause   American, British Armies Continue To Press Gains In Respective Sectors

NAZIS BLOWING UP GAETA PORT AS ALLIES GAIN   Enemy Becoming Desperate Over Inability To Hold Up Allies In Italy

Lignth Army Crush Nazis in New Gains   Fifth Army Also Active and Drive Back Counter Attacks

Fifth Army Push Threatens to Flank Coast Mountains Where Nazis Have New Defense Line; Eighth Army Smashing Ahead Hard

Americans Gain Another Mile and British Sweep Ahead on Adriatic Coast

NEW DISASTERS FACE NAZIS AS REDS SURGE ON   Russians Are Driving Invaders Back Toward Borders of Poland and Latvia

Nazis Start Demolition in Port of Gaeta   Prepare to Abandon Harbor as Allies Push Ahead on AH Fronts   PURAZZO SHELLED   —   Clark’s Men Threaten to  Cut Off New German  Defense Line on Coast

NAZIS PREPARE TO FLEE FROM GAETAHARBOR   Explosions Heard From Big Port 70 Miles South of Rome

PEEL PE eee  GERMANS ARE NOW - PREPARING TO QUIT THE PORT OF GAETA   Another One Mile Gain Was Made by Americans of the Fifth Army.   [BRITISH 8TH ON AHEAD

Explosions Heard In Port of Gaeta   Germans Prepare to Aban_ don Port 70 Miles South  of Rome   PUSH ON. IN MOUNTAINS   Fifth ond Eight Eighth Armies ake: New Gains in ~ Rough Country

Nazis Prepare To Abandon Vital City   British Eighth Sweeps Ahead Five Miles In New Gains

Enemy Preparing  To Abandon Gaeta   Americans Swing Along Western Coast, as British Strike North on Adriatic

—  =xplosions Forecast New German Withdrawals as Fifth and Eighth Armies Continue Gains.

Montanas Property Taxes Reach Record Low Level   Assessment of $22,300,000 for 1943 Will Provide for All Purposes, Eaualization Board Survey Discloses

U, S. NAVAL FORCES CAPTURE ISLANDS IN MESSINA AREA   Allied Planes Shoot. Down -34 Enemy Aircraft In Raid On Foggia   -IPARI, STROMBOLI ISLANDS SURRENDER

Allies Stage Record Air Attack On Italy, Wreck Railroad Center U. S. Navy Capture Folie Island:

A] AXIS PLANES,  2] ALLIES LOST ~ IN ITAUIAN FIGHT   Belated’ Message Reveals Capture of .tslands ‘Tuesday, Once Used For ‘Bani.  . ished Anti-Fascists.. .   BERLIN IS RAIDED BY . FORCE OF MOSQUITOES   Startegists Think Destruction of Germany by Bombing Has Now Become Mathematical Formula.

ISLANDS OFF ITALY TAKEN BY ALLIES   44 Axis Planes Shot Down In Aerial Fights

U.S.Navy Grabs Eolie Islands   ENEMY LOSES 44 PLANES AS ALLIED AIRMEN PARALYZE SOUTHEAST ITALIAN RAILROAD HUB; BRITISH WARSHIPS SHELL SCALEA ON WEST

Situated  Off Coast: Lower Ital:               ALLIED AIR FLEETS ALSO’ WI ITALIAN RAILROAD HUB-OF FOGGIA IN SOUTHEAST ITALY:

[mportant Italy Railroad Center Gets Heavy Raid   Attacking -Planes Shoot Down 44 Axis Craft  As Air War Increases .

EOLIE GROUP GIVES US NEW VANTAGE POINT   Foggia On Mainland Target for Heavy Bombardment

Navy Captures Folie Islands — Off Italian Toe   Foggia ‘Railtoad . Hub Wrecked ‘by “Allied Planes. >

SOUTH ITALY BEING ROCKED BY EXPLOSIVE   Artillery, Planes, Naval Units ' Pouring It On. Foggia, Railroad Center, Wrecked

President Delivers Yule Broadcast, Announces Plans to Strike Mighty New Blow Against Reich

Mighty New Blows Are Slated Soon   Montgomery Will Command British Army Under Eisenhower: Giaantic Attack Predicted

SWEDEN ANGRY OVER ATTACK   SHODTING DOWN OF TRANS. ‘PORT PLANE FURTHER STRAINS  RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

FRANCE TO BE THEATER OF WAR   French Warned Over BBC of Operations Plan

FRANCE IS WARNED   in’ Says “French Warn. . ed Ther Country’ Will Be’ Théatré ‘of War"

“Damned Lie” Is Retort To Jap Ciaims   Raiders Passed Up Good Military Objectives to Carry Out Instructions   TWO PILOTS TELL SIMILAR STORIES   War Department Explains Why Account of Raid Was Lone Delaved

War Being Fought By Allies to End  Axis Barbarism   Japs Have Terrible Bill to Pay For Executing U. S. Airmen.   Passed Up Military Objectives in Japan

ROMMEL'S ARMY STILL RETREATS   Allies Shoot Down Enemy Planes Attempting to Attack Bone.   BOMBERS RAID TUNIS'

Nazis Flee Last Fort in Libya   Allied Aircraft Harry Rommel’s Retreating Army

Enemy Air Raid Fails   Attempt to Bomb Allied Supply Base At Bone Frustrated

Axis Air Raiders Are Turned Back   Algerian Supply Base Attacked

PULLS T OUT OF WADI STARTS WEST   Point Was One of Last in Libya Where He Might Have Made a Stand— British Expected Him to Tin Sa

Allies ... Maintain .. Aerial . Supremacy’ Along Algerian Supply Line   LITTLE ACTIVITY °° ON THE GROUND   But in. Libya the’. British q. Pass Another Hurdie in ": Pursuit of Enemy:

CUT CIVILIAN DAIRY SUPPLIES   New War Food Program for Year Takes Big Slice Off Cheese, Buiter

PLANE ENGINE MAKERS STRIKE   Walkout ‘Not Authorized By UAW, Says Union Spokesman.

Bonus Bill For Soldiers Is. Entered   Measure Would Give Servicemen  $300 to $400

BONUS FOR WAR SERVICE   Legislation Introduced To Pay Bonus Te Servicemen

US. FORCES * SMASHING > AT AXIS IN 3 SECTORS   Furious Air Battle and Bit. ter Action Aground in Tunisia Theater. .   ° YANKS GO-AGAINST HEAVY OPPOSITION   Attacks Are’ Continuing; @ British’Eighth Army. Rolling In; Zuara. Occupied

Americans In Tunisia Drive   AERIAL BATTLES AID FORWARD PUSH OF FORCES

AMERICAN COMBAT TEAMS SMASH FORWARD IN THREE SECTORS OF        Aerial Battle Costs Germans 19 Planes to 5 Allied Aircraft. British Wipe Out Six Nazi Tanks Southwest of Point Du Fahs   BRITISH. EIGHTH ARMY ‘ROLLING FORWARD

Yanks Take Offensive on Three Fronts; British Push Ahead After Taking Zuara

Meet Strong Opposition In Drive to Gabes Coast   While One Column Continues Fight for Pass, Two Others Strike Toward Maknassy against Strong Opposition   BRITISH EIGHTH TAKES ZUARA   Tunis, Bizerte and Sicily Bombed as British Press Forward to Regain Contact With Rommel’s Forces   . British Push On From Zuara

Vigorous Action Flares In North African Battle   U.S. Forces Smash Forward Against Strong Opposition; Air Fights Waged

Germany And Italy Held Planning — To Follow Japs’ Execution Policy

Draft Quota Cut Opposed By Marshall   Staff Chief, Adm, King Say Smaller Forces Sewn T ann Wwe

King Warns on U. S. Draft Cut   COMMANDER OF U. S. FLEET SAYS DELAY IN INDUCTIONS MIGHT “ADVERSELY AFFECT WAR CONDUCT”; MARSHALL URGES FULL QUOTA

Fourth Term igea Broached To F, 2. But He’s Silent  Demo Committee Lins Kdeeting With

F.D.R. Better, Has Conference With National  Chairman Walker.   FOURTH TERM TALK GETS “NO RESPONSE”

ROOSEVELT ON “AEFRONT AT 10-YEAR MARK   Party Leader Says Only War Could.Drag F. D. R. Into Another Term.   POLITICAL POSITION NOW PARALLELS THAT IN ’39

F.R. Silent On 4th Term   President Gives No Response to Thoughts Expressed by Committee

Fourth-Term Plan Told fo Roosevelt   Democratic Chiefs At White House _

FDR Silent on 4th Term Talk   Idea Broached at White House by Party Officials

FOR UNRESPONSIVE ON 41H TERM PLANS   No Serious Presentation Made By Delegation

FDR Silent On  Another Term   Demos Get No Answer to Their Suggestion —

FD Won't Comment On Fourth Term  Democratic Group Broaches Idea at

F. R. Queried On 4th Term   Democratic Committee Members Visit With President, Talk Politics

Pittsburgh Mayor Loses Gas Ratio Until September 3: Wife Protests

STRIKE LEAVES ‘CROWDS STRANDED   THOUSANDS IN ROCKEFELLER CENTER AFFECTED BY ELEVATOR WALKOUT.

ELEVATOR OPERATORS IN NEW YORK STRIKE   Employes Of Offices In Nine Rockefeller Center Buildings, Stranded At Quitting Time

Air Fleets Hit Kharkov;Reds Race For City   Pincers Forces Converge On Great Ukraine Base; Graivoron Captured   NINE MILE GAIN MADE   Threat Also Grows For Bryansk; Soviets Are Reported 30 Miles Away

KHARKOV RAIL TARGETS HIT BY RED PLANES   Russ Army Advances Nine Miles; 70  Towns Taken

Air fleets battering railroads   Routed nazis fall back 6 to 9 miles along two fronts

Merits of Rayon, Cotton for Tire Cords Is Debated   Truman Committee Declares Rayon ‘Has Displayed No Superiority”

NO RAIN IN PROSPECT   Little Change in Temperature; No Frost Threatened

BLOW AGAINST AXIS EUROPE NOT FAR OFF   SURVIVORS OF FIGHT IN SICILY CHASED BY AIRMEN

Ships Guns Hammer  Mainland   Little Doubt Remains Next Blow Is Set To Fall on Badoglio; Algiers Is Telling Occupied Europe to Be Ready

Roosevelt Sends Congratulations To Eisenhower  New Forces Are wameoed mong:

). 5. Warships Join British in Shelling Italy   New Forces Massing At Strategic Points

U. S. Ships Join Aitack On Italy   Europeans Again Told To Prepare For ‘Invasion’

U. §. WARSHIPS, PLANES POUND ITALY'S COAST   Allies Mass Forces in Mediterranean Area  For Next Blow

, ew blow At Europe Appears Near   Air Blows at Italy Increase in Intensity, Invasion Jitters Grow  EISENHOWER LAUDET

Warships Of United States Join In Attacks On Hal   Pressure on Axis Nations is Being Tightened-—Allied Airmen Take Part in Hundreds of Missions Over Southern Italy

U.S. Navy Joins In Shelling of  Italian Areas   Berlin Reports Large Concentrations of Allied Units; Next Blow Expected Soon

US WARSHIPS GIN: ATTACK UPON ITALY   Heavy Artillery of Allies And Battleplanes Pound V.aintand With Increasing Violence   Axis Casualties Heavy

WARSHIPS, LAND GUNS AND PLANES BOMBAR® ITALY   Trains and Truck Convoys of Beaten Axis Forces Under Fire of Airmen on Mainland.   NEW ALLIED BLOW BELIEVED IMMINENT   New Forces Massed Along 2,000-Mile Mediterranean Line Expected to Strike Soon.

U.S. Warships Join in Blasting Italy  Bombard Mainland for First Time in Hictary

19 Fliers Killed As Two Bombers Collide. Crash   One Parachutes to Safety: One Plane Bursts Into Flames

‘SEAMANG THROW HEAVY FORGES AT RIVER POINT   Russians Give Way Then Stage Counter - Attack South Of Kharkov

Nazis Make Strong Bid At Donets   Russians Weaken, Then Surge Back To First Positions

LEWIS, WLB DEFIED IN UNION’S ACTION   Wildcat Anthracite Walkout Verdict - Comes After Outlawed Body Decides to Disband.

MINERS VOTE T0 STAY OUT   Locals Continue to Defy War Labor Board and Lewis

Eight Of Thirteen Locals Take Action Before Disbanding   Walkout Involves Total Of 23 Locals With Estimated Membership Of 17,000; Spokesmen Urge Return To Work

EIGHT LOCALS UPHOLD STRIKE   Anthracite Miners Defy WLB and Lewis In Walkout Vote

Eight Locals Defy Order ‘Against Strike   8,500 Coal Miners Continue Walkout; 3,900 Will Return

Lipari, Stromboli Occupation Places Entire Aeolian Island Group In The Hands Of Allies   Terrific Air Assaults Shatter Industrial And Railroad City Near Naples; 35 Enemy Planes Downed; British Warships Shell Scalea

WAVY TAKES MALL ISLANDS CLOSE TO ITALY   Shattering Aerial and Naval Bombardment Of Axis Forces Continues

Foggia Ripped By Fierce Air Blows; 34 Axis Planes Downed   Lipari and Stromboli May Serve as Stepping Stones

Lipari, Stromboli Main Part Of Aeolian Group; Big New Gaps Blown In Italy’s Rail System.

Italian Railroad System Ripped Up   Two Small Islands North of Sicily Are Seized — by Alhe Allies  SMASH RAT] CENTERS   City of Foggia Bombed, -Scalea Bombarded,by British Fleet

Stromboli And Lipari Fall To Yank Forces   Air Assaults Shatter City of Foggia, 20 Miles Inland

Bomb, Shell Storm Hitting South Coast   Explosives Fly Across Messina Strait; Allied Bombers Raise Havoc With Cammnunicatons

New Gaps Torn By Bombers In Railway System   Lipari, Stromboli Taken by Forces From U. S. Fleet

Air Strength — Is Hurled At The Mainland   Entire Aeolian Group. Now Under Allied Control—No Opposition

U.S. SAILORS TAKE LIPARI, STROMBOLI   Allies Now Control Sea Between Sicily and Italy as Bombers’ Make One of Their Heaviest Raids on Mainland.

British Warships Pump Seelis Info Scalea, to Disrupt [:aly’s Rail System   African and Middle Eas! Bombers Team Up in One of Greatest Raids to Blast Foggia

STROMBOLI AND LIPARI ARE NOW HELD BY ALLIES   islands Between Sicily And Italian Mainland Surrender To U. S. Naval Expedition; Foggia Heavily Bombed.

Naval Forees--~Seize Lipari -AndStromboli   Industrial, Railway City Of Foggia Shattered In Stupendous Air Assault

Foggia Shattered By Bombs; 2 Isles Captured By U. S.   Island Stepping Stones Fall To Navy; Great Gaps Torn In Italian Railroads

Allied Air . Fleets Again Hit Mainland   34 Axis Planes Downed In Heavy Raid On Foaaia

Vital Railway System Blasted   34 Enemy Fighters Knocked From Skies In Air Battles Over Foggia; Lipari, Stromboli Islands Taken

WARSHIPS SHELL IMPORTANT WAR BASES IN ITALY   Strategic Isles Are Occupied By Yank  Naval Forces

Storm of Bombs and Shellfire Continues te Rock Axis Defenders Across  Messina Strait   AWAIT CALL TO ACTION

Allies Rain Stupendous Air Assaults on Italy and Sieze Vital Islands Controlling Sea Between Sicily and  lialy   British Warships Team With Air  Power in Hammer Blows on Italy

Control Sea From Sicily to Lower Italy   Lipari and Stromboli Taken as Bombers Pound Railroad System

Bombs Shatter City Of Foggia   Tremendous Load of Bombs Unloaded on Rail Center

Bombers, Ships Plaster Rail, Factory Areas   Stepping Stones Toward Ital. ian Boot Taken” Without Onnosition.   ‘ATTACK GREEK CITY

STROMBOLI AND LIPARI NORTH OF SICILY TAKEN   Meanwhile, Storm of Bombs and. Shellfire Rock Axis Defenders  in Southern Italy   YANKS AND BRITISH READY TO INVADE   Await Signal to Leap Into Europe Proper; Industrial and Rail City of Foevia Blasted

Italy’s Rail Lines Hit By Warships and Planes; Bombs Devastate Foggia

Flying Forts Blast Foggia, Warships Pound at Scalea To Smash Communications

oEA ROUTE 10 TALY NOW IN ALLIED HANDS   Italian Railway System Is Dealt Staggering Blows.“ by Air Attack.   STROMBOLI, ‘LIPAR! CAPTURED BY NAVY

Navy Seizes Lipari, Stromboli While Planes Blast Gaps In  Italian Communications .

Italian Railroad System Ripped Up   Two Small Islands North of Sicily Are Seized by Allies    ISMASH RAIL CENTERS      City of Foggia Bombed, _Scalea Bombarded,by British Fleet .

NATION'S RAIL LINES BLASTED BY BIG PLANES   Allies Now Control Sea Between Mainland And Sicily

Round- The- Clock Storm Of Bombs Rocks South Italy   Lipari, Stromboli, Island Stepping Stones To Italy, Surrender To U. S. Naval Expedition; Allied Armies Await Word For Invasion

Fleet Grabs Vital Ocean LineControl   Stupendous Attacks By Air Armadas Shatter Foggia

US NAVY SEIZES TIPARI, STROMBALI   Foggia Suffers One Of Heavi_ 8st Raids Of Mediterranaw ean War

U, 5. NAVAL FORCES - SEIZED ISLANDS OF LIPARI, STROMBOLI   They Now Control the Sea Area Between Sicily and Lower Italy.   HIT RAILWAY SYSTEM   Stupendous Air Assaults Shattered the City of Foggia.

BIG NEW GAPS ARE BLASTED IN INVASION GATE   Air and Naval Guns Hurl Added Destruction Into Toe of Italian Boot   VIOLENT AIR FIGHT RAGES   Russians, Meanwhile, Throw Back Attacking Germans; Berlin Bombed Again * —

AMERICAN NAVAL FORCES LAND ON KEY AXIS BASES   FOGGIA IN RUINS AS WIDESPREAD BOMBING ATTACKS ROCK ITALY

2 MORE ITALIAN ISLANDS TAKEN BY U. S. NAVY   Islands of Lipari and Stromboli Taken to Control Sea Between Sicily and Italy

Allies Smash Vital Italian Railway Lines   Allied Air Fleets Shatter Industrial And Railway City of Foaaia in Heavy Raid

ALLIES MAKE GREAT RAID ON FOGGIA   King Hints Italians Soon May Seek Terms Of Surrender: 40 Axis Pianes Shot Down

Washington Store Holds Sale On Nylon Hose—And No Rioting, Either

Nylon H. ose Goes on Sale, Folks. But No One Gets Killed in Rush

Nylon Hose On Sale-—-No Rush   Nobody Killed—Everybody In D. C. Used to Standing In Line

Admiral Land ~ Wants Gigantic Merchant Flee  Hopes To Have More Than 15,000,000 Tons

Growers Raise Funds To Fight Price Ceiling:   Pick Committee Sunday To Carry Protests To Washington

WITHIN YEAR MANY MAJOR RAILROADS WILL MOVE BACK INTO PRIVATE HANDS

Railways Make Full Comeback   Private Owners Expected To "Take Back Many Lines In Next Year.

2 Soldiers Establish Letter Writing Service Known as Amour, Inc.

LOSSES HEAVY IN WEW GUINER   Tokyo’s Casualties Are Three Times That Of Allies

ALLIED NEW GUINEA CASUALTIES 10,531   Estimated Losses Include 4,3if U. 8S. Airmen and Ground Troops and 6,212 Australians,

Crotone Falls As 8th Army  Presses On   ‘Ady, ance OF 36) TEES Brings ‘Heel’ Of Italy Into. Allied Control

Fred Meier Died at Farm Home Thurs.   Death Was Unexpected; Burial at Manson Sunday Aftarnann

SUBSIDIES FAVORED BY LABOR LEADERS   Green Says Food Prices Will Double Within Three Months  If Payments Are Stonned

UNIONS FAVOR KEEPING SUBSIDY   Retention of Food Price Rules Is Urged By Both Leadere

LABOR PLEADS FOR SUBSIDIES   AFL and clo ‘Leaders are Heard as Senate Hearing Continues

 Labor Tops Would Hold Subsidies   WILLIAM GREEN PREDICTS IF SUBSIDIES ARE ABOLISHED FOOD PRICES WILL DOUBLE IN- THREE MONTHS.   Want Farmers Robbed

STILL MENACE   Knox Reports Germans In crease Sub Strength In Mediterranean

Knox Warns Sub  Menace Not Over  Says Nazis Step Up U-Boat Strength

Allies Must Stay United For the Peace   President Insists Now Is Time To Plan War’s Aftermath

UNITY IN PEACE TEARS lo VITAL TO WORLD - FOR   Lessons Of Unified Action Learned In War Period Must Be Followed   NATIONS MUST UNITE FOR ENDURING PEACE   All Planning For Future Dependent Upon Peace, He Tells Nation

Peace Plans Are Vital, Says F.R.  President, Urges ~ Carrying of Unity

FDR Urges Post War Unity   President Declares United Nations Must Work Together to: Avert Future Wars

Declares It Is “Supreme Necessity” to Map Program to Prevent ‘Another. World Cataclysm   SAFEGUARD OF PEACE TO COME PARAMOUNT   Makes Known : Views. In  New Year’s' Day State-+ ment; ‘Says Allies Pass i ing.to Offensive -

FDR Claims Post-War Plan Needed   United Nations Taking Offensive, Says Président

F. 0, R, URGES PLANNING FOR POST-WAR ERA   Unity of Nations Backed To Prevent Another World Chaos ©

‘Allies’ Post-War Planning, Unity ‘Vital fo Future Peace, Says F. D. R.

‘Post-war planning, unity great needs; allies on offensive’   President outlines United Nations’ role in avoiding future conflicts

Plan a Post-War Peace to Prevent  Another Debacle   President Says Unity Achieved in Battle Necessary After War.   United Nations Pass To Offensive in War

Declares We Must Carry Forward After the War the Unity Now Being Displayed By the United Na tions.

Lasting Peace Through World Unity Is Goal   Roosevelt Says Plans For Future Must  Be Made Now   [HANGS ON VICTORY   United Nations .Want To Keep Unity To Preserve Peace

FDR SAYS WE MUST PLAN FOR — POST-WAR PEACE   President Says United Nations Pressing From Olfeneive ta Defensive

PEACE PLANNING VITAL SAYS FR.   President Says It Is “Supreme Necessity” To Plan Now For Post-War Peace.

PLANS FOR POST-WAR PEACE AND UNITY {5 SUPREME NECESSITY  THIS WAS STATEMENT B}   THIS WAS STATEMENT BY _ PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT PRESS CONFERENCE

Only Way To Prevent Another Global Outbreak   ALLIES ON OFFENSIVE   FDR Makes Statement At Conference  With Press

Dispatches Briefly   (Bulletins picked from late reports of Associated Press leased wire direct to this office)

FDR ADVOCATES PEACE PLANNING   President Declares In New Year's Statement That — It’s ‘Necessity’

Need For Planning Post-War Peace Is Cited By President   FDR Urges Carrying Forward Unity of United Nations

Need Post-War Unity To Gain Lasting Peace   President Declares It ‘Su. preme Necessity’ To Plan  For End Of st ar Now,   MUST AVOID ‘NEW war:

Roosevelt Emphasizes Need Of Planning For Peace Now   United Nations Must Carry Forward Unity To Prevent Another War, He Says

F.D.R. Asks Unity Of Allies After War   Also Recognizes the “Supreme Necessity” of Planning for the Post-War Peace to Prevent Another World Cataclysm.

Allied Raids Continue On Hitlers Europe   Hitler’s Europe Raided for Seventh Consecutive Day; Rioting Reported in Duisburg; Reds Throw Back Nazi Attacks at Novorossisk

Report Nazis Riot as Floods Cover Cities   Increasing Tempo of Allied Aerial Attacks ‘Rocks Hitler ‘European Fortress’

Pounding (Of Europe (Goes On   Allies Pour Tons Of Bombs On Axis Objectives In Continued PreInvasion Punishment

‘Pre-Invasion’ Offensive Over Europe Continuing   Russians Reported Drawing Noose on Nazis in Caucasus

Radios Quit Air AsRaids Are Kept Up By TheHour   Great Fires Rage After Assaults ” On Sardinia

Southern!  Germany, France And Belgium - Are Bombed  HIT . OVERNIGHT  “Pre-Invasion” Offensive Strikes At Europe

Axis Radios Fade Again Today As  Allies Bombard   7th Consecutive Day Of Raids On Naz Europe Smashes Areas

Yanks, British Keep Up Raids    On Continent   Pre-Invasion Offensive Includes Raids On French, Sardinian Towns.   RETURN EARLY TODAY

Bombers Over Reichior /th DayinaRow   Rioting Reported: In Duisburg as Flood Waters Rise

British Attack Maungay in CommandoType Raid—Reds Crash Waves of Tank-led German Assaults; Axis  Lost Heavily in Afirca

RAD:OS GOING SILENT AFTER NIGHT ATTACKS    Italian Base in Sardinia Raided, Leaving Great Fires Started by Bombs From R.A.F.

Allies Continue Pre-Invasion Air Attack On Europe   Raid Cities In France Germany, Belgium, Italy

AERIAL WAR AT NEW PEAK   British And Yank Airmer Alternate In Sweeps Over Europe

‘SHATTERING ALLIED  BOMBING CAMPAIGN  CONTINUES UNABATED AXIS RADIOS BEGAN FADon OUT AGAIN TODAY,  BINnIS ATER BREU BAIN

AERIAL ASSAULT ON NAZILAND BY ALLIES GOES ON   ‘Invasion Coast’ Smashed by Bombers as_ Industries Are Slowed Down   BOMBING CHEERS RUSSIANS   Italy Comes in for Full Share of Devastation Rained from Above

To Head K. State   Milton D. Eisenhower Chosen To Succeed Farrell As President

Eisenhower Is  K-State Head   Brother Of General Naned By Regents

NAME EISENHOWER HEAD OF K. STATE   New School President I; Now With the OWI in : Washington   TO TAKE OVER JULY 1

THREE PERSONS INJURED IN CRASH   One Of Them, Pvt. Charles G. Lawrence, 31, Camp Edwards, Mass., Is Patient In Hanover Hospital

THREE PERSONS INJURED IN CRASH   Automobile And _ Baltimore Coal Truck Figure In Collision At Carlisle Street And Elm Avenue

(ERMAN MINE KILLS SUORES IN NAPLES   EXPLODES IN BASEMENT OF POSTOFFICE—MANY WOMEN AND OHILDREN DIE.

Mine Kills Scores  In Naples   Nazis Leave Time Bomb in Cellar Of Post Office

NAPLES BLAST KILLS SCORES   Delayed Action Bomb Planted in Postoffice by Germans Explodes

Explosive kills many in Naples   ‘One of greatest atrocities of war’

Many Killed as Nazi Mine Explodes In Naples Postoffice   Civilians, Children, Soldiers Casualties of German Atrocity

Bricker Charges ‘Administration Leads _ Nation. Into a Socialistic Dictatorship

Auto Industry Plans Swift  Reconversion   Hopes to expand postwar production t6 as much as50 per. cent over 1941 output...

BUTTER NOT SENT TO ARMED FORCES   Ohio Concern Faces Court Action for Cheating

FRENCH GUINEA GETS RAPENNE   New High Commissioner Said to be Acceptable to DeGaulle.

GHAGK FIGHTER MAY ALTER Alh WAR IN EUROPE   New American Plane Is Able To Accompany Fortresses On Long-Range Raids

New American Fighter Plane, P-47, Expected to Alter Aerial Warfare

American Thunderbolt Plane . May Alter Aerial Warfare   P-47’s Can Accompany Flying Fortresses And Liberators To Targets And Back Again

New American Fighter Plane, P-47, Expected to Alter Aerial Warfare   Axis Now Rocking Under Three Front Bombing Offensive; Reds Join In

NEW PLANE MAY ALTER AIR WARFARE      Amer. Fighter Is Answer to   Nazi Focke-Wulf

Four Solomons Heroes Tell How Plywood Boats Sank Eight Enemy Ships

Four Solomons Heroes Home on Leave Tell How Plywood Torpedo Boats Sank Six Jap Destroyers, Cruiser and Sub

F ighters of Duels With Jap  Warships Return to States   Four Daring Young Men Who Battled Enemy in Fra gile Plywood Motor Torpedo Boats for Four : Months Helped Sink Six Destroyers, One i Cruiser and One Submarine

‘Defeat In Four Months With Fall Of Zhitomir To Enemy   Westernmost Threat To Poland And Rumania Had Been Taken By Russian Troops Week Ago; Red Army Is Advancing On Other Fronts

SOVIET ARMY HAS SETBACK WEST OF KIEV   ZHITOMIR GIVEN UP AS GERMANS STAGE FIERCE ASSAULT

Russians Suffer First Big Loss In Four Months   Strategic Center Held Only a Week

Important Railway Junction Is Lost By Soviets in First Reverse In 4 Months

Russians Lose Zhitomir to the Nazis   Parachute Troops Capture Rail Tunction of Cherkeas

Reds Handed Big Reverse By Germans   But Russians Capture Another Rail Junction North of Zhitomir  CROSS DNIEPER AGAIN

Reds Suffer First Major Reverse in Four Months; Soviet Air-Borne Troops Gain in Two Sectors

Reds Drop Paratroops for New Dnieper River Crossing  RUSSIANS ABANDON STRATEGIC CENTER  Germans Announce First Sizeable Victory Since July

Reds Lunge On In Other Areas   German Attack Is Called Defeitsive

Reds Drop Paratroops for New Dnieper River Crossing   RUSSIANS ABANDON STRATEGIC CENTER

ALL BACK UNDER FIERCE NAZI ATTACK   Strategic Center Was Russian Army’s Westernmost Threat to Both  Paland and Rumania.   150,000 GERMANS PUT INTO FIGHT   Soviets Take Rail Junction to North — Paratroops Make New Crossing of Dnieper.

Germans Make First Gain Since Summer  Nazi Victory Is Said   Nazi Victory Is Said Part of Defensive Maneuver; Cost Is High

Russians Have First Major  Loss of Drive   Soviets Achieve New Crossing of Dnieper With Airborne Units

Reds Evacuate Rail Junction  Of Zhitomir   Soviets Offset Loss By Making Another Dnieper Crossing: Ovruch Is Captured

Germans Make First Gain Since Summer  Nazi Victory Is Said Part of Defensive Maneuver: Cost Is Hiak

Nazis Drive Reds From Zhitomir   Airborne Russians Cross Dnieper In Surprise Move

Cost-Plus-Fee System Defended      End Profiteering ~". Says D..W. Douglas

Donald Douglas Says Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contracts Proving Effective Guarantee Against War Profiteering

AUS SLA  AUSOTAN ADVANCE STILL UNCHECKED   Fail Of Important Iron And Rail City In Crimea Seen   NAZIS PANICKY   Soviet Sledgehammer Blows Shattering German Resistance

RUSSIAN ARMY WITHIN 6 MILES OF KRIVOI ROG   Paris Radio Claims Reds Already in Iron, Rail Center

2,000 NAZIS SLAIN BY RED STEAMROLLER   Russian Sledgehammer Threatens to Drive Another Spike in German Crimean "'Ciffin"   MUCH BOOTY CAPTURED

AUOOEVELT PLAN TO AID VETERANS MAY BE POPULATE   Congress May Back Rehabilitation Program; Coffee Rationing Ends

Plans For Returning Soldiers Being Mapped, FDR’ Reveals; Lists Progress Of War.

BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON ENEMY RUNWAY   0 American Planes Relcased 6334 Tons Of Bombs On Kiska Installations

70-PLANE RAID HITS JAPANESE   Over 63 Tons Explosives Showered On Aleutian Runways, Barracks

Moscow Radio - Says U.S. Planes Land In Russia   Seven Forced Down September 12, Says Report; Probably Were In Japan Raids

PLAY SHOES COUPON SHOES   Only Those Now In Stock May Be Sold Without ce

Nazis Suffer Big Losses: Berlin Admits Danger  Hold North Side of Melitipol; Soviets

Russians Get 23 Miles from  Krivoi Rog   Russians Seize 50 More Dnieper Loop Villages; Nazis Admit Army’s Plight Serious

Reds Advancing At Steady Gait Over Nazi Deac   Communique From Mos: ~*cow Today Reports Enemy Losses

Soviets Surge Close to Krivoi Rog; Capture Center of Melitopol; Germans Suffer Huge Losses

Germans Bolster Crumbling Line With Reserves Brought Up  From Crimean Area

Powerful Red Armies Gain Six Miles During Day  RESERVES SPEEDED -- TO AREA BY ENEMY  Capture of Petrova Announced in Russian Communique

Nazis Suffer  Enormous Materiel Loss   Russians Announce Capture of Center of Melitopol

Germans Admit Situation Grave   Enormous Toll Is Claimed By Soviet

Russians Tell Of Enormous  Nazi Losses   Dangerous Position  Of Southern Forces Aclmittad liv Camrnnwamea

Soviets Near Krivoi Rog In Big Drive   Russians March Over 1,500 Bodies Toward Black Sea

CENTER OF MELITOPOL FALLS TO RUSSIANS   Streets of City Strewn With Nazi Dead—Enemy Rushing Troops From Crimea Into Battle.

Force Is Driving Toward Black Sea   Russians Are Within 23 Miles Of Industry Center At Krivai Roa: Many Germanc Killed

KRIVOI ROG IS THREATENED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Berlin Admits That Southern German Army Is In  Serious Situation   CENTER OF MELITOPOL CAPTURED BY SOVIETS

CARROZZO ESTATE 5 $03,041 NOW   Chicago Labor Chief's Wealth Valued at $306,206 in 1940.

NEWSPRINT CUT FOR BIG PAPERS   WPB Orders Up To 5 Percent Drops for Third Quarter

WPS OnDERS oLAoh IN U.S. NEWSPRIN'   Committee Recommendation Ordered Carried Out

Order Papers te Cut Newsprint   Ranges Up to Five Per Cent. for Large Users

WPB ORDERS NEW NEWSPRINT CUT   Reduction Follows Recommendation of Industry Advisory Committee.

3rd Newsprint Cut Is Ordered   Larger Newspapers Must Reduce Usage Five Per Cent

ANOTHER NEWSPRINT CUT ORDERED BY WPB   Reduction Ranges Un to. Five Per Cent.

SLASHED AGAIN   Newsprint. Use Ordered Cut By 5 Per Cent By WPB.

CUT ORDERED “IN NEWSPRINT   Newspapers Told To Cut  Consumption Another   Five Per Cent

WPB CUTS USE OF NEWS PRINT   Necessity For Economy More Pressing, Agency Says; Is Second Slice

NEWSPAPERS FACE NEWSPRINT SLASH   Only Papers Using Over 26 Tons Affected

Newspapers Are  Ordered To Cut Newsprint 5 P. C.   During Third Quarter Of ’43

RUMOE CIRCULATED IN 8TOCKHOLM THAT WAR FEODUCTION FACTOR IN MUSSO. . LINT’S OVERTRROW

Nazis Capture  Adriatic Island   Allies Lose Another Possible Landing Point

LaGuardia Argues for Subsidies   Tax on Pari-Mutuel Betting Opposed; Wheeler Predicts FDR Will Not Run _ for Fourth Term

War Developments In Dardanelles Area Hinted   SWISS SOURCES ASSERT EDEN GIVEN ‘PEACE FEELER’

Five Thousand Miners Resume Work; More Out   Nineteen Thousand Still Idle in Pennsylvania Fields

19,000 COAL MINERS REFUSE TO END STRIKE   9,000 Miners Return While Others Refuse to Resume Work for Week Pending Effort Dues Decision

MINERS CEASE 13 DAY STRIKE   19,000 Still Refuse Tc Return To Work

U.S. May Act In. Mine. Rift      Many Workers Refusing To Return. To Places And End Strike.

PART OF MINERS RETURN TO JOBS   19,000 Others Continue 13day-Old Government-Condemned Walkout

3,000 Miners Back At Work  But 19,000 More  +t,  §* #fre.. t4..*1. 2

5,000 Hard Coal Miners Return to Work in Pennsylvania 19,000 Ou’

5,000 MINERS RETURN 10 PITS   19,000 Others Continue 13 Day-Old Strike Despite Union Appeals

5000 Mine Workers Return to Their Jobs   But 19,000 More Continue Strike

STRIKE IS ENDED BY 5,000 MINERS   19,000 Others, However, Are Still Idle in East

5,000 MINERS BACK AT HARD COAL MINING      ESTIMATE 19,000 OTHERS IN U. 8. CONDEMNED STRIKE

3,000 Miners Return to Work   Estimated 19,000 Continue Walkout Despite Appeals

ONLY 5,000 BACK AT COAL MINES   19,000 Continue Strike Causing Critical Shortage in * Anthracite Supply

PART OF ANTHRACITE MINERS BACK ON JOB   5,000 Men Return To Work, But Others Refuse

5000 Strikers Back At Jobs In Coal Fields   Presence Of Pickets Near Seventh Colliery -Halts Resumption Of Work

One-Fifth Of Strikers Back To Job   Majority Of Hard Coal Miners Are Still Idle Today

9,000 MINERS END WALKOUT   But 19,000 Others In Pennsyl. vania Hard Coal Fields Continue Strike

MINERS SPLIT ON WORK RETURN      Government  May Intervene in 18-DayOld Strike

5,000 COAL MINERS BACK AT JOBS, BUT 19.000 STILL STRIKE   Government-Condemned ‘Walk-Qut Creates Critical Shortages

STATE SENATE GETS PAROLE BOARD RIPPER   Governor Urges Hard Coal Miners to Go Back to Work

New Parole Plan Doomed; First Of Economy Moves  Gov. Martin Joins In Ap oe ee ge   Gov. Martin Joins In Appeal To Hard Coal Miners To Return To Work

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   West Few Weeks To See risis For Hitlerites On Dnieper River

Gen. Marshall Visits Far Eastern Front   Chief of Staff Sees Invasion” Gf New Britain

MARSHALL VISITS. PAGIFIG WAR ZONE, BACK HOME SAFEL      Was In New. Guinea Whe American Troops invaded. ~ New Britain .‘   JAP AIRFORCE REVIVE!

Dramatic Visit Made By  Army Chief of Staff to - Pacific Fronts In Long Journey   TALKS WITH NIMITZ "AND AUSSIE CHIEFS   Japanese Admit Serious Situation, Say Rabaul Must Be Held Under All Circumstances

Pacific Zone ls Visited by Gen. Marsral   Chief of Staff Home From Conferences With South Pacific Leaders

Gen. Marshall Confers With MacArthur, Nimitz, Richardson and Halsey

Yanks Prepare For  Bougainville Drive   Marshall Confers With MacArthur, Halsey \Richardson, Nimitz Along Pacific War Front

Gen. Marshall Views Pacific Battle Front   Chief of Staff In New Guinea as Invasion Started

Marshal!l Visit To M’ Arthur Is Disclosed   ,acilic Battle Line Tense With Expectancy After Army Chief Inspects

TENSE EXPECTANCY  IN PACIFIC AFTER  VISIT OF MARSHALL REVEALED THAT U. S.  ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF WITNESS TO INVASION

GEN. MARSHALL CONFERS WITH PACIFIC CHIEFS   U. S. Chief of Staff Back in States After Tour of Fronts

CHIEF OF ARMY VISITS PACIFIC   Battle Line Tense With Ex. pectancy Following Marshall’s Visit.   ISEES ENTIRE ACTIVITIES

Pacific Troops Rapt After Visit Of Gen. Marshall   Army Staff Chief Confers With Ranking Officers Along Entire War Front

TENSIFIES AIR OF EXPECTANCY THRU PACIFIC   Admirals Nimitz, Halsey Also Meet With Army Staff Chief

Staff Chief Confers With Top Leaders   MacArthur, Richardson, Nimitz And Halsey Visited; Jap Aerial  Tempo Increases

Gen. Marshall Visits Battle Line In Pacitic   General Flew Along Entire Line From Southwest To Central Pacific.   SiTOrs Ai HONOLULI

Marshall’s Visit to Pacific Battle Line Causes Expectancy   Army Chief of Staff is Back in States After Long Global Trip

MARHALL SEES ~ GENERALS, ~— ADMIRALS   Chief. of Staff Confers Along Pacific War Front

Pacifi ie ‘Battle Lines Tense With E Xpectancy After Visit ~ Of Gen. Marshall Is Revealed

Pacitic Tense From Conference   General Marshall Confers With MacArthur, Halsey

MARSHALL Vall TO PACIFIC MAY MARK OFFENSIVE   Believes Great Drive In Making To Clear Out  All Japs

Marshall’s Dramati¢ Visit Revealed  Pacific Battle Line Is Tense And Expectant

MARSHALL PAYS VISIT TO PACIFIC FRONT   MacArthur Reveals United States Army Chief Has Been Watching Operations Against Japs  STOPS AT HONOLULU

Pacific War Area Tense After Visit by Marshall   Ari my. Chief of Staff Reaches Coast By Air After Talks With MacArthur

Entire Pacific Front Now Tense With Expectancy   U.S. Chief Of Staff Flies Along Entire Line from Southwest ty Central Pacific, Confers Witt Militarv Leaders.

Battle Line Tense With Speculation On Outcome Of Dramatic Tour By Army Chief Of Staff, Recent Participant In Allied Conference—Japanese Air Strength, Badly Hit In Recent Action, Shows Signs Of Resurgence In Southwest Area

PACIFIC BATTLE LINE EXPECTING MAJOR ACTIONS   Chief of Staff Back in U. §. After 35,000 Mile Global Trip

Two Are Victims Of Suicide Pad   Murder And Suicide Verdict Returned

LITTLE FIGHTING IN BIZERTE   City Nearly Deserted  as Americans Enter

Bizerte Silent as Yanks Arrive--Tunis Hails Victors   Naval Stronghold Deserted by Axis; Crowds Hai] Allies in Capital

Continuation Big Stabilization Fund Approved by House   Its Control Must Stay With President; News of Capital Today

Extension of Stabilization Is Approved   Representative Claims Liquor  ' Trust Is Attempting to Gain Control of the Industry; Hope for FSA Supporters

Tet BE Me vam! eee eames  Senate Starts Today To Debate Tax Bill

Vandenberg Sure Senate Tax Bill ls Money Saver   Declares Plan Will Bring $1,800,000,000 in New Revenue

GOP Leader Urge: Merits of Senate Taxation Bill  Debate on Committee Meaaure to Get ‘Under: Wavy Tadayv

SENATE TO BEGIN TAX DEBATE TODAY   Will Argue Committee Measure, Virtually Duplicate of  Ruml-Carlson Bill Rejected — By House

Senator Asserts Ruml Bill Will  Boost Revenues   Vandenberg Declares Treasury Would Receive 1.8 Billions Under Measure Up for Debate

Senate Tax Bill Expected to Get Floor Opposition   George May Propose Substitute, to Abate *, of Year’s Debt

SAYS TREASURY WOULD BENEFIT   Senate To Begin Debate On Pay-Go Measure As Adopted By Finance Committee

WILL DEBATE TAXES TODAY   Senate Ready to Consider Ruml-Carlson Abate ment Proposal

SENATE DEBATES ~ TAX BILL TODAY   Vandenberg Says Proposal Better Than Draft House Okehs

‘TREASURY GETS MORE REVENUE IN SENATE BILL   “Windiall” Provisions Due To Provide $1,800,000,000 Fund   MEASURE DIFFERS FROM HOUSE BILL

Senate Debates  Tax Bill Today   Act Virtual Duplicate of Ruml-Carlson Bill Rejected by House

DEBATE WILL BEGINTODAY ON TAX BILL   Vandenberg Praises Meas. ure Adopted by Com. - mittee ’

FLOOD PERILS INCREASE IN SIX STATES   100,000 Homeless; Crop Damage Is Immense

Japs Tried To Lure President Roosevelt Aboard Warship Just Before Pearl Harbor

Attempted to Lure Him Aboard Vessel Before Sneak Raid   Treachery Revealed in ‘White Book’ Issued by Dept. of State

GREW SENT WORD ON PEARL HARBOR TO MONTHS AHEAD   Ambassador Grew, According To White Book Issued Warning on Plans For Jap Attack.   JAPS HAD HOPES TO CAPTURE ROOSEVELT   “Peace” “Emissary Kurusy Came to This Country After Scheme For Qcean Trip Failed.

Japs Planned Capture Of FDR. Hull Discloses   information Released By Secretary. Of State Shows   Tokyo Came Near To Realizing Greater Hum   $hation For U. S: Than Pearl Harbor

“White Book’’ Discloses How Close Pearl Harbor Came to  Being a Greater Humiliation

Motor Torpedo Boats Attack Japanese Destroyers Off Coast Of Guadalcanal   JAPANESE PLOT TO TAKE FDR PRISONER DISCLOSED   Gov’t Officials In Japan Attempted To Arrange Meeting Aboard Battleship

CAPTURE FOR?   ‘White Paper’ Discloses Efforts to Arrange Meeting On Warshin.   TURNED DOWN BY HULL

Japs. ‘Wanted President Roosevelt In Their Hands At Time. Of Attack. Upon Pearl Harbor ~~ White. Paper Issued By Government Reveals In Giving Full Account Of U.S. Peace Moves

Japs Tried To Lure F.R. On Warship   White Book Reveals Plot To Humiliate U. S. _ Before War

Book Tells Of Cunning Trap Laid By Tokyo   Attempt to Induce President to Board Warship Foiled by Sec. Hull

JAP PLANS TO MANEUVER PRESIDENT ON WARSHIP REVEALED IN WHITE BOOK

Say Japs Sought To Hold FDR   Tried to Get President on Ship Before Attack

White Book Reveals How Close Pearl Harbor Came To Much Greater National Hurniliation

Hull Reveals Japanese Plan  toKidnapFDR   Begged and Threatened Hull to Send President on Peace Mission on Jap Battleship

Jap Diplomats Tried to Lure FDR Aboara Nipponese Ship Just Before Pearl Harbor

Jap Envoys Tried to Lure Roosevelt Into Navy’s Hands   Apparently Tokyo Did Net Know U.S. Knew of Its Designs On Pearl Harbor When Her Diplomats Sought to Get President Aboard Nip Warship for Conference With Premier

SEC, HULL FAILED ' TO BE TRAPPED BY THE JAPANESE   Cold Shouldered Peace Proposal Offered by the Japanese.   URGED EARLY MEETING      Wanted President Roosevelt to Invite the Prime Minister for Talk.

MANEUVERED 10 GET HIM ON WARSHIE   Schemed to Have Presi: dent in Hands of Ni Navy at Time of Pear Harbor Attack.   KONOYE SUGGESTED PARLEY ON VESSEL   ‘Proposal Followed Meet ing With Churchill — Secretary Hull Refused to Take Bait.

Japs Tried To Lure F. R. Aboard Nipponese Warship Before Pearl Harbor Attack         White Books Issued by Secretary Hull Tells Of Attempt; Ambassador Grew Warned Nation Of Planned Surprise Attack of Japanese Forces

WoO bch 165uUCu How Close Pearl Harbor Came To  Being Greater Humiliation Revealed

USSIANS PUSH AHEAD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT      ROOSEVELT REVEALED IN HULL’S  WHITE BOOK >

WHITE BOOK REVEALS FOR WIP PLAN   Before Pearl Harbor, Tokyo Fished for Meeting in Pacific.   WANTED PARLEY __ ON JAP WARSHIP   Grew Had Warned of Surprise Attack Year “Earlier.

Asked President To Meet Them Aboard Jap Battleship In Pacific For Peace Talks While They Were Preparing For Attack

Failed To” Lure FDR To Pacific   Japs Sought To Make President Their Prisoner

Nipponese Planned for FDR To Be in Hands Of Jap Navy as They Raided Pearl Harbor

Japs Planned To Kidnap Roosevelt   Tried to Maneuver Peace Discussions So That FDR Would Be in Hands of Jap Navy When Pearl Harbor Attacked

U.S. WAS WARNED OF ATTAGK BY JAPS MONTHS IN ADVANCE   White Book Reveals Jap Plan To Have President Prisoner When They Struck   ICREW SENT WARNING

Diplomatic Maneuverings To Obtain Conference In Pacific Foiled   JAPS HOPED TO HAVE - FDR ABOARD WARSHIF   Move Planned Months Ahead Would Have Placed FDR In Enemy’s Hands

Japs Plotted To Kidnap Roosevelt  White Book Reveals How Near Pearl Harbor Came Being Far Worse Debacle

White Book Issued By Hull Hints Japanese Plot Against President Roosevelt Before Pearl Harbor

Tried To Get Roosevelt in Their Hands   Japs Maneuvered Long and Hard to Make Him Their Prisoner      PART OF PEARL HARBOR SCHEME   Suggestion Appeared Innocent Enough, But Hult Didn’t Fall for It

Says Grew Warned Of SneakStab   Envoy's Tip-off Given i] Months Bsfore Foe Hit Pearl Harbor.   Sea Meet Sought   Predominence of Tokyo War Clique Foiled Abduction.

GREW WARNED. PEARLHARBOR RAID PLANNED   Treacherous Japs “lanned To ‘Have President In Power ' When Raid Made

JAPANESE PLANNED TO HAVE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN HANDS   SOUGHT TO GET HIM ABOARD NIPPON WARSHIP FOR CONFERENCE

Grew Warned  Of Jap Plans   Enemy Hoped To Have President In Hands Of Navy When Pearl Harbor Hit.

Japs Had Plot to Kidnap President   Tried to Induce Roosevelt to Meet Konoye on Japanese Warship   BEFORE PEARL HARBOR   State . Department Had Warning of Surprise At‘ tack at Unnamed Date

THOUSANDS HAVE GRIPPE “GAT FEVER”   No Abatement of Illness Indicated Yet in Mattoon

FLU EPIDEMIC SWEEPS U, S.   Grippe, Bronchitis, Colds and New ‘Cat Fever’ All Prevalent

Stranger Tells Parents _ Where To Find: ‘Body- of Son-Lost- December 18

RUML URGES PLAN OF PAY-AS-YOU-G60   Doughton Voices Opposition to Skipping 1942 Taxes

SUBSTITUTE: PLAN FLAYED:BY RUML   Presses Own Pay-As-You-Go. Tax Program Over’ Treasury’s

BOUGHTON AND RUML CLASH ON TAX PROPOSAL   Congressman Opposed Te Wiping Out All 1942 Tax Payments   EXPERT SAYS PLAN IS MOST EQUITABLE

Ruml Says His Tax Plan Will Be Fair to All   Rich and Poor Alike Will Benefit, Sponsor Declares

eS 011 Aum. ATacss ~ Treasury Sciem le U.oc< As _moosing >ow).e “ax Loac

RUML ARGUES FOR TAX PLAN   Declares Device Would Be Fair To Rich And Poor

Tax Plan Fair To All, Rum! Tells Hearing   As-You-Go Spensor Denies Scheme Favors Capitalists

Ruml Explains Tax Plan to Committee  Declares Device  Would Be Fair te Bink wad Dene

Ruml Explains Tax Plan to Commiitee  Declares Device Would Be Fair to Rich and Poor

BRITISH DRIVE NEARS TRIPOL   Allies Army Reported Only 50 Miles From City

Allied Planes Harass Fleeing Enemy Troops   American Flyers Bomb Airdrome at Castel Benito

Special Ration Board Serving Congressmen   They Get Gasoline and Tires by Calling by Phone

MANY CONGRESSMEN GET C GAS BOOKS   Special Board Set Up Quietly in Washington to Serve Senators and Representatives.

TAX PLAN FIGHT ‘TO HOUSE FLOOR   Compromise Efforts Fail; Both Parties Will Submit New Bills

All State Highways Open Dixon Office Announced at Noor   Crews Still Battling the Drifted Roads of  Coun

MOTHER DROWNS TWO DAUGHTERS TRIES SUICIDE   Dressed Little Girl and Baby After She Had Killed Them. Had Had Mental Treatment

ENDORSE RENO FOR COURT JOB   GOP State Committeemer Support Judge for Retention of Post   Navy Reports American Ship Sunk in the Pacific

U.S. Cargo Vessel Sunk in Pacitie   Vessel Victim of Sub Late in April

Russian Capture of Zhitomir Virtually Splits: Northern And Southern German Forces

Zhitmomir, Last i: Red City In orth, Captured   ‘Russians 60 Miles From Pole Border; Freezes Are Aijid   To Reds

War Bond Score   Fall Of Zhitomir Brings Red Troops Almost To Poland

Soviet Offensive Carries to Within 60 Miles of Prewar Polish Frontier; Another Drive Moves Toward Korosten

 Split Hitler’s Northern and Southern Forces by Sweeping Into Zhitomir and Cutting Odessa-Leningrad Railway ~—Russians Now Only 60 Miles From Old Potish Frontier and 120 Miles from Rumania’s Bessarabia.

AL ROAD W SINE (         Germany’ s Forees v irtually. ‘Cut By Action.

RUSSIANS SEIZE OVER 100 TOWNS   Soviet Forces Take Zhitomir, Rail and Highway Center in Ukraine

Cuts Vital Railroad Link   Action Outflanks Nazis In Last Ukraine Stand

ONLY MILITARY OBJECTIVES FOR ALLIED AVIATORS   Airmen Especially Schooled So as Not to Drop Bombs on Religious, Cultural Landmarks

Precision Raid Blasts Railroad Yards; Closest 4 Miles From Vaticay

ROME TARGETS PINPOINTED BY TRAINED CREWS   Railway Systems and War Industries Hammered In Grim Uitimatuni to Italy to Surrender   BOMBS FALL 5 MILES FROM HOME OF POPE   Care Taken to Protect Re. ligious Areas; Convoy 15 Nazi Transports Are Shot Into Sea

Vatican City, Other Religious And Cultural Monuments Avoided By Hand-Picked Crews.

Rome Sends Out Reports Church ' Property Is Hit   The Berlin Radio Strives to Exploit Allied Bombing + for Propaganda.   Have No Difficulty - In Finding Targets

U5. BOMBERS HIT HEART OF FASCIST ITALY   Pinpoint Precision Attack by Trained Crews Spares. Cultural Spots,   BROAD DAYLIGHT RAID IS OF “TERRIFIC FORCE”

ONLY MILITARY AREAS HIT BY ALLIED PLANES   Precision Attack Pounds Rail Centers; War  Industries   ITALY ADMITS DAMAGE   Bombing Follows Warning of Impending Raids By United Nations

Rome Struck By Panie, Report Says   Germans Report on Raid—Italians Ureed To Resist

Luxury Retail Levy Backed By N.Y.6. of €.   Leaders Score Increase in Liquor Excises

Strike Ended At War Plant   bos ‘Employes of Brewster Corpora tion Vote To Comply with  Orders of Labor Board

Strikers Vote ° To Go Back To Plane Plant   Decide To Comply  With WLB Order; Arrest More Guards

~AREINUSTAD   Twenty-Nine Now Held In Johnsville, Pa., Labor Dispute

Strike Ends At Brewster   Vote Unanimously To Return To Jobs In Com pliance With WLB.

STRIKERS VOTE TO RETURN 10 JOBS TODAY   Action Taken At Brewster Aircraft Plant   Total Of 29 Plant Guards Now Held By Navy

STRIKING WORKERS BOW TO LABOR BOARD   Protest Against Firing of Guards Fades Out

WORKERS WILL RESUME JOBS   ‘Thousands of Strikers at Kaiser  Plant in East Vote to Return As Ordered by WLB.

Strikers at Johnsville Will Return   Vote Unanimous; To Return to ‘Their Jobs  “At Once”

Byrnes Named To Head New War Bory   Judge Vinson Will Succeed  Byrnes

BYRNES. TO. HEAD GROUP THAT WALL, HAVE OVER-ALL CONTROL. ‘OF VARIOUS WAR POLICIES

NEW WA CREATED BY FOR TO UNIFY POLICY   Byrnes Heads Streamlining Office in Move to End OPA, WPB Rows

BODY GRANTED CONTROL OVER WAR PROGRAM   Chief executive acts to streamline management of home front

Fight to Death to Hold Ortona  Halian Battles Rage Midst Snow and Rain

BRITISH TAKE VEZZANI FROM NAZIS TODAY   Americans Plow Ahead In Snow To New Gains

Rooting Germans  Out of Ortona Weather Hampers Operations; Eighth Army Advances

BRITISH, CANADIANS BATTLE IN SNOW AND RAIN TO MAKE GAINS  WHOLE ITALIAN FRONT BLANKETED WITH WET, WINTRY WEATHER

8TH DIGGING LAST GERMANS FROM ORTONA   Fifth Armv Loses Mountain Top

NAZIS SLOWLY BEING ROUTED FROM ORTONA   ‘Fifth Army Prods Through. Snow; Air Blows’ Are Dealt

Oriona Mopped Up As 8th Army Moves North   Americans Seize One Height, But Loses Another

BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE VEZZANI ON ITALIAN FRONT   Canadians Driving Nazis from Ortona with Bavonets

BRITISH ARMY TAKES VILLAGE   Vessani, Southwest of Ortona Falls to Montgomery; Yanks Drive on

8th Bayonets  DieginoNazis  ‘Out of Ortona   Yanks Capture One Height, Lose Another on — Pheir End of Front

Eighth Army Fighting In Rain And Snow   Fifth Army Plods Through Snow To Take High Point

ltalian Front Blanketed By Cold Weather   Eighth Army Drives Noréhward and Captures Village of Vezzani  BATTLING FOR ORTONA

VEZZANI FALLS TO EIGHTH ARMY   British Drive Northward; Canadians Digging Germans Out Of Ortona With Ravonets.

Winter Hampers Allied Operation in Italian Area   Violent Fighting Occurs at Ortona With Nazis in Death Struggle.   Canadians Dig Nazis Out With Bavonets

BRITISH TAKE VILLAGE IN ORTONA AREA      Fight Through Snow and Rain to Capture Vezzani as Canadians Dig Last Nazis Out of Ortona With Bavonets.

ITALIAN BATTLE OPERATIONS ARE ‘SLOWED BY SNOW   Despite Wet Wintry Weather Eighth Army Drives North of Ortona and Takes Village of Vezzani

Snow, Rain Do Not Halt Allied Drive   Americans Driving Ahead In Italy This Holiday —

Bad Weather Curbs Action Through Italy   Most Violent Fighting In Ortona Area—Germans Fight tor Anchor

VILLAGE OF WEZZARI IS CAPTURED   House-To-House F ight For Ortona Rages . In Snow, Rain

Italian Front ls Blanketed by Wintry Weather   Canadians Battle At Bayonet Point For Little Town

ITALIAN FRONT 16 BOGGED HN SNOW   Eighth Army Digs Last Ger. mans. from Ortona in House to House Drive

Allies Fight Nazis Thr ‘ough Snow And Rair   Eighth Army Using Bayonets To Dig Enemy Out

British. For ce Ss Heads: North   Village Of Zeazani Taken Despite. Bad Weather Of Snow; Rain

Fighth Takes Town In Drive To Northward   Canadians Fight House Te House Battle For City Of Qrtona,  WIT FRENCH RAILROAD

8TH ARMY IN DRIVE NORTHWARD TAKE TOWN OF VEZZAN   Canadians Are Digging the Last Germans Out of Ortona.   BAYONETS BEING USED   The Whole Italian Front Is Blanketed by Wet Wintry Weather.

WEATHER LIMITS ITALIAN ACTION   BRITISH CAPTURE VEZZANI VILLAGE; YANKS PLOD AHEAD

Fighting in Tunisia  Nears End   Franco’s Appeal for Peace Today Ignored in London, Washington

ROMMEL FORCES IN LIBYA ARE MAKING DETERMINED STAND   May .Be Making. Last Ditch Fight On !Nadi Zem Zem 230 Miles From Tunisia

AXIS STAND IS OEENINLIBYA   Rommel Reported Holding At Wadi Zem Zem

Ronaiiel's if s Troops _ lane Help             170 Mil hee Tripalt Sectors. ey Bin Woene Alde Asis:

Romine! Makes Perhaps Final . Stand in Libya.   Resistance Is ““@ffered 170 Milés _. From. Tripoli

ROMMEL SET . TO MAKE HIS FINAL STAND   Reinforcements, Stuke Dive Bombers Aid Axis Forces —

(O HEINFORGED BY OTUKAO AND UTHER PLANES   Ready for Battle 170 Miles from Tripoli and 230 from Tunisia.   CHALLENGES ALLIED AIR STRENGTH OVER LIBYA

Rommel Stops Flight; Turns For Last Stan¢   Nazis, Reinforced, Defending Libyan Wada

DIVE BOMBERS ASSIST ROMMEL IN FINAL STAND   Afrika Korps Seeks To Check Retreat At Zem Zem, 170 Miles From Tripoli   ‘AXIS PORTS ARE BOMBED   French Fight Off German Attack On Positions South. east Of Tunis

AXIS MAKING STAND EAST OF TRIPOLI   Battle Raging At Point 170 Miles From Capital

STRONG GERMAN FEELER THRUSTS ARE REPULSED   12 Nazi Planes Destroyed Out Of Formation Réid ine Carki   RED AIRMEN WRECK ENEMY SHIPPING

Russians, Nazis Trade Air Blows   Reds Repulse Strong German Attacks

SOVIETS HURL BACK NAZIS IN THREE AREAS   Feeler Thrusts Made By Foe; Aerial Bat tles Continue

Rassians and Nazis Trade Aerial Blows   Feeler Thrusts Made on Ground, However, by German Troops

AXIS THRUST HURLED BACK BY RUSSIANS   Feeler Attacks” Repulsed as Air Action Con. tinues

FEELER STABS ~ SMASHED BACK   Reds And Nazis Exchange Heavy Air Blows; Orel Pounded

Reds Smash Nazi Feeler Thrusts   Soviet and German Fliers Trade Blows

Neds Stop German Thrusts Airmen Trade   Airmen Trade Heavy Blows ~ Tn Russia

Soviet Bombers Blast Nazi-Held Railway Junction   Russians and Germans Devote Main Activities fo Air Battles   Germans Feeling Out Soviet Lines for Pos~ sible Big Drive

TA SS a NOs SESS oan ne NEO  Reds and Nazis Trade Violent Aerial Blows

Russians Smash German Feelers  Nazis Claim Gorki Severely Damaaqed

Aerial! Action Dominates on Long Front   Soviet Bombers Batter Rail Junctions

Russians Smash German Feelers  Nazis Claim Gorki   Nazis Claim Gork! Severely Damaqed

Soviets repulse ‘feeler’ drives on three sectors; main: action still in air   Russian airmen pound German-held rail junctions, fuel and arms dumps

Battle Grows Furious (On Red Front   Soviets, Foe Fight Grimly to Pave Way for Offensive

Nazis Dealt Hard Blows By Soviels   Strong German Feeler Thrusts Smashed Back

U.§. Bombers In Raid On Norway: Athens Also Hit   Mounting American Aerial Campaign Is Shown By Latest Raid Reports   AIRFIELDS IN ATHENS AREA ARE TARGETS

10 U $. RAID ON NAZI-RULED COUNTRY   Follows Report Germany Trying to Move Battleship Tirpitz

‘BOMBERS BLAST NAZIS IN NORWAY EUROPE, GREECE   ¢ lying Fortresses Believed Aimed at Withdrawing Northern Units

NAZI NORWAY IS BLASTED BY YANK BOMBERS   German-Held Airdromes At Athens, Greece, Smacked “y U. S. Planes

TRAFFIC DEATHS ’ IN A NOSEDIVE   Fatalities In February Lowest In 16 Years, But Stabilizing Of Toll is Observed

NATION’S TRAFFIC DEATHS IN FEBRUARY LOWEST IN 16 YEARS: LITTLE FURTHER DECLINE DUE

ACCIDENT RATE 0-60 NO LOWER   Nation Can Not Expect WarTime Regulations to Provide Increasingly Lower Figures

WAR'S RESTRICTIONS CUT TRAFFIC TOLL   February Deaths Fewest in Last 16 Years

Nation's Traffic Deaths in February Lowest in 16 Years. Council Reports

Traffic Deaths Reach New Low  Travel Restrictions Cut Casualty Lists

TRAFFIC DEATHS STRIKE NEW LOW   February Highway Death Rate Lowest In 16 Years.

FEBRUARY TRAFFIC DEATHS ARE LESS      Toll Is Smallest for Month In 16 Years, Says Safety Council.

GOVERNOR BRICKER MAY GARRY ON HIS TAXATION PROGRAN   indicates Today His Will ingness to Leave Verdict to Taxpaying Voters.

Eleanor Clark  Becomes Bride  Weds Capt. J. R. Thompson Of Merrill

PRETTY WEDDING INS. 6. SATURDAY   Capt. John Thompson and ‘Eleanor. Clark United In Wedlock

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazi Offensive In Russia linges Lo pon Invasion Attempt Of Allies

The War Today  'Hitler Move Against Russia Will Depend On Imminence Of Invasion

THIRD ATTEMPT TO CRACK REDS SEEN   Last Desperate Fling Is In. dicated In Churchill's Address Here

Is Hitler Preparing Last Desperate Fling at Reds?  Depends on Allied Invasion —

The War Today   Hitler May Be Preparing  Last Desperate Fling Arsinst Russias.

Russian Forces Smash Way To  Rostov Region   Reds Advancing Steadily In Caucasus Area Says " Moscow Report   BATTLE CONTINUES AT STALINGRAD

RUSSIANS SMASH FORWARD IN DRIVE TO TAKE OVER THE ~ CAUCASUS AND TRAP NAZIS

Trying To Trap Nazis   ‘Campaign To Reconquer The - Caucasus Goes Forward

Fight to Finist On Pay-Go Begins Today   Compromise Bill May Result if Deadlock Comes

Tax Plan Battle Begins Today  TT wee Taal late ck   House Ballots on Bill Tuesday

BATTLE WILL BEGIN TODAY  ON TAX BILL   Pay-as-You-Go Legislation to be Taken Up by — Conaress

Finish Fight On Tax Bill Opens i oday   REPUBLICANS WILL TRY AGAIN TO CARRY RUML PLAN; DEMOCRATS BACK ADMINISTRATION MEASURE.   Both Provide With Holdin:

PAY-CO FIGHT ‘STARTS TODAY      Both Sides Voice Confidence on Eve of Finish Battle in House

Rival Tax Groups Line Up for Fight   Compromise Unlikely  Till Test Vote Taken

FINISH FIGHT DUE ON INCOME PLAN   a ae Parties Each Championing Different Tax Proposals

Tax Showdown Opens in House   Martin Sees New Support for GOP's Modified Ruml Plan

House fo Open Tax Fight Today   New Taille Is Heard of Compromise Bill

Finish Fight on Pay-as-You-Go Tox Measure Begins Monday When Congress Reconvenes

PAY-C0.FiGHT ‘STARTS TODAY      Both Sides Voice Confi  "dene: on Eve of Finish”  ” Beitle in House

Ruml Tax Plan To Be Argued In House Today   Talk of Still Another Com promise Bill Heard in Washington

Senator Lucas In Naval Hospital For Check-Up On A Kidney Ailment

ASKS U. $. AID FOR CHETNIKS    Says Mikhailovitch Has 200,000 Men, Needs Arms

JUGOSLAVIAN GUERRILLAS SEEK ARMS’   Could Put 200,000. Men in Field if _ Properly Equipped

Destroy 43 Axis Planes In Air Battles   13 Allied Planes Lost in Attacks on  Italian Targets; MacArthur's Troops Seize Vura Village; 21 Jap Planes Lost in Attack on Rendova

Prt ~INVAGION LOW flolNG TO NEW FURY   Allied Bomb Tattoo Hits Battered Italy Heavier And Heavier Today

ASSAULTS ON ISLAND RISE TO NEW FURY   Raids Heaviest Since Fall of Pantelleria—Italians Blow Up Own Harbor Installations —43 Axis Planes Downed.

Allies Pound Aijrfields And Vital Ports In Sicily And Sardinia; Drop  Rombs Near Rome.

POWERFUL NEW BLOW  AGAINST AIR POWER  OF AXIS BY ALLIES PRE-INVASION ASSAULT AGAINST ITALY’S DE cre Aa

A3 Axis Planes Shot Down As Pre-lnvasion Assaults On Italy Reach New Fury

POWERFUL NEW BLOW AGAINST AIR POWER NF AXIS BY ALLIES  PRE-INVASION ASSAULT   PRE-INVASION ASSAULT AGAINST ITALY’S DEFENSES AT NEW HIGH

DETAILS ARE WORKED OUT BY LEADERS   Biggest Offensive Yet Attempted Will Come During Next Nine Months.   BULLETIN

2 OTnIKES END IN DETROUT AREA   Die Setters at Willow Run and Truck Drivers at Chrysler Return

SMALL PLANTS   State: Endeavoring to Get  War Wark for” Sécond ary Industries,

State to Help Small Plants Get — Share of Contracts for Army Goods

WORK OR FIGHT METHOD WILL BE USED IF NEEDED; .T0 EMPLOY OLDER MEN

Allies Advance Steadily in Drive To Take Sicily   British Fight a Stubborn Foe Near Edge of Catania

Americans Win Agrigento, a Road Junction.   British Eighth Army Battle for Prize Sicilian Port City Reaches Final Phase

Catania 's Fall Reportedly Is Imminent   Vital Base Blazes From Air and Sea Bombardment

NAZIS BATTLE BTH ARMY ON CDGE OF CITY   Struggle for Vital] Port, Shell-Pitted and in Flames, Enters Its Final Stage.   AMERICAN TROOPS KNIFE WAY INLAND   Take Key Road Junction in 12-Mile Advanee— Canadian Soldiers Capture Caltagirone.

British Fight Stubborn German Army In City; Americans Seize Town

Italians Give  Up Prized Sicily Areas   Battle for Important Port of Catania Reaches Final Stage; Americans, Canadians Take Several Other Towns

Eighth Army Fighting In Edge of City; U. S. Forces Drive 12 Miles   Argriginto Falls To Patton; Enemy Attempting To Rally Beaten and Retreating Troops

Catania’s Fall Believed Near   British Roll On In Edge Of Flamina, Shell-Pitted City

‘City Afire as Fleet Blasts Path for 8th Army; Yanks ‘Capture Agrigento, Key Base

Sicily Invaders Seize Four More Towns From Axis  Mastery Of Air   Mastery Of Air  Over Sicily Termed “Greatest Victory”

PORT OF CATANIA BLAZES FIERCELY   Battle for Prize City Enters Final Stage   AMERICANS ADVANCE   Capture of Agrigento Marks 12-Mile Gain; Canadians Take Objectives

BRITISH BREAK UP TANK UNITS, REST RETREAT   Americans Occupy Agrigento and Gain-Access to North Roads. °   GERMANS REPORTED ATTEMPTING A RALLY;

Fall Of City ls Imminent; Yanks Advance   Fires Rage In Doomed City; Americans Seize Important Junction

Battle For Port Is Near Final Stages   American Forces Goin 12 Miles To Occupy Aariaento: Another Italian General Taken

British Fight For Catania  Prize Port Near Fall; Yanks Take Agrigento

Canadian Contingent Pushes Into Caltagirone; Suill Another Italian General Gives Up;  Enemy Said Rallying at Mt. Etna; Wt. Newne Carhing

BRITISH CLASH WITH GERMANS ON CITY EDGE  Anarene Theenms,, cK .cf   Americans Occupy Agrfgento, Key Road Junction, In South   SETS ERAS CERRRA oe om ottaaraal aaa,  Complete Allied Occupation Of Steily Seen Matter Of Time

U.S. SOLDIERS PUSH ENEMY OUT OF SICILY AREA   Agrigento, Key Road Junction and Axis Troop Concentration Center, Falls to Dourghboys   ANOTHER ITALIAN GENERAL CAPTURED   British Break Back of One German Armored Division and Parts of Another in March

New Gains Made  Against Germans   Ruhr Area Bombed Again; Japs Cleaned Out of Buna Area

LARGE-SCALE ACTION DUE IN TUNISIA SOON   Report Germans Plan General Retreat From Caucasus

FIERCE, SUDDEN -\ ‘ATAGKS FAL TO REAK THROU   Some Observers Feel Ger: mans are Bordering on a Withdrawal.

Russians Repel Big Tank Attack  Sovie a Thrust Gaining  i Ben Vhesteeenee Un.

Coal Miners to Let Officials — Move, If Wish   Spokesman for One of Locals Voting To Return to Work Defies “Any Of You to Stop Us”’ From Going Back

MINERS SPLIT ON RETURN 10 WORK BALLOT   Big Majority Votes to Remain Out Until Demands Met

Hard Coal StrikersSplhit On Return   EIGHT COLLIERIES VOTE TO CONHINUE SPRIKE; FOUR RETURN TO WORK; OTRERS ARE UNRF VORTED.   “Close To Treason”

Allies Appear Ready To Write Off Aegean Experiment  Te 1. ee al 9 pose   Fall of Samos, Last Isle of Note, Believed Imminent

Fall of Samos Bas Said Imminen‘   Island Under Violent German Onslaught

Allies Appear Ready To Write Off Aegean Experiment  Fall of Samos, Last Isle of Note, Believed Imminent

FALL OF SAMOS SEEMS IMMINENT   AEGEAN ISLAND UNDER VIOLENT ATTACK OF GERMAN DIVE-BOMBERS,

Meat Point Values’ Announced by OPA      16 Points Per. Person Available Weekly;  Hamburger, Stew to Gain Popularity -

OPA PUBLISHES POINTS LIST FOR MEAT RATIONING   Steaks, Butter Set At 8 Points Per Lb.; Starts Monday   EACH PERSON RECEIVES 16 POINTS PER WEEK

Each Person Will Be Permitiéd 16 Points Per Week-—Cav Be Divided Among Meats, Fats And Cheese Any Way Desired   RATIONING TO BE EFFECTIVE MONDAY

STEAKS MAY BECOME MERE DREAMS, OPA INDICATES, ANNOUNCING POINT TABLES

‘Allotment, Set By OPA For New Program, To  Also Cover Butter, Cheese, Fats; Point Purchasing Power Listed

OP '. List OF <oints Published   Approximate Amounts of Food Available for Each Civilian Are Listed

OPA Decides To Cut The Diameter Of U. S. Belts   Hamburger Will Only  Wats. @ Piaini«c Par Panna

CHEAPER CUTS T0 REQUIRE LOWEST COUPON SURRENDER   16 Points Per Person Per Week Can Be Used In Any Way Desirec But Steak And Butter Are ‘High’

Choice Meats Made ‘Costly As OPA Sets Point Values   Butter Listed Higher Than Imported Caviar; Piss’ Ears, Brains Advised in Daily Tins

Stop Dreaming of Steak, Think of Hamburger, Stew:   Pig's Ears, Pork Kidney; BeefBrains to Help In Points Savinas   ALL THIS—AND BUTTER, TOO. How Average Housewife in Family Of Three Might Budget Meat Points.   Half Lb. Bacon, 3 Lbs. Round of Beef, * ] Ounces Hamburger, Half Lb. Beef Live:   IHerels Rough Idea Just ‘What Hamburger Is, Ladies   O.P.A. Analyzes, Defines It for Meat Rationing Purooses.      One-Half of U.S. Housewife’s .. Weekly Food Budaet Now Rationed

'OPA Publishes Official List iOf Meat, Fats Ration Points   Suggests Americans Give Up High-Point-Cost Steaks For Pigs’ Ears to Stretch Their 16 Points a Week.

Cheese, Fats, Canned Fish Also on OPA List of Food Regulated, Starting Monday

OFFICIAL TABLE OF CONSUMER POINT VALUES FOR MEAT, FATS, FISH, AND CHEESE   COMMODITY   COMMODITY   COMMODITY   SAUSAGE   CHEESES"   OPA Fixes Meat Points--and Serves Notice  - U.S. Had Better Stop Dreaming of Steak:

POINT VALUES FOR RATIONING ARE REVEALED   8 Points Per Pound Is Average for  Group of Foods

PLAINER FOODS FAVORED UNDER. NEW POINT SYSTEM OF RATIONING; STEAKS DISAPPEAR FOR CHEAPER MEAT CUTS   OPA Publishes List of Values, Meats, Cheese, Butter, Fats, Effective Date Is Set for Monday, March 29th. Kosher Products Covered. .

NEW OPA ORDER WILL GO INTO EFFECT MONDAY   Americans Advised to Quit Dreaming About Steaks Under Setup.   16 Points a Week

Stick to Steak and You'll Be Stuck, Wondering Why ‘Points Disappeared So Fast

EVERY AMERICAN ENTITLED 10 16 POINTS PER WEEK   Coupons May Be Used for Meat, Butter, Cheese or Fats; New Responsibility  far Hoansewivec.

16 Points Per Person A Week On Meat, Fats      New Ration Program Starts Next Monday; Americans Warned   The official table of point values for meat, cheese, butter, fats and fish will be found on nace 5.

RECOMMEND CHEAPER CIITS TO FAMILIES   OPA Issues Detailed List of Points Required in Rationing Meat, Butter, Fats and Cheese.

Steaks, Roasts Carry High Point Value On Meat Rationing Chart   OPA Publishes Official List of Points For Meat, Butter Rationing To Go Into Effect in the Nation Monday”

TAKES ACERNO: BRITISHOCCUPY AVIGLIANO   Yanks Drive ew Salient Into Defenses Guarding Naples

General Clark's Filth Army Is  Driving Ahead   New Salient Is Smashed Into _ German Lines Guarding Naples   ‘BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY ALSO GAINS

Gains Made By American, British Armies   Getting Ready For Drive Against Naples

Over 50 German Fighters Shet Down {n Air Battles; Enemy Broadcasts Suspicious Invasion Stories

Great Fleets of Planes Rain Bombs on Targets  REPORT OF ALLIED LANDING IS HEARD  Axis Broadcast Immediately Discounted by London

RAILWAY YARDS AROUND NAPLES BADLY WRECKED   Mysterious Radio Broadcast Reports Invasion Of Southern Italy   50 GERMAN FIGHTERS BAGGED BY ALLIES

Suspicious Axis Report Says Toe Of Mainland And Crete  Have Been Invaded

'Grent Fleets of Planes Rain Bombs on Targets  REPORT OF ALLIED LANDING 1S HEARD  7 , ee      Axis Broadcast immedi ately Discounted by ‘: London

Bombers Rain Explosives Again On Yards, Depots Near Naples; Air Battles Cost Nazis 50 Planes

Rail Centers Near Naples Devastated   50 German Fighters Downed in 24 Hours Of Violent Air Raids  ATTIFS FOSE FICHRT

Vital railway installations devastated   Over fifty nazi planes destroyed

LIBERATORS FROM MIDDLE EAST HAM. MER AIR DEPOT AND RAIL YARDS AT CANCELLO; DOWN FIFTY GERMAN PLANES.

Vital Railway Centers Are  Heavily Blasted   Axis Controlled Radio Says Allies Have Landed on Coast of Italian “Toe” and Sent Parachute Troops Into Crete

Americans Hi Hard Blows af Axis Positions   Many Bombers Take Part in Big Raid

Examine Veniremer In Errol Flynn Case  Choosing of Jury   Choosing of Jury Is Laborious Task

NO LETUP IS GIVEN. TO AREAS   Softening Up Process Is Continued Unabated by Powerful Allied Air Force.

ITALIANS REJECT SURRENDER ORDER ISLAND IS BOMBED   Enemy Stiffens Resistance on Pantelleria But Efforts Are Ineffective, Enemy Lost 36 Planes.   REDS DESTROY PLANco IN SIX AXIS PLACES   Americans Resume Bombing of Japs at Munda, Chinese Beat Enemy In Desperate Fighting.

Effort To Kayo. Stepping Stones Still Progresses   36 More Axis Planes Destroyed In Latest Mediterranean Battle

Landing Attempts Believed Imminent   Yanks Raid Sicilian Airdromes; Lampedusa Said Being Encircled

United French Movement Out  But Factions Agree On Military Matters

Single French Movement I:  Held Unlikel;   No Prospects At This Time For Unity Of Two Groups, Asserts General Giraud

FRENCH ACCORD ONLY MILITARY   Politics Not Discussed Is Report Of Giraud

No Prospect of Any Sinale United French Movement at Present: Giraud

FRENCH UNITY HOPES BLASTED   Giraud and De Gaulle Have Working Agreement for War Only, ’Tis Said

Giraud Says No Prospect. of a United France   Agreement With General DeGaulle Is Military, Economic

FRENCH FORCES NOT TO UNITE, GIRAUD SAYS   North African Chief Says Arrange ment One of Liaison—Jews t Regain Properly

UNITED FRONT BY FRENCH IS YET TO COME   DEPENDS ON PARLEYS WITH DeGAULLE, GEN, GIRAUD SAYS TODAY

FRENCH UNITY NOT AT HAND   Giraud Declares ‘No Prospect’ For Single United Move At this Time

No Single United French Move Set  Giraud In Agreement With Gen. de Gaulle  Qn Military. Finances

FRENCH UNITY UNLIKELY NOW; ~ BIRAUD SAYS   Declares Agreement With De Gaulle Will Be “Liaison on Military, Economic and Financial Matters.”

GIRAUD DENIES      Says Pact is Based “ n Military, Economic —. — Matters

SINGLE UNITY OF FRENCH HELD NOT IN PROSPECT NOW   Military, Economic, Financial Harmony in Making, However, Says Giraud

French Union  Still Remote   Giraud To Work With DeGaulle, However

FRENCH UNITY NOT ACHIEVED   Political Complications Regarding Africa As Numerous As Ever

Outline French Liaison Plans  No Prospects of Single Movement Now

French Unity Is Still Far Away   Giraud Says Only Pact Is ‘Military’

No Prospect Of Single United — French Movement, Says Giraud   Only Agreement With DeGaulle Is On  Military, Economic, Financial Issues

Giraud Says Agreement Not Political   French Alliance in North Africa One “of Liaison on Military, Economie and Financial Affairs”

Giraud Sees No United French Move   Says Only Agreement Made With DeGaule Of Liaison Nature

No Full Unity Yet Says Giraud  Says He And DeGaulle Will Cooperate With Uce OF Liaicon Plan

Giraud Sees No United France   Two French Leaders Did Not Discuss Polities

Solid Movement Uniting French Not Considered   ‘Giraud Calls Pact Liaison Of Military, Economic And Financial Subjects

Governors Fight Gasoline Slash .   Say It Would Lead To Much Competition

22 SHIPS AND 15,000 MEN ARE LOST FROM CONVOY; NOT SINGLE SHIP GETS THROUSH   Smashing Defeat Upsets Japanese Attempt to Stem Tide of Victories   ‘SEVERE REVERSAL

Enemy Loses 22 Ships, 15,000 Men   Allied Bombers Wipe Out Entire  Enemy Force Bound for Lae

acArthur's anes Blast emy Ships   ip Strategy slocated by  & Sea Vietary

Japs Lose 15,000 Troops As Entire Convoy Destroyed   MacArthur's Air Forces Inflict “Major Dis aster” on Japanese Invasion Fleet in Battle of the Bismarck Sea

JAP CONVOY — DESTROYED   Allied Bombers In The South Pacific Destroy Entire Convoy, Jap Losses 22 Ships, 15,000 Men, 38 Planes

ALLIED PLANES — DESTROY CONVOY OF 22 VESSELS   MacArthur's Airmen Shoot Up 55 Planes And Completely Dislocate Nip Plan To Reinforce New Guinea

Not A Single Enemy Craft Gets Through Bombing To Destination   95 JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED, WE LOSE FOUR   Japs’ Timetable For Pacific War Thrown Off Schedule By Crushing Defeat

22 SHIPS AND 15,000 MEN ARE LOST FROM CONVOY; NOT SINGLE SHIP GETS THROUGH   Smashing Defeat Upsets Japanese Attempt to Stem Tide of Victories

TEN WARSHIPS, 12 TRANSPORTS ARE BLASTED IN TWO-DAY BATTLE   Enemy Time-Table Is Thrown Far Off Schedule: 38 Nipponese Planes Downed

Enemy Cruisers, Destroyers and 99 Planes Included in Losses; Yanks Lost One Bomber, 3 Fighters   Is the Most Complete and Overwhelming Allied Victory in the South Pacific Since War Began.

NIPPON'S PROP™AM IN SOUTH PACIFIC BADLY SHATTERED   Crushing Loss of 22 Ships and 15,000 Men Inflict ed by Allied Bombing Dle msc

e Was Something Behind It  Southern Revolt Was ot Unpremeditated

Bolt Threat Causes Deep   Dissatisfaction. of Southern Senators: Of Long Standing

Reasons Behind New Deal Threat   Complaints Against Administration Lead Some Toa Think Deeper Into Third Party Suggestion.

Allied Planes  Plaster Japs   Drop 80 Tons Of Explosives On New Georgia Island, 60 Tons On Lae.

Allied Fliers Harass Japs In Solomons   ‘Dump Tons of Bombs Also in Burma; Nips Lose \ Terns.

Bombers Continue Pounding Japs   Loss of Largest U.S. Sub Revealed

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND JAP BASES   Enemy Occupies French Con: cession in China

Allies Step Up Attaeks  On Burma Line   Bombers Pound Japs—Chinese Repulse Thrusts

Allies Blast Jap Bases ©   Continue Heavy Air Assault on Burma And in the Solomons

Allied Bombers Pound Jap Bases   Positions in Solomons and Burma Hit

Jap Positions In Solomons, Burma Hit   Huge Loads Of Ex. plosives Dumped By Bombers

JAP AIR BASE ABLAZE AFTER BOMB POUNDING BY YANKS   MUNDA BLASTED IN SOLOMONS, BURMA AREA HIT BY INDIA-BASED ALLIED AIR RAIDERS   ‘FIGHTING BLAZES ON  SALWEEN RIVER FRONT

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST AT NIPS   Warplanes Pound Buin-Fais Area in Solomons—Burmese Targets Hit

BOMBS RAINED ON ENEMY ISLE   Allied Fliers Blast at Jap Positions on New Georgia and Lae

Allies And Japanese Trade Blows In Pacific War Areas   Nipponese Positions on New Georgia Pounded With Eighty Tons of Explosives, While Sixty Tons Are Firopae Gin Lack arch, acamacie coe am" ‘ Bena Geon and Wagsi inlet

YANKS BOWB JAP BASE ON GEORGIA ISLE   Nips Also Hit in Burma, Solomons; Chinese Halt Attackers

Yankees Start Fires af Munda   Attack Japanese Air Base on New Georgia Island, Announced

MUNDA RAIDED AGAIN   Vires Started At Jap Airbase On New Georgia Island

Bombers Take Fight To Japs In Solomons  Burma Also Is  Scene Of Heavy Sunday Attacks

ALLIED AIR ATTACKS UPON JAPS CONTINUE   MacArthur’s Airmen Giving Enemy No Respite

American Artillery Blasts Nazis From Mateur’s Hills   Tons of Metal Every Minute Hurled Into Foe As U.S Tanks Storm German Strong Points

Russian Troops Driving Ahead In Orel Sector   New, Striking Gains Are Made In Sudden Offensive By Red Army   POWERFUL TANK FORCES LEADING

Soviets Launch New _ Attack On Germans   Russians Claim Counteroffensive On Orel Front Has Gained 28 Miles And Recaptured 110 Towns

New Russian Blows Aimed From 2 Sides   Soviets  Advance From North and East of Key City   Other Red Army Troops Whittle Down Enemy Gains at Belgorod

GOOD ADVANCE NEARING OREL, REDS REPORT   Russian break-through in north is now being widened

Near County Bond Goal In Campaign   Final 5 Days of Drive Should Put Community Over Top in War Loan, Anderson Ralieves .

Military Plans Have Been Laid In Chungking   Continental Push Against Japs Is Subject of Parley

Three Powers Agree On a Jap Campaign   President Says U. S., Britain and China Are in Complete Accord on New Operations That Mean “Bad News” for the Nips.

U.S.. Britain. China Join in Program of Operations  on Asian Continent   NO DETAILS GIVEN

3 Powers Agree  On New Drive  Against Japs —   President Discloses Agree-bent Reached At  Chonekine. Wd

Reach Agreement About Far East  Campaign Mapped, Reports President

U.S. CHINA AND BRITAIN PLAN ALL-OUT BLOWS   Roosevelt Discloses Agreement Entered Into At Chungking Parley of  Military Heads ~~   MEANS BAD NEWS TO FOE, EXECUTIVE SAYS   Says Victories In Southwest Pacific Carries Out Program of Whirtling Awe av Nip Strength

FDR Hails “Bad News” For Japs As U.S., Britain And China Plan United Drive

. 5, CHIEFS, MOUNTBATTEN CHIANG MEET   "Other Allied d Meetings To Be Held But No Plans Made For Confab With Stalin, Churchill

—~FAU  MILITARY HEADS AGREE ON PLAN   President Announces Results Of Recent Far e East Conference.   U.S. REPRESENTED      British And Chinese Officials Also Attend Chungking Parley

Allies Agree Upon Jap War; WLB Wrestles Coal Decision; 5 Soldiers Dead At Pickett

Three Powers  In Accord   U. S., Britain and China Agreed on New Military Operations

FDR SAYS ALL AGREE ON NEW JAP CAMPAIGN   U. S., Britain, China Have ‘Bad News’ For Enemy

U, S., BRITAIN, CHINA OUTLINE CAMPAIGN PLAN   Session at Chungking Means “Bad News for Japan,” President Roosevelt Says Today

Complete Agreement. 5 Reached on Opera tions: 4 "Against Japs ir in. a Chia ind

An Agreement on Military Move   Announced by Great Britain, U. S. and China in the China War Theatre.

Conference In Chungking   Will Mean Bad News For Japanese, Roosevelt Announces

NEW WAR PLA TO KNOCK OUT JAPS ARE MADE   No Details Revealed by President, However—Hopes To Meet Stalin Soon

America, Britain, China Agree On New Military Operations Against Foe

MORE BAD NEWS FOR JAPANESE   FDR Tells. of. Tripartite Agreement: for New Action it China

REACH AGREEMENT ON CHINESE WAR   President Says U. S., Britain, China Have Approved New Military Decisions for Action

FDR Promises Mighty Allied Drive On Jap:   Plans Completed While Nipponese Navy Takes Further Drubbing

U.S., Britain and China Reach Agreement on New Operations Against Japs

British, Chinese, American Pact New Jap Threat   F. DB. Reveals Agreement Is Signed For Military Operations In China

NEW ACTIVITIES OUTLINED, SAYS F. R’S REPORT   Military Leaders in Complete Agreement on Handling Campaign

Chungking Conference Completed   New Drive Means Bad News For Japs, Says Roosevelt In Telling Of Decisions

Jap Attack Set By Britain, 0. s. and China.   Chinese Lose Ground in Yangtze Battle

Roosevelt Says Full Agreement Has Been Made   Meanwhile, Puppet Of 5 Jap Conquerec Areas Meet, Hea  Peace Plan

NEWS FOR JAPS, FDR DECLARES   Plans For New Operations Completed At Parley In Chungking

BAD NEWS FOR JAPS— A New Blow Is  Poised   U. S., Britain, China Reach Full Accord, Roosevelt Reveals

BAD NEWS FOR NIPPONESE PROMISED BY ROOSEVELT   President Announces Agreement By United States, Britain And China For New Military Operations

Eighth Wonder of the War--     U. C. Expert Puts Streteh in Turkey .

SOLDIERS WILL HELP   1000 Servicemen To Aid Harvesting Of Tomato Crop

Former Priest  At Merrill Dies  Rev. T. J. McKenna  Succumbs To I]]Jness

Former Priest  At Merrill Dies  ~ Rev. Ted ‘McKenna’  Succumbs To: Tilnecc

Establishment of Permanent State Code Revision Committee ls Suggested by Attorney General

ATTENDED BY 1000   Party Last Night Was One of the Best Ever Held in City   TO DIVIDE PROCEEDS

BIRTHDAY BALL IS ATTENDED BY 1000   Party Last Night Was One of the Best Ever Held in City   TO DIVIDE PROCEEDS

MINERS IGNORE ULTIMATUM OF PRES, ROOSEVELT   Leave Jobs At Midnight As Con tracts Expire — Few Still In Pits

Miners Ignore © FR’s Ultimatum   Less, Fhan 25, 000 . Men Remain. In. Pits

FDR’S ULTIMATUM TO CONTINUE COAL IMINING IS IGNORED   Less) Than 25,000 United ' Mine Workers On Job. _ When Contracts  os

TAMPERING WITH ARMY TANKS — REVEALED ON THE WEST COAST   BEALS GN SOME NEW TANKS WERE SROKEN—LINK GEEMAN GROUP. WITH  g PEARL HAKBOR

CARL W. KRAUSE - SERVICES TODAY   Stanton Township Resident Since 1904 Passed Away Friday

USt He TANAY   Stanton Township Resident Since 1904 Passed Away Friday

Death Of Carl Krause Friday  Well Known Farmer In Stanton Townshin

‘Continuous Raids Schedulec Until War Has Been Won   y Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Reports On Siy Months OF War: Promises Plenty Bombing

Rains Send Rivers Up   Downpours on Neosho And Marais des Cygnes May Bring Overflows

CITY FLAMING AS ‘CHUTISTS SWARM DOWN      ‘Enemy in Advance of  Seven Miles on  Tunis Front

Argentine President  Disappears   Flees Capital as Military Junta Takes Control

Argentine’s Military Junta In Control And Castillo Flees Country

President Castillo Fleeing to Uruguay   Rawson, Heading Revolutionists, Arrests Pro-Axis Friend— Declares Martial Law

REVOLUTION ~INARGENTINE  BLOW TO AXIS   Pro-Allied Junta Rules In Buenos Aires After Brief Battle.   CASTILLO IN FLIGHT   Gusting “of Last ‘Neutral’ Government In Hemisphere Costs 39 Lives.

Red Cross War Fund Drive Near  $6,000.00 Quota   $4,671.41 Deposited; With Chairmen and Dis: tricts to Report

Eldred Borough and Eldred Township Collections Will Send Campaign Far Over the Top; Special Gifts and Industrial Donations Heavy

DROWNS IN LAKE AT STATE PARK    Body of Strawberry Point  Youth Recovered.

Panel Convicts Fourteen Drivers   Cases Of Alleged Pleasure Motorists Heard Tuesday.

FOURTEEN DRIVERS ARE FOUND GUILTY      Cases of Alleged Pleasure Drivers Heard by ~  " Danal

FOURTEEN DRIVERS ARE FOUND GUILTY   Cases of Alleged Pleasure Drivers Heard by Panel

‘Allied Airmen Sunk Or Damaged 7 Warships And i 5 Merchantmen   ACTION OCCURRED IN KAVIENG AREA

3 MORE SHIPS HIT IN PACIFIC   Fourth Possibly Damaged In Breaking Up Jap Concentration At Kavieng

M’Arthur Toll Of Ships Grows   3 More Hit in Addition TT, 8 Warchins Sunk

8 OTHER FOE ‘SHIPS HIT OFF NEW IRELANE      Yanks Make Heaviest Assault on Kiska; mn Attu Blasted

Three More Jap Ships Bombed   Massed Enemy Naval Might Is Dispersed

8 OTHER FOE SHIPS HIT OFF   Yanks Make Heaviest Assault on Kiska; Attu Blasted

F.R. Gets Huge U.S. Farm Bill   SOLONS ABANDON FUNDS FOR CROP INSURANCE ON WHEAT AND COTTON

Whiskey Offer Makes Stock  Prices Zoom   Amer, Distilling Co. Shares Up to $100; Can Buy Barrel Whiskey With Each Share.   COMPANY WILL LIQUIDATE SUPPLY   Chooses This Method Rather Than Rationing Its Stock During Shortage

GENERAL FORREST ‘MAY BE PRISONER AFTER KIEL RAID   Fellow Airman Says Severai "chuted te Safety from Damaced Fort.

General Forrest Missing In Raid   Descendant of Famous  General May Be Safe

BRICKER OFFERS FARM SOLUTION   In Rapid City Talk, Gives Five-Point Program to End Chaos

Bricker Offers ~ Five Point Plan   Has Program Designed To Overhaul Chaotic Agricultural Situation

BRICKER GIVES OVERHAUL PLAN   Agricultural Situation  Chaotic State, Governor Tells Westerners

BRIGKER OUTLINES O-POINT PROGRAM   G. O. P, Presidential Hope Presents Plan to Overhaul Farm Situation.

PEROUNAL FLEA PUM PRESIDEN   Roosevelt Orders Striking Miners to Return to Work at Once.

PERGONAL PLEA FROM PRESIDEN   Roosevelt Orders Strikis ’- Miners to Return to‘ Work at Once.

WILL RETAIN COMMAND   Seventh Army May Be Given New Task Under Patton

EXPECT PATTON ‘TO KEEP POST   High Command's Need for Leader Indicated

Congressional Leaders Indicate Gen. Patton Will Be Kept In Command Of Seventh Army

“Hands Off’ On Patton   Position As Chief . Of 7th Army Prob: ably Won’t Be Challenged: By Congress:

No Objections By Congress To Retain Patton   Leader Of Seventh Army Arrives In Cairo; Appearance Explained.   SEES FoR IN SiLCILY

State Draft Setup Similar  To Measure Before Congress   Non-Essential Workers With Children Will Be Called In  April, State Draft Director Says

VITEBSK NOW WITHIN RANGE OF RED GUNS   NAZIS MAKE LAST EFFORT TO CURB FLANK ATTACK

Russian Forces Sweep Southward Under Barrage  MORE TOWNS HELD BY SOVIET FORCES Germans Reported Mov . ing in Fresh Tonk Units

Russians Drive Nearer Vitebsk As Nazis Retreat   Series of German Attacks Repulsed

Red Artillery Only 15 Miles From Vitebsk   Gain on Baltic Front Despite Reinforced German Resistance  NAZI ATTACKS FATE

SOVIET BALTIC ARMY CLOSES IN ON VITEBSK   Reds Take Heavy Tell Of Foe, Capture 20 More Places

REPUBLICANS HAVE OPENED CAMPAIGN   Three Prominently Mentioned as Presidential Candidates Approve.

GOP LAUNCHES ITS CAMPAIGN FOR NEXT YEAR   Platform Nucleus Approved By Three Potential Candidates For President

GOP Launches 1944 Campaign   Three Candidates Support Policy Plans

GOP STATEMENT MAY BE NUCLEUS OF PLATFORM   Dewey, Bricker Voice Approval

G.0.P. Draws Up Platform Nucleus   Two Statements On Policy Issued

GOP Candidates Agree on Policy   Tentative Platform Is Given Approval

Salvation Army Among First to Start War Job   Democracies Unprepred at Start, But lank at "bm Now

IGHLIGHTS OF AR PASS IN FW   Democracies Unpreat Start, But Ipok at ‘Em Now

Plans to Utilize Every Farm Acre—Direct Food Consumption Items Such as Dry Beans, Peas, Wheat and Potatoes Would Get First Claim on Use of Land—-Proposed Plantings Would Produce Record Output.

Farm Goals For.‘44 (all For ‘Utmost’   Shift Emphasis To Direct Food Consumption Crops

Set Goal for ‘44 Food Production As Needs Grow  To Call for Use of Every Crop Acre,   To Call for Use of Every Crop Acre, » All Farm Facilities

GFD Calls for Use of Every Crop Acre and very Agriculture Facility in Countrv   MING PATTERN CHANGES PLANNED   Wgantic Program Made oad by Increasing = Military and Foreign  : Reef Demands

High Production Levels Set For Farm Products   Overall Increase To Call For Full  Cree: Beene

arm Product Goals Set To Use All Aeres   Food Consumption Crops To Get First Claim On Use Of Cropland.   CULTIVA EE LANDS

NEW FARM GOALG ASKING MORE FOOL   Military And Foreign Demand To Be Heavy In "44

WFA Sets 1944 Farm Objectives   Series of Meetings To Present Goals

Significant Changes In Agricultural Pattern Is Proposed By WFA Leaders

POLICE ADMIT MURDER PROBE COOLING DOWN   Bellboy Only Suspect Held In Slaying Of WAC Corporal

MURDER OF WAC STILL UNSOLVED   But Young Hotel Worker Remains in Custody ~

DUBUQUE MEN ~ SENT TO CAMP   21 Leave for Camp Dodge To Begin Army Life

BOARD 2 GROUP GOES 10 DODGE   12 Enter Army, Others in Navy, Marine Corps

DRAFT BOARD 2 SENDS 50 MEN   Two County Officials Are Among Those Called

17 LEAVE HERE FOR ARMY WORK   Board  Dispatches Group That Recently Passed

17 DUBUQUERS ARE INDUCTED   Group Leaves Sunday Night  For Training

20 GO IN GROUP FOR ARMY DUTY   Ten Others Are Accepted For Service in Navy

BOARD 1 SENDS G4MENTOCAMP   Final Physical Tests for Group at Camp Dodge

NEW SOLDIERS SENT T0 DODGE   21 From Board 2 Leave to Begin Army Routine

14 GO 10 DODGE RECEPTION CAMP   Board 2 Sends Out Group On Thursday Night

BOARD 1 SENDS OUT TWO GROUPS   One Takes Physicals While Other Enters Training

SEND 47 MORE TO ARMY CAME   Draft Board 2 Dispatches Group Early Tuesday

ANOTHER GROUP SENT 10 DODGE   16 Enter Army; !2 Others Will Become Sailors

BOARD 2 SENDS OUT BIG GROUE   52 Leave for Final Test: Others Begin Training

BRITISH MOSQUITO BOMBERS ALSO HIT INDUSTRIAL RUHR VALLEY AND THE RHINELAND

NAZI TARGETS HIT BY FORTS   Undisclosed Industrial Area Bombarded Heavily by Americans

U.S. Flyers Make Daylight Raids On Nazi Targets   ‘Attacks Follow Night As. saults Made By British Bombers   GERMAN PLANES ATTACK BRITAIN

NAZI TROOPS IN VOLTURNO AREA BLASTED   Allies Capture Over Dozen Towns   YANKS PRESS ON   Increase Pressure on German Flanks

GERMANS FLEE  VOLTURNG VALLEY   Blasted From Positions by Fifth Army Assaults

DIRECT RELIEF ALLOTMENT CUT   MISSOURI HOUSE COMMITTEE SLASHES $600,000 FROM PROPOSED ITEM.

Direct Relief Fund  Bill Slashed By  House Committee War Job Boom Has  Sliced Relief Rolls by Half Osburn Savs

Deputies Go To Arrest Two.   A. L. Crable and J. T. Daniel Refuse to Go To Tulsa for Pleas

CRABLE, DANIEL FACING ARREST   Gilmer Declares Two Men Refused to Answer Voluntarily to Charges

Beaverbrook  Demands 2nd Front At Once   Now Is The Time To Strike In Europe, House Of Lords Told

BEAVERBROOK ASKS IMMEDIATE SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE   Sayacs \Northwestera.:Europe, Would Be Best Place— ‘ Should Be By Air Land And Sea

Beaverbrook Asks Second font Now   Soviet Envoy,: Maisky, Ai > Calls for Action

More Levees Out As Flood  Moves Eas!   Thousands of Acres Are Flooded Near Boonville; Break at Marion   McBAINE SECTION ALSO INUNDATED   The Independence. - Liberty Bridge May Go; One Span Out, Another Threatened

PTOoOQAT. GRePRVATIONG   Reinforce Levees In East Missouri   With Some Levees Already Out River Floods Addt tional Acres.

AMERICAN UNIT DRIVES NEAR COAST   Germans Facing New Crisis On  Russian Front

To Drive Axis Off  Continent   British, American and French Forces About to Get Together

ALLIED. ARMIES READY 10 JOIN IN BIG AT TAGK   American, British And French Forces Will Participate In General Assault   NAZIS FACING SERIOUS CRISIS IN RUSSIA ALSO   Russian Offensive Gaining Momentum, Threatening New Trap For Nazis

Turks Reported  Granting Bases   Allies Getting Important Dats. Save Barkan

jurkey Ready to Grant Important bases to Allies Italy Radio Reports

Italy Hears Turk Bases Given Allies   ‘Bari Radio Reports Agreement Regched; Nazi Envoys Called

TURKS MAY GIVE ' ENGLAND BASES   Bari Radio Claims Agreement Already Reached To Cede Facilities On Same Basis As ‘Deal’ In Azores

ENEMY LOSSES TOTAL 112 SHIPS IN LAST 2 DAYS   Nazis Admit Attacks, Claim Number of Planes Destroyed Wrong °

ALLIES GET 12 MORE BIG AXIS AERIAL LINERS   Toll Of Enemy Aircraft Up Ta 112 In 48 Hours As Ground Action  ane

Allied Bag Of Axis Air Transports, Fighters 112 In Tunisia Battle

TOLL INCLUDES 70 BIG LADEN TRANSPORTS   Germans Say All Reports Greatly Exaggerated   Made By Nazis In Ground Fighting: No Signs Of Wholesale Evacuation

BLIND AMERICANS DOING THEIR PART   ‘Earned More Than Million by War Production

BLIND WORKERS EARN MILLION   Many Doing Vital Work i Factories Throughout United States

Russians Stage Counterattack   Report Recapture of Several Villages

Russian Army Recaptures Some Villages   2,000 Germans Are Reported Killed in Savage Fighting

Russian Army Recaptures Some Villages  2,000 Germans Are   2,000 Germans Are Reported Killed in Savage Fighting

SUBSIDY LIMIT SOUGHT BY COP   "May Seek To Prevent Ex. pansion Of Program

F. D, SUBSIDY VICTORY MAY BE TEMPORARY   Senate Foes Of Price Rollback Seek To Limit It

SENATE FOES TRY TO LIMIT SUBSIDYROLLBACK POLICY      Veto Also Kills 2 Year CCC Extension Bill — Now Continued Only 6 Months

Senate Foes Try to Limit Roosevelt Food Subsidies   President’s Veto Sustained, Amount Of Money to be Spent Now is Issue

EFFORT ON TO PUT LIMIT ON ROLLBACKS   Senate ‘Subsidy Program Foes Plan New Bill After Veto

ROLLBACK FOES, BEATEN BY VETO, TRY NEW ATTACK   Senate Opponents Seek te Limit Subsidies to Meat, Bulter. Coffee.

Russians May Drive Info Crimea Soon   Major German-Held Bases In Danger; Reds Force Crossings on Dnieper

Soviet Armies _ Nearly Control ‘Last Dniepe   Strong Enemy Resistance Being Broken Down By Reds On 400-Mile Front

Other Columns Apply Pressure To Kiev Bastion   Last German Hold In Caucasus Taken As Foe Evacuates

Germans © Bring Up ~ - Reserves   Every Effort Being Made te Hold Back Russians Up and Down Duientr   BUT REDS KEEP .ADVANCE GOING   Biggest Gains Are Made in Gomel Area, With Many Towns. Liberated

RUSSIANS POUND REICH’S DEFENSE LINES AT RIVER   Eastern Bank of Dnieper Vir. tually All in Hands Of Reds

Kiev Base Tottering; Soviets Are Pouring Across Dnieper River   Greatest German Defense Base On Eastern Front Falls To Frontal, Flankine Aceaul,

CROSS DNIEPER AND TAKE CITY      Heavily Fortified Rail Town Of Roslavi Also Is Canotured   SOVIET CAPITAL ECHOES TO SALVOES OF 224 GUNS

Terrific Attack By Reds Seizes Vital Nazi Race   German Army Reels Back Toward Old Polish Border

PREMIER STALIN ELATED AS NAZI ARMY RETREATS   Other Soviet Troops Enter Suburbs of Kiev as Foe Defenses Crack

Hitler’s Legions Fall Back Over Graves Of Napoleon’s Soldiers: Moscow Celebrates

Kiev Totters As Kussian Troops Double Pressure   Victory Hailed As Greatest Of Summer

‘Smolensk Is TakenByRed:   Beaten Nazis Reel Back As Dnieper Defenses Crumble

Soviet Troops. TakeSmolensk   Stubborn German Resistance: . 5 - Overcome by Advancing Russians

Americans Move Into Aleutians   IMPORTANT ISLAND IS OCCUPIED BY YANKS

Yanks Crossing Volturno Met Murderous Nazi Machine-Guns, Like Forcing Meuse In 1918

Flames Sweep Reich’s Capital   Goebbels Admits ‘Anxiety’ Over Air Onealanmhic

Parts of Bertin Left Burning in Major RAF Raid   Lancasters Smash City Sixth Time

30 Bombers Lost by RAF In Big Attack   German Communique Admits City Suffers Considerable Damage  SIXTH MAIOR RAID

Allied Bombs Are Causing Nazis Anxiety   Goebbels’ Admission Follows Heavy Attack on Berlin

FIRES SWEEP BERLIN AFTER "RAF ASSAULT   1,500 Tons of Bombs Dumped on City; 30 Planes Lost

BERLIN FIRES RAGE HOURS AFTER RAID   ATTACK CATCHES DEFENSES BY SURPRISE—30 BRITISH PLANES LOST.

Fires Sweep Much Of Berlin Aiier Latest RAF Raid  : German Capital Hit _ by 1500 Tons of

Fiames Gnaw at Crumbling Capital of Germany  30 BOMBERS LOST IN LATEST ATTACK  Germa ns Acknowledge Considerable Damage to City

Arawe Secure With US Plane Protection   Am _ ~ Serin7urs:  .g7 A> 428874722 ter 5: .-TOM Megs ae Yate. —~ae 7 ngacliine, amecnuent Me Dw

FLAMES GNAW AT CRUMBLING NAZI CAPITAL   DINNERTIME RAID CATCHES CITY BY SURPRISE

NAZI CAPITAL LEFT ON FIRE   Berlin Stunned By 1,500 Ton Load Of Bombs At Dinner Hour

Huge Fires Set In Berlin Raid   1,500 Tons of Bomb: Dropped on Capital

Flames Gnaw At Battered Berlin   Nazis Admit Raid  Damanane fc Henvy

American Seventh Army Establishes Bridgehead North Sicilian Coast

SEVENTH ARMY ATTACKS NEAR CAPE ORLANDO   Bridgehead Established Behind Germans Despite Vicious Counterthrust   GRIM STRUGGLE RAGES   Reuters Reports Axis Evacuation Of Sicily Now Is In Full Swing

‘Sea-Borne Units OFU.S. Forces In Second Landing   New Bridgehead On Northern Coast Of Sicily After Spectacular Move   MORE U. 8. TROOPS BEHIND NAZI LINE

TH. ARMY, AGAIN LANDS SEA UNIT IN NORTH SICILY   Eighth Army Now Half Way from Cesaro to Key City of Randazzo

U. S. ARMY PRAISED BY SWISS PRESS   Dispatches Say Axis Fully ' Realizes Dangerous Position

SWISS SAY AXIS FULLY REALIZES --BIG-DANGER NOW   Italy in Precarious Position Due to Loss of All of Afrina.

WARNS AGAINST MONOPOLIES IN POST WAR ERA   Senator Kilgore of W. Va., Sees Potential Dan: gers in New Substitutes

Post-War Peril Cited:  Kilgore Sees Monopoly In Synthetic Industry

Says Monopoly In Synthetics To Mar Peace   Sen. Kilgore Would Release To Industry Patents On Wartime Processes

Office Set Up for Recruiting Labor  WT Bina Im Miners nt On   H. J. Rice In Charge of Securing Farm Help

Office Set Up for Recruiting Labor   H. J. Rice In Charge of Securing Farm Help

RICE BOWL CITY FREED OF JAPS   Sino and American Planes Back Counter Attack by Chinese

YANK BOMBERS OVER GERMANY AGAIN TODAY   Second Straight Day of Attacks  On Nazi Targets

U, 0 BOMBER IVER GERMANY AGAIN TODAY   American Heavyweights Hit Targets Of Hitlerland Second Straight Day

German Targets Blasted Again By U. S. Bombers   Eighth Air Force Planes Strike At  Reich Installations

INERICAN PLANES ROB TARGETS IN WESTERN’ REIGH   Attack Follows Raid By British Light Mosquitoes   NAZIS AGAIN THREATEN USE OF SECRET WEAPON

8th Army Breaks Through Nazis Adriatic Defenses;  Red Drive Threatens Foe

U.S. Bombers Again Pound Nazi Targets   Aitack Follows British Night Blasting of Bremen

Allied Planes Carry Out Major Atfacks   Japanese Shipping, Airdromes Take Heavy Pastinc

Canadians Kid 13 Raids on Kiska in Day   Liberators Also Blast Shortlands Area and: Japs’ Vila Base

13 Attacks On Kiska Are Reported By Navy Dept.   Number Of Buildings Destroyed And Hits Are Also Made On Runwiry

KISKA POUNDED  HARD AGAIN BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Canadian Fliers Join Amer -icans In’ New Series of  13 Raids On Japanese Positions   WRECK BUILDINGS   First Time Canadians Re ported’ In Action In . Aleutians Since Last September

Canadians Join In Kiska Raids   ‘Allied Bombers Blast Japanese Merchant Ship in Arafura Sea

CANADIANS JOIN IN KISKA ATTAGK   Jap Base Pounded in 13 Raids Monday

Kiska Island  Attack Joined By Canadians   Number Of Buildings. At Japanese Base Are Destroyed By Group Of Allied Fliers

RAID JAP POSITIONS   Canadians and. Americans Were in on Attack on Kiska

HAND ON KISKA   Jap Merchant Ship Blasted By Bomber, From McArthur Base.   RANGOON AGAIN BOMBED

BUILDINGS ON KISKA BLASTED   American And Canadian Fliers Raid Jap Positions.

WPB SURVEYS WHAT CIVILIANS ACTUALLY NEEL   Retonversion of Arms Plants to Peacetime Operafions Being Planned

Treasury Plans To Raise-Taxes  12 Billion Dollars . ‘Souaht by Dept.

WITHHOLDING TAX HIKE 0 30 P, C. SEEN   Treasury Eyes Higher Levy on Cigarets, Liquor and Surtax; Seeks 12 Billions

FOR SLAUGHTERERS   Brown Says Pork Action Planned First; Move Being Made to Combat Black Markets

OPA TO FIX MEAT PRICE CEILINGS   SLAUGHTERERS TO BE LI CENSED IN PROGRAM TO COMBAT BLACK MARKET.

OPENS CAMPAIGN ON BLACK MARKE   Licenses For Slaughterers and Ceiling Prices on Beef, Pork Proposed.

Beef and Pork Price Ceilings Being Prepared   Uniform System Soon 1 Be Announced for the Nation

OPA WILL FIX NEW CEILINGS ON BEEF, PORK      Meat Ration Expected tc be About 134 Pounds a Week

OPA Plans Lid For Pork. Beef   License System for Slaughterers to Combat Black Market

New Ceilings On Beef, Pork Planned Soon.  OPA Reveals   Rationing of Meats, Cheese, Butter, Fats Due About April 1, One Source Discloses  134 POUNDS MEAT PER WEEK LIKELY  Slaughter Licensing Planned in Offensive Against Black Market

Uniform Price Ceilings to Be  Put on Meats   LicensesForSlaughterers  Planned ta Combat nn.) oo a? oe

SOLON FEELS ARMY QUOTAS COULD BE CUT WITHOUT HARM   Truman Urges Services Pare Manpower Needs to “Barest Minimum” Before Inducting Fathers

AWAIT RETURN OF HULL FOR DETAILS OF MOSCOW TALKS   Hope He Will Elaborate On Decisions In Addresses

Nation Awaits  Return of Hull   Eager for Details Of Moscow Parley

MAINSTAY LOST IN WHITE HOUSE   Clerk For 8 Presidents. Rudolph Forster, 70, Stricken Suddenly

TIRES UNLIKELY FOR 9 MONTHS   Synthetic Production Has To ___ Go for Essential Needs  —<+vicanstncresennsenenenesneenieaeeeiatsis

Tire re Shortage — Will Continue   Rayon. Cord: rd Production wil Delay ‘Casings —  For. Civilians:

Non-Essential  : Driver Must   Use Re-Caps    Will Not Get New Tires i * the Visible Future, Says ir Bubber Director

Tire Situation to Remain Tight’ for Non-essential Drivers Despite Rise In Production of Synthetic Rubber~

No Tires In Sight For Non-Essential. Drivers Despite Synthetic Production

TIRE SITUATION TIGHT   Outlook Is None too Rosy for the 3 Non-Essential Driver

TRE SITUATION TOREMAN THT FOR FEW MONTHS   Autoists Warned By Dewey of Low Supplies of Rubber Despite Heavy Output of  Synthetics.   BUS, TRUCK INDUSTRY ASKED TO COOPERATE   Armed Forces Have Increased Their Demands For Heavy Duty Tires For   Combat and Airplanes.

Tire Outlook Looms Darker for U.S.   RUBBER CHIEF DEWEY SAYS NONVITAL DRIVER CASINGS FAR DISTANT

Says Tire Situation “Tight”    Nation’s Stockpile Below Danger Point By Next Fall; Rely on Recaps to. Meet Crisis

Non-Essential Driver Must Get Along On Old Tires Despite Synthetic Boom

Sicily Attack May Be Prelude to Drive Through Balkans  Hitler Being Crowded Into Corner

ANALYSIS   Rome Debacle May Force Hitler To Reorganize Entire Front Lines

Allied Successes Crowding Hitler into Tight Corner  Italian Upheaval Increases Dangers

The War loday  Hints Of Allied Move In Balkans May Force Nazi Withdrawal In East

GONGRESS ASKED RECONSIDER LAW   AFL Asks Members of Congress to Reconsider AntiStrike Law Under Pain of Labor’s Opposition at Polls

UTILITIES MAN HELD IN JAIL   Felony Theft By Swindling Charged Seagraves

BIG TASKS FACED BY DRAFT BOARDS   Work of Rec Reclassifying Registrants to Get Under Way

Maryland Draft Registrants To Be Reclassified at Once, Stanwood Says

Gen. Nogues Resivas Post   Gabrel Paux Named To Succeed Him, Aleiers Radio Says

General Marshall Reported Picked To Command Allied Force in Europe

Marshall May Lead   Present Chief of Staff Slated to Command Any Invasion from England

Marshall to Be Chief of Ally Invasion   U. §. CHIEF OF STAFF WILL LEAD BLOW AT HITLER'S FORTRESS

Senators Receive New Tax Bill; Approval Is Seen  Measure Would Levy $2,140,000,000  Further on Notion

NEW TAX BILL GIVEN SENATE   Finance Group to Open Hearings Monday; Early Approval Seen.   TREASURY REQUEST CUT

New Tax Bill Passes House; Sent to Senate   Indications Point to Few Changes in Bill as 1¢ Passed House

SENATE WILL OPEED ACTION ON TAX BILL   Sharply Reduced Measure Passed By House

ON ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC   Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley Describes ' Its Work te Kiwanians

FIRST OIL SENT FROM ‘BIG UNCH’   World’s Largest Pipeline From Texas Formally Put In Use

Use Mules to Haul Wounded From Battlefields in Italian Mountains

Mustang Is Capable in Three Fields   Develops Speed Over 400-Miles-an-Hour As Dive-Bomber

Nazis Retreat With Heavy Losses From Three-Sided  Russ Attack on Junction

RUSSIANS PRESS — DRIVE AGAINST NAZI-HELD OREL   Soviet Communique Reports Sharp Gains By ‘ Army Over Ger-

LOWER PRICE ON MEAT SEEN      Becf, Veal, Lamb, Mutton Ceiling Deferred Month — by OPA .

Postpone Ceilings On Meat Products   Will Reexamine Prices In View of President's Order

Bombs Are the Only Way of Impressing Japanese   Jap Civilians Killed in American Raid on Tokyo by Own Pursuit Pilots -- Bellaire

Saw Tokyo Bombing _ From Prison Camp Cell  Says Japs Killed By Own Planes

Jap Civilians Killed in U. S. Raid on Tokyo Were — Victims of Their Own Pilots, Eye-Witness Sav:

Japs Respect Only One Thing, Superior Force, Says Writer, Once Prisoner In Nin Concentration Camp

Calls Jap Executions Of U.S. Fliers Cold-Blooded Murde)   U. P. Correspondent, In Jap Prison, Gazed Through Cell Bars At Americans Raiding Tokyo

RUSSIANS GAIN MORE GROUND iN OREL DISTRICT   Cut German-Held Railroad—Red Offensive Now Carries Serions Threat

More Curiosity About Adolf State Department Gets Report Hitler Has Suffered Breakdown

HITLER REPORTED TO HAVE BROKEN UNDER WAR STRAIN   Story of Nervous Collapse Reaches State Department in Washington but Lacks Confirmation.   DICTATOR SAID TO BE AT MOUNTAIN RETREAT   Rumor Has It That He Is in Seclusion Atop Lofty Peak in Snow-Clad Bavarian - Alps.

You Remember Herr Hitler, Don’t You? —   Reports Are He's Suffering From Nervous Breakdowr

36 Girls Die In Orphanage Blaze  Children Are Trapped In Dormitory When Fire Spreads Quickly

tl DRPHAN GIRLS PERISH IN FLAMES   Soldiers Aid Firemen in Res cue--Orphanage Housed 82 Girls from 4 to 18

OPA Orders Fuel Oil Cuf In Missouri   No. 4 Coupons Invalid by Order Effecting This Section

OPA CUTS FUEL OIL RATIONS TO SOUTH   Southern Ohio Counties Hit By New Edict Which Rescinds 10% Increase Granted Areas Month Ago .

OIL RATION CUT IN G-STATE AREA   Decrease Affects Section That Has Had Severe Winter Weather This Year

SIX INDIANA MEN REPORTED MISSING   Four in European Area; Two in North Africa Action.

THREE FORCE MOVE CLOSER TOROSTOV   Pincers Closing On Rail Center Of Georgievsk   400 NAZIS KILLED   n One Lower Don Battle; French Sabotage Activities Reported

Russian Offensive Retakes 20 More Towns From Enemy   Soviet Forces Continue March Northwest of Stalingrad, Capture 500 Germans, Five Tanks

Reds Gain in Caucasus, © Don Regions   Three Russian Armies Forge ‘Closer to Key City of Rostay

Russians Drive Through Don River Basin Capturing More Towns and Closing Death Trap on Germans Back Of Rostov in Bitter Fighting

Marines Drive Nearer Airfield On New Britair   Now Within Mile And Half Of Air Strip On Cape Gloucester   DESPERATE COUNTER ATTACKS BY JAPS

Marines Retported Within Mile And Half Of Cape Gloucester Airdrome; Yanks At Arawa Resume Advance

Many Nazis Slain, Wounded by French  Sharn Clashes Are   Sharp Clashes Are Reported in Cities

REDS ADVANCE ON BLACK SEA NAZI TOEHOLD   NOVOROSSISK BASE MENACED; SOVIETS 9 MILES AWAY

Novorossisk Black Sea Port Being Threatened By Russ   Eight Other Villages Fall To Advancing Russian Forces: Much War Material Taken

Russians Capture Railway Junction Near Novorossisk   Reds Now Nine Miles from Great Black Sea Port in Caucasus   Seven Thousand Germans Killed in Fighting at Krymskaya

Rail Junction Captured In Advance Of Soviets   Seven Thousand Germans Killed and Eight Villages Seized as Troops Move Forward—Rumanian Port Is Pounded

MANY NAZIS SLAIN IN SOVIET ATTACK   Six Day ‘German Offen sive Repulsed by Red Army

1000 Nazis Killed: Push on Last Big Base in South   8 Other Villages Fall in Advance; Fighting Over 30.Mile Front

Ten Points Taken by Reds  ‘In Caueasus   Rail Junction on Way to Novorossisk =», Is Last by Nazis

~_—=_TrT ee eee  Red Army Hits Germans Hard In Caucasus   7,000 of Enemy Killed, 25 Vehicles Smashed, Moscow Radio Claims

REDS REFULSE 6-DAY GERMAN UFEENSIVE    RussiansClaim 7,000Germans Have Been Killed And 25 Tanks Are Knocked Ont   Heavy Aerial Action

Russians Occupy Town Close to Novorossisk  And Kill 7,000 Nazis  8 VILLAGES FALL _ IN REDS’ ADVANCE  Big Russian Bombers Pound at Objectives Behind German Lines

Soviets Wipe Out 7,000 More Nazis   Troops Are Supported By Active Red Airmen Along Front

7,000 GERMANS DIE IN 6 DAYS   Reds Announce Results 0 Series Of Battles  In Caucasus

Germans’ Loss Is Heavy as Reds Continue Gaining  Nazis Suffer Death, Destruction in erie

Red Army Kills 1,000 More Nazis In the Caucasus   Germans Appear Hopelessly Beaten in Port of Novorossisk

Reds On Move  In The Caucasus   Russians Nine Miles From Black Sea Port Of Novorissisk; Reds Capture Eight Vil' lages, Guns And Material

Russians Kill 7,000 Nazis in  Caucasus Battle   Six-Day German Drive at Black Sea Port Repulsed: Heavy Air  Action in That Area

RUSSIANS KILL 7,000 NAZIS IN 6-DAY. BATTLE   German. Offensive. at Novorossisk is Repulsed

Reds Smash On ln Kuban Drive   Now In Nine Miles OF Big Navi Raea

7,000 NAZIS KILLED IN SIX-DAY BATTLE   Russians Say Enemy Units Wer. Bied White Jn Drive Before Novorossisk

REDS NINE MILES FROM BiG GERMAN BLACK SEA BASE   Smash Enemy Positions on Wide Front in Eight-Mile Plunge in Fierce Caucasian Battle.   OVERRUN 9 VILLAGES, KILL 7,000 HITLERITES   Soviet Bombers Blast NaziHeld Rumanian Port of Constanta as Offensive Opens.

Russians Push Closer to Big  Black Sea Port   7.000 Nazis Killed, Rail Junction Seized in Drive: Airmen  Support Army Units

Rail Junction Of Krymskaya Captured; Russians Are Now Nine Miles From Novorossisk    7,000 Germans Taken Captive And Soviets Push Offensive Against Last Big Axis Base In The Cau- — casus; Red Air Force Is Active

Kill 7000 More Germans And Pust Within:9 Miles [Black Sea Port   Eight Other Vilage: Fall to Advancing Rus. ‘sians; “Roc d Airmen Supporting Ground Trogns -

German Offensive Stopped   Nazi Blows °F ai To. Gain.Near  -- Novorossisk _

Germans Loss Is Heavy as Reds  Continue Gaining Nazis Suffer Death, Destruction in Battle of Caucasus

ALLIES HIT JAPS FROM SOLOMONS TO BASE IN JAVA   ;  Aussies Near Sattelberg in New Guinea; Bomb Bali for First Time

JUNGLE TROOPS PUSH JAPS BACK   Allies Close In On Base Of Sattelberg While Airmen Pound Wide Area

Allied Fighters Closing In On Jap Held Base   Australian Troops Battle Way To Sattelberg In Northern New Guinea   ALLIED AIRMEN KEEP UP ATTACK

SPAIN SEETHES; PREDICT REVOLT   PREMIER FRANCO TALKS WITH SIR SAMUEL HOARE

Report Spain N i) Crisis.  ge T - - § eg...   Sir Samuel: Hoare Meets Franco * .:

Speculating On Spain’s Role in War   British Diploma; Hurries to Conference With Premier Franco

TURMOIL SPREADS © THROUGHOUT INDIA   Government Reports Gandhi's Condition Is Deteriorating.

Japanese Bases Are Doomed   Allied Paratroop Landings on Choiseul Isle Seals Solo mons Fate

THE RUSSIANS GAIN STRONG FOOTHOLD EAST OF DNIEPER   Hold Virtually Every Foot of Land in That Territory. It Is Announced.   FROM GOMEL, NORTH   Down the 650 Miles to the Mouth of the Dnieper Below Kherson.

98,000 Seized And 1,702,000 Wounded in 4 Violent Months   Cossacks Stand Before Kherson. 65 Miles Past Crimea   RULLE TIN

KIEV SUBURBS IN HANDS OF RUSS TROOPS   New Offensive Along West Bank of Dnieper.—Soviets Count Toll Of Nazi Casualties.

RUSSIANS HOLD  VIRTUALLY ALL ; DNIEPER BANK:   Zossacks Sweep io River Opposii Kherson_io Further Cui Naz Holdings East of Rive:   BATTLE IN CRIMEA   Germans Report Heavy Fighting South and East of Kursk, Tank Batile Near Perekeo

Bleed Germans For 2) 700,000  I n Casualties   Report 38,000 Inhabited Settlements Freed in Rich Summer Drive

Casualties in Last Four Months Alone Estimated 2,700,000   Reds Hold Virtually Every Foot of Land East of Dnieper

Stockholm Newspaper Says Government Has Instructed Former Minister to Russia To Be Ready To Go Again To Moscow   ENTIRE EAST BANK OF THE DNIEPER IS CLEAREL

REDS IN BiG AREA BEYOND THE DNIEPER   Hold Virtually Every Foot of Ground From Kherson, Along  650Mile Course Through Ukraine to Gomel.

900,000 GERMANS KILLED IN FOUR MONTHS: STALIN   ENEMY CASUALTIES CLAIMED BY RUSSIA TOTAL 11,000,000

Dnieper Back In Russian Hands Again   Stalin Reports Summer Campaign Cost Nazis ‘2,700,000 Casualties

Census Showing Slight Decline From Last Year   Three Trustees To Be Elected at Anvil 3rd Flection.

MEAT PRODUCTION HIKED   Seasonal Upswing In Pork Output  Brings Biggest Gain $i

WATSON ASKS. GOP TO PLAN POLICY OF INTERNATIONALISM   Association Head Says His Group Will Battle Isolationists In Primaries

Solons Call for Probe of Patton   Senators Say Eisenhower Report ‘By No Means Closes the Matter’

Patton Case Revived By Letter Flood   Aroused Parents of Soldiers Ask Hf Behavior Is Typical Of American Generals

Senate Probes Patton Incident  Eisenhower's Report Indicates -He-Thinks: Cace le Claced

Senate Not : Through with Patton Event   Rockefeller Asked for Accounting of Funds Spent in Latin America: Chinese Exclusion Act on FDR’s Desk

General Patton Incident To Be Probed Further   Letters from Parents of Soldiers Prompt Senate Committee To Discuss the Incident.

FIVE KILLED IN TULSA MISHAF   Victims of Train-Car Colli sion Are All Bomber Plant Employes

Five Killed At Crossing   Bomber Plant Worker: Tulsa Crash Vietims

OPA HEADS HAVE OPENED FIGHT TO SAVE SUBSIDIES      Try To Seli Focd Subsidy Pro gram To Senate Clommittee

BULK OF NIPP RESISTANCE AT MUNDA BROKEN   Yankee Jungle Troops Enveloping Airfield Aiter Smashing Trenche-

YANKS CRUSH BULK OF FOE AT AIRSTRIP   Break Through Flank, Begin Envelopment of Sharply Defended Air Base.   MacArthur Says ‘Major Enemy Element Finished’ as Nips Flee Bombs,

Yankees Crush Main Group Of Japs At Munda   Garrison Of 5,000 Foe Expected To Be Cut Off By Trap

Major Enemy Resistance .  Is Crushed   New Georgia Base * Becomes Death Trap For Garrison Of 5,000

YANKS BREAK THROUGH MAIN MUNDA LINES   Airfield Also Being Enveloped in Final Push

BALANCE OF GARRISON FACES TRAP   Mopping Up May Take Some Time, Says Spokesman

JUNGLE TROOPS CLOSING IN ON JAPS AT MUNDA   Americans Crush Enemy Resistance, Break Thru Main Trenches On One Flank   5,000 FACE ANNIHILATION   Planes Beat Off Attack On Rendova, Destroy Shipping In Surprise Raid

U. §. TROOPS CRUSH BULK OF JAPANESE DEFENSE OF MUNDA   American Airmen Report Enemy Retreat In - Airdrome Area Has Begun 

Crush Bulk of Jap Resistance: At Munda Base   Airfield Being Enveloped by  Junate Troaane

Major Jap Element  Finished   Annihilation Of Enemy May Soon Result

AIRDROME AT MUNDA FALLS TO AMERICANS   Japanese Resistance Broken As Americans Break Through

Army Exemption Plea Didn't Work   Religious Views Didn’t Hold Before Judge Broaddus

100 Bombers Hit Enemy Base On New Britain   Jap Airfields on Bougainville Also  Take Battering -

Pianes Rip Japs   248 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped on New Britain Base

1400 Navy Planes And 150 Warships February Output   Secretary Knox Reveal: Record Production  Of Sea, Air Weapons 700 LANDING BARGES  New Type Vessel Developed to Meet []-Roat Warfare

150 NAVY WARSHIPS — BUILT IN FEBRUARY   Secretary Knox Also Reveals New Type Of Craft Ta Combat Axis Submarine Menace

150 Warships and 1,400 Planes February Record  . America Is Turning Out Great Fleets Rapidly

Knox Reports 150 Warships and 1,400 Navy Airplanes Produced During February; Announces New Type Anti-Submarine Vessel

U.S. 1S BUILDING -U-BOAT FIGHTERS   Knox Reports 180 Warships, 1,400 Planes Made in February:

150 U.S. Warships, 1,000 Planes and 700 Landing Barges Built in Month

150 Warships Built in Month  pei   KnoxAlso Reports 1,400  Airnlanes For Nave

Knox Lists 150 Warships And 1,400 Naval Planes Completed in February

Knox Announces New Type Ship To Combat Subs  Also Reports 150 Wa ships, 1,400 Navy Plane

1,400 PLANES MADE IN MONTH   Knox Reports 150 Ships Also Produced In February

‘Area Scrap Continues, Red Communique Says   Soviets Acknowledge Withdrawals As Foes Reinforce Ranks; Jap Con- . soe Assaaited bur fanders ;

MELPER” ENGINE  GOES THROUGH OPEN SWITCH AND RAMS FAST UNION  PACIFIC ‘TRAIN .-

Appears Developing a: Reds Strike Down Old “Escape Corridor” From  Moscow to. Smolensk -.      SOVIETS CUT SOUTH FROM SEIZED RZHE\   Reported to Have Retaken Town of Osuga, and Driven Within 45 Miles Gzhatsk

CAPTURE TOWN 17 MILES SOUTH OF RZHEV TODAY   Place More Than 144 Cities Under Russian Flag in Two Days

REDS CAPTURE ‘OSUGA IN DRIVE FROM RZHEV   Sweep More than 144 Communities While Increasing Threats to Gzhatsk and Vyazma   FOLLOW RAIL LINE   Make Steady Progress in Ukraine ~Nazis Claim Divisions Wiped Out in Caucasus

Reds Continue To  Push Nazis Back   Russians Have Moved Into 80 Settlements in Last 24 Hours   ADVANCE SOVIET FLAG   Germans Reported to Be Making Heavy Tank Counter Attacks

Russ Resume Maikop Petroleum Production   ‘Russ Speed Down Railway, Increase Threat to Vyazma

2-DAY TOTAL NOW IS 144 COMMUNITIES   Victors of Rzhev Continue Push Toward Vyazma, Increasing Threat to That Nazi Base and to Oyhatck Stronchold.

Reds Move On Vyazma   Capture Osuga South Of Rzhev; 80 More Settlements Occupied

RUSSIAN ARMY HAS MOVED FROM RZHEY AND CAPTURED OSUGA   OTHER RED ARMY FORCES OCCUPY MORE THAN EIGHTY SETTLEMENTS

80 Villages Taken In Past 24 Hours   Threat to German Central Front Increased as Red Army Pushes Toward Smolensk

SOVIET TROOPS CONTINUE PUSE   Occupy 80 Settlements in Forest Area Southwest Of Rzhev.   RAILWAY TOWN SEIZED

RUSSIANS TAKE  anh Aer NET tre   Capture Railway Towa Moscow Tells : of Nazi Tank Counter-Attacks

RED ARMY MOVED DOWN THE RAILWAY TOWARD BYAZMA   Captured the Town of Osuga 17 Miles South of the City of Rzhev.   A THREAT TO GZHATSK   Red Troops Continued Their Push Occupying More Than 80 Settlements.

Draftees Leave For Induction   Army and Navy Clain Local Men; Left for Dut; Last Week

Pocahontas Co. .. Men Report for: Active Duty   Two from Rolfe in C. B’ Ss} One in Navy

Zook Warns Of Serious Oil Shortage   Bradford Man Suggests Means To Alleviate  Situation

RUSSIA TO DEMAND GERMAN WORKERS   Will Insist Reich Labor Repai Wer Hoavac

FLANS TO INSIST ON REQUISITION OF WORKERS. AFTER WAR FOR RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM

STIMSON KEEPS TO SELF VIEWS ON MACARTHUT   Refuses to Speculate Or Meaning of General's Statement He Faces ‘Subordinate’ Role

M ARTHUR IN VITAL ROLE   STIMSON SAYS PACIFIC OPERATION “IMPORTANT”

STIMSON SAYS MAC HAS VERY IMPORTANT JOB   Refuses Comment On General’s Pacific Authority

U.S. Closes Trade Door to Martinique   No Food Sent There Since November 8

TRADE CUT OFF FOR MARTINIQUE   Reluctant French Told To Get Groceries Elsewhere

U.S. CUTS OFF FLOW OF FOOD TO MARTINIQUE   Padlock Put on Trade With Island Nov. 8, Welles Reveals

US. Stops Food Shipments to Caribbean Isle   Washington Appears Dissatisfied With French Commissioner

UNITED STATES ‘STOPS SENDING - FOOD TO FRENCH   Welles Declines To Say ‘Why Supplies To Martinique Are Halted   DEAL WITH ROBERT REPORTEDLY SOURED

BAN IS PLACED ON MARTINIQUE TRADE   Welles Does Not Explain . Closing, of Pantry

NO MORE FOOD FROM US. FOR MARTINIQUE   Acting Secretary Of State Welles Makes Disclosure At Press Conference With No Explanation.   Island's Status Obscure

U.S. Trade With Martinique Cut Of Since Nov. 8   State Department Reveals Policy, Hints Co-Operation Lacking

United States Forbids Trade With Martinique   No More Ships To Carry Food to Strategic French Port

Fighting Men Impress House By WarRepor'   Marshall Describes Hitler Strength In ‘Frank State. ment OF Facts’   SHOW ACTION “FILMS   Unprecedented Closed Session Follows Increased Economy Consciousness

MEMBERS GF HOUSE GET FULL REVIEW OF WAR BY CHIEFS   Top Army Leaders At Closed Session Give Overall Picture Of Military  ‘ Situation

ARMY OFFERS PROGRAM FOR CLOSED MEET   Tone Said to Be “Optimistic But Shows Hell of a lob to Do.”

CONGRESS GETS WAR PICTURES      ~Very-Convmeing”. 3 Presentation Wade

Private, General  Give House Vivid Picture of War —   Marshall, Stimson Give Frank Statement of Military Facts

Army Presents  War Plan   U. S$. SOLONS VIEW FILMS; MARSHALL, STIMSON AIR IDEAS

Young Parolee Admits Killings   Slaying Of Twin Boys Arouses Ohio

Third War Loan Oversubscribed; Buying ‘Continues   Morgenthau Appeals to the Home Front t¢ Purchase Even More Bonds During The Last Two Davs of Drive

Quota Is Topped in War Bonds, ays Morgenthat  : Home Front Gets “High ‘Praise From Séeretary

ORG § NATION FOS ITS QUOTA   People to Purchase ter More Bonds Our ‘an Next Two Daya.

ye REACHES [-BILLION QUOT!   Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Announced Today.

Nation Passes 15 Billion Mark In Bond Drive   Total Subscribed, Declares Morgenthau; Sah Mateo Still Lagvinge

Morgenthau Says Drive Is Over Top   Wednesday Sales Here $22,400  Nici tie Bie ice

NATION HAS GONE OVER ITS QUOTA   Montana’s War Bond Total Soars To $30,199,497 Miark

Nation ‘Over the Top’ In 3rd War Loan Drive   Secretary Morgenthau Announces Fact During Speech

AWARD TO WHITEHEAD   Major General Is Given Silver Star for Gallantry in Action

65 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Commander Snowden Does Some Figuring And Proudly Announces The Reaults.

BRITISH BOMB ~ FRENCH ARES   Planes Raid Enemy Convoy Off Netherlands; All Craft Return

ALLIED — FIGHTERS RAID AXIS SHIPPING RAILROAD TARGETS   Aerial ‘Non-Stop “Offensive Enters’ Its. Seventh Day With Coastal : Cemmanea Raid

Railroads and Shipping Bombed During Night On Seventh Day of Attacks ‘-

AXIS SHIPPING, RAILROADS HIT IN NEW RAIDS   } Allied Non-Stop Aerial Offensive Enters Seventh Day

Allied Fighter Planes Active Over Europe   Germans Conduct Two Minor Raids Over Fneland

Essen Smashed In Latest Raid By Ally Fhers   Other Italian Areas Also Raidéd From  Africa: Russians  Advance

Great New >Bomb Load Blasts Essen   R. A. F. Smash At Krupp Plant Costs 23 Planes; Allied Airmen Plaster Sardinia Again.

Fast Planes Raid Plants  Near Berlin   Instrument Works at Jena Attacked; Italian Outer Defenses Bombed

Krupp Works at Essen Hit by RAF Bombs   Mosquito Bombers Carry Out Raid on Jena in Central Germany; Russian Communiques Fail to Mention Kuban Situation

23 Warplanes Fail To Get Back To Base   Roosevelt, Churchill Agree On War Program

Essen Gets New Visit : From Ajr    Offensive Continued Today with Sweeps Over Nazi-Occupied Countries and in: Mediterranean Theatre — Reds  Quiet on Kuban Development

Essen. and Sardinia Battered by Planes   RAF Loses 23 Bombers Over Krupp Works—Americans’ Hammnier Italy’s Outvost

56th Attack onEssenCosts 23 Bombers      Allied Planes in Mediterranean Continue Assault on \talian Cities and Airports ©

RAF HITS ~ ESSEN IN ~—«~BIG-«- RAID   ‘Great Load Of Explosives — Dumped On Krupp Muni tions Works,   RAID ITALIAN ISLES

BLOCK BUSTERS PLASTER ESSEN IN HEAVY RAID   ‘Assault Follows Twilight Attack On Zeiss Works At Jena   IPASTE ITALIAN BASES   Reds Mass Forces For Big Drive In Kuban Delta Area

SMASH NAZI WAR CENTERS WITH BOMBS   RAF Returns to Raid Krup pp Works and Also Bom Carl Zeiss Plant.   Fighters Sweep Over Channel in Daylight

BRITISH LOSE 23 PLANES IN FIERCE BLOWS   New Raid On Home Of Krupp Works Approaches Fury Of Dortmund Attack

RAF Loses 23 Planes In Attack   Action Said To’ Be Nearly ‘As ‘Terrific As Recent Bombing Of Dortmund

KRUPP WORKS ~ BATTERED BY BIG TONNAGI   23 Bombers Lost in Ruhr Assault Other Reich Areas Pounded Without Allied Mercy

Bombers Keep On  Pounding Nazis   R. A. F, “in Great Force” _ Makes 56th Raid on City of Essen   WARN ON “NERVE WAR”   Nazis Tel Italians and Balk ‘an Pe  ple Not to Fall  ‘to Fear ~ 

23 PLANES LOST IN 6TH ATTAGK ONNAZICITY   Russian Officials Withhold Information on Kuban Delta Area Campaign

Jena Also  Bombed      Russia Ignores German Reports of Heavy Battling in Kuban

ANOTHER BIG LOAD BOMBS DROPPED UPON KRUPP WAR PLANTS   TWENTY-THREE BOMBERS MISSING IN ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON NAZIS

1S  * JENA GIVEN » A POUNDING   _ Krupp Works Buildings Are Bombed in ‘Great Strength’ . bv British   GERMANY AND ITALY’S TURN EDEN SAYS   @ Speaks on New Offensive as R.A.F. and Americans Continue Great Assault

Explosives ArePoured On Krupps   Southern Italy Gets No Respite From Air Attacks.

Famous Krupp, Zeiss Plants Latest Targets   Great Load Of Explosives Shatters Nazi Munitions Source, Mosquito 7 Bombers Hit Optical Works; _ Italian Bombings SweepOn.  «

Important German Munitions Center  Raided 56th Time   Twenty-Three Bombers Fail to Return From Assault Which is Reported to Have Been Carried Out in "Great Strength"   NO LETUP IN AERIAL ACTIVITIES IN AFRICA

‘sland Bases Are Bombed By Allies   _ Mosquito Planes Raid Plants At Jena—Admits . Essen Damage

R.A. F. Smashes Again at Krupp Works af Essen   Allied Air Force In North Africa Attgck Nazi Air Fields in Sardenia

RAF ‘Dumps More Bombs On Essen :   Last Night’s Heavy Raid the 56th on < City Which Is Home Of Great Krupp Works

Another Huge Load of Bombs Shatters Great Krupp Works   Allies Continue Battering Italian Island Defense Bases

Large-Scale Raid Carried Out Over Industrial Essen  Zeiss Optical Works Bombed; Bombers Sweep Across Moditerranean

RAF Hits Essen With Another Big Bombing Atfack   Krupp Armament Works Target for Last Night’s Raid

RED VICTORY PERILS ALL GERMAN FORCES EAST OF THE DNIEPER   Ukrainian City Toppled By Violent Russian Attack; Some of Hitler’s Best Troops Are Routed

HITLER LOSES KEY BASE IN RICH UKRAINE   ALL ENEMY FORCES EAST OF DNEIPER IMPERILLED

Nazis Routed by Vicious Assault—Fall Imperils All Hitler’s Troops East of Dnieper.     IRUSSIANS SWEEP   RUSSIANS SWEEP FORWARD IN DONETS   Capture Half a Dozen Towns as They Try to Clean Out Entire Basin of German Invaders.

Loss of Bastion Perils Large  German Force   Fierce Sireet Fighting Precedes Fall Of Skyscraper City to Russ; Nazis Face Withdrawal to Dnieper

Ralph Low A Casualty   Nortonville Boy Reported To Be Missing In Action

TURK - BULGARIA BORDER CLOSED, RUMORS ARE RIFE   Steckholm Reports Balkans Situation Coming to a Head.

POSSIBLE INVASION ROUTES   Turk-Bulgarian Borders Closed   Military State of Alarm Ordered By Ankara Claim Swedish Reports

State of Alarm In Frontier Zone  Claimed Ordered   Nations Maneuvering For Balkan Showdown Say Swedish Reports

ALLIES FEEL SHOWDOWN MAY BE NEAR   Military State of Alarm Is Declared In Frontier Zone by, Turkey.

TURK-BULGARIA BORDER CLOSED AS CRISIS GROWS   Sweden Sees Balkon Situation Coming To Head   TURKEY’S ENTRY IN THE WAR SEEN DOUSTFUL

Turkey Gets . its Frontier In Readiness   "State of Alarm’ Reported Declared to Anticipate Explosion   BULGARIA TENS FE   Mutinies and Anti-German Demonstrations i UF, Sofia Rumored

Tur k-Bulgarian Border _ Closed, Sweden Reports; Von Papen To Meet Inonu

FRONTIER BORDER OF TURKS CLOSED   Stockholm Gets Many Reports as Balkans Situation is Nearing Head.

SITUATION IN BALKANS HEADS TOWARD CRISIS   German Troops Reported Massed On Border; Bulgar Tension Grows

Bulgar Border Closed; Talk of War Decried   : Foreign Minister at An   kara Scoffs at Rumors : Of Crisis

“Preventive Attack” By Germany Would Provoke Crisis Most  Ranrreoac Ralawva

Fin kn sie  Report Turkish Bulgarian Borde Has Been Closed             Military State Of Alarm: Is — Proclaimed

BORDER CLOSED REPORT SAYS   Turkish-Bulgarian Fronticr Closed —Military State of Alarm Ordered in Frontier Zone,

TURKEY ORDERS MILITARY RULE NEAR FRONTIER   Ankara, Cairo Think Explosion May Still Be Months Ahead

GERMAN ATTACK COULD PROVOKE BALKAN CRISIS.   Allied Plans Call for Wait

NEWPORTERS DESCRI8E SINKING OF DESTROYER   Herbert Goss, ‘Rebel’ Baker Were on U.S. S. Walke   Both Now Here Expect to Return to Other Ships In Few Days

Herbert Goss, Rebel” Baker Were on U.S. 8, Walke   Both Now Here Expect to Return + to Other Ships In  Fow Days

PALL OF THIGK SMOKE. HIDES FATE OF CITY   Allied Troops _.. Smashing North Seize. Four Towns on. Main Reads.    ABANDONMENT OF NAPLES ONE OF TWO POSSIBILITIES

FLYERS REPORT PALL OF SMOKE COVERING CITY   British and Americans Take Four Important Towns on Main Roads

ALLIED FORCES PUSHING NEAR ANCIENT CITY   German Activity On Approaches Hints Possibility Of Another “Stalingrad”

mTLEH MAY DAG DUWh Al] EUIRIPE   Allies Seize Four Important Towns   CORSICA IS WON

Huge Port Overhung With Smoke   Allies Advance To Widen Hold; More Towns Fall

Neapolitans Die By Thousands In Reia Of Horror   Reconnaissance Planes Report Ancient City ©! Beauty In Smoke, Flames

DESTRUCTION WORST SINCE GENGHIS KHAN   Hitler May Plan to Fight in Streets as at Stalingrad

RAGING FLAMES SIGNAL WANTON NAZI REVENGE   i ert tell  Holocaust Of ” Destruction Promised By Hitler May Be Under Way   ALLIES SCORE ADVANCE   Airborne Jungle Troops Take Jap Base—Russian Advance Continues

Pall Of Smoke From Many Fires Envelops Naples   Germans Apply Torch To City As Allied Troops Advance Steadily   HITLER PROGRAM OF DESTRUCTION BEGUN

Germans Set Fire To Old Citv of Naples   Beautiful Ancient City In Flames

CZECHS TO DEMAND TESCHEN’S RETURN FROM POLISH RULE      One-Time Republic Forgets Dispute Between Reds And  ® Poles

Finland Will  Continue in War   Leaders Decide To Remain Ally  Of Germany

Try Fixing A Farm Quota! Its Not Easy   Job Easy On Paper But Complicated In Practice

ASSAULTS ON CUNUPE WAY BE DELAYEL   Small Sorties Likely to Give Allies Chance to Smash at Japan. :   ‘THIS SEEMS STRATEGY   Allies May Hit Italy, Enter Balkans and Take Over Norway.

ani AND FAR EASTERN OFFENSIVES BEING MAPPED   LIMITED INVASION OF EUVEOFE

LARGE SCALE DRIVE ON JAPS DEEMED LIKELY   Limited European Invasion Also Believed Considered At Washington   COMPROMISE EXPECTED   Shipping Difficulties May Force Switch In Grand Strategy

LA GUARDIA MAY GO TO AFRICA   Talk of New: Yorker as Ad_ministrator of Libya Under Allied Command

TODAY'S WAR MOYES  Japan Uneasy Over U.S. Air Threat  o.. errariiwc fc WRRaai

NEQUALITIES OW YARDSTICK i PAY ISSUES      eason Is Most Employes ave Already Received 15% General Increase   Under Ruling  4   INING CONTINUES TO BE OBSTACLE   lontended If Formula Was Raised to 20% Bulk of  Workers Would Re- ceive Little Benefit

GET-RICH QUICK, EH!   Order for $25,000 Worth o Bonds Gets $2,500,000

Exolosions Shake Coast of Jersey - Spreading: Alarn   Disturbance .. Explained Dyondkouy  us:'Simpl: - Routine Maneuvers’

hth Army Takes Benevento; Rome Is Next Objective   Town On Historic Highway Falls To Onrushing. Yankee Forces

WAR CHIEF ‘TO REPORT ON VISIT   Naval Leaders Discuss Strategy If Meet On West Coast

TWO RAILROAD CITIES TAKEN BY RED ARMY   German Positions in Southern Russia Undermined

Dr. E.B. Ward Appointed City Milk Inspector   City Council Confirms Appointment: Contrac Is Awarded :

Dr. E. B. Ward Appointed City Milk Inspector  City Council Confirms   City Council Confirms Appointment; Contract Is Awarded

Russians Again Are Nearing Ke Rail Junction   Also Force Bulge Southwestward Toward Rumania

Russia's Big Offensive West of Kiev Captures 60 Towns; Gains Reported on All Fronts   Heavily Guarded German Stronghold Is Threatened by Advancing Army of the Baltic: Nazi Retreat Continues

Stalin Credited With Forcing  Decision on Invasion Chief   By Lyle G Wilson Trited Presse Staft

GOP Depends On Farm Vote   Republicans Of Fourteen Middle West States Hold  Conference.

Says Dempsey Hit Man He Saw with Wife   Private Detective Tells Court of Pulling Jack Off Benny Woodall

The War Today   Germans Are In Most Precarious Position Since Soviet Attack,   Rr DEWITT MACKENZIE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nazis Must Open Counter Attacks Against Reds Or Lose Vast Areas

HITLER'S ARMIES FACING WORST POSITION IN RUSSIA THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE HE BROKE HIS WORD

Position Of Hitler’s Army Precarious;  Whole Southern Wing Being Forced Back

‘Hitler's Armies on Eastern Front in Precarious Position Taganrog Was Right Wing Anchor

The War Poday— Fall Of Taganrog Opens Gateway Of Caucasus Oil Fields For Red Army

Rabaul Airdrome  Attacked by> . >   30 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Japanes >

POPP PPLEPD PDP AD AD PP PP APA IPPSG  Rabaul Airfield Given Another Severe Blow.

U.S. Planes Deal Harsh Blow at Japs on Pacific  Tons of Bombs Crash On Big Airfield; Raiders Are All Safe

FRENCH EMPIRE COUNCIL SET UP   De Gaulle, Giraud Organize Governing Power

Sessions Are Conducted by Gen. Catroux   Group to be Known as “French Committee of National Resistance”

FRENCH FORM COMITTEE AT ALGIERS   DeGaulle, Giraud Meet, Organize Government

French in Exile Get Together   Giraud and De Gaull Lead in Formation of  Governing Commiitee

FOUNDATION MADE FOR GOVERNMENT. OF FREE FRENCH   *~Siraud and ODeGaulle Met * Others, Government !s Based on Principles of Third Republic.   REDS AIR WAR NOW 9N UNPARALLED SCALE   Americans Mop Up on Attu, Chinese Drive Demoralized Japs Back Along Yangtze River,

GEORGE WILL MOVE TO RESTORE POWER      Senator Wants Congress to Have Post-War Authority

/ PAYMENTS INCREASED   Assistance Total in Kansas Is Less i Than It Was in 1942

EXCLUSION ACT REPEAL IS SOUGHT TO. BEAT JAP PROPAGANDA.   Peace Offer Seen   Defeat of U. S. in Orient Due if Japs Give China an Early Way Out.

CONGRESSMAN SAYS JAPAN. ~ MAY SEEK CHINESE PEACE   TEXAN DECLARES JAP POLICY OF SRUTALITY , 1S BEING REVISED IN OCCUPIED REGIONS

‘FIXED FEE’ CONTRACT PLAN ~ S SUGGESTED FOR FARMER   NEW PROPOSAL IS ADVANCED IN THE CONTZOVERSY OVER. WARTIME AGRICULTURAL PROBLEM

COLD AT END   Prisoners Moving to Camps At Rear Have Almost Skylark Attitude.   MORALE CAN BE BROKEN

Most Incredible Sight Of The War German Fighting Spirit Completely Faded Out   In The Cap Bon Debacle

MRS. G. PAGELER DIES AT GRAIG   Extended Sickness Claims ‘Well Known Resident At 36 Years:

DIES AT CRA   Extended Sickness Claims Well Known Resident At 36 Years.

No Restoration Of Gasoline . Ration Cut; Before Oct. 15   Dealers Have To Oct. 11 To Deposit Coupons: On Old Basis

Appeals From  New Gas Rations  Will Be Considered After October 15

Improvement Seen In Soviet Armies Knowledge Of Tactics  Gains; Weather Not All That’s Helping

lOWA.T0 GET. 11 HEMP PLANTS.   Mason City Officially: Among Sites-Selected

SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS AT DANGER POSTS   More Than 100.000 Driver From Homes by Worst Inundation In Years.   14 REPORTED DEAD   Sirens. Church Bells Mark Zero Hour For Residents Of Beardstown. Ht

'USE OF WATER LIMITED   Authorities of Fort Smith Issued Strict Regulations

All But One of Communication Lines Cut   Arkansas Reaches 36.8 and Rising Toward Record Crest

17-Year-Old Boys May Enroll Now in the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve

The War Today   ‘Montgomery Aims En tire African Offensive Fe ae eek ee ee eee

ROMMEL ON SPOT NAZI AFRICAN ARMY CHIEF MUST TAKI POUNDING FROM TWO SIDES,

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Montgomery Determined To Wipe Out Rommel’s Entire Afrika Korps

The War Today  Rommel In Nasty Spot; Will Need All Tactical Skill To Shake Loose

CHURCHILL CONFIRMS FACT OF ALLIED PLANS TO OUST AXIS FROM AFRICA ARE UNDER WAY

utstanding Characteristic aith Inspires Morale in His Men  Porstanain Montgomery's

Aimmier Ready To Jpil German Blood— —By Kirke L. Simpson   Growing Disasters Guaw Ai Nazi Home Front

Himmler Appointment Significant Of Nerve:   Small Doubt That His Job Is To Steel German Home-Front Morale Against Collapse

Berlin Preparing Internal Defense   Himmler To Fight Spread of Revolt

MAJOR RESULT WITHIN AXIS IS PREDICTED   Mystery Development Will Affect Each War Theater

“Allies Poise Mvsterious Psychological Blow Over Axis   Allies Near Irresistible » Power Peak   Breaking of Nazi Regime in Winter Scen as Possible

Momentous Action Seen   Development. Expected: to Have _More Violent Results ‘Than U.S. Ente: Intn War. .

Allied ‘Blockbuster’ Expected Soon Reported To Be Momentous, With Violent Results Anticipated

Men in Uniform Absent From Texas Legislature As Soldier Lawmakers Follow Government Orders

Kelley Silent On His Senate Post   No Uniforms Seen Ir Legislature Now

Winter Tax Is Upped §137,44   Special Levy Made Tc Reduce Deficit

COUNTY SOLONS FIX TAX BILL AT $1.644562   Boost of $137,422 Over Last Year; Includes Debt Tax   Berrien’s Tax Spread

NAZIS USING EVERY TRICK 10 GET AWAY FROM DRIVING REDS   Germans Blowing Up Bridges and Burning Villages As They Re treat.

NAVARRO COUNTY'S WAR BOND QUOTA OVER 3 MILLION  CHAIRMAN JOE E. BUTLI   CHAIRMAN JOE E. BUTLER COMPLETING PLANS FOR ALL-OUT CAMPAIGN

NAVARRO COUNTY'S WAR BOND QUOTA OVER 3 MILLION  CHAIRMAN JOE E. BUTLE COMPLETING PLANS FOF

Duce Transfer: Command of  General Staff  Shake-Up Follows Loss of Italy’s

New Italian Army Purge   General Rosi Relieved As Chief of Staff; Other Officers Changed

Halian Staff Shaken Up Again   Gen. Rosi Removed as Chief and Assigned To Army Group

Jap Admiral Koga said bomb victim   Chinese report commander dead

ADMIRAL KOGA DIES DURING PLANE ATTACK   Yamamoto Successor Meets Death on Own Flagship

ADMIRAL KOGA, JAP NAVAL CHIEF, DIES   Successor Te Yamamoto: Killed In Pacific  Last Month

LEADER OF JAP FLEET KILLED   Admiral Koga Reported Lost in July Battle

High Japanese Navy Official Dies, Revealed      Reported To Have “Died In Attack By American Planes.

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS MADE ANOTHER MASS ATTACK ON THE RUHR   Big Formations of American Planes Roared Across the Channel Today.

Heavy RAF ~ Craft Bomb Ruhr Again   Oberhausen Center of Big Sweeps; Americans Go Over in Daylight

German Iron City Hit by RAF. Raiders   Oberhausen Showered With ‘Busters’; Nazis Admit Casualties

FIRES STARTED IN IMPORTANT STEEL CENTER   Coastal Observers See Daylight Attackers Head Toward Continent

FACTORY CITY OF OBERHAUSEN TARGETOF RAID   Blasted During Night By _RAF While U.S. Planes Fight to Atta ck In Daylight Today   CASUALTIES, HEAVY DAMAGES ADMITTED   Large Fires Leap From Ruhr Targets; Transportation Centers Are’ Being Blasted

STEEL, COAL CENTER GETS HAMMERING   18 Planes Lost; Huge Fires Are -Kindled

Oberhausen, ‘Near Essen, Is Attacked By The RAF   German Industrial City Bombed; 18 Planes Lost ; Heavy Damage Jone, Berlin Says

OBERHAUSEN COAL CENTER HEAVILY HIT   Big Bombers Over Germany Fourth Night In Row   Fail To Return From Raid; Nazi Raiders In Light Attack On London

Oberhausen New Target Of Bombers   Oiber Ruhr Objectives Hit by Bri. fish, During Night, Followed by New Raids Today   BLAST TRANSPORT   Locomotives, Freighi Cars, Barges Airfields Hit in Reich, France and Holland

BIG. BOMBERS HIT STEEL AND COAL CENTERS   18 Allied Planes Reported Lest In Damaging Raid [tn Ruhr Region   DAYLIGHT ATTACK STAGED   Mass Evacuation Begun In Reich, Newspapers Reveal

QBERHAUSEN I   Great Damage Done To Industries Hitler Is Depending On To Continue His War.

RAF PLANES MAKE ANOTHER ATTACK QN RUHR TARGETS      Concentrate On Important Steel and Coal City Of Oberhausen   8 BOMBERS ARE LOST

MAIN TARGET : IS CITY OF. OBFRHAUSEN      Steel and Coal Center. Near Essen Is Im: portant Communications Point—More Plaries Becin New Attacks. sa!

U. S. Air Forces Resume Daylight Forays On Reich   18 British Planes Lost; Mines Laid In Nazi Waters

RAF Smashes Oberhausen In Night Sweeps   Fires Set In Ruhr Industrial, ‘Communications Center Near Essen   18 BOMBERS MISSING   Additional Allied Plane: Cross Channel For Day Raids In Early Morning

RAF Attacks For Fourth Night in Row   Greater Damage Caused By Powerful Bombs;  Germans Stab at London

OBERHAUSEN HIT HARD IN ATTACK BY PAF PLANES   Eighteen Bombers Lost In Mission Over Germany

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS  MADE ANOTHER MASS  ATTACK UPON EUROPE STEEL AND COAL CITY OF  OBERHAUSEN, NEAR ESSEN MAIN ORIECTIVE

WAR FOUNDRIES IN RUAR VALLEY POUNDED AGAIN   Allied Vessels Massing In Mediterranean, Axis Reports

AF Bombers it Germany or 4th Night   Swarms Of Lighter Planes Bombard Naz Zones In France,

ESSEN IS HAMMERED   18 Bombers Lost In Mass Night Raid On Oberhausen

MANY HIT AGAIN BY RAF   Mass Attack on Ruhr Tar gets Carried Out For Fourth Night

iimden And Area Showered With incendiaries  And Explosives   Germins Try to Bomb Ameri¢an HH ¢ av y¥weights Out of the Air to No Avail; Good Success Scored By US Ai men

150 F ortresses Blast Big Naval Base as Nazis Try  Frantically to Halt Them   Smudge-Pots Throw Smokescreen Over City But American Aim Accurate; Nazi Planes Trv in Vain to Bomb Raiders from Above. *

THIRD DAY OF YANK ATTACKS OVER EUROPE   First American Attack With Entire City A’ Target

German Effort To Cover Naval Base With Smoke Fails   uargest Force Of U. S. Heavy Bombers Ever Sent Out Makes Attack Unescorted And Meets Fierce Fighter Opposition

Naval Base At Emden Is Heavily Hii   Smudge-Pot Smoke Screen Defense Is Unavailing.

Germans Smoke Screen Defense Aids Yank Flyers   Nazis in Desperate Defense Fail to Rout Attackers

Smokescreen By Nazis Big Help   Attempted Defense Move Aids Allies  Re GLADWIN HILL

FLYING FORTS. LIBERATORS IN HEAVIEST RAID   ‘German Naval Base Gets   Full Force Of Bombing   Raid In Daylight By U.S. Force   HUGE PIRES SET   Nazis Use Smoke Pots In Effort To Hide Emden Shipyards, But Fail To Fool Yanks

AMERICANS RAIN BOMBS ON EMDEN IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Germans: Throw Up Smokescreen Defense and Try to Blast Attackers Out of Skies.   150 PLANES ON FORAY, SIX FAIL TO RETURN   Flames Spring Up as ExploSives Fall on Targets— Many Enemy Craft Shot Down.

Incendiaries, Explosives Showered OnNavalBase; German Defenses Futile.

U. S. Bombers Shower Emden Base   Greatest U. S. Heavy Fleet Ever Put In Air Over Reich

BIG AMERICAN AERIAL FLEET BOMBS EMDEN   SMUDGEPOT SCREEN OUTLINES TARGET FOR ATTACK

Bombers Pierce  Smoke Screen Used by Defense   Incendiary and Explosive Missiles Find Widespread Targets; Naval Base Receives Heavy Blows

incendiaries Are Poured On ‘Outlined Targets In Attack   Novel ‘Smudge-Pot Smokescreen Defense 1 - Failure: Shows Fortress Pilots The Target

Americans Attack Emden, Germany; Allies Carry War  Near Italv’s Heart

Smokescreen By Nazis Big Help   Attempted Defense Move Aids Allies

Shower Fire Bombs on City of Emden   Bombers Run Into Large Number of Enemy Fighters

Nazi Navy Base Is Set Aflame With Incendiaries   Americans Suffer Smal! Loss On Raid In Face Of Strong Opposition

» FIRES BLAZE AT AIRDROME AFTER RAID   Two Formations In Heaviest Attack Of Campaign

Nippon Convoy  Flees   ... From Punishment of Big Allied Bombers

Bombers Rout Wewak Fleet, Hit 4 Vessels   Two Ships Are Sunk, Twe Damaged As Convoy Flees Northeastward   WARSHIPS ESCAPE   Japanese Landing O Some Supplies, Men  Considered Possible

Remnants of Battered Jap Convoy Flees From Allies      Two $.000-Ton Vessels Sunk, 5,000-Tonner Beached, and Fourth Ship Badly Damaged by Flying Forttresses and Liberators; One Vessel Blasted Out ef Water by 1,000-Pound Bombs

REMNANTS OF JAP CONVOY FLEE NORTH   U.S. Bombers Sink Two Ships and Damage Two.

REMNANTS OF JAP CONVOY FLEEING   Two 8,000 Ton Enemy Ships Sunk, A 5,000 Ton Vessel Forced To Beach and Another 8,000 Tonner Rendered Unseaworthy.

BEATEN JAP CONVOY LEAVES WEWAK PORT   Nips Succeed in Landing Some Supplies

ALLIED AIRMEN TAKE TOLL OF FOUR JAP SHIPS   Five Others Flee Skip-Bomb Tacfics and MacArthur's Fliers Blast Jap Bases

Remnants Of Jap Convoy Flees   Two Large Vessels Sunk, Others Damaged By Allied Attack.

Freedom World News Is Urged   Kent Cooper, AP Head, Wants Press to Fight At Peace Parley

COOPER URGES WORLD LIBERTY IN NEWS FIELD   Calls for Newspaper Statesmanship to Insure Access to News in All Countries After War.

Calls on Press To Exert Lead  For Free News   Kent Cooper Says Government Suppression Primary Cause of War.

Calls For Guarantees Of Freedom Of World News In Peace Settlement

TRIBUTE PAID TO '@MEN WHO GAVE LIVES FOR NEWS   t. AP’s Kent Cooper Mentions All Writers Who Have Died on War Fronts

PRESS CONTHOL CAUSE OF WARS   Kent Cooper Urges Press tc Seek Freeclom of World News.   HONOR WAR REPORTERS

COOPER SEEKS GUARANTEE OF RIGHT OF NEWS   Says Peace Pact Must Demand Freedom of  World Press

Fight For Freedom Of iINews, Cooper’s Plea   General Manager Of Associated Press Describes ‘ Government Suppression And Control Of Press _ As Primary Cause Of Wars

SUPPRESSION AND CONTROL OF PRESS PRIMARY WAR CAUSE  KENT COOPER, AP MAN. AGER, WANTS FREEDOM OF WORLD NEWS

Boy Charged in Wreck Affempt  Youth Filed on for  Admitted Effort to nh. t Tet

NELSON BLAMES LACK OF OCTANE ON WAR CHIEFS   @ lestifies Department Placed Too Low Gas Needed  to Fight Axis

Says Gas Need : Under-Estimated   WBP Chairman First to Testify Before Committee

NELSON HITS “PLANNING OF ARMY CHIEFS   WPR HEAD CHARGES WAR DFPARTMENT FAILED TO ORABP NEED FOR HIGH  : OCTANE GAS

Army Blamed In Shortage Of  Aviation Gas   Underestimated ‘need, ‘Nelson  tells Senator ~Truman’s cqmmnrittee 5 Assails arguérs.

NELSON TAKES STAND IN GAS, RUBBER FIGHT   Charges war department underestimated amount of gasoline needed

GAS PROGRAM CRITICIZED BY WPB CHAIRMAN   War Department Assailed For Underestimating Needs Of Fliers   ALLOCATION I$ DEFENDED:   Patterson, Ickes Flayed For Starting Quarrel Over Rubber Setup .

Packard Strike Believed Broken   35 Percent of Day Shift Obeys Order

AMERICAN TROOPS MAKING HEADWAY ON ATTU ISLAND   They Are Fighting Their Way Over Ice-Sheated Ridges, and Snow Fields.   Details Were Meager Because of Military Secrecy, It Was Said.

Details Meager But Knox Shows Confidence   Capital Believes Offensive Against Japs Will Continue

Tokyo. Apparently. Preparing’Jap Home Front for “More Bad News   “AIR OF EXPECTANCY ON ALL FRONTS   U.S. Power Drive Indicates @ Allied Strength; Churchill Radiates Confidence

NEWS NO WORRY   Possibility of Other Stabs at Japs Seen in Developmonte.   EXPECT SITTER BATTLE

All Apparently Goes Well In Aleutians. ...  Attu Attackers Point Way For - DriveOn Tokyc

Yanks Apparently Make Progress in Battle for Island   News of Conflicts on Major Battle Fronts Summarized by AP

Yankees Making Headway in Fight For Attu Island   Early Invasion of Europe Is Hinted by Prime Minister Churchill.  Allied Bombers Smash Italian Ports Again

Details on New Pacific Operation Remain Meager   Knox Says Assault Is Developing ‘Very Satisfactorily’; Big Battle Looms in Russia

Fighting Is Over Terrain Difficult As Guadalcanal!   Other Offensive Action in Pacific Might Come Soon

AMERICAN TROOPS. APPARENTLY MAKING HEADWAY ON ISLAND   WASHINGTON SOURCES FORECAST SERIES BLOWS AGAINST JAPS

Nipponese Are ‘Outnumbered’ In Snowfield Fight   Knox Reveals U. 5.. Com. mand Knows How Many Japanese Are On. Island

Attu Assault — Satisfactory Says Sec. Knox   American Troops Apparently Making Headway; Allied Bombers Smash a‘ Hitler's European Fortress; Nazi: Launch New Attack on Leningrad

GENERAL IS ~ PESSIMISTIC   Refers to “Setbacks” fo1 Tokyo—U. S, Experts ‘Believe Forces Struck With Sufficient Power to Succeed.

LANDING ON ATTU MAY BE FORERUNNER MIGHTY OFFENSIVE  HOPES FOR SUCCESS IN ALEUTIANS BUOYED BY SEVERAL FACTORS

OTHER BLOWS EXPECTED AT JAP CENTERS   Knox Declares That Assault Develops ‘Satisfactorily’; Details Are Meager

Ln INVADERS rege AHEAD ON ATTU ISLE   New Blows Against Japs Throughout Pacific  Forecast   USING LARGE FORCE   Indicates Yanks Set To Continue Offensive  All Along Line

Knox Reports Action Now Developing   Secrecy Screens Battle With Japanese On Attu

Japan Warns  Public Loss  Is Imminent   Typical Broadcast Hints Nips Failure to Hold Island Outpost 2

Attu Campaign May Be Start of Major Pacific Offensive   Joint Army-Navy-Air AcAllied Victory

; 5. TROOPS MAKING HEADWAY: JVER ICY. BATTLEFIELD; JAPS HAY EXPECT LIGHTNING BLOWS

Broadcast Hints At Jap Setback   Details of Fighting Meager — Knox Says Asiault Developing Very Salisfactorily”—Won't Comiment on Other Possible  « Smashes at the Enemy Elsewhere

Island Drive Seen As Step Toward Tokyo   High Hopes Held For Success in Moye Against Japs

Hopes For Success Buoyed By Belief High Command Would Not Have Ordered Operation Without Making Arrangements Fairly Sure of Winning Through.

Yank Forces Expected To Oust Enemy   Capital Sources See Lightning Blows At Jap Invasion Armies Throughout Pacific

NAVY SECRETARY FRANK KNOX SAYS ASSAULT IS DEVELOPING ‘VERY SATISFACTORILY   Washington Sources Forecast Series of Lightning Blows Against Japs Throughout Pacific Area ‘Churchill Hints At Early ~  Invasion of Europe.

Axis Reports CoatReverses with Excuses   Meager Details Give Rise to Conjecture That Battle Tide Swings Toward Americans

Vanguard Of Sweep On Tokyo   Landings On Attu, Australia Meeting May Presage U. S. Drive In Pacific

Little News From Fog Bound Battle   Operations on Attu. Be lieved Proceeding Satisfactorily   BATILE SINCE - TUESDAY   Other Blows in Pacific al An Early Date Are Predicted

Capital Men Sea  Series of Lightning:  Blows on Japs~” Everywhere

COLD WAVE SWEEPS ATLANTIC SEABOARD   Sub-Zero Temperatures Accompanied by High Winds Cause Damage and One Death,

Winter Storm Hits East Coast   Sweeps Area From Maine to Virginia

Cold Weather ChillsEast   Low Temperatures Prevailing From Maine to Virainia

Hunger in Sicily Poses Problem   Italian Bungling Blamed for Mess

Rostov Falls As Reds Push Front Forward   Kharkov in Grip Of Three-pronged Russian Assault

ROSTOV FELL T0 RUSSIAN INFANTRY, COSSACKS SUNDAY  GERMANS ARE TRYING

PART OF CITY FOUND ABLAZE BY RUSSIANS   Voroshilovgrad Also Recaptured In Drive   RED ARMY   Now Within Seven Miles Of Kharkov; Fall Expected Very Soén

Nazi Dead Littering Streets Of  Rostov   Taganrog Now Under Fire Of Russ Artillery; Kharkov Menaced

RUSSIAN GUNS SHELL, TAGANROG   Donets Industrial City of Voroshilovgrad Falls to . Soviet Soldiers

CITY 40 MILES WEST OF VITAL PORT BLASTED   Rostov’s Streets Littered With Dead Soldiers

Soviets Sweep On  Closer To Kharkov After Rostov Falls   Bloody Struggle Leaves Buildings Ablaze And Hundreds Of German Corpses Littering Streets And Alleys; VoroShilovgrad Also Falls To Crushing Advance Of Russians

IN A BLOODY FIGHT, ROSTOV RECAPTURED   Bulk of Germans Fleeing Donets Basin Trapped  on Sea of Azov.   Assault on Kharkov Pushed by Russians

ROSTOY FALLS. TO RUSSIANS  BLOODY BATTLE   Triumphant Soviet Forces Find Buildings Ablaze ~and Hundreds of  Corpse In Streets   SHELL TAGANROG; MANY NAZIS TRAPPED   Swarming Cossacks Aid In Captured; Enemy In Their Path Cut to Pieces

ROSTOV FALLS  TO AED ARMY   Russian Success Called Greatest Single Day’s ‘Offensive.   COSSACKS JOIN ATTACK

Kharkov Doomed As Reds Driving  Toward Azov Sea   German Elite Troops Fail To Stem Tide; Escaped Lines Sliced  By Russians

TAGANROG UNDER FIRE BY SOVIETS   Soviets Tighten . Their Net Around Kharkov Sector

Moscow Predicts  “Great Events” As Steamrolling Push Rolis Over Enemy

Rostov Falls Hard Driving Soviet Foree   Voroshilovgrad Also Recaptured By Russians. Taganrog Under Red Fire,   HEAVY BLOW TO NAZIS

SOVIET VICTORY ISREGARDED AS BIGGEST OF WAR   Streets Of City Strewn With Hundreds Of  German Corpses   DRIVE IS CONTINUED   Enemy Desperately Trying To Form Line To Stop Steamroller

GERMANS FOUGHT TOLAST IN EFFORT. TO WOLD ROSTOY      Streets Found Littered With Hundreds Of German Bodies   BIG BATTLE FOR KHARKOV BEGINS

Rostov, Piled With German Dead, Taken  Other Vital Spots Fall To Russians,

British Radio Says Bulk of Germans Trying to Flee Donets Basin are Trapped   KHARKOV CIRCLED   Moscow Predicts ‘Great Events’ ix Making as Russian Armie: Surge Forward in Snowstorm

Rostov Captured By the Russians   City Is Taken From the Ger mans in Bloody Strug gle Sunday   MANY NAZIS TRAPPED   Red Army Is Moving For~ ward With the Force of  a Steam Roller

ROSTOV FALLS BEFORE DRIVE OF RED ARMY   Voroshilovgrad Taken  Also; Move Against Kharkov Stronger

FLEEING NAZIS ‘ARE TRAPPED IN DONETS BASIN   Russians Shelling Points On Azov Coast After Capture Of Rostov; German Bodies Litter Streets

Russian Steamroller Pounds Nazi Forces Fleeing From Rostot   Soviet Army Surges to Within 7 Miles of Kharkov; Axis Troops Fleeing From Donets Basin Reported in Trap

Rostov Surrenders to Swiftly Rolling Red Armies Sunday   British Report Bulk of Germans in Donets Basin Trapped

ROSTOV FALLS T0 ONRUSHING SOVIET ARMIES   Desperate Nazi Armies Try To Form Line To Hold Reds

RED ASSAULT ON KHARKOV CONTINUES      Action: Hailed As Most Successful Day's Offensive at the War

ROSTOV MAY SPEED MOVE ON GERMANS   Kharkoy Next Goal ‘Of Reds; Enemy ©. ‘Falls Back -

LT TRAP Oh NAZIS FLEEING FROM ROSTO   Taganrog, 40 Miles West of Captured City, Under Red Artillery Fire.   SOVIET TROOPS ONLY 7 MILES FROM KHARKOV

Rostov Falls To Reds Affer Fierce Battle   Russians Continue Assault on Kharkov Ukraine Capital, Dispatches State

RUSSIANS TAKE ROSTOV, BLOODY BATTLE SUNDAY   Also Capture Voroshilovgrad, Reds Continue Assault on Kharkov

STATEWIDE DRY BILL OFFERED   Rep. Price Of Rutherford. Introduces’ Bill Calling For Statewide Referendum In November.

APRIL DRAFT CALLS REDUCED BY U. S   Order Applies to AH Parts of Coun try and Some Cuts Range Up to 20 Per Cent,

DRAFT QUOTAS GUT FOR APRIL   Revisions Vary According To States. Some As High As 20 Per Cent

Would Force Older Men To Defense Jobs   Men 38-45 To Face Army Induction By: New Hershey Order

April Draft Quotas Reduced in Nation Official Discloses   Heavier Calls in Other Months Will Follow; Few Rejections

April Draft Quotas Cut   Washington Admit: Nationwide Slash Up to 20 Per Cent

Strategic Air Bases  Battered Stiffened Axis  Resistance Is  Blistered

CHINESE . WITH HEAVY FORCES   Admiral Nimitz Sounds Warning From Pacific That Japanese Navy May Strike Again.

BOR LAW IN TEXAS COURTS   > Arrested For Asking il Workers To Join  Union

Texas Labor Law At Stake   Arrest of Defiant CIO Labor Leader Brings Test

LABOR FORCES TEST IN TEXAS   Union Leader Arrested For Soliciting Members In Defiance Of Court Order.

ARREST LABOR CHIEF AFTER UNION TALK   ClO’s R. J. Thomas Solicits Memberships Contrary to Texas Laws, Held on Bond

Interpreting  The War   Propaganda Effect Of Meeting To Bear Watching

Whole World Is Stage Setting For New Second Front  git, *   Crises Always Mark Meetings O1 President Roosevelt And Prime Minister Churchill   Africa Likely Springboard  _ For Decisive Second Front   Mediterranean Is Exposed Flank Of Axis; First Step Apparently To Mop Up Tunisia

MINE SETTLEMENT ON GOVERNMENT'S TERMS S PRESSEL   Roosevelt Backs WLB’s Jurisdiction In Coal Case

Iinois Fathers Being  Drafted Without Regard ‘To Number of Children

LIQUOR SALE - CHANGE MADE   ZONE S¥STEM OF PURCHASES ABOLISHED JUNE 28TH— SAME QUOTA IN NEXT ° - PERIOD -

RAF Keeps Up  European Sweep:   Offensive Patrol Maintained In Area

ROYAL AIR: FORCE FIGHTERS KEEP. UP DEADLY OFFENSIVE   RAF: Fighters Take Over Bomber Command For Raids Over Nazi .  Territory 

Axis Men Slashed From Ground, Air  in Crushing Blows   MONTGOMERY MOPS UP RESISTANCE POCKETS AS DETERMINED YANK, BRITISH THRUST CRACKS NAZI DEFENSE ON 25-MILE FRONT

Germans Appear to Be Abandoning Entire Line, British Take 3 Key Points

EXTRA!   U. S. Troops Hammer Nazis’ Eseape Route   Hit German Lines In Three Places In Effort To Break Through To Coastal Plain

10 SCOUTS DIE IN SEA DISASTER, ONLY 1 SURVIVOR   Rescue Skipper, Waves Wreck Ship, Wash One Boy Overboard

{0 Boys Die As Boat Founders  - Tragedy Ends Cruise — of Sea Scouts ©

10 SEA SCOUTS. DIE ON CRUISE   Skipper Is Sole Survivor When Cabin Cruiser.  Flounders

TEN SEA SCOUTS DROWNINBAY      Seven Bodies Brought _ Ashore as Cabin Crnis-er Sinks.

10 SEA SCOUTS LOST ON CRUISE      Cabin Cruiser Founders in Great South Bay

TEN YOUNG SEA SCOUTS DROWN; SKIPPER SAVED   Search For Three Bodies Under Way By Authorities

Ten Sea Scouts Drown On Cruise   Boat !s Wrecked Off. Long Island Monday

SEA SCOUTS DIE ON EASTER TRIP   Skipper, angaved, Three Members, Seven Pals... Drowned

10 Sea Scouts  Lose Lives   Cabin Cruiser on Vacation Trip Capsizes;  Seven Bodies Recovered

Work Or Fight Policy Urged By Committee  ‘Absenteeism Brings Greater Losses

“Work-or-Fight’ Policy Approved  ' Absenteeism Slows en 2. ee re ¥

ABSENTEEISM PRODUCTION BAR   House Naval Committee,  * Moved By Reports of Loss  of Time, Approves ‘Workor-Fight’ Policy

ABSENTEEISM IS GRAVE PROBLEM IN WAR PLANTS   House Committee Favors “Work Or Fight” Policy For Offenders

SEEKS 10 END ABSENTEEISM   House Group Approves Bill With Work or Fight Policy for Navy Yards

‘Work-or-Fight' Policy Approved  Absenteeism Slows Down War Efforts

BIG ALLIED OFFENSIVE IMMINENT   Rommel Faces Trap If Patton Can Drive To Coast Road

Heavy Rains And Dust Storms Hold Forces In Check   General Patton t nable To Advanee lito Guetarian Pass Because Of Mud

Weather Slows Tunisian Drive   Rainy Season: Near _ End, Troops Poised

U.S. Rolls Up Africa Arms, Rains Wane   Supply Effort Marks Lull On Entire Tunisia Front Caused By Weather   PASS IS TOO SOFT   Patton's Projected Jab Across Mountains To Coast Would Trap Foe

Coming Battle May Decide Campaign   Both Sides Utilize Lull to Bring Up Necessary Supplies

Heavy Rains, Dust Storms Halt Fighting on Tunistan Front As Patton Consolidates Lines

Yankee Troops  Consolidat  Tap?   AS, Vo .6° ..engthen  ‘\".*" on Gafsa and «so El] Guetar

Mud ‘And Dust Check Action In Tunisia   Allies Poised For Smash To Sever German Armies

RAIN IN NORTH, DUST IN SOUTH FORCE A GALW   Oppesing Armies Bringing Up Supplies and Shells for Decisive Battie.   PATTON’S TANKS HELD UP AT GUETARIA PASS

RAINY SEASO ENDS SOON IN NORTH AFRICA   AMERICANS BOLSTER HOLDS ON GAFSA FOR SHOWDOWN

American Divisions Dig And Hold Gafsa, El Guet  “Rainy Season Nears Its.

Allies Gather Forces for Decisive Drive to Put ‘Desert Fox’ Out of Tunisia Campaign

Patton’s Men Consolidating Their Lines   Supplies Being Brought Up For The Showdown Fight

Weather Holding Up Patton's Army  Heavy Rains And Dus Storms Slow Yanks

Weather Hinders Tunisian Batlle But End Of Rainy Season In Sight

YANKS GBT SET FOR ‘BIG PUSH’ AGAINST AXIS   General Patton Massing Armored Units To Hit Rommel’s Forces In Fast Sector   PLANES GROUNDED   Rains and Dust Sterms In _ Tunisia Bling Lull, But New Drive Impends; Giraud Pleased

Equipment Is Rushed to Front Lines   Rommel Faces Final Entrapment; Rain Slows Developments

HEAVY RAINS SLOW ACTION IN-N. AFRICA         Patton’s Forces Consolidating New Gains

RAINS HAMPER OPERATIONS IN TUNISIAN FIGHT   Americans Consolidate Their ' Positions As Hour for Decisive Battle Nears

Both Sides Utilize Lull in Fighting, Caused by Rains, to Prepare for Impending Clash.   AMERICAN TROOPS 60 MILES FROM COAST   Yanks Consolidate Holds on Gafsa and El Guetar—Big Bombing Planes Grounded by Weather.

8 YOUTHS ARE LOST HM OUTING TRAGED   Search for Bodies Renewed After More Than Score Jump Scow

Nine Youths Drowned in  Lake Mishap   Score of Excursionists Become Panic-Stricken When Scow Ships Water

Nine Drown In Panic On Scow   Church Youth Outing Ends In Tragedy

"Yes And No Control Of Food Prices   Few Decisions Definite Some Examples Are Given

COUNCIL CONFERS ON OFFENSE PLANS   Attack On Japan Is Chief Topic For Pacific Body.

DISTRICT. MEN  ARE “MISSING   Vintondale and Revloc Soldiers Said Casualties

COMMISSIONERS TO RECEIVE $7.A DAY,   aities Measure Reaches,  of New Fees and, Sal; County Clerk [1 -,   THE CEILING ‘IS $1,120

COMMISSIONERS TO RECEIVE $7 A DAY   Copy of New Fees and Sal~~airies Measure Reaches  County Clerk =,   ‘THE CEILING IS $1,120

‘WLB Disapproves Raise Provisions Of Contract ‘Of Rockford Company

INDUCTION OF +A MEN SEEN   Charles Taft Says Most Will Be In By End Of Summer.

SEEK TO SEND FARA BILL TO COMMITTEE   Nine Young GOP Senators. Hold Key to Victory or Defeat of Farm Bill 

G.0.P. Freshmen Will Decide   Hold Key To Farm Labor Cost Bill Which Threatens Inflation.

Victory Program To Feature  Ninth Session Of Civic Forum   Akron Speakers Will Take Part In Second Panel

AVAILABLE FOOD IS NOURISHING, REPORT   Shifts in Diet, Cooking Responsible

Allied Anchor in Africa Is Imperilled  Germans Approach   Germans Approach British-Defended City of Thala

Military Heads Report Situation Under Control;  Hard Fighting  Continues.

Allied Anchor in Africa Is Imperilled   Germans Approack British-Defended City of Thala

Farmer To Face Murder Charge   Waives Hearing When Arraigned Thursday

RING OF DEATH DRAWS TIGHTER AROUND NAZIS   Strong Reinforcements Land On Guadalcanal, Seal Doom Of Japs   NIP AIR FORCE CRIPPLED   British Battle Enemy On Both Sides Of Mayu River In Burma

CRIPPLING BLOW DEALT JAPANESE STRENGTH IN AIR   Nipponese Resistance Weak as Yanks Advance on Guadalcanal   Russians’ Drive on Rosto\ Threatens to Entrap 300,000

Mrs. Leon R. Smith Represented American Legion Auxiliary at Harrisburg.

Many Matters Considered For Next Congress   Fourth Term Question Will Be Discussed, According to Sen. Van Nuys, Group Chairman.

Fourth Term Amendment to Get Hearings   Plan to Limit Terms Of Presidents to  Be Aired—Draft Move Criticized

NEW PLAN TO SPEED UP MAIL DELIVERIES   Devise Zone Number for Big Ohio Cities

Jap Mobilization Centers Subjected To Stiff Raids  : , * * 6 . + President Declares America’s Aim In Pacific Now Is   ‘President Declares America’s Aim In Pacific Now Is To “Foree Japanese To Fight”

Interpreting e War   Japanese Must Be Finding Going Very Tough Now   By KIRKE ZL. SIMPSON (Wide World)

New U. S. Planes To Lug  Four Times Present Load   American Daylight Bomb Raids Justified—52 Fighters Knocked Out of the Sky

New, Giant US Bombers Reach British Front   Allies Ready Suon for Continuous, Heavier Air Attacks

Bicwer U. §, Planes Will Bomb Europe  Eaker Says Daylight Attacks Vindicated

U.S. HIGH LEVEL BOMBERS 10 STARI ON FULL PROGRAN   Gen. Eaker Reveals Trials Have Proved Highly - Successful.

Bigger US. Bombers to  Lash Nazis   Will Carry Three Times Bomb Load Of Present Craft

New, Bigger Bombers to Join in Raids   Eaker Says U. S. Planes with More Bombs Are Ready

BIGGER AMERICAN BOMBERS READY TO BLAST EUROPE   Eaker Says Giant Planes Will Soon Enter “Round. the-clock” Attack on Ger.  man Obiectives.

Huge U. S. Bombers  To Hammer Europe   Planes Muck Bigger Than Fortresses Ready For ‘Round-Clock’ Offensive

AMLOut German. Drive: Only 5 Miles. From City   Other Strong: Nazi Force: “es: “Hurled: At Russian “Positions: In Effort ‘To “> Turn Flank. ‘of “Vatu. “tin’s Ukraine Army.”

All Commanding Heights to South Of City Captured   Russians Driving Forward Toward Kiev and Smolensk

GUNS ON HILLS WITHIN RANGE OF CITY ITSELF   Sardinia Evacuated by Germans After Italian Attack

Port Now Within Range of ‘‘Long Toms’’, Allied ‘Army Continues Thrust

Americans Moving Up, Sardinia fo Allies   5th Army Takes Heighis Overlooking Bay of Naples, Only 12 Miles Away;   AIRMEN ATTACK  NAZI COLUMNS   More Air Bases Available as Island Falls; Clark Gets _ ‘Additional Troops  &

ITALY’S 2ND LARGEST PORT UNDER U. 5. GUNS   Reinforcements Landing On ag Beachhead: Nazis Vehicles Attacked

Capture Heights of Sorrento Peninsula Across  the Bay   NAVAL BASE IN RANGE   ltahans Take Sardinia From Germans, Move on Corsica

THE 5TH ARMY CONTROLS SOUTK SIDE NAPLES BAY   Captured All the Command ing Heights of Sorrento Peninsula.   TAKE THREE ISLANDS   Capri, Ischia and Procida Ar« Now Under Guns of Allied Soldiers.

Yanks Occupy Nearby Hills   Germans Giving Way As Allies Drive Inland

NAPLES NOW IN RANGE OF GUNS   Fifth Army Seizes Control of Heights on South Side Of Bay.   'SARDINIA IS CAPTURED

Americans Seize Control Of Land To South of Bay   Germans Making Full-Scale Retreat, Evacuate Sardinia: Corsica Totters

Poised — For Blow At Naples   Allies in Possession  Of Heights Overlooking Bay of Naples; Italians Hold Sardinia

Fifth Army Seizes Control of South Side of Bay, Capturing Heights of Peninsula and Port Padlocked From the Seaward Side.   Gen. Clark’s Troops Continue to Pursue Retreating German Forces

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY FORCES TAKE HEIGHTS NEAR BAY  SALERNO BRIDGEHEAD HAS BEEN EXTENDED IN ALL DIRECTIONS ©

Commanding Heights Taken By 5th Army   Allies Command Sea Approaches and a Mainland Gateway to Naples; Red Armies Speed on Toward Smolensk and Kiev

Germans Driven From Sardinia By Italian Forces   Fifth Army Advances To Within 15 Miles Of Bay Of Naples; Enemy Resistance Decreasing As British Forces Move In

Castellmare Base Is Also Reported Within Gun Range   Invaders. Gontrol- South--SideOf Bay In Taking Sorrento Hills; oth Army Pushes East And North

Control of Bay Of Naples Held By Allied Army   Strategic Isfe Cleared of Nazis Now in Retreat

American TroopS Seize Part Of Bay After Capturing Commanding Hills; Naples Now Within Artillery Range   -Nazi Troops Apparently Making Full-Scale Withdtawal From Salerno Beachhead Sector

Fifth Army Captures All Commanaing. _ Heights Of Peninsula Overlooking Bay Of Naples — Enemy Resistance Said To Be Decreasing

U, S. SOLDIERS SEIZE SARDINIA » OTHER TOWNS   Italy’s Second Largest Port Captured

Sardinia Cleared Of Nazi Troops; Foe in Retreat   American Airmen Blast Fleeing Columns Near Salerno; Balkan Invasion May Be Near

Hold South Shore Of Naples Bay   Germans Apparently Making Full-Scale Retreat in Some Sectors Under Merciless Air Lashing — British Fifth Corps Takes Gioja—Italians Drive Nazis From Island

Troops Seize Vital Heights Of Sorrento Peninsula to Control South Side of Bay.   Germans Continue To Retreat As High Command Anncunces Loss of Sardinia to Italians

Seize Heights In Area Near  — Bay OF Naples         Italian Troops Drive Ger mans From Sardinia; Naples Next Target.   BRITISH IN ADVANCE

Americans Seize South Side Of Bay of Naple:   Sardinia Captured By  Jtalians, French

Long Toms Command Naples Bay Area —   Balkan Invasion Speculation Rife

TAKE HEIGHTS ON SOUTH SIDE OF BAY   Casualties At Salerno Not High As First Feared; Sardinia Is Evacuated By Navi Army

Allied Fleet, Steaming Up Aegean Sea Off West Coast of Turkey, May Mean Balkan. Invasion—Reds Speed Téward Smolensk and Kiev—Reduce a  Jap Defenses on Bougainville

Allies Move On Naples; Nazis — Yield Sardinia   5th Army Captures Sorrento Hights, Controls Bay Arm; Badoglio Troops Oust Teutons From Big Island 

Clark Seizes Sorrento Hills   FIFTH ARMY CONTROLS SOUTH SIDE OF BAY AS ARTILLERY ROCKS ITALY’S SECOND PORT; NAZIS RETREAT FROM SALERNO IN BOMB HAIL

15-Mile Gain Takes Key Hills Profecting Port   New Reinforcements Arrive To Bolster 8th, 5th Armies

-Resistance Stiffens As 5th Army Moyes Northward; Great ‘City in Gun Range

German-Held Port Within Range Of Big Guns;  Nazis Evacuate Sardinia.

CLARK’S FORCES COMMAND HILLS ABOVE KEY PORT   SARDINIA SEIZED AS ALLIED ARMIES GIRD FOR MARCH ON ROME

Sardinia Is Captured By » Italian Army   German Garrison Defeated; Big Island Offers New Allied Airfields

NAPLES IN VISE AS BAY CONTROL IN ALLIED HANDS   Yanks Close In From South To Train Big Guns on Enemy Positions   ITALIANS SEIZE SARDINIA   British Forces Moving in Past Salerno With Little Opposition

‘Germans Appear To Be In Full Retreat From Bridgehead Established By Allied Forces

Americans In Control South Side Of Napies   German Resistance In Salerno Area Is On Decrease

Steady Landing of Reinforcements Cause Hitler's Supermen to Withdraw   BOMB FLEEING GERMANS

FIFTH ARMY IS IN CONTROL OF VITAL HEIGHTS   Nazis Making Retreat From Salerno Area Under Severe Air Lashing   'ENEMY QUITS SARDINIA      British Capture Gioja, 28 Miles Front Taranto, On Road To Bari

YANKS-BRITISH NOW OVERLOOK GULE OR NAPLES   Strategic Positions Gained By Allied Farce In Fifteen Miles Advance From Salerna   ENEMY RESISTANCE STEADILY LESSENING   Germans In Full Retreat North; Sardinia Cleared Of All Nazis By Italian Troops

[NAPLES BEING HEMMED IN FROM ‘LAND AND SEA; SARDINIA FALLS [ASTTALIANS OUST GERMANS   Reinforced Steadily by New Landings and by.  British Eighth Army Gen. Clark’s Forces Continue Advance.—Retreating Germans Blasted From. The Ate

Germans Apperently Making Full-Scale Retreat in Some Sectors Under Merciless Air Lashing — British Fifth Corps Takes Gioja—ttalians Drive Nazis From Island

Freed of Foe by Italians —      Retreat by Germans Hampered by. American Air -Attacks. on Escape Path —

SOUTH SIDE NAPLES BAY CAPTURED BY INVASION FORGES   COMMANDING HEIGHTS  OF SORRENTO PENINSULA REPORTED SEIZED

Commanding Heights Sorrento Taken by 5th   Naval Base, Castellemmar,e and Raliway Town, Torre Annunciata, Also Within Artilery Range; Germans Making Retreat.

Yankees Strafe 1800 Vehicles Pulling Out of  Salerno Region   Withdrawal of Foe Likened to That of British From Greece

YANKS CAPTURE THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BAY OF NAPLES   Italy’s Second Largest City Under Guns of. Allied Troops   GERMANS MAKING RAPID RETREAT

Roosevelt Likely To Back WLB in Fight With Lewis   Showdown Battle Looms on Miners’  Wage Hike Demand

“U.S. Fliers Attack Kuril es” 7   Jap Broadcast Says  Planes Based on Aleutians; Warns Further Assaults to be Expected.

SPECTRE OF GOAL RATION § HELD OU   Strike of Miners Would Result in Mean Rationino, Says OWL.   REPORT IS RELEASED   Transportation Problem ot the Nation Is Regarded as Acute.

COAL RATION IS POSSIBLE. ~_. IE-MINERS: STAGE: STRIKI   OWL ALSO MAKES PUBLIC &E’ PORT ON THE PROBLEM OF '  ‘FRANSPORTATION , IN THE VU. 8. .

DENIES INCREASE TO FOUNDRY UNION   WLB Says Men Have Had Boosts In Excess of 15 Per Cent Limit

SOVIET TROOPS GET SIX MILES CLOSER TO OREL   Russian Tank Corps Repulses Enemy Counter-Attack At Voroshilovgrad   NEW COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF GERMANS

Soviets Gain ‘AtOrel Line   Drenching Rains Fall 476 Holt Red Advance

REDS REPORT NEW GAINSIN OREL SECTOR   ‘More Than 20 Populated Places Wrested From  WNaric   FEW DETAILS ARE GIVEN IN BULLETIN   Twenty-One Nazi Tanks Damaged or Destroyed 

REDS REPORT NEW GAINS IN OREL SECTOR   More Than 26 Populated Places Wrested From Noaris   FEW DETAILS ARE GIVEN IN BULLETIN

Germans Cling To F ailing Orel Grip   Red Troops Slither Through Drenched Fields To Take Another Six Miles Ground: Furious Tank Battle Rages

Martin Plans 40 Million Tax Slash   Would Abolish  4 Mill, Bank Shares, Corporate Loans Taxes

EVENTS NOW POINT 10 LATER ACTION  IN WESTERN EUROPE   Allied Strategists Believed + To Be Working Out Plans Timed With Red Advance”

FRANCE NEXT AS WAR ZONE, LONDON HINTS   European Offensive Seen Aided by Blows From Russian Troops

ALLIED ATTACK ~ON EUROPE NOW IN PLANS STAPE   Safsk, Big German Air Base, Falls to Russians   IMPORTANT GAINS ON SEVERAL FRONTS

HITLER'S EX-BAKER HELD IN NEW YORK   Here Since -1937— Has Two Brothers in Germany

STORY IS TOLD BY SURVIVORS   Wolf Pack Attacks Convoy in North Atlantic

Canada's Destroyer St. Croix Is Lost § With 146 of Crew   First Large Nazi U-Boat Succese in Months Revealed

UNDERSEA ATTACK!!   Survivors Land With News  of Resumption of Atlantic War }

German Subs Adive Again   Using New, Deadly Type Of Torpedo, Say Survivors

NEW TYPE TORPEDO IS USED   Canadian Destroyer Destroyer; 146 Die Other Ships Sunk

146 Canadians Lost As U-Boat Sinks Destroyei   Warship Is Torpedoed On Convoy Duty In North Atlantic

Weather Limits Aerial Activity Over Tunisia   cd Patrol Activity Continues Over Entire Front   SOME BOMBERS MAKE ATTACKS

SWEDEN ALERT IN WAR CRISIS   Nation Foresees Serious And Eventful Summer, Bolsters Defenses

Growing German Forces Resist Desperately Determined Allied Penetration of Positions Guarding Naples—British, on Toe of Boot, Meet Little or No Opposition in Capture of Crotone and Seizure of Brindisi, on the Adriatic Sea.

Fuehrer’s Forces _ -ResistDesperately “Yank Penetration   Report British 8th Army Speeding Northward From Italian Toe; Harbor Of Crotone Is Captured

Tanks, Planes Being Hurled of tte Yanks   Full Weight Of Enemy Attacking Bridgehead ; British And Canadians Move Up From South

BRITISH SEIZE CROTONE, PUSH TO NORTHWARD   Growing German Forces Resist Extension Of Allied Salerno Bridgehead   TROOP COLUMNS BOMBED   Additional Italian Ships Reach Malta, Boosting Surrender Total To 38

BITTER FIGHT GOES INTO FIFTH DAY   British Forces Advancing Northward To Join Battle Against Reinforced Nazi Army

NAZIS INCREASE SIZE OF FORCE AGAINST YANKS   British Capture Port of Crotone and Find it in Good Condition

A BITTER BATTLE ENTERS ITS FIFTH CONSECUTIVE DAY   Centered Around the American 5th Army’s Salerno Bridgehead.   GERMAN FORCE STRONG   British 8th Army Is Speeding Northward From the Italian Toe.

Bloody Fight Rages in Fifth Day as Americans Increase Salerno Hold

British Advance In Italy Against Weak Opposition   Salerno-Naples Bridge head Becomes Crucial Battle Of Italian Campaign; Allies Report “Very Heavy’ Fighting

Germans Mass Forces In Attempt To Halt Fifth Army's Expansion Of Bridqehead Gained At Salerno   British Eighth Army Speeds Northward From Italian Toe Against Only Light Opposition

HUNS LASH OUT AT 5TH ARMY IN SUICIDAL FURY   CARNAGE GROWING IN SAVAGE BATTLE NEAR SALERNO BRIDGEHEAD

Many German Units Rushing Toward Area For Showdown   Crotone. Altamura. Brindisi Fall to British Rushing North

Nazis Hurl Full Weight On Yankees   British Gaining Steadily As Germans Apparently Are Leaving Southern Italy   ALLIED AIR FORCE . LANDS HEAVY BLOWS   Reinforcements Are Being Sent In to Bolster the Aled Push

Germans Rush froops To Region   Eighth Army Speeds Northward Against Little Resistance as Germans Converge On Naples-Salerno Region— British Take Crotone, 110 Miles From Tip

Resistance of Nazis Grows In Desperation   British 8th Army Takes Crotone on Southern Tip of Peninsula

NAZIS THROW STRONG FORCES IN SALERNO BATTEEGROUND OF ITALY iN EFFORT TO REPEL INVADERS   Salerno-Naples Area Regarded As Critcial Point of Invasion ag Nazis Abandon Southern Italy to British—U. S. Fifth Army Bearing Rrint of Attack

BITTER FIGHTING RACING IN HILLS. BEYOND SALERNG   German Forces Resisting Desperately The “ “Yank Advance   BRITISH MAKING GOOD PROGRESS

AMERICAN ARMY MEETING FIERCE FOE RESISTANCE   Meanwhile, British Seize Port Of Crotone — Crucial Battle Under Way

Nazis Mass Forces Against Americans Qn Salerno Front         maid Resisting Desperately Determined Penetration Into Their Hill Positions Protecting Port of Naples   ISRITISH FORCES SPEEDING STEADILY NORTHWARD

Germans Resist  Desperately U. S. Penetration Into Naples Positions

HUNS STRIKING SAVAGELY WITH GROWING POWER   Enemy Resisting Desperately Determined Yank Penetration Into Ranks  About Salerno   TANKS, ARTILLERY HURLED AGAINST U.S.   Meanwhile, British Eighth  Speeds Steadily North ' ward Fron Italian Toe to Seize New Sectors

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY LOCKED WITH NAZIS AT SALERNO  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SPEEDING NORTHWARD ALONG EASTERN COAST

Bridgeheads Are Widened; Holdings On East Coast. Are Materially: Increased

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES PORT OF SROTONE   Rhodes Island Is Bombed By U. S. Airmen Today

‘British Landing Force Capturing Brindisi Finds Harbor in Good Condition—Hold on Adriatic Extended

NAZIS RESIST ALLIED EFFORT TOSPREAD OUT   British Army Moving Up From South to Aid Fifth Army

Yanks Pierce Nazi Mountain Defenses, Battle Foe Panzers Within 23 Miles of Naples

Nazis Moving More Troops To That Area   British Seizing Important Ports In Advance Up Italy

BRITISH ARMY SPEEDS NORTH   Meets Little Or No QOpposition, Captures Port Of Crotone  ALCChr Fa tse re RrminiwParet

Yanks Engage  Bloody Fighting On Italian Front   Battle Rages Into 5th Day Around Salerno Sector

fifth Army Battles For _ Fifth Straight Day As  Nazi Forces Increased

Nazis Hurl Full Weight Againsi U.S. 5th Army   British Eighth Captures Crotone, Also Brindisi On Adriatic Side Of Coast

NAZIS RES! ST BRITISH ARMY NEAR SALERNO   German Force Strikes Savagely Against Advancing Fifth Army   BITTER FIGHTING   Crotone, Brindisi Fall T« Allied Army Driving Northward

German Forces Growing   Enemy Is Putting Up Desperate Resistance Against Slowly Advance: ing 5th Army Troops

Foe Fails To Stop Determined Push By Sth Army   Taranto Landing Force Seizes Brindisi; 8tt Army Reaches Crotone

GROWING NAZI FORCES RESIST U.S. STH ARMY   British Eighth Captures Port of Crotone: Crucial Action Awaited

Salerno Fight Grows Bloody In Fifth Day   British Forces Drive Northward And Seize Crotone

Nazi Forces Stream Northward to Reinforce German Attack   BRITISH ON ADRIATIC   Extend Hold on East Ital~ Fan Coast After Taking ‘Brindisi

BRITISH FORGE RUSHES NORTH   Eighth Army, Advancing With Little Opposition, Takes Crotone. ,   'GERMAN FORCE GROWING

U.S. Fifth Army, Germans Locked In Great Combat   Meanwhile British Get Strong Positions On Adriatic —      More Of Ifalian Fleet Surrenders   Several Ships Arrive In Malta Harbor

Housewives Choose For First Week-End Under Meat Rations   ' OPA Issues Warning Against Any Point Free Meat Sales

OPA SAYS MEAT STOCKS GROWN   Issues Warning  to Mark ets Against “Point Free” Sales

‘POINT FREE’ MEAT SALES DRAW WARNIN(   Increased Supplies, Reduced Buy ing Break Threai of Spoilage in Some Markets

BUTCHERS GAUTIONED ON‘POINT FREE’ SALES   PPA Hears Of Some Case: To Prevent Spoilage

MEAT MARKETS SUPPLIES HIGHER   OPA Warns. Butchers Against “Point Free” Sales to Customers

Housewives Do Their First Weekend Meat Point Buying’   Can Choose From Stocks Which—in Most Places— Are Sufficiently Increased That Office of Price Administration Has Issued Warning Against “Point Free” Sales

Sales Retarded By High Point Values Of Meat   Plentiful Supply In Most Areas ; Housewive: Are Saving Coupons

OPA ISSUES WARNING AGAINST POINT: FREE SALES   Groceryman’s Shelves" Sufficiently Replenished To Take Care of  Housewives Needs

MEAT SUPPLY GOOD AT MOST POINTS TODAY   Some Point-Free Selling to Prevent Loss Is Reported,    RETAILERS MAY EASE ON POINTS   Can Stimulate Sales by Posting Signs of Cut Point Values.

WARNING ISSUEL BY OPA ON SALE OF MEAT INU. S.   Unrationed Sales Reported F-om Some Sections

Housewives Choose From Increased Stocks; Point-Free Sales Warning

BRITISH 8TH ARMY STORMS ON TOWARD GOAL AT TRIPOLI      Greatest -Advance - Made ' By Southern Portion OF Three Advancing  Column:

Sritish Advance Near Axis Base; Nazis in Tunisia   tommel Decides to Leave Tripolitania, Gather Army in Tunisia

EIGHTH ARMY 50 Mi. FROM TRIPOLI   Rommel Flees To Tunisia, Abandons Tripolitania

TERRITORY REPORTED ABANDONED   Rommel and His Forces Now in Medenine, 68 Miles Inside Tunisian  Border.

EIGHTH ARM NOW 80 MILES FROM TRIPOL   Fleeing Germans Reported at Medenine, 68 Miles Inside Rordar:   TROOPS, TANKS BATTLE SOUTHWEST OF TUNIS

British Are Less Than Fifty Miles From-Tripoli   Rommel Decides ‘To Abandon All ‘OF Tripolitania

British Army Storms Ahead On Tripoli   «Montgomery ts tess— Than 50 Miles Away From Big Axis Base

British Roar On Toward Tripoli   Rommel in Flight Deep in Tunisia

BRITISH EIGHTH NEARING TRIPOL   Rommel’s Forces Are Believ: ed to Have Fled 68 Miles Inside Tunisia.

Barbed Wire, Troops Quiet Jap Rebellior   Sullen Inlernees Watch Behind Forty-Foot  cS RS

Coal Wage Scale Approved By WLB   Bayonets Cool Off 15,000 Jap Rebels At Tule Lake

JAP INTERNEES' REVOLT QUELLED   TROOPS MARCH INTO SEGREGATION CENTER AFTER RIOTING AND ASSAULTS,

Soldiers Guard Rebellious Japs  Army Takes Contro! Following Riots

Troops Control Jap Internees   Bayonet Threat Ends Tule Lake Rioting   Truman Group Suggests British Settle For U.S. Oil. Warns Against Army WPA

Army Takes Over Japanese Camp   Civilian Authorities  Ack Aid of Troops

Bitterly Contested Volture no Bridgeheads Made Permanent By Assault Of 5th Army Column.

GOEBBELS “ARTICLE SCORNS COWARDICE   Makes First Statement Since Italian. Capitulation

GOV BRICKER’S PRESIDENTIAL BID CHEERED   G. O. P. Welcomes Declara tion Amid Governorship Speculation

"OPA PLANS CUT IN LIVING COST   Stabilization to Come Soon for Duration Bowles x Declared

LIVING COSTS TO BE CUT T0 194) LEVEL   Bowles, OPA General Manager, Pledges to Keep Them There

OPA GUARANTEES 70 HOLD PRICE!   Maintains Agency Will Re duce Csst of Living. to September, °42, Level

UPA GUinTEED 10 HUD PalbEo   Maintains Agency Will Reduce Ccst of Liv:ng to September, ’42, Level

REDUCTION IN LIVING COSTS ~~ PROMISED BY OPA OFFICIALS   BOWLES -BAYS STABILIZATION FROGRAM WILL BRING COSTS DOWN TO LEVEL OF YEAR AGO

Marshall Shifting Rapped By Solons  Slick English Diplomats Draw Criticism

Hitler Reported Ill  Fuehrer’s Health Is Causing Concern In Germany, Bern 'Hears

Report Hitler Near Crackut   Nazi Leaders Alarmed Over His Condition.

HITLER'S HEALTH BAD   Fuehrer's Health Causing Concern Among Nazi Party Leaders

Rumor Has It That Hitler Health: Bad   Unconfirmed Report Says He’s Apathetic, Depressed

GERMANS WORRIED BY HITLER'S HEALTH   Discussions for Successor Already Begun, ’Tis Said

Sixteen Flour Milling Companies Indicted on Charae of Fixina Prices

Charge Flour Prices ‘Fixed   Flour Milling Firms. Executives Indicted In Conspiracy Case,

Bond Drive Goes Over Six Million Mark   $487,054 Added in Past 24 Hours Here

$192,893 More forBond Drive Chest   Lowell's Total Now Stands at $5,513,007

Death Toll Up To 76   23 Rail Wreck Victims Still Are Unidentified

DEATH TOLL 78 IN TRAIN WRECK   Seek To Identify 23 Victims of Mishap; Discount Sabotage

Wreck Death Toll Increased To 78   Six Others May Die Before Dav Ends

DEATH TOLL IN P.R.R. WRECK STANDS AT 78   At Least Six of the Injured In Hospitals Expected To Die as Other Bodies  Are Sought   JOINT HEARING STARTS

DEATH TOLL IN WRECK HITS 78   Federal And Railroad Officials Open Probes Of Two Holiday Accidents

DEATH TOLL 78 IN TRAIN CRASH   Several Others In Critica! Condition, Woman ls Missing

G-MEN PROBING PENNSY WRECK: T8 LIVES LOST   Joint Hearing Started to Determine Cause of Labor Day Accident In Philadelphia

TRAIN WRECK’ DEATHS REACH 78; STILL MOUNTING   One Passenger Still Missing and Physicians Say At Least Six of 99 Injured In Hospitals Might Not Live Through The Day.

DEATH TOLL IN TRAIN WRECK 78   Six of 99 Injured Are in Critical Condition

TRAIN WRECK TOLL REACHES 70 LIVES   Many File Past Dead in Morgue Seeking Victims; to Seek Reasons

TRAIN WRECK TOLL INCREASES 10 78   Morgue Filled With Those Hunting Relatives

Atlantic Battle Being Won, Eden Informs British   Foreign Secretary Pleased with Results of War on -Boats

BOMBINGS OF ITALY PROMISED BY EDEN   Foreign Secretary Says Air Attacks to be Relentless

Fifth Pierces Defenses Of Germans   British Fight Way Across River With Use Of Tanks

INFANTRY SMASHES NAZI LINES   “a  Tanks Of British 8th Army Cross Moro River In East

CARDS ON TOP 4-1 IN EIGHTH INNING   THE LINEUPS   ush Toward Rome Results in Fighting Entirely Across Italy

BRITISH UNIT MOVES ACROSS MORO RIVER   American Planes In Heavy Raid On Airfield In Athens: Rains Sweep Italian Front

TAKES BEST HEIGHTS ON ROAD TO ROME      Infantry Crashes Through Nazi Defenses in 25Square-Mile Area as British Push Across Moro River.

5th Army Takes Hills Covering 25 Square Miles   4 Enemy Tanks Wrecked By British Troops On Adriatic Side Of Line

Dominating Positions: Captured   Eighth Army Forges Way Across Moro River

S CRACKED IN  it DEFENSE ITTER BATTLE   eadquarters Officer Re port Allies Hold Most Important Features in the Monte Maggiore Area  AAAPO DIVER CRBOSSEn

Take New Heights On Road to Rome   Fifth Army Infantry Thrusts Germans From Mountain Positions   Violent Air Battles Resul! From oo on Athens

STRATEGIC NEW POSITIONS HELD BY CLARK'S MEN   American Forces Capture High Points Overlooking Road To Rome; Eighth Army Rolls Across Moro River.

NAZI DEFENSE CRACKED TODAY BY FIFTH ARMY   Allies Capture Area Opening Road To Rome

Clark Seizes Ridges Over Road to Rome   Meanwhile, Eighth Army ‘Yanks Ram Way Acros Moro River Line

Infantry Takes Most Dominatine Points In Area   Eighth Army Rams Across Moro River In Violent Battle

Viith Crashes Nazi Defenses   Reds Sever Germans’ Vital Railway Line Between Smela, Znamenk,

YANKS SMASH NAZI LINES IN BITTER DRIVES   British Tanks Advance Across Moro River  On East Coast

Yanks Crash Through Nazi Defense Line   Capture Most Dominating Positions Overlooking Road Leading to Rome

Germans Kept Moving Northward   Nazi Resistance On Russian Front Seems Increasing

5th Army Is Still On  Advance   Wins High Places in 25-Mile Square  Area

Sth Army Takes Vital Positions  Moro River Crossed By British 8th

Allies Seize Main Heights In Rome Area   Sth Army's Tanks Smash Across Moro River; Greece Bombed

Key Hills Taken in  U.S. Pust   BRITISH TANKS RAM ACROSS MORO RIVER IN SMASH ON ROME

KEY HEIGHTS ON ROAD 10 ROME ARE CAPTURED   Allied Infantry Crash Through Nazi Defenses in Bitter Assaults

Large Area Controlled By Fifth Army   Dominating Positions Or Road To Rome Take: By Infantry Durin; Bitter Assaults 

MONTE CAMINO AND MAGGIORE FALL TO ALLIES   ‘Army Heads Class Them   Most Important Features   In Area; 5 Miles Wide and 5 Miles Deep   BRITISH TANKS RAM ACROSS MORO RIVER   Battle Germans In Fog te   Reach Objective; Four Enemy Tanks Are   Wrecked

Sth Army Troops Capture Heights   Nazi Defenses Crumble in Italy To Permit Yankees to Seize Hill

DRIVE NAZIS FROM HEIGHTS   Fifth Army Crashes Through German Defenses in Bitter Assaults.

Smash Through Heavy German Defenses to Gain Dominating Positions in 25Square-Mile Area on Rome Road ig

Fifth Army Takes More Heights; Eighth Crosses Moro River With Tanks

YANKS SEIZE DOMINATING POSITIONS —   British Tanks Ram Across Moro River. On’ Asiatie Side

Capture Key Heights on ‘Road to Rome   Americans Crack German Defenses And British Tanks Cross Moro River

Take New Heights On Road to Rome   Fifth Army Infantry Thrusts -Germans From Moun~ tain Positions   EIGHTH IN TANK FIGHT   Violent Air Battles Result - From Raid on Athens  Fields

Fifth Army Drives Onto Dominating Site in West Italy   Now Overlook Road to Rome; Reports From Other Fronts

AMERICAN TROOPS. CAPTURE STRONG GERMAN POSITIONS   Fifth Army Crashes Through Nazi. Defenses While British Tanks  Cross Moro River

FIFTH ARMY SURGES UVER RIVER BARRIER IN NORTHWARD PUSH   Yanks Capture Two Key Towns Only 96 Miles From Italian Capital After Breaching German Line   Ry UNITED PRESS

FIFTH ARMY TROOPS HAVE CRASHED NAZI RIDGE POSITIONS  BRITISH TANKS CROSS

Yanks Crashed German Defenses   PIT ARMY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE IN ITALY

Bitter Fight Continues Across Italy   British 8th Army Encoun. ters Stiff Opposition  from Germans

FIFTH AND E'GHTH ARMIES ADVANCE ON ROAD 10 ROME   U. S. Troops Wade Flooded Zones to Defeat Nazis tm Rattle

THE FIFTH ARMY CRASHED THROUGH THE NAZI DEFENSES   Captured Most Dominating Position in a 25 Square Mile Area.   ON THE ROAD TO ROME   British Rammed Across the Moro River in FogBound Battle.

CLARK’S FORCES LUNGE THROUGH GERMANS’ LINES   Heights Overlooking Road to Rome Seized by Yanks; British Gain

Fifth Army Takes New Nazi Heights   British Tanks Push Across Moro River

Fifth Crashes Through Nazi Strona Point   Take Dominating Positions in Heavy Assaults; Eighth Army Pushes Aheac

Vanks Take Heights in Bitter Fray   British Tanks Ram Across Moro River In the East

Clark's Army Push Througt Nazi Defense   Capture Dominating Positions Overlooking the Road to Rome

ELEVATIONS ALONG ROME ROAD TAKE   Tanks Of English Ram Moro River “For Gains

‘British Highth Army Runs Into Tough Fight Along Biferno River As New German Lines Are Formed    SITUATION REMAINS H SAME ON RED FRONT

Allies Punch New Holes In German Lines   Fifth Army Crashes To New Gains In 25-Mile Area Over Road   EIGHTH LOSES RIDGE   British Tanks Manage To Cross Moro In New Advance

Dominating Heights Fall To U.S. After Bitter Fight   Clark’s Army Crashes Through Nazi Defenses Overlooking Road To  Rome

U.S. Army Crashe: Nazi Line to Capture Key Area   Infantry Seizes High Positions on Road To Rome; British Tanks Ram Across Moro River; Nazi Attacks Are Halted

U.S. UNIT TAKES VITAL HILLS ON WAY TO ROME   British Tanks Cross Moro; Russians Threaten Kirovograd .

5th Army Takes Additional Key Hill Positions   Hold Vital Heights Overlooking Road To Rome; British Cross Moro.

Yanks Capfure Key Position:   Crash Nazi Defenses On Rodd To Rome

New 15th Air Force, Admonished  Only 19 Bombing Days Befora Christmas, Blasts Athens   TANKS SPAN MORO   Battle Nazis in Fog, Wreck Fou Mark IV Tanks — Americans Wade Flooded River

BRITISH TANKS DRIVE FORWARE ON EAST COAST   Americans Fight In Water Up To Their Necks

Nazis Pour Troops  Into Yugoslavia  Fear Allied Attack On Balkan Flank

NAZI TROOPS POUR INTO YUGOSLAVIA   German Forces Attempt to Seal Off Smatl Breach in Their Balkan Flank.

Escaped Lifer, Cornered In Cafe, Slain In Gun Battle   Killer Who Boasted He Would Never Be Taken Alive, is Surprised At Breakfast

ESCAPED LIFEH fo KILLED BY POLICE   Fires two Shots at Motor Police, Answered by Four from Officers after 11 Davs of Freedom

Escaped Man Killed in Gun Battle   VICTOR ANDREOLI DIES IN CAFE FIGHT WITH PENNSYLVANIA POLICE

SOUGHT LIER SHOT 10 DEATH IN CHESTER. PA,   Victor Andreoli, Who Es: caped Penitentiary 11 Days Ago, Puts Up Coun Rattle   POLICE SURPRISED HIM AT BREAKFAST

Fugitive Lifer Shot To Deatt   Pennsylvania Convict Slain By Police

LIFER KILLED ON GUNBATTLE   Escaped . Convict, Slayer of Policeman, Is‘Shot at Chester

Today’s War Commentary  Action to Follow War Talks By Allied Leaders

‘Start Drivers License Renewals On June’ 7      Renewal Fee of Cents Extends Present License For Three Years—Tou July, 1946

BEGIN RENEWAL OF DRIVERS’ LICENSES INIOWA, JUNE 7   Registration Dates And ' Places’ Are Designated For Plymouth County

SPLIT GERMAN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN FRONTS   Fleeing Germans Made tc Use Bridges Over Dnieper Under Red Air Attacks

EDS ROLL ON BRYANSK VICTORY   Four Enemy Infantry Di ‘visions Routed.

Ringside Seat af Tunisian Air Battle Proves Too Close for Comfort

MRS. KOFORD ‘PASSED AWAY. IN HOSPITAI      Native of Norway Was Well Known in Concord; - . Funeral Saturday’

Roosevelt Order Leads To Strike   Labor Protests Against Hold - The - Line Decree  Gain In Force.

Broadcast Says Rome Open City   Claims Negotiations  Began On July 31

SEEK 11TH HOUR RAIL PAY ACTION   Congress Gives President Week-End to Attempt Compromise

GIVE PRESIDENT CHANCE 10 WORK OUT COMPROMISE   Pay Increase Rejected by Vinscn Now in Mr. Rocsevelt’s Lap

CLARK GABLE ON RAID   Fermer Screen Siar Accompanie U. &. Pliers On Antwerp Foray

CLARK GABLE GOES ON FIRST AIR RAID   Flies in Flying Fortress to Antwerp as Observer—Plane Twice Hit.

Report Pope Ill With Severe Cold   Claim Catholic Head in Bed With High Fever

Pope Reported Ill With Severe Cold   Berlin and London Reports Differ

Pope Suffering From Cold —   Axis Reports Pontiff:  oHaePeyver en cis:

RAIN IS ON THE MENU   Light Moisture for This Section of State Is Predicted

Allies Reported Willing to Have Rome Open City Conditions Reported  .to Have Been Sent to Vatican

New Oil Pipeline To Open by Feb. 1   Gas Rationing Will Not Be Relieved

WILL BRING LITTLE HELP IN RATIONING   Another Line To Atlantic Coast Planned

Ickes Says Pipeline to Operate Soon   Next Winter's Outlook Darkened by Possible Shortage of Coal

NEW RADIO INVENTION ELIMINATES STATIC   U. S. Military Forces Testing Latest Device

Russians Slash to Pronya River   RED ARMORED, MOTORIZED FORCES RIP THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE LINE ACROSS WHITE RUSSIA IN NEW DRIVE ON 40-MILE FRONT FACING POLAND

Soviets Break White Russian Defense Lines   Reds Make Gains Along Road To Poland In Pronya Area °   DRIVE PAST GOMEL   German Counterattacks Overwhelmed With Heavy Losses

BREAK-THROUGH IS ACHIEVED ON 40-MILE FRON]   Impetus Given Soviet Drive On Road To Poland

Hinge of Front In Gomel Area  Partly Unhinged   Soviet Drive Toward Old Poland Said ,  Gaining Momentum

Nazi Line Pierced In Gomel Ares   Dispatch From Budapest Brings Into Open Reports Of Surprising Political Measures

Live Hog Price Ceiling Is Set  $14.75 Chicago Basi: ls Fiqure Adopted

MAXIMUM LIVE HOG PRICE SET AT $14.75 CWT   Cefling Established, Chi cago Basis, by OPA; Effective Oct. 4; Retail Unaffected

Half Of Miners In Harlan Strike   “Wildcat” Stoppages Spread Through Kentucky

NEW LUTHERAN CHURCH IS DEDICATED HERE YESTERDAY   Consecration Sermon Given By Rev. R. S. Ressmeyer, of Baltimore, Md.; Many Messages of Best Wishes and Praise Read; Capacity Congregation Preseni.

caren LL TL TT TTR nn RER ESS nena  NEW LUTHERAN CHURCH IS DEDICATED HERE YESTERDAY   Consecration Sermon Given By Rev. R. S. Ressmeyer, of Baltimore, Md.; Many Messages of Best Wishes and Praise Read; Capacity Congregation Preseni.

Greyhound to Institute Helicopter Service’   Need for More Women ‘In Industry Foreseen

RUMOR HIROHITO PEEVED AT TOJO   Premier “Lost Face” Ove Fake Victory Claims

Claim Hirohito, Tojo At Odds   Report Premier’s Lies Have Lost Him ‘Face’

SOVIETS CHASE FLFEING NAZIS IN RIVER BEND   Germans Retreat Hurriedly to kscape Russian Pineer

Drew Pearson Directed To Explain Charges Involving Senator George

SEEK PEARSO EXPLANATION   Senators Ask Columnist to Back Statement Alvord Has George Tax Vote

Pearson Willing To Elaborate on Column Comment  Writer to Testify to Boast of Counsel

Senate Committee  To Quiz Writer   Asks Pearson to Explain Remark About Tax Vote

British Sink! Four U-Boats   Twenty-Five Subs Routed In Attack On Merchant Fleet

'4-U-Boats Sunk, 6 Probably. Destroyed, in Battle with i Westbound Convoy of Allies

4 ENEMY U-BOATS DESTROYED IN RUNNING RAID ON CONVOY   Other Underseas Craft Believed Sunk By British And Canadian Naval And Air Units; Most Of West-Bound Merchantmen Reach Port

BELTON NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSN, 1S FORMED HERE   R. E. Dawson of Copperas Cove Named President; © A. G. Vick, Vice-Pres.

Deny Elimination Of Control Asked  Farm Speaker Before Senate Group

CONGRESS TO. MISS RECESS THIS EASTER   CONTROVERSIES WILL PRE. VENT MEMBERS. FROM “LEAVING WASHINGTON,  PARTY LEADERS “DECLARE ° ~

HOPE FADES IN CONGRESS FOR EASTER RECESS   House Embroiled in Fresh Battle Over Executive Bureaus

NEW LEGISLATIVE FIGHTS UPSET CONGRESS’ HOPE FOR RECESS AT EASTER

KILL NEGRO SOLDIER IN RACE OUTBREAK   Six Others Wounded in Fight at Shenago, Pa.

NEGRO SOLDIER KILLED IN RIOT   One Killed, Six Other Negroes Injured In Fighting Between White And Colored Service Men At Camp Shenango, Pa.

WHITE AND NEGRO SOLDIERS FIGHT   One Negro Soldier Is Killed and Six Others Hurt

One Killed, Six Injured In Riot   Race Fighting Breaks Out In Supply Depot

Soldier Killed, ‘Six Others Hurt “In Camp Battle   Negro And White Troops -Engage. In’ Gun Fight At Military Reservation

NEGRO SOLDIER ~— DIES IN GLASH   Six Wounded In Battle Between Saldiers At -?Shénango; Pa. >

Negro Soldier Is Killed, Six Others Are Wounded Daring Pennsylvania Riot

One Soldier Dies And Six Are Hurt InCamp Disordel   Undetermined Number of Negro Soldiers Open Fire On White Troops

SIX WOUNDED, ONE KILLED IN NEGRO WHITE TROOP. RIOT      Colored Soldiers Get Guns From Supply Building, Fire On Whites At  Greenville

NEGRO DIES IN RACE CONFLICT   Six Wounded In Dispute At Army Personnel Department

Soldier Is Killed, Six Wounded   Fighting Breaks Out a Replacement Depot in  Pennsylvania

RACE FIGHT FLARES IN CAMP--ONE DEAD   Negro Killed and Six Others Injured in Pennsylvania

Negro Dies In Army Camp Rio  Six Others Wounded At Shenango In ’ Dispute With Whites

Negro Killed in Race Riot At United States Army Camp   Six Others Wounded In Encounter Between Negroes  and Whites After Trouble Apparently Had Been   Discouraged Only te Be Followed By  _ Attack by Negro Troons

Negro Soldier Dies in Clash   Six Others Wounded In Fight Between Whites and Negroes

TWO WOMEN HELD FOR LIQUOR RUNNING   Twelve Cases Found in One Car and 16 in Other

YANK FLYERS HIT BASE ON GILBERT   Long-Range Bombers Smash at Tarawa and Nauru Positions

THREE VITAL NEW AIRFIELDS LEFT TO NAZIS   Eisenhower Is Nearly Captured on Desert

Yanks Driven Back 35 Miles From Faid Pass As Shells Bounce Off Nazi Tanks.

Important Aerial Defenses Broken   American Troops Forced Back Close To The Alaerian Border: Mark Vi Tanks Attacking

RushtonTurns over Probe Funds to Carr   Will Retain Right to Appoint Special ‘Prosecutors for Later Trials

(Continued On mace Four TRAFFIC DEATHS ON OHIO ROADS SHOW DECLINE

RURAL TRAFFIC DEATHS DROP, SOURS REPORTS   Decline in Highway Fatalities About Half This Year Highway Head Says

RURAL TRAFFIC FATALITIES DROP   Highway Accidents Decrease Nearly Half in Ohio in First Six Months

County War Bond Quota $1,434,900      Boost of $338,700.00 over ’42 quota. Sales drive opens Feb. 22.

Peoples Need To Be Filled   Byrnes Sees Hope Of More Civilian Goods

BYRNES HINTS CIVILIANS MAY GET SUPPLIES   Survey Being Made Of War Buying To Eliminate  En eecantiale   RUBBER, GASOLINE PROSPECTS STUDIED

BYRNES VIEWS WAR MATERIAL   Sees Possibility That Civilians Will Get More Supplies

More Goods For Civilian Use Hope of Byrnes   Oe oe ee gi eh Tee  Home Front Director Discusses Survey of Overall Needs

MORE GOODS FOR CIVILIANS, BYRNES HINT   Surveys War Buying in Order to Eliminate Unessentials

Civilians May Have Better Supply ‘Of Materials Soon   Byrnes Says He Hopes  Domestic Needs ae Aa Cjllad Rettar

Hope to Release More Supplies   Byrnes Discusses War Material Needs

More Supplies For Civilians Held Possible   Byrnes Sees Hope fo More Goods for the Home Front

MORE COODS FOR CIVILIANS, “BYRNES’ HINT   Whee Rueing in, srveys War Buying in, Order to Eliminate Unessentials

SUPPLIES FOR CIVILIANS MAY -BEINCREASED   Possibility. Advanced by War Mobilization Director: ;

Byrnes Hope: For More Home Goods   Reveals Survey Te Determine  Over-All Needs

Civilians May Get More Supplies  Byrnes Discusses Material Needs

Civilians May Have Better Supply Of Materials Soon   Byrnes Says He rapes  Ramactice Alaa   Byrnes Says He Hope: Domestic Needs Can Be Filled Better

Byrnes Hints More Supplies For Civilians   Survey of War Needs Seeks to Prevent

Byrnes Hints Civilians _ May Get More Good   4 Points Stressed During. His Thirc ‘Press Conference Since Becoming Boss of Home Front

CIVILIANS MAY ~ GET MORE GOODS   BYRNES HOPES WAR NEEDS SURVEY WILL. ALLOW THEM LARGER SHARE.

Burma Invasion  May Be Near   Heavy Aerial Attacks Made On Jap Supply  Bases. Railways.

Heavy Attacks Made In Burma   Invasion May Follow Allied Bombing Of Jap Bases

Heavy Raids On Jap Bases InBurmaMay  Herald Drive   Supply Depots And Rail Transport Dealt Shattering Blows Over Weekend

U. §. Navy Tops All Others in Sea-Air Power   Senate Body Reports Faod and Equipment Shipped to 32 Fronts

New War Front Assurance Asked   ‘Centon’ ‘Defends Fund Appropriation For OW]

Statement Delivered By Committee Chairman During Debate Over  OW] Appropriation

Freeze Social Security ‘Tax   Senate Extends Present One Percent Rate For First Two Months Of 1944.

AUOH TAK DILL TO SENATE VOTE   $144,000,000 Is Added To House Figures

Senate Finance Group Votes To Increase Taxes   Freezes Social Security Rates

Solons Put Freeze On Social  Security Taxes  Order Is Made as Par Of Resolution Lifting Grain Duties

Social Security Extension Voted   Subsidy Show-Dowr ls Also Delayed

DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK ON RATICN BOO   June 10 Marks Last Mailing Day.

MAIL RATION BOOK FORM BY JUNE 1   Application Should Be In Mail by Deadline Says OPA.

Famed U.S. Sub Triton, Reported  Presumed Lost   Fails To Return From Patrol Operations In Pacific Area, Is Report   HAD MANY JAP SHIPS AS TOLL

FAMOUS SUB 1S MISSING   NAVY SAYS UNDERSEA CRAFT THAT HAD SUNK TWELVE JAP VESSELS  “PRE- © . SUMEDLY LOST”

ANTHONY EDEN MAY ATTEND ALLIED TALKS   Spokesman Says There Are “Some Odds” He Will Arrive — Meanwhile, U. S.-British Military Parley Begins.

Eden May Attend   U. S. And British War Chiefs Confer; F. R., Churchill Not Present Yet

TOP MEN OF U. 8. WAR FORCES AT QUEBEC PARLEY      Conferring With British Military Strategists Preliminary to RooseveltChurchill Meeting

ions Are Preliminary Tc forthcoming Conference Sometime Soon Between Prime Minister Churchill of Britain and President Roosevelt.

U.S. AND BRITISH CHIEFS CONFER   Military Men in Meeting Ahead of the RooseveltChurchill Conference

SIGNIFICANT STAGE   American War  Leaders Open Councils With Birt! ish Staff

READY TO HELP ALLIES   Top US, British Military Men Meet in Quebec

CONFERENCE INTO SIGNIFICANT STAGE   American War Leaders Open Councils With Birtish Staff   CHIEFS ENTER LA

Chance Eden to Attend Parley Hints ‘Second Front’   London Press, With Bars Removed, Speculates Allies Ready to Frame Policy for Handling Axis and Occupied Countries

TOP WAR CHIEFTAINS OPEN QUEBEC COUNCILS   Roosevelt and Churchill are Still Absent From Conference Scene: Jap Action Forecast

U.S., BRITISH CHIEFS OF WAR GET TOGETHER   Conferences Preliminary to Ar. rival of Roosevelt and Churchill, Neither Yet in Quebec

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORGE CHIEFS IN CANADIAN CITY   Roosevelt And Churchill Not Present Yet

EDEN IS EXPECTED AT ‘ALLIED QUEBEC PARLEY   Foreign Secretary's Attendence Seen As Indication Axis Policy te Se Fixed

EDEN EXPECTED ‘TO JOIN FDR. AND CHURCHIL!    Leades to Speculation That Pol jey-Forming Stage Reached in  Regard to the Axis

EDEN EXPECTED TO ARRIVE FOR STRATEGY MEET   Foreign Secretary May Confer With FDR, Churchill   FORM NEW POLICIES   Russian Government Will — Be Consulted On New  Post-War Phases

U.S. Military Leaders Open Quebec Talks   President, Churchil Not Yet Conferrin In Canada; Eden May Join Sessions

ROOSEVELT. AND CHURCHILL MAY BE MAKING PLANS FOR DRIVING HOME WINNING PUNCH IN EUROPE =   Prime Minister May Reaffirm Britain’s Promise tc Help Crush Japenese i in Pacific While on Canadiar Viet

Conferences Now In Second Stage   British, U.S. War Councils Meet

OPENING SESSION OF MEETING BEGUM   Anthony Eden Another Brit: isher Who May Take Part In Deliberations.

War Meet Continuing In Canada   Anthony Eden May Attend When FDR. Churchill Meet; Marshall Present

MILITARY HEADS OPEN PARLEYS .   Meet Preliminary to Churchill-F: R. Session

Actual War Councils At Quebec Start   Anglo-American Chiefs of Staff Conferring Todav: Eden Expected

Conference May Decide on Poticy   Rumors Say Eden Will Participate

Staff Chiefs Begin War Councils —   Second Phase of Present Conference; Time Of FDR-Churchill Par lev Stil] A Secret

Eden May Join Prime Minister   BRITISH OFFICIAL TC COME TO QUEBEC MEETING

WAR COUNCILS IN CONFERENCE   Chiefs of American and Bri tish Staffs Begin Talks In Quebec,

State Winds Up Statutory Rape Case Against Actor Errol Flynn, Jury May Return-Verdict Before-Night-—

Flynn Rape Case Submitted to Jury   Month-long Trial Concluded Todav

STATE WINDS UP JHE FLYNN CASE   Jury May Start Delibera. tions by Nighfall, Is Belief Expressed.

Allied Leaders Must Be Ready When War Ends   chieftains Probably Hav Laid Foundation of Postwar Plan

Post: Vet ?_ans Zecome:/ore Via. Ni-1, 300. /..1e€ . ews -ouring _n

—Sy gonna fl. Wiggins  ‘Three- Way War Conference Soon To Be Kioald

Say Stalin Is Informed Of All War Maneuvers   Three- Way Allied War Council kb Nearer Actuality; Frame Post-War Policies

Hints at Missing Soldier Racket  OW! Warns Against Paying for News

PUBLIC Io WARNED ABOUT NEW RACKET   Cautioned Against Paying For Information About War Prisoners.

War Prisoner Names Are Given in Enemy Broadcasts:in Attempt » to Win More Listeners in U. S.

ow Cautions on Information Pecko   Shake-Down Based On Enemy Broadcasts

A WARNING BY OW!   Cautions Against Paying for Information on War Prisoners

\nformation Of Prisoners  May Be ‘Racket’  OWI Says Enemy Using Names to Increase  W tad hee Hw

‘Information Of Prisoners  May Be ‘Racket   OWI Says Enemy Using Names to Increase Listeners

Warn Of War Prisoner Radio Broadcast Racket   “Messages” From Pris oners Used To Draw Audience For Propaganda

- REPLY BY A. A. BERLE    Undersecretary Comments on Action Toward the French

Mass Meeting For Bond Drive _ Next Sunday Evening  gon Cy oh ae Have Acreed    425 Workers Have Agreed To Help In The Campaign To Seil $713,000 In Bonds

Turkey Is Closer To British Pact   Churchill’s Conference Motivates Active Military Co-Operation.

Dynamite Squads Systematically Wrecking Great Ifalian Port as Hitler's Horde Slowly Retreats   Stalin Announces Armies Are Moving In the Gomel Direction; Black Smoke Shrouds Italian Towns; Advance In Pacific

Reds Withdraw In One Sector   German Counter-Attacks, Weather Turn Back Drive

GERMANS THROW 150,000 MEN INTO COUNTER-ATTACK   RED ARMY SUFFERS FIRST REVERSE OF 4 MONTHS’ DRIVE

SOVIET TROOPS GIVE GROUND IN UKRAINE FIGHT   Stiff Counter-Attacks, Adverse Weather Force Russians to Retreat

POLTAVA TAKEN WITH SMASHING SOVIET THRUST   - Enter Gomel Sector 150 Miles From Old Border of Poland

Into White Russia —  At Gomel :   Victorious Red Army. Scores Striking Successes Along Whole 750 Mile Battle Front'

RED ARMY GIVES UP GROUND IN UKRAINE FIRST TIME 4 MONTHS  GERMANS THROW IN   GERMANS THROW IN MANY TROOPS TO FORC! RUSSIAN RETREAT

Smashing Offense Launched by Reds   Premier. Stalin Announces Poltava Is in Harids of © Russians   A MAJOR GERMAN BASE   Regional Center of Ukraine , Captured After Three Day Battle

Stiff German Attacks Force Red Withdrawa   Russians Yield Grounc At Zhitomir, Gain Near  Korosten, Gomel.

‘Soviet Troops Forced Back At Zhitomir   German Counterattacks Stops Reds First Time; Russians Gain Elsewhere

REDS ASTRIDE CONEL WARSAW RAILWAY LINE   Capture Opens Way for Further Plunges Into White Russia

Powerful axis stronghold at Poltava is evacuated as red armies surge forward   Russians only 15 miles from vital Dnieper after break-thru at Gomel

RUSSIAN ARMIES KNIFING WAY T0 KIEV, SMOLENSK   MAIN NAZI DEFENSE LINE GIVES BEFORE RELENTLESS SOVIET

NAZIS ABANDON POLTAVA; REDS NEAR DNIEPER   Some Of Greatest Soviet Victories Of War Are Believed Imminent

Red Troops Take Poltava, Storm Into White Russia   Stalin Announces. Fall: of: Nazi. Base” In Heart of Ukraine; Germans’ Lose. Last Stronqheld‘Above Dnieper Bend

Reds Now 150 Miles From Polish Border   Troops Close in on Kiev, Smolensk; German Forces: Abandon Poltava

Poltava, In the Heart of the Ukraine, Falls Before a Smashing Soviet Drive That Carried Troops Into White Russia

POLTAVA RUSSIANS   Germans Announce Abandonment of Poltava Gateway to Heart of Ukraine

Reds Withdraw For First Time In Four Months   Germans Stage Series of Heavy Counter-Attacks Southeast of Zhitomir.   Nazis Throw 150,000  Troops Into Offensive

Break Into Gomel Area In Smashes   German Evacuation Of Poltava Announced; Great Victories In Offing. Belief

Nazis Give Up Poltava, Gate To Ukraine   ¥ White Russia Last Great Area Between Reds and Polish Frontier

Other Points Within -B and 15 Miles from ‘ Dnieper  River Taken In Broad Offensive

‘Reds Give ‘Up Cround An Ukraine   Nazi Blows Force First Russian Withdrawal in  - Four Months —

FIRST SOVIET WITHDRAWAL IN 4 MONTHS   Series of Heavy Nazi Counter-Attacks Oust Reds

a  Nazis Abandon Poltava, Gateway Ukraine’s Heart, Before Red Pust

Nazi Defense Center Falls  To Red Forees   Nazis Concentrate Bulk Of Defensive Strength Along Fifth Army Front.   ON ANNIVERSARY DATE

Poltavia, Another Base, Falls   Latest Russian Victory Opens Heart Of Ukraine Area

SOVIET TROOPS ARE REPORTED STORMING INTO WHITE RUSSIA  GERMANS ANNOUNCE     ABANDONMENT OF POLTAVA TIVRDAING CATEWAY

Reds Race On Toward Old Poland   Surge Beyond Gomel; Germans Lose Poltava,  In Heart Of Ukraine.

Poliava Falls to Russians   Soviet Troops Make New Break-Through at Gomel, Bail Center   ONLY 15 MILES FROM DNIEPER   Drive Between . Smolensk and Kiev Is Only 150 Miles From Poland

Reds Only 150 Miles From Old Polish Boundary   Troops Crash Way Into Gomel Area, Approach Dniever

Soviet Troops Now 150 Miles  From Border      Poltava Control Center OF Network Of Railroads Leading To Kharkov.   APPROACHING DNIEPER

Russian: Capture Rechitsa   KEY RAILWAY CITY FALLS AS SOVIETS STAB WHITE RUSSIA

REDS RETREAT UNDER ATTACK   German Counter-Blows in Ukraine Force First Withdrawal.   FOE USES 150,000 MEN

Reds Take Rail Point  Near Gomel      Rechitsa Is Captured in Newest Advance Following Retreat Near Zhitomir   AMERICAN BOMBERS IN WIDE ATTACK   Little Change in Italy and Aegean Battles Are Be: ing Continued

Rechitsa, Important Rail Point West Of Gomel,.. Taken By Soviet Forces

BELIEVE RED SETBACK IS NOT SERIOUS   Moscow Observers Think Retreat Before Nazi Blows in Zhitomir Sector Is on a Small Scale, tg Avoid Tran.

NAZI RETREAT TURNING INTO ROUT, REPOR}   German Front, 750 Miles Long, Crumbling With Germans Pulling Out of Major Cities

SOVIET ARMY IN SIGHT OF DNIEPER RIVER   Nazis Destroying Installations In Retreat

NAZIS ABANDON POLTAVA; KIEV MAY FALL SOON   Germans Abandon Gateway To Heart Of Ukraine, Reel Back Farther Under Terrific Russian Onslaught.

TROOPS BREAK THROUGH IN GOMEL AREA   Suecess Follows Soviet Capture of Poltava, in Heart of the Ukraine, After Three-Day Fierce Rattia _,

10 High Schools Cut to 3 Years   Seniors to Be Sent To Four-Year Schools

COAL WAGE ACTION DELAYED BY BOARD   No Decision Reached on Underground Travel Pay Issue

WLB Continues Coal Pay Study   Local Suggests Solution,  Dincinene Sieiiens

Labor Board Fails To Reach Decision  On Mine Pay Issue   No Explanation Is Given for Delay In Ending Dispute

WLB MAKES NO COAL DECISION   Fails to Issue Ruling on Portal-to-Portal Mine Pay Question

LABOR BOARD FAILS TO REACH AGREEMENT   No Official Source Would Explain Reason For Delay In Seiti ing Ceal Controversy

FATHERS WILL BE DRAFTED EARLY 44   Fathers Are Now Eligible by All Local Inducetion Boards.

To Draft Physically Fit Fathers Regardless Of Number Of Children

Bonga Taken By Aussies ©   Capture Gives Allies One Anchor of Jap Supply Line

Bonga Occupier By Australians In New Guinea   Japanese Lose Anchor Of Main Supply Line  On Huon Peninsula.

Australians Capture Bonga   a  Also Take Village Of Gusika, Positions On. Kaluena River

Australians In Another Advance   BONGA FALLS TO U.S AND AUSSIES IN PACIFIC

Jap Base Of Bonga Falls To Aussies  Allied Sea and A Forces Help In

Bonga Falls To Allies In   New Guinea   Sea Anchor of Principal Japanese Supply Line Taken By Aussies

AUSSIES TAKE BONGA, MOVE AGAINST WAREQ   Tokyo Reporis New Landing by American Forces on Bougainville~North of Beachhead   WARSHIPS HIT SIO   Light Cratt, Probably Destroyers,  Venture Up Vitiaz Strait for First Time

Allied Pincers Now Mov: ing. Toward Wareo_After Seizing Outer. Base Of Jap Supply Line. 

Aussies Route Japs From Bonga  Capture Seaward Anchor of Supply Line

Bonga, Seaward Anchor 01 Main Jap Supply Line. Captured; Naval And Ail Units Aid Troops

AUSSIE ihe DONGAIN     TAKES COASTALDRIV   Japanese Supply Base In - New Guinea Occupied  Without Opposition,   MacArthur Reports

Bonga, An Anchor Of Nippon Supply Line, Is Captured   Australian Troops Move Up Northeastern Coast From Finschhafen.   Allied Naval and Air Units Help Offensive

BLOW TO THE JAPS   MacArthur Announces Capture of Bonga on Huon Peninsula

Churchill Announced the Agreement to House of Commons.   PORTUGAL TO KEEP HER NEUTRALITY   Allied Vessels Reach the Azores Shores and Men Are Sent Ashore.

Franco Predicts Fight-Year War   Generalissimo Says Objectives Changed With Soviet Entrance

General Francisco Sees a War to Death   Present Conflict Might Last Six or Eight Years, He Told Cortes.

(Reg. U. S. Pat, Off.) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE Tinitat Preece VAlar A naleat

Japs Drain Planes from Other Areas to Aid Lae Fight   Both Prongs of New Gu'nea Drive Adding: Success

Americans Fight  For Gain of Mile   Allied Troops Go Forward  Over Slippery Roads and Wile he Imephoc.Shinnc Senttled

Key lala els   Winter Weather ; Turn Battle Into ’ Slow Struggle...

ONOW AND MUD DELAY ALLICO DRIVE IN ATALY   Americans And British Inch Forward, Beating Off Counter-Attacks

Winter Slows Battle on Italian Front   Americans Slog Forward Mile And Push Nazis from Slope of Hill

Yanks Slug Forward Mile in Italy   Winter Weather, Mud Demolitions, Attacks Slow Advance

3ethlehem Aglow Christmas Eve For The cirst Time In Four Years Of World War   Holiday Activities To Be Limited On Air Field Post During Christmas Day

Reich Girding Balkan Flank   Enemy Tightens Defense In Invasion Dread

GERMAN TROOPS SAID MOVING TO BALKAN SECTOR   Hitler Rushing Modern Weapons To Bolster The Defenses Of Bulgaria

NAZIS MOVING INTO BALKANS   Modern Weapons Being Sent Into Bulgaria to Bolster Defenses

BOCHE TROOPS BEING MOVED SOUTHWARD THROUGH HUNGARY   Hitler Apparently Preparing for Invasion of Hlaly by Americans at Early Date

War Cabinet. Will Direct  Aidby French   Giraud and De Gaulle to Be on Inner Group of Liberation Body

PLAN ELIMINATION: OF ALL FRILLS IN NEW U.S, PROGRAN      Simplification of Consumers Goods Is to Be Undertaken Shortly.

Consumer Goods  Frills Banned   Drastic Simplification Program To Be Started

SIMPLIFICATION PLANS MAPPED   WPB Moves To Make Available Larger Supply Of Consumer Goods

South ftalian Railways Hit By Bombings   Broadside Offensive Meets: Weak Reply From Fighter Planes

SHOT DOWN IN NEW RAID   Non-Stop Drive Is Shifted to Naples Region

BROADSIDE OFFENSIVE CONTINUED   Air Fields, Railways In South Struck Telling Blows by Allies.

TWO AIRFIELDS MAIN TARGETS OF ATTACKERS   Open Second Week Of Intensive Raids On. South Italy

Americans Hit Airports In Naples Area As RAI And Fleet Pound Coast

SECTIONS ATTACKED   Airfields ond Railways Are Blasted—19 Planes Shot Down — Others Are Wrecked.

SOUTHERN AREA TAKES POUNDING  FROM THE ALLIES   19 Enemy Planes Shot Down. Airfields Received Heayfest Blows.

South Italy Airdromes. Devastated By Allies   Nineteen Enemy Planes Shot Down — Scores Of Aircraft On Ground Wrecked — Fleets Active Around City Of Naples

Welgat 01 Attack Shifted To Naples Area   Nineteen Enemy Planes Downed; Many Wrecked on Ground

LEADERS FAIL . TO COME BACK   Declines Sprinkled Throug List Near Close; Selling ~~ Pressure Absent

Germans Asser! They're on Edge Of Kharkov Now   Russians Advance To Within Eighty Miles of Smolensk

LITTLE HOPE FOR NEW SUPPLIES TC GET TO GERMANS   Yanks are Brought to Standstill, tlowever, by Stuff Enemy Counter-Attacks

RUSSIAN FORCES CLOSING IN ON CAUCASUS GATE   Twenty More Towns Retaken  From Invading Germans  In Triumphant Surge   HITLER’S PLANTS BOMBED   Allied Troops Still Bogged in Mud in Tunisia but Air Attack Intensified

RED ARMY TAUNTS HITLER 10 REVEAL TRUTH ON DEBACLE   ‘Soviet Troops Race for Rostov in Great Drive; Axis Hears Bad News From   Other Fronts.

Red Troops Capture 20  More Towns   Challenge Germans to Tell Truth About -Reverses of Armies

Sweep Ahead In Steady Drive   Bad News From Nazis Comes From  Other Battlefronts.

RUSSIANS TAKE 20 MORE. TOWNS ROM GERMANS   Officially Challenge German Command To Tell Truth; Allies Make Gains In North Africa

Russia Dares Hitler To Tell Disaster Truth   Reds Retake A _ Score More Towns In Triumphant Onsurge.

Nazis Failing To Tell Truth, Soviets Claim   Russians Take 20 More Towns: Four Armies Plunging Ahead In Envelopine Move

20 ADDITIONAL TOWNS WON BY RUSSIAN ARMY   Hitler, Despite Jibe, Uses Generalities to Cover Up Setbacks

People Get No News of Serious Setbacks in Ru Told Red Attacks Are Being Repulsed; Russ Say Three Armies Closing in Toward Rostov Effort to Reinforce Lae Not Successful ; R Attacks Ruhr Area Again.

Soviet Troops Add 20 More Towns in Lower Don Thrust   Allied Planes Active On Western Europe And Africa Fronts

Soviet Drive Adds 20 Cities in Don Sweep   Russians Taunt Nazis to Reveal True State of Affairs to German People

RUSSIA OFFICIALLY CHALLENGES NAZIS TO ADMIT DISASTER   SOVIET DISPATCHES SAY ARMIES CLOSING AROUND GERMAN ROSTOV BASE

Three Russian ArmiesClosing In On Rostov   Reds Challenge Germany fo Tell Truth  About Disaster; Allies Sink Three Jap Transports and Shoot Down 38 Escort Planes off New Guinea Coast; 344 Axis Planes Shot Down on Front in Tunisia in One Month

°German People Not Informed Of Disasters   Of Disasters  Picture Troops Beating Off Drives By Army of Russians  AXIS HIT ELSEWHERE  British Flyers Renew Attack on Rommel’s Fleeino Army

Burma Air War Moving forward   ‘Yanks in Medium Bombers Smash at Japanese Objectives

Japs In Burma Bombed Again   Supply Installations Pummeled By Yanks

B-255 STAGE WIDESPREAD BURMA RAIDS   Jap Installations . Heavily Hit; River Shipping Attacked

Senate Passes  ‘Budget’ Bill   ‘Waste, Extravagance Charged to Army. Nayv

RECORD SUM IS VOTED FOR COST OF WAR   Charges ‘of Army and Navy “Extravagance” Accompany Action

IS VOTED FOR COSTOF WAR      ‘of Army and ‘Navy “Extravagance” Accompany Action

Charges of Waste, xfravagance as fund Bill Passe:  Byrd Announces Investigation Into _ Spending

SPENDING BY ARMY AND NAVY RAPPED   EXTRAVAGANCE CHARGED IN SENATE AS  $71,500,000,000 BILL IS PASSED. .

Senators Protest  Passage of  Army Money Biil Wasté, Extravagance  Charged to Both Army and Navy

SENATE. PASSES BIG ARMY BILL   Extravagance Charged By Members In Approving $71,500,000,000

‘Waste; Extravagance Charged To Armed Services as Senators Vote 77] Billions for Army

Senator Byrd To Probe Army And Navy Waste   Combined with Navy bill, fund is double the expenditures for war thie far. 

SENATE APPROVES BIG WAR MEASURE   Accompanied by Storm of Protests That Army and Navy Are Guilty of Waste And Extravagance

Charges of Waste, xtravagance as fund Bill Passes:  : Byrd Announces  Lecmetianiinn lata

Senate Passes  War Bill   Spending Waste Is Protested ‘ Bv Solons

POLICE PRESS DEATH PROBE   SAY FALL MENTIONED BY “BETTE DAVIS COULD NOT — WAVE CAUSED HUB- BAND'S DEATH

LABOR FOR FARMS GROWING SERIOUS   Committee Urges Farmers To Register Their Help Needs 

LABOR FOR FARMS GROWING SERIOUS   Committee Urges Farmers To Register Their Help Needs   CITY CAN AID. COUNTRY

Giant U.S. Army Refund Brings More Demands To Halt Draft of Fathers

A Radical Change in Production   .Army’s Funds Surplus Gives New Slant on War Effort

ARM WILL TURN ~ BAK TIBILLIGN   Discloses It Has More Money Than It Needs For War Effort

Giant Army Refund Causes Demands To Halt Father Draft And Cut Taxes

ARMY REFUNDS CHANGE VIEW OF WAR NEEDS   Spurs Action To Call Off Dad Drafts; Seek New  Gov’t Economies

Army Turning Back Billions   Changes Picture on War Production, Financing

} Army Reveals $13 Billions In  Excess Funds   Promised Rebate Stirs Backers of Draf Curtailment to New Enthusiasm

HUGE SUM RETURNED ~ 10 BUDGET BUREAL   See Possible Halt {n Tax increases and Father Draft

T3BILLION FUND NOT EXPENDED BY ARMY, RETURNED   Vast Sum Not Needed, Qwing to Series of Developments Will Permit Payment to Budget Bureau.   DEMANDS MADE FOR REDUCTION IN TAXES   Efficiency In Plant Produc tion and Decreased Size of Army Contribute in  Saving Sum.

ARMY REPORTS MORE MONEY THAN NEEDED   Will Give Better Slant On 1944  Production

MAMY TURNS BACK 13 BILLION FUND   Military Has More Money  Than It Needs

Army’s Refund Reveals Trend   $13,000, 000, WOU Excess F nds Reported; Peak. Production ‘Seen

ARMY REFUNDS GIVE NEW SLANT ON WAR EFFORT   Demands Rise Tc Halt Father ~ Dratt

Army’s Surplus Is Turned Back   WAR DEPARTMENT DON’T NEED ALL FUNDS GIVEN IT

Giant Army Refund Touches Off Nev ‘Slant on War Effort and Needs

ARMY REFUND. PUTS OFF NEW WAR EFOFRT   Deniands Rise to Halt Father Draft, Cut Taxes-and Economize

Army Returns 13 Billion of Unused Funds   Plans Under Way te Reconvert War Plants to Peace Time Needs

Army Turns Back $13,000,000, 000   Announcement Cutback Stirs Much. Discussion Of Father's Draft

REVISION SEEN IN DRAFT AND WAR PROGRAMS   War Department's Return Of 13 Billion Dollars Touches Off Action

Giant _ Refund By Army   Thirteen Billion Returned to Budget Bureau Indicates Needs Being Filled

He ARMY ADMITS: ~AIMING T00 HIGH      Has More Money and Men Than It Can Use. At Present

Army To Refund 13 Billions In Unneeded Mone   Drastic War Production Cutbacks Due; Tax Slash  Demands Rise.

BRINGS DEMAND FOR CURTAILMENT   LOWER TAXES &ND HALT OF PRE-WAR DAD DRAFT ASKED

Giant Army Refund Touches Off New Slant On-War Efforts and Needs; Demands Rise To Halt Dad Draft, Cut Taxes, Economize

; 13-Billion War Department Refund Causes - Demands for Easing: Up on Taxes and Draft

Giant Army Refund Touches Off Action   Demands Rise To Halt Dad Draft, Reduce Taxes, Economize; $13 Billion Turnec  Back By War Denartment

Today in  Washington   A Roundup of Developments From _ the Nation’s Capital

All-Out War Effort Overshot The Mark Army Has More Money Than It Needs; Revise  Army’s Size Downward

13 Billion In WarDep tFund: Is Turned Back  S cuts In Money Need,  ’ Manpower Required Praised By Surprised Memberc OF Canares:

Army's Refund Brings Demands for Halting Father Draft, Lower Taxes

ARMY FINDS IT HAS TOO MUCH MONEY   Will Return Thirteen Billion To Treasury--Investigators Will Scan Other Appropriations   IS WELCOME NEWS

Army to Turn Back Big Fund   War Department Has 13 Billion Dollars More Than It Needs.

Snyder Says ArmyFunds Above Need   Pennsylvania Congressman Reveals Huge Refund to Budget Bureau; Tax  Slash Demanded   FATHER DRAFE-FOES RENEW THEIR FIGHT   War Production ‘Believed At Peak, Begin Move to Reconvert Plants In  Manv Localities -

ARMY RETURNS 13 BILLION TO U.S. TREASURY      Military Chiels Represented as Curjailing Production Effort, Releasing Plants   DRAFT NEEDS CUT   Disclosures Hailed as Support for Delerment of Pre-Pear! Harbor Fathers

Army Yields Excess Sum Of13Billions   Giant Refund Stirs Demand for Easing Gf Taxes and Draft

Army Turns $13 Billions Back to U.S   Production Expansion fon War Use Pictured at Peak Now

ARMY’S DISCLOSURE THAT IT HAS MONEY SURPLUS SURPRISING  "WAR DEPARTMENT ‘TURN , ING BACK THIRTEEN. » *: BILTION- DOLLARS «-

ARMY HAS MORE MONEY THAN IT NEEDS   War Department Turning Back $13,000,000,000 to Budget Bureau It An nominces

Army Turns Back Thirteen Billions   Demands Are Voiced by Congress For Tax Cuts, Halt to Father Draft

Naples’ Capture Believed Likely Within Few Hours   Smashing New Gains In Battle For Naples Scored By Fifth Army   REPORT GERMANS ARE MOVING BACK

YANKS SCORE SMASHING NEW GAINS   Fifth Army Reported Investing City From South and Southeast

Yanks Only 13 Miles From Goal   British Gain Along East Coast of ltaly

Nazis Increase Counterattacks  On Soviet Front   Rains Slow Advance Of Russian Troops

Soviets Push Through Mud   Road Conditions In. White Russia And Northward Slow Progress.

RUSSIANS BATTLE MUD AND NAZIS COUNTER-ATTACKS   THREE SETTLEMENTS CAPTURED DESPITE STIFFER RESISTANCE

COUNTER-BLOWS A!MED AT REDS   Russidns Report Some Progress , Against Greatly-Stiffened Resistance

RED ARMY BATTLES AGAINST RAIN AND STIFFENED GERMANS  SOME PROGRESS MADE DESPITE HEAVIER RESISTANCE. MUDDY ROAD:

AUTUMN RAINS SLOW SOVIETS   Torrential Downpours Turn Roads Into Quagmires

Reds Hold Off Counter Moves By The Nazis   Soviet Offensive Is Limited To Local Enaaqements

Rains Aid Nazi  Resistance On  Russian Front Red Offensive  Fe Slawaa Daum

Turkey About to Throw Military Forces Into War To Fight Beside Allies   German Attacks on Aegean Islands, Now Menacing Samos, Reportedly Stiffen Ankara’s Will to Act; Bombers Raid Norway, Ludwigshafen; Italy Quiet

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE BEMBED      RAF Intensifying Aerial Pincers Offensive Designed to Blunt Axis Sea Power — Only One Bomber Lost in Sunday Night Operation,

RAF Pounds Italian Base Second Time   Loses Only One Ship in Long Flight to Spezia Navy Center

MacArthur  Planes Hit : About Arc   INFORMATION Is DIVULGED THAT OSHANGRE-EA”" WAS CARRTEERS.

Italian Base At Spezia Blasted   British Planes Strike Across English Channel

BRITISH SMASH “AT SPEZIA, NAW CENTER IN ITALY   Fly 700 Miles Across Europe To Raid Base Again   PRE-INVASION BOMB ATTACK CONTINUES 

BRITISH BOMBERS RAID ITALY’S NAVY BASE AT ‘SPEZIA   Intensified Offensive — I: Designed To Blunt Axis Sea Power For tnvasion

British-Based Planes Strike At Spezia   Only One Bomber Is Lost Despite Lone Round-Trip

GIVEN TO ITALIANS   Intensification of Aerial Pincers Offensive: Is Seen by Raid.

British Bomb Spezia, Italian Naval Base; Also Sicily and Sardinia

ONLY 1 PLANE LOST DURING ITALIAN RAIL   Other Bombers Based in Isles Blast Again at Lorient, Sub Base, Railroads in France

SPANNER SIESTA ESE. RiGee ONE SER  15 Carloads of oe Reduce Price to 12 Cents

Franco Is On Hot Spot   Some Of Top Generals Turning On Spanish Dictator—Report

KNOCK DOWN 39 OF AXIS AIR FIGHTERS   Large Force U.S. Warplanes in Attack on Stepping Stones at Italy Jitters Afresh

Huge Barges Seen Moving Toward Italy      Martial Law Extended to Adriatic Coast as ‘Zero Hour’ Nears

Assemble Barges At Gibraltar   Emergency War Zone Is Established By Mussolini In All Of Southern Italy

MARTIAL LAW: ISLES. POUNDED   Nazis Fear Invasion Through Denmark; Say June 22 Is ‘Der Tag”

REPORTS F SPAIN ADD T0 AXIS WORRIES   Alligs Blast Islards; Martial Law In Italy.

Allied Cannon Laden Barges At Gibraltar   War Zone Extended By Il Duce As Italy’s Danger Grows   'NAVY FORCE READY   Reports Germans Seize Control Of Italian Air Force

Says OPA Action Is Threat To Many Poultrymen In State   Miles Horst Quotes Producers As Saying They Believe Move May Lead To Egg Rationing

OPA Egg Price Rollback Threatens Thousands of.  Pa- Poultry Businesses

STALIN GETS NOTE FROM FDR; DAVIES DELIVERS MESSAGE   Contents May Not Be Made Known Until Emissary Returns To U, 3.  And Reports

Davies’ Mission yp! 0 Moscow Make Hit With Reds   Envoy Hands F. R.'s Letter To Stalin: Details Secret

Mission cf Davies Is Successful   Nature of Note To Stalin Still Cloaked in Secrecy

STALIN RECEIVES PRESIDENT’S NOTE   Sealed Letter Is Delivered Last Night by Davies.

REDS APPROACH OUTSKIRTS OF BLAZING KIEV   Fighting Rages at Pitch Surpassing That at Stalinerad

AXIS 1S REPORTED EVACUATING KIE\   Almost Bloodless Occupatior of Kolombangara Accomplished By Allies.

IUWETS MOVE TO MEV GATE IN GREAT ORIVE   ‘Outer Defenses Of Germans Pierced By Fast Moving Russian Armies

BATTLE PITCH EXCEEDS THAT AT STALINGRAD   Soviet Armies Approach Gates Of Blazing Ukraine City

GERMANS HAVE SET FIRETO crry OF KIEV   Russ ‘Armies Have *« Broken-Thru  ‘Outer Defenses *

RUSSIAN ARMY PENETRATES TO GATES OF KIEV   Steadily Widening And Lengthening Dnieper River Bridgeheads In Bard Fichtine 7

NAZIS REPORTED EVACUATING THE UKRAINE CAPITAL   Both Sides Hurling Enormous Quantities of Men, WeanANG_

RUSSIANS PUSH TOWARD GATES OF FIERY CITY   Both Sides Hurling Masses of Men, Tanks, Planes Into Battle

Russ Fighting In Outskirts Of City of Kiev   Soviets Widen Bridgeheads, Pour Troops Across Dnieper

Russian Armies Said Approaching Gates of Kiev   British Report States Evacuation of City Ordered By Germans

FIERCE BATTLE RAGING BEFORE CAPITAL CITY   ) Russian Thrust From Kremenchug May Trap Nazis In Crimean Area

Big Inch Will Pour 300,000 Barrels Daily   "Head" of First Crude Flowing East Surges Through Midwest

CASUALTIES LIGHT IN RAIDS ON BURMA   Protective Armor, Mechanical Features Aid Crew

Errol Flynn Again Accused  By L. A. Blonde   Film Star Father of 3 Yr Old Girl, Says Quit

JEWISH PAPERS IN ARGENTINA RESUME   Two-Day Suspension Ends After FDR Criticizes , Movement

JEWISH PAPERS BACK IN. PRINT   Argenine Ban Lifted When FDR Criticizes

2 SHIPS SUNK IN ALLIED RAID   British Forces Manned By Norwegians Slip Into Harbor Off  Norway

Allies Building Up War Sectors   SUPPLIES ARE RUSHED TO NORTH AFRICAN FRONT

Battle Of Africa Being Won Behind The Lines in Algiers And Morocco

  Stalin’ Old Companions In Policies Are Working By Hi: Side To Fashion Victories Of Red Army Over Germany

Glory of Victory Goes to New Generals, But Old Friends are Closest to Stalir

New Ruling For Hog Producers   Restrictions Eased on Pork For 90 Days

FLAT PRICES ON FOOD ITEMS TO BE ANNOUNCED   21 Food Items in South. eastern Region to Have Standard Priceac.

British Blast Enemy Convoy   Two Supply Ships Hit By Torpedoes. Motor  Tor pedo Boat Blown Up.

British Sink Four Ships   Destroyers Encounter German Convoy Under Heavy Escort Off Brittainy

Torpedo Twe Nazi Ships Off France   British Ships Attack Escort Craft in Convoy

BEGIN QUIZ ON COAL STRIKES   Inquiry To Determine If No-Strike Bill Is Violated

Federal Probe of 66 R eb s’ 9   Seek to Learn If Insurgent Miners Violating Law

Federal Probe Starts to Determine If Coal Strike Violates New Law

Reckless Use of Troops and Materials Proving Costly  To German Forces

Allies Pound Jap Shipping  Direct Hit Scored On One   Direct Hit Scored On One And Two Others Damaaed

Allies Pound Jap Shipping   Direct Hit Scored On One And Two Others Damaaed.-

BIG BOMB HITS NIPPONESE SHIP   Allied Airmen Continue To Raid Bases North Of Australia

Unlikely Congress to Be Called Back  Drafting of F athers Will Be  ved as Long as Possible

TRYING TO HOLD OFF INDUCTION OF tf. S. FATHERS   However Bar Against Taking Fathers Will Be Lowered In Short Time

NUTT SEEKING TODELAY CALLING FATHERS TO ARM}   Men Are Low,  cs of Unmarried He Admits   PEATS W.M.C, POLICY ON SELECTIVE SERVICE

States Awail Fathers’ Draft Calls  Senator Given Pledge of  ‘Necessity’ Rule

DRAFTING FATHERS BEING DELAYED AS LONG AS POSSIBLE   Manpower Commission Chairman Makes Announcement at Capital Today.

U.S. Air Force Doubles In Size   Split Method Of Bombing Planned  By LEWIS HAWKINS ;  et, Meee eee 9 fa...

U.S. Air Force Doubles In Size   Split Method Of Bombing. Planned

Several Raids Per Day Aim of Mushrooming Air Force in England  FORCE HAS DOUBLED IN SIZE SINCE MARCH  1,600 Big U. S. Planes Hit Continent in May With Only 62 Losses

Eaker Promises Multiple Blows At Axis Plants   Sth U. S. Air Force Seentua in Size in Last Few Months: Nea Parity With RAF

Giant American Air Force Soon To Attack Nazis   Will Bomb Enemy in Fou or Five Places in Single Day

AMERICA’S AIR FORCE IN EUROPE DOUBLED IN SIZE   Strength. Approaches Parity With RAF — Growing at Rate of 15 to 30 Per Cent Monthly.   BLOWS AGAINST ENEMY TO INCREASE IN NUMBER   General Eaker Says Fleet Will Be Able to Strike in Four or Five Places in  . Single Day,

Growing U.S. Air Force Prepares For Multiple Attacks Upon Naziland

U.S. MULTIPLE RAIDS AT PIN PGINTTARGETS   Maj. Gen. Eaker Disclose: -‘Lactics To Be Employec - Against Five or Morc  Plices Per Day   Valuable Target

Six-Mile Advance Posted By First  Army In Tunisia   Germans Driven To Edge Of Plain  Before Tunis

BRITISH NEAR HILLS ABOVE TUNIS PLAIN   Advance Six Miles Behind Barrage Of Shells

Gains Puts Armies Nearer To Capitol   Entire Convoy Of German Transport Planes ls Shot Down By Allied Fliers Over Tunis

PROBE BACKGROUND OF AKRON DEATHS      Report Kent State Co-ed Feared Negro

Testifies Negro Feared By Coed  Slain Girl Accepted Rides With Steward

Batteries On Shore Fire Back   But No Damage from Jar Guns, Says Navy  Announcement

U.S, Warships Bombard Kiska  In. Aleutians   Second ‘Shelling In ‘Two Days ‘Is Reported

Kiska Shelled By U.S. Warship    Jap Batteries Cause No Damage To Vessel

FDR HOLDS DRAFT CLUB OVER HEADS OF COAL MINERS   ASKS CONGRESS TO LIFT INDUCTION AGE FROM 45 TO 65

Solons Are Critical Of F. R.’s Move   Call It Poor Substitute For Anti-Strike Law; Expect Veto Which Is Likelv To Stand

Congress Frowns On Plan For Drafting Of Strikers; See Anti-Strike Bill Veto

FROTATEMENT CALLED INSULT   Answer in Coal Squabble Greeted Unfavorably in Some Quarters.   SEE ANTI-STRIKE VETO

PRESIDENT’S COAL  OTRIKE ANSWER HIT  UNSYMPATHETIC EAR CONGRESS NOT PLEASED  WITH INDUCTION TUDEAT TO MINERC

BADOGLIO'S REAL AIM ‘BELIEVED 10 BE PEACE   Rome Indicates Government Statement May Be Expected Inside Three Days

Nazis In Italy Blocking Peace, Rome Indicates   Badoglio Declared Ready To Surrender If Germans Leave

HITLER'S TROOPS  ARE SAID TO BE CHIEF OBSTACLE   Statement From Government Clarifying Issue Is Expected Within the Next. Three Days.    TALKS IN PROGRESS IN VATICAN, BELIEF   Negotiations for Capitulation Also Reported in Capital Itself in Dispatch Passed by Censor.

PEACE SEEN AS REAL AIM OF BADOGLIO   Rumors Persist Negotiations. Underway At Vatican City

Peace Said to Be Goal of Badoglio   Statement Expected in Short Order From Government

Badoglio Has Peace Goal But Fears Germany's Wrath   Indications of Attitude Seen; Expect Developments

NAZI TROOPS ON MAINLAND BLOCK PEACE   ENVOY TO VATICAN RESIGNS, GOES TO JAIL WITH DUCE

PEACE I$ HELD REAL GOAL OF ITALY PREMIER   Presence of German Troops. Fighting on Soil of Kingdom Reported Obstacle to Surrender   STATEMENT FROM CABINET HELD NEAR   Dispatch to Bern Through Censor Says Negotiations of Growing Dimensions in Progress

‘Fortune Wrapped In ‘Paper Found In Pocket ‘Of Retired Ruilroader

AMERICANS ARE MOPPING UP ON MUNDA AIRFIELD   MacArthur Announces That 7 Out Of 30 Zeros Shot Down Friday   JAP LANDING BARGES UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

Happy Americans Celebrate First Anniversary of Solomons Campaign

Celebrating anniversary of Guadaleanal campaign   Ground forces mopping up Munda; renort new Solomons air vielory

U. S. TROOPS CELEBRATING ANNIVERSARY   If Offensive In Solomons After Capture Of Munda; Just Year Since Marines Landed On Guadalcanal   Vandegrift Back

GIRL ACCUSER OF ERROL FLYNN PLAYS AMONG CORPSES  SOME RATHER BIZARRE TESTIMONY IN ALLEGED RAPE CASE FRIDAY...

FLIER ADMITS. HE ENTERTAINED GIRL IN HIS APARTMENT   Flynn Accuser Frequently Came to See Former Squadron   Leader of RCAF

PEGGY PLAYED SPY IN MORGUE   Friend Of Flynn’s Accuser Says She Played HideAnd-Seek Among Corpses In Mortuary.

British Flyer In Flynn Testimony   Knew Betty ‘Well’ He Tells Court

Reich Asks Pope to Hal Bomb Raids   Smouldering Berlin _ Counts 450  Dead or Hurt; Many Homeless

R, A. F. RENEWS NAZI BOMBINGS   Reich Asks Vatican's Aid To Halt Allied Raids On Axis Cities

+  RAF Carries  Out Attack On  Western Germany  Reich Reportedly Seeking Vatican Aid to Halt Allied Rombardmente

RAF Rounds Out Weck of Heaviest Air Otfensive   Vatican's Aid Is Reportedly Sought

RAF Bombers Strike Again At Germany   Meantime, Hitler And Mussolini Want Truce On Bombing Of Cities

BERLIN REPORTED URGING POPE 10 SEEK “AIR TRUCE’   Nazis Ignore Responsibility for Introducing Bombing of Cities; R. A. F. Blasts Reich Again.

RAF ROUNDS OUT WEEK OF ATTACKS BY RAIDING REICH   Nazis. ‘Seek Vatican's Aid : To Halt Allied Raids _ Gn Cities Of ae. ee

REICH APPEALS TO VATICAN. AS RAIDS CONTINUE   Reported Seeking Aid To Halt Allied Bombings Of Axis Cities   WESTERN GERMANY HIT   Neutral Countries Report Widespread Destruction Thruout Berlin

Report Reich Ren Pope's Aid To End Bombings        Germans Forget They Started — Raids on Cities

HEAVY RAIDS ON GERMANY CONTINUE   R. A. F. Rounded Out Week of Air Offensive

IS ASKS HELP (F POPE AGAINST CITY BOMBINGS   Allies Continue Raids Despite Heavy Weother'   BERLIN STILL AFIRE AFTER RAF FASTING

CUT THIS OUT — Here's rorm You Will File fo Get Ration Reck Humber two

START ISSUINGLIQUOR RATION BOOKS TODAY   Number of Applications To Determine Amount

U. S. SUBMARINE GRENADIER LOST   Navy Also Announces Sinking of Two Subchasers in Mediterranean

U.S. Sub Missing; Sub Chasers Lost   Grenadier Overdue; Probably Carried About 65

AFL REPLIES TO SOVIET ATTACK   Matthew Woll Says Criticisir Of American Labor Leaders By Red Publication Is ‘Blow To Allied Unity’

100 Octane Sas Asserfed Short   Robert Patterson. Says Armed Services Do Not Have Sufficient

Demand For Law  To Place Labor   National Service Act For Men and Women Is Urg ed in Senate.

Workers May Be Assigned To War Jobs  House Clears Way For Bill to Stop

faday in Washington  PACAETEERIN BILL, SERVICE AGT QISGUSSEL      Labor Unions Opposed tc Latter; Secretary Kno» Says Japan Has No Right to Fleet

Racketeering Bill Fight Looms With Organized Labor;Definite Law Drafting Workers Urged

Congressional Fight Shapes On Anti-Racketeering Bill   Knox Promises Destrucion of Jap Fleet, Doubts Much Damage Done on U-Boat Bases

Ask Adoption Of a National Service Act   Fight Shapes Up in House Over Antiracketeering Bill; Knox Says Japs Will Never  Have Another Fleet

New Demand for National Service Aci   Rep. Wadsworth Again Urges Action in New Hearine on: Manpower   FARM DEFERMENT PLAN OPPOSED   Would Not Solve Farm-‘Labor Shortage, “ Declares ga Draft Expert.”

SENSELESS 10 HAMPER PEACE, RULER CLAIMS   Speech Seen as Axis Trial Balloon by Allied Nations

FRANCO IN APPEAL — FOR A WORLD PEACE   Declared Last Night Neither Axis Nor Allies Could Destroy the Other.

FRANCO MAKES PEACE APPEAL   Declares Neither Side Can Destroy Other

FRANCO CALLS FOR PEACE   SPANISH LEADER SAYS “SENSELESS TO DELAY”

Franco Wants Peace At Once   Spanish Dictator States Neither Side Can Now Win Complete Victory.

Says Neither Side Can Destroy Other   Declares It. Senseless To Continue The Bloodshed   IS SECOND PEACE FEELER IN MONTH

GREEN ASSAILS BILL   Veto Of Anti-Strike Measure Urged fy AFL President

BAKERSFIELD WEATHER   Germany Warns People Russ May Break Through Defense

Berlin Warns Of Impending Russian Danger   Break-Through On. Red Front. Ic’ Faqgred

German People Warned Of Impending Defeat On Russian Battlefronts

HITLER PREPARES GERMANS FOR BAD NEWS FROM EAST   People Warned That Big Break-through fs Paossible In Russia.

Nazis, Alarmed at Russian Army's Victories, Start Preparing People For Possible Major Break-Through

People Are _ Being Told of Break Threat   NAZIS CLAIM, THOUGH, If WOULD TAKE YEARS TO REACH REICH.

ARMED SERVICES HAD BEEN GIVEN FULL WARNING   State Department Notified Military To Be On Alert For Jap Surprise      LAXITY IS BLAMED FOR PEARL HARBOR

WHITE BOK’ SEEN PROOF OF LAXITY   State Department’s Report On Pearl Harbor Hits ~ Armed Forces

White Book Held Proof “Of Pearl Harbor Laxity   Army and Navy Disregarded Months of Worning by State Dep't Officials That the Japanese © Planned Sudden War in Pacific

Congressmen Seein White Book Proof State Department Clear Of Blame for Pearl Harbor

White Book Held Proof Military Heads Disregarded Warnings About Jap Plans

Size of Request For Funds Shows Big Navy Plans More Than 24 Billior Asked of Congress  a

SEEKS RECORD FUNDFORNAVY   Roosevelt Asks $24,551.070,000 ‘Appropriation For Next Fiscal Year

NAVAL BUDGET BREAKS RECORD   Appropriation Requested By President Over 24 Billion

Record Amount Asked For Navy   Unmatched Power Is Being Sought  By ALEX H. SINGLETON BReearinted Praag Stat! Writer

FDR ASKS OVER 24 BILLIONS 10 BUILD UP NAVY   Biggest Total For Ships Sought By President To Match Goal Of 2,500,000 Men   Aircraft Included

HUGE SUM SOUGHT — FOR NAVAL FORCES   Appropriation of Over Twenty Four Billion Dollars Asked

$24,500,000 000 S ASKED FOR NAVY BY THE PRESIDENT   Request Offers New Indication of Navy’s Determina: tion To Build Itself Intc Unmatched Power; Larg: est Amount Ever Sought.

Appropriation Largest Ever Sought for Sea-Fighting Forces for Similar Period—Request Seen as New Indication of Determination to Build Strongest Fleet in World—House Group to Begin Consideration Saturday.

Largest Amount Ever Requested Sought for 1944   Gigantic Sum Needed bi Various Bureaus, President Says   Request Reveals Plans Ic Build Up Gigantic Sea Force   Navy Aims Revealed

SOVIETS SCORE IN DONETS AREA   Remainder Of Russian Battle Front Quiet, Lines Unchanged

GERMANS BEATEN BACK IN FIGHTING IN DONETS BASIN   Russians Report Successes in Localized Tank and Infantry Battles in Izyum Sector.   FORTIFY POSITIONS ON SMOLENSK FRONT   Gains in Area Have Put Stalin’s Troops Within 30 Miles of Big Nazi  Racca

RUSSIANS WIN NEW GROUND IN IZYUMSECTOR   Bitter Tank, Infantry Battles Reported By Soviets

REDS SCORED SUCCESSES IN DONETS BASIN      Artillery And Mortar Fire Greeted German Counter Attack And Invaders Were Beaten Back.   Weather Slowed Fighting

PLENTY OF LIQUOR FOR 3 MORE YEARS   Estimates However, Based on Ration System

158 Ships Were Finished i in July  a a. a   1943 Output Equal To Pre-War Total

Develop Drive in Vicinity of Kursk   Bad Weather Checks Allied Bombers Over Europe; French Still Riot

Absence of 2nd Front ls Blamed   Allied Air Offensive anc Operations in Tunisia  Halted by Weather

Hitler And Mussolini Hold Secret Meeting   Italian Army On Russian Front Is Reported Withdrawn For Replacement.

Submarine 'Wolf Packs' With New-Type Torpedoe: Renew Convoy Attacks

Attacks Made on Two Convoys After 4-Month Lull in Activities of Raiders—Ensuing Battles Last 10 Days—One American Vessel Cut in Two by Torpedo and Less Than Half Her Crew Is Rescued.

Nazi U-Boats Renew Attacks In Atlantic   6 or More Merchantmen And 3 Allied Warships Sunk in 10-Dav Battle

U.S. NOW FREE OF GERMAN CARTELS   Anti-Trust Chief Says Americans No Longer Need Suffer From Foreign Domination

Wreckage of Long-Missing Airplane Sighted High on Mountain; ‘Butte Man Was Among Passengers

WIFE OF MUSICIAN FOUND SLAIN TODAY   Husband Finds Body, Shot Three Times

NEW LINE WON'T MOVE CRUDE OL   Extension East Of Artery From Here To Begin

CHINA PLEDGES MADE BY EDEN FOR CHURCHILL   Britain Also Has Score “To Settle With Japs, He Asserts

Eden Assures China That Allies Will Crush Japan   Seeks to Dispel Fears that Britain Considers Pacific War Unimportant

Eden Dispels Chinese Fear   Chiang’s Nation To Set In On Parleys

Eden Pledges Britain To Crush Japs   Full Accord Is Indicated With U.S. on War Objectives.

Compromise Seen In Senate Rivalry   Groups will Send ‘Envoys to Africa

PLAN RURAL SETUP FOR BOND SELLING   Nine Township Chairmen Named to Serve for Coming Drive

PLAN RURAL SETUP FOR BOND SELLING   Nine Township Chairmen  Named to Serve for. °  - + Coming Drive ~   TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Manitowoc Flier Leads One Flight Of Bombers Over Vital Post On Coast OF Sicily

Report Six-Day Mine Week Is Agreed Today   Would Extend Six-Day Provision to Southern Coal Fields; Same Terms As in the North

Miners Sign  6-Day Week  Southern Districts  AQ&. 4.13 TR... OM. .i.....

COAL AGREEMENT SIGNED   Southern Producers Forced Te Yield To Demands Of Lewis

Baruch Asks Definite Plans For Manpower   Clearly Defined Program Is Recommended After Study Of Shortage In West Coast Plants

Can Get New Ration Books   Issue Uniform Regulations For Makinea Replacements

The Texas Accent Is In Danger, Folks!   Northern Soldiers Stationed In State Changing Talk In Texa:

Yanks Can’t Do This To  Us! We'll Stick to ‘Kiow’, ‘Taowns’ Plain Old ‘Bin?

More Than 97 Per Cent. of Pearl Harbor Wounded Survived, OWI Says

97 Percent Wounded Men Of Pearl Harbor Survive   ‘The Wounded Don't Die’ Is Theme Of New Report; Science Saving Soldiers

Practically all Wounded At Pearl Harbor Recovered   iow Reports That 97 Percent of Marines and Sailors  Have Survived Due To Improvements In   Medical Care And New Drugs That Avert   Infection And Prevent Fatalities

Less Than 3 Per Cent Of Wounded Men Died   Most Of Men Hurt In Pearl Harbor Attack Recovered, OWT Reports

“Wounded Don't Die” Says OWI Story of Life-Saving Treatment of War Casualtie:

OF ALL MARINES, NAVY MEN HURT AT PEARL HARBOR 87 PERCENT SURVIVED

97 Percent Of Wounded At Pearl Harbor Have Survived, OWI Report:   Over Half Of Wounded Have Since Returned To Duty. .

aammeates LL TT tet Rt at a  97 Pet. of Wounded  Personnel Survive

Wounded Given Excellent Care  Majority At Pearl Harbor Recovered

VIKOLA TESLA DIES; DEVISED MODERN RADIC   One-Time Associate Of! Edison Perfected 700 Inventions

DISCOVERER OF RADIO PRINCIPLE DEAD IN NEW YORK   Nikola Tesla Credited With More Than 700 Inventions In Busy Life.

Blow Perils Munda; ‘Yank Cruiser Sunk   MacArthur Hints Toll on Enemy Ships May Pass Early Count

U, S, CRUISER SUNK IN GREAT NAVAL CONTEST   Mae Arthur Hints Final County ofr Japanese Losses May Be High

TEN JAPANESE SHIPS HIT; YANKS PREPARE TO ATTACK AIR BASE   Final Reports Expected To Enlarge American Success In Big Naval Battle Of Kula Gulf

Japanese Lose 10 Warships In Kula Gulf Engagement   Americans Score Biggest Naval Victory in Seven Months; Jap Supply Line To Munda Cut or Threatened

Clark’s Troops Make Gain In  Fierce Action   Key Communications’ Town on Road to Rome. Falls in 3-Mile Advance   BRITISH ENLARGE THEIR: BRIDGEHEAD      German Supply Road Is Threatened; Bitter Clashes in. Yugoslavia.

Allies Strike  From Bases In Britain, Italy   5th, 8th Armies Drive Forward Toward Rome

FIFTH AND ELGHTH  ARMIES ADVANCE IN  BATTLE FOR ROME KEY COMMUNITIONS  _ TOWN SEIZED BY GEN, CLARRK’S FORCES

British Pour Men Through Trigno Split   “German Massico Ridge Line _ Threatened By Clark’s Ad vaneing Unit.   BLAST RAILWAY, PLANT

Slow Advance on Rome Continued By Allied Armies   Heavy Air Raids Might Be First From Italian Bases

AERIAL ATTACK IS INTENSIFIED FROM 2 SIDES   Squeeze Put on Japs on New Guinea—Slav Guerrillas Advance in Balkans   Rv ALTON L. BLAKESLEE

Reds Seeking Seal’ Off of Crimea and Trap Hun Gairiaok Strike Ahead. of Melitopol and.Near Krivoi Rog— :         New Guinea Japs Percarious

Allies Win Forward in Italy as Air Force Blasts Germany From Both North and South   Soviets Meantime Make Progress Toward Sealing Off Large Forces of German Troops Stationed in the Crimea

Allies Advance Slowly On Road Toward Rome  Heavy Bombers Attack  Germany Fram Italy:   Heavy Bombers Attack Germany From Italy; Russians Push Beyond Melitopol In Crimea

Bombers Strike at Austria, Albania   Fifth Army Smashes German Counter: attacks; Reds Strike Southwest — of Melitopol

Bombers Speed Up Attack   Striking Southern Germany Now From Italian Fields; Reds Crash Ahead

U. S., BRITISH ARMIES ADVANCE TOWARD ROME; ATTACKS ON      Nazi's: Trigno River Line Breached by New Allied Thrusts In Bloody Fighting.—Allies Believed: Using ‘Italian :Bases for New Air Attacks

Allies Push Ahead On Route to Rome   Seize Key Communications Town, Enlarge Breach in Nazis’ Trigno River Line; Bombers Blast Axis Areas.

Japs Beaten Back Near Finschhafen; Yugoslav Rival Groups Clashing

ALBANIA AND AUSTRIA GET BOMB LOADS   Germans Believe Latest Bombing B'ows Launched From New Allied Fields in Italy

UN Bombers Strike From Bases in Italy   Fifth Army Seizes Key Communications Town; Eighth Army Crosses Trigno River to Enlarge Bridgehead; Japs near Finschhafen in Precarious Pocition

Communications Center Taken By The Fifth Army   Bombers From Italy Blast Germany Reds Lay Trar  In Crimea

Maximum Ceiling Prices To Be Posted On 500 Articles Throughout Grocery Stores

BRITAIN'S UNITY IS THREATENED   Labor P arty Musters Big Vote Against Churchill Rule

Social Security  Plan Threatens  British Cabinet Parliament Labor  Group May Leave Churchill Coalition

Jap Advance Threatening British Lines   Enemy Establishes Foothold Astride Strategic Roadway

TICKLISH PROBLEMS FACE COMING THREEPOWER CONFERENCE   Jap-Russian Neutrality Is a Stumbling Block

Flynn Jurors Are Given Sample Of What's Due   Prosecuting Attorney Offers Vivid Explanation Of Impending Testimony.

Reds Wiping Out Nazis Trapped at Stalingrad;  Thousands Surrender   Infantry Regiment Gives up; Only 12,000 Survive from Onginal Force Of 220,000; Rest Face Certain Doom

NAZI REGIMENT SURRENDERS IN ATALINGRAD ARE   Only 12,000. Ragged, Starving Axis Troops are. Left In Saliant.

Reds Whittle Nazi Forces to 12,000 © In Stalingrad Trap   German 534th Regiment Surrender s As Russians Wipe Out Part of 609th; Drive ‘Contiimes: on 400Mile EFrant

Nazi Armies Surrender As  Reds Push On   Thousands Of Troops Lay Down Arms On Voronezh Front

12,000 NAZIS ARE ATTACKED » MERCILESSLY   Intantry Regiment Surrenders; Staff Officers Of Other Group Killed,   CLEAR THREE RAIL LINES   Germans Are Pressed Back On All Fronts, Soviet Communiques Report

WORKERS NOT EXPECTED 10 START STRIKE   Majority Votes Strike; First Election Under Anti-Strike Law

WORKERS VOTE UNDER NEW LAW   No Immediate Stoppage s Anticipated After Election Under Anti Strike Law

FIRST VOTE FoR STRIKE RECORDEL   Allis-Chalmers Plant Workers Favor Strike By Vote of 1005 to 836.

High School Boys ‘Soft, Flabby,’ Selective Service Official Says

Future Soldiers Now in High Schools Described as Soft and Flabby

‘STRIKERS RECEIVE APPEAL FROM WMG   Director Claims Men Are Violating FDR’s Order 

URGE WORKERS 10 END CANTON STRIKE   Appeal Issued by War Manpower Committee

MAJORITY BACKS CONNALLY BILI   FIFTY SENATORS READY TO SUPPORT RESOLUTION ON POST-WAR POLICY.

Fifty Senators Approve Connally’s Resolution on Postwar , Foreign Policy of United States

Index   Connally proposal acceptable  to majority of U.S. senators

Fifty Senators Okeh Postwar — Foreign Policy   Associated Press.Poll Indicates Passage of Resolution Today; Six Stand Firmly Avainst Move

SENATE FAVORS POST-WAR PLAN   Foreign Policy Measure Assured Of Majority In Test Poll

Poll of Senate GivesConnally Bill Majority   Measure Is Compromise On Foreign Policy  Cammitmantc

Japs Being Forced Into Sea Battle   Yank Naval Units Ready; Rabaul Loss Would Wound Foe

Allied Onset May Herald Gigantic Sea Battle Soon   Japs Likely Ta Call On Fleet In Effort To Save Rabau}, As Our Forces Move [n

Alied Thrust At Japs May Be: Spark That Touches. Off Decisive Naval Engagement

Japanese War S:ords Cannot Avoid Much Longer Another Test of Sea Power If They Hope to Stem Allied Assaults on Island. oo.

Jap Fleet May Be Forced Out  U. S. Offensive Challenges Japs In Island Bases

New Allied Drive In South Pacific Heralded As Challenge To Jap Navy

Showdown Of Sea Power In Prospect   Enemy Will Have To Take A Stand  Or Be Overrun

WAST ALLIED OFFENSIVE. IN ~ PACIFIC SEEN   Official Washington Looks For Decisive Naval Battle Soon   MacARTHUR DIRECTS LATEST OPERATIONS   Believe Japan Can No longer Avoid Another Test Of Sea Power

Gigantic Pincers Being Closed On Rabaul As MacArthur Directs  Combined Operations

JAPS CAN'T AVOID TEST OF POWER   Lightning Drive Seen Challenge To Enemy Fleet

Yank Attack May Bring Sea Clash  Tokyo Must Decide or. Guadalcanal or Attu Defenaive Tactica

Ee. Na Gil tliat ill, ait iii ition citi it, utility, lf ulin... uldts.. cate,  DEATH RECORD

JOHN L. LEWIS ILL   Leader Of Miners Reported Seriously ili In Washington

PERU DIKES BREAK   Flood Waters of Missouri River Overflow Many Acres of Land

ABANDON DIKES AT PERU, NEBR   500 Volunteers Fail to Win River Battle

Leave dikes as Missouri lashes Peru   Flood waters drop at Omaha

Peru Airport Is Inundated  All Niohr: Reaatlo Ter   AILNight Battle To Save Dikes Fails

REDS BAG 191 PLANES IN DAY   ‘Seize Three Towns In Surprise 7 Attack on Germans

REDS TAKE THREE TOWNS NEAR SEVSK   Gains Made In Surprise Attack West of Kursk

Red Army Takes Three Towns In Surprise Attack   123 German Planes Shot Down In Mass_ Air Raids Wednesday

U.S. JURY 10 PROBE LIQUOR   SUBPOENAES ISSUED FOR “BIG 4” RECORDS

Lines OF tual Battles Now Are sharply Outlined   Counter-attack Checks Knemy in Passes Northwest of Kasserine,   6 “ Heaving Fighting   With Sethacks and Casualties Must Be Iexpected,”’—Stimson.

HOUSE FAILS STAND HITCHED ON ECONOM' IDEA OF COMMITTEE  HOUSE OFFERS HORSE TRADE TO SENATE ON

REPUBLICANS. . “TAKING. OVER’      at n” Flays" at “Dea. “in, “Speech... to... GOP Women’ 8 ‘Gakvehtion 

ANOTHER 1,000 JAPS KILLED ON BOUCAINVILLE   Allied Flyers Tear Up Japa neseLight: .. Cruiser .~

Yanks Slay 1000 Japs, Bag Ship   TOLL OF NIPS HUGE IN BOUGAINVILLE FIGHT; ALLIED FLIERS ADD LIGHT CRUISER TO LONG LIST OF ENEMY WAR VESSELS TORN BY BOMBS

1000 Japs Die In Fighting on Bougainville   Allied Fliers °-* Add Cruiser to Their Toll

JAP CRUISER GOES DOWN AFTER BOMB SCORES DIRECT HII   100) More Japs Slain In Land Fighting On Bougainville

1000 Japs Die on  Boungainville;  Nip Cruiser Hit Jap Plane Seen  ‘With Nazi Swastika on Tail

Another 1,000 Japs Killed on  Bougainville   Enemy Cruiser Assumed Sunk by Heavy Rambhe

ALLIED FLcho DOWN CRUISER IN SW PAGIIC   American Troops Extend Empress Augusta Bay Beachhead

FINAL VICTORY FOR THE ALLIES NEAR IN SICIL}   Peace Sentiment In Taly Stronger As Nazi Waver

Axis Troops Try To Escape Island   Reds Drive Ahead in Attempt to Circle Kharkov; Nazi Toll Heavy

VICTORY {h SICILY NOW SEEMS NEAR   Now Within 45 Miles Of Coasta, City Of Messina, Axis Reported Withdrawing Its Forces From Island To Mainland. 2   MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN DRIVE

Badoglio’s Stand Against Allies Periled      Peace Sentiment Is Sweeping Nation; ‘Break’ Soon Seen

EXTRA POINTS AVAILABLE FOR OVERSEA BOXES   Application form secured at local board for rationed food stamps

‘Seven Prisoners on Italian Submarine Rescued After Undersea Boat Is Blasted

7 SAVED BY BLAST FROM RAF PLANE      Four American And Three British Prisoners Of War On Italian Sub At Its  a RA   Had Close Call

PLAN E OUTPUT. ~-BOAL IS SET      BILLION AND. WATE Founpd OF  AFRCRAFY ON PRODUCTION SCHEDULE FOR NEXT  * YPRAR 5

U.S. Airmen Toss Book At Japanese   Americans Using At Least Ten Types Of Ships In Raids On Bases

MEETINGS PLANNED   Block Workers in Civil Defense Will Organize This Week

GOVERNOR TO AWAIT DECISION OF COURTS ON POSTWAR GROUPS   Orders No Spending By Commissions Pending Legal Test

ALL LIVING COSTS 9 PER CENT MORI   Prices, Services Not Under Control of Government Principal Cause.

Barracks and Storage  Depot Hit at Palermo   Fortresses Return to Attack Messina; Much Damage Done At Italian Airfields

AMERICANS SCORE HITS ON SIGILIAN BASE OF PALERMC   Storage Depot and Barracks Hit; Fortresses Also Attack Boca di Falco Airfield Near Palermo Where Much Damage Is Done.

Enemy Base At Palermo Attacked By  Fortresses  Much Damage Also Reported Done At   Much Damage Also Reported Done At Nearby Airfield  At Boca Di Falco

U.S. AIRCRAFT RAIDS SICILIAN BASE, PALERMO   Bombs Strike On Storage Depot and Barracks, Allied Headquarters Announce   NEAR AIRFIELD HIT   Enemy Targets of RAF Along French Coasta) Area Last Night Not  Revealed by London

GRD BECOMES A PART OF ICKES’ ~ POWER AGENC)   Norfolk, Denison Dams Also In Southwestern Setup, Headed by Wright

ANNOUNCE CREATION OF SOUTHWESTERN POWER BODY. TODAY  PLAN. UNITED POWER ANI i = FLOOD CONTROL IN~” THREE STATES

Churchill Addresses Congress   Halts War Talks to Speak to  WY] S  aalelatore

He Speaks From Rostrum of House of Representatives Instead of Senate Hall Scene of Address After Pearl Harbor

GANDHI STARTS FREEDOM FAST   Fear Expressed for Life Of Weakened Indian Unless Stopped

RinteaiealaiDirecton Reports, that. ‘Cold Wilt Keep‘ Influenza from Spreading—Natural Gas Supplies  * Shut Off in Some Places.

Record Cold Wave Causes 19 Deaths; Zero Weather Checks Flu, Grippe In Ohio

SOVIETS SAY TWO TOWNS LOST 10 FOE   Artillery Smashes 1,271 Axis Tanks In 2 Days: German Dead Exceeds  .

Russians Slay {0,000 Germans; Fight Roars Or   1,271 Nazi Tanks, 314 Aircraft Destroyed In Mighty Battle

Success In Kursk Area  Announced   Terrific Price Paid By Germans For Gains Of Slight Importance, Is Russian Version

Germans Claim Break-Through of Soviet Line  Are Paying a Terrific Toll

Moscow Says Knemy Paying Huge Price   Bitter Conflict Is Raging Between Orel And Zelgorod

Rift Claimed in Region Around Kursk, Center Of Red ‘Bulge’   Initiative ‘Firmly Held’ By Germans, Berlin Avers

Berlin Claims Break Thru of Russtan Lines   Reds Say Slight Enemy Gains ot “Terrific Cost

Germans Make Gain At High Cost, Report  Out In Two Days Of Furious Fighting In

BREAK THROUGH RED POSITIONS INKURSH AREF   Advances Announced by Naz Propaganda Agency, No Soviet Report

WEAK SPOTS SOUGHT ~ BY ATTACKING FORCE   Fighting © Oh Bigg Bigger: ‘Scala’ Is Predicted Soon. By”. ~ . Vichy Radio

BERLIN SAYS RED LINE AT KURSKBROKEN   Radio Broadcast Claims Penetration of Center of Russian Buige Below Moscow —Soviets Takine Heavy Toll.

Germans And Soviets Both Claim Gains   Hitler Pays A_ Terrific Price In Manpower And Tanks; Bitter Fighting All Along Front.

Advance in Kursk Area, Says Report   Salient in Center of Bulge Below Moscow; Nazi Losses Tremendous

Germans Pay Terrific Toll A y For “Insignificant Gains”;  Breaks In Red Line Claimed   Nazi Loses in Two Days 5 Total 1,271 Tanks, 314 Planes, 10,000 Dead.

1,271 Nazi Tanks Knocked Out In 2 Days Of Fight   314 Planes Destroyed; 10,000 Hitlerites Killed, Berlin Claims Reds Started Drive

Break Forced In Red Front  Nazis Declare   Berlin Radio Fails To Give Details Of Advance In Kursk Area.   AXIS TANK LOSS HUGE

‘NAZIS CLAIM 'BREAKTHROUGE  INKURSK AREA    Propaganda Agency Report Fails to Give Details, Says Break Came in Counter-Atiack   NAZIS COST HUGE   Russians Repori Heavy Toll Taken of German Fighting Strength in Tanks and Men

—RUSSIA—  NAZI LOSSES IN TANKS, MEN HIGH   Germans Paying Terrific Toll For ‘Insignificant Gaine’   SOVIETS HOLDING   Two Unidentified Towns Near Belgorod Taken By Enemy

Nazis Claim Points At Kursk Give Way   Conflict Raging Between Belgordo And Orel; Germans Declare Summer  Offensive Not Under Way.

SOVIET REPORT LISTS TERRIFIC GERMAN LOSSES   Russians Admit Loss of Two Unidentified Towns: Battlefront Dispatches Say 10,000 Germans Killed, 314 Planes Downed In Two Days.

Germans Pay Terrific Price For Insignificant Gains On Soviet Front

NAZIS PAY HEAVY  TOLL FOR SLIGHT  GAINS IN RUSSIA LOSE 10,000 MEN IN  FIRST TWO DAYS OF SUMMER OFFENSIVE

SOVIET TROOPS TAKE TERRIFIC TOLL OF ENEMY      Nazi Dead Exceeds 10,000 In Drive, Moscow Claims, - and 314 Planes of Foe  Shot Down   REDS SAY GERMANS  SHIFTING FLIERS   Admits Loss of Two Towns to Nazis Near Belgorod But Report Hitler’s Hordes Slashed

BRITISH HOLD LINE AGAINST FIERCE RAIDS   Nazis storm eight mile area from Medjab el  Bab to Goubellat

BRITISH SMASH NAZI ASSAULTS * INN. W. TUNISIA   First Army Takes Heavy Toll 9 of Axis Troops and Tanks

British First Army Smashes Lunge By Nazis   Major German Onslaught In Northwestern Tunisia Fails To Advance   BEST NAZI TROOPS USED IN ASSAULT

chine-guns were reported spotted at strategic points--came from travelers reaching Malmo,

FASTS TQ JOIN WIFE IN DEATH   Noted Churchman Perilously Weak After Month’s Fast

Flynn Case Waits Debate On Mistrial   ...D. A. SAYS WOMEN JURORS 'TALKED'

Compromise on  FSA Reached   Difference Cut to Soil, Insurance Programs

SOWETS TRAP 1000 MORE “AT VORONEZ!   Russ Seize Kastornoye, Rai Junction: Way Clear to “Rostov Now,   STALINGRAD’S MOP-UP CUTS ENEMY STRENGTH

Russ Knock Out 9,000 of Enemy   3 Nazi Generals Join in Surrender

DISASTER FACING BIG...AXIS ... FORCES IN- VORONEZH AREA   Remnants Of German 297th ‘Division In Volga ~~ City Surrender To Reds

GERMAN UNITS  9,000 Killed As Reds Hit Pocket Near   ONLY 5,000 NAZIS ARE LEFT AT STALINGRAD

3 Generals Among 6,000 Nazi Troops Captured by Reds.   Strong Pocket on Voronezh. Frout Eliminated as Soviets Kull 3,000; Flanks of Reéircatins Ari Periled

STRONG POCKET OF AXIS FORGES ~ NOW LIQUDATE   81.000 Prisoners Reported As Captured Along Voronezh Front; Three Generals in One Group.   AMERICAN AIRMEN HIT FIVE JAP SHIPS   Japariese Activities at Rabaul Indicate Enemy May Attempt Drive in Australian Area.

VORONEZH IS 2ND GREAT MAN TRAP SET BY RUSSIANS   Picked Soviet Units are tso lating Units of Foe, Forcing. Surrender.

GENESTA CHAPTER RESUMES SESSIONS FRIDAY EVENING   One-Act Play Will Be Presented at October Meeting

GENESTA CHAPTER MEETS FRIDAY AT. MASONIC TEMPLE   Business Session Is Followed by an Entertainment

 GERMANS LEAVING FINLAND?   Report of Evacuation by CBS Is ! Unconfirmed

MARETH LINE lo CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Rommel’s Afrika Korps Retreats to the North in Utter Confusion.   6,000 PRISONERS TAKEN   Axis Troops Likely to Be Crushed Between Strong Allied Pincers.

6,000 GERMANS TAKEN PRISONER BY MONTGOMERY   Mareth, Toujone, Matmata All Fall To Advancing British Army   HUNS MAY QUIT GABES   combined Allied Air Arm Continues Pounding Of Axis Supply Lines

TURKEY LEFTOVERS ON TODAY'S MENU   Home Front Held the Attack on Thanksgiving Icacies.

ON TODAY'S MENU   Home Front Held the Attack on Thanksgiving Delicacies    GIRDLES SURVIVE TEST

Nazi Navy Chief  Resigns, Is Rumor   Deenitz Embarrassed By Scharnhorst Loss

Have Been Streamlined   Annual Hag las Count yore d Event Will eld at Big Springs

FAIR TO BE RESUMED   Annual Douglas County Event Will Be Held at Big Springs

Danger is Seen in Shift Of Workers to a Small  Number of Communities

WARNING IS GIVEN OF CONCENTRATION   Tolan Committee Finds Massing of War Workers Dangerous

DANGER SEEN IN GROUPING OF MANPOWER   Tolan Committee Warns Of Concentrating Labor In Few  Localities   Output Found Lagging

AS IN DOUBT   BITTER FIGHT OVER FUNDS FOR  ’ F8A> LOANS MAY. BEACH “FINAL SHOWDOWN... - MOD Ay . {

CONTINUANCE OF OA 15 TN BALANCE   FARM GROUPS ‘BATTLE FACH OTHER OVER DEPRESSION BUREAU.   Byrd Leads Fight   Sen. Wherry Also Aims Guns at RACC as an ‘Unnecessary Lending Agency.

HUGE KRUPP ARMAMENT WORKS MAIN TARGET: OF BIG FORCE OF RAF HEAVY BOMBERS EARLY TO- — DAY—ALLIED FLIERS IN MEDITERRANEAN “ZONE CONTINUE HAMMERING ITALIAN : “97 EPPING-STONE” ISLANDS °

GRANT MAX STEPHAN STAY OF EXECUTION   Hanging Arrangements Left Pending Following Court Decision of Case

Over 300,000 slain or taken; material loss hobbles others   Hitler faces task of regrouping and re-equipping battered forces

Greatest Soviet Triumph of War is Hailed   German Situation On Southern  Front Precarinne

MOSCOW HALLS GREATEST. GAIN OF ENTIRE WAR        315,065 Nazi Troops Killed, Captured In Six Weeks, — Russians Assert

Fatal California  Fire Still Rages   Four Marines Dead. 78 Are Injured

BRUSH FIRE BREAKS CUT ANEW IN WEST   4 Dead, 78 Hurt as Blaze Sweens 2,000 Acres Necr Son Dieno

California Timber Fire Still Rages  Large Crews Fail To Contro! Blaze

Air War Cost $50 to $1 in Allied Favor  Axis Unable to Keep Up With Planes

AIR OFFENSIVE PAYS OFF, 50-'   — ee Month's Assault On Europe Bar gain For ‘Allies

AIR OFFENSE PROVES T0 BE OF LOW COST   {Costs $1 for Every 4$50 Damage Done To the Axis

FDR LIKENS. ITALY DRIVE TO CRUSADE TO LIBERATE POPE      Every Effort Being Made To Avoid Destruction Of Eternal City And Vatican

Seek To Avoid Fight At Rome   FR Likens Drive To. Liberation of Pope

TATE OBOERVES MEMORIAL 0A)   Senator Revercomb Is Speak: er at Grafton; Many Mines War Factories Throughout State Operate   BY THE ASSOCTATED PRESS

HARD FOR CITY TO HOLD MILK SUPPLY   Higher Price Ceiling ir Cities Nearby Stl  a Factor   LAWRENCE IN SQUEEZE

HARD FOR CITY TO HOLD MILK SUPPLY   Higher Price Ceiling i Cities Nearby Stil  a Factor

Freeman Tot, Woman Found   Child. Abductor Located At Prairie City

fascist Press Taking New lack to Bolster Italians   eveloping Thesis That Italy Has Nothing to Gain By : Separate Peace and Only Course Is to ‘Resist  to End; Reflects Concern Over A) lied Urgings Nation Quit

ITALY SHUNS PEACE TALK   Gayda Sees No Gain By Getting Out'of ‘War at .. -Present Time -

ITALIANS WANT OUT OF WAR AND PROPAGANDISTS HAVING HARD TIME TO CHANGE THEM

NO AUTO DRIVING ~ FOR PLEASURE IN RESTRICTED ARE!   8,000,000 Motorists Face Harsh Penalties for Any Violations.

Eastern Drivers  Face New Curbs   No Pleasure Driving  Will Be Permitted

Pleasure Driving Ban Is Revived   Motorists Thruout East Affected

———  STOP PLEASURE DRIVING AGAIN IN EASTERN AREE   Harsh Penalties Face Pleasure Drivers After Noon   OPA DIRECTOR CITES ‘MILITARY DEMANDS’

CUT IT OUT!   Eastern Motorists Face Sharp Penalty For Pleasure Drives.

Brown Clamps Down on Joy Driving   Gasoline Supply Situation in East Qaid tn he Critical

No Pleasure Driving Allowed _ In Eastern: Seaboard States   Ban Goes Into Effect At Noon Today — Harsh Penalties In Store For Violators

® Million Drivers Must *Cut Motoring  Face Severe Penalties if  Daw 26 Wrens TAK. NAW.   Face Severe Penalties if Car is Used for Nonessential Trins   GAS SUPPLIES LOW

PLEASURE-DRIVING BAN WILL AFFECT 8,000,000 AUTOISTS   Brown's. New Decree Applies To Twelve Eastern States

OPA GETS TOUGH, SLAPS ON NEW PLEASURE DRIVING BAN, WARNS ALL OF HEAVY PENALTIES. FOR VIOLATORS      Brown Admits Honor System Has Has Failed. Local, State Police to Report the Violators.

Senator Asks - Full Slate Of  Progressives   La Follette Returns To Madison With Plea For Separate Existence Of Progressive Party

Child Drowned in Ohio Flash Flood   Damage Heavy in Belmont County

Mussolini Was Forced to Quit  King Sent Officers to Bring Him In

Version of Duce's Ouster Is Given   Paper Says King Sent Army Officers

18 Soldiers Killed In Truck Accident   Army Vehicle Crashes  Through Bridge Rail

18 SOLDIERS DIE IN CRASH   8 Others Injured as Army Truck Crashes Off Bridge in South

519 Axis Planes Knocked Down Since March 20   1,000 Othérs Siiashed On Ground in. Africa; Allied Losses Only 175

LUVUY Chemy Urari Blasted on Ground Says Gen. Spaatz  Aerial Successes Since Mareth Line’s Fal] R Pypa Leal

519 PLANES DOWNED BY US. FLYERS   Since Mareth Line Battle Began March 20 With Nearly 1,000Destroyed Or Damaved on Ground.   Admire Each Other

American Air Force Under Lt. Gen. Spaatz Supreme In Northwestern Africa

General Declares Allies’ African Air Forces Have Secured Supremacy of Air Since March 20 and Have Shot Down 519 Axis Planes and Destroyed Nearly 1,000 Enemy Craft on Ground Since That Time

Spaatz Claims Air Supremacy In Africa Fight   Shot Down 519 Axis Craft to 175 Allied Ships Since March 20

019 AXIS GRAFT ARE SHOT DOWN   Gen. Spaatz Says Americans Hold Air Supremacy In Northwest Africa

Job Control Program May Be Extended   UN Food Conference May Lead to Revolutionary Changes in World Economy: Rubber Situation May Re main Critical

Bern Reports People Leaving Even Berlin   Germans Admit 12,000,000 Tons of Explosives Taking Toll

Nazi Home Front Shakes Under Violent New Assault  ay 6 Fleets of British Block-Buster Planes —— Over the Ruhr.   More Than 12 Million Pounds of Explosives Dropped Since Friday

Blockbusters Showered On Ruhr; Axis Says Allies Massing Invasion Fleet Near Sicily.

Axis Report Large Allied Invasion Fleet In Sicilian Straits   Rome Radio Announces Three-Day Bat tle in Mediterranean, Warns Italians of Land Assault

Rural Germans Urged To Open Homes; Less Activity In Mediterranean

HITLER'S HOME FRONT UNDER VIOLENT NEW. AIR BOMBARDMENT  MASS EVACUATION OF CITIES OF WESTERN - GERMANY IS REPORTED

Enemy Broadcasts Report Massing of Fleet In Straits   Axis Commentators Think Sicily and Sardinia Are “Likeliest Targets”

Oberhausen Is Subjected To Heavy Assault   18 RAF Planes Missing From Night Action As Vital Communications Center Is Hit

MASS EVACUATION OF CITIES IN WESTERN GERMANY TOLD IN DISPATCHES TO BERN   British and American Bombers Continue Unceasing Onslaught Against Reich; Over 12,000,000 Pounds Of Explosives Droppped Since Friday

‘Bomb Alley’ Refugees in Need of Aid      [Berlin Calls Upon All to Open Homes to the Many Evacuees   R.A.F. STRIKES AGAIN, U.S. FOLLOWING Ur   ‘Decisive Phase Approach ing,’ Rome Says, Reporting Air Attack on Allied Boats

Seek Escape From Fury Of  Allied Bombs   Allied Warships Mass  For European Invasion

PEOPLE FLEE “BOMB ALLEY” OF GERMANY   While Civilians Flee Even Berlin Itself, R.A.F. Pours on More Block Buster Bombs

Allies Ready Naval Forees  For Big Push   British Lose 18 Planes In  Attack On Steel City Of Oberhausen.

ACTION IS TAKEN TO AVOID ALLIED BOMBING FORAYS   Western Germany, Berlin Itself No Longer Safe, Hitler’s Press Admits

RAF Returns to Attack Steel Center   Italians Are Warned to Ex pect Allied Invasion Blov at Any Minute

ALLIED CONVOY REPORTED MASSING FOR SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LAND THRUST

Oberhausen hit By RAF Bombs   German Papers Reaching Switzerland Tell Of Mass Evacuation and Urge Opening of Hames — Foe Broadcasts Report Allied Warships Massing —~ Report Unconfirmed

Nazi War Plants  red As Navies  Mass Off Italy   German Steel Cente? Of Oberhausen Is Target In Violent Rain Of Bombs

Germany Shaken by Violent New Storm of Bombs at Dawn   Fiery Trail of Havoc Blasted Among Nazi War Foundries

European Fortress Shakes From Bombs   RAF and Americans Pound All Around Continent—Rome Reports Invaders Massins

More Than 12 Million Pounds On Nazis Alone   German People Asked To Open Homes io Many Evacuees

CIVILIANS ARE FLOCKING INTO RURAL GERMANY   Exodus From Cities In estern Germany Revealed As RAF Stages Another Mass Attack On Ob jectives In Ruhr.

Towns Cleared To Escape Raids By Allied Planes   Fleets of Ships Continue to Roar Over Ruhr Region

Attack centered upon Oberhausen   R.A. F. for fourth night in row rocks nazi home front

‘Allies Push Heavy Raids Against Area   Dusseldorf One of Chief Cities Abandoned; People Leaving Berlin

Germans Move Out Of West   Mass Evacuation Results From Allied Bomb-Tempest

Nazis Rush Clearance  Of Cities   ‘Hosts’ Bitterly Resent Foreed Hees siig of ‘ilies

RAF Delivers Its Fourth Consecutive Night Air Attack   Enemy Says More Ships Are Gathering In Mediterranean

Oberhausen Target For Block Busters: 1s Aireralt Missing   Bitterness And Resentment Noticed Amongst Refugees And “Hosts:” Berlin Alse Affected By Deeree

NO LET-UP IN AIR BLOWS ON REICH, ITALY   Germany’s Home Front Shakes Under Violent Raids   ‘ALLIED SHIPS MASSING   Warships and Transports Reported Gathering OF Sicily

Nazi Home Front Rocks Under New Assaults Of RAF   War Foundries City of Oberhausen and Other Objectives Targets for Fourth Night of Raids in a Row "4   DUESSELDORF ONE OF CHIEF CITIES ABANDONED

REFUGEES tL UF OOM FROM ALLI   Massing In Sicilian  Invasion Fleet Is ian Straits Today

MAIN ATTACKS ON STEEL CIT)   Lighter Planes Attack Nazi Transportation Systems, Airtields.   ITALY AWAITS INVASION

Refugees Are Fleeing From German Cities   Mass Evacuation of Western Germany Result of 180 Heavy Allied Raids anc 600 Air Alarms; UN Ships Reportec Massing in Sicilian Straits

Nazis Also Are Said To Be Fleeing From. Berlin  SHIPS MASSING  Axis Reports Concen: tration OF mie,  Forces

Bern Advices Indicate Many Seeking to Escape Bombs as New Mass Attacks Continue ‘Softening Up” Italian Islands.

HANGING FOR JAPANESE   Army. Navy Journal Urges Execution Of Nippen Criminals

LANDIS DEMANDS INVESTIGATION OF CRIMINAL WASTE   CALLS ON WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION TO INQUIRE INTO SPOILAGE OF 87 CARS OF POTATOES.   POTATOES ALSO ROT IN EASTERN MARKET   150,900,000 Pounds of Potatoes. It Is Said, Were Allowed to Rot in Warehouses Because of Government Regulations.

SPUDS 25 GENTS BU. AT VINCENNES   Representative Landis to Investigate $50,000 Potato Loss.

WIDEN HUNT FOR MURDERER   Slayer of Busband Reported Scen Near Circleville, Ohio — First Degree Murder Charge Filed Against Mrs. Fowler,’

LIMIT TO LIMIT   Legislators Want Expiration Date on Liguor Balinn Rill.

ARMY UNITS PRESS AHEAD IN CAUCASUS   Many Axis Soldiers Are Slaughtered In Offensive

TROOPS ORI NAZI OAGK ON THREE FRONT   Continue Advance West Past Velikie Luki, Destroy Enemy Defenses.   WIPE OUT NAZIS AND CAPTURE PRISONERS

BIG SWEEP MOVING IN FOUR AREAS   Caucasus, Stalingrad Don Fronts Report Soviet Gains

"ON MARCH Al VELIKIE LUKI   Substantial Gains Also Reported  South And Southwes Of Stalingrad.

$114.218 Bonds Sold Thursday   Despite Holiday Here. Purchases Are Brisk

TEXAS HERO OF PACIFIC WAR SACRIFICES LIFE TO KEEP PLANE FROM CRASHING INTO AUTO

COL. W. E. DYESS, TEXAS HERO, DIES IN CRASH OF PLANE  ALBANY FLIER LOST LIE   ALBANY FLIER LOST LIFE IN ORDER THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE

Dyess, Bataan Hero, Killed In Plane Crash In California   Sactificed Chance To Land Safely and Spares Motorist

COL. W. E. DYESS, TEXAS HERO, DIES IN CRASH OF PLANE  ALBANY FLIER LOST LI IN ORDER THAT OTHER:

HERO OF BATAAN DIES IN CRASH   Lieut. Col. William Dyess of Texas Killed on Pacific Coast

Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, Texas War Hero, Killed In Fighter Plane Crash

Dyess, Who Was Pacific Hero, Makes Landing to Avoid Hitting Car.

Flyer from Texas, Hero of Bataan, Sacrifices Life in P-38 Plane Crash

War Grabs Show From Electior   Democrats See- Chance Through Apathy

Both Parties Forecast State Victory   Democrats Pit Wayne County Against Out-State GOP Stronghold in Election

Miners Slowly Return to Struck Mines   156,000 Still Idle— Many Steel Furnaces Grow Cold’

Wall LAMPORTAMI IN AERIAL CONFLICT   Weather Determining Factor in Actions of Crews of  Bombers

Argentina Sags In Prestige And  Minister Resigns   Lend-Lease Rejection Brings Crisis

Throw Police Guard Arounc  U.S. Embassy   Argentine Government Takes Steps To Prevent Demonstrations.   STORNI QUITS OFFICE

Storni, Allies’ Friend, Resigns Argentine Post   Foreign Minister Quits Cabinet Under A_ Barrage Of Criticism.

NAVY WEAPONS BEAT ENEMY’S   Secret Developments Ar Reported Shortening War

Dreaded Russiar Winter Is Mild   Said Ideal Weather For Nazi Panzers

War Writer Finds Red Drive ‘Really Rolling’ In Mild ‘Panzer Weather

Near Liquidation Of 80,000 Others   Soviets Finally Announce Opening Or New Offensive South Of Voronezh With 32,000 Axis Troops Killed, Captured

 Correspondent Pooh-Poohs Theory That Cold Causes Nazi Defea Reds Advancing Despite Amazingly Mild Woagther. Claimed Ideal For Nazi Panzer

Writer Tells Of Fighting Near Rostov   Says Germans Begin Showing Signs of Bewilderment

SAY RIBBENTROP’S - STANDING IS HELD AS VERY INSECURE   Position With High Nazi Officials Now “Shaky” —1942 Purge Is Exposed.

GERMAN QFEICIALS HANGED BY POLICE   Ribbentrop’s s Standing I Nazi Regime Is Shaky

RUML TAX PLAN HEADS FOR VOTE; FIGHT BREWING   Bill Is Offered in House as Substitute for Measure With Administration 0.K.   FARM CONFERENCE CALLED   Draft Status of Fathers To Be Clarified Next Week At Special Meeting

Shakedown Story May Be First Called   Mrs. Eisiminger May Be First Witness in Fitzgerald Conspiracy Trial

Woman May Be First Witness ToTell Story —   Mrs. J. W. Eisiminger And J. A. Minton to Be Among First Called In Fitzgerald Case -

Jury Is Being Impaneled to Hear State’s Case Against Fitzgerald, Ex-Parole Chief

Tension In Unhappy Italy Approaches Breaking Point   Evidence Piles Up That Mussolini And Lieutenant   Forced To Answer Embarrassing Questions  

italy Expects invasion lo Come Any Minute— —By Glenn Bab!  Hitler's Europe Living On Borrowed Time

TO REGISTER FOR WAR RATION BOOK NO. 2   Feb. 24 to 27 Are Dates Set. Read Instructions For Guidance

IOWA SOLONS: TO. ADJOURN ON APRIL 8TH   BOTH HOUSES AGREE To WIND _UP NEXT THURSDAY   Session Can Be Prolonged By Stopping Clocks, But Farm Members Are Getting Impatient

Adjournment State Legislature Expected  During Next Week   State Capitol. News Letter As Reviewed ‘by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent .

General ddembly Eapected To Adjourn Neat Week   Farmer Members Want Te Start Spring Work

May Adjourn Next Week   Salary Increase for Governor is Defeated

Australians Speed Up Pacific War Feats Read Like Book of Fiction

» AUSTRALIAN: SPEEDING UF PACIFIC WAR   Desert Hardened Troops Perform Feats Which Read Like Pages From Book; Americans Assist.   dans Below Nazis

Youth Strangles Sweetheart, 17  Veteran of Midway Tells of Impulse Leading to Death

RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVING NAZIS FROM UKRAINE   Reds Capture 410 More Towns; Hitler Sees Dreams Collapse

GERMANS ARE BEING OUSTED FROM UKRAINE      410 More Towns And Villages Are Liberated

MASS EXPULSION GF GERMANS IN WKRAINE BEGUN   “Red Star” Proclaim: Exodus as Savict Forces Capture 410  Towns

Loss of Fertile Area Hard Blow for Hitler   Soviets Gain Momentum Along Line 600 Miles Long East.of Dnieper.

REDS LIBERATING ENTIRE UKRAINE IN MASSIVE BLOW!   Sovlet Forces Surge West ward Through 410 Towns and Villages.

Russ Rejoice At Ukraine Liberation   Army Paper Asserts Mass Expulsion of Germans Under Way

Two Bombers Are Lost In Rabaul Raid   Delayed Reports Tell Of Hits On Japanese Vessel

COST OF BOMBING OF SCHWEINFURT NOT TOO GREAT   Washington Decides Loss Of 60 Fortresses Not Too High A Price to Pay for  Raenlte

Claims Loss Not Too High Price to Pay   Official Washington Considers Storming of Schweinfurt

60-Plane Loss Paid Dividends   American Strategists Say Results Accomplished With the Price

COST IN PLANES INSCHWEINFURT RAID JUSTIFIED   Official Washington Holds  Eoss-of 60 Fort Not Un-- duly High Price’ for  Achievement,

JUNCTION STAKEN   Capital Decides Loss Of 60 Forts Not Too High A Price For Smashing German Target

FORTRESS LOSS. ‘NOT UNDULY HIGH   Pay-off “Was Smashing of Most Important. . - German Target

Cost of 60 Lost Bombers in Smashing Cerman Plant Adiudged Not Too High

WARSHIPS HIT DEEP INTO JAP HELD WATERS   Destroyers Bombard Gasmata On N., Britain

American ShipsBembard Gasmata and Madang In Bold Seaborne Attacks

Naval Vessels Pound Gastama  Boldly Carry Colors to Japanese Doorstep

U. S. Warships Hit Jap Bases   Madang, Gasmata Bombarded For First Time

U. S. WARSHIPS BLAST MADANG AND GASMATA   Light Naval Craft Defy Japs to Invade Waters Norih of Vitiaz Straight, Far from Bases   FIRE EFFECTIVE   Bombers Again Strafe Cape Gloucester, Alexishafen and Madang in Heavy Attacks

U.S. Warships In Bold Assaults   Go Deep Into Jap Terri tory To Blast Gasamata, Madang

Navy Hammers Key Jap Bases   Hits Gasmata on New Britain, Madang on New Guinea Island

U.S.SBA CRAFT BOLDLY ATTACK JAP-HELDBASES   ‘American Colors Carried  Onto Enemy Doorstep -In Assault On Gasmata and Madang

Japanese Planes No Longer Feared   Gasmata and Madang Are Effectively Shelled   NEW KIND OF BAD NEWS FOR THE JAPS

GASMATA, MADANG, ARE HAMMERED. BY _ U.S. NAVAL FORCE!   Bold Thrust Carries U. S. Colars Onto Japan’s SouthDoorstep      CAPE GLOUCESTER BAIDED

U.S. Destroyers Shell Foe Bases On New Britain And New Guinea; Jarine Losses On Tarawa 3583

Allies Attack Gasmata From Sea Position:   Gen. MacArthur Tells Of Repeat Aerial Raid On Cape Gloucester.

AIR OFFENSIVE IS CONTINUED   British Bombers in Great Strength Crush Cologne — Raids Also Carried Out en Hamburg, Biggest German Port.

AG ARM ENTERS   British Wallop German City While Americans Piaster Italian (itv. *

NAZIS MOST BOMBED CITY SMASHED ANEW   Germans Make Frantic Efforts to Rebuild Demolished War Factories.

RAF BOMBERS BLAST CITIES IN RHINELAND   U. S. Planes Assault Italian Port As Ait Offensive Passes 10Night Mark

CAPITAL OF RUHR VISITED AS NAZIS SEEK TO REBUILD   2000 Tons of Explosives Are  . Unloaded on 10th Night With. 25 Bombers Lost ‘In Two-Prong Attack.   3 MERCHANT SHIPS, 2 ESCORTS DAMAGED   Italian Port of Leghorn Is Bombed, Light Cruiser, Four Ships, Oil Refineries Damaged

Cologne and Hamburg Hit by British Bombers   Enemy Convoy in Dover Strait.” maf te py A Stegelegipl ~ ae

AUXILIARY — RAID BLASTS HAMBUR[   Important Germag Centers Latest brit ish Targets °

Despite Fall Rains Reds Push Ahead   Russians Are Closing in on  Gamal Magilayw

Russ Drive On in Rain   Nozis Prepare for Retreat to Border; Evacuate Caucosus

Soviet Troops Advance Despite Autumn Rainfall   Nazis Evacuating Last Foothold In  Caucasus Region

REDS ADVANCE WEST THROUGH AUTUMN. RAINS   Nazis Appear to Be Evacuating Last Hold in Caucasus Area

Russian Forces Threaten Mogilev, Gomel: German Caucasus Retreat Is Seen

)RED ARMIES CLOSING IN ON GOMEL AND MOGILEV, ‘CRUMBLE SMOLENSK LINE

Russians Drive Through Rains Toward Mogilev               Red Troops’ Within: 25 ‘Miles of Center Of German Defenses in White Russia; Nacie Prepare for New. Withdrawals

Russians Plunge Westward in Smolensk Fight   Nazis Evacuating Last Foothold  In Caucasus Area

REDS REPORTED “CLOSING IN ON ROME! MOGILE'   Rains Fail to Slow Down Soviet Westward Drive Very Mirch.

NAZIS. YIELDING LAST FOOTHOLD IN GAUGASUS   Russians Keeping Pressure On Retreating Germans All Along Front

SOVIETS CONTINUE ADVANCE. IN SPITE OF AUTUMN RAINS   Drive To Within 25 Miles Of Magiley — Nazis , Evacuating Caucasus

iS LEAVING CAUCASUS   Soviet Fliers Smash Enemy Shipping In ,» Black Sea Area

NAZIS YIELDING LAST CAUCASUS FOOTHOLD   Retreat To Lithuanian And Latvian Borders Indicated; Heavy Fall Rains Slow Russian Advance

RED ARMIES ADVANCE IN DOWNPOURS   Nazis Evacuate Last Strongholds  In Caucasus

REDS CLOSING IN ON GOMEL AS RAINS COME   Mud and Stiffened Re. sistance Slows Russians

Soviets near White Russia Mogilev fort   Nazis abandon Caucasus front

HEAVY RAINS OTIFFENING RESISTANCE   Nazis Appear To Be Evacuating Last Foothold In Caucasus, Motorized Red Soldiers Swarm Across Pronva River   RUSSIANS APPROACHING VITEBSK-COMEL LINE

U.S., British Are Ready To Strike   Algiers Radio Tells Europeans To Be Prepared

OCCUPIED EUROPE TOLD TO PREPARE   Algiers Radio Warns of ’ Early Invasion of ‘Continent

‘Special Caution  Given to French  They Are Advised Not Toa Tin Off Plans

Allies Warn Of New Blows   Armies Said Ready, People  Are Told To Listen For Call

Italy Rocks as New Hit Looms   MASSED FORMATIONS OF WARPLANES SPEAR BATTIPAGLIA FREIGHT YARDS, NETWORK OF HIGHWAYS SOUTH OF NAPLES, ANGITOLA BRIDGE

Big Guns Fire Across Strait At Fleeing Foe   Next Move Seen Is Sending Troops On to Mainlond

Eisenhower Says Two Superb Armies In Sicily Set for New Drives; Guns In Duel Over Messina Strait

Allied Airmen In South Pacific Return To Wewak; Down 28 More Japs

Allies to Tell Time, Place    Message Broadcast from Algiers Hints France-May Be Spot Chosen

Allies Warn Occupied  Countries of Invasion   United Nations Radio Broadcast Tells People To Perfect Preparations; Landing Shores To Be Told Later

GERMAN-ITALIAN FIGHTING REPORTED   New Drive To Hike "War Production

WORK FOR WAR MUST SPEED UP, WPB CHIEF SAYS   Psychological and Physical Obstacles Noted Despite Production Records   30 PERCENT HIKE URGED   Appeals Made To Both Labor And Management To Keep Wheels Turning

Nelson Orders ‘Drive To Lift  War Production   Says Munitions Output Must Be Hiked 30 Pct. For Rest Of Year.

NELSON ORDERS NEW DRIVE FOR NEEDS OF WAR   WPB Chairman Cails fo 30°, Increase in Production for Remainder of Year   REQUIREMENTS UP   June Output Gains Ove) May, But Still Fails to Meet Scheduled Output, He Says

NELSON ORDERS NEW WAR OUTPUT DRIVE   June Production Fails to Meet Requirements

NEW DRIVE ORDERED BY NELSON TO LIFT OUTPUT  ‘OF U. S. WAR INDUSTRIES

COAL FREEZING ORDERS ISSUED   Pool At Mines Intended To Fill Orders On Basis Of Need

FEDERAL BUREAUS POSTWAR THREAT, GOV, MAY ASSERTS   Agencies Sap Average Man's Rights, He Says

BUREAUCRACY BLASTED BY UTAH LEADER   Sovereign Right: Should Return After War

OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR ADDRESSES SESSION AT COLUMBUS TODAY      Says that Federal Bureaus Are Making Extensive Plans for Postwar Period.

Maw Assails System of Bureaucracy:   Voices Concern Over Powers Wielded By Federal Agencies

GET 8/5 MILLION ~— ON 50TH BIRTHDAY   Marshall Field Il Buys War Bonds With $10 Million Today.

446.006 Fathers  Needed   Only 775,000 Non-Dads Left, Hershey Explains

Armed Forces Need A Million Men This Year   Fathers Must Be Taken, Says Hershey; Solons Shouldn't Act On  Induction Ban

OPPONENTS OF PATHER DRAFT cWING GROUND   Senator Wheeler Now Con cedes Passage of Bill to Prohibit Inductions + Doubtful   NAVY IN NEED OF  OVER HALF MILLION   Army Requires 636,00 From Among Parents In Order to Meet Stratogic Planning

Manpower Pool Found Too Short   Only 775,000 Non-Fathers Available For Draft Up To End Of Year, Hershey Testifies

NAVY NEEDS OVER HALF MILLION MEN BALANCE THIS YEAR   Senate Military Committee Told of Necessity for Drafting of Fathers

Army and Navy Will Need Over Million More Men; 446.000 Fathers Sought

Presents Navy's Manpower Need:   533,000 Recruits to be Required During Last Four Months'of Year, Rear Admiral Jacobs Tells Senate Military; Committee at Hearing Today.   OPPOSES BAN ON FATHERS

446,000 Dads Are Needed   Selective Chief Hershey Voices “No” To Postponing Induction

Mo000 FATHERS SLATED FOR DRAFT   Selective Service Leader Outlines Service Needs

Navy May Draft 933,000 Men   Naval Chiefs Oppose Dad-Draft Delay

/MILITARY CHIEFS GAIN 'GROUND IN FIGHTING BAN ON DRAFTING OF FATHERS

ARMY, NAVY, DRAFT OFFIGIALS SAY NEED FATHERS IN SERVICE  GEN. HERSHEY, SELECTIVE SERVICE HEAD,  NCCCANC DOICRAM

Army Requirements For 1943 To Bring Total Of Inducted To Million Mark

Navy Need of Men Cited in Support Of Father Draft  Senator Suggests Calling of Youths  -

533,000 MEN DURING FALL   Admiral Randall Jacobs, Personnel Chief, Tells Senate Committee Needs Rest  of Year Will Be Great   OPPOSES LOWER DRAFT

HERSHEY SAYS FATHER DRAFT ONLY ANSWER   ‘Army, Navy Need 1,221,000 Men in Last Quarter, 775,000 NonFathers Available   SEES NO WAY OUT   iF Men Constantly Reworked, Taking Deferred Men Would Hurt Indusiry, Food Output

NAVY TO CALL HALF MILLION MEN FOR DUTY   Naval Personnel Chiel Tells Congress Need Is Urgent   FOES GIVE GROUND   Military Needs In 1944 Will Increase Over '43, Solons Told

Navy Needs To Draft 533,000 ‘More Men In 1943, Committee Probing Father Draft Is Told   Means Selective Service Will Be Called On For Another Million Men

Opponents Of Father Draft Giving Ground   Army Demands Half Million Family Heads This Year.

SENATORS GIVE GROUND BEFORI ARMY DEMANDS   Officials Report Army Must Have Family Heads This Year

MILLION MEN REQUIRED FOR , $, SERVICES   While There Are Only About 775, 000 Non-Fathers Available by Induction System,

SAYS 446,000 FATHERS FACE EARLY DRAFT   Hershey Tells Congress U. S. Must Turn to Them to Complete Budget of 1,221,000 More Service Men This Voor

Opponents To Father Dratt Give Ground   Military Testimony On Need For Additional Men Sways Senate Opinion.   WHEELER CON FIDENI

Figure Is Set By Navy's Need For Half Million   Senate Military Committee Hears Of Requirements From Admiral Jacobs

Wheeler Still Confident Of Pas  Opponents Of FatherDraft Losing Ground

Senate Hears Need for Dads in War Action   Army, Navy’s Stand Makes Inroads in Ranks of Senators Against Father Draft

Declares Army  Needs Father:   Gen, Hershey Tells Congress 446,000 Must Be Dratied ” Before End of Year _

Army, Navy Need 1,221,000 Men This Year  Fathers Must Fill Quotas Otherwise ‘War Production Will Be Hampered

Need Fathers To Meet Goal for Services      Army and Navy Will Require 1,221,000 More Men in Next 4 Months

DRAFT CHIEF TESTIFIES ON FATHER DRAFI   Says 775,000 Non-Dads Fat 446,000 Short of. Meeting Armed Forces Quota.   NAVY ASKS 533,000   Senators Give Ground After Hearing Testimony of Military  eadere.

Senatori ial Opponents of Father Draft Give Ground Before Army Demands for Half Million Family Heads This Year

1,221,000 Men Needed by End Of This Year   Only 775,000 Childless Men Left, Gen. Hershey Tells Senate Committee -

Looks Bad For Fathers— Million Men Are Needed By Army, Navy By Jan. 1

46,000 Fathers Needed by Draff, Hershey Reports   Army and Navy Require Many Men Congress Is Told

Army And Navy Need 1,221,000 More This Year   Father Draft Necessary, Asserts Hershey; <Admiral Cites Navy Needs.

NAVY NEEDS — 533,000 MEN   Father Draft. Nears, As Boards Asked for “Million

WHEELER STILL CONFIDENT OF POSTPONEMENT   Senator Barkley Feels Army Has ‘Made a Good Case’

SERVICES NEED 446,000 DADS, SAYS HERSHEY   Tells Congress That Induction Plans  Should Stand

ARMED FORCES NEED ANOTHER 4,201,000 HEN   Hershey Testifies Only About 775,000 Non-Fathers in Draft Pool.   SAYS DRAFT BOARDS TO WEIGH OCCUPATIONS

446,000  Fathers Face Call   TOTAL OF 775,000 NONFATHERS BELOW ARMED FORCES’ NEEDS

Oniy 775,000 Non-Fathers Available, Says Draft , Director.   MAY CALL ON FATHERS.

Needs Until Jan. 1 Told By Admiral   Testifies Before Military Affairs Committee of Senate Today

Army;. Navy Need 1,221,000 More Men in *43-- “Hershey:   Mihtary Officials Voice Stern “No” on Banning Father Draft

MILLION MORE MEN NEEDED IN SERVICE   Navy Wants 533,000 Drafted To Meet Requirements

Must Have Fathers This Year   Armed Services Need More Men Than Are Available Among NonFathers, Says Hershey

446,000 DADS NEEDED IN DRAFT. SAYS HERSHEY   Army, Nevy Weat 1,221,000 by Dec. 31 With Only 775,000 Nen-Fathers Aveileble   ‘We're Only Starting, Morgenthau Warns U.S.

446,000 Fathers  Needed to Meet Draft Deficiency   General Hershey Tells Congress of Plans to Meet Armed Force Needs.   Says That Men in 4-F Constantly Reworked

Not Enough Non Fathers Available .   General Hershey Says Deficiency Must Be Met from Pool of Married Men of Military Age with Children

ALLIED PACIFIC DRIVE SPEEDED   Army Planes Raid Marshall And Gilberts Fifth Successive Day,   SUFFER NO PLANE LOSSES

PACIFIC FORCES RAID MARSHALL   Army Planes Also Hit Gilbert, Indicating Sweeping Attack on Japs

ARMY BOMBERS RAID JAP BASES IN MID -PACIFIC      Ground Fighting Picks Up; Rabaul Raided Again

Air Raids Presage  Pacific Offensive   Marshall And Gilbert Islands Blasted 5th Day In Row; Buka Also Shelled

Army, Planes Raid Gilbert and Marshalls   Bougainville Shelled from Sea; Marines Advance from Empress: Augusta ‘Bay —

Sneed Blows Over Pacific   Strike By Land in New Guinea, By Sea in Solomon:

ALLIES SPEEDING UP OFFENSIVE BY LAND IN NEW GUINEA, BYSEAIN SOLOMONS AND BY AIR IN MID-PACIFIC   Army Planes Blast Jalut Island in Marshals and Tarawa. Airfield in Gilberts. Enemy Retalintes  Raiding Funafuti in Ellice Island.

Blows Herald  New Thrust  Against Japs Allies Speeding — Up Land, Sea and  ‘sp, * Sys’. WW’ Woe an

Allies Mount Pressure On Japan’s Army   Bomb Gilbert, Marshall Isles; Warships Shell Buka; Aussies Strike; U.S. Transport Sunk   Shell Baker Airficld   Sink Allied Ship

ALLIED AIR FORCE STEPPING UP ACTION IN PACIFIC SECTORS LAND. AND SEA   OFENSIFVES ARE 4. ATR: CROWING- DAILY --

SPEED UP ATTACKS   Allied Planes Continue to Pound Enemy Islands in Pacific

Faster Tempo For Pacific Offensive   Marshall and Gilbert Islands Hit Again By Allied Planes

Gitbert-and-Marshallislands-Atacked for Fifth Day in Row While Naval Force Shells Nip Airfields in Solomons And Jungle Fighters Lau nch Drive on New Guinea

PACIFIC DRIVE 1S SPEEDED UP   Land. Sea And Air Forces Widen Blows At Japs

ALLIES SPEED PACIFIC DRIVE   Hit Several Important Targets From Land, Sea And Air

Allies Attack Japs By Land,  Sea And Air   Offensive Stepped Up In Pacific — Jap Base At Buka Is Shelled By Naval Task Force

Allied Forces Speed Pacific Area Pincers   Hit by Land in New Guinea, by Sea in Solomon Islands and By Air in Mid-Pacific

ALLIES P JAPS BY SEA LAND AND AIR   Marines Gain In New Guinea; Navy Bombards Solomons Airfield: Planes Raid Mid-Ocean Isles.

Sth Daily Raid on Mid-Pacific Bases   Japs Retaliate With Attack on Ellice

ALLIES STEP “UP OFFENSIVE IN PACIFIC   Airmen Raid Marshall and Gilbert Islands for Fifth Successive Day, Presaging an Amphibious Operation.

British Troops Land at Termoli, Bastia Captured   Only Remnants of German Forces Remain in Corsica; Fifth and Eighth Armiec Continue Advance

British Land New Forces Halfway Up Coastline   Seaborne Move Gomes With Nazis in Retreat

Strike Nearly Half—way- Up Atlantic — Coast.   By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP War Baitar ”

Nazis Retreat Before Foe In Central Italy   Allies Pushing Beyond First Water Line Defense Above Naples.   REDS CLEARING KUBAN

Germans Strike by Land and: Sea i i : Attempt to Regain’ Coo — Pa Fc orces Take Finschhaven -Yug slav Patriots Ahead—Reds’ Drive Huns Out of Kuban 1

Flanking Thrust Gains 17 Miles On Adriatic Side   Germans Seize Strong Positions On Island of Coo

SEA-BORNE OUTFLANKING HOPS MADE BEHIND RETREATING NAZI LINES ON HISTORIC WAR TRAIL —   British Land Nearly Halfway Up Adriatic Coast At Termoli.—Allied Air Forces Hamper Retreating Germans and Also Spread Out Over the Reich 

British Score Gain in SeaBorne Drive   Strike 17 Miles North In Surprise Hop Along Adriatic Coast; Corsica in French Hands

BRITISH MAKE DRIVE ALONG THE ADRIATIC   First Nazi Line North of Naples Cracked by Americans, Menacing German Left Wing 

VETERAN BRITISH TROOPS STRIKE AT ADRIATIC, COAST   ACTION IS ANOTHER SEA BORNE OUTFLANKING HOP TO TERMOLI

VETERAN BRITISH TROOPS STRIKE AT ADRIATIC COAST  ACTION IS ANOTHER SE   ACTION IS ANOTHER SEA BORNE OUTFLANKING HOP TO TERMOLI

Non-stop Air Offensive Hits Nazi Fortress   Fifth Army Reaches Benven_to, 32 Miles North of Naples; Cross Calore

FLANK ATTACK MADE BY BRITISH UP EAST COAST   Hitler’s Horde in Caucasus Threatened as Reds Push Fiercely on Long Front

Enemy Retreating In Central Italy; Bomb Nazi Cities   Russians Drive Germans Out of Kuban Bridgehead; Foe Fleeing  into Crimea

Long Range Ploesti Raid Blow To Axis War Nerves   » Must Force High Command To Detach Further Air Power From Russia And Other Fronts

Allles Are Closing in On Hitler’s Qil  A RR ae Se eee  Jump From Sicily To Italy Is Easy Matier

URDER BAY ON AB-HOUR WEEK   WMC MOVES TO EFFECT TRANSFER TO WAR JOBS

Workers HereMast Up Hours To Help in War   Order Issued Today to Be Effective in June;More Pay

Two Are Victims Of Suicide Pact      Pennsylvania Couple Found Dead

Heven Convicts Saw Way From Eastham Prison  Lubbock Man One   Lubbock Man One Of Group; Three Quickly Captured

11 BOLT TEXAS PRISON BUILDING   But Three Are Quickly Rounded Up After Sawing Way to Freedom

11 Prisoners In Texas Flee   Three of Them Quickly Recaptured, Prison Officials State

Eleven Convicts Saw Way From Eastham Prison   Lubbock Man One Of Group; Three Quickly Captured

11 Convicts Make Eseape.  Three Nabbed   Fugitives, in Two Groups, Trailed By Bloodhounds

COUNTY MINERS KEEP AT TASKS   Employes At Kopperston Operations Return To  Pits Last Night

SOVIET ARMIES PLUNGE AHEAD   Threaten to Isolate Halt Million Germans

All Semblance  of Defense Line Lost By Germans   Red Assault Forces Closing In Against Units At Krivoi Rog

Nine States Join To Get Dairy Feed   Committee Members Named by Various Governors

NINE-MAN GROUP WILL PLAN ACTION ON FEED SHORTAGE   Governer Dewey Announces Formation of North aatct Carmmittas

Hope Dwindles For 69 Miners   ‘Toll of Montana Disaster Raised to 3 Dead

Five Others ‘Known Bead;  Rescue Fails   Fumes Overcome 50 Who Tried to Release Underground Captive

IMPRISONED MEN   Five Miners Are Known Dead After. Blast Rips Montana Workings-——~-

HOPE FADING FOR. THE SAFETY OF 69 MEN ENTOMBED IN MINE   Five Known Dead in Disoster at Smith Coal Mine in Montona—Fumes Clearing Away After Fan . System Goes in. Operation

HOPE DWINDLES FOR 69 MINERS   Fumes Hamper Efforts Of Rescue Crews To Get Into Montana Pit

¥.9, WARSHIP’S GUNS BEAT OFF * 40 JAP PLANES   Superior Fire Power Downs ® 10 of Enemy’s Craft in Pacific Fight

Doctors, Nurses; Patients Vaccinated For Smallpox      Thousands in Philadelphia Hospital Given Serum as _ Health Department Reports New Outbreaks of  Disease Which Started Among Amish “Plain   People” Near Quaker City

‘Hospitals Vaccinate Thousands, Bar Visitors As Smallpox Cases Total 48: Throughout State

Vaecinate Many In East Area   Hospitals Bar Visitors as Smallpox  Cases Reach 48

ARE VACCINATED   smallpox Outbreak In Philadelphia Brings Action

PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AGAINST SMALLPOX   Epidemic Started in’ Amish Community

FOR RADIO SYSTEN   Bill Introduced for Highway Patrol Communication  Stations

ee EE EEE EE TO Ne  Seeks 2-Wa Radio System For Patrol      Barber County Man Introduced Bill — In Legislature

NEW BRITAINS DEFENSE PUT FIRST BY FOf   “one Moving Ships, to Island

Two Nipponese Ships Sunk; Destroyer Hit   16 Enemy Planes Are Downed in Aerial Battles

JAPAN PREPARES FOR A SHOWDOWA   ENEMY MOVES SHIPS, PLANES AND TROOPS TOWARD STRATEGIC NEW BRITAIN.

American Flyers Knock Down 16  Japanese Planes   Enemy Destroyer, Two Cargo Ships Hit by Bombs

Bitter Island Struggle Seen   16 Nip Planes Downed As Troops, Supplies Moved In

EXECUTION AMERICAN AIRMEN BY JAPANESE ATROCITY THAT SHOULD NOT CAUSE SURPRISE

Refuses to Respond To Attacks   Pantelleria Again Blasted by Ships;  Guerrillas Active.

ALLIED FLEET HITS ITALIAN ISLAND FORT   Ships Pound Pantelleria Unmolested By Italian Vessels   GREEK PATRIOTS RISE   Russian Front Silent As Armies Feel Out Opposition

Allied Warships Strike Pantelleria Again; Bombers Continue To Pound Bastions

Naval Vessels Again Hammer At Pantelleria   Italian Fleet Still Ignores Allied Challenge To Enter Fight.

Hurl Challenge As Pantelleria Is Again Blasted   No Sign Of Activity On Part Of Axis Navy

Warships Attack Pantelleria Base Two More Time:   Despite Navy Action Italian Fleet = I: Absent; Air Raid:  Continue

Italy’s Key Bastion Is Again Hit   Pantelleria Hard Hit Again; Italy’s Fleet Is Missing. 

ALLIED VESSELS SHELL ITALIAN ISLAND AGAIN   Chinese Forces Drive Jap Troops Back, Recapture Nanhsien

BRITISH CHALLENGE TO (TALIAN FLEET GOES UNANSWERED  ALLIED NAVAL FORCES SHELLED PANTELLERIA WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY

Despite Five Attacks There Are No Signs of Enemy Men-O'-War Venturing Forth   NAPLES ALSO VISITED

Italy’s Navy Challenged By. British   Pantelleria “Again Shelled -~As-Buce’s . Meet-Stays Safely Within Harbors

Rome Fleet. Challenged, Hugs Ports   100 Forts Davage Mainland of Italy ; Navy Shells Island

Allies Scour The Seas Round Italy   Challenge to Italian Fleet to Come Out and Fight  Unanswered   ISLAND BASE SHELLED   Relative Inactivity Marks Operations on Rus sian Front

Pantelleria twice again  bombarded   No sign seen of Italian warships venturing forth

‘SOFTENING UP’ ATTACK PRESSED BY SEA AND AIR   Ominous Calm in Russia But In China, Japs Are Routed With Big Loss

ltalian Fleet Passes Another Battle Invitation   Pantelleria Is Bombarded Twice More From Surface

Allies’ Challenge to Italian Navy to Come  Out and Fight Futile   “Italian Gibraltar’’ at Pantelleria Again Is Under Bombardment

Fleet Will Not Venture Out To Get Into Battle   British Pleas Are Ignored; Bombs Fall Again

PANTELLERIA HIT TWICE BY ALLIED SHIPS   Attacks Fail to Induce Italian Fleet to Give Battle

Shell Italian Isle Again —      Assault by Allied Ships Fails to Smoke ‘Out Italian Navy

SHIPS HAMMER ITALIAN ISLE I FRESH ATTACKS   Enemy Ships Fail To Meet Challenge; Planes Raid Naples; Russia Quiet

Allies Attack Italian Areas  In New Raids   Opposition Still Absent As United Nations Ships Taunt Il Duce.   REBELS TROUBLE AXIS

Allied Ships Again Shell Pantelleria ‘   No Sign of Italian Ships— Bombers Again Blast Island

New Birtish . Challenge to Italian  Fleet to Come Out  and Fight Under ined

No Sign of Fight From Duce’s Ships   British Challenge for Fifth Time in Five Days Not Accepted   ALLIES ENFORCING VIRTUAL BLOCKADE   Air and Sea Attacks Are Continued; Axis Goes On Defensive Elsewhere

British Beg’ Italian Ships To Fight   Fifth Challenge Issued By Pounding Of  Dantoallaria

Brifish Fleet Dares Duce fo Risk Battle   Fifth Time Gateway To Italy Has Been Under Gun Fire

Italy’s Fleet Still Refuses To Come Out   British Fleet Is Shelling  Pantelleria For Fifth . Day

Allies Shell Pantelleria:  RAF Is Busy   Guerrillas Give : Mussolini’s. Troops Trouble, Red Front Is Quiet

PANTELLERIA IS ATTACKED TWICE BY ROYAL NAVY   Italian “Gibraltar” Pounded Again; Still No Sign Of Ital ian Fleet Answering  British Challenge.

Strike Cleses 9 Blast Furnaces  Insurgent Miners Ignore Government Probe

AS IGNORE FEDERAL PROBE OF WORK STOPPAGE   U.S. Steel Corporation Takes Nine More Blast Furnaces Out of Production   SHORTAGE OF COKING COAL CAUSES ACTION   At Least 26 Pennsylvania Mines Now Down with 18,000 Men Idle; Pickets Pre. vent Men From Going to Work at Frick Mine

18,000 Miners Idle in Dispute   Nine More Blast  Furnaces Shut Down

MINE STRIKES ARE CRIPPLING STEEL OUTPUTS   U. 5.. Steel Takes Nine More Blast Furnaces Out of Production as Walk outs Spread   18,090 ARE IDLE   Ignore News of Invasion of Sicily and Impending  Federal Grand Jury Probe

MORE FURNACES CUT PRODUCTON   Insurgent Coal Miners Ignor Federal Moves In Work Stoppage

6 U.S. Warships Are Reparted As Lost  Submarine And Destroy: er Are Included

Six Warships Lost by U.S  In Action Against Enemy   Destroyer and Three Other Craft Lost Off Sicily; Submarine Overdue in Far Pacific; Gunboat Sunk’ Off East Coast

Navy announces loss of 6 U. S. warships in action   Submarine Pickerel and Destroyer Maddox, four smaller craft included

6U.S. Ships Reported Sunk by Foe   Sub and Destroyer Among Vessels Lost in Action

Six Warships Lost, U.S. Navy Reports   Sinkings Bring to 110 the Number of Vessels Downed

vy Reveals vent Loss ‘Six Warships   “astroyer, Submarine ‘mong Vessels Sunk . Various Theaters

Rommel Believed Out of Africa as His  Cornered Troops Die EASE UP IN RUSSIA  Moscow Reports Heavy Losses Slow Nazis in Caucasus

YANKEE ARMY ONLY oO Mbt FROM BIZERTE   North African Campaign’s Final Phase Underway, Axis Gives Ground

All-Out Offensive Launched To Run  Axis From Africa   Rommel Believed Ta Have Left Army: Other Fronts Are Quiet

Americ an Tr oops Shifted F rom South To Take Part In Grand Assault on Axis

Rommel Flees ~ African Front  As Allies Gain   General Patton’s Troops Transferred From Southern To Northern Area.   BRITISH SEIZE HILL

State Control of Insurance Not Enough   Not Strong Exiough to Pro tect Public, McKittrick Tells Senators   FEDERAL CONTROL NEEDED, HE SAYS

INDUSTRY HITS FOREMAN UNION   General Motors Cites Threat To War Production

Kansas City Muralist Wins And Loses With Paintings   Thomas Hart Benton Advised His “Aaron” ¥ Wins Carol H. Beck Medal At Pennsylvania Exhibition;  Solon Asks Removal of Pendergast Like-   ness from Missouri House Lounge 

SWEET CLOVER SEED SHOULD BE SAVED   This Will Insure Ample Seed Stocks For the 1944 Seeding.

Urges End to Curbs On Railway Work   Eastman Hits Mileage Limits, ‘Full Crew’ Rule

CHANGE IN RAILROADS   eee  ODT Calls For End To “Full Crew’ Assignments, More Work

ROOSEVELT LAUDS FOOD CONFERENCE   New Hope of Freedom From Want and Fear Brought, He Says

Pr esident Hails Success of Food Meetings   Sees New World Hope OF Attaining Fréedom From Want and Fear

Blow To Want, Fear Is Seen By Roosevelt   Food Conference Program Given  Hich Praise ~

Roosevelt Sees New Hopes for World Freedoms  President Says Food Conferenee Was

FD Declares Food Meet Brings New  Hope to End Want   Executive Describes Parley Just Ended As History-Making

Food Conference Brings Hope. to World-F.D.R.   “United Nations Are Together in War on Fear and Want as They Are on Battle Fields and Are Winning’:

Tells Delegates Conference Gives Hope of Freedom From Want, Fear

FOOD DELEGATES ARE ADDRESSED   President Says There Is New Hope For Freedom From Want And Fear

REVIEWS FOOD PARLEY'S WORK   Roosevelt Says Nations Are United Against Fear And Want

British Prime . Minister Is.  Stricken During Three-   Power Teheran: Conference   PATCH OF DISEASE ON HIS LEFT LUNG   Condition As Satisfactory As Can Be Ex pected, ‘Bulletin Says; Specialists In Attendance

Churchill Is Suffering From Pneumonia; Say Condition Satisfactory

Eminent Doctors Caring for Him  Had Been Suffering Cold Since Departure

WELL AS CAN BE EXPECTED, BRITAIN TOLD   Premier, Who Worked Under Fever Conditions, in Middle East.

CHURCHILL ILL OF PNEUMONIA, COMMONS TOLD   Prime Minister Confined to Bed Somewhere in Middle Eas! Since Conferences   2ND TIME IN YEAR   Progress ‘As Salisfactory as Can be Expected,’ Bulletin Reporis

Churchill Sick With Pneumonia   Prime Minister Ill In Middle East

CHURCHILL ILL OF PNEUMONIA   Suffers Attack Following Allied War Conference; Report Improvement

Churchill is under doctors care after pneumonia attack   Prime minister stricken while attending middle east conference

CHURCHILL ILL OF PNEUMONIA IN MIDDLE EAST   Prime Minister Carries on Work at Conference Despite Illness .

my 22 US EV BE 2B sa  Charchill Is Reported fll Of Pneumonia In Middle East   Announcement In House Of Commons By Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee Says Left Lung Is Congested

British Chief Laid Low by Pneumonia   Parliament Shocked; Bulletins to Be issued on His Condition

Churchill Suffers — Pneumonia Agair   ‘General Condition” as Satisfactory as Can Bc Expected,” Deputy Prime Minister ~" > Informs ‘Commons. a!

Premier’s Condition Uncertain   Vague Slatcment Is Given Out; Daily Bullelins to Follow

PRIME MINISTER SIX SOMEWHERE “INMIDDLE EAS   “Condition Satisfactory as Can Be Expected,” Cammons Told

Churchill Now Suffers Siege Of Pneumonia   Prime Minister Ill Somewhere in Middle East, House of Commons Told by Deputy Attlee

Churchill Il!  With Pneumonia   ‘Some Improvement’ In Condition Noted

Improvement Is Reported  In Condition Of Churchill   British Prime Minister Stricken. With Second Attack "of Pneumonia in Ten Months—Nation Prays for Recovery

Three Doctors. Attend Stricken Prime Minister  . Churchétle Stricken With Second Attack  af Pneumonia

Churchill Il! With Pneumonia In Middle East   General Condition Satisfactory Says Report of Doctors

CHURCHILL ILL GF PREDMONA   Condition of Prime Minister, Still In Middle East, Satisfactory

Churchill Suffering Attack of Pneumonia   Has “Patch in Left Lung,” Deputy Tells Commons, and Presumably Is Bedfast Somewhere in the Middle East.

Churchill Said Ill In Mid East   Prime Minister Has Pneumonia In His  Left Lung

CHURCHILL ILL OF PNEUMONIA   THREE PHYSICIANS IN ATTENDANCE--NATION PRAYS FOR WIS RECOVERY.

Churchill Suffers Slight Pneumonia In Left Lung   Comimons. Hear of ‘Minister's IlIness Somewhere in'East

BRITISH HEAD STILL IN MIDDLE EAST   Had Bad Cold When — He Departed For Serie: Of Conferences

PRIME MINISTER 1S IN MIDDLE EAST   Sailed For Conference With Cold and 109 Degree  Tampneratire

CHURCHILL = HAS PNEUMONIA   “Patch in Left Lung” Attlee Tells Sober : ” Commons :

Churchill Is Tl With Pneumonialt  Middle East   Had Heavy Cold And Temperature OF 100 When He Left For Recent Conferences

CHURCHILL HIT BY PNEUMONIA   British Leader Reported Stricken Somewhere In Middle East

CHURCHILL ABED WITH.PNEUMONIA   British Leader Indicated To Be Ill In Middle East

CHURCHILL IS AGAIN VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA   Prime Minister "Has Patch on Left Lung," House. . of Commens Is informed   CONDITION IS GOOD

Churchill Has Another Attack Of Pneumonia   British Prime Minister Becomes II] While In Middle East — Return To London Delayed

Suffers Attack Of Pneumonia In Middle East   Regard Issuance Of Daily Bulletins As Indication Premier Very Sick Mau

Announcement olf Dans Bulletins Indicates Gravity of Attack  PRIME WINISTER 669   PRIME MINISTER 69  Lord Moran and Two Other Specialists in At tondance an Patient

Churchill Is Reported Ill   Prime Minister Has ‘a Patch Of Pneumonia in the Left Lung’ Commons Is Told

Heavier Bombing Raids on Tekyo Indicated As New Hornet Is Launched; Americans Give Ground in Fuce of Jap Attack at Salamaua

Knox Promises More For Jans   New Carrier Hornet KAnwee Intnc: Wiater

TORFU BLA) ONLY SAMPLE, KNOX STATES  Secretary Speaks at the aunching ew ade  aypior Marnabd   CHAPLAIN HARP IS GUFST ON PROGRAM   Hagerstown Officer, Veteran of First Hornet, Attends Exercises

Knox Promises Tokyo Real Aerial Blows on Pattern of ‘Small Sample’   Secretary Speaks at Launching of New Aircraft Carrier Hornet in Virginia

Knox Promises More For Japs   New Carrier Hornet Moves Into Woter

Lovett Case Action Called   An Injustice   Secretary Ickes Tired Of  Wasting His Tinie In  Appearing Before Investigators

Hull’s Return Big News of Today in National Capital   Secretary Due With Pact in Portfolio, Diplomatic Feather in Cap

/PNITED. STATES — MARINES  On Parade and On whe Miele) of Einttio   Washington Roundup  Ickes Goes To Bat Today To Keep Lovett On Payroll

ICKES MAKES FIGHT  FOR MEN CUT OFF OF  PAYROLL BY HOUSE HARD-BOILED CABINET  MEMBER DECLARES ACTION TO BE ‘UNAMERICAN

Ickes Says Act Against Lovett Unjust   War Factories To Be Converted to Civilian Production as Fast as Possible: Hull To Report to FDR

PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS RAISE AS HOGS DECLINE   Report Shows Receipts At 186 Per Cent Above 1910-14 Period; But All Meat Animals Slip Off Past Month.

DECLINE. IN HOG PRICES FEATURE FARM INCOME   Index Of All Farm Commodities On November 15, However, Is 185 Per Cent Of The Base In 1910-14, According To Report

Too Much Control Of Oil Is Alleged   Dempsey Makes Charge; Hatch Sees Price Lift

Visitors Report  Victory Garden  Show A Success Awards To LeMars  War Gardeners  Include Long List.

Visitors Report  Victory Garden  Show A Success Awards To LeMare  War Gardeners . rT Jy Fo yo. 0hUlUp ee

Stimson Denies Politics Will Move Marshall   Secretary of War Defends President's Army Assignments

'Sthason Denies intericrence in ‘Army Assignment   M arshall Work to Be Dictated by  SPact Inntarncitc”

Charge Of Polities Is Answered   Assignment Of Marshall Will Be Solely For Best Conduct Of War,  Asserts Stimson

STIMSON RAPS CRITICS OF FOR   Marshall Story ¢Inferences Are Assailed

Pittsburgh Killer Slain By Officers  Murderer Of Detective Loses Gun Battle

STALIN IS CHEERED BY TUNISIAN VICTORY   Russian Premier Sends His Congratulations to Roosevelt and Churchill.

Stalin Sends Congratulation  Sends Messages to   Sends Messages to President Roosevelt And Churchill

Claim Oil Reserves  Are Short   House Committee Says New Petroieum Supplies  Required

ALLIED LEADERS HOLD HISTORIC PARLEY IN NORTH AFRICA      Surrounded With Utmost Secrecy, Allied Leaders Confer for Ten Days At Casablanca, French Morocee   RADIO BREAKS THE NEWS

ALLIED LeaerS HOLD HISTORIC PARLEY IN NORTH AFRICA   RADIO BREAKS THE NEWS

1,900 U, S. PRISONERS OF JAPS MAY RETURN   Negotiations for Exchange Now Under Way

EXCHANGE FOR 1,500 EXPECTED   American and Japanese Civilian Trade Beine Planned

Allied Planes Bomb 10 Jap Sirongholds   3-Hour Harrassing Raid Staged on Buka: Fires Started in Timika Village

M’Arthur Ship  Toll Now 12   Caps Victory by Bombing 10 lan Stroncholde

Far Flung Air Attacks Follow Ship Bombings   MacArthur Reports No Planes Lost; 12 Jap Vessels Lost

Allied Pacific Planes Attack fen Jap Bases  Teves Bian D.:4   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Apri! 6 (Tuesda,

Jap Strongholds Pounded by Allies   Buka Harassed By Warplanes Three Hours; ¢ Other Positions In Pacific Islands  Are Given Bombings

JAP STRONGHOLDS BOMBED BY FLIERS   Far-Flung Assault Follows Bombing of Enemy Ships

JAP STRONGHOLDS BOMBED BY. ALLIES   ATTACKS .FOLLOW ASSAULT ON ENEMY WARSHIPS AT ‘KAVIENG, NEW IRELAND.

Allied Planes Hit Ten Strongholds Of Japs in Pacific  Great Attacks Cause Considerable Damaae to Enemies

JAP STRONGHOLDS BOMBED BY FLIERS   Far-Flung Assault Follows Bombing of Enemy Shins antes ers

Jap Bases In Kavieng Hil   All Planes Return From Numerous Raids

Jap Bases Are Blasted by Allied Planes   Ten Strongholds Battered in Aerial Warfare

Bombers Lash 10 Jap Bases   Buka Is Heavily Damaged; All Allied Planes. Return

10 JAP BASES ARE BLASTED   Three-Hour Raid is Made On Buka, General MacArthur Reports

Allied Planes Bomb Ten Jap Strongholds   Raid Buka for Three Hours Gen. MacArthur Reports  

Army Notified The Home Front Must Be Served  Civilians Assured They Will Get Needed Goods

BOY, 17, STRANGLES 4-YEAR OLD GIRL   Pittsburgh Youth Buried Curley-Headed Girl In His Cellar

Little Girl, 4, Victim Of Brutal Attack In Pittsburgh   KILLER CONFESSES HE LURED HER TO CELLAR

LABOR DRAFT BILL FAVORED   Forty-Five State Draft Directors Have Conference.

Interoreting  The War      Rommel Is Behind Appointment Of Eisenhower

Entire French. Fleet Coming   46 More Ships Will Joir The Allies

NAZI PROPAGANDA THEME S AGAIN AIMED AT PEACE   Feelers Regarded As Mere At tempt to Wreck Solidarity.

REPORT NAZIS. ARE MAKING ~ PEACE MOVES   ~ Aim Is to ‘Caise Breach Between  Allied Nations 

FIGHT WAY BACK AFTER SMASHING NAZI SUB BASE   ‘Raid Part Of Round-The-Clock  Offensive Against German  Production

Assembly Given Explanation of Budget Increase   Governor Says Costs of Necessities Results in Ranoct Are Py a -

Assembly Given Explanation of Budget Increase   Governor Says Costs of Necessities Results in Boos§ ~“ » « @

Governor Points To Higher Costs   Institutions Will Need More Money

COUNTY TAX SALE TOTALS $5,337.50   Sixty-three Properties Were Sold for Taxes Yesterday et  RESALES ARE AVOIDED

COUNTY TAX SALE TOTALS $5,337.50   TOTALS $5,337.50  Sixty-three Properties Were for Taxes  Yesterday &  RESALES ARE AVOIDED

Death Of Mrs.  James Mosier   WELL KNOWN RESIDENT HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR MANY MONTHS

DELAYS FIELD WORK      “Week of Heavy Rains Blocks Work on Farms” ©

BRIGKER SPEAKER AT McKINLEY CEREMONY   Governor’ Against Aloofness in World Affairs

BRICKER PRAISED BY SEN. TAFT   Ohio Governor Takes Stand Against Isolation at McKinley Celebration

TANK GARS EXPLODE AFTER BEING UPSET   Parked Car Hit and Flames Engulf Train Facilities

ASHLAND FIRE MENACES CITY   Rubber Plant, Railroad Station Burn After Tank Cars Leave Rails

Ashland Fire Threatens Entire Residential Area   Tank Cars Leave Rails Explode, Hit Parked Car

RUBBER COMPANY PLANT AND - RAILROAD FREIGHT DEFOT DESTROYED AT ASHLAND

GAS TRAIN FIRE - MENACES TOWN   Rubber Company at Ashlarc Razed: Fluid in Sewers Is Peril

LITTLE ACTION IN MAKNASSY, GAFSA AREAS   British Infantrymen Im. prove Positions   SIX PLANES   Lost By Allies In Bombing Of Axis Holdings; Weather Uncertain

FAIL 10 SPECIFY PLACE OF NEW BRITISH GAINS   Action Light in Maknassy, Gafsa Sectors on Central Front

Score Gains In Rear of Axis: West of Gabes   Rommel Hurls Waves of Infantry and Tanks Against British In Mareth Line; Americans Continue Drives ~  From El Guetar and Maknassy.

Jap Force Cut To One-Fourth In Jungle War   Yanks and Aussies Press Mop-up Patrols To Pave Way for Big Offense - - - Reports of Failure of Crews To Unload Ships Bring Promise of Congressional Investigation

Allies Smash Last Organized Jap Resistance In Papuan   Once Powerful Force of 15,000 Cut Down To 4,000; Sanananda Point Wiped Out

SMASH LAST JAP HOLD IN PAPUAN AREA   Allied Patrols Combing New Guinea Jungle, Mopping Up Remnants of Jap Invaders

Nip Force on Papua Ruined   Crumpling Force of Japs Dwindles to Four Thousand

Smash Last Jap Hold on Papuan Coast   Enemy Overcome On Sanan:« la Point in New Guinea

Jap Hold on  Guadalcanal ‘Is Slipping   Original Forces Cut Down from 15,000 to Less Than 4,000; Allies ,Overwhelm Japs on Sanananda Point

LAST JAP POSTS ARE WIPED OUT   Allies Mop Up Guinea ®* As Nip Grasp on  Solomons Slips

GUADALCANAL IS NEARLY CLEARED   Remaining Enemy Force in Island Now Estimated About 4,( 4,000.  JAPS PUSHED OUT OF PAPUA

Japs at Papuan Point Smashed With Many Dead   Marine Estimates Foe on Guadalcanal Can Be Wiped Out  ENEMY IS BLOCKED  Bombers Strike Heavy New Blows on Enemy Shipping

Japs at Papuan Point Smashed With Many Dead   Ty AWA ah enetieeed * f af we See SS  Marine Estimates Foe on Guadalcanal Can Be Wiped Out  ENEMY IS BLOCKED  Bombers Strike Heavy New Blows on Enemy Shipping

JAPAN'S HOLD UPON  GUADALCANAL SEEN  AS PRACTICALLY GON LAST ORGANIZED RESIST ANCE ON PAPUAN PENWor A GMTACUES

GUADALCANAL NEARLY FREED OF JAPANESE   Barely 4,000 of Original 15,000 o! Foe Left—Wavell Blasis Japs in Burma

Japan's Grasp On Guadalcanal Seen Slipping   Last Resistance In New Guinea Said Smashed

Japan Losing Her Hold On Guadalcanal   Original Forces Of 15,000 Now Said To Be 4,000   Allied Successes In New Guinea Continue   Americans Kill 32 of 33 Trying To Elude Pocket

Fierce Fight on Guadalcanal. NearingEnd ©  ee Annan    Less Than 4000  Jap Forces Said. Still on Island

Number Whittled From 15,000 to 4000 by Yankees   Complete Victory On Papuan Peninsulc Is Nearer Today

Says Taxes No Basis for Wage Boosts   Treasury General Counsel Defends  Source Collection

Germans May Abandon Der Fuehrer’   Possibility Seen if Reverses in Russia Continue

Steel Walkout Cuts Short FEF. R.’s Holiday   Metal Output Crippled By Strike a 135,000 Workers Refuse to Labor Without Wage Contract

WLB WILL AbI DN OTEEL WAbt CASE TNIGHI   Special Session Called As 134.000 Workers Quit Mills Of The Nation

YULE WEEKEND  5 GUT SHORT   FDR Returns to White House To Try to Iron Out Labor Disnutes.

F.D.R. Cuts Short Vacation To Try To Settle Steel, Rail Disputes   Awaits Reply From Railway Unions To Offer To Arbitrate Dispute; Steel Strike Spreads Despite His Appeal.

ARE ON. STRIKE IN BIG FACTORIES   U.S. Production Gravely Threatened—Conferences Now tn Progress.

President Is Back to Arduous Job  Canal Ctrike Leads   Steel Strike Leads Hast of Heavy Current Problems

Rail Walkout Is Slated Thursday   President Cuts Short Holiday as U.S. Faces Worst Labor Crisis

113,000 DLE. DESPITE PLEA AF ROOSEVELT   President Faces New Peril to Industry on Top of Rail Threat.

FDR Seeks Settlement Of Rail, Steel Strikes On Return To Capital

PRES. ROOSEVELT MAKES APPEAL T0 STEEL WORKERS   The Stoppage of Steel Industry: Is-Caused By the Lapse of Contracts, Workers Asking In.  Smpaganag      Soca  CRITICAL

Nationwide Strikes Facing Railroads  And Steel Plants   President Roosevelt Cuts Short Christmas Weekend at Hyde Park to Try and Iron Out Controversies Over Salaries   CONFERENCES WITH UNION LEADERS PLANNED

122,000 IN SIX STATES REFUSE WORK REQUEST   Roosevelt Cuts Short Holiday To Give Attention To Labor Crisis

Steel And Rail Strikes Face FDR On Return  President Requested Steel Workers Stay At Jobs Until Some  Awumawmnne Danvrkad

CHIEF EXECUTIVE RENEWS EFFORTS TO AVERT STRIKES   CUTS SHORT HOLIDAY VACATION TO IRON OUT LABOR DISPUTES

Rail. Steel Strikes Face Nation’s Chief   President Cuts Vacation Short To Try To Head OM Paralysis

ROCSEVELT CUTS HOLIDAYS SHORT   Returns to Washingten to Face Problems Attending Labor  . Crisis

F.R. Seeks to End Steel and Rail Disputes   Cut Short Christmas Vacation to Iron  Out New Difficulties

122,000 Workers in Steel Mills Refuse To Return To Jobs Without Contract

FDR Seeks To Iron Out Steel And Rail Dispute:   Hopes To Avert Strikes In Nation’s Two Key War Industries

Wave Disputes. May Halt Work  In 2 Industries   President Returns to Desk to Grapple With Steel and Rail Problems.   Thousands of Steel Workers Quit Mills

President Is Back to Arduous Job   Steel Strike Leads Host of Heavy Current Problems

RAILS AND  BUSY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Shortens Holiday To Press Labor Peace

PRESIDENT BACK TO WHITE HOUSE   Christmas Visit € Cut Short in Order to:Tackle Big Home Front Problems.

President Cuts  Vacation Short  Renews His Efforts Te End Labor Disputes

FDR Returns To Capital   To Try to lron Out Steel and Rail Strike Threats   Order Manufacture Of Low Priced Children’s Garments

STEEL WORKERS LEAVING MILLS OVER COUNTRY.      Roosevelt Cuts Short His Christmas Holidays In Ef-. - fort. to Find Solution to  Labor Disputes   APPEAL TO STEEL MEN GOES UNHEEDED.   Meanwhile, He Awaits Reply From Railroad Broth- erhoods to Offer to Ar bitrate Demands

STEEL PLANT WORKERS ON STRIKE   Labor Situation Is Worst Since Pearl Harbor

3, FACING fo GRAVES! LABOR CRISIS   Roosevelt. Cuts Short Hyde Park Christmas Holiday To Deal With Strike; Also Rail Strike Possibility   [ae INTERVENED IN STEEL CONTROVERSY

FDR RETURNS TO CAPITAL AS STEEL STAIE WIDENS AND RAIL WALKOUT NEAR

VITAL WORK PARALYZED IN SIX STATES   122,000 Workers Refuse to Return to Jobs Without New Wage Agreement.   BULLETIN

FDR Cuts Vacation in Effort to End Dire Labor Crises   Paralysis of Two Key War Industries by Strikes Impends

FR Confers With Byrnes On Ways of Agreement   134,000 Workers Out In Vital War Industry; New Effort To Be Made

PRESIDENT CUTS SHORT HOLIDAY AT HYDE PARK   Returns. To Capital ' To Face: Labor Problems

SOVIETS TAKE MORE GROUND FROM GERMANS   Nazis Take Another Beating From  Allies In Air

Japanese Defeats Admitted   Russians Take Kursk, Close in on Rostov—Allied  Attacks in Africa

Jap Headquarters Ad mit Troops H Have Quit Guadalcanal, Also Buna Area In New Guinea: Axis Given Severe Jolt On Other Fronts

SENATE DECLINES TO VOTE BAN ON PUBLIGITY UNIT   Refuses To Go Along Witt The House in Abolishing State Commission   SEES ‘PERSONALITIES’ IN SUBMITTING BILL   Postpones Further Consideration of Neely’s Appointments Until March 12; House Passes Local Bills, Halts Until Monday

SENATE BALKS ON HOUSE BILL   Move To Abolish State Publicity Bureau Fails 10-13 °

HARD WEST OF CAPTURED CITY   Kharkov Falls To Russians In Battle Tuesday

ther Russian Troops Advancing Along a Wide Front on East Side of Donets Basin and West of Restov      By EDDY GILMORE.

SOVIET ARMIES SWEEP WESTWARD   Germans Reported Falting Back Despite Desperate Resistance   REDS REJOICE   Early Communique - Re ports Street Fighting In Big City

NAZIS PULLING AWAY FROM GLD LINES   Fall of Kharkov Brought Rejoicing Throughout Russia

Germans Pulling Away From Lines Held Since 1941: Axis Admit Loss

SMASH NAZIS BACK ON WIDE DONETS FRONT   After Capture of Kharkov, Russians Push West From Industrial Center.   Germans Pull Away From Lines in Russia

Red Attack Surprised Nazi Force   Russians Crack Three Lines of German Defenses in Capture of Kharkov; Nazis Expected Attack from East

KHARKOV WON WITH STRATEGY   Reds Surprise Nazis With Trap Similar to That Of Stalingrad

Increase Threat to Dnieperope _frovsk-Poltava Districis, May Reach Dnieper First   TAKE CITY IN RUSE   Offensive in Donets Basin Contin: ues, Threatens io Trap Nazi Hordes :

Reds Pursue Enemy Beyond Fallen Cities   Possible Defense Line on Dnieper Is Now Menaced

REDS IN CITY FIRST TIME IN 16 MONTHS   Almost All Of Caucasus Now In Soviet Hands   NAZI LOSSES   Estimated Over 175,000: Enemy Hold On _ Orel Appears Doomed

RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING ON A WIDE FRONT   Announcement of Fall of Kharkov Brings Rejoicing Throughout Sov‘et Union   RACE FOR THE DNIEPER

AUGUIANG PUSH AXIS WESTWARD   Reds Deliver Powerful Blows Against Desperate Nazi Resistance.   KHARKOV FALLS QUICKLY

Reds Plunge On Through Nazi Lines   Germans Retire From Long-Held  Strone Points   Continue On Westward After Taking Kharkov   Other Soviet Troops Report Gains Along Donets Basin Front

RED ARMY DELIVERS SEVERE BLOWS UPON RESISTING GERMANS   KHARKOV CAPTORS CONTINUE TO PUSH INVADERS WESTWARD

Russians May Win Race fo Dnieper Defense line   -Fierce Assault Takes Important City in Ukraine

RUSSIANS DRIVE PAST KHARKOV TO SLASH NAZIS   Other Soviet Troops Move West of Rostov to Follow Up Gains

May Beat ‘Nazis to New Line   One; Russian Column. Onl) 60 Miles From Dnieper ‘os River Valley   GERMAN DEFENSES ~ \ ARE’ CRUMBLING   Still. Greater Threats to “Germans © Arise. Following Red Triumph at Kharkov

SOVIET FORCES TAKE KHARKOV AS NAZIS. FLEE   Germans In Retreat All Along Vast Front, With Reds Hammering Hard In Westward Push   SWIFT ADVANCE OF REDS CONTINUING   London Believes Russian Armies May Arrive At Dneiper Line Before Nazis Get There

Big Offensive Of  ‘Russians Sweeps West From Rostov   Nation Rejoices Over  Recapture Of Kharkov

Soviet Forces Take Big City After Battle   Other Russian Troops Smashing Along Wide Front On Eastern Side of Donets Basin

Russians Push On To New Gains   KHARKOR — BACK INTO HANDS OF SOVIET FORCES

RUSSIANS TAKE KHARKCY, PUSH ON WESTWARD      Other Red Troops Drive Along Wide Front on East Side of Donets Basin   NAZ] RESISTANCE STIFF

STRONG JABS      London Observors Believe Stage Set for Destruction of Enemy Below Kharkov and Say Orel Is Doomed.

Russ Rejoice At Capture Of Kharkov   Red Army Continues To Push Westward; Peonle Elated

KHARKOV’S FALL MUCH SPEEDIER THAN EXPECTED   Germans Pulling Away From LongHeld Lines; Germans Apparently Not Ready To Admit Recapture Of City By Soviets.

Japs Take High Losses Near Akyab   Second Setback In Pacific Area  During This Week

Bridges Key To Battle Of Kiev    Russian Engineers . Outwit Nazi Defenders By Building Pontoon Bridges North of City

Writer Pictures Red Army’s Drive Across Dnieper River To Wrest Kiev From Nazis

4 DIE AS AUTO WRECKS TRAIN   Ohio Crossing Crash Fata To Engineer; 3 Women War Workers

Four Killed as Passenger Train. Hits Automobile Locomotive and Seven Cars Derailed, 500  BDewamcn Raaalke

Train Is Wrecked After Hitting Car   Four Are Killed Ia Ohto Accident

FOUR KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO   Hundreds Narrowly Es. cape Pennsy Liner Crash in Ohio

Early Nazi Fall Is Predicted   Well-Intormed London Sources Expect Political Blockbusters For The Axis

TRUCE LIKELY IN TRADE ACI   GOP May Agree To 2-Year Limit For FDR’s Power

TRADE PACTS ~ FIGHT ENDEL   REPUBLICAN LEADERS ABANDON OPPOSITION AFTER PERIOD {8 CUT BY ONE

MADAME CHIANG NEW YORK GUEST   China's First. Lady Sched. uled To Spend Four Day: In Big Town

Mime. Kai-Shek Near Collapse   Nearly Faints During New York Reception

Mme. Chiang Near Collapse On N.Y. Visit   Mayor LaGuardia Lauds Gameness of Woman Addressing 10,000

Bizarre Story Follows Arrest  Tree Surgeon Divorces Wife, Weds Widow

Sees Outbreaks of Grasshopper  Asks Appropriation For Pest Control

NAZI FORCE OF 332,000 MEN _ NEAR STALINGRAD IS WIPED  ~ QUT——MUCH BOOTY TAKEN

HELD MARSHAL VON PAULUS IS RUSS PRISONER   Red high command announces details of Hitler’s greatest defeat

FIELD MARSHAL INGROUP TAKEN AT STALINGRAD   Last Remnants Of Army Of 330,000 Troops Being Liquidated By Soviets   CAUCASUS PUSH GROWS   Russians Close Trap On 300,000 Germans Pocketed Below Rostov

Greatest Loss of War For Hitler’s Army   Sixteen German Generals Are Captured

Russians Win Back Towns   Offensive Moves West Despite Bad Weather

Russians Win Back 43 Towns   ‘Push Forward in Drive for Dnieper River in White Russia

40 MORE TOWNS SEIZED BY REDS IN WHITE RUSSIA   Stalin’s Troops Score Advances Northwest of Gomel and Near Propoisk to Norti.   CAPTURE STRONGHOLDS WITHIN DNIEPER BEND   German Counter-Attacks Against Cherkasy Bridgehead Are Said to Have Failed.

Soviets Advance In White Russia  Also Press Drive In Dnieper Bend

WAUPUN PRISON BREAK BALKED   Guards Shoot 3 Convicts Off Wall: One Dead, Two Wounded

Guards Shoot Trio  Fleeing Prison   Fourth Is Captured In Wisconsin Break

Key Railroad Line Regained By Red Army   Nazis’ Communications Between Kiev And Bryansk Periled By Russian Capture of Town of Olenino

Strategic Nail Point Taken; Nazis Routed   Special Communique Tells of Capture of Town West of Bzhey

Soviets Regain Control ms Vital Railway   Two Nazi Garrisons Below Ilmen Routed: Many Towns Seized in Smolensk Drive

REDS WIN RAILWAY IN THRUST TOWARD LATVIAN FRONTIER   Take 270-Mile Line Between Moscow and Velikie Luki —Score New Gains in Ukraine.   2 GARRISONS ROUTED  BELOW LAKE ILMEN   Two Thousand Germans Killed in Day’s Fighting— Strategic Smolensk Threatened.

Drive In North: Routs Germans And’ Many Slain   Troops In South Also Threatening Nazi Rail Artery

Red Army Again In Control of Key Rail Line   Moscow Reports Progres: in Drive to Latvian Border   Germans Abandor _ Wounded and Guns in ; Hasty Retreat

RED FORCES SEIZE RAILROAD SYSTEM; © MANY NAZIS SLAIN   Two More Garrisons Below Lake limen Routed—Drive Toward the Latvian Border by Soviet Armies Accelerated

Soviet troops free railway line in push on Latvian frontier   Nazis beat retreat for Smolensk; reds’ threat in south intensified

Drive In North . Routs. Germans And’ Many Slain   Troops In South : Also Threatening ~ Nazi-Rail Artery -

Soviets Drive On Latvian Frontier   Threaten fo Cut Main Nazi Artery Linking Bryansk-Kiev

VITAL GERMA RAILWAY LINK HELD BY REDS   NAZIS FALL BACK HASTILY TOWARD SMOLENSK

LATVIA DRIVE S CONTINUED BY RED ARMY   Two More German Garrisons Routed On Frontier Of Lake Ilmen.

Reds Advance ~ Beyond Rzhev   Russians Regain Control Of Vital Railway In Drive Toward Latvian Border; Rout Two German Garrisons

RUSSIANS GAIN POSSESSION OF RAILROAD LINE   Two More German Garrisons Are Reported Routed  In Lake Ilmen Sector   OLENINO RETAKEN BY SOVIET TROOPS

Nazis Forced To Abandon Foggia  Airfield Area   British Drive To Within Artillery Range Of Fields

Allies Peril  Nazi’s Flank ‘Near Naples   5th Army Picks Up 11 Miles In Fierce Hill Fighting; 8th Army Pushes 12 Miles Toward  Waogwia   Rye RICHARD T) MewMil TAN

GERMANS FLEE AFTER DEFEAT IN BIG BATTLE   British Eighth Army Scores Impressive Gains In East, Moving Upon Foggia

Yankees Purse Germans in Naples Struggle  Corsica Victory   Corsica Victory Looms With Nazis Retreating

Pursue Germans After Taking Hills In Fierce Battle; Foggia Menaced

5th Army Driving Forward   Despite Heavy Nazi Artillery Fire Fifth Presses Onward In  “Many Columns.”

5th Army Fighting In Hills   American - British Armies Break Opposition, But Bloody Struggles

ALLIES CRACK NAZL LINES ON NAPLES FRONT   Move to Flank Doomed City

FIFTH INCHING FORWARD FOR FINAL SMASH   Americans Take Cassano, 50 Miles East; British Take 2 Towns.   HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING

Allies Gain Up To 11 Miles  InItalian Area   Foggia Airfield . ‘Cluster Abandoned AS Nazis Retreat

U.S. Fifth Army Surges Forward Up to 1] Miles”   Determined Resistance, of Germans Broken

FIFTH ARMY NOW 11 MILES FROM NAPLES   Nazis Positions North of Salerno Are Crumbling

Yanks Pursue  Withdrawing Nazi Forces   Allied Forces Crack German Opposition In Bitter Fight

Glark’c Fifth  eS Cae ee a ey     Army Advances Pleven Miles.  W/VWSE LTR

Fifth Army Moves Up Il Miles   Fighting Is Some Of Fiercest in Mediterranean

Naa RESISTANCE BROKEN; “FIGHTING FIERCEST OF WAR   Eighth Army Is Moving Up East Coast—Marching . Against Key Hub Of Foggia

FIERCEST OF DRIVE   Four Important Towns Captured; Foggia } Under Threat

EighthArmy Driving On Foggia Base   Allied Units Break Enemy Resistance Before Key. Cities

DE MARIGNY’S PRINT   Detective Testifies Fingerprint In Oakes Room That Of Accused

‘WARRIOR’ MODEL RELEASED BY FB   Promises to Comply With Draft Law Following Arrest As Evader.

BvVVVVIVV TeV IV TTT VV ee  These Gremlins Set Abandoned Plane Down Almost Intact

British in Burma Retiring Up Mayu Peninsula  Jap Infiltrations, Monsoon Threaten Present Pasitions

BRITISH INDIAN ARMY RETREATS   Infiltration Of Japanese And Coming Monsoons Force Withdrawal

MAIN JAPANESE AIR BASE IN THE SOLOMONS BLASTED   ‘More .Than 130 Bombers Pound Kahili Sunday and Monday

Raids Called Turning Point   Wilson Man Among Texans On “Party'*

Tax Rate May Be Cut! To Offset Increase In County's Valuation   Supervisors Will Take Up Question At Meeting Next Week; Equalization Raised By State Tax Commission

MAY RESULT IN TAX RATE CUT   Will Be Considered When Supervisors Meet Next Tuesday

LEADERS DEBATE POST-WAR PLANS   F. D. R., Churchill Looking “Well Ahead” of Fast Moving Armies

POSTWAR AIMS BEING MAPPED IT IS BELIEVED   ‘Churchill’s Address Give:  Rise to Speculation He and Roosevelt Weighing Future   TALK CONCLUSIVE   Strengthened by Remark Final Victory Will Open New and Happier Field  of Valiant Endeavor

A CONFERENCE ON POST-WAR PLANS IS THOUGHT UNDERWAY   Prime Minister Churchill's Speech Yesterday Gave Rise to This Belief.   THE FIFTH DAY SESSION   Believed the Two United Nations Leaders Also Talked of an Invasion.

Hint Allied Chiefs Talk  on Post-War   Churchill Says Strategy Laid Out ‘Well in Advance’ of Army Advances

ARE RESUMED IN CAPITAL TODAY   War News Holds Top Spot In Washineton   ‘FIGHT OVER TAX   Next Move In Coal Dispute Seen Up To ° Lewis

POST-VICTORY TALKS HINTED BY CHURCHILI   British Premier Asserts He And Roosevelt Plan Well Ahead Of The Armies

Post-War World Plaris Being Laid   Churchill, FDR Continue Parley

ALLIED HEADS STUDY POST-WAR STRATEGY   Senate Passes Modified Ruml Tax Plan

War News Holds Top Spot On Capital Scene  House Deadlock Seen   House Deadlock Seen After Senate Approves Rum! Plan; Orders  Cate Canl Raraainina

FDR, CHURCHILL RESUME TALKS ON WAR“EFFORT  Allied Leaders is ‘Well  Ar ,

POST WAR AIMS - HINT IN TALK ‘ BY CHURCHILL   ‘Final Victory Will Only Open a New and Happier Field of Valiant Endeavor,’ He’Says

United Nations Plan ‘Well Ahead of Army,’  Churchill Declare:         Roosevelt and Prime Minister Turn Sights on Postwar Program; Hint of Early Invasion Given ; -

Premier’s Radio Talk Says Leaders  “Well Ahead” of   Aemy Advances

ALLIED STRATEGY HOLDS SPOTLIGHT   Roosevelt And Churchill Resume War Conferences In Washington

DAYS AFTER WAR BEING DISCUSSED   Churchill Gives Indications On Matters Considered In Conferences.

POST-WAR PLANS LIKELY TOPIC OF  OFFICIALS’ MEETS   Churchill's Talk Indicates After. Wale Program is Under Dis cussion in Washington

LEADERS PLOT POSTWAR ERA   ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL PARLEY IN FIFTH DAY

Kaiser May Build Cheaper Automobile   Private Industry Told of Program

04 1OWnS Under Water, 50,000  Families Homeless  Kassel, Aircraft,  U-Boat Factory Center,  Caught in Catastrophe MORE AIR ATTACKS  a bit ft re e

RAF Caused High Damage   Pictures Show Cities Inundated By Floods

ivew “Aerial rnotographs Prove Great Damage After Dams Wrecked  SURPASSES HOPES OF RAF LEADERS  Industrial, Rail City Of Kassel Revealed Partly Under Water

AIR PICTURE REVEAL RUHR UNDER FLOOD   HAVOC IS CREATED IN HITLER'S WAR INDUSTRIES

GREAT DAMAGE FOLLOWS WAKE - OF RUINED DAMS   Berlin Admits Civilian Population Has Suffered Con siderably By Floods   WATER IS RUSHING DOWN RUHR VALLEY

Floods Play Havoc With Nazi Plants   Waters From Two Dams Blasted by RAF Spreading

‘Torrent Plays Havoe In Ruhr  Damages Great   Water freed by R.A. “F, blasting of .two Reich dams is rushing “deln salleva: .

GERMAN FLOO DAMAGE GROWS   Waters Surge Through Heart of Nazi War Industry

FLOOD WATERS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN RUHR VALLE}   Torrents Released by Mined Dams Cripple War Plants and Threaten to Wipe Out Others.   WIDESPREAD DAMAGE SHOWN BY PICTURES   Troops Assigned to Rescue Work—54 Towns Reported Under Water With Thousands Homeless.

Bomb-Freed Floods Unchecked   Destructive Waters Surging Dowr Ruhr Valley Creating Havoc In Heart of Axis War Industry

»Aerial Photos Disclose Great "Havoc After Raid   Devastation Exceeds Allied Expectations; Report Riots Occur

Aerial Photos Reveal Great Luss to Nazis   Allied Fliers Carry Bombardment Into Seventh Day; Parts of Kassel Under Water

Floods Raging Unchecked Down The Ruhr Valley   Great Destruction Caused by Bombing of Big German Dam

Ruby Valley Flood Causes “Great Havoc at Nazi War Plants, Photographs Shoy

Create havoc in heart of Hitler’s war industries; — continue air bombardment   Latest pictures show devastation wrousht following blasting of dams

FLOGDS RUIN WAR PLANTS IN GERMANY   Proken Moline And _ Eder Dams Send Waters Sus. ging Through Ruhr And Weser Valleys   RAF Blasting Success

Reds Close In on Don River Loop   Germans Frankly Admit Reverses In South Russia

German Forces On Don River Front Walled Up and Battling Desperately.

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON THREE MAIN POINTS OF NAZI HELD TERRITORY   German High Command Says That Soviet Troops Have Started To Break Through On Entire Southern Battlefront.

TRAPPED WALT EEK TO ESCAPE   Red Offensive West Of Don Loop Swallows Desperate Enemy Forces

Mussolini Reported Back In Italy in Charge of Hybrid Fascist Republic

‘GERMAN MARSHAL SHIFTED   “Difficult Relations” With Kesselring Causes Move

Allied Bombers Attack Five  Japanese Bases   Fighters Strafe Village on Trangan Island; Airdrome  At Wewak Is Raided

Allied Bombers Set Fires At Jap Bases; New Pacific Drives By U.S. Indicated

SOVIET LITTLE INTERESTED IN POST-WAR TALK   ‘Thinks Allies Need Victories Be fore Planning For After War

REDS COOL TO POST-WAR TALK   —lY— Silent on U. §.-Brilish Suggestions for Peace Organizing Now.

Visit Carroil Friends  Cant. and Mrs. al Catlin Today on Way. to Utah

_———— DD  Capt. and Mrs. Catlin Visit Carroll Friends Today on Way to Utah

ABSENTEEISM LAW OPPOSITION IS FELT   Union Official Protests ag House Hears Word Used as Phrase:

OPPOSITION TO ‘BILL TO CURB ABSENTEEISM   Labor Leader Says Measure Would Turn Country Into  “Penal Institution”   HOOVER CRITICIZED BEFORE COMMITTEE

PROTEST WORK OR FIGHT LAW   Union Spokesman Says Plan Would Be Step  To Penalization

Unions Frotest Bill on Banning Of Absenteeism   Too Much Power Given Employers Is Charge;  De ere dA atat.*

VIEWS VARIED ON - WORKER ABSENCES   Some Opposition Develops ' to Laws Against Absentees

FOOD MEETING IS ORGANIZED   Committees Formed To Study Problems Of Feeding World

FOOD MEETING GETS UNDER WAl   Creation of Continuing Commission to Carry Out Recommendations Urged by American Delegates

SPEECH ATTRIBUTEL TO MUSSOLINI ~ ASSAILS EMANUELE   In Address Broadcast by DNB, Nazi Agency, I! Duce Accuses King of Treason, Plottinge surrender

FALLEN CHIEF GIVES TALK ON GERMAN RADIO   FourPoint Program Voiced By Mussolini, Nazis Claim   LASHES KING   Says Armistice Terms O! Allies Most Severe In Wold

Mussolini Broadcasts Own Version OF Italian Arrest. Nazi Lihberatior

Japs Award Prize to Film of Sneak Attack   Movies of Pearl Harbor Blow Chosen 1942 Best

PRESS CONVENTION ENDS   Rankhead And Graves Featured Speakers Of Editors’ “Warvention”

Demands of Armies Blamed for Action    Beans, Peas, Lentils and Soups: Frozen in Sudden Action by OPA

Dried Beans, Dehydrated Soups ‘Frozen,’ Added To Rationed Food List

CANNED FOOD SALES HALTED AT MIDNIGHT   Preparations Under Way for Second Ration Rook

OPA Bans All Sales Of Dry Beans, Peas Until Rationing Mar.   Americans to Register for War Ration Book 2 This Week While Freeze is On

Bad Living Conditions, Not Axis Agents, Said to Have Caused Race Rioting

Big Bombers Smash al German Areas   Earlier, Mosquitos Struck at Two Vital Factories

Badoglio Yields Unconditionally; Hostilities End —   Eisenhower Reveals Armistice Was Granted Friday; Italians Pledge To Fight Reich Interference

BADOGLIO ORDERS TROOPS TO DROP FIGHT AGAINST ALLIES, BUT TO “OPPOSE ATTACKS FROM ANY OTHER QUARTER;” REDS OKAY PACT

4 Vead, 12 murt When Rail Car  Plows Into Train  Trainmen Believed Burned to Death In Illinois Mishap  FIRE FOLLOWS CRASH

“HURTS SLIGHT   10 Tons Stored in Mine Rock: California City as It _  Exitedes

Warns Public Of Surprise Blackout Soon   Stephens Advised By Stoltz of Enemy Bombing Activity

‘Lasting Peace’ Proposal May  Face Revision   Congress May Accept GOP Demand For

ESERVATIONS N RESOLUTION ON PEACE SEEN   House Republicans Expected to Force Some Changes

Nazi Strength Sapped by Raids   Past Week is “Greatest and Most Successful” of War to Date

Chocolate Candy Is Most Appreciated Gift for Men Overseas, Survey Shows

SOLDIERS UNHURT IN ROAD ACCIDENT   Army Vehicle Overturns But All Occupants Eseane .

HIT GERMAN TARGETS   U, S. Weayy Bombers Follow in Wake of Night Raid

US. HEAVY BOMBERS RAID REICH ANEW ON HEELS OF NIGHT ASSAULT BY R.ALF.

U.S. Heavy  Bombers In ' Action Again   Berlin Radio Hints That Wilhelmshaven or Emden Are Targets

U).5. BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Fighter Planes Accompany Group In Attack On Unknown Targets

John L. Lewis to Appear Before WLB as Tha ‘Tribunal-Fortified With New Financial Club-Steps Into Anthracite Wace Dispute

FIRES RAGE IN BERLIN DAYS AFTER RAF RAID   Story in Letter Taken from German in Russia

Evidence of It Found In Letters Taken From German Soldiers In Russia      One Letter Quoted As Stating “One Feels Helpless Against Awful Inevit-  ability Tragic End” 

AFRICA LODiIO Aa MIGHTY AIR Bat   Forts and Liberator; Roar Out From Africa to Attack Munich, Vienna.

New York Stocks   Withholding Plan Provides Exemptions For Taxpayers

To Propose Subsidy  Compromise   Plan to Limit Government Food Subsidy Outlays and Keep Little Steel Formula

Proposes Subsidy Compromise   Would Tie Up Limited Subsidy Payments to Retention of Little Steel Wage Formula

ELLENDER HAS COMPROMISE SUBSIDY PLAN   Would Limit Government Outlays to $1,250,000,000 Year, Tie to Continuing Litile Steel “

Rommel Masses Forces Back Of Mareth Line   British Suffer Slight Loss as U. §. Troops Near Faid Pass Area

YANKS RETAKE TOWN IN DRIVE FOR FAID PASS   Allies Gain as Rommel Masses Armor on  Mareth Line

Axis yielding  costly gairis   British wheel: up  for Mareth siege

COSTLY GAINS ABANDONED BY GEN. ROMMEL   BRITISH 8TH ARMY WHEELS UP FOR SHOWDOWN

AMERICAN PATROLS. ADVANCE IN AFRICA   Sidi Bouzid Recaptured ‘According to Late  Cammunitaue

Rommel Loses Costly Gains; Masses Armor   British Pushed Back 4 Miles West of Bizerte French Contact Enemy

British Eighth Army Wheels Up For Decisive Assault  On Mareth Line

Americans Push On In Tunisia.  ~ Rommel Massing . . “Armor At Mareth -

Yanks Retake Sidi Bouzid ”   Rommel Masses His Armor in Mareth Line as British Plan Drive

Germans Paying Terrific Price, Statement Says   Push British Back for Small Acvance in Norther) Area  Allies’ Air Forces Taking Prominent Part in Offensive

U.S. African Patrols Push Ahead   Rommel Surrenders Virtually All In Central Sector

AMERICAN UNITS TAKE SIDI BOUZID   Reach Point Three Miles » West of Faid Pass   ROMMEL GIVES UP   Virtually All Gains in Central Tunisia; British 8th Army Poised to Strike

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Rickenbacker Says Nazis Not Ready To Fall   Germany Won't Quit Before Next Year Famous Flier Asserts

SAYS NAZIS MAY LAST UNTIL 1944   Rickenbacker Says Only Miracle Can Bring Allied Victory Sooner.

Nazis Will Not Crack Before 1944, Says ‘Rick’ On Return From Tour

War Could End Earlier By ‘Miracle’   Noted Flyer Bases Predic tion on Present Rate of War Progress

De Gaulle And Giraud Bury Hatche'   French Leaders To Hold Meeting On Aiding Allies

Gen. DeGaulle And Giraud To Work Together   Agreement Brings Army of Nearly 400,000 Men into Allied Camp

HEAL BREACH TWIXT GIRAUD & DEGAULLE   Fighting French Leader Will Shortly Leave London For South Africa To Meet Gi Be   Army Of 4000,000 French

Freneh Union In Algeria  Is Imminent   Breach Between Giraud. deGanll¢ Appears Te Bée Closed

DE GAULLE IS EXPECTED TO MEET GIRAUD   Breach Between French Officers Appecrs Closed

French Leaders To Confer Soon   DeGaulle to Discuss Unity With Giraud Shortly in Algiers

LEAP 4 CENTS ~TONEW HIGHS      6-Year Peaks Noted In Strong, Active Market

HULL AND EDEN LEAVE MOSCOW   TWO EXPECTED TO CONFER IN CAIRO WITH TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER,

HULL AND EDEN ON WAY HOME   U. S. and British Ministers Leave Moscow as Three Power Parley Ends

Printer Thwarts Counterfeit Plan  Rationing Coupon Conspiracy Charged

GVER POUR LEASED TRUNK Wipite          wee  fe SEN WEWS RIT ETING

This Sets Up a Solid Red Army Wall Now 170 . Miles Wide.  NAZI TROOPS ATTACK RED ARMY POSITIONS  Moscow Admits Retreat Under Hammer-like Biows.

Nazis Use Crack Panzer Troops In Effort To Stop ®ed Drive Toward Poland

GERMANS GAMBLE ALL-OUT ATTEMPT TO STOP RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE DRIVE   Savage Enemy Thrust Is Aimed At Under Side Of Red Army In West ern Ukraine.

Normandie Is  Partly Righted   Salvage Operations Are Suc. ceeding In Capsized Huge French. Liner   MEASURES TO FLOAT LINER WELL ALONG

Neither Republicans Nor Democrais Disposed ta Claim: Credit as Authors; GOP Leaders Says Measure is Democrat’s Compromise After Liberal Republican Plan was Defeated

Neither Party Is Willing to Claim — Sponsorship of Pay-as-Y ou-Go Plan

NEITHER SIDE IN CONGRESS WILLING FATHER TAX BILL  PATMAN SAYS PAY-ASYOU-GO REPUBLICAN BILL: MARTIN DENIES

Hoodlums” and “Pay-Day Drunks” Blamed For Uprising; Three Are Hospitalized

SOLDIER, CIVILIAN FIGHT STARTS RIOT VANCOUVER, WASH.  HOODLUMS AND “PAY-Dé   HOODLUMS AND “PAY-DAY DRUNKS” BLAMED FOR INCITING TROUBLE

POLICE USE TEAR GAS ON RIOTERS AT VANCOUVER   Arrest Ringleaders, Call in Washington State Guard

RIOTOUS NIGHT ON WATERFRONT   Police Blame ‘Hoodiums’ and ‘Pay Day Drunks’ for Trouble at Vancouver

EIGHT JAILED IN VANCOUVER RIOT   Disturbance Started Over Soldier Bounced From Cafe After Fight With Civilian

Blames Hoodlums,  Drunks For Riot   Fighting Breaks Out As Taunts Hurled At Vancouver Police.

VANCOUVER RIOT IS BLAMED ONTO PAY-DAY DRUNKS   Police Resort to Tear Gas to, Disperse Crowds’ of Hoodlums in Washington Shipvard City :

SCATTER HOOOLUMS WN RIOT THREAT   Police Disperse Crowd of 1,000 After Fighting Breaks Out in West Coast City

THREE MEN ARE INJURED, EIGHT LAND IN JAIL   Fight Started When Soldier Went Back To Tackle Cafe Bouncer

oping Rapidly— RusAmerican Naval Vessels  sians Push On '   Slashing at Defenses of Axis Army

19 GERMANS ESCAPE CANADIAN PRISON   Fiee During Blizzard Sunday At Manitoba Mountain Camp

Laval Orders Class of 1942 Mobilized for Work in Geritay Threatens Rigorous: Measures.

Laval Calls Men To Aid Germany 1942 Military Class I Mobilized In France

Laval Calls French Graduates to Work for Germany  Large Class Will Get Assignments in Enemy War Industry

LAVAL TO SEND MORE FRENCH 10 GERMANY   Goebbels Says Britain Will Be Whipped Yet

200,000 Frenchmen Be Drafted For Work   Pierre Laval Calls Up Military Class Of 1942: Germans Boast Of New Weapons.

More French — Must Work In Germany   Laval Orders 1942 Military Class Mobilized ‘for Work’; Need 200,000   SAYS THEY MUST - GO PER AGREEMENT   Order Made is as Result of His ‘Difficult Journey’ to Germany

LAVAL CALLING MORE WORKERS   Nazi Arms Production A New High, Munitions Minister Says

ALLIES STAGE BIGGEST RAID IN MONTHS   MacArthur Flyers in Devastating Attacks on Jap Bases

Terrific Devastation Wrought on Japanese Bases Narth af Anetralia

More Youngsters Reach Service Age   Twelve 18 Year Olds Regis. ter for Selective Service During October.

Seven More Local Boys Reach Age 18   They Have Registered at Office of the Livingston Co. Selective Service Board.

14 Youths Attain Age of Eigteen   That Number Reached That Age During August and Registered.

NO-THIRD-TERM BILL PROPOSED   Democratic Solon W ould Limit Presidents To Two Tenures

Senator Bailey Offers Amendment Limiting Presidents to Two Terms

Would Limit Presidents to Two Terms   SENATOR BAILEY, NORTII CAROLINA DEMOCRAT, MAKES RESULUTION AVERING IT IS NU PULITICAL GESTURE,   No’ Bearing on FDR

Kerr Asked To Support Runoff Bill   Senate Beats Down Efforts Ta Chonge Sinele Primary -

KERR'S PRIMARY PLAN ON ROCKS   Solons Ask His Aid in Move to Restore Runoff to Oklahoma

BACK-T0-WORK MOVE SPEEDED AMONG MINERS   Doal Strikers Spyrred By No-Strike Bill Enactment

COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION IS GIVEN NEW LIFE   The Senate Voted Today to Extend Its Life for Two Years.   LENDING AUTHORITY UP   Increased One Billion Dollars by the Senate Action Today.

Senate Joins House To Put Subsidy Out   Limit Payments, Place Chester C. Davis In Charge Of Program.   BLOW TO ROOSEVELT

GOAL MINERS ARE RESUMING WORK   Over” 200,000 Still Out, Union Officials Believe Work Normal Next Week.

ACTION TAKEN BY SENATE TO HALT SUBSIDY PROGRAM IN SERIES SWIFT DEFEAT FOR ADMINISTRATION  TATTCYHE PATTAUCHK

Both Senate And House Oppose Plan   Administration Forces Beaten; Extend Life of CCC for Two Years

SPEEDY ACTION LOOMS ON SUBSIDIES PROGRAM   Miners’ Back-To-Work Movement Expected To Hit Peak By Monday

Senate Votes To Name Davis Food Czar, Halt Subsidy Program:   Anti Administration Bill Provides Farmer Protection By Continuing Incentive Pav In Current Season

BONUS PLAN T0 CUT FOOD COST BEATEN 39-37   Action Follows Close On Heels of Similar Vote  In House   BILL TO CONFERENCE   Defeat of Roosevelt’s Compromise Proposal Is Foreshadowed

UMW Revolt Nearly Over      Coal Production May Be Almost Normal by Monday

SENATE KILLS SUBSIDIES BILI   Prohibits Payment of U 8. Cash to Roll Back Food Prices

Senate Forbids Subsidies to Cut Food Price  Solons Ballot 39 to 37 Against Funds

Senate Adopts Drastic Legislation to Outlaw Food Subsidy Program

cansfer OF All Other Subsidy Authority To Chester C. Davis Is Included In Bill

Price Rollbacks In Future Erased   »+ + Upper Chamber Favors Davis As Food Czar

Step Aims To Set Up Food Czar   Members Inflict Fresh Defeats On Administration:

MINERS ARE RETURNING TO MINES   Gradually Going Back, But 200,000 Are Still Out

Food Subsidy Plan Outlawed by Senate   Drastic Bill Would Halt Administration’: Price Rollback: and Transfer All Other Subsidy Authority to War Food Chief.   Say Fate ot Strike Bill ‘Rules Out a Fourth Term

Senators Would Halt Program to Cut Food Prices   Passes Legislation Extending Life of CCC and Bans  Subsiches.   Would Put All Food  Function Under Davis

Moves for Food Czar, Voting to Transfer All Other Agriculture! Subsidy Authority io WFA   DEFEAT FOR FDR   Amendments to CCC Loan Bill Would Continue for Season Inceniive Paymenis on Vital Crops

Coal Miners Returning to Work After Enactment of Anti-Strike Law

Senate Votes Subsidy Ban   Administration Forces Defeated, 39-37, in Subsidy Vote

OEMATE VOTES BAN ON SUBSIDY PLAN   39-37 Vote Defeats Admininstration Roll-Back Campaign; Follow House Move

SENATE PASSES DRASTIC ANTISUBSIDY BILL   Solons Approve Legislation To Halt Administration’s Price Reducing Food Sub sidy Program.

Senate Group Beats Subsidy Roliback Bull   tion Prohibits Food Price Payments 

SENATE VOTES BAN ON FOOD SUBSIDIES   Both Houses Now Committe Against Roll-Back Plan.

Votes Halt To Big Food Subsidy Plan   Rebellious Chamber Al.so.Moves To Set Davis  Up As Food Czar.

Senate Seeks _ To Halt Food — Subsidy Plan   Seeks to Give Davis Food Czar Rights Contrary To FR’s Wish

DAVIS FOOD CZAR?   Senate Votes To Halt Subsidy Program, Put Authority in OPA:

CONGRESS SPURNS ADMINISTRATION SUBSIDY PROGRAM   VOTE TO PROHIBIT PAYMENT TO ROLL BACK FOOD PRICES

Senators Reject Subsidy Program   Another Defeat Is Recorded in Congress For Administration on Price Roll-Back Plan

RASTIC BILL PASSED TODAY   Action Gne of Series of Defeats for Administration Forces.   ACT TO STOP ROLL-BACK

Administration Takes Defeat On Subsidies   Senate Votes To Prohibit Payments to Roll Back Prices

Senate Balks At Food-Roll Back On Subsidy Plan   Roosevelt Forces Defeated; Move To Pick Food Czar

Follows Lead of House on Food Program   Would Provide Incentive Payments ang Commit... ments.Already Made   (BUT CALLS. HALT - ON ROLLBACK PLAN   Measure Goes Back to House for Action on the New. Amendments

OUR WAR} LOAN ~ DRE BOOSTED   Moose Lodge Taking $10,900  ‘in Bonds! and City Is . , Near Quota.

DUR WAR LOAN DRIVE BOOSTED   Moose Lodge Taking $10,900 in Bonds and City Is Near Quota.

Set Top Berry Prices   Ceilings for 7 Types of Fresh Berries Established by OPA, Fruit to Follow

Important Base Of Zenkov Is Seized   Nazis Putting Up Desperate Fight As Base At Akhtyrka fs Captured In Russian Drive

More Effort, F.R.Message To Legion   Greatest Danger Is Letdown Now, Says His Written Message

FDR Calls for Increase in  War Effort   Legionnaires Told That Only By Summoning the Full Strength of America Will the War Result in Complete Victory

INCREASED WAR EFFORI NECESSARY   ... FDR Says In Message Read at Convention

U. S. Offensives Just Beginning, Says Marshall   General Speaks To Legionnaires

PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE TO LEGION FOR GREATER EFFORT  meine: untae eee eee   LEGION’S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL PRESENT. ED GEN. MARSHALL

HOOVER APPROVES PACT   Former President Smiles On Moscow Conference

TUNISIAN VICTORY WONT BE EASY, SAYS ARMY CHIEF   Germans, ‘Italians Have Been  Ordered to Fight to the Last Man.

U.S. Seventh amy Has Entere City of Messin      Battle of Sicily — Ends in Smashing. Allied Victory

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘Today.   Yanks Enter Messina.

INJUNCTION SUIT FILED BY FARMERS   Seeking To Prevent Use Of Funds For Paying Salaries

Meat Allotment Here Raised   Food Boss Victim Of Authority Famine

Cattle Ceiling Plan Clarified  Effective Date Is Advanced to Dec.

Later Beef Subsidy Date   Price Control Program Goes Into Effect December ist

CATTLE PLAN SLATED DEL. 1   SUBSIDIES SET UNDER PRICE CONTROL SCHEME

Control Meat Prices Delayed   Will Go Into Effect Dec. 1 Cattle Markets Of Nation Notified

New (atfle Subsidy Plan ls Delayed   Live Subsidy Program Not in Effect Until December 1

‘Mussolini Seeking Counsel Of Pope As Allies Threat Of Invasion Increases

NAZIS WARN ITALIANS OF DOUBLE CROSS   Shaky Duce Turns to Pope Pius; King May Quit

Do Blind Men Ever See? There Were Three Persons On The Campus at The Time Of The Crime — Read This

NEW EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM DRAFTED   Stabilization Plan to Soon be Announced, It Is Stated

ESSENTIAL” MEN MAY CHANGE JOBS   War Manpower Commission Will Permit Shifting For Higher Pay If Transfer Will Aid War Effort.

Job Control System To Be  Nationwide   Workers Everywhere May Change Jobs if War Effart Aided

SHIFTING JOS IS MADE LEGAL   Stabilization Program Allows Transfers In Certain Areas

Forecast Labor Order Chanad   Plan Stabilization Program for Nation

AB-HOUR SWITCH ON JOBS FORECAST   National Stabilization Plan te Be Announced By McNutt

Job Restrictions  Due to Be Eased   WMC Maps Program To Cover Nation

ENTIRE NATION TO BE PUT UNDER MNUTT JOB PLAN   Shifts From One Essential   Employer to Another at Higher Pay Will Be   Made Permissible.   NOW BAN TRANSFERS OUTSIDE 70 AREAS   National Program Wins Approval and Probably Will Become Effective Within 48 Hours.

Japs Frustrated in Attempt to Bring Aid  to Garrisoits; Quezon Foresees Offensive

Block Attempt To Reinforce Jap Garrison   Navy Disperses Barges Headed For Vila; Score Near Misses On Merchant Ship

ANNUAL MEETING OF [OOF SECRETARIES, SCRIBES HELD HERE    VISITORS WELCOMED  TO CORSICANA BY MAYOK JOHN C. CALHOUN

ANNUAL MEETING OF OOF SECRETARIES, SCRIBES HELD HERE  ABTAnRe TIRE CAMrR   VISITORS WELCOMED TO CORSICANA BY MAYOR - JOHN C. CALHOUN

Food Subsidies Plans Drafted  For Congress   WFA Has Three Proposals Under Consideration

Nov. Draft Call Equalized  Fathers To Be Called  On Percentage Basis Amann Varinine Raned:

FOR DRAFTING OF FATHERS  OUTLINE PLAN   Deputy Director Says Nov. Call of Pre-Pearl-Harbor Dads Will Be. on Percentage Basis   FOOD GOALS DISCUSSED

AMNESIA BLAMED FOR WILD TALES   Playboy’s Defense for His Heroic Stories Is Reveal-. ed at Reno Today.

EX-HUSBAND GIVES LANA TURNER SHOCK   Film Star, Unborn Child Are Unharmed

Lana Survives Dash to Bedside Of Ex-Husband   Jilted Stephen Crane lll From Overdose Of Sleeping Pills

RATIONING BOARDS CLARAIFY MATTER OF AUTO TRAVEL .   Distinction Is Set Forth Between Mileage Allowed CAN Ds ed “gr Holders

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN USE GASOLINE FOR A VACATION   Even B and C Sticker Cars Can Be Used For Short  Trips

Use Of A, B And C Ration Cards  For.Gasoline For Vacation Travel   Can Save Supplies For Vacation Trips Tf. desired

Japs Too Baffered To Fight It Out On the Beaches   Americans Go After Gloucester Air Base to Use In Neutralizing Rabaul

TANKS AIDING INVASION CAPE GLOUCESTER —   Positions in Western New  Leathernecks otra New Britain and Broaden Out

Marines Use Tanks at Cape Gloucester   Consolidate Positions and Move Inland from Two Beachheads: US Destroyer, Transvort Sunk by Japs

Target Hill Captured by U.S. Marines   Yankee Invasion of Western New Britain Moves Along Smoothly

Smooth Moving Invasion Goes Inland; Japanese Repulsed at Arawe Base

Marines Score Fresh Triumphs   Establish 2 Beachheads On Cape Gloucester

“New Britain -Invasion in High Gear   U.S. Marines Take Target Hill and Smash at Foe With Tanks

Turn Fire On Jap Airfields   Marines Take Target - Hill on Cape Gloucester, Send Tanks Into Battle for Air Strips

Marines Capture ‘Target Hill’   Tanks Into Battle For Jap Airport

MARINES GAIN AGAINST JAPS   Send Tanks Into Battle For Cape Gloucester  Airfields

YANKS ADVANCE ON NEW BRITAIN   Marines Have Situation Well In Hand After Invasion

MARINES TAKE TARGET HILL \EW BRITAIN   Now Using Tanks to Expand Cape Gloucester Beachheads; Other’ Activties in Pacific.

MARINES. MOVE FORWARD FROM 2 BEACHHEADS   ‘Jap Counter-Attack by Land and Air Against Arawe Sector

Yanks Move Upon Jap Airstrips   U. S. Troops Withstand Jap Land and Air Counterattack at Arawe; Target Hill Cantured: Other Islands Bombed

U.S. Tanks Driv  For Airstrips  (On New Britain Target Hill  Taken By U.S. Marines

(Marines Bring. Tanks Into Battle For Jap Airstrip  In Cape Glaucester Sector

MARINES SEIZE MAJOR OBSTACLE ON NEW BRITAIN   Tanks Move into Battle for Cape Gloucester Air Strips

BEACHHEADS CONSOLIDATED BY AMERICANS   Allied Warplanes Pound Anew at Enemy Installations on Japanese-Held  Territory   A SECOND FOOTHOLD

AMERICAN MARINES CAPTURED TARGET HILL FROM JAPS   SEND TANKS INTO BATTLE FOR CAPE GLOUCESTER AIRSTRIPS

TURN INVASION TOWARD AIRFIELD   Target Hill on Cape Gloucester, Jap Stronghold, Falls to American Forces

Americans Capture Target Hill In Smooth-Moving Invasion Of Western New Britain—Positions Quickly Consolidated On Cape Gloucester—Japanese Try Counter-Attack At Arawe—Allied Planes Pound Anew At Other Enemy Pacific Installations

Tojo Says He'll Do  Annihilating   Japs Answer Allies: Rabaul Becoming Hot for Them

BEACHHE ata   Japs in Complete Rout as Positions Are Consolidated

BEACHHEAD IS ESTABLISHED ON ARAWE   Japs in Complete Rout as Positions Are Consolidated

Cr ew of Sugar Puss Would Brave Death .  Timeand Again for a Dish of Iee-Cr ean

Crew ef Sugar Puss Weuld Brave Death : Time and Again fer a Dish ef Ice Cream

GROSS FAVORS REPEAL LIQUOR LAW IN GEORGIA   Senate President Declares Liquor Interests Have Not Kept Faith with General Assembly

Businessmen Meet With President  Discuss Mobilization And Demobilization

6 NIP SHIPS SENT DOWN IN ACTION   Navy Task F orce Also Bombards Kiska In North Pacific

Shake Up In OPA Urged By Patman   ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS AND CONFISCATORY REGULATIONS DRIVE LEGITIMATE FOOD DEALERS TO THE WALL.   Hearing In Washington

OPA SHAKE-UP DEMAND MADE OVER MARKETS   Solon Says Gangsters Thrive On Meat  Business

OPA Shakeur ls Demanded   Regulations Are Hit In Congress Inquiry

Texan Demands Shakeup In OPA   says Regulations Ruining Many Men

Patman Demands Drastic Shakeup Of OPA Personnel   ‘Arbitrary, Capricious anc Confiscatory’, Senator Says

OPA SHAKEUP   Patman Asserts Regulations Are Driving Food Dealers to the Wall

Veto Gas Cut For Midwest   Ickes Declares Saving Fuel In Central States Would Not Help East.

No Midwest Gas Curbs   Ickes Informs Eastern Committee Restrictions Not to Be Extended

MIDWEST GAS NOT TO BE CUT ICKES ASSERT:   Says Applying East’s Restrictions fo West Would Not Help, Army Comes First

Pleasure Driving Ban  Will Not Be Extended   Ickes Declares There Is No Immediate Plan To Im, pose Present Eastern Gasoline Restrictions On  Middle Western Statac

OPA Red Tape Scored in Blast By House Group   Drastic Shakeup Needed In Personnel, Methods Near Production Areas

Committee Hits At Red Tape And _ Inefficiency In Food Rationing.

Stimson Says 5,000 Taken As Prisoners   Secretary Of War - Describes Tunisian  Operation As “Signa + Success’

Exacting Big Toil of Axis Africa Corps   Stimson Reports Current Operations in Tunisia a ‘Sional Success’

U.S, GLOSES IN ONJAP TROOPS   Enemy ‘Dunkirk’ Looms On Guadalcanal Cape

Jans May Seek To Relieve 3,000 On Guadalcanal   Desperate Attempt To Aid Trapped Japs May Be Developing   AMERICAN FORCE OUTFLANKS JAPS

TURNS DOWN BID FOR RIOT PROBE   Dowling Traces Course o' First Incidents; Says Ne. groes Were Attacked

ATTLEE REVEALS:  Britain Will Bomb Axis Until Victory Is Won, Despite Enemy, Neutral Plans   "Destruction of Hitler War Potential By Air Attack Vital Offensive Feature"

U.S.,RAF Worl avoc Again  On Sicily Bases   Allies Give Island Blazing Air Attacks With Little Loss Despite BRisvter Counteratiacks. Down 43 Planes

Key Airfields Are Smashed In Sicily Raid Yanks, British: Dowr  43 Fighters In Big Assault

43 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down  - Blazing Struggle in Air Continues

KNOCK OUT 43 FOE FIGHTERS FROM SKIES   American And British Wai Planes Smash Key Enemy Airfields In Silcily July Fourth   Five Bases Bombed

Axis Resistance Fierce As Allied Planes Blast Key Airfields in Sicily

Axis Forces Offer Stiff  Resistance   British Commandos Raid Enemy Airfields on Island of Crete

Allied Warplanes Smash Key Enemy Airfields   STIFF COUNTER-BLOW   4 Enemy Fighters Knocked Out of Sky During Fourth Of July Offensive

ALLIED AIRMEN KNOCK OUT 45 AXIS FIGHTERS   Blazing Offensive Sent Against 5 Sicilian Airports On 4th;  13 Planes Lost   Stiff Resistance Met

Allies Down 34 Axis Warplanes   Battle for Aerial Control of Sicily

Allies Blast tnemy Planes   “Opposition Is Strong Over Sicilian Bases

‘Wants Husband Barred From Priving Auto  Caurt GCanntinwc   Court Sanctions Request In Dealing With Property

Wants Husband Barred From  Driving Auto.  Court Sanctions  Reauest In Dealin:

NEFFNER QUSTED, MAY FIGHT ORDER   Wants Time To ‘Think Matter Over’

NAZIS HAVE 50 DIVISIONS IN SOUTH EUROPE   Ten Facing Fifth And Eighth Armies

Georgian Answers Morgenthau Attack  Georne Defende Naw   George Defends Nev Revenue Measure

George Hits Back At Morgenthau   Defends Congress’ Action on laxes

Morgenthau's Criticism of Tax Bill Draws Fire   Sen. George Has No Apology for Failure To Reach Goal

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Says Treasury Head Knows Nothing About Renegotiation Sections—Declares Steps to Protect Revenue Have Not Been Taken—Detends Cuts Made and Freeze of Social Security Levy.

SENATOR ANSWERS MORGENTHAU BLAST   George Issues Scathing Reply to Treasury Seeretary

GEORGE REPLIES TO MORGENTHAU   Answers Criticism of Tax Bill; Says That Morgenthau Knows Nothing About Contract Renegotiation Law

Mean Old Yanks Don’ t Play Fai.  Tactics Claimed . “Klay QE a er res ¢ :

Deadlock in Senate Over  Subsidies   Banking Committee Gets Controversy Tossed in Its Lap

Group Delays — Subsidy Vote   Postponement Came After Subcommittee Reported  Unable To Agree.

Deadlock in Subsidy Truce   Issues Tossed Back Into Lap of Senate Banking Committee

Food Measure Vote Delayed   Senate Committee Deadlocked On Legislation

SEVENTY COUNTY FARMERS IN. GLUE   Five-Acre Contest. This ‘Sea : son Is Far Short in Membership.

JAPS POUND AT ~— U.S. AIRDROME   But Attack In Guinea Does Only Minor Damage

JAPS TRY TO © HALT NEW GUINEA GAINS   Bomb Allied Airdrome, Again !

Japanese Bomb  Allied Airfield   25 Enemy Fighters Take Part In Attack

JAP PLANES ATTAGK WAU AIRFIELD AGAIN   Enemy Hoping To Divert Allied Strength, Is Belief

AIRDROME AT WAU BOMBED BY ° JAPS      Twenty-Five Enemy Planes In Attack — Damage Is Slight

FIRM REJECTS! ORDER OF WLB   Union Maintenance And Due Check-Off Spurned As Illegal

Ralph B. Stephens Adds $25 To Billy RoachMarkerF und   Another. Lumberton Flier Endorses Col. Wishart’s Suggestion.

Ralph B. Stephens Adds $23 To Billy RoachMarkerFund   Se ee. ee ee  Another Loumberton ‘lier Endorses Col. Wishart’s Suggestion.

EOJEN 19 TARGET OF HEAVY RAIDS   Industrial Center Becomes Most-bombed City   YANKS ON RAID   Axis Cities Get May Day Consignment of Destruction From Skies

OR HITS PATTON REPORT   LANGER SAYS STIMSON DECLARATION “EVASIVE”

ASKS DETAILS OF PATTON INCIDENT   ‘Did General Pull Out Revolver?’ Asks Senator Langer.

State ‘Troops Are Sent Out Against Perez   ‘Louisiana Is. Seething  With Turmoil’ Over Dispute Between. Factions

Funeral Rites For Bob Hart    . Large Number Pay Ls oe. ns ee Le oe Wt

RUSS ACTION APPEALS TQ U.S. LABOR   Soviets Concerned Over Strikes in America

Reds Appear Prepared To  Cooperate   Move Is Seen As Incentive For Post-War Harmony.

Better Allied Relations Set ByRuss Act   Historic Decision Is Seen As Desire For Closer Co-Operation

Move Paves Way To Improve Ties With Allies:   Calls on Labor to End Inside Strife And Make Certain End of Hitler; Contains ‘Alibi’ for Italy to Quit

Aloo onELVE COMINTERN TE CRUSH HITLER   Seeking Solid Front Against Fascism, Communists’ Order Disbands.   RESOLUTION CALLS FOR END OF LABOR STRIFE

Russia Removes Threat Of World Communism   Followers Directed to Throw Full Weight Behind Allied War Effort

Hard Likker Drinkers Of Montana To Be Rationed To Just One Pint Each Week

Jap Nironghoid At Lae Falls To Aussie. Yanks Nips Flee To  \iountains   All Purified

Bomb Reich Again   Berlin Still Digging Out Of Smouldering Ruins; Scores Are Dead

FDR Orders  Continual  W ork in U.S.   President Says Every Idle Miner Aids Enemy, Endangers Life of U. S. Fighters; Urges More Work Generally

Court of Appeals Reorganization Passed by Senate   Bitterest Fight of Curren Season Ends; Final Vote 19 to 10

Measure To Reorganize  Court Passed By Senate   Bill to Refer Issue to Voters Carries 19-10, One More Vote thon Three-Fifths Necessary—Bitter Fight Ende

HOUSE COMMITTEE ‘OPPOSED 10 GENERAL ‘DRAFT OF FAMILY MEN   Such Policy ts Termed Ins jurious to Welfare of Nation   ‘KILDAY BILL APPROVED

Oppose Drafting of Family Men   ‘House Committee Puts itself on Record

House Group Takes Stand on Draft   Opposed to Induction Of Family Heads  WASHINGTON Feh 2% {P) —

"AMILY MEN LAST'R   House Military Affairs Committee Goes on Record  With Opinion

House Group For Stopping Father Draft   Military Affairs Committee on Record Against Drafting Family Men

HOUSE MILITARY COMMITTEE OPPOSED DRAFTING FATHERS  RELIEVES SUCH POLICY

FAMILY MANDRAFT OPPOSED   House Group Terms Sac Policy Injurious To ‘Nation's Welfare

House Committee Goes On Rec  General Drafting Of Family Men Opposed

DRAFT BOARDS CAUTIONED BY HOUSE GROUI   ‘Military Affairs Committee Advises It Is Opposed to General Drafting of Family Men

House Military Committee Formally States Opposition To Dratting of Family Men

Term Such A Policy Injurious To Nation’s Welfare; Approve Kilday Bill To Give Family Men Deferment Priorities.

Against Draft Of Family Men   House Committee Tells Local Draft Boards That Congress Opposed.

EXPLAINS POLICY ON DRAFT PLANS   House Committee Opposes General Induction of Family Men

E amily Men ‘Would Be Last To Be Drafted   House Committee Tells Why It Favored Kilday Bill

OPPOSE GENERAL DRAFTING OF THE FAMILY. HEADS   Termed Such a Policy Injurious to the Welfare of the Nation.   IN A FORMAL REPORT   Many Local Board Have Been Inducting Men Regardless of Dependents.

OPPOSE GENERAL DRAFTING OF FAMILY MEN   HOUSE COMMITTEE GIVES REASONS FOR DEFERMENT

FATHER DRATI HIT IN HOUSE   SELECTIVE SERVICE POLICY IS TERMED INJURIOUS

OPPOSED T0 DRAFTING OF FAMILY MEN   Military Affairs Committee of House Reports on Why It Approved Kilday Bill.

GROUP IN HOUSE AGAINST DRART OF FAMILY MEN   Military Affairs Committee Goes on Record, Apparently for Benefit Draft Boards   REASONS ARE‘CITED   Feeling of Draft Board That “Fathers. May .be Drafted: Freeh eld  ~ Injurious to: Nation

OPEN OPPOSITION ~ON DRAFTING OF MEN OF FAMILIES   Military Affairs Committee, On Record, Apparently For Benefit of Local Oraft Boards.   NATION’S WELFARE ENTERS §!NTO ACTION   Report States Many Boards In Confusion Are Orafting Men Without Regard Te Dependents.

Goes On Record  Against Drafting Of Family Men   House Military Committee Tells Local Boards That Congress Opposes Plan

GROUP OFFERS MEASURE 10 DEFER FATHERS   Sees Confusion Among Local Boards Over Dependency

Yanks Extend Air War To Greek Front   50 Liberators Smash Aj Salonika Airdrome As Others Pound Sardinia   125 TONS DROPPED   Planes Shower Posters Carrying Cheering Message To Greek People

Allied Air Arm Reaches Out te Blast Axis-Held Base in Greece; Serdinia And Sicily Also Worked Over Again

ALLIED AIRFORCE PLANES ATTACKING THE FRENCH COAST   Roar Over Channel Head. ing for Area Between Boulogne and Calais; Berlin Broadcast Reports British ‘Nuisance Raids’ Over Reich.

BRITISH DOWN SEVEN PLANES   Allied Plaine Hit France in New Attacks

ALLIED PLANES IN NEW ATTACKS UPON ACCUPIED FRANCE   MANY FIGHTERS INCLUDED IN AIR FLEETS ROARING OVER CHANNEL

Allied Planes Raid France   Day Attacks Follow Night Smash Against Points in Germany

Paralyzing Air Blows Hammering At Enemy   Spearheaded By . Flying Forts & OFU.S.

ALLIED PLANES OVER CHANNEL   Warplanes Roar Toward French Coast; British Bombers Raid Germany A@wain.

Daylight Raids Blanked Channel In Bomb Shower   ‘Nuisance’ Sortie: Over Germany Keep Reich On Nervou: Hot Seat

RAF SWEEPS OVER NORTHERNFRANCE   U. §. AIR FORCE BOMBS GNOME-RHONE FACTORY AT LE MANS

T NAZI PLANES KNOCKED DOWN   Allied Air Armada Roars Across Channel for Attack On Europe

MAP-MAKING: IMPORTANT TO WAR EFFORT   Engineer Corps Has Section Devoted to Maps

Engineer Corps Produces Tons  Of War Maps   From a skeleton force the service has grown to huge organization; play important role, —

YANKEE ARMORED FORCES AT GAFSA CHANGE POSITIONS   British Eight Army Pounding Toward Mareth Line; Ben Gardane Captured From Axis Rear Guard.   45 GERMAN TANKS  ARE KNOCKED OU   Americans Cause Heavy Loss In Second Rabaul Raid, Entire Blocks of City Left In Flames.

YANKS DRIVEN OUT OF GAFSA BASE IN SOUTH   J. 5. Forces Fighting Off Powerful Sally By Rommel]

U.S. Armored Units Forced Out of Gafsa   Counter-Attack Nets Six Miles as British Also Gain

British oth Army Pounds Toward Mareth   Rommel’s Rear Guard Gives Up Ben Gardane

Britsh Eighth Army 1: Moving Toward Mareth Line—Ben, Gardane Captured   AIR FIELD. WRECKED

EIGHTH ARMY POUNDS TOWARD MARETH LINE   U. 8. Troops Yield Base Before Nazi trives

First Snows Aid Russian Troops   Nazis Face Another Terrible Winter

 Old Man Winter Fights With Red Army— —By Kirke L. Simpx  Nazis Plan Retreat To Shelter From Cold

exico ae ot War   inbassy Files Report ith Washington On Angeles Riots

Zoot Suiters On Warpath In California   Juvenile Hoodlums And Service Men In Pitched Battle

Girls Join In ‘Zooter’ Warfare   Young Woman Is Victim of ‘Black Widow’ Gang Attack in Los Angeles   OTHER CLASHES IN OUTLYING AREAS   Service Men Again Battle Zoot-Suited Juvenile Genestar Klement

Loot Suit Riots Are Continuing   Woman Beaten by Girl Accomplices

New Zoot Suit Riots Flare In L. A. Outskirts   Young Woman Attacked By 3 Girls On A Down town Street.

ZOOT-SUITERS ~IN-NEW RIOTS   Young Woman Attacked By Three ‘Black Wid ow’ Girls

Service Men, Zoot Suiters Clash In Pitched Battles Again In Los Angeles Area

Communities Near Los Angeles Closed  To Men in Service   Riots Between Service Men and Zoot-Suiters  Are Cause of Order

Black Widow Girls Join Zoot Suit  Gangs as California Rioting Grows

a Ae aie  Service Men, Zoot: Suiters  Clash in Outlying Districts   Vozen Communities on Los Angeles’ Edge Ruled Out-of: Bounds

Kaiser Denies Four Vessels Broke Up  Says Pennsylvania Rotoves Le tye Eee

Warship Takes Churchill Home   Battie-Scarred H.M.S, Renown Lands British Leoder in Enaland

STEWARDSHIP IS DEDICATED FOR VICTORY   Broad Post-War Program Is Laid Down by New Executive in Inaugural Speech

New Governor Says “Right Now, Nothing Else Matters” and Pledges Full Aid to President; Wants State to Prepare for Peace Problems. and to Care for Soldiers on Their Return. :

€hief Executive Looks Toward ‘Happy Peace’   New Governor, in Inaugural Addresg, Pledges, If Conflict Ends During His Regime, Soldier Will Receive First  Attention and Consideration

Local Boards Asked To Hold Parents To Last   Hershey's Explanation of Program Satisfies Military Affairs Group

fathers Will Be Drafted  Only if Quota Cannot Be Filled Any Other Way, Says Director

Advance By Allies Makes Antique Of Former Successful German Blitzkrieg

Halifax Hits GermanArm;  For. Murders   Lightning Drives Put On By Axi: Pale Into Background If Comparec With Blitz Allies Staged In Tunisiz

LIGHTNING ALLIED  TUNISIAN ADVANCE  SURPRISED ENEMY NAZI BLITZKRIEG TACTIC   OUTMODED BY AMERICANC ANN DPITICH

LIGHTNING ALLIED TUNISIAN ADVANCE SURPRISED ENEMY   NAZI BLITZKRIEG TACTICS OUTMODED BY AMERICANS AND BRITISH

Allied Win Outmodes The Famed Blitz   New Technique Makes Nazis Antique

Lightning Advance Into Bizerte and Tunis Made Antique of Nazi “Blitzkrieg” Warfare; Artillery Played Big Part

Hitler’s Sweep Through France ~ QOutdone By Allied African Drive

jLENISIAN VICTORY  Swift Allied Drive Makes ‘Antique of Nazi ‘Blitzkrieg’

BLOCKBUSTERS HEAPED UPON NAPLES YARDS   Allies Rip Southern Italy’s Communication Centers

Allies Pound ltaly Railroads  2-Ton Bombs Smash into Yards; Factory in Sardinia Blasted

ROAD FUNDS ARE MADE AVAILABLE   Ir DR°Orders Money Released For Use In Repairing Flood Damaves

U. §. Funds fo Repair Roads   President Roosevelt Directs Money Sent Into Flood Zones

Balkans Offer Peace Feelers   Allies Cool Toward Their Proposals

Gallitzin Miners Ist Back In Pits   GRADUALLY MINERS’ REALIZE THEY MUST BACK UP BOYS WHO HAVE GONE INTO SERVICES.   Fayette Miners Return

Miners Return To State Pits   Operations Expected To Be Going Full Blast Today; Two Picketed

BRITISH PLEDGE RAIDS ON JAPAN   Churchill Promises Help In Denouncing Executions

RAF WILL JOIN U.S. BOMBING JAP CITIES   British Pilots Look Forward to Day They Will Fly Side by Side With Americans to Bomb Japs.

Molotov Asks For Ind Front  ” fe Bea OO4 sh   Sees Common Offensive Against Germans

Attack on Rail Junction Follows Big Essen Smash  Reds Admit New German Advance  In Kharkov Area REDS GAIN AT VYAZMA  Axis Troops in Africa Doomed, Eisenhower Says After Touring Fron

DOQUGLE BLOWS DEALT HITLER WAR MACHINE   Air Attacks Fail To Deter Nazi Offensive In Russia — Directed At Kharkov

City Of Krupp Plants Handed Heaviest Blow   Twenty-Three British Bomb: éts Lost As German: Tighten Defense.   YANKS STRIKE AMIENS

Nazis Push Beyond Kharkov; New Jap Convoy Is Sighted   RAF Pounds Arsenal City of Essen Saturday; Eisenhower Says Axis In Africa Doomed .   U. S. SUB SINKS JAPANESE WARSHIP

House Approves Bill To Outlaw ‘Subsidy Program:   Conference Report : Extending Life-of . CCC Given Okay

HOUSE OKEHS BAN AGAINST SUBSIDIES   Votes 160 To 32 Te Extend life Of CC Corporation

ARTHUR NEWMAN e411 EDR DEATH   Merrill Resident Passes Away At Age of 32— Euneral Wednesday

ARTHUR NEWMAN ‘CALLEDBY DEATH      Merrill -Resident Passes Away At Age of 32— Funeral Wednesday

LOSSES MOUNT FOR JAPANESE   Growing Aerial Power Of Allies Takes Heavy Toll

JAP LOSSES ARE SKYROCKETING   Growing Allied Aerial Power Froving Costly In Planes And Ships

Pincers Move Is Proceeding Avainst Lae   American Paratroops Hold Airfield And Advance:On: Base

Allies Hit Closer To Japs’ Lae Base   Two-Pronged Drive Aimed at Port

Big Drive To Invest Lae Is Proceeding   Americans Advance Through Lightly Held Approaches

ALLIES FORGE ON AGAINST LAE BASE   Additional Air Support Sent From North Africa To Chinese Bases.

ALLIES FORGING ON IN 2-PRONG DRIVE ON JAPANESE BASE   Troops Are Bolstered ‘By Airborne Support In Assault On Lae, New Guinéa

Nazis Say Samos Taken   Another Dodecanese Island Last By Allies; Only One Left

Samos Capitulation Claimed by Germany in Day’s Communique   Was Next to Last of Aegean Islands in British Control

Berlin Claims Samos is Taken   Capture of Samos Leaves Allies With One of Dodecanese

Nazis Claim Greek Isle Fall   Samos, Lost af Aegean Group in Allied Hands, Capitulotes, Says Berlin

Nazis Capture Samos Island   Castelrossoe, Easternmost Of Dodecanese. Still Believed In Allied Hands.

Samos Island Falls to Nazis   Berlin Radio Reports Capitulation After Heavy German Assault

Nazis Announce Island of Samos Capitulation  Next To Last Aceon   Next To Last Agean Isle Held By Allies Reported Lost

NAZIS CAPTURE SAMOS ISLAND   Capitulation Announced In German Broadcast

BERLIN SAYS NAZI TROOPS TAKE SAMOS   Greek Base, Just North of Dodecanese and Near Turkish Coast, Next to Last Aegean Possession of Allies. a .d

Greek Island Of Samos Is Captured By  Nazi Forces   Berlin Radio Claims Fall Of Last Member Of Aegean Group Nea Coast OF Purkey

SAMOS IN GERMAN HANDS, SAYS BERLIN   Another Aegean Isle Taken, Broadcast Asserts

Nazis Report Key Isle Seized   MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY GRABS TWO MORE TOWNS IN FOUR-MILE SMASH ON ROAD TO ROME; HEAVY RAINS HALT ACTIVITY BY CLARK FORCES

GERMANS TAKE SAMOS ISLAND   Now Control All But One 0! Aegean Bases

One More Aegean Base In Allied Hands.....  Germans Say Island Of Samos Captured

GERMANS CLAIM FALL OF SAMOS   HINT OF ATTEMPTED BRITISH WITHDRAWAL FROM AEGEAN ISLAND

British Surrender Samos To Nazis, Berlin Radio Says   Next To Last Aegean Island Held By Allies

GERMANS REPORT SAMOS CAPTURED   Berlin Claims Island Garri eee es en 

SAMOS FALLS TO GERMANS   Next to Last Aegean Island Capitulates To Nazis

Berlin Claims Fall Of Samos   Allied Garrison On Aegean Island Capitulates To Enemy.

BERLIN SAYS SAMOS HAS CAPITULATED   Next to Last of the Aegean Islands Held By Allies Said To Have Been Taken By Germans   REFUGEES IN TURKEY

Samos Falls To Germans, Berlin Says   Castelrosso,  Still Believed In Allied Hands

Germans Capture Samos   Nazis Claim Island. Fell This Morning; Allies Now Hold Only One of Aegean Islands

Ickes Gives New England  Fuel Facts   No Oil Shortage, But Coal Is Still Searce

ickes Reports On Fuel In New England   Sings Same Old Doleful Dirge

BACON MEDICS RUSH TO HOME   CALL SPECIALIST FOR MASKED MARVEL’S WIFE

Secret Diary May Be Clue x Film Murder      Masked Marvel’s Widow  $nddenly Tl, Calls  Physician

LISTS CLOSE  FOR PRIMARY CANDIDATES  Municipal Elections Scheduled In State  LITTLE INTEREST      Ceaders Expect Pa. Campaign To Warm  In

Unit Trying To Stop Gas Ban   Says Further Rationing In West Would Be Bad

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES INITALY   British Moving Toward Ortona On the Adriatic

British Advance Through Tanks Toward Ortona   Bad Weather — Closing Down on Italian. Front

BAD WEATHER SLOWS BATTLE ACROSS ITALY   Seme Advance Toward Coastal Anchor of Adriatic Line.—Little Activity for Americans.

British Advance Toward Ortona Despite Counters   Fight Through German Tank Attacks; Rain, Muggy Weather Set In

IL DUCE HELD IN KING'S HOME   Under Heavy Guard Near Rome, According to Authentic .Reports Given by Travelers

Report Duce +s Prisoner —   Madrid Reports Benito Under Heayy Guard

WOUNDED ARE COMING HOME CONSIDERING THEY’RE LUCKY   Lads Without A Leg Or An Arm Say They Are Better Off Than “A Lot Of Guys Who Weren’t So Lucky”

Joe’s Coming Home And He Has A Hero, It’s The Medic   He’s The Kid Who Fixed Your Car And Sowed Your Wheat, The One Who Didn’t Want To Study War

MINERS TO FACE TRIAL   30 Coal Miners Will Go On Trial Under Anti-Strike Act

DEMAND ON BULGARIA   Leaflets Dropped Over Country by Allied Planes Ask Surrender

Newton Gunner One Of B-25 Pioneers In India   Participated In First Raids Last Year Against Japs In Burma

LOWER END OF DEFENSES IS CRUMPLED   Retreat of Nazi Army May Be Cut Off

Final Victory in Sicily Imminent   British 8th Army Takes Axis Base;  Americans and Canadians Advance

END OF BATTLE IN SICILY ONLY MATTER OF TIME   Allied Troops Swarm Ahead

SICILIAN BATTLE NOW APPEARS AS ~ MATTER OF TIME   Allies Compelled to Make Uphill Attacks With Gun Em: placements Dug Deepty Into Rocks.      “FORTS” BLAST NAPLES WITH BLOCK-BUSTERS   Big Guns of Allies Make Es *cape Hazardous at Two  Points, Political Prisoners Freed.

MONTGOMERY SEIZES SICILY STRONGHOLD AS  AVIQ LINEG ADIMDIE BRAIO LINECY URUNIDLEL

MOUNT ETNA ROAD CENTER ALSO SEIZED   British Threaten To Crack German Forces in Sicily

Voluntary Industry Hiring Under Quota  McNutt Tells AFL It Must Be Trebled

NEW INCOME BLANKS SENT PROSPECTIVE PAYERS OF TAX   Declarations On PayAs-You-Go Basis Must Be Returned By Sept 15

_PAY-AS-YOU-GO INCOME TAX BLANKS 'ARE BEING PLACED IN THE MAILS THIS WEEK FOR ESTIMATED BUSINESS PAYER:

EXPLAINS PROCEDURE INCOME TAX REPORTS      Commissioner Internal Revenue Tells Who, Why, How And When About The Sept. 15 Tax Estimates.

Forms Mailed — For Estimate 1943 Income   Filing Declarations Simplified for Most Taxpayers

‘Biggest Industry  In State Is Idle  ‘Over 100.000 Diggers  OV Beeld Teb.n Dice

PUBLISHER WHO ACCUSED TAWES FACES CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE   Action Follows Exoneratior of State Comptroller by Board

PUBLISHER HELD AS RESULT OF CHARGE AGAINST COMPTROLLER   State OPA Calls for Re-examination of One Phase of Case of Tawes, Exonerated by Board on Pleasure Driving Charge

°FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today,   Plans: Upheld,

BILL o PRIGRITY CAUSES DISPUTE   Senate and House Gas Resolutions Clash   ROUTINE SESSION   Senate Moves Along HouseApproved Bill to Repeal State Income Tax

Vast Draft Of Family Men Is Due This Yeat   M’Nutt, Hershey Say Most Men 18 To 38 Te Be Called Unless Essential And Irreplaceable; 28 Divisions Monthly Quota / .«

‘No Man From 18 to 38 Excused, 12,000 Daily Inductions,’ Say . Nation’s Top Manpower Officials

Dependency No Longer ~ Considered   Draft Takes Men Whose Jobs Can Be Done By Older Men Or Women, Officials Explain

HERSHEY AND M'NUTT TELL 43 OUTLOOK   Only Essential Men 18 To 38 Are Promised  * Deferment

WMC Says 12,000 Men. Are To Enter Service Each Day   Essential Job Said Only Deferment For Men 18 To 38, Regardless Of Dependents

Only Irreplaceable Men Doing Essential Jobs to Be Deferred   Seven Full Divisions a Week, or 28.a Month, to Be Put in Uniform, McNutt and Hershey Tell Nation; Great Majority Between 18.and 38, Except  Eacmere to See Service in Armed Forces

DRAFT CALLS 12,000 DAILY FOR THE YEAR   NO DEFERMENTS IN SIGHT FOR MEN 18 TO 38

12,000 Per Day To Army   No Man Between 18 And 38 Deferrable Unless In Essential Work—~Hershey.   M’NUTT GIVES FIGURES

12,000 A DAY TO BE INDUCTED INTO SERVICE   Lay Down Rigid Rule Concerning Deferment Of 18-38 Year Olds

12,000 Men Drafted Each Day   Job Now Only Deferment Grounds For Any Male 18 to 38 With Fathers in Majority

McNutt, Hershey State Men With Children To Ge   Manpower Chiefs Tc Join In Broadcast That Only Those In War Work To Stay

Draft Boards To Disregard Dependents.   Nation Is Told 12,000 Men A Day Rate For ‘43 Will Hit Fathers   NEED 11,200,000   MeNutt, Hershey Present Facts Frankly; 2,500,000 For Farms, Factories

No Deferment Granted Owing To Dependents   Seven Full Divisions  Are Being Put Into  Uniform Every Week, McNutt Declares

Military Needs Mean Few Deferments, Say  McNutt and Hershey   Manpower Chiefs End Secrecy on Induction Figures; All Able-Bodied Men 18 to 38 Face  Service Unless ‘Essential. Irreplaceable’

[2,000 10 ENTER ARMED SERVICES DAILY THIS YEAR   Hershey Says No Man 18 to 38 Can Be Deferred if His Work Can Be Suspended or Done by Women.   TO MOBILIZE 28 DIVISIONS MONTHLY   Most of Those to Be Taken Have Dependents—11,200,000 to Be Under Arms by End of 19438.

12,000 Men Per Day To Enter Army During ’43.   Majority Of Men Will Come From Those With Dependents

MENUTT GIVES HARD FIGURES. UN WAR NEEDS   Makes First Disclosure of Rate of Inductions for Year 1943,   SEVEN DIVISIONS PUT IN UNIFORM IN 7 DAYS

2 000 MEN A SAY GOING ART      Previously Closely Guard- edSecret Revealed in Ra ‘dio Address . Saturday By Paul Hershey.   FEW DEFERRED   Only Those in 18-38 Year ~ Old Class Who Are Irre- placeable Not Subject to Call; No Dependency Favor. . :

Men 18 to 38 Must Fight, Farm or Find Essential War Jobs   Manpower Officials Say 12,000 Men to Be Called Every Day; Fathers Not Exempt From Call

Put draft at 12.000  men daily   Deferments can be based only on job-Hershey

U.S. Reveals Year’s Rate Of Induction   Physically Fit Not to Be Deferred if Woman Can Do Work   11.200,000 IS GOAL   Hershey and MeNutt Tell ‘Clearly and Franklw What Is Ahead

12,000 Men A »Day Must Go Into Service   WMP Officials Say No Man .18 fo 38 Can Be Deferred in Future

U. 5. To Draft 11,08 Daily During 1943   28 Divisions Each Month Now Goal Of Services

VERAGE WILL B CONTINUED HRUOUT YEAR      ‘o Deferments, Regard.  less of Dependents, If Work is Non-Essential. To Be Granted ©   CESSATION OF SOME BUSINESS FORESEEN   feans Readjustments and Hardships ‘and Further Tightening of Belt, McNutt Says

ARMED FORGE TO GET 12,000 MEN EAGH DAY   No Man 18 To 38 Will Get Any Draft Deferments Due To Dependency   28 DIVISIONS MONTHLY ARE BEING INDUCTED   Farmers And War Workers To Be Main Exceptions On Induction Lists

Jobs, Not Dependents, Will ‘Determine Deferments of  ‘Men in 18-38 Ace Bracket

Americans Follow Up RAF Raids   Aircraft Factory Is Obliterated In Northern France.

Yankees Center On Meaulte, R.A.F. On Area Of Duisburg   Allies Pour Tremendous Volume Of Dynamite Upon Rail Centers In Campaign To Stifle Transportation; Russian Planes Blast Moscow.

History's Greatest Raids Devastate Germany, France While Russ Attack Warsaw

UNIONS CONDEMN WILDCAT STRIKES AT VITAL PLANTS   Leaders Say Men Puttin Qwn Grievances Ahead of Their Country.

Army Offcers Apprehensive As Many Man Honors Lost To ‘War Production

FORD STRIKE SPREADS   15,000 Workers ‘Idle  In River Rouge Plant Teday

15,000 Made Idle by Ford Plant Strike   Army Spokesman Says Situation  Qiennctens Restvisse:

FORD PLANT SPREADING   15,000 Workers Idled By Walkout At River Rouge

ROUGE RIVER STRIKE SPREADS   15,000 Ford Workers Fetimated t. Rao Idle

Estimated 15,000 Workers Watk Out.'— Unauthorized Strike © tn Protést to Company's Reorgunivation of Maintenance Crews in River Rouge Plant,

STRIKE GRIPPLES WAR PRODUCTION AT FORD PLANT   Maintenance Workers al River Rouge Factorie:  Protest Reorganization of   Their Crews.

Fighters, Bombers Swarm Over Hills to ‘Aid Clark Troops Push Spearheads

Line Now Being Formed For Big Naples Battle   Allies Continue Putting  Reinforcements Ashore be CO

Indications Appear Caucasus Withdrawal Has Begun Too Late  RETREATING ALSO WEST OF VORONEZH  Russians Recapture Key Railway Points In Caucasus Exit

Berlin Admits Voronezk Front Being Shortened After Heavy Fighting   Council of Allied War Chiefs at Eisenhower’s Headquarters Hints at New Major Action; French Troops Threaten End of Mareth Line

High Allied Commanders Hold Coum cil of War At Gen. Eisenhower's . 7 African Headquarters :

German Forces Reported in General Retreat   Additional Soviet Successes Coincide With Indications of Early and Powerful Allied Offensives in North African Sector

Go Through Strong Nazi Resistance   Surge Forward Towards Capital of Ukrane

NAZIS RESIST NEW ADVANCES   Soviets imperil capital of Ukraine with wide spread gains

Front Line Troops In — Italy Will Have Turkey On ‘Thanksgiving Day

CAPTURED NAZI TANK STUDIED BY ALLIES   Weighs 60 Tons and Armor Is 4 Inches Thick

RECOMMEND FSA BE ABOLISHED   HOUSE COMMITTEE URGES ABANDONMENT OF CROP INSURANCE

Abolition of FSA, Abandonment of Crop Insurance and Discontinuance Of Parity Payments Recommended

Abolition Of FSA, Crop Insurance And Parity Payments Is Proposed

Abolition of I'SA Proposed By Committee   House Group Would Drop Security, Crop Insurance and Parity Payment Plans

INSURANCE, FSA ASKED IN HOUSE   Committee Cuts Finance: For Programs Out Of Budget Allowances

New Deal Phases Of Agriculture Department Cut   Would Limit Days AAA Committeemen Could Be Paid For

ESAS ASKED      Dropping of Crop Insurance, Parity Payments Also Asked,   REFERS TQ CRITICISM

FSA And Other Agencies Urged To Be Ousted   Appropriations Committee Recommends Farm Supply wtih Several Provisions Withdrawn.

Abolish FSA. House Urged   Appropriation Group Against Continuance

PROPOSAL IN AGRICULTURE SUPPLY BIL   Measure Reported to. House Would Also Drop 743-44 , Parity Payments,’ _   FUNDS PROVIDED 240. MILLION UNDER ‘BUDGET,

DISCONTINUANCE OF TRIO FARM PROGRAMS ASKED BY COMMITTEE   AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT SUPPLY BILL BELOW BUDGET ESTIMATES

ABOLITION OF FARM CONTROL MEASURES ADVOCATED  By House Appropriations Supply Bill  ' Cammittee

Would Abolish FSA; Crop Insurance and Parity  Payments on New Crops

Law Is Favored To Stop Parity Farm Payments   House Committee Also Recommends That FSA Be Abolished.   Would Discontinue Insurance on Crops

For End To FSA And Crop  Protection   House Committee Also Would Halt Parity Payments

Farm Program ~ Slash Proposed   Parity Payments, Farm Security and Crop Insurance Abandonment Recommended by House Appropriations Committee—Curb Also Sought for Control of Surplus Commodities

House Group Urges Abolition Of Parity Payments, Federal Crop Insurance; andthe FSA      Would Transfer Work OF Farm Security To* Credit Administration

Committee Asks FSA Be Dropped  End Parity Payments,   Cran Insurance. Plea

Definite Action Sought On Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan; Early Showdown Seen On Proposal To Put Senate On Record For Postwar Collaboration

MAY ABOLISH FSA   House: Committee Would Quit Crop Insurance and Parity Payments

FSA End Asked By House  ‘Committee   Would Also Abolish Crop Insurance And Parity Payments

TO TERMINATE fod IN AG. DEPT. BUDGET   Crop Insurance and Parity Would Also Be Abolished, in Committee Report

HOUSE GIVES FARM AID BILL   Measure Proposes To Abolish FSA and Crop insurance Program,

Committee Would End Parity Pay   Abolition of FSA Alse Recommended in New Agriculture Bill

Would Abolish F.S.A., Abandon Crop Insurance And Paiily Payments   House Committee, In Sending Supply Bill To’ Floor, Recommends F.S.A. Functions Be Transferred _ To Farm Credit Administration.

FSA ABOLITION RECOMMENDED BY HOUSE GROUP   Appropriation Committee Sends Ag Supply Bill of 707 Millions To Floor

Seek To Kill. FSA Crop Insurance la Parity Payment               ppropriations . Conimittee Makes Drastic: Rec: ommendations:

FSA ABOLITION IS URGED BY HOUSE GROUF   Appropriations Commitiee Also Moves io Abandon Crop Insurance, Parity Payments

ABANDONING OF INSURANCE FOR CROPS SOUGHT   Discontinuing Parity Payments on 1943 and 1944 Crops Advocated

House Committee Recommends Elimination O FSA, Crop Insurance And Parity Payments

Appropriations Group Recommend: Parity Payments Stop In °43, °44

House Finance Body Suggests Dropping FSA   Group Also Would Eliminate Crop Insurance Program, Parity Payments.   CUT BUDGET ESTIMATE

Abolition Of FSA Urged By House Group  Committee Would Curtail Many

FSA's Abolition ls Recommended By House Group  Would Also Discontinue Parity Payments on Crops

Mosquito Bombers Shot Across Europe to Blast Berlin.  WAR’S 65TH RAID ON GERMAN CAPITAL  Allied Bombers Hit Ports in Sicily Five Times in 24 Hours.

>Allied Planes Sweeping Over Continent To Hit * Anti-Invasion Defenses’

ALLIED PLANES SWEEP OVER CONTINENT   Specific Targets Not Yet Revealed

Berlin Bombed For 65th Time. Other Planes Hit Targets In France And Belgium. .

ee ee ee ee ee ee ee a a ee  Argument Gets Two Into Serious Trouble

BOC RAEREER RBA KR Re BEER  Argument Gets Two Into Serious Trouble

TREASON CA DEATH DECREE “STILL STANDS   DETROIT. MAN WHO AIDED ENEMY FLIER LOSES HIS APPEAL TO CIRCUIT  COURT “

CARRIES SUBSIDY FIGHT TO SOLONS   ‘Brown Says Price Cuts for Farmer Only Alternative

Brown Backs F. R.’s Fight For Subsidies   Says Without Subsidies Roll Back Would Hit Farmers

BLACKOUT OF —  NYA-LOOMING   HOUSE COMMITYEE ELIMINATES NYA‘ FUNDS FROM ITS APPROPRIATION '  SCHEDULE 

Momentous Allied Decisions Which May Shorten War Believed in Making Today

big Decisions In Making   May Be Both Military And Political Nature

Momentous Decisions In Making   Destiny Of World Believer Hinging On Rumored Quick Deeviopments

‘Momentous Allied Decisions May Affect Combined Strategy On All Battlefronts

ALL-OUT DRIVE. AGAINST NAZIS BEING MAPPED      WASHINGTON HEARS THAT FINAL. WARNING WILL BE GIVEN GERMANY BEFORE  "UNLEASHING ATTACK

TAXES AND LANDS RE- APPOINTMENT UNDERGO DEBATI   Two Issues Are Slated For Finish Fights On Congressional Floors Today; PostWar and Labor Bills Get Off-Stage Attention.

Congress Waging Finish Fights On  Two Major Issues   ‘Finish Fight in House Today on Pay-As-You-Ge  : ‘Taxes: ~Senate. Stalls:or  “Confirmation. of Adm. Land.

FUNDS BATTLE IS SHAPING UF   ‘OWI! And OPA Under Fire In Appropriations Bill

OPA, OWI Budget Battle Debated   Republicans To Try To Slash Funds

LEND-LEASE I$ TERMED ‘DOLE   Senator Calls for Investigation Of Program, Which Hopkins Is Running

RENEW DEMAND FOR LEND-LEASE PROBE   Appropriation Committee Invites Butler To Session

PUSHES PROBE ~ OF LEND-LEASE   Dakota Senator Brands Program “Most Colossal Dole”

Butler Attacks Lend-lease Policy  Called ' Most Coles sal Dole of All T

SENATOR ASKS INVESTIGATION OF ‘DONATION’   ‘Most Colossal Dole of All Time’, Nebraskan’s  Terminology -.«--

AKRON MINISTER SERIOUSLY: HURT   Injured Back in Fall From Scaffold Late Last: Thursday

LOCAL MINISTER SUSTAINS SERIOUS INJURY IN FALL   Rev. A. A. Howe Was Shingling Garage When Scaffold Gave Way

Goering’s Speech Is ‘Delayed’ by British Bombers   Attack Delivered For Psychological Effect on Nazis

Work; Steel Mills Run   Plans For Further Curtailment Of Production Are Called Off

MINERS BEGIN RETURNING IN NEARBY STATES   Trickle Started Today In Wake of Truce; More to Resume Work During Next Few Days   STEEL MILGLS-WILL - NOT BE SHUT DOW?   Orders From Union Sent To Ail Locals, Urging Workers to Go Back To Pits At Once

Miners Return To Work Today   General Resumption Of Work in Pittsburgh  Area Seen Tomorrow

Miners Confused, Await Orders   Some Leaders Doubt Resumption Of Work Before Monday.

Draft Curtailment: Until Army Needs. Are Clear Asked   Senator Says Plans Underway to Increase’ Armed Forces to 12 Million.

Oklahoma Senator Asks \Curtailment In Draft   Solon Wants To Know Just How Large an Army Is Needed :

Asks Check On  Draft Program  Hear 12 Million Men  May Be In Service; Dislocations Feared

Seeks to Hold Up Draft Un-. til Congress Is Told Just How Large An Army Is Needed To Win The War.

Calls For. Draft Cut   Oklahoma Senator Asks Check on Manpower Situation

SENATOR URGES GOV'T 10 DELAY DRAFT PROGRAM   Wants Figures On How Large Army Should Be Made

Curtailment Of Draft Asked   Sen. Thomas Hears Army Wants 12 Million Men

Senator Fears 12MillionMan Army Too Big   Would Handicap Food and War Production; Committee Would Half Growth

Curtailment Of Draft Is Suggested   Senator Wants To Know Just How Big An Army Is Needed

SENATOR ASKS CUT IN DRAFT TILL ARM NEEDS ARE KNOWN   Thomas Fears 12 Million Man Army Would Dislocate Production

Draft Reduct:... Urged So Solons Can Probe Army   Plans For 12,000,00( Men Investigated Congress Question:  Need   Infantry Sufficient

Senator Urges Curb on Draft   Report 12,000,000-Man Army Planned Irks Thomas of Oklahoma

SEE ARMY BOOST TO 12,000,000   SENATOR THOMAS ASKS CURTAILMENT IN DRAFT CALLS

ALLIES WILL TRY TO SAVE ITALIAN NAVY   COMMANDERS TOLD TO GET WARSHIPS OUT OF DANGER

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Italian Naval, Merchant Ships Told to End Fight, Put in at Allied Ports

ASKS ITALY 19 SAVE ITS NAVY FORTHE ALLIES,   Admiral! Cunningham Broad. casts Message To All Ital ian Commanders To Put In  At Allied Or Neutral Ports   Ports Undamaged

Italians Urged To Save Ships From Germans  Fleet, Merchantmer _ May! Be Used’ To  Tr. AI.

Italians Urged To Sail Ships To Allied Ports   United Nations May Obtain Possession of  About 300 Vessels

\talian Navy, Merchant ‘Shipping, May Be Valuable ‘Prize for Allied Victors

United Nations May Get Control Of Italian Navy   Naval and Merchantman Captains Asked to Sail Quickly for Allied Ports

WAGE INCREASE OF FOUR CENTS FOR RAILMEN   Workers’ Spokesman Calls Increase An ‘Insult’

Wage Boost Likely For Rail Unions   Four-Cent Hike Is Termed ‘Insult’ By Brotherhoods

SESoION WILL OPEN JAN. 1d   Wisconsin Legislature to Consider Reducing State Income Tax.

Short Session Of Legislature Is Indicated   War Problems Will Hold Main Attention At Opening Of Session Next Wednesday

Perkins Will Remain Until End Of July   Careful Analysis To Be Made By Leo Crowley As Head Of Office Of   tte Warfare

Liberators Hit Jap Oil Port   Japs Attempt To Bomb «Yank Landing Strips

Hillsboro Native Tells Club At Toronto Foreign Planes Detected Necr New York

PLANES DETECTED NEAR U.S. REPORT   Foreign Craft Raid Possibility Stressed By Official at: Toronto

Durant Woman Of 112 Passes   Broken Hip Sustained In Fall at Her Home Resulted in Death

ON CROP PROBLEMS   Series of Mectings ‘Spon_ sored by Farm Bureau, and State College

April Term Of District Court Opened Monday  Contest Of Flaugher Will Settled By  Asoreement

TO) INCLUDE V-TAX WITH INCOME LEVY   Senate Commitee Would Lower Exemptions to Bring More on Tax Rolls

DELAY 1S LIKELY BEFORE INVASI   Allies May Rest, Regroup fo Move On Italian Mainland

Train Hits Bus, Trolley, 30 Hurt   Most Of Those Taken To Hospital Soon Afterwards Discharged.

Slow Train Hits Bus, Street Car  30 Passengers Hurt — In Indiana Cras

SENATE SEEKING DEFERMENT VOTE   Senator Wheeler Is Persuaded To Withdraw Amendment

PORTAL-PURTAL TEST CASE FILED   United Mine Workers File Action in District Federal  Court Against Two Fayette County Coal Companies

Federal Court Studies State Mine Pay Case   Portal-to-Portal — Issite Concerns Fayette

German Armored Units Reported Massing in Mareth Line Area.   RAID TUNISIAN AIRPORTS

British Subs Sink 7 Ships In _ Mediterranear   Nine Others Damaged; cltalion Shipyard Is >>: Shelled

Panzer Units Massing in Mareth Area   “British First ‘Army Forced. Back Four Milesin =  North Tunisia

Nazis Hit Ends Of Line fo Delay Pincer   Russians Move to Remove Completely Threat to Moscow

Yielding In Center   ) . Pulls Back to cto. Faid Pass Surrendering “Gains, as Americans Push:-On   FIGHTS: TO: DELAY ‘ ALLIED PINCERS   But: Casualties and Loss. of . Equipment Increase Un° der. Air’ Assault

VON ARNIM GAINS IN SEDJENANE SECTOR THRUST   ROMMEL CONTINUES TO RETREAT IN FAID PASS AREA

U. 5. Patrols Reach Points Near Faid Pass   Rommel’s Army Said Massing At Mareth Line

Patrols Make Contact With Nazis Forces   German And Italian Troops Strike At Both Ends Of Line To Slow Pincer

Axis Massing in Mareth to Meet British Threat   Americans Are Only 3 Miles: From Point: Enemy Drive Started

The RED CROSS needs YOUR help Have you made your pledge?   Allies only 3 miles from  Faid pass, nazi stronghold

ALLIED LINES FORCED BACK IN THE NORTH   Light Armored Forces Of Eighth Army Engage and Repulse Enemy  East of Mareth   REENTER SIDI BOUZID

Yanks 3 Miles  From Faid Pass   Rommel Shifts Part Of His Armored Forces To Southern Tunisia To Meet 8th Army; Von Arnim Gains In Northern Sector

AMERICAN PATROLS CONTAGT GERMANS IN FAID PASS SECTOR  DOMMCOI DODADTONM WMACC.   ROMMEL REPORTED MASSING SURVIVING ARMORED UNITS AT MARETH LINE

Eaier Sidi Bouzid Without Oppo sition as Rommel Withdraws 1c Meet Monigomery's Threat   Von Arnim Gains Four Miles in Attack on Far North but Without Material Gain -

AMERICAN PATROLS CONTACT GERMANS IN FAID PASS SECTOR   ROMMEL REPORTED MASSING SURVIVING ARMORED UNITS AT MARETH LINE

AMERICAN TROOPS _ PUSH WITHIN THREE MILES OF FAID PASS   British Forced Back-as Axis  Forces Strike Anew at Ends of Tunisian Front   FOE’S CASUALTIES HEAVY

Rommel Driven Back To Starting Point Of Advance Amid Heavy Losses

MAKE CONTACT WITH NAZIS ONLY THREE MILE5 FROM: PASS—IS STARTING POINT OF ROMMEL'S ABORTIVE FEBRUARY DRIVE ’ :

AXIS REGISTERS SLIGHT GAIN IN TUNISIAN SECTOR   Von Jergen Drives at Sedjen ane, Losing Much and Gaining But Little

Yank Patrois Contact Germans Near Faid Pass   Americans Within Three Miles of Spot From Which Rommel Lounched Campaign

Air Blasts at Defense Line   British First Army Forced Back in  Northern Tunisia.

Our Forces Fall Back In North Tunisia  Americans Are Only 3 Miles From Faid Pass

Germans [urn To Fight Off Kishth Army   US Patrols Back At Pass Where Foe’s Drive Started

CONTACT AXIS NEAR MOUTH OF FAID PASS   Nazi General’s Armored Units, Meanwhile, Reported Massing in Mareth Area to Meet Threat of the British.

U4, PATROLS DRIVE CLOSER TA FID PASe   Contact Germans Three Miles from Where Rommel Began Offensive.   TROOPS TAKE SIDI BOUZID

AXIS PUSH FORCES U. 9. BACK IN NORTH SECTOR   Light Armored Units Of Eighth Army Repulse Enemy Infantry At Mareth

Nazis Contacted  By U.S. Patrols   American and British Forces Continue to Attack Rommel   HIT 6 AXIS AIR BASES   Axis Forces May Be Concentrating to Meet Blow From Enemy

Yanks Eager To Start Invasion   Large-Scale Amphibious Training Under Way In Southern England

DOOLITTLE S FLEET RAKES DEIMOMANU AIRDROME HEAVILY   Switch From Heavy Bombs To Hailstorm of Lighter Explosives  yicc Annh NaA CY KO Te   USE 4,000 PACKETS   Many Axis Planes Trapped On Ground at Sardinian Air Base

Use New Tacties In Air Assaults Upon Sardiniz   Hailstorm Of Lighter Explosives Used Instead Of Heavy Bombs   PLANES SWOOP LOW AND MAKE ATTACKS

SMORE SHAFTS SHUT DOWN TODAY   Closed. Mines: Include Al But One: Supplying ‘Coke Ovens. ° -

17 SELECTEES SENT TO CAMP   Gastonia Board Sends First November Contingent To Army.

Jcetober Contingent Goes To Camp Croft; Belmont And Cherryville Boards Calling Pre - Pearl Harbor Fathers  Now.

162 GASTONIANS ARE DISPATCHED TO CAMP CROFT   Contingent Leaves For Induction; Pre-War Father Of Nine Children In Group, Made Up Mostly Of Younger Single Men

81 GASTONIANS LEAVE TO ENTER ARMY SERVICE   Local Draft Board Dispatches Contingent To Camp Croft For Induction; Small List Compared To January's.

JAPS ADVANCE IN CHINA “RICE BOWL’   Chinese Score Successes Near Near Burma Border

Japs Drive South In Rice Bow!  Thiwnew Renacw (lala   Chinese Score Gains Along Salween River Region

Japs Pour In Men To Fight Chinese Army   Have Over 80,000 Men In Rice Bowl Area Where They Are Advancing  TAU - Eeoov CTA TICNAIC

CHURCHILL TAKES TIME OUT TO SHOW DAUGHTER AROUND   BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND DAUGHTER MAKE TRIP TO NIAGARA FALLS IN SPECIAL 6-CAR TRAIN.   WILL RETURN LATER TO QUEBEC   Experts Are Revising War Plans in Preparation for ChurchillRoosevelt Conference to Open at Quebec Soon.

Yank Planes Raid Messina   Italian Rail-Ferry Docks Blasted, One Vessel Is Destroyed

FOURTH VISIT AT QUIPDsTo ON WAY HOME   President Inspects American Defense Installations in British Island.   MEETS ADMIRAL LEAHY, LEFT THERE ON TRIP EAST

Roosevelt Inspects U. S. Base in British West Indies   President’s Party Gets Enthusiastic Reception From Trinidad Crowds

FDR A Caller At Trinidad   Enthusiastic Welcome At Caribbean Island

rN rine  Atl et Rooseve ie cs { at dL Nat ho th Stop on vay! 101  A &  xX? irives ifim sess Bg Pm yy 6p Ham aA 4 OO UN Va 20h % reve 7% My gay a           President Surprised as Crowds in Streets Cheer; Meets Leahy, Foreed to Give Up Casablanca Trip Through Illness

Panama and Trinidad on FDR Air Route   President Inspects Defenses at Canal; Stops Off to Meet Leahy at Airport

President Is  In Trinidad   Populace There Enthusiastically Receives Roosevelt; Defense Forces Are: Inspected

Chief executive stops in Trinidad, gets big welcome   F.D.R. views Caribbean defense  works en route home from Africa

U.S. President Stops At Trinidad Enroute  ~ Home From Africa   Roosevelt Enthusiastically Received By the People of Vital Defense Outpost; Step Follows Brazil Visit

ROOSEVELT IN TRINIDAD ON 6{ST.BIRTHDAY   Stops in British West In. dies, Panama Canal Defense Post, Enroute:  i, From Casablanca .   GIVEN:-RECEPTION   Messages His Thanks for Birthday Parties for Infantile Fund Through First Lady

FDR Stops At Port Au Spain On Inspection   Admiral Leahy. Left Behind On Trip To Casablanca. Meets President.   VIEWS INSTALLATIONS

POPULACE IS "ENTHUSIASTIC oWITH WELCOME   F.D.R. Inspects U. S Army And Navy Installations At Vital Outpost.

Roosevelt Stops Off In Trinidad On Return Home   President Inspects U. S. Base; Anti U Boat Drive Mapped in Rio Janeiro

President Stops in Trinidad En Route Home   F. D. R. ‘Receives Enthusiastic Welcome of People

FOR STOPS Al TRINIDAD 10 SFE DEFENSES   Roosevelt Given Big Welcome; Continues Secret Trip

Roosevell Visits Trinidad And Canal Defense Zone   Given Enthusiastic Reception as He Makes Inspections

FDR VISITS IN TRINIDAD ON WAY HOME   Another Stop Made On Historic Journey

President Stops in Trinidad En Route Home  F. D. R. Receives - Enthusiastic

President Stops In Trinidad To See Defenses   Enthusiastic Reception at British West Indies Outpost Guarding Approach to U. S. Panama Canal

Roosevelt Stops In Trinidad And Is Given Great Ovation; Flu Kept Leahy From Parley

FDR Stops in West Indies On Way Home   President Also Visits Panama Canal Defense Outpost

Roosevelt Stops Off at Trinidad   Looks Over U. S, Air Base There

MADAME KAI-SHEK     VISITOR AT CAPITOL   First Lady of China Welcomed By Roosevelts Upon Arriva!

China Leader s Welcomed  Wate Of Chinese War - Boss In Washinaton

GEN, EISENHOWER THROWS EXPERIENCED AND NEW TROOPS IN  FRESH, HARD-HITTING CANADIANS MOVE INTO SICILY WITH VETERANS

Formidable Force Of U. S. Troops Are Spearheading The Landings On Sicily

AUSSIANG OCORE ADDITIONAL GAINS IN SEVSK SECTOR   Plunge Over Bodies of Naz Dead for From Three to Five-mile Advance   DRAW NEARER TO VITAL COMMUNICATIONS LINK   Breaking of Bryansk-Kiev Railway Would Sever German Southern and Central Fronts; Reds Drive Deeper Into Rich Ukraine

REDS NEARING BRYANSK-RIRV "RAILWAY LINE   ‘Its Capture Would Sever German Army’s Fronts   in Southern and Cen % feral Qprptore      “MANY PRISONERS,  MUCH BOOTY TAKEN   Nazis Fighting Desperate.  ly To Stave Off Complete   Encirclement But Con  trate oh Laca

DRIVE WITHIN 13 MILES OF SALIENT LINK   Berlin Admits Soviets Widening Gap in  Donets Area

15 MILES FROM VITAL BRYANSKKIEV RAILROAD   Smashing Offensive Carried On: Thousands Of Nazis Die

Soviets Surge On   Red Army Troops Recapture 90 Villages After Breaking Nazi Lines Near Sevsk

Soviets Mark Up New Gains Against Nazis   More Key Points Of German Resistance Now Being Threatened By Advancing Reds

5,200 German Troops Are Killed   Soviets Gain Five Miles From Newly Taken Sevsk

Russians Plunge Toward Railway Over Nazi Dead   Poltava’s Capture Is Goal Of Soviet  Canzwac lw  lbewinw

a0 MORE TOWNS SEIZED BY RED:   RUSSIANS BELIEVED WITHIN 15 MILES OF VITAL BRYANSK-KIEV RAILWAY.

Advantage Taken Of Break In Lines   Army Newspaper Described Advances As The Most Important In Recent Phases Of War

Soviets Trample German Dead In Fresh Gains  Russians Press Nearer Vital Railway Center

Russians Gain 50 Villages ~   Push Nearer Vital Bryansk-Kiey Rail Line, London Hears

Red Army Plunges Ahead; Nazi Lines Grow Weak  Numerous Towns Fall _ To Russians as  Advance ts Speeded

Soviet Units Widen Capi in  German Line:   Russian Troops Start” Enveloping Movement On Poltava

Reds Score Gains In Sevsk Region  Advancing Armies Approach Rail Line

Russians Plunge Toward Railway Over Nazi Dead   Poltava’s: Capture is Goal Of. Soviet  ‘Se BE S Te. Plt... SB

Russians Reach Psel River Bank       avs Veer Southward Toe Envelap Poltava,

Gulf Storm Goes Over Louisiana (Coastline With Its‘Once Great Velocity Considerably Lowered

Soviets Meet Stiffer Nazi  Resistance Critical Battle Rages  In Donets; Germans

‘No Chance’ Of Agreeing   Coal Operators Say Settlement Of Dispute Up to Labor Board

Coal Head Says Pact Hopeless   Board Is Urged  To Take Over Dispute

Dixie Ops. Object To Portal Pay   Assert Change For Agreement Is Gone, Demand WLB Take Control.

ENEMY PROTESTS PORTUGAL'S MOVE   Japs, Nazis Say Action ‘Neutrality Violation’

NAZIS THREATEN PORTUGAL AFTER PRO-ALLIED ACT   Germany and Japan Protest Use of Bases—Hint at Retoliatory Steps

AXISPROTESTS PORTUGAL ACT   Express Displeasure Over Granting British Bases In Azores

GERMANY AND JAPAN REGISTER PROTEST   Nazis Angrily Hint Of Retaliatory Action Against Portugal For Granting British Bases

Portugal Gets Axis Protest  Berlin Calls Granting Azores Bases to Britain

AZORES GRANT ANGERS AXIS   Nazis And Japs  Serve Notice of Right to Retaliate

Axis Protest To Portugal   Denunciate Granting. of Bases to Britain As < Breach of Neutrality

Portugal Gets Axis Protests   Berlin, Tokyo Threaten Reprisal Action ©

AXIS PROTESTS AZORES BASES   ANGRY NAZIS PROMISE RETALIATORY ACTION

AZORES DEAL BRINGS JAP, NAZI PROTEST      Germans Reserve Right to Take “Retaliatory Action” Against Portugal for Granting Bases to British.

ITALY POSSIBLY TO MAKE WAR AGAINST JAPS   Nazis, in Anger. Talk of Possible Retaliatory Action Against Little Portugal.

Portuguese Move Flayed By Axis  Nazis, Japs Protest; Retaliation Possible

Axis Opposes Azores Gran!   Nazis Angrily Served Notice To Take Retaliatory Ac tion On Portugal.

AXIS MAKES PROTESTS ON AZORES MOVE   Germany And Japan Both Serve Warning, Hint At Retaliation

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   (Marshall's War Report Gives America Facts Of Our Progress

 The War Today— ' Chief Of Staff’s Military Report On “Required Reading” List Of U. S.

Will Try to Cut Live Hog Price And Boost Corn   Government May Impose Ceilings on Hogs at Around $14.50 Cwt.   Would Increase Corn  Price to $1.08 a Bu.

LIVE HOG PRICES SOON 10 BE PUT UNDER GEILING   That’s Tip from Reliable Sources in Capital with Top To Be Near $14.50   CORN PRICES MAY GO UP   Slaughter of Dairy Cattle Reported Increasing and Senators Start Probe

Plan Ceiling On Hog Price   Would Increase Maximum Corn Price In Effort Te Release Grain.

Higher Corn but Lower Hogs Hinted   Market Reacts on Talk of Control

ITALIANS HELD BY, AMERICANS TOTAL 23,000 AT PRESENT   Capture 4,600, Including _ Angry  _ Brigadier “General, At Agrigento

VATICAN DENIES POPE'S PROTEST   Broadcast To Germany Re futes Rumor Raid Message Was Sent Roosevelt

VATICAN DENIES BOMBING STORY   Pope Did Not Protest To Roosevelt, Stays Impartial In War

Ayis Reports Of Pope's Protest On Raid Denied   Vatican Radio Also Clears “Americans Of Intention To Bomb Hely Places

POPE DENIES HE PROTESTED RAW   EXPRESSES BELIEF U. S&. PILOTS DID NOT DAMAGE CHURCH INTENTIONALLY,

VATICAN OAY a NAT DAMAGE REPORT FALGt   Broadcast Also Denies Pope “Has Sent Protest to Roosevelt,   SAYS FRONT PART ONLY OF BASILICA BLASTED

Vatican Brands Axis Newscasts As Unfounded   Refutes Story Pope Had Protested to Roosevelt

Vatican Dentes Bombing Protest   Broadcast Stresses Pope Is Impartial

Vatican Denies Pope Protested Bombing To FDR   Broadcast Beamed To Germany Refutes Axis Propaganda

Vatican Denies Pope Protested Rome Bombing   Believes Yanks Tried To Avoid Churches

‘Pope Declares German and Italian Reports That He Protested the ‘Bombing of Rome to President Roosevelt Are Entirely Unfounded

KISKA AGAIN ATTACKED    One Jap Vessel Sunk, Another i Suffers Direct Bomb Hit

ltaly Showing New Signs _— Of Weakening Under Strain   Stockholm Dispatches Reveal Mussolini ‘Trying To React Secret Peace Agreement With Vichy France

ITALY VIEWED AS WEAKENING   Mussolini Sends Ex-Envoy To U. S. on Visit to Neutral City

Current of Peace Aims Observed   ONE OF FIRST STEPS °* IS KXPECTED TO BE WITH FRANCE,

Italy Shows New Weakness, Seeks Deal With Vichy   Contact With Allies Vie New Ankara Ambassado: Is Held Possible

ITALY WEAKENING: MUSSOLINI SEEKS DEAL WITH LAVAL   Ex U. S. Envoy, Once Pro - American, Is Sent To Turkey   DUCE SEEKS TO SET CFF LOSS OF HIS EMPIRE

TRYING SECRET “SETTLEMENT” WITH FRANCE   Rome Reportedly Would be Content With Minor “Corrections” In Frontier With French.

Ttaly Shows New Signs Of Weakening   Mussolini Said To be Seeking Peace with French

ltaly Reported Seeking Secret Pact With Vichy   Nation Showing Signs of Weakening Under Strain of War

AXIS NATIONS FACE GRIMMEST ~ TRIAL OF WAF   taly Reported Weakening As Germany Goes On All-Out War " Basis

Wavell Called To Washington   Allies Moy Try to Pry Open Burma Rood, Aid China; No Indication Second Front Against Europe to Be Abandoned, However

(Officials From India Theater In Washington   Arrival With Churchill Indicates Emphasis Put On Action Against Japs

Pacific War Theater Given Place at Parley   Military Chiefs From India Now At Washington

JAPS BELIEVED SOON TO FEEL WEIGHT OF WAR   Admiral Somerville, Air Marshal Peirse wilh Wavell; Stilwell, Chennault in Washington   EUROPE IN FOCUS   Presence of Many Other Allied Chieftains Indicates Second Front Not Sidetracked

Indications Point to Move to Help China, Perhaps by Attempting to Open Burma Road ta Enable Supplies to Get In

Churchill and Roosevelt May Pu Emphasis on Fight Against Japs   Nothing Definite Anounced on Trend of Latest British-American Talks

May Launch Plans To Aid Chinese in Opening Burma Road   No Indications That Far East U.S. Military Heads at Conference, Stillwell, Chennault Still in States

Churchill and High Indian Officers Here   British Prime Minister In Washington fo. Parley With Roosevelt

Prime Minister’s Visit Leads To Speculation A: To Allies Next Attack

British War Chiefs From  India Here      Lend Weight to Belief That Strategy Against Jap Will Be Viewed

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT IN WAR COUNCL   Presence Of India Experts Hints New Drive In Pacific   PUSH IN CHINA SEEN   Opening of Mediterranean To Strengthen Allies In Pacific

THREE LEADERS IN U.S. WITH CHURCHILL   Field Marshall Wavell, Adm. Somerville and  Air Chief Peirse.

Important Leaders From India Theater In U. S. For Meeting   London Sources Say Main Theme Of Parley Will Be Military Plans; Will Also Study Politieal Views

Capital Sees. Mighty Drive To Smash Japan   Tunisian Victory Opens Way For Major Blow In The Pacific

Leaders In India Zone In Capital For Talks   Wavell, Somerville, Peirse Among Those Announced At Parley Joint Action Seen

i ern emt  Leaders From India Theatre Of Operations Come To Washinaton

LEADERS FROM INDIA ARE WITK PRIME MINISTER   Indicated New Conference May Place Much Emphasis On Strategy Against Japs; Wavell Along.

Churchill Makes Third Trip Here, Met By Wavell   Leaders From India Hint Importance As Invasion Iq Mapped rT dite

India Leaders With Churchill At White House   Marshall Wavell Amon; Military f.eaders In Churchill Party. Mure. pean Invasion Also Fig. ures In Discussion.

Churchill Here, 3 India Chiefs Along  Presence of Wavell. Som     Presence of Wavell, Somerville, Peirse Poinis to Far East Theater   AID TO CHINA SEEN   Possibility of Joint Sea, Land, Air Offensive Is Considered

STRATEGY AGAINST JAPAN MAY HOLD TOP CONFERENCE PLACE   ' PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL BROUGHT IMPORTANT WAR LEADERS FROM INDIA

Indian Area Heads in U. S.  Wavell Here With Churchill; Indicates

Vavellin S. for  HCH   Relieved, However, That Main Blow Will pe dontist Hither

THREE INDIA LEADERS ARE WITH PREMIFR   Hint Attention to Strategy Against Japanese In South Pacific   MAY CHART MOVES TO ASSIST CHINA   Second Front In Europe Will Not Be Sidetracked, In Any Event

BUTTER SUPPLIES TO RENAN SAN   Feed Situation Will Prevent Any Great Increase in Milk Production.

No Increase In Civilian Butter Seen   Scarcity Of Milk Cause, Says OW!

HAPPY HEART CONTR'BUTORS¢@   Le Compte A Member Of Blood ‘Gallon Club’

Plans for Fourth Celebration to Be  Made Wednesday   Committee to Meet Here to Complete All Arrangements

DESTROYER LOST IN SEA BATTLE   Naval Action Off Norway Is Revealed

REDS SMASH NAZI WALL OF RESISTANCE   Advance To Within 65 Miles of ‘Key To Caucasus’ In Fast Sweep,   BOMBERS LEAD WAY   Germans Fight Desperately To Keep Corridor Open For Southern Armies,

DESTROYER IS LOST BY BRITISH   Blazing Sea Battle Off Norway Is Described

British Reveal Destroyer Lost In Battle Off Norway; Convoy Saved

German Pocket Battleship In Blazing Battle   Convoy Attacked Off Norway But Supplies For Reds Go Through

COSSACKS PUSH 13 MILES; INFANTRY MOPS UP GERMANS   Pursuit Of Enemy Turning Inte Rout :in Some . Sectors Of North Caucasus

COSSACKS ARE MAKING DRIVE IN CAUGASUS   Soviet Troops Press on for One of Biggest Victories of Offensive.

KEY RAILWAY CTY FORBIGSYSTEN IN HANDS OF REDS   Rommel’s Forces Are Struck Hard Hard Blow,’ Fiying Fortresses Batter Fort In Trioolitania. ,   FORT IN DESERT, IS 450 MILES TO TUNIS   U. S. Liberators Bomb Naptes By Daylight, Harbor Instailations,- Shipping Are Damaned.

Seize All Stations On Railroad   COSSACK CAVALRY LEADS WAY, WITH INFANTRY CLOSE BEHIND FOR MOPPING UP PURPOSES =:

5th Army Flanks 44-Mile Volturno Water Defenses   New Offensive on Europe by Air Grows in Intensity

Yankees Hold On River Said Hard To Hold   Kighth Army Advances Two To Three Miles Through Heavy Mud.   "FOE FIGHTING HARD

Bitter Struggle In Italy   Allies Force. Slow Advance Against Dogged Resistance; Air War  Flames to New Height

MUD A HANDICAP TO ADVANCE OF TWO-PLY DRIVE   Fierce Fighting Rages Where Volturno River Crossed And Key Point Taken

FIRST BITTER BATTLE FOUGHT FOR CITY ROME   Fifth Army Slashes Pocket Out of German Line. Meanwhile Bri-  tish 8th Pushes On 

NEW GAINS IN DRIVE ON ROME   Big Air Fleets Continue _ Bombing of Balkans  And Germany

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY STRIKES FORWARD OK NORTHWARD ADVANCE   ALLIED AIR FORCES POUND AXIS ON VARIOUS IMPORTANT FRONTS

Mountain Forts Penetrated By Charging Yanks   Air Fleets Hammer Balkans And _ Into Germany, Invasion Nearer 2?

New Spearhead Aimed At Rome; Air War Mounts   Germany And Balkans Are Subjected To Crushing Blows

Allies Send against Foe   Nazis Loses Heavily as Raiders Rake Axis from Balkans to North Sea

Allies Carve New Front in Italy. Hinged o1 on Benevento—Russians Extend Bridge- 2     heads from Kiev—Yugoslave i in New ;  - Gain at Trieste. ;

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CUTS DEEPER WESTWARD IN ADRIATIC SECTOR: AIRMEN HAMMER BALKANS   Aerial War Reaches White Heat As Lt. Gen. Ira C Eaker Says Allies Preparing for Invasion Across English Channel and the North Sea

Flank Nazis ToSpearhead Allied Drive   Pontelandolofo Falls As 5th Army Advances

Nazi Volturno River Line Is  Flanked by US   Great Allied Air Fleets Hammer at Balkans and Germany; Yugoslavs Expand Hold on Reconquered Territory 

Fifth Advances To Flank Nazi  Volturno Line   Eighth Army Cuts Deeper Westward In The Adriatic Area

10 YEAR AGO TODAY   S iggest Question Yet Unanswered Is Point From Which Americar’ Bombers  — Took Off

Nation Thrilled At Big: Raid On Jap Cities Last April 18, When Out-  look Was Derk j   NOW IN AFRICA   Nipponese Never Learned From Whence Bombers Came To Hit At Japan's Heart

TOKYO WONT FORGET APRIL 18 A YEAR AGO  SINDAY MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF DOOLITTILE’S RAID FROM SHANGCRILA

TOKYO ATTACK APRIL 18, 1942 IS RECALLED   STORY OF THRILLING DOOLITTLE FEAT STILL UNTOLD

Full Story Of Tokyo Raid Untold Year After, 3ut U.S. Remembers Thrill Of Last April 18

It Was Year Ago Tomorrow That U.S. Bombs Thundered In Tokyo, Other Jap Cities ,

Axis Remembers, And So Do We: Today Is Anniversary of Raid On Tokyo’s Flimsy War Plants

BRITISH LIBYAN DRIVE RESUMED, AXIS. ANNOUNCES   Germans and Italians Report Strong Armored Attack by Montgomery at Wadi Zem-Zem.   AIR FIGHTING RAGES THROUGHOUT TUNISIA   Sky Battles Fought Day and Night With Allies Losing Eight Planes and Enamy 22.

Time Is About All Nazis Gain In North Africa   Superiority of Montgom ery s Forces Clearly Shown in Latest Clash

SEEK DEBT LIMIT OF 210 BILLION   HOUSE COMMITTEE TO TACKLE PROBLEM OF NEW REVENUE

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan to Come up Soon   Legislation to Boost Debt Limit Is First on  The Program

Rum Plan {s Not Approvec   Proponents To’ Carry Plan To House Floor

Battle on Ruml Tax Plan Seen In Lower House   Committee Rejects Move Again; G. O. P Backers Plan Fight

RUML PLAN TO SKIP PAYMENT BEATEN AGAIN   House Committee Is Oppos ed To Waiving 1942  Income Taxes   REPUBLICANS MAY. TAKE FIGHT TO FLOOR

REJECTED BY HOUSE GROUP      Issue of Tox Payment Method May be Sent to the Fleor

Ruml Tax Plan Is Rejected Again   Republican Proponents Plan to Carry Battle to House Floor: Vote on Proposal Is 16 to 9

Rumi Plan Beaten 16-9 by House  Committee Vote  Republicans Announce Fight Will Be Taken Onto the Floor  FOR PAY-AS-GO  But Democrats Oppose Forgiving Taxes Owed

Ruml Plan Gets Second Rebuff By Committee   Republicans Declare They Will Carry Fight to Floor of House

Ruml income tax proposal beaten again   Nine republicans will carry battle to floor of house

BRITAIN LISTS TOLL OF WAR   414,993 Casualties Among Empire Forces Revealed

Casualties Of England Put At 514,993   Includes All Armed Forces Since War

Hail Damages Cotton Crop   Jackson County Hard Hit; Heavy Rain Falls In North Oklahoma

Heavy Rains Strike State   Hail Storms Ruin Unpicked Cotton in Jackson County

GULF HURRICANE MOVING SLOWLY   TEXAS AND LOUISIANA COASTAL AREAS WARNED TO PRE. PARE FOR IT,

EXPECTED T0 MOVE INLAND ON SATURDAY  LITTLE MOVEMENT PAST SEVERAL HOURS BUT  ae STORM IS

GLASSPORT BOY CONFESSES HE STABBED BABY   Turned Over To Juvenile Court Pending Outcome Of Injuries

Seven Nabbed In Spy Ring   Federal Men Cleanup Pre-War Group; Two Of Arrested Are Soldiers

FBINABS SEVEN ~ ASNAZTAGENTS   Ends Investigation of PreWar Spy Ring In United States

Touhy, Stewart, Nelson Enter Pleas Of Innocent ‘In Will County Court:

STALIN GIVES VIEWS ON END -OF COMINTERN   Asseris It Answers Calumnies or - Communist Movement, Wil! Strenathen Allies

Gt Rea ay A A 8 a orf kc a  More Miners Quit Jobs Despite FDR Order To Return To Pits By Saturday

Over 85,000 Men (Out of 450,000 Not Working Now   John L. Lewis Demands Contract Negotiations: Be Resumed At Once

Strikes  y Coal Fi¢ d  Spread: ig   Lewis Demands Resump tion of Negotiations—Sil ent on Ultimatum

WALKOUTS SPREAD DESPITE ORDER OF FDR THAT THEY END   85,900 Out Of 450,000 ‘Ox ‘Strike Before Official Hour, 12 Tonight, ‘ Arrives

O00 Sott Coal Miners Now Idle   UMW Chief Refuses To Give in; $2-a-Day Wave Raise Asked

Lewis Is _ Silent As To Plans   REPLIES TO PRESIDENT DEMANDING CONTRACT  NEGOTIATIONS; MAKES NO: REFERENCE TO STRIKE SITUATIO

Wildcat Strikes In Soft Coal Fields Spréad   "85,900: Out. of. 450,000 Minérs ‘Already ‘Idle. -

Wildcat Strikes In. Coal Mines Spread; 85,900 Workers Out   Lewis Dispatches Inconclusive Reply To Roosevelt’s Uutimatum; Demands That  - Contract Negotiations Continue

ALLIES KNIFE INTO VOLTURNO      Caizzo, Amorosi Fall Under Fierce Attacks Nazis Quit Campabasso

GERMANS TRY TO FLEE AREA NEAR CAIAZZO  Allies Canture   Allies Capture Two Important Cities Today

GERMANS TRYING TO BREAK AWAY FROM POSITIONS   “ifth Army Captures Two Towns On Road To Rome; Allied Offensive Gains Momentum Despite Heavy Enemy Resistance.

Fifth, Eighth Armies Each Capture Two; Nazi Retreat Seen   /Counterattacks Fail To Halt Yanks: North. Of Volturno And Calore; Whole German Flank Menaced

GERMANS TRY TO FALL BACK FROM SECTOR   Fifth Army Captures Two New Towns Despite Counter-Attacks

VITAL ‘JUNCTIONS   Fighth Menacing Entire Nazi Flank On Volturno Line’

ALLIES DASH ON AFTER GROSSING VOLTURNO RIVER   Germans Counterattack While Trying To Back Out—Slav Guerrillas Aid Squeeze

} i ' t i }  Fifth Army Knifes Deep Against Counter Thrusts As Armor Crosses Stream

Yanks Menace German Flank on Volturno   Fifth and Eighth Armies Make Progress in March on Rome

Nazis Seek. To Abandon River Line  Fifth Army Pushes Ahead Be She SEL 325...5..

Allies Knife Deeper Into Their Flanks   British Amphibious Units - Now Well Entrenched  Near River Mouth

HUNS STRIVING TO AVOID CLOSE QUARTER FIGHT   Fifth Army Advance Succeeds Despite Sharp Enemy Aitacks to Cover Withdrawals   CALAZZO, AMOROSI FALL TO CLARK UNITS   Give Allies Control of Area at Junction of Volyurno and Calore Rivers: Fighting Bitter

Allies Seize Two More Towns, Road Junction in Italy   Nazis Finally Release Air Foree in Attempt To Check Advance of Fifth Army

BITTER FIGHTING 1S  REPORTED AS NAZIS  SEEK DEFEND LINE: CAIAZZO AND AMOROSI GIVE ALLIES CONTROL  : IMDODTANT ADDA

Nazis Fall Back From Volturno   Yanks, British Each Capture Two Major Defense Towns

Foe Yielding Near Mouth Of Volturno   5th Army Tanks Rumble vver Dridves Despite Heavy Air Attacks   SALONIKA BLASTED   Sth Army Troops Smash Into Campobasso and Vinchiaturo

Nazis Falling Back From Volturno River Under Heavy Attack   Allies Crash Through Bitter Resistance in Central Italy

Germans Trying To Escape From Volturno Line   Beaten By Fifth Army, Enemy's Withdrawal May Be Blocked

Fifth Army Moves Forward In Fierce Fight   Germans Attempt To Break Away From River Lines

CONFER TODAY  IN CAPITA OF IRAN   President and Prime . Minister Talked With Kai-Shek in Cairo 

First President. To Leave. Country During War Time Meets Treeps On African Soll

FDR, CHURCHILL ABOUT TO MEET WITH RED CHIEF   Expect Ultimatum to Nazis; Surrender or Suffer Destruction

Roosevelt Is Present For Historic Series      Meet Staim For Another Conference

Roosevelt, Churchill Meet Chiang-Keis Shek, Will See Stalin Today

Big Conference Takes Place Soon   Momentous Parley To Forge Unity Of Four Great Alhed Powers Near   PRESIDENT -CHURCHILL TO TALK WITH STALIN

BRITISH ARMY ~ PUSHES AHEAD   Fifth Army Smashes Two Enemy Thrusts As Weather Improves.

British Highth Scores New Coins in Italy   Nazi Rail Lines Smashed By American Bombers

FIFTH ARMY BEATS OFF NAZI PUSH   Airmen Hammer German Positions To Aid Ground Troops

British Extend Italian. Gains  Widen Bridgehead Across Swollen Sangro; Americans Repulse Thrusts

War In Italy Stepped Up By Allies   Eighth Extends Its Bridgehead Across Swollen River

STH ARMY EXTE ITS BRIDGEHEAD © ACROSS THE. SANCRO   Two Nazi Thrusts West.. of  Venafro Halted by. U.: S. Troops — Allied Bombers Step Up Tempo of Attacks

BRITISH SURGE FURTHER ALONG AGAINST NAZIS   Consolidate 5 -Mile- Wide “Bridgehead Across Sangro River; Fifth Halts Enemy Thrusts

BRITISH EXTEND BRIDGEHEAD ON SANGRO RIVER   Planes Provide ‘Creeping Barrage’ as Monigomery Pushes Inward Despite Floods   NAZI BOMBERS HIT      Ai Least 10 Shot Down in Attack on Convoy — Americans Smash Enemy Thrusts

BRITISH EXTEND BRIDGEHEAD ON SANGRO FRONT   10 German Bombers, Including Heinkel 177’'s, Shot Down

REPULSETWO NAZITHRUSTS   American Artillery: Breaks Up Force Of "Massing Germans .

ENEMY LINES IN ITALY POUNDED BY U. S. AIRFORCE   BRITISH 8TH ARMY EXTENDS BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS SANGRO RIVER

EIGHTH ARMY BRIDGEHEAD IS EXTENDEL   Americans in Fifth, Meanwhile, Smash Two Enemy Thrusts West of Venafro as the Weather Improves.

Eighth Army Goes Ahead   Extend Brideghead Acros: Swollen Sangro River; Yanks Check Germans

TROOPS OF BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SLASH FORWARD IN ITALY  AMERICAN AIR FORCES SMASH RAIL FACILITIES AN BOTH FRONTS

Say 10 Nazi Bombers Lost In Fatile. Assault On Mediterranean Convoy

ALLIES EXTEND SANGRO GAINS   Yanks Smash Nazi CounterAttacks; Pound Ital ian Rail Lines

Allies Batter ~— Enemy ln Ital   Yanks And British Score Successes In Fighting

British 8th Army Strengthens Hol  Clark's 5th Army Smashes Foe Thrust

Nazi Thrusts Near Venafro  Deaten Back   'U, S. Bombers Pound [Rail Facilities; BridgeIhead on Sangro Extended

BRITISH EXTEND SANGRO HOLDS   Americans Drive Forward as Weather Improves

Railroad Facilities In German-Held Area Of Italy Are Pounded By Bombers

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY EXTENDS ITS BRIDGEHEAD   Clark's Fifth Army Smashes Two Enemy Thrusts West Of Venafro As The Weather  Shows Improvement

BRITISH EXTEND BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS SANGRO RIVER  ~ Clark’s Fifth Army { Smashes Two Enemy —

Bombs Blast Path Before Eighth Army   Planes Join in Attack-—— Yanks Renulse Two Thrust:

British Bridgehead Across Swollen River ls Widened  American Bombers Raid Key Rail Centers of Italy

Ten German Bombers Blasted Out of Air Over Italy; Weather Slows Army

BRIDGEHEAD IS EXTENDED AGROSS THE SANGRO RIVER   British Sth Army Troops Have Slashed Forward in   That Area.   SMASH ENEMY THRUSTS   American Troops of the 5th Army Active West of Venafro.

New 8th Army Gains Beyond Sansro River   Americans Of 5th Army In Italy Beat Off Two  (i arman Z 5 ee

Air Blows On Italy   Air Forces Pound _ Nazi Bases There; British Extend Bridgehead

Seek to Block Union Move —   Organization of Supervisory Employes By Union Opposed

PACIFIC WAR TO. SURGE UPWARL   Andications. In U. S. Five-Fin gered Drive Point To Big ! Naval Fight Looming.

JAPAN FACING : “THREATS FROM MANY POINTS   ENEMY CAN NOW BE HIT FRO E DIRECTIONS AS ALLIED BTRENGTH ‘STEADILY ‘ .. INCREASES

Surprise Raid Drills Banned For Present   Civilian Defense System s Working Smoothly, Di rector Says   TRAINING IS COMPLETE

‘SURPRISE RAID TESTS. ENDED   Warn, However; That Army .May. Still Sound Alarms   PLAN NEW SETUP   Will Stage Monthly ~ Mobilization Of - Corps

Raid Training Phase Completed Defense Council Bans Air Raid Drills Until Notice;. 24.Hour Watch Continues

SURPRISE AID RAID DRILLS ARE BANNED   This Is Action Of State Council Of Defense Which Warns, However, Might Order Tests Any Time

Seaman Proves Hels Very Popular With Shipmates; Brings 85 To His Home

1,900 JAPANESE KILLED WN 20 DAYS ON ATTH   Total Nipponese Toll May Be Much Higher; Navy Spokesman Says

1,500 Japs Killed and 4 Captured   \Navy Gives. Report on En emy Casualties in the  Battle at Attu

On Attu Island.   Toll Represents 20 Days Fighting; Prisoners Total 4

Mopping Up af Attu Island s Still in Progress   Actual Count of Casualties May Be Considerable Higher

1,500 Japs Die on Attu   Only Four Captured During First 20 Days Of Fighting There

1500 Japanese Killed by U.S. Attu Troops   Only Four Prisoners Taken in First 20 Davs

They Don't  Surrender   Over 1,500 Japs Killed, Four Taken On Attu Thus Far

150 Japanese Killed on Attu, Four Captured   Navy Releases Figures'on First. Month of Fighting

1800 JAPANESE KILLED BY U.S, FORGE ON ATTL   Casualties May Be Greater On Aleutian Island, Navy Reports; Actual Count Of Bodies Cited   NOW MOPPING UP   Only Four Captured Since Fighting Started; Japs  Believed Practically   Annihilated

1,500 JAPANESE KILLED ON ATTU BY U. S, FORCES   Figures Released For First Twenty Days Of Fighting

1,500 Japanese Killed on Attu  U. $. Reports on Enemy Casualties

1,500 JAPANESE SLAIN ON ATTU   Yanks Still Mopping Up After Victory

1500 JAPANESE SLAIN ON ATTU; FOUR CAPTURED   Estimate of Enemy Casualties Based on Actual Count, How Many Buried Not Known   MOP UP GOES ON   Report on Enemy Deac, Which May Run 50 to 100 PC Higher, Covers Entire Campaign

1500 Japs Die In First 20 Days at Attu   Others May Have Beer Killed By Shelling; . Only 4 Captured

1.500 Less Japs!   Only Four Prisoners Taken By U.S. Forces During First 20 Days Of Fighting On Attu

1,500 Japs killed j in 50 days on Attu   Yanks take only four prisoners; Kiska is bombed

Jap Attu Dead Exceed 1.500   Only Four Captured In 20Davs Battle For Aleutians Outpost.

(300 Japs Dead And Four Held Ta Attu Battles   Tokyo Amits Loss Of Troops in  Chinese Fighting

Over 1,500 Jans Killed in 30 Days Of Attu Fighting   Estimate Is Based on Actual Count; Even More Thought Dead

U. S. Empire Plan Report is Seotched  Welles Denies America Plans To Keep Bases

U.S. Has No intention to Set Up Bases   Welles Denies Bases Will Be Built in Republics

U.S. Seeks No Hemispheric Army Bases   Welles Says Nazi Story of Latin-American De- sign Is Lie

HOUSE MOVING 10 SPUR SENATE ON POSTWAR POLICY   May Suspend .Rutea to. Gel Action on ‘Fulbright Rasalution.

LONG SHOT CHANCE PLANNED BY HOUSE   ‘Move Is Announced to Smoke Out Senate on Post-War Foreign Policy Issue.

Will Seek To Smoke Out Senate On  Postwar Foreign Policy Question

FINNISH PEACE MOVE BELIEVED TO BE IMMINENT   Delegation Reported Held In Readiness For Trip To Moscow   PEOPLE PESSIMISTIC   Press Debate Centers On Likely Unconditional Surrender Demand

FINNISH PEACE MOVES RUMORED   Diplomats Reported Ready To Go To Moscow

FINLAND MAY SOON MOVE FOR PEACE   Stockholm Paper Says Fate to Be Settled in Next Few Days

OIL RESERVES USE IS FLAYEL   U. S. Taking Trimming On Petroleum, Says Solon

U.S. Taking “Diplomatic Trimming” ‘On Oil Reserves, Senator Asserts

Pleasure Driving Forbidden in Eastern States  Henderson Says There’s Not Enough Gas. Oil

Pleasure Driving Forbidden in Eastern States  Henderson Says There’s Not

ALL PLEASURE DRIVING BANNID AN THE RAST   Abbe Yont Foto Hert at Naan Relleville Defense Worker Bares Grasoliee Peornait.

Pleasure Driving Banned in East   The Use of Car for Social or Amusement Trips Will Cost Gas Ration.

Hong Kong Hit By Yanks Again   Dock Area Receives American Bombs

NEW. SUBSIDY FIGHT BREWS   President Firm In Demand For Funds To Curb Prices

RR SERS BRIBES SSS SRST REISE  PRESIDENT SHOWS DETERMINATION 10 HOLD TO SUBSIDIES   CHIEF EXECUTIVE READY FOR ANOTHER TUSSLE WITH CONGRESS

FDR GIRDS FOR SUBSIDY FIGHT   President Wants Subsidy Program Continued: Farm Chiefs Opposed

PRESIDENT TC STAND PAT ON SUBSIDIES PLAN   Expect FDR To Send Food Message To Congress Thursday

FDR OBVIOUSLY READY TO RENEW SUBSIDY BATTLE   PLANS MESSAGE TO OUTLINE REASONS FOR PRICE CONTROL

FDR ASSERTS SUBSIDY PLAN ~ WORKING WELL   May Send Congress Message on Subject Tomorrow — Paiton Charges Unholy Alliance

CONGRESS TC GET SUBSIDY FOCD MESSAGE   Roosevelt Demands Federal Funds In  Price Control

PRESIDENT MAY NOT BUDGE ON SUBSIDY PLANS   May Outline Reasons To Congress Tomorrow

Another Subsidies Fight Impending as FDR Writes Message   President Shows Deters mination Not to Yield in His Support

FDR FIRM FOR FOOD SUBSIDY   Expects to Send Message on Subject to Congress Tomorrow.   OTHER NEWS OF CAPITAL

FDR FIRM IN-HIS PLANS TO GO ON WITH SUBSIDIES   Ready For Another Battle With Congress Over Food Subsidy Program — May Send Message to Congres: Tam nrrnw

Soviet Appeal For Nazi Revolt   RUSSIANS IN ATTEMPT TO STIR GERMANS TO REBEL

SOVIETS URGE REBELLION OF NAZI PEOPLES   Free Germany Committee  In Russia Issues  Appeal   HOME FRONT WEAPON      Aven As Possible Move To Sovietize  Reich

PEACE MANIFESTO Sem 10 GERMANS   Washington “Watches Soviet: Sponsored Move with Intarast

ALLIES BELIEVE RED MOVE 10 BE IMPORTANT   Soviet Makes Appeal For Germans To Overthrow Hitler

‘Unusual Importance ‘Attached to Movement  Be BirmaeaBen mt watcrwkK

GERMANS ASKED TO OVERTHROW NAZI DICTATOR   MOSCOW MANIFESTO CALLS ON PEOPLE OF REICH TO END WAR

Moscow Seeking Revolt   Home Front Blow Seen As Move to Sovietize Reich

WASHINGTON EYES * MOSCOW'S APPEAL   Move Seen as Important Trial a Balloon

MOSCOW PEACE APPEAL STUDIED   Plea to Overthrow Hitler, Accept Truce Made By 12 Man Committee

Moscow Urges Germans fo Overthrow Hitler; Reds Smash Nearer Orel

Trial Balloon Sent Out hy the Russians   “Free Germany’ ’ Committee Move Regarded As Test on Post-War Plans   SHOWS INTEREST IN PEACE POLICY   Some Apprehension Is Expressed Privately in Allied Quarters

Mothers Line Up for Milk   i Delaware Dealers Stop Deliveries in De.tect af COPA Oreder

Appear Outside Retail Stores in Delaware Carrying Smali Children in Their Arms   OPA APPEAL AGAINST STRIKE 1S IGNORED   Dealers Order Discontinaance of Deliveries After Court Rules Against Price Incresse

Three Resign OPA Positions   Brown Predicts More Beef. Gas For Civilians

Two Large Japanese Ships Hit In Raid On Amboina   Other Japanese Bases Hit Hard In Raids By Heavy Allied Bombers Of MacArthur Unit

TWO LARGE JAP VESSELS BOMBED   Enemy Shipping is Attacked In Ambonia Harbor   DIRECT HITS   Heavy Bombers Stage TwoHour Raid on Jap Naval, Plane Base at Rabaul

TWO BIG JAPANESE VESSELS ATTACKED   eens  Amboina Raided by Heavy Bombers of the 1 ¢$

TWO BiG JAPANESE VESSELS ATTACKED   Amboina Raided by Heavy  Bombers of the wie

Hits Scored On Two Jap Ships: Rabaul Blasted   ‘Vessels In Harbor At Amboina Lashec In Stinging Raid .

Pm ay ema be om [Ae Qa ee A : ie ues oye wey  Delage Bega Melt ar.

2 large Jap ships bombed at Amboina   Fires started. ain wharf area

MEDICAL OFFICER WARNS ABOUT GAS   Fells Doctors Attacks on Industrial Centers Are Passible.

SOLONS OKAY WELFARE BILL   Auglaize County Representa: tive Attacks Measure As ‘Political’

HOUSE ATTACKS OPA ROLLBACK SCHEME   20 Percent Cut in Fund Votes, Tack on Anti-Subsidy Clause

Despite Federal Edict Additional Miners Stay Idle   Rank and File Members Are Dissatisfied With War Board Ruling.   Strike Leaders Vote To Resume Productior

Five More Locals Quit ~ Despite WLB Ultimatum   UMW Leaders—Both Insurgent and Loyal to John L. Lewis—Previously Had Predicted Return to Work Monday      WLB ORDER VICTORY FOR LEWIS   UMW Chief Tells Board No Other Course Open to It but Demand Miners Submit —Promises Substantial Bonus Later   Strike Leadera Wote Return

Return to Jobs ls Ordered by Labor Board   Leaders Anticipate Back to Work Move By Men Monday

3800 More Join Wildcat Coal Strike.   Action Is Taken Despite -WLB Order to Return to Work

Extra Pay Provisions Protested   Reaction To Order Ot War Labor Board I: Uncertain — Locals T< Hold Mass Meetings

More Men Stay Away From Work in Face of New WLB Ultimatum.   DISAPPPROVE OF RULING

More Miners Join Wild  Cat Strike   Thirty-eight Hundred Others Walk Out in Spite of WLB Order ‘To Return To Jobs

3800 MORE MEN GO OUT ON STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA   Joined 18-Day-Old Wildcat Walkout Despite War Board Ultimatum,   MEN ORDERED TO WORK   Want 50-Cent a Month In crease in Union Dues Eliminated.

EXPECT MINES TO REOPEN IN EAST MONDAY   Get Orders To Return To Job From Officials

UNION LEADERS APPEALS FALL ON DEAF EARS   Wildcat Walkout Joined by 3800 More Coal Diggers Asking Cut in Dues

3,600 MORE MINERS Ur THEIR JOBS WN. ~ ANTHRACITE FIELDS      Defy WLB. Order Directing Others.To Return To Mines Immediately   ICOAL SHORTAGE SPREADS

Walkout Despite Ulti. matum Of War Labor Board  HIT DUES BOOST  Had Expected Other Strikers To Go Back On Monday

Defy WLB Order To Resume Work In Pennsylvania   Government Seizure 0) Anthracite Mines Now Forecast

MINERS DEFY LABOR BOARD WORK ORDER   Ignored by Local Unions Dissatisfied Failure to Act on Wages, Dues.   ‘SIXTH WORK DAY PART OF GRIEVANCE   Board Threatens to Take Strong Measures to Get Compliance.

COAL MINERS  MAY RETURN TO WORK MON.   Voting Today. on Proposal; Strike Denounced by Lewis

3,800 MEN JOIN MINE STRIKE   WLB Ultimatum Directing Strikers to Return to Work May Be Obeyed Monday

Wildeat Uoal Strike Grows Despite WPB  3.800 More Miners Go Out In Spite Of Work Order  a i.      FDR MAY STEP IN   Government May Take Over Mines If Its Orders Unheeded

3,800 More Miners Quit Work Today   New Strikers  Carry Out Threat Expect Some to  Return Monday

Reopening Coal Mines Is Ordered   Striking Locals Get WLB Ultimatum

3800 More Coal Miners Join Strike   . Action Is in Defiance Of WLB Order; End OF Walkout Deferred

Reopening of Hard Coal Mines Monday Is Expected Today   War Labor Board Tells Men to Resume Work, Submit Grievances

Anthracite Miners Refuse to Work   Wildcat Strikers Defy War Board

MORE MINERS JOIN ANTHRACITE STRIKE   HLB May Ask President te Seize Mines to Resume Production

More Miners. Leave Jobs in Pennsylvania   Action. Comes -in Face of New Ultimatum to..: End the Strike   NEW WALKOUT MAY  BE SHORT-LIVED   Reasons for Move Not: En‘ tirelyClear Much Dis."  Me et. eta ta atian

5,100 More Pennsylvanian Miners Stay Away From Jobs   WLB Issues Ultimatum’. * 40 WildeateStrike Over’ Union Dues Boost

MORE MINERS JOIN STRIKE; NONE RETURN   3,800 NOT HITHERTO OUT JOIN STRIKER ARMY TODAY

More Miners Join Strike in East   War Labor Board Ultimatum Defied

MINERS PROTEST RULING OF WIE   Five Thousand More Workers Join Anthracite Walkout In East   FIGHT DUES BOOST   War Labor Board Ultimatum Says Men Must Return Monday

Thirty-Eight Hundred Miners Hitherto Not on Strike Join Wildcat Walkout in Pennsylvania   DEFY ULTIMATUM BY WLB TO END STRIKE   Mine Union Leaders— Both Insurgent and Loyal —Said Earlier They Ex pected Walkout to End.

Ballot On WLB Order   Lewis Denounces Strike As Illegal; Dues Plea Ignored

COAL MINERS OFF THE'JOB   Join 18-Day-Old Walkout in East Despite WLB Order to 10,000 to 1%,000 Others to Resume Work at Once.

Miners Vote On Ending Walkout   Lewis Denounces Strike; Government May Seize Mines

MINERS VOTING ON PROPOSAL 10 RETURN 10 WORK   Government May Seize Mines Unjess Men Report to Jobs Monday.

Earlier U. M. W. Lead« ers Predicted Strike End Monday   Lewis Victory

MINERS VOTING TODAY TQ END 18-DAY. STRIKE   Washington Believes Men to Return to Jobs Monday After Lashing From Chief of UMW.

More Miners Join Wildeat Coal Walkouw   WLB Orders Strike Ended. Threatens Use Of All Power To Foree Return.   VICTORY FOR J, LEWIS

UNION MEMBERS AREDISSATISFED WITH WL RULIN   Meetings Today and Tomor row To Decide. Whethe: Order To End Strike Shali Be Obeved.

Action Taken as Union Leaders Consider WLB Back-to-Work Ultimatum

WLB ruling is defied by  more miners   Rank and file  dislike finding

FEDERAL BOARD FLATLY REFUSES TO NEGOTIATE    Heads of Striking Locals Vote To Propose Truce

COAL WALKOUT GROWING: 3800 MORE STRIKE   Quit Mines Despite Order of WLB to 10,000 Others to Go Back to Work.   LEWIS WINS DECISION.   Ultimatum Represents Victory For UMW Chief on Dispute  Nivar Dean Inarnnean

MINES MAY OPEN AGAIN MONDAY   War Labor’ Board  UItimatum May End Anthracite Strike.

5,100 More Join Outlaw Mine Strike   W. L. B. Ultimatum Defied; Government May Seize Collieries.

HARD COAL STRIKE SPREADING, ORDER OF BOARD IGNORED   Insurgent Locals of United Mine Workers Protest Against 50°Cent Boost In Union Dues.   RESUMPTION OF WORK POSSIBLE ON MONDAY   War Labor Board Will Use All Power to Compel Men To Return Unless They End Walkout.

UNION OFFICIALS FAVOR TRUCE IN COAL WALKOUT   War Labor Board Refuses T< Consider Strikers’ Wage Demands

0,000 ADDITIONAL MINERS WALK OUI IN PENNSYLVANI   Join Strike Despite WLB Recommendation Directing Miners To Return To Jobs Immediately; President May Be Asked Te  Intervene:

Ultimatum Of WLB Defied; F.R. May Aet   UMW Leaders Believe Strikers Will Return To Jobs Monday; Cual Shortage Danger Seen

FORMER NORMANDIE. “RIDES THE WAVES   “Queen of the Seas” Es. sentially Afloat — May See Service Within a Year.

Navy Begins Task Of Righting  Former French Luxury Liner   Normandie, Now U. 5. S. Lafayette, Rolls Eight Degree: Under Operations—Burned Feb. 10, 1942

Raising Of Normandie Practically Completed   "Queen Of Seas” To Leave Mud And Ooze Of Hudson River Today

OLD NORMANDIE NEARLY AFLOAT   Pumping Continues As Fire: Swept Hull Is Raised To 45-Degree Angle

KELLY ELECTED 10 4TH TERM AS CHICAGOMAYOR   Complete Unofficial Count Shows Victory by 116,159 Votes

Japanese Raid on Darwin  Costly to Nips   22 of Enemy Fleet of 48 Planes Are Either Destroyed or Damaged, ‘Communique Reports: Nine of Craft Are Seen to Crash

Food Ceilings Are Extended  Practically Every - City Is Covered 

PRICE CEILINGS BY COMMUNITY BASIS OPPOSEL   Controversial Action Taken in Most Cities by OPA Chief on Items of Common Food

Food Price  Controversy Gets Hotter   OPA to Extend Community-wide Ceiling System

Dad Draft Issue.  Nears Settlement   Administration - Supported Bailey Bill To Be Called Up.

SOLON VOTE ON DAD DRAFT SEEN   LEADERS SEE DECISION ON ISSUE THIS WEEK

Senate May Sidetrack Wheeler Bill   Substitute Becked By Administration Due for First Call

Dad-Draff Issue Near Clima   Showdown In Senate Is Expected This Week

DEBATE FATHER DRAFT MEASURE   Issue May Be Decided Finally This Week By Solens

HOPE TO DECIDE FATHER - DRAFT ISSUE THIS WEEK   Senate Prepares To Settle Dispute Once And For All; Several Substitutes To Wheeler Bill May Be Voted On.

FATHER DRAFT VOTE NEARING   Taft's Proposal to Delay Calls for Men Over 30 Considered

No Attempt To Hold On To Cap Bon   Air Attacks Halted For Lack Of Ene  mv Targeta

ALLIED LEADERS IN MEETING FOR SEVENTH TIME      First Time, ‘However. That The Chinese Leader Met With Them

County Nearly $1,500 Over Tor   Raises $10,120 in Red Cross War Fund Campaign in Last Few Weeks.

MANFORD-BRIDGES UNION REGULATION — GOES SENATE FLOOR   LABOR UNION REGULATORY BILL NOT EXPECTED MEET MUCH OPPOSITION

Two Flee Lubbock Jail, Are Captured  Men Are Indicted For Robbery of Hale Center Bank

MACARTHUR'S PLOTS KEEP UP BAIDS ON JAPS   Mubo On New Guinea Coast Raided On 15th Straight Day By Allies

Americans Keep Blasting Japs.   Efforts Hampered By Distance, Plane Lack

U.S FLIERS KEEP UP BLASTING ATTACKS “ON JAP POSITIONS   At Least 263 Planes, 35 Ships Destroyed Or Damaged During March

German Infantry and Tanks Counter-Attack Neor Kharkov   IMPORTANT TOWN HELD BY SOVIETS   Red Armies Continue » Their Sweep Towerd  Lene Sore Pd

Enemy Fails To Penetrate Russian Lines   Soviets Advance Southeast of Kharkov in Terrific Battle

Nazis Making Great Effort To- Gain More   Resistance Overcome in, Red Drive on Central Front

SOVIETS KEEP -DRIVEMOVING ON SMOLENSK   IMPORTANT HAMLET IS CAPTURED ON KHARKOV FRONT

Reds Repulse ‘Endless’ Nazi Attacks In South And Claim Gains In Drive On Smolensk

German Infantry and Tanks Counter-Attack Near Kharkov  IMPORTANT TOWN HELD BY SOVIETS  Red Ar mi es Continue Their Sweep Toward Smolensk

Declare Germans Are Attacking Repeatedly in Effort to Recover Lost Positions.   NAZI DIVISION SMASHED IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   More Villages Fall to Stalin’s Troops as They Push Toward Foe’s Central Front Stronghold.

FURIOUS TANK BATTLE RAGES NEAR KHARKO\   Germans Fighting Desper. ately In Attempt To Re trieve Lost Positions   RUSSIANS PUSHING TOWARD SMOLENSK

Nazis Struggle Bitterly But Russians Gain   Enemy Infantry, Tanks, Fight Steadily In Vain to Regain Lost Ground; Soviets Capture Important Position

Russians Beat . Off Ceaseless Donets Attacl   Soviets Near Smolensk Timoshenko Gains At Taboo Pinan

Important Point Is’ Taken In Red Drive   Continuing Russian Successes In Sweep To Smolensk Reported in Early Friday Fight

“WAZIS TRY GAIN © LOST POSITIONS   Reds Continue Sweep Toward Vital Smolensk   LOSSES SAID HEAVY   Timoshenko’s Drive in North py Said to Have Gained Additional Ground

Reds Capture Donets Town  In Tank Battle   Repulse ‘Endless’ ’ Counterblows By German Forces

Nazis Try To Retake Lost Ground   Infantry, Tanks Counter Attacking In Kharkov Area

NAZIS DRIVE ENDLESSLY 16 REGAIN POSTS   Donats River Below Kharkov Scene Of Counter Attecks; Red; Fight On Towards Smolensk.   Reds Have Edge

Reds Capture Vital Spot Below Kharkon   Nazis Fail to Penetrate Red Lines; Gains Toward Smolensk Are Reported by Soviets

 Nazis Fail To Crack Red Line  In Donets Basin, Russians Say   U.S. Fortresses Bomb Vegesack  Near Bremen   Unescorted U. S. Planes  Destroy or Damage Many Defending Craft

"Massed German Tank and Motorized Anfantry Attacks Stopped by Reds   Other Attacks Renulsed

SOVIETS HOLD BACK MASSES OF FOE TANKS   Reds Also Rolling On In Big Sweep Toward Smolensk

JAPANESE PLANE LOSES HEAVY   Enemy Rushes Air Reinforcements To New Guinea

JAPANESE AIRFORCE  SOUTHWEST PACIFIC  BEING DESTROYED REINFORCEMENTS  BROUGHT IN ARE BEING *  eern BAD AWAY 77%

Jap Plane Loss Toll Increased As Allies Pound Airdromes At Wewak

Japs Lose 360 Warplanes In  Wewak Raid   Reinforcements  Are Pulled Back

LOSSES HEAVY   36 Destroyed at Kahili, Over 20 at Wewak in Monday Actions.   FOE PULLS BACK BASES

Badly Mauled Nip Air Force Retreats   JAPS ARE FORCED INTO NEW POSITIONS ON NEW GUINEA

JAPAN. PULLING IN AR FORGES UNDER ATTAGK   Heavy Losses Force Enemy To Withdraw His Planes From New Guinea

Japs’ Airforce  Badly Mauled   Losses At Wewak Alone  360; Bases Being Dillied Rack.

Japs Backing Up Air Bases   Air Reinforcements to New Guinea Have Farther to Fly

(JAP AIR FORCE IN PACIFIC IBADLY MAULED:   Breniy ‘Has Lost More Than 360 Planes At Wewak Alone

DESTROY MORE JAP PLANES AT WEWAK   Allies Advance in Fight for Salamaua Airdrome

IAPS’ WEWAK PLANE LOSSES CLIMB T0 360      From 20 to 25 Craft Wrecked in Latest Raid, in Which Allies Drop 92 Tons of Bombs Without Opposition.

AIRMEN BLAST JAP PLANES AT WEWAK AGAID   20 to 25 Smashed in New Raid, Bringing Total to More Than 260 —Jap Bases Pulled Back

360 Lost to Them Through U.S. Attacks   4-Engined Bombers Meet  No Opposition Monday - At Wewak

EPIDEMIC AT ~ RECORD HICH   CHICAGO HAS MORE INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES THAN IN 1917 BUT DEATH ‘TOLL LOWER

Evacuation of Germany’s Heavily Fortified Town Demysnasky Under Red Pressure   TIMOSHENKO OPENS GIANT OFFENSIVE   Drives Into Enemy’s Positions On Broad, WindSwept Sector Northwestern Front

OT RONG FRENGH FORGES MOVING AGAINST NAZIS   Russians Continue Advances Against German Armies On Eastern Front

Rommel’s Fleeing — _Armies Threatened  By Allied Columns   Strong French Force Breaks Into Tripolitania From Southern Tunisia, Less _Than 300 Miles From Tripoli

Rommel Forms Two Lines to Await Attack   Medium Bombers ‘Of Americans Or Qre Soe pge:

Senator, Vice-President, They All Think Alike, In Round About Way

Ghost Towns Threat Seen   -Must Save Thousands Of Small Businesses

OPERATIONS SUCCESSFUL   Murray Offers Plan To Solve  New Problems

Withdrawal from Salerno Would Not Be Vital Setback Hitlerites Were Well Established

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ern Minor Setback ‘annot Change Final Outcome. In Italy

Allied Setbacks In Italy No Sign Of Major Defeat; Nazis Desperate

HOME FOLK SHOULD VIEW WITH CONFIDENCE HARD BATTLE WITH GERMANS AROUND SALERNO

The War Today   Allied ‘Troops Breauuver  Difficulties On Beachae OF Salama

Mystery Man To Be Called In Oil Prob   Lobbyist To Be Heard  By Committee; Report _ Lavish Entertainment In Capital

French Patriots Put on Alert  Allies Say Invasion Time Is Nearing

WORKERS TOLD TO WANE PAY DEMANDS NOW   Says Complaints Of No Group Can Be Placed Above Our Military Goal   'WALKOUTS — CONTINUING   New Strokes Reported tn Alabama And Pennsylvania; 125,000 Are Out

Rum! Plan Given New  GOP Shove   Action Sought in Senate Finance Committee After House Rejection

Group Endorses Ruml Plan And May Force Committee To Try Again; Easter Recess Hope Vanishing

Income Tax Fight Revived   Republicans Seek -Ruml-Plan Action...

SENATORS ENDORSE AUMIL SKIP-VEAR TAX   Seven Republicans Inspire GOP to Ask Return of Legislation to House Floor

Senate Approval Pay-As-Go Causes Explosion In House Ways Aad Means

G. 0. P, Senators Back Ruml Plan  Finance Committee Mombhare On Record

NEW EXPLOSIONS BELIEVED DUE ON THE RUML TAX PLAN: SENATE GOP IN ROW

Officers. to. Be Elected; Reports of Activity to Be. Made   w Many Wea  “FALSE TEETH

COTTON TRADE HAS A BIG TASK   Must Embark On Program Of Cost - Cutting And Quality Improvement To Maintain Position, Williams Warns.

(Go Forward After Capture of Mateur   American ‘Forts’ Unlash Heavy Bombardment

YANKS LAUNCH ADVANCE FROM MATEUR REGION   American Flying Forts unleash bombardment on port installations

U.S. TROOPS. MOVE GLOSER 10 AIS: BASE   Continued Advance Report ed After the Capture of Mateur, °   HEAVY ATTACK BY AIR   Axis Line Between Tunis and Bizerte Expected “to Be Cut.

Two Air Force Units Combined   New Organization Hande lLIn In Texrne

Two Air Force” Units Combined   New Organization Heads Up- In Texne

Malian People Expect Peace Bid By Badoglio Soon   Fascist Leaders, Party Headquarters Swept Out OF Italy

REPORT TALKS UNDERWAY AT VATICAN CITY   Spontaneous Peace Demonstrations Stage, By Italians

Berlin Puzzled By Situation Within Italy  Hitler Wants To Meet Badoclic

Italians Hope for Armistice   Rumors of Peace Moves Are Current In London and UV. S.

Decision Is Awaited From Italy   Attempt To Obtain An Armistice Expected To Be One Of First Acts Of Premier Badoglio

Bern Reports Early Action’ Can Be Expected For Italy To Get Out Of World War2

People Expecting Peace Move From Badoglio Regime   Anti-Fascist Demonstrations Follow Mussolini’s Downfall; Re uters Reports Preliminary Negotiations Opened For Armistice   PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS   periin FUZZICYU  Hitler Wants Meeting With Badoglio

REPORT HITLER OEEKS MEETING   Badoglio Has Not Officially Declared Fascist Party Dead.   PUBLIC DEMONSTRATING

Expeet Early Move From Italy To End Par tin War   Huge Demonstrations For Peace Reported; Hear Troops Called Home: Berlin Stunned

ITALIANS CLEA FASCISTS FROM HIGH POSITIONS   Report Preliminary Negotiations Started in Vatican City

ITALIAN PEOPLE) BXPECT SWIET BID FOR PEACE   Reports From Rome Indicate Popular Belief Arm istice Will Be Requesied by New Regime   PARLEY AT VATICAN CITy IS RUMORED   ‘German Ambassador to  Rome Reported Holding  Series of Talks With Premier Badoglio

RUMORS INDIGATE NEW ITALY REGIME TO SEEK ARMISTICE  SPONTANEOUS PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS Be gr  DADTECH Tal IT ATIAR

Italians Begin To Sweep Out Fascist Party   Peace Demonstrations Break Out Throughout Country; Mussolini Held.   PUSH MESSINA DRIVE

Popular Belief Is Italy Will Ask Armistice   Badoglio Seeking To Maintain Order In Italy; Fascists Not Dead

Madrid Says Hitler Is In the Dark   Also Wants To Know What To Expect From Italy

Badoglio To Make Peace Bid, Belief   Italian People Expect New Government Will Act; Demonstrations Follow Duce’s Fall  —_— —Aeeaenensn ee 6S ese 4@&8na*'ar @ ara?

New Government Seen Asking For Early Armistice   Unconfirmed Report Negotiations Started

NAZIS DON'T KNOW WHAT T0 EXPECT NEXT   New Leader Said Trying To Get Italians Out Of Reverse

London Hears [talians Map Peace Terms   German Ambassador Reported In Talks With Badoglio

New. Italian Government Expected: Se To: Ask’ Allies “For” Armistice

Adolf Hitler Wants to Sex Badoglio   Fuehrer Seems to Be Surprised By the Fall of Mussolini

FASCIST PARTY BEING CLEANED OUT OF NATION   Negotiations For Armistice Under  Way, Radio Says

Italians Expect Fast Peace Bid   Anti-F ascist Demonstrations Follow Duce's Downfall

German Dispatches To Madrid - Hint Adolf Hitler Would Welcome  Meeting With Marshal Badoglio

Bern Dispatch Quoted A Saying Preliminary Ne gotiations for Armistice Between Italy and Allie: Began In Vatican City Monday Night; No Con firmation of Report.

ALLIES MOVE ON LAST NEW GUINEA JAP STRONGHOLD   U.S. and Australian Treops Storm and Capture Buna Mission Area.

GOVERNMENT STATION AT ~ BUNA TAKEN   Enemy’s Positions Are : .  ~ Now Described as ' Hopeless by Allied  Headquarters.

ALLIES MOVE AGAINST JAP’S LAST STAND IN PAPUAN AREA   Small Enemy Force Trapped Around Cape Sanananda Sole Resistance

Drive on Last Jap Stronghold:   New Guinea Area ‘Being’ Attacked.

ALLIES MOVE ON LAST JAP PAPUAN BASE   Nips Wiped Out At Buna Over The Week End

MacArthur Attacks Last [Papua Stronghold After Capturing Buna Station

MaeArthur’s Men Blasting Last Jan Grip   Final Stronghold In Papuan Sector Is About To Fall

Small Force of Foe Tries To Hold Out   DESPERATE ENEMY GROUP STRIVES TO STAVE  OFF ROUT. ho

ALLIES DRIVE ON LAST STRONG BASE OF JAPANESE ARMY   MacArthur's Forces Move Against Enemy. In Papuan Area Of New Guinea

WARTHUR MEN ATTACK LAST JAP STRONGHOLD   Foe Pocketed in Desperste Position in Papuan Area

Americans Bear Heavy End of Today's Fighting   Yanks Advancing In Tunisia to Meet Montgomery's 8th

Batter Axis ~ Mortar And Other Nests   Americans Take Captives, Destroy Mine Fields in Advance

Progress Made Toward Junction  With 8th Army   German Counterattacks Battering At Soviet De‘fenses in Donets. Nazis Imprison French Leaders Edouard Deladier. Leon Blum and Gen. Maurice Gameltin.

Yanks Gain In Drive to Join British   Furious Air Attacks on Three Italian Cities Are Announced

Three Strong Nazi Attacks Turned Aside   Second Army Corps Driving Ahead Toward Junction With British

Batter Axis Mortar « An ~- Other Nes        Americans Take Captive Destroy Mine Fields: Advance a

heds Face Major Test In Efforts To Hold Key City in Ukraine Against Superior Foe REACH CITY’S EDGE, GERMANS CLAIM  Russians Maintain Offensive Efforts On Northern Front

Kharkev Crisis Finds — Russians Outnumbered      Reds Again Infer Second Front Need; . Allied African Position Improved. Report

Heavy Attacks Reportedly Are Repulsed   Allied Positions in Africa Declared Improved

Arundel Isle Is Taken ~ by Americans   New Landings Are Made Without Enemy Opposition

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Russian Army Stronger Now Than Last Year )ffensive Proves

Hitler Is Getting Into Hotter Water In Frost Bitten Russia, Says Keemle   Russians Capture 60 Towns  In North Caucasus Fighting

‘Polish-Russ Break Creates ‘Nazi Victory  U.S. And Britain  Now Working To  Saad Pencil

POLES SHAPE THEIR STAND INRED SPLIT   Observers Expect Action To Repair Present Breach Caused By Slayings

LES MOVE T0 ESTORE TIES ITH RUSSIA   abinet of Polish Government-in-Exile Convening in Special Session in London   ED BREACH HELD GERMAN VICTORY   raking of Diplomatic  Relations Throws Mon key Wrench Into Postwar Planning

POLISH CABINET STUDIES CRISIS   Exiled Government Seeks’ To Renew Relations With Soviet Russia

POLES PONDER SOVIET ACTION   Ctaim:Bread: in Relations : Victory For German ' . Propaganda

POLISH CABINET HAS CONFERENCE   Concrete Action Expected to Repair Breach Over Remarks About Reds.

TO DISTRIBUTE RATION BOOK 4   County Registration Set For October 20-24

WAR RATION BOOK ‘FOUR TO BE ISSUED   Ld APPLICANTS MUST BRING A COPY OF WAR RATION  BOOK THREE

CHANGE IN CLINICS   Dr. Mary Boyden Will Will Be in Charge of Baby Clinic

AMERICANS, NAZIS ENGAGE IN BIITER FIGHT IN TUNISIA      Azis Troops Attempt .To Widen Corridor For Retreat By Afrika  Korps In South .

HIGHWAY BILL VETO TO STAND   Speaker Thinks Governor Was Misled On County Maintenance Plan

WELCOMEFOR U.S. TROOPS IN CONGO SECTOR   ARRIVE AT THYSVILLE, IS BELGIAN RADIO REPORT MADE TODAY

Angry Wyoming Ranchers Join Hunt F. or Perpetrator of Three Murders

Ranchers Join Law Officers To Hunt Murderer   Mystery in NoMotive Killings Infuriates Citizens

RANCHERS HUNT FOR MURDERERS   Three Motiveless Killings Infuriate Residents Of Laramie, Wyo.

RANCHERS: LEAD MURDERER HUNT   Families Sent To Safe Havens After Three Slayings in Wyoming Area

Infuriated Ranchers In Wyoming Seek Killer   ‘Case Won't Cost State Anything If We Catch Him’ Says Grim Posse

infuriated Wyoming Ranchers Hunt Slayer of Stockman — And Wife in Laramie Region

Angry Ranchers Seeking Crazed Slayer of Three  Put Women Under — Guard, Join Posses In Wyoming Hunt  *LANE HELPS  - Ranchman, School ~ Teacher Wite . Found Murdered

Ten More Jap Planes Shot Down; Reds Score Again in Dnieper Bend   Rattle for Italy Continues at Neavy Pace With Allies Making More Slight Gains;  Sweden Tells Nazis Relations ‘Deteriorate’

CAPTURE ENEMY BUN POSITIONS   Only Objective Not Obtained In Initial Landings   FORCES FAN OUT   Meet Slight Resistance From Snipers; Find Few Japs Alive or Dead

YANKS SCORE NEW GAINS IN ARAWE SECTOR   Allied Sky Patrol Shoot Down 10 More Jap Planes

YANKS GAIN IN ISLAND THRUST   Sixth Army Captures Umtinga‘la Settlement After Advance of 3 Miles

Taken As Troops Advance Inland  Aerial Cover Aids Americans Ward Off Jap Attacks

Allied Push Develops On Bougainville Isle   .. Jap Resistance Limited Chiefly To Air: ; Leavy Guns, Rations Taken By MacArthur's Men

Wipe Out Jap Position That Stopped Only Unit From Gaining Objective

Sixth Army Advances On New Britain   Thunderbolts Blast Down Ten More Japanese Planes

Americans Far Out on New Britain Island   U. §. Invaders Take Gun Positions Of Another Section

Village Near Arawe Taken.   Troops Advance While Ten More Jap Planes Downed

US.INVADERS BROADEN &AINS IN NEW BRITAIN   Yanks Capture Umtingula Settlement and Artillery Positions in Arawe Region.   ADVANCE THREE MILES TO EXTEND BEACHHEAD   Sky Patrols Have Downed 24 Jap Planes-——-Cape Gloucester Is Pounded Anew From Air.

Umtingalu Has: Been Captured   Last Jaf) Fortress Upon '-Arawe. Is Seized And Guns Silenced

Japanese Gun Positions Fall  To Americans  Three-Mile Gain Scored By Yanks In Taking Of Spot From Which Foe Prevented Landing

YANKS SCORE MILE GAIN ON NEW BRITAIN   JAPANESE CLEARED FROM ARAWE PENINSULA

Physically-Fit Fathers to Get Call to Service   Regardless of Children, They May Be in Army by End of This Year.   Cream of Manpower Is  Just About Exhausted

10,900,000 MEN WILL BE IN UNIFORM   Married Men Not Drawn at Turn of Year Have Fine Chance of Not Getting In   M'NUTT IS QUESTIONED

[Reports Continue To Conflict On  Drafting Fathers   McNutt Now Says Ma jority of Physically Fi Fathers Will Be Ir Uniform By End O I og ee

Most Fathers In Army By End Of Year   Those Left At That Time Probably Will Miss Draft, McNutt And Hershey Indicate

Most of Physically-Fit Fathers to Wear Army Uniform by End of 1943   Inductions to Drop Early in 1944; Hershey. McNutt Testify Before Group

Many Of Physically-Fit Fathers Will Be In Service By End Of Year   But Those Who Are Not Called This Year Stand Excellent Chance Of Escaping Induction, Head Of Selective Service Save.

Jowered navy standards might postpone the drafting of fathers three or four months.

Many Fathers To Be Inducted Before 1944   After December, Bulk of Inductees Will Be Teen-Age

To Induct Majority Of Fathers This Winter... « Army Inductions To Be Cut 60 Per Cent After The 31st Of December

NOUGTIONS TO BEHELD BACK UNTIL AUST   Most Physically Fit Fathers to Be in Service by End of December.      NEXT YEAR’S INDUCTEES FROM TEEN-AGE: GROUP

Draft-Age Dads’ Induction. in Angust Is Hinted  117,000 Will Be Called Out Monthly in 1944

Fathers F ace Draft Cali By End Of Year   Ma jority Will  Be In Uniform

Army To Cut Inductions 60 Per Cent  After December; Fathers Still Liable

Fathers Not In Uniform By End of Year Stand Chance Of Never Getting Into One

Majority of Physically Fit to Be in Uniform By End Of Year.   NO DISTINCTIONS MADE

McNutt, Hershey Tell House That Majority Of Nation’s Fathers Face Draft This Year

Majority of Fathers May Face Induction Before End of Year   Draft Seen Beginning in August, Regardless of Number of Children;  60 Pet. Slash Expected by January

Nation's Draft-Age Fathers in Uniform  Before End of Year   Induction of This Class     xpected to Start in August House Hears

Inductions to Be Cut 60 Per Cent After Dec. 1, Revealed  Majority of 1944 Inductions Are to Come

MOST OF FIT DADS 10 BE IN BY THEN   Teen-Agers To Fill Most Of Calls In 1944   NO DISTINCTION   To Be Made Between Fathers With One Child And One With More

Warn Fathers Of Induction After August  Slowing Down Of Rat After End OF Year   Slowing Down Of Rate After End Of Year Won't Affect Present Situation Very Much

Inductions To Be Cut About ‘First Of Year   Many Draft-Age Fathers Will Be Called Before Then, Committee Is Informed By Hershey

Inductions Will Start in August   Raie Of Army Inductions Will Be Pared In 1944; Teen-Agera Fill Gap

Fathers Will Be Called, Hershey Says   Children Will Not Be Stopper To Draft

BE DECREASED FOR NEXT YEAR   But Most of Physically-Fa Fathers Will Be Called Before Then   INEARING ARMY LIMITS   Most of 1944 Inductees To Come From TeenAge Group

Majority of Physically-Fit,  Regardless of Number  of Children, Will  Be Called   10 SWELL FORCES ~~ FO 10,900,000 MEN   jnductions to Be Cut 60%  After December 31; ’44 Inductees From the Teen-Age Group

Able-Bodied Fathers In  Uniform By End Of Year   Number Of Children Makes No Difference To Selective Service, Hershey Reports

Most Fathers To Get Dralt Call In 1943   Majority Of Physically Fit  To Be Drafted Starting In  , pean   SLOW DOWN FOR 1944

FATHERS: FACE DRAFT GALLS DURING 184)   Those Not Called By January Will Stand Good Chance Of Non-Induction   INDUCTION OF FATHERS WILL START IN AUGUST   U.S. Armed Forces To Total 9,200,000 By End Of June, Congress Is Informed

FATHERS MAY BE IN ARMY SHORTL   Regardless of Children Number of Them Subject To Service In August. ~

Army To Call For Fathers   Majority of Physically Fit In Uniform By Year's End Says Hershey

M'NUTT CLAIMS DADS SURE TO FACE INDUCTION   Monthly Calls Of 300,000 Starting In August Needed To Meet Needs   CUT DUE EARLY IN ‘°44   House Appropriations Group Slashes Budget Requests Of WMC Chief

Bulk of 1944 Inductees to Come From Teen Age Group-McNutt, Hershey

Eisenhower Now Believed Leading Field For Job Of Invasion Commander 

Belief Growing That Eisenhower Has Beer Picked as Subreme Invasion Commander

Gen. Ike Leads For Big Job   No. 1 Choice As Top Man In Western Invasion

“The” Now Believed No. 1  Choice to Direct Invasion   Rv WILLIAM SMITH WHITE.

May Name Eisenhower To Lead New  Invasion   Churchill's Illness May Be Delaying Final Selection Of Allied Commander-In-Chief

GEN, EISENHOWER IS BELIEVED FAVORED AS INVASION CHIEF  BELIEVED VICTOR IN _    BELIEVED VICTOR IN NORTH AFRICA AND SICILY TO LEAD FORCES

Eisenhower Now Talked  As Invasion Commander   Pacific Activity Spotlighted By A Visit From General Marshall

LEADERS AT WORK SELECTING MAN TO LEAD INVASION   3ritish May Take Over In Mediterranean Area   NEWS AWAITED   Phurchill’s I]]ness Believed Delaying Decision On Vital Question

AERIAL BLOWS CONTINUE TO SOFTEN ITALY   British and Canadian bombers poke deep into  Aversa area

ee ae cl ne  U.S. BLIMP FALLS VICTIM OF U-BOA   First Such Battle Ever Reported Where Gas Bag Comes Off Second Best

Enemy Sub Plays New Role--Counterattacks and Shoots  Down Blimp in Atlantic

U-BOAT DOWNS PATROL BLIMP   New Defense Tactics Are Used By Enemy In The Atlantic

Enemy Submarine Bags U. S. Blimp; All but One of Americans Are Rescued

CASE OF LITTLE LEBANON FULL OF DANGER FOR ALLIED NATIONS - AND MAY GET BIG ATTENTION ~

The War Today   Dynamite in Moslem World ‘Aa Lehanon Defies French

PACKS TROUBLE FOR ALLIES —   Bantam State’s Effort: to Escape French ‘Mandate And Establish Independ-. ence Creates Dangerous :  Problem 

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   United Nations Facing Tremendous Problem In Lebanese Mess

The War Today  eae  Tiny Republic of Lebanon Is Small Package of High Explosive.

GOVERNORS 10 STATES AT UTAH PARLEY   Western Governors Open Two-Day Conference In Salt Lake

FEW COMPLAINTS BEING RECEIVED   Price. Panel Say Say Rigid Enforcement Is Their Intention ©

FEW COMPLAINTS ~ BEING RECEIVED      Price. Panel Say Rigid Enforcement Is Their latenGon *

APPROVAL OF NEW APPOINTEE CURBED IN SUB - COMMITTEE   Attorney Objects to Rutledge and Asks Oppojtunity For Questioning

SLOW DECLINE IN HEALTH SEEN   Survey Reveals Dangers Facing Civilians Thru Loss Of Doctors

Doctor Shortage May Be Serious.  - OWI Sees Threat _ To U. S. Health

ONE THIRD NATION'S DOCTORS iN ARMED FORCES, PROBLEM OF CIVILIAN HEALTH CARE GROWS

Press Pleased With Meeting   Air Is Cleared By Discussion Of U. S. War Problems

_Editors Believe Better Understanding Reached On Governmert Problems

U-BOAT ATTACK QUICKLY AVENGED   TWO AXIS SUBS SENT TO BOTTOM AFTER THEY SINK BRITISH DESTROYER.

Famous British Destroyer Sunk By Nazi U-Boat   Harvester Torpedoed, bu’ Two Submarines Pay Penalty

FAMED BRITISH WARSHIP LOST   Corvette Gets 2 U-Boats To Avenge Sinking Of Destroyer Harvester

109 Axis Generals Have Been Captured By Allies Exclusive Of Russia

Goebbels’ Propaganda Machine Stumped To Exalain Mussolini's Downfall To Germans

WATER AIRDROMES TO BE ESTABLISHED   Pennsylvania Central Ajit Company Plans Big Undertaking

Systematic Sabotage Is Blamed   Fuehrer Breaks Silence of Six Months to Speak

HITLER GAYS ITALY 3 COLLAPSE FORESEEN   Traitors Forced Capitulation. Declares Fuehrer

Rerlin ‘Blows Uy’ Snitzbergen Attack   HITLER SPEAKS: BLAMES ELEMENTS WITHIN ITALY FOR AXIS BETRAYAL

A.W.V.S. to Help in Loan Drive  ‘Avenge the Helena’ Campaign Theme

BITTER FIGHTING RAGES THROUGH CITY’S STREETS   Hitler’s Summer Drive in Russia Smashed Before It Could Get Started   NAZIS ARE SLAUGHTERED   Fall of Orel Expected To Have Far-reaching Effect. On German Morale

Russian Army Smashes Into City Of Orel   ‘Planned’ Retreat Fron Strategic Positions Admitted By Nazis

FIRST GREAT TRIUMPH OF CAMPAIGN   Stiff Resistance Offered By Nazis: Tanks Thrown Into Street Fighting: 24Day Siege Ends

Nazis Put Up Stiff Battle In Withdrawal   Leave Vast Quantities Behind As Reds Push Into Great City, Long Maior Enemy Base

OREL 1S OCCUPIED BY RED ARMY AFTER NAZIS DRIVEN OUT  FIRST GREAT CITY WRES1

Russians Battle in Streets Of Orel, as Fleeing Germans CounterWithRearquard Actior

RED ARMY FIGHTS ITS WAY THROUGH STREETS OF ORE!   Occupation of First Great City Taken from Germian Forces During Summer Campaign.

Russians Drive Nazis Out Of Orel, Smash at Retreating Foe   Soviet Pincers Action Results in German Evacuation of Key Fortification on Southern Front,

SEIZE VITAL POINT WITH STREET FIGHT   Berlin Admits Evacuation of Key Fortified City on Central Front.   SOVIETS BOMB BRYANSK   Germans Put Up Ferocious Rearguard Action as They Withdraw.

Soviets Battle Rear Guard As Germans “Retire, According To Plan”

BITTER FIGHTING =— TAKING PLAGE I STREETS OF ORE   This Action Appears To Be Only Rear Guard Defense    BRYANSK MENACED BY SOVIET PLANES

REDS MOPPING UP ENEMY REAR GUARD   Orel Is First Great City to Fall to Russians . In Summer Campaign

NAZI BASTION AT OREL FALLS T0 ONRUSHING REDS   First Large City To Be Taken From Germans in °43 Summer Drive

First Great City Taken From Nazis This Summer  OREL IN SOVIET HANDS  » 2 2 ¢ &

Is Mopping Up Germans owing Capture of Orel   zis, Put Up Stubboro.Rear-Guard.. fense as Reds Oecupy Vital City

MANS FIGHT BITTERLY 10 CHECK SOVIETS   Red Army Completes Occupation of First City to Fall During Summer

City s Capture {s First Major Summer Victory  Much Equipment   Much Equipment aken; Germans Evacuate Troops

Orel Taken By Russians   First Major City Falls To Reds In Current Summer Campaign; Bryansk Next Goal

Nazi Defenses Crumble Along Mt. Etna Sector; Russian Army Advances

High School Girls Test Big Guns At Erie Proving ‘Grounds; Keep ’Em Rolling

GIRLS TEST GUNS AT PROVING GROUNDS   Army Presents Feminine Role at Demonstration

GRAND J JURY RACES TOWARD EARLY END   Rushton Says Probe Making Splendid Progress in Uncovering Information

LANSING BRIBE CASE NEAR END   Rushton Hints At Quick Windup Of Grand Jury Inquiry

TAX BILL MAY BE WOUND UP THIS WEEK IS BELIE   Pay-As-We-Go Taxes To Forgive All Of 1942, If Senate Bill Passes

NEWPORT BOMBARDIER REPORTED MISSING  Lieutenant G. H. Gammans Served in South Pacitic     Had Taken Part In Several’ La» porlant Actions Including Midway, Waka Theatre

Lieutenant G. H.° Gammans Served in South Pacific   Had Taken Par{'n Several Important Actions Including “Mid way, Wake Theatre

BRITAIN WILL USE GAS ALSO      Warning Comes After Reports of German Plans

BRITISH WARN NAZIS ABOUT USE OF GAS   English inform Reich that quick retaliation can be expected __

Fierce Fighting Still Continues In Some Sectors, But Organized Enemy Appears Definitely  On Wane.

Over 100,000 German and Italian Prisoners Taken.  TUNISIAN BATTLE ALMOST COMPLETED  New and Heavy Raids Have Been Made on Sicily.

Goebbels Hints” Fear of Collapse   Sees Threat of ‘Serious Setbacks

FEARS IN GERMANY   Warns Anyone Attempting To Undermine Victory. ‘Will Be ‘Beheaded

NAZI LEADERS SHOW FEAR OF HOME CRACKUP  Goebbels Promises      Goebbels Promises Death for Those Talking Defeat

Fall Of African City Said Near   Hail of Allied Bombs Blast Fleeing Afrika Korps; Barges Being Used

Allied Planes Riddle  German Ranks   Rommel’s Forces Reported in Full Flight

Minor Dunkirk Is Develop in As Rommel Flees By Land And Sea Routes.

FALL OF CITY I$ EXPECTED 4N SHORT TIME   Allied Planes And Warships Subject Flaming Port To Constant Assault.

Planes and Warships Pour Bombs and Shells Upon City in Minor Dunkerque Action Expected to Culminate in Fall of Stronghold in Few Hours

SEEK. SLAYER OF TEACHER   AUTHORITIES REVEAL WOMAN SLAIN AND BODY: LATER PUT ON TRACKS NEAR  : WAUBEON

WIDEN PROBE IN WOMAN'S DEATH   Officiats Believe School Teacher Was Killed. Body Dumped On Railroad

TRACK TRAGEDY INQUIRY STARTS   Officials Think Wauseon Victim Had Met Death Elsewhere

Russ Troops Chase Nazis   Railway Junction Of tRoqodukhoy Captured

30-mile Russian advance   Germans left only one rail line to escape

RUSSIANS MOVE 30 MILES WEST: TAKING 2 TOWNS   Bogodukho, Graivoron Are Retaken Along Course Of Drive      NAZI REAR GUARD ALSO PENETRATED

Soviet Troops Capture Rail Junction   Russians Smash 30 Miles West of City of Kharkov

Reds Smash On Westward After Kharkov's Fall.   Troops Penetrate Far To- Nazi Rear In Aras Of Kursk

Soviets Cut Another Axis Eseape Route   Nazis Now Have Only One Railroad to Use far Evacnation

Troops Smash Thirty Miles West of : Kharkov   SALIENT BROADENED BY LATE ADVANCES   Net Drawn Tighter About Enemy in the Donets Basin

Troops Smash. Thirty Miles West of ___.., Kharkey ©  SALIENT BROADENED BY LATE. ADVANCES  Net Drawn Tigh Tighter About Enemy in the Donets + Begin

ONLY ONE LINE OF ESCAPE 18 LEFT ENEMY   Russians Pursue Fleeing Nazis 30 Miles Westward From Kharkov.

Vatican Bombing Called Nazi Trick  by Eisenhower   Reconnaissance Plane Saw Bombing Last Friday Night

Allied Warplanes Hit Japanese Base in New Guinea—Yanks, Anzacs Beat Off Nippon’s Counterattacks in Battle for Salamaua

ALL RUSSIA CELEBRATES FOR TAGANROG   Tanks, Troops Race 75 West Of Captured City To Threaten Mariupol

Fall of Taganrog Celebrated By Russian People   Danes Defy German Dictatorship: British Landing in Italy Repulsed

WORST FLOOD IN YEARS RECEDES      Crests of Midwest Streams Roll Toward Mississippi.

100,000 Made Homeless by Midwest Flood   Breaking Levees Relieve Pressure, Save Several Cities

Worst Flood in 30 Years Begins to Recede; Broken Levees Ease Pressure on Big City Dikes

U.S. Conciliator ’ Arrives To Aid In Packer Snarl   Conferences Are Held Today; Some Sheds Still Closed By Strikes ys 

Berlin Reports “Kidnap Plot”  Says Badoglio Tried To Kidnap Both Duce and Hitler

TEMPERATURES:   Berlin Claims Plot To Kidnap Hitler Nippec   Badoglio Is Named A: Plotter; Mussolini Also Marked

Report Plot Against Fuehrer Discovered Germans Claim Badoglio  Plotted Kidnaping Of Hitler As Well As Duce

Hitler Kidnap. Plan Is Aired   Germans. Claim. Badoglio And- Emmanuel Sought Té Foot Fuehrer

GERMANS TELL OF KIDNAPPING PLOT   ALLEGE BADOGLIO PLANNED TO SEIZE DUCE AND HITLER

Says Italians “Made Plan to Kidnap Hitler   DNB Reports Badoglio Had Sought to Grab Both the Duce and Fuehrer

Say 's Badoglio Planned To Kidnap Hitler   German HighCommand Publishes Story Of Alleged Plot

 Late News Bulletins   Berlin Charees Badoclio Plot to Kidnap Hitler

NAZIS REVEAL PLOT TO KIDNAP HITLER, IL DUGE   Discover Details Through Captured Documents of Marshal Badoglio

Plot to Kidnap Hitler Claimed   Nazis Charge Badoglia Tried ‘to Nab Fuehrer,

N  AZIS “FIND” Oi DUCE  KIDNAP PLOT   High Command Declares Italian King and Badoglio Planned To Give Dictators To Allies

Mussolini Also Included In Plox By Italian Chief   Plan Found Among Seized Documents, High Chief Says Today

Plan To Seize Hitler Foiled   Nazis Say Badoglio, King. Agreed To Turn Fuebrer  Over To Allies. 

CLAIM HITLER KIDNAP SCHEME   NAZIS SAY BADOGLIO PLANNED TWIN COUP

Germans Allege Badoglio Sought To Deliver Hitler With Mussolini To Allies

Nazis Claim Badoglio Plotted To Kidnap Hitler, Turn Him And Il Duce To Allies   Berlin Radio Claims Story Of Plan Found In Captured Documents

Germans Report Alleged Plot By Badoglio To Seize Hitler   {nyited Fuehrer To Italy Where He Was To Have Been Captured, Berlin Charaes

Nazis Reveal  Rome Plan Of Marshal, King   Fuehrer Declines Bid, Escapes Trap Of Allies

Berlin Claims Badoglio and King Plotted To Kidnap Hitler for Delivery to Allies

TELL OF KIDNAP PLANS   Nazis. Say Badoglio. Planned ti Steal Hitler and Benito.

—HITLER—  HITLER KIOMAE PLOT REVENLEL   Germans Charge Badog Jio Wanted To Turn Adolf Over To Allies

PLOT TO KIDNAP HITLER CHARGED BY GERMNAY   Nazis Say that King Emmanuel and His General Badoglio Figured in Wild Scheme

Assert ‘Snatch’ Was Scheduled To Take Place At Duce Ouster   Quote “Military Doeuments Allegedly Captured by High Command

Don’t Cry, Folks, but Racket Hit   Pleasure Rides Ban Puts Crimp in Eastern Gasleggers

Pleasure Driving Ban Puts End To Black Markets   Bootlegging Rackets Are Ended For While

Judge Crisp and F. W. Bankhead OpenLaw Office  Tuniar Partnar   Junior Partner Of Firm Is Ensign In U. S. Navy

»FLIERS SCORE DIRECT HITS ON TWO SHIPS   Many Enemy Soldier: Are Reported Killed By Australian And Dutch Airmen.

Big Nip Air Attack At  Darwin   Port Only Slightly Injured; Japs Lose 19 Planes; Allied Bombers  Busv *

SEE DEFEATISM IN DUTCH TRIALS   U.S. Calls Mass Prosecution of 70 Leade.'s Prelude to Murder

Mussolini to Tak on Radic   Fescist Stetion Says Ousted Premier s Te Meke Broedcast

ITALY CALLS MORE MEN   Notice to Men of 1907 to 1922 Class. es Not With Colors

Badoglio Due To Speak Tonight   Italian Leader Te Address Sicily

BADOGLIO TALKS   Htalian Premier Goes on Air To Address Sicilians.

Illinois Miners,   Operators Sign $1.75 A Day Pay Hike Provided In Contract

UMW, Illinois Mines Agree   Pet Calls for $1.75 Day Hike, 8'4-Hour Day

Reach Pay Agreement   Wage Increase of $1.75 A Day Granted to Coal Miners in Illinois

ILLINGTS GOAL PAY 15 RAISED   Mine Union, Operators, Sigr Agreement Including Travel Pay.   LENGTHEN WORKING DAY

GERMAN FORCES IN DEATH TRAP IN TUNISIA   French Capture Mountain Pass and Surround Group of Nazis.

French Take Tunisian  Mt. Pass   Hack at Germans In Death Trap; Nazi Losses High

Important Tunisian  Hill Seized   American Planes Raid Naples; Many) Persons Killed

FRENCH FORCES ‘TAKE IMPORTANT TUNISIAN HILL   German Force Caught in Death Trap. American Flying Fortresses Lead Offensive.

MARSHAL TIMOSHENKO’S FORCES CAPTURE DEMYANSK AND 301 LOCALITIES; 900 SQUARE MILES OF FROZEN NORTH LIBERATED.

Soviets Launch Attack In North   Many Towns Taken ‘In Lake IImen Area

Eleven Thousand Germans Killed or Captured in New Offensive in Lake Ilmen Sector,   900 SQUARE MILES CLEARED OF ENEMY   Sweep Toward Gulf of Fin land Seen as Probable— Reds Still Stalled in Donets Basin.

Timoshenko'sForces Capture 302 Localities   Eleven Thousand Germans Killed or Taken Prisoners   Special Moscow Communique Reports Start of Spring Advance

Crushing New Drive Opened hy Red Troops   Germans Beaten Into Hasty Retreat in East

SOVIETS GAIN 00 MILES ON FROZEN FRONT   CRUSHING ASSAULT OPENED IN LAKE ILMEN SECTOR

Nazis Making Hasty Retreat After Losses   Timoshenko Leads Red Forces in Area South of Leningrad age

301 Other Places Reported Retaken      About 900 Square Miles Of Still Frozen Front __ Liberated, Nazi Defense System Crushed;  Emphasis Shi‘ts To North Front

Russians Win Region South Of Leningrad   Crushing Offensive Near Lake Iimen Frees Over 300 Places; 11,000 Germans Killed or Captured

Reds Strike Westward In Lake Ilmen Sector, Free Much Territory  CLAIM LIBERATION OF 302 LOCALITIES  Say 11,000 of Enemy Killed or Prisoners, Demynsk Captured

Reds Launch New Offensive At Lake Ilmen   German Casualties In fyNorth Total 11,000 Killed Or Captured   FORTRESS FALLS   Nazis Claim Two Donets Towns Recaptured In Counter Attacks

Drive Launched Eight Days Ago Has Accounted For 11,000 Axis Casualties   NAZI DEFENSE SYSTEM REPORTED DESTROYED

Soviets Crash Through i in FrozenNorth   Russians Report 11,000 of Foe Killed or Captured in New Drive in Lake {Imen Area

Russians Take Demyansk: 31 Other Cities  11,000 Enemy Killed ar fantinrad: in   11,000 Enemy Killed or Captured: in a Hasty Refreat

Soviets Open Drive South Of Leningrad   302 Inhabited Places Seized in Offensive: 11,000 Axis Troops Killed or Captured

Russians Take Demyansk: 31 Other Cities  11,000 Enemy Killed or Captured; in a Hasty Retreat

Many Localities Captured South of Leningrad  POWERFUL GERMAN DEFENSE CRUSHED  Thousands of Nazis Reported Killed or Cap. tured

Armament Center ‘Is 'Plastered   British Are Enabled By Lengthening Hours Of! Darkness To Carry Oui Raid Far In Germany

Direct Hits Are Scored On Jap Ship By Bombers   Two Smaller Jap Vessels Are Damaged

Giant Allied Bomhers Hit Jap Ship   Two Other Vessels ‘May Have Been ‘Damacaced at Wewak

M’ Kellar Is Backing Up Connally   SUPPORTER OF WILSON’S LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEFENDS SENATE RESOLUTION OUTLINING POST-WAR POLICY.   Burton In :‘Cpposition

U.S. Needs New Air, Sea Bases, McKellar Says   Senator States Country Requires Facilities Por Pearce Duties

LOCAL OPA BOARDS: SPAN MENI) PRICES:   McKeough Urges Consumers To Keep Sharp Eye > on Bills of Fare «.   Food Retailers’ Meeting

Poles Attempt     Reconciliation With Russia   To Drop Request For Red Cross Probe of Killinas

POLAND CONCILIATORY      Polish Government May Withdraw Request For Investigation

POLES WILL LIKELY RECALL — REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION   Action Following: Charges -Of Murder Of 10,000 ‘Polish Officers  ~Led To Break

New Invasion  Being Planned   Allies Concentrated OF Italy's West Coast

SAY, EISENHOWER - PLANS AMPHIBIOUS OPERATION AGAINST CENTRAL ITALY

YANKS RECALL ~ RAID ON TOKYO   Sunday Anniversary Date Of Thrill-Packed Bombing

Three Youths, Seized By Sheriff's Officers, Admit $5,000 Burglary

THREE YOUTHS ADMIT $5,000 JEWELRY THEFT   Lead Sheriff Al Hastings To Loot Cached In Hollow Tree   STOLEN AT B. H. HOME.   Diamond Rings, Diamond Pins and Watches In Loot

Ban on Canned Music Defended by Petrillo Betore Senate Investigators

Petrillo Asks Congress To Help The Musicians   Union Would Not Resort To Ban If Some Protection Were Provided

WIFE OF ACCUSED CPARED {N TRIAL   Defense Rules Out Mrs. Colman as Witness in Open Trial Edict

NO RUSH REPORTED FOR RATION BOOKS      Some Applications Made esiaredeng at the Local 37 Fe

NO RUSH REPORTED FOR RATION BOOKS   Some Applications Made Yesterday at the Local Board

LING YOUTH CONTEST WINNER   Awarded $4000 Scholarship In American Legion Oratorical Event

Stalin’s Troops Push Closer to Kiev, Kremenchug and Other Cities on Dnieper.     RAIL KEY [0 POLAND THREATENED BY DRIVE     Nazi Reserves in Large Num  Nazi Reserves in Large Numbers Reported Wurrying From Rear in Effort to Hold River Line.

Reds tighten grip on Dnieper cities; offensivegrowing   Threaten early seizure of vital Gomel-Vitebsk railway

Early Seizure of Key Railway fo Balkans Seen  Both Ends of Vital Road Within Red Artillery Ranae

SOVIETS TAKE 1160 VILLAGES IN BIG SWEEP   KEY RAILWAY INTO POLAND IS PRIZE; KIEV TOTTERS

Soviet Forces Tighten Assault Grips on Dnieper Cities  RAILROAD SEIZURE IS SOON EXPECTED  Vow, Cuetam ta Painnead and      Key System to Poiand and Balkan States Is Threatened

Russian Forces Tighten Grip For Kiev Drive   Long Lines of Nazi Reserves Rushed In To Check Assault

Early Seizure of Railway Cenier Is Seen   Over 1,100 Villages Reoccupied by Victorious Russians

~RUSSIA—  SMASH NAZIS ON ~—OMMILE FRONT   Reds Pouring Through Widening Hole Deep Inside Dnieper Bend   FIGHT IN CITY   Severe Battle Continues -'To Rage In Streets of . Melitopol

SOVIET FORCES POUR INTO GAP IN ENEMY LINES   15-Mile Breakthrough On 28-Mile Front Scored, Threatening to Outflank Germans   NAZIS DESPERATE; REINFORCE LINES   Units From AU Parts of Europe Being Thrown Into Battles In Effort to Stem Onslaught

Soviets Pour. Through Holes in Nazi Lines   Press Deep Within the Dnieper River Loop to Threaten German Flank

SOVIETS WIDEN ~ DNIEPER HOLE   Red Army Rolls Forward With Men and Supplies To Threaten Nazis

Russians Rip New Gaps In Dnieper Line   Nazis Making Frenzied Effort To Stem Drive —

Red Army’s Troops Pour Through Gay  In Nazi Line   Hundreds Of Thousand: Of Enemy Threatened By Flanking Movement New Retreat Impends

Soviets Pour ° ThroughWide Dnieper Holes Hundreds of Thousands  of Nazis Face Trap in Crimea  FIVE BASES TAKEN  Bloody Battle Raging in Streets of Melitopol for Sixth Day      Hundreds of Thousands of Nazis Face Trap in Crimea   FIVE BASES TAKEN

Germans Facing Huge Losses In Crimea Section   Soviets Rushing To Flank Hundreds Of Thousands.

Mme. Chiang Is Told U. S. Will Send War Goods   Ultimate Attack Will Be Against Jap Islands, Roosevelt Says

MME. CHIANG HAS MEETING WITH PRESS   Joins President and Mrs. Roosevelt in Interview With Capital Corre spondenis

F.R. Promises Mme.Chiang Aid   Increased Flow of Arms to Chine ‘As Soon as Lord Will Let Us' Pledged by President at Joint Press Conference

Japan To Be Attacked  From China   President Roosevelt And Madame Chiang Reply To Questions At Joint Press Conference

More Chinese Aid Promised By FDR      Additional Help For Our Allies To Be Sent Soon As Possible

li Will Be Done When Lord Permits Roosevelt Says   He Helps Those Whe Help Selves, China’‘s First Lady Retorts

China’ s First Lady Joins  Roosevelt Press Talk To Plead For Munitions Aid

China To Be Helped   _,. AS QUICKLY AS THE LORD WILL LET US   U. S. Chief And China's First Lady Hold Joint Press Conference

Implements  Of War Best  Aid To China She States   Mine. Chiang And  President Discuss  Problems At Joint   Mme, Chiang And President Discuss Problems At Joint  Pracce (Conference

CHINA WILL BE BASE FOR WAR AGAINST JAPAN   President Pledges More Aid {o1 Chinese at Joint Press Confer. ence with Mme. Chiang

Madame Chiang KaiShek and Roosevelt Confer With Press   Submit to Questioning Concerning More Aid to Free Chinese

Chinain Need of  Weapons   Can't Fight Bare -handed, Mme, Chiang Kai-shek Points Out

CHINESE NEE WAR SINEWS   FDR Promises Early Aid As Mme. Chiang Gives Interview

Aid for China Soon As “Lord Will Let Us”   Roosevelt Also Says China Will Be Used as Base to Blast the Jans   REPORTERS SEE MME, KAI-SHEK   She and Mrs. Roosevelt Join Press. Conference at White House

FR. PLEDGES CHINA AID AS “SOON AS LORD PERMITS”   PRESIDENT ANSWERS MADAME CHIANG'S PLEA FOR EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES TO FIGHT JAPAN

Rush Aid I Promised  To China   ‘Up To Lord,’ Says F. D, Must Help, Too, Retorts Mme. Chiocne.   Visitor Quizzed  Newsmen Are Told 10,800,000 Will Be At Arms By Yeor-end.

Madame Chiang Hears Promise Of Aid to China   President Reiterates Intention to Strike At Japan From Asia

FDR Promises  Aid to China at Conference   Madame Chiang Hears President Tell Reporters Problem Is Receiving Attention

MADAME CHIANG IS GIVEN ASSURANCE OF UNITED STATES AID   CHINESE FIRST LADY SAYS IMPLEMENTS OF WAR BEST  WAY.TO. HELD CRINGE . ..

How To Help China Is Told By Mme. Shek   War Implements Needed From U. S.., First Lady Says

CHINA. GIVEN ND PLEDGE AT WHITE. HOUSE   President Says U. S. Will _Send Help as Quickly aa Possible.   VISITOR HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE   Congress Hears Her Plea for Her Country With  Emotion.

LEND-LEASE CHINA BUREAU BEING FORMEL   Clothing, Food, Machinery Needed by Sino People as Well as Materials of War

CHINESE NEEDING WAR IMPLEMENTS FIRST LADY SAYS   Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Made Remarks at White House, Roosevelt Promises Her Necessary Help.   ATTENDS CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT, WIFE   Executive Says Goal of Army Remains at Seven Million This Year, Declines to Predict.

Mme. Chiang Says China Needs, Arms   President Promises Them—-U. S. Army  Goal Remaine Same

To Aid China as Quickly as Lord Wills, Roosevelt Says   Madame Chiang, Who Participates In President's Press Conference, Appends Saying That the Lord   Helps Those Who Help Themselves; 7,-  . §00.000 In Khaki by End of 1943

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Talks to Newsmen as Part of Press Conference With Roosevelt, Wife

MADAME CHIANG SAYS CHINESE NEED WEAPONS   J, S. Can Help Best By Sending More Implements Of War, Says Chinese Leaders Wife; “We  Will,’ Says F: D. R.

MADAME CHIANG CITES CHINA NEEDS   On Aid, She Says The Lor ~ Helps Those Who Help Themselves

First Lady of China Pleads For Munitions   Tells F. D. R. the Lord Helps Those Who Help Themselves in Reply to His Observation

More Arms For china The Best Aid: Mme. Chiang   Coming Soon As Lord Will Let Us, Replies  Pesce Rancevelt

Plea For War Materiel By China’s First Lady Has Roosevelt’s Support

Mme. Chiang Hears Pledge ' Of Early Aid   China’s First Lady Attends Joint Press Conference With Roosevelts   NATION TO BE BASE   Allies Intend to Strike at Japs From China, Says President

Mme. Chiang Says U.S. Can Help Most by Sending Arms   F.R. Stresses China to Be Base for Attack  Avainst Japanese

CHINA NEEDS IMPLEMENTS OF WAR   Mme. Chiang Kai-shek States at White House. FDR Promises Aid Fast As Possible

Roosevelt Pledges China’s — First Lady Arms “as Soon As the Lord Will Let Us”

IDR Promises Aid For China   More Implements To Be Supplied As “Quiekly As The Lord Will Let Us.’

Her Feet Didn’t Reach the Floo  Mme. Chiang Says U. S. Can Help Most with War Tools

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Appeals For Arms Quickly; FDR Avers As Soon As Lord Will Let Us

Mme. Chiang Urges Aid. For China   President and First Lady  Unite in Press Conferences .

Tools Of War Main Need Of China Today   Mme. Chiang Talks Of Problems At  Press Conference -

FD Pledses More Help For Chinese   Madame _ Kai - Shek Urges Quick Relief —

TOBE RETAINED ON PROSECUTING STAF   Rushton Intends to Stick tc Appointment of Jay W. Linsey.

SERENDS NS SELECTION DF LINSEY 10 STAFF   Rushton Reveals That Grand Rapids Lawyer to Handle Most of Prosecution

WLB Sets  New Mine Deadline   20,000 ALABAMA WORKERS STAY AWAY FROM PITS; SIX-STATE TOTAL 37,000

Will Take Strike Vote RR Unions Tell FDR: Coal Strikes (Continue

Coal Strike Grows; Union Wins Time "To Halt Walkouts   Estimated 45,000 Miners Now Idle; Rail Heads Notify FDR Strike Vote Will Be Conducted Among Crews

War Labor Board Gives Mine Union Officials Additional Time to End ‘Strike: 37,000 Men Stay Off Job

WLB EALENDS TIME TO F¥) COAT, STRIKE   Grants Extra Period to Union Heads as 37,000 Idle; Roosevelt Gets Rail Vote Notice.

JERSEY SOLON BARBOUR DIES   FORMER OPPONENT OF HAGUE SUCCUMBS AT 55

Senator Barbour Is Dead   3rd Member of Congress To Die In Past Two Days

SENATE MOURNS BARBOUR’S DEATH   NEW JERSEY SENATOR DIES AT HOME IN NATION'S CAPITAL

Solution in WAC Murder May Be Near      New Angle Found at Sioux Falls; No Arrests at Present

UNTIL MONDAY   Legislator Tells Newsmen of Offer of Bribe for Vote { Against Bill. 1h   'CHECK SORDID RUMORS

LANSING PROBE IS ADJOURNED FOR WEEK - END   Rep. Higgins Bares Bribe Offer To Influence  Legislation   CALL MORE WITNESSES      To Be On Hand Next Monday Morning, Says Rushton

Solon Tells of Offers of Money   Inquiry Recessed after Hearing Witnesses Tell of Bribes Being  Offered Them

Nearly 1,000 Flee Martinique, Are Now in U.S.  Refugees Plan to Aid Fighting French, Oppose Vichy Reaim«e

Refugees Arrive  From Martinique  1,000 Flee Regime Of Admiral Robert

“DOCK INNEW YORK   Martinique _ Islanders Met By Missions After Fieeing Robert

REFUGEES ARRIVE FROM MARTINIQUE   Over 1,000 Who Escaped Roberts Regime Land In New York

OFFER BILL T0 KILL SALES TAX   Substitute Measure Provides Optional Nine - Months Sehool; Another Bill Would Make Forceful Picketing A Felony.

Sellars Of Alamance Presents Bill In House To Remove Sales Tax From North Carolina Books

Savage Air Raids On Island Termed Pattern For Early Invasion Thrust

New Britain Attacks Lay Open Pathway   Allies Pounding At Barrier to Northward Advance

Air Offensive Softens Island For Land Attack   Keystone of Jap Defense in Pacific Area Next on List

NEW BRITAIN 1S     po IN PAGIFIC  INVASION OF ISLAND WOULD CONSTITUTE IMPORTANT CROUND MOVE

SUSTAINED AIR OFFENSIVE MAY OPEN WAY FOR GROUND ATTACK AT MANY POINTS ON ISLAND   Coastline of Big Island Under Constant Attack As Part Allied Plan for Capturing Bastion and Moving Closer Toward Other Jan Strongholds

NEW BRITAIN INVASION 1S STEP CLOSER   Most Important Step In Pacific War Nearer After Air Blows

Next Attack Against Strategically Vital New Britain s Expected Soon To Open Way To Philippines and Provide Base for Carrying Fight To Main Naval Base at Truk

PACIFIC'S MOST VITAL PUSH 1S BELIEVED NEAR   Brought Closer By Savage Three-Month Air  ' Blasting

‘Capture of Vital Island Of Importance   Would Bring Allied Forces Nearer to Other Jap Strongholds

AIR OFFENSIVE INNO MONTH   Attacks on New Britain May Presage Important Developments.   GIVEN HEAVY POUNDING

Roundup Of War News From The Pacific  Eyes Of The Pacific Are On Battered New Britain

New Britain Ha Jaken Beating  _ Japs’ Key South Sea Bastion B'asted for Two Solid Months

Daring Attack Sinks 4 Japanese Warships   U. S. Naval Task Force Steams Right Into Enemy’s Stronghold In Vella Gulf In Solomons To Knock Off Jap Force

FOUR JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK IN DARING MOVE   Light U. S. Naval Foree Known:to Have Destroyed Large Cruiser and Three Destroyers  :

At Least Four Nip Warships Were Sunk   Correspondent Tells Of Daring Attack Jn Enemy Stronghold By Lichi U. S. Naval Fores

Four Jap Warship: Sunk By Light U.S. Navy Force   U. S. Force Steams Right Into Enemy Strong hold In Solomons.

U. S, NAVAL FORCE SINKS JAP SHIPS   ‘Steam Right Into Enemy’s Stronghold in Gulf

Eyewitness Story Of Naval Triumph   Wniter Describes Sinking Of Japanese Ship:  In Battle; Sees Enemy Cruiser Catch Fire  Then Blow Up

FOUR JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK IN VELLA GULF   i Cruiser Blown Up. Three Desiroyers Sunk by U. §. Force in Nighi Baitle   ENEMY FLANKED      U.S. Flagship Held Fire until Man.   euvered into Posilion to Bring - Cross Fire to Bear

BOLD MANEUVER SINKS JAP SHIPS   AMERICAN SEADOGS OUTWIT ENEMY IN VELLA GULF 'BATTLE

AP WRITER WATCHES LIGHT NAVAL FORGE SINK JAP WARSHIPS  TEXANS PARTICIPATE IN DARING RAID IN JAPS’ OWN STRONGHOLD

Describes Baitle Of Vella Gulf   Watches American Ships Blast Four, Japanese Shigs

Saw Sinking of Four Jap Ships   Cruiser And Three Destroyers Sunk

AP WRITER WATCHES LIGHT NAVAL FORCE SINK JAP WARSHIPS  - TEXANS PARTICIPATE IN DARING RAID IN JAPS’  AW WY CrTDOANCUAIHn

His Majesty Goes Near European Coast  King George Ends Whirlwind Visit to British Home Fleet

WRITER RIDES LEAD BOMBING PLANE IN CHRISTMAS RAID ON WAKE ISLANL   Marks Largest Mas: Bomber Action Of Pacific War

Wake Island Jans Taken By Surprise When Americans. Drop 76,000 Pounds of Bombs.

Scribe Tells Vivid Story Of Wake Raic   Pietures Attack From: Seat In U. S. Bomber

JAP INSTALLATIONS ON WAKE ISLAND BLASTED BY AIRMEN   Correspondent Describes Raid Characterized By Admiral Nimitz As Largest Mass Army Heavy Bomber Action Of Pacific War; Fires Visible 75 Miles

Eve Witness Report of United States Jomb Attack on Jap-Held Wake Island

Thrilling Eyewitness Story of Wake Island Air Raid Is Told by Newsman   Olen Clements Tells of Largest Mass Raid in Pacifie War

Correspondent Describes Raid on Wake Island Christmas Eve; 76.000 Pounds of Bomhs Dronned

TWO ARE HELD TO GRAND JURY   Norvel K. Williams ‘te Arrested On Charge Of Forgery

Willkie in Supreme Court Argument Says Communists Can Be Citizens

Wendell Willkie Pleads For Citizenship of U. S. Communist Before Court

This Week Is Preview Of What Things V W ill Be Like Next Weeh   Public Really To Feel Rationing Then; Many Menus To Be Changed: Rush For Cook Books

ALLIES TO ASK TURKISH BASES   Eden Reassures Ankara Regarding Russia’s Aims In Balkans

“Hospitals” Are Raided  : 1 Philadelphia Police   Philadelphia Police After Vice Ring

NEW PROPERTY ‘TAXATION BILL NEAR PASSAGE   Provides for Continuous Assessment; Number of County Legislators ‘Oppose Move   EXEMPTIONS FAIL   Hearings On Court Reorganization Bills Continued; House Group Approves Guard Bill

26 KILLED AS LIMITED HITS SWITCH ENGINE   46 Qihers Hospitalized After Scalding Steam And Water Envelop Wreck   CREWMEN ESCAPE INJURY   Blackout Test Cancelied As Soldiers And Defense Corps Aid Rescue Work

Soldiers Among Wreck Victims   FBI Investigates Lackawanna Rail Collision  Which 27 Are Dead And 46 Hurt; Women Field Workers Trapped

SEAT 7 JURORS IN BRIBERY CASE   Greenville Attorney, Bank Cashier Charged With Soliciting Bribe

BILLINGSLEY FACES TRIAL FOR BRIBERY   Accusation Is Outgrowth of Settlement of Estate

TWO TROOP SHIPS ARE LEFT BLAZING   Enemy Convoy, Under Continuous Attack for Two Days and Night, Withdraws

ALLIES AID AP CONVOY MEN LANDED   5. Vessels Claimed Damaged, Sunk Near Lae

TWO JAP otlPo ARE ET ArIAE IN NEW RAIDS   Allied Bombers Operating Day And Night To Smash New Guinea Convoy

Enemy Forces On Solomons Strengthenec   Two United States Aircraft Lost In Raid On Japs At Rekata Bay.   BLAST FOE AT KISKA

Bombers Damage 2 Jap Transports   Allied Planes All Categories Continue Raids On Enemy Forces. Attempting Reinforce Lae Garrison n New Guinea

HOPES FINNS TO CEASE FIGHTING   Welles Declares U. 5,  Position Is Cleay

HOPES FINNS TO QUIT   Sumner Welles Reaffirms American Stand On Finland

WELLES ON FINN: PEACE   Under-Secretary Hopes She Wl Withdraw From War

92 TO LEAVE NEWPORT FOR INDUCTION FRIDAY  Four of Group Are Yolun teers Under 20 Years Old     Draft Board No. 2 Lists 54 In 1 39-Year Group Avallabbe For Call

22 TO LEAVE NEWPORT FOR INDUCTION FRIDAY   Four of Grow Are Volunteers Under 20 Years Old   Draft Toard No, 2 Lists 85 in 18 19-Year Group sAvallatlo  For Call

5th Army In Sight of Naples   Russians Plunge Ahead ix Drive Toward Greatest  Nazi Fortress

Nazis Retreat on Two Main Fronts   19 Big German Transports Shot Down Trying to Escape Corsica

ALLIED GROUND UNITS ADVANCE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Japs Admit Large Scale U. S. Offensive on New Georgia Island

ALLIES MAINT AIN PACIFIC OFFENSIVE   On Both Flanks of 750 Mile Long Battle Arc.

Two Nipponese Garrisons Are  Nearing Doom   Bairoko and Salamaua Troops Making Last Stands Before Allied Assaults

JAPS MAKING LAST STAND AT-SALAMAUA   Spokesman For Gen. MacArthur Claims Progress On Both Flanks of 750 Mile Battle Arc   PUSHING TO BAIROKO

ALLIED ARTILLERY BLASTIG AT JAPS BASED AT TWO POINTS  PROGRESS REPORTED IN   PROGRESS REPORTED IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST ENEMY IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Progress Reported on Both Flanks of Southwest Pacific   Otfensive Remains Firmly in Hands of Allied Forces

U.S. Artillery Blasts af Japs   Allies Gain on Both Flanks ‘of 750-Mile~Battle Front

JAPS MAKING LAST STAND AT SALAMAUA   Offensive Firmly In Allied Hands In South Pacific Area

Japs Make Twe ‘Last Stands’   Allied Forces Making Progress At Bairoko, Salamaua

JAPS’ JUNGLE FORCES UNDER ARTILLERY FIRI   Big Guns Open Up Both on Bairoko and Salamaua, Aussies Make New Advance in New Guinea   AMERICANS GAIN   Zero Aitacks on Vella Lavella Broken up, U.S. Airmen Blas! Convoy and Cruiser

Japs Making Last Stand At Bairoko   Defensive In Pacific Remains Firmly In Hands Of Allies

JUNGLE TROOPS USE ARTILLERY TO POUND JAPS   Yanks and Aussies Drive Ahead On Airdrome At Salamaua; Wewak Is Again Bombed

DEMPSEY WINS ROUND   Wife's Suit For Diverce Dismissed By Judge Today

MRS, DEMPSEY’S SUIT DISMISSED BY COURT   Counter Action in Divorce Case Collapses

MRS, DEMPSEY’S COUNTER CLAIM IS NOT ALLOWED      Supreme Court Referee Dismisses Her CounterSuit-For Divorce From Former Boxer   HIS SUIT RESUMED   Bartender Tells of Benny  Woodall’s Boast That  Hannah Loved Only Him

Woolmen Will Map Market Plat   State Association Meet Set Sept. 10

Woolmen Plan Session Today   Handling of 1944 Clip to Be Considered

RUSSIANS PILE UP CAPTURED CITIES TO TOTAL OF 13:   Reds Make Dash: For Smolensk' Killing Number.” ot Enemy Where Swift Re: sistance ts Offered.   ESSEN IS BOMBED BY OVER 300 RAF PLANES   Germany Believed Preparing Warship, U-Boat Attack on Shipping to Disrupt Invasion,

Reds Take Key Rail Center South Of Rzhey   Great Nazi Salient Before Moscow Is Being Wiped Out

RUSSIAN “UNCHECKED BY NAZIS   133 Villages Captured By Soviets During Past 36 Hours

Red Army Storms Into Rail Center   Soviets Take Osuga, Drive on Smolensk

SOVIETS RETAKE 133 TOWNS IN 36 HOURS   Klaborate Fort System Being Wrecked In Red Drive

REDS CONTINUE SMOLENSK DASH   Storm Railroad Town of Osuga, 16 Miles South Rzhey — Russians Wow Have Captured 133° Towns and Villages in Past 36 Hours.

SHOWERS TO RETURN   Will Be Welcome If They Fall in Western Kansas

YUGOSLAVS MENACE POLA, ITALIAN BASE   Free Yugoslay . Radio Anno Island By Liberation Army Naval Units.   Yugoslavs Divided

Yugoslavs Capture Strategic Island Near Italian Base  Partisan Naval Units Take Nazi Prisoners  Affe... W.... mmr... me 8 «

Yugoslav Naval Units Take Lussino Island   Rivalry Between Two Separate Patriotic Organizations Flares

Yugoslav Nav 'y Units  Seize Lussino Island   * 258 Nazi Officers and Men Are Taken Prisoners in Two-Day Battle; Land Army Takes Town; Rivalry Between Two Leaders

Yugoslavs Capture Strategic Island Near Italian Base  Partisan Naval Units Take Nazi Prisoners After Two-Day Fight

ISLAND SEIZED BY YUGOSLAVS   Liberation Army Takes 258 Prisoners As Lussino Falls

STATE CALLS REBUTTAL  WITNESSES AS TRIAL OF FILM STAR NEARS CLOSE

FLYNN ANSWERS NO TO ALL QUESTIONS   Weird Hollywood Trial Nears End 

FLYNN TRIAL NOW NEARING ITS ENI   Case May Go to the Jury on Wednesday or Thursday of Next Week,   BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN  U. PP. Polleunnd f'nysecennvestn é

Wright Field Contract Frauds Being Revealed   Army Will Agk Indictments In Neav Future, Says Pattersan

YANKS BOMB NAZI BASE IN BELGIUM   RAID ONE OF MANY DAYLIGHT ATTACKS ON GERMAN. HELD TERRITORY,

BELIEVE GERMANY READY 10 LAUNCH PEACE OFFENSIVE   Nazi Move Expected to Coincide With Allied Parley at Moscow.

PEACE DRIVE BY GERMAN. 18 FORECAST   DIPLOMATS BELIEVE GERMANS i WILL ATTEMPT TO DRIVE. WEDGE BETWEEN ALLIES AS FIRST STEP

AWAIT GERMANS’ DRIVE FOR PEACE   Capital Sees Move to Split Britain and U.S. From Russia

JURY DRAWN FOR NOVEMBER TERM   Court Convenes Monday November 22

Lewis Meets With Northern  ‘Mine Operators   Southerns Follow Suit in Accepting 30-Dav Extension

FIRING SQUAD EXECUTES KILLER   FIVE VOLUNTEERS CARRY OUT SENTENCE CHOSEN BY SLAYER

SLAYER KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD   > Volunteer Rifleman Pay $25 Each to Take Part. in the Evecutiou

Volunteer Riflemen, Paid $25 Each, Execute Slayer In Utah   Man Who Chose Firing Squad Rather Than Noose Pays With Life For Crime

Pays for Slaying Detective Hiring Squad’s Bullets End Life of Ex-Marine In Utah

FIVE RIFLEMEN EXECUTE SLAYER   Former Marine Put to Death in Utah for Killing Police-

UTAH EXECUTION CARRIED OUT BY FIVE RIFL EMEN   KILLER OF POLICEMEN HAD EXPRESSED WISH TO DIE BY RIFLE FIRE

Utah Firing Squad AvengesDeath Of Cop, Shoots Killer   Murderer Had Choice Of Firing Squad O Hangman, Preferred Fatal Bullets

Volunteer Riflemer Execute Killer of  Utah Policeman .  Squad Paid $25 Each For Shots And One ~ Fires Blank Shell ~

Great Victory Over Japanese   Five Divisions Routed, 31 Planes Destroyed,  Communique Reports

75,000 JAP TROOPS ROUTED BY CHINESE   CHIANG'S ARMY SCORES. ONE OF BIGGEST VICTORIES— DOWNS 28 PLANES,

AMERICAN FLIERG TION IN ATTACKS   Marks Biggest Victory for ® Chinese in Entire War   RAID ICHANG   chinese Continue Mopping up Operations; Foe Is Being Surrounded

CHINESE STRIKE BACK AT ICHANG   Ground Forces Advance As Allied Bombers Bash Nipponese

Chinese Score Great Victorv   Five Jap Divisions Routed — And Many Planes Destroyed

Chinese Rout Five Jap Divisions   Biggest Victory Of War with Nips Claimed in China

Chinese Rout Force of  73,000 Japs   31 Enemy Planes Accounted for in Great Air Victory

ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES AROUND IGHANE   23 Nip Planes Shot Down And Eight Others Probably Destroyed   AMERICAN AIR FORCE AIDS GROUND TROOPS

CHINESE ROUT FIVE DIVISIONS OF JAPS   Troops Driven Back While 23 Enemy Planes Are Wrecked

INVASIONS AT * OTHER, POIN' THOUGHT IMMINENT; FIRST: TROOPS LANDED ON EUROPE.  SOIL BY CROSSING MESSINA ; CTRAIT

GAS RATION TIGHTENING MAY COME   ..- For All Midwest, Ickes Declares

Gen. MacArthur  Voices Prayer   Prays For Speeding Of Day When U. S. Will Free Philippines Again   ANNIVERSARY OF BATAAN MARKED

BATAAN HERCES NOT FORGOTTEN   MacArthur Prays That God May Not Long Delay Their Redemption

MARTHUR ASKS EARLY RETURN T0 PHILIPPINES   “May Merciful God Speed Redemption,” Is His Praver

MAC ARTHUR SEEKS EARLY MOVE ” JO-REGAIN LOST PHILIPPINES   LEADER OF DESPERATE STRUG“GLE AGAINST INVASION - PRAYS FOR EARLY AC‘ TION TO REGAIN ISLANDS

BEIL TO ADDRESS , RURAL GRADUATES   Exercises Will Be Held Saturay J in High School  Auditorium   119 TO GET DIPLOMAS

RURAL GRADUATES   Exercises Will Be Held Saturday in High School  _ Auditorium

Aviation Bill ~ Clings To Life   CiK'd By Group, Need: Heavy House Vote

Press Franco For Answer   Demand Straight Yes Or No Reply on Restor. ation of Monarchy

Monarchy Plea Goes to Franco   Backers Say Allies Will Recognize Juan

SEEK THRONE FOR KING’S SOR   Franco Given Onus in Try to Restore Spanish Monarehyv

Spanish Monarchy ls Up To Franco   Monarchists Bringing Matter to Head Now

ASK FRANCO NAME SPANISH MONARCH   Juan, Third Son of Late King Alfonso, Asked to Be Restored

Monarchy Agair Up To Franco  Restoration Of Juan, Alfonso’s Third Son, Placed Retaré Snain

WALKOUT AT PLANT IN BUFFALO ENDER   Stoppage ts Sixth One in Less Than Week in Buffato Pianis.

CARRIER SINKS 19 JAP VESSELS   Enterprise Stil 1 Afloat And Fighting After Deadly Cruises

Aircraft Carrier Has Good Year   ENTERPRISE HAS SUNK 19 JAP SHIPS SINCE PEARL HARBOR

Aircraft Carrier Has Good Year   Me on amma sa  ENTERPRISE HAS SUNK 19 JAP SHIPS SINCE PEARL HARBOR

LABOR SHORTAGE HITS BALTIMORE LAUNDRIES   Official Of One Firm Sass Onty 40 Percent Of Business Wiil  Be Handled Soon

Meat Stacks Released For Use Of Civilians   Army, Navy And Lend-Lease Waive Priority To Ease Acute Shortages.

Russians Pushing Forward Toward  Nazi-Held Smolensk   Dispatches Report That Soviet Troops Are Within 50 Miles Of Big Enemy Base.

Death Trap For Italy's Hard-Hit Fleet Develops   British Sub Blows Boost Toll To 40 Ships During Week

Death Trap For Italy's Hard-Hit Fleet Develops   British Sub Blows ‘Boost Toll To 40 Chime Miirinan \Asael.

Tunisian Campaign Proves Almost Death-Blow for Htaly's Hard-Hit Shipping

SENATORS ARE DIVIDED OVER LENGTH OF WAR   Some of Opinion Germany Can Not Be Beaten Before Next Summer  Or Later 

Solons In Know See A Long War  Defeat Of Nazis Before ~ Summer Not Expected

SENATORS HAVE VARIOUS IDEAS ON WAR'S END   Sen. Brooks Looks Forward To Long And Hard War

Nazi Defeat By Next Summer : “Would Surpri ise Some Solons: — Others Predict Quick Action

Peace Rumors Stir Capital, Views Differ   Collapse of Germany Placed From Near Future to Year Hence

SPECULATE END OF WAR   Current Crop of Peace Rumors Whips Up Talk in Halts of Congress.

Germany’s Early Defeat Not Seen by Senators Informed on War’sProgress

War-Informed Solons Expect No Early Peace   German Collapse Before Next Summer Woulc Surprise Most Senators

INSIDERS SEE NC EARLY END Ot EUROPEAN WAR   However, Some Believe Peact Terms Have Been Offered by Germany

Peace Rumors Seen As Nazi Propaganda Some Senators Look For  Sudden End To War, But Others Say ‘Midsummer’

Senators Expecting Long War   Victory Over Nazis Before Spring Would Surprise Them

Senators in the Know Expect Long War; Doubt Victory Before Summer

REORGANIZATION OF ARMY AIR TRAINING PROGRAM ANNOUNCEL  NEW COMMAND TRAINS   ALL KINDS FLIERS AND

RE EORGANIZATION OF ARMY AIR TRAINING PROGRAM: ANNOUNCEL  NEW COMMAND TRAINS ALL KINDS FLIERS AND  GROUND FORCES

“I Couldn’t Look at My Feet... Wouldn’t Believe [ Didn’t Have Anv”

 They. Don’t Talk Much, Either, But In These Terse Interviews Is The Spirit Of Their Patriotic Sacrifices

Armies Advance Several Miles   Bombers Operating From Italian Bases Aid Guerrillas in Jugoslavia

Allied Drive For Rome Is Speeded   American and British Forces Move Ahead—Oap. ture 23 More Towns

COOK IS HELD FORSLAYING YOUNG BRIDE   Negro Accused by Prose cutor of Railway , Murder’   CONFESSION MADE; LATER RETRACTED   Body Discovered on Train by Marine Priwate

TRAIN MURDER SUSPECT HELD   Second Cook Charged With Killing Bride Of Navy Man

NEGRO CHARGED WITH SLAYING   Cook On Train Accused 0! Stabbing Bride Of Navy Ensign

Second Cook on West Coast Limited Charged With Slaying of Pretty Young Navy Bride

COOK IS HELD FORSLAYING YOUNG BRIDE   Negro Accused by Prosecutor of Railway Murder  CORICKCCICAA! AAARE.,   CONFESSION MADE; LATER RETRACTED   Body Discovered on Train. by Marine Pri- : vate :

Cook Charged Wit thMurder Oi Train Bride   Charged With First. "Degree Murder and Held Without Bail °

COOK HELD FOR BERTH MURDER   Negro Train Employe Is Charged With Cutting Mrs. James’ Throat

COOK ACCUSED Ot MURDERING BRIDE ON SPEEDING TRAIN   First Degree Murder Charge Filed Against Robert L. Folkes, 20 Year Old Negro Second Cook; Denied Bail.

Cook on Train  Held as Slayer      Youth Retracis Confession: Claims He Is Shielding Real Killer

YUGOSLAVS IN BITTER BATTLE WITH GERMANS   Nazis Reported to Have Burned ‘Villages, Killed Hundreds of  Those Loyal to Kingdom

FATE OF WAR PLANTS “IS UP TO CONGRESS   So Says Jesse Jones of Those Financed by Government

BUSINESS URGED TO BE THINKING OF POSTWAR DAYS   Commerce Secretary Jones  , Declares Congress «Must Determine Disposition of Many War Plants.   MUST AVERT DEPRESSION TO PAY WAR BILLS   Broad and Practical Plan: Are Necessary, No Neec For Lack of Work Fol Considerable Time.

House Group Revives Kilday Draft Proposal   Bill Would Slow Father Induction On State Basis

House Revives The Kilday Bil   Pre-War Fathers May Yet Escape Draft

Kilday Draft Bill Revived by House   May Be Added to Legislation Passed by Senate as Compromise.

KILDAY DRAFT BILL REVIVED IN THE HOUSE      Military Committee Takes Up Measure Which Would Put Filling of Induction Quotas on a State-Wide Basis.

KILDAY DRAFT BILL REVIVED   House May Vote Changes Ir Calling Up Fathers

Revive Kildav Bill As Draft  Quota Answet   Bill Passed By House Last April, Shelved By Senate  Clammittepe.   START HEARINGS

HOUSE COMMITTEE REVIVES KILDAY BILL   Would Fiil Draft Quotas on State-Wide Basis

Kilday Bill Is Revived in House  May Be Tacked on Senate Measure

Kilday Draft Bill Revived.   Would Place Quotas On State- Wide Basis

KILDAY DRAFT  BILL REVIVED   Measure Would Put Calls On Statewide Basis

KILDAY BILL IS BEFORE SOLONS   Revival of Measure is Seer As Compromise in Senate

HOUSE GROUP MAY REVISE FATHER DRAFT]   Military Committee, Opening Hearings, Seen as in Favor of Adding Kilday Restrictions

Study Kilday Bill To Stop Drafting Of Pre-War Dads   House Committee Revives Plan For Filling Quotas . Along Statewide Basis

Bill To Delay Father Draft Being Revived   House Action is Answer To Agitation Against Induction of Dads   AMENDMENT EXPECTED

Conquest of Island Rushed By Americans   Pre-Dawn Advance by Yanks Wins Prize Air Base as Allied Forces Crowd Enemy  Into New “Coffin Corner’

Yankees Capture Prize Axis Air Base At Castelventrano   German and Italian Are Rapidly Pushed Into Coffin Corner

YANKS PLUNGE 60 MILES AND TAKE 7 TOWNS   Castelvetrano Air Base Falls To Onrushing  Americans   SHELL ITALY MAINLAND   Axis Forces Crowded Into New “Coffin Corner” In Sicily

Castelvetrano Captured In Pre. Dawn Charge   General Eisenhower Reports Taking Over 40,000 Prisoners

AMERICAN FORCES SEIZE SIX TOWNS ‘IN SICILIAN DRIVE   Mcre Than 40,000 Prison. ers Taken to Date as Bit ter Fighting Rages Around , ee

Allied Units Crowd Defenders OfIsland  —Into ‘Coffin Corner’   Ameircans Capture. Castelvetrano - As British Warships Challenge Italians By Battering Mainland

British Ships Shell Italian Mainland Base   No Sign Of Fascist Fleet As English Issue Challenge Short Distances Away.   ‘CATANIA FIGHT RAGES

U. S. Ferces Have Gained Sixty Miles In Three Days Ax They Sweep Forward In Sicily —- Prized Air Base At Castelvetano Is Captured — British Warships Challence Italian Fleet

STRATEGIC AIR BASE CAPTURED BY YANK FORCE   18 More Towns Taken as Americans, Canadians Speed Collapse Of Enemy's Defenses.

Yanks Move 60 Miles West in Three Days   British Warships. Rove’: *Alorig \tatian Coast, Challenging  Eacrict Fiaet

American Troops Advance West More Than 60 Miles and Capture Prize Ai Base at Castelvetrano and Six  Other Towns.   American Troops Complete Dash To Western Extremity of Island

Warships Blast At Il Duce's Mainland   ..« Enemy Fleet Declines Te Accept Challenge

DIZZY PACE SET BY AMERICANS IN RUSH THROUGH ISLAND   BRITISH WARSHIPS CHALLENGE SHORE‘BOUND ITALIAN FLEET

Six More Towns Taken In 60-mile Advance   Enemy Being Pushed Into Trap in Northeast Section; British Warships Bombard Mainland Opposite Taranto.

British Raid Hagen At Night After U. S. Day Raid   AFRICA-BASED YANKS BLAST MUNICH, VIENNA

DROP 1000 TONS BOMBS ON HAGEN   Nazi Iron and Steel Center Victim of Raid

HAGEN IS TARGET OF NIGHT RAID   U. S. Bombers From © African Bases Hit Munich, Vienna

RAF Bombs >Rock Hagen   U. 8. Planes Pound. Munich, Vienna Areas

TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON RUHRIN FOLLOW-UP RAID   American Flyers Had Previously Attacked the Heayily Populated Region in Dayy light From Northwest African Bases

Hagen InRuhr Gets First RAF Attack of War   U. 8. Raid On South Germany Emphasizes  Allied Air Power

RAF PLANES DROP SHOWER OF BOMBS ON HAGEN IN RUHR   Only Two Bombers Lost In Raid On Key War Center—-Termed Big Success

French War Cabinet Is Expected   Would Be Named From Present Members Of Committee

Four To Form War Cabinet Of Frenchmen   Giraud To Rule Army, ~de Gaulle Politics

VOTE TO SLASH FUNDS FOR OP:   SENATE! AND HOUSE CONFEREES ALSO CALL FOR CUT IN OWI ALLOWANCE,

GREEN REQUESTS 14 MILLIONS FOR ‘DEFICIENCIES’   TELLS LEGISLATURE IT AMOUNTS ONLY TO SWITCHING FUNDS

‘Usual Deficiency Appropriation Is Asked by Governor   Special Message Sent to Illinois General Assembly Today

State Mines Will Reopen   Operators, Miners Glad .Crisis Has Passed

TATE MINCAG READY TO WORK   Favorable Response to Wage Agreement Is Seen   NORMAL PRODUCTION   Not Expected in Southern Fields Before Next Week; Railroads Ready

Poplar, Wisconsin Flier Becomes Premier Fighter Ace In SouthWest Pacific

Wisconsin Ace Has Bagged 15   Takes Lead In The Southwest Pacific

Marines Stick Old Razor Blades In Trees and Japs Cut Their Hands

LABOR HITS . ~ FARM GROUP      CIO AND AFL FORM JOINT _ COMMITTEE TO OPPOSE PROPOSED PARITY FORMULA BILLS

AFL AND ClO JOIN To FIGHT FARM GROUP   Oppose Passage Of Bankhead Farm Bill

TRIPLE MURDER CASE CLEARED   Relative Admits Slaying Entire McCoy Family

C E. Union Meeting — AtOrange City, Fri   Rev. Gradus Aalberts of Winnebago, Nebr., Main Speuker; Election OF Officers To Be Held

BIW TO JAPAN.   IMPROVE CHINESE RELATIONS   German Press and Radio Clutter Air With Reports of Meeting in Caire

STATEMENTS BEING AMED ARE SIMILAR: TO-'THOSE IN . CONNECTION WITH MOSCOW CONFERENCE

Chinese Are. But. 30 Miles From Hankow   Fierce Battles.’ Are Stil Raging: Near-Cha: Air Forces: Bla ap  Airdromes a

HEAVY FIGHTING IN  CHANGTEH AREA IS  REPORTED SATURDAY CHINESE LAND FORCES  GETTING FULL CO-OPERATION I] S. ROMRERS

Chinese Soldiers Drive Near Main Jap Base  Attempt Made ta Ke:   Attempt Made to Keep Reinforcements From Nippon Army

Chinese Soldiers Drive Near Main Jap Base  Attempt Made to Kee; Reinforcements

INHO FUND POLICY   Charge of Lie Hurled by Angry Lawmaker as Act Argued

Governor Maw Charged With Misspending Of $105,000 State Fund   Legislative Rebellion Against the Governor _ Spreads To the House; Lobbying Against Finance Bill Charged

Berlin Correspondents Who Said Civilian Evacuation Speeded Now In Trouble with Nazi Authorities

Nazi Reporters Get Into Trouble   _Filed Stories About Evacuation Of Berlin

Swedish News Men In Trouble   Told Of Germans’ Berlin Evacuation

tog 3. a 3 oN  At n ~ -y~ ae ei ae Oe 4 mG. A .    Sudv0ring fig iwers 4eD08"9 7: 90s1 ion uring Sweers

Liquor Ration  Plan Proposed   Kilgore Would Place U.S. On Distiller-Drinker Basis During War

National Liquor Rationing Urged   Stock Check Suggested As First Step in War On IMlegal Marketing

Liquor Rationing Is Proposed By Solon To End Nationwide Shortage

Woman In Black Eagerly Sought      ‘Police Believe She Holds Key To Slaying Of WAC.

Woman In Black  Sought In Death   Wac Murder Still Is  Indiana Puzzle

‘WOMAN IN BLACK’ HUNTED IN MURDER   Coroner Says WAC Was Raped in Hotel

Seek “Woman In Black” In Slaying Of WAC, Hoosier Youth Confesses To Crime

Willkie Expected To Be Candidate  May Announce Bid In Friday's Talk

Willkie Will  Seek 1944 COP  Nemination Will Make An  Important  Speech Fridav

FDR Wants Four Billion For Navy   Provide For Contingencies Which Have Arisen Since Budget Submitted

BILLIONS ASKED FOR U. S. NAVY   Roosevelt Also Requests $2 10,000,000 Contract Authorizations

FDR ASKS FOR. ~ MORE FUNDS FOR U.S. NAVY.   Additional $4,000,000,000 in Cash and $210,000,000 Contract Authorization Asked

More Than Four Billions Asked for Navy  President Sends in Estimate on Sea War's Cost

PRESIDENT ASKS MORE NAVY FUNDS   Chief Executive Asks Congress for Four Billions Cash.

BRITISH HOLD HEIGHTS   Nazis Take Revenae   FOUR BILLIONS MORE ASKED FOR NAVY, ‘WITH $210,000,000 EXTRA FOR CONTRACTS

4 Billion in Cash, Fund For Contracts Asked For Navy   Appropriation Said Needed For New .. War Requiremente

FDR ASKS MORE FUNDS FOR NAV   Additional $4,000,000,000 In Cash Sought By Ex: ecutive

NAVY REQUESTS 4 BILLION MORE   $210,000,900 Conttact Authorizations Also Sought Over -1943 Budget Reauests

U.S. NAVY SEEKS $4,772,000,000   ‘Bureau Explains Addition Required to Prosecute War

PRESIDENT SEEKS NEARLY ‘FIVE - BILLION. DOLLARS  MORE FOR- NEXT FEW MONTHS

Asks Congress For More Money   President Wants More Funds For Navy Use

Billions ‘Asked To Boost Navy   President ‘Makes, Appeal To Congress; Would: Meet New Needs

PRESIDENT ASKS 4.210,000,000 MORE FOR NAV)   Requests Four Billion In Cash and $210,000,000 In Contract Authorizations; To Provide For New Contingences.

Four-Billion Bill for Navy   President Makes Request To Congress; Lend-Lease Food Report Presented

FOR MORE BILLIONS FOR NAVY TODAY  LEND-LEASE ADMINISTRA  Fae ee ee an ee ee ae ee  rt ASKED

Four Billion More For.Navy Asked   Budget Bureau Says Funds Needed For Prosecution Of War.

MONEY FOR THE NAVY   Roosevelt Asked Congress for $4,000,000,000' More Cash

PRESIDENT ASKS BiG NAVY FUND   Requests 4 Billion in Cash $210,000,000 for Con-” tract Authorizations

Allied Forces Mass For Attack On Bougainville   Two More Jap Vessels Torpedoed By Subs In China Sea   Nippon Fascist Leader Suicides

Fears Defeat, Jap Official Kills Himself   Death Follows  Tain’e Sneech

Road Hub Menaced.   Fears of Defeat Cited in Suicide Of Jap Extremis!

ENEMY LEADER ENDS OWN LIFE   Seigo Nakano, Member of Jap Diet, Feared Defeat in Wor

Jap Leader In Suicide   Sensing Japan Doomed, He Scorns Traditional Harakiri

FARMERS PLAN TO MEET FOOD GOALS   Deal Six Says Few Farms in ages 5 Lie Idle  is Year     TO POOL FACILITIES

FARMERS PLAN TO MEET FOOD GOALS   Deal Six Says Few Farms in County Will Lie Idle  is Year

Wife for Christmas— Sans Kisses   SAILOR OFFERS MATE YULE VISITOR WITH BLUE EYES, BLACK HAIR

FLIGHT OF NIPS NOT UNEXPECTED KNOX REVEALS   Report of ‘Evacuation’ Made By German Radio — Jap Reaction Watched

Communique By Tokio Says Units Fulfilled’ Task   Buna Rout Reported Three Weeks Late; Loss Of 16,734 Men Admitted

Struggle End in U.S. Vict       Secretary Knox Confirms Admis from Tokyo Given Out By Radio; Defense of Island Bases Is ally Given Up; Way Cnenes' te for.   American Moves.

TOKYO REPORTS GUADALCANAL  WITHDRAWAL   Also Announces ‘Evacuation’ o! Buna Mission—Claims Missions Accomplished

Way Now Is Open For New Drive In Pacific, Says Knox   Navy Secretary Labels ‘True’ Berlin Broadcast Of Japanese Report; Campaign Hailed As Success; Nip Bases In Guinea Raided

Tokyo Belatedly Announced Evacuation In New Guinea, Where Americans ond Australians Reported Annihilation of Japs

Tokyo Admits Evacuation Of Troops After 6-Month Fight   Secretary Of Navy Knox Says He Has ‘No’ Doubt’ That Resistance Has Ended  JAPS ADMIT LOSING 16,734 DEAD  Showdown Battle Between Japs And Yank Fleets St:ll Looms; May Be Feint?

Nazis Broadcast Jap Communique   Nips Also Quit Buna, Report Says; Jap Losses In Two Theaters Estimated At 16,734 Dead; First Admission Of Defeat In Pacific

Broadcast From Tokyo Intercepted   Secretary Knox Says Resistance  On Island Ends   A Sugar Coating On Radio Announcement   But Admission Is Expected To Shock Japanese Population

GONGEDE LOSS DF BUNA BAS   First Time Foe Has Been Forced to Give Up [m- ~ portant Point.   PLANNING NEW SLOWS?

Imperial Headquarters Calls . Defeat ‘Evacuation’ Of Island.   SAY MISSION IS ENDED

TROOPS MOVED TO NEW BASES IN SOLOMONS   German, Tokyo Radio Reports Tell Activities

Nips Reveal Withdrawal, Saying: ' ‘Missions Have Been Fulfilled’

Knox Says Jap Resistance On Solomons Island Practically Over; Rostov Nearly © Surrounded: Action Soon In North Africa

Island With Important Air Base Now Completely in U. S. Hands   A BITTER JUNGLE WAR   Six. Months Campaign Is Fought and Won. Under - Hard Condhtions

Tokyo Y:elds Vital Ground First Time   But Official Announcement Says Troops Withdraw After ‘Mission Accomplished’   OUT OF BUNA, TOO, JAPANESE ADMIT   Losses of 16,734 Troops Announced;High Figures Are Claimed for U.S. Losses

Resistance Has Ceased, Knox Says   Way Now Open for Use of Guadalcanal for Blows at Jap Bases   ENEMY IS DENIED BASE FOR RAIDS   No Further Report on Sea Action, Possibly a Move Covering Withdrawal

Feeble Enemy Groups May Be Left On Island; Naval Chief Confirms Axis Report

Evacuation of Island and Buna Base in New Guinea Announeed by Axis Radio

Task Fulfilled, New Bases Set, Is Explanation   Home Nipponese Get First News Of Island Loss; Knox Savs It’s So.

RESISTANCE HAS CEASED, NAVY OFFICIAL SAYS   U. S. Troops Only Five Miles from Enemy Headquarters

YANKEES SCORE VICTORY WITHG MONTHS’ FIGHT   Nipponese Say Forces Left “After Mission Had Been Fulfilled”

Berlin Reports Enemy HasRelinquishedsland   Knox Declares Resistance Apparently Ceased; American Forces Now in Striking Distance of Important Japanese Bases,

Tokyo Announces Nipponese Also Quit  ‘Buna On New Guinea   Jap Pacific Toll Said 16,734 Dead In 6-Month Battle Against U. 8.; Declare 25,000 Allies Wiped Out

Enemy Resistance Ceases, Says Sec. Knox After Axis Radio Admits Evacuation

Knox Says Enemy Resistance Ceases  In Guadalcanal  He Adds U.S. in Striking Distance

TOKYO CLAIMS.» MISSIONS HA BEEN FULFILLED   Berlin Broadcast Says Japs Lost 16,734 Dead; 139 Planes Lost.   FLEET MAY HAVE BEEN _ COVERING WITHDRAWAL

6-Month Fight Ends for Foe after Drive .   Knox Reveals Navy Support - Berlin Report That Resistance Has Collapsed

Knox Says Enemy Resistance Has Apparently Ceased   Sea Activity Might Have Been to Cover Withdrawal Move

Say ‘Mission Had Been Fulfilled’      Report Is Admission Army Destroyed i in “Papua: Enemy Puts Losses at 16.734 Dead.

Tokyo Also Admits Buna ‘Withdrawal   Enemy Puts Losses At 16,734 Men Dead In Battle Zones; Knox Says Naval Moves Mav Have Been To Cover Evacuation

KNOX ANNOUNCES ENEMY GIVES UF IMPORTANT POINT   Tokyo Admits Loss and U, S. Forces Prepare for Further Conquests In the Pacific

Knox Calls Enemy Admission True   All Resistance to American Fighting Men Has Apparently Ceased, He Says— Berlin Broadcests Tokyo  Dispatch Admitting Withdrawal

First Time Japs Have Withdrawn  -Americans Landed Aug. 7; Army Recently Relieved Marines

AllResistance On Solomons Island Stops  Knox Discloses Loss of Base by Foe After Six Months of Fighting  AIDS ALLIED DRIVE American Forces Now in Position to Strike at Jans in North   AIDS ALLIED DRIVE

All Resistance Ceases on Island; Americans Hold Springboard to Attack Enemy Bases; Vital Supply Line Acquires New Safequard

JAPANESE. ADMIT BUNA IS EVACUATED      Way Now Opened for U. S. Blows Against Important dananese Rases

EVACUATION OF BUNA REPORTED BY NAZI RADIO   American Forces Had Annihilated 15,000-Man Enemy Force In That Area  Three Weeks Ago   YANKS GAIN VITAL POSITIONS FROM FGE   Now In Striking Distance Of Some of Most Vital Bases of Enemy, Knox Says

U.S. Victory Sets Base For Further Blows   Berlin Radio Quotes Tokyo As Reporting Evacuation Of Scene Of Bitter Struggles

Report That Japanese Have Evacuated Their Positions On Islands Is Verified By Secretary Knox Who Asserts Way Is Open For New Blows ‘In South Pacific

ADMISSION OF DEFEAT COMES OUT OF TOKYC   Fall of Island in Solomons Put U. S. Within Striking Distance of Vital Territory

Enemy’s Admission That Surviving Troops Have Left Island Labeled By Navy Secretary As “True’— Any Scattered Groups Remaining In Area Regarded As Unable To Offer Serious Opposition—Evacuation By Nipponese Follow Six Months Of Fighting

TOKYO STATES MISSIONS ALL ACCOMPLISHEL   Report Is Thru Berlin Radio With Tokyo  Dateline   Bases Opinion On News Received By Navy  From Pacific

U. S$. Conquest Opens Door For Important Blows   Knox, Reporting Resistance Ceased, Expresses Belief Report Is True

Yanks Within Striking - Distance of Foe Bases _ Through Enemy’s Retreat   First Time in Conflict Foe Admits Defeat and Abandonment of a Vital Territory

Withdrawal Ends All Resistance  To U. 5. Offensive   Way Now Open To  Important Bases

KNOX BELIEVES RESISTANCE IN ISLAND ENDED   Says Nothing Further Reported on Battle In Solomons Area

Enemy Resistance Enids, Knox Reports, As Tokyc Admits Major Land Blow   Navy Secretary Declares Only A Few Nipponese Survivors Remain With  Finish Of Six-Month Campaign

ENDS 6-MONTH CFFENSIVE 10 GAIN CONTROL   Knox Says There Was No Doubt Enemy Leaving Territory

Knox Confirms Nip Admission Of Evacuation   ~ Navy Secretary Says All Resistance fo Americans Finished, Way Opened for Blow at Important Enemy Bases

Knox Declares All Enemy Resistance On Key South Seas Island Ap:  parently Ended.

JAP REPORTS TELL OF HARDSHIPS LOF FINAL DAYS   Food Supplies Diminished On Guadaleanal And Buna

Secrefary Knox Labels as True’ Enemy Admission to That Effect   Way Now Believed Open for Blows Against More Important Jap Bases

Resistance At End, Knox Says   ... 6-Month Battle Brings U. S. Victory

Japs Admit Defeat On Vital Territory   Secretary Knox Says That All Enemy Resistance on Key Island in Southwest Pacific Apparently Has Ceased.   Only a Few Jap Survivors Remain  Out of Original 15,000 Troops

re emcee Yn  MILITARY MISSION _ SENT FROM TURKEY TO TUNISIAN FRONT

Statement From Quebec To Come   CONFERENCE RESULTS “TO BE GIVEN TODAY

FDR, CHURCHILL COMPLETE WAR SESSIONS TODAY   U. S. President To Address Canadian Parliament Wednesday

F. D., Churchill Parley Report Expected Today   Sealed Battle Orders To Be Sent To Allied Leaders In All Parts Of World

War Council At Quebec Closes After Decisions   ‘Decisions of Utmost Importance’ Said Made By Leaders

War Meet Ends; Vita  Decisions   Roosevelt, Churchill Talk Tonight; Latter May Visit U.S.

Of The Utmost Importance Are Made.  Reinke’ Closed, Plans Are Sealed At Quebec Parley

Roosevelt And Churchil End War Council, Reaching Vital Decisions In Quebec

SEALED ORDERS SENT ALLIED COMMANDERS   Churchill-Roosevelt Conference To Break Up This Afternoon

PLAN OF ACTION IS MAPPED BY MILITARY CHIEFS   Bracken Says Quebec’ To Be Famous As Site Of Conference

SOLONS ATTEMPT TO. REVISE BILL   Labor Legislation Is Hotly Contested

FEMALE LABOR ROW ON-IN OHIO   Employes Want Longer Hours And Unions Protest as Step Toward Sweat Shop

Asks Extension Of Lend-Lease   Steady War Product: Flow ts Objective

First Army Near Town of Mateur   Rommel’s Forces Make Stand About 20 Miles North of Gabes

THREE HURT AS CRACK EXPRESS LEAVES TRACK   Accident Near Warren. Pa. Causes Injuries To Three Aboard Train

[RED ARMY iS WIPING QUT STRAY NAZIS   East Bank of Dnieper Being Cleared Along, 400 Mile Front: White Russia  is Invaded.

TRY TO CLEAR 400-MILE LINE ON EAST BANK   German Defenses Along West Bank Shelled And Bombed

Red Star Says All Dnieper  * Ablaze—Guns Roaring  ~ _Incessantly—Jam Crossings .  FIGHT IN FINAL PHASE  Enemy Counter Attacking Dozen Times A Day With Air Support .

Yanks Surge Through Nazi Defenses, Battle For Naples Nears Climax As Capture Of City Appears Imminent

KIUNAPED BABY {5 BACK HUME AGAIN   Soldier’s Wife Confesses Taking Baby From Crib.

BABY RECOVERED: WOMAN 15: HELD   Kidnaped Infant Back With Parents; Soldier's Wife To Face Charge

Production  Is Going Up   Increases Reported By U.S. And Britain

Misdeeds of Former German Ally Much Alive; “Wait and See” Attitude Prevails

Italy Must Pay For Misdeeds Claims London   Chief Victims Not Pleased at Latest Stand

Italy ‘on Probation, De. spite Declaration of War, Js Allied Attitude

Italy Will Be Punished For Her Misdeeds   War Declaration Received In Allied Camps With Mixed Feelings   SOME ANTAGONISTIC

FORMER MISDEEDS OI  ITALY REMAIN ALIVE  DESPITE NEW TURN MUST BE PUNISHED BUT  WAR AID-MAY: MINIMIZE TREATMENT

‘Wait-And-See’ Attitude Allied Policy To Italy   Italian Misdeeds Not Forgotten Despite Change: World Reaction Mixed

 The War Today— ‘Coordinated Allied Forces In Africa ‘Puts “Genius Of Death” On Defensive

Allies Achieve Most Magnificent Victory of War   Still Remains Mopping Up to Do.in Tunisia;  Hitler Forced Back ~ of Crumbling Walls"

Today’s War Moves   Allies Achieve First Major  Victory of Present Wiar

ALLIES HAVE ACHIEVED ONE MOST IMPORTANT VICTORIES OF WAR   Mediterranean Area is One of Most Important Strategically in The World—MacKenzie.

The War Today  North African Coast One Of Most Strategic Positions In The World.

‘NORTH AFRICAN VICTORY ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT YET FROM STRATECIC STANDPOINT IN WAR

NORTH AFRICA VICTORY HELD FEAT OF SKIL   Perfect Timing and Coordination Is Shown By Troops

ltaly, Tex., Town of 1,224, Has Perfect Trattic Mark — Not A Single Fatality In 35 Years

MATERIAL FOR CAMPAIGN IN ADDRESS-GOP   Republicans See Political Side Of FDR’s Talk

TWO VIEWS ARE TAKEN OF TALK BY ROOSEVELT   Republicans Say Framework for Future Political Campaigning Plain; Democrats Deny It

FOURTH TERM BID SEEN IN SPEECH   REPUBLICANS HIT AT ROOSE: VELT’S WAR MESSAGE—DEMOCRATS DEFEND IT.

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO “4 WIN THE WAR   , ©. & & 6.6.6. 6 & & & &.

British Eighth Army Again Pushes Ahead   Main Forces 35 Miles From Tunisia Following Blasting of Suicide Rear Guards With Artillery Fire in Port of Zuara.

MAIN BODY OF BRITISH ARMY NEARS BORDER   Axis Troops Checked After Deep Thrust Toward Highlands West Of Sfax   PORT OF ZUARA SEIZED   Messina. Italian Naval Base, Bizerte And Gabes Are Hit By Bombers

ARTILLERY USED 10 BLAST GERMAN: SUICIDE SQUADS      Group Assigned To The Delaying Action At Zuara   AXIS CENTERS GET VIOLENT BOMBING

Gasoline Stocks in East Drop   'Not Alarming’ Says Ickes; Refuses to Preak Silence on Driving Ban

Major Tank Battle Still Without Letup   Town Is Captured by Russians South of Great Bulge Fight

Russians Hit at Nazis in Kiev Area   Recapture Several Hamlets; Kill 1,600 Enemy Troops

RUSSIANS IN GREAT DRIVE ONGERMANS   Greatest Tank ‘Battle of War Is Raging on the Russian Front   TOWN OF CHIGRIN IS TAKEN BY REDS   Thirty-five Tanks Wrecked and 1600 Nazis Killed in Day

Russian Defense Forces Rally By Retaking Several Hamlets And Killing 1,600 Germans In Tank Battle

SOVIETS HOLD AGAINST NAZIS IN KIEV BULGE   Russian Troops Take Town in Kremenchug Region

Red Defenses Are Believed Stiffening   Continue Steady Gains Toward Kirovograd  200 Miles to South MANY GERMANS DIE

Reds Rally Against Nazi Tank Forces   Russian Troops Capture Chigrin In Kirovograd Drive

NEWSPRINT SUPPLY SUBJECT MEETING WITH CANADIANS   Whether American Newspapers Will Be Permitted To Continue Service to  Public At Stake

Nation’ s Industrial Front Sprinkled With New Flurries of Work-Cessations

Labor Disputes Are Breaking Out   \t Least 12,000 Miners Quit While Southern  Truckers Return.

Work Stoppages Are Continuing   Mine Front Tabulation Today Showed at Least 20,000 Miners Idle.

ANOTHER FLURRY OF  WORK STOPPAGES IN  VARIED INDUSTRIES RETURN OF COAL MINES  TO OWNERS CAUSES 20 010 OUT IN ALABAM

RETURN OF COAL MINES TO” OWNERSHIP - MANAGEMENT IS SICNAL FOR FLURRY WALKOUTS   At Least 12,000 Miners Idle and 24 Shafts Closed As Result of Return of Mines to Owners Without Contracts Being Signed With Workers

Last Man’s Club Annual Meeting Held Thursday  Dr. W. L. Downing Is _ Elected President  For Ensuing Year

YOUTH DROWNS IN MISSISSIPPI   River claims first victim at Burlington when  canoe capsizes

First Drowning of Year at Burlington   Canoe Overturns Near MacArthur Bridge

SOLDIER VOTE BILL AMENDED   Senate Approves Change Sponsored by GOP

Allies Report Coastal Raid on Appian Way      San Yittore, Heavily Fortified Town, Falls to Sth Army

OTH ARMY GRABS INITIATIVE FROM NAZIS IN ITALY   Large Scale Raid Along West Coast Breaks Stalemate on WaterLogged Front.

INITIATIVE 18 SEIZED BY YANKS   _ Large Scale Raid North of Gari

Yankees Carry Out Big Raid   FIFTH ARMY FORCES GAIN GROUND IN ITALY

 ITALY   Fifth Army Battling Way Toward Cassino   ‘Italian Bari Radio Announces ‘Capture Of Fortified Village Of San Vittore By Americans; Raid On West Coast Of Italv Is Announced

Capture Of San Vittore Is Reported   Headquarters Reveals Large-Scale Raid To North Of Garigliano River In Italv

Fifth Army Raids — West Coast of Italy   Troops Seize Initiative From Nazis Along Stalemated and Waterlogged Front North of Garigliano River.   Rv WES GALILAFHER.

Fifth Army In Leapfrog Raid In West Italy   Attack Aimed At Cutting Vital Appian Way Leading To Rome.

Fifth Army Troops Raid Italy Coast   Vord Confirms in Part Nazi Broadcast On Leapfrog Attack

Report  Key Italy Base Falls   SAN VITTORE CAPTURE LISTED AS 5TH ARMY RAIDS WEST COAST

Fifth Army Has Initiative   Big Scale Raid Carried Out North of Front Line

ADVANGE UNITS NEAR CITY 20 MILES FROM OLD POLAND BORDER   Massive Red Army Drive Engulfing South Russia; Allied Attack In Italy Shifts To Air Blows   (BULLETIN) Ry UNITED PRFec

Fifth Army In Raid On Coast Of Italy   Amphibious Attack Reported By Nazis In Broadcasts _

AMERICANS CAPTURE SAN VITTORE   Allied Raid Across Garigiano River Is Carried Out

ALLIES ESTABLISH NEW BRIDGEHEAD IN WESTERN ITALY   EFFECT LANDING FROM SEA BEHIND GERMAN DEFENSES

INITIATIVE IN ALY GAINED BY STH ARM   Raid on West Coast Aimed at Junction Points on Appian Way.

Yanks Seize San Vitfore   Fifth Army Drives Out Naxis; Raid on West Coost Successfu

Allies Confirm ‘Leap-Frog’ Raid On lfalian Coast   Initiative Seized From Germans In Surprise Landing

LARGE SCALE RAID ALONG WEST COAST OF ITALY YESTERDAY   The Fifth Army Seized the Initiative Along the Front in That Sector.   NO DETAILS WERE GIVEN   Apparently Was Aimed at Junctions Controling Coastal Road Leading to Rome.

Important — Gains By «Sth Army   Fortifjed Village of San Vit. tore, Near Cassino on Road to Rome Reported Taken   LONG A CENTER OF HARD FIGHTING   Large Scale Raid On. West Ttalian Coast Revealed,Partly Confirming Nazi Story

GERMANS LOSE GROUND ALONG ITALIAN COAST   Fighting In Snow And Med; Allies  Near Cassino

Yanks Jump Up Coast to Hit Germans   Fifth Army in Large Scale Raid On the West Coast of ttaly

Report Confirms German Word of New Leap-Frog  Drive on Italian Shore

FIFTH ARMY AGAIN TAKES OFFENSIVE ON ITALIAN FRONT   Allies Stage Raid on Western Coast North of Garialiana River

Americans Smash Ahead Along Coast of Italy  New U. S. Bridgeheac Established After Leapfrog Raid

\mericans Smash \lead Along Coast of Italy  New U. S. Bridgeheas  Established Aftayr lenntfran Raid

Clark's Army in Surprise Move  Make Big Raid North of Gariaiiano River

SAN VITTORE IS REPORTED TAKE} BY FIFTH ARM}   Italian Radio Announces Vic tory Over Germans—Amphibious Stab Success

STH VICTORIOUS AT SAN VITTORE   Badoglio-Run Radio Reports Capture By Allied Army

CLARK MAKES RAID BEHIND GERMAN LINE   Germans Report “Leapfrog” Tactics First

Raid Staged By Yankees on Coast of Italy   Initiative Seized From Germans in Leapfrog Attack

San Vittore Is Taken by Allies   The 5th Army Has Captured the Fortified Village, Italian Radio Stated.

Large Scale Raid On Italian Coast   Allies Confirm Report They Have Taken Initiative From Germans.

FIFTH ARMY TROOPS  IN LEAPFROG RAID  ITALY’S WEST COAST HARD-FIGHTING CANA _DIANS OF EIGHTH ARMY IN ANOTHER CAIN

Fifth Stages Big Raid on West Coast  No Details   No Details  Yet Given of  Leap Frog Attacks Up the Coast

Leapfrog Raid  Hits Germans   Yanks Seize Initiative Along Water-Logged Italian Front.

Initiative Seized By Stl Army By  Maneuver   May Haye Been Part Of Leap-Frog Tactics Reported By Nazis: BKiehth Makes Cain

LARGE SCALE COASTAL RAID   Sth Army Troops Seize Initiative From Germans in River Sector.

Town Near 3 Cassino Is. Captured   Victory At San Vittore On Road To Rome li Told In Broadcast * Bari Radio

SAN VITTORE’S CAPTURE TOLD BY BARI RADIO   Allied Communique Partly Verifies Nazi Report of Fifth Army ‘Leapfrog’ Landing

Reds Split Routed Remnants of Hitler Army on Bug River   Break-Throrugh on 185. Mile Front Pounds Re treating Germans

Partial: Confirmation Given to German Broad casts of New Leapfrog  _ Landings

Axis Reaction Indieates Its Grave Plight   Enna’s Loss Admitted by Propagandists; Spokesmen Cautious

Former Brewster Head Tlays. Union Leader and Gane   Tear of De Lorenzo and ‘40 Thieves’ Blamed For Failures

OLD CONTROVERSY INF CCFUTURE ARISES IN SENATE   Attempt Made to Revoke Death Sentence Reopens Differences In Steps to Get Other Action.   FUNDS WOULD PERMIT OPERATION FOR YEAR   Senator Says Switch Was Made From One Bill to Another to Get an Early Vote on Crop Insurance.

Senate Tries ToSave FCIC By New Shift   Agrees to Strike It Out Of Farm Bill—Adds It To Deficiency Bill

SENATE SEEKS. TO REVOKE ITS DEATH OF FCIC   Writes Provision Into Another Bill After Yielding to House Killing Measure   CONTROVERSY LOOMS   Concerted Efforts to Complete Action of Other Appropriation Bills Today Made

ASK FUNDS FOR CROP INSURANCE   SENATE ATTEMPTS TO REVOKE DEATH SENTENCE OF FCIC

CROP INSURANCE ISSUE RAISED   Senate Tries to Revoke Death Sentence an Art

Allied Thrusts Peril Nazis’  Tunisian Line:   U. §.-British Poise For Blows at Rommel in Africa:

U.S. Tankmer Holding Near Sened   Wedge Poises New Threat to Nazi Rommel’s Lifeline

Americans Dig In After Taking Sened   Poise New Threat fo Rommel’s Fleeing Columns

ROMMEL REAR LINE MENACED BY U.S. TANKS   SINGING AMERICANS NEARING COAST OF TUNISIA

New Threat To Axis Army In Tunisia  U. S. Tank Crews Hold  Sened Rail Line to - Block Rommel

US. Tank Wedge Is New Threai  To Gen. Rommel   Americans Hold Sened, 47 Miles from Coast In Central Tamicie

DRIVE WEDGE IN NAZI LINE   Push Beyond Sened to Threaten Rommel’s Line of Retreat

YANKS DIG IN TO FORM AXIS ESCAPE THREAT   Tank Crews Are Astride Railway Mile East Of Sened; Enemy  Firm At Pass   8th Army Advances

YANKS POISE NEW PERIL 16 ROMMEL LINE   Surprise March Of 20 Miles in An Hour Broke Open G-rman Defenses Of Sen  French Active

YANKS THREATEN LINE SUPPLYING: ROMMEL FORGES   Dig In East of Sened, Only 23 Miles From Route Used to Send Aid to Germans.   AMERICAN FAID PASS  ACTION UNSUCCESSFUL   Fail to Drive Hitler’s Troops From Strongly Entrenched Positions in Two-Day Attack.

aD  ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE TO SPONSOR SURVEY   Ministers to Aid as Inquiring Reporters

SALE OF OHIO FARM LAND, LIVESTOCK UP   nereased 72 Percent Over 1941 Mark

SHOE DEALERS TAKE NOTICE   OPA Reminds Them of Inventories As of ° April 10

“BREEZES WILL LINGER   Flora Sees No Immediate Change in the Kansas Temperatures .

SEE EXTRA GAS FOR ‘A’ HOLDERS   Basic Ration May Go Fron One And A Half To Twe Galions Weekly In East, A P. Report Says

A’ Gas Card To Be Boosted To Two Gallons Per Week, Washington Source Predicts

“AY Cards Will Call for More Gasoline Soon   Two Gals. Weekly In Eastern Area

BASIC RATIONS 10 INCREASE, REPORT   “A” Card Holders May Get Two Gallons of Gas Weekly

300 Head Cattle Lost In Prairie Fire   - . - 20-Mile Strip Of Land Near Brady Swept

BIG JAP OIL CENTER HIT BY BOMBERS   Liberators Leave Huge Fires Burning In Oil Port

U. S. Forces Gain On Land, Sea In Pacific Fight  Big Bombers Strike Vital Oil Field During Long Flight

Americans Bomb Japanese Oil Port To Fire in Borneo   War's First Air Blow On Balikpapan Made By Liberator Force

Liberator Bombers Turn Japanese Oil Port Into Fiery Cauldron In © Round Trip Flight Of 2.500 Miles

U. 5. Bombers Strike at Jap Port in Borneo   First Air Blow on Oil Base MacArthur Says

Big Jap Base On Borneo Blasted   * Giarit Oil Port Is Left Fiery Cauldron

RAIDERS FIRE JAP BORNEO O1. PORT   BALIKPAPAN TURNED INTO SEETHING INFERNO BY RECORD BOMBING ATTACK,

Sees Election Law Compact   Walker Predicts Passage Of Compromise Measure On Servicemen’s Votes.

Gen. Mark Clark Leads Yanks  As Paratroops Sp2ed Attack;  Germans Battle Desperately

INITIAL BATTLE IS TAKING PLAGE SOUTH OF NAPLES   American Army About 160 Miles From Rome, Other Forces at Three Points Nearer Important City.   GERMANS ARE SHOWING INCREASED RESISTANCE   Paris Reported Bombed With Heavy Blasting In Channel, Explanation of Attack Not Made.

NEXT 12 MONTH MUST INPORTANT PATTERSON SAY   Long, Hard  Fight Lies Ahear, War Official Tells  Home Front Leaders

DAWSON AGAIN ELECTED MAYOR   Winner For Third Term In Charleston Over . Jackson Savage;  Vote Light

DAWSON WINS MAYORALTY RAGE   Charleston GOP Also Elecis Police Judge, Treasurer All But One of 22 Members of Council

FOOD SLASH FORECAST BY WAR BOARD   OPA Makes Break in FDR’s Order to ‘Hold Line’

Food Administrator Says F arm Manpower Supply In Nation Is Ample For Needs

Heaviest Fighting Reported At Dnieper Bend Bridgehead   Germany Reports Soviet Artillery Paving © Woy For New Break-Through Near Smolensk

10 Defendants Plead Innocent In Elkton Case   Officers of Triumph Ex plosives Arraigned in Baltimore

20 INDICTED IN MUNITIONS CO. RRAUDCHARGES      Four Enter Pleas. of Innocent While Fourteen.File  Formal Objections to  - Indictments .    HEARING MARCH 27   All Charged With -Bribéry. and Fraud in Operation Of Explosive Firm ~ At Elkton, Md. .

Reds Continue to Hammer the Nazis   Russian Army Is Rocking The Germans Back On Their Heels   ON A 600 MILE FRONT   Soviets Announce the Capture of 406 Villages From Axis

Germans Hurled Back Nine To 16 Miles by Russian  Advance in Donets Basin

Reds Continue to Hammer the Nazis   Russian Army Is Rocking The Germans Back On Their Heels   Soviets Announce the Capture of 406 Villages  From Axis

WAAC Shipment Due In England   Capt. Wilson Heralds Arrival of 2,000

iis Prenare to ake Over Whole ‘egime in France  ve fo Cope witt New Disorders by ~ Making Arrests

Nazis May Oust Vichy Puppets  Disorders Reported Mounting in France

) NV ar-W eary Italy May Seek Separate Peace   Invaders Are Encountering Astonishing Lack Of Resistance In Southern Italy

ANOTHER CAN PICKUP   City Truck Will Go Over City Thursday and Friday.

Increased Work Week Sought by State Officials   Manpower Program Discussed at Baltimore Meet

Increased Work Week Is Proposed   Transfer of Civilian Pro duction Plants Also Urged by Council

Germans Warned by Goebbels   Tells People War Must Br Fought to Finish—No  Compromise

MUST FIGHT ON TO THE FINISH, GOEBBELS SAYS   ‘Can Be No Compromise, German - Leader Tells People, Admitting That War Will Be Hard

SIMMONS? BANK RECORDS EYED   Prosecutor Wants to Knovw  i   How Much Tulsan Gave Mrs. Howard

LIQUOR RATION SALES STEADY   Twin City, State Dealers Report No Rush As Stores Open

WLB ORDER MAY AVERT POSSIBLE COAL SHORTAGE   Ickes’ Plan, Approved by President Roosevelt, Removes All Obstacles Except  Portal-to-Portal Pay Issue

Coal Miners’ Work Period Lengthened   48-Hour Week To Be Permitted At Some Mines

48-HOUR WEEK IN NUMBER OF MINES WLB . AUTHORIZES      Step Viewed As Move To Establish Peace As Well _As To Forestall Shortage

48-OUR WORK WEEKFORINER DADERED BY WIE    Will Offset Threatened Shortage Of Coal — Help Settle 1 Dispute

48-HOUR WEEK FOR MINERS ANNOUNCED BY WLB IN NATIGN   Plan May Forestall -Coal Shortage and Establish Peace Between’ Two  . Feetions.

Russians Sweeping Across Ukraine   Drive Puts Reds 50 Miles From Azov Sea

Light Snow Is Likely in State   Temperatures Are To Remain About Same as Wednesday

NO PRICE RAISES IN 48-HOUR WEE   Shorter Work to  Be Permitted Firms Lacking Materterial To Operate,

Allies Pierce Jap Lines On Peninsula   Chinese Take Heavy Toll of Enemy in “Rice Bowl”

Allied Troops Cut Info Japan's Lines   Enemy Retreats in New Guinea, China

JAP LINES ON WIDE SECTORS ARE PIERCED   Allied Successes Keep Pace With Ever-Mounting Air Offensive Against  Enemy Bases «  AUSSIES DRIVE AHEAD

Jap Lines Pierced by UN Soldiers   Aussies Force Nip Withdrawal on Huon Peninsula; Invaders Suffer Heavy ,Casualties in Rice Bow]

JAPANESE LINES ON WIDELY SEPARATED FRONTS PIERCED  CROUND ACTIVITY KEEP   GROUND ACTIVITY KEEPING PACE WITH MOUNTING AIR OFFENSIVE

ALLIES PIE AGE JP FARK TO: AlN WAR STEPPED UP   Nippon Prisoner Says War With Russia Is E: pected Shortly

Allies Crack Lines of Japs   Air Offensive Against All Enemy Bases In Pacific On Increase

Allies Piercing Jap Positions In Widespread Area   American Bombers  Again Hit Marshall Islands; Aussies Go  Forward

LAND FORCES STRIKING AT LINES OF NIPS   Keeping Pace With Whacks Other Fighting Forces Are Taking at Holds of Enemy.

JAPS HIT HARD ON MANY FRONTS   AMERICAN BOMBERS STRIKE AGAIN AT MARSHALL ISLANDS

ALLIES PIERGE ENEMY’S LINES   Secretary Knox Predicts Hard Blows to Be Struck Against Japs.   REVIEWS ‘PACIFIC WAR

Yank Flyers Churn Up Jap Fields   Japanese Suffer ‘Heavy Casualties in Fighting in China; Nip Garrison Routed

Attacks Hit Japs In Several Spots   Soldiers Keep Pace With Ever-Mounting Air Offensives   RAID ENEMY ISLANDS   Australian Fighters Making Progress on Huon Peninsula

Allied Soldiers Pierce Jap Lines   AUSSIE TROOPS SMASH TO NEW GAINS ON HUON

Australians Gain on Huon   Push Japanese Forces Back as Aussies Aim At Two Objectives _

Allies Pierce Jap Lines on Various Separated Fronts   American Bombers in Another Attack on Marshall Islands

ALLIES SMAS NIPPONESE ON WIDE FRONTS      Ground Offensive Keeps Pace With Ever Mounting Air Attacks

ALLIES BREAK THROUGH JAPS’ FRONT LINES   Australian - Spearheads Foroe ‘Withdrawals of Enemy — on..Huon - af

GROUND FORCES SMACK AT JAPS   Soldiers Keep Pace Witt Mounting Air Offensive

Japs Pounded On Scattered Fronts Today   Tokyo Radio Admits Navy Does NOT Have Situation Under Control

Allies Keep Pace With Air Advance In Pacific War   Japs Suffer Heavy Casualties in Rice Bow! Battle

Tempo Increases in Pacific War  Allied Land, Sea and Air Forces Active

Air Offensive Mounts In Pacific; Jap Casualties Heavy In “Rice Bowl’

Ball Resolution Apparently Doomed to Go Into a Pigeonhole for a Time

SPONSORS OF RESOLUTION DECLARE THEY WANT CITI. ZENS. OF NATION .TO CONSIDER PURPOBE

Pope Deplores World Decadence in War; Warns Against Peace of Vengeance

POPE PIUS IN SOMBER MESSAGE   Sees Little Hope Of Sudden End Of Conflict

In Two Months, British Observers Estimate, Reds a Partly Destroyed 89 Axi Divisions, 60 German. . . *

HUGE NUMBERS OF NAZIS ARE DEMORALIZED   Observers Report Russians Have Badly Mauled 89 Divisions In Two Months.

Soviets Gain 17 More Miles, Near Kharkov   Rampant Russians Further Compress Huge Nazi Armies in Northwestern Caucasus in Drive on Important Rostov

Red Armies Tightening Noose About Nazis in Caucasus; Advances Also Made in Central Battle Area  

LABOR HOLIDAY IS THREATENED   AFL Uniors Considering Steps In Baltimore Transit Row

ALLIES STRIKE SURPRISE BLOW   JAPS SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES NEAR MUBO, NEW GUINEA

AUSTRALIANS RAID NP DUTPOST It NEW GUINEA ZONE   More Than 100 Nippones Slain; Allied Airmer Blast Airdreme in New Britain.

Aussies Raid Enemy Outpost In New Guinea   Allied Pressure Forces Japs to Attempt Escape

Australians Attack Jap  Positions   Kill More Than 100 Of Enemy During Raid ‘On Outpost Guarding Salamaua Base

100 Japs Slain At Pacific Base   AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN RAID ON SALAMAUA SECTOR

Aussies Raid Jap Outpost In Village   Enemy Attempts Escape Movement Near Sanananda   Reinforcements Stop Australian Attacks   Allied Warplanes Continue To Hammer  Japs In South Seas

Jap Base _ Is Raided By Aussies   Mubo, Near Alamaua, Is Scene of Latest  _ New Guinea Battle; Jap Lesses Heavy

Discharge Pay For Vets Upped By Senate Group   $500 for Overseas, Minimum Is $200

Senate Conniltee Raises Discharge Maximum to $500  Group Favers Higher Mustering Out Payments

Discharge Pay Measure  Is Rewritten   Military Committee Of Senate Approves _ Graduated Schedule  PUTS EMPHASIS ON OVERSEAS SERVICE  Maximum Put at $50( And Minimum $200 Not Subject Ta Tavac

DISCHARGE PAY BILL REVAMPED   Overseas Service Gets Emphasis; Maximum Fixed At $500

LAST JAP bot IN NEW GEORGIA   Foe Bottled Up At Bairoko Harbor—Rain Bombs On Burma

YANKEE TROOPS TO CLOSE IN ON LAST ENEMY STRONGHOLE   Destruction of the Garrison of Bairoko Harbor Sought by Forces of Americanc.

Yanks Closing in  On Jap Base  At New Georgia U.S. Fliers Hit  Nips on Burma  And New Guinez

BAIROKO NCW ATTACKED; AIR RAIDS HEAVY   Tokyo Sees ‘Worst’ From Yankee Flyers, Says DNB Agency

U.S. TROOPS HIT BAIROKO HARBOR   New Aerial Blows Smash Jap Installations In New ‘Guinea And Burma

Moose Take Over Montana Highway   Amiable Animals Park On Road, Blocking All Traffic At Town Near Butte

Island Bases Are Expanded By Americans   U. S. Forces Move Steadily To Protect Pacific Supply Routes   ELLICE GROUP IN LATEST EXPANSION

LAND INVASION EXPECTED SOON   Observers See Stalin Victory For Second Front

Stalin Wins Out On Full Scale Second Front   Gen. Marshall May Be Commander  OF Allied Effort

‘Stalin wins fight for big  land assault’   Expect Marshall  to head operation

ENEMY TRENCHES SEIZED BY REDS AT LAKE ILMEN      Russians Above Orel Holding Firmly To River Bridsehead

16 ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Russian Airmen Active Over Front; 1000 Nazis Are Slain

SAYS IL DUCE FACES CRISIS <OF HIS LIFE   London Quarters View Ciano Ouster as Move of a Cornered Man— Suggestion Made Hitler Ordered Move.

Mussolini Ousts Ciano As His Foreign Minister   Blame Reverses  Cabinet Shakeun

Duce Ousts His Own Son-in-Law  Takes Post of Foreign Minister Himself

IL DUCE OUSTS HIS SON-IN-LAW IN GOV'T MOVE   Mussolini Facing Critical Test In Holding Position

ACT SEEN AS MOVE ~ OF DESPERATE MAN   Shift May Mean Hitler and 1] Duce May Be« Ready Ene Samo New Thrust

DUCE DESPERATE AFTER LOSS OF AFRICAN EMPIRE   At Least That’s Impression Of Allied Diplomats as Count Ciano Fired   ‘ITALIANS GROW FEARFUL   Field for New Adventures By Axis To  Distract People Now Limited

Mussolini’s New Cabinet Shifts Are in Desperation   Son-in-Law, Count Ciano, Kicked Out As Foreign Minister

Ciano Ousting Laid to Losses  Seen as Desperate  Move by Duce   Seen as Desperate Move by Duce Facing Big Test

RECENT MOVE OF MUSSOLINI THAT OF A CORNERED MAN   Shakeup of His Cabinet Included Dismissal of His Son-in-Law.   HIS DISMISSAL ABRUPT      Desperately Discarded HalfHearted Supporters, It Is Said.

Seen as Move of Cornered Man Preparing for Most Critical Test Of His Career   PRESTIGE IS ROCKED   Loss of African Empire Terrific Blow; Tightens Grip On His Government

Desperate Duce Takes Over All Powers in Big Cabinet Shakeup   Fires Son-in-Law Ciano, Count Gr andi, 9 Others, Leaves Only 3 in Posts; Hitler’s Orders Seen Back of Shift

CIAND OUSTED AS FOREIGN ACE   War Reverses Blamed on Son-in-Law By Mussolini

Mussolini’s Dismissal Of Count Ciano  Interpreted As Move Of Cornered Man

Mussolini's Dismissal Of Ciano Seen As Act Of Cornered Ruler, May Have Been Hitler's Orders

Ciano Ousted From Cabinet By Mussolini i] “es Discards His  Half-Hearted Backers From Office; Reverses

IL DUCE BETRAYS SIGNS OF FRIGHT   OUSTS SON-IN-LAW IN DRASTIC CHANGE IN CABINET

IL DUCE MAKES CABINET CHANCES   Dusts Ciano as Italy's For: eign Minister; Orders In_ dustry Mobilized

Deep Significance Seen Possible In Ciano Shift   Il Duce’s Ouster of Son-in-Law Prompts Diplomatic Sneculetian

Duce Fires His Son-In-Law  All Men And Womer Over 14 Mobilized For War Service.

IL DUCE FIRES CIANO TO TAKE POST HIMSELF   Cabinet Shakeup Regarded as Re flecting Desperate Crisis, Pos sibly Ciano’s Defection

MUSSOLINI DISMISSES CIANO   Observers See Action As Move of Cornered Man Desperately Trying To Hold Power

MUSSOLINI FIRES SUN IN LAW CIAND   Shakeup Regarded As Sign Things Are Not Going Smoothly in Italy.

Ciano Ousted From Italian Cabinet Post   Il Duce Seen as Trapped, Desperate Man in New Moves  WORKERS MOBILIZED ‘Only Three Ministers in Italian Cabinet Keep - Their Posts

Ciano’s Ouster Seen As Move Of Desperation   Duce, Facing Most Criticial Test, Gets Rid Of Wavering Aids.

IL DUCE DloGAADD FOREIGN MINISTER   Count Ciano Ousted as Dictator Shaffles Cabinet in Desperate Move

II-Duce"Faces Supreme Tes!   Mussolini Is Seen As A .Cornered Man’

Mussolini Fires His 'Son-in-Law   Il Duce Reshuffles  Cabinet to Bolster ° The Sinking Morale Of Italian People

War. Reverses ‘Seen, As Cause  Of Ciano’s Fal:   Duee Orders Mobilization . Of Workers In Effort To. Tighten Grip Ai Home

Reds Speeding Offensive in Many Sectors   Million and Half Troops Threatehed With Encirclement

German Army Thrown Back By Russians   Nazis Unable to Halt Red Army’s Break Through Drive

NAZIS APPEAR UNABLETO HALT RED ADVANCES   German Lines, Although Reinforced With Fresh Troops, Appear to be Crumbling   1,500,000 HELD FACING ENTRAPMENT   Soviet Fashioning Clamp Both North and South of Militope! and Southeast of Kiev

Kiev Encircled, Gomel By-Passed as Stalin’s Strategy Gives Hitler’s Men No Pause   ESCAPE LINES CUT   Russian Troops Advance Scores of Miles, Spill Over from Areas of Main Altacks

REDS NOOSE. AROUND DNIEPER BEND   Violent Russian Attacks  Throw Germans Back © At All Points

1,500,000 Nazis Threatened With Entrapment In Dnieper Bend, Three Other Sectors   * >. . Rall Or Ky Or Pua OP Mahtoput 3» Nears  Moscow May Celebrate Victory Tonight; Enemy Unable To Italt Break

Invaders Said Unable To Halt ‘Russian Attacks   ‘Million And Half Germans Faced With Entrapment In Bend Of The Dnieper

NaziCommand Unable tt Halt Russians; Moscow Prepares to Celebrate

Huge Soviet Drive Gains Momentum   Russians Hurl Germat Forces Back Scores Of Miles

REDS EXPECT DOWNFALL OF NAZIS’ ARMY   1,500,000 German Soldiers May Be Captured

GERMANS THROWN BACK MANY MILES BY THE RED ARMY   This Action Was in Face of Heavy Counterattacks in Many Sectors.   MELITOPOL IN DANGER   Moscow Is Expecting to Hold Celebration by the City’s Downfall.

Marathon Is Speeding Up  Every Hour   Vicious Counter-Attacks Fail to Deter Russian Steamroller

41 DIE IN CRASH   Four-Motored Bomber Went Down West of White City Yesterday

Bomber Crash Fatal To 11   Huge Bomber Down In White City Vieinity

ATTORNEY MAKES PLEA TO JURY   ‘Asks Jurors Not to Convict ‘De Marigny on ‘Prejudice’;  End Near

LAWYER URGES TRIAL JURY TO FREE MARIGNY   Sensational Trial Nearing Climax; Defense Counsel Hits Crown Attorney ~ For Undue Delay

Marigny Fate Is Nearing Jury As  Final Plea Heare   Conviction Because Of ‘Prejudice’ is Worse Than Death, Says Higgs

WIND UP PLEAS IN OAKES CASE   Defense Attorney Asks Jurors To Free de Marigny

 Operators. Unions Disagree ‘As To Who Must Pay $40 Bonuses  For Underground Travel Time

New Row In Coal Wages  Settlement   Legal Problem Conf ronting WLB~ Regarding Payment of Back Wages

New Row Developing Over Back Pa Section in Lewis-Ickes Agreement

New Issue In Miners’ Paet   Question Of Reiroactive Pay Between April 1. June 20 Develops.

New Row Looms In Coal Pact   Retroactive Pay for Travel Time Sought By Mine Workers

Back Pay For Miners Holds Ut Coal Output    Retroactive Travel Time New Issue; Congress May Rule On Railroad Wages

New Issue In Coal Agreement Threatens Row   Clause on $40 Retroactive Pay Causing New Headache. ,

NEW ROW IN COAL © WAGE AGREEMENT DEVELOPING TODAY   Question Is Whether Agreement Requires. Payment of Lump Sum As Retroactive Pay From April 1 to June 20

COAL MINING FRONT FACING NEW FLAREUP   Row Developing Over Generally Unforeseen Issue In Ickes-Lewis Wage Agreement

NEW FLAREUP THREATENING MINING FRONT   Back Pay Clause Up For Argument

NEW ROW SEEN IN COAL FRONT (VER PAY PAC]   Mine Owners and Officials Of Union At Odds: Seek Solution to Clause On Travel Wage

French Units Are Landed in Corsica   Mop Up German Resistance on Island With Guerrilla Help   FIFTH IN NEW GAINS   Gepinans Retire in Italy to / Axed Trap;: Venice ~Bombed -

FRENCH AND ITALIANS IN COMRADESHIP   ‘Meanwhile Allied Forces in Italy Continue Their Progress in Salerno Battle Sector,

NEW WEIGHT BEING THROWN INTO ITALY BY RAIDING VENICE   5th Army Stormed and Took the Key Town of Eboli, 16 Miles Inland.   CLARK’S TROOPS ACTIVE   Battered Their Way to Montecorvino, Nine Miles Inland, It Is Stated.

Eboli Falls in Drive on Naples   FRENCH TROOPS, NATIVE GUERRILLAS MOP UP GERMAN RESISTANCE ON CORSICA; FIFTH ARMY BATTERS WAY TO MONTECORVINO IN RUSH

French, Natives Mopping Up on Corsica; Yanks Capture Eboli   Germans in Italy Retreating North of Sele River

Chinese Rout Japanese Force  Trained In India,   Trained In India, They Make Good Showing

Rum! Points Reasons Why U. S. Fights   Cites Declaration of Independence and Later Statements

Secretary Stimson Flies -To London To Discuss - New Moves On’ Axis

Stimson Arrives in England to Confer With Top Military, Civilian Leaders

Secretary Stimson  Arrives In Europe  Will Confer With Military And Civilian Leaders

Sec. Stimson Now Tn London for War Conferences  Visit Assumed To Be Connected With Invasion of Sicily

Troops Launel New Offensive By Moonlight   African Battle in Final Phase: Fliers Boost Two-Day Toll of Planes to 112

Hard Fight Ahead as Crack Army Faces Test; -Rommel!-Von Armin Forces Entrenched in Strong Positions; 112 Enemy Planes Downed

Mountain Aree Scene of  Land Assault   First Objectives of Ailies Taken in 3-Hour Period

CONFERENCE MAY OCCUR IN LONDON   Meeting Of Representatives Of U. S., Britain And Soviet May Be Set For London

MOSCOW MIGHT LOSE 3-NATION WAR TALKFEST   May Go To London - Because of Hull      AWAIT REACTION  Final Decision Up To Stalin

Amount Sought Is Only One Biliion Less Than Total of Bonds Sold to Date—Will Require an Average of Nearly $100 for Each Man, Woman and Child in Nation—Newspapers to Take Lead:

Newspapers to Heln In Greatest of All Loan Campaigns  Goal $13,000,000,000, To Be Obtained Beginning This Month

Biggest War Financing Operation In Histor Set April 12; Papers To Lead War Bond Drive

THEY GIVE THE Ik LIVES; “YOU LEND MONE Y  4isAX TAPIVE   WHAT WILL YOUR CONTRIBUTION BE TO 13 BILLION SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE?

Newspapers fo Ask 13 Billions For Uncle Sam   Press to Take Leading Part in Second Year Loan Drive to Begin Aoril 12. Announced

Newspapers Pledge Full Support To Uncle Sam’s $15 Billion Drive For Sale of War Bonds in Apri

It Means Average of $100 Bond Must Be Sold For Every Map, Woman And Child

Dr. A. H. Giannini Banking ‘Angel’ Of Movies, Dies   Heart Attack In L. A. At 69 Is Fatal To Brother Of A. PL Giannini

JEWS ASSURED HELP BY U.S, AFTER WAR   ‘Stupendous Crime’ of Nazis Condemned by Hull

RECEIVE “T’. FLAG   War Bond Award Is Made at the Sunflower Ord nance Works

Would Give Towns Share Of Liquor Store Net Profits  Representative H. W. Wormley Sponsor Bill

Would Give Towns Share Of Liquor Store Net Profits  Representative H. W. Us. eT   Representative H. W. Wormley Sponsor Bill Passed By House

New Messer, Biggs Trial Called Today   Arraigned Anew Following Mistrial

AFRICAN DRIVE IN LAST PHASE SAYS GENERAL   Sir Harold Alexander, In Order of Day, Tells Allied Troops Axis Ts Beaten   ENEMY SEA-DOOMEB   His Prediction Two Months  Ago That. Victory Was” Assured, If Troops Held Fast, Realized

‘Drive Enemy Into the Sea,” Gen. Alexander's Order of Day to Treons

Nazi Commentator Says Native French  Troops in Inner Fortifications Bizerte   ‘Drive Enemy Into Sea’ Alexander Exhorts Armies

ALLIES AIM TO PUSH AXIS BACK INTO SEA   Gen. Alexander Issues Order of Day

Alexander’s Order Sees ‘Last Phase’   Last Great Battle To Bring Victory, Sava Allied General

May Give Food as a Christmas Gift   Individuals Who Has Acquired It With Ration Points, May Give It Point Free.

Sioux Co. Red Cross Officials Re-Elected   Committees Give Report At) Annan Mevtine Thursday; War Fund brise Hil

SILENCE SHROUDS SOLOMONS BATTLE   British Smash Jap Countertacks in Burma.

Cut in License. Fees   Senate Fails To Over-ride Goodland’s Action

Margarine Versus Butter   Old Fight to Life Again As Congress Considers Bill to Remove Tax on Oleo

2 NAVY MEN DIE IN OHIO PLANE GRASK   Explodes in Air Near Perry: Fairfield County Line

MINES Phteige         Pitt Reports , - Index Points—Miners” Eye Washington.

Gaps Closed At Znamenka   Nazi Attacks Turned Back In Kiev Salient

Backbone of Fleet Probably Shattered As Huge Bombs Fal} Among Battleships In Northern Harbor  RESULTS CLOUDED BY SMOKE AND FIRE  Pantelleria Hit Again And Other Islands Also Get New Raids

Pantelleria Still Defies Terrific  Air, Sea Attacks  Russia Reports 752 Nazi Planes Downed in Week  : TELL OF BIG BATTLE  Berlin Says Lines In Russia Stronger   After Six-Day Fight

MANPOWER ON A.F.L’S AGENDI   William Green To Address Convention ‘ Wednesday

GREEN TO ADDRESS LABOR CONVENTION   Union Head To Appear a Meeting Wednesday

TRUCEIS-ASKED IN FIGHT OVER SUBSIDY PLANS   Senate Leader Cites That Soldier Voting, Other Issues Are Harmful . to Unity In War

REDUCE ALL FRILLS, LAUNDRIES TOLD   McNutt Tells Groups Help is Coming

Roosevelt and  Churchill May Meet Shortly   Favorable Turn in War Believed to Have Necessitated Plan Revision

Franco May Join Talks   Spain ‘Gets ‘Chance to Escape Axis Orbit

PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL MAY HAVE MEETING   Plans for Speeding Axis Conquest Rumored to Be Topie

SWIFT TURN INTHE WAR SPURS CONFAB   Morale of Germany Badly Shaken Recently

FDR, CHURCHILL MAY MEET WITH CEN FRANCO   Move to Clarify Spain’s Position Mav Be Clarified

ANOTHER MEETING IS BEING RUMORED   Roosevelt and Churchill Mai Hold Conference to Map Italian Campaign.

FDR, Churchill May Meet Again In Near Future   European Strategy May Be Reviewed

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL MEET SOON   Expect to Revise Plans for Quicker Conquest

FDR, Churchill Meeting With Franco Likely   Spain Might Get Opportunity To Withdraw From Web Of Axis Nations

Roosevelt and Churchill May Meet Shortly.   _ Would Plan for Speeding Conquest Of Axis Europe >

ALLIED-FRANCO TALKS HINTED   SPECULATE ON NEW MEET BY F. D. R., CHURCHILL

PRES. ROOSEVELT, MR CHURCHILL MAY MEET AGAIN SOON   Imminent Capture Of All Sicily, Trend In Italy, Suggest Early Meeting

2 Chiefs May ‘Confer With ! Gen. Franco         Meeting Might Extricate Spain From Axis Web, ls Speculation

rREEALI® DAIR FA LEAR  TAMUUOS FAIR TU MAP NEW STRATEGY IN VIEW OF ALLIED VICTORIES

War's Pace May Revise Allied Plans   Possible Conference Of FDR, Churchill To Map Blows Seen

Predict Another F R-Churchill — Strategy Meeting   Italian Developments Make Change of Plans For Europe Probable

Speculate On Possible Churchill,  Roosevelt Conference With France

May Conduct Conference On War Strategy   Roosevelt And Churchill) May Get Together Soon To Set Up Plans For Speeding Victory

Allied Heads Said Meeting   Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin May Meet

Wilkie: “One World” $1—Keeler’s   ‘ANOTHER CARLOAD OF COAL   Commissioners Are Laying in Win7 ter’s Fuel Supply. ‘<

ANOTHER CARLOAD OF COAL   Commissioners Are Laying in Winter’s Fuel Supply 

SEIZE 1,600 PUNCHBOARDS   130 Slot Machines Also Taken at Ottumwa

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   North Italy Not Likely Wp Escape Punishment If Nazis Hold On

DEVASTATION OF MILAN BRINGS INDICATION OF WHAT ITALIANS MAY EXPECT AFTER MESSINA

oe War I oday  iMilan, Like Rome, Must Pay For Wrongs Of Mussolini In Bombings

Milan Must Pay the Price Of Mussolini's Iniquity Will Be Bombarded Continuously

MEMBERS OF REA TO MEET AT HUMOTA   Will Elect Three Directors During Business Sessinn

DIES GROUP GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE      House ‘Action on Extension Will be Sought ,  on Feidav °

DIES GROUP GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE   House Action on Extension Will be Sought on Friday

THE COLD WHIPS IN   Five to Eight Below Zero the Forecast for This Section

Cold Wave Hits State      Expect Sub-Zero Temperatures Over Much Of Kansas Tonight

Sub-Zero Weather to Hit Kansas   Mercury May Skid To 15 Below in Northwest Part Of State Tonicht

Describes British Light Naval Escort Victory Over U-Boats   Former Jefferson City Associated Press Correspondent Tells of Attack Made Upon Big Convoy Bound for Britain      RY HENRY RB. TANESON

TEACHERS’ PAY MEASURE GETS 0. K. IN HOUSE  , Billi Passed By 84-3 Vote Sent ee o » Te RR a

THREAT ENDS — ~ FORD STRIKE   “WILDCAT” WALKOUT TO . BRING . FUNISHMENT TO :. THOSE RESPONSIBLE,  OFFICER SAYS

a eT ME TE Ch MIE 1 RT mee STR SeeT Te et SMT nT) nT MMesT: sists  DEATH RECORD

Trace Nitti’s Suicide to Fear of Gang   Blind Drunk at Time Of Shooting Claim  Trainmen

PACIFIC COMMAND UNITY IS ASSURED   Conference Cuts Pattern for Doom of Ambitious Japan

Allied Forces Assured Unity In Pacifie. Asia   Chinese May Assign Liaison Officers to The Anglo-American Global Command

FIFTH ARMY REPORTED TO HAVE UNHINGED LATEST GERMAN DEFENSE LINE BY CAPTURE OF MAIN . BASE ON WESTERN FLANK—RUSSIAN SPEAR* “ HEAD NOW ONLY 25 MILES FROM GATEWAY TO CRIMEA °

rf Proclamation  BY THE GOVERNOR of The State of Texas  No. 6271   TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

ODIEIN SCHOOL BUS AND ASPHALT ‘TRUCK WRECK  Two Drivers and Six  Other Children Also   Injured in Collision

Bus and Truck Collision Toll Reaches Nine   Teacher and Four More Teen-age Children Die at Dardanelle

CLIP OFF TEN  MILES PER DAY   Split of German Forces in Russia Expected Momentarily

Russians Less Than 35 Miles From Last NaziHeld Railroad.   SAVAGE FIGHTING IN REGION OF CRIMEA   Black Sea Fleet Pouring in Reinforcements for Soviet Brideghead.

Battle In Russia Today Gives Impression That Soviet Troops Are Driving Straight For  Rerlin.

Red Army Driving Toward Railroad To Split Germans; Gain Ten-Miles In 24 Hours

"itn ‘ tax Program Hinted By senewedt   Additional Heavy Tax Program, Savings “Or Both” Americans’ Dish For Future, He Warns

MORE TAXES ARE NEEDED, CLAIMS FDR   Explains Revisions in Budget Since Last January

ENFORCED SAVING IS ALSO NEED   Must Stabilize Living ~ Costs As Economy Threatened

Standard of living must  be reduced   Enforced saving also necessary

REPORTS NEW REVISIONS IN WAR RUDGE   Army Expenses May Be Cut Six Billions; Navy’s Upped Four Billions.   WARNS STANDARDS OF LIVING MUST BE PARED

"DR Sees suff Tax  *rooram.   “President Reports On Rapidly Growing Budzet for War

F.D:R. GALLS FOR STIFFER TAX PROGRAM   Greater Absorption o Purchasing Power Held Big Need

WAGE TOP FOR COMMON LARGE   Regional WLB™ Will -Not Approve Increases Over 70 Cents An Hour

REPUBLICANS HOLD GRIP ON ~ PHILADELPHIA  Bernard Samuel Ik Wint ner Over      Taylor Reports - Triumphs In Fifty Counties

Republicans Tighten Grip On Phila.; Reno Wins  Superior Court Post

REPUBLICANS HAIL GENERAL FLECTION VOTE   Take Philadelphia May- oralty; Reno for Full Term Judge

Samuel. Wins Over Bullitt; Reno Elected   GOP Tightens Its Hold on Philadelphia Affairs

<_— “ § Sg  lf You Don’t Donate Cash To Red Cross, Taxes Will Take It

6 Persons Are Hurt In Refinery Blaze  Flames Result From Two Explosions

Seven Persons Killed When Train Hits Auto At South Bend Crossing

CROSSING MISHAP ILLS 7 IN AUTO   South Bend Scene of Crash With Speedina “‘Pacemaker’

OHIO HOUSE BIDS. NELSON T0 VISIT   Asks Explanation on State Retention of Daylight Time Zoning

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspacer   WASHINGTON Ry Ray Tucker

AXIS FORCES HEAVILY ATTACK FRENCH POSITIONS   French Counter-Attack Supported by U. S.. Anti-Tank Units

HELP FRENCH ON SUNDAY IN FOUINOIIK AREA   First Report That U. S. Ground Forces Are  In This Area   U.S, AIRFORCE BUSY   Attack German Tanks In Vicinity Of Port Of Sousse

Mention American Ground Forces In Anti-Tank Units  For The First Time

German Tank Forces Are Beaten Off   American Ground and- Air Forces’ Effectively Support. French   AXIS STOPPED BY COUNTER BLOW   U. 8. Light Bombers Make Heavy Raids. on Massed , Enemy Machines.

ALLIED TANKS ALSO WIN IN ANOTHER AREA   American Planes Likewise Succeed in Blows at Axis Tanks Unloaded at  _ Ssusse, Shooting ‘Up Many.

French Beat Off German Attacks   U. S. SOLDIERS ASSIST IN. REPELLING DRIVE

GERMANS LAND ON ISLAND OF C0   Nazis Take Important P ‘ints: In Italian Dodecanese In. Battle With British.

Nazis Gain in Landing on Coc   Several Key Points Taken From British In Strong Invasion

YANKEES PUSH TO BENEVENTO ABOVE NAPLES   Montgomery in Amphibious Attack Forces Foe Back North of Foggia

Tribune $2...   Nazis Land In. Strength On Coo Isle   Fighting Continues With Allies Bombing Rhodes Bases

Nazis Land In Strength On Coo Island   Secure Several Important Points; Fighting Continues. Communique Says

NAZIS ATTACK ALLIES ON AEGEAN-HELD ISLE   Sea And Air-Borne Forces Launch Attack On Coo

Axis Attacks Ally Bases on Key Isle   FRENCH ENTER BASTIA AS GERMAN RESISTANCE ON CORSICA COLLAPSES

COO ISLENEAR TURKEY SCENE NAZI ATTACK   Germans Reported Hitting Back by Latest Attacks On Dodecanese  leland ;

Nazis Attempt To Regain Coo   German Boats Off Dodecanese Island Attacked By  Bombers.

ON COO ISLAND   Enemy Action First Serious Countermove in Dodecanese.

FIGHT STILL IN PROGRESS, BRITISH SAY   Many Hits Scored, However, on German Boats Used in Sea and AirBorne Assault Against the Island.

ARMY CHECKS FACTORY BLAST   8 Die, 7 Injured in Explosion at Cleveland Plant Monday

WAR PLANT BLAST ~ FATAL 10 SEVEN      Military Officials Begin Investigation of Cleveland Explosion

New .w Mine Pa Pay Scale Sought   Negotiations. Resumed By * Operators ‘And: Union At Washineton

HOPE FOR EARLY PAY AGREEMENT   Coal Mine Wage Negotia. tions Off To Fresh Start.

COAL WAGE OFF TO NEW START   Contract Will Give All Mines Back to Operators

“FORTS” OVER GERMANY TODAY   Accompanied by Thunderbolts, They Bombed Frankfurt

ROME CRIPPLED   All Bureaus In City Closed, Says Berlin Broadrast.

DONNELL MAY RUN FOR U. 5, SENATE   OBSERVERS SAY HE WILL BE IN RACE—4 OTHERS INTERESTED IN NOMINATION,

Donnell’s Friend: Say He Will Run For U.S. Senate   Governor Admits He Is Considering Entering Race

ADD MORE COLLEGES   Army Now Has 190 Institutions in Line to Train Soldiers

MORE OHIO COLLEGES GET ARMY COURSES   Specialized Training Program Is Being Expanded

ARMY TOUSE 40. MORE COLLEGES   Includes Four Ohio Schools in List, To Expand Courses

Kolombangara Island By-Passed to Occupy Vella Lavella in First Change of Strategy—Prisoners Make Up Largest Group of Nips Ever to Surrender in Area Without a Fight —Bairoko’s Fall Brought Nearer,

YANKS OCCUPY ANOTHER ISLE IN SOLQMONS   Bypass Kolombangara  To Take Base North Of New Georgia

Pacific Isle Seized by U.S. Unexpectedly      Little Resistance Ts Offered by Japs; 350 Prisoners Taken

LANDED UPON VILLALAVELLA   Surprise Move Unopposed By Japs With 350 Unarmed PersonnelCaptured;Capturc Roosevelt Knoll   Bomb Borneo

Yanks Capture Jap Isle in Surprise Move   Fast-Moving Troops Take Key Point In Bairoko Thrust

U.S. Forces Seize Solomons Island, Capture 350 Jans   Move By-Passes Enemy Stronghold On Kolombangara   ALLIED HEADOL ARTERS TS Tut SOLTHWEST PACTEH

Vella Lavella Occupation Unopposed   Kolombangara Island Bypassed by Yanks Under New Strategy  350 TAPS CAPTIIREN

Yanks Occupy Pacifie Island   Japs Completely Surprised As Vella Lavella Occupied

CLAIMS GOPS HAVE POWERFUL WEAPON      Governor : Bricker Attacks Expansion of Power

Italy Admits Heavy Loss       King and Quéen: Vigite: Bomb Struck Chiba roach

Frozen To  F arm Jobs °  NMePherenn Man Mia   MePherson Men Must Report Chanzes

L_RECONSIDER POSTAL INGREASES :   House Ways and Means Committee Discards Eccles Proposal:

Eccles Plan Discarded By House Group   ‘Fantastic and Visionary’ Is Condemnation Given Byv Committee

TAX PLANNERS  “TOSS ECCLES’ PROGRAM OU]   Proposals Get Cold ‘Reception By House Group

Discard New Tax Proposal: to Cut Levy   jiant Tax and— Compulsory Savings Program Tossed Out by House Committee

Pare Down Tax Bill _   Committee Inclines: Toward Lower Liquor Levy, Mail Charges

POSTWAR PLANS GET ATTENTION   SENATE COMMITTEE . WILL START CONSIDERATION OF VARIOUS PEACE PROBLEMS NEXT MONTH

Indications Point To Decisive Phase On Southern Fronts  NALCHIK OVERRUN, RUSSIANS REPORT  Speed of Advance May Mean Germans Retiring in Haste

DECISIVE PHASE IS_ NEAR IN CAMPAIGN: OF SOUTH RUSSIA      Nalchik Overrun in the Caucasus—Enemy Ships Shot down at Rabaul in New Britain—Japanese Forces Forming for New Attack

Reds Recapture Five More Towns  On Two Fronts   Fall of Tsimlyansk, Nalchik Brings Hint Of an Early Knockout  BIG GAINS ON DON  Russians Take Heavy Toll in Lives, Stores In Several Areas

DECISIVE PHASE— IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Ominous Reports Hint Foe Assembles Huge Armada in the South Pacific Section

American Troops On Guadalcanal Fling Enemy From Important Positions On High Ground

Tunisian Battle Has Reached Phase of Siege   Remmel and Von Arnin Now Entrenched in Mountainous Triangle.   Natural Defenses   Make Storming of Axis-Held Positions A Big Job for Allies.

ED FLYNN fESIGNa AS COMMITTEEMAN   All Ties With Party Set-Up Now Relinquished

Administration Of Rationing Hit By Rep. Luther Johnson; Open Letter To President Scores Bureaucrats

REP. L. A. JOHNSON URGES PRESIDENT ~~ RATION RATIONALLY  CORSICANA CONGRESSMAI CRITICAL OF ACTS OF

New Attack Is ~ Made On Kiska   U. S. Four-Motored Bombers Raid Enemy Cargo Ships In Aleutians

‘ i anes A gain *! ‘fe ‘ass -Avasion Torce on § eS. ear /uscra ia’

Interoreting  The War   Australian Situation Is Worse But Far From Hopeless Now

LOCAL ORSERVATIONS   Release McClard As H. S. Principal   To Become Dean of Naval School at William Jewell College.

NEW CRUISER IS LAUNCHEL   TWO SUBMARINES ALSO SLIDE -_ DOWN WAYS TO ADD STRENGTH TO. . THE NAVY

CONGRESS 10 START LAYOFF ON TUESDAY   Has Compiled Record of Differences With President

CONGRESO GOED HOME TOMORROW FOR XMAS REST   Leaves Pres dent With Multitude of Home Front Probl:ms

NEARING JAPANESE AIR BASE AT ARAWE   Congress Is Recalcitrant   Body Preparing To Adjourr Tuesday Has Jolted New Deal Program   MANY MEASURES HAVE BEEN OPPOSEL

NEW JEALERS LOSE CONTROL IN CONGRESS   MANY SETBACKS HANDED ROOSEVELT BY CONGRESS WHICH PREPARES For : RECESS STARTING TOMORROW

40 Called By Board One T Take Early  Army Tests .   Final Examination And Probable Induction  Set For Early Date; Another Call Coming

Board One — Summons 45 Registrants  For Induction   27 From Frederick In Final August Call; Deferments Of Many Had Expired

TERRIFIC FIGHTING IS AHEAD BEFORE VICTORY IN TUNISIA   WAR COREESPONDENT TOME FROM AFRICA DESCRIBES OF TASK FACING ALLIED ARMIES

Castillo’s Minister of War Leads 8,000 Troops Into City; Seek Changed Relations With Allies   Reports From Montevideo Are to the Effect That the Revolution Was Successful and That President Is In Flight

President Ramon Castillo Is Out   Provisional Legislative Council Formed With Pedro Ramirez at Head.

FORGES SEIZE. BUENDS AIRES IN UPRISINE   President. Castillo Flees, Reportedly to Ship; Ramirez : — Leads, oe   CLASHES DEVELOP ON. CAPITAL’S OUTSKIRTS

SEIZE CONTROL OF CAPITAL IN QUICK ACTIONS   Ramirez, Who Served as Secretary of War, Is Leader of Revolt

Army Uprising Appears Aimed At A Reversal Of Castillo’s Neutrality Doalicy

Hint Neutral Policy Cause  Of Outbreak   President Castillo Flees To Warship As Rebels Enter  Canital.   GENERAL HEADS BLOW

WAR MINISTER LEADS REBELS   President Castillo Reported To Have Fled Capita! in Gunboat.   BUENOS AIRES JS TAKEN

Army Strikes Suddenly To Oust Regime   Neutral Government Is Dropped, Former War Minister Sets Up A  Provisional Council

Negro Farmers In Navy And Will Receive $308 A Month [In Allotment

Allies Smash FoeOnAll Major Front:   Red Forces Oust Germans From Taman Peninsula

House To Hear Final Reading Of Revenue Bill, While Senate Handles School Issue Tonight

MacLeish Quits Post With OWI   To Devote Full Time As Congress Librarian

RUMOR RUMOR HEARD IN:ZURICH ~ WARSHIP: MUTINY FEARE      hve ny UNCONFIRMED REPORT SAYS . N ON SCHARNHORST — THREATENED TO STAGE UPRISING

ATTEND MOSCOW MEETING   Secretary of State To Confer With Russians, British

Hull Slated for Moscow Parley, Capital Hears   Believed Secretary and President See Pressing Need for Attending; Hopkins May Get Envoy Post to Russia

GUARD AT JUNCTION CITY FARM KILLED PRISONER AND  *" WOUNDED TWO LAST ; _EVENING 

Important Cities Taken   PRISON BREAK _ ATTEMPT FATAL   One Prisoner Shot To Death At Columbus, O.; Two Other Wounded

CHINESE SIGN PACT WITH U.S.   Similar Treaty Scheduled For Approval by British

Extra Rights With China Eid   U. S. and Britain Sign New Treaties With Eastern Ally

U. §: Pact Bans Extraterritorial Rights In China   Treaty Also Signed By British, Fulfilling Pledge Made In October

TREATY SIGNED BY CHINA AND U. §   The Extra Territorial Rights In China Abolished

"TREATY SIGNED   Pact With China Abolishes ® U.S. Territory Claim

U. S. Ends Special Privileges in Chine   Britain Also Signs Treaty Abolishing Extraterritorial Rights, Thus Putting Nation on Equal Footing With the Other Allies.

U.S. Signs Away Rights In China   Ends Extraterritorial Privileges; Restores Chinese Equality

EXTRA-TERRITORIAL RIGHTS RENOUNCED   M.S. And Britain Sign Treaty With China Today

ALLIES BEAT BOW ATTACK QN CONVOY   10 of 30 in Attacking” Force Are Shot Down in Unsuccessful Renewal of Air War

NAZI AIR ATTACKS ON CONVOYS FAIL   Ten Planes Shot Down from Force of About 30

NAZI RAID ON CONVOY REPULSED   Ten Enemy Planes Shot Down; Damage To Ships Negligible

é San Pietro Is Only Seven Miles from Main Road to Rome; Bombers Are Grounded.   POLITICAL DISPUTES FLARE ANEW IN ITALY

Pitth Army Attacks City Of San Pietro   Kighth Army Busy In Bitter Fighting As Political Front Causes Difficulty

JAPANESE LOSS ‘NOT IN VAIN’   PACIFIC ‘STRATEGY’ EXPLAINED TO DIET BY MILITARY CHIEF

JAP STAND NOT IN VAIN, SATO THINKS   Says Solomons Campaign Aided Consolidation of Military Gains.

Japs Say Stand Not In Vain   Stand On Guadalcanal Said Worthwhile

91 New Tires “In September     September Quotas ‘Are   ‘The tire quota for Adams county in September is 18 grade I tires, Br] 79 xende: Yt tires and M4 farm tras

SEPTEMBER TIRE QUOTAS ANNOUNCED   Unfilled Applications for New Tires Will Use Up Increase,

SMALL INCREASE IN TIRE QUOTAS   Many Applications Are Still Unfilled Here.

September Quota On Tires Better; Still a Shortage   Too Many Unfilled Applications Left, Over

Eighth Army Now Thrusts At Rome   Full Tank Division Hurled Into Attacks Sy Nazis At Adriatic Bridaehead Near Termoli

Nazi Attacks on Eighth Army Repulsec   Floods Slow Fifth Army in Push on Vulturno River

U.S. Weathers Serious Labor Crisis As Seizure Keeps Trains Running, WLB Breaks Steel Strike Deadlock

SERIOUS THREAT TO WAR EFFORT HAS BEEN AVERTED   ‘Government Has Taken Over Railroads, While  Steel Workers Are Refirming Ta Wark

TAKE OVER RAIL LINES; STEEL STRIKE CALLED OFF   HOWEVER, THREE RAIL UNIONS STILL TECHNICALL) STANDING ON STRIKE CALL AND WAR DEPART MENT WARNS SOLDIERS MAY OPERATE ROADS

War Labor Board Orders 155,000 Idle Steel Workers To End Strike — Back Up Roosevelt Terms On Pay Issue   CIO LEADER MURRAY : CALLS OFF STRIKE

Soviets Use Tank Force to Aid Defense   Germans Hurl Great Power Into Battle

WAR'S BIGGEST TANK BATTLE ON IN RUSSIA   Reds Counter-Attack. But Admit Nazi Gain Near Belgorod

GIANT TANKS NEAR TO REAL PUSH THROUGH   Heaviest losses do not stop stubborn German advance

GRANT PAROLE 10 ROBERT FIRESTONE      To Free Former Clevelanc Labor Leader Next Month

DRAMA CRITIC AND ACTRESS BEATEN   George Jean Nathan and Zina Provendie Victims of New York Thugs.

ROMMEL WAS CAPTURED BUT MADE ESCAPE   That's Report Today From Dakar. British Hurl Back Nazi Tank Thrust In Tunisia

SUBSIDIES ARE CALLED BRIBERY   Texan Says Surrender Of Personal Liberty De manded For Dele

Subsidies Are Form of ‘Bribery, Blackmail Texas Attorney for Stock Raisers Charges

Stockmen Hit Government Food Program   Charge Subsidies Are Form of Bribery, Blackmail

‘Shopping Around’ Is Not What It Used To Be, Housewives Find   Rationing Becoming Known As ‘Great Leveler’; Some Stores Taking Care Of Old Customers

“Mrs. Regular Customer” Has Advantage in Buying   Survey Reveals Grocers Favor Customers of Long Standing With First Choice On Scarce Products; Bargain-Hunting Housewives Now Appear to Be Qut of Luck

CO-ED AND STEWARD VICTIMS OF MURDER   Strange Slaying  is Announced After Coroner Makes Investigation.

Now Faces Major War Debate In Parliament; Bracken Reports Good Trip With Churchill In Fine Fettle.

BRITISH PREMIER BACK IN LONDON   Now Faces Major War Debate In Parliament; Bracken Reports Good Trip With Churchill In Fine Fettle.

Yanks Mount New Threats To Air Base   Reveal Nine Japanese Destroyers, Cruisers Sink in Kula Gulf   100 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON MUBO   ‘Australians Capture Hill Near Salamaua In Ground Fighting

YANKS SEIZE 2 BEACH HEADS NEAR MUNDA   With Kula Gulf Battle Which Cost American Forces Loss Of Cruiser Helena; Japs Lose Many Ships   Gain Foothold

KISKA ISLAND IS HAMMERED BY WARSHIPS   NINE JAP CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS SUNK AT KULA

Yanks lightning Kula gulf Naval victory cost Japanese nine ships in 15 minutes   Allies huge Pacific offensive continues to smash Nip defenses

Naval Battle Toll Raised —   Japs Lose Nine Destroyers And Cruisers In Kula Gulf

PRPOPPP EPP PiPIPP PAPA AAD  This Area Is Placed In Ration Zone No. 7

APPEAL AS LIBERAL IS MADE BY WILLKIE   Southerners Ready To Join GOP - - If Not Reactionary

REDS TAKE HILL AT LISICHANSK   Kill 1,000 Germans and Capture 1,000 More

HILL OF MUCH IMPORTANCE   More Than 1,000 Nazis Killed, and About 1,000 Captured With Much Military Equipment.

Reds Advance In Resurgence Of Fighting In Donets Area   Occupy Important Hill, Roli Back Nazis And Crush Wedge Into Town

SOVIETS POUNDING NAZIS IN DONETS   Take Important Hill, Continue Drive Against Novorossisk

Soviets Roll Back German  Tank Attack   Capture Vital Hill In Donets

RUSSIAN TROOPS IN NEW ACTIVITY IN \DONETS VALLEY AREA   HEIGHT OF GREAT TACTICAL IMPORTANCE REPORTED CAPTURED

RUSS TAKE OVER DONETS SECTGR   Crush Nazi Wedge, Tak ing 1000 Prisoners, Killing 1000

Russians Occup) Strategic Hill In Donefs Area   Soviets Roll Back Nazi Armor; Gain At Novorossisk

Russians Take Vital Hill In New Outburst   Grinding Offensive Against Novorossisk Continuing

Nazi Forces Are Battered In Donets River Valley As Reds Take 1,000 Prisoners

Russians Seize Strategic Point In Donets Valley   1,000 Germans Killed Equal Number Taken Prisoner By Rede

Russians Get Valuable Equipment, Kill 1,000 Nazis In Donets Basin

Soviets Take Vital Point   Roll Back German Armor and Crush Wedge in Donets

Fight Raging In Donets Valley   German Thrust Repulsed With Heavy Losses   REDS HAMMERING AWAY IN CAUCASUS

Reds Strike With New Fury In The South   Important Hill Is Taken, Equipment Captured

DAM RIFT FORGES S00 FLEE MVDLAND   State Swept by F by Heavy Rains, Winds; Many Areas Are Flooded

MESSAGE SENT CHINESE, . B} ROOSEVELT ON SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF DE- . FENSE UNDER CinANG KAI-SHEK   By WILLIAM E. ZIMMERMAN Internailanal News Service

President Says Large Amounts Of War Equipment To Be Provided   DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST JAPS TOO

HUDOEVELT GIVES GHINEOE PLEDGE UF MOVE ON JAPS   President Sends From’se cf Increased Aid to Chinese Ruler.   RECALIS OLD PROMISE   Quotes Former Pledges in a New Message in War’s sixth Year.

Global Parley With Stalin, Chiang Likely   \llies Trying to End Axis Domination by \ir Power. Briton  Tels U. S. Congress

BRITISH STICK WITH ALLIES TO BASH JAPS   AIR ASSAULT AIMED AT BRINGING AXIS TO HER KNEES

Churchill Says: Britain Will Stick by U. S. in Unrelenting Campaign to Pulverize Japan

WILL WAGE WAR UNTIL NIPPON’S CITIES AND MUNITIONS CENTERS LIE IN ASHES, HE TELLS CONGRESS.

Notes Great Military Experiment   Prime Minister Gives Momentous War Review to World

FIGHT ON JAPS PLEDGE GIVEN BY CHURCHILL   Reveals ‘Allies Trying To Beat Enemies by Air Bombardment

ALLIES TRYING TO DEFEAT AXIS WITH AIR BLOWS   Churchill Reveals in Address Before Congress Great Military Experiment Is Under Wav. .   _PROMISES TO HELP , ‘PULVERIZE JAPAN   Declares Britain Will Stick With: U..S. in Reducing Nippon’s. Arms Centers to Ashes.

Churchill Promises Britain Will Stick With the United States in an Unrelenting Campaign to Pulverize Japan; Great Experiment ‘Is Now Under Way to Bring Axis to Their Knees Through Aerial Warfare

°SAYS BRITISH WILL HELP U. S. WIN IN PACIFIC   Prime Minister Calls Bombing of Enemies in Europe Great Experiment

GIVES HOPEFUL REVIEW OF WAR   Prime Minister Addresses American Congress   DISCLOSES ALLIES   Attempting Bring Germany And Italy to Their Knees By Air Bombardment

Churchill Pledges Finish Fight That Will Pulverize Japar   lans Cheer

Churchill Pledges British Help in Defeating Japan   Also Says Allies Hope Ti Bomb Germany into Submission

Prime Minister ‘Declares Britain Will Stick ©  With U.§   MOMENTOUS REVIEW.: “OF THE WAR GIVEN   Globa! Parley With Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek 1ilelyw

Congress Hears Plan to Bomb © Axis Out of War   Lawmakers Cheer Declaration Of Britain’s Unflinching Goal-to Lav Ninpon in Rums

Churchill Pledges Aid to U.S. to  Pulverize Japan  Tells Congress Britain Will Stick _ With Ally to End  SPEECH PRAISED Says Bombings Are

Churchill Gives Pledgeto Help  Crush Japanese   Cities And Munitions Centers Must Be Reduced To Ashes, Prime Minister Tells Congress In Momentous War Review

Says Cities of Nippon “Must Lie in Ashes’ Before Peace Can Come  HOPES FOR MEETING WITH STALIN, CHIANG  Cites ‘Experiment’ To See If Air Attacks Can Brine Axis’ Fall

Prime Minister Dectares Britain Will Stick With U. S.  MOMENTOUS REVIEW OF THE WAR GIVEN  Global Parley With Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek Likely

SHE GIVES BLOOD FOR FIVE REASONS   Five Pints Donated and More Yet To Come

Imitation Bourbon’ Sold In Hawaii Is Fresh Stuff   Residents Are Permitted to Buy One Quart a Week, But Boost In Population Brings Shortages: Vodka, Japanese Sake and Gin Are Among Liauors Consumed

IT’S JUDGE HELVERING   Senate. Confirmed Appointment of Kansan Yesterday

Sen. Hiram Johnson Tekes Turn for Worse   Californian Held in Capital Hospital

Flood Dangers Easing In Most Midwest Areas   Many Evacuated Families Returning To Damaged Homes.

Flood Evacuees  To Farmland:   Six - State Flood Is Abating; Damage Checked; Relief Is Rushed

FAMILIES RETURN T0 HOMES IN MID-WEST   Rivers Still High in Parts of IIlinois, Missouri

FLOOD VICTIMS RETURNING HOME   Thousands of Others Still In, Refugee Shelters in Midwest, However

Midwest F ‘armers Go Back to Homes as Waters Recede   DANGER OF FURTHER RISING PASSES, BUT THOUSANDS REMAIN IN REFUGEE SHELTERS

FARM FAMILIES RETURN TO HOMES AS WATERS FALL   ESTIMATE CROP AND PROPERTY DAMAGE IN THE MILLIONS

FLOOD-STRICKEN: FAMILIES BEGIN TREK BACK HOME   Are Faced by Inundated Lands and Flood-Damaged Homes —Must Reshape Agricultural Programs

ARE RECEDING   Many Farm Families in Six Midwest States Return To Homes.   FARMERS STUBY LOSSES

‘FARM FAMILIES IN SEVERAL STATES ARE RETURNING TO HOMES  SURGING ILLINOIS AND MISSISSIPPI RVERS STLL DANGEROUS

Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri Stil® Remains Danger Zones

Thousands In 6 States To Soggy Homes  Parts Of [inois And Missouri Still Battling Floods

Many riood Evacuees on Farms Again  Returning to Stricken  Homes and Acres to . ‘ Waetarvt Plantina   Soldiers and Engineers Still Battle Waters ‘Below St. Louis

FAMILIES MOVING BACK 10 HOMES IN FLOOD REGION   Many Evacuees Return To to Water-damaged Homes and Inundated Lands To Begin To Reshape Summer Program of Food Production.

Farmers Go Back to Flood WashedLands   Many Able to Return to Homes, Others Still Re: main Homeless

FARM FAMILIES IN  SEVERAL STATES ARE  RETURNING TO HOME: SURGING ILLINOIS AND  MISSISSIPPI RVERS CTTT RANCERNTIC

SURVEY FLO LOSS THRUOUT MIDWEST AREA   Powder Plant At Wolf Lake Under For First Time

Refugees Go Back fo Homes   Farmers in Flood Zone Prepare to Replant Crops

Evacuees In Flood Areas  View Losses   Some Able fo Return to Homes — Others Still Kept Away

Farmers Move Back As Flood Waters Move Downstream   Other Thousands Still Forced From Homes By Midwest Streams

FAMILIES BEGIN RETURNING HOME IN MID-WEST   More Than 160,000 Persons Driven From Homes in Six-States Along Mississippi

RAID ENGLISH COAST      Number of Persons Killed in Dawn Attack by Germans

THREE ALABAMA MINES CLOSED   More Than 2,200 Fail To Show Up For Night Shift

U.S. IS READY IF NAZIS USE POISON GAS   CWS CHIEF SAYS GERMANY HAS BIG STORE; U.S. IN PRODUCTION

AMERICANS BAG 14 MORE JAP VESSELS      Yank Submarines Boost * Score In Pacific  Ared

Snowstorms Fail To Hold Up Red Drive   Threaten Three Nazi-Held Towns

Flower of Axis Army Smashec By Russians   ~Triumph Releases Numerous Divisions for Western Front

HITLER ARMY IN STALINGRAD AREA CRUSHED   VICTORY RELEASES MORE REDS FOR WEST FRONT

Large Bomber  Raid on Nauru   U. S. Planes from Solomons Hit Gilberts Isle

Damaging Raid Is Directed at Japs on Nauru   Gilbert Island Installations Are Blasted by American Army Bombers, Who Dawn at Least Five Zero Fighters

U.S. Bombers Hit Gilberts   Damage Japanese  Installations On Nauru: Niska Subjected To Ten Raids.

Large Force Of U.S. Army Bombers Attack Jap Bases In The Gilbert Islands

INSTALLATIONS AT JAP NARU BASE DAMAGED   By Far Ranging Bombers of MacArthur’s Command. 4 Zeros Destroved.

U.S. BOMBERS RAID GILBERT ISLANDS   Five Zero Fighters Are Knocked Down In Clash

U.S. Planes Bomb Japs’ Nauru Base   Five Enemy Fighters Destroyed During Air Attack

Five Zero Planes Are Destroyed; Kiska Hit 10 Times Tuesday By  American Airmen

Jap Base In The Gilberts  Is Damaged   All American Planes Return From Long Bombing Mission

‘Heavy Toll Taken Of Jap Installations On Nauru —   Large Force Of U.S. Bombers In Attack; Ten Raids Made On Kiska Tuesday

Americans Damage Jap Installations. In Gilbert Islands   Much Destruction Results Despite Stiff Recictnnce

Big Force Of U. S. Bombers Attacks Japs   Kiska Raided 10 Times For Total Of 113 This Month

Possibility of New Jap Drive Seen in Hupeh  Chinese Spies Report Activity Around Enemy-Held Bases

Esther Pollock Becomes Bride  Of Ed Koenich    Wedding Takes Place _ At St. Joseph  Chapel, Sioux City

ALLIED PLANES LATEND RAID AGAINST JAPS   Western Portion Of Dutch New Guinea Is Pounded By Our Airmen

BERS OPEN PAC DRIVE      Long-Range Planes Raid Western End of Dutch New Guinea—Babo Struck Wednesday with Success.

Extend Raids To Dutch Guinea   Allied Bombers Strike At Bobo, Minor Spots

REVISION. OF PENSION LAW ASKED   G.O.P, Senate Floor. Leader Would Scrap. Present Commission Set-Up   COUNTY COMMISSION PLAN SUGGESTED   Maximum Pension ‘Would Be Boosted, From $30 to $40 a: Month

New Draft To Start Monday   Men 18 To 27 Years Old Will Be Called

Draft Boards Will Supply Quotas for Army, Marines, Navy Beginning February 1

HIGH OFFICIAL OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND DIES   Archbishop of Westminster Suc cumbs After Lengthy Heart Aglinent

Catholic Leader, Enemy Of Isms, Dies In England   Cardinal Hinsley Known For Attacks On Axis Since War’s Beginning

Archbishop of Westrrinister Dies  Hinsley Was Britain's Most Outspoken Religious Leader

Cardinal Hinsley of England Dies of Heart Disease at 77   Was-Head of Roman Catholic : Church in United Kingdom: :

CARDINAL HINSLEY TAKEN BY DEATH   England Archbishop Dies Of Heart Ailment

Cardinal Hinsley Dies In England   Archbishop of Westminster Was Known as One of Britain’s Most . Outspoken Religious Leaders

Catholic Primate Of Britain Dead   Cardinal Hinsley Rose Tc High Office From A Humble Beginning.

FAMED CARDINAL DIES AT AGE 77   Appealed to Catholics To Condemn Nazi  Invasion

Rev. Cardinal  Hinsley Dies   Archbishop Of Westminster Suffered Severe Heart Attack February 28.

Chief Catholic British Leader Dies at 78  Cardinal Hinsley   Cardinal Hinsley Was Son of Humble Carpenter

G.0.P. Sets Up Headquarters   Budget and Finance Committee Named

Applications for Fuel Oil to Be Made By Mail   Urge Consumers to Return Application Forms As Soon As Possible

Ration Board Urges Applicatior [For Oil Needs   Ask Filing of Requests. Now to Insure  Delivery in Fall

Rationing Board Tells How to Get Fuel Oil and Gas   Fuel Oil Blanks Mailed To Users; Gas. Blanks Available at. Oil Stations

NEED MORE WOMEN FOR WAR INDUSTRIES   Draw from Those Engaged in Homemaking

MUST BE NO POLITICS   Bowles Issues a Warning to Ration Board Members

German Bombers Blast Britain  R.A.F. Makes Raids Over North Italy

R. A. F. RAIDS ST. NAZAIRE   British bombers resume night attacks after 10-day lapse

Subsidy Plan Gains Backing   Union Official Suggests Use Of British Program To Control Living Costs.

Price Control System Similiar to. Britain’s Urged by Labor Leader

NAIL GOT OF LIVING, IS MEANY S DEMAND   Frozen Wages, Higher Prices Don’t Jibe, He Says

AFL Official Favors British Subsidy System   Long Production’ Task For Farmers

OPA issues charges of meat violations against Nebraskans   Four complaints in Lincoln division; hearing set after restraining order

OPA charges violations of meat rulings   Ist black market cases In state

Bingo Licenses Proposed In Bill  Kerwin Holds Action While Senate Debate:

STRINGENT LABOR LEGISLATION DUE   House Military Committee In Move to Prevent Strikes in War Industries.

Speedy Action On Labor Bill Sought  Congressmen Eye Goal Deadline Nearing

Stringent Labor Bill Prepared For House Action   Drastic Measure Designed to Curb Union Activities

HOUSE MAY VOTE ON ANTI-STRIKE BILL THIS WEEK   COMMITTEE APPROVES 21 TO 0, PRESS FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION

Seek to Pass Law Before Coal Deadline      Teeth in Measure Are Most Stringent Congress Considered Since Pearl Harbor

Press for Strike Measure Action  Termed the Most a. * “SU: See   Termed the Most Stringent Labor Bill In War Period

Yank Bombs Hit Cruiser   “Italian Ship Fired” By. Two Direct Hits

CRUISER FIRED BY BOMBERS   Little. American Invader  FighterBombers. Blow Stern Off Enemy Ship — —Set It Afire with Awe Direct Hits.

AXIS GIRDING FOR FIGHT ON ITALIAN SOll   ‘Italians Call up Men of 37 Years as Germans Pour Troops Through Brenner Pass

Allied Bombs Blast Italian Warship   Cruiser Damaged In Assault. Off Coast Of Southern Italy

YANKEE PLANES. BLOW STERN OFF ITALIAN CRUISE   Fleet Sticks Close to Home However—Nation Still Baing Bomhed.

Yankee Fliers ‘Blow Stern Off  Enemy Cruiser      Ship Also Set Afire By Two Direct Hits Off Coast Of Italy

U. S. PLANES SCORE TWO DIRECT: HITS ON-ENEMY. CRUISER   Pulverizing Raids: Are. ‘Made On Rail Centers In. ' Southern Italy. By Allies

ITALIAN GRUISER DAMAGED BY U, S, FIGHTER-BOMBERS   Stern Is Blown Off Craft and it Is Set on Fire During Attack on Tuesday.

AMERICANS BOMB AXIS WARSHIP OFF COAST OF ITALY   ‘Enemy Cruiser Ablaze Aftes  Two Direct Hits; Italian  Railways Again Unde  Rete nk

U.S. AIRMEN HIT ITALIAN CRUISER   Air Offensive Against South Italy Continues

STERN. BLOWN OFF OF AXIS CRUISER.   ‘Set Afire Off Southern Coast Of Italy

Nazis May Have Radio-Controlled Bombs, But  U.S. Now Using Secret Weapons, Too

America Has Many New Secret Weapons of War  _ Admiral Blandy Says _ Many Have Been In Use for Months

We've Secret Weapons, Too   Good as Anything Germany Has, Some Already in Use

New Secret ‘Weapons in U.S. Navy   Rear Admiral Blandy Says Surprise Weapons In Use Several Months

AWARD $2,800 IN BLACKOUT DEATH   But Judge Rules Out  Practice Test in Case

Allied Units Dislodged From Diebel   Driven Out After Brief Occupancy, Dispatches Say

Nazis Take Reserves From Russian Front   ‘Swiss Report 70 German Divisions Are Rushed  Into Fierce Battles In Italy

Germans Can’t Halt Their Retreat In Russia~   lialian Invasion Takes Weight Off Russia

Axis Airdromes In Greece Under Bomber Attacks   Axis Airdromes At Eleusis And Hassani Bombed By Americans   MUCH DAMAGE IS OCCASIONED

U.S. BOMBERS — FOLLOW ATTACK ON NAPLES   Direct Hits Scored on Three Large Hangars Near Athens

HITS ON GREEK BASES FOLLOW NAPLES ATTACK   Vital ‘Dromes Near Athens Are Plastered With Tons Of High Explosives   TRANSPORT SHIP FIsep   Docks And Industrial Plants Biasted In Assault On Italian Mainland

PLANES TO RAID NEW NAZI AREAS   Stimson Declares Capture of Foggia Provides Airfields

New Centers Of ” Germany Soon  To Be Attacker   New Allied Air Bases In Italy To Allow New Nazi Targets To Be Hit   AUSTRIA ALSO TO ™. BE IN RANGE NOW

Shipyard Pay Raise Refused  WLB Adverse Ruling Affects 1,00C,000 In Nation’s Plants

TWO OF HARMON’ PLANE CREW DEAD   Three Others Missing After Crash; Football Star Escaped.

Inland thrust deepened by full 10 miles   Naples bombed day and nigsht

Palmi Falls To British   Allies in Position To’ €ut Off Toe Area

British Eighth Army Advances: Captures Palmi   Extends Invasion Bridge head in Italy to a Width of Sixty Miles

British Widen Their Hold on Southern Italy   Eighth Army Drives 10 Miles Farther in Santo Stefano Wedge: Naples Area Bombed

BRITISH MAKE JO-MILE GAIN, OCCUPY PALM   Eighth Army Extends Bridgehead Along Coast of Italy

Palm, Delianova And — Sinopoli Seized As Toe Of Boot Being Overrun

ALLIED FLIERS POUND NAPLES IN BIG WAVES   Invasion Area Spread Ta 60-Mile Strip; Gain Of 10 Miles Is Registered   Enemy Force Small

GAINS EXTEND GUAD TAL HOLD OVER 70 MILES   Extensive Demolitions, Mines Slow British Advance In Southern Italy

New Advances Threaten To Isolate Toe   Naples Hit By Planes As More Fresh Troops Come

1O-MILE GAIN, OCCUPY PALM   Eighth Army Extends Bridgehead Along Coast of Italy

Allies Press Inland Drive  On Mainland   Great Bomber Fleets Continue To Batter Naples and Other Areas  rey £ omT erm feel oe ee

PALMI, ITALY IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH   Represents Gain Of Eight Miles; Opposition Slight

British Lash Past Palmi.   Naples Area Battered Day And Night By Biq Bombers

ADVANCING: IN TTALIAN TOE.   British Bighth. Army Captures Palmi — ‘Bridgehead Front Extended _.-Now-More-than%0-Miles;

Palmi Captured In 10 Mile Gain’ By British 8th   Fan Out 60 Miles; Mystery Still Surrounds Yanks

Sth Army ‘Takes Palmi In Advance Up Italian Coast   British Widen Bridgehead To 70 Miles By FEightMile Gain; Allies Have Taken 39 Towns

Other Troops Seize Delianove Avid Sinipoli, Move Inland, Allied Air Forces Switch Attack Ahead Of Invading Troops   AIRFIELDS RAIDED BY FLYING FORTS

Italy Invaders Move North On Boot Toe   Smashing Air Attack  On Area Around Wenlae

8th Army Grabs 70-Mile Strip   MORE TOWNS FALL IN INLAND THRUST AS MAIN BODY CF BRITISH, CANADIANS CUT SWATH UP COAST; FIVE AXIS AIR FIELDS ARE BLASTED

Allies Extend Bridgehead In Italy To Sixty Miles   Capture of Palmi in Ten-Mile Advance Announced — Scant Opposition Reported by Forces in Southern Calabria

BRITISH PUSH 40 MILES IN ITALY ‘DRIVE   1Sth Century Town Ot Palmi Captured By Eighth Army

British Advance 10 Miles in ltalian Drive   Allied Bombers Blast Naples; Demolitions Slowing Up Progress

"Five Enemy Airfields  Near Naples Are Bombed   Reinforcements Crossing Strait Ty Toin Rritish

8TH “ARMY: SEIZES PALMI IN. 8-MILE ADVANCE UP COAST   American: Fortresses Raid Airfields And Syatems Of Communication In Naples Area

STH ARMY ROLLS ON AS BOMBERS HIT NAPLES ARE}   Heavy Day and Night Air Blows Indicate Attacks May Be Prelude to Invasion,   BRIDGEHEAD IS NOW 60 MILES IN WIDTH   Ground Troops Meve 10 Miles inJand—Axis Believed to Have Abandoned Southern Calabria.

PALM, OLD CTY OF ITALIAN 00) FALLS TO ALLIES   Bridgehead Is Widened, Oth: -er Cities Captured and Ait Corps Bases Ahead of Ground Forces.   MUNICH WAS HEAVIIY BLASTED LAST NIGHT   Pack of Seven U-Boats Are Destroyed In Biscay Bay, Three In Six-Hour Running Battle.

BRIDGEHEAD IS EXTENDED OVER 70 MILES   Air Forces Switch Offensive Far Ahead of Troops

WAR PROFITEERING ON SHIPS, CHARGE      Refunds of $1 1 1,083 Made by Two of 19 Accused

Warm Weather Is Promised —   Northwest State Has Promise of Rain or Snow From Weathermat

CREW OF 5 KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH   Flying Fortress in Plunge Near Lockbourne Base

Jap Positions On Kiska Shelled By Naval Units  Nips Fail To  LL? adenee i ise   Nips Fail To Return Fire  In Attack

THREE WHO FLED PRISON SEIZED   16 Others Still At Large As Manhunt Spreads Thru Mississippi

Armed Convicts ught in North ssissippi Area  9 Escape Prison Vith Seized Rifles;  ‘hree Recaptured ME SHOT UP  suard Is Slugged Vhen He Resists  lemand far Car Keve

Three Felons Recaptured   19 Armed Convicts Fled Mississippi Penitentiary

3 OF 19 ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT. HEAR CLARKSDALE   Daring Early Morning Break Frees Life-Termers; Secand Break In Month

4 OF 1d PRISON EOCAPEES CAUGHT   Other Mississippi Convicts Remain At Large

SUNDAY CLOSING . BILL IS DISCUSSED   Question ‘Token Up. at Meeting of Ministerio! Association —

SUNDAY CLOSING BILL 1S DISCUSSED   Question Taken Up at Meeting of Ministerial Association

LAST GERMAN ESCAPE ROUTE IS ENDANGERED   Two Nazi Armies Threatened With Entrapment As Red Armies Close In

Battle of Melitor 0 Reaching Climax; Germans Retreat      Krivoi Rog, Big Manufacturing Cen: ter, Threatened; Dniepropetrovsk. Encircled cae

FALL OF CITY WOULD TRAP 900,000 MEN   Fifty Towns Captured In Drive On Krivoi Rog: All Counter-Attacks Repulsed By Reds

Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers Reach All-Time Record Flood Tops

WILL AVENGE HORRORS, SAY YANK FLYERS   Japs Threaten Future Raiders; Battering Of Foe Predicted

Japs Threaten Death to Future Prisoners; U. S.. Aviators Want Revenge

Reds Drive Toward Kaikop Oil Fields From Black Sea Area   New Russian Spearhead Being Pushed Onward  Toward Rostov ©

County Sets  Record in Bond Sales   Local Effort Closes With $3,855,425 Already Credited to Community; People Lauded for Their Patriotism

County Sets Record in  Bond Sales   Local Effort Closes With $3,855,425 Already Credited to Community; People Lauded tar Thaiy Daivindow   Enormous Damage to Berlin's Potent Industrial Structure Is Shown in Reconnaissance Pictures of Last Three Big Raids by the R.A. F.

Meat Rations May Be Eased. Brown Thinks   Other Developments in Food Picture Have Eased Outlook

Meat Ration to Be Eased When Possible, Brown Says   Persons Living in Remote Areas Get Larger Quota of Canned Goods Under New Policy

BROWN PROMISES EASE MEAT RATION   Supply Expected to Spread More Evenly After Week or Two; Other Developments Brighten Food Outlook

rictions To Be Eased  Supplies Permit;  ‘ans Against Rush Buving =   me 1% LBS. 54K WEEKLY SEEN   ge All Types Will Be ounds; 12 Points Per Pound for Steaks Likely

MEAT RATIONING MAY BE EASED LATER   Relaxation Whenever Possi_ sible Promised By Brown

Meat Rations — -May Be Eased   Brown Promises: Relaxed Regulations As Soon As Poésible:

Meat Rationing To Be Eased If Supply Permits   OPA Chief Brown Promises Restrictions Will Be Relaxed Whenever Possible— Other Food Developments Are Brighter.

Sales Tax Revenues Increase  $641,743 During Fiscal Year   Total $5,351.330 in Period Ending Wednesday ; Compensating Levy Brings Gain of $47,714

Kilday Assails New Draft Bill   Sees Abrogation of Civil Service Law

Fred Hunt, Former Warden, Charged With Conspiracy In Escape of a Convict

MEAT SUPPLIES ~ ENOUGH: DAVIS   OWI Chief Says Transportation, Black Markets Cause Shortage; Congressman Urges Importine Areentine Beef

Sweeping New War Revenue Plan Proposed   Bond-Tax Deduction Will Be Included In Proposed Bill

NEW WARTIME TAX BILL TAKING FORM   DESIGNED TO RAISE 40 BILLION BASED ON “INDUCED” BOND PURCHASES.

Induced Savings Plan Outlined  Sweeping Program Is Being Drafted

Congressman Planning New Tax Bill Designed to Hike Revenue Above 40 Billions

REVENE PLAN IS IN MAKING   Designed to Bring In 40 Billions Annually

Sweeping New War Revenue Program Urged   @ Would Permit  A bond-Tax Reduction Plan

NEW TAX PROGRAM -{S BEING DRAFTED      Sweeping, Revenue Rais. ing Legislation to Be ° Offered

NEW TAX PROGRAM IS BEING DRAFTED   Sweeping, Revenue Raising Legislation to Be Offered

REVOLUTIONARY TAX PLAN 10 BE GIVEN CONGRESS   Representative Bases Program On “Induced’ War Bond Purchase Idea

Army Flyer Is Killed In Crash at Raton   Badoslio Pledges Democratic Form Of Government Will Be Given Italy   All Former Fascist Leaders Will Be Excluded: Nazi Soldiers Cheered Rumor of Hitler’s Death   Tore HBHiiler’s Pictures

Badoglio Interviewed: Aged Italian Premier Describes  Forced Resignation of I! Duce   Declares New Italian Government Will Soor Be Established on a Full Democratic Basis

Badoglio Tells Details Of Mussolini's Fall and Collapse of Fascism

 Badoglio Reveals German Soldiers In Rome Jumped for Joy ‘Over Rumor Hitler Assassinated

BADOGLIO CALLS FOR DEMOCRACY   Premier Tells Of Nazis Celebrating Rumor Of Hitler Assassination

Congress In Father Draft  Discussions   Committees of Both Houses Meeting Today To Seek Common Goal

ARMY CRITICS IMPATIENT OVER FATHER DRAFT   Congress Pitches Into Controversial Subject

Gongress Is Seeking Goal ‘on Dad Draft   Critics of .an Expanding /Army “Growing ° Impatient Over {nability to Force ' Showdown

FATHER DRAFT CONTROVERSY. FLARES AGAIN   Critics Of Expanding Army Are Growing © - Tmpatient

Father Draft Arises Again  Congress Seeking Some Settlement; White House Oppocer

Father Draft Issue Again In Spotlight   Critics Of Army Expansion Impatient Over Lack Of Action

FATHER DRAFT ISSUE CRISIS   Crities “of An Expanding Army to Foree Settlement

FATHER DRAFT ROW BEGINNING T0 BREW IN CONGRESS AGAIN   Sugar Rationing Likely To Continue Despite Stocks

DUNLEVY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO BLACKMAIL   "Sentenced To Six Months In Jail, Fined $1 Avd Costs

! . . “y Jammed Troop Trains Pouring Into France   Hitler Believed Ready ‘to Elevate. Rommelto Western Front Command

BROWN PLEADS FOR SUPPORT OF PRICE CONTROL   “Let The American People Join Us In Holding Line,” Chief Asks   CRISIS ON WAGE FRONT   Denies That Living Cost Has Passed Income Of Workers

PRICE CONTROL PLAN OUTLINED   ADMINISTRATOR BROWN _APPEALS FOR.PUBLIC SUPPORT GF PROGRAM. TO CONTROL LIVING COSTS

Held Imminent   Germans Fortify Cities And Move Civilians; .° “Ttalians Herded —

Germans Busy In Southern France   Heavy Troop Movements Reported; Fear Allied  Invasion.

AMERICAN PILOTS UNHURRIED IN ATTACK ON PARAMUSHIRO   “Took Their Own Sweet Time” In Picking Targets On Jap Naval And Air Base Thursday; Seven Of Nine Bombers Return To Attu

Americans Achieve Daring Raid On Japanese Base  Fliers Drop 18 Tons Of Bombs on Kurile Air Station

U.S. Bomber Crews Caught Japs “Asleep’ in Kuriles   Loosed 18 Tons of Bombs and 4,500 Pounds of Incendiaries at Paramushiro after Coming In at 12,000 Feet and Taking ‘Sweet Time’

U. S. PLANNING TO TAKE OVER ALL RAILROADS      Three Unions Balk At Terms  Offered To Arbitrate  Differences

Total Since July 31, 1942, Set At 1,337  69 Jap Planes Toll In Two Week.

Hannett, Tingley Urge Democratic Committee Meet  Early Session of State Central Group Deemed Necessary for Victory

HERSHEY SEES FATHER DRAFT   National Selective Servic Chief Expects Calls About July 1

DRAFT CHANGE ~ COMING SOON   HERSHEY SAYS BOARD . CON SEDERING REVORING ORDER _ FEXING STATUS: OF MEN WITH CHILDREN

DAD DRAFT NEAR   Hershey Says Inductions Ma‘ Start About July 1.

Draft Of Married Men ‘Nearer, Says Hershey   Boards Probably Will Begin Taking Fathers Sometime  During Summer, Selective Service Chief Avers

FREEDOM FROM WANT   Food Conference Plans To Set Up Postwar Ration Board  i

AMERICANS HIT JAPS IN SOLOMONS   Start Fires At - Vila And Kahili, Navy Announces

Americans Hif Enemy Bases In Solomons   Start Fires at Vila  And Bomb Kahili and Ballale, It Is Announced By Navy Department

JNPS IN SOLOMON ARE BOMBED AGAIN   Fortresses And Dive Bombers Carry Out Attacks

Allied Fliers Blast 14 Jap Island Bases   Tokio Radio Says Big American Offensive In Pacific Imminent.

UNITED STATES: AIRFORCE HITS NAZI SUB BASE   Two-Hour .Attack Staged At Vegesack, 15 Miles Northeast of Bremen, — Causes Heavy Damage   TWO BOMBERS LOST   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Lay Heavy Ex- © ‘plosive Load-On . Targets

AMERICAN PLANES ATTACK SOLOMON   Japanese Positions at Vila, Kahili and Ballale Are Hit.

MADANG ON NEW GUINEA BLASTER   Bombers Range From ‘Timor To New Guinea And New Britain   FIRES REPORTED   Tokyo Reports U. 8. Is Planning Pacific Counter-Offensive

Greer Garson Gets Coveted “Oscar”   Star Of “Mrs. Miniver” Takes Filmdom’s Highest Award

Star Weeps When Handed  Film ‘Oscar   Greer Garson, Cagney Chosen Best Stars Of Past Year

RED-HEADED IRISH STAR TAKES AWARD   Greer Garson Given imi — tation-Gold Statuette   for Role in “Mrs. Miniver.”

Greer Garson, James Cagney Win Oscars For Outstanding Movie Performances of _ 1942, ‘Mrs. Miniver’ Takes Most Awards

ARMY NURSE: LISTED MISSIN   Gertrude G. Dawson, 29 "Well Known Here Professionally

UT, DALE PETTY MlguiNG IN EAST   Former Lccal Man Has Been Missing in Action Since September 3.

Soldier Wounded In North Africa   Tunnel Hill Man  Seriously Injured

Crucible Girl Dies Of Burns   Clothing Fired From Back Yard Incinerator

{2 MINERS DIE IN BLACK DAMP BLAS}      6 Saved After 12-Hour Entombment

12. MINERS DEAD IN KY. BLAST AS. SIX ARE RESCUED   Harlan, Kv., Scene of Explosion Yesterday; 19 Killed —

12 Miners Dead; Six Rescued   Explosion Blamed for Tragedy at Harlan In Kentucky

Rescue 6 From  -—12-Hour Tomb   Explosion In Mine Costs Death To Twelve Miners  In Kentueky.

12 ARE KILLED IN MINE BLAST   Six Kentucky Coal Miners Survive Explosion and Dreaded Black Damp

Woman Held By FBI As Enemy Alien   Tells Court She Wants to Return to Germany — Citizenship Revoked

“NAZI BLOWS FAIL JO SLOW EIGHTH   British Improve Positions on North Side of Moro Despite Rains

Allies Advance  Despite Furious Counter-Attacks   Positions Are Improved On North Side Of Moro River In Sicily   REPORT 6,000 NAZIS TAKEN IN CAMPAIGN

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCES NEAR MORO RIVER   Improves Position While Fifth Army Consolidates Gains

New Britain  Base Bombed   Allied Bombers Blast Jap Airdrome At Cape Gloucester

M’Nary Urges Congress Veto  Of Trade Pacts   GOP Leader Threatens ‘Prolonged Political BDNehate

McNaryBids Congress Retain Veto   BUT ADMINISTRATION WANTS FREE HAND TO MAKE RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENTS AS IT WILLS.   Hull Is Adamant

Bitter Strugele Seems Brewing  On Trade Pact   Congressional Power To Veto Agreements  Demanded by MeNary

BITTER FIGHT IS SEEN OVER ~ TRADE PACTS   M‘Nary Would Give Con. gress Right to Nullify : Agreements

TRADE PACTS FIGHT LOOMS “IN CONGRESS   McNary Demands Legislative Veta Power Over Agreements

McNary Demands Congress Rule On Trade Pacts   Republicans Plan Bitter ~ Fight To Curb Power of President

MCNARY URGES VETO ON TRADE ARRANGEMENT   Congressional Fight Tc Obtain Authority To Nullify Treaties Is Foreseen   Opposed By Hull

‘Strongest  Air Fleet Sent Against Jittery Balkans   Three Enemy ’Dromes In Greece, Shipping At Praeusn Targets

Four-WayBlowDealt By 3 00 Allied Planes   “Record-Raid Rocks: Balkan: Area; -Kmerican: Bombers Participate

RECORD AIR FLEET HITS ATHENS AREA   Eighth Army Gains In Drive Up East Italian Coast

SHIPS IN PIRAEUS HARBOR SUNK I DESTRUCTIVE Rl   While Greatest Air Raid Progresses In Greece, British Make Gains In Adriatic Battle,   WORLD WAR TWO HAS OUTLASTED FIRST ONE   Uljan Island Evacuated When 450 Germans Are Killed and 1500 Injured During Air Raids.

300 PLANES HIT ATHENS VICINITY: BTH ARMY GAINS   British, Germans in Bloody Fight in Adriatic Area   JITTERY BALKANS HIT BY GREAT AIR FLEET

GERMAN-HELD AIR FIELDS ARE BLASTED   British Gaining Upper Hand In Bloody Battle Along Adriatic.

RECORD FLEET GIVES BALKANS MORE JITTERS   8th Army Slowly Gaining Upper Hand Along Adriatic Coast

Athens Fields Blasted; Gains Made in Italy   Montgomery’s Armies Poke Way Forward Along Adriatic

Bombs Fall On German Airfields   Only Two Planes Are Lost During Tuesday's Raid

Republican Denies Rumor Of Split in GOP   Tension Between Groups Breaks Into the Open

Germans Leave by Sea Route?   Advance British Units Near City—Parachutists Blow Up Bridges

AXIS STARTING TU CVAGUATE TROOPS BY SEA   Great Russian Offensive Marching Steadily On Against Germans

Germans Seek to  Withdraw by Sea   Russians Approach Kharkov, Gain In Many Sectors of Long Front

Allied Parachutists Operating Bu® hind Retreating Afrika Korps; Russia’s Offensive Continues      RUSSIAN ARMY IS NEARING KHARKOV

Advanced Units Of British Army Within 30 Miles Of Tripoli, Report Nazis Start To Evacuate Troops; Soviets Push Toward Kharko

SENDS MESSAGE   President Unable To Attend Birthday Celebrations

FD Message C*ven Nation By His Wife   rivS TRULY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MESSAGE OF ROOSEVELT SAYS.

President Still Away; Birthday Address Is Read   First Lady Broadcasts Roosevelt's Message As Celebrations Are Held

Nation’s Chief Thanks U.S. For Polio Aid   Word Comes That President Has Visited Trinidad.

MISS MARSDEN ~~ LOSES ELECTION   Clearfield Treasurer Trails by 10,000 for Congress

Coal Strike Threatened By Lewis   Miners’ Leader Says Walkout Will Begin April 1

Miners Will Quit Lewis Threatens   Operators Reject Contract Demand

LEWIS LAYS HIS GAUNTLET   ‘Strike April 1 Unless North Operators Sion Contract

LEWIS THREATENS MINERS’ STRIKE (IN APRIL FIRS)   UMW President Warns that United Mine Workers Will Stage Strike Unless Soft Coal Operators Negotiate A Contract by March 27.

Miners Of Soft  Coal Threaten  Strike April 1 New Pact Is Up  Rar Nagconthatian

RESPONSIBILITY IS OPERATORS’, UMW BOSS SAYS   Denounces Management fot Refusal To Accept Demands

AMERICANS LAY PLANS FOR NEW PACIEIG THRUST   Navy Spokesman Promises Offensive Now That Jap Resistance on Guadalcanal Is at End.   ENEMY ELIMINATED COMPLETELY FROM ISLE   Nip Losses in Fighting Put at Between 30,000 and 50,000 Men, 1,000 Planes and 42 Ships.

Admiral ‘Halsey Promises Victory of Guadalcanal  _In Which Tokyo Loses Heavily in Men, Ships and Planes, to be Followed at once with Great Offencive Aaainct Enemy

U: 5. Plans New Drive In Pacific   “Guadalcanal Holds 2An Important Role:

Three Cruisers In Jap Losses   ‘Details Given On Bismarck Battle

3 Jap Cruisers Included in Toll   Bismarck Sea Plane Loss Placed at 102

MAKEUP OF JAP BISMARCK SEA CONVOY KNOWN   Contained Three Light Cruisers, Seven Destroyers and Twelve Transports   102 PLANES FELLED   Allied Planes Dropped 226 ‘Tons of Bombs on® nemy, - Ships; Eighty Direct’ Hits Scored

MacArthur Lists  Three Cruisers Sent to Bottom   Reveals Details  Of Great Victory  In Bismarck Sea BAG 7 DESTROYERS  _ Navy Reveals New  Blows at Japanese

Enemy Transports in Convoy Guarded By These. 7 Destroyers: Their Plane Loss: 102

3 JAP CRUISERS IN CONVOY SUN   ALLIES ANNOUNCE 102 OF ENEMY’S PLANES WERE PUT OUT OF ACTION.

Yanks Reelaim Last Of Area Taken By Axis   General Montgomery Prepared For Test Of Lines By Africa Corps.   UU. &S ARMY IN PICHON   THREE CRUISERS SUNK

Three Light Cruisers and 7 Destroyers Lost by Japs   15,000 Troops Lost From 51st and 20th Divisions, Allies Now Announce .

THREE JAPANESE CRUISERS SUNK IN NAVAL FIGHT   American Forces Lose Four Planes In Scrap

Ickes Sets 6-Day Week in Mines   FUEL ADMINISTRATOR BACKS WLB AS BOARD REASSUMES CONTROL IN COAL DISPUTE; MINE CLASH STILL DEADLOCKED UNDER TRUCE   WMC Agreements to Stop Essential Job Changes

SERVICE ACT IN OPERATION   War Manppewer Commission Will Have All of Features Effective This Week Excepting Drafting of Labor.

Stalin Takes Active Part In Conference   Russian Premier Receives Anthony Eden and May See Hull

STALIN TAKES PERSONAL HAND IN WAR PARLEY   Premier Receives Eden At Kremlin; Hull to Be Seen: Issues of Conference Kept Secret

PREMIER HOLDS SESSION WITH ANTHONY EDEN   Is Expected to Meet U. S. Secretary Hu!! Soon

Eden Given _ Interview  With Stalin   Reports Are That Hull Is Also to Visit Russian Premier Soon

Stalin Takes Hand in Conference Now Sitting in Moscow   Premier Sees Anthony Eden; May Talk With Cordell Hull Soon

PREMIER STALIN IS TAKING PERSONAL CONFERENCE. HAND   RECIEVED ANTHONY EDEN AT KREMLIN AND EXPECTED TO TALK WITH HULL

PREMIER STALIN RECEIVES EDEN   Meeting of Heads of Three Big Allies Coming

Stalin Takes Part In Meef   Has Seen Eden, May See Hull; Progress Rapid

STALIN MEETS TRI-PARTITE MEMBERS TODAY   Groundwork Being Laid For Meet Of Big Three

Stalin Taking Hand In Meet  Sees Eden, Expected To  ys oF W’*,.9 Ff 8

RUSSO PREMIER TAKES HAND IN MOSCOW TALKS   Stalin Sees Eden; Military Discussions Continue

Sfalin Takes Hand In Talks. With Allies   Red Chief Receives Eden, May Confer With Hull

Tighten Lid On. 3-Power Discussions   But Talks at Moscow Are Reported Proceeding Very f Satisfactorily

ULL-OTALIN TALK ON MOSCOW AGENDA   U. S. Secretary Of War To Confer With Soviet Boss

STALIN TAKING PART IN TRI PARTITE MEET   Received British Representative Yesterday and May See Cordell Hull Today

Stalin Takes Personal Hand in Moscoy Conference; Expected to Talk to Hull

Eden, Hull to Meet Red Chief   Conference Talks Are Proceeding Satisfactorily but News Is Cloaked in Secrecy:

HULL EXPECTED TO TALK SOON WITH PREMIER   Stelin Sees Eden in Moscow; U. S$. Official Continues Discussion

STALIN i\ ol “ENVOY Mee   Takes ‘Personal - Hand in Tripartite Confer- ° ~ ence in Moscow

Russian Ruler Participates In Moscow Parley   Conference Results Are Highly Satisfactory, Officials Report

STALIN TAKES PART IN CONFAE   Receives Eden at Kremiin, Expect To Meet Hull Soon

Stalin Takes Personal Hanc In Conference   He Receives Eden, To See Hull Also; Progress Is Made

STALIN TALKS WITH EDEN AT d-POWER MEET   Takes Personal Hand in Par ley; Opinion Grows Heads of States Will Meet.

Stalin Takes Personal Hand In Conference   Eden Received At Kremlin Yesterday; Talks Proceed Satisfactorily.   CALL MILITARY HEADS

Stalin Showing Parley Interest  Receives Anthony Eder at Kramiian Thurcdayw

—CONFERENCE—  STALIN RECEIVES BRITISH OFFICIAL   Russian Premier Takes Personal Hand In Moscow Conferences

Stalin Enters: Moscow Parley:  Talk With Eden   Expected to Meet With Hull Soon. Talks, Said Proceeding Very. Satisfactorily. Groundwork Laid for RooseveltChurchill-Stalin Mect.

Stalin Receives Anthony Eden  Expected To Talk With Hull; Moscow  Ce, See on lene ee eres

Stalin Fetes Anthony Eden   Russian Premier Is Expected to Receive Secretary Hull

Eden. Stalin Meet   _.« Delegates Say Parley Progress Satisfactory

‘Big Three Meet Seen As Certain   Present Moscow Parley Lays Groundwork for Later Conference; Stalin Sees Eden

Stalin Taking  Personal Hand   Chats With Anthony Eden At Kremlin As Parleys Are Continued -

PRESIDENT MAY ‘GIVE CONGRESS POST WAR PLAN      Will Emphasize Jobs - For - All Ahead Of Social Security Payments

CONGRESS CAN STOP TIRE INSPECTIONS   Resolution Presented by Rep. McGregor of Ohio

U-Boats Suffer  Loss in Battle   F.D. R., Churchill - Report on Fight

Roosevelt, Churchill Announce More Than 90 U-Boats Sent To Bottom In Three-Month Period

Ship losses cut sharply  during 1943   FDR. Churchill  issue statement

Submarine Warfare  FDR, Churchill Announce Sinking Of 90-Odd U-Boats

Nazi Subs Lose Atlantic Duel   U-Boat Loss Exceeds Toll of Convays

%) U-Boats Dstroyed In 3 Month Period   Roosevelt and Churchill Make Announcement

O0 ENEMY olla SUNK BY ALLE IN Oo MONTHS   Hitler's Gamble On U-Boat Campaign Great Failure, Say FDR, Churchill

‘90 U-Boats Sunk In Three Months’   Nazi Seo Raiders Suffer Heavily Says Roosevelt-Churchill Statement

Battle Costly to German U-Boats   Statement Issued  On Fight in Atlantic

"Churchill, Roosevelt Release Orne Revealing Weapon Hitler Counted On to Keep Fu U. S. Strength From Reaching Europe Failed Him at Most Critical Time

More Than 90 Enemy U-Boats Sent To Bottom Of Seas During Last Three Months, Allied Leaders Announce

Convoy Attack Costly to U-Boais   Three Escort Vessels Among Ships Lost

Joint Statement Is ‘Issued To Herald Campaign Success   Roosevelt, Churchill Give Figures For May, June And July To Show Hitler’s Failures; Warn Of U-Boat Reserves, However

Allies Sink 90 Axis U-Boats In Three Months   Roosevelt, Churchill Issue Statement Following Meeting

ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL ~ IN PARLEY   Axis ,Lost Average O One U-Boat Per Day Report

90 U-BOATS SUNK IN THREE MONTHS   ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL REVEAL HEAVY TOLL IN MAY, JUNE AND JULY.

Roosevelt, Churchill Report Gains Over U-Boats, Caution That Effort Must Continue for Success

‘Enemy Loss Revealed At First Meeting In Quebec   ~ Signed Statement Shows That U-Boots Have Incianificant Effect Gn Allied Wor Effort

U-BoatFight Story Bared   “ Nazi Loss Higher Than Allied Vessels’

Germans Lose Atlantic Duel   Nazi U-Boats, Westbound Allied Convoy Fight) For  Four, Half Days.

HEAVY TOLL OF SUBS TAKEN IN TIRER MONTES   Roosevelt and Churchill Triumphantly Announce Destruction of Undersea Craft   WARN ENEMY FORCE STILL IS LARGE   Weapon on Which Hitle: Counted Te Keep His ¥ortress Impregnable Fails, Statement Says

HEAVY FIGHTING » ATSEA COSTLY TO NAZI FORCES    @ Roosevelt and Churchill Report Hitler's Losses for May, June, July

Commanders Wart Germany Still Has Big Reserve  Churchill, Roosevelt Make Joint Report On Atlantic War  HITLER WEAPON FAILS  New Ships in 1943 Exceed Sinkings By 3 Million Tons

Nazi Subs Failing to Hold Own   U-Boats Fought Losing Battle Last Month

all U- Boats   © German Subs Sunk During 3-Month Period, Roosevelt, and Churchill  ~ Aannaninaca

TAGENROG FALL PERILS FOE LINE IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Move Indicates German High Command Throws Out Hitler Strategy

AEOIOTANGE [0 CRUSHED; NAZI HGHT BITTERLY   ‘Red Army Drives Southeast   From Donets Capital   of Voroshilovgrad.

Doesn't Know If Job Will Last Hoyt Succeeds Cowles Today As Head of OWI Domestic Unit

OWI BRANCH T0 GET NEW CHIEF   Oregon Publisher Will Head Domestic Bureau Of Organization

HOUSES RAZED, ” TREES LEVELED — POWER CUT OFF   Red Cross Sends Nurses and Disaster Workers to Disaster Zone  y

Survey Loss In Cleveland Tornado   Two Killed; 200 Others Are Injured

Germans Are “Godless Hordes of Bandits,” Says a Milan Archbishor

“AGREEMENT” IS ASKED OR MORE WILL WALK OUT   Union Chiefs Say Only Extension of Contracts Will Prevent Stoppage

sh Turns Back Repeated Nazi Comter Blows   '  Americans Are Stallec gy Cold Rain, Snow— Sih Army Exchanges Shells Across Sango

WEATHER AIDS NAZI ARMY Ii MIDDLE ITAL\   AMERICANS SEIZE POSITION ON MT. CAMINO

GAIN IS MADE IN MOUNTAINS BY STH ARM)   Americans Advance in Bad Weather Along ME. Camino Slopes

Enemy Aided By Rains, Snows Against U. $. 5th   Clark’s Men Push on to Seize New Slope Near Mignano

Savage Nazi Blows Beaten Off, Yanks Make Slight Gains   Cold Rain And Snow Retard Allied Push But Nazis Continue > Signs Of Withdrawal!  eee ee

COUNTER-ATTACKS OF NAZIS CHECKED   German Thrusts ‘Thrown Back With Heavy , Losses —

NAZIS LAUNCH HEAVY ATTACKS AGAINST ALLIES   Enemy Attempts To Take Strategic Heights In Mignano Section  Thown Back

Allies Repulse Yau Attacks in pennine Area  i  1 I !   Enemy Makes Fierce Attempt to Regain Mountain Heights

GERMANS ATTACK CLARK'S FORCES IN MIGNANG ARE!   Repeated Thrusts, Aimed at Recapture of Heights, Thrown Back With Heavy Enemy Losses.   TROOPS AT GRIPS IN SNOW AND RAIN   Gain Made at One Point by Americans — Eighth Army Exchanges Artillery Fire With Nazis.

Allies Are Faced With Weather Setback in Italy  Germans Thraw Army Into Fight With

Nazis Attacking In Italian Mountains   Cold Rain And Snow Aid Enemy In Attempts To Dislodae Troops Of Allies From Heiahts

Allies Are Faced With Weather Setback in Italy  Germans Throw Arm   Germans Throw Army Into Fight With  Stumendaue Farca

Allies repel fierce enemy Italian blows   Fifth makes slight advance

Rain, Nazis Fail To Stop Clark's Men   Counterattacks Beaten Off By Allies In Italy

GERMANS FIGHTING FURIOUSLY AGAINST AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY   Rain‘and Snow Help Nazis, but Clark's Forces Seize Commanding Position in Mignano Section

WEINBERG INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY   New Yorker Operated A Schoo For Draft Dodgers; Man’s Sanity Questioned

Fyasion Instructor Indicted By Couri  "Dodgers Bail Set A $20,000 By Judge

SLACKER TUTOR HELD FOR TRIAL   Stephen Weinberg Faces Conspiracy Charges For Teaching How  To Dodge Draft

German-Held Naval Base Is Seriously Threatened   Gliders Attempting To Reinforce Germans Are Shot Down By Russian Stormovik Planes

Report Made On Progress Of War   Oronibus Bill Proves Huge Expansion

War Agency Needs Put At 3 Billion   Congress Receives Epic Story of U. S. Economic Progress

Report on Home Front Progress Given Congress   3 Billion Dollar Fund Bill Shows Needs of Agencies

U. S. PROGRESS ON HOME FRONT IS POINTED OUT   Fiscal Needs for 18 , Agencies Provided fer in Bill Given Congress

Omnibus Appropriations Bill, Totalling $2,939 441504 for 18 Agencies

War Agencies Report On U. §. Progress  Nelson Says We Are Near Limit Of

Report Year Of War on. Home Front   Economic War Chiefs Tell Story of Great. Achievement in Asking Funds for Next Year

Aircraft Development To Get Most Of Any Military Branch, Says Nelson   War Production Chief Discloses We Are Approaching Limit Of Productive Ability As Omnibus Bill Given To Congress.

Huge Budget Presented For War Agencies   Total Of Nearly 3 Billions Is Asked For 18 Government Groups.

War Groups Ask Funds In Omnibus Bill   $2,939,441,504  Appropriations

$2, 939,441,504 Appropriation ‘Bill For 18 War Agencies Sent To Congress; Epic Stories Told   Economic Chiefs Tell Of Progress Being Made In Battle Of Home Front

Nation’s Economic War Chiefs Tell Epic Story Of Battle On Home Front

Appropriations Bill of $2,921,441.504 For Government War Agencies Given Congress: Home Front Progress Told

Home Front Agencies Get House 0.K.  ‘Great Credit Due’ Says   ‘Great Credit Due’ Says Report on Combined $3 Billions Supply Bill   OUTPUT NEAR PEAK   Rationing of Coal Hinted in Testimony From OPA Officials

FISCAL NEEDS OF WAR AGENCIES BEFORE CONGRESS   NELSON TELLS EPIC STORY OF PROGRESS ON THE HOME FRONT

OVER 2 BILLION PROPOSED FOR WAR AGENCIES   House Committee Approves Budget, Submits Report On Home Front Task

Nation’s Economic ‘War Chiefs: Tell Story of. American Progress ‘In. Battle ‘Of the Home Front

EPIC STORY OF AMERICAN WAR PROGRESS TOLD   War Agencies Praised And Criticized As Omnibus Appropriation Bill Is Offered New Rationing Pro: grams Hinted.

BUDGETS FOR WAR AGENCIES ARE REDUCED   Reports of Nation's Economic Chiefs Tell Epic Story of Progress on Home Front   PRAISE AND CRITICISM

Story of American Progress in Battle of Home Front Told   Epic Tale is Revealed in $2,939,441,504 Omnibus Appropriations Bill

War Agencies Ask $2,291,441,504 To Carry On Program   Nations Economic Chieftains Tell of Progress in Production of Tools ar

Few Changes Suggested In Report   Battle on Home Front Wins Praise

18 Government Agencies Seek Three Billion   Committee Offers Both Praise And Criticism On Accomplishments Of Past Year

‘Huge Fund For 18 War Agencies Asked   Congress Requested to Appropriate $2,921,441,504 as Nation’s Economic Chiefs Tell Story of Progress on Home Front.

Nation’ s Economic War Chiefs Tell Epic Story of Progress on Home Front      Omnibus Appropriotions Bill Presents Bolonce Sheet for Lost Year and Budget Sheet for Next for War-Born Agencies

THREE BILLIONS OMNIBUS BILL [5 SENT TO CONGRESS  NATION’S ECONOMIC WAR CHIEFS TELL EPIC STORY OF PROGRESS

HUGE SUMS ASKED IN ECONOMIC. WAR   Omnibus Appropriation Bill for. 3 Billions Before  Congress

BILL TO FINANCE 18 WAR AGENCIES GOES TO CONGRESS   ©4°2100 Printed Pages of Testimony Are Explanations to Top Officials Directing Activitips.   PRODUCTION NEARING POSSIBLE MAXIMUM   Years Output Will Be Approximately 180 Billion and Nearly Half is For War Purnoses.

WAR AGENCIES SEEKING FUNDS DRAW PRAISE   OPA, WPB, OWI and Others Telb o Accomplishments — Mistake: Conceded

LIST PROGRESS ON HOME FRONT   War-Born Agencies Make Reports In Appropriation Bill

Big Gains [n Year on Home Front   War Agency Chiefs Tell Epic Story; Win Praise and Criticism   3 BILLIONS MORE FOR 18 AGENCIES   More Air Action, More Rationing Ahead, Hightlights of Avency Reports

Three Billion Agency Bill  Given Congres:   Committee Gives Credit to War Bureaus for Work

WAR PROGRESS I TOLO TO CONGRESS   Omnibus Appropriation Bill Brings Reports From Economic Chiefs

3 Billion Fund To Operate War Agencies Askec   Budget Appropriation Bill Submitted To Congress Today

CONGRESS GETS $2,939, 441,504 OMNIBUS BILL   Story Of American Progress On Home Front Told

BUSY WEEK AT WESTERN UNION   Graduation Exercises At _ Hand-—-To Present Mus snal Cancert

NO PEACE FEELERD COMING FROM ITALY   secretary Hul! Says Armistice Rumors Are‘Untrue

Giraud Offers Swanout Plan   ‘Alterriate Bossing Of French Saniaht

FRENCH GENERALS MAY SHARE HELM   GIRAUD PROPOSES THAT HE AND DE GAULLE ALTERNATE IN COMMAND.

FRENCH LEADERS MAY ‘SWAP’ POSTS   Giraud Suggests That He, de ad Sapna as Boss of Activities

Giraud Offers to Swap Leadership With Gen. DeGaull   Would Alternate as Boss of French. Forces With U. N.

Von Arnim Sent Into Tunisia   Hitler Sends One of His Favorite Panzer Commanders to Africa

ANOTHER SHIFT IN REICH'S WAR HEAD RUMORED   General Walter Nehring Reported Superseded By Col Gen. Von Arnim In Tunisia   PANZER COMMANDER   Von Arnim Comparatively Little Known Outside of Germany; Nehring’s Status Uncertain

Another Change In Nazi Leaders   Col. Von Arnim Reported Directing African Campaign

HITLER SHAKES UP COMMAND IN TUNISIAN FRONT   Von Arnim Takes Place of Nehring, Dispatches From Berlin Report

Hitler Again Reported at Odds With Leaders,  Changes Tunis Command   Senators Seek Reorganization  of WPB. WMC

Nazi Commander In Tunisia Is Reported Ousted   Von Arnim Is Said Te Have Replaced Genera Walther Nehring

Report New Axis Leader  In Tunisia   Gen. Nehring Rumored Removed In Favor Of Gen. Von Arnim.

Sweden Hears Of New Shift In Nazi Army   Report That Gen. Arnim To Succeed Nehring Is Unconfirmed

HITLER IS SCARED ~ AND WARNS PEOPLE OF DANGER OF WAR   Another Shakeup Ordered ir Leadership in Tunisia

French Taxicab Stunt Which Saved Paris Was Matched in New Guinea

FIX DATE OF NEW RATIONS   Book No. 3 fo Be Distributec Through Mails.

Decision Expected Quickly   General Patton Mops Up West  Gartinn

Sicily Lotter: Campaign Hits Final Stage;  Yankees Score   U. S$. Takes Trapani, Last Vital Port On Route to Italian Mainland; Beitich. Canadians Alse Advance

PATTON'S MEN MOPPING UP IN WESTERN HILLS   More Than 50,000 Axis Troops Captured; Trapani Port Is Occupied   Final Stand Prepared

Sicilian Drive Has Reached Decisive Phase   Enemy May Attempt Stabilized Defense At Northeast Tip

NAZI DIVISIONS BLOCK BRITISH ‘AROUND CATANIA   Campaign In Sicily Is Reaching Decisive Stage; Trapani Falls   50,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED BY YANKS

Sicilian. Fighting Now Nearing Its Final Stage  Fall of Trapani Is Confirmed by Allied  jo OA Se See en

CAMPAIGN IN SICILY IN ITS LAST STAGES   Axis Is Establishing a Strong Stabilized Line About 3 Miles South of Can  beaeate   50,000 Axis Prisoners

Third Major Port Of Sicily Taken By Allied Force:   Nazi Divisions Holding Sector From Dittaina River To Regalbuto

Sicily Campaign Believed near  Decisive Stage   Eisenhower Announces Capture of Trapani

SICILY DRIVE IS ENTERING FINAL STAGE   Occupation of Trapani Announced by Genl. Eisenhower   MAJOR PORTS ARE SEIZED BY ALLIES   Enemy Believed Massing For Final Stand Near Messina

Sicily Battle Now at Stage Of Decision   Trapani in West Falls And Axis Compressed Into Northeast Corner   PRISONER TOTAL MOUNTS TO 50.000

America Told to be Ready To Change Diet, Come 1944   ‘May Re Necessary to Pall In Belt, Agriculture Department, Concerned About Situation In Some Foods, Advises; Unrationed Items Not Too Pientifuland Anticipated Supplies Unfavorable

Food Supply is Running Low   SITUATION FOR U. S. TO BECOME MORE SERIOUS

MORE CHANGES IN DIET ARE LIKELY   Eggs Cereals. Vegetables anc Fruit May Be Scarce During Winter.

my Worry «farm Heads   jgenlture Chicfs tars Shortage Of rerationed Itenis

Foed Outlook For 1944 Is Not Bright   Unrationed Supply Not Abundant, Says Economic Review

Change in Diet of Americans Coming Next Year--Unless Things Look Up

Atlantic Wall Hitler's Hope   Scorned Maginot Line Strategy Embraced To Bolster Morale

NAZI LEADERS PREPARING FOR EXPECTED BLOW   German People Told Defenses Are Impregn- ahle

Hitler Switches To The ‘Maginot Line’ Complex Once Scorned By Him

Construction Of “Atlantic Wall” As Invasion Nears Shows Nazis  Switch To Maginot Line Complex

Germans Switch To Maginot Line Complex; Boast Great Strength Of Western Wall   Tell Outside World Line Impregnable But Yet They Have Too Much Faith In It

NAZIS SWITCH TO MAGINOT LINE COMPLEX   Hitler’s Lessons In Russia Incorported In Structure

TMOAY'S WAR MOVES   - Die (Reg. U. & Pat, Office) BY LOM Y. KEEMLE

WON'T SCRAP POST WAR FLEET--KNOX   U. S. Building Thousands of Landing Barges He Asserts

HIT AGAIN WITR TS NAVY DOWN   Will Be Kept to Top Strength and No Postwar Scrapping, Knox Declares.   TELLS MIDDIES’ CLASS  THEY'LL GET BACKING

U.S. Will Never Scrap Its Naval Strength---Knox   Tells Navy Grads That U. S. Building Many  Landing Barges.

WAR OUTPUT ~ -” SHOWS: GAIN   NELSON REVEALS INCREASE IN “PRODUCTION OF ALL PLANES BUT GOAL NOT REACHED.

Overall ¢ dulput Munitions In July Increases   Nelson Says Output Must Be Boosted More

PRESIDENTIAL RACE RUMORS —  ARE HEARD IN WASHINGTON   LATEST SPECULATION CENTERS ON ROOSEVELT DEOPPING OUT AND G. O P. “DRAFTING” MACARTHUR.

RUMORS SAY F.D.R. WONT RUN IN 1944   Capital Also Hears G. 0. P. May Draft Gen, MacArthur

More Pork for Civillians and More Beef for the Armed Forces Coming

CIVILIANS WILL GET MORE PORK   45 Per Cent Of Beef Produc tion Set Aside For Armed Forces

Japs Sabotaging Tula Lake Camp   Dies Orders Probe Of Disloyal Acts

OPA Warns Vacationists  of Gas Use   Persons Who Stay Put Get ODT Blessing as Situation Grows Acute

INSPECTORS 10 CHECK CARS IN TOURIST AREAS   Fishing Points, Beaches, Vacation Grounds to  Be Visited   PLAN ‘GADDING’ CURB   Vacation Travel Must Be Limited To One Place, Staying There

New Securify ° Plan Proposed  Wagner's Measure : Would Expand Presen Social Security Act _

WAGNER DRAFTS SECURITY PLAN   Vast New Post-War Social Security Program Envisioned.

Post-War Social Security Plan — Is About Ready .   Senator Wagner Says Program Will Be Introduced Immediately.

Victory Over U.S., Britain  Assured—To jc   Japanese Premier Declares That Allies Now Are “Have Not’ Nationrts.   DIFFICULT WAY AHEAD

Togo Informs Diet That Foundations Laid for Victory Over U.S., British

WLB Passes Mine Pay Hike  Public Member Says 7 a ae. ae , ee bee

SAME SUGAR RATION   Current Ration To Be Cochanged in Neat Period

Current Sugar Ration Will Remain Unchanged In Next Ration Period

De Gaulle May Confer Soon With Giraud   French African Chief Withholds Names of Persons in Alleged ‘Adapisination Plat

DE GAULLE T0 GO TQ AFRICA   Will Confer With Giraud On French Affairs; Plea Made For  More Arms

eGaulle May Go to Algiers to Cantar With General Giraud   2Political Unity in Africa ¢ Still Nebulous

DeGaulle May Meet Giraud   Fighting French Chief Said Mystified by y Arresting Of 12 in N. Africa

GIRAUD PLEADS FOR MUNITIONS   Fighting French Leader DeGaulle May Go To Africa Soon

DeGaulle fo Confer With Gen. Giraud On French Plot   Names of 12 Under Arrest Still Withheld bv Leader

FEMALE LABOR LAW FACES HOUSE VOTE   Sponsors of Relaxed Bi _ Predict Passage

FEMALE LABOR BILL NEARS FINAL ACTION   Sponsors Predict Measure To Pass in House

Nazis Face’ New Attack   Red: Forces Poised. To Apply ‘Crusher’.

nee nae er neem ee ee a ame  ITALIAN COASTAL BOATS ROUNDED UP BY NAZIS

Germans Shelled Rome. Italian Refugees Claim   Nazis Moved Inte Capital in Violation of Pact With Italians

REFUGEES REPORT GERMANS SHELLED CENTER OF ROME   Nazis Agreed To Occupy “Only Outskirts Of ’ Eternal City Inltaly  .... 

Germans Shelled Center Of Rome; Occupied City, Report. Refugees .

‘Main Axis Defense Prop Collanses   Control Center for Highways and Railroads; British Move on Catania

 Enna Falls, General  Withdrawal of Enemy   Half of Island in Allies’ Hands For All Tactical Purposes; Montgomery Prepares Way for East Coast Lunge.

Eighth Army Smashes German Attacks in Front of Catania; Half Island Held

Victorious Allies Capture Enna, Hub Of Inland Defenses   Seizure of Key Town Forces General Withdrawal of Axis Troops From Central and Western Areas Of the Island, It Is Said   MONTGOMERY OPENS ANOTHER CRUSHER DRIVE  AaNnErR oaPRrTr

Forces Retreat  From Central, Western Areas   Germans Are Fighting Holding Action Now

Enna Captured; General Retreat Is In Progress   Large Numbers Of Enemy Cut Off; Germans Declared Speeding To Coast For Getaway

ENEMY’S TROOPS FORCED BACK IN CENTRAL SICILY   Island Defenses Near Collapse After Slashing Attack by Allies

BRITISH BLAST GERMAN DRIVE NEAR CATANIA   Axis Forces Reported Withdrawing From Central And Western Sicily   ‘FALL OF PORT {MMINENT   Enemy Expectetd To Make Last Stand And Perhaps Evacuation At Messina

Fall Of Enna Enables Allies To Virtually Cut Sicily In Half, Split Enemy

YANKS DRIVING NORTH TO SLICE SICILY IN TWO   ENEMY RESISTANCE REPORTED COLLAPSING UNDER HEAVY ATTACK

RESIOTANGE ON SLE WEAKENING   Bitter Fighting Ahead Befor Complete Victory, F Says Eisenhower, . <3;   /HAMMERING AT CATANIA

Half Of Sicily Is In Allied Hands As Vital Axis Defense Point Falls

Half of Island In Allied Grasp   Catania Cut Off From West; Germans Fleeing and Leaving Italians to Fate As General Axis Withdrawal Is On

Large Number Of Foe Cut Off; Isle’s Defenses Near Collapse   General Retreat to North Under Way; 8th Hammers Catania

Resistance On Sicily Is Weakening Hourly As Allied Nations Take Vantage Points

Axis Forces Retreating Toward Messina For Possible Getaway; British Pound At Catania.

General Withdrawal Of Sicily Defenders Foreeasts-Collapse.   ‘Half Of Sicily Now In Allied Hands For Tactical Moves Is Report; Italians Decry Own Government

Axis Starts Full Retreat  To Messina  Half of Sicily in Allied Hands for All Tactical Purposes CATANIA 15 CUT OFF British Units Shatter Counterattack With Heavy Casualties

Allies Capture Town of Enna; Driving North   General Axis Retreat to Northeast Tip of Sicily Has Begun; Eighth Army Squeezes Tighter.Around Catania; Red Armies Widen Offensive

invaders Seex To Cut Sicily In Two Parts   Axis Troops May Have Begun General Retreat To The East

AMERICAN-CANADIAN ‘TROOPS CAPTURE HUE OF INLAND DEFENSE  BRITISH. SMASH ANOTHER DESPERATE NAZI ATTACK AT CANTANIA

General Retreat  North, Reported   Americans and Canadians Driving for Coast; British Hammer at Catania’s Gate

YANKS TARE MAJOR CITY OF ENNA   Axis Forces Withdrawing To Northeastern Area; Eighth Army Advancing On Catania

Axis Withdrawal Is Forced;  _ Resistance Is Near  i  (Collapse     BATTTE CAD CATANTA   Fall of Enna Cuts Off Essen- tial Axis Communication Lines .

WESTERN SECTION OF ~ SLY 1S. ISOLATED   Italians Say Germans Desert: ing Them Again.as They Did in Africa:

U.S., Canadian Units Capture Enna; Fall Of Island Imminent   American Forces Within 30 Miles o: North Coast; 8th Army Storms Catania

LARGE NUMBER OF AXIS FORCES NOW CUT OFF   Resistance Weakens Hourly Almost to Point of Collapse on Island

Latest Capture Means That Island Is Almost Severed; Catania Still Holding Out.   RUSSIANS IN NEW GAINS NEAR OREL

Resistance ~— On Sicily Weakening   With Central Defense Prop Gone Island Believed Near Collapse

Allies Threaten To Cut Island Of Sicily In Two As Americans And Canadians Advance, Capturing Enna — British 8th Army Smashes German Counter-Attack In Fight To Seize Catania

General Retreat Is Reported on Island's Roads   Enna Captured By Allies, Axis Forces Trapped

Central Island Prop Is Knocked Out; British Hammer At Doors Of Catania Bastion

ENNA IN NET OF AMERICAN, CANADA FORGE   Enemy Forces Quitting Central, Western Island Areas, British Squeeze Catania Harder.

HALF OF ISLAND HELD BY ALLIES BS MEN ADVANGE   Large Numbers Of Axis Soldiers Cut Off By City’s Fall

Allies Advancing North to Cut Off  Defending Forces   Last Bastion Protecting Entire East Sicihan Coast halle   British Hammering At Doors of Catania

Counteroffensive At Catania Gates Halted by British   In Pacific, U.S. Bombers Sink or Damage Six Jap Warships

Withdrawal of “« Axis Units Forced In Western Region   Victorious Yanks Drive North to Cut Big Island in Two

AXIS RETREAT HASTENED BY FALL OF ENNA   Yanks and Canadians Drive  Northward to Cut Is land In Two   SQUEEZING CATANIA   Italian Mutinies Reported Continuing; Naples  Bombed

TOWN OF ENNA FALLS BEFORE DOUBLE DRIVE   Yanks and Canadians Slasti North Thre Heart of Invaded Island.   BRITISH STILL BATTLING’ TO CAPTURE CATANIA

Axis Withdrawal Is Forced; Resistance Is Near Collapse  BATILE FOR CATANIA  Ss ceeieieeiranimanenimememeniaeamnentions¢      Fall of Enna Cuts Off Essen~ tial Axis Communication Lines

BRITISH CLOSE IN ON ENEMY NEAR CATANIA   Axis Forces Reported In General Retreat From Central Region

Quick Collapse Of Axis Resistance In  West Is Expected   Enemy Forces In General Withdrawal; Montgomery Continues To Hammer At Catania’« Door

AMERICANS AND CANADIANS TAKE ENNA   Communications Hub of Area; Push May Cut Island in Two

DEFENSE PROP OF CENTRAL SICILY 15 IN HANDS OF ALLIES  WITHDRAWAL OF AXIS ' FORCES FROM CENTRAI

British Hammering At Doors Of Catania; General Withdrawal Forced As Enna Falls

BRITISH FORCES JOLT NAZIS IN COUNTER ATTACK   Allied Armies Driving To Cut Island in Two as Doughboys Push Inland   ITALIANS GIVE UP FIGHT   Gen. Eisenhower Confident Of Victory But Foresees Bitter Battles

Island Is Split As Enna Falls To Yanks, Canadians   Axis Troops In General Retreat; British Halt Nazi Counteratteck

Central Sicily Defense Hub: 7 Falls as British Beat Off New Axis Attack Near Catania   Nearly Half of Island Now In Allied Hands; Foe Withdrawing Te East for Last-Ditch Stand

Town Was Defense Prop for Central Sector of Island—Its Fall Also Cuts Off Nearly All of Western Area From Catania, Which British Are Closely Pressing—Withdrawal Appears Intended for Last Stand or Possible Evacuation in Messina Area. 7

Quick Collapse of Axis Resistance in West and Centra] Areas Expected— Naples Again Bombed—Reds Widen Offensive—U. S. Bombs Sink or Damage Six Japanese Warships

British Eighth, Closing in. ope On Catania, Shatter Anathvek DesperateNaziCounterattac ‘

Enemy Admits Withdrawal fn  Western Zone   American, Canadian Troops  In Position To Outflank  fC Atancve   BOMB ITALIAN PORTS

Defense Hub Falls; Axis — Forces Split   General Retreat of Enemy Troops Hinted as Pilots See Eastward Movement

Resistance On Island Weakening   Large Numbers of Axis Troops Cut Off  General Withdrawal Forced — Half of Sicily Now in Allied Hands for Tactical Purposes — British Hammer at Catania

Capture of Enna Threatens Whole Axis. Communications System, Quick Collapse Of Axis Resistance in West and Center

FUNDS FOR FARM LABOR   House Committee Appreves Plan  For Financing ‘44 Farming

Allies Already Focus Attention On Italy; Yank and Nazi Guns Duel Aecrose Straits

Germans Apparently Salvaged Most of Troops From Sicily. MUCH ENEMY HEAVY EQUIPMENT IS LEFT Continuous Air Assaults  Along the Italian Beaches.

Ik MAPIGAY FACES en0ss EXAMINATION   Asserts Under Oath That He Did Not Kill Wealthy Father-in-Law, Sir Harry Oakes

CROWN BEGINS GRUELING EXAM OF DE MARIGNY   Defense Attorneys Shroud Next Moves In Secrecy 

Seven Die As Navy Plane Crashes on Runway  Of Air Base at Dallas

7 KILLED IN CRASH OF NAVY BOMBER   Plane Falls From Altitude of 7 Feet and Burns on Runway of Texas Air Field.

MUST SEND GIFTS OVERSEAS EARLY   Postoffice Department Sets Sept. 15 To Oct. 15 As Period For Mailing Christmas Parcels To Soldiers

DUTCH, AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN WIPE OUT JAP PORT OF DOBO   Third “Great BI Blow . Within Five Days Is Heaviest Yet—Other Raids  Reported‘ ‘°

MacArthur’s Flieys Wipe . Out Jap Base   Dutch, Australian Airmen Make Heavy Raids On Base

JAPo UN ATTU DtING PUone STEADILY BACK   Sleet. Snow, Rain Hamper U. S. Efforts To Mop Up Remnants Of Enemy

WEATHER f HAMPERING ATU RAID   Enemy Is Being Driven Back im Spite of Snow

Bad Weather Hampers Yanks On Attu Island   Enemy Coralled at Chichagof Harbor Save See’vy. Knox

Seek Fugitive Murder Suspects   Brothers Escape From Colorado Jail

PROPOSED CHANGE IN TIME OPPOSEL   Donald Nelson Writes Letter to Speaker William McCulloch Giving His

Solons Abandon Demand for Food Subsidy Ban   Agree To Be Called Back by President, Congress Of-' ficers, Party Leaders

FOOD SUBSIDY BAN DROPPED BY SENATORS   LAWMAKERS TAKING FIRST VACATION SINCE WAR

CONGRESS OFF ON RECESS TO SEPTEMBER 14   Huge Appropriations Are Approved; Subsidies Quarrel Dropped For Present   Only Few Object

SUBSIDY BAN ISWIPED OUT BY CONGRESS   Senote Abandons Plan a: Recess Until Sept. 14 Voted

Houses Swiftly Approve Main Measures and Call Halt; Sets September 14 to Reassemble

Congress Recesses After Cleaning Up Major Legislation   Senate Forced To Yield Point After Point To House In Order To Get Vacation Which Had Already Been Delayed A Week

Congress Votes Recess After Dropping Fight Over Subsidy Payments

Congress Winds Up Business; Takes Recess  Will Reconvene On September  4 A fter Vacation

TWO MONTHS RECESS BEGUN BY CONGRES!   Money Bills Approved Fight for Subsidy Ban Abandoned

Congress Drops Controversies fo Recess Till Sept.   Senate Yields to House on Disputed Measures at End

Congress in adjournment  till Sept. 14   All pending bills wiped off slate

Congress Clears Slate And Recesses Until Sent. 14.   Several Controversies Dropped in Haste  To Clean Up Bills And Start Vacation   OK APPROPRIATIONS OF $4.302.120.234

CONGRESS WIPES TTS SLATE CLEAN AND HALTS WORK   Starts Vacation Extending to September 14 After Disposing of Major Legislation.   QUARREL OVER FOOD SUBSIDIES DROPPED   Senate Abandons Its Demand for Ban on Administration Plan to Roll Back Prices

Congress Recesses Until Sept. 14; Cleare Ti Its Calen ‘da ar   Legislators Approve $4,302,120,234 in. “Appropriations and Drop:: Half ‘Dozen Controversies Including Subsidie:

Congress Takes Recesses Until September 14.   First since start of the war;. both branches are subject to recall in an emergency. 

Stassen Urges Parliament of United Nations  Minnesota Governo:   Minnesota Governo! Urges Action to Win the Pearce

Stassen Urges Parliament of United Nations   Minnesota Governor Urges Action to Win the Peace

CONGRESS HELD UP ON RECESS   Siens Of Breakup Appear In Deadlock Between House And Senate

SUBSIDY ISSUE PERILS EARLY RECESS PLANS   Break in Deadlock On Appropriation Measures Indicated

Congress Fails To Agree On Major Bills   Signs Indicate Appropriation Accord Nearer

House, Senate  Fail to Agree  on Major Bills Definite Signs of a Break in

Sion of Break Ur In Deadlock on Appropriations   House and Senate Uncompromising on Subsidy Plan —

Deadlock seems to  be broken   Rollback argument mav extend session

Senate, House Deadlock on Food Subsidies  Conferees Meet Six Hours on Price  Roll Back Program NO PROGRESS  Senators to Recomme Abolition of Farm Insurance Today

Appropriations Deadlock Break Believed Close   Subsidies Disputes Of Senate, House Cloud Recess Plans

CONGRESS RESTIVE TO GET BACK HOME   Signs Point To Break-Up In Deadlock Between House And Senate On Appropriations

House, Senate Fail to Agree on Major Bills   Definite Signs of a Break in Deadlock Seen

Subsidies Deadlock Unbroken   Appropriations Agreement Indicated

Controversy May Delay  Adjournment  Conference Groups Of Rath Hancec Hald   Conference Groups Of Both Houses Hold To Previous Stands On Rollback Icsue

TWO AIRFIELDS NEAR CAPITAL OF GREECE HIT   High Explosives, Including Blockbusters, Loosed On Elevsis and Hassani, During Sunday   HANGARS SET AFIRE; RUNWAYS PITTED   Dock Area and Industrial Plants of Naples Feel “Weight of Allied  Powerful Bombs

Liberators in Second Raid on Greece Return  Without a Loss   Hangars Shattered, Runways Pitted, Fires Started at Fields

ANTS BAGES IN GREECE ARE HIT   Yanks Attack Two Airdromes Near Athens in Folfowun Raids.   NAPLES ALSO ATTACKED

Nazis Unable To Break Up ©  Formations   Leaflets Dropped Tell the People Deliverance Is Not Far Away

AXIS HANGARS ARE  SHATTERED BY U. 8  PLANES NEAR ATHEN TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS  APM. Bt

Balkan Bases Of Axis Hit by American Bombs   Naples Battered In Continuation Of Heavy Raids

YANKS BLASTING — ~ANVASION ROUTE THROUGH BALKANS      Leaflets Showered To Greeks and Bombs  On Nazis   FLIERS OVERCOME A SAVAGE FIGHT

AXIS HANGARS SHATTERED BY US. LIBERATORS   Runways Were Pitted and Fires Started in Two Airdromes,   LOCATED NEAR ATHENS   It Was a Follow-up to the Thursday Raid at Salonika.

Liberators Pit: Runways, Set. Hangars Afire   High Explosives: Loosed on Fields Ten Miles West of City in Raid Following.Up Blow at Salonika

AIRDROMES AT ATHENS   U. S. Giant Bombers Make Assault But Suffer No Loss

U.S. Bomber: Pound Axis Airdromes Near Athens   Launch Heavy Attack: Against Enemy In Balkans Area; Not A Plane Lost

U.S. Planes Keep Pressure On Balkans .   Naples Also Blasted in Renewed Attack

Yanks Pour Big Bomb Load On Athens Airports   Leaflets Carry Roosevelt Tribute To Fighting Greeks; Vesuvius Glow Guides RAF In Naples Night Attack

ALLIED PLANES WOEN HAVOC PATH FOR RA   U. S. Ninth Air Force Carries Out Powerful Attack Near Athens...   NORTH AFRICAN FLIERS BOMB PLANTS IN NAPLES

TWO AIRDROMES AT ATHENS HIT HARD IN ATTACK   Fires Started By Bombs, Aviators Say On Return

NAZIS THOUGHT STRENGTHENING GREEK BASES   Possibility Of Invasion Through Fiastern Balkans Heichtened  By GEORGE TUCKER  os. &2e @er..2tA « oe

Fliers Mix Leaflets,  [Bombs —   New Crop of Rumors  Point to Mystery Sis) EN SS Se

AXIS HANGARS ARE  SHATTERED BY U. 5  PLANES NEAR ATHENS TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS  ANPAIPM Ea DATYVING

Second Assault In Offensive [Against Balkans   Heavy Opposition En. countered But No Planes Lost. Germans Increasing Ground and Air Strength in Greece, Balkans in Expectation of Invasion.

NIP ISLANDS T0 BE BOMBED DAY AND NIGHT   Admiral Nimiiz says U. S. must obtain bases close to Japan

JAPS TO FACE. ~ AIR ARMADAS   ADMIRAL NIMITZ SAYS DEVASTATION OFFENSIVE MUST BE. DELAYED UNTIL DASES SEIZED

SHORTAGE SEEN — IN FRESH FRUIT   Good Citrus Crop Expected to Ease Lack of Apples, Peaches, Pears

FRUIT CROPS — DROP LOWER   WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE FURTHER REDUCED GLOOMY ESTIMATES MADE  " EARLIER

SOFT COAL PRODUCTION ENDANGERED   More Than 50 Mines Shut  Down by Spread of Strikes Over Country.   Labor Board Appeals To Their Patriotism

Strike Spreads In Coal Fields Throughout East   War Labor Board Appeals to Men Not to Walk Out

New Strikes {Threaten — Soal Tie-Up   Union Leaders  . Meet With  Lewis in  New York

More Than 50 Mines Shut . Down as Coal Strike Spreads   WLB Appeals to Men's Patriotism Not to Walk Away From Jobs

Coal Dispute Crisis Near   Fifty Mines Closed By Strike That Threatens To Spread Throughout Soft Coal Industry

Soft Coal Strikes May  Sweep Nation   Wartime Labor Policies In Crucial Test—Many Miners Already Idle

Complete » Shutdown Of Bituminous by. Saturday Possible; Panel is Organzied

MORE THAN 80. MINES CLOSED BY WALKQUTS   Complete Tie-up of Soft Coal Production Is Possible by Saturday.    SOME MINERS TORN BY: DUTY TO UNION, ARMY

26,000 COAL MINERS QUIT WORK INU.    More Than 50 Shafts Idle as Strike Threat Mounts. WLB Appeal to Miners Patriotism

STRIKE MAY HALT SOFT GOAL MINES   WLB Appeals To Union Leaders To Avert Threatened Walkout

Soft Coal Mines Are Hit by Strike   Production in Entire Industry May Be Halted by  Saturday   JOHN L. LEWIS SILENT   About 22,200 Miners Idle in Pittsburgh-Birmingham Area

OD GOAL MINES ARE SHUT DOWN   Strike Spreads and Threatens Halt in Production Of Coal.   26,009 MINERS ARE OUT

Threat to Halt All Production of Soft Coal Saturday Grows — Lewis Silent as UMW Policy Weighed

New Strikes. Walkouts In U.S. Viewer   Nation’s Labor Policies  Jn Crucial Stages; See Nationwide Trouble In Mine Dispute

Lewis Ignores WLB as More Than 20,000  Miners Join Strike   Production of Bituminous Coal Possibly Will End Friday at Midnight

New Strikes (hreaten Coal Tie-Up   Union Leaders Meet With Lewis in  New York

Twin City Plants, Labor Protest Wage-Job Freeze   Formal Objections Are Arranged; Crucial Stage Reached

50 MINES  ’ SHUT DOWN:  _ WLB PLEA TO UNION      ; Appeals to the Workers’ Patriotism to Return and Not to Walk Out   © LEWIS IS SILENT  AS LEADERS MERT   Labor Board, Names Panel » of Three to Consider Issues Tomorrow

Wartime Labor Disputes Enter Critical Stage   Nation-Wide Tieup O! Soft Coal Industry I: Grave Possibility.

WLB, Lewis Still Apart in Parley   Panel to Start Consideration of Issues Wednesday; UMW Silent

‘Almost 400 Allied Planes On Raids   Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria Are Central Targets U.S. Heavy Bombers Batter Port of  Messina in Davlicht

Ships, Fields And Other Targets Get Terrific Pounding MESSINA HIT

WERRIFIC POUNDING DELIVERED   Sardinia, Sicily Are Mauled In ‘Unceas ing’ Offensive

PRESSURE ON JAPS AT ATTU GETS TOUGHER   U.S. Does Not Know From Whence Came Planes to Give Beleaguered Japanese New Help

Yank Forces Put Pressure on Japs   Tre Foes on Attu Are ed, But Stull Hold Of! :   SOUTH PACIFIC ACTION   . S. and Other Bomber: Rain Destruction on Key Jap Bases

U.S. STEPS UP PRESSURE ON JAPS ON ATTU   Japanese Putting Up Suicide Stand to Stem Tide

Net Tightens On Remnants  Of Jap Army  US. Planes Watch For New Forays By Nippon’s Bombers

AMERICAN TROOPS TIGHTENING PRESSURE ON TRAPPED JAPS ON ATTU AS PLANES KEEP VIGIL   Suicide Stand Kept Pp. By Garrison of Defenders snd Ridges. Apparently o Americans.

AMERICAN TROOPS TIGHTENING TRAP ON ATTU JAPANESE   UNITED STATES FIGHTER PLANES ON WATCH FOR ENEMY BOMBERS.

U. S. TROOPS TIGHTEN PRESSURE ON JAPANESE IN ATTU; BEAT OF AIR ATTACKS

Yankees Tighten Pressure on Last Of Japs at Attu   U.S. Fighter Planes Kept Ready to Beat Off Enemy Bombers

Squeeze Applied _ Japs By Yanks   PRESSURE TIGHTENED AROUND NIPS ON ATTU

YANKS KS TIGHTEN ATTU DEFENSES   On Lookout for Further  Counter-Attacks  By Japs

Japs Put Up Suicide Stand   U.S. Forces Liquidate Several Enemy Strong Points, Navy Says

U. S. TIGHTENS TRAP ON LAST JAPS ON ATTU   Krox Thinks Nipponese Planes May Have Come From Kuriles Islands

U.S. Troops Tighten Hold On Attu Isle   Japanese Troops Crowded Into Tight Corner In Northeast Part Of Island.   ‘DESTROY 12 PLANES

JAPS PUTTING UP SUIGIDE STAND ON ATT ISLANE   United States Troops Are Closing In and Several Enemy Strong Points have Been Liquidated; Tightening Pressure On Trapped Japanese.

KNOX SAYS JAPS CROWDED INTO ISLAND CORNER   American F ighter Planes Watch Out For Possible New Attack From Aijir; Japs Making Suicide  tand.

US Troops Close in on Trapped Japs   ‘Nips Putting Up Suicide E Stand; MacArthur’s Fliers . Drop 16 Tons of Bombs on  Rabaul

TRAP ATU JAPS ON PENINSULA   U. §. Troops Tighten Pressure on Remnants of Enemy Force on Island,

Yank Forces Tighten Noose around Enemy   Japs Crowded Into Small  Corner, Foe Putting Up - Last Ditch Fiaht

Yanks Tightening Pressure On Japs Trapped On Attu   United Nations Airmen ‘In Southern Pacific Hammer Jap Bases

Japs Put Up Suicide Stand. In Aleutians   U.S. Fliers Beat Off Planes Trying to Aid Ground Force

NAZI PLANE QUTPUT DROPS ONE-THIRD   RAF Raids, Inferior Labor and Bottlenecks Cut Production to 2.000 a Month

Warplane Production In Germany !s Reported Down To 2,000 Monthly; Industries Hard Hit

NAZIS MAKING FEWER PLANES   Plane Production Off Third Ir Last Year; Causes Of Deceline FExnlained

German Warplane Production Down  Output Drops From Peak of 3,000 Per Month to 2.000

Axis Plane Production Drop: From 3000 to 2000 Monthly   Inferior, Undernourished Labor, Bottleneck In Transportation, Raids Are Cause

NAZI WARPLANE PRODUCTION IS BEING SLASHED   Industrial Engineer Says Germany and Enslaved Natiens Unable to Obtain Labor   Hitler's Factories Now Far   Behind Allies In Air — eraft Output; Lack Material.

SAYS GERMAN PLANE OUTPUT IS DROPPING   RAF Raids Partly Responsible For Decrease

German Plane Output Drops 1,000 In Month   Decline From 3,000 To 2,000 Reported By Engineer

DUCE’S DEBACLE MEANS TWO FRONT WAR FOR HITLER   Germany Must Defend -Balkans ‘at Moment .of Real Battles. in Russia.

HITLER FACED WITH GREATEST CRISIS OF WAF   Fuehrer on Verge of Dreaded Two-Front War

HITLER NOW UP AGAINST A 2-FRONT WAR   Withdrawal of Italy Would Bring It About

LARGE SECTIONS OF CITY MASS ‘OF RAGING FIPE   Silenced Radio Points To Third RAF Raid; Reprisal Weapon Threatened

Large Farts Of Capital City in Ruins   Huge Aifforce Goes, ‘Out Over Channel : See Se ee: Fe

Great Fires Still Raging In Berlin ©   German Capital A Paralyzed and Isolated Inferno: Planes Out Again

\Second Huge Raid Follows ‘On Heels Of First Attack   Estimates On Number Of Dead Run As High As 25.000 With All Transportation Halted

BERLIN [SOLATED BY AIR ATTACKS; FIRES STILL RAGE   Rains Fall on Paralyzed City, but Broken Water Mains Handicap Those Battling Flames.   REPRISAL THREATS ISSUED BY GERMANS   Estimates of Dead and Injured Run as High as 25,000—No Section of  Capital Spared.

Nazis Threaten Reprisals for  Ruining Capital   Unofficial Estimates Place Casualties at 25.000: RAF Said to Be Over Europe Agair

BERLIN (3 MOaT HEAVILY BOMBED TARGET IN WORLD   RAF Stages Second Successive Block-busting Night Attack on Capital   RAIN HELPS. STRICKEN BERLIN FIGHT FLAMES   Second Great Raid Brings Threats of ‘Reprisals’ From Angry Nazi Leaders; Silent Radios Indicate Another Raid in Progress

sneennenaeedl TT A RNR teenettS  Wants a Job On Farm--Or ‘Does He?

HEY, YOU FARMERS!      How’d You Like To Have This To Help With Work?

MAKE IT DO OR MAKE IT OVER, SAYS WPB   A Nation-Wide Conservation Program Wiil Be Launched Next Month.

CONVICT SIX MEK FOR EXTORTIONG   Maximum Penalties Meted To Chicago Gangsters

MOVIE EXTORTION GANG SENTENCED   Defendants Given Ten-year Terms and Fined

Marigny Said Oakes Deserved Death, Witness Declares at Murder Trial

Rommel Holds Yank Advance Toward Coast   Axis Counte r-Attacks Weakening, . Reports: ‘From Front. Assert. -

MONTGOMERY'S MEN BEAT DOWN FOR’S DEFENSE   Struggle to Smash Rommel Line Apparently Not Reached Anything Like Decision   [AMERICANS HOLDING FIRM AGAINST FOE   German Attempts to Dislodge Them From Mountain Pass, 20 Miles From Gafsa Fails

Win New Grounc Despite Violent Nazi Resistance   Rommel’s Counterblows Falling Off; Americans Repulse Attack, Hold Peak

Army Forces Way Into Mareth Line   “iritish Infantrymen Win New Ground 1 in South Tunisia   AXIS BLOWS WEAKER   American Forces Repulse Enemy and Hold Fast to High Ground

Rommel’s Blows Fall Off; Americans Repulse Minor German Infantry Attack   Yanks in Contact with Axis Troops in Maknassy Area — No Official Word About Montgomery’s Desert Column That Swept Around Rommel’s Flank

NAZIS RESIST ALLIED UNITS   Six Day Old Struggle In Tunisian Region Is Not Decided.   ‘FIGHT IN TWO PASSES

BRITAIN’S ARMY “GAINS ANEW IN TUNISIAN SCRA   Rommel Yields More Ground To Montgomery’s Harddriving Infantrymen

MONTGOMERY'S MEN WON GROUND IN MARETH SECTOR   The Six-Day-Old Struggle of British to Shatter the Line, Is Not Decided.   COUNTER BLOW SLOWED   Americans Repulsed a Minor German Infantry Attack at Djebel Berda.

British Advancing — In Mareth Sector; Axis Blow Weaker   New Ground Won-in South Tunisia; Americans Repulse Nazi Assault; Flyers Establish Record in Sorties

BATTER DOWN FIERCE NAZI RESISTANCE   Americans, Meanwhile, Hold Firmly in Central Sector, but Have Been Unable to Advance for AS Hours.

Montgomery's Army Gains New Advance in Mareth Fighting   Six-Day-Old Struggle Is Far From Decision; Americans Hold

Patton's Men Holding Firm South Of Gafsa   Superior Airpower Of U.S, Britain Blasts At Axis

EIGHTH ARMY WINS NEW GROUND AFTER SIX-DAY STRUGGLE   AMERICANS BEAT OFF AT. TACKS OF ROMMEL FUR. THER NORTH IN TUNISIA

Axis Counter  Attacks said © Falling Off   Americans Contact Axis In Passes of Orbata Range

German Attack Is Repulsed By American Units   6-Day Struggle Of British To Shatter Axis Defenses Still Undecided; Patton’s Troops Hold Mountain Pass

Hold Fast to Mounfain on South Side of El Guetaria Pass but Are Unable to Advance   Allied Airmen Continue Aitacks 14 Enemy Planes Destroyed Six Allied Planes Missing

Lieut. Gen. Patton’s Force Repulses Minor - German Infantry Attack at Djebel _Berda, 20 Miles Southeast af Gofsa

COUNTER-BLOWS OF ROMMEL FALL. OFF   Allied Air Forces Active In Central and Northern Tunista

“GO AGAIN: TLSLINES. HOLD FIRN   Montgomery... Wins. New. Ground in Mareth Zone;: “Counter Blows Subside   YANKS MAINTAIN: 2. “THREAT IN PASSES:   Unofficial: Reports: of Strong British Gains’ Not. : Verified.

Decision Not Yet Near In Battle For  ‘Tunisia   Americans Continuc  Advance; Patton And Montgomery Each At Firhtinge Fronts

Fierce Enemy Resistance Beaten Down   Americans Repulse Minor German Infantry Attack

Americans Repulse Nazi Assaults in Gafsa Sector, Alllied Flyers Press Attack

British Battering At Axis Defenses   Str uggle To Oust Rommel From Africa Still Undecided— Americans Inch Toward Cnoact

Rommel’s Attacks Are Growing Weak   Position of Africa Corps Called “Difficult”: Patton’s Artillery Hammers At Nazi Defenses

YANKS PUSH GA TOWARD SEA IN CENTRAL AREA   Gen. Montcomery’s Infantrymen Take New Territory

Counterblows By Rommel Are Now Falling Off   Patton’s Troopers Maintain Threat But Can't Advance

Eighth Army Hacks  Deeper Into Gaping Axis Defense Line   PATTON’S YANK FORCES HURL BACK NEW GERMAN INFANTRY THRUST NEAR GAFSA; HOLD FIRMLY TO MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS

Counter Blows By Axis Army Falling Off   Americans Repulse infantry Attack At Djebel Berda

DOUBLE-ENDED CAR CAPTURED BY YANKS   Nazi Equipment Now Being Tested for Use

Be hh oe Wt be ow aa eee  Lt. Walter Nye ‘Describes Uses Of Seout Car

EATER - ORAE OIGNED OY FOR SLAP AT M NUTT   Roosevelt Gives Complete Charge To Director Hershey

Bill Placing Sole Authority Over Selective Service in Hands of Gen. Hershey Signed by President

Gen. Hershey Is Given Full Draft Reins   Bill Delaying Induction : of Pre-War Fathers Is Signed bv Roosevelt

WB SUGGESTS ORDER TO SEND WORKERS BACK   Time When President Will Act Still Is  _ ncertain

President Is Asked To Act To End Tie Up   War Labor Board Makes Appeal Early This Afternoon

Army May Take Over Coal Mines      Workers Reject New Offer by War Labor Board

Roosevelt Asked To Intervene In Strike   10,060 Anthracite Coal Miners Voted To Reject WLR Plea

FOR IS ASKED TO INTERVENE  INGOAL STRIKE   WLB Request ; to Be Pleced Before President Today

WLB ASKS PRESIDENT 10 TAKE ACTION   Next Step Expected to Be Direct Appeal to Men: Army Seizure Last Re earns.

President Asked To Intervene  In Coal Strike   Rejected WLB Plea Brings Request mT... UWhit¢an Li assca

Roosevelt Is  Asked to Act In Strikes   War Labor Board Makes Request of _ Chief Executive

Mine Strike {s  Up to President  ; Chief Exexcutive Acked ta Act

Coal Miners’ Row Goes To White House   Army May Take Over; One Local Representing 1,200 Votes Te Return   OTHERS REJECT PLEA   Prolonged Wrangling Seen; Morse Says Walkout Makes Axis Happy

ARMY MAY TAKE OVER COAL MINES   Board's Request Follows Defi By 10,000 Miners

ACTION BY F. D, NEXT MOVE IN MINE WALKOUT   WLBE Expected To Ask : President To Intervene

WLB EXPECTED: T0 ASK FDR 10 ACT IN HARD COAL STRIKE   Board To’ Get Retirns Of Miners Today On Vote To Continue Work  Rtanns oa

PRESIDENTIAL ACTION SOUGHT IN COAL STRIKE   WLB Asks Roosevelt Deman¢ Miners Return To Their Work Immediately   EARLIER PLEA IGNORED   Threat Of Spread Diminishes As Tri-District Group Is Dissolved

Intervention of FDR ‘In Anthracite Strike ‘Requested by WLB   _ Demand That Men Return to Jobs _ Immediately Is Sought by Board; : 0,000 Réelect Backac-Wark Plow.

IN ON COAL WALKOUT   May Intervene, at the Request of War Labor Board, and Terminate Strike in Pennsylyania—Workers Vote to Continue Idleness in Defiance of Order and Recommendations of Loca!  Union Leaders and John L. Lewie,

Establish. WAC ‘Center   Sub- Recruiting Station Now At Fort Dodge to Cover Eighteen Counties

Ruhr and Eder Valleys Flooded By Bombings  Planes Also Strike   Planes Also Strike at Berlin and Environs of Rome

AIR WAR CARRIED T0 AXIS ON WINGS OF GREAT ALLIED POWER   RUHR AND EDER INDUSTRIAL VALLEYS FLOODED UNDER GREAT WAVES

NEW TYPE OF WAR BLOW IS DEALT NAZIS   Big Power Dams Blasted;  Industrial Areas  Flooded   HEAVY DAMAGE DONE   Berlin and Rome’s Chief Naval Air Base Are Bombed

RAF Blasts Big Dams In Rhur   Huge Volume of Water Lays Waste The Great Industrial Valleys of Northern Germany

Waves Sweep through Ruhr, Eder Valleys.      Loss of Life Is Heavy as RAF Finds New Way to Harass Germans .

BEALIN ADMIT GHEAT DAMAG IN FIVER ARE   Allied Bombers Maintainir Continuous Assaults — ~ On Nazi Europe

Ruhr and Eder Valleys Under Giant Waves   Heavy Loss of Life; Greatest Aquatic Disaster In History

Eder and Mohne Dams, Two of Biggest in Germany, Wrecked by Bombs—Powerful Smash at Hitler's War Plants—Seaplane Base 15 Miles From Rome le Bombed:

BOMBS UNLOOSE FLOOD WATERS   Heavy Toll of Life Reported in Ruhr, Eder Valleys

Ruhr, Eder Valleys Flooded; Big Death Toll   R. A. F. Also Strikes At Rome Area, Batters Berlin Anew; Steady Stream Of American Reinforcements Landing On Attu Island.

RAF Shatters 2 Nazi Dams; Many Killed   German Industrial Valleys Flooded; Berlin and Environs of Rome Also Bombed; Night Raiders Hit London in Strong Attack __

Valleys Flooded; Big Toll Of Life   Eder and Mohne Dams, Two of Biggest in Germany, Wrecked by Bombs—-Powerful Smash at Hitler’s War Plants-——Seaplane Base 15 Miles From Rome Is Bombed

Industrial Valleys Flooded; Germans Hint Vast Damage   British Air Minister Declares Smashing Of Mohne And Eder Reservoirs Is Powerful Setback For Reich; Berlin Also Hammered Again In Air Blows

Shattered Dams Flood Vast Nazi Industrial Area   RAF Blasts Berlin, Strike At Environs Of Rome In Continuing Two-Way Raids

Casualties and Damage Very Heavy   Ruhr and’ Eder. ‘Industrial Valleys Are’ Flooded ‘by: New Kind of Blow.   BRITISH ALSO. HIT ! AT ‘BERLIN. AGAIN:.   Two-Way. Air “Offensive Brings Air. War. Cloger® to Rome: Base Destrovyed:::

HIKE STATE GOALS   Pattern Set for 1944 Farm ~ Production in State of Kansas

Fix Crop Goals For ’44   Sharp Cut in Livestock Features New Program; Plan Increases in Feed Crops and Dairy Cattle

Reds Crack Nazi Line Along 800-Mile Front   Smolensk And Vitebsk Are Crumbling Under Inces.  sant Soviet Smashes; Time Is Big Factor

RUSSIANS BLAST GERMAN FORWARD REAR POSITIONS   Most Intensive Action Still Is In Kuban Region of Caucasus; Aerial Warfare Reaches New Fury; Russians Activity Speeded Up.

eee ate Fat 4 T Jp.  WUVITLS Step Ww  Air Activities   Continue To Blast Nazi —Forward And-Rear  Poaitions.

Russian Fliers Blast Germans   Intensive Action In Kuban Region of Caucasus, Reported

Red Airmen Disrupt Nazi Plans In Kuban   Russians Make Raid After Raid On German Airdromes

SOVIET FLIERS WEAKEN NAZIS AIR OFFENSIVE   Russians, With Increased  Plane Strength, Con . tinue to Blast Nazi  i Positions   INTENSIVE ACTION   German Air Activity Slack. ens in Kuban Region After April 22 Following Heavy Losses

RUSSO-GERMAN AIR ACTIVITY HITS NEW PEAK   Germans Said Losing Hundreds Of Planes

PLANES IN (ACTION   Russian Fliers Continue to Blast the German Positions

NEW AIR FURY REACHED OVER RED FRONT   Nazi Air Activity Has Slackened But Russians Have Stepped Up Theirs

Zinn to Get Pay Till Succeeded   Attorney General Says He Has Legal Right

NORTH AFRICA ANNOUNCEMENT SLATED SOON   Political and Military Clear-Up May Be Coming

Axis Repulse ls Clean-Cut  Says Stimsot   secretary Of War Com mends Troops In Action In Tunisia   WARNS NO EASY ROAD TO VICTORY

Fierce Drive By Air From Allies Cited   MUCH CONCERN FELT BY AXIS POWERS OVER OFFENSIVE.

SPECULATION ON INVASION INCREASES   Even Germany Thinks a Western  Front Is Near

\invasion Talk Increases  ‘Germans Admit Second Front May Be Near, British Tigh iter 'Travel Restrictions on Coast

NAZIS SEE RAIDS AS PRELIINARY TOINVASIONLAN   Air Offensive Is Seen Approaching New Climax

NAZIS JITTERY ~ OVER INVASION   J a 'Strengihen Mediterranean Front : As Bombings, Unrest, Peace  Feclers by Satellite Bal kans Wear on German WNertec_

Ickes Seeks OPA Gasoline  Ration Power   Cut In Midwestern Usage Termed  YT lemannacenyt?

ICKES ASKS POWER TO RATION GAS   REVEALS MIDWEST MAY FACE MOTOR FUEL DROUTH WITHIN FEW MONTHS.

Gas Rationing Power Goal  Of Sec. Ickes   Secretary Contends Mid-West Restrictions Would Not Help East  MAY COME TATER

ICKES ASKS GAS RATION POWERS   Mid-West Restriction: Won't Help Famine In The East

Forts Bomb Duren; Nazis Hit England   Germans Strike Crowded Suburban Area Of London

LOOSE RATION STAMPS K. 0.’D   Stores Directed Not to Accept Any Except One-cent “Reds”

FERRYVILLE IN YANKS’ HANDS   Axis Defenses Collapsing Before Onrush of Allied Forces.   AXIS VESSELS ARE SUNK

Reconnaissance Troops Advance Into Outskirts   U. S. Second Corps. British Ist Army Lead Penetration

Ferryville, Axis Supply Depot Falis To American Troops, Prisoners Taken

Ferryville Falls to U.S. Troops; Spirit Of Enemy ‘Broken’   25 Axis Ships Reported Sunk in Tunisian Straits; Germans Say They are Outnumbered 10 to 1; Admit Decisive Hour is at Hand—Foe May Not Be Able to Evacuate His Forces

Many Prisoners Captured in Victorious March Forward, Dunkirk Battle Seems Imminent

FINAL PHASE OF TUNISIA BATTLE SEEN IN OFFING   Americans. French And British’ Drive For “Dunkirk’’ Against Axis Forces   25 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK   Tanks, Planes And Infantry Join In Assault Against Weakening Enemy

American And British Forces Crossing Plains: Airforce Blasts Corridor

ENEMY’S LINES FOLD AS YANKS EXTEND SWEEf   British Join in Smashing Victory — Axis Prisoners Seized at Bizerte

Allies in Suburbs  Of Tunis, Bizerte  Axis Defenses Pierced in a Dozen Places hy Onrushing

SHATTER AXIS. LINES BEFORE KEY POSITIONS   All-Out Blows Mark Advance of U. S., British into Cities’ Outskirts.   “FORWARD TO VICTORY,” URGES ALEXANDER

Alexander Says Armies Regrouped And Going ‘To Drive Enemy In Sea

Roads To Tunisian Cities Choked With Advancing Allied Troops As Nazi Defenders Reel Back Under Land And Air Bombardment; Armored Units Of First Army Capture Le Bardo.

YANKS WITHIN NINE MILES OF BIG NAVALBASE   [British First Army 14 Miles   From Tunis City Hall;   Enemy Almost Severed From Bizerte’   HEAVY LOSSES ARE INFLICTED ON FOES   Air Forces Blast Path Four Miles Long and 1,000 Yards Wide In Devastating Attack

Fall Of Twin Enemy Cities Is Imminent   Americans Sweep Into Bizerte Outskirts While British First Army Enters Tunis

Positions Of Foe Collapse Under Attack   Heavy Fighting Rages In Both Sectors As British And Yankees Close In For Kill

Heavy Fighting Was Reported in Progress in Both Segtors, It Was Officially Announced Today.   ‘DEEP PENETRATION : BY THE INVADERS   “Our Troops Have Continued Their Victorious Advance” a Special Communique Stated.

Vanguards Enter Outskirts of Both Fortified Citadels   Sink 25 Axis Ships in Tunisian Straits in Attempt to Prevent Evacuation by Sea of Enemy Survivors

HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS INBOTH AREAS AS BRITISH AND AMERICANS PUSH BATTLE   British First Armored Units Capture Le Bardo; Many Prisoner; Reported Taken. Allied Planes Are Completely Dominating Skies

[Enemy's Defenses Collapsing; 25 Axis Ships Sunk In Tunisian Straits; Germans’ Spirit Breaks

Heavy Fighting In Two Areas Reported   U. S. and First Armies Take Advantage Of Collapsing German Defenses; Allied Planes Dominate Skies and Launch Heavy Attacks

MAIN AXIS DEFENSE POSITIONS AROUND TUNIS BEEN OVERRUN  AMERICANS CAPTURE FER. RYVILLE AND: PENETRATE ’ OUTSKIRTS BIZERTE

Repair Depot Captured By. U.S. Column   Americans... Enter  Bizerte . and British: First-Army. Goes Into Tunis:   ALLIED: PLANES: : DOMINATE: SKIES   At Least a Dozen Axis. Ves-: sels Sunk; Enemy’s. North. ern: Line Crumbling:

Americans Within 9 Miles Of Bizerte, Still Advance   British 12 Miles From Tunis And Alexandes Says’ Tunisian War In ‘Last Phase’     REDS CRUSH FIVE COUNTERATTACKS   “Norway Plans Full-Scale Revolt When Europd Invaded; Jap Subs Sink Five Ships

Axis lines crumble along entire front   Yank troops capture Ferryville; Parr says 25 enemy ships sunk

25 Axis Rescue Ships Sunk: Ferryville Taken   Americans and British Take Many Prisoners as Advance Forces Drive Into Suburbs of Both Axis Strongholds

FALL OF AXIS CITIES NEARING AT EACH HOUE   Americans Reported “In Bizerte”, Which Military Experts Had Thought Was Invulnerable   Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS

British Crack Last Defense Before Capital  anu Avie   Many Axis ‘Prisoners Captured

Complete Story Of Mussolini's Arrest Is Told   Former Duce IIl And Discredited, Even By Fascists

AEVEA  OF DUE FALL   Mussolini No Asset to Germans, Say Italians Reaching Africa.   WAS VIOLENT AT FIRST

Even Fascists Renounced Mussolini, Escaped Italians Tell Reporter

DUCE REPORTED SICK, TOTALLY DISCREDITED   Even Fascists Renounce Him Italians Escaping to North Africa Say.

Story Of Mussolini: ‘Italians Have Little Use For Fallen Dictator

DETAIS OF DUGE'S CAPTURE ARE REVEALED BY ITALIANS      MUSSOLINI FORCED INTO AMBULANCE OUTSIDE ROYAL PALACE THE DAY HE ° LOBT POWER

BENITO MUSSOLINI DISCREDITED WITH EVEN HIS OWN PART!  IL DUCE MORE OF A LIABILITY THAN AN ASSET TO GERMANS

Italians Declare Mussolini Is Very Sick Mar And Completely Discredited Among People

‘Big Push’ for Hikes ~ in Wares   C.1.0. Gathering Forces: as Subsidy Battle Gets Under _ Way in Congregs_   SEEK TO BREAK =...  ‘STEEL’ FORMULA   Request for Increases, Made to Ford Co, and Various Others Mav Follow

UAW “ACTING UP”    Union Demands Presented Ford Ignore “Little Steel” Formula

PLANS FOR GUARD © TRAINING STUDIED   Additional Co Courses for State Guardsmen to be Added

OAKES CASE TO JURY   Final Argument Made on Validity of Fingerprints

KNOX PROMISES 20 FRONT TO SOVIETS   On Second Anniversary of Russian War With Germany.

SECOND EUROPEAN FRONT DEMANDED BY RUSSIANS IS ON THE WAY. KNOX REPORTS

Had To Have Pantelleria   Now Short Range Fighter Planes Can Hit Sicily

Isle’s Chief Importance As Air Base   Winning of Pantelleria Gives Allies the Air Gateway to Sardinia, Sicily, and Then Italy

Axis Loses First Round  Of Invasion   Island Gives Allies Field for Fighter Planes

nl ao !} a°R We 24S 48d a sesecase  Two Doctors Agree Cramer ‘Incompetent’

War Reporter On 50-Yard Line As Yanks Slaughter Japs Attacking Carriers

UP. War Correspondent Witnesses Latest U.S. Air Attack At Rabaul

Attackers Fail To Score Direct Hit  Nearly All Planes Shot Down   Ry FRANCIS McCARTHY

Hoyd Hamilfon Back In Prison   Hungry Desperado “Cringes In Feqr

FLOYD HAMILTON FOUND IN HIDING   v ALCATRAZ GUARDS THOUGHT DESPERADO HAD PERISH_ED IN PRISON BREAK.

Fear Comes to a Badman Floyd Hamilton Recaptured  In Storeroom at Aleatraz

GUARDS FIND BANDIT, WHO FLED PRISON   Desperado Floyd Hamilton Found Hiding in Storehouse

FLOYD HAMILTON IS RECAPTURED IN STOREHOUSE   One-Time Scourge Of The Southwest Meekly Sur rendere Toa Guarde

PLANES FOR ARMY BEAT AXIS QUIPUT   Monthly Production 7,000 With Climb Charted; First 34 Years Ago

U.S. Army Air Force Alone Gets More Planes Monthly Than All Axis Produces :

Army Getting 4,500 Planes Every Month   Figure Now Exceeds Combined Production  . Of Reich. Janan..Iralv.

U.S. OUTSTRIPS AXIS IN PLANES   Army Now Getting 4,500 Per Month; Production Hits 7,000

First Army Plane Bought 34 Years Ago Air Forces Get More Pianes  Monthly Than All Axis Output

CIANO AND FAMILY FLEE TO GERMANY   W Duce’s Son-In-Law Gets “.. Away From Police Guards In Rome

Ciano Escapes From Rome   Flees to Undetermined Haven With Wife And Three Children

HE'S FIGHTIN’ YANK   Qualified To Shoot Japs. Germans and Italians

Reprisals Not To Be Taken By U.S.   Execution Of Fliers Makes America ‘See Red; Those Responsible To ‘Pay For Crime’

SOLON DEAD IN PLANE’S CRASH   Officials Study Four Mishaps Fatal To Seven

Approve Contract For Miners   Ickes and WLB Tackle Few Unsolved Problems; Senate and House Want Hull to Address Joint Session

WLB Puts OK on Coal Wage Pact   Officials Have Few Problems Left but Peace Sighted Ser Approval of New Pay  an

WASHINGTON IS READY 0 HEAR DEBATE   Lend-Lease Will Be One Subject For Next Week

State Pleasure Driving  ‘Ban Rids Roads Of Autos   Police Report Least Traffic In 25 Years—OPA Agents On : Job To Enforce. Ban—Many' Cited

Badoglio Tells Countrymen To Resist Germans   United Nations Accept Italy As Part Ally "On Approval”

Ailled filth Army Has Crossed Calore River in Central Italy.  HUGE THREAT OVER THE NAZI DEFENSES  American Bombers Are Striking Out Ahead of Our Invaders.

‘World food must reach  all peoples’   FDR saysnations must end hunger

President Outlines Purpose of  Food Conference U. S. Delegate Hopes “People’s Century” May Be Main Result

President Issues Warning to Food Conferees   _F. D. R. Asserts No Hindrance of Trade, Transportation or Distribution Must Keep People From Receiving Produce

FDR MESSAGE OPENS WORLD FOOD PARLEY   Emphasizes Freedom From Want as Delegates Meet

Roosevelt Says Nothing To Keep Food From The Hungry  : Opening Of First Session Of Food Parley   Opening OF First session OF Food Parley Finds Many Of United Nations Represented

FD Declares as Must  eceive Food   Message Is Sent to Opening Session of Food Conference by Chief Executive

Must Assure Food for World Roosevelt Tells Parley   United Nations Conference on Post-War Nutrition Problems Gets Under Way

45 DELEGA AT CONFERENCE HEAR MESSAGE   President Says World Must Assure Every One Of Adequate Nutrition   OPENING SESSION OF FOOD MEETING

Roosevelt’s Message To Food Parley   PRESIDENT REGRETS ABSENCE, BUT EXPOUNDS ATLANTIC CHARTER AND FOUR FREEDOMS WITHOUT EXPLAINING THEM.   Judge Jones’ Words

Roosevelt Seeks Pian To Provide Food for World   Tells Conference All People Must Get What Is Needed for Health

FDR SAYS WORLD MUST HAVE FOOD      President Opens United Nations Conference in Virginia

Obligation For Food Stressed   President Says World Entitled To Nutition

FDR Declares All Peoples. Must Get Food   United Nations Meet Hears President at Onening Session

Food Sessions Are Convened   President Calls for Freedom From Wan

Nation’s Chief Greets World Foods Parley   Message Declares Nothing Shall Halt Postwar Program

Allies Hit Score Of Jap Vessels   Enemy Bases on  Islands Bombed

SUPPLY SHIPS OF NIPPONESE ARE ATTACKED   AUSTRALIAN FLOWN HUDSONS STRAFE JAP BARGES

TARAS UDAIN PALS  Nazis Reported Setting Fire to Entire City  at’ Rreiau

Russians Announce Capture of Eight Strategic Villages   Includes Key Rail Center of Krasnodar in Caucasus, British Forces Pound Rommel in Southern Tunisia

Rostov in Flames ‘As Germans Flee From Red Pincer   Soviet Armies. Tighten Noose About Axis Troops Pocketed.  ‘Jn Extreme Western Caucasus

200,000 Germans Face Annihilation   Russians Announce Capture of Bight Stra tegic Cities and Crush Nazi CounterAttacks; Eighth Army Pounds Rommel’s Troops in Tunisia

Russian Pincers Closing 0n Half Million Invaders; Slow Progress In Tunisia

Nazis Said To Have Set Rostov Afire   Russian Advance Cuts Escape Lane For Half Million Axis Troops To Bare 70 Miles.

REDS POUND AT SUBURBS OF KHARKOV   Trap Around Hitler’s Forces In Donets Basin Is Being Narrowed.   BULLETIN

Entire City Of Rostov Reported Set Afire By German Troops   Eisenhower Lines Up Forces For Climactic Tunisian Offensive; Axis Beaten Back At Ousseltia

SOVIET TROOPS RACING TOWARD AZOV SEACOAST   ® British Artillery Pounds Rom_ mel’s Army in Tunisia

PRESENT DISASTER THREATENS TO SURPASS NAZI DEBACLE IN STALINGRAD AREA   Reds Move Up 30 Miles to Narrow Escape Corridor to 70 Miles For Upwards of 500,000 Axis Soldiers Toward Sea of Azov.

REDS TIGHTEN NOOSE AROUND WEST CAUCASUS   BERLIN REPORTS NAZI FORCES HAVE FLED KRASNODAR

DISASTER QUICKENS FOR NAZI INVASION ARMIES EAST FRONT   ESCAPE CORRIDOR FOR MORE THAN 500,000 ENEMY TROOPS NARROWS

Pace Of. Disaster Quickens For Hitler’s Forces .  8 ‘CITIES: FALL  Nearly: 200,0 000 More Germans’ Are xg Treanman .

SOVIET COLUMNS ~ ARE GLOSING IN ON THE GERMAN ARMY  )     Only a 70-Mile Wide Corridor Left for 500,000 Axis Troops to Escape.   FIRING CITY OF ROSTOV   Germans Driven Out of Shakhty Did Not Retreat Toward That City.

Hitler's Armies Confronted By Worst Debacle   Storms Continue To Hamper Activity On Tunisian Front

Nazis Are Said To Be Burning Down Rostov   Entire City Is Reported Flaming As Reds Close In, Germans Flee West   LIKHAYA IS CAPTURED   Caucasus Sweep Tightens Squeeze On Foe; Donets Army Also [n Peril

Germans Close To Rout At Rostov   yEscape Corridor Is Nay< rowed for 500,000 Axis Soldiers   FIRE CITY OF ROSTOV      iNdditional Forces Pinned ' Against Coast Below ie the City

Germans Burn Rostov: Reds Close Pincers   Russians Advance 70 Miles; Surround 500,000 Axis Troops   Rommel Troops Leave Positions In Tunisia   Allied Troops Beat Off Attack In Hills Faet OF Ousceltia

Fall Of Rostov And Kharkov Is Matter Of Days   Russian Troops Race Forward In New Smashing Offensives

Red Armies"  Tighten Trap  On Germans   Huge Axis Forces Face Envelopment ir Rostov and Donets

REPORT AXIS TROOPS IN FULL RETREAT ON SOUTHERN RED FRONT   vermans Kept Under Terrific Pressure By Soviet Armies; Berlin Admits Last Inland Caucasus Base Lost

Escape Corridor Narrows As Reds Push Southward:; African Army Moves Ahead

German Forces Are Being Caught in 70-mile ‘Escape Corridor’ in Area Around Rostov.   RAF BOMBERS ALSO STRIKE ON CONTINENT

REDS AIM DRIVE TOWARD ROSTOV. TROOPS MOVE ON   Vital Railway Junction Cut By Russians

Russian Noose Tightening on Foe in Donets   Hitler Front Crumbling in South; Nazi Rout  Ceawe Waren

*Reds Tighen Grip on Trapped German » Force in Caucasus   Envelopment of Hitler Army at Rostov Is Threatened Today

Red Forces Rapidly Enveloping Key City   Nazis Faced With Another Great Disaster In Donets Basin Area

REDS NARROW ESCAPE LANE OF HITLERITES   Victory Bulletins From Moscow Indicate Sad Plight Of Germans, Their Satellites

Nazis Crumbling, London Reports   Russians Drive Between Kharkov And Donets Basin City—Long Retreat Lies Ahead

Reds Rush To Cut Nazi  Route To Caucasus   British Shell  Rommel’s Line   RAF In New Attacks On Nazis

Whole Southern Front Crumbles ‘As Troops Flee   Russians Pour Down on Rostov From Two Directions, Advance to Point 18 Miles From Kharkov; Enemy Stand at Donets River Fails.

Russian Armies Envelop City   Reds Also Only 18 Miles From Kharkov And Trap Closes on Germans in Donets Basin as Fall of Anchor Points Nears

‘BOLTS’ OF AXIS LINE IN DANGER   Heavy Gains Reported In Kursk Sector; Fleet In Action

NAZIS DRIVEN OUT OF SHAKTY BY RED FORGE   Instead of Retreating Toward Rostov Huns Are Attempting to Get Away to Westward   THREATENED WITH ROUT IN CAUCASUS   iMay Even Surpass De, bacle at Stalingrad: Reds Racing Toward Sea of Azov

Reds Cast Loop Around Hitler's Caucasus Army   British Guns Blast at Rommel on Coast: Nazis Unload New Materiel

May Outdo Debacle at Stalingrad   British Beat  Back Strong Nazi Attack on Tunisian Front

NEW RUSS TRAP SNAPPNG SHUT NEAR AZOV SEA   Series of Victory Bulletins Is Issued by Soviet Command

GERMANS SAID TO BE FIRING ENTIRE CITY   British Radio Says Nazi Stronghold Rapidly Is Being Enveloped and Moscow Reports Shelling From Three Sides.

‘Russian Armies Rapidly Envelop Rostov, Shell City from Three Sides—Shakty ' Nazi Forces Flee to West   200,000 TRAPPED IN CAUCASUS

German Armies. Gripped Closer   Racing Reds Narrow Escape Corridor Along Sea of Azov; Defeated Nazis By Rostov in Flight and Whole City Reported Burning; Reds Report Cap ; ture of Eight More Strategic Cities:

sian Troops Drive: Close to horbs of Kharkov, Cut Last  il Line to Donets Area Nazis   asnodor Captured to Narrow Front Held by Remnants of Hitler's 17th heme Which Stormed Caucasus.

Soviets Cut Escape Path To 70 Miles   Enemy Is Reported Te Be Putting Torch To Rostov: Disaster May Exceed Stalingrad .   Must Cross Strait

Siege Guns Firing From Three Sides   Debacle Worse. Than That at Stalingrad Threatened As Red Pace Ouickens   CAUCASUS GATEWAY BEING ENVELOPED   Nazis Reported Retreating, But Westward, Not Toward the City.

Nazi Troops Fighting For Their Lives   Nearly 200,000 Axis Soldiers Reported Pinned Against Narrow Coastal Strip Below Rostov; RAF Bombs German War Foundries

Red Artillery Shelling City From 3 Sides,  Moscow Says   Caucasus City of Krasnodar Falls to Soviet  J roops

Reds Smash At Kharkov And Rostov   German Troops in Full Retreat; Face Donets Basin Trap

BIG GERMAN ARMY IN DONETS BASIN FACES TRAPPING   Russian Front Crumbling With Axis In Full Retreat, Enemy Stand - Impossible At Dnieper River.   HITLER REMAINS AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF   RAF Blasts German Arsenal tn Night Followed With An Early Daylight Raid On Other Points.

Soviet Troops Gain 30 Miles in Push Toward Azov Sea   British Continue to Pound Rommel With Artillery Barrage

TWO BIG TRAPS BEING CLOSED BY RED DRIVE   Debacle at Stalingrad May Be Overshadowed as Hitler Invaders Bottled Up   MUD SLOWS AFRICAN DRIVE   Rommel’s Remnants on Move Again as Allied Forces — Batter-Latest Positions

AXIS ARMY It DONETZ AREA FACES TRAP   Russians Menace Key Points Of Rostov, Kharkov

Southern Nazi Line Crumbling Reds Drive On   Germans Face Trap As Russians Menace Rostov and Kharkov

Four Others Crippled in Attack on Enemy Trying Desperately to Evacuate Treops from Guadalcanal   Idaho Legislature Discards Primary

COTTON CROP FORECAST   Agriculture Department Foresees 12,558,000 Bales

ALLIES READY TO HIT ENEMY ON ALL FRONTS   So Says Gen. Marshall In Speech at Legion Convention

FIRST GAME GOES TO N. Y. YANKEES   Spud Chandler Turns in a Seven-Hit Game Against Cards

SECOND GAME WON BY THE CARDINALS   Mort Cooper Turns in a Vic_ tory Over the New . : York Yankees  FINAL SCORE 4 TO 3

EFFECT OF ANOTHER DEFEAT 1S WORRYING AXIS LENDERS   GERMAN. COMMAND FORCED TO MAKE STAND IN SICILY TO KEEP PRESTIGE IN EUROPE

Roosevelt Will Speak Tonight At 9:30 O'clock   First Political Talk Since 1942

ROOSEVELT WILL ‘SPEAK TONIGHT   Address Will Be Beamed _ On Demo Dinners  Over U. S.°

1944 POLITICS BEGIN AGITATING VARIOUS LEADERS   Union Urges Fourth Term While Willkie Boom Develoos In Indiana.

Roosevelt to DeliverRadio Talk Tonight   President to Make His First Political Speech Since 1942

IN POLITICAL SPEECH TONIGHT      Presidential Address Comes Amid 4th Term Speculation

ROGSEVELT TO GIVE POLITICAL: SPEECH; WILLKIE IN RACE        “Ententione: > 

Roosevelt Airs Political Speech Tonight Amid Rumors of Fourth Term Intentions

ROQSEVELT — SLATED TO TALK TONIGHT   Speech Scheduled To Be of a Political Nature

FDA WILL DELIVER ADDRESS TONIGHT   First Political Talk Since "42 Election Scheduled

Nazi Navy Chief Maps U-Boat War   Promises New Weapons And New Device to Enqaae Allies

To Press War By U-Boats   Will Be ‘Greater Than Anything Witnessed’

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OIL PRICE HIKE TO BE DEMANDED   Sen. Thomas, Ok) Oklahoma, to Lead Congressional Move for Increase

SENATOR URGES OIL PRICE HIKE   50 Cents Per Barrel Boost For Crudes Is Asked

Bee EN eee I Ve Oe  High Court Reverses Ruling on Licensing Of Literature Sales -

STAND OF SUPREME:  "COURT REVERSED   Ordinances. Taxing Sale of _ Religious Literature Outlawed

Nazis Lashed In Northern Italy   Remnants Of War  Industry Destroyed By NOLAND NORGAARD

39 Axis Planes Are Shot Down   Italian Peace Emissaries in Algiers, Reports Say — Hear Hitler Has Built Up Anti-Invasion ‘Nerve Centers” in Jutland, Guards Put on Danish Railways

REINHARDT T0 LEAVE BOARD   Three Others Resign From Ration Board Positions

Four To Quit Ration Board   Reinhardt, County CoOrdinator; Clerk,  Resign

SOVIETS BREACH NAZIS NEAR KIEV   Ten German Divisions Reel Back in New Russian Offensive

SOVIETS ROUT TEN GERMAN DIVISIONS   Wage Large Scale New Offensive on Kiev Sector

NAZI ONISIONS HURLED BACK BI RED ABM UNITS   Soviets Smash Breach in Kiev Line and Roll Swiftly Atead

Soviet Armies Rout Nazis In Kiev Salient   Ten Nazi Divisions Are Sent Reeling Back In New Red Offensive   SMASH BREACH IN GERMAN DEFENSES

Stevenson Notes Service Stations   Government Bureaus Could Do it to Any Industry, Says Coke

GOV, STEVENSON STILL CRITICAL OF FENERAL ACTIVITY   TEXAS GOVERNOR TELLS SHERIFF PEOPLE OPPOSED TO DECREE GOVERNMENT

Fish and Game Commission to Be Appointed  Bill Providing for Election of

Measure for Elective Board Dies   Numerous Bills Come Before Legislators; Senators Defeat Ten

Bill on Game Commission Is Voted Dowr   Senate Kitls Plan Seeking to Change To Elective Setup

MEMBERS OF AR SQUADRON RELATE STORY   Fight Around World And   Return To Base; Take Everything Enemy Has To F ind lene   None Killed

Members of U.S. Squadron Home After Fighting Pasay APanund World

U, S, AIDS REDS THROUGH PERSIA   Army Mass System Pouring Supplies Into Russia Through Widdle East

SUPPLIES ARE GETTING THRU TO RUSSIA   U. S. Hitting the Monthly Goals Which Were Set

ALLIED SUPPLIES REACHING RUSSIA VIA PERSIAN GULF   Tremendous Quantities of Goods Arriving Far Ahead of Time Now. .

FATHER OF 17 Dita IN GUN ACCIDENT   2 Deaths over the Week-End Raise Hunting Toll to Five in State

ALL MOTORISTS NEED LICENSES   New Ohio Driver's Permits Must Be Secured Before End of September

How's It Feel To Bein Sicilian = Push? Wounded Tunisian Veterans Can Guess, but They Don’t Like to

Wounded Men See None of Sicily   Tunisian Veterans Talk of Baseball, Leaves. Future

Wounded From Tunisia Won't Talk About the War, Reporter Discovers

TRAIN CREW LIMIT RULE IS DEBATEL   Union Makes Claim Railroads Wrong About Delays

Over Hundred Injured When Limited Cracks   One of Worst Railroad Disasters In History . Of Nation

Fast Congressional Limited Splits in Two, 62 Are Dead; 20th Century Also Wrecked

G2 PERSONS ARE KILLED IN WRECK   123 Others Injured as Pensy Train Breaks !n Two, 541 Passengers Aboard.

Teachers to Get $200-600 Bonu:   Action Removes Last Major Obstacle To Adjournment

Should Be  Final Drive In Tunisia         CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE ALREAI BEGUN; GERMANS ASSEMBLIN FLEET IN NORWAY IN NEW MOVE

8th Army’s Guns Roar In Offensive   Fear Grips Balkans Tunisia Unit Rakes Gabes, Mareth Line:

POUND MARET LINE AS FIRST ATTACK PHASE   Both Sides Agree Full Seale Campaign About Ready

Allies Are Poised for  Assaults   Battle of Aj:lantic Assum ing Great Importance—  Reds Claim Success

British 8th Army Ready; Air F orces Hit Mareth Line   Axis Broadcasts Say Flatly That A Big Scale Offensive Is Imminent: 8th Army About : To Begin Assault Against Rommel

Final Offensive Ready to Start   Desert Air Force Blasts Mareth Line; U-Boat Menace Growing

Yanks, British Blast Jap Supply Lines   Railroad Centers Visited by Allied Warplanes

Yanks, British Blast Jap Supply Lines  Railroad Centers   Railroad Centers Visited by Allied Warplanes

Cotfee Substitutes Are Soon To Be On Market   Substitutes Can Be Purchased Without Ration Coupon, Says Washinecton

ERSATZ COFFEE PRICES “PEGGED’   Bureau Puts Ceiling on Substitutes Due on Mar_ ket Soon.

President Gets Tough In Rail Wage Dispute   Asks Management And Tabor To Let Him Decide Issue

FO, GETS TOUGH IN RAIL DISPUTE   “War Cannot Wait,” President Warns Both Labo And Management

Investigation Of Feud Asked   WALLACE AND JONES ARGUMENT MAY * BE PROBED

WAR PRISONERS. - INQUIRY OPENS   PICTURES OF GERMAN PRISON. ERS WITH JAPANESE GIRLS IN COLORADO BEING INVESTIGATED

Child Welfare Bill Is Hot Potate  Gorn Jowa   Federal -Domination Said To Be Problem

State Income Tax Slashed In Half By State Legislature   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

State Legislature Plans to Adjourn by April First   Several “Hot” Bills Still in Hopper

British Sink Six Ships in Italian Raids   One Sub Surfaces, Bombs Airfield In Northern Corsica

SUBMARINES GET 6 ENEMY SHIPS   British Boats Prowl In Shadows Of Monte Carlo, Italian Seaports

SIX ENEMY VESSELS REPORTED SUNK BY BRITISH SUBMARINES   Another Ship Severely Damaged and Eighth Probably Torpedoed, Admiralty Announces—Air. drome at Calvi Bombed

Brit ish Subs Sink Six Enemy Ships  Damage Two Others Near Italian Ports

SETS PATTERN _ IN WAGE CASES   WLB Establishes Precedent in   Raising Low Pay

COUNGIL WiLL NARE RAN TD LiWUOR BOARD   County Body Has Been Called for Special Sessi-n Jan, 12.   CLINE IS CANDIDATE   / New Memters on the Council May Make Some Difference in Voting.

COUNCIL WILL ANE MAN TO ~{AQUOR BOAR   County’ ‘Body Has Been: Called for Special Ses-  sitn Jam 12).   ‘CLINE Is.. CANDIDATE   New Memters ‘on the Coun"cil May Make Some Dif:. ference in Voting.

Watch June 22 as Another Great ‘Date in This War, AP Writer Says

Roosevelt Vetoes Farm Parity Bill; _ Held Inflationary   Bankhead Bill Declared To Be Inconsistent With Our Stabilization Program and Dangerous To Entire War Effort

BANKHEAD 3 BILL VETOED OY F.0.R. AS INFLATIONARY   President Asks Congress To Stand By Policy Of  — Stabilization

Chief Executive Describes Bill As. Inflationary      Appeals. To Congress. To Starid By Declared: Stabilization Policy 

PRESIDENT VETOES FARM PARITY BILL   Appeals to Solons To Reject Efforts At Re-Passage

PRESIDENT VETOED ARI PARITY BILL   Bankhead Farm Parity Bill Vetoed Today by President.   “INFLATIONARY IN CHARACTER”   Appeals to Congress to Stand by Policy to Stabilize Wages.

FDR Vetoes Bankhead Farm  Parity Measure   President Says Bill Inflationary  In (Charactar

F.D. R. Vetoes Farm Parity As Inflationary   inconsistent, Danger ou: Says Message; Asks Support

FARM PARITY BRANDED AS INFLATIONARY   Called Dangerous To Whole War Effort as Well as Administration's Farm Policy

Bankhead Bill Is Vetoed As  Inflationary   Would Start Price And Wage Spiral To End Stabilization   REACT ON FARMERS   President Asks Grave Consideration For Consequences

Plan Called Inflationary   Appeals to’ Congress To Reject Measure

DESCRIBES IT AS DANGEROUS, INFLATIONARY   Senate Agrees to ‘Make Action on Veto First Order of Business

EDR VETOES FARM PARITY BILL: CALLS ACT INELATIONARY   Vresident Calls Measure Wholly Inconsistent With Anti-Inflation Program

Bill Inflationary. Says Roosevelt   [Inconsistent with Stabilization Program, Declares Presi dent in Veto Message

PRESIDENT DUBS MEASURE INFLATIONARY   Appeals To Congress To Stand By Present Wage and Price Stabilization Policy.   WARNS OF ‘SPIRAL’   Roosevelt Says Farmers Now In Relatively Favorable Economic Position.

Calls Measure ‘Inflationary, ‘Dangerous   President Declares War Effort, Farmers, Public Would Suffer

Turkey's Reply fo Note Of Warning From Allies Described as ‘Friendly’

Parley Held at White House   Representatives of Brotherhoods and Management Meet

Strike Deadline  Only Week Away   Carriers Willing to Concede Something For Vacations   BUT FALLS SHORT OF MEN’S DEMAND

R.R. Conferees Go To Roosevelt   May Be To Submit Term: Of Tentative Wage Agreement.

MESSINA STRAIT IS CLEARED OF ENEMY; SUPPLIES MOVING IN  ALLIES HAVE SECURED BROAD, FIRM BRIDGEHEAD IN ITALY

BRITISH 1ST ARMY ABANDONS TOWN OF SEDJENANE   This Action Was Taken in the Face of Weeks of Strong German Attacks.   ,FELL BACK SEVEN MILES   Allied Forward Element Moved Eastward at the Center, Occupying Pichon.

Most of Terzitory Lost in Rommel’s Drive Now Regained   (Bee large-scale map of Tuniafa, with altitudes marked, on Page 5.) .

PINCHON FALLS TO AMERICANS   Armored Units In Key Town  While British Withdraw From Sedjanane

Germans Recapture City They Evacuated Late Last Thursday   Allied Units Gain in Central Tunisia Warfare, Take Pichon, 8th Army Continues Patrol Action

‘BRITISH FIRST ARMY ABANDONS SEDJENANE AREA  WITHDRAWAL GIVES   WITHDRAWAL GIVES GERMANS ADVANCE OF TWENTY MILES

NAZIS CAPTURE SEDJENANE AS BRITISH RETIRE   Germans Mark Up 20 Mile Advance in 7 Days of Fighting in North

U5, REGAINS LOST SECTORS   British Withdraw From Sedjenane After Strong Nazi Attacks.   STRONG PATROL ACTION

Pichon Captured By Yank Forces   ... British Lose Sedjenane, North Tunisia

Withdrawal at Sedjenane Is Said Unimportant   Yankee Advance Covers More Ground Lost To Rommel

STRONG PATROL ACTIVITY ALONG MARETH LINE   U. S. Occupation of Qusseliia Valley Town Regarded as Most Important Development   British in North Fall Back Seven -Miles fo Higher Ground at Tamera’

Sedjenane Abandoned By British; U.S.InPichon  ‘   Germans Make 20-Mile Advance Along Ceast In Week's Fichting

Germans Force British 1st Army  :~ Back Seven Milés From Sedianene

U. S. Tanks Roll Into Tunisia City  in Vital Advance   BRITISH MOVE BACK 7 MILES FROM SEDJENANE TO HIGHER GROUND AS NAZIS GAIN 20 COASTAL MILES IN SEVEN DAYS

U.S. ARMORED UNITS OCCUPY PICHON BASE   Allied Force Loses Sedjenane, Goes To Hills   EXPECT SHOWDOWN   Soon Around Mareth Line; Italians Claim 2,500 Prisoners Captured

Pichon Captured in Important American Advance in Tunisia, First Army Abandons Sedjenane

PICHON TAKEN FROM ENENIBS BY AMERICANS   United States Armored Unit First to Rolf Into Axis-Occupied Terri tory in Africa   BRITISH ARE FORCED TO QUIT SEDJENANE   Withdraw to Higher Ground at Tamera; Lost Position of Little Military Value

BRITISH FALL  BACK 7 MILES BEFORE NAZIS   Sedjeane in North Africa Abandoned and Germans  Advance 20 Miles.   But Allies Move Up Along Center Front

British Army Falls Back At Sedienane   Withdrawal Gives Germans 20-Mile Advance In Seven Days Of Fighting

Sedjenane Abandoned By British   Yanks Regain Almost All of Ground Lost Before Drive

AXIS MAINTAINS STIFF PRESSURE ON NORTH FRONT   British Forces Retreat To New Hill Positions

ADVANCETA FORCES ROLL INTO PICHON   British First Army, Meanwhile, Is Forced to Fall Back Seven Miles in North Under Constant Avis Pregenpa.

Rommel Is Read For Clash With British 8th Army   Americans Regain Much Territory Lost to Nazis

AMERICANS MOVED FORWARD TO PINCHON IN NORTH AFRICA  ALMOST ALL TERRITORY LOST TO ROMMEL’S RECENT DRIVE RECAINED

BRITISH ARMY ABANDONS SEDJENANE   Germans Advance 20 Miles Along Bizerte'ateur-Tabarka Coastal Road

Sedjenane Abandoned By British   First Army Falls Back In Face of Strong German Attacks

BARUCH MAY SAVE FATHERS FROM DRAFT   Wheeler Bill Will Undoubtedly Be Lost as the Result of Military Testimony   GEN. MARSHALL IS FIRM

Baruch Called To Talk Against Fathers’ Draft   Hoarding Workers By War Industries To be Revealed

WHEELER AWAITS BARUCH REPORT   Battle of Father Draft Delay Hinges on Manpower Hoarding Charge

BARUCH AID IN FATHER DRAFI   Senator Wheeler ‘Hasn't Given Up Fight, Despite Military

BARUCH CALLED TO TESTIFY ON. FATHER DRAFT   Wheeler Counts on Washington Advisor to Criticise Hoarding of Men by Industry

Girl Zooters Enter Battle In Los Anveles   Female Pachucos Attack Waitress: Navy Extends Ran

ZOOT SUIT FIGHT SUBSIDES AFTER MANY ARE JAILED   Coordinator of .Inter-American Affairs is Making Investication.

FEMININE LOOT SUITERS ARE ACTIVE   Navy Shore Patrol Extends Out Of Bounds Area, L. A.

POLICE QUELL LATEST Z00T SUIT BATTLE   Civil, Military Officers Enc Hour-Long Fight Between Service Men, Hoodlums.   ARRESTS TOTAL 115   112 Injured fn Six Nights of Lawlesness In Los Annelac Ares.

Female “‘Zooters” Enter Los Angeles Rioting, Beat And Slash Waitress As Investigation Of Outbreaks Starts

FEMALE Z00TSUITERS SLASH, BEAT WOMAN  Rockefeller. Agen ney. Probes Rio Los Angeles   WAR ON HOODLUMS SUBSIDING TODAY

GIRLS JOIN IN ‘ZO0T’ RIOTING   Rockefeller Man Investigates Street Fights Between Servicemen. Hoodlums

Pachuco Girls Wield Razor On Victim At Los Angeles — Extend Out-Of-Bounds Area

Lewis Orders Men Back To Mines as Ickes Signs Contract for $1.50 Hike   Lunch Period Cut in Half to Meet War Labor Board Restrictions; Union Urges Members Back to Work Immediately

WLB Must Decide On $1.50 Boost   UMW And Ickes Sign Contract To End Walkout

Ickes and Lewis Agree on Mine Wage Contract   Back-to-Work Movement Begun Soon After Pact is Made Giving Pay Increase of $1.50 Daily

Lewis Tells Men To Resume Work  Soon as Possible   [llinois Figure Used As Pattern For Whole Industry; Pact Is Subjected To Labor Board Review

IGKES AND UNION CHIEFTAINS AGREE ON NEW GONTRAGT   Agreement Gives Soft Coal Miners a $1.50 a Day Boost in Earnings   MINERS TO RETURN QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE   Miners’ Work Day Increased By Travel Time and Shorter Lunch Period; WLB ioe Consider New Agreement At Meeting Today

Would Make Post-War Plat   Meet Friday To Form Medina Civic Forum

FAVORABLY REPORT STATE GUARD BILL   Legislation Would Equip and Provide Training for 51 Units of the State Guard; Brief Sessions Held This Morning.

Canadian Troops Ready to Go  Rested During Last of Sicilian Drive

May Extend Gas Rations  To Pacific  fawn ' gue ¥ a   OPA Gives East Rut Little Hone

Gas Cut In Today   OPA’s Chester Bowles Says Midwest Must Share Stock With East

STUDY FURTHER GAS REDUCTION   Old-Type B and C books Will Be Called in for Reissuance Soon.

Gas Ration Values Cut In The Midwest   Hope of Slight Increase For Eastern Motorists Is  Held Out By OPA DRIVING BAN REMAINS

GAS COUPONS NOW WORTH 9 BALLON   Middlewest, Southwest Affected By OPA Order, Effective Today

GUT IN GAS RATIONS GOES IN EFFECT HERE   IPA Official Explains Need For Cutting Consumption

May Extend Gasoline Cut   West Coast and Rocky Mountain Area May Be Included

Three Gallons ol Gasoline for 1 Coupon   Rationing Reduced in Middlewest And Southwest U. 8S.

Fuel Ration Slash Starts   Hope for East Seen Early in September

GAS REDUCTIONS FOR ROCKIES, T00   Ickes Studying Feasibility of Extending Lower Rations To Mountain Area

Holds Out Hope For Lifting Ban  Bowles Tells Eastern Drivers They Will Get Ralief Sent 1

CLEVENGER VOTES FOR RUML TAX PLAN   Three Ohio Democrats Favor Income Measure

SCHOOLS WILL HELP    Kanaans Will Soon  Soon Rexister For Ration Book No.

SCHOOLS WILL HELP   Kansans Will Soon Seon Register For : Ration Book No. 2

“Good Neighbor” Plan Basis Of United States Foreign Policy   Secretary Hull Says Unity Of Western Hemisphere Has Been Achieved By Respecting All Nations’ Rights

QUIZ MORE INKILLING OF DARLAN   Some Important Figures Questioned  At Algiers

Question New  Prisoners in’ Darlan s Death   Number Are Suspected of Complicity

LASTING PEACE PLAN DIFFICULT TO OUTLINE   Harder Than Winning War, Says Senator Ball

Jap Drive In China Broken  City Of Hsioofeng Is ~ Retaken By Chinese

UNABLE 10 FIND CAUSE OF BLASTS IN EASTERN N.C   Residents In Several Eastern N. C. Towns Awakened 4:30 This Morning By Series of Mysterious Explosions

OUTPUT OF COAL NOW DWINDLING   South Hit Hard; Workers ~ Contend Contract With U.S.

REWARD GIVEN TO CUNNINGHAM   Admiral Named British Sea Lord, Chief Of Naval Staff

Cunningham Named Britsh Ist Sea Lord   Replaces Ailing Admiral Sir Dudley Pound as First Sea Lord

Cunningham New British Sea Lord   Succeeds Sir Dudley Pound, Who Has Become Ill © ¥

Cunningham Is Named Head of Royal Navy   Admiral Succeeds Dudley Pound Who Resigns Post

WELLSBORO STORES OPEN   Evenings For Christmas Trade, Starting Friday.

Reds Continue Steady Drive On Smolensk   Violent Fighting Going On In Chuguev And Belgorod Sectors

RUSSIANS PUSH BACK THRUSTS BY NAZI ARMY   Powerf ul ‘German Attacks Fail To Weaken Red Lines

Frustrate Nazi Attack in Donets   Russians Also Push on in Ther Drive Toward  Smolensk.

Soviet Lines Holding in Donets Ares   Germans Are Continuing to Bring Up Fresh Troops, However   RUSSIANS DRIVE ON TOWARD SMOLENSK   No Indication of Any Great Weakening of Defenses in Kharkov Area

Drive Toward Smolensk Is  Continuing   Heavy Fighting As Germans Bring Up Stronger Force

Outnumbered Donets Reds Hold Off Foe   Violent Chuguey, Belgoted Fighting Fails Te Dant Russian Line   SMOLENSK PUSH GAIN   Soviets Also Repulse Ger. mans North Of Zhizdra, Above Bryansk

GERMAN TROOPS STILL POURING IN DONETS VALLEY   Reds Continue Advance Toward Smolensk in Central Russia

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON ENEMY FORCES   Troop-Laden Trucks And Marching German Columns Blacted   REDS REPORT GAINS

Check Foe Trying To Cross Donets  Violent Clashes Near Chuguev, Belgorad

RUSSIANS HOLD REINFORCED NAZI ARMIES   Baitle Numerically Superior Forces in Donets While Pushing Campaign for Smolensk

SOVIET LINE HOLDS IN THE DONETS AREA   Red Army Battles Superior Forces of Nazis, Who Continue to Roll Up to Front—Smolensk Drive Continues.

RUSSIANS POISE FOR NEW THRUST AT SMOLENSK   REPULSE HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS IN DONETS AREA

RUSSIANS BATTLE EVER-INCREASING GERMAN FORCES   Red Report Says Germans Pouring Into Northern Donets Being Pushed Back

CHECK ALL GERMAN EFFORTS TO CROSS THE DONETS RIVER   Soviets Also Hold in Face of Another Fierce Push 49 Miles North of Brvansk

bEAMANS RUSHING UP NEW FORGES   Reds Battling Numerical. ly Superior Forces, Says Moscow   LINE IS HOLDING   New Advances Are Reported In Russian Drive Toward Smolensk

Soviets Hurl Nazis Back in Donets Area  Russian Line Holds Firm Against Superior Axis Forces RESERVES POUR UP Central Front Red Army Continues Drive to Smolensk   RESERVES POUR UP

Reds Continue Gains In Drive For Smolensk   Massed Infantry, Tank Attacks Fail To Break Lines

Stop Nazis InEffort To Cross River In Force   Enemy Still Pouring Superior Numbers Into Donets Area  Of Rattle

Nazis Behind Donets River   More German Troops Sent To Northern Front

RUSS CHECK — DONETS NAZIS   "Why U. S. Fights Hitler Volume Put on.Sale By Soviets

AUSSIANG HOLD DONETS FRONT   Chuguev, Belgorod Sectors ‘Are Center of Violent Fighting.   SUPERIOR NAZ! FORCES

Every Enemy Effort Cross - Waterway In Force Beyond Kharkov Are - Pushed Back   DRIVE ON SMOLENSK CONTINUES IN FORCE   Hitler’s Hordes Reported  Suffering Heavy Losses   In Trying to Break  Russian Resistance

Nazis Repulsed on Donets, Reds Advance on Smolensk   Superior German Forces Failed to Break Through In Basin; Heavy Losses Inflicted on Japs; Axis Powers Plan a New Order

Smashing Red Army Surges on Toward Smolensk Position   Germans Fail to Pierce Russian Lines in Southern Sector

GERMANS PUSHED BACK BY SOVIETS ON NORTHERN DONETS   Every Effort to Cross the Waterways in Force Was Blocked.   ON TOWARD SMOLENSK   Chugnev and Belgorod Sec: tor, Still Center of Violent Fighting.

RUSSIANS GO AT SMOLENSK FULL BLAST   Still Hold Against Nazi Hordes in Donets Basin Although Fighting Grow. ing Intense.

Reds Hold Firm On The Donets  Nazi Effarte Ta Crac   Nazi Efforts To Cross River Repulsed

Russians Check German Assault In Heavy Battle   Nazis. Hurling Superior Numbers Of Men into Clash

Reds Check Nazi Thrusts On Donets   Soviet Forces Continue to  Drive Toward  Smolensk

GERMANS RUSH UP MORE TROOPS   Soviet Forces  Continge Drive ot Smolensk, Hold Near Bryansk

Reds Are Holding The Nazi Attacks   Germans Continue to Pour New Men Into the Rus sian Front   FAIL: TO DENT LINE   Russian Guns Inflict Punishment on Trucks Carrying Troops

Russians Capture New Strong Points In Smolensk Drive. Germans Employing Increasing Numbers Infantry, Tanks, and Planes in Donets Fighting

Soviets Hold. Germans at Donets River   Russian Heavy Guns Slow Down Enemy Drive

Red Army Holding Out Against Superior Force; Nazis Using Many Tanks

Germans Throv Heavy Troops Into Assaults   Nazis Hurled Back With Heavy Losses in Men, Tanks and Trucks, Moscow Says

Germans Fail To Force Donets River Crossing   Mass Attacks Unable To Break Soviet Lines;”: Losses Are Huge 

Russians Turn Back Nazi Thrusts to Cross Donets in Force, Soviet Report Aver:

SUPERIOR GERMAN FORCES FAILED T0 BREAK SOVIET LINE   RUSSIANS CONTINUE WESTWARD DRIVE ON CENTRAL FRONT TODAY

Germans Push More Men Into Ukraine Drive   But Soviets Claim Stubborn Resistance Is Holding Waterway   Nazis Claim Continued Gains North Of Kursk   Russian Central Front Troops Roll On Past Durovo To South

SOVIET TROOPS REPULSE RAIDS ON SOUTH LINE   Troops Advance On Central And  Northern Fronts

AKA WARS ON FARM BUREAU. O'NEAL CLAIMS   National Leader Says Tax _Money Used In Attack On Federation   SCHOOLER STARTS FIGHT   Opposition To Incentive Payments Stir Ire Of New Deal Bureau

FARM BUREAU CHARGE MADE   O'NEAL SAYS AAA AGENTS ARE CARRYING ON CAMPAIGN . “""" AGAINST HIS ORGANI“ JAIION

Boundary Tangle Wait Is Seen   Hull Says Problems Are Shoved Aside

BORDE  R DISPUTES SHOVED ASIDE   Hull Says Setttement Held Off Until End of World Conflict

Truce Arranged  In Border Rows   Territorial Claims Wait DPanen Wall Sx

Europe's Tangled Territorial Dispufes Will Have to Await War's End Before They Can Be Settled, Secretary of State Hull Avers   Tribute to Hull

BALTIC BORDERS STILL UNCERTAIN   Hull Soys Disputes Must Await End of the War

Lois A. Speer’ Is Bride Of Portland Sailor  Ceremony At Raatels Nawamboae 1,

Army Balloon Blast Kills One   17 Injured and 10 Housés Demolished

Barrage Balloon Explodes at Bay   Housing. Project Damaged in Blast

Army Balloon Explodes At Mooring   Shatters Barracks Building, Ten Wear Workers’ Homes

Army Balloon Bursts  Moorings, Explodes  One Soldier Killed, 17 Other Persons Hurt

BARRAGE BALLOON EXPLODES,  DEAD   BARRACKS BUILDING AND 1 WAR WORKERS' HOMES WRECKED—I7 INJURED.

Barrage Balloon  Blast Kills One   17 Hurt, Barracks, Houses Wrecked

HugeBalloon Blast Kills 1, Injures 10   GROUNDED BECAUSE OF STORY AT VALLEJO, CALIF., EXPLOD. ED, WRECKING HOUSES IN THI VICINITY.   Ruined Houses Evacuated

MAN IS KILLED, IT INJURED IN FREAK ACCIDENT   Army Barrage Balloon Ex. plodes Among War  Workers’ Residences

BALLOON EXPLODES, INJURING 17 PEOPLE   Ten Homes In California Are Destroyed, One Man Killed

Loose Balloon Explodes Over House Project   Several Residences Are Demolished, One Reported Killed and Several Injured

ONE MAN KILLED AS BALLOON EXPLODES   Barracks Building in Cali. fornia Shattered by Explosion

Associated Press Given Extra 3 Weeks to Draw Up Proposed Judgment

emnants of German Garrison of Taganrog Being ‘Killed Off As Russian Forces Pound. Deeper Into’ Ukraine — Weight of Offensive May Drive Enemy All the Way Back to Melitopo] . —Towns and Villages Are Being Recaptured.

GERMANS FALL BACK SWIFTLY IN ENEMY TRAF   Red Army Slashes A Retreating Nazis Near Taganrog

ENCIRCLE HUNS AND POUND DEEP INTO UKRAINE   Axis Troops Fal! Back 100 Miles Along Kalmius River

NIPS PREPARE FOR U.S, AIR ATTACKS   Move War Plants Will Evacuate Large Cities,

Japs Fear Air Raids  Industries Being   Industries Being Moved To Country

Claim Nazi Casualties 6,400,000   Reds Say Second Front Needed to Assure Allied Victory

SOVIET LOSSES IN TWO YEARS ARE 4,200,000   Second Anniversary Of Treacherous Nazi Attack

Petty Officer McCarthy One Of Crew Members Of Cutter Lost At Sea

PLOSION SINKS COAST GUARD BOAT   Mishap Occurs While on Convoy Duty in North Atlantic; All But Two Members of Crew Are Lost

U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER SUNK; TWO OF CREW RESCUED   Escanaba Goes Down in North Atlantic While on Patrol Duty; 58 Officers and Men Feared Lost

UNDETERMINED BLAST DESTROYS AMERICAN SHIP   All But Two Aboard Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba Die  In North Atlantic

Coast Guard Cutter Sinks After Blast   All But Two of Crew Lost in Atlantic; Normally Carried 60  CAUSE IS MyvcTrryv

Explosion Rips Convoy Vessel   Only Two Saved As Coast Guard Patrol Boat Goes Down In Atlantic: Blast Cause Unknown

VESSEL REPORTED SUNK: 58 MISSING      Loss of Cutter Escanaba Is Announced by Navy

CUTTER BLOWN UP WITH HEAVY TOLL   SHIP NORMALLY CARRYING 60 SINKS IN ATLANTIC—ONLY TWO SAVED.

Bes Wrecks U.S. Vessel   Two From Crew Saved When Cutter Explodes

G0 MEN WERE. USUAL CREW; ONLY 2 SAVEL      Coast Guard’s 718-Ton Escanaba Was on Cons voy Duty in the North Atlantic — Cause of  i, eae ja Ten ow en ea neem nnd.

Americans Occupy New Line After Falling Back 60 Miles. Yanks Now Digging In.

AMERICANS GET BREATHING SPELL   Entrenched In Hills Below Big Base at Tebessa   AMERICAN LOSSES HEAVY   Strategy of Drive By Eighth Army May Split Ger man Pressure

Would Give Americans  A Rest   Occupies Foum Tatahouine, Shells Medinine Region

BAND FUND ASKED   Community Service of High School Players Cited, by C. of C,

RESTORATION OF BAND FUND ASKED   Community Service of High School Players Cited; by C. of C.   “A VALUABLE ASSET”

NAZI EQUIPMENT Is CAPTURED BY SOVIET ARMIES   2,000 Germans Reported Killed Or Captured In Action Friday   IMPORTANT RAILWAY TOWN IS LIBERATED

[Nazis Abandon Material In Their Flight   Red Armies Claim Victories In  All War Areas

Australia’s Foreign  Minister Says Japs Will Fall Soon After Hitler

JAPAN WiLL FALL SOON AFTER HITLER SAYS HERBERT EVATT   Australia’s Foreign Minis ter Makes Startling Analysis.

INDICTED MINERS TO PLEAD ‘NO CONTEST   Phirty Accused In Strike Law Violation to Enter Pleas Next Monday

35 Men Die in Crash of  Air Transport   Famous Novelist, G-Man Are Among Victims

ERIC KNIGHT IS INCLUDED IN CASUALTY LIST   Accident Is Rated Worst Disaster In History Of United States  Aviation

35 Men Killed In Crash of Big Transport   U.S. Plane on Way To Africa Fails Off Dutch Guiana

35Diein U.S. Transport En Route fo Africa   Nofed Passengers, 16 ~ Army Officers Among Passengers Aboard

ERIC KNIGHT, GOVT MEN IN AIR ACCIDENT   Twenty-six Passengers, Crew of Nine Lost in Jungies of Dutch Guiana.   TWO HIGH RANKING FBI OFFICIALS IN DEATH LIST

Worst Disaster In American Aviation History; Crack G-Man And English-Born Novelist Are Included Among Its Victims

SURVIVORS  Airliner Plunge Kills 35   .../N GUIANA JUNGLE   Eric Knight, Noted Author Among 26 Passengers to Die: 9 In Crew

35 AMERICANS ARE KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE   Famous Author And Two Crack G-Men Among Victims In Dutch Guiana   17 ARMY OFFICERS ALSO LOSE LIVES

Novelist, FBI Men, Officials Were Aboard   Plane Falle In Dutch Guiana : January 15

35 Men Killed In Crash Of Transport   Maj. Eric Knight, Author and Noted FB] Men Among Victims of Army Plane Accident Neor Dutch . Guiana—Worst Air Disaster

Plane Wrecks, Noted Novelist. 34 Others Die   English-Born Erie Kuight. Author of ‘This Above All? Among Dutch      2 on African Mission, Crack G-Man Perist   17Army Officers Included ; Pilot, Crew Declared ‘Best in Business”

Huge Transport Plane Falls in Dutch Guinea Off South America  17 ARMY OFFICERS AMONG VICTIMS  Novelist Eric Knight And G-Man Foxworth. Nine Crewmen Killed

IN TRANSPORT PLANE CRASH   17 Army Officers are Among Victims in Guiana Disaster

ARMY TRANSPORT PLANE CRASHES, KILLING 3o MEN   Craft Bound for Africa Plunges to Earth in Dutch © Guiana—None Aboard Survives.   CAUSE OF DISASTER IS UNDETERMINED   Eric Knight, Novelist, and P. EK. Foxworth, Crack GMan, Are Among Victims.

35 LOSE LIVES IN PLANE GRASH   Disaster Worst in American . Aviation History

Pilot And Crew Of Huge American Flying All Dead On Desolate Coast of Dutch Guiana.

ERIC KNIGHT, FAMOUS AUTHOR AND AIRMAN, AND NOTED FBI OFFICIAL AMONG THOSE KILLED

35Diein U.S. Transport En Route to Africa  Noted Passengers, 16 Army Officers , Among

BERLIN DEALT BLOW IN RAF NIGHT ATTACK   BOMBERS CONTINUE DAYLIGHT FEINTS ACROSS CHANNEL

BERLIN RAIDED BY RAF FORCE   Other Points In Germany And Occupied Areas Given Bombing

Allied Flyers Active Over Nazi Europe  Radio Silence Civer.   Radio Silence Gives. Tudication of Raids Continuing in Night

CONTINUE AIR BLOWS AT FOE   Large-Scale Feints Made By Allies Against Hitler’s Fortress

Allied Bombers Feint at German Aerial Defenses After Niaht Raids on Berlin

BOMBERS OVER CHANNEL IN NEW ATTACKS   Breakfast-to-Dusk Raids Put New Offensive In Stride; Not Considered Full Dress Rehearsal.   London Gets Raid

NEW AIR ASSAULTS MADE BY BOMBERS   Daylight Raids on Axis Targets Follow Raid on Berlin °

JUNGLE BATTLE INTENSIFIED ON NEW BRITAIN   Allied Planes, Ships And Troops Pound Japs On Entire Pacific Front

Nips Are Making Strong Try to Hold Cape Gloucester   Americans Expand Holdings in Spite Of Heavy Opposition   Ausiralians Advance

FIGHTING IN NEW BRITAIN MORE INTENSE   ‘ Jungle Fighting Flares  With Sudden Activity by ' Japs in Cape Gloucester >» Area

JAPS POUNDED HEAVILY IN PACIFIC AREA   Jungle Fighting Flares with Sudden Intensity; Marines Expand Cape Gloucester Beachhead

Allies Hit by Land, Sea, Air   Pound Japs on Many Fronts in Southwest Pacific Theater

FIGHTING FLARES ANEW ON JUNGLE FRONT, N. BRITAIN   Allies Using Planes, Ships, Troops To Pound at Japanese on Pacific War Front.

Jungle Fight Flares on New Britain   But Marines Push Ahead in Cape  Gloucester Area; Planes Pound Foe

Jap Grip Tightens   Concentrate Forces In Attempt to Hold Gloucester Air Strip

NEW BRITAIN _ TROOPS NEAR JAP AIRBASE   i Marines Using Flame-Throwers Within Mile of Base, Slay 200  Japs in Battle   [SHIPS BLAST KIETA      Aussies Also Advance in New Guinea, 17 Jap Planes Shot  Down Over Rabau!

Allied Forces Pounding Japs   Foe Swings Heavy Force Around Menaced Air Strip

Allies Jungle Fight At Cape   Allies Planes, Ships. Troops Pound Japanese In Three Figen eaeeene

FIERCE JUNGLE BATTLE FLARES   Japs Concentrate Defenses Near Cape Gloucester  Air Base

MARINES GAIN "N BOTH NEW GUINEA AREAS   Japs Throw Strong Force Into Defense of Airfield: Aussies Also Advance: Rabavl Bombed.

JUNGLE FIGHTING REPORTED HEAVY IN NEW BRITAIN AREA   JAPANESE CONCENTRATE STRONG FORCE AT GLOUCESTER AIRSTRIP

FIGHTING RAGES ON PACIFIC ISLE YANKS INVADED   Allied Planes Blast at Japa: nese — Fierce Struggle Near Cape Gloucester

JAPS DEFEND VITAL AIRSTRIP ON NEW BRITAIN   U. S. Marines Expand Posi. tion on Both Beachheads

RESISTANCE OF ENEMY INCREASES   Americans Within One Mile Of Airstrip; 200 Nips Killed

CHURCHILL: ‘SPEAKS: Invasion of Italy Not Promised New F ront,  {lL es Fc Dyiedevo Cpa   Channel Drive Sure

Allied Powers Plan Meetinc   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Will Confer

TOKYO INDICATES HGHT BEGAN OFF OF RENNEL ISLAND   New Location May Be Move To Divert Americans After Three Serious Defeats In Recent Months.   JAPS UNDERSTATE OWN LOSS, EXAGGERATE U.$   Full Control of Solomons Js Oriental’s Plan To Cut Off Supply Lines Into Australia.

MORGAN, U.S. MONEY WIZARD, DIES, FLORIDS   Recurring Heart Ailment Fatal At 75 To Ruler Of Mammoth U. 8, Banking Empire

J. P. Morgan, 75, Financial Wizard, Dies   Head of House of Morgan Passes Away at Florida Vacation City Where He Had Gone for Fishing Trip

J, P. MORGAN IS TAKEN BY DEATH   Head Of Great Banking Firm Succumbs To Heart Ailment; Millionaire Many Times Over.

J.P. MORGAN, BIG BANKER, DIES AT 75   A Recurring Heart Ailment Takes Life of Ruler of Financial Empire   BANK’S PARTNERS HAVE WIDE HOLDINGS   ‘Wizard.of Finance’ Han. dled Allied Loans in ‘the Last. War

J. P. Morgan  Suceumbs to Heart Ailment   Ruler of Great Financial Empire  Dead at 75

Morgan Dies In Cottage At Boca Grande   Leader Of Tremendow Banking Empire Die At Age Of 75 Fron Heart: Ailment

FINANCE WIZARD J.P. MORGAN PASSES AT AGE QF 75   RULER OF HUGE BANKING EMPIRE DIES OF HEART AILMENT ON FLORIDA ISLAND

J. P. Morgan Dies In Florida Of Heart Attack   Aged Financier’s Famous Firm Handled Loans For Allies Deurina Warld War 

Death Takes J. P. Morgan On Vacation   Head Of Famous Banking House Dies In Florida   Heart Attack Fatal On Island In Gulf   Guided Fortunes Of Company Through War And Depression

Heart Ailment Fatal To American Croesus   Body: Will Be Brought North’ Today Wealth Estimated ai 500 Millions

‘Wizard of Finance anc Ruler of Tremendous Banking House Died At 3:15 A. M. 

J.P. Morgan, Famed Financier, Dies ‘Of Heart Ailment at His Country Home in South: Headed Great Firm

‘J. P. MORGAN DIES ‘OF HEART AILMENT HIN-FLORIDA HOME   Ruler of Tremendous Banking Empire Succumbs; Was 75 Years of Age

Wizard of Finance Succumbs to Heart Ailment This Morr   Multi-Millionaire Was in Coma for Past Three Days at Resort

J.P.Morgan Dies At. 75, In Florida   Proves Fatal. To: Ruler: Of Great Banking Firm

Wizard of Finance and Ruler of Banking Empire Stricken Enroute  to Winter Resort   VICTIM RECURRING AILMENT OF HEART   Last Public Statement Urged Americans to Inyest. in U. S. Government Bonds

MORGAN DIES ON _ FLORIDA ISLANE   Head of Great Banking Firm is Victim of Heart Ailment.   HAD IMPORTANT ROLE IN WORLD WAR

Morgan, Wizard Of Finance, Dies   Ruler of Banking Empire Dies at Isolated Gulf of Mexico Island.

Morgan, Head Of Banking Empire, Dies   Son, Daughter at Bedside As 75-Year-Old Loan Wizard Suceumbs.

FINANCIER {a  HEART VICTIN   J.P, Morgan, Noted Banker, Succumbs Early Today in Florida.

J.P. Morgan, Finance Wizard, Stricken By Heart Ailment At Isolated Vacation Site

organ i€S ONL  ‘ulf Isle   Financier Fails to Regain Consciousness After 3-Day. Coma

,  WORLD WAR I FINANCIER. DIES   Head of Famed Banking House, Stricken Two Weeks Ago, Succumbs at Florida Retreat

J.P. Morgan, Head of Big Banking ‘Empire.Succumbs to Heart Ailment

J. Pierpont  Morgan Is Dead In Florida   Famed Financier Il Two Weeks After Heart Attack

DEATH CLAIMS FAMED BANKER   International Capitalist Suc: cumbs in Florida

Death Claims J.P. Morgan   Internationally . Femous Banker. Dies While On»: Florida: (Vacation - Trip.

Old Ailment Ends Life of J. P. Morgan   Wizard of Finance Dies Karly Today at Home in South

DEATH CLAIMS J.P. MORGAN .   WIZARD OF FINANCE DIES AT WINTER RESORT IN FLORIDA

\ILMENT JF HEART IS FATAL   W orld-F amous Banker Was One Of World’s Wealthiest Men

J.P. MORGAN DIES, BANKER WAS 75   Ruler Of Financial Empire Succumbs to Heart Ail ment In Florida

Ruler of Huge Banking Empire Was 75 Years Old   Heart Trouble Had Left Wall Street Wizard Unconscious

Financial Wizard's Funeral Tuesday   Friend OF Kings, Notion’s Biggest Bonker Was 75-Years Of Age

BECAME ILL ON TRAIN, DIES OF HEART AILMENT   Enroute To Florida for Fishing Trip, Never Regains Consciousness

J.P. MORGAN; WORLD-FAMED BANKER DIES   End Comes to  to Wizard of Finance i in Early Hours . After Three-Day Coma Induced by Recurring Heart Ailment.

J. P. Morgan, Head Of Banking House, Dies   Multi-Millionaire Dies On Island In Gulf OF Mexico .

J.P. MORGAN DIED EARLY SATURDAY AT BOCA GRANDE HOME  RULER OF THE INTERNA TIONAL BANKING FIRM HAD BEEN ILI SOME TIMI

HEART AILMENT CAUSES DEATH OF BANKER 75   Succumbs in Florida, Where He Had Gone for Vacation of Fishing

NOTED FINANCIER SUCCUMBS, VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK   Succeeded His Father as Ruler of Tremendous Banking Firm; Was Once Wounded by Assailant.

P. MORGAN DIES DURING VACATION   Recurring Heart Ailment Was Cause Following Very Brief liness.

Death Of J. P. Morgan Seals Glittering Chapter In American History

Standley Takes Responsibility For Utterances   Ambassador to Russia Reports

Standley Takes Responsibility   Welles Says Ambassador Has Assumed Full Blame for Remarks Regardins Aid to Russia

‘Wounded From Attu Are Carrying on Home: Front Battle in Fields and Canneries, 'Profess Eagerness fo Get Back Info Aion

JAPS SEEK TO SPEED OUTPUT   Nips Realize Productior Battle Lost, Says War Expert

75,000 FEWER TEACHERS NOW ARE SIGNED UP  Thousands, Of Class. rooms To Be - Closed CHECKUP MADE  Survey Shows Situa. tion In Nation iad  qed = oe J      Survey Shows Situation In Nation Critical

JOINT LABOR ACTION SOUGHT   Murray Calls On People To Join Workers To Hasten Victory

BUREAUCRACY AND EXTRAVAGANCE HIT AT- BY: CONGRESS   Indignant Members Score “Bureaucratic Trained ” Seals With Quiz > ° Manias!

Early Battering Offensive Seen  In Pacific Area   U.S. And British ? Leaders Map Out” Plan With Chiang

GENERALS DISCUSS PLANS WITH CHIANG   British and American Of ticers Meet Chinese Generalissimo

British and American Generals Talk With Chiang on Pressing Battle

Early Battering Offensive Seen In Pacific Area  U.S. And British ‘  L me el awe AAme MY 1h   U.S. And British ° Leaders Map Out Plan With Chiang

Generals End Eastern Meet   Consult Chiang on Drive Against Japs

GENERALS DISCUSS. PLANS WITH CHIANG   British and American a .. ficers Meet ‘Chi Rance tee’

2 Generals F ly  OverHimalayas   Dill, Arnolit Meet Chiang, Plan War on Jans

HELP FOR CHINA GETS ATTENTION      Top Generals Meet With Kai-Shek to Map New Thrust At Tokyo

Chilean Break - With Axis Due   Cabinet Summoned to Hear Morales After Return From Long Tour

Arms Turned Out Almost Double That Of Axis; J.$. Peak Seen In 1944

[LEGAL aN ARKET GRIPS (D-WEST AREA   hreatens Complete Shut gown In Corn Refining 7 Ind stry Within Thirty Days, Grain Men Say   RUCKERS BUYING If ABOVE CEILING   elling It to Farmers AL Profit; Meanwhile, Demand for Food ‘Czar’ Nlade on Roosevelt

TRUCKERS BEAT PRICE LIDS ON CORN, CHARGE   Grain Men Claim Truckers Buy The Grain, Sell Direct To Farmers

Corn Is Selling Over the Ceiling   Truckers Are Roaming the Midwest in Unprecedented Hunt For Corn. 

Only 80 Miles From Kie\ and 70 Miles of Dnieper Bend.   SUMMER OFFENSIVE GREATEST VICTORY

aa cram a a nak aca eae a er a ori act  FARMERS MAY BE ASKED TO MARKET HOGS AT LAWER WEIGHT I RVET

Marketing Lighter Hogs To Be Urged   WFA to Recommend Selling at 220 Pounds

BID FOR FOURTE TERM OPPOSED   Amendment Limiting The Presidential Tenure Is Advocated

S{0VELOOMS 10 LIMIT TERMS OF U.S. PRESIDENT   en Is Opposed to Principle, but Not The Man

HH UPENLY UPPOSING 4 Th TERM FOH FOR   “Cotton Ed’’ Openly Urging Limiting Any President To Two Full Terms

Nimitz Seeks Further Raids   Americans Take Makin: Tawara. Abemama About  Ready To Fall.

MAKE PLANS FOR FURTHER ATTACKS   Adm. Nimitz Says Gilberts Are Now Securely In Hands of Allied Forces.

Nimitz Warns Japan of New Attacks as American Forces Mop Up in Gilbert Islands

Crucial Stage For Yanks In Gilberts Past   One Atoll Taken, Two More Toppling: New Blows Against Japan In Makine—Nimitz

ADM. NIMITZ IS PREPARING NEW ATTACKS   From Makin, Tarawa and Abemama Yanks Are In Position to Rout Japs  From Nearby Islands   FLEET REMAINS HIDDEN

MAKIN. SEIZED: JAP RESISTANCE IS WEAKENING   Tarawa Tottering; Nimitz Confident of Gilbert islands Assault

Gilberts Safe, - States Nimitz   Further Attacks Plannec ‘On Japs; Tarawa Fall. ' Ts Anticipated’. 

American Invaders , Past Crucial Stage in Gilbert Action   Admiral Nimitz Hopeful Japanese Fleet Will Show Up for Fight

Nimitz Prepares  To Make Further Attacks In Pacific   Americans $o Firmly impianted Jn Gifbert Islands That They Can Drise Out Nips Remaining On All Nearby Atolls  MIKADO’S FORCES DRIVEN BACK ON BETIO; MANY ARE KILLED FEW PRISONERS MABE

MARINES - PUSH THRU  GILBERTS   Makin Seized. Fall Of Tarawa Believed Near

YANKS PREPARE NEW MOVES IN GHLBERT ISLES   American Forces Are Firmly Implanted in Heart of Island Chain

ERT SUCCESS ASSURES FURTHER NEW JAP ATTACKS   bemama Is Being Mopped Up; Nimitz Says Jap  Has Been Captured and Tarawa Is About To Fall; Fleet Too Dispersed To Be Effective.

Gilbert isles ‘are securely  held by U. S.   Nimitz looking to new PE i

Nimitz Plans Further Blows At Jap Islands   Bomber Base at Tarawa Is First Prize of Pacific Thrust

Yanks Capture Jap-Held Isle; Others Totter   Invaders Past Crucial  Stage In Invasion OF Cilhervtc..

Nimitz Preparing Additional Attacks Against Jap Islands   Gilbe: ts Now Securely in Hands of American Troops. Admiral Reports from Peart Harbor.

PREPARE NEW OFFENSIVES IN CENTRAL AREA   Makin Atoll Entirely in American Hands; Others Near Fall

F urther Blows At Jap Islands   Bomber Base at Tarawa Is First Prize of Pacific  Thrust

Jap Resistance Overcome With Record Speed   American Troops Have Opened New Route te Tokyo

MAKIN CAPTURED; MOPING UP ON TWO OTHER ISLES   NIMITZ DECLARES INVASION OPENS ROAD TO TOKYO

Nimitz Says Force Will Strike at  Foe From Gilberts  Chief Reports Group Of Islands Is Held Tightly by U. S.

Yanks Firmly Implanted In Gilberts; “Another Road To Tokyo” Opened By Victory

Crucial Stage Past In US. Invasion Of Jap-Held Isles; Other Attacks Seer

MAKIN TAKEN, AS JAPS LOSE THOUSAND MEN   Tarawa Is About To Fall, Abemama Being Mopped Up: Seek To Lure Nip  - Navy From Hiding

Are Securely In American Hands   Admiral Nimitz Turning His Attention To New Attacks   JAMES ROOSEVELT . HELPS TAKE MAKIN

Further Drives In Pacific Area  Being Prepared   Announcement Made When Allies Gain Control In The Gilbert Islands

Mid-Pacific Group “Now Securely In Our Hands,” Admiral Nimitz Says While Speaking Confidently Of Future Moves — Americans, Overpowering Japanese Resistance, Capture Makin — Victory Near On Tarawa And Abemama Islands

Gilberts Now: Securely Held, Nimitz Reports   Pacific Fleet Commander Maps Further Attacks Against Japanese.

Yanks Take Makin with Record Speed; 2 Other Atolls on Verge of Fall

Americans Seize Makin; Gilberts Securely In Our Hands, Nimitz Says

‘Adm. Nimitz Mentions New Attacks Planned Against Japs In Pacific

New Offensives ‘In Pacific Seen  By Adm. Nimitz   Entire Gilberts Group Firmly In U. S. Hands; Makin Island Captured From Japanese

U.S. CONTROLS GILBERTS NOW, ADMIRAL SAYS   Nimitz Says Invaders Past Crucial Stage, Prepare For New Attacks

PREPARES FOR MORE ATTACKS IN GILBERTS   Makin Captured In Allied Drive To Wipe Out Japs

YANK ASSAULTS WIPE OUT JAPS IN QUICK TIME   Nimitz Asserts Americans: Now Set For “Further — Attacks” On Bases   In Pacific Area

Gilberts Now Secure, Plan New Move   Nimitz Reports Fall of Makin, Says Two Other Atolls are being  Manned wh   GASMATA BOMBED   Admiral Believes Jap Fleet too Dispersed io Act, but Prepares for Any Eventuality

Nimitz Maps New Blows At Japs   Rout of Foe From Near-by Isles Seen; Mop Uv Abemama

Landis Proposes That . More Air Raid Shelters Be Built In Large Cities

Civilian Defense  Head Wants More Shelter Areas   Too Many “Milling Around’ Corners

MANPOWER POOL IS OPEN TO INDUSTRY   Boys 16 And 17 May Work In Four Occupations Formerly Banned

Jap Subs Renew Attacks On Allied Shipping   216 Survivors Arrive to Give First Eyewitness Reports of Sinkings; 14 Men Missing in Two Encounters

Jap Submarines Sink Two Ships, 116 Men Rescued   New Undersea Offensive Launched, Survivors Report

BRITISH BLAST FRENCH TARGETS   i ‘Raids Follow Night Attack On Chemical Plants

Allies Down 30 Jap Warplanes   Enemy Makes Heavy Attack at Milne Bay

30 of Enemy Raiders  Are Blasted   From 75 to 100 Nip Aircraft Hit at Base on Milne Bay

Japs Assault Milne Bay Shipping Base   Allied Fliers Bag 30 Planes in Skies Over Sector

Nald LomeS Alter Warning of New  Pacific Offensive  75 to 100 Aircraft Strike at Allies’   75 to 100 Aircraft Strike at Allies’  Base on New Guinea  KISKA RAIDED AGAIN  MacArthur Differs With Knox in View Of Pacific Situation

JAPS STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS AT MILNE BAY   FURTHER ATTACKS ARE INDICATED IN SOLOMONS

Foe Will Discover Allied Fliers Stronger in Winter  _. Weather impediment Is of Little Value To European Fortress

Winter Bombing Of Nazis Likely   Germans To Get Very Little Rest

BEETLE TRAPS ARE NOW BEING PLACEL   Preparations ‘Under Way for Campaign Against Pest

BEETLE TRAPS ARE _ NOW BEING PLACED      Preparations Under Way for Campaign Against Pact

State Nutrition  Meeting March 25  Area Conference to ‘Give -Ratinnina (Data

State Nutrition Meeting March 25  Area Conference to Give Rationing Data Planned by OCD

iITALIANS ARE HAPPY   Damage to City of Naples Not as - Bad as First Reported

ITALIANS CHEER ~ ALLIED VICTORY   Neopol itans Delirious With Joy; City Not All In Ruins

The Weather   Naples Damage Less Serious Than First Reports  Indicated

Governor Says Some Mines Wil! Open Tomorrow   Hickenlooper to Appeal for Price To Meet Wage Hike

Iowa Coal Mines Will Be Reopened   Governor’s Statement Says Situation in Iowa Now Very Serious

lowa Mines to Reopen Wednesday   Governor Asks O.P.A. To Re  Adjust Coal Prices

MADAME CHIANG VISITS TOMB OF FIRST PRESIDENT   China’s First Lady and Mr. Roosevelt Also Pay Homage at Bier of America’s Unknown Soldier.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK VISIT TOMBS WASHINGTON; UNKNOWN SOLDIER   Mrs. Roosevelt Accompanied Chinese First Lady and President on 16 Mile Drive to  Place Wreatne on Tombe

U.5.0.BENEFIT FRIDAY   It'll Be A Carnival Put On By High School Vic tory Corps

U. 4. 0. BEN-  —EFIT FRIDAY   It'll Be A Carnival Put Or By High School Victory Corns

Industria! City in--Ruins and - Still: Smoulders. Bad Weather Sets’ ‘in  honin

DUSSELDORF . ISSTILL BLAZING   3000 Persons Were ‘Killed in Allied Raid on City.

SONTNUETO--. BOMB GERMANY   British Bombers Hammering West. erm ‘Germany - — Devastated Dus. seldort ‘Still Ablaze from Heavy Raid. 2 Hours Earlier,

Railway Strike — Slows Up Copper   Classification As Mine Workers Cause of Halt _

JAP PLANE IMPROVED   Zeros Having No Better Luck Against U. 8. Fighters, However

SENATE VOTES APPROVAL OF STRIKE CURB      Vote 55 to 22; Utah's Sen. Thomas Speaks In: Opposition

Anti-Strike Bill Goes (To FDR for Signature   Langer Clashes With Guffy, Talks For 3 Hours: Senate Vote Is 35-22

Senate Votes Approval — Of Strike Bill   Measure Goes To President; Veto Doubted

Anti-Strike Bill Passed By Congress   Measure is Aimed Chiefly at Lewis And Mine Union

9 10 22 VOTE ADVANCES IT TO PRESIDENT   Believe Roosevelt Will Sign War  Measure

PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO GIVE OK   Fine, Prison Provided For Strike Against Government

Allies Knock Out Jap Ships, Planes Trying to Reinforce Base at Rabaul

Ominous Calm Reigns Over Solomons As Japanese Work to Restore Bases Against Further Bougainville Attack

Jap Ship Losses In Week Are 58; Planes Total 143   15 Enemy Cruisers And 12 Destroyers Are Battered Or Entirely Wrecked

JAPS DEALT STAGGERING BLOWS WHEN NAVY TRIES 10 REINFORCE RABAUL THREATENED BY ALLIES   Aerial Attack Against Cargo Vessels and Warships Smashes 38 Assorted Ships and 143 Planes—Jungle Fighters Continue To Close In On Vital Enemy Base

Ominous Lull In The Pacitic Hints Showdowr   Mauled Japs Expected To Attack Anew

COMPARATIVE CALM PREVAILED SUNDAY SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   WEEK’S ACTION HAS COST ENEMY MANY SHIPS AND PLANES

BRITISH LAND EAST OF ROME IN NEW DRIVE   French Capture Port Of Bastia  In Corsica

French To Finish Job In Corsica   Sth Army Reaches Poin Where Germans Might Have Made Defense

Christmas Package Regulations Given   Army Sets Time Limi For Gift Parcels

MARTINIQUE SWINGS TO ALLIED SIDE   Four Warships Now Available to America

“Flood-Ravaged Germany Again  Hit By Bomber:   Possible That Further Dams Were Bombed During Night   REPORT 120,000 ARE BELIEVED HOMELESS

Report Bitter Inter-Axis Clash at Crete When Germans Try to Disarm Italians

Italian Troops Reported To  Be Resisting German Forces   Soldiers “Standing Turn” at Crete Against Nazi Attempts to Disarm Them, British Mead-quarters at Cairo Reports

Halian Troops In Crete Forced To Lay Down Arm:   Germans Take Drastic Ac tion in Move lo Prevent Uprising

Home Guards Pass  In Training Reviev  Break Camp At Indian town Gap Today

Program Offers Three Measures  To Aid Veterans   Mustering-Out Pay, Job Insurance, Social Security Included

Plan to Pay Returning Servicemen      Congressmen Will Act on Roosevelt Benefit Program

Congress Gets Mustering-Out  Soldiers’ Bills   Vets’ Job-Hunting Days To Be Protected

Servicemen’s Ald Program Takes Shape   Quick Action Asked or Three Measures to Help Veterans

NAZIS MAKE AN ATTACK   Small Force of German Planes  Swept Low Over England

SMALL FORGE OF GERMAN PLANES IN RAID OVER ENGLAND   Scattered Bombs in Outlying Suburbs of London Early Today.   THE CAPITAL ESCAPED   At Least Seven Persons Were Killed in the Outlying Districts.

Nazis Feebly Raid England   Bombs Scattered In Suburbs of London: 7 Killed

GERMANS DROP BOMBS OUTER _ AREAS LONDON   Seven Reported Killed in Suburbs —Reporied RAF Raids on Copenhagen Not Confirmed

Few Bombers Raid England   At Least Seven Persons Are Killed by Bombs and Machine Gun Fire

Nazi Retaliation  For Raids Light   Small Force Sweeps  Over London

LONDON BOMBED IN FEEBLE RAID   HEAVY COAST GUNS EXCHANGE FIRE ACROSS CHANNEL

Seth -Wheatley ‘ees on the Board Due to Resignation  of A. N. Woatdridge.

VEW fHENBER OF OAOULINE PANEL    Seth Wheatley Goes on the Board Due to Resignation of A. N. Wooldridge.

Sinking of Aircraft Carrier Hornet In Battle of Santa Cruz Oct. 26 Described by Newsman Who Saw It

Japs Pay High Price For Attack On Hornet   Sinking Of U. S. Aircraft Carrier And 10 Other Warships Counteracted By Damage Inflicted On Jap Ships And Planes — Story Of Heroism Told By Eve Witness

American History in. Making — Tales of Heroism, Courage Told By. Correspondent Witnessing .  Death of 11 U. S. Ships in-Pacitic      BY CHARLES P. ARNOT

Hornet, Other Ships Met Death Taking Heavy Toll; Reporter Watches Drama

New Acts of Heroism Written Into American Naval Record as Hornet and Others Are Lost

 Japanese Paid Hish Price To Sink -Hornet. Savs Writer   By Charles P. Arnot

DEATH OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER DESCRIBED   BY CHARLES P. ARNOT il P STAEFR CORRTCPNOANeYT

Hornet’s Death Seen by U.P. War Correspondent   Ry CHARLES Pp ARNOT

Tells How Fighters Braved Incendiaries, Rammed Powder  Into Red Hot Guns In Last Hours on Stricken Hornet   RB. CHARLES P. ARNOT

British Navy Laying Barrage Of Shells On Axis Army In  Retreat Along Tunisian Coast   Italian Communique Tells Of ‘Violent New Attacks’ By Allies; Heavy Fighting In Vicinity Of Ousseltia And Faid

YANKS HAMMER ESCAPE ROUTE OR AXIS FORGES   More Towns Taken Along Tunisian Coast, Above Corridor Desert Fox Must Use Soon   FIRST ARMY ENTERS ASSAULT ON NORTH   Americans Advance Thru Minefields From Gafsa Base, Batter Way to Rommel’s Flank

YANKS IN A BATTLE   PpAlgiers Radio Reports Fighting Near Ousseltia and Faid —

U.S. Spending Could Be Cut 25 Billions   Senator Russell Urges Check In Interest Of  EFronomy.

See 25 Billion Cut in Spending  Army's Action Brings Much Speculation

WAR SPENDING CUT IS URGED   Sen. Russell Contends Expenditures Can Be Reduced 25 Miilions =“

15 Billion Cut in War Costs Uraed   Amount Would Have Paid for War 

SUGGEST CUTTING WAR EXPENSES BY  MANY-BILLIONS   The Cut of Twenty-five Billions Would Amount To The Same Sum That the Nation Paid for the First World War.

Seek More Funds Cut   Suggest Government  Spending for War Can Be Lopped 25 Billion

WAR SPENDING CUTS URGED BY SENATE HEADS      Huge Refund by Army May be Followed by Slash in Other Costs; See 25 Billions Saved

SUGGEST LARGE WAR COST GUT   Navy Expected to Save $4 Billion; Army Already Cuts $13 Billion.   SEE FURTHER SAVINGS

DING EXPECTED 10 CET BIG CUT   $25,000,000,0C0 Is Figure Derived By Experts

Congress Suggests War Spending May be Cut 25 Billions   Army Return of Over $13,000,000,000 is Back of Proposal

NGRESS SEES AR COST CUT F $25 BILLION   vests Economies Now ’oxsible Due To Unspent Funds

25-BILLION SLASH II WAR PROGRAM BEFORE CONGRESS   Proposed Reduction !s More Than Entire Nation’s Expenditure to Carry on Previous War.   SCRUTINY OF CLAIMS MAY CAUSE REDUCTION   13-Billion Saving of Army Results in Discussion, Navy May Possibly Save Another Five Billion.

25 BILLION CUT IN SPENDING FOR WAR SUGGESTED   OTHER REQUESTS FOR MONEY WORTH LOOKING INTO, SAYS BRIDGES

$25 Billion Saving Is Now Contemplated   War Department’s Plans To Return $13 Billions Is Key to Speculations

TWO JAPANESE SHIPS BOMBED OFF RABAUL   One, Loaded With Munitions, Explodes When Hit—Attack Made From Low Altitude.

TWO HITS ARE SCORED ON JAPANESE SHIPS   One Vessel, Probably Carrying Munitions, Exploded After Receiving Blast From Bomb

COMMITTEE SAYS U. S. OFFICES NEED HOUSECLEANING   Demand Release Of 300,000 Government Work: ers, Who Are “Un:  necessary’.

UNCLE SAM'S JOBS NEED CLEANING   Committee Asks Removal of Some  300,000 Employes

LOCAL MAN KILLED IN RAIL ACCIDENT   Paul Mongan Falls From Moving Freight Train

LOCAL MAN KILLED TN’ RAIL ACCIDENT   Paul : ‘Mongan F Falis: From _ Moving Freight

Firemen Will Meet In Clearfield in 44   Central District Convened In Kane

TUG-OF-WAR OVER APPROPRIATIONS 15 CAPITAL HIGHLIGHT   SENATOR TRUMAN CLAIMS NYA “ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL” FOR TRAINING

BLAIR COUNTY PROVIDES MORE MEN FOR DUTY   Suburban and Tyrone Areas Furnish Six: ty-two for Armed Services.

WORLD FAMOUS TRACK oTAR S      Gunder Hage hh Interviewed by Reporter as He Works \ ~ Qut for Hub Match

Gunder Hagg  Interviewed es Reporter as He. Works “Out for Hub Match ~

FLYNN TRIAL OPENS WITH ACCUSED STAR HINTING SHAKEDOW!   Ruined Career, Prison Loom For Actor If Convicted

Predict Famine in Beef Within Three e Days in Stockyard   Government Control Program Makes It Costly » To Feed Livestock

FORT AtooES Hill LARGE JAP oHlP IN PABAUL RAIL   American Fliers Blast Enemy On 1500Mile Pacific Air Front

\MACARTHUR FLIEKS DEAL OUT DEATH OVER WIDE FRONT   U. S. Bombers Raid Ra. baul For Sixth Straight Time In Row. Ameri cans Gain On Guadal. canal.

LONDON REPORTS ALLIES MAY BREAK UP ALL ORGANIZED RESISTANCE IN THREE DAYS

Ancient City of Catania Was Southern Anchor of Axis Line.  GERMAN TROOPS TO SURRENDER OR DIF  Italian Cabinet Holds Important Meeting Today.

CHIEF OF STAFF GIVES REPORT ON WAR’S PROGRESS   Unprecedented Secret Meeting I: Held At Early Hour Today

Marshall Leads War Quiz   GIVES HOUSE CHANCE TO ASK QUESTIONS AT SECRET MEETING

Gen. Marshall Gives Congress Report on War   Early Morning Meeting Held for  House Members”

Condition of Bizzell Grave   President Emeritus Oklahoma University Il] With Influenza

MIDWEST GOP GROUP CONFERS   Postwar Foucy Association Condemns Isolation in Chicago Weeting

NATION’S LAWMAKERS PROUD OF RECORD ON FIGHTING OF WAR  BRUSHES ON DOMESTIC FRONT, HOWEVER, LEAVE COME RIC SCARS

CrFORI [0 SOLVE LABOR [RUBLES NOW IN PROGRESS   President and Union Officials Meeting Today.   VOTE WHETHER TO RETURN TO WORK   McNutt Orders 48-hour Week to Go Into Effect.

Cadets Wreck ‘Enemy Harbor’ in First Demonstration of Demolition Bombing

FORD STRIKE ENDED TODAY   WALKOUT ‘THAT THREATENED TO MAKE 40,000 IDLE 18 SET-." TLED BY AN “ARMISTICE”

Postwar Policy Due To Kindle  Congress Row   Little Likelihood of Any - Compromise Prior to Opening Debates

CONGRESS MAY FACE LIVELY SCRAP OVER POSTWAR PROGRAM  DEMOCRATIC LEADERS STRIVING TO AVOID DIRECT COMMITMENT -

ISCRAP ON COMMITMENT   Mind of Congress Not Made Up or Post-War Policy .

Some in Both Houses Want to Add Amend ments With Various Qualifications To Planned Simple Statement

Ni ips Prove Tenacity in Atta Battle  een’ s Defeat Grows Harder Daily

ANALYSIS   Stubborn Jap Resistance n Attu Is Indication Our Future Task

The War Today—  Japs Die Before Surrender; Aerial Bombing Of Mainland Best Strategy

The War Today  Fierce Fight By Japs On Attu Reminds Allies Of Task Ahead.

JAP ATTU DEFENSE IS WARNING TO U.S.   Indicates Measures Enemy Will Go To In Quest For Power

Tarawa Shelling Worst in History   Japs Withstood A Hell on Earth

FAIL TO AGREE ON TAX PLANS   Leaders Reject Compromise. Committee to Try Again

LEADERS GET TOGETHER ON TAX MEASURE   Agree to Cancellation of 41¢¢ of 1942 Burden

HOUSE LEADERS REACH ACCORD ON PAY-AS-60   41. Percent Of 1942 Tax Burden Cancelled By New Program   LEVY TO START JULY 1   20 Percent To Be Withheld From All Pay Envelopes — Of Workers

Mother Facing Slaying Count   Psychiatrist Making Out _-Report On Murder Of Coast. Infant

MOTHER SUSPECTED OF BEHEADING SON   Child’s Body on Bread Board On Shelf in Kitchen

PURPLE HEART Is PRESENTED FRIDAY TO ROGER GORDON   For ‘Wounds Received in Action Against Enemy on Dec. 7, 1941.’

A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   Wounded Iowa Soldier Receives Purple Heart

10 KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER   Plane Falls in Arizona While on Training Flight—Poplar Bluff Man Amone Nenad.

Lampedusa Falls To Allied Arms After Air Attack   Surrender Follows That of Pantelleria On Preceding Day

Island Falls After Day Of Bombing   Lampedusa Yielded; Americans Lead In Mighty Offensive

Second Fortress Island Meets Pantelleria Fate; Axis Expects Sicily, Sardinia Attacks Next

Uy GO THU ENEMY LINC IN? SECTORS   Middle Don, North Caucasus Offensives Gontinue Steady Advance.   FIGHT COUNTERATTACK IN DRIVE ON SALSK

‘Soviet Forces Drive Forward  In Middle Don   New Gains Are Made In North Caucasus Is Report From Moscow  REPORT 500,000 NAZIS RETREAT  Russian Offensive Is Gaine ing In Tempo Says Red Newspaper

NUMBER OF COAL MINES ABOUT TO PATO OPERATORS   Connally-Smith Act Provides Restoration of Seized War Plants With Necessary Efficiency. :   ONLY FEW OWNERS ARE REQUESTING RETURN   Request Made For Release of Miners In Armed Forces as Means of Increasing Production. ‘

ICKES MAY SOON RETURN MINES TO OPERATORS   His Administration Begins Survey to Determine Whether Productive  Efficiency Restored

ICKES PREPARES TO RETURN MINES   Connally-Smith Act Calls for Restoring Plants as Soon ac Poascsihle

statement of arese Ordered (French Rulers   nittee Accedes te nands of Catroux And British

Lebanese Head Is Reinstated   French Group Bows To British Demands

SITUATION IN LEBANON EASED BY COMMITTEE   President Reinstated And Independence Promised By French   ACTION SATISFIES BRITISH DEMANDS

Three Prisoners Escape From County Bastile  Beat Up Jailer and wv lem Kae

Three Prisoners Escape From County Bastile  Beat Up Jailer and Take Keys To Make Getaway

Germans Assert Purpose Gained   Time Said Gained Tey Exrtitic Envcanngc

Germany Explains Loss of Tunisia To Allied Forces   ‘Gained Six Months fo Fortification of the Continent’

Germans Assert Purpose Gained   Time Said Gained To Fortify Europe

Axian Press Says African Loss Was Really Gain  Paper States Ground Was Unimportant, Time Is Everything

Axian Press Says African Loss Was Really Gain  Paper States Ground  Was Unimportant,

MURRAY SEEKS FORMULA TES]   CIO Chief Has Over 2 Million Members for Push For Higher Pay.   CALLS MEETING NOV. 30

Big Push on Little Steel Formula Plan  of CIO Leadership   Titanic Test to Break WLB Wage Yardstick  Held Imminent

ClO MAY TEST  LITTLE STEEL FORMULA SOON  Murray Plans To   Murray Plans To Get Raise For Union Workers

ClO CHIEF MAPS DRIVE ON LITTLE STEEL FORMULA   MURRAY LINES UP 2,500,000 MEMBERS FOR HIS BIG PUSH

Plans ‘Big Push’ On Little Steel   CIO President Murray Calls Meeting to Ask For  Wave Increase.

Allied Units Take Ridge at Salamaua: -Final Battle Nears   Driving Tr oops Expect Last-Ditch Stand.by..D Desperate Jap Garrison; Foe Loses Hope for Needed Aid

Fall of Big Japanese Air Base at Salamaua  Believed Within Sight

EXPECT BITTER FIGHTING NEAR JAP AIRDROME   Yanks Advance To Ridge Overlooking Salamaua Field

Yanks, Aussies Prepare Final: Salamaua Jab   Bloody Fight Expected As Japanese Dig In For Last: Ditch Stand   BAANGA ISLE IS TAKEN   Allied Airmen Continue To Harass Nippeonese Supply Lines :

BELIEVED IN SIGHT   Allied Ground Troops Stand ing On Ridge Overlookin; Salamaua Airdrome; Bit ter and Costly Battl Feared.

YANKEES IN SIGHT OF ~~ SALAMAUA GOAL   Take Ridge Overlooking Airdrome; Heavy Fighting Yet Expected

SALAMAUA FALL. 5 WITHIN SIGHT   Allied Troops Command Ridge Overlooking Salamaua Airdrome.

Fall Of Satamaua Airport Near  Allied Troops Press Forwerd On Enemy

Allied Troops Within Sight Of Salamaua   Though Near, Fall Of Base Not Due To Be Without Battle

all Of Japs’: Salamaua Base  Appears Near   Allied Ground Troops” Reach Point. Overlooktno Arirdrome.

ALLIES HOLD RIDGE, BLAST AT SALAMAUA   Japs, Forced Back Into Inner Cir. cle of Defenses, Expected to Bat. tle to Death   VIRTUALLYCUT OFF   Enemy Field Post Harassing Munda Wiped Out, Jap Barges. Planes Sirafed.

Probably Not Without Bitter Fight, But  Fall Of Salamaua Air Field Seems In Sight

Fall Of Salamaua Airport Expected Within Short Time   Allied Troops Take Ridge Near Jap Base

SALAMAUA NOW UNDER FIRE OF SIEGE GUNS   Enemy Forces Retreating Further into Their Last Defense Rings Today

Allied Troops Are Closing In On Salamaua   Expect Bitter Battle In Their Efforts To Seize Airfield And Town Mile Farther Northeast

Fall of Air Field Almost In Sight   Japs Virtually Cut Off From All Hope Of Relief   THEY FIGHT HARD IN THAT SITUATION

Bitter Fight For Salamauz Is Expected   Airfield Fall  Seems Certain

YANK CAPTURE OF SALAMAUA MAY BE NEAR   Allied Ground Troops on Ridge Overlooking Airdrome, but Japs Are Expected to Defend It to the End.

FALL OF SALAMAUA BELIEVED BE NEAR; HARD FIGHT SEEN  IMPORTANT JAPANESE AIRDROME HAS BEEN HEAVILY FORTIFIED

FALL OF SALAMAUA  BELIEVED BE NEAR;  HARD FIGHT SEEN IMPORTANT JAPANESE   AIRDROME HAS BEEN BEAVITY EAPTIFIcn

Allies Seize Vital Ridge At Salamauea   Allied Artillery.  Opens on. Ai  And Salar  @  AMile™ ~

Allied Soldiers Now Overlooking Salamaua Airport   Capture Of This Vita Base Looms Near Chungking Raidec By Japs

Black Market Probe Opened   Price Control Act Partially Blamed by Lawmaker for “Bootles’’ Conditions

BLAGK MARKET   Paiman Blames Price Control Administration for Conditions.

Nineteen Billion Called Tax Limit  Yale Man Says Nation Cannot Stand More

TAX LIMIT SET AT 19 BILLIONS   280-Bijlion Post-War Debt Seen By Expert

$200 BILLION DEBT Is SEEN   $19 Billion in Taxes All Nation Can Stand, Says Professor.   ASKS BALANCED BUDGET

IS BILLIGN TAX CEILING CITED   About All Nation Can Stand, National Tax Conference Hears

WAACS TAKING OATHS AS WACS   AUXILIARY UNIT IS NOW INTEGRAL PART OF AMERICAN ARMY

Soviets Race West To Close Gigantic Trap   Highway Hub Captured And More Railways Cut In Southern Ukraine  GAINS ARE GENERAL

RAILRGAD LINE [S——— CUT BY THE REDS   Wide Sweeps by Victor ious Russians Continuing

RUSSIAN ARMY RUSHING TO CLOSE TRAP,      On Thousands of Germans At Dnieper Bend, Reach Road to Perekop; Second Group Cuts Railwav   Vital To Nazis

‘Russian Advance’   Sweeps.12 Miles  Perekop Capture Would  Seal Crimea Gate

SOVIETS PUSH ONIN EFFORT ‘TO SHUT TRAP   New Gains are Report. ed by Reds in Big Ukraine Battles

Highway Hub of NizhneSaragozhy Is Taken in Drive RAILROAD LINE IS CUT BY THE REDS  Wide Sweeps by Victorious Russians Continuing

ESCAPE HATCH FROM CRIMEA IS RED PRIZE   LAST RAILWAY EAST OF BUG RIVER CUT BY RUSSIANS   Open Country Ahead

Strategic Road Junction Falls  To Red Forces   ‘Desert Army’ Gains 12Miles in Day and Overruns 30 Villages Gert: _n Flight

POWERFUL JAP SEA AND AIR FORAYS RIPPED   ncreased Activity Hints Showdown Battle Nearing In Pacific Area   IEW GUINEA IS TARGET   ip Naval Force Routed By American Unit In Aleutians Encounter

Tokyo Fleet Driven Back Off Aleutians   Tempo of Warfare In Pacific Picks Up Over Week-End

Biggest Naval Battle Since May, 1941. Likely, Reports Admirality.

BRITISH SINK NAZI WARSHIP   Enemy Cruiser Hit in Attack on Convoy Off Norway

Big Sea Battle Still Going On   Cruiser Damaged, Destroyer Probably Sunk, Says Admiralty

Big Sea Battle May be Raging In North Atlantic   Fight Apparently Involves Large German Convoy

HER FLIGHT FROM DEATH RECOUNTED BY FEARLESS NUN   Sister Mary Theresa, Missionary, Tells Story of  Endurance   ESCAPING JAPANESE   Her Tale of Herror Practi. cally Another “Guadalcanal Diary”

FAITHFUL NATIVES AID NUN AND COMPANIONS AFTER THEY FLEE MISSION PROPERTY LOCATED ON GUADALCANAL; FAITH CARRIES THEM TO SAFETY   CHAPTER TWO tty Jack Wahon

SUPREME COURT MAY GET CASE   Decision Will Be of Great Importance, Report

Mussolini Sends His Son-in-Law to. Vatican City As the New Ambassader

CIANO NEW ENVOY TO VATICAN CITY   Mussolini May Use Kir For Possible Peace Moves

ONLY 1 VESSEL LOST LAST WEEK      Western Atlantic Waters Post - Lowest Total Since Start of War

Allies Capture Randazzo, Key Nazi Stronghold in Center of Sicilian Front:

U. S. IS NOW EXPORTING CORN  ne. MARTIN REVEALED SURPRISING FACT

Dnieper Bend Battle Sways In Reds Favor   Moscow Report Says Des. perate German Counter Attacks Are Repulsed   NO ACTION IN KIEV SECTOR MENTIONED

SMASHES NAZI TANK ATTACK   Kirovograd Battle Sways in Favor of Red Troops

RED ARMY GAINS IN BITTER FIGHT POR KIROVOGRAD   Russians Smash Desperate ® Nazi Counter Attacks in Dnieper Bend

German Lines Pierced   Desperate Nazi CounterAttacks Are Smashed

RUSSIAN ARMY SMASHES NAZI TANK ATTACK   Kirovograd Battle Sways in Favor of Red Troops

Axis Resistance Stiffens-—Americans And Canadians Hammer Way 30 Miles Inland—Ten Nazi Tanks Knocked Out In Attack   HARDEST FIGHTING AROUND .GELA AND COMISO-RAGUSA!

Livestock Men Lose Confidence In Government   Meat Management Program Offered At Kansas City

Livestock Producers Warn Confidence Lost In Handling Present Program; Industry Urges Flexible Point Value Control Plan

Cattlemen Flay Meat Program, Request Flexible Point Values to Govern Demand

CATTLEMEN ASK -NEWMEATPLAN   Kansas City Conference Speakers Highly Critical of Present Program

CATTLEMEN HAVE “A NEW MEAT PLAN   Stockmen at K. C. Meeting Give a Warning to Government   HIT ° CEILING ° PRICES

NEW PROGRAM FOR MEAT MANAGEMENT OFFERED THURSDAY  BLUNT WARNING ISSUED THAT PRODUCERS HAV! LOST CONFIDENCE

‘New Meat Management Plan  Presented to Cattlemen ©  Nebraska Feeder Says Confidence Must   Nebraska Feeder Says Confidence Must Be Restored to Maintain Meat Supply

Want New Meat Policy   Livestock Men Warn Of Threat to Supply In Present Program

PRESIDENT SAYS STALIN MAY BE AT CONFERENCE   Headway Being Made To. ward Arranging Meeting Of Allied Leaders

PROGRESS ON THREE POWER PARLEY MADE   Conference, With Stalin Sitting In, Much Nearer Actuality   PLANS TO CONTINUE STAFFS ANNOUNCED   President Is Sifent on Reported italian Peace Feelers

Three-Way War Council Nearer, Roosevell Says   Progress foward Anglo American-Russian Meeting ls Reported

ALLIED COMMANDERS CONFER WITH CHIANG   Admiral Mountbatten and General. Stilwell Attend Three-Power ( Parley in Chungking.

REDS MENACE RAIL CENTER   BOMBING ASSAULTS ON MAJOR SCALE CARRIED OUT BY ALLY: MRMEN ON OCCUPIED EUROPE, ITALY ‘ACIFIC—WARSHIPS BLAST TARGETS  THE ITALIAN MAINLAND

ALLIES KEEP UP "RAIDS ON ITALY -AND NO, FRANCE   Capua and Grassanise Hit: Hammer Nazi Airfields On Continent

Italian Cities Get No Respite From Drubbing   Battleships And Aircraft Combine In Relentless Pounding At Foe   ITALIANS CLAIM TARANTO BATTERED   Rail Junctions, Airfields, Towns And Ports Feel a Allied Wrath

Hitler Asks Help  For Suffering  German Soldiers Fuehrer Declares  Men Undergo Terrific Assaults

U.S. Sub: Sink 12  Jap Ships   YANK MARINES CAPTURE NEW BRITAIN HILL, SEND TANKS INTO ISLE FIGHT

CONGRESS, Wik ASSERT. SELF  TIrvAI A DY   WILL BE CONSERVATIVE, NOT REACTIONARY

Conservatives Lo Hold More Power  In New Congress   Session To Open On Wednes day Will Find Largely Revised Lineup   SOME COALITIONS APPEAR LIKELY

At Least 123 Injured; Many Are Near Death   Wreck Of Congressional Limited At Philadelphia One Of Nation’s Worst

AWARDS ARE MADE ‘IN FARM PROJECTS   4-H and Vocational Agri culture Achievement  - Banquet Held   A TALK BY SCHWEGLER

AWARDS ARE MADE ‘IN FARM PROJECTS   4H. and Vocational Agriculture Achievement  ’ Banquet Held

] ap (Garrison's Situation  At Lae Termed Desperate   Forces from Two Sides Closing in on Enemy’s Main Defenses on New Guinea: Allies Tighten Pressure About Salamaua

RING TIGHTENS AROUND ENEMY LAE DEFENSES   Garrision’s Position I Desperate, MacArthur Headquarters Says; Busu Crossed

SVTUATION OF JAPS AT LAE IS DESPERATE   Australans Cross Busu River And Patrols Encounter Ene my Resistance; Tighter Pressure On Salamaue.     Forces Equal

Jap Situation at Lae Is Said Desperate   Allied Forces Are Reported Rapidly Closing In

Plight of Japs At Lae Said To Be Desperate   MacArthur Reports Allied Forces Close In on Enemy

Jap Lae Plight Held Desperate   M*Arthur Units Close In On §N. Cuines Citadel

Japanese Despair  As Allies Keep  Gaining in West Australians Begin  Shelling Foe At Pacific Base

Aussies Attack Again; Air Arm Pounding Enemy   Jap Garrison On New Guinea Is Encircled; Get Reinforcements

Jap Situation Said Desperate   Pressure Tightens On laa Salamaua

Jap Position Is ‘Desperate’ In Lae Sector  Australians Cros: River, Big Guns  ‘Shell Enemy

Japanese Base On New Guinea Is Gradually Being Encircled   ALLIED FORCE IS EQUAL TO ENEMY’S

JAPS AT LAE. TN ALLIED CRU   Situation of Foe: Garrison Now Desperate, Reports General MacArthur

ALEUTIANS AND ALASKA SAFE FROM INVASION   Truman Committee Members Tell How Fighting Men Guard Northland   WORKING AROUND CLOCK   Evidence Declared Plain On Need Of Providing Service Equipment

ALASKA AREA 1 FORTRESS   SENATORS WHO VISITED FAR “NORTH DECLARE JAPS CAN NEVER MAKE AN INVASION

Berlin Claims Duce Rescued From Italians   Mussolini Declared At Liberty; Chaos Reported in Italy

Mussolini Freed By Nazis, Berlin Statement Says   Il Duce Reported "Now at Liberty”

Germans Say Mussolini Has to Be Taker From Allies by Daring Act of Nazi Soldiers: Whereabouts Secret

Mussolini. Rescued by Germatis In Daring Raid, Berlin Asserts   Melodramiati¢ Acts. Preceded Surrender --—

Berlin Declares Mussolini  Has Been ‘Freed’   Reports Daring Raid by Nazi Parachute Troopers Rescued I] Duce From Italian Guards, but Gives no Details

MUSSOLINI SET FREE BY DARING GERMAN ACTION   No Allied Confirmation 0: Report From Berlin Radio Sunday   IL DUCE SLATED TO BE PUPPET PREMIER

Nazi Offensive Gains Are Slight  Moscow Reports   Heavy Losses In Men And Material Being Paid By Nazis In Attack   BATTLE RAGES IN THIRD DAY NOW

NAZIS ARE HELD 0 WINGH GAINS BY Aloo FORGES   Moscow Reports Two Day: cf Battle Has Cost Germars Heavily.   ‘1271 TANKS ARE OUT   314 Planes Claimed Shot Down and Troop Loss Is 13,000.

FURIOUS TANK BATTLES RAGE NS. RUSSIA   German Losses Continue to Mount on 3d Day of Offensive

Drive In Russia   -lnternational News Service Staff Correspondent

GRADE Il TIRES TO BE AVAILABLE APRIL 1   Motorists Eligible Who Exceed 240 Miles Per Month

Grade Two Tires To Be Ayailable   Eligible To Those Permitted Mileage Over 240

Grade Il Tires Available Soon   Brown Liberalizes  Rubber Rations

Tires For B, C, T Card Holders   Grade II Available April 1, Brown Says

HANNOVER: HIT BY RAF BOMBS   Mosquitoes Visit Berlin; French Airfields Blasted

BOMBS WRACK HANOVER CITY   R.A.F. Attack Costs 17 Planes  neem  Berlin Stung For Second Time

@ PLEASE STAY AWAY!  Only Thing Plentiful in Stores Is Customers

Christmas Buyers Find Many Stores  ; :   Discouraging Heavy Holiday Buying

NAZI BARGES SUNK BY ARTILLERY AND TANKS AT BIZERTE  EVACUATION ATTEMPT UTTERLY SMASHED BY CROUND FIRE ON MONDA'

BARGES BLASTED . AS GERMANS FLEE   Countryside Littered With Ruins of Destroyed Axis Army

Battered Army Still On theRun   Rommel Forced to Give Up Ground Gained in Sud den Offensive

Axis Retreat foward Stax On Sea Seen   Kasserine Dass Cleared By Yanks And _ British Rommel Yields Most Of Central Tunisia After Drive Boomerangs   '. HARRISON SALISRIURSY

SEEK REFUGEE HAVENS   ‘Widespread Program Started to Rescue Europeans from Hitler

U. S.-Britain In Move To Rescue Many More Europeans From German:

REFUGEE HAVEN fa SOUGHT BY ALLIES.   American and British Meet to Map Program for Aiding Hitler’s Victims

TO HEAR LABOR CASES   Judge Walter Huxman Will Be Assisted by Three Otherg

“No Let Up" =: Eisenhower   Supreme Commander in Africa Issues Order

LOADED TROOP SHIP 1S SUNK BY AMERICANS   350 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Cape Glouchester

Rabaul Raid Cost: ‘Japs 30 Airplane:   Navy Bombers Attack Nauru, Army And Enemy Planes Exchange Blows .

TROOP-LOADED NIPPON VESSEL TS DESTROYED   Believed To Have Been Carrying Reinforcements for Attack on Yanks on Arawe   U. S. LOSES FOUR "“RIGHTTERS IN RAID   Tokyo Claims 53 American Planes Were Shot Down; Cape Gloucester and Nauru Bembed Again

Rabaul Raider: Down 30 Japs   Tokyo's Wild Claims Disputed; Five U.S. Fighters Missing

Judge Quashes Hub Indictment Against Timilty   Six Other Boston Officials Remain Under Charge; Abatement Pleas Made

Pork Holiday Plea Refused   Solons Asked 10-Day Point-Free Period

MORGENTHAU GIVES — OUT RESULTS ON  2ND WAR LOAN DRIVE   72,938 Newspapers Run $4,056,270 Worth Advertising to Sell Over 676,000) B00, 000 in Ran rg

AID IN POLIO FIGHT   Kansas Assured of Funds from the ’ National Foundation

McNARY HAS OPERATION   Oregon Senator to Leave Hospital Next Week

Enemy Fleeing  Russ Advances   Red Attack Recapture: 820 More Localities

20. EMEMY PLANES DOWNED IN PACIFIC   Allied Airmen Hammer At Enemy’s Attempt To Increase Airpower

PPON AERIAL SES BLASTED   s Seek To Prevent Enemy From Building Up Air Strength

Allied Pilots Destroy 20 Jap Planes   Big Enemy Convoy. Sighted Off Wewak;  Toe’s Bases Blasied

State Emergency Proclamations  Are Approved .   Council Of State Ap.  * proves 3 of Broughton’s Orders, Also Authoriz, es Investment of Addi. tional 10 Million Ir Post-War Fund. °

Congressional Comm ittee Investigating Activities  Of FEPC Group

APRIL TERM ENDS FOR LOCAL COURT “IN-BUSY SESSION   Several Divorces Up for ‘Ac. — tion as: Term Closes © for Summer. .   NEW TERM SEPT.: 3(   ‘Ethel Trimb’e Granted. Di vorce From Huska-d,. Guy Trimble.

APRIL TERM ENDG FOR LOCAL COURT BUOY ocoollh   Several Divorces Up for Ac: tion as Term Closes for Summer.   ‘NEW TERM SEPT. 3   Ethel Trimbe Granted Di vorce From Husta<d, Guy Trimble.

FDR ENCOURAGES “POST-WAR STAND   Holds Public Announcement _...Would Be Helpful to. World 

AF TER-WAR POLICE IDEA   Encourages Senate To Express Willingness That U.S. Join Others In Maintaining Peace.   Plans Food Parley

President Roosevelt Not ‘Cool’ Toward Suggested Post-War World Police Plan

PEACE PROGRAM OF SOLONS IS ENDORSED      Rooseyelt Encourages Sen. ate ta Pledge Aid to ’ Other Nations

Salvo Had Just Sunk Destrover As ‘Something Hit Her,” Eve-Witness Photog: rapher Tells Reporters. 

Helena Hit AtSame Time U.S. Cruiser Sank Jap Destrover   More Than 600 Aboard American Warship Saved: Photovrapher Gives Evewitness Accoun

Cruiser Helena Had Just Bagged Jap Ship When ‘Something Hit Her,’ Says Photographer

Cruiser Helena. Took Jap Destroyer With Her When She Went to Bottom ot Kula Gulf

Kula Tragedy Is Described By Eyewitnes:   Hit After Turning Guns On Enemy Destroyer And - Seeing It Go Up-In Flash

Eyewitness Tells Of Helena’s Sinking  Reveals 600 Survived The Helena’s Sinking

Says Most > Of Helena Crew Saved   Eye-witness Describes Sinking of Cruiser  In Kula Gulf Battle; Only U. S. Ship Lost .

‘Helena Survivor Relates Sinking of Cruiser: 600 Renorted Rescued

tha Halena Went Down Bui Not Before Her Guns Had Blasted A Japanese Destroyer

Helena Wipes Out Jap Ship, ‘Goes to Bottom   Survivors Tell of Efforts of Crew to Save Themselves

Helena Sank Three Nip Vessels Before Going Down, Eye Witness Says

United Nations May Strike From Whole Atlanti Coast and Mediterranean

LEADERS DISCUSS INVASION REGION   New Zealand Minister Says Atlantic, Mediterraean Considered.

Says Allies at Casablanca Talked 3 Invasion Routes; Plan “Pretty Well Settled”

Discuss Place : Of Next Blow Against Axis   Whether To Strike On Mediterranean Coast Or Along Atlantic Is Considered

[SAYS POINTS TO INVADE EUROPE WERE TAKEN HIP   Nash Says Casablanca Parley Pretty Well Settled Landing Places

Phone Under Fire   Chiefs Discuss Invasion Point  Talk Over Where to  Launch Invasion of

All Invasion Plans Fully ~~ Considered   ‘Matter Pretty’ Well ‘Set tled’..at. Casablanca, Says the New Zealand “Minister   ATTENDS ‘PACIFIC’ . WAR COUNCIL   Time ‘and Place for “Action Cannot Be. Toldy: of Course

Talk All Points  Of An Invasion   FDR and Churchill Discuss Striking From Mediterranean or Atlantic.

Allies Agree On Invasion Plan:   Schedule Drawn Up Ai Casablanca

Roosevelt and Churchill Talked About When and Where Would Be Best Place to Strike Germany

BATISH PLANES AGAIN. POUND RUHR VALLE   Concentrate Action. in Bochum-Gelsenkirchen District   FORTRESSES PRESS WAR ‘IN MEDITERRANEAN

BOMBERS SMASH RUHR VALLEY   Concentrate on Bochum-Gelsenkirchen District to Round Out Reeord Week — Thirty Bombers lost in Raid Friday Night.

RUHR AGAIN RAIDED BY THE R.A.F.   Large Fires Are Started In the Bochum District

Bochum Steel Center Hit By RAF Armada   U: S$. Fortresses Shoo Down Nearly 100 Naz Fighters In 2 Days   YANKS LOSE 37   Tens Of Thousands Of Ruhr Citizens Homeless After Week Of Attacks

ALLIED PLANES. DARKEN SKIES OI SUNNY FRANCE   1300 Yank Planes In Formation

1300 U.S. Planes Raid French Invasion Coast   ‘Rocket Gun’ Nests Pounded in Biggest Air Attack of War; R.A.F. Deals New Mighty Blow at Berlin; Big Fires Rage

Channel Area Is Blasted   German Capital Given 1,000-Ton ‘Christmas Load

CONTROL OF GULF SEIZED BY. ALLIES   Capture of Finschhafen Hailed by. General MacArthur 

Allied Advances Spell Jap Doom, Says MacArthur   Seizure of Bases Frees Large Area

Allies Capture Finsehhafen From Japanese   Enemy Suffers Great Losses While Allied Casualties Light, MacArthur Reports

JAPS FORCED OUT OF AREA   Fall of Finschhafen Ends Value for Japs of Some “New Guinea Centers

ALLIES GAIN CONTROL OF HUGN GULF   Obliging Japanese to Withdraw Toward Rear Bases On Northern Shore of New Guinea.   Began June 30

MacArthur Lays Stress of Value  Of Latest Gain   General Asserts That Defense Value of Many. Jan Bases Gone

Japs Are Deprived Of New Guinea  Defense Positions   Capture of Finschhafen Pushes Them Back to North End of Island and Gives Allied Forces Added Strength

Allies Control All of the Vital Huon Gulf   Japanese Forced «to Withdraw Toward Rear Bases

MacArthur Says Allies Control Huon Peninsula   All Enemy Centers In Area Outflanked In Surprise Attack

U. S. Plans Army Rule For Italy   Occupational Program For Boot Being Mapped At Washington

Definite Plans For U. S. Military  Government In Italy Being Formed

Two States Combed For Slayers Of 3   BECOMES HOTTER AS WRECKED CAR IS LOCATED 15 MILES FROM SCENE OF TRAGIC KILL. ING.   Await Wilson’s Return

Couple Held in Ohio In : Connection with Killing Of Three Near Mercer

FOOD CONFERENCE HITS NEW SNAGS   Congressmen, Like Press, Protest. Exclusions.

Ban on Press Relaxed at Food Meeting   2 Congressmen Plar To Ask Inquiry Into Proceedings

DEMAND ACCESS T0 FOOD TALKS   Solves Theater Probe; Press Gets More Freedom

ood Conference ress Ban Is Partly Relaxed   Two Congressmen As Investigation OF Hot Springs Parley

Relax press restrictions at Hot Springs; congressmen to demand session probed

Lower Ba for Press  on Talks   REPORTERS WILL BE ADMITTED AT HOTEL FOR EVENING CONFAB

Italian Troops Stage Mutiny!   Rebel Against Nazi Officers Surrender to American Army

Italians Mutiny By Hundreds   Yankees Slash Half Way Across Sicily; Catania  Battle Rages.

Von Ribbentrop Sees Mussolini   “Complete Agreement Of Views,” Old Axis Phrase, Announced

Axis Conference in Rome Inspires _ Declaration of ‘Agreement of Views’

REACH AN AGREEMENT   Von Ribbentrop and Mussolini Con. fer on Plans for the War

Nazis, Italy Hold Parley   Von Ribbentrop Reaches Full War Agreement With Premier Mussolini

Von Ribbentrop And Duce Meet  Reach Agreement of Views Regarding Wat

Gen. George Says Air Raids  CanBreak Germany This Year   Sees Collapse of German Economic Structure if Tempo Increased. Cites Destruction of Messerschmitt Factory

Russian Forces Hold Initiative West Of Kies   Soviet Troops Also Reported In Outskirts Of Rail Hub Of Smela   RUSSIAN FRONT BATTLES EXTENSIVE

Bombing Of Islands Intensified   Fifth Day of Non-sto] Blasting of Sicily, Sar dinia Hints at Invasion

ALLItO HINTING INVASION NEAR, NAZIS JITTERY   Moscow Reports On Eastern Front Battle Confident Red Lines Will Hold

F MILLION IS HAMMER IET LINES   ck Believed  wing Near  é For Land

HINT ALLIED BALKAN MOVE IS NEARING      King Peter Gives Indication Offensive  Is Not Far Off

BALKAN DRIVE 'NOT FAR OFF HINT BY PETEF   King Does Not Expect To Remain Long In Egypt

KING PETER. HINTS ALLIED - OFFENSIVE IN BALKANS: NEARS      Jugoslav Ruler, Goverment In Cairo Preparing For Return Behind e Liberators. -/_

King Peter Hints Offensive Near   Expresses Hope of Early Return Home

PETER HINTS OF BALKANS DRIVE   Slav King Hopes To Join  Troops When March Opens

CTheDAILY usar Sa. WASHINGTON MERRY - GOROUND (3  By DREW PEARSON

DARING RAID BY ROYAL AIR FORCE KEEPS GERMA? AIR CHIEF OFF THE AIR FOR AN HOUR ON ANNI- VERSARY OF HITLER'S RISE TO: POWER— ‘MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS AND CON- ” FUSED SHOUTS HEARD

Daylight Bomb Attack Made On Berlin By R.A.   Attack Comes At Very Tima Goering Was Starting Speech For Hitler   SPEECH DELAYED FOR OVER HOUR   Hitler Fails To Take Part In Attempted Anniversarv Observance

BOMBS RAINED ON BERLIN AS COERING SPEAKS   Marshal Races To Cellar As Beautifully Timed Attack Opens   FIRST DAYTIME RAID   Hitler Not Present For Party—Russ Adding To Fuehrer’s Worry

BERLIN Voll BY TRE BRITTOH OPUILED TALK   British Rad cn Berlia Interrupted the H_ter  Celebration.     THREATS BY GOERING   Says Germany Will Defeat Rrssia and Orcers Com-— pie e Mobilization.

Bombers In Anniversarv Daylight Raid   Goering Warns England After Russians Are Defeated

Goerinz Speech Interrupted By Daylight Attack   Complete Mobilization Of Country Ordered To Continue war; Negotiated Peace With Soviets Is Ruled Out

Time Of Entry Will Be Determined By Need Of Help   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER and WILLIAM FRYE

Future Acts To Reveal   Impor tance  Of Turk Paet   Great Importance OF Role To Be Revealed At Time Most Valuable To Allied Cause

TURKEY'S © ENTRY INTO WAR SEEN      Could : Open: Gateway To. Balkan Invasion; -When?'Is-Questibn

Turkey on Meconls as” “Associate ~~ of Allies   Deeds, Rather Than Words, Are Expected to-Give Mean“ “ing to ‘Closest. Unity’ ~   ACTION LIKELY AT STRATEGIC MOMENT   Inonu’s.. Conferences “With : - Roosevelt, Churchill Cause Alarm in’ Germany ©   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER AnD: °. WILT TaAar Preyer.

TURKEY'S ROLE 5 IMPORTANT   At Strategic Moment She probably will Enter War With Allies.   TIME STILL UNCERTAIN

DEEDS ARE AWAITED BRING OUT RESULTS TURK CONFERENCE  WASHINGTON OBSERVERS SEE ROLE OF STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE

World To Learn of Turkey’s Decision To Assist Allies in Action in Balkans

Deeds, Not Words, Expected to Come Of Turkey's Role   ‘Country May Declare War on Axis at Strategic Moment

Turkey’s Role Destined to Be of Vital Importance; Believe She Will Enter War at Stratezic Moment

Turkey May Enter War At Strategic Time; Could Open Gateway toBalkans

Ottomans  Expected —  To Fight   Exact Moment Known Only to Allied Chiefs And Their President .,

Qu AUIACY stv AbLiitaAry fFAAalCe  'T lurkey’s . Role As An Associate Of /\lies Expected To Be Vital One

Turk Role Vague   Avow Closest Unity With Allies After Cairo Confab, But Cling to Neutrality

Tribune Rx...   ‘Cession of Bases Held’ Most’ Probable Service: by Ankara ©

Turkey's Role With Allies Deen Secret   Washington Observers Believe She Will Fiaht When Needed

PARTNERSHIP WITH ALLIES ANTICIPATED   Deeds, Rather Than Words, Expected To Bring Out Fulb Significance of New Alliance   IN STRATEGIC POSITION

Washington Sees Turkey In War Soon   Believes She Will Join at Strategically Mast Op— portune Moment

TURKS DECLARE THEIRUNITY WITH ALLIES   Future Action Expected to Bring Out Significance Of Role

TURKEY MAY SOON STATE HER POSITION   Deeds, Rather Than Words, Are Now‘Considered As Likely to Form the Answer

EXPECT TURKEY TO JOIN ALLIES IN WAR ON NAZIS      Time of Attack Known Onl\ To United Nations’ Military Chiefs

Deeds, Rather Than Words, To Bring Full Significance of Cairo Conference, Informed Observers Believe   Yugoslav Guerrillas Get Into Private War

EXPECT TURKEY T0 REACT WITH DEEDS IN NEAR FUTURE:   Observers Feels Turkey Will, When Her Help Will Count Most, Enter the War Against  Cermana 

Turkey Seer As Eventual Belligerent   Probably To Enter War When Her Help To AIlies Counts Most.

Observers Think Turks Will Enter War at Right Moment   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER and WILLIAM FRYE.

Conference Of Allied, Turkish Heads Viewed As Foreshadow To Events Of Far Reaching Significance In East

Observers Predict That Turkey ‘Will Enter The War in Every Respect

CHINESE BAN ~ REPEAL ASKED   PRESIDENT REQUESTS CONGRESS TO LIFT: EXCLUSION DECREE AGAINST FAR EAST ALLIES

ADMIT CHINESE, EXECUTIVE PLEA   Roosevelt Asks U. S. Correct ‘Historic Mistake’ of Exclusion

10 Per Cent Cut I Meat, Coffee, Butter Price Due   Roosevelt Praises Citizens For War Loan Drive Success

Bond Purchasing By U.S. Lauded  Total Tops $18 Billion. President Reports

Lull on Fronts Finds Nazis in Serious Danger   Forces To Retreat On Major Sectors

Nazis Are In Retreat On Italian-Red Fronts   Germans Credited Wtih Making Skillful Evacuation Of South And Central Peninsula Areas

Hull, Eden May Extend War Parley.   Hint Russ, China Welcome  to Meetings on War, Post-War World

Pua T WAR PLAN TO INGLUUE ALL ALLIED NATIONS   Discussions Now Underway Can Be Extended Easily To All, Says Hull   OPENING CONFERENCES ARE HELD THIS MORNING   Hull And Eden Emphasize Necessity For Complete Understandings

‘Discussions With Eden   May Be Extended To Include Diplomats Of All United Nations

FIGHT OPENS IN CONGRESS ON DAD DRAFT   High Command Called In to Give Views Prior to Action

W heeler’s Bill Given  Precedence   General Marshall Will Testify Monday On Bill To Halt Draft Of Family Men

Congress to Survey Needs On Dad Draft   To Give Views Prior to Action By Congress

DRAFT AGTION   Hearings Will Begin Tomor row on Wheeler Bill to Halt Dad Draft.

FATHER DRAFT INITIAL ISSUE FOR CONGRESS   Solons Reconvene and are te Make Early Survey of Man power Needs   WHEELER TO SEEK FAST ACTION ON DEFERMEN?

Congress Is Occupied with Father Draft   Senate Military Affairs Committee to Open Hearings on Wheeler Bill; Geh. Marshall To Testify

Congress Back After Recess   First Action to Be Survey Of Need For Drafting Dads

WILL STUDY BILL T0 STOP FATHER DRAFT   Hearing on Wheeler Measure, Which Is to Be  . Amended to Ban Induction Indefinitely, Will Onen Tomorrow.

Congress to Act On Fathers Draft   Hearings to Open Tomorrow on Bill As Legislators Return from Vacation

Survey Father Draft    First Problem to Get   Attention of Congress i As It Reconvenes Today , After Summer Recess

ARMY AND NAVY TOP LEADERS CALLED ON JUSTIFY FATHER CALL   GEN. GEORGE ‘C. MAR=.. SHALL, CHIEF OF STAFF, BE HEARD MONDAY

GENERAL TO SPEAK ON DRAFT   Congress to Get Views. ot Gen. Marshal and Others of High Command   MAY DELAY VOTE ON WHEELER BILL   But Montanan Opposes De. Jay, Would Defer Call of Fathers Indefinitely

BEGIN PROBE OF DAD DRAFT ON WEDNESDAY   Top Army, Navy Officials Called to Testify Sy Senate Committee   MARSHALL TO APPEAR   Wheeler Asserts He'll Oppose Move To Postpone Measure

Congress Takes  Up Draft Issue  Committee Hearings To Start Tamarraw

Call Hearings On Dad Draft   Joint Congress Group te Hear High Command

Father Draft Laid at Door Of Military   Wheeler, However, Will Try to Force Senate Vote Without Delay

Will Force Vote To Halt Drafting Of Young Fathers   Wheeler Says He Will Oppose Administration At. tempts to Delay.   ‘Should Use Some in  Civilian Production

‘ongress Takes Prompt Action To Survey Need For Drafting Pre - Pear! Harbor Fathers; Wheeler Wants No Delay In Vote.

QUICKLY ON DRAFT IPRE-WAR FATHERS   High Command Called On to State Its Views and Early Action Expected ..

Army Chiefs To Be Asked About Father's Draft   Congress Plans Immediate Survey of Question

Congress Back; To Study Need For Dad Draft   Early Action Due After High Command Has Stated Its Views.

CONGRESS WILL SURVEY FATHER DRAFT OUTLOOK   High Command Will State Views Prior to Congressional ‘Action

THE DRAFTING OF FATHERS TAKEN UP   Congress Called the High Command to State Its View on Question.

Guerrillas Claim. Victory   Partisans Defeated Germans on Every Hand, Tito Says

NAZIS SUFFER NEW DEFEATS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Germans Throwing Away Lives, Tanks

Spectacular Defeat Inflicted _ On Nazis’ New ‘Annihilation’ Offensive By Slay Guerrillas   Germans ‘Everywhere’ In Yugoslavia Suffer Defeats, Special Bulletin Says

Spectacular Defeat Inflicted Upon Latest German “Arnihilation” Gffensive Tito Declares

Yugoslavs Cive German  Ar my Beating   Many Divisions Pinned Down By Partisans

FUGOSLAVS INFLICT DEFEAT ON ENEMY   Enemy Thrown Into Retreat In Numerous Sectors, Says Tite.

Yugoslavs Inflict Defeat On Nazis   Tito Claims Germans Handed Sharp Setback

Slavs Inflict Shattering Blow on Foe   Guerrilla Army Deals Germans Defeat On Widespread Front

Yugoslavs Give  Nazis Setback   Spectacular Defeat Inflicted On Latest German Offensive.

HEAVY DOCKET MAYOR'S COURT HERE LAST NIGHT   Several Cases Presented Were Bound Over For  Recorder’s Session.

ALLIES oUFFER HEAVY Laat IN JAP ATTACK   Intercepting Fighters Downed .by.51 Plane Raiders Over 8 Darwin.   13 ATTACKING AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OR DAMAGED

"HEAVY RAID ON DARWIN   13 Of 51 Planes Are Downed; Allied Losses Large

—  F ifty-One Jap Planes in Assault; Thirteen Attackers Are Shot Down   British Coastal Forces Sink German Patrol Boats

JAPS RENEW AIR ASSAULTS UPON ALLIED OUTPOSTS   15. Enemy Attackers -Are Downed But Allied Losses Greatest In Any Single Ennadement. ~ .   RUSSIANS KILL 7000 IN RECENT FIGHTING   Reds Launch Air Struggle On Entire Front, Disrupt Axis to Prevent Launching Offensive,

ALLIES ADMIT BIG AIR LOSSES IN DARWIN RAID   Interceptors Shot Down By 51 Japanese Planes on Bombing Mission.

RAID BREAKS LULL IN JAP AIR ACTIVITY   Thrust Comes as Plans Are Laid to Counter Threat of Submarine Warfare.

Allies Suffer Heavy Losses In ‘Aerial Battle   Interceptor Planes — Shot Down In Jap Raid Against Darwin

\LLIED LOSS “HEAVY IN JAP DARWIN RAID   eo ussies, Yanks sPsepare to Cope With Sub Menace, Warn Australia Still Endangered.

MINERS IGNORE PLEAS TO WORK   President Told Railroaders Will Take Strike Vote

GOAL PRODUCTION [5 CRIPPLED BY MINE WALKOUUTS   Labor Troubles Beset F.R. As 350,000 Raif Workers Decide. on Strike Vote.

MINE STRIKES IDLE 38,000 IN 6-STATE AREA   Poll 350,000 Railroad Employes On 4-Cent Pay Increase

FAMANS BALD LONDON TODAY   Daylight Attack Is Largest Since Early Aerial Battle Of Britain.

11 Nazi Planes Shot — Down In London Raid   School Smashed And Set Afire And Many Bodies Taken From Ruins; Germans Attack Under Cover Of 50 To 100 Fighter Bombers.

DAYLIGHT RAIDERS STRIKE AT LONDON   Number Of Children Killed As Germans Attack

11 NAZIS SHOT DOWN IN RAID OVER LONDON   School Smashed andSet Afire Yields Bodies of Many Youne Children.   ATTACK AT LUNCH HOUR, MACHINEGUN STREETS

Eleven German Planes Downed Over Britain   Londoners Watch Dog Fights Over  PO ate fb «>

NAZI BOMBERS MAKE DAYLGH RAID ON LONDON   Largest Such~Attack On British Capital Since 1940 and 1941 Mass Aerial Assaults   ‘ELEVEN-DOWNED   School Smashed, Homes ~ Wrecked by Reiders; . Only Few Succeed In Reaching City

London Bombed In Major Raid By Nazi Fliers   11 Attacking Planes Are Reported Destroyed By Tits! ighters one

LONDON CHILDREN ON WAY TO SCHOOL — DIE IN NAZI RAID   Six Focke- -Wulf Dive Dive Bombers ~- Drop Explosives,. Machine Gun Streete.

Nazi Day Raid on London Kills ‘School Pupils   Building Is Fired, Many Bodies Are Taken from Debris

DAYTIME RAID OVER LONDON DEVASTATING   Preliminary Reperts Indicate That at Least Eleven Of Attacking Planes Were Downed

London Bombed By Nazi Planes   Twenty-Four Killed in Biggest Raid Since the Battle of Britain.

NAZI BOMBS “ON SCHOOL IN LONDON   At Least 55 Killed in First Daylight Raid in Several Months   ELEVEN ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN   Raiders Skim Rooftops and Machinegun Streets;, Many Watch Battle

LONDON BOMBED IN BIG DAY RAID   11 FOE PLANES SHOT DOWN AS CITY GETS GREATEST GOING OVER

BOMBS HURLED ON LONDON IN DAYLIGHT RAID   School Smashed, Set on Fire, 24 Children Killed in One of Two Sections Struck   FEW REACH CITY   At Least 11 Aitacking Planes Shoi Down hy Brilish Fighters—Brilish Raid Continen!

Nazis Lose 11 Planes; School,  Homes Destroyed   Raiders Skim Housetops in First Major Davlight Raid Since Battle of Britain

Machineeun And Bomb  London Today   British Shoot Down Eleven Of Attacking Planes

School Smashed And Fired: Many Bodies Taken From Ruins; People Machine-Gunnec

German Fliers Attack London 11 Downed   Twenty-Four Children Killed in School Which Was Bombed; Nazis Als« Use Machine Gun

1 of Attacking Planes Downed  Raiders Skim Over  RY PORE ey ele 8 Ae RANOS)

GERMANS LOSE ELEVEN PLANES IN DAY ATTACK   Citizens Watch Biggest Aerial Scrap Since ‘Blitz’ Davs

LONDON BOMBED, MACHINE-GUNNED TODAY IN DAYLIGHT   Said to Be Largest German Daylight Raid Since the Battle of Britain.   ELEVEN PLANES DOWN   A School Was Smashed and Set Afire; Many Bodies Recovered.

11 WARPLANES SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH FLIERS   At Least 24 Children Killed When Bomb Hits School. Two Sections of City Attacked.

GERMANS AND STRAFE THE BRITISH CAPITAL   Largest German Day Attack On London Since Battle of Britain; Many Killed In School; ! Planes Downed.

LONDON BOMBED, MACHINE GUNNED   British Down Eleven Nazi Planes; 24 School Children Killed

24 CHILDREN DIE IN BRUTAL RAID; BIG REICH LOSS   Largest Daylight Attack in Months Costs Enemy 11 Of Its Planes

NAZIS CARRY OUT DAYLIGHT HIT-RUN ATTACK ON LONDON   Done In Residential Area—Train Is A Taroet  I:

London Bombed, Machine-Gunned By Nazi Planes   Biggest Daylight Raid By Germans Since Battle Of Britain.

11 German Planes Shot Down in Raids Over England; London Is Bombed

London Machine-Gunned And Bombed In Largest Daylight Assault Since Battle Of Britain

Sections Bombed and Machine-Gunned ; Several Killed; Others Injured

eacrit RAD OVER LONDON   11 Nazi Planes Brot Down; Some. Casualties Suffered

Crowded School Razed: 11 Nazi Raiders Downed   Bombers Strike Under Cover Of Fleet Of Fighters Patrolling Channel Area

= #& #4 Fit y ee SI ge 3 ae t nt { ~~ *  eed  avifii¥ i a ee) a ee 8 ee  Nazi Raiders Blast London      School Smashed, Streets Strafed, Ir Largest Day Attack In Two Years

Germans Blast London.   Eleven Nazi War Planes Take Part in Heaviest — Daylight Raid Since Battle of Britain

Eleven Raiders Shot Down; 30 Children Killed   Dive Bombers Sent Over te Avenge Berlin; Met hy R.A. EF.

London Hit Tn Daylight Nazi Attack   24 Children Killed in School Wrecked by  German Bomb ~

London Bombed In Largest Day Raid Since July   11 German Planes Shot Down; School Target Of Nazis

RAF F ighters : Bag 11 Planes   School Among Wrecked Buildings; Death Toll At Least 55

Tl NAZI GRAFT SHOT DOWN IN ATTACK BY DAY   Schonk Smashed, Set Afire as Germans Machinegun Pedestrians

Londonls Bombed In Daylight Raid   1} Planes Shot Down in Heaviest Raid Since Battle of Britain   30 KILLED IN SCHOOL   Raiders Skim Rooftops, Ma chinegun People in the _ Streets

London Is Bombed By  Nazi Planes   Twenty-Four Children Killed In One School During Daylight Raid By German Airmen

London Bombed In Day Raid; Children Die   At Least Eleven of Foe Planes Are Shot Down By the RAF

Taxes to Be Enacted at Next Session of Congress to Be One-Half of Requirements   Senator George Sounds Warning Against Further Increases on Individual Income Levies; ‘Little Man’ Threatened

George Sees Big Tax Increase as  National Menace  Senator Says Middle Class Would Be Ruined

Soviets Make Advance On Six Sectors   Russians Within Artillery Range Of Rail Junction

RUSSIANS ROLLING — STEADILY WESTWARD ON MANY SECTORS  RED ARMIES DOGGEDLY BATTERING WAY FORWARD AGAINST GERMANS

Gen. Rokossovsky’s Troops Converge in Pincers Movement on Rail Hub and Escape Gap

RED ARMIES ON 6 SECTORS   Three in White Russia and Three in Ukraine Batter Way Doggedlly.

SOVIET TROOPS ‘CONVERGING ON - RATLROAD HUB   ‘Forming Pincer Movement: -* On Fortress Guarding  Captured Gomel Escape Gap   GAINS REGISTERED ON ALL SEX FRONTS   German Failure to Seize Initiative Held Likely to Have Profound Effect On War's Outcome

RERS ROLL W EST IN SiX SECTORS   Pita Progress ported In Réportec Sector

Advances Reported In White Russia, Ukraine; Dnieper Offensive Renewed

SOVIETS DRIVE FORWARD ON SIX SECTORS   Russians Doggedly Battering Way Through Forests, Swamps and Plains Toward Nazi Defenses   CONVERGE ON RAIL HUB

Red Armies Roll Ahead Today  On Six Sectors  Most Progress Made In Pincers Move To North of Gomel

Soviets Make Progress In Advance on Zhlobin,  Strategic German Base

RUSSIANS IN STEADY PUSH IN THE UKRAINE   Germans Fall A Reds Continue Fast Advance

RED FORCES MAKE CAINS WG AREAS   Gomel Escape Gap Drive Progress Continues

Soviet Troops Smash Ahead On Six Fronts   Spearhead Seizes Town Only 12 Miles South of Zhiobin   NEW SOVIET DRIVE

Troops Converge On Zhlobin In.  Pincers Movement   Columns Driving Steadily Westward On 6 Sectors of Long Front.

Six Red Armies Roll Westward  Strike Hard in White Russia, Dnieper Bend

Red Armies Roll Ahead Today On Six Sectors  Most Proaress Mad   Most Progress Made In Pincers Move To Narth of Gomel

REDS ADVANCE IN SIX SECTORS ON WIDE FRONT   Russian Spearheads Only 12 Miles From Zhiobin

Reds Continue Westward Push On Six Sector:   Report Greatest Progress Made In-Zhlobin Area; Gain In River Valleys

BEST PROGRESS IS REPORTED IN ZHLOBIN REGION   Gains Made In Three Arees In White Russia And Three In Ukraine; Villages Taken, Many Ger mans Slain.

Reds Press Nazis Back On 6 Fronts   Kiev Counter-Attack Futile; Foe Races for Zhiobin Corridor

Greatest Progress Reported in Zhlobin Se stot? é Northwest of Captured Gomel, Other Adyar Recorded on Berezina and Pripet River Vi

Russians Roll To Westward   Advance on Six Sectors Of Long German Front

Pincers Move Being Anplied Near Zhlobin   Stalin Armies Battering Ahead In Every Sector

Russians Gain In Six Drives   Greatest Progress In Zhlobin Sector ‘Northwest of Gomel

Nazi Failure fo Stop Offensive: Seen in London as Profoundly Affecting Final Quicome   DEFENSE LINE CUT   Reds Converge on Zhlobin in Pincers Movemeni, Press On Towerd Old Polish Border

Red. Armies Roll Steadily Westward On Six Sectors Of Embattled Front

Russians Gain In Six Sectors  Reach To Within Dozen Miles Of Zhlobin  > nFeen eee oe 2s _ » omen, es

Red Armies Roll Ahead ‘On 6 Fronts   Push Through Area Dense With Fortifications ~Pincers at Zhlobin

Soviet Troops Drive Nearer To Zhliobin   Steady Advance in Six Sectors of Front  Are Reported

THREE IN WHITE RUSSIA, THREE IN THE UKRAINE   Greatest Progress Was Reported in Zhlobin Sector, Northwest of the Captured City of Gomel.

REDS DRIVE WESTWARD IN SIX SECTORS   Troops Push Steadily Forward Through Three Areas of White Russia, and Through Like Numher in TWkraine.

Russ Armias Roll Westward On Six Sectors   Reds Batter Way Through Fortified Nazi Defense Lines

Reds Gain in Six Sectors Of Front   Russians Try Pincers Move In Attack On Zhlobin

Wide Beachheac On Jap-Held Isle Quickly Captured  More Heavy Loads OM Ramh< Drovped   More Heavy Loads Of Bombs Dropped On Marshall Islands

Subsidy, Money Bills Balk  Congress Recess   Senate Must Tackle Rollback Measure Before Adjourning; Session Approves 130 Billions

Senate Will Act On CCC Extension   Rollback Funds Raised  In Hanse Meszsure

Congress May Quit This Week   Subsidy Verdic Js Awaited For  Adjournment

Subsidy. Problem Balks Congress  3 Money Bills Held Up Through  Failure to Sattle Controvarcy

LEADERS SEEK EARLY RECESS " OF CONGRESS   gry to Dispose of Subsidy, Appropriation Problems

‘Congress Seeks Early Decision  On Subsidy Plan   rte . Senate Today Takes Uy + House Bill Permitting ; Six Months’ Rollback   WORKS FOR RECESS  » Hopes to Dispose of Five Money Bills Too, Rotore Week Fnds

SUBSIDY BILL SCHEDULED FOR SENATE ACTION   Leaders Will Tackle ! Money Measures Prior To Recess Planned  For This Week   War Budget Slated

Funds Measures Block Recess   Subsidy Issue Also Holding Up Solons

Here Are the Revised Draft Rules   WAR MANPOWER CHIEF REVEALS NEW STATUS FOR MALES OF U. S.

Give New Draft Classifications   3-B Category Eliminated Under New Rules

Revised List Of Classes   Entire 3-B Group Eliminated in New Order by McNutt

ONLY. FEW ARE. ' EXEMPT FRom DRAFR CALT   Prnetically AM Able Bodied en a IS to 37 Vea? Clacy Faeg Induction,

Thousands of Men Who Became Dads Given Deferment   Fathers, Now Only Men Deferred Solely Because of Family Relationship, Cannot Be Drafted Until Further Orders to Boards

Noted Medical Authority Dies   Dr. Kelly Was Member Of “Big Four” Of John’s Hopkins Faculty.

Death Summons Dr. Kelly, Well Known Surgeon   Iinergetic Scientist Had Colorful Life in Many Fields

Wife, Patient At Same Hospital At Which He Died, Succumbs Six  Hours Later    BOTH UNCONSCIOUS FOR SEVERAL DAYS   She Had Been Invalid Several Years; Couple Married In Danzig, Now Germany, In 1888

PREDICTS ‘PACKS OF ROVING YOUTHS   Decision on Drafting Fathers Causes Turmoil, Savs Senator.

Urge Congress  To Defer Dads   Senators Say Orphaned Children Will Be Roaming Streets After War.

Predict Child “Wolf Packs” if Dads Taken   SENATOR SEES ORPHANS ROAMING NATION AFTER WAR; PROTESTS DRAFT

LANDON FEARS” MOSCOW PACT   Gor ‘CANDIDATE OF SEVEN YEARS AGO SAYS REPUB. LICAN SHOULD GET MORE INFORMATION

RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACK FLANKS AND FROM REAR   German Retreat. in Some Parts of Dnieper Bend Called Real Rout

RAF. RESUMES DAY AND NIGHT AIR ASSAULTS   Improved Weather Permits Raids On Abbeville, Brest And U-Boat Bases.

RAF strikes nazi targets in new raids   Report British attacks against France, Norway

RAF RESUMES DAY, NIGHT OFFENSIVE   Abbeville and. ‘Brest Are Hits . Raids Are Resumed

RAF Hits Again at French Cities   Nazi Airbase, Seaport Newest Victims

Germans Bomb, Strafe Town In England; RAF Hits U-Boat Lair; Makes Day Raid on Oslo

RAF Batters. U-Boat Bases   Air Offensive Back O1 Day And Nicht Basis

Distant Enemy Bases In South Pacific Bombed   Liberators Range 900 Miles. From Darwin In Daylight Raid

U.S, FLYERS HIT SOEMBA ISLAND   Blast Jap Positions 900 Miles From Darwin, Damage Cargo Ship

JAPAN'S BASES ARE SLAPPED ~ BY LIBERATORS   Nipponese Get Hints Of Things To Come

WAINGAPOE HARBOR BOMBED YESTERDAY BY U.S, LIBERATORS   Japanese Given Their Second  Hint of Things to Come,   It Is Announced.   USED 500 POUND BOMBS   Harbor Is on the Coast of Soemba Island, 900 Miles West of Darwin.

YANK BOMBERS! AGAINHITJAP PACIFIC BASES   Liberators Fly Without Jap Protection to Blast Bases, Damage Nip Cargo Ship   AUSSIE FIGHTERS STRAFE JAPANESE   Nipponese People Are Told “United States Must Be Destroyed” With Britain

Far-Ranging Liberators Bomb Jap Strongholds   American Bombers, Flying In Daylight Beyond Range Of Escorting Fighters, Attack Island 900 Miles West Of Darwin, Australia

BOMB JAPS ON ISLAND BASES   Far - Ranging ‘Liberators Strike At Enemy 900 Miles from Darwin

EXTEND RANGE QF AIR RAIDS   Allied Bombers in Pacific Fly 900 Miles to Attack Jap Harbor,   'JAPS MAKE NEW THREAT

iLiberators Bomb Harbor lof Waingapoe; Give Nips Hint of Things to Come

Liberators Extend Allied Bombing Are in Southern Pacific   Far - Reaching Airplanes ~~Give Hint of Grim Things to Come

U. S. Planes Carry War  To Japanese   Fly Far 1o Westward To Attack 900  Miles From Darwin

American Bombers Attack Hongay   Docks, Warehouses Rail Yards of Enemy Area Are Damaged

U.S. Bombers Stage Attack On Hongay   Heavy Damage Done To Japanese Base in French Indo-China

U. 8. Bombers Attack Haiphong   Vast Damage Inflicted Chinese Forces Smast Jap Defense Line Southeast of Vital Hwa jung.

NAVY ANNOUNCES SUBMARINE LOS   Before Triton Went Down She Sent At Least 11 Jap Vesselc To Bottom

U. 9. SUBMARINE [5 LUST WITH 60 MEN   Submarine Triton on Patrol Duty, Was Three Years Old.

GAS CHECKUP 1S ANNOUNCED   OPA TO INAUGURATE VIGOR: OUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE GASOLINE BLACK MARKET

CALLS FOR INQUEST IN DEATH OF WOMAN   Evidence Indicates Mrs. Long Committed Suicide

PROBE DEATH OF HORSE WOMAN, 33   Dies in Plunge From Hotel Window

INQUEST CALLED IN DEATH OF MRS, LONG   Husband Gives Account of Wife’s Fatal Plunge.

Governor Is Challenged By State Auditor   Ross Disputes Martin's Report on Condition of State Funds   ACTION IS DEMANDED

VETERANS LAW. CHANGE URGED   FORMER YFW LEADER  SEEKE FEDERAL JOB GUARANTEE.    FOR ALL AMPUTATION  2, VICTIMB -

VETERANS WILL BE GIVEN JOBS   Solon Would Revise Law 0 Preference For Maimed

Soviets Retreat » In The Ukraine  For. First Time   Sutt ‘Nazi Counter-Drives, '. Difficult Terrain; Bad ' Weather. Hinder Reds

REDS GIVE GROUND   Russians Meet' With First  Reverses in Past Four Months

Russians Forced To Retreat   First Time ‘Since Drive Started Reds Gave Ground.

Reds Forced To Yield Ground   FIERCE NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS HALT “RUSSIANS

REDS WITHDRAW IN ONE AREA OF UKRAINE FRONT   First Gain Nazis Have Made Since Soviets Started Summer Drive

SOVIETS LOSE FIRST GROUND IN 4 MONTHS   Germans Throw 150,000 Men Into Counter-Attack in éhitomir Sector.

Soviet Army Pauses in Offensive   Powerful German Counterattacks Cause Withdrawal

Red Army Withdraws In Zhitomir-Korostyshev Sector, At Tip Of Salient West Of Kiev, In Face Of Stiff Counter-Attacks, Adverse Weather And Difficult Terrain—Maneuver Believed Simply Tactical Movement To Save Small Advance Guard

REDS RETREAT WEST OF KIEV   Soviets Withdraw To Prevent Encirclement of  Advance Guard

—RUSSIA—   RETREAT FOLLOWS GERMAN ATTACKS   Adverse Weather, Difficult Terrain Result In Withdrawal   Russian Action, However, Believed To Be On Small Scale

Red Drive Halts for First Time   Germans Force Withdrawals in Zhitomir Area

Soviets Make Withdrawal In Zhitomir-Korostyshev Area After Foe Attacks

WITHDRAWAI ISMOVETO = AVOID TRAP   Moscow Views It As Maneuver To Save  Light Advance Guard

Russians Say 1,500 Nazis Die In Drive   Soviets Hampered By Attacks, Bad Weather, Rough Terrain

RED ARMIES GIVE GROUND IN UKRAINE   Russians Make Gains In Two  Other Areas

Withdrawal Not On Large Scale, Soviets Assert   Retreat Comes After Strong Enemy Counte Blows; Reds Attack In Southern Ukraine

Reds Retreat Under Nazi Pressure   First Withdrawal Since Offensive Got Under Way

SOVIETS FORCED TO GIVE GROUND   tussian Withdrawal Not Believed To Be On Large Seale; Germans Stage Fierce Counter Offensive.

Soviets Give Ground Before Nazi Assaults   Advance Troops Fall Back on Salient Tip West of Kiev

Nazis Hurl Heavy Counterassaults In Zhitomir Area   Throw Masses. of Tanks and at Least 150,000 Troops Into Desperate Attacks. Red. With. drawal Not Believed on Large Scale. Drive on Korosten Continues.

SOVIETS FORCED 10 GIVE UP GROUND IN TRE ORRAIN   Retreat In Zhitomir Area The First In 4 Months   ATTACK COSTLY TO THE GERMANS

Soviet Army ~ Draws Back In Ukraine   First Time It Has Given Ground in Four Months Of Offensive Drive

Reds Withdraw For First Time Since Offensive   Moscow Observers Believe Retreat Only Maneuver

Germans Force’ Russians Back  Soviet Forces Yield Ground Before Nazi

Soviets  Lose _ Ukraine Area   Fierce Counter - Attacks  Of Germans Result  In Withdrawal

Reds Back Up In One Sector   Forced To Consolidate Gains; Advance In Other Areas

Reds Forced Back On Ukraine Front   Withdrawal Follows Nazi Attacks; Described as Tactical Maneuver

RUSSIANS GIVE UP GROUND IN UKRAINE TO THE GERMANS   Red Army Was Confronted With Stiff Counterattacks and Bad Weather.   FIRST TIME IN 4 MONTHS   Withdrawal Was Executed Yesterday in the ZhitomirKorostyshev Sector.

Scrap Sold To Jap Coming Back In Shrapnel Wounds   Clinton, la., Hospital Finds U. S. Razor Blade In Wounds

GAS SHORTAGE PREVENTABLE, STATES DAVIES   ‘Faulty Rationing System Blamed By Deputy Administrator At Washington

WALLACE’S BOOST OF FDR. DRAWS. W TALK         Republicans Want Eisenhower Or MacArthur.

FOURTH-TERM ISSUE OCCUPIES POLITICAL TALK   Wallace’s Statement Regarding FRD’s Presiding at Peace Conference Caneca

War To Cost $109 Billion Next Year   Congress in Jam over Appropriations Bills; Senate Committee To Investigate BEW Setun.

Voice in Berlin Lays Italy's Plight to King  {l Duce Speaks To Nation,  Broadeast Says

POLISH-SOVIET SPLIT WIDENS   Little Hope of Early Reconciliation After Bitter Statements.

Russ-Polish Rift Widens  Little Hope Of Any Early Reconciliation

Russ-Poiand Row In Biffer Phases   Little Hope Seen Of Early Agreement

Polish-Russian Charges Hurled  Both Nations Issue Bitter Statements

New Britain Feels Allied Air Fury .  No Let-Up in Systematic Pounding of Jap ~Bases Which Began With Raid on Rabaul

HEAVY POUNDING BY  AIR HAS STARTED  ON NEW BRITAIN ALLIED PLANES SYSTEM ATICALLY EXPLOIT THEI RARANT VICTArY

Aerial Assault Blasts Jap Base   New Britain Bombed« Heavily by Allies

PRE-INVASION JABS   Airstrips on New Bnitain Subjected to Systematic -Attacks = -

Allied Warplanes  Pound New Britain   Heavy Attacks Made By Bombers On Japenese Bases in Pacific

Russians Gain Above Gomel   Heavy Fighting on Whole Front as Nazis Battle to Crack Line

RED ARMY TROOPS CARVED OUT NEW GAINS NEAR GOME!   German Infantry and Tank Divisions Battered in Vain at the Bridgehead.   The Fighting Continued With Unabated Ferocity All Along the Front.

RED ARMY NL ~NEW ADVANCES   Carves Out New Gains Northwest of Gomel; Nazis Fight in Vain.

Soviet Forces Drive Forward  N. W. Of Gomel   Germans Batter In Vair At Cherkasy, Red Bass On Dnieper.

Soviet Troops Advancing in  Gomel Area   Reinforced Germans Pound Cherkasy Brideghead; 80  Towns Taken by Russians

Nazis Keep on Pouring in Lroons   Efforts to Break Russian Bridgehead Continued * Despite Losses   NEW RED GAINS WEST OF GOMEL   Germans Report Russians Making New Drive.on -. ° Road to Minsk

Russians Grind Out New Gains North Of Gomel   Beat Off German Blows At Cherkasv

Russ Carve New Gaius in Gomel Area  Fighting Continues With Unabated Fury All Along Front      TEAVY NAZI LOSSES Germans Batter in Vait Against Soviet Dnicper Bridechead

Nazis Batter At Bridgehead   Heavy Attacks Fail, Reds In New Gains Near Gomel

Nazi Offensive Halted As Reds Carve Out Gains   Winter Mud, Snow Fail To Cheek Fierce Battles

NAZI ATTAGKO FAL TO SLOW RUSSIAN   Red Army Makes New Gains Along Long Front

SOVIET ARMIES GAINING FROM GERMANS AGAIN   Fighting Continues With Unabating Ferocity Today

‘Azoy Death Trap Costs Nazis 40,100   Reds Gain On Four Ke; Salients, Push Beyond Ole Battle Line   35,000 FOE DI   Berlin Admits Retreat Hinting Withdrawal Tc Stalino Defenses

Reserves Fail fo Stop Soviets  Mighty Struggle of Germans Prove Futile

REDS ADVANCE FROM GOMEL   Soviets Hold Against Nazis Attacks at Cherkasy

Initiative Regained By Soviet Forces; Capture 80 Towns Northwest Of Gomel

  BO TOWNS IN COMEL AREA   German Infantry And Tanks Smash In Vain Against Reds At Cherkasy

FIGHTING ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT BLOODY, FIERCE   Germans Batter In Vain As_ Russians Score New Gains: 2,900 Nazis Reported Killed In Thursday's Battles.

Fresh Gains Are Made In  Gomel Area   Numerous Towns Taken By Russian Troops — Nazis Fail To Smash Cherkasy Bridgehead

Nazis Again Hurl Force at Reds, Suffer Severely  Hanvuyu Attarle Ratta:   Heavy Attacks Batter In Vain Against Russian Juqgernaut

NEW ADVANCES N. W. OF GOMEL   Reinforced Nazis Pound in Vain Against Soviet Bridgchead at Cherkasy

RUSSIANS GRIND OUT NEW GAINS NORTH GOMEL    Heavily Reinforced German Infan iry and Tanks Baiter Cherkasy Bridgehead in Vain   2900 NAZIS SLAIN   Germans Report New Russian Of  fensive Surging Toward Orsha ' and Minsk

MECHANIZED GERMAN  FORCES ARE HURLED  AGAINST RED ARMY NAZIS FAIL TO MAKE  GAINS WHILE RUSSIANS CONTINUE ADVANCE

—RUSSIA—  RUSSIANS CAIN IN GONEL ARE   Germans Rush Mechanized Forces From West ern Europe

Reds Grind Out New Gains In Gomel Area, Beat Off Heavy jReinforcements At Cherkasy   Fighting Rages Furiously All Along Front; 2,900 Germans Killed In Day

NAZI ATTACK MADE IN VAIN AT CHERKASY   Heavily Reinforced Infantry and Tank Divisions Lose Heavily in Blows at Soviets’ Dniener River Bridgzehead.

Reds Hold Off Fresh Nazi Troops   ‘Reinforced German Army  Fails to Crack Cherkasy  Bridgehead

Reds Carve Out Gains Northwest Of Gomel   Germans Beat Heads Against Cherkasy Wall

SOVIETS GRIND OUT NEW GAINS: IN GOMEL AREA      Heavy German Attacks At Cherkasy Also Beaten Off; Fighting Furious Despite Rain, Snow

NEW GAINS FOR FIGHTING REDS   Nearly 2,900 Germans Slain In Thursday's Battles; 80 Towns Seized

Red Army Captures More Than 80 Towns Northwest of Gomel   Allied Edict at Cairo Bad News For Hitler

Soviets Smash Out New Gains   Reinforced Nazis Fight Desperately Along Entire Front

Reds Carve Out Gains Near Gomel   German Forces Unable to Batter Russians at Cher kasy. Bridgehead.

Russians Carve Out New Gains Capture 80 Towns In Gomel Area; _.German Armor .. Hurled inta Prav

Nazis Again Hurl Force at Reds, Suffer Severely  Heavy Attacks Batter In Vain Against Russian Juggernaut

REDS ELE ANGE AREA NEAR GOMEL   Nazis ‘Reinforcing Their Army And Attacking

Nederland Man Downs Jap Zero   Bombers Encounter Heavy Antiaircraft Fire, But Get Away Safely

LANA TURNER WEDS ANNULLED HUSBAND   Love and Coming Baby Are Given as Reasons

U. S. Forces Continue Mop. ping Up Remaining Japs On Attu Island   SOME SMALL GROUPS STILL RESISTING

YANKEE TROOPS UNITE ON ATTU   Resistance Slight, 400 Japs Killed as Units Join at Chichagof

SWEEPING NEW ATTACKS BLAST ENEMY BASES   Fortresses Literally Thumb Noses At Huns During Raid On Foggia   BOMB WITHOUT ESCORT   Heaviest Raid Of Wars . Made On Big Japanese % Post In New Guinea

US’ VICTORY ON ATTU POINTS T0 NEW BLOWS   Kiska, With Force of 10,000 Japs, Mav Be Next Objective

36,000 Miners Out: Rail Men Consider Strike   Scattered Walkouts Affect Mines in Six  States—Representative: Of Railroads Meet

39,000 MINERS ARE ON STRIKE IN SIX STATES   New Walkouts Come t As Gloomy Report Is Made on Fuel

Jones Rejects Apology, Renews Wallace Feud  Vice-President Says  No Reflection Meant  On Commerce Secretar CITES RFC ‘DELAYS’  ‘Ty. bo welles 8 ee ee

Wallace, Jones Feud Flares Anew   Byrnes Attempts To Settle Row With Conference

WALLACE AND JONES BATTLE FLARES ANEV   VICE PRESIDENT’S CRACKS AT RFC RESENTED

POT - KETTLE CONTROVERSY FLARES ANEW   Secretary Of Commerce Jone:  Issues Fresh Statement  Accusing Vice President Of Dastardly Untruths   Met At White House

Jones-Wallace Controversy Flares Up Again   le aging a Aas Ne EA pected gee kige y New Statements Issued, Wallace’s Charges Untrue Dastardly, Jones Says

Vice President Flayed in Hot New Deal Fight   Statement About RFC "Un true’, Secretary of Commerce Charges   Wallace Says He Does Noi Question Jones's Patriotism

WALLACE JONES PRESSURE EASED   Feud Charges Heard By Byr nes Then Opponents Calmed

Accusations Against RFC Untrue, He Says  STATEMENT ISSUED BY CHIEF OF BEW  Says No Reflection on Patriotism of Jones lntondod

WALLACE, JONES IN DISCUSSION OF DIFFERENCES   Vice President Intended No Reflection On Com merce Head’s Patriotism   WHITE HOUSE PARLEY LASTED TWO HOURS

Accuses Vice President of Making a “Dastardly” and “Un. true” Charge Against RFC—Statement Follows White House Talk Between Two and Wallace’s Assertion He Intended No Reflection on Secretary’s Patriotism.

Jones says Wallace made untrue charge in RFC controversy   . Washington’s hottest argument flares again with new statement

Bitter Feud Flares Again As Jones Accuses Wallace Of Making Untrue Charge

Wallace-Jones Controversy Flares Again   Vice President’s State ment “Dastardly, Untrue” Jones Says

‘JONES STILL “HOT.”   Apology from Wallace ‘Has, No Effect on RFC Head. -

WALLACE JONES FEUD RENEWED   Vice President Accused Of Making Untrue  Statements

Wallace, Jones Conti tinue Feud   Confer With Byrnes Over Differences

Neely’s Supporters Force 75 Roll Calls; Proclamation Extends Legislative Session for Two Days Into Next Week

SINKS U-BOAT   Srazilian Plane Reported to Mave Renredd Wen Atlantic:

Tripoli  Welcomes British   Civil Population Wild With Joy. Over Defeat Of Axis Which Frees Them from Bondage

Liberated Tripoli Jews throw selves at feet of allied friends   ‘Viva America! Viva Inglisi? are cries greeting conquering nations

Neely Yields, Qualified Leave Given Thomas.   Tanuary Calendar   © Tripoli Pobulace Embraces Liberators During Joyous Celebration -

Emotional Outbursts When Tripoli Fell Are Described   16,000 jews Liberated When British Forces Advanced Into City  By DON WHITEHEAD AND GEORGE TUCKER

Liberation of Tripoli Ghetto By British Victory Hailed   Emotional Qutburst of People Almost Riotous As They Recognize War Correspondents As Americans; Some Throw Themselves At Their Feet, Offering Gifts of Wine, Tobacco, Money

Liberated People Kiss Dusty Shoes  Of Americans   Associated Press Writers Describe Pathetic Scenes In Tripoli

AP Men Impressed By Outbursts 0: Emotions Of Freed Peaple OF Tripoli

TRIPOLI FETES CONQUERORS   PEOPLE REJOICE AS YANKS AND BRITISH OCCUPY CITY

TRIPOLI'S GHETTO HAILS LIBERATION AS CONQUERING BRITISH MARCH IN

Tripoli Sings as Freedom Replaces Yoke of Nazi Domination in Ancient Stronghold of Mediterranean Piracy

Released From Axis Bondage, Tripoli Bursts Into Emotion Over American Correspondents

Liberated From Axis Bondage, People Of Tripoli Have Emotional Riot, Cheer U.S.

Brydon Taves, UP War Correspondent, 3 Others Fatally Hurt in Plane Crash; 2 Other Newsmen Injured

PLANE CRASH” KILLS U.P: WAR weir   Brydon Taves. Victim of New. = Guinea Crackup

Vast Areas Of Rome In Ruins   Five Allied Planes Lost In Big Raid

Bombers Wrecked Rome's Rail Yards  2 Years of Repair Work said Fucinw Italy

AREA TWO MILES WIDE LAID WASTE; ONE TRAIN STRUCK   Allies Disclose 500 Planes Took Part in Devastating Raid and Only Five Were Lost.   FASCISTS REPORT 166 KILLED, 1,659 HURI   Assault Lasted Two and a Half Hours—Steel Plant and Large Chemical Works Hit.

Photographs  Reveal. Severe Damage To Rome’s Rail Yards   Initial Raid on Italian Capital Labelled an “Outstandingly Successful Opération”—Only Five ’ Planes Lest in Assault

PHOTOS SHOW RUIN IN ROME RAILWAY YARD   DOOLITTLE’S LOSSES IN BIG RAID ONLY FIVE BOMBERS

Reconnaissance Shows Success Of Rome Raids   Litforia Railway Yard: Completely Destroyed, Cairo Communique Says

Vast Sections Of Rome Blasted   Photographs Reveal Widespread Damage

SUCCESS OF ROME BOMBING IS CONFIRMED   Claim Destruction Of Littoria And San Lorenzo Railroad Yards, Also Airdromes And Industrial Plants   Lose 9 Planes

MICHIGAN CARS 0 HAVE ONE LIGENSE   In '44 a Rear Plate, Color. edWhite and Maroon, Will Be Used.

Wind Kills Three  In Boom Town   Indiana Storm Dectrovs 20 Homes

LIGHT CRUISER FROM INDIANA   That’s What Country’s March Scrap Quota Amounts to

Japan's Threat Said Declining   General Sees Allied Pacific Initiative

NAZIS ROUTED FROM DNIEPER RIVER SECTOE   TWO POWERFUL RED DRIVES BEGUN IN WHITE RUSSIA

Russians Link Bridgeheads on the Dnieper   Two Powerful New Soviet Drives Reported by Berlin

Nazis Cleared From Stretch Of 65 Miles   Nazis Also Announce New Soviet Offensives In White Russia Area  OTHER DRIVES GAIN

Nazis Cleared From 65 Mile Stretch ~ West of Cherkasy; Major Drives ~ Are Launched in White Russia

PRICE PANELS TO BE SET UP   Each Rationing Board  to Have Assisting Group

Makes 40-Mile Gain As Allied Bombers Pound Base:  Russians Advance On Five Maior Froante   (RULLETIN)

Attack Also Made on Other  Arms Centers:   RAF Fleet Said to Have Been Greatest in All History

RAIDERS LOSE (3 PLANES IN GIANT ATTACK   Ruhr and Rhineland Districts Take Heavy RAF Pounding

UULSIELDURE IN RUINS FROM RAF ASSAULT  ‘Biggest Air Fleet Ever Assembled Hits Reich City        RUHR BLASTED  Munster, Wilhelmshaven ‘And Cuxhaven Other Targets

Heaviest Raid of War Delivered On German Cities  Crushing Blow Dealt in Hour Of Destruction

Press Air Blows Against Germany Night Assault Followed  By Daylight Sweeps

Other Areas Also Lashed   Blow Believed Worse Than That Inflicted On Cologne

Record Bomb Load Dumped On Ruhr City   Mightiest Air Fleet Ever Assembled Spreads Havoc

RECORD BLOW DEALT HITLER BY RAF FLEET   LARGEST AIR FORCE EVER ASSEMBLED ROCKS GERMANY

Armada Of Planes Is Termed Largest Ever Assembled;  43 RAF Craft Lost

Duesseldorf Hif By Mightiest Fleet of Planes   R, A. F. Loses 43 Ships in Raid On German City

British Stage Greatest Air Attack of War   Lose 43 Bombers in Assault on Duesseldorf

British Air Fleet, Mightiest Raiding Force Assembled In —  The War, Rips Duesseldorf

Nazis Are Hit By World's Biggest Raid   RAF Forms Largest Air Fleet in History To Deal Crushing Blow at Important Duesseldorf Iron Center; U. S. Assists

Over 2000 Tons Of Bombs Blast Factory City   Air Lull Is Broken 43 RAF _ Bomber: Lost; Opposition : Light —

Duesseldorf Dealt Crushing Blow By Mighty Air Fleet   Formation of Allied B ombers Said To Be Greatest in History; H our-long Assault Smashes German Armament Centers

Conference Bogs Down on Tax Plan   Ask Roosevelt's Advice on Bill

3771 Casualties Sultered In Gilberts Fight   1,092 Killed In Fierce Battline

Marine Loss Heavy In War   3,772 Ca sualtie ies Are  Bisecegecd Pics ‘boP ct:

PLANES POUND TTALIAN BASES   Allies Blast Airfields of Island Defense Ring Without Letup

Yankees Pierce Defense Ring, Rip at Sardinia   Americans Continue Dealing Misery From African Bases, Cause Great Damage to Vital Axis Fields

ITALIAN BASES   Allies Blast Airfields of Island Defense Ring Without Letup

Airfields in Sardinia Are Pounded   13 Enemy Fighters Are Downed; Parked Planes Hit

U. 5. AIRCRAFT RAID SARDINIA   Non-Stop Destruction Of  Duce’s Outer Defense Ring Continues

ITALIAN SPOKESMEN PROTEST  LACK OF GERMAN DIVISIONS   INDIRECT APPEALS BEING MADE FOR GERMANY TO SEND MORE TROOPS TO  AID FTALY “

LIFEBOAT CAUGHT ON SUBMARINE DECK   18 Survivors a Sinking Drifted 33 Days Before  Rescue

‘Nazi Folk Shudder At Thought of ‘Coming Bomb War German Leader Sees  Only Gloomy  Prospect for People

A PLEDGE BY BADOGLIO 10 ~ FREE SICILY   Premier Tells People They Will Be Returned to Italy—Says Isle Lost to Numerically Superior Forces.

Sicily Consoled By Badoglo   ‘Don’t Despair,’ Htaly's Premier Counsels Fallen Iste’s People

Coming Back, Says Badoglio   Pledges Sicilians They’1I Be Returned to Italy

BADOGLIO WILL SPEAK TONIGHT   Italian Premier's Talk Will Be Directed to People of Sicily.

SICILY T0 COME BACK-BADOGLIC   Premier Tells His People Not To Despair

CONGRESS FINDS ISSUE ¥O HELP IT GET BACK POWER   Salary Limitations Bill ‘Will Probably Be Rallying  Craund

NEXT COUPONS VALID   Motorists May Use No. i Sheets  in Gas Books Frida

NEXT COUPONS VALID   Motorists May Use No. 4 Sheets in Gas Books ay

ESTIMATE GIVEN —ONWAR PROFITS   Paul, Jones Oppose Revision of Renegotiation Con——tpnnct—t mua x

AMERICANS AT CYPRUS   Stockholm Papers Re Report Massing of Allied Troops

Allies Poised For European Invasion Blov   ‘Battle For Germany’ Te Foliow Axis Defeat In Tunisia *

U. S. Commander, Troops Reported  Massing on Cyprus   Reported Joining Others Allied Units Also Mass: ing on Potential Step. ping Stone To Balkan Invasion.

Report Yank Troops Upon Cyprus Isle   May Mass To Invade Balkans

ALLIED INVASION MAY HIT BALKANS   Yanks Reported To Be Among Troops on Cyprus

U. S. Commander, Troops Reported Massing on Cyprus   Reported’ Joining: Others Allied: Units ‘Also Mass: ‘ing con. Potential: ‘Step: ping Stone. To Balkan  Tsay Bee

ESCAPE STAGED BY BATTLESHIPS   Italian Fleet Steams Fo1 Allied Ports, Rome News Says

Battleships  Said To Have Made Escape  Cruisers, Destroyers Also Flee La Spezia, London Papers Hear  LA SPEZIA LANDING BY ALLIES REPORTED  Unconfirmed Story From Switzerland   Daccad Qn hv Madrid   Cruisers, Destroyers Also Flee La Spezia, London Papers Hear

London Newspapers Say British Naval Units Escorting Ships From La Spezia   AMERICAN AND NAZI TROOPS ARE ENGAGED

Big Battleships, Cruisers And Destroyers Steaming For Safe Allied Harbors   British Warships Believed Providing Protection for Fleeing Fleet; German Air Forces Attack Allied Landing Barges South of Naples; Germans To Evacuate Big Cities

British Giving Escaping Ships Big Protectior   London Hears Reports From Rome Of Dash Of Biggest Warships

Erie Couple Dies As Car Rams Into Be -k Near Warren   Coupe Swerves From Road Trying to Avoid Collision With Truck

LEGISLATION ON WAR TIME BILLS READY   Governor May Be Given Powers to Modify or Suspend Laws Delaying State's Efforts   REDISTRICTING FIGHT

HITLER ADMITS GERMAN SOIL IS ‘WAR ZONE   Emerging From Months-Long Seclusion German Leader Declares Eastern Front Has Raan (Owercome.   15 Minute Broadcast

HITLER SAYS. GERMAN SOIL  ISWAR ZONI   Fuchrer Declares Crisis ov Eastern Front Over.  Pixs

Hitler ‘Forced’ To Admit Big Bomb Damage   Fuehrer admits air attacks have made Germany a war zone; eXplains long seclusion.

Chief of Nazis Admits Reich ls in War Zone   Says Germans Have Overcome Crisis On Eastern Front

Hitler Makes Unexpected Talk After Seclusion  Germany War Zone, Adalf Admits; Says Crisis Is Over

Hitler Declares Crisis Overcome  On Russia Front  Says Reich Mobilizing For we First  neoeearh Xnre

Fuehrer, However, Seems Nervous as He Addresses Officers and Leaders at Berlin's Zeughaus

HITLER SAYS GERMAN SOIL IS WAR ZONE   Fuehrer Declares Crisis on Eastern Front OverCome

Hitler Drops Seclusion To Again Ceme Forth And Address Nation  PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO AVOID BOMBING  Says Crisis in Russia Has Been Overcome And Talks of Victory

German soil becomes war zone--Hitler   Fuehrer insists ‘eastern front crisis overcome’

Hitler Emerges From Seclusion  Admits That Germar ‘Soil Is War Zone

Nazi Garrison Appears On Verge of Falling to Triumphant Red Army

Attack Is Shifted To Northward   Railway And Highway Running West From Gomel Are Severed By Russian Troops

Change Attack Line To Assist Troops In White Russia Area   Turn Cuts Railroad, Highway West of Gomel; Report Soviets Moving Huge Army ‘Toward Krivoi Rog

ANOTHER IMPORTANT SECTION OF GERMAN LINE RIPPED OUT  RED ARMY SWINGS NORTE ALONG EASTERN EDGE OF PRIPET MARSHES

NAZI GARRISON CUT OFF BY NEW RUSSIAN THRUST  3,000 GERMANS DIE IN CI ANKING NeIVE:   3,000 GERMANS DIE IN FLANKING DRIVE; 14 TOWNS CAPTURED

Balks Possible Big Nazi Counterattack In White Russia; New Gaps In En emy Communicatione.

REDS DRIVE AGAINST NEW LINES TODAY   Counter-Attack Unlikely By Nazi Army

AMY PUSHES NEW DANE TO PIT RAIL AGA   Swings to North in Move to Cover Flank froni Nazi Counterattacks..

Soviets Rip wry Bupd Ss. y ila Section  Of Rail Line   ‘Fall of White Russian Anchor to Seviets Seems Imminent      yy DRIVE OPENS      Red Army § wings SharpIs North Along Pripet Marshes

New Northern Drive Cuts Supply Route   Major Counter-Attack By Germans Now Believed Impossible; Soviet Army Covers Bulae West Of Kiey

Red Army Swings Sharply To North To Eliminate Nazi Counter Attack Possibility

Strike Along Marshes to Cover Flank   Berlin Admits Red Attacks Dent Nazi Lines In Eight Sectors

RED ARMY GUTS VITAL RAIL LINE   “German Forces Nearly Isolated; Fall Of  City Imminent

Athens Airfields Also Blasted In Heavy Raids; Soviets Shift Attack

New Attack Expected To By-Pass Korosten In North, Slash Leningrad-Odessa Railway and Effect Junction with Reds Below Rech ites.

Attack Aimed At Severing German Lines   German Garrison Holding Gomel Faces Isolation

Cerman Army Said Isolated At Gomel Bas   Reds Drive To North In Move To Halt Possible Nazi Counter - Attack

Soviets Cut Another Part Of Nazi Line   Shift Attack From West to Northern Area; Endanger Gomel Garrison

Vatutin Delays Push to Poland; Nazis Admit 8 ‘Dents’ in Lines   Berlin Pictures Retreats As Great Defensive  Queceacea

Reds Swing To North as Flank Guard   Russians Exert Pressure Ali Along Front With Many Advances

Reds Shiff Attacks To New Sector   Railroad, Highway Lines Out of Gomel Cut

Russians Hall Advance Toward Poland to Consolidate Gains and Cover Flanks   DRIVE TO CRIMEA   Berlin Concedes German Lines ‘Dented’ in Eight Sectors, Claim Defensive Successes

ANOTHER RAIL, HIGHWAY SYSTEM CUT   Kaganovichi, Bazar Fall To Red Army; CounterDrives Turned Back: Korosten Doomed

DUVETS OWING SHARPLY NORTH   Rip Out Another smportant Section of German Communications.   ILINE OF ATTACK SHIFTS

Red Noose Is Closing On Gomel   Soviets Open New Assault To Crush Center Of Nazi Line

Nazis’ Gomel Army Virtually Isolated as Reds Cut Escape   City’s Fall to Soviet Forces Appears to be Imminent Today

Seek To Expel Possibility Nazi Attack In North   New Attack Expected ‘To By-Pass Korosten In North, Slash — Leningrad-Odessa = Railway and {sffect Junction with Reds Below Rechitsa.

CONGRESS BANS STRIKES OVER VETO OF FOR   Congressional Action Is Termed ‘Major Disaster’ By Labor   COAL MINERS REVOLT   ‘Presidential Decision Is  Rejected In Record  Time   HIGHLIGHTS OF BILL

Secret Vote Is Provided   Vetoed Bill Gives Workers Chance To Halt War  eo?

Effect On oal Strike  Uncertain   Action Of Congress In Overriding Veto Of Bill Gives Rise To Some Confusion

Gomel Entry AidsReds Who Cross Dnieper   Russian Forces Are Lined Up On 100 Mile East Bank Of Sozh River   FLIERS POUND NAZIS   Red Star Says German Air Force Has Turned To Defensive Tactics

SOVIET VICTORY THERE AND AT KIEV NEAR   Russians Take Vital Rail Junction Across River From Gomel

NAZIS PREARE TOFLEE GREAT RUSSIAN BASE   Reds Extend Dnieper Bridgeheads     LIBERATE 40,000  Soviets Gaining on All Fronts

GOMEL FLAME AS NAZIS FLEE SURGING REDS   Allied Guns Hammer Foe at Volturno; Celebes Base Blasted

 Attorneys Clash Verbally As Hearing Opens Today At Capital For Phil Kenvamer

Kennamer Case Argued Before Parole Board  Attorneys Tangle Over Arguments In House Chamber

US. Judge Asks Freedom For His Son   Kennamer Hearing Brings Clash Of Rival Attorneys

PLANE PLANT SETS RECORD; 10,000 BUILT   PRESIDENT NORTH AMERICAN BOASTS OF TRAINER SERIES

Enemy Moving . Reinforcements, Eisenhower Says   Commander. Thinks Axis: May. Make: Stand in NonHecc

Capture Of Enna Gives Allies Firm Control Over Railroads, Highways Of Sicily, Cutting Island In Half

Yanks and Canadians Seize Town   British Battle for Catania; Allies Hold One-Half of Island

Axis Reinforces North Sicily, Says Eisenhower  Battle Opposite  TenTan Pant   Battle Opposite Italian Boot Looms. He Avers

BRITISH PRESSING “HARD BATTLE FOR PORT OF CATANIA   Allied Forces Now Occupy One-Half Of Island Of Sicily—Fall Of Enna  Gives Allies Control Of Network Of Roads

Bitter Fighting Still Ahead Says American Commander Of Assault Forces

H. L. Mencken Finds No Naughty Words Or Any Obscene Pictures in Esquire

Nazis Pledge Protection For Pope and Vatican   H . Mencken Poo-Poos Postal Objections at Esquire Hearings

Senate Ready For Fight On Teachers’ Salary Boost Bill   Martin Proposes To Strip Higher Paid Teachers Of House.  Approved Bonuses—13th Week Starts Today

WILL HEAD BOARD   All of: ‘Teachers. Get New Contract—One Has   Racioned

PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR MADE BY  The Public Schools of Le Mars District

Wiki HEAD BOARD   All of. Teachers Get New Contract—One Has Resigned

Wisconsin Sees Hope for Slash In State Taxes   Acting Governor Goodland Looks Askance at Bill of Republicans

Wisconsin Income Tax Cut Sought   5 Million Slash Asked In 4 Bills Offered By Legislators

Results Aitained by U. S. Airmen Justify Losses, Air Force Chief Asseris

Arnold Says Yank  :  Loss “Incidental”  Hails Results In Big Raid On Germany

Allies Gaining Upper Hand On All Fronts, Arnold Says   Hails Achievements Of American Airmen As Justifying Cost  Jn Men and Manev   SCHWEINFURT LOSS ‘ONLY INCIDENTAL’

ARNOLD HAILS ACHIEVEMENTS OF US. FLYERS   Says Schweinfurt Re sults Worth Cost In Bombers

AERIAL LOSSES ARE JUSTIFIED   Gen. Arnold Says Allies Gaining Upper Hand In All War Theaters

DENIES REPORT   Berlin Says No Plans Made t Celebrate Hitler Rirthday.

HOUSE COMMITTEE STUDIES LABOR BILI   Thomas Downs, Ohio CIO Attorney, Hits Plar

UNION CHIEFS HIT FRENCH MEASURE   Se Say  Charge Employers Could Fire Leaders

Moving Onward Despite Heavy German Firing   Many More Russian Villages Liberated As Red Army Sweeps Forward. Germany Admits Paratroops Land Behind Lines.

Soviets Shove Germans Back  Across Dnieper Fall Of Kiev   Fall Of Kiev. Is Expected  Momentarilv

NAZIS TOLD OF POLISH CRIMES   Accusations Listed As Churchill-Roosevelt Plan For New Parley

NAZIS WARNED BY PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL   Murderers of Polish Civilians Must Pay for Crimes

Warn Germany Nazi Murderers To Face Justice   Roosevelt - Churchill Warr That Murder Of Polish Civilians To Bring Penalties   STALIN MAY MEET WITH TWO LEADER:

TOKYO SHAKEN BY SHORT EARTHQUAKE   Center of Shock 50 Miles North of Jap Capital

Jap Capital Shakes in Sharp Earthquake   Tokyo Radio Tells of Only Slight Damage Within City

Unfair Price Squeeze and Quota System Blamed For Situation  PACKERS FACE RUIN

Seamen Ask Equal Bonus On All Ratings   Maritime Union Vote Opposes Higher Risk Pay to Captains

Fathers In Essential Work May Be Deferred   Selective Service Issues Instructiens Te Govern ine uttion Of Men With Childien.

BOMBS POURED ON TWO CITIES   Lampedusa Rejects Sur render Demand; Pounded Heavily   BOMB U-BOAT NESTS   More Than 10,000 Italians Taken Prisoner On  Pantelleria

Lampedusa May Surrender To Allies   43 RAF Bombers Lost In Raids On Duesseldorf and Munster

SMALL ISLAND REQUESTED TO SURRENDER   Algiers Says Over 12,000 Taken At Pantelleria   BOMBERS STRIKE   Base In Italy, And Sicily: Transport Sunk In Mediterranean, Axis Says

No Let-Up Full Allied Air Might Turned - Against Island.of Lampedusa   10,000 Italians Taken on Pantelleria

10,000 Italians Are Prisoners  Pantelleria Taken Whrhant Cacnalhty

RAF Resumes Before Dawn Bombard ment of Germany——-Block Busters and           U. S. Planes Ram Terror on Foundries, U-Boat Nests—Jap Base At Koepang ‘Mass of Flames”

RUSS DRIVE ON ROSTOV INDICATED   Nazi Forces !n Ceucasus Face Annihilation

Two Red Armies May Join   Nazi Disaster Predicted it London — Ruhr Area Bombed Again

Reds Threaten To Split Nazi Forces Approaching Rostov   Russian Army Resumes Caucasus Offensive, Smashing German Counterattacks On Three Southern Fronts

SOVIETS SMASH BALK GERMANS IN CAUCASUS   Neutral Sources Report Hitler Will Withdraw Part Of His Forces

FRENCH SEIZED IN AFRICA FOR DARLAN CRint   Pretenderto Throne May Be Among Those Tried for Murder

Darlan Murder Probe Widened; More Arrested   Monarchists Rounded Up In Algiers As Conspiracy Susnects.

ASSASSINATION OF DARLAN IS PROBED   Giraud, De Gaulle Plan Meeting Soon

NEW ARRESTS IN INVESTIGATION OF DARLAN SLAYING   Some Were Frenchmen of Monarchist Leanings, It Was Announced.   NAMES NOT ANNOUNCED   Identities of Persons in Custody Generally Known, It Is Sai”

Monarchists Arrested In Darlan Probe   Speculation [s Heard Re garding Whereabouts O Count Of Paris   MYSTERY DEEPEN:   North African Headquarters Reports Giraud, DeGaulle Will Meet Soon

Monarchists Arrested in Darlan Plot   Giraud Plans to Meet Soon in Conference  With DeGaulle

DEGAULLE AND GIRAUD WILL HOLD MEETING   Murder of Admiral Now Considered to Have Been Result of Politi cal Conspiracy

MORE INTRIGUE AMONG FRENCH   Several Additional Suspects Arrested in North Africa In Darlan Assassination

More Men Held In-Darlan Case  Giraud and DeGaulle To Meet Soon, Settle North African Affairs

MYSTERY VEILS NEW INQUIRY IN DARLAN DEATH   More Arrests Reported In Algiers As Gen. Giraud  Arranges For Parley With Gen. DeGaulle   MILITARY PROBE STILL UNDER WAY   Early Agreement Seen By Fighting French In Faction Mixup Among Leaders

FRENCH DISCLOSE NO IDENTITIES   Count ‘of Paris Causes Speculation; High Commis: sioner, de Gaulle to Meet

MONARCHISTS HELD IN CONNECTION WITE DARLAN SLAYING   Admiral's Successor To Meet ‘With De Gaulle Soon, fnntecnan Reveals

NEW ARRESTS MADE; BROAD PLOT HINTED   Some Of Those Seized Includes -Allied Friends

French Capture Axis Outposts   LeClere’s Forces Report Taking  Many Prisoners

Le Clerc’s Men Take El Gatrun, Brach in Drive   American Fliers Pound Tunis Nazis and Rommel’s Men in Terrific Air Attacks; Fighting French Air Squadrons Active

French Troops in Tunisia Drive Germans Out. of Mountain Pass.   /RAID HARBOR AT NAPLES

French Storm And Capture Axis Outpost   177 Officers And Men And Much Booty Taken At El Gatrun

Axis Rout Indicated In Southern Libya   Fighting French Announcé Capture of Two Outposts, El Gatrun and Brach, and Say Others Are on the Verge of Capture.

Leave Trail ao of Havoc on~ Supply Line   U..S. Planes. » Fly. Through ; Hottest. Anti-Aircraft: . : Area: in-. the World”:   ALSO OPPOSED BY ENEMY FLIERS      Five: P-38's Are Lost. in Offensive:Spaatz. Heads: New. North’ Africanu..Air Force

GEN. LeCLERC'S ARMY _ ‘CAPTURES. CAPITAL OF ‘THE FEZZAN IN LIBYA

DEFEAT OF EREMY INFEZIAN AREA 115 BECOMING ROUT   El Catrun, Brach Captured, Other Strongholds Exeirelad

Heavy Blows Struck At Foe In Desert Port   Spaatz Is Named Air Force Head On African Front

Heights Recently ere Capture By Commandos   Yankee Rangers Took Part In Attack Tunisian Battle Still Rages

LeClere’s Fighting French Forces In Southern Libya Capture Main Axis Outpost

CHAD FORCES ADVANCE NORTH   Defeat of Axis Army’ Ts Becoming Rout

French Take Libya Fort   Three-Day Battle Pesults in Capture Of Loot, Prisoners

Bizerte Gets lts Heaviest Air Pounding   Fighting French Take 2 Outposts In Southern Libya

FLYING FORTS’ STRIKE HARD AT ROMMEL FORCES   BATTER GHADAMES, STRONG AXIS FORT IN TRIPOLITANIA

Nazis Retake Vital Heights  Near Mateur   London Reports British Driven From Both Sides Of Important Crossroads

U.S. Bombers Hit Bizerte In3 Attaek:   Maj. Gen. Spaatz Namec Commander Of Allied Air Forces Fighting ln North Africa

Flying Fortresses Make First Full Raid Or Rommel’s Forces Ai Junction Of Frontiers

LeClere Captures — 2 Desert Outposts   Fighting French Occupy Brach, Hit Caravan Trail to Tripoli   Now Within 280 Miles Of 8th Army Junction   U. S, Raids Tunis, Bizertes Gen. Spaatz Commands African Air Force

Flying Fortresses Strike at Rommel, French Troops Take Foothold in Tunisia

British Yield Hills Gained Near Mateur   Jdbel Azzag Hights Are Recaptured By German: In Counterattack   HELD 24 HOURS   Berlin Reports American Parachute Raid; Rommel Front Is Quiet

Hoeven Statement Is Shortwaved To Europe   dur Coneressiman Sends Mes Suhjugated Nations, Denoan Their SQuisling? Rulers

Hoeven’s Message Sent To  Netherland By Short Wave   Americans of Dutch Descent Agree With Him On War

Tojo Seeks to Win Filipinos   Promises Independence As Soon as They Really Collaborate with Japs

Japs Court Filipinos   Hold Out Vague Promise Of Independence In Return for Cooperation

Japs Bid For Filipino Aid   Tojo Makes Trip To Islands. Promises Freedom In Return For Help.

JAPO PREMIER VISITS MANTLE   Vague Promise of ‘tndepen dence’ Is Given to Filipinos.

REDS’ SWEEP IN UKRAINE AIMED AT FOE BASTION   Soviets Capture 100 Towns in Nine-Mile Gain—Kharkoy Is Goal

Flanking Move Threatens fo Take Kharkov   Red Army Recaptures 70 Villages and Makes Gain in Encircling Movement on Nazi Bass

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE DEEPER INTO UKRAINE   Reds Making Huge Sweep To Engulf German Base At Kharkov; Overrun Seventy Villages

RUSSIANS PLUNGE 9 MILES IN PUSH TOWARD KHARKOV   Seventy Villages Overrun in Advance—New Red Army Massed at Chughuev Takes Offensive.   THREAT TO BRYANSK CONTINUES TO GROW   Soviets Only 30 Miles From City—Germans Reported Moving Civilians From Smolensk.

Red Advances Mark Kharkov Next Large   Pincers Similar To Those Used On Orel, Belgorod Forged By Soviets.   MENACE TO BRYANSK

Foe Said Quitting Smolensk Anchor  Soviets Within 30 Miles OE Beoonck

Begin Flanking Move To Throttle Big City   One Soviet Army Force Less Than 25 Miles From City; Pincer Movement Developing

Russ Advance 9 Miles in ' Swift Thrust   Shock Treeps Capture 70 Towns in Drive Te Reteke Kherkev

BRYANSK MENACED BY RED PUSH: REPORT EVACUATION OF NAZI SMOLENSK ‘ANCHOR’

Soviets Gain 9 More Miles, ~ Cut Rail Line   Berlin Reports Large Russian Army Being Massed At Chuguev Is Already On Offensive

Gravioron Falls To Reds: Plunge Deep in Ukraine   70 Villages OverRun; Pincers Around Kharkov

Germans Reported Moving Civilians From Smolensk; Retreat Spreads

Reds Capture Graivoron In Wide Flanking Movement Aimed At Big Nazi Defense Pillar Of Kharkov

Russians Stage Wide Flanking Movement To Throttle Kharkov Defense; Cut Another Point On Vital Railway

Germans Reported Moving Some Men Out of Smolensk   Kharkov’s Danger Grows As Russians Drive Closer To Key City o

Russian Armies Tighten Ring About Kharkoy   Graivoron, 45 Miles Northwest, Falls To Red Shock Troop:

“BEHIND THE STEEL WALL”  AMERICA HOVERS LIKE A NIGHTMARE OVER THE NAZIS: PROPAGANDA  FAILS TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL SECURE

RAID SIGNAL EXERCISE   Kansas Is Included’ in the Fight State Warning Practice

CITY PARALYZED BY MOSQUITOES, BIG BOMBERS   Italian Rail Line Blasted

Air Fleet Hammer: Berlin   GIANT BRITISH WAVE SPREADS SEA OF FIRE OVER GERMAN CAPITAL

German Air’ Force Lacks Sky Control   Allied Nations Are In Ascendency On Al Fronts As Result

REDS CLOSE INTIGHTER: NEW ALLIED MR BLOWS      a: “Desperate Nazi Counter. At« tacks Fail to Halt Russian Offensive   “GERMAN PLANES SPREAD THIN   . xis Feeling Stronger Air Smashes in Russian and North: Africa

Reds Pulling Draw String Around Nazis   Thirteen Towns Taken and Strong Point By-passed

Two More Jap Ships Hit in Aerial Beating of Convoy  U.S. GEN. LOST  —_——V—___ Tunisian Bombers in First Raid on Tripoli Area

‘Russians Take 13 More Towns; Allied ‘Planes Bomb North Africa and Europe

Soviet Forces Tightening Grip on Axis All Along Front; Reports From Moscow Indicate.

Russian Armies Con‘tinue To Roll For_ ward Today — :  na == eos, S&S 4 Ww ‘ee ieee ies         ee a—Teooweelcv TNT ee  AERIAL BATTLES  U. S. And .nd British - Warplanes Carry — Eiawht Tnrknamy °

Nazi Defenses In Caucasus Are Crumbling   Reds Recapture 13 More Towns Along the Rostov-Baku Railway; Allied Warplanes Carry Fight to Enemy in Europe and North Africa

Nazis Stiffen on Lower Don, Central Fronts, Crumble in Caucasus.

Nazi Defenses In Caucasus Weaken   Russians Report Recapture of 13 Towns on Ros tov-Baku Road   HEAVY RAID ON ESSEN   American Bombers Batter Nazi Installations in * ~ Gabes

Reds Retake 13 More Towns In Caucasus Drive   Allied Warplanes Carry Fight To Enemy In Europe, North Africa.

RUSSIAN DRIVE GIVES NO SIGN OF BOG-DOWN   American Bombers Batter Objectives on Tunisian Coast

Russians Take 13 Additional Towns. ...  Nazis Defense In Caucasus Is  Crumbling Fast

Soviets Take 13 Towns in Caucasus   Allied Planes Carry Fight to Nazis in Africa And Europe

13 More Towns Captured By Russian Army   Thinning Air Power Gives Reds Edge; RAF Raids Essen;  A (°°... ff...”

Reds Close non Key Nazi Rail Junction   Georgeivsk Threatened by Soviets After Russians Roll Foe Back 75 Miles

AERIAL ATTAGK INTENSIFIED IN NORTH AFRICA   Russians Surge on Against Germans in Caucasus To Close New Trap   ROMMEL’S ARMY SQUEEZED   Yanks Chase Remnants of Battered Jap Convoy; Huge Losses Inflicted

NAZI STRENGTH CRUMBLING IN CAUCASUS DRIVE   Allied Airmen Down or Cripple 138 Jap Warplanes in Four Days

13 TOWNS ARE TAKEN IN RED CAUCASUSPUSH   Russians Report 3 to 1 Ratio of Air Victories Over Nazi Aircraft

Georgievsk Threatened By Russians   Threaten Encirclement Of Vital Rail Junction; German Attacks Repulsec

RED ARMIES CLOSED TIGHTER UPON RAIL JUNCTION MONDAY  NAZ: DEFENSES APPARENTLY CRUMBLING DESPITE DESPERATE STAND:

German Defense In Caucasus Is Crumbling Fast   Russians Recapture 13 More Towns Along An  Important Railway.   Nazi Resistance in Lower Don Stiffens

SOVIET TROOPS CLOSING IN ON KEY RAIL AREA      Enemy Defenses In Caucasus Are Now Crumpling

GERMAN DEFENSES APPARENTLY ARE ~~ PRIUMBLING FAST      Nazis Fighting With A Will Born of Utter Desperation   RUSSIANS GAIN AIR SUPERIORITY

13 Villages Recaptured By Soviets   American Bombers Batter R. R. Yards, Oil Tanks. ’ At. Eastern Tunisia Port 

Russian Drive Continues in Caucasus Area   Nazi Defense Apparently Crumbling Fast in the Middles Don  ALLIES HiT ESSEN  Ruhr Valley bombed Five  Nights in Week; Fires  — Are Started  ’

REDS REPORT OFFENSIVE 18 STILL MOVING   13 More Towns Taken In Caucusus Drive, Soviet Claims

NAZI DEFENSE CRUMBLING IN RAPID FASHION   Soviets Getting in Hard Licks at German Air Force, Weakened By Many-Fronted War,

SOLDIERS FORCE WAAC HAT CHANGE      Caps “Disappear” So Women Now Wear Overseas Caps in Africa

War Dept. Backs Civil Mobilization      Patterson Says Bill Would Aid In Winning War

Girl'and Sailor  - Bei : Being Sought   Park Avenue Resident O! 14. Traced Over Large Area By Police

Sailor Sought For Abduction Of Young Giri   Four-Year-Old Daughter of Prominent Park Avenue Family Missing   ALARM IS BROADCAST

FEARS GAS LACK TO HIT AIR WAR   Patterson ~ Blames Nelson for Preference Given Rubber Plants

RUBBER SETUP. AGAIN PLAYED. ~ BY PATTERSON   UNDERSECRETARY OF WAR CHARGES BEFORE COMMIT.  TEE THAT GAS SUPPLY 18 AFFECTED

SOUTH SHIVERS WITH APPROACH OF COLD WAVE   Frigid Onslaught Expected Tonight All Over Southland, Say Weather Fore fpietbove

All Southland Shivers As Mercury Prons To Mew Low: Colder Tonight

Gentle Prelude to Pound ings Later, the War Department Says   MYSTERY IS UNFOLDED

Tokyo Told Doolittle’s Raid Just Sample Of What Is To Come, Hornet Used as Base

TOKYO BOMBING MILD TASTE OF FUTURE RAIDS   War Department Reveals Assaull Launched from Aircraft Carrie: Hornet   JAPS UPSET PLANS   Forced Longer Flight Than Planned, No Planes Reached Destination After Storm Encountered

TOKYO RAID STORY TOLD   Report Reveals Big Bombers Took Off from Deck of Aircraft Carrier.   Pictures showing start af Might to Tohso appear on Page 7

Raid on Tokyo Mild Forefaste Of the Future   Army Reveals Terror Bombing Of Japan Capital

Ajireraft Carrier Hornet Was: Bae         : ‘Which: ‘Doolittle’ -Bombed Tokvo.

Hornet Revealed as ‘Shangri-La’: Tokyo Gets Promise of New Raid.

Amy Reveals Details Of Tokyo Air Raid; Just Taste Of What Will Come Later

Full Story Told Of First Attack  None Of Planes Go To Fields In China

Tokyo Raid Mild Sample For The Japs   More and Bigger Attacks To Come, Japs Are Warned

War Dept. Reveals Features of Tokyo Raic with Hint That Others Will Follow

FIRST TOKYO RAID IS ONLY A BEGINNING      War Department, Giving Details of Last Year’s Bombing, Says It Is but Gentle Prelude of Things to Come.

Full Story Of Tokyo Raid Told At Last. .  Japanese Can Exnect —Poundings From Air

War Department Promises Bigger, Better Raids On Tokvo., Revealing Details Of Last

/DOOLITTLE’ S TOKYO RAID MILD FORETASTE: ‘OF BOMBINGS TO COME; ARMY TELLS STORY:

War Dept. Promises NewRaids On Tokyo   Revealing How U. S. Bombers Used Carrier Horne To Reach Jap-Coast’A Year Ago, It Hints Of Even Greater Attacks To Come

War Dept. Unfolds Sage Of Shangri-le   Doolittle Reiders Ren Out of Ges; Farced te Bail Out

Army Says ‘Shangri-La’ Base Was Carrier and  Promise Japs Some More

Doolittle’s Raid Mild Prelude of Bombings to Come, Army Declares

Doolittle Raid On Tokyo Termed Taste’ Of More   Carrier Hornet Was Base For Army Bombers

RAID ON TOKYO JUST A PRELUDE   Many Floating Bases Can Be Used to Maul Nippon From Any Direction

TOKYO TO FEEL BUMS AGAIN,  ARMY PLEDGES   War Department Discloses Full Details Of 1942 Raid Upan Jap Capital

Full Story Of Raid On Tokyo  Is Announced   Planes That Hit Japs Came From Aircraft Carrier Hornet

Aireraft Carrier — Hornet Was Base For T hyo Attack   War Department Discloses ‘Shangri-la’ ob rom Which Doolittle’s Men Bombed Tohyo, 

More and Worse Air Raids Promised Japan as Secret of First Attack Is Told

War Department Warns Japan Attack Only a Prejude to Others.   TELLS SECRECY REASONS

War Department Reveals:  Full Story Of How Toyko Raiders Took Off From Carrier Hornet

TOKYO TREMBLES ON DATE OF DOOLITTLE RAID OF YEAR AGO   U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT PROMISES JAPAN RAID FROM “SHANGRI-LA” ONLY PRELUDE

Doolittle’s Raid of Tokyo Foretaste of Bombings in Future   Full Story of Historic Aerial Attack Is Told by War Department_

CARRIER HORNET BASE OF AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN IMPORTANT TOKYO RAID

DOOLITTLE’S TOKYO RAID A YEAR AGO WAS JUST MILD FORETASTE OF BOMBINGS TO COME, ARMY DECLARES

Kiska Raids Stepped Up To 15 In A Day   Difficulties Of Tokyo Raid Revealed In War Department Report

Bombers of Tokyo Started from Hornet; War Dept. Reveals All Except. One i in Russia Crashed

Release Story of Tokyo Raid: 16 Bombers Came From Aircraft Carrier

IMPORTANT RAIL 7      British Disclose Big Convoy Reaches North Russian Ports Without Loss

Allied Air Attrition Against Japanese Ship Concentrations Continues In South Pacific  

Red Columns of Caucasus Report Unbroken ‘ March’ :  SCORES OF PLACES SEIZED BY ARMIES  North Africon Action Aground Reported Slight

GALE GROUNDS FOUR VESSELS   Two Killed in East Coast Storm With Damage in Millions

2400 COAL MINERS STILL ON STRIKE   Defy President’s Order; Wire Query “ What Have

Hite te lly, _ toa aalgta  DESCENDANT OF BOUNTY SAILOR DIES ON PITCAIRN

SIGNS POINT 10 COAL STRIKE IN NEXT 72 HOURS   WLB Awaits Outcome of Meeting of Lewis’ Policy Committee

COAL Is PEITED. ON SATURDAY   ve DIRECT INTERVENTION BY ‘TRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ‘SEEN AS WALKOUTS OF MINERS CONTINUE

INTERVENTION OF PRESIDENT MAY BE ASKED   War labor board await: outcome of United Mine Workers meet

ACTI FDR LIKELY IN CRISIS   WLB Appeals To De. fiant Lewis; More  Mines Idle

NATION-WIDE COAL STRIKES POSSIBLE WITHIN 72 HOURS   Direct Intervention By President Roosevelt Seems Only Means to Keep Men on Their Jobs.   ANOTHER APPEAL IS SENT TO EXECUTIVES   Telegrams Remind Miner: That They Have Sons, Rei atives In Armed Forces  No Threat Made.

Coal Strike Looms Within 72 Hours In United States   Believe Only Direct Intervention By President Can Prevent Walkout   “MINERS POLICY COMMITTEE MEETS

LEWIS TOLD 10 SEND. WORKERS BACK 70 JOBS   General Shutdown Predicted Unless Pres. Roosevelt intervenes   UNION LEADERS MEETING   Labor Board Names Panel To Consider Pay Boost Proposals

NEW CONGRESS OPENS TOMORROW   Pay-As-You-Go Income Tax Plan to Be Pushed.

Opposition To Security Plan Arises   Demos Hope to Persuade FDR To Keep Silent

Fourth Largest City and Gateway to The Ukraine   COST GERMANS OVER MILLION SOLDIERS   Red Army to Concentrate on Big Push Toward Dnieper River.

Fall Of Soviet Union's Fourth Largest City Opens Way For Néw  Blows; Germans Lose Cree Millinn Blew

Kharkov In Hands Of Soviets   Withdrawal of Nazis Completed Last Night

FURTHER TAX ON WEALTHY URGED   President Of CIO Warns Against Enactment Of Sales Tax

War Steps Up Map Printing By U.S Navy.   Using more. than 50 times as many as before the. war; many new: bases ‘charted.

URGE VETERANS GROUP CLASSED AS WAR AGENCY   Would Insure “Speedy Settlement Of Servicemen's Claims  Of Disability

‘Plan To Return Ohio to Pre-War Time Jolted  By WPB Suggestion for More Daylight Saving

PRE-WAR TIME ADVOCATES IN OHIO GET JOLT   WPB Suggests That Extra Hour of Daylight Be Added Instead of Subtracted   LEGISLATORS SURPRISED   Protests Against Fast Time Have Been Sent in With Appeal for Change

Tough, Wily F oe, King Calls Japs   Must Be Pushed Back To Homeland, Says Our Navy Chief.

Japs Rely On Long-Term Strategy, King Says   Our Job Is To Drive Them Back Home: Navy Making Battle When It Can Find Fnemy

Japs Described As ‘Tough, Wily’ By Admiral King   Disregard For Own Life Exceeded Only By His Fanatical Hatred Of U.S.

NAVY CHIEF ‘TAUDS YEAR tf ACTIVITY   Reviews War Gains And Sees Tasks Of Future

High Allied Officers in The Balkans   Secretly Visit Leaders Of Guerrillas Under  Nazi Noses

ALLIED OFFICERS VISIT GUERRILLAS   Secret Conferences Are Held With Balkan Fighters

Land Program Probe Planned   Byrd Claims Government Buying Unnecessarily  Of Large Areas

Seek Story On  Land Purchase   Senate Committee Wants Answers On Purchase Of 30.O00.000 Farm Acres.

BUY T00 MUCH?   Jolly Row Over Purchase Of Lands Gets . Going Under The Expert Leadership Of ° Senator Byrd And Non-Essential Commities

HUGE GOVERNMENT BUYING PROGRAM  WILL BE PROBED   Purchase of Millions of Acres of Land To Be Investigated By Joint Committee On Non-Essential Spending.

RUSSIANS BAG 900 PLANES IN PAST 3 WEEKS   German Aviation Being Gradually Eliminated In Kuban Area; Two Attacks Smashed   Sevsk Line Active

Reds Stop Two More Nazi Drive:   Nearly 350 Axis Troops Killed In Caucasus

GERMANS ARE REPULSED IN KUBAN VALLEY   ENEMY LOSES 3o( TROOPS; PLANES SHOT DOWN

Russians Shatter Two Nazi Attacks In the Caucasus   Kill 350 Troops and Blas! 14 Boatloads of German Troops

ASSAULTS BY NAZI FORCES REPULSED   Fourteen ; Boatloads of ‘Enemy Troops Battered by Soviets

Red troops shatter 2 nazi drives   350 Germans die in Kuban area

Nazis Speed Retreat From Corsice   Hold Only 15-Mile Strip On East Coast Of Island

Germans Driven From Their Last Mountain Positions Above Salerno by the Fifth Army.   WITHIN SHORT DISTANCE OF ITALIAN CAPITAL   The Germans, Routed After 6 Days of Heavy Fighting, Were in a General Retreat.

REVIVE HOPES FOR MINE PAY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SOON   Union, Operators Hold New Bargaining Conferences

PROSPECT FOR SETTLING COAL DISPUTE SEEN   Bargaining Conference Held B; Ickes. Operators And Lewis

COAL WAGE FUSS WAY BE SETTLED   Bargaining Con fer. ence Held in Washington

GERMAN-ITALIAN FIGHTING RAGES   WIDESPREAD FRICTION AND CLASHES IN ROME BRING NAZI RADIO APPEAL.

Italians Battle Nazis in Italy   Broadcast Reports Widespread Attacks

SUICIDE STANDS MADE AT MUNDA   Japs Slow Up American Advance on Airfield,

Yanks Topple Buna Mission; Japs in Panic   Some Nipponese Soldiers Surrender En Masse, ‘- Others in Flight; : Tae Ramhed

Jap Morale Begins Cracking Under New Guinea Pounding   Comparatively Large Group Surrenders, Others Flee in Disorder as Allies Pursue

ARMY BOMBERS SUPPORT FAST U.S. ADVANCES   Nipponese take up laststand position; battle believed near end

Victory Near on Attu Island; Japs Trapped In Small Death Pocket   Americans Capture Gateway to Harbor on Island.  JAP PLANE RUNWAY NOW BELONG TO US  Battle Is Taking Heavy Toll of Japanese Defenders.

AMERICANS BOTTLE UP NIPS IN HARBOR AREA   U. S. Warship Guns Clear Another Pass, Planes Pound Trapped Japs

bb PERCENT OF DEFENDERS KILLED IN ONE AREA, KNOX REPORTS YANK LOSSES LIGHT

YANKS PUSH FOE IN ATTU POCKET   Planes Attacking Trapped Japs While Navy Guns Cover Advance

DEWEY’S TAX STUDY GROUP MAKES REPORT   Commission Urges Complete Over haul of Corporation Tax Statute: Declared Uniust

Warning Give : Of Heavy Air Blows Coming   Night Attack Gets Follow-Up; Raid in Progress Indicated

ALLIES WARN FRANCE OF BOMBING ATTACKS   French Notified New and Massive Blows Will Be Unleashed Against Nazi War Plants.

AMERICANS TAKE MUNDA DEFENSE   -— Jap Garrison Fights Desperately As Ring Tichtens

U. S. Troops Tighten Ring Around Munda   Thirty-Two Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Japanese

Yank Jungle Fighters Drive Nearer Munda   “Enemy Garrison Fights to Hold “OFF U.S. Rine

NEDGE DRIVEN IN JAP MUNDA BASE DEFENS   Yank Jungle Fighters Reduce Two Enemy Strong Points

Enemy Garrison Fighting Hard Teo Stop Invaders   Merciless Pounding By Air Continues On New Georgia Base

WEDGE DRIVEN IN MUNDA DEFENSES BY YANK TROOPS   Enemy Subjected to Merciless 13-Day Air Pounding As Ground Forces Tighten Jap Rina.   10-DAY BATTLE APPEARS FAVORING REDS   Germans Fail to Achieve Any Tactical Success, T 0 0 Early to Forecast Final QOutcome.-

POINTS ARE WIPED OUT   Nip Stronghold Given — 13th Straight Day Of Air Pounding

U. §. Tightens Ring Around Munda Base:   Defense Perimeter Dentpc As 2 Enemy Strong Points Are Captured   TRIUMPH CONFIRMED   Second Kula .Gulf Naval Victory Cost Foe At Leas! 4 Warships

U.S. Jungle Troops Drive Deep Into Manda Defenses   Enemy Garrison Of New Georgia Fight Desperately To Hold Off Tightening Ring Of Americans — Two Strong Points Wiped Out

WIPE OUT TWO STRONG MUNDA ENEMY POINTS   Jungle Fighters Drive Wedge Trtt6 Defense Around Janu Base

WeUGE DAWVEN NTO MUNDAS UEFENSE RING   American Jungle Fighters Wipe Out Two Of Enemy Strong Points Today

JUNGLE FIGHTERS. DRIVE WEDGE INTO ~ MUNDA POSITION   Second Naval Victory Confirmed.By Later Ranoarte_

Yanks Advance  On Munda,  Wipe Out Japs Base Is Isolated  By Sea, Air  Land Successes

Steel Circle Tightens on Munda Japs   Troops Close In as Fliers Paste Airfields and Shipping

U.S. Forees Pound Gates Of Munda   Defenses Of Big Jap Base Breached By Hard-Hitting Yanks

Yank Jungle F ighiers Drive  Munda Wedee   4 Jap Ships Attempting Relief Sunk i in New  aa

With Our Soldiers and —  Sailors   Jean Genter of Glidden Receives Call Into WAVES

With Our Soldiers. and © Sailors           Jean Genter of Glidden Receives : Call Into WAVES

DARING LANDING MADE BY AMERICAN TROOPERS   Yankees Land Behind German Lines to Trap Enemy for Second Time within Three Days

U. S. Troops Fight Through Night To Reach Forces at Cape Orlando

Make Second Landing Back  Of Nazi Lines   U.S. Troops Again CanFound Enemy In Surprise Operation

AMERICANS BATTLE  FOR FOOTHOLD ON  NORTHERN SICILY LANDING BEHIND GER MAN LINES MET BY BrAUY NPPNCUTIONN

Artillery Covers Shuttle Convoy   x «* KW * Yanks Pocket Hans Again

BEAT OFF SERIES OF ATTACKS   Yanks Fight Fiercely To Contact Main Body Of Their Forces

Yanks Fight To Gain A Contact  Stiff Battle Goes On After Landing

IU. S. AMPHIBIOUS FORCE MAKES 2ND LANDING IN 3 DAYS   Number of German Prisoners Seized. Three ‘Heavy Counter-Attacks Beaten Off

Martin Asks 41 Million Tax Slash   Bond Issue for Post-War Financial Needs Suggested

STATE BUDGET IS SLASHED TO $472,457, 692   Governor's Message Calls For Bond Issue of 50 to 100 Million For PostWar Work   URGES SLASH IN TAXES

GOVERNOR'S BUDGET GUTS STATE COSTS   Estimates Running E xpenses for Two Years at $472,.457,692.   $147,130,639 UNDER LAST TWO YEARS   Suggests Investigation of Steady Rise in State’s Expenses.

Martin Asks Big Tax Cut, ‘Bond Issue For Post-War Financial Needs of State

AWAIT COMMANDER TO. YIELD, REPORT   Lieut. Gen. Richardson Has Been Requested to Withdraw Order.

COUPON RATIONING OF MILK POSSIBLE   Action !s Predicted Unless Dairy Prices Are Increased.

Food-Stamp Plans Subsidy Alternate   Trio Seeks to Aid Low-Income Family

WOULD REDUCE FOOD COSTS FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES   Congressmen Have Plan to Issue Food Stamps as Substitute for Subsidies

No Increase In  "42 Fire Losses   Milwaukee Picked As Grand Winner Of Annual Fire Waste Contest.

WLB SUCCESSFUL IN CONTROL OF WAGES   Co 4 Infers That “Hold-The-Line”’ Order Was Unnecessary ' Over Wage Increases

WLB REPORTS PAY RAISES CONTROLEL   Says This Phase Of HoldLine Order Not Needed

NEW CRISIS  FOR LABOR BOARD IS IMPENDING   ‘Mine Dispute Only One .of Problems Threatening Stabilization’ Crisis   SOME MEMBERS. MAY OUIT POSTS   Roosevelt Indicates He Does Not Expect a Strike Against the Government

Labor Board Heads Toward Another Crisis   AFL Spokesman Says Body Is Now “Tottering”’

'WLB SEES HOLD iLINE PAY ORDER IAS UNNECESSARY   Lay Aside Al Cases Involving Inequalities, Inequities In Wages

SECRET AXIS CONFERENCE   Nazis May Take Full Control Of Croatia, Report

American Airmen Deal Heavy Blows To Japanese in Northern Kiangsi

Japanese Strongholds In Kiangsi Province Suffer Much Damage  KUNGAN CAPTURED BY CHINESE AGAIN  Claim 400 Japanese Killed During Raids On Area of Yochaow

Jap- Air Base Struck Again  By Americans  New Attacks Aid Chinese Units  In Advances

U. 5. Fliers, Chinese To Advance   Japs Retreat Along Upper Yangize River

American Fliers Bomb Jap Base as  Chinese Advance   Counter-Attack on Yangtze Eliminates Danger to Chungking

War in China Sul Going: Against Japs   Ameriean Airmen and Chinese Ground Forces Score Gams

Japanese Get Blow From U.S. in China   Chungking Says Gains Of Allies Are Big, Enemy Scatters, Dies

CHINESE MAKE FURTHER GAINS   Americans Lend Support In Kiangsi; Danger To Chungking Is  Eliminated

TEXAS LEGISLATURE CANVASSING RETURNS GENERAL ELECTION   GOVERNOR STEVENSON SENT NAMES 137 APPOINTEES TO SENATE

Off-Year Elections May Be  Barometers   Republican and Democratic Streneth Toy Re Tested Tye<,

OFF-YEAR VOTING 70 TEST STRENGTH OF PARTY LINES   Scattered Elections May Provide Some Indication of Results In 1944.

Nazi Prisoner Again Escapes   ATS a eT SLANS EF CLE AYU  Missing After Swim

VATICAN CITY, CHURCHES ARE LEFT UNHARMED   Key Yards For Movement Of Fascist Troops Hit By Tons Of  Explosives   No Fighters Sent Up

American Airmen Blast Rail And Airfield Installations Of Rome With Tons of Bombs

\Emphatic Answer To Mussolini:  Fascists Who Believed Holy See Protected Headquarters

Hundreds of Bombs Fall on Rail And Airfield Facilities. of Rome In First Air Attack on City

First Raid Made On Eternal City   American Precision Airmen Drop Tons Of Explosives On Railway Yards; Shrines And Churches Spared

U.S. Bombers Rair ‘Destruction ‘on Rome Tareets   Leaflets Are Dropped Telling Italics Why Sections of Holy City Are Military Objectives: Rail Centers Hit.

U.S. Bombers Raid Capital Of Fascism   Blasting of Rome Done by Specially Trained. Americans

Fliers Smash Airfield, Rail Centers   Specially Trained Americans Work Havoe On Italian Capital, But Confine Punches to Axis Installations of War

SPECIALLY TRAINED PRECISION BOMB. ERS RAIN TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON RAILROAD YARDS AND AIRDROMES.

Gliders Move Nazi Troops Into Caucasus   Bridgehead Showdowr Develops; Noverossisk : Nearly Isolated   STRONG POINT FALLS   Reds Press Offensive In South; New Fighting Flares Near Kharkov

Nazis Destroy Gaefa Harbor To Force Delay   Great Explosions Heard by American Troops Near Port

American Fifth Army Driving Hard on Gaeta,  Only 70 Miles from Rom

Allied Forees Continue Driv Toward Rome   Fifth Nears Gaeta as Nazis Try to Destroy Harbor Facilities; Eighth Army Advance:

Allies Near Pescara And Gaeta   Both Harbors Sought For Bases To Strike Nazis

ARMIES HAMMER ON TOWARD ROME   Eighth Reaches Point 30 Miles From Pescara Port   TURNS NAZI FLANK   Americans Plunge Forward Over Mountain Terrain; Occupy Vital Heights

Allied Armies Smash Along Road to Rome   Pescara and Gaeta Are Threatened by Latest Advance

Allies Hammer Relentlessly In Drive For Rome   Nazis Apparently Destroying Gaeta Harbor For Flight’

ALLIED ARMIES PUSH FORWARD IN ADVANCE ON ROME   Fifth Drives Toward Port of Gaeta While Other Units Reach Heights Overlooking Mignano.   8TH GAINS 6 MILES, TAKING CALABRITTO   Germans Throw in Two Fresh Divisions in Effort to Stem March, but Action Comes Too Late.

Nazis Destroying Harbor as Allies Push on Port City   8th Army Makes a 6 Mile Gain; Nazis Bring in New Troops

llies Pounding ay fo Rome in  o-Edged Drive   Fifth and Eighth Armies Advancing   ) Won't Be Long Now: American and British Troops Freparing To Open Second Front

Ally Army Pounds Steadily on Toward Rome Goal   Americans Draw Near Strategic Port City As Germans Destroy Harbor, British Seize Important Positions in West Area

ALLIED 5TH ARMY DRIVING ON GAETA   Germans Destroying In. stallations as Americans Advance

Home Deliveries Of Anthracite Further Limited   Householders Expected To Stretch Allotments By Using Bituminous

PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS LISTED   Upton Sinclair Awarded For Novel, Wilder For His Play

Omaha Newspaper Wins Pulitzer Service Prize  Award for Best Editoria Goes to Des Moines  2 Sal Se

FIRMER GRASP TAKEN BY SEC. CORDELL HULL   Relations With Allied Nations Endangered, He Claims, by Statements of Writers

HULL DEFENDS U5. POLICIES   BACKS FOREIGN PROGRAN OF STATE DEPARTMENT

Fears Writers To Antagonize  Allied Friends   Hull Raps Newsmen And Others Not Helping Win Cooperation

HULL IS TAKING FIRMER GRIP ON FOREIGN. POLICY   Secretary Rallies. Against ‘At. tacks—Department May Be Reorganized.

(Orders Colorado ‘Draft Boards To  Give Deferments 'To Farm Workers

TEST OF AUTHORITY DEVELOPS AS COLORADO GOVERNOR ORDERS FARM WORKERS DEFERRED

HOLIDAY BUYING WAVE SETS MARK   Estimated up 10 to 15 Per Cent Over Last Year; Plants Plan Holiday; Neely Sends Message

First Lady Clips Recipes And Tells Dresident Of Seeing Wounded Soldiers

Restrictions on Weather News Relaxed; ‘Fear of Enemy Attacks on U7 S Slane

It's a Nice Day in El Paso—  Now You May Read About And Discuss the Weather

Red Cross Blood Bank Quota Exceeded   Register 14 More — Than: Number Set: For This City

19 DADS IN LIST   Thirty-Three Local Regis trants Called Today  for Service -

15 GO TO SERVICE   Only One Pre-Pearl Harbor Father in Group Leaving Today

DAV Opposes Drafting Strikers   Michael Doty Named  State Commander

ELEVATION OF EISENHOWER IS BELIEVED NEAR   Likely to Emerge as Com mander-In-Chief of All Allied Forces In AfricanMediterranean Theater   ANDREWS IS: GAUGE   Belief Exists New Unified African Command Al  ready Is In Being; ‘Big Job Ahead

Gen. Brereton U.S. Chief in Middle East   Leader of Air Forces Formerly Commander of - Airmen in India

Brereton To Head ALU. S Forces In  Middle East   Succeeds Gen. Andrews Named To Command American Troops In European Theater

Gen. Brereton of Air Corps Named To Command U. S. Forces in Middle East

Nn a a,  Maj. Gen. Brereton Heads U. S. Forces In Middle East Area

BRERETON HEADS AFRICAN FORCES   Army Appoints Successor To Air Commander General Andrews

Brereton Commander  Of Mid-East   Flying General Heads All  American ‘Forces

Killer Is Given Speedy Justice   Sentenced Eight Hours After Slaying Banker

Bank Robber Kills Cashier   Given Life Term In Wisceonsin Prison After  Making Double Confession

JUSTICE IS SWIFT FOR BANDIT-KILLER   Wayward Farm Hand on Way To Prison in 8 Hours

SLAYER GIVEN LIFE TERM IN SHORT TRIAL   Only Eight Hours Betweer Slaying, Sentence

REPORTER REVEALS MORE DETAILS OF BOMBING OF JAPAN   Plans For Raid. Conceived, - Soon After -“Smeak: wu Attack”? On Pearl Harbor .

WPB Agent Due In Abilene Today For Data On Alcohol Plant Proposed In West Tevae.

WPB Agent Due In Abilene Today For Date On Aleohol Plant Proanosed In West Texas   WTCC READY WITH DATA COVERING ARFA AS WHO TF

Hoping Miners Remain On Jobs   Looks For Help From Four Quarters As Truce Nears End.

LEWIS DISAPPEARS WITHOUT STATEMENT   Run-out Powder  Taken by Mine Union Head

Lewis Leaves N. Y. City for Washington   Statement, Scheduled for 1 P.M., Has Been Postponed

Statement By Lewis Postponed   Government Looks to Four Quarters for Help in Dispute

No Steps to Relieve Liquor Drought Before August Despite Pressure—W.L.B.   Retailing Group Seeks Resumption  Ot Same Whickey Production

No Liquor Drouth  Relief Seen Soon  WPB Says Output Can‘t Be Increased.

Russian Forces Driving Forward On Central Front   Powerful German Counter. Attack North Of Bryansk Is Halted   RED ARMY AGAIN MOVING IN SOUTH

NAZI ATTACK THROWN BACK BY RUSSIANS   7,000 Nazis slain in four day battle as Reds  drive on Smolensk

Allied Chiefs Take Day Off   \fter Drafting War Plans For Two Weeks. High Of. ficials Take Holiday.

He sles eee OE ee Nn ec gneeeerr ea ee  When Sub Spotted, ‘It Cannot Live’

LEAR T0 GUIDE GROUND FORCES   fakes Command Of McNair Seriously Wounded On Tunisian Front e

BATTLE LOOMS WN PACIFIC   Nips Speed Reinforce ments From Hideout Base at Truk

BIG U.S-JAP BATTLE LOOMS IN PACIFIC   Nips Speed Reinforce ments From Hideout Base at Truk

OPA TO ABANDON GRADE LABELING   Brown Expected to Reveal Decision on Issue that Split Agency

OPA MAY DROP GRADE LABELS   Czar Brown Said To Have Changed Mind Since Indorsing Plan

PROBE LEGALITY OF COMMISSIONS   Governor's Legal Advisers Hint Legislature Exceeded Its Powers

LEGAL ADVISERS OF GOVERNOR THINKINC   Wonder Whether Legisla. tor of Ohio in Recent Years Has Ursurped Bricker’s Power.

REGISTERING HERE NOW   Five Teachers Resign; Mitchell ‘Open House’ Scen

STUDENTS REGISTERING HERE NOW   Five Teachers Resign; Mitchell ‘Open House’ Scen

Missing In : Action Report  Of Waxa Boy   Is RECEIVED HERE  WORD (ROSS)  CONCERNING B. ¥, JONES.

Man Missing  In Service Is Listed as Dead   LOSS JONES IS REPORTED AS HAVING LOST HIS LIFF

Allies Must Keep Control of Skies, General Warns   ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday. April 14 (AP?)

Battle Will Be Won or Lost by Air-Ground Team   General Sounds Grim Note of Warning to U.S. on Jap Aims

WARNING GIVEN BY MARTHUR OF JAP THREAT   ‘Says Command of Air Must be Kept to Hold Off Foe

JAP SHIPPING IS HAMMERED IN HANSA BAY   MAC ARTHUR WARNS OF IMPENDING OFFENSIVE

More Airplanes Form Answer  To Jap Threat   Enemy forces could move in on Australia swiftly, General Mac‘Avthir warns.

General Says Japanese Can Be Held off Only If Allies Control Skies  ‘RANGE OF BOMBERS MEASURE OF SAFETY?  10,000-Ton Ship Sunk Another Set Ablaze By American Bombers

Powerful Forces. Now In Range For Blow At Australia   Mir superiority Gan turn lice, General. Says In Pointing To Newest Jap Threat

Warrting s Giver By MacArthur   Declares Allies Must Hold Air Control

MacArthur Says Australia In Jap Gun Range   200,000 Nipponese Troops Massed In Are of Islands to North; Allies Now Hold Aerial {nitiative

M’ Arthur Says Air Initiative  Must Be Held   Bombers Blast Two Enemy Ships in Hansa Bay on North Coast of New Guinea

Slate Against  Willkie Planned  Dewey Delegation Idea Told By Zimmerman

Details Are Not Released   General Miller And Other High Officers Revealed Victims.

FDR’S AID SOUGHT . IN AKRON STRIKE   : Mayor Asks President To Take Over Transit System

AKRON MAKES PLEA TO FOR IN STRIKE   Rubber City Transportation System Tied Up

Asks U. S. To Take Over Akron’s Strike - Bound Transportation System

‘Italy ts Saved'ltalian-Americans  gulPy.iee   News of Il Duce Resignation Told To Cheering Throng

SEE RECOVERY   February War Production Climbs - After Drop In.danuary.

Japs May Be Forced to Risk Navy New ‘Solomon Clash Compels Fight

Nip Units Being Lured From Hide Outs In Pacitic   Tokyo To Risk Part Of Pacific Forces To Halt Yank Men In Kula Gulf

Japs May Be Risking Fleet To Stem Drive    Offensive May F orce Enemy Fleet To Come Out; Indicated That Naval Battle In Progress In Kula Gulf—

American Moves Bring Jap Navy   U. S.. OFFENSIVE MAY FORCE JAPS TO FIGHT

Naval Battle In Progress North Of New Georgia   Washington Receives No Details Of Action

130 PLANES SHOT DOWN IN ATTACKS SICILIAN AIR FIELDS: FIRES, EXPLOSION DOT HARBOR   INDICATED PACIFIC OFFENSIVE GAINING OBJECTIVE OF FORCING JAP FLEET TO COME AND FIGHT

Nary Gaming Objective OF Forcing Jap Fleet To Fight  New Battle Of Kula Gulf Regarded With Great Sienificance In Washington Quarters

M. W. PORTERFIELD DIES IN 80TH YEAR   Widely Known Farmer Ex pires at the Home of Son

M. W. PORTERFIELD DIES IN 80TH YEAR   Widely Known Farmer Ex.  pires at the Home Peo ae ery

NAZIS RUNNING OUT OF PLANES---OR COURAGI   American and British Crew. men Report Less Than Normal Onuosi

GERMAN FIGHTERS: RUNNING LOW ON PLANES OR COURAGE  OPPOSITION MET BY BOMBERS DECLARED

‘Forts’ Turn Naval Base Into Inferno   Luftwaffe Employs : Rocket Planes, Bat. Bags Only 26 Craft:

Yanks Hit Naz! Port Of Emden   17 American Forts Liberators Are Missing in Raid

Cost of Victory Is Only 20 Craft   Mighty Aerial Armada Scores One Of War’s Great Triumphs in Raid

Nazi Emden Port ls Handed Beating   Mightiest Fleet Of Planes Ever Sent Aloft Pounde Enemy Facilities: Opposition Tough

One of Most Vicious Air Battles of War Fought ‘When Americans Raid Port

PLANES STIRRING  OVER BATTLELINES   nniversary Date Nearing As Both Armies Gird For Blow; Ital_ jan Ports Suffer

MINERS QUIT’ IN ALL AREAS   War Production Threatened As Truce Fnde

Workers Obey Injunction of John L. Lewis: Against “Trespassing”’ on Mine Property; Action of Government Is Awaited —

NO WAGE CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED   Nation Waits To See What Action Government Takes

Operators And Miners Are In Conference   Work Whistles Sound In Vain; White House Silent On New Crisis

Half Million Miners Quit Work, Coal Mines Now Idle   Truce Deadline Expired Monday Night And U. S. Tensely Watches Deadlock .

Work Whistles Sound in Vain At Most OF Hation’s Government. Operated Mines

Compliance With Lewis ‘Trespass’ Order Leaves Issue Up To U. 8.3 See No N. E. Shortage At Once

Production Is Halted Again; ~ FDR Is Defiec   Efforts To Reach Ar Agreement. Fail. In Final Hours

Coal Mines Paralyzed By New Wave Of Strikes As ‘Truce’ Expires Before New Contract Mad«

ABANDON PITS WHEN SECOND TRUCE EXPIRES   Lewis Silent After Negotiators Ignore Agreement Plea From Ickes   ALL STATES AFFECTED   Presidential Action Awaited As War Production Is Mcnaced

Lewis’. Miners Out Again   Practically Entire Union Membership Ouit Work

Lewis’ United Mine Work Remain Away When Contre Is Not Signed As Truce. Kin

Half Million Men Expected To Stay  Out Of U.S. Mines   More Than Two-Thirds Of Full Total Already Out In Pennsylvania and West Vriginia; Eastern Ohio Is Closed Down

NATION WAITING FOR ACTION BY THE PRESIDENT   No Immediate Reaction From White House As Coal Miners Begin Mass Walkout;  Truce Ends.

Stay At Home In Absence Of Work Contract   Expiration of Truce and Deadlock in Wage Negotiations Again Halts Production of Coal. in Nations Mines. Lewis Silent.

MINERS IGNORE FOR’S WARNING   Waikout Is 100 Per Cent Ef fective in UMW Coal Fialde   ‘WHITE HOUSE [S§ SILENT

Whistles Blow In Vain; Miners Won't Trespass   Work To Monday Midnight Deadline Still Hold Out For $2 Raise

CHS ATHLETES 3rd INSTATE. ‘TRACK MEE      Weymouth Wins at Boston _ Garden; Dedham Edges — ‘Locals for 2nd Place

Mandamus Filing  Today or Tuesday   GOP Decides on Move  After Conference

[English Court Repeats  \Its Historic Rule; Man’s Home Is Castle

REGISTRANTS OFF FOR FINAL EXAMS   Group Of Men Sent To Harrisburg Today By Draft Board No. 4 For Induction Into Armed Services

FINAL ARMY EXAMS GIVEN GROUP TODAY   Contingent Leaves Office Of Local Draft Board This Morning In Two Busses For Harrisburg

LARGE GROUP OFF FOR ARMY EXAMS   Contingent Leaves Here This Morning For Harrisburg— Others Will Go There Later This Week

Rumanians Win Bridgehead From Reds at Kerch   Soviet Landing Troops Said Wiped Out; 2,000 Taken

RUMANIAN ARMY PUSHES SOVIETS OUT OF KERCH   Reich Claims 2,000 Reds Are Prisoners After Three-Day Fight in Crimea

Reds Forced dack in Kiev Bulge Area   Soviets Score Important Gains Southwest of Kremenchug

GERMANS RETAKE SEVERAL TOWNS IN KIEV SECTOR   RED TROOPS SCORE IMPORTANT GAINS IN OTHER AREAS

German Tanks Force Rec Troops Back   Soviets Score Gains In Southwest to Envelop Znamenka

Nazis Launch Tank Attacks   Force Reds Back in One Area, Lose Elsewhere

A Soviet Setback In the Kiey Area   Retirement From Several Towns Is Announced From Moscow   [FIERCE TANK BATTLE   Nazi Gains Offset by Russian Gains Made Further South

Germans Force Russians Back in Kiev Bulge  Nazis Lose Many Tanks and Men In Attacks

GERMANS USE 1,700 TANKS IN ASSAULTS   Moscow Claims That Enemy Successes Are Offset By Seviet Gains to the South   CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY

Red Bridgeheac Reported Lost   Rumanians, With Air Support, Seize Advance Post, Claim

Russians Continue io Hold Positions io North, German Broadcast Reports   BATTLE FOR BULGE   Germans Recapture Several Towns! Before Kiev, Russians Draw Noose Around Znamenka

NAZIS HURL 1700 TANKS INTO FIGHT   Reds Score Gains In Sector Southwest Of  Kremenchug

Germans Gain In Kiev Bulge   Russians Gain to South Offset Nazi Success at Kiev

Russ Forced To Retreat in ’ Kiev Bulge   Nazis Launch Desperate Tank and Infantry  Leer ie   aXIS GAINS OFFSET   Russian Troops Converge on Strategic Rail Junction

Reds Retreat From Kiev Bulge As Germans Hurl 1,700 Tanks In Fray

Nazis Claim fo Have Halfed Reds   Say Rumanians Cost Russians Heavy Toll On Crimean Front

Berlin Claims Bridgehead At Kerch Taken   New Gain Reported In Southwest For Russian Forces

ENEMY HURLS 1,700 TANKS IN FIGHT, LOSES 53   Russians Offset Retreat i Urkaine With Gains in South

SOVIETS NEAR RAILWAY CITY OF ZNAMENKA   Germans Hurl 1,700 Tanks Against Russians

Russ Retreat In Kiev Bulge; Gain in South   Germans Launch Most Desperate Attack; Reds Advance on Znamenka

Rumanians Oust Reds  in Crimea      Wipe Out Kerch Landing Forces

Reds Back Up Some At Kiev   Desperate German Tank Attacks There; Russians Gain In Other Spots

Germans Hurl Reds Back In  Kiev Sector   Desperate Counteral tacks Force Reds From Several Towns But Soviets Score New Gains ln Drive On Zana menka.

DECLARATION BY TURKEY EXPECTED   Country's Ple 5 Pledge May Hit Balkans With Great Force

SOVIETS FALL BACK AT KERCH   Nazis Bring Up New Reserves In Effort to Turn Tide

GERMANS USE 1,700 TANKS. IN BIG DRIVE      Nazi Gains, However, Offset by Russians Ad  vances in the Southern Sartar

Russ Lose Bridgehead At Kerch, Says Berlin   Enemy Claims Soviet Landing Troops Have Been Wiped Out In Three-Dav Battle

SOVIETS SCORE GOOD GAINS IN OTHER SECTORS   Russian Troops Fall Back As Germans Open Violent Assault In Kiev Bulge; Enemy Gains Offset By Red Successes To The South.

Reds Battle Fierce Nazi Tank Assault  In Binhtineg   Soviets Gain In Fighting Below Kiev

Desperate German Tank Attack Jolts Russians in Kiev Bulge: Sth Army Gains Again in Italy   PUSHING DOWN SLOPES TOWARD ITALIAN CAPITAL

Soviet Troops Forced Back By German Assault  Reds Gain, However At Another Point In Extended Lines

NAZIS FORCE REDS BACK IN KIEV BULGE   Soviets Give Up Several  Towns After Fierce En_ emy Tank and Infantry ; Assaults, but Gain Else * whare.

Nazis Win Ground In Kiev Bulge   Other - ‘Russian Advances  Offset Gains—Threaten  Whole Rail System

Nazi Gain  Near Kiev  > Offset by Red Push   Continued Russian Advance on Znamenka Expected to Disrupt Nazi Kiev Lrive   " VITAL JUNCTION ALMOST ENVELOPED   Capture of City Imminent; » . Desperate German Attacks Causing No Alarm

NAZIS EMPLOY 1,700 TANKS IN KIEV AREA   Force Russians to Retire But Gains Offset by Red Offense in South.   Fall of Znamenka to Soviet Seems Certain   Weather Unfavorable

Germans Drive Russians Back   Fierce ‘Counterattacks At Kiev Result In Losses  To Red. Armies’

NAZIS RETAKE RED GROUND   Soviet Troops Retire Before Furious Infantry and Tank Assault.

DESPERATE GERMAN TANK DRIVE. FORCES ~ RED ARMY BAI   Lose Several Towns: in Che nyakhov - Zorosten. Area. But Gain South of Kre-..:  menchug J            NAZIS LOSE 53 TANKS

Other Russian Forces Score Advances S. W. Of Kremenchug   Berlin Claims Soviets’ Kerch Bridgehead Is Wiped Out

GERMAN TANKS FORGE SOVIETS IN KIEV AREA   Nazi Gains Offset In Dnieper Bend Near Znamenka

GERMAN TANKS ROUT RUSSIANS INKIEY BULGE   Several Towns Given Up ‘By Soviet Forces, But Moscow Reports Gains On Other Fronts

Massed Nazi Tanks Throw Soviets Back   1,700 Smash At Reds In Kiev Bulge; Rail Junction Of Znamenka Reing Fnwvelaned

Other Red Forces Slowly Enveloping Vital Rail Center In Dnieper Bend

Soviets and Nazis Swap Successes   Russians Give up Several Towns in Kiev Bulge but Gain Farther South

Desperate Nazi Attack Ousts Reds   German Tank Assault In Kiev Bulge Wins  Several Towns

Russians Forced To Give Ground   SEVERE GERMAN ATTACK DENT SOVIET LINES

Red Bridgehead Said Captured By Rumanian:   Berlin Says Heavy Battle Fought For Three Days In Vicinity Of Kerch

IN KIEV AREA   Launch One of Most Desperate Tank and Infantry Assaults.   REDS NEAR RAIL CENTER

‘LOSE GROUND AT KERCH    One of Two Bridgeheads Taken - From the Russians

DESPERATE GERMAN COUNTERATTACK FOR KIEV BULGE 1$ MADE  RED ARMY FORCED GIVE UP SEVERAL TOWNS BUT CAIN FEISEWHERE

Russians Driven Back By Fierce  Counterattacks   But Soviet Forces Score _Important Gains ’ Elsewhere.

SOVIETS LOSE “UOME GROUND IN KIEV AREE   Moscow, However, Says Gain South of Kremenchug Perils Znamenka.

eo Ys  Navi-T «Tanks Force Reds To Retire   Fierce Battle Is Reported ' Raging For Kiev Bulge

Fierce German Attacks Force Russians Back   Red Gains In South, However, Offset Retreat In Kiev Bulge.

CRITICS HEARD ON HOME FRONT   Congress ‘Poll Reveals Dissatisfaction With Work Of OPA

Nation Pleased And Peeved Over War Effarts Rv U7. S.   Survey Shows Much Satisfaction Among Folks W ith Conduct of Conflict on Foreign Soil, But Dissatished With Various Phases of War on  Woma Weant

Folks Satisfied With Conduct of War. Solons Sav   But the Voters Don’t Like Direction of Home Front, Legislators Tell Associated Press—69 Lawmakers Give Their Views.

6 JAP DIVISIONS BALKED IN GHINA   Allied Planes Help Chinese Stop Drive on Chungking and U, S. Bases

: BY JAPANESE: "We OMACHED   ENEMY SUPPERS 20406 CASUAL*TYES AS CHINESE AND AL-Likp AIR FORCE STOP ADVANCE ‘

Army To Handle Rouge Strikers  Ford Plant Workers Face Punishment

PROMISE ACTION IN PLANE WALKOUT   Army to Deal Firmly with Persons Responsible for Strike of 8,000

ArmyDiscipline AFL Head Opposes Labor Draft Promised Plane As Imposing “Servitude” On Plant Strikers Nation’s Man, Womanpower

Army to Deal With Strike   Investigation Into Ford Plant Walkout Conducted; Blame Not Revealed

Concord Man in Command of Destroyer “DeHaven” Sunk off Solomons; . Second Commander “Missing” —

“ung atcay9 ier nai es Rate erin      Concord Man in Command of Destroy er “DeHaven” Sunk off Solon : - Second Commander “Missing” _

ACTS OF VICHY ARE ANNULLED   Gen. Giraud Makes Sweeping Changes In French Africa.

Final Tabulation Reveals Splendid Job Done by OCD   Division 3 Total Is Part of $865,000,000 Sale in Cook County.

DRAFT BOARDS LACK POWER AT ~ PRESENT TIME   To Direct Registrants . To. Change Activ. .4tjas .-

MAY NOT DIRECT CHANGES IN WORK   Selective Service Boards Lack Authority To Order Registrants To Take Essential Positions

MURS FOR BLODL DONATION LISTED   Mobile Red Cross Unit Here Dec. 14-15

BLOOD. DONORS . ARE REQUIRE   People of. This Community _Are Asked to Aid This Worthy Cause:

SCHOOL CHILDREN OPEN MUSIC WEEK   —— Program Will Be Spalding Recital Tonight

SCHOOL. CHILDREN — OPEN MUSIC WEEK   Outstanding Program Will Be Spalding Recital onight   2 BANOUET SPEAKERS

Senate Debate On Tax Measure Open Tomorrow   Vote Expected By End of Week;  One Point at Issue

RUML OPPONENT 10 BACK PLAN   GEORGE TO SUPPORT GROUP MAJORITY STAND

Point Value on Pound of Butter Raised to 16; ‘Boost Also Made in Eight Standard Pork Cuts

RATION VALUE OF CREAMERY BUTTER UP   Now 16 Points Per Pound: Pork Cuts Also Increased

FOUR MORE POINTS NEEDED FOR BUTTER AFTER SATUR\ DAY—CANNED FRUITS POINTS INCREASED

Creamery Butter Pots Boosted   Ration Points For Pork Are Also Increased For October

RATION COST OF CREAMERY BUTTER RAISED TO 16 POINTS PER POUND; EIGHT STANDARD _ \_ PORK CUTS ARE RAISED ONE TO TWO POINTS

HIKE RATION BUTTER COST T0 16 POINTS   Pork Also Boosted For October   ror vctoper     MEAT SUPPLY O.K. Six Canned Fruits Advance

HON-OPERATING RAIL EMPLOYES MEET ON STRIKE   Complete Walkout Looms; ® FDR Pins Peace Hope on Overtime Plan

Walkout of All. Employes Now Possible   December 30 Would Be come Strike Date

, Pres. Roosevell Pays Tribute >To Red Army   ‘Magnificent Achievement Unsurpassed in History’ He Tells Stalir

Roosevelt Sends Congratulations To Joseph Stalir   Praises Premier and Russians for Their War Efforts

RED ARMY FIGHT LAUDED BY FDR.   PRESIDENT SAYS ITS ACHIEVEMENTS ARE “UNSURPASSED IN ALL HISTORY.”

CANOL PROJECT IS DEFENDED BY WAR DEPT   Senale Committee Told Costs Not Considered, Justified by Needs of War

OIL FROM CANADA   War Department Holds Out for Development of Its ~ Project

CITY STORMED FROM 3 SIDES IN RED SMASE   Soviet Units Break Through Major Nazi Barriers At Belgorod, Shebekino

Russian Shock Troops Storm  Ukraine Citadel   Advance On Three Sides  After Smashing Barriers

Nazi Defense At Kharkov Crumbling   Soviet ‘Pittsburgh’ Doomed, Claims  Moscow; Tokyo Alibis

DANES FACING NEW THREATS   Nazis Order Death Penalty In Sabotage Cases

NO ACTION IS TAKEN   County Commissioners View Bridge Agam West of Eudora

PALMER-TIANO - NUPTIALS HELD   Miss Lena C._ C. Palmer iz Bride of Joseph A. Tiano . of Watertown ©

Tito’s Forces Take Biograd   Yugoslav Partisans Battle Nazis in Croatian Campaign, Radio Reports

Merchant Fleet. Continue To Grow   Churchill Replies To Report of Loss

R.A.F. Batter Large Industrial Targets in Germany.  YANKS RIP UP BIG ITALIAN TERNI R. R.  Germans Retaliated With Two Raids on British Towns.

SALARY DEMANDS BY SOFT COAL MINERS MAY START SHOWDOWN FIGHT, NEW DEAL WAGE SETUP

WAGE FORMULA MAY FACE TEST   Bituminous Miners Seek Pai Boost; Green Approves 48Hour Work Week

LEWIS BEGINS DRAFTING NEW WAGE DEMANDS       UNEW's Policy Committee Will Assail “Little Steel” Formula

Labor Board Faces Mine Pay Dispute   Wage Policy Due For Stern Test in Demand of U.M.W

WAGE BATTLE EXPECTED SOON   U. M. W. To Draft Demands For $1-A-Day Increase, WLB Divided On Raise Issue

New Rules Governing Workers Explained. .  MANPOWER MACHINERY GOES - TO WORK IN STATE TODA)

Army Gives Solons Privafe Show   War. Action -Movies Shown, Officers Explain Tactics

MINERS FEARED LOST IN BLAST   Crowds Wait As Rescuers Dig For Men Trapped In Montana Shaft

AMERICAN PATROLS CAPTURED HEIGHT AFTER STIFF FIGHI   By REYNOLDS PACKARD Representing uv. 8.

Hilltop town taken by two tough patrols   Battled 2 hours  over Albanella

BACK TO WORK MOVEMENT OF MINERS BEGUN   Leaders Order 15,000 To ‘Cut Out This Foolishness’.

15,000 Striking Miners Told 10 Return 7o Worl   ‘Leaders Tell Group To Begin Voting Today On Proposal To End-18-Day Walkout By Monday   By SEKRELL-WILIAMAN mt SNAKE,"

AERIAL OFFENSIVE  AGAINST GERMANY  CONTINUED MONDAY LONE FERMAN RAIDER ‘It  COSTLY ATTACK ON  FPOWNeEN NANCE HALL

Their Third Raid ~ Made In Five Days   Allied Offensive Seems To Be Clearing Skies Of Nazi Fliers   GERMANS TAKING A TERRIFIC BEATING

YANK BOMBERS BLAST DUEREN   Nazi Fighter Planes Scarce And Little Flak - - London Hall Hit by Nazi Bomb

Allies Keep Up Bombing  Offensive   Formations Again Strike Across Channel

ALLY AIRMEN ROCK GERMANY   YANK BOMBERS RUIN VITAL ENEMY CENTERS

ALLIED AIRCRAFT ATTACKS TARGETS IN REICH TODAY   Follows Up American Attack Sunday and R.A.F. Mosquite Raid Last Night—-No American Planes Lost Yesterday

Bomb D Dropped On Dance Hall   Scores Of Service Men Killed Near London By Nazi Pilot

Allied Airmen Continue To Hit Germany; Yanks Stage Raid Without Loss

FORTRESSES BLAST DUEREN WITHOUT LOSS   Bombers Accompanied by Swarm: of Fighiers Today Follow Uy RAF Raids on Reich

ALLIED AIRCRAFT CONTINUED TO RAID GERMANY TODAY   Continued an Offensive Which American Heavy Bombers Sustained Yesterday.   THIRD RAID IN 5 DAYS   The Bombers Were Accompanied by Swarms of Fighter Planes.

ALLIED AIRMEN RESUME RAIDS ON NAZI AREAS   Follows Up Third Raid On  Duren, Germany By   American Fliers In   Five Davs

RAIDERS OFF TO HAMMER NAZIS ANEW   Every U. S, Plane Back From Sunday Attack In Reich

ALLIES ATTACK GERMANY AGAIN   U.S. Aircraft Drops Bombs On Dueren Without a Single Loss

ALLIED RAIDS ON CONTINENT CONTINUING   Bombers Roar Out Across Channel Today Following Sunday Assault on Dueren, Site of Airplane Parts Plants.

ALLIED PLANES CONTINUE RAIDS   Formations of  Aijircraft  Roar Over Channel

Allied Bombers ~ Out Again Today  Latest Heavy Attacks Are Made Without Loss

Bombers Hit  Nazi Europe   Roar Across Channel In Daylight to Keep Up Heavy Assault

No Plane Losses  In Raid on Reich   Yankees Strike Western Germany; London Dance  Hall Target of Bomb.

AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY CONTINUED MONDAY  LONE FERMAN RAIDER II COSTLY ATTACK ON CROWDED DANCE HALL

THIRD RAID IN FIVE DAYS ON CONTINENT   ‘ormations of Allied Air craft Roar Across Channel to Continue Offensive   ALL RETURN SAFELY

ALLIED PLANES ON OFFENSIVE   Aircraft Roar Across Channel; Forts Hit Germany. Again.

ALLIED AIRCRAFT  AGAIN ROAR INTO NAZI GERMANY   Daylight Offensive Followed By RAF Night Attack; Nazi Plane Wrecks London Dance Hall Causing Great Damage.

Allied Bombers Continue Drive  On Reich Cities   Planes Roar Over Channel Te Attack Germany For Third Time In 5 Days

SALES OF MILK TO BE LIMITED   {  U, S. TO FIX DEALER QUOTAS! TO RESTRICT CIVILIAN —  CONSUMPTION.  1

CURB IS PLACED ON MILK SALES   Civilian Consumption To Be Limited By Dealer Quota Svstem

Milk Sales Control Plan Announced   Will Be Regulated Under Dealer Quotas

‘STUDY PLANS: FOR ACTION AGAINST JAPS   Mountbatien New East Asia Commander In t Washinaton

MAYOR OF CATANIA WELCOMES. BRITISH 10 SECOND CITY   Says Germans Looted Home: And Deprived Citizens Of Food For 24 Hours

Point Values Announced For Part Of 200 Items Under Restricted Sale

POINT VALUES ON FOOD ITEMS LISTED BY OPA   Popular Sized Containers And Pounds Listed For Rationing

U. S., British Peace Plans Are Similar   Churchill’s Speech Shows How Near 4-Year English Plan Is with NRPB Report

BRITISH-U. S. PLANS SIMILAR   SEEK SAME GOALS OF POSTWAR ECONOMY AND SOCIAL SECURITY

U. S. POST WAR PLAN SIMILAR TO ENGLAND'S   Lafollete, Bloom, Challenge Aim as ‘Futile’; Lewis Gets Fed Notice

Churchill’s Scheme Strikingly Similar to NRPB Proposals   Likeness of Patterns for Postwar World Are Pointed Out

SECURITY AIMS OF BRITAIN AND U.S. SIMILAR   Both Follow Strikingly Like Patterns In Projecting More Abundant Life   NRPB HEAD PLEASED   Hopes People Will Stop Thinking Plan Radical Since Churchill’s Pronouncement

BRITISH, U. S. SOCIAL PLANS ARE SIMILAR   Programs of Two Nations for a More Abundant Life After the War Are Generally the Same on Six Major Points.

BRITAIN AND " S. AIMING AT SAME SECURITY PROGRAM   N. R. P. B. Report and Churchill’s. Brief Report Very Similar in Pattern

CHURCHILL PLAN SIMILAR T0 THE NRPB’S SYSTEM   Both Outline A More Abundant Life After War

British 4-Year Plan Like U.S.   Churchill Prospectus Is Analyzed

CE PLANS ENGLAND, _S. SIMILAR   ing be   Almnasion of Insurance, Prants . fivestzalth Service and  Marc= ‘ a pducation Loom

PROS AND CONS OF POST-WAR PLANNING HOLDING ATTENTION  BACKERS MANPOWER DRAFT LEGISLATION LOO}

CHURCHILL SECURITY AIMS. APPROXIMATELY CAME AS AMERICAN   GOALS SOUGHT BY NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD SIMILAR

Advocates of Manpower Draft J.ook to Labor J_eaders for Support.

SEEKING SUPPORT FOUR MANPOWER DRAFT MEASURES   Post-War Planning and Various Income Tax Plan Issues Vie For Capital Consideration; Advocates of Post-War Plans Challenged.

BELIEVE RUSSIANS WILL OPEN BASES TO ALLIED FORCES      Observers Say Reds Will Aid Allies In Attack ' On Japan After "Nazi Defeat

SEE POSSIBILITY OF BASESIN __ RUSSIA FOR ATTACK ON JAPAN WHEN NAZIS ARE UNDER CONTROL

HUNDREDS OF RAF ~ BOMBERS BLAST BOCHUM, IN RUHF   City of 304,000 Feels Fury of Thousands of Tons of Blockbusters

CRIME CAREER CUT SHORT IN NEW YORK   Attempts To Pick Pocket of Store Detective

CHILLICOTHE WOMAN NABBED IN NEW YORK   Ten-year Criminal Career as Pickpocket

Reds Intercept Nazi Planes Near Leningrad   Twenty-Two Out of  100 Enemy Aircraft Ara Ghat Nawn

SECOND ATTEMPT TO BOMB CHECKED   Jap Bases In Pacific Bombed By Americans, Rabaul Is Set on Fire.

Red Bombrs Hit  Enemy Airdromes   Military Trains, Supply Dumps Blasted In Raids

Soviet Airmen Bag 22 Nazi Planes Attempting Mass Raid On Leninorad

MASS RAID FAILS AS THE RUSSIANS INTERCEPT GRAFT   100 German Planes Are Detected and 22 ShotDowr in Great Daylight Battle.

Soviet Fighter Pilots Shoot Down 22 Naz Planes at Leningrad   If Germany Wants fo Play Rough, U. S. Has Answer: United Nations Sef for the Kill

Argentinian Revolt Is Major Gain For Allied Cause, Depriving Nazis of Last Outpost in West

New Government Of Argentina Is Friendly fo U. S.   Rupture of Relations with Axis Powers May Follow Revolt

Weather in Helena   Argentinian Revolt Is Major Gain For Allied Cause, Depriving Nazis of Last Outpost in West

Fresh Outbreaks Of Sabotage  In Denmark  TT) FF... g% ¢   Parachutists Believed To Be Leaders

DEMOCRATS NAME FULL SPRING SLATE   Reid Promises He Will Fight _ for Chance to Run for Highway Post

STATE TICKET      Place Full Slate in Field for Spring Election Against anP.

BIG UNITED STATES BOMBERS IN RAID ON WAKE ISLAND ENEMY  ALLIED HEADQUARTERS TELL OF CONTINUED AERIAL OFFENSIVES

AA RUNS AIR ATTAGKS INTO SECOND WEEK   Splatters Bombs on Hamburg Where Most of German - Subs Are. Built,   NAZIS STAGE 2 RAIDS  ON LONDON IN NIGHT

RAF Rains: Destruction OnHamburg   10 Bombers Lost In Shattering Raid On. U-Boat Center

British Bomb Other Objectives in Germany for Sth Straight Night   Luftwaffe Makes Two Small Raids  fin London Area

BLOCK - BUSTER BOMBS RAIN ON BIG PORT CITY   Blow Aimed At Shipyards And Factories Aiding Nazi U-Boat Campaign   LONDON HAS TWO RAIDS   Weak German Forces Strike Back In Retaliation; Damage Is Slight

Tension Grows In N. Italy; Labor  Demanding Peace   Govt. Leader Conferring With Workers Confederation Composed of 3 Million Metnbers.

TENSION MOUNTS NORTHERN {TAL   Rome Dispatches Indicate Mounting Tension Due To Labor’s Unsatisfied Demands For Peace.

MAY WETTEST OF ALL MAYS IN 57 YEARS   Rainfall Championship for Month Goes To St.  Joe Area   15.44 INCHES HERE   Other Sections of State Near Drought Stage During Month

B. H. Leads State In May Rainfall   13.66 Inches Fell, Last Month For Record

OPA Announces 30 Per Cent More Meat for Civilians in December; Fish and Cheese Points Increased

FADERS FE  A  OY TO ASK GAS GHANGE      Will Carry Fight To Their Con gressmen For Mote Gas Allowance

Allies Raid New Jap War Base   Transport Ship Fired in Heavy  Raid on Wewak

JAPANESE MERCHANT VESSEL DESTROYED   Another Enemy Ship Sef on Fire in Air Rafd on Nipponese Base on New Guinea,

JAP SHIP FIRED, ANOTHER S SUNK   Allied Planes Drop 3 30 Tons 01 Bombs On Wewak, New Guinea

Jap Transport Fired, Merchant Ship Destroyed   30 Tons Of Bombs Drop On Wewak; Other Areas Hit

Bombs Piled On Jap Base At Wewak   Two Ships Knocked Out as Allies Make Long Distance Flight

Wewak Is Target Of Heavy Allied Blow in Pacific  Other Jap Bases Suffer as Scattered  i. ee fee

Allied Fliers Hit. Severely af Japs’ Island Base  Enemy Loses Heavily In Attack Upon New Guinea Holding:

TWO. MORE JAP OtIPo DAMAGED BY BOMBERS   Enemy Transport Set Afire. Merchant Craft Is Sunk in Harbor Of Wewak

To Halt Russians   Continue To Be Hurled Back in Face Of Heavy Counter-attacks; Break-throughs Reported In Bend of Dnieper River.

Crusher Raid On Cologne Sets New RAF Mark   Rhineland City Is Hard Hit Again In Double Bladed Attack Also Smashing Submarine Center At Hambura

Ruin Rained Upon Rhine City; Hamburg, U-Boat Center Also Hit; Cathedral Damaged

BRITISH ALSO RAID HAMBURG IN STRENGTH   Block-Busters Start Fires  Smoke From Which Leap  - Up Toward Overhanging Clouds   GERMANY REPORTS HEAVY DAMAGE DONE   Cologne Population “Suf. fers Losses,” Berlin Radio Says; Claims Cathedra} Damaged

MISSING IK TWIN RAIDS   Assaults Follow U. S. Forays Over France During Daylight

Great Trail Of Damage in German City   Big Cathedral Reported Badly Smashed; British Lose 25 Big Bombers

British Lose 25 Bombers In Assaults   100 Forts From Africa Blast At Leghorn In Italy; Hit Shipping, Oil Tanks, Rail Yards

Was Bond Score   RAF Attacks With Great Force; 25 Planes Are Lost

29 BOMBERS ARE MISSING IN ATTACKS   Mine Laying Activity Continues:; Great Cathedral Hit, Germans Announce; Shipping Blasted

Cologne Gets New, Terrible Bombing Blow  RAF in Crushing Attack, Also Makes   RAF in Crushing Attack, Also Makes Sweep Over Hamburg

Famous Cathedral Damaged, Nazis Claim, as RAF Raids Cologne for 117th Time   Hamburg Also Blasted by Bombs; American Fortresses Cause Serious. Bamace at Halian Port of Lechorn

BRITISH ALSO. STAGE A RAID ON HAMBURG   Continue ‘Mine Layi n g Which Has Caused Sink- . ing of 400 Axis Ships: Since Start of War—. Blows Cost 25 Craft...

Nazis Assert _ Dome of Famed  Cathedral Hit —   Sub Building Center of Hamburg Alsc Struck by Big Planes; British List 25 Aircraft as Missing on Raids

25 BOMBERS IK ATTACK OF RAF FAIL TO RETURN   Nazis Report “Another Serious Terror Raid” With Damage Heavy

Nazi Industrial Center Blasted For 117th Time   Heavy Bombers Also Raid Hamburg; U.S. Planes Hit France

Huge Fires Blaze in _  RuhrCity   25 Bombera Lost; © Fortressez Lay Waste Horhae of Lachacn,

COLOGNE FEELS FULL MICHT OF BOMBING FORCE   RAF Also Delivers Staggering Blows to Hamburg in Night Raid

MINE LAYING 5 CONTINUED   Rhineland Industrial Center Is Attacked Second Time In Month.   NAZIS REPORT DAMAGE

Submarine Center Of Hamburg Also Blasted By RAF      Double - bladed © Assault Leaves Great Damage. 25 RAF Planes Fail to Return. *

RAF RETURNED IN GREAT STRENGTH T0 ATTACK ON COLOGNE   BRITISH HEAVY BOMBERS ALSO STRUCK SUBMARINE BUILDING CENTER

Fires Roar  eIn Cologne;  Hamburg Is Hit Agair   AF. Blasts Rhineland City in Great Strength; 25 Bombers Lost   CATHEDRAL HIT, @ THE GERMANS SAY   OtherAreas Attacked in Secondary Sweeps; Action Fol_lows U.S, Raids on France

RAF Return To Cologne For Another Heavy Blow   Double-Bladed Atlack Includes Hamburg: 25 British Bombers Are  Reporied Missinge

COLOGNE WAS HIT AGAIN LAST NIGHT BY RAF BOMBERS   Continued the City by City Razing of German War Industry.   British Bombers Also Struck at Hamburg, Sub Building Center.

Cologne and Hamburg Are Mass Bombed   25 Planes Missing; Rhineland City Hit Second Time in June

Gen. MacArthur Won't Balk At  Subordination   But He Stoutly Defends His Speed-Up Strategy In The Pacific.

VICTORY IS PUT OVER AMBITION BY MACARTHUR   Commander Acknowledges Rumors Mountbatien May Top Him, Defends Pacific Strategy

Gen. MacArthur Urges Massive Blows Against (Japanese Strongholds

MACARTHUR T0 FULFILL ANY ASSIGNED ROLE   Command May Be Under That Of Mounfbatten

MACARTHUR IS SUBORDINATED   Mountbatten’s New South west Asia Command Heads Pacific Strategy

MacARTHUR CONFIDENT OF PACIFIC STRATEGY   General Acknowledges Late Reports He May Be Placed Under Mountbatten

MAC ARTHUR WILLING TO COOPERATE   Says Australia Is Ideal Spot  For Bases

MacArthur Is Ready to Play A Minor Role   Statement Supports Hint That Mountbattan Will Command Pacific

ISLAND HOPPING IN PACIFIC IRKS GEN. M*°ARTHUR   MASSIVE THRUST IS FAVORED FOR DEFEAT OF FANATIC NIPPONS

FOR ‘ANY ROLE   Prepared For ‘Subordinate’ Post If Leaders Order

Isle By Isle Strategy Hit By MacArthur   General’s Statement Puzzles Washington; See Dissatisfaction With Coming Supplies

M’ARTHUR WILLING TO FILL ANY ROLE ASSIGNED TO HIM   Southwest.*Paci Recognizes’ of. Mountbatten May.. ‘Sub: otdinate His Own ~~

M’Arthur Set ~~ For Any Task   Gives Concept Of Pacific Strategy In Statement To Wachinetan.

MacArthur Acknowledges He May Be Subordinated; Says He’s Willing To Fill Any Role

MacArthur Says He May Be Overruled By Mountbatten In New Pacific Setup

AACARTHUR'S COMMAND MAY BE JUBORDINATED TO THAT OF QUTHEAST ASIA IS REPORT   Allied Commander In Southwest Pacific Willing To Fill Any Role Assigned to Him. Strongly Defends His Concept of Pacific Strategy

we go et Rr er Er Ul UR ee     Camp Carson Commandos “Take’ Famous French Village   BY HAROLD PPROLY

@ !T'S BOUND TO HAPPEN  Camp Carson Commandos ‘Take’ Famous French Village   BY HAROLD PREROUN

FRENCH ALGERIA GOVERNOR QUITS   DeCaulle Gets Rid Of One Man He Doesn't Like In Unity Move

PEYROUTON QUITS AS FRENCH CHIEF   DeGaulle “Accepts Resigna“tion as Governor-General of Aloeria a

Assault Craft Arrive Just . Ahead Of Quacks  — rT weeere ar Te -. Freer wrwwqwar’s™

WORLD BANKING PLAN OUTLINED   Morgenthau Says Fund Will Promote Prosperity

Other U.S. Troops Only 5 Miles From Ferryville; Axis Naval Base Within Artillery Range   German Counter-Atlacks Beaten Back; Enemy Tank Force Trapped By British And 12 Out OF 17 Destroyed: Americans Gain Five Miles

Second Thrust Threatens Key To Tunis Area   Tebourba Battle on, Americans Also Near Ferryville as Big Naval. Base Comes Within Range of ‘Long Toms’  And French Gain In South.

U.S.-British Force Swarms Over Gap;  Drive on Sbiba   ROMMEL’S BRUISED LEGIONS FALL BACK TOWARD GAFSA AS ALLIED ARMIES GAIN MOMENTUM IN DETERMINED TUNISIA THRUST

Nazis Lose 12 Tanks.in  British Trap   Enemy May Make His Last Stand on Peninsula Of Cap Bon

‘Montgomery N ow 150 Miles  From Tunis   Advance With Crushing Speed; Rommel in Headlong Flight North

YANKS, FRENCH HAVE ONLY 10 MILES T0 60   Allies Making Steady Progress on Great Naval Fortress Where Axis Will Dig In

U.S. Smash Ten Miles From Sea   AMERICAN FORCES FIVE MILES FROM KEY CITY OF FERRYVILLE AS FRENCH JOIN WITH YANKS IN CRUSHING FORWARD PUSH

Allies Are Shaping Pincers Around Foe in Northern Africa   Thrust Forward Moves Toward Zaghouan and  Tunis Also Today

‘U.S. Forces 4 Miles From Tebourba   Another Column Nears Ferryville; 5,000 Axis Troops Have Been Captured

CHINESE CITY IS TAKEN FROM JAPS   Japs Leave 600 Killed Or Wounded On The Battlefield

JEFFERS, PATTERSON MAKING INSPECTION GASOLINE, RUBBER  TWO TOP BUREAU MEN CLAIM NO FURTHER FRICTION BETWEEN THEM

Allies Straighten Their Lines in Italy by Taking Potenza.  GERMANS BURN AND LOOT NAPLES PORT  Allied Bombers Waging Day and Night Assault Around Naples.

Drive Into Italy Is Hardest Punch In All Mediterranean Moves. Al lied Air Bombing Con-

President Asks Congress To Provide Sum   Would Aid Men And Women  In Armed Forces

BILLION IS ASKED FOR EDUCATION AT END OF CONFLIC!   Roosevelt Calls Upon Congress to Provide Funds For Rehabilitation of Men and Women In Service.   PREPARE FOR PEACE AT HEIGHT OF WAR   special Message Calls Attention to Special Obligation Owed to Persons In Armod Forces.

BILLION FOR SERVICE FUND 1S SUCRESTEI   PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS BILLION DOLLAR FUND FOR ‘ POSTWAR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION

[FDR Calls For Post War Fund For Education   Says those serving in armed forces entitled to training

BILLION TO HELP SOLDIERS ASKED   FDR Seeks Fund for Postwar Rehabilitation and Education

Negro Prosecutor Shakes Story Of Chief Defense Witness For Count

DE MARIGNY PALS TESTIMONY SHAKY   Crown Shakes Count’s De. fense In Nassau Trial

HitlerWarns Italy Against ‘Selling Out’   Separate Peace Attempt to Bring ‘Severe Measures’

JAPS MAY HAVE BETTER PLANE IN ACTION SOON   New Type Zero Fighter Is Foreseen By Airmen In Pacific Area  Be. 49 CPU «4 weir

Marshall Hints Hour of Europe Invasion Nears   Churchill Calls Secret War Cabinet Session: Laval Mourns Axis Woe

Long-Range Planning by Allied Leaders Seems to Have Been  . Concluded—italian Newspapers Warn That Blow Is im minent and Urge People to Stand Fast—Many of Country’s Cities in Ruins With Air Raids Continuing.

Gen. Marshall In Africa And  Invasion Looms Near Now   Week’s Conference Held With Churchill Axis Believe Zero Hour At Hand

TUP MILT ARY LEADERS MAP FINAL PLANS   Allied Offensive Believed Imminent After Talks Among Staff Heads

Gen. Marshall In Africa To  Plan Invasion   Churchill Holds Long Meetings With War Cabinet On Return To London,   SEES FRENCH CHIEFS

U.S. Chief Of Staff Flies To North Africa  Churchill Is Home  After Conference

WLB Awards 32.2 Cents Wage Boost To Pennsylvania Hard Coal Miners

Vichy Claims Yank: Landed on Kiska   Navy Refuses to Make Comment

American Forces Ready For Expanding Operations On Great Pacific Front

SUBS TAKING - STEADY TOLL   TWO "TAR. DESTROYERS AMONG ‘PATE RT SINKINGS ANNOUNCED BY¥ NAVY  DEPARTMENT

PR; PRANTITY BANE ED   Sensational Navy Plane-- Helldiver BadNews to Japs

Navy Hails 2 ee ‘Helldiyer Big and Fast#lane; Delivered Terpific Wallop’ canes e in Rabagfl Raids

Officials Deny  Senators’ Report   Solons Charged British Selling Leased Goods

GERMAN U-BOAT YARDS BLASTED BY U.S. AIRMEN   Two Bombers Lost in Raid Near Bremen—75 to 100 Nazi Fighters Downed or Damaged.   SKY BATTLES RAGE ON LONG ROUND TRIP   Enemy Planes Strike Back atEngland, Dropping Bombs in East Anglia at Nicht.

Fliers Battle Nazi F ighters On Long Trip   Americans Break 48-Hour Lull in Day Offensive; Foray Is Made Without Escort

American Fliers Blast German  U-Boat Center   Forced . to fight off many German planes before reaching their objective.

FLYING FORTRESSES ~ SPREAD EXPLOSIVES ON U-BOAT CENTER   Yanks Destroy Or Damage Many Of 75 To 100 Nazi Fighters W hich Attacked Continuously On 800-Mile Trip

“NAZI FIGHTER PLANES SHOT DOWN IN RAID   American Airmen Break 48-Hour  Lull In Daylight Aerial Offensive.

U. S. Planes Hit at Nazi U-Boat Yard      Many German Fighters Trying 1o Stop Big Bombers Destroyed

YANKEES RAID U-BOAT PLANT   Fortresses Score Hits a Sub Building Center  Near Bremen

NAZI BASE BOMBED - BY FLIERS OF U.S.      Airmen Shoot Down Num. ber of Enemy @lanes in Battle

Yankees Raid Vital Area On Nazi Land   Opposition Is Hot But Foe Gets Decisive Beating

YANKS DUMP RUIN ON SUB BUILDING UNIT   Destroy Or Damage Many Of 75 To 100 Nazis Fightcrs Beating Against Continuously.   Bomb Vegesack Yards

vo Big Bombers yst in Daylight jow at Germany   Many Nazi Fighter Planes Shot Down (Over North Sea

Yanks bomb sub nest in daring raid   Bag 75 planes;  fight continuous

13 GENERALS CAPTURED IN AFRICAN WIN   Nazis Yield Before Derided Italians Capitulate

Allied Victory In Tunisia Mounting; Thousands Taken   Tote! Axis Captives Expected To Reoch 175,000 As Victorious Armies Mopping U tact Pockets Of Resistance In Tunisia

TROUBLES INCREASE FOR OAKES HEIRESS   Plans Flight to Her Moth"er in Miami; Clipper Seats Taken

GIVES REPORT ON CASABLANCA CONFERENCE   Emphasizes No Armistice  To End War

Roosevelt Hints He May Meet  Soviet Premier   President Reviews African Trip at Press Conference

Roosevelt Hints at Possibility of ‘Conference With Premier Stalin

Review of Long Tripto Africa Given   No Negotiated Armistice, FDR Impresses Again

Emphasizes Full Surrender Aim As — He Reviews Trip   Answer Is “Hope Springs Eternal” ag Reporters Inquire About Possibility of ~ Meeting Russian Premier :

No Negotiated Armistice; Roosevelt May Meet Stalin   Will Poutd Gerniany Until Ful Surrender Is Achieved, Says President

CHINA NEED OF U.S. STRESSED   MME. CHIANG REAFFIRMS NECESSITY OF HELP

Mme. Chiang’ Asks Aid but Does Not Beg   2,100 at Banquet; Some Bid as High as $200 For Tickets

Housewife Killec By Rifle Bullet  Husband, Baby Girl Llandiad ‘Crake

REDS SMASHING AHEAD; GERMAN LINES CRUMBLE  NAZIS SAY SOVIETS  OPEN MAJOR DRIVE IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA

START OFFENSIVE IN DONETS BASIN   German Radio Reports Movements of the Rus-_ sian Troops   FIVE ARMIES ENGAGED

Subae Raising ‘More Po- we Dy . tatoes For Dryer PI ant   It Wilk Be “Built At ose City. nd_ in Operation This Year.

At, i Will Be ‘Built, “At.4 ia City. ‘and, i in: Operati on: 7" VW his Year. ?' 4

Arkansas Flood Crest Is Near   ARMY ENGINEERS WORK HARD TO SAVE — LEVEES

COUNTERATTACKS BY THE GERMANS ON THE INCREASE   Extend From the Far Northern Russian Front to the Black Sea Sector.

RESISTANCE BY GERMANS INCREASING   This, With Weather, Slows Offensives Of Soviet Armies

New German Quifits Sent to Red Front   Counter: Action Increased and Weather Slows Drive of Soviet Armies   SOME ROADS ARE ALMOST IMPASSABLE   Worst Weather Reported im Kuban Sector of .. the North Caucasus’: «

Withdrawal Reduces Triangle  Based ai Velikie Luki, Now  Held by Reds, and Bryansk   Far fo South Mud, Rains and Bad Roads Aid Germans in CounierAttacks in Donets

GERMANS PREPARE FOR EXPECTED PUSH BY BRITISH ARMY   Allied Aerial And Sub ’ Forces Open, Powerful) . Offensive On Axis   PLANES ATTACKING ADVANCE POSITIONS

ALLIES UPEN AERIAL, WATER DRIVES TODAY   Heavy Offensives Looked To As Prelude For Renewal Of British Efforts To Oust Axis In Africa.

FLYNN DENIES SEDUCING GIRL ON HIS YACH)   Actor Says He Was At The Wheel Of His Boat Dur ing Catalina Cruise   WOMEN MOB CORRIDOR TO SEE SCREEN HERO

AFL BACKING SOCIAL BILL   EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CALLS ON CONGRESS TO PASS . MEASURE EXTENDING SOCIAL BECURITY PROGRAM

NAZI TANKS IN TUNISIA DRIVE   Foe Halted After Push Through Pass Held By French Troops

U.S. Fliers Stall Nazi Thrust At Faid Pass   Tunisian Battlefront Blazes Anew as Motor Units Attack

MOSCOVITES OPEN NEW 4-MILE SUBWAY TO WAR PLANTS   Celebrate New Year With  Rejoicing Over Victories.

Nazis Gathering Tank Formations   Reds Await Sudden Thrust By Hitler Units

NAZI DRIVE IN RUSSIA ANTICIPATED   Big Concentrations Of Tanks Reported In Two Sectors

LARGE AXIS TANK UNITS DISCOVERED AT OREL, BELGOROD   Supports Belief That Axis Intends To Launch . Lightning Drive Against Reds

GERMANS MASS TANKS AT OREL   1,300 Nazi Planes Shot Down During Week ~ By Réd Aviators ~

Lightning Blow Expected at Orel Sector   Fuehrer Plan Seen to Win Quickly, Then Face Woact

Hitler Concentrates “Tiger” Tanks in Orel for Lightning Offensive

NAZIS GATHERING TANK STRENGTH IN ~ OREL BELGOROD   Germans May Try Lightning Drives Before Second Front Is Opened, ©

Diner Cook Held In Berth Killing  Robert Folkes, 20, _ .  Los Angeles, Admits OLeiitc ce Cicc  tmatincd

Los Angeles Police Think. Negro Guilty   Cook Cortfesses:Murder In Lower -13, Then Denies It

Cook Confesses Bride Killing In Lower Berth 13   Suspect Gives Conflicting Stories, Links Unidentified Man To Stabbing

COOK HELD ON.  MURDER COUNT   ) Confession . Reported In Slaying of Bride in Sleeper Berth. ,

NEGRO COOK HELD ON BRIDE'S DEATH IN BERTH NO. 12   Robert Folkes, 20, Reported to Have Confessed Murder of Navy Ensign’S Wife; Her Throat Slashed.   MAN GAVE CINFLICTING VERSIONS QF ACT   Private In Marine Corps Say: He Found Suspect Sweat. ing and Breathing Hare in Another Car.

Train Murder Mystery Is Confessed by: Negrc   Dining Car Cook Breaks Down Under Questioning and Tells Bizarre Story of Stabbing Bride of Naval Officer

Negro Confesses Pullman Murder   Second Cook Says He Killed Woman at Instigation of Another.

NEGRO CHARGED WITH SLAYING      Dining Car Cook Retracts Confession; Says Another Man is Involved

Cook Called Slayer of Navy Bride   Dining Cer Chet Admits, Denies Crime; Involves ‘Other Man’

Robert Folkes, 20, Los Angeles, Reported to Have Confessed Killing of Mrs. Martha James   SHARP BONING KNIFE USED, ACCUSER SAYS   Tells Police ‘Another Man’ Engaged Him; Straddled Upper Portion of Victim’s Bady

Dining Car Cook Charged With First Degree Murder In Slaying Of Navy Bride

Says Stranger Offered Him $1,000 To Put Mrs. James “Out Of The Way”

Cook Charged -With Slaying   Diner Employe Reported To Have Confessed In * Coast Death Ouiz

Dining Car Cook Held For Murder Of Young Womar   Confesses Slaying © Navy Bride Aboard Train

GGET RATION BOOK 2   Regiegistration Was Held Yesterday ' for Industrial Users

REDS LAUNCH NEW ASSAULT BELOW GOME!   WEDGE MAY SPLIT INVADING ARMY IN UKRAINE

Red Column Now 55 Miles West. of Kiev   Push Within 25 Miles. Of Railway Connecting North- South Armies  OTHER DRIVES GAIN >

SOVIETS THREATEN 10 GUTELANK NAZI LINE ON BUG RIVER   Gome! Put in Peril as One Column Seizes Six Strong holds on Road to  : Rechitsa.   ENEMY LOSES FORTIFIED POSITIONS IN CRIMEA   Muscovites Moving Toward Rumania Battle German Reinforcements Thrown  into Ficht.

SOVIET FORCES 85 MILES FROM POLISH BORDEF   Russians Announce New Offensive Beyond Dnieper Southwest Of Gomel   BERLIN IS AMAZED AT RED ARMY’S POWER

Reds Smash On Over Nazi Dead   Cutting Of Railway Next Big Objective

RAF Bombs Rain on Two Htalian Cities   Turin, Spezia Suffer Serious Damage In Acrial Assaults

Ligurian Detense ; Pictured as Weak  Fascist Airmen Unable To Repel Invasion Over Alps  Gen. Andrews Takes Command in Europe  ‘We Intend to Go All-Out’ Asserts Veterar- Flier .   Gen. Andrews Takes  Command in Europe   ‘We Intend to Go All-Out’ Asserts Veleran- Flier Of New Duties

TURIN, SPEZIA, RUHR, LORIENT RAF TARGETS   Royal Arsenals And Naval Base In Italy And German Industries Bombed By Britteh Airmen.   Britain Raided

RAF LASHES 3 ENEMY CENTERS   Turin Arsenals, Sub Pen At Lorient, Naval Base At Spezia Are Attacked

FLIERS BOMB. SDETIA NAVY BASEINITALY      Germgn Industries and ' Submarine Base Also Attacked .

R. A.F. Bombs Italian, Nazi Industries   Turin Arsenals and Spezia Naval Base Are Blasted

FLIERS BOMB SPEZIA NAVY BASE IN ITALY   Germgn Industries and Submarine Base Also Attacked

R. A. F. Blasts Targets in Italy and Ruhr   Continent Is Under Aerial Assault ‘Round the Clock

AA RAING BOMBS ON AXIS POINTS   Blasts Turin Arsenals and Spezia Italian Naval Base   NEW TARGETS HIT   RAF Loses Three Planes Out Of Many Taking Part in Four Separate Raids

RAF Flight Also Hit: Turin Arsenal and Ruhr Industries  Dp. COWARNMR Mm RATT

MANY TO GIVE BLOOD   Red Cross Unit Will V: Visit Lawrence Two Days Next Week i

MANY TO GIVE BLOOD   Red Cross Unit Will Visit en Two Days Next Week

Nauru Rocks in New U.S. Stab   AMERICAN BOMBERS POUND MARSHALLS BASES; AUSSIES CAPTURE WAREO VILLAGE DURING AIR LULL; TOKYO ADMITS “GHASTLY WAR”

U-BOAT NEST POUNDED BY RAF BOMBERS   Gigantic New Air Offensive Covers All Europe

SWISS DOWN FLYING FORT   U. S. Bombers, Nazis Fight Over Switzerland

Fortress Shot Down . By Swiss Anti-Aircraft: Fire During Air Battle .

Siaiss Fire Downs U.S.  Fortress   ...U.S., Nazi Warplanes Clash Over Switzerland

Swiss Anti-aircraft Fire Destroys American Fortress Fighting Nazis

Plan Victory Gardens Now   Secretary Wickard Urges Everyone To Help Produce Food

18,000,000 Is Garden Goal   12,000,000 Wanted on City and Town Plots And 6,000,000 on Farms

18,000,000 War Gardens Is 1943 Goal   Agriculture Department 12,000,000 in Cities and Towns and 6,000,000 in Country; Canning Urged

New Army of Soldiers of Soil Mobilizing To Tend fo Nation's Victory Gardens

In Victory  Garden Piea   Wickard Stresses: Need This Year for Evéryone ‘Who Can to Raise Food

Japs Step Up Fieht In Air   Fliers Encounter Heavy ‘Increase In. Opposition

BOMBER FIGHTS OFF 4 JAP PLANES   RUNNING BATTLE EXTENDS OVER 150 MILES IN NEW IRELAND AREA,

Fortress Fights Off Four Japs In Long Battle   Thrilling Air Encountes ’ Over Kavieng, New lreland

Pacific Aerial Fights Show Jap Strength Growing  Fortresses Fight Off

FORTRESS BEATS OFF ATTACK BY FIGHTERS   Japanese Positions Heavily Bomh ed And Strafed By MacArthur's  Planes

Allied Planes Bomb Jap Bases Heavily   Flying Fortress Fights Off Four Nip Fighters

Flying Fortress Is Winner in Fight Against Jap Group  Americans Give Foe’s Installations Severe Bemb Attacks

A JAP PLANES ARE DEFEATED BY FORTRESS   Foe Position at Nas sau Bay Blasted  By Americans

SAW A FLOOR FOLD   Sunflower Ordnance Works Inspector Gives Deposition in Suit

New Stabilization Head Says He'll Meet Each "Problem as It Arises’

REGENTS SIGN THE AIRPORT CONTRACT   Change Made to Make the Proposed New Hangar.  Property of K. U,   ONG STILL TO SIGN UP

AIRPORT CONTRACT   Change Made to Make the Proposed New Hangar Property of K. U.   ONG STILL TO SIGN UP

Beauty Queen and New York Girl Brave Sizzling Kansas Sun —And Harvest 720 Acres of Good Wheat

Former University Beauty Queen And New York Girl Good Harvesters

i\Two Farmers and Three Hired Hands, Two of Them Girls, Harvest 720 Acres

New York Girl, Beauty Queen Pitch In To Harvest 720 Acres Of Wheat

THIS WHEAT WILL HELP FEED HUNGRY WORLD  Ex-Beauty Queen, New York Girl Help Harvest 720 Acres Of Wheat

Beauty Queen And City Girl Good Farm Hand S;  They Help Harvest 720 Acres Of Kansas Wheat

Japanese In Last Stand In New Georgia Islands At Munda; U. 8. Troops Land At Rice Anchorage On North Bastern Ccast.   \TEN MORE JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS

U.S. Jungle Troops Are Closing in  For the Kill   Enemy Patrol Routed in Fight  Near Raca

Showdown Fight For Munda Base Believed Near:   >Yankee Jungle. Troops Closing In for Kill

U.S. TROOPS, ONLY 2 MILES FROM MUNDA, CLOSE IN FOR KILL   Japs All But Abandon Other Posts For Last Stand At Vital]  Air Field

Yanks Within Two Miles Of  Japanese Base   Showdown Battle For Munda May Be Under Way Atready

TROOPS MOVE, UP FOR ‘KILL’   Japanese Fall Back, Await Major Showdown at N. Georgia Base.   TOKYO ADMITS ALLIES HAVE WON FOOTHOLD

JAPANESE BASE MAY COLLAPSE   Enemy Patro! fs Routed  Only Two Miles Away  ‘and Final Battle Moy Be Under Way.

YANKS NEAR JAP BASE AT MUNDA   Showdown. Believed Near As U. S. Troops Push Through Jungle

JUNGLE TROOPS CLOSING IN ON JAP AIN BASE   Skirmish 2 Miles From Nippon Plane Field Renvorted by Patra!

JAP FORCES DIG IN FOR LAST STAND   Rugged U. S. Jungle troops Ciose In For Kill

SHOWDOWN FIGHT FOR MUNDA NEARS AS YANKS CLOSE   Jap Patrol Routed !n Skirmish Only Two Miles from U. $. Objective.

Yank Force Now 2 Miles From Base   Close in for Kill; Other Isle Positions Jans Abandoning

eS -IN A CORNFIELD   Three Fliers From Topeka Base Killed in Emer) gency Set-Down

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Constant Aerial Attacks Imeduce Striking Power 4 Hitler's Army

The War Teday— Bombing ° Experiment” On Hitler Is Proceeding Fine According To Plan

BOMBERS HAMMER HITLER RESERVE   Wear and Tear On His War Machine Should Be Showing Up Soon

ANGLO-AMERICAN EXPERIMENT CONSTANT BOMBING OF HITLER’S ‘WAR INDUSTRIES WORKING WELL

The Wat:Today— ate Bombing “Experiment” On Hitler Is Proceeding Fine According To Plan

NO OTHER MEDIUM   The War Today.   Continuous Bambing Is Having Effect

The War Today  Cumulative Bombings Will Destroy Hitler In An Avalanche,

[Allied Bombing of Europe _ Is Giving Amazing. Results \Hitler’s Air Force on Defensive

RAF FLIERS HIT — NAZI AIRDROME   French Field Is Pounded In Night Assault

HEPORT GWE LMPHASlo TO WARTIME JOB   House Committee Approves $2,939,441,504 for 18 AGENCIES.   ADMITS MISTAKES, CITES WIDENED WAR. FOOTING

WAR AGENCY — BILL APPROVED   House Committee Gives 0. K. to Appropriations for Civilian War Agencies for Fiscal Year of 1944,   By TONY SMITH

THREE BILLION VOTED CIVILIAN WAR AGENCIES   House Committee Puts OK or Huge Expenditures For Home Front In ’44.   DEFENDS BUREAU HEADS   Hits Critics Who Lack Facts on America’s Progress In War Effort.

Committee Praises Bureaus, Denounces “‘Uninformed”’ Critics  And Urges Skeptics To Read Testimon)

CIVILIAN WAR AGENCIES GIVEN THREE BILLIONS   House Committee Gives Government Bureaucrats Clean Bill Of Health   FEW REDUCTIONS MADE   Nelson Says Allied Nations War Production Doubles That Of Axis

BUREAUCRATS GIVEN CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH   House Committee Makes Appropriations for Agencies

War Agencies Win Praise Of  House Group   Budget Requests Are Largely Endorsed In Report Submitted To Lower House Today

Bureaucrats Get  (Clean Bill From  House Committee   Only Small Amount Slashed From: Budget _ Requests For Year —

ASSAILED AGENCIES GET “PAT’   Mistakes Are Admitted and Critics Are Denounced — Skeptics  Given Advice.

Bureaucrats Are Given Cha Bill of Health   Appropriations ., Voted by House Committee

18 Civilian Agencies Voted Appropriations, Clean Bill Of Health         Highly Criticized OPA and OWI Weather _Committee Scrutiny; Destruetive Criticism Denounced in Report

“BUREAUCRATS” GET CLEAN BILL   Appropriations Committee *Gives War Congre.s Funds, Praise

Solons Approve  Billions for  Civilian Units War Effort on  Home Front Is Given Praise

SEENOPEACE — FOR BULGARIA   London Says Any Proposal to Retain War Loot Will Be Rejected

British Have No Knowledge Of  “Peace Feelers’   Official Sources In Dark Or Reported Bulgarian Peace Feeler Moves

OPA STRETCHES _T GAS RATIONS -IN THIS AREA   Bicycle Quotas Now Uniimited in Eastern States Gas Qhortacve Area.

LATE SIGN UP FRIDAY   Boardman Makes Announcement About Ration Registration

JAPS AIR MORE THREATS TOU, S   Nippon Broadens Scope. Would ‘Punish’ Crews Bombing Any of Its Territory

Japs Broaden Execution Threats —   To Punish “Severely” Pilots Found Guilty  Of “Inhuman Acts” In Anv Jap-held Country

Tokio Disagrees With Rights of Uniformed Soldiers   ‘Cruel and Inhuman Acts’ Anywhere Will Be ‘Punished’

Japs Broaden Punitive Ideas For Prisoners  Severe Treatment To Be Given All U. S. Fliers

JAPS EXTEND WARNINGS OF PUNISHMENT   Captured American Fliers to Get No Benefit of International Law.   DOOLITTLE URGES BOMBS AGAIN ‘SOON   Devastating Attack Promised Until Empire “Begs for Mercy.”

JIM CROW ACT IS INTRODUCED IN LEGISLATURE   Both Houses Adjour: Tuesday After Paying Tribute To Late Judge   SENATE RECEIVES SIX NEW MEASURES

“JIM CROW" REPEAL BILL INTRODUCED   Legislature Adjourns Out of Respect to Late’ Chief Judae

HITLER AT FRONT, RADIO ANNOUNCES   Berlin Broadcasts His Visit, Conference on Eastern War Sector

Hitler Is Reported In Visit to  Russian Front Berlin Says Marshal Decorated for Breaking Red Drive

FAMOUS “MICHIGAN FOOTBALI STAE 18 FEARED DEAD IN LATIN-AMERICAN > Brotaw -

HARMON LOST ON BOMBER HOP   Michigan Athlete Missing During Long Flight To Combat Area

Withdrawal Of Italian Divisions Exposes German Lines In The South

GAPS IN BALKANS   Issue Restrictions for Italian Soldiers In Greece

JAPS SUFFER * HBAVY LOSSES      Défense” OF Stolen Islands  Coasts “Heavily in Men,  Ships, Materials

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Défense of Stolen Islands Coasts Heavily in Men, Ships, Materials

Japanese Defense Is Costing Heavily  Nine Warships Lost In Last Two Weeks

Japanese Pay Heavily for Protection Of Stolen Pacific Empire ; Toll Of Materiel and Men Is Staggering

Hull and Eden Reach Moscow  omen tnt m,  WARM WELCOME  ne  Preliminary Talks Started

Food Parley Comes to End   Formal Approval Given To Resolutions for Post-War Food Program

EOOD CONFERENCE ENDS SIXTEEN-DAY SESSION WEDNESDAY  PARTICIPANTS DEMAND  WORLD FREED FROM  WANT IN FUTURE

DELEGATES LAUD HUOU CONFERENCE   Postwar Planning For World Free Of Want Pledged

44 Nations Called On to Participate In Food Planning   Conference Asks For International Agriculture: Unit

Conference On  Food Is Ended   Ferty-Four Countries Asked ‘ To Join in Post-War Planning for, Want-Free World

FOOD CONFERENCE WINDS UP 16-DAY SESSION TODAY   Resolution Approved Calling on 44 Nations To Join in Post-War Planning

Food Parley Enc Aims At World Free From Want  Delegates Praise .   Delegates Praise -Conference As Laying Ground Work For ' Poct.War Cooperaton

World Food Parley Ends   Foundations Laid for Future United Action On Feeding the World

United Nations Food Conference at End After 16 Days of Deliberation

Food Parley Winds Up Its ~ Work Today   ‘Resolution For Post War  Planning Given Formal / Approval

U.S. Will Deal With Any Non-Fascist On Peace Terms,  Says President. _

DON'T OFFER SHELTER FOR AXIS LEADERS   Chief Executive Voices Willing: ness to Talk Peace. Conditions in Italy Worse

STATE E LAUNCHES  FUEL INQUIRY   SEEKS TO ESTABLISH NECESSITY OF OIL RATIONING HERE

LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATION OF FUEL OIL RATIONING IN ILLINOIS NOW UNDER WAY

Elsie Musil Still Leads in Contest   Ruth Miller Advances ‘from.    Third to Second Place in Battle — for $50 War Bond .

SHOULD CONTROL — NOT RATION ADS   PNPA. Members. Hear Col... Zerby Tell of Paper Shortage

MUST GO BACK   Man Wha Walked Out of Court Wil Face Staying Charge.

Nazi Defenses Give Way to Eighth Army   Retreating Germans Abandon Large Amounts of Material; Nazis Make Mighty Effort to Protect Communications in Russia

ALLIES PRESS ASSAULTS ON GERMAN FORCES   Nazi Defenses Above . Sangro Are Giving _ . ' Way)   DRIVES CHECKED   Key Industrial Plants ' Are Blasted From  Ady

John L. Smith Says Labor Pact Broken   Texas LieutenantGovernor Makes Charge at Austin

ALLIED CHIEFS MAY MEET SOON   Diplomatic Washington Sees Prompt Action By “Big Three”

Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill ~ With Stalin May Soon Take Place

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Will Meet  Soon in Opinion of Diplomatic Circles

BAILEY IS ELECTED   Veteran Legislator Of Mississippi Wins Gubernatorial Chair

Bailey Appears To Be Winner Of Governor's ‘Office In Mississippi

OPA Grants Five More Pork Points   STAMP 1 IN BOOK 4 VALID IN “DIVIDEND” FOR HOLIDAY SEASON

TAA AAA AADAAAA AAA AAAS OPA Issues Meat ‘Dividend’ for  \oantiday Shaonners

Svvyvrvvvr7 rrr ery yy  OPA Issues Meat ‘Dividend’ for Holiday Shoppers

“Not a Shot Fired as Pantelleria’s Famished Italian Forces Surrende   Lone Man Captures Lampedusa; Italians Yield to Downed Airman

Eyewitness Story Of Island’s Fall   Terror-Stricken Italians Seen Waving White Shirts, Uaderwear for Flags

Interpreting the ‘War News Jap Attitude on Losses by Air Victories Creates Speculation

 Allied Offensive In Pacifie In The Making-=   MERE SE ARE:  Japanese Air Power Seems To Be Crum whHasey

BRITISH LOSE 44 BOMBERS IN KREFELD RAID   Important Textile And Rail Center In Ruhr Area Smashed During Night   HEAVY DAMAGE INDICATED   Flying Fortresses Continue Assault On Reich Cities By Daylight

Rhineland Industrial City Is Heavily Blasted By R. A. F. During Night   “OVER 800 PLANES SCIARKE IN ATTACK

Eighth Army Now 45 Miles To West Of — Tripoli   Patrols Reported  In Contact With Enemy; Axis Targets At Bizerte Bombed

Martin Will Ask Assembly To 7 Abolish State Mercantile Tax   Would Save Businessmen Around Four Million Per Year— Will Also Eliminate Jobs Under Ross

New Tax Plan IsShaping Up For Congress  eS Fee Be wee See a a   Administration Program Asks Stiff Increases ‘or $5,000-$25,000 Scale: Plan Rebate

STIFF BOOSTS IN TAX LOOM   PLAN LEVY JUMP FOR $5000-$25,000 BRACKETS

Tax Program To Be Submitted  Heavier Levies: iain Provided For-$5.000.

Incomes in $5,000 to $25,000 Bracket __Would be Penalized Under New Tax Plan

Roosevelt Offers Rebate Proposal   30 Per Cent Take-Out Rate Is Included

Tax Proposal Contains Plan For Rebates   New Program Will Be Placed Before House Committee Monday —  Hard Fight Indicated

BIG GODST IN TAXES (5 SEEN   Revenue Program of Administration Calls for Stiff Increases.   INSURANCE 1S PROPOSED

Shape Up New Tax Program   Plan To Be Submitted Formally To House Ways.  Means Monday.

Rebate Plan Is Added To Stiff Tax Proposal   Administration Progran Provides For Federal In surance Or Cash   STIRS OPPOSITEOR   Levy Outlined Would Hit $5,000 To $25,000 Brackets Hardest

CONGRESS TO GET REVENUE AINCOME BILL   New Refundable Tax Credit Is Proposed

New Revenue Program Is Shaping Up   Embodies Stiff Tax Increases in $5,000 to $25,000 Income Bracket and Provides for Postwar Rebates

Stiffer Tax On Incomes  In New Plan   Program Said Suggested By President Is Being Shaped Up Today

CASE IS APPEALED   Walter Severns Is in a Cell at State Penitentiary

Repulse Land Attack By Japs   Japanese Attempt Assault On Alleid Forces In New Guinea Area   ENEMY; CASUALTIES ARE OVER HUNDRED

Washington Roundup House Group Finds Hemisphere Defens: In Good Condition

House Group Sees Latin America   Criticizes Amateur Good Will Emissaries And Bunagling Tactics

PACKARD TIEUP ~ RAPPED BY WLE   Employes Ignore Call Back To Work; Race Dispute Rages

SFE 2ND PEARL HARBOR ATTACK WITHIN 4 MONTHS   PLANES FROM AFRICA AID GUERRILLAS IN ALBANIA

Another Jap Blow at Pearl os Is Declared Likely  Fortress Fits Into Scheme of Things, Experts Say Attack of Pacific

New Blow a Hawaii Seen   Gen. Richardson Expects Attack in Next Four Months

EXPECTS ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR   Jap Planes Have Been Seen ~ In Area

ANOTHER HAWAII ATTACK EXPECTED   Shey Expects Jap Blow at Pearl Harbor Within Four Months; Military Experts  . Perfect Defense

NEW PEARL HARBOR RAID 1S EXPECTED   Enemy Plane Seen Over Islands, But Escapes

New Jap Attack On Hawaii Seen  May Come Within Four ae. .»t. gv._h:.f

Divorced Man Runs Amok to Slay 5 Utahns   Charges to be Filed Monday in the Greatest Mass Murder in Utah Crime Records; Slayer Asks to be Executed

L. A. CHEERS MME. CHIANG   THOUSANDS LINE STREET AS PARADE ROLLS BY

HAS PASSED DANGER POINT   Has Definitely Won Battle With Pneumonia

Martin Will Demand Tax ‘Plan Action   Both Parties ‘Bullheaded,’ Says Forand, Sponsor of Compromise

MARTIN THINKS SOLONSMUST MAKE TAX PLAN   Republican Leader Sees Financial Chaos If Pardon Plan Fails

Sees Chaos Unless Ruml  Plan Passes   House Republican Leader Calls For  Immediate Action

Republicans Demanding Immediate Action on . Pay-as-you-go Tax Bill   Martin Declares Congress Owes it to, Nation ‘To Enact Tax Bill On Current Basis

'McNAIR BACK TO DUTY      General Has Recovered From Wounds Received in Tunisia

KAYE RITES TODAY   Services Were Held at Methodist Church in Sumner.

KAYE RITES TODAY   erviewsn Were Held at Methediet thurch in Sanne,

FDR May Okay Wage Contract   Railroaders May Get 8 Cent Increase

BOOST SLATED 10 BE 8 CENTS   Agreement Reached Between Unions and Officials of Roads to Be Submitted to Roosevelt   MINE WORKERS FACE FIGHT WITHIN AFOL   Lewis Expected to Have Decision Today On His Appeal to Affiliate With Federation

O-CENT PAY HIKE UP TO ROOSEVELT   Railway Unions Reach An Areement With Carriers

PRISONER CAMP AT ALGONA T0 COST 2 MILLION   Construction to Begin im About 35 Days, War Department Savs

TEMPERATURES:   Bombardment Clears Way For New Britain Invasion  xk ko oO: Devastatina Fire From Destrovers! Five-Inchers Pulverizes Taraet

Eye-Witness Tells Story Of Arawe Raid   Warships Pave Way For Troop Landings

Warships Join Bombardment 0 Island's Shores   Heavy Shelling Precedes Landing On New Britain

ESSEN FLAMES AFTER BOMBING   Block-Busters Cause Heavy Damage In Nazi Armament Stronghold

GERMAN CITY OF ESSEN LEFT IN FLAMES BY RAF   Fires, Covering Several! Square Miles, Seen by Pilots From Dutch Coast   RAID HELD EFFECTIV   One “Colossal Explosion” Lights Up Whole Target; Flames Leap 1,000 Feet in Air

Krupp Munitions Works Hit Hard By RAF Raiders   Several Square Miles of Essen Left In Ruins

Essen Suffers Heavily . in Air Attack   Many Square Miles of City Are Left in Flames

British And RCAF Bomb, Fire Essen   Heavy, Concentrated Assault Over City on Krupp Works

Essen Blasted ‘By RAF Planes      Home Of Krupp Works I Visited By Hundreds . Of Bie Bombers

RAF BOMBERS "HAMMER ESSEN   14 Fail to Return From ‘Concentrated Raid

Allied Bombers Attack Group of Jap Naval Ships   \Ilso Launch Punishing New Raids in North and South Pacific   Navy Reports New Attack: on Kiska and Other Enemy Bases

Navy. Airmen. Strike Japs In Aleutians  Nisnaneenw Vcweel   Nipponese Vessel: Hit In Central Salamane Arvaa

DARING ATTACK MADE ON JAPS   Naval Vessels Caught In Solomons: Kiska Island Raids Unabated

Pre-Invasion Raids Continued Against Kiska   Night Air Raid Made On Jap Naval Vessels In Central Solomons

North, South Pacific  Enemy Bases  Again Punished Seven Attacks Made  On Japanese Kiska Island Bases

Portal-to-Portal Pay for Miners Taken to Court   Jewel Ridge Corporatior Files Petition at Roanoke, Va.   Names United Mine Work ers and John L. Lewis as Defendants

FARM BLOG 1S. “WEMENNG ON _ THE VETO VOTE   ‘Administration   Leaders - il Senate Issue, [Challenge  * for al Decision... q   RT.OC “WOULD. STALL   They Want Bill Back: in Ccmmittee to ‘Avoid. AP  parent De Defeat,

FARM BLOG [3 WEAKENING ON ThE VETO VOTE   Administration Leaders ir Senate Issue Challenge for a Decision.   BLOC WOULD STALL   They Want Bill Back in Ccmmittee to Avoid Apparent Defeat.

ALLIES MAKE AIR RAIDS ON 10 JAP BASES   Attacks are Made by Both Bombers and Fighter Planes

=O eS a  Light Raids Are Made On Ten Japanese Bases  Oe ie! ee oe! ee Be OS

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT JAP BASES   Ten Centers Are Attacked in Light Raids: Dutch New Guinea Airdromes Are Target of Bombers

Ten Jap Bases Are Attacked by Allied Planes  Single Enemy Raider Attacks American Base Near Salamaua

10 JAP BASES HIT BY ALLIES   Enemy Raider  Inflicts Slight Damage in Raid On Morobe

Ten Jap Bases Are Attacked   Single Enemy Plane Raids New Guinea

Allies Attack Japanese Bases In New Guinea  Fuel Dumps and Float  Plane Anchorage Damee ee = i

Clearing of Picture in Defense Seen   Forty Officers of State Guard Set for Inactivity

DISTRICT 2 “MINERS AGREE ON 6-DAY WEEK   Contract Signed and New Time Effective Monday   45,000 Men Are Af. fected by New Bmergency

War Work Schedule Started Monday, to Increase Production of Coal.

U.S. Warships  Act in Pacifie   Liberators Bomb Jap Bases As Prelude To  Sea, Land Fighting

MASKED PROWLER SHOOTS BANKER IN ATLANTA HOME   Son-In-Law Also Wounded In Shooting Affray—Henry Heinz Slain

Both Axis Ends Heavily Bombed   British Strike Into Ruhr Again, Losing 33 Planes, Americans Raid Grecian Port

Janet S. Gill In Death Plunge  Captain’s Wife Had Nervous Breakdown

GERMANS SAY 4 ISLES TAKEN   Nazis Claim Further Successes in Offensive  In Aegean

Germans Claim 4 More Aegean Isles Occupied   British Still Resist Strongly on Samos; Yugoslavs Are Active

GERMANS CLAIM 4 AEGEAN ISLANDS   YUGOSLAV PATRIOT ARMY CONTINUES TO STAB AT NAZIS IN BALKANS.

MORE ISLANDS ARE SEIZED, NAZIS CLAIM   Patriot Army Hommers at Germans in Balkan Theater   ALLIED RESISTANCE STRONG, NAZIS WARN   Airfields .Near Grecian Center of Salonika Are Bombed

GERMANS SAY. “AISLES TAKEN      Nazis Claim Further Sueceaics in Offensive In Aegean

FOUR AEGEAN ISLETS TAKEN   Nazis Claim Occupation As Allies Pound At  Balkan 'Dromes

Nati Claim Four More Aegean Isles   Situation at Samos Remains in Doubt

U. S. Occupation of Amchitka Island Puts ‘Americans in Position fo Drive Japs Out of ‘Aleutians, Poses Constant Threat fo Tokyo

Experts Believe Americans In Position  To Drive Japs Out Of  _ The Western Aleutians

In Position to Drive Japs Out Of Western Aleutians, Threaten Tokyo

U.S, READY 10 HIT JAPS IN ALEUTIANS   New Base Also Enables Raids on Tokyo

U.S. Believed In Position To Drive Japs From Kiska From Base On Amchitka

U.S. 1S NOW IN POSITION T0 GET KISKE      Blow May Fall Soon—Occupation of Amchitka Island Also Makes Possible Long-Range Bombing of Tokyo.

STEP UP FA  ilk ON ATTU ISLE   American Planes Operating From Advanced Bases In Aleutians.   ‘SOON READY TO STRIKE

American Forces Believed In Position To Drive Japs From Western Aleutians

UNITED STATES STEPS UP RAIDS IN ALEUTIANS   Japanese-Held Attu Island Bombed Seven Times — Thursday, Navy Department Announces   KISKA ALSO RAIDED   American Force Believed  to be Operating From Recently Occupied Amchitka Island

Attu Attacked 7 Times In Day  Americans Believed Set To Invade Kiska

Americans Can Drive Japs Out Of -the Aleutians   While They Wait, Thel Presence Breathes the Threat of New Air  Raids on Tokyo

YANKS SET FOR ALEUTIAN DRIVE   New Raids on _ Tokyc Threatened By Position

ACTION LOOMS _{N ALEUTIANS   U. S. Has Base On Amchitka In Position To Hit At Kiska Japs

Set to Take Back Kiska   Uv. S. Occupation of Amchitka Prelude To Recapture of Aleutians

STEP UP ATTACKS TO DRIVE JAPS FROM ALEUTIANS   U. S. AIR FORCE OPERATES FROM NEW ADVANCED BASES

U. S. Bombers, Flying From Amchitka Base, Blast. Attu In 7 Raids

U.S. Steps Up Attu Attacks  Seven Raids Made rom Amchitka Island

Isle Seizure Puts Yanks in Place To Oust Japs From West Aleutians

7 More Raids From New Base Made On Japs  Enemy Attacked On Both Kiska And  pas... F.t...3.

AMERICANS STEP UP ATTACKS ON JAP-HELD ISLES   J.S. Planes Apparently Operating From New Base On Amchitka Island, Only 63 Miles From Kis-

ALEUTIAN FIGHT 1S ONE STEP NEARER   New American Base Is Only 63 Miles from Jap-Held Kiska and Attu Islands

- SWEPT OVER DAM IN BOAT   Garage Mechanic Drowned Sunday in the Neosho River

NAZIS SUFFERING SEVERE LOSSES ON EAST FRONT   Piles Of Men And Materie'! Left Behind As Russians  Pound Forward  —   U. S. EQUIPMENT > IS AIDING SOVIETS

Russians Watch Allied Invasion With Skepticism   Doubt Real Second Front Is in Action

Soviet Soldiers Wait To See Before Appraising New Front   Russians Attribute Clean-cut Victories to Their Own Power Rather Than to Allied Operations on the Italian Mainland

Show Goes On   7? . @ Costello Broadcasts After Year-Old Son Drowns

Show Goes On For Costello Despite Loss   Son Drowns Just Before Program Resumed

Comedian Lou Costello Carried on Despite Drowning of His Baby Son

SHOW W GOES ON: © _ DESPITE: GRIER   ‘Comedian, Lou' Lou Costello Plays “His, Part “After: Learning of. Death of Infant.Son™ *

TEE EE TT TEN NN, Ate (Ne RSA: Sh entetRSeNSr  Commedian Gags Way Thru Skit Despite Son's Death

Comedian Lou Costello Gags Way Through Radio Show Although Infant Son Drowns

Lou Costello’s Infant Son Drowns But Actor Fills Radio Appearance

SOVIETS GAIN IN GROUND- ATTACK:   Seize Four Villages Near Orel; Nazi Plane Toll Tops 1300

REDS BEAT OFF GERMAN ATTACK   Nazi Counter Blows Fail In Orel Sector.

Nazi Plane Toll  Grows In Russia   German Aircraft Losses Given As 1,300 In Two Weeks

RUSSIANS SEIZE FOUR VILLAGES IN SURPRISE ATTACK   1300 Enemy Planes Destroyed In Two Weeks of Intense Air War.

German Thrusts Are Beaten Back By Soviet Army   Russian War Bulletin Re. ports 400 Nazis Killed in Orel Region

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED IN OREL SECTOR   About 400 Germans Killed And Number Of Tanks Reported Destroyed   SOVIET AIRMEN HIT RAILWAYS AND STORES

Reds Repulse Four New German Counterattacks  2 Unsuccessful Days Ended by Nazis In Soviet Orel Area

Reds Hurl Back Four Nazi Attacks   Thrust Carried Out Under Smoke Screen

REDS REPULSE ~— NAZIS AT OREL   Enemy Troops Give Up Attempt To Retake Lost Territory

Reds Take Four  Towns In Action   Claim 1,300 German Planes In Two Weeks

4 NAZI THRUSTS ARE BEATEN OFF   Russians Report German Failure to Reclaim Settlement Near Mtsensk

4 GERMAN THRUSTS REPULSED BY REDS   Nazi Troops Cease Attempts to Regain Lost Territory in the Orel Revion,

GERMAN INFANTRY IN  COUNTER-ATTACKS O}  SOVIET WAR FRONT. TANKS AND PLANES SUP PORT NAZI ACTION, WHicn FANE

RUSSIANS FOIL NAZI ATTACKS   Four Counter - Assaults Hurled Back In Orel Territory

Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses In Orel Ares   Soviet ‘Troops Beat Off Attempts to Retake 4: Settlements

Russians Beat Off Nazi Blows   Counter-Attacks of Germans Fail to Gain Objectives

Reds Counter Four German  Line Drive:  Orel Area Is Scen Of Action, Rostov ‘ Battle Flares

NAZI FORCES LOSE HEAVILY AS REDS . CHECK OFFENSIVES   German Tank And Plane-Supported Infantry Drive to Retake Villages in Orel Region But Are Repulsed

MEMBERS OF HOUSE. COMMITTEE LEANING TOWARD PLAN TO COLLECT FEDERAL TAXES AT SOURCE.

TAX DEDUCTION PLAN DISCUSSED   House Considers Suggestion As Alternative To Pay-AsYou-Go Proposal

CRASH OF YANKEE CLIPPER CAUSED BY CARR’ POCKET   Death Toll 24 In Accident In Tagus River Off Lishon, Portuaqal.

FATAL CLIPPER CRASH BLAMED ‘ON AIR POCKET   Ail But Fonr Bodies Have Been Recovered From Tagus River

AIRWAY OFFICIALS BLAME AIR POCKET FOR CLIPPER CRASH   Four Bodies Recovered ‘And .. Twenty SHIL Missing— ~ 18> Survived Crash

AIR POCKET BLAMED FOR CLIPPER CRASH   Pan - American. Airways Officials Give Finding in Portuguese Disaster,

‘HOLD THE LINE ORDER OF FOR STIRS ACTIVITY   ®Virtual Freezing Of Wages And Prices Hoped To Prevent Inflation   ®WLB FIRST TO MOVE   J  Both Agricultural And Labor Leaders See Act As Direct Blow

PLACES CEILINGS AT RETAIL LEVEL ON COMMODITIES   President Asserts Every Control on Inflation Must Be Used

Rule-Drafters Get Busy On FDR Command   WLB Orders Stoppage of Wage Boosts As OPA Plans New Control Over Livestock Prices: President Demands Increased Taxes.

TEMPERATURE   All Commodities Will Be Affected Which Come Into Cost of Living With New Power for Byrnes

CEILING ON LIVING COST   in Line With President's Order To Fight Inflation

Pl-anning N w Price Czilings   Rcoseveli and Byrnes Working on Prices for  Many Commodities

New Plan - -  All Commodities May Have Dollars And Cents Retail Price Ceilings

EXECUTIVE ORDER PUTS CLAMP ON BIGGER PAY CHECK   Makes Exception In Proven Substandard Cases-——Seeks to Stop Run-away Spending.

Specific Price Ceilings Planned On Commodities   Roosevelt Order Increases Byrnes’ Power Over National Economy; Program Is Designed To Combat Inflation

More Rigid Restrictions On Prices And Wages Decreed By Chief   LOWERED FOOD PRICES ARE LIKELY TO RESULT   Inflation Spirial Must End, President Tells Nation In Drastic Order

TAKES DRASTIC STEP 10 HALT INFLATION   Condemns Upward Spiral of Prices: “We Must Stop It”

Ceiling Prices  Will Be Fixed   Specific Dollars And Cents Prices Coming For All ‘Cost Of Living’ Commodities   BRYNES DISCLOSES LATEST PRICE MOVE

NEW CEILINGS ON FOODS 10 HALT. ADVANGE   Byrnes Says OPA’s Limits May Come Saturday for Stabilization.   DAVIS URGES CUT IN CIVILIAN PURCHASES

SPECIFIC CEILINGS ON COST-OF-LIVING PRODUCTS ORDERED   Prices For Many Items Will Probably Be Made Public  Tomorrow

Wage Raises Banned Under Drastic New Order   WILL REQUIRE WORKERS TO REMAIN AT JOBS

F urther Boosts In Prices, Wages Banned By FR      ““Hold-The-Line” Order Against Inflation . Issued By President

‘OPA Planning Program For Retail Price Ceilings   Will Be Put On All Goods Enter. ing Inte Cost Of Living

Freezing of Wages, Salaries and Prices Is Ordered by President for Whole Nation

‘Hold The Line## Order On Prices, Wages Is Given   Wheai, Fish, Verctables, Fruit te Be Affeeted; Dollar, Cents Limits to Be  Peavided

Calls for iNew Curbs On Spending   Congressmen Study Executive Order Before Commenting

Yankees Gair Greatly in — Africa Fight   New Chief, General Patton, Leads Big Tank Force to Recovery of All Lost Ground: All Allies’ Status Beffer

British Spar With Nazis on Other Fronts   German Reports of Offensive by Eighth Army Unconfirmed

U. S. Armored Troops Under Genera! Patton Sweep Germans Back  ADVANCE 12 MILES, CONSOLIDATE GAINS  British Armies Spar With German Forces In North and South

Patton Pushes Ahead 30 Miles In North Africa   lank Specialist Captures Gafsa and Keeps on Going   New Field Leader Gets info Action in a Big Way

GAFSA FALLS TO FORCES OF U. S.; BRITISH ARMIES ALSO REPORT ADVANCES   RUSSIAN FORCES REPORT FIFTEEN-MILE ADVANCE AND CAPTURE ADDITIONAL TOWNS: ALLIED AIRMEN DO DAMAGE IN SOUTHWESW PACIFIC.

TANK EXPERT IN COMMAND OF U. S. FORCE   GAIN OF 42 MILES MADE BY YANKS AGAINST AXIS

General Patton Leads Americans to Great Gains  AS FIELD LEADER  British Armies Spar With the Enemy in the South

Tank Expert, Gen. Patton, Leads Drive   British Eighth — Army Has Round With Germans

AMERICAN ARMORED TROOPS LED BY LIEUT. GEN. PATTON ACHIEVE VICTORY WHILE BRITISH SPAR WITH ENEMY.

GAFSA CAPTURED BY AMERICANS IN TANK DRIVE   Territory Lost To Rommel In February Has Now Been Regained /      EIGHTH ARMY PROBES ALONG MARETH LINE

LT.-GEN. PAITO DIRECTS ATTACKS   British First and Eighth Spar In North, South   RAIN SLOWS ACTIVITIES   Nazi Reports of British Open. ing Drive in South Are Not Confirmed ©

Patton Leads U.S. Troops in  Creat Advance   British Armies Spar Sharply With Enemy Forces in South and North of Tunisia

General Patton Leads » Americans to Great ins AMERICAN CHOSEN AS FIELD LEADER  British Armies Spar With the Enemy in the South

GEN. PATTON TAKES CHARGE OF AMERICANS   Tanks Sweep 1? Miles Beyond Town Of Gafsa Into  el Guetar Region.

Sweep on To EI Guebar; British Spar   Lf. Gen. Patton New Field Leader of U. S. Under Alexander

STATE RESERVE UNDER FIRE ON THREE SIDES   More Attacks Likely; Surplus Sought as Tax Reducer

Son-In-Law Held As Oakes’ Slayer   Sportsman Denies Clubbing Wealthy Miner

Son-In-Law Is Held In - Oakes Death   Formal Charge of Murder Filed Against Alfred De Marignv

Baronet Perishes in Blazing Bed; Son-In-Law of Millionaire Seized

HOLD SON-IN-LAW IN MURDER OF OAKES   U. S. Police Assist Nassau Officers in Investigation

Kin of Oakes Called Slayer   Son-In-Law Named In Baronet Mystery

SOMN-LAW HELD IN AUSSAU DEATH   Charged with Murder of {mmensely Wealthy British Baronet. Sir Harry Oakes

Baronet’s Death Causes Arrest Of Son-In-Law   De Marigny Flatly Denies Guilt In Fatal Clubbing Of Sir Harry, Oakes, 68

CHARGE MURDER IN OAKES DEATH   Authorities Declare Wealthy Knight Bludgeoned, Hold Dashing Son-in-Law.

Race Riots Are Raging In Detroit   Troops Called To Aid City and State Police as Violence Spreads—Six Negroes Known Killed and Hospitals Jammed With Injured—Michigan Governor Flies from Conference

State Troops Ordered to Mobilize   325 Arrested as Outbreak Spreads In Neare District

Over 200 Injured, Doctor and Police Sergeant Very Critically; Governor Flies from Ohio

OF THE EIGHT WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED SO FAR TWO  WERE WHITE MEN, ONE A PHYSICIAN ON A ‘CALL— ‘ COUNT 200 INJURED AMONG NEGROES AND WHITES i ._ SPORADIC. GUTBREAKS STILL OCCURING

Six Killed In Detroit Race Riot   Michigan State Police and State Troops Ordered Out

Six Killed 200 Injured   In Race Riots   Michigan State Police. and   State Troops Ordered te  Detroit to Restore Order; Schools Close

Some 200 Persons Injured In Widespread Rioting; Police Powerless   ALL OF CITY'S 3.500 OFFICERS MOBILIZED   Mobilization Of 1.000 State Troops Ordered Today By Governor Kelly

Six Killed, 200 Hurtin Race Riots   Disorders Spread Over Large Negro Section.

Violence Rages. Through Night; Governor Acts   Kelley Orders Guardsmen On. Duty: Te Restore Order, Flies Home Fom Columbus; Clash At Belle Isle - Park Starts Bloody Battle. :.

STATE TROOPS CALLED; 238 PERSONS HELD       alice and Guardsmen a. as Governor Trys To Hall Disorders.

State Troopers Called to City. To Halt Outbreat   3 500: Policemen : Attempt To Stop .. Lsoting, Gun: Fights

Six Killed, 200 Injured In Detroit Race Riots   Policeman Wounded

STATE FORCES CALLED OUT I DETROIT AREA   Quthreaks Of Violence Slapted Sunday Night Are Raported Continuing   SIX NEGROES ARE SLAIN   Fighting Spreads To Main Street: Governor Flies Back From Columbus

Six Negroes Lose Lives In Detroit Riots   Some 200 Injured; Governor Mobilizes Michigan Forces

6 KILLED, 200 INJURED IN RACE RIOT   At Detroit, Michigan State Police Ordered To Restore Order

State Police And Troops ‘Go on Guard   Whites and Negroes Stage Street Battles; State Forces Mobilized

Six. Killed in Detr oil Race Row   Fight In ‘Ainusement ‘Area _ Starts Night-Long’ F Fight “In City’s Neero Section

Troops Called To Quell Race Riots   Outbreak in Detroit Results in Six Killed, 200 Injured   Starts Trouble

Governor Mobilizes  All State Troops   Rioting Starts At Belle Isle, Spreads To Woodward Avenue; 200 Injured; Military And Naval Police Called Out: Martial Law May Be Declared

Order State Police, Troops To Restore Peace, Close Bars   Governor Does Not Want To Declare Martial Law; Ignore Negro Leaders Plea for Truce

Six Negroes Slain, Two Policemen Wounded: 150 Other Persons Hurt

6 Negroes Die In Race Riots: At Detroit  326 In Custody; Many Of Both  Races Injured S. pit ka el BD:  IE

Six Killed, 200 Injured  In Race Kuots   Michigan State Police and State Troops Ordered to Detroit to Quell Widespread Rioting. —

Seven Killed and 100 Are Injured in Detroit Race Riot   False Report Brings Trouble to Colored Soldiers at El Paso

6 Killed, 200 Injured In Detroit Race Riots   State Police and State Troops Called To Quell Outbreaks Covering Wide  Area

STATE POLICE AND TROOPS « CALLED OUT   White Physician and Six Negroes Lose Lives, and Police Sergeant Is Critically Wounded in Gun Bioht.

SENT TOCTYTO RESTORE ORDER   Violence Spreads in Spite of Mobilization at 3,500 Police

State Troops, Cops Out; Five Killed, 200 Hurt   Simple Fist Fight Is Blamed For Serious Race Riots Over City

Six Killed, 200 Injured During Race Disorders    Clashes Continue Despite Efforts Of City's Entire Police Force

MICHIGAN STATE POLICE ORDERED 70 PUT DOWN VIOLENCE   SIX NEGROES AND WHIT!  PHYSICIAN DEAD: MANY  OTHERS INJURED

STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT TC RESTORE CALM   Six Negroes Killed, Police Sergeant And One White Civilian Injured, Some 200 Others Hurt In Detroit Street Battles.

STATE TROOPS SENT TO ITY   200 Persons Injured in Clashes Between Whites And Neqroes.   1326 ARE UNDER ARREST

Troops Called as Uprising Spreads to Down Town Area  Of Country’s Fourth City

RIOTING BREAKS OUT IN DETROIT NEGRO DISTRICT   6 NEGROES SLAIN; MORE THAN 150 PERSONS INJURED

SIX PERSONS ARE DEAD IN RAGE RIOT IN DETRUIT, MICH.   Some 200 Were *~* ved in Trouble Between Whites and Negroes.   STATE TROOPS ARE OUT   Gov. Harry Kelly Ordered Mobilization of the State Force.

10 Killed ir Race Riots In Detroit   200 Injured, Mere Then 300 Arrested; Treegs Mabilined

Michigan State Militia Called; Disorder Finally Put Under Control

Mayor Orders Closing Of Every Saloon and Bar In Metropolis   OVER 300 INJURED   Rioting Spreads Rapidly After Start From Fist Fight

-Detroit Race Riots Result in 6 Deaths; Troops Called Out   200 Hurt as Outbreaks Spread; Governor Orders Guard Mobilized Caenidars af Haanitals Crowded

Michigan State Police And State Troops Are Ordered To City To Restore Order

Six Killed in Delroii Race Rio!   The State Police and State roops Are Called to Restore Order; 200 Injured   OUTBREAKS AT ; MANY CORNERS      Negro Section Badly Damaged; Negro Leaders Helyn Authorities

State’s Guard Mobilized To Quell Battles   Widespread Violence And Looting Set Off By Isolated Fist Fight; 326 Jailed As City’s 3500 Officers On Duty

FIVEARE KILLED, 200 HURT DURING DETROWT RICTING   3500 Police, Home Guards and Auxiliary-Police Called to Put An End to Viol pnra_   “PARADISE VALLEY” DISTURBANCE CENTER   Minor Fights Begin Sunday on “Island” Where 50,00€ Gather Owing to Extreme Heat Wave.

STATE POLICE AND MILITIA ARE MOBILIZED   Governor of Michigan Takes Drastic Steps In Effort to Quell Disorders   3,500 POLICE ARE * HELPLESS IN MOBS   Every Window In 25 Blocks Shattered; Stores Looted; Autos Stoned, Overturned

Call Troops To Quell  Race Riots.   Six Dead As Result, Of Widespread Dis- orders in Detroit; — ' Result of False Rumor

Six Are Dead, Hundreds Hurt In Race Strife   Troops are Called In Effort to Put ~ Down Disturbances

State Police, Troops Are. Dispatched:   City-Wide, Fights Spring from Disturbances at Belle Isle, Sunday Night.

State Troops Mobilized To Quell Trouble   No Martial Law Orders Issued So Far; More Than 300 Arrested During Disturbances

Troops Called To Quell Race Riots   Outbreak in Detroit Re sults in Six Killed, 200 Injured      HOSPITALS: ARE BUSY   Erroneous Report Negro Woman and Child Killed Starts Trouble

DETROIT RACE RIOTS RESULT IN SIX DEATHS   No Immediate Need For Martial Law, Governor Is Informed By Police   Officials   200 ESTIMATED HURT

Michigan Troops Sent To Detroit   Every Window On Street For 25 Blocks Broken   STONES HURLED . AT AUTOMOBILES

Troops Ordered to Mobilize; Police of State on Duty   Violence Appeared To Have Tapered Off at Noon Hour Today

‘Six Slain, 200 Hurt During  Race Battles  Governor Orders State Police’and Sia ‘dsmen     VIOLENCE SP SPREADS  Entire 3,500 Members of Detroit Police Force t Called to Duty

State Troops Ordered Out By Governor  Harry Kelly   False Rumor Blamed for Clashes Between Negroes, Whites

Soldiers Called After Six Slain   Negroes Grab Guns—Hospital . Filled With 200 Wounded— Police Arrest 326

Six Killed As Riots Spread Over Detroit   State Forces Mobilized To Help Police Force Halt  Disturbances.   DISTURBANCES HALTED

Six Killed, 200 Hurt. Negroes and. Whites Fig “Tn City Wide Area

BATTLE UNSEEN FOE ON ISLAND   Missourian Wounded at At tu Tells of Advance Throuch For

Vote of 60-39 Is Six Short of Needed Amount  » ie Mh VA/<i1 D nes   Individuals Will Pay As Usual March 15 And Get No Refund

LINE SHIELDING MEW RED DRIVE   Pmoers Drawn Tighter OF Mbaikae OF Ficiis; Men Caught in Sislingrad Trap Qui Fight

Axis Lost 1696 Planes in Africa   Allied Losses in Same Period Set at 657

Way Is Cleared For Nomination  Of Military Men      Ruling By War And Navy Departments Is Given On  ster etiam

Way Cleared For Intensive Drive for Gen. MacArthur For Presidential Nomination

OFFICERS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR “NOMINATIONS   RULING OBTAINED. BY VAN. DENBERG SEEN AS MOVE BY GROUP BACKING GEN,  MacARTHUR .

“RETURN BOTTLE” CAMPAIGN NOW UNDER WAY IN MIS. SOURI, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

Allied Armies - InItaly Make  Further Gains   Brave Terrific Fire From Enemy To Make Advances At Both Ends Of Line   CASTEL FRENTANO TAKEN BY ALLIES

BOTH ARMIES SCORE GAINS IN ITALY   Fifth and Eighth Brave Terrific Fire From Enemy Guns

Inspired Russians Overrun 3 More German Stronghold:   Spurred by Stalin’s Praise the Red Offensive Picks Up 30-50 More Miles on the Road ta Kiev

Troops Step Up Tempo Of Drive   Appeal By Stalin Quickly Answered

Reds Seize Three Nazi Strongholds   Soldiers Spurred By Stalin’s Talk Praising Gains

REDS CAPTURE THREE NAZI STRONGHOLDS ON KHARKOV-KIEV ROUTE   Soviet Troops Press Westward Through the Ukraine; Answer Stalin’s Orders To Give Enemy No Respite

Reds Accelerate Crushing Drive Through Ukraine   Recapture Three Important Nazi Strongholds Along Route Leading From Kharkov to Kiev

30 to 50-Mile Advances Made  3 Enemy Strong Points  In Tlkraine Taken

REDS SPURRED ON BY STALIN TO NEW GAINS   STRONGPOINTS ARE TAKEN ON ROUTE TO KIEV

Reds Speed Up Smashing Drive on Nazis   Important Enemy Strong Points Taken in Baitle

tnumphant Red Army. Spurred By Exhortation To Become ‘Avengers , Recaptures Three Important Nazi Sironohelds

RUSSIANS SEIZE 3 OTRONGPOINTS IN DRIVE ON KUEN   Germans Driven From Hundreds of Square Miles of Productive Territory in Ukraine.   MUSCOVITES SCORE GAINS IN OREL SECTOR   Capture Railway Town 40 Miles to South—Continue Efforts to Trap Foe in Donets Basin.

RED ARMIES THRUST DEEP INTO UKRAINE   Advance Rolling Up Distant Approaches To MoscowKiev Trunk Railway Towards Sumy, Capital.   Much Work To Be Done

Triumphant Red Army Drives Onward in the Ukraine  FORCES SPURRED BY STALIN’S MESSAGE  Soviet Envoy Appeals for Allied Supporting Action

3 Nazi Strongpoints On Route to Kiev Fall To Surging Russians   MARR RAUL LU AUC Y Pai To Surging Russians  GERMANS STILL HOLD THREATENED OREL  Red Forces Beat Off Nazi Counter-Attacks On Southern Front

Wide Area Is Freed Of Nazis   Advances Of 3( To: 50 Miles Recorded

Red Avengers: Spurred On By Stalin Address   Soviet Troops March Into Three Key Cities During © Day's Onslaughts

SOVIETS TAKE THREE FOE STRONGHOLDS ON KHARKOV-KIEV ROUTE   Russian Troops Roll Into Strategic Places Yielded By Nazis; Battles Heavy on Southern Front

Triumphant Red’ Army Drives Onward in the  : Ukraine FORCES SPURRED BY "STALIN'S - MESSAGE  Soviet Envoy Appeals for ” Allied Supporting  Actinn’

Yanks Crack Jap Defenses On Attu Island Key Ridge Captured  In Hand-To- Hand, "Po. Pies baekk *

AMERICANS CRACK JAP. LINE ALONG RIDGE ON ATTU   Soldiers Guarding Main Nipponese Position at Chichagof Harbor Forced to Yield Ground. '   VIOLENT HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLE IS STAGED   Stimson Reveals U. S. Casualties in Campaign Total 127 Killed, 399 .Wounded, 118 Missing.

Americans Crack Jap  Ridge Defense on Attu   One of Two Lines of Resistance  Threatened, Ships Aid F ighting

U. §. Soldiers Crack Japs’ Ridge Defense:   American Casualties in Island Campaign Relatively Light

Enemy Loses One of Last Holds   Vigorous Attack Puts Foe in Vise; Toll Against Yanks Light

Ridge Defenses Cracked - By U.S. Forces On Attu   Troops Surge to Summit of Strategic Ridge—Casualties of Americans Light, Stimson E Aceorte

YANKS CRACK JAP POSITION   Pressure Increases on Last  Enemy Attu Point

U.S. Casualties Light on Attu, Stimson Says   Correspondent Reveals U-S- Battleship, Carrier  Operating in Area

Hand to Hand Fighting at Attu In2 Day Battle   U.S. Forces Gain Foothold Dominating Chichagof Harbor

Americans Advance in Hand-fo-Hand Fighting; U. 5S. Warship Turns Guns on Enemy

U.S. Troops Storm Strong Enemy Position on Attu   American Losses ‘Relatively Light,’ Stimson Reports

Jap Defenses  on Attu Are Shattered   Small Area at Head of Chichagof Harbor Is One of Two Main Positions Still Held by Enemy on Aleutian Island

DEFENSES OF JAPS ON ATTU   Ridge Position Broken After Bitter Handto-Hand Fight

YANKS GRACK JAP DEFENSE ON ATTU ISLE   Enemy Still Holds Two Posijions; Americans Dominate Chickagof Harbor; Warship Rakes Foe   Enemy Sub Sunk

HITLER HURL! MIGHTY FORC INTO FIGHTING   Pick of Russian Ukrainia Armies Face Germans Across 100-Yard Water Barrier   DNIEPER LINE AT STAK

Reds Hurling Great Forces ~ Into Baittle  4   ’ Hitler Orders General. to e. -Hold the Line in-Crisis on Eastern Front   RUSSIANS. TO CONFER WITH ALLIED CHIEFS   _ Pace on Fighting Fronts Has Advanced at a Speed Not Foreseen

Soviets Pound Kiev Base In Fatetul Battle   Red Forces Face Nazis Entrenched On Heights Of Ukraine Capital.   REDS PUSH ADVANCE

“Stand. Hitler  Orders   One Of War's Most Critical Battles Is Fought On Dnieper   Told To Stand.

SOVIETS, NAZIS HURL UNITS INTO KIEV STRUGGLE   Hitler Says His Winter Lines Along Dnieper Impossible To Be Cut by Reds

Sit Tight On 48-Hr Week Says C Of C   MEMBERS NOT TO HASTILY MEMBERS NOT TO HATILY CHANGE OVER UNDER PREIDENI KOOSEVELT’S ORVER.   inflationary Danger

U.S. CHAMBER AWAITS WORK - WEEK RULINGS      ‘Sit Tight’ Policy Due _ After White House_ Conference

US. Chamber Tells Member: To ‘Sit Tight’   Official Regulations On 48-Hour Work Weel  CHIEF OF CHAMBER VISITS WHITE HOUSE  WMC Lists 102 Cities  Due for Inclusion Werehte, Cte AV. Wal.

DELAY ADVISED ON LONGER WEEK   Cc. OF C. HEAD SAYS CHANGEOVER SHOULD AWAIT OFFICIAL RULES,

DANGER St IN ORDER FOR 48-HOUR WEEK   C. C. Head Warns Order May Add to Inflation Threat

CHAMBER FEARS MORE INFLATION   Members Are Advised to ‘Sit Tight’ On New {8-Hour Order

BUSINESS TOLD TO DELAY MOVE   Chamber Of Commerce Tells Members Sit-Tight On Labor Change

Sees Inflation Danger in 48 Hour Week   U. §. Chamber of Commerce Sifs Tight Awailing Regulations

NINEKILLED IN _ BOMBER CRASH   Big Training Plane. Falls Near Ephrata’ Air Bate “Saturday. :

Air Crashes Kill 13 Service Men   Tragedies in Oklahoma. South Carolina Cited

125,000 Homeless In Midwest Flood   Entire 6,500 Population Forced to Evacuate Beardstown, Ill.

Six-State Area Battling Worst Floods Of Years   Mississippi And Missouri Rivers Spread Over Milhons Of Acres   ESTIMATE 125,000 ALREADY HOMELESS

ESTIMATE , 125,000 PERSONS DEIVEN FROM HOMES—OKLAHOMA LOSS ALONE 7s 939,600,060

Hit Central     InNew Raids   Battle Bad Weather and Nazi Fighters to Do Serious Damage

1500-Ton Blockbuster Raid Marks Resumption Of Air Blows At Berlin

More Blockbusters Dropped on Nazi Capital; Vital Services Disrupted   French Troops Aid Fifth Army, Which Nears Rome Highway; 8th Army Holds Ground Under Two Counter-Attacks

BOSTON LUMBER YARD !§ BURNED   $500,000 Blaze Destroys Four Buildings At Plant Making War Goods

$500, 000 Loss  Seen In Blaze   Boston Lumber Yard Hit , Hard ‘Blows Firemen Suffen Injurjés

POLICY OF WAITING ADOPTED BY SWEDEN   Don’t Like Nazi Treatment But Can’t Stop It

FEDERAL JURY INDICTS 8 SPIES   Four Women, Four Men Face Death Penalty If Convicted

Light Indicted By Detroit Jury For Espionage   Conapiracy Charge Under Wartime -Act Carries Possible Death Penalty

U.S. INDICTS 8 AS NAZI SPIES   Four Men, Four Women Accused At Detroit Of German Plot

INDICT EIGHT AS NAZI SPIES   Four Men, Four Women Held Under War Con' ‘sniraey Act .

S, GRAND JURY INDIGTS EIGHT FOR ESPIONAGE   Accuse Four Men and Four Women of Acting As Spies For Nazi Germany; Wartime Espionage Act Carries Penalty of Death.

Hight Indicted As Nazi Spies   Four Women, Four Men May Receive Death Penalty By Grand Jury.

Arrests in Detroit Brin Quick Action — Charges Carry Death Penalty

JURY INDICTS 8 NAZI SPIES   16 Persons Named as Co: Conspirators by  Government

U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Four Men, Four Women As Spies; Accuses 16 Others

Union Officials Refuse to Permit Movement of Troops Over P. E. Lines

RAIL STRIKERS REFUSE TROOPS AND MATERIALS   Leaders Say Men Wil Not Give In on Any Point

BATTLE Wt TURNS WHEN IGTH ARRIVES   German Command Loses Great Gamble For Much Had Been Spent for Salerno Position.   Wearing Away

Shoe Situation   Being Studied  Report Ration May Be Two Pairs A Year

STUDY OF LEATHER SUPPLIES BEING MADE   OPA Will Determine Whether Public Will Have To Get Along With Fewer Shoes

Praise Given Pensacola in  Island Fight   We'll Sail Her to Tokyo, Says Hero in Jap Battle

FEW CHRYSLER WORKERS BACK   Company Spokesman Asserts Leaders Intimidate Strikers

CHARGE UNION WITH DELAYING NEGOTIATIONS   Only a handful of 28,000 Chrysler employees report for work

Raid On German Capital to Pave Way for Invasion   Sustained Air Offensive Responsible For Blazing Fires in German Capital; Heaviest Raid of the War

Big Fires Visible to Aviators   Softening Up Germans for Invasion—Japs Preparing New Activity

Nazi Capital Gets Hardest Blow of War; Cycle of Raids Called Prelude to Invasion   Germans, Terming U.S. Part in Raids Cowardly, Threaten Soon to Bomb New York. Boston and Washinaton

BRICKER HITS “BUREAUCRACY OF AUTOCRACY”   Governor Requests Assembly Repeal State Sales Tax On Restaurant Meals   SURPLUS 42 MILLIONS   Some View Biennial Message As Bid For Presidential Nomination

Governor Urges Food Tax Repeal   Would Relax Labo Laws Governing Women, Children

Governor Calls On Legislators _ To Preserve State Rights, Also Asks Repeal,Sales Tax On Food

BRICKER SEEKS RELAXATION OF OHIO SALES TA)   Would Exempt Foods Sold In Publie Eating Spots

CCC Deals Summed Up As Intricate   Agency’s Transactions As Banker And buyer Are Discussed

FARM LAD LEARNS FROM HITCH HIKER   Garnett Youth Reports Car, Money and Watch Stolen ~ Last Night   WAS’ ON. HIS WAY HOME

Garnett Youth Reports Car Money and Watch Stolen Last Night   WAS ON HIS WAY HOME

WILLOW GROVE MINE IS IDLE AS MEN STRIKE   Dispute Stemming From Fines Result in Shutdown

Many Ohio Coal Mines Idle Again As Aftermath Of Strike Last Week

BRITISH AGENTS. ~ LAND, DUTCH SAY   The Netherlands Increasingly Optimistic Over War Outcome

DUTCH PEOPLE MURE HOPEFUL   British Agents Reported Secretly Preparing For Allied Invasion

Nazi European Key Points Again Are ‘Bombarded       Supply Ship Sunk, Five Other German Vessels Damaged >

RECORD ASSAULT TAPERS OFF AS RAF SINKS SHIP   Germany Reels from 48-Hour ’ Rain of 5,250 Tons of Allied Koembs.

RAF Attacks Objectives In - Rhine Valley   Force Of Raids Tapers Off After Dropping Of 5,250 Tona Of Bombs On Germany

Allies Lose 101 Bombersin Two Days of Raiding   34 0f Total American; Cost Not Too Great, Says Commander

Some 5,500 Tons Of All Kinds Of Explosives Are Dumped In 48 Hours

RAF Attacks Convoy Off Dutch Coast   U. S. Bombers Stage Heavy Raids on Bremen and Kiel

BRITISH BLAST SiX SHIPS OFF DUTCH COAST   Anglo - American Drive Tapers Off After Big Blows

AB-HOUR AERIAL OFFENSIVE WAS HEAVIEST QF ALL   Total of 101 Planes Lost In Alt’ Operations—Losses Believed Low.

Three Nazi Cities Targets of Great 48-Hour Onslaughts Over Weekend

ALLIED RAIDS GONTINUED CN LESSER SEALE   5,250 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Germany During 2-Day Attack:   AMERICAN ATTACK ON KIEL GOSTS 26 PLANES

GOODLAND WILL GIVE MESSAGE      Will Not Meet With GOP Committee Until After Speech Js Given.

Goodland Drafts His Message   Governor Will Deliver His Recommendations To State Legislature At 11:30 Thursday —

SAYS BRITISH BLOCK RELIE!   Refuse Food to Starving  Children, Is Claim

Late News Bulletins   40 Members of Outlawed Irish Army Arrested

Charged With Beating Child, 2, Unable to Say What Gift He Wanted

FLASHES    Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest  World News Today.   Recelved Heunyy Losses.

Union Agent is Sein By His Step-Son   Youth Admits Shooting of St. Louisan Following an Argument   OVER TREATMENT OF HIS MOTHER   Declares That. Step-Father Pointed Gun on Them,Said He Ouchi to Kill Them

JAPS RAID DARWIN, LOSE TWO PLANES   No Casualties Reported and Slight Damage Is Caused—One AlHed Craft Missing.

18 Japanese Planes Attack Darwin, Australia; Damage Reported Slight

18 Jap Raiders Strike at Darwin, Lose [wo Planes   Cause Slight Damage; Four Other Ships Probably Destroyed

Allies Down Raiders Over Darwin; Japs Lose Two Craft  Enemy Holdings Are Targets for Number of Attacks

Jap raid on Darwin does  slight damage   Weather hampers aerial operations

BREWERIES IN OHIO INCREASE OUTPUT   State Tax Stamp Sale ls Evidence of Trend

NEGOTIATIONS FOR SEPARATE PEACE DENIEL   Finland Foreign Office Spokesman Issues Denial to Reparts Which Have Gained Currency   RUMORED SUBMITTED   Washington Sources Hear They Were Sent to Soviet Russia Through Stockholm

Steftinius May Act As Secretary   Sworn In Today By Secretary Hull

‘Patriotic Meetings ‘Planned by Masons   Grand Master Calls on Lodges for Sessions — in Washington Wednesday Night

SPECIAL MEETING OF MASONIC LODGE   Patriotic Program To Be Presented In Akron Monday, March 22

1 ocal Masens 1 Patriotic Event   Grace Lodge in) Special Session on Next Thursday Tivaninc

Eyewitness Pictures New Georgia Attack   Daringly Executed Plan Caught Japs Flat. footed; Landing Under Way Before Shore Batteries Fire

London Newspaperman Gives First-hand Account of New Offensive in  South Pacific Islands.

‘All-Out American Attack on New Georgia Gets Away to Flying Start as Result of Brilliantly and Daringly Executed Plans, British Newsman Reports

} Japanese Forces Caught Flat-Footed  By American Assault on New Georgia

H enry E. Bowen Resigns From  O. G. & E. Here   He Has Been Southern Division Manager Since June 1, 1941

Federal Worker Deferments Hit By Committee    Contends Government Should Set Example And Demands Action

Many in Draft Hold U.S. Jobs   House Group Reports RAO S7TRYan Ralle

House Group Says Too Many Government Fmoloyes Given Draft Deferment

Federal Draft Deferments Hit   House Board Says Many U. S. Employes Should Be in Service

House Military Unit Criticizes Draft Deferments  Says Government Shoul Abandon ‘'Hit-or-Miss”’

TOO MANY MEN ARE DEFERRED   House Committee Says Federal Employes Are Avoiding Draft

Coal Strikes tlosing More Steel Works   12 Blast Furnaces to Be Idle in the Pittsburgh District   PICKETS PREVENT RETURN TO WORK   Pleas By Union Officials Fail to End Pennsylvania Shnidown

Pickets Close Captive Mines   Federal Investigation Of Work Stoppages Now l nderwavy.

DODGE SHIPPING CLERKS STRIKE   All Army Truck Deliveries Stopped as 527 Men Quit

DECEPTION MAKES CAPTURE OF TUNIS MUCH EASIER TASK  BULK OF GERMAN TANKS IN NORTH AFRICA PULLED OUT OF PATH

Reputation Of Waacs Defended   Stimson Says Charges o: Jmmorality “Absolutely Jtalse,’’

 Reputation Of Waacs Defended      Stimson Says Charges of Immorality “Absolutely False.”

Reputation of WAACS Is Defended by Stimson, Congresswomen, Cleray

Allies down ships in Sardinia attack   Report great convoys sail east thru Mediterranean

Bomb-Shattered Isle May Feel First Blow Of Invasion In Mediterranean      Air Offensive Quieter Than In Days; Reds Captnre Three Towns

Island Is Blasted by Warships   Also Hit from Air for 26th Straight Day—Big Al.  lied Convoys

Isle of Pantelleria May Feel the First Blow of an Invasion Thrust

Pantelleria Pounded for 26 Straight Day by Bomb‘ers and Warships.

Planes, Ships Batter Island Near Sicily   Huge Allied Convoys Enter Mediterranean, Spanish Reports Say

MUCH-BOMBED ISLE MAY FEEL OPENING BLOW   Italian Outpost Raided 26th Straight Days Shelled Anew

Italy Fears Allies Soon to Rush Forward   BOMB-BATTERED ISLAND I8 EXPECTED BE USED STEPPING STONE.

AZIS FLEEING ADRIATIC END F THE FRONT   nemy Falls Back Abandoning Great Quantities of Munitions and Equipment

New U-Boat Base At Marseille Hit  Refloating Of French Fleet Nipped At Toulon

American Fortresses Lash Out at Nazi Submarine Base in France.   FIRST ATTACK ON TARGET

Fortresses Smash Nazi Attempt To Raise Fleet  Toulon I[s Blasted; Other Planes Attack Marseille

Bombs Blast Nazi Sub Base At Marseille   Disclosure Is Also Made of  _ German Attempt To Refloat  Units of French Fleet Scuttted at Tanlar

U-Boat Pens, Naval. Bases Are Blasted   Fortresses in Heavy Raid on Marseille and Toulon; Hit Several Warships   NIP NAZI ATTEMPT TO REFLOAT SHIPS   Docks Also Are Blasted in Successful Raid on Scuttled Port

GERMAN SUB BASE AT MARSEILLE BOMBED BY YANKS   End Nazi. Attempt to Refloat French Fleet Scuttled at Old Navy Base at Toulon

Yanks Raid  Solingen   Heavy Bombers Battle German Rocket Planes; Airfields Under Attack

Fortresses Bomb Marseille, Toulon   Nazi Naval Power Crippled by Blows

German Base ~ At Marseille Ts ‘Attacked   Submarine Yard, Docks On Southern Coast ‘Of France Bombed Today By Flying Fortresses: .

Germans In Full Retreat In East Italy   Nazis Also Apparently To Abandon Cassino On Fifth Army Front.

YANKS ATTACK U-BOAT BASE AT MARSEILLE   Frustration of Nazi Attempt to Refloat French Ships Scuttled at Toulon Also Disclosed—Five Vessels Sunk.

American Forts Bomb Nazi Sub Base af Marseille   German Attempt to Refleat French Fleet Units Foiled

Jananese Strike Out on 90-Mile ~ Front in Chine   Score General Gains In Effort to Hold Up Allied Drive

Report Seven U. S. Planes In Kamchatka   Landed in Soviet Territory on Day Of Last Raid on  Kurile islands

“Y. S. PLANES INTERNED   Seven Ships in Raid on Jap Island Landed in Russia

ALLIES BLAST JAP NEW GUINEA BASES   Make Fifth Straight Raid On Targets — Enemy Claims Unverified

JaPO NEW GUINEA POSITIONS POUNDED   Allied Airmen Increase Tempo Of Aerial Warfare

Japs Bombed  On New Guinea   Allies Attack for Fifth Straight Day

SENATE APPROVED BILL LEGISLATURE NAMING OF AUDITOR   THREE HIGH STATE OFFI CERS RENAMED BY GOVERNOR STEVENSON

No Indications From Soviet on 3-Power Meet   Churchill Is In Washington For Talks With F. D.R.

Leaders View Political Side Of World War   Ceurchill In Washington With Roosevelt Awaiting Word From Moscow.   FAY “SOUIAL: CALL

--eaders-~-Restime War Conference  At Capital Today   Await Response From Reds To Recent Overtures For Three-Power Parley

CHURCHILL, FDR WAITING MOSCOW WORD   Meet ‘Semi-Socially’ To Talk Political Issues That Arise From War,   STALIN STILL MUM   Russian Capital Gives No Hint on Reaction To Repeated Invitations To Confer.

Churchill at —  White House    War-Generated Political Prob lems Discussed by Roosevelt and Prime Minister -  ~

Chief Executive And Churchill Hold Sessions   Political Issues On Program for Latest Conference

SOVIET POLICY STILL MYSTERY   Roosevelt and Churchill Resume War Talks Without Word from Stalin

‘War-Generated Political Problems Discussed By F.D.R. And Churchill.

Conferences Conducted At White House   War Problems Taken Up By Roosevelt And Churchill As Word  From Russia Is Awaited

Await Answer fromRussians on Parley Bid      Churchill in Washington for Semi-Business Trip to Finish Up Quebec Work

Churchill, FDR Continue Talks In Washington   ‘No Indication That Russia  MWill Send Emissary to  Future Meetings.   Prime Minister and  Gen. Marshall Talk

CHURCHILL TALKS POLITICAL PHASES   Prime Minister In White House, Discusses Problems with F. D. R.

CHURCHILL'S VISIT 10 U.S PARTLY SOCIAL   British Prime Minister and! President Regard It  As Conclusion Of Quebec Program

Discuss World Political Plans  Churchill Arrives  In Washington For EB osubloma fo mula nn.

POLITICAL PROBLEMS  UNDER DISCUSSION  AT WHITE HOUSE CHURCHILL AND ROOSE VELT APPARENTLY AWAI1 WORD FROM MOSCOW

FR-Charchill Resume Parley  In Washington   Closer Coordination Be. tween Britain, U.S. and Russia Said Still No. 1 Political Problem:

RUSSIAN ACCORD IS PONDERED BY FDR, CHURCHILL  STATESMEN REVIEW  COMPLEX POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF WAR

FDR, CHURCHILL CONFERRING AT CAPITAL TODAY   No Hints Given About Inviting Russian Chiefs

FD. R. Resumes War Discussion  With Churchill   Accent Now Is On Political Issues; Moscow Mum  On 3-Power Parley.

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL MEET   Settle Down To Discussion Of War-Generated Politics

AlliedChiefs Talk Again.   FDR< Churchill Air Political Aspects -':

Churchill and Roosevelt Talk War Politics   Await Response to Overtures for 3Power Parley

RED REPLY T0 PARLEY IDEA   Soviets Silent Thus Far on Proposal for TriPartite Conference— F. D. R. and Churchill  Meet Semj-Socially.

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL OPEN INFORMAL TALKS   Settle Down To Discussion of War-Generated Political Problems; Russian Response Awaited By Official Washington.

Allies Await Russ Answer To Invitation   No Word From Kremlin On Willingness to Join Conference

Washington Awaits W ord  From Russia   Churchill and Roosevelt, Disenss Politi

Roosevelt And Churchill Meet In Informal Atmosphere  Russia Is Question Mark

FDR, Churchill Resume Parleys Reds Discussed  Politiesa] Prahlamc   Political Problems Of War Reported Among Topics

War Talks Are Resumed   Churchill and President Confer At Capital

FA, CHURCHILL IN WASHINGTON   Officials Await Response From Russia on ThreePower Conference

CONFERENCES RESUMED IN WASHINGTON   President and Prime Min. ister Settle Down to Discuss War-Generated Political Problems   NO WORD FROM RUSSIA

Political Problems Discussed   Roosevelt, Prime Minister Meet In Easy Semi-Social Parley

MANPOWER USE SOUGHT FOR NATION   Wadsworth Makes Selective Law  Appeal

HOUSE CLEARS WAY FOR VOTE ON LABOR BILL   Action On Hobbs AntiRacketeering Measure, ‘Opposed by Labor, Expected Next Week   BILL WOULD AMEND RACKETEERING ACT   Would Make Unions Subject to Prosecution For Picketing Or Other Lawful Activities

UBGy LABOR BILL GOES BEFORE HOUSE   Rules Committee Clears Way For Vote Next Week

UPENI ms N cee   Includes High, Elementary ‘Both  Public, Private ~ Institutions

LIST OPENING © DAY SCHOOLS  INCONCORI      Includes High, Elementary Both Public, Private Institutions

Coming Home for Christmas Exchange of U.S. Civilians  Held by Japan Is Sought

Jap Prisoner Exchange Sought   Interned Civilians  May Be Returned

Swap of Civilians With Japan Sough  Safe Conduct Asked Cee Co dtek, Chin

SEEK TO RETURN MANY INTERNERS   U. S. TO EXCHANGE CIVILIANS WITH JAPAN IF SHIP'S SAFETY IS ASSURED.

SECOND EXCHANGE IS BEING PLANNED   American - Civilians, In. terned by Japan, May be Home This Fal!

Vote Not To Work Without Contract  Await Orders From fT T nwn  fraware

Governor Fort to Address Leaislature   Will Deliver His Biennial Message Today

Senator Keeley Is President Pro Tem Of Senate; O’Connor Speaker; Governor Ford Will Speak Today

F. R. Confers With La Csndie. Al Smith and Mike Kennedy—on Coffee

SMASHING HITS ARE - REPORTED   Aerial and Artillery Bombardments Lead the Way Toward a Main Objective.

SOLOMONS BATTLE» CHALLENGE TO JAP. POWER IN PACIFIC   At Least 123 Enemy Planes Destroyed —Main Japanese Air Strength So Weakened Enemy Must Draw On Other Areas

Yanks Bombard Munda as Jap Navy Hides Out   123 Enemy Planes Blasted Out of Sky Over New Georgia Islands; U. S. Loses 25 Planes, 15 Pilots;  Fleet Boldly Hits Faisi.

NIPPON AERIAL POWER ROUTED IN SOLOMONS   Jungle Base On New Georgia Island Now Is Menaced From Two Directions   RENDOVA CONTROL SEIZED   123 Enemy Planes Destroyed; Prospects Of Heavy Fighting Voiced

U.S. TROOPS MOVE UP COAST TOWARD MUNDA   Jap Plane Loss 123 in Two Days 

Marines Attacking Key Base   Land Forces Closing in on Munda, on New Georgia Island

Japs’ Air Strength Is Sapped   YANKS HAVE DESTROYED A” LEAST 123 JAP PLANES; BASI ON NEW GEORGIA IS . SERIOUSLY THREATENED

123 Enemy Planes Brought Down By American Fliers   American Assault Troops Supported by Smashing Aerial, Artillery Bombardment on New Georgia Island

123 Enemy Planes Downed in Battle   Allied Onslaught Knocks Out One Japanese Battery After Another

123 Jap Planes Destroyed During Latest Assault —   Nipponese Air Power In Solomons Weakened  By Allied Punches

 Nips Feel Full Force Of American  Striking Might On New Georgia   Island In Surprise Offensive Under General MacArthur   KNOCKING OUT ALL JAPANESE OPPOSITION

JAPS LOSE 123 PLANES EARLY IN NEW DRIVE   Enemy Air Strength I: Sapped On New Georgia Isle

Power of U.S. Offense Saps Enemy Strength  Heavy Storms Help Attack Tactics;   Heavy Storms Help Attack Tactics; Shells From Rendova Rain on Foe

Whirlwind Offensive Sapping Enemy Strength; U.S. Guns,  Bombs Blast Enemy Positions   Nips Feel Power of Awakened Nation. Losses May Force Japan to Divert  Reinforcements From OQeh ne Aeeac

ANIERICANS ON RENDOVA. SAP JAP STRENGTH   Attackers Closing Ir On Munda Base on New Georgia

123 Jap Aircraft Downed   Enemy On New Georgia Threatened From ? Directions

PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM READIED   High School Youths To Get Training

LT. TOM HARMON [5 SAFE IN CHINA   FOOTBALL STAR, MISSING SINCE RAID ON RIVER PORT, FOUND BY NATIVES.

Tom Harmon Again Is Reported Safe  Was Shot Down Over Yangtze October 30

TOMMY HARMON IS SAFE, REPORT SAYS   Football ‘Stor, Reported Missing, Found in China

Tom Harmon Is Again Sate Former Football Star Survives Battle With Japs

TOM HARMON IS REPORTED SAFE   Grid Ace Was Shot Down By Japs In Air Battle

WILL PROBE FIRING QF DRAFT BOARD BY SELECTIVE SERVICE      Haverhill, Mass., Board Did Not Induct Fathers While Single:-Men . Are Exempt

British Submarines War On Supply Lines Of Axis   Allied Command Has Concentrated Maximum Num ; ber Possible in the Mediterranean—One Flotilla Sinks 50 Shins

) Large Ships Sunk by British In Mediterranean   Submarines Playing Havo with Axis Shipping, Report Declares

BRITISH U-BOAT FLOTILLA SUNK FIFTY AXIS VESSELS      Great Inroads Have Been Made Into Enemy Sunniy Lines; Italian Commanders Now Grounding Ships Under Attack In Mediterranean

100 White, 12 Colored io Go March 16, 29   Counly Hoan to Send 40 March 4;  Last Week's Group fo     Roport Thursday

100 White, 12 Colored ta Go March 16, 29   County Board ta Sead 49 March 4: last Week's Group to  Report Thursday

Stronghold Of Lae Is Captured   Gen. MacArthur Hails “Victory As A Stride Toward His Goal Of Taking Philippines

Today’s War Commentary  Yanks Are Ready  They Learned Warfare In Tunisia

Statement Expected Shortly   Unconditional Surrender or Bloody Defeat To Be Choice

BIG EVENTS ARE EXPECTED FROM PARLEY   Anticipated Announcement of '“Big Three” Considered Greatest War of Nerves Yet Made on the Enemy.

farly Announcement Is Expected In Regard To Ultimatum From Three Great Powers

Declaration Likely To Apply Both To Battlefield And To Political Questions, Including Choice For Germany To Surrender Unconditionally Or Face Certain Crushing Under Gigantic Land And Air Offensive —Second Front May Be Outcome

Russia Tells That Meeting Is Concluded   First British, Then Rus sians Scoop American  OWI On Important Parley

Germans May Be Told To Quit War Or Be Handed Bloody Loss In Land. Air Blows

*‘Big 3’ Talks End; Results *Known Soon   Steps For Crushing Germany Mapped By Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin.   All-Out Allied Smash At Germany Expected As Result Of Iran Parley

Await News Of Historic Decisions —   Results of Three- Power Conference ' Are Expected } Momentarily . -'-:

Big 3 conclude Teheran parley   Expect biggest barrage in war of nerves to start

EXPECT PUBLIC NEWS OF MEET   Decisions Applying to Battlefield and Other Ques-. tion Awaited.   AUTHORITIES MEETING

Expect Early Report   Decisions To Apply To Battlefield, Political  Questions

News Comes Out ByMoscow Radio   Other Capitals Make No An» nouncement on the C. Confer efice   WAS HELD IN TEHERAN   Statement on Action Taken  by Big Three Is Expect-  _ed Soon

Moscow Reveals  End Of Parleys   Radio Announcement Scoops London, Washincton

Promises More Details Later: Washington An¢ London Have ‘No News

War, Political Decisions Will Be Bared Soon,  Moscow Says   Soviet Broadcast ‘Scoops’ London, Washington on Story

Ultimatum To Reich Expected   ... FDR, Churchill And Stalin Meet First Time

Decisions Reached by ‘Big Three’ May Be Given Qut Today   Predict Germany Will Be Told to Give Up or Be Destroyed

"Big Three” Reach Acord, Soviets Say   Moscow Radio Report: Teheran Parley Has Been Successful

Big News — ‘Soon, Says Red Radio    Moscow : ‘Scoop’: Tells: of War Talks Being Held by F-D.B., Churchill, Stalin   NO. OFFICIAL NEWS FROM OTHER SOURCES   But Russian Radio Says ‘Ar rangements for Release Are Beine Made

British Are Surprised At News Confirming ‘ Meeting of. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

RUSSIA SAYS IRAN PARLEY IS CONCLUDED   Historic Decisions as to War and Political Question Are Made.   Nazis Get Choice of  Surrender or Defeat

WILEY RUTLEDGE   Nomination to Supreme Court Approved: May Get Seat Monday

COURT MEMBER IS APPROVED   Rutledge Probably Will Take Supreme Bench Seat Monday After Senate O. K.

By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Republican, Oregon UWritlen for the Associated Press)

U.S. Shipping  In Good Shape   Admiral Land Afraid Talking Would Result In Reduction Of Shipbuilding.

‘Marked Improv ement In Shipping - Fails To Produce Any Comment - From Land, D: C. Speaker Find

20 ARMY OFFICERS, MEN DIE WN CRASH   Army Transport Falls Near Calcutta, India, Last Tuesday.

RAF BOMBERS RAID COLOGNE   HEAVIEST ATTACK UPON RHINELAND SINCE LAST MAY

Colognels_ . Pounded By Hundreds Of Bombers   Greatest Raid On German Industrial Center Since That Mf Last May

Heavy RAF Attack Made On Cologne   Allies Maintain Round the Clock Bombing of _ German Targets

COLOGNE RAIDED FORTHE 113TH TIME BY RAF BOMBERS   Greatest Raid Upon That Rhineland Industrial Center Since Last May.

LARGE BOMBER FORGE BLASTS PLANT CENTER   Hundreds Of RAF Planes Carry Out Raid On Cologne

Cologne Bombing Worst Since May   Ten Bombers Lost In ‘Very Heavy’ Raid

HEAVIEST RAID ON THAT CITY INS MONTHS   Savage Around-The-Clock Schedule Maintained   Pounding Of Wilhelmshaven By Yanks Described As “Very Heavy”

INDUSTRIAL CITY GETS 113TH RAID   Attack Follows USAF Pounding Of Port Of Wilhelmshaven

Cologne Is Given Another Savage Blasting By RAF   Hundreds Of Planes Take Part In Raid; Ten © Bombers Lost

BOMBERS HIT COLOGNE   United States Air Forces Were in Group That Made Nicht Raid

AIRMEN REPORT GOOD RESULTS   Bombing of Rhineland Follows U. $. Assault on Wilkelmshayen

RAF STAGES HEAVY RAID ON COLOGNE   ‘Attack Is the Greatest Upon the Rhineland Industrial Center Since the 1,000-Plane Assault of Last May.

Allied Air Might Rocks Cologne _   Raid Continues Savage Around-theClock Pounding of Axis Targets

Cologne Is » Battered By Air Raiders   Hundreds Of R. A. F. Bombers Blast Rhine In dustrial Center.

113th Raid Is Biggest, Since May:   Explosives Also Reported Dropped On Objectives In Western Germany

COLOG HIT IN ATTACK BY RAF PLANES   Large Force Of Bombers Sent Against Large German City, Following Up American Raid On Wilhelmshaven.

Americans, British Take Turns in Air Raids on Rhineland   “Very Heavy” Damage is Admitted by German High Command

Cologne Struck In Great Raid By British Airmer   U.S. Bombers Hit U-Boat Base of Wilhelmshaven

RAF Blasts Cologne Again  Bombing Activity Heavy In Europe And Occunied Landc

HUNDREDS RAF BOMBERS RAID COLOGNE AGAIN   Officially Described as. “Very Heavy; Attacks Maintain Round-theClock Assaults   TEN BOMBERS LOST IN FIERCE DEFENSE   American Flyers Report Instances When 25 to 40 Fighters Attacked at One Time

Hundreds of RAF Warplanes Attack Rhineland Plants   “Very Heavy” Raid Made on Cologne in Around the-Clock Assault.   Ten Planes Are Lost Over German Center

Hope Abandoned For 22 Flyers   Two Big Bombers Collide Over Gulf

BID T0 ITALY TQ QUIT MADI   Invitation to Surrender is Voiced by Churchill at FDR Press Talk   Tide Turns for Allies

Churchill Says Tide Turned in Favor of Allies   Indirectly Invites Italy to Drop Out Of War: Conferences Will Be Continued

Italians Are Advised To Give Up   Churchill Says Tide Definitely Turned Against Axis

British Chief Has Meeting With Press   Prime Minister Is in Optimistic Mood After Conferences

Churchill Advises  Italians to Disown Fascist Leadershi  Says Plans for Waging Pacific War Vigorously Made at Conference  STATES TIDE TURNED  Prime Minister Is Optimistic Over Allied Victories

Prime Minister, in Press Conference, Discusses ~ “War Program  SAYS TIDE OF WAR FAVORS THE ALLIES  Depending on Force of Arms to Bring Victory

BY MR. CHURGHILE   Tells Italians ‘To Disown Their Intriguing Nazi and Fascist Leaders and Throw Themselves On Justice of United Nations.

BID 70 ITALY 10 QUIT MADE   Invitation lo Swrender i Voiced by Churchill nt * FDR Press Talk

Churchill Sees Decisive Turn For Allied Win   Advises Italians to Disown Fascists And Call for Peace

DISOWN DUCE, PEOPLE URGED BY CHURCHILI   BRITISH WAR CHIEF OPTIMISTIC OVER TURN OF TIDE

OPTIMISTIC OVER TURN IN WAR TIDE   Feels Separate Peace Move Logical At This Time

4H CLUBS WILL HAVE FULL TIME COUNTY AGENT DUE TO ACTION OF LEGISLATORS

HERBT. LEHMAN ELECTED HEAD   Former New York Gover: nor Stresses Phrase ‘“Helping People to Help Themselves in Acceptance Speech

IN DNIEPER BEND   Soviet Push in Ukraine Con tinues Despite Adverse Weather

MacArthur Spokesman  Says Men, Equipment For Large Offensive Lacking

Nazi Victors Claim 3, 000 British: and 5,0 Italian Troops and 130 Guns—U. Ss Above. Snowstorms to Bomb: Sout ern France Airfields—Pyramids  _ for Tri-Partite Conference

Forecast Fresh German Retreat From Dnieper   Half Million Russian Troops Violently Attacking the Nazi Positions.   Reds Apply Pressure On 3 Sides in Ukraine

MEAT SLAUGHTER CONTROL URGED   Licensing System Proposed to Combat. Black Mark~-@t Trends ---

Heavy Bombers  More Effective   Chin Turret Added— Sighting Mechanism Is Improved

VICHY ORDERS ARE VOWED Th NORTH AFRICA   Gen. Giraud Takes Definite Steps in Former French Possession.   DIRECTOR IS REMOVED   Opening Wedge to Grant Further Liberties to the Citizens.

GEN. GIRAUD ANGERED AT VICHY GROUP   Orders published in Africa without knowledge  of French chief

Steel Workers Open Wage Drive   Plan To Present Sweeping Demands

Former Representative Charles M. Turner Dies At His Home Yesterday

FIVE PERSONS BURN IN CHICAGO BLAZE      Fire Destroys: Fashionable Recreation Parlor — Scares Injured

FIVE MEN BURN TO DEATH IN CHIGAGO BLAZE LAST NIGHT      Scores of Others Suffer from Shock and Minor Injuries in Resort  

LAWYERS TO MEET 'AT MARQ'TTE 29-30   IMPORTANT MATTERS PERTAINING TO NEW TAXES TO BE DISCUSSED

Lorient U-Boat Base Aflame  After Air Raids  Naples and Crotone Also Are Attacked In Wide Campaign  ROMMEL HARRIED  British Eighth Army _ Moves to Flank Maret! Line in North Africa   Great Round-the-Clock Air Raids Planned to Crush Naziland

Around- Clock Raids Planned  For Germany   2,000 Bombers Perhaps,  Fortresses in Daytime, Lancasters at Night

BLOC PROPOSES PROLONGED WAF   Farm Solons Would Revise  Military Strategy 

FARM BLOG WILL DEMAND DELAY 1 ~ FARMER DRAFTS   Wants Assurance of Enough Food Even If It Means a Longer War.

FARM BLOC 10 ASK CHANGE IN WAR STRATEGY   Demands Ample Food Iiven At Expense Of Longer War

Bloc to Fight For Deferment Of Farmers   Senators to Demand Revision of Strategy To Ensure Food

Bankhead Disputes Need for Soldiers.   Nve Urges Downward Revision or Plane for 1L.006.000 Men   Retirement Bil Passed

Three German  Cities Bombed   Emden, Hannover And Brunswick Plastered Rey R A F.

GERMAN CITIES GET HEAVY RAID   RAF Loses 38 38 Bombers  In New Assaults

U-BOAT LOSSES IN ATLANTIC BLOW TO NAZIS   German Ships Aré Sent To Bottom By Air Crews

U- Boats Fail . In New Drive   Jap. Submarines Reported “Smashed In. Attacks On ‘Allied. Convoys::

Need For Many Pickers Urgent   Berry Crop Periled By Lack Of Workers

CALL FOR MORE BERRY PICKERS   Making Every Effort To  Prevent Loss Of Fruit Here

“GAS” RATION CUT TO BE EFFECTIVE STARTING MONDAY   Coupon Values to Be Reduced to 3 Gallons

Commandos Attack Crete   British Troops Land, Destroy Planes, Gas Before Leaving

British Troops Raid Crete In Daring Attack  Slip Past Axis Defenses; Wreck

Soviets Smash Nearer Germans At Smolensk  Capture More Outlying Points

Russ Spearheads ‘Score Important Gains At Smolensk   ~ Advancing Red Army Captures Rail Town OF Abinskaya In Kuban At Novorossisk, Where Dunkirk Of German Caucasus Army Expected

NAZI FORCES ‘ARE FACING RED DUNKIRK   Movorossisk Is Lone Escape Point in Whole Sector

Russians Score Further Gains   Advance in Smolensk And Caucasus Drives

RUSS ARMIES STORMING ON; KHARKOV, GOAL   Now 79 Miles From “Pittsburgh of Ukraine.” Nazis at Home Toid of “Difficulties”

Red Army is /9 Miles Distant From Steel City   Hitler Telis Germans Of Hardships At Front

Production for the Army Falls Below Schedule in June DuetoChanges in Types of Needed Materials

PRODUCTION IN JUNE DECLINES      Changes In Models Are Partly Responsible For Slow-Up

PRODUCTION OFF AGAIN   June Figures Substantially Below Schedule, Says Patterson

OUTPUT DROPS AGAIN IN ARMS   Changes In Types Are Blamed For Slump In Production

oe ISTH   Changes in Types of Needed Materials Are Said Temporary

ARE BEHIND SCHEDULE   Army Production Must Be Stepped Up. During Last Half of 1943

[PRODUCTION FOR ARMY FALLS SHORT SECOND CONSECUTIVE MONTH: PATTERSON

ARMS QUIPUT STILL LAGGING   Commerce Department Says Decline Due to Temporary Factors

Third Bond Drive Now In Full Swing   LOCAL VOLUNTEERS’ BUSY HELPING TO RAISE HUGE QUOTA

National Pleasure Driving Ban Seen   Spokesman for Ickes Sees Early Action

AMERICAN TRUST ~ BLDG.-ON BLOCK   Court Sets July: 21.Date For oHestiiig’ ‘on ‘Sale ‘of  “Property

AMERICAN TRUST ~ BLDG. ON BLOCK   Court Sets July : 21 Date For _~Hearing’‘on Sale of ' Property

NEW DISCOVERIES AID AMPUTATION OF LEGS-ARMS   British War Time Publi. _. cation Reveals Develap-. ment of Most Helpful  Invention <i

*Rail Wreck South of Aurora Tuesday » Fatal to Four Men   15 Injured When Motorcar and Freight Loco ; motive Collide~_

SENATE REFUSES FDR SALARY ACT   tt bine ‘Cates on  Wage is Approved

CHERNIGOYV IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Opens Way For Drive To the Dnieper River

Nazis Impose  Military Rule On  Italian cities   Fascist Authorities Ignored; German Laws Being Enforced

IL DUCE ASKS HITLER FOR MORE HELP      Dictators’ Meeting Reflects Seriousness of Situation

PARLEY SERIOUSNESS OF AXIS SITUATION   ll Duce Seeks Assistance From Hitler As War Strikes Near Home   BERLIN ADMITS PERIL   Increased German Control Of Italy Expected As Result Of Meet

Mussolini Seeks Help From Hitler   Report Axis Heads Have Four Day Conference On War Crisis

—_e MINE. STRIKE COMING SOON   FEDERAL OPERATION OF ALABAMA: MINES LOOMING AS MINERS IGNORE WAR - LABOR ROARD

ASSASSINS ARE BEING SOUGHT   ‘Stern Measures Are Being ‘Taken In Bulgarian Capital,  Bern Reports

AXIS HUNT ASSASSIN IN BULGARIAN CAPITAL   Former Police Chief Slain, People Ordered Off Streets

Bulgarian Capital Is Quarantined   Axis Seeking Assassin of Former Police Chief in Sofia

Bulgarian People Told fo Stay Home   Streets Deserted as Search For Assassins Of Official Continues

BULGARIA IN TURMOIL AS RESULT OF KILLING   Sofia Under Police Rule Fol: lowing Slaying

MILITARY LAW PUT ON SOFIA   Over 1,000 Arrested In Search For Slayers Of Col. Panteff

MILITARY RULE IS - ORDERED IN SOFIA   Officials Conduct Search for Assassins of ExPalice Chief

TERROR REIGNS IN BULGARIA   NAZIS SEARCH FOR ASSASSIN OF SOFIA POLICE OFFICIAL

1,000 Arrested In Probe into Panteff Slaying   All Transportation Stopped in Bulgarian Capital of Sofia

‘Down with Hitler’ Axis ‘Slaves’ Shout As Bulgaria Seethes   KILLINGS IN NORWAY

NAZIS ORDER ALL OF SOFIA OFF STREETS   Drastic German Steps Indicate Serious Unrest 

ROMMEL’S DOOM CLAIMED SEALED   It's Just Matter of Time Now, Declares War "Analyst

i i ie aii: aae ae  IANO FLED TO GERMANY, = BERLIN RADIO ANNOUNCES   FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER SAID TO HAVE LEFT IN DISGUISE TO AVOID BEING JAILED

REPORT COUNT CIANO ESCAPES   Axis Propaganda Says Count Is Now In Munich After Fleeing Rome

CIANO, FAMILY FLEE TO MUNICH   Nazi Reports Say Former Itaiian Chief Fled Rome In Disguise

G.0.P. Nominee Wins Election By 20,111 Votes In Big Upset   Vill Be First Republican Mayor in Baltimore Since 1931; Four-Times Mayor Is Badly Beaten

M’KELDINBEATS MAYOR JACKSON IN BALTIMORE   Republican Defeats Demecratic Incumbent By 20,000 Majority   OTHER DEMOCRATS ARE SUCCESSFUL

M'KELDIN ELECTED BALTIMORE MAYOR   Republican Unseats How. ard Jackson by 20,000 Votes.

Today’s War  Moves  —V   (Reg. U.S. Pat. Office) By LOUIS F. KEEMLE

SENTENCE UPHELD   Supreme . Court Affirms Death Decree for Holdup Slaying

DREDGE RAISES BODY IN RIVER   Slips Back Before It Can Be Recovered; Might Be Monti Boy

Harbor Dredge Brings Up Bods   Drops: Back ‘Into ‘Water, However: Hunt Started

Inexperienced U.S. Forces Te Test Strength   Veteran Axis Army To Be Pitted Against Americans With Superlative Equipment

ON EVE OF TEST      ‘American Forces Stand Before Nazi. Veterans in Tunisia

Uniried U.S. Forces Face German Vets   Allied. Forces: Probably Not as Large as Axis, But Highly’ Formidable   TO GO AGAINST : HITLER'S BEST   Allies Have Built Up an Army From Bases Some 3.000. Miles Away

NOTICE TO PROPRIETORS OF RESTAURANTS AND OTHER EATING AND DRINKING PLACES

ACCOMPLICE. oF GERMAN   AGENT: WHO ‘BENT OUT CONVOY INFORMATION ,  ALSO ADMITS GUILT

Reds inflict heavy losses on Germans   Continue offense toward Rumania

REDS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS IN KIEV BULGE   Heavy Losses Inflicted On Big Foe Force in ’ Fierce Fighting

Red Drives Advance in  Other Areas   Push Toward Borders Of Rumania, Poland Despite Heavy Mud   TAKE LYUMBIMOUKA EAST OF DNIEPER

ST. LOUIS BAKER LEADS OFFICERS      - :        aoa by. i, Ofbicera

Confesses to  Slaying Wife   St. Louis Baker's Helper Leads Authorities to Body of Missing Spouse

CONFESSED TO SLAYING WIFE   Baker's Helper Leads Police. To Wire-Trussed And Partially Burned Body

PACIFIC SITUATION APPEARS BE FOMENTING REAL TROUBLE FOR TAPANFSF IST AND BASES

THE WAR TODAY ‘New Offensive In Pacific Aims At Island Of Truk   Japan's Greatest Naval Base Outside Hamoaloand ie Gant

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Nimitz Wasn't Kidding When He Warned Japs Offensive Coming

AWAITS ICKES FIRST MOVE IN SETTLING ROW   UMW Chief Says Little Steel Formula Voids No-Strike Pledge Made By Labor   Views Are Outlined

‘Miners will insist on original demands for $2 pay increase’   Lewis charges WLB contravened no-strike pledge given by labor

Lewis Insists On Original Wage Request  Union Chief Blames   Union Chief Blames WLB for ‘Distress’ In Ranks of Lahor

IN MASON CiTy   ‘Mother Poisons 2 Children, Taunted for Tattered Gerha   Albert Lea Woman Confesses Deaths Beasies at Pauaere

POISONED HER POOR CHILDREN   Albert Lea Mother Admits Putting Two To Death Because Others Made Fun of Them.

HULL PREDICTS NEW WORLD ERA   MOSCOW CONFERENCE HAILED AS HISTORIC

STIMSON BACKS -—LEND-LEASE AID   Continuation of Program Vital to Complete Victory, He Declares.

Continue Aid, Stimson Urge: Testifies Before Hous  Committee On Issue Of Lease-Lend Help

Appeal Made For Lease Lend   Secretary Stimson Declares It Necessary For Allied Victory

Stimson For Lend-Lease Aid  War Secretary Says Policy Playing Part  In Atdina Allies

STIMSON FOR C ONTINUANCE OF LEND-LEASE   Any Other Decision Would Seriously Jeopardize Or Delay Total Victory   OTHERS TO BE HEARD

Stimson Backs Lend-Lease Aid   Asks Its Continuance So That Victory Won't Be Delayed

LEND-LEASE SEEN AS VICTORY KEY   Stimson Tells House Group Cut in Foreign Aid Would “Delay Total War Win”

Help Sent Allies Is Not Charity   The Quickest And Best Method Of Defeating The Knemyv   LEND-LEASE HAS TURNED THE TIDE

Stimson Backs Up Lend-Lease   War Secretary Says Nation Should Not Ask Dollars And Cents Accounting.

Lend-Lease Not Charity, House Told   Stimson Urges That Plan Be Continued  For America’s Good

‘NOT CHARITY’   Stimson Calls For Continuance of Lend-Lease Program.

Any Slackening Of Lend-Lease Said Dangerous   Sec. Stimson Tells House Munitions Not Charity, Vital Need For Victory

New State Prices   eli Cents A Quart Wil Be Charged in Several Cities

Ardmore Milk Ceiling Price Set at 13 Cents   Same Price Set for 49 Other Cities in State; 14-Cent Prices Set For Five Cities

LEWIS AGREES “TO WLB SETUE   HEAD OF MINERS.“UNION- FOR FIRST. TIME ASKS AGENCE > TO ‘PASS ON WAGE 1) PROPOSAL”

LEWIS BOWS 10 WLB AUTHORITY   Asks Board To OK $3 Per Day Mine Pay Hike

Here's How Tax Affects Wages   Income And Victory ‘Levies Combined ~

U.S. Ace Anxious To  Bomb Tokyo   No Difference Between Skunk And Jap, Foss Says

Foss Would Like Short Tokyo Visit   ..- Renking Americen Ace Back In L. S.

Two U. 5. Marines Escape Strafing  Fliers Rescued After   Fliers Rescued After Bagging One Bomber Three Jap Zeros

Green Fights For Subsidies  Repeal Will Mean End Of Stabilized Prices’

Green Urges Food Subsidies   American Federaiion Of Lahor President Speaks Before Committee.

HITLER CLAIMS VICTORY AHEAD   French Traitor Generals Denounced; Germany Can Not Compromise

HITLER ADMITS DIFFICULT YEAR   Declares He Will Never Yield, Denounces ‘Traitors’

Hitler Speaks Of Hard Fight   But He Predicts Victory ‘However Severe Struggle Is and: Will Be?

HITLER PREDICTS VICTORY FOR AXIS   TELUS ARMED FORCES IN ORDER OF DAY THAT GERMANY WILL NEVER YIELD.

BOND CAMPAIGN NEARING GOAL   Only Half Million Needed to Make Quota; State Already Past Its Mark.

$116,647 MORE IN BOND SALES   Richland’s Total Goes Up Te $4,567,424 For Third Week of War Loan Drive.

MULTILATION BY GESTAPO FAILS TO KEEP GERMAN OUT OF AMERICAN ARMY

Soviet Troops Land Behind  German Lines  Important Gains in Dnieper i

Soviet Troops Land Behind German Lines   Important Gains in Dnieper Battle Scored

REDS CLOSE IN ON GOMEL; COUNTERDRIVE   By Germans On Dnieper Bridgehead; Beaten Off to Effect Landing At End of Defense Line.   Threaten Kiev

Soviets Gain In Dnieper Battle Zones   Red Army Gets in Closer to Vitebsk Citadel and Lands Behind Nazi Lines on Sea of Azov in South Aren

WOMEN FORM MAINLINE OF BOMB LOADING   Turn Out Trainioad of Block Busters Daily at Ravenna Plant

‘Yanks Surprise Move Dooms Solomons Japs   Bypass Vila To Seize Vella Lavella; Great Enemy Base At Bougainville Is Now Menaced; 350 Japs Captured Alive

JAPANESE HOLDINGS CENTRAL SOLOMONS MENACED BY. ALLIES  SURPRISE INVASION OF  VELLA LAVELLA ISLAND MENACES RARATIL

Yanks Seize New Island In Surprise   350 Vella Lavella Japs Taken Alive; Other Bases Periled

Vella Lavella  Invasion Dooms Solomons Foe   Surprise Attack Captures 350 Japa nese Alive; Kolombangara, Othe Enemy Basec Are Cut OFf

Japs Doomed In Central Solomons   350 Jap Prisoners Taken In Surprise Attack On Island

Jans Doomed fn Solomons By New Surprise Thrust   Jap Hold On Entire Island Group Broke By U. S. Capture Of Vella Lavella

QURPRLGE JAPS BY NEW ACTION   Vella Lavefla {sland Captured; Is North of Foe’s Base at Vila.   CAPTURE 350 PRISONERS

New Invasion Menaces Jap Island Bases   Yanks Surprise Japs by Landing On Vella Lavella; Vila Bypassed

island Drive Dooms Enemy In South Seas   Troops Landed On Vella Lavella In Surprise Attack

Seize New Island In  Solomons   Japanese Holdings In Central Solomons Are Virtually Doomed By Vella Lavella Landing

Yanks Bypass Kolombangara,  Occupy Isle of Villa Lavella   Surprise Move Threatens Jap Grip on Central Solomons

U.S. Surprise Invasion Of Vella Lavella Island . Threatens Jap Strongholds

YANKS SURPRISE NIPPONS, SEIZE STRATEGIC BASE  VELLA LAVELLA ISLE   VELLA LAVELLA ISLE FALLS, JAPS DOOMED IN CENTRAL SOLOMONS

Menaces Jap Island Bases  Yanks Surprise   Yanks Surprise Jape by Landing On Vella Lavella; Vile Renessed

bean Troops / Bypass Vila:  Seize Island  Surprise Japanese By   Surprise Japanese By Taking Vella Lavella: 350 Nips Captured By  Invaders

Americans Make New Landing In Solomons   350 Nipponese Taken Alive By Surprise Offensive; New Threat To Rabaul Seen

U. S. Forces Bypass Vila In Invasion   Jap’s Last Strongholds Imperilled With Capture Of Vella Lavella

RUSSIAN’ THOOPS COUNTER-ATTACK AN-RUBSH FRONT   Red Army Clizgs Tezaciously to Initiative in°This : Blosdy Sector, —   ‘TANK BAG NCW IS 2,885   Nazi Attack Fails to Gather . Strength as Rezistanc2: . Increases

Russian Troops Counter Attack In Kursk Sector   Only German Attacks On Russian Front Are In Belgorod Area   RED LINES HOLDING FIRM SAYS MOSCOW

HUOOlAN ThOUPo COUNTER-ATTAGK UN KURGK TRON]   Red Army Cli:gs Te-azious: ly to Initiative in This Blccdy Sector.   TANK BAG NCW IS 2,885   Nazi Attack Fails to Gather Strength as Re-istanc2 Increases

RUSSIANS HOLD INITIATIVE IN OREL AREA   Hurl Nazis Out of Several Villages, Kill 2,000 -

Nipponese Drive West. Through ‘Hupeh Province   Chinese Units Prepare For Decisive’ Battle Along Yangtze River.

Japs Push Toward Yangtze Forts  Nip Drive Aimed At Chungking Defenses

SEE JAPS IN "FULL-SCALE” CHINESE PUSH   Chungking Reports “Heavily Re. inforeed” Armies Pushing Toward China's Capital

Japanese Army Moving Toward Chinese Canital   Defenders Ready For Battles in Western Huneh

FIFTH ARMY TAKES ALL DOMINATING GERMAN HEIGHTS   Swarms Of American Fighter-Bombers Blast And Strafe Long Columns Of Eenemy Tanks—Enemy, Enemy Forces Weakened

Fifth Army Seizes Ali Dominating Heights on Sorrento Peninsula’ Overlooking Gulf. -of Naples — Planes Attack Long Columns of ‘German Trucks on’ Sunday,

NAZI TROOPS FALL BACK ON NAPLES   Allied Invasion Forces Fanning Inland From Sea

Trucks Clogging Roads Target of American Planes   Report Resistance Slackening Along -Entire Bridgehead

Indications Are Enemy Is Retreaing   Americans Have  Positions Across Clalf af Nlanlac

lJ, §. PLANES BLAST ENEMY TRUCK COLUMNS   Ground Troops Push Inland

Swarms of American Bombers Blast, Strafe Germans  Retreatine in Mountaim Passes

Yank Fliers Blast German Truck Lines   Fifth Army Seizes All Dominating Heights Above Peninsula

HUNDREDS Of NAZI TRUCKS ARE SHOT UID   American Planes Enjoy Field Day In Mountain Roads

AMERICAN STH MOVES 10 EObt (OF NAPLES BAY   Heights Dominating Strategic Harbor Easily Captured And Big Guns Set Up

Nazis Rapidly Falling Back To Naples    U.S. Fliers Smash Hundreds OF Trucks, Other Equipment As Retreat Begins; 4 Fifth Army Seizes Strategie Positions :

Yank Planes Smash Long Truck Lines   Flyers Unopposed, ' Blast 246 Vehicles; Foe Ouits Sardinia

Germans Retreat Toward Italian Port Metronolis   Swarms of American Planes Blast Nazis’  Evacuation Columns

FINE BRINGS “THREAT OF NEW MINE. STRIKES   Punalty for Previotis Work Stappage Adds to ossibility of General Strike, June 20

EXILED POLES IN APPEAL TO U.S, BRITAIN   Request Release of Prisoners in Russia

Poles issue Broad Appeal   Release Of Poles In Russia Is Requested

Reds Take Island  In Dnieper River   Seviet Columns Pierce To Within 110 Miles Of Old Polish Border; East Bank Bridgehead Is Wiped Out

Soviet Forces Smash Germans In Three Areas   Rapidly Approach Old Polish Border

Soviets Engulf More Territory   One Column Rolls To Edae Of Kiev

ihree Huge Red Drives Thunder On   One Captures Island Only Quarter of Mile From Hills of Kiev  KPRENIDONCUIIOC Mawrn

Armies 110 Miles From Poland: Z1( From Rumania   Reds Burst Through Enemy Defense Lines Near Kiev

Two Big Soviet Forces Cutting Nazi Defenders   Remnants Of German Army, Stalin, Says, Are Thrown Into River

Fall of River Island Places Reds Quarter of a Mile From Hills of Ukraine Capital.      PLUNGE TO WITHIN 110 MILES OF POLAND   Thousands of Germans Killed in Day’s Fighting as Soviets Advance Over Muddy Roads. ©

REDS CAPTURE ISLAND FORT CLOSE TO KIE\   Push Beyond Smolensk In North, Take Kremenchug in South

RED ARMIES ADVANCE ON THREE FRONTS   Within 110 Miles of Polish and Rumanian Borders on North and South: Capture Dnieper River Island.   Eight Divisions

Kiev Defense Bridgehead ls Captured   Soviet Forces 400 Miles Apart Pierce Within 110 Miles of Old Polish Line and 210 From Rumania Border

3-Way Race In Primary   Observers See Possibility of Reed-RatnerCarlson Battle for GOP Senate Nomination

Rockefeller Will Sell Huge Block of Stock To Enlarge Bond Holding

Dinah Shore. Weds Soldier   Radio Singer Becomes Bride of Corporal George Montgomery

NAZIS SAY BENITO HEADS NEW REGIME      Former Dyce Reported In Italy To Set Up  Government.

IL DUCE NOW PREMIER   Marshal Graziani Is Defense Minis. ter In New Fascist Regime

Mussolini Made  Italian ‘Premier’   Nazis Set up New Fascist Regime

Mussolini Premier Anew   Also Foreign Minister of Puppet Government -

POLICY OF DEFIANCE ADOPTED BY GERMAN\   Goebbels Says Allies Must Attempt Invasion and There Is No Donbt of Outcome.

Goebbels Defies Allies:  te net coment eee cheater eae eesti ape men =  Predicts ‘High Toll in Blood’’ Will Follow Invasion Atlempts

RESUME STRIKE AT CLEVELAND   Company Fires “Strikers fot Failing to Comply With WLB Order

END TO IMPRACTICAL ‘GLOBAL THINKING’ IS DEMANDED BY SPEAKER   Governor Bricker, Ohio, And Author Clarence sg tide os Kelland, Lincoln Day Speakers At Charleston

EXPECT OUTBURST OF PEACE FEELERS   Axis Balkan States Reel Under Crack-Up Of Fascist Italy

PEACE FEELE DELUGE FROM BALKANS SEEN   Axis Puppet States Ree. Under Crackup Of Duce’s Regime

POSTWAR PLANNING CONFERENCE SLATED   Meeting To Be Held Soon In United States  . _

ELABORATE SYSTEM OF GERMAN FIELD NEFENSES LAID BARE   THREE ZONES APPROXIMATELY TEN MILES DEEP WITH SHOCK LINES

ELABORATE SYSTEM OF GERMAN FIELD DEFENSES LAID BARE  THREE ZONES APPROXIMATELY TEN MILES DEE

A Blueprint Of German Defenses   Nazi- ‘Lines Overrun ©: By Soviets Seen As::  Pattern for Defenses Tn Western Rerpss

OO Es  Reds Uncover Nazi Field Defense Plan   Three-zone System Cleverly Worked Out, Presents Tough Nut to Crack, With Heavy Fire Power

Elaborate System Of Defenses Similar to What May Face Allies In West Laid Bare By Reds

New Type Of Nazi Traps   Reds Uncover German Defenses, Tell Allies

786 BERLINERS KILLED   Reports From German Capital Admit Heavy Losses In Raids

NAVY DEPARTMENT AVOIDED ORDERS, OFFICIAL STATES   Claims FDR's Instructions on Elk Hills Oil Agreement Were Not Followed

Attorney Aide Hits Navy's Elk Hills Act   LITTELL SAYS BRANCH AVOIDED F. R. ORDERS; HITS PACT DEFENSE

Federal Lawyer Argues Navy Has Defied Roosevelt Order: To.Condemn Elk Hills Reserve

REPRISALS ARE PROMISED FOR BERLIN ATTACKS   Goebbels Says Britain Will Pay For Devastating Raids On Capital      ALLIED AIRMEN CROSS CHANNEL ON SUNDAY

Doktor Goebbels Peeved: German Propaganda Minister Shows lre over Bombing of Nazi Capital   Use of New Type of Fire Bombs Brings Sharp Protest and New Threat of Prompt Reprisals

WLB WILL STICK TO ‘LITLE STEEL’ PLAN   Announcement Accompanied By Two Contradictory Decisions

The War Today   Hitler Likely to Ditch Italy With Allied Invasion Nearer

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Likely To Leave Mussolini In Lureh At Invasion Time   Star-A-Day

‘As Things Stand Now Italy ‘Is a Very Bad Insurance Risk Mussolini Is in a Bad Way —

ILITTLE DOUBT THAT ITALY IS IN BAD WAY BUT MANY RUMORS IMAY RE DUE WISHFUL THINKING

British Plane Missing With Actor Leslie Howard   Transport Reports Attack by Enemy Planes En Route From Lisbon to England

British Transport Lost Between Lisbon, London  Actor Leslie Howare One of 13 Aboard, Attacked by Enemy

13 Missing After Nazis Bag Airliner   Leslie Howard Said on Lisbon To London Plane

Nazis Bring Down Transport Plane Carrying Actor  12 Other Passengers Believed Lost on British Aircraft

TRANSPORT PLANE LOST; 13 MISSING   British Overseas Airship With Actor Leslie Howarc Aboard Is Officially Reported Overdue.

GERMANS DOWN AIR TRANSPORT   Leslie Howard Passenger On Plane Missing Over Atlantic

LESLIE HOWARD ON MISSING AIRPLANE   British  Transport, With 13 Passengers, Believed Shot Down

WOOL FOR CIVILIAN CLOTHES DOUBLED   WPR Decision Brightens Prospects of Avoiding Rationing of Clothing

CIVILIAN WOOL SUPPLY RAISED   WPB Action Brightens Prospects Of Avoiding Rationing Of Clothing

CLOTHING RATIONING MAY NOT BE NEEDED   Prospect of Avoiding Limi Brightens Today.

May Not Ration Clothes In U. 5S.  More Wool Allocated To Manufacturers

MORE WOOL FOR G°'VILIANS   Now Unlikely That Clothing Rationing Will Be Needed

MORE WOOL FOR CLOTHING-WLE   Double Allotment, May Prevent Rationing of Civilian Needs

WOOL SUPPLY HIGH; RATION IDEA FADES   WPB Doubles Amount That May Go In Clothes

Sinking of Axis Transport Deseribed by War Reporter   Vessel. Crowded With Troops and Workers Bound From Tripoli to Sicily for Farm Work, Sent to Bottom In Mediterranean, and Escorting Destroyer Badly Damaged

Industrial Ruhr City Is Blasted   French Factions Reported Near Agreement — Plans for Invasion Go On

RECORD RAID STAGES OVER RUHR VALLEY   Greatest Air Raid In History Staged By 1000 RAF Pianes

MORE ATROCITIES PERPETRATED IN RUSSIA BY NAZIS   MORE THAN 6,700 OLD WOMEN AND CHILDREN SUFFOCATED BY CARBON MONOXIDE GAS BY BRUTAL GERMANS.   POISON SMEARED ON CHILDREN’S MOUTHS   Germany Has Failed to Learn a Lesson But This Time It Will Be Burned Deeply Into the Nation’s History.

DRAFT CALLS T0 REWAIN HIGH IN FIRST QUARTER   Confusion Over Fathers, Shortage Of Women Recruits Upset Schedule

900,000 QUOTA NEXT 3 MONTHS   U.S. Armed Services May Be 209,009 Short of Jan. 1 Goal

U.S. Enters Third Year of War With Draft Call Prospects Heavy; Estimates Raised

DRAFT QUOTA: W BE HEAVY. “FOR MONTHS   ESTIMATE NEARLY 300,000 MEN ‘FER MONTH WILL BE IN: mOTED DURING Finest

37 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down In Heavy Raids At Arawe   JAP OPPOSITION IS SOMEWHAT STIFFER

Thirty-seven Jap Planes Downed in Heavy Raids  ASSAULTS BEATEN BACK BY MARINES  -_ —  _, =,   Stiffening Opposition Reported in Cape Gloucester Area

37 Jap Planes. Raiding Arawe AreShotDowr   Cape Gloucester Marine Within Mile and Half Of Bnemv Airfield

U. §. MARINES PUSH NEAR 10 JAP AIRDROME   37 Foe Planes Downed As They Raid Yanks At Arawe

Thirty- -seven Jap Planes Downed in Heavy Raids   ASSAULTS BEATEN BACK BY MARINES   Stiffening Opposition Reported in Cape Gloucester Area

Japanese Lose 37 PlanesOverArawe   Sixth Army Repulses Heavy Raids As Marines Advance To Within Mile And Half Of  Cape Gloucester Airdrome

MARINES REPULSE 4 JAP ATTACKS AT CAPE GLOUCESTER   Leathernecks Within Mile and a Half of Enemy Airdrome —Field Under Artillery Fire.   37 NiIPPONESE PLANES SHOT DOWN AT ARAWE   Craft Blasted From Skies During Heavy Air Raids on Positions of the Sixth Army.

New Britain Troops Nea Airdrome   Cape Gloucester Field Marines’ Prime Objective

CAINS EXTENDED ON NEW BRITAIN   Marines Draw Near Jap Airport; Artillery Pounds Positions

MARINES CREEP FORWARD OW NEU BRITAW ISLAND   Leathernecks Push to Within Mile and Half of Enemy Airdrome Objective   37 PLANES DOWNED IN HEAVY AIR RAIDS   Tanks and Bombers Aid Marines in Advance From Beachheads; Seventh Air Force Makes Heavy Attack on Marshall Islands

U.S. PUSH NEAR T0 JAP AIRDROME   37 Foe Planes Downed As They Raid Yanks At Arawe

BUREAUCRATS TRYING TO CONTROL PAPERS   Congressman Says WPB. Using Newsprint Allowances To Domi nate Periodicals

WPB DECREES ANOTHERCUT INNEWSPRIN       Representative Worns “Bureaucrats” Trying so Control! Press

Rep. Maas Sees Plot against American Press   Says Bureaucrats Plan To Dominate through Cuts in Newsprint

Senate Jugeles Absentee Vote   Indications Shew Bill Might Be Returned To Elections Group.

Plan Jugeled   Senate May Toss Bill Tc Elections Committee « For. Revision '

Soldier Vote Bill Ticklish  Senate Topic   Handled As If It Were Full Of Booby Traps; Many

VOTING PLAN RUNS INTO TROUBLE   Set Out To Kill Idea of Federal Supervision of Voting.

SERVICEMEN’S VOTE BILL IS ‘HOT POTATO’   Senate May Toss Measure To Elections Unit For Revision

WRANGLE OVER SOLDIER VOTE   CHARGES HURLED BY ILLINOIS SENATORS; REVISION INDICATED

SENATE JUGGLES SERVICEMEN'S VOTE BILL   Demos and‘ Republicans Both Strive to Present Themiselves As Soldiers ‘Rest Friend = .

ICKES SAYS MOVE UPTO GOVERNMENT      Administrator Hints Coal Strike Action in Hands of WLB

NEW SOFT COAL CRISIS IS NEAR   Ickes Impatient Over WLB Delay In Mine Wage Dispute

Ickes Wants W.L.B. to Act in Coal Strike; Forecasts Walkout May Be Renewed Tuesda

Ickes Joins Lewis In Irk Over WLB   THINKS IT VERY DECENT OF MINE LEADER TO DELAY COAL MINE STRIKE FOR 15 DAYS.

Ickes Suggests Quicker Action In Mine Crisis   He Prods WLB, Probes  Mine Store Prices, oc... wr gc. os

Unrest Increases As Deadline For Strike Nears  Ickes Urges That Steg Be Made, Suggests WELB Is Resvonsible

: Impatience With WLB Hinted Tekes Says Next Move in Coal Dispute Is Up to Government

——a—ewaeee eee  Nex ext t Move Up To Government Ickes Deelares   Indicates Impatience With WLB’s Progress In Coal Mine Dispute

ths Ready ty mAssistance Pact With USSR  ld Open Door for   ld Open Door foi Poland to Resist German March

Mutual Assistance Pact, Which Poland Will Be Invited to Join, to Be Signed in Next Few Days by Russians and Czechs-—-Agreement Will Disclaim Any Soviet Intention to Bolshevize Smaller European Countries.

Marines Lose 1,026 Men In  Tarawa Battle   2,557 Wounded in Bloodiest Fight in History of the Marine Corps

'1,026 Killed, 2,557 Wounded In Bloody Tarawa Struggle, Jap Losses in Gilberts 5.700

U.S. Losses. In Gilberts © Total 3,772   Conquest of Tarawa Costs Marine Record Toll; Jap Casualties Put at 5.700 by Navy

Gilberts Cost 3,772 Casualties   Navy Makes Grim Toll Public Without Comment; Report Speaks For Itself.

1,092 Americans Killed In Battle for the Gilberts; 2,680 Other Men Wounded

TARAWA BATTLE TOLLIS 3,772   Bloodiest — Fight In All Marine Corps History Claims 1,026 Lives

INVASION OF GILBERTS COST 1,026 MARINES   That Many Americans Were Killed And 2,557 Others Were Wounded [In Battle

1,026 American Dead on Tarawa: 2,557 Wounded   Navy Announces Heavy Casualties

[,026 AMERICANS KILLED ON TARAWA   IN FIGHT TO WREST ATOLL FROM JAPANESE, 2,557 OTHERS WERE WOUNDED.

3,772 Marine Casualties  In Gilberts   Navy Reports 1,092 Were Killed and 2,680 Wounded

PUBLISHERS FACE SERIOUS CUT -IN NEWSPRINT.IN.’4¢   Unless Pulpwood.Industry and U.-S., Canada-...Quickly. . . Inerease Vital Produc:  dian

000,000 BU. OF CORN MOVED 10 MARKET   Selling Quickens in Last Week Under New Government Plan

Representatives of All Warehouse Associations In the State, Members of the State Farm Bureau and Government Departments Will Meet Here To Talk Over Weed Price Ceilings.

North Carolina Farm Bureau Calls Meeting of Tobacco Leaders In Wilson For Wednesday Night At 8:30; To Discuss Peanut and Cotton Programs Also.

WOMAN'S NUDE BODY IS FOUND IN RIVER   Gash in Head and Thigh Evidence of Murder

-urchill Onens tite House Talks   ‘yreate Collaboration With Russia Seen

War Thus Far Has Cost Earth’s Inhabitants $230 Each in Cash Alone

Fleeing Germans Seorch Countryside   New Enemy Defenses Anchored On 2500-Foot Ridge—Advancing Allies Now 85 Miles From Rome

MILE GAINS Ant MARKED UP BY QUA FORGES   Germans Murdering Civilians, Scorching Earth In Wake Of Orderly Retreat

NAZI ARMY LOSES GROUND WN ITAL   Americans Make 100th Mission From Britain to Wreck Germany Industry.

Allies Seize 17 Towns in 7-Mile Gain   Many Civilians Are Murdered by Retreating Nazis

» Nazi Forces, Retreating On Italian Front, ; Leaving Death And Destruction In Wake   Allies Advance Seven. Miles, Capture 17 Towns On Italy Front; Germans Are Making Desperate Attempts To Halt Russian Offensive

GERMANS FALL BACK: 5TH AT THEIR HEELS   Civilians Slain, Countryside Burned As New Lines Are Formed

ALLIES CONTINUE — TO DRIVE AHEAD; 17 TOWNS SEIZED   Enemy Seeks New Defenses In Orderly Retreat As Allied Armies Sweep — Entire Line Reaching Into © Northwest

Peace Talk Comes From Berlin Radio  ..- But No Unconditional Surrender Discussion

Sumners Says OPA Must Set  Prices By Economic Law And 'Not- With Typewriter Edict

Meat Shortage Over, He Says   Official Predicts Cnt In Ration Points

PACIFIG STRUGGLE IS RENEWED AGAIN REPORTS INDIGATE   Increasingly Powerful Blows Being Struck After Lull Over the  Cambny

Something in Human Body Takes Nick Out of Nicotine Before It's Harmful

10 DANES JAILED FOR GIVING AID TO PARACHUTISTS   Indication of Growing Unrest Among Those in Countries Dominated by Nazis

ROUND UP DANES AS UNREST MOUNTS IN GCCUPIED EUROPE!   10 Sent To Prison For Part In Aiding Parachute Spies—6 Belgians Executed

THREE AT LARGE.   ik : : : Balance of Escaped Georgia Con  vieis Are Captured,  ;

U.S. Planes Help Chinese Drive Japs From Changteh   Tide Of Japanese Offensive Toward “Rice Bowl” Is Declared Turned

CHINESE DRIVE HURLS JAPS FROM CHANGTEH   U.S. Planes Provide Cover. Which Aids Ground Units ©

Warplanes Drive Japs Out of Changteh Again  Americans, Chinese Join in Bid To Save Rice Bowl

U. S. Planes Aid Chinese At Changteh   Drive Japs From  Rice Bowl Gate

Chinese Troops Push Japanese From Changteh   American Planes Help To Drive Enemy From “Kiee Bowl? Gateway

Planes Help Chinese Gain  Big Victory    Japs Briven From Vitai Rice Bowl City

Chinese Beat Back Japanese   Platies Help Troops Clear Changteh of Invaders.

JAPS DRIVEN FROM CHANGTE   Planes Help Chinese Troops Retake City

DRIVE NIPS OUT OF CHANGTER   American Fliers  Aid Chinese in Air Cover

Russians Are . Strong Enough to Hit Back   ‘Fresh Counter Attacks Are Made After Absorbing the  =oughest Nazi Blows   SE ER: Se  LOST 2.722 TANKS   Many Planes Also Downed in Bitter Battling on Belcorod Bulve

RUSSIANS PUSH GERMANS BACK   Open Counterattacks After Repulsing Nazis At Belgorod  ne a om ma eo wee ees SS ee

Nazis Repelled In Some Areas   Hitler’s Forces Retreat With Big Losses. Russians Sav

Nazi Forces Continue To Get Nowhere   Hurled Back With Heavy Logses by Russi  . Counterattacks, . b _Evidently. Still Holding .to.Much of Ground Gained in Fighting Week Ago.

Reds Quit Defense, Tun To Attack   Nazi Infantry, Tanks  Pushed Back

Reds Stage Counterattacks  Push Ahead After Repulsing German Thrusts

German Units Driven Back In Some Sectors   Big Losses Suffered By Germans In Belgorod Area, Communique Of Russians States ~

Soviet Army Checks Drive Near Belgoroc   German Losses Mount Righ In Fierce Fighting

Reds Follow Up Repulse   Stop Germans, Latinch Own Counterattack Series

REDS REPULSE GERMAN DRIVE, SPRING ATTACK   Take Iniliative at Belgorod After Exacting Toll of 2,722 German Tarks. 1.200 Planes   ENEMY REGROUPS   neinforced and Reorganized German Armies Continue to Baite: Aaainst Other Sectors

Reds Launch Counterattacks To Halt Germans   Russians Take Initiative After Severe Battering

GERMANS ARE WEAKENED ON SOVIET FRONT   Counterattacks By Russians Driving  Axis To Cover

Offensive Strikes As Germans Reel From Attempts Tc Enlarge Advances

GERMANS PUSHED BACK ALONG THE BELGOROD FRONT   Russian Forces Turn From Defense To Counter-Attacking, Pushing Enemy’s Infantry and Tank Divisions Back On Some Sectors,

REDS REPULSE AM DIVISION "NEAR BELGOROL   Russians Launch Counter Attack After Nazis Fail Te Gain

Reds Attacking On Kursk Front   NAZI TROOPS PRESSED BACK ON BELGOROD SECTOR

REDS LAUNCH ATTACKS IN KURSK AREA   That They Can Take Initiative After Absorbing Nazis’ Worst Blows Is Taken as Proof of Russian Strength.

Press Nazis Back In Some Sectors On Russian Front   But Germans Hold to Much of Territory Gained a  Week Ago.  2 OR 4 ES 2 ee ee   Suffer Heavily in Russian Tank Ambush

—RUSSIA—  Reds Open  New Drives   Offensive-Action Reveals Caliber Of Russian Army

Russians Regain Lost’ Ground In Belgorod Sector   Moscow Report Germans In Retreat After Heavv Losses.

RUSSIANS ATTACK AFTER NAZI ROUT   Reinforced German Forces Continue to Batter at Red Lines Desnite Locsas

Russian. ‘Army _Counteratiacks _ ‘Near Belgorod   Reds Use Tank Ambush . -To Inflict...Heavy.. Loss On Advancing . Enem,

Reds Regain Lost Ground At Belgorod   Action Lags In Orel-Kursk Area

Russians Launch Counter-Attacks   Reds Still Strong After Great Battle

Reds Push Back German Forces  pap eee Ee oe.   Nazis Unable To Enlarge, Wedae

NAZIS THROWN BACK BY REDS   Soviet Counter - Attacks Rout Germans On Belgorod Front

Nazis Thrown  Back by Reds On One Front   No Important Changes Reported from Eastern Battle Zone; Germans Suffering Heavy Losses

Russians Regain Some Lost Ground  Nazi Attacks Cease In Orel-hursk Area

Russians Deliver A Counter Attack   Repulse Eforts of Nazi Armored Forces to Drive  Thru Lines    TANK AMBUSH SPRUNG   German Offensive Lags at Other Points of Recent Attack

Nazis Retreat Before Reds Around Belgorod   Soviets Ambush Germans by Tanks in Attack

GERMAN DRIVE HELD BY REDS   Belated Summer Offense by _ Nazis Begins To Stall; Losses Are Heavy

RUSSIANS ATTACK “ON SOUTHERN END OF KURSK SALIENT   Take Initiative After Absorbing Toughest Blows Germans: Could Give’   GERMAN. LOSSES HUGE

Soviets Open Own Attack   German Forces Forced Back at Some Points; Heavy Losses Inflicted

SOVIET FORCES REGAIN GROUND: NEAR BELGOROD:   Germans Forced Back By Red Infantry, Tanks In Savage Battle; Huge Losses Suffered   NAZIS AMBUSHED   Action Lags On Fronts In   Northern Sector; Moscow Says Fifty Enemy Tanks Added to Tol!

Reds Take Initiative  - AroundKursk   Able to Counter-Attack After Absorbing Best Germans Could Send

Russians Hurl Nazis Back in Counter Blows   German Attempts To Enlarge Wedge Are Repulsed With Terrific Cost

FRESH RED LOCAL COUNTERATTACKS LAUNCHED TODAY   Followed Up Successful Repulse of German Attempts at Belgorod.   INITIATIVE TO SOVIET   Von Kluge’s Armies Continue to Batter Violently Against Other Sectors.

Huge Losses Sfagger Nazis At Belgorod   German Infentry And Tank Divisions : Are Pressed Beck =’

Soviets Shift ~ To Offensive   Counterattack on Some Belgorod Sectors

Germans Reel Back Before Soviet Assault   Infantry and Tank Divisions Reguleed on Sectors on Belgorod Front   ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY

Russian Forces Counterattack To Press Back Nazi Infantry, Tank Divisions In Some Areas   German Attempts To Enlarge Wedge In Russian Lines Unsuccessful

SOVIETS OPEN DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS ATKURSH   Fighting Lags on Other Areas, Smash 200 German Tanks Tuesday

Soviets Open Attack. of. Their Own   Reds Driv re - Forward as German  - Offensive Lags

HOUSE TO HOL DRAFT HEARINGS   Leaders Predict Quick Passage Of Measure To Defer Calling Of Fathers

Paramushiru Part  Gf Slow Pounding At Jap Defenses   Report Six Of 11 Enemy Ships Blasted By Planes Opposite New Guinea   SIGNIFICANCE SEEN IN LATEST BOMBING

ABSENTEE VOTE BILL REVAMPED   Seek Sweeping Changes In Supervising Ballots Of Armed Forces

Republican Group Seeks Changes In Plan To Give Vote to Troops   Senators Want '’Real’’ Members of Party Named To Supervise Balloting of American Soldiers

WHISKY OFFE STOPS TRADING   Distiller Will Distribute All 245,000 Barre!s to Stockholders

Butter, Lard And Margarine Ordered Frozen For A Week   Will Be Resumed Next Monday, When They Will Be Rationed Under Point System

MARINES MOWED DOWN IN ROWS ‘DURING ATTACK   Correspondent Declares Americans Were Surpris ed By Japs’ Defense   KNOX SAYS BLOODY LESSON WAS LEARNED

{nox Savs Srea: Lessor s \- 3.00 v arawa; Corres savs Some-iing “Ven- "Vz

Knox and Marine Who Was on Scene Tell ‘Of Bloody Lessons Learned at Tarawa

Girl Can’t Eat Her Own Birthday Cake   Child of Two Fed Through Tube

WHISKEY BEING SMUGGLED OUT OF MARYLANL   Tawes Says Some Dealers Are Getting Top Prices  In Virginia

Liquor Intended for Marylanders Sold Elsewhere, Comptroller Says

U.S. Warships Blast Japs at Gulf of Vella   Flotillas of Enemy Barges and Gunboats Smashed

Warships Sink 40  Jap Barges  Evacuating Men Nipponese Attemptin

BARGES CARRYING JAP TROOPS SUNK   FORTY SENT DOWN BY JU. § WARSHIPS—ONE GUNBOAT BLASTED TO BOTTOM,

WARSHIPS SINK 40 JAP BARGES   Evacuation Of Island :  Intercepted In Vella Gulf By U.S. Force

U. S. Warships Destroy 40 ; Troop Barges   Flotilla Apparently Trying to Evaciate Japanese From Island

U.S. Warships in Pacific Destroy 40 Jap Barges  Ay... p._t?...   Vessels Believed Loaded With Jap Landing Troops

Warships Sink 40 Jap Barges Evacuating Men  Nipponese Attempting To Rescue Forces From Weak Position

CONTRACT FOR TANKS ORDERED CANCELLED   No Reason Given By War Depart. ment For Terminating $60,000,000 Order

TANK CONTRACT IS CANCELLED   Recalling of 60 - Million Order Revealed by War Department

Nazis Reported Bracing In Norway, Denmark, Shifting 400,000 Men, Building Tank Barriers:   ITALIANS FLEEING SOUTHERN PORTS   Rome Radio Admits Capital of Sardinia Partially Evacuated

TURIN IS ATTACKED BY BRITISH FLIERS   Heavy Bombs Rained on Italian Industrial City

Duesseldort Bombed by RAF   Fourth Aerial Blow in Two Nights And a Day

Swift RAF Mosquito Bombers Attack Teraets   SWEEPS ARE MADE: BY FLEERS OF U. S.      Battering of Axis Posi. tions in Europe Continuos

thr Ta rgets Ne Blasted By RAF Bombers   Hectives In Germany, re And Hungary  nided By Americans "Great Force

POUNDING OF AXIS EUROPE IS CONTINUED   Allied Fliers liers Hit From Africa and Great Britain

Vegetables To Be Included In Price Cuts   Critics of Rollback in Costs Say General Decrease Ils In Prospect  —_— a ee er ee ee SS) Sa Se pe

Also See Probability of More Subsidy Payments To Compensate for Lowered Returns; OPA Already Working On Roll-back for Vegetables.

OPA PLANS MORE PRICE ROLLBACKS   AIM AT VEGETABLES AS WELL AS MEATS, COFFEE AND BUTTER

Do Not Expect to Extend Subsidies   Foes of Subsidy Payments Say (Practice Will Have to Be Extended

Expect Further. Price Rollbacks  Critics Fear More Subsidies Coming 

ROLLBACK SEEN TO GUT PRICES ON MOST FOOD:      Congressional Opponents Of Plan Assert. More Subsidies to Follow . Proposal of OPA   TAFT HITS PLAN   Some Foes Contend Cut In - Meat and Butter Is “Drop In Bucket” By Comparison

U.S. COMMANDER TO ASSUME OVER-ALL CONTROL OF FORCES   Lieut. Gen. -Eisentiower To Direct Moves ‘Of War --In MeditetraneanAfrican Area

Poultry Ceiling Price Changed   Substantial Savings — To Consumers Planned

Denmark Riots Grow, Italians Rush to Rome   Russians Threaten Two Major Outposts On Dnieper Line; U. $. Bombers Smash At Southern Italy; Swedes Charge  Nazis Sink Two of Their Ships.

Mounting Revolt In Denmark As Reds Smash On   Poltava By-passed In Bee-line Drive Toward. Kiev

Reds Push Farther West   Approach 1941 Battle Lines;. Revolt in Denmark Mounting; Rome Overrun by Refugees

RUSS ARMIES PUSH DEEPER INTO UKRAINI   ‘Germans Strike Hard in Attempt to Cut Off Progress of Reds in Area West of Kharkov

Red Armies Strike Deeper Into Ukraine   Revolt Mounts in Nazi-Occupied Civilians March on Rome; Allied Bombers and Warships Bombard Italy

Threaten Two Major Outposts   Mounting Revolt Reported in Denmark --Civilians Moving Into Rome Hoping To Escape Bombs — Yan); Bombers Smash Anew at Southern Italy

RUSSIANS NOW NEARING SCENE OF 1941 BATTLE LINES WITH GERMANS BEING PRESSED BACK   Moving on From Kharkov Reds Repulse German Efforts to Attack Their Flanks and Number of New Nazi Strong Points Endangered by Soviets

Thousands of Itail ians Move te Rome  —Germans Leaying Berlin Homes 

Poltava Bypassed By Forces Driving On Toward Kiev   American Bombers Smash at South: ern Italy; Population of Berlin Is Scattering

GERMANS REPORTED THROWN BACK AGAIN WEST OF KHARKOV  CIVILIAN “MARCH ON. ROME” IS GIVING NEW WORRIES TO BADOGLIO

Nazis In Retreat Toward Dniever   ..+ Reds By-Pass Poltava In Thrust For Kiev

internal Troubles Growing Daily for Germany and Italy   New Heavy Raids Made on South of Fascist Mainland

Russians Strike. Deep In Ukraine; Denmark Stirring   Mounting Revolt In Europe Reported; Russians Advance  Steadily

RUSSIAN UNITS DRIVE DEEPER INTO UKRAINE   Report Revolts Mount in Den. mark, Claim Civilians ‘March on Rome’

BEE-LINE DRIVE FOR KIEV SEEN AS SOVIET PLAN   Flanking Move Launched To Put Squeeze on Germans On Southern Front   ‘COUNTER ATTACKS FAILING   Southern Italy Is Bombed Again and Yanks Blast Targets in France

The War Today   Hitlerites May Be on Verge of Another Great Withdrawal In East.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Result Of Crimea Battle Probably Will Decide Nazi Retreat Plans

 The War Today—  Another Disastrous Retreat For /German Army Near On Russian Front   By DEWITT MACKENZIE

INDICATIONS POINT TO ANOTHER BIG GENERAL RETREAT OF NAZI FORCES ALONG FRONT IN RUSSIA

(ongessmen May Atfend Conference   Rep. Bradley Invades Food Parley

MRS. HOINVILLE DIES   Sister of W. ¢ Simons a Former Resident of Lawrence

U.S, TANK FORCE BATTLING NAZIS WEST OF SFAX   Fierce Native Trosps Join 8th Army As Its Units Altempt To Flank Germans.

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON GERMAN FORCES IN TUNISIAN AREA   American Tanks, Infantry. Unjts And British Eighth Army In Battle

British 8th Army Units Cross Border   Allies Attacking Powerful Nazi Force on Faid

U.S. TROOPS CLOSE IN ON MAKNASSY   Germans Take Initiative On  Dusty Faid Plain

SMALL POCKET REMAINS FROM 870,000 NAZIS   Equipment Captured By Reds Would Outfit Major Army

U.S. TROOPS ADVANCING IN TUNISIA   Closing In On Maknassy, 48 Mi. From Coast

Yanks close on Maknassy  in Tunisia   Allies counterattack Germans

AMERICANS CLOSE IN ON MAKNASS\   Germans Occupy Faid Pass And Use Artillery from Higher Positions.

American Yanks And Infantry Closing In Rapidly On ,Maknassy, Near Tuzisian East Coast—British Cross Border ,   JAPS CLAIM FIVE FOE SHIPS SUNE

Tanks Smash At Powerful Nazi Army   British Close In_ ~On Enemy Rear In Tunisia:

ALLIES BATTLE POWERFUL NAZI TANK-LED FORCE   8th Army Crossing Border, Trosps Close in cn Maknassy

American Tinks and Infantry Close in -Rapldiy on Maknassy, 48 Miles Inland from Tunisian East Coast.

BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING = TS AGAIN INVOKED BY OP}   “HONOR” SYSTEM FAILED TO WORK AND STRICT CHECK”, UP 18 BEING MADE IN  1S STATES -

REPAINT TAGS   Wallace Advises Motorists to Keep Licenses Lercihle

UMW LEADER AND ICKES CON. TINUE CONFERENCES AS : ROOSEVELT'S REQUEST  4. 0) JS IGNORED 

LEWIS AND ICKES 4N FOURTH MEET ON COAL STRIKE   . ee 540,000 UMW Members . Await Wage Pact Bejore Entering Pits

UNIONS — IGNORE ‘BACK-TO-WORK ORDER OF FOR   No Signs Of Progress Being Made In Parleys Aimed At Pit Reopening   _ ALL PRODUCTION HALTED   Diggers Await Order From Leader, Notwithstanding Roosevelt’s Edict

Miners © folgnore Deadline   Leaders Seek Solution to Contract Mess

Lewis Asks U.S. Subsidy ToHoist Pav   Proposal Follows Demands Rejection; Parley in Recess

OPERATORS REJECT DEMANDS OF UNION   Lewis Urges Government To Subsidize Wage Increases

Bombing of Rome Giyes Notice to Italy Roosevelt and : Churchill In Deadly Earnest in Demanding Capitulation

Wewak Destroyed As Jap Base For Time By Air Raid   Main Munitions, Oi] Dumps Hit By Big Bombs

Wewak Base Is Hard Hit   Aussies Advance Into Finschhafen Sectors

TODAY IS 'M-DAY" FOR AMERICA'S FARM FAMILIES   Nation's. Planters Will Launch 1943 Food Production Campaign

Together Now And in Future   Will Prosecute War To Finish, Stay Together To Maintain Peace

Crop Controls Except Tobacco To Be Lifted For the Duration   Crop Controls on the American Farmer Were Adopted in 1933.

NO RESTRICTIONS UN GROUPS IN 44   New Farm Program To kncourage Full Production of Food and Feed

FLYNN WILL TESTIFY   Sereen Actor To Take Stand In in Own Defense

FOUR AMERICAN RANGERS CAPTURE \52 ITALIAN OFFICERS   American Detachment Landed at One of Most Heavily Defended Points On South Sicilian Coast

A RANGERS TAKE A? ITALIANS   Chaige Heavily Mined Beach, Fight Briefly

Axis Fights Hard to Prevent  Break-Through  To Tunis Plains   British Eighth Army Advances Southeast Of Pont Du Fahs

Edict Applies to Ail Plants” Taken by U.S.   Will Assure  Adequate Supply ‘of Fuel ©

Is Needed To Assure Adequate Supplies Of - Coal, Says Fuels Boss

Urder Apples to All Nines Now Being Operated by the Government   Directive Will Assure Miners of Hicher Earnines

Mines directed to operate on 6-day shifts at once   Ickes ascribes order to assuring adequate coal

Output of Coal to Be Increased   Ickes Says Step Is Nece: sary to Secure Adequate Supplies of Fuel

MINES PLACED ON SIX-DAY WORK WEEK BY ICKES   Both Soft and Hard Coal Production Will Be Stepped Ip.

COAL MINES PLACED ON 6-DAY WEEK   Order Applies To All _ Mines Now Operated By Government

COAL MINES ORDERED _ ON 6-DAY WORK WEEK   Ickes Issues Instructions Effective Immediately for All Mines Being Operated by the Government— Miners Assured of Material Increase in Pay  . As Result of Loneer Houre.

Action Assures Miners .  Of Increased Weekly Pay   Workers to Get Time and a Half for Sixth Day Under New Arrangement

Rabaul Again Heavily Blasted   Jap Base In New Britain Target For Allied Air Attack

RIVER REACHES 61-FOOT CREST AT GINCINNAT   10,000 Foreed To Leave Homes; Damage Not Great

CINCINNATI IN GRIP OF FLOOD   10,000 Driven From Homes By Rampaging River

Ohio River at 61  Feet in Cincinnati   10,000 Driven from  Homes in Low Area

‘Everything Will Be Used   Invasion Of Europe To Take Al! Troans

Ratio Invasion Troops Is Secret   Joint Chiefs Say Germans Would Give Eye Teeth To Know Proportion of YankBritish Invasion Troops.

Chiets: of Staff Reply to Critics  British to Go AIL Out  nyvacian

U. S.-BRITISH TROOP PROPORTIONS SECRET   Chiefs of Staff Declare Both Na tions Will Hit Enemy With “Rvyerythinge Avaliable.”

NUMBER IN FORCES MILITARY SECRET   Chief of Staff Says Proportions of British, Ameri cans Not to Be Told.

British 8th Army Holds To Mareth Line Break: U.S. Units Advancing

Hardest Fighting Around the Breach That British Eighth Army Has Driven Into Mareth Line.

Bitterest Battles of Campaign   REPORTS SAY ROMMEL IS FORCED TO SPEIT ARMORED UNITS.

Hemmed in Along Sea by Pincers   Yanks Surprise Nazi Tanks, Move Within 25 Miles of Supply Road

GROUND IN’ HOT BATTLE   Germans Fight Terrific Battle To Stave fe O#. Breakthru —

Occurs In © Breach In — Mareth Line          ROMMEL FORCE WEAKENED BY. HAVING TO SPLIT UP INTO FOUR: UNITS; YANKS ‘WIN FIRST ROUND

AUMMEL FORCED 10 DIVIDE HIS ARMORED FORCES FOUR WAYS   British 8th Army Trying Hard For Break-Through;  American Patrols In South Tunisia Tighten Noose Around Foe

ALLIES FORCE SPLIT IN AXIS ARMORED UNITS   Mareth Line Battle Termed Bloodjest So Far As Rommel Fights With Back To Sea

‘Fox’ Forced To Split His Army; British Crowd Closer   Meantime, American Forces Push 6 Miles East Of Maknassey {In Sustained Drive

ALLIES CROWD AFRIKA KORPS TOWARD COAST   American Patrols Are Tightening Ring Pushing Rommel to the East.

Bloody Fighting Going on Near Mareth Line as Nazis Seek to Close Breach in the Front   Americans Meanwhile Draw Rope Around Desert Fox, Penning Him ain for Finish Bartle.

ROMMEL ARMY SPLIT 10 MEET ALLIED DRIVES   Germans Fighting Desperately To Stave Off British Break-Thru   ESCAPE ROUTE MENACED   Americans Tighten Ring Pushing Afrika Korps Eastwatd Toward Sea :

Rommel Splits His Armor Into Four Units   Allied Columns  Crowding Axis Toward Sea 

WRECKAGE OF PLANE ESCAPED BY HARMON FOUND IN JUNGLES   Football Ace Believed Only Survivor of Crew of Six

L000 TONS OF BOMBS DUMPED ON VITAL CITY   Sofia and Eleusis Airfield Near Athens Raided by Americans

ON VITAL CITY   Sofia and Eleusis Airfield Near Athens: Raided by Americans

PAGE BOYS IN HOUSE VOTING   Take Desks Left Vacant by  Representatives

HHowa Representatives Find Page Boys, Clerks Vote On Legislation

SEVERE STORM HITS CANADIAN VILLAGES   Worst Winter Weather in 50 Years

Lose 3 Planes In Reprisal Raids   German Raids On England Weak After Russian Air Blow.

SOVIET PLANES RAID GERMANY   Three Nazi Aircraft Shot Down in Weak Keprisals On Britain

NAZIS ATTEMPT WEAK REPRISAI BRITAIN RAID   At Least Three Germar Planes Are Shot Down Over Coastal Districts, London Announces   RAF PLANTS MINES   Swift Mosquito Bombers Attack Railway Workshops In Belgium and Holland Factory

3 Nazi Planes are Downed in England   Germans Attempt Weak Reprisals For Allied Raids

THREE GERMAN PLANES DOWNED OVER ENGLAND   Attempt Reprisal Against Heavy Allied Raids

NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN OVER BRITAIN SUNDAY NIGHT   Attack Occurred as the Germans Attempted Weak : Reprisals.   KOENIGSBERG WAS HIT      Is An Important East Prussian Supply Junction to Soviet Front.

Russians Bomb Koenigsberg Bast In East Prussia   Renewed Soviet Ai Attacks On Germany Damage Koenigsberg

CONGRESSMAN DITTER KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Plane Was Taking Off From Navy Base at Squantum, Mass.   FOR WILLOW GROVE

SOLON KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Rep. J. William Ditter And Naval Officer Victims Of Eastern Tragedy

Congressman Dies In Plane Crash   Rep. William Ditter Was Head of Committee

TREASURY HIT ON TAX PLANS   Vandenberg Says Department Slows Up Movement For Pay-As-Go Program

PAY-AS-YOU-60 TAX ‘ROGRAM — DELAYED   Treasury Charged With Slow. ~~ ing Congress Action

Russians Claim 1,000,000 Germans Killed And Wounded Since Start of Spring Drive

~ CASUALTIES MILLION NEN   Russians Continue Big Advances Over a  Wide Front

Russians Say Nazi Losses Are 1,000,000   Figures Are Said To Cover Period Starting July 5

Reds Place Nazi Summer Losses At Million Men   Noose Tightens On Kharkov And Other  Areas Threatened Ry. TIIDSON O’OUINN

More Villages Taken_ By Soviets Advancing Toward Kharkov Base   Germany’s Total Casualties In Russia Total 7,400,000 Since Start Of Campaign

‘Third Of German Effectives Lost On Soviet Front, War Bulletin Says

Reds Place Nazi Summer Losses At Million Men   Noose Tightens Qn Kharkov And Other Areoc Threatened

Million Nazis Lost On Russ Battletronts   German Casualties Since June 22. 1941 Amount To 7.400.000 Men.   ‘RUSSIA AS GRAVEYARD

GERMAN SUMMER CASUALTIES PUT AT MILLION MEN   Russians Say Nazis Have Lost 7,400,000 Since Hitler’s Forces invaded Soviet ‘Soil.   NOGSE ABUUT KHARKOV IS DRAWN TIGHTER   Linemy Throws Reserves Into Bitter Struggle—Launches founter-Attacks on. Bryausk Front.

Million Men Nazi Loss This Summer   _ Russians Claim Heavy Enemy Death Toll In Saturday Battles

Nazis Lose 1,000,000 Men In Summer, Russians Claim  Russia Turned Into Graveyard for Nazi Hopes of World Conquest, Moscow Says

NAZI LOSSES MILLION MEN SINCE JULY 9   GERMANS STAGGERED BY WEIGHT OF RED ATTACKS

SOVIET TOLL OF NAZIS THIRD OF UNITS ON FRONT   On Basis of Previous Announcement it Brings Enemy Losses to 7,400, 000 Since 1941   RED NOOSE TIGHTENS ON VITAL KHARKOV   Meanwhile, Soviet Forces Hammer Stubborn Foe Near Bryansk and Snas-Demensk

Russians Claim Million Man Loss By Nazis   Bulletin Underscores Sue cesses Since Abortive Push On July Sth   300,000 ARE KILLED   Most Impressive Figures Yet Show Staggering Materiel Destruction 

German Losses Turn Russia Into Graveyard   Soviets Claim Foe Loses Million Men During Summer

RUSSIANS PLACE REICH'S LOSSES AT MILLION MEN   The Total Represents Enemy Troops Killed or Wounded This Summer

Total Casualties Set At 7,400,000 Since War Begar   New Figures Include German Losses In Push  During Summer; Soviet Army Columns   Advance On icrkor And Byransk

Million Germans Lost In Russian Area In Summer   Estimated 7,400,000 Men Killed, Wounded, Missing Since 194]

Third Summer Drive Costly To Germans   Moscow Announces 4,000 More Nazis Kil ed In Kharkov Push

Million Nazis Dead, Wounded, Reds Say   Soviets Announce Enormous Toll Of Foe  Slain In Summer Campaign; Would Bring Total For Three Years To 6,400,000

Investigators To Cheek Against Price Boosts At Legion Convention

PATROL CLASHES HIT NAZI LINES   Early Advent Of Allied Offen: sive Looms As Weather Improves '

8th Army Pincer Seen Developing   Tank-Led Nazi Onslaught Repulsed by Britons; Tralee Rambhed

Flying Forts In Heavy Raic On Messina   Strategic City on Eastern End of Sicily Badly Battered

Messina Raided By U.S. Airmen   Flying Forts Bomb City In Sicily

Batile Axis Fighters to ~ §$mash Sicily   100 Fortresses in Great Raid on Vital Straits City of Messina   jAREA SMOTHERED  BY BOMB BURSTS   Desperate Opposition by Enemy Brings Loss of 20 Axis Planes

Messina Smothered by Tons Of Bombs in Heaviest Raid; ‘21 Axis Aircraft Shot Down

U.S. Air Force Deals Biggest Blow To Sicily   Europe's Aerial Combat Reaches New Fury;  Ruhr Paralyzed

MORE THAN 100 FLYING FORTRESSES HIT VITAL MEDITERRANEAN CITY   Messina So Heavily Fombed That Results Were Obscured by Fire and Smoke 18 Minutes After Attack

100 BOMBERS HIT MMESSINE   Port Area and Marshaliing Area Smothered By Bomb Bursts.   RAF ATTACKS SARDINIA

CITY OF MESSINA IS ATTACKED   More Than 100° Forts Participate In Blow At Italy

RAF Pounds Messina in Biggest Raid   2 Vessels in Harbor Hit; Port and Air Base of Olbia Also Target

Fire, Smoke Obscures Ares After Attack   British Bombers Batter Military Posts In Sardinia

ATTACK THE GREATEST IN THAT THEATER   More Than 100 Fortresses Make So Much Fire and Smoke at Messina That the Entire Area Is Obsecured.

More Than 7,000 Germans Killed Yesterday.  THE NAZI ARMIES WILL RETREAT  Unless Powerful Reinforcements Come to Aid.

Sex Maniac In Chicago Hunted  Attacks 10 Girls In Three Hour Period

PLAN APPEAL TD FARMERS   EVERY LIVESTOCK FARMER, TO RECEIVE REQUEST TO AID “IN FIGHT ON BLACK — ~ MARKET

Coal Miners Are Employes Of Government, Says FDR   President Adds That He Cannot Recall Any Strike Of Werkers Against U. §. Government

FDR Implies Miners Not Free to Strike   Government Employes He Asserts — Cannot Recall Strike by  Any Group as Such

President Says Miners Cannot Quit Their Jobs   Are Government Employ es, He Declares at Press Conference

Coal Miners Are U.S. Employes  F. RB. Implies They Cannot Strike

MINERS CAN'T WALK OUT-FDR   President Indicates They Are Not Free to Strike As Federal Employes

MINERS NCW EMPLOYES OF GOVERNMENI      President Roosevelt Say: And Implies ‘hey Arc Not Free To Strike Under Any Circum: tances   Average $8.48

2 Fatally Burned In Auto Upset   3 Others Hospitalized in Des Moines as Result of Crash

2 BURN TO DEATH IN CAR ACCIDENT   3 Others Injured When Auto Runs Into Ditch

HUNT CYANIDE   ‘Police Seek Deadly Chemical Lost t From Delivers, Truck.

Three-Pronged Pincer Moves On Smolensk,  Key Nazi Base   Important Railroad Town Among Those Recaptured By Reds In Renewed Offensive   The War:

FBI Scans Note To Thug's Wile  Ex-Mrs. Banghart Has Letter In Possession

Former Wife of Banghart Held While Criptic Note to Her Is Investigated

Pantelleria Offers Object Lesson  In Results of All-Out Air Tactics

Limit On Army Size Is Urged   Farm State Congressmen Want More Than Aid In Harvesting

Press call for limit on forees   Farm staters not appeased by agreement

Solons Press Their Demands  _ Claim Size of Army ~ Must Be Limited

Farmer Bloc Again Urging Cutin Army   Not Appeased by Promise Troops Will Help in Harvests

Limited Army Tailored to Fit Food, Munitions Production Suggested

NEW DEMANDS FOR LIMITED © ARMY PRESSED   Farm Congressmen Not Satisfied With White House Statement

Farm Solons Push Demand To Limit Army   House Group Reports Bill To Defer Fathers: So ag Suggests Lee OF U. S. Emploves

Farm Congressmen Ask Small Army   Food and Munitions Needs Are Stressed

Solons Press  Their Demands  Claim Size of Army Muet Re Timiteand

DEMAND PRESSED FOR LIMITED ARMY   CONGRESSMEN DECLARE IT MUST BE NO LARGER THAN FARMS CAN FEED.

SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE IS LAUNCHED      'Co-Chairmen of Combiner Committee Announce Goa for County.

DEFERMENTS MOOT QUESTION   Four State Agencies Will  Not Ask Freedom  from Draft:

Application Of Antistrike Law In Doubt  Miners Believec On Way Back ~ TT. Work —

WISCONSIN SOLON. REGONVENE TODA   Several Primary Questions Are Facing Returning Lawmakers.

SENATORS ORGANIZE ECONOMY DRIVE IN FEDERAL SPENDING   Appropriations Committees To Study In Detail Funds for Agencies"

British Cross Into Burma, Tokyo Claims   Japs Assert One Patrol Was Repulsed in Dawn Thrust Over River

REPORT BRIT. CROSSING INTO BURMA   F orecast 3-Pronged Offense Against Jap Seapower

Mercury In A Nosedive   Sinks As Low As 20 In Kansas; Not So Cold Tonight

Near Record Low Marks      Sub-zero - Temperatures Due Again Tonight; Mav Bea Little Warmet

COLD TAKES NEW BITE      Temperatures of 20 Below Reported From Several Points

HELD IN SLAYING OF TRIO ON FARM   Pennsylvania Youth, 20 Admits Killings, Says Ohio Sheriff

  SLAYER CAUGHT.  ‘ NEAR CHARDON   YOUNG FARM-HAND AND. GIRE -OpIORED: UP AND TRIPLE-. SLAYING HAS . BEEN  CONFESSED’

hen RUBBER PROCRAM IN. NEED a “OPFEN LICHT”   Delayed Program In Such Precarious Balance, Says Jeffers, That A Few Bad Breaks Would Spell Catastrophe.

JEFFERS URGES PRIORITY FOR RUBBER PLANTS   Fears Disaster Unless Synthetic Program Is Given Go-Ahead On Most of  Conetriuctian   REQUESTS UP TO 70%   Says East Ban On Pleasure Driving Should Not Be Extended to Rest of Country

Jeffers Fearful of Disaster as Result of Delayed Progran   Director Says Priority for Construction of Plants  Is Needed

hh a a he RS SEU I Rk ak Rm: uM RRL A NG mc me  Rubber (Czar ls Worried  Jeffers Wants More

Rubber Director Jeffers Fears Disaster. Unless: Syntheti ¢Program Gets Priority, Sees No Pleasure Driving Ban for West

“Go-Ahead” Sign Needed  For Rubber   Delay ed Program Might Coees Serious Catastrope

‘Synthetic Rubber Plan Needs Clear Priority To Forge Ahead   Disaster In Military, Industrial Transport Seen By Jeffers Unless Plants Are Built

Jeffers Uroes Help fo Save Rubber Program   Fears Disaster Unless Priorities Are Given Plants

RUBBER CZAR CALLS FOR GO-AHEAD ON DLANT BUILDING   Jeffers Says Delayed Synthetic Output Program Is Precarious

Fears Disaster In Military And Civil Transpor   Jeffers Says Furthe: Delays In Synthetics Will Be Costly

Priority Go-Ahead Is Needed    Jeffers Says Synthetic Rubber  Program Must Have Priority to Avoid Disaster and Meet  homed Garvice Demands

MORE RESTRICTIONS ON CARS UNLIKELY IN MIDWEST, HINT   Synthetic Rubber Program In Precarious Balance, However, Jeffers Says

Warns Of Rubber  ‘Disaster’   Jeffers Says S y nt hetie Program Needs Clear Priority

Jeffers Against Pleasure Driving Ban‘s Extension; Worried at Rubber Delay

Jeffers Sees Threat to Rubber Plan   Need Plant Priorities To Avoid Disaster, Chief Declares

Jeffers Says Synthetic Rubber Needs “Go” Sign To Prevent A Disaster

Need Priority To Pass Early  Rubber Danger   Must Get Clear “Go-Ahead’ Qn 65 To 70 Percent Of Plant Construction.   PROGRAM NOW BEHIND

RUBBER PLANT BUILDING PLAN FACES DISASTER   Jeffers Doesn’t See NationWide Ban on Pleasure Driving

Rubber Boss Jeffers Opines That New East Coast Ban on Pleasure Driving Not Needed in Midwest

Jeffers. Seeks. . Priority € Okeh   Synthetic - Program Lagi Behind. Schedule Due. To Squabbline: -

Synthetic Rubber Needs Priority   Jeffers Says Plant Construction Needed

JEFFERS ASKS PRIORITY FOR RUBBER PLANS  Go-Ahead Signal Urged To Avoid Disaster, He Says  VITAL TO MILITARY No Extension of Ban on  Pleasure Driving  Planned

Scores Delay In Synthetic Rubber Plan   Director Jeffers Says Program Needs Clear Priority Go-Ahead  "DISASTER" IMPENDING

JEFFERS CITES PRIORITY NEED   Says Prompt Action Necessary To Avoid “Disaster” in Transportation  :

Rubber Crisis If Synthetic Plants Fail   Jeffers Fights For Priorities For  New U.S. Plants

Jeffers Is Fearful Of Rubber Disaster   Says Plants Must Be Built to Protect Military, Industrial Transport — No Immediate Ban on Pleasure Driving in West.   President Says He Is Hopeful      Solons Find F. D. R.  Talk ''Conciliatory'

Says Priority For Synthetic  Rubber Needec   Rubber Director Sees Ne  Need Now For Extend: ed Driving Ban

RUBBER CZAR SAYS NEEDS PRIORITIES PREVENT DISASTER   TALK CONTINUES IN QUANTITY BUT ACTION APPEARS TO BE NIL

SYNTHETIC RUBBER PROGRAM NEEDS GU-AHEAD SIGNAL, ASSERTS JEFFERS   Jeffers Says Ban On Pleasure Driving Not Needed Now In Midwestern Sections

i Setters Wants Absolute tid Placed On The Pleasure Drivers In All Parts Of The United States: Generally Gloomy Voiced

Synthetic Rubber Plan  Tangled In Priorities   Jeffers Says Further Delays May Prove To Be Catastrophic

Jeffers Fears Disaster Unless Synthetic Plan Gets Priority   Rubber Czar Would Extend Ban On Pleasure Driving To West; Few Bad Breaks Due To Delayed Program May Spell Catastrophe, He Warns.

Priorities Causing Delays In Rubber   ® ‘Go-Ahead’ Needed On At Least 65 To 70 Per Cent 0 Construction To Avod Disaster—Jeffers

CLEAR PRIORITY IS BEING URGED FOR NEW PLANTS   Jeffers Says Any Delays In Production of Synthetic Rubber May Cause Catas tronhe_   RESTRICTED DRIVING MAY NOT BE EXTENDED      Rubber Director Sees Possibilities of Producing Sufficient For War In Coming Yoar_

BIG INFLUX OF U.S. PLANES IN BRITAIN PRESAGES. BATTLE   Visitors May Be Kept Away From ‘Coastal Areas After Midnight, Sunday

ULS.FLIERS STRIKE AT NAZILAND   Offensive Is Resumed After 3 Day Layoff

Deep Penetration ‘of Mid Germany Made by Yankees   E\'g¢ Influx of American Heavy Bombers Reported

Bureaucrats Challenge Efforts Of Congress To Pry  Them Off Federal Payroll   Congress Puzzled By Rationing While Food Is Plentiful

Patterson Or HeMustQuit Says Jeffers   NEW FLAREUP BETWEEN RUBBER DIRECTOR AND UNDERSECRETARY OF WAR MUST END IN REAL SHOWDOWN.   Violent, Unproveked Attack

‘Boiling Mad, Jeffers Cirds  For Showdown   Rubber Chief Reported Resolve Either He or Patterson Must Exit From Washington

Jeffers Demands Showdown on  Rubber. Gasoline   Indicates He or Patterson Must Resign War Post  BOILING MAD’ Baruch May Open  New Investigation  Of Rubber Situation

Showdown on Rubber Is Demanded  Jeffers Reportedly Is Boiling Mad  " Ge ee  Re

Resignation May Follow Jeffers. Patterson Scrap   Rubber Chief “Boiling Mad’ Calls for Inquiry and a Settlement

Jeffers, ‘Boiling Mad’ at Patterson, Asks Showdown on Rubber Outlook

Jeffers Asks Showdown In Gas Fight   Rubber Czar Denies Allegations of Slowing Wer effort

Patterson Makes Jeffers “Boiling Mad” in Dispute Over Gasoline and Rubber

JEFFERS DEMANDS ‘SHOWDOWN IN FEUD WITH PATTERSON   One or the Other, He Feels, Should Resign After Facts About Rubber Program Are Determined.   ANGERED BY CHARGES OF UNDERSECRETARY   Declares He Has Been Accused of Sabotaging War Effort—Insisted on Priority for Plants.

JEFFERS, ANGERED, WANTS SHOWDOWh      Charges of War Dep't Of _ ficial Stir Rubber ” Director

VISION ILLINOIS SUPER-HIGHWAYS   VAN HOOSER’S BILL LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR FUTURE ROADS

Offensive in North  Africa On   London Hears Mareth-Line Attacked by Allies; Nazi Assaults on Other Allied Positions Repulsed

EIGHTH A BEGINS DRIVE ON MARETH LINE   Allied Troops Beat Off Repeated German Attacks In Tunisia Over Week-End   850 PRISONERS ARE REPORTED CAPTURED

ALLIES BEAT OFF ASSAULTS ON 6 SECTORS   Fighting Extends Ove 65-Mile Front From Cape Serrat To Mansour

Virtually Aerial Power Alone: . Brought About Capitulation For First Time in History   American, British Troops Begin Occupying Island After White Flag Is Hoisted Over the Stepping Stone.

FL LETTUCE AND SPINACH   Brings 96% of Foodsuffs Under Price Control

LETTUGE, SPINACH PRICES FROZEN IN LATEST OPA ORDER   95 Pet. Of Foodstuffs Now Under U. §. Control

LETTUCE, SPINACH PRICES FROZEN BY GOVERNMENT TODAY   New Emergency Crackdown Brings Nearly 96 Per Cent of Food Under Price Control.

Lettuce and Spinach Prices Are Frozen   96 Per Cent of All Foodstuffs  Naw I'’ndar (‘ontra

Lettuce, Spinach Prices Ordered Frozen by OPA   Other Fruits ‘and. ‘Vegetables. Likely To Follow . .

LETTUCE, SPINACH ADDED 10 LIST OF PRICE FIXED FOOD   OPA Now Has 96 Per Cent of All Eatables Under Rigid Control.

PRICE CEILINGS ARE PLACED ON TWO MORE ITEMS   Lettuce, Spirach Frozen Today Nearly 96 Percent Of Focd Controlled

LETTUCE, SPINACH PRICES ARE FROZEN, NEW CEILINGS SEEN      Nearly 96 Per Cent .Of Al Foodstuffs Are Now -Under Price  Control .*

OPA BANS HIT 04 PCT. FOODS   EMERGENCY CRACKDOWN SETS CEILING PRICE

INVASION DATE SET BY ALLIES, BERLIN CLAIMS   Used As ‘Trade’ At Mos. cow Parley, Germany Asserts

BERLIN SAYS DATE SET FOR SECOND FRONT   Nazi Propaganda Pictures U. S. Britain Accediag to Russian De. mands on War, Frontiers   iPARLEY NEARS END   Official Russian Announcement Expecied Over Weekend—London Optimistic Over Results

BERLIN CLAIMS INVASION DEAL MADE BY ALLIES   Holds “Detailed Proposition Regarding Second   Front, With Fixed  Date”, Agreed Tao

‘And Front Proposal’ to Soviets   Allies Have Made Detailed Proposition With a Fixed” Date, Berlin Says   ATTEMPTS TO SHOW ALLIES YIELDED   Official Statement on the 3Power Talks May Be Made Over’ the Week-End

GALIEURNIA Ha RACIAL TROUBLE   Negro and White Soldiers Clash; Authorities Re sort fo Tear Gas

‘Military Police, With ‘Gas Bombs, Break Ur 1San Luis Troon [Riot

They Call It Pacific   ‘The Powder Keg Is Due To Explode Shor#ly'

WARNS AGAINST OPTIMISM IN NEAR FUTURE   Amer':zans Battle For Positions In Tunisia

BATTLE PEAK NOT REACHED IN SOLOMONS   Mighty Enemy Force Used In Latest Challenge

Makes No Forecast  Of Results   No Grand Scale Naval Battle Has Yet Developed,  Declares Secretary

Stalin Big Aic On Iran Pact. Stimson Says   War in ‘Period of Drag’ With Real Test Ahead, He Tells Press ©

Japs Strike at Chinese in Burma   TEN THOUSAND TROOPS SMASH AT CHINA HUBS ALONG SALWEEN RIVER

House Orders Early Investigation Of OPA on Exceeding Regulations

HOUSE COMMITTEE DECIDES T0 PROBE PRACTICES OF OPA   Chairman Patton Says Group Is Convinced Price Control Act Has Been Violated.   CRITICIZES CONDITIONS IMPOSED ON RETAILERS   Declares Dealers Are Unduly Handicapped by Agency’s Regulations—Inquiry to Start at Once.

OPA Faces Probe on  Policy. Powe   \House Orders Quiz On Motion of Small ‘Trade Unit

PROBE OF OPA WILL BE MADE   Patman Charges Regulations Unduly Handicap Nation’s Retailers

CONGRESS PROBE OF OPA’S POWER 70 START SOON   Inquiry Will Determine If ® Agency Has Exceeded Authority   Charges Conditions Forced @ on Retailers Beyond Provisions

Cheek Whether Agency Has Exceeded Right   Small Business Committee Orders Investigation

Hundreds Of French Slain For Resisting Nazi Orders   Evacuation Demands Touch Off Fighting In Stroete: Germane Fire Houces In Section

OHIO IS SHORT 4,000 TEACHERS   Officials Meeting War Emer gency By Granting Temporary Permits

TEACHER SHORTAGE CONFRONTS STATE   Temporary Certification Used As Stop-Gap

Pantelleria’s Surrender Follows Continuous And Intense Air And Naval Bombardment; Last Night’s Raid Was Bicgest..

Italians Offer Some Slight Resistance   All Objectives Were Reached 22 Minutes After Landing

Unconditional Capitulation Follows Tremendous Air  ‘Attack By Allied Planes   Craft Flew Nose-To-Tail; White Flag Hoisted On Hill 74; 37 Enemy Fighters shot Wuwn: Garrison Had $000 Men

Heaviest Air Attack Of War Brings Fall. Of Mussolini’s Isle   Slight Resistance Met by Troops Quickly Overcome After Landing; Outpost Yields Unconditionally

MANUFACTURER OPENS BOOM FOR SEN. BYRD   New Orleans Man Says Souther Democrats Would Purge Party Of New Deal Elemenis

OTHER RUSSIAN UNITS HACKING NAZ] REMNANTS   Soviet Communique eports Capture  Of Svatovo On Kharkov Railway.

SOVIET ARMIES 45 MILES FROM VITAL ROSTOV   Russians Are Also Only 65 Miles From Nazi Bastion At Kursk   STALINGRAD VICTORY RUSSIA’S GREATEST

Peril Grows For Germans In Caucasus   More Towns Captured On Voronezh Front  And in Ukraine RECIMENT wiprn arr

Fifteen Generals Have Surrendered   Large-Scale Retreat Between Caucasus And Don Reported In Late st Red Communiaues

Soviet Forces Are Rapidly . Moving Toward Gate way City =  MORE TOWNS FALL_—_  BEFORE THE REDS  Escape Corridor of Germans Fast Being Ner rowed

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Soviets Now Just 45 Miles From Rostov   Other Columns Only 65 Miles From Kursk, One Of Main Nazi Bastions In The South

‘TRAPPED NAZIS ~ HACKED TO BITS   Hemmed in Pockets West of Voronezh Front   GAIN IN CAUCASUS   Russian People Trickle Back  To Stalingrad as Nazi Remnants Surrender

Moscow Reports Important Gain In Main Drive   Capture Town Midway be. tween Salsk and Gateway City   Also Announce Important Advance on Voronezh Front

Large-Scale Retreat Between Don River and Caucasus Admitted; 1,750 Prisoners Taken

SOVIETS MAKE 90-MILE GAIN INTO UKRAINE   GERMAN REMNANTS HACKED TO BITS IN RED RUSH

Russians Capture Mechetinskaya in Drive Toward Strategic City—Advance Narrows Escape Path Left to 200,000 Germans—Hitler’s Forces in Western Caucasus Being Thrown   Back Toward Kerch Peninsula.

Reds Gain On Rostov And Kursk   Trapped Germans In Caucasus Have Little Hope

AZOV ON LEFT BANK OF DON IS CAPTURED   Center Of Resistance Is Liquidated; Spearheads Thrust Between Big German Bases   Supply Lines Cut

Soviets Now Ji ust. 45 [Miles From Rostov   Other Columns. Only 65 Miles From Kursk, ‘Gne Of Main Nazi Bastions In The Cae”

Left Bank of Don Cleared of Nazis   Soviets Score Important Successes on Three _ Other Fronts   Reds Sever Highway Between Kursk, Orel   Muscovite Hordes Plunge 125 Miles in Ukraine, Block Railway

Important Successes Are .. Scored on Four Fronts ENEMY. CENTER ON .DON 1S LIQUIDATED Russians Oniy a- Littte Over 50 Miles North ~ of Staline

Soviets Crush Last Resistance On Lett Bank of Don, Surge Ahead on Other Fronts

Important Successes Are Scored on Four Fronts  ENEMY CENTER ON DON IS LIQUIDATED  Russians - Only a Little Over 50 Miles North of Stalino

Soviets Also Moving Closer to Kursk, One of Main German Bastions in South: Stalingrad Greatest Nazi Loss

RUSSIAN TROOPS ASSAIL ROSTOV FROM THE SOUTH   Report Successes On Three Other Fronts; Azov Is Taken   LEFT BANK OF DON IS REPORTED CLEAR

Anti-Strike Bill Passed   House Gives Approval To Compromise Measure  By 219 to 129 Vote

House Votes 219 to 129 in Favor of Compromise Legislation.   COAL SITUATION TENSE

House o. k.’s anti-strike legislation   ‘Powder-keg’ atmosphere i in coal sections

Thomason Says Measure Wil Aid Production   Conference Report Adopted And Sent  TT C...t£.

House Passes Anti-Strike Bill, Sends lt To Senate   Rep. Hoffman Charges Administration. Aiding Labor.‘ Goons,” Hindering War Effort And Letting Down Fighting Men’

House Acts For Curb On Strikes   Big Majority Is Given Law; Miners May Quit Anew

House Approves Compromise Bill To Curb Strikes  Passed By Vote of ° 219 To 129; Goes To Senate

March the Lion Roars in And Mercury Retreats to 10   Quarter of an Inch of Snow Here But Heavier Elsewhere; Maintenance Bureau of Highway Department Busy In Various Sections

THREE KILLED AS AUTO RAMS: POST ON ROAD   Gar Strikes Guard Post On Highway. Overturns. Catches Fire e

Churchill Mum on Far East Commane  Hopes to Be Able to Make Statement on Matter Soon

Crisis ‘Near. In Argentin<   Students and Labor Ficht Ramirez Policy

Important Sicilian Port Now in Allied Hands; Push Inland   Stiffer Opposition Being Met but Allied Drive Continues To Gain

Eisenhower Pleased After Trip To Battle-front; More Towns Taken.

American and Canadian Troops Join Forces at Ragusa.   PALAZZOLO TAKEN BY EIGHTH ARMY   Gen. Eisenhower Is Im. mensely Gratified With Progress.

Canada, Great Britain Assume Full Responsibility for Convoying ‘Merchant Shipping to British Ports Under New Set-Up Which Will Throw Air Protection Over Every Mile of Atlantic

Yankees in London Thank Error for Culinary Expert   Former Bank Examiner Teaches British Chef How to  Prepare Pancakes American Style After His No  tation “Banking” On Occupational Question  naire Was Mistaken For “Baking”

23 OF TATTNALL PRISONERS STILL AT LARGE TODAY   Three Prison Guards Under Suspension Pending an Investigatior

Georgia Convicts Remain af Large   Prison Guards Under Suspicion

Top Men Of A. F. of L. And C.1.0. Ask President To Intervene in OPA

Top AFL-CIO Men Ask President To Intervene In OPA   Argue Brown Unable To Handle Situation, Favor Food Price Rollback

UNIONS CLAIM OPA METHOD INADEQUATE   FDR Is Asked To Intervene, Halt Price Rises

AFL, C10 Leaders Protest OPA Move  Tan hAan Tall ENR   Top Men Tell FDR Brown Can‘t Cope With Price Increase

PASSING GRADES “DRARMY-THREAT      House Passes Bill, Forwards It to Senate. About Report Cards

CHURCHILL WILL SPEAK 50 MINUTES   Address of Prime Minister Considered of Major Importance

CHURCHILL TO MAKE MAJOR TALK TODAY   Prime Minister Expected to Speak About 50 Minutes in Address Before Concress.

Churchill Will Address Solons °   Long Speech Written for the Occasion

Russia Said Aiding Slavs   Planes Fly Supplies To Partisan Forces

EXPENDITURES FOR “42 HIKED   Consumers Establish New Record in America’s First War Year

JAPS PUSHED BACK CLOSER“ TO MUBO   Enemy i Retreats Steadily “or Since Thrust Ar” i, Wau Airdrome

COLD WAVE PASSING   Temperatures on Upgrade Tomorrow in Eastern Kansas

REP. SHAFER HITS SUIT AGAINST AP   Charges Move by Bureau. “Grats” “Aigacinist * ‘Nation’  Frea Press.

FREEDOM OF PRESS AT STAKE IN SUIT   That’s Inference in Answer Upholding A. P.

A.P.SUITHELD TO BE ATTACK   Congressman Calls for Investigation and Punish‘ment “Great Misdeed.’’

Allies Smash Foe With 1,250,000 Pounds of Bombs   Panicky Axians Get  Severe Blows

Allied Air Force Doing Much Damage T. ‘Any Equipment Axis Could Use To Flee

Allies Smash Foe With 1,250,000 Pounds of Bombs  Panicky Axians Get Severe Blows From Every Angle

KEY ACTING AFTER DEATH OF ANDREWS   U.S. Commander In Europe Killed In Airplane Crash

Iceland Crash Kills Chief Of Furope AEF   Bishop Leonard Dies fr Bomber With General Andrews, Staff Officers   BLOW TO INVASION   London Command Is Taken Over By General Kay Pending Appointment

Chief of U. S. Forces In European Theater — Dies During Inspection

Andrews Death May Hamper Ally Offensive   Maj. Gen. Key Takes Ove1 Duties Until New Ap gonintment

Gen. Andrews and Bishop Leonard Killed in Plane   Others Perish’ Crash Occurs. In. lceland

Keds regain 130 villages  in advance   Decisive battle for Orel looms

Russian Front Ablaze as Reds Advance   Soviets Tighten Circle Around Vital Orel Base

Reds Take 130 Villages; Drive On Near Orel,   Soviet Artillery in Range of City; Desperate Fighting

WHOLE FRONT ABLAZE WITH RED ATTACKS   SOVIETS CLOSING IN ON OREL; BIG GUNS COMMAND CITY

REDS CAPTURE 130 VILLAGES   ‘Russian Armies Make New Gains in Pounding at Orel’s Defenses

130. Villages. and Populated Places Token by Russians  ARTILLERY. READY FOR OREL ATTACK Whole Soviet Front Is  Ablaze With Red Army Attack<«

REDS POUND SEMI-CIRCLE AROUND OREL   Capture 130 Villages And Advance 4 To 6 Miles To The North, East Anc  a   Russian Front Ablaze

Russian Armies Smash Ahead In Orel Area   Take 130 Villages, Make Gains of From 4 to 6 Miles

Soviets Take 130  Centers Orel Is Periled   Orel Is Perilec By Russian  Pincers

Reds Capture 130 Towns In Big Fight   Nazi Losses Continue To Mount; Soviets Are Approaching Orel

RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING ON NAZIS AT OREL   130 Villages And Populated Places Taken In Six-Mile Gain   LARGE SCALE BATTLE NOW IN PROGRESS

Soviets Seek To Pinch Off Important German Base   Advance Four Miles, Capture 130 Villages As Three Great Prong: Drive Toward City   Whole Front Ablaze, Leningrad to Caucasus. Berlin Broadcast Savs

Russians Take 130 Villages In Drive   Advances Of Four To Six Miles Made In Day In Three-Way Campaign Against Orel; Artillery In Range Of Base

RUSSIANS PUSH CLOSER TO OREL; TAKE 130 TOWNS   Four to Six-Mile Gains Made by Reds—Germans Wage Furious Fight to Save Base.   JUNCTION OF SOVIETS WOULD TRAP BIG FORCE   Berlin Reports Muscovite Attacks on Whole Front From Leningrad to Western Caucasus.

Russians Gain Six More Miles In Orel Sector   Capture 130 Villages i North, East and South   Berlin Reports Whole Rus: sian Front Ablaze with  Attacks

Gen. McNair Feels Good !Enough To Joke About I Wounds Suffered Friday

Allies Smash Nazi Sectors   Germany, France, Holland Hit In Routine Air Raids.

Allies Smash Nazi Sectors  Germany, France, Holland Lice le Danwthiwnan Arie Daide

Attacks on North Europe Are Resumed   Daylight Assault on  St. Omer Follows

American Fliers Visit St. Omer. Blast Rail Yards   Raid Follows Attack  By RAF on Chemical Works at Leverkusen —Other Sweeps Made

§t. Omer Hit In Aid Raid   Railway Yards Suffer Another Aerial Blow

Yankees Last Nazis in  Heavy Raid   Rail Yards of St. Omer Are Blasted As Americans Follow Ruthless Attacks of RAF on Rhineland Goals

FRENCH R ATL YARDS RAIDED   Americans Blast St. Omer as RAF Bombs Leverkusen Chemical Works

BOMBERS ATTACK RHINELAND SPOTS   RAF Planes Course Over Strait of Dover to Maintain Aerial Attacks on Continent; Radios Silent

ST. OMER IS RAIDED AGAIN BY AMERICANS   Coastal Shipping Off The Dutch Coast Also Attacked By Allied Planes Monday

Yank Bombers Follow Up RAF Pounding   French Rail Center, Nazi Chemical * Works Chief Targets

37 JAP PLANES RAID ORA BAY   16 Enemy Craft Are Shot Down In Attack On New Guinea

Japanese Planes Raid Oro Bay, Lose Heavily   14 of 40 Jap Aircraft Possibly Knocked Down: Guadalcanal Hac Raid

Allies Turn Back > Third Heavy Blow By Nips In Week   Two Bombers And Dozen Fighters Downed; Allied Raiders Active On Limited Basis 

14 Jap Planes Shot Down in Oro Bay Raid   40 Enemy Ships Attack Allied Base Below ~~  Runa

Pacific War Flares l p 45 Japanese Planes Raid  Oro Bay: 16 Shot Down

Allied Airmen Bag 14 Jap Plane: In Hot Air Battle   Enemy Sends 40 Aircraft to Attack New Guinea Base

ORO BAY RAIDS BAD FOR JAPS   Enemy Loses 14 Planes To Strong Allied Interception

AMERICANS DOWN 14 JAP PLANES   YANKS DISPERSE 40. RAIDERS THAT ATTACK ORA BAY BELOW BUNA.

ON SECOND THOUGHT    Nazis Cancel Orders for Stone for Victory Monuments

Grocers To Register April 1-10 Inclusive   RATION BANK ACCOUNT? WILL, BE OPENED ON ALL SALES OVER $5000

AROUSED U. S. VOWS TO GET FULL “PRICE?   From Cross-Roads_ to Congress: Americans Stirred by Jap Executions of U.S. Fliers

998 U. S. Citizens Interned By Japs  Change In Policy Is Seen In Report

TEMPERATURES:   40,000 Killed Or Wounded On Upper Yangtze   Nearly. Half Of Enemy Force Is Decimated, _ Rest Surrounded

TWO FIREMEN KILLED   ‘Were Fighting Blaze at Building Housing Part of Wichita U.

inners See y Future Northwest   ans Drawn at Final eet for Larger dvisory Committee

Planners See Big Future In Northwest   Plans Drawn at Final Meet for Larger Advisory Committee

Natives Rescue Bradford Man In Pacifie   Survives 30-Mile Trip In Canoe After Jump From Bombing Plane

2 Die As Tornado Razes Village   Center Of Hackleburg, Ala. Destroyed Early  bg Lee eee

Kansan Does Operation   Front Line Physician. Says Gen. McNair Got Same Care As Private

ON HOSPITAL WORK IN BATTLE SECTOR   Operation on General All in Day's Work for Capt. Penfield Jones —   IS NEAR THE FRONT

FEW THOUSANDS OF AREA MINERS RETURN TO WORK   Operations Expected To Be Normal Late Today And Tomorrow «

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Eventual Nazi Collapse Envisioned By Hoover ‘Has Ring Of Truth

Interpreting The War   Hoover's Prediction Of Doom for Axis Justified

New Charges Are Filed By Clark   D-C Mismanage ment; Fraud .Alleqed

CLARK FILES ~NEW CHARGES   Accuses Dachel-Carter Co. Of Mismanagement and False Statements

ANID TARGETS IN POLAND AN EAST PRUSSI   Flight from Britain Deepest Penetration of Central Europe Yet Made.   BLAST AT PORT WHERE HITLER’S FLEET HIDDEN

American Planes Batter Vital German Targets   $91 Enemy Fighters Downed; 29 Big Bombers Missing

‘BRITAIN-BASED AMERICAN FLYERS STAGE SENSATIONAL RAID INTO DEEPEST GERMANY   Bitter Slav Fight Rages   4. Nazi Held Cities Menaced by Patriots

NEW GERMAN LUNGE BEATEN BACK BY REDS   NAZI DRIVE AT KIEV CARPETS FIELD WITH DEAD

Savage Counter - attack Toward Kiev Halted . by Russians  HEAVY CASUALTIES SUFFERED BY NAZIS  Other Soviet Armies Slash Deeper Into Dnieper Band

Soviets Slash Deeper Into the Dnieper Bend   Drives Meant to Relieve Pressure on Kiev Sector

Nazi Offensive In Kiev Area Broken   Soviet Forces Slash Deeper Into Dnieper Bend Defenses; 80 Enemy Tanks Are Wrecked

Soviets Slash Deeper Into Dnieper Bend   80 German Tanks Wrecked, Battlefield Strewn With Nazi Dead Six Centers Seized

Reds Smash Savage Blows, Strew Area With German Dead   Others On Distant Flanks Slash Deeper Into Bend To Relieve Pressure On Kiev  a... Sea teergans 9° aaa oe

FURIOUS NAZI ATTACKS HELD BY RED ARMY   ‘Desperate Lunges Near Korostyshev Cost Foe Many Men

REDS REPULSE COUNTER DRIVES BY NAZI TROOPS   Battlefield Near Korostyshev Carpeted With Dead Germans   FIGHTING FIERCEST SINCE STALINGRAD

Many Nazis Killed East Ot Zhitomir   Other Russian Armies Forge Steadily Ahead On Separate Fronts  FIGHTING INTENSE

‘Reds Smash Savage Blows, Strew Area  With German Dead   Vthers On Vistant Flanks Slash Deeper Into Bend To Relieve Pressure On Kiev

AUSOIANG OMAGH GERMAN ATTACKS   Halt Savage Counter-offensive Toward Kiev   CASUALTIES HEAVY   Clean-up in Dnieper Bend Moves Closer to Krivoi, Rog and Nikopol

REDS HALT NAZI ADVANGE ON KIEV, WRECK 80 TANKS   Moscow Reports Battlefield Carpeted With German  Dead in the FuriC ous Struggfe.   PUSH WAY DEEPER INTO DNIEPER BEND   Soviets Also Strike in Rechitsa Area to Relieve Pressure Near Ukrainian Capital.

Soviet tank fleets smash nazi attacks   Russians launch new offensives

Reds Battle Nazis to Standstill   Salients Are Won in Squeeze Play by Russians

NAM Maps Plans for Postwar Era  Asks Governmen To End Control Over Industries

Beller America’ After War Object Of Nanufactres  Spoken by lea Adopted by am

HEAVY RAID UPON TUNIS BY ALLIES   New Axis offensive thrusts on Tunisian front stopped dead

Axis Thrusts In Tunisia Halted: Tunis Is Bombed   Devastating Attack On Port Of Tunis By North African Air Force   YANKS IMPROVE BATTLE POSITIONS

AINE ARE GOING ON La]   They Will Be Called for Armed Services Next August.

FATHERS ARE / - GONG. ON Us   They Will  Be Called for _ Armed Services Next 3 ' August:

Marshal Broz Urges Mountain Army To Rise Up and Wage Hard Battles

Tito Appeals To Countrymen To Rise Up Against Germans   Guerrilla Leader Says Crucial Moment Has Come— Orders Destruction of Bridges, Railway Lines and Foctories Working for Enemy

Drug Tito Issues Orders for  Major Offensive - Appeals to All His   Appeals to All His Followers to Rise Up Everywhere

MO CALLS ALL ~ SIAVS TO WAR   Appeals To Scattered Mountain Fighters To Rise Up Everywhere and Fight the  Nazis.

sls To Scattered MounFighters To Rise Up wywhere and Fight the is.

10 BEGIN DRAFT OF FATHERS ON OCTOBER    One Purpose Is to Force Men Into Essential Industry

DRAFTING OF FATHERS 10 BE STARTED   McNUTT RELEASES NEW MANPOWER POOL TO GEN. HERSHEY.   Ready By Oct. 1   One Purpose Is To Shift Family Men To War Industries, Where Much Needed.

FIRST GROUP TO BE CALLED BY OCTOBER 18T—SHIFT TO.WAER WORK ONE. OBJECTIVE ‘

0,500,000 Mh MADE ELIGIBLE rn ARI GALI   Decision May Nct Se: Wel: With Congress; Claim Only Source.

BOARDS WILL RE-CLASSIFY 3-A PARENTS   However, Congressional opposition expected to flare up quickly

STRIKE COMPLETE IN COAL MINES   Government Expected to Act Immediately to Take Over Production For Duration

VET ACTOR DIES   British-Born Character Part Play@r Siricken at #5.

Mrs. John Roling Dies After Four  Weeks Illness  . Was Native of Cole County and Church Worker

Germans Would Destroy Cities, Shoot Down Hostages In Effort To Force Partisans Lay Dewn Arms

Nazis Threaten To Raze Every Slav City, Town    Retahtate Against : Rebel Forces

Nazis Threaten Extermination It Yugoslavs Continue Battle   Will Destroy Every City And Town And Shoot Hostages If Partisans And Guerrillas Fail To End War Against Reich.

TERRIBLE REPRISALS UPON YUGOSLAVIA IS THREAT OF GERMANS  SAY THEY WILL DESTROY  EVERY CITY AND TOWN IN NATION

GERMANS THREATEN ALL SLAV CITIES   Hostages Will Be Slain if Resistance to Reich Is Not Stopped, Slav Radio Reports

Germans in a Threat To Destroy Every City In Enslaved Yugoslavia

GERMANS TRY BARBARISM IN YUGOSLAVIA      Threaten Desiruction of Every City, Town, Shooting of Host ages to Quell Patriots

Every Town Will Be Destroyed If Battle Continues   Guerrillas Warned To Lay Down Arms To Avoid Slaughter

YUGOSLAVIA TO BE DESTROYED, BERLIN WARNS   Threaten Destruction of Every City and Shooting of Hostages to Halt Partisan Army

Germans Threaten Mass Ruin And Killings In Yugoslavia   Leaflets Declare Every City And Town .. Fo Be Destroyed Unless Arms Laid Down

Destruction Of Yugoslavia Nazi Threat   Reich Says Patriots Must Lay Down Arms or Face Extinction

Nazis Threaten Yugoslav Towns Ruthless Air Attacks On  Cities Continue

Nazis Would Level Cities   Threaten Destruction In Effort to Halt Yugoslav Resistance

Allied Bombs Make Big Explosions — In Jap Airfields  Wewak, New Guinea, Target; Many Fires Follow Heavy Attacks

STRIKES INCREASE IN WALKOUT AREA   Back- To-Work M Movement Is Setback In Alabama, Pennsylvania

NEARLY 125,000 MINE — WORKERS IN WALKOUTS   Back-to-Work Movement Suffers Additional Setbacks in Pennsylyania and Alabama—Steel Production Facing Further Curtailed Reduction As Result of Situation Today.

NEW STRIKES REPORTED IN. COAL MINES   Back to Work Movement Has Setback

Argentina's New Government Lifts Martial Law Rule   Rapprochement With Other Americas to Be Accomplished by Acts

MARTIAL LAW ORDER LIFTED IN ARGENTINA      Official Statement on Foreign Policy Issued by President

‘Acts Will Show Foreign Policy. ‘Junta Asserts   Ramirez Faction Pledges Rapprochement With

New Regimes Stand Though Pro-Allied   Rapprochement With Other Republics of New World Indicated

Labor Peace Hope Rises Once Again   Three Developments Apt To Speed Solution Of Problems

CAPTURE OF ENNA CEVERS RAILWAYS   in Effect Cuts Big Italian island in Two   BRITISH EIGHTH   Gains Slowly Against Strong Defense Lines Around Catania Port

Reds Close In on Orel, Taking 90 More Town: At Big Cost to Nazis   Bitter Fight Contindes for Catania as British Advance Slowly; Mainland Ports in Italy Bombed; Americans Take Enna, Splitting Isle’s Defenses

German Prisoners Taken In Tunisia All Want To Go to United States

AVOID PUBLIC FEUDS OR QUIT --ROOSEVELT   Settles WallaceJones Dispute by Abolishing B.E.W

Roosevelt Warns Gov't Heads To Quit Squebbling or Resign; BEW Abolished

Treasury Wrote Tax Amendment, Says Herring  For mer Iowa Senator Says  Disputed Measure Was  Baw ‘MSawifiantian!?

Treasury Wrote Tax Amendment, Says Herring   Former Iowa Senator Says Disputed Measure Was For ‘Clarification’

Measure To Extend Lend-Lease Act s Presented Congress  Little Onposition ls Seen fo Move by Rep. Martin,

SEE EXTENSION OF LEND-LEASE   Congress Leaders Expect Little Opposition To Measure

1 RECIPE FOR BOOTLEGGING ERA  ‘Hill Hooch’ to: Flow If Sugar Ration Ends

BOOTLEGGING RECIPE?   Denver Alcohol Tax Unit Sees Return Of Still

Unrationed Sugar And Shortage Of Whiskey Might Revive Bootlegging

Claim Petain Tries To Resign Post  Asks ‘Democratic’   Asks ‘Democratic’ Parliament Call

PETAIN REPORTED READY TO RESIGN   THREATENS TO STEP DOWN UNLESS WISH TO CALL PAR. LIAMENT IS GRANTED,

DAVIES SUGGESTS HITLER 15 DEAD   So  BOLSTERS THEORY BY CITING   NAZI MOURNING AND HIS  FAILURE TO SPEAK. 

London Spokesman Ridicules Suggestion Hitler ls Dead   Fuehrer’s Failure To Speak, Mourning In Germany Stressed By Joseph Davies

HITLER DEATH IDEA SPREADS   Davies Believes Mourning Period, Absence Of Speech Are Indications

DAVIS SAYS NAZIS MAY RESORT 10 GAS   Days Of Mourning Suggest . Possibility That Hitler Is Dead

Davies Suggests Possibility Hitler Is Dead   Broadcast Stirs Rumors And Listeners Start Calline Newsnanere

Claims Hitler May Be Dead   Says Grief In Germany Suggests Possibility

JOSEPH DAVIES SUGGESTS HITLER MIGHT BE DEAD   New York Daily News And Delta Democrat Speculate Tuesday

Hitler’s Death Would Not Remove German Menace, Ex-Ambassador Davies Warns

SEE NAZIS MOURNING OVER HITLER'S DEATH   London Authorities Claim Rumor Sheer Nonsense

SUGGESTS THAT  _ADOLPH. HITLER: -.  MAY-BE DEAD   Mormer Ambassator to Russia Made  Surrestion in March of ‘ Time Prorvram,

Former Ambassador.to Russia Says Hitler May Be Dead and—  WarnsNazisMay UsePoisonGas

MOURNING HINTS AY HITLER EATER   Absence on Anniversary Figures in Belief.

HITLER MAY BE DEAD   That’s Twist Former Envoy To Russia Puts on Nazi Propaganda Now

Says Mourning _ May Mean That Hitler Is Dead   London Spokesman - Brands Suggestion as ‘Sheer Nonsense’

Rail Seizure Reason Same as That of 26 Years Ago— Must Move Troops, Supplies

COMPLAINT IS FILED   Charge Made: in Franklin County Welfare Embezzlement

ANTLFASEIST FEELING SWEEPS OVER ITALIANS   Five New Political Parties Join in Demanding Duce’s Ponichment.

FIVE POLITICAL PARTIES DEMAND FASCISM DEATH   On Every Hand Rejoicing Over Unseating of Dictator Mussolini Goes Unrestrained

Italians Demanding Italy Quit the War, Fascists Punished   ‘General Rejoicing Over Mussolini Ouster Sweeping Italy; Five New Parties . Demand Punishment of Mussolini

Forty Axis Planes Shot Down Over Sicily; Attack on Messina Proceeding

DAMAGE AT PRISON FARM   Amrine Estimates the Loss at About $106,000

NEWS IN WASHINGTON HAD SOMBER KEYNOTE OF HIGH CASUALTIES  HIGH RANKING BUT ANON. YMOUS OFFICIAL SAYS TREMENDOUS LOSSES DUE

Japs Admit Loss of Ships   Seven Warships Sunk Last Half of Year In Solomons Battles

Japanese Admit Loss of Seven More Warships in Pacific   Taousands of Enemy Have Béen Killed in Push on Salamaua

United Nations Air Superiority Also Concedec   Seven Enemy Warships Sunk, Six Damaged Since Auqust

J apanese Concede Losses   Modest Total of 7 Warships Sunk in Solamuiis,

Tokyo Claims Heavy Damage fo Allied Fleets   Smashes Against Enemy Continue In South Pacific

JAPAN ADMITS LOSS OF SHIPS   Yank Airmen’ Hit: Bases: MacArthur's. Men Push Back Nips

JAPAN ADMITS LOSS SEVEN WARSHIPS IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   BROADCAST FROM TOKYO ALSO CLAIMS ALLIED LOSSES WERE HEAVIER

TOKIO CLAIMS ~ ALLIED SINKING:   MacArthur Says Foe Con tinues Retreat After New Guinea Defeat

Turkey-Syria Frontier Closed   British Forestall  Information Leaks

British Close — Syrian Side of Turkish Border      “Action May Be To. reyent. Leakage Of Information, Or ‘To Protect’ Important: Allied: Troop Mavenents

KNOWLEDGE OF CURRENTS AIDS JAP SUPPLY PROBLEM   RING SLOWLY TIGHTENS ON NEW CVHINPA YTADG

JAPS STIFFENED FOR VILA DRIVE   Resistance Expected T« Be Stronger Than At Munda

HEAVY ATTACK BY © LARGE FORCE RED ARMY ON THURSDAY GERMANS FORCED TO FAL] BACK FROM FRONT LINE   TAT BEIM ART CHLrSUTAR

PRESSING KAYO AGAINST ITALY   Plaster Stepping Stone Isles With New Fires And Destruction   RUSS FRONT IS ACTIVE   ‘Sensational Developments Loom In Italy, Lon don Hears

Jap Admiral Drowns Witk Ship’s Crew   Tokyo Reports On Yanavimoto

Offensive Pressed By  Russians   Nearly 100,000 Thrown Against Defense Line Along Delta, German Broadcast Asserts

Jap Rear Admiral Is Reported Dead  Officer Drowned As Ship Is Sunk,  Rarlin Annninese

Land and Sky Battle Raging At Bridgehead In Kuban Area   67 Nazi Planes Downed Near Novorossisk, Moscow Says

NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE UNDERWAY   Nazis Yield Strip Of Kuban Bridgehead As Fight Flares Anew

Strip Of Nazi-Held Bridgehead Taken Over By Russians As Battle Flares

HEAVIER FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Both Russian and German Reports Indicate Intens:ifed Fighting From Novorossisk Northward To  Temryuk On Sea of Azov.

Russian Front Erupts Again   Fighting. Rages Around Novorossish As Yanks Spread Devastation In Pantelleria, Sardinia, Sicily.

REDS STRIKE HARD ALONG KUBAN FRONT   Force of Hundred Thousand Russians Attack For Several Miles.   German Defense Along  Delta Is Hard Hit

RUSSIANS MAKE HEAVY ATTACK IN KUBAN DELTA   DNB Announces German Troops Forced Back by Strong Assault

Germans Reported Yielding Part of  Kuban Bridgehead   Caucasus Fighting As Intensified on Land andiin Air

VIOLENT ATTACKS DISTURB LULL ON RUSSIAN FRONT   INTENSIFY LAND, AIR FIGHTING IN CAUCASUS SECTORS

100,000 REDS TAKE PART IN HEAVY ATTACK   Berlin Radio Says Nazis Fall Back From a Front Line Sector Several Miles Long and 1.24 Miles Deep. :

Nazis Fall Back   In Russian Push  100,000 Reds Attacking In Kuban Area

Fh. ee er  vo ae Nels tee 8 ie) rere AVL  1.5 Miles Into German Lines  Nazis Announce Ev acuation of  erase:

* RED DRIVE IN KURAN   “Nazi Defenses Battered for Several Miles Along J the Delta Front   FRESH ACTION IN OTHER AREAS   pLand and Air Forces in New Upsurge; Heavier Fighting in Prospect

Red Infantry and Tank Men, Attacking Nearly 100,000 Strong, Take Strip 1%4 Miles Deep, Several Miles Long 

HEAVY ATTACK BY LARGE FORCE RED ARMY ON THURSDAY  GERMANS FORCED TO FAL} BACK FROM FRONT LINE IN KIJRAN SECTOR

REDS FORCE GERMANS BACK   Nazis Yield Strip Several Miles Wide and Mile And Half Deep.

Germans Report 100,000 Russians Force Retreat  On Two-Mile Front

SMALL FIRMS HAVE MOST ARMY ORDER   Get Contracts for Supplies Despite Higher Costs, Quartermaster Discloses

SMALL INDUSTRIES GET WAR CONTRACTS   But They Cost  More Than In Big Concerns

BOR ELECTION AT THE SOW   On Question of Making AFL-Affiliated Unions Bargaining Agent

A LABOR ELECTION AT THE SOW PLANT   On Question of Making AFL-Affiliated Unions Bargaining Agent

CONFIDENCE IS BROKEN   Livestock Official Comments on $16 Cattle Ceiling

New Air Raid Warning System Adopted for Ohio   Army Suggests Regulations After East Coast Survey

Three Dieln — New York Wreck   20th Century Limited Wrecked When Boiler Exnlodes

Blast Kills 20th Century Engine Crew   At Least Seven Others Are Injured in Wreck of the Fastest N. ¥. C. Train   MOST PASSENGERS ASLEEP AT TIME   Boiler. Explosion Scatters Parts of Engine Over Fields Near Canastota,N.Y.

THREE CREWMEN ARE KILLED IN N.Y, EXPLOSION   Seven Others Are Injured as 20th Century Engine Boiler Explodes

Three of Train Crew Killed   Explosion of Boiler Of Lecomotive Causes New York Central Wreck

BOILER BLAST WRECKS 20TH CENTURY LTD   Three Crewmen in Cab of Engine Killed, Ait Leasi Seven Injured in Wreck Near Canastota

68 Killed in Train Wrecks in the East   Twentieth Century Wrecked Early Today; Three o  Crew Dead; 65 Persons Killed, Many Injured In Pt Pennsylvania Accident At Philadelphia,

New York-Chicago Train Wrecked As Boiler Explodes   Crewmen in Cab Killed, Several Persons Injured When Cars Derailed

Twentieth Century Limited Wrecked   Boiler Explodes And 3 Are Killed

CHICAGO-N. Y, FLIER WRECKS THREE KILLED   Twentieth Century Cracks Up After Boiler Explosion

Boiler Blast Wrecks Train   3 Crewmen Killed In N. Y. C. Wreck  Near Svracuse

Locomotive Crew Killed As Boiler Explodes; Cars Plunge From Tracks

Explosion Of Boiler Wrecks NYC Train   Three Crewmen Killed In Cab Of Twentieth Century Limited On Way To New York

LOCOMOTIVE OF LIMITED BLOWS UP 3 KILLEL   New York Central's Extra. Fare Chicago-New York 20th Century Wrecked; Seven Injured

Three 20th. Century Crewmen Killed as Boiler Explodes   Seven Injured When New York Centra Flyer Leaves Track Near Syracuse;.. Parts of Enaine Scattered Over Field

20th Century Wreck Today   Boiler Of Locomotive Explodes, Three Crewmen Are Killed

68 Die, Scores Injured When Two Crack Passenger Trains Are Wreckec

Boiler Blast Kills Three   7 Hurt in New York ‘Railwav Accident —

ENGINEER AND FIREMEN KILLED   Several Passengers Injured In Wreck Of 20th Centurv Limited.

NEW YORK CENTRAL PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED TUESDAY  BOILER EXPLOSION KILLS THREE TRAINMEN IN CAR OF ENCINE

Three Killed fn Explosion Of Boiler; 7  Others Hurt   Locomotive And Eleven Cars Of Line’s Best Train Leave Rails

Report Agreemen! On Rome Status   Swiss Hear Allies Accept ‘Open City

American Super-Bomber, Hauling More Eynlosives, Now In Actual Production

‘American Super-Bombers That Dwarf Fortresses Are Now in Production

Super-Fortresses Now Rolling Off Nation's Production Lines   B 29 Not Expected to See Action Before Next Year, Army Indicates

New U. S. Super-Bomber Can Haul More Bombs Than Any Plane Now On War Front

U.S. Super-Bomber Is in Production  Deadly New Planes Delivered to Army

States Sfrong, Dewey Asserts   We Must Stop Leaning On Government, New York Governor Says

DEWEY SAYS: CONCENTRATION OF NTRATION OF POWER IN NATIONAL COVERNMENT MUST STOP

A WIFE PROTESTS GRANT OF LICENSE   Council Hears New Angle on Proposal to Reopen Wonder Bar

A WIFE PROTESTS GRANT OF LICENSE   Council Hears New Angle on Proposal to Reopen Wonder Bar “   A LIMIT TO NUMBER?

Union Chiefs Ask Strikers to End Detroit Walkout   Workers Urged to Resume Producticn Tomorrow Morning

COURT TO REVIEW PORTAL PAY CASE   Wade’s Conviction for Murder To Stand

Will Review Iron Miners Portal Pay   Supreme Court Agrees to Review Wage Decision

MINE PAY TD BE REVIEWED   Supreme Court to Consider decision by Federal Circuit Court.   WILL HEAR. ARGUMENTS

COURT REVIEN  Of PORTAL PAY SSUE SLATED   Supreme Court Will Decide Case Involving Alabama Mining Companies

COURT STUDIES PORTAL PAY IN MINE DISPUTE   Iron Ore Miners Send Protest  In Tennessee

PORTAL PAY OF MINERS TO GET COURT REVIEN   [Supreme Tribunal Agree:  to Hear Arguments In Case of Underground Jron Ore Workers

BLOODY BATTLE FOR FINSCHHAFEN ROARS TO FINISH   AUSTRALIANS EXACT HEAVY TOLL OF JAPS AT NEW GUINEA BASE

FINSCHHAFEN BATTLE IS NEAR FINISH TODAY   Allied Bombers Smash Planes and Ships at Jap Supporting Bases

Allies Hit Japs In Final Blow At Finschhafen  60 Nip Planes Destroyed In Wewak Raid

FINSCHHAFEN BATTLEROARS TOWARDS FINISE   Allied Bombers and © Fighters Destroy More — Than 60 Planes at Wewak

Bloody Battle At F insehafen Nears Climax   Aussies Exact Heavy Toll From Jap. Defenders And Supporting Bases.

Finschhafen Battle Nears Bloody Finale   Bomb Jap Bases Into Impotence

60 Jap Planes, 7 Ships - Destroyed At Wewal   Battle For Finschhafen Roars Toward Allied Victory As Australian Veterans Inflict Bloody Losses On Japanese Troops

Jap Defense Is Blasted Today   ALLIED ATTACKERS DEAL MISERY TO NIPPON BASE

AUSSIES BATTER JAP DEFENDERS OF FINSCHHAFEN   Enemy Suffers Terrific Losses; Over 60 Planes Destroyed at Wewak

Bloody Finale Near In Battle Qf Finschhafen   Support Bases Knocked Out; Over 60 Jap Planes Destroyed At Wewak.

Battle for Finschhafen Near End as Aussies Pound Japs   Virtualiv Eneirecled

Japanese Loss Of Planes Heavy   Finschhafen Almost In Allied Hands

Bloody Fighting ~ALLinechhafen Roars To Finish   Taps? Supporting Bases “On New Guinea Coast ‘Bombed. To Impotence

Finschhafen Fight - Roars To Finish  Australians Take Heavy Toll Among Japs

BATTLE FOR FINSCHHAFEN IS INCREASING   Australian Soldiers Exacting Heavy Toll Among Japanese Defenders Of City  60 PLANS DESTROYED

60 JAP PLANES, SEVEN SHIPS AT WEWAK BAGGEI      Bloody Battles For Nips’ Base At Finschhafen Is Nearing Climax, With Ruscies Aduavce

60 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN WEWAK RAID   Australias Exact Heavy Toll of Nippon Forces at Finschhafen

Finschhafen Battle Nearing Finish; Jap Preparations for Attack Smashed by Yanks

Finschhafen Fray Nears End   Supporting Bases Badly Battered by Allied Planes

FINSCHHAFEN BATTLE ROARS TOWARD END   Jap Planes Are Destroved By U. S. Pilots

BLOODY BATTLE NEARING GLOSE   Australians Take Heavy Tol Of Japs Defending Finechhafen.

Finschhafen  Battle Now Nearing End   Supporting Bases for 300  Miles Are Bombed Into  Impotence

Finschhafen Is Near Capture With Many Japs Killed   Seven Ships and 60 Planes Wrecked In Raid on Wewak

FINSCHHAFEN’S FALL NEAR AS WEWAK RAIDED   Jap Bases 300 Miles to Northwest Bombed is Impotence as Troeps Close In

“DESTROYED AT WEWAK   Battle. At Finschhafen Is Roaring Towards } Imminent Climax

Tighten — Noose on > Finschhafen      Aussies Within Mile Of City; Wewak Blasted in Savage Air Attack bv Allied Fliers

Moths Don’t Get a 2 Chance at ‘Worn Army Uniforms in North Africa

ARMY AIR FORCES NOW STREAMLINED   Red Tape To Be Cut Under Reorganization Plan

U.S, ARMY AIR UNITS PREPARE FOR ACTION   Cut Red Tape, Reduce Number of Headquarters

BRICKER PLANS CAPITAL TALK   Has Invitation to Speak At Lincoln Day Meeting On Feb. 12

Soldier Voting Bills Opposed   Unconstitutional, Congressmen Say

AUDITOR BILL 18 SENT TO GOVERNOR BY HOUSE ACTION  BOTH SENATE AND HOUS! WERE IN ADJOURNMENT OVER WEEK-END

Bill Making State Auditor Responsible To Legislature Readied for Governor

Capture of Naples Will Ease Allied Shipping Problem Which Has Been Baca

IBOMBING OF MILITARY POINTS 'IN ROME CAUSE TENSION; WHOLE FUTURE DECLARED UP TO ITALY

lhe War loday : , Declaring Rome “Open City” Woulc Disrupt Mussolini’s War Machine

WAR NEWS   Making Rome ‘Open City Would Force Mussolini Yo Move Headquarters

Hawkeye Shorts   Iowans Contribute 96,882 Pounds of Waste Fat in Month

WAR PLANT HIT   Blast Wrecks Two Buildings Sets Fires In New Yark

ROMMEL HURIS LARGE FORCES AGAINST ALLIES   Soviets Report Slow Progress Against Nazis

Stubborn Fighting Reported ;   Rommel Throwing Most of His Forces into Batile  at Mareth

LOOK FOR FDR. ‘TO INTERVENE IN COAL MINE STRIKE   Officials B e lie ve. President Will Act if Diggers Fail to Resume Work in 48 Hours.   STEEL’ MILLS REPORT CUT IN OPERATIONS   Ickes .Confers With Lewis— Secretary Told by WLB’ It ,. Will Insist on Compliance With Order.

President May Intervene In  Mine Strike   White House Action Looms as Coal - Tieup Cuts Operations of Steel Plants; Ickes, Lewis Confer

Steel Mills. Curiail Operations   Half-Million Coal Miners Remain Away From Work

Strike Affecting War Production   Coal Mines Idle; EDR Annead] Sean

Lewis, Ickes Confer, Meet Again Today   Interior Secretary Said Hopeful of Early

Foresee presidential intervention unless miners return to jobs   WLB will demand negotiations be in harmony with directive order

Presidential Intervention Is Expected   WLEB to Insist “on Compliance to Directive

Presidential Intervention Seen in Coal Strike as Steel. Mills Curtail Output

Fresidentiai Action in  Strike Seen  Considered Likely As General Walkout Affects Steel Mills  WAR LABOR BOARD STANDS ITS GROUNI

Big Steel Mills Hit by Sloppage For Third Time   ckes and Lewis Confe and Will Meet Again Today   But Any Agreement They Make Must Be Approved by Labor Board

Nation’s Steel Mills Hit Due To Coal Strike   Ickes and Lewis to Resume Conferences Today; More Than 500,000 Men Idle

PRESIDENT MAY INTERVENE IN MINE WALKOUT   War ‘Labor Board Warns That It Will Not Be Bypassed By Ickes-Lewis   STEEL PRODUCTION BEING CURTAILED

Three Million Tons Of Coal in Transit Ordered Frozen  FACTORIES NEED FUEL  Union Officials And Secretary Meet Again Today

Steel Mills Are Already  Slowing Down   War Labor Byard Is Taking Firm Stand With John L. Lewis

May Step in Unless Miners Return to Jobs Within Next 48 Hours   Informed Sources. Say Any Understanding Between Lewis And Ickes Must Conform To WLB Order

WLB MUST OKEH ~  LEWIS-ICKES PACT      Presidential Intervention Seen mnie ~~ Unionists Confer” ~~

Steel Mills Cut Operations As Mining Halted   Ickes and Lewis Confer But Statement Gives no Sigr of Ending Strike—Presidential Intervention in Crisis Is Predicted

COAL DISPUTE SLOWS DOWN STEEL OUTPUT   MINERS STAY AWAY FROM WORK; ICKES IN CONFERENCE

Farm Deferment Vote Expected   Presidential Veto  Baliavad Tikaler

SOUTH, WEST FORM. BLOC TO FIGHT EREICHT RATES   Separate Steerage Committees Named for House and Senate to Guide Legislation

HOUSE RECEIVED  BIG APPROPRIATION  BILL ON MONDAY TOTAL FUNDS APPROVEI WAS OVER HUNDRED MI  _  — =<  _— os 2 eee

BILLION DOLLAR BILL IS IN HOUSE   Bill Covers Manpower, Labor, and Federal Security Commissions.   PAY RAISE FOR McNUTT

HOUSE RECEIVED BIG APPROPRIATION BILL ON MONDAY   TOTAL FUNDS APPROVED WAS OVER HUNDRED MIL LION BELOW: ESTIMATE

A BILLION TO RUN FEDERAL OFFICES   NY A Allowed Only Enough to Wind Up Affairs of Agency   PLAN TO REVIVE CCC

COMMITTEE CUTS OPERATIONS BILL   Four Agencies Received $1,086,562,499 for Fiscal Year Beginning July 1.

Germany's Satellites Are Exerting Pressure for Troon Revatriation

BALKAN TROOPS TIRING OF WAR   Croat ‘Volunteer’ Legion Comes Home: Losses Heavy In Russia

CHARGE ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY   FAIRFIELD FARMER THREATENS SON OF JAMES V, HEIDINGER

Axis In Sicily Out-Fought And Out-Guessed By Allies   Forced To Fight Dispersed Preliminary Actions In Dozen Threatened Sectors At Same Time

 we mote ee eons in forward Yio —~BY SIRO bh. Opa   Axis Out-Guessed And Out-Fought In Sicily

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN CANAL   Man Who Gave Her Ride Tc Work Killed Self When Trapped by Officers

‘Allies Turn Air ‘Attacks Back To (Reich, Bombard iCologne Sector

RAF Raids Cologne for  116th Time      Aerial Offensive Eased in Sicily; Italy Is Jittery

FIREMEN STILL HUNT 2 BODIES   Work Through Ruins o Burlington Station

Two More Bodies Hunted in Ruins   Offices Set Up In Rail Coaches

“WASHING-MACHINE » CHARLIE IS REGULAR VISITOR TO BOYS ‘ON GUADALCANAL

Coal Operators Reject Demands   O'Neill Savs Lewis” Wage Plea Would Cost $750,.000,000

Operators Refuse  UMW Demands   Spokesman For Northern Group Says Operators Will Not Reopen Wage Matter Unless Miners Pledge Not To Strike

DItumMnous Operators Stand Ground  All Major Demands By Lewis and Union  Turned Down Flatly BOTH SIDES HOPE TO AVOID STRIKES

Operators Refuse All Demands of Lewis's Union   Declare $2 Increase Would Cost Them $750,000,000   Object To Paying Miners from the Time They Enter the Mines

MacArthur’s Planes Blast Rabaul Area   Bombers Range Over  Vast Region Attacking  Jap Ships and Bases

RABAUL HAMMERED BY FLYING FORTS   B-24's Bomb Jap Shippin; Over Wide Area Around New Guinea

‘Bowles Defends 16-Point Butter  Answers Protests From  Gov. Goodland

Change Rules Dealing With Married WAVES   Wives Of Naval Person nel Below Ensign May Bailie  - rs

Fortresses Blow Up Big Munitions Shir  Spend Two Hours Over Japanese Base

Heavy Losses Inflicted On Allied Air Force By Jap Assault In Pacific

51 Japanese. Planes Attack Allied Base.   Enemy Takes Heavy Toll, Report Savs.

Airdrome At Darwin Is Bombec   Heavy Losses Suffered By Allied Fighters During Battle For Australian Base

51 Japanese Planes Raid Darwin; Loss of Allies Is Heavy   Communique Gives No Elaboration of Damages to Allies

Allied Airfield Near Darwin Is Raided By Japs   Heavy Loss of Alliec Fighters In Air Battle Admitted

Japs Make Savage Raid On Darwin Allied Losses Reported Heavy   Fifty-One Enemy Planes Strike Sunday At Northern Australia Airport; Jap Submarine Campaign Fairly Effective.

‘Allies Suffer sHeavy Loss in Fierce Fight   Thirteen Enemy Planes . Destroyed or Damaged, Allies Renort   51-JAPS IN ATTACK   Allied Fliers Range Over Targets From New Britain to Timor  > He

Darwin Gets Heavy Blow In Jap Raid   Allies Admit Many Fighter Planes Lost la Surprise Attack

51 Jap Planes Strike Savagely At Darwin Base   Inflict Heavy Damage On Ally Fighters   First In Year

Allies Suffer Heavy Losses In Battle Over Darwin  Aron   ENEMY BASES RAIDED

Japs Strike With Foree At Darwin   Heavy Losses Reported Among Allied Air Fighters

POWERFUL JAP AIR FLEET HITS NEAR DARWIN   ‘Heavy’ Allied Plane Losses Reported in Battle Over Airdrome and to North

ALLTES SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES IN DARWIN RAID   Powerful Fleet of Japanese Warplanes Strike Savagely At Austral -jan Airdrome   AIR BATTLE FIERCE   Thirteen Enemy Craft Shot,  Down; Allies Blast Nip-  ponese In Wide Area: .  During Sunday 2

LARGE JAPANESE AIRCRAFT FORCE RAIDS DARWIN   Heavy Losses By Allies In South Pacific

ALLIED AIR LOSSES  REPORTED HEAVY IN  BATTLE WITH JAPS FORCE OF 51 ENEMY  PLANES ATTACKED NARWIN AIRDROME

ALLIED LOSSES HEAVY AS JAP AIR FLEET STRIKES  51 ENEMY PLANES  STRIKE SAVAGELY AT NARWIN AREA

Allies Suffer Severe Loss  Of Aireraft.   Enemy Appears Over Darwin——Subs Also Menace Lines

Td ENEMY SHIPS REPORTED LOST   Twenty-One Bombers And 30 Fighters Strike At Allied Airdrome   FIERCE AIR FIGHT   Allied Communique Does Not Elaborate On Losses In Battle

ALLIED LOSSES HEAVY IN JAP RAID ON DARWIN   51 Enemy Planes in Attack, First Defeat for MacArthur’s Flyers

Jap Attackers Over Darwin Met By Spitfires Manned By Australians And British. Lose 13 Planes. —

Peace And Blessedness   By ABDEL ROSS WENTZ Pracident Of The Seminary

Peace And Blessedness   By ABDEL ROSS WENTZ Prepactdant Of Pho GSaomitnarv

Refugee Problem To Be Considered  U.S. Delegation to   U.S. Delegation to Seek Temporary Places For Group

REFUGEE PLIGHT TO BE STUDIED   Conference Opening ir Bermuda Will Probe World Problem

NAVY REVEALS SUB IS DOWN   UNDISCLOSED, NUMBER OF MEN LOST DUE TO. ACCIDENT: ees  . DURING TRAINING  COURSE

PRESIDENT TO GET BACK PROMOTIONS WITHOUT ACTION  TAX BILL REDUCED SO ' HEAVILY TREASURY DOE

SENATE HOLDS UP ARMY. PROMOTIONS   Patton and Somervell Are Stumbling Blocks in Advances for Other Officers

SENATE'S HAND FELT BY ARMY   Shrunken Tax Bill Is Left Behind by Congress

Sub and Carrier Escort Are Lost   Heroic Wahoo, Liscome Bay Missing

Submarine Wahe Lost in Action, Navy Reports   Escort Carrier Is Also Missing

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HEROIC YANK SUB OVERDUE   Wahoo Believed Lost, Navy Reports; Carrier Sunk In Gilberts Battle

SUBMARINE WAHCO. IS REPORTED LOST      United States Vessel : Overdue, the Navy Announces

Torpedo Sinks U.S.S. Wahoo   ‘Was Winner of Presidential Citation for Pacific Action.

Navy Loses Submarine And Eseort  Plane Carrier   Undersea Boat Wahoo Sank 19 Jap Vessels,  Rate of One a Month,  During Great Career  LISCOME BAY LOST IN GILBERTS BATTLE  Admiral Mullinix And Carrier’s Captain Miscsine Sines Sinking

U. 5. SUB LOST WITH CREW OF 62   FIGHTING WAHOO SENT DOWN MANY JAP SHIPS—CARRIER ALSO LOST.

Wahoo said lost; torpedo Liscome Bay   Sub sunk one  vessel a month

Wahoo And. Liscome Bay Sunk” ‘By “Japanese” ‘In. Gilbert Islands Action

AIRCRAFT CARRIER BEATS OFF ATTACKS   ‘Knox Says Japanese Were Unable To Damage Big Vessel In Recent Sea Engagement

Italy Awaits Sign From Badoglio as to Whether Government Will Throw in Lot With Allies or Struggle Along With Axis

FRENCH UNITE FORCES UNDER ONE COMMANE   FULL PARTNERSHIP WITH ALLIES IS SOUGHT

GIRAUD UNIFIES FRENCH FORCES   Named Commander - In - Chiet With De Gaulle Heading Defense Group

French Work Out Plan Whereby Gen. De Gaulle Is Political and Gen. Giraud Is Military Leader   [Neutrals Warned © Not to Shelter Axis War Criminal:

FRENCH LEADERS COME TO TERNS   GIRAUD WILL HEAD ARMY, DE _ GAULLE COMMITTEE OF _ _NATIONAL DEFENSE,

French Generals Achieve Unity  Complicated Satun   Complicated Setup Divides Powers

Unification of All French Fighting Forces Under Single Command Is Achieved by Gens. DeGaulle and Giraud; Bid for U. §. Recognition

Senator Thinks Navy a Masculine Outfit; Objects to Letting WAVES Serve. Oversea:

Edson Says Both Clare Luce and Henry Wallace Have Been Talking Through the Top of Their Hats

Laws Of Air All Started At Versailles   ‘Freedom Of The Air’ Talk Called So Much ‘Hot’ Air   (First of a series of columns on freedom of the air.)

AR FIELD PACT PROTECTS BRITAIN   U. S. Guarantees to Not Use Them After War, Solon Says

MOVE STARTED IN CONGRESS — ~ JO EXTEND MACARTHUR POWER   CBANDLER BEHIND PROJECT TO HAVE FAMOUS GENERAL COMMAND ALL FAR EAST FORCES

WORRIED AXIS STILL WONDERS ABOUT ALLIED INVASION PLANS; BOMBINGS MAY BE REAL ANSWER

Terrific Aerial Assaults Answer To Second Fron   Ruhr Valley Now Military Zone; Officials Concerned Over Morale.

British Monarch Sees Hard Tasks  Sends Greetings To United Nations

King Sees Hard Fighting Ahead   King George Sings Greetings To World

King George Sees New Hope To Rise   No Easy Dreams For Days Just Ahead, However

President Roosevelt Says Federal Government Not Haven For Draft  Dodgers and Slackers In Speech

DRAFT-DODGING CHARGE DENIED BY PRESIDENT   He Says Government Deferments Not Excessive

NO REFUY A GOVER” AT FOR SLACKERS   President Replies to “Groundless Charges”

FEDERAL JOBS “DRAFT STATUS ~ REPORT MADE   ROOSEVELT IN MESAAGE TC  CONGRESS SAYS GOVERN:   MENT NOT HAVEN FOR  . 7 DRAFT DODGERS

ALVIN B. REINKEN NOW O°" ATTENDING A GOVE. = ee.” C@RADIO SCHOOL

Another Allied Push Indicated   Bombing Taken As  Sianal For Drive

JOLLY ROGERS: BOMBARD JAPS   Australians Preparing To Wipe Out Enemy Above Finschhafen

Dutch Chief Warns on Jap Strength   VICE-ADMIRAL HELFRICH SAYS ALLIES TOO WEAK TO HALT FURTHER NIP EXPANSION; CAUTIONS ON POLICY OF “BEAT HITLER FIRST”

Extend Date Of Filing Returns  Tn Some Cases   Justifiable Reason For Extension Of 60 Days Must Be Presented To Revenue Collector

WILL GIVE MORE TIME   Guy Helvering issues Statement on : Income Tax Returns

Triple Crash At Ringgold   Cars Badly Damaged But No One Injured Early This Morning.

Germans Had Abandoned Naples But Not Until After Making A Thorough Job Of Demolition -Gity Found Clear of Nazis _   WATERFRONT IS FOUND TANGLE OF WRECKAGE

T ‘angle of Wreckage      Port Captured on 22nd Day of Pu Ttaly’s Capital: 125 Miles to North ‘Planes Unchallensed. Blast Rac,

Allied Troops Triumphantly Enter Naples.   . Great Waterfront-. Of City Found Tangled Wreckage

U.S.-British Forces Enter Wrecked Italian Seaport  - Altad Tranne March Treimnhantly Into City   Allied Troops March Triumphantly Into City — After 22-Day Campaign: Open Road to Rome

'BATTLE-SCARRED NAPLES IS OCCUPIED BY AMERICANS; CITY CLEAR OF GERMANS    Great Waterfront City Is Found Tanale of Wreckaae by Yankees

BIG PORT WILL BE © USED AS BASE FOR BATTLE OF EUROPE   Italy’s Third City Is First Great: Prize . Of. 22-Day Italian Campaign — Eight Days Needed To Clear Harbor

WRECKED PORT ABANDONED IN NAZI RETREAT   Road Open for  Drive on Rome ATLELIED HEADOUAR

Americans, British Enter the Battle-Wrecked Metropolis _ After 22-Days of Fighting   Harbor, Dock, Buildings Wrecked by Systematic Demolition — Allies Have Great Step Off Spot Now

Allies Score Biggest Coup Of Campaign   Germans Thrown Out Of City After Destroying Al Military Installations, Leaving Port Facilities Wrecked; Nazi Retreat Still Underway

Road To Rome Opened With Conquest of City   Germans Abandon Metropolis After Thoroughly Wrecking Installations

City Was — Flanked By      GREAT ITALIAN PORT FELL ON. 22ND DAY OF BATTLE OF ITALY ADVANCE OF 200 MILES SINCE” SEPTEMBER 3 —

NAZIS REGAIN HEIGHTS LOST NEAR MATEUR   British First Army Veterans Held Position Wrestled  From Germans One Day (¥en ]<y   Sth Army Quiet

Nazis Regain Lost Ground in Tunisia  British Driven From Dominating Heights

Powerful U. S. Artillery Keeps Pounding Nazis   AFDICA-MEDITERRANEAN

AXIS FORCES RETAKE HILL NEAR MATEUR   Foe Counterattack Re. gains Ground Lost In Tunisia

British Driven From Heights on Road To Mateur After Holding One Day; Bombers Back French With Hot Raid

Nazis Regain Heights Over Mateur Road   British Veterans Forced Back In Bizerte Drive

British Driven Back In German Counter Attack   Captured Heights Lost; U.S. Fliers Report “Big Day”

british Driven  Off Hard-Won Africa Heights  Germans Recapture Jebel Azzag, Key To Mateur Road

British Lose Heights in North Africa   Counterattacks by Germans Are Successful

Yanks Reported ~ Landed In Italy, On Sardinia Isle   -“ollows The Unconditional Surrender Of Italy; Allies Move Quickly Drive Nazis Out Of Country

Hull, Eden Arrived      GIVEN CORDIAL WELCOME:B' MOLOTOV; MOST PRESSIN QUESTION IS RUSSIAN.DEMAI FORINVASION 5 8

NIGHT BLOW FOLLOWS 10 DAY ASSAULTS   island Ripped By 41 Bombings During Month, 20 Made Over Week-End.   DAMAGE HIGH AT WAKE   Liberators Destroy 9 Enemy Planes Trying To Halt MidPacific Foray.

YANKS ADVANCE AGAINST JAP BASE AT MUNDA   Planes, Ships Soften Enemy Strong Point

Aussies Battle  1,000 Nips, Win   Hold Mount For 72 —  Hours Against Force

MORE CURTAILMENTS FOR GERMAN PEOPLE   Use of Gas and Electricity Ordered Cut Again

A Filibuster By Skovgard  Is Prevented   Senator Angered At : Action; No Ban On Beer This Session

LAWMAKERS HURRY FOR ADJOURNMENT   Legislature Will Not Change 3.2 Beer Law This  Session   ARGUMENT IN SENATE

CANTON WAREHOUSE BURNS - - LOSS HEAVY   Three Firemen Are Taken Tc Hospital for Treatment

$400,000 FIRE LOSS IN CANTON TODAY   Warehouse Burns, Three Firemen Treated by Doctors

10 MILES OUT OF GATEWAY INTO TUNIS   Nazi Defense in North Africa UnHinged With Capture of Mateur by Valiant Yanks

COFFIN CORNER’ SHRINKS UNDER ALLIED ATTACKS   Americans Surge on Beyond Mateur as They Chase Nazis Toward Tunisia Capital   FRENCH NEARING BIZERTE   Big Red Offense in Russia Getting Underway, Tip; Air War Raging

INVASION OF  ITALY IS NEAR, AXIS DECLARES   'Base Forecast On Allied  Sea-Born Movements  In Mediterranean   IKUBAN BATTLE RAGES   Great Summer Struggle In Caucasus On, Says Moscow

Axis Reports Tell Of Allied Troop Movement by Sea   Sicily and Sardinia Might Be Targets For an Invasion

Threaten to Split Enemy in BizerteTunis War Theater      All Forward Position in North Area

U.S. TROOPS IN10 MILES TEBOURBA   Vichy Radio Tells of Sea-Born Movements  At Gibraltar off Algeria

HOPE 10 CUT LINK BETWEEN MAIOR CITIES   Foe Has Single Road Between Bizerte  And Tunis

Nazi Radio Hints Invasion  Of Sicily, Sardinia Near      Battle Of Kuban Bridgehead In Russia Flares As Start Of New Drive

BID TO SPLIT AXIS ARMIES   Retreating Enemy Pursued On Road To Ferryvilles French Also Advance

Yank Troops Aim to Split Axis Armies   German Radio Warns of Invasion of Sicily, Sardinia Before Tunisia Battle Ends

Americans Push African Gains  Drive Ahead To Split Axis In Tunisia

Force Enemy To Evacuate Front Lines   Fall Of Mateur Opens Way To Tunis, Bizerte

Enemy Expects Raid Soon On  Italian Bases   German Commentator Declares Strong Yankee  Force Ready For Attack.   ALLIED FLEET IN ZONE

Yanks in New Advance North  Toward Tunis   Now Only Ten Miles From Tebourba; Axis Suspects Attempt Against Sicily

Victorious Yanks Strike Swiftly To Split Axis Armies   Mateur Evacuated Without a Light; Nazis May Abandon Bizerte

Victory Flushed Americans Drive On After Forcing Hitler's Finest Troops Into Retreat Over Wide Area— Today's War Picture on Various Fronts

US Forces Driving Aheac To Split Axis   Enemy in Northern Sector of Tunisia Forced to Surrender All Forward Positions; In Russia Battle for Kuban Bridgehead Flares Wide Open

Yanks Drive To Split Axis Armies   Enemy May Choose! To Desert Bizerte Rather Than To Risk Being Jsolated In Pocket

Enemy in North Has Evacuated Forward Positions  —_—_v-—_— ee ee   NEARING TUNIS    Vichy Sees Early Invasion of Sicily and Sardinia

Germans See Attack On Sicily   Allics May Not Asait En in Tunisia, Says Berlin Commonnn,..

Yanks Push Two Columns Past Mateur   " Other: Allied Forces: Are Increasing Pressure in New Threat .toBizerte   » MAY STRIKE SOON -. AT AXIS ISLANDS   Allies May Not Wait for the End of War in Tunis, Says ’ German Commentator

VICTORY-FLUSHED AMERICANS SEEKING SPLIT AXIS ARMIES  REPORTED ALLIED SEABORNE MOVEMENTS MAY MEAN INVACION NEAR

Fall Of Mateur Threat. ens To Isolate Bizerte; Foe Fears Invasion Of Sicily, Sardinia.

Force Axis ToAbandon Vital Sites   American Unite Advance To Within Ten Miles Of Gateway To Tunis

Victory-Flushed Americans Seek To Split  Axis Armies In Tunisia; Force Enemy To  Evacuate All Forward Positions In North: arn Sector

Drive Ahead © ' From Mateur _ This Morning   Enemy Forced to Evaecuate All Forward Positions; Caucasus Flares

Leonard Out Of Speaker's Race   Action Taken “In. “Interest Of Unity”.

House Speakership Field Left Clear For Price Daniels   Leonard Withdraws In Interest of Session Harmony

WPB ORDER HITS BRIGHT COLORING   Use of Organic Pigments for Civilian Use Cut 40°: Below 1941

8th Army Threatening _ Germans’ Escape Route   British Surging Up Coastal Highway To Meet Clark's Yankees At Salerno

OPA Reveals  Rationing Facts   mote That Care Must be Taken In Use of Stamps

Hull Promises Filipino Freedom   Blasts Jap Claims On Record There

Bombers Hit  Italian Ports   Middle East Command Re veals Heavy Attacks On Italian Mainland  J/Wworery,e. war,

10 Tons of Bombs Dropped Chennault’s Bombers Blast Jap Phosphate Mine in Indo-China

BLAST SICILY AND SARDINIA   Allied Planes Again Strike Heavy Blows at Italian Island Defenses

Bombers Again Hit Sicily  and Sardinia    Airdromes, Docks Attacked: Two Planes Lost

Bombers Spread Fire And Steel   Italy And Island Areas Are Blasted  By NOLAND NORGAARD

Bombers Agair Hit Sicily and Sardinia  Airdromes, Docks Rita wemleomele   Airdromes, Docks Attacked: Two Planes Lost

Bombers Continue Hammering at Sicilian Targets   Sardinia Is Also Hit,  Allies Damage Much,  Suffer Slight Losses

Twin Allied Raids Costly   Axis Bases Hard Hit  As Aerial Assaults

RAF SPREADS FIRE, STEEL OVER SICILY   Middle East Forces Drive In Over Mediterranean To Assault Airdrome At Com iso. Sicily   Sardinia Strafed, Too

ENEMY TANKS AND INFANTRY RENEW ACTION   Make Slight Penetration Of French Line At One Place In Tunisia, Allies Re port.   Enemy Checked

Axis.Renews Tank Attacks  Near Tunis -.   “Action Believed Effort to, Clear Path for Rommel

Postwar Policy Debate Launched   Sen. Ball Opposed To Hasty Action

Senate Debates Postwar Policy   Pledge for Military Force Is Demanded

SENATE DEBATES POST-WAR PLANS   Meets Demand U. S. Pledge Itself to Join in International Police Force to Prevent Future Wars

Debate Opens on Post-War Plans  Immediate Demand: for Policy Made

TEXAN STARTS SENATE DEBATE ON RESOLUTION   Sen. Ball Demands That U. S. Join International Police Force   POST-WAR BLUEPRINT ~ NOT POSSIBLE NOW

Senate Opens Debate on U. S. Status In Peace; Favor Is Seen for Military Help in Preventing War

Peace Police Pledge Asked Of Senators      Force Said Sole Means Of Preventing War  Tis ees

»Connally Pleads For Generalized "Resolutions   Demand Made for U.S. to Join Military Force to Prevent War

BALL DEMANDS PLEDGE BY U.S.   Urges Military ‘Force Provision in Post-War  Policy Resolution

Senate Debate on Post-War Policy Launched by Bal   Minnesotan Appeals for : Pledge to Prevent Future Wars

SENATE WEICHS PEACE POLICIES   Military Force To Curb Future Wars Demanded In Solemn Debate

U. S. Urged To Help Quilaw War   Posiwar Policy Debate Opened By Senators

Debate Opens on Post-War Plans  Immediate Demand: few Thott, AA.

U. S. Pledge to Join World Military  Force After War Demanded in Senate

TULSA SHOOTING TAKES THREE LIVES   Deaths Are Double Murder And Suicide Is Report Of Police In Case

Double Murder And Suicide Is Verdict   Soldier Fatally Wounds Twe Women, Shoots Self

Black Sea Fleet’s Air Force Joins in Attack as Great Railroad Center is Menarad.

RED ARMIES — “CLOSING IN ~ ON RERMANS   Russians Prepare To Seize Junction Of Vital Rail Line -

Gripsholm — at Elizabeth Africa Port   EXCHANGE SHIP DOCKS ON VOYAGE TO U. S. WITH 1500 PASSENGERS

Leaders Know Japs Are in Losing War, Observers Declare   American Repatriates on Gripsholm Tell of Conditions in Nippon

REPATRIATES REACH SOUTH AFRICA PORT   About 1,500 Americans Home. ward Bound From Internment In Japanese Hands

FIFTH ARMY TIGHTENS HOL! ON MASSICO   Also Seizes New Foothold on San Croce Mountain

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allied 5th Army Increases Hold on Mount Massico

fifth Army In ‘Italy Increases  Hold On Massicc   Foothold On San Groce Mountain Is Also Secured By Allies   FIVE MILE ADVANCE IS MADE BY ALLIES

Confessed Rapist Shot And Killed   Wounded Earlier While in  Police Lineup—Resisted - Officers

Accused Rapist Fatally Shot   Wounded Yesterday By Coast Guard Officer, He Tried To Flee.

New Orleans Man, Held for Attack ‘On Child, Killed In Attempt to Escape

CONFESSED RAPIST IS SLAIN BY COP      Child Indentifies Man As Her Attacker

Confessed Rapist, Wounded Twice By Enraged Officer Yesterday, Shot and Killed by Detective

Police Officer Kills Rapist   Detective Shoots Man Who Admitted Attackina Children

William Stevens, 36, Who Confessed To At Least Five Assaults Upon Young Girls, Killed While Trying To Escape.

Rapist Is Shot   Man Admitted Assaults On Five Young Girls; Resisted Officers

RAPIST KILLED —INPOLICK CAR      Naval Officer's Daughte: Pointed Out Suspect Arrested In Five Sex Assaults

PREMIER TOJO SAYS JAPAN READY FOR DECISIVE ATTACK   General Douglas MacArthur Also Makes Speech On First Anniversary  OF Corregidor

Author of "Sneak" War Announces Nippon Set to Finish Off Enemies

Japan Ready To Hit Again, Asserts Tojo   Premier Flies To Manila On First, Anniversary Of Fall Of Corregidor To Overawe Filipinos

JAP PREMIER GIVES SPEECH AT MANILA   Tojo Says Japs Are Readv to Deal Crushing Blow

 Tojo Still Boasting of Blows to Come Against Enemies MacArthur Recalls Anniverssary of Fall of Corregidor

1010 BOASTFUL, BUT NAZIS DOUBT HIS BIG CLAIMS   Japan Ready for Decisive Blow, Premier . Says—Germans:See Peril.

Tojo Predicts Japs Ready To Strike on Anniversary Of Capture of Corregidor

LARGE PRICE REDUCTIONS ON Hon COMING   Retail Prices Are Expected to Be Cut Up to 59 Per Cent.   CAUSES MUCH WORRY   Acticn Already Taken on Seed Potatoes and War Alarm C!ocks.

Jones and Wallace Concur in Action Of President   Both Issue Statements after Receiving Letter; Jones Praises Crowley

WALLACE AND JONES COMMENT ON ORDER   Former Refuses to Question Wisdom of F.D.R.—Jones Approves Move for Harmony.

Yank Troops Score New Gains on Bougainville Island in Solomons   Bomb Gilbert - Marshall Islands for 5 Straight Days.   OVER 500 JAPANESE KILLED YESTERDAY   Chinese Troops Drive 30 More Miles Into Northern Burma.

AMERICANS MAKE NEW AIR ASSAULTS AGAINST GILBERT MARSHALL JAPS   Tiny Island Blasted For Fifth Straight Day. U. S. Warships Bombard Buka Island.

Full Details of Allied Grand  Strategy Given   Roosevelt and General Kisenhower Hold Conference at Villa Qhutsicdle of Carthavce

Tarawa Was Hardest Fight On Any Front   Eyewitness Describes Bitter Bloody, Costly Struggle Before Island Taken

Berlin is Bombed Again by British   Germans Fight to Set Up Defense Line North of Volturno in Italy

Allied Army Reinforced At Volturno   Three More Towns Taker by Fifth Army — Push Nazis Back

UNION, ORGANIZERS TO TESTIFY TODAY   Federal Probe Of Wildcat Strikes Ends First Week Today

Twenty-One Bombers Are  Lost In Attack On - German Capital And  12 In Ruhr Valley

33 Planes Lost In Nett Attacks Qn Nazi Cities   Bochum And Other Points In Ruhr Valley Bombed

BRITISH PLASTER GERMAN CAPITAL WITH BiG BOMBS   Great Fires Raging for Sec: ond Time in 48 Hours; War Targets in Ruhr Also Attacked.

GREAT FIRES BURNING IN NAZI CAPITAL   Ruhr Valley War Targets Struck Again By British

Bombers Fight Weather and Tough Defense  Many Fires Started In Second Blow at OP tient tn AD G8. ie

SECOND RAID IN 48 HOURS HITS BERLIN   New RAF Attack R¢kindled Great Fires in Capital

RAF Relights Huge Fires in Berlin Raid   Loss of 33 Bombers in Ruhr Valley Attacks Admitted

ALKER DUE TO ASSUME PARTY REINS   Postmaster General  Lib#ly to Head i Democrats

WALKER 10 ACCEPT PARTYCHAIRMANSHIP   Postmaster General Ils FDR’s Choice For Position

WALKER TO TAKE CHAIRMANSHIP OF DEMOCRAT PART!   United Press Says Postmas. ter General Will Accept at Urging of Mr. Roose a a

Wolker Is Persuaded To Take Chairmanship Of Democratic Committee

No Criticism, Senators Say  .Three On World Tour Explain Their Remark.

Senators Not Mad At British   Three of Touring Five Disappointed At Reaction

Senators Say No Animosity To British   Only Mad At Axis  Onines Brewster

Japan Admits  China .Losses   says Troops Are. Back At Original .Base’ After. “Rice Bowl Drive © ~

Rice Bowl Losses Admitted By Japs  Tokyo Says 32,000   Tokyo Says 32,000 Chinese Killed

Lonergan Is Questioned on Scratches; Return to N. Y. City Likely

Canadian Uniform of Cadet Lonergan Hunted  In Effort To Link Him With Wife's s Killine

Flier’s Uniform Missing in  Murder Case   Slain Woman's Husband Tells Conflicting Stories

SEARCH TODAY FOR UNIFORM WORN BY VICTIN’S HUSBAND   Lonergan Shouts Protests Of Innecence In Death  ‘Of Wife In New . tec jenucVorkk City:

Uniform May Hold Key to N. Y. Murder   Husband of Heiress in Jail for Quiz Protests His Innocence

Public Sense Of Justice Being Outraged McGee Flays Carelessness Of Some On Preferred Mileaae

Favors Separate Butter Rationing  Asserts It's Only Fair Distribution Means

HITS PROGRAM   Industrialist Calls 16-Point Butter Cost "Inaeffertive*

GOP Demands Spending Cut   Morgenthau Says Wouldn’t Alter Need for New Taxes

GOP Presses For Slash In Spending  Martin Declares Economy Must Ease Tax Burden

NEW ATTACKS ON SPENDING MADE BY GOP   Administration’s Huge Tax Bill Is Sprinw board

HOUSE GOP RAPS FEDERAL SPENDING   MARTIN DEMANDS CUT IN EXPENDITURES BEFORE NEW TAXES ARE IMPOSED.

[REPUBLICANS WILL DEMAND SLASH IN SPENDING TO REDUCE TAX DEMANDS

GOP's House Whip Demands Less Spending   Martin Says His Parts Will Insist on More  Ckieemeagese: DE re

TAX PLANS HIT BY GOP HEADS   Rep. Martin Calls for a Sharp Reduction in Government Spending

TAX PROPOSALS RAPPED BY GOP   Government Spending Attacked By House Republicans

Republicans In New Attack On Govt. Spending  Use Administ — Tax Program Sorina » ida

MEN BEING DRAFTED FOR ALL BRANCHES   February Quotas Include Navy And Marine Corps

NTH BEATS OF TWO ATTACKS BY GERMANS   Eighth Army Extends Bridgehead Across Sangro River

FIFTH REPULSES BITTER ATTACKS   Germans Suffer Big Losses: British Eighth Improves Bridgehead

Reds Plunge On In Three-Front Drive   Nazis Rush Troops lin From Holland, But Fail To Stem Onrushing Soviet Assaults ”

‘Mud Fails to Stop Soviets Reds Gain on Three  South Russia Fronts   Soviets Fail to Tell Any More About New Offensive in North; Other Advances Made

BILL REPORTED-- FAVORABLY ‘LATE YESTERDAY HAS BLOC OF .49 SENATORS. BACKING MEASURE

SENATE FIGHT ON DEFERMENT FOR FARMERS   Bankhead bi!! sppear> likely to get past upper house

DRAFTING OF FATHERS WILL BE SOON NOW   Announcement Is Made in Washington That Step Is Necessary.   TO COME ABOUT MAY 1   Tipton County Beard Is Pre. paring for Call of the First Group.

Nazis Getting What They Tried To Give   RAF Battering Of German Cities Disrupts Production, Affects Morale

King Pleads For Fealty To Him    Says Isolation Of Sicily From Italy Won’t Last Long.

VETTORIO EMANUELE OFFERS SOLACE T0 SICILIANS ‘TODAY   Rome Radio Implies King Trying to Halt Separatist Move Rather Than Imply Peace Offer Coming

Separation Not Long, —Emanuele   Italian King Pleads With Sicilians To Stand By

Italian King Makes Unbelligerent Talk   Broadcast to Sicilians Deesn’t Mention War

King Emanuele Tn Quiet Tone   Italian Crown Declares Sicily Will Not Long Be Isolated Part.

ITALIAN KING TELLS SICILY - REUNION NEAR   Emanuele Makes No Mention o Continuing War in Plea Sicilian: Not Separate

Italian King Asks For Unity  Says Sicily Will Not Be ‘Isolated’ Lona

King Emanuel Asks Sicilians To Keep Faith   Apparently Aeted Te Va  7 mn y Sech ‘Ts Varestal!  Separatist. Movement

italian King Tells Sicily Trial- Brief   Monarch Atteitipts * To Forestall Any Separatist Moye

Rome Fights Separist Movement On Sicily in King’s Broadcast   Full-Scale Offensive Against Jans Assured

SIGILY ISOLATION WILL NOT LAST, KING DECLARES   Rome Radio Hints Mon. arch’s Address Intended to Head Off Separatist

King of Italy Broadcasts To Sicilians   Proclamation Says That Isolation From Italy Will Not Last Long

SAYS ISOLATION  OF ITALY WILL NOT  _ LAST FOR LONG   This Was Told Sicilians Today by King Vittorio Emmanuele.   NO MENTION OF WAR   Indications He Was Trying to Forestall a Separatist Movement.

KING PROMISES SICILY SHIFT   VITTORIO SAYS ISLAND ISOLATION TEMPORARY

afian King (alks to Sicily   Says Island. Will Not Be Isolated:From Rest Of Italy “for Long’

King s Speech Seen As Move toHalf Separate Government Plan In Sicily

SICILIAN REUNION ~ SEEN BY VITTORIC    Proclaims In Broadcast That Present Isolation of Island _ From Rest of Italy Will Not Last For Long.  :

ITALIAN KING IN  AIR PROCLAMATION  TO PEOPLE OF SICILY UNBELLIGERENT BROAD.  CAST APPEALS FOR SIJPPORT TO THRONE

SICILIANS TOLD TO HOLD FAITH   King Says Separation Won't ) Last For Long

King’s Broadcast To Sicily Seen As Effort To Forestall Reported Separatist Moves   Tells Populdce Isolation Won't Last Long; No Mention Of Prosecuting War

Rostov Is Under Shell Fire From  Soviet Big Gun:   .. Red Army Closes In Swiftly From South Toward Caucasus Gateway   LAST RESISTANCE AT STALINGRAD ENDS

SOVIET SIEGE GUNS SHELLING CITY OF ROSTOV   Nazi-Held Refining Center Under Fire; German Air Base Blasted   REDS CONTINUE ADVANCE   Enemy Forces Wiped Out Qn Surrender To Russians At  Stalingrad

GERMAN HELD UITY UNDEA HELL FIRE   Gateway City to Caucasus Bearing Brunt of the Sovi ttack.   OIL REFINING CENTER   To the North Russians Have Als: Given Voroshileovgrad Heavy Bombing.

BEGIN SIEGE OF KEY CITY   Nazi-held oil refining center endangered by Russ advance

ACTION Is REPORTED   Siege Of Stalingrad Lifted As German Army Liquidated

BLAST JAPS IN BURMA, PACIFIC   U. S. Bombers Hit Enemy Bases, Destroy Planes

LOTHU.S. AIRFORCE BOMBS JAP BASES   Blast Supply Lines And ‘Munitions Dumps With - 100 Tons Of Bombs

DE GAULLE-GIRAUD THREAT TO FRANCE   Ousted Commissioner of Martinique Sees Feud

TYDINGS OPPOSED TO HUGE SPENDING   Senator Says Government Should Go On Pay-As--You-Go Basis  FoHowing War

Tydings Calls for Pay-As-You-Go Amendment To Curb U. 5. Spending

CLAIMS HE SAW KASTER FLEEING   Waverly Teacher Is Firm in Testinony

TEACHER SURE MASTER DROVE KILLER'S CAR   Sticks to “Positive” {dentification Despite Defense Counsel Efforts. ©

Presidential Intervention May Be Necessary To End Administration Scrap

FOR MAY TAKE TAND TN JONES WALLACE ROM   Advisers Urge Speedy Action to Clear Embarrassing Controversy.   VOTE AGAINST INQUIRY MADE ON PARTY BASIS

See Roosevelt Intervention In Capital Dispute      Think Jones-Wallace Feud Must Be Stopped   To Demonstrate Power 

2 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK BY PLANES OTE NEW GEORGIA   Cruiser and Two Destroyers Blasted to Bottom as They Try to Run Gantlet to Munda.   £ AMERICAN AIRCRAFT LOST IN ONSLAUGHT   Land, Air and Sea Forces CoOperating to Seal Doom of Enemy Garrisot at Air Base.

Air, Land, Sea Forces Strike af Doomed Munda   Slow, Constant Deterioration of Garrison Expected

U.S. bombs sink 3 Jap warships  off New Georgia   Maintain constant pressure against beleaguered enemy

Ring Tightens Over Munda >   Another Enemy Effort For Aid To Big Base Defeated

Bombers. ond Naval Ships Cooperate  In Latest Fight Near Jap Base

FINAL ASOAULT AGAINoT MUNDA NOW UNDERWAY   Americans Push To Edae Of Base. Seize Portion Of Main Defenses

YANKS DRIVE T0 TYRRHENIAN SEACOAST   City of 389,700 Is Taken Without Costlv Battle

North Sicilian Port Is Taken By Americans   Advance By U. 8. Forces Divides Island—City Falls Easily   AXIS TROOPS BEING PENNED IN CORNER

Victorious 7th Army Takes Key Sicilian City With Very Little’ Opposition; Catan’a Still Holds

GIANT VICTORY IS SHOCK FOR NAZI TROOPS   Allies speculate if Hitler will sacrifice his own troops y

YOUTH CONFESSES SLAYING OF FIVE   Parents, _ Grandparents and Brother Killed by Californian

Youth Admits He Killed Five   Amos Latshaw Found in Los Angeles After Month-Long Search

GANDHI HAPPY AS FAST ENDS   21-Day Protest Against Con finement Leaves All-India Leader Weak

GANDHI ENDS PROTEST FAST   Mahatma Cheerful But Weak After Three Weeks Without Food

GANDHI ENDS 21-DAY FAST   HINDU LEADER DRINKS FRUIT JUICE AS HIS PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IS CONCLUBED

ALLIED FLYERS CONTINUING T0 LASH GERMANS   Double Blockbusters Are Dropped on Nazi Foundries Center

Yanks, British Hold 24-Hour Air Raids   Double Block Busters, 8,000 Pounds, Are Dropped on Cologne: Daylight Raids Rock European Fortress

ICA THRESHOLD OF NEW WAR YEAR   Outlook Bright, Providing Contrast to Previous Years

ALLIES PLAN. “HEAVY BLOWS. DURING 1944   MANY MILITARY AND NAVAL  LEADERS  FREELY . -PREDICT-ING ENOCKOUT OF GER, MANY IN COMING. YEAR

Stepped Up Blows on Japan Pledged as Follow-up of De. feat of Germany; Admiral King Says Offensive Agains' Nipponese Will Be Continually Increased.

AMERICA IS ON THRESHOLD OF NEW WAR YEAR   Outlook Bright, Providing Contrast to Previous Years

CONFERENCE ON TAXES   Roosevelt Continues His Talks With Churchill

FRENCH SHOWDOWN ~ MAY COME TODAY   MEETING OF COMMITTEE CALLED TO CONSIDER DE GAULLE-GIRAUD DISPUTE.

French Leaders  AssembleToday  De Gaulle Said Certain  BY. Uwreit wwe... ER *..4

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American Ground Forees At Arawe Consolidate Positions   Gains Are Made in the Face of Stubborn Enemy Air Attacks——-Bombs Are Dropped on Japanese Airdromes

POSITIONS EXTENDED IN  SPITE OF JAP AIR BLOWS By C. YATES McDANIEL Beenrintatd Praae Sinti Writas

JAPANESE RAID ARAWE FIELD; LOSE 16 PLANES   American Ground Forces Continue To Extend Positions Despite Attacks   CAPE GLOUCESTER IS BOMBED ONCE MORE

Hitler Learning What Lies Ahead For Axis Power:   Day and Night Bombing Expected To Bring Positive Results

JAPANESE RETIRING SOUTH OF LIN RIVER   Chinese Army Spokesman Predicts Japs Will Soon Be Cleared From Area

HUNTERS’ POOL IDEA REJECTED   State OCD Chief Thinks OPA Missed Point: Will Try Again

HUNTERS CAN'T POOL ‘A’ GAS   OPA’s Action Is ‘Lot Of Baloney,’ Leonard Asserts

NAZIS DUE FOR STIFF PASTING   U.S, RAID REFLECTS GROWING STRENGTH OF AIR OFFENSIVE

CONTINUITY SOON IN BOMBING BY AMERICAN FLIERS   Pilots Say They Will Do Better and that German Defenses Did Not Do Se Well Under Fire

Attack By U.S. Bombers  On Nazis Shows Growing Strength Of Air Power   Weakness In First-Class Aerial Talent Is Found In Germany On . Vulnerable Points

US Air Arm In Britain Is Stronger   First Bombing of Germany by US Air Forces Presages Series of Attacks Against Nazi Homeland

MCRICAN AIR POWER GROWS   First Bombing of Germany By U.S. Indicates increasing Strength. -

British Follow With Attacks Cn  Duesseldorf Area   Bombings _ Indicatior Of Growing Power To ‘Bust Germany Wide Open’

U.S. Air Arm Gains Strength   American Raid Over Germany Shows Crews Are  Gaining Skill.

Greater U.S. Air Assaults On Germany   Growing Strength of — Air Arm Indicates Increased Destruction

Greater Raids On Reich Due  See Growing Strengtt of U. S. Air Arm

: Yanks Find Nazi Anti-Air Defenses Weak... .  ‘Americans Are “Just Starting” On Germany

U.S. AIRMEN PROMISE REICH HARDER BLOW:   First Americans to Bomb Germany Say Nazi Pilots ‘Green,’—Wilhelmsbaven, Emden Bombed

GREATER BLOWS ON REICH SEEN BY U.S, FLIERS   Participants In First All. American Attack On Enemy Say Greater Things to Come   FIND NAZIS WEAK   Indicates, They Say, Ger — many Has Not Enough First Class Aerial Tal  ent For Defense

First American Bombing Of Reich Presages Greater Aerial Blows   German Anti-Aircraft And Fighter Plane Defense  Weakness Indicates Germans Haven’t Enough Talent To Cover All Vulnerable Points.

John L. Lewis — Fails To Appear At WLB Hearing   UMW President Defies Board In Scheduled .  Washington Session

DEFIES WAR LABOR BOARD, STAYS INN, Y   7,000 Miners in Birmingham Fail to Report for Work

Lewis Fails to Appear For Labor Board Hearing   Operators and Board Members Open Session Without UMW Union Head

JOHN LEWIS DEFIES WAR LABOR BOARD   Fails to Appear At Hearing On Wage Dispute

LEWIS DEFIES WLB BY FAILURE 10 ATTEND HEARINE   No Mine Representative Appears—Officials In Huddie §n Capital.

DeMarigny Has No Idea About Being Deported   Plans To Remain At Nassau Home

Marigny Says Trial Was “Boring; Plans Fishing Trio With His Wife

RATIONING OFFICIAL LOSES HIS GASOLINE   Exceeded Speed Limit anc Had Extra Coupons

HITLER’S MEN RETAIN BASES ON MAINLAND   FOGGIA ATRDROME TO BE DEFENDED BY ENEMY

NAZI AIRFIELD HIT BY ALLIES   Only Remaining 'Drome In Southern Italy Heavily Hit By Bomber Raids

ALLIES POUND FOGGIA BASE   Eighth Army Continues to Advance on Calabrian Coastal Roads

EXPAND HGLD ON SO. ITALY 10 70 MILES   When Surrender Was An. nounced; Foggia, Last Naz Airbase In South; Pound. ed Heavily By Allies   Cross In Boats

Allied Raiders  Batter Foggia   German Fighters Attack Over Italian Field

General Ben Lear  To Retire May 31   No Official Announcement Of Successor To Command  Of Second Army

Public Aid Merger Fails When House Republicans Split   Equal - Pay-for - Women Legislation Also Meets Setback

Asks Ruling ~ OnQOdd Jobs  By Farmers   Nebraska Senator Seeking : Interpretation of the  Draft Act

Blackout Defenses Prepare   Various Agencies Ge Ready For First Drill Under New Plan On  Thursday.

REDS REPULSE NAZI THRUSTS IN DONETS AREA   Two Companies Of Enemy Infantry Wiped Out By Soviets

STRONG NEW NAZI DRIVES BEATEN BACK   Fighting Intensified With Improvement [r Weather Conditions

Nazi Effort To Storm Tay um Is  Hur led Back   Strong Russian Counter-Attack Drives Enemy From Favorable Position

Russians Hurl Back German Donet Thrusts   Red Artillery Wipes Out Nearly Two Nazi infantry Companies

TO HASKELL CLASS   Chancellor Malott of K. U. Addresses Indian   Graduates

AERIAL WARFARE ON GERMANY — ” BEING GIVEN COMPLETE. TEST      ALLIED HIGH COMMAND TEST: ING THEORY THAT BOMBINGS MAY PREVENT HEAVY LAND FORCE  _' E.R eee

Leader of UMW Again Complicates Strike Situation; House Adopts No Strike Measure

June 20 Is Date Set ~. By Mine Union Head  :  a ~ To Secure A Contract

Order Return To Pits   June 20th Deadline Named By Policy Group Of Union

BRICKER HIT NEWS POLICY   GOVERNOR DECLARES ¥FREE    ARE ‘BEING "THREATENED 

‘LAST ENEMY STRONGHOLD AY ORTONA GIVEN SMASHING BLOW    Fifth Army Fighters Capture More High Ground Around Acquafondala Near Cassino

AMERICANS ADVANCE ON ITALY FRONT   Eighth Army Takes Village; Ortona Battle Continues

British Hammer, Adriatic Wing  Of German Line   Pound Last of Foe’s Toeholds In Ortona

Took German Attack Five Days In Row   Force Including Oklahomans Never Cracked Or Gave Back

It Took Plenty of Guts But Yanks Didn’t Back Out From Nazis Attack

Flier on Unauthorized Trip Tags Along With Forts He Intercepted And Shoots Down Attacking Nazi

GAINS ON FIVE FRONTS AGAINST NAZI INVADERS   Terrific Losses Being Inflicted on Germans Caught in Messes of Red Army Net

REDS MAKING STEADY GAINS IN CAUCASUS   Crossing of Donets and New Thrust Toward Kharkhov Highlight Soviet Advances   GARRISON WIPED OUT

Today’s War Commentary  Swiss Neutrality  Peace-Loving People Now Lsolates

1,503 Cheering Allies Board Gripsholm, Expect to Reach U. S. in About 45 Days   Prisoners of War Exchanged in Sweden

GRIPSHOLM 10 SAIL THURSDAY   EXCHANGE NEARLY ENDED AT PORT OF MORMUGAO

India Exchange Nearly Finished   Steamers To Depart Soon’ With Expatriates

British Planes Top Off 100 Hours Continuous Bombing   Hammer Frankfurt Again 12 Hours After Americans  Raid City

GERMANY REELING UNDER HEAVIEST AIR OFFENSIVE IN ALL HISTORY   Hitler’s Arsenal City Of Frankfurt Lambasted Last Night.

Wake Island Again Bombed   Eleven More Attacks Also Reported Against Kiska In Aleutians

S. FLYERS RAID KISKA 1] TIMES, SCORE ON WAKE   American Liberators Deatroy 18 Out of Thirty Intercepting Jap Zeros Over Latter Island.

ereeperereeeee eee eee eee eee  U. S. Steps Up Aerial War in Pacitie

ASK CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY OVER CONTROL OF GAS   Burton Sees No Reason To Sus pend Gas Cards Apain

FARM WORKERS RELEASED FOR ESSENTIAL WAR JOBS DURING WINTER MONTHS

Farm Workers Urged To Transfer To Winter Work in Essential Industries

Look Uut AXIs!  Largest Class In History Graduates from  Naval Academy 765 GRADS

Knox Says U. S. Must Win Air   Addresses Remarks To Large Annapolis Class

OUT OF DESERT, EIGHTH ARMY IO GLOSING IN   Mareth Line Can Be Turned, Gen. Alexander Predicts On Eve Of Battle

War Now Centered In Tunisia   General Alexander Sees Victory Ahead in North African Warfare

AXIS CLAIMS 67 ALLIED SHIPS, INCLUDING TROOP-CARRYING LINER SUNK IN ONE MONTH   Allies Feeling Out Axis Lines in Tunisia; Russians Admit Loss of Kharkov but Make Gains in Other Sectors )

Spring Sub Offensive Has Started   Axis Rumors New Atlantic Sinkings Of Allied Ships

SUB WARFARE BEING PRESSED HARD, REPORT   Allies Silent On Enemy Claims 67 Ships Sunk In Last Month

Sinkings in Atlantic Told With Start   ALNIES NEIMPHER CONFIRM NOR DENY CLAIMS BY GERMANY.

SINKING OF “LINER NOT CONFIRMED   Start Of Hitler's New Submarine Offensive Is. Indicated

Sinkings Claimed b;  Germans   Allege They Have Sunk 6 Allied Shins During Last Month

Showdown On Wage Demand Is Expected   Roosevelt May Show Hand On ‘Little Steel’ Ceiling Issue

Hamburg Residents Don’t Believe Hitler Can Win   People Now Hurling   Fuehrer’s Photo   Ieta ba Caacci’de

Hamburg Residents Don’t Believe Hitler Can Win   People Now Hurling Fuehrer’s Photo   People Now Hurling Fuehrer’s Photo Into the Streets

Coal Parley Setback   UMW Refuses Contract With Only Half of Industry; Talks Go On

Informs Congressional Group Cut in Consumption Will Be  “ Ordered—Comes Out for Boost in Crude Oit Prices—Op erator Asserts Increase.Might Make It Possible to Abandon Rationing by July 1, 1944.

Ickes Plans To Appeal OPA Refusal To Boost Oil  1 (Pl gy   To Carry His Request For Price Increase Of 35 Cents a Barrel  To Economic Board   ATTENDS HEARING ON RATION CHANGES   Says Help for East Means Southwestern  And Mid-Western Cuts

Ickes Renews Efforts kor Oil Price Boost   PAW Head Says Cut in Crude Products for Wid-Continent Area Needed to Equalize VW ar Burden; OPA Blamed for Entire Situation

Ickes Reiterates Plan to Curtail Southwest's Gas  Tells Congressional  Group That Supply  Must Be Equalized  SEEKS CRUDE RAISE   Declines to Say If   That Would Prevent   Diversion to the East

‘Midwest Oil Cut Necessary for Equalization’  Ickes Meets With   Ickes Meets With Congressmen at Chicago Conference

Ickes Defends Gas Ration Move   Says War Burden Must Be Equalized

CONSUMPTION OF SASOLINE MUST BE EQUALIZED   Ickes Tells Congressmen Of 32 States That East Is Entitled To Share   FAVORS INCREASE IN PRICE OF CRUDE OIL

SEES LESS GAS FOR MID-WEST   Ickes Repeats Need For Equalization Price Increase Sought

BOOST FOR OIL OUTPUT SOUGHT   Price Incentive Studied; Ickes Says Midwest Must Be Cut

ICKES REITERATES "GAS" PROGRAM   Soys Midwest-Southwest Consumption Must be Cut

Dr. Kellogg Passes af 91   Famous Physician and Health Authority Dies at Battle Creek

J. H. Kellogg. Authority On Health, Dies   Battle Creek Uoacnital Head

Dr. Kellogg Dies; Famed Health Expert   Succumbs At 91 After Illness -OFf Six Months

Death Takes Famed Medicc at Age of 91   DR. JOHN H. KELLOGG, SANITARIUM CHIEF, DIES AT BATTLE CREEK

DR. JOHN #. KELLOGG, NOTED HEALTH AUTHORITY  MO RPATEVEY UA APES Opec

DR. JOHN H. KELLOGG — GALLED BY DEATH   Head of Battle Creek Sanitarium Dies

BATTLE CREEK FOUNDER DIES   Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91, Noted Physician, Health Authority

TRIBUTES PAID TO EDSEL FORD   Company Employes Al! Over World Stand In Silence Today

Dems Preparing ~ For State Mee!   Plan To Pick Candidate _ For Highway Office

DEMOS 10 SELECT HIGHWAY’ NOMINEE   .. B, Reid, Kennedy’s Suc cessor, Appears to Be Unonposed.

Reds Reported Only 40 Miles From ‘Zlutomi   ‘Shattered German Units West And South Of Kiev  Falling Back Steadily

Germans Reeling Under Red Blows  Leaving Vast Stores of Food and Material

POSITION CLARIFIED   Turkey's Policy Now, As Always, Nationalist Then Pro-Ally

TURKEY 15 STILL TRAVELING ROAD T0 WAR BY SPRINGTIME } LITTLE CHANCE OF:  ANKARA’S HOPPING INTC FICUT IMMEDIATELY

MODERATE FLAK   Turkey Following Cautious Course On The Road To War

Turkey's Policy Remains Unchanged; Nation Comes First, Alltes Second

The followitg article passed the strict) Turkish censorship)  By WILLIAM B. KING

Nationalism Still Comes First. ....  Turkey Not Expected In War Before Spring

County’s bond sales top goal of million, assure purchase of eight dive bombers

County's bond sales top goal of million.  assure purchase of eight dive bombers   Lauds Retailers Buvers.

LIQUOR CURFEW PASSES HOUSE   Bill Requires Taverns Tc Close At Midnight

Fleet Will Be Doubled In ’43   Says U.S. Ready For Europe, Pacific Attack

T AMBASSADORS ARE PROMOTED   Latin American Envoys Boosted In Rank

SEVEN AMERICAN ENVOYS PROMOTED   Central and South American Diplomats Will Be  A amalhrewcnslnen

De Marigny’s Fate Up to Male Jury   Oakes Murder Case : Formally Opened  : At Nassau

President Favors Chinese immigration   Tells Congress Legislation Repealing Exclusion Law Is Important in Cause of Winning War and Making Secure Peace.

‘Asks Repeal Of Chinese Exclusion  Law Of 1882   Roosevelt Sends Message To Congres: Favoring Setting  Ir OF Onotas

REPEAL OF XCLUSION AW UREN   Roosevelt Gives His Support To Take Chinese

FOR GIVES SUPPORT TO REPEAL OLD LAW   President Says He Regards Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Act ag Imnortant

Roosevelt In Statement Gives His Unqualified Approval To Bill Which Would admit them

F. D. R. Calls for Repeal of Exclusion Act   PRESIDENT URGES MOVE TO ALLOW CHINESE TO BECOME U. S. CITIZENS

(RAPPING OF CHINESE BAN JS CALLED FOR   Rousevelt Gives Unqualified Support to Legislation to Repeal Exclusion Law   FAVORS ORIENTALS BECOMING CITIZENS   President Regards Legislation As Smportant In Cause of Winning War, Establishing Peace

Roosevelt Supports Repeal Of Measure Excluding Chinese   Sees Law Important he Cause Of Winning War And Establishing Pons!

‘Open Door to Chinese’—F. R.   President Uraes Congress to End Old Injustice and Open U.S. Citizenship To Allies as Aid to a Secure Peace

FR. Backs Repea Of Chinese Exclusion Act   Move Will Counter Japanese Propaganda Plans

Chinese Exclusion Law May Be Repealed   President Roosevelt Gave His Support to Movement Today.

President Supports Plan * To: Accept China As Partner By Repealing Exclusion Law

URGED REPEAL OF EXCLUSION LAY   F. D. R. Urges Passage Of Measure. To Aid _ Chinese ©

PRESIDENT OFFERS FULL SUPPORT IN EXCLUSION REPEAL  WOULD ALSO PERMIT CHINESE RESIDENT TO BECOME U. S. CITIZENS

Change In Old Law Would Aid In Winning War   Let Chinese Become U. S. Citizens, Is Plan; Quotas To Be Set

President Gives Support To Legislation Which Lets Chinese Enter On Quota Basis

Roosevelf Favors Repeal of Chinese Exdusion Ad   Says Would Correct Historical Mistake, Silence Jap Propaganda

Battino Grder   Chinese Ban Repeal Urged By Roosevelt   Regards Action as Important in Winning War and Establishing Peace

JAPS QUITTING ANOTHER ISLE   10,000 Reported Evacuating Kolombangara

JAP EVACUATING ANOTHER ISLAND   Barges Loaded With Fleeing Troops Sunk, However

JAPS. LEAVING KOLOMBANGARA   Heavy Barge Traffic al Night Indicates Enemy Is Fleeing.   AIRCRAFT POUND BASE

10,000 Japs Believed Fleeing Kolombangara   ‘Central Solomons Area Being Cleared Of Enemy  As. Aussies Gain Added Ground In - Bloody Drive On Finschhafen

Yank Airmen Rake Fleeing Jap Garrison   Island Base, Out-Flanked: by Allies, Is\ Useless to Poe; Chinese Drive:

JAPS BELIEVED EVACUATING KOLOMBANGARY   Garrison Apparently Being Moved to Choisful ‘Island 50 Miles to North

JAPS EVAGUATING ANOTHER ISLANL   Enemy Trying To Eseapc  From Kolombangara In Solomons

Japs Abandon Kolombangars   Enemy Attempis Removal Of Garrison To Choiseul. Bougainville Base.

Japs Evacuating Island, Is Belief  ‘Kolombangara_ Retreat  Mav Be Under Way

Japs Thought Evacuating Kolombangara   Prize Air Base at Vila Outflanked By Allied Ground Forces

ALLIES MENACE SITE FOR VELA AIRCRAFT BASE   Situation Precarious, If Not Dang. erous for Japanese Garrison of 10,000 Men.

Japs Fleeing From Island   Evacuation of Kolombangars Reported; Base Under Air And Artillery Assault

Barges Evacuating Jap Troops from Kolombangara Island Sunk by Planes

Americans Pound Jap Installations  In Solomons and On Kiska Island

U.S. Fliers Strike Enemy at Many Points in Pacific   Planes Hit Important Installations in North, South Zones

TOKYO'S ISLAND BASES BOMBED   Long - Range Attacks Are Delivered In Gilbert Group

TENSION IS EASED _ IN FLOOD REGIONS   Big Plant Closed in Mlinois by the High ~  atere

Big Explosives Plant Closed by Mississippi Flood   But Surging Waters Are Receding and Worst Is Believed Over

Flood District Tension Eases  As Rivers Fall   Production Halted at Big Explosives Plant By Surging Waters: Push Rehabilitation

Flood Waters Close Big Explosives Plant in Illinois  High Water Crests Are Moving Down; Food Production Hit

Explosives Plant Closed by Flood  Conditions Take Turn for Better

POWDER PLANT HIT BY FLOOD   Mississippi Gushes Over Sandbag Levee Into War Factory

TENSION EASED IN FLOOD AREER   High Waters Close Down Big Explosives Plant At Wolf Lake, Ill.

Flood Closes Big  Explosives Plant   Situation Better In Six States

OVERALL PLAN FOR 4d GLOWS 15 DISCUSSED   Allied Bombers Continue Heavy Attacks On Axis Along Long Front

FIRST T STRIKE LAW IN MINES LOOMS   Confusing Aspects 0: New Act Being Studied

TIRE AND. TUBE “GRANTS 60.10. “AA APPLIGANTS   Big List of. Car and. Truck Owners Announced by — the Beard.  DENIALS NOT LISTED   Most of the Certificates Gc to Private Automobile Owners:

TIRE AND TUBE GPANTO GO 1] 64 APPLICANTS   Big List of Car and Truck Owners Announced by the Beard.   DENIALS NOT LISTED   Most of the Certificates Go to Private Automobile Owners.

LARGE NUMBER WERE GIVEN TIRES, TUBES   Forty-seven Ccunty Drivers : Were ‘Approved -by Ra-. . - tion Offic! als.   AT THURSDAY SESSION   List of the LuckyRecipients . Announced bv the Tiptsn’ ‘' “s County Board.

LARGE NUMBER WERE GIVER Iho, TUBES   Forty-seven Ccunty Drivers - Were Approved by Ra tion Officials.   AT THURSDAY SESSION   List of the LuckyRecipients Announced bv the Tipton . County Board.

Giraud To Hold Army Command   Field Control To Be With Daftaiilla

Allied Chiefs Quiet on New: of Surrender   F.D. R., CHURCHILL SILENT; KNEW OF CAPITULATION BEFORE

FDR and Churchill Are Unexcifed   Knew About Surrender, Let Eisenhower Tell It

Capitulation  Terms Agreed On Friday   “Eisenhower's Story—Let Him Tell It,”” FDR Declares

All Very Calm At White House  FDR Knew Of Italy's Fall For Some Time; Terme Made Friday

WASHINGTON IS EXCITED PLENTY   No Immediate Comment, However, From Either President Roosevelt Or Mr. Churchill.

CAPITAL HEARS OF ITALY'S FALL   FDR and Churchill Advised  In Advance

No Comment on Capitulation of Italy Given By President Roosevelt or Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Crimea Germans  Periled   NAZI FORCES PREPARE TO FLEE AS REDS CLOSE IN ON ONLY LAND EXIT

Dixie Railways Defy Committee   Won’t Obey Order To Cease Discriminating Against Negroes.

DECLINETO LIFTBAN ON NEGROES   ‘Southern: Railways “Say FEPC Order. To Be Ignored

Restrictions On Farmers       Chicago Farm Publication  Says Regulations Dumb,  Ruinous

SAYS NO BASIC FOOD SHORTAGE   Analysis ‘Published by Corn Beit Farm Dailies — Prediction Based on’ Prospects of Better Than Average Corn Crop.

New Waring Blast Says J. L. Lewis Is ‘Worst Traitor Since Arnold

The War Today  Term ‘Soft Underbelly of Axis’ Has Special Siguificance Now.

— The~—___. WAR TODAY  By DeWIT?T MACKENZIE Wide Worlsa tear Analtect

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Weakened Italy Is Best Allied Invasion Site MacKenzie Believes

ITALY MAY BE NEXT OBJECTIVE OF ALLIES AS “UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE” TAKES ON SIGNIFICANCE

lItaly, Is Without Doubt A Soft Spot in the Axis  ‘Italians’ Hearts Are Not in War

Seizure Of Port City Of Catania Would Put Invaders Only 55 Miles Krom Messina, Island's Northern Supply Terminus

ROMMEL KILLED, REPORT CLAIMS   German Underground Radio Says Marshal's Plane Shot Down Ih Flames.

ROMMEL LISTED AS SHOT DOWN   Unconfirmed Report Says Field Marshal Lost On Way To Sicily

ROMMEL KILLED, RADIO REORTS   Roundabout, _ Unconfirmed  ~- News faye Axis Leadge,

Nazis Deny Rommel Is  Shot Down   Reported Lost On Sicily Flight

British Racing Toward Catania As Axis Masses   Yanks Take 2 Airports And City During 15Mile Advance   Report Rommel Shot Down In Atr Fight

ROMMEL’S PLANE ‘REPORTED DOWNED   SHIP CARRYING MARSHA. ‘0 SICILY SAID TO HAVE BEEN SHOT FROM SKIES.

MARSHAL ROMMEL DEAD?   fserman Cammander Reported shot Doun By Vilied Planes

Report Rommel Killed on Plane   Axis Sources Say  Craft Shot Down

ROMMEL REPORTED TO BE A CASUALTY   German Und-crground Radio Station Says Marshal Was Shot Down By Allied Fighter Planes

Report Rommel's Plane Shot Down  Underground Tells Of Air Battle

CIRCUIT GOUhT PROCEEDINGS OF INTERES!   Defendant in Divorce Suit Here Filed a Cross Complaint.   CHARGES ARE MADE   A Few Other Matters in the Probate Division Were Taken Up.

CIRCUIT: COURT. PROCEEDINGS OF INTEREST   Defendant in Divorce. Suit ~ Here Filed a Cross ~~ Gomplaint.   CHARGES ARE MADE   . Few’ Other Matters in . the Probate Division © _ +. Were Taken Up.

French Fields, Nazi Shipping Blasted Again Germans Hit Har  In Second RAF Raid In Day

SHIPPING BOMBED ~ OFF DUTCH COAST      Axis Vessels Damaged in Attacks by Allied  Airmen

BRITISH ATTACK COAST TARGETS   Enemy Airports Blasted For Second Time In 24 Hours

WLB BRANDED PACKED COURT   Lewis Hints He May Not Put Miners’ Wage Boost To It

Pennsylvania's Post-War Road Program Detailed   Motor Club Heads Hear Address by John U. Shrover

Motor Club Heads Hear Address by John U. Shroyer   Huge Post-War Road Building Program In State Outlined

Slavs Beat Back Nazis   Germans Attempting tc Storm Tuzla Hurled Back and Retreat

GERMANS ARE REPULSED   Yugoslavs Inflict Stinging Defeat On Nazi Attacking Force

REPULSE TO NAZIS   LIS BLAST ISLAND BAS!   Strong Forces Retreat in Yugoslavia, Says Partisan Chief

Enemy Reported Retreating Toward Doboj In Face of Stinging Repulse

Nazis Slapped     By Yugoslavs And Retreat   Strong Attack On Tuzla Is Beaten Back; Bitter Fighting.

YUGOSLAV FORCES PUT NAZI TROOPS INTO A RETREAT   Germans: Beaten Back. From “Tuzla, Industrial City Dominating The Plain Leading * To Belgrade

NAZI FORCES IN YUGOSLAVIA BEATEN BACK   Italian Division Joins With Patriots

YUGOSLAVS BEAT GERMANS BACK AT TULA   Entire Italian Venezia ‘Division Joins Yugoslav Patriots in Fight on Nazis

STRONG NAZI ARMY BEATEN BY SLAVS   Entire Italian Division Now Fighting For Yugoslavia

NAZIS BEATEN BACK BY SLAVS   Germans Fail In Attempt To Storm Town Of Tuzla.

Claims Dams Cut Flood Damage  Would Have Been   Would Have Been Twice as Great, Engineer Says

Flood Walls Cut Damage in Half   Government Engineer Praises Workers At Pittsburgh, Wheeling

Shoe Stamp 18 Extended   Next Ration Period May Stretch 6 Months

New Shoe Stamp ‘Must Last You for Six Months   No. 18’s Deadline Made Indefinite by New OPA Rule

JAPS LOSING - MANY SHIPS   KNOX. REVEALS THIRD, OF ENEMY CARGO VESSELS . THAT STARTED WAR HAVE BEEN SUNK .

One-Third of Jap Tonnage Sunk      Does Not Include Warships Lost By Japanese

THIRD OF JAPS’ CARGO SHIPPING ¢ SUNK BY ALLIES   Knox Says U. S. Subs Clain 77 Pct. of Merchantmen Lost by Nippon

FLYNN'S DUTIES IN WORLD'S FAIR SAID NICE QUALIFICATION   GC. Howland Shaw Tells Senators Minister-Nominee “Knows People”

Russ Forces Push Drive  Near Rostov   Thousands Fall In Nazi Line At Stalingrad

2 Enemy Subs Destroyed,’ But Menace Still Grave, Secretary of Navy Says 

SUB MENACE STILL GRAVE, KNOX STATES   Development of Show down Fight in Atlantic Indicated

U-Boat Battle Showdown Seen   Decision Expected In Spring Months

Showdown Fight Between Allied Ships, ‘U-Boats in Atlantic Predicted

SHOWDOWN FIGHT AGAINST U-BOATS IS NEAR AT HAND   Hitler Expected to Increase Undersea Raiders in Atlantic With Advent of Spring.   COUNTER-MEASURES ARE STRENGTHENED   American Destroyer Sinks Nazi Sub and Armed Merchantman Downs Jap Submersible.

SUB MENACE STILLGRAVE, KNOX STATES      Development of Show: down Fight in Atlontic . Indicated . :

TWO AXIS SUBS ARE DESTROVEL   Development of Show-down Fight Between Allied Naval Forces and U-boats Fore« seen; Allied Losses Drop

Knox Declares Submarine Yet A Grave Menace   Counter Offensives Being Strengthened In Air _ And On Surface

SHOWDOWN IN SPRING TWIXT SUB FORCES   Longer Days Will Help Submersibles In Battle Of Atlantic; Hazards Greater For Convovs.   2 Subs Destroyed

SUB MENACE VERY GRAVE   Knox Reports Two U-Boats Sunk; Spring Showdown In Sea War Seen

2 A DECISIVE FAILURE   Futile Armored Attack by Germans Regarded as Significant

Gerpan Failure to Halt Reds May Haye Great Effect on War's Outcome

Nazis Unable ToRegain Initiative  (In Russia   Kiev Attack Futile; Enemy Out-generaled By Soviet Command; Heayy Blows Struck

City Officials Meet Today   State Session Will -Ovnen tt If A M.

FDR APPROVES BIG ARMY BILL FOR ’44   Signs Bill Transferring  ‘WAACs To Army Of United States

President Signs Mammoth Army Appropriation Bill; WAACs Transferred

Roosevelt Sicns  Army Money Bill   ‘Transferring Waacs Also Approves Measure

Tt Billion War Bill Is Signed   WACS Tronsferred To Regular Army With Re-enlistment ‘Mus?’

WAACS NOW WACS    Ansiliary Taken Out of Title; FDR  Signs Huge Army Bill

Army Appropriation Bill For 71 Billion Dollars Is Signed by President   Record-Breaking Measure Provides For 99,740 Planes; WAACs to be WACs, With Regular Army Rights

RECORD-BREAKING ARMY BILL SIGNED   Provides Nearly 72 Billion Dollars, WAACS Transferred to Army.

President Roosevelt Signs Record-Breaking Army Appropriation Bill

Roosevelt Signs Funds Bill, Transfers WAAC   Women’s Corps to Get Rights Of Soldiers Now

ICKES PROPOSES CANCELLATION OF CANADA OIL DEAI   Truman Committee Hears Army Acted Without Administeation’s Anoroval.

Ickes Flays Government’s Oil Project In Canada; Demands It Be Stopped _

TRUMAN GROUP HEARS CHARGE OF ARMY WASTE   $130 Billion Project Probed

Requests Government To Discontinue Canal Project Because Of Its High Cost

ICKES URGES PROJECT END   FUELS CHIEF ASKS U. S. TO DROP CANADA OIL

Ickes Urges Oil Project Be Abandoned   Army Has Spent $100,000,000 on Canadian Field

Ickes Would Serap Army’ s  CMe, FY Cano? Dea!   Opens Fire on $130 Million Oit Development Contract With Canada

MANY JAP PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE   Rough-and-Tumble Dog Fight Staged in Solomons Area

29 JAP PLANES BROUGHT DOWN   Fate Of 8 Other Craft In Doubt In Battle Over Solomon Islands

MANY JAP PLANES: DOWNED IN BATTLI   Rough - and- Tumble Dog Fight Staged in Solo. mons Area . 7

Five Atiacks Are Made Against Kiska   Six U. S. Aircraft’ Are Lost: All But Two Pilots Saved

U.S. Fliers Down 25 Jap Ships   More Than Hal Of ‘Invading’ Planes Lost

Yanks Down 25 Jap Warplanes   Six U.S. Craft Lost In Pacific Battle

Yanks Destroy 25 Jap Planes  Over Solomon:   U. S. Loses 6 Planes In Engagement; Five Attacks on Kiska Reported by Navy

Allies shoot down. at leas!  25 Jap craft   6 U. S. planes  said missing

25 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN OVER SOLOMONS   Eight Other Enemy Craft May Be Lost; Six U. §  Bombers Downed   NIPPONESE LOSSES ARE NOW OVER 1,000

Yanks, Japs Engage in Aerial Clash   Americans Destroy .25 Planes in Solomon Dogfight

Battle Ends In Victory Over Pacific   Foe Takes Big Loss; Americans Also Score High at Kiska

Rayburn Elected As Congress Sets Victory for Goal   United Action On War Program Foreseen In 78th Session; Mood Is For Writing Own  Laws On Domestic Issues

Win the War Is Slogan of  New Congress.   But Houses Will Insist Sharply on Their Prerogatives in Writing Domestic Laws; Rayburn Reelected

CONGRESS MEETS IN SOLEMN MOOD TO PUSH VICTORY   At Same Time It Is Sharply Insistent on Writing Own. Laws, Regardless of White House Wishes.   GOP SPOKESMEN PLEDGE CO-OPERATION   Rayburn, Re-Elected Speaker, Announces Intention to Defend and Protect Rights of Hecuse.

HOUSE ELECTS SAM RAYBURN; VOTE 217-206   SOLONS NOT BOUND BY WISHES OF WHITE HOUSE

“Victory  Congress’  Organizes Meets Determined  To Push War Effort And Write Own Laws  RAYBURN ELECTED SPEAKER, 217 TO 206  Session May Prove Most Important In Nation’s History

War Problems Cast Solemnity Over Congress   Group Indicates It Will Insist On Writing Own Laws

78th Congress Opens in Solemn Mood   Is Determined to Write Own Laws on Domestic Issues

78th Congress Convenes: For United Action  Rayburn <lected as Speaker; Senate a Deornanizec

Sharp Insistence, Noted, For Writing Its Own Laws On Domestic Issues

MOOD VOICED BY CONGRESS   Rayburn Again Named Speaker; Will Get Message Today

78TH CONGRESS IN GRIM MOOD AT INAUGURAL   All Out Support For War But Check Promised On  Domestic Issues’   PRESIDENT GIVES MESSAGE AT NOOD

SAMRAYBURN IS SPEAKER BY SLIM MARGIN      Congress Opens in Mood for United Action to  Win War

BULLITT FACED BY SUIT   Philadelphia Would Eye His Income and Expenses,

14 SOLDIERS DROWN IN GULF OF MEXICO   Recover 13 Bodies, Barge Wrecks in Storm

Authorities Disagree On Food: Crop Prospects For This Season   Davis Says No Cause For Alarm Exists — Farmer Co-0} : Council Expects Shortage

Davis Is Confident on Crops   FOOD ADMINISTRATOR SAYS DECLINE REPORT NOT CAUSE FOR ALARM

NO CAUSE FOR CROP ALARM         Food Administrator Chester Davis Says Agriculture Departmeit’s Crop Report Shows Decline = in Prospects During April.

Decline in Crop Prospects Not Alarming  Says Davis   April Fall-Off However of Great Concern to Farmers

CROP OUTLOOK NO CAUSE FOR ALARM, CLAIM   Davis Takes Optimistic View Of Pessimistic U. S. Report

Crop Prospect ‘Decline Said No  Cause For Alarm   Farm Group Contends Production Goals  Cannot Be Attained

Crop Report Is Not yang Davis Insists’ =   “Farm: Coopershiene: See Grave Food: -Shortage-in UsS.3"

Farm Data Hints Major Food Crisis   U. S. Officials Seek To Modify Warning Of Grower Councils

U-BOAT BELIEVED SCUTTLED BY CREW   CAPTAIN OF GREEK VESSEL, SUNK BY RAIDER, PROB. . “aol SR ABLY.-PERISHED) 5...

Yanks Damage Two Cargo Vessels; Left One Sinking.  JAP BOMBER BASE LEFT IN FLAMES  Kiska Bore the Brunt of Latest Series of Attacks.

FLIERS CONTINUE SHIPPING ATTACK   Two Jap Vessels Heavily Damaged in Raids

MANHUNT ON - FOR SLAYER OF BEAR HUNTER      Tedious, Rapid Check of ~More Than 1,000 in r Tionesta. Area

School Bil! Likely Dead   Senate Caucus Indicates Defeat of Measure

DATA REFUSED HOUSE CROLE AN FCC PROBE   FDR Orders. Boycott : By Army, Navy and Budget Bureau

Chief Executive Orders Boycott Of FCC Inquiry  Another "Home Front’   Another "Home Front” Dispute Appears To Be Forming As Result

New Friction Is Exhibited By Congress And President   Army and Navy Depts. And Budget Bureau  ~ Refuse Probers Data On Order of President  COMMITTEE HEAD HITS ‘INTERFERENCE?  Documents, Testimony On FCC Requested Of Federal Agencies

FCC Data Denied  House Committee   Roosevelt Directs Withholding Action

Agencies Refuse Data fo Probers  Action Is Taken On F. R.’s Orders

DATA IS DENIED 10 HOUSE COMMITTEE   Information Refused tc Group Investigating tcc

ROOSEVELT BARS INFORMATION TO HOUSE FCC INVESTIGATORS   Refuses To Permit War and Navy Departments and Budget Bureau Officials To Testify at Inquiry

BILL TO OUTLAW SUBSIDY PROGRAM BEFORE CONGRESS   WLB WARNS HIGHER FOOD PRICES CALLS FOR HIGHER WAGES

House Votes To Uphold Subsidy Ban.   Similar Action by Senate Would Send Bill to President’s Desk:: Veto Predicted

House Again Rejects Food Subsidy Plan Votes 160 To 32 Against Payments For Rollback Of Prices; See Veto  Wf Macaca on,

SUBSIDY-ROLLBACK PAYMENTS BLASTED BY HOUSE BALLOT   By Vote of 160 to 32 the House Voted to Outlaw the Sub‘ sidy Plan—Senate Ready to Act Next ,

House Repeats Vote Outlawing Food Subsidies   Hybrid Bill From Conference Committee Approved. 160 to 32.

HOUSE DEFEATS SUBSIDY PLAN   Action Is Taken on Reconditioned Bill

House Votes Food Subsidy Payment Ban   Outlaws Government’s Move In Price Rollback; F. R. Veto Predicted

SUBSIDY PLAN IS _ HALTED IN HOUSE   Payments for Price Rollbacks Rejected by Vote of 160 to 32   ANOTHER VETO LIKELY

House votes against fund  for subsidies   Outlaws paying for rollbacks on prices for food

SUBSIDY PLANS GIVEN ANOTHER JOLT BY HOUSE   Measure Calling for Roll: backs of Food Prices Defeated Second Time

House Balks Af Subsidy Set-up   Vote To Outlaw. Rollback Payments

Votes ‘No’ Again on  - Subsidies   House in Standing Vote ol 160 to 32 Against the Rollback Plan   [SENATE ACTION  _ 1g EXPECTED SOON   If House Is Supported Again as Previously, Vete Is Exnected

OVERWHELMING VOTE OUTLAW GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES IN HOUSE  CONGRESSIONAL DISSATISFACTION ON HOME FRONT IS DEMONSTRATED

AIRMEN BON CPP LY VESSEL   American Dive” Bombers Start ‘Many Fires’ in Raid at Munda.   INFLICT HEAVY DAMAGE

NLRB ACTIONS ALSO TAKEN TO TASK BY LABOR   Congress Called on to Restrict “Vast Discretion” of Second Major Labor  Agency   HOLD WORKERS ARE SUSPICIOUS OF UNITS   Not Satisfied They Can Get Fair Rulings; Committee Named to Act on  Lewis’s Reentry Bid

Military Authorities Restore Partial Civil Rule in Hawatian Islands

HAWAIIAN CIVIL RULE RESTORED   Admiral Gives Warning That Nipponese May Raid Island Again

Railroads In The Sky Will  Serve America   Freight Carrying Gliders Will Be Attached To Planes In Flight

CHRISTMAS MEETING   Douglas County Teachers Listen to Kansas Poetry

PEACE PLANNING ON ECONOMIC BASIS IS URGED BY WILLKIE   Asks Republican Party To Show Way In Post-War World

Willkie Wants Economie, Not Military Peace   Raps Administration For Its Bans On Free Enterprise, Lack Of Democracy

Military Alliances Will Breed New Wars, He Charges   Administration's Free Enterprise Curtailment Hit

Willkie Urges Economic Peace But No Alliances   Attacks Administration for Discouraging Free Enterprise; -Hits ~Glosed .. Door’ Dinplamacy

Local Woman  Died Monday   EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL AFTER SUFFERING COMPLICATION OF DISEASES

NIPPONESE PUSK INTO RICE BOWL   Yangtze River Port Of Sungtze Threatened By Invaders

Japs Score Gains On Chinese Front  mé.A8 BAwl fete. = *   Rice Bowl Drive ~ Threatens Sunatze

Japs Drive Into China Rice Bow!   Nips Advancing On 9() Mile Front

*Japs Advance An China War   Rice Bowl Is Being Invaded By Jap Force

FARMER'S. PART ~ IN WAR EFFORT   Hassil. Schenk, » Farm “Su: real President, ‘Spoke! ;  Bae Last Night: ta Pe ao a

DAVIS REJECTS” ~- WAGE DEMAND   * : - acu! WLS CHAIRMAN SAYS BOARD. ' WILL NOT GRANT BLANKET   INCREASES TO WORKERS

NEW OFFENSIVE MAY BE OPENING NEAR LENINGRAD   RAF Returns to Ruhr Valley for Second Successive Night Assault   French Use U.S. Anti-Tank Guns to Nip Axis Drive in Tunisia

FATHER DRAFT 1S DISCUSSED   i ¥ ROOSEVELT CONFERRING WITH. HERSHEY ON NEW “FATHERS  LAST” DRAFT LAW we

SEEK TO CLARIFY DRAFT FOR DADS   FDR and Hershey Work on Liaison With Manpower Commission

F rench Unity Is Reported As Complete   Minor Details Require Action

Hike Margin On Beef for Wholesaler   Increase Is Allowed on Condition Retail Price Is Not Affected   DISCOUNT ALSO CHANGED BY OPA   Meanwhile, U. 8. Begins an Inguiry of Black Market at Kansas City

Navy Needs Ship Workers  Recruiter Will Be Her   Recruiter Will Be Heve Tomorrow From 9 A. M. Until 5 P. AA.

“ONRUML TAX PLAN LOOMS   Amendment by Sen. George Is Rejected By. 50-32 Vote

RUML PLAN NEAR VOTE IN SENATE   - Proposal for Partial Forgiveness Defeated

HOLDS FAVOR IN SENATE   Senate Rejects Proposal For Partial Tax Forgiveness

George Partial © Forgiveness Plar Loses In Senate   Group Expected To Reach Final Vote On Tax Measure Today

Navy Fliers To Get ‘Hellcat’ Fighter Soon Soon  With. Corsair, U: §. Will Have: Two Better Than Fern

HELLCAT IS NEW NAVY AIR-FIGHTER      Truman Committee Vouches For Its Performance

THREE JAP PACIFIC POSITIONS ON FIRE   Soviets Continue In Destroying Enemy Planes, Nazi Raids Fruitless.

Makin; Relentless Drive to Breal Up Enemy's Solomon Islan Holdings — Reports Indicat: Tokyo Has Increasing Fear o American Offensive in Pacific.

Japanese Positions North 01 Guadalcanal Bombed By American Airmen

THREE JAP BASES ARE BLASTED IN SOLOMONS   United States” Fliers Keep Up Relentless Drive to Break Up Enemy Holdings—Tokyo Shows increased Fear of American Offensive in the - Pacific — Nervousness Betrayed by Jan Badin

BLAST THREE JAP BASES IN SO. PACIFIC      All Attacks Were To the North Of Guadalcanal

SPIRIT LAKE IS COLDEST SPOT WITH 12 BELOW   Weatherman Predicts Mercury Will Drop to Minus 25 in Mason City

General Clark Has Ambition   Wants a Crack at the Japs Before He Comes Back to This Country

Gen. Clark Wants Crack at Japanese   Writes Wife Not to Expect Him Home ’Till After That

To Provide More Canned Peaches, Dry Beans and ‘Pegs For Civilians

U). S. EMPLOYES MAY SEEUNIFORN   Ask Hershey for Explana. tion of Draft Board Deferments

WOULD DRAFT U. S. WORKERS   Selective Service Chief Asked For Suggestion To End Deferments.

Wants Deferred Men Put In Army   To Study Draft Deferment Practices

Explanation Of Deferment Policy Asked   House Committee Queries Hershey About Government Workers

Hershey Called To Draft Quiz   Federal Workers May Get Unifornis

RELIGIOUS E EDU. CATION SCHOO   Several Practical - Courses OF Use to ‘Workers - Offered

School Of Religious  Education To Meet  Under Auspices Of Plymouth Council

HOUSE FAGES WORK OR FIGHT ACTION   Anti-Absentee Bill to Get Early Notice; Hobbs Bil Before Committee

House Faces Week of Le of Legislative Action, Filled with Coatroversy

House Is Facing N  r Of Labor Laws   Measure To Discourage Navy Yard Absenteeism To Be First On Program

BlocSeeks To  Revise Formula   House Paced. With Work On Fight Bill

SYRIAN BORDER LINE TIGHTENED   Strong Guard Placed On Frontier To Protect Troop Movements

British Reveal Border Closed As Protection   - Turk Views Swing More To Allies As  Ruecig fe Praicart

British block Turko-Syriat  frontier line   Strong guards on houndaries

Turko-Syrian Frontier Is  Well Guarded   Keeping Secrecy of Troop Movements igs ws Pewee

BORDER GUARDS SCREEN TROOPS   Entire Turko-Syrian Frontier Is Now Closed   ACTION PREVENTS   Axis Agents From Making Reports to Berlin, Rome; Turks Laud Relations

BERLIN SHOWS CONCERN OVER MIDDLE EAS!   Report of Nazi-Soviet Peace Talks is Held Axis Propaganda

MOVEMENT OF TROOPS CLOSED SYRIAN BORDEF   British Admit Action Was Taken To Safeguard  Military Information   TURKISH OFFICIAL COMMENDS ALLIES

SYRIAN ENTRANCES TO TURKEY CLOSEL   British Announce Action, Presumably to Prevent Movement of Axis Agents,

“FLYING WAS IN HIS BLOOD   Bride Not Surprised At Husband “First Into Carmany”

SHOOTING AFFAIR ON DESOTO STREET   One Man in Lawrence Hospital; Another Is Under Arrest 

SHOOTING AFFAIR ON DESOTO STREET   One Man in Lawrence Hospital; Another Is Under Arrest ig  CHARGES ARE FILED

LOSS HEAVY IN THREE BLAZES   ‘Philadelphia Plants. Cleveland  Church Destroyed

Nazi Capital is Blasted for Eighth Time in Six Weeks; Swedish Writer Reports City ‘An Immense Ruin’

Raid May Be One of War's Biggest Ones   Capital Described as ‘Immense Ruin’ by Swedish Observer

HEAVY ATTACK LAUNCHED UPON REICH CAPITAL   Swedish Correspondent Says Berlin Is Now Immense Mass  Of Ruins

Attacks Reduce Nazi Capital To Vast Ruins   Assault Believed One of Heaviest Of Entire War, Climaxing Eight Giant Forays in Six Weeks

Raid Is Eighth on Nazi City Since Nov. 18   Germans Declare Populated Places Are Bombed

R. A. F. Makes Affack: Swedish Correspondent Says German Capital ts Now Immense Ruin With Nothing More for Allies to Bomb

RAF Plasters Berlin Again   Raid Said Among Heaviest. On Bomb-Wrecked Capital

Swedes Report Nazi Capitol Is Immense Ruin.  Campaign to Wipe Out German City _

R.A.F. Resumes Effort To Level German Capital   Many Explosives Dropped on City

Germans Hint Raid Is One ‘Ot Heaviest   City Immense Ruin,  Nothing More To Bomb, Swedish Newsman Says  EIGHTH MATIOR RAID

RAID BEUEVED ONE OF HEAVIEST MADE ON CAPITAL   Large Formations of British Planes Drop Explosives and I[neendiaries on City.   ATTACK IS EIGHTH IN 6-WEEK PERIOD   Berlin Reports Residential Sections Hit—Alert Apparently Lasted Hour and Forty Minutes.

Reports Say Raid on City One of Heaviest of War  FIRST WORD GIVEN BY GERMAN RADIO Capital of Reich Hit for Eighth Time in Six Weeks

DAVIS MOVES 10 EFFECT SAVING IN USE OF PAPER   Wilt Have Month-by-Mentt Check Made on Consumption,

FE How the Allies Struck  PARATROOPS ENGAGED ENEMY : IN BLOODY STREET FIGHTING

Transport Of Glider Troops To Sicily Told   Reporter Describes Firs! Landing Of Allied Ai  Borne Troopers

IO Towns Taken by  Invaders   Advance 15 Miles Inland, Take 2,000 Prisoners—  Syracuse Captured

Considerable Gains in Last 24 Hours of Fight ing Reported by Allied..High Command;. Americans EKave Captured Bight Enemy. Airdromes, 12,000 Axis Troops Taken ::

U.S. Troops Move Deeper Inland To Bolster Positions   ANOTHER ITALIAN GENERAL AND HIS STAFF SURRENDERS TO AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY

British Beat. Back German Tank Attaek   Eighth Army Stabs Four Miles North of Augusta, in Sicily, and Advances Are Also Made in Other Sectors

_ TROOPS OF CRACK WRITISH ARMY STAB NORTH OF AUGUSTA  AMERICAN FORCES  PLUNGED SEVERAL .  MITES NCCPLO INT ANN

TROOPS OF CRACK BRITISH ARMY STAB NORTH OF AUGUSTA  AMERICAN FORCES PLUNGED SEVERAL MILES DEEPER INLAND

BRITISH PUSH SOME MILES BEYOND AUGUSTA; U.S. TROOPS TAKE AIRDROME AND HILLS   Battlefront Dispatches Say Axis Hurling Increas ing Number Troops and Tanks Into Action Wit! Strong Counter-Attacks

YANKS PLUNGE T MILES INLAND IN BITTER FIGHT   Greatest Advance Made by Combined Invading Force In Central Sector   ITALIAN GENERAL CAUGHT   Axis Supply Port of Messina Blasted by Heavy Aerial Assault Near Italy

YANKS PLUNGE DEEPER INLAND, HIT BLOW AT RAGUSA AND VIZZINI   Americans Chew Off Important Segment of Invaded Island; Bombers Team for Assault on Messina.

Allied Forces Make Further  Sicilian Gains   British Eighth Army Stabs Four Miles  _ Up Coast While Other Allied Troops Plunge Six to Seven Miles Deeper Inland

Yankee Troops Gain 7 Miles  Aeross Sicily   Capture Of Lentini. Carlent! Reported. Not Officially Confirmed.   LOMBERS HIT MESSINA

Enemy Is Thrown Back Four Miles From Augusta Port   Other Invasion Units Have Gained Half Dozen Miles

ALLIES STILL PLUNGE AHEAD — ACROSS SICIL)   Going Getting Bit Tougher as U. S., Canadian, British Troops Approach Catania Area

Planes And Warships Pound Enemy Bases, Supply Routes   German Defense Crews Pour Into Italy —

British 8th Army Stabs Four Miles North of Augusta   American Troops in Southeastern Sicily Plunge Six or Seven Miles Deeper, Allied Communique Reports   ITALIAN DIVISION WITH STAFF SURRENDERS

The Dead and Dying   'U. S. Troops Lunge 7 Miles Inland: Axis Resists Push

U.S. Troops 6 Miles Deeper Inland    Anticipated Strong Axis Counterattacks Materializing; Actual Penetration Repulsed—Reds Halt Huns in Belgorod Sector—Yanks Close in on Japs :  in Mubo Area

Nazi Counter Drive Penetrates To Sea  But Is Pushed Back   Americans Take Important Heights, Airport Near Ragusa, Vizzini; * Italian General, Staff Surrender

Eighth Army Stabs 4 Miles, U. §. Troops /   Germans At One Time Had British Brigade Isolated At Augusta

REPEAL OF LIMIT ON SALARIES AT SHOWDOWN TODAY   House Ways and Means Committee Will Vote on “Directive Government.”

REPEAL IS SOUGHT OF $25,000 LIMIT ON WAR SALARIES   Republican Side of Committee on Ways and Means Lined Up Behind Move at Washinaton.   REPEALER IS ADDED TO DEBT LIMITATION BILL   Roosevelt Would Be Confronted With Choosing Between Abrogation of Salaries or Veto on Debt.

Revolt Against Salary Limit   CONGRESSMEN FIGHT FDR’s $25,000 PY AW

STOCK MARKET ON DOWN TREND   Early “Advances Erased Fractional Loss Distributed ~ Near Close

Senator Russell Calls For   ‘American Interests First In - Lease-Liend Administrati: aT   Points Out That British Are _Sayel To. Their Own : Exanire .

U.S. Interests Neglected Says Russell   EVERY CIVIL SERVANT ABROAD EVERY OFFICER, KNOWS EMPIRE POLICY, GEORGIA A ivhy, CRAT TELLS SENATE.   Wants 2-Fisted American

Georgia Senator Says Neglect Robs U. S. Of Full Credit for Lend-Lease Aid

SAYS POST WAR BEING NEGLECTED   Senator Russell Tells Senate  » That Neglect Is Robbing U. S. of Lend-Lease Credit.

BLAST JAPS ON THREE FRONTS   Chinese Kill 1400 In Big Land Battle; Bombers Range Over Aleutions, South Pacific

Soft and Alcoholic Beverages, Ice Cream, Magazines and Radios Hit; " Other Restrictions Ordered

ODT DECREES DRASTIC CUT. IN DELIVERIES   Changes in in Wholesale and Retail Services Ordered

OPA Halts Delivery  Of Many Items,  Restricts Others Check Is Ordered  As Gas-Saving Measure in East

SHORTAGE OF GAS = HITS TWO AREAS   DELIVERIES CUT IN NORTHWEST — EAST’S BUSSES, STREET CARS CROWDED.

Delivery Stopped On 15 Luxury  Items in East  ODT Limits Moving Of Milk and All Other  Goods to Customers

Drastic Curbs Affect Wholesale Deliveries In East’s 12-State Gas Shortage Area  MOST DELIVERIES ON SUNDAY BANNED ODT Says Situation To Be More Serious  During Next 60 Days

DELIVERIES CUT DOWN IN EAST   Gasoline Crisis Becomes More Serious: Motor Traffic Dwindles

Liquor and Soft Drinks on List Under New Order   Wholesale Deliveries Also Drastically Curfailed To Save Gas   Sunday Delivery Ban Includes All Except Real Necessities

CONGRESS READY FOR BUSINESS ~   Pay-As-You-Go Income Tax to Be Considered First.

HOUSE MAPS — STREAMLINED - COMMITTEES   Pay-As-You-Go’ May Be Considered Thursday

SOLONS MAP TAX POLICY, SALES LEVY   Air Commerce Committee May Be Created By Congress

Forts Attack Frankfurt in Daylight Raid   Sweep Into Germany Following Night Raids by RAE Bombers

U.S. Fortresses Blast Frankfurt; RAF Pounds ‘Industries at Kassel

U.S. Frankfurt Raid Follows Kassel Smash   RAF Rounds Out Nighi Offensive With Mosquite Rhineland Attacks —   24 PLANES ARE LOST   Munich Is Blasted By British For Second Time In 48 Hours

U.S. Flying Forts Blast Frankfurt: Kassel Hit Hard   British Mosquitos Assault Other Rhineland Sites; Enemy Waters Mined

RAF Also Hits Kassel InBig Raid   War Factories And Supply Centers Blasted

FRANKFORT HIT BY YANK BOMBERS   First Precision Attack Of War by “Forts” On Frankfort

S,  BLAST KASSEL, FRANKFURT   Hannover and Rhineland Targets Also Hit—Thunderbolts Escort Forts io Frankfurt

AMERICAN FORTS ATTACK TARGETS 'AT FRANKFORT   British Mosquito Bombers Hit Hanover and Rhineland Targets

Forts Attack Frankfurt As {AF Return:   Yankees In Followup To Heavy Raid On Aircraft Works At Kassel.   MUNICH BOMBED TWICE

U. §. Bombers Hit Frankfurt   Thunderbolt Fighters Accompany American Flying Fortresses

Flying Fortresses Sweep Into Germany As RAF Raiders Continue To Blast Continent

RAF FLIERS HIT EUROPE FOR 3RD STRAIGHT NIGHT   Frankfurt Raided by U. S$ Planes, British Lose 24 Bombers

AMERICANS BOMB NAZI CITY TODAY   Five Hundred Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Munich Sat.

LIGHT PLANES HIT HANNOVER OTHER CITIES   British Action Reported Very Heavy; Enemy Patrol Boats In France Damaged In Raid

U.S. Flying Forts Attack Frankfurt In Daylight Raid   RAF Bombers Blast At  Kasel In Nocturnal Blow

YANKEE FORTS HIT FRANKEURT INDAY ATTACK   First Precision Bombing On German War Industries Aided by Thunderbolt Escorts   RAF RAIDS KASSEL IN NIGHT FORAY   gost 24 Bombers In Thrust: Hannover and Rhineland Areas Also Punished During Night

U. S. "FORTS: RAID INLAND GERMAN PORT   Center Of Large Oil Refineries Blasted In Daylight

U.S. AIRMEN RIP FRANKFURT   R. A. F. HEAVY BOMBERS RAP KASSEL IN RAID

Flying Forts Batter Frankfurt Aiter R.A.F. Hits Kassel Last Night   Allied Air Arm From Britain Spread Widening Havoc Over Germany; Powerful Thunderbolts  Escort Fortresses On Raid.

FORTRESSES HIT FRANKFURT, NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITY   Daylight Attack Follows on Heels of Heavy RAF Bombing at Kassel

Yank Bombers Hit Germany  Fortresses Blast at   Fortresses Blast at Targets In Frankfort

FRANAFURT HIT IN LATEST RAID   U. S. Bombers Follow Uy RAF Attack On Kassel In Germany

FRANKFURT IS VISITED BY FORTRESSES   Americans Supported By Long-Range Thunderbolts, Sweep Into Germany At tacking Many Targets   MINES ARE ALSO LAIO

F ortresses Strike Deep Into Germany   Frankfort and Kassel Are Attacked, Latter By RAF Night Bombers

YANK FORTRESSES BOMB FRANKFURT   RAF Planes Strike Heavily _ On Kassel; Cost English 24 Bombers.

FRANKFURT DEALT HEAVY BLOW BY U. S.: FORTRESSES   Big Bombers Pound Industrial Targets of City, 91 Miles Southwest of Kasse] Which Was Raided ‘by RAF

AMERICAN FLYING — FORTRESSES ATTACK GERMAN TARGETS   Frankfurt. 91 Miles South West of Kassel, Was the Objective.   HANNOVER AGAIN HIT   RAF Bombers Struck Kasse! Last Night Causing Heavy Damage.

U. ). Foriresses Follow Up RAF Raid On Germany   Frankfurt Blasted:  Hannover. Other   Frankfurt Blasted: Hannover, Other Targets Hit

ALLIES STRIKE POWERFUL NEW AERIAL BLOWS   HEAVY RAIDS COST RAF 24 BOMBERS: KASSEL ATTACKED

J, S. AND BRITISH PLANES BATTER GERMAN CITIES   ~rankfort, Kassel, And Hannover Among Targets In Night And Day Operations From England.

U.S. BOMBERS RAID TARGETS IN FRANKFURT   Fortresses Blast Big Port: R.A.F, Batters Kassel In ‘Very Heavy’ Blow

Frankfurt Area Rocked By Forts   Daylight Blow Follows Night Assault B: British Heavies On Kassel; RAF Loss Fo Operation Put At 24 Planes

Yanks Stage a Day Raid on Frankfurt   Fortress Blow at Big German Inland Port  Follows RAF Night Assault on Kassel, : Where Heavy Damage Is Dene.

Many Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Face  Induction Into Armed Forces Oct. 

WAKE ISLAND DEFENSES OF JAPS BLASTED   Installations Smashed by 320-Ton Bomb Load in Two-Day Assault From Air and Sea—61 Nip Planes Wrecked.

More Than 60 Foe Planes Are Destroyed in 2-Day Yank Assault on Island

61 Jap Planes Destroyed in Wake Attack   320 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Island in 3-Phase Operation

Americans Destroy 61 Jap Planes In Wake Isle Fight  Two-Day Shelling Is Disastrous to Stronghold of Enemy

Japs Dealt Hard Blows On Wake   Two-Day Bombine And Shelling Costly To Foe

Jap Positions On Island Hit For Two Days   Carrier Task Force, Land-Based Liberators And Shells Hit Wake  1277 & PI ANRC TTNMStYr

Gen. Laker Predicts an Allied Invasion of Germany Across the English Channel and the North Sea   bl Japanese Planes and Two Small Vessels Were Destroyed in American Attack on Wake Island

Nimitz Reports ” On Wake Attack   61 Jap Planes Destroyed in Raid

Naval Force  Destroys 6l Enemy Planes   Land-Based and Carrier Planes Make Attack on Wake

61 Japanese Planes and Two Small Vessels Were Destroyed in American Attack on Wake Island

Extensive Damage Done Ta Jap Installations On Wake By U. S. Carrier Task Force   61 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed In Two-Day Bombing Of Pacific Island In Three-Phase Operation; 320 Tons Of Bombs Dropped

61 Japanese Planes Destroyed in Two-Day Bombing   BOMBS UNLOOSED IN 3-PHASE ASSAULTS   Corrier Task Force and Land Based Bombers Take Part

Reds Launch Crimea Push From North   Soviet Drive Started On Perekop Isthmus. Nazis Report; Move On Poland. Rumania

Reds Pursue Nazis Toward the Frontier   Two Armies Moving Westward After 180,000 Who Fled Kiev and Third Force Is Only 20 Miles From Old Polish Border.

PREDICT BALKAN INVASION SOON   Ankara Says U. 5. 7th Army Ready to Attack

SONRIES BELIEVE   Poa Patton's Seventh. ‘Army Will: Strike Soon—Say Prep arations :Are Rapidly Ad wee nceren: a

Worked Hard Getting Funds To Finish Port   Success Gratifying After Overcoming Series Of Obstacles For Several Years.   $416.000 FEDERAL GIFT   Ankara Says Seventh Army To Strike Soon

Predict Patton Balkan Invasion   Turkish Newspapers Forecast Seventh Army Will Hit Soon

Nips Fail in Pacific Thrusts   OUTCOME OF CONFLICT WILL CE CLEAR VICTORY FOR ALLIES: MacARTHUR

Japs Have ‘Been Put on iDefensive   MacArthur Says Nips Have Exhausted Their Greatest  Offensive Efforts; Outcome of Pacific War Clear

Reveals. Japs. On Defensive In The Pacific   MacArthur Says - Enemy Used ‘ Fullest. Resources  In Battle Of Munda

Outcome of War In Pacific Clear To Gen. MacArthu   Japs Strictly on Defensive After Their Fullest Effort

Japs Are Now a Defensive  --MacArthur   OutCome is Clear, Pacific ‘Chief Says as Fleet En‘gages in War Games

Many Auxiliary Carriers In Use  - Others To Follow In L)-Boat Battle

SMALL CARRIERS ~ INCOMBAT AREAS   NAVY USING THEM IN ATLANTIC TO HELP SMASH GERMAN U-BOAT MENACE,

Blo- SCALE ENEMY MOVE(S REPULSED TO TAKE POSITION   Aviators Carry on Bombing Under Unfavorable Weather to Blast Sardinian Airfields.   SPAIN OFFERS HELP TO RESTORE PEACE   RAF Takes Over Bombing Continent, Visit Wide Area In France, Belgium and Germany.

ADVANCE 10 30 MILES OF TUNIS BASE      Enemy Counter-Attacks Are Beaten Off By Allies

Germans Making Desperate Effort To Halt Advance   Fiercest Fighting of ‘Tunisia Campaign Leaves British Holding Vital Hill

BRITISH TAK HILL POINT IN TUNISIA   Key Height Is Recaptured By First Army Troops

TEMPERATURE   Allied Bombers Drop Block- Busters On Sardinian Airfields, Raids Are Made on Naples and Sicily

Recapture —  Important — Key Heht :      TEMPORARILY LOST 2000-FOOT HILL; THEN RECAPTURED IT FANE : CONTINUED TO ADVANCE

TUNISIAN MOUNTAIN IS TAKEN   Key Height Again in Hands of First Army ‘—Forces 30 Miles  , from Tunis.

Anderson Springs Violent Counter Attack Which Ousts the Enemy; Allies Control “Kickoff” Position   One of Fiercest Clashes of War Ends in Success for British — 8th Army Steadily Moves Up Equipment, Men for ““Main Go.”

Allies Beat Off Big Axis Attacks; Retake Height   Bombers Pound Enemy Positions in Africa, Sicily, Italy

First Anny Moves Close To Tehourha   Allied Airmen Defy Bad Weather To Pound Nazis

KEY MOUNTAIN HEIGHT OF DJEBEL ANG RECAPTURED BY BRITISH IN NIGHT MOVE   Hill Lost to Germans at Firstin Onc of Tunisia’s Fiercest Battles

DEFEAT HEAVY COUNTER DRIVE OF NAZI FORCES   Allied Planes Pound Enemy Front and Rear Positions by Day. Nicht

FIERCE BATTLE IS" FOUGHT ON SLOPES — OF 2000-FOOT HILL   Big-Scale Enemy Efforts To Recapture  baphitant Positions In “Coffin — Corner” Beaten Off By Anderson’s Forces: _

FIRST ARMY. WITHIN. THIRTY MILES OF TUNI   Allied Spokesmen Warn Hardest Fights. ing Is Ahead *

Key mountain height  retaken by British after violent battles   First army is now less than 30 miles from port: air tempo rises

Tunis Objective Within 30 Miles of Allied Forces   Important Position Recaptured After Furious Engagement

PAY AS YOU G0 PLAN APPROVED   House Sub - Committee Favors Payments On Current Basis  After July 1

Jap, Shot Down By Yanks,Is UCLA Grace, Joins Americans   Armed Jap Joins Aerial Enemies In Jungle Helps Them Return To Their Base

One Jap Aids Yank Fliers   Forces Captain of Boat to Give Airmen What They Wanted

More Food Production Must Be Supported by Large Industrial Output, FDR Tells Delegates

ANOTHER COLD WAVE FORECAST   Expected to Reach State Friday Night

1] INDICTED ON BIG CLUB FIRE   Grand Jury Finds Laxity In Departments Prior To Boston Tragedy

Indict 10 In Tragic Fire   Laxity Blamed For Cocoanut Grove Tragedy

Indict 10 In Boston Fire Holocaust   City Officials and Owner of Club Face Frand Jury Charge

{0 MEN INDICTED IN BOSTON FIRE   TTERISE CONNECTED WITH  GROVE NIGHT CLUB ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER.

10. Indicted In Boston Fire Fatal to 489   Building Coummissioner,   Meteran Police Captain,   Cafe Owner Among. Thase Cited re

ol URY INDICTS 10 IN CLUB BLAZI   “Boston Cocoanut Grove Night Club Aides and City Offi. cials Named in Indictments;  _ Laxity Charged

len Charged In Boston Disaster  ~ Club Owner, City Official Included

Troop Landings Covered by Warships’ Fire   Anglo-U. $.-Canadian Units Attack Early in Morning After Assault by Airplanes

Landings Made On Italian Soil   United Nations Soldiers Leap Across Mediterranean: Mussolini's Great Defenses Pulverized

Ships Bombard Coast Defenses  As Army Lands   American, British and Canadian Troeps Go Ashore on Western Tip Of Island Following Air Attack— Success Attained by Assault Forces in First Thrusts Not Disclosed.

SMOKE KNOCKS OUT 14 FIREMEN   Soldiers, Sailors Patrol Boston Area

RUSSIANS MAKE GAINS ON DONETS   BERLIN BROADCASTS ADMIT NAZIS ARE ON DEFENSIVE IN ONE SECTOR.

Nazis Admi Soviets Still On Offensive   Russians Advance On Donets: Axis Guns Silenced

Reds Drive Nazis Back in Strong Counter Attack  Berlin Acknowledges Forces an Defenciva   Berlin Acknowledges Forces on Defensive in Donets Front

Russia Reports Sharp Fighting In Izyum Sector   German Battalion Sup ported by Tanks and Planes Dispersed

REDS COUNTER ATTACK NAZIS WITH SUCCESS   Russians Also Report Sharp Fighting In Chugnev Area Cf Donets Basin S.E. Of K harkov.   Berlin Admits Reverse

NAZIS DRIVEN BACKWARD ON DONETS FRON}   EXHAUSTED GERMAN FORCES NOW ON DEFENSIVE

Germans Driven Back In Donets   Nazis Admit Loss  Exam Soviet Riaw

GERMANS RETREAT IN RUSSIAN AREA   Berlin ‘Acknowledges Na_xis Are on the Defensixre ©

SENATE BAC HOUSE IN VOTE AGAINST PLAN   Ban Is Attached As Rider To Bill Extending Life Of CCC   CZAR FAVORED   Veto Seen Doubtful As Administration Gets Second Setback

SMALLPOX CAN BE WIPED OUT IN FEW YEARS   Conditions are more fav. orable now than in past 15 years

Port Battalions Training At — Indiantown Gap Reservation   Many Thousand Men Being Schooled For Loading Anc Unloading Ships Under Fire.

Training ‘Center At Indiantown Gap Wil Celebrate It’s First Anniversary Saturdat      Graduates Of School Have A)ready Unloaded Ships Under Fire

Launch Subsidy. Program to Hold Down Bread Cost   Would Permit. Millers to:Pay” -Higher Prices

ison Orders ‘ur Subsidy ‘Fight Opens  ‘oes of Program deveal Strength

Bread Subsidy Plan Announced   Meets Opposition Of Many in House

Launch new subsidy plan  to aid miller:   RFC is asked  provide funds

CURB ON BREAD PRICES SOUGHT   New Subsidy Program Is Launched; Coalition Opposition Strong

BREAD SUBSIDY I$ ANNOUNCED BY GOVERNMENT   Plan Is To Hold Down Price Of Product While Paying Millers More

Vinson Hopes To Stop Rise In Bread Cost   Wheat Subsidy Startec Under Hostile Eye On Conorece

PROGRAM OF BREAD SUBSIDY LAUNCHED   Vinson Acts While Con. gressmen Push Flan to End Subsidies

OES Launches Subsidy  Plan on Bread.   Program Enables Millers to Pay. Higher Wheat Prices

SUBSIDY PLAN   Government Heads Inaugurate Program to Keep Flour Prices Down

Gov. Green Expects To Sign War-Bonds Buying Bill Today   Submits Measure to Atty. General for Opinion on Its Validity

No Respite Being Given Germany  In Bomb Raid:   R. A. F. Mosquito Bombers Follow Up Daylight Raids Of U.S. Fliers  ROMRBERS GIVEN

TARGET 16 NOT AEVEALED, fi BETHH StF   Foresee Allicd Drive Further Irland as Airpower Increases

REICH GETS BOMB RESPITE   Allies Air Losses Reduced as Fighters Penetrate Deeper

HeTIMATE PLANE PRODUCTION eur 300 MONTHLY BY PER-  _ SONS TAKING DAYS GFF; > UNNECESSARILY

Former Resident Passed Away Dec. !   John Morgan Active it Laurens Fraternal ant Civie Affairs

BOARD 10 PROBE SUBVERSIVE AGTS   President Names Body to Consider Charges Against U. S. Employees.

DIES’ CHARGES   President Names. -Committee Within. - Justice Department.

Men’s Suits to Lack Zool, But Will be on Loud Side   Apparel Club Predicts Well-Dressed Man In 1943 Wil Wear Bright Tweed Sports Jackets With Plaid, Herring Bone and Tooth Designs; Sucks and Neckties Will Scr-r-e-e-e-cam

MINERS PLEA IN STRIKE CASE   ‘No Contest” in Charges of Violation of SmithConnally Bill

AXIS PRISONERS SANDBAG LEVEE   Captured Soldiers Help Save Farm Lands In Missouri

Democrats Are Divided On Tax Bill   HOUSE FLOOR MAJORITY LEADER McCORMACK CALL, FOR QUICK ACTION; CHAIRMAN DOUGHITON PRESENTS SUGGESTION.   GOP Backs McCormack

DEMOCRATS. SPLIT ON TAX ABATEMENT   Doughton, McCormack al Odds Verbally as Conflict Arises

Democrats split Over Next Move  On Tax Issue House Leader Asks   House Leader Asks Fast Action to Skip Part of 1942 Payment:   DOUGHTON REFUSES  Ways, Means Chairman Says Whole Matter Put Off Till Late Spring

Bourbons Split Over Tax Plan   House Leaders Hold Opposing Opinions

Quick Action On T'ax Plan Is Rejected  By Doughton   Democratic Leadership Splits Apart in House As McCormack Calls On Committee Te Act REPUBLICANS ASK RECONSIDERATION Morgenthau Doubtful  Any Withholding Tax Tiialke: Thic Waar

DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE DIVIDED ON TAX ISSUE   McCormack Calls for Action on Partial Abatement Plan

TAX ABATEMENT DIVIDES HOUSE   Quick Action Squelched On Pay-As-You-Go Compromise

Democratic Leaders  Split on Tax Issue   McCormack Demands Quick Action on Pay-Go Bill and Doughton Brushes Aside Suggestion

QUICK ACTION ON TAX PLANS IS DEMANDED   Democratic Leader Calls for Pay-As-You-Go - Compromise

Leaders Split On Issue of TaxAbatement   Doughton Refuses To Summon House Committee

200-27 Ballot Puts Tax Bill  Through House   Measure Is Far Under Treasury Estimates al W... TF

77 Jap Planes Shot Down in Solomon Battle   Only Six American Craft Missing in One of Greatest South Pacifie Fights

Americans Knock Down 77 Japanese Planes, Lose Six   One of Greatest Air Battles of the War Fought Over Guadalcanal .

Navy Announces American Victory by 13 to 1 Ratio  GREAT AIR BATTLE IS FIERCELY FOUGHT  Raiding Force Largest Ever Sent Into Area by Japanese

‘American Airmen Down/7 Japanese Planes In Battle.   Greatest American Air Victory In Pacific War Is Scored Against Attacking Enemy At * Guadalcanal With Only Six U. S. Planes Lost

U.S. Airmen Bag 77 Jap Planes Out of 120 Raiders   Two Ocean Vessels Damaged by Big Enemy Force   WE LOSE SIX AIRCRAF1  Navy Reports Greatest Victory Over Enemy At Guadalcanal

GUADALCANAL AIR BATTLE IS WONBY YANKS   Americans Destroy 77 Enemy Planes, Lose  Only 6 Craft

WIN 13 10-1 IN SOLOMONS   GUADALCANAL RAID BY LARGE ENEMY FORCE SMASHED

‘WITH LOSS OF ONLY SIX UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT; JAPANESE OBJECTIVE UNDISCLOSED, MUST HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT.

Yankees Win Biggest Pacific Fight   Battle Is Believed One of Most Important in War

Tremendous Loss a In Raiding Guadalcanal  ONLY SIX AIRCRAFT LOST BY YANKEES  Seen as Possibly One Of Most Significant  Ate Rattlaag tm Dan? fin

seiieiiniiiisiesiiitiaiiiie aid  ATCHISON TO TRAIN AS RADIO: MECHANIC

Subsidies Bloc Counts om Veto  To Save Plan   Will Try Compromise First: Showdown Due  Late This Week

Subsidy Showdown Seen This Week   Backers of Program Admit Chances Slim

MORRISON CANDIDATE   Carolina Congressman To Make - Race For Reynolds’ Senate Job

To Seek Bob Reynolds’ Seat.....  iorrison Announces for Senatorial Race

STEINKOPF DOESN'T THINK DEFEAT NAZIS LIKELY DURING 1943   Italy May Be Knocked Out But Fortress of  Europe Is Very Real Thing

Little Hope For Victory Over Nazis In 1943 Held By Writer Who Covered Germany For A. P.

Thinks Reich Won't Crack During 1943   Reporter Says Fear Of Eastern Killers Unites Germans.

NAZIS’ DEFEAT IS YEAR AWAY   Writer Thinks Germany Will Hold On During °43; Cites Defenses

Doubts End This Year.   Steinkopf: Sees Strong » Stand By Germans

Hopes For Ear ly End Of War Get Jolt   ALLIED FORCES OUTNUMBERED BY AXIS ARMIES   Projected Expansion Would Not Even Balance Them. Authorities Declare   Hopes Of Farm Price Boosts . Blasted By New OPA Boss

HOUSE TO VOTE ~ ON BILL TODAY   ‘Organized Labor Is Fighting Hobbs Anti-Racketeer ine Measure

Eighth, First British Armies Pound Rommel  North And South Lines

Americans Rush To Contribute Big Fund for Plane Carrier Shangri-La

FINE RESPONSE TO DRIVE FOR CARRIER   War Bonds Being Sold to Purchase Carrier Shan: ari-Lo

Losses Are Moderate in Solomons   There Still Has Been No Major Clash, Knox Says

U.S. , Japs Suffer Moderate Losses In Preliminary Solomons Sea Battle

FIGHT DETAILS STILL LACKING AT SOLOMONS   Skirmishes Are Still at Preliminary Stage

Navy Silent On Big Fight In Solomons   Heavy Punches Being Traded Preliminary To Large Engagement

YANKS, JAPS TRADE BLOWS IN SOLOMONS   No Repo Gn Actual Losses Suffered Given by Knox

REDS HAMMER  NAZIS TOWARD  POLISH FRONT   2000 Germans Killed : in Capturing Gre. pbenki Below Kiev

REDS NOW WITHIN ) MILES OF OLD POLISH FRONTIER   Germans Blowing Up Tonks ond Guns in Hasty PRPatrant

CENSORSHIP GOUE WILL BE REVISED   Office of Censorship Tells Press and Radio to Ignore ‘Volunteer’ Censors; Urges More War News

MARSHAL ROMMEL TO BORIS RITES   LONDON PAPER BELIEVES HE MAY TAKE CHARGE OF TROOPS IN BULGARIA,

Rommel Named To Attend Rites  Maye Take Over as Military: Boss of. Bulaarig

Field Marshal  Rommel Named  To Attend Rites May Take Over  as Military Boss of Bulgaria

EXPECT ROMMEL BULGARIAN BOS   Defeated Leader In Africa Is Hitler’s Aid at Funerai of King Boris.

Soviets Capture Town 15 Miles From Bryansk Repulse Counterattacks   Night Raids on Northern Italy Continue ; Flying Fortresses Blast Airfield at Paris; American Soldiers Within 14 Miles of Messina

NAZI REAR GUARD _ "DEFENSES BROKEN   Allies P Explosive On Messina; Russians Advance, Italians

Gothamites Are Given Surprise   Test Black-Out  Drill Conducted A ek On

RUDE AWAKENING IS GIVEN NEW YORKERS   Hiindreds of Thousands Are Jérked Out of Bed  by Test Black Out   Deiil.

TEST BLACKOUT AWAKENED N.Y.6. AT 4:55 A.M. TODAY   .4 Guardia’s Promise of “Something Unusual” ts Fulfilled to the Letter.

Italians Put Up Mild Resistance   Canadian Troops Surprised By Enemy’s Meager Defense.

Canadians Are Astounded by Weak Defense Italians Put Up   Town After Town Yields With Scarcely Any Fight

Local Oil Men Refute OPA  Statement on Price Boost   Two Producers Challenge Labor Policy Greuj,- Claim That Oil Interests Will Profit If 35-Cent Price Increase Given

Oil Men Refute OPA Statement On Price Boost      Oil Interests Will Not Profit From 35-eent Price Boost

Parisian Tells of Pounding Italians  Lt. Derrick Returns Pr. fp gt em

WILL DELAY INDUCTION OF PA. FATHERS   Have Large Pool Of Husbands With No -’ Children -

WILL POSTPONE DRAFT OF FATHERS   Men Who Have Wives But No Children Will Be Taken First, State Headquarters Announces

CONGRESS GENEROUS WITH DIRECT WAR EFFORTS PROJECTS  _ TIGHTENED PURSESTRINGS, HOWEVER,

COUNTY TEACHERS READY FOR SCHOOL   Only One Rural District in County Is Without An  Instructor

COUNTY TEACHERS READY FOR SCHOOL   Only One Rural District in County Is Without An  Instructor   INSTITUTE IN SESSION

Want No Fixed Post War Plan   Senators Show Vendeney To Avoid Blueprint Formulas  Before Wars End.

SOLONS CHARY OF POST-WAR FORMULA NOW   Senators Prefer to Wait Until Constituents Determine on Nationalism, Internationalism or Compromise.

Admiral Stark Warns Of Long And Hard Fight; Stassen Suggests Representation In World Parliament On Basis Of Literate Population

Senators Shy At Drafting A Postwar Setup   They'll Wait And See What Attitude American Public Takes.

PostWarPlans toGetNation’s Final Approval   Senators Will Test Temper of Americans Before Drafting Peace Plans

Senators Await Reaction On Post-War Plan  Admiral Stark Says  Subs Still Menace; 7 Differ On Stassen’s

TENDENCY EVIDENT TO AVOID POST-WAR BLUE:PRINT FORMULAS.   Leaders Want to See if © Americans Want Nationalism or. Internationalism  After War

Senators Chary of Drafting Post-War Formula at Presen   Will Look to Citizens and Fighting Men for Cue After War

Solons Chary of Post-War Plans   Some Senators Prefer To Wait and See What People Want

BLUEPRINT FOR PEACE DELAYED   Solons Await Reactions 0 American Citizens

‘WAIT-AND-SEE ATTITUDE TAKEN ON WAR AIMS   New Congress, on Basis of Private Opinion Wants Public Reaction First   ‘LONG WAR IS PREDICTED   Lawmakers Keeping Eye on. Reelection, Survey  Indicates

Senators Show Tendency To ‘Wait And See’ Regarding Plans For Post-War World

SENATORS WOULD  AVOID BLUEPRINT  POST-WAR WORLD THEY PREFER TO WAI AND SEE WHAT KIND  DEAE DEADILC WA kT

PEACE PLANS DELAYED BY         Solons Look to Citizens For Middle-of-Road  Course

‘WAIT AND SEE" - PENGE ATTITUDE   Senators Would Avoid Blueprint Formulas For Post-War Action

SENATORS AVOIDING POST WAR POLICIES   Indicate They Will Wait to See What Formulas Citizens Want.

~_ar mmenasra Sr rr rr   Solons Would Prefer To Get Views of Public On U. S. Policy

W. Virginia Constable Shot Hunting Deserter in Hills   Housewife Also Critically Wounded In Exchange of Gunfire With Officers Investigating Report Deserter Hiding In Her Mountain Home Near the McDowell-Wyoming County Line

Constable And Housewife Critically Wounded in Exchange Of Gunfire

U. S. Army Casualties This War Below 1917-18   Nazis Rush Reserves To Orel

Casualties Less Than First War   Predicted Heavier For ‘Immediate Future

“UNDER ATTACK   3POKESMEN FOR OVER A MIL. LION BHIPYARD WORKERS: YY WAGE LIMIT ~~ PLAN

DENVER TAXES MILK TO PAY PRODUCERS   Ignore OPA Warhing; Dairymen Threaten to Shut Off Supply if Help Is Refused

Bombing ¢ Chief Left In Doubt   Only ‘Air Commander For . Europe's Invasion Is:  Made Public:

Large Parts Of Massico Ridge Taken; Nazis Fighting Fiercely For Position   KNOX PRAISES W4R WRITERS

AMERICANS GAIN IN MOVE 10 ROM:   31,126 American Casualties In Mediterranean Theater With 5,539 Killed.

FifthArmy Takes Part Of Nazi Line   Germans Being Muscled Out Of Mountain Pcsitions At Considerable Cost To Allies

Fifth Army Battles for Nazi Ridge   Two Lofty Anchors Shaken by Advances; British Take Casanova

Fitth Army Occupies Massico Ridge And Matese Mountain, Anchors Of German -Line

TWO MOUNTAIN ANCHORS FALL TO 5TH ARMY   Eighth Army Keeps Up Pressure On FEast.. Side Of Italy

Allies Breach Mountain Line Held by Nazis   Fifth and Eighth Armies Occupy Major Mountain Anchors

Anchor Points of Nazis Are Taken   Fifth Army Troops Push Forward to Occupy Dominating Hei ohts   IN FIERCE FIGHTING   Nazis “Muscled Out” of Disputed Points in Bitter Clashes

ALLIES DRIVE GERMANS FROM MASSICO AREA   Armies Advance In Drive Toward Mountain Pass

FIFTH ARMY MAKES EIGHT MILE GAIN   British Beat Off Desperate Nozi Counterattachs

ALLIES WIN LARGE PART OF RIDGES   Move Within Range Of Strategic Town; Casanova ‘Castaréd

Dent Nazi Defense Lines in Mountains, Take Town on Ridge   “ighth Army Drives Enemy Back on Adriatic Front; U.S. Bombers Raid La Spezia Naval Port

Clark's Forces [Poet as “ae -d fo x NY anova  a>. 0.   aah Army troops Also Occupy Parts ‘Of Massico Ridge, Matese Mountain

BRITISH PUSH 4 MILES, ENTERING TOWN ON RIDGE   Americans Occupy Section of Matese as Allies Take Parts of Line

VITAL RIDGE OCCUPIED BY FIFTH ARMY   Two Lofty Anchors of Enemy Line In Italy Taken By Allies Battling Against Fierce Opposition   LA SPECIA IS BLASTED

Allied Armies Move Nearer Rome Defenses   Massico And Mateseé Anchors of German Line Severely Shaken

ENEMY FORCES. FIGHTING HARD TO HOLD LINE   - Allies Within Artillery Range Of Venafro

OCCUPY LARGE PART OF TWO LOFTY PLACES   Battling Against Fierce Opposition, Troops Are Muscling Enemy Out of Massico Ridge and Matese Mountain.

Fifth Army  Battles Fierce  Nazi Opposition   Ridges Occupied On Defense Line Of Foe in Italy

Fifth Army Makes New Gains In Mountains While Eighth Maintains Push

Allies Advance Near Defenses Guarding Rome   Nazis Ba Fiercely Te Tild Massico Ridge

Germans Battle Fiercely       Guins Bring Big Guns Within Rauge of Couununications Key

Venafro Now WithinRange Of Artillery   British Take Casanova High on Slope, Americans Farther Inland Win Part of Matese   DOMINATE VALLEY   Germans Battle Desperately to Hold Mountain Line, Meet Advance with Artillery

Allies Push  Nazis From    Mountainline   Fifth Army Pays Heavily for Slow Advance

Vital Ridges Captured By Fifth Army   British Eighth Army Exerts Pressure On Nazi Anchor Line

British Rout Desperate  Counter-Attacks As 5th  _ Army Moves On. . 40-Mile Front —  HOLD RETREAT PATH   Warships. Pull Up ‘Next To East Italy Coast, Pound Enemy

FORCES WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF COMMUNICATION CENTER OF GERMAN TROOPS

Eighth Army Gains Ground In South  Allied Planes Fan Out in Broad Arc  Of Attack a

Massico Line Town Seized By 5th Army   Clark Within Gun Range of Garigliano River: Air Blows at La Spezia

ALLIED TROOPS SIEZE ANCHORS OF GERMAN LINE   ADVANCE HIGH ON MASSICO RIDGE SLOPES IN ITALY

ritish Troops  Advance 4 Miles   llied Fifth Occupies Largs Parts of Massico Ridge and Matese Mountain; U S. Flying Forces Blas Naval Base of Laspezia.

Take 2 Anchors  On German Line   But Nazis Still Fight Fiercely to Hold Strategic Ital wan Pointe

Allies Occupy Part of Nazi Line Anchors:   5th Army Menaces “All Massico Ridge; La Spezia Bombed

ALLIES CAPTURE ANCHORS TO NAZI LINE IN ITALY   Fifth Army, Battling Against Fierce Opposition, Occupies Two Mountains

5th Army  Nabs Key Heights   CLARK’S FORCES TAKE LARGE AREAS OF VITAL MASSICO RIDGE

FIFTH ARMY GAINS FIVE. rO8 MILES.   Surges Thru :. ‘Western End: Of German Line

FIFTH ARMY TROOPS OCCUPY LARGE PART OF MASSICO RIDGE  ' EIGHTH ARMY ON ADRI   ATIC SIDE CONTINUES ' 99 PRESS ENEMY

Eighth Army Gains Ground In South  Allied Planes Fan Out in Broad Arc

ALLIES GATN IN FACE OF FIERCE ENEMY GUNFIRE   ‘Clark's Forces Punch to   Within Artillery Range of Venafro Commu  nications Center   CASANOVA FALLS TO BRITISH STH ARMY   Allied Officers Describe Developments “Very Encouragine’ Despite Enemy Resistance

ALLIED STH ARMY WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF VENAFRO   Battling Against Fierce Enemy Opposition, Occups arts of Massico Ridge.   ALSO MATESE MOUNTAIN   British Elements of Lieut. Gen. Clark’s Army Advanced Four Miles. ~*

FIGHTING HEAVY AND COSTLY TC ALLIED FORCES   Germans Putting Up Fierce Resistance In Italian Mountains,  But Advances By British And American Troops Termed “Encouraging.

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY OCCUPIES PART MASSICO RIDGE   And Matese Mountain, Two Lofty Anchors of German Line in Italy

YANKS NEARING ROME DEFENSES   Fifth Army Occupies Important Mountain Positions

AmericanTroops Capture Part of  Massico Ridae ©   Footholds Gained:on Motese: Mountain As Fifth Army Battles To Overcome. . Nazi Defenses Blocking Road to Rome

Large Parts Of Massico Ridge Taker   Lofty Anchor Point: In Nazi Line Across Italy Are Captured By Sth Army

General Advance s Reported. By Fifth Army  - Counterattacks - Of Germane .

Fifth Army Overeomes Fierce German Opposition to Get Hold on Two Anchors of Enemy Lines in Italy

5th Army Takes ‘Large Parts Of Massico Ridge   Nazis Also Lose Important Defense Points On Matese Mountain.

Yanks Capture Lofty Anchors  Of German Line   Fifth Army In Italy Have Occupied Ridge And  Moauntain.

Fifth Army Troops Occupy Positions in Massico and Matese      Are Within Artillery Range of Center of Nazi Communication

YANKS GAIN IN MASSICO RIDGE   Battle for Anchors of Nazis’ Line in Italy

NAZI ANCHORS BADLY SHAKEN   Task Of ‘Muscling Out’ Germans Costly To United Nations   ICASANOVA CAPTURED

YANKS OCCUPY RIDGE SECTOR   Allied Troops Penetrate Mountain Lines Paying High Penalty

NAZI BOMBERS OVER ENGLAND DURING NIGHT   Sharp Attack in Force on Nertheast England and in Scotland.   MET HEAVY BARRAGE   Bigger and Better American  Bombing Planes Will   Soon Be Active.

NAZI BOMBERS HIT SCOTLAND   Attacks Over England Are Heaviest By Enemy In Many Weeks

Movie Theaters Observe  Red Cross Week In City   RITZ, TEXAS, AND THE STATE THEATERS ODSERV ING WEEK WITH 17,000 THEATERS IN COUNTRY SAYS MANAGER ROY L. BROCKMAN.

Churchill fo Lay Down Price of Peace To Italy at Next Commons Session

Indemnity Asked For Zoot Suiters   ‘Innocent Victims’ Cited by Mexico

War Council To Find Place For Everyone  All Citizens in State Will 6 sked To Ser

Cabinet Named By New Leader   U.S. Officials See Beainnina Of End

Strike Cuts Off Gas To 60,000   Ohio Governor Orders Out Guard Officials

Gas Cut Off To60,000 ‘Along Lake   Lieut. Governor Orders Guard Men To Probe Strike

GUARD CALLED IN OHIO GAS STRIKE   60,000 Persons In Painesville Area Affected By Labor Dispute

STATE GUARD T0 END OHIO STRIKE   Lieutenant Governor Sends Officials to Restore Area's Gas Supply

OHIO GUARDS CALLED   Strike Cuts Off Gas for Heating and Cooking to 60,000

Churchill-FDR Ultimatum Delivered at Right Time  Italians Have No Love for Hitler

Analyst Declares.   Italians Don’ t Want War Won’ t Be Hitler Gun Fodder

ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL MESSAGE TO ITALIAN PEOPLE LOGICAL AND ITS TIMING HELD PERFECT

The War Today Joint Ultimatum To Italy Comes At Strategic Moment As Unrest Grows

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Italian People Believed Ready To Heed Warning (snd Yield To Allies

DUTCH QUISLING TO FORM ‘HOME GUARD’      Prominent Traiters Being Assassinated In Belgium Also

Condon Has Brief Air Raid Alarm   Germans Report Evacuation of Lorient Ordered.

LONDON AREA GETS AIR ALARM; DOVER STRAIT GUNS ROAR   Commuter Train ‘On Way To London”: MachineGunned With No ~ Casualties

Higher Price for Crude Oil Urged By Livengood; Opposes Subsidies

Nazis Threaten Last Allied Aegean Isles Atter Overwhelming Leros Defenders.

ERROL FLYNN UPHELD    Member of Crew ~w Aboard Yacht Refutes Accuser’s Story

SOLDIERS MAY HELP FARMERS   1943 HARVEST NEARS WITH LABOR DEARTH LOOMING FOR NATION

CAPITAL PRESS HIT BY STRIKE   Typographical Employes Stay Away from Work at All Four Plants.

STRIKE TIES UP  GAPITAL PAPERS   Printers Quit Posts On Four Big Dailies In Wage Dispute

ANNOUNCE TULLYTOWN ATTENDANCE RECORDS   Number of Pupils In the 3 Rooms Present Each  Day For Month   SEPTEMBER = SESSIONS

TULLYTOWN STUDENTS AT CLASS REGULARLY   List of Those Having Per fect Attendance Made Public   ALSO TERM RECORD

ATTENDANCE RECORDS AT TULLYTOWN GIVEN   All Grades Represented In Those Attending Each Day in February   NAMES MADE PUBLIC:

ARCHBISHOP ON WAY TO VATICAN   Possibility Heard He Carries Message From President To Pope Pius

Enter Judgments  Against Firms _  Selling Goods at Over Ceiling Prices

INDICTMENTS STAND IN SEDITION GASE   Five Accused ‘of Harboring Alleged Nazi Supporter

Truckers, Produce Processors to Meet   Will: Gather at. _ Missouri Hotel: Nov. 1 -

Livestock Dealers Truckers, Produce Processors fo Meef   Will Gather at Missouri Hotel Noy. 

FIRST BREAK IN CIVILIAN GOODS   WPB Approves 2 Million Electric Irons and  50,000 Bathtubs

Electric lrons,  Bathtubs In °44   First Important Resumption Of Civilian Goods Manufacturer.

ELECTRIC IRON PRODUCTION IN 1944 PLANNED   Two Million Allowed Under Schedule Set for Year

Civilian Goods Given Go Sign  Bathtubs and Electric Trons First on List

JULY INDUCTION WILL BE tibt   This Ccunty Apparently I: Somewhat Different From Others.

JULY INDUCTION ~ WILL BE: IGE   This County Apparently Is - Somewhat Different _ From ‘Others.

Eight More Collieries Closed In Pennsylvania   Miners Walk Out To Join 15,000 Already Striking: Meeting Today.

8000 More Walk Out In Coal Row   New Stoppages Close Eight Mines in East

COAL STRIKE SPREADS; 8000 MINERS QUIT   John L. Lewis Brands Strike by 15.000 As Nileaal Revolt

Coal Miners Advised to End Idleness   Asked to Await Settlement Under Contract Provision

a ae ae  Life Termer Is Married  o. a OM why - * ‘ia   Childhood Sweetheart Weds Convicted Slave:

Slayer Given Life Term, Then Weds  Gregg County Jury Finds Convicted  Muirdarer Sana

Message On Food Situation Is Promised   Roosevelt’s Plans Told As Drive Is Opened For Greater Program  Of Food Subsidies

President ‘To Outline Feod Program Soor   Report To Congress Will Cover Entire Field) For  Food For 1944.   VIEW FULBRIGHT PLAN

Jones Asks For Big Increase. In Farm Subsidies      Expect President To Send Message On: Food Situation

WEA Opens Drive To Double Funds   FDR to Talk on Food Production

PANTELLERIA GIVEN  ANOTHER SMASHING  BLOW BY AMERICANS SERIES OF STRATEGY CON. FERENCES FOCUS ATTEN 'T’'Se SALEY FAA OUVETE TP A ek

Lall in Aerial Attacks on Europe Brings  “Question” on Whereabouts of RAF— -— Bombs Fall Among Three Italian  Battleships in Raid on Spezia Saturday

Lull In Air War On Germany Is Worrying Axis   More Jitters As They Wait for Next Point Of Attack

Pantelleria And Messina Area Blasted   Yanks, British Intensify Air Attacks As Continuing Parleys Hint Early Blow At Continent.

Italy’s Position Desperate; Axis Rush Defenses   Mussolini Bans Strolling Players Te Impress People With Grimness Of The Hour

CONTINUE ROUND CLOCK RAIDS ON ITALY’S ISLANDS   Pantelleria Now Almost Pulverized; U. S. Airmen Pound Both Sides Of Mes sina Strait.

Strategy Talks Stir Speculation   Lull in Aerial Attacks on Europe Brings “Question” on Whereabouts of RAF— — Bombs Fall Among Three Italian Battleships in Raid on Spezia Saturday

ITALIAN BASES POUNDED HARD   Continuing Strategy Con fabs Focus Attention On Invasion

Other Italian Areas Bombed   Strategy Talks Believed Preceding  New Offensives.

INVASION MAY COME AT ANY HOUR, EXPECT   Americans, British in Round-the. Clock Attacks on Pantelleria, Italian “Door”

Italian Ships at La Spezia Are Pounded   Mainland, Invasion Stepping Stones Hit in Round-theClock Offensive

Pantelleria Believed Pulverized   Early Argentina Disagreement As Gen. Arturo Rawson Resigns

Italy’s Position Grows Desperate From Air Attacks   Pantelleria Island Is All But Pulverized by Weeks of Bombing.   Battleships Damaged By Flying Fortresses

BATTLESHIPS OF IL DUCE’S FLEET RAKED IN HARBOR   Largest Formation Of Big ‘Forts’ Sent From Africa Hits La Spezia Docks

Allied Thrust Through Spain Hinted; Duce’s Navy Damaged Rv Bio Flying Fortress Raid

Pantelleria Again  The Allied Target   Round-the-Clock Bombing Almost Pulverizes Italian Island Base   RAID MESSINA STRATI   London Papers See Invasion _ Plans in Stepped-Up Assaults

PANTELLERIA ISLAND AGAIN HEAVILY. HIT   Violent “ Aerial . -As-saults-Made By‘Al liad Rambers:         TALK  STRATEGY   Luli.In Air War-Ove Euvope Raises: Question

PANTELLERIA GIVEN ANOTHER SMASHING BLOW BY AMERICANS   SERIES OF STRATEGY CONFERENCES FOCUS ATTENTION ON INVASION

Pantelleria Is Again Target of Heavy Bombing   But Britain-Based Bombers Have Been Inactive for Days

Bombs Preparing Way for Invaders   Yankee Fliers Make Heavy Attack on Mussolini’s Fleet; Strike at Island Bases

Huge Contingent of Yank Fliers Bolster Gathering Invader:   Allied Plans Believed Complete; War News of Today Summarized

OTHER TTALIAN DEFENSE KEYS   Heavy Bombers Pound Both Sides of Messina Strait With Attacks

PANTELLERIA ROCKED AGAIN BY AIR BLOWS   Italy's Position Grows Worse With Each New Attack

New Air Raids Pounding Italy: lnvasion Near?   Pantelleria Termed As Ferry Route Foy Attack: Messina <* Raided. :

Fortresses In = Longest Raids From Africa   British Fleet and Subs Also Taking Toll of Italy’s Defenses twit

Heavy Assault On Pantelleria   Small Italian Island Target of Aroundthe-Clock Attacks; Churchill Busy With Conferences; RAF Idle as Air War Remains Quiet in West Europe

See Invasion Planned At  Conferences   American Bombers Keep Up Pantelleria Attack

British Subs Join In Raids Against Italy   Axis Continues To Pour Air Strength Into Defense Of Islands,   DOWN 8 INTERCEPTORS

Admiral Nimitz Hints Mysteriously At Carrying “Trouble to Japanese;”  Pacific Area Getting Share of U.S. Men and Supplies

Crushing New Blows By Bombers   ITtaly’s ‘Situation Becomes  More Desperate 2s Allies Increase Assault   FORTRESSES POUND  SHIPS AND HARBORS   Pulverizing . Bombardment: _ Paving. Way for Land-: ings by Allied Forces

Military Leaders of United Nations Confer Over Strategy; Nervousness Over Prospects Of Invasion Increases Among Axis Nations

Others Take Hard Licks OnWeekend Of Fighting   Invasion Strategy Talk At Peak  In London

Increase AAF in England   RAF May Mave Diverted Strength to Mediterranean Area

U.S. AIR FORCE HITS BOTH SIDES OF ITALIAN BOOT   Ohioan Downs One of Six Nazi Fighters in Dogfight

U.S. Bombers Join Softening-Up Drive On‘Italian Gibraltar’   ‘Churchill’ Round Of Conferences  Creates Speculation In England   About New Allied Battle Plans

ROUND - CLOCK ALHIAL ATTAGK POUNDS (SLAND   Reports Indicate Invasion Preparations Completed By Allied Forces

Allied Air Fury Scars Pantelleria   Naval Salvos Add to Destruction; All Eu-rope on Edge in Expectation of Invasion

CAPTURE OF BRITISH RAID FORCE CLAIMEL   Berlin Claims s Commando- like Landing on Dodecanese Island Frustrated

NUISANCE AIR RAIDS ON U. S. COASTS POSSIBLE. KNOX SAYS   Secretary of the Navy Declares, However, Possibility Is Remote—Thirteen New Assaults on Kicka Feland Rennrted

KISKA ISLAND TARGET OF 13 RAIDS IN DAY   HITS ALSO SCORED ON ATTU, LESSER JAP BASE   Knox Admits Danger

Axis Planes May Bomb U. S. Coasts Knox Declares   Navy Secretary Minimizes Danger of Such Raids by Japs or Nazis

Knox Says Air Raid Possibility Remote  Discounts Nuisance Attacks on Nation

Knox Warns Of Possibility Of Nuisance Raids   Bombers Continue To Pound Hard At Japs On Aleutians

Knox Warns Of Possibility Of Nuisance Raids   Bombers Continue To Pound Hard At

Knox Considers Nuisance Raids  On USS. Possible   But Not Likely, He Says; 13 More Attacks Made Against Jap Kiska Base

Nonagenarian Is  Claimed By Death  Oldest Resident of - Wakonda, S. D.

Nonagenarian Is __  Claimed By Death  Oldest Resident of Wakonda., S. D. -

Federal Land Bank Rate To : Be Stabilized. At 4 Per Cent   That’s 4% Per Cent Raise, But It Won’t Go Over That

Farmers Get Reduction in Interest Rate   Counties served by local association will get benefit.

Airdrome at Foggia Also Heavily Hit   Rail Lines: In Sardinia ' Smashed

Over 150 Yank Bombers In Raids      ITALIAN PORTS AND AXIS BASES ARE BLASTED

150 U.S. BOMBERS BLAST ITALIAN TOWNS SUNDAY   Force of B-17’s and B-24 Liberators Blast Naples anc Foggia by Daylight.

Naples And Foggia Pasted In Furious Daylight Assaults; Islands Also Hit

‘Ov er 100 Flying Fortresses ‘Smash Former Place , Leaving Fires, Explosions, W recks   Aircraft Factories, Grounded Planes, Storage  Ras ’ it. “ . Pas eyes Vee e Depot For OW Wits Hongars And Barracks Als  Hammered: Shine Sunk. Fired. Damaged

Napkes, Foggia Softened Up While Islands Get  Tix pikmaman do Rat Ktecantan ine’ ae

EXPLOSIONS, FIRES, RAGING IN NAPLES   Powerful Air Thrusts of Last Fortnight Show No Sign  af Diasntnrclbene

LLERIA, SARDINIA “ALSO BLASTED   Factory, Airbase, Ports Among Targets   AIR OPPOSITION   Of Axis Slips Noticeably: Only Scattered Planes Bother Allies

‘Italians Admit ‘Naples Bomb -Losses Heavy   Foggia Blasted by Liberators in 2nd Bia Daylight Raid

Pantelierla \nd Sardinia BlastedAgain  Flying Fortresses Fire Naples Aircraft Plant and Oil Depot  BAG 11 AXIS PLANES  fed S. Bombers Also Hit

SMOKE-SHROUDED RUINS LEFT AFTER WIDESPREAD BLASTING IN “SMASH ITALY” AIR DRIVE

Big Bombers Pound South Italy Heavily   More Than 150 Huge Planes Keep Up Relentless Assault On Axis Bases

U5. BOMBERS COOPERATE IN TWIN ATTACKS   Leave Naples and Foggia Hid by Smoke of Explosive Blasted Ruins.   RAF SETS NEW RECORD FOR ATTACKS ON NAZIS

Powerful Allied Aerial Thrusts Directed Against Mainland, Italian Isles

NAPLES AND FOGGIA HEAVILY. BLASTED BY LARGE U. $. BOMBERS  MORE THAN 150 LIBERATORS AND FLYING FORTRESSES ENGAGED

i The Attack by Daylight Sun. day Left Smoke Shrouded : Ruins In Its Wake, It Is Announced.      EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES AT NAPLES   City Was Hit by a Force of More Than 100 Fortresses of the North African Command.

Attacks Renewed Upon Pantelleria, Sardinia Bastions   Explosions And Fires Rage At Naples; Enemy Planes Lost Total 14 With Only One Allied Plane Failing To Return

YANKS RAID AIRDROME AT FOGGIA   Axis Island Bases Of’ Pantelleria And Sardinia Hit

italians Admit Naples Suffered Casualties And Great Damage as Result af Raids; Hits Scored on Airdromes at Foggia

EXPLOSIONS — AND FIRESRAGE AT BASE   Sunday Daylight Raid Leaves Port in SmokeShrouded Ruins—500 U. S. Liberators Bomb Airdrome of Fogcia. :

U. S. Bombers in Attack on Naples   Many Fires and Explosions Are Caused by Daylight  i. Raid    HIT AXIS AIR FIELDS   Allies Announce} 14 Enemy Planes Were Destroyed - jn Raid 

LEAVE SMOKE SHROUDED RUINS IN THEIR WAKE   Naples, Foggia Chief Targets; Airdromes Poundec

NAPLES, FOGGIA ARE BLASTED I HEAVY ATTACKS   italian Broadcast Admits Severe Damage  From Massive Raids

PAY-AS-G0 TAX POLICY — IS DELAYED   Regular '42 Returns Due March 15, Regardless Of Outcome

MAY ADOPT PAY AS-YOU-G0 TAX IN SOME FORM      However Passage Not Expected Before Income Tax Date March 15

NEW TAX PLAl PLAN WILL NOT BE ENACTED BY MARCH. DEADLINE   Pay-As-You-Go. Plan : Will Probably Be Enacted Sometime In ‘This Year

PAY-AS-YOU-GOTAX CAN'T BE ENACTED BEFORE MARCH 15   Leaders Expect New Plan Will Be Devised But Not Before Que Date.

British Capture Town OF: Salvo On East Coast: After Bitter Battle With Germans.

British and Americans Gain 7 Miles; Storm Outskirts of Venefro   British Take San Salio

Nazis Flood Plains in Effort to Impede Our Progress.   BITTER FIGHTING IS RAGING AT VENAFRO   Germans Hemmed in On Three Sides by the Allied Forces.

James E. Clark Dies In Hospital In Philadelphia  Had Recently Gon: re 86,lUfrelm0UCU SUCRE   Had Recently Gone East To Enter U. S.  Merchant Marine

James E. Clark Dies In Hospital In Philadelphia  Had Recently Gone East To Enter U. §

WLB May Seek FR’s Assistance In Coal Dispute   Number of Miners Already On Strike Mounts To 61,000

STRIKE THREAT TOWAR PLANTS   Miners ‘Begin. Walkouts, May Bring Measures of Compulsion.

Labor Board May Ask F. R Coal Action   Afternoon Vote Set As 58,000 ‘Strike’; Troops’ Use Rumored

NATION FACES BiG WALK-OUT FRIDAY NIGH]   Roosevelt Is Expectec To Act If Mines  Close Down

Steel Mill Shutdown In T: wo Weeks 2 eared  t. . wpedgg 4 bD.....].. 2.   War Labor Board Believed Ready to Turn Situation Over to FDR Today

‘Wage Row Nears Climax As Coal Strike Loom:   Mine Operation Behind Bayonets Hinted As Parley Continues; : Full-Scale. Walkout Threatened ‘By Friday

FRIDAY NIGHT IS DEADLINE SET BY UNION FOR REPLY   Leaders Promise Men Will Stop Work Unless Fresh Contract Is Ready

Climax Near In Nation's Coal Dispute   Closed Hearing Under Way — Before WLB

Threatens Full-Scale Coal Strike   Lewis Says Soft Coal Miners Will Not Work After Friday Unless Demands Are Granted

STRIKES SPREADING   Labor Board Is Expected to Ask F. R. to Intervene

98,000 COAL “MINERS NOW OFF THE JOB   Talk Is Heard of Possible Use of Troops to Guard Those Who Want to Work as Mine After Mine Closes Down. _

Full Scale  CoalStrike Threatens   58,000 Stay Away From Work; Troops May Be Used.

MINERS REFUSE TO WORK AFTER CONTRACT ENDS   Thousands Of Miners Have Dropped Tools; Crisis Seen Near

98,000 MINERS ON HOLIDAY IN WAGE DISPUTE   Talk Heard of Possible Use of  Troops—Lewis Demands WLB  Withdraw from Case

Coal Industry Moves Toward Wage Climax   Military Protection Likely for Miners Who Want to Work

58,000 Stay Away From Jobs As Talk Grows Of Soldiers Taking Over Fields

WLB EXPCCTED 10 URGE ROOSEVELT TO HALT STRIKE   Full-scale Strike, Talk of Subsequent Mine Operation Behind Bayonets Is Discussed.   EARLY WALKOUTS NOT CONSIDERED STRIKES   Speculation Being Advanced on Government Attitude if Strike Actually Develops Friday.

Walkout Would Paralyze War Production   Operation of Mines Behind Bayonets_ Might Be Attempted

SITUATION IS MOVING TO CLIMAX   Strikes Spread; Intervention By Army Threatened

58,000 Stay Off Job at Coal Mines   Soft Coal Wage Dispute Threatens to Develop ‘ Scale Strike   LEWIS . DEFIES BOARD   No Work After Friday Un: less Demands Are Met,  He Says

WLB CONSIDERS REPORT THAT MEN WILL LEAVE MINES   lf It Finds Basis to Threat, Chief Executive Will Enter Scene.

Lewis Defies WLB:; Strike  Fear Grows   Widespread Walkouts Not Yet Officially Called Strikes

NATION'S SOFT COAL INDUSTRY 15 MOVING TO DISPUTE CLIMAX  THREAT OF FULL SCALE STRIKE AND TALKS OF © MILITARY ACTION HEARI

W LB Requests President’ s Aid InCoal Strike   Lewis Warns Miners Will "Not Trespass’ Saturday Without Agreement   §8,000 ALREADY OUT   UMW Charges War Labor Board Pane! With ‘Malignant Prejudice’

FULL STRIKE THREATENED BY LEWIS   U. M. W. Boss Sets Deadline At Midnight Friday   PRODUCTION   Already Cut Over 200,000 Tons Per Day: Little Picketing Reported

58,000 MINERS IDLE, MAY GUARD WORKING MINES   WLB Holding Closed Hearings Today, Lewis Plans on All-Out Strike

Threaten Walkout Of Miners   Coal Workers Plan Strike of 450,000 Men—Already 61,000 Have Quit

_ War- Vital Soft "Coal Crisis Is , Nearing Climax   Spreading Walkouts Bring Talk Of Military  Intervention.

FDR Expected to Be Asked to Halt Strike of Miners   Vote to Be Taken This Afternoon

58,000 Miners Stay Away From Work   Strike Would Hurt Nation's War Effort

LEWIS SILENT AS 61,000 COAL MINERS STRIKE   { So   WLB Reported Ready to Call On  i President; Steel Industry Slowed by Stoppage

LEWIS PROMISES ALL-OUT STRIKE FRIDAY MIDNIGHT   Three-Man WLB Panel Has Mine Wage Dispute Behind Closed Doors; May Use Armed Forces To Force Mine Operation.

PANEL TACKLES PROBLEM UNDER STRIKE THREAT   Thousands of Bituminous _ Miners Already ® - -$dle

Speculation Rises As ‘TI’ Government Action Tc Meet Lewis’ Defiance Military Protection for Non Striking Workers Indieated.

WPB Ready to Ask FDR to Halt Impending Strike   Over 450,000 Bituminous Miners on Verge of Walk Out

Report WLB to Ask F. R. Aid as Miner Walkout Threatens   61,000 Are on Strikes Total May Increase to 450,000 by Saturday

Major Strike Of Coal Miners Is  Slated Friday   Operations Of Mines Behind __ Bayonets Looms; War Work Threatened

Mine Strike  Threatening War Plants   John L. Lewis, as Mine Union Chief, Says He Will Cut Off Coal Supply Unless Labor Board Bows to His Demands in Wage’ Dispute—Thousands of Miners Idle Pending Negotiations

MORE THAN 58,000 MINERS OUT TODAY   Stayed Away From Work To. day in a Wage Dispute.

Coal Crisis Is Speeding  To Climax   Military Intervention Is Discussed As Walkonts Spread Through Mines

War Production Is Facing Crisis as Mine Strike Nears   Soft Coal Industry Is _Moving Toward Wage Dispute Climax

53,000 MINERS ON STRIKE: DEADLINE FRIDAY MIDNIGHT   UMW Refuse To Meet Mine Operators . And WLB Special Panel To Discuss Demands—May Refer Case To Pres. Roosevelt

TRIKE ON FULL CALE FRIDAY FLD CERTAIN   Ik of Subsequent Opera ions By Government  Behind Bayonet Lines Gains Momentum   Pie CONTINUES HIS WLB DEFIANCE   eanwhile, Thousands Of  finers Have Already  Laid Down Tools Pending New Contract

LEWIS SOUNDING > STRIKE THREATS TO ‘SCARE’ WLB   ® Thousands of Miners Already Idle As Special Panel Studies Coal Dispute

Pres. Roosevelt Likely to Order Military Protection for Miners Who Will Work to Keep Fires of War Steel Production Going

All-Out Strike Of Coal Miners Set For Friday   Lewis Threatens UMW Action Unless Demands are Met

Refusal of UMW To Send Representative To WLB Panel Hearing Points To Possible Walkout By Saturday

Plan To Halt Work Friday At Midnight   ate On Action Government May Take; Bayonets Might Guard Those Who'll Labor

COAL CRISIS IS NEARING A CLIMAX    Talk Is Heard of the Possi ble Use of Troops to Guard Mines   LABOR BOARD PANEL HEARING STARTED   58,000 Miners Idle and More May Stay Away From -Work in Pay Dispute

F. D. R. Gets Coal Strike Row   NUMBER ON STRIKE JUMPS TO 61,000 AS SIGNS POINT TO WORK STOPPAGE BY REST OF 450,000 COAL WORKERS BY SATURDAY

Lewis Holds All Out Threat of Coal Strike   50,000 Miners on Leave as’ Wage Dispute Crisis Nears; See Govt. Intervention

53,000 UMW ARE ALREADY OUT OF PITS   Walkout Expected to Close Nation’s Steel Mills Within Two Weeks.   BULLETIN

General Walkout Of Nation's 450,000 Miners Would Close Steel Mills Within Two Weeks; Many Mines Are Down Now   STRIKE SET FOR . FRIDAY MIDNIGHT

MINE WALKOUT OPAEALS thal IN ALL FIELDS   Thousands Of Additional Miners Quit Shafts This Morning   37 BIRMINGHAM MINES CLOSED DOWN TODAY   Lewis Reiterates Warning That All Men Will Quit Friday At Midnight

Threatened Walkout Of 450,000 Coal Miners Spurs Board to Action   More Than 61,000 Miners Already Out On Strike; Prompt Action Needed To Keep Mine Walk-out From Spreading

LEWIS SPURNS LABOR BOARD; ROOSEVELT LIKELY TO ACT   53,000 Miners Already on Strike; Steel Production May Be Paralyzed Next Week

Labor Dispute Nears Climax   SOFT COAL MINERS TO WALKOUT OVER WEEKEND

MINE DEADLINE NEAR AS BOARD OPENS HEARING   General Strike Threatened By Workers’ Czar

LATE NEWS DEVELOPMENTS   PLAN MORE AIR RAID TESTS IN PENNSYLVANIA

Headquarters Of Hitler On Move  Location Changed Seven Times In Nine Months

Swiftly Moving Russian Offensive ‘Keeps Hitler Hopping Like A Frog

Russians Keep Hitler Moving   Fuehrer Well Guarded, Headquarters Kept Secret

Informant Says Hitler Moves Headquarters 7 Times in Last 9 Months

Soviets Keep Hitler on Jump   They Have Forced Him To Move Seven Times In Last Nine Months

DEFEAT HERE IS CALAMITY, HITLER FEELS   Washington and Londor also ask about broadcast to German troops

The War Today   Patch’s Cleanup on Guadalcanal Hailed as Fine Tailorine. Job

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   AY ictory At Guadalcanal Is Highly Significant Of Things To Come

GREATER THINGS TO COME FOLLOWING GUADALCANAL VICTORY; ISLE TO ISLE CAMPAIGN IS NOT PROPOSED STRATECY

GUADALCANAL VICTORY GREAT ALTHOUGH ITS SCALE IS SMALL IN COMPARISON OTHER FIGHTS

‘Let Puerto Rico Flect Governor'-Ff  President Asks Congress to Give People This Power

F.D.R. ASKS ELECTION IN PUERTO RICO   Seeks Legislation Permitting People to Choose Own Governor, Now Appointed by President, With Senate Approval.

Puerto Rico May Select. Own Leader   Roosevelt Wants Congress to Let Islanders Vote

Puerto Ricans May Elect Own Governor Soon   Law Permitting Vote Sought by FDF

Puerto Ricans May Get Rid Of Governor   FDR Asks Congress To Give Islanders ’ Self Government

Asks Vote For Puerto Ricans  Roosevelt Wants Rul ing In Near Future

Would Give Puerto Rico Voting Right   President Requests Congress To Make Governor Flactiva.

SEEKS ELECTION IN PUERTO RICO   ROOSEVELT ASKS BILL TO PERMIT PEOPLE TO ELECT OWN GOVERNOR

Urges Island Rightto Elect Jts Governot   Roosevelt Asks Congres: to Amend Law for Puerto Rico

Asks Puerto Rican Governor Election   Roosevelt Sends Congress Request

Legislation Asked For Puerto Ricans   May Be Allowed To Elect Own Governor

WANTS PEOPLE TO NAME CHIEF   President Asks For Legislation That Would Permit Puerto Rico to Elect Governor

May Permit Puerto Rico to 'Name Leader    FDR Asks Congress to Consider Legislation as Soon as Possible; Tugwell Is Present  fliavarnnr

REVEALS PLOT   Grew Says Japs Thought Kiling Chaplin Would Start War,

AIR JAP PLOT ON CHAPLIN   GREW SAYS NIPS PLANNED DEATH OF FILM COMEDIAN

HULL ATTACKS BUTLER REPORT   Denies U. S. Funds Spent Lavishly In S. America

Daily Washington Merry - Go - Round  BY DEW PEARSON  Mae tamarntr

rRENGH WAROHiPS 70 BE SENT HERE   Holed Up at Martinique Since the Fall of France.

MORE FRENCH WARSHIPS TO ALLIES   Martinique-Held Units to Be Sent to U. S. For Reconditioning

WAY WITHHOLD COTTON CEILING   May Stabilize Prices By Sale Of Commodity Credit Corporation Stocks.

FIGHT WOMEN’S FQUAL PAY BILL   MEASURE ADVANCES TO HOUSE FLOOR; CHARGE OPPOSITION GAGGED

Women’s Equal Pay Bill Wins Approval of House Committee   Bill Now Moves to Floor of House for Possible Action Today

SEARCH. RUINS FOR VICTIMS   RESCUE WORKERS FEAR DEATH TOLL IN NEW JERSEY EXPLOSION MAY  7 REACH 23

Congress Plans Simplification Of Reverue Laws For Pay-As-You-Gioers

HOPES TO REDUGE RETURNS ON TAXES   GEORGE SAYS NEW LAW ELIMINATES NECESSITY OF ALL FILING REPORTS,

Von Ribbentrop Reported in Rome As German Nationals Leave Italy   Italian Morale Said to Be Deteriorating After Badoglio’s Failure to Seek Peace

Freezes Facists’  Holdings   Von Ribbentrop Called For Confab About Recall Of Troops  And Workmen.

Nice Weather On Way Back   Temperature Will Be Around 22 to 28 Degrees Tonight

PUT OFF ACTION — ON NEW TAX BILL   HOUSH GROUP DECIDES TO! STUDY LAW ON WAR CONTRACT NEGOTIATION,

TAX BILL ACTION — ~ WILL BE DELAYED   House Committee Report. _ ed to Have Agreed to Postponement

House Unit Agrees to Delay Discussion of New Tax Bill   Postponement of Consideration of New And Bigger Wartime Levy Act Viewed With Favor by Treasury: Many Issues Involved

Groups Delay Action on  War Tax Bil   Consideration Waits Review of War Contracts Law

GET OAK LEAF CLUSTER   Two Kansans Decorated for Bomb ing Enem} Transports

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Sharing of Equipment and Help Is Seen for Farmers   Ohio Agricultural Committee Member Is Speaker at "M”’ Day Observance.

JEFFERS SAYS PROGRAM 0:K   RUBBER DIRECTOR DEMANDS HIS PLANS BE CARRIED:  a ‘OUT-;DENIES © GASOLINE INTERFERENCE

DEMANDS FINISH OF RUBBER PLAN   Jeffers Says Curtailment Now Would Be Tragic Error

Knocked Cold By Shell Blasts =. Digging Fox-holes With Fin gernails, Betsworth Knows War   Had To Play Hide and Seek With German Machine  Gunners.

Knocked Cold  ; Shell: Blasts SB Digging Foxcholes. With Fin~ gernails,’ Betsworth: Knows War   Had To Play Hide and Seek  ‘Gamnere:

State Man Given Legion Of Merit   Sub Commander From Parkersburg Honored

CONFERENCE ARMY LEADERS HELD IN SALERNO DISTRICT  _ STRATEGY BY WHICH ENEMY BE HIT WILL EMERCE FROM MEETING

TO GET PLENTY OF woTre   Battle Wounds Give First Clue To Secret Weapons Used By Axis

coon ER eee  Military Surgeons 'Told™"~ Wounds Give First Clue ‘lo Axis Secret Weapons

Wounds Will Give Clues to New Axis Weapons and Doctors Should Watch For These Signs, Says Yale Medico

Wisconsin Launched   World's Mightiest Warship Is Answer To Peart Harbor

6500 Flee Homes In Flood Zone   Illinois River Sweeps Into Reardstown—lroops on Duty

Even College Professors Must Change Ways to Fit Program of Army School

ENOUGH DOCTORS   State Medical Group Report: State’« Health Guarded.

Russians Capture Znamenka, Stop Counter-Offensive   Allies Make New Gains in Driving On Toward Rome

RUSSIANS PRESS ON  THROUGH CRUMBLING  DEFENSES OF NAZIS AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY  SCORES ANOTHER VICTORY ITALIAN FICHTING

Score Gains on Two Sides Of Inland Road to Rome:  ‘Reds Capture Rail Center

eee 840 Be ANNE ae  Sov jets Lashing Forward   Russ Win Znamenka; Allies Slug Ahead In Italy

Uneasy Bulgaria. Reshuffles Its  Cabinet; Clark's Men Score Gains

OTH UNIT TAKES CITY 79 MILES BELOW ROME   Drive Nazis from East Side of Upper Garigliano River

Znamenska Is Captured by Soviet Forces   Nazis Lose 5,000 Men, 350 Tanks in  _ Three Days; 5th Army Scores Victory in Western Italy; 8th Army Approaching Adriatic Port of Pescara

VITAL RAIL HUB TAKEN AS REDS SURGE FORWARD   Yanks Smash German Winter Defenses in Mountains in ‘Battle of the Clouds’

More Important Centers Threatened as German Defenses in Ukraine Appear — to. Be: Crumbling

Russians Capture Rail Key   Red Army Smashes on After Taking Znamenka; 5th Army Scores Victory: in Italy

Victories Scored In Russia, Italy   Reds Capture Znamenka, Important Railroad Paralleling Dnieper Bend, and Press on in the Ukraine Area.   Americans and British Crack Nazi Lines in Hard Fighting in Italy

Swedes Lose Air Transport   Nazi Fighter Blamed; Yankee Among Dead

Attempt to Suppress News Out of Food Conference Inspires Editorial

ALLIES fill JAP MILITARY AREAS ON NEW GUINE   Drop 19 Tons of Bombs On New Enemy Base At We. wak and ‘Badly Damage 4,000-Ton Cargo Vessel; Anti-Aircraft Fire Intense

Allies Lash Jap Targets Over Guinea   3 Hours at. Wewak, Hit Ship > Mubo, Lae, Other Spots Bombed

19 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON NEW JAP BASE   Two 500-Pound Bombs: Set Squarely on 4,000- ° Ton Jap Cargo Vessel At Wewak ss

Allied Bombers Pound Wewak   Set Two 500-Pound Bombs Squarely On Cargo Vessels

RESSTRATON RM PRINTED         May Be Clipped, Filled Out For War Ration Book No.2 «

“ON PACER   May Be Clipped, Filled sas  For War era ;  Book No. 2 .

ROLL-BACK OF MEAT. PRES IS SCHEDULED         To, Trim’ Average “Cent .of Costs to: Michiz” pan Housewives =      DEALERS: TO GET. POSTERS

10 Percent Meat Slash Is Ordered   Starting Monday, Housewives Will Have Cost of Meat Gut Around 3 Cents

Michigan Meat Prices Will Be Lower Monday   Pork Roll-Back Will Take Effect July 5; Subsidies Ready

Air Raid Warden Sued For $42,920      Widow of Man Killed Brings Damage Suit

SSTATE AIR RAID DRILL IS PLANNED   Daylight’ Alarm. Will Be ‘Held Sometimie After . February 17

POSTWAR: PLAN TS SHAPING UP   RUSSIA TO BE ASKED TO FOREGO POLITICS AND JOIN EN :;COLLECTIVE SECUR- .  ITY SYSTEM

State Department Ready to Present Plan for Russian Co-operation After the War

-Pantelleria Pounded For 20 Days — Aerial Fleets Force Surrender

GREAT FORCE SENT AGAINST KRIVO! ROG   Nazis Claim 115 Soviet Vehicles Destroyed in Their Last-Ditch Stand Before Vital Iron and Rail Center.

SOVIETS BATTLE NAZI ARMY FOR VITAL RAIL CITY   Red Tanks Poured Into Violent Fight in Krivoi Rog Area

Escape Line From Crimea  Threatened   ‘Strengthened ‘Nazi Garrison Batles Desperately for Krivoi Rog,  Claims 115 Tanks Destroyed   REDS CUT RAIL LINE   ' Dnepropetrovsk Forces Capture  Huge War Booty, Join Army Storm Krivai Rog

Reds Cutting Nazi Crimean Escape Route   Reports Indicate Nazis Are Running Short Of Gasoline

SOVIET TANK UNIT CLOSING ON IRON CITY   3,000 Germans Killed As Junction Town Falls; Pressure On Crimea Is Increased

Reds Move To Close Crimea Escape Door   Russian Forces Sever Rail Line; Drive Nearer Perekop

Russians Advance 12 Miles A Day   Battle Of Krivoi Rog In Second Day; Tank Force Smashed Ahead

FIERCE FIGHTING FOR POSSESSION OF KRIVO! ROG   A Mighty Russian Tank Force Is Crushing Down on the Rail Center.   SECOND DAY OF BATTLE   South of Dnieper Bend Red Army Troops Were Plunging Through the Steppes.

Strugele Is Fierce For Strategic Iron Center   Reds Seeking To Close Last Door Of Escape Te Nazis In Southern Ukraine Sector

QUVIET TANKS IN Ble BATTLE   Fierce Struggle Rages for Coniro! of Iron Mine and Rai} City.

Last-Ditch German Armor Thrown in Fierce Struggle  3-SIDED ASSAULT  Red Army Is Nearing Nazi Last Escape Door From Crimea,

Russian Tanks Crush Nazi Lines   SOVIET FORCES SMASH TO NEW GAINS ON DNIEPER

Soviefs Drive ToClose Only pe Route   Powerful Force Of Russians Moves On Krivoi Rog

MIGHTY RED ARMY TANK FORCE BEARS DOWN ON KRIVOI ROG  RUSSIAN FORCES PLUNGING THROUGH SOUTHER! MYRAINE TO CHRITT NOOE

TANK FORCES DRIVING UPON KRIVOI ROG   Russians Plunge Through Wide Steppes Toward Last Escape Door Open to Crimean Garrison   IMANY VILLAGES TAKEN

Reds Crash Ahead Slowly   - Fierce Struggle Centering * Now At Krivoi Rog

Mighty Red Tank Units In Fierce Struggle With — Last-Ditch Gers  ‘man Armor    LAST RAILWAY CUT EAST OF BUG RIVER   Russians Push Swifth Across Nogaisk Steppe to Within 60 Miles Es- cape Hatch for Huns

LAST RAILWAY CUT; RUSSIANS POURING AHEAI   Advancing Like Spring Flood Across Steppeland Carpeted With Bodies Dead Germans

REDS CUT LAST RARLWAY EAST OF BUG RIVER      Drive Within 60 Miles Of Perekop, Last Nas Escape Door

Big Tank Force. Crushing Down On Krivoi Rog   Russians 60 Miles From . Last Escape Door Open To Nazi Crimean Units

Russian Tanks Meet Nazi Last-Ditch Forces In Drive to Take Krivoi Rog

Reds lighten Vice Around Krivoi Roc   Nazi Armor Stages Last’ Ditch Fight For Iron, Rail Center

Red Army Troops Push Thraugh Wide  Steppes to Within Less Than 60 Miles of! Perekop, Lost Door of Escape to Nazis

Russian Tank Armies Roll Across Steppe:   Reds Cut Rail Line 7 Bug River; Nazis Put U; Fight For Krivoi Rog   BITTER STRUGGLE   Nizhne-Saragozhy's Fal Clears Way For Sovie Surge Westward

Russian Pincer Tightens Around Strategic City   Begin Second Day of Battle Against Krivoi Rog; In South Reds March 60 Miles From Perekop.

INTO SECOND DAY   Germans Put Up Fierce Battle to Hold Mine and  Rail Center

Mighty Forces Are Locked in Battle for Strategic City   Red Armies Plunge on in Drive Against Nazi Invaders

SOVIETS ADVANCE ACROSS UKRAINE TO SPRING TRAP   BITTER FIGHTING CONTINUES IN AREA AROUND KRIVO! ROG

SOVIET TANK FORCES CRUSH NAZIS TODAY   Russians Closing In On Enemy At Perekop Base

Coal Strike  Onus Passed   Harold Ickes Shifts Burden Back To WLB

DRAFT RULING IS EXPLAINED   WMS Says Only ‘Necessary Men To Be Exempted

Only Necessary  Workers May Be  Sure Of Escaping Draft This Year

ONLY: MEN - LISTED AS ESSENTIAL MAY ESCAPE ARMY CALL   All Married Men Men To: Be In Class 3- B—Miust : Prove “Necessary”! -Status,  ‘At Time O£ Call

ONLY ‘NECESSARY MEN’ 10 ESCAPE DRAFT THIS YEAR   All Not Employed in Vital Industries Face Calls   10 OUT OF 14 MEN TO BE IN ARMED FORCES

Only Necessary Men Working In Essential Industry Will  Escape Call to Armed Forces

cde ics ARE. ESSENTIAL   Only Nécessary Men Can be Reasonably. ‘Sure: of. Escaping Cali to Military Service.

Will Look Toward Induction   Can Expect Service, Say Manpower Sources — Be ing Reclassified

ONLY NECESSAR\ MEN TO ESCAPE CALL TO SERVICE      Able-Bodied Fle Not Held As Essential Workmen To Be Drafted

GERMAN AIR FORCE IN BAD WAY, LONDON EXPERTS BELIEVE   Say Luftwaffe More Wobbly Than Anyone Realizes

PRPPPPLPPPPPPOPOPOP ODS  Army Planes To Have New Insignia on Wings

Japs Are Finding Rabaul Base Too Hot To Handle   Enemy Naval Activity Slackens Around Air & Sea Base. Neuutralization Would Be Mayor Allied Victory:

Japs Are Finding New Britain Base Too Hot Handle   Noticeable Drop In Naval Traffic At Rabaul, Bombers Hit Bougainville; Wareo Fighting Static.

Japs Hint Rabaul Base Too Hot to Handle by Slackening Naval Activity

Rabaul Seen As Too Hot For Japanese   Naval Activity Is Slowed Up At Key Pacific Enemy Base

RABAUL RAIDS SHOW RESULTS   Japanese Finding Their Key Pacific Base Too Hot to Handle

NEW BRITAIN ISLAND BASE TOO HOT FOR JAPS  Slackening of Naval Activity Observed by Allies at Rabau!

JAPANESE FIND NAVY BASE'T00 HOT TO HANDLI   Allied Bombers Drop Tons ‘Of Explosives On Rabaul But Nips Show Signs Of Giving Up

JAPANESE SHIPS AVOIDING RABALL   Allied Bombers Make New Britain Base Unpleasant Spot For Foe   TRAFFIC DROPS   Excellent Harbor, Six Airdromes Of Great Value To Japs

RABAUL PROVES HOT SPOT FOR JAPNAVY   Slackening of Effort by Nips Indicates Allies Have It Well Isolated  rawr

JAPANESE FIND RABAUL IS 100 HOT TO HANDLE   Allied Bombers Make New Smashes In Pacific

Rabaul Japs Show Signs Of Cracking Under Allied Blows   MacArthur Says Naval Activity Is Lessening

NIPS REDUCE USE OF NAVAL BASE IN NEW BRITAIN   Observe Noticeable Drop in Naval Traffic at \ Rabaul

Think Japs Find N. Britain Base Too Hot To Hold   Slackened Naval Activity At Rabanl Lends Proof To Assertion By Allies

Shortage Of Chick Feed Hits Farms   Supply Outlook Down ll Per Cent For 1943-44 Year

ALLIED TROOPS HAVE PENETRATED THIRTY , MILES INTO INTERIOR OF SICILY AT ONE POINT ALONG © FRONT AS STEADY ADVANCE CONTINUES— FOUR MORE JAP WARSHIPS SUNK INKULA CULE. . a

Nazi Slavery ot Exposed   Foreign Workers,’ Prisoners - Dragged to Their Labors

Davies Returns With Letter to FDR from Stalin   Arrangements May Have Been Made for Personal Meeting

DAVIES RETURNS TO CAPITAL WITH REPLY   Ex-Ambasador To Russia Confer: Two Hours With President; Letter Contents Secret

HOSPITAL CHIEFS SEK FIRE VICTIMS   $2,000,000 Evansville Insane Hospital Blaze Has Taken One Life. One Missing

Henry A. Roemer Resigns As Pgh. Steel Co. Chairman   Relinquishes Board Place Also Due To Pressure Of Other Duties

Railroad Strike Threat Voiced   Brotherhoods Ask 30 Pct. Wage Boost

Not One World--Hoover   Technical Gains Not Paralleled By Social, Ex-President Warns

SMALL GIRL LOCKED IN SHED FOR 18 DAYS   Let Out Only To Do Family Washing in New York

AIR RAID TEST. NEXT THUSDAY   Radio Will Give Instructions All During Half Hour

BLACKOUT PLANNED FOR NEXT THURSDAY   Will Be Held By State Council Of Defense To Familiarize Citizens With Signals

Special Blackou Test Thursday  Radios Will Explain Signals With First Blue At 10.30 P. M.

7000 Back at Jobs and More Report Hourly   Plants Expect to Be it Full Production by  To mnarena

Workers at Goodyear And General Slowly Returning to Work After FDR's Order

EXPECTING 10 OBEY ORDERS   General Cirike cf Five Days in Rubber Industry Believed Near End— President Rooscvelt Issues Backto-Work Order.

BACK-T0-JOBS MOVEMENT AT AKRON STARTS   All Workers Expected To Obey Ultimatum By President

BACK TO WORK IN AKRON, 0., TODAY   Strikers Obey the President’s Order to Return to Work.

STRIKERS HEEDING PRESIDENTS BACK TO WORK ORDER   All Workers In Akron’s Four Major Rubber Companies Expected Back By Mid Afternoon

MANY AKRON STRIKERS HEED F.D.R.’S WARNINGS   Thousands Return to Their Jobs After President Issues   Edict—Some Still Balk at. Back-to-Work Order:   _ But for the Most Part, Production Is Again  Resumed—Deadline Set aot Naan: Tadae

Goodrich Men Slow To Return   All Expected to Ultimate ly Obey Roosevelt’s Return to Work Order

AKRON STRIKERS OBEY F.R. ORDER, DETURN TO WORK   gubber Industry Operating Again  After Plea By Roosevelt

Reports Reveal Extent of Enemy Loss in Pacific   Japanese Given Severe Drubbing by Allied Forces

BRITAIN’S EIGHTH ARMY HAS PLUNGED SNEARER TO CATANIA   ALLIED TROOPS REPORT. ED ADVANCING EVERY. WHERE IN SICILY

12 Towns and 20,000 Prisoners Now Held   Allies Strongly Established in Southeast, And Observers See Possibility of Enemy  Withdrawal From Sicily.

Second Nazi Attack Results In Setback; Capture 13 Towns   Germans Seen Abandoning Sicily: FDR, Churchill Issue Ultimatum Demanding Italians Make Choice

Capture 12 Towns; Allied Air Units Set Huge Fires in Naples   Appeal To Italian Civilians To Over: throw Fascism or Face Death of Italy by Invasion

Allied Troops Advancing Elsewhere Have Taken 12 Towns — German Armor Battered by Eighth Army — Yanks  Have Taken 15,992 Prisaners

NAZI ARMORED COLUMN BEATEN BACK FOR SECOND TIME: AXIS « MAY ABANDON SICILY SOON   Allied Troops Have Captured 13 More Towns T« Further Strengthen Hold on Southern Sicily. U. S. Troops Have Captured 15,992 Prisoners

Axis May Pull Out Of Sicily   Hard-Pressed Foe Loses 12 More Towns To Allies

12 Towns Fall before Attack   ‘British Eighth Army Only 15 Miles from Ca tania After Hurling Back Second Nazi   Charge; Observers Expect Hard-Pressed   Foe to Evacuate Island

Observers Believe Axis Planning to. Evacuate Island   Battering Down Bitter Opposition Americans and Tommies Take Thirteen More Towns, 18,000 Prisoners   GERMANS DESPERATELY CONTEST EVERY INCH

BRITISH ONLY 15 MILES OUT OF MAIN PORT   More Towns, Prisoners Taken As Resistance By Axis Columns Beaten Back On Isle

Nazis May Quit Isle Soon, Belief   Allied Troops Advancing Elsewhere Have Taken 12 Towns — German Armor Battered by Eighth Army — Yanks  Have Taken 15,992 Prisoners

German Armored Columns Defeated in Battle by British Eighth Army While Americans Score New Gains on Long Left Flank.   Russians Driving Forward in An Offensive Drive in Orel Region

Americans Score New Gains on Left Flank of Invasion Push; Observers Hint Germany May Abandon War Ally; 13 Towns Fall Before Allied Drive; Number of Axis Prisoners Mounts to 20,000.

?, & 2:4). .%, 2% & ®  Brifish Forces Are Moving Closer fo Seaport of Catania   American Army Extends Its Hold On Southern Sicily

Enemy Groggy From Terrific — Battering By Land, Air And Sea   x KCK KOK Air Attacks   ~ Reds Gain On Orel Sector

British Near Catania After Beating Nazis   Allied Troops Advance On All Fronts, Capture 20,000 Prisoners.   SEIZE TWELVE TOWNS

British Army In15 Miles Of Catania   Twelve Towns and 20,000 Prisoners Taken by Allied Forces; German Tank Division Defeated by Men of General Montaomervy 

LEGIONNAIRES HONOR BRICKER   ‘Horseplay’ Menaces Produc: tion FBI Chief Declares At Session

ITALIAN TROOPS LEAVE GREECE   Reports Indicate Forces Being Con: centrated in Albania—Guerrillas Take Arms

LETTER CLAIMS LEADERS PLAN TO.OUST HITLEF   Nazi Party. Appears - Ready to Fight Any  Military Coup

*~Nazi Warlords Seen Ready to Oust Hitler and Ask Peace   Steel Production. Hit

Dutch Claim Nazi Plot to Oust Hitler   Smuggled Papers Hint Keitel Heads Move to Deal for Peace

PLAN TO. REPLACE HITLER REVEALED   Letter Sriuggled Out Of Germany Made Public By. Dutch

REDS: NOW WITHIN RANGE OF BRYANSK RAIL “LIFE LINE”   Sevsk Falls In Opening Phase Of Russia’s Fifth Offensive Of Summer

Soviets Closing In on Rail Line   Reds Take Sevsk; Kall 5000 Nazis

Sieve of New. Georcia at End   Red Forces Overwhelm Nazi Garrison at Sevsk

RED ARMY DRIVES TOWARD BRYANSK RAIL LIFE LINE   Succeeds In Qpening Phase of Fitih Great Summer Offensive.

EVSK TAKEN BY RED © ARMY AFTER BATTLES   ‘Is Captured 80 Miles South of Bryonsk With rmans Losing 5,000 Troops—Russians Drive Within Striking Distance of Railroad Life Line From Kiev in Opening Phase of New Summer Offenciva

RUSSIANS CAPTURE SEVSK IN DRIVE 10 ISOLATE BRYANSK   Germans Lose Heavily in Savage Battle; Reds Now Menacing Vital Railway  Fenm Kiew,

YANKS NEARE ARAWE FIELD   Steady Advance Carrie: Americans Within Six Miles of Air Base

JAPANESE AIRSTRIP AT ARAWE MAY BE IN HANDS OF AMERICANS  CREEPING WEB OF AIR BASES GROWING DAN. GEROUS TO RABAUL

OTH ARMY NEAR UP AIRSTRIP   Americans Gain Six Miles In Bitter Struggle On New Britain

Arawe Airstrip Americans’ Goal On New Britain  Japs’ Air Attacks Fading As Allies

Advances Made By Americans In New Britain   Operation Moves According to Plan Says Allied Report

Yank Troopers Moving Forward   Steady Advance in Arawe Area Since Seizure of Beach

Arawe Yanks Near Air Base   Americans Continue Steady Advance in New Britain

U.S. Troops Advance On Airstrip   Operation Has Gone According to Plan on New Britain

U. S. FORCES ADVANCING UP CAPE MERKUS   Arawe Airstrip Already May Be in American Hands, Offering New Base for Air Attacks   RABAUL ATTACKED   Fighiers for First Time Strafe Big Jap Base, Shoot Down Six Jap Planes, Lose Two

YANKS CONTINUE GAINS IN DRIVE IN ARAWE AREA   Sixth Army Moves Up Cape Merkus Peninsula, Menaces Strategic Airstrip

Knox Sees Tough Fights To Come   Uses Slow Pacific Drive As Example

A. L, CRABLE AND BENNETT AMONG EIGHT INDICTED   Tulsa Grand Jury Cites An other College Prexy in Alleged Conspiracy

Fight Indicted In Text Probe   Accused of Asking Bribes From Firms

Grand Jury Urges Bennett's Dismissal As President of © Oklahoma A. and M.

Men Indicted By Tulsa Grand Jury Seem Unworried      Eight Prominent Oklahomans Accused of Textbook Swindle

W orld Pays Homage To Father Of Airplane   Orville Wright Beams Under Tribute Paid On Anniversary

YANK AIRMEN ROCK NIP GUINEA BASES ON FIFTH STRAIGHT DAY   ENEMY BOASTS OF UNVERIFIED RAIDS ON ALLY INSTALLATIONS THROUGHOUT PACIFIC

Canadians Join  In Kiska Attacks   Navy Reveals U. S. Pilots Getting Aid

GANADA FLIERG JUIN ATTAGKS AGAINST KISKA   Canadians Flying American Planes Attack Japanese Base Twice Monday

APS BOMBED IN ALEUTIANS BY CANADIANS   Main Camp Area on Isle In Ruins, Runways Blasted

CANADIAN AIRMEN JOIN AMERICANS   Soviet Bombers Shatter Axis Defenses, Ground Fighting Still In Lui:

CANADIAN AIRMEN ARE FIGHTING WITH YANKS   Join U.S. Forces in Aerial Offensive Aqainst Japanese in Aleutians and Deliver Two of 15 Attacks Made on Kiska Monday, Navy Communique Announces Today — American Warhawk Fishter Planes Are Ueed.

Italian Press Looks to Quebec   Hopes for Softening Of Peace Conditions

Italians Show Hope Of Leniency From Allied Chiefs   Press Gives New View  Toward Germans,   Dislike For Fighting

Softer Peace  Terms Hoped   Haly Looking to Quebec For Wav Out of War

Pre-Rationing Buying Rush Empties Nearly All Meat Markets In State

Congressional Redistricting — Bill Now In Governor’s Hands   Wildest Session Of Legislature Held Yesterday — No Sigr Of An End To Filibuster

“DISTRICTING LAY SESSION BITE   Democratic Filibuster Fails to Block Legislation

Dickey to Head Industrial Salvage Branch   Members of Board Are Announced; Seran Move Started

J. H. Dickey, Jr., Named Chairman of Montana Industrial Salvage Branch of War Production Board

Russians Threaten Dunkerque for Foe  in Black Sea Area   Reds Close in on Goals From Kursk to Caucas us With Speed

onic ule ism i athe  _f oe © ¢ &  Got In Wrong Line, But He Wasn’t Mad

WARREN CALLS SPECIAL MEET   SOLONS TO WEIGH FARM PUZZLE; COUNCIL URGED

SOLDIERS A NURSES DAZED AND VERY ILt   Account Of Hardships En dured Before Fall Of Corregidor Related

Repatriates Tell of Final Days of American Occupancy  of Corregidor in Philippines

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Men and Women Huddled In Rock’s Deep Caves, Many Suffering Disease -

Repaitriates Tell of Final Day: of American Occupancy of Corregidor in Philippines   By RUSSELL BRINES

HOUSE GROUP iS TO PROBE JEFFERS TALK   NAVAL COMMITTEE ASKS ABOUT LOAFERS IN ARMY AND NAVY

Home Front News Of Interest To Everyone   To Keep You Posted On Point Events

Stalin Says Smolensk Gates Open   Speculate on the Axis Withdrawal  To New Positions

Performance of 45th Infantry Landing in Sicily Direct from U. S. Pleases Allied Leadership

FALL OF CATANIA PORT IS MMINENT   8th Army Pushes Toward Messina Objective   12,000 PRISONERS   Yanks Meet Most Opposition, Take Most Prisoners; Allies Ahead of Schedule

Americans Take 2 More  Airdromes   Yank Column Heads Toward Caliagirone, Takes 8,000 Prisoners  ADVANCES TNHAYTTEN

BRITISH TH ARMY RACING TOWARD PORT   American ‘Troops Capture Two Airdromes in 15-Mile Advance in Southwest Sicily.   12,000 CAPTIVES IN ALLIED BAG   Axis Forces Offering Littie Opposition to Drive—invaders Ahead of Time Tabie.

Veteran 8th Near Vital Port.City   U. S. Forces Meet German Unit At Niscemi After Taking 8,000 Prisoners; Opposition Light Thus Far

Powerful American Forces Score 15-Mile Advance On Left Flank   Allied Pincers Movement  Rapidly Forms In Sicily   Britain And Americans Form East And West Jaws: Americans, Canadians And British In Center

AMERICANS ALSO SCORE 15 MILE ADVANCE ON LEFT FLANK; CAPTURE AIRDROMES; 12,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED.

More Than 12,000 Axis Prisoners Have Been Taken  On Sicily Thus Far   ENEMY DEFENSES ARE BELIEVED PARALYZED

Eighth Army Advances in March Toward Messina  12,000 PRISONERS . SEIZED IN SICILY  15-Mile Advance Scored ‘by Powerful American Force

Powerful American force captures 8,000 prisoner: So 2. airfields. gain 15 miles   Canadians destroy Italian division as axis defenses appear paralyzed

Britain's Eighth Army Is Bearing Down on City on Way fo Messina   Powerful Force of Americans Scores 15 Mile Advance on Leff Flank; Take 8,000 Prisoners

Yankees Advance In Sicily, Capture 3,000 Prisoners   Torpedo Crewmen Penetrate Strait of Messina, Driving Italian Boats Ashore in Flames; Allied Power Dominates Sea. Sky

More Than 8,000 Prisoners Taken By ~ Americans; Warships Shell Towns; Allies Push Toward Messina

Americans Score  15-Mile Advances   Two More Key Airdromes Captured As Yanks Strike infand Toward Gateway Ta Catania

BRITISH ARMY STARTS DRIVE UPON MESSINA   CATANIA DOOMED; AMERICANS TAKE 8000 PRISONERS

Axis Declared  Hanging on  Ropes in Sicily More Than 12,000  Prisoners Have Been Taken

Powerful U. S. Forces Advance Take Air Bases   Axis Defenses in Sicily ‘Paralyzed;’ 12,000 Prisoners

Big Gains     Al ph   Yanks Capture 8,000 Axis In. ~ Swift Dash. -

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper   WASHINGTON By Ray Tucker

U.S. Bombs  Bari Airdrome 11 Nazi Planes Downed   Three Liberators Lost

Badoglio's Presence behind Allied Lines May Spur Italian Resistance   ighting between Italian: and Nazis Continue in Milan and Turin Areas

ANTI-GERMAN OUTBREAKS iN NORTH ITALY   Reported Following Mussolini’s Castigation of King; Badoglio’s Presence With Allies Increases Reaction.   Nazis Menaced

NAZIS WORRIED OVER ACTIONS OF BADOGLIO   Italian Leader Behind Allied Lines; Duce’s Speech Ignored

OVER ACTIONS OF BADOGLIO   Italian Leader Behind Allied Lines; Duce’s Speech Ignored

Badoglio Seen As Allied Aid   Berliri Said Worried — Over Marshal’s Plans

BADOGLIO, IN AFRICA, MAY TURN ON ALLY   Berlin Reports Premier Is Recruiting Men Into Ranks Of Allies

Germans Face  New Obstacles  Italians Continue Fighting in Milan

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Badoglio Is Said Safe Behind Lines of Allies   Foe Faces New Hurdle As Italian Chief Encourages Fighting

Nazi Troubles Increase In  Northern Italy Badoglio Is Seer Preparing To Declare War’

Sharp Atti-Navi - Riots Break ut ‘An Milan, Turin   New Demons trations Follow Ex-Duce’s  Radio Speech

Badoglio Is Said Safe Behind Lines of Allies   Foe Faces New Hurd:  As Italian Chief

BADOGLIO I SAFE BEHIND ALLIED Uns  Epoch Ohctaclee tn Embrt.   Fresh Obstacles to Embattled Germans Raised   ITALLANS-GERMANS CONTINUE FIGHTING   Battling in the Milan nul Turin Sections Reported 

Wage Parley Postponed To Tuesday   WANT TIME TO COMPUTE LIVING COSTS FOR FUt URE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, ACCELERATE NEGO SIATIONS.,   $2 Wage Hike Crux

Skilled Workers All Hold Jobs, Expert Asserts   L. S. Hawkins Says Those Hired in Future Must Come from Ranks

RAF STRIKES HARD AT AACHEN, ALONG BELGIUM'S BORDER   20 Planes Lost In Raid On Key Railway Center— Daylight Raid  On France   RIJLERTIN

EIGHT OHIO AREAS. GAIN POPULATION   Montgomery County Around Dayton Heads List

Bombers Blast Nazi Key Rail City Of Aache   City On German Frontier West Of Cologne Is Heavily Battered   OTHER RAIDS ALSO MADE ON ENEMY

RAF RAINS BONED IN KEY RAILWAY CTY (IN GERMANY   Aachen Hit by Block Buster Attack by Heavy British Force.   20 PLANES WERE LOST   City Is Key Point in the Supply System for Occupied France.

‘AACHEN IS HIT BY RAF BOMBS   Key Nazi Rail City Smashed: - 20 Planes Lost In Widespread Raids

Spar on Post War Policy   Debaters In Senate _Sidestep Proposal to Affirm Moseow Pact

POSTWAR VOTE EVADED   Senate Debaters Urged To Substitute Moscow Langauge Instead

Senate Wary Of Action on’ Moscow Pledge   Policy Debaters Conght Off-Guard By Pact’s Seonc

Favors Approval of Moscow. Pact  _ Lucas Drops Bombshel Into Senate Debate

HELD IN $10,000 BAIL   Mrs. Ella B. Howard Must Answer to Charge of Manslaughter.

WOMAN HELD FOR TRIAL AT TULSA   Mrs. E. B. Howard Detained on Manslaughter Charge  in Hotel Shooting.

Mrs. Howard Held for Trial  Slayer of Wealthy Woman Accused in pAanclaunhter Count

THE WEATHER   Hold Mrs. Howard On Manslaughter   ‘ort Worth Divorcee Charged With Murder of Not ed Horsewoman.

FT. WORTH DIVORCE FACES MANSLAUGHTEE CHARGE FOR KILLING  MRS. ELLA B. HOWARD HELD IN $10,000

Divorcee Charged With Manslaughter   Hotel Slaying Hearing Ended

ELEVATOR STRIKE IS ENDED TODAYS   Back To Work Movement Launched At Rockefeller Center  %.

DEPART MARCH 22   Ten Voiunteers in Group That Will Go to Ft.  Leavenworth

False Teeth, Liquor, Juke ‘Box Pay Asked   Contractors Put in Claims Against Army, Reported

Contractors Making Hay   Add to Contracts Everything from. Gin to False Teeth

ARMY CONTRACTS OFFICERS ARE [Gu FREE WITH MONEY   Claim ‘Hundreds of Erroneous Contractors’ Claims Have  Been Allowed

ALLEGE LIBERAL ARMY CONTRACTS   BILLS APPROVED FOR UNNECESSARY ITEMS, COMMITTEE 1S TOLD

Padding of Expenses by Army Claimed   Comptroller Generel Items Are Allowed

Comptroller Tells of Many Erroneous Claims Army Okayed   House Military Group Gets Startling Testimony Today

FALSE TEETH AND LIQUOR INCLUDED IN CONTRACTS FOR WAR WORK, CHARGE

Fraud Alleged In Claims Of Contractors   Comptroller General Gives Sensational Evidence Before Committee  nnn nrc  RIL LIONS ARE INVOLVED

Charges For False Teeth, Liquor And Juke Boxes Allowed By Army, Is Report OF Official

WARREN DECLARES ARM SPENDING IN ~ RECKI ESS MANNER   False Teeth, Liquor and Juke Boxes Getting By Army Buvers   UNTOLD BILLIONS ARE BEING WASTED

Army Pacts Are Blasted   COMPTROLLER GENERAL SAYS MILITARY PAID ERRONEOUS CLAIMS

Charge Army Men Permit War Frauds   Comptroller Makes Startling Statement Before Committee

Protest Army Claim Awards   Comptroller General — Aecuses Contracting Officers Of False Allowances.

Army Charged With Allowing Hundreds Of False Claims   ‘Untold Billions of Dollars Involved,’ Comptroller Says

ARMY APPROVAL OF CONTRACTOR CLAIMS SCORED   Comptroller General Assert: Numerous Erroneous Items, Including Liquor, Okayed

Charges Army Pays Contractors  For False Teeth And Juke Boxes.   Liquor Costs Also Permitted In Settlement, Comptroller General Alleges In Committee

War Claims Aired At House Hearing   Payments Asked by Contractors For False Teeth and Juke Boxes

Says.Army Contract Officers Granted: Erroneous Claims:   Comptroller: General Opposes Proposal by War Department

ARMY CONTRACT AUTHORITY TOO GREAT, CLAIMS   Federal Official Contends Hundreds Of Erroneous Claims Being Allowed By Army

Army’s Power Over  Contracts Opposed   By-Pass Accounting Office

COMPTROLLER GENERAL LINDSEY WARREN OPPOSES LEGISLATION REQUESTED. BY WAR DEPARTMENT   ‘House Military Committee Hears That Hundreds o Erroneous Contractors Claims Have Been Allowe By Army Contracting Officers

Virs. L. E. Firestone To Attend Parent-Teachers Association Congress

Tito Cuts Railroad  .. Zagrehb-Belgrade Road   ...Zagreh-Belgrade Road Slashed In 130 Places

Tito Strikes One Of His Most Effective Blows By Cutting Zagreb Railway

-YUGOSLAVS CUT RAILWAY   Damage Over 40 Mile Stretch Slows German Campaign

PARTISANS CUT VITAL RAILWAY IN YUGOSLAVIA   CLAIM NEW SUCCESSES WITH BITTER INNER STRIFE FLAMING ANEW

Vital Railroad Is Slashed In 130 Places By Slavs   Bitter Fights Of Citizens’ Forces Are Flaming Anew

YUGOSLAV PARTISAN FORCES CUT RAILWAY LINE IN MANY PLACES  BRIDGES BLOWN UP, _ TRAINS DESTROYED AND

Yucoslavs Cut Nazi Railroad In 130 Places   Zagreb-Belgrade Railway Wrecked For 40 Mile Stretch

Rival Yugoslav Factions Clash As Strife Grows   Internal Squabble Believed Inspired By German Leaders

Guerrillas Cut Railroad   Tito’s Partisans  Deliver Effective Blow Against Nazis

YUGOSLAVS STRIKE EFFECTIVE BLOWS AGAINST GERMANS.      Important Zagreb-Bal _ grade Railway Cut in 130 Places. It Is Reported

YUGOSLAVG GUT RAILROAD LINE   Zagred-Belgrade Road {: Cut in 130 Places in 40 Miles.

Tito Forces Cut Railway Near Zaareb   One Of Strongest Blows Struck By Partisans In War

Guerrillas In Yugoslavia Cut  Vital Rail Line   But Bitter Civil War Between Patriot Factions Continues.   New Factional Clash.

BRIDGES BLOWN UP IN FACE OF GERMANS TODAY   Yugoslavs Are In Control Of One Big Sector

SLAVS CRUSH ~ NAZI ATTACKS   Internal Strife Brews Be tween Rival Partisan Leaders

Berlin Is  Sea of Fire after Raid   All Parts of City Hit in What May Be the Biggest Raid on City: 26 Bombers Lost

German Capital Left In Fagen 1,000 Planes In Attack; %6 Are Missing

GREATEST RAID 1S HELD “SUCCESS: OVERCAST SKY. ~ HRLPS: 9p Suing paucu

1000 Planes Used In Raid   26 Bombers Lost In Mighty Attack;  Airmen Head For New Blow On Nazis

BERLIN HARD HIT BY 1000 RAF BOMBERS   German Capital Is Left A Great Sea Of Flames

Reich Capital Sea of Flame As Result of Heavier Attack. . Than Any Loosed on Hamburg   Only 26 Bombers Lost in Assault — Which Blasted Many Government _ Buildings in Central Part of City 

SPENDS 3,000 HOURS IN AIR IN 14 YEARS   “Dick” Spano, Sr. Flight Inspector at Brewster,  Widely Known ‘COYL OEY AAAAY DTU OATS

DICK SPANO VETERAN TRAINER OF AIRMEN   Senior Flight Inspector A’ Brewster Plant   3000 HOURS IN 14 YEARS

ATTACK BY U. 8. CHUTISTS IS LED BY MACARTHUR   Surprise Assault Behind Nip Lines BLOW FOR ENEMY Close Ring Around Salamaua

PARATRUOPERS CAPTURE IAPS’ LAE AIRFIELD   Largest Armada of Air Tr — 5 orts Led by Gr + acArthur

PARATROOPS LIGHT BEHIND JAP POSITIONS      Spectacular assault led personally by Gen. MacArthur

CLOSING OUT DRESS DEPT. BIG REDUCTIONS ON EVERY ITEM.— STYLE CENTER—AD.

WINE TO TAKE OUT Don’s Grill. N Erie St..—Ad.   YoaUR On Fite cnoam

PASSED AWAY IN CONCORD   Service Held -at  Trinitarian Church Where He Was:  Deacon

“N CONCORD   Service. Held -at Trinitarian ‘Church Where He ‘Was - Deacon

NOT ONE BUILDING ESCAPED BOMBS   Civilians Of Messina Crawl From Ruins To Greet Yanks

American Troops Find Every Building In Messina Wrecked; Civilians Cheer

CRIPPLED OHIOANS TO BE PUT TO WORK   7.317 Handicapped Persons Available for Jobs

WILL HIRE SKILLED HANDICAPPED MEN   Represent Significant Source of Manpower

Town & Farm Tn War r Times   Information tax: Relegacd  i, . PAR iS ff. Mere kea By OPA Office

Town & Farm In War Times     ale = = =: elemace:  ‘By OPA Office

Democrats Hit Vote By Proxy   Charge GOP Of Throwing Smoke Screen To Hide Sabotage Of Ballot.

CHARGE GOP SEEKS TO STOP ARMY VOTE   Republicans Back Substitute ‘Proxy’ Measure as Dems Make ‘Sabotage’ Charges

Schools At Alton Closed As 2nd Case Of Spinal Meningitis Is Reported

This Little Man Really Has a Busy Day; He Probably Will Get Highest U.S. Award

Sergeant Fights Flames and Nazis And Plays Nurse on Board Fortress

ROSTOV RETREAT I THREATENED   Russian Columns Continue To Push Forward. In Donets Basin       TOWNS CAPTURED   German High Command Finally Announces Fall Of Kharkov

Russian Columns Push Deeper Into Donets Basin   Nazi Strongholds Left Behind are Being Cleaned Out

Reds Enlarge  Their Wedges   Continue Westward Sweep In Kharkov: and Kursk Battle. Areas

Russian Army Drives on Westward And Menace Germans Now Fleeing From Death in Rostov Battle Ares

Reds Smash Westward: Open Wedges   Columns Pierce Deeper Into Donets Basin  Territory

RED ARMY SMASHING WESTWARD, WIDENING WEDGES BATTLE LINE   DRIVES THREATENING GERMANS RETREATING FROM ROSTOV SECTIONS

SOVIETS WIEN KHARKOV WEDGE   Pierce Deeper into Donets Basin in Pursuit of Retreating Foe.   CLEAN UP STRONGHOLDS

RUSSIANS WIDENING WEDGES KHARKOV, KURSK SECTORS AND CLEAN UP NAZI POCKETS

REDS PIERCE DEEPER INTO DONETS BASIN   WIDEN WEDGES iw KHARKOV AND KURSK REGIONS

Russians Widen Nazi Wedge In Donets Sector   Rostov Retreat O Nazis Threatened Berlin Admits Fal Of Kharkov

FLEEING TROOPS THREATENED BY SOUTHERN DRIVE   Russians Report Successes Along Entire Front

Germans Admit Kharkov Loss; Donets Basin Drive Perils Rostov Retreat   DESTROY 122 TANKS   Russians Widen Wedge In Krusk Area Of North. ern Active Front

Russ Smash Remnants of Routed Nazis  Wedges in Kharkov and Kursk Regions Being Widened  MANY CITIES FALL  Soviet Columns Pierce Deeper Inio Donets Basin Area

Nazis Admif Kharkov Loss To Russians  Retreat Pictured By Reds As Path Of Dead Men

London Sees in Steady Advances Race for Upper Reaches of Dnie— per River   IMIEV CAPTURED   Russians Advance South and Southwest of Voroshilovgrad in Donets Basin

RUSSIANS WIDEN WEDGES AT KURSK AND AT KHARKOV   Additional Towns Captured In Southern Saectar

REDS WIDENING THEIR WEDGES AGAINST NAZI   ‘Smashing Westward From Captured Kharkov and. Kursh Regions, North End Battlefront   ADVANCE IN DONETS   Threatens Germans Retreating From Rostov, Soviet Communique Announces

Reds Broaden Their Wedges  In Nazi Lines   Fall Of Kharkov Finally Admitted Rw Rarln

RED ARMY SMASHING WESTWARD, WIDENING WEDGES BATTLE LINE  )  _ DRIVES THREATENING  GERMANS RETREATING

Russians Pile Up Fresh Successes On a Long Front   Threaten Germans Retreating From Rostov and  Aim at Kiev.   Thrust Marks Start Of Race for Dnieper

Soviet Army Smashes. Path To Westward   More Towns Fall— Nazis Admit Capture Of Kharkov

REDS CONTINUE 10 SMASH WESTWARD TO WIDEN WEDGES   Columns Are Piercing Deeper Into The Donets Basin   OTHERS CLEANING OUT REMNANTS

RED COLUMNS ARE DEEP IN DONETS BASIN   Drives Threatening Germans Retreating From Rostov, Official Communique Reveals   INFLICT HEAVY BLOWS

MOVE DEEPER INTO DONETS BASIN AREA   Axis Path Of Retreat Covered With Casualties   100 NAZI TANKS   Destroyed North Of City; Storm Large Town, Believed To Be Dmitriev

Wide Wedges Are Driven By Soviet Troops   Russians Keep On Heels Of Germans Retreating From Kharkov, Kursk And Rostoy Regions

Russian Army Continues To  Drive West  Widening Wedges At Northern End Of The Front

REDS PIERCE DEEP INTO DONETS   Clean Out Remnants of German Strougholds Be- hind Soviet Lines

VICTORIOUS SOVIETS. PIERCE. “DEEPER INTO DONETS BASIN    Now Threatening Germans Retreating From Restov:   Path Of Retreat Coverd With German Bodies And Much Equipment, Says Moscow.

Russian Army Is Moving Westward   Reds Kept Busy Cleaning Up Remnants of Nazi Strongholds   GERMAN UNITS ROUTED   Hitlerite Path of Retreat Covered With Men and Equipment

RUSSIANS SMASHING WESTWARD   Drive Has Pierced Deep Into Donets Basin Threatening Retreating Nazis

Reds Thrust Into Donets. ‘Basin Area   Germans Fleeing. Rostov Imperiled By Soviet Advance

Reds Smash Westward; Open Wedees   Columns: Pierce ‘Deeper. into Donets Basin ‘Territory ..°

REDS MENACE NAZIS FLEEING FROM ROSTOV   Also Smash Westward in Kharkov and Kursk Regions, Widening Their  ' Wedges—Germans Admit Kharkov’s Fall.

SOVIET WIDENING ITS WEDGES IN THE KHARKOV AREA   Columns Pierced Deeper In to Donets Basin Territory, It Is Reported.   IN KURSK REGION, ALSO   The Drives Threat to Germans Retreating From Rostov.

Smashing Red Army Widens Its Wedges  in Kharkov Sector   Drives Threaten Nazis Retreating From Rostov, Says Moscow

WEDGES DRIVEN FROM KHARKOV, KURSK BY REDS   More Towns Captured as Russians Continue to Sweep Forward

Reds Smashing  ~ Their Way West  Wedges Are Widened In Kharkov, Kursk Areas;  Pierce Donets

Reds Continue  Westward Smash   Columns Pierce Deeper Into Donets Basin Territory’ Retreating Nazis Endangered 

SOLDIER, FRIGHTENED BY WAR, HIDES Two YEARS IN DUGOUT UNDER HOME

WILL FREE PRISONERS   Americans Among Those Affected by Italy’s Surrender

Prisoners To Gain Release   Italy's Surrender Is Expected To Mean Freedom for Thaw. sands of Allies

While Colonels Swear '[Feminine Interest Disrupts Gable’s Press Conference

Kiska Is Open to Attack   MAIN NIPPO FORCES ANNIHILATED AS U. S. GETS SET FOR SMASHES

WAY PAVED FOR ATTACK ON NEARBY KISKA IN DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE   Main. Japanese Force on Island Annihilated, Only a Few Snipers Left Army Spokesman Says in A nmouncing Fall of Island.

YANKS PREPARE DRIVE ON KISKA   Route Opened by Complete Victory on Attu

‘American Troops Win Attu Battle   Main Jap Forces Annihilated; Nip Drive Toward Chungking Meets Severe Setback; Chinece Rerantnre Tawns

For Drive On Kiska   Main Jap Force On Attu Island Finally Defeated.

TOKYO ATU GUNQUEoT BY AMERICANS   Garrison Dies To Last Man in Final Suicide Attack Japanese Assert

Attu Battle Ends In Win  For Yankees   Japanese Admit Main Force ‘Completely Perished’ In 19-Day Struggle.

AMERICAN TROOPS  WIN BACK ATTU IN  SEVERE FIGHTING TOKYO RADIO BROAD.  CAST ADMITS JAPANESE ON ISLAND WIPED orrr

Americans May Choose Even Japanese Chain   Only Few Enemy Snipers Are Now Left On Attu Island

AMERICAN TROOPS  WIN BACK ATTU IN  SEVERE FIGHTING TOKYO RADIO BROAD. CAST ADMITS JAPANESE  y ALTON WIIFaer Se Teer

BACK TO WORK MOVE GAINS IN NATION'S MINES   Hold-Outs Estimated At 139,000; New Walkout Affects 3,500 In  Pennsylvania   18th Furnace Banked

Back-to-Work Movement Gains in U.S. Coal Fields   Another Blast Furnace Closed Down As 139,000 Miners Continue Stoppage   All Mines Open

PPPPPPIPPPPPAD PDD PPD PD DDG  More Miners Go Back, But 139,000 Suill Gut

More Miners Back In Pits   Several Mining Areas Still Have Shutdown

Coal Supply Dwindles as Miners Stay Away   18th Blast Furnace Closes; 139,000 Men Still Idle

139,000 Miners Remain Idle in Spife of Orders   tighteen Blast Furnaces Shut Down for Lack of Fuel

(16,000 More Men Return During Day,  One Local Votes Rest £07. 2tt Shi rh oo 7)

BACK TO WORK MOVEMENT IS GAINING   While 139,000 ‘yiners Continue “No Contract, No Work” Unauthorized Stri ke; 16/000 More At Worl:   Full Production

139.000 Miners Stull Out Despite Appeal to Return   18 Blast Furnaces Down in Nation: Operations Increase

Man Claims He Operates Still for Mother-in-Law Because Liquor Is High

APPROPRIATIONS HOLD ATTENTION WEARY CONGRESS  CTRIVING EOD EINAT   STRIVING FOR FINAL ACTION ON WAR AGENCIE! MONEY MEASURES

MONEY FIGHT EXTENDS TO OPA, OWI CUTS   Group Proposes Compromise Between House, Senate

Senate Slashes OWI, OPA Funds   War Agencies Fund Measure Whittled Down By Congress

FIGHT OVER MONEY BILL IS UN RELENTING   Congress Strives for Final Action Teday on Two Billion Dollar Meas ure list   SOME AGENCIES CUT

HOUSE, SENATE SEEK END OF MONEY FIGHTS   Dispules Continue Beiween Congress Branches Over Crop Insurance, NYA, OWI, OPA

Strive To End Money Battle   Houses Agree On OWL, OPA Cuts: Differ On Farm, La bor Subiects.

Money Bills Create Jam In Congress   House and Senate Locked In Disagreement — Action Sought Today

SUBPENA IS ISSUED FOR JOHN L, LEWIS   Head of United Mine Workers Is Called to Testify Before Senate  Group.

flrs  said y  Boston Bomber Flyers Have Dropped 3 Million Bombs on Enemy

FLIERS PLAY VITAL ROLE IN TUNISIA   GROUP OF YOUNG AMERICANS BREAKING BACK OF GERMAN RESISTANCE,

Che Spirit of Christmas is Our One Boye   By Dr. Charles A. Anderson

By Dr, Charlies A. Anderson President of Coe Collece   T.et’s Leave All This to Santa

Large Audience Sees Class Play Thursday Night  Steinbeck’s “Moon 1]  Down’ ’.Presented

Large Audience Sees Class Play Thursday Night ©   Steinbeck’s ““Moon Is Down’”’.Presented  By Capable Cast

DRYS ARE REPORTED DROPPING NATIONAL PROHIBITION PLANS      WORKING FOR LOCAL AND ‘ STATE PROHIBITION IN-  STEAD. ‘OF FEDERAL — LAW FOR NATION

GOVERNOR SAYS EACH. NA. " ‘TION MUST BE PERMITTED  TO CHOOSE 178 OWN: , GOVERNMENT

LIVE, HELP LIVE BRIGKER’S PLEA   Ohio Governor Makes First Declaration on Nation’s Post-War Plan

Say Pilots Flew Planes Into Targets   Damaged Flyers Deliberately Crashed Into Oil Refinery

Say Pilots Into Targets  Damaged Flyexs   Damaged Flyers Deliberately Crashed Into Okl Refinery

U.S. BOMBERS DIVE INTO OIL PLANTS IN SUICIDE PLUNGE. WRECK FACTORIES

Two-Ton Block Buster Bombs Batter Messina   Photecraphs Show Italian Battleship Wace Hit Tune 5

TWO LARGE FIRES ARE STARTED ON INVASION OUTPOS   Incendiary, High Explosiv. Bombs Are Released Dur ing Visit on Messina, Ter minus For Ferry.   OBERHAUSEN, OTHER TAR GETS BLASTED IN RAI!   Ground Fighting on Russia   Front Ocurrs When Red Capture City, Beat Of Enemy Attack.

SICILY PORT BATTERED BY 2-TON BOMBS   Aerial Photos Showing Italian ‘Battleship. Hit June 5

MESSINA BEING BOMBED BY BIG — BLOCK BUSTERS   British Wellingtons “Work” on Major Italian Island.

Battleship Hit During Raid On Base At Spezia   Railroad Yards Get Bomb Loads From British Aircraft

HUGE BLOCK BUSTERS USED ON MESSINA   Battered Main Sicilian Port ~ Sunday Night

What’s Behind Zoot Suit?  ++ + + +** + + Trace Origin Of That Outlandish Set O’ Threads

Hollywood Believes Clark Gable’s Costume In ‘Gone With The Wind’ Produced Zooi Suil

Mexican Boys are Accused In Zoot Suil Gang Battles   Downtown Streets In Los Angeles Patrotled by Police After Fights Between Service Men and Rowdy Wearers of Garish Garh; Source of Bizarre Attire Traced

Zoot Suiters Muted; Queerly Clad Hoodlums Under Control On Coast

ORIGIN OF ZOOT SUIT SOMETHING TO PONDER   Los Angeles Reports Somewhat Quiet Night As Street Rioting Between Gangs Drops Off

Whence Came Zoot Suit? Theories Crop Forth With Lull in Los Angeles Disorders

Japs Seek to Forestall Drive on Myitkvina   M. P. to Quiz Churehill On Senators’ Report

Most of Ford’s $200,000,000 Estate Is Regqueathed to Foundation in His Vill

FLYERS HAMMER WEWAK WITH 94 TONS CF BON3S   50 - Fighter - Escorted  . Liberators Attack  * Jap New. Guinea Raga,

AUSSIES IN GUINEA ARE ADVANCING   J anks Lead Drive Up ’ Huon Peninsula; 2  Jap Warships Hit

50 Liberators Hammer Wewak, New.Guinea Base   Stage Second ‘In New Series CVE Attaebe -

NEW SERIES OF ATTACKS MADE ON WEWAK BASE      Force Of Two Score Fighter Escorted-Liberators Hammer Base

APPROVE BILL TO EXPAND ILLINOIS HEALTH PROGRAM   MEASURE PROVIDES FULL-TIME HEALTH DEPTS. FOR COUNTIES

Quick Passage of TPAC Merger Bills — Tmpeded in House   Action Indicates Plan of Administration is Facing Opposition

State Senator Wickham Dies At 93 Years   Noted Public Figure In State Since 1879

Gandhi Ends 21-Day Fast But Fails In Objective   Indian Spiritual Leader Refused Both His Freedom and Vindication

ORANGE JUICE IS -TAKEN-BY GANDHI WHO BREAKS FAST   Partakes of Food for the First Time in 21 Days— Appcars fo Be Cheerful,

GANDHI ENDS HIS FAST: FAILED 10 PAWN ORIECTIVES   Indian Leader Gained Neither Freedom Nor Vindication of Charaes.

GANDHI ENDS FAST OF 3 WEEKS TODAY   Outwardly Fails In Gaining ‘Objective—Is Cheerful But Weakened

GANDHI DRINKS ORANGE JUICE; FAST BROKEN   21-Day Hunger Strike Was Failure; Still A Prisoner

AXIS CASUALTIES HEAVY   Gnlv Small Sumber Of Enemy TroopS Have Escaped Tunisia

Gen. Eisenhower Announces End “Of Tanisian Fighting In Sight; ' Hitler Goes To West Of Burops   RUSSIANS REPORT STEADY PEOGRESS

HOMES, PLANTS WITHOUT FUEL   Blast at Easton Gas Works in Pennsylvania Lea’es 75,000 Without Heat

THREE DIE IN EXPLOSION OF EASTON PLANT   Seventy-Five Thousand Persons and Score of War Plant Without Fuei as Result of Blast   LOSS 18 $500,000.00

War Plants Hit: 75,000 Without Cooking Fuel   Gas Plant Blast Rocks Easton, Killing Three; Civilian Defense Rescue Squad Meets First Real Test Successfully

GAS PLANT BLAST HITS WAR INDUSTRY; 75,000 PERSONS WITHOUT FUEL: THREE DEAD

GAS WORKS BLAS! KILLS 3 PEOPLE   SCORE OF OTHERS HURT IN EXPLOSION AT EASTON, PENN,

Blast Causes Gas Shortage   Easton, Pa.. Gas Works Destroved: 75.000 Persons  Without Fuel.

$ Killed, 19 Hurt in Blast   Easton Gas Works Wrecked—75,000 Are Without Fuel Today

MANY WITHOUT GAS AFTER EXPLOSION   Serious Health Problem Created Official Says.

Terriffic Gas Plant Blast  In Pennsylvania Is Probed   75,000 Persons, Many War Plants Out Ot Fuel; Gas Works Almost Destroyed

Reno Planning Active Campaign   Named by Republicans For Full Term on Superior Court

Criminologist Testifies Print Not Marisnv’s   Ex-Head Of Northwestern Lab Defense Witness; Nancy’s Story Awaited

Mass Invasion Of Europe  Is Promised      Stalin-F.D.R.-Churchill Conference This Year Predicted by Premier  WARNS WAR NOT WON

Named Commander By Churchill, Roosevelt At Quebec Meeting   Bloodiest Portions of War Still Ahead, Churchill Tells Commons   Pledges ‘Second Front’ in France, Low Countries When Allies Are Ready

Second Front to Be Thrown Open Churchill Says   Mass Allied Attack Planned for Right Time He Diseloses

MASS ATTACK TW BRANCE IS “TO HIT NAZI   Prime Minister Farecasts Conference  With Stalin

IN FRANCE IS TO HIT NAZI   Prime Minister Forecasts Conference  With Stalin

Another Front in France Will be Launched at Right Time   REPORT IS MADE TO HOUSE OF COMMONS   Bloodiest Portion of War Lies Ahead, Prime Minister Says

Prime Minister Tells Parliament Second Front Will Be Opened in France and Low Countries—Believes Germany Can Be Levelled From Air—Reveals Guards Failed to Obey Orders to Shoot Mussolini as He Fled.   By JOHN F. CHESTER.

British Chief Wins Acclaim  On War Plan:   Pledges Mass Allied Attack on West In Commons Talk

MASS INVASION OF CONTINENT PROMIS ED; PREDICTS GERMANY CAN BE LEVELED FROM AIR; GETS ROARING APPLAUSE.

COMMONS HEARD PROGRESS REPORT   Prime Minister Defends Al& = lies’ Italian Campaign   WINS APPROVAL   ‘@Declares Bloodiest Portion of War Lies Ahead; Predicts Meet With Stalin

Second Front Attack Coming Says Churehill   Briton Predicts That  Reich Can Be Levelled From Air: War Review Gets Roaring Applause

Second Front Pledge Made By Churchill   Assault Will Begin When Britain, U. S. Believe Time Ripe

SECOND FRONT REPORT GIVEN BY CHURCHILL   BLOODIEST PORTION OF WAR IS AHEAD FOR ALLIES

Drive Moving Forward Along a Front 200 Miles Wide.   STREET FIGHTING IN THE CITY OF GOMEL

rarererereranan V vava a arava Keeps Guns Blazing Against   Germans After Plane “Breaks”

CROOK HELD BY NAZIS   Former Annistonian Among . ternees Being Sent te Germany

Rationing And Price Fixing   BABSON TELLS REASON FOR THESE WAR STEPS

RATIONING, PRICE-FIXING ARE BOTH VERY ESSENTIAL   Babson Points Out Some Questions of War Army Comes First, Civilians Are Provided Things Which Are Left,

BOARD EDUCATION  ADOPTS BUDGET FOR  OPERATION SCHOOLS INCREASED EXPENDITURES INDICATED FOR  ARrAATtTr Ale

BOARD EDUCATION ADOPTS BUDGET FOR OPERATION SCHOOLS   INCREASED EXPENDITURES INDICATED FOR ° 1943-44 SESSIONS

PUBLIC HEARING ON CORSIANA SCHOOL BUDGET SEPTEMBER   OVER TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR INCREASE ESTIMATED FOR YEAR

2 MILLION PLEDGE 10 FIGHT BLACK MARKET   ‘Over 750,000 Housewives in  Ohio Sign Cards

Request By FDR Meets Opposition  Seeking 35 Million   Seeking 35 Million Dollars

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ALLIED PINCERS TIGHTEN ON LAE; JAPANESE STRONGHOLDS CRUMBLE   iumph of Even Greater Proportic Salamaua Appears in Makin

DESTROY JAP FORCE ROUTED > ATSALANAUA   Allies Press) 1! coward Greater Victory in Lae Region

Allies Destroy Bulk of Japs  At Salamaua   Those Who Escaped Face Annihilation: Another Triumph In Making at Lae

New Triumph in Making at Lae MacArthur Says   Enemy Completely Routed, Forces Wiped Out at Salamaua

Japanese Forces Destroyed, General WM Arthur Reports   Small Scattered Groups Face Aniaihifation—Enemy Strongholds at Lae Crumble Before the Weight of Allied Forces

Stronghold at Lae Crumbles Under Attacks   Enemy Groups in Jungles Face Annihilation

Bulk of Jap Garrison Destroyed   MacArthur Says Rest Of Group Faces Certain Annihilation

Japs On Guinea Doomed To Die   Remnants Flee To Junales Near Lae

Japs Face Death In Guinea Trap   Steady Progress Made Ry AV  al Evcarceeacn:

Allied Power  Concentrates Against Lae   Bulk of Jap Garrison Routed from Salamaua  Destroyed, MacArthur Say

FBI Arrests: ‘Army Offic On: ‘Charges of Theft of ‘Government Property:

71 NAZI TANKS BATTING WITH ARMORED UNIT   Three-Pronged German Deve Held Up Northwest of Kasserine Pass.   AXIS COLUMN WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF THALA

Three-Pronged Drive By Nazis Stopped Dead   British And Americans Halt Rommel’s Drive Beyond Kasserine Pass   FIERCE FIGHTING STILL IN PROGRESS   Situation Under Control Report From Allied Battlefront Indicates Today

RESISTING: REDS IS CRIMINAL, GERMAN GENERAL DECLARES      Von -Drebber, Captured At / Volga: City Comments— : Release Story OF Snrrender

Nazi General  Admits Ficht  sor saan Dele cae? Gy aac  ee calaca

16 High Officers Including a Field Marshal Had Concluded They: Were Doomed Some Time Ago   Believed Further Resistance Was “Criminal” But Fuehrer Insisted They Go on Battling.

' Allied Air Attacks Will Soften Germans ln» Biaw From Western Europe, Arnold Says

B-29s May Soon Join Aerial War   No Part Of Europe Safe From Super-Bombers Arnold Says

960-Degree Bombing to Have Reich G roggy  - Before Invasion. Air Chief Arnald Preclint.

SUPER-BOMBERS TO WRECK NAZIS, ARNOLD ASSERTS   Chief of U.S. Air Forces Promises Early Acceleration of Aerial Attacks.

Says Every Part Of Axis. Europe Will Be Hit By Bombers Very Soon

RAIDS BY HUGE BOMBERS LOOW   Every Part Of Axis Europe To Be Blasted—Arnold

PREDICTS LITTLE NAZI RESISTANCI   ARNOLD BELIEVES GERMANS WILL BE GROGGY BY TIME ALLIES INVADE,

‘Super-Plane To Win War   Giant New Bomber Will Defeat Germony, Soys General Arnold

Arnold Predicts Air Raids Will Defeat Germany   General Hints of Plans for Greater Aerial Operations

W. M. PARKER AT RITES HERE   Many Notables Attend Funeral Service For Justice

TRIBUTE PAID WM. PARKER AT RITES HERE   Many Notables Attend © Funeral Service For Justice

East To Get No Increase In Gas Ration September    May Be Weeks, Months Before Any Boost  Can Be Ordered, ADA OF f2eial Accarte   NO ACTION TAKEN ON PLEASURE BAN

WILL NOT HIKE ‘GAS’ RATIONS   Government Likely to Lift Ban on Pleasure Driving Wednesday

DASHES EAST’S HOPES   No Increase in Coupons September 1, OPA Official Says.

Gasoline Rations Unlikely To Be increased Sept. 1, Harrison Says

Soviet Communique Reports Germans Have Been Driven From Several More Villages.

Red Drives Threaten Orel Itself   Wipe Out Over 1,200 Germans South of City

'Temporary Post Office Clerk Sells War Stamps For Postage Stamps

British and Americans Storm Rugged Mountainsides To Drive Nazis Back Toward  Rame.

British Troops Take Important Town on Massico Ridge.   AMERICANS TAKE MATESE MOUNTAINS   Pierce “ Little Rommel” Line by Fierce Fight on Road to Rome.

ANGX AOGERTD JAP FLEET TO BE DEOTROYEL   Says Farm, Industrial Needs Nay Be Ignored in Fixing Size of Army.   TESTIFIES ON BILL FOR LEND-LEASE EXTENSION

High Spots in European War Developments Since Nazi Troops Invaded Poland in 1939

Day Raids or Nazi Europe To Continue   Rubber Program Blamed for Retarding Aerial Offensive; Congress Busy with Tax, Land Title and Manpower Measures

Charge Aviation Gas Materials Used For Rube   Congress To Probe If Bombing Raids Have Been Held Up  Ru Similar Damande

BOMBINGS IN DAYLIGHT TO BE CONTINUED   All-Out Sky Blow on Nazi Europe Being Stayed By Diversion of Materials   OTHER CAPITAL NEWS

Gas Diversion To Stay Raids  Bombing of Europe Attracts Attention

Today In Washington: Day Raids To Continue; FAlLOut Blow Stayed By  Diversion of Gasoline

High Altitude Bombing of Nazis To Continue in Spite of Squabble in Capital, However—War Secretary Accuses WPB Chief of Using Gasoline for Synthetic Rubber

House Recess Fails To Stop Squabbling  in Nation's Capital   Argument Over Aviation Gasoline, Manpower, — Taxes Continues

RUBBER NEEDS SAID TO DELAY BIG AIR BLOWS   American Military Officials Indicate Daylight Raids On Reich To Continue

JEFFERS ASKS INVESTIGATION OF COMPLAINTS   Tax Matters, Manpower Measure Before Congress

BOMBING RAIDS TIED TO GAS, RUBBER FIGHT   Army Official Blames Jeffers’ Program For Retarding Air Offensive   CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE   Democrat-Sponsored Pay-AsGo Tax Bill To Provoke New House Battle

EUROPEAN BOMBINGS DREW ATTENTION OF CAPITAL ON FRIDAY   HOUSE IN RECESS BUT COMMITTEES BUSY ON IMPORTANT BILLS

Western Union College Year Opens Tuesday  Few Men Students Other Than Navy Cadets Expected

WESTERN UNION ~- PENS TUESDAY      Regular Classes Start Wed‘nesday—Double Duty For Faculty

NAZIS USE SUPPLY SUBS FOR U-BOATS   German Fleet Growing a Rate of 10 a Month Despite Sinkings.

OPERATION OF MORE LIGHTER-THAN-AIR CRAFT IS PLANNED   WILL REQUIRE MORE HELIUM THAN PRESENT PAN. HANDLE PLANT AFFORDS

German Fugitive Slain at Artesia   Two More Captured By State Rancher

New Mexico Rancher  Kills Nazi Prisoner  Captures Two Others, Wounds One

GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED   One Whe Escaped From Internment Camp Is Killed, Another Is Weunded By Rancher

Heavy Fiehting Rares   More Articles for Home  Authorized by the WPB

Ship To Be Named F ora Macdonald   Ss. S. Flora Macdonald Will Be Launched at Wilmington Late This Month.

Ship: To Be Named Flora Maedonald   S. 8. “Flora. M ‘Macdonald Will Bé Launclied at Wilmington, Late This Month.

THE WAR IS ENTERING A CRITICAL PHASE  Air-Power to Play Important Part

WAR IS ENTERING STAGE WHERE AIR-POWER WILL PLAY GREATER PART THAN ANYTHING YET SEEN

GREATER DEATH AND. DESTRUCTI OFFING AS AIR POWER PLAYS ROLE IN DETERMINING WARKAIE The

Today’s War Moves   Air-Power To Play Major  Part in Rest of Vilar

The War Today— War Enters Phase In Which Planes Will Become Increasingly Important   By DeWITT MACKENZIE

M'KENZIE SEES WAR AS ENTERING CRITICAL PHASE _   Air Navies Are Rushing Towards Developments Unprecedented in Size

The War Today   Air Power Holding Trumps in War’s New Critical Phase

TWO BILLIONS RAISED IN DRIVE BY SATURDAY NIGHI   Secty Morgenthau Announces the Third War Loan Is Ott to a Good Start.

SECOND FRONT PLAN MAY TOP ALLIED PARLEY   Hull, Eden and Molatey Plunge Into Vital ‘ \  Discussions

American Secretary Of State Plunges Quickly Into Full Dress Tri-Partite Parley After 14,000-Mile Air Trip To Soviet Capital—Wartime And Post-War Matters Of Military, Political And Economic Nature Expected To Come Up For Discussion

Tripartite Conference  Is Opened   Hull, Eden And Molotoy Waste No Time Before Beginning Series Of Discussions At Moscow

Molotov Welcomes American, British Foreign Officials; New Front Is Issue

First Session TriPartite Conference Held This Afternoon   Hull and Eden Arrive in Moscow ffor_ FarReaching Parleys

LOGE NO TIME IN CONFERRING WITH MOLOTOV   Conferences Begun Few Hours After Two Secretaries Reach Moscow.

HULL AND EDEN BEGIN SESSION WITH MOLOTOV   Diplomatic, Military Subjects Will Be Discussed

t  Hull Plunges Quickly Into Conference  Tripartite te Parley i in Mos.  cow Gets Down to Business _ DRESS REHEARSAL Groundwork to Be Laid — for Talks Among Allfied T aadare

ARRIVES IN RUSSIA   Secretary Hull Plunges into Three Power Conference

Tri-Partite Conference Under Way      Parley Begins Among Ministers of Three Nations When Eden And:Hull Arrive

HULL IN MOSCOW FOR TALKS WITH EDEN, MOLOTOV   SECOND FRONT IN WESTERN EUROPE MAY BE AN ISSUE

MOSCOW PARLEY BEGINS; SECOND FRONT TO FORE   ull And Eden Arrive In Russian Capital With Their Parties: First Full-Dress Session Under Way.

full, Eden At Moscow, Talks Begin   Plunge Into Tri-Nation Conference With Molotov Soon After Arrival

SOVIET PRESS TURNS LICHT ON SECOND FRONT   Russians Eager To Get News on Arrival of Eden, Hull

REDS STRESSING “SECOND FRONT”   Hull Confers With Eden and Molotov

PLUNGE INTO CONVERSATION AT KREMLIN   “Second Front Expected to Be Main Point Under Consideration at Soviet Capital

Hull and Eden Open Parleys With Soviets   Scope of Conference Continues to Bring Much Speculation

ALLIED HEADS PLUNGE INTO TASKS AHEAD   Tri - Partite Conference Hints of ‘Second Front’ Discussions

Both Eager To Start On  Conferences   Moscow Intensely Interested in Visitors From Red Allies

PRELIMINARIES GET UNDER WAY WITHOUT DELAY   Topics To Be Discussed by Representatives of Big Three Of Allies Undisclosed

Hull, Eden Start Talks with Molotoy   Second Front in Europe Is Considered High Point ir Meeting by Reds

ARRIVE IN MOSCOW   Second’ Front Issue Still Vital Concern. of Russia

Hull, Eden Talk With Molotov   RUSSIANS MAY PRESS FOR “SECOND FRONT” AT HISTORIC CONCLAVE; POSTWAR MATTERS ALSO ON SCHEDULE FOR ALLY DISCUSSION

Expect Second Front Demand Krom Molotoy   Leaders Plunge Immediately In Important Tri-Partite Conference.   SUGGEST BORDER TALK

HULL, EDEN AND MOLOTOV AIRING ICC RS OR WAR   Problem of “Second Front”  In Western Europe Con  tinues Important Topic  : On Agenda   SUBJECTS MATTER OF SPECULATION   Communist Party Publication Claim Postwar Frontier Questions Not to Be One of Them

Hull Arrives In Moscow for War Conference   Post-War Matters Also on Program At Moscow Session

Hull, Eden And Molotov Begin Moscow Parley   Issue Of ‘Second Front’ Expected To Be An Im portant Topic.

Russ fo Make Demand for Second Front   Move Expected to Be Importent Part of Tri-Partite Conference

Top U. S. Official To Visit Russia   Soviet Press Turns Spotlight On History Making Tripartite Conference; Preliminary Discussions Held At the Kremlin.

TRI-PARTITE. CONFERENCE BEGINS TODAY   Hull And Eden In Moscow; To Talk On War Plans

Hull, Molotoy, Eden Launch Moscow: Talks   Soviet Press Splashes P'c. tures, Stories Or Tripurtite Conference   STUDY SECOND FRONT   Formal Meetings Begin Immediately, Despite American's Long Flight

Hull, Eden — Begin Moscow Conference —   Long-Awaited  Tri-Par ‘ tite Parley Gets Under way. With Arrival 0! British and: Amériéar Representatives at Rus. shin Capital. i

SECOND FRONT VITAL TOPIC AT MOSCOW   Secretary of State Hull Plunges Into Conference With Anthony Eden and Molotov   MEETING AT KREMLIN

FIRST TRIPARTITE  ALLIED CONFERENCE  OPENS IN MOSCOW HULL, EDEN AND MOLO TOV EMBARK UPON INITIAL DISCTIISSIONS

Sov Will Raise Issue Of2ndFront   Hull and Eden In Conference With Molotov

on OT -y vels on jobi in Moscow   - Hull, Eden, Molotov Open Long-Discussed Conference in. Soviet - Union Capital

Hull Plunged Into First Conferences   Met This Afternoon With His British and Russian Counterparts.

HULL, EDEN MEET MOLOTOV TOENTER WAR DISCUSSIONS   Secretary of State Highest Official of Country to Visit Moscow, Completes 14,000-Mile Trip.   “SECOND FRONT” EXPECTED BIG SUBJECT   Conference !s Expected to Lay Groundwork for Future Conversations Among Leaders of Allies.

3 Secretaries Plunge Quickly Into War Talk:   Second Front: Vital Topic As Hull, Eden, Molotov Start Moscow Parleys

HULL AND EDEN BEGIN PARLEYS WITH MOLOTOV   Tri-Power Conference Starts Few Hours After Officials Reach Moscow

Conference At Moscow Under Way   Hull Plunges Into Parley Soon After His Arrival

Foreign Secretaries Begin Deliberations      Business of Tri-Partite Conference Undertaken by Hull a Few Hours After His Arrival With Eden in Moscow.

ANTHONY EDEN SHARES MEETING WITH. MOLOTOV   Second Front Is Important Topic For Discussion

JOIN MOLOTOV FOR MEETING   Second Front Is Stressec By Russians; U. S. Secretary Lauds Soviets For Great Stand

World Peace Plans Laid At Moscow   Common Liberties for All in the Postwar Era Planned, Secretary Hull Tells ConPress.

Hull Tells  Congress of  Moscow Talks   Secretary of State Is First Cabinet  Member Ever To Address Congress

MALY MUST STILL SURRENDER-HULL   Casablanca Terms Apply to Whoever Rules There, Says Secretary of State.

With Il Duce Out, Marshal Badoglio  Is Named Premier   London flears  neontirmed Reports That Virssolini Has led Into Exile

Hull Sees No Change In: US. Policy   Calls Ending Of Mussolini Reaime Timely

FORTRESSES BLAST PLANTS NEAR PARIS   Cauldron-Renault Aircra ft Factory Target For Bombing, Five North France Airfields Lashed   Foretaste Of More

OUTSKIRTS OF PARIS BOMBED   Aircraft Assembly Unit Blasted By Airmen; Radio Silenced  In France

FORTRESSES BLAST PARIS PLANE PLAN   Allies Give Western Europe Heaviest Pounding of War

Flying Forts Hit Vital Paris Plants   Planes Swarm Pas Enemy Fighters To Drub Airtields

Involves Case Of Louis Roemig, Jr., Charged With Amana, Ia., Sabotag.

Break Precedent in Federal Court  Quash Indictment Aeains? Sahoteur

Exclusion of Women Jurors Kills Indictment   Charges of Setting Amana Society Fire Quashed at Rapids

Kills Federal Jury Barrier To Women   23-Year-Old Rule  Broken as Judge Removes Ban

French Fire On Students In Beirut   Three Wounded; Othe Clashes Reported tn Lebanon Crisis

STUART LEADS REBELLION ON REDISTRICTING   Steuben County Assemblymar Says Republican Party Plan: Suicide in Reapportionment Bil   OPPOSES DEWEY   Senate Passes, 43 to 5, Measure Repealing State Milk Advertising Tax —

Form New State  Political Group  Liberal League Plans Permanent Setup

Reds Advance Toward Big . Nazi Holding   Soviets Keep Lines Firm Against Powerful Germans

RUSSIANS PUSH FORWARD SLOWLY NEAR SMOLENS#   Armies Battle Fiercely on Muddy Approaches to the  Great German Stronghald   STALIN'S TROOPS HOLD FIRM ALONG DONETS   Nazis Try for Third Time to Cross River Below Kharhov, but Are Hurled Raple.

(Wedge Is Driven Into German Lines In One Sector Northwest Of Key Nazi Stronghold  Third Unsuccessful German Assault Upon The Donets River Section Frustrated By Russians

BATTLE RAGES IN APPROACH TO SMOLENSK   Russian Lines Along Donet: Hold Firm Under Mino  - German Attack, Repor From Moscow.

Violent Battles Rage in Muddy  Smolensk Area   Reds Make New Gains Toward Nazi Base: Soviet Lines Along Donets Holding Firm

Violent Fighting Rages  in Smolensk; Reds in Slow 'But Stubborn Advances   Soviet Lines Hold Firm Along Donets Undéf German Attack; Reds in Thrusts "Dent Nazi Strong Points

Russians Making New Advances in Violent Drive for Smolensk      ‘Slow but Steady Progress Reported in Attempt To Capture Great German Stronghold; Nazi Drive To Cross Donets River Smashed; German Gar rison Defeated in South

Russians Claim Slow, Stubborn New Advances   Nazis Beaten Off In Third Attempt  Tra Crnee Danate

Nazis Fight Hard Near Smolensk   Russians Gain Despite Violent Fighting in Area

Russians Claim Slow, Stubborn New Advances   Mazis Beaten Off In Third Attempt  To ene: PAs oes

SOVIETS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS AGAINST NAZIS   Red Army Announces Capture Of Four Towns  Near Smolensk   MUD SLOWS ACTION ON SOUTHERN FRONT

Reds Gaining Ground; South Front Quiet   Broken Ice of Donets Makes Yt Impassable, Nazi Radio Says”

Nazi Attempt To Cross DonetsIs  Crushed by Reds      Third Drive To Cross River Below Kharko Smashed Back; Russians Make Slow Gains Toward Smolensk

SOVIET LINES ALONG DONETS HOLDING FIRM   German Strong Points On Western Front Are Penetrated By Determined Soviets.

Bryansk And Smolensk Strongly Menaced ....  Russians Batter Way Into Kharkov Streets

NEAR KHARKOV   Reds Fighting Way Intec Streets In Some Sections of City

Reds Enter Kharkov From All Directions   Now Have Vise-Like Hold Around Great Steel Center — Troops to North Menace German Bases at Bryansk and Smolensk.

UoolANG GET INTO KHARKOV   Summer Offensive Openec With Greatest Barrage In History.   3,000 BIG GUNS TO MILE

Red Army Enters Kharkov Streets   Bryansk and Smolensk Menaced as Result As Smashing Attack on Spas Demensk Sector

Nazis Retreat before Soviet Summer Push      Kharkov Virtually Lost to Germans as Retreat Is Sounded Along Entire Front

Russian Storm Troops Enter Kharkov Streets From Several Directions

FIRM HOLD NOW HELD ON STEEL CENTER, GERMANS FALLING BACK ON 500-MILE FRONT   ‘Twa Other German Defense Hubs Now Menace By Russian, Bryansk and Smolensk. Strong Fortifications Smashed in Spas Demensk Sector

Smolensk, Bryansk Are Threatened   Russia’s Rolling Offensive Continues To Increase Power

Forces Battering into City from Several Directions Get Vice-like Hold   NEW GFFENSIVE   Smolensk and Bryansk both Threatened in Two-Pronged Drive, Vital Forts Smashed

RED ARMY BATTERS WAY INTO STREETS OF KHARKOV TODAY  MIpDTUrD WBADTLEU DAT   FURTHER NORTH BOTH BRYANSK AND SMOLENSK MENACED BY RUSSIANS

Red Army Smashes IntoKharkov   To The North, A New Offensive Threatens  Key Nazi Defenses at Brvansk and Smolensk

Soviet Troops Hold Kharkov In Tight Grip   Batter Way Into Streets Of Ukraine Steel Center From Many Directions

THE RED ARMY HAS BATTERED ITS WAY INTO KHARKOV   Obtained a Firm Vise-Like Hold About That Ukraine Steel Center.   OTHER CITIES MENACED   Smash Spas Demensk Fortifications to Threaten Bryansk and Smolensk.

Tighten Hold On Ukraine Steel Center   Summer Drive Spreads To Menace Strongholds

Nazis Retreat Before Furious Soviet Thrusts   Fierce Battles Rage In Suburbs Of Tottering Ukrainian City

Soviet Army Batters Way Into Streets Of Kharkov   Bryansk, Smolensk Menaced As Russians Smash Barriers lu Spas Demensk Sector

Streets Of Kharkov In Reds’ Hands   Bryansk And Smolensk In Danger As Spas De mensk Area’s FortificaRe i ti , Se oo ee

Other Prongs Of Red Drive  Are Gaining   Bryansk and Smolensk Are Strongly Menaced By Summer Offensive

RECORD BARRAGE LAUNCHED O RIVE   Reds Claim Artillery Fire July 12 Greatest In History   NAZIS SHATTERED   Soviet Steamroller Inflicting Heavy Damage On Germans

Obtain Firm Hold On Steel Center While Other Troops Drive Toward Smolensk

CAPTURE OF BIG UKRAINE CENTER SAID IMMINENT   SMOLENSK, BRYANSK ALSO THREATENED IN WIDENED OFFENSIVE

Strong Grip Tightens On Steel Cente   Bryansk And Smolensk Now Being Menaced By Russian Smashes:  Strong Forts Wrecked

Russians Obtain Firm ViceLike Grip on Ukraine Steel Center; Strike at Smolensk

Battle Raging Inside Kharkov: New Russ Drive   City’s Capture Believed Matter Of Hours; Red Blows Multiply

‘Reds Push * Into Cily  _ of Kharkev      Battle Way Onto Streets From Several Directions; Firmly Entrenched   NEW DRIVES MENACE OTHER STRONGHOLDS   Bryansk and Smolensk in Path of Drives Threatenin Nazis’ Eastern Line

Russians Drive Into Kharkov and Toward Smolensk   Summer Campaign Of Victorious Soviet Army Is Spreadina

Agriculture Department  Funds Cut   Money Requested To Deal With Labor Shortage

House Appropriations Committee Cuts Way Down on Appropriation to Cope With Farm Labor Shortage — Committee Admits, However, That Manpower Problem of Farmers is “Critical and impending”—Fear Food Shortaac..

Campaign Against Bombing Policy   Charge Killing Turning People Against Allies

Palmer Youth ~ Dies In Action  North Africa   MR. AND MRS. RITCHIE TOLD OF DEATH OF THEIR SON.

TOKYO JOYOUS AT COAL STRIKE   Predicts U. S. Steel Mills te Close In Week; Davis Says Jans Almost Right.

Coal Strike Elates Axis   Tokyo Propagandists Finally Issue Truthful Facts

‘Warns House Subsidy Ban Would Wreck Pay Ceiling And Bring On Inflation

Oklahoman Hits At Move To Ban F ood Subsidies   Says Program Would ‘Be Almost Mandate To Chief Executive

Sees Politics In Efforts To Ban Subsidies   Members Of Congress Are Taking Dangerous Position, Is Charge Of Rep. Monroney

Aid Hitler? Tough Kids To Be Good!   Halloween Will Be Safe and Sane This Year

BAN ON SLICED BREADS LIFTED   Expected Economies Not Realized; Waxed Paper Supply Adequate

Jovernment Ban On Sliced Bread Taken fi Effective After Midnight Monday

Bakery-Sliced Bread Again ‘Legal’ Diet on U. S. Tables   Government Ban Removed After Two Months Tal Shows Disadvantages Outweigh Benefits

Government Ban On Sliced Bread Now in Discard   Wickard Says Savings Dic Not Turn Out as Predicted

Ruling Delights Housewives Government Removes Its Ban Avainst Bakery-Sliced Bread

Friday To Be ‘Back Salerno’ Day in Drive   Delaware Holds Top Place In First Nation-Wide Progress Report   NEW YORK IS SECOND

Delaware Leads States. In Third War Loan   Tiny Eastern State Achieves 34% Of Its Quota; New York Is Second

DELAWARE LEADING + TA WAR BOND DRIVE      New York State Draws Special Commendation for Placing Second.

TOKYO RADIO HINTS BASES “MAY BE LOST   RROADCAST TELLING OF AMERSCAN AERIAL SUPREMACY INDICATES DEFENSIVE HOPES FADE

Japs Show Increasing Signs of Desire to Withdraw Deeper Into Stolen Empire

Signs Japs May Be Planning To Quit Some Bases   Rabaul And Bougainville May Possibly Be Marked For Evacuation   HARD BLOW STRUCK JAPS IN MARSHALLS

(7 ITALIAN WAR  RAISES TOTAL INTO ALLIED HANDS TO 30   Americans Take Salerno;  Gain 10 Miles on Nazis

BUTTER SUPPLY TO STAY SHORT   New 16-Point Ration Value To Remain For Several Months, Officials Say

Flames Destroy Two Business  Blocks In Akron   Apartments Of Five Families On Second  Floor Wiped Out

BLAZE AT AKRON CAUSES BIG LOSS   Firemen Finally - Prevent Spreading Of The Flames

19 Navy Officers Lose Lives in  Plane Crash   “Rear Adisiral Enziis!   Rear. Adiniral English ‘Among Those Killed

Allies Make Six-Mile Gain in Italy; Germans Retreat To Mountain Defense Line

ALLTED ARMIES PLUNGE FORWARD 0 MILES IN ITALY   Nazis Retreat to Strong Mountain Line Apparently Bent on Holding Rome Through Winter.   ROMMEL IS REPORTED BRINGING IN TROOPS   New Advance Nets Clark and Montgomery 10 Towns and Winds Up First Phase of Campaign.

NAZIS SAID TO BE SENDING IN FRESH TROOPS   American Bombers Give Enemy-Held Bases In Yugoslavia Hard Pounding

Our Armies Capture Ten More Towns   Nazis Withdraw Into Mountain Defenses ° Stronver Than Before

10 More Towns In Italy Taken In Allied Drive   Germans Withdraw To Stronger Lines In Mountain Area

Allies Wrest 10 Towns From Enemy   Mountain Line Means Harder Task Ahead To Dislodge Germans

Nazis Fall Back To New Defense: As First Phase Of Battle Ends   Germans Withdraw into Mountain Defense Line Stronger Than Any Held before in ltaly

First Phase of Battle for Italy Ends in Victory   Germans Withdraw to Stronger Defense Lines in Mountains

Allies Capture 10 More. Towns in Fight for Italy   Nazis Withdraw Into New Mountain Defense Line Stronger Than Any Previously Held; ° a hers Strike at Foe-in. Yugoslavia’

Allies Gain All Along Italian Line   Nazis Drop Back To Make First ‘Permanent’ Stand

ENEMY TAKES NEW DEFENSE LINE IN ITAL!   ALLIES NOW FACE HARDEST PHASE OF CAMPAIGN

Allies Capture 10 More Towns in Fight for Italy   Nazis Withdraw Into New Mountain Defense  Line Stronger Than Any Previously Held; Bombers Strike at Foe in Yugoslavia   Germans in Retreat Set Stage for Reich Defeat

Germans Withdraw Into Strang Defense Line DIFFICULT TASK 1S__ FACED BY ALLIES Rommel Reported Bring ing More Troops Into Italy

CAPTURED BY ALLIES   In Gains All Across Italy; Germans Fall Back For First “Permanent” Stand In Mountains.   Great Skill

Allies Take 10 Towns in Gains in Italy   First Phase of Battle For Italy Ends as Nazi Forces Take Up ‘Permanent’ Stand

Nazis Stand On Mountain Defense Line   Retire to Shortest, Best Defensive Line Allies Forced to Face  TO MORE TOWNES TATT

ITALY. Winavk pts   Prohibition, Sparks’ Labor bills Promise Controversy

BRICKER STILL MUM ON RAGE   Shuns Candidacy Announcement at Constitution Dav Rallv

TO FORT LEAVENWORTH   Nine Colored Men Leave to Be Inducted Into Army

Influenza Is Not  Contined to U. §   Besides Million Sick in America, Germany Is Reported Ravaged.

PATTON CASE CITED AGAIN   Respiratory Ailments in US Are Increasing

Million “Flu” Cases Reported In Nation, But Few Are Dying   “ABERDEEN REPORTS SOHN DPITPTIT.S ARSFENT

GRIPPE ATTACK AFFECTS NATION   Million Persons” Suffering From Respiratory Ailmeni, Doctors, Say

MILLION HAVE  FLU IN US   Health Officials Generally Agree Illness To Spread

MILLION IN NATION UNDER THE WEATHER   Colder Weather May Extend Illness, Schools, War Plants, Fac toriac Hit

Million In Nation Suffering From Grip; Germany Ravaged By Flu Epidemic; Cold Weather Won't Abate Spread

More Than One Million Americans Are Victimized By Respiratory Ailments

» IIness Sweeps Across Nation   Respiratory Malady Has Caused Absentees In Schools, Plants

Over Million Persons Ill, Report Shows   Cold Weather Will Not Stop Spread, Health Officials Declare

U. S. Count: Million II   Flu-Type Malady Has  Authorities Guessing

Fiu Outbreak Shows Increase Throughout U.§   Numerous Schools Closed, Industry Notes Absentees

MORE THAN ONE MILLION GASES CFFLUING. S..   Health Officials  Expect Figure To Increase

Report Million in Nation Suffering Respiratory Ills   Health Officials do Not Expect Weather to Abate Spread

Million Ill In Nation   Epidemic of Respiratory Diseases Keeps Many from Jobs, School

Flu Epidemic Continues To Spread ; But Is Still Comparatively Mild

Grippe, Flu, “Cat Fever’ And Head Colds Sweeping Nation   Many Sections Affected By Mild Outbreaks Of Diseases: Schools And War Plants Hit

Cold Ailments Sweep Nation  More Than Million Sufferers Reported

EAMILLION LLIN NATION   Colder Weather Will Not Stop Spread, Says Health Officials.

Sickness Spreads beslinenasi U.S. Over a Million  f Persons Afflicted; .-Cold- Won't Help.

Million Persons In U.S Ill   Many Schools Close; Death Toll Is Small

ILLNESS SPREADS THROUGHOUT U.S.   MILLION SUFFERERS FROM RESPIRATORY AILMENTS REPORTED

Influenza Has Million Victims Throughout U. S.  7s at “Aet?.:.1.   Health Officials  Expect increase

MILLION ILL IN EPIDEMIC OVER NATION      Wave of Respiratory Ail. ments Brings Mounting Absenteeism, but At: tacks Are Mild anc Short-Lived.

NEW WAGE, HOUR BILL INTRODUCED   Takes Into Consideration Step-up Schedules of World At War; House, Senate Get Giher Measures

WHAT DOES NEW DRAFT RULE MEAN   HERE ARE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON TODAY'S REPORT

LinerNormandie May Be Righted  Beside Pier   Vessel Remains Afloat And Salvage Operation Progresses Steadily

WORK SPEEDED ON NORMANDIE   Former French Flagship Now Afloat In Hudson River

VON ARNIM COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOV   Whereabouts of German Leader at Present Unknown

COMMANDER IN CHIFF NOV   Whereabouts of German Leader at Present Unknown

Von Armim i Believed C. 0. For Nazis   pocu IMENT CAPTURED By } ; ALLIES INDICATES CHANGE,

Yanks Reported Half Mile From Ferryville; Ist Army Is .17 Miles From Tunis

Grange Asks Reduction In Pork Ration Points, To Stop Price Decline

IMPROVES ITS POSITION   Castel Volturno and Capua On Appian Highway to Rome Captured by Fifth  A ote Ue

16-Mile Front Established Along River   British Eighth  Army Beats Down German Tank Attacks Along Adriatic 

CAPUA, A HUB IN TRANSPORT, IN U: S. HANDS   Rainy Weather Slows Allies in Itatian Campaign. Indications Axis Force Reduced

Filth Reaches Hard Core Of  Nazi Defenses      Heavy Rains Impede Operations OF Eighth Army On Italian Front.   PLANES INVADE GREECE

ALLIES ADVANCE ON ROAD TO ROME AS REDS PUSH ON   Guerrilla Warfare Takes on Growing Importance in Balkans and Adriatic +

PUSH AHEAD ON ROAD TO ROME   Russians Drive Forward Over 3 Bridgeheads Across Dnieper

Capua, Caste! Volturno Are  Taken by US   British 8th Army Improves Position in Termoli Area; Red Army Captures Rail Junction 70 Miles from Poland and Latvia

ALLIES ESTABLISH FRONT ON VOLTURNO RIVER FOR 16 MILES  CASTEL VOLTURNO, 97 . MILES FROM ROME, '. HAS BEEN CAPTURED

Castel Volturno, Capua Captured   British Eighth Army Beats Down Several Sharp Attacks on Adriatic Side —Allies Occupy Simi in Dodecanese — Clark Has 16 Mile Front on South Bank of River

Americans Take Two Towns Along Volturno Front   Allies Take Simi, Important Island in Dodecanese Group

Russians Drive West from Three Bridge:        heads Over Dnieper—Japs in Wild Re_ treat in Solomons—Argentina, Lone: Neutral, Switches Ambassadors

Only River Is Between Soviets and Rostov as Artillery Duel Rages'

Soviets Flank Kursk And Threaten Orel By Capturing Fatezh   Nazis Are Cleared From South Bank of Don; Fighting in North Africa Virtually at Standstill More Rhineland Targets Are Blasted by Allies

Left Bank Of Don Is Cleared   Soviet Advances Made At Many Vital Points

RUSSIANS CAPTURE AZOV, 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSTOV; PENETRATE GERMAN LINES BETWEEN BELGOROD AND KURSK.

Orel, Kursk Threatened By Red Army   Rival Artillery Duels Across Don as Battle For Rostov Warms Up  ATZJTOV ITC CADTIIOCON

CLEAR SOUTHERN BANK OF DON RIVER OF ALL RESISTANCE BY NAZIS   Soviet Artillery Pounds Nazi Lines At Rostov; Fall of City Appears Imminent; Kursk Threatened

10th Annual Appeal Continues Through January, Says Report   DR. C. L. BISHOP, CHAIRMAN CULLMAN COUNTY CHAPTER

Smith Attacks Rayburn’s Talk  Speaker Is Called Chief Apologist For Bureaucrats

JAPAN BASE AT “HANA BAY Hil IN GREAT FORGE   Greatest Force of Bombers Yet Emplcyed Causes Heavy Damage.

ALL MEATS WILL BE RATIONED SAY OFFICIALS OF OPE   Meat Rationing Which Is Expected To Begin About April 1 Will Include All Edible Meats; Ration Book No. 2 Will Be Used.

Early Rationing Of Edible Meats Soor  Under Point System Like Canned Goods

All Edible Meat To Be Rationed   OPA Widens Scope Of Original Program

OPA WILL “AL EDIBLE MEAT   April 1 Likely Effective Date; Variety Meats Affected

Reds Advance in Drive on Smolensk  Fi weak Tenth Tee   Great Fight Rages in Vital Southern Sector

Reds Advance in Drive on Smolensk   Great Fight Rages in Vital Southern Sector

Allied Bombers Attack Germans Across Channe   Communications of Enemy Smashed in Daylight Attacks

PRUSSIAN CITY HIT BY ALLIES   Daylight Raids Keep Up Drive Aimed Against Nazis’ U-Boat  Sources

Americans Face Grimmest Year   Truman Group Says Basic Weaknesses at Home Being Adjusted

 U. S. FACES “GRIMMEST YEAR” 'TRUMANCOMMITTEE DECLARES   Senators Attribute Shortcomings In Nation’s War Ef. fort To “Three Basic Weaknesses” Which Are Now Being Corrected; Confident Of Victory

Committee Says Grimmest Year ls Under Way   loughest Days of the Wa Are at Hand, Truman Group Asserts

America Faces Grimmest, Toughest Year   Truman Cummiiice Presents War Etfort Revort

Grim Year Ahead, Senate Committee Warns People; Truman Report Reviews War Program and Names Maior Frrors

Truman Committee Tells Americans to Brace For Toughest, Grimmest Year

‘Grimmest’ Year Seen Facing U.S.   Truman Reports Three Weaknesses Being Corrected

Tough, Grim Year Ahead Nation Told  Truman Committee Says 3 Basic Weaknesses Being Correcte

Committee Says Nation Facing Grimmest Year   Three Basic Weaknesses on the Home Front Being Corrected, Truman Group Soys—Great Im: provement in Recent Months

Probers Bare. Basic Flaws .  In War Set-Uy   Truman Committee Places Stress on Three Weaknesses

Probers Charge 3 Weaknesses In War Effort   Truman Committee Tells Citizens To Brace Selves lor ‘Grimmest’ Year

Three ‘Basic Weaknesses Seen Hampering War Effort   Truman Committee Hits Inadequate Planning and Conflicting Authority

Warn American: Of ‘Grim Year’   Truman Committee Flays War Planning

GRIMMEST YEAR ‘ANEAD OF NATION COMMITTEE SAYS   Three Basic Weaknesses Are Pointed Out on War Effort By Truman and His Associates.   GROUP !S CONFIDENT OF EVENTUAL VICTORY   Report Sets Forth No Group  4 In Nation Is Responsible, Calls Attention to Vastness of War.

AMERICA TOLD TO BRACE FOR TOUGHEST YEAR   Truman Committee Says 3 Weaknesses Of Our Home Front Are Improving   Buck-Passing Cited

‘COMMITTEE POINTS OUT THREE BIG WEAKNESSES IN NATION’S WAR EFFORT   Truman Group Warns Americans To Brace For ‘Tough And Grim’ Year; Shows Inadequate Planning Within Agencies

Basic Weaknesses On Home Front Being Corrected, ‘Senators Find   Expresses Supreme Confidence In Outcome Despite Mistakes Being Made; Says No Single Group Responsible

BURNING CARGO SHIP IS SUNK   Jersey Residents Warned To Prepare For Explosion.

BLAZING SHIP WITH DYNAMITE SUNK IN PORT   New Yorkers Escape Perils of Vast Explosion

OFF MASS AXIS RAID   65 Nazi Planes Lost in Assault On City of Kursk

Green Reaffirms No Strike Plan Of Labor Group   Indicates Miners Mus Work if They Return to A.F. of L.

END STRIKE AT Chit GAS PLANT   Reach Settlement, Return Te Work at Fairport Harbor

WALKOUT OF GAS WORKERS ENDED   Conciliator Brings About Settlement: Men Re turn To Jobs.

, Leaders. Urge. President et Tough with OPA and: Force Slash in Food Prices.

LABOR DEMANDS PRICE CHECKUP   Leaders Ask Roosevelt To Intervene With OPA, Rap Brown

SON OF REP. BALDWIN MISSING IN AFRICA   Marvland Congressman Notified Army Fighter Pilot Missing Since April 16

BY WILLIAM PD. DICKINSON   New U. S. Destroyer “The Sullivans” Is Christened Sunday

Point Values of Raisins, Prunes, Dry Beans, Peas Reduced by OPA Sat.   Highlights of Meat Rationing; Goes Into Effect March 25th

FOOD SUBSIDIES LOBBY DESCENDS ON WASHINGTON   DELEGATION OF HOUSEWIVES DEMAND CONGRESS _ REFRAIN FROM INTERFERING WITH SUBSIDY PROGRAM.   THREAT OF RISING PRICES EMPHASIZED   Veteran of Guadalcanal Tells Senators If Prices Go Up Any Higher He Will Be Reduced Almost to Point of Starvation.

Instructions Issued  Directly by President Twenty-five Persons Killed and 700 Are Injured in Race Riots   Negro Soldiers at Fort Custer Halted In Move “To Assist Their Families”

Russia, China Will Confer Here on Food   Hull Says Postwar Talks To Start April 27

Changes Are Seen For Command Of Western Posts  Emmons May Leave Hawaii; DeWitt Reported Moving

Shift in Western Command Seen  General Emrnons May Replace DeWitt

Impending Gigantic Thrusts In Pacific Indicated By Knox   Naval Chief Hints Preparatory Strategy ls Setting Stane For Bia Rlawe On lane

By Spring-Says Le May   Plants Smashed, Germans Won’t Fight Effectively

Pound Freneh Invasion Line  In Heavy Raid   Allies Engaged In Largest Invasion Exercises Held In Channel.   EPUETE £. OPPOSITION

Terrific Air Offensive Believed Final Prelude To Invasion From West   Bombers Apparentiy Clearing Way For Allied Invasion Of France

Today’s Air Attack On Europe Greatest Of War   May Be Prelude To Invasion; North Francs Hard Hit For 8th Day In A Row

MIGHTY ALLIED AERIAL FLEETS ATTACK FRANCE   Greatest Daylight Bombing Formations Pound Enemy  Ports and Airfields

MAY PAVE WAY © FOR INVASION   Terrific Aerial Offensive Goes Into Eighth Straight Day

Huge Forces Of Bombers Hit Europe   Continuous Air Blows Hammering At Nazis; No Allied Planes Are Lost In Operations

RECORD PLANE RAIDS MADE ON NORTH FRANCE   Greatest Formations. Ever to Make Daylight Attacks Reported

Huge Aerial Force Flung AtContinent   Invasion Rehearsal Accompanies: Allies’ Unprecedented Raids

Mighty Formations of Allied Bombers Hammer Nazi Points in France

Bombing Rocks Many Buildings Across Channel   Terrific. Aerial Offensive May Be. Final Prelude To Invasion From West

GREATEST BOMBING FORMATIONS OF WAR BLASTING AT EUROPE _ ‘THURSDAY’S. DAYLIGHT  RAID SPEARHEADED BY  ELVING FORTRESSES

Huge Air Fleets Pound Axis Ports, Air Fields   Steady Stream of American, British Bombers Hurled Across Channel in Eighth Day of Air Offensive   NOT ONE ALLIED PLANE DOWNED   Scant Fighter Resistance Reflects Pounding of Axis Airfields in Seven Days Previous—Navyvy Ports Prime Targets

‘Carried Into the Eighth Con  secutive Day the Terrific Aerial Offensive; May Be  Prelude to Invasion.   THE LARGEST INVASION EXERCISES EVER SEEN   Climaxed 18 Hours of Steady Pounding of Hitler’s Atlantic Fortifications; Not a Single Plane Lost.

French Coast Smeared: Invasion May Be Near   _Hitler’s Atlantic F. ortifications Battered By Greatest Daylight Aerial Armada Of War; Stage Invasion Exercises.

Avis Coast Shaken by Record Raids   Aerial Activity Over France Hits All. Time Peak

Channel Invasion Area Blasted By Swarms of Allied Bombers   INVASION REHEARSAL IN ENGLAND FINISHED   Maneuvers in Channel Held by Allied Forces

Bombers Raid Enemy Ports In France   Terrific Aerial Offensive Is Carried Into Eighth Day

Vast Bombings In Northern France   RECORD FORMATIONS POUND ENEMY AIR FIELDS

Air War To New Fury   Fleets of American — And British Bombers Pound Western Europe In Terrific Assault

Invasion Prelude?   Strongest Daylight Bombing Formations Pound At Europe

AIRFIELDS AND: PORTS HELD BY NAZIS TARGETS   Unprecedented Assault Is  Launched In Conjunc= tion With Gigantic  . Invasion Exercises   FRENCH COASTLINE ALIGHT ALL NIGHT   Intensive Action Starts Rumors Thrust Into France Already Underway; Paris Bombed

INVASION IS” PRACTICED IN THE CHANNEL   Exercises So _ Realistic They at First Were Thought the “Real Thing”—Bombers Blast Taroots in France.

EHEARSED  t VASION IS IN CHANNEL   ' hag Assault Cli. axes 18 Hours of Pound ing of Hitler's Fortifications   ‘RUMORS DISCOUNTED

GREATEST DAY ATTACK OF WAR BY THE ALLIES   Ports And Airfields In France Bear Brunt Of Heavy Assault; Channel Maneuvers Appear As Prelude  To Invasion.

HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR BEGINS ON CONTINENT   Rumors Circulated That Invasion Is Now Underway

rierce Aerial Pounding Hints Europe Invasion  Streams Of Planes Soften Up France;  Onnasitian Tioht

Greatest Daylight Air Raid      Unprecedented Assault Is Launched in Company With Invasion Exercises

INVASION HINTED AS ALLIED RAIDS SPLINTER EUROPE   SHAMBLES MADE OF COASTAL POINTS BY BIG BOMBING FLEET

Promises, in Easter Mes: sage, Hollandérs Torn From Families Will Be  Restored      BRANDS NAZI AIDES NATION’S TRAITORS   Vows Swift Punishment to Them and Hitler's Hordes: Promises Firm Government

PROTEST TO NAZI ACTS   Dutch Queen Speaks Out Against Slave. Drive by German Hordes   SEEK TO ABOLISH GOD, SHE SaYs   No Adequate Word for Their Scandalous Practices, She Tells Hollanders

Freedom For Those Held In  “Slave Drive’   Queen Wilhelmina Broadcasts Easter Message To Holland

RUSSIANS PINCH BRYANSK; DRIVE TOWARD DNIEPER   Take Ukraine. Rait Junction on Road to Kiev—Occupy 300 ‘Towns in Day’s Fichting.   AIRPLANES HAMMER RETREATING GERMANS   New Threat Develops to Nazis in South When Reds Land on Coast of Sea of Azov.

a Pushing C rimea Drive   Ger German Positions Are Recamina hdara Aeutea

‘Red Forces Squeeze Menao: ing Vise on Bryansk   SWIFT ADVANCE   Takes Reds to Within 60 Miles of Dnieper River;  300 Towns Taken

Russians Capture Key Junction On RailwayTo Kiev   General Advances Carry Soviets To Within 60 Miles Of Dnieper; Vise Squeezed On Bryansk: 300 Towns Captured

Soviet Troops Capture Key Rail Junction   Squeeze Menacing Vise on Bryansk in Swift Advance

Reds Take Key Rail Center of Bakhmach   300 Towns Captured, 4,100 Germans Killed in Day's Victories: Soviets Reach Front 60 Miles From Dnieper

Reds Capture Key Rail Tow: OnKiev Road  Brvansk Threat Is   Bryansk Threat Is Augmented ;Points , Taken Total 300

Reds Drive Nazis Along Road To Kiev   Russian Aircraft Destroys 18 Trains Carrying Germans

Reds lake Vital Rail  Junction   Break - Through Clamps Vise On Brvansk

Fall Of Bakhmach Squeeze: Menacing Vise On Bry ansk; Nearing Dnieper   NAZI CRIMEAN BASES PLACED IN JEOPARDY

Taig Mie 67 "38  —_—- 2 _ a a wt cee te em  mn ery — 6 . — fal ~~: yo a “4 a o i Te  a en ee een © Os ~ ard

Key Railroad Junction Falls; Vise on Bryansk   300 Towns Taken; New Threat to Nazis in South

Russians Squeeze Vise on Bryansk In Swift Drive   Capture 300 Towns, Kill 4,100 Nazis

Charge Anti-Nazis  Held Prisoner  Fighting French Say Boeien fe: Dern Barie

Fighting French Say Axis Agents Are Still at Work in North Africa

330 ROTC Men Are Activated   «+ Makes Third Army Detachment at U. N.

NEW RATION PROGRAM TO STARTMAR.   Conned and Frozen Fruits arid Vegetables Come Under Order

Registration Febr. 22 For War Ration Book 2   March Ist Set As Date For Beginning Of Rationing Of Canned Vegetables, Fruit, Says OPA

Set Date for Food Ration   Canned, Frozen Fruits, Vegetables Quota Set March 1

RATIONING OF CANNED GOODS STARTS MAR. 1   Each Family Will Have To Eeport Number Of Cans On Hand February 21

NEW RATIONING “PLAN TO START MARCH FIRST   Sales of Canned Items To Stop at Midnight February 20th

Canned Goods Rationing Will Start on March    Sale of Commodities Will Stop Feb. 20  To Permit Registration  IN POINT SYSTEM Purchases Will Be

Canned Food Rationing Will Start March 1   Frozen and Dried Fruits. Vegetables Included Sales Stop Feb. 22

MoreF oods Rationed On March!   Canned Goods, Vegetables, Fruits Involved

NEW RATION PROGRAM 10 START MAR. 1   Sees  Canned and Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Come Under Order

Ration Book Will Be Issued and Sales of Stocks Frozen on 200 Canned Goods Items

MARCH 1 SET AS START OF NEW RATIONS   Grocery Store Sale Togigr Feb. 20 of Articles

“Typical A merican’  mk sk @ ae  ” ar Poster Model  « me + *  P icked Up By BI

Aa ofrike .i hrea¢wr  ‘Congressional Intervention Is Seen Likely

CONGRESS MAY ACT IN DISPUTE   Threatened Strike Over Rail Wage Boosts Seems Likely Today

CONGRESS MAY. ACT IN RAIL WAGE ROW   Vinson Called To Explair Rejection Of Pay Hike

Congress May Avert Walkout   1,100,000 Rail F mployes Prepare For Strikes Due. To‘ Wages’

Solons May Take a Hand   Intervention to Head Off Strike of Rail Werkers Is Probable

Congress May Take Hand In Rail Dispute   Subcommittee Calls Vinson To Defend New Wage Proposal Which He Has Given Approval.

Vinson Must Defend Order   Resolution Would Overrule Him On Rail Wages

Rail Strike Interventior Seen Likely   Congress Believed Set to Step-Into Row Over: Wages

Congress May Act To Head Off The Threat Of Nation - Wide Rail Strike

C ongress Acts  To Head Ott Rail Strike   Mines on Labor Front Again With Retroactive Pay As Major Issue

Congress May Intervene In tail Trouble   Senate Subcommittee Calls On Vinson To Fend Order Rejecting Raise,   STRIKE DATE FIXED

Solons May Act In Rail Threat   Resolution Before Committee to Override Vinson Action

Rail Wage Action Seen By Congress   May Override Vinson Pay Rule to Head Off Strike Vole

CONGRESS MAY HALT RR STRIKE   Solons Probably Will Approve Pay Boost For NonOperating Unions

Congress May Take Hand in Rail Strike   Committee Considers Measure To Give Increase

Congress May Override Vinson  Likely to Intervene in Rail Wage Dispute

To Avert ay Strike   Greap Asks Vinson Te Defend Order  Reaning Pay Hike

CONGRESS MAY BE: FORCED TO TAKE HAND IN RAIL CASE   Threatened Strike of 1,100,000 Railroad  Workers May Force  Action

Congress Moves To Halt Strike Of R. R. Workers  May Override Vinson Order

Senate Majority Favors Principle Peace Resolution   Bailey Among 42 Who Endorse Fullbright Proposalj . Reynolds Not Committed.

Poll Shows 42 Senators Like  FulbrightPlar   AP Test Reveals Peace  Resolution’s Strength 1. TT

NAZIS’ DEFEAT WILL RELIEVE LABOR PROBLEM      Gen. Ayres Says Incomes Will Be Nearly Same in 1944

1944 TO BE GOOD  AYRES FORECASTS NATIONAL INCOME WILL REMAIN HIGH.

LABOR PROBLEM TO DIMINISH, AYRES BELIEVES   Little Change in Business Expected Next Year After ‘Greatest Boom Year’

RUSSIANS MAUL MANY DIVISIONS   Heavily Attack Garrisons Near Leningrad as Offen” sive Power Mounts

Nazi Defense Ineftective  Before Reds   Red Drives Continue In Mounting Force On All Fronts

NAZIS UNABLE TO WITHSTAND RED OFFENSIVE    Russians Push On Toward Kharkov, With One Large Axis Unit Encircled   CAPTURE KAMENSK   i i Many More Towns C Captured in Of fensives From Far North to Cau casus

Germans Fail To Hold Lines At Any Point   London Reports Over Million Axis Troops Mauled ‘In Latest Russian Offensive

SOVIET ADVANGE ON TWO FRONTS   Red Army Pushes Ahead In the Ukraine—Nazi Defenses Failing

NAZIS CAN'T HOLD... DEFENSE ON ANY... FRONT, SAY SOVIETS      {Large Enemy Force’ Raported Encirclad South: Ot Voronezh

Russians Declare Germans Have Failed To Hold Suc cessful Defense At Any Point—Drive On “Pittsburgh Of Ukraine” Within 79 Miles Of Goal—T wo Powerfully Fortified Nazi Garrisons Under Heavy Attack In Northern Area

TOWNS TAKEN FROM NAZIS   Russians Drive Within 79 Miles Of Vital Kharkoy

AXIS BADLY MAULED AS” RED DRIVE. ‘GAINS PACE   Large Enemy. Force Said to Be Encircled. in Big Push: From Veronezh..-2   MANY DIVISIONS KNOCKED. OUT   Soviet Gains. Increasing:..on Five: Main Fronts;-Many. Prisoners Being: Taken

SOVIETS SAY ENEMY LOSES IN ALL AREAS   Troops Reported Surrounded Are in Path of Kharkov Drive—2 German Garrisons Under  _ Fire in North.

Red Army’s © Drive Gains ‘Force; Nazis Badly Mauled   London Reports Sixty Enemy Divisions No Longer Fit As Fizhting Units

Drive Ahead Toward Kharkov   Russian Offensive Knocks Out Total of  29 Enemy Divisions.

Russians Say Nazis Unable fo Hold Anywhere   Reds Press Offensive Fronts Toward Kharkov, Near Leningrad

Soviet Armies Near Kharkov And Rostov   New Gains Made in Leningrad Corridor; All German Defenses Falter

KHARKOV AND CORRIDOR 10 LENINGRAR      Nazis Said Encircled Southwest Of  Voronezh   TAKE NAZI GARRISONS   Sixty Nazi Divisions Are Badly Mauled, And 29 Knocked Out

Reds Press Ahead On Major Fronts   Armies Within 79 Miles of Kharkov; Widen Gap at Leningrad   PACE IS INCREASING   Capture of Kamensk Consolidates Bridgehead ~ South of the Donets

PUSH ON ALONG ALL NEW FRONTS   Advance Toward Kharkov and Along Leningrad Corridor

PACEOFRED \ ADVANCE IS INCREASING   Russian Army Presses Ahead With Mounting  Force on Two Fronts.   60 German Divisions Given a Bad Mauling

Say Germans Mnable to Hold Lines   Move Toward Kharkov and Along Newly Opened Lane

RUSSIANS ACTIVE ON TWO FRONTS   [Reds Continue Advance In Newly Opened. Cor' ridor To Leningrad   RAIL CENTER HELD   Capture Of Additional Towns In Ukraine Consolidates Gains

RED ARMY PRESSED FORWARD TODAY ON TWO NEWEST FRONTS   It Was Along Newly Opened Corridor to Leningrad.  AXIS UNABLE TO HOLD   A Large Enemy Force Was Encircled 75 Miles From Kharkov.

Controversies May Hold Up Vacations For Congressmer   Fights on Subsidies and Appropriations Have  Embroiled Members

Subsidy Fight in Senate May Halt Vacation   House Fight over over Appropriations Seen as Republicans Prenare Attack

FOOD SUBSIDY FOES TEMPER OPPOSITION   President’s ~ Challenge Puts Them on Spot

SOLONS FEAR ADJOURNMENT TO BE DELAYED   Recess By July 10 Threatened By Many Debatable. Issues

FINLAND PLANS ~ PAYMENT TODAY   ‘Resumes War Debt Erasure By Paying U. S. $168,945.56

J. S. is Turning Out More Battle Planes Than Rest. Of World, President Says

JAP. PRISONERS STAGED REVOLT   INTERNEES AT TULE LAKE HOLD CONTROL OF RELOCATION CENTER NEARLY  FIVE HOURS .

JAP INTERNEES STAGE REVOLT   Tule Lake Center Held By Demonstrating Nips For Four Hours, Paper Says

“We Will Soon be in High Summer of Military Success, Capt. Oliver Lyttleton Declares   KNOX OPTIMISTIC IN BOND RALLY TALK   Says U. S., Producing Fighting Ships on Heroic Scale, Beginning of Ultimate Victery

Battle Of Sicily Recalled By Allied Thrusts In Italy   Well-Schooled Veterans Charging Against Nazis; May Split West Flank Of The Enemy

Funeral Service Held in Iceland For Men Killed in Army Plane Crash

Maintain Air Superiority In North Africa   Allied Air Forces Hold Margin Of 2 To 1 Over Axis In More Than Two Months Of Fighting

Doolittle’s Airmen Maintaining 2 to 1 Superiority Over Axis   194 Axis Planes Have Been Destroyed on African Front in Two Months: U. 5. Loss 97

Minister's Fast  Into Seventh Week   Aged Man Se eks To Join Wife in Death

Four U.S. Planes Rout 32 Japs, Shoot Down Ten   130,000 Tons of Enemy Shipping Sunk Monthly,  Roosevelt Reports

Thunderbolts Beat Jap Planes in Fight Over Wewak  Mounting Might of   Mounting Might of Allies Is Shown Again in Pacific

Elks Exalted Ruler Feted  Lodae Sunnotrinc   Lodge Supporting War Effort

CLOSING ON MONDAY   Extra Shopping Sy lat Essential for Local People

DEMOCRATS TO PLAN CAMPAIGN   STATE LEADERS TO MEET THURSDAY FOR FIRST MAJOR TALK

CHARWOMEN IN DEBT TO UNCLE SAN   Paid 13 Cents Hour Too Much For Secrub-bing Floors —

‘Goodbye Little Darling, Goodbye’   Texans Plunk Guitar. Sing of Love Before Invasion

Nazis Launch Sharp Attack On Leningrad   Break Through  - Lines at One Point — Other Attacks Repulse

LENINGRAD GOAL IN NEW NAZI DRIVE   Germans Show Considerable Strength In Operations On North Front

Nazis Strike Sharp Blows At Leninorad   ‘Chains’ of Men Make Eight Separate Drives; All Are Smashed °*   MAY BE PRELUDE TO MAJOR: DRIVE      But It Is Too Early to Tell for Sure, Russian Sonrces Sav

Nazis Start New Attack (On Leningrad   Invading Army Strikes Hard With ‘Chains of Men’

Nazis Attack At Leningr: ad  Considerable German Power Massed There

“Chains” of Germans .. Advance Alter Heayy Art illery Barrage  ee EL me ee,

NAZIS LAUNCH SHARP ATTACK ON LENINGRAD   “Chains” of Men Thrown Into Fight Following Heavy Artillery Barrage—Reds Lose a Position, but Regain It.

NAZIS LAUNG SHARP ATTACK ON LENINGRAD   Artillery Fire Paves Way For Ground Units

Germans Push On Leningrad   Soviet Declares Heavy Nazi Attacks ‘In Northern Seetor Renulsed.

GERMANS DRIVE FOK LENINGRAD   ‘Chains’ Of Men Advance On Base; Guns Pave Way

Furious Air War Continues Along Entire Red Front; Soviets Lose 23 Planes In Destroying Many Nazi Freight Cars, Trucks And Supplies

LENINGRAD ATTACKED BY NAZIS   Reds Meet Drive With Heavy Fire But Fee Comes On

GERMANS STAGING CONCERTED ATTACK IN LENINGRAD AREA  NAZI INFANTRY ADVANCE TOWARD CITY AFTER HEAVY BARRAGE

GERMANS OPEN HEAVY ASSAULT ON LENINGRAD   Continue Altacks Despite Heavy Losses Inflicted by Reds—Sev. en Assaults in Day   AIR WAR GOES ON   Artillery Continues io Pound Novo rossisk but Other Fighting Slackens Along Front

LENINGRAD TARGET OF SHARP ATTACK   Nazi Forces Have Been - Massed and Attack Is  in Force’   AIR WAR CONTINUES

Germans Launch Great Assault Upon Leningrad   But Suffer Tremendous Losses As Russians Meet Attacks.

NAZISLAUNGH NEW ASSAULT ON LENINGRAD   Russian Air Force Continues to Pound German Supply Trains

NAZIS ATTACK AT LENINGRAD   Assault By Infantry Preceded By Heavy Artillery Rarraae.

GERMANS STRIKE AT LENINGRAD   RUSSIAN TROOPS MEET ATTACKS WITH HEAVY FIRE

_RUSSTA—   LENINGRAD FAGES ATTACK BY NAZIS   Nazi Infantry Advances Toward City Following Artillery Barrage   LOSSES HEAVY   Repeated Drives Are Turned Back By Reds, Moscow Reports

Fight Flares On Leningrad Front  ‘Chains’ Of Nazis Make Attacks In Waves

Nazis Launch Great Attack On Leningrad   German Infantry Makes Advance By “Chain’”’ Afte Heavy Artillery Barrage

GERMANS MAKE SHARP ATTACK ON LENINGRAD      Assault, Preceded by Heavy Artillery Barrage, Reported by: Red Star, in  Front Line Dispatches   REDS INFLICT LOSSES   Meet Advance of Enemy  Infantrymen With Heavy  Fire; Russian Airmen Smash Nazi Areas

NAZIS DRIVING ON LENINGRAD   Sharp New German Attack Reported In Russia; Seven Additional Assaults In Single Dav.

NAZIS IN NEW ATTACK ON LENINGRAD   Russians Meet Attack With Heavy Fire But  Germans Continue Fight.

Germans Hur! New Attacks At Leningrad  Quantities of Supplies Arriving

Russ Repel Heavy Attack On Leningrad   Nazis Break Into Forts at One Spot But Fail to Hold

NAZIS ATTACK AT LENINGRAD   ‘Chains’ of Troops Slain Attempting to Breach Russian Lines

NO INCOME TAX HIKE PLANNED THIS YEAR   Morgenthau Expresses Hope, How: ever, Excise Levies Will Be Ready Before Jan. 1,

No New Income  Tax For 1943   Morgenthau Hopes Added Exeise Tax To Become  Effective By Jan. 1.

Senators Attack Liquor Industry  Charge Nation-wide Conspiracy Exists

LIQUOR INDUSTRY IS FACING PROB!   Senators Hope To Pry Some Spirits Loose For Christmas

Senators Seek To End Drouth   Wont to Get Some Whisky Loose in Time for Christmas

Liquor Plot Charged as Probe Starts   200 Million Gollons Kept in Warehouses, Says Inquiry Head

SENATORS SEEK TO PRY WHISKEY LOOSE FOR THE HOLIDAYS .   Five Solons Would. Break Up What They Term “Nation wide Conspiracy” in } Liquor Indoeteu

CONSPIRACY IN LIQUOR RAPPED   Senators Seek To Pry Loose Whisky For Yule Trade

START HUNT FOR HOLIDAY SPIRITS   Intend To Smash Conspiracy in Liquor Industry

Liquor Probe = Being Opened   Senators Hoping To Pry Loose Some Booze By Christmas. Time

WONDER WHERE LIQUOR’S GONE   So Senate Group, Headed by Indianan, Will Try to Find Few Bottles

ESTEP DECLARES STATE VIOLATED “TRIAL POWERS   In Trying William A. Morell,. 20- Year - Old Farmhand Before. One Jury For 3 Murders   SPECIAL INQUIRY

Violation of Powers Hinted in Mercer Co.   Special Investigator Says Court Procedure In Case Irregular   NEW QUESTIONS ARISE

THICK WEATHER If REPORTED CLOSING IN OVER TEXAS   SNOW BLANKETS PAN- : HANDLE WHILE RAIN AND FOG PREVAIL ELSEWHERE

Start Fires On Munda  Nave Pianae Acai:   Navy Planes Again Raid Enemy Base

Americans Set Fires al Munda   All Dive Bombers in Raid on New Georgia Island Return

Weather Hampers Allied Aviators  In Convoy Blow   14 Jap Ships Head For Coast Of New Guinéa

Mecscina Set Afire.   5 Jap Bases Attacked By Yank Planes  —_s -« .__ ny. B22

Jap Convoy On Way To New Guinea   Allied Airmen Set To Attack Ships Soon As Weather Permits.

U6, DIVE BOMBERS ATTACK MUNDA BASE   Raid fs 80th on island Base Since Campaign Began Nov. 23.

ALLIED BOMESRS ‘READY TO ATTACK JAPANESE CONVOY   Enemy Fleet Sighted in Pacific, Apparently Headed for Lae or Some Other New Guinea Base.

Poised to Pounce on Jap Convoy   Fierce Tropical Storm Hides Enemy Craft

MISSING PLANE REPORTS FALSE   Navy Says No Traces Found Of Airship Carrying Sub Chief And 18 Others

REPORT PLANE ~ NOT LOGATEL   NAVY OFFICIALS KAY REPORT WRECKAGE OF LOST PLANE ‘FOUND 18 NOT VERIFIED

Guadalcanal, Hot, Insect Infested ---Not the South Sea Isle of Story

WMC ISSUED NEW  INFORMATION ON  NEW DRAFT RULES QUESTION AND ANSWER  STATEMENT ON SELECTIVE SERVICE PROCRAM

WMC ISSUED NEW  INFORMATION ON  NEW DRAFT RULES QUESTION AND ANSWER   STATEMENT ON smaaCHvs  CrDVUirnr DDACDA

New Draft Ruling Explained   Cues*ions and Answers cn Changes in Selective Service Rvied Issued by WMC

WALKOUT IN. ~-TOLEDO ENDS   PRODUCTION..OF ARMY JEEPS TO. BE RESUMED AFTER, BALT DUE 70. STRIKE

3-A CLASSIFICATION TO BE ELIMINATED   Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Must Be Engaged In Critical Industries To Be Deferred

Draft Age Dads Given Warning   Many Must Change Jobs or Go to War

SURPRISE WON ROME   Nazi Brownshirts Had City Soon After Italian Surrender

ROME WAS OCCUPIED BY STORM TROOPERS   Swiss Paper Discloses How Nazis Took Over City

BROWN SHIRTS CAPTURED ROME   Swiss Paper Reveals S. A. Stormtroopers Won ‘“Battle Of Rome” By Surprise Movement.

Guffaw Guffey On Anti-G.O.P. Dinner Speech  Spangler Says Senator’s   Spangler Says Senator's Remarks Sounded ‘Like 4 New Deal Promise’

Santa Isabel Island Believed Evacuated   IF TRUE, JAPS HAVE ONLY ONE STRONGHOLD LEFT IN CENTRAL SOLOMONS; U. S. WARSHIPS ARE STILL DARING JAP FLEET TO COME FIGHT

British Say Japs Quit Santa Isabel   Resistance Lacking  In Bombing Raids

JAPS EVACUATE BIG ISLAND IN CENTRAL SGLOMONS GROUP   American Forces Have Made No Effort to Take St. Isabel.

ITALIAN ARMY CHIEFS IN U. S,   Captured Generals May Bi Answering Questions Of American Officers

ATALIANS. ARE-= ~ NOWINU, ;   MILITARY LEADERS CAPTURED IN NORTH: AFRICA ARE BROUGHT HERE FOR QUESTIONING

VILLAGES AND HEIGHT TAKEN BY STH ARM   Fali of Monte Camino Gives Clear Observation of Nazi Positions.

ALLIES WREST MONTE CAMINO FROM GERMANS   Capture by Fifth Army Comes as Eighth Continues Advance

Drive to Retake Philippines On.   MacArthur's Tactics  Seen as First Move Th. i he

MacArthur Said On ‘Way Back’   Believe Drive on Philippines Opened

MacArthur Is Believed Shaping Drive   Japanese Are Facing Grim Threat in Wide Pacific Area

Axis Prepares to Defend ‘Coffin Corner   British, Yanks Organize Power for Push to Sea

HOUSE MAY CUFDFF'SALARIES FOR FOUR FEDERAL EMPLOYES    ACTION TO BE TAKEN MONDAY  TO OUST ALLEGED. com.   MUNIST SYMPATHIZERS   FROM JORS

QUSTER PROBE GOES FORWARD   Vote On 3.U. S. Employes Scheduled Monday

BRITISH BLAST SUB BASE AT LORIENT  FrVITIO   Americans Raid Occupied France and Belgium.

Finds Rats Not Hep to Jive   But Hot Cornet Brings Out Those Rug-Cutters

MAGNESIUM PLANT BURNS   One Was Injured in Accident in Washington State’

PORTUGAL TO OFFER BASES TO ALLIES   Country Is About to End Her Neutrality

PORTUGAL NAY GET INTO WAR ~ AGAINST AXE   Expected to Abandon State of Neutrality and Offer Bases to Allies,   REPORT ALLIED FLEET IN PORTUGUESE AZORES

Portugal Is Expected to Join Allies   May Offer Bases Thruout World to United Nations

Vv With Our Soldiers  and Sailors                 Warrant Officer Sturm to Receive Special Training   ON MANETIVERS

FARM PRICE INDEX GAINS   UP FOUR POINTS FROM L MONTIT — WELD ABOVE PARITY LEVEL

No.  Football Power  lrish Romp Over Highly-Rated Army Team 26-0

Notre Dame Holds To Its Top Rating   Trojans Bow to San Diege Sailors to Taste First Defeat of Season; Navy Defeats Pennsylvania

Elk Hills Lease Stirs Old Case   Navy'’s Good Faith Ie Not Ouestioned

Btalin Order of the Day Tells > of Taking of City by —  Storm  GERMANS ADMIT LOSS      (Cope an Forces Appear to  in General Retreat an South Russia

Nazis in Full Retreat Acros: South Russia   Taking of City by Storm Announcéd In Order of Day ©

‘PLAN TO PASS ON CUT   Federal Commission Orders Cities Service To Reduce Rates

Allies Gird For Blow At Nazis   Morgenthau Opens’ Bonc Drive With Promise Of Great Victory

MORGENTHAB AU MAKES APPEAL FOR BUYING OF WAR BONDS   TREASURY SECRETARY POINTS TO SACRIFICES. OF THE MEN ON FIGHTING ’ PRONTS

ALLIES MAKE NEW GAINS IN ALL SECTORS   Our Troops Maneuvering to Split Enemy Front. One-third of Sicily in Allied Hands

Yank Planes Continue to Hammer Japs   Marshall Back From Conterence With MacArthur

EX-MATTOON BANKER DIES IN TULSA   Rites for W. 'T. Avey to Be Held in Oklahoma Citv

DeMarigny’s Alleged - Threat Told In Court   West Palm Beach, Fla, Specialist Declares Accused One Threatened To ‘Crock The Head’ Of Si Harry Oakes

Doctor Says de Marigny ‘Threatened Sir Harry   American Surgeon Declares Son-in-Law Suid He Would “Croek His Head”?

Threat Made Against Oakes By Son-in-Law   Damaging Testimony Against De Marigny Given By Miami Specialist  WIDOW WiLL TESTIFY

CAR TAG SALES LAG   The Number About salt at This Time Last Year

Heaviest  Attack of ‘ Entire Cras           CONCENTRATE ON MUNSTER Al DUSSELDORF, KEY   RAIDS ARERESUMED_

STRIKE RUHR, RHINELAND; 43 BOMBERS LOST   Blaze Pa th of Destruetin as.12-Day Lull Ended

Ruhr, Rhineland Blasted as RAF  Resumes Attack   American Bombers in Raids On U-Boat Bases al   i  Wilhelmshaven

Dusseldorf tit By RAP in Terrific Assault  Arms Plant at Munster Also Bomber Target

13 Planes Lost In Smashing Attacks On Dusseldorf And Munster; Break 12-Day Lull In Night Raids

Charred Bones Solve Mystery   Third Death in Fatal Marital Row Revealed

Workers Are Lauded by Army, Navy   Similar Production Honor Goes to Great Falls Tonight

Anaconda Workers Receive Prized  Army-Navy Award   Many See Ceremony Great Falls Plant Gets Emblem Tonight

ITALIANS RENEW OPEN CITY PLEA   Rome Reports Army Com. mands, Military Installations Being Moved

PLANS TO MAKE ROME ~ OPEN CITY ARE MADE   adio Broadcast States That Vatican and Switzerland ‘Haye Been Asked to Notify Allies That Defense  - Installations. Are to Be Put Out of Use— ’_ - Report General Orders Are Iesued Tadav.

ROME TO BE “OPEN CITY”      Italian Governinient " Asks ° Valttean ‘and Switzerland: to: Notify. Alliés ‘of ‘Orders: to, Strip’ Clty of Millitary, , Works.

TAKE STEP TO MAKE ROME AN OPEN CITY   Vatican, Switzerland Asked By Italian Government To Inform Allies Capital Being Stripped Of Military Works

Rome Bids For Status. OfOpenCity   ltaly Asks Vatican To Inform Allies of Demilitarization

TO STRIP ROME OF MILITARY PLANTS   Allied Capitals Told All ' Defenses In City Not Now In Use

BOMBS CRUSH 4 IMPORTANT NAZI CENTERS   RAF Pounds Steel, Coal Areas  32 BOMBERS LOST  Many Other Targets Pulverized

BOMBERS RANGE CLEAR 10 EAST PRUSSIA, POLAND   Deepest Penetration Of Hitler's Fortress So Far Made By U. 8. Acrial Attackers

40 Per Cent Of Next Year’s Lend-Lease Earmarked For France, Belgium, Norway And Greece)

France and Norway on 1944Lend-Lease Schedule: 5 Million Troops Due Abroad —

Allied Officers Confer With Balkan Leaders  Move Indicates   Move Indicates an Invasion Is Being Planned

Allied Officers,  Guerrillas Confer  Daring Trip Is Made To Balkans Area

Soldiers Brave’ In Final Deed   Americans. “Destroy 2 2 Nazi Tanks.As They Die In Fiery ‘Tomb

Crew of Disabled Tank Goes Down Fighting—Axis Sneak Attack Blasted

Heroic Story Of U. §. Tankmer   Six Fight To Death In Flaming Coffin

Six Americans Perish in Tank   Destroyed Two Nazi Mark IV Tanks Before They Meet Death

Six American Soldiers Die Battling Foe in Fiery Tomb   Destroy Two German Mark VI Tanks In Tunisia After  Their Tank Had Been Set Afire; Either Elected i to Perish Or Turret Jammed Keeping  } . } Thom Prisoners

AMERICA IS RESPONDING WITH DOLLARS   To Treasury’s Campaign To Raise $13,000,000,000 Second War Loan Fund

Biggest War Bond Drive Under Way   All Forces  ” OF Public Appeal Thrown Inte Effort

Government's Greatest War Bond Drive Starts Today To Raise 13 Billion In Hurry

Money Put Into Bonds Not A Gift, but Safest Investment in the World.

Dollar Flood Greets Big Bond Drive   Secretary Morgenthau Calls on People to Open Their Purses

Says Flood Of Dollars Rolling In   But Sec. Morgenthau  Warns That Mounting Cost of War Demands Ever Increasing Sums

NATION ANSWERS CALL FOR FUNDS   AMERICANS RESPOND WITH DOLLARS IN SECOND BOND DRIVE

Greatest War Bond Drive of All Time Getting Under Way   Uncle Sam Seeking To Get $13,000,000,000 From People Quickly

Greatest War Loan Drive s Opened Today   Nation Begins Task Of Rais. ing Thirteen Billion Dollars In 18 Days   TREASURY HOPES TO EXCEED QUOTA

$2,500,000,000  To Be Purchased By Individuals  For War Financing

AMERICA RESPONDING WITH FLOOD OF CASH TO LOAN CAMPAIGN a  DRIVE OFFICIALLY = ® OPENED LAST NIGHT a i

Public Response In Bond Selling Drive Is Great   Heavier Sacrifices Of People Required, Says Morgenthau.

Flood of Dollars Is - Nation’s Answer to Plea From Treasury   i  Fighting Fund Pours in On First Day of Huge War Bond Campaign

Money Put Into War Bonds Will Help Hold Down Inflation, Which is Lurking Around The Corner. Drive Will Be Intense For Next Three Months

To Raise 13 Billion Dollars   Entire Nation Mobilizes Behind Biggest Money Raising Campaign in  History of the World

U.S. Begins Grand-Scale Bond Drive   13 Billion Dollars Goal of Mighty Appeal to Public

UNCLE SAM OPENS BOND DRIVE TODAY   Urges Citizens Save in Government Securities and So Hold Down Inflation

Nation's Dollars Flowing Into Victory War Chest   Great Drive Starts Even Before Official Opening by Morgenthau at New York Rally

$13 Billior Sought In 3 Weeks   "FDR Accepts Limit Repealer; Avoids “Embarrassing”

Governments Greatest Bond Drive Launched, With All Hands Urged To Baek 13 Billions Sale

Thirteen Billion Dollars Goal Set by Treasury; Newspapers in Front Line for Vast Campaign.

WarLoanCampaign Gets Flying Start Throughout Nation   Nation Saying It With Dollars As Government Calls For War Financing Aid

BONDS BOUGHT AT FAST PACE   Tremendous Response Seen in First Few Hours of Sales

PRESS PUTS ITS MICHT INTO U, S. BONDS CAMPAIGN   Uncle Sam Needs Money Bad ly — So Newspapers, Radios Will Aid

\Nation Responds With Flood of \Dollars in Second War Bond Drive

Biggest War Bond Drive Under Way  All Forces Of Public   All Forces Of Public Appeal Thrown Into Effort

WAR BOND DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY   EXPECT AMERICANS TC POUR MORE MILLIONS IN U, S. WAR CHEST

Great War Bond Drive ; Upenec       Thirteen Billion Is Sought In. Next Three Weeks.

CITIZENS BACK TREASURY Wit NEW PURCHASES   Public Support Of Bond Drive Shown In Buying

GREATEST WAR BOND DRIVE OPENED OVER NATION ON MONDAY   QUICK SUBSCRIBING OF THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLARS IS SOUGHT

Greatest Bond Drive of War Opens Today   People Must Buy— and Buy in a Hurry— to Reach Big Goal

PUBLIC RESPONSE TO $13,000,000,000 WAR LOAN DRIVE HEARTENS OFFICIALS

YOUR UNCLE SAM NEEDS — 13 BILLION DOLLARS IN A HURRY-HELP HIM TODAY

Greatest War Bond Campaign Is Begun Today   Uncle Sam Sets Out To Raise 13 Billion Dollars In A Hurry.

GREATEST WAR BOND BAWE OPENS TODAY      13 Billion Dollar Goal Set For Campaign

This Is People’s War--People Must Finance It, Morgenthau Says   STATE WELL ON WAY, TO WAR BOND GOAL

Hopkins to Move Out of White House   Buys Home in Georg getown Section

723 Japanese Planes Are Destroyed    Damaged Enemy Aircraft Brings Total, to 1286 Since Beginning of War, Allied Headauarters Announces

1286 Jap Planes Downed By Allies   This Figure Is For Southwest Pacific Theatre Only

NIPS HAVE LOST 1,286 AIRCRAFT IN PACIFIC WAT   Allies Announce 723 Planes Definitely Destroyed And Others As Damaged

Japs Sustain Heavy Losses In Aireraft   Enemy Losses More Than Thousand In Year Of War

Allies Downed 1286 Jap Planeg..   Af Least 723 Definitel, Destroyed, Airforce Headauarters Says

{,286 JAPANESE AIRPLANES HIT IN PAST YEAR   At Least 723 Definitely De‘stroyed and 250 Others “Listed As Probably  - Destroyed   Flying. Fortresses Show Superiority Over Nipponese Fighter . Planes

JAP OUTPOSTS RAIDED   ‘Land. Based American Bombers Strike At Marshall Islands

MARSHALLS IN RANGE OF LAND BASED BOMBERS   Revealed in Report of Attacks Made by Liberators on Japan's Farflung Outposts

Airmen Hammer  Marshalls   JAP OUTPOSTS IN RANGE OF LAND-BASED BOMBERS FOR FIRST TIME IN WAR

Japs’ Marshall Outposts Now Within Bomber Range   Long-Range Bombers Have Made Attacks Against Betio In Marshalls

JAP OUTPOSTS IN MARSHALS ARE BOMBED   Brot Within Range Of Lan-Basel  !  Bombers First Time

SEEKING BODIES ‘OF PASSENGERS IN TAGUS RIVER   American Entertainers Among Those Missing From Yankee Clipper   DIPLOMATIC POUCH IS BEING SOUGHT

YANKEE CLIPPER VICTIMS LISTED   Swift Waters of Tagus River Hamper Crews Attempting to Lift Wreckage; Cause of Accident Unknown

Rescue Crews Seek fo Liff Wrecked Plane   20 Still Missing; CAA Hopeful Some May Have Survived

20 Missing In Wreckage of Clipper   Four Persons Known Dead; Number of Entertainers Were" Listed as Passengers

LISBON CRASH INTO RIVER   Entertainers Make Up Passenger List On Clipper

Salvage of Clipper Hampered by River   Seek Bodies of 20 Passengers, Crewmer

FIFTEEN SURVIVE” CRASH OF CLIPPER   Efforts to Lift Plane Ham. pered by Swift -. Waters.

CONGRESSMAN FROM KANSAS REPROVES £. R   Hope (R., Kan.) In.cludes League of Women Voters in Charve

CITIES ALONG FRENCH COAST ARE BATTERED   Krupp Works Believed Wiped Out In Friday Night Attack   HUGE FIRES BURN   Nazi Transportation And War Factories Being Crippled

"]  Man ‘Charged With : . _ Embezzeling Aunt’s —  Money Bound Ove

SOLONS RUSH STRIKE BILL TO PRESIDENT   Leaders Say President’s Draft Plan Inadequate Substitute For Legislation *

FDR Declines To Reveal His Action On Anti-Strike Bill   Has Until Midnight To Sign Or Veto Measure

Antistrike Bill Veto Is Expected   President Has Until Midnight Tenicht To Decide

LABOR DRAFT IS OPPOSED IN CONGRESS   Shadow of Expected Veto Of Conally-Smith-Harness Bill Brings Threats  Of Reprisals   TONIGHT IS DEADLINE

PLANNED MOVE ON ANTI-STRIKE RIL, CUARDED   Roosevelt Gives No Definite Clue At Press Conference On What He Eypects to Do   VETO PREDICTED   Meanwhile, Congress Gives  Indication It Will ignore ‘ Request for Labor Draft Legislation

/Hobble Skirt and Fur Bands Return—  Fall Styles Reflect Terrific ‘20's Period

Japs Defeated, Take Own Lives   Japs Surprise Yanks, But U. S. Forces Rally And Wipe Out Enemy

LAST BATTLE ON ATTU FIERCE   Remaining Japs Killed’ Selves   with Grenades Rather  Than Surrender.

MASS JAP SUICIDE ON ATTU REVEALED   Desperate Actio n Follows Surprise Attack

BSVERL BE NVEU LVRRERSAEVRY  LAST JAPS ON ATTU KILL THEMSELVES RATHER THAN ST RRENDER.

WANT WAC FOR EVERY MAN TAKEN AWAY   Jefferson county to furn. ish 10 recruits before Pearl Harbor Day

Expect Nazi Subs To Sow Mine Fields   Activities Off American Coastal Waters This Spring Anticipated   PATROLS EFFECTIVE

(Coastal Waters May Be Mined By Nazi Subs   Spring Offensive On UN Seen. Development Of U-Boat’ Atlantic Tactics

NAZI SUBS EXPECTED TO SOW FIELDS   May Use Mines In American Coastal ‘Waters This Spring

Germans Apt To Sow Mines On This Side   Waters Perilous For Subs Due To Jncreased Patrol

EXPECTED OFF U. §. COAST   Naval Experts Say German Subs Probably Will Lay Weapons as Part of Summer Offensive Against Shipping.

EXPECT U-BOATS TO SOW MINES IN AMERICAN WATER   U. S. NAVY BUILDS UP SIZEABLE FLEET OF MINESWEEPERS

Navy Experts Expect Nazi Subs To Sow Mines Along East Coast This Spring

Enemy Subs Expected To Sow Spring Mine Fields   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

U-Boats To Mine  American Coast   Warning Issued That Campaign Nears

U-Boats Expected To Sow Mines in East Coast Soon   ‘Experts See Return Of Subs to Strike At Allied Shipping

Fear More Use  Of Axis Mines   More Off-Shore Anti-Submarine Weapons  Available To Protect Shores.

May Mine U.S. Waters   ‘Changed Tactics In  Undersea Warfare: Is Possible As Result Of Anti-U-Boat Activity

German U-Boats May Use Mines Extensively This Spring In American Coastal Waters

NAZI SUBS MAY SOW MINES IN U.S. SEA LANES   Naval Experts Believe It Will Be Part of Spring and Summer OF-. fensive   PATROLS EFFECTIVE   Have. Forced Enemy. U-Boats From American ' Coastal. Areas, It Is Pointed Out

U-Boat Toll Down, Berlin ©  Radio Admits   DNB Broadcast Claims - Only 20 Ships Sunk During June

Berlin Radio Admits Sharp Slump in Nazi Sub Victories   Claims Only 20 Ship: Sunk in June—1-7 of March Boast

fig isl fu tte Dadewtins Germans ¥ Admiis Reduction  FL i? eae Wold, UE Lee en  in Ee PpiCcacy ou Warpare   Lists U-Boat Toll of “Allied Shipping In June At 20 Ships Totalling 107,000 Tons Bul. implies This ' Is Only a Temporary Setback; British Subs Report Sinkines

Allies Push Deeper Inio Enemy Lines   London Claims  Germans Ready For Gas Warfare

Africa Korps Counter-Lick ' “Falls Flat"   AXIS DETERMINATION TO DEEEND BRIDGEHEAD IS KVIDENT, - '

Enemy Reported To Be Blowing Up Tanks, Guns In Fast Retreat  60 TOWNS SEIZED

Russians Believed Prepared to Take Full Advantage of Red ‘Fighting Weather”

Finnish Leaders Discuss Means of Quitting the War   Separate Peace With Reds Looms

NAZI MORALE GETS JOLT IN DNIEPER LOS!   WAR ALREADY LOS] FOR THEM, PUBLIC SOON TO LEARN

Gloomy Press Accounts Are  Handed Out By Hitler Heads   Fate Of Nazi Troops Facing Trap Near Dnieper Bend Causing Major Alarm In Berlin

27 ENEMY TANKS WRECKED AND 500 PRISONERS TAKEN   Montgomery’s Men Give Not An Inch—Nazi Losses are Hiah.

21 TANKS ARE DESTROYED ON 8-MILE FRONT   Attack Seen As Effort To Relieve Pressure On Rommel Afrika Korps   BRITISH HOLDING GAINS   Allies Concentrate Aerial At+ tacks On Knocking Out Luftwaffe 

27 ENEMY TANKS DESTROYED, 500 PRISONERS TAKEN      Moonlight Attack Was Begun Tuesday Night to Assist’ Rommel’s- Difficult Position of Defeéxe.      RUSSIANS. SHATTER  NAZI NIGHT ATTACK   Pacific Air Combat. Dwindles To Small. Thrusts, U.S. Army Flyers In Attack on Nauru Island.

Tokyo Radio Says American Invasion In Mid-Pacific Means Clash of Mighty Fleets Is Near, Claims U. S. Ships Sunk

Makin Taken, 'Tarawa’s Fall Appears Near   Situation on Abemama Reported Well in Hand By Fleet Spokesman  TARAWA STRONGEST

YANKS WINNING FIGHT ON THREE ~ GILBERT ISLANDS   Makin Falls to Army Troops and Capture of Tarawa by Marines Is Reported Certain.   ABEMAMA SITUATION IS WELL IN HAND   Admiral Nimitz Says Progress Assures Success of Of fensive in Central Danifin   BULLETIN.

FRENCH TROOPS TAKE 2 PASSES   Germans Forced To Give Up Ground In Corsica

THIRD FIRE IN WICHITA   Estimated $25,000 Damage by f - Smoke and Fire

REED SEES GOOD CHANCE TO PASS RUMIL-PLAN BILI   Final Vote on Carlson’s Meas: ure is Expected In House Today.

FINAL HOUSE VOTE EXPECTED ON RUMI TAX MEASURE SOON   Advocates, Claim. “At, Lenat  "217, Favor Proposal—. Say Victory Is “In The Bag”

FINAL VOTE ON RUML TAX PLAN EXPECTED TODAY   : ‘Advocates Claim Minimum Of  217 Votes — Victory In  Bag. is Report

80 AXIS TANKS KNOCKED OUT IN BIG DRIVE   Heaviest Battle Rages  Around Salt Lake Northwest of Pont ~ Du Fahs.

U. S. Units Gain’ One Height, Fail’ To Take Another   Entrenched "Germans Guarding Bizerte Toss  Back American Force

REACH LINE OF “IMPREGNABLE” AX'S DEFENSES   — U. S. Bombers Based at Caire In Record Raid on Italian Adriatic Port.

NEW THRUSTS SQUEEZE AX!S INTO LAST MOUNTAIN HOLES: U.S. IN RECORD AIR ATTACK   25,000 Pounds of Explosives Arc Dropped on Adriatic Port of Bari

AMERICANS SEIZE — DJEBEL AJRED IN BITTER STRUGGLE   Entrenched Germans Guarding Bizerte  Throw Back Another U. S. Column »  _ In Djebel Azag Area — Nazis Getting Reinforcements

ONE U.S. FORCE THROWN BACK BY GERMAN DEFENSE   British First Army is Within 23 Miles Of Tunis   STEADY PRESSURE IS DRIVING NAZIS BACK

ALLIES MAKE GAINS ON ALL FRONTS   Entrenched Nazis Repulse Americans At Dijebel Azag

American Infantry Repulsed   Take One Height, But Fail at Another—British Close  in on Axis

BRITISH TAKE Q00 CAPTIVES WRECK TANKS   All Gains Reported Held By Eighth Army   FORTIFICATIONS   Set Up By Rommel Along Approaches To Tunis; Little Air Activity

First Army Beats Back Nazi Attack   8th British Group Makes Gains Despite 2 Counter-Atlacks

Allied Units Smash 29 Axis Tanks, Hurl Back Enemy Assault   Allies Capture 500 Prisoners, Better Battlefield Positions, Continue Air Offensive in Tunisia

Say 25 Of 80 Armored Units Destroyed; Eighth Army Makes Slow Gains

NAZIS STRIKE WITH INFANTRY AND BIG TANKS   Attempt to Drive British First Army From MedjezEl-Bab Sector Quick lv Repulsed   25 OF ENEMY TANKS ARE DESTROYED   Five Hundred Prisoners Taken: British 8th Advances Beyond Enfidaville

/huss Triumphs Break Nazi Lines In Donets’ Basin   German Troops Retreating Along 175 Mile Front Towards Dnieper  a River   HEAVY TANK BATTLE WEST OF KHARKOV   Russian Air Force Bombard Troop Trains; New Offensive Opened Near Izyum

HUGO AIMING AT UMEPCH RIVER: TANKS LEAD WA)   Reds Smash'ng West From Captured Kharkov and Sweep Tow-rd Kiev.

{943 Coffon Cron Will Be 11.478.000 Bales: Sfate Will Produce 2 Million Of Them

NIPPON WEWAK CONVOY HAS ‘FLED BEYOND BOMBER RANGE    Enemy Force Is Believed To Have Landed Men And Supplies At Base, However; Allied Bombers Blow Up Ammunition Dumo

Considered Possible . Enemy May Have Landed Supplies During Night

Convoy Flee: But Two  Ships Sink   American Forces Deal Enemy Numerous Heavy Blows; Ships Are Crippled, Airfields Rendered Useless: Raids Cover Wide Area

Japs Flee From Ranae Of Forts   Two Merchantmen Blasted To Rottam.:

Jap Convoy Turned Back   American Bombers Hit At Least Two Of Ships

Two Freighters Sunk, Seven Fail To Reach Wewak   Allies Aviators Repulse Latest Enemy Attempt at Landing   Flying Fortresses Play Major Part in Latest Victory

Enemy convoy flees beyond range after 2 merchantmensunk   2 other ships rendered unseaworthy ae aliiad watdane nntinia attankse

Japanese Convoy Flees to Safety As 2 Ships Sink   Attempt To Land At Wewak In New Guinea Is Abandoned; Allied Air Units Also  Pound Enemy Atrdromes

Allied Bombers Frustrate  Aid To Wewak   Two Enemy Freighters Are Sunk

Allied Bombers Sink 2 Ships Off New Guinea   Some Supplies May Have Been Landed By Japs at Wewak— Lae Is Bombed Again

Japanese Convoy Flees After Attack By Fliers   8,000 Ton Freighter Delivered Mortal Blows, High Command Announces—Second Vessel Leter Sunk

Japanese Convoy ls Driven Back  MacArthur Reports Two of Ships Sunle

U. 5. BOMBERS DRIVE ENEMY CONVOY BACK   Japs Lose Second Vessel in Attempt to Supply Base at Wewak   AIRDROME ALSO HIT BY FLYING FORTRESSES

Tulsa Editor Loses Fight Before Supreme Court To Revise Legislative Seats

Apportionment Review Denied   Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor‘ of Tulsa Tribune. Loses

NAZIS. EXPECT ~“FARLY. ACTION         ERMAN fOREIGN OFFICE PRE : picts LAUNCHING OF INVA.  é BION WITHIN FOUR-TEEN DAYS -

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   German Blow At Africa ‘Via Spain Is Strong . Possibility Today

Rome Says Allies Create Devastation In Mediterranean   Italians Reaching Rome From Sicily Tell Gloomy Stories

ITALIANS TELL GLOOMY TALES SICILY BATTLE   Those Returning to Main ‘jand Refer to Fight as   “Unequal Struggle of That Terrible War”   ITALIAN RIOTING      Dispatches to Madrid From Allied Headquarters in North Africa Tell of Uprising in Italy

TTALIANS GRUMBLE WER UNFAIR HELP   Overwhelming Superiority of Allied Forces in Sicily Emphasized by Fascists

lalians: Are. Sickened By Su pertority Of Allied Forces   ‘less Devastation in Mediterranean in Spreading Gloomy Stories on Mainland About “Unenual Strugei®Por Phe feirible War; Crowds Ttalian Cities Reported In Revait

Gloomy Stories of What Faces Italy Spread By Italians Escaping Sicily

Madrid Tells Sicily Gloom   Refugees From Island Full of Tales of War Terrible in Effects 4.

Blimps May Join In Valley Coast Defense   Italians Complain War Is Now ‘Unequal Struggle’   Devastation Created By Air Raids Breaking Morale; Air Superiority Of Allies Admitted; Crowds Cry For Peace

Devastation In Italy Recounted   Stories Of Unequal Struagle Are Told °

Italians Weary Of War, Say It’s  ‘Unequal’ Fight   Men Reaching Rome from Sicily Deseribe Heavy Attacks, Damage to Targets — Dispatches Emphasize Air Superiority Of United Nations.

Sink or Damaged Total Since Pear! Harbor Reaches 46(   Figure Includes Three Carriers, 10 Cruisers, 49 Other Warships

Subs Whittle Jap Shipping Strength   Lop Another 148 Vessels From Dwindling Resources; Jap Effort to Regain Finschhafen Bloodily Repulsed

Big Business  Real Threat  —ICKES   War Can Be Crushing Blow To Small Business —- We Need Help Of All’

ICKES FEARS FOR SMALL BUSINESS   War May Be Crushing Blow to Little Fellow, Secretary Warns.

Great Air Flotilla  In Action   Three Thousand Planes Pace Thousand: Of Amphibians  In Maneuver.

SENT DOWN BY TORPEDO FRON JAPANESE SUB   299 Lose Lives as Plainly Marked Vessel Sinks

JOINT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE FAILS TO SETTLE TAX MATTER   ANOTHER MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY IN FINAL EFFORT

Fail to Get Compromise On Tax Plan   Plan Another Meeting—Higher Tax Rates  In Prospect

GROUP FAILS T0 REACH PAY-G0 COMPROMISE   G.O.P.’s “Back To House” Move Is Blocked

NO COMPROMISE YET ON TAX ACT   Conferees Can't Agree Schedule Another Meet ing For Tomorrow.

Joint Committee Again Fails On Tax Compromise  —n   Groups, Schedule Another. Meeting Tuesday Morning

45 BILLION MORE “NEEDED FOR WAR “IN PRESENT YEAR   Treasury Considers Means. to Get Additional Funds =..as Joint Committee Fails on Tax. Program.   REAL BATTLE TO GET MONEY I$ STILL AHEAL   Republicans Reported In Plan to Get Rumi Program Back to House, Democrats. Are ‘Opposed,

NO BREAK IN TAXDEADLOCK   [House And Senate Con  ference Fails At   Compromise

Higher Income Taxes May Be Result — of Disagreement Over Pay-as-You-Go

CONGRESS MAY SEEK HIGHER INCOME RATES  POMMITTOCO Calc   COMMITTEE FAILS TO COMPROMISE ON PAY-AS-GO TAXES

COMPROMISE MEET ENDS IN FAILURE      Republicans Seek to Have Rum! Plan Tried Again: in House

JOINT COMMITTEE FAILS TO AGREE ON TAX PLAN   Democratic Members From Both Houses Arrange to Meet Later to Trv Again .

Senate, House Group Fails To Agree Upon Tax  Another Session Set Far Tuesday

Joint Group ‘Still Split on .. Pay-Go Plan   Senate-House Conferees  Meet Again Tomorrow Morning

No Agreemeni On Tax Bill Compromise   Joint Conference Committee Schedules Another Meeting Tuesday  MORE MONEY NEEJED

TAX CONFEREES FAIL 10 AGREE   MORGENTHAU’S PLEA FOR $45,000,000,000 SPURRED

Tax Conferees Again Fail To Agree  Another Session Set for Tuesday

Curtin Talks ToMacArthw On Cairo Pac   Evenis in Europe Called Big Factor for Final Victory in Pacific

Pacific Victory To Wait on Europe   ~No Short Cut Declares Curtin; Jap Troop Ship Sent to Bottom

Court Martial Convicts Former Army Commandant   Col. William Colman Or. dered Reduced in Rank to a Captaincy

COURT MARTIAL ~ CUTS COLONEL   Former Selfridge Field Commander Reduced To Captaincy

Increase Hailed As Pattern for Entire Industry   )perators in Washington However, Not Bound, They Assert   And Possibility Remains That War Labor Board May Object

MINERS BACK AS PARLEY ON PAY RESUMES   Collective Bargaining Ne. gotiotions Again Un.’ der Way °

No Chance of Agreement Says Burke   PROPOSES U. M. W . AND OPERATOR’S DISPUTE BE SUBMIT TED TO W. L. B.; DECLARE; DEMANDS “OUT OF REASON.”   “Complete Accord”

Operators See No Hope for Coal Accord   Southern Parleys Break Down on UMW Wage Stand

‘Edward R. Burke; Spokesman for Southern Operators, Sees No Chance of Reaching Settlement Unless Union Recedes From Its Demands—He Suggests Submission of Controversy to War Labor Board.

Ickes Urges Lewis to End  All Strikes   Most of Miners Go  Back Under Two-Week Truce: UMW. Owners Resume Wage Parleys

ALLINOIS MINE OWNERS OFFER PAY INCREASE   yckes Calls on Lewis To End Scattered Strikes at Pits

Burke urges strike .be oiven WLB   Says ‘no chance for asreement’

ILLINOIS MINES AGREE T0 $1.50 WAGE INCREASE   Eastern Operators Say They Are Not Bound By Any Such Agreement   ICKES DEMANDING  FULL PRODUCTION

Lewis Urged To Settle Few Sirikes   Idleness in Mines Cost 11,000,000 Tons of Coal

Wage Dispute May Go Back "To Labor Board   Ickes Calls On - Lewis To Stop Seattered Strikes. Most Miners Rofurn fo Work

Most Miners Back to Work. Negotiations  Are Reopened   But Secretary Ickes Calls on John L. Lewis To Bring Quick End To Scattered Strikes   IL MILLION TONS COAL LOST, HE SAYS   ae Se tee Se ee Te Oe ee  Hlinois Operators Agree To Give Boost Of $1.50 Day in Pay

WAGE DISPUTE HELD HOPELESS   Burke Proposes Deadlock Be Submitted To WLB; Says UMW Demands ‘Out Of Reason’

Ickes Demands End Of Scattered Coal Strikes   Calls On Lewis To Get Truce Hold-Outs In Line; Declares Stoppage Caused Loss Of 11,000,000 Tons

ICKES CALLS ON JOHN L. LEWIS TO END SCATTERED STRIKES REMAINING IN EFFECT

‘New German Rererveé Have Been Repulsed By Fighting  Russian  Tranns.

Union Couple Wed Monday In  Union Church  Mildred Manson Brid Of John Morton In  Beautiful Ceremony

Union Couple Wed Monday In Union Church  Mildred Manson Bri Of John Morton In

2,000 Tons Of Bon. Rained On Important Nazi Center Within ‘Two Hours; Defenders Caught Off Guard.

33 PLANES SHOT DOWN IN TWO-HOUR RAID ON INDUSTRIAL CITY. 7.000 TONS DROPPED

Another Death From Railroad Crash Reported   Toll of Tatalities in Train Wreck Tragedy Increased to 79

Alton Missionary Broadcasts From Concentration Camp      Says He’s Well and Comfortable With 350 Other  Friends

Charlie Chaplin Marries Qona O'Neil; Film Aspirant Who Sued Him Collapses

Papers Hail Granting of Bases as Sign of Germany’s Waning Strength

Azores Action May Spur Eire To Follow Suit   Neutral Nations May Extend Help To Allied Powers

BRITAIN PRAISES PORTALS AC   Hailed As: Proof Of Ger many’s, Waning Mili tary Strength

BRITISH PRESS CITES GERMAN ~LOSSON BASES   Portugal’s Action Shows Nazis.Getting Weaker; Azores Will Be Great Help to Allies

Portugal’s Action On Azores Bases ‘Seen By British Further Proof ~ OF Germany’s Waning Strength

Bases In Azores Evidence Germat Influence Wanes   Hope Seen Turkey, Eire May Follow Portuguese Lead

Hope Neutrals To Give Aid To United Nations  Believe German  Dasway  ae

BRITISH HAIL ‘TINY PORTUGAL  '   Claim Act of Granting Azores Bases Reflects _ Enemy Waning Power

Portugal's Grant Of Azores . Shows Hitler’s Power Waning   London Hopeful Eire And Turkey May Also Extend Allies Facilities

Aegades Group Gives Up Under  Enemy Pressure   Additional Progress Reported Made In  Sicilian Campaign

‘Canadians Inflict Heavy Casualties On Nazi Forces In Sicily; U. S. Forces Capture Three More Towns On Island

Allied Armies Making Progress Tn Sicily; Bombers Return ic Romie Suburbs. Blast Other Italian Points

TAKE THREE SICILY TOWNS   Now Within 75 Miles of Big Port of Messina

INFLICT HEAVY NAZI LOSSES   American Troops Now Within 75 Miles of Messina — Air Force Continues to Pound at Enemy Positions,

Allies Advance In Sicily   Airmen Pound Italy’s Mainland Air 'dromes.

STEP UP LAND, SEA AND AIR WAR IN SICILY   Additional Progress Re ported by Lund Forces; British Eighth Army Inflicts Hleavy Losses Near Catania

3 Islands Give Up To Allies   Navy Units Rake Coast of Italy, Sink 7 Vessels

8TH ARMY, U, S. HURL AXIS BACK IN SICILY TODAY   Three Points Surrender Off West Coast of Isle, Take More Prisoners

+ ITALIAN COAST SHELLED ANEW; * GAIN IN SICILY   Allied Fleet Units Grow Bolder As Enemy Strength Wanes

ANERICANS TAKE MORE TOWNS IN SIQILIAN DRIVE      Canadian Forces Inflict Heavy Damage On German Troops

Third of Sicily Now Occupied by Troops of Allies   Their Ground Forces Make Progress on All Sectors of Island Battle.   English Wrest Strong Points Near Catania

3 SMALL ISLANDS OFF SICILY’S WEST COAST SURRENDER   ‘Mainland Subjected Ta  Another Heavy Attack ’ By Allied Sea Power

Navy Active, Three More Islands Off Sicily Yield; Allies Make New Gains

Progress By Americans  And British In Sicily   Allied Naval Forces Sweep Coastal Waters As Aireraft Again Pounds Mainland

Good Progress Made By Allies On Sicily Front   Naval ‘And Air Units Join In Blasting Axis Bases; Capture 500 Germans

ALLIES OCCUPY COASTAL BASES FACING SICILY   BOMBERS PAVE WAY FOR GROUND FORCES HEADED FOR MESSINA

AMERICANS MOVE AHEAD ON 40-MILE FRONT IN SICILY   Three More.Towns Captured While: Canadians Inflict Casualties.

Allies Make Good Progress On Sicilian Front   Push On in North And East Sectors

35 AMERICANS DIE IN CRASH OF TRANSPOR]   Prominent Officials Killed in Dutch  Guiana

Notables Are Among Casualties   All Aboard Huge Transport Bound For Africa Killed In Dutch Guinea Crash.

Bonham Boy Among Victims  Bomber Crash Crash Occurs In  Dutch Guiana January 15

THIRTY-FIVE DIE IN CRASH   Catastrophe Is Worst In Air History OF US.

van Palmer Favored As 1944 G. O. P. Candidate For State Treasurer

74.000 Quit, Parleys Go On   Hard Coal Miners Halt Work; Gperators and Union Stifl Dict - -

Hard Coal Group Still Conferring   Wage Dispute Certified To W.L.B. But Negotiations Continue.

“Lost Batallion’’ Glumly Sits Out Invasion Day, Waiting for Ships That Never Showed Up 

AUDITOR BILL IS VOTED BY TEXAS SENATE   BEFORE ADJOURNMENT OK’S RECESS APPOINTMENTS BY GOVERNOR

ALLIES GHAGING ROMMEL TOWARD TRAP IN TUNIS   Americans Reported Ready : To Cut Off Axis Retreat _ Around Gabes

Yanks Preparing To Spring Jaws Of Trap Against Enemy. French March 1300 Miles To

Rommel May Land in Trap  American Troops   American Troops Reported on Move

worker Who Lost Both Hands Invent: Device to Write and Typewrite

Town Observing  Shelling Incident   German Sub Hit U. 8S. Soil 25 Years Ago

Cape Cod Town Observes Anniversary Of Shelling By Sub In World War 

Soldiers Save Flood Victims      Many More Lives Would . Have Been Lost Without Heroic Work of Army

EFRIES RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF DETROIT BY 31.98? MARGIN   Mayor Behind Until All Bui 200 of Precincts Had Been Counted   TERM WILL BE HIS THIRD

ania ai Tat manana meee aaa  JEFFRIES WIND (VER FITZGERALD   Mayor Wins Third. Term. After Trailing Labor-Backed . Opponent: Vote Hits 383,000

Strict Policy Of Economy Is Urged In Speech Today   Complete Prograr Recommended By Stevenson To The  Legislature

FIVE MAIN POINTS ARE ADVOCATED IN SPEECH   Executive Proposes Rigid Liquor Sales Control   Elimination Of Excessive Courts Is Advanced

Gov. Stevenson Recommends Strict Economy With No New Taxes To 48th Legislature 

{ said, adding’ that, it: took the Nazis.  thean dave tn renair the ine. 

{ said, adding that it took the Nazis three days to repair the line.

Measure Scheduled For Consideration Has Little Opposition  ee ee ne ee   OTHER LEGISLATION

Post-War Bill Up for Vote   Quick Passage Predicted by GOP Leader

SHUTTLE-BOMBINGS OMINOUS FOR AXIS   Concentrated Allied Power May Blast Invasion Path

British Round-Trip Shuttle Raids Can Concentrate Full Allied Power

Ominous Porten is Lay in Walt for Axis In Round-Trip, Africa-Brifain Flights:

Shuttle Raids To Hurt Axis  Air Forces Can Be Shifted From  PrP... fF me. Ul

us Portent For The Enemy. .  New Shuttle Bombing Route Is Axis Thorn

Influenza Cases In U.S. Triple In Four Weeks   “In Mild Form and Not Unusual Says Surgeon General

Italy and France in New International Latin Bloc Urged by Italian Paper, Discarding of House of Savoy Hinted

Papers imply royalty may be discarded   Would include Spanish later

Railroads  And Roads   Reds Developing Offensive Against Rostov—Nazis Admit Setbacks

U.S. PT BOATS SCORE HITS ON JAPANESE SHIPS   Air Forces Are Playing Vital Part In Drives

NAZI DEFENSE BEFORE UOT ON OT RENGTHENED   French Troops In Tunisia Steadily Advancing Against Germans

Bitter Fighting Marks Advance On Bougainville   Both Sides Suffer’ Heavily; Japs Are: Blasted From Air

Measure Allied Gains in Yards  Bitter Fighting at Empress Augusta Bay

U. 0, EXTENDS BO UGAINVILLE  BRIDGEHEAD   Marines And Regular Troops Making Steady Gains Against Japanese

JAPS OVERCOME BY YANKEES ON BOUGAINVILLE   American Marines and Soldiers Make New Advances on West-Central Coast Toward Rabau)

YS Extend Beachhead On Bougainville   Four Days Required For Marines and Soldiers to Gain About 800 Yards

Allies Extend — Isle Holdings   Troops Advance With Jap Losses . Heavy; Air  ~-. Forces: Active

SLOW ADVANCE BEING MADE ON BOUGAINVILLE   Aussies Wrest New Guinea Stronghold  rom Japs

New Gain On Bougainville  Yan nks Battle 4 Days Ley n Half Mile;  ps i mi

BEACHHEAD ON BOUGAINVILLE ISLE EXPANDED   Marines, Soldiers Plunge Ahead 800 Yards

YANKS ADVANCE ON BOUGAINVILLE   PLUNGE FORWARD 800 YARDS  IN BITTER FIGHTING TO  EXTEND BEACHHEAD,

New Gains In Bougainville   American Marines. Soldiers Drive 800 Yards In Bitter Fighting.

With U.S. Soldiers At Empress Augusta Bay They Gain 800 Vardse In 4 Dave Aoainet Tane

eADWANCE IN GUINEA IS “CONTINUING   oP s Line Of Retreat ® From Satelberg Cut By Australians

Advance 800 Yards in Hard Fighting   Japanese Losses Are Heavy, MacArthur Reports

Istanbul Paper Prepares Turks. For War On Axis   Turkish Ambassadof To Germany Returns: To Raper On Nazis i  ee WEE eee oe

TURK AMBASSADOR TO BERLIN RETURNS FOR CONFERENCE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES - EDITORIAL PREPARING   peapir tnp WAD

—TURKEY—   PREDICTS TURKEY WILL JOIN ALLYES   Ambassador In Berlin For Conference; War With Axis Seen

EARLY TURKISH MOVES HINTED;   Hewspaper Prepares People For War Against Axis

Turkish Envoy Returns Home War Talk Grow:   Nazi Ambassador Confers With Hitler On Moscow Conference Outcome

TURKS MOVING CLOSE TO WAR   Envoy to Berlin Home For Parley. Prepare for War With Nazis

‘Ankara Ambassador to Berlin Is Called Home; "Von Papen in Reich”

Yanks Forge Ring Around Japs at Munda   Americans Swarm Over Air Strip; Enemy Barges Sunk

SEED SPUD CEILING TO HIT BLACK MARKETS   Set Cost at 75 Cents Per CWT Above Table Price

CEILING PRICE SET ON SEED POTATOES   Black Market Fight Is Intensified

Nazis Take Two Towns,  Reds Admit   Stress Great Losses By Axis: 1,009 Tanks. 413 Planes in 2 Days  MOST POINTS DTATH

Terrific Loss Suffered By Germans   At Least 13,000 Hitlerites Killed In Two Days of Fierce Fighting at South End of Line

Nazi Onslaught Held at Other Points Reds Say   Invaders Suffer Terrific’ Losses in Red Drive

German Offensive Drives tnto Two Populated Places  13,000 ENEMY DEAD  ' REPORTED BY RUSS  Onslaught Held on All Other Fronts, Mos caw Clatime

SLIGHT ADVANCE IN OREL SECTOR PROVES COSTLY   13,000 Nazis Reported Killed; 1,009 Tanks And 314 Planes Lost   ONSLAUGHT BEING CHECKED ELSEWHERE

Fighting Is Violent On 165-Mile Section; 1,009 Tanks Wreckec   Enemy Onslaughts Are Repulsed On Most Of Long Front; Wholesale Destruction One  Of Greatest In History

Nazis Penetrate Russian Lines At Heavy Cost   furious Fighting Ragint 6ver Much of 165-Mile Front   S94 Counter-Attacks Re gain Part of Ground Taken by Invaders

Reds Slashed Back By Nazis   Two Towns Captured, But Terrific Losses Sustained

Reds Extort High Prices  From Enemy   Terrific Losses of Germans Described In Moscow Account

Nazis lose 13,000 as heavy offensive in central Russia grows   German tank forces capture two unnamed villages: losses are heavy

13,000 REICH SOLDIERS DIE IN BiG BATTLE   1,009 Foe Tanks De. stroyed in 2 Days Of Struggle

Nazis Advanc in Drive Against Reds   . Terrific Losses Suffered _ by Invaders

IN BELGOROD AREA NAZI WAR MACHINE RENEWED ATTACKS AND WAS HURLED BACK; TAKE TWO VILLAGES.

Two Points Taken By German Drive    At Least 13,000 German Dead In Two Days Of Fiahtina Are Listed In Rucein Renarte

AT Jap Planes Raid U. S. Base  On New Guinea   Emphasizes MacArthur Warning Enemy Is Strong in Air

JAPANESE RAID WAU AIRBASE   47 Fnemy Planes Sweep Over New Guinea  Post Of Allies

New Guinea Base Raided by Japs  Aerial Strength of Enemy Jncreases

Jap Bombers Lash At Wau   _ 47 Planes Hit Base, Scene _ Of Recent Aerial Disaster.

JAPANESE BOMBERS RAID ALLIED BASE   Damage and Casualties at Wau, New Guinea Light

ENEMY PLANES BOMBARD WAU   Allied New Guinea Base Is Attacked By 47 Nippon Raiders

Jap fliers raid allied air bases   MacArthur says Jap air force. gaining power

Forty-Seven Jap Planes Raid Wau, in New Guinea; Enemy Grows Stronger

Jones To Get Wickard Food Plan‘Report   ‘Agriculture Chief , Says U.S. Cannot Be World’s Breadbasket:

Wickard, Releasing Report, Warns U.§. Can't Be World's Breadbasket

GRITIGAL REPORT ON FOOD PROGRAM IS SEEN TUESDAY   Food Administrator Wickard May Insist U. $. Food Needs Come First.

rogram Is\Suggestions To Improve 1InReport'Sewer Situation Listed committee In Reports By Engineer

American Fliers Bomb JapHeld Base in South China Sea.   ATTACK BASED ON CHINA

Positions Of  JapsOn Kiskz Bombed Five Times Apr. 5   Navy Also Tells  Of Attack On Enemy Bases In Solomons Taday

ALLIES, NIPPOS SQUARING OFF   YANKS TIGHTEN HOLD AS JAPS TRY NEW GRIP

Raids Continued Qn Kiska Island   Bombers Attack Enemy Positions

U.S. Fliers Raid Jap Kiska Base  9 Times In Day   Planes From Guadalcanal Carry Out Attacks On Enemy In The Solomon:

Five Raids on Kiska Island   Americans Score Hits On Enemy Position, Navy Announces

Throwing Japs Out of Aleutians Will Be Bloody Effort   Will Be Done by Yanks Landing Under Fire; Authorities Agree

FIVE MORE ATTACK MADE AGAINST KISKA   Japs On Aleutians Raided Again By U. S. Airmen

KISKA AGAIN RAIDED   Nine Mere Attachs Carried Out Against Japs In Aleutians

Bayonets And Grenade: Will Be Needed To  Clear Aleutians      Japanese Reported To Be Strongly Entrenched In Islands In North Pacific Despite Repeated ’ - Bombing Attacks By U. S. Air Force   Fane U'pl! Entrvranchad’

FARMERS WILL OBJECT   WLB to Decide If It Has Jurisdic. tion Over Farm Labor

Liquid Fuel Tax Levy Reenacted   Subdisivions Get No Part of Money

ADMINISTRATION MEASURE PASSED   Cheeks Off Another Vietory Today for Its 1943 Legislative Program.

TAX ON LIQUID FUEL RETAINED   House Passes AdministrationSponsored Bill Over Democratic Protest

Phillips Seeks To Ban Practice Of Law by Judges  Says One Justice Received $10,000 Fee While Serving

Receive Message Sc§ Maschmeier  Missing i in Action  Was Aboard U.S. Escort Carrier Liscome Bay

MRS. L. COOPER PERISHES IN ANBRAW   Body Not Yet Recovered; Search Continues

General J, Watt Page Urges All Texas Draft Boards To Eliminate  Delinquencies Under Service Act

Start Check-Up On Delinquents Under Draft Law   LENIENCY OFFERED THOSE WHO VOLUNTARILY REPORT DURING JANUARY

OnIOS CIGARET TAX MARK SET   $10,616,798.88 Pours Into State General Fund

Cool Surprise To Continue   Heat Wave Snapped, Mercury Not Rushing Back Uy

Cooling Winds Snap Heat Waves   It’s a Wonder Many Oklahomans Did Not Freeze to Death

NEW PLAN FOR DRAFT QUOTAS   PENNSYLVANIA CO NGR ESS. MAN PROPOSES SINGLE MEN BETWEEN 38 AND 45 BE INDUCTED

SOLON WOULD DRAFT MARRIED, SINGLE MEN OVER 38, SPARE DADS   Suggest Bums Should Be Put In Uniform On Home Front

SEEKS INDUCTION OF CHILDLESS MEN   Rep, J. Buell Snyder Hopes " To Delay The Call On Fathers

Snyder Offers Plan To Halt Father Draft   Many Older Men Can Be Called For —Limited Service

Henry Ford Again Heads Ford Motor   WILL BE 80 JULY 30; RETURNS TO PRESIDENCY AFTER LAPSE OF 24 YEARS; ADDING MANY KEY MEN TO DIRECTORSHIP.,   Adds Key Men To Board

HENRY FORD GETS FIRM PRESIDENCY   Retumed, to Post After Lapse non of 24 Years; Board

FORD, 80, AGAIN HEAD OF FIRM   Key Men Are Added To Board Of Directors At Detroit

Yankee and French Troops Drive Back Lines of Axis ~ In Mountains of Tunisia   Desperate German Counterattacks in Area * West of Tunis Stave Off British First Army Breakthrough; Fighting Fierce

Axis Stops First Army: U. S. Gains   French, Americans Moving Into Axis Mountain Defenses

Allies Probe  Deeper Into  Tunisia Hill Germans Stave  Off British

Cornered Enemy. Lashes Back With Strong Resistance  On Whole Front   Desperate German-Counterattacks Stave. Off British First’ Army Break - Through Into Plain Leading to Capital

AXIS DEFENSE LINES STIFFER AROUND TUNIS   AMERICAN TROOPS SLICING AHEAD TO MATEUR

Cornered Nazis Fight Fiercely   British Effort To Reach Plain Fails

[American and French Gain On Flanks   Break-Through by Alexander's Forces Fails in Materialize

British Get Setback; French Gain   Nazis Concentrate All Forces in Desperate Battle

Yanks, French Slice Into Axis lunisia Defenses  Axis Stiffen Defenses to Stave Off British First Break Through

Nazi Counteratiacks Stave Off British Break-Through While  Americans and French Advance

AMERICAN AND FRENCH TROOPS SLICE DEEPER   Cornered Axis Forces Are Showing Greater Resistance All Along Line Of Battle.

But Nazi Resistance Seen Only Delaying Allied Break-Through Onto Plain of Tunis  FRENCH AND YANKS CONTINUE ADVANCES  Supplies Apparently Sull Getting Through To Cornered Germans

AXIS DEFENSES CHECK BRITISH ARMY SLIGHTL'   Alexander’s Men Have Failed To Make Expected Break-Through   ENEMY FORCES STILL RECEIVING SUPPLIES

[Tunis area producing some of toughest fighting of  entire African campaign _

Desperate Nazis Repulse British Army in Tunisia   lemporarily Stave Of Breakthrough, Allies Report

ALUIES SLICE DEEPER INTC AXIS MOUNT   Dispatches Emphasize GrowResistance of Cornered Axis Troops, Particular  y Savage In Centre Of Line   2 Counter Attacks

SOVIET FRONT QUIETS DOWN   QUILT Yd BUTT  S octimadiimememenel  Only Local Battles Rage  Autumn Rains Hinder Fighting

Step, » ones Laid On Road To Tokyo Pearl h.*. -or Planning Revenge

Ships Sunk at Pearl Harbor Two Years Ago Today Now Out to Get Revenge

Warmer Weather Due To Bring Rainfall  >... i... A .....%*._i.it me .

New Raid Warning System Adopted for Ohio Defense   Wail: Get Going; Toots: They’re Here

NEW AIR RAID PLAN ADOPTED   Warning System Revamped for Ohio Communities

STATETOUSE NEW SETUP FOR AIR RAID SIGNAL   Will Be Put into Effect Throughout Ohio Starting February 17

Hamilfon Hasn't Found Candidate   Denies Overwhelming Sentiment for Anyone Yet

HUGE DAM OPENS IN MEXICO WILDS   ‘Multi-Million Dollar Development To Irrigate 150 000 Acres In Northern

Azucar Dam In Operation   Mexican Irrigation Project Is Underway

PLANE CRASH PROPOSAL UF   Estate of Victim Would Re-ceive $29,360 Under Solon’s Bill

Plane Output Figures Jump   Naval Ship Production Over April Figure; Miscellaneous Down.

PRODUCTION IN MAY REACHES NEW HIGHS   Planes and Vessels’ Production Up, But Muni~ tiens Unchanged.

PLANE, VESSEL OUTPUT BOOSTED   Production In May Reaches New Highs; Over-Ail Figure Unchanged

Over-All War vipat Held                  WP Chairman Nelson Notes Upswing in Planes Only, Warns Gains Needed

Planes, Ships Output Grows  Drop in Ordnance, Munitions, Merchan

PLANES, VESSELS REACH NEW EllGhS WPB REPORT SAYS   Over-all Output of Munitions Remained, Unchanged In April, Miscellaneous Are Lower.   MERCHANT SHIPS LED DURING SIX MONTHS   Point Is Reached Where More Gains-tn Productior Are Possible Only By Determined Effort.

PLANKOUTPUT HITS NEW HIGH, GUNS DECREASE   Nelson Reports Building! of Ships, Aircraft In May.  _ Boosted; Cites Ord nance Decline    DROP “SERIOUS”   WPB Chairman Points to Imminent Action, Says Nation Now Facing Greatest Trial

PLANES AND NAVAL VESSELS BUILDING REACHED NEW HIGH  MAY OUTPUT OF MUNI-. TIONS, HOWEVER, FAILS SHOW INCREASE ;

House Passes Fulbright Resolution   America Reaching End Of Available Manpower, McNutt Tells Legion Meet

Mc Nutt Warns Of Decline In War Output —   Production Falls Far Below Goals In Plenes, Mining

McNutt Tells Legion Nation Failing To Meet War Production Schedules Because of Labor Shortages

WMC HEAD M°NUTT WARNS LEGION. OF LAG IN PRODUCTION   Silver Jubilee Convention In’ Omaha Hears Of Acute Labor Shortage

Credit Americans With 3-Mile Push; Air Support Heavy   Eighth Army Captures Lanciano, 6 Miles Beyond Sangro River; Report Fiume Hit For First Time

Surge Ahead In Fierce Fighting   Eighth Slashes Beyond Sango Ridge in Hand To Hand Fray

Eighth Army Moves From Sangro Ridge   Smash Eastern Winter Line of Germans in Close Quarter Fighting

Eighth Army Drives Into New Ground   Heaviest Air Support Assists British in Fierce Attack

British Eighth Army Marks Ur Sharp New Gain   Slashes Forward Beyond Sangro Ridge; Americans Advance In Center.

SANGRO RIDGE  IS SEIZED BY EIGHTH ARMY   Air Support Aids Advance In Italian Campaign; Lanciano Taken

U.S. oth Army Advances 3 Mile:  In Central Area   British Reported to Have Captured Lanciano, 6 Miles Beyond Sangra. Strategic Adriatic Base of Fiume -Geis First Acrial Blow.

Fifth Army ~ Also Scores _  Short Gain   Fiume Raided For First Time During Present Conflict —_

Report Lanciano Taken by Allies   Warships Shell Enemy From Sea,  Planes From Above

British And Yanks Make Gains In Italy With Aid Of Heaviest Air Support

BRITISH DRIVE FORWARD ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Slash’ Beyond Sangro Ridge In Fierce Hand-lo-Hand Battle; Fifth Army Advances Through Dense Mine Fields.

Fierce Battle Rages Between Ground Troops   Mine Fields, Mud Barbed Wire Fail To Stop Progress

fighth Army Drives Beyond Sangro Ridge, Marking Up Gains All Along Line In Fierce Clashes—Algiers Reports Lanciano, Castel Frentano And Casoli Captured—Americans Of Fifth Army Push Ahead Three Miles West Of Montaquila

sritish Slash Forward Be. yond Captured Sangro Ridge With Heavy Air Support  rer => 2c == AP. ee Oe sia es i eae een 2 em lt

GIVEN BEST AIR SUPPORT OF CAMPAIGN   Nine Waves of Bombers Leave Nazi Strong Points in Ruins—Fifth Army Scores Advance of Three Miles,

British Advance On Italian Fron   Three. Miles Gained: Ir ' Fierce Fighting

Allied Armies Slash Forward Against Nazis   oth Gains Three Miles Or Mountainous Spine Of Italy; Air Support For Troops Mounts

BRITISH 8TH ARMY — SLASHED FORWARD PAST SANGRO RIDGE   Marked up Advances of  to 3  Miles in Fierce Hand to Hand Fighting.   Two Others Towns Also Were Captured, the Algiers Station Announced.

BRITISH CONTINUE FORWARD SLASH IN ITALIAN FIGHTING  IN CENTRAL SECTOR AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE SCORED GAINS

MONTGOMERY'S - TROOPS STRIKE HARD AT NAZIS   Clark's Forces Push Ahead Three Miles in Central Italian Sector

Eighth Arm) Ahead on Wide Front   Score Gains in  Fierce Hand-to1 Hand “ighting;   Yanks in Plunge

PUSH MILES: FROM THEIR RIDGE BASE   Lanciano Reported Taken: F ighting Is Fiere ‘e

Cignth Army, Aided in Air, Making Gains   Nears Pescara While Sth Army Advances Through Mine Fields

GREATEST AIR SUPPORT OF DRIVE GIVEN   Fiume Handed First Raid By Liberators: Steady Progress Is Reported By Fifth Army

British Advance Und@r Heavy Ait And Ship Cover   Fifth Army Troops Press On Through Heavy Mine Fields

‘8th Army Moves Ahead With Heavy Air Support;  Americans Score Gains

GAINS ARE REPORTED BY BRITISH   Naval And Air Forces ¥ Aid Drive; Yanks Also Advance

Allies Using Great Forces Says Berlin   American Troops of Fifth Army Move Up Three Miles

[AMERICANS GAIN THREE MILES   Nazi Positions Shelled By British Destroyers

Score Advances of One to Three Miles All Along Line, Americans Push Forward Three Through Mines, Barbed Wire

Hack Out Gains With  ‘Air Cover   5th and 8th Armies in New Gains Against Fierce —  Wy German Resistance   YANKEES SLOWED BY. MINES, .WIRE   Germans . Not Overlooking ' Any: Trick, Old or: New, -: . Gy Battle of Rome

British Gain With Aerial Support   Advances Made Alon: Whole Line In Fierce Battle

ALLIES SWEEP 3 (TALY MILES   BRITISH ROAR ON AS ALLY AIRMEN CLEAR SKY

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS GROUND ALONG SANGRO   Nazi Strongpoints Left Shambles By Allied Bombers

Heaviest. Air Support Of Campaign Is Given ‘Kighth: Army;.Gain. .  -In- Fierce: Fighting

Eighth Army Seizes Three Towns in Italy   General Montgomery’s Forces Continue Push From Captured Sangro Ridge Positions

BRITISH GAIN -ONROMEROAD   Allies Score Advances All Along Italian Front

British Advance In Fierce Fighting   American Troops Also Progress In Battle on Other End of Line

BRITISH SMASH FORWARD ALONG TALIAN FRONT   Make Gains Of From One To Three Miles

tighth Army Gets Its Heaviest Aerial Support  British Drive Ahead; Yanks Advance Past Barbed Wire

 British Eighth Capture Sangro Ridge In Italy   Wave After Wave Of Allied Planes Blast Path Through Foe.

8TH ARMY SEIZES THREE TOWNS IN FIERCE FIGHTING  ALAQTHOIP AL! THAARS   AMERICAN TROOPS GAIN THREE MILES WEST OF MONTAQUILA

ne  British, Americans Force New Gains In Drive Toward Rome   Eighth Army Captures Sangro Ridge and Drives Beyond; Fifth Army Smashes Three Miles Forward

Eighth Army Aided by Bombardment   Americans Slash Way Through Rarberl Wire

ADVANCES ALL ALONG THE WAY      British Eighth Army Slashes  Forward With Heaviest Air Support Yet.   GAINS OF 1 TO 3 MILES

CLARK'S ARMY ‘DRIVES ALONG: CENTRAL LINE   Algiers Radio Claims Eighth Troops Seize Lanciano; — Air Support Heavy

STH ARMY GAIN MADE IN FIERCE FIGHT IN ITALY   5th Army Dashes Ahead Through Minefields, Barbed Wire Masses

—ITALY— —  SANGRO RIDGE IS HELD BY ALLIES   Heaviest ‘Air Support of Italian Campaign Aids Eighth Army   YANKS ADVANCE.   U. S. Fifth. Army Moves Ahead Three Miles Through. Mine Fields

Soviet Forces Are Consolidating Their Positions On Central Front For New Lunge Toward Smolenele_

King Secks Truce With Sforza to Save His Throne  Monarch, Makes“Trip to Naples Aiter Suffering Rebuff.

King Emanuele Seeks Truce in Trip to Naple:   Monarch in Desperate Attempts to Extend  Italian Reian

REPORT KING TO SEE SFORZA   Italian Sources Say Vit. torio Seeks Truce to Save Dynasty

AING SEEKS TRUCE WITH COUNT SFORZA   Makes Long and Difficult Trip to Naples Heavily Guarded But Incognito to Meet Opponents.   Betrayed Nation

Vittorio Is Said To Be Trying Truce With Count  Monarch Is Making last Move to Extend Long Reign

PRAISES COURAGE OF TARAWA FORC   GENERAL SAYS “WILL TO DIE” MADE CAPTURE IN 16 HOURS POSSIBLE,

Assaulf Troops Who Took Tarawa Highly Praised by Maj. Gen. Smith

Mighty Work Of Seabees Is Borne Out By Undying Efforts   Navy’s Construction Battalions Build Uncle Sam’s , Far-Reaching Naval Bases

NAVY NEEDS SEABEES. WAVES   May Enlist At Capital. Gazette Offices , Tomorrow

AMERICAN AERIAL RAIDERS SMASHED HEAVILY AT AXIS  TWENTY-SIX GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN; 26 OTHERS DAMAGED

U.S. Airmen Down  26 German Planes  Aerial Warfare Reaches ‘White Heat’; Armored  Force Quits Sened

Americans. Down 26 Axis Planes, -Damage-26-Others   U. S. Raiders Smash Nazi Airdromes In Tunisia; Troops Withdraw From Sened Rail Station Affer Accomplishing Mission

26 NAZI PLANES DESTROYED OVER AFRICAN FRONT  26 OTHERS DAMAGED ALLIES LOSE 10 AS

Yankees Score 52:10 Victory In Tunisia Air   U.S. Tanks Withdraw From Sened Railway Station In Central Tunisia   BRITISH HOLD HIGH   Flying Fortresses Plaster Gabes Area; One B17, Nine Lightnings Are Lost

AMERICANS SMASH AT NAZI TUNISIA AIRFIELDS   - 26 Enemy Planes Shot Down on Gabes Area, 26 Others Reported  . Damacad

BRITISH TROOPS HOLD HEIGHTS   Foe Loses 25 Planes Near Cabes; 8th Army Masses * in Libya’

Americans Lose 10 Fighters as German Airdromeés in Gabes Area Heavily Raided

26 German Planes Shot Down; British Hold To Heights  Taken From Axis

AMERICAN PLANES BOMB AXIS BASES IN TUNISIA   26 German Planes Shot Down; 26 Others Are Damaged In North African Clashes

Shoot Down 26 German Planes And Damage 26 Others In Raids In Gabes Area

AIR BLOWS IN TUNISIA   Air War Continues at White Heat, Possibly Paving Way for Big Drive   26 NAZI PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Latest Model German Fighters Fail to Stop the American Bombers

MERICANS SMASH NAZI AIRDROMES, AUXILIARY FIELDS   In This and Other Fighting 26 German Planes Were Shot Down.   26 OTHERS DAMAGED   A Spokesman Said the Americans Lost Ten of Their Own.

26 NAZI PLANES ARE DESTROYED BY U.S, RAIDERS   American Fliers Score Smashing Victory in Gabes Area of N. Africa

American Raiders Smash Heavily at African Airdromes   Shoot Down 26 Nazi Planes, Damage 26 More, Lose Ten

American Fliers Smash Nazi Bases In North Germany   26 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down

ALSO BLAST AIRFIELDS IN GABES SECTOR   ‘Buccess Considered Heartening Development in - Tunisian Drive—U. S. Armored Units With draw From Sened.

PRESIDENT T0 CONFER WITH  LABOR LEADERS   Labor Crisis In Coal, Railway Industries Foonsing Attention ~

Nazis in Tunisia Being — Forced Back by Allies   ROMMEL'S FORCES TUPNEN nary

U.S. FORCES IN CENTRAL TUNISIA EDGE FORWARD IN SERIES OF BITTER BATTLES   Rommel ‘on Move’ on Road Toward Sfax Despite Rear-Guard Action

Churchill Announces Major Victory in Tunisia as Nazi Army Retreats Northward   Montgomery's Flanking Strategy Turns Tables on Nazis as Planes And Artillery Maul Defenders

Rommel’s Army  Flees Northward   Royal Air Force Bombers Return Last Night to Batter Nazi Capital

Streetcar Runs Wild, Kills Two   Motorman Suffers A Heart Attack ©

Air Attack To Go On, Warning   United Nations Charge Rome With Temporizing While Nazis Strengthe: Position—' Breathing Space Ended’

Chiefs W arn Of Great  Blow to Come   Badoglio fs Accused of Stalling; Enemy Suffers Great Losses In Sicily; Air Fighting Continues

TSH CABINET STANDS BY S ITALIAN MOVE TO SEEK PEACE IS BELIEVED IMMINENT   » Is Ousted As Envoy To Vatican; End Of War Is Held Real Goal Of Marshal Badoglio; Difficulty Jn Delaying Decision Grows

Hope Is Held That Italy Will Give In   Indications Suggest Surrender in Early Part of Week

Italy Warned Air Raids To Be Resumed:   Allied Command Tell: People Their New Rulers Resnonsible

Warning Issued By Allied Chief   Blame Placed On Government Head:

Allies Blame Badoglio For Temporizina   Declare Germans Used Time Granted Italians To Strengthen Their Defenses in Italy

Rome Is Accused Of Giving Germans Time To Strengthen Hand   Halians Told To Stay Away From Militar id a} rd z ac y rargets; Badoglio Told To “Be Prepared”

LAST WARNING SEEN AS FINAL PLEA FOR PEACE   British Cabinet Standing  : By for Word of Sur.  ; render by Italy or Continued War   BADOGLIO MUST ACT   ‘Rome Radio Reports Conceded Gravity of Affairs for Axis; Teetering Must End

Allied Airmen Set For Smashing Blow   Warning Given Italian People To Stay Away From Rail Lines, Factories, All Other  Military Inctallations

Punch Might Come Quickly, Some Believe  Churchill, Roosevelt In Phone Talk Over Situation; Unrest In Balkans Mounting

Italians Told To Blame Raid On New Ruler   Say Germans Used ‘“Breathing Space’ to Strengthen Hand In Country.   ADVANCE OVER SICILY

“Men In Rome” Get Blame For Slowing Peace; Occupation Of All Sicily Near

‘Breathing Space Is Ended—Be Prepared,’ Italians. Told; Our Forces Continue To Slice Remaining Axis Territory In Northeast Sicily

Britain's War Cabinet Ready For Emergency   Italian Troops Are Reported Evacuating Greece, Clashing With Germans

Threat of Bombs - Foreing Decision   Slovene Guerrillas Rise:  Criefe Siiea Ralwarian

ALLIES DEMAND SURRENDER OR FACE BOMBINGS   Bern Reports OF Proposal For Neutralization  Are Denied  i   PREMIER ON SPOT,      lialian Delays Believed Due To Fear Of Ger man Threats

‘Members Of Cabinet Stand By For Action   Air-Blitz Warning Viewed As “Persuader”; Action Expected To Come In Day Or Two

GRIM PROMISE OF OFFENSIVE GIVEN BY RADIO   Italians Advised To Stay Away From Railways, Factories, Depots and German Barracks   ALLIES INDICT NEW ROME REGIME   Accused of Giving Germans Time To Strengthen Hand After Being Trapped Like Rats

Rome Is Accused Of Giving Germans Time To Strengthen Hand   Italians Told To Stay Away From Military Targets; Badoglio Told To “Be Prepared”

CRUSHING NEW AERIAL BLITZ TOHIT ITALY   BADOGLIO ACCUSED OF PLAYING INTO HITLER’S HANDS

GOV'T ACCUSED. OF STALLING T0 HELP GERMANS   Blood of Raid Victims will Be on Heads of Men in. So ‘Rome, Warning. 0°      ALLIED ARMIES” MAKE : * NEW DRIVES IN’SICILY,

Nation Is Warned Air Raids Coming   Crushing New Air Offensive Is Promised By Ficenhower: Alliee Anaered Over Delave

Early Decision By  Badoglio Expected; British War Chiefs See Prompt Action

Italians Warned Of Deadly New Air Blitz; British War Cabinet Waiting For Break   Peace Demonstrations Continue In Italy; Badoglio Ministry Blamed For Temporizing; Ciano Ousted

Yanks Pushing Enemy Toward ‘Coffin Corner’   Battle For Island Nearing Completion; 21 Axis Planes Bagged

New York Cotton   New Orleans Cottor   New Price Ceilings Effective In 130 Cities

MacArthur’s. Fliers Blast Jap Outpost   Mubo Plastered In Heavy Raid; Much Of Base Left In Flames

SOFTENING UP JAPSIN NEW GUINEA   Allied Airmen  Continually. Bomb Jap Positions

Great Areas Of Milan, Genoa And Turin In Ruins Following Triple Aerial Blows By RAF   Night Raiders Meet Slight Resistance; Rome Admits Damage Is Considerable

All Three Cities Blasted Saturday Night By BritishBased Lancasters; They Contain Two-Thirds of Italy’s War Industries.

RAF Smashes North Haly War Centers   Bombers Leave Industrial Plants At Milan, Turin And Genoa In Ruins   OPPOSITION iS WEAK!   Meanwhile, Mosquitos, ‘Night Fighters Smack Rhineland, France

British Planes Bomb Milan, Turin and Genoa   Triple Attack Is Heaviest Since Warning

MILAN, TURIN, GENOA STRAFED FROM BRITAIN   Large Areas of Three North Italy Cities Reported in Ruins, Fires Visible Long After   RHINE CITIES HIT   Britain Free of Raids Since July 31 and This Time Weather Not Cause

R. A. F.RUINS ITALY CITIES   MILAN, TURIN, GENOA REPORTED DEVASTATED

PLANES HEAD FOR ATTACK. ON ITALY   Milan, Turin and Genoa Are ‘Hammered in; Heavy Offensive   WAR FACTORIES © HIT

RAF Blast At Italian Cities   THREE INDUSTRIAL CENTERS RECEIVE HEAVY BLOWS

THREE ITALIAN CITIES BLASTED   RAF Smashes At War Industries In Milan, Turin And Genoa

MILAN, GENOA AND TURIN HIT BY THE RAF   Large Areas of the Cities, Which Contain Two  Thirds of Italy’s War   Industry, Are Reported in Ruins.

Great Industrial Centers Of taly In Ruins After Poundings By R.A.F.   Triple Attack Heaviest Since Italy Warned By Eisenhower That Allied Aerial War Would Be Intensified Unless Italy Sues For Peace.

ITALIAN CITIES HAMMERED BY ALLIED PLANES   Three Formation of Planes Head Out Over Channel Towards France This Afternoon

War Cities In Italv Attacked   Milan, Turin, Genoa In Ruins After Raid By Brit ish-Based Lancasters.

RAF FLIERS HIT 3 ITALIAN CITIES   Blast Milan, Turin, Genoa i Heaviest Raid Since Allied Threat

RAF FULFILLS RAID PROMISE   Badoglio’s Hesitancy in Mak. ing Overtures For Peace Answered With Bombs

Italian Munition Centers Bombec   Hammer Blows Dealt  Northern Cities by Heavy British Planes.

NORTHERN ITALY BLASTED, CITIES LEFT IN RUINS   Factory Targets  Center Of Raid Saturday Night

Hundreds Of Bombers. Based In Britain, Hit Industrial Cities Of Italy By Night

PLANES HEAD FOR ATTACK ON ITALY   Milan, Turin and Genoa Are Hammered in Heavy Offensive     Wrarm  PTarTrTamrmrmren rer

Air War on ltaly Resume:   Heavy Industries of Cities in Ruins After Triple R.A.F. Attack

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS RESUMED TODAY   Allied Planes Head For Continent Today After Heavy RAF. ‘Raids © on Northern Italy Last Night -

Allied Formations Roar Over Channe Toward France  Milan, Turin, Genoa Industrial Centers,

MILAN, TURIN, GENOA GET N   Large Areas of Italian Cities Blasted by Lancasters

THREE ITALIAN CITIES BOMBED   RAF Leaves Much of Milan, Turin and Genoa In Ruins Saturday

THREE BIG ITALIAN  WAR INDUSTRY CITIES  BADLY BATTERED TRIPLE ATTACK HEAV IEST SINCE GEN, EISENLINWED CAVE WARNING

Milan, Turin And Genoa Are Raided   Two-Thirds Of Italy's  Factories [here

VITAL ITALIAN WAR CENTERS RAID TARGETS   Large Areas of Milan, Turin And Genoa Are Keported to be in Ruins Today  HEAVY TRIPLE ATTACK

ABSENTEEISM NOT TRUE OF WAR LABOR   House Committee Report Shows Few Men Stay Away Unless There is Some Good Excuse.

Warns Congress Against Blaming War Production Delays On Absenteeism

ABSENTEEISM IS NOT TO BLAME FOR PRODUCTION LAG   House Labor . Committee _ Warns Congress.to Look to Matorial.

War Bill Reveals U.S. Weapons Superior to Axis   Postponement in Drafting of Dads Predicted

HOOVER TD SPEAK AT (OWA PARLEY   Governors of Corn Belt to Hear of Food Problem. ~

GOVERNORS 10 HEAR HOOVER   Former President to. Speak At Corn Belt Conference

Hoover To Be On Corn Belt Meet Program   Former President Will Address Governors in Des Moines

Corn-Belt Governors Will Hear Hoover   Food Problems To be Discussed

NAZIS DECLARE WITHDRAWAL IN BASE ORDERLY   Germans Appear to Be in General Retreat Across Southern Rice

VITAL POSITION IS RECAPTURED BY THE SOVIETS   German Army Apparently In General Retreat; Nazi Radio Says Vital Installations In Kharkov Destroyed.

NAZI HIGH COMMAND ADMITS WITHDRAWAL FROM GREAT BASE  MOST IMPORTANT GER.   MOST IMPORTANT GER. MAN POSITION IN SOUTH RUSSIA HAS BEEN LOST

Fierce Fight West of City Now Raging   Stalin Greets His Victorious Troops as Nazis Admit Flight

General Flight Apparently On Along German Front in South   City Stormed, Stalin Says; Nazis Call Retreat ‘Orderly’

CITY STORMED BY RED TROOPS   Stalin Announces Victery; Germans Appear in General Retreat. ~   ONCE UKRAINE CAPITAL

Nazis Abandon Greatest Base On East Front   General Retreat Is On After Loss Of Big Industrial City

GERMANS CLAIM INSTALLATIONS ARE DESTROYED   Enemy Admits Loss of City, But Insists Red Pressure Wasn't Cause

Russian Leader Said the Germans Appeared to Be in a  General Retreat Across  Southern Russia. :   WAS ORDER OF DAY TO FIELD COMMANDERS   The Broadcast by the Moscow Radio Told of the Seizure of the City by Storm.

Germans Admit Fall Of Vital Military Base   Russians Report Enemy Calling On Reserves

Btalin Order of the Day Tells _of Taking of City by  Storm  GERMANS ADMIT LOS:      German Forces Appear to Be in General Retreat in South Russia

Positions in South Russia Endangered   Great Ukraine Steel Center Used as Base For All Operations

STALIN PRAISES TROOPS SEIZING STRATEGIC CITY   BOCHE LEGIONS FACE GENERAL RETREAT ON ENTIRE SOUTH FRONT

City Is Taken By Storm; Enemy In General Retreat Toward Dnieper.

NAZI HIGH COMMAND ADMITS WITHDRAWAL FROM GREAT BASE   MOST IMPORTANT GER. MAN POSITION IN SOUTH RUSSIA HAS BEEN LOST

Order Buses, Taxis to Cut Mileave Now   20 Per Cent, Slash Ordered By ODT to Start Immediately

Tanks -and Infantry Charging - Re. peatedly in Effort to Throw Rus. sians ° ‘Back Across Dnicper. an  ‘Recapture Ukranian Capital al AN Moct .

DERMAN TANKS CHARSING NEAR KIEV IN DRIVE   Desperate Nazi Counter-Attack Causes Slight Russian  Withdrawal

NAZIS THROWING EVERYTHING INTO COUNTER-ATTACK   Seek to Push Reds Bach Across Onieper and Aecapture Kiev.

GERMANS IN DRIVE 10 STOP RUSSIANS   Allies Carry on Almost Ceaseless Three-Week Fight In New Britain.

SERVICES END SUNDAY   Seven Speakers Will Appear on the Program in South Park

SERVICES END SUNDAY   Seven Speakers. Wil Will . Appear or . fhe Program in South Park

au reds LUUdy ©  Well-Trained, Well-Arm ed Man Will Live Longeat Tn Combat

MILITARY TRAINING MAY BECOME REQUIREMENT IN UNITED STATES AFTER PRESENT WAR BEEN WON

The War Today— Semi-Military Training For Youths May Become Postwar Program In U.S.

Today’s War Moves   Alertness of People in Uniform Impresses Roosevelt

Officer In N. Africa Keeps Up Studies   Lt. Craig Does Aggie Correspondence Work

aaeeeetenesenemtentnel  CALL ON YOUR DOCTOR, DENTISTS IN DAYTIME

Pauls Valley Man Gets Zero   Lieut. Jos. Griffin Shoots Down Jap Plane in China

BLAST DORTMUND WITH 2000 TONS, DAMAGE INDUSTRY   More Havoc Carried to Ruhr Valley After Recent RAF Bombing of Three Power Installations.   SOVIET FORCES END LARGE-SCALE MOVE   Stalin Dines Davies, Witt Banquet Lasting Over Four Hours, Toasts Rooseyalt. Others.

ALLIES REACH ° ‘NERVE-CENTER   Enna, in Interior of Sicily, Falls

Americans At Enna, Axis Core   Split Of Island Threatens; British In Suburbs Of  Catania.

Jap Defeat Is Main Topic Of Day In Capital   Gets Top Billing Over Home Problems Of Man. power And Foods.

NAVAL VICTORY IN SPOTLIGHT AT WASHINGTON   Labor, Manpower, Draft, Food Problems Up

FATHER DRAFT MAY BE STARTED IN FEW MONTHS   WMC Chief. Paul McNutt. Says Orders Not To Call Them Now Still Stands   REGULATIONS EXPLAINED   Food and Farm Labor Fuss Continues in Capital With Little Progress

Battle Looms Over Farm Blanket Draft Deferment   10th Anniversary As President Observed Today By Roosevelt

Allied Airmen Hit Sicilian Supply Lines   Bombers Continue Attacks On Enemy Airdromes On Island

Fliers Give Enemy Good Lashing ‘While Invading  Airmen Describe Sigh As First Landing  he cc Bee eee Pe

Planes Still Pound Sicily   Air Protection Given For Land Operations

HEAVY AIR BLOWS STRUCK IN SICILY   ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST ROADS AND COMMUNICATIONS—LASH AIRDROMES.

Allied Airmen Sweep Skies Of Axis Warplanes for Landings   Kiska Batteries Are Revealed

Fliers Give Enemy Good Lashing While Invading  Airmen Describe Sight  As First Landing ' Is Achieved on Isle

INDUSTRY FEARS MINERS’ STRIKE   Only Five Days’ Supply Of Coal On Hand At Many Vital War Plants

Allies In Naples: War Moves North   ete by American Fifth Marks An Allied  bee rum   STAND ON VOLTURNO   Rome Is Next Biiective of  tions Armieés in Italy

Germans Falling Back To New Defense Line Along Volturno River   City Of 925,000 Found Empty Of Germans; Is. Greatest Victory On Italian Invasion

NAZIS CHASED TOWARD ROME “INNNEW ORE   Clark’s Forces Find Port City in Ruins After Orgy of Destruction.   ENEMY MAY ATTEMPT STAND ON VOLTURNO

German Defenders Thrown Back Upon  Defenses of Rome   United States and British Forces Find Italy's Third Greatest City Empty of Enemies After Engaging in Orgy of Destruction   NC TIME TO BE LOST MAKING HARBOR USABLE   Aussies Half Mile From the Jap Harbor of Finschhafen

It Took Allies Just Twenty-three Days To Occupy Naples; Port Most Important To Allies In Further Occupancy Europe; Now Have Port Into Which To Bring Supplies and Men.

CITY EMPTY Of ENEMY TROOPS      Entry Into City Greatest Victory Won By Allies In 1943.   GERMANS FLEE NORTH

NAZIS RETREAT NORTHWARD TO NEW DEFENSES   Entry Into City Greatest Victory Yet For Allies

Clark's Army Marches Into Naples City   German Defenders Thrown Back Upon Defenses of Rome

Rome Allies’ Next Major Goal but River 20 : Miles North of Naples May be Scene of Next Big Fighting

Germans Drop Back Slowly    Leave City Sad Sight; Valuable Supply Port Taken

American, British Forces Find Port Empty Of Enemy; Advances Continue

Naples Falls In 23-Day Offensive   City Is Empty Of Germans Who Left Destruction

ALLIED TROOPS FIND GERMANS HAD QUIT CITY   Volturno River To North Seen Likely Line Of Next Major Fighting

Allies Find Naples Empty Of Defenders   Full-Scale Withdrawal Under Warplane Attack

jure OW MaziS tO  LINE   Third Greatest City In Italy Gives . Allies Great Port

GERMANS FLEE NORTH OUT OF WRECKED CITY   Nazi Defenders Thrown Back on Defenses of  Rome, 120 Miles North

Nazis Thrown Back To Rome Defenses   Germans Gone When Allies Arrive But Damage Done City ©

American And British Forces Find Large City Empty Of  Germans, Whe Terrorized It   Orgy Of Destruction Wrought By Enemy On Land OF Former Ally; Greatest Victory Won On Continent By Anelo- Americans

Nazis Retreat To Detenses In  Area Of Rome   Enemy Uses Demolitions To Slow Allied Advance

THIRD GREATEST ‘CITY IN ITALY IS CAPTURED BY ALLIES   GERMAN DEFENDERS THROWN BACK UPON DEFENSES OF ROME

TEMPERATURES:   Yanks Occupy Naples, Race To Encircle Foe   Orgy OF Destruction - Found In City Of 925.000 People

German Defenders Hurled Back on Rome Defenses: Naples Empty of Enemies

Germans Hurled Back Upon Rome Defense Lines _   U.S. And British Enter Dynamite-Torn Port As Nazis Fall Back Toward North

Fuehrer’s Forces Are Thrown Back  On Rome Defenses   American And British Units Find Italian Bay City Free Of Enemy Following Orgy Of Destruction

Capture Of Port Marks Most Important Seizure By Allies On Continent.

Nazis Thrown Back on Rome Defenses  120 Miles to North   Capture of Third Greatest Port in Italy is Greatest Victory

City Abandoned By Nazi Troops   Victory Is Greatest Won By Allies On Continent; Next Major Fighting Expected At Volturno River, 20 Miles To North   Central City

Germans Raze Docks Before Leaving Port   Volturno River 20 Miles North May Be Next Stand Of Nazis As Yanks And British Begin 120-Mile Drive Towards Rome

ALLIES TAKE NAPLES; ROME IS NEXT STEP   Troops Find City Void Of Nazi  Supnlies

Clark’s Forces Only 120 Airline Miles From Italian Capital   Fail To Find One German in City; Claim Docks Can Be Made Serviceable In 8 Davs

NAZIS HAD FLED PILLAGED CITY DURING ATTACK   Allied Warplanes Smash Retreating Germans; Opposition Slight

Clark's Troops Find Italy’s Third Largest City Without Any Nazis—Next Major Battle May Develop Along the Volturno River, 20 Miles Above Metropolis.

Allies In Naples;  era   Gpiture by American Fifth _ Arty Marks An Allied  4   STAND ON VOLTURNO   Rome Ts Next Objective of United Nations Armiés os in Ttaly

‘Nazis Retreating Northward : To Volturno Rivér, Rome: Eighth Army Advances Rapidly

Units Find City Clear Of Germans   Algiers Radio Says Harbor Can Be Made Serviceable in Eight Days— Advancing Allies Forced to Move Cautiously, Rooting Out Hundreds of Mines

Want Burma Road Back, Even Though Planes May Soon Be Able To Effectively Supply Chinese

Burma Road - Replaced By  Air Supply   But United Nations Still - Feel Overland Route Is  Egsential

GOVERNOR OUSTS GOGEBIC LAWYER   Charge Leonard J. McMan man with Official Miscon duct in Office

ABUSED PUBLIC TRUST. GHARGE   Says Prosecutor ‘Comoro: mised Position’ By Official Misconduct.   ACCUSED BY GRAND JURY

American F or ces Push Way Inland  Tn New Britain   Reported As Having Ad vanced Four Miles From Original Landing Beachhead

Pacific War Council Called   Indicates New Attention to Far  ;  Eastern Theater 

MAY BE MAKING  FDR-CHURCHILL STRATEGY SHIFT   on Burma at End  e Signs Point to Drive of Monsoons ©

No Representation From China And Russia To Be Present FAR FAST TO &

President Talks To War Council, Ready For Parley   Prime Minister Again Spans Atlantic For Conference With Roosevelt; Global War Strategy To Be Revised

PRESIDENT CALLS ~ COUNCIL SESSION   Chief Executive and Pacific War Staff Meet at White  EE nssea

Pacifie War Council Meets At Washington   Russia and China Not To Be Included jin Talke

FR. SUMMONS WAR COUNCIL   PACIFIC CHIEFS TALK BEFORE CHURCHILL MEET

PRIME MINISTER IS NOW INCANADA   Will Be British-American Affair; WorldWide Strategy Doubtlessly the Topie

Pacific : ar Council «vill Meet Today   Called by Roosevelt. Prior to Meeting With Churchill, Now In Canada

President And Churchill May Plan Jap Move   Diplomatic Washington Is Kept Guessing On War Strategy Moves   EUROPEAN DRIVE SPECULATION CAUSE

CONGRESS HAILS CHURCHILL TALK   Applauds British Pledge o Unity; Chandler Questions Burma Results.

Pacifie War Discussed At White House      President Goes Over Status In Pacific With Council Ere Seeing Churchill

GOVERNMENT T0 HEAD MINES FOR PRESENT   Coal Production Approaches Norma! Amount

NOT PRACTICAL TO TURN MINES TO OWNERS   Coal Production Approaching Normal With Operations at 97 to 98 Pct Now

Second Italian Isle Yields to Assault by Air   Fortress 90 Miles Off Tunisia Being Occupied hv Allied Bnrecc

PiLOT ‘CHUTES TO GROUND YESTERDAY   Dayton Officer Dazed in Landing But Condition Is Reported Good,

Secret Peace Move Countered   Nazis Open New Counter-Offensive In Russia, Hold Ground in Italy

CHIEFS PLEDGED TO BACK HITLER GET TOP POSTS   German Offensives Push Russians Back, Halt Advances In Italy.

Resistance Is Growing In Strength   Germans Shove Reds Back on Kiey Front—Allies Halted in Italy

LUKE-WARM HEADS OF MILITARY SAID TO BE SIDELINED   Fighting Increases on Italian, Russian Front As Attack Grows. ©

ls Now Returning  ess Anxiety for Individsual Enterprise, New * Yorker Asserts

FEAR OF FUTURE OF AMERICAN SYSTEM: WANING, SCHRAM SAYS   Head of New York Stock Exchange Notes Return to System of Individual Enterprise and \nitiative-—Speaks of National Dehe

British Work On Bases in. Azores Isles   Complete Diplomatic Iso lation of Germany Likely to Be Effected   EYES ON SPAIN NOW   London Expects Withdrawal of ‘Blue Division’  From Russia Front

Berlin Hints ‘Retaliation In Portugal   ’ Allies. Occupy Azores Amid. Talk of Action -By Finland, Turkey.

Portuguese Dea Arouses Nazis   Retaliation Hinted Over Azores Grant

Germany Hints Of Retaliating At Portuguese   But Observers Doubt If She Will Declare. War; Act Of Portugal Helpful

Germans Cry ‘Extortion’ By England   Hint at. Retaliation Against Portugal Over Azores

‘Extortion’ Cry Raised By Germany After Alliec Deal But War Declaration On Portugal Doubted

diplomatic Isolation of Germany Being Planned by Allies Todav  RY MARBRICAWN CAL ICOoliBY

BRITISH ARE  LANDING ON THE AZORES   Will Use Bases ‘There in AntiSubmarine Warfare

British Establish  Bases in Azores   Portugal Hears Retaliation Threat

COUNT ON SENATE VOTE TO SUPPORT FARM PRICE BILL   OPPONENTS BELIEVE HOUSE WILL VOTE TO SUSTAIN VETO

Hope Held For Overriding Vete Nose Counting Reveals A  Possible 30 Votes  oe. Tar’ nr Diy F

FARM BILL VETO HAS 30 BACKERS   Farm Bloc Still Confident that Senate Will Override “Veto: House in Doubt

Farm Leaders Confident Of Overriding Bankhead Bill » Weto In Senate; Fear House

Bankhead Bill Veto Fight To Start Tuesday   Senate Expected To Override Action Of Chief Executive

Farm Bloc Claims It Will autain the Bankhead tke   FARM GROUP SAY FARMERS ABUSED

Poll Shows 30 Votes for Vete   Senate to Take Up Bankhead Bill Tuesday

IVERRIDING OF VETO IN SENATE PROBABLE   Farm Bloc Not So Certair Of House, However

, Senate to Vote on ” President’ s Veto of — Farm Bill Tomorrov   Supporters of Bankhead Measure Confident of Overriding Negative

Think Senate To Override  Bill’s Veto   Bankhead Bill May Have _ A Different Fate in the _ House

Slight Support Seen For Event Of Bankhead Ac'   Sponsors Say Solons Will Override

“LANGUAGE EXAMS AT K. U.   Proficiency Quizzes Will Be Given to Students, Nov, 1

GOAL AUTHORITY SOUGHT BY IGKED   Consideration Being Given te Expansion of Powers; Criticises Lewis for Failure to Answer Letters

Ickes May Get  New Powers   Expansion of Authority Ie Considered

ICKES MAY GET FURTHER POWER   Secretary Hints That He Will Be Given Control Of Coal Production _

YOUTH MAKES GUILTY PLEA   Morell Shows No Remorse As He is Arraigned For Triple Killing

Morell Admits Triple Kiling; May Free Gir   Mercer Suspect Pleads Guilty To General Charge Of Murder

FD Seeking ° Cradle-Grave Security   REVOLUTIONARY PLAN SENT TO CONGRESS BY FXECUTIVE.

Roosevelt Sends Congress New  Security Plan   Revolutionary Proposal Would Achieve ‘Freedom From Want’ Through Unprecedented Government Influence

POST-WAR'S ECONOMIES DRAWN UP   ‘Freedom From Want’ Is Goal of Proposal

‘Freedom From Want’ Idea Incorporated In U.S. Plan   ‘Cradle-To-The-Grave’ Social Security System Is Suqqested In Message To Conaress

President Offers Planning Board's Kecommendatic::   Revolutions ary Plan De ‘signed To Achieve Freedom F rom Want.

(Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) By LOUIS F. KEBMLE  Ot. tt. 0 Die, CEtaw ff mc Gece

Key Sectors on Russian Front Seething  Tend meantéina.) Kou"   Intensified Action May Explode at Any Moment

Key Sectors on Russian Front Seething   Intensified Action May Explode at Any Moment

Admit Kharkov Is Left To Germans   First Time Communique Mentions Area Of Smolensk. Pivot Point Of All Nazi Offense

Vital Donets City Falls to 250,000 Germans; Rus-  sians Threaten  Whole Key.

25 Divisions Take Over Important City   Thousands Killed in Action Against Russians

290,000 NAZI TROOPS ENTER FOURTH CITY   Nazis May Establish Line Based on Donets River

GERMAN DEALS NIPPED IN BUD   Neutrals Warned Not To Help Save Enemy-Held Property In Italy

HUNS WHIPPED IN YUGOSLAVIA   Germans Spread Terror By Looting, Killing And Rurning

Yugoslavs Open Counter-Attacks  Sixth Offensive by Nazis Smashed

Yugoslavs Claim Repulse of Big German Offensive   Allied Aerial. ‘Squadrons Gather Overhead in Support

SERBS THROW BACK ANOTHER NAZI ATTACK   Increased Aid Going To Guerrillas

Philadelphia Short of Coal And Foodstuff   Retailers Declare the Situation is "Alarming"  And Critical  POULTRY STOCKS LOW

Report Serious Shortage of Food, Coal Developing in Philadelphia

SOVIETS READ FOR KILL AT STALINGRAD   British Eighth Army Moves Into Tunisia

Soviet Troops Move In On Remnants Of Encircled Nazi Forces At Stalingrad   Berlin Admits Battle Of Stalingrad Almost Over; Nazis Losses Estimated At More Than Million Men Killed, Wounded Or Capture      PREPARE. GERMANY FOR MORE BAD NEWS FROM SOVIET FRONT

BERLIN ADMIT  ALL HOPE GONE IN VOLGA AREA   Americans Driving Wedge Into Tunisian Corridor . Of Rommel Retreat

Experts Fear Crisis in Living Costs   Economists Cite Demands By Groups on Congress

Nation Viewed Nearing Crisis On Living Cost   Tightening of U.S. Policy; Preferably Intervention By FDR, Deélared One Solution   Price Control Asserted : Present Major Problem   Appetite ‘for Meat Invites

Cost Of Living Crisis Is Seen Facing Nation  Dangerous Factor:  Are Pointed Out   ees

America Is Facing New Crisis in  Price Rise Trend   DEMANDS BY LABOR

NEW CRISIS IN LIVING COSTS BATTLE SEEN   Economists Discuss New Demonds of Farm and Lahar

Economists See Crisis in Fight Against Inflation   Point to Labor Demands For Increased Wages, Several Other Factors

HCL APPEARS AS NEWEST CRISIS IN WINNING WAR   Economists Point to Four Conditions Which May Effect Living Expense In Future War Days.   POLICY TIGHTENING IS NOW SUGGESTEL   Labor and Wages, Farmers and Prices, Federal Groups Mentioned In Connection With Inflation.

Take Benevento As British Gain OnEastern Coast   Allies Near Complete Conquest Ot Corsica by Capture Of Port of Bastia

Warren Backed  on Guard   ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE JOINS GOVERNOR IN ABOLISHING GROUP

WARN BLACKBERRY PICKERS OF INSECTS   Two Ohioans Die from Fever Caused by Woodticks

STORY OF BRITISH FIRST ARMY ONE OF MUCH WITH LITTLE  ASSOCIATED PRESS MA! NOW RELATES SOME IN

Early Critics of First Army Did Not Know How Much Was Done With How Little, Says Man Who Accompanied It

Enemy Bases Given Hot Bombing   Half Dozen Points Held by Japs Are Hit by Allies

Alliedairmen strike Japs in wide area   Hit cargo ship and shoot dewn eranw Jiniwwnhear

Allied Airmen Strike at Japs Over Wide Area   8000-Ton Enemy Ship Blasted Off Coast Of New Guinea  BOMB AIR BASES  Another Japanese Plane Shot Down  In Darwin Region

MARSHALL TO ARGUE - PROPOSED DRAFT OF FATHERS ON MONDAY   Army Chief of Staff to Seek Vote of Confidence in Army Plans for Induction.

Soviet Cavalry,  Tanks Advance   Bayonet Charges Push Germans Back Thru Streets of Stalingrad

Offensive a Aims Clear Stalingrad   DRIVE ALONG DON AND CAUCASTS FRONTS AGAINST NAZIS.

Giraud And De Gaulle To ___ Hold Unity Conference   Announcement of Meet Made—More Arrested Re sult of Darlan Assassination——Murder Believed to Have Been Political

MORE ARRESTED IN DARLAN CASE   Conspiracy Reaching In Many Directions Is Bared In Africa

African Regime Believes Killing Grew Out of Plot—Refuses to Involve French Monarchists.   GIRAUD TO CONFER WITH GEN. DE GAULLE   Two Leaders Will Meet Soon in Effort to Reach Agreement Between Their Forces.

Conspiracy meaches In Many Directions, Giraud Spokesman Say:  GIRAUD, DEGAULLE PLAN TO MEET SOON  Pair Hope To Effect Working Agreement For French Forces

More Arrests  For Darlan  Assassination Conspiracy Reaching   Conspiracy Reaching in Many Directions Giraud Spokesman Say:

MORE ARRESTS IN DARLAN SLAYING   Assassination of Admiral Seems to Have Been ‘Result of a Conspiracy Reaching in Many Direttions’

PLAN MEETING OF FRENCHMEN AT NEAR DATE   Generals Giraud And De Gaulle Are Scheduled To Hold Conference   POLITICAL ARRESTS REPORTED IN AFRICA

Officials Piecing Together Conspiracy Reaching in Many Directions; Algiers Suspects Arrested in Case

ENEMY POUNDED IN BURMA AREA   English And U.S. Airmen Cover Wide Sector With Bombs

U.S., British Hiers Hit  a 2s a.   Communications Get Serious Blow; Allies Return Safe

U.S., British Hiers Hit Foe in Burma  Sarinuc Rlaw:   Communications Get Serious Blow; Allies Return Safe

Woman And Child Are Seriously Burned When Kitchen Stove Explodes

House Votes  Draft Bill   Pre-War Fathers Placed at Bottom  Under New Measure

House Approves  New Draft Bill  Senate Is Expected To Accept Compromise

2,880,000 Lose Draft Status In New Order  Calieatarea! Thanangdaney   Collateral Dependency  Wiped Out; Dads to  Coa Lact

HOUSE VOTES. BILL TO HOLD FATHER DRAFI   Unanimous Voice Vote Sends Measure to  Upper Chamber

House Votes Unanimously To Put: Pre-War Fathers At Bottom OF Draft List

SENDS REPORT TO SENATE FOR FINAL ACTION   Induct Non-Fathers Before Pre-War- Dads Are Called

Subsidies On Food Big Topic With Congress   House and Senate Geared To Ban Subsidies but FDR Has Strength To Veto Their Action.

House Acts on Draft Measure   Unanimous Approval Given Bill Putting Pre-War Fathers at Bottom of List

House Ok's Drafting of Fathers Last   Unonimous Vote Puts Bill Through; Sent To Senate for Action

Germans Fleeing Berlin   GOEBBELS ADMITS NAZIS POWERLESS BEFORE ALLIED AIR POWER ONSLAUGHT

Yamamoto’s Death  Surprise to Navy  No April Combat of Importance to Draw Admiral le Seen

NEWS SURPRISES U.S. NAVAL MEN   Some Authorities Are Skeptical of Reports

AMERICANS ARE SKEPTICAI   Report of Death of Japanese Ad miral Was Surprise

Yamamoto, Pearl Harbor Raider Slain in Air Duel; Japs Announce: U.S. Navy Men Suspect Hari Kiri

4.000 OF IDLE COAL WORKERS RETURN TO PITS   Federal Grand Jury tc Make Inquiry Into Walkout Tying Up Mines Since June 20   FBI MAKING PROBE   Strike Has Lasted Longest In War-Busy Steel Section of Monongahela ’ River Valley

GRAND JURY 10 DEA WITH GOAL STRIKE   4,000 Miners Return to Pits Monday as Federal Body Plans Probe

INVASION NEAR, PLANS INDICATE   Appointment of Allied Su.preme Commander Expected to Set Off Blow

Former Merrill a Perishes In Theater Fire   Burned To Death ‘While Rescuing Wife  From Flames

Former Merrill  Youth Perishes In Theater Fire  Burned To Death While Rescuing W:

POPE WATCHES ROME BOMBING   Head Of Church Remains In Private Office During Attack

Guerrillas Smash Yugoslav Attack   Reinforced German Divisions Checked

YUGOSLAV GUERRILLAS SCORE ANEW      Smash ‘Assault On - Serb Town, Seize: 2 Other Villages

YUGOSLAVS SMASH NAZIS   Combined Assault Of Axis Forces Beaten Off By Partisans

SERBS SMASH NAZI ASSAULT   Drive Germans Out of 2 Villages in Bosnia

REBELS SMASH AXIS ASSAULT   Drive Germans from Two Villages; Halt Other Thrusts in Week-End Triumphs

THE WAR  TODAY  By DeWITT MACKENZIE ‘Accociated Press War Analvst’

 The War Today— Nazis Ride Invasion Nightmares ‘As Allies Mass Troops In Two Spots

The War loday oe 0 Hitlerites Laboring Under Nerve Tension Over Possible Invasion,

Today’s War Moves   Nazis Report Allies Getting Ready for Invasion of France

'HITLERITES AGAIN APPEAR BE ‘HAVING NIGHTMARES OF ALLIED INVASIONS ON EUROPEAN FRONTS

MURDER CASE ~ THEFT THEORY   CHICAGO POLICE SAY ROBRERY MAY HAVE BEEN MOTIVE IN’ DEATH. OF  ‘GLAMOROUS MODEL

Senate Bill Strips Governor  Of Power To Choose Auditor, Vests It In Joint Committee

BOY'S MASQUERADE AS SOLDIER ENDS   Ohioan Arrested After HitchHike Tour

LABAMA STEEL OUTPUT IS VIRTUALLY HALTED  Re AI EP EN EVIECTT ere

ALABAMA STEEL PRODUCTION HAS BEEN STOPPED   Strike of 22,000 Coal Miners Forces Steel Plants to Close.

Mine Strikes Seriously Hamper Steel Production; Pressure Put On WLB for Quick End to Dispute

PRODUCTION OF STEEL HALTED.      Soft Coal Supply Choked Off — “Various Steel. Companies* Ordering Plants Closed or -Partially Closed Because of Lack. of Fuel.

STRIKE VIRTUALLY HALTS ALABAMA’S STEEL. PRODUCTION   Every. Pit ‘In oState Closed As 22,000 Miners : Walkout—Give _  3 Reasons

U- Ss: Flier, Minus Leg,. Back i in. War; 7. - West Point Man Ends Old Tr adition

U.S. Flier, Minus Leg, Back in War; West Point Man Ends Old Tradition

BATTLES RAGE ALONG WHOLE TALIAN FRONT   Americans Take Two Towns While Eighth Army Cresses Sanaro.

Goebbels Begins Whistling In Dark   Tells German People That Nazis Still Out In Front In Victories.

Germans Rush Reserves In to TT_ils FrL1 1 tiall wepacie   Soviets Batter Foe t  Complete e Disorgani- __ zation

Strike Curb Advocates Win in House  Vote Brings Measure The Bae Bitten Tea   Senate Votes Extension  Of Trade Pacts, 59-23

LIFE OF TRADE PACT EXTENDED   Administration To Have Control Over Tariffs For 2 More Years

Senate Passes Trade Pact Bill   Votes Law Extension For Next Two Years

MERCHANTS PLAN BOND DRIVE BOOST   Proposal Made. to Invest April 27 Receipts in War Bonds :'   DRIVE TOTAL $448,169

BOND DRIVE BOOST   Proposal Made to Invest April 27 Receipts in War Bonds:   IDRIVE TOTAL $448.169

Mander, Insults Blamed as Cox Resigns FCC Post  Group Is Termed  Nastiest Set rar DBD... = FT «2

Seek Explanation (Of Parley Report   Washington Believes Mos cow Radio Report Appears To Be Premature

RAF SETS NEW RECORD WITS 13,500 TONS BOMBS DUMPED ON GERMANY   Wuppertal Given Severe Visit by 2ritish Airmen

RAF Nears New Record For German Bombings   500-Pound German Bomb Hits Church ln Britain, Killing 35 Children

13,500 TONS OF BOMBS HIT NAZIS   R. A. F. Sets New Recora With Pre-Invasion Aerial Blows

BETTE DAVIS’ - HUSBAND DIES   FARNSWORTH SUCCUMBED IN HOSPITAL WITHOUT REGAIN: " ING CONSCIOUSNESS ©  "AFTER MYSTERY INJURY = or

JAP ATTACK BEATEN OFF IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur's Forces Repel Attempt! ed Raid Near Mubo, Pursue Enemy Pairols

Little Guy (That's Us) Finds Past Year's News Bewildering With Divergent Claims, Moves  Riote At Hama Wartimn Ci.:h.. FT... F....   Riots At Home, Wartime Strikes, Tax Fuss, Keep Him Doing Mental Flip-flops in 1943

Little Guy Whose Head Spins With Problems And Ferplexities Of Life ‘In Wartime Is Hero Of Home Front

To the Little Guy on the U.S. Home Frant It's Been a Bewildering Year of News, Event:

RAF RETURNS 10 AXIS SUB BASE   Pound Lorient, France; Brit ist U-Boats Sink Axis Sunoly Ships

LORIENT IS AGAIN BOMBED BY RAF   Another Concentrated RAF Attack Made On French Coast Last Night In Which Only Two Bombers Lost; Northwest Germany Also Raided.

LORIENT AGAIN OBJECTIVE OF A RAID BY THE RFA   Tons of Bombs Were Unload. ed on the Much-Battered Submarine Base.   ‘SIXTY AREIAL ATTACKS   Fighter Command Over the Continent to Attack Communications.

[RAF Unloads More Tons Of ‘Bombs On Much Battered Sub ‘Base Of Germans At Lorient   Concentrated Attack Made; Fighters Attack Communications !n Continent

Lorient Pounded Again By Bombs Allied Airmen Striking U-Boat Bases; South Wales Town Attacked

RAF Pounds Lorient Sub Base Again   Only 2 Planes Lost; Nazi Bombers Kill Several in Raid on Wales

Lorient Again  Scene Of Raid   Nazi Sub Base In. France . Blasted; England. Has: * Nuisance “Attacks

Sub Bases At Lorient And St. Nazaire Raided By RAF And Americans In Continuing Attacks

U-BOAT NEST AGAIN BOMBED   Lorient Battered With British Losing Only Two Bombers In Concentrated Raid

RAF Repeats Bomb Shower On Lorient   British Fighters Smash At Communication Lines In France, Germany   GERMANS — RETALIATE   South Wales Coast . Raided, Three Enemy Planes Shot Down

LORIENT AGAIN. TARGET FOR RAE   Nazi U-Boat Base At St. Nazaire Bombed By Americans

LORIENT GIVEN HEAVY POUNDING BY RAF PLANES   Concentrated Attack Made On German Sub Base Following American Attack On St. Nazaire; German Planes Raid  British Coast.

RAF AGAIN BOMBS NAZI SUB BASE   Fighter Planes Ranged As Far as Northwest Germany to Bomb Communications

GERMAN U-BOAT BASE HIT ANEW   RAF Drops Tons of Bombs On Objectives—Only Two Warplanes Lost

BRITISH BLAST _ U.BOAT BASE AT LORIENT AGAIN   Only Two Bombers Lost in Raid Described as Concentrated — Nazis Raid in England, Wales

RAF BOMBERS ATTACK U-BOAT BASE AT LORIENT   Air Ministry Announces Loss of Two Planes, Drop Tons of Bombs

RAF Bombers Raid Lorient As Nazis’  Attack Wales Coast   British Bombing Force Loses Two in U-Boat Base Attack.

1944 Will See Climax Of Global War, Says Churchil   U-Beat Warfare Smashed By Allies; Nazis Have Beer Dealt “A Mortal Blow”

stern Task Lies Ahead Unless Some Happy Event Occurs, Says Prime Minister

Optimistic Talk Given By Churchill   European War Climax May Come in 1944 Save Prime Minister

(HURCHILL SEES HIMAX OF WAR “COMING IN 194   Russian Blows May Bring ‘Decisive Events’   GREAT BATTLES AHEAD FOR AMERICA, BRITAIN

Russian Mobile Column Wheels Southward From Kiev to Cut Into Flank of Retiring Enemy   British Prime Minister Confidently Foresees End of European War in 1944 Due to “Shattering Blawe.”* .

WARNS AGAINST GETTING COCKY, NAZIS POWERFUL   Barring Some Grave Mistake in Allied Strategy, Axis Should Be Beaten Next Year.

CHURCHILL-BACKS BRITAIN'S PLEDGE TO NEVER. GIVE UP   Says English Will Fight Until Every Overrun ‘Nation Is Freed

Blows to Lead to Big Events   Allies Break Back Of U-Boat War; Red BlowsMay8eMortal

Swedish Plane Is Shot Down   13 Persons, “tnoluding One (Californian, iDié’ in! Crash After Airliner Is Attacked

Thirteen Killed In Crash On Rocky Coast. ...-.  Swedish Airliner Is Shot Down In Flames

Oe eT ee ets senate  Swedish Airliner Shot Down; U.S. Preacher, 12 Others Die

Swede Passenger  Plane Shot Down  13 Persons Are Killed; Only Two Escape

13 Persons Die As Swede Plane Falls In Flames   American. Passenger On Airliner’ Enroute’ From ‘Londen To’ Stockholm

Swedish Passenger Plane is Shot Down in Flames in Nigh   American Clergyman is Among 13 Killed in Crash Off Coast

Swedish Plane Shot Down; 13 Meet Death   Was Making Flight To Stockholm From London Last Night

SWEDISH PLANE SHOT DOWN: ONE AMERICAN DEAD   Operations Stopped Between London  And Stockholm

Id KILLED IN AIRLINER CRASH   Swedish Plane Shot Down Presumably By German Fighter Plane.   FALLS ON ROCKY CGAST

Passenger Airplane, En route Frem London ‘to Stockholm, Presumably’  Victim of Germans   CLERGYMAN FROM AMERICA VICTLY   Craft’s Radio Operator Reported “We Have Been Shot Down” Before Ship Crashed

Swedish Airliner Is Shot Down   Thirteen Killed When Swedish Transport Crashes into Rocks After Being Attacked by Unidentified Plane

Swedish Plane Shot Down; 13 Persons Killed   Airliner’s Radio Operator Gets Out Message. Just Before Crash. _—_

Swede Airliner  Crash Kalls 13   Plane Flying From London To Stockholm Believed Shot Down By Nazi.

NEW RUBBER PLANT OPENS   Synthetic Program: Is Getting. Un. :,. der Way in the U.S. 

NEW RUBBER PLANT OPENS   Synthetic Program Is Getting Under Way in the U.S.

Anglo-American Bombers Sten Up. Pace of Altacks   Strike Haav y Blows At Port Cifies of Ran-aoon, Akvah

Yankee Guns Demolish ° Enemy Tanks   High Respect Is Accorded U. 8. War Equipment

Single Gun Wrecks Tank      Enemy Has No Weapon U. S. Can't Master

Japs Assert Changteh Has  Been Seized   Admitting Fiercest Chinese ‘Claim  Resistance, City Has — Taken

OF GOVERNMENT "I$ DISSOLVED   ) — Moslem Leaders + Warn of Impending  ~ Bloodshed

Disorders Grow, Protests Mount  Parliament Of Lebanon Dissolved; Fear Revolt Unless British Step In

Disorders And Protests Of Arrests In Lebanon Increase As Parliament Is Dissolved   Crisis Develops Following French Action; Bloodshed Feared By Some

'Lebanese Parliament Is Dissolved   Arrest of Members ef Government and Parliament by  French Commissioner Helleu Pretested

Disorders And Protests Increase As French Dissolve Lebanon Parliament

NEW LEBANESE LEGISLATURE [SDISSOLY EL   Dismissed by Proclamatior of French Commissioner Jean Helleu Amid Mounting Protests

Egypt And Britain Hit Action Ordered By Liberation Group; Violence Reported

Lebanon Crisis ls Protested   British Join Objections To Arbitrary French Actions

PROTEST ACTION BY FRENGH CHIE!   Dissolution Of Lebanese . Parliament Brings — Storm Of Criticism

PARLIAMENT OF NATION THROWN OUT BY FRENCH   Protests Mounting Over Group’s Actions

Lebanese Riot As Parliament Is Dissolvec   Arbitration Is Asked By Roosevelt

NEW GOVERNMENT IS  ORDERED FORMED FOE  LEBANESE PEOPLES ACTION TAKEN AMID  DISORDERS AND MOUNTING PROTESTS

Hellu Dissolves  Lebanon Group   French Commissioner Asks Former President To Form New Government.

Allied Fliers Range Wide - Over Burma   Enemy I nstallations Bombed, Raked With Machine Guns

U. S. PLANES HIT JAP POSITIONS   Blast Enemy Installations in Northern, Western Burma

SOVIETS REPORT NEW GAINS MADE   Extent Of Advances Not Revealed; Additional Lines Captured Near Black Sea.

Russians Capture Additional Lines in Novorossisk Sector, Airmen BlastEnemy Targets

Germans Lose Lines Near Novorossisk   Russ-Nazi Air War Still More Fierce in Air Than on Land

Russ Smash Forward in Kuban Area   Additional Lines . Seized  in Drive to Capture   - Novorossisk

RED ARMY HAMMERS OUT GAINS AGAINST STUBBORN GERMANS  RUSSIAN ARTILLERY HEAVILY BLASTING NAZI NOVOROSSISK POSITIONS

Russians Gain In Kuban Area   Capture Additional Lines Northeast Of .Novorossisk

RUSSIANS CAPTURE ADDITIONAL LINES NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Battle With Stubborn Nazi Forces in the Kuban Area— Germans Say Warehouse in Leningrad Fired

REDS BATTLING AGAINST STUBBORN NAZI RESISTANCE   Advance In Some Sectors However and Capture Additional Lines North of Black Sea Port of Novorossisk.

re eae  Soviets Gain  In Kuban Area   Battling Against Heavy German Resistance in Attack on Novorossisk

REDS TELL OF NEW PROGRESS   Battle Against Stili-Stubborn German Resistance In Kuban

RUSSIANS’ BIG GUNS BLAST AT NOVOROSSISK   Inner Defenses Under Heavy Fire Apparently Presaging Final Push to Drive Nazis Into Sea   TROOP SHIPS SUNK   Russians Seize Initiative in Do. nets, Continue Aerial Pounding German Communications

Against Stubborn German Resistance. Additional Lines Captured Near Novorossisk.

RUSSIANS PUSH ON, BUT SLOWLY   Action Above Novorossisk As Reds Seek to Drive Foe Into Sea

SOVIET TROOPS ADVANCE ALONG KUBAN SECTOR   Stubborn German Resistance Battered By Reds

Russians Advance In Some Sectors  Stubborn German Resistance Fought In Kuban. Area

AREA IS TAKEN BY RED TROOPS   New Lines Seized In Sector : Near Novorossisk

Nazi Resistance Fails To Check Red Advances   Continued Gains Reported In Area Northeast Of Port Of Novorossisk

Reds Advance in Some Sectors  Capture More Lines Northeast of  HAIN eer Fe,

RAF Drops Tons Of Bombs On Hamburg In Single Raid; Twenty-Eight Bombers Lost

BRITISH BOMBERS POUNDED HAMBURG AGAINST LAST NIGHT  SEVENTH BOMBING OF GREAT GERMAN CEN-

HAMBURG IS BLASTED AGAIN FROM THE AIR   Attack Is Seventh Made On City Since Sotopdayv   HEAVY ASSAULT   2,000 Tons Of Explosives Dropped Last Nicht

Hint Allies Are Trying to Level City   Seventh Raid Since Saturday Carried Out by RAF on Nazis’ Second Largest City

HAMBURG HAS 7TH POUNDING SINCE SATURDAY NIGHT   2,000 More Tons of Explosives Dropped On Great North German Port By RAF Bombers; Attack Is 105th of the War.

RAF Unloads Heavy Bombs On Hamburg   Seventh Raid in Few Days Apparently Part of Effort To Blow Giant Port Off Map in Huge Experiment

RAF Pounds Hamburg In Heavy Raid   More Than 2,000 Tons Of Explosives Blast City In 7th Raid In 190 Hours

VENTH RAID ON SEAPORT IN SIX DAYS   Believe R. A. F. Experimenting To See If Big City Can Be Paralyzed By Steady Pounding

SEVENTH BIG RAID IS MADE ON HAMBURG   RAF B.:. :ers Drop More Than 2,000 Tons of Explosives on Important  Industrial Center   28 WARPLANES LOST

2,000 Tons Of Bombs  Again Rained  ‘On Hambure   Great North German Port Gets Seventh Pounding Since Saturday Night

7th Raid On Hamburg In 6 Days   Observers Wonder If This Is Experiment in Tota’ Bombing

Hamburg Hit Again By 2,300 Tons Of Bombs   Concentrated Allied Attack Aimed At Blowing City Off Map.

Allied Guinea Pig   RAF Drops 2,000 Tons Of Bombs On Hamburg In Ceaseless Aerial Offensive Against Nazi Cities

RAF Pulverizes Hamburg Again by Night; Seventh ~- Raid-on Port in Six Days

Berlin To Come In For Share Of Pounding; Seventh Attack Made On Hamburg Last Night.

The Great North German Port Was Raided Again Last Night for 7th Time Since Saturday.      Delivery of Explosives Was Accomplished Despite Increased Ground Defenses, It Was Said.

2000-Ton Load Of RAF Bombs Hits. Hamburg   Seventh Assault On Port Since Saturday Night - Causes Heavy Damage

.—AIR RAIDS —  1 O00TONSOF ~ BOMBS HIT CIT   Twenty-Eight RAF Bombers Reported Missing After Attack   CITY IN FLAMES   Fire And Smoke Direct Fliers To Battered North German Port

More Than 2,000 Tons Explosives Rained On City In 7th Powerful Raid Since Saturday. Continuous Bombardment Seen As Significant Experiment.

2000 Tons Of Bombs Fall In Seventh Attack Since Saturday; Americans Assault Port Of Kiel

RAF FLIERS HIT HAMBURG 7TH TIME IN 6 DAYS   Drop Over 2,000 Tons of Bombs on City, Lose 28 Bombers

HAMBURG HARD HIT SEVENTH TIME IN ROW   2,000 Tons Explosives Dropped or Norih German Port—Aim fc Wipe Out Facilities Seen   FORTS BOMB KIEL   Americans Also Raid Woensdrech in Holland, Heinkel Factory ¢ Warnemuende

GREAT BOMB LOAD AGAIN HITS HAMBURG   Third 2,300-Ton Assault of Week Hits German Port—Weight and Persistence of Attack Greatest in History.

RAF Bombers Raid Hamburg For 7th Time   Two Thousand Tons Of Ex: plosiy es Dropped; Twenty Eight Bombers Lost.   RESCUE LUST CREWS

On Hamburg   OS Ge vera Ges &  28 RAF Bombers Missing After ~ Attack

28 BOMBERS OF RAF MISSING IN HEAVY ASSAULT   Flames From Previous Raids Serve as Beacon for Continued Attacks

Russian Cavalry Dislodges German Forces....  Nazi Reinforcements Fail To Stop Soviets

HAMBURG GETS 1TH POUNDING   RAF Planes Jar Seaport City With Over 2,000 Tons of Bombs

HAMBURG HIT AGAIN BY RA   Aerial Assa ults Seen As Test of Possible Destruction from Air

HAMBURG AGAIN IS POUNDED BY BRITISH FLIERS   Believed Allies Experimenting ta Determine . Whether City Can Be  Paralyzed from Air   26 BOMBERS LOST   Meanwhile, Flying VPortresses Attack With Suecess Kiel and German Airdrome In Holland

—AiIR ASSAULT  LASH REICH   2.300 Tons Of Bombs Rained On Hamburg   Praviicht Missions.

2 THOUSAND TONS BOMBS ARE DROPPED   Believe Allies Seek To See If A City Can Be Destroyed By Air

GIGANTIC BLOW HITS HANBURG   North German Port Bombed Seventh Time Since Saturday Night.   28 BOMBERS MISSING

Hamburg Bombing May Set Pattern For Future Raids On Germany   Will Determine Whether City That Large Can Be Paralyzed Complete From Air; Two Thousand Tons Of Bombs Dropped Last Night.

Nazis Shaky : Over Balkans   Hell In Hamburg   RAF Unloads 2300 More Tons Of Bomb. - In Week’s 7th Raid On U-Boat Base —

RAF Drops More Than 2,000 Tons On Hamburg   Eleventh Attack Since Saturday

Hamburg Raides Again; /th Time Since Saturday   Round-The-Clock Bombing of Nazi Cities Continues

Hamburg Citizens Seek Peace After  Intensive Raids   Demonstrations r ollow Continuous Bombings to Paralyze the Ciry.   RAF Loses 28 Planes In Their 105th Attack

COFFEE STAMP VALUE BOOSTEL   No. 21 to Provide Pound for 2 Weeks; Extends Life of Blues

COFFEE RATION STAMP VALUE GIVEN BOOST   Pound Of Coffee In ThreeWeek Period Will Now Be Allowed

Red Army Captures German Air Base at Salsk,, Drives On in Wide Caucasus Campaign—Allied Warplanes Blasting Tattered Axis, East. to West

ROMMEL ARN FLEEING TC TUNISIA LINE   Last City of Italian Empire in Africa Badly Damaged by Fires Set as Germans Destroy Supplies.

1,300 Mile Desert Sweep ls Climaxed   Rommel Escapes into Tunisia, Leaving Only Rearguards to Delay Onrushing British; Allies Bomb Enemy Transport Columns

Berlin, Rome Admit Loss of Axis Base   Allied Forces Continue Pursuit of Rommel’s Troops, Fleeing to Tunisia

British Eighth Army Pursues While Allied Planes from East and West Blast Rommel’s Forces Retreating into Tunisia   FRENCH FIRM AT PONT DU FAHS   Fall of Mussolini’s African Empire Ch maxes 1300 Mile Sweep From Egypt—  Montgomery 100 Miles from Timisja

British Take African City This Morning   Vanguards Rush On In Pursuit Of  Rommel's Forces   British Warships Shell Important Zuara Port   Russians Capture Salsk And 9 Towns Near Velikie Luki

British Rush  Into Ruined City At Dawn   Axis Join Forces For Stand Inside Tunisia

Troops Storm City, Complete Routing Of Axis   Pride Of Mussolini’s Vanquished African Empire Falls Early Today; 8th Army Lunges On After Rommel

ROMMEL’S FORCES FLEE TO TUNISIA ‘UNDER HEAVY FIRE   Last Citadel of Mussolini’s African Empire Falls; Red Army Scores New  Game.

ROMMEL'S ARMY IS BATTERED ON ‘RIBBON OF HELL’   Mussolini African Empire Smashed—Last Nazi Force Dashes for Tunisia   RUHR PLANTS BLASTED   Russians Recapture More Vital Points as They Press Assault on Invaders

oth Army Enters Fire-Blackened Pride of Duce's African Empire  Rommel Certain to Try arene  Notion With Remnante af Navy wish ae

British Launch In Hot Pursuit Of Rommel Army   ‘Churchill's Pledge of It- alian Domain Fall Is Executed  REDS TAKE SALSK  Russians Storm Forward  Into Donets Valley’s Main Towns

Axis Confined Now To 300-Mile Strip On Mediterranean   Russians Continue To Make Gains All Along Western Front

British Take City And Continue Pursuit   Remnant of Over 60,000 Axis Troups Pass Libyan Border to Join in Defense of Tunisia; Warplanes Blast Fleeing Army.

PRIDE OF ITALIAN AFRICAN EMPIRE 15 TAKEN FROM ENEMY   PART OF ROMMEL’S FLEEING ARM ESCAPED INTO TUNISIA

63,000 Troops. - Believed fo. Have. Escaped   Axis Expected: to: Make Stand Behind’ ‘Triple Line: of Concrete Pillboxes:::   PLANES CONTINUE © 22 SBRAVY ASSAULT   Capture of. the Axis*Citadel “= Climaxes “1,300-Mile Drive Across Desert... -

Mussolini’s Dream Of African Empire Completely Broken   Victorious Red Armies Roll Ahead Capturing Salsk, Small Towns; RAF Bombers Again Hit Ruhr

‘Axis Troops Now Driven  Out of Libya   Rommel’s Forces Succeed In Reaching Tunisia; Big Battle in Sight

Tripoli Taken As Axis Armies Flee Into Tunisia; Russians Take More Strategic Points

British Vanguards Chase Fleeing Nazis Into Tunisia Today   Russian Armies Pile Up Fresh Triumphs All Along 1200- Mile Front, Take Salsk Airport

ITALIANS CAN FIGHT   Heroic Resistance Against Nazis Revealed By Swiss Reports

ITALIAN SOLDIERS RESISTED GERMAN INVADERS TO END   Heroic Stand At Trento On Border Shows Courage Of Italian  Men

22 NURSE'S AIDES TO BE GRADUATED   Capping Exercises For Fourth Class Sunday At 2 P. M. In Trinity Chapel—Entire Corps To Attend

REUNION PLANNED FOR NURSE'S AIDES   Entire Corps Will Turn Out In Full Uniform For Capping Exercises Sunday For Fourth Class

Nazi Caucasus Army Collapses   Loss Of Last Tochold There Is Threatened

Menace Nazi Held In Caucasus  Germans Fight Furiously to  Block Flanking

Caucasus All But Lost To Nazi Army   Staro-Tamanskayva Falls. Berlin Radio Reveals This Morning

GERMANS AR FLEEING OVE KERCH STRAI   Nazis Threatened With Les: of Last Tenuous Foothold in Caucasus as Reds Drive  Them Onto Peninsula   TROOPSHIPS ARE SUNK

Germans Face Loss Of Last Caucasus Toehold   Ships, Filled With Nazis Trying To Escape To Crimea, Sunk; Nazis Fight F uriously To Block Flankine Move.

Menace Last Nazi Hold In Caucasus   Germans Fight Furiously to Block Flanking Move at Mogilev

Nazis Losing Last Foothold  In Caucasus   Germans Apparently In Flight To Crimea: Soviets Cross Pronya, Close On Mogilev

TROOP - PACKED GERMAN SHIPS SUNK IN STRAIT   Russians Blast Troops Being Evacuated To The Crimea; Germans Driven Back From Staro- lamanskava.

GERMAN TROOPS IN  RUSSIA FACED WITH  LOSS OF CAUCASUS RED ARMY TROOPS STORW  ACROSS PRONYA RIVER CENTDAT ERONT «=

REICH CAUCASUS LINES COLLAPSE   Base At Staro-Tamanskaya Taken By Soviet Troops

Major Effort Preyoared to Hurl Germans Qyt of Caucasus a  TROOP SHIPS SUNK  "4. H a  Russian Troops $3talled at Dnieper Baafrier  es we q

GERMANS LEAVE TAMAN IN FLIGHT FROM CAUCASUS   Nazis Admit Retreat, Report Fierce Battle Along Upper Dnieper

Reds Driving Russians From Kuban Bridgehead; Take Staro-Tamanskaya

GERMAN DEFENSES, IN THE CAUCASUS: HAVE COT ADSET   Number of Troop-Lade} Nazi Ships Are  Sunk   REDS STORMING TOWARD MOGILE'

Enemy Troops Face Possible Loss Of Base As Red Army Advances On Taman Peninsula—Nazis Staging Furious Fight To Block Flanking Movement On Upper Dnieper—Soviets May Be Preparing Trap For Hitlerites Remaining In Crimea

GERMANS ON LAST STAND 'N CAUCASUS   Staro-Tamanskaya Taken; Reds Sink Troon Ships

Nazis Threatened With Loss Of Last Hold In  Caucasian Area Today

Staro-Tamanskava - Falls On Taman. Peninsula And Nazi Troop Boats Sunk In Attempt To Evacuate Across Strait To Crimea. Nazig Bat ‘tle Mogilev Flanking Attack.

NAZIS EVACUATE TAMAN IN FLIGHT FROM CAUCASUS   TROOP SHIPS SUNK AS GERMANS TRY TO CROSS KERCH STRAIT

SLENDER NAZI.  ALTA LOAIO TATH  VAUUADUD DULY  SEEMS DOOMED   Reds Driving Them Back  From Siaro-Tamanskaya On Taman Peninsula: Advance on Mogilev

Reds Blast Escape Boats Off Caucasus   Increase Threat to Crimea; Mogilev Is Being Flanked

GERMAN TROOPS IN RUSSIA FACED WITH LOSS OF CAUCASUS  RED ARMY TROOPS STOR} ACROSS PRONYA RIVER

LAST TOEROLD IN CAUCASUS 1S MENACED   Red Army Drives Nazis Into Corner As They Try ic Escape From Taman PenSmauia.

Nazis Face Loss ‘Of Last Foothold Tn Caucasus Area   Soviets Make Gains On Taman Peninsula; German Ships Sunk

Russians Capture Stars Tamanskaya; Germa: Troop Ships Evacuatin; To Kerch Straits Ar: Sunk.

CLOSE VOTE EXPECTED IN ), CONTROVERSY OVER THE "VETO OF THE BANK. . HEAD BILL

SALES" TAX, WAGE RAISES, HIGHER FARM PRICES ALL DEMANDED.   C. I. O. Steps In   ‘Puts Congress in More Difficult  Spot by Playing Wages Against the Rest.

ANTHINFLATION FIGHT CAUGHT IN PINCERS   Sales Tax, Higher Wages, Farm Prices Among Demands

BALES TAX, HIGHER WAGES,  ‘ENORBASED PRICES FOR FAR ' MERS INVOLVED IN PRESENT CONTROVERSY

City Doomed, Fall Expected By Late Today      Nazi Armies Meeing West From Rostov; Russ In Stalino

Nazis Flee; Fall of City Today Seen   Germans Evacuating Periled Garrison; Tank Units Locked

Fall of. Rostov, Voroshilovgrad Blow to Germans   Fierce Tank Battle Raging At Outskirts of Kharkov; Evacuating Nazi Troop Trains _ Threatened by Red Army Troops

TANK BATTLE IS RAGING AT CITY'S GATEX   Troop Trains, Evacuating Nazi Garrison, Threatened by Russian Armies.

Nazis Say Lines At Kharkov Cut;  Rostov Falls   Russians Shell Fleeing Nazis 40 Mile: West In Taganrog; Voroshilovgrad : Swept Under Soviet Steamroller

Reds Smash on To Halt Escape Of 250,000 Nazis   German: line Crumbles After Rostov's Fall

FIERCE BATTLE OF KHARKOV IS NEARING CLIMAX   Nazis Fleeing from Rostav —Throwing Picked $S Units Into Battle

Great- Nazi Base Under  Soviet Guns   Five Russian Armies Pound City After Rostav’s Fall

: Red Arm Tinits Sont® “ae Gity Push Rack Desnerata Marj, Peciatonea a @Threaten to: Cut Off F City's “Tero Remaining Railrord Exits,

Fierce tank battle rages for Kharkov while troop trains evacuate German garrison threatened by Russian columr

Germans Speed Retreat to Avert Big Soviet Trap  Fall of Kharkov Expected Soon; Nazi Losses Mount Steadily

TANK BATTLE RAGING IN OUTSKIRTS   Troop Trains Evacuating Nazi Garrison

TRAINS MOVING TROOPS FROM DOOMED CITY   Nazis Speed Withdrawal! After Losing Rostov To Russians

KHARKOV BATTLE NEARING CLIMAX AS REDS ADVANCE   Five Russian Columns Move Up To Deal Knockout Blow To Enemy as Part of Big Victory,   AXIS FIGHT YANKEES AT SBEITLA, TUNISIA   Blockbusters Are Unloaded on Cologne In 113th Raid, Fires Started During Milan Raid.

Cossacks Roll on After Biggest Double Victory of War; Germans Evacuate Voroshilovgrad, Flee Donets Entrapment

FALL OF CITY IS EXPECTED BEFORE NIGHT   Tank Battie Flares In Suburbs; Five Red Columns Are Advancing   SOVIETS SEIZE ROSTOV   Voroshilovgrad Also Taken In Russians’ Biggest Twin Victory:

Rostov Fell: To Russians Yesterday —           FIVE ADVANCING ARMY ° : COLUMNS PRESAGE FALL OF *.: KHARKOV TO REDS IN SHORT TIA

TOTTERING NAZI DEFENSES ARE ACAIN BATTERED   Vorashilograd Fell With Rostov—Enemy’s _ Losses, Terrific;

Trcop Trains Evacuating Nazi Forces   Some Observers Expect City to Fall Late Today

Russians Continue Smashing Advance As Rostov Seized   Germans Are Reported Evacuating Troops From Black Sea Naval Base Of Novorossisk In Effort To Forestall Kerch ‘Dunkirk’

Nazi Situation Grows Desperate  ~ AsReds Advance   Pincer Movement By Russians Wedges Nazis Into Narrow Corridor   ONLY SIX MILES FROM STEEL CITY   Drive On Bryansk Brings New Gains For Russians, Nazi Losses Heavy  Rv NATALIA RENE

NAZIS EVACUATE AS REDS MOVE IN 5 COLUMNS ON CITY   Biggest Twin Battle Of War Comes  With Capture Of Rostov And —  Voroshilovgrad-—Germans  Totter Under Pounding

Gradual Lifting Of Controls Seen   Business Group Discusses Question

150 NAZI PLANES CREDITED 10 REDS   Russians Lose Twenty-one Planes in Mass Attack.

San Pietro Cost Is High   One of Bloodiest Battles Of U. S. Troops in Area

Girl Admits Killing Baby With Poison   Children of Illicit Sweetheart ‘in the Way,’ Police Told

Farm Bloc Lines Break In Senate   Parity Proposal “Back to Committee

Farm Costs Bill Returned To Committee   Hopes For Measure Dimmed By Fight In Senate

FARM BILL SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE   Bi-Partisan Senate Coalition Smashes Farm Bloc Lines by Voice Vote

Controversial Farm-Labor Bill Is Sent Back To Committee By Bipartisan Senate Group

FARM MEASURE  WILL GET NORE CONSIDER ATION      Bipartisan Senate Coalition Sends Labor Bill Back to Agriculture Committee   LUCAS SUPPORTED   House-Approved Measure Would Include Labor Costs In Parity Price  oe = Ceilings

Senators pass farm bloc bill   Bans deducting AAA payments to figure parity

SENATE BLOC BEATS FARM LABOR BILL   House-Approved Pace Bill Is Pigeonholed

Approve Farm Price Measure   Prevents Deduction Of Benefit Payments In Figuring Parity Level.

SOLONS BATTLE - OVER INFLATION   One Measure Would Raise Farm Income, Another To Increase Prices

Return Farm Costs Bill to Committee   Bipartisan Senate Coalition Smashes Farm Bloc Lines

Coalition Breaks Farm Bloe Lines  Measure Is Denounced By Administration

Farm Bloc Loses On Parity Ceiling   But Senate Passes Bill in Regard to Federal Farm Payments.

FARM LABOR BILL HANDED WHITE HOUSE   Senators Spurn Inflation Warning and Include Work Costs

Senate Splits On Farm Bill:   Passes One, Sends Seeond to Committee

SENATE VOTES TO INCREASE FARM INCOME      Accepts Higher Parity Formula, but Returns to Committee a Measure That Would Include Al Labor Costs.

Returns Bill To Committee   Senate Bipartisan Vote Puts Farm Labor Measure Back

COMPROMISE COURSE  TAKEN BY SENATE ON  FARM LEGISLATION SENT ONE BILL TO WHITE HOUSE BUT PETURNED  ARIATIICN TH CORMITTLCE

Committee Gets Back Farm Bill  Mencure an Renehit   Measure on Benefit Payments Passes, But it Faces Veto

SENATE TAKES COMPROMISE COURSE IN INFLATION BATTLE; DELAYS LABOR-COST PARITY BILL

FARM PRICE BILL HELD FOR STUDY   Senate Coalition Returns Measure to Committee; MeNary Favors Move   ADMINISTRATION ~. OPPOSES BILL   But Benefit Payments Bill: Is Passed as Senate Takes Compromise Course

F arm Bloc Loses Point   Senate Votes to Send Parity Bill With Labor  Clause to Committee

BATTLE INFLATION   Senate Took a Compromise Course in Income for Farmers ©

SENATE WOULD BOOST INCOME OF AMERICAN FARMER   Such a Measure Was Sent to President Roosevelt at the White House.   THE FARM BLOCK SPLIT   This Done by Coalition of Ad. ministration Democrats and Republicans.

Farm Labor Bill ls Back In Committee   Bipartisan Senate Coalition Smashes Through Bloc Lines in Vote  INFLATION IS FEARED

One Senate Act To Hike  Living Cost   Second Inflationary Bill Is Sent Back To Committee :

Naming of Davis Food Administrator Takes Duties From Wickard;: Bill in Senate Gets Action.

Air Offensive Is Intensified  Tiny Atoll Battered by Heavy Explosives

Marshall Group Pounded Again   Eleven Jap Planes Destroyed On Raid  _ By ARTHUR BURGESS  ee See ee

Nimitz Reports Destructive Raids On Jap Positions in the Marshalls

Aerial War Over Marshall Goes Into Twelfth Day   Americans Pour 30 Tons of Bombs On Mili Atoll in Double Raids; Navy Planes Raid Jap Shipping

Sea - L 2, ve LS. Raics on *Fars.1a_s "Ni-1 - eavie- _Osses ~0 3073 Sices

ACTION BY WLB BRINGS THREAT OF NEW COAL CRISIS   By EDWARD C, EISENHART

New Coal Crisis  Looms for U.S.   Travel Time Pay Refused by WLB

New Coal Crisis Seen By Action   WLB Disapproval of Wage Treaty Reason

NEW CRISIS MAY ARISE FROM WLB COAL PAY RULING      Lewis Is Silent On Decision Of  Board Refusing $1.25 Ware Increase

SENATORS ARGUE BASE - GRABBING   Some Favor U.S. Taking All She Can Get; Others Feel Such A Course Would Be Inwise.

HINT CHAT WITH ~ - FRANCO, SALAZAR   Commentator Backs Case Circumstan  rives In Gibraltar =  

Churchill Sets Portugal Visit, Germany Hints   Plans Parleys With Salazar, Franco, Nazi Report Suggests

FEDERAL ACE TAKES HAND IN COAL PARLEY   Dr. Steelman, Conciliation Chief, Joins Committee Studying Contract.   WEDNESDAY’S DEADLINE   Southern Miners, Operators Still Fail To Agree on  Eytancinn Tarme.

BRENNER PASS RAILROAD CUT   “Allied Italians” in Surprise At. tack, According to Report From Radio “Free Milan”

Air Force Receives  Largest Share —  Of Expenditures Incredible Striking  Power of Planes Is Being Developed

AIRFORCE GETS GREATER FUNDS   Performance Of Aircraft In Pounding Axis Is Recognized By Strategists

large Share of Appropriations into US Air Force   Military Strategy y Changes on Effects of Sky Fighting

BULK OF FUNDS INTO AIR POWER   ESTIMATES OF WHAT PLANES CAN DO TO BEAT AXIS REVISED UPWARD.

J. $. Is Putting Largest Share of its Military Expenditures Behind the Air Force, Bill Shows

U.S. Spending Much Money On Air Force  Hinteck War Strategists Dp.   Hinted War Strategists Revise Ideas on What Air Power Can Achieve   COMMITTEE OK’S APPROPRIATIONS  $2,921,441,504 Bill For Special Agencies Is Given Annroval

Air Force Get: Major Share Of War Fund   House Approves $2,921,441,504 For Special Units

Military Boosts Plane Spending   Destructive Values Revised Upward

.§. to Boost ir Expenditures   House Committee  Reports Big Bill

FBI NABS FOUR IN WHITE SLAVE RING   Charged With Operating Houses Between Youngstown and Honolulu

Priest Is Left Waiting at Altar of Nassau Church by Alfred De Marigny

DE MARIGNY’S WIFE FLYING TO AMERICA FOR CONSULTATIONS  PLANNED RE-MARRIAGE OF NANCY AND ACQUITTED MAN NOT PERFORME!

Nancy De Marigny ToFlyfoU.S. To See Friends:   Reports Vary Why. ~ Announced Catholic. Ceremony Postponed

NANCY MARIGNY 10 RETURN 70 UNITED STATES   To Consult Mother and Friends About Problems : Arising” Since “Acquit- ;  tal of Her Husband. —

TO VISIT HER MOTHER   Nancy “Oakes DeMa DeMarginy Books Passage to United States

Citrus States Awaiting Answer On Crop Distribution From Government Agencies

Government Agencies Play Tag With Valley’s Hopes   Industry Waits Vinson Decision; OPA And WFA At Odds; Valley Favors Plan

Yanks, RAF Raid France And Germany   Bomb Nuernberg, Rouen And Rennes

Charlie Paddock Killed In Crash Of Marine Plane   Fabulous Trackman Of Golden Age Dies With Gen. Upshur

Marine Hero, Ex-Runner Die In Plane Crash   Major General Upshur And Charles Paddock Perish in Alaska

Gandhi’s Condition Shows No Change; India's Position ‘Hopeless’ Says Aide

Marine A.A. Gunners Waste Few Shots   Down 13 Jap Planes With 88 Rounds of Ammunition

UAW LEADER S ARRESTED   CIO OFFICIALS TAKEN INTO . CUSTODY IN ‘TEST OF TEXAS LAW GOVERNING . UNIONS

TEXAS ARRESTS LABOR LEADERS   Charged With Soliciting Members Without Permit

HARDSHIPS Of WAR TOLD BY WOUNDED VETS   Describe Dependency 0: Fighting Men Upon Home Front

Select Winners Of Oraforical Contest   Two Local Students and Russellville High Senior Win Honor

Select Winners Of Oratorical Contest   Two Local Students and Russellville. High  Canine Win Hranuan

ELINOR GLYN, NOVELIST, DIES   Famed For Books, Movies Popular With Wormer,

EGUSSEMSSSGSY ST STESIES Giro Rapes sere temo  2 Countians To Get M.D. Dee rec

But High Calibre Tanks, Guns Also Major Items In Russian Resurgence

Defense of Kiev Nears Collapse   Nazis Fight Desperately to Check Surging Soviets; Eighth Army Gains

Nazis Put Flame to Kiev Base   Fifth Army ‘Hauls Artillery _ to Volturno River Bank.

Russians Smash Main Defenses Around Kiev   Germans Burn and Blast City Prior  To Evacuation

Germans Prepare to Quit City   Russian Guns Pounée Gomel—Action in Italy Slowed by Rain

PRESIDENT TO SEND HURLEY TO NEAR EAST   Will Attack — Two Diplomatic Problems

Pat Hurley . Dispatched To ‘Near East   FDR Diplomatic Agent Resigns New Zealand Post

HURLEY GETS READY TO TAKE OFF ON NEW MISSION    _ Presidential Handy Mar ' Must Try to Solve Some of French Problems Now .

Hurley Given Another Vital Assignment   President's Handyman ls Going To Near and : Middle East   S Seo: oa See

FDR to Send Hurley on New Mission   President’s Handy-Man to Go to East Where Diplomatic Problems Concerning the French Are Current

Pat Hurley  To Near-East   Mission Takes SoldierDiplomat Into Ticklish Political Hot-Spot

HURLEY NAMED SPECIAL ENVOY BY ROOSEVELT   Nation’s Famed. SoldierDiplomat Will-Go to Near East Soon On Unity Mission   FACES PROBLEMS   Resigns His: Post In New Zealand’to Take New  >: Assignment; Known  As “Handy Man”

Hurley Off  To Middle, Near East   Presidential Handy-Mar Resigns as Minister. at New Zealand

3 Socialites Are Kidnapped   Later Released By Five Ju : venile Hoodlums

THREE MEMBERS OF PROMI\ NENT FAMILI£S ABDUCTED  AND THEN RELEASED — BY JUVENILE GANG

By RAYMOND P. CRONIN AND RUSSELL BRINES.  Site wresretordad 1949 law tha Acenrinted Presc )

Japanese Ready For Long War, Reporters Say   Morale of People Firm Despite Their Hardships at Home

War Workers Demand New Mosley Term   BRITISH HOME SECRETARY TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR FREEING LEADER

R.A.F. Resumes Raids on Reich   Many Planes Seen Crossing Channel

Big Forces Smashing Anew At Reich Targets After Saturday Night Lull

Planes Stream Aeross Channe'  e For Lone Time   Third of Berlin Said  Destroyed Last Week: New-Type Incendiary Bomb Used by British

Third Of Berlin Destroyed: Defi Is Issued By Goebbels   Propaganda Minister Cries Out Against Unloading of “Masses of Phosphorous Cannisters’—Berliners Get Full Night’s Rest

Another Big Aerial Attack Is Indicated   Massive RAF Force Crosses Channel for Further Bombings

Nazis Believe Air Attacks Mean Invasion   Regard Blows as Attempt to Crush Nerve Center

NAZIS CLAIM A U.S. SUB    Berlin Radio Reports Wahoo Has  Been Lost in Action

SUBMARINE WAHOO IS REPORTED LOST   Underseas Craft Mad A Spectacular Career In Sinking +@,000 Tons Of Jap Shipping

U.S. Sub ‘Wahoo’ Lost. Berlin Radio Asserts  Ry ASSSWUATETN wmowrce

Lost During Operation at Gilbert Isle   Total Casualties of Encounter Not Revealed hy Navy

‘Bomber Crew Plays Dirl Trick on Rat, Drops Rodent in Berlin Raid

Nimitz Says Success Of Offensive Assured   [Mighty RAF Blow Paralyzes Berlin   Heart Of City, Including Homes, Offices Of Nagi  andere  oft A Mace OF Ruitine   Rat In Berlin Gets ‘RAt¢ Cran, RAE Crew

‘Martinique’s Food Short, ‘Say Three Students Who Fled in Sailboat

v ' With Our  1 Soldiers and 5) Sailors              Inntering School For Instructors

Se. Lee With Our   Soldiers and Sailors 1e@ @      Entering School For Instructors

Witness Rebuked In Murder Trial   Changes Testimony About Oakes Case

Prohibition Not Binding on F.R. Chief Executive to Pay Salaries -

Congress’ Rider Said Not Binding By Roosevelt  . Bill Directed at Three Men Said To Bi Tilezal by President

FDR DISAGREES ON TRIO PAY STO   Salary Payment Bar Held Not Binding By President

Roosevelt Spurns Congress Ban Put on Salaries  Does Not Consider Ac Binding, Says Us Will Tell Saolans

Roosevelt” Defies Congress and Will Retain. Three Employes Solons Term: ‘Subversive’. —

F,D. R. to Ignore Rider on Measure   Says Solons Usurp Executive Powers

Roosevelt Spurns Congress Ban Put on Salaries   Does Not Consider Act  Binding, Says } Lin VAJi1i Tall Calanme

Sa ee ee  BILL WOULD CREATE RED RIVER AUTHORIT) TO OPERATE BIG DAM   SPEAKER RAYBURN IS PREPARING TO INTRODUCE MEASURE IN HOUSE

Rayburn Plans Red River Bill   Speaker Prepares _ Measure to Provide ” For Authority

Bill Would Create Red River Authority  Rayburn Prepares To Place Measure Before the Hance

Partial Victory For OPA Likely, Says Bankhead   Price Administrator _ Tries To Obtain . Fair Chance For Job

British Smash Defenses Along 25-Mile Front   Rommel’s Men Race For Gabes; Americans Drive Toward Sea

Agreement Between Lewis and Pennsylvania Operators May Spread: WLB Acts Todav.

Most Of Coal Operators Go Back To WLB  Ritaiante:: Tia Inability bas Rea  eh Agcreement   Announce Inability To Reach Agreement With UMW   LEWIS STAYS AWAY   Central Group Reaches Own Terms With  Union

LEWIS AGAIN BOYCOTTS WLE   Pict, Ae Agreement With O'Neill Seen As Pattern for Settlement

MINE PAY FUSS BACK WITH WLE   Operators Report Deadlock in Negotiations

Coal Wage Dispute Back Before WLB   - Some Operators Reach Agreement  With Lewis

Majority Of Appalachian Coal Operators Report Inability To Reach Agreement With United Mine Workers   MAJOR BREAK IN OPERATORS FRONT

COAL DISPUTE IS BACK IN HANDS OF LABOR BOARD   Operators’ Front Against Lewis Disraptet a: Pennsylvanias Enter Into Separate  A creament

PREPARING FOR 1944   Schoeppel Says Meeting at Mackinae Cleared Atmosphere

Rationing Of Eggs Is Possible   Chicago Mercantile Ex change Blames Heavy  Civilian Demand

WiLL DIRECT U. S.-BRITISH OPERATIONS   Wilson te Succeed “Ike,” With Alexander Chief in Italy—Montgomery Heads British in Europe.

FDR ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT IN WORLDWIDE TALK   BRITISH OFFICER TO TAKE COMMAND IN MEDITERRANEAN

Mrs. McMillin To  Sponsor Cruiser   Wife Of Jap Prisoner, Former Governor Of Guam, To  Christen Cruiser -

REVERSES SECT CASE DECISION   Supteme Court Upholds Right ‘fo Peddle Religious PamphLets Without Lictnse.

ish General pects Trouble Way to Rome  dked by German . Paretanrve”: =>

‘Slower Progress in Drive Against Rome is Forecast by General Alexander

Slower Advance in Tialy Seen  All Roads to Rome Are Heavily Mined

Progréss Toward Rome. to Get Increasingly Slower, * British General Predicts :

Capital Held Tremendous Objective  Drive on Rome Will Be Slow,  Declares General Alexander

Early Meeting of ‘Stalin, Churchill ‘And FDR Expectet   Day of Big Offensive To Be Decided at Next Conference

lime For Grand Assault Up For Early Decision   Huge Forces Being Readied And Await  ot EE ce  eee

Expect Invasion Day to Be Set  Date and Hour Will Be Decided Soon

Date for Final Attack on Nazis To Be Fixed Soon   Grand Offensive Now in Making

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Soon May Decide Day, Hour Of Invasion, Reich’s Future

STRATEGY, PLANS TO HANDLE ARMY ARE AGREED UPON   London Says Troops Are Being Assembled arid Trained, Expect Early Meeting of Three Executives.   MESSY CASUALTIES  1S GENERAL BELIEF   German People May Get Some Consideration in Ousting of Hitler, To Deny Military Liberty.

lime For Grand Assault Up For Early Decision   Huge Forces Being Readied And Await  Call Deam  ancdare

Grand Offensive Date To Be Decided Soo   Early Meeting of Tripartite Heads Seen; Hint Blow Between New Year’s and Decoration Day

Food Seandal In Distribution Here. Charged   C. 1. 0. Head Demands Meat Rationing Im- mediately

Silk Hose > Drive Ends      Collections Will Cease Sept. 30 and Women and Girls Urged to Bring All In

SUPREME COURT AGREESTORULE IN DRAFT CASE   To Determine Whether Registrant Was Takeéti Hlegally Into Army After Declining Oath

TO RULE ON C. 0.8   ‘Supreme Court to Decide  Case of Kansas Conscientious Objector

Cour! To Scan Man's Refusal To Take Cath   High Tribunal Acts On 300 Petitions

U, 8. SUPREME COURT HAS HEAVY DOCKET FOR COMING SESSION  AGREES TO REVIEW LEGALITY OF DRAFT - RECISTRANT’S INDUCTION

DRAFT CASE T0 HIGH TRIBUNAL   Supreme Court Agrees to Pass on Registrant's Induction into Army

War Cases Before U.S. High Court For Decision   Agrees To Take Up Case Of Registrant Who Says He Was Not Toauwath lIndnrcted

To Review Draft Case   Supreme Court Will De. cide Status of “Conscientious Obiector’

AUoulANG RETAIN NEW BRIDGEREAL   German Counter-Attacks ail To Produce Results  After Four Days

REDS THROW BACK NAZI COUNTER-ATTACKS NEAR OREI   Germans Lose Heavily in Four Futile Attempts to Regain Lost Ground

RED ARMY THROWS BACK NAZI ATTACK   Russians Are Holding Gains Made in the Past Four Days.

MORE DOCTORS” TO BE CALLED   OWI SAYS 7,000 MORE MEDICAL MEN AND 80 MORE DEN: TISTY NEEDED IN ' SERVICE

SERVICES NEED MORE DOCTORS   7,000 More Medicos And 800 Dentists Will Be ew “Caled This’ Year”

CORSAIR PLANES GO INTO ACTION   New Fighters Are Declared Fastest and Highest Flying of All.   FOUR JAP SHIPS CRIPPLED BY BOMBS

Bombs Cripple 4 Jap Ships   Allies Blast Enemy From Burma To South Seas

4 Jap Ships Crippled by Allied Planes   UN Airmen Blast Enemy from Burma te the Seuth Seas; Corsairs Ge Inte Action

HIT 4 JAP SHIPS ~ IN SINGLE RAID   Total 27,000 Tons in Solomon Islands, Blast Enemy in South Seas

Cripple:  Ships In Single Raid”  US: Bombers Score “Heavily; New Fighter “Diane Used By Navy

Army Reports 4 Japanese Ships Sunk In Pacific   Single Night Raid Cripples Fleet With Bombing Attacks

Allied Planes Hurl 500-Pound Bombs On Four Japanese Ships in Solomons

Allied Air Attack Sinks 4 Jap Ships   Tokyo, in Turn, Claims Destruction of Two Allied Destroyers and Transport

New Corsairs Go Into Action In South Pacific   27,000 Tons Of Enemy Shipping Crippled =: In Single Night

FOUR NIPPON SHIPS HIT BY ALLIED FLIERS   New Fast Fighting Planes Used in Solomons, _ Nimitz Says

Allies Cripple 27,000 Tons Of Jap Shipping In Single Night In Solomon Area

Enemy Claims Two U.S. Destroyers, Transpor' Sunk Below Guadalcanal; MacArthur’s Men Con: tinue Drive On Salamaua In New Guinea

Indiara Fair This Year to Be Big Time for Hoosier 4-H Clubs; Many Exhibits

NEW YORK EDITOR ON JAP PAYROLL   Indicted by Grand Jury as Unregistered Agent

Indict Editor On Aiding Foe   Charge New York Newspaperman Acting As Jap Agent For Ten Years.

NEWSPAPER COPY EDITOR INDICTED   Frederick -Heizer Wright, New York Daily News Employee, Charged With Acting as Agent for Japan

INDICT COPY EDITOR ON NIP AGENT CHARGE   Received Pay from Japs Up Te Pear! Harbor Attack

Government Indicts News Copy Editor   Wright Accused Of Being Japanese Agent Up To Pearl Harbor

Chrysler  Assembly Line Down   Workers to Decide Sunday on Going Back to Work

TANK ARSENAL FORCED DOWN   Only 2,400 Workers Obey Order To Return

Supply Shortage Slows Operations   Only 2,400 Workers Report For Duty

Strike Cripples Tank Plant Assembly Line   Work Halted by Shortage of Materials As Nearly 12,000 Stay Away From  Jobs at Other Factories.

BRIBERY TRIAL IS NEAR CONCLUSION   Darke County Judge Accused ) in Fee Case

Soviets only Il miles southeast  of Kharkov goal   Ukraine's key city in noose as Rostov peril grows hourly

Soviets Pull Noose Tight On Key City Red Army Troops Als Continue Advance on Rostov ROUT NAZI DIVISTON  Terrific Tolk of Live: Reported Taken in a soa      . Terrific Tol! of Lives Reported Taken in Battle

Red Army Tightens Noose ‘About Kharkov; Claims New Victories on All Fronts

Russians Tighten Noose On Kharkov Driving Arm Within 11 Miles of City

AEDS MOVE TO GRAB AUST AND KHARKO   One Column Within 11 Miles of Nazi Stronghold in Ukraine.   TAKE NOVOCHERKASSK 30 MILES FROM ROSTOV

QUESTION POSED ON FARM DRAFT   Governor Of Colorado Orders Drafting Of All Farm Workers Halted; Up To Selective Service Now.

Question State - Draft Authority   Colorado Governor Moves To Halt Induction Of Farm Workers.

meth ybesigtl  Goverior’s Ban on Induction: Of Farmers Raises Puzzler

HERSHEY GETS QUESTION ON DRAFT ACTION      Colorado Governor Orders Farmers Deferred

Colorado Draft Deferment Order Referred to Selective Service Chief

Raise Question Of Authority  Dratt Handce Panda:   Draft Heads Ponder Case In Colorado

DRAFT AUTHORITY QUESTION RAISEL   Colorado Governor Orders Blanket Farm Deferment

Farm Draft Showdown Is Step Nearer   Colorado Governor Orders Deferment of All in Agriculture

FARM DRAFT IN NEW GUISE   Colorado Governor Orders Halt to Military Induction

Draft Board In Question > ~ On Authority   Colorado Governor Claims Right to Halt Farmer Induction

YANKS DRIVE MOUNTAIN TOP   Win Hand-to-Hand Battle “Above the Clouds” as Canadians Force New Moro River Crossina.

ALLIES GAIN IN FIERCE BATTLE ON MOUNTAINS   Giant Hole Ripped in Nazi Defense Line 78 Miles From Rome

HUNTING DOWN RACE RIOTERS   Death Toll Climbs to 31 in Detroit; Latest Two, Whites

DETROIT RIOT LAID TO JAPS   Responsible for Promoting Racial Prejudice, Dies  Declares

RACE RIOTERS TOBE PUNISHED   Detroit Death Toll Climbs To 31 and More Than 1,300 Arrested

Two More White Men Die of Injuries Received In Disorders, Bringing Death Toll To 31; Situation Said Under Control.

DETROIT RIOT LEADERS SOUGHT   Officials Promise Punishment For Guilty As Death Toll Reaches 31

HUNT KILLERS IN DETROIT RIOTS, TWO MORE DIE   Jap Agents Promoted Race Hatred in Area, Says Dies

DETROIT POLICE SEEK STARTERS OF RACIAL RIOT   Death Toll Hits 31; 1.300 Arrested ‘During Fights

Instigators Of Rioting To Be Punished   Those Who Were Responsible for Killing and Looting Are Hunted Down   DEATH TOLL NOW 31

RIOT KILLERS ARE HUNTED RELENTLESSLY   Dies Committee Thinks Jap Spies Instigated Race , Riots

WESTERN END OF DEFENSES THREATENED   Massico Stronghold Outflanked by Swift Slash

‘mportant Towns Captured In Advance By Fifth Army  Western Segment Of Nozi Line !mperilled Ace Clark’c Forces Smach Acrace Now Canal

Favors Entry Of Labor As An Organized Front Into Midwest Politics

British King Arrives In  North Africa   Visit Coincides With Re ports OF Allied Fleet  . Massing Along Invasion Coast.

Eisenhower To Receive High Honors—Visit May Precede Attack on European Fortress

VISITS BRITISH AAMIES READY “FOR BIG PUSH   Makes Personal Inspection of Allied Forses; Leaves -. London: Secretly,   QUEEN AND COUNCILGRS REIGNING OVER .BRITAIN

KING GEORGE VISITS TROOPS IN NO. AFRICA   Knights Gen. Eisenhower, Views British, American’ and French ‘Invasion’ Forces

Monarch Inspects First,  Eighth Armies, French And U. S. Contingents

Allies Massing Vast Land Army, Germans Claim  King George Visits Forces In Africa; ro Hour Near

King George In Africa For Visit To  Allied Army   Honor Also To Be Conferred Upon Gen. Eisenhower; Axis Kept Guessing

British King Pays Visit to Armies in Africa, As Rumors Fly of Preparations Under Way for Invasion Moves in Area

MONARCH’S TRIP MADE BY PLANE   Tour Is 2nd Wartime Journey Overseas By King George

King George Of Britain in North Africa   Makes Second Visit To Active War Area; Allies Mass Troops

British Ruler Visits Allied Army Forces   Visit Coincides With Axis Reports Of Big Allied Fieet Massing

Pays ‘Pre-Zero Hour’ Visit To Allied Forces   British Monarch Inspects Invasion Armies And Decorates Gen. Eisenhower; Pulverizing Aerial Assaults On Sicily And Reich Continue.

Secret Trip — Arouses New Invasion Talk   Monarch ‘Makes ‘Trip. ‘by Plane, Bestows Highest Honor’on: Eisenhower, Visits British Armies. Navy.and U.’S.-Units

King George Visits Troops In Africa   Makes Personal Inspection of Allied Forces on Second Visit to Active War Theatre Outside United Kingdom

Monarch Takes High Officials To War Front   Presents High Honor To U. S. General Eisenhower During Trip.   '\COUNSELLORS REIGN

Makes Trip To War Theater By Plane   Bestows Highest Honors On Gen. Fisenhower

KingGeorge Is On Visit To Soldiers In N. Africa   British Leader : Accompanied By High Chiefs

VINO ODAD DT ALiRUOobUA EL  TRIP PRESAGES INVASION MOVE      Dramatic Broadcast From London Gives News of Visit to Troops In African Theater   AXIS REPORTS HUGE _ FORCE IS MASSED   Believed Preparing Blow From Syria; Moscow Says ‘Several’ Points to Be Attacked

Second Trip  To Visit His  Field Armies   Bestows Decorations Upon Gen, Eisenhower; Inspects Allied Troops

Monarch’s Second Visit To Active War Front Since Beginning of War In September, 1939; Accompanied By British Secretaries of State For Air and War.

Monarch Inspects Troops Girding For Invasion As Axis Nervousness Mounts

! Has War Softened Stalin's Views Toward Church And: Religion? Soviet Premier Sends Greetings, Thanks To Patriarch Of Russian Orthedox Church, First Time In History

Stalin Message To Church Patriarch Raises Interest In Religious Revival

Allies About to Attempt Landing on Tyrrhenian, Flank Rome, Says Berlin   Germans Kill Civilians, Burn Property During Ten-Mile Retreat; Reds Lay Trap for Large Enemy Force on Dnieper; More Raids on Reich

29,000 Japs Are Released From Camps   MYER REVEALS 65,000 MORE NIPS SCHEDULED FOR INTERNMENT END

PLAN 10 EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY   Members of Armed Forces to Be Included’ in Program; Board to Recommend

EXTENSION SOCIAL SECURITY COVERAGE TO MILLIONS URGED  MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES WOULD BE COV.

Wide ide Security Plan Is Urged   May Obviate Any Special Legislation To Assist ° War’ 's: Veterans

Plan Social Security On Wider Basis   Men In Armed Forces  Would Be Included Under Program Of Federal Board

EXTENSION OF SECURITY SEEN   Members Of Armed Forces Would Be Included

Benefits For Service Men Recommended   Extension Of Social Security Coverage Might Obviate Need For Veterans’ Legislation

Social Security for Men i in Service To Be Recommended, May Obviate Need For Special Leaislation Affer War

Urge Security Law for Troops  Would Extend : Social Security Coverage

Social Security For Soldiers May Be Recommended   Possibly Would Make Post-War Vets Action Unnecessary

Seek To Extend Social Security Into Army Ranks  Board Will Recommend Expanded Measure In Proposed Bills

SOCIAL SECURITY MAY BE EXPANDED   Men in Service Would Be Covered Under Plan

Extension Of Security Law Being Urged   Coverage For Millions Of Men in Service is Plan Proposed   OTHER BILLS STUDIED

SOCIAL SECURITY EXTENSION PLAN   Would Have Those in Armed Forces, Millions of Others Covered by Gov't Plan

EXTENSION OF SECURITY PLAN IS CONSIDER ED   Social Security Board. -tc Recommend’ Coverageto Members of-Arm-ed Forces   BILLS PENDING   Plan Believed: Stride Toward Insuring All Americans Against Want From:Life’s Hazards’

Allied Food to Naples’ People   Opens A.M.G. Office to Meet Problems of Food and Water Shortages

Western Front Is Crumbling   Powerful Allied Air Support Brings Big Success  To Chinese.

Chinese Report 4000 Japs Have Been Trapped  Thousands Are Killed In Yangtze Area

Divert Coal To Steel Plants  128 AHA Tanne Ara   135,000 Tons Are Affected By Order

FEW THOUSAND ~ MINERS RETURN   Vote Work on Eve of Federal Inquiry of Walkout

ORDERS COAL DIVERTED 10 STEEL PLANTS      Ickes Sets Aside 135,000 Tons for Use by Pennsylvania Mills to Avert Breakdown of the Steel Industry. 

Ickes Orders ~ Coal Given to Steel Plants   Diversion Order Comes as Special Grand Jury Becing Strike Inquvy

COAL DIVERTED TO STEEL FIRMS   Ickes Acts Under Wartime Powers as Solid Fuels Administrator

SENATOR MOORE IN BITTER ATTACK ON FEDERAL BUREAUS  - TEXAS ECONOMY RUINED  __ BY PROGRAM OF PAYING . DLEODIC NOT RAICC CRHP'

SENATOR MOORE IN BITTER ATTACK ON FEDERAL BUREAUS   TEXAS ECONOMY RUINED BY PROGRAM OF PAYING PEOPLE NOT RAISE CROPS

ITALY FEARS GERMANY WILL DESERT HER   Newspapers Pleading  For ‘Aid—Not At Brenner Pass’

THE WELLSBORO HONOR ROLL   Pupils Who Had Average Of B Or Better For  Firat Semecter.

THE WELLSBORO HONOR ROLI   Pupils Who Have Average Grade Of B Or Better For Fourth Six Weeks.

 Biggest of Kind in Nation  Fighter Plane Base for Capital Defense to Be Finished May Lo

Fighter Plane Base,  Largest in the Nation, To Protect Washington

BIG PLANE BASE SHAPES IN EAST         Laraest U. S. Fighter Haven To Be Finished By May 15, Report

BIG FIGHTER PLANE BASE NEARLY READY   Airport in Maryland, Largest of It: Kind, Intended to Defend Washington.

BIGGEST FIGHTER PLANE BASE TO BE COMPLETED BY MAY 15   Project for Air Defense of Washington and Baltimore Nearly Finished—Twenty. Million Dollar - + + Dasek Ink

‘National Capitol To Get Long Delayed Air Protection With Opening Of Field

Fall of Kharkov in Few Days   Red Army Closing Pincers  Around Nazi Base

RUSSIANS CLAIM NAZL-HELD CITY WILL BE TAKEN IN SEVERAL DAYS   Red Army Snapping Shut Great Pincers Around Kharkov. One Soviet ‘Column On Outskirts Of Town.

Interpreting  The War   Japan’s Loss at Sea Hold Tremendous Threat to Her Future

Report Losses In War Theater   American Casualties in North African Theater During Two Months

U. S. Casualties In North African War Theater Slightly Under 12,000

U. §. Army Casualties in Sicily and Italy Less Than 12,000, Says Stimson

12,000 U.S, CASUALTY TOLL   STIMSON BARES ITALY LOSS JULY 10-SEPT, 15

Australia To  Be Vital Base  For Operations   MacArthur To Be Undisturhecl  In Elis Area

MOVE BACKS HEAVIER BLOWS AT MAINLAND   Warships Bombard Coastal Areas As Bombers Blast Railway Yards   MARINES SPEARHEAD DRIVE   Germans Reported Continuing Withdrawal Of Troops To Northward

Navy Takes Chain Of Seven Islands North Of Sicily   Capture Of Stromboli Puts Marines 37 Miles West Of The Italian Mainland   ALLIED BOMBERS HITS RAILWAY YARDS

ALLIED PLANES BOMB RAILROAD YARDS IN ITALY   Travelers’ Reports Support Belief that Badoglio to Capitulate

« GERMANS FACING BALKAN TROUBLE   Guerillas Said to Have Captured 120-Mile Coastal Strip

AIRMEN HAMMER CIGILY DEFENSES   Shoot Down 42 Axis Planes, Sink Two Ships   7 PLANES LOST   Liberators Smash Two Airdromes in Southern Italy; Great Damage Reported   BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

2 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK FROM AIR   Two Destroyers Damaged By Allied Airmen In Paralyzing Blow Against Sicily   Many Sicilians Abandon Uniforms, Flee To Gardens

Sicily's Defenses Struck Paralyzing Blow; Allies Shoo! Down 42 Planes   Two Merchant Ships Sunk and Two Destroyers Damaged; Freight Cars Are Smashed

Allied Airmen Hit Sicily Paralyzing Blow  Down 42 Planes and Sink Two

Allied Airmen Hit Sicily Paralyzing Blow   Down 42 Planes and Sink Two’ Transports Tuesday

Preparing For British Attack On Mareth Line   ‘‘Calm Before Storm’’ Pre vails In Tunisia Is Re. port From Head. quarters   rANKS AND GUNS BEING LINED UP

Reds Take Dnieper Bastion, But Nazis Pound On In Kiev  Area As Russians Quit Town

Soviet Offensive Puts German Southern Rail Lines in Great Danger   Fighting in Italy Remains Almost at Standstill; Hitler Throws Heavy Forces at Yugoslavian Partfsans; Allies Continue Light Continent Raids

REDS CAPTURE CHERKASY BUT LOSE AT KIEV   GERMAN TANKS AND GUNS MAKE GAIN OF 30 MILES

Reds T ake ‘Dnieper Bastion> : But Nazis Pound On In:‘Kiev ‘Area:As-Russians Ouit:-Town:

Blimp Spills Crew, Drifts Off, Crashes   Airship Found 12 Miles Away; A Are Iniured

NAVY BLIMP SPILLS CREW AND CRASHES   No One Is Killed, Five Are Injured; ‘Bag’ Being Hunted:

BIG LOAD OF BOMBS DUMPED   Allied Bombers And Fighters Attack Japanese Targets.

GABLE CAUSES ~ ONE-MAN RIOT   Captain _ Throws Pentagon Building “Into Colossal Furoroe

Reds Threaten‘ to Inflict Defeat on Axis Caucasus. Forces; Fortifications: Smashed

APPROVE POLISH UNIT TO FIGHT WITH REDS   Russia Gives Consent to Formation ‘of Division to Battle on Soviet Soil,

IES GIVEN PRISON TERI   Over-All Increase of 8 Per Cent Is Given Local  Teachers

AGREE ON SALARIES   Over-All Increase of 8 Per Cent Is Given Local Teachers

U. S. Sends New Super Bomber On Way To Foe   May Not Enter War This Year

U.S. BUILDS NEW SUPER BOMBERS   MYSTERY PLANE, KNOWS AS B-29, DWARFS FORTRESS

They Dwarf Liberators And Fortresses  Giant Super-Bombers On Way To Enemy Land:

NEW SUPER BOMBER 1G PUT AN ACTION   New [Plane Dwarfs Liberators, Flying Fortresses, Carries Huge. Bomb Load

Christmas Eve Broadcasting Will Start Early Friday Morn from Rome

U-Boat Building Rate Higher Than Losses; Allies Have Edge on Ships

Germans Using  Big Sub Fleet   Hitler's Navy Turning Out Submarines Faster Than Allies Sink Them.

-AUTHORITY DECLARES   New Na: azi ri Subs Exceed Losses  But Allies Gaining i in Ships

Nazi Subs Continue to Be Allies ‘First Enemy’   BRITISH HAVE SEVEN CARRIERS AFLOAT, REPORT

U-BOAT LISTED "FIRST ENEMY BY NAVY DEPT   German Navy Said to Be Turning Out Subs Faster Than United Nations Destroy Them   ALLIES SPEED VESSELS

Nazi U-Boats Built Faster Than Allies Destroy Them   AP Correspondent By JOHN WM. HIGHTOWER

Submarine Menace of Prime Import, Say Navy Experts   Germany Builds U-Boats Faster Than United Nations Sink Them

Nazis Keeping Up Sub Supply      Production Outdistances . Destruction By Allies, Officials Reveal: ~

TURNING OUT SUBS    Nazi Production of U-Boats Is Large Despite Allied  Raids

Nazis Keep Up Supply of Subs Despite Sinkings   Allies Building Cargo Ships Faster Than They’re Sunk

Germans Build Subs Faster Than Allies Can Sink Them; Allies Build Ships Faster Than U-Boats Can Sink Them

U-BOATS oTILL GREATEOT FOE OF SHIPPING   Germans Reported Turn‘ing Out Subs Faster ’ Than They Are Sunk..   MUCH MATERIAL - SENT TO BOTTOM   Situation Described  by Admiral Stark as =n: - comfortable,”

U- -Boat Output Gr eater Than Loves Imposed   Germany ‘Turns Them Out Faster Than They Are Being Sunk

NAZIS BUILDING U-BOATS FAST   Turning Out More Than Allies Are Sinking

Build Subs Too Fast   Nazis Turn Them Out Faster Than Allies ‘Can Sink Them

PRODUCTION OF SUBS PROBLEM FOR AMERICANS   Germany Building Them Faster Than They Are Lost:

U-Boat Menace Still Serious   Germany Turning Out Craft Faster Than They Are Being Destroyed.

SEA LOSSES CONTINUE  HEAVY AS SUB AND SHIP  BUILDING HITS RECORD

NAZI SUB BUILDING AHEAD OF LOSSES   Shipping Problem of Allies Grows More Serious

Nazis Build Submarines  At Top Speed   Turn Out Subs Faster Than UN Can Destroy Them; UN Build Ships Faster Than Thev Are Sunk

\Nazis Building Subs Faster Thar ‘They Are Sunk but Allies Launct /More Ships Than U-Boats Destroy

Germany Building Them Faster ‘Than the Allies Are Sinking Them   USA. PRODUCTION - AHEAD OF LOSSES   But, Sinkings of Cargo Ves--sels Cause Big Drain on U. §.. Supplies

Nazis Producing U-Boats Faster Than Sinkings Subs Reported  Vee A tlawtin

GERMAN NAVY TURNS GUT MORE SUBS THAN ALLIES ARE SINKING   UNITED NATIONS, HOWEVER, BUILDING SHIPS FASTER THAN BEING SUNK

U-BOAT MENACE GROWS AS NAZIS SPEED BUILDING   Subs Rolling Out Faster Than Allies Can Sink Them, Despite Raids

NAZIS CONTINUE TO BUILD SUBS   Construct Undersea Raiders Faster Than We Can Destroy Them

Widespread Attacks Made On Jap Bases   Liberators Make Long Distance Assault on Tarawa; Chinese Inflict Several Hundred Casualties on Japs

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL ASK SURRENDER, OR ELSE: ALLIES PUSH ON CATANIA

Roosevelt, Churchill Give Her Choice to Surrender Honorably or Be Blasted

UNITED WAR - FUND FAILS TO REACH GOAl   Due Largely to Manifold War Problems; Appreciate Contributors, Workers

Conference Unit ~ Says Many People May Have To Move  American Delegates Offer   American Delegates Offer Suggestion at Hot Springs Session

Millions of People May Be Moved To Be Better Fed  Food Meeting Scored By Representative As Overstepping Line

DEMANDS PROBE OF FOOD CONFERENCE      Solon Says Officials In vading Constitutional Rights

USS. Suggests  Adjustments Of Population   Possibility Stressed By U. S. Delegation At Food Conference

U.S. Conference Delegates Suggest Moving Of Millions Taq Bring BRetter-Fed World

REDS BREAK THRU FOR 1d (MILE ADVANCE   Gain Takes Place In the Northwe Caucasus Area’

*Heavy Toll Is Exacted On Axis; Base of Krymskaya In Soviet Hands

REDS EFFECT BREAK-THROUGH IN CAUCASUS   Report Eleven Cities, Towns Taken in Initial Advance

TAKE NAZI STRONGHOLDS   Gains Made By Reds Northeast Of Novorossisk

SENATORS WANT. OWN ND FRONT   Battlefront Visit Rumor Quips Fly on Capito! Hill; FOR Neutral

U.S, CIVILIANS T0 GET MORE GOODS IN 1944   Bad Break on War Fronts Only Barrier in View

CIVILIAN NEEDS TOBE CONSIDERED   Bad Breaks Requiring Great er War Equipment Would Be Only Drawback.

Fire Badly Damages Philadelphia Hote  Refugee Guests Searcl Ruins For Valuables

U. 5. HAMMERS PACIFIC BASES   HINT HUGE OFFENSIVE TO CRACK NIP SYSTEM

On to Tokyo Air Fight Opens --- . Crack Jao Mid-Pacific Be      First Land-Based Planes Attack Gilbert Isle

U.S: AIR FORCE CONTINUES RAID ON JAP ISLANDS   First Important Blows To Crack Outposts Are Txtdicated

WRA tit For Black Dragon Group Release   Solons On UnAmerican Activities Probe Say 23 Subversives Are Freed   MYER DENIES CHARGE   Costello Demands Program Of Segregation Aided By FBI, Others

Dies Body Hits Release of Japs   Says 23 Subversive Youths Liberated

Nazis Evacuate Pieking City As Fifth Army Nears   Modern City Believed To Be As Badly Wrecked As Ancient Ruins. Germans Taking Terrific Beating Since Yankees Sprung Line.

Nazi Forces Evacuate In Naples Area   Mt. Vesuvius Line Is Smashed By Armies Of Allies During Day

‘Armed Camp’ In Harlem After Root   Six Dead; 290 Injured In  Clashes

QUICK  STAMPED wW HARLEM RIO   SIX DEAD AND BCORES IN. JURED IN RACE RIOTING THAT BRORE OUT LAST NIGHT

HARLEM RIOT FATAL TO SIX   Scores Injured in Clashes After White Cop Shoots Negro M. P.

BATTLE AREA TURNED INT ARMED GAME   Trouble Starts. When Police Officer Shoots Negro During Arrest.   LA GUARDIA DECLARES FIGHT NOT A RACE RIOT

BUTADIENE PROJECT AT TEXAS CITY BEEN ORDERED STOPPED   SEVERAL OTHER PROJECTS OVER COUNTRY AF FECTED BY WPB ORDER

Packing Houses Filled With Meal   Cold Storage Space Is ‘‘Glut. ted’’ With Meats, Vegetables And Other Bande

 200 Italians Surrender to 2 Yanks They  Had Captured; Navy Flier Rounds up 150

FLORIDA CANAL GETS APPROVAL (IF SENATE COMM   Would Be of No Aid to Eastern Fuel Shortage for Two Years,

APPROPRIATION FOR GREAT BARGE CANAL IS APPROVED TODAY   House Committee Gives its O.K. to $44,000,000 Construction Proposal.

‘War Lid Will Stay On, Says New OPA Head      ‘Economy rein will be benefit to public and government; no appeasing, he says. 

Brown Denies Any Laxity  Says Price Control  Klas Teh Be I am tech

OPA Head Declares ‘No Surrender’ to Attacks On Farm, Wage Policies

NEW DESTROYER “THE SULLIVANS:   Warship Christened by Mother of Five Brothers Who Died in Battle.

WAR ON SICILIAN FRONT DISCOUNTED   Soviet - Labor Publication ~ Says Agreement Not  Fulfilled   WANTS A WEST FRONT

SOVIETS DEPLORE FAILURE TO OPEN UP SECOND FRONT   Newspaper Calls Attention To Failure of Britain and American Offensive

Point To Pledge of Second Front   Soviet Magazine Recalls Agreement

CHANGES IN DRAFT RULES DUE TODAY   Reclassification Shuffle Expected to be An. nounced

RECLASSIFY ARMY CALC MEN TODA)   Childless Married Men Due for Shift Into 1-A Status

3 MILLION T0 BE RECLASSED   Childless Married Men To Be Put In 1-A, Subject To Draft At Early Date

Report Allied Armies Continuing Advances  In Italy And Russia   British Troops Take Three Towns  In Rush To Rome’s ‘Back Door,’ Reds Move On Poland, Rumania!

RAPS TUGWELL AS GOVERNOR   Vandenberg To Submi Bill To Remove Him From Puerto Rican Position

TUGWELL REMOVAL URGED BY SENATOR   Vandenberg Plans to Introduce Legislation in Conaress

VANDENBERG SEEKING TUGWELL’S OUSTER   Senator Says Puerto Ricans Aro Opposed To Socialization Plan Of Island's Governor

FACTORY BLAST ‘DEATH LIST MAY REACH 15 10 18   37 Injured When Five-Story Building at Kearny, N. J., a Collapses

RUINS SEARCHED FOR BLAST DEAD   Explosion Wrecks Building At Congoleum-Nairn Plant In Jersey

BLAST SWEPT ~ JERSEY PLANT   FEAR AT LEAST 15. PERSONS WERE KILLED BY TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. LAST... +... EVENING —

Elmer Davis Gives Sample Of Press Conference Before Group of Senators

DAVIS DENIES DELAYING NEWS   Conducts Press Meeting Before 17 Senators As Demonstration

Davis Explains Purposes of OW! To Large Group   Denies News Unit Sends Roosevelt Propaganda to Europe

DAVIS 1S GRILLED ON NEWS HANDLING   Senate Unit it Probing ow Dissemination of Information

Elmer Davis Of OWI Denies That Office Holds Out On News   Doesn’t Think Any Data Released On . 4th Term Possibility

OW TI Director Denies Use Of Censorship  Davis Tells Senators   Davis Tells Senators Getting Out News ts Burean’s Sole Aim

OWI DEFENDED BY DAVIS AT HEARING   Objectives Out Outlined i Testimony Before Committee

ITALY CLAIMED IN “TRANSITION PERIOD” TODAY   Badoglic Held Seeking Least Painful Methods of Surrendering to Allies   GERMANY VIEWING BALKANS GRAVELY   Underground Forces Growing Increasingly Restless; Awaiting Orders to Erupt Against Axis

BRITAIN’S ABLE-BODIED GRANDMOTHERS TO BE EMPLOYED IN AIRCRAFT PLANTS

LISTS HIGH SALARIES   Pay to Top Men of Railroads. in 1942 Averaged $17,316

CHECOTAH RODEO LIVESTOCK SHOW OPENS SATURDAY   ANNUAL EVENT SAID DO BE. -LARGER; BETTER -EXHIBITION THAN EVER -

GOAL IN CHEST ~ DRIVE REACHED   Fund in County Is Short Approximately $8,600

CITY ‘OVER TOP’ FOR WAR CHES1   Chairman Clemens Reveals  Goal Exceeded Here

YANK FORCES ARE LANDED ON RENDOVA ISLE   Move Believed Prelude te New Offensive In Pacific   MAY DRIVE ON RABAUL   Tokyo Reports Allies Preparing New Major Assault

Thrust at Munda Th the Solomons   American Forces Occupy Rendova Island Near Enemy Base   TAKE NORTHWARD STEP   Full Extent of Operations Undisclosed by Brief Bulletin

Combined Unifs Atfack Rendova; Baftle Underway   Assault Believed Opening Phase Of Offensive

In New Georgia Group   5 Miles from Munda; May Be First Move In Allied Offensive Action in Pacific

New Offensive Launched in - Pacific — Berlin Says MacArthur Has 2,200 Planes on Hand.   ISLAND REGARDED AS AN IMPORTANT MOVE

Thrust at Munda In the Solomons   American Forces Occupy Rendova Island Near _Enemy Base   Full Extent of a Undisclosed by Brief Bulletin

Combined Yank Forces Launch Pacific Drive   Invade Central Solomons At Rendova Island, - Navy Reports

Islands Situated 150 Miles from Guadalcanal and Only Five Miles from Oft-Bombed Japanese Base At Munda

CONFERS WITH CABINET HEADS IN WASHINGTON   Returns To Capital Before Going To Canada For Vital Parleys,   CALLS IN HULL AND KNOX   3ritish and American Staff Chiefs Continue Work on Military Strateay.

F. R. Confers With Cabinet Members      Quick Review of War Picture Before Going to Quebec

CABINET CHIEFS CALLED BY FOR   Reviews War Picture Before Going to Conference in Quebec

ALLIES WILL WIN, PROFESSORSAYS   But Two Years Needed To Defeat Hitler, He Declares

Union In Appeal Urging Miners ‘Return To Pr   “Nothing To Gain” ‘Claims Editorial’ In? Journal; Hits At Steel Concerns

COAL STOCKS AT ALL-TIME HIGH   Leadership Of Union Calls  On All Miners To Go Back To Work Despite Enormous Stocks.

UMW URGES MINERS TO GO BACK TOWORK   Leadership, in Editorial, Declares War Cannot Be Won Without an Adequate Supply of Coal—97,000 Idle.

UMW Asks Men To Work   Appeal To Remaining Miners, Still Idle, To “Win The War”

AMNNERS ADVISED. TO RETURN TO PITS   Won’t Forefeit Right to Ne. gotiate Contract with Oper. ators on ‘Portal Pay

Ask Miners To Return To Pits  ; UMW Publication ' Says Coal Needed

MINERS URGED BY LEADERS TO RETURN TO PITS   United Mine Workers Journai Admonishes “Nothing Can be Gained by Strike”   RIGHTS PRESERVED   Will Not Forfeit Collective Bargaining, Workers ‘Told; 97,000 Still Of Tobs

Mine Union, In Plea, Urges All Miners Return   Told War Cannot Be Wor Without Adequate Supply Of Coal. —

UNION LEADERS URGE MINERS T0 RETURN TO WORK  DECLARE NOTHING IS TO BE GAINED BY

UNION LEADERS URGING RETURN   Appeal Made to All Miners “Sall on Strike“

UMW Urges  Miners Back To the Pits   Declares Nothing To Be Gained: By Continuing Ty Strike

WARN STRIKING MINERS T1060 BACK TO WORK   UMW Heads Issue Appeal, Nothing To Gain Now by Idleness

MINE UNION ASKS ALL MINERS BACK   “Nothing To Be Gained By Strike” Journal Editorial Points Out

EDITORIAL IN JOURNAL SAYS ‘MUST WIN WAR’   97,000 Workers Still 01 Strike; Absenteeism 10-20 Percent

530,000 Workers Quit Coal Jobs; No Contract Aareement Reached Yet

MANY MINERS ARE "IDLE FIRST DAY, ‘WHISTEE IENGRED   Wen-Act: In Defiance of Government Requests, Te Uy ~ Most of Soft, Hard Coal ~” Blelds.   LEWIS IS 45 MINUTES LATE AT LAST SESSION   Lack of Coai Threatens Oper. ation of War industries Two Mines Running Witi Independent Union;

DISCONGERTING, EH!   Movie Actress Hides from Cops in Bath - - and Then--

TIPSY ACTRESS HAS LOST ROLE   Frances Farmer, Summoned For Parole Violation, Had To Take A Bath Firet

4 OFFICERS OF UNION OUSTED   Accused Of Giving Christmas Gifts Without Membership Authorization

OUTNUMBERED REDS WIPE OUT GERMAN WEDGE DRIVEN INTO THEIR DONETS LINE   Axis Already Has Lost 70,000 Men in Ukrainian Campaign

MOSLEY FUSS GROWS   London Workers Hold Protest { Rally Urging Reconsideration

MINERS ARE URGED TO RETURN 10 JOBS   Urgent—Appeol- Made by Mine Workers’ Official

9,000 MINERS ARE ON STRIKE   UMW Officials Appeals To Men To Return To Jobs Pending  Settlement

UMIW AID PLEADS WITH STRIKERS   Use of “Proper Channels” Urged in Settling Wage, Dues Problems 

FDR FDR Devotes Much Time To Home Front Despite War's Demand For Higher Strategy

Doubts OWM Will Prove A Success   Washington Observer Says F. D. R. Reluctan’ To Yield Home Front Authority to Byrnes 

C.1.0. President Asks No-Strike Bill Be Veloed   Murray Contends Measure Would ‘Actually Encourage Stoppages'’

(iQ President Predicts Period Of Internal Strife If Bill Is Signed

WORK - OR- FIGHT BILL IS REVIVED   Labor Problems Laid Out and Merged for Analysis and Congressional Action

SOLONS EXTEND SCOPE OF LABOR BILL HEARINGS   Coal Industry Backs Smith’s ‘Work or Fight’ Measure

Turks Share In Balkan Affairs   Premier Lauds U.S  Interest In Nation  By FRANK J. O'BRIEN Reancinaied Preaaz Stall Writer

Turks Sharé In Balkan Affairs   Premier Lauds U.S.  Interest In Nation By FRANK JT. oO'RPIEW

Roosevelt Asks Largest Army Fund   House Passes Record Navy Bill Of 29 Billions

BERLIN RAIDED AGAIN BY THE RAF 8 PLANES MISSING   Great Rubber Tire Factory Al Montlucon, France, Heavily Hit.

Giant 4-Motored Aircraft Dump 1,000 Tons of Explosives on German Factory

CONRAD VEIDT DIES   Veteran Stage And Screen Star Stricken On Golf Links

Men Who Bombed Tokyo Planned Celebration In Africa If They Could Get Together Between Raids

BOMBS DAMAGE JAP CARGO SHIP   Attack Off New Guinea Scores Direct Hit; Lae Strafed

Plane Scores Hit With 500-Pound Bomb on Jap Ship  Largest of 3 Enemy  Rawnannsd tc

Britains Big hes Gave The Krupp Works Another Taste Of Aerial Warfare

British Again Make Huge Ar Raid On Essen   Hundreds Of Biggest Bombers Blast At Krupp Armaments Works   CENTRAL GERMANY IS ALSO ATTACKED

THREE NELSONVILLE RESIDENTS INJURED      Bus Overturns When Driver Acts To Avert Collision

NEW MOVES ON FOOD PRODUCTION BATTLE   Farm Workers Eligible For Induction If They Leave Farms—Slaughtering Permits Seon Necessary

Many Planes Used In Raid   Many Fires Are Left Burnina By Raiders

Airmen Start Delivery Of Third 100,000 Ton Consignment  Of Bombs.

Raids on Berlin Only a Start on What Is Coming   Big Aerial Attacks Likely To Increase

New Sub Blows Sure To Come For Jap Ships   ne ieee ee See See Se  Berlin Bombing Portends Invasion By Land

HARMON TELLS STORY OF CRASH   Famous Grid Star, Now Enroute To Florida, Spent 7 Days In Jungle

RETORT MADE BY ARGENTINA TA CRITICISM   Foreign Minister ‘Surprised’ at Neu. “‘y Statement Issued By British.   HITS U.S. ATTITUDE   Declares Conference of Rio De Janeiro Gives Nation Choice af Actinn.

British Reply Astonishes Argentina   Small Chance of Severing  Relatioris with Axis Nations Seen for the Present at  a eee  a

ARGENTINA NOT LIKELY T0 BREAK WITH AXIS SOON   Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu Astonished at British Statement

Argentina Replies To British Critics   No Chance Seen Of Axis Break

British Draw Argentine Ire By Statement   Sharpness Of Reply Leaves Little Chance Of Quick Break With Axis

BRITISH CRITICISM BALKS ARGENTINA   Chance of Break with Axis Is Growing Slim

Berlin Seen As Decisive Battle   Reeling City More . Than Reich Capita!

Berlin Seen As Decisive Battle   Reeling City More Than Reich Capita  By LOUIS P, LOCHNER

LIONS CLUB IN CONCORD        Next Meeting Will Be Held Tuesday, Septemher 7

Interpreting he War   Loss of New Britain Jap Footholds Believed Foretold

TEST  AIR RAID SAID. SUCCESS   Local Practice Went Of According to Schedule

U. S. Planes Hammer at  Kiska Japs   Attacks Hurled Against Remaining Enemies in Aleutians

JAP STRONGHOLDS BADLY DAMAGED   Red' Forces Make Advances at Karelian, Giraud Will Visit United’ States:

Shortage Area Has Sufficient Fuel  No Cut in Value of A, B or C  Gas Coupons Is Contemplated

FORMAL tty ATIONS OF ARMISTICE DA¥ ABANDONED   Texas Observance  Sobered by War

Armistice Day Observed with Grim Determination to Speed up Vietory

Grim Job of War Given First Place Qn Anniversary of War  Armistice

~ For Men At Front It Was Day: of Steady. Slugging At Enemy;: -At Home A Day of Uninitetrépted Imclisateial’ ‘Denlicton :

[TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER —  - Formal Celebrations Of Armistice _ Day Abandoned For Greater Tasks

Emphasis On Winning War   Armistice Day Celebration Dimmed By Size of Task

Nation Pause:  in Observance  of Armistice Program Here Includes  Parade and Meetings af Patrintic Groups

FORMAL OBSERVANCE  OF ARMISTICE DAY  DIMMED BY NEW WAR CELEBRATION GAVE WAY  _ TO GRIMMER TASKS AT ~ HOME AND ABROAD

Little Joy On This Nov. 11   All Bend to the Grim Task of Hastening End Of Present Conflict On This Armistice Day

LITTLENOTE TAKEN “OF ARMISTICE DAY   Americs Too Occupied Winning Far Greater Striucale

Armistice Day Cel brations Are Abandoned for Grimmer Tasks at 'Home and Abroad; Ceremonies Brief

FULL DAY OF WAR   Guns Roar and Home Front Wheels Turn on Armistice Anniversary

Celebration Of Armistice Is Omitted   Few Ceremonies Mark  Historic Day as World Battles

Armistice Day No Holiday At Home, Abroad  Extra Effort To Win War. Urged By Ruler

Celebration Of Armistice Mild: War Jobs First   Allies Work, Fight For 1944 Victory

FORMAL FETES OF ARMISTICE DAY FOREGONE      Nation Sticks to Grimmer ' Task At Home and Abroad; Unknown Soldier Honored

URGENT WAR TASK DIMS ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATION   British King Strikes Keynote For United Nations In Urging Greater Effort; Capital Has Full. Work daw.

ARMISTICE DAY FETES DIMMED BY WAR NEEDS   American Fighting Men Slug it Out With the Enemy in Europe and South Seas

FORMAL OBSERVANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY DIMMED BY NEW WAR  CELEBRATION GAVE WAY  TO GRIMMER TASKS AT   awa ann, ADDMA

48-HOUR WEEK AND FOOD PLANS TAKE SPOTLIGHT   New Schedule Is Put Into Effect in 32 Labor-short Areas - - Results Good   DRAFT POLICIES REVAMPED    Move To Limit President’s Tenure to Two Terms Begun; Farm Prices Studied

ATTENTION CAPITAL CENTERED RESULTS OF 48-HOUR WEEK  FOURTH TERM QUESTIO!  FORCED TO FRONT

NORTH AFRICAN ACTION   Capital Eyes Effect, of 18-Hour Week.  Gives Attention To Fourth Term Issue

Capital Eyes Effect of 48 -Hour Week. Week,  Gives Attention To Fourth Term Issue

ANTI- SABOTAGE BILL RECEIVES CONSIDERATION    Lawrhakers Watch Effects of 48-Hour  Week

Roosevelt May Veto Iwo Bills, Tydings Asserts   President against Blanket Deferment of Farmers and Salary Bill

FDR Veto Seen On Farm, Wage  Limit Measures   But Strength Is Declared Enough to Override On Pav BF

VETO EXPECTED ON 2 MEASURES FOR IS AGAINST   Salary Limit Repeal And Farmer Deferment Will  Pace Concress   WILL CONSIDER TAX BILL DURING WEEK

rm Draft Ban, 'y Limit Repeal iy Strike Veto  enator Tydings Feels leferment Measure ar Too Extreme

Veto Prospect Looms for Two Measures   Roosevelt Opposes Pay Limit Repeal, Farm Deferment

SALARY LIMIT REPEAL BILL MAY GET VETO   Roosevelt Also Expected to Disapprove Farm : Deferment

VETO OF TWO BY CONGRESS   Farmer Deferments, Salary Limits FDR ‘Pets’

TAX ‘FREEZE’ - [$ PROPOSED   VANDENBERG TO LEAD) MOVE AGAINST HIKE IN SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES

WANTS PLAVERS TO REPOKTE   LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   French Forces Capture Pont Du Fahs

SUBSIDY PLAN NEXT ON LIST ~ FOR CONGRES!   STRONG OPPOSITION BREN TO ‘PRESIDENTS PROPOSAL IN CONNECTION WITh APREEZE" PROGRAM

Britain Will Fight to the End Says Eder   Foreign Secretary Says England No Less than the US and China Has a Scere to Settle with Japan

Eden Affirms British Plan to Win Fight   Stresses Unconditional Surrender of All Enemies; ‘tn It to the End’

GREAT BRITAIN DETERMINED TO — ALL AXIS  a SE ey ny Te, Senne   Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Gives.His Nation’s i solemn -Promise to Such a Program   Lauds China and Assures Her United Nations Will Back Her to End

EDEN PROMISES FIGHT TO END AGAINST ENEMY   Minister Says Britain lias Score To Settle With Japanese

EDEN PROMISES FIGHT TQ END’   Foreign Secretary Declares British Will Help  mor '—ghash Axis

FIGHT TO FINISH BRITAIN'S AIM   Such Is Assurance Giver By Foreign Secretary in Address in Maryland

EDEN MAKES WAR PLEDGE AGAINST NIPS   Encourges China With Promise to Reopen Burma Road

Eden Pledges Fight to Finish   Score to Settle With Japs He Says

Russ Smash NaziWedgein KharkovArea   Axis Force Permitted to Pierce Lines Then Is Annihilated

Nazi Wedge on Kharkov Front is Wined Out; Thaws Slow Fighting   Recapture of Sevsk is German Claim

Russian Troops Wipe Out Another German Wedge on the Kharkov Front

SOVIETS WIPE OUT NAZI  WEDGE; SEIZE 4 VILLAGES IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK

Reds Wipe Out Nazi Wedge on Kharkov Front   Spring Thaws Halt Extensive Operations In All Sectors

RUSSOS SMASH NAZI WEDGES   SEIZE FOUR HAMLETS IN SMOLENSK DEFENSES

MUD, WATE SLOW BATTLE OF RUSSIANS   But Soviet Troops Wipe Out Nazi Wedge in Kharkov Line, Take Four More Towns

RUSSIAN FIGHTING DECLINES GREATL'   Spring Thaws Convert Road: Into Quagmire, Streams Are Overflowing.

SOVIET FIGHTING ON REDUCED SCALE BECAUSE OF THAWS   Germans Claim Capture o' Sevsk But It Is: Not, Con fiemmad

CHICAGO AREA POLIO CASES — * WORRYING SCHOOL OFFICIALS   TWENTY-FIVE SCHOOLS, IN CL CERO NOT TO OPEN Ag SCHEDULED DUE. TO EPIDEMIC

President Lauds Fight In Pacific    Message s Sent To General MacArthur.

Roosevelt Praises Gen. MacArthur And Air Force for Blows Dealt Japs

Boston Police  Officials To  Face Court  New Gambling Indictments

Air Offensive Of Week-End Sets Record   Nazi Arms Center At Essen Target Of Furious Attack

ESSEN BOMBED IN GANT RAD TO CAP RECORD WEEK-END   Deep New Inroads Made on Hitler’s Production in Assaults on Hamburg, Cologne and Other Points.

Essen, Hamburg Blasted in Heavy Day, Night Attacks   Planes Constantly Cross, Re-Cross Channel Today After Heaviest Week-end Bombings of Wear

Groups Differ On Farther Cut in Paper  WPB Proposes   WPB Proposes New Slash in Use of Newsprint

Key City Falls To Russians as Nazis Move Back   Major Reverse May Have Effect on German Morale   Delaying Force Battles  Onrushing Russian Troops

Reds Fight Bitter Street Battles Against Nazis  Formal Occupation of City Only

Soviets take Orel as forces battle nazis in streets   German army abandons strategic stronghold in frantic withdrawal

Reds Beat Down Holding Force   Full Occupation Matter Of Hours  — mmumerpeaeememe TT WAT FTF -

Armies Fight In Streets Of Vital City   Russians Anticipate Early Surrender; Enemy Loss Mounts

Reds Smash Into Streets  And Engage Rear Guard   Withdrawal Orderly, German Account Says. But Russians Report Hasty, Costly Retreat   CITY VITAL HINGE IN NAZI DEFENSES  Formal Occupation Of City Believed Only Maiter of Hours

Nazis Abandoning Key Defense Area   Formal Occupation Of City After 24 Days OF Grand-Scale Fighting Only Matter Of Hours

Onrushing Russ Capture 80  Strategic Towns   Berlm Announces Withdrawal Beyond Battered Stronghold; Foe Leaves War Machines Behind

Nazis Say Evacuation Is According to Plan; Street Fighting Rages

‘Soviet Forces : Have Smashed . Way Into Orel   Sireet Fighting With Frantic German ' Troops Now Reported; Nazi Radio Reports Gity’s Evacuation

‘German Defenses Crumple Before Onrushing Reds  POPULATED PLACES ’ ARE‘ ALSO SEIZED ‘Germans Admit That  Army Is Being Eva. cuated

Bitter Street Fighting Rages;  Fall Imminent   Soviets Hotly Pursue Retreating German Forces; Seizure Would Be Big Russian Prize

NAZIS BEGIN WITHDRAWING FROM. CITY    Vast Quantities of Material Captured by Soviet Army as It Storms Into Stronghold.   ENEMY ROUTED . IN ONE SECTOR   Bastion, Second Only to Smolensk -in Hitler’s East Wall, Held by Foe Since 1941.

NAZI BASTION IS ENCIRCLED BY RED ARM)   RETREAT IS ALMOST ROUT; BERLIN SAYS CITY ABANDONED

Germans Admit Evacuating Strategic Defense Point; Fighting In Streets   HUGE QUANTITIES OF MATERIEL ABANDONED

Berlin Announces Abandoning City   Street Fighting Rages in Strategic Hinge o Invaders’ Defense System; Formal Occupation Believed Near

FEDERAL EMPLOVES DEFERMENTS FLAYED   Review Of Selective Service Rolls Recommended

Draft Boards Eye Federal Workers   Policy Defined By Lewis Hershey

DRAFT UNITS TO CULL LIST FOR FLICIBLES   Eliminate Deferments of U. S. Employes, Says Hershey

Federal Employes May Face Draff  House Group Asks   House Group Asks Order Eliminating Their Deferment

U.S. Workers in New Draft Quiz   House Military Body   House Military Body Asks Hershey for Review of Eligibles

Body Hits at Government Deferments   Asks Hershey to Instruct Boards To Review Files  Of U.S. Workers

Report Hits  Deferments    House Committee Recom-; mends Reclassification of. Draft Age Federal Emploves 

Hit Policies Of Deferment   House Committee Suggests Study Be Made Of Government Employes.

Senate Passes Aviation Bil, Acts On Unions   Rail-Commission Given Regulation Crme ABCA Rittee

Senate Passes Aviation Bill, Acts On Unions   Rail Commission Given Regulation Over Aeronautics

19 PLANES LOST IN RAF'S ATTACK ON NAZI CAPITAL   British Official Announces Air Blows Pave Way for Invasion

Block-Busters Blitz Sets Off Great Blazes   '...Flames Visible 200 Miles; 19 Bombers Lost

HUGE BRITISH FORCE STRIKES NAZI CAPITAL   19 Planes Reported Lost In Heaviest Raid As ‘“Prelude To Invasion”   SWEEP OVER IN WAVES   Germans Admit Heavy Damage With Flames Lighting Up Big Areas

500 BOMBERS HIT HEART OF ~AAZL CAPITAL   RAF Loses 19 Huge Planes in Attack That Left City a Sea of Flames...   OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED — “PRELUDE TO INVASION”

500 Planes Hit, Scourge City; Invasion Near   ‘Half Hour Of Concentrated Flame Anc   Explosion Officially Called   Prelude To Land Attack; RAF © Pilots Return Jubilant.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS  ene nee net seetstaatenereetetS  900 British Bombers Sead Fire. Explosion on Berlin

New U.S. Thunderbolts Battle German Fighters In European Sweeps   Moscow Claims Reds Have Destroyed 1300 Axis Aircraft in Two Weeks of Aerial Drive; Lull in North Africa Extends to Air Forces

American High-Flying Thunderbolt: Aid in Attacks on West Europe; German Aircraft Raid Lendon

TWO KILLED, FIVE INJURED = IN BAGGAGE CAR EXPLOSION   INVESTIGATION OPENED INTO BLAST AT ASHLAND BELIEVED CAUSED BY  : PRLEWORKS

BLAST FIRES CAR, “KULS 2 OHIOANS   Fireworks ~ Responsible for Mishap at Ashland tn- ~ juring Five ~

PRIMARIES NEXT TUESDAY TO  REACH NEW HIGH IN EXPENSE   Harrisburg Believes All-Time Record Is Near In State Voting

HILL IS PLEASED WITH BOND DRIVE   Douglas County Exceeded Its Quota in Campaign by $182,706.95   ~~ Fee st lw = a PS a SO ee eee ee de =e Sasa

HILL [S PLEASED WITH BOND DRIVE   Douglas: County Exceeded Its Quota in Campai  by $182,706.95   ITOTAL IS $970,906.95

‘Air-Raid Sirens Sound In San Francisco  ‘And Neighboring Cities

ALLIES PUSH ON Ltt FROM 2 DIRECTIONS   Japs Putting Up No Serious Resistance To Drives

Jap Position at Lae Weakening   Two-Pronged Drive Gaining Steadily

"AR POLICE’ PLAN. URGEC   WALLACE DECLARES INTERNA TIONAL FORCE NEEDED TO -REEP WORLD PEACE IN THE FUTURE

WALLACE URGES WORLD POLICE   Tells Ohio Audience Small Air Force Could Maintain International Peace

REMNANTS OF ROUTED ARMIES LOSING NERVE   Allied Forces Cross Neck Of Peninsula To Cut Off Escape Routes   ‘NAZIS BURNING SUPPLIES   Prisoner Lists Grow; Ships And Planes Thwart Possible “Dunkirk”

TROOPS TAKEN   Resistance on Cap Bon Collapsing; Huge Quantities Of Supplies Taken.   NO ‘GERMAN DUNKERQUE”

Troops Bottled in Peninsula Surrendering, British Navy Mopping Up Fleeing Foe

Enemy Losing Nerve as Allies Pound at Heels   Prospect of Last Stand Dwindling Now in Tunisia

Hammamet Captured by. British First Army, Coast Under Blockade   RESPITE FOR YANKS   U. S. Army Counts and Feeds Jis Prisoners in Northern Sector

Unconditional Surrender Only Terms of Allies   Prisoners by Thousands Giving Up Hourly to United Powers.   British Cut Through  Neck of Peninsula

Germans and Italians Caught in Allied Vise Appear to Have. Lost Their Nerve After British Stroke and Are Surrendering

Complete Breakthrough On Cap Bon Peninsula Made By British Armored Troops

CAMPAIGN IN NORTH AFRICA BRINGS AIR POWER TO ITS PEAK  BLOWS DEALT AXIS IN CAMPAIGN BRINGS VICTORY AND WEAKENS NAZI

HOUSE REFERRED RIVER AUTHORITIES PROBE TO COMMITTEE  INVESTIGATION SOUGHT OF SAN ANTONIO PURCHASE PTIRIIC SERVICE

GERMAN SUB BASE AT ST, NAZAIRE WAS ATTACKED BY RAF   Came in the Wake of a Heavy Assault on Wilhelmshaven.   MONDAY AFTERNOON   British Whirlwind Bombers Also Blasted Railway Targets During the Night.

RAF RENEWS AIR RAIDS AGAINST AXIS SUB BASES   Blasts U-Boat Port at St. Nazaire; American Planes Hit Wilhelmshaven

U-BOAT LAIRS BATTERED BY AIR ARMADAS   RAY’s Bombers Smash At St Nazaire; U. S. Bomber Raid On Wilhelmshaven

—AIR RAIDS—  GERMAN U-BOAT NESTS POUNDEL   American Bombers Stage Heavy Attack On Wilhelmshaven   GOOD RESULTS   RAF Smashes St. Naz. ‘aire, Railway Targets In Brittany

British Follow with Nighi Raid on Nazi U-Boat Base at St. Nazaire   MAASLUIS RAIDED   American Attack Concentrated, ‘Results Were Good," Communique Reports

RAF Bombers  Haid Base At  St. Nazaire   Attack On Installations For U-Boats Follows Raid By Americans On Wilhelmshaven

RAF BLASTS AT GERMAN SUB BASE AT ST. NAZAIRE AFTER U.S. HITS WILHELMSHAVEN

ATTACK NAZI BASES   British and American Fliers Carry Out Raid on Ger-.  man Subs

BiG BOMBERS OF UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN KEPT BUSY  WILHELMSHAVEN AND C7   WILHELMSHAVEN AND ST. NAZAIRE ATTACKED IN DAY AND NIGHT MISSIONS

British Bombs Again Blast At St. Nazaire   RAF Night Raid Follows U.S. Day Sweep At Wilhalmshaven Target   OFFENSIVE RESUMES   Allies Renew Efforts To Smash U Boat Construction Bases On Continent

$f, Nazaire Hit By Big RAF Raid   U. S. Bombers Strike At Wilhelmshaven

Allied Flyers Resume Offensive With Attacks on Wilhelmshaven Nazi Sub Base at St. Nazaire

Nazi U-Boat Base Attacked by RAF   Follows Heavy Assault on Wilhelmshaven by Amer ican Fliers.

U.S. Bombers Attack Nazi  Naval Base   Make Daylight Thrust; RAF Follows Up With St. Nazaire Night Raid

RAF SMASHES SUBMARINE BASE AT ST. NAZAIRE   U.S. Flying Fortresses Bomb ‘Withelmshaven Monday Afternoon

RAF BOMBERS SMASH AT BIG NAZI SUB BASE   Flying Fortresses and Liberators Hit Wilhelmshaven Heavily Monday

BOMBERS POUND FOE ‘SUB’ BASE AT ST. NAZAIRE   RAF Assault Comes in Wake of Yank Raids on Wilhelmshaven’' Area

U. S. Fliers Bomb Naval Base At Wilhelmshaven  ee  RAF Makes Raid Upon St. Nazaire

U.0., RAF PLANES HIT NAZI TARGET!   Bomb Submarine Base, Wilheimshaven in Heavy Assaults.

British Smash AtSt. Nazaire   American Airmen Raid Wilhelmshaven With Good Results

RAF Again Hits Nazi Sab Base At St. Nazaire   Wilhelmshaven Is Target Of Flying Fortresses; Bomb Brittany Railway

BIG RAF BOMBERS BATTER ST. NAZAIRE, NAZI U-BOAT BASE   Attack ‘Comes After Heavy American .Raid On Wilhelmshaven   3 PLANES DON’T RETURN

NIGHT, DAY BOMBINGS RESUMED   Blow On Sub Base Follows Raid On Wilhelmshaven

TWO MAJOR SUB BASES IN REICH RAID TARGETS  U. S. Airmen “men. Bla st Wil‘helmshaven ‘While RAF   U. S. Airmen: Blast Wil‘helmshaven While RAF Stages Attack On _ St. Nazaire   BRITTANY ALSO HIT   Yankee Assault On Wilhelmshaven One of Heaviest and Most Accurate Delivered

UJ. §. Airmen Batter Wilhelmshaven; RAF  Pounds St. Nazaire   Americans Stage One of Biggest and Most Accurate Air Raids

GERWAN U-BOAT BASE, R. R. AREA BLASTED BY RAF   American Planes Carry Out Heavy Afternoon Raid

-AMERICANS “HIT NAZI SUB BASE   Allied Airmen Pound @ Other Strongholds — On Continent

Allied Fliers Smash Main U-Boat Bases   R.A.F. Hits St. Nazaire and Yanks Blast Wilhelmshaven Again

RAIL TARGETS IN BRITTANY ALSO STRUCK   drive Continues On Nazi Submarine Bases   THREE BOMBERS   Fail To Return From Raid Described As Heaviest Made By Americans

R. A. F., YANKEES HIT ST. NAZAIRE, WILHELMSHAVEN   Allies Resume Offensive Against Sub Bases Of Germans

ALLIED PLANES SMASH GERMAN U-BOAT BASES   British Attack St. Nazaire While Americans Hit Wilhelmshaven   HEAVY LOADS DROPPED   Nazi Fighter Interception Cautious, Returning Pilots Report

Bombers Blast Wilhelmshaven And St. Nazaire   German U-Boat Bases Suffer Terrific Air Pounding

American Attack On Withelmshaven Is Heaviest Yet; St. Nazaire Blasted

AIRMEN ATTACK — U-BOAT NESTS   Assault By U.S. Planes Called One of Heaviest, Most Accurate

RAF Smashes St. Nazaire U-Boat Base   Railway Targets in Brittany Are Also Blasted By Bombers

Big RAF Bombers Hit St. Nazaire  Wilhelmshaven Battered By U.S. Airmen

RAF Pounds St. Nazaire U-Boat Base   Also Blast Rail Targets In Brittany During Night

R.A. F. BLITZES ST. NAZAIRE   FOUR-MOTORED PLANES BLAST SUB HARBOR

RAF Follows Up American Day Bombing   Make Night Raid On Submarine Base At St. Nazaire

USA And RAF Blast Germans   AIR FORCES BATTERED NAZI SUBMARINE BASES

3 DEAD, 25 HURT -IN-BAIL CRASH   Flyer Hits Auto; Second Passenger Train Can’t Stop

Crowded Pennsylv ania  “Passenger Train Hits  Bus, Another Plunges ‘Into Collision

3 DIE, 25 HURT IN TRAIN-AUTO WRECK IN OHIO   Second Section of Limitec Unable To Stop, Plows Into Passenger

Train Smashes Into Car And Then Is Rammed In Back By Another Train

CAR, 2 TRAINS ARE IN CRASHES   3 Are Killed and 25 Host in 2 Accidente

HOUSE APPROVES THINNED CASH ACT \WITH VOICE VOTE   Refuse to Restore Funds Cut Out by Appropriations Committeemen

BOMBERS, FIGHTERS FIRE JAP POSITIONS   Appropriations Bill Passes in House

JAPS ADMIT.19 — SHIPS DAMAGED. PAST FEW WEEKS   Tokyo, However, Cleirm: 13 Allied Vessels Sank In South Pacific Past  Few Dave.

IRREGULARITY  RULES MARKET   Early Fractional Gains Cancelled Later; Direction Cloudy at Close

Younger Me: Men =  Will Be Taken   Rep. May Predicts Army Wilk Speed. Up 18-25 “Classes In 1943 :

INDUCTION WILL ~INGREADE, SAID   War Department Abandons Requirement Trained Replacement Must Be Available Release Men Over 38

Heavy Inductions  Believed Nearing   Chadiieweni May Believes Big Calls Will Come In February. March

SPEEDUP SEEN IN INDUCTIONS OF MEN 18-23   PRESSURE TO CRACK AXIS IS EXPECTED IN WASHINGTON

200 FINISH COURSE   Diplomas and Certificates Given to Machinist Mates

Biggest Aircraft Carrier Task Force Ever Assembled Hit Wake Without Comeback

Japs Caught By Surprise, Damage Heavy  American Carrier Task Force Of Record Size Blasted Wake Island

CARRIER TASK FORCE LARGEST YET ASSEMBLED   Japs Caught By Surprise; Bemb Tonnage Tremendous

Japs Caught Napping in Wake Attack   Isnemy Fails to Crack Allied Fighter Screen as Bombs Rip Isle

Goal In Coming War Drive   Warships Built Since Pearl Harbor Struck Japs At Wake   American Naval And Air Forces Lambasted Enemy-Held Base For Two Davs. Writer Says

Carrier Task Force for Wake Raid Was Greatest Ever Assembled; 1,051 Tons of Explosives Rocked Island

Biggest Task — - Force Ever In Raid On Wake   Tons and Tons of Bombs and Shells Hurled Upon JapHeld Island   NO. RETALIATION, ENEMY SURPRISED   ‘Warehotses,Planes and Various iesiallatians Wreck-

Japs Caught By Surprise At Wake   2-Day Attack Related In Detail Here

Greatest Carrier. Task Force ‘Lavs Wake Island in Ruins ~   Ay FLIGENE ALIRNS

WAKE ISLAND RAID DETAIL REPORTED BY WAR CORRESPONDENT  GREAT TASK FORCE HAM. MERED JAPS MANY HOURS WITHOUT TROUBLE

Greatest Carrier Task Force Ever Put Together Laid Waste to Wake   By PRUQENE BRIIRNS

Carrier Force Which Hit Wake Island Was The Biggest Ever Assembled

Greatest Aircraft Carrier Force Takes Part In Wake Island Attack

Largest Aircraft Carrier Task Force Surprises Japs On Wake Isle2-Day Attack   Ry EFLIGENE RLIRNS

Story Of Devasting American Air And Sea Attack On Tiny Pacific Island Revealed; Ships Range ~ Close To Marshall Stronghold

Biggest Aircraft Carrier Task Force Ever Assembled Hurled Against Wake Island

U.S., British Fliers Continue Record Assault On Europe   Record-Breaking Ovfensive Enters Sixth Day Of Terrifie Attacks On Nazi Centers

Dam Breaks From Bombs  Great Less      INDUSERIAL CENTERS OF NAZILAND LAMBASTED MERCILESSLY.

Bricker Inducted For Third Term. Sans Pageantry   Presidential Omens Noted During Ceremony Shorn Of Usual Frills; Governor’s Inaugural Address Monday Night

Governor to Give Address to Legislature Tonight: Pageantry is Absent a! Ceremonies.

PEACE RUMORS STIR UP PARIS   Black Markets Selling At Cut Prices, See End of War Soon

WOMEN MEET TONIGHT   Mrs. Six’s Campaign. Organization Is Ready for the Drive

Henry J. Harms Buys LeMars Savings Stock  MPrAAATEVR Lao   Acquires Majority Interest In Bank And Is President

Henry J. Harms Buys LeMars Savings Stock  Acquires Majority Interest In Bank And Is: President

Steps to Ease Shortage of Labor Sought   Senators Thomas And Nye Would Lead in Fight

End Of Fascism Brings Holiday Atmosphere Italian Capital; Mussolini's Fall Celebrated

OPEN DEBATE ON TAX PLAN   George Formally Reports  Measure to Senate

SOLONS OPEN PAY-AS-EARN TAX DEBATE   Finance Members Yote 13-8 for Forgivenness Of Year's Levy

SENATE GETS NEW TAX PLAN   George Proposes Substitute for Committee-Approved Forgiveness Bill

M'NIDER PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEAD   Allied Forces in New  Guinea Honor Fallen

New Ban On Driving Not Essential   OPA WILL BACK IT UP WITH ALI POSSIBLE ENFORCEMENT, ADMINISTRATOR PRENTISS M  BROWN SAYS.   Effective At Noon

AXIS HEART HIT KILLING BLOW   Centralization Of War Machinery In Berlin Another Hun Error

BERLIN IS HEART OF NAZIDOM: _ BEGAUSE OF CENTRALIZATION   RAIDS ON GERMAN CAPITAL STRIKE AT CENTER OF THE WAR MACHINERY OF  ‘ REICH '

RUSS FORCE NAZIS BACK IN TANK WAR   Huge Iron Giants Smash Through Germans Near Voronezh

Reds Rolling Nazis Back Toward Kursk   Say Huge Tanks Are Battering Through Fortifications and Over the Bodies of German Soldiers Strewn Along! the Way.

GIANT RUSSIAN TANKS ROLLING THE NAZIS BACK   fanks Described As Bigger Than Anything Nazis Have On Russian Front; Germans Being Rolled Back Steadily Toward Kursk.

BOLSTERED SOVIET FORCES NOW HOLD NAZIS IN DEATH VISE  LATEST ADVANCE HAS CARRIED RUSSIANS TO WITHIN 65 MILES KURSK

New Drives Developing Toward Kursk, Belgorod And Kharkov, Say Reds

RUSSIANS USE BIGNEW TANK   Iron. Giants. Reported - Larger Than Any. Nazis ave.

Russ Launch Heavy Drive South Of  Lake Ladoga   Violent Assault May Be Aimed At Encirclement Of  ‘Kina Aét T anine rad

NINE GERMAN DIVISIONS IN DEATH TRAP   Powerful Red Army Smashes Through Ger man Defenses. oo   Latest Advance Is 65 Miles of Kursk

RUSSIAN TANKS SMASH AXIS FORCE! ii KURSK VICINITY   14,500 Prisoners Taken, 12,090 Enemy Killed In Three Dave. Reds Say

FORTY-FOUR MILE WIDE PATH IS OPENED WEST OF  VORONEZH BY TANK FORCE—PARTS OF NINE NAZI DIVISIONS DECLARED CAUGHT IN A DEATH TRAP—  KURSK AND KHARKOV MENACED    By HENRY C. CASSIDY

U. 5 -RUSSIAN CONFERENCE BELIEVED NEAR   Food Problem Still Holds Washington Spotlight   For Used Commercial Vehicles Set By O. P. A.; Land Is Approved

TAX ABATEMENT BILL KAYOED BY VOTE IN HOUSE   Maritime Commission Under Fire and Study Given Post-war Program

GOP LEADERSHIP IS CONSIDERING TAX AGREEMENT   Congress Takes Back Seat; Other Issues in Spotlight

FR FR Announces: Semi- Compulsory Manpower Act; Rum! Plan Out      Presiilent ‘Says Russian: American ‘Conferences May be Near.

MEASURE LOGES IN CLOSE VOTE   Compromise Proposal To Abate Portion Of Income Tax Considered   DRAFT CHANGES   Chousands Brought Nearer Military Service By Roosevelt. Action

TELL WITNESSES 10 DOCUMENT CHARGES   Plan Investigation of 1940 GOP Convention trregularities.

MUST DOCUMENT G. 0. P, CHARGES   Prospective Witnesses In Investigation Of “Irregularities’’ At 1940 Republican Convention Get Notice.

WARREN KEEPS PENSION AIM   GOVERNOR OPPOSES TRY TO WIDEN SCOPE OF STATE OLD-AGE PLAN

WALSH SUCCEEDS BARBOUR   New N. J. Senator Vice President of Edison Industries

DEMOCRAT NAMED IN BARBOUR'S PLAGE   New Jersey Senate Vacancy Filled By Gov. Edison

ALLIES AIM TO CUT — ROAD OF RETREAT, TRAP AXIS ARMIES   American And British Forces Gain Between 10 And 15 Miles In ’ Sbiba Area—Allies Get Ready. For Assault

U. S. Troops Take Kasserine Pass  Patrols Strike on Either Side of Rommel To Cut

ALLIED FORCES GAIN 15. MILES IN SBIBA AREA   American And British Troops Hold High Ground About Kasserine Pass   ENEMY RACES FOR SFAX   Picture Of Conflict In Tunisia Undergoes Great Change In Week

Home Edition   NAZIS ABANDON KASSERINE PASS, RUN FOR COAST   U. S. And British Forces Gain I0 To 15 Miles And Eighth Army Moves To. Close In Across Mareth Line

STRIKING: HARD AT NAZI FORCE      SORE ae  Api cars that Part of . ‘Kommer’s Troops are Racing for Stax on East Tunisia Coast — Amerieati and British. Troops Gain Between 10 and 15/Miles in Shiba Area, ¥

PART OF NAZI TROOPS RAGING TOWARD SFAX   Americans and British Strike at Flank of German Army In Tunisia.

EXTRICATION OF FORCES FROM TRAP IS BIG OBJECTIVE   Kasserine Pass Now Firmly In Allied _Hands—Battering Goes on.

KASSERINE PASS IS FIRMLY HELD BY ALLIED FORCES   Rommel Is Using Familiar  Tricks to Cover Retreat - With Pass Heavily Mined To Slow Pursuers.   ALLIES GIVE RABAUL AIRDROME MORE BOMBS   Nurenberg Industrial Center Bombed For An Hour as Other Raids Occur in Western Germany.

ALLIES GAIN” 15 MILES IN SHIBA AREA   Yanks Continue Speedy Comeback Against Nazi Forces

Head For Sfax, May Abandon Central Tunisia   American Gains Up to 10-15 Miles; Occupation of Kasserine, Feriana, Sbeitla, Gafsa Expected

10-15 Miles.           KASSERINE PASS FIRMLY IN. HANDS OF BRITISH AND USS. =. TROOPS: ALSO ACTIVE IN NORTH

ALLIES GAIN BETWEEN 10, 15 MILES   Vital Kasserine Pass Is Firmly In Allied Hands

MMEL FORCE AGING TOWARD ASE ON COAS'      d Patrols ‘frying to Cut off toad of Retreat; Germany Admits Defeat at Kasser ing

SERGEANT LIVES TQ TELL STORY   Fortress Gunner Miraculouslv Escapes As Two 20 MM Shells Rip Through His Bal! Turret.   «BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR—

EYE SESSION ~ AT VATICAN   ‘Particular Importance’ Is Attached To Meeting By Rome

Yanks Down Six Planes In Attack on Rabaul as  Ground Forces Advance

Bougainville F ighter Planes  Slash at Enemy in Rabaul   Anierican Ground Forces Advance on New Britain; Japs Express Concern

Planes From New Bougainville Base  Blast at Rabaul  Americans Use

G JAP SHIPS ON __ FIRSTFORAY   Boveainville Air Strip Used As Foes Concerned

Langer Declares  Knox Executed Oi  ‘Give Away Lease   Standard Oil Allowed Drilling Rights in Elk Hills Reserve

MADE ‘OIL GIVE AWAY’ LEASE   Langer Hits Contract Made with California Standard

Langer Charges Knox Gave Away Rich Oil Rights   Also Names Roosevelt in “Hush Hush’ Contract with Standard

British Admit Ceramic's Loss  Reitich Liner Wace   British Liner Was Sent Down Almost Year Ago, Stated

BRITISH REVEAL TRAGEDY COSTING Q03 LIVES AT SEA   Liner Ceramic Sunk Last November, Presumably by Sub, En Route to Capetown From England.   NO NEWS EVER CAME OF ANY SURVIVORS   Germany Announced at Time 18,700-Ton Ship Sank Quickly in Gale Without Launching Lifeboats,

No Trace of British Liner and 500 Passengers Sunk by Enemy ‘Submarine in Atiantic in November

BRITISH ADMIT SUB SINKING OF LINER CERAMIC   More Than 500 Passengers including Whole Families, Wiped Out in Atlantic Tragedy

BRITISH REVEAL LOSS OF LINER, 500 ABOARD   Sinking Without Trace Of Liner Ceremac Nearly Year Ago Marks One Of Worst Ocean Tragedies Of War

Report Loss Of Liner   8,700 Ton British Liner Ceramic Sunk Over Year Ago With More Than 500 Passengers Aboard

MAN, ENRAGED BY DIVORCE, KILLS JUDGE, 4 OTHERS   Ogden, Utah, Is Scene Of Bloody Rampage Last Night   CRAZED MAN SHOOTS ANYBODY IN SIGHT

JUDGE AMONG SIX KILLED BY ENRAGED MAN   Goes On Shooting Spree After Wife Gets Divorce

Victims Include Judge Wh - Had Granted Divorce To Wife Of ‘Killer  BORROWED GUN USED  Gruesome Trail Ended In ~ “Main Office Of Police Station

Ogden Man Goes Crazy And Slays   Judge Who Granted Wife Of Killer Divorce Is Among The Victims Of Demented Man

Utah Man Gives Up After Rampage Enraged By Divorce, Slays Fi ive

It's Not Tank In Fight, It’s Fight In Tank  Firepower Counts, Not Size, Sa ys General: 60 - Tonners To Go

It’s Not the Size of Tank in Fight, But Size of the Fight in Tank That Counts, Ordnance Chief Says

FIREPOWER, NOT BULK. TANK TES]   No Excuse For Any Tank Except Firepower it Can Exert, Says Ordnance Chief

Huge Tanks Not Se Good  U.S. Guns Have Put Shalle Thronanoh Them

Firepower, Not Size, Counts   Expert Says Big Tanks Are Only as Good as Their Guns

MAY  ~ WORK ORDER   NO DECISION YET REACHED ON PLACING ENTIRE COUNTRY ON 48-HOUR WORK

LONG WORK WEEK MAY BE FORCED THROUGH NATION   48-Hour Week Discussed — Need For Increased Production Ts Seen

Longer Work Week Studied   Nation-Wide 48-Hour ‘Action !s5 Discussed

FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR WEEK FOR ENTIRE COUNTRY STUDIED   Officials Say Adoption Would Be Equivalent to Adding Million Workers to Present Force.   GROUP IS STILL j FAR FROM DECISION   If It Is Found Necessary to Grant Too Many Exemptions Scheme Will Be Turned Down.

Considers Nationwide 48-Hour Week   WMC Still Far From Any Decison on Proposal

WMC Considers Nation-Wide &$-Hour Week   Complications May Delay Decision On Work Order

Manpower Com’s’n. Studies 48-Hr. Work Week For Everyone   Would Add Million More. Workers To Present Labor Force

Nation-Wide 48-Hour Week  Considered   No Immediate Action Is In Prospect, Commission Says

NATIONAL 46-HOUR WEEK ORDER HINTED   Growing Labor Shortage Cited By WMC

WMC Studying General 48-Hour WorkWeek Plan   ‘Project Said To Be Equivalent Of “Million Workere.

Ponder 48 Hour Week For All   Too Many Problems To Permit Final Decision Soon

WEIGH EXTENSION UF 4O-HOUA WEEK   Nation-Wide Adoption, How: ever Is Delayed by (Effec' it Would Have on Prices

48-HOUR WEEK LOOMS FOR ALL   WMC Considers Nation - Wide Move To Meet Shortage of Mannawer.

WMC Scans Over-All 48-Hour Week   Gificials Declare Study Covers Each Section of U. S.

48-Hr. Week For Ail Plan Of Manpower   Complications Mav Halt Action

48-Hr. Week For WholeUS May Be Next   WMC Asserts Longer Hours Would Equal Million Added Workers

DECISION UPON 48-HOUR WEEK TO BE DELAYED   Too Many Complications To Permit Quick  Action   ‘AID TO MANPOWER   Estimate Move Would Add Equivalent of Mil lion Workers

48-HOUR MINIMUM WORK WEEK LOOMS IN NATION TODAY   Growing Manpower Shortage and Other Factors May Lead to Order  Saon.

ENTIRE U. 3. MAY GO ON 48-HR. WEEK   Officials Estimate Equivalent of Million       Added te Industrv.

EXTENSION OF 48-HOUR WEEK BEING STUDIED   Too Many Problems Involved In Nationwide Plan to Permit Decision Soon, Officials Say ~   HELD MANPOWER AID   Estimated Longer Week Would Add Equivalent of 1,000,000 Workers. tn .ahor Force

Study Extension Of 48-Hour Week To Cover Nation   WMC Executives Admit Many Problems Must Be Ironed Out

WMC Defers New 48-Hour Week   MANY DETAILS TO BE WORKED OUT FOR INDUSTRY

Manpower Group Again Considers Long Work Week   May Place the Entiré Country under a 48Hour Schedule

48- HOUR WEEK MAY COVER U.S,   Consider Extension Of Work Week Order To Cover Entire Nation.

PRESIDENT AND CHURCHILL IN FIFTH MEETING   Military Chief in India Among Experts With Prime Minister

VICTORY PARLEY GETS UNDER WAY AT WASHINGTON   High Ranking Army And Navy Experts Sitting In On Sessions   DRIVE DATE TO BE SET   Political Aspects Of Conflict Also May Be Considered

Major Move In Burma Likely   Presence Of Marshal Wavell In Washington Augurs For Move On Japs

Rip Nippo Sea Force in North   YANK SHIPS IN WIN OVER ENEMY ARMADA IN ALEUTIAN CLASH

BRICKER, WILLKIE AT TOP OF LISI   As Others Step Down, These Two Are Leading G.O.D. Candidates

Warren Declares Himself ‘Out Of Presidential And  ‘Vice Presidential Races

Out of ’44 GOP Race   California’s Governor Won't Run; Willkie and Bricker Only Ones Left

California Governor Not Candidate for President   Earl Warren “Scratches” Himself Out of Running As GOP Nomination Race Rapidly Becomes a “Don’t Count Me In” Affair; Bricker, Willkie Among Few Mentioned to Remain In Limelight

WARREN NOT AN ENTRY   (alifernia Gevernor Has No Desire To Carry GOP Banner

 9 Governors’ Conference  Leaves Bricker Among    ~ Presidential Kingpins   Executives of Many States Meeting in Columbus Hear Gen. George Marshall Analyze War and WMC Chief Explain Draft Status of Fathers

Governors Duck AIL References To 1944 Election   California. Chief Is:Latest “To -Forego. Candidacy} ~ Brieker Non-Comniittal

Nazi Resistance In Donets Basin Area Shattered   -Hard-Pressed German Defenders Driven  Toward Dnieper River

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulleting on Lates World News Today.   Russians Advance.

Russ Wir Battle of Kursk   HUGE NEW AREA IS OCCUPIED BY SOVIET TROOPS IN VICTORY

All Kursk Area Reported Freed   Foe Cracks in Donets Basin, Moscow Says

Russian Troops Clear Kursk Area Of Nazi Troops.   Red Troops in a General Advance Along a 700-Mile Front, Have Broken the Backbone of German Resistance

SEIZURE OF SUMY BREAKS NAZIS’ HOLD   Advance Along 700-Mile Front ls General

PUSH GERMANS BACK TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER   Liberate — Kursk Region

SEEK TO HALT “SOWET DRIVE ~ FOR KEY BAS   Moscow Reports Army Onl; 37 Miles from Vital German Base.   ADDS 2,400 TO TOLL OF 35,000 NAZIS KILLED

eople Speculating on How Varlords Will be Punished   hether They Will Be Allowed a Kaiser’s Exile, a Killer’s Execution, Or a Lonely Cell Are Subjects Discussed On Street-Corners In Wake of Roosevelt’s Promise “No Criminal Will Escape”

Will It Be Kaiser's Exile, Death or Cell For Axis Leaders! Questions Raised by Roosevelt Warning of War Punishment

Speculation Rife On Hifler’s Fate   Roosevelt Says No Criminal To Get Out By Resigning

CHANGE MADE AT PARSONS   Employees of J-M Service Corporation Being Laid Off

WILL EXPLAIN   Fond Industry Plans‘ Huge Ads to Clear Tin Poini Ration.

Glory of Soviet Victories Goes to Younger Officers  As All Work Side by Side

STALIN. & YOUNG AIDES ENTIRE CREDIT   Victories Have Been Theirs, But Oldest Friends Remain Closest To Stalin, Says Cagsidvy.   Straight From Moscow

Chennault Believes War May Endin’43   U.S. Must Turn Whole Effort into Pacific, He Says

Jap Defeat In 1943 Seen As Possibility   Chennault Declares Allies Must Be Willine To Pay Price

DEFEAT OF JAPAN MAY BE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE YEAR   Prediction Is Made That Defeat Will Come When Whole Effort Is  Exerted. .

J ap Defeat ‘In 1943 Seen ‘By Chennault   Pacific Victory Depends on Speedy Help for China

OUTSIDE CHANCE DEFEATING JAPS IN “43, BELIEVES   General Chennault Sees Japs Losing Quickly When U. 8. Turns Whole Effort to Pacific

Stabilization  ~ Plan In Effect   Hiring of Essential Medina Workers Restricted

WORKERS MUST GET CLEARANCE FOR NEW JoBs   U. S. Employment Service is Clearing Office in This Section

Must Get Clearance Order to Change Job   Local U. ‘S. Employment* Of. fice Explains Application ot New Stabilization Plan

JOB TRANSFERS NEED WMC 0. K.   Appeals Panel To Be Set Up Here On ‘Hold Line’ Plan

Sailor Becomes  A “Human Bomb’’   ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELL ENTERS HIP AND FAILS TO EXULODE -—IS REMOVED LATER BY SURGEONS.

Fast Santa Fe Train Derailed in Illinais   Srceons Working Behind Steel Shield Remove Live Shell From Sailor

FOUR MEET DEATH IN GROSSING CRASH   Locomotive and Six Car: Derailed at Columbus

RAIL CROSSING CRASH KILLS“4   Coroner Probes Train Derail ing at Co-  lumbus

a rent eens  TRAIN-AUTO CRASH IS FATAL TO FOUF   Steubenville Engineer Is Victim As Flyer Is Derailed Near Columbus

FOUR KILLED AS TRAIN HITS GAR   Locomotive And Seven Cars Derailed At Columbus

Slaying Of Chicagoan Is Solved   Blood-Spattered Car I Found And Man I Held; Woman Wa Shot Six Times

Roll Call Plans Are Being Made   ‘MARCH HAS BEEN NAMED : CAMPAIGN MONTH BY THE PRESIDENT

RAF AND LUFTWAFFE TRADE AIR ATTACKS   British Rake French Coast Near Calais — Nazi Bombs Cause Casualties in England.

Fathers-Draft Put Up To Own Boards  Local Conditions Goverr  November Call

BERLIN ADMITS NEW OFFENGIUE VIA BLACK SEE   Nazi Commander Also Tells Of Red Attacks To Seal  Peninsula

NAZI PROPAGANDA CHANGES FRONT. DEFEAT FEARED   Give Up Effort io Hoodwink People on Extent of Disaster,

NEWSBOYS’ DAY HAS GREAT RESULT   Rossiter Man Now in Detroit Sends $750 for $1,000;Bond

Nations Eye Peace Plea From Spain   Vatican's Guidance To Prevent Future Conflicts Advised

Spanish In Peace Feelers   Quick Action Here As Davis Under gcores Hill’s Stand

SPANIARDS APPEAL ~ FOR WORLD PEACE   Hull Replies Absolute Surrender of Axis Is Required.

SpanishEnvoy Pushes World Peace Appeal   Hull Stands Behind ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Clause Adapted by United Nations

Spain Appeals For Armistice  U. S. Not Represented At Barcelona Meeting

Spain Makes Appeal for World Peace   Jordana Says Warring Nations Too Strong to Gain Complete Victory or Annihilation of the Other

SPAIN IN APPEAL FOR WORLD PEACE   Was Voiced Today by Count Franco Jordana, Spanish Foreign Minister.

PHACE APPEAL MADE BY SPAIN TO DIPLOMATS   Voiced by Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, Spanish Foreign Minister Before  Hispanidad Group   U.S. ENVOYS ABSENT   Jordana Contends Both Sides Too Powerful for Complete Victory; Hull  Holds Otherwise

SPAIN VOICES A CALL FOR PEACE   Spanish Foreign Minister Urges Peace “Before War Is Prolonged Longer Than Necessary.”’

Spain’s Peace Appeal Is Likely To Die Out With No Effect On Allies ©

SPAIN PUTS PEACE PROPOSAL TO END CONFLICT   Foreign Minist. er Asserts Neither Side Capable Of Complete Victory

Spain Makes An Appeal to End Conflict   Foreign Minister Says Both Sides Too Powerful For Complete Victory

Spain Launches A Peace Appeal  Foreign Minister Says Both Sides Too Strong

SPAIN APPEALS FOR WORLD PEACE   CLAIM NATIONS ARE TOO POWERFUL FOR COMPLETE VICTORY

BOMBERS.AT KAVIENG SINK JAPANESE SHIP   Merchant Vessel of 8,000 Tons Struck Twice—Small-Scale Warfare Resumed,.

JAP MERCHANT SHIP SUNK BY ALLIED BOMBER   Direct Hit Scored On Enemy Vessel At Kavieng, New Ireland   RENEWAL OF GROUND ACTIVITY REPORTED

Jap Ship Is Sunk In Pacific; Allies Win Aground  Enemy Positions Get Severe Strafing In New Guinea Area

Allied Bombers Sink Japanese Merchant Vessel   Attack Enemy Air Base 550 Miles Northeast of Port Moresby   Ground Troops Kill 20 Men in Resumption of Infantry Action

Tempo of U-Boat Drive  Increases   71 Men from American Ship Land in Azores

Adolf [hitler Reportedly Orders Purge of All Jews in Europe Before End of the War

Germany Arranges Elaborate Anti-Jew System  Nazi Vow to Clear All Europe of Judaism, Swedes Say

Germany Arranges Elaborate Anti-Jew System  Nazi Vow to Clear  All Europe of

Purge of Italy’s Jews Said Next Plan of Hitler   Extermination of Race Before War Ends Reported Goal

Hitler Orders Purge of Jews In All Europe   ltaly Next Goal Of Persecutors

Hitler Orders All Jews Cleared Out Of Europe Immediately: ltaly Purge Due

Allied Bombing Shows Larger Jap Air Power   Ground Forces Score New Successes In Pacifie War TAAne   SUBS SINK JAP. SHIPS

7 Jap Ships Are Added. to: Sub Toll:   Allied Bombing of Japanese Air Bases Hints of. Growing Enemy Aerial Strenoth

BOMBERS SLASH NIP AIR MIGHT   Yanks Force Japs Back In China, Burma, And On  Bougainville Isle

Japs Show Growing Plane Strength in New Guinea; Allies  Score New Successes in Pacific

Allies Plaster Jap Air Bases Qn New Guines   Record Bombings Stress Enemy’s Growing Aerial  Strenoeth There.

Heaviest Raids on New Guinea Bases Over Week-End   Success in Land Fighting Reported From Three Fronts

ALLIED GROUND FORCES ADD GAINS AS BOMBERS HIT JAPS ON NEW GUINEA

New Allied Successes in Pacific Area   Enemy Air Strength in New Guinea Is Increasing: US Troops Extend Bridgehead on Bougainville

ENEMY AERIAL STRENGTH IN GUINEA GROWS   Evidenced in Heavy Bombing Attacks Allies Mae. Allied Success on Three Fronts

Japs Increase  Air Power —  On New Guinea Allies Advance In China,  Bougainville

ALLIED PLANES RIP JAP BASES ON NEW GUINEA   Growing Enemy Air Strength in That Area Is Revealed, However

U. S. Subs Sink Seven More Jap Ships; Record Raids On Madang, Alexishafen

Troops Register More Successes In Ground Fight   Seven Jap Vessels Sunk, Two Damaged By American Subs

UNUSUALLY HEAVY ALLIED BOMBINGS NEW GUINEA BASES  TOKYO BROADCASTS  CONTINUE TO TELL OF ALLIED LOSSES

GAINS AGAINST JAPS ARE MADE   Nipponese Claim Two More Allied Cruisers Are Sunk  RIGAREST RAIN MADE

Japs Gather Air Power in New Guinea   Allied Ground Troops Gain New Ground in  All Pacific Areas

AIR RAIDS PROVE ALLIED POWER GAINS IN PACIFIC   Drop 223 Tons of Bombs on — Alexishafen in Heaviest Attack of War

REMOVE CONSUL IN MARTINIQUE   U. S, Breaks With Vichy Sympathizer Geverning French Island

DOWN ON ADM G. ROBERT   Hull Regards Him As Still Loyal To Vichy Government

U.S. Breaks. With Vichyite In Martinique   Strong Note To Admira! Robert Reveals Consu! Has Been Recalled   MOVE NOT EXPLAINED   Giraud Invitation To DeGaulle Hints United French Effort Is Near

Abrogate Pacts With Martinique   Strong Message Sent To High Commissioner

Quiszed Throughout Das   Says Problems to Rise After the War Not New

United Nations. Forces Occupy Taranto Base   Americans Smash Resistance at Naple: To Increase Bridgehead, Germans Report Sea-Air Battle Rages Between Sardinia, Corsica.:

Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses _  _ In Battle In Kiev Sector   ‘Russians Fight German Attack. to Standstill—Drives __ Toward Pre-war Polish Border and Rumania Continue

Reds Hammer Nazi Forces In Ukraine Battle   Russians Employ Tactics To Wipe Out Dnieper Bend Enemy

Russians Repel German Attacks On Kiev Sector   Continue Drive To Reach Poland

Soviets Beat Off Nazi Attaeks in Vital Kiev Bulge   Reds Inflict Heavy Losses on Germans: Other Russian Forces Continue Drives Toward Pre-War Polish Border. Rumania

1,032 JAPS DIE IN 5-DAY FICHT   Yanks Take Heavy Toll of Foe on Guadalcanal; Tojo Renorted Hi.

Few Japanese Are Captured  AtSanananda   MacArthur’s Men Mop Up On Papua

Americans Kill 1,032 Japs In Five-Day Fight   Japanese Cargo Vessel Is Bombed At Shortland Island In Pacific

1,032 Japs Killed In Five Days   Navy Reports Also Bombing And Firing Of Enemy Ship

HEAVY Lgata ARE INFLIGTED UPON JAPANESE   American Troops Kill 1.032 Of Enemy In Five Days On Guadalcanal

WIPE QUT 1032 JAPS ON ISLE IN FIVE DAYS   Navy Announces Japanese Losses  On Guadalcanal

1,032 Japs Die At Guadalcanal   Killed In Fiye-Day Battle With Yanks

Jap Premier Is Stricken On Eve Of Parliament   Tojo mM; Japs Face Ship Shortage

Kill 1032 Japs In 5-Day Fight   At Guadalcanal   ‘Nipponese Cargo Vessel Is Reported Bombed  At Shortland Island

et Ee NS  1,032 Japs Killed hi ‘Five Days. Fighting ~ On Guadaleanal   Enemy Cargo Vessel Is Bombed And Left Burning At Shortland Island, Says Navy Communique; Tojo’s Hiness Postpones Meeting Of Diet

Jap Premier Ill, Or May Be Stalling   Possibly Planning To Assume Greater Dictatorial Powers.

YANKS SLAY 1,032 JAPS IN FIVE DAYS   + Killings Occur in Various Actions on Guadalcanal —Jap Cargo Vessel Is Bombed at Shortland Island.

KILL 1,032 JAPS IN 5-DAY BARTLE ON GUADALCANAL   ALLIED FORCES ALSO BOMB CARGO VESSEL AT SHORTLAND ISLAND

VANKS SLAY 1,032 JAPS IN SOLOMONS   Premier Tojo Is Stricken Ill; Eighty-first Diet Recessed

1,032 Japs Are Slain In 5-Day Battle   Enemy Loses Heavily On Guadalcanal; Cargo Vessel Is Bombed At Shortland Island

HEAVY JAP LOSS ON GUADALCANAL   Navy Reports 1,032 Enemy Troops Slain in Last Five Days.   TOJO ILL, MAY BE DUE TO REVERSES

1.032 Jans Are Killed On Isle   AMERICANS BAG MANY NIPS IN SOLOMON FIGHTING

Enemy Cargo Vessel Bombed; Allies Inflict Heavy Casualties in New Guinea, Burma

1,032 Japs Die On Guadalcanal   Navy Announces Sinking Jap Ship 300 Miles Northwest

1,032 Japs Wiped Out In 5-Day Battle; Enemy Cargo Ship Hit Off Shortland

New Formula Cleanses Ocean Water So It’s Fit to Drink; Military Secret, Though

BATTLE LOOMS FOR RULE OVER PACIFIC SKIES   U.S. And Japan Bolster Plane And Pilot Forces Thruout Area   OFFICIALS ARE CONFIDENT   Japs Claim 12 Ships Sunk Ir  Aerial Attack On Allied   Fleet

Gigantic New Battles In Air Near In Pacific   Destruction Of 37 Jap Planes In Recent Battle Indicates Increasing Scope   BOTH SIDES HAVE BEEN REINFORCED

Survivors From Cruiser Saved  Rescued From Isle   Rescued From Isle By U. S. Ships

Fleet Units Rescue 157 Survivors of  Helena From Jap-Held Jungle Island

Destroyers Stab Deep In Enemy Back Yard, Save 157 More Of Helena Crew

UNITS OF U.S. FLEET DARINGLY RESCUE 157 SURVIVORS FROM CRUISER HELENA

Helena Rescue Miracles Told  Yanks Thrust Into Sub-Studded Waters To Save 157 Sailors

Destroyers Sneak Into Jap-Held Waters  l'o Rescue Helena Crew Under Enemy Nos

escue elena's Survivors      On Island in Enemy- _ Held Waters Picked Up In Daring Maneuver  1 : Crewmen Stranded

U. S. Ships Go Impudently. Into Jap Waters  Rescue 157 Survivors of the Cruiser Helena   By NORMAN J. LODGE.

HELENA SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM JAP CONTROLLED ISLAND   ONE OF MOST MAGNIFI. CENT MANEUVERS OF WAR CARRIED OUT SAFELY

Grab 157 Sailors From Jap Island   Rescuing Helena Crev “Damned Well Worth While”

U.S. Destroyers In Daring Rescue Of ‘Helena’ Survivors From Jap Isle

Views Rescue Of U. S. Sailors As Magnificent   157 Survivors Are Taken From Cruiser Helena In Daring Maneuver

New Farm Agency Is. Estoblished by the President —  FORMER AAA HEAD WILL DIRECT WORK  OPA Chief Fights Form Bills os Inflotionary

CHESTER DAVIS IS APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR   Farmer-Banker Will Have Charge Of Food Production And Distribution   MADE 4 CONDITIONS BEFORE ACCEPTING

Draft Davis To Head New Food Setup   Production, Distrilvutior fo Be His Job; Brown Acts on Higher Prices

U.S. Banker Heads Farn Production, Delivery   Chester C. Davis Takes Over Duties Of New Bureau in Effort To Simplify War Food Distribution

Davis Is Named Administrator Of Food Setup   OPA Head Opens Drive to Halt Move fo Higher Farm Prices

CHESTER DAVIS APPOINTED TO HEAD NEW FOOD PROGRAM   Federal Reserve Banker Given Task of Ending Confusion in Wartime Production System

DAVIS DRAFTED AS FOOD CHIEF   Banker Named To Head Food Production, Distribution

Davis Named Head of New Food Set-Up   F. D. Drafts Banker For Post: OPA Chief Fights Farm Price Bills as Inflationary

FDR Appoints  Ex-AAA Chief - For Food Boss   Drafting of Davis Viewed As Reply to Charges Of Canfucian?®

Chester Davis to Head Food Agency   Former Montanan Is Drafted by Roosevelt for Job

BOND SALE 16 AT SLOW PAC   Legion Bcnd Chairman I: Fearful This Month’s Quota Will Fail.

~ SALE (5 AT SLOW, Aig   Legion Bend Chairman -Is . Fearful This Month’s — — Quota Will Fail. q

ALLIED RAIDS ON SICILY GROW IN INTENSITY   ee Ver Fearful, Mussclini Says Italy's Fateful Hours Have Arrived,

Monarch Flown To War Sector, Inspects Armies   War, Air Secretaries In. cluded In Party; Eisenhower Is Honored

British Monarch Will Inspect Allied Land, Sea And Air Forces At War

FLIGHT TO-AFRICA IS ~ - MADE BY KING GEORGI   Starts Inspection of Allied Armies Before the Invasion - of Southern Europe—General Eisenhower Invested by Royalty With Insignia of a Knight of . the Grand Cross of the Order of Bath.   Mm WAR BULLETINS

KING GEORGE VI VISITS ALLIED AFRICAN FORGES   Monarch and Cabinet Members See British, French and U. S. Armies.

BRITISH RULER VISITS TROOPS POISED THERE   Surprise Flight Made In Plane Used By Churchill

VETERAN AVIATOR SURPRISES THOSE ON LANDING FIELD   Dressed as Field Marshal He Visits Various Forces In Training For Varied Operations.   BOMBERS MEET WITH MUCH OPPOSITION   69 Japanese Planes Are Destroyed In Pacific in Two Weeks, Tetal Boostec to 1.337.

Monarch Flies To Algiers On Inspection Trip   Visits Troops That Are Expected To Launch Offensive

Yugoslavs Increase Fury of Balkan Drive Against Nazis  Partisans Lash Foe In Bitter Fight; Recruits Volunteer

Yugoslays Increase Fury of Balkan Drive Against Nazis  Partisans Lash Foe In Bitter Fight;

Big Offensive  ls On To Wipe Out Axis Force   Sky-Ruling Allied Air Fleet Range Up Bomb-Worn  Italian Boot

Terrific aerial and sea bombardment brings end to Italian ‘peace’ respite   British open final assault against Catania; Patton’s men advancing

RADIO WARNG OF INVASION SOON   Allies Bring to End Respite Given Italians   AMERICANS TAKE   San Stefano, Northern An. chor of Axis Etna Line; Montgomery on Move

ALLIED AIM IS 10 SMASH RESISTANCE   Americans, Canadians and British Eighth Army Attack Cornered German Forces.   CAPTURE 10,000; FIGHTING SAVAGE   Meantime Italian Mainland Is Pounded From Air as Respite Granted Fascists Ends.

ITALY WARNED OF MAINLAND ATTACKS NEXT   ANCHOR OF MT. ETNA LINE IS CAPTURED WITHOUT FIGHT

Mainland Invasion Is Predicted Soon   American, Canadian And British Troops End Eiaht-Day Lull To Start Offencives

Warn Italians of New Invasion of Nation as Respite Period Is Ended   San Stefano Falls to Gen. Patton’s Seventh Army; British Storm Into: Catania; Their Nation Has Been Betrayed Italians Are Told

Drive To Wipe Out Axis Army Gets under Way   italy Warned Invasion of Mainland Will Begin "Soon   Wide Area of Italian Coast Bombed by American Fliers

San Stefano’sFall Outflanks  German Lines   ‘We Are at Your Gates,” Allied Radio Warns

Chiefs Repeat Warnings; Troops Gain   Nation’s Mainland Is Next Goal; People Are Told of Dangers

Abrupt End Brought to Respite Granted Italians  SAN STEFANO HELD BY PATTON FORCES  Warning Given That Invasion of Italy Is Soon Due

Abrupt End Brought to  Respite Granted ~~  Italians   SAN STEFANO HELD . BY PATTON FORCES   Warning Given That In vasion of Italy Is Soon  Pisa 7

San Stefano, Other Towns Fall to Yanks; Early Invasion of Mainland Now Promised

Allies Open Final Drive In Sicily   Italians Told Big Invasion To Start ‘Soon’

Yankees Seize Dozen Towns in  All-Out Drive   10,000 Prisoners Taken at Mistretta: British Eighth Army  Moves Upon Catania

YANKS CAPTURE ANCHOR POINTS OF ETNA LINE   San Stefano Falls With No Offer to Resist; 10,000 Prisoners Are Taken   British Storm Catania

REDS MOVING IN ON 2 KEY NAZI BASES   Control Approaches On 3 Sides Of Vitebsk

Vitebsk ‘Isolated on Three  Sides—Only 15 Miles from Zhitomir. -

Russians Approach Zhitomir   Assault Arc Is Placed At Vitebsk   Break-Through by Vatutin’s Army Throws Germans M142 Dalascaa

Approaches to Zhitomir Stormed: Two vo Nazi Fronts are Threatened

Russians Storm Toward Vitebsk,  Lhitomir Bases   Reds Break Through On 50-Mile Front  In Kiev Sector

RUSSIANS ARE STOR MING WAY TO ZHITOMIE   Soviets Launch Huge Offensives Which May Sh atter Two Nazi Fronts.

WEATHER   Russ Storm Approaches To Zhitomin   Soviet Surge Threatens to Crumple Two Nazi Fronts   VITEBSK IS PERILED   Early Reconquest of Rail Junction Predicted for Red Army

20 Die In Crash of Army Transpor   Huge Plane ‘Falls In North Carolina

Air Assaults on Japan Seen as Kiska Is Taken  Enemy Dreams of Aleutian  Pe  Te

ANOTHER BASE FOR DRIVE ON ISLAND EMPIRE   Nips Give Up Deep Water Harbor, Air Field

Enemy Position Wanes in Pacific      Jap Dreams of Alaskan Conquest Vanish; Lose Aleutians Completely

-Loss of Kiska Base Puts Invasion Peril ‘Nearer Japs’ Door   Devastating Allied Aerial Assaults May Be Loosed on Tokyo, Kuriles; Alaskan Conquest Dreams Blasted

REPRIEVE GIVEN FORMER CONVICT   Findlay Barber, a Fugitive for 22 years, Ultimately to Receive Pardon.

Major Italian Groups Oppose King  Court Proceedings To Force His

DEMAND ABDICATION QF KING EMANUELE   6 Non-Fascist Parties Say He ts Obstacle to Italy

ITALIAN GROUPS DECLARE: KING MUST ABDICATE   Six Major Parties Assert Ruler Is Major Obstacle In Italy’s Rebirth and Reconstruction

King Emanuele  Ur wed To Quit   Held ‘Gravest Obstacle’ To Nation’s Rebirth By Committee

ttatian Liberation Committee Describes King Emanuele As ‘One Of The Gravest Obstacles To The Rebirth Of The Ration’ :

Group Declares Abdication Necessary  Italian Committee Of Liberation Calls King Emmanuele ‘Obstacle’

Major Italian Groups Oppose King   Court Proceedings To Force His Abdication Seen

PLAN TAX BILL TO ‘HELP MUNICIPALITIES   Would Authorize Counties To Issue Bonds

PROPOSES PLAN TO AID COUNTIES   Legislation Would Provide Additional Tax Revenue

ITALY THROUGH, RUMORS CLAIM   Crown Prince Said To Be Ready To Lead Troops Against Huns

Churchill Talks  On Radio Today   Says Parley Bid To Reds Would Have  Been Embarrassing

BRICKER TO SIGN TIME-CHANGE BILL NEXT WEEK   Delay Will Enable Companies To Readjust Their Schedules

OHIO’S CLOCKS TO BE TURNED BACK ONE HOUR   Date is Set for February 21 as Governor Plans to Affix Signature

State in Confusion With Some Cities Planning To Remain on War Time

Bricker To Hold Up Signing Until Next Week To Aid Any Readjustments

CONTINUE TALKS ON COMPROMISE   Tax Leaders Asked Not To Drop Negoliations, Say cy're Near Agreemen

LEADERS DEADLOCKED ON TAX PLAN   Fail to Reach Agreement Today As Anticipated

Near Agreement  On Pay-Go Plan   1942 Tax Would Be Paid At '41 Rate, Proposal

Asreement Is Near On Plan For U.S. Taxes   Latest Scheme Is Put Forward By Illinois Representative   SPREADS PAYMENTS   1942 Taxes Would Be Paid At 1941 Rate Under Plan

Solon Tax Truce Is Seen   , PARTY COMPROMISE IN HOUSE PREDICTED ON PAY-AS-GO MEASURE

SET TO CANCEL 41 PER CENT OF 42 TAX BURDEN   Dems, GOP Agree on Plan To Get Pay-as-You-Ga Levy In Operation.

SEE ACTION ON TAX PLAN SOON   me Heuce Committee Gets New Proposal to Fix Rates, Amortize 1942 Payments.

DEADLOCK ON TAX BILL CONTINUES   House Leaders Will Seek to Reach Agreement Late This Afternoon.

AGREEMENT {8 BELIEVED NEAR ON TAX PLAN   By EDWARD VY. ROBERTS, (United Press Staff Correspondent)

Tax Chiefs Again Fail To Agree On Pay-Go Plan      Conferees Decide To “Meet Again; Group Said Nearing Accord

DECISION NEAR ON PAY - AS- YOU - + INCOME TAX PLAN   Ways. And Means. Committes  - Members Promise T.  Make Decisive Statement.

Castillo Resigns ‘As Argentine Situation Calms   International Angle Of Overthrow Is Not Determined

Castillo Gives. Up Presidency  To Army Junt:      2 Ministers Imprisoned  As Anti-Isolationists [} 7 Pa

CHICAGO FAVORED AS PARTIES’ HUB   Both Political Conventions Appear Headed for Windv City

CHICAGO FAY GET - BOTH CONVENTIONS   Republican and Democratic Leaders Leaning Toward City

Chicago May Gel Both Conventions   Parly Leaders Back Plans for Sessions

Chicago Likely Choice .4s, Site. For Conventions  Rival Party Leaders Re. ported Favoring Central Location —_..

GEN. DE GAULLE IS THREAT 10 FRENCH UNITY   United States and Britain Ready To Block Any Move To Effect Dictatorship   WHOLE WAR IS AFFECTED   Conference With Giraud in Africa Has Failed To Ease Tension

JOINT BRITISH - AMERICAN ACTION HITS DEGAULLE MOVE FOR DICTATORSHIP

Navy Introduces New “’Helldiver’  Battle Action  Dexuwaw “ta lec

Today’s War Moves   BY PHILLIP JOACHIM tinijesd Bease A nmeaiued

Today's War Commentary  U. S. Air Power  Ceawe Stranacar In Maranean Theat

Montreal Faces Another Strike  City’ 3. White Collar RA RAO MAP AIL Oa

BENNETT TESTIFIES AT COURT MARTIAL   Ford Personnel Director Says He Sought Transfer of Beneon Ford

All Around Our Town.   Economic Club Is Popular x x *  Famed Hymn In Movie * * *  Local Cherries In Africa * * * 5  And Other Local Tales

Mine Leader's Plans Blasted  <TR TT.   WLB Is Described as Sole Arbiter

Cambria Co. Miners Vote to Walk Out      BREAK AWAY FROM TRUCE OF JOHN L. LEWIS; 1800 REFUSE TO GO TO WORK AT MIDNIGHT; VOTED TO STRIKE,   225 Out at Seward

Deferment Of Dads Is Rejected   Senate Goes 69-0 For Restricting Deferments And Boosting Allotments

Port Of Naples Heavily Blasted Day And Night   Allied Bombers Keep Up Attacks On Chief Port Of Supply For Sicily   PALERMO DOCKS ALSO HAMMERED

BROAD STREET 10 HOLD DEDICATION SERVICE MARCH 28   Bishop Clare Purcell To Preach Sermon Of Dedication   CHURCH HAS HAD LONG, HARD PULL

BROAD STREET METHODISTS TO DEDICATE EDIFICE SUNDAY MORNING   Church Building Erected In 1928 At Cost Of $65,000. Bishop Clare Purcell To Speak.

AGHESON VISITS FOOD CONFERENCE   Resumes Delegates Problem Areas’ Ree” oF War-Torn Coming

ICKES URGES SPEEDY ACTION ON CONTRACT   United Mine Workers Opens Attack On Southern Producers

ICKES URGES SPEED IN COAL   Calls on Operators . and - Union:to Get Wage Contract Quickly

CALLS FOR ACTION   Ickes Urges Speed in Negotiations for Mine Wage Contract

Appeal Made For Speed In Wage Parley   Sec. Ickes Makes Vigorous Appeal to Soft Coal Operators and Miners   LEWIS IS MANEUVERING

on ate A aia acenn neta aaa iain aaa ama  Ickes Urges Speed in Negotiations for Satisfactory Miners’ Contract

Federal Jurors Indict Nine In Naval Scandal   Returns Made In Connection With Supply Depot At Mechanicsburg

NINE INDICTED AT NAVY DEPOT   Grand Jury Charges Conspiracy to Defraud, Bribery, Extortion — Seeks Union Records

NINE INDICTED IN DEPOT CASE BY U.S. JURY   Fraud, Bribery, Theft In Mechanicsburg Project Charged

Watches Yank Airmen Whip German Planes   Forts and Lightnings Form Combination to Smash Nazi Defense

Writers Cover Allied Invasion   First-Hand Accounts To Be Provided

BREAK EXPOSES: BRITISH FLANK   U.S. Subs Sink 5 5 Ships  In Pacific; Rede Seek To Trap Foes; RAF Raids Lonent

Our Tank Forces Trying to Check Foe; British Flank Menaced  NEW DEFENSE LINE Russia Chalks Up  Smashing New Gains Against Enemy

Pass Postwar Foreign Plan   Senate Subcommittee Passes Declaration Calling For Peace Pledge.

Post-War Foreign Policy Approved   Senate Committee Votes to Maintain Peace, Prevent Aggression by Force.

SENATE DRAWS FOREIGN POLICY PLEDGE   Subcommittee Would Have U. S. Join in World Authority

Post-War Policy Stand Is Approved   Senate Sub-Body   Senate Sub-Body Acts—LaFollette Alone Votes In Opposition

Senate Group Okays Pledge   Approves Postwar Cooperation to Block Aggression

Foreign Policy Plan Approved  onnta farniin   Senate Group Adopts Program

Post-War Collaboration Peace Plan Drawn Up By Senate Subcommittee.

NEW POSTWAR POLICY BEAR JOINT PLEDGE   Senate Group Proposes World Authority with Power to Keep Peace.

Approve Postwar _ Resolution   Senate Subcommittee Declaration ' Would Not Require House Action; Vote Is Seven to One

ate Draws Postwar ce Plan   ld Pledge U. S. To Other Powers To  ent Aggression

SENATE GROUP OK’S POSTWAR DECLARATION   LaFollette Only Member Recorded Against Compromise Proposing International Authority

FOREIGN POLICY DECLARATION IS APPROVED TODA’   Senate Subcommittee Votes Brief Resolution Over LaFollette’s Opposition

POST-WAR PLAN GETS APPROVAL   Senate Group Approves Pledge for Preservation Of Peace.

Group Votes For US Joining In World Security   Declaration Of Policy Opposed Only By Sen. LaFollette

Senate Group Votes Postwar Foreign Plan   la Follette Objects In 7-1 Vote On Policy To Join Other Nations In Keeping Peace

POSTWAR POLICY OK’D   Subcommittee Of Senate Approves American Collaboration

NEW POSTWAR MOVE OKAYED   SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES CO-OPERATION PLEDGE

APPROVE POSTWAR FOREIGN POLICY   SENATE COMMITTEE FAVORS U, S, AID IN WORLD PEACE PLAN

Post-War Resolution  Approved   International Authority To Preserve Peace Is Favored In Resolution Of Sub-Committee

Turkish Minister Off for Cairo   Will Discuss Moscow Pact With Anthony Eden

PLAN SIGNUP OF WOMEN IF  BILLPASSES   PROPOSED LE GISLATION . WOULD PROVIDE COMPULSORY LABOR SERVICE _. For FARMS AND '. °C INDUSTRY

All Set For Inauguration Of Martin      OATH WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY CHIEF JUSTICE MAAEY ON BIBLE GIVEN GOVERNOR’ BY SWELTPHEART,

United Nations _ Conclave Urged   Diplomatic Experts Advise Formation of Post-War Planning Council

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FOR POST-WAR PLANNING IS URGED AT CANADIAN MEET

ROTTERDAM IS SITE OF MOST RECENT RAID   Huge Fires Still Burn At St. Nazaire U-Boat Base After Week-End Bombing.

Quake Hit: Eastern  U.S. Area   No Casualties as Slight Shock Puts Part of Rail  Line into River

Caldwell Quits Welfare Office  Under Fire, He Resigns Effective July 1

ANTI-FASCIST GOING HOME   Permission Given to Count Carlo . Sforza to Go to Italy

Russians Halt Nazi Smash  At Rail Trunk   Violent Fighting Costs Germans 7000 Fatalities

SUNGTZE CAPTURED BY CHINESE TROOPS   Strests Of Yangtze River Port Strewn With Jap Corpses: # Supplies Are Taken

Streets Strewn With Jap Corpses Chinese Recapture Sungtze, Report Advance Near Hankow

Chinese Take Sungize From Japs   Army Advances Over Dead Jap Bodies at Port

Open Debate In Congress  On Post-War   Measures Being Prepared Vary Widely in Sense of Proposal

PROPOSE DRAFTS TO POST-WAR PLANE   Administration n Leaders to Offer a Substitute to Pending Resolutions

GOV'T LEADERS DRAFTING POSTWAR PROPOSALS   Some Believe That Congress Must Act Now On Measures

BRING PRESSURE  TO FORCE EARLY  POSTWAR STAND SEEK DECLARATION  IN CONGRESS TO REASSURE ALLIES

American Naval Force Turns Back Jap Counterattack At Vella LaVella

LANDINGS BY ALLIES — ON RHODES REPORTED   Rumor of Invasion. Not Confirmed —Italian Officials Unable to Contact Taeland.

BRITISH PLANES JUMP 12 GERMAN MOTOR GUNBOATS   Six Were Sunk and Thre : Damaged Off Cherbourg Peninsula.   CONTINGENT IS RAIDED   llying Fortresses’ Paid Visit Unescorted Over Folkstone Area.

Flying Forts inNew Raid on Europe   Great Force Wings Over Channel Tad ay

UNITED STATES  AIRFORGE HITS BUROPE AREAS   Great Force Fiying Fortresses-Attack Continent Unescorted During Daylight Today   TARGET NOT KNOWN   Attack Is Continuation of Air Assaults Which See New Records of Destruction Set

GIANT FORTRESS ARMADA RAIDS EUROPEAN CONTINENT      Targets and Results of Air Combat Not Immediately Known— British Airmen Sink Six Nazi Gunboats and Damage Three— Allies Have Run Up Record One-Week Bomb Load on Enemy.

Raids on Continent Continue Today  Flying Fortresses Again Bomb Targets

Screening Test May Be Waived   Little Use Of Power By Boards Seen

Screening Test May Be Waived  Little Use Of Power   Little Use Of Power By Boards Seen

Classification Of Absentees Simplified — ; Waiving Of Usual Screening Tests For Dratt Authorized

LAND PRICES — “ARE STUDIED   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPOKESMEN SAYS STEPS TO PREVENT BOOM ARE BEING STUDIED

RED PLANES BLAST NAZI ‘TRANSPORTATION; RAINS ‘SLOW UP GROUND DRIVE

LAST RITES THURSDAY   Services for John R. Collier Will Be Held at Two o’Clock.,

SNOW INNORTH, ~~ RAIN IN SOUTH   Long Drouth Is’ Ended. in Southern Portion; State Ecapes Being Ice-Bound

Hs ANGELES — —_ 1S WALKING   MORE THAN MILLION PERSONS AFFECTED BY STRIKE OF” STREETCAR AND BUS  * EMPLOYES

STRIKE TIES UP TRANSPORT IN LOS ANGELES   3,000 Street Car and Bus Workers Walk Outin21-Hour Protest

3,000 JOIN IN TRANSIT STRIKE   Workers Ignore Leaders’ Pleas In’ Los Angeles Area: Few Trolleys Run

3,000 STRIKE, TIE UP BUSES   Transport in Los Angele: Tied Up With Million Affected

WRITERS SET-DATE     FOR GERMANY FALL      Select July 21, 1944, After Average Made of Pre. dictions

BISHOP ON TOUR   Protestant Leader To Visit Troops At War Fronts

Six L. A. Police Are Under Arrest   Charges Follow Prisoner's Death

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Nazis Admit Soviets Breach Stalingrad Defenses

Lucius Bixby 0 ; Bixby Of Washta Dies   Was Member of LeMars Family

Fuel And Transportation Systems Are Threatened With Breakdown   Five Operating Railroad Unions Appeared In _ Favor Of Strike:Vote, While 35, 000 Miners  Out On Wildcat Sirjkes.

MINE STRIKE ISSPREADING INTHENATION   More Than 35,000 Workers Idle in Wildcat Walkouts   RAIL STRIKE VOTE APPEARS CERTAIN   Brotherhoods Reject. Pro. posed 4-Cents-anHour Boost ~~

Rail Strike Yote  Expected Today:  More Miners Idle 35,000 Men Quit  Work in Dispute Over Coal Wages

Leaders of Brotherhood Unions Favor Decision by Ballots; 35.000 Abandon Labor in Pits

R.R. Union Heads Appear In Favor Of Strike Baliot   35,000 Miners Idle In Wildcat Coal Strikes

STRIKE POLL CALLED FOR RAILROADS   Operating Union Heads Displeased With Increase Offer

Railway Strike Vote May Be’ Called for- Today       Strikes Spi aiding ” With Ranidiiyv

RAILROAD STRIKE VOTE 1S LIKELY   :  BROTHERHOOD LEADERS FA: VOR REJECTION OF PROPOSED WAGE INCREASE. 

Transportation And Fuel Systems Are Threatened As Rail, Coal Demands Fester   Nationwide Strike Vote By 350,000 ailroad Workers Strongly Indicated

Rail Unions May Vote During Day   Miners Leave Pits At Rapid Rate Over Nation

Wildcat Mine Strikes Continue To Spread   ‘Over 35,000 Men Lay Down Tools Despite Lewis  Plea To End Walkouts; Railroaders i ines Dib al: Wie

Rail Strike OF 350,000 Seen Likely   Wildcat Coal Strikes Spread to Three More States

350,000 Workers Affected: Coal Strikes Spread   35,000 Coal Miners , Quit; Railmen Reject Increase

Brotherhood’s Spokesmen  - ‘Reported’ As. Rejecting, ‘4-Cent Hourly Increase 

COAL STRIKES GROW AS MORE . MINERS QUI   Over 35,000 Now Idle In Seven States; Shortawe Is Predicted   RAILROADERS REJECT 4-CENT WAGE BOOST

NEW WILDCAT STRIKES HALT COAL OUTPUT   RAILROAD UNIONS TO CALL FOR VOTE ON WALKOUT

Railroad Union Appears ‘To Favor Strike Vote ‘To Force Wage Increase

‘Solitary Grave On Rat Island Marks Final ‘Resting ‘Place of “Spider,” Fichter Pilot

peatile Against Japs and Sea Endsin .  U.S. Pilot's Lonely Grave onRatIsland

EISENHOWER GETS LEGION OF HONOR   Giraud Kisses Cheeks of Arerican For Successes {n Tunisia.

LOCQAT, QGRRERYATIONS   Eisenhower Receives Highest Medal That  Is Given by France

CROSS TO GENERAL   ors Dwight -D. Eisen General Henry Giraud i hower Today

LINES ARE DRAWN FOR TAX FIGHT      Democrats Busy Seeking Assurances Members Will  Oppose Rum! Plan   HOUSE DEBATE TO BEGIN THURSDAY   Senate Committee Votes ta Include Farm Labor Costs’ in Parity Price ~

Votes Against Rum Plan Sought   Including Labor Costs in Farm  ' Parity Prices Approved;   Ways of Getting More Men in Army Studied

PAY AS YOU 60 TAX PLAN NEAR TO SHOWDOWN   Decision on Including Cost Of Labor in Farm Parity Formula Also Near   POST-WAR PLANS STUDIED   Unpaid Advisory Committee Of Experts Considered and Draft Policies Questioned

DIRIGIBLES COLLIDE    Bighs Men In One “Airship Killed, Other Crew Escapes

Eight Lost In Crash of Navy Blimps   One of Airships Falls Into Ocean  iff BRT CUD

Eight Die as Navy Blimps Collide   One of Craft Plunges Into Surf

TWO NAVY BLIMPS COLLIDE WN FOG; EIGHT MEN LOST   Crash Off Jersey Coast and ’ One Falls Into Gceean— Other Returns to Lakehurst,   SEARCH FOR MISSING IS BEGUN AT ONCE   Second Time in History Two Airships Have Come Together—Board Named to Investigate.

Two Navy Blimps Collide in Fog  Eight Officers, Men Missing From N. J.

N avy Blimps Collide In Mid-Air, Eight Men Lost   250-Foot Patrol Blimp On Patrol Dui Crashes Into Training Blimp

BOTH SHIPS ON SPECIAL PATROL   One Drops Into Ocean; Other Returns to Base

Conferees Differ Over ‘Strike’ Bill   Deadlock Comes On One Clause

MARKET BREAKS   Billion Dollar Fall In Stocks Follows Hold-Line Order.

Billion Clipped Off Stock Values ln Selling Rush   Traders Unload In Scare Touched Off By F.R.'s Order

President Reviews Surprised, Cheering Troops in Africa   Roads. Parade Ground Heavily Guarded; Swarms of Fighters Keep Skies Safe

Broad Smiles WreathFaces Of Soldiers   Commander-In-Chief On Jeep Trip; Eats With Forces, Pays Respects To Fallen Heroes  Rw WATTER LOGAN

President Reviews Troops in Africa And Eats From Mess Kit in Field

Troops Reviewed From Jeep; FDR Likes Army Mea  Visit Complete Surprise To Soldiers; Places Wreath At Cemetery

FDR Inspects American African Troops   Surprised Soldiers Smile With Pleasure as He Appears in Jeep

Smiles Wreathe Faces After President Passes Riding in U. S. Jeep

TROOPS INSPECTED BY THE PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Surprises Sol diers in Africa by His Presence .

SOLDIERS ARE SURPRISED BY SUDDEN VISIT   EYES POP AS JEEP. BRINGS CHIEF TO DESERT REVIEW

a A VISIT 10 U.S, TROOPS   Reviews Forces in French Morocco From a Jeep— Presence a Pleasant Surprise to Men.

Allies Ready To Bomb Rome  If Need Seen   Military Necessity To Dictate Policy Of United Nations Qhserver Savs.   DUCE REFUSED MOVE   Tn To Fisenhower

ROME WAR TARGETS MAY BE HIT AGAIN   British Approve Bombing of Italian Capital

WILL BOMB ROME AGAIN IF NEEDED   Bomb “Military Objects Again If Military Necessity Dictates.

Axis Defenses Crumbling as Army Advances   Five Sicilian Towns Taken As Allied Forces Wipe Out 70 Mile Bulge; Prisoner Toll 90,000; Berlin Says FDR Offers New Terms.

“MT. ETNA DEFENSE LINE HAS BEEN PIERCED; 90,060 AXIS TROOPS TAKEN AS PRISONERS   Italians Admit Allies Have Launched Powerful &, Assault on German Defended Southern Flank. se Rattle Relieved In Decisive Stage

Troops Take Five More Towns: President Gives Italy New Peace Terms

Axis Says Roosevelt Has Seven-Point Armistice Proposal—vU. S. Advances in Climactic Munda Assault—Sweep Into Western Catania Plane; Reds  Attack Violently at Orel .

CRASH CENTER OF AXIS LINE AT MT. ETNA   German and Italian Defenses in Sicily Are Crumbling Rapidly.   Germans Reel Under Fiery Yankee Attack

FDR Dictates  Peace Terms   Germans Reveal’ Roosevelt-Sponsored Severt: Point Armistice Proposal; Allied Troops ; Capture Five Towns in New Assault on. ot Nazi 'Positions .

Allied Troops Race To Make Knockout Blow   German Radio Gives Its Version of Peace Terms to Italy

1-PLY PROPOSAL FOR ARMISTICE REPORTED MADE   Battle for Isiand Gateway To Italy Now Raging Into Climatic Phase   YANKS SMASH AXIS LINE   Hee erat am ta atl  British Push Back Defenses Of Catania as Canadians Drive Toward Messina

& ww st. Yay a was sO? F&F LV Mm AIF OW m™ Fan 2 Oe  UNITED NATIONS FORCES MAKING STRIDES ON EVERY FIGHTING FRONT

Allies Smash. Through Axis  Defense Line   Wipe Out Bulge at Center, Taking Five More Towns; Report FDR Armistice Proposal

5 More Strategic Towns Captured   Bulge of 70 Square Miles Wiped Out by Allies — Axis Defenses Appear to Be Crumbling Fast — Prisoners Pass 90,000 Mark

SMASH CENTER OF AXIS LINE AT MT. ETNA   Allies Take 5 More Towns,  Wipe Out Bulge of 70  Square Miles   HANDED FDR’S TERMS   Report 7-Point Armistice  Proposal Extended To Italy

Enemy Lines Giving Way Under Weight of Powerful Assault by-Allied Forces   Mt. Etna Defense Line Breach; Churchill Tells How Reinforcements Erousht Up for Final Blow at Enemy

AKO OAS FOR OFFERS TERMS   German Divisions Reel Under Fiery Blows By Allied Troons.   MT. ETNA LINE BROKEN

Axis Defenses Are Crumbling Rapidly. Communique Says   Badoglio Regime Silent on Armistice, Talk Heard of Peace © March b

Axis Defenses Are Crumbling Under ’ Eisenhower's Push   Nazis Report FDR { Offers Stiff Terms For Italian Surrender

Axis Defenses On Sicily Are Crumbling   FDR Makes Seven-Point Armistice Proposal to Italy, Russian Armies Attackina with Violence in Orel

Invaders Capture 3 Strategic Towns; Defense Crumbles   Churchill Reports 7th Army Gains; Canadians In. Etma’s Shadow; _ British, Advancing. On Catania

Allies Force Way in New, Powerful Assault   Troops Smash Mt, Etna Line, Attack German Flank at Catania, as Prisoners  Total 90,000; Peace Offer Reported

Center Of 55-Mile Mount Fitna Line Cracked ‘And 5 Strategic Towns Captured

Badoglio Continuing In His Silent Defiance Of  Invasion Warnings.

Break Center Ot Line. Wipe Out Big Bulge   Capture Five Towns In Swift Advance; Warships Shell  Retreating Foe.   BOMBERS HIT NAPLES

As Battle For Island Rages Into Climactic Phases Ger. man Broadcast Declares President Has Made Seven-Point Armistice Proposal   PREMIER BADOGLIO MAINTAINS SILENT DEFIANCI

ALLIES RACING T0 DELIVER KNOCKOUT BLOW TO ISLAND   AXIS DEFENSES IN COFFIN CORNER APPEAR CRUMBLING RAPIDLY

5 Towns Captured ‘As Yanks Erase Bulge of 70 Miles   Troops Race to Deal Knockout Blow As Italians Admit Mighty Assault; Prisoners Now Past 90,000 Mark

POSSIBLE WAR WAY BE WON ON ITALIAN Soll   Becoming Increasingly Ap. parent Hitler Is Staking Future of Nazi Germany On Mainland

MWNAIR BACK ON JOB AFTER HOSPITAL REST   Purple Heart Award Pinned On General’s Chest

WOUNDED GENERAL IS AWARDED MEDAL      Leaves Hospital in Tunisia After Three Days

LT. GEN. L. J, M’NAIR HAS LEFT HOSPITAL   Was Confined There Only Three Days With His Wounds.

LIEUT. GEN. MCNAIR LEAVES HOSPITAL BED   Army Officer Awarded Purple Heart Medal

MELLETT RESIGNS   Quits Post of Chief of Motion Picture Bureau of OWI,

ADVANCES OF RUSSIANS ARE SLOWED UP   Heavy German Counter-Atacks Showing Effect.

TWO OF SIX MAJOR MONEY BILLS VOTED OUT AS TIME COMES FOR SOLONS TO ADJOURN

Legislature Votes Only Two of 6 Appropriation Bills   Clock Stopped as Final Adjournment Time Is Passed

LAWMAKERS RESORT T0 CLOCK-STOPPING TO CLEAR CALENDAR  ONTY TWO OF SIY MAIO‘   ONLY TWO OF SIX MAJOR APPROPRIATION BILLS PASSED AT NOON TUESDAY

AXIS RADIO FUMES AT AMERICAN NEWS      Publication TeHing About German War Guilt Causes Alarm

BERLIN DENIES U. 5. CHARGES OF WAR GUILI   Nazi Press Denounces ‘White Paper’ With Page One Stories

Htalian Weapons Found To Be Poor; Some Units Have 25-Year-Old Machine Guns

ALLIES MARK UP GAINS IN ITALY BATTLE   Japs Reported Withdrawing Forces From Treasury Island

Allied Invaders Extend New Holds in Solomons; Bombers Strike Genoa   Swift-Moving Reds Score Important Advances; Slow Move Toward Rome Nets Score of Villages; Tripartite Parleys in Moscow Have Nazis Nervous

Russians Near Sealing Enemy Crimean Army   American Fifth, British Eighth Armies Gain After Sharp Fighting.  NEAR PEREKOP AREA

5th, 8th Armies Both Make Gains Today; Japs Withdrawing In Pacific

BYRON ft. BRUNKER, GERMAN PRISONER   Mother Receives Word From International Red Cross.

1.5, BUYS HOTELS, SCHOOL, HOSPITAL   gar Department Contends it Is Cheaper to Buy Buildings Than to Rent; Senator Byrd Disputes

ARMY BUYS SIX HOTELS, BYRD QUIZ REVEALS   School, Private Hospital Alsi Bought for Hospital Uses, 11 In stitutions Leased

WAR OFFICIALS BLY MANY BUILDINGS   Six Hotels, Two Schools Wil Be Used as Hospitals, Others Leased.

Army Purchases Hotels, Schools   Scope of Buying, Leasing Outlined

la. Parish May 7 Feel Legal Action  Bullet-Less Battle For Sheriff's Place

TUNISIA CLEAN-UP. IS ON SCHEDULE, EISENHOWER SAYS   Allied Armies are Progressing According to Plan, Gen pral Declares.

AMGOT Cuts Name Down 40 Per Cent  In Future Will Be Shortened to AMG

Criticism and Jeering Bring Change In Name of AMGOT, Allied Military Government Organization

ANMIGGT Takes 40 Per Cent Cut in Name      Symbol for Military Government Is Unprintable Turkish Word.

Yanks Uiose In On Georgia Isle Jap Bases  Nippons Cut Off From Supplies As Vessels Sunk

NEW LANDINGS — NEAR MUNDA, BAIROKE MADE   Kevery Enemy Ship Sighted in Kula Gulf Destroyed or Damaged; New Guinea Gains Registered Ru

CLOSE IN ON ENEMY BASES      Gains On New Georgia _ Island’ Follow Kula  "Gulf Victory

U.S. Forces Nearing Munda As Result of 9-to-1 Naval Victory In Kula Gulf Battle   Australian Troops Capture Enemy Base Near Salamaua After Heavy Air Assaulé Qver New Guineas

Munda, Bairoko Harbor In Danger: More Units Land After Navy Victory

TOLD 6 SOLONS SET $2,000 FOR VOTES — BRAKE   But Lacks Definite Information Money Was   Payed, He Says   PROBE IS RESUMED   Sen. Chester M. Howell Is First Witness Called Today

JTENGON GOES BEFORE JURY      Representative, Who Started Grand Jury Probe, , Is Witness.   SOLON OFFERED BRIBE

Confer'On Expansion Of School Programs Under New Physical Ed. Law

APARTMENTS ARE READY   Sunflower Employer , Are Urged to 8 Make Applications

APARTMENTS ARE READY   a i aaa  Sunflower Employes Are Urged to Make Applications

Berlin Targets Again Bombed By RAF Fliers   Eighth Successive Night Of Bombing Of Germany Recorded By British   U.S. AIR FORTRESSES IN ATTACK ON KIEL

BERLIN BOMBED AS RAF STRIKES — IN EIGHTH NIGHT   Airfields, Railways, Canals Also Hit Without Loss of Single Plane

NEW MOSQUITO PLANES AGAIN OMACK NAZIS   Other British Bombers Over Northern France and Belgium.   NOT ONE PLANE LOST   Raids Over Europe Every Day Are Softening Up the Germans.

Brazil Recognizes Argentina’s New Government  Former President Asks People to Give Wholehearted Support

NEW REGIME IN ARGENTINA IS RECOGNIZED   RELATIONS RESUMED WITH FREE FRENCH BY URUGUAY

bac, Rte sets aetna ig ee td  PLEADS INNOCENT TO DRAFT SUBSTITUTION

First Army Said To Have Opened Offensive in North   Entire Russian Front Stalemated By Spring Thaws

British Fleet Pours Shells Into Columns Fleeing Before Montgomery’s Advance

U.S. Troops Gain As Ist Army Wins Back Sedjenane   Montgomery's Men Take Oudref, Metouia Above Gabes, Purgue Nazis

BRITISH TROOPS IN CLOSE PURSUIT OF FAMED DESERT FOX   _ AMERICANS POUND COR. RIDOR; FIRST ARMY ACTIVE IN NORTH

Oudref Captured Today;  Nazi Defenses Crumble   British Fleet Moves In To Pound Corridor Of Escape; Metouia Also Captured   MINEFIELDS DELAY YANK ADVANCE   Non-Stop Annihilation Tactics Used On Ground Troops By Allied Airmen

Yanks Hammer At Rommel In Three Sectors   Morocean Forces Push Within 34 Miles Of Important Base At Bizerte.   ALLIES SHELL HIGHWAY

OFFENSIVE IN BIZERTE- TUNIS AREA STARTED   U. S. Troops in Three Drives to Cut Off Escape Corridor

8th Army In Rapid Pursuit Of Rommel!   British Ist Army Opens Major Drive Against Von Arnim; Spring Thaw - Bogs Whole Russian Battlefront

BRITISH PUSHING ROMMEL ACROSS BARREN PLAIN UNDER AIR ATTACK: SEIZE OUDREE    Fierce Moroccoan Tribal Warriors Operating With British First Arm 7 In North Tunisia Have Reached Point 34 Miles From Axis Naval  Reacon At Riwarta

Forces Have Gone 12 Miles Beyond Gabes   Fierce Tribal Warriors Of French Morocco 34 Miles From Bizerte

No More Cold In Sight Now   Temperatures Not To Be Lower Than 25 to 30 Tonient

May Grant More Gasoline In East   Announcement Timed To President’s Address

Rommel Piles. Through Gap. To Hit British.  American Troops Hurl     American Troops Hurl. Back Two Thrusts, After  New Retirement ,   NAZI LOSS HEAVY,

ROMMEL ATTEMPTS: ~AKNOCKOUT BLOW   Issue In Doubt As British and " Americans Battle Axis Tank Forces

VIOLENT FIGHT RAGES BEYOND KASSERINE GAP   United States and British Forces Engaging Enemy With Issue Still In Peoubt   YANKEES TURN BACK TWO LESSER THRUSTS   Fourteen Nazi Tanks Damaged Sunday; Rommel Gambling Desperately to Score Knockout

STRONG TANK FORCE MOVES NEAR THALA   ‘Americans Turn Back Two  Thrusts At Tebessa   EIGHTH ARMY   Moving Rapidly To Engage ~ Rommel Units In South; Aerial Activity

One German Column of More Than 70 Tanks Sweeps Within Eight Miles of Thala, a Junction in Allied Lines

U.S., British Forces Destroy 14 Heavy Nazi Tanks Sunday   Rommel Trys Knockout Blow Against English First Army, Allies Raid Railroad Yards at Gafsa

[Heavy Fighting Blazes Anew In ‘Tunisian Area   Rommel Advances Against British; Two Attacks Repulsed By Americans

' 7 .  2 Heavy Nazi Thrusts Sunday Hurled Back By Americans With Heavy Losses To Enemy   Rommel Gambling Desperately To Knock Out British First Army; Day And Night Armored Battle Near Thala Still Rages

BRITISH TANKS ENGAGE STRONG UNITS AT THALA   American Combat Troops Repulse Two Axis Drives

REPORT MARETH LINE CRUMBLING BEFORE BRITISH   American Forces Take To Scrubby Hills For Protection

SURPRISES IN ITALY HINTED   Political Developments Expected To Follow Appeal To Quit Struggle

Unexpected Political Moves Are Hinted hy. Rome as Italians © ‘Are Told of Allied Ultimatum

No Indication Of Revolt IsApparent “Now      , Rome Hints Poli al Changes In: Air to! Bal: Ster Morale of. People’:

HINT AT ITALIAN POLITICAL MOVES   “NON-MILITARY SURPRISES’ PREDICTED ON HEELS OF CALL TO SURRENDER.

Germans Fail In Desperate Counter Move:   Major Air Base Is Occupied By Russian Armies

RUSSIAN BASE INCAUCASUS NOW CLAIMED   Soviet Pincers In Middle Don Closing, Despite Counterattacks   NAZIS REINFORGED   Fierce Fighting On All Other Fronts, Says Moscow

Russians Throw Bock Powerful Attack of German Infantry and Tanks in Effort to Reach Isolated Pocket of Troops

COUNTERATTACKS — OF FOE DESPERATE   Enemy’s Resistance Stiffens . But Russians Centinue To Advance

COUNTER ATTACKS BY-FRESH GERMAN FORCES TO SAVE HARD-PRESSED FORWARD GARRISONS WEST GF STALINGRAD FAILS—MOSCOW RADIO SAYS KEY CAUCASIAN CITY OF NALCHIK RECAPTURED

RED ARMY'S MIDDLE  NON PINCERS MAY BE  CLOSING ON ENEMY DESPITE POWERFUL NAZI  ATTACKS SECOND FORCE REING TRAPPED

GERMAN ATTEMPTS 0 SAVE FORWARD GARRISONS FAIL   iRussians Occupy Town On Rail Line, Enemy Air Base

PINCERS CLOSE AROUND SECOND GERMAN FORCE   Reds Take Airbase And Rail Line; Get 17 Planes, Large Supply Depots

Russian Pincer Holding Germans   DON RIVER AREA IS BIG TRAP FOR HITLER'S HUNS

SOVIETS CLOSE IN DESPITE FOE COUNTER BLOWS   Hitler Hurling Fresh Troops Into Fight In Attempt to Save HardPressed Garrisons   THRUSTS BY TANKS BEING REPULSED   Meanwhile, Russians Announce Occupation of Chernishkov, On Rail Line to Likhava

Don Pincers Closing in on German Armies   Nazi Infantry In Grim Effort to Reach Pocket

MIDDLE DON CAUCASUS . SEE ACTION.   -Counterattacks Of Fresh Nazis Fail . To Halt Saviets .

Middle Don Arec Pincers Closing —   German Attack Fails to Relieve Men 100. Milos Wéet of Stalingrad

SOVIETS TAKE MORE TOWNS IN CAUCASUS   Also Occupy Points in Middle Don and South. west of Stalingrad — Pincers Closing on Big Nazi Force. vy

Red Army Is  Closing Don  ‘Trap On N  QUZAS       Germans Use Reserves In Counterattacks

Peace, ‘Not — _ Crusade Is  Taft Idea   Ohio Senator Outlines a Program for Post-War Security

Panic Breaks InFire In Chicago   Over 100 Casualties After Blast In Bowling Alley

“ais Jace "ri e Srisis in Russia vers ac owing Zeverses in _~a_V

Critical Russian Move Shapes Up On Dnieper   Break-Through At Zhlobin Would Slice The Whole Nazi Line In Russia In Half

Allied Assault Sends Japs Into Full Rout   Japs Knocked From Ridge Positions In Salamaua Sector

Japanese Are In Full Retreat At Salamaua   Gg Fiess “AL L, IE D HEADOUAR. TERS IN THE SOUTH. WEST PACTEFIC. — (Sundav)

CAMPAIGN IN PACIFIC TO OCCUPY ATTENTION   President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to Give This Matter Consideration—Crushing of Hitler, However, !s to Be the Principal Topic at Washinaton.   Last Beaten Remnants Of Axis Army Pounded

ALABAMIANS DECORATED   Two Fliers Awarded Air Medals In Southwest Pacific

An Air Raid Test Signal Saturday   This Will Familiarize People of County Wth Sig nal Tuesday.

AIR RAID WARNING SIGNAL EXERCISE HERE TOMORROW   To Familiarize Neosoans With Siren Meanings

PUBLIC AIR RAID WARNING SATURDAY   The Signal Exercise Will Be Given at Noon in Chillicothe.

13 More Youths Held By Japs   WAR REPARTMENT LISTS CAMDEN SOLDIER . AS PRISONER

SENATE 0, K, ON FDR’S VETO IS BELIEVED NEAR   Leaders Pushing For An Early  Showdown

SENATE SHIFTING TO VOTE APPROVAL   Sharp Vote Battle Marks Administration Attempt to ‘Support FBR Stand

F.R. Forces See Victory   Believe Senate Will Uphold Veto of Bankhead Farm Bill

SENATE MAY. SUSTAIN VETO BANKHEAD BIL]   Administration Gains Votes, Com mittee Threatens Wallace, Brow: with Subpoenaes

Viereck Case Verdict Void  ide Piawitebiac “af   Supreme Court Sets Aside Conviction of Alleged Nazi Agent

19th Bombardment Group Receives Fourth Citation   Individual Decorations Awarded  20 Officers and 28 Enlisted Men

African Battle Turns Into Grim Mountain Siege   Allied: Troops .Fight Off Fierce Thrusts, Edge Forward Again

RAF Bombers ’ Hit Remscheid, _ Nazi Steel City   List 17 Aircraft As Lost As British Carry Out First Attack On Cenier

GREAT ALLIED AIR  OFFENSIVE SHIFTED  NAZI STEEL CENTER REMSCHID OBJECTIVE RA  BOMBERS’ DEVASTATION LAST NICHT

Remscheid Subject Of RAF Attack   First Raid of War on Tool Center on Edge of Ruhr Valley

BOMBERS STRIKE AT NEW CENTER IN RUHR VALLEY   Important Steel Area Blasted In Nicht Assault

RAF SHIFTS TO NEW TARGET IN RAID ON REICH   Remscheid, German Steel Center on Edge of Ruhr, '  Bombed for First Time in War   ASSAULT IS HEAVY   Massive Offensive Rolls Throughout Daylight Today; Terrific Explosions   in France Reported

RAF Bombs Steel City In Germany   Remscheid Raided: French Coast Area Also Hard Hit

ATTACK FIRST ON GERMAN ‘STEEL CENTER   15 Planes Lost By R. A. F. Against Nazi Claim Of 54; Raids Continued In Davlight

Claim Hamburg ls Wiped Out   Fleeing Danes Say City Doesn’t Exist

STEEL AREA HIT IN AERIAL BLITZ   REMSCHEID POUNDED IN ROUND-THE-CLOCK BOMBING OFFENSIVE

ALLIED AERIAL MIGHT TURN ON REMSCHEIL   Home of German: Precision Tool Manufacture Special Target— French Coast Raided Today

NAZI ASSAULTS      Divert Attack From Ham. burg To Blast RemScheid In Ruhr

ALLIES BLAST NEW NAZI GOAL   RAF Bombers Hit Remscheid, German Steel Center in Ruhr.   CONTINUES DURING DAY

AIR ASSAULT TURNS TO NEW TARGETS   Remscheid, Site of Chemical Shops, {s Heavily Hit in Attack .

GERMANY’S STEEL CENTER TARGET OF ALLIED OFFENSIVE   First Raid of War On Remscheid, Center for Manufacture of Machine and Precision Tools Vital To Munitions Production.

RIPS REMSCHEID IN HEAVY BLAST, CONTINUE RAIDS   Many Bombers Cross Channel Today, Lose 17 Plares Friday Night

—AIR R AIDS—  RAF Blasts Nazi Steel Center   Declare Hamburg No Lonoer Exists

Air Offensive in Germany Shifted   Remscheid, Steel City, Hit First Time

Remscheid Is Given Heavy Aerial Attack   Machine Tool Plants On Edge Of Ruhr Valley Bombed By RAF

R.AF. Assaults Germany Again As Great Air Attack Enters 2nd Week   Remscheid, Big Steel Center On Edge Of Ruhr, Gets First Taste. Last Night Of Britain’s Aerial Might.

REMSCHEID IN RUHR DISTRICT RIPPED BY RAF   Massive Offensive of Allied Planes Sweeps On in Daylight

! S. FLYERS KEEP UP BLITZ   RAF Attacks Again in History’s Greatest ~ Airy War

Remscheid Hit By RAF Bombers   GERMANS STEEL CENTER IS TARGET FOR NEW ASSAULT

FLOOD WATERS THREATEN NEW MIDWEST AREAS   Water Consumption Limited; War Plants Are Closed

FLOOD WATER SPREADING IN MIDDLE WEST   FOUR GREAT RIVERS RISING; RESCUE CREWS BUSY

Floods Threaten Wider. Regions  Four Great Rivers Rica Ominnnely

New Areas Face Flood Threats As Rivers Rise   Water From Three Streams Pours tnto Mississippi

FLOOD WATERS ROUT FAMILIES, DESTROY CROPS   Four Great Rivers In Midwest Add To  Destruction     DAMAGE MOUNTS     War Construction Hit In Uhneis And Other States

A Great Rivers Threatening New Midwest States   Beardstown  Forcec To Evacuate As Illinois Joins The Mississippi

SEIZE POMPEI IN PUSH OVER COASTAL PLAIN   Great Port City Reported In Flames; Heavy Casualties Listed

Roll Across Coast Plains   German Dispatch Admits Defenders Leaving City

Pompei, Severino Taken: Germans Evacuate Naples, Flee Across Coastal Plains   Germans Say Harbor Installations Destroyed to Halt Allied Landings; Enemy Mountain Defenses Crumble

Overrun Ancient City of Pompei as They Push on Toward Fire-Gutted Port

Allied Planes Bomb Columns North Of Port, Indicating  Evacuation Is In Progress

YANKS ADVANCING AROUND BASE OF SMOKING VOLCANC   Naples Seen As Tower Of Smoke And _ Flame ie   GERMANS CAUSING REIGN OF TERROR

 Gen. Clark’s Forces Roll Across Coastal Plain At Foot Of Volcano Toward Burning Port City—Troops Believed Closer To Goal Than Revealed In Daily Communique—Gen. Montgomery’s Eighth Army  Extends Gains Along Shores Of Adriatic

Berlin Report  Says Germans Quitting Port   Ancient City Of Pompeii Captured. By Yanks As Troops Roll Across Coastal Plain In Last Stages Of Approach On Naples

POMPE! NCW IN HANDS OF ALLIED ARMY   German Defenders Fleeing North Via Naples

Americans Push Toward Big Porf From Two Sides   Germans Retreat After Slaying Many Civilians

Cairo Says Yanks Already Investing City from South; British Warships Shell Port

American Fifth Nears Smoking Ruins Of Naples   Allied Forces Drive Down Plains Toward Important Port

Pompei Overrun; German Blasts Destroy Naples Harbor Installations

HARD BATTLE STILL RAGING   Russians Rush Reinforcements ‘to Scuthwestern Tip of Kiev Bulge in Effort to Seal Off Nazi Wedge.

Legislature Kills Measure To Reapportion House Districts   Meeting Of Party Leaders On War-Pertinent Issues, Twice Postponed, Fixed For Next Monday

‘To ‘Search For T. B: =: Cases in Clinic Ait Marshalltown. June 25

Investigati on Of Mine Union Under Study   Results of Inquiry Forwarded to Attorney General For Action  CONSPIRACY HINTED

ARCADIA MAN  ~ PASSED AWAY   Samuel W. Reitzel Died  Early: This Morning! at .His Home. . 

ARCADIA MAN PAOLO AV AY   Samuel W. Reitzel Died Early This Morning at His Home.

Tuesday Great Day for Individual Exploits by U. S. Fliers in Pacific

Quintuplets To Visit U.S   Bionne Sisters Will Christen Five Vessels at Superior, Wis., on May 9

OIL SHORTAC REALITY SAYS REP DISNEY   Congress May Alter Federal Policies, He Predicts

STATE IN GRIP OF NEW FLOODS   Parched Crops Endangered By Idabel Torrent—South re. @ . 7 ww,

Flash Floods Hit Southern Part Of State   Idabel Has Record Rainfall Many Bridges West Of Madill Washed Out

Solons Reported  At Greatest Odds With Roosevelt In Life Of New Deal

Congress Gets Ready To Take  Summer Recess   At Greater Odds With F. R. Than At Any Time In New Deal Historv.

Congress At Great Odds With President On Eve Of Departure For Home

Congress ane F.D.R. more  hostile now   Recess of seven weeks scheduled

GUNGhEoo WILL END Stool THIS WEEK   Lawmakers At Odds With FDR More Than Ever

Congress-FDR Rift Widens as Recess Nears   Legislators at Odds with Chief On Many Points

Solons. FDR Are At Odds   » »« MOST HOSTILE LAWMAKERS IN HISTORY OF NEW DEAL

CONGRESS, FOR AT ODDS WITH RECESS NEAR   Executive Rebuffed on Taxes, No-Strike Bill, Pet Agencies During Present Session.   SOLONS TO GO HOME   Expected To Leave Capital This Week; Action Due on Annronriations

NAZIS AVOIDED. BiG REHEARSAL      ALLIED INVASION FORCE ‘BAILED TO . WITHIN . TEN ‘_ MILES OF FRANCE. DURING MANEUVERS

Senate Committee Acts To Prevent Roosevelt from Dipping into Funds

WAR FUND USE BAR PUT BEFORE FOR   Financing of Controversial Agencies Prohibited By Action

CURBS PLACED ON ROOSEVELT   Solons Seek To Tighten Their Control Over Federal Spending

Senate Group Votes to Clip F. R. Power   RECOMMENDS ENDING OF WAR FUND AUTHORITY

Committee Acts to Prevent President From Dipping Into Emergency Revenues to Finance Controversial Agencies —Nye Declares Move Is Designed “to Bring Back to Congress Control Over the Nation’s Purse Strings.”

Senators Seek Ban On War Fund Use   Group Advises President Be Restricted

Emergency Fund Curb Is Proposed  Urge Limitation  Qn Big Spending

EXAMINER FAVORS "UMW IN RULING   Recommends to NLB That @ Clinchfield Coal Corp., Be Required Withdraw Recognition From Independents

The War Today  Japs Still In Burma; Have Chance Now To Dig In For Allied Attacks

Monsoons Defer Ousting Of Japanese from Burma Rains Will Last Until October

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Monsoon Season In Burma Ends Hopes Of Allied Invasion For Time

CHINESE MUST BE BITTERLY DISAPPOINTED AT FAILURE TO OUST JAPANESE FROM BURMA

THE WAR TODAY   Ry DEWITT MachENZIE   (Associated Press War Analyst)

The War Today   Monsoon, to Dampen Plans For Allied Drive on Burma

BRITISH RAID DRIVES DEEP INTO BURMA   Maungdaw Captured, Held for Hours Before Leaving

More Team Work For War Efforts   Tri'- Power Conference Makes Plans Affecting Europe and Japan   TO SMASH NIP POWER   Allied Stroke Thru Balkans May Develop From the ' Meeting

Meetings Of Big Three Follows “Japan Session” ; Chiang Not Present

OPA HALTS 10 SLAUGHTERERS   Operators Charged With Re fusing to Surrender Ration Points

TEN SLAUGHTERERS PUT UNDER OPA BAN   Suspensions To Be Lifted When Points Balanced

Asks Rell-Back To 1942 Prices   Charleston Local Says Prices Up 97.1 Per Cent

ROME REVEALS ALLIED DEMAND FOR SURRENDER   Bridgehead for Further Assaults Believed Established

INVASION OF AXIS’ FRINGES MAY BE ON   Rome Admits Italians on Island Called Upon to Surrender

APPEAL MADE  FOR ITALIANS 10 GIVE UI   JOINT MESSAGE SENT RY ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL “WRGES SABOTAGE AND  OTHER RESISTANCE

URGE ITALY 10 OPPOSE NAZIS   F. D. Churchill Promise Free Nation      Appeal Is Broadcast Today

FIRE IN KANSAS CITY      Nine Carloads of Coffee Destroyed in Early Morning Blaze

Chinese Gain New Ground In Rice Bowl Area   Important Highway Town Is Recaptured Besides Other Towns

inese Accomplish ashing Gains Changteh Lines  apanese Force Faces ntrapment as infonelave Pitan Charen

Chinese Accomplish smashing Gains On Changteh Lines  Japanese Force Faces Entrapment as Defenders Give Chase

Chinese Claim Rice Bowl Gains   Important Highway Town Recaptured North of Changteh

mS Si ” PRESDENT      Concord. Friendly. Aid So . ciety Held Annual Elec. tion of Officers

ECTED PRESIDENT   Concord Friendly Aid ‘Society Held Annual Election of Officers

ESTEP QUESTIONS if VALIDITY OF ANTESTRIKE LAV   Asks _ Indictments Against Miners Be Quashed   VIOLATES FIRST AND 13th AMENDMENTS HE CLAIMS

ATTORNEY ATTACKS LEGALITY OF NEW ANTI-STRIKE LAW   Insists Charges Against Miners Be Quashed— First Challenge Of Measure

QUESTION LEGAL STATUS OF NEW ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Former Congressman Estep Takes   Up Fight In Behalf : Of Coal Miners

BOARD WILL ENFORCE RULE ON HEARINGS   PERSONAL INTERVIEW ONLY ON WRITTEN APPLICATION   Meetings Changed to Tuesday Night; More Sioux County Young Men . Accepted For Service

BAG INCLUDES 68 HUGE AIR: TRANSPORTS.   Of That Number, 58 Are Blasted From Formation of 100 Carrying Enemy Troops. Across Sicilian Straits.

Ground Forces Form Line For Cleanup Drive   Activity In Pont du Fahs Area Where Break Would  Threaten Rommel.   HOLD AIR SUPREMACY

TOTAL OF 85 PLANES SHOT DOWN   Allies Have Secured Supremacy In Air, Spaatz Reports a

U9. FIGHTERS DOWN 48 BG SKY BOXCARS   Transport Planes.on Way to Sicily Sent Flaming. . Into Ocean.   GROUND TROOPS BATTER AT AXIS STRONGHOLDS

Junkers transports and fighters brought to earth near Sicily   Allied air squadrons strike, supporting Alexander's troops

58 Junker-52 Transports And 16 Fighters Destroyed By Allies Off Tunis Coast

YANKEE FLIERS HELP BAG 74 GERMAN PLANES   Airmen Engage Huge Armada of 100 Nazi Transports and Bag 58 of Them   16 FIGHTER PLANES ALSO DESTROYED   Thirty Others Damaged; Transports Laden With Enemy Personnel From Africa

ALLIES SCORE GREATEST AIR VICTORY OF WAR   74 Planes Downed; 30 Others Damaged By Allies

58 Junkers Are — Included in Loss  , on \ cts a fn c Ls Uver aiciuly otrait

ATTACKS ON ENEMY’S VITAL AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE CONTINUES  LICUTYV SIV AVIC PI ANES   EIGHTY-SIX AXIS PLANES DOWNED, 68 OF THEM TROOP CARRIERS

Sicily-Bound Nazis Meet Fiery Deaths   Area’s Greatest Air V ictory Scored; 16 Enemy Fighters Knocked New.

Allied Fighters Engage 100 Box Car Junker Transpart Planes and Their Eseorts; Nine American Planes Lost

ENFIDAVILLE _, TO PALERMC   Aerial Squadrons Hammer Lethally At  Axis

Enemy Aiircratt Destroyed In Air Battle Off Tunisia, 30 More Said Damaged

Allied Forces Got Total of 85 Axis Planes Sunday   Enemy Is Expecting Big Land Attack

ATTACKS ON ENEMY’S "VITAL AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE CONTINUES  EIGHTY-SIX AXIS PLANES DOWNED, 68 OF THEM

ALLIED AIRMEN BATTLE LARGE PLANE ARMADA   Makes Greatest Single Air Victory Marked Up in That Sector

REPORT SAYS MEN CARRIED ON AIRCRAFT   16 Fighters. Also Grounded  In Great Air Battle   AMERICANS   Lose Only Seven; Targets In Sardinia, Tunisia, Sicily Also Bombed

85 Axis Planes Are Shot Down as Aerial _ War on Enemy Boses And Shipping Grows

Allied Squadrons Score Biggest Victory Of War lin Africa; Bag 85 Planes

68 Transports, 17 Fighters Hit   30 OTHER ENEMY AIRCRAFT DAMAGED IN STUNNING AERIAL SMASH; TOTAL OF 85 PLANES RUINED DURING THE DAY, NIGHT

Allied Fighter Planes Score Greafest Single Air Victory. In War Over Mediterranean

08 TRANSPORTS IN “KILL” OF ALLIED PILOTS   North Tunisian Coast Scene of Greatest Single Air Victory of War in North Africa

Yanks Lead Attack In Greatest Fight Over Mediterranear   Big Transports, Laden __With Axis Personnel, Shot Down Sunday

we Junkers Planes Carrying Fighting Men Across Mediterranean From Tunisia Are Destroyed In Battle In Which Americans Played Leading Role

Largest Air Victory Of Present Fight In Tunisian Sector   58 Troop Transports Included in Enemy Losses, Report 30 Other Airships Damaged by Allied Pilots

98 Junkers Transports Downed on Way to Sicily   Greatest Single Air Victory in African Theatre Sunday Followed by Continued Battle Today, 10 More Transports Sunk

Bag Includes 68 Transports   Greatest Single Air Victory in Mediterranean Area.

Allies Triumph In Air Battle Over Tunisia   Knock 52 Transports, 16 Fighters Out Of Skies Over Mediterranean Sea In Spectacular Blow; Toll For Full 24 Hours Hits 85.

Aerial Victory Greatest Of Mediterranean War; French Advance In Pont Du Fahs Area.

Many Targets Attacked In Mediterranean Area As Planes Continue To Hammer Foe Lethally

52 Junkers Transports Shot Down Over Sicilian Straits  HAD ENEMY PERSONNEL      oo ho Te! eS ee eS el ee  Air and Ground Fighting Mounts in Tunisian Sertor :

Big Cratt Laden With Army Men.   Allies Score Greatest Air Victery of War

These Included 58 Junkers 52 Transports, and 16 Fighters Caught Over the Siecilian Strait.   GREATEST SINGLE AIR VICTORY OF THE WAR   This Followed Up Yesterday the Dstroying of Ten More Transports and a Messerschmitt.

Air Victory Greatest of Entire War   French Troops Take Rag el Hedji Post in Hills Near Tunis

YANKS SCORE BiG AIR VICTORY OFF ~— TUNISIAN COAST   Nazi Transports Loaded With Men Crash Into Sea   GREATEST SINGLE VICTORY OF WAR

52 Junkers Transports Shot  wn Over Sicilian Straits  HAD ENEMY PERSONNEL      Air and Ground Fighting Mounts in Tunisian Sector

Yanks Cut Down 58 Huge Troop Transports While British Get 16 Fichters

Victory Scored In Air Battle Fought Sunday   Great Transports Carried Troops From Tunis Area

68 Transports In 2 Days’ Bag   Shattering Air Victory Scored by U.S. Fighters; Totol Score Since April 5 ls 159 Air Ferries; Palermo Is Raided

HOP ON ENEMY SKY FLEET OFF TUNISIAN COAST   Fighting On Land Continues Light; French Advance In Only Active Sector

Heavily Loaded Ayis Transports Blown From Sky   Greatest Single Air Victory Recorded By Americans

TA ENEMY AIRCRAFT REPORTED DESTROYED   9 American Planes Are Lost; One Pilot Known To Be Safe

Score Greatest Aerial Victory In African War   American Pilots In Warhawks, Spitfires _ Engage Armada Of 100 Nazi Transports

Air Patrols Bag 74 Enemy War Planes   Sardinian, Sicilian, Tunisian Targets Heavily Attacked

ALLIED AIR BLOWS ARE ~ CONTINUING      85 Axis Aircraft Wiped Out Yesterday; 11 More Are. Downed Early Today. °   TUNISIAN GROUND FORCES ATTACK   ‘Hitler's. Aerial... Box .Cars  Assaulted’ As They Carry. . Men Out of Africa

JUNKERS ENROUTE FROM AFRICA CAUGHT IN TRAP   NINE AMERICAN CRAFT REPORTED LOST IN FIERCE AIR FIGHTING 

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Receipts Listed  Estimated Income Reminder Issued

AMERICAN AIR FORCES SMASH JAP LAE BASE   Blow On New Guinea Is Part Of Wide-Ranged Allied Plane Activity   LAND ACTION HITS BUNA   Nips Face Annihilation On Guadalcanal Unless Reinforcements Arrive

AMERICAN P-388 LEAD ASSAULT ON LAE NEW GUINEA   Shoot Down Nine Enemy Fighters and Damage Two Others, Says Communique From MacArthur’s Headquarters.

American P-38’s Shot Down Nine Enemy Fighters In Attack On Lae, Jap Base

Yankee Fliers Take Big Toll Of Jap Planes   Total Of- 1,286 Have Been Destroyed During War

Japs In Tough Going With U.S.   AMERICAN P-38S LEAD ATTACK ON ENEMY BASES:

Destruction Of 23 Nippon Planes Raises U. S. Air Force Pacific Toll To 1,286

9 Jap Planes Downed af Lae   Allied Score for Year Raised to 1286;  deh Ated-eama Cmachkad

Father Of Nine Is Drafted For  Service In Navy   Leaves Twins  Six Months Old

MAY SPEED UP “TIMETABLE OF WAR STRATES)   SWIFT ADVANCES OF RUSSIANS CAUSE SPECULATION. IF IN-. VASION PLANS WILL — BE REVISED

ALLIES MAY PEED HELA OFFENSIVES   RAPID MOVEMENT OF REDS LIKELY TO CHANGE IN- VASION PLANS.   A Political Need   U. S., Britain Must Match Reds’ Successes to Get at Bar, gaining Table.

No More Rain In Sight Now   Kansas Temperature Is Expected To Be Some Lower Tonight

PREDICT NO MORE RAIN   Temperatures Are Expected to be wer Today and Tonight

Stage Twin Raids On Nazi Sub Base  U. S. Bombers Range Deep In France

FORTRESS FLEET HAMMERS ENEMY   Stages Intensified 24-Hour Aerial Assault on Nazi Factories, Ports, Important Communications, Air Bases-

Allied Bombers In 24-Hour Raid On Navi Targets   Attack Factories, Ports, Communications and . Air Bases

Allies Step Up Raids on Nazis   Blast German Plants, Ports and Air Bases

CONTINENT {3 BLASTED BY DAY AND NIGHT   American and RAF Fliers Bomb Nazi _ Factories, Ports, Railways, Highways and Air Bases.   Attack Hannover

NAZI TARGETS HIT BY FLIERS   24-Hour Assaults of the Allies Run Into the Night

Housing ‘Racket Brings Criticism  of GOP Leaders   $50,000,000 Budget Figure Arouses House Republicans

MAY WORK OUT COMPROMISE IN FATHERS ORAET   Sentiment Veering To Selection Of Fathers Under 30 Years Of Age

AGE BRACKET PLAN IN DRAFT IS SEEN AS A POSSIBILITY   May Be Compromise for Induction of Fathers as Senate Sentiment Develops.

URGE COMPROMISE ON FATHER DRAFT   Suggest Induction By Age Brackets

EXPLOIT DEFEAT UF WHEELER BILL   Substitute Measure Sponsored by Taft, Ohio Senator.

Jeannette Holt Facing Jury In Husband's Death   Goes On Trial Today In Greene County Mystery Poisoning

PROGRESS MADE ON LIONS CLUB SHOW   Minstrel And Vaudeville Entertain. ment Will Be Presented Ylarch 4 And 5 At High School

LIONS CLUB SHOW HAS FEATURE ACTS   Five Humorous’ Sketches Planned For Two-Day Production At Senior High School Next Week

TWELVE ‘ACCEPTED _ FOR ARMY;-FOUR IN ~ NAVY; MARINES, ONE      SEVENTEEN MEN ACCEPTED FOR FIGHTING SERVICES ON WEDNESDAY

SEVENTEEN ACCEPTED FOR ARMED FORCES; ARMY GETS 9; NAVY, 7   OFFICIAL REPORT OF PHYSICAL EXAMS RECEIVED THIS : MORNING

U.S. Jury Convicts George S. Viereck   Alleged Propagandist Guilty of Violating Foreign Agents Act.

Fortress Bombers Meet Navis Over Neutral. Coumby  Switzerland Claims Frantier Hit by For-

EARLY AND FINAL DECISION ON GAS BAN REMOVAL SEEN      Prentiss Brown Receives New Figures On Amount Of Gas  Available —

Decision On Pleasure Ban To Be Announced This Week   Brown Receives New Figures On Amount Of Gas Now Available

GERMANS LOST 65.000   Report Is Made on the Invasion of Norway in 1940

GERMANS LOST 65,000 IN NORWAY INVASION   Head of Norwegian Air Force Says Not One of 1024 Shins Surrendered

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Duesseldorf Is Pounded By RAF Bomber:   Hundreds Of Tons Of High Explosives Are Dropped On City In Renewed Air Offensive

Rhine Armaments Blasted in Heavy Raids by Bombers   One Thousand Mile Evropean Front, Hit in Last .Day

INDUSTRIAL CITY OF DUESSELDORF RAID TARGET OF BRITISH      Attack Follows American Pounding Of Nazi Naval Base By Daylight   COPENHAGEN: ALSO ” TARGET OF RAP

U.S. LANDINGS ON KISKA ARE SLATED SOOK   Air Raids Dwindle; May Foretell New Yank Blows

Invasion of Kiska Believed linminent As Aerial Attacks, Shelling Cease

Kiska Invasion Appears Near   ‘See Action Before Good Weather Ends

INVASION OF KISKA APPEARS IMMINENT      U.S. Forces Will Shortly Attempt To Gain Beachheads

Nipponese Try To Supply Base  On New Guinea   Three Ships Bombed Heavily by Allies; Airdrome at Rabaul  Under Big Attack

ENEMY SHIPS HARD HIT BY U.S. AIRMEN   ATTEMPT TO SUPPLY NIPPONESE BASE FRUSTRATED

JAPANESE CONVOY IS UNDER ATTACK   BOMBERS BLAST AT SHIPS TRYING TO REACH WEWAK -~3 HEAVILY HIT.

Allies Meet Strong Jap Attack With Big Bombing Raids   Three of Nine Ships Are Struck Hard In New Guinea Area

Allied Bombers Attack Convoy   Japs Are Making Strong Attempt To Supply And Man Base At ewak; Fleet Massed Near Guinea, Report

Japanese Fleet Reported Ready For New Atfack   Third Warning in Three Days Sent to U. S. Command   Enemy Reported Concentrating in Several Pacific Ports

Bombers Attack Big Jap Convoy   Sink Three Vessels In Wewak Area

Six Merchant Ships And Three Warships Attacked off Wewak  THREE VESSELS SUNK. BEACHED OR DAMAGED  New Guinea Casualties Of 4,319 Reported, Include 2.175 Dead

MacArthur's Bombers Hit  Japanese Ships In Convoy  Three Of Vessels Badly Damaged And Likely  Sunk While Trving To Move South In Pacific

Three Of Group Heavily Mauled Off New Guinea   Six Cargo Vessels, Three Warships ; Enroute Ta -Wrawab

Japs Attempt fo Supply and Man Base at Wewak   Three‘of 9 Vessels Are Hit; Allied: Fighters ~ Hit Rabaul Airdrome

Bombers Follow English Idea Of Crippling Power   Observers See Water Pour From Breach In One Dam But Observation Becomes Obscured

Huge Tirso Dam System Is Bombed   Direct Hits Are Scored On Dams In Sardinia.

Climax Intense Air Fighting By Breaching Tirso   Fortresses Buck High Wind To Make Shattering Attack On Cosimo Airdrome And Blast Targets In Sicily, Sardinia And Pantelleria.

Daylight Raid Apparently Breaches One Dam Other Planes Continue Unremiitting Atlacks on Italy’s Outer Defense Areas

Says Improper Housing, Récreation Facilities For Negroes, Whites, A Factor For Racial Strif

HOUSING GAUSE OF RIOT-BIDDLE   Attorney - General Blames Improper Housing for Detroit Riot. ©

VICTORY BY AIR THEORY RAPPED   Senators Hear Officers Say Invasion Of Germany By Troops Necessary

ligh Ranking Army Officers Convince Jenate That War Against Germany ‘annot Be Won By Air Power Only

SENATE HEARS  “WAR ANALYSIS   GEN. MARSHALL AND~ OTHER HIGH. RANKING ARMY OFFICEES DECLARE AIRFOWER BAS ITS LIMITATIONS

TWO COLUMNS NEWLY-LANDED MEN DRIVE THROUGH JUNGLES 10 JOIN MARINES IN SOLOMONS

Newly-Landed Troops to Join Marines In Fight To Take Munda, Bairoke

SERIOUS FOO SHORTAGE SEEN BEFORE SUMMER   Democratic Senator Puts Blame On Bungling And Mismanagement   REMEDIES ARE DOUBTED   Gillette Would Restore Labor, Provide Price Floor And Furnish Machinery

FIGHT OPENS — ~ ON ROLLBACK   GILLETTE SAYS FOOD SHORTAGE CERTAIN BY SPRING—  URGES PRICE SECUR~ YY “FLOOR”

Russians Crash On Toward Orel in Three-Way Drive   By HENRY SHAPIRO

INTERNED U.S, AIRMEN IRKED   Eleven Aircobra Pilots Well Treated After Forced Landing

Fliers Landing At Lisbon hog Well Treated   Were “Little Mad” When Interned By Authorities

POLIO OUTBREAK ALARMS CHICAGO   DOCTORS APPEAL FOR GRADUATE NURSES TO HELP FIGHT DISEASE

40 JAP PLANES ARE oHUT DOWN, ALLIES LOSE 5   MacArthur’s Bombers Again Unload Destructive Cargo On Salamaua

Famous Umpire Yields to Death   Robert D. Emslie, 84, Passes Away at Home At St. Thomas, Ont.

Goering Said Out Of Danger   Report Says Heart Attacks Have Ceased

GOERING REPORTED GRAVELY SICK WITH SPECIALISTS IN CONSTANT ATTENDANCE

GOERING ILL   Swedish Paper Says No. 2 Nazi Has Nervous Breakdown.

GOERING ‘VERY ILL’ IS SWEDISH TIP   Nazi Biggie Reported To Have Nervous Breakdown

SHE RESISTED FLYNN    Aceuser O; Movie Star Claims She Resisted Advances

Abandoned in Such Haste Allied Airmen Are Able To Use Field Immediately 

U. S. Air Forces Get In Heavy Blows Against Japs On Many Pacific Fronts

FOOD HEAD SEES "PLENTY FOR ALL’   One of Many Speakers a  Dairvmen’s lLeqque

German Capita! Hit for Fifth Night in Row   RAF Attack Follows Heavy American Raid On North Sea Port— Frankfurt Also Hit

Berlin And Bremen Are Blasted Again  Nazi Capital Hit For 5th Night In Row

GERMANY IS BLASTED BY U.S. PLANES   Heavy Bombers Over Northwest After RAF Smash At Frankfurt And New Mosquito Stabs At Berlin.   3,000 Insane

REDS MASSING HUGE ARMY IN DNIEPER BEND   Russians Driving Within Artillery Range of Leningrad-Odessa Road.   Nazis Tell of Fresh Retreats in Far West

Foe Losses Are Heavy in Crimea   British Patrol ‘Crosses Sangro River; Fifth Army Captures Filignano. and: Pozzili

NAZI ARMIES OF NORTH AND ‘SOUTH VIRTUALLY SPLIT, OPEN WAY TO POLAND, RUMANIA —   Capture of City Regarded hy Moscow As One of Greatest Strategic Achievements of Russian Of. fensive. Fall Will Force Germans to Use Circu‘tous Route 100 Miles to West :

THITOMIR CAPTURED  BY SOVIET FORCES  IN SWEEPING DRIVE © GERMAN ARMIES OF  NORTH AND SOUTH HAVE VIRTUALLY BEEN SPLIT

RED ARMY STORMING KAIVO] ROG; MILLION NAZIS IN BIG POCKET   Keystone Nazi Base Inside River Bend By - Passea And Subjected To Frontal Assault; Early Capture Seen   (RULLETIN)

Advance Patrols Reach Peninsular Approaches; Pincers Close In North

RED MOTORIZED UNITS SPEEDING ON TO PEREKOP      Cossack Raiding Parties Ar Ranging Approaches To Black Sea

Cossack Raiders Slice Into Black Sea Area   Fall of Crimea Bastion Imminent; Nazi Lines Totter on Entire Front

Spearhead Trying to Seal Front   Second Force Is Storming Krivoi Rog Near Bend

Tron Spearheads Crossing Steppes   Whole German Position in Ukraine Totters as Cossacks IKKnife Throueh Broken Lines

MOTORIZED UNITS, COSSACKS MOVING UIP TO BLACK SEA   Trapping of 1,000,000 Nazis With Collapse of Enemy Position on Onieper Is Now Anticipated.   JAPS SUFFER IN LOWLEVEL NEW GUINEA RAID   23 Planes Destroyed, Bombers and Ground Army Lower Enemy Resistance Near Finschhafen.

SENATOR WHEELER HINTS BOLT FROM DEMOCRATS IN ‘4   Montana Democrat Lauds Herbert Hoover as Man Solely Interested in Preserving American Way.

SEN. WHEELER SAYS HE MAY BOLT, IN 1944   Montana Democrat makes vague statement as to future

ITALY’S ISLE ~OF SARDINIA   Both Raids Staged in Daylight—RAF Gives Nazi Sub Base at Lorient, Its Worst Pounding of the War

Naples Bombed By U.S. Planes   Daylight Raid Leaves - Waterfront Aflame

American and British Raid Hits Naples   Waterfront of Italian City Is Left in Flames; Raiders Also Attack Cagliari, Sardinia

HIT SARDINIA, CIGILIAN AREF   Multiple Air Blows Launched As Rain Bogs Ground Campaion.   NAPLES AGAIN BOMBED

Woman-power Situation New Problem at Akron   CIO Leaders Hit WMC Chief after Quaker Oats Strike

WMC POLICY BLAMED BY GIO FOR STRIKE   i aa  Union Criticizes Employment Of Women in Akron

POEPPPPPEPEIEPEPPAP AAAS  Maybe She Didn’t Know Meaning of ‘Juvenile

"GOVERNMENT EYES WHISKY SITUATION   Authorities To Take Tighter  * ~ Grip on Prices

CLAMP DOWN OM WHISKEY PRICES   Bootleggers and Hoarding Dealers Are Said To Be To Blame For Whiskey Scarcity.

OPA Planning Price Controls For Whiskey: Not as Scarce as It Seems

ACT TO CONTROL WHISKEY PRICES   Government To Take Tighter Grip On Wholesale And Retail Liquor Prices In Next Two Weeks.

GOVERNMENT 10 TAKE ACTION ON WHISKEY PRICE   Enough On Hand to Last At Least Two Years, Says -Report; Dealers Sell to Old Customers

Liquor Supply For Two Years   he Re A ah  Grip On Beverage Price

Few Complaints Expected In County. New Body May Wave AntiInflation Job Soon

Few Gomplaints Expected In the County. New Body May Havé Anti-inflation Job Spon

YOUTH ADMITS HE KILLED 3   Tries to Absolve Girl  m1 Tragedy on Farm

TRIPLE CRIME CONFESSED BY FARMER YOUTH   Kills Two Women, Man On Ohio Farm Where he was Employed. Girl Friend May be Involved

New Compromise Leaves Giraud As Army Head   . DeGaulle Wins Ouster Of Several High Officials In Algiers Regime

Gen. Giraud To Remain As  Army Leader   He'll Be Headquarter: Chief Under Setup: Makes Concessions To Gen. de Gaulle

NIMITZ TO GIVE JAPANESE NO REST   COMMANDER OF PACIFIC FLEET SAYS TIME HAS COME FOR U. S. TO STRIKE,

$300,597.75 Is War Bond Total Saturday   E. O. Jenkins to be Principal Speaker At Balle

Monday Bond Sales Total $74,754.75   Total to Date For April is £201 211 00

Officer Describes Leap With U. S. Paratroopers Who Captured Markham Valley Air Strip on New Guinea   By FIRST LIEUT. MONTE KI rRAWN

WEATHER HELPS ® GROWERS OF GRAIN      Hocking Native Was Timken i Maintenance Engineer

Says Steel Was Allocated   Kaiser Replies To Priority Violations Charge

HENRY KAISER REPLIES TO CHARGES   Sends Telegrams Wanting to Know if WPB  Wanted Him to Slow Down to Comply With Their Procedure °° °:

Deadline Near For Taxpayers   Have Until Midnight To File "42 Returns. And Escape: Penalty

MONEY ROLLING INTO COFFERS U.$, TREASURY   Federal Income Tax Collec. tors Braced for Annual - Rush by Last Min ‘ute Taxpayers   ALL URGED TO FILE   Four Congressional Lead.ers Join In Request First Quarter Payments Should Be Made

ANNUAL TAX RUSH ON   Treasury Officials Estimate 4  Million Returns To Be Filed

TAX COLLECTORS READY FOR LAST MINUTE RUSHES   Expect 45 Million Returns To Be Filed

Quaker State Shows Profit   Earns 65c¢ a Share During Six Months Period

17-ERS MAY SIGN UP FOR NAVAL AIR   Enlistees, However, Not to Begin Training Until 18

MODIFIED MEASURE TO DEFER WORKERS ON FARMS OPPOSE   Campaign ts Opened te Prevent Farm Bloc from Pushing Bill Thraugh.

Effective Only for This Year   Measure Favored by Ser ate Committee—Changes Bankhead’s Plan

Bill to Defer Farm Labor  Gains Favor   Opponents Seek To Prevent Quick Senate Approval.

FARM DEFERMENT BILL FOES PREPARE BATTLE IN SENATI   Modified Measure Held Only ‘Stop Gap’ Legislation

SENATE COMM. FAVORS FARM DEFERMENTS  Eonae Eicht On   Faces F. ight On Senate Floor, However

MEASURE TO DEFER} FARM LABOR HAS COMMITTEE “FAVOR:   Opponents Begin Campaigss, To- Prevent Final Passage OF  ~  Bill

GIVEN 9 10 7 EDGE IN VOTE BY COMMITTEE   Opponents Open Drive To Prevent Final Senate O.K.

ARE BEING PLANNED   Leaders Confer as Italy Seems Helpless Under Air Attacks  WALT VFATSCAOSsT Tr OSA Pr

NEW ALLIED BLOWS ARE BEING PLANNED   Leaders Confer: as Italy “Seems Helpless Under Air Attacks   BASES KNOCKED OUT

OF LOCAL C. OF (:   Motor Car Dealer Succeeds.  - Gerald Hesse as President   IDIRECTORS INSTALLED

WINTER NEW HEAD OF LOCAL C. OF C:   Motor Car Dealer Succeéds Gerald Hesse as President  DIRECTORS INSTATIED.

HITLER ILL?   Physician Reported Called Urgently to Berchtasaaden.

LIBERATE FOUR MORE TOWNS ON ISLAND   Advance Toward Key Cities of Catania and Agrigento

Circus Stricken But Carries on  Food Poisoning Hits 100 Employes

Show Goes On Though Trouve Ill   Food Poisoning Sweeps Ringling Bros. Circus

OPA Will Probe All Phases of Tawes's Journey   Reopens Investigation o ~ Trip South in StateOwned Car

Tawes' Case Reopened: Hearing Set For Monday   State OPA to Go Into All Phases of Trip to Georgia by State Comptroller—Move Supersedes Action of Board at Crisfield

NATION GETS. ~ SUMMARY OF WAR EFFORT   BYRNES REPORTS “BALANCE SHEET’ AND OUTLINES PLANS FOR FUTURE ON HOME FRONT

Duesseldorf Rocked by RAF’s Huge Night Fleet   ANOTHER ASS. ASSAULT__ MADE LAST NIGHT   Bombs Fall on City at Rate of 75 Tons a  Minute

RUHR WARPLANT CITY HAMMERED   Naziland Targets Rocked By 1000 Tons Of Bombs In Day-Night Attack

Duesseldorf Air Raid Wednesday Sets New Record   2,000 Tons Dropped in 27 Minutes Raiders ‘Back Last Niaht

DUESSELDORE 2, O00 TEN RAID   ‘Leaving Ruhr Steel and Armament City Second Only to Hamburg; \nlogne and Other Targets Hit.   Third Port

UL S., British Hit Duesseldorf With Record Force  Fliers Smash Target With 4,000 Tons; New Attack Expected

Allies Pour Record Load Of Bombs on Germany   Crushing Assault on Duesseldorf Brings Total Weight to 4000 Tons of Explosives Rained on Reich in 18 Hours

NAZI TARGETS ARE ROCKED BY SMASHING RAIDS   Duesseldorf Is Blasted With Saturation Load Of 4,000 Tons; Cologne Hit

R.A. F, Smashes At Duesseldorf   Pour Bombs at74-Ton Per Minute Rate

Great AirFleets Pound Germany   New Record*Set In Duesseldorf Raid.

Duesseldor! Is Rocked By British   Raid Climaxes 18-Hour Attacks On Nazi Cities

2,000 Tons Of Bombs Hit German City   Plummet Down at Rate Of 74 Tons a Minute From RAF Bombers  COLOGNE BIT. Too

Record Bomb Attack Made On Nazi City   Flight Over Channel Indicates Another Raid Beine Made

BOMBERS GIVE NAZIS BLAZING 16 HVURKS  Greatest Day-N ight Tonnage Rocks Ruhr

Eg AS Soe eh ol Se rey Se et te ee ee eer  ASKS SANITY HEARING      William LaTrasse to Appear Before Probate Court August 24

General Eisenhower's Communique Announces Eighth Army Continues Drive Northward Despite Enemy Resistance.

ESCAPED NAZI FLYER CAUGHT   Lieut. Peter Krug, Who Fled Canadian Prison Camp, Captured At Rail Station

Nazi Peter Krug Caught By Constable   Brief Period of Freedom From Canadian Prison Camp Ended

FLEEING KRUG IS RECAPTURED   Escaped Nazi Army Officer  Nabbed At Depot In Canada

Krug Out Of Prison  Camp Again   Nazi Flier Whose Capture Led to Conviction. of Max Stephan

Canadian Police Recapture Krug In R. R. Station   Escaped Nazi Flier Found Carrying Much Money And Concentrated Food

DETROM POLICE HUNT FOR KRUG   Escaped German Airman Believed To Have Swum River

KRUG IS CAPTURED   German Airman Was Taken Again at North Bay Railway Station

‘Krug Flight Ends in Canada   German Prisoner From Canadian Prison Camp Apprehended in Ontario

GERMAN FLIER KRUG CAPTURED   Alert Canadian Sergeant Apprehends Escaper At North Bay

NAZI PRISONER OF WAR AGAIN MAKES ESCAPE IN CANADA      Troublesome German at Liberty Again; Caused Treason Case in Detroit

Battle of Tunisia in Last Stages   Big Air Battles Step Up Tempo On Russian Front

 Wallace Says ‘New World’  Coming Out of Laboratories   Vice President Endorses Kilgore Technological Mobilization Bill, Sees Scientific ‘Aid for Small Business

VICE PRESIDENT WALLAGE PICTURES OUR POSTWAR WORLD  HELICOPTERS, TELEVI SION ETC RIT FREE EN   HELICOPTERS, TELEVISION, ETC.,.BUT FREE ENTERPRISE MUST PREVAIL

Vice-President Sketches Postwar World  Wallace Sees New World, But Cautions That Free Enterprise Must Remain

WALLACE VIEWS POSTWAR WORLD   CAUTIONS FREE ENTERPRISE MUST BE MAINTAINED

INVENTIONS 10 SIGNAL OUTSET (It NEW WORLD   Wallace Gives Committee ; Picture of Technical Mobilization.

Wallace Talks of Post-War World   V. P. Plugs for Free Enterprise

VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE PICTURES OUR POSTWAR WORLD  HELICOPTERS, -TELEVI.  3 SION, ETC., BUT FREE EN

Wallace for Free Use of:  Inventions   Would Release'to All the. Findings: of Science. Financed by: Government   NEW WORLD NoW BEING. FASHIONED   Would Not: Let Research Be Dominated, Resources Shackled by a Few

Wallace Sketche: Port-War World  Says Free Enterprise Essential to Future

Only Way To Assure Benefits Of Inventions  To All, Says Wallace.

Wallace Backs Inventions in Post-War Era   Free Enterprise Is Necessary, Solons Informed

Plant to Limit, Farmers Asked   Food Chief Issues } Ith Hour Appeal

ADOPT CURFE LAW FOR B. Hi. STARTS NOV. 4   All. Children Under 1  Must Be Off Streets  By 10 P. M.

{0 P.M. Curfew Ordinance Voted   New City Law Takes Effect Nov. 4

MEETINGS ARE CALLED BY UNION LEADERS   Want No Break In Back-To-Work  Movement

CALLED BY UNION LEADERS   Want No Break In Back-To-Work Movement

U5. BOMBERS HIT BASE IN CELEBES   Long Distance Attack on Japs }s Launched From Australia.

Tulsan Leads Smashing Raid ‘On One of Japs’ Biggest Air  Bases In the Pacific War Aveu

STRONGEST AERIAL BLOW DEALT JAP BASE IN CELEBES   Airdrome at Kendari Rocked By Bomb Attack Delivered By Liberator Heavy Bombers From Australia

) Property and Crop Damage in One of W orst Tropical Hurricanes in State  Soars to $10,000,000; 2 Persons Killed

“MILLIONS DOLLARS DAMAGE CAUSED BY GULE COAST STORM   HOUSTON, GALVESTON HARD HIT--- ONE WORST HURRICANES IN HISTORY

‘East - West - South’ Drive Likely After Mid- January   Expect Gen. Marshall Will Go To London In Few Weeks   Today's War Moves

Troops Being Massed For Great Push  Offensive Seen By Mid-January

MID-JANUARY SET AS OPENING DATE OF GREAT DRIVES   By That Time Five Million Men /Will Be Massed for Ac-

Big Push Expected During January   Five Million Men Await ‘Zero’ Hour

BIG ALLIED OFFENSIVE SET FOR JAN   Believe Move to Crush Germans: Only Month Away

Allies to Muster Strength   5,000,000 Men to Be Hurled Along Huge Attack Are

Nicholas Roghait Of Maurice Dies  Well Known Sioux  Countv Resident

Nicholas Roghair Of Maurice Dies .  Well Known Sioux County Resident :-

THREE NEW FACES AT AAA OFFICE   Election Held Saturday; Re-Name Taylor Sec-Trea:

Lists New  Meat Prices   OPA’s Standardized Retail Ceilings Are Effective April 15 

Sample Prices Are Listed   Prices Per Pound On “Good” Grade Of Meat

U.S. AIRMEN RAID NAZI INDUSTRIES   Sth Air Force In Record Day Attack

ALLIED AIRFORCE NOT GIVING THE ~ FERRIES ANY RES   FORTRESSES RAIDED INDUSTRIAL TARGETS IN GERMAN CITIES, ONE OF WHICH IS SAID TO BE BONN,   AMERICAN PLANES ALSO ATTACK ITALY

FLYING FORTS HIT RHINELAND TOWN OF BONN   First Attack by Great Bombers Since Thrust at Kassel on July 30.

FORTRESSES SMASH DEEP INTO GERMANY   Kerial Armada Penetrates Into Heart Of Defended Area 

U.S. FORTS tll GERMAN CITY IN HEAVY RAID   Nozi Radio Reports Attack on Bonn, Rail Center   CLARK GABLE ABOARD ONE OF FORTRESSES

FDR Opposed To Food Czar  Says Question Is  Gn n Inflation, Not c..J D..d..2kn.

FDR Attacks Demand For U. S. Food Czar   President Characterizes Proposal To Give Someone Authority Over Food Program As Close To A Red Herring

Inflation, Yes or No,  ~ the Issue   That's the Question, Says the President, Discussing Calls for Food Czar   WAL WOUUid) Ey DO? HE DEMANDS   Then We Discusses _ the Threat of a Price and -. Wage Spiral“

FDR Speaks Again Against Food Czar   Says Congress Can Take Path to Inflation If Wants

Food Czar For Nation Rapped By Roosevelt   President Character. izes Food Program Head As ‘Red Her ring’

ROOSEVELT STILL AGAINST ‘CZAR   Tells Press Conference Mair Question Pertains to Inflation Points.

FOR STILL AGAINST NAMING FOOD CZAR   President Says Question of inflation is at Stake

President In New Attack On Food Czar   Declares Real Question Is Whether or Not Inflation Can Be Avoided

FDR SPEAKS OUT AGAINST FOOD CZAR   President :Tells Press Conference Congress Car Take Path Towards Inflation If It Wants To

President Says Real Issue Inflation, Not Food Czar   Can't Increase This Year's Crop, He Says, Poor Suffer If Prices Rise, Wage Hike Demands Will Follow

Says the Question At Issuc Is Whether We Are For Inflation Or Against Jt °   “LIKE RED HERRING”   Declares Responsibility Will Rest 100% With Congress If Inftation Results

Oppose Effort To Give Power To Food Czar   Roosevelt Says Neither Congress Nor Czar Could Prodiuee More Food.   QUESTION OF PRICES

President Speaks Against Food Czar   Says Congress Will Be Responsible For Inflation

SCOFFS AT FOOD CZAR PROPOSAL   FDR SAYS QUESTION AT ISSUE IS FOR OR AGAINST INFLATION

F'. R. Voices Opposition to Setting Up of “Food Czar”   Declares Issue Is Whether We're for or Against Inflation

Food Czar Idea Rapped By F.R.  Inflationary Move Up : To Congress, He Says

OA OP EARS OUI AGAINST FOOD CZAR   Responsibility For Inflation To Rest On Congress

PRESIDENT SPOKE  OUT AGAIN TODAY  AGAINST FOOD CZAR QUESTION HE SAID WAS WHETHER WE ARE FOR OF  ACATINGT INET ATION

President Hits At Food Czar Plan   Question at Issue Is Still Inflation He Declares in Interview at Capital Today

Inflation Is Sole Issue. He Asserts   Executive Speaks Out Against Upward Price Spiral

MILES FROM CAPITAL =   All Enemy Counter. Attacks Repelled, Eisenhower Says

DOWNEY SEES 150,000 VAR BY JAN   Senator Paints Dark Picture of Civilian Economy as Mianpower Goes.   DRIVE FOR PASSAGE OF BANKHEAD BILL

Sees Armed Force of 15 Million Men   Will Outproduce Rest of The World-Downey

SEES 15 MILLION IN 1943 SERVICE   Sen. Downey Asserts U. 5. Faces Food, Transport Breakdown

DOWNEY SEES ARMED FORCE QF 15 MILLION   Senator paints dark pic ture of civilian economy for U, S.

Roosevelt, Willkie Define What They Feel to Be the Functions Of the Christian Church Today

DOCTOR WHO SAVED aU, — $ STRICKER   DR, ALLAN. ‘DAFOE DIED ‘ OF “PNEUMONIA IN HOBPTTAL— : “HAD BEEN ENCILL = i HEALTH © i

Senators Form Bloc To Demand Farm Deferment   Legislation Also Slated To Furlough Farmers In Army

Senate Bloc To Seek Army Help IF or Farm Work      Thirty Senators to Seek to Compel Furloughing  of Experienced Farm  -. Workers, Deferment of Orhers.

BLOC OF SENATORS TO OFFER BILL TO DEFER FARMERS   Same Legislation Would Furlough Those  In Servica

SENATORS FORM BLOC FOR FARM LABOR PROPOSAL   Want Deferment For Group From Army Service

DEFERMENT LAWS BEING SOUGHT BY BLOC OF SENATORS   Measures Intended to Preven! Labor Shortage Ready For Presenting

THIRTY SENATORS FORM BLOC TO PUT BRAKES ON DRAFI   Will Compel Military Deferment of Farm Workers   TO FURLOUGH SOME IN ARMED FORCES

Senators Plan Measure to Compel Deferment of Experienced Farmer:

Senators In Pian To Defer Farm Workers   Bloc of Thirty Will Introduce Bill In Congress   Majority Support Already Pledged   Furloughs Would Be Provided During The Rush Seasons On Farms

French Battleship Richelieu Arrives At Alaiers Ready to Resume Fight

In Fighting Trim Reconditioned French Ship Will Be Used Against Japs

MORE THAN AGE NOW REQUIRED 10 GET OUT OF ARM   38-Year Old Men Must Enter Essential Industry, Show Departure Will Not Disruet Unit.   REQUEST REQUIRED’ PREVIOUS TO MAY 1   Other Factors For Discharge Are Announced, Continuous Releases Ciassed Un: economical.

38-YEAR-OLD MEN WON'T ALL GET OUT   That’s Implication in New War Department Order

Age Alone Ne Excuse for Discharge   Men Over 38 Desiring to Leave Army Must Present Proof of Intention to Enter Essential War Work

Outline Method For Discharge of 38-Year Olds   Soldiers Must Give Proof They Will Take Essential Job

REQUIREMENTS FOR 38-YEAR-OLDS TO RESIGN ARMY   Discharge Grant ‘Will Come At Convenience Cnvernment

Tighten Up On Discharges   38-Year-Old Men Must Prove Value in War Industry for Army Release

MEAT POINT VALUE CHANGES PLANNEL   Will Be Increased For Beef, Is Report

POINT VALUES ON MEAT FIRW   Classifications to Las Throughout Summer Months

Reds Sink German Vessels   Attempt To Land Troops Ends  In Disaster

BIG CONVOY TRAPPED BY RED PLANES   Boche Landing Boats Set Ablaze, Sunk In Lagoon

Sorties At Novorossisk  Can’t Land   Planes Of Soviet Black Sea Fleet Are Very Active.

Urges Strict A dherence To Tire Saving   Jeffers’ Statement Followed By OPA Cut Among Those Eligible

TO TIGHTEN RULES tl Ties   OPA Backs Jeffer’s Rubber Shortage Warning by Limiting Tire Rationing :

STIC CUT MADE IN TIRE ALLOWANCES   Number of Low - Mileage » Passenger Car Owners Eligible For Used and Recaps is Reduced   ‘MAY LAST NINETY DAYS

Sharp Tire Quota Cut   Number of Cars Eligible for Used and Recapped Tires Reduced

USED, RECAP TIRE SUPPLY 300.000 LESS   Jeffers Says “A” Book Holders Outside East Must Do Essential Driving to Purchase Casings Next Month.

NEW DRASTIC CUT -IN CIVILIAN TIRES   Rubber Czar Sees Easement Next Year—‘“‘A” Gas Rations Stay

CIVILIANS TO GET FEWER TIRES IN JULY   Rubber Directer Jeffers Cites  Need for Strict Adherence  to Economics

To Put Clamps On Auto Tires   Director Jeffers Asks Strict Adherence to Conservation Rulings.

Drastic Cut In Passenger Car Tire Allowance   Next Few Months Critical Conservation Period, Savs Jeffers.

Jeffers Implores Saving of Tires   Further Curb on A Ration Holders

CURB ON DRIVING TOBE TIGHTENED TO SAVE TIRES   Gasoline Ration Books To Be Checked in Ohio To Cut Pleasure Jaunts   RELIEF LIKELY NEXT YEAR   Shortage Serious Now But Synthetic Rubber Program Progressing, ‘Tis Said

 New Drastic Cut in Civilian Tire Allowance; See Easement Next Yea

DRASTIC TIRE CUTS ORDERED   Rubber Czar Jeffers Sees Easing of Restrictions By Next Year

Ask Abherence  To Tire Rules   OPA Cooperates With Jeffers In Cutting Down Number Of Tires.

ORDER DRASTIC CUTS IN SALES OF AUTO TIRES   Lower Quota for July Nearly Half, Issue New Rules for Replacements

Tight Period Ahead on Tire  Allowances   After That. Says Jeffers. Rubber Situation Will Be Easier

ONLY 500,000 TIRES AVAILABLE FOR JULY RATIONING   Jeffers Calls for Stric’ Adherence To Tire  Conservation And Regulations

LOWER RECAP TIRE QUOTAS      Jeffers Calls For Strict Adherence To Conserva tion Regulations

NUMBER OF TIRES FOR JULY REDUCEL   Jeffers Calls for ‘Strict Ad: _ herence’ During Next Few Months.

Food Tax Issue May Be Placed  Before Voters   Restaurant Owners Plan to Carry Fight to Taxpayers

Eight National Labor Unions Seek More Drastic Wartime Tax Boosts

Higher Taxes on Large Personal  Incomes Urged  CIO. Seven Other National Groups Make Anneal to Congressme!

GROUPS MAKE TAX SUGGESTIONS   Organizations Propose $25, 000 Ceiling on Salaries Oppose Any Form of Na tional Retail Sales Tax

Laborites Ask Solons Impose Heavier Taxes   Petition Claims House Bill Fails to Levy Ther Ttoks Treenacy

Drastic Wartime Taxes Sought °   Revenue Measure Termed tnadequate

MORE DRASTIC WARTIME TAXES ARE DEMANDED   Eight National Groups Declare Present Bill Is Inadequate As To Big Incomes

Eight Groups Ask House To Provide Higher Taxes Than Committee Calls For

RACE SQUABBLE CLOSES PACKARD   20,000 Employes Atfected By Shutdown Over Upgrading . of Colored Workers.

Third Of Bond --Quota Reached   Sales Total $682,810 Up To September 15

City Bond Quote Half Subscribec   Sales To Date Amount  To Little Over Million

Vinson Warns Of Inflation  Says Treasury Tax ‘Program Needed To Ward Off Rise

CONGRESS STILL COOL ON TAXES   Inflation Warning By Vinson Fails To Kindle Interest In Big Tax Program.

INFLATION WARNING FAILS TO ENTHUSE HOUSE OVER TAX BILL  ECONOMIC STABILIZATION DIRECTOR VINSON BEFORE COMMITTEE

Solons Warned Of Inflation Threat   Told. Tax Program Must Be Okayed

INFLATION WARNING FAILS TO ENTHUSE HOUSE OVER TAX BILL  ECONOMIC STABILIZATION NIRECTOR VINSON

Congress Turns Deaf Ear When  Vinson Pleads   Says Inflation Or More Taxes

Vinson’s Plea Fails to Win ‘Tax Support   Picture of Inflation Threat Kkindles No Enthusiasm for Big Levy

ouse Group Unmoved By Economic Stabilization Director’s Warning tnflation Threatens   ACKS TREASURY’S 10 BILLION REQUEST   ongressional Leaders Injcate Measure Will Be Drawn For. Sharply Reduced Figure

Jap Warship Is Blasted From Ocean hy Bombs   Australian Pilots Score Hit in South Pacific Ared

AUSSIES KNOCK OUT JAP WARSHIP OFF NEW BRITAIN   Torpedo Hit on Light Cruiser or Destroyer Is Believed to Have Sent Vessel to Bottom.   NIPPONESE FLANKED IN SANANANDA AREA   Allied Ground Forces Close In Further on Enemy Troops Holding Out in Corridor.

Jap Warship Is Blasted From Ocean by Bombs  Australian Pilots  Score Hit in i i

Aussies Sink Jap Warship   Aerial Torpedo Hits Nip Amidship, First In Area

Copy Editor Denies Charge Of Jap Work   Wright Pleads Innocent to Charges of Failing to Register as Agent

Farmers Valley Man Killed In Lease Accident   Henry A. MacKenzie, 47. Drawn Into Winch Used On Lease

yl Worker Is Tied in Lease Accident Here   Henry A. Mackenzie, Farmers Valley, Drawr Into Winch; Funeral To Be Held Tuesday

BATTLE IN LAST ALEXANDER   “Enemy Will Be Driven Into Sea,” Says Kisenhower’s Deputy

APPARENT ALLIED BOMBINGS OF GERMANY HAVING GREAT EFFECT UPON WHOTE NA7I WAR MACHINE

The War Today Aerial Bombardment Bringinc Germany and Italy to Defeat

The War Today Heavy Bombing Of Germany May Have Effect Of 1918 Sea Blockade

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Terrific Aerial Attacks Wav Bring On Collapse Hf Nazi Home Front

The War Today  owe Bombing Of Germany May Be Agent Which Will Bring Victory.

\Ge@eitited Fn) eee ee Ae tee  Experiment ‘In Air Power ;Going Places

SIGNS OF FATIGUE   Initial Gains Slow v Up Prices Retreat in Most Cases Near Close

ALLIES MASS INVASION GhAET AY MANY SPOTS   Enemy Being Kept Befuddled By Various Preparations For Invading Europe

GUINEA GROUND FIGHT RENEWEL   Allied Infantry In Action Near Salamaua-Mubo

NAZI ATTACKS INGREASEDIN “RUSSIAN AREA   ‘Reported Germans Have Attained Numerical Superiority In Some Sectors of Caucasus   MAKING NO GAINS   Thrown Out of Wedge Driven Into Red Lines In Black Sea Coast Area

Nazis Step Up Kuban Attack To No Avail  MAidnianht Accaulte   Midnight Assaults On Soviet Lines are Repulsed

Reds Claim 8.400 German Troops Slain   Nazis Attempt To Break Out From Kuban Peninsula Tight Spot

.  Nazi Attacks    Increasing   Numerical Superiority  In Some Parts Of Russi

GERMANS QPEN NEW DRIVES IN KUBAN SECTOR   Reds Outnumbered In Some Places By Invaders

HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS NOTED IN KUBAN AREA   Nazis Suffer Heavy Casualties In Fighting

‘Nazis Attain Numerical Superiori ity in Some Sectors on Kubaz Delta Front

LARGE-SCALE NAZ ATTACKS INCREASE IN KUBAN REGION   Germans Have Attained Numerical Superiority In Some Places But Reported To Have Gained Neither A Major Success Nor Any New Territory.

GERMAN ATTACKS IN BLACK SEA COAST AREA INCREASING  DESPITE SUPERIORITY 0! STRENGTH THEIR ASSAULTS HAVE FAILED

Reds Foil Germans In Effort to Widen Kuban Delta Grip.   Superiority of Nazis in Numbers Admitted as Pressure Increases; Midnicht Tank Attack Repulsed

Germans Fail To Succeed In Kuban Area Of Russia As They Intensify Battle

HEAVY GERMA ATTACKS MAKE LITTLE HEADWAY   Nazis Increasing Pressure In Kuban Delta, But Russians Apparently Repulsing Them Successfully.

Germans Step Up Assaults Against Reds   - Heavy Air Support Employed By Nazis Around Black Sea

CONTINUE TO FIGHT   Germans Increase Their Attacks on the Russian . ~ Front

REICH’S LEGIONS BEATEN BACK IN FIFRCE FIGHTING   Germans Launch Big-Scale Attacks, But Fail to Score Major Gains

NAZI ATTACKS INCREASED IN KUBANDELTA   Germans Have Gained Numerical Superiority In Some Places But Have Failed to Gain  Tarritaryv.

Large Scale Nazi Attacks In Kuban Delta   Germans Said to Have Gained Numerical Superiority in Some Places   GAINS NEGLIGIBLE

WEDGE IN LINES IS WIPED OUT   Russians Say Germans Lose 17 Planes In Aerial Assault

URGES ACADEMY   Legislator Would Establish Diptomata’ ‘West Point’

Would Establish Diplomat School  Wranld Ra Dattarnad   Would Be Patterned After West Point

CALL OUT MILITIA IN FUEL LINE ROW   Violence Reported Ir Union Dispute

Gives Fighting Speech Before New Congress   Enemies Have Asked For It,  They Will Get It

NAZI, FASCIST FOES 10 FEEL MIGHT OF U. S.   “They have asked for it —they are going to get it’, says President

President Says Foe Asked for It, Will Get It   iReveals Million and Half U. §. Men Now Fighting Abroad, Praises Output Of Arms In His Address  To Cangrace

Open Enrollment Here For New War Workers   Additional Women And Older Men Will Be Needed, As Production Speeds Up

War Training  Program Opens   Classes Will Prepare County People for Good Industrial Positions

SOVIETS STEP UP TEMPO OF ATTAGKS ON KHARKOV   RUSSIAN ARMY STRIVING TO TURN DISORDERLY GERMAN RETREAT INTO ROUT

RUSSIANS ADVANCE UN BRYANSK DRIVE   Yesterday the Red Army Hammered Its Way Into 30 Villages.

GEAMAN RETREAL "FROM KHARKOM ALMOST A ROUT   Moscow Believes Fall Of “Ukraine — Pittsburgh May Be Imminent

Warships Move Info Jap Zone   Shells Hurled. Inte East Bougainville

Warships Move Into Jap Zone   Shells Hurled Into East Bougainville  Be UPR Barer awn

Canton, Hongkong Area Lambasted  Airdrome, Dock Area Hit Bv U. S. Bombers

HONGKONG AND CANTON RAIDED   YANK FLIERS BOMB DOCKS AND OTHER KEY NIPPON AREAS

Progress Called ‘Slow, Steady’; Warships Assist   Fleets Shell Exposed Coast Positions; Fliers Completely Rule Air

U-Boat Base  Among Targets   St. Nazaire, La Pallice “And Rennes Get Heavy Blastina

NAZI U-BOAT BASES HIT IN BOMB RAIDS.   Darken the Sky  Armada of Flying Fert

ARE LOST IN ASSAULT   Largest Force Makes 3-Pronged Raid on Bases

European Aerial Offensive Mounts   Big Force of U.S. Bombers Seeks To Destroy Submarine Bases —

Italian Pattern Set by Bulgaria  KO of First Axis Porallels That of

See a Parallel To World War    Recall Surrender of Bulgaria In 1918

Italy’s Collapse Parallels That Of Bulgaria in Ist World War   End of Fighting in 1918 Followed 43 Days Later

Italy's Fall Parallels Capitulation Of Bulgarians in First World War

KNOCKOUT OF ITALY LIKE COLLAPSE IN FIRST WORLD WAR   Kaiser’s Armies” Gave Ur Only 43 Days After Bulgaria Quit —

KNOCKING ITALY OUT OF WAR PARALLELS CAPITULATION OF BULGARIA IN FIRST WORLD WAR

FIRST REAL BREAK IN AXIS SEEN   Hitler’s Armor Is Riven By Surrender

Another Has Five Serving Families Have Three: Te tation for: Patriotisni. .

Another Has Five Serving-and Several Families Have Three; Town’s Reputation for Patriotism Sustained  ay

Far Eastern Diplomats Seek To Have Allied Troops Occupy Tokyo ‘After War: All Japs Disarmed

Occupation of Tokyo Mapped At Ally Meet   Nipponese Empire to Be Stripped of All Its  ED nese escent Spe eces:

Japan Must Lose Empire, Say Diplomat:   Institute of Pacific Relations Says Tokyo Must Be Occupied

Urge Complete Disarmament of Japanese Nation   Propose Asiatic Troops Occupy City of Tokyo

Strip Japs Of Empire And Of  Arms, Demand   Allied Asiatic Soldiers To Occupy Tokyo After War For Time

Disarmament Of Japanese is Demanded   Far Eastern Diplomats Outline Postwar Flans

Complete Jap Disarming Plan of War Experts   Would Have Asiatic Troops Temporarily Occupy Nip Capitol

OCCUPY TOKYO PLANS MAPPED ~ BY WAR LORDS   Diplomats Urge Taking Of Jap Possessions When Victory Won

Disarmament of Japan, Tokyo Occupation Seen   Military Weakness of Romme!’s Entire Position [: Pointed Out in- Developments Within Past Few Days—Further Hard-Fought Battles Essential Before Final Fox-Hole in Tunis-Bizerte Corner Is Finally Reached.

What We've Thought All Along...  OPA AND WFA OFFICIALS  _ CALLED DAMN SCHOOLBOYS BY A SENATOR

Lieut. General Wainwright, For Whom Shipyard Named, Gets ‘Enough To Eat’ As A Japanese Prisoner Of War

CHILD'S BODY IS FOUND IN POST OFFICE   Baby boy, believed murdered, sent from Boston to Chicago

Body ef Baby Boy Found In Mai!   Had Arrived At Chicago Post Office Feb. 6th

The War Today:  Maybe It’s Time For An Offensive On   The Home Front   RY DEWITT MACKENZIE

‘Hitler Knows That Only by a Miracle Can He Win the War  ‘Magnifies Little Straws of Hope

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   (Gur Greatest Need,  te kront Offensive i  winks Mackenzie

The War Today   Hitler Confronted by Defeat Put Bones for ‘Lucky Break’

JAPANESE AERIAL FORCE WIPED OU   Allies Conduct Successful Air Raids In Burma, New Britain, Rabaul.

Yanks Say 1,038 Japs Shot Down   Knock Out 25 Zeros Over Russell Group

38 Ordered By Board J To Report ‘For Physicals   Policeman, School Teacher, Sports Promoter Included In Latest List

Board 1 Calls 80 To Take Physical  Exams   Second Heavy Probabk Induction For March; 70 White, 10 Colored Won Summoned

64 Called By Board One For Physical  Exams   State’s Attorney And Election Board Head Included Among Thos« Facing Induction

GREATER POWER OF NAVY SHOWN   Blasting of Gilbert Islands Over Weekend Reveals Might of Fleet

NATION HAS, MOST POWERFUL ‘FLEET IN-ITS HISTORY AND AND LARGEST AND NA: "VAL AIR FORCE

SEVERAL - GF“ MORE “DRASTIC FEATURES OF MEASURE AS PASSED BY 8ENATE MAY BE ELIMIN ’ ATED

HITLER TALKS ABOUT MORALE   Seeks to Strengthen Home Front With Pep Speech At War Council

HITLER ABMITS DEFEAT POSSIBLE   TELLS NAZI LEADERS GERMANY WILL WIN IF PEOPLE’S SPIRIT IS KEPT UP,

HITLER IN PEP TALK TO NAZIS   Warns German People Must Not Be Permitted to Lose Morale.

‘Hutler Fear of Waning Morale Voiced Before Aides   t ‘German Air Force ‘Said Inder Himmler

Hitler Warns If Morale At Home Lost, War Los?   Tells Nazi Leaders Weapons Alone Not Enough, That If People Preserve Morale Victory Is Sure

NAZIS MUST KEEP MORALE SAYS HITLER   Fuehrer Attempts. To Whip Up Spirits Of Home Populace

Speech Reveals Sagging Morale On Home Front   Fuehrer Calls Party Leaders To Bolster German Effort

Hitler Warns ‘Morale Loss  Means Defea’   Calls Nazi Leaders to Whip Up Flagging Spirits on Home Front

Hitler Makes Morale Talk   German Chief Says Defeatism To Be ‘Eradicated Without Merev.

Hitler Warns Against Loss Of Morale   War Would Be Lost If Morale Goes, Party Leaders Told

HITLER DECLARES  GERMANS MUST NOT  LOSE THEIR MORALE NAZI LEADERS TOLD WAI  WOULD BE LOST IF THA’ CONDITION PREVAILED

Setbacks Prompt Hitler To Urge Greater Effort   Cautions against Crack in Morale

Hitler Urges German Morale   He Warns War Will Be Lost If Morale of Home Front Breaks

Hitler Exhorts Followers Not: :  To Lose Courage  Berlin Radio Gives Quly Brief Summary of Fuehrer’s Talk

Home Morale Must Be Upped He Tells Meet   Berlin Pep Talk I[e Made; Defeatisr Admitted Among  Civilians

KEEP UP MORALE, {G HITLER PLE   Declares. Germany: Will Lose War If- Spirit Of People Sags

Possibility of Defeat Mentioned  Hitler Assembles Nazi Leaders, Tells People to Keep Up Morale

Adolf Morosely Dabs At Morale   Party Chiefs Are Called To Parley

HITLER CITES DANGER OF MORALE BREAK   Says War Lost If Home Front Gives Up Fight

SIOP SALE Of OVER 200 ITEM FOR EIGHT DAYS   Today Is Last Day To Buy Unrationed Sales Of Canned Goods Until After The War— Registration Next Week   START POINT PLAN RATIONING MARCH -

UNRATIONED CANNED FOOD SOLD TODAY   For Duration of War You Can Buy Only by Point System on Book Issued Monday.

200 ITEMS ON FOOD ‘FREEZE’ RATIONING LIS]   Point Values Of Canned l‘oods To Be Posted In Groceries

buying Ends At Midnight    Point Plan to Begin Following Eight-Day ‘Freeze’ Over Nation

MEETINGS PLANNED BY OHIO DEMOCRATS TO SPUR INTEREST   Civil Service. of Governor Harshly Criticized by Ferguson Faction

DEMS SEEK 10 SPUR INTERES}   Ferguson Assails Cure Service For Scarcity of ‘Pork’

FERGUSON MAPS BOOSTER MEETS   Blames Civil Service For Lack Of Patronage To Ohio Democrats

NAZIS THREATEN FRENCH   Razing Of Ancient City Of Grenoble Threatened By Invaders

Willkie says debt may hit 300 billions   ‘Administration has no answer’

Willkie Fears National Debt Of 300 Billions   Sees Little Likelihood Present Administration Can Cope with Problem

ENORMOUS DEBT SEEN BY WILLKIE   Ex-Candidate Decries Lack of Plans for Making Up $300,000,000,000

SUBMARINES HAMPERED    Heavy Aerial Raids On Bases Hurt: ing U-Boats’ Drive, Is Belief

ATLANTIC SUB MENACE ABATES   Bombing U-Boat Base Thought Reason for Shatp Drop on Ship, Losses.

FLIERS SLOW UP SUB CAMPAIGNS   Bombings Disrupt U-Boat Facilities, Experts Declare

er i1 Saims _“a ian _ ava. “nics .oin . azis, 2~2ers Sun; ties %e or- Sins Surrencer

ITALIAN SHIP SUNK BY NAZIS   Confused Reports About Fleet's Whereabouts Come From Berlin

Berlin Reports Acquisition of ltaly's Warships   Part of Fleet Is Held To Be ‘’Loyal’’

BERLIN CLAIMS WARSHIPS SUNK   Conflicting Reports Hide Fate Of Escaping Italian Fleet

German Reports On Italian Navy Show Confusion   Claim Ships Sunk Then Assert Fleet Hac foined Nazis

Berlin Broadcasts That Italian, Nazi Navies Join  Other Report Says  Allies Get   Several Vessels

Five Army Men Die in Crash   Navigation Training Plane Crashes 18 Miles East of Midland, Texas

Jeffers Asks For Priority   Rubber Administrator Says Only ‘Higher Authority’ Could Stop Him.

"Bombs From Yank Planes Blast Venice   French Troops Aid Guerrillas To Mop Up  Germans On Corsica.

British Confirm Seizure Of Three Islands In Aegean   RAF Fighters Take Coe With Halian Aid; Lero, Samos Are Occupied

Dodecanese Isles Taken By Allies   British Land On Coo, Lero And Samos Off! Coast Of Turkey, Use Plane Bases

LARGE GERMAN CONVOY MOTOR VEHICLES HI’   Fifty Gasoline and Oj Laden Trucks Bambed and Strafed: 30 Big Tanks In Flames

RAF Using Cos Airfield   Ocoupation of Lero, Samog Also Confirmed

BRITISH LAND ON 3 AEGEAN ISLES   RAF Operating From  Dodecanese Airdrome

British Land on Aegean Islands  Coo, Lero and Samos, fare i aa of "T selkew

BRITISH SEIZE THREE ISLANDS IN AEGEAN SE/   Airdrome on Coo, Occupied with Lero in Dodecanese, Already in Use—Samos Taken Over

Fifth Army Moyes Inland and Northward near Naples as Germans Withdraw

Sth Army Takes Eboli: Bombers Baffer Venice   Nazis Swing End Of Line To Avoid British Trap

British Forces Driving Wedges Into Mareth Line   Attack On German Fortifications Is Proceeding ‘According To Plan’’   DESPERATE DEFENSE IS MADE BY GERMANS

ALLIES MEET STIFF ENEMY RESISTANCE   Eisenhower says operations are proceeding according to plan

Ford, 80, Today, Advocates More ‘Industry in U. §  Says Greater Business anc Industrial Effort Is

Henry Ford Is 80 Today; Works and Enjoys Good Health   After Lapse of 25 Years He Again Heads Ford Company Due to Son’s Death.

HENRY FORD T0 CELEBRATE 80TH BIRTHDAY TODAY   Industry Is Essential To American Ideal, He  Declares

FORD OBSERVES BOTH BIRT HDA)   Motor Magnate in Excellent Health and as Optimistic as Ever; Holds Heavier Responsibilties

BIRTHDAY TODA      Only Real Benefit Is the Gen. eral Benefit, His Phil-

Jap-Owned Machinery Unmolested   Alien Property, So Badly Needed, Only Gathers Dust

Hershey To Give Ideas on Father Draft   Tax to Force Bonded Liquor onto Narket Demanded; Democratic and GOP Campaign Chiefs Ovtimistic

Hershey Confers With Legislators  Demands In Congress For New Tax Levy  fr. VASE... Con.

392 Bombs Rip Jap-Held Air Base At Rabaul   New Fortifications Built By Japs  Are Discovered

NEW YORK TRAFFIC SIGNALS UNMASKEC   Dimout Regulations on Broadway and Park Avenue Relaxed on La Guardia’s Orders.

“A Hell 26,000 Feet Above the Earth — Is Correspondent's-Description of Gun-Duel-and-Bombing-Over Germany.

Reporter, Passenger in Flying Fortress, Tells How Planes Bombed Nazi Sub marine Base.

Reporter Describes Flight With Bomber During Raid On Europe   Walter Cronkite, U. P. Staff Correspondent, Tells Of Thrilling Air Battle Over Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Bombs Fall .Amid Fight High in Air   Fortress Comes Through Hell 26,000 Feet Above Earth

JAP. GONTINUE RAIDS IN PACIFIC   Push Air Offensive Started Last Saturday; Raid Milne Bay, Port Moresby Other Points; Attacks Are Lighter

Small Allied Lugger Is  Revoried Sunk   18 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Rabaul Airdrome

Tokyo Uses 250 Planes in Week To Blast Allies   Americans Dump Huge Bomb Loads on Rabaul and in Burma

+ WIDESPREAD RAIDS MADE BY JAPANESE   Milne Bay, Port Morsby, Dobodura, Cape Ward Hunt Attacks  By Bombers

Japs Step Up Guinea Raids   Four Allied Bases Lashed; Allies Pound Rabaul Area

Jap Fliers Continue  Offensive in  New Guinea Region Allies Retaliate, Hit  Rabaul Airdrome; Raids Grow Lighter

FLIERS ROUT CONVOY, HiT ITALY ANEW   Allies Inflicting: . Shattering Blows By Day And Night -

Enemy Convoy Attacked Off Italian Coast: Raids On Italian Mainland Resumed: Battle Of Sicily Near Final Stage.

Allied Warplanes Wreak Havoc On lfalian Targets   Batter Sicilian Ports And Airfields Near Rome, Naples

Nazis Engaged ‘After Forging ~ Through Pass   British Challenge Tank Column Following Axis Land Gain. Saturday   PRESENT CONFLICT’ REMAINS IN DOUBT   Rommel: Trying to Land: Big Punch: Before: Eighth: Army Pushes In

Attempts to Cripple First British Army   Battle Rages at Thala; U. S. Combat Teams Beat Off Thrust at Tebessa

if Axis Smash Allied Forces, tney Will Have Open Plains For Tonk War.

Rommel Drives Hard Northward   ..- Nazi Menace In Tunisia Increases

OPENS DRIVE AT ALLIES AROUND BIERTE. TINIS   German Tanks Turned Back in 2 Other Jabs im Direction of Tebessa

Axis Troops _ Sacrifice to. Gain Advance   Red Armies Sweep Towards Dneiper River; Aim at Foe Outposts

HEAVY FIGHTING IN THALA AREA   Nazis Attempt Crippling Blow to British Army in Pieateau Region.   SITUATION §S SERIOUS

Undecided Tank Battle Rages for Thala as Rommel Gambles ‘For Speedy Knockout

Nazis Continue Offensive in North Tunisia  Rommel Must Win   Rommel Must Win Two Gaps in Order to Attack Tebessa

Germans Point Toward Thala, Seek Knockout  Results Of Tank Clash Still In Doubt; Two Lesser Pushes Stopped Rv Ameri€ans

‘GERMAN ARMORED FORCE THRUSTING NORTH FOR COAST   ROMMEL GAMBLING DESPERATELY TO KNOCK OUT ALLIES TO WEST

Enemy Seeks to Cripple British Ist Army With  Armored Blow   Yanks Destroy 14 Tanks But 70 Strike North From Pass   Ry WES GALLAGHER

‘Axis Units Strike Hard Near Thala   Marshal Rommel Seeks To Fight “His Way To Great Kremamsa Plateau In Tunisia

Nazis Launch Critical Battle In Tunisia   Rommel’s Tank Forces Menace Entire Allied Foothold in Northern Tunisia; Are Repulsed in Other Sections of Tunisia with Heavy Losses

Rommel in Gamble To Score Knockout   German Leader Tries to Beat British First Army Before General Montgomery Can Push Into Central Tunisia.   Axis Groups Hurled Back to Mouth Of the Kasserine Gap by Allies

Today's Thrust in Tunisian Lines Is Reported Slowing   American, British Forces Now Have ‘Situation in Hand’

ROMMEL’S FORCES ARE NOW WITHIN 4 MILES OF THALS   An Observer, However, Said the Germans Were ‘Showing Signs of Exhaustion.’   THE DRIVE CHALLENGED   The Westward Operation Has Cost Rommel Fourteen Tanks.

Tank Forces Menace the '. Entire Allied Foothold  in Tunisia     IN A TURN NORTHWARD  Is Thrown Back in Two Westward Jabs in Di rection of Tebessa

Rommel’s Smash Northward At British Menaces Allied Foothold In  Tunis-Bizerte Area.

ROMMEL OUT 0 CRUSH 1ST RITISH ARMY   Launches Powerful . Armored Attack, Creating Situation More Serious for Allies Than Faid Pass. Kasserine Losses.

U.S, LOSS LIGHT IN SKY VICTORY      Powerful New Blows Follow Yanks 13-to-1 Tally Near Guadalcanal

A Blo VIGTURY VER Tht Jara   Believed Major Clashes ir the Pacific Are Now Very Near.

JUNE TOLL OF JAP PLANES REACHES 150   Battle Over Guadalcanal May Be Prelude to Major Clashes

HEAP OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH DID NOT ISSUE FORMAL STATEMENT YO GOVERNMENT

Great Interest _ In Pope’s Appea!   Raises Question of Possible Truce To Spare Some Objectives

Great Interest Shown In Appeal To Spare Rome   Pope Pius XII Urges Rome Be Spared From Further Bombardment

Journals from England  A first-hand account of the British Isles at war.  De Beeeencnl A Miefeamescli is

BROWN DEFERS SHAKEUP IN OPA COMMAND   Also Denies Agency Unable to Hold The Price Line

OPA IS DEFENDED BY BROWN IN STATEMENT   Price Administrator Commends His Agency and Denies That Is Is Breaking Down and Unable to _ Hold the Price Line—No Shake-up in Personnel Is Scheduled Now Until MidJune, It Is Revealed

BROWN DEFERS OPA SHAKE-UP; REFUTES CRITICS “OF “AGENCY      Po eae ” . Rep, Boren Wants Resolution Asking President For Reorganization  Of OPA

OPA CHIEF DELAYS CHANGES IN STAFE LINTI MITL-IINE   Brown Defends His Agency and Says ft “Will Hold the Price Line.”

Big Shake-Up In OPA Heads Comes in June   Brown Derties His Organization Is Breaking Down

sroer of Two Kire Companies Wins Approval  C Permits Postal anc Western Union to _ Concalidata

FAMILY OF 4 KILLED BY GUN   Ceroner Returns MurderSuicide Verdict

Coal Miners to Return to Work — Tomorrow by President's Order   (Ry United Press)

Eden Lauds Conference  At Tehran      Says Three-Powe Meeting Will Hasten Victory

Eden Says Tehran Parley Assured Shortening of the War; Hints More Mediterranean Conferences Planned

PLEDGES AID TO AMERICA IN DACIFIC   To Throw Resources In Pacific Fighting

BRITAIN WILL THROW MIGHT AGAINST JAPS   Military Plans Made at Tehran to Speed Victory, Commons Told.

Other Talks On Mediterranean  War May Come   Eden Says Teheran Meet Ensures Shortening Fight, Successful Peace

ANNOUNCED RESULTS DISAPPOINT WILLKIE   GOP Leader Expresses Regret That Stalin And Chiang Kai-Shek  Were Not Present

Willkie Disappointed In Announced Results Of ‘North African Meeting

TRIO SHOT IN PRISON BREAK   Straight-shooting Guards Foi Attempt By Four At Wisconsin Penitentiary

PRISON BREAK  IN WISCONSIN ISFRUSTRATEL   One Convict Is Shot: to Death and Two Wounded by Straight-Shoot ‘+ ing Guards   RECAPTURE FOURTH   Found Hiding Under Automobile Near Penitentiary; Both Wotnded Men Might Recover

Convict Shot In Wisconsin Prison Break   Two Others Wounded And One Recaptured After Scaling Wall

“PRISON BREA   Two Others Wounded When ‘Four Men Attempt &scane at Wauniun.

Convict Killed, 2 Injured in Effort to Escape Prison   Guards at Waupun, Wis., Penitentiary Prove  Good Marksmen

Two Wounded By Guards’ Guns In Scaling Wall   Plotters Nail Ladder Together Quickly In Pre-Dawn Dark

ONE KILLED N ~ PRISON BREAK   Two Other Convicts Wounded In Attempted Dash For Freedom

Fourth Man Is Captured After Flight   Milwaukeean Killed By Tower Guards; One Shot In Head, Third  In Thigh

PRISON GUARDS « ATLL, WOUND 2 TRYING. ESCAPE   Fourth Convict Is Quickl? Captured !n tl-Fated Plot In Wisconsin. Prison at Waupun:

CONVICTS TRY “PRISON BREAK   One Killed, Two Wounded’ at Wisconsin Inati. tution. }

1 KILLED; 2 SHOT AT STATE PRISON IN WISCONSIN   FOURTH RECAPTURED AFTER GUARDS STOP BREAK OVER WALL

Jap Drives On Yangtze In Collapse   One Enemy Body Encircled, 2nd Column Is Stopped, Others Flee

KEEP TRYING FOR BETTER OIL PRICE   Capper Admits Odds Are Against Higher Scale for Crude   A BLOW TO INDUSTRY

KEEP TRYING FOR BETTER OIL PRICE   Capper Admits Odds Are Against Higher Scale for Crude

Give Weight Speculation  On Invasion   MILLION MEN MAY BE HURLED AT SEC ‘TOR IN FEW DAYS.

LONDON REPORTS © SAY MARSHALL MAY DIRECT PUSH   Meanwhile Allied Planes Continue te Soften Up Fortress.

GEN, MARSHALL SUGGESTED AS OVERALL CHIEF   Great Allied Blow May Come In ‘Matter Of Davs,’ Hint

U. S. BOMBERS SMASH TOE OF ITALY’S BOOT      Assault Follows Fitth Bombardment In Six Deys By Fliers

ALLIED AIR AND SEA FORCES ONTINUE SOFTENING-UP RAIDS AGAINST ITALY, PANTELLERIA

Bombard Messina, Reggio Calabria, and San Giovanni   Weight given speculation invasion soon to be bequn

Planes, Ships Blast Route For Invasion   Million Men May Drive at Europe Within Few Days

Strategic Jap Base Menacea   Chinese Armies Threaten Ichang As Result Of Recent Victory   JAP REMNANTS ARE BEING ANNIHILATED

Chinese Armies Continue To Press Counter-Driue Against Invading Japs

(Gominuca Un rage rour)     CHINESE CRUSH JAP THREAT IN YANGTZE AREA

Chinese Film Star Tells of Flight From Japs During 40 Days of Terro

Local Actions  On Red Front   Russians Continue To Beat Off Nazi Attacks On 1,800 Mile Front  By NATATIA RENE

Giraud Pledges Self-Rule For All France   Abolishes Legislation Of Vichy, Offers Union With De Gaulle

FRENCH AIMS: -OUTLINEDBY GEN. GIRAUD   Commander Plec Pledges Restération of Chamber of Deputies

RESTORATION 01 REPUBLIC WILI FOLLOW PEACE   Gen. Giraud Also Pledges Support To Principles Of Atlantic Charter   ISSUES DENIAL OF PERSONAL AMBITION

FRENCH AIMS OUTLINED BY GEN. GIRAUD   Commander Pledges Res. toration of Chamber of Deputies

RED ARMY BREAKS THROUGH GERMAN CAUCASIAN LINE   Russians Advance Toward Novorossisk, Engulfing 11 Cities, Towns.

OFFENSIVE CONTINUES IN SECTOR      Novorossisk Is Being Ap.proached in Major Attack by the Red Army.

New Soviet Offensive Threatens Black Sea Base   11 Towns Recaptured and 7,000 Axis Soldiers Killed in Surprising Move

REDS SEIZE OTHER ENEMY KEY POINTS IN BLACK SEA AREA   Soviets Exploiting 151,4Mile Break—-Through  In- Northwest Caucasus

Break Through Rim Of Axis Bridgehead In Cau casus, Threaten To Envelop Nagis  At Novorossisk

British Naval and Air Officers ‘Complete Eisenhower’s Set-up For Western European Assault’   Ramsay Heads Sea And Leigh-Mallory “Allied Air Power ~

Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory Will Head Naval and Air Forces  Leader of American Ground Forces Not Yet gy

Eisenhower Staff About Completed   (Name of American Fore< Commander Still To Be Released

INVASION STAFF AWAITS SIGNAL   General Eisenhowe:'s Aides Virtually All Named; Naval Chief Chosen

Invasion Staff Nearly Completec   Two Britons Appointed to Head Allied Naval and Air Commands

Incasion Statt Is Complete   ..Only Yank Land Head Still To Be Selected

MORE INVASION CHIEFS CHOSEN BY EISENHOWER   Two Britons Named to Head Naval and Air Forces in Attack

Invasion Command Virtually Completed; Two Britons To 'Head Naval And Air Forces   Ramsey And Leigh-Mallory Appointed; Chief Of U. S. Land Force Yet Unnamed

RAMSAY NAMED TO LEAD NAVY IN INVASION   Air Marshal T. L. Leigh-Mallory Named Commander in Chief for Air; One Appointment Lacking

Appoint Two Britons to Gen. Eisenhower's ‘Western Invasion Staff

Two Added To High Command For Invasion   Some Key Positions, Including Chief For U. S. Ground Forces, to Be Filled

Allied Command Nearly Complete For An Invasior   Two Britons Named to Command Naval and Air  Forces Under ‘Ike.’   Leader For Ground  Forces to Be Named

Invasion  Staff Is  Complete   BRITISH GET THREE TOP SPOTS IN VITAL WAR DIRECTORSHIPS IN LIST

Top Leaders For Invasion Are Chosen   Britain Has 3 Head Men in High Command; Eaker Shifted

Admiral Ramsay Will Be Over Operations At Sea; Air Marshal Given Post

2 Britons Given Top Commands   Invasion Naval: and Air Forces Placed Under Two Veteran Leaders   ADMIRAL RAMSEY TO NAVAL POS1      Air Forces Will Be Led by Leigh-Mallory of Battle of Britain Fame

Britons Named Air, Sea Chiefs On Eisenhower Invasion Staff   Leader of U. S. Ground Troops Still to Be Chosen   Invasion Leaders   By FE. D. BALL

Complete High Command For Huge Invasion   Two Britons. Ramsey. LeighMallory. Appointed Sea. Air Leaders.   NAMED BY ROOSEVELT

STAFF IS ALL BUT COMPLETE FOR INVASION      Sir Bertram Ramsay Is Named Naval Commander in Chief and Leigh-Mallory Leader of Allied Aerial Forces.

TWO MAJOR GAPS IN ALLIED INVASION COMMAND ANNOUNCED AS FILLED BY BRITISH EXPERTS

HIGH COMMAND OF SECOND FRONT IS NEAR COMPLETION   BRITONS APPOINTED TO DIRECT ALLIED NAVAL, AIR FORCES

HIGH COMMAND FOR INVASION NOW COMPLETE   Gen. Doolittle To Lead Eighth Air Force In Raids

Names Air And Naval  Leaders   Two Britons to Fill Important Posts in Overall Allied High Command for Invasion

Congress Told Trade Act Is Vital to U.S.   Hull Declares Extension Necessary To Insure Peace

HULL ASKS FOR U.S. POWER HIKE   Must Extend Administration’s Authority To Include Trade Agreements

HULL URGES TRADE PACTS TO WIN PEACE   Says U .S. Must Accept Share Of Responsibility

TRADE PACT EXTENSION RTQUESTER   Must Demonstrate Our Sincerity of Purpose in World Affairs. Hull Says   VITALLY NEBDED IN POST-WAR DAYS   Thurman Arnold’s Blast at Cartel System Also Before Congress

U. S. Must Show Sincerity Of Purpose, Hull States;  Farm Bill Vote Tomorrow

Hull Pleads For Renewal Trade Pacts   Declares They Are Essential in Winning  _ War and Framing Peace Followina Victory

URGES PROOF OF ‘SINCERITY   Hull Asks Congress To Extend Authority For Reciprocal Trace Agreements.

Hull Pleads for U. S. Sincerity, Asks Power to Make Trade Treaties

Hull Makes ~ Reciprocal Pacts Plea   Says U. S. Must Show Its ‘Sincerity of Purpose’ To World Now

SECRETARY OF STATE TELLS CHNGRESS U. 5. MUST SHOW SINCERITY  HULL TALKS AS DEPARTMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ARE_ DISCUSSED

Demonstration of Willingness to Bear Share of Work Responsibility Held Necessary      URGES EXTENSION RECIPROCAL PACT   Described As of Paramount _ Importance In Prosecution of the War and Framing Peace

More Authority On Trade Pacts Sought By Hull   Fells Solons Reciprocity Of Greatest Importance In Prosecution Of War

Trade Pacts Vital, Opines Cordell Hull   Testimony Is Given In Hearings On Bill For Departmental Funds Totaling $189 Million  in eee, ieee ee

Trade Pacts Faith Test, Hull Feels   U.S. Must Show » Sincerity of  Purpose in  Agreements

Ask Renewal Of Reciprocal Trade Power   Seeretary Hull Points To Need Of Trade Changes Now And After War.   IN BUDGET ARGUMENT

URGES EXTENSION OF TRADE PACTS   HULL TELLS CONGRESS AGREEMENTS ARE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE

Must Show Our Sincerity Of Purpose  Hull’s Testimony Backs Reciprocal  ee ee See Gea

Reciprocal Trade Pacts Vital To War And Postwar Efforts, Says Hull

Trade Treaty Extension Seen As Need by Hull   Testimony Released On Financial Bill For Various Bureaus

Hull Says Trade Pacts Test of U. S. Sincerity   Urges Extension of Administration’s Au thority to Negotiate Treaties as Needer to Assure U. S. Markets   Thurman Arnold Says Cartels Threaten Battle for Control After War, U. S. Investment in Latin America

Hull Calls for Extension of U.S. Reciprocal Trade Agreements to Prove Its ‘Sincerity of Purpose’

Reciprocal Trade  Is Plea of Hull   says Nation Must Bear  Share of Responsibility in World Affairs.

Hull Calls For Extension Of Trade Powers   Says Pact Would Shov Willingness To Bear Responsibilities

HULL ASKS FOR TRADE PACTS   STATE CHIEF CALLS FOR “SINCERITY OF PURPOSE”

Hull Supports Extension Of Trade Pacts   Agreements Vital, He Says, In Winning War And Assuring Pegce In Future

AOKS RENEWAL (F TRADE PLAN   Hull Asks Congress to Extend Authority for Reciprocity.

HULL PLEADS OR POSTWAR TRADE HELPS   Tells. Congress Extension of Existing Agreements is Necessary.   HIGHLIGHT OF HEARINGS ON APPROPRIATION BILL

Hull Defends Trade Pacts   Points ‘Out ‘Vital ‘Role In Building Foundation For Lasting Peace

Cheese Also Among Foods Under Plan   Coffee, Dried: Beans, Prunes and Raisins  Made More Available

Rationing  Of Meat, Oils, Cheese Due About April 1   Butter, Canned Fish Also Placed on List; Two Pounds of Meat Per Person Likely   COFFEE STAMP 26 GOOD WEEK SOONER

strictions on Meat, eese, Butter and Edible Is to Start by April   oint Values of Raisins, Prunes and Peas Iso Reduced; Full Details of Meat urb Expected Today: Two Pounds Weekly

Meat, Butter, Cheese Ration To Be Apr. 1   “ON OR BEFORE” ORDER AUTHORIZED; BEANS PEAS POINTS CUT.

‘Each Person to Get 2 Pounds —Use of Butter, Cheese Canned Fish and Oils Also Restricted.      ALL TO BE LUMPED AS ONE GROUP. OF FOODS   Coffee Allowance Increased to Pound in Five Weeks— Dates and Figs Off Ration Program.

SULONG LAUNCH ECONOMY ORIVE   Lend Lease, Subsidy Program Are Hit in Campaign to Trim Federal Spending

ECONOMY DRIVE BRINGS ATTACK ON LEND-LEASE   Congress Suspends Hearings On Father-draft and Dependency Payments

Bombers Smash At Alpine Tunnel   All R.A.F. Planes Return After Blasting Railroad Terminus. .

Dempsey-Williams Divorce. Case Ends   Jack Takes Stand to Deny Wife’s Charges

94 Women Join Waves      That Number From Iowa : Respond -to Promotion * During Mouth of June.

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan To Be Made This Week   Congress Seen as Strongly in Favor of Drastic Change

Solons Come to Grips With Tax Proposal   Pay-as-You-Go Basis Will Be Studied by House Committee

ISolons Come fo Grips With Tax Proposal  Pay-as-You-Go Basis Vill Ra @84-32,,-]

Congressmen to  Start Hearing on Income Tax-Plan Paj-as-You-Go Plan   To Be Subject of fr gerne ee Paper”  ee ae

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX PROPOSAL TO BE ARGUED   Treasury's Views to Be Presented to House Group

New Tax Program Rubber Charges Aired This Week   House Committees Call Hearings, Summon Prominent Witnesses

CONGRESS 10 BEGIN STUDY OF TAX PLANS   Views of ‘Treasury to be Given Committee on Tuesday

DECISION ON TAX DUE DURING WEEK   Congress Opinion Differs on Pay - As - You - Go Type Levy

INCOME TAX IS SCHEDULED FOR EARLY ACTION   Ways And Means Group To Come To Grips Over Pay As You Go Proposal   To Question Jeffers

LONDON COMMENTS ON NEW. MEETING. OF FDR, CHURCHILL      Observers Believe Confab Will Seek Solutions To French And Polish Problems

TO REORGANIZE © ITALIAN FORGES   ROME DISPATCH SAYS BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IS MODEL FOR FASCISTS.

Declares That “Essentials” Vust Produce   Miners Give no Sign of Intending To Heed His Back To Work Order

Strikers May Get Army Call, FDR Intimates   President Makes It Clear that Striking Coal Miners Who Fail To Work, Will Be Reclassified.

Dispute Leaves 5000 Men Idle At Ford Plant   Maintenance Men Walk Out at River Rouge Factory

Maintenance Men at Big Ford Plant Walk Out: 5,000 Workers Made Idle

House Vote On Ruml Tax Plan Likely Monday   Leaders Expect House Will Vote Approval—-Senate Votes For Measure   SENATE MAKES SOME CHANGES IN BILL

SENATE APPROVES RUML PLAN. IN TAX SYSTEM CONTROVERSY   HOUSE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY ACCEPT SENATE VERSION OF. “PAY-AS-GO” LES " GISLATIGN

ARE NOW 13 MILES INLAN! THEY ARE JOINED BY: BR TWO MORE ISLANDS TAKE

ALLIES SEIZE TWO MORE ISLANDS OFF ITALY WEST COAST   Naples Brought Within Artillery Range By Forces Landed On Procida

FIFTH ARMY HAS MOVED: ANOTHER 2 MILES INLAND   Long-range Guns Now ln Position to Shel Nazioccupied Cities. ,

Coastal Islands Seized   Nazi Forces Are Pulled -— Back As Naples Battle Looms

SEIZE OPIUM   56,000 Haul Made In House Near Qieveland Police Station.

WLB Not to Seek Truce Extension   Ickes, Lewis Pact Has No Standing

WLB Will Not Seek New Coal Truce  Does Not Recognize tckees-Lewis Action

WLB Abandon: Hope for Lewis Truce   Board Disputes   Board Disputes Necessity for 15-Day. Extension

Flying Forts lash Bremen with day rai¢   35 enemy craft said destroyed

Aerial Offensive Destroys More of Hifler's Europe   13 Heavy Bombers Reporied Missing

AAF Pounds  Bremen Again   Fortresses And Escort Planes Streak Through 65-Below Zero Weather To Continue Aerial Blows

13 Heavy Bombers and 18 Fighters Reported Missing  OTHER TARGETS ARE HIT BY BOMBERS  Axis Stations Off the Air, Indicating Night Attack

Bombers Fly Through Bitter Cold Weather   Berlin Radio Goes Off Air Indicating RAF May Be Blasting Nazi Capital Again

Heap Destruction On German Port In Second Atfack   RAF Strikes Again at Continent; Berlin Radio Silent

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Nazi Port Hit  By Fortresses   65-Below-Zero Weather Fails to Halt Drive

Funeral for two 'Murder Victims  ‘As Man Quizzed   Ex-Convict Picked up for Questioning in Galveston Today

FORTS BOMBARD EMDEM; RUHR HIT BY BRITISH   Eighth Air Force Power Quadrupled Over Year Avo

May Reach Decision Today On Railway Wage Dispute FDR Stiggests Compromise

FDR Suggests Compromise on  Railroad Wages   Would Give 8-Cent Raise by Paying Overtime Rates

RAIL UNION HEADS ARE COOL TOWARD DEALING WITH VINSON   Non- Operating Group Is Considering Second National Strike

DEMOCRATIC PLAN IS RE-ESTABLISHED   Same Action Due In Tunisia as Soon as That Country Is Liberated.

French Councils Are Reinstated   Giraud Announces Democratic Move

TEN KILLED IN CRASH.   Topeka Air Base Bomber in Wreck in New Mexico Sunday -

MINERS WAGES SUBJECT 10 WLB’S ASSENT      President Roosevelt Tele graphs John L. Lewis;WLB Refuses to Recede from  “Little. Steel” Formula   Operators Yield

URGES CONTINUED GOAL PRODUCTION   Says Any Pay Increase Sub@ ject to Review by WLB   WIRES LEWIS, OWNERS   War Labor Board Refuses to Change Little Steel Wage Increase Formula ~

FDR Acts to  Avoid Strike In Coal Mines   Pointed Reminder of Government Policy Is Sent to Lewis

Pres. Roosevel Acs in Mine Wage Dispute  ® WLB Refuses fo Budge Fram little Gleal   © WLB Refuses fo Budge From Litfle Steel Formula on Increase

F. D. Steps Into Soft Coal Contract Row   Lewis Told Any Wage Hike Must Win WLB Approval: Board Refuses to Alter Formula

URGES COAL PRODUCTION AFTER APR.   Warns Lewis Any Pay Increase Granted Would Be Subject to Review by Labor Board.   LATTER REAFFIRMS PRESENT POLICIES   Refuses to Recede From Its “Little Steel” Formula for Holding Wages in Check.

Reminds Lewis of Law Requiring WLB Review; Board Retains Formula

President States Increase in Wages Depends on WLB; Agency Clings To “Little Steel” Formula for Pav

President Asks Lewis To Keep Miners on Job   abor Board Says If Will Enforce Formula To Control Wages   Roosevelt Proposes To Make any Future Agreement Retroactive

Lewis Given Pointed Reminder by the President —   LABOR BOARD WAGE POLICIES AFFIRMED   Continued Operation of the Mines Urged by Roocavele

“LITTLE STEEL’ STILL FORMULA (OF LABOR BOARD   Roosevelt Reminds Miners That WLB Will Review Any Wage Increase   COAL NEGOTIATIONS STILL CONTINUING

Head of U.S. Steps Into Mine Dispute   Requests Union No-Strike Vow; WLB Keeps Plan

PORTRAIT IS REPAIRED   Churchill Makes Speech at Unveil. ing in London -

Swedes Get Backs Up Over Sinkings   Stiff Protest Goes To Germany; Called “Serious Incident”

Ship Sinking Brings Formal Protest From Swede Officers  Nation May Demand Damages, Says Incident Serious

Stockholm Protests To Germany   Ship. Sinking Described As  Sartnnc Inrideant

Sweden Protests Sinking of Ships  Stiff Note Handed  a. kia! Cremer

FORAY MADE AGAINST JAPS AT MUBO BASE   Enemy at Sanananda Being Throttled By Allies

ALLIES MAKE RAID AGAINST JAPS AT MUBO   More Than 116 Dead Japanese Are Counted After Successful Foray.

Allies Storm Enemy Base In New Guinea   Ground Forces Raid Stronghold of Japanese at Mubo

[Allies Raid Jap Forces at  Mubo. Kill 116   Planes Range Up and Down New Guinea Coast as Well as Over New Britain and Timor Islands: Lae Is Again Battered

FACE U.S. CONSPIRACY CHARGES   Probe Follows Death of Discharged Neero Soldier

 e . ° Casualties in Air   Raids on the United ‘Kingdom High in May

CASUALTIES ARE HIGH   London Reports on Air Raids on the United Kingdom

584 Killed or Miss Missing in Air Raids Last Month. English Report

ICKES OUSTER ASKED BY AAA   Elimination of Shortages Second To Proving His Predictions, Claim

AAA CITES NEED FOR NEW GASOLINE HEAL   Claim Ickes Does Not Try Ti Better Situation

12 Other Nip Warships Hit by Bombs   88 Enemy Planes Are Downed in Crushing Blow

Army-Navy Fliers Clean Out Rabaul, Blast 88 Planes   Enemy Threat In Solomons Is Eased By Loss Of One Cruiser And Two Destroyers And Damage To Another Cruiser And Eleven Destroyers.

Can Slice Bread, Is Ordered   Find That Supply of Wax. ed Paper Is Adequate Announced Today

BYRD DEMANDS  A SALES TAX   Senator Says “Congress Wants It*—Compulsory Savings Still Fought Over.

TAX ON SALES. “BETS SUPPORT   SENATOR BYRD DECLARES CONGRESS WILL DEMAND _  . SALES TAX AS PART —~~—_—oF PROGRAM ---——

Five Landings Made By Yanks Over Wide Arec   Rendova And New Georgia Islands, And Others, Invaded By Yanks   STERN RESISTANCE IN SOLOMONS GROUF

President Gives Miners Choice Mining As Private Citizens Or Members Of Armed Forces

WOULD DRAFT STRIKERS INTO U.S. ARMY   President's Plan Sub: stitute for SmithConnally Bill

President Seeks New Authority To Draft Strikers   See Move As Substitute For Approval Of Anti-Strike Bill Of Congress   ASKS DRAFT AGE BE RAISED TO 65

President Offers Plan As © Substitute For Anti-strike Bill That He Wil Veto

Willkie Tells Congress Republicans He Can Have G. 0. P. Nomination in “44

CONFIDANT OF GOP VICTORY      Wendell Willkie Informs. Congres“sional Republicans That He Can  Have 1944 Presidential Nomina_ tion if He Wants It,

Willkie Says He’s Sure of "44. Nomination   Political Blitz Under Way Ry Former Candidate  ofcop

Willkie Says Nomination Is Assured    G. 0. P. Chief Voices Confidence in Talk’; Before Republicans

Willkie Says He Can Have Party Nomination —   Makes Confident Prediction in Washinaton

Willkie Informs GOP Congressmen That He Can Have 1944 Republican - Presidential Honor If He Wants It

WILLKIE SAYS HE CAN BE NOMINATED IF HE WANTS TO BE   Confident Prediction Made At Closed Session  Of Republican ,  “EF yeshmen’’ .

Durant Naval ‘Man Is Killed   Ensign L. B. Pool Meets Death in Crash Near Olathe, Kan.

Italian Outpost Attacks Increase   Bombs Rain on Sicily and Sardinia—Spanish Report  Tnvactan Parance at Cihraltar

BOMBING OF SICILY 1S. STEPPED UP   “Huge Bomber Forces Also Blast At Sardinia

Bolster Islands Assault   Italy Puts Coastline Un. der Martial Law, Orders Civilians Out

Intensification of Pre-Invasion Drive Reported   Two Stepping Stone  Islands Under Steady Aerial Bombardment

MEDITERRANEAN BOMBING PUSHED INTO HIGH GEAR   Seven Six-Engine German Transports Shot Down in Raids

Sardinia Also ‘Softened Up’  For Invasion  Allied Raiders Down 29 Fighters in Dogfights Over Two Islands  MESSINA BATTERED      MESSINA BATTERED   3 Vessels Set Afire at Olbia; Railway. Yards and Docks Smashed

ALLIED FLYERS DESTROY 113 AXIS PLANES   “Forts” Hit Grossetto North of Rome; Berlin Also Raided

EVACUATION OF ELIA BEGINS; - ENEMY LOSS Hi}   British, Americans Teli Italy  Her Industries are to Be Tarrets.

Bomber Attacks On Island: Exceed Size Of Those Fore: ing Pantelleria Fall

; Axis Hold On Africa Shrinks As Allies Continue To Gain   Doolittle’s Fortresses Pound Tank Convoy; Recaptured Sousse Cheers Allies

British at Enfidaville; 210,000 Men Trapped   Axis Flees to 100-by-40-Mile Box; Italian Vittoria Division Captured

British Reported Near Last German Defenses   Sth Army 50 Miles From Tunis; Axis Said To Have 210,000 Ready For Battle

BRITISH FORCES PUSHING TOWARI FINAL CONQUEST   Reports State Eighth Army Is Only 50 Miles South Of Tunis

YANKS, BRITISH PUSH AHEAD ON ALL WAR FRONTS   Rommel Making Plans For Final African Stand

Axis Forces Now Reduced to 210,006 Men   Constant Pressure By Allied Troops Harasses Retreat

ALLIED FORCES GAIN STEADILY AGAINST AXIS   Rommel Withdrawing Into Tunis-Bizerte Defense Area

Allies Gain New Ground North of Sousse And Kairouan on Southern Side of Axis Box and in Medjez-el-Bab Sector 

AXIS COOPED IN AREA 100 BY 40 MILES   British and American Units Press on Northwest, _ Southern Sides.   EIGHTH, AT. ENFIDAVILLE 50 MILES FROM TUNIS

Axis-Held Area Shrinks: Algiers Broadcast Says Italian Division Captured

ROMMEL Is CONTINUING IN RETREAT   8th Army Reported To Be 27 Miles North Of Sousse Port

Rommel's Forces Withdraw Into Tunis-Bizerte Line   Axis Army Faces Annihilation. Or Desperate Attempt At Sea-Borne Flight; Famous Italian Division Taken Prisoners

Steadily Pushing Axis Into Ever Narrowing Area   Report Town 27 Miles North Of Sousse Taken With An Entire Italian Division

Allies Pressing Enemy Into: Narrow Box, Foe Believed  Cut to About 210-000

ROMMEL REPORTED WITHDRAWING INTO NARROW DEFENSES   ESTIMATED AXIS HAVE APPROXIMATELY 210,000 MEN IN TUNISIA

‘Nearly All of Halian Vittoria Di_ Vision Captured, Leaving Rommel 219.500 Men   BIZERTE IS RAIDED   Flying Forts Batter Axis Transport and Trapani Harbor, Landing Field Blown: Apart

American, British And French Troops Advance On All Fronte dn Tunisia As Rommet Flees   Axis Army Heading For Mountains; Entire Italian Division Captured; One Allied Army Is Now Only 50 Miles From Tunis

Troops Forcing Axis Into Smaller Area   Eighth Army Reported at Enfidaville, pturing Italian Vittoria Division;  Ground Gained in Medjez-el Bab Sector.

Allies seizing more points near Sousse, Medjez-El-Bab area   8th army at Enfidaville, Algiers radio says; Fortresses hit hard

Allied Forces Close In On Two Sides Of Axis Africa Corps   Enemy Withdraws Be hind Mountain Siege Line For Final North African Stand; Allies Only 50 Miles From T unis

ITALIAN VITTORIA DIVISION CAPTURED   Algiers Radio Reports British Penetration To 50 Miles South of Tunis

Rommel Gets Aid By Plane   Crack ‘Italian Division Has Been  Captured.

New Lease-Lend Pact Is Signed   U.S., Russia Pledge Increased Aid

Increased Lend-Lease Aid. For Fighting Red Armies: ‘Announced. by Washington

U.S. Increases Aid  To Soviet Armies   Permanent Military Mission in Moscow Created; Moves Disclosed With Opening Of Meeting of Three Foreign Secretaries

Nazis Seek to Establish Line In Tunisia   Would Provide Corridor for Rommel Retreat

Nazis Prepare Retreat Zone In Tunisia   Rommel Herding Troops Into Mareth Line

GERMAN AIR FORCE SINKS 17 ALLIED SHIPS - AT BARI   Secretary Of War Stimson Reveals Bad News Today. Allies Had No Air Cover.

Marshall Opposes Draft Ban   ‘Army Chief Says Fathers Call  Necessary

Marshall Outlines Strategy   General Says Lack Ot Men Will Cause Longer War,  More Casualties.

Deferment Of Fathers Hit   General And Admiral Predict New Action

Yugoslavs Defeat  German Drive,  Inflict Big Loss Guerrillas Harrass  Enemy, Seize Line of Railroad

ON WAY TO U.S.   Lieut. Col. Roosevelt, Dl, Relieved  af “Marine Command. j

Destroyer Stays Afloat Till U-Boat Sinks, Own Crew Safe. Then Goes to Grave

Stirring Sea Fight Related By Commander Of Destrover      ‘Men. on the Borie Fight U-Boat Crew While Ship Pounded Submarine to Pieces—Presidential , Unit Citation Announced

Destroyer Crew Battles Sub to Death But Aged Vessel Sinks After Victory

Sinking of 3 Destroyers Announced   By Navy Dept   Two Lost in Pacific  And One in Atlantic, Borie After Struggle With Big Submarine   RAMS SUBMARINE AND BATTLE RAGES

Destroyer Crew Battles Nazi Sub at Close Range   U-boat Pounded to Pieces and American Ship Is Damaged so Badly It is Sunk; Two Other Destroyers Lost in Pacific

KNIVES, PISTOLS USED IN FIGHT AT SEA WITH NAZI   Battle at Close Quarters Between Men on U. 8. Destroyer and U-Boat Crew Is Described.   BLAST FINALLY SENT SUBMARINE TO BOTTOM   ‘American Warship Limped Away to Be Sunk by Planes Because She Was Beyond Salvage.

ENEMY U-BOAT CREW FOUGHT 'TO DEATH BY BORIE’S MEN   Aged Destroyer Accounted For Two Nazi Subs In Stirving Battle In High Atlantic Storm; Two Other U. S. Warships Lost In Pacific

U.S. Borie Rides Nazi Sub, Crews Battle To Death   fged Destroyer Springs Hill, ts Later Sunk Re Quer Oaern Phlrnne

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SOLDIERS TO HELP HARVEST IN DAKOTA   Farmers To Pay Prevailing Wage for 20-day Job

SOLDIERS HELP HARVEST CROPS   TROOPS LEAVE FOR NORTH DAKOTA FOR VITAL FARM WORK

5,100 Troops Sent to N.D.   Will Help Harvest Crops; Farmers Will Pay for Costs

BABY SISTER BURNED LESS SERIOUSLY   Tragedy Occurs in Shower Room at Tourist Court

Senator Charges New Deal Forces _ Attempting To Supplant Free Press With Government Controlled News

OVER 200 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON 3 ITALY AIRDROMES   Punishing New Series Of Raids Designed To ' Smash Enemy’s Defenses

Pound Lecce, Taranto   Sicily And Sardinia Port: Hit; Rail Yards Blasted

American. 3 Liberators  : Lead  Attacl “k      OTHER PLANESDROP  _—_—sa’:: THEIR BOMBS ON PALERMO IN SICILY AND ON SARDINA’S . Il ARGCEST PORT

Rai ane ean a  American Ltberatora Staging Punishing Raids Designed to Smash Axis Defenses.

TLS. Aces Lead Tn Raids on Southern Italy  Biock-Busters Hit Sicily, Sardinia Ports

3 Air Bases In Southern ltaly Bombed   ‘ Liberaters Smash _Airfields; Run. “Into Opposition

THREE AXIS BASES IN ITALY BOMBEL   Red Army Troops Make Re: /peated Attacks Upon Enemy  Lines at Smolensk.

American Liberators Hit Three Vital Spots And Other Planes Raid Sicily

(100 Liberators Smash Three Italian Airfields   260 ‘Tons Dropped on Main Defenses of Southwestern Italy

ITALY LASHED BY MORE BOMBS   hes Ti di one 100 Liberalors Drop 206 Tons On Axis Underbelly.

Liberators Rake Lecce Air Field   SARDINIA COMES IN FOR POUNDING FROM DOOLITTLE’S NORTHWEST AFRICAN BOMBERS AS R.A.F. SLASHES AT SICILIAN PORTS

OFF BALKANS. IN RAF HANDS   ALLIES SEIZE ISLAND ED  MOVE TO EAST— FRENCH  : BATTLE NAZIS FOR ps CORSICA

GERMAN FORCES RETREAT TO NEW LINE AT SALERNO   Giraud Reports French Wir First Round in Battle for Corsica

SENATE DAMAGES PARITY PROGRAM   Votes To Prevent Deduction Of Benefit Pavments.

Farm Parity Price Formyla Endangered by Senate Bill   Measure to Prevent Deduction of Benefit Payment: - Approved: Sent to House

BRITISH. PLANNING FREEDOM — OF - AIR CONFERENCES SOON   Speeches. By Rep. ‘Lwee! ‘And Undersecretary Welles: "Precipitated ' ves Interest © soot

OPA Promises Vacation A-Gas After July 1:   Will Get Pass For Limited ~ ‘Use From Ration Board To Use “Saved” Tickets

Gasoline For Vacation Trips After - July 15   New Order to be Announced Shortly For Tourists   PROCEDURE OUTLINED

ReSIFICIS in Casi  A Card Holders May  Take Vacation Trips Aten s: Licle

AHEAD, TAKE VACATION   OPA Says “A” Folks Will Be Given Break July 15.

10 DRIVING RVACATIONS   Iders of “A” Cards to Be llowed ito Make Trip ty Resort or Sum- mer Home   ) EXTRA GASOLINE WILL BE ALLOWED   piders of B and C Cards  Ban Use Only A Cards  For Trips; Must Get Permit ©

Says ‘A’ Ration Can Be Used On Vacation Trip  Brown To Issue Order Effective July 15,  OConograceman Ranarte

Rep. F. A. Hartley Says OPA Order Will Permit Vacation Trip by “A” Card Holders.

Auto Owners With “A” Cards Permitted To Take Vacation Trips But Get No Extra Gas   OPA Agrees To Relaxed Restrictions; Drivers Must Get Permits From Board

Expect OPA To Allow Gas For Vacations      “New iy Congress." mon Declares Restrictiens Will Be Relaxed

WILL PERMIT VACATION TRIPS BY AUTOMOBILE   Gasoline Restrictions To Be Relaxed To That Extent For “A” Card Holders After July 15

Vacation Trips For “A” Card Holders Promised By OPA After July 15

Mopping Up Japs Battling On Attu   Japs Make Attack On Island With Bombing Planes Successfully   NO CHANGE IN GROUND STATUS

JAPANESE BOMBERS ATTACK AMERICAN SURFACE VESSELS IN WESTERN ALEUTIANS   PRESUMED TAPANESE PLANES CAME FROM BASES IN NORTHERN KURILES, ABOUT 800 MILES WEST OF ATTU: NAVAL EXPERTS CONSIDER COMPLETE CONTROL OF ATTU BY AMERICAN FORCES. UNITED STATES BOMBERS WITH THEIR LONGER RANGE CAN HIT THE ENEMY BASE AT PARAMUSHIRO.

Lewis Silent on Intentions  Toward WLB’s Summons   Mine Union Head Fails to Comment on Offer to Pick Member for Panel to Hear Soft Coal Deadlock: New Extension Urgec

Lewis Will Be Silent On  Intentions   MINE DNION HEAD WILL NOT COMMENT ON WLB OFFER THAT HE HELP SELECT PANEL MEMBER.

LEWIS SILENT ON NEXT MOVE   Gives No Hint Whether He Will Heed Labor Board  wn

LEWIS SILENT ABOUT SUMMON   Has Nothing To Say Of WLR Efforts To End Mine Deadlock

Lewis Silent, Awaits Union Policy Parley   Southern Operators M -y Ask 15-Day Extension  OF Negntiatiangc

John L. Lewis Still Silent On Summons Kram WTP   Will Retain Reticence As to His Intentions Until After Meeting Tomorrow, Aide Rave   SOUTHERN AREA TALKS TO RESUME ©   Movement of Troops Without: Significance, Command Chief Says

Believe Nazi Oil Supply at Low Ebb   Put Restaurants on New Ra: tion Formula--May Returr 38-45 Group to Draft

Shipbuilding To Reach 20 Million Tons   Appropriations Measure § Is Taken Up By House; Wickard Asks for Clear Mandate for Farm Program

To Produce 20 Million Tons of Shipping a Year   Federal Agency Believes Material Limitations Makes This the Limit.   House Takes Up a Six Billion Dollar Bill

WANT DIMES   San Salvador Uses U.S. Coins As Part af Wosetary Svatem

Americans Fight Ashore 40 Miles West of Messina   ' 3; ‘Germans Retreating to Corner  ' Before Daring Allied  Maneuvering

AmericanBattalion Lands Behind Lines  Foe Keeps Falling Back On Messina; Terni Rail Hub on Mainiand Bombed

British and Yank Forces Sweeping Near Base at Randazzo.   AMERICANS CLOSE TO CAPE ORLANDO   Germans Trying to Get Key Personnel Out of Sicily.

 TANKS ON NORTH SIGILY COAST LAND BEHIND FOE:  —_— Ss —— ——  WA7IS QUITTING ISLAND

Americans Advance on Randazzo   British and Americar Bombers Raid Germany and Central Italy _

MAKE SECOND BRILLIANT LANDING BEHIND GERMAN LINES IN NORTH SICILY

Beamish On Job Minus His S t enographer   Central Figure in Capitol Controversy Refuses To Abdicate   DENIED HIS STATE CAR

Nazis Betray Concern Over  Italy’s Status   Berlin Points Out That New Foreign Minister May Be Pro-British

Nazi Units Said Going Into South Thru Rome   Two Italians Are Accompanying Each Nazi

German Troops Moving South  In Effort To Halt Allies In Sicily   Cars Carry Two Italian Soldiers For Each Nazi: Rome Insists On Adequate Defense

Holiday Traffic  Increase Seen   10 To 15 Per Cent Boost Is Predicted

RELIEF COSTS THE COUNTY $7,157.19   County Welfare Ditector Makes Report for Past on }   CASE LOAD INCREASES

RELIEF COSTS THE COUNTY $7157.19   County Welfare Ditector Makes Report for Past Month

VOTE TO LIMIT FATHER DRAFT   House Acts Unanimously to Call Pre-War Dads to Service Last

BILL T0 DRAFT FATHERS LAST 18 PASSED BY HOUSE   Unanimous Approval Given Legislation and Similar Action Is Expected in Senate Monday.   MEASURE PUTS QUOTAS ON NATION-WIDE BASIS   Strips War Manpower Commission of All Authority in Administering Selective Service Act.

House Votes Unanimously to Put Pre-War Fathers aft the Bottom of the Nation's Draft Pool

Pre-war dads are placed at bottom of lis   House action is WManimous

House Approves Draft Measure   Put Pre-Wai Fathers At Bottom of ‘Pool’

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Pre-War Fathers Put On Bottom Of Draft Groun   Compromise Legislation Approved Unanimously By Lower House

DELAY INDRAFT OF FATHERS IS VOTED   House Approves Bill to Put Pre-war Fathers at the Bottom of Pool

House Votes To Draft  Fathers Last  Would Enroll All Other  Classes First

HOUSE VOTES 10 REGROUP FATHERS   Would Put Pre-war Fathers At Bottom of the National Draft Pool; Senate Approval Expected Monday

House Unanimously Approves Placing Prewar Fathers at Bottom of Draft

Recent Manpower Ruling Nullified By Approved Bil   House. Votes to Have Pre - War... Fathers Drafted Last.

House Passes Billto Delay father Draft   Senate to Vote Monday ~ Measure Puts Pre War Fathers at Bottom of Nation’s Draft Pool

Farmer Sentenced On Bribery Charge  Offers Money to  Board Member

GUR SOLDIERS EXPERTS WITH BAYONET SMASHING GERMAN ATTACK ON HILL

U.S. Infantrymen Bayoneted 25 Germansin Tunisia Fight   Private Leonard Aaronson, Brooklyn, Who Accounted Kor Two of Them, Explains “There Was Only One Thing For Us to Do and We Did Its" Retained Position by Such Action

Yanks Foreed To Bayonet 25 Of 60 Attacking Nazis In Famous Battle For Long Stop Hill Area

Americans Forced to Bayonet Attacking Germans in Tunisian Battle

U.S. Soldiers Use Bayonets   Kill 25 to 60 Germans Who Had Penetrated American Lines

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT RELATED BY U.S, TROOPS   Attack By Night By Axis Patrol Routed In Bout

APPLE CROP IS TO BE DIVERTED   20 Percent Of 1943 Yield Will Be Used For By-Products

Team Of Allied Troops Is Ready— wo eth heh SORES  Huge Bomber Fleets Pave Way For Invasion

CEILING ON CAFE PRICES ORDERED   MENU COSTS RESTRICTED TO APRIL 4-10 PERIOD

Coast Restaurants Given Price Ceiling   New Regulations Ordered for May }

Coast Ceiling On Restaurant Prices Ruled .   Eating Places Must Keep At Or Below Level Pre. vailing April 4th-l0th   AIDS CROWDED AREA   Monthly Tabulation O4 Canned, Frozen Foods Will Prevent Wastage

Knutson Urges Pay-as-Go Action Now, Decision  On 1942 Income Later

GOVERNOR OECLARES JOERG “A YAPPER”   Sparks Heatedly Replies To Officer’s Charges

Cecelia Rizzitano Was High _ School Student;. Funeral’ ‘at St. Bernard’s Church

CONCORD GIRL ‘DIED AT AGE. OF 16 YEARS   Cecelia Rizzitano Was High School Student;., Funeral ‘at St. Bernard’s Church

U.S. Bags 194 Axis Planes tin Afriea   in Quick Bombing Raid  'U.S. Strikes 2 Jap Ships

Big Storm In “KF risco Area Dies   Gaie, Fire Wreak Havoc; No Fatalities Reported

STORM STRIKES FRISCO SECTOR   Near Hurricane Brings Loss Totaling Millions

ANTI-POLL TAX BILL APPROVED   ‘Senate Judiciary Group   Reports Measure

She Finally Says “Yes”   Brooklyn Soldier Calls Best Girl 140 Times

DETERMINED SOLDIER WINS FIRST ROUND   Sweetheart Accepts Proposal After 140 Telephone Calls

i ee ee se  Soldier Pops Question 140 Times In 11: Hours Ry Phone: Wins.

BATTLE WITH CUPID IS WON BY SOLDIER   140 Telephone Calls Finally Bring Girl’s Surrender

Finally Gives In  Soldier Wins Girl After 11-Hour Telephone Suit

HAGERSTOWN PILOT TOOK PART IN RAID ON LORIENT FRIDAY   Lt. Kenneth A. Reecher Piloted Fortress ‘Maryland, My Maryland” on Bombing Raid——Later Pilots Another Plane Over Bremen

SIX MORE AXIS SHIPS  SUNK OR DAMAGED BY AIRMEN: PLANES HIT   Aerial Supremacy Secured —By Allies'In Africa   HAGERSTOWN PILOT TOOK PART IN RAID ON LORIENT FRIDAY   Lt. Kenneth A. Reecher Piloted Fortress “Maryland My Maryland” on Bombing Kaid—Later Pilots Another Plane Qver Rreamen

FINAL SUMMONS COMES TO AKRON WOMAN MONDAY   Mrs. Catherine Anderson Had Been In Poor Health For Number Of Years

Italian Situation  Is Worse   Milan Uprising Reflects Sentiment Against Government  And War,

President Protests  Methods   Permits Debt Limitation Bill to Become Law, Claims Rider is Robbery.

Allied Airmen Get  73 Axis Planes  During Big Raids Victory Has Ratio  Of 18 to One For U. S., Britain

Yanks Get 73 Enemy Planes   Only Four Allied Planes Lost In Heavy Air Blows

Allies Down 73 Enemy Planes; Lose 4 Craft   Sicily-Sardinia Assault Targets; Bitter Dogfights

mR BRERA A RE  In Effort To Protect  Sicily and Sardinia ALLIED LOSSES TOTAL ONLY FOUR AIRCRAFT  37 Parked Machines Smashed on Ground By Flvinge Fortresses

DOOLITTLE’S AIR FORCE DESTROYS TRANS PLANES   Twenty-Nine Downed in Fights During Raids on Sicily and Sardinia—44 Blasted on Ground.   AMERICANS LOSE _ ONLY FOUR AIRCRAFI   Germans and Italians Rise in Strength as Raiders Ap. pear—Fortresses Score  ” Heavily.

ALLIES SMASH 73 FOE PLANES   Doolittle’s. Air Force Devastating Raids on Sicily, Sardinia

Three Ministers In Argentine Cabinet Resign  Ramirez Government Apparently Faces Most Serious Crisis

New Crisis In Argetine   Three Cabinet Members Who Favored Break With Axis Resign

Yanks See First Lady In 10 Months   Mrs. Roosevelt Really Lives Up To Title In Pacific Islands

TWO YOUTHS HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT   Car Rolls Down a Bank Along Route 40 on Saturday

BEEF FAMINE TO BE BROKEN IN 3 WEEKS   Laws of Economics— Plus Nature —to Send Cattle to Market

END OF THE ‘BEEF FAMINE’ = ~ PREDICTED IN FEW WEEKS   LACK OF PASTURE FOR HIG HERDS IN WEST EXPECTED TO CAUSE SHIPMENTS

BEEF FAMINE TO BE BROKEN SOON   Officials See Movement To Market When Pasture Land Is Exhausted

ND SEEN S IN BEEF FAMINE   ey’ ashington Believes Market Will Get Ample Supply in 2 or 3 Weeks

Germany’s New Bomber Flies 325 Miles Hour with 7,700 Pounds of Explosives

Germans Fight Like Wild Men To Stop Drive   Casualties Heavy As British Storm Rocky Hillsides

British Locked in. Tremendous Battle With German Troops On Tunisian Hills

STORY OF FIERCE TUNISIAN BATTLE IS TOLD BY REPORTER   Fight Becomes Harder As Germans Are Driven Closer To The Sena

Germans Fight British Foree Like Wild Men   Losses Are Heavy For Both Sides As Final Drive Starts

ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS HOLD UP NAZI SUPPLIES   Attacks By American And British Bombers In Naples Areas Prevent Germans From Getting Reinforcements Through.

ALLIED FLIERS DESTROY 100 NAZITRUCKS..   Damage 200 Others In Air Onslaught . On German Lines

Fliers Cut Off Axis  at Naples   YANK, BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST ROADS, RAIL LINES IN CONTINUOUS RELAYS

HAYES DPEPART<_   No Atheists In Foxholes, They Say, And Reporter Finds It’s True

Temneratures a1 Alirncet   Avoust Calendar      Yankees Pray for Dying and Joke of Home When ‘Goins Gets Tnyoh’

WORK OR FIGHT PLAN ENODRSED BY ARMY, NAVY   Knox And Patterson Give Approval To Step To Curb Absenteeism In War Plants

WORK-OR-FIGHT LAW ENDORSED   Induction Threat Would Curb Shirkers, Says Secretary Knox

DOOLITTLE MEN BOMB ENEMY IN CENTRAL TUNISIA   Bad Weather Still Pre  vails, Making Ground   Operations Impossible Yesterday.

WEATHER HALTS TUNISIAN BATTLES   Allied Pilots Continue Ai War, However.

HILARITY SHOULD NOT CAUSE WAR EFFORT INTERFERENCE   Babson Says Great Many People Are Not Aware That America Is In War, Greater Civilian Efforts Necessary.   {By ROGER W. BABSON).

DRAFTING OF WORKERS MAY BE NEXT 10 COME   Babson Says 1943 Must Bring Still More “All-Out” Use Of Manpower In Essential Military Production,

‘Ruasians Closing trap Un Nazis At Urel—~ ee eee   eytlor's Defenses On Soviet Front Tottering /

Interpreting  The War   Entire German Line May Buckle If Orel Trap Closes

OUTLOOK DARK FOR NAZIS ON SOVIET FRONT   FUEHRER FACED BY DISASTER; TRAP TIGHTENS

Grave Danger For Axis Army In Orel District   Early Fall Of That Link Would Mark Buckling O Whole Line From Vitebsk To Taganrog

EDUCATORS ARE IN HARRISBURG   City School Head and  Secretary Attend Sessions

NAvY COMPLETES LANDING VESSELS   One-Fourth of 80,00. of Different Types Done, Many Are Needed For Japs.

Martinique Is Top Subject In Giraud Parleys   Proallied Regime For Caribbean Island Up For  Thersseare

GROSS SALES TAX SLASH IS VETOEL   Rovernor Foretells Political Doom of Legislators Who Cut State Revenue; Veto  _ Expected To Be Overridden

Mobilize For 3rd Loan Drive   County War Bond Quota $2,635,000;600 Workers Take Field Sept. 9

COUNTY QUOTA IN LOAN DRIVE SET AT $2,635,000   New Quota To Be Two And A Third Times The April Quota

SMOLENSK IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Nazis Admit Loss Of Their Biggest Base In Russia

ENEMY. IS ROUTED FROM WHOLE EAST BANK OF DNIEPER   Evacuation Of Biggest Russian Base Deprives Germans Of Final Defense Bastion On Central Front

Fleeing Germans Fire Key Areas Of Defense City   Troops. Drive Within Suburbs OF Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozel Stroncholds on Dnieper River

REDS DRIVE TOWARD OLD POLISH BORDER OVER OPEN COUNTRY   Nazis Withdraw From Biggest Soviet Base; Russians Ready To Cross Dnieper, Hammer At Gates Of Kiev

Food Production Nears New  Record in U. S.  Crops Are Down but Livestock Shows Increase

Predict Record Breaking Food Output for “43   Farmers Push Harvesting of Late Crops

Weather Boosts Record Output Of Food Crops   Production Only 7 ‘Per Cent Below Huge Tatal of 1942

FOOD PRODUCTION RECORD EXPECTED   Bumper Yields in Section of the Country Are Reported

Girl Looks At Flynn As Tells Story   Intimate Scerie After Party Is Described In Court

First Witness In Errol Flynn Case Heard Thursday   Girl Ravished During Party At Bel An State Claims In Charges

Question of Range of Authority for Gen. Marshall Still Unsettled Problem, Report

Russsell Smith Cites Need Of ¢  Tire [Inspection   Tire-Inspection Date Limits Are Explained

AMERICANS ANCHOR NEW DEFENSE LINE   British Eighth Army Threatens Nazi Rear Guard

British Eighth Army Lashe: Rommel’s Rear At Anchorages Of Mareth  ] me

Soldier Sitzmann Tells How He Lay Down On 8-foot Snake   Rattler Was More Surprised Than. Annoyed and : Didn’t Bite

Soldier Sitzmann Tells How He Lay Down On 8-foot Snake      Rattler Was More: Surprised ~ Than- ‘Annoyed ‘and. ‘Didn’t Bite

American Subs Sink Four Jap  ‘Ships in Pacifie   Allies Map Master Policy For Anti-Sub Warfare

Yankee Subs Sink Four Enemy Shins   Destroyer Included Among Latest Vessels Sent Down

Destroyer, Transport Demolished  Two Cargo Ships Sunk, 3 Others Are Damaged

U.S. SUBS SINK A JAP VESSELS   Destroyer and Three Cargo Ships Sent to Bcttom; Three Others Hit

U. S. SUBS DESTROY FOUR JAP VESSELS   Destroyer and Three Other Craft Sunk in Latest Operations in Pacific Area.

U.S; Subs Gel 7 Jap Ships, Sinking 4   Foe Now Has Lost 199 Vessels to Undersea Craft

American Subs Sink Four Japanese Ships   Three More Vessels Damaged in Operations Recently in Pacific Area; No Details Given

Warship Among Big Nip Losses’.   Two Cargo Vessels,  Teanesort Downed:

SCORE NINE TO ONE FOR YANKS IN CHINA   Report Also Says Many Jap Ships Sent Down

GEN. CHENNAULT’S: 14TH AMERICAN AIR FORCE SCORED GOOD  NINE JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED FOR EVERY ONE LOST BY THEM

9 Tol Score By 14th Air Foree  Gen. Chennault Report:  ~*~. 20... Pike

STATE DEPARTMENT MAY OUTLINE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF EDWARD J. FLYNN:

HULL AIDES T0 BE QUESTIONED INFLYNN CASE   State Department to be  Asked to Outline Political  Boss's Qualifications for Diplomatic Post   SUBPOENAS URGED   Senator Bridges Fears  Some New York Witness/es Might Not Appear. Without Being Compelled

State Department May Be Called on to Give Flynn’s Qualifications

State Department May Be Asked to Outline E. Flynn's Quali fications

BELGIAN COKE OVENS BLASTED   Zeebrugge Works Raked By RAF Without Loss; English Town Is Hit By Nazis

ritish and Nazis xchange Bombs 1 Sunday Raids   vebrugge Attacked b: PAF and Germans Raid an English Town   ssman Sailors Throwr into Air when Tanker ls Attacked

BELGIAN COKE OVENS RAIDED BY ENGLISH   Germans Retaliate By Raiding Southeast Coast Tawn, In flicting Casualties

BRITISH TOWN HIT BY GERMAN FLIERS   Heavy Casualties Inflicted on the Southeastern Coast -

BOMBERS RAID BELGIAN AREA   Coke Ovens at Zeebrugge Are Blasted by RAF; Nazis Retaliate

British Town Hit Hard By Nazi Bombers  Heavy Casualties Are FearedIn 10-Plane Raid -

ON LIVING COST AND WAGE HIKES   Job Changing For Higher Pay Is Forbidden Except To Aid The War  Congress, Farmers, Labor Warned

Clothing Ceiling Is Ruled Out   Sweeping Price Control Plan  Te Reoun:’

Stoncent”              CEILINGS WILL EFFECT ALL .:: COST-OF-LIVING COMMODITIES NEW DRIVE AGAINST INFLATION

President’s Order Gives McNutt More Job Powers, Clamps Down On Wages .

[PLANS WILL BE    SUBMITTED SATURDAY      Many New Articles Be Placed Under  Ceilinge

VOTING SHAPES FDR AND DEWEY SCRAP IN 1944   Republican Sweep May Force Democrats’ No. 1 Man to Run Again

DEWEY SEEN AS FOR OPPONENT FOR PRESIDENCY   Sweeping Victory In New York Prompts GOP To Prepare For Draft   CLOSE KENTUCKY RACE   VLVOR ALNITVUUARE NAVE  Republicans Also Gain _ Easy Governorship In : New Jersey

DEWEY BOOM GIVEN BOOST ~sAS RESULT OF ELECTIONS   WASHINGTON POLITICAL OB_ SERVERS NOW LEAN TO . OPINION CANDIDATES WILL BE DEWEY AND ROOSEVELT

REPUBLICAN WIND IN ELECTION MAY MAKE TEWEY TOPS   Sweeping Victory in New York Centers Attention on Tom.

SEE “44 LINEUP AS ROOSEVELT VS DEWEY   Republicans Win N. Y Contest, Run Close, Race in Kentucky

Martin To Offer Program To Joint Session Of Lesislature   14-Point Plan To Be Handed Legislators Tuesday—Bud get Message Delayed Until Later Date

"Bob" Says Next Time He Sinks Jap Admiral Nomura He'l! Do It for Good

Russians Score In Kursk-Orel Counterattack   Repulse Nazis, Take Two Towns; German: Blame Bad Weather

Soviets Smash Aitack hy German Tanks   More Than 2,000 Nazis Were Killed Sunday

UST ACTOR AS MISSIN   LESLIE HOWARD REPORTED ON AIRLINER SKOT DOWN DUEING LISBON-LONDON . TRIF :

N. Jersey Senator Dies in Capital   Congress Loses  Three Men in Day

3 DEATHS STRIKE U. S$; CONGRESS WITHIN 24 HOURS   Senator Barbour Reps. Steagall and Ditter Pass; House  Recesses

Tax Bill Means Different Things to Different Groups   Some Will Find Their Tax Matters Increasingly Complicated If Senate Approves House-Enacted Pay-As-You-Go Bill and It Becomes Law: Bill Sets Up Two Classes

That Pay-As-You-Go Income Tax Plan Is Interpreted   Means Different Things To Different Groups; Payroll Deduction Would Involve Victory Tax

Ban on Pleasure Driving Lifted   But East's Gasoline Ration Is Reduced

OPA Lifts Bar On ‘Joyrides’; Halves Ration   New Order Fixes Next Gas Period For Four Months

GAS ALLOWANCES BEING DECREASEL   Gallonage {ts Reduced Bi Extending Time In Use of Coupons.

Miith Captures Mountain Post   Bighth Army Pushes Toward Tollo As German Resistance Stiffens.

U.S.Nabs Key Hill in Italy   MT. SPINUCCIO FALLS AS BOMBERS SHATTER SOFIA, ATHENS BASE

AMERICAN OTH ARMY CAPTURES MT, SPINUGTIO   Fighting In Snow Storm; Bombers  Raid Sofia

Mt. Spinuccic Is Captured By Americans   Fifth Arrny Lunges Forward Two and Halt Miles To Occupy Mountain Base  SOFIA AGAIN BOMBED

GAINS MADE ACROSS TWO MAJOR ARCS   Air Forces Strike As British Move Upon T ollo

Fifth Battles in Snow Storm to New Height   Captures Mf. Spinuccio Rising 2,600 Feet as 8th Makes New Gains

YANKS CAPTURE MT. SPINUCCIO   5TH ARMY TROOPS STORM 2600-FOOT  HEIGHTS IN ITALY

‘othArmy Lunges Forward To Capture Mt. Spinuccio: 8th Gains In Stiff Battle

Yanks Seize Mi. Spinuccio   Fight Through Snowstorm To Capture 2,600 Foot Peak

Americans Brave Storm, Make Gain in Italy  Air Force Continues To Assist as Fiohtere Seize Hill

Enemy Masse: Forces for  Last Stand   Americans Also Tak: Air Strip at Arawe, New Britain   Americans Sivarm up Snow Covered Hillside To Capture Mountain Peak on Italian Front

Yanks Capture Nazi-Held Hil   American Army Battles Forward In Snowstorm

Fifth Army  Advances in - Snow Storn   Gen, Montgomery Forces Also Push Ahead in Stiff Fighting

U.S. 5th Lunges Through Snow Storm to Take 2000 Ft. Peak   U.S. P. T. Boats Team With British to Battle  2 Nazi Destroyers

FIFTH PUNCHES OUT TWO-MILE GAIN IN ITALY   American Bombers Attack Bulgar Capital

AMERICAN 5TH ARMY SEIZES MT. SPINUCCIO   British 8th Pushes Ahead Towarc Tollo Against Increasing Ger man Resisiance   SOFIA IS BLASTED   J. S. TP Boats and British Craf Battle Nazi Destroyers, Probably Scoring Hits

Yankee Fifth Army Takes Mt. Spinuccio   Lunge Forward Two And Half Miles in Heavy Snow Storm

STH ARMY WINS MOUNTAIN. TOP   Allies Lunge Ahead In Italy; Nazi Resistance Stiffens

PILOTS ASSIST “US STH ARMY   Drop Bombs On Sofia and Athens Airfields: Ground Troops Inch Forward

Battle In ‘Mountains Fought In  Snowstorm   American Infantrymen Forge Ahead Under Severe Conditions On Italian Front

YANKS ADVANCE IN SNOW STORM   Score Two and a Half Mile  Gain on Italian Front

CLARK’S FORCES DRIVE ON WHILE BOMBERS STRIKE   Yanks Capture Mt. Spinuccio In New Advance—Sofia, Athens Attacked

Fifth Army Captures Mt. Spinuccio   15th Air Force Bombers Attack Sofia, Targets In Greece

Yanks Gain Again; Capture Mountain   Fifth Army Troops Push Forward Another Two and a Half Miles in Snowstorm to Seize 2,600-Foot Mount Spinuccio.

Mediterranean-Based Bombers Pound Sofia, Athens; German Resistance Increases On Eighth Army Side Of Italian Front

FIFTH LUNGES OVER2 MILES IN ITALY FIGH)   Captures Mt. Spinuccio: Airforce Hits Sofia and Athens; 8th Drives On Tolio

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY LUNGED FORWARD IN BLINDING SNOWSTORM  EIGHTH ARMY ALSO PUSHED AHEAD ON EAST FRONT IN STIFF FIGHTING

2600-Ft. Height Taken By Filth In Snowstorm   British Forces Reported Improving Positions On Central Adriatic Front

Fifth Lunges Forward in Snow Storm  Takes 2,600 Foot Mt. Spinuccio Yank Bombers Attack Safia

Yankees Take Mountain in Snow Storm   American Bombers Attack Sofia, Bulgaria, and Athens Airfield

A yances Snow  rmy   ure Mt. Spinuccio Spowstorm ; Planes 4 Balkans

Fifth Army Lunges Forward 22 Miles To Capture Peak As Heavy Bombers Pound Sofia   Allies Bag 28 Nazi Planes In Attack On Sofia And Athens Airfield: 8th Advances

Yanks Take Mt. Spinnuccio;  Sofia Raided   Americans In 2-Mile Advance Swarm Up Towering Snow - Covered  - Slopes Under Severe Conditions. 28 Enemy Planes Shot Down Owver Balkans.

MOUNT SPINUGCIO CAPTURED BY U. S. 5TH ARMY FORGES   Lunged Forward 2! Miles in  Snow Storm to Capture the 2600-Foot Height.   AN ATTACK ON SOFIA   The Athens Airfield Also Bombed by U. S. Heavy Bombers.

British Advance 20 Miles a Day   Allied Armor Within 10 Miles Of Kairouan; Americans, French Pour Through Fondouk Gap To Plains

Allied Forces Also Converge On Kairouan   Harassed Gen. Rommel Pulls Battered Army Into Northern Tunisia  FONDOUK GAP TAKEN

Eighth Army Nearing Port of Sousse As Yank, British and French Tanks Pursue Foe Toward Kairouan

U.S. Fliers Bag $0 Axis Planes in 36-Hour Period   Flying Fortresses Sink One Italian Cruiser and Damage Another; British First Army Continues Advance; Many Prisoners Taken

City Is Only 70 Miles From Tunis   Battered ‘Axis Armies Moving To North Tunisia

AMERICAN LIGHTNING FIGHTERS SHOOT DOWN 27 ENEMY PLANES, INCLUDING 21 BIG TRANSPORTS;  ROMMEL SKILLFUL.

Fall of German Bases Believed To Be Certain   Rommel Pulls Battered Army into Hills of North Tunisia   American, British and French Troops Advance Rapidly

British, French, U. 8. Flanking Movement Perils Axis Forces at Sousse, Kairouan

Nazis Take to Hills ‘As Allies Close in.      Rommel ‘Pulls His Battered Army Into. “Strong “Box,” But Two British Armies, Americans and French Pound After Him: His Airforce’Wrecked

Rommel’s Men Take to Hills Further North   ‘British Eighth Army Maintains Rapid Dane:in Advannina

British Troops Continue - Vietorious March Northward  KAIROUAN IS ALSO’ : EXPECTED TO FALL Battered Axis Armies  Move Into Northern Tunisian Hills

ALLIEDARMORED FORCESNEARING 2 VITAL POINTS   Sousse, Kairouan Threatened As Rommel Moves Into Tunisian Hills

U.S. FOOD HELPING RUSSIA-WICKARD   Supplies Almost Surely Keeping Reds in War, Farm Secretary Says.

U.S. Food Keeps  Russians in War   So Wickard Tells  House Committee

AMERICAN FOOD TS MAINTAINING RUSSIANS IN WAR   Wickard Says !f Supply Were Cut Off Men Winning Engagements Would Be Free to Quit.   RECENT SHIPMENTS GREATLY INCREASED   Only Mere Driblets of LendLease Food Have Gone te Civilians, Soldiers Ar ¢ Benefitted.

U. $. Food Is Sent To Russia   Wickard Says Shipments Paying Good Dividends

U. S. Food Keeps Russia In War    Wickard Says Soviets Would  Have To Stop Fighting Without It.

Our Food Sustains. Russians   Wickard Says Rations From America Keep  Red Armies Fighting; To Be Increased in °43

Russians Eat Much U.S. Food   it’s Keeping Reds in th War, Declares Secre tary Wickard

Says American Food Is Keeping Russia In Wat   Secretary Of Agriculture - Wickard Cites LendLease, Value In Victory   WARNS U. 8S. WILL FEEL PINCH IN °’43

REDS KEPT FIGHTING BY AMERICAN FOOD   Less Than 7 Percent Sent On Lease-Lend, However

Says American Food Keeping Russia In War   Wickard Points To importance of Lend-Lease Program

Wickard Sees U.S. Food Vital to Reds   Secretary of Agriculture Says Cut in Lend-Lease Flow Would Halt Battling

Food Supplies From America Back Red Army   Wickard Testifies Russians Might Be Foreed To Quit If Shipments Stop.   BRITAINS NEEDS UP

ee American Food  Enables Russia To Carry On   Wickard Asserts Food Sent From VJ, S. Has Helped Change Course Of War

U.S. Food Keeps Reds Going, Claim  Wickard Says Soviet  Getting More Than Great Britain

U.S. FOOD HELPS REDS WHIP NAZIS   AG SECRETARY SAYS IT IS VITAL TO KEEP OFFENSIVE GOING

More Food Sent to Russia Than to British Allies  rr    Wickard Says Farm Products Of America Keeping Soviet Armies Fichtine Germans

AMERICAN FOOD AIDS RUSSIANS   U. S. Supply of Foodstuffs Contributes to Victories Of Red Army.

WICKARD SAYS AMERICAN FOOD KEEPING BHSSIA IN WAR AND HELPING VICTORIES

DENY THE ACCUSATION   U. S. Is Blamed for Hamstringing a Purge of Vichyites

Miners: Ignore President   Lewis, Ickes Meet As Total of Idle Steudily Grows

Miners Shun Roosevelt’s Order To Resume Work As 460,000 Diggers Stay Out  

CONFERENCE HELD ON COAL DISPUTE   Nearly Half Million Miners Ignore FDR Call to Return te Jobs.

President’s Call To Work Ignored   Walkout Spreads to Esti~ mated 460,000 Coal Miners in U. S.    ICKES MEETS LEWIS   Efforts to Agree on Contract Made in Interior Department

ICKES AND AIDES; LEWIS AND MINERS CONFERRED TODAY   EFFORT APPARENTLY BEING MADE TO REACH CONTRACT AS 50,000 IDLE

Authorities on Both Sides Coal Mine Crisis Confer; Miners Tonore Cal] nf F PB

Lewis Meets With Ickes, Union Chiefs   Back-To-Work Deadline Passes With Workers Continuing Strike; Nemand (Cantract

Order To Return Today Is Ignored By 460,000 Men   Top Authorities On Both Sides Hold Hurried Conferences In Washington

MINERS DEFY BACK-T0-WORK ORDER OF FOR   Top Authorities Meet In Discussion of Coal Situation

President’s Orders to Nation’s Miners  Fall on Deaf Ears   Strikers Ignore Directive That They Get Back Into Pits

Ignore F. R.’s Plea To Go Back To Pits   Mine Leaders Lewis And Aides In Session With Coal Chief Ickes

Ignore FDR Call To Mines   Pits Remain Empty As Lewis and Ickes Confer. No Hint of Anv Solution

Miners Ignore FDR Directive  Mines Remain Idle; Ickes, Lewis Confer

Call by F.R. To Return to Jobs Ignored   Lewis Confers With Ickes and District Mine Union Heads

Solution To Coal Contract Dispute Sought By Leaders As Pits Shut Down

Roosevelt’s Order To Miners Ignored; Top Authorities Continue Conferences

Lewis, Ickes and Aides Seek Solution to Get Men Back Intg Mines  CONTRACT SOUGHT  Half-Million Workers Stil] Won’t Work Even After Roosevelt Call

UMW chief, Ickes confer on walkout   Half a million miners idling

No Solution Yet To Coal Strike   Miners Ignore FDR’: Request to Work

QUOTA FOR NODAWAY COUNTY IS FIXED   Senator Demands Probe  Into Edward J. Flynn

Claim Flynn Helped Japs   Senator Bridges Charges Law Firm Represented Larger Property Hoider

Big Bombs Hit Target to Weaken Foe   Pacific Battle Is Relentless as U. S. Force Gains

KISKA POUNDED DESPITE FOGS      American Pilots Lash At Japanese Base; New Georgia Hit

MARSHALL BACK HOME FROM TRIP TO AFRICA   Jap Kiska Base Pounded Aaain

Japs on Kiska Pounded by U.S. Airmen   Pilots Take Craft Through Fog to Batter Enemy '

Often Decorated Gunner Discharged From Air Corps--He's Too Young

16 Year-old Veteran Of War Is Discharged   For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow’ British Sing To King In Africa

BUDGET SENT TO ASSEMBLY BY GOVERNOR   Change in Fiscal Year Asked in O’Conor’s: Messace   Revenue for Next Two Years Will be Cut Considerably

BUDGET SENT TO ASSEMBLY BY GOVERNOR   Change in Fiscal Year Asked in O’Conor’s Message  REDUCTION SOUGHT IN INCOME TAXES  Revenue for Next Two Years Will be Cut Cancidorahly

REDUCTION IN STATE INCOME TAX SUGGESTEL   Governor Announces Elimination Of 238 Jobs In Budget Speech   WOULD ALSO CHANGE STATE’S FISCAL YEAR

Public Is Asked to Accept Food Rationing Cheerfully, Understand Reasons For It

NAZI AIRFIELDS ARE POUNDED BY ALLIED BOMBERS   50 German Aircraft Shot Down During Forays Yesterday   BOMBING RESULTS ARE REPORTED GOOD

50 Nazi Planes Are Shot Down  Fortresses Account for 34 of Victims

Americans Lash Holland Bases   French Fields Also Feel Allied:Stinag

Nazi Europe  Sull Under" Aerial Attack   50 German ‘Aireraft , Brought Down During One Day’s Assaults

Americoan Fortresses Take Ove: Aerial Oftensive  CONTINUOUS RAIDS MADE DURING DAY Six Allied Fighters Report.  ed Lost in the Sweeps

U.S. Fortresses Hammer Axis Held Air Bases   8 Fighters, 4 Bombers Lost in New Raid

AMERICANS RAID HOLLAND; DOWN 34 NAZI PLANES   Airfields in Tyo Towns Blasted—Attacks Follow Assaults on Targets in France,   50 GERMAN CRAFT BAGGED DURING DAY   Airmen Roar Across Doyer Strait in Steady Stream— Alties Lose 8 Fighters  and 4 Bombers.

Rivas FORTS CRAFT IN DAY   Yanks Pound Away _ At German-Held Air Bases  e

Plan Rides For Soldier   Canteen To Move Men on Furlough Without Cost.

Aged Woman s ~Killed By Trair   Mrs. Alice Shorey O} Watervliet. Victim

MINERS TO GO BACK TO WORK   130,000 In W. Va. Agree To Report In After State Leaders Ask Return

A Proclamation by Your Mayor to Make Our Community a Red, White, and Blue Garden of Flags, September 9

Senate, House Pave Way For Adjournment   Senate Recedes From Attempt To Outlaw Administration’s Price Rollback Plan

Vote 34 te 33 Today  In Senate   Withdraw From Anti-Ad ministration Position, Af ter House Action

Senate Recedes in Plan to Bar Price Roll-Back   New Vote Gives Congress Chance to Recess Tonight

SENATORS RECEDE FROM SUBSIDY BAN   House Committee Kills Resolution Wipping—-Corn Price

ANTI-SUBSIDY ACT GOES BACK TO SENATE  House Defeats ; Move To Lift ‘s

Senate Backs Down; Votes Food Rollback   Subsidy Measure Carried by 1 Vote:  Recess Expected

CLOSE VOTE TO REJECT BAN MAY HASTEN RECESS   House Refusal To Accept Earller Vote Saved Administration Prorram

Senate Recedes F rom Attempt To Outlaw Subsidies   Action Opens Path For Congress To Start Summer Recess.

Proposes Home Rule for Five Missouri Counties  - Delegate: Proposes ~ Abolition of Mo. Justice of Peace

HOME RULE PROPOSED FOR FIVE COUNTIES   Charter Convention Asked to Let Them Determine Own Method of Government.

Russia Against Any European Confederation   Makes Clear Soviets Intend To Play Large  Part In Reconstruction

SOVIET DENOUNCES rt TO FEDERATE STATES IN EUROPE   Saye Churchill's “Policy For Post-War World Hostile To  ' USSR

REDS OPPOSED 10 PLANS FOR GROUP OF SMALL -STATES   Russian Embassy Issues Denunciation of Churchill’s Recent Espousal For Regional Federation.   PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSED IDEA IN MARC   Information Bulletin Comments on Various Plans Which Have Been Heard For Future of Europe.

German Loss Mounting Near Gomel.   Reds Massing Men, Material for Next Phase of Offensive

RED PUSH SLOWED IN WHITE RUSSIA AND NEAR DNIEPER   Fierce Resistance Being Offered by Nazis — Bad Weather Also Checks Speed of Soviets.   GERMANS FLEEING CAUCASUS BOMBEL   Six Barges Carrying Troops and Supplies Toward Crimea Are Sent Down by Airmen.

Russians Kill Germans Fleeing From Caucasus Progeess. of Red Arm: Slowed, However, for Ripst Time in: Drive’.

@ Nearly 4,000 Germans Slain In Bitter Tank Battles in White Russia; Bad Weather and Fierce Enemy Re ® sistance Slows Advance

Six More German Barges Carrying Troops Are Sunk  FIGHTING SLOWED DOWN BY WEATHER  About 3,000 Germans Reported Killed in One Sector

BLAST NAZIS “FLEEING OUT OF CAUCASUS   Reds Sink Six Barges Filled With Troops;  Gain Near Gomel

NURSERY FUND. HAS APPROVAL      SENATE PLEDGES SUPPORT OF . PLAN TO FINANCE NURSLERIER FOR “WAR WORK  ORPHANB"’-”

PLAN U.S, CARE FOR “WAR KIDS’   ‘Mothers Working in Plants Neglecting Children Senate Told

JAPS CONCENTRATE INFANTRY, TANK, AIR FORCES IN CHINA  NEW CAMPAIGN BELIEVEL POINTED FOR CAPITAL OF CHUNGKING

Japs Push New Chinese Drive  Concentrate Along The Upper Yangtze

NEW MENACE TO CHINESE CAPITA   Ichang, 462 Miles From Chungking, Important Enemy Base   NEW ATTU GAINS   Navy Communique Reports Progress By American Forces 

JAPS READY FOR CHINA DRIVE   Concentrate Forces Along Upper Yangtze For Push

Enemy Presses lts Drive on China's Capital   Great River Now Opened as Supply Route

Japanese Concentrate Large Forces On Yangtze For Drive On Chungking

Japanese Concentrating Formidable Forces for _ Operations Under Way, and Pointed at Chungking

STARTS DANE   Over Europe, American Bombers Unleash Attacks on Italy.   RUSSIAN FRONT ACTIVE

I nvitation by Judge to Leave Country Is Turned Down by Negligent Draftee

A Draft Evader Invited to Pick Another Country    Raajects Offer, but Is Given Month  to Decide if He Wants to Be Modern Nathan Hale.

Judge Invites Man Who Refuses to Fight to Become One Without Country

Invited To Leave, Won't   Says Americans Hadn’t Done Anything For Him

Invites Man To Leave U. S.  Citizen, Failing to   Citizen, Failing to Report, Asks to Be Sentenced

Man Who Said “U.S. Never  Did Anything For Him’ Is Invited To Leave The Country

Japs Ready For Major  Guinea Drive   Allies Expecting Thrust at Port Moresby, Australia

MAJOR NEW _ GUINEA DRIVE BY JAPS SEEN   Have Increased Air Strength By 80 Per Cent, Say  Observers

Judge Keenan Ordered To ClearDocket   WESTMORELAND COUNTY PRESIDENT JUDGE IS GIVEN UNTIL SEPT. 20 BY STATE SUPREME COURT.   Chief Justice Scores Him

Sicily Is Again  Heavily Pounded   Allied Bombers Drop Tons Of Explosives Upon Military Targets   CATANIA IS ALSO TARGET OF BOMBERS

COST - OF - LIVING BATTLE DRAWING NEAR SHOWDOWN   Food Subsidy Controversy Overshadows All Other Questions in Congress

Cut Living Cost Brynes Tells Nation   Arguments Rage in Congress How Best to Stave Off Inflation. Rising COL

Yanks and Japs Battle Fiercely On Attu Ridge   Americans Hit Enemy By Land, Sea and Air To Capture Foothold

Yankees Gain F oothold in Hills of Attu   Land, Sea, Air Raids Level Buildings In Chichagof Harbor

Jury May End Probe Today   Couple Arrested For Intimidating Witness

GIEL “FRIEND OF GANGBTER SENTENCED IN MILLION  DOLLAR EXTORTION’ PLOT IS SLAIN

CHICAGO POLICE HUNT GIRL SLAYER   Body Of Model Found In Apartment After Fire Was  Discovered

Report Fierce Battles Raging On Soviet Front   Red Army High Command Declares Drives Are Making Progress   NAZIS FIGHT HARD IN DONETS BASIN

COAL, DISPUTE IS IN CRITICAL PHASE      Both Sides Firm In Stand For No Extension Of Deadline Limit °

Senate Gives Approval To Food Subsidy  Limit To Rollbac Payments Fixed By Measure

Senate to Limit  Food Subsidies   Final Vote Today On CCC Extension

COUNTY FAIRS IN 1943? MAYBE   Decision Up to State and County. Officials and Rationing Boards. :

It Looks Like the ODT Will Smile On County Fairs In 43, After All   By KENNETH L. DIXON

MANY MINERS ~ STAY ON STRIKE   No Sign of Normalcy in Coal _ Fields Despite FDR Order

2 Anii-Poll Tax Bills Introduced   New Registration Plan Is Sought For Voters

JAPS ACKNOWLEDGE DAMAGE ON CELEBES   Macassar Radia Promises Aid Te Dependents OF Dead And Hos pnitatization For Waunded

Hold Beach Against Counter attack, Aided hy Tr ements Air Force; British 8th Army Only 67 Miles Away

(Air and Sea Assaults © Hit Enemy   Anglo-Americans Hold Bridgehead as Salerno Battle in Italy See-Saws; Rath Cidac Thraw in Resarve Forcec

GLARK’S FORGE   Savage, Close - Combat Fighting Rages From 4 Salerno to Acropoli =?   REINFORCEMENTS LAND

iAll-Out Aid Supplied From Ships, Planes   American Lines Strength: ened By Slight With-. drawals in the Night <.°

Yield Ground To Straighten Lines   Air Force Launches Biggest Air Attack in Mediterranean Area on Nazi Lines Montgomery 67 Miles Away  Nazis Admit Difficulties

Greatest air, sea attack is turning tide   Montgomery only 67 miles away —

Some Ground Lost Yesterday In Big Battle At Salerno   Both Sides Pouring In Reinforcements; British Kighth Army About 90 Miles From Area

Close-Quarter Combat Rages on 27-Mile Front   Allies Forced to Yield Some Ground tc Straighten Line but Hold Own in SeeSaw Fichtinge at Salerno   AIRMEN SET RECORD IN SUPPORT

Beat Off Fierce Germar Counter Attacks; Lose Some Ground      MUCH SAVAGE FIGHTING   North African Air Force Flies 2,000 Sorties to  Cover Troops

Frery Available Plane Thrown Into Battle; Naval Force Shells Enemy Positions And Tanks   Savage, Close Combat Rages From Salerno Te Agropoli; Not Ove Allied Aircraft Lost; Enemy Also Bringing Up More Troops

were Thrown Against Saler no Bridgehead; Allies Were Forced to Yield Some Ground Gained Earlier.   NEW SUPPORT CAME TO GEN. CLARK’S FORCES   Savage Close Quarter Combat Raged Along the Whole Front, Salerno to: Agropoli, 25 Miles to South.

OeE-OAW BATTLE RAGES ON SAND   Clark’s Men Make New Gains in Other Sectors   EIGHTH PLOWS AHEAD   Narrows Gap Between Montgomery and Clark Forces To 67 Miles

ALLIES GIVEN SUPPORT FROM AIR AND SFA   Aerial Armada Aids Clark's Forces In Repulsing Nazi Counterattacks   SOME GROUND IS YIELDED   Fositions Consolidated As Lines Are Straightened, New Troops Landed

New Support Given Yanks in Desperafe Fight   Americans Forced To Yield Ground In Night Fighting

Yanks Give Up Ground To Straighten Defense Line   See-Saw Battle Vital; Isle Of Capri Is Taken: Nazi Tanks Hurled Into Fight

Fierce See-Saw Fighting Swirls In Salerno Area   Allies Yield Ground Gained Earlier In Order To Straighten Their Lines

Both Sides Rush Reinforcements To Salerno Area   Americans Back Up. To Strenathen Lines

New Support Comes to General Clark's Forces as Savage Close-Quarter Combat Rages Along Whole Fifth Army Front in Italy.   British 8th Army Speeds Along Coast to Close Gap to 80 Miles

Battle Rages al Close Quarters   Heavy Reinforcements Hurled Into Fray By Both Sides as British Eighth Army Speeds From South to Strengthen Front

BLOODY BATTLE IS STILL RAGING FOR BRIDGEHEAD   Allied Air Forces Smash Nazi Positions All Night in Terrific Attack   WARSHIPS POUR IN SHELLS   Reinforcements Rushed To Embattled Fifth Army as British Drive Nearer

German Thrusts Driven Off   Fighting See-Saws, Reinforcements  To Aid Allies »

SAVAGE BATTLE CONTINUES FOR PORT IN ITALY   Vicious Nazi Thrusts Are Stopped by Americans In Bridgehead Center to Weather Crisis   COUNTER ASSAULTS ARE MADE BY BOTH   Isle of Capri Captured By Allied Forces; Landing   Of More Troops to   Repulse Germans

BOTH SIDES SEND IN: MORE TROOPS,.ARMOR   U.S. Yields Some Ground Gained Earlier in Order to Straighten Lines; Naval Guns Giving Support

ALLIED TROOPS IN  INVASION AREA ARE  FORCED GIVE GROUND FIERCE GERMAN COUN.  TERATTACKS AT SALERNO BEATEN OFF HOWEVER

Heavy Air Assaults And Naval Gunfire Aiding Yank Forces   British Speeding Up West Coast of Italy to Suppert American Landing, Drive Through Vital Village of Belvedere

FURIOUS NAZI ATTACKS ARE THROWN BACK   Powerful Reinforcements Land As Ships Shell  German Positions   STRAIGHTEN LINES   Isle of Capri, West of Salerno, Occupied By Allies

Allies Strengthened By Reinforcements Along Entire Front   Italians Defend Captured Capri; British Nearer U. N. Battlefront; German Claims Unsupported

Close Quarter Fighting Rages As Warships And Planes Bombard Enemy

NAVAL BOMBARDMENT ALSO ASSISTS AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOPS TO RESIST GERMANS AT SALERNO.

GIVE UP SOME. FARLER GAINS -W OPERATION   ‘Savage Close-Quarter Battle Rages Along Whole Fifth Front.   PLANES AND NAVY GUNS © POUND NAZI POSITIONS

Clark’s Troops Given Thund. erous Aerial And Naval . Support At Salerno   MONTGOMERY’S MEN ARE 50 MILES DISTANT

Nazi. Propaganda  Now Admits Yank Bridgehead Being Strongly Defended

Clark’s Troop Beat Off Big! Counter-Attacks But Yield Ground Gained Last Nicht

Fresh Reserves Rush !n To Support Fifth Army; Navy Takes Isle Of Capri

Fresh Troops Thrown Into Battle   Britons, Americans Are Confident of Final Victory

Allies Pull Back  To Improve Lines   Advancing British Forces Are 80 Land Miles Away} Both Sides Throw Reinforcements Into Battle; Allied Planes On 2,000 Sorties Without Loss

Strong Aerial Attacks Support British and Americans  FRESH TROOPS ARE THROWN IN BATTLE  Forces of Montgomery Move Rapidly From the South

AMERICANS GET ADDED SUPPORT   Both Sides Throwing In Heavy Reinforcements Of Troops  ere. cAW KimtwTing ee

Americans Yield Small Areas in Hot Fight for Salerno Bridgehead; Eighth Army Races 25 Miles

ith Army Beats Off Strong Nazi Counterattacks  Bloody Battle Goes Into Seventh Day:

Montgomery's Sth Army Only 67 Miles Away   Fifth Army Improves Stand With Help of Naval Guns and Strong Air Attacks

Allies Aided By Powerful Air Attacks, Navy Shells   TROOPS, SUPPLIES STILL POUR ASHORE

love Necessary to Straighten Lines as Savage, Close-Quarter Combat Rages on 27-Mile Salerno-Agropoll Ceastline—Both Sides Send Heavy Reinforcements of Troops and Armor Into Fray—Allied Planes in Record Attacks.

Allies Add Powerful Naval and Aerial Blows to Increasing Land Forces Strengtt

Positions Consolidated As More Reinforcements Pour Into Savage Seesaw Salerno Battle.

ALLIED TROOPS MEET FIERCE GERMAN FORCES   Americans Have Withdrawn To  Bolster Line

FIERCE BATTLE CONTINUES FOR BEACH POINTS   New Troops Arrive as Allied Airmen Attack Savagely

American 5th Army Is Given Support By Air-Sea Attacks; British 8th Speeds Up Coast   General Clark's Forces Yield Some Ground Gained Earlier In Order To Straighten Up Their Lines

Allies Regain, Then Give Up Ground; Bitter Combat Rages   Situation ‘A Little Better ;’ Isle of Capri Seized By Our Forces

Fresh Troops Rushed Into Battle By Both Sides; New Positions Are Consolidated After Small Losses   Montgomery’s Men Dash up Coast; U.S. and Royal Navies Disembark Troops and Supplies at Salerno; Nazis Bring New Divisions in

Yield Small Bits Of Bridgehead At Salerno in See-Saw Battle   Bitter Fighting Continues as Both Sides Throw Fresh Troops and Armor into Action

COMBAT RAGES AS BOTH SIDES GET MORE HELP   African Air Force Hurls All of Planes  Available at German:

HEAVY AERIAL ATTACK BACKS UP AMERICANS   BRITISH 8TH ARMY RACES TO RELIEF OF GEN. CLARK   SE OS  RY NOLAND NORGAARD

More Mileage For ~ Some Car Owners   OPA Lifts Ceiling On “Course of Work” Driving

il RATION TS RELAXED   ACTION TAKEN’ TO PROVIDE " “WORE. GAS. FOR PERSONS’ USING OARS IN THER ‘ WworKE

OPA BOOSTS CEILING ON GAS MILEAGE   Action intended to aid car owners who need extra gas for work

U. S. Jungle Troops Storm Munda; Eight. Jap Warships Sunk   Attacks On Munda Airbase Launched Sunday By U.S. Marines, Army Troops From Three Sides; Meet Resistance *:

Munda Hit From 2 Sides By American Jungle Force   Air Assault Aids Final Drive To Capture Jap Base

Yanks Storming Munda From 2 Of 3 Sides.   Stage Final  Drive to Take ‘Solomons Base

U.S. TROOPS STORM MUNDA FROM 2SIDES      In Final Drive  To Capture Jap Solomons Base

B AP oth ARE BLASTED IN SOLOMONS   Jungle Troops Storm Munda Drive To Capture Ric Rase

U.S. JUNGLE TROOPS STORM MUNDA IN FINAL DRIVE TODAY   200 Planes In Largest Raid Of War In Southern Pacific — 8 Jap Shins Hit

J, $, TROOPS AT “GATE OF MUNDA   } More Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaved Near Solomons’ Base

Yanks Storm Munda From Three Sides   Eight More Jap Vessels Reported Sunk in Nearby Waters

DRIVE 10 TAKE I]   Marines, Soldiers Are Aided by Strong Air Cover   CAIN NEW GROUND IN SALAMAUA REGION

LAST DRIVE BEING MADE ON MUNDA   Eight More Jap Ships Are Sunk In Nearby Waters

Cracking in   Yank Bombers Sink Four Jap Ships In Raid On Indo-China

NAZI SPIES‘NABBED AT DETROIT AS FBI CRACKS FIRST ENEMY AGENT RING   Initial Espionage Case To Come Out Of Conflict Broken After Two Year Investigation; Mati-Hari Angle In-

Three Arrested on Wartime Spy Charges   Two Women Included  In Arrest   Case is First of Its Kind in  Present Hostilitiesc

ARREST THREE FOR ESPIONAGE   Two Women and A Man Arrested In Detroit On Charge of Espionage for Gathering Information for Nazis.

FIVE ARRESTED BY FBI AGENTS   Two Women And Man Face Spy Charges, Two Held As German Aliens In Detroit.

THREE DETROIT WOMEN, MAN HELD BY FBI AGENTS, ESPIONAGE CHARGES ARE FILED

Three Arrested For Espionage  F.B.I. Cracks Dowr   F.B.I. Cracks Down In Detroit Again

Arrest 3 As German Spies   Finding Of Detroit Man. 2 Women Climaxes Investigation Started In 1939,

FBI NABS TRIO FOR ESPIONAGE   Two Detroit Women, Doctor Gathered War Information for Nazis

FBI Traps Trio Engaged in Nazi Espionage  , Canadian Naliv Mata Hari Whe

THREE SPIES ARRESTED IN DETROIT      Two Women, One Man Nabbed by FBI Officials

TWO GERMAN ALIENS ALSO HELD BY FBI   Detroiters Are Charged With Gathering Data on Midwest Plants.   1 MAN, 4 WOMEN SEIZED   Hoover Reports One of Spies Cooperated With FBI tn Obtaining Information.

Three Taken In Detroit For Aiding Enemy   Two Women and Man Are Said to Have Given Information to Germany   FACE DEATH PENALTY

Japanese Are in Full Flight From Central Solomons   MacArthur Issues Triumphant Communique

YANKEES BLAST JAPS FLEEING SOLOMONS AREA   MacArthur Reports Seas Are Littered With Bodies And Blazing Barges

Allied Bombs Rain On Fleeing Enemy   Bodies, Blazing Barges Litter Sea;.. Attempt Evacuation 1 to Bousaiusille

laps in Full Flight from Central Solomons Under U.S. Bomb Blitz; Many Barges Sunk

Japs in Full Retreat in Central Solomons Area   DRIVE TO RUN JAPS OUT OF BURMA NEARS

JAPANESE FLEEING CENTRAL SOLOMONS UNDER HEAVY FIRE   Abandon 3-Month Struggle To. Hold Islands That Guard Stronghold  At Rabaul  es

JAP ABANDON MONTH HOLD ON SOLOMONS   American Bombs, Guns Chase Nipponese, Litter Seas with Dead Foes.   MAIN BASE: FORSAKEN ON KOLOMBANGARA TIP

Vila Base Deserted  By Enemy   Numerous Barges Sunk With Heavy Loss of Life

JAPS LEAVE CENTRAL SOLOMONS — UNDER STORM OF GUNFIRE AND BOMBS; VILA BASE IS DESERTED

Japs in Full Flight from  Solomons Area   American Bombs and Gunfire Litter Seas with Bodies, Boats

Japs Fleeing From Central Solomon Area   Americans Take Heavy Toll Of Retreating Enemy Forces

Japanese Flee Central Solomons With Heavy Losses: Abandon Vila   Many Barges Sunk; Kolombangara Is . Practically Deserted, So Americans Raid Choiseul Isle Evacuation Point

irumpnant Communique Received From  Gen. MacArthur   Nipponese Trying to Escape in Barges And Small Warships

JAPANESE NOW IN FULL FLIGHT FROM SOLOMONS   Use Barges And Smell Warship: In Desperate Attempt fo Fscape

NEW RED DRIVE SMASHES NAZI LINES IN NORTH   Allies Step Up Offense On Both Sides and At Heart of Germany   BERLIN BLASTED BY BOMBS   Weather Only Thing To Slow Up Multiple Attack on Hitler’s New Order

Land Forces in Tunisia  Move Ahead      Allied Airmen Also Raid Mareth Line and Visit Ports in Italy; Reds Drive On

BRITISH DELIVER HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR ON NAZI CAPITOL LAST NIGHT   Raids Described as Preparing the Way For United Nations Invasion of Continent. Raids Deecribed as Ovening Bars

OVER $00 TONS OF EXPLOSIVE HIT NAZI CITY   Prelude To Allied Invasion, Air Assaults Reach New Peak Over Europe

No Equalization Of ‘Gas’ Likely,  Senator Says   Western Refiner Group Blames Oil Situation On Washinecton Policies

GOVERNMENT NOT TO ‘ EQUALIZE RATIONS   Minnesota Senator Says Special Gasoline Allowances Will Be Made For Western Drivers

WEST MAY NOT HAVE GAS CUT   eee  Petroleum Officials Say Rations Will Not Be Equalized

Americans on Guadalcanal Report Gains   Outflank Japanese to Establish  Naw Strone Pacitian

JAPS OUTFLANKED BY FORCES OF U.S.      Operations Carried Out on Guadalcanal, Dis. patch States

U.S. Forces Push Around Island Hump   Advance 40 Miles West of Jap Position At Cape Esperance  eta: ain sien nape ce erie a ae a Rl. LR SEs es

Yanks Seize Base on  Guadalcanal  Establish New Position West Of Tan Center

U.S.FORCES ON GUADALCANAL QUTFLANK JAP   Enemy Must Now Fight On Two Fronts While Yanks May Cleanup In 2 Directions.   40-50 Mi. Sweep

Nipponese On Island Trapped   Americans, Flank Command Center At Esperance

Yanks Outflank Japanese Forces On Guadalcanal   Communique Fails To Mention Sea, Air Battle Report

American Forces  Make Coup On Guadalcanal   Japanese Outflanked and New Line Is Set Up West of Cape Esperance; Maneuvering at Sea Still Kept Dark

U.S. Forces Outflank Japs On Guadalcanal   Strong New Position Established West Of Cape Esperance Stronghold; Move Carried Out Without Enemy Interference

Americans Qutflank Japanese Force And Hold New Sector on Guadalcanal

RUSSIANS HOLD GAINS AS AIR WAR CONTINUES   ‘Sporadic Artillery Fire, Scoutin  Report but Front Expectant o  Summer Offensive

FIGHTING LULL ON RUSSIAN FRONT IS STILL IN FORGE   APPARENT BOTH SIDES BRINGING IN SUPPLIES FOR SUMMER CAMPAIGN

Soviets Hold. New Lines in Donets Area   Air War Continues to Be Major Battle Along . Russian Front

Russo-German Front In Lull  Onley Minne Actian   Only Minor Action Reported

Air War Claims Spotlight as Opposing Arimies Move in Supplies in Preparation for Sum. mer Campaign. Both Sides Keep Guard  - Against Surprise Major Assault.

Significant Lull Holds on Red Front  Ground Forces Secure Supplies

Big Battle Due in Russia   Both Sides Bringing Up Supplies Despite Heavy Air Attacks

Reds, Nazis Still Warring In Air   Lull Continues Along Major Ground Fronts

Battle Lull on Red-Nazi Front   Little Ground Fighting; Air Forces Bomb Communication Lines.

BALTIC ARMY PURSUES CERMANS   Enemy Abandoning Arms, Ammunition In Retreat Toward Vitebsk. Polotsk

SUBSIDY. PROGRAM SETUP GOES FORWARD DESPITE ~ OPPOSITION AMONG  CONGRESSMEN

OPA TO PROCEED ON SUBSIDY PLAN   Draft Program To Roll Back Meat Prices By Use Of Subsidies

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Germans Evacuate Military Base of Smolensk

REPORT NOT YET CONFIRMED BY RUSSIANS   Soviet armies crashing ahead on five hundred  mile front

GHEAT BADE ACIURND IU AED ARMIES   Wait Offiical Word From Moscow

Abandon City As Soviets Draw Near   Report Given In German Communique

ROSLAVL ALSO CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS   Berlin Again Beats Moscow in Revealing Own Defeats

Fall Of Smolensk Is Admitted By  German Command   Evacuation Of Great Military Base Is Admitted By Nazi Leaders   EXPECT REPORT OF RECAPTURE BY REDS  (BULLETIN)

GERMANS RAZE VITAL MILITARY INSTALLATIONS   Roslaval, Important Rai Town, Also Given Up by Invaders

Railroad Wreck Toll Hits 80   North Carolina Is --Ceane of Disaster -

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Will Address Solons   Addresses to Be Carried on Radio

RAF’s Assaults Taper Off Damage Of U. S. Planes At Antwerp Heavy

RAF Fighters And Royal Navy Planes Attack Enemy Vessels Off French Coast, Damaging Three Merchantmen And Two Small Escorting Craft— Germany And Occupied Europe Appear To Have Gained Respite After Terrific Bombing

AXIS SHIPS OFF FRENCH COAST HIT LAST NIGHT   RAF, Royal Navy Planes Conduct Raid, Germans Given Rest

NAZIS SPARED BY RAF; COAST BLASTED AGAIN   Germans Get Restful Night; Antwerp Hard Hit

Respite Given Nazis, Europe From Bombings   Allied Planes Let Up After 72 Hours Of Heavy Mauling

Americans Score Many Direct Hits On Engine Works In Yesterday's Raid On Antwerp; Continent Given Respite After 72-Hour Pounding

Enemy Ships Off Coast of France Hit   Continent Given Respite After 72 Hours of Terrific Air Pounding

ENEMY SHIPPING ~ WAS ATTACKED OFF THE FRENCH COAST   Three Merchant Vessels And Two Small Escorting Craft Damaged.   GERMANY GETS RESPITE   Occupied Europe Also Escapes After 72 Hours of Pounding by Allies.

—AIR RAIDS—  ENEMY SHIPPING ATTACKED BY RAF   Three Merchant Ships, Two Escorting Craft Reported Damaged

PLANES ATTACK NAZI SHIPPING   Many Direct Hits Made on Plane Factary in Antwerp Raid.   GERMANS MAKE THREATS.

Tokyo Claims Japs’ Advance Threatens India-Burma Borde:   Claim Is Not Confirmed; Other News of War in West Briefed

JAPS WITHIN 12 MILES OF INDIABURMA FRONTIER   Report Advance Against British Forces In East

JAPS THREATEN INDIAN BORDER   British Retreat Within 12  Miles of Frontier

JAP CLAIMS OF ADVANCES UNCONFIRMED   Tokyo Asserts Wavell's Forces Are Being Rolled Back in Grave Thrust   LOCALE UNDISCLOSED

Report Field Marshal Wavell’s British Forces Beaten Back; U. S. Flyers Active In South Pacific.

Wavell Forces Pushed Back By Invaders   Gravest Threat of Invasion Yet to Confront India

U.S. AIR FORGE HITS JAP SUPPLY LINES IN CHINA   Smashes Seven Locomotives Four River Boats in Enemy Territory

Nipponese Said To Be 12 Miles From Frontier   British Communique Does Not Mention Major Set-Back

Japs Advance to Within 12 Miles of India   U, S. Planes Attack Japanese Transportation Facilities in Indo-China

Japs Threaten Blow af India   Advance to Within 12 Miles of Frontier, Tokyc Broadcast Claims

Japs Threaten Indian Border   Enemy Claims Advance To Within 12 Miles Of Bur mese-Indian Boundary.

JAPS REPORT ~ WAVELL FLEES   Report Unconfirmed 68 Allied Sources; New Thrust Perilous

JAPS ROLLING BRITISH BACK INBURMA   According to Tokyo Broacast, Nippon Army Is Within 12 Miles  India-Burma Border.

CLAIMS ARMY Nt ARING INDIA FRONTIER   Japs Rolling Back British Defenders Steadily Broadcast Asserts

JAPANESE PUSH BRITISH FORCES   Tokyo Claims Advance te Within 12 Miles of IndiaBurma Border

Japs Claim New Threat  Faces India   British Do Not Confirm . Report of Another New  Withdrawal

Calls for . Attack on Ameriea   War Entering Critical Stage, Says Jap Avie ation Officer

Advance Near India Claimed By Japs  - Tokyo Reports That Troops Mopping Up  de

‘Grave Threat Of Invasion Faces India   Tokyo Announces Japs Within 12 Miles of India-Burma Frontier;. US Planes Blow Up Locomotives

JAP ADVANCE NEARS INDIA   Nippon Troops Within 12 Miles of Burmese  Border

JAP TROOPS SAID WITHIN 12 MILES - INDIA-BURMA LINE   Locale of Thrust Not Disclosed and Confirmation Lacking From Any Allied Source; Gravest Threat of Invasion Yet To Confront India’s 390,000,000.

Invasion. Of India Looms As: Japs.  Roll Back British   Wavell. Forces s Continue to Fall Back Before On. slaught: of Jap’ Forces, “Now l2 Miles From lay “dia - Rape:

JAPS NEARING INDIA IN WAR ALONG BURMA   British Admit Withdrawal From Buthedaung;  Nip Bases Bombed

WAVELL’S ARMY IN RETREATINBURMA JAP RADIO CLAIMS   TOKYO SAYS ADVANCE THREATENS INVASION INDIAN TERRITORY

JAPANESE CLAIM THREAT TO INDIA   Tokyo Reports Troops Only 12 Miles From Border

Jans Claim Burma Advance   Troops Near Indian Border, Report --Not Confirmed

Tokyo Claims Japs Have Advanced to Within 12 Miles of India Border

° Tnvasion Of India Looms As Japs  Roll Back British      Wavell’s Forces Continue to Kall Back Before Onshaught of Jap Forces, Now 12 Miles From In. dia Border,

Japs Report New Gains In Burma   ‘Air Fleets Swap Blows   Bloody Fight At Novorissisk

Japanese Claim British Forced Back In Burma   Say They Are Only 12 Miles From Indian Border

JAPS REPORT TROOPS NEAR INDIA BORDER   Forces Only 12 Miles Away, Tokyo Radio Says — Such an Advance Would Be Gravest Invasion Threat to Date.

PO NEARING INDIA BORDER   Roll Back Wavell’s British Forces in Grave invasion Threat. ©   YANKS STRAFING ENEMY

Russ Strategy Upsets Nazi Plans im North   Menace to Moscow Seenis to Dictate Newest Offensive

Interoreting e War   Tide of Battle in Russia ls Believed Shifting

DeGaullists Accuse Petain of Many Treacherous Deeds  Committee Will Bring Old Marshal and  Colleagues to Justice

COMMITTEE ASKS RETAIN JUSTICE   Vote Action Against Marshal _ Aids for Working With Enemy

LandonAsks Coalition  Vs. Nazis      REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIA L NOMINEE OF 1936 WARNS AGAINST WALLACE AND PATH TO “LATE SOCIALISM.

Bureaucracy Under Attack By Alf Landon   Assails F.D.R.. Wallace And ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Fears Sociulistic State

LANDON RAPS NEW DEALERS   Proposes Coalition Of ‘Real’ Democrats And Republicans

Landon lashes capital ‘nazi new dealers’   Avers 2nd front created at home

Alf Landon Urges Real Democrats To Join Republicans, Save Nation   ‘Sees Disaster if People ‘Follow Vice President Wal lace and His Fellow Travelers’

Landon Calls For Coalition   Fears New Dealers And Their Primrose Path:

COALITION BATTLE URGED BY LANDON      Former Governor Asks ‘Program to End Bureaucracy in Nation

LANDON URGES COALITION TO HALT “NAZI BUREAUS’   Critical Of President Roosevelt And Vice-President Wallace, Former Can didate Charges Failure To Prosecute War Efficiently

Soldier Voting fo Early Action  Will Be Called Up as Congress Reconvenes

Soldier Vote Polit fical Issue   ‘Hot Potato’ Will Be Thrown To House When It Reconvenes

SOLDIER VOTE MAY BE FIRST ISSUE FOR '44   House To Pick Up Discarded Senate Problem

WOULD CHANGE MAJORITY RULE   Treaty Ratification by Two-Thirds Would Be Abandoned by Gillette, Iowa Senator

Service Men’s Vote Up Again  U.S., Not States, May  QGainagwwen Ballatingag

SERVICE VOTE VIEWED FIRST —» (SSUE OF 1944   House - Group - Re Ready to Act—Guffey Takes Decided Stand

Rubber Plans Make Progress   Synthetic Program Getting Along Nicely, Jeffers Declares

Fuel Ration Slash Inland Is Doubtful   Jeffers Sees Fun Driving Resiricted On East Coast Only

NO NEED 10 ENLARGE DRIVING GAN, JEFFERS   Synthetic Rubber Program Moving Ahead Nicely

RUDDER GHIBE AGAINST GAS CUT EXPANSION  Teffers Sees No Need For   Jeffers Sees No Need For Reduction to Four Gallons Outside East Area   Tells Engineer Society He Must Watch His Step; Rubber Making to Hit Stride

Urge Conaress to Give Control to Army Engineers   Flood Conference Takes Decisive Action Monday

12 Other Men Die in Crash   Gen. Andrews’ Chief of Staff and Two Chaplain: Among Victims

14: ARE VICTIM OF PLANE CRASH   Stimson Names Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers as Commander of Yanks

. TOTMAN, JAMESTOWN, WITH ANDREWS   Aide to General Among Fourteen Killed in Iceland Plane Crash— Only One Man Escaped

TWO BEING HELD IN ROBBERY CASE   Men Arrested for Larceny and Receiving Stolen Goods

TWO BEING HELD ~ IN ROBBERY CASE      Men Arrested for Larceny and Receiving Stolen 7 cervang ote!

PROBE OF DEATH IS LAUNCHED   Howard F. L. Griffith Dies Result of Skull Fracture   TWO QUESTIONED _ BY LOCAL OFFICERS

PROBE OF DEATH IS LAUNCHED   Howard F. L. Griffith Dies Result of Skull Fracture  TWO QUESTIONED BY LOCAL OFFICERS  Police Told Man Fell Down Flight of Steps

strategic Range of Hills Held by British Southwest of Tunis Todav

Sensational Victory Scored in Air By Yanks and English Aviators; Panzer Units Slaughtered

Nazi Cratts With Troops Are Downed   SOLDIERS TUMBLE OUT OF TRANSPORT PLANES ATTACKED,

Capture Strategic Hills Near Tunis   Axis Admits British Eighth Army Intensifies Attack on Flank

EAVY TOLL OF JAP SHIPS TAKEN BY FORTRESSES   Sink Or Badly Damage Seven Jap Warships—Five Cargo Vessels

JAP WARSHIPS ARE ATTACKED IN S$. PACIFIC   Seven “Sunk or Badly Damaged,” is Belief; Cargo Vessels Also — Hit in New Ireland 

AIRMEN HIT 12 NIP SHIPS IN HARBOR   26 Bombers Sink Or Dispense Entire Ship Concentration

DOZEN JAP SHIPS. SUNK OR DAMAGE!   Germans Believed to Be Opening as Tanks Assault Red Bridgehead.  ~

FLYING FORTS ‘SINK WARSHIPS, KAVIENG HARBOR   Seven War, Five Cargo Vessels Sunk or Badly Damaged On New Ireland

Greatestt Battle Toll Since’ Victorious Engagement Of Bismark Sea

AMERICAN PLANES SINK OR DAMAGE 12 JAP VESSELS   Seven Warships Among  Those Blasted by Flying  Fortresses in Far Pacific Atuacke

MacArthur's Bombers Take Greatest Toll Since Battle of Bismarck Sea   Enemy Warships Are Targets; Shipping Also Hit

(Three Nights of        12 Jap Vessels   Seven Warships, Five Cargo Carriers Sunk, Damaged By Fortresses

JAPANESE WARSHIPS. AND CARGO VESSELS ‘ARE SUNK, DAMAGED   Flying Fortresses Cause Havoc to Enemy Fleet in Successful Night Raids.

12 ENEMY VESSELS HIT BY U. S. BOMBS IN KAVIENG AREA   Jap Concentration At New Island Supply Base Wiped Out In 3 Days

7 JAP WARSHIPS, 5 CARGO CRAFT HITBY US. BOMBS   MacArthur’s Men Take Great: est Toll of Foe Since 22-shin Score,

Miners Protest No Holiday Pay   Thousands In Pennsvlvania Stay Away Fram JToahs

Miners Stage New Walkout in East Pits   PENNSYLVANIA COAL MEN PROTEST HOLIDAY TIME-AND-A-HALF BAN

Coal Miners Stop Work In Protest   Taking Today Off Because Of Holiday Premium Ruled Out.

Miners Quit  In Holiday Pay Protest   10.000 Soft Coal Worker: in Pennsylvania Ask Time and a Half

BLOCKS NEW ACTION ON PAY- G0 TAX   ‘Doughton, Head of Commitiee,  Leaves Washington In Kuff at Demand.   TRADE PACT DUE NEXT   Congressman Declines To Call Session, Republicans Take Ontimistin View.

Tax Question Is Put Aside By Doughton   House Ways: And’.Means Committee Unlikely Te Hold Another Session Before April 12

‘Walks Out’ On  Tax Discussion   Committee Chairman Recesses Group Till April 12, Says Otzer Measures Will Be Considered Then.

Rum! Tax Plan Consideration  Delayed Again   Committee Chairman Leaves Session For ‘Rest’ But May Make Compromise

PAY-AS-GO ACTION HALTS AS HEAD OF COMMITTEE LEAVES   Chairman Doughton Of Ways And Means Goes Home In Huff ' Over Demands

Axis Points Pounded By Allied Planes   Yank Bombers Batter Le Mans In France Without Loss

LEGION ENDS CONVENTION   Committed to Support of Post-War Program

Legion Backs Marshall in Draft Stand   California Man Elected At Closing Session Of Convention

LEGION APPROVES U.S. TAKING PART ‘IN POST-WAR PLANS   Body Approves Commit tee Report On U. S. Participation in. World Peace Plana

LEGION ENDORSES POST-WAR PLANS   Approves Peace Program. Gives Full Support To Selective Service

Legion Back Of National Draft Plans   California Attorney Is Named Commander Without Opposition

INDICATE CIGARETTE PRICE ~ MAY BE INGEASED SHORTLY   DEMANDS OF TOBACCO GROW. ERS MAY LEAD TO CENT A PACK BOOST IN RE.  y TAIL COST

Your Cigarettes May Be Increasec   Growers Demand More Money For Product, Retail Price Rise Possible  oo, ‘itll eel ened a al PERT eat RTE

New Government Being Recognized   Several LatinAmerican Nations Take Step

New Regime In Argentina Is Recognized   Four Latin American Countries Favor Ramirez Government   OTHERS WILL FOLLOW

Argentina Recognized   New Regime Approved By Four Latin American Countries and Spain

RECOGNIZE NEW ARGENTINE GOV'T   RECOGNITION COMES FROM BRAZIL, BOLIVIA PARAGUAY, CHILE

RECOGNITION GIVEN ARGENTINE NATION   Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay Chile and Spain Recognize New Leader

RECOGNITION FOR ARGENTINA CONAES   Provisional Regime Wins Support From Argentine Factions.

MYSTERY MAN SHOT BY ZANESVILLE COP   Driver of Army Car Fails To Get Away in Chase

"Little Steel" Wage Formule In Spotlight   Plans of Mine Workers Te Draft New Demands Stir Speculation   ‘WILL MEET TUESDAY

BITUMINOUS WAGE DEMANDS   ‘Policy Group Works; See  Lift of “Little Steel” Geiling

Happy Days Are Here Again’   Ee, eae, aes, ese, heaeeess, UMA, eg, «met  sea pmeciane  Thirsty Victorians Cried Out

Caucus Decides To Let Donnell Legislation Die   Floor Leader. Miller Had Planned to Try Overriding Committee

Donnell’s Tax  Plan Abandoned   Senate Refuses to Bring Up Measure After Committee's Veto.

Orchestra Leader Eddie Lebaron Charged With Not Reporting in Draft

Japs Whittled Down Sharply   Buna Forces Split Again; Three More Ships Blasted

3 JAP VESSELS ARE SET AFIR   Foe Submarine Also Blast. ed by Yanks; Enemy Forces at Buna Split

Allied Bombers Damage Four Nipponese Ships   Ground Troops Again Split Japanese Defenses at Buna

THREE JAP SHIPS DAMAGED IN AIR RAID ON RABAUL   Vessels Burst Into Flames and Burn Fiercely—-Nipponese Submarine Strafed by Bomber.   ENEMY FORCES SPLIT ANEW ON NEW GUINEA   Allied Ground ‘roops, Supported by Tanks and Artillery, Drive Wedge to Coast.

Daring Raids Off New Britain Score Highly; Enemy Defenses on Buna Beach Have Been Split Again

CHUTIGAL PERIOD LOOMS IN PACIFIC   Japan Straining Her All To  Consolidate Gains

NO INDIAN CORN COMING INTO MARKET HERE   Farmers Still Dissatisfied With Ceiling Price

NELSON QUSTS VICE CHAIRMAN   Ferdinand Eberstadt Is Requested To Resign His Post.

Nelson. Ousts Eberstadt In  Board Dispute  Wilson Given Charge - Of All Programs Under WPB.

U. S.Treasury Head Favors New Tax Bill   Approves Pay-As-You Go Bill With 50%  Forgiveness

10 PER CENT FORGIVENESS IS ADVOCATED   Measure Favorably Reported By House Committee Will Be Debated Monday.

Morgenthau Has Approved New  Income Tax Act Will Net More  Revenue Than Present Law

RANGOON IS HIT BY U. S. BOMBS   Liberators : Deliver Heavy  Blow To Burma Port Held By Japs.

Liberators Deal New Blow at Rangoor   Port in Burma Severely Battered

INCREASE MACHINERY OUTPUT AFTER JULY 1   Ohio Factories Will Double Present Production

START BOND SALES   Women Workers Are Busy With Their House to —  House Canvass .

Crash Probe Hits War Department  Glider Inspection Said Indefinite

MONETARY POLICIES HELD SECRET, CHARGE      International Currency Is Seen as Danger to U. S.

NAZIS ARE WELL FED   Economic Minister Makes Report on Conditions in Europe .

U.S. Downing» 6 Axis Planes To Each Loss   ‘Stepped Up Tempo of 8th Air Force Revealed in Statement

ee  Mais Losing Six Planes for Every U.S. Bomber Downed Over Europe

Eighth U.S. Air Force On the Job   ’ War Department Lists For First Time Raids Made from England  During Last 5 Months

Down 6 Axis Planes for  Fach 1 Lost  Balance Heavily In U.S. Favor In  Diesel. OOF Weeernmn

Axis Lose Six Planes To Each U.S. Bomber Downed   Tempo Stepped Up On Air Raids On Nazi  Sectors: Yanks Down 571 Germans

Log Of U. S. Air Forces Listed   AXIS LOSING HEAVIER PERCENTAGE OF PLANES

U. S$. HAS EDGE IN BOMB RAIDS   Axis Losing Six Planes For Every Four -Engined American Bomber Downed; Work Of &th Air Force Reviewed.

AMERICANS GET 6 AXIS PLANES TO EVERY LOSS   War Dept. Discloses U.S. Air Force Has Made 18 Heavy Bombardments in Germany

Axis Air Force Is Losing Six Planes To Each U. S. Bomber Lost Over Europe

Axis Is Losing Six Planes For Each American Bomber Shot Down Over Continent

Axis Losing Six Planes for Every U.S. Bomber Shot,Down in Europe

AXIS LOSING SIX PLANES FOR EVERY FOUR-ENGINED AMERICAN PLANE SHOT DOWN   War Department Announcement Discloses Unusual Accomplishment of Eighth Air Force in Aerial Combat; Lists Milestones in U. S. Air War

Axis Plane Losses Are Reported High   Lose 6 Craft Everytime Yanks Lose One

AXIS" LOSS 16 SIX PLANES TO QUA ONE   U.S. Army Air Force ir Stepped Up Operations In England.

Axis Losing Six-To-One In Planes   Half Dozen Enemy Planes Downed For Every FourMotored Bomber We Lose

RESULTS OF AIR ~AAIDS REVEALEL   Axis Losing Six Planes For Every One Amer. ican Bomber

TWO GREAT SOVIET WINTER OFFENSIVES ARE DRIVING AHEAD  ZHITOMIR, IN KIEV AREA AND VITEBSK, IN NORTH THREATENED

SOVIETS CRASH GERMAN LINES   Threaten Zhitomir In Kie\ Bulge. Vitebsk To Northward

Russ Attacks Menace Iwo Vital Points  Powerful New Winter Drives Aimed at

RUSSIANS GAIN UN TWO FRONTS IN WINTER DRIVE   Threaten Zhitomir in Kie\ Bulge, Vitebsk in Far North

Another Drive Menaces Nazis At Zhitomir   Twin Offensives Smash Ahead On Two Fronts

SOVIETS STORM: THROUGH GAP IN KIEV BULGE   Advance 25° Miles, Killing 15,000 Germans Enroute; Reds Eight Miles From Vitebsk

Red Offensives Smash Forward  Pressing Closer to Thitemir and Vitebsk

WILL PREPARE FOR WAR FUND CANVASS   Women Workers to Meet Tomorrow Evening to  Hear Final Plans   240 WILL COVER CITY

WILL PREPARE FOR WAR FUND CANVASS   Women Workers to Meet Tomorrow Evening to  -Hear Final Plans

ROOSEVELT LOSES. IN OPENING ROUND   House Fails to Restore "Funds for Planning  ' Band

Roosevelt Loses Fight for Plans Board Funds   House Passes Big Appropriations Bill; Sends It to Senate  OTHER AGENCIES HIT 3 Million Dollar  Slash for Home Loan Bank Administration

BOARD FUNDS ARE WITHHELD   President Loses House Skirmish On Delano Planning Group

MISSOURI RIVER 1S STILL RISING   A Rise of One and Onehalf Feet in Last 24 Hours.

LONG RANGE BOMBER FACTORY FOR OHIO   Fisher Body Co. Plant Now Nearing Completion

President Becomes Less Chary About Giving Out News On War; Appraises New Development:

ROOSEVELT LESS RETICENT ABOUT PROGRESS OF WAR   TOURING SENATORS ARE WARNED NOT TO STIR UP BITTERNESS

Roosevelt Loosens- Up With News   President Volunteers to Give More Details On  Fighting At Press, Radio Conference   FLAYS STATEMENTS OF TOURING SOLONS   Globe-Girdling Senators “Stir Up Bitterness” Between Allies by Their Criticism

‘President To Loosen Up With War News » Releases Details Of Last Week’s Raids

President Is Critical Of Senate Report   lakes Issue With 5 Who Toured War Fronts—lIs Frank About News

PRESIDENT IS LESS CHARY ON WAR NEWS   Roosevelt Volunteers Reports of Latest Developments in Europe, Pacific  and at Home   DISCUSSES SUBMARINES

Changes Policy On Giving News   Pres, Roosevelt Seen Less Chary About Announcing War Happenings, Following Complaints by Newspapers and Members of Congress.   CITE CASE OF CHURCHILL   Demands For Lease-Lend Probe Sharpen in Capita!

Roosevelt Loosens Up With War News: Warns Against Talk   Says Touring Senators Should Avoid Pro voking Bitterness

FDR Gives Out More News On War Progress Tells Of Sub Success Against Jop Shippin   Against + Jop Shipping, Supplies Needed For Huae Bomber Raids

MILLION GALLONS GASOLINE USED ON ONE DAY’S AIR RAID; MORE TALKATIVE, FDR SAYS

F.D.R. Loosens Up With War News;  Answers Criticism Of Senators   Suggests That Maybe Russia Isn’t Ready To Take On Japan, Which Explains Why We Haven’t Siberian Bases Yet.

FDR LOOSENS UP WITH NEWS ON BATTLEFRONTS   British Bases in Azores Wil Protect American Lives, Ships

FDR Loosens Up on Giving Out War New:   But Accuses Touring Senators of Stirring Up Bitterness

LOOSENSUP  WITHWAR NEWS   FDR Warns Touring Senators Against New # — Bitterness

WAR NEWS BAN EASED BY FOR   Says Senators’ Report  Causing Resentment

,F. R. Loosens Up With War News  »Under Pressure   Warns Touring Senators However, Against Stirring Up Bitterness.

FOR Gives Out More War News   Warns Touring Senators About Creating Bitterness

REQUIRE OPA APPROVAL 10 RESTORE CUTS   Latest Order From Washington Is Designed To Strengthen Hand Of Boards In Maintaining Reheeniht rice:   EXTREME HARDSHIP MUST BE SHOWN NOW

U.S. Civilians Face 20 Percent Cut In Goods, Says Nelson   WPB Chairman Criticizes Lack of Planning And Coordination of Production Efforts of All United Nations

PINCH OF WAR FOR CIVILIANS TIGHTENING UF   Nelson Warns 20 Per Cent Less Goods, Services to Be Available.   REPORT ON PRODUCTION NOT REVEALED tN FULL

Supplies To ‘Go Into War   Production Increases Ilnon War Necessities

Nelson :painte dark ‘outlook for civilians   Says 20 percent eut in ‘services, voods is comme

HOUSE CONCURS   Passes Anti-Numbers Bill as Catlett Explains Channe.

Even Hidden Inflation In Candy Bars   Some Operators Discover Ways To Beat U, S. Rules

Truth Is Stranger—  (Marriage on RocksAfter  lYear---Or Was It 2,5007%

Soldier Bitten By Rabid Dog Widely Sought   May Die if Not Given — Treatment, Army Offi cials Assert

19 Percent of Pay Check to Be Deducted   Opposes Ruml Plan to Skip 1942 Levy; Tax Plan to Start July 1

OPPOSES RUMI PLAN TO SKIP ONE TAX YEAR   Says Tax Will Begin Not Later Than July 1; Pay-AsYou-Go Favored

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Legislation Given Impetus   Proposal By Runil To Skip Year Of Liability Flatly Opposed By Tressury,

19 Per Cent Withholding Tax Favored   Treasury Flatly Opposes Rum! Plan For ‘Forgiveness’

Treasury Dept. Opposes 1942  Tax ‘Forgiving   Urges ‘Pay-as-You-Go, But Opposes Rum!  Version

TREASURY URGES PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX   Opposes Ruml Plan to Skiy Year of Liability to Make Payments Current

Withholding Tax Of 19% Is Proposed   ... 87 U. S. TREASURY   Rum! Plan To Skip One Year Of Liability Flatly Opposed

Treasury Asks 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax on Taxable  Incomes; Opposes Ruml Plan

Withholding 19 Per Cent Urged   Treasury Opposes Skipping One Year's Tax as Rum! Proposes

TREASURY URGES PAY-AS-G0 TAX   Opposes Plan to Skip One Year Liability to Make Payments

TREASURY ASKS PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX BE PASSED   Opposes Rum! Plan to Skip One Year of Tax Liability

TREASURY HITS ‘SKIPPING TAX   Withholding Levy Of 19 Per Cent Is Favored

40,000,000 MAY KNOW ALL   Treasury Expected to Compromise on Ruml Tax Plan

URGE ENACTMENT OF PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX LEGISLATION   Would Provide a 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax, It Is Said.

Withholding 7 Tax Favored By Treasury   Rumi Plan To Skip Year Mlatly: Opposed; 19 Per Cent Asked

Treasury, Opposed to Ruml’s Plan, Urges The Adoption of 19 Pereent Withholding Tax

PAY-AS-YOU-C0 TAX PLAN URGED ~ BY TREASURY   Provides 19% With holding Tax After  Dedueations   IPLAN TO SKIP   One Year Of. Tax Li ability Is Opnosed

Treasury Asks  Pay-As-Go Tax   Suggest 19 Percent Withholding Tax, Oppose Cancellation Of 1942 Tax.

Pay-As-Go Plan Urged By Treasury   Withholding Tax Of 19 Pct. Asked; Skipping Of One Year Opposed.

PAY-AS-YOU-60 PLAN ENDORSED BY TREASURY   Opposes Plan To Skip Payment Of  Current Taxes

ib :  ASKS PAY AS YOU G0 ~ TAY PLAN   A 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax Proposed in Addition  to. Victory Tax   FLATLY OPPOSED TO RUML PLAN   But Some Deferment, Dis. count or Forgiveness Micht Be Provided

PAY AS YOU 60 TAX PAYMENT PLAN IS URGED   Treasury-approved Bill Withholds 19 Percent More From Pay Envelopes   PROMPT ACTION IS URGED   Proposal by Rumi To Skip ——Qne year’s Liability Is Flatly Opposed

Treasury Offers  ~ Income Tax Plan  Ask 19 Per Cent From Pay Envelopes, Plus Victorv Levy

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX URGED BY TREASURY   Flatly Opposes Ruml Plan To Skip One Year Of Liability

Withholding Tax Proposed By Treasury   Plan Offered at Hearing Contrary to Ruml Suggestions   WOULD NOT SKIP YEAR

TREASURY URGES WITHHOLDING TAX   Government Group Asks 19% Levy on Pay-as-You-Go Basis; Hits Ruml Plan

Treasury Asks 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax; Ruml Plan ‘To Skip One Year Is Opposed   Prompt Action On Pay-As-You-Go Tax Legislation Urged At Hearing

Treasury Favors 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax  Ruml Plan to Skip One Year Tax Liabiltty FElatly OQnnnced

Flat Opposition To Rural Plan — Told by Officials   19 Per Cent Levy In Addition to Victory Tax

Tax Plan Is. Proposed   Treasury. Suggests Withholding 24% After Deductions.

Treasury Urges 19P.C. Income Withholding Ta  Council Suggests Collection At Source Begin By July 1; Opposes Rum! Plan

TAX CALLED FOR BY GOVERNMENT   Treasury Favors Enact ment of Legislation to Provide 19. Percent’ Withholding Levy .   OPPOSES RUML PLAN   Also. Against Wiping Out 1942 Income Payments, -' But Stiggests Their —  Deferment..

24 Per Cent Income Tax Advocated   19 Pet. Withholding  Levy, Victory Tex Kept, Treasury Pten

19 Per Cent Pay-Go Tax Is Tr easury Alm   Official Tells Committee Collection Should Start by July 1

TREASURY FOR PAY-AS-YOU-GD TAX PROPOSAL   Opposes Ruml:-Plan to Skip One Year of Liability for Levy ©

PAY-AS-YOU-GD PLAN URGED BY TREASURY DEPT   Urges Legislation To Provide 19% Withholding Tax After Deductions; Flatly Opposed To Ruml Plan tc Skip One Year of Tax Liability.

1 PER CEN PAY AS YOU Gl TAX PROPOSEL   Treasury Opposes Skipping 1942 Levies, But Favors Slight Deferments

U.S. TREASURY URGES ENACTMENT OF 19 PER CENT WITHHOLDING TAX: ‘OPPOSES-RUML PLAN TQ ‘SKIP TAXES:   Treasury Counsel Stresses Importance of Prompt Action on Tax Measure. Levy is Equivalent To: Present Normal And Surtax on Lower Bracket

LOCATY. OR SPRVATIONG   Treasury Opposes Ruml’s Tax Plan   But It Proposes Enactment of 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax.

Treasury Urging Early Action On Pay-As-Go Tax   Opposes Plan To Skip One Year OF Tax Liability.

24 Per Cent Withholding Tax Is Asked   Treasury Offers Congress Pay As You Go Plan On 19 Per Cent Basis   PLUS VICTORY LEVY   Paul Urges Solons To Defer, But Not Forgive’ [942 Tax Liabilities

TREASURY URGES . PAY-AS-YOU-GO .  WITHHOLDING TAX   Enactment Of Legislation Providing For A 19, Per Cent Withholding Tax After De  ductions Sought

TREASURY FOR PAY AS YOU G0 PLAN REVISED   Opposes Ruml’s Proposal for “Forgiving” of All 1942 Taxes.   URGES PROMPT ACTION AT COMMITTEE HEARING

Treasury For Pay-As-Go Tax Plan At Onee   Strongly Opposed To Forgiving Past Year Levies In Making Change-Over, However

‘Treasury Wants 19 Per Cent Withholding Tax Without Skipping 1942

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX LEGISLATION WOULD WITHHOLD 19 PERCENT  TREASURY OPPOSED TO PLAN THAT WOULD FORCIVE 1042 TAXES

5th Army Drives Big Salient Into Volturno Line   Threaten To Roll Back Nazi’s Left Flank Another Landing Behind Enemy Lines Is Reported From Enemy Sources.

Troops Are Landed North Of Volturno   U. S. Forces Hove Pushed Across Calore River. Tributary To The Volturno River

Decline In Nazi Arms Output Seen   Concentrated Attacks On Ruhr Inspired By Report Of Heavy Losses   ORE SUPPLY CUT OFF   Transportation Problem Increases As RAF Knacks Cut Rolling Stock

Guder Troops Land In Pitch Dark “Invasien” Area In Remarkable Demonstration Hiaqhly Lauded Bu Air Chict

Body of Bishop Taitt to Lie In State Wednesday A. M.; Bishop Hart Is Successor

Bishop Taitt Dies At Chester  ~ Phila. Episcopal  Churchman To Be R,,.1.-] VAs dec mn cles

Official Report on Patton Incident is Sought by Senate   Committee Unanimous in Request Sec. Stimson  Reveal All Facts

Friends of Patton Say He Can’t Understand Shell Shock Casualties

Only One 7th Army Office ended Gen  ARMY HAS DECIDED PATION is TOO VALUABLE TO BE ‘BUSTED’

Senate to Ask Report on Patton   Stimson to Review Incident Before Promotion Action

MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMIT. “TEE DEMANDS FULL RE-  PORT ON STRIKING  4, OF SOLDIER

Patton Defended by Friends Who Say He Fails to Understand Shell Shock

SENATE SEEKS PATTON REPORT   Full Facts Sought Before Acting On Promotion

Report Asked on Patton Incident   Senate Group Requests Com plete Story

SENATORS ASK STIMSON TO REPORT ON PATTON   Details Sought es Guide on Giving Officer Permanent Rank of General

Stimson Report On Patton Asked  Senate Committee Calls For Official Data

Patton Forgiven By Army   Better Than to Replace Him With General Who Neyer Lost His Temper —Nor Won a Battle

Patton Case To Army Head   Senate Group Votes Unanimously To Request Stimson To Give Report,

Senate Committee Asks Report In Patton Case  Bid for Promotion Withheld Until

—PATTON— Stinison Requested To Give Report On Patton   Senate Military. Affairs Committee, Considering F.D.R.’s Promotion Of General, Desires Official Statement In Sicilian Attack

SENATE GROUP ASKS REPORT ON GEN. PATTON   Military Affairs Committee Has before it Nomination for Promotion to Major General

Patton Faces Investigation In Senate  Committee Votes To Ask Stimson

Demands Patton Report   Senate Wants to Be Informed Before Acting on: Peomotion

Asks Stimson for a Report onGen. Patton   Senate Committee Wants Information on Sicily Incident

WANTS INFORMATION   ‘Blood and Guts’ Has Never Lost  American Public Trying Patton

BOARD DEMANDS PATTON REPORT   Votes Unanimorsty in Favor of Order

Gen. Patton’s Private-Slapping Case Is Now Being Tried Before Tribunal Of American Public Opinion   Ry Hal Rovle

Senate To Ask Patton Report By Stimson   Official Statement on Soldier Striking Evisode Sought

Committee Asks Report on Patton   Senate Group Has His Nomination

WANT REPORT ON PATTON INCIDENT   SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO REQUEST OFFICIAL STATEMENT

~-PISTOL-PACKIN' PAPA—  Demand Patton Report   General's Promotion Placed In Jeopardy

Senate Committee Asks Stimson for Official Report on Patton Case

Report on Patton Asked by Senate   Wants Complete Details of Seventh Army General Striking a Private.

Patton’ Ss Case  Before Public  For Decision   Army Prefers General Of Rar € Temper Who Wins; Apologies: Made ©

 Patton Incident Recalls Lincoln Kent Grant Despite General’s Drinking Habit

REPORT ASKED ON GEN, PATION HAND SLAPPING    Stimson to be Requested to Make Official Report on Incident Involving Army Officer.

Patton Incident Before Court Of Public Opinion’   General And Man He Slapped Both Stay On Their Jobs

Ask Stimson To Report On  Patton Case   Senate Military Affairs Committee Is Seeking Official Report From Secretary OF War

Senate Asks Data On Patton Affair   Nomination for Permanent Rank Of General Will Bring Inquiry

Asks Stimson to Report on ~ Gen. Patton   Senate Military Committee Votes Unanimously to Make Request   HOUSE ALSO HEARS CALLS FOR ACTION   Senators Act in’ Connection With Patton’s Nominationfor Promotion ..~

AMERICAN PUBLIC NOW TRYING GEN. PATTON'S CASE   a ohe Eisenhower

Ask Stimson For Report On Patton   Promotion May . Depend on What  Senate Committee Learns of Incident

Patton Case Report Asked Of Stimson   Senate Committee Action on Promotion May Depend on Inqu

Investigation Of Patton Is Demanded   Senate Military Affairs Committee Votes to Call On Stimson for Report   FRIENDS GIVE ALIBI

Case of Gen. Patton Goes Before Court of American Public Opinion

U.S. Public Opinion Now Trying Case Of Patton   General's Action In Striking Private Deplored By His Oificers And Men

Patton Doesn't Recognize Such  Thing As Shock   Friends Explain Why He Lost Temper

SENATE COMMITTEE SEEKING OFFICIAL REPORT ON PATTON  REQUEST SECRETARY Of WAR FOR DETAILS ON

RAF Delivers Staggering New Bomb Loads On Burning Berlir   Great Fires Sweep Areas in Devastated City; War Industries in Suburbs, Downtown Centers Hit      Gen. Patton's Case Now Before Court Of U. S. Public Opinion

CONSIDER PLAN   OPA Offiviais Poder Future Purchase Certificates.

JAPANESE RUSH MORE WARSHIPS TO RABAUIL ZONE   Convoys Sighted Leaving Truk; Another Sea Battle Expected

‘Huge Jap Convoys Are  Observed   Enemy Apparently Attempting to Reinforce Positions in Rabaul Area, also Northern  Riirma

JAPANESE POURING  REINFORCEMENTS IN  SOUTH PACIFIC AREA ALLIED AERIAL SCOUTS  COUNT FIVE CONVOYS OF 35 SHIPS

JAPS POURING FRESH FORCES INTO SOLOMONS   Yank Fleet And Bombers Awaiting 53 Jap Ships

New Sea Battles In Pacific Seen As Japs Rush Added Reinforcements

Japs Hurry Ships And Troops South   Enemy, Besides Attempting To Strengthen Rabaul, Sends Reinforcements Into Burma

Jans Seek to Stop Allied Advances  Reinforcements Go   Reinforcements Go To Critical Areas

Japs Pouring Reinforcements Into Burma, Solomons In Hope To Hold

Japs Rushing Forces to New  Battle Areas   53 Ships Heading for Rabaul; More Troops For Northern Burma

“NIPS POURING REINFORCEMENTS INTO BATTLE AREA IN EFFORT T0 HALT RECENT ALLIED SUCCESSES.   _ Ships Counted in Convoys Headed for Battle Arez Are Exact Number Reported Sunk or Damaged There by Allies This Week Since Sunday

Seven Saved After Crash of Bomber  Snend Fiaht Hours   Spend Eight Hours On Rafts at Sea

Seven Airmen Saved From Sea   Men From Flying Fortress Rescued By Minesweeper

Jones Unable To Help Farm Group   Senators Wanted Price  of Flour To Be Raised

ALLIES SWEEP THROUGH WEST PART OF SICILY   British Warships Heavily Shell Base and Airport on Italy’s Heel   BULLETIN

Dne Declaration of Foreign Policy Already Has Been Passed by House, While Another Is Likely to Be Put Through by Senate—Neither Can Be Officially Concurred In by President-—~Many Differences in Bills.

Senate Gets Plans for  World Policy   Indications Point To Ignoring Of House Views

Armstrong Is Confirmed For Highway Post   Racine Man Approved By 17 To 15 Senate Vote As Member Of State Highway Commission

Armstrong Gets Senate's 0. K.  Confirmed As State Road Commissioner

DIG INTO SALES TAK COLLECTION   Detailed Study to Be Made By Senate With View of Hiking Totals

STATE SENATE ORDERS SALES TAX INQUIRY      ‘Committee Will Probe Collection Methods and Number of Employes Necessary for Opera - tion of the System.

SEEK FOOD VIOLATORS   State supervisors of FDA assigned task of enforcing regulations

SOME FROST TONIGHT   Chill May Be Confined to Northwest Corner of State

Berlin Warns Sofia Not to Shift Course   ‘Unfriendly Step’ Will Cause ‘Counteracts,’ Says Note Handed Premier      CABINET SHAKEN UP:   Some Observers Expect Effort to Quit Axis Within 48 Hours

IN WARNS BULGARIA NOT TO QUIT AXIS   Key Balkan Nation Said Ready to Change Sides; Turk-German Border Clash Reported.

CABINET 10 QUIT AXIS   Showdown Seen Within 48 Hours; Clashes Reported

GENERAL MOBILIZATION CALLED, BULGAR CABINET REVISED AS CRISIS NEARS

MOBILIZATION IN BULGARIA   Country Attempting to Quit Axis Orbit Despite German Threat of Counter-Measures — Showdown Predicted in 48 Hours.

Shots Fired “When Turks Shut Border   Gérmans. Warn: Sofia Not-to-Seek:an. ‘Out’; Shakeup in Cabinet

BULGARIA OuIT AXIS   Showdown Is.  Forecast: Within Next 48 Hours

SHAKEUP IN ~ GABINET MAY BRING CRISIS   General Mobilization Is Ordered Despite German Threat of Counter-blows.

INNER CRACKUP REPORTED; NAZI THREAT ISSUED   Chief Axis Satellite In Balkans Trying To Quit War

BREAK NEARS IN BULGARIA   General Mobilization i  Country Ordered

BULGARIA SEEN READY TO BREAK WITH GERMANY   Mobilization, Cabinet Change

BULGARIA ORDERS MOBILIZATION AS BALKANS SEETHE   Balkans Stirred by Rumors of New Showdown   TURK ARMY CHIEF IS SAID TO OPPOSE WAR

Citizens Asked to  Suggest Name for Local Air Base  Commander Save   Conimander Says Personnel To BeTuereased te: 2000

Allies Hold Three-Fifths Of Isle, Capture 40,000;  Battle in Russia Grows   Seven to Nine Million Men Are Locked in Struggle On Long Red Front; Orel Drive Continues ; Still Fight for Catania; Seven Towns to Patton

YANKS APPROAGK CITY OF PALERMO   Envelop Entire South Coast And Chunk of Interior   BRITISH EIGHTH   ‘Slugs it Out in Fierce Fight. ing With Reinforced Germans at Catania   By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mrs. Peter Johnson - Died Thanksgiving Day   yrtes From Washington

Find 300,000. Useless Jobholders. on Federal Pay Roll   Effort To Buy Votes With - Subsidy Cash Is Blocked :

"Dsychological’” Offensive Seen .   Might Be Launched By Big Three

VICE 10 YRS. aL)   From 1933 National Authorities have -Considered it a Public Agency te Serve All.   PLACE 10 MILLION   Public Giving Co-operation in Reducing Labor Turn Over oud, Using  Ww)  . “Mian Power,

NEXT MOVE IS 1 PUT ITALY OUT OF WAR   . Believed One of - Major Topics of Allied Conference

Allied Plans for Knocking Italy Out of War Now in Advanced Stage   Reach Point Where It Is Just Matter of Carrying Out Decisions

STRATEGY AGAINST ITALY IS MAJOR CONFERENCE TOPIC   Question Revolves Around Coup D’Etat Similar To One Used In North Africa

Flying Forts Hit Two German Rail Centers Sunday  [02 Enemy Planes Shoat Dawn In

Bring Down 102 Enemy Planes In Daylight Raiding   One Participating Officer Stated That “German Planes Were Shot Down Like Flies.” Thirty Fortresses Lost.

RECORD SPENDING DURING PAST YEAR   Seen  Federal Outlay Greater in Year Than in All Past 150 Yeors

Federal Spending To Greet Baby “44   Federa! Government Spent More Money In 1943 Than It Did In First 150 Years of Nation's Existence.

U. §, Spent More in 1943 Than It Did In All of First: 150 Years of Existence

Federal Government Spends More in Last Year Than in All Previous 150 Years of Existence

US. Spending in 1M3 ~ More 'Ihan Nation Put _ Out in First 150 Years

Outlay in Century and a Half of Nation’s Existence Falls Slightly Below Total Expenditures of $88,000,000,000 in Last 365 Days—All Except $6,000,000,000 Goes for War —National Debt Jumps to $170,420,000,000.

* By Midnight Government Spending For One Year Will * Equal Entire National Expense For First 150 Years

U.S. Spent More In 1943 Thar In Nation’s First 150 Years   Every Passing Hour Saw More Than $10,000,000 Flowing From Treasury — Total For Year 88 Billion

MARQUIS AIDS DEFENSE CASE   Backs Up De Marigny’s Alibi For Time Of Murder

WAR MAY FORCE » OVER 48 HOURS   McNutt Says Commitment: to Determine Schedule of Work in U. S.

iGirl’s Charred ‘Body In Car  May Have Been Alive Wher Fire Rroaka Out

Mystery in Girl's Death Deepens; Examination Shows Smoke in Lungs

Enemy Garrison on Ad Destroyed by U.S, Forces      GAINS IN ASSAULT (~~ ARE CONSOLIDATED   Tons of Bombs Rained os Rabaut by Allied _  Flies<

Enemy Garrison on Island Destroyed by U. S. Forces  GAINS IN ASSAULT. ARE CONSOLIDATED  Tons of Bombs Rained on Rabaul by Allied Fliers

Attack on vital enemy air point indicates complete occupation Rendova island   Forces consolidating positions in Solemons and New “Cuinea sectors

OCCUPATION OF RENDOVA IS INDICATE   From Headquarters Of Gen.  Mac Arthur And Firing On Munda Has Begun;  Consolidate Positions   Capture Viru

Allies Wipe Out Enemy Garrison on Rendova,  Shell Bases at Munda   MacArthur Forces Consolidate Positions Won in Surprise Offensive; Boost Toll Of Tokyo Planes to 101 in Big Air Battle

Artillery Pounds Munda From .- : Captured Isle   Forces Complete Oceupaiion, e Of Rendova, Raze Garrison;  A ctraltans Tnin ine Offensive.

Allies Consolidate Newly-Won Areas In Solomons and on New Guinea; Bombers Strike at Rabaul

Japanese Base Bombardec By Artillery From Newly Captured Rendova Island

Artillery Shells Vital Munda Air Base; Bombers Hammer Rabaul   101 ENEMY AIRCRAFT REPORTED DESTROYED

GUNS HAMMER MUNDA: YANKS TAKE RENDOVA   ISLAND GARRISONS OF NIPPONESE DESTROYED

WILLIAM GREEN ‘PAYS OFF’ 10 JOHN L. LEWIS   Held Important Vote: Declined To Cast Lt

GREEN AVENGED ON JOKN LEWIS   Chief Of AFL Declines To Vote On UMW Bid For Reinstatement

GREEN REPAYS LEWIS   AFL Declines Te Cast Sete Teo Reinstate Lewis’ Miners

GREEN’S VOTE REFUSAL BLOCKS REINSTATEMENT OF LEWIS’ UNION IN AFL

Six German Generals. Surrender   Unconditional Surrender,  Prompt. Compliance Bradley's Terms

To Give Program Sunday Evening   Children of the St. Columban School Will Give Program at Eight o’Clock.

Annual Play Will Be Given on Sunday   Children of St. Columban School Will Present Play at School Hall.

NAVY WOULD CANCEL STANDARD OIL DEAL   Contract Which Langer Brought Into Open In Senate May Be Invalidzied

LICENSES FOR SLAUGHTER. INDUSTRY AND LIVESTOCK _CRILINGS ARE CON "SIDERED *

Meat ‘Market’ Curbs Plannec   OPA Proposes Licensing System For All Siaughterers From Packers Down To Farmer Selling Meat

Strikers at Johnsville Will Return   Vote Unanimously To Return to Their Jobs  “At Once”

Labor Bill Goes Back To Senate   House Approves Measure During Stormy Session

Democracies Gave Communists __  A Beautiful “Set Up” In Balkans   Miss Johnson Says Situation Must Be Redeemed With Much Blood

Forum Speaker Says The Balkans Have Many Close Ties With Russia   Economic Reasons For Lack Of Friendliness For Democracies

FARM LOBBY HAS DEMANDS READY   — Sen, Thomas Promises Fight on Floor Over Party Issue; Asks Relese of Drafted Farm  ‘Labor

Farm Bloe Begins Fight For Program   Urges 2-Point Program To Relieve Shortage Of Farm Labor

Farm Leaders  Draft Demands   More Farm Labor One of Chief Goals

DISSOLUTION OF COMINTERN   New Sign of Growing Aid  of Russia to Her  Allies

ONLY POLICY OF AMERICAN UNIT T0 BE-ARFECTED   Earl Browder, Secretary of Communist Party in U. S. to Outline Views  on Resclution Later   DISAFFILIATED FROM COMINTERN IN 1940   Purpose of Action Was to Remove Party From Terms of So-Called  Voorhis Act, He Says

Churchill Says Gandhi Holds His Own Fate.   Government Will Do Nothing To \ Stop His Fast

Gandhi's Condition Slightly Improved   Indian Leader’s Demands Refused

GANDHI'S FAST UP TOHIMSELF   Prime Minister Churchill Sends Message to Indian Nationalist Leader

Responsibility For Fast Rests Upon Gandhi In Opinion Of Churchill

Gandhi Defied By Churchill  Viceroy's Stand Is Fully Upheld in Message to Indica

BRITISH NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR GANDHI’S FAST  Prime Minister Churchill Tells  Indian Leader

AMERICANS THRGWN BACK TANK BATTLE   Stuka Dive Bombers Lead Way For  Crack Nazi Troops

ROMMEL TANK CORPS CRACKS U. §. POSITIONS   American Counter-Push Dies Off In Tunisia: Losses Heavy

TANK COLUMN OF VETERANS MAKES GAINS   Stuka Bombers Lead Way; Gafsa Occupied by Axis

Mighty Nazi Drive Pushes Americans 35 Miles in Tunisia   Rommel’s 21st-Armored Divi ision Drives on as Stukas Blast Yanks; ‘New 37-Mile Retreat Mav Be For eed

National Committeewoman Attacks Gen. MacArthur’s Pre-War Record.

Attack On Western Europe Believed One Of Big Items On Parley Agenda

Allied Conference Turns to Military Matters; ‘Second Front’ Talk Hinted

Moscow Paper Says Military Cooperation Must Precede The Economic; Possibly Discussing European Land Attack.

MILITARY HEADS AT MEETING IN SOVIET CAPITAL   Believe Topic of Tri-Partite Conference Concerned Land Attack on Europe

MOSCOW CONFAB IS HARMONIOUS   Presence Of Military Leaders Suggests Land Attack On Europe Under DiscusS1roOn,

Tri-Partite Conferences Still Secret   Military Aides Called ir - Wednesday—Others te Participate

MOSCOW CONFERENCE  CONTINUES ALONG  HARMONIOUS LINES AMERICAN AND BRITISH  MILITARY ADVISERS PRES ENT AT TONG SESSION

BELIEVE WESTERN EUROPE ATTACK TALKED AT PARLEY   Presence of U. S. and British  . Military Heads Suggests. Belief—-Is Most Lengthy Meetine To Date -

Second Front Talk Hinted At Moscow   Tri-Partite Conference Digs Into Agenda in Harmonious Session   ADVISERS CALLED IN

War Strategy Discussed at Moscow Parley   Second Front Idea Pressed by Red Newspapers

Military Men Join In Parley  Topics Of Moscow Meeting Unrevealed

THE TRI-PARTITE CONFERENCE IS A HARMONIOUS ONE   American - British Military Advisers Were in Attendance Yesterday.   A LAND ATTACK TOPIC?   Aides Participating in Talks Will Change as the Various Problems Come Up.

HARMONIOUS FOUR-HOUR SESSION. HELD YESTERDAY IN Moscow aa: TRI-PARTITE CONFEERENCE   Presence of Military Advisers of America and’ Bi:  Discussion ns

Envoys Launch  Long Sessions   4-Hour Gathering Held Yesterday In) Moscow By Tri-Partites .

Military Men Attend Parley  Second Front Loo  in Me staw Discussions

WEATHER FORECAST   TEMPERATURES:   Moscow Parley Ponders Western Europe Invasior   British ‘Said To -Fayor Delay Until 1944 A Russians “Press Foe Decisive Action; “Political Matters In Limelight

Military Leaders Called in at Lengthy Session of Tri-Partite Conferees

Tripartite “Second Front”   Three-Way Confer ence in Moscow Turns'to Military

MOSCOW EYES NEXT ATTACK   Tri - Partite Conference Turns Attention to Military Matters

Harmonious Session  Second Front Talk Hinted In Tri-Power Parley

MILITARY AIDES PARTICIPATE IN MOSCOW PARLEY   LAND ATTACK ON WESTERN EUROPE BELIEVED TOPIC

Tri-Partite Meet Turns To Military   Army Leaders Callec Into Sessions: Hint! Second Front Talk Rafanse I eaadens

Moscow Parley Studies \European Land Attack   Presence Of American And British Military Officers At Meeting Suggests Western Invasion Under Discussion

MOSCOW CONFERENCE CONTINUES ALONG HARMONIOUS LINES  AMERICAN AND BRITISH MILITARY ADVISERS PRES. ENT AT LONG SESSION   PRUSSIAN MILITARY CLIQUE IS APPARENTLY BEGINNING CLIMB INTO HITT ER’S SADDLE AGAIN

Military Matters Surveyed   Second Front Attack . Believed Discussed At Moscow Parley

War Plans At Moscow   Top Military Figures Called In; Western Front May Be Topic

SECOND FRONT TALK RUMORED AT TRI-PARTITE   Military Action Heads Agenda; Call Experts

MOSCOW PARLEY AIRS MILITARY TOPIC, BELIEF   Presence of American and British Military Advisers Suggests Land Attack Discussed

Boy, 18, Is Slain  Fleeing From Law  Officers Surprise Quar tet Rifling Auto

Cancer Treatment Bill Sent to Gov. Green by Senators   Passed Measure Today; Other News From General Assembly

SENATE PASSES LEVY MEASURE, SENT 79 GREEN   Committee Puts O. K. On Primary Election Bill

Allies Land On Arundel Island Without Battle   Close In On Japs In  Salamaua, New Guinea

YANKS LAND ON ARUNDEL ISLE   Japs Push Allies Back In Heavy Fighting At Salamaua

Japs Force Allies Back  At Salamaua   Enemy Forces Fighting Fiercely; Allies Occupy Arundel Island Unopposed

Invaders Meet No Opposition From Japanese   Report Troops Closing In _ On Salamaua Have Been -Pushed-—Back--Shighuy.

ALLIED TROOPS AT SALAMAUA PUSHED BACK   Japanese Fighting Fiercely All Along Front With Backs to Strategic Airdrome   ARUNDEL IS CAPTURED

Japs Made Slight Recovery af Some Points Along Line   But Our Troops Fine Another Solomon Island Abandoned

Yanks Land on  Arundel   HARD NIPPO ATTACKS PUSH BACK ALLIES IN DRIVE ON SALAMAUA

JAPANESE DENT ALLIED LINES IN NEW GUINEA   U. S. Infantry Units Land Unopposed on Isle in Solomons

Salamaua Japs Fight Fiercely   Allies Troops Pushed Back Slightly

Enemy-Held Arundel Is Left Empty   Savage Counterattacks ih! Front of Salamaua Forces! Yanks to Give Ground

—PACIFIC—  ARUNDEL ISLAND HELD BY ALLIES   Japs Are Putting Up Fierce Resistance: In Salamaua Area

JAP COUNTERATTACKS FORCE ALLIES BACK   In Some Sectors of Salamaua Front in New Guinea

ALLIES FORGED TO GIVE GROUND AT OALAMAUR   Fierce Jap Counter Attacks Push Our Forces Back In Heavy Fighting

Allies Close in On Salamaua In New Guinea  Yanks Unopposed In Landing , On Arundel Isle

New Solomon Island Seized   Allies Take Arundel; Japs  Gain in New Guinea

APS ATTACK AT SALAMAU   Allied Troops Pushed Back In Fierce Fighting on New Guinea.

HELP VETERANS LEGION DEMAND   U.S. Financial Responsibility Urged by Convention at Omaha

GAVELS FALL IN LEGISLATURE AS SESSION OPENS   Jowa Assembly Quickly Completes Organization for Wartime Meeting

Iowa's 50th Assembly Is Convened   Burma Is Unanimously Elected Speaker of  lowa House

All Is Harmony At Opening Of  lowa Assembly   Legislature Eager To Get On With Its War time Program.

USE FOR GUARDHOUSES   Waacs Use Buildings for Date House and Beauty Shop

RED PLANES -AGAIN RAID AXIS FIELDS   Set Fire To Airdrome And Destroy 43 Enemy Planes

TO REGISTER FOR LIQUOR   Preliminary Outline 0 Rationing Program  Is Announced

LIQUOR RATIONING PLANS ARE BARED   Ration Cards Will Be Issued at Liquor Stores After Registering 

Meeting Of Halsey And MacArthur  May Be Prelude To New Offensive

MacArthur-Halsey Meeting May Prelude Opening of Offensive in Pacific Area

~HALSEY MEET IS DISCLOSED   New War Phase in Seuth, Southwest Pacifie Indicated

M’ARTHUR, HALSEY HOLD CONFERENCE IN SOUTH PACIFIC      Meeting Brings Speculation On Imminent Drive Against Enemy .  In Area

SOUTH PACIFIC CHIEFS CONFER ON NEW BLOW   MacArthur And Halsey Lay Groundwork For Assault

MacArthur, Halsey Meet to Effect Cooperation  Between Two Commands in Southwest Pacific

MacArthur, Halsey Meet To GearPlans   Coordination Conference In South Pacific Stirs Hopes Of Offensive   NEW PHASE SEEN   Broad Drive On Japanese Defense Arc Expected; General To Be Boss

MacArthur, Halsey Confer   Fiest Conference Spurs Speculation On Pacific Thrust

 Halsey and MacArthur Meet To Plan Offensives  Against Japs; General To Be Supreme Commander

Speculation Rife as Halsey Meets with McAvthur   New War Phase Seems Implied by Pacific Meeting

MACARTHUR HOLDS CONFERENCE WITH HALSEY RECENTLY   Meeting Gives Rise to Speculation That Jap Offensive Is Nearing

ALLIED AIR FLEETS LED BY FORTRESSES AGAIN RAID ITALY   Make Heaviest Attacks Yet On Airfields, Docks, Power Plants ’ And Ships

ALLIES RAID SARDINIA AND SICILY   Air Offensive Continues; Five More Ships Hit

FORTRESSES : LEAD ATTACK ‘ON OUTPOST:      Non-Stop Offensive. ‘Operation , Against. : Sicily, Sardinia 4

Also Cen Of Attac   EIGHT-DAY TOLL IN RAIDS. ON’ 33 AXIS SHIPS AND 362. PLANES

ITALIANS GIVEN HEAVIEST ATTACK   Fortresses Center M ai Bombing on Comiso Airfield In Sicily.

Allied Air Fleets Press Drive Against Outposts   Five More Ships Wrecked, Bringing Five Day Toll to 33; Planes Downed

STORN RESIGN AFTER U. S. STAND   Argentine Foreign Minister Bid Is Refecte: .

Foreign Minister of Argentina Quits His Post  Action Is Result of TT & Retfuen!l

LIEUT. HARMON, FAMED STAR OF FOOTBALL, REPORTED MISSING   Former University of Michigan Gridiron Player Miss. ing, Parents Told—Shocked Father and Mother Are Still Hopeful :

FOOTBALL STAR MISSING IN ACTION   TOM HARMON, GREAT MICHIGAN BACK, DISAPPEARS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

~ PETAIN MOVE   Marshal Offers to Quit as Germans, Laval Prevent Issuing of Decree

NAZIS BLOCK, DETAIN MOVE   Marshal Offets to Quit as _ Germans, Laval Prevent! Issuing .of Decree

Jap Base In Central China Is Captured   Kungan Is Taken Over By Chinese Who Also Are Smashing Ichang’s Outer Defenses

Chinese Take Kungan and Seize booty  Half of Japs Wiped Out  - Fleeing Area

CHINESE RETAKE IMPORTANT BASE   Clean Japs From South Shore of Yangtze River In Smash Drive

Chinese Forces Enter Kunyang   Other Forces Smash At Ichang Defenses

SPEEDY CHINESE ARMIES CLEARING -YANGTZE AREAS   Penetrate Ichang In Major Bid to Recanture Advanced Jan Base.

Chinese Take Nippon Base   Holf Enemy Forces Slain, Rest Driven Away From Kungan

Chinese recapture vital Japanese base at Kungan   Outer defense of Ichaig, chief enemy stronghold on Yangtze, taken

‘ALLIED AIR MIGHT SCARS — NAZI INDUSTRY   British Loneratrate Or Ca  roy Sab .ty of     British Concentrate On Occupied Countries In  Raids.

Allies Blast Steel And Chemical Works of Vital Nazi Center Of Aachen

LEWIS MAKES — NEW MOVE IN MINE STRIKE   MINE UNION LEADER IN WASHINGTON AND CONFERENCE WITH ICKES 18 EXPrCTED

Pre-lnvasion Parley With Badoglio Under Noses of Germans Is Revealed

Duce’ S Downfall Related  Fascig sts Tarn ; on losdox   Conferring With Badoglio, Walian Generals, ‘U.S. Officers in Rome Before Salerne

General, Colonel Spend 20 Hours In City On Visit To Badoglio; Vital Informatior Obtained Just Before Salerno Invasion   Challenged By Sentrie<«

Two Yank Officers Went  To Rome Before Armistic«   Slipped In, Talked With Badoglio, Were Close Enough To Germans at Times to Have Touched:Them, Came Away

Two U. S. Officers Visit Rome Under Noses Of Germans Before Our Invasion of Salerno

Two American Officers Went on Daring Visit to Rome Just in Advance of U. S. Invasion Move

Two American Officers Made Secret Visit to See Badoglio a Few Hours Before Invasion

Dangerous Trip Made fo Rome By U.S. Officers   Risky Achievement Just Before Salerno Landing Revealed

U.S. Officers Risk Lives to See Badoglio   Go to Rome After Armistice; Obtain Vital Data

YANKS CAPTURE TROINA, VITAL MOUNTAIN FORT   Heavy Casualties Are Inflicted on Nazis in Savage Fighting

Ustica Island Taken   Allied Bombers Shatter Axis Escape Port . Of Messina

ALLIES ADVANCE ON ALL SECTORS OF SICILY FRONT   125,000 PRISONERS TAKEN: NAZIS WAGE SAVAGE LAST-STAND

FORTRESS. GUARDS AXIS ‘ESCAPE   Allies Advance In Other Sectors And Blast Messina

Entire Front Now Only 45 Miles Wide   U.S. Victory Opens Way for New Flank Attack; Enemy... Line Now Disjointed.   BRITISH MAKE GAINS  . IN CATANIA ARES   Two Allied Columns ..Now Less Than 50 Miles’ From ° Nazi. Escape: Hatch © °”

Sweeps In_ Sicily Reported Yielding 125,000 Prisoners   German. Line Disjointed As Vital Axis Mountain Fortress Falls; --Biancavilla In British’ Hands:

Bag of Axis Prisoners in Sictly Increased to  125,000   FRONT IS NARROWED   Junction of Retreating German Forces May Be Prevented

Troina Falls To Americans  During Battle  Heavy Artillery Barrage   Heavy Artillery Barrage Rocks City; British 8th Army Captures Biancavilla

BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUE DRIVE ON EAST COAST   Strategic Island Capitulates To Naval Forces

TOWN SEIZED IN FACE SAVAGE FIRE OF NAZIS   Germans Disjointed; Junction Retreating [5th Armored Unit and Goering  Division Fhreatened   HEAVY CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON FORS   Allied Forces Advance in Other Sectors: U. S.,   Naval Forces Occupy  : Ustica Island

Capture Of Town Disjoints Entire Enemy Defenses   Axis ‘Escape Hatch’ West Of Mt. Etna Taken After Bitter Fighting; Italian Island Off Palermo Occupied By U. S. Navy

Troina Falls Despite Bitter Defense by Axis   Allied Troopers Continue Advance Toward Mainland

Town Guarded “Escape Hatch”   Total of Prisoners Taken in Sicily  Reaches  25,000

AMERICANS TAKE ~TROINA, A TOWN IN CENTRAL SICILY   First Division Troops Storm. ed and Captured the City.   MANY AXIS PRISONERS   Allied Forces Rushed Other Sectors, a Headquarters Communique Says.

Win Fort In Bitter Fighting   Caves In Another Key Defense Point In Axis Crumbling Line

Axis Captives Total 125,000; Italians Yield At Bianeavilla   U. S. Naval Forces Take Isle 40 Miles North of Palermo

German Line Disjointed When Americans Capture Vital Mountain Fortress

American Forces Now in Possession of Troina, — Vital Sicilian Stronghold

Fall of Fortress Town Exposes Nazi Flank   U. S. Naval Forces Occupy Prison Island of Ustica—British Advance Threatens Adrano as Messina Blasted from Air

Americans Take Town Of Troina   Advancing U. S. Troops Threaten To. Prevent Junction Of German Units Near Messina

Bag; of Axis Prisoners i in Sic“ily Increased to  a 2 4  . 149,01     oe : Lperarr Te NADDOWIFnN   FRONT IS NARROWED   Junction of Retreating Ger. _~ “man Forces May Be’ Prevented

Prison Isle Of Ustica Captured   125,000 Prisoners; East Coast of Sicily And Mainland Bombed

125,000 AXIS PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED   One Of Most Savage Battles Of Campaign Goes To Yanks; British Goal Is Adrano

American Forces Storm Vital Mountain Fortress. Threaten Junction Of Nazi Divisions   German Line Disjointed, Allied Communique Says; Eighth Army Advances In All Sectors: Ishind Of Ustica Seized By American Farrec

TRIONA CAPTURED BY AMERICANS ON ASICILAN FRONT   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY. REPORTED ADVANCING IN ALL SECTORS

Important U.S. Victory Disjoints Mid Sicily Line   Mountain Fortress Fall After Bitter Fight; tI Army Takes Biancavilla

Heavy Artillery of Americans Decides Bitterest Battle  OF Sicilian Drive

Americans Occupy Small isle 40 Miles North of Palerma   Allied Air Forces Rehit Resisting Axis in Sicily, Enemy Prisoners Total 125.000

TROWNA TAKEN BY AMERICANS   Allied Forces Advance, Caps turing Total of 125,000  Prisoners. 4   BOMBERS RAID MESSINA

Stalin Favors Independence For Poland   Wants Strong State Established After War. He Save

STRONG POLAND CTALIN DESIRE   Wants Relations Betweer Soviet, Poland, Based on Mutual Respect.

Stalin Favors A Strong  And Independent Poland Following Nazis’ Defeat

STALIN DESIRES POLISH FREEDOW   Soviet Chief Wants Alliance Against Germany

HE ADVOCATES FREE STATUS FOR NATION   Favors Independence For Neighbor, Wants Mutual Aid Accord

Stalin Favors A Free Poland   Soviet Premier Answers Post-War Query

Stalin Favors a Strong Poland   Answers Questions on Post-War Plans

STALIN ADVOCATES, ESTABLISHING STRONG POLAND AFTER WAR   If Poles Desire Relation With Russia Could Be Based on ‘Alliance Providing For Mutual Aeaistance.

Stalin Advocates IndependentPolanc  Post-War Alliance Proposed By Premier  be J A¥ERE BA Toa ae

PROMISE IS MADE POLAND BY STALIN   Independence ar and Pledge of Protection Given

STALIN FAVORS STRONG POLAND   EXPRESSES HOPE OF MUTUAL SS ae PACT WITH RUSSIA —

STALIN ADVOCATES ‘A STRONG, FREE POLAND AFTER WAR   Makes Assertion in Letter to New York Times Correspendent in Response te   Onectian«a

Stalin Favors Strong Poland   Advocates Alliance For Mutual Assistance Against Germany

Vay Charges Selective Service Has Been “Lying to Congress;” Wants Explanation

Asks Explanation Of Draft Program      Chairman May Makes Charge Against Selective Service

HERSHEY 10 TELL DRAFT PROCEDURE   Rep. May Charges Selective Service “Lying to Congress”

Last Outpost of Duce’s African Empire Falls in Climax To Libyan Drive

Conquest Of Hl Duces African Empire Is All But Complete; Rommel Chase Continues.  ~~ meaeewe-a.

Many German Parachutists Used in Tunisia   French Hold Firm Aaqainst Efforts Of Nazi Troops

Enemy Rear Guard Force  Overwhelmed   Big Part Of Axis Army Believed In Contact With Gen. Von Arnim  In Tunisia

Tripoli Falls in Shattering Blast by Guns of Allies   Armies of United Nations Take Over as German Rear Guard Flees Westward From Last Gem of the Italian Empire

Oil Contract Probe Asked   Secretary Ickes Demands Inquiry Into Canadian Job

CANADA OIL DEAL IS SCORED BY ICKES   Objects To U. S. Financing of Wartime Projects

House Votes To Lift Oil Price   Boost Crude Oil Prices Not Less Than 35 Cents A Barrel.

House Votes — Bill to Boost Prices of Oil   Measure Calls for Hike of Not Less _ Than 35 Cents a Barrel; Plan to Shift Administration Dropped

House Demands Oil Price Hike .   Bill Ordering OPA  Bonoct le Anoraverd

House Votes Oil Price Increase   Would Boost Crude Level 35 Cents

House Votes to ~~ Order Boost in” Crude Oil-Price  Leg ishature Direct 4O.P.A. ‘to Set _35-Cent Minimum Raise

House Orders OPA to Raise Price of Oil   35-Cent Barrel - Increase Is Songht,. Despite Trnflatinn BI...

House Demands Oil Price Hike .  Bill Orde ring OPA  ele Ammenvuisal

Farmers Required to -~ Collect Points on All Meats and Fats Sold

JAP POSITIONS ARE BOMBED B) ALLIED PLANES   Nipponese Bombers Strike Again At Oro Bay

U, S. BOMBERS HAVE BUSY DAY   Range Out To Punish Jap Positions In New Guinea And New Britain.

Bomb Jap Bases In New Guinea  American Fliers Hit - At Enemy Positions

MacArthur's Men Hit Japs   Hammer Jap Positions In New Guinea and New Britain

MACARTHUR'S BOYS (CONTINUE TO POUND ENEMY   Japs Punished on New Guinea and New Britain Islands. Fires Started

Ainerican Legion Naines Post-War Planning Board  Commission Appointec Ta Study Paliziac   Commission Appointed To Study Policies Of Future

Train Mystery Plot Thickens   Los Angeles Police Holding Cook On Train To Probe Stories

COOK QUIZZED IN TRAIN DEATH   Police Say Man Seized At Los Angeles Gives Eight Different Stories

NEGRO COOK HELD IN TRAIN MURDER   Suspect Admits He Had Been Drinking Before  Tragedy in Sleener.

MYSTERY MURDER ON TRAIN. MAY BE CLEARED UP SOON   ZQOOT-SUIT NEGRO COOK BEING CLOSELY QUIZZED—TUB1 KEY SANDWICHES MAY ‘ BE CLUE

: f  Reduction ef 25 Per Cent 1) Gasolive . ° eh emell 3 Retion far Midwest Termed Probable

Grain and Poultry Prices Increased   But lowa Livestock Down Last Month

) 4 Months of Grieving } End For Pal, Faithful } Dog: Master Arrives

4-Months Grieving  Ends For Dog, Is Reunited With Soldier-Master

TRADE PACTS HELD AS HOPE AT WAR'S END   Sec. Jones Sees Them as Forecast of Major Role of Private Interests.   SEEK SUPPORT OF REPUBLICANS   Three-Year Renewal of Plan. With Some Pro visos Is Expected.

Jones Favors Renewal Of Trade Pacts   Secretary of Commerce Urges Continuance of Agreements  AID POST-WAR PLANS

JONES URGES RENEWAL TRADE AGREEMENTS   With 27 Nations As Demonstration of AfterWar Intentions of Government

Jones Urges Renewal of Trade Pacts   Demonstrates Plan to Restore Private Interests  In Trade, He Says

TRADE COMPACTS ARE NECESSARY TO POST - WAR EFFORT   Jesse Jones . Bells Committee Private MfBrests to Play “Mayor Role -”-

Urges Renewal  On House Group   Jones Would Demonstrate U.S. Plans Major Role For Private Interests

O'DANIEL WILL TRY AGAIN TO. DRY UP MILITARY AREAS   Plans to Offer. Bill Bill to Prevent Sale of Alcéholic Dtinks to  Service Men: -

To Re-Introduce Liquor Ban Bill   O’Daniel Bill Would Ba Drinks From Army Camps, Naval Stations.

CAMP BEER BAN NEW PROPOSAL   Senator Says He Will Present Bill in Conperess. )

BEER BILL FOR SERVICE AREAS IS RESURRECTED   Texan Will Ask Congress 'To Ban Alcoholic Drinks In Or Near Camps

Texas Senator Signifies In tention of Introducing Proposal In New   _ Congress  SIMILAR “MEASURE  WAS VOTED DOWN  Bill Would Prohibit Sale of Alcoholic Beverages Within Radius. Designated by Officers

Nazi Troops are Falling Back on Naples as the Allies Advance      Aerial Offensive by Allies to Drive Enemy from North Solomons Proceeds According to Schedule—Japs  Suffer Heavy Destruction As Ascsaults Continue on Positions — MacArthur Congratulates Ground Troops Which Conquered Lae  and Selamauc.   Sardinia Falls Without _ Allies Firing One Shot

SOUTH SIDE OF NAPLES BAY IN YANK CONTROL   Sardinia Is Lost by Hitler as Italian Troops Take Action

Italians Capture  Island For Allies   German Retreat in Russia Now is Near Rout, Smolensk Next Goal

Six Arrested by Navy in Strike   Guards Seized at  Aeronautical Plant

NAVY ARRESTS 6 MORE GUARDS AT JOHNSVILLE   Brewster Employes, Protesting Ar resi of First Four Guards; Con tinue to Defy WLB

Strikers Defy Order By WLB   Brewster Aeronautical Workers Disregard Warning. Remain Off Jobs.

STRIKING WORKERS IN AIRPLANE PLANT FAIL RETURN WORK  CIO UNION MAKES DRASTIC DEMANDS AND IGNORES ROARD’S ORDER

Six Arrested At  Brewster Plant   Other Factories Asked To Join In Walkout

STRIKERS ARRESTED   Navy Takes Six Guards At Piane Piant In Custody

More Brewster Guards Seized   Plane Workers Continue  To Defy WLB

Reported Missing   STRIKERS DEFY ORDER OF WLE   Air Plant Workers Repeat Demand For Release  Of Guards

DEWEY FLAILS ALBANY RING OF DEMOCRATS   Charges ‘Despotic Rule,” in Ad dress al Troy Supporting Hanley Candidacy   ‘JUST BEGINNING’   Governor Pledges Corrupt Government Will be Reoted Out Wherever It Is Found

SPUDS DUMPED   ‘Huge Quantity of Potatoes Found fin ‘serap Hean’

PILE OF POTATOES COLUMBUS MYSTER)   OPA Puzzled - - Can't Learn Where They Came From

*19IN LIFEBOAT; 9 . ° mi SURVIVE 80 DAYS '  > sd * * * s * + * A

Rabaul Hit By Allied Airmen   Jap Installations Prepared For Smashed Convoy Discovered By Ground Forces

FLYING FORTRESOED POUND RABAUL AGAIN   392 Bombs Dropped On Jap Base In New Britain

Enemy Rabaul Field Blasted By392Bombs   Heavy Damage To Air. craft Indicated By Fire At Rapopo Airdrome   ALL PLANES RETURN   Positions Intended For Troops On Oestreyed 22 Ship Convoy Are Seized

AYBURN CITES STRONG STAND’ UST BE TAKEN   ession Opens With GOP and Democrats Urging Move to-End Waste and Bureaucracy   ROOSEVELT WILL SPEAK TOMORROW   armony In Democratic Party Is Hanging In Balance As Bitter Fights Are Seen

18TH CONGRESS, UNITED ON WAR DOLICY. CONVENES   But Tough Fights On Domestic Issues Are Promised

78th Congress of Nation of Free People Convenes Today, Aimed To Save Freedom

DEDICATED 10 VICTORY, DIVIDED ON HOME POLICY   America’s Lawmakers To Service Notice on, ‘Bureaucrats’

Session Marked. ByLarge Number OF Republicans.   Bills Concerning Servicemen, Taxes, ~-Fiscal Reform, Lyiiching. Chief Among 150 Proposals Introduced in House

AIR RAID SIREN SOUNDS JUST BEFORE OPENING   United on Victory at Arms But Battles Loom on _ Home Front Policies

Congress Opens On Note of Self Assertion Today   ‘Bureaucrats’ Attacked by ~ Both Parties When Session Opens

The 78th Congress Convenes   Many Major Issues Face Session Opening Today; Will Hear FDR on “State of the Union”

T8TH CONGRESS GETS UNDERWAY   All for Victory, bu Divided on Home Front Policy

78TH CONGRESS MET TODAY DIVIDED. ON THE HOME FRONT   Uncertain of Scope and Detail of the Peace to Follow the War.   BLAST AT BUREAUCRACY   Republicans Called for Many Changes in Government Operations.

I NOON; FOR VORD WAITED   dent Expected To Tell jislators of War, Home ‘ohlems, Peace Plans.   GOP RESURGENT   ‘ity Party Hits Waste as th Houses Show Independent Snirit.

Note Of Self-Assertion seen As Lawmakers Begin Duties At U. S. Capitol

Nation’s 78th Congress to Hear President Report on Nation Thursday

18TH CONGRESS HAS 150 BILLS IN THEHOPPER      Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill Presented By Kansan; After War Pay On Calendar

Half Million Troops Now Stand in Africa, Prime Minister Says  SEES GRAND DRIVE WITHIN NINE MONTHS  Battle Against Subs Slowly Being Won, He Tells Commons

HALF MILLION TROOPS POISE FOR INVASIGN   Premier Churchill Tells Com: mons Pattern Is To Make Nazis “Burn And Bleed’ In 9 Months.   Beat Hitler Down First

Churchill Says Axis to Suffer   Foe to ‘Bleed and Burn’ on All Fronts

British Prime Minister Promises Axis will nt SAYS “‘OFFENSIVES WILL SOON STRIKE Progress Reported’ in Bat. tle Against the Sub. - marine

Immense Allied Offensive  Pattern Drawn   Churchill Discloses Nearly Half Million Men Now Stand in Africa at Bridaehead to Europe

ALLIES PLEDGED TQ MAKE NAZIS “BURN AND BLEED”   Churchill Says Punishment Germans Are Receiving in Russia Awaits Them on Other Fronts.   LONG STRIDES MADE AGAINST SUB MENACE   Reveals Allies Have Mapped Offensive Plans for Next 9 Months—Have 500,000 Men in Africa.

Allies Prepare for Mighty  Attacks on Axis  Churchill Declares Nazis to Be Made to 'Ruorn and Blaze’

ALLIED PLANS REVEALED FOR NINE MONTHS   OUR ENEMIES MUST ‘BURN AND BLEED’ BRITAIN TOLD

Half Million *Allied Troops Now in Africa   United Nations’ Plan: Complete Churchill Tells Commons

British Prime Minister Promises Axis Will “Bleed and Burn”  SAYS OFFENSIVES WILL SOON STRIKE  Progress Reported in Battle Against the Submorine

U.S. Planes Hit  ‘lapanese Bases   South Pacific Bases Blosted, Ships Hit And Asher Raids Made On Kiska And Attu In Nort!

Two Big Jap Bases Fired   bombers. Lasn Others; Two . Cargo Ships Believed Sunk

UPSET IS HANDED DE GAULLE UNDER COMPROMISE PLAN   Abondons Demand fa Post of National Defense Minister — Gi raud Keeps Post.

GIRAUD KEEPS COMMAND OF FRENCH ARMY..      De Gaulle Given Setback in  New Compromise

DeGaulle Loses In Army Fight   Giraud Retains His Control On Military

FRENCH CHIEFS DIVIDE CONTROL   Giraud, DeGaulle Reach Settlement After Anglo-American Intervention

FRENCH SPLIT ARMY COMMAND   \De Gaulle Racks Down, Divides Power With Giraud

BODY ARRIVES HERE   Funeral Services for Thomas Chapman Monday Afternoon.

VOTE T0 FREEZE PAY ROLL LEV)   SENATORS FRAMING TAX BILL APPROVE CURRENT RATE OF 1 PCT. IN °44.

ate Committee .es to Freeze surity Levy  Fee ae gg Paeeeaaes   etains Clause ‘equiring Unions ‘0 Report Finances

ee ee ee ee ee ee a A  Security Levy ‘Freeze’ Voted ‘By Committee   Also Favors Provision Requiring Labor Unions To File Statemente

“To-e <0 Con-inue Socia. Securi-v “ax a: 2c... Aorce .nion' %e urns

Senators Favor Current Social Security Rate   Finance Committee Votes To Hold Levy at One Per Cent in 1944

SenateGroup Delays Social  Tax Increase   Finance Committee Okays Present 1 Pct. Level  BER: Poeccccnvockance ©

Senate Finance Body Votes to Hold 1944 Social Security Tax at 1 Per Cent Level

OOGIAL SGURITY TAX FREEZE VOTED   Would Hold Payroll Contributions to Present Rate: Finance Committee Continues Work on New Tax Bil

Vote Snags Boost in   Pav Roll Tax   Senate Group Would Keep 1 Per Cent Rate

Senate Committee Agrees On New Forms Of Taxation  Social Security Tax To Remain Same, But ishav Laviae Chanasd Ta Mast Hauca Plan

PAYROLL TAX - RISE OPPOSED   Senate Group Votes to Re: tain Present Social Security Levy

Senate Votes To Freeze Tax Levy   Social Security Deduction Remains At Present Level

PAYROLL LEVY FREEZE SOUGHT   Receipts Exceed Benefits 6 To 1; Vandenberg For One Percent Tax

END DEADLOGK ON DRAFT LAW      House and Senate Conferees Agreed on Formula for Fathers.   SENATORS PROBE LIQUOR

Formula Set For New Draft Plan  Quick Passage Seen As Result Of Agreement

News of Today in Nation's Capital Summarized by AP   Conferees Agree on Draft of Fathers; Other News Bits

MEASURE AWAITS FINAL PASSAGE   SWIFT APPROVAL BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE IS NOW PREDICTED

Fifth Army Conquers ~ 1,600-Foot Mountain   Yanks Prepare For Cut-Off Play Against Tyrrhenian End Of German Hilltop Defense

TO TRAP NAZIS HOLDING RIDGE   Fifth Army Drives Up Hill Against Foe’s Massed Artillery

Sth Prepares for Cutoff Play On Nazi Defenses   Conquers 1600:Foot Slope Against Massed German Artillery

at) Prepares for     Nazi Defenses:   Conguers:1 600:Foot - Slope Against Massed

Yanks Lash For Cutoff In italy   “Advance Menaces . Area: Road Junction

Clark's Troops Gain in Italy   Advance on Hitler's Mountain Fortress

ALLIES STOR UP SLOPES 10 NIP GERMANS   AMERICAN INFANTRY FORGES AHEAD IN DRIVING RAIN

GENERAL CLARK’S MEN ADVANCE THROUGH DRIVING RAIN BEYOND SPARANISE; THREATEN JUNCTION OF TEANO.

Forces Make Hard March Against Foe   Troops Reach Hilltops Against Masses Of German Soldiers

Allied Forces Advance Three Miles  U.S. Navy Applies Pressure With Heavy Bombinas

ALLIES REACH VANTAGE POINT OVER GERMANS   Troops Struggle Up High Italian Mountains To Position For CutOff Movement

OTH ARMY MOVES UP HILL AGAINST NAZI ARTILLER)   Prepares to Strike at German Mountain Fortress Thrown Up On Massico Ridge.   AMERICAN WARSHIPS AID GROUND FORCES   Cruiser and Destroyers Shell Enemy’s Communication Lines North of Battle Front.

Allies Gain Good Position Against Nazis  i  German Mountain Lin 3n Laly Threatened      German Mountain Line in Haly Threatened: by ‘Anglo-Americans

“ALLIES STRUGGLE «WP HIGH SLOPES   Clark’s Forces Smash Three Miles Beyond Sparanise   ’ U. S. NAVAL FORCES   Pour Shells Into Enemy’s ® Communications 12 Miles North of the Front

Bayonets Turned On German Troops   Allies Advance Against Nazis Entrenched on Italian Mountain

ALLIES BATTLE TO TRAP NAZIS HOLDING RIDGE   Fifth Army Drives Up Hill Against Foe’s Midased: Artillery

Slopes Conquered With Fixed Bayonets By The Fifth Army   American and British Troops Advance Toward Mighty - Mountain Fortress of the: Enemy— Navy Applies Pressure

Threat of Ceiling Cut Hog Prices  $13.75 Floor Might Go Into Operation

DRAWING RING TIGHTER ABOUT TRAPPED NAZIS   Another 200,000 Germans in Peril as Reds Reach Sea of Azov,   LAST MEANS OF ESCAPE DOMINATED BY SOVIETS

Reeling Germans May Desert City   Reds’ Steel Ring Seals 200,000 Germans In Caucasus   3 More Rail Towns  Seized in Ukraine   Bataisk Entry Confirmed; New Crossing Forced On Donets River

Gripsholm Now Enroute To U. S.   Scheduled To Reach New York Dec. 2

MERCY SHIP ON WAY   Gripsholm Begins Homeward Journey With Americans Aboard

Reynolds Warns Liquor Industry   Prohibition May Return, He Says

Senator Sees Return of U. S. Prohibition Unless House Cleaning Started Soon

Prepare To Rebuild NYC Roundhouse Destroyed In Bellefontaine Fire

Yanks Pound Japs By Air, Land, Sea   Nimitz's No Rest Attack Continues With Constant Raid:

Japs Again Pounded By Land, Sea And Air   Americans Keep Up Constant Attacks in Bougainville Battle While Admiral Nimitz’s “No Rest” Campaien on Islands Grows

Task Force Speeds Entire Length Of Bougainville to Hit Buka; Shel] Airdrome Area 45 Minutes

Bougainville, Other Islands, Heavily Bombed   Nimitz Conducting "No Rest’’ Campaign

Japs Attacked by U.S. Land, Air And Sea Forces  ‘Naval Force Shells ‘Enemy’s Airbases ~ on Bougainville -.

AMERICANS POUND JAPS BY LAND, SEA AND AIR   Task Force Moves Length Of Bougainville Island; Aerial Attacks On Marshall Ands Gilbert Isles Continue

AMERICANS ARE HITTING JAPS IN LAND, SEA, AIR ATTACKS   Naval Task Force Shells Buka Air Bases For 45 Min utes; 800 Enemy Troops Killed To 100 Marines On Bougainville: Pacific Islands Are Raided

Allied: Searchers Foiled As Two Jar  Convoys Ship Through Lines Near Australia —

rear of Allied Saturation Raids  Blamed for Act  Near Panic Reported In Capital After  Lowmk sam wc  Ee ee). Seegee   Near Panic Reported In Capital After Hamburg Devastation  ‘EW DETAILS GIVEN  Propaganda Minister Takes Charge as Gauleiter of Area

BERLIN FEARS ALLIED MIGHT   City in Near Panic As Hamburg is Pounded to Rubble During Recent Raids

Stockholm Hears Orders Were Issued by Goebbels  BERLIN RESIDENTS IN A “NEAR PANIC”  Fears of - “Saturation” Bombing Raids Held

Both Men Set Pattern for Postwar World and Renounce Peace Without Full Victory

PROJECT PLAN FOR POSTWAR PEACE, UNITY   Leaders Discuss Future of Good Neighbor Policy

F.R. and  Camacho in lexas   MEXICAN PRESIDENT RETURNS VISIT BY AMERICAN EXECUTIVE

GOOD NEIGHBORS VISIT IN HOMES OF EACH OTHER   Roosevelt in Mexico for Dinner and Avila Camacho Crosses Into U. S.   CONFAB DETAILS SECRET   Day of Exploitation at End They Say Referring To Oil Land Seizures

Monterrey Meeting Has World-Wide Implications   Conferences Continue as Mexico’s Presi. dent Rides North Across Border—-Oi Expropriation Issue Buried   STRESS UNFORTIFIED BORDER   Roosevelt Declares American Solidarity Based on Renunciation Use of Force, International Justice, Mutual Respect

GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY PRAISED BY PRESIDENTS   Monterrey Exhibits Turoultuous Enthusiasm When Leaders Appear

Pres. Camacho Accompanies Roosevelt North of Border To Continue Conferences

MEX, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN THE U. S. NOW   Camacho Comes Into This Country Adds Emphasis to What Was Said On Radio Last Night

7? LEADERS VOW SOLIDARITY IN TALKS OVER AIR   Continued Cooperation When Peace Comes Promised; Trip Makes History

Mexico's Chief Executive Pays Visit to U. S.   Roosevelt, Camacho Exchange Words Of Friendship

Basis for Postwar Peace, Unity Told by Two Presidents   Chief Executives of U.S and Mexico Continue Discussions

President Makes A Good Will Trip   Roosevelt Confers With Mexico's President on  _ Post War Period   MEETING IN MONTERREY   Mexicans Welcome U. S, Leader With Salute of  Booming Guns

F.R..Camacho Continue Their Talks In U. S.  Post-War Peace, Unity   Post-War Peace, Unity Program Is Projected Around World By Two Presidents

‘(Presidents of Two Nations  Hold Meeting   Program Broadcast to World From Monterrey; Demand Unconditional Surrender

Solidarity Is Theme of  Their Parley   Door Closed to Any Axis Inspired ‘Negotiated Peace’ Offer

MEXICAN CHIEF COMES TOU. S   Presidents of Two Nations Discuss Unity, PostWar Aims.

LEADERS MEET FOR 1ST TIME IN 34 YEARS   Roosevelt Wants Better World After Peace Comes

Roosevelt, Comacho Conferring   Continue Conference North of Border

FDR and Camacho  In U.S.   » Continue Parleys Begun at Monterrey; Speeches Vague

OH, CAMACHO TILL TALKING WAR PROBLEMS   U.S. And Mexican Presidents Are Conferring Today On American Soil   SPIRIT OF SOLIDARITY STRESSED BY EXECUTIVES   Real Reason Behind Meeting Not Disclosed In Radio Talks Last Night

F.D.R. and Camacho Confer on U.S. Soil   Talks Begun in Gala Setting at Monterrey. Mexico, Last Night Are Being Continued North of the Border Today—De toile Seeret.      Urge a Universal Good Neiahborlinese

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND PRESIDENT AVILA CAMACHO MEET AT MONTERREY, MEXICO   President Camacho Returning to U. S. Soil With President For First Time in History That A Mexican Chief Executive Has Visited U. S. While In Office.   PROGRAM OF PC POST- WAR  UNIVERSAL PEACE AND BNITY PORGREN

CAMACHO, F.D.R, CONTINUE TALKS IN U.S. ON WAR   Mexican President In United States With Roosevelt

FDR, Camacho Parley Shifts To U. S. Soi   Conference Lays Groundwork For Pan-American Solidarity As Basis Of Post-War Plan . After Axis Surrenders

REASONS FOR MEETING ARE UN REVEALED   President of Mexico Repays Visit Made to His Country by American  Executive   "SOLIDARITY" STRESSED

Presidents Confer  On U.S. and Mexican Post-War Problems   Plants For Cooperation After Unconditional Surrender Of Axis Discussed By Roosevelt, Camacho

EXECUTIVES MAP POST-WAR PLANS FOR PEACE, UNITY   Both Declare Differences Between Two Govern.  ments Solved; Exchange  Pledges of Friendship.

U. S., MEXICAN CONFERENCES ARE CONTINUED   President And Avila Camacho Strengthen Friendship Of Two Nations   TALK OF POST-WAR PLAN   Solidarity Of Countries In Common Cause Against Axis Affirmed

VISIT IS: RETURNED   President Avila Camacho of Mexico North of Border  Today

FDR Visit To Mexico Returned   Head Of Mexican Republic Crosses U. S. Border To Continue Unity Talk

PRESIDENTS CONTINUING STATE TALKS   Cross Border Following Vows of Friendship Broadcast From Monterey.   SOLIDARITY STRESSED   Chief Executives Interrupt 7-Course Dinner To Bar ‘Dnana Epalare?’

Presidents Project A Program For Postwar World Unity After Axis Is Cruched.

—FDR... AVILA CAMACHO  Leaders Speeding North   .++ Two Chief Executives Continue Conferences   (The text of President Roosevelt's speech is on Page 20.

MEXICAN LEADER RETURNS VISIT OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE   Stress Position of Unity Now Existing Between the Two Countries   GET TUMULTOUS WELCOME

Mexican, U.S. Presidents Affirm Unity   Meeting of “Chief Executives in Mexico Reveals Single Ideal of Both Nations

[Make Radio Talks  Last Night At  Hlistoric Meeting   Mexican Chief Executive Now Aboard KDI 's  Train i in U.S,, Return. * ing Visit.

Camacho in U.S As F. R’s Guest   Mexican President Accompanies Roosevel On Return Home After Latter’s Good Will Visit; Inspect Texas Aviation School

Roosevelt Declares Good Neighbor Plan Key Te Lasting World Peace; First Meeting of Ameri. can and Mexican Chief Executives In 34 Years.

Camacho Back to U.S. With F. D. 2.   Mexican President Returns Visit

U.S. And Mexicar Presidents Tell Postwar Plans _   American Solidarity Attributed To Understanding, Non-Exploitation

Camacho Returns Roosevelt Visit;  Talks Continuing   Two Presidents in Accord on Program of Universal Peace and Unity Following Unconditional Surrender of Axis, Is Said

HEADS OF TWO NATIONG ARE ABOARD TRAIN   Radio Talks: Last Night Do Not Reveal Real . Reason for Meeting.   EXCHANGE C CORDIAL ' GOOD WILL TALK   Conference of Two Hour Preceded Dinner at : Monterrey.

ROOSEVELT  ” CONTINUES  . TALK WITH CAMACHO   Conferences Held North of Border Following Meeting in Mexico   @ TOPICS DISCUSSED ARE NOT. DISCLOSED   Dramatic Parley Highlight. ed by Gala Greeting for Roosevelt in Monterrey

Mexican President Visits U. S. With Roosevelt After Historic Meeting

President Visits Mexican Chief Executive; Cooperation Pledged; Conference Continues  Aboard Roosevelt's  Train.

SURRENDER IS ONLY PEACE ALLIES ACCEPT   Presidents of United States and Mexico Meeting at Monterey Stress SolidarS¢u of American Republics

ROOSEVELT AND » MEXICAN CHIEF CONFER IN U, S,   ® Leaders of Two Nations Continue Parleys North Of Border Today

Speeches Declare Peace “Feelers” Of Axis Useless; Solidarity Lauded

Capital Diplomats View FDR’s Trip As Further Evidence U. S. Postwar Plans Will Follow Pan-Ameri can Pattern

Solidarity Talks Continued In U.S.   President Resumes Trip Which Took Him To Service Camps In South; Pledge Of Unconditional Surrender Renewed In Monterrey, Mexico

Conference Is Held On U.S. Soil   Good Neighbor Policy Is Emphasized In Radio Message Delivered At Monterrey Meeting

RETURNS THE ONLY VISIT EVER MADE BY U. S; EXECUTIVE   By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

Leghorn Docks Destroyed And Ships Scuttled   Harbor At Pescara Is Also Devastated; Foe May Flee Rome

BELIEVE BIGGEST HARBOR ON WEST COAST BLOCKEL   Quays Demolished at Leg: - horn, Pescara; Troops Storm 2 Mountains

Quays Also Demolished - Italian Port Cities Blasted by Allied Bombs

1200 Autoists Stopped in OPA Campaign   Officials Say Third of Them Pleasure Drivine

Drive Ban Violations  Said Heavy   Siate Administrator Says Public . Uncooperative, Thousands” Undetected

ANC RICANS HIT JULOMONS BASE   Enemy Installations Or Bougainville Island Dam: aged By Bomibng

JAP BASES HIT BY U, S, FLIERS   Nippon Installations in Solomons, Aleutians Bombed by Yanks

Soldier Wounded on Attu Will Speak in Butte  Corp. Tibor Bartha 4g, Tale Partin

Soldier Wounded on Attu Will Speak in Butte  Corp. Tibor Bartha to Take Part in Miners’ Union Day

Government Food Stamp Program  Ordered Halted   Ordered Halted  Subsidy System Suspended March  ‘For the Duration’  NO MORE SURPLUSES 19,596 In New Mexico  Received Stamps  ar

New Strike Threatened   Miners Irate at Being Fined For Leaving Work Last Week

Central Pa. Pact Provides $1.30 Daily Portal Pay   WLB May Disprove O’Neil-Lewis Agreement Terms; Protest Strike Is Threatened If Ickes Carries Out Plan To Impose Strike Penalty.

U.S. Sub Hit Jap Shipping   Tremendous Losses Being Inflicted Says Report From Pacific   JAP REPORTS ARE BRANDED UNTRUE

Japs Suffer Big Losses From Subs   Tokyo Boast Of Sinking U. S$. Ships Branded As “Flat Lie”

Chief of Agency to Aid Small Plants Quits Army For More Freedom to Act

Ueneral Nesigis To Fight for More  Civil Production Robert Wood Johnson   Says No Disagreement  ‘Yet’ With Military HEADS SWPC   Increasing Competitior

Number of Nazi SubsUp—Knox   Says Hitler Concentrates On U-Boat Building

More U-Boats Now Than Ever—Knox  Majority Operate South Of Iceland, Others Are On Route To Africa

erman Submarine Menace ‘Atlantic Ocean Increasing   ecretary of Navy Knox Says There Are Now More Enemy U-Boats at Sea Than There .Were Even Last June, When They Ran Up Their Highest Record of Merchantship Sinkings

MORE AXIS U-BOAT! NOW THAN IN JUNE   Knox Says Creat Effort Being Made To Cope With Menace

NUMBER OF SUBS AT SEAS INCREASING   Secretary Knox. Says UBoat Remains’ Most Serious Atlantic Menace.

MORE GERMAN U-BOATS NOW THAN LAST JUNE   Hitler is Devoting, All Construction Facilities  To Building Subs

Post- War Money Plan To Be Studied     ENTRAORDINARY JOINT SESSION ARRANGED FOR NENT MONDAY.

STABILIZATION OF POST-WAR CASH IS MORGENTHAU'S AIM   Secretary of the Treasury to Present Program Before Committees on Monday.

HAS POST-WAR STABILIZATION SUGGESTIONS   Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau to Present Matter Before Three Senate Committees.

NEW CURR STABILIZATION PLAN PREPARED   — Post-War 4-point Program To Senate Committees WMionday.

Stabilizing Of Currency After War Proposed   Morgenthau To Confer Monday With Three Senate Groups On Projects

GURRENGY VALUES JO BE DISCUSSEL   Morgenthau Will Presen  dea to Three Senate Groups Monday.

STABILIZATION PLAN PREPARED   Morgenthau Maps Proposals For Post-War International Currency

Plans Drawn For Currency Stabilization   Latin American Nations Invited To Conferences

PLAN PROGRAM FOR POST-WAR STABILIZATION      Joint Session Of Three Senate Committees Is Set For Monday

Postwar Currency Stabilization Plan To Be Presented   Three Committees To.Hear Secy. Moraenthau = —

Allied Fighters Hit Axis Fields   ITALIAN ISLANDS SCENE OF MORE HEAVY ATTACKS

Palace Hit at Palermo-Rome   Allied Bombers Start Fires at Cagliari

ALLIES SLASH AT AXIS SHIPPING   DOWN FOUR GERMAN FIGHTERS OFF COAST OF NORTH AFRICA

AXIS AIRFIELDS ON SICILY ARE HAMMERED AGAIN   U. S. Airmen Bomb Palermo and Four Enemy Airdromes Wednesday With Little Opposition

PALERMO, FOUR AIRFIELDS ON SICILY RAIDEL   U.S. Bombers and Fighter-Bomb: ers Find Little Opposition—Ital. jans Admit Great Damage

ee / Virtually pposition ‘emy Fiahters  Attacks Made Without Frome -

SCORE HITS ON PALMEROTARGETS   AMERICAN BOMBERS DESTROY AIR FIELDS AND WRECK BARRACKS

Allied Bombers Batter Sardinia Without A Loss   Barracks, Railway Depot At Cagliari Undergo Raid By Night Planes

Bombs Drop On Palermo   U.S. Planes Out of North Africa Shower Damage on Sicily

Barracks, Railway Facilities Fired; U. S. Fliers Down  Four Germans

Palermo, 4 Air Fields Bombed   Little Axis Opposition Met by U. S. Force

FOUR GERMAN FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN, AXIS SHIPPING BLASTED IN NEW AIR ATTACKS

United States Planes Hit PaleritioAndFour Axis Air Fields In Raids ‘On Mussdlini‘s Sicilian Defenses

Sicilian Ports Are Hit Again  Aliiad Eliaee Clack   Allied Fliers Slash At Axis Shippina

Other Allied Warplanes Attack Messina And Vagliari; British Subs Sink Axis Ships

“~ a. Bombers Blast Palermo And Airfields   Americans Encountered Virtually No Enemy Opposition From:  Air. It Is Said

ALLIES POUND AXIS SHIPPING   Palermo Attacked Again; Royal Palace Among Buildings Damaged.

FOUR GERMAN PLANES DOWNED AS ALLIES RANGE IN MEDITERRANEAN   SPITFIRE PILOTS ACTIVE IN ATTACKS ON AXiS SHIPPING, RAIL JUNCTIONS, BARRACK CENTERS

Allies Raid Rail Targets In Sardinia   Italians Claim Sicilian Palace — Demaaed in Attack

CAGLIARI BOMBED WITHOUT LOSSES   German Shipping, Dock Faci' ities in Caucasus Area Bombed By Rads.

AXIS SHIPPING BLASTED AGAIN   Russia’s Red Armies Renew Offense But Details of Latest Attacks Scarce

Planes Slash At Halian Isles, Ships   Sardinia and Sicily Cepitals Bombed and Axis Vessels Hit

SICILY, PALERMO “ARE ASSAULTED BY YANK FLIERS   ‘Great Damage, Many Casualties’ Reported in Italian Communique

Axis Opposition Wanes As Allies Pound At Sicily   Italians Admit Heavy Damage To Palermo

4 AXIS FIGHTERS — ARE SHOT DOW?   Allied Airmen Slash Again At Axis Mediterranean Shipping In Wake of FireSetting Attack On Facilities At Cagliari, Sardinian Port,

ITALY SEEMS TOBE  Ar HEMERGY OF: ALLIED PLANES       Attacks Made On Sicily And Messina, Many Fires Started   ENEMY PLANES STAY ON GROUND

U.S. Bombers Blast Palerme   Rome Reports ‘Great Damage And Many Casualties’ In Sicilian Port.

American Bombers Blast Sicily Area   Little Opposition from Enemy Fighters Reported as Savage Attacks on Foe Continue

Palermo And Airfields in Sardinia Targets Of J.S. And RAF Bombers

MORE POUNDING BY U.S, Re A. F   Aliied Airmen Over Western Europe, Mediterranean Area Without Losing Plane

Sardina’s Major  Port Ils Bombed   Allied Airmen Also Slash at Axis Mediterranean Shipping.

PALERMO BLASTED BY UNITED STATES PLANES YESTERDAY   Four Axis Airfields in Sicily Also Included in the Attack.   LITTLE OPPOSITION   Great Damage and Many Casualties at Palermo, It Was Said.

ALLIES HIT AXIS MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING   Four German Fighters  Shot Down and Barracks And Rail Facilities Rambed

ALLIES HAMMER PALERMO AND 4 AXIS AIRFIELDS   Italians Repoit Heavy  Dainage, Many Casualties From Plane Attacks

U.S. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS BLASTED. AXIS AIR FIELDS —   wacuen EreRy. nae   SMASHED FERRY TER"MINUS AND FREIGHT — YARDS PRE.DAWN ATTACK

AXIS SHIPPING IN MEDITERRANEAN SLASHED BY ALLIES   Was in Wake of Fire-Setting ~ Attack Upon Barracks and Railway Facilities.   RAID WAS ON CAGLIARI   Four German Fighters Were Shot Down by Allied Airmen.

YANKS HIT AT ITALIAN PORT   Palermo and Sicily Bombed ‘Without Opposition of Enemy Planes.

Sardinia Blasted, 4 Fighters Shot .  Down Off Africa   Palermo and Catania. or Sicily Also Bombarded Again. Palermo De: -scribed As “About Fin: ished.’

ANKS BOMB ALERMO AND A AIR BASES   at Damage Admitted n Raids on Sicily — British Subs Sink at zeast 4 Axis Ships ir editerranean.

PALERMO PORT HIT BY YANKS   Four Axis Air Fields - Blasted In Attacks During Daylight

Allied Planes Hit At Axis Shipping   FOUR GERMAN FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN OVER SARDINIA

YANKS ASSAULT PALERMO AGAIN   Italians Claim Royal Palace Is Among ‘Numerous Ruildines’ Damavced

FEW FIGHTERS AISE TO MEET “ALLIED PLANE:   U.S. Bombers Blast Palermo, Four Airtields and Ferry Station.   OTHER ITALIAN TARGETS  ATTACKED, FIRES STARTED

Fire - Setting Raid Made On Sardinia Port   Baracks and Railway Facilities of Cagliari Are : Damaged ~~’   ENEMY SCHOONERS HIT

Sicilian and Sardinian Air Fields Bombed   American Fliers Meet Vir. tually No Opposition From Enemy   MANY FIRES STARTED

Allied F liers Raid Port Of Cagliari In Sardinia And Blast Axis Shipping

Little Opposition On Sicily Raids   Palermo Bombed With Great Damage

Enemy Offers Virtually No Opposition   Submarine Pressure Upon Axis Supply Lines Continues

Air Fields On Sicily  Pummeled   Heavy Damage Admitted - In Tralian Communique: Axis Sea Lanes Raided

Air Fields On Sicily Battered   Italian High Command Reports Great Damage  At Palermo

Sardinia’s Major Port Of Cagliari Is Rombed   Four Enemy Planes Shot Down And Axis Mediterranean Shipping Also Attacked

AXIS SHIPS SUNK, POINTS IN SICILY HEAVILY BOMBED   Submarines and Planes Operating in Mediterranean Sector Batter Italians on Land and Sea Alike.

ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER SHIPS OF AXIS CONVOY   Attacks Follow Fire- Setting  Assault Upon Barracks   and Rail Facilities of  Cagliari, Sardinia   ALSO RAID PALERMO   Italian Communique Ac knowledges. Damage to _ Buildings, Including  _ Royal Palace

U, S, BOMBERS BLAST PALERMO, AIR FIELDS IN MISSION OVER SICILY IN DAYLIGHT

U.S. Forces Find Little Opposition In Blasting Sicily   Great Damage Done and Casualties Reported at Palermo.   Pressure Is Continued On Axis Supply Lines

Four Axis Air Fields Blasted In Big Foray   Messina, Sardinia As saulted In Pre-Dawn Aliied Raids

ALLIES CONTINUE TO SLASH AXIS SHIPPING MEDITERRANEAN AREA   FOUR PLANES SHOT DOWN, BARRACKS DESTROYED, OTHER DAMAGE

ALLIED AIRMEN SCORE AGAIN IN MEDITERRANEAN   Four German Planes Shot Down, Axis Shipping Attacked, Sardinia And Sicily Subjected To New Attacks.

Allied Fliers Down  4 German Fighters,  Slash Axis Shippine Barracks, Railways  Set Fire ot Port Of Cagliari

CHARGES ARE DENIED   ‘U. S. Steel President Appears Before the War Board

ar an cm, a me,  U.S, STEEL CO, HEAD ADMITS DEVIATION FROM STANDARDS

Easter This Year Will Lack Frills  OPA Discourages Sale  Pe. a a  . e  } ae

BROWN TAKES OVER OPA WITH BID FOR CONSUMER SUPPORT  TELLS PRESS CONFERENC HE HOPES TO PROTECT AMERICAN CONSUMER

Prentiss Brown Takes Over As  New Price Boss   Asks Public Support For Program Of Gradually  Risinge Prices

BROWN GETS FREE HAND AS OPA CHIEF   Former - Michigan * Senator Takes over Reins of Price  Administration, Rationing

BROWN FACED BY OPA SNAGS   BIDS FOR CONSUMER AID IN PROGRAM OF RISING PRICES

Consumer Support Sought By Brown; Increased Control Of Rationing Due

Prentiss Brown Takes Helm Of Gale-Tossed OPA   Ex-Michigan Senator Given Free Hand In Ditficult Job

Necessity of Asking For  Deficiency Appropriation is Considered  _SHAKEUP IS RUMORED   i\SHAKEUP IS RUMORED

Prentiss Brown Sets Sail on Stormy OPA Seas ——Has Free Hand to Make or Break Himself

NEW PRICE ADMINISTRATOR OFFERS PROMISE OF IMPROVING NATIONAL RATIONING SYSTEM

Soft Answers To Be Tried By OPA Chief  Brown Apt To Use More Tact Handling

GRADUAL RISE IN PRICES AIM OF OPA CHIEI   Prentiss M. Brown Takes Over Henderson's Job~Favors Trans portation Subsidies

New OPA Czar Takes Helm  Brown Sets Sail On Stormy Sees, First Object To Protect Consumer

Takes Over OPA Reins   New Rationing Head Says Main Object Is To Protect Consumer

Brown Starts  On OPA Duty   Bids For Consumer Support Of New Program With Added Local Control.

BROWN SAILS ON STORMY SEAS   New O.P.A. Executive Asks Support of Consumers

New Price Chief Takes Over Today, Hints Gas Rationing May Be Extended To The West

Brown, Taking @PA Job, Asks. Consumer Help  Sees ‘Increased Prices

BROWN TAKES OVER AS NEW HEAD OF OPA   Makes Bid For Con. sumer Support Of Beaorany   ISOLATES SELF   Envisions Inereased Local Control Of Rationing

NEW OPA CZAR ASKS SUPPORT OF CONSUMERS   Increasing Local Ration Control! Now Predicted

New Chief of OPA Declares He Will Protect Consumers   Shakeup in Top Personnel Of Agency Seen at Capital

i ome And Farm Accident Prevention  ed In County This Week"         $40 in Prizes ‘Offered ‘in Contest, Courses to. be Taught.

Lome And Farm Accident Prevention  Drive Opened In County This Week   $40 in Prizes Offered in Contest, Courses to be Taucht.

HUGE FLEET OF FORTS ATTACKS IN DAYLIGHT   YanksF ollow Heaviest R. A. F, Assault on Berlin, Ludwigshafen

World’s Largest Oil Pipe Line Is Laid  Complete 551-Mile 24-Inch Conduit

Texas-to-Ilinois  Pipeline Finished   Second Leg to Philadelphia Area Begun—-Completion Expected in June

WINS HIS FIGHT FOR CITIZENSHIF   Communist Leader Victorious _ In Supreme Court Test of ~ Party’e Prinriniac

RED WINS TILT ON CITIZENSHIP   U. S. Supreme Court Rules for Schneideman, Aiced by Willkie

Brazilian Ship ls Torpedoed   78, Including Women And Children, Are Reported Missing

TORPEDO SINKS BRAZILIAN SHIP   At Least 78, Including Women And Children, Reported Missing

BRAZILIAN VESSEL OUNK; 78 MISSING   SHIP TORPEDOED NEAR COAST—EIGHTY-EIGHT SURVIVORS REACH SHORE,

Women And Children Among Missing After U-Boat Sinks Brazilian Steamer “Bage”

Torpedo Sends Ship  Down With Crew,  Passengers Aboard Many Are Missing;  Vessel Was Brazil’s Largest

OPEN STATE LEGISLATURE IN CAPITAL   Hickenlooper presides it senate; Ted Sloane in lower house

NELSON COMMENDS DEFENSE WORKMAN   Loyd Converse Walks 20 Miles Through Blizzard To Factory.

Congressmen Wrathy Over Food Parley   Chilly Reception Given Republicans At Hot Springs

LAWMAKERS IRATE AT FOOD CONFERENCE   Two Republicans Say They Were Barred at Door

FOOD MEETING IS GRITICIZED   Republican Congressman Leaves Conference With Charge Secrecy Is Cloaking “‘Diabolical’’ Plot.

Alr Raid Rules Now State Law   State-Wide Unannounced Test Alerts Planned, Defense Council Official Says

Nazi Patents Confiscated   Nearly 50,000 Have Already Been Seized, OWI Announces

Labor Draft Due Next Year Unless ‘Women Get Jobs   Chairman Of WMC Sets Manpower Need At 4 Million More

Labor Dr aft Due Next Year: Unless  Women. Volunteer for. Jobs—McNutt

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Situation Of Nazi Armies Win Russia Desperate, Reserves Called In

THIS YEAR'S CROPS BETTER THAN LAST   Cptimistic Report on Production of Food Turned In.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Randazzo Getting Plenty of Attention from Air

Germans Hurling Darts Al Yankees in Africa   ‘Devil's Needles” Dropped by Night-Raiding Bombers Used By Americans to Play Darts; Yankees Show Utter Disdain For Marksmanship of Nazis During Attacks

Nazi Night Bombers Shower ‘Steel Darts On Americans   But U. S. Soldiers Soon Found Way To Beat Barbarous Methods Used In Africa

TYPICAL FALL WEATHER   Flora Predicts Somewhat Higher Temperatures for This Area

Berlin Gets Second Dose   Allied Planes Pound Capital Of Germany

Berlin In Chaos From RAF Raid   Population Terrified; Whole District: Disappear in Smoke and Flames

NEW STRIKES FLARE IN SOFT COAL MINES OF PENNSYLVANIA   WLB Appeal To Miners Tc Remain. In Pits Has : ‘Failed—Thousands © Idle Today.

o7 Mines Closed As Locals Jump  Gun on Contract      Steel Mills Lose 100,000 Tons Daily; Lewis Ponders Next Strategy

LAUNCH NAVY SHIP AT DC   Christened By Wisconsin Woman As It Slips Into Ship Canal

Another Ship Launched Here   Brief Ceremony Hel Saturday Afternoon

Russians Seal Germans Inside Crimean Trap   Thousands Of Germans ‘ Killed Or Captured; Huge Booty Seized   90,000 Hungarian Troops Going Home

SEARCH FOR NEGRO SLAYER EXTENDED   14-Year-Old Louisiana Girl Tells OF Attempted Ascault Before She Dics

King Boris of Bulgaria and His Premier Quarrel Violently Over Nation's War Role: Hungary Reported Putting Out Peace Feelers: Balkans Fearful Over Implications of Mussolinis Fall

CIVILIAN: DEFENSE” UNIT IS ORGANIZED      Program Announced by the Fairchild Aircraft ' * Corporation *

CIVILIAN DEFENSE UNIT IS ORGANIZED   Program Announced by the Fairchild Aircraft Corporation

HORSE MEAT IS HERE TO STAY   Butcher Starts Small Store in January, Now Has Four

Successful Mustang. Jobber Says Public No Longer Turn Up Nose At Idea; Even Society, He Contends, Has Overcome Its First Sense of Horror Over Steed Roasts; Business Booming

Allies Craek Nazi Line in Central Italy   Nine-Mile Gain Adds New Threat to Enemy Volturno Line; Britis! Capture San Croce

FLANK GAINS MENACE NAZI LINE IN ITALY   SAN CROCE SEIZED; BIG GUNS MASSED ALONG VOLTURNO

Allies Forge New Threat to the Nazis   Crack Tough Enemy Defenses in Central Italy

ALLIES CRACK FOE DEFENSES ALONGSTREAM   Shells Roar Prelude to Great Battle In Italy

Allies Break Through Nazi Line in lialy   Andications of Major Battle in Near Future Are Found

Allies Score Break-Through In Central Italy   Artillery Duel Opens As Prelude to Great Volturno Line Battle

9-MILE BREAK MADE THROUGH CENTRAL AREA   Both Sides Concentrate New Forces On River In Preparation For Major Battle

ALLIED FORGES CEIZE SAN CROCE   Score 9-mile Breakthrough In Central Italy   FOES MASS FORCES   Coming Volturno Battle May Outrank Salerno; Eighth Gains Ground

ALLIES TAKE SAN CROCE IN NEW ASSAULT   Forces Being Concentrated for Big Battle Along the Volturno River   GAINS REPORTED BY THE BRITISH ARMY   Successes on Every Sector Announced by Gen’! Montgomery

iS SEIZED BY ALLIES   In Central Front Break Through; Threaten to Outflank Germans; Artillery Duels Along Volturno.   Beyond Termoli

RED UKRAINIAN ARMY DRIVING FOR KOROSTEN   Important Communications City Within Artillery  Ranga   COUNTER - ATTACKS BY GERMANS AT FASTOV

TURKEY NEAR WAR ACTION, NOW BELIEVE   Parliament Backs Government Conduct in Negotiations Recently Made With British.

‘Stormy 914 Hour Session  Is Held   Move Centers Around Recent Talks by British  Dame ancans obicracs

Believe Turks on Verge of Entering War; Parliament Approves Conduct In Negotiations With Great Britain

Turks Approve British Talks   Would Sanction All  Commitments Made

JAPS ANNOUNCE GAINS IN BURMA   Claim To Have Lost Only 85 Nip Soldiers, A'lies 900

ND NURSES “ADE CLASS   Red Cross Makes Call For Enrollments; Start  About Sept. 1

Second Nurses’ Class Plannec   Red’ Cross Calls Fo ‘More Hospital Aides

Assassments For 1942 Show Increase ~ Count Assessor W. A  Bassman Announces ae ee 2 ee . ae

Assessments For 1942 Show Increase Countv Assessor W. A.  Bassman Announces Valuation Report

Million- Dota Fire Sweeps Canneries   Two-Hour Battle At San Pedro

CANNERIES ARE HIT BY BLAZES   Million Dollar Damage Is Caused In San Pedro

Says Subsidy Plan Is Check On Inflation   Bowles Says OPA Has ‘No Secondary Line Of Defense’

Ammunition And Grain Depot Are Taken From Nazis   Reds Shatter Wave After Wave Of Counterattacks In North

SNOW AR MIND, SOVIETS KFEP MOVING AHEAD   NOVOROSSISK AREA OF CAUCASUS IS MOPPED UP

REDS ADVANCE THRU SNOWS SHATTER FOE   Russians List Destruction Of 2150 Enemy Troops And 29 Tanks; Capture Grain  ldennt.   Reds Extend Attacks

Russians Gain North of Kursk, West of Kharkov   Also Capture Station And District Center In Novorossisk Area

MOTIVE SOUGHT INMYSTERY OF TRAIN BERTH 13   Evidence Collected Or Train On Which Naval Officer's Wife Was Slain Studied   THREE ARE HELD   Belief Exists Woman’s Throat Was Slit While _ Rebuffing Attempted Rape.

ASSEMBLE CLUES IN TRAIN MURDER   Two Are Held as Witnesses: Negro Cook Arrested

THREE HELD IN TRAIN SLAYING   Evidence Collected Along Route Sent To Investigators.

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST NAZI POSITIONS   Ground Fighting On Tunisia Front Comes to Standstill

GROUND FIGHTING IS AT STANDSTILL IN TUNISIA ARE!   Americans’ Difficulties Dur  ing Week Due to Too Few Men Attempting to - Hold Lone Line.   BRITISH IN MOVE TO CRACK, FLANK ENEMY   Rommel May Suspend Offensive Against Americans to Prepare For Attack of British.

PLANES BUSY, ACTIVITY ON. GROUND CEASES   Germans Worry Over Advance of 8th. Army; Nazi Tanks Called Biz Factor.

Rommel Pauses  To Face British    New German Tanks Too Powerful for Allied ArmorWarnlanes Batter Enemy

ROMMEL’S POSITIONS HIT BY AIR   Land Action: Dwindles But British Menace Mareth Line

AOAY SMASH LULL, ENEMY LINES RAIDED   Allied Airmen Blast Foes in Feriana Area as 8th Army Moves.   MONTGOMERY COLUMNS - AT MARETH’S OUTPOST,

FIGHTING NEARLY AT STANDSTILL, STH ARMY MOVES   Germans Consolidating Positions Won In Tunisia Trianole,

British Armies  Squeeze Nazis, Take Outpost   U. S. Tanks Bring Enemy to Standstill At Center of Tunisian Front as Russians Slash Half Way Across Nazi Caucasus Escape Route.

Thousands Quit Work, Threaten War Production   Reach No Settlement Of  Wage Increase Demands

Coal Mining Is Paralyzed As Truce Expires   Output Of War Factories Threatened By Lewis Union Action

Claim Sinking Of Troop Ship  Italy Says Empress OVE Canada le Daw:

‘Empress Of Canada’ Laden With Men Sunk, Says Italy   Claim Vessel Sent Down By Italian Sub; Germany Reports New Successes

Transport Canl Clot.  hy Ses AANG CARGO RASA  British Ship Sent Down, Italians Say

Report Fierce Battle.   Allied Troopship Sunk, Says Italian Command

Canadian Liner Is Sunk, Italians Say  Allies Don’t Confirm Report That Troop Ship (Is Lost

Liner Empress Of Canada Lost alians Claim   Vessel Was Loaded With Troops When Sent Down In Atlantic, Rome Broadcast Savs

Italy Claims 22 Allied Planes Downec   Admits Heavy Damage in Attacks on Several Important Bases

Ship Said Loaded With Allied Troop:  No Confirmation Of This From Allied Quarters  NAZIS ALSO BUSY MAKING CLAIMS

CANADIAN LINER REPORTED SUNK   Italians Claim Sub Bagged Empress of Canada, 23,000-Ton Ship

Big Big Allied Troop Ship Sunk, Italians Claim   Re ASReCWIATES DD PRESA

CANADA TRANSPORT SUNK, ITALY CLAIMS      Empress of Canada Hit by Submarine, Unconfirmed

BATTLE LOOMS IN EFFORTS TO CURB STRIKES   Senators Delay Action On Proposed Measures, Say Hasty Moves Could -Cause Damage   STUDY IS URGED   Connally Demands Speedy  Enactment-of. Act to Curb Stoppages In Mines. Plants

CONNALLY BILL HEADED BACK 10 COMMITTEE   Senator Connally Wants To “Face This Thing Now”

HOLD BACK ON PLANT SEIZURE   Connally Measure Likely To Be Sent Back To Committee

Coupon Serial Numbers Are Intended To Help Curb Illegal Operations.

AIDED BY WEATHER TEXAS FARMERS T0 GATHER GOOD CROPS   MAXIMUM USE OF LIMITED LABOR AND EQUIPMENT IS PERMITTED

WAR BOARDS TC HELP SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARDS   County Organizations To Act in Technical Capacity  Concerning Registrants

UTILIZATION OF FARM WORKERS   County U. 8. D. A. War Boards Ac! as Technical Advisors for Those Seeking Farm Deferment

Aid In Filing  Farm Deferm ts   USDA War ] Board Will Advise Draft. Boards

780.000 Tons Jap Shipping Sunk In 6 Menths   Subs Take Heavy Toll Of Nip  Merchant Shins

WOODEN SOLDIERS AND GUNS GUARD CONCRESS    Revelation Makes Kentuckian Real Mad and He Plans Personal Investigation of Startling Announcement Made by Colleague of Dummies Being on Roof of House Building.

ULONG GUARDED BY WOODEN GUNS   ‘May Of House Military  Committee Says It’s  “Pack Of Foolishness’

CONGRESS OBJECTS TO MILITARY GUARD   “omplains Army Has Made A Military: Objective  Of Lawmakers

First Bills Introduced Opening Day   Streamlined State Legislature Off To Flying Start

Lawmakers Wade In   Fiftieth Session of ‘Kansas Legislature Off to Flying Start

CIVILIAN GOODS BOOST 1S URGED   Move Urged To Halt Inflation And Prevent Waste

PAY AS YOU GO TAX LEGISLATION IS RETURNED  TO COMMITTEE   Chairman Bob Doughton Now Visiting Home At Laurel Springs. 

AQUINDLIP TODAY   Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill Is Pigeon-holed for Time Being.

Sub Strikes Near US.   Sinking Is First In Coastal Waters Since Last August

U-Boats Appear Off East Coast   Arrive Again After Seven Months Absence

Uneasy Eyes Kept on Dnieper River By German People and Ball.an Satellites

When Are Reds Going To Step   Germans Wondering Whether Russians Will Be Halted At Dnieper.

Propagandists Seek To Explain Reverse In Russia, Plead  For Strong Defense

UNEASY EYE CAST ON DNIEPER BY GERMAN HOME FOLKS   Nazis’ Balkan Satellites Also Wonder If the German Retreat in Russia Will End— Admit Situation Serious —

Where Will The Nazi Retreat End?....  Germany Has Uneasy Eye On Soviet Front

Military Might Of Germany, Japan Greater Now Than Ever Before; Nazis Steel Nation For Bad News

Continued Retreat In Russia. Stirs Uneasiness In Germany   Goebbels Makes No Attempt To Hide Seriousness Of Situation In East

RETREAT STIRS UNEASINESS IN MINDS OF NAZIS   Withdrawal From Russia’   Viewed As Serious; Prop agandists Seek to Explain It Away

DRAWING. FOR SECTIONAL AT “ TIPTONS GIN   Total of 775 ‘Teams in. This ‘State in Gréat Annual Sports Classic. .   START PLAY THURSDAY   Negro, Parochial and Private Schocls Are in for. . . the First Time,

DRAWING FOR OEGTIONAL AT , TIFION'S GYM   Total of 775 Teams in This State in Gréat Annual Sports Classic.   START PLAY THURSDAY   Negro, Parochial and Pri. vate Sckocls Are in for the First Time. 4

Flood Waters — Move Slowh   Cincinnati’ Area Is Safe With Some Loss ‘Being Caused In Ohio

Flood Damage In Ohio Slight.  Fast. Runoff Barting _ More: Rain Is Likely’ "To Relieve Situation

Flood Crest Moves On, Leaves Ohio To Dry Up   Cincinnati Submerged As River Hits 60-Foot Stace For 150 Miles.

Flood Crest Moves Down River from Portsmouth   Peak One Foot Below City’s 5-mile Wall; 60 Feet  at Cinatninats

CREST OF FLOOD MOVING SLOWLY DOWN THE OHIO  EXPECTED TO DROP  FASTER BARRING ° HEAVY RAINS

Cincinnati Is Inundated By Flood Waters   Colder Weather  Promises Runoff

Flood Reaches  Cincinnati   Cold Weather Helps To Stop Waters; Many Forced From Homes

FLOOD EASED IN OHIO; COLD PROMISES AID   Cincinnali Expects Quick Runoff While Portsmouth is Saved by Dyke—Maay Flea Lowlands

OHIO RIVER FLOOD BEGINS TO RECEDE   Crest Sweeps by Cincinnat Without Great Damage

COLD WEATHER AIDS RECESSION BARRING RAINS   Cincinnati Escapes Serious  Damage Tho Some War Plants Are Closed   PORTSMOUTH IS RELIEVED   Citizens Of Cities Along Upper Valley Start Cleaning Up Debris

Flood-Waters—Falling Slowly   Ohio's Crest Is Moving Toward Cincinnati

LONG FLOOD CREST MOVES SLOWLY DOWN OHIO RIVER   Moderately Fast Run-Off ts Promised, Barring Heavy Rains

Flood Moves To Cincinnati   High Water Stops Navigation and Closes Down Some Plants

DR. WOLFE EXPIRES. SUDDENLY, AGED 52   Smithsburg Rector Dies as - the Result of Heart Attack

Hot Political Fight Is On In Allegheny Co.   Continuation of "Old Guard" and Young Republican Fight i is On  LITTLE FERVOR SHOWN

NEAR CLIMAX IN STRUGGLE FOR KHARKOV   Russians Beat Off Series Of — Counter-Attacks; Close In On City From Three  Directions   Hurl Nazis dack

Red Forces Get Within 15 Miles Of Bryansk Base   Battle for Kharkov Nears Climax; City  Of Zhizdra Captured

RUSSIANS SLASH WAY TO WITHIN 13 MILES OF BRYANSK   Reds. Capture 130 Towns and Villages in Drive, Including Important City of Whizdra.   CLOSE ON KHARKOV * FROM 3 DIRECTIONS   Nazis Launch Strong Counter-Attacks in Effort to Prevent Encirclement of Steel Center.

Fall of Kharkov Is imminent Soviets Believe  Close in on City   Close in on City From Three Sides; Sweep Onward

REDS CONTINUE TO ADVANGE ON CENTRAL FRONT   Soviets May Bypass Kharkov In Drive To Recap tire Brvansk   ZHIZDRA FALLS IN BITTER FIGHTING

Red Army Troops Move OnBryansk From Two Points   Russians Believe Victory ls Near At Kharkov; Bitter Fighting

Following Bitter All-night Battle With Germans   KHARKOV BATTLE   Approaches Climax as Russians Beat Off Counterattacks; Reds Close in

Red Army Now Only 15 Miles From Bryansk   Fail of Kharkoy Expected Hourly

SOVIETS MAKE. GAIN IN DRIVE FOR BRYANSK   Reds May Be By-Pass jing Kharkov; Battle  “Wears Climax

Soviets Near Bryansk Base   Gains Are Reposted ‘As Zhizdra Is, Taken

CLIMAX NEAR IN STRUGGLE FOR KHARKO\   REDS CLOSE IN ON BRYANSK, TAKE KEY TOWNS

Kharkov Battle Near Climax; Soviets 40 Miles from Bryansk   Red Forces Closing In On Embattled Kharkov From Three Directions

AUDOIANG ARE IN PURSUIT OF THE GERMANS   Nazis Retreat, Leaving Key ) Points on Railroads  to the Reds.   SOME TRAPS CLOSED   Soviet Armies Are Storm. ino Ahead Alcng a Very Wide Front .

RUSSIANS ARE IN. PURSUIT if THE GERMANS   Nazis Retreat, Leaving Key ~Points on Railroads to the. Reds. .   ISOME TRAPS - CLOSED   Soviet Armies ‘Are Storm. ing Ahead Aleng a Very Wide Front .°

Americans Repel First German Thrust In Pass North Of Kasserine; Rommel May Ge To Russia As Commander .   RUSSIAN ARMIES ADVANCE STEADILY

Transportation System In Long Beach, Calif., Tied Up By A Strike

ONE OF GERMAN'S PRIZED WARSHIPS HAS BEEN WRECKED   LONDON ANNOUNCES THAT MIDGET SUBMARINES TORPEDOED THE BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ ON NORWAY COAST.   DARING EPISODE STAGED SEPTEMBER 22   First Official Confirmation That the British Are Using Midget Submarines—Three of the Subs Failed to Return.

German Battleship Tirpitz hos Been Torpedoed and Damaged   British Midget Submarines Carry Out One of Most Daring Raids.

DARING EXPLOIT REVEALED TODAY   Admiralty Confirms Successful Attack Sept. 22 By Midget Subs

Southern Italy’s Rail System Is Paralyzed By Devastating Air Attack:

Bombs Cripple Italian Rails   U. S. Fliers Blast Yards at Sulmona

Rail Traffie InSouth Italy At Standstill   Flying Fortresses Hit Sulmona, Mitchells In Attack Near Naples; ‘oe’s Combat Spirit Up

Kingpin In Defenses About Made Useless By Relentless Bombings By Allied Planes

TRAFFIC ALMOST STOPPED ON ALL MAINLAND LINES   20 Enemy Planes Shot Down Over R.R. Yard Areas

Blast At Halian Railway System   Bombs Disorganize Transit Setup

Entire Railway Systen of Southern Italy Is Disrupted By Bombing:

Southern Italy’s  Rail System Ruined   Train Traffic Almost at Standstill, Allies Report Following Heavy Blast by U. S. Planes at Transportation Centers.

Italian Railway System Wrecked   ALLIED BOMBINGS PLAY HAVOC WITH MANY LIVES

Italy's Rail System At A Standstill    Train Com-nunications Relentlessly Bombed

SOUTH ITALY’S RAIL SYSTEM DISORGANIZED      Allied Airmen Blast Rail Yards Losemotive Werks in Wide  spread Raids   DUELS INCREASE   0 Axis Planes ‘Shot Down, Sel 15-Car Railread Train on Fire

Southern Italy's Railway Traffic Disorganized   Allied Bombings Cause Breakdown Of Italian Rail Transportation

Italian Rail Lines Blasted   Entire System in Southern Part of Country Disorganized

Train Traffic   U. S. Flying Fortresses Make Heavy Blast At Railroad Yards At Sulmona and Mitchell Bombers Attack Congested Freight Yard: and Locomotive Works at Benevento.

Blast Railroad Yards East Of Rome..... Entire Railway System In Southern Italy Now Almost At A Standstill

Rail: Systeni: in. South. Italy Disorganized by  Allied Aerial.Bombing

RAILROADS HIT AGAIN IN ITALY BY BIG BOMBS   Vital Transportation System Virtually Paralyzed by Allied Attack   MANY OF ENEMY DOWNED   Assault Diversified Against Freight Yards in Many Parts of Big Area

ITALIAN RAIL SYSTEM BADLY DISORGANIZED   Constant. Hammering by Allied Planes. Playing Havoc With Transporta be nes

Italy’s Rail Systems Crippled By Pounding      Backbone Of Nation’s Defense Shattered _ As Yankee Fortresses Smash Two ~ : More Railway Centers.

Allied Bombs Disrupt Rail Traffic in Htaly   Trains at Standstill As Railroad Yards Become Raid Taraets

Entire South Italy Rail System Disrupted By Allied Bombing Attacks

FLYING FORTRESSES BLASTED RAIL YARDS AT SULMONA FRIDAY  RAILWAY YARDS AT OTH ER IMPORTANT POINTS IN ITALY ALSO BOMBED

FLYING FORTS  ETA, TPAQTAan POUND TALE  RAIL JUNCTION   Sulmona Yards, 100 Miles From Rome, Raided for First Time; Mitchells Pound Benevento   LIGHTNINGS DRIVE OFF AXIS FIGHTERS   Rome Admits Considerable Damage to Salerno in Allied Raid; Italian ¥rain Explodes

Italy’s Railway System Disrupted By Allied Bombs   Traffic on Rails, Kingpin of Defenses, Almost to a Standstill.   Sulmona Hit First Time by U. S. Planes

Railways In Southern Italy Are Smashed   Train Traffic Brought To Standstill After Relentless Attacks By American Bombers

SOUTHERN ITALY’S ~~ RAILWAG SYSTEM IS DISORGANIZED   Relentless Allied Bombing Has Brought Train Traffic to Almost a Standstill. :   HEAVY BLAST BY U. S.   Flying Fortresses Attacked Railroad Yards at Sul more, East of Rome.

RAIL  SYSTEM WRECKED  ALLIED HEADQU ARTE RS  one a+ oe Oe oem a eee eo oe A

“SOUTHERN ITALY’S RAILWAY SYSTEM DISORGANIZED FROM ~RELENTLESS ALLIED BOMBINGS

ALLIES OMAGH FAIL SYSTEN   Southern ftaly’s Railroads Disorganized By Allied Bombings.

Secretary of State C. Hull and Anthony Eden Arrive Yesterday.   INDICATION RUSSIA WANTS 2ND FRONT   Both Secretary Hull and Eden Were Greeted Enthusiastically.

Young Couple Found Shot At Port Allegany   Murder and Suicide is Verdict of Coroner in  Double Tragedy   NO SIGN OF STRUGGLE

GIRL AND BOY - DIE TOGETHER   Murder and Suicide Tragedy Verdict at Port Allegany

News Behind The News  Copyright McClure Newspaper   WASIDNCTON  Rye Rav Tocker

Nazi Propagandists Hint af New Offensive Adion, Disregard Defense. Thesis

‘Nazi Offensive  Is Emphasized. c In Propaganda   British: ; Sources’ ‘Suggest > New Torie Mere Attempt ..- To Bernuse U. N, Leaders

Nazi Propaganda Shifts To Talk Of Offensives   Change In Tone Relieved Effort To Confuse Allies

‘German Propagandists Now Hint at Offensive Instead of Defense: Experts See Possibility of Sudden Nazi Attacks

AIR FIELD I BELIEVED OUT OF COMMISSION   No Opposition Met By, American, British Bombers In 3 Attacks   Sardinia Pounded

Americans and-British Encounter-No Fighter-Opposition in. Day: and. Night Raids—Attacks Apparently Have Put Military Airfield Out of Commission—German Troops. Now: Said to Be Garrisoning. Sardinia. “Oe .

Five Day Offensive Nets. 317 Axis ‘ Planes BRITISH JOIN IN RAIDS ON ISLAND.  Havoc Spread in Parts of      Havoc Spread in Parts of Sardinia by the Bombers

Enemy Suffers  Great Harm In Bomb Raids   U. S., British Score Heavily on Axis At Vital Mediterranean Isle; Total Enemy Loss Is Now 350 Planes

Allied Airmen Foeus Attacks On Pantelleria   U.S. Fliers Blast Island 3 Times in 5 Hours: Offensive Nets 317 Axis Planes

PANTELLERIA AGAIN. FEELS ALLIED BOMBS   Wellingtons With Two-Ton Block Busters Follow U.S Medium Bombers To Pul verize Island   After Malta’s Title

Ttalian Isle Hit Again by Allied Bombs   Axis Loses 317’ Planes During Past Five Days of Fighting

Five Day Offensive Nets 317 Axis Planes  BRITISH JOIN IN RAIDS ON ISLAND Havoc Spread in Parts of  Sardinia by the Bombers

Churchill Hints. New Gampaigns; Probably In Asia   Speaks To Britain Atter Promise To Chiang Kai-Shek

Churchill Sees More Campaigns Against the Axis   Address To Great Britain Also Broadcast To This Country; Stresses Necessity of Planning, Strategy For Allies

CHURCHILL'S TALKS OF PLANS MADE BY DonSTUE TONER   Planning Now Being Well Done Ahead of the Armies.   ASSURE SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY  Roaffirm China Tans Will

Many Campaigns Being Planned, Churchill States   British Prime Minister ‘Broadcasts To England ‘From American Capitol

PLAN INVASIONS, SAYS CHURCHILL   Expects to Strike Axis in Many Parts of World

GEN. MARSHALL RETURNS FROM NORTH AFRICA   Possibility of Two i multaneous Offene sives Increases

Admirals Have  War Conterence   Secretary Knox Reveals Recent Meeting Of Admirals King And Nimitz   PACIFIC BLOW AT  JAPS MAY DEVELOP

Weekly Digest of War News      Men Over 38 Will Not be Discharged

Qutflank German Rome Defenses  In Sudden Move   Russians Push Acros¢ Dnieper, Threaten To Cut Off Crimea   DAM DESTROYED   ————_ Fortresses Pulverize Ball Bearing City, But Lose About 64  Bombers

Other 5th ArmyUnits Advance Frontally: While © 8th Army Moves Steadily Onward

Fifth Makes 2 To 5 Mile Gains   Germans, Outflanked by Landing, Must Fall Back or Face Destruction -—Nava! Guns Cover Landing—British Lighth Army Makes Progress

Main Body of American Fifth Army Advances Two to Five Miles Frontally. Constant Stream of Troops and Tanks Pour into Bridge Head North of

U. S. 5th Ahead 2 to.5 Miles’ Frontal  Irritation. in Russia. and Argentina;         - Germany, Japan. Protest Azor  Bases Given by ‘Portugal’

BRITISH LAND, OUTFLANK NAZI DEFENSE LINES   Retreat or Destruction Facing Hit. ler Troops Which Are Showing Signs of Fatigue.

NAZI BLOCKADE ON ROME ROAD BEING BROKEN   Hitler’s Horde in Russia Is Getting Panicky as Reds Intensify Assaults

Sea-Jump Outflanks Nazi Line   British Land North of Volturno River Putting Squeeze on Stubbornly Fighting German Army

Fifth Treons Make Landing Above Enemy   Berlin Radio Says Campohasso Taken After Bitter Street Fighting.   HEAVY COUNTERBLOW

ALLIED TROOPS LAND NORTH. OF VOLTURNO RIVER      Nazis Face Choice of Swift Retreat or Destruction in   DNIEPER DAM DESTROYED   Germags in Crimea Threatened With En- ~~

Sea Landing Outflanks Nazi Lines   Allies Advance T Two to Five Miles Through Bridgehead in Bitter Fishting =

British Landing on Flank Aids Yank  Thrust Into Line %   Eighth Is Making Progress Up East Coast on Adriatic

British Troops Land North of  Volturno River   Outflank the Shattered First Line of Defense for Rome; Germans Destroy $110,000,000 Dnieper River Dam

PUT SQUEEZE ON GERMANS ON VOLTURNO   Constant Stream of Allied Troops and Tanks Pour Across Bridgehead.   Outflank Shattered  Rome’s Defense Line

GERMAN DIVISIONS IN SOUTHERN ITALY FACING DISASTER  CONSTANT STREAM OF ALLIED TROOPS AND

MRS. ROOSEVELT IS LATE FOR MEETING      Tells Press Conference Americans Abandoning Isolationism —

Mrs. Roosevelt Meets Writers In New Zealand   Is 45 Minutes Late As Result Of Shampoo; Made Trip In B-24 Liberator

SEEK TO ENJOIN PRICE RAISE OF MILK 1S REPORT   Will Try To Restrain State Commission Raising Milk Prices

TO ASK INJUNCTION ON CONTROL ORDER   Federal Authorities Plan  Restraining Move On . Milk Prices

AIR OFFENSIVE OVER EUROPE IN HIGH GEAR   American Flying Fortresses And Liberators Blast Wilhelmshaven Again

EXPLAINERS OF POINT RATION   Local Board Has Vol. unteers Ready on Request

Volunteers To Help  Shoppers At The Stores   Customers To Be Shown How To Use New Ration Books

PORT OF TUNIS [S BLASTED BY ALUIED PLANES   Axis Communication And Supply Facilities Are Smashed   SOUSSE IS HIT   Eisenhower Says Enemy Will Be ‘Pushed Back To Sea”

id ‘Tunis Showered  AF By Block-Buster   Eisenhower Vows He'll Drive Foe Into Sea

No More Gas To Be Sold “On Credit   Tomorrow the Last. Day for “ Such-Sales -Under New Rulins   T-CARD HOLDERS ©: . ARE NOT AFFECTED   Some ‘Confusion -Prévails' as. ‘to Regulation on Station. Hours

Russians intensify offensives against Kursh and Kharkov   Only 63 miles from Kursk, take 40 localities, free 200 more

ANCHOR CITIES "ARE OBJECTIVES OF OFFENSIVES   Third Army Advances on Railroad Toward Rostov

RUSSIAN ARMY ~ GOES FORWARD   40 More Towns Captured Ir Mighty Offensive

Russian Armies Sweeping on Kursk, Kharkov, Rostoe as Keys to German: Defense   More Towns Captured as Reds Continue Offensives — 100,000 Prisoners Taken Within Two Weeks. .

Menace Anchor Cities   Enemy Forces Cleanec * Up At Voronezh, Stalingrad

Soviets Intensify Drives Against Germans; Allies  Chase Nazis In Africa

Two Jap Names To Remember  Beheading Of American Officer Revealed

i! . . . ° ; Japanese Diary Reveals Beheading of Young American Airman'

NIPPOS BEHEAD YANK AIRMAN IN PACIFIC   REVEAL JAP OFFICERS ORDERED SHOCKING NEW EXECUTION UNDER “SAMURAI CODE”

Remember These Names   Homai, Tsukioka Had U. S. Airman Beheaded

JAPS BEHEAD YANK AIRMAN   Diary of Captured Nipponese Soldier Reveals Gruesome Act

JAPS EXECUTE: AMERICAN AIRMAN   Execution Came To Light With Capture of Jap Soldier And Diary

M’‘Arthur Won't Forget  Yank Flier Is Executed By Japs, Diary Reveals

Yank Flier Beheaded By Angry Japanese   American ‘More Composed’ Than Japanes¢ Expected; Retribution Hinted

KOMAI AND TSUKIOKA—REMEMBER THE NAMES!   Captured American Flier Beheaded By Jap Officer:

Beheading of Young American Revealed by Japanese Diary   MacArthur’s Men Will Never Forget Names Komai, Tsukioka

American Flier Beheaded By Japs In New Guinea, Jap Diary Reveals

Diary Of Captured Jaji Soldier Reveals Shocking Beheading Of U.S. Airman

Young American Arman Shot Down By Japs Was Beheaded By His Captors

Details Of Execution Of Yank Airman  Revealed In Japanese Prisoner’s Diary

U. S. Hospital To Be Built Nearby   Four Million Dollar Army Hospital To Be Located Near Martinsburg.

Si a had A eet lh ae ike aaa ee ee  Lower Small Loan Rates, Closer Check On Lending  Agencies, May Be Law

AgreementSpells End of Fascism, Sees Free Europe   Insures Collaboration in Global . Combat and Reconstruction; Forms Central Council im London

FLYNN CASE !S NEARING JURY   Deputy District Attorney Scores Defense Testimony

Flynn Jury To Get Case Today   Prosecution Denies Immuni ty Promised To Complaining Girls.

Meat Ceiling Prices to Be ‘WidenedSoon  Limit on Beef, Mutton Veal and Lamb Will Follow Pork  SCALE FIXED HERE Syracuse in Zone No. 8;      Retail Pork Prices

HULL URGES WAR EMPHASIS   Says Post-War Study Should Aid Fighters, Approves Senate Declaratinn.

VOOD00 ORDER: CUTS OFF HAND   Zoot Suiter Seeks His Good Luek Charm

FICIALS SURVEY TORE-CLOSING RESULTS   ne Small Shops Renorted  Open on Monday   in Temperature Results i Fuel Savings Below Harller Estimates

OFFICIALS SURVEY STORE-CLOSING RESULTS Some. Small Shops Reported  Open-on Monday  :     Riso in Temperature Resulis In Fuel Savings Below Earlicr

JOHNNIES GOT ZEROS, 19 OF EM   U. 8. Fighter Planes Damage Six More, Says Communique

BAG 19 ZEROS IN AIR DUEL OVER PACIFIC      Dog Fight Takes Place Near Russell Islands

19 ZEROS DOWNED IN SOLOMONS   Americans Get Planes in Fight Near Russell Isles

19 Jap Zero Planes Shot Down Over Solomons   Seven U.S. Planes Lost Monday In Air Battle Over Russell Islands

Jap Planes Beaten Off in Solomons   Yanks Shoot Down 19 Out of 50

Yanks Down 19 Japs In Air Battle   Damage 6 Other Zeros Near Russell Islands; 7 U. S. Planes Lost.

U.S. Planes Down 19 Jap Zeros Near Russell Islands  L Othsre Bamnarned   6 Others Damaged, Americans Lose Seven. Aircraft

Great Air Battle Over the Solomon:   Americans Knock Down 19 Enemy Raiders, Damage Others; We Lose Seven Planes

seven American Planes Lost, Three Pilots Rescued.  11 JAP SUICIDES ON ATTU ISLAND  Allied Planes Blast Jap Bases of Lae, Wewak and Medang.

Yankees Bown 9 Japs in Isle Air Battle  Seven Planes Lost By U.S, Aviators

Japs Lose 19 Planes  In Pacific   Strength Of Pacific Fleet Growing. States, Knox; Aid To China Important

FIGHTERS DOWN 19 IAP PLANES OVER SOLOMONS   Force of 40 to 50 Japs Broken Up in Biq Battle   ACTION 1S REPORTED NEAR RUSSEL ISLANDS

U.S, PLANES DOWN 19 ZEROS IN SOLOMONS   Seven American Fighters Lost In Large Scale Air Battle

Air Battle Reported Near Russell Islands; 7 American Planes Lost

a ee eee  1 19 Zeros Sh ot Down In Clash With Yanks   Americans Lose Seven Planes During Ait Battle Near Russell Isles; Assault Believed Counterblow To U. S. Raid

Yanks Down 19,  Damage Six Jap  Zero Fighters Aerial Combat  ly Tha Salamanc

Air Battle Costs Japs 19 Planes   Almost Half of Raid Squardon Shot Down In Russell Islands

US Planes Shoot Down 19 Jap Zeros   Eight More Japs Killed on Attu, 11 Kill Themselves; China’s Rice Bow] No Longer in Danger

19 Jap Planes Are Shot Dowr  In Solomons   Six Others Damaged In Air Battle Near American-Hleld Russell  Is-. lands.

YANKS DOWN 19 JAP ZEROS IN AIR FIGHT   Six Others Damaged ir Action Near Russell Is: lands Monday—7 U. S Craft Lost, but 3 Pilots Are Saved.

Shoot Down 19 Jap Planes, Damace Others   Americans Lose Seven Planes During Fight Near Russell I:lands Of Solomon Group

BATTLE STAGED NEAR ISLAND IN PACIFIC AREA   Six Other Craft Oamaged {n Clash With American Navy Fliers   SEVEN U. S. SHIPS LOST   Additional Enemy Killed As Mopping Up Continues On Atty

NINETEEN ZERO PLANES BAGGED INSOLOMONS   Six Others Damaged By U.S. Fighter Planes Near-American-Held Russeil Islands   7 YANK SHIPS LOST   Eight More Japs Kille? On Attu; Eleven Others Kill Selves When ‘Trapped

19 Zeros Are Shot Down In Russell Isles   Attack By 40-50 Nippoy ‘Planes Is Revealed; Yank Lose Seven   THREE PILOTS SAFE   Additional Roundup ©} Japanese On Attu Is Re ported By Navy

U. §. Fliers Intercept Big Force of Zeros   Nineteen Jap Planes Downed; Seven Yank  Planee Are Lost

19 Zeros Downed Near Solomons  In Heavy Raids   U. S. Russell Isles Attack Area

oYA  19 JAP PLANES   ® Enemy Airmen : Balked ir Thrust at Russell Islands

ll Axis Planes Shot Down Attempting To Protect Pantelleria From Raid

U. S. Airmen Bag 19 Zeros - In Solomons   Six Others Damaged in Battle Near Russell. Islands

U.S. Fighters Bag 19 JapPlanes, Damage6   Battle Occurs Near Russell Islands; Orders Believed Issued for New Blows Against Nipponese in Pacific.

Yanks lntercent Jan Air Raiders, Shoot Down 19   Six Other Nip Planes Damaged In Battle  Over Russell Isles

U.S. PLANES DOWN 19 JAP ZEROS AT RUSSELL ISLANDS   Six Others Damaged in Sky Battle Monday—Seven U. S. Planes Downed But Three Pilets Saved

19 Jap Planes. Are Shot Dows  In Solomons      Six Others Damaged Air Battle Near Am -ican-Held Huse :  ge:

Six Other Raiders Damaged In Fierce Aerial Battle; 7 Americans Downed

14 MORE TO SERVICE   Group of Colored Men Left Friday For Leavenworth

Democrats Strike At Critics of Edward J. Flynn  National Committee Picks Montanan Walker as Chairman

Flynn’s Defenders See Attack on FDR   Covert Campaign Avowed Aimed to Diseredit President

FLYNN CRITICS ARE LAMBASTED   Democratic Committee Lauds Ex-Chairman, Elects Walker

PARTY LEADERS DEFEND FLYNN   Postmaster General Is Elected Democratic National Chairman

Democrats “Step Info Flynn Controversy  ‘Political Sabotare’ Charged; Confidence

Democratic Committee  Backs Flynn   Says Attacks Aimed Indirectly at F.D.R. By President’s Foes   POSTMASTER CHIEF TS NEW CHAIRMAN

28 Enemy Planes Brought Down In Tunisian Battles   American Airmen Credited With 23 In Heavy Outburst of Activity; Railways, Docks Are Given Pounding

Allies Destroy 28 Planes in Tunis Fighting   Damage Another 34 iy Fiercest African Air Bout

ALLIED AIR FORCES DOWN AXIS PLANES   Aircraft ls Destroyed in Fierce Activity in Africa

Allied Planes Down 28 Nazi, Italy Fighters   North African ALD Activity Hits New Peak

Two More Attempts to Run Siipplies to Besieged. Munda Foiled by Allied’ Warships and ‘Planes With Heavy Losses to Enemy.

Allied Air And Surface Forces Batter Japs   Americans Increase Pressure To Key Munda Race

Troops Renew The Attacks on Munda   Japs Fail in Two At tempts to Get Supplies to Forces   YANKS ARE SCORING BIG JAP SETBACKS

Munda dirfiel Stormed; 4 Ships Blasted   Warships Beat Off Twe ’. More Attempts To Supply ~ Japanese Garrison   STRIKE AT BUIN-FAIS!   Powerful Aerial Force Again Raids Scene Of Saturday's Big Victory

MUNDA AID ATTEMPTS REPULSED   Airmen Make Second Devastating Raid On Buin-Faisi

Pressure On Munda Gains New Strength  Ground Forces Attack Atadinanene Amaae Ati?   Ground Forces Attack Airdrome Area; Allied Planes Score Victory  OQwer New Cuinea   Dewn Planes In Guinea

NEW BLOW AT JP SHIPPING ~ IN SOLOMON   U.S. Warships Beat Bach Two Tries to Get Supplies *7to Munda.   ONE DESTROYER SUNK . AND THREE DAMAGED

Jap Shipping Is Pounded In - Munda Sector   All Efforts to Bring In Supplies to Isolated Garrison Thwarted

Yank Vessels Again Batter Jap Shipping   Allies Keep Pressure en Fee a? Munda

Allied Airplanes And Ships Pound Gantlet Runners   Beat Back Jap Attempts To Run Supplies To Munda And Beseiged Garrison

JAP WARSHIPS BEATEN BACK, SEVEN SUNK      Two Enemy Attempts to Rur Supplies to Munda Frustrated After Saturday's Biq Battle   CARGO SHIP SUNK   34 Jap Planes Shot Down in Week end Battles, Ground Forces Clos ing in on Munda

JAP SHIPPING 5 BATTERED   U. S. Warships Beat Back Effort to Supply Munda Garrison.   PLANES SCORE VICTORY

JAPANESE LOSE ANOTHER NAVAL FIGHT IN PACIFIC   Believe Nipponese Destroyer Sunk; American’s Intensify . Attacks on Munda

Jap Shipping In Solomons Raided   Pressure On Munda  Is Increased

U.S. Maintains Upper Hand In Solomons. ... Batter Jap Shipping, Press Toward Munda

JAPANESE SHIPPING IN SOLOMONS AREA IS BADLY BATTERED  PLANES AND SURFACE VESSELS OF ALLIES BEAT BACK ENEMY

Jap Shipping Battered by Allied Planes   Warships Beat Back More Attempts To Relieve Wunda

U.S. Warships Beat Back Two ‘More Jap Attempts To Run Supplies To Besieged Munda   Planes And Surface Craft Batter Enemy Shipping In Solomans Area

JAP SHIPPING IN SOLOMONS HIT   American Troops Increase Pressure On Munda With Attacks On Enemy Positions Near That Key Air Base.

ALLIES BATTER JAP SHIPPING   Attempts to Give Aid to Munda Beaten Back

YANKS ATTACK AIRDROME INHEAVY MUD   Heavy Air Arm And Warships Batter Japs In Solomons

Yanks Increase Pressure On  Japs At Munda   Attack Positions Near Kev Air Base

SHIPS, BOMBERS SCORCH NIPPONS HOLDING MUNDA  ENEMY AGAIN FOILED   ENEMY AGAIN FOILED IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE NEW GEORGIA FORCE

Jealous Woman  Admits Poison   Tried To  Disfigure, But Kills Girl

Pours Fatal Acid On ‘Other Woman’   ‘Face Younger Than Mine, Wife Quoted

Decision in House  Is Planned   Repubncan Leaders Favo1 100%) Forgiveness ot  Year’s Income Taxes

Seeks Decisive  Ruml Plan Vote   Democrats Would Send Bill To Committee

Senate Group Pictured Cool To Manifesto   Senate Opposes World Police Force binnle “ge,  TE ce meee: He

(CLD RECEPTION IN SENATE INDICATED   Amendment to Post-war Draft Policy Has Little Chance

Senate Fight Brewing on Widening Of Post-War Policy Declaration   Hatch, Ball Say They'll Bring It Onto Floor  It Hostile Committee Turns Down Proposal

ON POST-WAR STAND LOOMS   Leaders Against Proposal to Broaden Resolution

Italian Troops Recalled From  Russian Front   Twelve Divisions Brought Back To Help Bolster Italian War Effort In Mediterranean Area

12 ITALIAN DIVISIONS WITHDRAWN   Brot Home from Russia for ‘Rest’; Will Return Later

MUSSOLINI. TAKES TWELVE DIVISIONS FROM-RUSSIA “ZONE   Plans. Te Rest Forces: Prior To Stepping Up War -Effort To Aid Hitles

Neports Conilicting as to Future Use of Italian Army in Axis Setup   Meeting of Dictators Last Week Revealed

DUCE WITHDRAWS DIVISIONS. FROM RUSSIAN FRON!   Hitler and Mussolini Said tc Have Reached New Agreements on War.

STRIKE CLOSES TWO CHRYSLER CORP. PLANTS   Company Spokesman :Con  _ firms Walkout After Unionist Says Contract  Negotiations Fail   WELL ORGANIZED '   Strikes of Soft Coal ‘Miners Break Out; WLB. Plans Decision-on.Con tract by Tuesday

French Have New Crisis  In Algeria   De Gaulle, Giraud Feud Causes High Official to Resign   ‘By REYNOLDS PACKARD Inited Press Correspondent

CRISIS DELAYS FRENCH PARLEY   Peyrouton Resignation Brings To Head De Gaulle-Giraud Struggle

PEVROUTON CAUSt OF NEWCRISISIN ALGIERS’ AFFAIR   Resignation Results in Postponment of Scheduled Meeting of French Executive Committee   RESIGNATION SENT TO GWO CAUSES CONFUSION   DeGualle Tells Former Governor One Thing as Girauc Makes Entirely Different Suagestion.

FRENCH LEADERS BID FOR POWER   New Crisis Delays Agreement Be tween DeGaulle, Giraud

AY ODDS OVER AUTHORITY IK ~NONTH APRIC   Resignation of Peyrouton as Governor General Causes Crisis.   EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING {S POSTPONED

New Political — Crisis Looms In  French Ranks.   Peyrouton Resignation Brings Giraud-DeGaulle Struggle To Head

As Fast as War Plants Hire Two Women, One Drops Out, New Government Survey Reveals

FEMALE LABOR TURNOVER HIGH   Every Time Two Women Are Hired For War Jobs, One Quits.   —BY EDITH K. GAYLORD-—

Red Guns Shelling Rail Line   SOVIETS POUR THROUGH GAP; KIEV LIBERATION LOOMS IN NEW ADVANCE

THRU BREACH IN NAZI LINE   Threatening To Envelope Base Of Dniepropetrovsk

Shatter Defense Line To Cut Main Railroad:  Crimea Evacuation On

WHOLE DNIEPER LINE CRACKED RUSSIANS SAY   Liberation of Kiev Near As Red Army Moves On

NAC ONIEPE A LIN GHAGKCD, SUVIETS CLAIM   Bloody Battle Of Melitopol Continues Today As Nazis Fight Back Doggedly

NAZI ARMIES IN THREATENED SPOT IN UKRAINE AREA   German Defenses Crumple Near Kremenchug Foltowing 13 Days of Most Bitter Fighting.   MORE THAN 100 MORE JAP PLANES DOWNED   British Reveal First Thrust Is Made Against Burma In an Attack on Japanese at Maungdau.

RUSSIAN ARMY IN POSITION TO ENVELOP POWER CENTER   Liberation of Kiev  Imminent Says Pravda

Russian Forces Cut In Behind  Dniepropetrovsk   Bitter Fighting Continues Before Kiev, Melitopol

Soviet Army Breaches Enemy Line   ‘Thrust Through Fortified Belt  Threatens Foe

Vital Retreat Route Inside Dnieper River Bend Is Cut  “NAZIS THREATENED ~ Liberation Of City Of Kiev  Is Not Far Away

Soviet Spearheads Pierce Germans Dnieper Defenses   Soviets Fight Way A cross Dnieper River At Half A Dozen Points Between Captured Smolensk and Totteri ng Kiev; Five Towns Fal

Greatest Victory Of Year Finds Reds Near Poland   Take Smolensk, Crack Dnieper River Line At Half A Dozen Points, Push On

Allies Mark Up New Gains at Finschhafen As Japs Resist Bitterly      British Eighth Army Moves Toward Large German Airfields at Foggia; Berlin Admits Withdrawals From Soviet Cities Continue

STREAM REPORTED CROSSED AT HALF A DOZEN POINTS   Moscow Celebrates Fall of Central Front Bastion Taken in Bitter Street   Fichting.   NAZIS DARKEST DAY ON EASTERN FRONT   Where Invaders Will Attempt New Stand in Doubt—Now Hold Only 3 Pct. of Soviet Soil.

RED CHIEFTAIN HAILS ARMIES’ GREAT VICTORY   ‘Capture of Smolensk By Russians Is Followed By Further Advance In Kiev Sector   NAZIS RETREATING  ALONG VAST FRONT   Two-thirds Of Territory Occupied By [nvaders Is Retaken; Dnieper Line Shattered

Germans Flee Triumphant Soviet Force   Russians’ Next Great Goal, Kiev, Is About to Fall; Spearheads Cross Dnieper; Stalin Hails Victory

River Barrier Is ReportedCracked At Several Points   Reds Pursue Nazis On Napoleon's Retreat Road, Move Up On Kiev

CHASE FLEEING FOE AFTER FALL OF SMOLENSK   Report Russians Have Crossed Dnieper at Several Points

Smashing Blows. Threaten Kiev, Dnieper Defense   Moscow Reports Claim Cracking Of River Line Several Places; Fleeing Germans Suffer Heavy Loss

NAZIS REELING BACK TOWARD WHITE RUSSIA   STRATEGIC CENTER OF GERMAN LINE CAPTURED

Reds Hail Recapture Of Key City   Dnieper River Line Is Cracked A: Several Points

Germans Have Their Darkest Day in Russia   Lose Mighty Defense Point, Russians On Way Across Dnieper

Onrushing Soviet Troops Battle Way Headon Into Suburbs Of Vital Kiev

F.R. Receives Labor Protest   Leader of Organized Groups Report Living Cost Rise While Wages Stand Still

UNIVERGAL PRICE CEILINGS PROPOSED   Labor Protests Rising Living Cost, Stationary Wages

LABOR LEADERS FILE PROTESTS   Green and Murray Complain to President About Hieh Living Costs.

Russians Hold Key To Pacific   Soviet Entrance  Would Shorten War

CHINESE CRUSH JAP ATTACKS   Launch 17 of Own in Past Week, Spokesman Said—Baitle for Burma Border Town 

Chinese Hold  Against Japs   Chiang Kai-Shek’s Armies Crush 13 Attacks, Launch 17 In Return.

CHINESE CRUSHED JAPANESE ATTACKS: LAUNCH OWN DRIVES  ALLIES STRIKE AT ENEM" BY AIR FROM BURMA TO SOUTH SEAS

Jap Thrusts In China Are Hurled Bacl   Generalissimo Kai-Shek’s Armies Launch 17 Attacks of Their Own in Stalling Enemy’s New All-Out Offensive

Chinese Crush 13 Jap Attacks And. Launch 17 Of Own   Allies Also Strike Japs On Far Pacific Front.

CHINESE CRUSH ENEMY ATTACKS   New Offensive Fails to Show Any Gains

Chinese Crush Japs’ Advances  Beat Off 13 Attacks And Open 17 Drives Of Their Own Accoun

Chinese Crush 3 Jan 22's   > ae . - 38 . “er ay S Own nr? xt ih ays; ye, Use vosy Burma

Japanese Attacks Crushed by China   Generalissimo Kai-Shek Has , Launched! ‘An Offense.  _ of His Own   ALLIES HIT FROM AIR   Situation in Central China Is. Reported to Be Greatly Improved -

Jap Attacks Are Crushed, Chinese Say   Nippon Makes Scant Headway In Effort To Kayo Chiang

aunch 17 of Their Own At‘tacks During Past Week; Allies Striking At Japanese By Air From Burma “To South Sea.

Chinese Crush 13 Jap Attacks In Far Pacific   Report Chiang’s Armies Also Launch 17 Drives Of Their Own In Week

China Army Crushes Jap Spring Drive   Allies Aid By Raids From The Air

CHINESE MAKE 17 DRIVES ON JAPS IN WEEK   Kai-shek’s Armies Have Crushed 13 Enemy Attacks During the Same Period, According to Spokesman’s Revport.

Chinese Crush Series Of Jap Army Attacks   Repulse 13 Nippon Drives In * China And Launch 17 Of Their Own In Week

CHINESE CRUSH JAP ASSAULTS      Allied Warplanes Strike ai Enemy Strongholds In Burma, South Seas

CHINESE CRUSH NEW OFFENSIVE MOVE BY JAPS   RAF Warplanes Blast Rail Yards At EnemyOccuiped Mandalay

CHINESE:ARMIES HAVE TURNED BACK A JAP OFFENSIVE   N ippies Making Little Headway In Drive To Knock China Out   ALLIED PLANES HIT HARD BLOWS

Chinese Report 17 Jap ‘Attacks Are Crushed   Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s “Forces Launch 17 Of Their Own During Past Week; Nippon Making Little Headway

Japs Are Failing In Attempts to Knock Out China   Allies Pour Bombs On Salamaua Base For Three Hours

CHINESE TROOPS ‘REPULSE 13 JAP ~ STABS IN WEEK   Gen, Chiang Kai-Shek’s Ar mies Also Launch 17 Of Their Own Attacks

Japs Make Little Progress In New All Out Drive to Knock Chinese Out of War   Chiang Kai-Shek’s Armies Have Crushes Series of Thirteen Enemy Attacks and Launched Seventeen of Their Own

Chinese: Crush Jap Drive:   Launch 17 Counter‘Attacks in Past Week; Allied ‘Fliers ‘Pound ‘Salamaua, New Guinea

Ezra T. Benson, Of Idaho, Kew Council Member   New Apostles To Be Sustained At Fall Sessions

Mrs. Ed Hentges — Dies At Redlands —  Wife of Well Known.  ~ LeMars. Business Mar

Mrs. Ed Hentges Dies At Redlands  Wife of Well Known  LeMars Business Mar

STRIKE TIES UP WAR PLANT WORK   Detroit Workers Protest Layoff of One Man for Smoking.

7 Regional WEA Offices   Will Handle Problems Connected With Farm  Workers Placement

YANKS TAKE 3 MORE IMPORTANT POSITIONS   8th Army Advances; Furious Aerial Activity Continues

Americans Take Three Important Points While British Hold Off Nazis

British First Army Forced to Make Slight Withdrawal In Medjez el Bab Sector; 200 Prisoners Taken By Second U. S. Army Corps.

GERMANS PUSK IST ARMY BACK IN FIERCE BATTLE   Montgomery’s Forces Gain; U. S. Troops Capture 290 Axis Prisoners

Yanks Capture Three New Heights; British Make Slight Retreat   Terrific Fighting Continues In Northern Sector; Heavy Aerial Concentration On Axis Shipping Makes Hits On Eight Vessels

Yanks Take 3 Key Points In Axis Arc   British Ist Army Withdrawal Forced At Medijez-E!-Balb

TEXAS PROSPECTS FOR FOOD CROPS APPARENTLY GOOD  CORNBREAD, BLACK-EYEI PEAS, SOWPELLY AND MOLASSES PLENTIFUL

Regardless of Rationing, Texans Will Have Cornbread, Black-Eyed Peas, and Molasses

/ AXIS SUBMARINES BLASTED TO BOTTON   Craft Sunk by U. S. Planes and British Vessels at Approaches to Bay of Biscay.

- Untried 36th Proved True Fighters at Salerno Beachhead. Army Disclases

Man Who Shot Teddy Dies in a Hospital   John Flammang Schrank, 67 Attempted to Kill Roosevelt.

MAN WHO SHOT TR ~— DIES IN HOSPITAL   Attempted Assassination of ‘Teddy’ in Milwaukee in 1912.

Assailant Of ‘Teddy’ Dies At State Prison   John Schrank, Who Shot Theodore Roosevelt At Milwaukee In 1912, Is Dead At Waupun

ol Years Insane  Third Term Objector Who Shot Teddy Roosevelt Dies

ASSAILANT OF TR DIES IN HOSPITAL   Man, Who Attempted to Kill Former President, Expires

MAN WHO SHOT ROOSEVELT DIES   Ex-Bartender Spends 31 Years In Hospital At Waupun, Wis.

Drop 8,000 Tons Of Allied Bomb:   Intensified Aerial As saults On Nazis During Past Few Days   J. S. BOMBERS HIT NAVAL BASE AT KIEL

NEW RECORDS ON WEIGHT OF BOMBS SET   Total Dropped Estimated at 8,000 Tons in 48 Hours

RUDOLF HESS ALONE   Ne Other Members Of Cerman Family In Britain, Says Eden

Youth Today A Better Man Than His Dad   Pittsburgh Teacher Says Physique and Educational Standards Better

Pope Asks Large Audience to Trust More in Church, Disregard Enemy Propaganda Against Vatican

Pope Appeals For Workers Faith   Anti-Religious Etforts Draw His Attack

POPE PIUS CALLS FOR DISCIPLINE   In Speaking To Some 20,000 Italian Workers The Pope Asks For Discipline and Faith Among Worl d’s Workmen.

Appeal For Discipline And Faith   AMONG WORKERS OF WORLD MADE BY POPE PIUS SUNDAY; SCORES PROPAGANDA THAT HE SUPPORTS WAR.

Pope Denies War Propaganda Charge  Speaks to 20,000  fimfinun KAtarlwre

Army Planning Air Force  Equal To The Entire Aerial . Strensth Of Axis By 1944

COMMITTEE CALLS NELSON AND WICKARD   Higher Draft Age and Lower Physical Standards In Army Believed Likely Soon   TESTIMONY CONFLICTS

Huge Overseas - Army Proposed   Raising Of Service Ape Is:‘Indicated :

Army Maps Manpower Requisites   Higher Draft Age, Lower Physical Standards Are Seen In Effect Shortly

Expanding Armed Forces May Soon Lower Physical Standards And Raise 38 Year Age Limit

» HIGHER DRAFT AGE LIKELY SOO}   Lower Physical Aims Ag Army Maps Manpower Needs

Huge Oversea Force by ’44 Is Scheduled   Aerial Strength of U. S. to Match That of Entire Axis by End of Year

LOWERING ARMY STANDARDS MAY BE COMPULSORY   Manpower Needs Urgent Problem Committee Told

Physical Standards and 38 Year Age Limit May Be Lowered By Army, Navy   Will Be Necessary to Give U. S. the Kind of-Army It Needs to Achieve Victory; Manning of Farms Critical Problem

Higher Draft Age ~ Probable as Army Maps Need for Men   » Lowered Physical Standards May Also Be Necessary Soon

U.S. MAY HIKE 38-YEAR LIMIT   4,750,000 Americans for Overseas Duty Slated By End of 1944

Draft Ages May Be Changed Again   38 - YEAR OLD GROUP MAY BE CALLED LATER

ARMY PHYSICAL STANDARDS 10 BE LESSENED   Intentions Revealed Before Committee In Congress As Military Maps Manpower   TO MATCH ENEMY’S AERIAL STRENGTH   Key War Officials Called To Explain How Necessary Equipment, Food  Can Be Produced

Army Needs May Force Age Limit Up   Alternative Is Lowering of Physical Standards, Senate Hears

Draft Age Limit May Be Raised   Or Physical Standards for Army May Be Lowered

Army Expansion May Change Requirement:   National Committees Now Discuss Production of Vital Needs

SENATORS HOLD MANPOWER PROBE   Study Food, Equipment Needs, Lower Physical Standards,Higher Age Limit

PLAN MILITARY STRENGTH EQUAL TO AXIS POWERS   SENATE INVESTIGATE NATION'S MANPOWER AFTER HEARINGS

MEN OVER 38 MAY BE NEEDED . HERSHEY SAYS   McNarney Tells Seriators War Strategy May Fail if Army Goal Cut by Million   WANT 8.200.000   Asserts Army Could Use More Abroad Now, Shipping Principal Bottleneck

Higher Draft Age May Be Necessary   Induction of Men Over 38 Years Old or Lowering of Physical Standards Expected Soon Because of Expanding Armed Forces,

Draft Standards May Be Changed Physical Requirement:  Might Be Reduced, Men Over 38 Called

Physical Standards May Be Lower Or 38 Limit May Be Raised For Military Service

OLDER MEN INTO ARMY   Expanding Military Plan! May Force Change In Present. Standards   MANPOWER NEEDS ARE OUTLINED   Congress Continues Quiz on Program, Calling in ’ Several Witnesses

Higher Draft Age or Less Physique Seen  Senate Committee ‘Hears 11, 000, 000° _. Men. Needed =. .

BELIEVE HIGHER DRAFT AGE, LOWER. PHYSICAL STANDARDS LIKELY SOON ©

Higher Draft Age Likely, Senators Told   Lowering of Physical Standards for Army Duty Also Forecast

Expanding Army And Its Needs. Told fo Congress   Food Production And Manpower Problems Heard

Army Increase *May Result In Draft Age Hike   Lower Physical Stand ard Also Foreseen In  Veet BPemaiatnam

Offers 10-Point Welfare Program For Veterans Of Present Conflict

Vets Welfare Program Outlined  By Merrill   Havre Man, As VFW Commander-in-Chief, Opens Nat'l. Convention

War Production Crisis Averted As Men Refurn   Retroactive Pay Is Guaranteed Under WLB Ruling   Strike Epidemic Sets War Record:

LOW Pat HELO VITAL 10 COUNTRI   Roosevelt Requests An Extension  Of Plan

CONGRESS URGED TO SUPPORT FOOD SUBSIDY BY FDR   ONLY WAY TO CURB INFLATION, CHIEF SAYS IN MESSAGE

Roosevelt Urges Subsidy Extension   Reviews Situation Wit h10,000 Words

Roosevelt Warns Inflation Would - Benefit No One   President Roosevelt Asserts This Is No Tim: To Start Wandering Into Untried Fielc Of Uncontrolled Prices And Wages -Defends Present Policy

FDR Urges  ‘Txtension  Of Subsidies   Says Price Support Program Reasonably Successful in Increasing Production ‘and Maintainine Fair Pricac

President Seeks to Continue, And Increase, Food Subsidies   Tells Congress Aim Is to Boost Output and Keep Prices Down—Sees Enough to Eat for All, Nails Meat Famine Reports.

FDR WANTS CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY   Urges Congress to Appropriate 800 Millions For Food Price Program.   Assures All There’s Enough Food For All

Says Would Assure Adequate Supply, Help Head Off Inflation Danger

F. R. Asks Increase In Food Subsidy Program   Sends 10,000 Word Message To Congress; Would Up $800,000,000 Fund

ROOSEVELT URGES CONGRESS TO CONTINUE AND INCREASE  FOODICASH SUBSIDY PROGRAM   This Would Assure an Adequate Supply and Prevent a “Serious and Dangerous Cycle of Inflation,” the President Said.   A 10,000 WORD MESSAGE SENT T0 CONGRESS   It Assured the American People “That There Will Be Enough Food to Go Around;” Nailed Report of a “Meat Famine” This Winter.

PRIGE INCREASE PLAN HAS EDGE WITH CONGRESS   Message Sent Lawmakers Is Longest in Eleven Years; Month in Preparatiqn

Necessary For Adequate Supply And To Balk Inflation, Congress Told.

Roosevelt In Subsidy Plea   LONG ME SSAGE SENT CONGRESS TODAY BY FDR

DR Asks Congress For Increased Food Subsidies To Check Inflation

CONGRESS TOLD NEW INCREASES ARE NECESSARY   Needed To Insure Food  Supplies, Curb Inflation

Roosevelt Asks Congress To Support Food Subsidies   President Asserts Program Achieving ' Dual Purpose of Increasing Production, ' Maintaining Fair Prices

Food Price Subsidies Are’ Urged   President Wants Present Program Continued

PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS TO OK FOOD SUBSIDIES   Urges Continuation Of 800 Million Dollar Food Program To  Prevent Inflation.

Urges U. S. +» Remain On Tried Path   Roosevelt Asks Congress to Continte and Increase Food Subsidy Program   ScaNNOT AFFORD INFLATION COURSE   Price Program Reasonanly Successful; Enough . Food for All No Meat Famine

Enough To Go Around-—F. D. R.  INCREASED FOOD SUBSIDIES ASKED   Inflation Warning Given; Production Up And Fair Prices Being Maintained

F.D.R. Would Increase Food Price Subsidies   Tells Congress In Message That Program Will Assure Adequate Supply Of Food ~ And Prevent Dangerous Inflation.

FDR Requests Increase For  Food Subsidy   President Urges Congress To Continue Program As Anti-Inflation Measure.   ASKS UPPED OUTPUT

— FOO D—   LONG MESSAGE {S SENT LEGISLATOR:   Increase In Administration’s $800,000,000 Program Sought   -ENOUGH FOOD   Assures All Plenty To Eat And Denies Meat Famine Report

FOOD SUBD  NY ASKED BY FOR   Continuation of $809 Million Program Is Urged on Congress..   ‘ENOUGH FOOD ASSURED’

F.R. Calls for Food Subsidies   PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS TO CONTINUE,  INCREASE $800,000,000 FOOD PRICE PLAN TO PREVENT “DANGEROUS CYCLE” OF INFLATION

FOR URGES : _ CONGRESS 10 ~ FOOD SUBSIDY      Wants Continyance and Increase of $800 Mill-  jon Prooram

‘Dangerous Financial Cycle Vi As Certain: if Present’ Poticy Die “Meat-Butter Lid Costs. $450.000:

FDR Urges Solons Pass  Subsidy Bill   Exhaustive Report ts Longest Message Sent Congress hy Roocevelt

Pleads Against Inflation   President’s Food Message to Congress Stresses Need to Keep Prices Stable

FDR Renews Demand. for: Food Subsidy   Long Awaited Message of World Food Status Is Sent te Conaress

ROOSEVELT URGES FOOD SUBSIDIES   Presents Congress With Message On Inflation Data

INCREASE IN FOOD SUBSIDY FUNDS ASKED   Roosevelt Tells -Congress Program: Negéssary to Provide Adequ ate  Supply During 1944   WARNS INFLATION SURE WITHOUT I   Contends Support Program Proving Reasonably Successful; Denies “Meat Famine” Threatens

Congress Urged To Continue. And Boost Administration’s --Food Price Subsidy Proocram

ROOSEVELT URGES FOOD SUBSIDIES   Declares There Will Be Enough Food To Go Around

FDR Asks Congress For Food Subsidies To. Avoid Inflation   Urges Support of $800,000,000 Program To Assure Supply: Spikes: Famine Rumor

Action Will Prev      Message s Longest Sent By President ln Eleven Years

President Asks Congress To Extend Administration's Food Price Subsidy Program In Long Review Of Situation

President Sends Longest Special : ot mge of 1A... “Years in White House to. Lawahekarsel: ene Food Peice Subsidy Plan  ware

ROOSEVELT GIVES RETIEW OF WORLD FOOD SITUATION   Urges Congress ta Continue and Increase Administration’s Price Subsidy Program—Assures There Will Roe “Eanisch Food”

President Urges Continuation Of Food Subsidies   Message to Congress Says Program Can Prevent Inflation

War Chest Drive   _ President Asks For Increase In Food Subsidies In Longest Special Message of 11-Year Career

People Assured by President That America Will Not Have a Meat Famine.     NO MENTION MADE AR CNAT OTRIik reo

{ oneress Hears Food Situation   Roosevelt Urges Food Subsidy Program Be Supported in Message

FDR Calls For More Subsidies  Tells Congress That Such A Program Will  Pravent Inflation

Food Subsidy Is Urged By FD To Spike Inflation   Dangerous Cycle Of Inflation Looms, FD Tells Solons In Message

Should Increase - Subsidy Program   Will Increase Supply And Prevent Dangerous Inflation   DOES NOT EXPECT A MEAT FAMINE

PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS CONTINUE FOOD PRICE SUBSIDY  _ EXHAUSTIVE REVIEW  OF WORLD FOOD SIT- UATION PRESENTED

FDR Urges Food  Subsidy Plan Be Continued  Program Described   Program Described As Means To Halt Inflation Cycle

McKeesport OPA Board, Entire Panel Dismissed   OPA Insisting Upon Strict Adherence To Rationing . Directives

COMPLETE DEFEAT OF GERMANY DEMANDED   Dutch Ambassador Savs German People Must Be Made To Suffer For War

WPB Wants to Set Clock Up Another Hour   Writes Letter to Oppose Ohio Effort to Set "Em Back One.

Compromise EndsDeadlock On Drafting  Of Fathers.   Capitol Committee Agree on Principle No Dads Can Be Called While Others Available  CALLED ‘STRONGER’ THAN HOUSE BILL  Compromise Measure Would Nullify WMC ‘Wark or Ficht’ Order

DRAFT’S IMPACT ON FATHERS IS EASED A LITTLE   ‘No Parent In Nation To Be Called While A Non--Father Is Available

Draft Bill Compromise Announced; Congressiona ! Deadlock Broken.

Compromise on Fathers’ Draft   Would Take Childless Registrants First

Father Draft BillIsRevived By Committee   Conferees’ Compromi:  Plan to Reach Floor TL: Wwaoi.k

NON-FATHER DRAFT BILL [§ APPROVED      Committee Compromise Would Delay Calling of Fathers

DEADLOCK BROKEN ON FATHER DRAFT   HOUSE AND SENATE GROUPS AGREE ON NATION-WIDE “PARENTS-LAST” BILL

Interpreting  The War   Rommel Expected te Lunge Northward Ta Join Von Arnim

U. S. Strategy in the Pacific Calls For Employment of ‘Leap Fro’ Tactics

YANKS MAY USE “LEAP FROG” METHODS IN (GETTING AIR BASES NEAR JAP HOMELAND

NEW STRATEGY IN PACIFIC?   ‘Lean-Frog’ Tactics Seen A: Quickest Way To Strike At Jap Homeland

Farm Labor Shortage Is Alarming   SECRETARY OF AGRICULTUR: HOR!T SAYS SURVEY SHOWS SUPPLY ONLY 49 PER CENT. OF NORMAL.   Dairy Herds To Butcher

Farm Labor Shortage ‘Alarming,’ Horst Says   Supply at 49 Percent Of Normal on Jan. 1, Demand 102 Percent Secretary Declares  AVERAGE PAY RATE PER MONTH $44.25  City Dwellers Asked To Help Farmers Out With Part-Time Wark

FURTHER HIKE IN TAXES OPPOSEL   GOP Members of House Committee Take Firm Stand; Doubt New Law Can Be Enacted This Year

ADDED FEDERAL TAXES OPPOSED   House Group Doubtful Of Passing Revenue Law This Year

G. 0. P, SOLON AGAINST HE IN TAXATION   Action Raises Dowbt Of Fnactment te Year :

6.0. P. Solons Oppose Tax Hike   Doubt Revenue Bill Enactment This Year

Huge Tax Program Believed Killed   GOP Bloc Solidly  Against Increase

HUGE TAX PLAN RECEIVES JOU   GOP COMMITTEEMEN LINE UP SOLIDLY AGAINST ANY FURTHER INCREASE,

GOP MEMBERS OPPOSE BOOST IN TAX SCALE   Doubt Raised If Revenue Law Can Be Passed This Year; Sales Levy ‘Dead’

VICTORY NEAR IN NORTHEAST SICILY SECTOR   AMERICAN-CANADIAN DRIVES CUT OFF MESSINA ROAD

SWIFT GAINS (IVE HOPE OF VICTORY SOON   _ American Forces Advance 12 Miles Overnight to Capture Inland Road Junction of Nicosia. —   CANADIAN FORCES OVERRUN AGIRA   Seizure of Two Towns Threatens to Collapse Axis Flanks and Bring Conquest to End.

Crack core or Messina  bridgehead   Raise hopes for quick conquest

Mountainous Core of Bridge Head Cracked   Capture of Two Towns Threatens Collapse of Axis

Crack Core Of Messina Bridgehead   Yanks and Canadians Take Nicosia, Agira  In Sweep Eastward  RAISE NEW HOPES OF QUICK VICTORY  Seizures Threaten To Topple Both Flank: Of Axis Defense Line

Early End of War-in Sicily. Is Expected   U. 8. and Canadian Advances Menacing ‘Messina Bridgehead

Yankees, Canadians Drive On Sicily Conquest  In Few Days Dp, al ‘Atacl «g

Collapse Of Two Axis Flanks Threatened By Seizure; Nazis May Withdraw .   FINAL CONQUEST IS ANTICIPATED SOON

Americans and Canadians Raise Hopes of an Early   :  Conquest of All Sicily   a  Former in Swift Twelve-Mile Advance Capture Inland Road Junction of Nicolia and Latter Occupy Village of Agira in Race for Western Side of Mt. Eina; Hope To Trap 40,000 Axis Soldiers   BOTH FLANKS THREATENED

Important Road Junctions ‘Coptured In Yank Advance  Both Axis Flonks  Atl Mount Etna Defenses oS  pecan Halil

Quick Conques of Sicily Now Expected   U.S., Canadian Troops Crack Core of Bridgehead

AMERICANS AND CANADIANS MAKE 12. MILE JUMP TOCRACK MOUNTAINOUS CORE OF MESSINA BRIDGEHEAD.

Use Of Paper Being Studied   Governments Use Of Newsprint Questioned

FEDERAL PAPER USE IS CHECKED   Agencies Asked To Tell Why They Need So Much Newsprint

CLOSING IN ON MUBA FOR FINAL ACTION   Garrison on Munda Kept Isolated. Vigorous Action Japs Also in New Guinea Theatre.

OPA Will Issue Fall Shoe Stamp   Number 18 May Be Used This Summer

MORE SHOES LIKELY   spend Your No. 18 Shoe Stamp In Summer, OPA Advises

SEIZE THIRTY ENEMY SHIPS; RAID COASTS   Pirates Hide Out in Remote Bays During Day

Nazis Plan Rallies To Bolster Morale   Report Germans Hare Hit by Setbacks

Nazis Seek to Boost Morale  Campaign Plannec   Campaign Planned in Cologne

YOUNGEST VETERAN.   Youth Only 18 Is Member of the American Legion.

High Command Job In Afriea To Etsenhower   Axis Army Of 170.000 Troops In North Afriea Larger Than Allied Force.   8TH INSIDE TUNISIA

WILL DIRECT © LAST SQUEEZE AGAINST AXIS   Announcement Says U. S. General Has Command Over Such British Eighth Army Forces as Enter His Zone.

NAZIS GLAIM NEW ADVANCE   Lose 433 Tanks and 111 Planes But Maintain Attacks

GERMANS USING SECRET WEAPON   Acoustic Tor pedo Fired By Submarine Can’tMiss Victim

RAID MADE ON HOLLAND CITY   New Spitfires Are Flown By French Pilots

NEW FIGHTER PLANES HIT ~ NORTH FRANCE   Important Industry Centers Struck By Bornbs

Eisenhower May Attend Conference  In Canada   Policy Concerning Meeting Has Been To Encourage All Soris Of Speculation

EISENHOWER 1S NEW FIGURE Ih NIIFREC PARLEY   Supreme Allied Commander May Attend FDR Churchill Confab     SECRECY IS LIFTED   Roosevelt Is Expected To Arrive For Meet Soon

Victory Fund Success “Delays Further Drive   “Morgenthau Says U. S. Can Take Comfort in Response > Which Exceeded Goal

WAR BOND DRIVES OFF UNTIL APRIL   U. S. Treasury Report: Nearly 13 Billions Raisec in December.

GREAT RESPONSE TO BOND DRIVE   No More Special Campaigns for War Funds. Until “April, Treasury. Says

Orders Manitowoc County Officials To Do Their Duty Or He Will Find Someone Who Will

American Bomber Knocks Out Last Italian Cruiser Held by the Germans

NAZI-HELD SHIP HIT BY BOMBER   Italian Cruiser Struck by U. S. Mitchells in Ancona Harbor

[MUST APPLY AT PLANT   Board Makes New Rule on Appl. cations for Tires and Gas

ROSARY CHAPTER ~ HEED ELECTION   Mrs. Daytor Racobs Is Wor. _ thy Matron, Harold Lee, “Worthy Patron.”

HUOARY GHAPIER HELD ELECTION   ‘Mrs. Dayton Racobs Is Wor thy Matron, Harold Lee,  Worthy Patron.

The Eastern ‘Star ee: _ Elected 1944 ‘Officers © : oo. ‘Thursday Nicht

Dempsey Heads For Washington   r Plans to Confer On Roads, Rationing

LOOKING AHEAD ~— JO MUSTER-OUI   Barker Sees Training,  Discharge at Controlled Rate

BE IN COMMAND   Army-Navy Journal Urges Larger Sphere for Him In Pacific.   ADVANCE IN N. GUINEA

FOR LARGER FIELD   Army and Navy Journal Would Extend Mac . Arthur’s. Command

GAS BOOK ERRORS ~ TO HIT MOTORISTS   Many Auto Owners Misaddress Books

SEND ‘A’ GAS BLANKS TO YOUR LOCAL BOARD   May Be Without Gasoline If Sent to District Office

THEY WILL WALK   Motorists Who Misaddressed Anonlirpations Muat Wait. :.

Push Allies Back In North Despite Heavy Casualties   Nazis Hurl Full Weight Into’ Thrust After Being Thrown Back Initially

AXIS MAKE OLIGHT ADVANCE NORTHERN PART OF TUNISIA  ALLIED AIR FORCES BAT

ALLIES CAUSE HEAVY LOSSES   Germans Use Tanks, Infantry in Effort to Pierce Positions,   SUPPLY PORT JS RAIDED

Axis Units Driving Toward Beja Progress Three Miles Beyond Sidi Nsir Even Though Allied Ground And Air Troops Inflict Heavy Casualties—No Definite German Break In Battlefront Indicated In Official  Headquarters Communique

AXIS TROOPS GAIN IN NORTH TUNISIA ‘DESPITE HEAVY LOSSES   Bad Weather Restricts Opera tions In Southern   ALLIED -BOMBERS. BUSY

‘Batter Way Through Line In North Area   Allies Holding Firm In Other Areas; Nazis Attempting Flank Movemen

Nazis Push Or Beja, Despite Great Losses   Germans In North Tu: nisia Progress 3 Mile: Beyond Sidi Nsir   SUPPLY PORT HIT   4 Ships Damaged In One Of Largest Fortress Raids On Cagliari

9 Days of Steady Attack Apparently Fail fo Make Definite Break in Lines   Allied Patrols Continue to: Move Forward in Kasserine Pass Area —Heavy Raid Carried Out ‘on Cagliari; Axis Supply Port

EIGHTH ARMY IS IN CONTACT WITH ENEMY   'Patrols Keep Up Advance   From Kasserine Pass Without Meeting   Opposition

All-Out Drive Toward Beja Proves Costly  Other Attacks Are Repulsed in n Heavy

Three-Day Attacks Fail To Make Dent In Battlefront; Planes Are Active

Heavy Losses Are Inflicted On Attackers   Bad Weather Restricts Southern Operations; Great Air Support Given Allied Troops

No Opposition Met By Allies In Area Around Shbeitla; Eighth Army In Contact With Foe At Mareth Line; Sardinia And Other Points Bombed

AXIS. ATTACKS FAST OF BEJA THROWN BACK   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses in Attempt to Pierce Allied Lines.   SOME GROUND GAINED IN INITIAL THRUSTS

GERMANY HURLS TANKS, INFANTRY INTO STRUGGLE   Flying Fortresses Smash at Enemy Supply Port, Damaging Four Ships

ADVANCE 3 MILES IN OFFENSIVE THRUST AT BEJA   ALLIED FORCES GIVE GROUND SLOWLY AND INFLICT MANY LOSSES

AXIS MAKE SLIGHT ADVANCE NORTHERN PART OF TUNISIA  ALLIED AIR FORCES BAT - JER GERMAN COLUMNS

Heavy Forces Are Launched Against Allies   U.S. and British Airmen Blast _ Roads and Ports

lies Take feavy Toll, port Says   1 azis Hurl Full Weight  Into Battle

Axis Attacks In Northern Tunisia Are Flung Back   Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Men And Tanks; Allied Air    ee lee: See

GERMANS MAKE SOME PROGRESS WEST OF TUNIS   Allied Ground and Air Forces Inflict Some Great Losses   PLANES TAKING A TERRIFIC TOLL

Pay High Cost for Small Gains West of Axis - Held Citadels   Bed Weather Hampers Fighting in South, Air Force Hits Four Axis Ships at Cagliari

‘Stubborn Allied Resistance, With ‘Magnificent’ Air Support, Prevents Break   CAGLIARI BOMBED      Allied Patrols Continue Pursuit of Rommel to South, Occupy Feriana ° .

3-Mile Axis Gait In North Tunisia   “sMlies Continue to Advance - in the Kasserine Pass Area   ‘AXIS PORT IS BOMBED   Ships and Railroad Bridges Are Damaged. by Allied  Raiders

HEAVY LOSSES ARE INFLICTED ON AXIS UNITS   Flying Fortresses Bombard Enemy’s Base At Cagliari

JUDGE HUGHES CONSIDERED FOR SUPREME COURT   Only Other Name Mentioned To Fill Vacancy Is That Of Former Gov.

MARTIN WILL SOON FILL VACANCY ON STATE HIGH COURT   Ex-Gov. Arthur H, James O1 Judge Howard Hughes Will Get $19000 A-Year-Post

Whitehead Vividly Describes Invasion “Another Town, Another  Valley, Another Ridge” Is How Invasion Goes

Here’s Your Chance To Go On March With American Army Invading Sicily

MOVE AHEAD N STORY OF U.S. INVASION ARMY   Weary Troops Move From  Town to Town In   Sicily   GREETED AS HEROES   Eyewitness Account of Landing Force Reveals  Hardships

ALL UKRAINE LIBERATED BY SURGING REDS   Huns Suffer Worst Defeat Since Russ Recapture Of Stalingrad   CITY TAKEN BY ASSAULT   All Russia _— Celebrates And Stalin Orders Salvo At Moscow 9

Hc MOVE ID rite ALL It CRIMEA   Black Sea Fleet Told To Be Ready  erecta ream,  REDS CELEBRATE     Loss of Kiev Serious

Soviet Russia Is Celebrating Great Victory   Soviet High Command Officially Announces Recapture Of Kiev   BIGGEST VICTORY SINCE STALINGRAD

HALF MILLION IN GITY FREED   Sheer Weight of Red Arms Hurls Germans From Dnieper Citadel

HOUSE COMMITTEE WOULD WIND UP NYA   Funds Denied But Fight on Floor Likely

NYA LIQUIDATION ORDERED   Youth Administration Given Funds To Wind Up Its Affairs

Cuts oif funds for the NYA   House Committee Orders Its Liquidation Not Later Than January J   STIFF FLOOR FIGHT IS IN PROSPECT   Appropriations of More Than a Billion Go Before Conoress

Float, Wood That Won't Burn and Plastic Surfaces Good For a Lifetime

Marvelous Things Predicted for PostWar World by DuPont Co. Scientists

The War Today   Italian War Declaration Is Moral And Material Allied Victory

The War Today  Portugal’s Move Gives Allies Powerful New Weapon For War,

Busy Schedule Here Tomorrow Awaits Knudsen   Twin Cities Prepare Big Welcome For Lt. Genera]

LAST JAP STAND IN ATTU VILLAGE   Enemy Forces Compressed Into Arca of Twelve Square Miles

ENEMY HOLDS ~ §MALL AREA   AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE FORCED JAPANESE ON 1S .LAND INTO AREA OF ONLY 12 SQUARE MILES--  ROOSEVELT.STATES THAT THE MAIN AMERI_CAN MILITARY AND NAVAL STRENGTH NOW IN PACIFIC °   By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

Kerr Now Faces Test in House   Governor Asks House To Approve Bill to Make Smartt Chairman

Smartt Slated For Resources. Planning Job  Kerr Faces Fight To Name Chairman fFat@. ,s_. 5

MORE BIRTHS THAN DEATHS RECORDED   Baltimore City Topped Rest 0} State During February, Re port reveals

Further Intensified Recruiting Necessary To Utilize  Workers “   DRAFT IS CONSIDERED

3 WACS Arrive At New Delhi   Cause More Excitement Than Generals

Smethport WAC ai ‘End of the Line’   Sgt. Louise Hull Reported In India

13 World Strategy For Allies Thought Now Being Mappec   Creation of War Council Tops List With Africa Next

BIG EVENTS BELIEVED IN THE MAKING   Decisions. on Strategy for 1943 Probably Being Made Now   AN UNUSUAL: AIR © : aaa “OF EXPRCTANCY   Four Big Steps Probable, Tncluding Co-ordination. of. ATE-Allied Efforts.”

Air Full Of Optimism And Expectancy {n England: Contin ual Conferences Of High Leaders Taken As Tie Something is Stirring; Coordination Is Ne. f Joe Mow

43 Strategy eing Mapped n London   Creation Of Allied War Council and Opening of Second Front In Europe Studied

WORLD POLICY OF ALLIES IS THOT MAKING   ALLIED WAR COUNCIL AND NO. AFRICAN SETTLEMENT TOPPING LIST

BRITISH, ATTACKING TRIPOLL” ALSO SEEK TO BY-PASS CITY TO CUT OFF NAZIS’ ROAD TO TUNISIA   Decisions on World Strategy in Effort to End War in 1943 Be lieved In Making in London; War Council Due

WORLD STRATEGY BELIEVED PLANNED UNITED NATIONS  CREATION. OF GENUINE ALLIED WAR COUN.

Supreme War Council Near London Hears   United Nations’ 1943 Strategy Is Four-Fold   Commander Over All Will Be Named Soon   American May Be Considered; Inside  Track To Alexander

United Nations Leaders Ponder  Problems Of War   Decisions Near On Vital Issues

London Sources Think 1943 Allied Strategy Decisions Are Now Being Mapped Out

Allies Brewing Up New Strategy   OFFENSIVE PLANS TO BE MADE BY UNITED NATIONS

Quick Consolidation of Command Sought in North Africa So New Front May Be Opened in Europes

STEPS IN ALLIED STRATEGY VIEWEL   GENUINE COUNCIL OF WAR BELIEVED FIRST BIG POINT

World Strategy Said in Making Now af London   Unified Command Believed One of Main Objects

1943 ALLIED PLANS BEING MADE. BELIEF   Simultaneous Air, Sea and Land Drives to End War This Year or in 1944 May Be ..Among  Ditcoucomne

TRATEGY FOR ALLIES CALLS POR OFFENSIVE   Var Council to be Created; Will Settle French Problem in . North Africa   COORDINATION OF ALL WAR EFFORTS PLANNED

United Nations Believed to Have Plans for United Action With Aim of Ending War This Year or Next; Creation of Genuine Allied War Council May Result; General Air of Optimism as To Fu ' gee LCQnarchiane

ALLIES MAP STRATEGY TO DEFEAT AXIS   Coordination of Nations Viewed as Keynote To Victory

Allied Strategy Brewing   London Observers Say Momenteous Plans Are Being Laid By Leaders In Secret Conferences

DEFEAT OF AXIS BY 1944 16 GOAL   Creation Of Genuine Allied War Council Is High On List   PLAN OFFENSIVES      Big Scale Attacks Which Mad End War This Year Are Studied

Deiroiters-Face— Fun Curtailment Following Riots      Midnight. Curfew Prevails “For. Millions. In: -City, Under Emergency: Law

CURFEW REMAINS VER DETROIT FUN   Bars Must Close at 10 P. M. Amusement Places at 11 P. M.: Tabulate Dead

GOP Oppose New Civilian Supply Bill   Declare It Just Creates ~ Another Czar to Add to Confusion

House May Snag Civilian Supply Agency Measure   Senate - Approved Bill Meets Wave Of Repub ican Onnaosition.

Legislation to Strip WPB ‘Chairman of Power-Over Civilian Supplies Passes Senate   FACES STIFF FIGHT   GOP Members Contenc Setting Up of New Agency Bound to Confuse Whole Setup

Opposed To New Agency  Te ceunsayl L Roresnerata   Enough Bureaucrats  Now, Say GOPs

GOP Opposes Bill To Split WPB Powers   House Republicans Fight Creation Of Civilian Sup plies Control Office.   PASSES SENATE 44-29

CIVILIAN SUPPLY BILL 10 HOWS!   Legislation Lands In Bramble Patch of Republican Opposition; Would Strip. WPB of Its Authority Over Civilian Supplies.

BRITISH STAB AT WESTERN REICH   2 Billion Expansion Of Aerial Program Revealed

YANK AIRPLANE CARRIERS WIN BIG JAP DUEL   Sink 3 Warships, Damage 12 Others, and Bag 24 Planes

U.S. Planes Sink Cruiser and 2 Destroyers in Rabaul   Craft From Carriers  Beat Nipponese to Punch With Battle

U. $. Carrie Planes Lash Rabaul Japs   Sink 3 Warships, Damage 12 Others; 88 Nip Planes Shot Down.

CARRIERS WIN RABAUL DUEL   Sink Jap -Cruisers, 2 Destroyers, Damage Other enemy Ships.

U. §. CARRIERS WIN LONG RANGE DUEL WITH JAPS   Send in Bulk of 200 Planes Against Rabaul to Sink Enemy Cruiser and Two Destroyers

Two Hundred Plane Raid Blasts Jap Naval Force; 64 Foe Bombers Downed

THREE JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK, FELL 88 PLANES   U. S. Aircraft Carriers Win First Long Range Duel in Pacific

U.S. SCORES DECISIVELY AT RABAUL   Carriers Unseathed’ In Clash; Enemy’s Losses Are Heavy

Aircraft Carriers  Win Mighty Clash   Three Jap Warships are Sunk, Twelve Others Damaaed in Fiaht

ae  3 JAP SHIPS SUNK   12 Other Warcraft Hit In Rabaul Baitle Area   Carrier Planes Aloft

Aireraft Carriers Win First Long Range Duel With lananece Foress

‘Severe Blows .Inflicted By American Aircraft Carriers In First Big Long Range Duel Of War With Nipponese Forces At Rabaul—Retaliatory Attacks On One  Flat Top Repulsed—Seventeen Allied Planes Lost : Omen Gocakanen VWaeante bied

200 Carrier Planes Destroy Enemy Ships   Cruiser and Two Destroyers Sent to Bottom—Nips Unable To Take Their Revenge

Sink Three Enemy Warships; Damage 11; Get 64 Planes   American Supremacy in Solomon Waters is Asserted Again

NAVAL CRAFT DAMACED   64 Nip Planes Shot Down In One Hour and Twentv-Minute Battle

U.S. Carriers Win In First Big Duel With Rabaul Japs   Jap Cruiser And Twe Destroyers Sunk In Rabaul Battle

64 Jap Planes Downed   Attack On U. S, ‘Aircraft Carriers Repulsed With Heavy Loss

U.S. Carriers Win Long-range Duel In South Pacific   Enemy Suffers Heavy Toll in Plane as Navy Units Spar at Rabaul

First Big Long Range Duel of War With Japan’s Mighty Naval And Air Base at Rabaul Won by American Forces—Two Jap Cruisers and Two Destroyers Are Sunk—Allied Losses Light by Comparison

Enemy Ship Losses Heavy U. S. Carrier Untouched By Jap Air Bombardment.

Beat Rabaul Jap Garrison  To the Punch   Carrier Based Pianes Down 64 Out of 70 Jap Craft in 80 Minutes

YANK CARRIERS WIN LONG RANGE DUEL WITH JAP RABAUL FLEET   More Than 200 Planes Sink Jap Cruiser and Destroyers, Damaging Cruiser and Eleven Destroyers; Shoot Down 24 Nip Planes.

U.S. Aircraft Carriers Win: First Big Long Range! Duel Of War On Rabaul’

Destroys 64 Of 70 Planes Sent By Nips   Big Carrier Escapes Without A Dent; Some Allied Vessels Hit, Casualties Renorted

Carrier-Based U.S. Planes Sink 3 Jap Warships In Rabaul Raid   12 Others Damaged; 88 Enemy Planes Shot From Sky

Bombs Hit 15 Ships At Rabaul; Enemy Loses 8§ Planes, Fails ‘Revenge’

AIRCRAFT I$ HEADACHE 10 JAP’S NAVY   Carriers Play Big Part In Lashing Given Enemy

Enemy Loses 64 Fighters In Effort To Stave Off Attack On Rabaul; Minor Damage Sustained By Allied Naval Force

PLANES FROM U.S. CARRIERS DAMAGE MORE   Americans Repulse Jap Counter-Attack In Far Pacific Fight

NO COFFEE PRESCRIPTIONS   Commodity Can Be Sold Only on Regular Ration Stamps

Guard Victim ~ Of Explosion   Western Electric Plant In Lower Manhattan Is * Scene Of Blast -

Three Planes Crash Into Front Yards Of Residence District, Causing Death of Flier. Iniuries to Others

Use Stamp 15, 16 For Canning Sugat   Then Additional Sugar May Be Obtained If Needed

JAPS WEAKENED ON CHINA FRONT      ‘Reinforcements Needed  To Start Drive, Says  Chungking General

Farm Youth Is Acquitted On 2 Other Charges   Jury Reaches Verdict In 20 Hours; 12 Years Mayimum Term —

Middle-Class German Businessman Betrayed by Nazi Party, Handed Over To Trusts, Monopolies, OWI Reports

NAZI PARTY HAS. BETRAYED MIDDLE ‘CLASS GERMAN —   Average Business Man Has Been Delivered Into Hands of Nazi-Controlled  Trusts, Monopolies

Reich Regime Has Betrayed German Business, is Claim   Office of War Information Says Nazi Party Has “Delivered Them Into Hands of Nazi-Controlled Trusts, Monopolies and Giant Combines,” Violating Promise In 1920

Double-Crossing Nazis  - Hitler’s Party Is Squeezing ‘Little Business Man’ Ou

MIDDLE-CLASS GERMAN BUSINESSMAN BETRAYED BY NAZI PARTY, OWI CLAIMS

OW! DISCOVERS NAZI PARTY NOT TOBE TRUSTED  SAYS MIDDLE-CLASS ~- GERMAN’ BUSINESSME!

GERMAN MIDDLI CLASS SOLD OUT, SAYS OWI   Small Businessmen  Betrayed By Party

Nazi-Controlled Trusts Gobble Up  Middle-Class German Businessmen   Piurive Industrial Apparatus Of Germany Being Con verted To Ruthless Centralization Which Ignores  Small Businesses, Charges O.W.I.

German Middle-Class Is Double-Crossed By Nazis   Small Businessmen ‘Delivered Into Hands O!  Trusts, Monopolies’ Says OWI

Reduction In Fees Is Voted _ By Assembly      Measure Cutting Auto License Fees $5 For Each Classification Is Gent Ta Senate

Qouwen ques ws Qree eee  REPORT 37TH DIVISION ENJOYS HORSEBACK RIDING

LIKE HORSES   Soldiers of 37th Buy Own Steeds At South Pacifle Race

Better Be Ready, Girls; Soldiers Will Wed In Hurry After The War

COUNCIL WOULD DECLARE WAR   Bolivian Group Takes Action As Wallace Arrives.

CHIEFS OF STAFF MAY NOT ACCEPT OPEN CITY BID   Churchill Is Back in Quebec—Eden Thought to Be on  Way: Also Hull

FATE OF OME 0) Gt DECIDED BY WEDNESDAY   Quebec Conference Likely To Make Final Decision On Italian Capital

FDR EXPECTED IN QUEBEC THIS WEEK FOR WAR CONCLAVE   Sixth Fermal Conference To Cover Wider Fields Than Previously  Believed

U8. AND BRITAIN STAND BY DEMAND FOR SURRENDER   London Press Warns of Trick by Badoglio Re. gime; Decision Likely Late This Week.

Rome's Fate To Be Decidec At Quebec   Atiied Chiefs Net Te Accept Itelien

MacArthur's Men Extend Grip On Huon Peninsula   Australian Patrols Sweep Aside Light Japanese Resistance

AUSSIES SEIZE ‘NEW JAPANESE ~ STRONG-POINT   Enemy Resistance S wep: Aside Along Coast of New Guinea and Inland From Warco

AUSSIES MAKE NEW GAINS IN WAREO SECTOR   Hold On Huon Peninsula Tightened

VILLAGE IS CAPTURED ‘FROM JAPS   American Army Air. men Again Make Raid On Marshall Islands

Newspaper Urges U. S. To Repeal! Restrictions Against Immiaqrants

Nazis, Reeling Under Terrific Loss, Now Feel Pressure From Two Sides; Major Strongholds Weaken

REDS COUNTER DRIVE AGAINST STALLED NAZIS   Smash or Rout 10 German Divisions in 3 Days, Recapturing 110 Towns; Advance 28 miles   Break Through Foe Lines

Red Armies Oper Strong Counter Attack on Nazis   Rout 10: Divisions; Recapture 110 Towns; Advance 28 Miles

REDS LAUNCH MIGHTY DRIVE IN OREL ARE!   Smash 10 Reich Divisions in 3 Days  Of Fighting

Reds Attack On All Lines   Counter Offensive }s Smashing Nazi Units

Russ Offensive On Orel Line  Smashes Nazis   Sweeping Counterattacks Peril German Base, Kull 12,000; Two Red Armies Take 110 Town:

Great Red Attacks Rout Nazi Hordes   Two-Pronged Drive’ Retakes 110 Towns, 12,000 Said Slain  By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Reenrintad Drace Staff Writer

REDS SMASH 10 NAZI DIVISIONS, PLUNGE 28 MILES   Stalled German Machine Dealt Heavy Blow by Counter-Offensive in Orel Sector.   128 TOWNS CAPTURED IN 2 BREAK-THROUGHS   Moscow Reports 12,000 Enemy Troops Killed and 2,000 Capture d—109 Tanks Destroyed.

Great Red Attacks Rout Nazi Hordes   Two-Pronged Drive Retakes 110 Towns, 19.000 Said'Clain

RED SURPRISE DRIVE MAKES 26-MILE GAIt   SOVIETS RECAPTURE 110 TOWNS, KILL 12,000 NAZIS

Soviets Smash or Rout 10  Nazi Divisions   Two Russian Units Open Powerful Counter-Offensive

Easter Is Latest In 20th Century   April 25 Latest Possible Date In Calendar; Lent Starts Wednesday.

Latest Lent Of 20th Century  Miss Bennot Explains How It Is Determined

Latest Lenten Period Of Century Opens Wednesday   World Will Have To Wait Until 2038 Before Easter Falls On April 25 Again—Last  Time Was In 1886

-atest Lent Period Of 20th entury Begins Wednesday   arch JQ and April 25 Are Latest Possible Dates In: Calendar On Which Ash Wednesday and Easter, Respectively, Can Fall ; Latest In 57 Years; Next Such Date to Be 2038

LABOR AUT Salt URGED BY KAISER   Wagner Law Needs Revision, Coast Shipbuilder Declares in Copyrighted Interview

OTH ARMY HAS NAZIS RUNNING’   Ceaseless Attacks By Germans Slow Up Russians

‘GERMANS ARE — FIGHTING HARD. TN KIEV BULGE   Counter-Attacks Thrown Back By 5th Armv

Australian Troops Continue Gains Northeast of Lae  Break Through Weak Japanese Patrols in New Guinea Zone

Australian Troops Continue Gains  Northeast of Lae  Break Through Weak Japanese Patrols

Australians Advance On Base At Lae   Jap Airfields Left In Ruins From Bomb Raids

Australians Make Advance Upon Lae   Jap Patrols Put Up Weak Resistance

#USSIES BREAK THROUGH PATROLS   Advance to Point 5 Miles Northeast of Lae   SHARP FIGHTING   ‘American Air Force Makes Heavy Raid on Bougain@ ville, Jap Base Site

WEAK JAPANESE PATROLS BEATEN BY AUSTRALIANS   Steady Advance Is Still Be ing Made Northeast rt T eu Bawa   MARKHAM AIRSTRIP. BEING RECONDITIONED

AIRDROMES HIT BY FLYING FORTRESSES      Numerous Direct Hits Are Scored in Caen and  Abbeville

F lying Fortresses score hits on nazi installations   German airdromes at Abbeville and  Caen pounded by eighth U. S. force

NAZI AIRPORTS — HIT BY YANKS   Direct Hits Scored On Fields At Abbeville,  Caen In France

American Heavy Bombers Blast French Targets   German Airdromes Attack. ed; Three Fortresses : Lost in Raids

Bond Drive Hits Half-Way Mark   Morgenthau Thinks Quota Will Be Met

Utah Forges Into Second Place At ‘Half-Way Mark of War Loan Drive

Body of War Hero Found In Pasture   Army’s Youngest Lieutenant Colonel, Missing Since Nev. 29, Found in Wreckage of Plane

Search Is Ended For Lost Aviator   Ace Buzz Wagner Victim of Crash

Buzz Waoner Is Plane Victim   BODY OF AERIAL HERO FOUND ON FLORIDA FARM

ROUTINE FLIGHT FATAL 10 FLIER BACK FROM WAR   Young Lt. Col. ‘Buzz’ Wagner Survives Dangers of War Only To Die Prosaically   FARMER FINDS WRECKAGE   P-40 Pursuit Plane Plunged Into Isolated Pasture x Florida Last Month

WAGNER'S BODY FOUND IN PLANE   Missing Flier  Discovered By Florida Farmer in Isolated Pasture.

FARMER FINDS ‘BUZZ’ WAGNER   One of United States Firs Air Aces of World War Il

Farmer Finds — Body of Army ‘Ace’ Wagner   More Jap Ships Reported Massing at Rabaul Base

Farmer Looking for Cows Discovers Body of Missing World War Il Ace

WPB ORDER CUTS MANUFACTURE OF PAPER PRODUCTS   Boxes, Facial Tissues, Stationery Among Articles Rectricled

Use Of Paper In Nation Curtailed  Commercial Printing, Packaging Will Feel Cuts By WPB

New Curtailment of Paper Use Is Ordered by WPB       Commercial Printing, Manufacture of Converted Paper Products and Packaging of Food, Wearing Ap parel, Gifts and Other Merchandise Hit By Latest Regulation

New Curtailment Of Use Of Paper   Commercial Printing ~And Food Packaging Are Aarne _Fobs—A ffecteh

Increased Food Output Seen   Livestock, Chicken, Eag Totals Soar

ANOTHER MOVE MADE TOWARD FULL UNION   Photographs and Statements of Petain Remoyed Under Giraud’s Ordeare.

Anti-Petain Campaign in North Africa Started by Giraud Gov't.   Move Is Seen As Step to Full Union With Fighting French

GIRAUD'S DECREE ENDS INFLUENCE OF NAZIS PUPPET   Petain Leadership Ruled Out In Gesture of Unity With Be Gaulle.

Coordination of Allied Forces in Tunisia "Remarkable": Eisenhower

END ENEMY’S VANDALISM, RAYBURN SAYS   There Must Be No Stopping Until It Is Wiped From Face of Earth, Re-elected Speaker Tells New Congress.

“We Must Disarm These Vandals.and Keep Them Disarmed,” Speaker Says

Disarm Vandals, Rayburn Says in Speech to House   Texan Is Re-Elected as Speaker Over Martin by Slim Margin.   Is First Congress to  Convene While at War

78th Congress Pledges Wat on U.S. “Bureaucracy”   Speaker Rayburn Calls for Stamping Out of World Vandalism, Paganism

Democrats Again Control ** st Votes   Sam Rayburn Elected Speaker By Slim Margin

Divided On Home Front Policy  78th Congress Convenes With Victory As Aim

Rayburn Renamed Speaker   .. + Democrats Retain Control of House   Solons Sound A Warning To Bureaucrats; FDR Message Thursday

Rayburn Wins Speakership By House Vote   Martin Takes Leadership of Minority Group

Rayburn Says ‘Vandals’ Must Be Disarmed   Is Re-Elected Speaker of House in Ceuntest With Martin

Joe Martin Only 11 Votes Behind Texan   Galleries Jammed As 78th Congress Begins Session 

Rayburn, Reelecter Speaker, lalks of Permanent Peace   Axis Vandals Must Be Disarmed, He Tells 78th Congress

DEMOCRATS RETAIN CONTROL OF HOUSE BY SLIM MARGIN   SPEAKER RAYBURN DECLARES WAR VANDALS MUST BE DISARMED

Full Victory Must Be Goal, Speaker Says   e Wipe Out Vandalism He Tells Cheering House Members

RAYBURN AGAIN NAMED SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE   Democrats Hold Control By Slim Margin Of Votes

‘Worldshaking’ Problems To Confront  Nation Before War’s End, House Told   Wins By 11 Votes

Congress Meets at Noon Today on Note - of Self-Assertion   Warning to Bureaucrats Heard in Caucuses Tuesday Evening

Representative Martin Automatically Becomes Leader Of Minority — Senate Meets Briefly

Bureau Chiefs Are Warned By Rayburn   Reelected Speaker Asks Administration Teamwork, Praises President   HITS AXIS" PAGANISM   Roosevelt Speach To 'Vitory Session’ Will Be Broadcast Tomorrow

IS RE-ELECTE HOUSE SPEAKER BY 217 10 206   Congress Will Hear F. R. Speak Thursday on State of Union

MUST RID WORLD OF VANDALS   An On To Tokyo, Berlin aud Rome Victory. Cry as Congress Opens ’   RAYBURN SPEAKS T0 CHEERING HOUSE   Early Shots Are Fired at Bureaucracy; Roosevelt © Messace Tomorrow

RAYBURN [3 OPEAKER BY CLOSE. VOTE   Democrats Have Margin of 11 Votes in House Organization.   PRESIDENT TO . SPEAK TOMORROW   Report on State of Union Expected to. Review Progress of War.

WMC SPEEDS DRIVE FOR ESTABLISHING JOB STABILIZATION   McNutt Hopes Plans Will  Soon Be Operating  Throughout ‘United  “States.

Clearance of. New Recreational Traci Is Underway.   Binder Area Rapidly . Being Put in. Shape by City Park Board

Clearance of New Recreational Tract Is Underway  Binder Area Rapidly Being Put in Shape

IN MASON CITY      st. Patr ick’s Day Observed With Customary Zaal jn Traland

Mareth Line Positions: Hit. Hard From Ait   Shamrock Blessed, but Not Drowned in Irish Whiskev. in Old Diblin.

Green Distributed to All Soldiers; President de Valera Leads Procession

Irish Celebrate St. Patrick's Day; Traditional Parade Lacks Soldiers

Shamrock Shortage Outside Ireland; Tax Collector; Get ‘Long Green’ Here

Badly Damaged Liberator Shepherded Home by Another U.S. Bomber After Battle With Zeros Over New Ireland

Baltimore Elects ” Officials Today   Jackson and McKeldin Both Confident in Mayoralty Race

BOMBS RAINED UPON COLOGNE AGAIN BY RAF   LONDON GIVEN FIRST AIR RAID ALARM SINCE JUNE 27

RAF Repeats Heavy Raid On Cologne   1,000 Tons of Bombs Cascade upon Nazi Production Center

1,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROP ON COLOGNE   City Has Been Blasted 11¢ Times; British Mean Ta Keep Cologne On Industria! Defense   Nazis Raid English Town

RAF BOMBERS GIVE COLOGNE ~NEW BLASTING   British Fighters Al. craft Raid Targets In North France

RAR Returns To Attack On Cologne .   German Industrial City Pasted With 1000 Tons of Bombs

LATE, FILINGS OF INCOME TAXES IS NOTED IN COUNTRY   Revenue Off iceys Snowed Under by Reports and Money as Deadline Nears

EXPECT AVALANCHE OF INCOME RETURNS   Last Minute Rush Is Underway; Treasury Says 45 Million Returns to Be Filed

Monday Income Tax Deadline   Avalanche of Tax Returns Expected By Officials

TAX DEADLINE COMES MONDAY   Local Office Open To: night and Last Day Until 8:00 P. M.

neome Tax Collectors to te Snowed Under, Is Claim      United States Treasury Officials Predict Returms and Money Will Become Avalanche Over Weekend; 45,000,000 Returns, or 19,000,000 More Than Year Ago Looked For

Tax Returns Pour In.   Officials Snowed Under _As People Rush to, File Before Deadline Mar. 15

Income Tax Rush Is On   Monday Is Last Day For Filing Returns For 1942

INCOME TAX RETURNS HIT NEW RECORD   Officials Snowed Under With Last Minute Filings Rush

Construdion Man Finds Dynamite   And It Was in His Car, Wired to Ignition

Nips Launch New Effort To Take Solomons   No Tremendous Engagement Is Yet In Progress, However, Knox Says; Planes, Ship Doing Reconnaissance

ONLY ‘FEELER SKIRMISHES’ BEING FOUGH)   Major Battle Has Not started, Navy Boss Says

Knox Says Battle Not Yet Joined   Renewal of Sea Fight Imminent: Jap Claims Denied

SERIES OF FEELER -SKIRMISHES BEING - CARRIED OUT NOW   Secretary Says Any Assumption That Tremendous Battle Is In Progress At Moment  -<Te Inearrart

NEW ECONOMIC SETUP READY   Byrnes New Powers to Be Tried After Confab ~  - With F. D. R.

FDR and New Agency’ s Men Will Confer   Preliminary Work oJ Organizing OWM Is Now Complete

Open House Set At LAAF Today   WAC.Elicibles Are  Wore ee IS.  Specially Invited

Open House Set At LAAF Today   WAC Eligibles Are  Snecially Invited

De Marigny’s Alibi Under Fire At Tria   Defendant Admits Transfer  of Funds to Friend and Hanes fouact

ALLIES GAIN IN ROME DRIVE   Surprise Landing Made at Termoli in Enemy’s . Rear. American Bombers Knocking: ‘Out Henpontant Communications;

Sth Army Moves 16 Miles Up Adriatic Coast After Surprise Landing At Termoli; Yanks Take Kev Town

DE VALERA WINS.   His Party Is Returned To Power by Irish Electorate.

RECESS PROVIDES CHANCE FOR WORK AGAINST DRAFT BILL   Moves Develop In 2 Houses To Force Workers Out Of Government Service

HERSHEY WILL DEFINE POLICY OF DEFERMEN   To Explain Non-Draft Of 300,000 U. §, Workers

HOUSE PLANS TO FORGE CUT IN-BUREAUS...   Wants Workers For Draft

‘SEEK TO FORCE WORKERS OUT OF FEDERAL JOBS   Would Slow Induction Of Fathers, And For Reason Of Economy, Said

Senate Leaders To Spend Week-End Working On Arguments Against Bill To Delay Induction Of Fathers

ACTION 1S COMPLETED ON STABILIZATION FUND MEASURE   Money as Approved Can’t be Used in International Stabilization Fimnd.

American Engineers Built 12-Mile Road In Three Days  Crossed Thirteen Mountains With Many Daelkeo In BDatwaan: Nat Dean Maninath Rafar

U.S. Engineers Helped Crack German. Sicilian-Defenses-By-MiraculousFeat —

BETTING RECORDS SET DURING MEE]   Total of $1,444,940 Wag. -ered Here in Ten Dave

Betting Reaches All Time High   Total Of $1,444,940 Is ‘Wagered Here During Ten-Dav Race Meet.

DEMONSTRATIONS FOR PEACE SWEEP ITALY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS  7~ A £3077 TUE ADD’ a . ay

ITALIANS     SHOBTING OR PEACE   British Edge On In Bitter Battle For Catania

WHOLE WESTERN END OF SICILY ISOLATED BY INVASION BLITZ   FAST-STRIKING SEVENTH ARMY UNITS SURPASSED ALL EXPECTATIONS ~

‘PeaceDemand . Heard in Italy L After Palermo   Thousands of Italians Tranned

Capital, With  Population of 950,000, Falls To Blitz Blow   8th Army Edges Closer To Catania in Furious Fight   Demands for Peace Renarted in Vealw

Thousands Trapped.   Lightning Drive.   *Peace Cry’ Is Raised In Italo Cities

HAULING IN THE SCRAP   Douglas County Farmers - Are Bringing in Discarded Implements

Germans Are Leaving Italians to Their Fate * Alsiers Radio Reports

Peace Rumors Fly To Be Go-Between   Americans Advancing Against Strongly-Prepared German Positions at San Stefano

RUSSIANS READY FOR HARD HITTING DRIVE IN WINTER   Warmly-clad Troops Movin, "In Steds Will Continue Offensive. .

HUGS PUTTING UN FURS FOR WINTER DRIVE   Army Will Be Warmly Clad and Move on Millions of Snow Sleds.   MASS GUNS, TANKS AND TROOPS ALONG DNIEPER

Mme. Chiang Urges ‘Peace Of Charity’   Chinese First Lady Toc Weary After Rally to Make Broadcast

BROADCAST CANCELLED   Mme. Chiang Forced To Give Up  Pians For Radio Talk

Jap Navy Is Still Strong In Warships   Despite Severe Loses Still Have Fleet Potentially Able to Fight Hard   SURVEY DISCLOSED

DESPITE HEAVY LOSSES, JAPAN COULD STILL FACE SHOWDOWN IN PACIFIC BY FORMIDABLE FLEET

JAP NAVY BATTERED AND BESTED BUT IS STILL FORMIDABLE  GRAND TOTAL OF 341 TO 343 FIGHTING SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED

JAPS STILL HAVF FORMIDABLE BATTLE FLEET   Yates McDaniel Gives: Figures on Sinkings and Damage and Approximate Number Ships Now Be lieved in Service

Japanese Navy Has Been Battored And Bested In Each Engagement But Still Bamaine A Formidable Raitle Fleel

Ex-Teacher Captured Maknassy   Lieut. Sneath From Lancaster, Pa.,  Led Patrols _  Wer Dt) Aale

Inhabitants of Tunisian Town Report Bad Blood Between German and Tealian, ()icer<.

SCHOOL TEACHER TAKES MAKNASSY FINDS BAGBY TRAPS   Lt. Sneath of Lancaster, Pa., First to Enter the  Tawr

Sneath, Pennsylvania teacher,  leads patrol taking Maknassy   Germans had evacuated town but returned with stukas to bomb it

ALLIED GUNS AND AXIS BATTERIES IN HEAVY DUEL TODA)   This Action Was a Warm-Up Against the European Fortress.   TO ITALY’S MAINLAND   Trail of Bombs Were Strung Along Highways and Roads.

Big Guns Duel  Across Strait  Battle For Sicily Ends *Ahead Of Schedule’

Heavy Guns Battle With Axis Batteries   As Shells Scream Across Messina Strait, It Is Revealed That Allies Had Expected Sicilian Drive to Last 90 Days.

Warplanes Pursue Troops, Blasting Them Along Highways, in Trains; Sicilians Bitter At Germans For Demolition Work

DISCOMFITED FOE PURSUED ON MAINLAND   Massed Formations of United Nations Planes Carrying War to Fleeing Axis Forces  SHELL NAPLES YARDS

Guns Duel Across Strait of Messina   Heavy Guns Engage in Warm-Up Against Fort-. ress of Europe _   AIR WAR TO MAINLAND   Campaign for Occupation of Sicily Wound Up in ' + 38 Days -

 Warplanes Pursue Foe, Drop Bombe Along Highways and Roads; Eight Vessels Ave  Destroyed, 23 Others Demaved

Sicily May Be Used As Springboard For New Blows At Axis   Campaign Finished “Ahead Of Schedule” According To Allied Headquarter Spokesmer

ALLIES TRAIN GUNS ON ITAL   Battle for Sicily Finished Ahead of Plan, Say Allied Leaders.

‘Allied Guns Blast Shells  Across Strait of Messina   American and British Warplanes Harry Foe Within Italy, as Troops Mop Up in Sicily — Forts Raid Southern France

ALLIED GUNS DUEL WITH AXIS ACROSS STRAIT OF MESSINA  7 AXIS LOSE HEAVILY IN : CONQUEST SICILY;  ALLEL

FIGHT IS ENDED IN SICILY WHEN MESSINA FALLS   City in Ruins When Weary Yanks Enter - - Ready To Go On When Word Comes   ‘AXIS LOSSES ARE HEAVY   Conquest of Stepping Stone Island Completed Ahead Of Schedule

ARTILLERY DUEL ACROSS STRAIT   Axis Lose Nearly 200,000 Men In Sicilian Fight

Trail Of Bombs Pursues: Germans  Up Mainland    Heavy. Damage Done T«  Highways; “Trains And Trucks.: Flying Fortresses Also Smash A Southern France For First, Time, Attacking; 150 Parked Planes.

ALLIED GUNS AIMED AT ITALY; AXIS LOST 170,000 IN SICILIAN CAMPAIGN

Allied Big Guns Hurl Shells Across The Messina Strait In Invasion Warm-Up

ALLIED HEAVY GUNS BOOM DUEL WITH AXIS ACROSS MESSINA STRAIT IN SICILY   Massed Formations of Allied Warplanes Carryin War To Italian Mainland. Battle for Sicily Finished Ahead of Schedule

IN MANY AREAS   Score Successes in Two Piaces, But Are Forced Back in Dalmatia.

Partisans Batter German Forces   Successes Scored In Serbia, Fall Back in Dalmatia

Guerrillas Battle Enemy   "Gain in Some Sections Of Yugoslavia; Thrown Back in Others

Slavs Yield Coast Areas   Partisan-Nazi Fight Spreads in Balkans

ARMOUR CALLED BACK BY HULL   Ambassador To Argentina In Capital; Question Of Return Is Brought Up

ENVOY RECALLED FROM ARGENTINA   Norman Armour May Never Return to Buenos Aires, as Argentina Maintains Relations With Axis

HULL SILENT ON RECALL OF ENVOY      Ambassador Armour Not Expected to Return to Araentina

DRIVE OPENED ON RATION VIOLATORS   State Motorists, Who Vio. late OPA Rules, Face Exposure sd

IPA To Expose ar Owners Who heat on Rations   snewed and Vigorou: Drive against Violators Announced

Martinique Terms Seen Favorable  By U.S. Envoy   Hoover Returns From Conference  With Vichy Governor

Five Nazi Subs Sunk In Battle   Three Others Damaged In Attack On Convoy

FIVE NAZI SUBS DESTROYED AFTER THREE DAY BATTLE   Scrap Took Place in North Atlantic; British Convoy Gets Through

Five U-Boats Are Destroyed   New Engagement With Un. dersea Boats In Atlantic Reported   THREE MORE ARE DAMAGED ALSO

British Destroy Five Nazi Subs   Plane-Warship Action Damages Two Others

§ NAZI SUBS ARE-DESTROYED   3 Others Attacking ? Convovs Are Damacec

Allies Sink 5 Nazi Subs in Convoy Fight   THREE U-BOATS DAMAGED IN NEW SEA VICTORY OVER GERMAN WOLF PACK

99% of Allied Ships With Valuable Cargoes Arrive Overseas Safely

Five U-Boats Destroyed In Attack On Valuable Convoy   Three Others Damaged When 20 Made Assault; Nearly All Escorted Ships Reached Port Safely

FIVE U-BOATS SUNK ATTACKING CONVOY   Three Others Damaged as 20 in Pact Seek to Damage Valuable Allied Convov

Coal Mine Operators Tell Labor Board Miners’ Wage Increases Since 1941 Exceeded Rise in Cost of Living

UMW Officials Fail To Appear At WLB Session   Operators Assert Miners’ Earnings Boosted 73 Per Cent

COAL HEARING SHOWS MINER EARNINGS RISE   Operators Seek to Prove Men Not Entitled To Pay Boost

CLAIM MINING WAGES SOAR   OPERATORS SAY SALARY LEVEL TOPS LIVING COST

OPERATORS SAY PAY RAISE 50 PC. OVER COST RISE   Lewis Snubs, WLB Public Hearing: Ickes Prepares for

Miners’ Wages Have Risen Faster Than Living Costs, Operators Claim

Mine operators deny hike needed   WLB panel opens with no U.M. W. delegates

UMW SNUB Is NO SURPRISE TO OFFICIALS   Ickes Signs Order to Enable Him to Seize Fuel for War Plants.   BULLETIN

Russ Make Fresh Gains In Drive On  Smolensk   German Attacks In Northern Donets  Area Reported To We,. Slarbaning

Reds Report Nazi Drive ls Slackening   Russians Make Headway Toward Smolensk In Three Directions   MORE TOWNS FALL   Berlin Communique s Vague As Donets Blows Are Beaten Back

REDS DOGGEDLY DRIVE ON TOWARD SMOLENSK, NAZIS SLACKEN. ATTACK IN DONETS   Additional Villages Taken on Smolensk Front. Outer Defenses. Guarding City Have Been Penetrated. Russians Sharpest Thrust Made Narth af Dabhoavechinon

NAZI ATTACKS REPORTED T0 BE ABATING   Additional Villages Are Taken as Reds Break Through Outer Defenses of City   REPORTS CONFLICTING

Nazi Attack Slackens in Donets Area   Red Army Makes Fresh Headway in Drive on Smolensk

SOVIET TROOPS PUSH ON IN DRIVE FOR SMOLENSK   German Pressure In Donets Basin Is Faltering After New Setbacks

Soviet Drive On Smolensk Gains In 3 Areas; Nazi Push In Donets Slackens

Russians Progress Toward Smolensk, Hold at Donets   Soviet Troops Break Through Outlying Defenses of City

RUSSIANS CHECK ENEMY THRUSTS IN DONETS AREA   Other Soviet Legions Pres: On in Drive to Capture Smolensk

Red Spearhead 32 Miles From Hitler's Base   Gérman Counter- Drive ‘In--Upper Donets Is Tapering Off

Reds Gaining In  Smolensk Smash Fury Of Nazi Assault In Donets Slackens

‘n THREE DIRECTIONS   German Attacks on the Do+ nets River Valley Are   Slackening.   MORE VILLAGES TAKEN   Soviet Troops Broke Through the Outlying Defenses , of Smolensk.

Russians Gain On North Front   DRIVE TO SMOLENSK MADE PROGRESS TODAY

RUSSIANS WADE THROUGH SLUSH ICE AND SNOW   Soviets Take More Villages  In Drive On Smolensk After Breaking Thru Enemy ‘Defenses   FOES HURLED BACK ON CENTRAL FRONT   Beaten In Every Effort to Establish Bases on Bank From Belgorod to  we ewer aur  1. Uuvutir

GERMAN DRIVE ON DONETS EASES   Nazis Claim Russians Saf: fered Heavy Losses Belaw lake Ladoga

RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN DRIVE TOWARD SMOLENSK; GERMAN ATTACKSIN DONETS SLACKEN

Soviet Army Still Holds at Donets as Nazi Drive Slackens   Reds Gain Anew in On ward Slash Toward Smolensk Base

Reds Advance In Drive for Smolensk  Nazi Attacks   Nazi Attacks In Northern Donets Valley Slackening

Soviets Drive Through Ice, Mud In North   German Communique Fails To Claim Gains On Russian Front

SLOWLY LOSS IN ON SMOLENSK   Germans Exhausted In Campaign To Cross © Donets River   SLOWED UP AFTER  THREE y AFTER

Fresh Headway Made By Soviet  Aleaw: Attarkbke In Tha   Nazi Attacks In The Donets Slackening

RUSSIANS ARE MOVING AHEAD   i Fresh Gains Reported To ward Smolensk While Germans Slow Down

REDS MAKE HEADWAY AS NAZI PACE ~~ SEACKENS   Triple Drive Against Smolensk Unchecked and . Donets Lines Hold *   RUSSIANS ‘GAIN IN OTHER ARFAS   Fierce Actions - Continue ; Some Villages Entirely Destroved

RED ARMY DRIVING  TOWARD SMOLENSK A‘  DONETS LINE HOLDS GERMANS BEATEN BACK  "IN EVERY EFFORT TO CROSS DONETS RIVER

AUSOIAN DRIVE GAINS HEADWAY   German Attacks on Northern Donets River Valley Are Slackening.   HAND TO HAND FIGHTING

Reds Advance On Smolensk Through Mud  Germans Fail Te ain Base In Upper Donets

Russian F  On Thi  RED AR ARMY DRIVES THROUGH SLUSH AND  ICE TOWARD SMOLENSK; GERMAN EFFORT SLACKENING IN NORTHERN DONETS AREA

Soviets Break Into Smolensk Defense Line   German Attack Around Kharkov Appears Slowing

Russians Gain New Ground Ir Smolensk Push   Germans Continue To Throw Up Fierce Counterattacks

HEAVY LOSSES CHECK GERMAN DRIVE IN DONETS   Nazis Hurled Back in Attempt to Set Bases Along River

EISENHOWER FITTED FOR HIS NEW POST   General Has Had More Experience in Directing Vast Operations Than Any Gther Soldier.

Allies Strike In New Guinea   Torrential Rains        Hamper Efforts

Aussie Iroops Strike Close To Salamaua   Commando Type Raid Hits Mube On Huon Gulf; 116 Japanese Dead Counted   MAY HOLD VILLAGE   Allied Air Force Makes Second Day Of Fierce Offensive Sweeps

RAID KILLS 116 OF NIPS   Rains Hamper Advance On Sanananda; Air - Action Continues

AUSSIES IN RAID NEAR JAP BASE   116 Nips Wiped Out 12 Miles From Salamaua

Daring Raid Made 12 Miles From Jap Base of Lae by Aceireliean Jungle Troops   Picked Force Stages” Commando Type Attack and Kills 116 Japs

AUSTRALIANS RAID JAP BASE ON NORTH NEW GUINEA COAST   Daring Commande Attack Very. sSuccessful—Wipe ‘Out All Japs In Region *

DARING AUSSIES HIT JAP BASES IN NEW GUINEA   U. S. Fighters Hit Nips’ Supplies, Buildings  In Burma

NIERICANS BOMB GERMANY’ RUHR ~ AND IN BELEN   Yanks Make Deepest Penétrations Into Germany anc Strike Very Heart ‘of industrial Center.      100 U. S. PLANES IN ATTACK UPON NAPLES   ‘Htalians Admit Considerable  Damage at Four Places, 25  ’ Fires Reported Started at Two Cities.

U.S. Bombers in New Attack on Ruhr District   2000 Tons of Bombs Dropped Upon Krefeld

BRITISH IN ~ HEAVY RAID. ON KREFELD   Dropped Close to: 2000: Tons Bombs On German City

Germany's Ruhr And Belgium Bombed by RAF   Americans Make Day Raid on Key Arms Area

RAF HAMMERS KREFELD, NAZI ARMS CENTER   8th United States Air Force In Second Raid on Hitler’s Main Arsenal.

U. S, BOMBERS RAIDING RUHR TARGETS TODA   Ailacks Follow Heavy British Pounding of Krefeld

MUSSOLINI'S RETURN TON. ITALY SIGNAL FOR NEW SABOTAGE   Outbreaks Stem From Effort To Set Up Puppet Rule

SABOTAGE WAVE IS OPENED ON NAZIS IN NORTHERN ITALY      200 German Soldiers Die In One Rail Mishap —Benito’s Return Opposed

WAVE OF SABOTAGE FOLLOWS RETURN OF DUCE TO:ITALY   Wire and Rail Lines Cut. Kesselring Takes Special Precautions.

Oil Industry Of & Mexico Given Aid   U. S. Extends Credit To Stabilize .

Says Poll Sho ate Isolationism Is Now Dead Duck’ In US Favor World Govt.

Isolationism Dying in U.S., Poll Indicates   Union of Nations After War Favored By Most People

WAR FRAUD TRIAL NEARS COMPLETION   Witnesses’ ‘Say Company Ignored Warnings

AO JAP PLANES ALO SENT OUW! IN THE SOLON   Enemy Warships Suffer As Alert American Airmen Go Into Action

U.S. AIRMEN Hill 3 JAP DESTROYERS   30 Nip Planes Knocked Down In The Sclomons

Down 30 Japanese Airplanes   Navy Reports Success in U. S. Attacks in Solo mons Area

Miners Returning  To Coal Pits   Back To Work Trend In Pennsy Slow As Miners Reject Order.

BACK-TO-MINES TREND SLOW IN PENNSYLVANIA   Steadily. Increasing Num bers Resuming Jobs In Other States of Nation, However   WORKERS IRKED   Miners Say “What's the Use of Paying Dues to Lewis When We Work For Government”

MANY PITS IN PENNSYLVANIA REMAIN IDLE   Workers Trickle Back To Jobs In Other States   PICKETING REPORTED   Protest Lack of Contract; Deadlock On Portal Pay Issue

Miners Slow fo Return fo Jobs   Pennsylvania Local Union Units Vote Aaainst Workina

STEADILY GROWING — NUMBER OF MINERS RETURNING TO WORK  BACK TO MINES TREND, _ HOWEVER, WAS NOTABL'

PENNSYLVANIA MINERS BALKING   Coal Diggers Returning To Work Rapidly In Most Areas, But 24,000 In Pennsylvania Vote To Remain Idle.

BACK-T0-WORK TREND IS SLOW IN MINE AREAS   Pennsylvania Workers Vote’ Against Return

STEADILY GROWING NUMBER OF MINERS RETURNING T0 WORK  BACK TO MINES TREND,  HOWEVER, WAS NOTABLY  SLOW IN PENNSYLVANIA

Pennsylvania Hard and Soft Coal Zones Hit   ‘Thousands Vote Not to Go Back to Work Withouta Contract   DRAFT IDEA FOUGHT   Ickes to Take Up Active Management of Mines; Summons Owners

FARM LABOR OUTLOOK IS IMPROVING   However Weather Conditions Are Causing Pessimism

Morale as Essential as Planes, Hershey Says in Blast at Industry Man Hoardina

HERSHEY HITS AT INDUSTRY   Selective Service Chief Says Plants Refuse To Cooperate In Draft

Soviets Stop Big Tank Assault On Kiev Bulge Lines   Red Artillery Turns Tide In Ukraine; 75 Gers man Tanks Are Knocked Out

‘CONTRAST IN JANUARY   Near Record High as Well as Low Temperatures Recorded

ASKS SICILIANS NOT TO DESPAIR BUT KEEP FAITH   Orlando Talks After Premier

ALLIES NOW HAVE BOMBING ON REAL STRATEGIC BASIS   Preparing To Blast Out Highway For Invasion

SirArthurWilliam Tedder Named Deputy Commander To Gen. Dwight Fisenhower Wil Direct Allied Invasion Of Europe

BRITISH Ages awARE EXPERT _ WELL, ACCOMPANY EIS _- HOWER TO NEW ‘FRONTS

Steel Concern Aids Admit Faking Tests   Truman Commitee Hears Denials Of Fraud Motives

TESTS ON STEEL FOR WAR FAKED, SENATORS LEARN   Officers and Employes of Carnegie-Illinois Corporation Readily Admit Charves.   CALLED ‘CROOKEDNESS’ BY SENATOR TRUMAN   “Higher Management,” However, Is Said to Have Had No Knowledge of Practice.

Tests Of Steel Plate “Faked , Senators Told   Steel Corporation Officials Say “Higher Manage. ment’’ Had no Knowledge of Occurrences at Irvin, Pa., Plant

Carnegie Men Admit Faking Test of Steel   Patriotic Rush to Help ‘Navy Their Motive; Will Fire Cuil

“Senators Told , Steel Tests “Were Faked   Patriotism Motive Company Officials of Subsidiary Say

PROBERS TOLD STEEL PLATE TESTS FAKED   Carnegie - Illinois Officials, Employes at Senate Hearing

Steel Tests “Faked’, Senate Board Told   Officials of U. S. Steel Subsidiary Say ‘Higher Management’ Didn't Know of Plan

TESTING FAKED IN WAR STEEL   Company Claims Slip-Up Caused By Desire To Speed Production

Carnegie-Illinois Workers Admit Tests Faked on Steel af Irvin, Pa   Motive Other than Patriotism Denied; Officials Are Shocked’

Steel Plate Tests Faked At Irvin Plant. Prohers Told   Officers, Employes Of Carnegie-Hlinois Make Admissions, But Claim Patriotism   But Claim Patriotism  HIGHER OFFICERS DENY KNOWLEDGE  Fairless Is ‘Shocked,’ Says Ones Responsible “Will Walk the Plank’

Meat Ration Stamps From  Book Two   Points May Be Used All for Meats or Other Rationed Items

Meat and Fat Points to Be Good for Both   Public Begins to Ask What Is Happening to U.S. Meat Supply

MEATS, BUTTER, CHEESE,OILS T0 BE RATIONED UNDER SINGLE SET.COUPONS:

Meat Stamps In Dual Role   Same Coupons Will Be Used to Buy Cooking Fats. Butter and Cheese

Rationing of Meat, Butter, Cheese, Etc. May Be Postponed   Food Authorities Say Date May Be Advanced to April 15th

NEW RATIONS TO BE UNDER ONE GROUPING   Thus, if Consumer Desires, All Coupons May Be Used for One Item— Meat, Butter, Cheese or Fat Products.

Meat, Butter, Cheese, Lard Oil To Be Rationed Soon   Single Set Coupons In Ration Book 2 Will Be Used For  New Items

Set Civilian Meat Rations 1% Lbs. Week   May Be Delayed Until April 15

POINT SYSTEM FOR MEAT AND BUTTER   Cheese, Lard, Cooking Fats And Oils Will Be Included In Rationing Plan

wil Be Listed Under Single Set of Coupons In Book No. 2  TENTATIVE DATE IS SET

SameCoupons Will Buy Meat, Butter, Cheese   Consumers May Lump Al Points For One Product ‘Under New Plan   DELAY IS EXPECTED   First Allowance Of 13 Pounds At Butcher's May Be Increased Later

NEWRATIONING MAY NOT BEGIN UNTIL APRIL 15   Ration Book Two Will Be Used In Plan

OIAIGT AATIONING OF MEAT PLANNED   One, Three Quarter Pounds  Weekly Is Allowance

MAY NOT RATION MEAT, LARD, ETC. UNTIL APRIL 15   Single Set Of Coupons In Book No. 2 Will Be For Butter, Cheese, Meats, Margarine, Lard, Other Cooking Fats.

Single Set Of Ration Stamps Will Be Used   Meat, Butter, Cheese And Margarine Will Be Obtainable With Same Coupons

Choice Between Meat Or Butter In New Program  Consumers May Use af ™m + ~ ae *   Consumers May Use Ration Points To Buy Either With Cheese; Oils Under Same Plan

Single Set Of Coupons For Meat, Butter, Cheese And Lard Rationing

NEW! RATIONING PLANS DRAFTED   Single Set Of Coupons  For Meat, Butter,  Cheese, Lard

Meat, Butter To Be Rationed  Cheese, Lard Also _To Be Under Single  Pg AEE RE Alp ape ae

Single Set Of “Ce oupons For Meats  ; Rationing May No Lg Into Effert

Check Sought  “On U.S. Meat   Supply Is Far Short Of  Expected Total Under ~ Rationine Plan

Meat Rationine Made Easy By Use Of Book II  Single Set Of Coupons Will Be Used

One Coupon Set  For Meat, Butter  Program May Be Held Up Until April 15

NEW RATIONS 10 BE GOVERNED IN USE OF NEW BOOK   Meats and Allied Food Obtainable With Red Coupons When Regulations Are Effective.   POINT VALUES WILL DETERMINE AMOUNTS   Values Are Not Yet Disclosec But Civilians May Gel Either Meat or Alliec Products.

Meat Rations  ‘Linked With Fat Products   Points. Interchangeable“ Un. der Program Expected to Begin Aprili5   RATION BOOK ‘NO, 2 WILL. BE USED   About 1 3-4 Pounds of Meat Per Person Each Week at the Start

CANUCKS BATTLE FLAME THROWERS   NAZIS WITHDRAWING FROM ORTONA AFTER DESPERATE FIGHTING

(Germans Say They Have Evacuated Ortona Port   Nazis Turned Flame Throwers On Canadians: Americans Tighten Hold On Peaks

GERMANS TRY ORTONA FLAME   CANADIANS BATTLE THROUGH CITY STREETS

CLAIM GERMAN UNITS EVACUATE ORTONA RUINS   Say Nazis Use Flame Throwers Against Canadians in City

Nazis Using Flame Throwers at Ortona   Turn Weapons on Canadians Fighting in Streets of Adriatic Port—German News Agency Says City Has Been Evacuated.

Nazis Abandon Adriatic Port To Canadians   Flame Throwers Used in Battle In Ortona Streets

ENEMY PRESSED BY CANADIANS IN ORTONA STREETS   Flame Throwers Battle Desperately With Allies; Nazis Say Town Lost

GERMANS BATTLING DESPERATELY HOLD PORT OF ORTONA  NAZI REPORTS CLAIM WITHDRAWAL FROM CITY TO OTHER LINES

TURN FIRE GUNS ON CANADIANS   Eighth Army Troops Battle a’ Bayonet Point Thorugh Streets of Ortona.

Flame Throwers  Combat Canadians  Nasi News Agency Says Ortona Evacuated

German Radio Says Nazis Finally Give Up Orfona Fight   American Patrols Consolidate Hold on Range, Start Down Slopes

Evacuation of Ortona Reported  Berlin Says Nazis  Have Withdrawn From Italian “Stalingrad”

Nazis Report Evacuation Of Ortona   Flame Throwers Used Against Canadians In Italian City

ORTONA IS LOST BY NAZIS AFTER HEAVY BATTLE   Germans Turn Flame Throwers in Vain Against Canadians

Use Flame  Throwers  Nazis Turn Weapon a   Nazis Turn Weapon on Canadians in Desperate Defense of Ortona

Nazis Report Evacuation Of Ortona   Flame Throwers Turned on Canadian Eighth  Army Troops

Flame Throwers Used In Attempt ToHalt Invaders   Nazis Say Forces Withdraw To North As Canadians Smash Adriatic Pert

German Army Uses Flame Throwers On Canadians Fighting Them In Ortona

Berlin Reports Nazis Have Evacuated the Port; Fifth Army Tightening Samucro Hold.

ADRIATIC PORT TO 8TH ARMY   Allies Drive Thru Town In Face Of Flame  Throwers

BATTLE I$ "CONTINUING   Germans ‘Using Flame Throwers In Fight With Canadians

Evacuation Of Ortona Is Unconfirmed   Germans Reported Using Flame Throwers in Battie For Adriatic Port   MINIATURE STALINGRAD

Germans Said to Have Fled From OQrtona   Berlin Broadcast Tells ot Withdrawal; Flame Throwers Used,Other Reports Say

Canadians Win City After Bitter Fighting   "Allies Fail to: Confirm Story3. . Say Foe: Usine Flame Throwers

Germans Are Said To Be Using Flames in Ortona  Agency States Nazis Are Evacuating ftalian Port Town

EIGHTH FACING FIRE GUNS IN ORTONA BATTLE   Berlin Reports City Evacuated

"Good Neighbor’ Policy Success  Congressional Group. Returns From Trip

U.S. Standing Injured By Bungling   Congressmen Return From South American Journey

COMMITTEE SAYS GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY WORKING   Group Makes Plane  Trip To Southern  WU. §. Bases

Sea®Benefits Of U.S. “Good Neighbor” Policy On South American Tour

GOOD NEIGHBOR BENEFITS FOUND   “COMMITTEE REPORTS ON INSPECTION TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA

Solons Praise Good Neighbor Policy, Call for  * Coordination ’   House Group, Back from Tour. Cites Instance of *Bungling’

‘Good Neighbor’ Policy Defended  But Committee Reports *‘Runeline Tactics’

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE JUST BACK FROM LATIN-AMERICAN TOUR PLEASED

Firm Foothold Taken By Eighth North Of Moro   Nazis Complain Of Having To Battle '’Taxas Wild Men’

Germans Dislike Texas ‘Wild Men’   Prisoners Complain Of Rough Treatment

TEXAS WILDMEN SCARE GERMANS   Veteran Indian Troops Carve Out Gains Along Adriatic

Indian, Canadian Troops Advance  Fifth Army Front Reported Quiet

ALLIES MAKE GAIN IN ITALY   British Eighth Army Cuts Out Bridgehead North Of Moro River

BRIDGEHEAD ON MORO WIDENED   Nazi Prisoners Complain About ‘Wild Men’  From Texas

Britons Carve Out Bridgehead   Germans Complain OF ‘Wild Texans’

British Gain in Italy; U.S. Front Relatively Quiet   Firm Bridgehead Made by Indians and Canadian Troops

Meningitis Makes Peak Of 958 Cases  State's Worst Epidemic Of The Disease

POLES GETTING REVENGC YK   Meningitis Increases in State,  958 Cases Are Reported So Far

A Big Shakeup at Selfridge Field   New Staff for Commandant Is Assured by the Change.

MAP STRATEGY OF VICTORYIN SECRET MEETING   Calls for Defeat of Italy, Germany as Soon as Possible

BELIEVE ALLIED CHIEFS PLANNED NEW OFFENSIVE   Germany And Italy First On List;  Japan Second

U. S. President, Breaking Traditions,  Flew 5,000 Miles For Meeting With British Prime Minister; Bring French Leaders Together At Conference.   Roosevelt Visits Troops In Field

War Strategy : Agreement Seen At Washington   British and VU. S. War Chiefs will Make Plans, Said

Big European Offensive After African Drive Ends Considered Allied Strategy)

Supreme. ‘Strategy Calls ‘For Defeat Of Germany ‘And Italy Before Japan

WIN EUROPE FIRST   Concentration on Germany and Italy Believed Allied Strategy

European Offensive As Soon As Possible...  Germany And Italy Are First, Japan Second In New Strategy Of Allies

STRATEGY OF CONFERENCE DISCUSSED   Defeat of Germany and  - Italy First, Then Japan, While Aid is Given Russia and China Seen.

WAR UN JAPAN ld GANVADato AT CASABLANCA   Pacific Area Offensive Far From Overlooked By FDR, Churchill   NO RELAXATION OF WAR IN FAR EAST PLANNED   Military Staffs Of Allies Study Entire Global Strategy For 1943

Strategy Calls For Nazi, Italy Defeat At First   ‘Then Japanese Will . Be Taken Care Of; Victory Campaign Is Mapped

WHIP ITALY AND GERMANY FIRST   Then Stomp Japs, Seems to Be Supreme Strategy Of Allied Powers

Decisions To Call For Quick Allied Blows   Expect First Assaults Will Aim To Knock Out Germany, Italy; Japs To Come Next

North Africa Cleanup Tops Alkied Lis!   It. May Be “Accomplished by Spring, Offering’ Many. * Advantages, to Allies      SUPREME. STRATEGY Ds LITTLE CHANGED   But. Decisions © Probably Have Been Made on the Allocation of Forces

Big Offensive, Full Surrender, Aims Of Allies   FDR, Churchill Confer With French In Africa

Drive on Nazis In Continent !s Allied Strategy   Roosevelt and Churchill Agree First For Defeat of Italy and Germany.   Allocate Forces For  Three War Theater:

EUROPEAN OFFENSIVE IN MAKING   Actua! Application Of Strategy Left With Staff Chiefs

Roosevelt and Churchill Understood to Have Mapped  General European Offensive

Plans To Defeat Germany, Italy First, Japan Second May Be Result Of Meeting

Actual Application of Strategy Mapped by Churchill anc FOR Left to General Staffs  By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

FDR-Churchill Conferences . May Have Developed Allied Strategy For Final Conquest

Quick Offensive in Europe Is Expected by Capital Experts   Death Blow to Germany and Italy Placed at Top of Objectives

See Quick Offensive In Europe   Leaders Stick to Plan To Crush Italy and  Germany Before Japan

Quick European Offensive Believed Among Plans Made At Allied Confab   Chinese Have Definite Plans For Use Of President’s Help   By JAMES D. WHITE ( Assevciated Presa }

President Roosevelt Flies to Africa for a 10-day Conference With British Prime Minister.   MORE ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA AND CHINA   J. S. and British Military Staffs Take Part in the “Unconditional Surren der” Parley.

Public Enemy — No.1’ StillMan. ~ Named. Hille   Japan's Time To Come After Germany, Italy. Are Disposed Of

NAZI-FASCISTS FIRST ON LIST, JAPS ARE NEX]   Allied Master Plan for Vic tory Believed to Call For Moves In Europe As Primary   FORCES MASSED   With Africa Taken Over By Allies, Axis May Be Attacked Along Several Sectors

Great Naval Battle May Be Result Of Pacific Advance   ‘Offensive In Southwest Pacific Is “Only A Small Be. ginning,’ MacArthur Declares

wed fo mMect AN Power that Lnemy blias— —By Glenn Bab  Stakes Too Big Now For Japs To Hide Navy

Big Offensive Is Only Starting; More Action Seen   Important Goals Are  Ahead of Allies ' In Pacific Theater

HITLER BLIND AFTER LAST WAR   Evidence Shows Corporal Hitler Suffered rom Blindness Brought On By Hysteria.

Hitler Blind at End of Last War   It Was Hysterical, However, And Not Due to Gas

HITLER SUFFERS BLIND MALADY   Hysterical Sightlessness Due to Worry, Strain, Escapism

Axis Lines Near Collapse in Sicily   Patton’s Men Advance Six Miles; Invasion of Italy Expected Soon

Axis Defense May Be Split By Allied Drive      Mount Etna Anvil As Eisenhower's Force Acts As Hammer

IG MILLIONS OF ACRES ADDED 10. ‘44 CROP TOTALS   That's Objective of War Food Administrator, He Tells Farmers. 1

BiG BOOST IN FARM OUTPUT   Wants 16 Million More Ares Under Cultivation Next Year.   STRESSES MEAT. EGGS   68 Mition Acres of Wheat Sought In Total of 2270 000 000.

BIGGER CROPS IN 1044 URGED BY FOOD ADS   WFA Jones Also Wants More Meat, Milk and Eggs from Farms.   WHEAT ACREAGE HIKED; WARNS OF DUST BOWLS

SET UP FOR AGRICULTURE   Jones Calls For Big Increase In Production of Wheat

Farmers of U. S. Urged To Meet Greatest Goal   68,000,000 Acres of Wheat Requested By War Food Director

16,000,000 ACRES’ INCREASE 1S URGED IN FARM PROGRAM      Jones Warns Against Use OF Land Which Should Be Kept For  Grass

WAR FOO0 CHIE CALLS FOR HUGH 1944 INCREASE   _V— Asks 380,000,000 Acres in Crops, Promise More Feed and Machinery

1944 Farm Program Announced; Increased Production Is Needed   Food Adminisirator Asks Use j “Every Crop Ac ' Next Year  -—

MARVIN JONES ANNOUNCES 1944 FARM PROGRAM   380,000,000,000 Acre Crop Goal Established

LITTLE =COMFOR FOR DRAFT-AGE FATHERS   Induction Expected to Start in August, All by 1944

HOUSE FAVORS TRADING PACTS   “Crippling” Amendments Are Defeated: Renewal Is Limited To Two Years

TRADE POLICY HAS SUPPORT   SCORES OF REPUBLICANS, HEADED BY MARTIN, TO VOTE FOR TRADE ACT EXTENSION

ASG SUPPLY CHAIN TO WAR THEATERS PROVES EFFECTIVE   Materiel Losses Smal! In Transit; Four-Day Talks End

3 DEALERS ENJOINED   Hopkins Makes Ruling in OPA Meat Violation Action

BATTERED BY RED  ARMY FORCES NAZI  TROOPS FALL BACK GERMANS ABANDON  GREAT STORES OF WAR MATERIAL IN RETREAT

RED FORCES DRIVE AHEAD IN UKRAINE   Berlin Broadcasts Picture Front Ablaze With Heavy Soviet Offensive

Germans Admit Russians Making New Gains With Superior Forces; Battlegrounds Covered With Snow   Victorious Red Armies Continuing Drives Toward Poland And Rumania, Force Germans To Abandon Huge Stores Of War Materials

NAZIS DECLARE ALL OF RUSSIAN FRONT ABLAZE   Reds Slog Through Wet Snows Toward Poland and Rumania

NAZIS REPORT BED ATTACKS “COVER FRONT   Say Russians Pushing Ahead Over Wet Snows with Superior Forces.

LO A ALL ALOE! ALAN OLR LN ALLL LNG I CNL I LC EE AS TE  Whole Red Front Aflame

SOVIETS WIDEN UARAINE DRIVE   Red Army Fans Out Be. yond Kiev, Advances Toward Zhitomir

RUSSIAN FORCES SLASHING ONWARD THRU WET SNOW   Berlin Admits Soviets Have Far Superior Forces   A VIOLENT TANK BATTLE REPORTED

Winter Aids Victorious  Red Armies   Soviets Attacking From Crimea  To Far North

Nazis Admit Reds Are Moving Ahead  Rain, Cold And Fog Grip Russian Front

BATTLES BLAZE ON RUSS FRONT   Germans Report Russians Push Ahead With ‘Superier Forces”

Long Battle Line Aflame Says Berlin   Violent Tank Battles At Gomel; Russians Attacking in Center

Germans Admit Russians Push Ahead With “Superior-Forees” in.  Drive Toward Poland And Rumania

Germans Admit Russian Gains  Great Tank Battle Reported Raging ~~

Russian Front Is Ablaze With Heavy Offenses   Reds Are Pushing Forward With Superior Forces, Germans Admit.   Violent Tank Battle Is Raging Near Gome

Snows Fail To Halt Drives Of  Russian Armies   Entire Front Is Aflame; Tank Battle Is Reported  Near Gomel.

Nazis Reel Before Red Onrushes   Russians Continue General Offensive Along Big Battle Line

WET SNOW FAILS TO SLOW REDS   Violent Tank Battle @Rages Near Gomel, - Germans Report

Germans Fail In Crimean Assaults   Violent Tank Battle Rages Near Gomel Rail Center

BATTLES RAGE ON ALL SOVIET FRONTS, CLAIM   Berlin Admits Battle Areas _ From Crimea to Nevel Ablaze With Russian Offensives   NAZIS ARE REELING UNDER RED BLOWS   Abandoning Great Stores of Materials and Food In Their Flight, Moscow Communique Says

RUSSIANS SLOGGING THROUGH SNOW OF UKRAINE TOWARDS POLAND AND RUMANIA   German Broadcasts. Picture Entire Russian Fron Ablaze with Heavy Soviet Offensives. Violent Tank Battle Reported Near Whe Russien Rail  - Cantae af Come”

REDS PRESS OW BORDERS OVER SHOWS   Heavy Tank Fight On Sozh River Claimed

REPORT GREAT TANK BATTLE NEAR GOMEL   Germans Acknowledge Violent Soviet Blows “North of Kwxivoi Rog, Above Kiev and Northwest of Smolensk.

Reds Press On Despite Rain, Snow   Germans Abandon Food, Wer Ma. terial as Russians Plunge Aheac Toward Zhitomir   MASS TO ATTACK CRIMEA BY LAND   In Far North Russians Push fo Within 50 Miles of Latvia, Take Fortified Towns

Berlin Pictures Whole Russian. Front Ablaze With Heavy Soviet Offensives

NAZIS REPORT SOVIET GAIN IN UKRAINE AREA   Russians Drive Ahead On 70-Mile Front West of Kiev

Soviets Gain On  A 70 Mile Front   German Report Reds Push ing Forward with Su perior Forces   (MANY TOWNS TAKEN   Russians Firmly Hold the - Initiative in all Engagements

/ —RUSSIA—  SUPERIOR RED FORGES SMASH BACK GERMANS   Soviets Drive Through  Wet Snow Toward Rumania, Poland   FIGHTING RAGES   Violent Tank Battle Reported Near Gomel, Vi_ tal Rail Center

Germans Report Line Is Ablaze With Offensives  Rain, Snow Plague Nazis In Retreat

Tanks Battle At Gomel; Red Attack Pushed   Whole Russian Front Ablaze With Heavy Soviet Offensives, Berlin Reports

‘FAR SUPERIOR’ » SOVIET FORCES STAB AT NAZIS   @Russian Advance Revealed By Germans, Fighting for Their Lives

BEALIN ADMIT REDO GAINING Ay RAPID. PAGE   Soviet Offensives Keeping Entire Front Ablaze Broadcasts Claim

RUSSIAN FORCES PUSHING TOWARD POLAND, RUMANIA   Berlin Broadcast Pictured the Whole Russian Line Ablaze With Soviet Offensives.   VIOLENT TANK BATTLE   Reported in Progress Near White Rail Center of Gomel.

Naval Task Force Upsets Big Jap Fleet   - Americais Are Outinumbered Two ‘0

NAVAL FIGHT IN NORTH   U. S. Task Force Broke Up Jap Convoy in March

0-POINT GRA STRATEGY SEER   FDR, Churchill Held Making Finishing Touches Now

WAR olAATEGY ABOUT EADY   Five-Point Grand Plan: for Coming Offensives of the Allies. :

BEAT HITLER Hhol alll NO. 1 POLILY   Washington Feels Churchill, Roosevelt Conference {s Near Climax.   REICH PRODUCTION 1S ALREADY OFF 20 PCT.

British Launch Burma Drive, Hit Maungdaw  Yank Pilots Shoot Down 104 Jap  Planes, Lose Only £

SOUTHERNERS BLOCK ACCORD   Seek Exclusion Of Travel Time In Wage Agreement

Ohio Boys In AEF Come To Dad’s Aid In Italy After Germans Had Seized Watches In Store

British and Soviet Airmen Pound German Targets   RAF Blasts Baltic Nazi Industria Ports; Russians Stage Mace Raid on Rail Center

RAF RAIDERS BOMB PORTS OF THE NAZIS   British Bombing Attacks Extend From France to Berlin

Gerinan Cities Bombed by  RAF and Reds   Night. Sees One of Biggest Assaults on Nazi Comnunnications

Berlin and Baltic Ports Left Ablaze In One of. War’s Biggest Air Assaults

DUR NAVY READY 10 KNOCK OUT JAPS   Secretary Knox Says We Are Getting Stronger

PRELIMINARIES IN PACIFIC OVER CLAIMS KNOX   Navy Secretary Says We Are Getting Ready To Go At Japs In Big Way.

Ev itor of Fa:'rfield Paper Dies   Dean Taylor, 64, Die: Following Operation in  Rochester Hospital

20,000 Pa. Miners Refuse to Dig Coa   Lewis Derided By Group; Pickets Appear At Several Mines In Uniontown Area

Precipitate New Crisis In Strike   Pickets Appear At Some Mines To Keep Men Out   WANT A CONTRACT WITH TRAVEL PAY

Grim Warnings On Pacific War Heard In Senate   China Feared Near Collapse If More Aid Landa Nelaved

SENATE 15 TOLD JAPANESE MENACE U. 5. MAINDAND   Chandler Says Enemy Is Building Air Fields in Aleutians From Which Coast  -Can Be Bombed.   URGES AERIAL AID FOR CHINA AT ONCE   Fears Collapse of Oriental Ally Unless 500 Fighting Planes Are Sent to  Her Aid. -

WARNS CHINA CANNOT LAST ANOTHER YEAR   Senator Chandler Demands 300 Planes Be Rushed To Chiang Lest He Collapse In Tracks Aleutians Bugaboo.   Dehate In Congress

Washington  Continues Controversy Over Pacifie   One Senator Demands 500 Fighting Planes Be Rushed to China To Keep It in War   ANOTHER STRESSES ALEUTIANS MENACE

Senator Asks Planes for China, Alaska   Chandler Emphatic In Belief of Mounting Dangers

Warns China Mus Get Additional Air Power Soon   Senate Hears Disaste: Faces China; Menace to Coast Increases

JAPS. MENACE IN ALEUTIANS; SENATE HEARS   Also Told China Will Be Out of War Unless Planes Sent

Solons Argue Over U.S. War  ‘In Pacifie .   Alarms for China and Aleutiang Expressed ° by Two Senators

SENATE HEARS ABOUT DANGER TO ALEUTIANS   NIPPONESE PERSIST IN DEVELOPMENT OF KISKA BASE

China Collapse Predicted If Aid Is Denied   Chandler of Kentucky Demands 500 Planes For China and Help Sent to MacArthur

Japanese Threat To U. S. Growing. Senate Is Told   Chandler Demands 500 Planes Be Rushed To China at Once

DEMAND MADE FOR PLANES IN PACIFIC      Warnings Given That China Cannot Lest Without Support

CHANDLER SEES ATTACK DANGER   Declares Japs Steadily Build Up Aleutian Air Bases; Asks China Aid

Conference Group From Both Houses Approves Bill To Prevent Strikes -

ANTI-STRIKE BILL ~ WINS APPROVAL   SENATE - HOUSE CONFEREES BACK MEASURE CONTAINING STIFF PENALTIES,

Anti-Strike Bill Given Approval By Committee   Severe Penalties  Set; Measure To Cea TA. Bini ies Eire

CONFEREES IN AGREEMENT ON STRIKE CURBS   Measure, Bristling With Penalty Provisions, Approved By Group   PRESIDENT’S VIEW OF BILL UNKNOWN

NO-STRIKE BILL IS GIVEN TEETH   Revised Measure Aimed Primarily At Coal Mine Stoppages

Anti-Strike Bill Given Approval By Committee   Severe Penalties Set; Measure To Go To House First

Accora Reachec On Measure Aaainst Strikes   Revised Bill Filled With Penalties for Starting Walkouts

APPROVE BAN ON WALKOUTS   Senate and House Conferees Give Approval to Drastic Bill

0 AGREE ON NEW DRAFT Ot ANTIESTRIKE BILL   Measure Approved by Committee Bristles With Penalty Provisions   OUTLAWS STRIKES IN WAR PLANTS, MINES   ‘Sponsors Say Bill Will Keer Facilities Running Uninter. rupted by Walkouts ‘If Any.  _ thing Can’; Gives WLB Ad. ditional Power

ANTI-STRIKE BILL GETS UNIT OKEH   Conference Committee Feels. Revised. Measure to Be Effective

SENATE-HOUSE GROUP AGREES ON STRIKE BILL   Sponsors Declare Measure Will Keep Mines And War Plants Going If Anything Can   Penalties Provided

ANTI-STRIKE BILL APPROVED BY SENATE-HOUSE CONFEREES   Provides Still Fines and Jail Sentences for Those Who Conspire To Start War Plant Strikes

Strike Bill Is Approved By Conferees   Aimed Particularly At Current Dispute Over Miners’ Waces

ANTI-STRIKE BILL {S SENT TO THE HOUSE      Measure , ‘Filled With Penalty Provisions, Approved by Conferees

Anti - Strike Bill Passes Committee   AIMED PARTICULARLY AT COAL WAGE DISPUTE, REVISED MEASURE AUTHORIZES GOVERNMENT TO SEIZE MINES.

Unions Attack State Measure   Oppose Bill to Open Records of Unions to Public

Farmers Urged To Grow More   Big Part They Are Playing For Victory Stressed By President

HEAVIER CROPS WILL ATD WAR   United Nations Leaders Tell U. S. Farmers Big Production Is Essential

United Nations Leaders Praise U.S. Farmer   Food Is War Weapon Important as Guns,  F.D.R.’s Messave Says

Senate Passes Money Measure; House Gets Bill   Food Producers Doing Great Job In Helping To Win War, Say Leaders Of United Nations

IN TOTAL WAR, FARMERS TOLD   Allied Leaders Laud Land Workers, Ask Bigger Production

UNITED NATIONS’ LEADERS IN TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN FARMER   Food In Total War Is As Much A Weapon As Guns, Planes Or Tanks Message By Roosevelt Says; Greater Production Requested

U.S. Farmers Are Praised   Leaders of United Nations Laud Record

Farmers Are Lauded By United Nations Leaders   Call for Even. Heavier Production Sounded on Farm Mobilization Day—Roosevelt Message Read by Economic Director

German Tank Forces  Smash Yanks   Rommel’s Veterans Register Fresh 18-Mile Thrust in Central Tunisia: U. §. Casualties Heavy

Tawes Admits He Violated Rules For C Coupons   Comptroller Now Want Case Settled without Public Hearing

TAWES ADMITS VIOLATION OF PLEASURE BAN   State Comptroller Tells OPA Officials He Used “C” Coupons   OPEN HEARING HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

Allied Air Force Apparently Are Winning Air Mastery All Along the Front.

ACT TO REVIVE TRAINING BILL   Partial Military Service For 18 Year Olds to Be Considered

Leader Sees Need Of New Levies, Opposes Sales Tax  Military Needs Come First, Financial  - Committeeman States

House Leader Op poses Plan for Sales Tax   Appropriations: Chairman Declares War Cash Must Be Raised, Warns on Cut in Military Funds

Cannon Says Masses Oppose U.S. Sales Tax   Missouri: Congress‘man.Says: War Cost Just: ‘Stuiting”

Questions Use of Federal Sales Tax  Non-essential Spending Cut to Bone---Cannon

Cannon Opposes Sales Tax Levy  ‘But Agrees More  _ Money Is Needed

Sales Tax Hit  By Fund Boss   Rep. Cannon Says Real Struggle For Army Just Beginning: Needs More.

0 AT RETAIL PARTY GET FOOLED   “Countess Pulaski” Turns Out to Be Impersonator

RUSSIANS OPEN VIOLENT ATTACK ON KIEV FRONT AGAINST NAZIS   Red Army Troops anc Tanks Now Only Five Miles From City. Sov. iets Expect To Be Fighting In Poland This Winter.

Soviet Troops and Tanks Within 5 Miles Of Vital City; 8 Towns Retaken

LEGISLATURE WILL STUDY BLACK MARTS   Kelly Calls Meet to Discuss Cost of Non-Price-Fixed Foods.

GOVERNOR CALLS MEETING ON COSTS   Rising Prices of Non-Rationed Goods Brings Demands for Legislative Probe

Court Upholds Liquor Deal  Installment Buyince TDaclrrad Tanewe~l

(Reg. U.S. Pat. Office) By LOUIS FL. KEEMLE  Linited Preece War Analwaeat

Fact-Finding Panel Report Examined    Hope to Have Decision Next Week; Number of Idle Miners Declines Sharply; May Abandon Tax Conference

LABOR PROBLEM IS CHIEF WORRY OF LAWMAKERS   WLB Studies Panel Report On Mine Situation With Hints of Concession   TAX DISPUTE DEADLOCKED   Scrap Brewing Over Farm Insurance as Funds Up for Discussion

WLB ‘txamines Panel Report On Coal Dispute  Question Is Whethér Lewis Will Accept Decision; Miners  ris. tl lO

LABOR ISSUES TOOK  CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT  FROM OTHER MATTER WAR LABOR BOARD  EXAMINING REPORT OF ECACT GINNING PANEL

1,000 Acres in Duesseldorf Bomb-Ruined   Biggest Air Blow Struck  at Vital Ruhr Region,  London Discloses

Duesseldor rf In Ruins, Says Air Ministry   More Than 1,000 Acres Devastated By RAF Attack

Dusseldorf *Reich Arms City,inRuins   1.000 Acres Listed As ‘Devastated’ in RAF Raid on June 1]

DUESSELDORF IS IN RUIN, THE AIR MINISTRY SAYS   More Than 1000 Acres Are Devastated After RAF Attack of June 11.   MAY REACH 1500 ACRES   This Is the Most Shattering Blow to the German War Potential.

Duesseldorf Is in Ruins; More Than 1,000 Acres Devastated by RecentRaid   ~War News Summary

British Air Ministry Reports German City Of Duesseldorf In Ruins

‘Duesseldorf Lie: Smoking Ruins’  London Reports 1500 Acres of Industry Razed on June 11

DUESSELDORF IN “RUINS” WITH OVER 1,000 ACRES DEVASTATED BY JUNE 11 AD TACK, LONDON SAYS

Radio Networks To Bring Unusual Program Of Christmas Music, Talks

Miss Mary Jo Commons Enlists  In The WAACS   Daughter Of Mr. And Mrs. L. F. Commons Of Near MeKinney Will Be Sent Home To Await Calling To Active Tbnty.

cKinney Girl Sworn In  The WAACS   Lois Mae Venable Of This City Is Awaiting Call ‘To Active Duty And Training.

Japan Must Crush J. S.-Britain  Or Be Destroyed, Says Japanese; No Room for Both Sides, He Says

ys eS SS eee eee > ee wee Geen  Says Japs Must Crush The U. S.  Sees No Room. For Co-existance

Destruction OfU.S. And Britain s Japan's Aim   War To Death Seen:  Speaker Tells Crowd We Are ‘Cruelty And Craftiness Incarnate’

Okada Asks Anglo-U. S. Extinction   Leader Says Either White Nations or Nippon Must Perish

Japan ‘Must Win Or Be Destroyed’   Tokio Leader Warns People of Defeat

MINERS BACK ON JOBS AS LEWIS DECIDES TERMS   Coal Boss Advises Working Until Oct. 51—If Government Runs Industry

New Truce MakesU.S,  Miner Boss   Oct. 31 Deadline Set by Lewis Stirs Capital Resentment

Intimates Union Will Go to Courts fer Portal Pay Decision     AVWAICDC DBAMDBamMm   eee PROTEOL  Steel Firms’ Captive Mines First to Get  Into Prodnuetian

BY LEWIGUNTIL CN OF OCTORER   Return Is Conditionally  Upon Government Op eration Of Mines   PROTESTS HEARD   Operators Declare Chief Issue In Dispute Not Gattled

Lewis Orders Miners to Go Back to Work   Return to Mines Ordered Until October 31 Conditional Upon Continued Government Operation of Mines

Coal Miners Are Returning to Work   Indications Today Pointed te Virtually Full Seale Production Tomorrow.

Strikers Return To Work After Order By Lewis   Qctober 31 Is New 6 Mine: Deadline ry

Lewis Orders Men to Returr Until Oct. 31   Full-Scale Production Seen Tomorrow

Lewis Sets New Deadline To Oct. 31st, Pits Reopen   Statement Hints UMW Will Resort To Courts To Compel  Travel Time Pay

Refurn fo Work Contingent Upon Federal Operation   Main Issue, Portal. To-Portal Pay, Is Left Unsolved

ISSUE JUST POSTPONED, NOT SETTLED   Lewis Sets New Deadline For Next October

Miners Postpone Coal Strike In New Truce; Wage Issue Continues   ¥ J ¥  By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS

Miners Set October 31 As Deadline   Coal Dispute Deferred But Not Resolved — Issues Still Remain

MINERS START FOR PITS UNDER LEWIS ORDERS   “Operators Declare Main Issue Merely Postponed ‘and Not Settled.

New Truce Expires On October 31   Miners Respond Quickly To Instructions By John Lewis To Resume Full-Scale Production

LEWIS SENDS MINERS BACK UNTIL OCT. 31   Says Men Will Work I Government Runs *

New ickes-Lewis Coal Truca Runs To Oct. 31;.Operation Below Normal

Miners Will Work Until October 31  Coal Strike Postponed, But Issue Not Settled By New Work Order

Miners Return To Jobs Under  New Deadline   Operators, Union Leaders Dissatisfied With Absence Of Settlement.   TRUCE ENDS OCT, 31ST

‘Order In Effect Until Odober 31 lf U: 5. Operates   Operators Protest, Charging Main Issue of New Contract Not Settled .

CLAIM COAL ACTION VIOLATES WLB ORDER   Operators Comment On Decision To Dig Coal Until Oct. 31

Coal Issues Are Stil Disputed   ‘MINERS AGREE TO WORK “FOR U. S, UNTIL . OCT. 31

Operators and Others Protest Main Issue Merely Postponed, Not Settled; Back-to-work Order Conditional and A Prolonged Fight Is Seen.

Miners Return To Pits   Workers Will Dig Till Oct. 31; No Contract

RESUME FULL PRODUCTION TOMORROW   Mines Continue Under Government Operation Until Uct. 31: Declare Issue Not Settled

Miners Start Back To Work   Lewis’ Committee Sets October Deadline

Virtually Full Production To Be Resumed Thursday, Spokesman Claims   MAIN ISSUE OF STRIKE REMAINS UNSETTLED   Miners Dissatisfied By Lack Of Contract But Oct. 31 Set As New Deadline

Men In Captive Mines First To Return To Work   New Truce Until Oct. 31, But Soft Coal Issue Still Unsettled.

MAIN QUESTIONS ONLY POSTPONED UNION ASSERTS   War Labor Board Claims Victory in Dispute, Too, As Production Resumed

DATE OF OCT 31 IS SPECIFIED IN LATEST ORDER   Back to Work Order Issued By Lewis Following . Conference   COURT FIGHT OVER PAY IS INDICATED   Operators Claim Main Issue Merely Postponed, Not Settled

Lewis Decrees Ickes Must Control Mines   Distant Deadline Seen Merely Postponing, Not Settling Fisht

Miners To Return To Pits; See Oct. 31 Deadline Only As Postponement of Issue

Back To Work Order Ends Crisi: In Production   Miners to Work for Govt Until Oct. 31, But Mair Issue of Portal-To-Por “tal Pay Only Postpon ed, Not Settled. Miner: May Resort to Courts.

Miners Returning  At Lewis’ Order   ‘Third War Time Coal Strike Is Over, With Issues Unsettled   ‘PROTEST LEWIS TERMS   Return [5s Conditional or Continued Government  Operation

Expect Complete Output by Thursday; Mines Closed in Ohio   John L. Lewis Orders Diggers To Operate Under Present Conditions Until October 31

Miners Return Under Truce. Until Oct. 31   Lewis Orders Strike Ended On Condition Of Gov't Operation; Cantract Ss:1l leene

Miners Return To Work With U.S. As Boss   Lewis Sends Men Back to Jobs Until Octaher 31

Lewis Orders Coal Miners to Work   Mining Will Be Resumed Until October 31; Operators Protest Settlement Postponement

LEWIS ORDERS RETURN UNTIL OCTOBER 315]   Portal-to-Portal Pay Dispute Remains  Unsettled

Prolonged Fight Is Foreseen in Lewis  Back-To-Pit Order   Statement Of Union President Carries Broad Indication Miners May Resort to Courts to Obtain Travel Time Pay   OPERATORS CLAIM VIOLATION OF WLB VERDICT

LEWIS EXTENDS WORK TRUCE IN MINE DISPUTE   Workers To Return To Pits; October 31 Is Deadline

Government Will Take Over Mines Until October 31   Miners May Resort To Courts On PortalPortal Pay Issue; W ork Return Conditional Upon Continued Federal Operation

Miners End Strike But Fight Goes On   Lewis Sets October 31 as Dead Line—Nationalization Of Pits Foreshadowed

Lewis Orders Return   Effective Until Oct. — 31, and Hinging on Continued Government Oneration of Mines

MINERS ARE RETURNING; NEW STRIFE FORECAST   Trouble Uncettied, Believe Operators; Full-Scale Production Seen Tomorrow

MINERS START RACK TO WORK TODAY IN RESPONSE 10 ORDER:  NEW ORDERS WILL LAST  UNTIL OCT. 31 FOR

MINERS WILL WORK FOR U.S.   Miners fer Big Steel Com panies Lead Return to Work.   TRUCE UNTIL OCTOBER 31

‘Prolonged Fight  Foreshadowed By Back-Work Order   Miners May Go To Court In Effort To Obtain Pay For Travel Time On Job

Issue  Said  Undecided   Prolonged Dispute Seen As UMW -Chief Orders: > Miviers. Back ‘To Work’

Back to Work Go Naifon’s Miners Return Ordered ‘Til   Return Ordered ‘Til October 31, Men to Be Under Government

Back to Work Movement Inauguraied by Steel's “Captive” Mine Workers   FIGHT IN PROSPECT   UMW Statement Indicates Appeal to Courls on Porial-to-Porial Pay,  Teena 

FULL SCALE PRODUCTION MAY BE ‘REACHED TOMORROW, STRIKE ISSUE NOT YET SETTLED   Except for Captive Mines, Few Pits Returned Immediately to Production As Miners Awaited Formai Orders from Lewis to Return

COAL STRIKE ENDS, OCT. 31 DEADLINE SET   Lewis Orders Men Back Te Pits as Long as ‘U. S. ’ Retains Control.   ISSUE STILL UNSETTLED   UMW Expected To Take Fight For Portal- To- Portal Pay Tr Corte

Oct. 31 Slated As New Deadline On Wage Issues   Government Will Retain Control Of Coal Fielde

Nation's Third Wartime Coal Strike Is Ove   Truce Until October 3 Agreed On; Situation Is Still Clouded

UNION LEADERS CONSENT TO U.S. MINE CONTROL   New Truce Deadline Set For Hallowe'en, Head of War Labor Board Says As Strike Ends   MINE OWNERS CITE ISSUE NOT SETTLED   Lewis Still Is Defying WLB In Agreement to Have Government Operate Mines

U.S. Must Run Nation’s Pits, UMW Demand   Main Issue Postponed, operators Declare: Steel Production Resumes

TO RUN FULLY BY TOMORROW   Men Return Only On Condition Gov't Continues  To Operate Pits   TRUCE ENDS OCT. 31   Operators Protest Major Issue In Dispute Unsettled

Miners Begin Sack-fo-Work March in East   Qbey Order of John L.  ‘Lewis to Resume Work Until Oct. 31; Program Denounced by Many

Mine Union Orders dlen to Resume Work Until 31st October   Wiiners Will Work Provided Government Oper ates All Pits

Miners Go Back Under * UMW Order   Instructions Are Given by @ Lewis and Committee; Main Issues Postponed   ON CONDITION THAT U.S. KEEPS CONTROL   ‘Nothing Is Settled’ the Operators Protest; Portal Pay Court Test Probable

U.S. OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS SOARS   Fifty Shells Per Minute, 15,000 Bombs Every Day, Latest Figures.

FIGURES ON WAR OUTPUT ‘SHOW GAINS   MUNITIONS PRODUCTION DUR“aXG, FEBRUARY INCLUDED  FIFTEEN THOUSAND BOMBS EACH DAY

Shippino Goal Is Lowered by WPE  lron Ore Quota Now 91,000,000 T

AMENDMENT ISSUE PASSES   Will Set Up Uniform Machinery to Fix Boundaries

NEW OPA BOSS GETS PRESSURE   Demands from _ Different Groups for Price Hikes Begin To Come In

BROWN FACES PRICE INCREASE PRESSURE   Rationing Also Presents Problems for Former Senator if Nomination ts Confirmed

Move To Raise Food Cost Faces New OPA Chief   Divided Control Over Rationing Another Headache

Farm Bloc Pressure For Price Rise Wii! Be Bia Problem For OPA Boss

Badoglio Asks Process To Get Italy Out Of War   Gesture Started Through Vatican Says Peac Is Only Aim Of New Government; Premier Strives To Prevent Clash With Germany.

Peace Feelers  Are Reported  From Fascists Vatican Said To  Ra... A ..)_...] A 4

PETIT JURORS DRAWN FOR FALL TERM OF COURT: 50 LISTED   JURY COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY CLERK DRAW LIST ON WEDNESDAY

Russians Put Pressure On Voroshilovgrad, Drive Toward Azov  COLUMNS 50 MILES IN EAST UKRAINE  700,000 Axis Troops Reported Casualties   Army Cadets Protest Over Food at College

Communism Not Exactly Dead Pigeon   Movement May Even Get Bigger As WorldWide Foree

Tax Plan Is Given Study   Doughton‘s Plan Of 1941 Taxe Rate Uraed

DOUGHTON PLAN FOR ’42 TAXES IS SAID BEST NOW   House Ways, Means , Group Studies Proposal

COMMITTEE SHIES FROM RUML PLAN   Doughton Gains More Cohorts For His Idea.

'Guard Braves Icy Waters lof Mississippi To ‘Rescue Three from River

DROP 273 TONS OF BOMBS IN RECORD RAID   Attack on New Guinea Strongholds Termed Highly Successful

New Guinea Jan Strongholds Are Heavily Bombed   Over 200 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On Enemy Targets By Allies   JAP AIRFIELDS ARE SMASHED; SHIPS HIT

Doctor inde Marigny Trial Testifies.  Flames Sear Boedv of Oakes Before Death

THE AIRDROMES AT — COMISO, BISCARI BOMBED BY U.S.   This Followed a Night Attack by Wellingtons From Northwest Africa.

Southern Axis Ports Raided by Allied Bombers   Area of Mount Vesuvious Is Under Heavy Attack From the Air.   Sardinia Evacuated to  Escape Allied Bombs

POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS   THREE ‘MEN ENGAGED IN FIGHT BETWEEN RIVAL UNIONS GROUPS ARE WOUNDED

No Reduction In Cost of Certificates Of Birth In State   Junge Says Missouri Can’t Afford It; Approve Assistants

BAR REPUBLICANS FROM FOOD TALKS   Congressmen Learn to Surprise They Will Not Be Permitted to Attend Executive Sessions,

CALIFORNIA RAPE TRIAL NEAR VERDICT   Ohio Soldier Admits Intimacy, But Denies Charge

LEGISLATURE 10 ADJOURN LATE TODAY SINE DIE   May Have- Special Summer Session on New York City Finances.

MUCH COOLER IS FORECAST   Freezing in Northern lowa Is Predicted

Heavy Snowfalls Cover Midwest   Temperatures Drop, Storms Move on Eastward

Enfidaville To Be Next Defense   Rommel Breaks Previous Retreating Record tn Fleeing Before British Eighth Army

SOUSSE PORT, HOLY CITY OF KAIROUAN FAL!   Rommel Driven Out On Carthaginian Promontory

ARMY CALLS SENT REGISTRANTS OF LOCAL BOARD ONE   Will Report March  9 For Examination And Induction

Key Rail Junction Is Also Threatened   One Russian Column Has Already Bypassed Poltava In Its Push Direet Toward Kiev

REDS PURSUE GERMANS CER HOT PLAINS   Reduce Villages In Bitter “treet Fighting, Many Yanks Destroyed; By-Pass Poitava   Burst Trenches

:  Soviets Continue Pursuit of ‘Fleeing Germans  Enemy Losses Mount AsRussians

Russians Pursue Fleeing Germans Toward Dnieper   Bitter Fighting Is” Reported In Small  Ulreninian VUillaana-

2 BATTALIONS ROUTED DURING FURIOUS CLASH   Counterattacks Smashed In Relentless Chase Across Steppes;  800 Killed   Poltava Is Objective

Soviets Rout Two German Battalions   Reds Advance Toward Dniever West Of Kharkov

GROUND IS GAINED BY SOVIET FORCES   Poltava Is the New Goal of Advancing Russians

UKRAINE VILEAGES FALL TO REDS. IN STREET FIGHTING   One Soviet Column By-Passes Poltava in Plunge Toward Kiev—Nazi CounterAttacks Fail.   2,000 GERMANS KILLED IN THE DONETS BASIN   Booty Captured in Engage ments South of Izyum Includes Whole Trainloads  of Ammunition. —

Soviets Pursue Foe Retreating Into Ukraine   Two of Victorious Red  Army Leaders Made Euall Conaeale

Russians Gain in Their Ukraine Drive   Numerous Enemy Counterblows Are Beaten Down

RED OFFENSIVE STILL MOVING AGAINST NAZIS    Poltava And Lozovaya Are Main Objectives Of  Rivccianc   KONEV AND POPOV ARE NOW GENERALS

REDS CONTINUE SWIFT ADVANCE   German Counterattacks Beaten Down: More Villages Taken

Wipes Out 8 Nazi Rearguards, Captures Villages   Counterattacks Beaten Down in Ukraine

‘BITTER FIGHTS   Germans Hurled Back Fare ther in Ukraine As Soviet Drives Are Pressed

Russians Keep Up Pursuit of F leeing. ny azis  Manv Counteraiiac!   -Many Counterattacks by Germans Healen Back hy Soviets

Russians Pursue Fleeing German: Toward Dnieper   Bitter Fighting Is Reported In Small Ukrainian Villages

Soviets Continue Pursuit of Fleeing Germans  Enemy Losses Mount As Russians : Push New Advantace

Russians Advance West of Kharkov   Capture Several German Villages

Kharkov Army Cains 3 Miles   Also Drive Toward Key Rail junction — Poltava By-Passed

Collins, Onee Red Sox Star, Manager, Dead   One of Greatest Third Basemen in History of Game

"TIMMY" COLLINS, FAMED VETERAN OF DIAMOND, DEAD   Former Manager of Bostor Red Sox Rated By Many  as Best Third Baseman ir Mietnr<

JIMMY COLLINS, 73, SUCCUMBS TODAY   Manager of First Team to Win World Series

U. 8. DEDICATES 0 BIG AIRDROMES IN BRITISH [SLES   Genera! Devers Declares Germany Now Must Surrender or Face Annihilation.   AMERICAN PLANES TO BLACKEN ENEMY SKIES   Ceremonies Opening New Air Fields Held on Second Anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Devers Dedicates British Airdromes   Promises Hitler Some Real Action

Ohio River Stull Rising   Thousands Are Fleeing Homes  RY ENERGY 0? Pace

FLOODED oT REAM THREATENS GUY OF PORTSMOUTH   Volunteer Workers Join Army Enigneers InBuilding Sandbag Dikes

Allies “Readjust’’  Tunisian Positions  “British Troops Fall Back Near Pont-Ou Fohs

POR ORR RO ROOEROEE ERE ER ESTES Conferences Costly, But British Pay

SOLDIERS RELEASED TO LEND THEIR AID IN THE WAR EFFORT   4,500 Furloughed Men to Go Into Industry to Maintain Metal Output.

ULTIMATUM GIVEN STRIKING WORKERS   Labor Board Threatens To Give Newark Celancse Tieup To President

Ultimatum Sent To UMW Union By Labor Board   Strike To Be Placed In Hands of President Unless Halted at Once

WLB Orders Strike At Celanese Halted  Threatens to Place { Ate Ratepe FE RP

WLB to Ask President io Setile Strike If Celanese Workers Fail to End Walkou:

War Labor Board Orders Lewis To Call Off Strike   Serves Ultimatum on UMW in Case of Celanese Walkout   Hints Roosevelt May Call Out Army and Navy To Operate Plant

NEARLY 125 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON GROTTALGIA   A Two-Wave Assault Yesterday Hit the Airdrome Near Benridisi.   HIT AT CATANZARO   Raid on This City Led by Col. Keith K. Compton of St. Joseph.

BIG AIRDROME UNDER ATTACK   Many Italian Cities Heaps Of Ruins; Nazis Threaten Offensive.   HILER HAS CLOSE CALL

STERN ITALY AIRDROME BLASTED BY U. 5. BOMBERS  PANTELLERIA, SICILY AND ITALY UNDER HEAVY ATTACKS ALSO

ON ISLANDS REPORTED   Yanks Of Middle East Drop 125 Tons Of ® Bombs In Attack

U. S. Bombs »  Shower Down On Italians  Serer eee fo) ee   Liberators Give: Air Base Severe Pounding

IN SOUTH ITALY   U. S. Liberators Drop Nearly 500 Tons of Bombs On Grottalgie Airdrome Near Brindisi In Two-Wave Assault Yesterday.

U.S. Bombs Smother Grottalgie  Airdrome   Allied Planes Keep Up Terrific Assault On Italy And Its Nearby Islands

YANKS ARE STILL POUNDING ITALY   Drop 125 Tons Of Bombs On Airdrome In Southeastern Italy; Other Raids Renorted.

Nearly 125 Tons Bombs Fall on Italy   Liberators Pound Mainland - and Islands in Continuous Attack on Southern Section of Country 

ITALIAN AIR BASE HIT BY U. §. FLIERS   Grottalgie Field Neat Brindisi Smothered in Two-Way § Assault — Pantelleria and_ Sicily Also Pounded. .

BOMBS COVER BRINDIS! AREA   Liberators Drop 125 Tons On Airdrome In Southeastern Italy

BOMBS POUR ON ITALIAN CENTERS   Big Airdrome Main Target Of Ceaseless Raids

RAID AIRDROME NEAR BRINDIS!   ‘Northwest African Fliers Again Blast Pantelleria, Sicily and llaly—Large Fires Set   TWO-WAVE RAID   Nearly 125 Tons Bombs Dropped by Liberators on Grottalgie- Airdrome

Allies Press Heavy Aftacks Against Italy   Great Airdrome Bombed, Invasion Defenses Battered

Italy Feels. New Series of  Aerial Blows    Airdrome Near Brindisi Is  Target of 125 Tons of Bombs

KEEP UP SAVAGE AIR ASSAULTS ON ITALIAN ISLANDS ALLIES DEAL DAILY  BLOWS AT SICILY AND PANTELLERIA

alian Air se Pounded U. §. Airmen   Hangars, Office Buildings Hit Heavily In Daylight Raid

“Grottalgic S Ata °Pantelleria Fired   AntiInvasion Strongholds Hit In Two-Wave Assault; 4 Enemy Righters Dawned hv VMaranders

U.S. Bombers Blast Airport Near Brindisi   Fires Started in 2-Day Assault; Milo Airfield on Sicily Blasted

Italy Airport Twice Blasted  U.S. Bombers Sweep   U.S. Bombers Sweep Over Brindisi in Two Woves; Huge Damage

GROSE TRIAL BONTINUED 10 NEXT MONDAY   Expected Plea of Guilty Tuesday at Kokcmo Misfired.    ACCUSED BACKED OUT   He Now Goes on Trial for Manslauchter Instead of Assau't.

GHOSE TRIAL -SONTUED EX MOND   Expected Plea “of. ° “Guilty Tuesday at Kokemo’. - Misfited. °   ACCUSED BACKED -OUT   He. Now. Goes on Tria’ for ipansl esi, oe sof Of -Assau‘t:

POST-WAR ERA _FORRAILS SEEN   Modernization Program Foreseen by Equipment Executive

TAX DEDUCTION STARTS JULY 1   Slimmer Pay Envelopes Not Likely for Several Weeks

ANSWERS ON “PAY-AS-YOU-GO” INCOME TAX LAWS OUTLINED: IGOES INTO EFFECT THURSDAY

‘WEATHER  Soatteared thiunderchowers.   Uncle Sam Takes Personal Interest In Citizens’ Wages  -.{}- Pea: —_—Oj— Pa gees Pat &§ heen a 2 Woon ff}. __.... — Th   Beginning Thursday Government Will Take Chunk Of Paychecks

PAY-Ao-YOU-GO TAX IN EFFECT JULY 1   $500 Millions Estimated to Be Deducted Each Month from U. S. Paychecks

TAX DEDUCTIONS START JULY 1   Uncle Sam Now To Take Cut Out of Pay Envelopes For Pay-go Taxes

Uncle Sam To Take Personal Interest In Your Pay Check   PAYROLL DEDUCTION GUARDS INCOME TAX   Rate Is 20 Per Cent of All Earnings Over Personal  Exaemntions

Income Levy. On Pay Check After Today   Employers Will Deduct 500 Millions a Month Under Tax Plan

Start New Tax Levy   Withholding Pt Phase Of Pay-As-You-Go Into Effect Tomorrow

After Tonight, Chunk of Pay Check Will Be Held Back for Unele Sam

Uncle Sam Begins Tomorrow To  Take Chunk Out Of Your Pay   Odd Cents To Be Skipped In Making Deductions; Overlook Expense Account Withholding Angles

Withholding Tax Effective   Employers to Deduct 20 Per Cent on Wages Over Exemptions

NEW TAX SYSTEM BEGINS TOMORROW   UNCLE SAM DEMANDS 20% SLICE OF ALL WEEKLY EARNINGS

Pay-Go Tax to Start Thursday   ‘Deduction Begins With First Payroll Period

WITHHOLDING TAX PLAN T0 START THURS.  Uncie Sam Will Statt Payroll Deductions OUTLINE SYSTEM Will Hold Back 2¢ - Percent Over Ex  emptions         Will Hold Back 20 Percent Over Exemptions

Taxing Is New Today   After Tonight Uncle Sam Takes Personal Interest in Your Pay Check for “Victory”

UNCLE SAM INTERESTED IN YOUR PAY CHECK     Pay-As-You-Go lucome Tax Plan Becomes Effective At Midnight

Deduct Twenty Percent After Exemptions   Food Subsidy Again Scuttled

PAY-AS-YOU-GC TAXES BEGIN TOMORROW ©   Officials Estimate  Employers Will Deduct About $500,000,000 A Month from Pay Checks

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX EFFECTIVE AT 12 TONIGHT   Deductions From Pay Envelopes To Start Soon

 Pay-As-You-Go Tax Checkoff Effective at Midnight Will ‘Net $500,000,000 Per Month

Pay-As-Go Taxes Start   Uncle Sam to Take Out Tax From Pay Checks

Uncle Sam Starts Tonight Taking Part of Pay Check   Income and Victory Taxes Will Be Deducted In “Pain less” System of Collecting Vast Revenue to  ! Finance War Effort; Some Still Exj emnt From Withholding

Pay-As-You-Go Taxes Effective At Midnight   Deductions Will Be At Rate Of 20 Per Cent Of All Earnings Above Personal  Exemptions

AP DEMANDS OPEN TRIAL   Declares Major Questions Ai Issue, Government Fails to Prove Monopoly.

Associated Press  Asks Open Trial   News Body Seeks to Present Testimony

ASSOCIATED PRESS  ASKS OPEN TRIAL OF  GOVERNMENT'S SUIT COURT RESERVED DECISION IN MATTER OF  2DY TRG MER

SEEK AN OPEN TRIAL   AP Contents There Treet Are Major Questions of Fact in A'ction

Nelson Warns Civilian Business Will Suffer   OPA Calls New Ration Meeting

‘MORE RATIONS,’ NELSON WARNS   Declares Many Non-War Firms To Be Hit By Gigantic Armes Pronram

Nelson Visions More Rationing  Non-Essential Work   Non-Essential Work To Suffer, Head of WPB Declares

Job of Producing Arms May Wipe Ou Some Businesses  Neleon Save Shift of   Nelson Says Shift of Workers to Cut Trade Sees Clothes Ration

Widespread ‘Business Casualties  Predicted   Must Give Way To War Program, Nelson Says; Clothing Rationing Possible

NELSON WARNS ~ OF CLOTHING RATIONING   Casualties ‘in Private Lines in Drive to Bolster War

Calls for Arms This Year ‘ May Curtail Output of Wearables.   BUSINESS SURE _TO BE HARD HIT   ‘All. Efforts to Go Into War Program as More  Men Go To Army.

New. Rationing Program Seen   Nelson Warns That War's .Demands Will Increase ‘ Business’ Losses’

WAR FACTORIES TO NEED LABOR   WPB Head Tells Senate Group Clothing May Be Rationed Later.   SUPPLY NOW PLENTIFUL

Production For War May Bring More Rationing   Nelson Warns of Casualties In Private Business

RATIONING OF CLOTHING CERTAIN NELSON SAYS   Non-Essential War Industries Must Suffer To Produce Guns And Planes

INESSE  NTIAL INDUSTRY 10 BE HARD HIT   Nelson Says 80 Bilhior War Program To Crimp It   FACES SENATE GROUP   Will Require 1,800,000 More Workers To Make Goals

Rationing Xpansion Inevitable   Nelson Does Not Expect Clothing Dole Before Fall

WIDESPREAD BUSINESS CASUALTIES FORESEEN BY NELSON IN NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES: FURTHER RATIONING SEEN

U.S. Can't Produce $80,000,000,000 Worth Ot Guns, Planes, Tanks, Ships Without Business Casuolties, Senate Group Told

WARNING IN REMARKS OF W.P.B. CHIEF   Nelson Tells Committee Over Million Must Be Secured for Munitions Plants   FURTHER RATIONING

resees Huge Withdraw. s From Less Essential Industries to Accomplish War Program   [EAD TO FURTHER TIONING, HE SAYS   B Chairman Sees Posibility of Clothing Be- ing Affected, But Not Before Fall

‘WAR PRODUCTION + AOA TAREAT 1 ~—AVILIUN TRADE   Neilson Warns of Slashes for Businesses; No Cloth » ing Rationing Now; Farm Prices Discussed

NELSON WARNS NEW TROUBLES FACE SINESE   Many Business Casualties In Non-Essential Field Likely, He Claims   MANPOWER FUNNELING WILL BRING CHANGES   Further Rationing Program Probably Be Necessary, Congressmen Told

Nelson Declares Civilian Work Will Be Slashed   Clothing Ration Expected Next; Farm Group Active

Nelson Warns Stepped-Up Production Will Result In Business Casualties

May Wipe Out Some Businesses   Shifting of Workers to Armament Plants Will Force a Slash In Civilian Production and Trade

Nelson Warns Some Businesses May Go Under  Industries Regraded @As Non-Essential May Lose Workers To Keep

HomeFront Dislocation Foreseen   Rationing Of Clothing Can Be Averted Until Later In Fall, Says Donald Nelson

Additional Consumer Rationing If Military ' Requirements are Met

80 Billion Dollars Worth of Arms Will Come First   Less Clothing and Other Civilian Goods Are in Prospect

Neison Warns Of Hardships   Says U. S. War Effort May Result In Many Business Casualties

NELSON WARNS OF RATIONING OF CLOTHING   Sees Casualties In Private Business In Drive To Bolster War Production

1,800,000 MORE WORKERS NEEDED FOR PRODUCTION   Nelson Tells Military Committee Widespread Business Casualties Will Result To Reach Goal.   SEES POSSIBILITIES FOR MORE RATIONING   New Discussions on Clothing. Wool Supply Is Ample While Manpower Grows Much Less.

Casualties To Business Will Cain--Nelson  War Needs Can Be Met Only By Curtailment Of Other Production

HOME FRONT TAKES LIMELIGHT IN VIEW NEW DEVELOPMENTS  NELSON WARNS MORE

Many Casualties in Civilian Industries Foreseen by Nelson   WPB Chairman Predicts Further Rationing Later in Year

War Production'to Claim  atipower’ in Non-Es-. ial. Tridustries. :

Nelson Predicts More Rationing, Business Deaths   ‘Can't Produce 80 Billions in War Supplies Without Industrial Casualties’   Will Have to Reduce Clothing Production

More Rationing Coming--Nelson   Won't Affect Clothes Before Fall, Though

- Essential ndustries To Be Hit Hard   Nelson Warns Of Business Casualties That Will Come With Increased War Demand:

Ration Seen ForClothing   Business Casualties Coming, Says Nelson

SAYS FURTHER RATIONING WILL BE NECESSARY   Accepts Army Judg. ment on Number of  Men Needed for War

MORE CUTS, RATIONING EXPECTED   Blunt Warning Is Given by . WPB Head;Clothing May 3 Be Rationed   ENTIRELY :ON AN‘IF’ BASIS NOW   Business Casualties May Inerease, Says Nelson, in Discussing Situation

NELSON WARNS OF SLASHES IN CIVILIAN TRADE      Rationing of Clothing Definite. ly on the Way, WPB Chief Says

MORE RATIONING IS IN PROSPECT FOR CIVILIANS   Blunt Warning of Shortages To Come Made by Nelson As War Needs Increase   CLOTHES MAY BE INCLUDED   Manpower Problems Grow With Further Expansion Of Fighting Forces

BIG WAR PROJECT WOULD LEAD 10 MORE RATIONING   Cannot Produce $80 Million Worth War Materials Without Crippling Industries.   ‘WARNING FROM NELSON   This Action Would Compel Taking of 1,800,000 Additional Workers.

NELSON SEES “DEATH” FOR MANY FIRMS   Says Widespread Business Casualties Are Inevitable in Face of War Needs — Clothing Ra Faning Poceihlo

NELSON WARNS OF DEATH IN NON-WAK BUILDING PLANTS   ‘This Condition May Nelcessitate Additional - Rationing

DONALD NELSON IN BLUNT WARNING OF BUSINESS TROUBLE   CASUALTIES IN NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES BRING MORE RATIONING

Casualties in Private Business in Move to Boost War Output is Likely

Drastic Curtailment Facing Home Front, Nelson’s Warning   WPB Chairman Declares 800,000 Additional Work_ ers Must Go Into War Plants; Warns Rationing Of Clothing Not Far Off

NELSON OFFERS BLUNT WARNING   Non-War Plants Must ~ Be Limited by Manpowe.

Big Reduction Is Foreseen In Civil Industry   More Rationing Likely As Workers Are Shifted To War Plants.

35,000 Register for Ration Book  Hours Announcad   Hours Announced for Today, Friday

35,000 Register for Ration Book  Hours Announced for Today, Friday

Work Of Army Sergeant Thwarts Scheme To Sell Marihuana To Soldiers

PLAN TO SELL DOPE AT GAMP UNCOVEREL  Sergeant Breaks  Up Sales Plans

Solons Study Plan to Push ‘Pay-Go’ Levy   House Committee Would Enact Law by March 15 By Separating Item, Limiting Hearings   Pay Your Income Tax, However, U.S. Warns   Doughton Refuses to Guess What Form Act Finally ‘Will Take

ouse Lommittee 0 Speed Action On Pay-as-Go Plan  May Consider Proposal Senarately From

PAY-AS-YOU-C0 PLAN !§ PUSHED   Disney Favors Payments on Current Basis by Next March 15

PAY-AS-YOU-GO PLAN MAY WIN APPROVAL SOON      Income Tax Returns Must be Made, First Installments Paid, Lawmakers Say

Income Taxes Act May Be Speeded   Pay-as-You-Go Plan May Be Framed Finally, March 15

Speed Is Held Tax Essential   House Committee Ponders Over Pay-As-You-Go Bill-For Spring

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX PLAN PUSHED   COMMITTEE CONSIDERS RUSHING SEPARATE BILL THROUGH BY MARCH 1.

ouse Ways-Means Committee lans To Push Pay-As-You-Go lan Through Prior March 15

LEADERS HAVE PLAN TO RUSH NEW TAX IDER   Pay-as-You-Go Scheme Would Be Considered As Separate Item

Pay-as-You-Go System Rushed   House Seeks to Have _It in Operation by March 15, If Possible

Pay-As-You-Ga Plan To Fore   Committee To Try To Get It Through Early

Other Excise Laws — To Be Sidetracked To Rush Adoption Of Act By March 15

PAY-Ad-YOU-G0 PLAN SLATED FOR PEGIAL ACTION   Committee Considers Means To Push Bill Through By March 15   WOULD SEPARATE FROM OTHER TAX MEASURES   Morgenthau Asks for Early Filing of Tax Returns to Prevent Last-minute Jam;  ~ Returns Must Be Filed Re   gardless of Legislation

Consider Plan To Push Pay As You Go Tax Ad   Would Separate Features From Other l eaielation

TAXES DUE NOVEMBER     First Half Must Be_ Be Paid by De cember 20 to AY oid Penalty

Head of U.S. Raps OWI Blast at King   Savs Broadcast Sent Without Official Okeh

President Raps OWI Broadcast Assailing King  ‘Moronic Little King’  Draws Roosevelt Fire on Agency

OWI Broadcast Calling Victor Emmanue Moronic Little King’ Angers President

FDR ASSAILS OW! BROADCAST AGAINST KING   Hints Radio Program May Interfere With Peace

EDR DENOUNCES OW! BROADCAS!   Declares Broadcast Never Should Have Been Made and Was Made Without Official Authorization.

) ENEMY SHIPS HIT OFF BURMA   U.S. Airmen Damage Or Sink Craft On Rangoon River

TOJO WARNS OF ALL-OUT ALLIED DRIVE   Admits Japs Forced To Defensive Positions

GERMANS RAID GORKI   Observers Believe Zero Hour Is Near on Russian Front

Air Warfare Hints Soviets At Zero Hour   Nazis Smash Industrial  Center of Gorki for Second Night

RED INDUSTRIAL CITY ATTACKED   Gorki, Home of Giant Armaments Center, Target Of Nazi Planes

Day-Old Military Govern: ment Headed by Ramirez Pledges Loyal Cooperation With Nations of the Americas   Russians Believe Zero Hour Near As German  Planes Assault Gorki

JAR FORGE AIDS RUSSIAN DUSTRIAL AREA   i, East of Moscow Or Iga River, Raided For wo Nights Running: ro Hour Believed Near  Conflict Turns Tc ar of Attrition.   UGE OF BOMBS AND FIRES ARE POURED INTO PANTELLERIA

RED INDUSTRIAL CENTER RAIDED BY NAZI PLANES   Zero Hour On Russian Front Believed Near

Nazi Planes  Attack Gorki   Great Arms Center Raided for Two Nights; Russians Strike Back

WAR OF ATTRITION  APPEARS IN MAKING  ON RUSSIAN FRONT GERMANS STRIKE AT  SOVIET WAR PLANTS;  RITSSIANS ATTACK NAZIS

rr _rmen Atvack Gorki   Germans Bomb Great Russian Industrial Center; Reds Hit Back

Russians Believe  Zero Hour Near    Moscow Reveals Heavy Raids On Gorki, Industrial Center.

Germans Repea Raid on Soviet Industrial City      > War of Attrition Believed. Starting Ae Gori Attacked

ZERO HOUR NEARS IN RUSSIAN WAR   GERMAN AIR FORCE BLASTS AT GORKI; REDS STRIKE BACK

LOCAT, GHREARRVATIONE   Believe Zero Hour Is Near in German Thrusts in Russia

Nazis Lash At Russian Industries   Air Amada Rains Bombs on Vast Arms Factory at Gorki

Zero Hour Near,  ‘Soviets Believe  Nazis Fly 250 Miles Past Moscow. Hit Gorki

BALI ott AWARE OF AIR DAMAGE   Walter Logan Says London Experts Know Almost As Much As Enemy

IHITLER’S ALLIES BEAR BRUNT OF HIS CRUSADE  Have Been Punished Heavily

ITLER SHIFTS FIGHT IN RUSSIA TO HS ALLE   Rumanians, Italians and Hungarians Bearing Brunt of Battle and May Lose All Before War Ends

NAZI ALLIES QUFFER MOGI OF WAR GRIEF   Rumanians Have Heaviest Losses in Fighting About Stalinerad.   FEARFUL NOW ABOUT HITLER

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Satellites Find Wihemselves Deserted ©n Russian Fronts

HITLER'S CRUSADE AGAINST BOLSHE VISM FALLING HEAVILY UPON HIS HAPLESS ALLIES NOW

JAP SHIPPING LOSSES HEAVY   About 1,857,000 Tons Destroyed; Half Of This Replaced

Says Japs Have Lost Heavily   Knox Asserts Initiative Is Now Ours

Knox Estimates Jap Ship Loss at 1,857,000 Tons, Half Has Been Replaced

JAPAN HAS LOST THIRD OF SHIPPING   Knox Says Half of Tonnage De stroyed in War Has Been Replaced by Tokyo.

CONGRESSMEN TIE WITH MISS PERKINS   Absenteeism Going Up She Says, “But You Can't Discharge Workers”

Madame Perkins  On Absenteeism   ‘Firing Offenders Not Necessarily the Solution’

ABSENTEEISM 15 NOW ON INCREASE   Perkins Is Opposed To Dis charge as Punishment For War Workers.

ADOENTEEIOM IN WAR PLANT IO INGREASING   Miss Perkins Admits Labor Situation None Too Good In House Testimony

WAR PLANT WORKERS  ABSENTEEISM SHOWS  CONTINUED INCREASE SECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS, HOWEVER, SAYS  RIDING NOT Clee

Standley Visits Ural War Plants   Ambassador Impressed By Effective Work

KELLY SIGNS STATE SCHOOL FUND BIL!   Liberalized Compensation Is Approved; Vetoes Firemen’s Pay Bill.

Schools To Get  30 Million Fund   Other Important Bills Also Signed By Kelly

SINGLE TORPEDO DEATH FOR 6/8   Soldiers Are Trapped In Their Bunks; Only 185 Passengers Saved

TELL OF LOSS OF 678 AT SEA   Survivors of Torpedoed Cargo-Passenger Ship Arrive in Port

ONE TORPEDO CAUSED LOSS GF 678 LIVES   Five Survivors ‘Of Cargo Passenger Ship Announced Sunk Feb. 22 Arrive In  ): pea ee   Only 175 Survivors

678 KILLED IN SHIP SINKING   Vessel Sinks Within 25 Minutes After Torpedo Hits

One Tor ‘pedo  Sent Car o0  Vessel Down   678 Lives Lost In North Atlantic Sinking Last Month

Sea Disaster Story Told by Survivors  678 Lives Lost When Ship Is Torpedoed

SURVIVORS TELL OF U-ROAT ATTACK COSTING 678 LIVES   American Ship Afloat Only 25 Minutes After Being Hit by Torpedo in North Atlantic.   LARGE NUMBER HURLED INTO FREEZING WATER   Most of Victims Were Men in Armed Services—Only 185 of 750 Passengers Rescued.

Biggest U. S. Sea Disaster Of This War Described by Five Survivors at Boston

Aussies Take Finschhafen  Jap Base Captured In DD - AL... P._kie.

KILL LAST JAP TROOPS AFTER TONS SIEGE   Is Third Important Japanese Base on New Guinea Coast to Fall.   GIVES ALLIES .POSITION FOR NEW BRITAIN PUSH

Aussies Seize Finsehhafen In Quick Push   Conquest Provides Allies Base For Rabaul Attack

Experts Believe Move May Develop Into Decisive .. Battle of North Afriean Campaign...   ‘ALLIES CONFIDENT:   Plans to. Counter German  Move Hidden In War Councils; May Be Clearing for Rommel

NAZI GAINS IN TUNISIA MINIMIZED   Allies Confident Situation There Can Be Rectified

UNUSUAL ACCIDENT WHILE  BIG. PLANE WAS BEING WARMED. UP I5 IN. VESTIGATED. -

48-Hour Week Aimed To Free  More W orker  ef   Forecast Wide Leniency In Enforcement; Many Miss Overtime Pay Inder Program

QUESTIONS ON 48-HOUR WEEK ARE ANSWERED   Hope To Release More Workers For War Plants

Aim Of New Work Order Is Given   Will Free More Workers For War Production

Wide Leniency In Enforcement  Of Work Week   WMC Reports That Many Workers Will Miss Out On Overtime Wages

MANY WORKERS TO MISS OUT ON OVERTIME   Wide Leniency Seen in  Enforcing 48: Hour Law

INDICATE WIDE LENIENCE INENFORCING 48-HOUR WEEK   Overtime Pay For Work In Excess Of 40 Heurs Weekly Will Not Be Required For Many Workers Not Covered By Wage-Hour Law Or Contracts.

WMC Expands On 48-Hour Work Week  Lenient Attitude   Lenient Attitude Where War Effort Will Not Be Aided

48 Hour Week Intended to Free Mor For War Work: Leniency Indicated

Wide Leniency Will Be Shown In Work Setup   48-Hour Week Order Designed To Free Men For War Work

Wide Leniency in Enforcement of 48 Hour Week Assure¢   Mere Increase in Hours Not Intended by WMC Order This Week

McNutt Sees Leniency in  48-Hour Rule   Order of President Was to Obtain More War Production Workers

48-Hour Week Designed To Free More Worker For War Production; Many To Take New Jobs

Aims Of 48-Hout Order Explained   More Workers For War Production Purpose

Marshall Shitt Eyed for Etiect lon Allied Stati   No Word Received on Globa] Command for Yank General

Shift Of Marshall. — To Global. Commie May Bring Changes   Marshall May Be Shifted To London Under Revised Set-up; Strategy Board May Be Changed in-Personnel, Function ——

Combined Chiefs of Staff Will Undergo Change If Marshall Gets Supreme Post

BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. CRANE OPERATORS STRIKE AGAIN   STRIKE AGAIN © Second Srike Brought About by Employment  rl UAT... PR.

Cranemen Out In East Again   Second Strike in 2 Days at Shipyard

ITALY’S COLLAPSE CREDITED TO REDS   RUSSIAN PRESS SAY LION’S SHARE FOR DOWNFALL IS DUE SOVIET ARMY.

[Americans Drive Wedge Into Italy at Naples   Russians Take Credit. for Italian Surrender Say Their:Blow Against Hitler Did It

Soviets Attribute Italian Triumph To Their Support  Russians Hear News Of Victory With Much Satisfaction

MEDIATION INVOKED   Railroads And Unions Fail To Reach Agreement On Wages

Negotiations Fail To End Rail Dispute   Operating Brotherhvod: Seeking Pay Boost: Services Of Mediatior Board Invoked

FAIL WORKERS END WAGE NEGOTIATIONS   National Mediation Board 1s Invoked Jointly By Both Sides.

Railway Wage Request Goes To Mediation   Management And Brotherhoods Unable To Agree

RAIL PAY GOES. TO MEDIATION   Demands of Operating Unions Fail of Agreement in Negotiation.

Rail Pay Dispute Is Deadlocked   Mediation Board Services Invoked

CAN'T AGREE IN RAIL DISPUTE   Meditation Processes to  Be Started Thursday

No Agreement On Rail Wage   Mediation Will Now Be At. tempted In Seeking Agreement.

Fugitive Kept Knife At Throat   Escaped Convict Forced Father To Drive Him About City.

ESCAPED SLAYER HOLDS KNIFE AT CHILD'S THROAT   Father ‘of. Six-Year-Old Forced to Drive Convict.to “Safety”

ESCAPED CONVICT THREATENS GIRL, 6   Forces Father To Drive Him Around City

NEELY PLANS TO VETO THREE BILLS   Will Disapprove State Bar Membership, Payment of Stadium Bonds and Pruntytown Board Governors Acts

Denies Guilt In Double Shooting  Neighbor oe, ness At Murder Tria

‘Germans Suffering Heavy Losses. Danger of Oil Fields Relieved for  Soviets.

Nazis Sulfering severe Losses as Powerful Red Offensive Pushes Ahead

“ood Sales Tax Bill Hands Bricker Worst Defeat Appeal For Abolition Will Be Carried To Voters

RESTAURANT OWNERS TO  PUT MEAL TAX REPEAL  [UP TO STATE’S VOTERS

TAX PROBLEM UP 10 VOTERS   Bricker Meals Issue, Beaten by Assembly, To Be Taken to People

SALES TAX BILL TO OHIO VOTERS   Restaurant Group Seeks To Place Repeal Amendment on November Ballots

FOOD SALE TAX DISPUTE MAY BE PUT TO VOTERS   Restaurant Association Takes Lead To Amend State Constitution   HOUSE GETS ‘HOT POTATO’   Labor Warns Against Bill Limiting Employer’s Tax For Jobless Insurance

DANES CONTINUE TO HARASS NAZIS   Steal Rifles and Destroy a Power Plant

WORLD OF FUTURE   Governor Stassen of Minnesota Says Isolation — Has   IN ADDRESS AT K. U.

Governor Stassen of Minne“sota Says Isolation   Has Ended   IN ADDRESS ATK. U.

Radio ‘Propaganda - May ' Be. Intended © to Ease : Future’ Reports. ;  LITTLE HOPE FOR”

CHINESE BATTER JAP YANGTZE VALLEY BASES   Gen. Chennault’s Fhers Join Chinese In Battle With  Japs

PRESIDENT OF N. Y. WAR WORK PLANT ARRESTED   Ten Others Also Arrested by FBI Agents In Aliens Roundup

LIBERATORS DAMAGE JAP NAURU BASE.   Three Attacks Carried Out Against Japanese Positions At Kiska

Far Cut to Bomb Strong Japanese Position   ARC OF ISLANDS GET '” PASTING FROM AIRMEN

JAPS. CRINGE IN AIR BLOWS   ee tate suena  NEW ALLIED RAIDS HIT NIPPO PACIFIC BASES

ars NAURU ISLAND BASE IN PACIFIC RAIDED   ‘Hits Scored by American Airmen on Wharf, Runway, Officers’ Quarters. Barracks   KISKA AGAIN BOMBED      Nauru Raid Regarded a Emphasizing Offensive Possibilities of U.S. On Guadalcanal

19 TONS OF BOMBS FALL ON N, GUINEA   Liberators Operating From Guadaleanal Strike in Nauru Area in Southwest Pacific

Japanese Base Attacked by Planes   Big Bombers Fly Far for Operation

U.S. Liberators Wreak Heavy Damage On Jap Base On Nauru   Wharf, Runway, Officers’ Quarters, Barracks Area Hit In Fliicht Fram Cnadaleanal dirfield

Son Of Jobless Chef Finds $13,901 In New York Junk Heap; Cops Check

Uncovers $13, 901 Ina Junk Heap  Boy Finder's Father Wants None of It

Boy Finds $13, 901 in Junk Pile; . Unemployed Father Has Him Turn Over Money To New York Police

Three More Jap Warships Sunk In Vella Gulf   Fourth Reported Probably Sunk And Another Damaged Near Munda

Japanese Lose 17 More Ships In Munda Area   Attempt To Reinforce Trapped Garrison Balked by Allies

11 JAP SHIPS DESTROYED NEAR MUNDA   'n Futile Attempt to Reinforce Virtually Trapped Garrison at Airbase Enemy Sustains Losses.   Bomb Sarong

16-Year-Old Girl Pleads Innocent In Fatal Shooting of Her Father

Says More Money Must Come From More People In The War Bond Drive

MORGENTHAU KEEPS A CLOSE WATCH ON BOND SALE IN U, $   Anxiously Scans Reports Despite’ Mounting -Assurances of Success on Tuesday:

HITLER, DUCE PLAN FUTURE   RL Sentra Meet in North Italy as Allies Blast Rome.

U.S. Troops Advancing In Sicily   Italians Refuse To Fight for Nazi Officers

City Being Furiously  Defended   American Troops Closing in on Enna—Mutiny of  Italians Reported

Say Mussolini, Hitler Have Met   Report Russia, Sicily Discussed By Leaders

Fuehrer, Duce Confer im Italy   Discuss Military Matters. Berlin Says

500 Bombers Take Part In Aerial Attack   Hitler, Mussolini Meet In Northern Italy For First Time Since Last April 7 To 10 .

Yanks Stab Deeper Into Center Of Island; British Smash German Tank  Faorcee Near Catania.

SLOVAKS CONFER WITH GERMANS   Meeting at Hitler's Headquarters Held to ‘Discuss European Problems’

HITLER, DUCE “HOLD MEETING   Axis Leaders Confer I Italy Yesterday On Military Affairs

SHIP SURVIVORS ARRIVE IN BRAZI   American Merchant Vessel Crew Spend 42 Days at Sea in Lifeboat.

Long, Lonely, Aimless Odyssey af Poon Lim Made Him Dizzy at Times

Chinese Survives 131 Days Aboard Life Raft After Ship Is Torpedoed

131 Days Alone On Raft Made Him Dizzy  Stoical Chinese Walks Away Under Own Power When Rescued

House Democrats To Watch Agencies’ Funds  Abolition of “Useless   Abolition of ‘Useless’ Bureaus Called for; Personnel Under Fire

House Democrats To Watch Agencies’ Funds  Abolition of ‘Useless’ Bureaus Called for; Personnel Under Fire

First Army Advances, as 8th Pursues Rommel   All Forces Drive Against Enemy; Americans Push Within 28 Miles of Sea in Maknassy Area, Pressing “Escape Corridor.”’

Rommel is Fleeing Northward with Allies in Pursuit   German Sources Admit Seriousness of Situation; Many Prisoners Taken —

U. S. Forces Join 8th on South Front   First Army Within 27 Airlines Miles of Big Axis Base at Tunis

Allied Force Speeds Drive After Rommel   British Eighth Unchecked In Past 24 Hours United With Americans.   SOVIETS SEIZE LINES

YANKS, BRITISH UNCHECKED IN ROMMEL CHASE   Nazis Admit We Have ‘Crushing Superiority In Men And Materials’

British 8th, Now United With American 2nd, Continues Drive   Anderson Advances Four or Five Miles; ‘Taking Fresh Positions’ Says Berlin

Brenner Pass Meet to Map Defense of Invasion—Reds Storm German Lines on Kharkov Front

Surprise Drive Nets Anderson 5 Mile Gain   Nazis Say He Has Crushing Superiorit In Men, Materials

‘British Push Germans Back  In The North   American Forces Joined With The Southern Army

First Army 27 Airline Miles From Tunis; Americans Join 8th Army’s Rommel Chase.

First Army Reported But 27 Airline Miles From Big Tunis Base   Eisenhower Says Allied Forces  Are Now In Position To Exact Full Price From Enemy In Africa

FIRST ARMY OPENS SHARP OFFENSIVE IN NORTH TUNISIA   Eighth Army, United With   Americans, Pushes Hard on Heels of Rommel’s Retreating Horde.

FLEEING NAZIS ARE SLASHED BY AERIAL ATTACK   British First Army Makes Surprise Drive to Within 27 Miles of Tunis   YANKS IN FIERCE FIGHT   Reds Advance in Russia But Tempo of Battle Slowed; New Offensives Loom

British First Army 27 Miles  From Tunis   Eighth Army Rolls Up Gains in Pursuit of Rommel’s Forces; Reds Storm Nazi  Lines on Kharkov Front; Naples and Messina Bombed

British First Army Storms Toward Tuni   Montgomery’s: Troops fé $! - Roll Up Gains in Purr’a o Rommel After Effe © g Junction with Amer? &

GEN, ANDERSON IN OMASHING DRIVE ON TUNIS WEDNESDAY  EIGHTH ARMY IN SOUTH  CONTINUES CLOSE PURSUIT ROMMEL LEGIONS

BRITISH ARE UNCHECKED IN TUNIS DRIVE   Surprise Attack Carries Anderson's Forces To Within 36 Miles of The Capital   OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

11 DEAD TAKEN FROM MINE   Search for Two in FlameSwept Pursglove Working

RECOVER ELEVEN BODIES IN MINE   FOREMAN GAVE LIFE IN VAIN EFFORT TO HELP SAVE OTHERS

New Finnish Peace Move:  Are Reportec   Finland Denies Rumors, But Facts Indicate Truth In Them

Rumor Heard Of New Finn Peace Move      Phree-Man } on Re ported Preparing for Trip to Moscow

REPORT FINN RUSS MISSION   HELSINKI DENOUNCES NEW CLAIM AS FALSE

SEEKING SIMPLER SOLDIERS’ BALLOT   Mate Rules V-Mail, Camp Ballot Violate Principle

FINNS SEEK PEACE WITH RUSSIANS   Name Three-Man Commission to Go to Moscow

epo Sending Grou to Moscow   Helsinki Denies “Separate Pact" Rumors as False

Finnish Mission to Moscow Rumored   However, Authorities In Helsinki Say Report is False

RUMOR CIRCULATES FINLAND SEEKING PEACE WITH REDS   Unconfirmed Source Says 3 Have Been Named As Mission To  Moscow

Admiral King, Aides Discuss Pacific Blows   Naval Offensive Designec To Search Out Foe  Hinted At Conterence   ‘SODAK' MAY HELI   350,000 Ton Battleshir Is One Of At Least Sis Known To Be in Action

AIM: AT GILBERTS   King, Nimitz and Halsey Meet to Outline Campaign. Strategy.

F ORECAST. . NAVAL DRIVE IN PACIFIC   Adm. King Met... With His Leaders At Pearl Harbor

Our Fleet Will Hunt Enemy Down   Naval Offensive To Follow on Heels Of Adm, King's Talks

Ble ‘SCALE NAVAL ACTION. FORECAST FOR PACIFIC AREA      Strategy Conference Held At. Pearl Harbor — Adm. King Surprise  Visitor

West T exas Operators Have Plan to Transport Crude to War Markets.

Nazi Radio Says Allied Bombers To Stand Trial   Oslo Broadcast Cites Executions  Of Three in Russia

ALLIED FLIERS TO FACE TRIAL   ‘Nazis Say “War Criminals’ Will Be Prosecuted

MURRAY URGES PAY RAISES TO EQUALIZE ALI   Proposes Flat Cents Per Hour In creases be Subsiiiuied for Litile Steel Formula

F lat Hourly Pay Increases  For All Urged   Low Wage Earner Hit Under Present Percentage Formuls

Labor Heads Attack Wage Control Plan   Green And Murray Say Little Steel  Formula Inequitable   Laborites Take Time To Criticize Each Other   Norman Thomas Adds His Objection To Drafting War Labor

NEW GERMAN GUN   Battery Of Exceptional Range Now Shelling British Coast

WILL HELP IN SIGN-UP   B W. Members to Handle eat Registration for Book 4

U. S. Forces Brace For Counter Stroke In Pacific; See Clash For Kiska ’   Nazi General, Author Of Tunisia Plan. Ouits

WMC To Amend Wage Regulation   Attempt To Make Rules More Equitable

WMC WAGE ORDER TO BE MODIFIED   Amendments Will Be Designed To Handle Number of Difficult Problems.

SEES LIFTING OF TIRE CURB NEXT SPRING   Jeffers Drafts Report After Order Limiting Supplies For Fall, Summer.   NEW OIL REPORT DUE   Estimate Manufacture of 30 Million Synthetic Tires During 1944.

JEFFERS TELLS PLAN 10 LIFT ALL TIRE BANS   Not now, but by next spring, unlcss unexpectec military needs

JEFFERS SEES HOPE OF ALL TIRE RESTRICTIONS BEING LIFTED IN SPRING

SEES END OF TIRE RATIONS NEXT SPRING   Jeffers Report to White House Predicts Lifting of Restrictions.   SYNTHETIC PLANTS TO START LATE IN FALL

RUBBER DIRECTOR - PREDICTS EMERGENCY WILL PASS AS RESULT OF BIG PLANTS  *) OPENING °

MAY BE POSGIGLE T0 LIFT GAN Oh TIRE PURGHAOED   Jeffers Prenares Report fer White House on the Tire Situation.   CHANGE DUE IN SPRING   Maintains Synthetic Rubber Production Due Within Few Months.

Spring May End Tire Rationing   Will Be Possible Unless UnForeseen Military Demands Arise   PETROLEUM REPORT BEING PREPARED

CHANGE TO LIFT TIRE BAN SEEN   Jeffers’ White House Report Forecasts Possibility Next Spring

MAKES ANOTHER PREDICTION OF END OF RATIONING OF TIRES.   Byrnes Pesshbnistie   Refuses, However, to Make Further Comment on Extending Driving Ban.

FLOOD HITS MISSOURI   Highways on Both Sides of Branson Blocked by High Water

Rains Bring Floods to ~ Many Areas   Southern ‘Missouri Towns Isolated and Several Rivers Are Risine   MORE RAIN TONIGHT IN THOSE AREAS   Flood Gates Opened at Bagnell Dam; Some Residents Leave

Warns Against Over-Optimism Bracken Says Hitle:  mies "Win aeece!

ALLIED FORCES IN PACIFIC READY FOR KNOCK-OUT BLOW   Against Two Jap Bases: Lae, on New Guinea, Rabaul, N. Britain.

Allies' Next Big Move Not Easy To Foretell   Occupation Of Naples Opens Unpredictable Third Act Of Mediteranean Drama

SECOND PHASE OF PUSH INTO ITALY AT END   EVENTS ON DNIEPER MAY DECIDE NEXT MOVE OF WAR

Next Move In Italy Up To Nazis   Second Phase Ot War Near End. In Nation

Pearl Harbor Has Alert as Plne Sighted  Navuw Bellavoc That   Navy Believes That Enemy Attempted Reconnoissance Work

Mission Thwarted  Unidentified Plane Signals  Alert at Oahu Fortress

[nidentified Plane Causes Alert on Oahu   Aireraft Believed From Sub  And Mission Failure

PLANE CAUSES ALERT AT OAHU   Craft Launched Off Enemy Sub, is Belief Voiced At Pearl Harbor

Rev. John McCormick, Professor Of Philosophy At Loyola, Succumbs

LIQUOR DEALERS HIT SHORTAGE   Group Says Ohio Situation Is Due To State's Treatment Of Distillers

Coal Operators Offer Proposal   . Coricéssion Made On Fotir Demande

CITY DEBT CUT 41 PER CENT IN 1942   Biggest Reduction Is in Water Department Indebtedness   PEAK OF DEBT IN 1927

CITY DEBT CUT 41 PER CENT IN 1942   Biggest Reduction Is in Water Department Indebtedness

Sayre Declares World Exchange Of Goods Urgent   Former Conunissioner To ilippines fear By Senate Committee

Sayre Urges Trade Pacts   Declares If Goods Can’t Cross National Frontiers, Armies Will

SAYS TRADE BARRIERS SOW SEEDS OF WAR   Sayre Tells Congress “if Goods Can’t Cross National Frontiers, Armies Will” — Cites Germany as Example.

If Goods Cannot Cross Frontiers, Armies Will-Sayre  Ranawnl nf Trada   Renewal of Trade Act Involves World Security, He Says

Peace Rests On Trade      Philippine Commissioner Says “If Goods Can’t Cross National Frontiers, Armies Will’

Tactics Against U-Boats Improve   Nazi Undersea Raiders Suffer Severe Defeat

Severi Seriously Hurt When T ornadoe: Strike Northeastern Oklahoma

Stimson Says MacArthur Strategy Is Being Used, Command Is indesendent

No Controversy With MacArthur, Puzzled Washington Sources Say   His Strategy Is Being Used Now Against Japs in Pacific, Is Claim

e( Troops"Now tid Hammering t Suburbs   be Column of On-Rush. ing Red Forces [ess Than Seven and fall Miles From Great Serandhold.

KHARKOV FALL HELD IMMINENT   Russians Hammering Suburbs After Encircling Bejeaguered Nazi Forces

Reds Shell Kharkov   Continue Drive On Big Ukraine City; Fall Believed Imminent

KHARKOV NEAR CAPTURE; REDS CLOSE SUBURBS   Beleaguered Germans In Fortress City of Ukraine Are Nearly Encircled, Moscow Reports

DOOM OF KHARKOV NEARS WITH REDS ENCIRGLING CITY   One Report Says Russians Less Than Three Miles from Beleaguered Fort-

Red. Troops Now Said Hammering  ‘At Suburbs    One. Column of On-Rush2 ‘ing Red Forces -Less  ..Than. Seven’ and Half : Miles: From > Great + Stronghold.

Reds Hammer At Suburbs Qf Kharkov      Fall of Great Ukrainian Stronghold Appears Imminent After Beleaguered Germans Virtually Encircled In Fortress City.

SOVIET TROOPS NEAR KHARKOV   Germans Retreat Through Narrowing Gap

Soviet Troops Batter Doomed Strong Point   Escape Gap From Kharkov Narrowed To 60 Miles By Russian Advances.   CLOSE TO OUTSKIRTS

Troops Narrow Escape Gap Of German Forces   Fall Of Urkrainian Stronghold to Russian Appears Imminent

Nazi Escape Gap Slashed To 60 Miles   Garrison Reported Virtually Encircled As Soviets Move In

—RUSSIA—  Fall Of Kharkov Is Believed Nea      Russian Troops Hammering Suburbs Of Great Ukrainian Stronghold After Virtually Encircling Beleaguered Germans

FALL OF GREAT CITY APPEARS IMMINENT NOW   Red Troops Only Seven And One-Half Miles From Bastion

TIGHTENS UP ON GAS STAMPS   OPA Orders Endorsement on Face of Coupons Immediately After Rerceint.

MORE THAN 500 PLANES CARRY OUT ROME RAIL   Freight Yards At San Lor. enza and Littoris Heavily Hit; Rolling Stock Shattered   INDUSTRIES HIT   Five American Bombers Missing; Objectives Are Easily Spotted In Bright Sunshine

DAYLIGHT AAD ON AME CST U5, PUNE   Railroad Installations and Large Chemical Works Were Damaged.   SAN LORENZO FREIGHT YARDS ALSO BOMBED

Rome Raided by More Than 500 U. S. Bombers.   Littorio. Marshalling Yards. Knocked Out Completely in -Monday’s Raid; Attackers Lose Only Five: Planes

HEAVY DAMAGE IN ROME, YANK PILOTS REPORT   Over 500 U. S. Planes Involved  In Air Assault

500 Bombers In Rome Raid: Only Five Are Lost   Freight Yards, Othe: Vital Areas Are  Heavily Damaged Is Revealed

EXPECT SEAPOWER - TO STRANGLE FOE   Navy Congratulated Upon Its 168th _ Birthday; Cavtion Enemy Sull Powerful

Officials Voice Certainty That American Seapower Will Strangle and Destroy Japanese

Navy Day Messages Express Confidence American Seapower Will Destroy  Japs But Hard Fight Is Still to Be Won

Second Navy Day Finds U.S. Much Better Prepared   Officials Point To Growing Power

Huge U.S. Navy Will Strangle, Destroy Japan   High Executives Mark Navy Day By Telling Nips’ Fate

President Forecasts Big Battles to Come in Navy Day Letter Sent to Knox

Refugees Say Allied Ships Gathering   Island Off Coast O Turkey Reported Seized By Allies

GREAT FLEET STEAMS OFF TURK COAST   Imminent Lunge Into Balkans Portended by Allied Forces Through Aegean Sea

Stirs Talk of Balkan Lunve   Concentration Of Albed  ln Acvean Sea

Allied Warships Steaming Up West Coast of Turkey   This Renews Talk of An Allied Lunge Into Balkans Regions.   Germans Are Rushing Troops to Southwest

Large Allied Fleet Gathers in Aegean; Balkan Attack Seen   Occupation of Dodecanese Island Told by Italian Refugees in Turkey; British 9th Army Reported on Move

OO a a a ere  Allied Fleet Said S Steaming Up Aegean Toward Balkan:

ALLIED FORCES TO HIT BALKANS   War Fleet Reported Sailing Up Aegean Sea Off Coast Of Turkey

FLEET MOVING UP ARGEAN SEA OF TURK COAST   Italian Refugees Reaching Turkey Report Presence of Large Concentration of War Vessels   SAY CASTELROSSO ISLAND OCCUPIED   Would Place Allies 90 Miles From Rhodes, Held By’ Nazis Within Dodecanese Group

Fleet Report Stirs Talk of Balkan Lunge   Concentration Of Allied  Fleet Reported In Aegean Sea

Allied Fleet Off Turkey. Report Stirs Fresh Talk Of  Balkan Invasion

ALLIED FLEET IS REPORTED IN AEGEAN SEA   Stirs New Talk k of Im Imminent Allies Invasion of Balkans fa Allies Supply Guerrillas

Refugees Say Allied Fleet: Is Headed North In Aegean Sea   Unofficial Reports. Stir Talk of Lunge Into ™ Balkans

Allied Fleet Reportedin Aegean Sea   Rumor Stirs New Talk of Balkan Attack

ALLIED WAR FLEET  REPORTED OFF WEST  COAST OF TURKEY SEA ACTIVITY STIRS NEV  TALK OF IMMINENT RAITKAN INVASION

Allied War Fleet In Aegean Sea Stirs New Talk   Liftige" Tato Balkans Seen As” Reésu ‘eports By Italian Refugees

ALLIED WAR FLEET SAILS AEGEAN SEA   Talk Of Imminent Balkan Lunge Tc Heard

Report Allied Fleet Steams Up Aegean   Presence of Large Concentration of War Vessels Off West Coast of Turkey Spurs Talk of Lunge at Balkans.

AEGEAN MOVES STIR BALKANS   Allied Fieet Reported Moving; Dodecanese Islands Are Seized

Fleet In Aegean Sea   Big Allied Force Reported; May Signal Balkan Invasion

Allied Fleet Up Aegean Sea   Off West Coast OF Turkey: Stirs Talk Of Lunge Into Balkans,

ALLIED ARMADA REPORTED IN AEGEAN MOVE   Dispatches Sti Stir Fresh Talk ‘Of Thrust In Balkans

OFF TURKEY'S WEST COAST   New Talk of an Imminent Lunge Into Balkans Is Heard— Refugees Tell of a Large Concentration of Ships.

FLEET SAID MOVING UP AEGEAN SEA   Allies Reported Occupying Islands West Of Turkey

REPORTED WAR FLEET STEAMING UP THE AEGEAN   talian Refugees Report Large Concentration Of War Vessels Off The West Coast Of Turkey.

ALLIED WAR FLEET REPORTED OFF WEST COAST OF TURKEY  SEA ACTIVITY STIRS NEV   SEA ACTIVITY STIRS NEV TALK OF IMMINENT BALKAN INVASION

UNITED NATIONS INVASION FLEET RUMORED AFLOAT   ZERO HOUR BELIEVED AT HAND TO LIBERATE NAZI PUPPET NATIONS

Allied Planes Raid Jap Harbor at Lae   Heavy Rains, Mud Slow Operations in Sananahda Arec

LAE VISITED BY BOMBERS   Allied Planes Again Make Heavy Raid In New Guinea.

HERE AND THERE IN  BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To Al In The Various  Communities

Paris, 35 Others Listed as Targets   Bombers to Single Out fodlusteial Apeac

Allies Crush 3 Assaults By Germans   Prisoners Taken; Advance Patrols Of 8th Army Met

Nazis Driven Back 11 Miles From Salerno Beaches; Yanks  Make Contact With British

Beachheads Now Established As _ Nazis Retreat    Three Counterattacks. Repulsed; Germans — May Straighten Lines

ALLIES PUSH GERMANS BACK ELEVEN MILES   Make Contact With 8th Army

Allies Crush = Three German Counterblows   Germans Rolled Back 11 Miles From Saler no Beaches

Counterblows of Nazis Crushed By Fifth Army   Enemy Rolled Back 11 Miles  Fram Saloarna

U.S.5thArmy Makes Patrol Contact with Eighth Army   Enemy Pushed Back Through Town of  Albanella   Nazis Face Attack Extending Across Italian Root

JUNCTION OF. 5TH, 8TH ARMIES NEAR; PATROLS CON TACT   5th Army Crushes Three More German Counter Attacks—Fighting In Naples Area Heavy—Nazi Losses Very Heavy _

“GAS SUPPLY [S OVERDRAWN   PAW Says Eastern Civilians Peril Lifting of Pleasure Driving Ban

PAW Says East Coast Overdrawin; Gas Allowances   Chances of Getting Rid of Driving Ban Imperilled, It Is Said

EASTERN MOTORISTS OVERDRAWING GAS   Ickes’ Office Says Drivers Are Impetrilling Chances Of Hav ing Ban Lifted

WARNING GIVEN OF GAS OVERDRAWING      Chances of Early Lifting of Pleasure Driving Ban Imperilled

West Overdraws Gasoline Allotment Ickes Complains   Petroleum Administrator Says East’s Chance of More in Danger

Easts Chances ‘Of Escaping BanAre Endangere¢  Overdrawing. Daily ——"""" ae Allotments

MINERS ADAMANT ON WAGE BOOST DEMAND   Threaten Strike if Demands Not Met

WAGE DISPUTE AN DEADLOCK   NO STEPS YET TAKEN TO SIGN TEMPORARY AGREEMENT PENDING FURTHER, _ NEGOTIATIONS

Invasion Of Italy Poses Test Later   Are Yanks Being Told How To Win Friends?

HITLER GIVEN BIG aUAPHIOt   He and Mussolini Hd Nod Inkling of the Meetiny in North Africa.

TIMES AS at AS BRITISH   Bue Empire e Claims. Theit Morey Is Better And’ More Stable :

U. $. SPENDING, TAXING, GO_ ING INTO DEBT FOR WAR 3 TIMES AS FAST.AS BRITISH   But Empire Claims. Their Money Is Better And’ More Stable

South Anchor Of Enemy Line Seized By Reds   Hitler Headquarters At Stalino Doomed By  New Drive

IBRANCH POST OFFICE CARRIERS START SOON   Service Expected to Begin Next Monday   Broadway Office to Re Closed Weduesday, Thursday For  Installation of Screens

BRANCH POST OFFICE CARRIERS START SOON     Service Expected to Begin _ Next Monday   Broadway Office: to Be Closed  Wedilesday, Thursday For

SEEK NEW VOTES FOR RUML PLAN   GOP Congressmen Plan Minor Changes in Carlson Bill To Reach, “Family” Arereament_

CHANGES MADE IN TAX MEASURE   ‘Amendments Added In Effort To Gain 20 Votes For GOP Bill

New Votes Seen  For Ruml Tax      Republicans Will Amend Carlson Bil]

GOP WORKS ON TAX PLAN AGREEMENT   New “Family” Agreement Is Aimed At Swinging. 20 Votes

“Family” Accord On Pay-Go Plan Being Drawn Up   ~ House Republicans Working On Method of Swinging Votes

20 MORE VOTES TO ~ ‘SUPPORT TAX PLAN BELIEVED SECURED   “Family” Agreement 1s Reached Among House Republicans to Aid -Meacure.

Steel Mill Shut Down By Strike   22 of 53 Furnaces Closed by Wildcat Walkout

Second Childhood Plea Fails To Win   Touhy’s Lawyer Asks for Release

Americans and British Push on Following Capture of Kasserine; Prisoners Are Taken.   RUSSIAN ADVANCES HAVE BEEN SLOWED

Key Railroad Link Snatehed >v Allies   Montgomery's  Kighth Army Is Pounding Away At Mareth Line

Swedes Look F or Blow At Balkans   Invasion Craft Seen—FEisenhower Slated for Command

WOMEN'S JURY BILL DEFEATED IN THE SENATE   “Sim Crow” Law Repealer  Ts Also Beaten By Upver Chamber   STATE TAX MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE

BILL FOR WOMEN JURORS DEFEATED      Senate Also Rejects Re pealer of “Jim Crow” Law

Senate Defeats Women’s Jury Service Bill   Also Kills “Jim Crow’ Re pealer in Hectic Session

LAND BANK "SEEKS. STOCK PAR VALUE   Program Will Affect Some 40,000 Farmers in Mid west if Approved,  ,

LAND BANK IN NEW PROGRAM OF REPAYMENT   Propose Restoration Stock’s Par,

Lewis Effort To Rejoin A. F. L. Will  Face Convention   Sessions Are Being Opened In National Convention At Boston Today

xeriman Catnotte Hierarchy Strongly Denounces Nazi Religious Policy And Cites:“Notorious Oeeuiraneoe

Reich Catholics  Denounce Nazis   Petition Relief  From Persecution

Catholic Hierarchy of Germany Issues Protest Against Policy of Nazis

German Catholic Hierarchy Strongly Denounces Nazi  Religious Policy And Cites ‘Notorious Ocecurances’

German Catholics Score Nazi Religious Policy   Hierarchy Denounces  ) e  Measures Directed  Beatin Point cs than

Review Air Offensive Of August   Many Military Objectives Are Hit—No Attack on Berlin Last Night

Poix Airfield Attacked And Badly Damaged   Allied Raiders Keep Up Offensive; Other Tarcets Hit

WORLD WAR ACE URGES GREATER WAR PRODUCTION   Asks That Strikes Be Out. jawed for Duration; Labor Bill Up Now

BAN ON STRIKES URGED AGAIN BY RICKENBACKER   Ohio Legislators Declare People at Home View War Effort by Money Made   LABOR RACKETS SCORED   Speech Is Interpreted as Stimulus to Measure To Regulate Labor Unions

/RICKENBACKER’S SPEECH ‘SEEN AS STIMULUS TO [PROPOSED LABOR LAWS

FLIER DECLARES STRIKES SHOULD BE OUTLAWED   Labor Leaders Charge Speech Aimed at Measure in House

Nazi Capital Facing Fale Of Hamburg   Seven Hundred Planes Pour 2,000 Tons Of Eombs on City

Devastation Sweeps Nazi Capital   Armada Drops Destruction on Scale Nearly as Great as Attack That Reduced Hamburg; Alline Lace 58 Shine af 7ON Relieved Accinnad

Elimination of  3B Is Planned   Placing'of All Childless Mer! ~ tied Men in 1-A Considered "by Selective Services

May Eliminate 3-B Draft Class   Putting of All Married Men Into 1-A Also Being Discussed, It Is Said.

CONSIDER DROPPING dO DRAFT RATING   Childless Married, Mer Would Be 1-A, With Fathers in 3-A.

Blast Shakes Tacoma   Vessel on: .: Shipyard Ways Demaoad: F Hurt

Mother of Five _ Boys Said Lost  Sent Sympathy   ‘Mrs. Roosevelt Writes to  Mother of 5 Sullivan Brothers

FA'S WIFE WRITES TO MRS, SULLIVAN   Mrs. Roosevelt Sends Message to Mother Who Lost 5 Sons in War.

Labor Control Bill Passed by Texas House’   Final, Votes Is 86 t  37 After Prolonged and Biner Dehaie

British Meet  Reverse On Coo   Admit Germans Hold Manv Landing Grounds

Coo Defenders Continue Fight  Ankara Hears British May Have Occupied

GERMANS GAIN ON COO ISLAND   Several Landing Fields Taken, British Admit

NAZIS CAPTURE SOME LANDING GROUND ON C00   British Striking Back At German Forces

FIERGE FIGHTING. ON COO ISLAND   British Admit Germans Have Made Some Progress

Nazis Take Airfields land Town of Coo But \British Continue Fight

Town of Coo Falls Under: Nazi Control   British Acknowledge German Gain But'Report Fightine Continues on Island   IRAP. IS POUNDING. ENEMY AIRFIELDS   Direct Hits. Are Scored ‘on German Installations on Bhodes..and Crete

british Admit  Germans Force Action On Coo   Fight Fiercely To Hold Tron Ring Defenses In Aegean; Make Landings

BRITISH FORGE STILL RESISTS IN DODECANESE   Fighting in Italy Bitter

Nazis Gain On Coo Isle   Landing Fields in German Hands, but Resistance Continues

FIGHT FOR COO STILL GOING ON, BRITISH REPORT   Reporis Received al Ankara Indicafe British May Have Occupied All Dodecanese but Rhodes

Town Of Cos Airbases In Nazis’ Hands   Germans Claim Only Mopping Up Of Island Remains; British Fight.On_

BRITISH RESISTING — DODECANESE ATTACK      Admit Germans Have Captured Number of Landing Grounds On Coo

NAZIS SEIZE COS; BRITISH RESISTING      RAF Bombers Raid Crete, Rhodes Airfields Tuesday

Germans Win Landing Spots On Coo Island   British Acknowledge Enemy Gains, But Declare That Resistance Goes On

Germans Take Town of Cos  And Airtields   British Report Continued Resistance

Germans Capture Airfields, Town On Isle of Cos  RAF Bombers Raid Rhodes and Crete  Sf ee  Ba ei

NAZIS WINNING ON COS   Germans Capture Seme Landing Fields On Dodecanese Island

COS FALLS INTO HANDS OF ENEMY   Outnumbered British Forces Are Still Stubbornlv Fichtine

Drafling Of Fathers Seen Near   New Inductees To Get 14 Dey Furlough:

EARLY FATHER DRAFT IS SEEN   Indicated by Lengthening Of Inductees’ Furloughs To 14 Days

Father Draft To Start Soon, Army Indicates   Orders Furloughs Given New Inductees  Extended to Two Week

Drafting of Fathers Is Expected Soon   Longer Furloughs Are Said Indication of Policy Chance

Draft of Fathers At Early Date Seems Probable   Extending of Furlougt Period Taken To Mean Prompt Calls

FATHERS MAY BE CALLED IN NEAR FUTURE   Extension. of : Furlough Period Believed Prelude to New Call

Army Extends I urloughs for New Inductees   Drafting of Fathers  in Immediate Future Seems Likely Due to Extension to 14 Days

Fathers Will Be Called Up   Furlough Period For Inductees Lenathened

LOUGHS TO BE MORE LIBERAL   Gradually To Be Stepped Up From One Week Toa Three

Fathers Draft Is Seen Likely In Short Time  Furlough Order: _ Interpreted As Indication

DRAFTING OF FATHERS IN THE  IMMEDIATE FUTURE PROBABLE         Draft Boards Being Instructed To Lengthen Furlough Period From Seven Days To Two Weeks; Longer Period Expected In September

FATHERS NEXT ON DRAFT LIST   Furlough Period Given Inductees Extended To 14 Days

ARMY MAY CALL FATHERS SHORTLY   FURLOUGH PERIOD FOR INDUCTEES TO WIND UP CIVILIAN AFFAIRS DOUBLED.

Draft Calls  For Fathers Indicated in Near Future   Furlough Period For New Inductees Extended to 14 Days By New Armv Order

BRICKER TO ADDRESS GOP CONGRESSMEN   Preliminary 3 Campaign by Willkie Stirs Ohioans

BRICKER TO G0 TO WASHINGTON   Governor of Ohio To Give Address in Capital on February 12

Blackout To Be Held Here On June 2nd   Rules To Be Followed In Various Stages Given Public — Four Phases Are Announced

Jefferson  Memorial Is Dedicated   Abolition of FSA Proposed; _Jones Called Before Committee to Give Data on US.  _ World Trade

NATIONAL SHRINE T0 MEMORY JEFFERSON I$ DEDIGATED TODAY  DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES FINDS CONGRESS ARGUIN¢ OVER WHAT IS BEST

Washington Today’  National Shrine To Jefferson ls Dedicated   Roosevelt Warns We Can Lose Liberty; Reed Scores Pacts

Taxpayer Group Meets Tomorrow   Final Details Of Organization Will Be Completed

PLEASED OVER NEW FRENCH RECOGNITION   Joint action by Allies a sound basis for expanding cooperation

STAFF ADDITION NAMED   Fair Employment Practice Group Adds Ta Staff

Anti-Strike Bill Goes To Senate For Final Voie   Strikes In War Industries Prohibited Under Bill; Curbs Union Activities

Senate Moves  Toward Anti. ~ Strike Bill   Criticism By Opponents Apparently Futile as Debate Progresses —

STRIKE MEASURE IN FINAL STAGI   House Passes Act 219 tc 129, Proponents Expect Approval By Senate.

ANTI-STRIKE BILL SEEMS SURE TO PASS   Senate Moves Today Toward Final Action On Strike Prohibition

Criticism Hits Strike Bill As Senate Moves for Action   Fought Bitterly By Organized Labor, Strike Measure Was Passed By House Yesterday

LABOR UNIONS FIGHT AGAINST ANTI-STRIKE BILL   Clevenger Votes for HousePassed Measure, Up To Senate

No-StrikeBill Headed for Final Action   Opponents Direct Futile Blast After House Passage

SENATE TAKES UP ANTI-STRIKE BILL   PROPONENTS VIEW SENATE APPROVAL AS A CERTAINTY

Senate Expected to Favor Legislation  Forbidding Strikes   Bill Passed House Friday; Some Soft Coal Miners Walk Out

Huse APPROVES ANTI-STRIKE BILL   219 to 129 Vote Sends Legislation to Certain Senate Approval

ANTI - STRIKE BILL MOVES TO FINAL PASSAGE   Opponents Concede Senate Approval Likely— Passed by House 219 to 129

Senate To Pass Anti-Strike Bil  House Passes Measure Outlawing Walkouts  le favuarnmant Diante

Strike Bill Before Senate   Opponents Aim Final And Futile Blast At House Measure

Anti-Strike Bill Goes To Senate Floor   Opponents Aiming Final Blow At Measure, But Favorable Action Is Expected

LOWLY WEEDS CAN BE USED   Ohio - Conservation Commission Gives Timely Suggestions on Cutting Down Ohio Housewives’ Vegetable Bilis.

VALUE OF FUEL OIL COUPON NO. 5 RAISED   Increased One To Twe Gallons Over Present Levels In Seventeen Eastern States

Caupon Value Is Increased   One to Two Gallons More ‘~ Fuel Oil :Allowed: For ’ Bastern States

Value Of Fuel Oil Coupons Is Increased  No. 5 Raised One To Two Gallons Over Present Levels

Get Rubber Go-Ahead. _   Priorities  ‘ies Battle End In Minor Victory for Synthetic [Program

Give Jeffers  Part Of Needs   Rubber=Czar~-Gets Priority On 43.6 Percent Of Rub her Program From Nelson.

SYNTHETIC RUBBER SQUABBLE IS ENDED   WPB_ Boss Gives Preference To 43.6 Percent of Program

NELOON SETTLES RUBBER BATTL   Issues Directive For 43.6 Per Cent Of Synthetic  Program

Synthetic Rubbe Gets Priorities   Hot Controversy Apparently Ended

43.6 PERCENT OF» RUBBER PROGR GETS TOP PRIORIT   Nelson's Order: Assures- An: "nual ‘Synthetic Output Of. . 452,000: ‘Tons       IMOST WILL. BE- BUNA-

Jeffers Gets Priorities For  Rubber Plant:   Obtains Top Preference For: 43.6 Per Cent Of Program To Produce  Synthetic Rubber

Preference Is Given Rubber  Settle Battle Over Synthetic Product

Rubber Czar Wins Fight   Nelson’s Order Gives Top Preference to Administrator Jeffers

Nelson Ends Rubber Row With Order   43.6 Per Cent Of Original Prosram Allowed

Nelson Approves 43.5 Per Cent Of Jeffers Program   Rubber Authorization Is Outcome Of Clash With Army, Navy Schedules

Reds Storm Approaches To Kiev   Imminent Drive Against Crimea Is Indicated

THOUSANDS OF “CIVILIANS TAKEN BY THE GERMANS   Will Be Forced Into, Slave Labor—Reds Blast City Defenses.

RED UFrENoIVE INTO GRIMES LO UM MAN ENT   Nazi Abandonment Of Kiev 450 Miles To North, Almost Complete

NAZI FORCES GETTING OUT OF FORTRESS   Evacuating From Gomel in White  Russia, Russians Making Advances Elsewhere

Soviet Troops Tighten: Their Grip On Kiey   Begin Shelling Kerch Ir Evident —_Preparatior For Strong Offensive Against The Crimea

Offensive In Crimea Looming   Germans Blowing Up Buildings, Seizing Residents

Soviets Storm Kiev Suburbs   RUSSIAN TROOPS SHELL KERCH IN PREPARATION FOR OFFENSIVE AGAINST CRIMEA; GERMAN EVACUATION OF UKRAINE CAPITAL NEARLY ENDED

CONSOLIDATION TAX PLAN OF GOV, DONNELL BOOSTED   Speaker Howard Elliott Announced Poll Shows 60 Votes Pledged.   IT IS A 32-BILL PROGRAM   Seventy-Six Ayes Are Necessary to Send the Bills to the Senate.

Believe House Will Adopt Donnell Bills   Gigantic Consolidation Plan Has 60 Pledged Votes

Many Frenchmen Sull Hold Out Against Nazis  Some Surrender as Result of Lack of Food, Guns, Leaders

‘French Patriots Are Driven Out of Hills by Lack of Needs, but ‘Still They Prepare to Strike Nazis

HIRE AFTER AUTO CRASHES SOME DEAD   Lincoln, Nebraska fanuly were on way to Clinton, lowa

Two Killed; Three Hurt In Accident   Car Overturns on Highway Near Grimes

J, A. KEELER DIES   Former Mayor Had Been 7 in gee Here  Since 1886

MILLION LIVING IN CELLARS OF CITY WITH THIRD OF CAPITAL DESTROYED

Blames Preventable Battle Casualties On Failure to Weed Out Mentally Unfit   President of Psychiatric Association Attacks Policy in “High Places"

AMPHIBIOUS TROOPS LAND-& COVER OF HEAVY SEA AND. BOMBARDMENT; ENGAGE ‘HARD BATTLE <=“

BITTER BATTLE IS RAGING ON NORTH ‘COAST OF SICILY   Seventh Army Now Within Artillery Range Of Randazzo—Eighth Army Takes 2 Villages, Moves Up Slopes Of Mt. Etna   U.S. PLANES CARRY WAR  ~ TO ITALIAN MAINLAND

Americans Land Forces On North Shore of Sicily   Nazi Evacuation of . Island Reported As * “Now In Full Swing”

TROOPS SWARM ASHORE 40 MILES FROM MESSINA   Beat Off Heavy Counterattacks—Harass Enemy, trem the Rear Now.

Nexis tn Favee 70 Leadina Dutch Citizens to Stand Trial far Their Lives in Holland

MASS TRIALS IN HOLLAND   SEVENTY LEADING DUTCH CrTIZENS SLATED FOR DEATH BY GERMAN AUTHORITIES

ALLIES DETERMINE AVOID MISTAKES   Intend To Occupy Germany and Italy With Military Forces Lock, Stock and Barrel When Final C ollapse Comes.

This Time It Will Be A Real  Occupation   Allies Will Take Over Germany, Italy Lock, Steck, Barrel

300,000 Germans Resist Allied Forces in Italy   Desperate and Bloody Fight Claimed Ahead

Will Roll Nazis Back To Home Grounds....  Discount Strength Of Nazi Forces In Italy

Nazis Are Pleased At Italians’  ‘Axian Appearance   Newspapers Blast   Propaganda  wh. ete enh Ab mdtamo

Nazis Are Pleased At Italians’ Axian Appearance  Newspapers Blast Propaganda Throuchevt Nation

Daily Raids On Jap Bases   Navy Department At Noon Announces More Attacks In Solomon Area

HEAVY RAIDS BY U.S. NAVY   Japanese strongholds in Solomons undergo “non-stop” attack

New Guinea Campaign Broadens Into Land-Air Battle; Allies and Japs Throwing Strong Aerial Punches

Japanese Throw Aerial Punches   New Guinea Campaign Land-Air Struggle

BATTLE STIFFENS IN NEW GUINEA AREA   Both Allies And Japs I; Theatre Throw Strong Alr Punches

Ailies Make Heavy Raids On Lae   Rabaul, Gasmata And Cape Gloucester Ara Alen Ramhad

New Guinea Batile Rages   Japs Throw Strong Air Punches at Allies

New Guinea Fight Flares   Yanks and Japs Hur! Strong Air Punches

Union Service To Be Held Nov. 25th   NEW METHODIST PASTOR, REV MARVIN WILLIAMS, WILL DELIVER MESSAGE

TVA off OLD aYOTEM CURD FOR INDUSTRI   Report to Congress Suggests One Rate. Structure to Aid West, South.   WOULD ABOLISH PRESENT FIVE-REGION SYSTEM

TVA Report Urges Congress Abolish Five Region System of Freight Rates to Aid South and West

TVA RECOMMENDS E-REGION. FREIGHT RATES BE ABOLISHEL      Asks Creation of Ofe Natiorwite System to Help the South and West.

Freight Rate System Change  Recommended   President Sends _TVA Report To Consress

Shinyard Strike Halts Navy Work   Man’s Suspension From Union Blamed

Strike at Alam at Alameda ~ Threatens to Delay Naval Construction

GEAMANG DRAIN OATELLITES FOR REINFORCEMENTS   Secret Demands On Hungary and Croatia for More Troops Reported

= OF RUSSIA LOOMS IN FUTURE   Dr. Oscar Jaszi Discusses Problem at K. U,  Convocation

GMA OF RUSSIA LOOMS IN FUTURE   Dr. Oscar Jaszi Discusses Problem at K. U,  ‘Convocation   GOOD WILL -IS NEEDED

Morale at Low Point In Germany   Nazis Would Like  To Concentrate on Eastern Fronts

GERMANY FEARS "BLUE NOVEMBER’   Russian Defeats Bring New Reich Unrest

VICTORY BOND CONCERT LAST FRIDAY NIGHT BROUGHT SALES OF OVER $238,000 WAR BONDS

SALES FOR WEEK THRU LAST NIGHT $375,000; CONCERT SALE RAISED OVER $238.600   Silver Wings of Fighing Pilot Sold for $1 10,000 And W. J. Miller’s Shirt Auctioned Off For . $100,000 at Concert Last Night, Attended. ~ By Over Thousand Pe ople.—Total Sales For Month Near $400.000

British Youths Have Fun  But Churchill’s Daughter Says Their Jitterbugging Not Up  Tan Vanl Cnaad

German Officers Surrender Men   Battle For Africa Is Virtual ly Over Says War Cor. respondent

(Distributed by King Features Syniicate, Inc., Reproduction in Puli o b Part Strictly Prohibited.)   WASHINGTON ~— TL ASKED A KEN-

REVEAL WOMEN ~ SPY SUSPECTS   Wayne U. Professor’s Wife and Detroit Housewife Accused

PARATROOPERS © IN CONTROL OF JAP AIRSTRIP   Ground Reinforcements Being Sent In For Drive On Lae   PLANTATIONS ARE HEAVILY BOMBED

NEW TYPE WEAPON NOW IN USE ABLE TO PIERCE ARMOR   The Bazooka is ‘Revolutionary’ in Design; Gun is Easy to Manipulate

New Type Portable Gun Knocks Out Tanks, Pill Boxes or Light Mechanized Defenses, Army Says

U.S. Reveals Hard- Hitting ‘Bazooka’Gun   Machine Can Knock Out Tanks and Penetrate Brick Walls

Board Is Named To Cut War Waste  Would Gear Output To Chanaina Needs

FOUR MEN ARE TO RULE PRODUCTION.      Joint Army-Navy Board Named By President

FOR to Create n Man ArmyNavy Prod.  Survey Group   Committee to Start Work by Investigating War Orders Placed

REALISTIC FOOTING — SEEN FOR NEW PLAN   Creation of Four-Man Army-Navy Production Survey Committee, Analyzed.

FDR’S CREATION OF 4-MAN COMMITTEE SEEN AS GOOD ACT   Army-Navy Survey Group Puts Production Setup On More Realistic . @ ‘Footing

Urge Dratt of U. S. Employes   CONGRESSIONAL BLOC DROPS FIGHT ON FATHERS TO URGE SERVICE UNIFORMS FOR “LOST ARMY” OF 300,000 NON-PROVIDERS ON FEDERAL ROLL

Roosevelt Names Military Group   Will Give Advice On Procurement

SURVEY GROUP IS CREATED BY FOR   Army and Navy Officer: to Study Procurement Programs

Allies Blast Away At Japs Without Letup on Yule   300 Tons of Bombs Rained on Jap-Held  New Britain Sector

’Pursuers Meeting ‘Heavy Opposition   . Encounter Prepared Posi‘tions Protecting: Rom-.  mel North of Gabes_   ADVANCE IN THE NORTH   Americans Press . Toward Big Axis Air Field Near  Kairouan’

Jaws of Vise Clamp Tighter as Rommel Supply Lines Waver   100 FORMIDABLE U. S. PLANES SHATTER CAGLIARI PORT, AIR FIELDS, MERCHANT SHIPPING IN GIGANTIC SKY MANEUVER

Five Merchant, It Smaller Craft are Hit   Axis Also Loses or Has Destroyed 71 Aircraft at Sardinia

BATTLE OF RUHK.   New York Correspondent in London Says Battle is Won.

BATTLE OF RUHR DECLARED WON   London Corrspondent Asserts Allied Attacks Have Been  Successful

GALBRAITH QUITS AS OPA OFFICIAL   Resignation ion of Deputy Price Administrator Announced

GALBRAITH RESIGNS POSITION WITH OPA   Deputy Administrator Had Recently Been In Conflict With An other Executive

BRICKER IS IN THE RACE, TAFT STATES   TAFT MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT IN CHICAGO AFTER OUTLINING SENATOR'S POSTWAR PLAN

Gov. John Bricker To Be Candidate   Senator Robert Taft For. mally Announces Ohio Governor’s Decision

Four Negroes Dead; LaGuardia Says Disturbance “Is Not Race Riot.” ’

6 NEGROES KILLED IN HARLEM RIOT   Six Thousand Police Stand By To Quell Uprising

HARLEM RAGE RIUI B NEGROES KILLED   5000 Policemen Called to Quell Uprising; 200 Injured.

FOREIGN POLICY GUIDE DEMANDED   Specific Program Instead Of General Plan Sought By Senators

{LCenimurd On J age our)  MORE SPECIFIC FOREIGN POLICY MEASURE ASKED

Nazis Claim Soviet Kuban Drive Halted   Russians Report 66 More German Planes Downed — in Caucasus

foes Hit From Orel To Donets   Reds Recapture 50 Towns In Swift Drive

Axis-Held ‘Hinge’ (ity of Orel Is Now Threatened With Encirclement   ted Army Troops Breach German Defenses in Front of Taganrog; 50 More Towns Recaptured

Orel Is Threatened With Encirclement   At Least 50 More Towns Reported Captured By Russians In Latest Mave Anainct Nacic

Red Offensive Breaks Out on Wide Front   Orel Is Threatened With Encirclement by Russian Trocps

Russian Drive Spreads Over A%0-Mile Front   Vital ‘Hinge City’ of Orel Is Threatened With Encirclernent

Reds Threaten Encirclement  Of Orel Sector   Fifty more towns fall; Summer offensive has rolled forward 36 to 66 miles. 

SOVIET ARMIES STILL DRIVING TOWARD OREI   Scores Of Localities Recap. tured By Reds; Mius  River Crossed   HEAVY BOMBERS RAID NAZI CONCENTRATIONS

Orel threatened with encirclement as red troops breach lines   Russian forces break thru Mius river defenses; capture 50 towns

Russian Heavy Bombers Blast Nazis At Orel   Big Drive Spreads And Encirclement Thrent Mairintinga

Russian Summer Offensive . Breaks Over 450-Mile Front      Orel Threatened With Encirclement by Advancing Soviets—-Armies Reported Aiming at Heart ‘of Donets Basin

Germans Face Threats Of Disaster   Numerous Towns Fall To Russians; Nazi Defense Breaks

GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVES IN MIGHTY BLAST      Orel Threatened With Encircle ment As Three Russian Armies Advance; Bryansk Also In Peril   65,000 Prisoners

RUSSIANS ATTACK NAZI ARMIES ON 4o0-MILE FRON   Drive Extends From Orel Which Is Threatened With Encirclement, to Mius River.   DEFENSES OF ENEMY AT TAGANROG BROKEN   Thrust Aimed at Heart of Donets Basin—Fifty More Towns Recaptured in Orel Sector,

Red Encirclement Threatening Orel   Great Summer Offensive Spreads On 450-Mile Front; Advances Made In Drive On Heart Of Donets Basin

OLD SWIMMING HOLEFATAL 10:   At Least 10 Others” “Die from. Accidents it State. -

0 May Recommend Reduction in Value Of ‘B’ and ‘C’ Coupons To Boost Fuel Oil SUGGESTION MADE FAR BACK AS OCTOBER  Government Officials Still Play Politics, One Oil Leader Savs

Committee Will Request Total Elimination Of “RK” Gasoline Coupons   Powerful Oil Industry Committee Also Asks “B" And “C” Reductions.

Oil Committee May Ask Elimination of “‘A”’ Cards, Cut in “B” and “C” Values

Tunisia Prisoner lot Nears 175,000; Italian Army Is Last To Give Up   Messe Surrenders On Duce's Orders; Allies Move Air Offensive Across Mediterranean Without Letup

ITALIAN CHIEF NOW PRISONER   Marshal Messe Surrenders to British First Army

OF RESISTANCE   Enemy’s Parting Blov Is Weak Air Raid on Algiers Area

COOPER BROTHERS SEEK WIN FOR ‘POP’   Father Of, Cards’. Battery Duo Dies Early Today -

Coopers’ Dad Dies; Cards Defeat Yanks   NEW YORK.—The St. Louis Cardinals evened the series at one game each today by defeating the New York Yankees, 4 to 3. The scoring innings are listed below.

FATHER DEAD, COOPER BOYS TEAM AGAINST YANKS   Second Game of Series Finds Saddened Cardinal Battery At Work.

Soldiers Aid In Search For Missing Boy   Eight - Year-Old Youngster Disappears Into Thick Cumberland Forest  SISTER GIVES ALARM

TO HOLD SPRING OPENING APRIL    Feature of Program Will Be Giving Away of Three $25 Bonds  on T“rTrygase YAY Wayrrearr

TO HOLD SPRING OPENING APRIL 1   Feature of Program Will Be Giving Away of Three $25 Bonds  80 FIRMS IN EVENT

ALLIED PLANES  BOMB BERLIN  EARLY FRIDAY   Nearly Three-fourths of Naz Capital in Ruins; Reds Push Forward

GREAT FIRES SET IN CAPITAL OF NAZIDOM BY BRITISH RAIDERS  WAVES OF ALLIED BOMB ERS, FIGHTERS ATTACKEL  SAD FUrDAD EDANS rr

THREE-FOURTHS OF CAPITAL IN BOMBED SECTOF   [7 Bombers Lost by R.A.F., Lowest Mark for Any of its Several Major Reich Attacks,

Over Thousand Tons of Bombs Cause New Destruction Today   News of War in Italy, Russia and Yugoslavia Summarized

Nazi Capital Again On Fire   RAF Dumps 1,120 Tons Of Bombs On Berlin

Berlin Dealt Great Blow By R. A. F.   Russians Advance And Eighth Army Takes Village

1,120 Tons More Bombs on Berlin   Pre-invasion Pattern To Other Attacks

RAF Bombers Give Berlin  Heavy Raid   Naval Shore Batteries Duel _ Across Channel, Russians - Advance Outer Defenses

Berlin Raided  sv RAF Forees   Planes Over Continent As Pope Pius Prays for Peace

1120 Tons of Bombs Fall on Nazi Capital   Fires Set in Berlin by RAF Visible for 120 Miles; Red Troops Storm Outer Defenses of Vitebsk

Soviets Storm Vitebsk Defenses— British Still Fighting at Ortona

Yankees Drive On Munda Bay   Australians Join Americans In  Creeping Up On Salamaua Base.

JAPS RESIST "STRONGLY AT ~— MUNDA FIELD   U.S. Ships Steaming North to. Shell  Buin, Faisi

Fliers Pound Burma Bases   Americons Rip Two Enemy Positions; British Also Active

To Reorganize » OPA, Brown Says   Businessmen to Replace Lawyers

Brown Plans To Reorganize  OPA Setup   Local Ration Boards May be Given More Authoritwv

Morales in Areentina   Chilean Minister on ast Leg of Diplomatic Tour

WORK TRUCE ENDS MONDAY AT MIDNIGHI   No Progress Made Toward a New Contract

Coal Strike Threat Again  Faces Nation   Negotiations Are Deadlocked; Truce Will End Tuesday

Men And Women In Service Get Break Under Pay-As-Go   BY JAMES MARLOW AND  APAEhY sStwrire

How Income Tax Affects Men In Service   By JAMES MARLOW an GEORGE ZIELKE

BLACK OK MARKET. “LOSES GROUND   REPORTS OF CONSUMERS TO _ RATION BOARDS CURBING ' , SALE OF COMMODITIES AT PREMIUM PRICES

Free French  Route German  Motor Column British Submarines  Take New Toll Of Nav: Sunniv Shinc

Panel Is Named to Handle Mine Wage AdjustmentCases; Meets Operators Wednesday

WLB ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAM   Panel Named to Handle Wage Matters in Tri-State Area

Unity Sought In Production  - Plan for Food   Davis Would Centralize Control at State and County Levels

Decentralize ~ Food Program   New Setup Calls For Naming Of County, State Food Administrators.

NEW SETUP FOR FARM ~ PROGRAMS   ‘Davis Is Expected to Name Administrators in Fach County   WOULD CONTROL ALL PROGRAMS:   State Chiefs Would Be Directly Responsible to National Administrator

New Setup Te  Administer War Food  Programs  State And County   Administrators To

Field Group To Carry Out Food Production   Chester C. Davis Expected to Announce Organization Soon

NEW ORGANIZATION TO DIRECT CROPS   Davis Expected to . Appoint  New Field Unit to Supplan'  Warp Boards

FOOD CHIEF PLANS NEW FIELD SET-UP   EXPECT TO NAME STATE WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATORS

State and County Administrators Key Men in Plan.   Farmer Commtitees Would Be Largely In Advisory Capacity

NEW FIELD ORGANIZATION T9 CARRY — OUT PRODUCTION PROGRAMS EXPECTED

Plans New Food Agency   Set-Up Would Take Over War Functions Of Triple A Boards

FLASH FIRE SWEEPS BOX FAN PLANT   Two Bodies Recovered; Third Workman Last Seen in, "Phone Booth,   FLOUR CITY FACTORY =~ ENGAGED IN WAR WORK

BODIES OF 2 IK WATERLOO FIRE ARE RECOVERED   3rd Man Is Missing After “Flash Blaze” in Box Company Plant

Two Killed In Waterloo Plant Fire   Box Factory Destroyec By Flames: Loss Set At $100,000

“WAR COUNCIL” pA OR ROOSEVELT   enate Bloc Hits Plans Of  Army For Expansion — Of Force; Says Men Not Available ,   STIMSON ASSAILS “SELFISH” PEOPLE  7   secretary Backs Effort. to Obtain Compulsory ~ Manpower Draft In Farms, Plants

US Army of 15,000,000 Is Predicted   Taft Says All 3-As Will Be Drafted by Midsummer; House Committee Abandons Proposals for Abating Taxes

SHORTAGE OF MEAT LOOMS DUE TO SUBSIDY DISPUTE   BEEF SLAUGHTER IN NATION NOW ONLY HALF OF NORMAL, AGRICULTURE DE“PARTMENT REVEALS

SHORTAGE OF MEAT GROWS MORE SERIOUS   Cattle on Market Drops; Situation Has Aspect of Strike

IMEAT FAMINE LOOMS AS BEEF, HOG SLAUGHTERING DROPS THRUOUT NATION

REDS MOVE TO CUT OFF PATH FROM ROSTOY   Allied Troops Reported Dislodged From Djebel  Mansour in Timisia

ADMITTED BY GERMANS   Fast Russian Advance  Threatens Rostov; Some  Red Troops Near Suburbs   SICKLE-LIKE PUSH: © IN DONETS BASIN   Moving Faster Than the Hitler Summer Drive;.May Bring Another Debacle

Drive Through Donets Basin May Cut Off Retreat   Shorter Supply Line Of Axis Proving Advantage in Tunisia

‘London Reports Reds Within 5 Miles of City   German Radio Reports an Attack By Allies Near Pont Du Fahs  NO OTHER CHANGE Revealing Picture Given  Of Odds Against the Allies

Fighting Is Indicated In Suburbs OF City   Russians Cutting Off Escape Of 250,000 Axis Troops; Other Soviet Columns Nearing con —Kurek In The Ukraine

ort That Russian  ostov Suburbs  MANS OFFICIALLY CONCEDE GER TO GDEATNATIRACE

‘London Reports Reds Within 5 Miles of City   WAITS UL VEY  German Radio Reports an Attack By Allies Near Pont Du Fahs  NO OTHER CHANGE Revealing Picture Given Of Odds Against the  Alli an

Seeking to Trap Nazis At Rostov   Soviets Staging Sickle-Like Sweep to Cut Off Escape

Report Russians Entering Rostov   Red Advance Threatens Escape Route ot 250,000 Germans Trapped at Rostov; Say Soviets 5 Miles from City

Reds Attempt To Cut Off  Axis Escape   Russian Armies Knife Down Through Donets River Basin; Soviet Troops Reported Within Five Miles of Rostov

Little Change Elsewhere; Allies’  Difficult Task in Tunisia; One-t of Nazi Air Force in Mediterrar it Area; Germans Have 170, 000eran Troops with New Giant. T;

Sweeping Red Drive Gains Speed   Hint Axis May Abandon Rostov; See-Saw Fight For Position Goes on. In Tunisian Battle

Rumor Soviet Shock Units Are Storming Suburbs of Rostov   Action Light on North African Front, British, U.S. Forees Attack Axis at Pont Du Fahs

REDS WITHIN FIVE MILES — OF ROSTOV   German Radio Says Al lied Troops Attacking . Nazi Strongpcints . Repulsed

ROSTOV'S GATES ARE CRASHED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS   Soviet Forces Slash Across Donets Basin To Cut Off Escape of Invaders   AFRICA IS FAIRLY CALM   Axis Forces in Tunisia Bolstered While Weather Holds Back Allies

Reds Continue To Drive Nazis Back   London Hears Russian ‘Army Is Within Five © "Miles of Rostov   MOVING AT FAST CLIP   Nazi Soldiers Reported Tc Be Disguised as Peasant Women 

London Press Scents Story   Report Stalin inform. ed On Allied Plans

FRENCH LEADERS IN AGREEMENT   MEDIATION BY U.S. AND BRITAIN BRINGS ‘UNDERSTANDING’

BRITISH PRESS EXPECTANT OF NEWS TO COMI   Reports Stalin Fully Informed of Developments Imply He Did Not Attend Conferences

Report Stalin Fully Informed   London Papers Credit Reports on Big News to U. S.

Stalin Turns Down Bid To  Consultations   British Press Tells Of “Talks Which Setthe DeGaulle. Giraud Differences  ANNOUNCEMENT, 9 P. M.

ILondon Press Foresees Dramatic [Announcement on Allied Strategy

Joseph Stalin Kept Informed   London Press Implies Russian Premier Did Not Attend Parley

STALIN INFORMED  OF PROGRESS RECENT  ALLIED CONFERENCE LONDON PAPERS ATTRIBUTE THEIR NEWS SOURCE  wi, PAIR, CprPéAT RE

De Gaulle And Giraud Also Believed In Agreement As Result OF Mediation

Cleveland Killer Insane, May Be Sent To Lima State Hospital For Life

Alexander Encouraged   “Periods of Most Heartening Success” In Fight Against Axis Subs Reported.

MOTHER OF 3 KILLS MAN AT TAVERN TABLE   Slaying Occurs Before  Eyes Of Patrons At ) Lake Resort   SHOT THRICE IN BACK   Claims Slain Man Threat ened Her For Filing  Assault Charge

Woman Shoots Father Of Two At Barron Lake   Hugh Anderson, 29, Slain By Mrs. Reta Rogers ln Cafe Quarrel

FINNS RESIGNED. TO FIGHT ON AS SALLY OF GERMANY   Propaganda Line That She Is  Fighting a Private War Dis', associated From World Con. fet Dropped Quietly

FINNS THROW LOT IN WITH NAZIS   Growing Nazi Pressure and Surrender Demanded at. Moscow Parley Sets Course

Finland Still In  Gives Up Attempt To Make Separate Peace With Russia

FINLAND 0 CONTINUE ITS RUSSIAN WAR   Report Says She Will Be Ally Of Germany

THINK FINNS TO FIGHT ON WITH NAZIS   Policy Said to Have Been Adopted Because Leaders Now See No Escape From Unconditional Surrender.

FINLAND FALLS IN WITH NAZIS   DROP PROPAGANDA LINE OF WAGING A PRIVATE WAR

Finland Decides To Be Full German Partner   Leaders Have Dropped Propaganda Line About Private War With Russia; Moscow Meet Brings Change of Mind

Finns Reported Continuing Fight Against Russia   Remain Ally Of Germany As Purported Result Of Moscow Decision

Drops ‘Private War’ Line After Reading Moscow tie: conditional Surrender Stand

Finns Resigned To Fighting As German Ally   See No Alternative As: Result Of Moscow  fo nvnlk nteawKem

FINNS RESIGNED TO CONTINUING WAR UNTIL END   Little Nation Will Not Surrender IUneonditionally

FINNS TO STAY IN FIGHT, NEW POLICY SHOWS   Propaganda About Private War Shelved—They’re Hitler's Partners Against Reds

Finland Quits Peace Chatter   Cause. Avain Is Linked With That Of Nazis As Full Partner

Finns to Keep Fighting Reds  Full.Fledeed Ally   Full-Fledged Ally Of Germany; Separate War Propaganda Dropped

Finland To Stay In War   Remains Full-Fledged Partner Of Germany

Finns will stay in war against Russia as Hitler partner   Drops private fight propaganda  line; fears allied peace terms

Finland Definitely Links Herself Up las a Partner of Germany to End of War

FINLAND REMAINS WITH ADOLF HITLER   Quietly Dropped Propaganda Line She Is Fighting a Private War.

CAPITAL ROW FLARES HIGHER   SEE POSSIBLE SHIFT FOR WALLACE OR JONES

Hold Connellsville ' Man Under Big Bone  Facing Action By Federa Grand Jury

Davis Protests Reuters’ Report   Sends Note To The British Minister; Says Failure In Britis Ceasorship .

Davis Protests British Scoop On Conference   Promises To Aid American Press

Davis Protests  British ‘Scoop   Says Early Story Hurts P ropaganda

Davis Protests Censorship ‘Leak’  Irked by Premature Fe, TE Co SSE we See ee eee

Avoid Hoarding, OPA Chief Asks   Brown Issues Appeal  To U. S. Housewjves

U. 5. Population Decline Reported  Drops Despite New Record Birth Rate

French Fleet At Alexandria Joining Battle With Allies   Nine Warships Gained In Voluntary Move To Frenchy. Ready For Service In Six Months

French Fleet Voluntarily Joins Allies   Will Be Ready for Service in Battle Within Six Months

WLB Official to Speak Here  Wace Stahilieatar   Wage Stabilization to Be Discussed

NVESTIGATION OF VICE HIT BY FERGUSON   Auditor Accuses Attorney General of Extravagance In Probe

RESTORES NAVAL RANK   Roosevelt Nominates Four -Captains for Commodores

REIFSNIDER ADVANCED   Westminster Naval Officer Is Made  * Mine mmnd nen

PUPILS BUY $404 MORE WAR BONDS   Crary School and Tenth Grade Are This Week’s   Leaders

DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY   Traffic Halted Along Boun= dry Between Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece.   NERVOUSNESS MOUNTING

TURKS AND NAZIS READY FOR BATTLE   Both Countries Have Troop: ~ On Opposite Sides of  Border

Troops Moved to Turkish Border  Traffic From   Traffic From Bulqaria Halted

TURKS AND NAZIS MASS ON BORDER   Internal Disturbances in Bulgaria Increase

Tension Grows With Reports Of Allied Plan  For Invasion   Possibility of German Drive for Dardanelles Also Hinted

Invasion Fear Mounts In Balkans   State Of Emergency Declared Along Entire Boundary

Turkish and 'Nazi:Troops Square Off   Forces Reported Stationed Along Border; “a State Of Emergency”

GERMANY AND TURKEY HAVE BORDER ARMY   Traffic Halted; Tension Exists Among Troops

[URKO-BULGAR FRONTIER HAS CLOSED, CLAIN   Balkans Showdown Coming in Matter of Months, However, Rather Than in Few Days.

REPORT STATE OF EMERGENCY ON TURK BOUNDARY   TENSION MOUNTS OVER POSSIBILITY OF ALLIED INVASION

Turks and  Nazis Move * Troops to . Frontiers   ‘Armies Lined Up Along Bor. der Facing Buigaria and Greece   “TENSION MOUNTS IN THE BALKANS   ,Sperulgtion on Invasion ® Thrusts Continues; Crowds Cheer Turkish President

GERMANS ALSO SET UP FORCES   State Of Emergency Is Declared Along Entire Boundary   INONU LIKES F. D. R.

Nips Lose Chansteh   ... China Saves Rice Bowl And U. S. Navy Thumps Jap Force

‘Tension Grows in  Balkans   Reports Germans May Strike for European Side of Bosphorus

Tension Increases li Balkans Because 0 Possible Invasion  B; Allied Troops

TROOPS STATIONED ALONG BOTH SIDES TURKISH BORDEF   A State of Emergency Has Been Declared Along the Entire Boundary.   ALL TRAFFIC HALTED   Measure Ordered as Nervousness Over a Possible Allied Invasion Mounted.

TURKEY AND GERMAN) LINE UP TROOPS ON TURKISH BORDERS  NERVOUSNESS OVER POSSIBLE INVASION REPORTED MOUNTING

Both Sides Set To Act In Emergency   Germany, Turkey Said To Be Bolstering Forces In Tense Expectation.

Allied Move In Balkans Is Expected   State Of Emergency In Uneasy Sector; Report Traffic Halted: Foe  Wew Trw Inwasian

IMPOSE STATE OF EMERGENCY ALONG BORDER   Possible Allied Drive Into Balkans Keeps Axis Nervous

Stationed -Along Opposite Sides of Turkish Border: Facing Bulgaria 8 and  - Greece: 0:   N ERVOUSNESS. OVER? INVASION. MOU cTS      German- Thrust Into :European Turkey- In Order4o:  Reach Vital: Dardan:: elles Held-Probablé ;

Turkey And Germany Man  Turk Border   State of Emergency Has Been Declared Along Entire Boundary

Hear German. Turk Troops Are Massed   State of Emergency  Proclaimed Along Border Facing Turkey

Turkish Border is Alive With German and Turkish Troops   All Traffic is Halted Along Entire Boundary; Emergency

Turks, Germans Massing Troops Along Frontier   Balkans Ablaze Over Possibility Of Invasion

Mass Troops On Frontier   German and Turkish Forces Ready Along Bulgaria and Greece

Swiss Dispatches Declare Measures Due To Nervousness Of Invasion Threat

Turkish and Nazi Troops Rushed to (Guard Boundaries   Bulgarian and Grecian Barders Are Lined With Soldiers From Two Nations; ‘Situation Is Tense, Report Says

Border Closed; Allied Blow In Balkans Near   Rioting Is Reported In Sofia; Inounu Returns To Ankara Wednesday

State Of Emergency Declared On Entire Boundary As Both Germany And Turkey Station Troops In Area   . Measures Are Ordered As Nervousness Over Possible Allied Invasion Of Balkans Mounis; German Attack On Frirnnean Trirleay Je Can od

Border of Bulgaria Closed Amid Talk Of Axis ‘Surprise’   Demonstrators Stage March in Sofia; Papen Tries to Obtain Inonu Pledge Not te Grant Dardanelles to Aliies

Nazis Get Set To Meet Allied Drive   State of Emergency Declared; All Traffic Is Halted

Borderline Is Tense   Turkish and German — Troops Lined Up Along Bulgarian Boundary

Declare Crisis; Tension Mounts   FOREIGN MINISTER MENEMENCIOGLU SAYS TALKS BROUGHT TURKEY CLOSER TO ALLIED CAMP, BUT AVOIDS WAR PARTICIPATION HINT

State of Emergency Declared, Report; All Traffic Halted   Some Berliners Believe Talk of Balkan Invasion Feint To Cover Other Allied Moves

THE BLUE OVERFLOWS   Damage in Croplands Predicted by Weather Observer

Enemy Meets Grief In Thrust at British Italy Line  Eighth Army Thwarts Nazi Maneuver,

British Beat Off German  Counter-Blow   Rainfall Decreases Bul Battleground Remains Sea.of Vid

NAZIS ATTACK EIGHTH ARMY   British Reported To Have Repulsed Germans in TwoHour Battle.

‘SHARP ATTACK BY GERMANS LAUNCHED ON ITALIAN FRONT   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY BEATS NAZIS BACK AFTEI HEAVY FIGHTING

British Smash German Attack   Eighth Army Continues Advance In Rugged Italian Mountains.

British Beat Off Germans   JER NBUE LIARS  Nazis Launch Sharp Counterattack Against Bielheh Aweenw I limes

British Defeat Sharp Attack By Big Nazi Force   Italian Battlefront Still Sea Of Mud;  Nazis Burn Towns

NAZI COUNTERATTACK ON BRITISH BEATEN   Other Eighth Army Units Chase Enemy from More High Ground Overlooking Alfedena

8th Army Beats Off — Strong Nazi Attack   Gritieh Troops Gain More High Ground Overlooking Alfe-. dena: Battlefront Still Sea Of Mud

British Blast Nazi Assault:   Allied Forees Make New “Gains In Italy With  Strong Opposition

British Beat Back Strong Nazi Attack   Yanks Wipe Out Machine-Gun Pos

Nazi Attacks Beaten Back In Italy   Germans Say British Start Offensive Along Adriatic

STRONG GERMAN COUNTER-BLOW IS BEATEN BACK   Nazis Repulsed Northwest Of Agnone In Italy After Two Hours Of Hard Fighting By Eighth  rmy.

Sharp German Counterattack Beaten Back By Eighth Army After Fierce 2-Hour Battle   British Score New Inland Victories, In Gaining Additional High Gidiwd

Strong German Counterattack Is Beaten Off   Eighth Army Repulses Drive; Weather Is Slowing Attack

3th Army Halts Counter-Attack  By Nazi Troops   German Machinegun Nest Wiped Out By Americans Without Loss To Yanks

8th Beats Off Nazi Attack Near Agnone   Yanks Make Slight Gair But Rain Prevents Most Operations :.~

GERMANS REPULSED   Counterattack...on- -EighthArmy at Agnone Beaten ~ Back in Two Hours

BRITISH BEAT BACK A HEAVY NAZI ATTACK   Thrust Made at Eighth Army Lines Near Agnone, but Is Repulsed in Two Hours of Fighting __Rain Lessens.

GERMAN THRUST FAILS IN ITALY   British Eighth Army Turns Back Counter-Attock North of Agnone

British Eighth Army Beats Back Strong German Counter Attacks Near Agnone; United States Troops Wipe Out Machine Gun Position.

Enemy Meets Grief In Thrust at British Italy Line  Eighth Army Thwarts Nazi Maneuver, Makece New Advance:

éth Army Beats Off Nazi Attack Sth $ Still Fighting In Sea Of Mud

BRITISH REPEL SHARP GERMAN ATTACK IN ITALY   Fifth Army Patrols Smash Nazi Gun Nest Without Loss

Nazis Launch Counter-Atfack   VUGHIUE ALIGUAR  - British Eighth Army Back Assaults  Narthwact af Ananana

BRITISH REPEL NAZI ATTACK IN SHARP FIGHTING   Germans Repo ri Montgomery Launching Attack ‘With Strong Forces’ North of Sanaro   LESS RAIN FALLS   American Forces Wipe Out German Machinegun Position Northwest of Montaquila

British Fend Off Counter ~ Near Agnone   ‘Mud and Water Prohibit _ Any Extensive Land Activity

Enemy Assault Beaten Back By 8th Army   Counterattack Launched By German Force Near Agnone is Repulsea

Strong German Counterattack Hits British 8th   Montgomery Beats Back Attack, Gains Mountain: Position

8TH ARMY BEATS OFF SHARP NAZI COUNTER-ATTACK   CHASE ENEMY FROM MORE HIGH GROUND ON ITALIAN FRONT

In Central Area   American Troops Wipe Out Enemy Machine Gun Nests

<thofes CRRA COUNTER ATTACK   ‘British After Two Hours of Battling Beat Back - Stiff Nazi Assault Northwest of  : See ee

British Beat Back Sh a rp Counterattack   sth «=Ariny Beats - Off Strong German Force Near Agnone. and Chases Enemy From More High Ground.

BRITISH 6TH ARMY! REPELS WAZI ATTACK      Little Activity Noted On U. S. Army’s Front

Brifish Beat Back - Attack   Heavy Attack in Italy Turned Back After Hard Fight

BRITISH BEAT GERMANS BACK      Nazi Counterattack Re. pulsed After Two Hours Of Fighting   STILL SEA OF MUD

TAX DISPUTE NOT SOLVED   HOUSE AND SENATE CONFEREES STILL UNABLE TO AGREE ON PAY-Asi.  YOuU-GO S¥8TEM .

Italians Aren't Eager to Fight  Nazi Forces Offer Most Resistance

12,000 Taken As Prisoners   Resistance Crumbles Before Allied Trooos

12,000 GERMAN, ITALIAN PRISONERS. TAKEN BY ALLIES IN FIRST DAYS OF SICILY INVASION

RUDISILL IS ON SCHOOL BOARD   Cherryville Man Named Member Of New Unified State Board Of Educae tion; Others Listed.

Stacy Named To ' New Unified Stat Education Board   Named For Two-Year  Term As Member For  Fth District.

Troop Movement Job Equals 81 World Trips for Every Person in Bear Lake County

‘HENDERSON DENIES HUSH MONEY CASE   Voluntary Payments’ Acceptance Explained Following Herter Charge

G.0. P. DELEGATES AT CONFERENCE FEEL CERTAIN PARTY WILL WIN ’44 ELECTION

AKRON OPPOSED. TO TIME CHANGE   Most Other Ohio. Cities Will Follow Legisla  ture’s Action

AKRON IS OPPOSED TO CHANGE OF TIME   Mayor Says Clocks Won't Be Turned Back

CLAIMS AKRON WILL REMAIN ON PRESENT TIME   Mayor Determined To Keep His City in Tune with Nation

PATROLS FIGHT IN JUNGLE NEAR SALAMAUA BASE   Renewal of Important Land Fighting for Jap Point Indicated

PATROLS CLASH IN NEW GUINEE   Fighting 12 Miles Below Salamaua, in Green Hilis Of Mubo.

RENEW FIGHTING IN NEW GUINEA   ALLIED PATROLS CLASH WITH JAPS BELOW SALAMAUA

NEW FIGHTING EXPECTED ON NEW GUINEA   Jungle Trails Astir With Jap-Allied Clashes

New Guinea ~ Battle Now Picking Up   Possible Prelude to the Fighting Which Dropped Off in January

GROUND CLASHES PRESAGE BATTLE IN NEW GUINEA   Skirmishes Along Jungle Trail May Be Prelude to Renewal of Land Fighting  . Near Salamaua

Long Quiet Land Front Is Astir In New Guinea      Resumption Of Clashes With Japs Portend  Tipvelanments.

LAND FIGHTING SCALE BOOSTED IN NEW GUINEA   Allied and Jap Patrols Clashing On Trails In Jungle, Prelude to Bigger Battles   AIRMEN ACTIVE      Bombings Shatter Enemy's Bases, Disrupt Supply Lines by Sea; Many  _ otis Siptoes Susie

Renewal Of Allied Effort To Smash Japanese Forecast; ‘Rabaul Hit Anew

MINOR CLASHES IN NEW GUINEA ARE ANNOUNCED   Renewal! Of Island Campaign Believed Near By Yanks

New Guinea Land Fighting Stirs Long Dormant Front Hits Development

Axis Launches Propaganda Campaign for Peace; Warns Of Europe ‘Bolshevization’

mnirwet* T2788 Ph Bea Tee ere   Axis berates communism; hint possibility of peace

Reeling Axis Launches Drive 7 Of Propaganda At Red Menace   Attempt To Force A Wedge Between United Nations — Say Anglo-Saxons Would Do ‘Well "*Make Peace .

Italians Like United States   Greet Mention of Axis Leaders With Jeers

BRICKER PRESENTS ’43 BUDGET TOLEGISLATORS, MAY WIPE OUT $41,570,000 TREASURY SURPLUS

End of State’s  Surplus Seen   Budget Anticipates Drop in Revenue

BUDGET PLANS MAY WIPE OUT STATE SURPLUS   $41,570,000 Balance Ti Offset Revenue Decrease

BAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM PARLEY   Two representatives will demand investigation  of meeting

Congressmen Out At Food Conference   Two Say They Will Demand An Investigation

Raid Is Declared Biggest Staged on Reich Capital   Air Ministry Reports City, Once the Best Defended in Germany, Put Up Light Defense Barrage: Only One Bomber Is Lost

Raid Is Declared biggest Staged  on Reich Capital   Air Ministry Reports City, Once the Best Defended in Germany, Put Up Light Defense Barrage; Only One Bomber Is Lost   R.A. Kk Bombers Turned Large Area of Berlin Into Particularly Hot Corner of Hell, American  Newsman Who Accompanied the Raiders Reports

APPEAL FOR ~~ FARM HELP   OHIO COMMITTEE AND GOVERNOR ASK ALL WHO KNOW + FARMING TO WORK SPARE. TIME.

BIG JAP CONVOY BEING BATTERED BY U.S. BOMBERS   [New Guinea Forces of Planes Plaster Ships Continnally.

ALLIED. PLANES. IN NEW GUINEA. AREA POUND JAP CONVOY   MacArthur's © € - Communique Annaunces ; ‘Sinking Of Two Big Transports

Allies Pound Remnants of Jan Convoy   Two Enemy Troop Transports Sunk, ° ‘Third Damaged

Allies Hammer At Remnants of Japanese Convoy   Two Big Troop ‘Transports Are ~Reported—Sunk

JAPS ARE ISOLATED IN AREAS   Planes from All Over New Guinea Aid in Final Blasting Operations.

Jap Convey Is Being Hammered  By Allied Flyers   Remnant Of Convoy In New Guinea Area Is Being Pounded   HEAVY LOSSES BEING INFLICTED

2 transports Sunk, . 3d Hit; Thousands Of Jap Troops Die   Battle, Opened Wednesday Off New. Guine: Continuing; Umbrella of Zeros Riddled, With 27 Planes Damaged

ORIENTALS MASS. MEN AND VESSELS FOR AN OFFENSIVE   Guadalcanal Island, N ow. Held By Army arnt Matines, Is Possible ‘Scene of Another: Baitte.   DUPLICATION OF RE- . CENT FIGHT POSSIBLE   Enemy Bases In Solomons And Aleutians Are Bombed, Results of Attack Are fot Revealed.

GUINEA PLANES HARRY FOE; SINK TRANSPORTS   One Big Jap Ship Loaded With Troops Sunk

Allied Air Units Hammer the Large Jap Convoy Which Is Trying to Reach New Guinea

ALLIED PLANES SINK TWO SHIPS OF JAP CONVOY   Thousands Of Enemy Troops Destroyed—27 Planes Downed

JAP INVASION CONVOY HIT; 2 SHIPS: SUNK   Allied Planes Hammer Remnants Of Fleet After Ferocious 24-Hour Fight   PAPUAN BASE SURROUNDED   15,000 Nip Troops Wiped Out, 539 Planes Destroyed In 6-Month Battle

Third Transport. Crippled by Bomb   . 4-Hour Fight Rages Off Guinea;  Desnerate Enemy Offensive Waited

NAMEN BLAST FLEEING UNITS FOR THIRD DAY   Enemy Craft, Scattered After Four Ships Sunk or Damaged.   BiG TRANSPORT ‘BROKEN. iN TWO: WITH BOMBS

Transports Sunk, Gther  . Losses Told   FINAL. NIP STRONGHOLD TY PAPUAN. GUINEA SURROUNDED.

ALLIES RAKE JAP CONVOY   Four enemy vessels sunk in sea-air battle off New Guinea

Thousands of Nips Die As Allied ‘Planes Bomb Convoy  THIRD VESSEL IS HIT     New Guinea's Buna Is Taken With 15,000 Japs Wiped Out

JAP CONVOY BLASTED BY ALLIED RAID   ‘Two Big Troop Trans ports Sunk In  Air Attack

CONVOY OFF NEW GUINEA ATTACKED   Battle Continues; Thousands of Jap Troops Destroyed

Ames Man Is A Candidate  For President   Is Head of Organization Devoted to International Rehabilitation

PRESIDENTIAL RACE CONSIDERED IN OHIO   lowan Asks for Papers for Seeking Nomination

AMES GROCER SERIOUS, SAYS   Asks Secretary of State for Proper Application Papers For Filing For U. 8. President,

49 LICENSES 10 BE USED THROUGH “44   Wisconsin Drivers Will Re: ceive 44 Insert Tag for Rear Plate.

‘RED’ SOLD OUT, KERR ALLEGES   Governor Charges Phillips Betrayed Party by Accepting $5,000 Gift

NEW TYPE U. S.  BOMBERS USED   More Formidable B-17 Flying Fortresses Operating With Fichth Air Force

BIG BOMBERS. — _ MORE DEADLY   CHANGES IN FLYING FORTHESSES PROVIDE GREATER BOMB LOAD AND MORE  + FIREPOWER

}} Tale Of A Sergeant And A Soldier  Pair Brave German Snipers’ Bullets  To Search For Four Missing Buddies

Alleged Slayer Falls in Well He Planned as Victims’ Grave   Amos Latshaw Killed, Sheriff Says, Disposing Of Bodies After Shooting Members of Family

Nazi Raiders Kill 12 by Hitting English Theater  Rescue Teams Work As Bombers Fly In Brief Attack

Counsel Pleads For Acquittal   Says Witnesses Against DeMarigny “‘Liars’’

Says Youthful Chiefs Block War Effort   House Committee Discovers Lack of Experience and Tact

‘Inexperienced Youngsters’  Blamed For War Bottleneck   Congressional Probe Charges They Won’ - Take Advice And Lacking In Tact

YOUTHS HOLDING UP WAR EFFORT, CRITICS REPORT   Congressional Committee Flays “Inexperienced Youngsters” for Forming Bottleneck

YOUNGSTERS Ih TOP GOV'T WAR JOBS ASSAILED   Demo Whip Says Inexperienced Executives Are Bottleneck

Starry Eyed New Dealers With Cash Only Motive Bungling War Effort

COMMITTEE FINDS YOUTHS HOLD KEY GOV'T POSITIONS   CHARGE MANY TOP MEN IN WASHINGTON LACK EXPERIENCE

Lack ‘Experience And Tact’ “Youthful Executives’ Blasted As ‘Bottleneck’ ToWar Effort

Inexperienced Young Personnel Heads Branded Real Bottleneck To War Effort

Congress’ Probers Hit Inexperienced Youngsters on Jobs   Say Their Occupancy of High Places Makes ‘Real Bottleneck’

Washington Is A Dream World Of Bureaucracy   Fancy Titles And Not _ Ability, Experience,  Are Yardstick

WAR EFFORTS HAMPERED bY JOR BUILDERS   Congress Probe Charges Boy Executives “Bottleneck” in Washington.

REDS DESTROY TANKS, TRUGKS   Concentration In Forest : ‘ Wiped Out

Nazi Concentration of Tanks Destroyed hy Reds   Russian Forces Surround and Destroy With Artillery Fire Many Tanks, Trucks

RAWSON FORCED OUT AS ARGENTINE PRESIDENT   After 28 Stormy Hours as: President; Pedro Ramirez in Command.

General Ramirez Forms New Revolutionary Government   Serves as President, Army, Navy Officers Fill All Posts. General Rawson Ousted

FDR PLANS T0 SETTLE RAIL WAGE DISPUTE   Overtime Proposal to Boost Earnings of Operating Employes May Be Answer.   BULLETIN

VINSON MAY Lt AUTHORITY VER RAILROAD WAGES   House ICC Committee Postpones Final Action On Vote Until Jan. 10

Governors Meet Hear Message From President   State Executives Told of Critical Times for Nation

Is Opportunity To Be De-— ve _ nied, To The’ orker. ‘       Geo. T. Hatley Replies To » New Deal Critic’. of  s Life

Is Opportunity To Be Denied To The Worker So The re Lazy Can’ Loaf In’ Comforts   Geo. T. Hatley Replies To __ ~ New Deal Critic’ of  His Life

Half Dozen Conferences On ‘Post-War Problems Likely —   President Says Plans Are Already Under Way For Discussion Of Food Preduction

Problems Of Post-War To Be Discussed   Perhaps Half Dozen Conferences May be Called to Consider Questions  RELIEF IS FOREMOST

Several United Nations Conferences May Be Held To Consider Post-War Problems, Says FR

Allies Are Preparing For Post-War Problem Parleys   Tax Abatement Compromise Looms

Roosevelt’s Postwar Aid Plans Afoot   President Indicates Sev. eral Allied Conferences : Are to Be Held

F.D.R. Sees Many Conferences Called On Post-War Plans   Meeting on Food Problem Already Being Arronaed

ROOSEVELT SAYS UNITED NATIONS 10 CONFER POST-WAR  PLANS FOR CONFERENCE. ON FOOD PRODUCTION

Half Dozen Conferences May be Called to Consider Various Phases of Postwar Problems.

Plan Parleys on Post-War Aims  Roosevelt Indicates Conferences Due

Several Conferences On . Eeonomics And Finance Ineluded In. Prasram

FOR SEES MANY POSTWAR PARLEYS   Conferences Necessary To Consider Various Phases, He Says

Will Conduct United Nations Conferences   Food Problem To Be One Of Post-War Questions Studied At Meetings, Asserts Roosevelt

Allies To Hold Post-War Planning Conferences, Roosevelt Discloses

Conferences On Post-War Plans Ahead   Food Parley To Be First For United Nations

F. R: ARRANGE FOR POST-WAR FOOD SESSIONS   Other Discussions by United Nations Will Be Undertaken Later

United Nations to consider various problems, says FDR   Half dozen conferences may be called. president declares

U. S. Invites Allies  To Food Conference   Plans Being Made To Feed Starving Populations After War. President Roosevelt Saves

ALLIED POST-WAR PARLEYS PLANNED   President: Discloses Preparation for Conferences on Food Production, Relief

United Nations To Hold  Peace Conferences Soon   At Least Half A Dozen Parleys To Be Held To Discuss Post-War Planning

HALF A DOZEN CONFERENCES MAY BECALLEI   Plans. Already Underway For Meeting: On Food Production and Distri . bution After Conflict   DENIES BEING COOL TO SENATE PROPOSAL   Says He Has Endorsed Broad Principles; Eden Plea Spurs Sponsors © ' to Greater Action

CONFERENCE OF NATIONS ON FOOD SOOK   President Reveals That Half - Dozen Separate Meetings May Be Held.   EDEN SAYS ALLIES SHOULD BE UNITED   Briton Says United Nation Should Join in Peace Planning.

SEVERAL UNITED NATIONS MEETS MAY BE CALLED   Would Consider Various Phases Of Post-War Problems

PUSTWAR TALK SERIES LOOMS   F. R. HINTS SEVERAL CONFERENCES WEIGHED

AILDAY BILL OENT AL 10 FLOOR OF HOUSE IN   NT ALLIED CONFERENCE: SE IN AMERICA PLANE!   Phases Of Postwar Problems Will Be Considered

POST- WAR PROBLEMS MAY BRING ABOUT  MANY CONFERENCES OF UNITED NATIONS

Food Parley To Be Called   President Roosevelt Announces Plans Are Made for Conference

FOOD OUTPUT TALKS CALLED AMONG ALLIES   3ther Conferences Expected To Deal With Economics . and Finance.   EDEN ASKS FRAMEWORK   Nants U. S., Britain, Russia and China To Establish Collective Sariurity

Gas Rations Of 8 Auto Drivers Are Revoked   One Is Penalized 90 Days For Pleasure Driving; More Cases Thursday Night

Revoke Gas Rations Of 7 Motorists  OPA Panel Orders Range Up To Sixty   Days: 14 Dismissals

Goodland To Ask Surtax — Be Retained   He'll Seek Revenues If Tax Collections Are Short Of Wisconsin Postwar Needs

Goodland Has Open Mind On Surtax Issue   Re-Enactment May Not Be Demanded ‘In Case Income Tax Returns Mect Expectations

TWO-THIRDS OF CAPTIVES ARE GERMANS   That Is Gratifying to Alexander, Who Characterizes Victory as One of the Most Complete in Historv.

Axis Debacle In Tunisia Complete; Prisoner Total May Reach 175,000, Headed By Von Arnim.

Republican ~ Council Is  Under Fire   Members Differ Over the Value of Its Work—Belief's of Its Members

ANNOUNCE QUOTA PLYMOUTH COUNTY RED CROSS DRIVE   Effort Will Be Made To Raise $13,000 The Last Of This Month

Red Cross Drive In Plymouth County To Be Launched Later This Month   Plymouth County Quota Is About $13,000 For This Drive

HE'S A MAN'S MAN   Gen. Eisenhower Respected as Poker Player, Too

GREAT WAVES OF BOMBERS HIT REICH   Attack Follows Attacks On Naples And Nuernberg

ASSAULT NAZI SUB, INDUSTRIAL PLANT SECTORS   Royal Air Force Attacks U Boat Equipment Factory at Nuernberg

Big Bombers  Strike Again  Over Germeny Yankees Take Up   ‘Where RAF Leaves  OOEE Thseactecce Nieche

WAVES OF PLANES STRIKE AT REICH   American Atiack Follows Smashing Blow by RAF at Nuernberg

AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK NORTHWEST GERMANY TODAY   Correspondents From U. S. Accompanied Air Force For First Time  On Raid

U, 5. BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON N. W. GERMAN)   German Radio Tells of High Altitude Attack. R.A.F. Busy Last Night at Nuernberg.

Nuernberg Raided Last Night; U. S. Bombers Staging Assault Today

Reich Attacked By Strong Force Of U. S. Bomber:   Four-Motored Planes Roa: Over Country to Locate  U-Boat Plants.   Follows RAF Attack On Diesel Motor Co.

U.S. Bombers In Heavy Raids On North Germany   Sub Nests Damaged; Industrial Cit y Blasted Today By  Americans

New Assault Follows RAF  Night Attack   Nuernberg Factories Hard Hit

American Four-Motored  Bombers Attack Germany  Wave After Wave Bombs U-Boat Building and Industrial Taraets

WAVES OF HUGE "AIRCRAFT ROAR OVER GERMANY   Today’s Attack Follows Closely on Heels of Big Raid by RAF

NAZISBOMBED NIGHT AND DAY   Americans Fl; ly. Over in - Strong’ Force After R.A.F. Night Attack.

Air Raids On Germany Again   . S. BOMBERS ATTACK NAZI CITIES IN FORCE

American Bombers Carry Out Powerful Daylight Assault On U-Boat Targets In Reich

WAVE OF BOMBERS ATTACK GERMANY   ALLIED AIRMEN HIT HARD AT NURENBURG DURING THE NIGHT

YANK BOMBERS SMASH GERMANY IN DAYLIGHT RAID   U-Boat Yards Are Targets Of Attack Made Few Hours After RAF Returns

Follow Up Heavy RAF Raids Last Night On Nuernberg, U-Boat Engine Center  AMERICAN DAYLIGHT ATTACK HELD HEAVY  Both Assaults Strike At Heart of Submarine Menace; Germany Admits Attacks Forceful      AMERICAN DAYLIGHT ATTACK HELD HEAVY

‘Fortresses’ Blast Again at U-Boat Nests   Follow Nocturnal RAF Blow at Nurenherg, Raid on Nanles

Swedes Say They Will Support Their Government’s Halting Nazi Transport

ONE BOY SURVIVES FIRE IN MANSION   Parents, Brother and Sister Die in Flames

FLAMES CAUSE FOUR DEATHS   Air Lines Director and Family Are Victims

Four Perish  In House Fire   9-Year-Old Boy Only Survivor of Air  Lines Officer's Family

Washington Says Commanders Are Mapping Big Blow   Air Attacks on Enemy Continue in North and South

1U. S. Reported On Verge Of Powerful  Pacific Offensive   (Current Joull Seen as In dication of  Prepara tions for Land and Nawal Blows.

Prepare for New Allied  Offensive   Allied Planes Blast Jap Bases Above Australia; Navy May Strike Deeper into Solomons

BLAST JAP BASES   American Fliers Preparing _ for Further Attacks on Enemy

Navy May Strike Anewin Solomons   Japanese Bases, 1,700 Miles Apart, Are Attacked by MacArthur’s Flyers; Japs and Reds Sign Fishing Pact While Yanks Visit Kiska for 25th Time in Month

SPECULATE POINTS WHICH MAY BE STRUCK   Munda or Bougainville Island Area May be Invasion Point for Thrust by the Allies.

Lull Suggests Organization  Of Offenive   MacArthur’s Bombers  Blast Japanese Bases

Le‘-up In Fighting In Pacific May Indicate U.S. Offensive Planned

WORLD POLICE PLAN WILL G0 BEFORE SENATE   Bi-Partisan Group Seeks To Commit U. §. To PostWar Policy   EDEN AND HULL CONFER   Other Nations Wonder If Future Administrations Will Give Support

RED ARMIES DRIVING ON   ‘Germany’s Entire Eastern  Line Threatened With  Collapse

Belgorod Freed, Orel Shattered  Double Victory Will Bring ‘Death to Naz

Reds Smash On - Retreating Foe   PUSH CONTINUES AFTER CAPTURE OF OREL, AND BELGOROD

Bryansk Next Red Objective In Offensive   Great Summer Drive Sends Nazi Armie: Reeling; Kharkov Menaced

Reds Menace Entire  Nazi Eastern Front   Lines Threatened With Collapse as Soviets Roll Through Gaps Made by Capture of Orel and Belgorod—Kharkev in Danger.

Red Forces Rolling Thru Gaps Made by Capture of Orel and Belgorod   BRYANSK, KHARKOV  SEEN AS NEW GOALS  ;   Less Than 45 Miles From Latter Objective; Moscow In Holiday Mood Over Victories

CAPTURE OF OREL, BELGORAD BY RUSSIANS IN GREAT BATTLE TEARS BIG GAP INNAZILINES   Kharkov Now Menaccd by Russians Who Also Are Headed for Bryansk.—Moscow In Holiday Mood Over Twin Victories

Russi Attacks oan Nazis’ e Eront Line  J tS ay Smashes Through Gaps Mc  ot anmtiupra alk Heal andl Ralaarad tn

Red Armies Roll  Over German Lines   Collapse of Nazi Eastern Front in Russia Threatened as Result of Summer Offensive

Nazis Retreat After Two Key Bastions Fall   Stalin Hails Twin Victories As Proof Of Soviet Power

Beloorod-Orel Victories Spur Soviet Advance   Entire German Line In South Russia Is Now Threatened With Collapse   RUSSIAN FORCES SMASHING AHEAD

UKRAINE CENTER LIKELY GOAL OF SOVIET LEGIONS   LONG GERMAN LINE MENACED BY FALL OF OREL, BELGOROD

Belgorod Is Captured by Red Armies   Germany's Entire Eastern Front Is Threatened with Collapse; Americans Rip into Enemy Defenses along North Coast of Sicily; 8th Army Races Up East Coast

Soviet Drive On More Nazi Bases   New Russian Summer Offensive Threatens Entire German Lire   ROLL THRU THE GAPS   Thrusts From Orel and Bel gorod Meet Bitter  Opposition

FALL OF OREL, BELGOROD MAY MENAGE LINES   Soviets Rush Ahead with Power, Heading fer Bryansk, Kharkov.   MOSCOW IN HOLIDAY MOOD OVER SUCCESSES

GERMAN TROOPS HURLED BACK IN SURPRISE DRIVE   Belgorod Taken After Capture Of Orel

BELGOROD FALLS. IN SOVIET DRIVE   . Hitler’s Armies In Diffi. cult Positions At Kharkov, Kupiansk   MOSCOW JUBILANT   Enemy Methodically Demolished Orel Before Entry By Russians

Elated Stalin Lauds Army   Germans May Lose Ukraine Grain Fields

OREL-BELGOROD ROUT CONTINUES TOWARD UKRAINE   German Losses May Exceed 200,500, According to Moscow

Jab at Germans Who Flee From Crippled Cities   Triumphant Russian Armies Exploit Victories at Orel and Belgorod.   German Unit Cut Off At Belgorod Garrison

SOVIETS PURSUE ENEMY FORCES, IN FULL FLIGHT   Germany's Entire Eastern Front Totters As Reds Follow Up Gains

REDS PUSH ON FROM OREL AND BELGOROD   Threaten Entire German Line in South Russia

SOVIETS PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS. TAKE BELGOROD   Russian Air Force Blasts Germans in Retreat From Orel

Great Summer Retreat Of Germans Following Red Army Capture Of Orel and Belgorod Attended by Withering  ~ Fire. Russians Continuing Advance.

Bryansk And Kharkov Are New Objectives As Result Of Fall Of Orel And Belgorod

NAZI EASTERN FRONT WAVER   Red Army Rolls Through New Gaps After Orel, Belgorod Capture

Moscow Celebrates Fall — Of Belgorod and Orel   Russians Pursue Retreating Germans With Punishing Blows, Shoot Down 62 Plane —Brisk Fighting in Donets

Orel, Belgorod Double Victory Puts Moscow. ein Rare Holiday Mood

Soviet Offensive Engulfs Belgorod As Germans Flee   Bryansk And Kharkov Threatened By Russia’ First Great Summer Drive; Moscow In Holiday Mood

Red Offensive _ Takes Belgorod   Crushing Soviet Force Turns from Orel tc Belgorod, 165 Miles to the South, to Send Nazi Hordes Reeling Back into Ukraine

Belgorod Freed, Orel Shattered  Double Victory Will Bring ‘‘Death to Naz Invaders”, Says Stalin

NAZIS REELING BACKWARD ON SOVIET FRONT   Double Victory Pries Loose Both Orel and Belgorod In Stunning Drive of Russians   MANY PLANES DOWNED

Reds Rolling Through Gaps   Belgorod Captured, Bryansk and Kharkov Next

Nazis Fleeing Onslauaht Of Soviet Troons   Loss Of Belgorod, Orel Sharp Blow To German Strength

Kharkov and Bryansk New Reds’ Goals   German Forces Reeling Back; Orel, Belgorod Falls to Reds

Red Army Rolls Through Gaps Opened By Capture Of Belgorod, Orel.

German Forces Reel Backward On Russ Front   Stalin Hails Belgorod, Orel Victories In Special Broadeast.   300.000 RED LOSSES

Belgorod Falls; Nazis Flee From Orel Area   Double Victory Pries Loose Two Of Key German Strongholds And Is.Hailed By Premier Stalin In Special Broadcast.

Belgorod Also Taken as Reds  Press Forward   Kharkov Salient Reported In Extreme Danger of Encirclement

RUSSIAN DRIVE ROUTS NAZIS IN DOUBLE VICTORY   Belgorod Captured in Surprise Attack After Orel Taken In Bloody Battle

Kharkov, Bryansk Imperiled; Moscow, in Gala Mood, Fetes Victories at Orel, Belgorod

GERMAN LINES COLLAPSING ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Red Armies Smash Westward From Captured Orel And Occupied Belgorod   STALIN LAUDS TROOPS   Bryansk Is New Objective As Enemy Counterattacks Are Frustrated

Double Victory Hailed By Stalin As Dispelling Legend of Germany That Soviet Troops Are Unable To Wage Successful Offensive In Summer Time.

BELGOROD, ORELNOWIN SOVIET HANDS   Germans Lose Most Important Bases On Central Front

Nazis’ Entire Eastern. Front Is Threatened   Reds Appear Headed for Kharkov,Less Than 45 Miles From Captured Belgorod   BRYANSK ALSO A NEW-OBJECTIVE   Great Russian Victory Puts Moscow in-Holiday Mood For First Time

Battle East Of Tripoli Looms As Germans Dig In   _Rommel's Men Reported Fortifying Zem-Zem; Tunis Is Bomb Target

Allied Bombers Increase Blows In North Africa  ATOICA BACRITETRA

Major Clash Seen At Wadi Zem-Zem   British Radio Indicates Germans Digging In For 8th Army   Six Allied Bombers.  Missing in Tunisia   British Units Make Daring Sortie 20 Miles luside

TUNIS RAILROAD YARDS ARE BOMBEL   DOCKS BLASTED, FIRES SET— BIRLIN PREDICTS ATTACK ON ROMMEL.

NAZIS EXPECT BRITISH ATTACK ON ROMMEL   Germans Abandon Wadi Bei El Chebir Without Fight But May Defend Point 40 Miles West —

AXIS ARMIES IN LIBYA MAY PUT UP FIGH   MAIN BATTLE FOR TUNISIA DUE TO START SOON

Allies Strike Air  Blows At Tunisian Supply Lines; Axis Awaits Main Clash

Heavy Attack For Forces Of  Rommel Near   Such Is Belief In a Broadeast  By Berlin Radio

BEI EL CHEBIR IS ABANDONED WITHOUT FIGHT   German Broadcast Fails To Give Details As To Troop Positions.

BRITISH PLAN LIBYAN ATTAGK BERLIN CLAIMS   Says Eighth Army “Obvi. ously Intends to Make Fair Large Assault   on Rommel”   NAZIS DIGGING IN   Believed Preparing To Make Stand About Forty Miles West of Bei El Chebir

Drive on Rommel! Expected  In Near Future  Allied Planes Get Busy and Raid Tunis Port

Brifish Ready For New Strike At Rommel  Position Without a Finht: Fire Dacke

Heavy Attack  On Rommel’s  Army Is Seer   Prediction Comes From Axis Sources; Docks, Rail Yards Assaulted Rw Rambherc At Tuni«

 INTERESTING LETTERS FROM ARMY BOYS TELLING MUCH ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES

MURRAY AGAIN TELLS MEN TO STAY ON JOBS   More Union Steel Contracts Will Expire Next Week -

Murray Orders Workers To Stay Qn Their Jobs   Instructs Men Te Continue Work During Negotiations For New Contracts.

Ask Workers Stay On Jobs   Murray Urges Steelworkers To Carry On While Contracts Negotiated,

CLARA BOYER LAST MEMBER OF HEA FAMILY   Atlanta Resident Clerked in Tipton Store for Many Years.   FUNERAL IS TUESDAY   Aged Woman Had Been in lll Health and Shut in for Long Time.

CLARA BOYER LAST MEMBER. ~OEHER FAMIL   Atlanta Resident Clerked iv Tipton Store for Many ‘Years..:   FUNERAL: IS’ TUESDAY   Aged Woman Had ‘Been in ill Health.and Shut in - for Long Time. ~

HERSHEY ASKED ARMY’S VIEW   Assert Draft Of 3-A’s Will Hurt industry

BLACK MARKET SELLING MEAT   Wildcat Slaughtering Cuts Down Receipts of Chicago Firms

Hog Prices Go  Up 5-15 Cents   Chicago ‘Quotations Soar Amid Growing Reports ‘Of Black Markei.

BLACK MARKET PUTS MEAT UP   Hog Prices Reach High Level Allegedly Due To Secret Trade

DANISH RUCKUS NOT TO CHANGE INVASION PLAN   Scale Of Operations Too Immense For Such Incidents To Interfere To Major -Extent

1943 LEAVE JAN.21   Brookfield Will Supply Sixteen of The Total Contingent of 59 Youths   MARCELINE HAS: 14

FIRST CONTINGENT OF SOLDIERS FOR 1943 LEAVE JAN. 21   Brookfield Will Supply Sixteen of The Total Contingent of 59 Youths   MARCELINE HAS 14

Court Hears Final Pleas In Oakes Case  Higgs Tells Nassau Jury Faked Fingerprint Was Offered by Police  HITS CROWN STORY  Defense Lawyer Insists de Marigny Returned Home After Pariy

Defense Counsel Addresses Jury  Seeks to Establish Fingerprint Was Faked

Higgs Flays Fingerprints In Argument   Appeals To Jury To Free De Marigny Of Murder. Charge: -

GOUNGEL ASKS ACQUITTAL FOR FRENCH COUNT   Defense Attorney Tells Jury to Forget Prejudice in — Their Verdict,

NEW RATIONS AND ‘POINTS INTO EFFECT      Coupons Now Needed tor Meat, Cheese, Butter and Lard—Canned Goods Values Revised, Some Up, Some Down.

Meats and Fats Are Now Under Program——Points on Many Food Items Changed

Belt Tightening Hits Home As Meat Is Rationed; Fruit, Vegetable Coupons Revised   Some OF ‘Values’ Are Reduced, Some Are increased; Few Items Dropped

Meat Supply Per Person Limited to 16 Red “A” Stamp Points for Week.  RAISINS, PRUNES  NEED NO POINTS

Meat Costs Points Today   WARTIME BELT-TIGHTENING HITS ALL AMERICAN IMPORTANT FOOD ITEMS

Bright Side And Dark Side Of Ration Picture... .  Belt- Tightening Hits Home In Reality Today

Belt-Tightening Really Begins As Meat. Butter Hit   2 Pounds Of Meat This Week Okay; If You Don’t Get Butter. Lard   NEW VALUE USED  Costs On Vegetables, Fruits, Changed; Restaurants A re Unchanged

HOUSEWIFE FACES "NEW PROBLEMS   Meat Rationing New Poin Values on Canned Goods Go Into Effect

BELT-TIGHTENING OF AMERICANS STARTED IN FARNEST MONDAY   CHANGED COUPON VALUES ON PROCESSED FRUIT: AND VEGETABLES ALSO

MEAT RATIONING BEGINS; POINT PALUES CHANGE   @ried Fruits Off Ration List; Beans, Peaches Go Up

16-Point Meat Ration Starts Today in U. S.      Americans Pull Belt Tighter as Rationing ‘Piles Up; Many Items Released

Belt Tightens Over U.S. With Ration Rules   Meat, Butter on Points— New Values for Canned Goods

America Tightens Belt as Wartime Restrictions Put On Half of Menu

First Day Of Meat Rationing   Butter and Other Foods Previously “Frozen” Available Again; New Point Value List Out

New Coupon Values Also Announced For Dehydrated Foods, Juices and Others

MEAT AND BUTTER RATIONING STARTS OVER NATION TODAY   Wartime Belt-Tightening Really Hits United States Homes; Now Takes Points To Buy; Fruit And Vegetable Rations Revised.

Another Phase Of Rationing Is Started Today   Coupons Needed To Buy Meat, Butter and Lard and Adjustment on Other Items Is Made.

Meat Rationing Starts; Feed Points Changed  OPA Acts To Boost Sales Of Some ~ — Canned Goods

: Nation Again Tightens Belts For Meat Rationing;  -New Coupon Costs On Processed Foods Announced   Planning Tough

Rationing Of Meat Starts;  Yankees Must Tighten Belts   (The official table of point values for processed foods appears on page 6.)

Rationing of Meat, Butter And Allied Products Starts: Fruit, Vegetables Revised

New Point Values For Numerous Items Of Canned Foods Also Announced By OPA

Home Front Tightens Up Belt; Ration Points for Canned Goods Revised

SOLDIERS CONCERNED ABOUT POST-WAR JOBS   Mrs. Roosevelt Says She IWeard No Complaints From Men In Pacific War Theater

SEIZE ISLAND ONLY 12 MILES FROM THE CITY   Italian Patriots Harassing Retreating Germans   ARMY PENETRATES 13 MILES INLAND   Salerno Battle About Over Except For Rear-Guard Action

‘We Open Up Pockets’ Tank Drivers Say [As They Travel Country Mule Would Like

American Light Tanks Doing Big Things in Sicily   Travel Almost Impassable Roads and Defeat Axis Forces

PACKERS FINED   Two Meat Firms Assessed §13,000 Far Vialatian«e.

AIICHEN HELPER HELD ON MURDER   New Development in the WAC Cpl. Ridings Murder Case.

ATH OF JULY PROGRAM IS COMPLETED   Chanute Soldiers to Be Featured at Celebration Julv 5

Enemy Broadcast Tacit Admits That Organize Jap Resistance Hay Ended In Solomon Sector.

 Nazi Officer Gives i Self Up, Says Hitler.  Has No Chance to Win

Germans Weaken In Battered Gomel   Floods, Mud Stymie Allied Armies In Italy; Rumor Il Duce Kills Self

Sections of Nazi Capita Wiped Out   Bombing Compared to Th Weakens in Russia  of Hamburg—Resistance

U. S. Losses in Air Said Due to Weather   Airmen Inflict Great Damage to Japs

Allied Warplane Losses  At Darwin Due to Severe Weather, Not Jap Power

Allies Tell Of Loss In Darwin Raid   Report Says Japs Suffered Most In Actual Air Combat.

DECLARES WAR DEPARTMENT UNDER PURGE   Designed to lop off dead lumber in civilian, military personnel

Choice Of Marshall As Global Chief Indicates Invasion Near   Hour For Storming Hitler’s European Fortress Approaching With Express Train Speed And Japan Cannot Be Far Behind. .

Selection of Gen. Marshall Indicates Big Offensive Soon   History-Making Assignment Expectec To Be Announced

Coordinate Actions Ot All Forees   Nomination Of Marshall For Supreme Command Indicates Hour Of Big Drive Is Near

DRIVE AGAINST CONTINENT IS EXPECTED SOON   Churchill, FDR May Name Marshall Commander At Any Time

Marshall To Lead Armies Against Nazi   Hitler’s Day Near at Hand With Reported Naming Of Commander-in-Chief

Invasion Speec Is Linked To Marshall Job   British Give Favorable Comment On Choice A: Global Commander   HELPS COORDINATION   Formal Announcement Is Expected Soon, Climax To Flareup Of Debate

HITLER EUROPE TOBE STORMED   Nomination ‘of Marshall As Global Commander Exnected Soon.   1NO COMMENT IN BRITAIN

INVASION IS IMMINENT   Choice of Marshall to Head Anglo-U, 8, Command Acceptable —

Pick Marshal as Supreme  Allied Chief   Nomination Spurs Talk of Invasion into Hitler’s Fortress Await British Approval

Gen. Marshall Named Head Of All The Allied Armies   Indicates Hour Of Storming Europe Is Near; Appointment Major Quebec Result

SELECTION 10 BE ANNOUNCED SOON, IS BELIEF   Attack on Hitler’s Fort:  ress Approaches With Speed

OBSERVERS SAY MARSHALL T0 HEAD BIG PUSH   Time for European Invasion Approaching ~ Rapidly

INVASION HOUR IS BELIEVED NEAR AT HAND   Announcement Of Appointment Expected Shortly: Roosevelt, Churchill In Full Agreement

MARSHALL AS ALLIED HEAD WOULD FIGHT   His Appointment as Supreme War Leader Points to Cyclonic  Battles   INVASION PROMISED

Storming Of Europe Near, Belief In U.S.   Selection Of Marshall As Allied Commander Stirs Speculation On Heavv Blows Ahead

Invasion Hour Speeds Nearer   Choice of Marshall For Supreme Command Is Hint

NEW MOVES GIVE IMPETUS TO BELIEF HOUR FOR STORMING HITLER’S EUROPE NOT FAR OFF

YANK GENERAL MAY COMMAND ALL-OUT ATTACK   Gen. George C. Marshall Is Reported in Line for Supreme Command   DEVELOPMENTS ARE FAST   Cross-channel Assault Is Expected To Be Launched And Balkans Attacked

Marshall to be Commander Of All British-U. S. Forces   U. S. Chief of Staff Disclosed’ as:Choice for Pos! of World-Wide Responsibility—Brings European Invasion Nearer ;

ALLIES NAME MARSHALL AS ~ WORLD CHIEF   U.S. General Slated To Be 3 Named Supreme Head Of U.S., British Troops

HOUR CLOSE FOR AWAITED SECOND FRONT   Approval Must Be Made By London  Government

GEN. GEORGE (. MARSHALL NOMINTED FOR SUPREME COMMANDER OF ALL BRITISH:AND AMERICAN TROOPS   Fairly Obvious That, Time For Storming Hitler’s Europe Is Fast Approaching. Jap’s Day of Reckoning Cannot Be For Behind

Hour for Storming Hitler Fortress Approaching With Express Train Speed

MARSHALL TO HEAD ALLIES WORLD STAFT   London‘s Formal Approval On U. S. General's Appointment Awaited

Nearness of Invasion Hinted by the Choice of Marshall as Global Chief

Choice Of Marshall For Head Of World Command  Hints Invasion Is Near

Marshall Post Seen As Signal Invasion Near   Global Commander’s Selection Termed Sure Siegen

Hour To Storm Hitler’s Land Expected Soon   Announcement Of Marshall’s Nomination Makes Invasion Obvious.   AWAIT LONDON’S WORD

CHIEF OF STAFF TO LEAD FINAL BLOW AT NAZI   Nomination for Commander of All British and U. S, Troops Revealed.   DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR NOW MOVING RAPIDLY

TO STORM EUROPE   Marshall’s Nomination to Command Taken to Mean Hour Is Near

MARSHALL ROLE HELD EVIDENCE BLITZ AT HAND   YANK NOMINATED TO COMMAND ALLIES IN ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE

Pressure Brough Upon Finland for Separate Peace   Departure of American Diplomats Alarms Helsinki

Considerable Part of Personnel Removing to Stockholm  FINNS CONCERNED OVER WITHDRAWAL  Strict Censorship Clamped on Political Dispatches

U. §. Heads Leave Finland, May ssompet Alliance  Action Is Believed  Effort to Stop  Aidto Nazt Army

U.S. WITHDRAWS 6 LEGATION STAFF AIDS FROM FINLAND   Move Regarded as Attempt by Washington to Force Helsinki to Make Separate Peace.   ACTION MAY LEAD TO DIPLOMATIC BREAK   Charge McClintock Remains Behind as Others, With Families, Go by Plane to Stockholm.

Break With Finns Looms “As Some Members Of US ‘Legation Leave Helsinki’

U. S. LEGATION QUITS FINLAND   Staff Goes To Sweder In ‘War Of Nerves’ Gesture

American Staff Leaves Helsinki  arate Finnish Peace Wanid Affert Italy

War Of Nerves Opened With  ShowdownNear   America Trying To Force Finns To ... Leave Axis

Considerable Part of Personnel Removing to Stockho{m——      FINNS CONCERNED OVER WITHDRAWAL   Strict Censorship Clamped on Political Dis mabehoc

Most of U.S. Legation in Finland Moved  Action Seen as Part of Effort to Sever Relations With Nazi«c

ONLY CHARGE DAFFAIRES 18 LEFT BEHIND   Move Is Seen As Beginning Of War Of Nerves Upon Finnish People.

"War of Nerves’ Thought Started to Force Finns to Abandon Axis and Seek Peace; U.S. Legation Staff Leaves Helsinki

U. S. Officials Leave Finland  a ao, 2 pan ear   Move May Herald War of Nerves

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U.S. Conquest of Guadalcanal Upset Jap Invasion Plan Says Vandersrift

iGeneral Terms Guadalcanal  Vital to Nippon   Americans Have Firm Hold on Strategic Island

PROGRESS MADE ON PAY-GO TAX   Sentiment In House Favors Forgiveness Up To Half Of *42 Levy

‘Real Progress’ Declared Made On Pay-Go Tax   ‘Forgiveness’ of 40 Pct. Of Levy Indicated In New BU

PROGRESS SEEN IN TAX BATTLE   Partial Forgiveness Plans Appear To Be Gaining

Yankees Again Move Forward on Wide Pacific Zone  Troops Near Munda Air Base; Airmen Achieve Good Scores

Munda Siege  Lines Tighten   300 to 1.200-Yard Gain Ranwmenal he (ft Avie

FIVE GOVERNORS IN CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON   Interstate Agreement For Recruiting Farm Labor  Is Discussed

GOVERNORS CONFER ON LABOR PROBLEM   Five State Agreement {s Considered for Recruit. ing Workers

JAPS FALLING BACK BEFORE ALLIED BLOWS   Salamaua Nips Wiped Out; Artillery, Planes Exchange Blows

ALLIES WITHIN MILE OF LAE’S MAIN AIPFIELD   Japs Facing Rout As Yanks And Aussies Press For Final Kill

ENEMY FORCES FACE PROBABLE ANNIHILATION   Foe Completely Routed in Salamaua ss Area

NIPPOS FACE DOOM AT LAE   GUNS DUEL AS ALLIES CLOSE GUINEA PINCERS

JAPO RETREAT BEFORE ALLIES   Allied Pincer Forces Driving Japs to Annihilation at Lae.

JAP FORCES NEAR LAE ALLING BACK; FACE ANNIHILATION   Allied Pincer Movement, Hinged on Two Sides of Big’ Air Base Closing on Nips 

JAPANESE FALL BACK TODAY IN AMERICAN PUSH   Allied Forces Onl One Mile From Lae Air Bas-

Artillery, Planes _ Exchanging Blows; Nip Annihilation At Base Assured

FACING ANNIHILATION AT LAE, JAPANESE FALL BACK BEFORE PINCER FORCES OF ALLIES

Japs Annihilated In Salamaua Drive   Enemy at Lae Now Face Similar Fate As Allies Relentlessly Press Fight

ALLIED FORCES TIGHTEN TRAP ON LAR AIRBASE   Japanese Falling Back As Yanks-Aussies Move On Vital Field In New Guinea Area

Jap Retreat Continuing; Lae Fall Nea   Shettered Selameue Gerrison Seing Driven late Austretion Trap

PINCER FORCES CLOSING ON JAP LAE GARRISON   Enemy Faced wih Annihilation Falls Back On Two Sides Of Air Base   IMPORTANT TOWN SEIZED   Damaging Blow Delivered By Allied Bombers Against Wewak Position

Japs Falling Back at Lae   Alhes Pincers Striking From Two Sides of Field

Allied Pincers Close On Japs   MacARTHUR’S MEN SHU TRAP ON PACIFIC BASE

JAPANESE FALL BACK AS ALLIES DRAW IN PINCER   Enemy Facing Ag-uhilation At Lae; Bitter Fighting Expected  Eight Miles From  Town.

Se —  Enemy Falling Back Before Allied Pincer Forces From Prepared Positions On Two Sides of Great Air Base; Struggle  Intensified.

NEW GUINEA JAPS  STILL FACED WITH  FUEL ANNIHILATION ENEMY HOLDING LAE  AIR BASE FALL BACK BEFORE ALLIES

Japanese Falling Back In Lae Area  Artillery And Planes Exchange Blows

Japs Fall Back At Lae And Face Full Annihilation   Artillery Exchanges Become Heavy

JAPS NOW AT LAE IN DEATH TRAP   Yanks and Aussies Close Ir As Nips Take to Jungles In Scattered Bands

Japanese Ai Lae Retreat To Avoid Being Wipned Out   Allied Pincers Close In On Big Air Base

Japanese Force At Lae Faces Extermination   Enemy Falls Back Before Allied Pincer Forces

Lifting Of Mortgage On Old Family Home Will Be Very Popular This Year

Mortgages Being Lifted At Fast Rate   Bankers Say Survey Shows 15 Per Cent Retiring This Year

FILM STAR IN ISOLATION CELL   Frances Farmer Taken to  - Jail in ‘Jacket’

ACTRESS STILL FUMING   Frances Farmer Starts 180-Day Sentence In Jail

Allies Take Sbeitla, Push Ahead On Tunisian Fronts   German Offensive In Africa Slows Down; Nazis Pay Heavy Price For Gains   NAPLES, BERLIN, HEAVILY RAIDED   Russians Open Another Major Offensive In North; Timoshenko Returns As Chief

Americans Reported in  Vanguard Allied Force As Sbeitla Recaptured

Allies Take Back Rommel's Gains: Reds Lash Again   Yankee Fliers Raid Naples Anew As Buddies Help Recover Shaitle

Hailed as Preparation For Invasion of Europe   American and British Troops Advance Slowly in Tunisia, While Russians Resume Offensive in Frozen North.

Great Fires, Visible 180 Miles Away, Rage After British Airmen Depart; Berlin Officials Admit Heavy Damage; American and British Troops Continue Advance  in Tunisia; New Russian Offensive Continues. RY Toc LECNPIATEN perce

Great Damage Inflicted On  Berlin By RAF   US Raiders Blast Naples; Reds Open Another Offensive; Allied Ground Forces in Central Tunisia March Ahead

900 Tons Devastate Capital Of Germany in Mighty RAF Raid    U.N. Advance In Central Tunisia; Launch Counter-Drive In North;  ; Nazis Admit Red Army Success

BIGGEST RAID ON CAPITAL BY RAF REPORTED   Twice as Many Bombs As Nazis Used in London Raids

Naples Also ~ ~ Hit By Yank War Flyers   Around Clock Hammering Kept Up By Allies On Axis Bases

Hit By Yank War ‘Flyer   Around Clock Hammett ing Kept Up By Allied On Axis Bases :

BERLIN SUFFERS WORST BOMBING OF WAR; NAPLES AND MARETH LINE BLASTED   All Axis Attacks Repulsed and Allies. Move Forward in Tunisia; Germans Admit Capitol Suffered in Latest Assault; Russians in New Attack,

R. A. F. in Greatest Raid On Nazi Capital   Allies Halt Germans In Northern Tunisia, Retake Sbeitla And Feriana In Central Sector; Powerful New Russian Offensive Cracks Hitler’s Defenses Northwest Of Moscow.

Drivers Accept Skip- -a-Day Milk Delivery   Trouble in New York Is Ended as Union Agrees  To Follow ODT Order

SENATE GIVEN PATTON GASE   COMMITTEE.GOES INTO SECRET SESSION TO DISCUSS. REPORT FROM EISEN * FOWER -

Rationing Of Liquor Here For Duration   Chairman Makes Assertion After Announcing Extention Plan   PUBLIC 18 SATISFIED

Will. Continue Whisky Ration  Experimental Stage   Outgrown, Says Head QVE fantrnl Raard

Food Conferees Let Newsmen Attend Some of Sessions  Chairman Refuses Demand of Congress Members

TEMPERS RISE AT PARLEY 10 GIVE OUT FOOD   Press Gets Grudging Admittance to Big Allied Confab

Food Parley Ban  Riles Congressmer   Talk of Asking for  An Investigation

RESTRICTIONS ON PRESS EASED AT FOOD PARLEY   Visiting Congressmen Blasted By Chairman  Jones

Trees Estate Goes To Wife and Son   Oil Man's Wealth Said Over $100,000

VANDEGRIFT GOES UP ANOTHER NOTCH   Marine Officer Second to Get Lieutenant General Ranking

Two Persons Die in Gales   Washington and Oregor Communities Suffer Extensive Damage

STATE REGENT TO VISIT D, A. R. SATURDAY   Speakers Will Feature Clos. ing Meeting at Penn Well Hotel.

STATE OFFICERS —  ‘70 BE HERE      Saturday To Attend June Meeting Of The D.A.R.

RELAXATION OF TIRE BEGULA TIONS ALSO ANNOUNCED IN CONNECTION WITH  TRANSPORT SYSTEM

EQUIPMENT OF BUS, TROLLEY LINES FROZEN   ODT Action Taken To Stabilize Present Service For Public Carriers   TIRE RATIONS RELAXED   Better Grade Casings Made Available For B And C Ration Book Holders

 ODT Has Frozen Street Cars, Buses and :  Ferries in Present Service for Duration 

STREET CARS AND BUSSES FROZEN IN PRESENT SERVICE   Ferryboats Also Affected by Eastman Order, Designed to Stabilize Transportation Picture.

Ordnance Chief Will Present ‘E’ To Whiting Corp.   Ceremony Will Be Held Tuesday Afternoon at Local Plant

Restaurant Prices May Be Frozen Or Reduced to Last Fall's Levels

RESTAURANT PRICE FREEZING STUDIED   Many Protests Against High Costs Being Received

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Action Against Japanese Designed To Win Back Orient Oil Supplies

Interpreting he War   Tunisian Campaign To Free Bases For Heavy Attack

Dam’s Part In Floods Told In Washington   Purpose Argued But Both Sides Agree Dam Itself Couldn’t Cut Floed Crests

FLOOD CONTROL QUESTION LAID BEFORE SOLONS   Whether Grand River Dam Has Dual Purpose Confronts Lawmakers

U. S. Soldiers Tell How Easy It Is to Capture Italians   Medical Corps Man Gets Be yond Own Lines, Takes Five; One Unhurt When Grenade Hits

Make Night Raid   Lanky Kentucky Private Proves So Tough He Shakes Off Italian Percussion Grenade, Then Knocks Out Machine-Gun Nest

NAZIS BATTLE DESPERATELY AT KHARKOV   Fierce Fighting Also Raging North and Northwest of City

Kharkov Escape Route Of Germans  By Rail Cut Off   Nazis Now Battle Desperately Against Advancing Russian Troops   RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER BRYANSK

FIGHTING RAGES IN ITALY WHERE ADVANCES SLOW   Yanks Smash Jap Resistance On Arawe on New Britain As Air War Intensified

oth, oth Armies Advanee   Foe Fighting Fiercely On Italy's Warfronts

Soviets Crack Nazi Defenses BeforeVitebsk   First Baltic Army -Pouring Through Breach; Americans Lose 21 Heavy - Bombere. Daectray 28 German Planes

sri dapaimael BOMBERS AND:        Western Germany and Northern France Heav‘ty Attacked Without Loss Say London Reports. Nazi “Rocket Gun Coast’? Object of Attacks

AIR WAR CONTINUES ON HITLER'S EUROPE AS BOMBERS ATTACK  SOFTEN NAZI INSTALLA TIONS, EMPLACEMENTS THREATENING ENGLAND

ROCKET GUNS TARGETS FOR THEIR BOMBS   Daylight Raid Follows Night Attacks. Reveal Some of Heavy Damage Done in Berlin

Moscow Says Main German  Line Cracks   8th Army Continues Third Day in Battle at Ortona, 5th Captures Mt. Cavallo

Russians Crack German Defenses Before Vitebsk         Western Nazi Targets, Northern France Hit by RAF, Yank Forces; _ Allied Gain in Italy

CIVILIANS ASKED TO BOYCOTT BLACK . MARKET MEAT SELLERS   Practice Threatens . Nation’s Meat ‘Supply And Armed Forces

BUYERS URGED TO BOYCOTT ILLEGAL MEAT   Head of Packing Firm Says Such Action Is the First Step Toward Stamping Out Threat to  . War Food Program.

BLACK MARKETS IN MEAT SERIOUS   Packer Urges Consumers to Refuse to Buy Offerings.   HOGS IN MARKET - BELOW. ESTIMATES

Packer Urges Boycott Upon Illegal Meats   Black Markets Causing Extremely Serious Situation In Country   ACTION !S NECESSARY

Civilians Asked To Boycott Meat "Black Markets’   Government Steps To Halt Sales May Follow

SUNDAY EVENING WEDDING AT THE LUTHERAN CHURCH   When Miss Helen Rose Bruns Re. came the Bride Of James Jolly —Rev, Niedner Officiatine.

THINK LORIENT BASE CRIPPLED   Observers Estimate German Sub Base Reduced 75 Per Cent Bv Bombings.

USE OF LORIENT CUT 75 PCT, IN BOMBINGS   Nazis Are Believed Building New Base At Marseille

GOP POST-WAR PLANS ARE BEING DRAFTED   Organizations To Be Set Up in 40 States Soon

DISTRICT CVI - COURT TO OPEN         12 Cases-Docketed For — Drial: Before Judge". is Higgins. ‘

‘TWELVE. CASES DOCKETED ~*~ ‘TO BE HEARD AND. DISPOSED ‘ OF IN FOUR DAY TERM. ©

U. S. FORCES DIG IN TODAY AT SENED AS AXIS TAKE. STAND   Allies Suffer Setback  In . Battle For Faid Pass— --» Great Battle May © ' -Develon

Yanks Hamme Axis Positions  ‘At Faid Pass   Decisive Battle For Tunisia Expected In Neor Future

ALLIED Thal AGAINGT AID Pago 19 FAILURE   Americans Unable To Throw German Tunisian Forces From Strong Posts

Report Rommel r Ready to Make Stand   ‘Deploys Army To Oppose — British Forces

American Forces Dig in at Sened      Fail to Rout Nazis From Fe:d Pass

ALLIES ADMIT SETBACK AT ~ FAID PASS   Romme! Reported Preparitig for Mareth Line Stand

Americans Dig In To Retain. Ground   Powerful German Force Halts. U. 8. Drive—Rommel Appar entl Seeks Battle

REPORT NAZIS LEAVING KIEV TO AVOID THAP   Russians Extend Bridgehead “on West Bank to Stop ‘German Shells.   ‘RED ARMY SAYS NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLING

“O0DY BATTL 5 RAGING ON KIEV FRONT   120,000 Russians Cross Dnieper at Three Points

§ RAGING ON KIEV FRONT   120,000 Russians Cross Dnieper at Three Points

120,000 STORM ‘ACROSS DNIEPER AT KIEV SECTOR   Nazi Guns Beyond Range of River; Ukraine Line ‘Crumbling

HARD FIGHTING BLAZES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Sf ts From Allied :’ Headquarters Concede  . Struggle Rivals Battle  F For Gallipoli   BRITISH MAKE GAINS   BY ROGER GREENE  Associated Press War Wditar

WARM AND DRY! MONTH   ' Month of February Was Not Nor4. mal; No Zero Weather Occurred

ACTIVITIES PLANNED BY LEGION AUXILIARS   Reports Are Heard And Program Enjoyed At Meeting Of Harold H. Bair Post Unit

OOO NAZIS I DONETS BASIN   Fierce New German Atteniptsto Smash Red Lines Fail

Soviets Curb Fierce New Nazi Attack   Germans Lose 1,000 Men and Much Equipment in Fight

NAZIS FAIL IN NEW: ATTACKS AGAINST REDS    Heart 3 Battalions Of Motorized Infantry And 20 Tanks Into Red Lines South Of  Izvum.   700 Germans Killed

NAZI ATTEMPTS TO CRACK RED LINES BEATEN   Three Battalions Of German Troops Repulsed South Of Izyum   124 ENEMY PLANES REPORTED DESTROYED

Fierce Fighting Breaks Out Again in’ Russia: New Offensives Expected

NAZI ATTEMPTS TO CRACK REDS’ DEFENSE FAIL   Germans Suffer ‘“Tremendous Losses” Below Khar kov, Report Says

REDS BREAK NAZI ATTACKS ALONG DONETS   Russian Midnight Communi. que Says Regiment Of In. fantry, 15 Tanks And Guns Are Smasheds.   Down 8 Nazi Planes

Soviets Repel Donets Attack  Reds Kill 1,000 Germans In Defense Bande

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED   Fierce Attempts Made To Crack Defenses On  Donets Line

Germans Suffer Big ‘Losses in New ‘Attacks by Reds   Violent Outbreak Is  Grievous ta For:

SOVIETS BLUNT NAZIS DRIVES   Red Communique Describes Work of Woman Aviators

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Reds Repel New Donets Attacks   Invaders Suffer Big Losses in Heavy Fighting on Front

Soviets Crush — Donets Thrust   Stepped-Up Air Activity By Reds Revealed

Reds Repulse Nazi Attacks on Donets   1,000 German Troops Killed as Enemy Tries  to Crack Russian Lines South of Isyum

20TH CENTURY LEAVES TRACKS NEAR SYRACUSE   Three Members Of Train Crew Die When Locomotive Boiler Explodes   FEW PASSENGERS INJURED.   Authorities Launch Probe Of Accident To New York Central Flyer

ONLY THREE REPORTED DEAD IN WRECK ‘FOLLOWING BOILER EXPLOSION OF 20TH CENTURY

~ BLASTKILLS 3   20th Century Limited Wrecked  oe cetera  Seven of 173 Passen-

MORE CASH PURCHASES BEING ’ MADE, RESERVE BOARD FINDS   Americans, With More Money to Spend, Buying Less on Credit and Using Surplus Funds to Pav Off Old Debts

TWO BRITONS ARE NAMED TOP OFFICERS   Naval and Air Commanders Chosen as Eisenhower Aides   INVASION TEAM IS NEARLY PERFECTED   Admiral Ramsay and Marshal Leigh-Mallory Selected

BRITONS NAMED INVASION AIDES   Ramsay, Lehigh - Mallory To Direct Naval,  Air Forces

Appointment of Two Britons Completes Invasion Staff   Selections Announced by Churchill’s Office; U.S., British Plans Drawn Closely Together; Line up of Second Front Command Given

Leigh-Mallory and Ramsay  named aides to Eisenhower   Top command team for invasion of Htler’s fortress is now completed

Invasion Posts         Rameay, Lehigh- Mallory +: Named to Commands

GRAVE THREAT 10 BRIDGE ACAD 5 OVERCOME   Allied Line Consclidated Again And Nazi Momentum Has Spent Itself In Section South Of Naples   STRENGTHEN ANGLO. AMERICAN FORCES

907 LOST IN SINKING OF BRITISH CARRIER   Sixty-EKight Officers Among Thosa@ to Perish in Torpedoing Off North Africa.

FARM DRAFT BILL UP TO VOTE   Senate Heads Final Ac tion; Sponsors  Confident

Vote. Nearing On Deferment   Senate ‘Taking Action On - Bankhead. Bill To Aid" Farin - Situation

VOTE NEARS ON BANKHEAD BIL!   Measure Would Halt Drafting Of Farm Workers Into Armed Forces

Reds Claim 28  German Planes   Very Little Land Fighting On Front

DOVER STRAITS. FIRED ACROSS   Believed. At tack or Enemy Shipping

3-Day Shutdown Seen As Victory For John L. Lewis   Government operation of hard, soft coal mines looms as possibility for duration of the war

‘TRUCE ENDS’ “CRISIS OVER. PAY DISPUTE   LEWIS REPORTED PROMISED CONTRACT GUARANTEE OF SIX DAYS WORK WEEKLY: FOR MINERS   By ROBERT C. McCORMICK  nternational News Service  Mevoe FAlince

Two Things Stand Out In Controversy   Government May Operate for Duration; Lewis May  Have Won

 Yisut Of Youths To Airfields To Feature Independence  2   Day Here: Mest Businesses T'9 Close. Fireipnykee Tahaan

Visit Of Youths To Aurtields To Feature Independence Day Here: Most Businesses T o Close, Fireworks Taboo

STATE SENATE OK"S IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN TIME   Bill up To Increase Taxes on Cigarets, Bottled Liquor

COOLER BREEZES IN      Showers Bring Relief From Midsummer Temperatures

Thrill When’: Yankees Meet   Drama Jn Janetion’ Of Tungle Forces,

YANKEES MARK FINAL VICTORY ON ISLANDS   Handshake and Cheer in Jungle Battlefield Are Tokens of Triumph

Only 2 Votes Separate 2 Mer   Justice Ballots Go T: Canvassets Today. :

2 VOTE MARGIN  IN COURT RACH   Boyles Retains Seat on Suppreme Court Bench Over Chandler.

JUSTICES ARE ONLY TWO VOTES APART   State Board of Canvassers Get Official Tabulation of Spring Election

BIG LIBERATOR BOMBERS JOIN AFRICAN FORCE   Blast Bastia, Corsican Escape Port for Germans, and Leghorn in Small-Scale Dunkirk   U. S. RANGERS AID   French and Corsican Patriots Drive Nazis to Beaches and into Bomberf Attacks

LIBERATORS HIT FOE ON CORSICA   Germans Attacked As They Try to Flee From Key Island

Murderers Pin» .      Await—Governor’s—Aetion. “After ‘Clemency: Pleas; “Exeention Dates’. Neai

Sforza Returning Home From Exile   Former Italian Foreign Minister Departs for Sicily After Parley

‘apture Italian Town of Castlfrentano      . % Cees eS) a es i Brit.

QUICK ACTION ON NEW TAX URGED   Senate Finance Chairman Says General Revision Is Necessary

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PLANE PLANT LABOR PROBE UNDER WAY   Baruch Tells of Survey of Reported Manpower “Shortage   STUDY BEING MADE OF DRAFT EFFECTS   Airplane Manufacturers Express Concern Over Losses of Workers

MAN SHORTAGE SLOWS PLANTS   Survey Is Being Made Of Aircraft Problems; Workers Deferred  On West Coast

Plane Plant Manpower Survey On   Seeks to Solve Indus try's Difficulty in Getting Workers

AIRGRAFT WORKERS MAY BE DEFERREL      Manager Says Its Choice of “Planes or Soldiers”

Plane Industry's Manpower Studied  Bernard Baruch Say: Suirvay tladar Way

Plane Production Lag Alarms OWM   Byrnes Says Survey ls Well under Way

LABOR NEEDS   Fear That Airplane Goals May Not Be Reached is Cause of Probe

'Government Checks Labor ‘Shortages Said Hampering [Plane Production Increase

OWM Heads Worker Survey  Labor Shortavce Venaece<   Labor Shortage Menaces Plane Outnuit Goals

‘'HUSBAND OF FORMER LOCAL  GIRL REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION IN SOUTH PACIFIC

Operators’ Dissension ‘May Snarl Coal Parley   Coal Men Divided on Portal Pay Isaue; Near Normal Production Being Resumed

Dissension Among Coal Operators Now Threatens Bargaining Talks   Near Normal Production Resumed Today As* Miners Return To Pits; Speedy Enactment Of Anti-Strike Legislation Demanded.

Coal Field Operators In Dispute   Yhreaten to Handieap Negotiations Wh Afiners

COAL OUTPUT IS RESUMED BY TRUCE   See. Speedy  Action I Congress

Negotiations for Wage Contract May Be Postponed By Action But Some Ap manr Hanefil.

OPERATORS TIEUP COAL WAGE PARLEY   While Northern and Southern Factions Wrangle, Production Resumes in Mines

Coal Agreement Threatened By Mine Operators   Dissention Occur: Among Owners As Workers Return

DISSENSION ARISES — AMONG OPERATORS AF SAFT COAL MINES   Southerners Hold Out for Referee’s Ruling by the WLB   NEGOTIATIONS MENACED

18. Q00 State Miners Still Refuse To Work   Union Officials Hopeful Of Getting Men Back Into Mines Within Next Few Days

MOST ALABAMA ‘MINES REMAIN STRIKE-BOUNL   Approximately 18,000 0  State's: 22,000 Miners  Remain Away From Operations

KRUPA ARRESTED   Charged With Permitting Boy To Transnort Marihuana.

Question at Issue is Whether We Are For Inflation He Insists  ONLY "RED HERRING"

Oil Shortage in Two Years Seen   Allen Warns of Situation Unless Action Is Taken

Enemy Puts More Planes Tn Air Over  Lower Italy   Concentrations Of Fighters Battle U.S. Planes Making New And Heavy Attacks

VITAL RAILROKD TARGETS BOMEL   Newly-Massed Enemy Fighters Put Up Fierce Resistance   21 SHOT DOWN     Germans Declare Minor  British Landing Attempt Repelled

AIRDROME AND RAIL AREAS IN ITALY ATTACKED   British And American Planes Strike Hard ear Rome And Naples; 21 Enemy Planes Downed;  Nazis Strike At Sicily.

Bitter Conflict Over Italy   Newly-Massed Axis Planes Battle Allied Raiders

Fighters Rise To Challenge Allies  Air Battle Rages Over Italian Mainland

FIGHTER PLANES ENGAGE FLYERS QVER MAINLAND   21 Axis Craft Shot Down In New Assaults

Axis Stiffen Air Defenses  Rittor Finhte Reaci!   Bitter Fights Result From Allied Attack

Airfields And Rail Yards In Italy Bombed   Bitterest Contest of Air War on "Toe" Object of U. S. Warplanes

New Enemy Fighters in Italy’s Sky   Opposition Is Noticeably Stronger in Night anc Day Actions

Air Combats Over Italy  Disclose Foe Reinforced   At Least 37 Jap Planes Drop In  _ — st ia

Marauders, Lightnings In Bitterest Fight With Axis Planes Over Italy

YANK BOMBERS BATTLE ENEMY FIGHTER FORCE   Axis Loses 17 Planes in Scrap With Allies Near Italian Coast

AERIALBATTLE WON BY ALLIES, AXISLOSSES 11   Enemy Fighters Increase ~ Opposition Over Ttaly; Flying. Forts Smack Viterbo Airfield

Axis Renews Plane Strength in Italy   Allied Bombers Meet Strong Opposition

Bitter Fight In Air Lanes Over Italy   New Concentration of Axis Fighters Battles U. 8. Raiders

Avis Battles U. 5. Air Biow Near Naples   75 Planes Fight Raiders In Great Running Combat 100 Miles Out To Sea   HiT OTHER TARGETS   Germans Mass Fighters, Meet Incoming Yanks; Lose 17 Craft

AXIO RESIGTS AERIAL BLOWS   New Concentrations of Enemy Fighters Battle Allies Over Italy.   YANKS ATTACK AIRFIELD

Nazi And Italian. Fighters Battle American Planes   Bombers : Blast. RR. Yards  Despite “Attack By 75 Planes; Running Fight

Axis Fighters Seek To Check Raids On Italy   New Concentration O!  Foe Planes Attack Allied Fliers

Nazis Increase Fighter Planes To Guard Italy   Italian Assaults « Meet Heaviest Opposition Yet

Allies Lose 15 Planes, Axis 21   German and Italian Pianes Jump Allied Fleets Over Italy.

NEWLY MASSED ENEMY FIGHTERS IN ITALY ATTACK U. S. PLANES   Axis Formation of Fighters Lose 17 Planes  In Fweoacemant

AXIS AIR POWER GROWS IN ITALY   ALLIED FLIERS ARE CHALLENGED BY FOE IN BITTER: COMBATS-

70-75 Enemy  Fighters Jump  Yank Bombers On Italy Raid   17 Enemy Planes Downed in Great Running Skv Battle

v. S. AIRMEN FIND HEAVIER FIGHTING OVER ITALY AS FOE INCREASES PLANES.

Fierce Air Battle Over Naples Area   Reinforced Axis Fighters Jump U. S. Bombers Blasting Rail Yards.

Allied Fliers Run Into Heavy Opposition   Enemy Railroad Yards And Air Fields Are Smacked Again

AXIS FIGHTERS BATTLE AIRMEN IN ITALIAN WAR   Upwards of 75 German end Italian Planes Attack U. S. Marauders end Linhtnines   FORTS HIT VITERBO   21 Enemy Planes Downed in Day's Operation to Loss of 15 Allied Aircraft

Allies In Bitter Fight Over . Italy   Bitterest Combat of the ' Air War Took Place , Yesterday .   BLAST RAILWAY YARDS   Flying Fortresses Smacked the Viterbo Airfield .  Near Rome

Naples Bombers Encounter Swarm Of Enemy Fighters; Battle Rages Over Italy

Airmen in Hardest Battle Over ltaly   Allied Planes Are Attacked by 70 to 75 Axis Fighters and Great Running Battle Extends 100 Miles Out to Sea.

CHANGE IN TIME BY LEGISLATURE APPEARS LIKELY   Sentiment To Turn Back Clocks Is Evident in Rural Sections   ADJOURNMENT BALKS BILL   $45,500,000 Net Surplus in State Treasury But Much Earmarked

Ohio Legislators Stud} Growing Demand For  Change In Time   State Finance Director H. D. Defenbacher Reports  Ohio’s Net Treasury Surplus Jan. 1 Was $45,000.080 :

NON-STOP RAIDS ON REICH ENTER 3RD DAY IN ROW   Reports Indicate Bombings Equal Large Scale of Tuesday

ALLIED AERIAL ASSAULT GOES INTO THIRD DAY   Occupied France And Western Reich Districts Given Heavy Blows

Air Offensive Sweeping on;  Calais Blitz   LONDON (AP) — American heavy bombers escorted by fighters attacked targets somewhere in northwest Germany Wednesday.

WARNS THE PUBLIC NOT TO SUCCUMB TO FOOD PANIC BUYING   Appeal To Be Issued By Prentiss Brown Based On Patriotism   FAIR SHARE FOR EACH   Admit in Some Areas Sufficient Meat Will Not Be Available by 29th

NAZI SLAYERS PLEAD GUILTY   Defendants Face Death in Kharkov Murder Trial

 * Three Germans, Before Soviet Court, Admit Mass Murder of PU orn ot Kiar ou Citizens

MEN ADMIT: MASS MURDER   Plead Guilty. Before’ ‘Russian Military Court

Nazi Officers Admit Charges Of Atrocities   Three Plead Guilty Ir Russia To Charges O! Complicity In Kharkos Mass Murders

MEET STALIN ° NEXT, REPORT   Talk of German Peace Moves Viewed As Part Of Nazi Propaganda.   HULL HITS PEACE TALK:

GATHERING IN PERSIA NEXT, SAYS REPORT   Four Leaders to Meet In Persian Session, Rumors Declare

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill Reported En Route to Persia   Washington Reaction to Rumored Moves for Peace Varied

War Parley is Held in Cairo; Move to Iran   Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang New to Meet With Stalin

ALLIED CONFERENCE TO BE IN IRAN, TIP   ‘First Phase, », With Stalin Missing, in Africa

Germans Report Allied Conference Tn Procsress: Includes Czech Chief

Nazis Claim Big Meeting to Be in Teheran and Principals Are in Africa

Lishon Reports Stalin fo Join lran Conference   Peace Reports Held Propaganda Of Axis Nations

Rumor Three Big Men Meet   Reported FDR-ChiangChurchill End Cairo Talk

CONFERENCE OF WAR CHIEFS MAY BE IN TEHRAN   Reports Chiang Kai-Shek and Wife  Seen In Iran

GERMANS CLAIM ALLIED LEADERS IN CONFERENCE   Speculation Includes Hints 0 New Peace Feelers On Behalf Of Nazis

Say FDR, Churchill, Kai-Shek Are Enroute To Meet Stalin Following Talks At Cairo

Roosevelt, Churchill And Chiang Will Meet With Stalin In Persia After Lona Conference In Cairo

Leaders to Meef Stalin   Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek Enroute to Iran

SPOWER HEADS ‘MAY BE MEETING SAYS STOCKHOLM   Believe Nazis May Be Given  One Last Chance to Quit Now—or Else.

Heosevelt and. Churchill Said to be in Cairo Awaiting Arrival of Sta: lin from Russia ~- Possibility of Ultimatum te Surrender, oe

ROOSEVELT, CHIANG, CHURCHILL CONFER ACCORDING REPORT  U. S. PRESIDENT AND BRITISH PREMIER SAID EN ROUTE MEET STALIN

REPORT ALLIED CHIEFS MEET IN NORTH AFRICA   Hull Denies Peace Feelers

British Expand Gains Four Miles; Yanks Get Castlenuova; Hard Fight

Germans Say Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek Confer at Cairo

Stockholm Reports a Representative of Germany Is Also to Be Present, Leading to Rumor of New Peace Offers,

Conference At Cairo Is Over Roosevelt, Churchill,   Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek Met

On Way To Persia ToTalk With Stalin After Cairo Parley   Peace Talk Seen Nazi-Inspired; Solons Anticipate Lengthy War; Berlin Sees Meeting At Teheran

Cairo Talks End; Persia Next Stop  Stalin To Meet FDR. Churchill .

MAY ASK STALIN LEAVE TO USE SIBERIAN BASES   Axis Sources Suggest Meeting Of “Big Three” Now Under Way

Churchill, ing Strategy Revealed   Beaters Reports jon In Cairo Concluded

FDR AND GHUREGEIL REPORTED IN CAIRD   Lisbon Travelers Say Stalin En Route To Parley

Report Leaders Holding Confab   RUMOR STALIN ON WAY TO MEET BRITISH PREMIER, U. S. PRESIDENT FOR MOMENTOUS TALKS; NAZI SURRENDER DEMAND PREDICTED

Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang End Cairo Parley; To Meet Stalin in Persia

Use of Siberian Bases May Be Asked of Stalin   No Confirmation of Axis Reports Made In Allied Quarters

Reuters Says Big Three Meet At Cairo and Now On Way To Persig To See Stalin

MEET OF ‘BIG THREE’ PLACED  IN TERHERAN   Lisbon Dispatch Says Roosevelt Churchill, Chiang Have Com pleted Conference at Cairo   EN ROUTE TO IRAN   Reported Ready to Meet Premier — Stalin of Russia There—Berlin Reports Teheran Meet

Cairo Parley Believed Over   Report Comes to Reuters From Lisbon as World Awaits Decisions of Allied Leaders; Now ‘on Way’ to tran Conference

Germany's Bid For Terms  May Be Made by Von Papen   “Big Three” May Already be in Conference in North Africa; Nazi Representative Reported in Attendance

Peace Talk Propaganda Asserts Hull   Persistent Rumors of Ger. man Bid Discounted —  Action in Italy

Reuters Reports Meeting of ' ¢ Roosevelt, Churchill,  lang   NOW ON WAY TO IRAN   Will Talk With Premier Stalin After Conference  in Cairo

Berlin Reports ‘Big Three’ Will Meet In Teheran   Stalin Reported Already There To Meet With F.D.R., Churchill.

Reuters Reports: FDR, Chiang Churehill End Cairo Talks   ..+ Now Enroute To tran To Meet With Stalin

Lisbon Dispatch Says Big Meeting ‘Known Definitely   Reuters Report Was Not Distributed in England, However

Report Roosevelt, Churchill in Cairo and Stalin on Way for "Big Three" Conference

MAY DISCUSS AIR BASES WITHSTALIN   Bases in Siberia Would Aid War With Japan .

POST-WAR PLANS, WAR IN EAST ARE  LIKELY TOPICS   But Big Three Conference Has Not Been Officially Confirmed Yet.

Lisbon Reports Say U.S., British (Chiefs In Cairo   Nazi Broadcast Claims’ Trio Proceeding With  Momentous Conference

F.R. And W.C, Wind Up Talk With Chians   Report Leaders Headed For Persia To Meet Stalin; New German Pranagcanda Push Seen   Churchill Is 69

‘BIG THREE’ OF ALLIES START TALKS, CLAIM   Shurch Sourees Wary Of Report Von Papen Visited Pope

FDR, CHURCHILL MAY ASK-FOR SISERIAN BASES   Observers Believe Bases Will Be Asked for War on Japan

Rumors Fly About Conference Of ‘Big 3°: Hull Brands Hints Of Peace Bid Enemy Propaganda

FDR, CHURCHILL, CHIANG KAI-SHEK COMPLETES CONFERENCE  Reuters Dispatch Datelin:      Reuters Dispatch Datelined Lisbon Says “It Is Known Here Definitely” Meeting Was Held at Cairo

TEHERAN SITE RUMORED   AMpR, Churchill, Stalin. Will Confer In Africa, Is Report

POLAND MAY JOIN. ACT TO PREVENT NAZI INTRUSION   President Benes Expected te Sign Agreement to Protect Czech at Moscow Ir Next Few Days.   FURTHER DETAILS TO FOLLOW CONFERENCE   Soviet Has No Intention te Bolshevize Neighbors, as Czechs Only People Directly Affected.

Roosevelt, Churchill And Chiang Confer In Cairo, Then Join Stalin   GERMAN ACCOUNT   REDS AND C7ECHS

PARLEY EITHER ON NOW OR 10 BE VERY SOOh   Germany “All Ears” for What Three Heads Decide, U.S. to Ask Use of Russian Bases

THREE EXPECTED TO DEMAND ONLY NAZI SURRENDER   Travelers Reaching Lisbon Give Report Delayed Few Days When Sent Through British Censorship.   CONSIDERED ACCURATE, OTHERS THROUGH NA   Cairo or Alexandria Possible Meeting Places, German Radio Says Meeting Has Been Opened.

German Radio Claims Eduard Benes Will Be Present; “Fruits Of Meeting’ May Be Seen Before Christmas. Is Relief   ‘RUMORS ON MEETING CIRCULATE FREELY

-Reuters Reports Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang  NOW ON WAY TO IRAN Will Talk With Premier  Stalin After Conference ; in Cairo’      NOW ON WAY TO IRAN

Trio En Route To Persia for Stalin Parley, Dispatch Says   Report Censored in England but Sent to U.S. by Radio

OTHERS SET FOR PERSIA   Chiang Kai-Shek Meets Roosevelt, Churchill in Cairo; Ail Now on Way to Teheran for Meeting With Stalin.

Broadcast Asserts U. S. and British Chiefs Already Are in Cairo; Stalin Believed Waiting in Teheran

Reuters, the British News Agency, Today, Announced Meeting in a Dispatch Datelined Lisbon.   THE MEETING WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN IN CAIRO   The Three Leaders Are Now  Said to Be En Route to  - Jran (Persia) Where They Will Meet Stalin.

F .D.R., Churchill May Ask Stalin For Siberian Bases   Bombing Bases Would Bring Air War To Japan

Destroy 59 Jap planes over Wewak   Drop 66 tons of bombs on target

Allied Raiders Down 59 Nip. Airplanes   Score Smashing Victory in Attack on Wewak

HITS PUT I OTHERS OUT OF STRUGCIE   , Hight Lasts Nearly an Hour—One Allied Plane Lost, Others Damaged but Reach Base.   TEN NIP BOMBERS ON GROUND BLASTEI   Progress Made by American and Australian Ground Troops Converging on Lae. _

59 JAP FIGHTERS DOWNED BY ALLIES   Great Air Battle Fought Over Enemy Base ut Wewak

48 Jap Fighters Downed by Allie   Wreck 10 Bombers in Wewak Air Battle

Allies Smash 59 Planes  On Jap Base   At Least 48 Enemy Craft Fall in Fight; Others Are Blasted on Ground; Foe Also Gives Up Anchorage Near Lae

Allied Pilots Shoot Down 59 Jap Planes   At Least 10 Grounded Enemy Bombers Destroyed in a Great Air Battle Over Wewak: Anchorage East of Lae Captured

09 PLANES SHOT. DGWN AT WEWAK   fen Grounded Bombers Also Destroyed; Communique Tells of Capture of Malahang Anchorage Near  ao   Ineffective Raid

9 Jap Fighter Planes Dewnet! In Air Battle ©   Attack on Enemy Air Bases Success MacArthur Says

Japs Suffer Huge Losses Over Wewak   Allies Shoot Down 59 Fighters, Destroy Ten Grounded Bombers

§9 JAP PLANES DESTROYED IN BIG AIR BATTLE   “AacArthur Reports Engagement Over Foe Base at Wewak

ENEMY HAS LOST 400 PLANES IN LAST SIX WEEKS   Malahang Anchorage, Two Miles From Lae, Captured By Allies   NAVAL PLANES RAID NORTHERN SOLOMONS

U.S. Valor Gives Victory Margin  State Soldier Among Heroes Honored

American Leaders Let Editors Have Facts Regarding Foreign. Home Front During Gonference

EDITORS GIVEN FACTS ON WAR   Newspapermen Sworn to Secrecy, Hear From Military Leaders

TAX MEASURE ~ TS ENDORSED   Senate Finance Committee Files its Report on Revenue Bill

COMMITTEE OXEHS REVISED TAX BILL   Senators Feel mebreviated Measure Sensible a Mament

Senate Group Insists on  Tax Bill Cut   Finance Comimiitee’ Report Holds 2275 Millions . Sufficient

REPORT EXPLAINS (UT IN TAX BILL      Senate.¢,.Committee En dor Measure as ' Sensible

SLICED-UP TAX ~ BILL ENDORSED   Senate Measu re Worse Than None At All, Says Morgenthau

REPORT EXPLAINS CUT IN TAX BILl   Senate. Committee En dort@s Measure as Sensible

Senate Group Backs Tax Bill   F. R. Signs Security Levy Freezing Act

Senators Hold : Slashed Taxes ‘Are Sensible’   Finance Committee Firm Agaiist All Protests

SENATORS EXPLAIN CUT IN TAX BILL   ‘DECLARE SLASH IN YEAR'S ESTIMATED DEFICIT LED TO REDUCTION,

THOUSAND MORE ARRESTS REPORTED AFTER NEW WAVE OF DESTRUCTION BY PATRIOTS

JITTERY ADOLF "WRITES AFRICA OFF” THE LIST   Reports Say He Has Ordered Rommel’s Army to “Emulate Germans at Stalingrad”

Hitler Marks Off Tunisia, Reports Say   Rommel Preparing To Leave Country; Sacrifice Urged

AXIS UNEASY OVER AFRICA   Hitler Orders Suicide Stand By Afrika Korps As Rommel Is Reported Ready To Flee

HITLER WRITES OFF TUNISIA   Reported to Have Or dered “Stalingrad Stand

Axis Betrays Uneasiness About Its Future in-Africa; . litler Reported to Have. Written. Tunisia Off As:Lost

Axis Betrays Worry Over Plight in Africa   Nozi Radio Stations Begin ‘Explaining’ Latest : Victories of Allies

Ayis Uneasy at African Situation   Hitler Considers Tunisia Lost

Red Armies Capture Nearly ‘Fifty Towns   ALLIED FORCES CLAMEING MGHT Lib ACROSS VITAL SECTOR.

Beet Growers Seek Aid for Planting  Ask Dollar Per Ton Increase in Price

Allies Open New Raid (ver Jungle   Fliers Strike Vicious Blows at Japs in New Guinea Zone

U.S. Bombers Lash Wewak   - Cargo Vessel Pounded As 19 Tons Of Bombs Loosed

American Bombers Attack Japanese At Wewak Port   Japanese Merchantman In Harbor Is Hit And Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped In Dock Area

Allied Planes Raid Wewak  Jap Merchantma:   Jap Merchantman Reported Hit

Hour for Opening Second Front in Europe Believed Materially Advanced

IMPRESSION GROWS THAT SECOND FRONT BEEN MOVED NEARER   WESTERN. ATTACK BELIEVED BE LAUNCHED BEFORE SPRING

 Anyone Can Guess  Second Front Might Come Soon: However. lt Miaht Not

Hour of Invasion Drawing Closer   Most Favorable Time Probably Would Be Before the Spring Lull.

LONDON BELIEVES HOUR FOR SECOND FRONT ADVANCED   Argument Made That Time to Strike Would Be Before Spring Lull on Russian Front.   GERMANY’S CONDITION WEIGHED CAREFULLY)   Churchill’s Hint That Invasion Would Come When Nazis Became Denioralized Recalled.

Allies Gird For Attack ”  Over Channe!   Invasion Seems Near—Hitler in Gloomy Speech

Invasion Hour Is Stepped Up, London F eels   Results of Moscow Talks _ Interpreted Into Plan of  Early Action

INVASION IMMINENT?  “Second Front” Threat Increases Pressure on Nazi Armies in Russia   Hour for Assault on Western Eurepe Advanced Materially

London Sees Hour Of Western Invasion Near As Result Of Moscow Conference

Hour For Second Front Promised By Stalin Believed Advanced Materially

Deadline for Success Has Already Been Set:. . If Nazis Haven’t Folded by That. Time Land In vasion Will be Launched Against Hitlerland

SECOND FRONT PREDICTED IN NEAR FUTURE   German Forces O1 Northern Front Face Assault

HINT MOSCOW MEET MOVES UP INVASION HOUR   2nd Front Threat Increases Pressure on Nazi Armies in Russia

Another Daughter For ‘Crown Princess Juliana   Baby First Member Of Any European Royal Family To Be Born In America

Committee rinds Tax on Tobacco Is ‘Necessary  Says Welfare Bureau _ Cannot Meet Needs  Without New Revenue  MINORITY REPORT  Morrow Says Levy Mu

Amputates Own Arm With Knife   Caught In Baler, lowan Acts Quickly

MAN CUTS OFF ARM CAUGHT IN BALER   Pocket Knife Used by lowa Farmer for Amputation

CUT OFF HIS OWN. ARM   Farmer Displays Courage in Re. moving Self from Hay Baler

AL PLEASURE DRIVING 10 STOP AT NOON JAN.   Local, State, County Authorities to Demand Credentiale of All.

FLASHES   ‘Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest ; World News Today.   Bn Non-i'ssential Mfotoringe.

Tunisian Campaign and Outlook for Future Are Discussed by Sec. Stimson

ACTS AGAINST SMALL PACKERS   OPA Starts Injunction Proceedings'in Federal Court: at Kansas City

NAME 8 MISSOURI MEAT DEALERS IN AN INJUNCTION   Proceeding Was Brought ir Federal Court by the OPA.   A NATION-WIDE MOVE   Firms Are Alleged to Have Overstepped Slaughter Quota.

OPA Enjoins Small Kansas Meat Packers   Missouri Concerns Also Named In K. C. Proceedings   Charged With Exceeding Allowable In Butchering   St. Joseph Firm Among Defendents; Ignorance Blamed

JAP FORCES ARE SMASHED BACK   Enemy Fails In Effort To Regain Finschhafen

Japs Repulsed At Finschhafen   Attempt to Regain Base Proves Costly

Jap Soldiers Counterattack; Smashed Back      Suffer Heavy Losses In Vain Effort To Recapture Finschhafen.

JAP DRIVE ON FINSCHHAFEN BEATEN BACK   Aussies Kill 400 Of Foe Attempting To Reguin Base

FOE DRIVEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSS AT FINSCHHAFEN   Four Thunderbolts Score Spectacular Victory Over 40 Enemy Planes.

Serman Line on East Coast Of Sicily Crumples Be- . “” fore Attack   PATERNO IS CAPTURED   Allied Drive to Pass Mt. ‘Etna Bastion Gains New Impetus .

6th Army Smash Breaks Heart Of German Defense   Montgomery Races Toward Taormina; Axis Retreat From Sicily Expected

VICTORIOUS 8TH ARMY ADVANCING TOWARD MESSINA   ALLIED NUTCRACKER CRUNCHING AXIS TO SPEED SICILY ROUT

Allied Ships Heavily Shell Escape Roads.   Yanks and Canadians Advancing in North — “And Near Me. Etna

GERMAN DEFENSES BREAK UNDER HEAVY POUNDING BY ALLIED ARTILLERY, SHIPS, PLANES; ADVANCE POINTS FOR MESSINA

Workers Told They Should Obtain Frequent Statement Of Social Security Account

SCHOOL HOURS CHANGED   Status of Social Security Security Account Should Be Known or Requested

FDR REQUESTED 10 BOOST FARM PRICES _   Aggy Bloc Seeks Higher Prices and Farm Labor Release From Armed Services

MAY ASK FDR T0 RAISE FARM PRICES DEFER LABOR   Fulmer To Deliver Minimum Proposals To OES  Director

Russian Drive Imperils Three Key Nazi Centers Lett East Of Dnieper

SOVIET TROOPS QUICKEN ADVANCE; 3 KEY GERMAN-HELD BASES THREATENED BY REDS

Nazis Reel Backward on Long Front   Summer Offensive Gaining Momentum — Reds Closing on 3 Cities

GERMANS AT THREE POINTS   Rads Take 400 Villages ir Nazi Hands Since Early Days of War.

Great Russian Summer Drive Gathers Powe   Soviets Closing In On Smolensk, Stalino And Konotop

Germans Being Driven Back In All Sectors Along 620Mile Front.   RUSSIBNS NEAR STALINO

Russian Troops  Smashing Ahead  Retake 400 Villages To  Continue Advances

REDS SLASH NAZI LINES FOR GAINS   Russians Gain Momentum In Summer Offensive; Endanger 3 Positions.   Make Advance Along Entire Southern Front

REDS GAINING ON FRONT 600 MILESLONG   Three Of Germans’ Most Important ‘Positions Menaced 

ocks Enemy ~~: On Vast Front   400 Villages Ave Captored By Soviet Troops On 600-Mile Long Line

Russian Drive Gains Speed on 000-Mile Front   Reds Progress In Offensive to Throw Out Nazis

Reds Menace  3 Important Nazi Bases   Rocking Germans Back All Along 600-Mile  Front

RUSSIAN ARMIES GAIN MOMENTUM IN SUMMER OFFENSIVE   GERMANS BEING ROCKED BACKED ON HEELS ALONG 600-MILE FRONT

Red Armies Menace Three - Vital Bases In Drive As Nazis Retreat East of Dnieper   400 TOWNS TAKEN BY SOVIET FORCES   Berlin Admits Offensive On Large Scale Opened In Donets, Further Withdrawal Seen

—RUSSTA—  AAO TOWNS AE BETAKEN BY RED   Mighty Russian Blows Rocking Germans Along 600-Mile Front

RUSSIAN DRIVE SURGING AHEAD IN DONETS AREA   Only in Kharkov Sector Has Advance Been Slowed - - But It Has Not Stopped   400 TOWNS RECAPTURED   German Casualties Reported To Be 11,000 for Day and Equipment Destroyed

REDS MENACE THREE MAJOR NAZI BASES   Gaining Momentum in Their Drive, Soviets Push Toward Last Important Nazi Positions  _ East of Dnieper.

RUSSIANS PUS NAZIS BACK ON 600 MILE LINE   3 Important German Positions East of Dnieper Threatened

Reds Push Foe Back All Along 600-Mile Front   Close In On German Positions At Stalino, Konotop And Smolensk.

Summer Offensive Gaining Momentum Along 600Mile Front With Threats To Konotop And Smolensk As Drive Continues; 11,000 Nazis Slain

IMPORTANT NAZI HOLDS IN THREE AREAS MENAGED   Russian Armies Gain New Momentum In Their Strong Summer Offensive; German Resistance Stubborn Around Kharkov.

Soviet Drives Menace Nazis Dnieper Lines   German Headquarters In Donets Sector Endangered By Reds

Three Nazi Bases Are Threatened   Momentum Of Russian Drive Increases As Troops Close In On German Strongholds

Soviets Smash Forward On 600-Mile Front to Threaten 3 Axis Points

Russians Are Defeating Nazi Orel Defense   Trapping Of Nazi Army Is Feared By Germans As Russians Give Them A Terrific Beating

SEVERAL BIG NAZI UNITS IN OREL AREA FACE ANNIHILATION   Germans Fight  Fiercely To Avoid ‘Another Stalingrad’ —~Reds Control Skies

TRAP CLOSES ON NAZIS AT OREL   Red Air Force Rules Sky, Ground  Troops Rush City’s Defenses

REDS PROBE DEEPER INTO: OREL DEFENSE   Tighten Band Around Nazi Salient There

Red Armored Units Threaten Entrapment Of Germans Defending Big Base

NAZIS FACE ANNIHILATION AROUND ORE      Russians Make, Slow, Steady Advance To Threaten Nazis

-Russian Armored Forces i Threaten German Troop Units With Annihilation

TWO KILLED IN MINE ACCIDENT   Fear Felt For 75 Trapped In Montana Pits

RESCUE CREWS FAIL 10 REACH TRAPPED MEN   Two Men Known Dead And Three Others Critically Injured

55 Counties In State Are In G.O.P. Fold   Governor Insists Election Results Point to Victory Next Year   TWO SITLL I BbOUaT

REPUBLICAN LEADERS HAIL ELECTION VICTORIES IN 55 OF 67 PA. COUNTIES

Navy Declares 25 U.S. Dead, 2 Ships Bombec   Japs Using Green Pilot: In New Pacific  Camnatone

‘BOMBS HIT AIRCRAFT ON FIELD   Fighting French Fly With Reds; German Posts Destroyed

Russians Hit Advanced Axis Airports   -Bombs Are Dropped ‘ Among Parked ' German Warplanes

Air Blows Exchanged In Solomons   Guadalcanal Bombed Twice; Yanks Pound Jap Shipping

Air Blows Exchanged In Solomons   Giindaleanal Bothbed Twice Yanke' Pound Jap Shipping -

SEVERE AIR BLOWS ARE EXCHANGED IN SOLOMONS REGION   Americans Strike At Shipping In Shortland Harbor, Vella Gulf and Munda Point— Japs Raid Guadalcanal

SEVERE AIR BLOWS WERE EXCHANGED IN SOLOMONS SECTOR  ~ BELIEVED BE PRELUDE. TC BATTLE FOR CONTROL

RIVAL AIRMEN TRADE BLOWS   Guadalcanal Undergoes 2 Ait Raids, While U. S. Fliers Strike At Shipping

Stalin Sees Early Victory As Troops Score Heavy Gains   Soviet Chief Thanks FDR For Message; Army Reported In 10 Miles Of Rostov

Joint Military Operations Will Assure Victory Over  Common Enemy   RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO PURSUE GERMANS

Premier Sends Message to President Roosevelt  FORCES SWEEP ON IN KHARKOV AREA  Capture of Stary Oskol, Rail Town, Is An Pas - am

Premier Sends Message to President Roosevelt. .  FORCES SWEEP ON   IN KHARKOV AREA  Capture of Stary Oskol, Rail Town, Is An  . nounced

Message to Roosevelt) From Premier Forecasts Allied Victory in the Near Future.   GERMANS LOSE TOWN 10 MILES FROM ROSTOV   Russians Gain on Oth er Parts of Long Front— Reach Point 22 Miles From Kursk.

REDS WITHIN 22 MILES OF KURSK   Stalin Feels Near Future Will Bring About Victory   STARY OSKOL TAKEN   Russians Score Sweeping Gains All Along the 1941 German Defense Line

Reds Make Further Pincers Movements   Soviets Now Are But 22 Miles From Kursk And 50 Miles From harkoy. Nozi Bases

MESSAGE REPLY TO NOTE FROM ROOSEVELT   Red Armies Threaten Four Main German Positions In Southern Russia.

Residents Flee As Hurricane MovesIn   1Q0-Mile VYind Expected o Lash lexas fCanct Aran KMAnyvind Inland Ahniit Dawn

DIED THURSDAY..   } a a s j Reuben T. Grove, Tipton Native i - Died In Dayton, Ohio.  ~

DIED THURSDAY.   Reuben T. Grove, Tipton Native. Died In Dayton, Ohio.

EIGHTH ARMY IN MARETH LINE OUTPOST   Aims At Relief Of Americans In Central Tunisia

BRITISH ENTER VERDUN’ OF MARETH LINE       Take Medenine, Aim Drive at Heart of  Defense System

si eit  OF AMERICANS   Hit At Heart of Mareth Line;  Take Crucial Town

Reds Smashing Into Smolensk Outer Defenses   Five Armies Engaged In Gigantic Offensive Along Donets

GERMANS REEL BACK TOWARDS DNIEPER LINE   Russians Crack Enemy’s 1941 + Invasion Lines, Giving Nazis No Rest.   FIVE RED ARMIES ON 600-MILE FRONT

Germans Reeling Backward Under  Great Red Blows   Russian Blows Cut Main Nozi Rail Link Between Central And Southern Sectors

Staggering Russian Blows Cut Main Enemy Rail Link 150 Miles From Kiev, Crash Into Smolensk Defense Perimeter And Shatter Positions In Northern Donets Basin—Five Red Armies In Gigantic Offensive Threaten Entire German Battle Line

GERMANS REEL BACK ON 600 MILE RED LINE   Gain of 6 Miles on Smolensk Frontier Is Reported by Russians

Germans Fall Back On 600 (Mile Front As Soviets Cut ‘Their Rail Link To South

NAZIS ON RUN AS REDS LAUNCH NEW ASSAULTS   Germans Sent Reeling Back Along 600-mile Front by Staggering Blows   MAIN NAZI RAIL LINK CUT   Smolensk Defenses Crashed And Deep Thrust Made Into Donets Basin

NAZIS STAGGERED BY RUSSIAN BLOWS ON EASTERN FRONT   Red Blows Cut Main Nazi Rail Link Between Cen. tral and Southern Sectors 150 Miles From Kiev; Gain Six Miles At Smolensk Defense Perimeter.

GERMANS REEL BACK BEFORE 5 RED ARMIES   Staggering Blows Cut Main Rail Line, Crash Into Smolensk Perimeter   TAKE UKRAINE BASTION   250 Villages Seized As Soviets Recopd Gains Along 600Mile Front -

REDS SEVER NAZI MAIN RAIL LINES   Germans Reel Under Shattering Blows Along 600Mile Front; Kiev Cut Off   Five Russian Armies Begin Huge Offensive

Germans Flee Mounting Blows From Russians   Reds Cut 1941 Invasion _ Lines; Foe Beaten On §00-Mile Front

Germans Reel Under Great  Russian Blews   Five Red Armies, Engag -ed in Gigantic Offensive Continue: to Shatte: -German  Positions Along Whole Fron Great Retreat Contin ues:

YOUNGSTERS SEE MOVIES, AID NEEDY   Articles Contributed to Be Distributed by United Charities

Students Oppose Lower Voting Age   Institute Polls 85,916 in Schools

ALLIED ATTACK ON MUNDA UNDER WAY   Heavy Bomb Loads Dropped On Sector

JAPS FORCED TO GIVE GROUND AROUND MUNDA   Ground Offensive Under Way, Presaged by 600-Ton Air and Sea Bombardment   SALAMAUA RAIDED      137 Tons of Bombs, Heaviest Load Yet, Dropped on Enemy Base in New Guinea

600-Ton Air and Sea Bombardment Launches) LongHeralded Advance. Details of Fighting Lacking, But Japs Reported Giving Ground All Along Defense Line.

GROUND DRIVE AGAINST MUNDA SAID UNDERWAY   Japanese Battered From Air And Sea; Gains Reported

Japanese Give Ground in Fight For Munda Base   Kiska Pounded Again by Planes; Wake Bombarded

ALL-OUT ASSAULT BELIEVED UNDER WAY FOR MUNDA   SEA AND AIR FORCES SOFTEN NIPPONS FOR FINAL GROUND BLITZ

Americans Open Ground Drive Against Munda  600-Ton Air, Sea Bom   600-Ton Air, Sea Bom. ' bardment Presages Drive On Jap Base

Enemy Forces Back Up —   American Ground Attack Against Jap Stronghold At. Munda Starts After Heavy Air-Sea Bombardment

U. S, GROUND UNITS DRIVE NEARER MUNDA   Announce 500 Yard Advance Toward Jap Base

AMERICAN GROUND OFFENSIVE AGAINST MUNDA IS UNDER WA)  HEAVY AIR AND SEA _ BOMBARDMENT PRECEDrr TEIPAa Tiny RBM

Japs Fall Back 500 Yards In One Sector Of Line   Salamaua Attacked By Liberotors And Flying Fortresses

Jap Base Under Heavy Bombings   MacARTHUR’S TROOPS REPORT ADVANCES ON MUNDA

All-Out Munda Push Launched   Offensive Follows Air. Sea ‘Softening’

LIBERATION CERTAIN FILIPINOS ASSURED   President Quezon Urges Them To Continue Fight

MANUEL QUEZON IN ADDRESS TO PHILIPPINES   Warns Philippinos of Danger of Believing Jap Propagandist 

ITALIANS HIDING FROM BOMB RAIDS   Thousands on Sicily Seek Shelter Under Ground

RUMOR HEAR “CAIRO NAMED. ) FOR MEETING   hs  SPECULATION IN WASHINGTON  ' THAT ROOSEVELT, CHURCH. AND STALIN ITAVE   pg Pad GED MEMTING

Speculation On Cairo Meeting   Diplomatic Circles Show Keen Interest In Possible Conference Makeup   BIG LEADERS MAY MEET IN EGYPT

GUILTY VERDICT IN FAYETTE CO. OFFICERS CASE   Jury Convicts Commissioners. Contreller. In Gasoline Purchase Case

FAYETTE COUNTY OFFICIALS GUILTY IN FIRST TRIAL   Jury Convicts Four of Malfeasance; Face $500 Fines   SECOND TRIAL OF  SERIES DUE TODAY

Forts Run Into Stiff Struggle  Focke-Wulfs Pounce Or Armada Near Target

FORTRESSES RIP RAILROAD YARDS OF FRENCH CITY   Amiens Blasted by Heavy American Force—German Fighters Beaten Off

- DUBLIN. TEX. BOMBARDIER HERO OF FORTRESS RAID IN AMIENS RAILROAD YARDS

Military Service Essential Policy  Knox Says Plan Mus Ra Mada Kar Futura

Clear First Major Hurdle In Operation   Fall Of 10 Important Ports, Towns Allows Facilities For Men, Equipment To Land

—SICILY—  ALLIES CAPTURE IMPORTANT PORT   First Big Hurdle Cleared In Conquest Of Big Is. land

Captured Towns Will Be Bases For Next Moves   Mark First Hurdle On Way To Final Conquest of Sicily

Allies Clear First Hurdle Of Conquest   London Declares Capture Of 10 Major Points In Sicily Beginning Step.   POUR IN MUNITIONS

Allies Top *: First Hurdle  Of Invasion   Port Facilities of Licata And Syracuse Will Help Flow of Supplies

Allies Capture Key Ports to Attack Mainland   Attackers Able To Pour in Heavy Equipment

British Air and Naval Units Sink Or Damage Many U-Boats in Battle

2 SUBMARINES KNOWN SUNK IN O DAY BATTLE   Three Others Damaged By Air Escort Of Allied Convoy; 97 Per Cent Complete Trip   Old ‘Hunt’ Bags One

British Give Enemy Severe Beating While Aiding Convoy  Air, Sea Units Drive U-Boats Away, Sink at Least Two

British Sink 2 to 5 Subs in 5-Day Battle   Several Other l-Boats Damaged as Ships and Planes Protect Atlantic Convoys From Nazi Undersea Raiders

German U-Boats Sunk in Five-Day Running Baitie   Two of Five Sent Down and Several Others Damaged by British Naval and Air Units Protecting Atlantic Convoys

2 to 5 Foe Subs Are Sunk By British Planes, Ships In 5-Day Atlantic Battle

Planes, hips. Join To Beat ‘U-Boat Pack  Five-Day Battle se ee ee   Five-Day-Battl Nets ‘Only Minor . -Convoy. Loss

British Air, Navy Units Conquer  U-Boat Fleet   Sink Two, Probably Three Others in Battle in Atlantic

RAP DRIVE WILL START OCTOBER 11   Chairman M. N. Penny  Completes His County Oreanization

START OCTOBER 11   Chairman M. N. Penny Completes His County »  Organization     Oa, Senge eee ey FAL ER ee eM N Ua ge Nel rm Car” he BES. TE Tt ee EE 8 1S SUR be EET ee is tt We a

PLAN TO END ABSENTEEISW   Five New Measures Filed in Senate and House

GERMANS RETALIATE WITH BOMBING RAID ON ALLIED PORT CITY   Americans Suffer 1,000 Casualties, Lose 17 Ships

Six Generals Among Captured German Troops   Thousands Surrender Unconditionally After Bitter Resistance

Germans Surrender; Six Nazi Generals With the Prisoners   Germans Compelled To Surrender Uncondi tionally After Appeal For Armistice Is Rejected by U. S. Commander

Marines Expand  Hold in Gilberts   But Japs Put Up Fierce Fight in Retreating From Beaches.

Another Atoll In Gilberts Invaded   Amencans Blast Way Slowly Through Jap Resistance; Marines, Infantry Extend New Pacific Offensive; Aim To Shorten Lines To Southwest. Savs Sec. Knox

MARINES EXPAND THEIR HOLD IN GILBERT ISLANDS   Landing Made On Third Atoll As Japanese Continue To Resist Fiercely; Enemy Claims Car rier And Destroyer Sunk.

Invasion Expanded To Abemama; Navy Task Force Still  In Teuk Vicinity

NO DETAILS ON ABEMAMA LANDINGS   Japs Put Up Fierce Fight To Hold Tarawa, Makin: Col. James Roosevelt Joins In Action

JAPS PUTTING UP TERRIFIC RESISTANCE   Announcement by Adm. Nimitz Indicates Powerful Supporting Naval Force in Sector   WEDGE IS BROADENED

Widen Gilbert Holds   Yanks Land OnAbemama Atoll; Bloody Fighting On Makin, Tarawa Isles

OFFENSIVE IS SWIFTLY EXPANDED   Japs Fight Fiercely While Being Driven “Back. From Beaches

Japs Forced Back On Tarawa, Makin Isles   Wedge Expanded By 80 Miles With Landing Or Abemama; Positions Being Improved

Third Gilbert Atoll Invaded by Yankees in Expanding Drive   Abemama Invested as Bloody Battles Are Reported Raging

Marines Gain Ground on 3 Gilbert Islands   Bloody Battle Rages; Japs Falling Back

U. S. MARINES ‘EXPAND DRIVE ON GILBERTS   Improve Positions on Makin and Tarawa While Making New Landing on Abemama   BATTLE INDICATED   Troops Meei Considerable Resis fance—Aussies Advance on Hu on, New Guinea

Third Gilbert Atoll Invaded   American Marines Broaden Wedge In Drive Into Jap’s Defenses.

Marines Enlarge Their Positions  In Gilbert Islands   Land on Abemama Atoll, Third Objec tive Revealed in Amphibious Drive

MARINES ON THIRD ATOLL IN GILBERTS   Japs Put Up Strong Defense Despite Terrific Odds

Yanks Broaden Beachheads On Gilbert Islands   Four-Day Offensive Expanded As Marines Land On Third Atoll.

Japs Driven. Back On Isles   Fierce Battles Still Rage After Americans Land on Third Atoll In Gilberts: U.S. Position Favorable

YANKS EXPAND. OPFENSIVE IN GILBERT GROUI   ‘Land On Abemama Atoll Even As Japs Continue to Put Up Stiff Resistance Falling Back   Berlin Raid Devastating Returning RAF Fliers Say

Marines Land On Third Atoll In Broadening Of Wedge Being Forced Into Japanese Mid-Pacific Outposts Even As Defenders Continue Fierce Opposition On Makin And Tarawa—“Our Troops Have Improved Their Positions,””’ American Communique Says

Americans Make New Landing   Heavy Jap Ground Resistance Met By Yank Forces

Yanks Invade Third Island Of Gilberts   Gain Ground In Hard Fighting On Other Two Island Bases.

Landing On Third Atoll Disclosed   Statement By Nimitz Indicates Powerful Naval Force Remains   In Gilbert Area

Marines Widen Gilberts Drive With Landings On Third Atoll   Jap Defenders _ Battling ~ Fiercely on Other Two

Marines Make Third Landing In Gilberts   Broaden Mid - Pacific  Wedge by Landing on : Abemama Atoll.     Bloody Figthing Con tinues on Tarawa Anc   Makin.

LABOR LEADER CRITICISED FOR IGNORING PACT   Union Chiefs Advised To Prove Themselves To Be Patriots   UNION FIGURES RAPPED   Miners Making 50 Percent More Than Two Years Ago, Report Says

_IN CHALLENGE TO UMW HEAD   Tells Lewis Time Has Come for All Labor Leaders to Be Patriots

TRUMAN. COMMITTEE DE. CLARES - NOW IS TIME FOR. LABOR LEADERS TO BE STATESMEN

COMMITTEE SIGNS ANTI-NUMBERS BILL   Wil! Protect Charitable, Church Bingo Games

ANTI- NUMBERS BILL APPROVED   Prison Sentence And Heavy Fines Recommended In Measure

DRAFT CHANGE IS SLATED MONDAY   Elimination of Class 3-B Slated Under New Regulation

REPORT 3-B GROUP TO BE ELIMINATED   Rectassifications to Start Next Monday, Papers - “ State

3B CLASS ELIMINATED      'No Official Word Given,But an Announcement ITs Expected Monday   ALL FATHERS MAY GO INTO CLASS 3-A      Other Reclassification  Orders May Be Given in Next. Few Days

Class of 3-B to Be Eliminated  Reclassification of Registrants to Be

DRAFT CLASS =.” REVISION MAY. START MONDAY   National Seleefive Service Offickals but Oiieia! Statement Expected Soom.

Change In Draft Rules Impending   Reports Say Men In 3-E To Be Reclassified

3-B Classification To Be Eliminated, Report   Reclassification Of All ‘Draft Registrants Unde New National Regulations Will Be Started Monday, Says Washington Dispatch

DRAFT SHAKEUP DUE TO START MONDAY   Elimination Of 3-B Rating  Main PRavicinn

Will Change Draft Rules   New Regulations To Be Highlighted by Elimination of 3.R Classification *

1B DRAFT GROUP TO BE ELIMINATED   Local Boards to Begin Reclassifying 3-A and 3-B Men Into Other Groups Next Monday, Reports Show

Draft Classifications — To Be Revised and 3-B Abolished, Report Says

NEW SHIFT DUE IN DRAFT RULES   Order Dropping Class 3-8 Expected To Be Issued By Monday.

DRAFT RATINGS TO BE CHANGED   Official Statement Expected Monday As Headquarters Keeps Silent.   3-B RATING MAY BE OUT

Maal ICAT IONS UNDER DRAFT NEAF   Elimination Of 3-B Class Scheduled Monday

Draft Class 3-B Will Be Eliminated  Reclassification of All Registrants to Re Started Monday

3-B SERVICE CLASS 10 BE ELIMINATED   Reclassification Of Registrants Starts Monday

‘Reclassification ‘Of 3-A’s, 3-B’s Expected Soon   ‘Single Men in War Jobs Likely To Be Called, Three Papers Report

DRAFT REGISTRY RECLASSIFIED   New System May Begin Monday—a-B Is Eliminated

3-B Classification To Be Eliminated   New Ruling For Draft Registrants, Renort

CLASSIFICATION  3-B ELIMINATED   National Selective Service Headquarters Silent on Changes.   3-A IS RESERVED FOR FATHERS ONL)

DRAFT PLAN OPENS MONDAY   3-B CLASSIFICATION WILL BE ELIMINATED ENTIRELY

3-B CLASS T0 BE ABOLISHED?   Selective Service Silent on Rumored Changes

May Eliminate 3-B Category   Reclassification of Draft Registrants Reported Planned

U.8.Army Requests Chickens   ... WEA Orders All Cold Sterage Stoecks Held

WFA “FREEZE” HITS STORAGE CHICKENS   Stocks To Be Set Aside for  Armed Servirac

U. S. Seizes All Chickens in Cold Storage   Set Aside for Armed Services; Civilian Supplies Greatly Cut

Government fo “Take Chicken  am edavad a   Freeze Ordered on Stocks in Storage For Armed Services

KISKA GARRISON GIVEN NO REST   U.S. Army Planes Plaster Enemy Base Twice; All Return Safely

BANKS TO. CLOSE.   WH! be Closed Friday: in Observ ance of Lincoln's irthda:

i a et er her a  Nazi Officer of Bellona Slaughter to Face Penalty

Learn Name Of Nazi Who Ordered Killing Of 53 Innocent Boys And Men

War Production Rises After Dron   Nelson Gives Data For Two Months

SGT. SLATTERY WOUNDED   Yardley Soldier Receives’ Injuries When Land Mine Exnlodes

HERE AND HERE iN BUCKS COUNTY TOWNS   Activities of Interest To All In The Various Communities   GLEANED BY SCRIBES

Quarters For inductions In Capital Burn   Cause of $125,000 Blaze In Harrisburg Remains Mystery   SCHEDULE IS CHANGED

U.S. AIRMEN IN BATTLE OF _ BAY OF BISCA}      Naval Planes Join in Blasting 1 Nazi Destroyers—Nazi Admira Doeniiz in Hot Water

Russian Armies Mass On Bank ‘of Dnieper River   Berlin Radio Hints Reds May Have Forced  Crossing of Stream

HARLEM QUIET AFTER RIOT = FIVE ARE DEAD   Property Damage Estimated ~ hts eee Injured, Arrested (.

ORDER RESTORED _ IN HARLEM AREA   Authorities on Guard to Prevent Recurrence of Monday Rioting

Order Again In Harlem   Five Are Killed, 545 Injured In Worst Rioting In Years

Order Once More Reigns In Harlem   After Serious Riots Everything Is Under Control, Says Mayor

Order Returns To Harlem Aree  5 Dead, 545 Hurt, 509 Arrested After  Disorders In Streets

RIOTS END IN HARLEM AREA   Five Dead, 545. Injured, Property Damage Set At $5,000,000

Harlem Quiet After Riots  Yesterday   > Dead, 545 Injured, 509 Arrested; $5 Millions Property Damage

HARLEM QUIET RESTORED   New York Counts Heavy Damage After Serious Rioting

AND RAIL TOWN OF MEZZOUNA. AMERICANS GOUGE INTO y ‘AXIS ESCAPE CORRIDOR   Another American Column is Reported to Have Captured 1,300 Prisoners. Nazis Continuing Their Retreat on Eighth Army Fron   AXIS FORCES ARE ABANDONING MAHARES

Russians Crush All Nazi Attacks Below Kharkov; RAF Showers Blockbusters On Ruhr Plants

NAZI FORCES STILL, FLEEING .. FROM. ALLIES   Abandon Mahares 22 Miles South Of Sfax   ALLING BACK   U. 8. Troops Dig Deeper Into Escape Corridor. .

Nazis Pinned To Coast and Allies Close in   Bag of Prisoners Growing as Nazis Flee; Ruhr Bombed; Japs Claiming A Victory

Americans in Axis “Escape Corridor”   Eighth Army Closely Pursues Enemy  Forces Fleeing Mezzouna; Another U. S. Column Captures 1,300 Prisoners

GERMAN FORCES LEAVE MAHARES IS ALLIES GAIN   Also Flee Mezzouna in Face of American Advance

IMPORTANT POINTS BEING ABANDONED BY FIFEING ENEMY   AMERICAN ARMORED TROOPS ALSO GOUGING  INTO ESCAPE CORRIDOR

Flee Mezzouna; Yanks Gouge In   Yanks Striking East From E] Guetar Take 1,300 Prisoners —- Mahares Flight Marks 70-Mile Retreat From Mareth Line in 11 Days — RAF Bombers Pound Ruhr Valley

Rommel Gives Up Key Axis Bases   German General Has Retreated 70 Miles in 11 Days; 9,500 Axis Troops Are Captured Since Battle of Wade El Akarit

ALLIES DRIVE FORWARD ON ALL FRONTS   Italian Communique Acknowedges Fresh Setbacks For Axis In  Tunisia Campaign .   NAVAL BATTLE EXPECTED

Rommel. Flees’ From “Both British and. American _ Armored Thrusts   70-MILE RETREAT IN ELEVEN DAYS     Over 9,500 . Prisoners Into Allied Hands in South, Eisenhower Says

Mahares Is Abandoned by Axis Troops   Rommel’s Forces Also Flee Mezzouna _ as US Troops Gouge into Escape Corridor; Reds Hold Lines on Donets  River

Pinch Escape — Corridor aves               Advancing U. S. Column Reported t  Have Taken 1300 Prisoners; M gomery’s Army Hard on: Heel: Axis Retreat; First Army in No  Takes Important Positions.

Mahares, Only 22 Miles From Sfax, ls Abandoned   U.S. Forces Take 1,300 Prisoners In Eastward Push

British Sweep Toward Sfax As American Push From West Gouges Into Axis Escapve Lane.

BRITISH PURSUE ROMMEL ALONG COASTAL ROAD   Allies Capture Nearly 10,000 Axis Prisoners

RUNS TOWARD SFAX AS 8TH “ARMY STRIKES   U. S$. Armored Troops Gouge Escape Route. Chase Foe From Mezzouna.   RAF BOMBS RUHR AGAIN   Tokyo Claims 12 American Ships Sunk as Allies Sink Sunnly Rarnes

NAZIS IN FLIGHT ACROSS TUNISIA AS DOOM NEARS   More Prisoners Captured by Allied Forces Slashing at Enemy Stragglers   AIR ATTACK TAKES TOLL   German Radio Predicts Big Battle in Mediterranean; May Be Significant

Retreat of Nazis Is Gaining Speed   American Troops Gouge Into the Axis “Escape Corrmdéor   1,300 MORE PRISONERS   Allied Forces Attack Al Along Line to Narrow Axis Holdings

‘Retreat ‘of Nazis Ts Gaining Speed   American ‘Troops Gouge Into the Axis ' "Escape  Corridor” ,_   1,300 MORE PRISONERS   Allied Forces Attack ° All ~ Along Line to Narrow’  Axis Holdings

BRITISH, U. S. TROOPS GOUGE ESCAPE ROUTE   ‘Doubtful If Rommel Will Be Able  To Make Much Of Stand In  Sousse Area Of Battle

AXIS ARMIES FLEE MAHARES AND MEZZOUNA      Allies Only 22 Miles South of Vital Harbor Of Sfax   GOUGE ‘ESCAPE’ ROUTE      Bomb Ruhr Valley War  Foundries; Russian Front Quiet

Mahares, Mezzouna Claimed Deserted By Rommel Forces   Eisenhower Says 9500 Captured By Allies In Southern Tunisia: Americans Gain In Two Sectors

Allied Planes Pound Axis in Tunisia, Libya   Enemy Headquarters Hit in One-Man Bombing Attack

Allied Bombers Smash af Nazis   Hit at Points Where Rommel May Join Axis Forces in Tunisia

ALLIED BOMBERS STRIKE HEAVILY AT GABES AND ENVIRONS  ONE-MAN BOMBING OF AXIS HEADQUARTERS - WAS HIGHLIGHT OF RAIDS

Hit Ports In Africa   Bombers Prevent Tieup  Bletween Reaamel And Axis

One-Man Bombing Attack Wipes Out Nazi Headquarters .   TRIPOLI AREA HIT BY U. S. BOMBERS

Yanks Pound Africa Troop Junction Spots   One Man Bombing In P4C Blows Up Nazi Headquarters At Kairouan   SCORES DIRECT HII   Planes From West Sweep Into Tripoli Area To Smash At Rommel

NAZI MILITARY HEADQUARTERS 1S DESTROYED   Axis Camp Set on Fire— Action Designed to Cripple Possible Junction Points of Rommel and Tunisian Units.

Seek to Block Rommel’s Plans; Lone U. 5. Bomber Hits German Headquarters

Axis Junction  Point Attacked   Allied Bombers Raid Towns Where Rommel Might  Join Axis Forces.

Allies Squeezing  Rommel’s Forces   American Flier Destroys German Headquarters While British Push From ihe East

ALLIED BOMBERS SLASH AT GABES   Rommel May Find Trouble Ahead in Joining Axis Army of Tunisia

Hit Possible Points Of  Enemy Union   Warplanes Wreck Havoc In Tunisia And Libya

ALLIED BOMBERS STRIKE AT POSSIBLE JUNCTION POINT FOR AXIS FORCES

ALLIES LAUNCH AIR ATTACK TOCUT OFF ROMMEL’S FORCE; DARING YANK PUTS ON SHOW

Allied Bombers Strike Once Moré At Possible Junction Points For Rommel, Axis Army

American Major Drops Bomb In Middle Of German Headquarters At Kairouan

ALLIES SEEK TO PREVENT AXIS JUNCTION   First Sweep Of American Bombers From West Seen As Part of Squeeze On Rommel

PORT OF GABES, KAIROUAN AND KEBILI RAIDED   German Military Head. quarters for Kairouan Area Blown to Bits In  One-Man Attack   AMERICAN AIRMEN BLAST TRIPOLI AREA   Attempt to Smash Rommel Forces Before They Can Escape the British Eighth Army

Allies Attacked Rommel’s Forces      U.S. BOMBERS BLASTED JUNCTION POINTS IN AFRICA

One-Man Bombing Attack By U. S. Flier Destroys German Headquarters

ONE-MAN RAID HITS HEADQUARTERS IN DAY'S HIGHLIGHT   Allied Bombers Strike At Three Axis-Held Towns In Tunisia

Hit Tripoli From West   Bomb Coast in Effort  To Keep Rommel from Joining Axis in Tunisia

Rommel Flees Tripoli Under Heavy Attack   Yank Bombers Strike Initial Blow In New Offensive

FLIERS ATTACK CLOSE 10 TRIPOL!   American Airman Blast: German Headquarters in North Africa Sector

Allies Stage First Raid On Tripoli Area   Possible Junction For Rommel's Forces and Axis  ls Target   ‘ERIE FLIER 1S CITED

African Air Force Pounds Possible Axis Meeting Point   Russian Armies Drive to  Within 60 Miles of

Allied Bombers  Strike Again in  Libya, Raid Gabes Che Man Boitbing  petrauc

AMERICAN FLIER DESTROYS AXIS HEADQUARTERS   ALLIED BOMBERS SWEEP AREAS WHERE FORCES MIGHT JOIN

Govt. Party Wins All Deputy Seats   M. R. P. Says Election Was Theirs

Hitler Might Attempt ‘Counter-Blow ‘In Mediterranean in Desperate Gamble

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Hitler Must Make Attack In Mediterranean Area Or Go On Defensive

Army Calls Up Leo Durocher   Dodger Manager Is Ordered to Report For Physical

King of Italy And Prince May ‘Be Pur Aside   American and British’ Enyoys Hear ‘Proposal From Italian Leaders~

REGENGY 10 RULE ITALY PROPOSED   PLAN TO SHELVE KING DISCUSSED BY POLITICAL LEADERS AND ALLIES,

Conferees Propose Shelving of  Vittorio, Prince  U. S. Is Represented At Political Meeting in Naples

ltalian King, Prince to Go!   Political Leaders May ~ Favor Regency For Lad

ITALIAN RULER ~ MAY BE OUSTED   Regency Proposed Under Prince Of Naples, 6, By Political Leaders

State Senate  Approves New Defense Plan   Compromise Measure I: Sent To Assembly; 10 Member Council To Be Headed By Goodland

SENATE PROSES DEFENSE Bll   Compromise Measure Will Be Sent to Assembly for  Coanpurranre    SECOND PLAN OFFERED

Compromise Measure Is Passed After Efforts By Minority Groups To Force Amendments

RAF BOMBERS RAID SPEZIA   Britain Based Planes Make Long Hop; Middle East Craft Blast 3 Ports,

Other Planes Rai German Targets. Hit Warehouses  In Channel Area

PLAN PROPOSED 10 CHECK ABSENTEES      Correction of Causes fa Stay-Aways Urged by Labor Secretary

“FOR ABSENTEESH   Perkins Believes Congress Action -Insufficient Corrective

PLAN PROPOSED 10 CHECK ABSENTEES   oan aarti  Correction of Causes for Stay-Aways Urged by Labor Secretary

ASKS CHECK-UP QF ABSENTEES   Secretary Perkins Says Legislation Will Not Work

Mail Letters Or Parcels To War Prisoners At Once   Exchange Ship to Sail For Far East Earlier Than At First Planned

ABSENTEEISM CUT IN TRI-STATE MINES   Some Operators Report 13 Pct. Re duction Since “Work or Fight” Order Was Issucd.

N. Y. Has Day Air Raid Test   Sirens Get Civilian Protection Workers From Beds Before Dawn

CORPORAL FRANCIS ~ ENGLERT REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION   ‘Message Received From the War Department by His Father, Frank Englert.   MISSING SINCE NOV. 26   Cpl. Englert Was Driver of a Caterpillar Tractor for Group of Engineers.

MANY PROBLEMS CONFRONTING CONGRESS NOW   Sales Tax Endorsed by C of C And Father Draft Fuss Back in Limelight

EXPECT SENATE TO OK POST-WAR FOREIGN POLICY   War Department Clarifies ‘Missing’ Telegrams To. Relatives

H ARMY AND CANADIANS TAKE TOWNS   Press Forward Toward Mt. Etna in Final Sweep to Clear Axis Out of Sicily.

Allies righting ~ Flercely Over Rough Mountain  Country for Knockout Punch’ _ Important Axis Defense Potnt at Tronina Captured.

3 MORE TOWNS FALL IN MARCH FORWARD ON 65-MILE FRONT      Canadians Drive Wedge ly Axis Flank At Western Edge Of Catania  , Plains

AMERICANS MAKE 12MILE ORWE CAPTURE TROW:   Canadians Advance 7 Miles. to Take Regalbute From Axis 15th Panzers, Proves. to Be Good Wedge.   NEW PEACE DEMANDS FOLLOW BOMBINGS   Bombers Fight Storms te Put End to Once-Proud Hamburg, 1500 Tons of Explosives Dumped.

PUSH THROUGH  MOUNTAINS FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW   Threaten Axis Base at Mt. Etna

More Important Towns in Sicily. Are Captured   General Advance Made Along 65 Mile Front’

ALLIES TAKE THREE MORE SICILY TOWNS   Believe Victory Near; General Advance Made

Wavering Axis Is Hit Hard On 65-Mile Front   Seventh Army Occupies Three Cities While Canadians And British Take One Each; Fiercest Fighting Of Drive Raging

Etna Line Sags Under General Allied Offensive; Last Axis Defense Barrier Across Northeasterm Sicily Hit   ITALIANS DESERTING WAR FACTORY JOBS

Capture Three More Important Towns In Drive.   American, Canadian,  British Armed Forces Report Headway

THREE EXECUTIGNS DELAYED BY DEWE'   Charges President Roosevelt -Has Failed to Surrender Buchalter.

ITALIANS COOL TOWARDS DUCE   Radio Message Attempts To Dethrone King, Revive Fascism

BY MUSSOLINI   “Republican Fascist Party’ Proclaimed in Duce’s  Name by Nazi Radio

INVISIBLE DUGE DETHRONES KING   Nazi-Sheltered Mussolini Declared Head Of New Fascist Party

Duce Attempts To Oust King  From Throne   Radio Says Mussolini Heads “Republican ° Fascist Party

Shadowy I Duce Dethrones King   Nazis Indicate Reign Of Terror in Italy

Nazis Create Party  For Invisible Duce  Plan Seen As Move Te 'Dethrone’ King

Mussolini Tries to Dethrone King   Proclaims Fascist Republican Regime

YUGOSLAVIA INTERNECINE STRIVE RAGES      Charges of Treachery and Treason Tossed About; 17 Sentenced to Death for Alleged Collaboration.   Two Offensives

‘Yugoslav Factions Charge jEach Other With Treason ‘As Germans Attack Both

STRIFE GROWS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Factions Exchange Charge: Of Treason; Germans Launch Drive   Asserts U. S. Post-War Interests are Neglected

SCHISM WIDENS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Treason Charges Bandied Between Factions As  Nazis Fight Both

STRIFE GROWS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Factions Exchange Charges Of Treason; Germans Launch Drive

Yugoslavs Quarrel Among Selves;  Germans Advance  Nazis Take Advantage Of Rift Between Balkan Military Heads

Raining New Air Blows at Italy, Germany, Japan   Attu Campaign Places American Forces within Striking Range of Japan,   Casualty Figures

Regional Meeting Of 2 Preshyteries To ‘Be Held Next’ Week At FM College

Bs “ional Meeting OF 2 Presbyteries o Be Held Next "Week AL EV College

Abortion Angie Enters Fiynn Case   Parents Testify Today In Los Angeles

Police May Ask Probe Of Operation Claim By Peggy LaRue Satterlee

SEVERE GALES, RAINS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE   Explosion of Barrage Balloon at Vallejo Kills Soldier

Germans Nearly Halt Great Russian Drive   Reinforced Nazis Put Up Strong Fight at All Points

Nazi Reserves Stall Russians   Reds Report Advance In Dnieper Beng

RED OFFENSIVE BROUGHT TO HALT BY GERMAN ARMY   Reinforced Nazis Give Battle in All Sectors and Some of Heaviest Fighting of War Is Raging.   STRIKE AT SOVIETS IN DNIEPER BEND   Moscow Reports Attacks Were Repulsed—Russians Silent on Struggle in Vital Kiev Salient.

“Navy Plans To Attack U-Boats Told   Drafted at  Conference in Washineston

AXIS NATIONS 4, CLAIM 67 SHIPS SUNK IN MONTH   Patrol Action In Tunisia Is Increasing

Axis Claims 67 Allied Ships Have Been Lost   Big Canadian Liner Among Victims; U. S., Britain Mum

U. S., BRITAIN CANADA MAP I-BOAT WAR   Announcement Coincided with Hitler Reports

DRAFT PROGRAM TO KEEP ATLANTIC SHIP LANES OPEN   American, British and Can« adian Officers at Washe ington Parley; Details Withheld.

NAW ACTS TO GUARD otlPo IN SEA LANES   Program Believed Connected with Pians tu Open Second Front.   ANNOUNCEMENT MADE IN THREE CAPITALS

Leaders Agree On Way to Keep Sea Lanes Open   Hint New Program Directly Linked to Invasion of Europe

Allies Agree On Plans To Beat Subs   U. S., British and Canadian Navies Complete Prosram

Not Confirmed Or Denied By Allies — Red Army Contiones To Fight Through Hedge Hog Defense Toward Yartsevo   RUSSIANS ADMIT Loss OF KHARKOV

Third Mine Strike Looms   Negotiation Deadline Will Expire June 20

Miners Return to Work; Expect to Get New Contract   Striking Coal Miners Go Back To Work Mon. day; Raise Threat of Another Strike in Two Weeks if Contract Not Drawn

New Strike Threat Raised When Miner: Set June 20 Limit   Both Operators and Union Show Desire to Draft Contract Before New Crisis Develons in Industry

COAL STRIKE RENEWAL IS THREATENED   Ask New Contract In Two Weeks, Or Flee—

Wage Paet For Miners Is Due Soon   Contract Must be Signed to Avert Another Walkout

CAPITAL PUSHES PLANS TO SAVE WORLD'S TRADE   U. S. May Dump Two Billion Dollars Into Fund For Stabilization   CONGRESS OKEH SOUGHT   Program Intened For Presentation Before Economic Conference

PUSH PLAN FO ALLIED TRADE CONFERENCE   U.S. May Furnish Two Billions to Help Stabilize Currencies.

MINERS OPEN WAGE PARLEY   Anthracite Unions Are Expected To Demand $2 Day Increase

No L :p In Bombardment Of Sicily By Al: lies. Italians Take Drastic Measures Preparing For Impending Inva2IMOn.

Hitler’s Biggest Zeppelin Base in Friedrichshafen Is Bombed.   en Is Bombed.  R.A.F. SWEP OVER CHANNEL AT NOON  There Has Been No Leatup in the Allied Bombing of Sicily.

Allies Hit Zeppelin Base  In Germany   Warbirds Shoot High Across Switzerland Alps

Requests Franco Give Up Post   Rightist Says Spain Gives Nazis War Aid

Spanish Aid to Germans Charged In Open tellers   Franco's Resignation and Juan's Coronation Demanded

Overthrow Of Franco In Spain Asked On Charaes Of Direct War Aid To Germans

SPAIN CHARGED WITH SUPPLYING GERMAN U-BOATS   Country Also Accused of Placing Bombs on British Ships and in Other Ways  Aiding Germany.   DEMAND FOR FRANCO’S RESIGNATION MADE   Allegations Set Forth in Letters Circulated in Spain Urging Restoration of Monarchy.

SPAIN ACCUSED ~ OF AIDING HUNS   Open Letter Tells Franco He Must Give Way To Monarchy

13 Axis Generals; 150,000 Prisoners Vast Booty Taken   Gen. Von Arnim, Gen. Messe, Ranking German and Italian Commanders Are Both In Custody of Victorious Allies

CON TUNSIA s COMPLETED   More Than 150,000 Axis Prisoners Taken, 1000 Guns

13 AXIS GENERALS, 150,000 PRISONERS ~ AND BOOTY SEIZED   Conquest Of Africa Completed, United Nations Looking Toward Invasion Of Europe—Island Stepping Stones To Italy

Gen. Messe, Italian Comd mander, Seized as His Army Surrenders   CAPE PATROL KEPT   Eisenhower Tells How Shift of -Sth Army Troops Fooled Axis

Von Arnim One of 13 Generals Now Allied Prisoners   150,000 Men, Vast Supplies of War Materials Taken in Roundup

FEW STRAGGLERS BEING ROUNDED UF ‘TO FINISH BIG JOB   13 Axis Generals, More That 150,000 Men, 250 Tanks, Over 1000 Guns Captured By Allies.   ROOSEVELT SPENDING / TIME WITH CHURCHILL   Duisburg Severely Bombed By RAF With Over 1500 Tons of Explosives, Largest Infand Port.

CONQUEST OF TUNISIA IS COMPLETED   More Than 150,000 Axis Prisoners Taken, 1000 Guns

Night-Flying Bombers Pelt Rail Targets   Destruction Dumped On Enemy Ports And Communications

NAPLES AGAIN HIT BY RAF NIGHT RAID   Vital Rail Targets On Mainland Of Italy Blasted

Allies: Rain Bombs On Sicily and Italy   RAF Wellingtons:Blast Naples With Blockbusters and Incendiaries as Other Fliers Rake Shrinking Messina Bridgehead. _

WOMAN VICTIN OF SIX NEGROES IN BALTIMORE   Mother. of. Two. Childrer “and ‘Her Male: Escort Accosted on’ Leaving Picture Show   ‘BOTH WAR WORKERS   Husband of Victim a Home With Children .at ‘Time; Wife in. Hospital  Semi-Conscious

LULL IN PAGIFIC MAY BE PRELUDE JO GREAT DRIVE   Inactivity of Fleet Leads. to Speculation on Sea Offen-sive. Soon.

Believe U. S. Is Preparing Powerful Offensive in Pacific: Fleet Augmented

LOOK FOR ALLIED BLOW IN PACIFIC   Indications Point To Sudden Attack; Possibly on Rabaul

1,000 Soldiers In Pitt Tower   Six Floors Of Famed Cathedral Of Learning Taken Over By Army

Hawatian Case May Be Carried To President   May Set Precedents For Military-Civilian Relations During Wartim

Hawaii issue ~Broybt Before. Ihee Agencies   Dispute between” Judge And (emeral Taken. Up iWashington

FDR MAY GET HAWAII CASE   Settlement in Habeas Cor. pus Dispute Sought by Government Heads

Germans Retreat  In White Russia   Nazis Report Massive Red Forces Strike in Nevel Area; Moscow Quiet

Russians Force German Retreat   Nazis Admit Repulse in White Russia Where Reds Break Defenses

Nazis Report Their Lines Are Shortened   Soviets Silent on Reported White Russia Drive

RAF Blasts Duisburg In Heavy Aerial Raid Monday  /- Bombs Dropped On Great Inland Port Equal rf

BiG BOMBERS HIT DUISBURG   Raid Compares With Major Attack On Cologne Last May.

Giant British Bombers Devastate Rhine Port   Russian-Polish Rift Inspires  Axis Propaganda Barrage

Potato Famine Extends To County Where Record Spud Crops Are Grown

Japanese Raid North Australia  No Further Word of  Air Fail ef Lee Neewt

MACHINISTS 10 QUIT THE AFL ON JUNE 151   Getting Out After a F.veYear Controversy With the Carpenters.   WILL HELP - LEWIS   Application by Lewis to Return to Federation May — Bring Easy Terms.

Machinists Vote To Leave A. FV of L.   ‘nvolves 690,000 Men; Green Is Notified

600,000 VOTE TO QUIT A.F.L   Machinists Take Action as Lewis’ Miners Seek Re-Admission

MACHINISTS TO ABANDON A. FL.      600,000 Vote Break A: Lewis Mine Workers Seek Admission

MACHINISTS TO SEVER AFL TIES   Action Climaxes Five - year Jurisdictional Dispute With Carpenters

British Raid Hamburg, Start Fires   Battered Nazi Port Visited Again And Damage Severe

ROARING FIRES SPREAD THROUGH CITY'S SHIPYARDS, SUBMARINE SHEDS AND AIRCRAFT FACTORIES, FOLLOWING ATTACK ON BERLIN. oscil ely BI   te ERWARD Dp BALL

British Bombers Attack Hamburg In Night Raid   Carga of Explosives Poured on Battered Fort and Other Targets—Roaring. Fires Spread . Through City

RAF BOMBERS RAID HAMBURG   Big Fires Set in German Port; Other Targets Are Blasted

HAMBURG HAMMERED BY BRITISH PLANES   Biock-Busting Bombs Are Rained On German Port City; Five  Bombers Lost

British Bombers Blast Hamburg  Great Fires Spread In German Port

Hamburg Bombed, Set Afire   R.A.F, Follows Up Raids on Berlin By Another

Hamburg Bomber In One of Big Attacks of War   Seaport and Other Targets Damaged by RAF Fliers

RAF Pours Tons of Bomb: On Hamburg’s War Plants  © De tgees Bee Qa fas Chilncawde.   Roaring Fires Set in Shipyards, Sub Sheds, Plane Factories; Other German Targets Pounded

Allied Flyers Blast Hamburg In Night Attack  Heavy Raid Comes On Heels of Day PR. aan  Dd csve

TOTALS GIVEN   * Knox Reveals Strength Of Naval Forces 2,666,500

Mercantile Tax  Repeal Sought   Bill Introduced in Assembly to Abolish  Levy Next January

MICHIGAN IN STATE OF CONFUSION TODAY   Several Cities Fail To Turn Back Time

General In Good Health, Working Hard.....  MacArthur Busy On His 63rd Birthday

MACARTHUR 63 TODAY   United States General Celebrates ’ ‘Birthday Working as. Usual

29 Billions For New U.S. Navy 0. K.’c   House Committee Fails To Make Single Cut In Ships. Planes.

Record Navy Fund Topping 29 Billion Receives Approval   House Committee Hails Carrier As Backbone of New-Style Force; Fleet as Fichtine Unit Said ‘Our’

29Billion Appropriatio Bill Presented House Is Largest In History

AIRGRATT CARRIER BEING HAILED FOR NEW TYPE OF NAV   Largest Naval Appropriation In History 1s Given First Approval Without Any Ship Eliminations.      ALL AIRPLANES, GUNS AND SERVICE INCLUDED   Navy of 907 Vessels In 1941  . Grows to 3,183 During Present Year anci 5100 By July 1944.

BIG NAVY BILL GETS GROUP OK   Committee Favors 29 Billion For Service Branch

SEE CARRIER AS NAVY BACKBONE   House Cemmitiee Approves Appropriation Bill, Gets Figures cn Navy’s Growth

Largest Navy Bill Okeyed By House   Aircraft Carrier Hailed as Backbone Of New U.S. Navy

23 BILLION NAVY BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE   Aircraft Carrier Is the Backhone of the New U. S. Navy Now.

ee ee  ee ee  House Committee Approves Record Appropriation Bill For Navy — $23,463,678,198

Largest Naval. Appropriation In History Okayed   Aircraft Carrier  Hailed As Backbone of New Operations

Huge Naval Funds Bill Is Approved   Aircraft Carriers To F eature New Building Plans:

RECORD NAVAL BILL IS GIVEN APPROVAL WITHOUT ANY ‘CUTS’   History-Making Measure Is Approved Without Changing a Single  beam.

Bill For Navy Is Largest In U.S. History   Aircraft Carrier Hailed As Backbone Of New Navy In Bill Placed Before House Today

BIG NAVY SUM GETS OKEH OF HOUSE GROUP   Aircraft Carriers Hailed As Backbone of New Fleet

APPROPRIATION TO NAVY DEPARTMENT HISTORY’S LARGEST      Committee Hails Aircraft Carrier As Backbone Of New Type  Navy

U.S. Force Rips Toward Coast   HURRICANE AMERICAN GUN BARRAGE RIPS NAZI TANK ASSAULT EAST OF EL GUETTAR; EIGHTH ARMY POISED TO SPRING ON ROMMEL

British First Army Closing  Trap on Mateur      No Letup in Ferncity ef Allied Air Attack On Harried Axis Forces

Tanks, Infantry Hit Nazi Lines Near El Guettar   British First Army Drives on Mateur, 18 Miles from Bizerte

Occupied Europe Is Resisting   increased Opposition Comes With Allied Successes  in Afri¢a

MAIN POSITIONS OF NAZI FORCES "ARE ASSAULTED   British Push Closer to Mateur; Allied Airmen Continue With Attacks

YANKS ATTEMPT. BREAK - THROUGH TO COAST PLAIN   British Forces Drive On Mateur, 8th Army Advance Continues

NEW ARMY GROUP HAS BEEN FORMEL   American Flyers Take Part In 1399 Sorties In One Day Against Rommel.

British Drive Closer To Bizerte; Americans Halt Nazi Tank Attack

Pre-War Fathers Subject To Call Beginning Today   Two Calls For Month Will Try To Ease Number of Selectees

FATHERS SUBJECT TO CALL; SENATE WANTS DEFERMENT      £elective Service: Heads Are Making Every Effort.» To Hold Back ©  ‘Induction ©

WOULD FORBID. DEFERMENTS FOR ~ MEN UNDER 30   Senote Receives New Alternative to the ‘Wheeler Bill   INDUCTION OF FATHERS WAITING ON CONGRESS

NEW DRAFT BILL OFFERED SENAT   Physical or Mental Deficiencies, Farming Would Be Only Deferments.

INew Plan Is Offered  In Senate   Draft Bodtds Instructed To Fill First Call During October With Men Without Children

Law Would Ban Deferment for  Men Under 30   Measure Proposed as Means of Beating Father Theaft

Boy Arsonist » To Reformator   Coloma Youth Ordered Sent To Coldwater

Murray Appeal Complied With By Workers   Expect Production To Be Normal By Tonight's Shifts

UNION GROUPS HARKENING T0 BOARD ORDER   Normal Crews Are Reported on Duty at Majority of Struck Plants.

STEEL OT RIKE ENDa; MEN GD BACK TO WOR   Few Holdouts When Murray Orders Return on WLB Instructions.

MURRAY TELLS STEEL WORKERS TO RESUME 08S   Wage Adjustment Will Be Retroactive to Dec. 25 Exniration Date.

District Mill Workers 'To Obey CIO President   Will Return To Work In Nine Steel-Producing Mills Today

Skeletons of Buildings Seen Amid Fires, Bursting Bombs   By JAMES MACDONALD

HOUSE TO AGT ON DRAFT RULES   Expect Passage of Bill to Delay Induction of Married Men

Fathers  Pp ut A ( Bottom   «++ OF Induction Pool By Vote of House

All Fathers In  One Category   House Refuses To Make Dis. tinction Beiween Dad: Over. Under 30.

MAY BE BALKED BY CONGRESS   President, Meanwhile, Gives Stern Denial To Charges By ‘Mud-slingers’

House Okehs Father Draft Delay Bill   Dads Are Put At Bottor Of Manpower Barre! Quotas Are Nationwide   BACK TO SENATE   Hershey Selective Service Administration Authority Is Strengthened

Quotas On Nationwide Basis Provided. Ir Legislation Sent To Senate Today

HOUSE PLANS PLACE FATHERS AT BOTTOM OF INDUCTION LIST  GETS FLING AT FATHER. DRAFT DEFERMENT LEGISLATION TODAY

HOUSE PREPARES TO TAKE ACTION ON FATHER DRAFT   EXPECTED TO PASS BILL PUTTING DADS AT BOTTOM OF LIST

House Gets Fling AtFather Draft Deferment  Men With Children May Be Placed At   Men With Children May Be Placed At End of Draft List

House Faces Father Draft Plan Today   Version Expected to Put Fathers at Bottom of Induction List

HOUSE PROotD DEFERMENT UF PRE-WAR DADS   Will Put Husbands, Fathers at Bottom of Induction List: Aid Army.

House Nears Balloting On Father Draft   Measure May Bolster Hershey's Authority In Administration Of ec lactive Service

FINAL VOTE 0  BILL PENDING   Amendment for Calling Young Fathers First Is Voted Down.

House May Act On Father Draft  Measure Today   Passage Of Bill To Put Them At Bottom Of Induction List Likely. :

House Given Fling at Fathers-Draft Legislation Today   Enactment of Prohibitive Law is Expected; Other Capital News

House Votes Today On Bill Deferring Fathers In Draft   Husbands At Bottom Of Army Induction Lists

Fathers to * Bottom of . Draft List   House Passes Measure by an Overwhelming Vote and Sends It to Senate   SOME DIFFERENCES MUST BE IRONED OUT   Provides for Induction - of Menon Nation- Wide. Basis; More Power to Hershey

HOUSE GETS DRAFT DEFERMENT BILLS   Indisations Point to Passage of Legislation to Bury Fathers in Draft List

HOUSE BILL PUTS PRE-PEARL HARBOR DADS AT END LIST   Measure Goes Back to Senate  “After House Overwhelmingly: Approves It—Strengthens Hershey’s Authority

House Rejects Dad Draft Delay   PRESIDENT SAYS FEDERAL EXEMPTIONS TOTAL ONLY 3.2 PER CENT OF 3,000,000 EMPLOYES; HOUSE TAKES FLING AT LEGISLATION ON DADS

May Put Fathers Lower in Draf!   House Gets Its Long-Awaited Fling at Father-Draft  Deferment.

SUGGEST STANDING COMMITTEE ON ‘AIR’  Prediction Of Air-Minded U. S.

Navy Men Down Eight Planes  Damaae 12 Otherc. Drive   Damage 12 Others, Drive Away Submarine and Hit Torpedo

SHIP'S GUN CREW DOWNS 8 PLANES   YANKS SCORE VICTORY OVER NAZI FLIERS AND SUBS IN RUNNING FIGHT.

Liberty Ship Beats Off Nazi Fliers In Eight Days of Bitter Fighting

Eight German Planes Downed  By 1 Gun Grew   Men Aboard U.S. Liberty Ship Win Praise For Work

‘Liberty Ship Gun Crew Downs [Eight Planes, Damages Others, And Explodes Torpedo in Transit

Dr. Herring Heads State Baptists   Convention Approves Construction of New Nurses }igme.

HERRING NAMED BAPTIST HEAD   Elected President At Closing Session of Convention.

Former Clerks and Farm Boys Draw Big Pay in War Plants, Engel Says

FINDS FARM BOYS, EX-CLERKS MAKING $60 T0 $120 WEEK   Girls, He Says, After Two or.  Three Months Training, ©  Earn as Much as $269.72 a Month.           VISITED 47 FACTORIES. - ON INSPECTION TOUR:             Michigan Representative As< serts Gun on Two Whee Costs $21,000 Because  of Huge Pay Rolls.

SOLON OATS ARM COSTS 100 MUCE   Rep. Engel Makes Tour of War Plants; Cites Excessively High Wages Paid tc Unskilled Workers

Excessive War Costs Charged   Pay Scale Claimed Out Of Progortion

First Army Takes Key Elevations   French Advancing; Total of Prisoners Mounts to 35.000

8TH ARMY MASSED FOR PUSH ON AXIS COASTAL DEFENSE   35,000 Prisoners Taken In . Tunisian Campaign — Airmen Active As Land Forces Get Set For Final Drive

ALLIES SMASH THRU STRONG AXIS FORCES   Seize Two  Strategic Hills Guarding Outerir:

First Army And Frencl Make Important Gains In Battle For Tunisia

Montgomery's 8th Army Masses for Frontal Smash at Enemy; Terrific Battle Is in the Offing   23,000 of 30,000 Prisoners Taken by Allies Identified as Italian-—Aerial Offensive Keeps Up. /

STRATEGIC POINTS IN AREA HELD   Fortifications Guarding Fringe of Northwest Tunisian Coffin Are — Captured.

BRITISH, FRENCH TROOPS CAPTURE TWO STRATEGIE HILLS IN TUNISIAN CORNER   Montgomery's Army Massing for Frontal Assault on Axis Lines

8th Army Ready For Frontal Blow   39,000 Axis Prisoners Held Now; Stuttgart Bombed by RAF

ALLIES GAIN 2 HILLS IN TUNISIA   British, French Take Strategic Positions

Montgomery Set For Assault on Last Axis Line   ‘French, British Capture Vital Hill Positions as Stage _ Is Set for Climax

FINAL TAX RATES ANNOUNGED HEFE   Levies Listed by Auditor Lack Only Official Action by State.

FINAL TAX RATES ANNOUNCED HERE   Levies Listed . by: ‘Auditor Lack Only Official’Ac- tion ‘by State.”

ALLIED SPITFIRES DESTROY OR DAMAGE 22 JAP PLANES NORTH OF DARWIN

Another Dent Put in Japan’s S. W. Pacific Air Force.  ALLIED AIR POWER  GROWS IN PACIFIC  Nip-held Kiska Island Is  Bombed Again by Allies Sunday.

AUSSIES PUSH AHEAD ONHUON      Smash to Within Half Mile Of Jap- Positions in  Settelbeae Area.

DAMAGE, SINK 19,000 TONS OF JAP SHIPS   TOLL TAKEN WITHIN 48-HOUR PERIOD OF OPERATIONS

AUSSIES PUSH AHEAD ON HUON   Smash to Within Half Mile Of Jap Positions in Sattelberg Area

Gains Scored By Australians   Report 19,000 Tons Of Shipping Blasted

Australians Drive Close To Sattelbere   Gain on New Guinea As American Bombers Pound Jap Shipping  AIR BASE AREA HIT

JAPS FALL RACK GEFORE AUSSIES   ALLIES WITHIN HALF A MILE OF ENEMY DEFENSES NEAR SATTELBERG.

TANKS SUPPORT ASSES DRIVE   Punch to Within Half-Mile Of Sattelberg Defense   SHIPPING HI?   Fliers of Three Allied Nations  Attack Ships; Jap Airmeh Retaliate

CONFESSES SHE KILLED WOMAN IN DECATUR   De Etta Ham, Mother of 6, Held; Blames “Tove Theft”

Marshall Visits MacArthur, And At Pearl Harbor   General In Area When New Britain  InvaAcinn Started

GENERAL MARSHALL, M'ARTHUR CONFER   Chief of Staff Visits the South Pacific War  Tons

MARSHALL Wall PAGIFIG SECTORS   Chief-of-Staff Holds Conferences With General MacArthur and Other Ranking Army and Navy Officers

GEN, MARSHALL AND MACARTHUR IN CONFERENCE   Chief Of Staff Also Discusses Pacific Strategy With Naval Commanders   VISIT KEPT SECRET UNTIL ARRIVAL HOME

Aerial Assault Against Germany To Be Intensified With Americans Hitting Day and Night by Steadily Growing Force in England

U.S. Airmen To Carry Full Share of Raids on Europe  Faker Reveals Heavy Bomber Force Is Doubled in Size Over March;  Losses Are Light

= @ "= * Seer  “Share of Raids on Europe  Eaker Reveals Heavy Bomber Force Is Doubled in Size Over March;  Losses Are [Licht

8TH AIR FORGE TO CARRY FULL SHARE OF LOAD   Summer Will Find U. S. Air Force In England In Thick Of Offensive Against Germany, Says General Laker.

U. S. Air Force In England Nears Strength of RAF   Americans About Ready to Carry Full Share of Raids  on Germany.   Bomber Force Doubles  In Size Since March

Fighth Air Force Will Equal RAF's Strenath by Fall   Daylight Precision Bombing Is Still Preferred by Yanks

U: S. Air Force ~ Ready To. Take ’ Shar e In Raid:   Leader. In England. Says -Fast “Increasing Units Will Double By October

U.S. AIR POWER I ENGLAND TO BAF SZE SOU   Eaker Says End of Summer to See Our Bombers Doing Full Share.   LAST BUNCH OF FLIERS ACROSS BIGGEST EVER  y

American Forces Are Doubled Since March, Eaker Says   Fleets of Planes: t Carry Full Share « Offensive in Summer.

Yank Planes To Increase Bomb Blows  Equal RAF About End-of Summer,

Strength of Big Bombers Abroad Mounting, Reports Eaker, American Leader

U.S. Airforee In _ Britain Growing  It Will Soon Carry Full Share Of Bombing

MASS RAIDING BY AMERICANS IS OUTLINED   Eighth United States Air Force In England to Carry Full Share of Bomber Offensive  —  STRENGTH IS DOUBLED

Air Force Set For ‘Big Show   Ready To Help Give Hitler Knockout

BRITAIN-BASED AEF DOUBLED SINCE MARCH   Bombers Will Be Doubled Again by October, Eaker Says, Soon Will Approximate RAF

MANY WORKERS N GOVERNMENT MAY BE TAKER   Estimated That More Than 54,000 Federal Employes Have Deferment.   WILL BE CHANGED   Million Men Available for Service May Be Taken “ Off U. S. Jobs.

MANY WORKERS “WN GUVERNMENT WAY BE TAKEN rr ae   WILL. BE CHANGED   Million Men Available for! - Service May Be Taken ° Of U. S. Jobs,

ONLY _ GOVERNMENT EM. PLOYES WITH SPECIAL CERTIFICATES SWELL . " NOT BE SUBSECT ¥O DRAFT

KILL RUML ACT, DOUGHTONURGES   Solon Makes Strong Plea For Treasury-Backed Proposal

FIGHT RESUMED ON INCOME TAX   Republicans Pushing For Modified Ruml Plan To Skip A Year

Finish Battle On Pay-as-You-Go Plan in Congress   Storm of Oratory as House Clears Way for Vote on Ruml Plan

House Clears Way For Vote On Pay-as-Go   GOP Fights for Modified Rum Plan in Finish  Taxation Ratio

‘Battle Opens “On Tax Plans   Parties Differ Upon Pay-As-You-Go Bills

Finish Fight On Tax Plan Opens   ‘House Clears Way For. Ballot Today

SKIP-A-YEAR TAX MEETS OPPOSITION      Doughton Opens Debate On Tax Bill! House To Vote Tuesday

FINISH BATTLE © ON PAY-G0 TAX ~ PLAN UNDER WAY   House Clears Way for Vote Today That May Send Controversial Measure ta Senate.   BILL. WOULD ABATE AT LEAST 5 BILLION   Republicans Call for Passage of Ruml Plan With Democrats Intent on Killing Proposal.

Open Taxation Fight in House   Pay-as-You-Go Vote May Come Tuesday

HOUSE DEBATES PAY-AS-YOU-COPLAN AFTER RESI   Back from Easter Vacation. Members Again Tackle Task.

EXPECT VOTE ON TAX TOMORROW   ‘House Hears Final Arguments in Pay-As-You-Go Debate

Rum plan unthinkable —Doughton   Demands killing beyond revival by congressmen

House Debate: Tax Bill, Vote Set for Today   Republicans Battle for Modified Ruml Plan as Democrats  Fight to Kill Idea

Committee Head Demands Ruml  Plan Be Killed   Doughton Makes Plea For Adoption of Treasury-Backed Act

House Awaits Test Today On Ruml Plan   Doughton Calls For Death of Pay-as-You-Go

Moditied Ruml Plan Is Debated   Vote Due Today On Wiping Out  “OL Taxes.

Rumi Plan in House For 2nd Vote   DEMOCRATS PREFER DOUBLE TAXATION TO SKIPPING 4 YEAR; OUTCOME OF VOTING I IN DOUBT.   New Deal Plan Capital Levy

‘Iniquitous Tax Policy’ Vs. ‘Heaven for Loan Sharks’   Finish Battle on Pay-as-You-Go Plan Under Way in House With Fireworks

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Vote Due in The House Today   Democratic and Republi: can Oratory Debate Value of Rum! Plan

VOTE IN HOUSE ON PAY-GOBILL LIKELY TODAY   Finish Battle on Ruml Plan Started With Round of Oratory

House clears way for vote on tax plan   Bill may go to senate Tuesday

HOUSE BEGINS TAX DEBATES   Finish Battle On Pay A: You Go Plan Opens In Storm Of Oratory; Early Vote Seen

FINISH FIGHT IS OPENED ON TAX MEASURE   Democrats Intent on Kill ing Ruml Skip-a-Yeor Plan

Ruhr Assaulted  By RAF Bombers  me Planes Are Listed Missing After Attack

ALLIES RESUME AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST NAZIS   21 Bombers Lost In Raids Over Ruhr Valley

Aerial Offensive Resumed By RAF   Targets Attacked In Ruhr Valley

HEAVY ATTACK MADE ON RUHR   RAF Showers Cargo of Explosives On Industrial Center

RAF Loses 21 Planes OverRuhr   Heavy Raid Made By Some Of Britain’s Biggest Bombers.

INDUSTRIAL RUHR VALLEY TARGET FOR RAF LAST NIGHT   Resumed Allied Aerial Offensive Against Western Europe.   21 BOMBERS WERE LOST   Some of Britain’s Biggest Bombers Participated in the Attack.

ROYAL AIR FORCE RESUMES RAIDS   Hits Targets in Ruhr Indus: trial Area, Lose 21 Planes

Ruhr Valley Hit Hard By RAF Bombers   21 Planes Fail To Return From Latest Mission

21 PLANES LOST IN NIGHT'S RAID ON WAR CENTERS   Bad Weather Over Germany Blocks Definite Report

RUHR PLANTS TARGET OF RAR NIGHT ATTACKS   Raid Made By Some of Britain's Heaviest Bomb- _ ers Described Officially As “Heavy”    21 PLANES ARE LOST   Weather Over Germany Bad and Full Results of Attack Are Hard to Observe

RUHR RAID COSTS RAF 21 BOMBERS   Targets Undisclosed; Heavy Opposition Encountered

Raids Over Ruhr Resumed By RAI  21 Bombers Lost In Niaht Bambina

British Lose 21 Planes Over Ruhr   RAF Resumes Allied Aerial Offensive But Runs Into Bad Weather.

HEAVY RAID 1S MADE ON RUHR 91 PLANES LOST   Full Results Not Observed Because of Bad Weather Conditions

R. A. F. hits heavily at Ruhr section   British lose 21 raiders in Thursday sweep

21 Bombers Lost In Foray; Other Planes Sow Mine: In Enemy Waters

RAF BOMBERS ~ HAMMER RUHR   Resume Offensive After  Lapse of Three Nights

RAF Pounds at Ruhr At Cost of 21 Planes  Essen and Duisbure Are Believed

Britain Loses 21 Bombers Ir Ruhr Attack   Heavy Raids Reported Under Handicap Of Bad Weather

RAF Loses 21 Bombers In Heavy Raid On Ruhr   Weather Over Germany Bad Thursday Night And Communique Says It Was Difficult To Observe Results; Anti-Aircraft Defenses Strong

RAF Reopens Ruhr Attacks   British Air Force Loses 21] Bombers In Attack On Industrial Area.

RAF STRIKES AT RUHR TARGETS   British Air Force Resumes Attacks Against Germany After Three-Night Lull.

RAF Bombers Again Blast Ruhr Valley   Heavy Raid 1 Results In Loss Of 21 British Planes In Nazi Industrial Area

Ruhr Is Blasted As U.N. Resumes   Aerial Offensive   British Ministry Reveals Onibers Missing Following Night Attack

GERMANY’S RUHR VALLEY TARGETS BLASTED BY RAF   British Lose 21 Bombers in Raid Air Ministry Describes as ‘Heavy’

RAF Resumes Aerial Assaults On Western Europe With Raid On Industrial Ruhr Valley

inti-Aircraft Defenses Over Industrial Sections Reported Greatly Improved; More Than 300 Heavy Guns Concentrated In Essen Alone

R. A. F, RESUMES RAIDS ON RUHR   Lose 21 Bombers, but Hit German Industrial  Valley

Ruhr Is Blasted As RAF Resumes Air Offensive   21 Bombers Lost Weather Is Bac But Raid Terme ‘Heavy’

Admiral, Other  High Navy Officer  On Missing Plane Commander of U. S.  Pacific Submarines Reported by Navy

Rear Admiral English and 18 Others On Missing Navy Transport Plane

Submarine Chief Among Missing In Navy Plane   19 Feared Lost When Plane Overdue In ‘Frisco On Flight  From Hawaii

PACIFIC COAST AREAS SCOURED FOR TRANSPORT   Ten Naval Officers On Navy Aircraft Feared Lost; Big Seaplane Is Lone Overdue   LEFT HAWAL BASE   Nurse And Nine Members Of Crew Included In List of 19 Aboard Miss- _  ing Airship

Navy Reveals High - Ranking Officers Lost   One Woman On Airliner Traveling From Pear! Harbor To San Francisco

Hope Fades for Missing Plane   Rear Admiral English And Eight Other Naval Officers Were on Plane

LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR MISSING FLIER   Commander Of U. S. Submarine Forces Victim

ADMIRAL ABOARD MISSING PLANE   High Ranking Naval Officers on Transport, Fog-bound in Frisco Area

ADMIRAL IS MISSING ON BIG SEAPLANE      Ten Naval Officers Reported On Plane Lost Enroute To San Francisco

Hope Fades For 19 On Lost Plane   Pacific Submarine ' Commander Aboard Transport Liner

Pacific Sub Chief Abvard Lost Plane   Admiral English Among Those Who May Have Perished

PETER A MILLER TAKEN BY DEATH   Was Last Confederate Veteran Living In Iredell

NEFFNER PLANS OUSTER FIGHT   Veteran Editor And Statistician To Be Released After 16-Year Service

NEFFNER, FIRED, MAY FIGHT ACT   Hummel.‘Appoints Springfield Man to $4,000 Post in Office

GEORGE NEFFNER 10 FIGHT OUSTER ORDER   Editor, Statistician in State Office for 16 Years

The Jap Still Wants To Fix Peace Terms  InU.S.Capital   Diet Is Told Forces  Will Carry War Over Body Of Late Fleet Admiral Yamamoto 

Jap Diet Told Admiral’s Dreams Will be Fulfilled   Late Fleet Commander’s Soul Will Not Rest Until U. Ss Is Invaded and Peace Terms Are Dictated In the White House, Lawmakers Told; Admit War In Pacific “Showing Graveness”

AMERICA AND BRITAIN CAN MAINTAIN PEACE   Secretary Knox Savs Anglo-American Leadership Can Assure  Securily Of Peace

System of Permits for Slaughterers   Move Being Made To Stamp Out Meat Black Markets

OPA SETS LIMIT ON PORK PRICE    Move Is First In Series Designed : To Eliminate Black Market

Wickard Orders New Permit System For Livestock Slaughter   New System Designed To Drive Black Mar: kets Out of Existence; Ceiling Prices Set By OPA On Pork Effective April 1

MEAT PERMIT SYSTEM SET FOR APRIL    Wickard Acts to Stamp Out Black Markets On Slaughtering

YANKS CONTROL BOBDUBI RIDGE   Take Post Four Miles From Salamaua

AXIS HEADS * SHOCKED BY . U.S. MIGHT   They. Had Not Held the American. Fighting Ability Very High   GERMANS DAZED BY TUNISIA NEWS   Hitler Must Rebuild the Home Morale as He Prepares Against Next Blow

Bad News Dazes Folk In Germany   Himmler Dispatched For Purge in Italy To Bolster Defenses

TUNIS DEBACLE HARD BLOW TO REICH’S MORALE   Goering, Himmler Go To Italy To Bolster  Defenses

DOUBLE TASK AHEAD OF HIM   Must Cushion Axis. Detest tr. ‘Africa and Speed Defenses in Occupied. Countries  Against Invasion.

Hitler Facing A Double Task Of  Cushioning Blow   German Chief Must Bolster, Nazi Invasion Tinfariene.

NAZIS STUNNED BY FIGHTING FORCE OF U.S.   Hitler Faces Task Of Explaining Tunisia Defeat And Building Defenses Against Invasion.

Hitler Faces Job of Bolstering iHome Morale and Speeding Bolense

HITLER HUNTING FOR NEW TONIC TO LIFT MORALE   But People Can’t Cheer De feats — So All's Not Well in Berlin

Hitler Faces Task of Speeding Defenses and Cushioning Tunisian Defeat

BELIEVE HITLER'S TRUSTED AIDES GIVEN TASK OF STRENGTHENING ITALIAN FRONT  People In Germany Stunned By Defeat By The Allied Armies In North Africa

German People Are Stunned Bi African Defeat   Hitler Has Trouble In Explaining As He Speeds Invasion Defenses.

HITLER FACES DOUBLE ACTION   Must Cushion Home Movale and Bolster Invasion Defenses

‘Hitler Faces Task Of Cushioning Blow “Of Tunisian Defeat On German Morale

EUROPE JITTERY; HITLER PLANNING DEFENSE TACTICS   FUEHRER HAS TOUGH TIME EXPLAINING AFRICAN DEBACLE

100 FIGHTERS OF HITLER'S FORCES DOWNED BY FORTS   American Daylight Raids are Taking Heavy Toll of Luftwaffe.

To Interview Applicants For Clerical Positions In Kerrville on Jan. 18th

Extension Service To Help. Farmers'Meet’43 Food Goals; Enlist Workers Here F rica

ALLIES POU NAZI LINE IN ITALY   Employ Heavy Artillery Barrage in Attack

ALLIES HAMMER NAZI DEFENSE LINE IN ITALY   Fighter - Bombers Attack Enemy Gun Positions, Transport And Trains

ALLIES POU NAZI LINES ON ROAD T0 ROME   Yanks Using Heavy Artillery   NO AXIS PLANES

Jungle Troops Are Closing In On Finschhafen   Australians Repulse Three Jap Attempts To Escape From Trar

Troops Close On Fnschhaten   Hurl Back Savage Jap Now Strangling Enemy

Aussies Close In on Japs  al Finschhafen  Report Fightirig Is Very Heavy for  Ti ten cel am eee ek OS ck eon

Aussies Close Tn on Japs lat Finschhafen   Report Fightitig Is Very Heavy-for ~_ Jungle Type Wartare

Aussies Close In on Japanese  At Finsehhafer   Three Counter-Raids Hurled Back; Fliers Damage Big Freighter

Australian Jungle Troops Close On Finschhafen  Hurl Back Savage Jap Counterattacks; Now Strangling Enemy

AUSSIES CLOSE. IN ON JAPANESE  AT FINSCHHAFFA   Enemy Fails in Three Violent Counter-Attacks to Break Allied Strangle-   . hold, 7   POSITIONS OF 2 FORCES ARE ONLY YARDS APART   Fifty Nipponese Killed in One Assault—Foe’s Resistance on High Ground Broken.

Jungle Fighters Rebuff Jap Jabs  Near Finschhafen   Allied Bombers Continue Assaults In Southwest Pacific   ALLIED HE ADOUARTERS IN THE “OLTHWEST PACIFIC,

ALLIES GAIN ON AXIS IN DEATH TRAP      American, British, French Squeeze Rommel Army, Advance From Four Sides.   PLANES POUND ENEMY

ROMMEL RETIRES TO MOUNTAIN ZONE FOR “LAST STAND”   British Eighth Army Now Within Fifty Miles of  Tunis; Russian Flyers

Allies Gain on A‘! Fronts, Gen. Eisenhower Tells   Stage Is Set for Blazing Finale of North Africa Battle

Vanguards of Montgomery’s Eighth Army Reach Enfidaville, Only 50 Miles Below Capital City of Tunis

ALLIED TROOPS DRIVE FROM 4 KEY SECTORS ON GERMANS TAKING REFUGE IN MOUNTAINS   Algerian Radio Reports Vanguards of Montgomery’s Army Have Reached Enfidaville, North of Sousse and Only 50 Miles Below Tuni:

RommelTakes Refuge in Coffin Corner   Axis Forces Sealed in Arc Formed by Eighth and First Armies

Stage Set for Blazing Finale In N. Africa   Practically All of ltalian Lottorio Division Captured

37 of 100 Jap Raiders Down  At Morseby      Soviet Warplanes Pound German Supply Lines As Mud Bogs Land Operations; Nazi Drive Halted on Volkhov Front

Advances Made In ‘Four Key Sectors   Rommel Takes Refuge in Mountain Rimmed “Coffin Corner”? — Montgamery’s Men Ara Reported at Enfidaville — Entire Italian Division Is Said to Be Captured

Allies Score Gains In Four Key Sectors   Fighth Army Is   Eighth Army Is Reported Only 50  Miles From Tunis

GEN. EISENHOWER REPORTS ALLIES IN STEADY ADVANCES   STAGE SET FOR BLAZING FINALS TO BATTLE OF NORTH AFRICA #

Stage Set for Big Finale in  North Africa   Allied Troops Score Gains in Four Key Sectors; Rommel Takes Refuge in Mountain-Rimmed ‘Coffin Corner’

North Africa Battle Nears Final Phase   British 1st and 8th  Armies Join Forces To Form Tight Arc Around Retreating Axis Troops

Allies Driving Rommel Into Coffin Corner   Troops Score Gains In 4 Key Sectors Of North Tunisia

Gains Are Scored By Allies in Four Key Tunis Sectors   Two Towns 50 Miles South of Tunis Taken by the British,   Axis Forces Under  Allied Air Pressure

FIERY FINALE DRAWS NEAR IN TUNISIA BATTLE   Yank and British Forces Advancing All Along Line In Four Key Sectors   MORE ITALIANS GIVE UP   Allied Warplanes Add to Destruction by Pounding Troops and Shipping

Allied: Planes And Seige Guns lose. Ticht Net      Estiniited - 210. 000 -dnaining t  Fall Back into 2 Nateo 7                     Allied Warplanes Br = thing Bing Ln * AU  Guns:

Rejreating Africa. Corps Kept Under  Hail: of         NOW JAMMEDIN TIGHT CORNER   News Agency Reports. Nearly Whole Atalian Division Captured; -

Report Eighth Army Reaches Enfidaville  In Tunisian Drive   Allies Advance On Four Fronts As Rommel! Enters ‘Coffin Corner: Capture Entire Italian Division

Axis Armies Jammed Into Rapidly-Shrinking Corner   Another Raid On Koenigsberg

DeGaulle, Giraud Brought Together   President Roosevelt Breaks Another Precedent by Trip

Lend-Lease To Keep House Busy   Expected to Force Out Draft, Labor, and  Farm Prices

Important War Agency Now Up in Congress for Extension.  THREE DAYS SET

Lend Lease Aid to China to Be Aired   Debate on Lend Lease Extension to Occupy House; ‘No Opposition Seen

DEBATE OVER LEND-LEASE IS EXPECTED   May Extend Plan For Another Year Starting July 1

12 Per Cent Drop In Wheat Is Seen  Russian, Chinese Crops Not Included

World Production Of Wheat Drops In 1943 Figures  Reflects Large Cut In North American Yield, Says Report

FORTRESSES BLAST FIELDS IN HOLLAND   While RAF and U. S. Fliers Batter Other Fields In France; Shuttle Relay Over   95 Enemy Planes

Fortresses Take Over Air Attacks Against Germans   Dutch Airfields Hi By Forts as Allies Raid French Dromes

Supreme Court Frees Convict In Murder Case   Justices Reverse Le Fevre Conviction; 2 Others Affirmed

Le Fevre Is Given Freedom By High Cour   Reasonable Doubt That Joe Rookes Was Killed By Fond du Lac Man, Court Decides

Push Foe Back In Russia and North Tunisia   Yanks, British Step Up Air Offensive In North Africa as RAF Hammers Germany for Ninth Night; Reds Shaping New Pincers Drive.

Allies Closing In On Nazis In  African Fronts   Russians Also Maintain Steady Progress In Routing Hitler's Invaders

Rermans Are Forced Out Of Village   British Tanks Lead Assault In North Africa   Russians Take One Town After Another   Americans Consolidate Gains Near Faid Pass ‘n Central Tunisia

Yanks Reform Lines Outside  Faid District   Allied Warplanes From East, West Join To Pound Nazi  Positions.   TAKE MANY PRISONERS

Churchill Tanks Throw Germans Out Sedjenane 40 Miles West of Bizerte

DAITTon TANKS THAUW ENEMY BAGK IN DRIVE   New Losses Also Chalked Up Against Hitler’s Forces — On Russian Front

Yanks Blast Enemy Bases “and Vessels          Seen: as Preliminary - Bigger Things to: Come’  = ini Tynisia..   NAZIS: DRIVEN OUT: ; OF: SEDJENANE.   And'in Russia. ‘the’Red Ad7 vance Threatens’ Entire >. German - Central: Front:

British Oust Foe From Town In North Tunisia   Big Churchill Tanks Help Repel Enemy Near Bizerte

HEAVY CHURCHILL TANKS OUST NAZIS FRAM SENJENANE   RED ARMY SMASHES ONE GERMAN DEFENSE POSITION AFTER ANOTHER

Nazis Routed By British First Army In Africa   Churchill Tanks Throw Germans out of Sedjenane; Reds Capture 52 Towns; RAF Again Attacks Western  . _... gh bah ee

Aerial Activity Hints At New Allied Thr          Reds Continue Push; Prepare Pincer Movemen Crush Nazi Center Salient North of Kharko  Qmach Cerman Raga

Tanks Cut Path Close To Coast: Yanks Near Faid   Four Enemy Ships Sunk Off Sicily: Reds Take 52 Towns, Form Pincer.

40-Ton. Tanks Used To Drive Axis Army  Out Of Sedjenane   U.N. Join Forees On Central Front; Yanks Blast Enemy Airfields; Russians Smash Nazi Defenses

TIGHTEN NOOSE ABOUT ROMMEL   Allied Air Forces Pound Enemy In Preparation For All Out Offensive

Allies Push ‘Air Offensive into 9th Day   Preparation Seen in Continuous Bombing for  Teeamte tn Cnnia

Rommel Falls Back to Starting Point of Tunisian Drive   Reds Smash One German Position After Anoth ey «64 Th DD wseeta

British Tanks Rout Nazis in North Tunisia   Nazis Thrown Out of Sedjenane as Allied Planes Hit Convoy

First Army Pushes Nazis from Village   American Troops Consolidate Position While Airmen Hammer Enemy Air ‘Power

Sedjenane, 40 Miles From Bizerte ls Recaptured   Russians Report Further Large Gains In Drive to West

INTENSITY OF AIR ACTIVITY GROWS DAILY   Heavy Axis Thrust in Central Tunisia Checked. Indications of Bigger Things to Come

Eighth Army May Make Dast   Russians Gain Near Moscow and  In Kharkov Area.

A0-Ton Churchill Tanks are Used By First Army   Allies Prepare for Sweeping Air Offensive in Tunisia

Soviets Break German Lines.  Take 52 Town:   Russians Threaten To Cut Huge Sector From Axis Central Front.   NAZIS DECLARE GAINS

Russians Capture 52 More Towns; Vital Moscow-Velikie Luki Rail way Entirely Cleared.

Aerial Activity Hints At New Allied Thrust   Reds Continue Push; Prepare Pincer Movement to Crush Nazi Center Salient North of Kharkov; Smash German Base

British Tanks Throw Nazis Back: Ailied Air - Offensive Increases   Reds Smash; Nazi      Continuous . Allied Air ‘Blows Seen As Preparation For Big British “Bighth Armv Offensive.

British Tanks  Halt Germans   Big Churchills Drive Back Enemy; Rommel At Starting Point

Nazis - -Are “Thrown ‘Out Of Sedjenane By British =  REDS ADVANCE Soviets Capture Fifty Two.Towns And . Villa cee

ALLIES PRESSING WIDE OFFENSIVE ON AFRICAN FRONT   Red Army Smashes Throuch  German Defenses in North; Reich Again Blast ed by R. A. F.

Air Offensive In rica Prepares For Spring Drive   52 Russian Towns Recaptured Now ; 3 Italian Cities Are Bombed

Force Germans Out of Town in North Tunisia   Allied Air Force Puts on Sweeping Offense Against Axis.   New Drive by British Eighth Army Expected

MAJOR ASSAULY BY ALLIES NEAR IN AFRICA, HINT   Reds Smash German Lines In Moscow Area and Retake 52 Villages   GERMANY BLASTED AGAIN   Axis Forces Are Driven Qut Of Town About 40 Miles West of Bizerte

8TH ARMY (RUMBLING NAZI LINE   Yank Advance Slowed By Stitt  Nazi Resistance

Canadians ~ Crumbling Nazi Anchor   Eighth Army Struggles Ahead— Yanks Are Slowed

aie DITCH ORTONA STAND   British Crumpling Adriatic End Of Nazt Line

PLAN TO KEEP STATE PARKS OPEN IN 1943   H. F. Whiteley Named Chairman of Conservation Commission to Succeed Rahilly

President's Security Program for Returning Soldiers. Is Endorsed

Social Security Expansion Rapped  Georgian Comments a TE ce i Pe

REDS DRIVE ON ON CAUCASUS, DON FRONTS   Within 60 Miles of Rostov; CounterAttacks Smashed

REDS ADVANCE ON CAUCASUS, DON FRONTS   Troops Are Now Only 60 Miles  From Rostov

Soviets Storm Towns, Rip At  German Forees   Nazi Counter-Attacks Hurled Back As Reds Speed Ahead

Labor Planning 'No Third Party   - Will- Endorse Backers ‘Of Roosevelt

U. S. FORCES CAPTURE ALL WEST SICILY   Patton's Tr eops Move East To Complete Axis Battle

Axis is Cornered Near Italy Coast   Americans Take 40,000 Prisoners Bringing Allied Bag to 110,000

Forces Landing On North Of Catania   Final Land, Sea And Air Assault Slated Acainst Axis. Farcee “rawded an Dead End

DETROIT 19 TURNING. 1 HORIMAL LIFE   Governor Kelly Announces No Need for the Early Curfew Rule.   SOLDIERS IN CONTROL   City Reported Quiet After Street Battles That Took 25 Lives.

F R May Step In To End Dispute  Over Airplanes   . MacArthur’s Aides - Visit Washington To Discuss Situation -

Airplane Quota For Australia  Is Up To FDR   Controversy Flares Up Over MacArthur Plea For More Help

PLANES FIRST LINE OF AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE AGAINST JAP DRIVE, EXPECTED ANYTIME

Heavy Bombers Atfack Rabaul, Start 2? Fires   Japanese Base on New Brifain Island Again Bombarded

ALLIES BOMB RABAULBASE   Maze Of Fires Started On New Britain; Fuel Dumps Blasted

ALLIED BOMBERS HAMMER RABAU   Attack Oft-Bombed Base on New Britain; Artillery Fire Blasts Japs In New Guinea, Pound Solomons Bases

MacArthur Fliers Down 55 Planes In Most Complete Victory Of South Pacific

John P. Monroe Accused of Evading Questions at Tense Hearing Before House Committee—Witness Denies War Contract Deals Were Discussed at Parties He Gave for Notables—Says There Was No Drunkenness.

‘Monroe Denies War Deals Discussed at Mystery House   Contempt Threat Hangs Over Head of Host at Big Red House on R Street in Capital: Accused of Evading Questions

Contempt Move May Be Directed At Mystery Man   Host at Washington House Accused of Evading Committee’s Questions

Host of R Street Mystery House Threatened With Contempt Proceedings After Evading Questions of House Committee

Mystery Mar Stirs Ire Of Probers   Contempt Move Faces Capital Contract Agent

Host at R Street House Threatened With Contempt Proceedings by Solons

Host at Big Red House on R Street Faces Contempt Charges After Being Accused Evading Committee Questions

Allies Surprise Foe, Gain Hold Near Madang   Double Envelopment Gives MacArthur Control Of Entire Peninsula.   ENEMY LOSSES HEAYY   General Says Future Advances Are Limited ‘Only By Forces Available’

JAPANESE SQUEEZED ON NEW GUINEA'S — HUOQN PENINSULA   Last Important Coastal Supply Base of Enemy Is Gone   LAND FLANK THREATENED

Squeeze Japs On New Guinea   Finschhafen Falls To Famed Australien Division

Vice Tightens About Enemy On Peninsula   Enemy's Position, MacAr. thur Says, Is Futile If Not Untenable   SHORELINE IS MENACED

FINSCHHAFEN’S CAPTURE FREES BIG COASTLINE   Ales Now Control Huno Gull Dominate Peninsula in Doubl Envelopment   JAP LOSSES HEAVY   MacArthur Gives Credit to Com. bined Operations for Victories Against Odds

Squeeze Tactics Imperil Nippons  Allies Making Fast Way on New Guinea

» Allied Armies Control Entire *Huon Peninsuls   Japs Squeezed Into Ap. parently Hopeless Position On New Guinea.

Jap Remnants Cauaht in Trap   Allies Corner Them Between Mountains anc Sea on New Guinea

Finschhafen’s Capture Gives Allies Control Of Peninsuia   Jap Position Futile, If Not Untenable, Following Fall of Last Stronghold pecs

SQUEEZING JAPS IN HUON SECTOR   dl —— Enemy Position Futile If  Not Untenable With Last  Coastal Supply Base Gone and Land Flank Beset By _ Australian Column; Madang Within Allied Grasp.

dap Positions — Being Squeezed   LAST IMPORTANT BASE - OF ENEMY TAKEN BY ALLIES

Allies Hold Upper Hand In New Guinea  Trap Japs Between Mountains And Sea

Nips Are Without Any Supply Base   Enemy Position Futile If Not Altogether Untenable   COAST IS CLEARED AS FAR AS MADANG

Allies Seize Control Of Huon Gulf   May Hove All Northeastern New Guinea Shoreline in Grasp

Japs Caught Between Sea And Mountains   Enemy Position On Huon Peninsula Called Untenable

HEAVY AIR LOSSES   Aas Planes Lost Par Outnumber Those Of Allies In War

Axis Plane Loss. Far Outweighs Total For Allies   Summary -Of Air. Scores » Excludes Pacific Front And ~ Russian’ Figures

13,744 Axis Planes Lost During War   Allied Toll Is 9358 Machines

13,744 PL ANES DESTROYED   British Magazine Reports on Axis Losses in the War

NOPEGTION UF MASONIC LODGE:   Windfall Will Entertain Tiptcn and Sharpsville Orders.

INSPECTION OF ~MASONIG LODGE:   Windfall Will Entertain Tipten and Sharpsville - Orders.

LEIPZIG HIT BY BIG FLEET OF BOMBERS   RAF Night Raiders Smash at Germany's Second Industrial Line.   British Lose 17 in 8th Raid This Month

17 British Bombers  Lost In Big Attack On Trade Center   Berlin Hit For 3d Time In Week; Yanks Assault Holland Air Base; — London Gets Fifth Night Alert

RAF Bombers In Night Raid On Leipzig   Third Largest City In Germany; Lighter Planes Strike Berlin

PLANE PLANTS AND RAILROAD LINES POUNDED   Blow Struck At Heart of   Junctions for Traffic to   Nazi's Dire-Pressed Russian Front   BERLIN HIT; YANKS RAID DUTCH AREAS   Powerful Guard of Forts Takes Starch Out of Hun Defense: 17 British Bombers Are Lost

R. A. F. Fleet Rains Bombs On Leipzig   Big German Industrial Center Hammered; New  Stab At Berlin.

RAF Hammers Leipzig, Key Rail Junetion   17 Big Bombers Lost in Attack on Industrial Center

Leipzig War Plants, Rail Junction Blasted By RAF   British Lose 17 Bombers in Giving Vital Naz Industrial Center First Large-Scale Bombing of the War

GREAT FLEET RAF  HEAVY BOMBERS IN  ATTACK ON LEIPZIG BIG GERMAN CITY LOCATION OF PLANES  bones  arr ATUrD

RAF, Forts Team Up To Continue Assault On Reick   Aerial Offensive Kept On 24-Hour Basis By Allies

17 Planes Missing In Attack   Mosquitos Roa: Over Berlin in Third Raid  Of the Week

Third Most Important Nazi Industrial Center Gets First Major Blastin:

RAF FLIES INTO HEART OF GERMANY   To Attack Leipzig in Large Scale Blasting With Loss of 17 Planes; Berlin Harassed Again.   Freight Yards

LEIPZIG RAIDED BY RAF   Mosquito Bombers Over Berlin For Third Time

LEIPZIG, BERLIN AND ADDITIONAL CENTERS RAIDED   RAF Heavy Bomber: Smash At Nazis Second Line Of In dustrial Defense Fortresses Blast Dueren.

LEIPZIG GIVEN HEAVY BOMBING   First Large—Scale Raid Of War Made On Key  Railway Center

RAF BOMBERS HIT LEIPZIG INDUSTRIES —   Mosquito Bombers Again Pay Berlin A Call; Other Enemy. Targefs Blasted

Great RAF Fleet Hits Big German City Of Leipzig   Mosquito Bombers Roar Over Berlin And Other Targets

British Send Mosquitos To Attaek Berlin   17 Planes Are Lost In Heavy Raid; Dueren, Metal Works, Blasted  Rew Fartre«cec

R.A. F.ROCKS LEIPZIG PLANTS   MOSQUITOES HIT BERLIN IN NEW EUROPE SMASH

LEIPZIG IS TARGET OF RAF BOMBERS   U. 3. Fortresses Attack Several German Cities

MAIN ATTACK IS LAUNCHED AT LEIPZIG   City Has Many Blasted Industries Moved From Ruhr — Mosquitoes Hit Berlin for Third Time This Week.

Leipzig Attack Aids Red Army   Kev Jonetion For Supply To Ru  in Bombed

LEIPZIG BLASTED BY GREAT FLEET OF RAF BOMBERS   ATTACK IN SHARP CONTRAST WITH RAID ON LONDON

RAF Fleet In New Nazi Raid   MOSQUITO BOMBERS MAKE ANOTHER TRIP OVER GERMANY

BIG RAF FLEET RAIDS LEIPZIG 17 CRAFT LOST   Hit City Where Many of Ruhr’s Bombed Out Industries Had Moved

Leipzig, Nazi Industrial! Center Is Hit By Great Fleet of RAF Bombers

Big German Industrial City Blasted   Berlin Also ‘Attacked by. — Meosauito Bombers

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST REICH IS MAINTAINED   Big Attack on Great Industrial and Trade Centers Is Made as Planes Again Appear Over England   17 FAIL TO RETURN

Great Fleet Of RAF Planes Smashes At Germans’ Second Line Of Industrial Defense—Mosquito Craft Over Berlin Again—Flying Fortresses Blast Metal Factor‘es At Dueren In Seventh Major Offensive This Month By U. S. Army Air Force

R. A. F. Bombers Attack Leipzig   City Is Key Nazi  Rail tunction

RAF, FORTS ~ WATCH CLOCK   Team Up to Keep Ail Offensive Going Continuously

Big Leipzig Raid   Big German Industrial City Feels Full Weight Of RAF Bombs

HEAVYWEIGHTS OF RAF BLAST 3RD NAZI CITY   Mosquitos Pound Berlin; Fortresses Active

British Also Strike Berlin in Swift Raid   Flying Fortresses Escorted by American, And British Fighters Hit Dutch Targets

—AIR WAR—  IWEREN PLANTS HIT BY FORTS’   British Bombers Travel Far Into Germany In Large-Scale Raid   17 PLANES LOST   Americans Lose Eight Bombers In Attack On Metal Factories

Mosquitos Over Berlin For Third Raid This Week   British Lose 17 Planes In Heavy Night Raid On City of Leipzig

LIGHT PLANES HIT BERLIN OTHER CITIES   First Big Attack On Sixth Largest Industrial Center Since 40; Lose 17 Aireraft

BIG RAF FLEET AMAKES ATTACKS   Leipzig, Site of Many Factories, and Berlin Are Targets.   NAZIS IN LONDON RAID

RAF BOMBERS LASH GERMANY   Liepzig Industries Fee Might of Allied  Explosives

‘Big R. A. F. Night Bombers Make Attack 'On Leipzig, Mosauitoes Raid Berlin

RAF Bombers Follow Yanks Across Reich   British Attack Industries Moved Out Of Bomb-Shattered Ruhr Area.   METAL PLANT BLASTED

Leipzig Lashed In RAF Assault   - Third Biggest Nazi War Center Blasted

Mosquitos nit Berlin; Yanks  DV, 2 Dee nena  ae bury r . he ot Peery re = aivst U2s  Sixth City of Reich, Refuge for Ruhr Plants, Gets Severe Mauling  RAF. LOSS IS 17 Round Clock Bombing  Resumed by Combined Allied Atr Fleets

Leipzig Hit By Strong AF Fleet   Mosquito Planes Lash German Targets In Air Offensive

GREAT FLEET RAF  HEAVY BOMBERS IN  ATTACK ON LEIPZIG BIG GERMAN CITY LOCA.  TION OF PLANTS BOMBEL OUT OTHER PLACES

Many of the Ruhr Valley In dustries Had Been Moved to That City; RAF Out for Eighth Time This Month.   MOSQUITO BOMBERS ROARED OVER BERLIN   RAF Lost 17 Bombers During Last Night’s Operations; Kight Bombers Lost in Yesterday’s Raid.

Leipzig Hit By Heavies Of Air Arm   Eighth Mass Raid So Far - This Month for RAF — Berlin Also Raided

Second Hitler Home Defense Line Batferec   German War Industry Crippled By New Aerial Blows

HEAVY AXIS SUPPLIES   Germans Use Newest and Best Weapons on Tunisian Front

GERMANS USE NEW MACHINES   American Soldiers in Tunisia Face New-Type Tanke Gunc.

GEORGE W. HEALY, JR. TO SUCCEED PALMER HOYT IN OW!   Coloradian Resigns Pos' Effective Shortly After January First

Churchill Bids for Russ Support in Paeifie War   Warns Soviet Japan Views Relations With Purely Opportunist Eye; Advises Italy to Cut Loose from Nazis

Churchill Stresses Allied Air Power   Warns That Japan May-Attack Russians Since Twa Recent Warninas Have Been Sent Soviets

Pacitic Aid Asked Of Soviets   Aims Are Agreed By Roosevelt, Churchill

Churchill Bids for Russian Aid in Pacific   Sound Agreement of Warfare on Japs Reached

Churchill And F. D.R. Are Agreed On Policy   Tacit Bid Is Made For Support Of Russia In Warfare Against Japan.

‘Allied Forces Chiefs Seem Parley Bound   Silence Suggests Selection of  Top Commander

INVASION TALKS — BELIEVED NEAR   ALLIED LEADERS EXPECTED TO CONFER BOTH IN LONDON AND WASHINGTON.

SHOE STYLES TOBE PLAINER   Ceiling Put on Heel  Height, Patent Leather for Men Banned.

Relax Dimout On West Coast   Affects Autos; Home Lighting And Sports

Army Relaxes Dimout On Pacific Coast   Fresno Is Placed In Zone Where Most Light Is Permitted   WINDOWS MAY GLOW   Limited Lighting For Sports Events Is Okehed By General Emmons

EASE WEST COAST DIMOUT REGULATIONS   Permits Night Sports; Home, Auto Lighting Liberalized

ACL DROP SEEN IN FEW MONTHS   Chester Bowles Declares Goal Of September, 1942, Level To Be Reached

Predicts.Cost of  Living fo Be Cut  Jo Sept Weve ‘OPA Winning  Fight Against @ HCL Menace’

FOOD PRICES ~~ ARE TO DROF   OPA MANAGER SAYS LEVELS OF YEAR AGO WILL BE IN, _ EFFECT IN. FEW MONTHS

Premier, Top Aides Surprise America With Secret Trip   Presence of Wavell, Beaverbrook And Others Hinis Major Decisions In Offine on Next Offense in War

Churchill and Roosevelt Hold Fifth Conference   Invasion of Europe Probably One of Topics Being Discussed at White House

Prime Minister Brings Wavell, Top War Chiefs   Presence OF British Indig Commanders Marks Fifth Roosevelt Conference :

FIDR-Churchill Talks  “Include Pacific .Wat   White House Reveals Gen. Wavell and ; Other Indian War Experts Came '. Jo U. S. With Prime Minister.

Presence Of British War Experts  From India In Churchill Party Brings Speculation Regarding New Offensive On Far Pacific Fronts

NEW DRIVES IN ORIENT LIKELY PARLEY TOPICS   Churchill, F. R. Plan Series of Intense Meetings in Washington

New Offensive In Far East Hinted From Washington   {Churchill Brings With Him His Top Mili: tary, Naval and Air Experts From India To Washington Confeence

FAR EAST PLANS MAY BE SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE   Presence of British Experts from India with Churchill Hints At Nature of Discussions.

CHURCHILL BACK FOR CONFERENCE WITH ROOSEVELT   Top’ Experts From India Cause Belief New Offensives In Far East Theater ‘To Be Considered.   MEMBERS IN BRITISH PARTY ARE REVEALED   Allied Strategy Over Entire World, Blows For Japs After Tunisia Victory to Be Reviewed.

Flier Kept Busy Dodging Nazi Airmen, Putting Out Fire and Reviving Pilot

B,H., Buchanan Flyers Fight Swarming Foe   Stick To Guns In Flaming Fortress As Focke-Wulf And Messerschmitts Deliver Mass Attack; Ship Brought Home Although Pilot Knocked Out

Forel! Escapes Death Sentence   eercer Jury Finds Him * Guilty Of Manslaughter In Desth Of One Woman   GIRL WILL FACE TRIAL IN MARCH

2 Children Die In Flash Flood   Mine Closed by Water —6 Homes Destroyed. 38 Others Damaged

‘Teen-Aye « Given Vote in Georaia   Franchise for 18-Year-Olds Shows 3-to-1 Margin in Early Returns   THE FIRST STATE TO LOWER AGE   Gov, Arnall Planning. to Seek Such a Plank in Democratic Piatform.

ALL AMENDMENTS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN APPROVED   Georgia Will Be First State In Nation to Give Ballot to 18 Year Old

Senate Is Ready For Policy Vote   Approval Of Resolution _To Form Peace Group Likely Todav.

OTH ADVANCES; NAPLES BATTLE CLIMAX NEARS   Fierce German Resistance Continues Before Port City

AMERICAN ST PUSHES AHEAD BEFORE NAPLES   Island of Corfu, Off Grecian Coast, Taken by Germans Who Had to Battle Italians

Defeatism  Mounting In Germany   Increasing Number Of Huns Lose Hope Of Victory And Respect For Nazis

DEFEATIOM GhOWo IN GERMANY UNCER BOMBINGS WEIGHT   Reports From Diplomatic Circles in Europe Are Indication of Collapse

BLANKET OF SNOW ON NORTHERN OHIO   Icy Streets Add to Traffic Hazards at Cleveland

POST-WAR PLA SOUGHT BY U. S.   Welles Urges World Policine to Avoid Economic Rivalries

WELLES URGES. POST-WAR PLAN   STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL “SAYS NOW 15: “TIME “FOR.” AGEEEMENTS ON 4  ‘ POLICIES

Governor’s $270,500,000 Budget Threatencd as Move Is  Launched in House to Ignore Executive on Financial Mat-  ters—Resolution Offered to Obtain Figures on State Gov. ernment Costs From Miss Margaret Cobb. ,

Democarts Of House Rebel OnBigBudgel   ® Ask That Balanced : Statement Be Secured. From Budget Director

American Will Command United Nations Planes   General Spaatz Placed in Charge at Front at Bizerte ‘

FLYING FORTS CONCENTRATE BIZERTE RAIDS   Deal One of Heaviest Aerial Blows of War on Axis-Held Tunisian Bort   FLIERS REGROUPED   Maj. Gen. Spaaiz Made Commander of All Allied Air Forces in  Th -atre

‘Bombing of Big Base in Three Raids Reported Heavy Blow.   SPAATZ TO HEAD NEW AIR FORCE

laatz Named lied Chief aw Air Force   ying Fortresses Batter ital Axis Supply Port  Heaviest Blows

BIZERTE UNDERGOES SMASHING RAID BY U. 8. ARMY BOMBERS  NO REPORTS OF LAND ACTION IN NORTHERN TUNISIAN SECTOR

Fortresses Lay Triple Bombing On Tunisian Port   Spaatz Takes Africa Air Command; 3 Red Armies Closing on Rostov.

U.S. Air Force Strikes Heavy Blow on Bizerte   Four - Motored Fortresses Bomb Air Port in Tunisie Three Times.   Five American Planes Are Lost in Raiding

AXIS HELD TOWN IN TUNISIA GETS STIFF BOMBING   American Planes Strike Three Times At Bizerte In One Of Heaviest Raids Of War; Spaatz Commands New Air Force.

Heaviest Raid Of Tunisia War Hits Axis Port   Maj. Gen. Spaatz Made Commander Of New Allied Air Force

American Medium Bombers Play Havoc ‘With German Supply Lines Leading South From Kairouan Toward Gabes. Tank Concen teatinne Mard Hit

3 RAIDS MADE ON BIZERTE BY FLYING FORTS   Spaatz Named Head of New Allied Air Force in North African Front

One Of Hardest Attacks Of War U nloosed By Flying Fortresses; Five American Fighters Lost   Axis Tank Concentrations, Railroads And Airfields Pounded By Other American Craft: French Forces Raid Enemy Paoat

U. S. Air Force Strikes Bizerte; Raids on Many Points in Tunisia

Five Lightning Fighters Are Missing After Concentrated Attack On Bizerte Harbor

BLOW IS ONE OF HEAVIEST IN CAMPAIGN      Statement Coincides With Arnouncement That General Carl Spaatz Will Command New Allied Air Force.

Germans Challenged To Tel The Truth About Campaign, ‘Bombers Blast. The Rubr

AXIS SUPPLY BASE STRUCK THREE TIMES   paatz Named Allied Air Chief In North Africa   OPPOSITION   From Fighters, Anti-Air. craft Fire: Five Yank Planes Lost

‘Vital Axis Port Struck Three Times   Major General Spaatz Put In Charge of Allied Air Force in North Africa

Spaatz Heads Allies in Atr   Vitol Axis Supply Port Thrice Hit in One Of Biggest Attacks of War; French Take Desert Outpost; Rail Lines Are Bombed

Fortresses Pound Vital Axis Port   Four Lightning Fighters Lost-—— Spaatz Heads Allied Air Force There

BATTER AXIS SUPPLY PORT IN GIANT RAID   U. $. Bombers Leave Trail of Havoc; Spaatz Takes Air Control In North Africa,:   REDS CHALLENGE NAZIS   Ask Them to Tell Truth About Growing Disaster as 20 More Towne Fall

GOVERNORS TO PLAN POST-WAR ACTIVITIES   Will Study Use of Plants After Conflict

USE OF WAR PLANTS AFTER WAR TO BE GOVERNOR'S TOPIC   Lively Debate Expected a Columbus Conference

PLOTS COURSE FOR AFRICAN TRF      Directed Pilots. of Plane Ov. er Certain Points Without Map.

F.D.R. WAS HELP TO TWO PILOTS   President Amazed: Them  by. Setting Air Course Without Maps.

COOPERATION. ON VOTE BILL URGED   Servicemen Believe Interested In All Ballot Contests

eed  UNITY IS ASKED   Co- Operation  On Soldier Vote Is Requested

Jake Gamerdinger Remsen Resident  Died Tuesday  Had Been Active In Town’s Affairs Forty Years

WELL KNOWN REI REMSEN RESIDENT DIES HERE   J. F. Gamerdinger Made Home In Remsen for Forty Years— ‘Funeral. Thursday

COAL DISPUTE IS HANDED 10 WHITE HOUSE   SHOWDOWN SOUGHT; 67,000 MINERS NOW IDLE

Showdown Soon Between Lewis And President   Sixty-one Thousand Miners Already on Strike in Many Mines   Halt in Production for War Threatened in Some Centers   President (Challenged   Position of Reard

Walkouts in Mine Areas  On Increase   Final Showdown for President and Lewis Now Due Shortly

Issue Headed for Show: down Between President and Lewis   MANY MINERS IN NATION ARE IDLE

64,000 Miners Idle In Bituminous Areas As Crisis Approaches In Serious Situation  UNION HEAD LEWIS MAINTAINS STAND  Speculation Is Rife As to What Action President Mav Take

SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND MINERS iDLé As RESULT OF CONTROVERSY; LASOX BOARD HA DNO OTHER ALTERNATIVE.

War Labor Board Turns Controversy Over to President: 64,000 Idle In Unauthorized Walkouts

White House Gets Coal Wage Case   Showdown Between President, UMW lender Lewis Is Due

COAL MINE WAGE ROW 15 REFERRED TO WHITE HOUSE   Dispute Headed for RooseveltLewis Showdown as War  Labor Board Washes Hands of Controversy.   UNION CHIEFTAIN SILENT ON MOVE   Workers Continue to Walk Out Without Authorization—64,000 Now Idle in Nation.

‘al Showdown Between osevelt and Lewis Near  Mine Union Scorns WLB   A 000 Miners Already Idle in Unauthorized pilkouts 1 in East; Expect Executive May Appeal : United Mine Workers Over Union Chief’s Head

EXPECTED ON BIG PROBLEN   31,000 Miners Already on Srike as Two Challenges Come Before President   DEADLINE FOR GENERAL WALKOUT COMES NEARER

War Labor Board Turns Over Soft Coal Wage Dispute To White House For Settlement   United Mine Workers Refuse To Submit Case To Federal Agency; 61,000 Miners Already Idle Due To Unauthorized Walkouts

Issue Headed for Show. down Between President ond Lewis_   MANY MINERS IN NATION ARE IDLE   Roosevelt Is Challenged on Two Major Pointe

SHOWDOWN IS IMMINENT ON WAGE BATTLE   61,000 Idle Miners Ignore Appeals Of War Labor Board For Production.

Heads for Showdown  Between FDR, Lewis   Labor Board Gives Up As Over 61 ,000 Miners Quit Work And Appeals Are Ignored; ; Warns Against Making Exception ‘

Mine Dispute Goes To FDR   WLEB Surrenders Case As Work Shutdowns Continue

iFDR Told Group’s Appeals Ignored  More Works Shutdown, K1 GDO BMiimexc Tdle

Reds Mass Big Forces F or Attacks   Germans Disclose Break-Throughs in Leninerad Sector

Reds Nearly Set For Winter Push   ALLIED FORCES CROWD NAZI LINE IN ITALY

REDS EXPECTED 10 START NEW BiG WINTER OFFENSIVE   Air of Expectancy Prevails: in Moscow -— Troops are Ready. .

SOVIET WINTER DRIVE MAY BE NEAR AT HAND   Indications That Russians Are Gathering Their Strength For Great Smash Against Germans

BELIEVE RED OFFENSIVE IMMINENT   Snow and Cold Winds Sweep the Russian Front

LONG-AWAITED WINTER SWEEP TO OPEN SOON   Offensive Expected to Drive Nazis Back to Baltic States, Poland, Rumania.

Australians Gain On New Guinea      Push Japs Back  On Huon Peninsula

OPA SAVES YOU 158 TIMES ITS COST   _According To Chairman Floyd 5, Sham

See Closer U. S.-Soviet Tie   Ambassador Harriman To Leave For Moscow .

Inter-House Clashes Loom   Assembly Leaders Expect to End Session This Week

OFFICIALS HOLD ANTHINVASION EXERCISES   Feverish Activity on Coasts of NaziOccupied Countries

Island Garrisons Civen No Respite By Allied Fliers   Sicilian Airdromes Also Under Terrific Attack By Allied Warplanes   TWELVE AXIS SHIPS SHOT FROM AIR

BLASTING Ut AXIS TOLAND FORT GOES ON   New Blows Fall on Italian Bases and Airdromes on Mediterranean.   REPORT MORE LANDING DRIVES ON LAMPEDUSA

FLYERS GIVE PANTELLERIA NO RESPITE   Other Bombers Rock Gerbine and Catania, Sicilian Bases

Heavy Bombing Attack Is Made (On Naples Port   Key Italian Supply Port Again Blasted By Allied Bomber Squads   PANTELLERIA GETS ANOTHER PASTING

LABOR BILL LOSES IN FIRST CLASH   ANTI-INJUNCTION BILL SHOVED ASIDE IN ILL, LEGISLATURE

LARGE BEQUESTS TO MORGAN'S SONS   TWO WILL RECEIVE MAJOR SHARES OF ESTATE OF NEW YORK FINANCIER.

Tokyo Declares Allies Cannot Recapture Burma   Plans Only Dream’ Gen. Yahagi Says

Jap Says Allied Plans to Fail  Hopes Chinese Will Awake From Dream

Colorado Cattle Herd Shuttled From Farm to Farm to - Gain Draft Deferment for Registrants Awaiting Call

Draft Officials Hunt Owner of ‘2-Bar -C’ Herd Which Secured Deferment for 3 Coloradoans

Losses Reported For Both Sides  As Battle Rages   Engagement Mi av Deve lop Into Ps itest Sea-Air Battle Thus Far.

Sea, Air Battle Rages In Pacific With Losses Suffered by Both Sides   U. S. Navy Denies Tokyo’s Claim of Three American Warships Sunk; Asserts Heavy Blows Dealt Attackers; Details of Fight Withheld

GAS SHORTAGE IN PROSPECT   More Coupons Outstanding Than Available Gas

NVASION OF NEW BRITAIN TS FORECAST   CONTINUOUS BOMBINGS INDI_ CATE MacARTAUR PLANS LANDING ON ISLAND WHERE RABAUL 18 LOCATED

Allied Bombings On New Britain Continue Daily   Gen. MacArthur's Communi. que Reports Attacks For 12 Consecutive Days   DRAWING CLOSER TO RABAUL DRIVE

Negro Soldiers Wouldn't Trade Lamp Posi In Harlem for a Square Mile of Tunisia.

Africa All Right For War Purposes, But American Negroes Prefer U.S.A.

HAVE A MONTH   Soldiers Can Get Insurance Withnut ‘Kram Bafore Aur. 16.

Destroy Whole Nazi Battery:      U. S. Artillery Fire Accounts for 12 Enemy Guns and 18 Vehicles

GET AXIS BATTERY   Massed American Fire Puts 12 Enemy Guns Out  of Action

Tells How U. §. Artillery. Fire Destroys 12 Heavy Enemy Guns, * 18 Vehicles, In -Siéilian War

Third Attack In Twelve Day: Blasts Capital   Twenty-Two Allied Planes Lost In Long Bombing Flight

Land on Nipponese Stronghold as Task Forces Bomb Isles   MacArthur Dares Japs’ Navy to Come Out for Engagement

Yanks Invade Bougainville, Last Big Jap Solomon Base   M’Arthur Dares Enemy Fleet to Come Out and Fight

MARINES LA AT JAP BASE; BOMB ISLANDS   Enemy Airforce Unable To Fly From Fields

Jap Naval Force Routed By U. S.   AMERICAN MARINES IN LANDING ON ISLE BASE

U.S. Marines Land On Bougainville: Task Forces Bombard Buka; Shortlands

Bougainville Beach Taken By Marines   Nippon Ships Refuse To Give Battle In South Pacific

Jap Stronghold; : Force Routed Firine A Sho   Marines Take Jap Naval Without

Americans -Head For  Buin Base   Last Stronghold Of Japs In Solomon Islands Is Invaded Under Cover Of American Ships

BOUGAINVILLE LANDING MANE   Strong Opposition Expected In Attack on Jap Stronghold.

U.S. TASK FORCE ROUTS JAP FLEET WITHOUT A SHOT   YANKS ENCOUNTER LITTLE RESISTANCE IN NEW INVASION

Marines Rout Jap Forces on Bougainville   Jap Force Routed at Sight of Yank ‘Naval’ Might; liivaders ‘Meet Slight Resistance

Marines Seize Pacific Island   NIPPO NAVAL FORCE ROUTED AS HALSEY’S SHIPS BOMBARD BUKA, SHORTLAND; U. S. SWEEPS ON AS JAPS, FAIL TO OFFER FIGHT.

Enemy Naval Squadron Flees From U.S. Warships as Yanks Make Landings on Bougainville

Reveal Free Air Plan Has Been ©  Under Discussion   , Would Enable Planes To Refuel But Not  Carry Passengers

FDA REVEALS NATIONS WILL SHARE HOUT EC   Private Operations Favored in Roosevelt, Churchill Studies to Date.   PRESS GIVEN DETAILS OF WORLD AIRLINES

Freedom of Air  Is Post-war Plan   FDR, Churchill  Discuss Program

Freedom o1 Air  Is Discussed  By E.R, Churchill Airlines System  To Interlock Under New Plan

FDR. Churchill Plan Postwar Aviation Now              Agreed <n Principle Of Free Air With Planes Run By  ‘ste Companies

Discuss Plans For Post-war Air Traffic   Roosevelt-Chure hijt Program Would Be World Wide Freedom of Air

FREEOM OF AIR IN POST-WAR FRA, SAYS ER.   Ownership of Lines Private

Principle Of Air Freedom  ‘Is Endorsed   Roosevelt And Churchill Are Studying Postwar Program In Regard To World-Wide Aviation

Hope To Release Boats After Gale   Crews of Two Craft Wade Ashore

Italian People Discuss Allied  ‘Peace Terms’   Copies of peace terms appear in principal cities of Italy ; “_ Seis Geieid aan,

Italy Must Rid Nation Of Germans, Gener ‘al Says   But Nazis Increase Pressure in Attempt  To Keep Wavering Italy From Ouittine Conflict   TERMS TOO HARSH, ROME RADIO ASSERTS   Many Fascists Jailed, Rumors of Rebellion Continue To Circulate

SOVIET FORCES PUSH GERMANS   Four Settlements Taken by Red Troops—Air Battles Raging On

Russians Capture  Four Setflements  Red Airmen Again Hammer at Nazi_  Fn 

LAND ACTION MOVES  NORTHWARD SOVIET  FRONT ON WEDNESDAY UNEASY CALM CONTIN UES, BUT AIR ACTIVITY STILT BEAVY

Draft Dodger ~ Teacher Held   Taught New Yorkers How To Simulate Deafness To Evade Service Call. 

TEACHER OF DRAFT EVADERS IS HELI   Notorious Deceptionist Taken By FBI

Military Evasion — Jeacher Arrestec  Shows New Yorkers How To Feign Sickness

SCHOOL FOR SLACKERS   FBI Nabs “Teacher” Who Gave Instruction To Draft Evaders

Accused ‘Teacher of ‘Feigned Insanity’ Held By FBI as Draft Violator

‘TEACHER’ OF DRAFT EVADING ARRESTED   ‘Notorious Impersonator’ Has Served Pen Term

Teacher of Draft Dodgers Nabbed   sNotorious Crook ‘ontort by FBI

FAKER TEACHES DRAFT DODGING   MAN HELD BY FBI HELPED OTHERS TO EVADE ARMY DUTY

Helped Men Evade Draft   Weinberg, Notorious During World War I, Arrested in New York

CAUGHT BY FBI   Impersonator Taught Men To Evade Draft. Says Hoover.

CONGRESS WILL FACE BATTLES ON 3 “FRONTS”   Foreign Policy, War Conduct, Economy And Bureaucracy Are Major Problems   LEADERS TO BE RENAMED   President Roosevelt To Deliver Historic Message In Person On Thursday

THREE ‘FRONTS’ FACE CONGRESS   78th Session Is Scheduled To Open Wednesday

RAF TOTES ITS AIR FIGHTING TO NAZI LANDS   Railroad Installations In Northern France Are Shot Up In Afternoon Operations;  2 F.W.’s Downed.   Light Raids On London

Nazi Targets Are Hit by Bombs of RAF   Planes Shuttle Over Channel Throughout Day for Attacks

British Planes Strafe Foe Channel Shipping, Railroad Lines in France

RAF Resumes lts Attacks Upon Europe   Weak Retaliation Is Made By Nazi Bomber:

Record Bomb Load Dumped On Jap Bases   223-Ton Present Ends Temporarily Threat to Allies On New Guinea

223 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPEL ON JAP BASE   Daylight Attack Aimed To Silence Jap Strafers

Record Bomb Raid on New  Guinea Japs   223-Ton Load Is Second.  Only to Oct. 12 Raid on Rabaul

Threat To Allied - Positions Ended   Rases From Which Japs .Had Reen Moking Raids Smashed   CRAFT IN HARBOR ALSO DESTROYED

HEAVILY BOMB JAP POSITIONS   Action Ends for Time Being Threat to Allies on New Guineas.

RECORD BOMB LOAD DROPPED BY YANKS ON FOE IN GUINEA   Ecmbers Make Three Trips to Dump 223. Tons of Explosives on Japs at Madang and Alexshafen

Yank Bombers Rain Explosives On Jap Holdings   Hit At Madang, Alexishaven  To End Threat To Allied Bases In New Guinea:

223-TON BOMB LOAD TUMBLES ~ ON JAP BASES   eae  Three- Ply Attack Ends Enemy Air Offensive From That Sector

POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA ARE RELIEVED   Load of 223 Tons of Explosives Dropped on Alexishafen and Madang by American Fliers   GREAT FIRES STARTED

Jap Base Rocks in Record Raid   BOMBERS DROP 223 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON KEY PACIFIC BASES IN CO-ORDINATED ATTACK; BOUGAINVILLE DRIVE PROGRESSING

U.S, BOMBERS STOP THREATS ON NEW RINE A   Record Number O Bombs Dropped By Americans

Yanks Shatter 2  Pacific Bastions   Record ‘Bomber: Attack: Destroys: Immeédiaté Threat to New @tiinea:

223 TONS ~ DROPPED 0 ~ NEW GUINER      Record Bomb. Load Hit Target. Bases in. ' 8-Ply Raid

Americans Loose Record Load of Explosives on Jap’s New Guinea Bases

Drop Record Bomb Load On Jap Bases In Three-Ply Raid   Ends Increasing Threat  To Allies In New Guinea

U.S.BOMBERS ~ BLAST MADANG, ALEXISHAFEN   Airmen in Three-Ply Attack Drop Record 223 Tons of Bombs tc Blunt Threat! of Jap Bases

Ji ap  Airfields Draw Attacks   ‘Alexishdfen And Madang Blasted With 223 Ton Attack By > Yanks:

223 Tons Of Bombs Hits Japs   American Bombers Batter Alexishafen And—Ma dang On New Guinea

Allies Hammer Jap Positions   “Bomb Alexishafen and Madang to End for Time Enemy Threat

TWO JAP BASES ON NEW GUINEA BOMB TARGET   Record Load of 223 Tons of Explosives Dropped On Alexishafen and Madang by Allies

Record Bomb Load Of 223 Tons ~ Dropped On New Guinea Jap Bases   Destruction Left In Wake Of Three-Ply Raid; Not A Single Jap Plane Rose To Fight, MacArthur’s Headquarters Reports.

Bombers Raid Jap Airbases   Heavy Loads Blast Bases Used Against New Guinea

3-PLY RAIDS AREMADEIN NEW GUINEA   ‘Record Bomb ‘Load “Dropped By Yanks: To Remove Thredt

SUN SPOTS HIT RADIO   Impair Short Wave Reception in the United States

Urge Support of Invaluable Service Given by Red Cross   r. K. Asks Nation to Give $125,000,000 War Fund Campaion

President Roosevelt Issues an Appeal For Red Cross; Commanders Add Their Tribute to Service Given

FDR Appeals For Red Cross   Norman Davis Reads Ill Chief's Plea for $125.000,000

“OVER 4 NETWORKS   Campaign Seeks $125,000,000 This Month; Eisenhower, Nimitz Praise. , Work on World’s Battlefronts

President Asks Nation To Give At Least $125 Million To Red Cross   Gen. Eisenhower and Ad. miral Nimitz Also Appeal to All to Enlist in Army of Mercy.

President Urges Liberal Support For Red Cross   Joins Army, Navy Heads In Praising Work Done For U. S. Fighting Men

Roosevelt Urges Nation To Give To the Red Cross   President Appeals for Aic in $125,000,000 Campaign

DRIVE OPENED BY PRESIDENT   His Appeal Read Over Radio Calls on All to Give To Red Cross

Racketeers Getting Into Game; Stock Raisers Go After Share Big Money   Rv UNITED PRESS

Nationwide Black Market In Meat Bared   Chaos in. Distribution in 8. F, Area; Meat . Czar Named

HUGE BLACK MARKET IS OPERATING   Dealing Mainly _In IMegal Meat Sales —

BLACK MARKET OPENS WAY 10 RACKETEERING   Costs Chicago Million Weekly, Federal Agents Claim

Black Market In Meat Is ‘Serious’   Racketeering Growing Menace As Butchers, Farmers, Consumers Contribute To Acute Shortages

BLACK MARKET IN “OPERATION FROM COAST 10 COAST   Consumers Being Mulcted and Health Endangered By Inferior Meats.

Black Market Operating From Coast to Coast   Condition Ripe _ For Racketeering Already Created

Law-Abiding Citizens Are Real Victims Of Those Who Evade U. S. Meat Regulations

Black Market Operating  Across Nation   Racketeers and Rustlers Muscle In For the Pickings

MARIGNY IS NOT WANTED   BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT RE QUESTS COUNT AND #15 CLOSE FRIEND TO LEAVE  THE ISLAND

Army ‘Big Shots’ Irk Actress  x * * x * *  Buck Privates ‘Resented’ Her, She Complains

PRE-VEIW OF WHAT 1949 WILL REVEAL   With The Year Almost Threefourths Gone, Babson Speculates Regarding How 1943 May Turn Out For Various Industries.

Bahsons Authentic Statement         DAUSUNS FR IVEG VLG Coupyright—1 943-—Pik  Ant ishers Financial Bureau, Ine PRE-VIEW OF WHAT 1948 WILL SHOW  Bahann Analedime Induotrial Cennina

Preview Of 1943  Given By Babson   INDUSTRIAL GROUPS TO _ SEE MANY CHANGES IN NATION

Italians Are Warned That Deadly Pattern Will Be Followed Unless They Quit   New Record in Number of Places Bombed Is Established by Allied Planes ° Overating Against Fascist Stronghalde

Reveal Inmate “Boss” Plan at Folsom   HIERARCHY AT STATE PRISON DISCOVERED IN WARREN PROBE

‘Jerry Threw Sunday Punch At Us, Says Witness To U.S. Retreat; [tll Mean ‘Week's Delay In Victory

- Yanks Ready To Strike Back at Nazi ‘In Tunisia When Leaders Are Ready

Yanks Really Peeved Now And Rarin’ To Fight   Setback In Tunisia Bodes No Good For ‘Kraut Hounds’

American Soldiers Fighting Mad As Germans Force Them To Fall Back   United States Tankmen Battled For Three Days To Stem Onward Advance Of Nazi Armored . Force In Tunisia

AMERICANS FIGHTING MAD; READY TO STRIKE BACK IN TUNISIAN WAR  Allied Forces Outnumbered By Axis In Week’s Fighting, War Writer Reports

Americans Fighting Mad Because They Have to Move Back Instead of Ahead in Tunisia   RUSSIANS ONLY 30 MILES FROM ORFL IN DRIVE   Russian Pressure on Clamp Around Donets Basin Is Increased

Withdrawal Makes Our Troops In Africa ‘Sore’   Don't Like Idea Of Being Pushed Back By Nazis; Want  More Artion

American Tankmen Wan Another Crack at Jerry   U. S. Armored Force Fell Back for Lack of Eyjuipment And Not Courage

Doughboys Fighting Mad Over Withdrawal _ In Tunisia; Vow To Get Back at Germans

Yanks Retreat But Their Morale Holds And They Are Eager to Get Another Crack at “Kraut Hounds”

Eyewitness Tells Of Tunisia Retrea   Tribute to Americans’ Courage Is Paid

Retreat Just Made Yanks Fighting Mad!   Nazi ‘Sunday Punch Didn't KO Them

Heroic U. S. Troops, Driven Back By Germans, Impatient To Renew Struggle With Rommel

LIST ACCOUNT OF FIGHTING ON TUNISTA FRONT   Bloody African Battlefields Littered with Broken Vehicles

Jerry Threw His Sunday Punch With, Men, Guns And Tanks Says Reporter

‘Yanks Fighting Mad Because of Forced Withdrawal in Tunisia, Determined: To Get Back at Nazis Soon as Possible.

GERMANS THREW BIG PUNCH AT AMERICAN FORCES IN TUNISIA  BLOODY BATTLEFIELDS INDICATE NAZIS HAD NO

U.S. TROOPS FIGHTING MAD, WANT TO GET BACK AT JERRY   First Eye Witness Account of Tunisian Battle Found No Signs of Panic, Praises Valor of Tankmen Covering Retreat 

BEFORE SOLONS   Survey Shows Most Ohic Cities Returning To Eastern Standard

OHIO REVERTING TO SLOW TIME   Major Cities To Drop War Schedule During Next Three Weeks

MOST OHIO CLOCKS ARE T0 BE SET BACK   Change Expected To Come During Next Month

A VARIED PROGRAM ON MEMORIAL DAY.   Union Service for All at South Park Is Set for 8 P.M.   STORES CLOSE MONDAY.

A VARIED PROGRAM ON MEMORIAL DAY   Union Service for All at ~ South Park Is Set for 8 P. M.

NAZIS FORM NEW SPECIAL GUARDS TO AID POLICE FORCE   Number Of SS. Divisions : - Also ‘Called Back To Aid In Keeping Order

Kidnaped Baby Is Recovered Safe and Well   Sergeant and Wife Taken Into Custody By Oregon Officers

SHATTERING BLOWS METED OUT TO JAPS IN 3-DAY BOMBINGS   Enemy Moves To Reinforce .“).Main Base At. Rabaul - Crippled—Allied  Losses Light

AERIAL LOSSES OF JAPS HEAVY IN THREE DAYS   Allies Lose Only Five  Planes Against 131  To 208 For Nips 

Allies Destroy 131 Jap Planes   Destroyer, Five Other Ships Are Sunk

JAPANESE AIR POWER IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC GIVEN CRIPPLING BLOW BY SAVAGE AIR OFFENSIVE BY ALLIE   Rabaul, Main Enemy Air Base Temporarily Knocked Out As 131, And Probably 203 Planes  Ara Dastravad

6 Jap Ships Also Blasted In Solomons      Enemy Attempt to Reinforce Broken Rabaul Air Fleet Thwarted   ATTACK FOR 3 DAYS      ‘Many Grounded Planes Destroyed in Allies’ Low-Level Assault

ALLIES BLAST 203 NIP PLANES IN SHATTERING PACIFIC RAIDS   THREE-DAY SERIES OF SMASHES KNOCK OUT NORTH SOLOMONS BASE, CRIPPLE RABAUL TRY

HEAVY AERIAL BLOW AGAINST JAP WARPLANES   Rabaul Principal Target for Allied Bombers in Series of Actions * In South Pacific.

‘Allied Fliers Destroy 131 to 203 Jap Aircraft in Raids on Rabaul

Yanks Destroy 203 Foe Planes  In Solomons   Japanese Warship And Five Cargo Vessels Are Smashed In Three Days Of Action By. MacArthur's Bombers

BRITISH BOMBERS SMASH AT BERLIN   FOURTH RAID ON CITY WITH. IN 8 DAYS MADE BY BIG AIR FLEET.

House Hears War Review In Secret   Stimson, Marshall Give Testimony At Closed Meeting

Allies Rain Bombs On Sicily, Sardinia      HOUSE SLASHES OPA FUNDS, OUTLAWS SUBSIDIES   GOVERNORS TO TALK STATE RELATIONS TO WAR EFFORT

BITTER BATTLE OVER PRICE ; CONTROL POLICIES WILL —  [BE BTAGED IN SENATE _ NEXT WEEK

F.D. R. FEELS SENATE MUST SUPPORT HIM   Bitter struggle in prospect; Sen. Taft leads  subsidy opposition

Subsidy Fight Goes To Senate   House Expresses Disapproval Of Subsidies In Food Price ‘‘Roll Back’’ Plan   DEMAND BUSINESS MEN AS DIRECTORS

DENATE MAY AND HOUSE th OPA ATTACKS   Almost Very Life of\This Federal Agency Hangs in Balance.   STATEMENT BY TAFT   Real Blows Against the Or ganization Delivered in the House.

Senate Support Expected For Action Outlawing Subsidies In ‘Rollback’ Food Price Control Program

SENATE MAY BACK UP HOUSE IN OPA FIGHT   G. O. P. Scores With Five Restrictive Amendments

Heavy Fighting In Sicily Near, . Patterson Says: . Big Canuiterattack »  by Axis Forces Is: Expected Any Time

alterson Says eavy Fighting  ms in Sicily   is Troops Capable of rong Resistance; Major Battle Likely

Competition For Stork   Air Service For Expectant Mothers Is Due

Senate Group Revises Ruml Plan To Provide Abatement Of ‘42 Or ‘43 Tax: Seek Lowest

SENATE GROUP OKAYS RUML FLAVORED BILL   Five Democrats Help Send Bill To Floor

Ruml-Flavored Tax Plan Approved   Committee Overrides Treasury Protests

Vote Approval Of Ruml Type Pay As You Go Bill   Senate Committee Approves Measures Favors New Tax Plan

PAY-AD-YOU-00 PLAN TO SENATE   BILL WOULD ABATE LOWER OF 1042 OR 19438 TAXES OF ALL PERSONS.

Ruml-Tinted ‘Pay As You Earn Tax Bill Is Passed By Senate Finance Group

Senafe Group Votes To Abate 2.0r'B Tax   Revised Version Of Rum! Plan Sent To Floor

SENATE GROUP REPORTS ANEW pay - GO PLAN   Dpposition of Treasury And Leaders Is Beaten Down in Committee

RUML-FLAVORED TAX PLAN WINS   Five Democrats Join § Republicans To Send Bill To Senate

OEMATE COMMITTEE FAVORD AUML PLAN   Modified Version Approved ~ By 13-7 Vote

Senate Plan For Tax Bill Is Presented   Commitice Approves Measure Similar to Ruml Proposal

Italian Army Takes Over Public Order   Told To Fire On Anvone Disobeving

Yanks Drop 248 Tons Of Bombs On  New Britain Area   Huge Rabaul Base Hammered, Large Fires Started, Indicating Intensification Of Offensive In Southwest Pacific War Theater.

ALLIES START LARGE FIRES WITH BOMBERS   Axis-Held Tunisiar Ports Blasted During Day

‘LERION CHOOSES » STATE OFFICERS   T. H, (Pat) McGovran, of Charleston, To Be Next Commander; 1944 Meet To Be Held at Beckley

12 MORE JAP VESSELS BAGGED BY U.S, SUBS   1,538 Enemy Ships Put Or Sunk Or Damaged List

American Warcraft Get 1538 Jap Ships Since Pearl Harbot   Far-Ranging U.S. Subs Send Dozen More Enemy Vessels To Bottom In Undisclosed Area Of Pacific

Concentration Of  Jap Ships Chased  Brig. Gen. Ramey Lost On Bombing Mission

AIRMEN SCATTER CONCENTRATION OF JAP SHIPPING   General MacArthur’s Fliers Biast at Fagpey Ships at Kavieng on Island of New Ireland Thursday -

SCATTER NEW JAP FLEET FROM BASE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   GEN. HOWARD RAMEY AND CREW LOST ON BOMBING MISSION

EXTRA!   Concentration Of Jap Ships Is Scattered   ‘Harbor Of Kavieng In New Ireland Raided — Gen. Howard Ramey Js Missing

—U. S. GENERAL  Ramey Is Lost   - - « Allied Bombers Rout Jap Fleet

JAP SHIPPING — -ISSCATTERED   U. S. General Lost It : Pacific Action

U.S. Commander Lost In Pacitic  U. S. Planes Scatter Japanese Vessels

NEW JAPANESE SHIP GROUPING TS SCATTERED   Concentration at. Base in Islands Above Australia Target of Allied Airmen   ONE BOMBER MISSING      Brig. General Howard K. Ramsey and His Crew Lost in Recent Aerial Mission, It Is Announced

Gen. Ramey Is Revealed Lost With Crew On Re cent Bombing Mission.

GEN, H. K. RAMEY AND CREW LOST IN S. W. PAGIFIC   Missing During Bombing Mission Against Japanese

TWO-MILE ADVANCE PLACES ALLIES IN ASSAULT POSITION   ‘Troops Holding - Heights Overlooking Jap-Held Salamaua ‘Base

JAP DRIVE STARTS IN NOVEMBER   Capital Observers Say Campaign To Begin in Burma

U.S. CANADIAN TROOPS TAKE SEGULA ISLAND   Newly Captured Land Is 20 Miles East of Kiska

Defense Leader  Former  Ainhasneder To Belgium Is Picked By Goodland

GUDARY NAMED DEFENSE CHIEF   Goodland Appoints Former Ambassador As Director ..... Of Council...

Refinery Chemist Predlotions: Include Lubrication, Long-Life Tires

MacArthur's Air. “Force props 221° Tons on Japanese  Fiery Assault Directed At- Enemy Jungle Strong Point

NAZIS BORST ABOUT NEW ARMS, VICTORY   Talks Seen As, Propaganda Effort to Boost Morale Of Germans.

YANK BOMBERS READY TARAWA FOR INVASION   Alternating Waves of U. S  Army, Navy Planes Pound Island

WITNESSED RAID ON TARAWA ISLE   Reporter Gives Eyewitness Account Of Seventh Air Force Attack On Island In Gilbert Group.

ARMY, NAVY BOMBERS BLASTED ISLAND OF TARAWA IN WRECKAGE  PRE-INVASION BOMBINGS OF GILBERT ISLAND EXTREMELY HEAVY

REPORT SHIPS MOVING   Germans Say Allied Fleet. Passed Eastward Thru Gibraltar

DEATH TOLL NOW SEVEN IN PLANT BLAST   Main building of Kear ney, N. J. factory totally wrecked

PLEAS MADE TO STRIKERS   Union Heads, Labor Board Try to Get Chrysler Workers to Work

STRIKERS TOLD 10 RETURN TO PLANTS   Walkouts at the Chrysler Corp. Factories Not Authorized

CHRYSLER PLANTS AWAIT RESPONSE   27,500 Workers {dle in Six Detroit Factories; WLB Acts

RECRUITING OF LABOR I$ SEEN      Workers To Be Imported To Meet Farm Needs of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky

RECORDS TO BE DESTROYED   Nazi Generals Given Orders in Case of Capitulation

Aussi2s iin “wo _Aies 22 “ae. . rcercme WN tere.ad — e-enses ~to711 Zuins “rom /. tec 20m)s

Australian Troops Closing In On Japs  Bombs Rain On Airfield  In New Guinea

Aussies Get 2 Miles  From Lae Airdrome   Jap Defenses Reduced to ‘Practical Ruin’ By Over 500 Tons of Bombs: Big Guns Being W heeled Forward to Shell Vital Base

ALLIES APPROACH BOMB-RUINED LAE   AUSTRALIANS WITHIN TWU MILES OF AIRPORT—JAP DEFENSES SHATTERED.

Japanese Defenses Of Base Have Been Reduced To Ruin By Bombings   GROUND ADVANCE IS STILL CONTINUING

Aussies Closing In On Jap Base   Big Guns Move Up; Warships {n Area

Jap Defenses  At Lae Cut To Virtual Ruin  Australians Slast -Way Fwo Miles:  From Field

Lae Field Is Now In Ruins   Jap Resistance Weak As New Advance Made

STORM STRIKES TEXAS COAST: NO INJURIES      Tropical Hurricane Causes Wide Damage

JITTERY NAZIS CALL MEN 47-49 AS ATTACK NEARS   11,150 Italians Arrest ed As 5th Column Suspects   AIR BLOWS CAUSING HEAVY CASUALTIES

Axis Tightens Its Invasion Defenses   Germany Calls Up Old Class—lItaly Arrests 11.000

Mercury to Dip To Near Zero Cold Blast Will  Hit Tonight; No Moisture in Sicht

Cold Wave On the Way   Mercury Expected to Be Near Zero Tonight. No Snowfall is Likely

WHITE HOUSE WISHES MET RUDE RECEPTION TWO DOMESTIC BILLS  CONFIRMATION OF EM-

Congress Votes to Delay Courts-Martia Of Pearl Harbor Officers Six Months .

Courts Martial Again Delayed By Congress   Extends Six More Months Deadline for Trials  Of Kimmel and Short

Congress Extends Time For Courts Martial Of Pearl Harbor Officers

Axis Says British Commandos Strike At Italian Island   Rome and Berlin Report That Attack Is Promptly Repulsed

Axis Says First Invasion Fails   Commando Raid Or  Ielnnd “Reniulead”’

Commandos Strike At Tiny Italian Isle, Axis Reports   Allied Quarters Mam On Assault Berlin and Rome Claim Repulsed

AXIS SAYS LANDING ATTEMPT REPULSED   Allied Sources Silent on ‘Lampedusa ‘Commando Raid Seen as Forerunner to Larger Invasion.

LANDING TAKEN AS FORERUNNER OF MAIN BLOW   British Military Office Silent On _ Reports; Enemy Makes Much Of Action   Claim Sinking Ships

Axis Says British ‘Commandos  Strike Lampedusa   Report Attack on Tiny  Isle Off Coast Of Tunisia Fails

Axis Asserts Commandos  Raid Island  Enemy Says Bnitisk Repulsed At

Commandos Reported Attempting Landing On Italian Island .  ALLIES KEEP SILENT ON ANY OPERATIONS  Several Vessels Sunk, Italian Radio Claims; Germans Talk It Up

Axis Reports Defeat of Invasion Try  Rome, Berlin Claim Commandos Lose  On Island Off Italy

Axis Says First Invasion Fails   Commando Raid Or  lelnnd HR An dead ft

Air Assaults Again Help Fifth Army   Eighth Also Advances In Biggest Offensive Since Battle of Salerno  mTirwweowTrTrea wmarirnszty A Btw

HALF OF NAZI CAPITAL CITY LEFT IN RUINS   ENGLAND LOSES 41 PLANES IN GREAT SKY BATTLE

Half of German Capital Ruined By RAF Bombs   1,500 Long Tons Dropped on Berlin

HALF OF NAZI CAPITAL NOW LIES IN RUINS   RAF Loses 41 Planes In'New Assault On Berlin .

Berlin Seared Anew in Filth Big RAF Raid   Center Section of Capital in Flames; 41 Bombers Lost

War Official Asks Seizure  Of Spare Cars   Patterson Wants 7,000,000 Autos Junked For Scrap Metal, He Says

Car Seizure Is Included In  War Program   Suggestions In Regard To Cars And Yires Have Not Been Acted Upon, Reports Patterson

Soviets Swarm Over Dnieper As Nazis Flee  Russ Confident, Initiative  With Red Armies

PONTOON BRIDGES CARRY TROOPS. GUNS TO WEST SIDE   Initiative Entirely With Rus‘sians—Taman Peninsula Cleared.

Kiev Flanked In Pincer Movement   Russians Cross Dnieper at Manv Points

SOVIET ARMY BRIDGEHEADS EXPANDED   Scores of New Crossings: Of Dnieper Reported

BOLSTERED SOVIET TROOPS TAKE OVER VITAL NAZI POINTS   Reds Capture Strategic Highways On West Bank Of Dnieper River

AT MANY POINTS   3. Major Bridgeheads Menace Germans In Kiev   THOUSANDS OF FRESH TROOPS IN BATTLE

War Production Board - Chairman Claims He’s “Fighting For His Life”  CHARGES SERVICES “AFTER MY SCALP”        Contends Services Want WPB Abolished In Present Form and His  Powers Curbed

COMMITTEE ADDS REVENUE SOURGES   Nears End of Action on Ht nn  Tax Measure; Votes Penny Increasé in Postal Rate on ‘Out-of-Town Letters

Tax Bill Ups Postal Rates   House Committee Puts 4-Cent Chorge © On Out-of-Town Mail

Favor Increase In Postal Rate  Committee Votes Raise To Four Cents

House Committee Decides 'To Increase Mail Charges On Letters to Four Cents

HOUSE TAX GROUP VOTES POSTAL HIKE   Cut Back (Previously Made Rates on General Admissions to 20 Percent

HIGHER POSTAL RATE APPROVED   House Group Virtually Competes Action  On Tax Bill

INCREASE POSTAGE ON OUT OF TOWN LETTERS 1 CEN]   Advanced From 3 to 4 Cents by the House Ways and Means Committee.   LOCAL POSTAGE UP   Raised From 2 to 3 Cents; No Increase on Postage Rate on Newspapers:

House Committee Finishes Action  On New Tax Bill  Postal, Excise Raises Bring Total Proceeds

GROUP.IN HOUSE BACKTRACKSON POSTAGE LEVY   Agrees to Leave 3-Cent ‘Rate: For Out-of-Town .Letrers Stand; Re scinds Cigar Tax

Letter Rate Of Four Cents Is Endorsed   Increased ~ Postage For Out - Of - Town Letters Wins Approval Of  House Committee

POSTAGE RATE BOOST DROPPED   House Nears End Of Work On 2 Billion Tax Bill

I-Cent Boost. in Postage on ~~ Letter Mail   House: Committee. Approves Other Items in ‘Wew Tax . Sand: Revenue: Bill

4-CENT POSTAGE MOVE DROPPED   House Committee Decides TO Leave Rate At Three Cents

HOUSE GROUP BACKTRACKS ON POSTAGE RATE   Decides Against Cent Increase Vol ed Yesterday and Rescinds Ac. tion Doubling Cigar Tax

Committee V otes 4-Cent Postage,  Other Increases   Favors Sharp Boosts In Excises on Liquor, Cigars, Telephone Calls And Numerous Luxuries

3-CENT RATE FOR LETTERS IS VOTED   House Committee Re verses Action on Outof-Town Mail

HOUSE COMMITTEE BACK-TRACKED ON HIKING POSTAL RATE  TAX BILL FRAMERS PLAI STRONG CONTROL OVER EENERATL SPENDING

POSTAGE BO0GT WINS APPROVA   Charges On Out Of Town Letters To Be Raised To Four Cents

House Group Back-Tracks   Agree to Keep Letter Postage at 3 Cents; Drop Double Cigar Tax

COMMITTEE VOTES HIKE IN POSTAGE   FOUR-CENT RATE FOR OUTOF-TOWN LETTERS APPROVED BY HOUSE GROUP.

COMMITTEE VOTES HIGHER POSTAL RATES   Would Raise Out of Town Letters To Four Cents

THROW OUT POSTAL HIKE WN TAX BILL   Committee Backtracks, Wipes Out Suggested Tax on Ciaars. Mail Rate Increase

House Group Okays 4-Cent Postal Rate   OUT-OF-TOWN INCREASE VOTED BY COMMITTEE; SET 8-CENT AIR CHARGE

Revenue Bill Nearly Ready   House Group Favors Pastal Rate Boost

POSTAL RATE BOOSTS VOTED   House Group Approves _ Plan for Three and FourCent Charges

Boost Rate In Postage   House Group Favors Four Cent Rate for Out-of-Town Letters

TAX GROUP UPS POSTAGE RATE FROM 8° T0 4   Local Letter Rate 2c: Cui Back Airmail Postage; _ Newspaper Rates Not Increased

COMMITTEE HIKES RATES OF POSTAGE   Both Out-Of-Town And Lo: sal Rates Are Boosted

Postage Increase Backed by Group   Committee Asks Four Cent Rate

SOLONS DROP POSTAL SHIFT.   COMMITTEE LEAVES LEVY AT THREE CENTS

House Committee Changes Its Mind On Postal Boost   Group Agrees Not To Raise Out-of-Town Rate fo Four Cents

Postal Rate Goes Back To 3 Cents  House Group Changes Its Mind On Raise

QUA CENT LETTER RATE IS PROPOSEL   Decide Against Rate In. crease for Newspapers, Church Papers.

After ‘Sleeping Over It’, House Decides 4 Cents Is One Too Many On Letters

INCREASE IN POSTAL  RATES VOTED MONDA)  BY HOUSE COMMITTEE OUT OF TOWN LETTERS  WILL COST FOUR CENTS If MEACIRE PACCEN

Insanity Verdict Ts Returned  Morrison Baldwin Remains in Custody

GAVIN BLAMES BUREAUCRATS   Sees Attempt to Regiment Life in Refusal to Hike Oil Prices

RINEHART RAPS KERR PROPOSAL   Floor Leader Clashes With Governor over Setting Up New Committee

Fight Flares Over Kerr's Amendments  Rinehart Opposes Investigators Being Paid For Overtime

Swedish Prime Minister Says Events In Denmark Are Warning To Swedes

Yanks Throw Back German Affacks And Expand Holdings   Capture Port of Salerno, British Move Northward, Italians Fight Nazis

Battle Rages on Italian Mainland as German Troops Open Heavy Attack

REPULSE NAZI TANK ATTACKS; DRIVE INLANE   Chaos Grips Peninsula ant Italian Troops Battle  Z Nazis in North.   CLARK REPORTS STEADY PROGRESS IN CAMPAIGN

Clark's Army Making Gains Around Naples   Air, Noval Bombardments Help Check Counterattacks

German Supply Lines In Naples Area Demolished   Chaos Reigns Throughout Italy; Nazis And Italians In Pitched Battles In North

Several Attacks By Nazi Tanks Are Repulsed   Report Erstwhile Allies Stage Pitched Batiles In Northern Part Of Haly

Yankees Hurl Germans Back in Italy   Fifth Army Captures Strategic Port; Vicious Counterattacks Fail As Americans Tiahten Naples Vise

Hurl Back Nazi Attacks, Widen Wedge Af Naples   Italians And Germans Battle; Chaos Reigns Over Country

> ‘German Ra Radio   Makes Report     On Operation  ‘Berlin Reports Pitched Battles With Italians in

Deepens Invasion Wedge In Naples Region; Chaos Reigns In All Italy.

Nazis Report New Landing Near Naples   Smashing Air Blows Hamper Germans in Moving Troops

TROOPS PUSH INLAND AFTER SALERNO FALLS   American And British Forces Are Widening Naples Wedge  HOLD TARANTO        Reports Picture Country As Scene Of Utter  Confusion

ARMY SEIZES SALERNO   After Throwing Back Several German  Armored Attacks

YANKS DRIVE > DEEPER INTO NAPLES AREA   Fifth Army Seizes Port of Salerno and_ Throws  Back Nazi Attacks.   Prevent Enemy From Getting in Reserves

Allied Army Drives Wedge  From Coast   Germans Futilely Hur] Counterattacks

Deeper Wedge Cut by Allies In Naples Area   Aerial Assaults Prevent Supplies Reaching Enemy

New Landing South Of Naples Made By Americans; Smashing Aerial Assaults Delivered   Crack Nazi Armored Units Repelled By Our Troops; Naval Guns Support Ground Forces At Salerno: Fnemy Convove Pounded

New Landings ‘Are Reported   Americans Beot Off Further Nazi Armored Attacks in Maples Region; Chaos Reigns Rampant Inside Italy

GERMANS ARE PUSHED BACK NEAR NAPLES   Italians Fight Former Axis Partners

Expand Woidings Around: Napies As Suttle For Maly :eightens After Capture of Salerno, Bridgenead Firmly Es: iablished

SALERNO TAKEN BY FIFTH ARMY   Americans Throw Back German Armored Attacks To Deepen Wedge.   LESTABLISH BRIDGEHEAD

U.S. Forces Pushing Inland From Newly-Captured City; Italian Warships at Malta   Nazis Engage in Pitched Batties With Italians for Control of Major Cities in North. Where Chaos Reians

Battles Rage Between Nazis And Italians   Big German Retreat From Toe Of Boot Hit Heavily From Air  7. e°wars’* ace 2a ar ees er

Naples Bridgehead Firmly Established By 5th Army; 8th Speeds Up Advance

Italians, Germans Engage In Pitched Battles: Air Blows Stop Nazi Supplies

Salerno Captured Bv U.S. 5th Army   Pitched Battles Reported Raging Between Italians And Germans; New Landing Told By Foe: 8th Army Moving Ahead

German Radio Makes Report _ On Operation   Berlin Reports Pitched Battles With Italians in The North

Germans, Italians Stage Heavy Fight at Top of “Boot”   Lt.-Gen. Clark's Fifth Army Crushes Enemy Counterdrive

Several More German Armor: ed Attacks Were Thrown sack to Deepen Its Wedge in the Naples Area.   Amassing Aerial Assaults  Prevented Enemy From  Getting Reinforcements Over Highways.

Yanks Take Salerno And Italy In Chaos   Italians And Germans Clash Bitterly A Nazis Take Rome, Disarm Italians

Yanks Capture Salerno; Gain Steadily   Allied Planes Smash Successfully at Nazi Land Convoys

Deepen Wedge In Area Of Naples By Throwing Back More Nazi Attacks

NAZI FORGES HURLED BACK NEAR NAPLES   [TALIANS FIGHTING GERMANS IN NORTH

Air Assault - Cuts Off Aid  For Germans   New Aled Landing Made  North of Salerno; Several Hundred Taken Prisoner   CHAOS REIGNS IN MOST OF COUNTRY   Germans. Apparently Are Firmly Installed. in the Worthern Area

Salerno Taken By Advancing Fifth Army   Nazi Troops Hurled -Baek by Force Under -Lt Gen. Clark...

Yankees Deepen Naples Wedge As Italy Chaos Grows   U.S. Landing On Tip Of Sorrento Peninsula Is Re ported By Berlin

GERMAN ARMORED FORCES HURLED BACK AT NAPLES   Bridgehead Reported Firmly  Established—Port of Sa“lerno Seized by Allied Troops.   NAZI LAND CONVOYS ARE UNDER ATTACK   Enemy Believed to Be Withdrawing From Areas Farther South to Escape Being Cut Off.

‘Allied Forces Drive rive Inland from Salernc ' After Smashing Counter-Attacks—Naz Reinforcements Blocked

Naples Wedge Widened, New - Landing Made   Crack German, Armorcd Units Beaten Back

Nazi Attack Is Hurled Back By Fifth Army At Naples  Bridgehead Is Firmly Established Despite

AMERICAN FORCES SEIZE SALERNO AND THROW NAZIS BACK  CHAOS REPORTED AS REIGNING THROUGH. OUT ITALY SATURDAY

Clark’s 5th Army Hurls Nazis Baek   Allies Pushing Inland After Taking Salerno; New Landing Reported In Naples Area

YANKS SMASH GERMAN UNITS NEAR NAPLES   Berlin Reports Pitched Battles With Italians In North Sector

UNIVERSITY BILL TO BE DISCUSSED   SENATE COMMITTEE AIRS PROPOSAL TO CONVERT S, 1. N, U,

SPONSORS HOPE FOR EDUCATION COMMITTEE 0. K.   Southern [Illinois Backers Testify In Sprinefield

Reds Tighten Their Pincers  Periling Orel   Continue Relentless Gains In Slow Advance, Capturing 100 More Villages

lp JAP PLANES LOST IN RAID   Allies Unscathed As Nips Attack Oro

Japs Lose 16 Planes In Raid On Allied Base   Allied Losses Are Minor In Oro Bay Attack

Detroit Searches For Looters, Killers   Ickes Moves To Undertake Active Charge Of Coal, Mines

Detroit Area Not So Tense   Curfew and Other Restrictions Lifted by Governor from Two Nearby Counties

LIFT CURFEW IN DETROIT AREAS   QUIET REIGNS AS. POLICE LOOK FOR GUILTY RIOTERS

Seek Persons Who Started RaceRiotActs   Governor Eases Restrictions in Detroit Suburbs; Dies Claims Japs tnvolved

DETROIT AEA CURFEW LIFTEL   Restrictions Placed on Oakland and Macomb Counties Removed.

Probe Detroit Race Riots As Two More Die   Death Toll Climbs To 31 As Peace Officers Search For Guilty Parties

Warsaw Today Without Jews   Polish City Once Had Jew. ish Population Of 500,000, Rabbi Declares.

Yokohama Silk ~ Exchange Quits For Duration   Action Conforms to Wish Of Rulers; Shows Loss Of Market

Two Soldiers Killed, 13 Hurt as Car Hits Column of Troops Near Abilene

Military Etiquette Shattered After Successful Foggia Attack Gen. Spaatz, Without Ceremony, Confers DFC  +  . gr) Bae. 7D RETR. Wlewmandl becca le

Honor System Used for Sugar   Two Coupons in Ration Book  to Be for Home Canning Sugar

Sugar for Canning Is Placed  On Honor System by Ruling   Applications for Ration Books Go Out May 20

CHANGE PUINS OM PORK RATIONING   Effective Today, Some of Point Values to Be. Reduced.

TWO-POINT CUT IN PORK POINTS IS ‘TEMPORARY   More Little Pigs Going To Market Under WFA Order

LOWER RATION POINT VALUE OF PORK CUTS   Reduced by Two Points; Action Termed Temporary

POINT VALUES ON PORK REDUCED   Temporary Move Made To Prevent Market Glut

Pork to Cost 2 Points Less, OPA Decree:      Temporary Ration Value Cut Balks Black Marts,  Aids Housewife

RATION POINTS FOR PORK DROF   Two-Point Slice Announced In Stabilization Plan

Pork Ration Values Cut.   Heavy ‘Market Influx Brings: 2-Point Drop

BIG TEMPERATURE DROP   Mercury Skidded 60 Degrees From Yesterday's High Mark

BIG TEMPERATURE DROP   - SWaaa 5 ue aU Mercury Skidded 60 Degrees From Yesterday’s High Mark

COMMERCE BOY HELD BY NIPS   Walter C. O’Brien Listed As ‘Jap Prisoner—Fourteen Others On Roll

fvapist Pays With Mts L His Live  Army Private Is Hanged Ke) Slaying Texas Schoolgirl, 8

Soldier Hanged For Rape-Murder   Private Pays Penalty In Texas Case

SOLDIER HANGED FOR SLAYING GIRL LAST OCTOBER 6   GEORGE SCHUBERT KNAPP PAYS WITH LIFE FOR DEATH OF CHILD

Democrats, Republicans Near Accord On Forgiveness Phase.of Pay-Go Tas

Minnesotan Sees Agreement on Tax  Committee Studies Forqgiveness Phase

TAX AGREEMENT APPEARS NEAR   Pay As You Go Consideration Is Bearing Prait.

Demos, g.0.p. near accord on tax bill   Modification of Ruml plan  recommended

SIGNS OF MENACING BIG-SCALE BATTLE IN TUNISIA MOUNT   AHies Feeling Qut Enemy Positions Before Stab To Sea—Leaders Confer

Allies Feel — Out Enemy Positions —   INDICATE QUICK STAB TO  pies EA BETWEEN TUNIS AND: BIZ E MAY BE ALLIED PI AN

Signs Point To Big-Scale African Fight   "Allies Believed Preparing for. Push to Sea

ALLIES FEEL OUT STRENGTH OF AXIS LINE   German Attack South west of Souse Meet With Stinging De feat.

Allied Reports Indicate Enemy Positions Now Are Being Tested Prior To Heavy Assault.

SIGNS OF COMING BIG BATTLE IN TUNISIA MORE EVIDENT   Armored Forces Reconnoiter in Force Around Medjez-El-Bab; No Opposition

Big-Scale Fighting on In Tunisia   EVIDENCES OF LARGE CON. FLICTS INCREASR DAILY NOW.

GERMANS FEAR FLANK MOVE BY ALLIES IN AFRICA   Bombers Sattar Enemy Positions, Hitting Railroads.

HUBBARD YOUTH FATALLY SHOT   Companion Accidentally Discharges Shotgun

REPORT SINKING OF SIX ENEMY WARSHIPS AND DAMAGE FOUR OTHERS IN THE SOLOMONS   News From War Front

Ten Jap War Vessels Sunk Or Damaged   Jap Fleet Unit In Solomons Badly Beaten By U. §. Naval Forces   U. 8. CRUISER IS REPORTED LOST

Allied Warships Pour Out Everything from MachineGun Bullets to Shell Fire To Help Protect Narrow Beachhead Extending 24 Miles South of Salerno; Entire Fifth Army in Grim Battle

Montgomery Races  North to Aid: Clark   Allies Land Reserves, Warships Spray Foe’s Shore Positions With Heavy. Licht Guns

American And British Troops Fighting Desperately To Hold Italian Bridgehead   MONTGOMERY RUSHING TO ASSIST FIFTH ARMY

Germans Make Supreme Effort to Drive 5th Army Into Sea   'RESERVES POURED . ' INTO THE BATTLE   Forces of General Montgomery Are Moving Northward

heserves Poured Into Battle Warships Blast At Advancing  Germans.

Americans and British Are Engaged In Hand-to-Hand Combat With Crack German Division

‘Allies Pushing Against Nazi Attack   Situation Well in Hand Despite Hard Enemy Pressure as Anglo-American Forces Defend Bridaehead in Italy

Ground Troops Fight Hand to Hand on Narrow Beachhead — General Eisenhower Pours Reinforcements Into Bloody Strug:gle as Germans Strive Desperately to Drive Fifth Army Into Sea.

BRITISH ARMY COMES T0 AID OF AMERICANS   SETBACK SUFFERED IN BITTER FIGHT FOR SALERNO

Warships Help Troop: Protect Beachhead as Germans Try to Push Fifth Army Into Sea

Nazis Strive fo Drive Yankee 5th Army Into Sea   Allied Warships Pour Fire on Beachhead; Report Lines Hold

BRITISH AND U. s. TROOPS FIGHTING HAND TO HAND WITH CRACK GER.MAN DIVISIONS.

Eisenhower Sends Frosh Reserves Into ~~ alian Tightiig as Americans and British Fight Hand to Hand With ~ Elements of Tlaee Crack cestuii Divisions. .. 7 a

Fifth Army’s Beachhead Is Menaced  By Germans   Forced To Yield Ground In Face of Heavy Fire From Enemy Artillery On Hills Above City   8TH ARMY DRIVES RAPIDLY NORTHWARD

Men Who Don't Have Classification Cards Must Confact Boards   Certificates Must Be Kept On Person At AIL Times Says Board

YOUTH ADMITS SLUGGING AND ROBBERY   Jack Gooch Confesses Beating Miss Conrad of Charleston

France Asks ‘Equal Role’   De Gaulle Demands Place at World Table

aa Is Over and Jz Japs : Beaten Again.  WE LOSE A CRUISER AND A DESTROYER  Allied Offensive on Munda Is Going Forward.

Lk ling td.» engi epee eres American Nerve /nd Skill Keep Air Lifeline Open To Isolated Chinese

Ufotine ale China is Fragile Tiyead And Ht Wore Broken, lt Would Be Major Loss To Gallant Hests Of Fiekting Chinese

WAR ANALYST FINDS LIFELINE BETWEEN CHINA AND OUTSIDE WORLD LIKE THREAD OF SPIDER

hi he he i i hi hi he Mi hi hi di he hi di he Me Me hn  THE WAR  TODAY

MACKENZIE GIVES HIS VERSION OF — HAZARDOUS SUPPLY ROUTE TO CHINA OVER ROOF OF THE WORLD   Rain, Wind, Ice, Mountains and Jap Fighter Planes all Plague Transport Pilots Flying Spiderweb Lifeline With Supplies for Chinese

AERIAL ROUTE *HOW LIFE LINE THDIA TO CHIN   Great Country All But Isolated From Outside World tf Thin, Delicate and Perilous Route Is Cut

‘The War Today: Aerial “Burma Road” Kept Open By Daring U.S. Fliers

MAJORITY OF MEN SEEM PREPARED TO WORK MONDAY   How Many West Virginia Miners Will Return to Jobs Remains a Question   EXPECTED TO CLARIFY OVER THE WEEK-END   Union Members Have Declared on Several Occasions There Would Be no Work Until Contract Is Signed; Varied Opinions Heard

Jap Warplanes  Stage Heavy  Raid on Darwin   Allies Suffer Large Losses in Battling > Invading Planes: Mubo Area Attacked

Japs Make Mass Air Attack on Darwin; British Defenders Suffer Heavy Losses

Both Sides Lose Heavily In Air Battle   Japanese Launch Big Aerial Attack on Airdrome Near Darwin

Allied Planes Suffer Heavy  Losses in Battle  3 of 51 Tokyo Aircraft Downed, 10 Damaged

oi Jap Planes Raid Airport Near Darwin  Defending Spitfires Suffer Severe Losses   LIGHT DAMAGE DONE TO ALLIED AIRPORT

JAP BOMBERS INHEAVY RAID LASH DARWIN   Allies Suffer Considerable Losses in Revelling Foe

Start Move to Keep Plan in Operation      Showdown on Labor Strength in Congress Pending as Legislation Is’ Presented

JONES ATTACKS LEND-LEASE ACT   Questions Shipments Of Beer And Stockings As Congressional Probe Opens

Test of Strength of Labor in House  Assured This Term   House Committee Votes Bill Subjecting Union Leaders to Penalty

Congress Starts Machinery To Keep Lend-Lease Program Another Year.        Attenipe’ Made To’ Forde Revocation of $25,000 Salary Limit. 

FULL AGGOUNT OF LEND-LEASE APPEARS TR  CR ee cers oe Oe 8 Ne meh ey   Administrator Stettinius Summoned for Questioning of Operations On War Act   LABOR SHOWDOWN   Broadened Definitions Of Robbery’ and Extortion Indicate Revision of Labor Laws

CONGRESS ASKS ACCOUNTING OF AID TO ALLIES   Charge Beer, Rayon Hose Powderpuffs Shipped Abroad

CRITICS OPEN UP ON LEASE-LEND   Accounting Assured as New And Important Questions Laid Before Congress

Review Slated _Of Lend -Lease      Congress Prepares ‘Move As. Flynn Is Urged To. .' Withdraw. Name :.

House Adjourns  After Two Die   Subsidy, Taxes Slated kor Discussion At Next Business Session

Death Of Two Members Delays House Action   Lower House of Congress Recesses Today Because of Deaths of Reps. Ditter and Steagall.

AERIAL BASE AT TARANTO IS BLASTED   Italian ‘Boot Sole’ Also Pounded By Allies

Bandit Robs Ft. Worth Bank   Robber Carried Bottle Of Nitroglycerin, He Informed Teller

V  With Our  Soldiers  and Sailors \e @      Set. Hoffmann Is Here From Hawaii

Vv i 1 With Our  4 Soldiers  \ and 4 Sailor Ss  [@ @      Sgt. Hoffmann Is Here From Hawai

Basic “A” (las Ration Books Out On Time   Name And Address Must Be Affixed To All New Books; Coupons Endorsed

HOOVER CITES FOOD PROBLEM   Ex - President Says Farm Production Is No. 1 Domestic Problem Of The War.

Hoover Sees Need of ’42 ~ Farm Levels   Army Should Cooperate In Harvest of '43 Crop, Nation Warned

U. S. Faces ‘Food Crisis"   Former President Says 1942 Production Must Be Maintained in °43

Maintenance of Farm Production s No.  Domestic Problem, Says Hoover

REDS. RE-GROUPING FORCES FOR NEW PUSH WESTWARD   Will Probably Await Freezing of Ground Before Starting Drive.

VERY LITTLE ACTION ON RUSS FRONT   Next Offensive Must Wait for  Ground to Freeze

of Grou n d ‘Méani: New" Tactics;-. --Mud Ends White  ~. Russia Drive

March Output of Military Planes Sets New Record   6,200 Aircraft Made In Month, Over 500 Four-Motored Bombers

WPB REPORTS 6200 PLANES PRODUCED IN MONTH OF MARCH      ‘Munitions Production For -. First. Quarter. Is Only 18% Of. Scheduled Output For '43.:. .

RECORD SHIP, PLANE OUTPUT   Nelson, Knox Wath Huge Production Increase May Not Continue

NEW PRODUCTION PEAK   6.260 Militars Planes Preduved tn March, Seen Reveal.

6,200 PLANES, MARCHOUTPUT SETS RECORD    Navy Has Arrived Al  Peak Production l Of Ships

6,200 PLANES AND 100 SHIPS MADE IN SINGLE MONT   March Production in -America Included 500 Four-motored Bombers.

McNUTY AND BERSHEY SAY THAT ‘CIRCUMSTANCES, PREVENT SETTING DEFINITE DATE NOW

AKT BANU WILL A BOND OAWE   Ft. Harrison Unit to Be Here Nov. 27

ARMY BAND WILL AD BORO DANE   Ft. Harrison Unit to Be Here Nov. £7

MINE, SHIPYARD — TROUBLES FLARE   Indiana, Alabama Miners Out; Kear ny, N. J. Yard Workers Walk “Ont ” edt Die nt idle

WLB Requests Lewis to End Mine Walkouts   Labor Disputes Slow Shipbuilding; Other Work Stoppages End

Labor Strikes Again Slow Up War Production   23,500 Coal Miners Quit; 6,000 Ship Builders Walk Out

LABOR UNREST DELAYS WORK IN SHIPYARDS   MINERS QUITTING BY THOUSANDS; LEWIS ASKED TO ACT

Labor Trouble Causes Official Worry  Thousands of Coa  Miware Maca

Labor Trouble Causes Official Worry   Thousands of Coal Miners Have Left Their Jobs

WLB Asks Lewis To Halt Spread Of Coal Strike   Thousands of Miners Quit Work; Shipyard Work Is Slowed

W ashington!s Aroused By Coal Strikes; Lewis ls Asked To Intervene   Walkouts In Alabama And Indiana Affect 23,500 Workers; Ickes Urges Labor Board To Expedite Coal Dispute

Invasion Jitters Mount; Leaflets Cheer Holland   Worried Germans Remove Dalaidier, Blum, Gamelin and Mandel to Hideout in Reich

PRISONERS MOVED AS INVASION FEVER MOUNTS IN-EUROPE   British Leaflets Reported As Having Promised European Landing By May

Invasion Fever Increases in Europe; Five Imprisoned French Leaders Are Transferred to Prisons in Germany   Believe 60 Days of Continuous Bombing Could Knock Germany Out Of the War, Make Invasion Easy

INVASION FEVER MOIINTS AS AXIS  MOVE PREMIERS   £ _ j Germans Take French Prisoners  Inland To Forestall Rescue  if By Allied Forces

INVASION FEVER IS ON INCREASE   Spreading Thruout Europe; Discuss Probable Points

INVASION FEVER IS INCREASING   French Leaders Taken To Germany; Patriots Warned Of Fake Landings

Invasion Fever Increasing In Europe; Axis Moves Three French Leaders Into Germany

RUSSIAN FORCES PRESS GERMANS IN THE UKRAINE   Sovicts Gain in White Russia Beat Off CounterAttacks

Russians Battle Growing German Resistance; Reds Attack In Crimea

New Crushing Pressure Is Exerted   Russians Smash Toward Upper Dnieper, Slowly Squeeze Nazis From Last Hold in Caucasus, 700 Miles South

HEAVY FIGHTING RAGING ALONG DNIEPER LINE   Reds Slowly Squeezing Nazis From Foothold  In Caucasus

Reds Record Advances on All Fronts   Gain Seven Miles Toward Mogilev in White Russia

RUSSIAN TROOPS PLUNGE TOWARD UPPER DNIEPER   Move On Vitebsk Through Swamps and Roadless Forests—Score Advances in Gomel Area.   THREATEN TO DRIVE FOE FROM CAUCASUS   Germans Report Powerful So» viet Offensive in South Ukraine Aimed at Seizure of Crimea.

Red Drive on As Resistance Is Increased  Russians Headed for  Upper Dnieper and City of Vitebsk

Russians Batter Nazis Backward   Vise Is Tightening On Caoiurenacue Area

Soviets Smash German Stab   Reds Sweep Toward Upper Dnieper, Vitebsk Against (;reat Resistance.

Reds Squeezing Nazis From Last Caucasus Stand   Soviets Start Big Thrust In Crimea

RUSSIANS GAIN AGAINST STIFF NAZI THRUSTS   Push Toward Upper Dnieper and Vitebsk; Squeeze Germans from Catucasus Foothold

Nazis Battle Hard to Stop Red Advance   Counter Attacks Thrown Back by Determined Reds

To Mail Next Ration Books   No. 3 To Be Issued Soon, OPA Announces

Points Lowered On Some Items  Frozen Fruits And Vegetables, Canned Saune Cact Lace

Frozen Food Points Cut to Stop Waste      Blue Coupons Will Buy More Canned . Soups to Clear Food Shelves

Frozen Fruit Cut In Effect   OPA Cuts Ration Points For Frozen Fruits Ani Venetables

BLUE COUPONS WILL BUY MORE   Slash in Point Values Affects Fruits, Scups

Lower Frozen Food Points   Canned. Dehydrated Soups Included In Order Lowering Ration Values.

‘POINT BARGAINS’ SET AS VALUES OF STAMPS CHANGED   RATION REMINDER

nn a Trait ter,  Rafion Points Lowered On Many Fruits and Vegetables

Point Values Are Slashed   Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Are Most Affected by Change

Slash Point Values For  Some Goods   Sharp Reductions Are Effective Tomorrow On Frozen Fruits, Canned, Nehvdrated Soups

COUPONS BUY MORE   Fewer Poinis - for Frozen Fruits, Vegetables and Soups:

Point Values Of Some Foods ’ Are Reduced   Fewer Blue Coupons Will ‘Be Needed For Frozen Fruits And Vegetables,  - Canned Soups

POINTS CUT ON SOUPS. FRUITS   Sharp Reductions Made Tc Help End Storage Jam; Meat Changes Due

CUT POINTS ON SEVERAL FOODS   Frozen, Canned and Dehydrated Share in Drop Tomorrow.

BLUE COUPONS ~ WILL BUY MORE   Frozen Fruit, Vegetables, And Soup Points Cut

Frozen Food, Soup Points Are Reduced   OPA Also Considering an Overhaul of . Some Meat Points   HITS AT-RUMORS ON RATIONING   Public Given Warning They Have No Foundation tn Fact

LEWIS SIGNS STRIKE. BAN   2-Year"Agrcement Drawn Up With Most of Soft Coal industry

MINERS AGREE TO STRIKE BAN   No-Walkout Pact Signed By John L. Lewis At His Home

New Coal Pact Gets Signature OfUMVW Chiet   Southern Assoc, Holds Out,  While Burke ‘Admits It Mav Ba &&. eka

Miners, Operators Sian Wage Contrac   Two-Year No-Strike Pact Also Approved

No-Strike Pact Signed by Lewi: And Operators   Two-Year Agreement Now Goes to W.L.B.

TWO-YEAR MINE CONTRACT GOES TO WAR BOARD   No-Strike Agreement Is Signed By Lewis And 2-3 Of Soft Coal Industry

WAGE CONTRACT FOR TWO YEARS SIGNED FRIDAY   Pact With Most Of Mine Operators Now Goes To Labor Board      SOUTHERN OWNERS ARE NOT IN AGREEMENT

Pace Bill Held For More Study   Senate Sends It Back to Committee

Government Already Deferring Farmers.   President Also Announces  Army Will F urlough Soldiers Fer Plantine avd Fay yack Tia,

Report Mussolini Wounded by Bullet, Nephew and Commentator Executed

ITALY DEFENDS RIGHT 70 KILL ALLIED FLIERS   Hints at Execution of Captured U. S. Raiders

LABOR DRAFT PLEA PRESENTED TO CONGRESS   Residents of Northern Italy Preparing to Resist Hitler Troops

Writer Makes Daring Tour in Italy, Finds Nazis Hated   U. P, CORRESPONDENT SNEAKS OVER SWISS BORDER DISGUISED AS MOUNTAIN CLIMBER

Northern Italy Digs in to Beat Off Nazis  Parachute Arm:   Parachute Arms, Allies Urged .. As Writer Calls

Writer, After Sneak-Trip to Italy, Says People. Ready to Resist Nazis

To Resume Under Dir. Ickes Until Midnight, Oct. 31   UMW Policy Committee Ends Tieup Contingent Upon Continuous Operation Of Mines By U. S. Resume At Once; Few May Start Today.

LEWIS, UMW ORDER WORK UNTIL OCT. 31      Says Miners Willing To Work for  Government

PERKINS TO ' “TAKE MEDICINE”   Decides to Pay . Séeial  Taxes, Placed On  Probation

34 INVALIDS DIE IN BLAZE   Aged Patients Perish In Western Sanitarium;  15 Rescued

34 DIE IN BLAZE AT SEATTLE   Aged Invalids Lose Lives When Sanitarium Burns   VICTIMS TRAPPED AS FLAMES SPREAD

Aged Invalids- Lose: Lives When Sonitarium         VICTIMS TRAPPED AS FLAMES SPREAD   Fire Said to Have Started ‘From an Qii Burner

34 Burn to Death in Lake Forest ‘Sanitarium Fire; Fifteen Rescued

Likened To ‘Little Dieppe’ But Nazis Say Few Raiders Are Hiding On Italian Toe

Unconfirmed Report Says British Invaders Carry Communication Equipment

TIME OVER PLANT   Production of Guns for Army Ceases in StrikeBound Plant.

New York Stocks   New York Cotton   New Orleans Cotton   Weather

War Measures  By Colombta   Aroused Over Sinking Of Ship Declares State Of War Against Nazis.

WEATHER TO WARM UP   Second Killing Frost Covers Northern Half of State

Milk Price Up To 17c Quart Here Nov. 1  Milk Control Board Ignores OPA In Announcing Order

uti WED T   Was Over 94 Years Of Age When He Succumbed, To 7 Short Sickness’ - ”

Was Over 94 Years Of Age When He. SuceimbedT fs, -Short-Sickness ©:

Ramirez Made New President — Of Argentina   Rawson and Colleagues

GEN RAMIREZ ARGENTINE'S PRESIDENT      Succeedss Gen. Rawson whc failed to constitute new cabinet; Rawson’s resignation came suddenly   Poubt as to Congress

Scully Loses Gasoline Books For 3 Months      Pitisburgh’s ‘C’ Book ‘Also Is Suspended. Beeause of. Trin To Farner

PITTSBURGH MAYOR LOSES AS. CARDS   “Gentleman Farmer” Charge ed With Violating OPA =. Regulations ;

CAPTURED GERMANS COME TO CANADA ON CHURCHILL'S SHIF   Refuse To Believe Axis Was Knocked Out of Africa

Summer Uniforms For Navy Officers   Knox Announces Slate Gray Outfits

Criticism Likely in  Congress   Prices Frozen at Highest Levels for Sales Made Yesterday

UADER FREEZES PAIGE OF CORN AT MONDAY HIGH   OPA Puts Brake On Rising Market Value Of America’s Biggest Crop

Re Bone Ee  Prices of Corn  Frozen by OPA   General Level To Be Maintained

900 SHOE WORKERS OUT AT BROOKFIELD   Walked Out Because of 2 Wage Condition, a Union Spokesman Said.

ae mmm i  SAY OPA, WICKARD LACK COOPERATION IN HALTING BLACK MARKET CONDITIONS

OPA AND WICKARD NOT COOPERATING IN BLACK MARKETS   Small Business Committee Says Officials Permitted Hlegal Meat Sales

‘BLACK MARKET’ BLAME IS LAID AT OPA’S FEET   ‘Failure of Wickard to Co-op erate on Politics Also Cited in House

OPA and Secretary Wickard, Accused   Charged by the House Small Business Committee With Not Cooperating.

ASSAILS OPA'S MEAT POLICIES   Committee Charges Co-Operation Not Shown

OPA And Wickard Blamed For Meat Black Market   Lack Of Co-Operation Charged Today By House Committee In Meat Report

UPA AND WICKARD PARTLY BLAMED FOR BLACK MARKET   Committee Charges Them With Not Cooperating To Correct Conditions Resulting In Worst Black Market In Meats In Na-

SECRETARY WICKARD ANB OPA CHARGED NON-COOPERATION  HOUSE COMMITTEE SAYS   HOUSE COMMITTEE SAYS BLACK MARKET CONDITION NOT BEING CHECKED

Bureaus Are — Blamed for Meat Crisis   Wickard'and OPA Are Not Cooperating, Says House Committee   “BLACK MARKET’ IS THE RESULT   Price Squeeze and Quota System Declared Root. of the Tronble

ACCUSATIONS ARE MADE BY GROUP ON BLACK MARKE   House Committee Says OPA and Wickard Are 1 Blame In Failure To Cor. rect Meat Conditions.   REGRETTABLE LACK OF JOINT EFFORT   Conclusions State Packers Are Subjected To “Squeeze,” Three Other Points Are Discussed.

BLAMES OPA, WICKARD FOR BLACK MARKET   House Committee Charges Lack of Cooperation to Correct  Conditions Resulting in Tllecal Sale of Meat.

BLAME LAID ON OPA, WICKARD   Small Business Committee Charges Two Fail to Cooperate, Differ on Policy

{TALIAN CHIEF LISTED SUICIDE   Nazis Report Former General Staff Head Has Ended His Life

Rome Broadcast Reports Former Chief Of Italian Staff Suicide Victim

Russia Appeals For More Food  Claims Lease-Lend Aid Insufticient

Russia Appeals For More Food  Territory Held By Germance de Cited

RUSSIA NEEDS MORE FOOD FROM ALLIES   Soviet Delegate To Food Conference Says Nation Is Not Getting Enough Now

Russia Appeals For More Food.   ‘Territory Held By Germans ls-Cited 

‘Countryside - Ravaged To New Height   Mounting Fury Against The Italians Vented as Nazi Army Falls Back

eft Flank hreatened y Drive   Scene Of Destructior Left Behind By Hitlerites

Germans Prepare Mountain Sfand: 5th Army Gains  Devantate Telign  Tnwne Villacag

LEAVE SCENE OF WASTE ON THE VOLTURNO   Enemy Burns Houses, Shoots Civilians and De *¢stroys Livestock in Withdrawal to Defenses North of River.

Devastation By Enemy In Italy Most Complete Yet ‘Encountered By Americans

DEVASTATE COUNTRYSIDE IN RETREAT   Germars Leave Scenes of Destruction in Falling Back From Volturno.   Establish a Mountain Line to Defend Rome

Germans Fall Back to Fresh Mountain Positions in Italy   Nazis Threatened on Left Flank by Quick Amer ican Drive

KILL CIVILIANS AND SET HOMES AFIRE IN ITALY   Germans Fall Back to Fresh Mountain Line After Losing Volturno

RETREAT MARKEC BY DEVASTATION OF COUNTRYSIDE   NAZIS BURN HOUSES, SHOOT CIVILIANS IN NEW WITHDRAWAL

NAZIS FALL BACK TO FRESH MOUNTAIN POSITIONS TODAY  WARin® wAmR «aw 2a   WAR’S WORST SCENES OF DESTRUCTION IN WAKE RETREATING ENEMY '

Houses Burned, Livestock Killed To Cover Flight   Nazis Attempt To Set Up:Strong “Mountain bine

Use Seorched-Earth System, Destroy Everything in Sight   Retreating Germans Leave One of War’s Worst Scenes of Destruction, Kill Many Civilians

Sth Army Gains Five Miles North of River   Germans Retreat to New Mountain Line, Leaving Behind Much Destruction

Nazis Fall Back To New Position lo Defend Rome  One of War's Worst Scenes of Ruin Left Behind by Nazis

Valley Is. Scorched ~ By Nazis   Countryside Devastated As Germans Fall Back To New Positions In Mountainous Area

Yanks Threaten Enemy's Flank In 5-Mile Push   Say One Of War's Worst Scenes Of Destruction Left Behind By Nazis

Germans Retreat To a Fresh Line   ‘Swift American Drive on _ Flank Forces Nazis  to Retire   OVER SCENE OF RUIN   Devastation and Evidence of Atrocities in German Wake

Allies Push Steadily On   Drive Toward Mountain De. fenses of Germans in Italy

Clark Pozrs In Reinforcements of Men, Guns, Tanks a5 Germans Establish New Line   CIVILIANS SLAIN   Retreating Germans Wreek Fury on lialians by Devastating Countryside

BURN HOUSES, KILL CIVILIANS   Devastation Worst As German Fury Against Ital_lans Reaches Peak.   ESTABLISHING NEW LINE

Germans Falling Back to Establish  Line in Mountains   Official Dispatch Says That Enemy Is Burning Houses, Shooting Civilians, Destroying Livestock and Tearing Up Railroads   U. S. FIFTH ARMY DRIVES FORWARD FIVE MILES

Destroy Livestock In Fleeing  Huns Burn Houses, Shoot na Mountain Defenses On Rome R   Swift American Drive Threatens Left Flank: Of Volturno Valley Line, Causing Germans To Fall Back; Eighth Army Makes New Gain

Yanks Drive Five Miles Nearer Rome   Retreating Nazis Leave  Trail Of Complete De wtesscabimes Tee Eb be

Left Flank Threatened By Swift American Drive In Trea le Fleawe TDsereureian

Enemy Running To Mountains South Of Rome   Civilians Slain, Town: Pillaged And Burned By Hitler's Huns

Nazis Foreed To Back From River Valley   Foe Wiping Out Civilians, Destroying Farms In Retreat Over Italy,   BRITISH 8TH GAINING

Switt Yank Drive Perils Left Flank   Germans Leave Behind One of War’s Worst Scenes of Destruction      FURY AT NEW PEAK   Nazis Retreat to Strong New Line on Difficult Ridge

Leave “War’s Worst’ Desolation In Wake   Yugoslavs Smash Nazi Invasion Try

Germans Fell Back Today From the ~ Volturno Valley to a Fresh Mountain Line 6 Miles North of the River Mouth

Germans Retreat To New Positions   Swift Advance of American filth ' Army Units Threatens Flank of Foe in Italy and Withdrawal to New Mountain Line Is Reported Today.      COUNTRYSIDE PILLAGED

RETREAT TO SET NEW LINES   Leave One Of War’s Worst Scenes Of Destruction

Retreating Foe Destroys Wide Area in Italy   Americans, British Press on Heeis Of German Armies

NAZIS RETREAT BEFORE YANKS   Leave Behind One of War’s Worst Scenes Of  Destruction

NEW VOLTURNO DRIVES MADE BY AMERICANS   Germans Fall Back te Fresh Line in  Mountains

GERMANS ARE SEEKING NEW STRONGHOLDS   Allied Armies Push Nazis From River To Mountains

Enemy Burning Homes, Murdering Civilians In Flight Toward Capital   Clark Pouring Reinforcements Into Push; Eighth Army Pounding Ahead Along Adriatic

LEAVE SCENE OF WRECKAGE IN VOLTURNO   Retreating Enemy Shoots  Civilians, Fires Towns; _ Adriatic Rail Center  Blasted By Yanks

GIRLS DEMONSTRATION TEAMS RECEIVE HELP   Extenaion Specialist from the State College Met With Six 4-H Girls’ Teams

FARM DEFERMENT NEAR FINAL VOTE   BILL PROVIDES FOR BLANKET DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS

4 JAP VESSELS HIT BY AIRMEN   Half Of New Nip Convoy Is Sunk Or Damaged

ATLANTA TO RAISE FUNDS 70 BUILD NEW SHIP   Citizenry of Georgia’s Capital City to Kick-in To Replace Destroyed  Cruiser

UNITED STATES URGED T0 HOLD ALL WAR BASE   Five Senators to Make Private Report On World Tour of Battlefronts

Senate Gets Secret Data   Chandler Wants U. S. To Keep World Base:

Senators Make Secref Report   Solons Who Visited Battle Fronts to Give Suaqgestions

Seeret Session Held By Senate To Hear Solon   Chandler Sees Need For U.S. To Act Quickly On Postwar Military Sites

‘Peer Says That Britain Cannot Permit Russian ‘Domination of Europe

Navy-Standard Oil Deal Illegal, Committee Told   Report on Elk Hills Contract Sent To White House

Germany s Food Supply Outlook Reported Good   Betfer Than in First Wai but Europeans Face Starvation

B-24 Missing Since Jan. 18 Found On Peak      Davis-Monthan Field Plane Found By Party Searching For Oregon Bomber

Wreck of Long-Lost Plane Is Found In Wilderness; Montanan Is Listed Among Victims of Crash

ROOSEVELT GETS — ROUGH TREATMENT GIVEN HOOVER   ‘About Every Measure FOR  Backs Gets a ‘‘No-Confidence Vote In Connreans.

CORN OUTLOOK IS IMPROVED   Good Growth Shown In Last Month: Winter Wheat Harvest 31 Pct Below ‘42

FOOTBALL SCORES   Air Crash Kills First WAVE Officer To ‘Die On Dutu In U.S.

CHINESE LOOK FOR ‘BIG PUSH   Expect Jap Drive Aimed Ta Conquer Capital

Montana Ends Year With Colors Flying; Many Records Are Shattered

Airmen Pound © At Jap Bases   10,000-Ton Enemy Merchant Ship Attacked Off Kaviens; Nip Fighter Downed

Bombers Blast Jap Airdromes   Attempt To Cripple Nip Air Assault

MacArthur's Bombers Blast  Jap Airdromes   Curtin Appeals For More Planes Ty, Protacrt Anesiag

M’ARTHUR PLANES SIRIKE. JAPANESE IN 2000-MILE ARC   Object. ‘Of Raid «Was To - Harry: Enemy Efforts . . To. Build’ Up © Air Power

Broad Advance Made By Allies In New Guinea   Japs All But Cut Off In The LaeSalamaua Area

AUSSIES CAIN IN DARING THRUST   Troops Have Advanced 8 to 10 Miles in SalamaucLae Drive

Heavy Force Makes Landing In Battle Plan to Destroy Foe on Lae-Salamaua Front

AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHT WAY EIGHT TO TWENTY MILES. TOWARD ENEMY HELD LAE, NEW GUINEA   New Drive on Strong Japanese Base Aimed at Cutting off Supplies for Base From Further _ Noarth in Wilde af New Guinea

OTD 10 MILt ADVANGE ata TRAP ON JAPE   Australians Threatening Lae After Surprise Allied Troop Landing.   DRIVE UNDER PERSONAL DIRECTION OF MacARTHUR

Lae-Salamaua Jap Garrison Caught In Trap   Key Enemy Bases Isolated; Steady Gains Reported

JAPANESE FORCES IN EAE-SALAMAUA AREA VIRTUALLY TRAPPED   VETERAN AUSTRALIAN TROOPS UNDER GEN. MACARTHUR IN ADVANCE

Allies Tighten Upper Jaw of Pincers to Trap N ippon Forces in Lae and Salaniaua   Gains Scored After Surprise Landing {s Made in New Guinea.

Aussies Advance Inland In Drive On Salamaua   Strong Force Lands On Huon Gulf Shore

Trap Sprung To Destroy Japs On New Guinea Area   Brilliant Landing Behind Japs Made Under General's Personal Direction

JAPS VIRTUALLY TRAPPED IN LAE— SALAMAUA AREA   General MacArthur In Personal Command In Battle Area   ALLIES ADVANCE EIGHT TO 10 MILES

Aussies Under MacArthur Score 8-10 Mile Advance  New Move Traps J aps In The Lae-Salamaua Area

Australian Forces Advance Covers Ground With Aim To Destroy Nips

JAPANESE FORCES IN LAE-SALAMAUA AREA VIRTUALLY TRAPPED  VETERAN AUSTRALIAN TDOANPC TINNED CEN

JAPS ALL BUT IN A TRAP ON NEW GUINEA   Moving Across the Huon Gulf in Great Strength, Allies Gain Eight to 16 Miles in the Lae-Salamana Area.

Allied Troops Trap Japs Neat Lae-Salamaua   Gen. MacArthur Takes Personal Command in Effort to Clean Up Enemy Forces in Area

Allied Advance In New Guinea Traps Japanese Armies   Strongest Force Of Allied Men, Ships

Battle Plan Designed To  Destroy Foe In That Area   Sea And Air Power Beat Off Determined Enemy Opposition To New Landing In Force

New Allied Landings On New Guinea Cut  Olf Japanese Troops   Mac Arthur Personally Directing His Troops In Bril liant Maneuver Designed To De strov Bie Garrisons

Tempestuous Career of Frances Farmer Come: jo New Climax as Actress Starts 180-Davy2Tail Sentence Fichting and Kicking

FBi Holds Five for Large Whisky Thef   200 Cases Taken From Upset Truck

Five Iowans Held For Theft Of 200 Cases Of Whisky From Wrecked Truck

Allied Planes : Batter © Rabaul Harho1   54 Tons of Bombs Dropped in Intensive Raid

Buin, Faisi Are Hit By Bombers  Japanese Airdromes In Solomons Suffer Heavy Aerial Blows

BUIN AND FAISI BOMB TARGETS   American Warships Shell Jap Positions In -Aleutian Island Chain

Allies Drop 23 Tons Bombs On Buin, Faisi, Jap Bases Many Grounded Enemy Aircraft Were

Japanese Bases Bombed Heavily      Allies Pound Nipponese Ports In Solomons

Planes Rain Explosives On Japanese Base  Two Islands Hit In Solomons Area

Yankees Blast  Solomons Area   Huge Fires Started On Buin. ~~ Faisi; Warships Bombard  = Aten Island.

Allied Bombs Rain Down On Nippon Bases   Tons OF High Explosive Missiles Dropped Or Buin And Faisi   BIG FIRES STARTED   Airdromes, Enemy Ship ping Attacked By Far: ranging Bombers

Buin And Faisi Left In Flames:   23 Tons Set Off. Fires, Explosions.

JAP BASES HIT INTHIRD RAID BY U.S, AIRMAN   Huge Fires Started And Airdromes Blasted By Bombing Attack On Two Islands   HARBOR DESERTED   All-American  Warplanes Return Safely After _ Dropping 23 Tons of Bombs On Base

TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON JAP BASE AT RABAUI   Attack Aimed at 250 Planes on Airdromes and Many Are Believed Damaged or Destroyed.   HUGE FIRES STARTED IN TARGET AREAS   Enemy Barges and Bivouac Localities at Salamaua, New Guinea, Strafed and Bombed.

Drop tons of bombs on Rabaul   Third heaviest raid ever made Japanese base

ALLIED PLANES POUND RABAUL   54 Tons Of Explosives Rained On Japanese Airdromes

Bombs Drop :  On Buin, Faisi   North Solomons Jap Base West Of Guadalcanal Raided By Allies

RABAUL IS RAIDED BY ALLIED PLANES   Fifty-four Tons of Bombs Dropped on New Britain Base

Rain of Bomb: At Buin, Faisi Continued  Drop 23 Tons of Ex plosives in Raids; Great Fires Started

Fifty-Four Tons of Bombs Dropped On Rabaul Base  Attack Aimed at 250 “Jap Aircraft  a ee

23 Tons of Bombs Unloaded   Enemy Base in North Solomons Blasted Third Straight Day

MacArthur Stresses Lack of Aerial Opposition to Raid   ALLIED HEADQUAR. TERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sun-

Gasoline Black - Market Smashed   Federal] Acenis Seize Ceupor Beoks Good For Million Gallens, Believe Bootleg  Rine Is Nation-Wide.

FBI Smashes Huge Gasoline Bootleg Ring -:   Arrest of Important Washington Subject Expected Today

UNREST REPORTED IN COPENHAGEN AS RIOTS BREAK OUT      Sabotage Against Nazis  Being Carried Out — By Danes Trained  , In England. = --

Shipments > of Coal to Go Forward   Freeze Order “Lifted - by Ickes in View of Truce in Mining Dispute   @ MANY RAILROAD CARS TIED UP   Federal-Control, Moves In _ Swiftly, But May Be Re Tegecad in Miecour:

SOVIET’S RECOGNITION OF FRENCH. COMMITTEE !S UNQUALIFIED IN CONTRAST TO ANGLO-AMERICAN

RUSS GOVT RECOGNIZES FRENCH COMM.   Gives Greater Endorsement Than British and U. S.

TRAIN CRASH   “Wayne Bollin of Kingsley Dies At Kearney, Nebkraska

Radios in Germany Go Off Air   Heavy Attacks Indicated; Berlin Believed Target

WAR BOARD EASES UP   Nelson Reports Ban on Some Civilian Items Will Be Lifted

Civilians To Get Necessary Items   Refrigerators May Be Manufactured

WAVE From Sul Ross Reports At Illinois Nava Hospital For Training

Pretty Wedding Held At Remsen   Louis George And Adeline Pick Married

MEI ROURKE.   ST. MARY'S CHURCH, ALTON, SCENE OF A PRETTY. WEDDING

Geddes Couple Wed At Oyens Last Monday  Elmer Ott And Loretta Reistroffe)

Norbert Budden Weds Miss Eva Thill Of Remsen  Wedding Takes Plac At Gt Mary’. Chiirc

RENEW PLEA FOR BLAST AT JAPAN   Churchill Speech Fails To Still Congressional Bloc

Fails To Silence  Bemands For Fast Immediate Action Against Japanese

Speech Fails to Quiet Demand for Move on Japs   Claim Churchill. ~. Avoids Answering Many Questions

/ARNO CONFLICTS HAV! ITE DEVELOPED DURIN \LK/FOOD CONFERENCI   CRITICISM OF WAR CONTINUES DESPITE CHURCHILL’S TALK   Congressmen Still Consider . Japan Our No. 1 Foe— Want Attack At Once

Waters of Missouri  Still Rise   Crest cf Flood Nears Sioux City and Counci] Bluffs Threatened

Ford Plane Plant Slowed by Strike      Foremen Walk Out At Willow Run

LIQUOR RATION LAW VOTED BY OHIO ASSEMBLY   Closing Of State Stores For Brief Period Predicted ‘ By Director   STOOGE BUYING ASSAILED   Tax Division Plans Action Against Widespread Violations

STATE LIQUOR RATIONING TC GET UNDER WAY   Fisher Says 1,200,000 Quarts Available To Retailers, Taverns Per Month

LIQUOR RATION PLANS DRAFTED   Meanwhile, Ohio Declares War on ‘Whisky Stooges’ Who Deplete Stocks

LIQUOR TO GO ON RATIONS IN OHIO   Senate Adopts Bill; Syste Still Under Scrutiny

Allied Ships Are Massing At Gibralter   - Naval Activity Starts Rumors of Impending Invasion; Bombers Pound Italy Again

MANY VESSELS INVOLVED IN NAVAL ACTIVITY   100 Warships And Other ‘Graft Near Oihraltar   Allied Planes Are Blasting European Ramparts

Action Believed Near as Big Allied Naval Force Gathersal.Gibraltar:

Europe Buzzes With Rumors Of  Invasion Soon   Air Attacks Mount; Italians Urged To Hold On, Imitate English 

Allies Continue “Softening Up" Of Continent   100 Ships. Involved In Port Activity; Rumors Buzzing

Fleet In Action . Against Island Of Pantellerie      Another Mighty Convoy Leaves Gibraltar; ~ Invasion Seen

Big Movement At Gibraltar Is Reported   137 Ships Steam Into Mediterranean: Duce’s ‘Rock’ Pounded Anew By Warships

BIG-SCALE ACTIVITY OF ALLIED WARSHIPS GIBRALTAR REPORTEI  UNITED NATIONS BOMBERS CONTINUE TO  TTIARZESTM 606A wee

NAVY ACTIVITY   100 Warships and Other Vessels Concentrated at Gibraltar.   ITALIAN BASES BOMBED

Large-Scale ‘Naval Moves At Gibraltar   Invasion Fever Mounts; Allied Bombers Hammer At Europe’s North And South Ramparts.

Allied Warships Pressing Near Italy’s Own Shores   \xis Broadcasts Both Fear and Defiance of Coming Invasion

BRITAIN’S FORT BUZZING WITH MANY RUMORS   Held Time Near When War Material Passing “Rock” Wauld Go Into Action Seon   NAZIS PREDICTING  INVASION JUNE 22   Meanwhile, Allies Pile Up Fresh Havoe In “PreInvasion Softening Up" Offensive

ITALIAN RADIO ASKS PEOPLE 70 BE BRAVE   3 Carriers, 3 Battleships Reported Out Of Port

Allied Bombers Rain  New Havoc on Europe   Huge Naval Activity Reported From Mediterranean Stronghold; Planes Raid Italian Mainland, Islands, French Coast.

Axis Tells Gitizenry  To Stiffen   Air Assaults Stepped Up Against Italian Bases; Russian Conflict Grows

ASSAULT ON P ANTELLERIA IS RESUMED   German Army Experts Again Show Nervousness Over Invasion of Southern Europe   ATTACK AXIS CONVOY

\Germans Say J une 22 Is ‘Der Tag’; Italians Exhorted to Emulate British —

Allied Vessels Return To Hit Italian Island   Nervous Rome, Berlin Radio Stations Warn Of Coming Invasion.   MATERIEL TO AFRICA

ALLIES ARE EXPECTED 10: STRIKE SOON   Dispatch From La Linea, Next Door to “the Rock,” Says Force Includes Three Battleships  and Three Carriere.

Many Transports Reported in Harbox   Americans and British Keep Up Air Offensive Against Europe, Indicatine Invasion

TERRIFIED Alo JAYS INVAGION TRY (MMINENT   Landings On Italian Islands Expected Momentarily In Mediterranean

ALSO DAMAGE DESTROYER IN SAME BATTLE   Germans, Italians Fear In vasion, Appeal for People To Have Courage

Allied Bombers Continue Wide Activities   Red Armies Crush Strong German Attacks on Donets River

Allied Warships ‘Blast Pantelleria   Axis Destroyer Beached In Flames As Allied Naval Units Attack Convoy Off Toe Of Italian Boot; Invasion Jitters Hit Berlin, Rome

Large-Scale Activity Of Allied Fleet   Aivmen Bomb Northern, Southern Europe Points

Three Vessels Sunk, One Destroyer Driven Ashore In Mediterranean Attack

Movements Of Upwards Of 100 Warships And Other Vessels At Gibraltar Reported While Allied Bombers Pile Up Fresh Havoc In Both Northern And Southern Europe—lItalian Mainland City Of Foggia And Island Strongholds Among Targets

ARSHIPS LEAVE ROCK, SPAIN SAYS   Considerable Damage Done In Raid On Foggia   OTHER ATTACKS   Made On Sicily, Sardinia: Enemy Lost 337 Planes. In Combat In May

Pantellaria Is Believed Goal Of UN   Pessimistic Italians - Fear “Threat; Nazis Defiant; . Eyés On Mediterranean

Ships Leave Gibraltar for North Africa   Italians, Germans Nervously Hint of Invasion and Seek to Bolster Wavering Morale

REPORT GIBRALTAR NAVAL ACTIVITY   Collection of War Ships anc Cargo Vessels Hints of Invasion Soon

100 Warships, Other Vessels Involved  in Naval War   ‘ROCK’ HUMMING   —V——  Nazi Nervously Assert June 22 Invasion ’Tac”

Report Invasion Fleet  Gathering At Gibraltar   Allied Flotilla Leaves Port; Destination Unknown   OTHER SHIPS GATHER   Bombers Batter Europe In “Softening Up” Raids

AXIS SHIPS SUNK IN ATTACK OFF BOOT OF ITALY TUESDAY NIGHT  THIRD ALLIED NAVAL ASSAULT ON ISLAND OF PANTELLERIA

Big-Scale Naval Activity Reported At Gibraltar Today   New Invasion Talk Spreading From Britain’s Fortress

LA LINEA SAYS 2 CONVOYS OF 137 SHIPS SEEN   Huge Movement. of Allied Shipping East in Mediterranean Reported

GIBRALTAR AREA ALIVE ~ WITH SHIPS      100 War Vessels, 92 Freight Carriers and~ Several Transports on Hand:   BUZZ. OF. RUMORS ; ABOUT ACTION SOON   US.Keeps Air Drive Going on Italy; Comparatively © Ouietin Russia

Allied Bombers Pile Up. Fresh Havoc In Raids .  On North, South Europe

Allied Warships Hit Axis Convoy, Sinking 3 Boats   Strike Boldly Near Italian Shore; Raid Pantelleria

100 WARSHIPS ARE REPORTED AROUND ROCK   British Mediterranean Stronghold is Buzzing With Rumors of Action in the Near Future   AXIS APPEARS NERVOUS

NAVAL ASSAULT AGAINST ITALY SINKS 3 SHIPS   Destroyer Driven Ashore As ‘Invasion Path’ Is Blasted Fourth Day   HITLER IS GETTING SCARED   Fighting Flares in Russia Again and Jap Drive In China Boomerangs

Large-Scale © Naval Activity At Gibraltar _   Aircraft Carriers, Battleships, Cruisers and Destroyers Left the Rock Sunday Night; Allied Bombers Pile up Fresh Havoc on Furope -

AXIS NERVOUS OVER SPECTER OF INVASION   Movement of Another Al lied Armada in Mediterranean Is Reported.   Pantelleria Invasion Anticipated Any Hour

Convoys, Totaling 137 Ships, Off Into Mediterranean Sea   ‘Rome and Berlin Pluck at Spector of Allied  Invasion of Europe

ALLIED AIRMEN STILL HITTING NTALY HEAVILY   Over 100 Warships And Other Vessels Now At Gibraltar

Large Scale Naval Moves At Gibraltar   Bombers Pile Fresh Havoc On Ramparts Of Europe

Attack Axis Conv: Drive Destroyer Ashore  PANTELLERIA. BE Island Shelled 

Invasion May Be Near As Bombs Cause New Havoc   Shipping Movements At Gibraltar Reported; Raiders Continue Blows

9) Freighters Protected By "Big Warships   Italians and Germans Warn Their People Blow Is to Fall Soon

Allied Warships Strike Close to Italian Shores   Rome Spokesman Warns of ‘Terrible Fate’ With Defeat

Allied Vessels Sink 3 Ships Off Italy Coast   Third Naval Assault in Four Days Made on Pantelleria; Reds Kill 2,000  Gearmane in TwaDav Rattle

Italians, Sensing Impending Invasion, Warn “People Their Fate Will Be “Terrible”

100 WARSHIPS, OTHER CRAFT SEEN AT ROCK   Italy, France, Low Countries Pounded By Renewed Aeria! Blows.   NAZIS WAIT ‘DER TAG’   Zermans Nervously Declare Invasion of Europe Due  an timo 99

Huge Allied Fleet Massing; Nervous Axis Hints European Invasion Near

Allies Strike at Shores of Italy   Three Enemy Vessels Are Destroyed Off of Cap  Spartivento   INVASION IS EXPECTED   Axis Reports Huge Move: ment of Allied Ships at  Gibraltar

Allied Naval Forces Sink 3 Axis Ships   Enemy Destroyer Driven Ashore On Italy’s Tip; Warships Again Pound  De nialliacs

Allied Ships  Move   Armada Believed on Way to Invasion; Axis Convoy Dam.aged at Toe of Ital. ian Boot

CONVOY SAILS   137 Warships, Transports, Other Vessels Leave Gibrattar,   DESTINATION NOT TOLD

Sink Three Axis Ships Near Italy   Allied Naval Units Attack Convoy Off Toe of Italy; Shell Pantelleria Again

Allied: War Ships Are At Gibraltar   Big Scale Naval Activity Noted as Air Attacks   Continue    INEW RAIDS ON ITALY   Mainland City of Foggia and Island Strongholds  Attacked

New Attack On Pantelleria   Huge Movement of Allied Shipping at. Gibraltar Reported.

ALLIED PLANES BLAST ITALIAN, GERMAN BASES   Mediterranean Convoy Totals Nearly 100 Warships, Plus Other Vessels

Naval Activity At Gibraltar Worries Axis   ‘Rumors That Materia Passing Stronghold Of Britain Will Go Into Action Soon

Large Scale Naval Activities Around Gibraltar Reported   Rumors of Coming Big Events Spread as Raids Continue

Allied Naval Activity Seen  At Gibraltar   Spanish Sources Report Large Fleet Of Warships, Freighters Waiting.    i? rT wa e* £ Pe ir ™* a ewerws t£2rse7TrT we

KEEP THREAT OF INVASION BEFORE AXIS   Third Naval Assault On Pantelleria in Four Days

Pre-Invasion _ Jitters Grip;  oly. i owers  RY mA & * datiaties and Fas: ef 3 ad for Courage as Ships Continue Te  wy d Italy's Shores

WARSHIPS OF ALLIES SINK THREE BOATS   Invasion Jitters Grow in Reich Italy. Huge Allied Convoy Moves Out of Gibraltar

Allied Ships Sink 3 Axis Vessels   Destroyer Driven Ashore — Rome  And Berlin Show Nervous Siena

Allied Warships Strike Near Italian Shores Wednesday      ‘Three Vessels Sunk ard Destroyer Driven Ashore In Flames in Attack on Axis Convoy Off Capo Sprativento. Allied Forces Suffer No Casualties

Pantelleria Continues To Gel Poundings   Germany Turns On Air Power Against Reds’ Base At Kursk

ITALY BATTERED AGAIN BY BOMBS TO BLAST DOOR   War Analysts Foresee Big Allied Attack ‘Somewhere’ In Near Future ;   JAPS SET BACK IN CHINA   Germany and Low Countries Smashed by RAF and Nazi Planes Raid England

Italian Fleet Is Defied in New Raids on Convoy at « Toe of Italy   INVASION BLOWS — TENSELY AWAITED   gixis Talk ik and Jitters Mounting; Allied Supremacy on Seas Indicated

Allied Ships Again Shell Pantelleria  Italians Urged. T.. Be. Bueewae

3 BATTLESHIPS, 3 AIR CARRIERS ARE REPORTED   Large Seale Naval Activity Is Cause of Much Speculation

RETURNS IN SWEATER   St. John’s Hospital Opens New Class Of Nursing Under Central System

St. John’s Hospital Opens New Class Of Nursing Under Central System

AP Photographer Used Misleading Captions, War Department Charges

Fakes Battle Pictures   AP News Photographer Suspended Following Disclosure Of Hoax

Flames Still Raging In Nazi Capital Today   Small Bombers Make Sizzling Raid On Berlin After Gigantic Bléck-Buster Assault; Economic Knockout Aim

FIRES STILL BURNING IN NAZI CAPITAL   Germany’s War-Time  Economy to Be  ~~ Knocked Out by End of Year.

12,000 Reported Killed In Raid Monday Night 50,000 Suffer Wounds  500,000 HOMELESS  Mosquito Bombers Hit German Capital Again

 Mosquito Bombers Attack Berlin Through Clouds Of Smoke Arising From Heavy Raid Of Day  Before: No Planes Lost   ROUND-THE-CLOCK BOMRING PREDICTED

NO LET-DOWNS IN LOAN DRIVE   Treasury Banks. First Billion; Men In Navy Boost Sales

; CHIEW, EXECUFIVE DECLARE!   THAT UNCONDITIONAL SUR RENDER SOUGHT—   POST-WAR AIMS . OUTLINED

On The Threshold of Developments      President Makes Declaration Relative To War

MAJOR EVENTS OF WAR NEAR FOR ALLIES   President Issues: Statement on Eve of Strategy Meeting

CHINA ASKS FOR 1,000 AIRPLANES   Army Of 3,000,000 Ready To Attack Japanese If ag@ings Are Available

CHINA WANTS — “1000 PLANES   LIGHT BOMBERS ESPECIALLY DESIRED BY CHINESE IN  WAR,ON FAR EASTERN  - FRONT »  -.-

OPT APPEAL RENT DECISION   Georgia Court Holds Act Unconstitutional Yesterday

HULL MAY MISS 3-POWER MEET   President May Send Personal Envoy For Angio-Soviet Talks

HULL MAY NOT ATTEND PARLEY   Personal Envoy Of FDR May Confer With Russ And British

ISSUES A WARNING   Committee Reports on Shortage. of Newsprint in U.S.

Return of Mine Workers to AFL May Result In Lewis Heading That Body

[Lewis May Become New  Chief of AFL   Return to Old Union Hints at Retirement.  Of President Green

‘Lewis’ Return to Federation Is Seen ‘As Beginning olf the End tor Green

Hint John L. Lewis May Succeed Greer   “Homecoming” of Mine Leader Stirs Lahor Circles

SEE LEWIS AS" NEW AFL CHIEF   UMW’s Return To Fole Signifies Green’s Retirement

Lewis to Go to Capital Today   Labor Sources Predict Green's Retirement

British Bomb Wilhelmshaven   Royal Canadian Air Force Joins R. A. F. In Raid by Large Force

FLIERS HAMMER U-BOAT NESTS   Carpet of Destruction Laid On Shipyards In Brief Attack

HEAYWEIGHTS OF RAF POUND U-BOAT BASE   Wilhelmshaven Bombed For 72nd — Time In War

U-Boat Base Receives . Pummeling   Wilhelmshaven Again Saturated With Heavyweight Bombs

Blockbuster RainSmashes NaziShipBase   Wilhelmshaven  Battered “by RAF in ‘Sécorid Suc: cessive Night Raid

RAF Hammers U-Boat Base Tn 72d Raid   Withelmshaven Is Pounded 30 Minutes; 41 Bombers Are Lost

R. ALF. Plasters Wilhelmshaven In Night Attack   Encounter Strong Fighter Opposition In Heavy Assault

U-Boat Lairs Again Visited   RAF Hits Wilhelmshaven To Lay. Fiery Carpet Of Destruction

R. A. F. Hits Sub Base Heavily   Wilhelmshaven Is Principal Target

JAMESES CAN ~~ NOW GET ALONC   Former Governor to Get Monthly Dole of $309

Davis, 0. W. I. Chief, Issues  Threat To Quit   Will Resign If House Move To Abolish Do mestic Bureau Wins.

Congress Votes To Trim Two War Agencies   Davis Threatens To Quit Post if OPA Is Affected

Fate OF O. WV. 1. Domestic Work Up To Senators   Director Elmer Davis Threatens 16 Oot Domestic Branch Cut.   heceicces   CRITICIZED BY SOUTH

LEADERSHIP OF ROOSEVELT ON HOME FRONT HIT   Heuse Abolishes Domestic Func~ tions Of Office Of War Information

CHALLENGE 10 FDR LEADERSHIP BEFORE SENATE   House Bil) Threatens OPA, Domestic OWL Funetions

SENATE RECEIVES HOUSE CHALLENGE OF F.R’S PROGRAN   Presidential Leadership Jeop. ardized In Action Against OPA and OWI,

OPA Feud Break: As Congress Cuts Its Funds  OWI Also Hit As House Limits Money

Davis Will Quit If OWI! Is Reduced   Information Director Says He’s Nothing Like Gayda or Goebbels

#use Measures sireaten Life  ‘OPA, OWI   -Roll-Back Subsidy. Program Falls Prey -To Solons’ Action

DAVIS THREATENS TO QUIT FROM OW!      Will Resign from Directorship if Senate Follows House Trend

Davis May Quit Job as Owl Chief   Will Resign If Senate Backs House Abolishment Action

Davis to Qui lf OWI Cut   Agency Head Replies To Critics, Defends Agency, Own Actions

Senators Get Bill Periling OPA And OWI   Measure Reflects Ire Of House Against FDR Controls

House Revolts Against Price Prosram And OW   Action Cuts Off Subsidies Funds And Curbs OPA

DAVIS 10 QUIT OW! IF BRANCH IS ABANDONED   Director Will Resign If Senate Follows House And Votes To Abolish Domestic Branch of Agency.

ELMER DAVIS SAYS  WILL QUIT HIS JOB  IF SENATE CONCURS AND INTIMATES THAT 1  HE QUITS THERE WILL RE NO OWI!

NO SUBSIDIES, HOUSE INSISTS   1 Passes Bill Threatening OPA's Cutting OWT

AMENDED APPROPRIATIONS BILL FORWARDED TO SENATE FOLLOWING STORMY SESSION   Price Roll-Back and Grade-Labeling Programs Threatened; Administration Spokesman Points to Inflation Danger

Elmer Davis Threatens  To Quit Job As OWI Chief      Will Resign if Domestic Branch of His Bureau Is Abolished, As House. of Representatives Voted to Do; Replies to Criticism of Him in Congress

TLOOCAL ORSPRVATIONG   Davis Says He May Quit Post   lf Domestic Branch Is Abolished, He Will Resign OWI Position.

HOUSE REVOLT KILLS FOOD SUBSIDY PLAN, CUTS OWI FUNCTIONS   Price Rollback Program Major Casualty; Senate May Treat OPA And OWI More Kindly

BIG SCALE AIR WAR IS RESUMED   Two Huge Flights Over Continent Today

Steady Air Pace  Kept Up   By Harrison Salisbury,  (United Press Staff Correspondent)

Russians Capture Vyazma   Germans Claim to Have Entered Kharkov—Early Capture Feared

Proposal For A ‘Post War  Peace Charter   Formal Treaty Is Embodied In Aim Of Gillette

GILLETTE ASKS POSTWAR PACT   Says Formal Treaty Is Needed To Reassure All Our Allies

Senator Asks Peace Aims Treaty Now  Gillette Urges F.D.R. Negotiate Post-War      WANTS ANY TREATY TO BE WORLD-WIDE

Senate To Vote Monday on Bill To Take Over Mines and War Plants Shut Down by Walkouts

Mine, Piant Seizure Bill fo Raviyed   Senator Connally Assails Lewis as ‘Dictator,’ Calls for Action   SENATE TO TAKE - UP BILL MONDAY   Similar Measure Dropped After ‘No Strike’ Pledge Was Given

Senate To Take   Up Strike Action  ‘Connally Bill Provides Seizure Of Plants

RETURNS FROM TRIP, ACTS IN COAL SITUATION   Saturday at 10 a.m. to Be Deadline—Considers Gov't Service for Young Americans

OENATE TD TAKE UP PLANT SEIZURE BILL   Connally Measure Slated For Action Monday

Mine Seizure Bill Pushed   Senator Connally Asks Action to Determine Who's Running Things

Great War Still Ahead, Says Smuts   “But Things Are Shaping -Up'For . Victory,”.He Adds

SMUTS SEES VICTORY DRIVE   SOUTH AFRICA PREMIER PREDICTS GREAT WAR

Claim Bulgars Order Leaders Get Out Of War   Opposition Group Warns Goverament Resignation Is Only Alternative

Bulgarians Are to Seek Turkish Aid   Keports Were Current That a Mission Will Arrive Soon in Turkey.

Reports Current That Bulgarian Mission Will Soon Arrive {n Turkey

Bulgarian Government Threatened  Opposition Party Asks Withdrawal From the War

AID FOR BULGARIA MISSION       Reqests Turkey Will Be Asked to Help Extricate Balkan State

Reich State SendsEnvoy To Neutrals   -Simall Nation. Torn By. Internal Strife; ‘Front’ Troops Desert

Say Bulgaria Asks For Aid  From Turkey   Rumor Balkan Country Seeks Help In Breaking Alliance With Germany.   INVASION JITTERS BAD

Bulgaria Tries To Get Out Of War As Allied Moves Loom in Balkans

Bulgars Seek Turkish Aid To Quit Wa:   Report Mission Going To Ankara

Ankara Rumors State Bulgarian Mission Will Arrive Soon To Enlist Turkey’s Aid in Severing Nazi Ties

Bulgaria Now Seeking Ways To Quit War   Reportedly Sending Mission to Turkey to Get Help in Breaking Away

Nimitz to Plan Trouble For Japs   Returns to U. S. fo  Conferences on Strategy

FAVOR GENERAL   Poles Slate Sosnokowshi as New Commander, Report.

DOOLITTLE WARNS U.S. BOMBERS WILL STRIKE JAPS AGAIN   Devastating . Attack Will Continue. Until The Japanese Empire Crumbles

Doolittle Vows New Nippo Raids   U. S. AIR CHIEF SEES “DEVASTATING ATTACK” ON JAPANESE EMPIRE

Doolittle Warns U. S. Will Strike At Japan Again   Empire Will Crumble, Beg For Mercy, Says Tokyo Raid Leader

BOOLITTLE PROMISES MORE ATTACKS   Says U. S. Bombers Will Visit Japan Again Soon

Doolittle Sees — New Tokyo Raids   Predicts New  Aerial Attacks -

Doolittle Warns Japs Of New Raids   Attack to Continue Until Japanese Beg For Mercy, He Says

RETRIBUTION IS PLEDGED BY DOOLITTLE   American Bombers Will Strike at Heart of Japan—Em pire to Be Crushed.

Leader Of U. S. Raid On Tokyo Expresses Loathing, Resentment For Flier Executions

Rush on Meat Stores Develops   Report Buying Spree In Most All Parts of State—Shortage Pends

Housewives Stage Rush To Store Up Meat Supply   Merchants Report Cheese Also Enjoying Unusual Popularity Before Rationing Starts   BUYING APPARENT THROUGHOUT STATE

Kallick Gets . More Threats   Assistant UJ. S . Attorney Told To Stop Action Against Mancuso

EARL K. LONG TO RUN FOR OFFICE   Brother Of Huey Will Again Seek Governorship.

EARLE LONG CANDIDATE   Huey's Brother Will Run Again For Louisiana Governorship

HINT LEWIS WILL IGNORE WLB SUMMONS   Believe Miners Chief Will Not Meet With Coal Operators

LEWIS MAY IGNORE ‘CALE. 10: MEETING   DEFIANCE. OF LABOR BOARD WOULD NOT NEUESSARILY HALT COAL PRODUCTION.

UMW Head Silent On Coal Situation   Government Sources Confident Production Of Coal Will Continue

BELIEVE LEWIS WILL IGNORE LABOR BOARD   Mine Union Leader Expected To Stay Away Tomorrow At Session of WLB

Tojo Tells Japs To Expect Big — Allied Attack   Tokyo Premier Reveals Anxiety Over Course Of Pacific War.

INVASION THREAT VOICED BY TOJ0   MacArthur’s Men Thrust to Within 90 Miles of Jap Base at Lae

PREMIER WARNS PARLIAMENT OF NEW OFFENSIVE  a   Says Large Scale Allied Push Near In Official Talk

ALLIED DRIVE   Premier Tojo Warns Japanese Diet of Angio-American Offensive.

War Become: Tense,’ Tojo Tells Japs   Sees Signs of Big Allied Offensive Action Soon

Tojo Warns War Growinc More Tense   Even As He Speaks To Parliament, Allies Thrust Toward Lae

TOJO WARNS OF NEW OFFENSIVE   Tells Jap Parliament War Is Becoming Tense

Premier Warns Jap Parliament Allies Will Strike   MacArthur's Forces Have Bypassed Big New Guinea Bases

TOJO WARNS JAPS OF LARGE SCALE ALLIED ATTACKS   DECLARES SITUATION BECOMES TENSE WITH GRIM STRUGGLE AHEAD

Tojo Fears Large Scale British-American Blows   Allied War Planes Heap New Destruction On Jap Invasion Forces In South Seas

Warns Of Offensive By Allie:   Promises “Independence” To Philippines And Burma And Assistance To People Of India

Allied Strategy Worries Japan   TOJO TELLS HIS PEOPLE TO WATCH FOR NEW BLOWS

JAPANESE PREMIER WARNS PARLIAMENT SITUATION TENSE  IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC   IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED BOMBERS CONTINUE ACTIVE

SAYS THE WAR 1S BECOMING _ MORE TENSE   Asserts to His Parliament, However, That Mikado’s Forces Are Inflicting Heavy Blows on At tarkare.

JAPAN WARNED OFFENSIVE NEAR   Toio Tells Jap Parliament War Situation Becoming “Increasingly Tense.”

JAPS WORRY NOW   Premier Tojo Warns That Big British-American Offensive Nears

JAP PREMIER WARNS ALLIED OFFENSIVE NEAR: U.S. STEPS UP ATTACK IN PACIFIC SECTION

TOJO ADMITS SITUATION IS MORE TENSE   Jap Parliament Warned of Mounting Signs of Allied Offensive on Large Scale   NEW PACIFIC THRUST

War Becomes ‘Tense, Tojo Tells Japs  Sees Signs of fae. A he.   Sees Signs of Big Allied Offensive Action Soon

Tojo Warns Japs War Situation Becoming Tense  N ipponese Premier   Nipponese Premier Forecasts Giant Allied Offensive

State Senators ~ Override The Governor's Veto  Vote 25 To 8 To Uphold Repeal of Income: Surtax

Measure Goes To Assembly By 25-8 Vote   Two-Thirds Majority To Be Necessary; Upper House Would Wipe Levy OF Rook«

State's 2 Pct. Sales _ Tax Made Permanent: _ Plan Plastic Tokens

Army Tells How Yankees Photographec Strategic Positions in Africa Months Before Invasion Was Launched

Say Junkers Would Seize Nazi Control   Ready For Coup When Opportune

Still $3700 Short In Tioga County Red Cross Drive   County Chairman Urges Lag ging Districts to Make Lo cal Quotas.

RED CROSS IS NEARING GOAL   Qn The War Fund Quota For Tioga County.

CHILE EXPECTED TO SEVER - RELATIONS WITH-AXIS NATIONS   Senate. Approved-: Motion For Break’ Last Night— ° President . To.  Ce

ALLIED ARMIES CRASHING AHEAD ON ALL FRONTS   Axis Situation Desperate As Allies Pound Ahead In AllOut Final Offensive

ALLIES CRASH AHEAD IN ALL TUNISIA   Closing in Relentlessly on  Axis-Held Bases

American, French and British Troops Relentlessly Pound Enemy Territory In Tunisia.

Roaring Ilames Leaping Through Docks and Shipyards.  ~~ = = as ~~ ili iia iil imma iit Nia a   ALLIES CLOSING IN ON AXIS HELD BASES   11 Enemy Planes and 9 Vessels Are Lost in Allied Raids.

HAS GOOD RECORD   Chief Justice Hasn’t Missed a Day Due to Illness Since 1937.

Allies Sweep Mambre Valley  In New Guinea  Scene of Jap Disaster Last Dec. 31 Falls To Ground Troops  BOMB FOE’S BASES  Aerial Assaults Continue; Army Only 100 Miles From Lae

Allies kill Over 700  Japs in New Guinea   Troops Completely Occupy Mambare River Area; 100 Prisoners Taken in Advance

Allies in complete  possession Mambare area of New Guinea   Within 100 miles of strong - Japanese base. at Salamaua

YANKS KILL 700 JAPS IN ADVANGE IN NEW GUINEA   Americans Reach Point Only 100 Miles From Strong Nipponese Base at Salamaua.   MAMBARE RIVER AREA COMPLETELY OCCUPIED   Push Up Northern Coast Made Through Jungle Country—More Than 100 Prisoners Taken.

NAVAL PLANE BEING SOUGHT   Admiral and Navy Leaders En Route to S. F. From Hawail

Rail Unions Plan Arbitration Move  Piste: eerie aot   Delay Issuance of Strike Ballots

Railmen Favor Ballot on Salary Strike 2 But Will Await Confab Set To Start Friday

STRIKE BALLOT APPROVED FOR RAIL UNIONS   Oificers Delay Vote, However Pending Further Conference: With Rail Officials

Unions Of 15 Railways Vote To Stop Work   Strike Ballot Will Not Be Issued Until Leaders Meet With Officials

KAY KYSER SEEKS  DRAFT DEFERMENT EXERT ~ / SELF-STYLED MUSICAL __ KNOWLEDGE PROFESSOR  Lp ne ale ole We ad Gi

That's Right, You're Wrong  F.R. Asked To Answer  Kyser Draft Question

owl Reveals Draft Determent Asked For Seven Other Entertainers as Kay Kyser Case Goes fo President

Kay Kyser Carries Question Of Deferment to President  With Support of the OWI

KYSER'S APPEAL RAISES QUESTION   s Morale-Building Qualifi cation For Deferment? OWI! Has Asked Deferment For Seven Other Radio Celebrities.

Band Leader’s Case Appealed   Kay Kyser Seeks To Keer Civilian. Status;. Has Support -Of OWL

‘It’s $64 Question Professor Can’t Answer ’ FDR To Decide If Kay Kyser, Morale Builder, Goes Into Army

es Taneen ied TS w7  aeene Ai  To President  Is Morale-Building Cause For Deferment

Asks Deferment For Radio Stars    Question Of Kay f Kay Kyser’ s De: ferment Goes To President To Decide.

Kyser Poses  Query Tune Can't Tell   ‘Professor of Musical Knowledge’ Seeking Draft Chenge

OW! Wants Radio Celebritie: Deferred as Morale Builders   Kay Kyser’s Appeal from 1-A Rating Is Now Before President Roosevelt

Band Leader’s Case Is Cited As Test Whether “Morale-Building”  Is Essential  OTHERS DEFERRED  Whe. 3". £4. .... 3*.... WT... FY      OTHERS DEFERRED   Radio Comedians Named By OWI As Excluded From Induction By Draft Boards

Mexican Laborers. May Become — Commonplace In Plymouth Co.   They May Also Replace Americans As Railroad  Laborers

t Mexican Laborers May Become  Commonplace In Plymouth Co.   Americans As Railroad  Lahorers

VAVAL VICTORY IS CLAIMED BY NAZIS   Mities Do Not Confirm Battle Reported To Have Taken Place In Channel Saturday Night

Nation Preparing For Big Registration Job   Nearly 130,000,000 Americans Are To Receive New Ration Book 2; Sales Frozen In Stores of U.S. Saturday Night

OPA Officials Completing Plans For Distributing Ration Book Two to 130 Million Americans. Next Week

Canned Goods Sales Stop  Tomorrow   Nation Girds Itself for Biggest Rationing Job

Next Week You ll Get Book No. 2   Ration Registration : Prepared; Sales to Stop Saturday

FREEZE’ ENDS MARCH 1 WHEN RATION BEGINS   130 Million Americans Sign Up Next Week For Book Two

Committee Asks for NYA Abolition   Hearing into Effect of Wartime Agencies on Peacetime Future Opened; Dissension in OPA

HITLER PINCHED FOR MANPOWER   Death Penalty Applied For Those Who Do Not Work For Reich

NAZIS DECREE WORK FOR ALL   Death Penalty for Slackers Hinted as Drastic Labor Order is Given

COMPULSORY LABOR ORDERED BY NAZIS   Women as Well as Men Affected ~—~Denth Penalty May Be Ap nlied tn Slackers.

Enforced Labor For  German Men, Womer  Strong Hints Of Death For All Slackers

Grove Clerk On Stand In Trial Today   Did Not Take  Business Part

BARKLEY RAPS “ABSENTEEISM OF SENATORS   ‘Undeterrd, Rival Committees Ma“neuver io Send Delegates tc - North Africa

Battle On Attu Sealing Fate Of Enemy On Kiske   Navy Silent On Attu Battle But Axis Reports Indicate Yanks Winning   KISKA OUTFLANKED BY ATTU INVASION

JAPS FATE ON KISKA BEING SEALED   Victory of U.S. on Attu Will Doom Outflanked Enemy Post

ATOKA TO GE NEXT OTATION PUR OUR TROOPS   Fate cf This Japanese-He'd Island Will Be Sealed After Attu. ©   OFFICIALS ARE SILENT   Little News From Attu, But Guick Victory by U. S&S. Is Expected.

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK JAPS IN S. PACIFIC      Easter Sunday Observed By Big Bomber Raids

Easter Marked By Bomber Raids On  Japanese Bases On Coast Of Guinea

BILIMITED RAIL S MARKS RASTER A OFF NEW GUINEA   Flying Fortresses State 26Minute Attack on Strong Jap-Held Wewak Position   FIRES ARE STARTED   Town and Military Instal. lations at Maang, 100 Miles From Wewak, Strafed

American Warships Shatter Jap Convoy at Vella Lavella Island   Three Destroyers Were Hit and Several Landing Barges.

New Pay-as-Go Showdown Seen   Republicans Threaten  To Block Recess

Maharajah Loses Gasoline Ration  Journey to Reno Edel Rib Tee ee

INDORE LOSES GAS RATIONS   That is for One of His Cars, But He'll Get Enough on Others to Get by in United States

U.S, BOMBS WIPE OUT ITALY'S BARI AIRPORT   150 Tons Of Explosives Are Rained From 70 Planes

ALLIES DESTROY ITALIAN AIRPORT   Wipe Out Enemy Airfield 50 Miles North of Taranto Monday

Axis Airport “Practically Disappears” Under Bombing   Liberators Rain Destruction On Bari; Large Number Of Planes Are Wrecked

Bari Airport 'Wiped Out By Attack By Liberators   Fifty Grounded Planes Destroyed Or Damaged At Base North Of Taranto

Bari Airport is Bombed fo Bits  U. S., RAF Planes Blast Coastal Base

BARTAIRPORT IS » QBLITERATED BY ~~ AHAIL OF BOMBS   Seventy United States Liber ators Dropped 150 Tons of Bombs.   THE RAF IN FOLLOW-UP   The Communique Said Large Fires Were Started East of the Airdrome.

Bari Plane Field “Practic_ ally Disappears” Under Hail Of 150 Tons Of Explosives  HANGARS, REPAIR _ PLANTS WRECKED        Fifty Grounded Planes Destroyed or Damaged; RAF Follows Up U.S. At  tack, Starting Fires

Bari Blasted Off the Map’   American Bombers All but Obliterate Italian Airport

g Way toGo t, President urns Nation   Ypens War Bond Drive Vith Reminder Nazis till to Be Whipped

Nation-wide Address By President Opens Loan Drive   People Warned That Fall Of Italy Might Cause Too Much Complfocancy In The Country

DEBATERS RANK HIGH   Team From University Tock Part in Tournament in Texas

U.S. OCCUPATION OF MARTINIQUE TO BE RESISTEL   Fighting French Predict Island’s Soldiers Will Be. Loyal to Robert.

Martinique Will Fight © Invasion   French Troops Loyal to Robert Ready to Battle United Nations

ALLIES MAY MEET RESISTANCE FROM ROBERT LOYALISTS      Way For Occupation Of Martinique Cleared As Hull Breaks Ties

New Burlington Depot Planned For One Razed   Four Die in Fire Which Destroyed Structure on W ednesday

Eye-Witness Account Of Start Of Bombing Raid Made On Tokyo   Bv RICHARD TREGASKIS

CRAFT SANK’4 JAP WARSHIPS   Blasted 32 Planes ; Survived Worst Attacks

Battleship Is Credited With (32 Jap Plane:   Four Jap Warships Sunk By. An Unidentified American Battleship In  - Guadalcanal Area

,§, BATTLESHIP IN PACIFIC: SHOT DOWN-32 ENEMY PLANES   SENSATIONAL EXPLOIT OF ANTI-AIRCRAFY GUNNERS MADE. PUBLIC BY THE NAVY

IF NAZIS KNEW WHAT HAD BEEN PLANNED THEY'D SURRENDE   Says President Roosevelt In His Ottawa Speech Today.

THEY'LL BE TOLD IN OWN LANGUAGE   More Than 25,000 Hear U. S. President Sound Knell For Axis

French And American Forces Stab To Within 15 Miles Of Bizerte, To The Nacth   U.S. Troops Advance

Mateur Falls After 14-Mile Plunge   French, Americans in North Approach Bizerte 

Yanks Score Slashing Win   ~ Nazis Driven Steadily On Back, Mateur ls Captured

Other Forces Get 15 Miles  From Bizerte   Yankee Units Score Greatest Land Victory in Africa: Planes Pound Fleeing Nazis

Greatest Victory Scored In Africa   Fall Of Mateur Marks Important Goin For Speedily Advancing Allied Battle Troops

Americans Score Their Greatest Land Victory in Africa; French Troops Smash Way Closer to Bizerte

~" AXIS SUPPLY POINT FALLS AFTER YANKS MAKE 14-MILE GAIN   Allies_in_ Northern Tunisia Are Within 15 Miles of  Bizerte Naval Base 

Mateur Falls: Americans  Plunge On   Greatest Land Advance in Africa War Is Reward of Grim Battle; All Allies Gain: Last Nazi Hold Totters

Crack German Army Retreats   Axis Stronghold Occupied In 14-Mile Plunge; U. S. Soldiers Menace Both Tunis And Bizerte

Fall “of Key Axis City in Tunisia Is An. nounced ENEMY IS FALLING .BACK, REPORT SAYS Gains by Allies Scored on All Fronts in Africa ©

Mateur’s Fall New Menace  To Axis Bases   Bulk of Nazi Forces In North Retreat, Later Reports Reveal  MAY BE DIVIDED

SMASHING U. 3. VICTORY OPENS WAY TO PLAINS   Drive Through Best Of German Troops After Two-Week Battle  In Mountains   Bizerte Threatened °

onan Gain 14 Miles in New Tunisian Drive   apture Mateur, Strategic Communications Center   Axis Forces Reported Fall ing Back over a Wide  Area

14-Mile Advance Leads To Fall Of Axis Communi cations Center   ENEMY FALLING BACK OVER A WIDE AREA

Drive On. After Tunis and Bizerte —   Patton's Men Beat :Hitler's Crack Soldiers In 14-Mile Plunge -

¢Yanks at Edge Of Tunis Plain AtterHard Battle   Threaten Tunis and Bizerte After Success, Continue Advance

US. Troops Take Mateur  From Nazis   Crack German Soldiers Smashed Back In Fierce Fighting.

Other Units Within 15 Miles of Bizerte  'U. S. Feat Held Greatest

Stocks Tumble $1-56 a Share  Selling Rush Touche:   Selling Rush Touched Off by F. R. Surprise Order on Prices

Lodge’s Complaint About War News Partly Answered: Given Out by Army

Paper Says President Entered Dispute On Advice  - Of Aides, Including James Byrnes, Fred Vin son, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg And Without Sufficient Knowledge Of Controversy.

Rail Unions Critical of FD’S Action   Say He Should Leave Dispute to Mediation Board

ROOSEVELT WANTS ACTION IMMEDIATELY   President Warns That “War Cannot Wait and I Cannot Wait.”

Prepared  To Act In   ASKS PERMISSION TO SETTLE. WAGE DISPUTE IMMEDIATEL: AND WANTS A QUICK ANSWE

Stalin Exhorts Soviet Army To Fight To Death   Declares Russia Bears Whole Weight Of War Against Nazis

De Marigny Takes Witness Stand For First Time To Tell His Story; Describes Marriage To Nancy

NAZIS FALLING BACK TO DNIEPER, DESNA   Writer Says Reds Are Wiping Out Germans by Series of Pincer Movements,

Russian Shock Troops Advance In Orel Sector   Gain Up to Four Miles ¢ End of Great Week's Drive   German Defenses Crumb: : ling, but Counterattacks Continue

Germany Has Passed Peak of War Production   But Reich Still Has Plenty of Fight Left in Her

Germany on Downgrade ir Production   Many Important Symptoms of Industrial Deterioration Appear in Figures Gathered bv Reliable Sources. 

German War Industry In Decline British, Foreign Sources Report, But Warn Nazis Are Still Strong

Production Race Lost by Germany   Enemy has Passed Peak as Warmaking Power ‘Because of Decline in Output of Factories

Strain Of Nearly Four Years Of Conflict And Day-Night Hammering By Allies Slowing Nazi Industry, But Enemy Still Has Plenty Of Fight Left, Reliable Sources Indicate—Figures Show Reich Has Passed Peak As Warmaking Power

NAZI INDUSTRY ON DOWNGRADE   Observers Say Nation's Warmaking Power Has Been Cracked By Allies

Figures Quoted in London Declare Reich Has Passed Her Peak   OUTPUT IS DECREASING

Nazis Lose Production  Race Now   Germany Passes Peak. But Still Has Fight Left

Experts Believe Germans Losing Production Race  Bombings Reduce QOutput Sharply

Strain of War and Hammered Relentlessly, Nazi Industry Reported Losing Production Race; Still Plenty of Fight

GERMANS FALL BEHIND IN RAGE OF PRODUCTION  ro  ‘hee oh Renaienard   ‘Reich, Strained by Four  i Years of War and Bomb : ings, Has Passed Production Peak   -OIL RESERVE DOWN   ‘Nazi Plane Output Drops: ' Locomotives Another  Weak Spot; Steel   Falls Off

FOUR YEARS OF WAR PUTS AXIS CN DEFENSIVE   Going Downhill With Production, Reports Indicate

Claim Nazis Lose Production Race   Report German.War Machine Past Peak

FIGURES SHOW NAZI PLANTS PAST PEAK   Reich On Upgrade Only In Submarine Output; Tank, Plane Work Far Behind; Transportation Hit

NAZTINDUT RY ON DOWNGRADE   Germany Hit By 4 Years of Total War Losing Production Race.   NATION PASSES PEAK

German Production Has Lost Needed Punch To Win War But Still Has Plenty Of Fight

Germany On Downgrade As Allied Air Power Smashes War Production Plant.

Germany, Strained By Four Years Of War And Bombings, Losing Race

n Of War Telling On Germany.  Nazi Industry. Losing Battle Of Production

German War Production On Down Grade © As Result Of Devastating Air Attacks

FIGURES PROVE GERMANY FACES ACUTE SHORTAGES   PASS PRODUCTION PEAK; OIL, STEEL SUPPLY LIMITED

Nazi Industry ‘Losing Battle Of Production   Synthetic Oil ts Taking Electricity Steel Plants Need

NAZI INDUSTRY LOSING BATTLE OF PRODUCTION   Vital Output Of War Weapons On Downgrade,   British Find   FEEL EFFECTS SOON   Diminishing Oil Reserve: Threatens To Stall  War Machines

Nazi Industry Now Unable To Keep Up Pace   Production Of Planes, Tanks, Steel Off Sharply; Build More Subs.   RESERVES OF OIL FLOW

Nazis Have Lost Production Fight, London Believes   Four Years Of Total War And Incessant Hammering From Air Being Felt By Germans

BELIEVE GERMANY HAS PASSED PEAK WAR PRODUCTION   Figures Gathered By Reliable British and Foreign Sources Suggest That Germany Has Positively Passed Peak In War-Making Power and Is Now On Downgrade.

\GERMANY LOSING PRODUCION RACE  AFTER FOUR YEARS OF WAR, BOMBINGS

SERPATINE DY OE YY ARK  German Industry Is Losing Race For Production

Nazis, Strained By: 4 Years  Of War, Losing Production Race Essential To Victory

Defective Part in Wing Caused Glider Crash Com. Reports   Slack Inspection at War Plants Is Revealed

Scattered Air-Sea Clashes Continue In Solomons Area; Navy To Withhold Details Until Rival Losses Are Tabulated

Both. Forces. Have Losses _ But Military Situation , «Does Not Permit .~” ? Details   Knox Seeking To Minimize Original’ Report’ Of: 5 “Major. Effort”

Considerable Con. fusion Regarding Magnitude of Pres. ent Action.

Losses in New Solomons Battle  Are Not Revealed   Navy Keeps Quiet Until Jap Losses Can Be Told, Too

REFUSE TO GIVE. BATTLE DETAILS   Fighting In Solomons Continues:  Navy Spckesman Says Figures Can't Be Released.

US. FORCES, JAPS SPARRING IN SOLOMONS   Atr, Sea Engagement: Continuing. Ov er Wide Area

Rabaul Target Of Heavy Air Raid by Allies   Sirike Terrific “Blow Agalnst Jap Airpower

RABAUL BASE PLASTERED BY ALLIED BOMBS   BIG CONCENTRATION OF JAP AIRCRAFT DESTROYED

Allies Rain Tons of Bombs On Rabaul   Concentration of Jap Planes at Base Principal Target; Gasmata Also Hit

Rabaul Pounded And Many Jap Planes Wrecked   ‘Most Of 250 Nip Ships On Ground Believed Blasted

big Froportion Listed Damaged Or Destroyed  Massed Aircralt  i eR a   Massed Aircraft Supports Reports Of New Enemy Move   Kiska Raids Aimed To Halt Construction  Of Airfield There

Allied Planes Raid Japs’ Rabaul Base   Substantial Part Of 250 Enemy Planes, Destroyed

URGES AMENDMENT OF AUTHORITY ACT   1935 Law Favors Groups Of Financiers, Sen. Watkins Says

DEMAND GROWS FOR GHANGES IN AUTHORITY LAW  Would Re equ ire PUC To pPP ve All Pthases   COMMITTEE WANTS TO CONTINUE PROBE

Solve All Major Supply Problems   Initiative To Remain With Americans

SUPPLY ISSUE LARGELY MET   Nimitz Says Initiative to Stay in Our Hands

Four Powers Agree On ~ War, Peacetime Plans   Participants Of Historic Moscow Parley Vow To Reduce Enemies, Punish Criminals; Future Cooperation Pledged

Allies Pledge Action for World Peace   Moscow Conference Brings About Four-Power Accord

DEMAND FULL VICTORY OVER AXIS NATIONS   U. S., Britain, Russia and China Agree at Moscow Conference to Punish War Criminals.

‘Historic Parley In Agreement on War and Peace  MM i ee ie   ‘2 Congress Hails News of Agreements Long Step Toward Peace

Lasting Peace Major Goal Of Parley   Governments Also Plan Punishment for Nazis Guilty of Atrocities   WILL BE RETURNED TO VICTIMS’ STATES  Allied Powers Agree On Co-operation Fo Resulate Arms

Promise Great Effort To Win Full Victory   Cold Vengeance For Nazi Guilty

ORGANIZATION TO KEEP PEACE ALSO PLANNED   Punishment of German War Criminals is Promised

Historie Conference At Vioscow Sets Tone For Great  Allied Effort

Allies Will Strive For Permanent  World Affiliation   U. S., Britain, Russia, China Pledge All-Out Effort for Unconditional Surrender, Lasting Peace, Venaeance

Full Accord Is Reached At Moscow   U. S., Russia, England, China Outline Plans ¢

Atrocities To Be Avenged At Sites   Lasting Organization Of Peaceful Nations ts Outcome Of Historic Moscow Confere-—ce

Historic Conference At Mos--.cow Sets Tone For Great =  Albied Effort

Conferees Agree To Speed War, Punish Guilty, Form  World Peace Organizatior   Historic Moscow Parley Results in Joint Determination To Crush Enemies, Work Together For Peace, Security

Solemn Moscow Decisions Sef ‘Victory Pace   PICTURES AND TEXT OF MOSCOW REPORT PAGE 3

Moscow Parley Agrees to Set  Up Peace Order   Unity of Action by Powers Determined In Historic Meets; Congress Hails Pact

Four Powers Agreed. On Non-F ascist Italy   Punishment of German War Criminals by Vietims Decided in Momentous Kremlin Parley

United Nations Act To Conquer ~ Common Enemy   Great Powers React Agreement During Conference 

Agreement on War and Peace Issues Shown   China Joins America, Britain and Russia in Moscow Statement

America, Britain, Russia, China Jointly Pledged to Crush Foe, Then Seek Peace, Security

BLOCKBUSTERS CAUSE DAMAGE IN NAZI CITY   British Claim Victory In First Round Of Rattle of Capitals; London Bombed

BERLIN ROCKED TWO NIGHTS BY BIG RAF BOMBS   Germans Retaliate With Weak Raids on London but Few Gei Through Anti-Aircraft

BERLIN HAMMERED BY “BLOCKBUSTERS;”  LONDON ALSO RAIDED      RAF And: German Air. Force _ Exchange Blows.On European Capitals   [023 RAF PLANES DOWNED

3-WAY ATTACK ON NAZIS MAY BE IMMINENT   Possibility Seen Allies Will Open Drives During Winter

LEADERS MAY RISK HAZARDS OF INVASION   Allies May Strike While Red Drive Is At Its Peak, With Large Force Occupied

Allies May Accept Hazards of Winter to Be. - gin Assaults   NO HINT IS GIVEN OF TIME OR PLACE   Drive May be Answer to Stalin’s Second Front Damande

OFFENSIVE THIS WINTER IS HELD A POSSIBILITY   Teheran Conference Results Hint At Attack On  Europe Soon

Winter Invasions Loom: ‘Master Plan To Defeai Nazis May Mean Earlier Attack Is Imminent

It'll Drive Through Protective Decks  Armor-Piercing Bomb to Sink Battleships Designed

Armor-Piercing. Bomb Developec  Can Drive Through Heavy Ship Armor

ALVANGE UNIT UF MONTGOMERY POISED FOR KIL!   Rome Declares Long Anlicipate ‘d Drive On Rommel's Men Hag Opened

MR. ICKES DOUBTS UMW WILL CALL ANOTHER STRIKE   Next Move Up to U.S., But Not to Him, He Asserts   ‘CAN'T BELIEVE’ COAL MINERS WILL STRIKE!

Indicates WLB Will Make Next  “Move, As: Coal True TNheadline Nears

Ickes Says He Doesn't Expect Coal Miners to Strike.at Expiration Of 15 Day Truce Next Tuesday

ICKES HOPES TO HEAD OFF COAL STRIKE   Next Move In Dispute Up To Government Says Ickes

NO FURTHER STRIKES IN MINES EXPECTED   Next Move Is Government's Declares Ickes

Ickes Expects Miners Will Stay at Work   Miner Owners Summoned—150 Pits To Be Returned

NEXT MOVE IN: DISPUTE UP TO GOVERNMENT   UMW Officials Demand New Contract

ANOTHER STRIKE {8 NOT ANTICIPATED   Ickes Said Next Move In Dis: pute Appears to Be Up to Government.

Program Held Up By Pac   ».. CHEMIST CHARGES   Secret Treaty Calls For Wrecking U. S. Plants After War—Hale

OPA Orders Retail Meat Price Reduction Effective June 21   Average to Be 3 Cents per Pound; Pork Date ts July 5; Subsidies Scheduled

OPA Orders 3c-a-Pound Cut in Prices of Meat —  po es Ce? ee ne Se So” Soe So ©)

REDUCTIONS IN MEAT PRICES ARE ORDERED   OPA ‘Action To Be Effective June 21 In . Retail Stores   FACES ATTACK   Officials Estimate Aver age Cut Will Be Three Cents Pound

Reduction In Meat Prices ls Ordered   OPA Takes Second Step In ‘Rolling Back’ Cost Of Living In United States   AVERAGES 3 CENTS   Subsidy Plan Will Gc Into Effect In Retai Stores June 2] st

Meat Price Cut Ordered By OPA Effective June 21   Will Average Three Cents Per Pound Below Current Retail Quotations: Second Step Toward “Rolling Rack” Cost of Living hy Means of Subsidies Despite Convress Protests

OPA ORDERS MEAT PRICES REDUCED 3 GENTS A POUND   First Cut in Retail Stores Will Take Place June 21—Second, on Pork Products, July 5.   PART OF PLAN TO ROLL BACK COST OF LIVING   Action Taken in Face of  House Banking Committee’s Opposition to Payment of Subsidies.

Order Slash In Prices Of Meat June 2]   Pork Reductions To Be Effective On July 5. Average Drop Figurec At Three Cents

Retail Meat Prices Are  Ordered Cut   Slash Averaging Three Cents A Pound Effective June 2]

Price of Meat Ordered Reduced By Government  Subsidies To Be Paid in Order to Effect

Meat Price Cuts Ordered by OPA In Price Rollback   Effective June 21 for All Cuts Except Cured, Processed Pork

Reduction In Prices Of Meats Is Ordered   Cuts Will Average Three Cents Below Current Quotations For Retail Sales.

Meat Price Cuts Ordered to Be Started June 21  OPA Orders New Scales Despite Committee Rule

Retail Meat Prices Slashed   Reduced Prices to Go Into Effect June 21, Announced by OPA

Orders Cut In Retail Meat Prices   OPA Says Reduction Will Average Three Cents a Pound

Cuts to Retail Buyers Average 3 Cents a Pound  Second Government   Second Government Step to ‘Roll Back’  Cost of Living

New Georgia Campaign Ends As Bairoko Falls   Enemy Holds Big Garrison On Kolombangara

YANKS MENACI LAST JAPANES SOLOMONS BASE   Bougainville Garrison Of 10,000 Men Doomed As American Troops Occupy Bairako

ONLY ONE JAP BASE LEFT IN SOLOMONS   eee tenia ll  Only Mopping Up Left for Yanks on New Georgia

CORN SELLING ENDS SHORTAGE   Grain Marketings Ease Crisis In Certain  War Plants

RECORD AERIAL COVER SPEEDING BRITISH ADVANCE   Ameri¢any Lees Than 9 Miles From Bizerte, British § Miles From Tunis; Enemy srideecheat Falling Apart

Extremists Were Against Russia   In Japan They Worked for Germany, Labor Maga zine Stated.

ETON TRUCKER HAS ACCIDENT   Cattle Thrown From Truck — Other Ireton News ~ Jtems

Closing of More Packing Plants Adds To Seriousness of Meat Supply Problen

WHITES BACK IN EMPORIA      Emporia Couple Spent a Month ir New York City

WHITES BACK IN EMPORIA   Emporia Couple Spent a Month in New York

Tremendous Air Offensive _ Squeezing Axis Between Allies And Sea.

Evacuation Port Is  Levelled In Raids   32 Axis Ships Left Wrecked As Fortresses Roar Over Sardinia: Axis Units Trapped

FLYING FORTS POUR DYNAMITE UPON SARDINIA   Allies in Tunisia Now Tighten Holds On Enemy

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON STRATEGIC RAIL JUNCTION   Soviet Troops Also Ready For Another Attempt To Take Krivoi Rog.

Ickes Insists Oil Price Boost  Is Necessary   . Secretary Considering Appeal to President For 35-Cent Increase

Ickes Considers Appealing Vinson’s Oil Price Action   Secretary Says Decision Does Not Alter His Conclusion Increase Is Necessary;  Subsidies to Oil Producers Discarded

Ousting Benito Smoothes Allies’ Road to Berlin   With King Emanuele in Saddle the Fascists Now  Have No Leader.

Balkan Guerillas Standing By For Allied Landings   Have Received  Many Supplies In Recent Weeks

Allied airmen sink Nip aircraft tender, damage a destroyer   13 Jap planes and 12 barges also  destroved in other Pacifie action

13 JAP PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN IN AIRBATTLE   Three Allied Aircraft Lost  In Action Over New  oc  ,   SEAPLANE TENDER SUNK IN SOLOMONS

JAPANESE TENDER IS SUNK BY FLIERS   Enemy Destroyers Also Damaged, Communique Says

Allies Sink Jap Seaplane Tender In the Solomons   Also Damage Enemy Destroyer, Official Statement Declares

JAP DESTROYER DAMAGED, HUGE TENDER IS SUNK   Allied Bombers Sink 12 Enemy Barges, Hit 13 Others In Huon In Day’s Work   Fighter Raid Broken

BOOK 2 SIGNUP BEGINS FEB, 24 IN COUNTY AREA   ‘Three-Day Registration  Period For Residents  Outside Xenia

RATION BOOK 2 SCHEDULES FOR SIGNUP LISTED   Alphabetical System Be Followed This Week

Navy And Sicilian Mules Had _ Part In Agrigento Capture   Fleets Bombarded Agrigento While Mules Draft. . ed by Army and Put to Work to Trans, port Food

Navy, Sicilian Mules Helped Take Agrigento   Artillery Broke Up Italian Counterattacks

grigento Taken y Americans in urprise Attack   ne Of Oldest Cities ir Europe Occupied by Yankee Forces   aval Cruiser and Twe Destroyers Aid in Capture

Navy, Sicilian Mules Helped Take Agrigento  Artillery Broke Up Italian :

BITTER FIGHT VER RUBBER   Congress Called on to Referee Dispute Between Two Groups.

CONGRESS WILL REFEREE ICKES, JEFFERS FIGHT   Rubber Director Wants American Transport To Run

ARMY CHARGES AIR WAR HELD UP FOR RUBBER   Senate Ag Committee Accedes fo Jeffers’ Demand for Investiga fion of Dispute

CONGRESS CALLED TO REFEREE THE ARMY-JEFFERS ROW   Military Circle Wants to Bomb Nazis Out of Europe While Jeffers Seeks Synthetic Tires .

Bombs or Buggyrides Is Big Question As Military and Rubber Heads Tangle

ASK CONGRESS TO BE REFEREE   Solons Asked To Look Into Tug-Of-War Between MilAse! Authorities And Jef ers.

Gas-Rubber Tug-of-War  To Congress   Civilian Rubber Supply And All-Out Bombing Of Enemy Clash

Rubber-Gas Controversy In Congress   Jeffers Demands and Gets Inquiry Into Charges by Patterson

Congress Gets Army - Jeffers Rubber Dispute   Aerial Offensive Is De clared Retarded By  Home-Front Program.

Jeffers Fight  Before Senate   Gillette Committee To Investigate Charges Offensive Hindered.

TD INVESTIGATE GAS-RUBBER FIGHT   Charge That Tire Program Holds Up Bombing Raids in Europe

Congress Called To Referee  Army-Jeffers Dispute Over ‘Rubber Program And Air War   Rubber Director Wants To Keep Both Militery, Civilian Machines Rolling

PLANE “GAS” SITUATION T0 BE STUDIED      Senate Group Will Probe Assertion That Jeffers Holds Materials Needed for Aerial Offensive in Europe.

Army-Jeffers Dispute Taken Before Congress   Referee Called In Wrangle Over Use of Rubber

Tug-of-War On Bombings and. Rubber      War Office: Says. Rubber Program Is Retarding: , Aerial Offensive.   CONGRESS CALLED”  IN AS REFEREE   Dispute- Centers on. Materjals Needed for: Military and: Civilian Use

NAZIS CLAMP MARTIAL LAW ON DENMARK   n Effort To Crush Revolting Danes Who Resist Violently; 45 Ships Are Scuttled At Copenhagen   Intern King

rai ’ . . t ;~ 7 Fighting in Copenhagen Navy Yard Follows Martial Law Decree;  King Christian Interned in Castle

45 Vessels Destroyed By Crews As Nine Others Flee To Sweden   REBELLION FLARES DESPITE OCCUPATION

King, Councillors © Placed in Custody  Martial Law Proclaimed Te Onell Tloricine

Nazis Slap Army Law On Danes   Resistance Grows More Violent; Danish Scuttle Nearly All of Navy; King Christian Is Reported Imprisoned

‘Nine Vessels Make Escape To Sweden   Battles Reported Raging In Copenhagen as Danes Prevent Fleet’s Capture  KING UNDER CTIARND

Fight Raging In Capital .   ’ Fleet Destroyed as, Germans Take: Over Nation and Imprisoned King.

Fierce Battle is Waged At Copenhagen Navy Yard; Nine Boats Reach Sweden

Efforts to Crush Revolting People Meets Great Resistance  FORTY-FIVE SHIPS REPORTED WRECKED Fresh German Troops Are  Flung Into Strategic Kingdom

Dictatorship Set Up Following Uprisings   Germans Rush Troops, Planes to Strategic Country Swept by Revolt, Sabotage; Clashes Take Place at Harbors

Most of Fleet — ls Scuttled  in Raging Fight   Germany Clamps Down Military 1 Law as Royal Guard Battles Forces in Copenhagen Barracks Throughout Sunday

FAST TRIP OVER ATLANTIC   Speed Record Montreal to Britain Broken by Australian Flier

0-K COUNTY BUDGET   No Complaints on Tentative ~ Draft Are Made to  4 * le Commissioners

0-K COUNTY BUDGET   No Complaints on Tentative Draft Are Made to  Commissioners

RESIDENT APPROVES ACCESS ROAD FUND  ilside Avenue Paving Included In Project     veramest Alois $145,580 Fo! Construction; Repair Work ‘in Tals Arca   TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

PRESIDENT APPROVES . ACCESS ROAD FUND  “4         Hillside “Avenue Paving Included In Project     Government Alois $148,680 Vor   Government Allots $148,680 Lor Construction; Repair Work  To This Arca

Swedes Hear Hitler’s Aide Rebels   Dictator Is Warned Must Retreat Out of Caucasus

Hitler Rejects Marshal's Plea   Fuehrer Enraged by Advice to Retreat

Hitler Rage At Von Block Refrea Plea Is Reported   Former Stalingrad Army Chief Is Said To Urged  Caucasus Evacuation

HEALTH QUIZ   Ho you have headaches?  Do you fack pep or vigor?  Do you get iritable easily?  Tin ene feel denrecssed—nervous?

HEALTH QUIZ   De you have headaches? OL Deyeulack pepervige? = OL De you get irritable easly? CC Te van fool deareceed_—_nervanc? [ 1

Bombers Race To Share In Kill   ~ Tank Treads Chew Up Germans   Knockout A Month Sooner Than Expected

Montanan Assists In Lively Raid On Japs in South  Bombs Start Oil Fire, Smash Air Field, Cause Great Damage

Montanan Assists In Lively Raid On Japs in South  Bombs Start Oil Fire, Smash Air Field, Cause Great Damage   Ry William 1. Worden Associated Press War larreenondent

War Writer Sees Tarawa Blasted  BU. §, Liberator   Oil Fires Set, Barracks, Runways Hit

CORN PRICE IS ORDERED FROZEN BY GOVERNMENT   Move Is Designed To Main. tain A “Profit Mar gin” For Farmers   CEILINGS BECOME - EFFECTIVE TODAY

NEW OPA CEILINGS EFFECTIVE TODAY   Permanent Ones Due In 60 Days To _ Prohibit: Any Increase In General Price Level

CEILING ON CORN PRICES IS PLACED      U. S. Agencies Announce Move to Maintain Srafit Marain’”’

U. S. FREEZES CORN PRICES   OPA Order Designed To Maintain Profit On Livestock

Gern-Price -, Ceiling Sef   Government Halts Advanee To Keep Livestock, Egg Production Profitable

OPA PUTS CEILING ON CORN PRICED   Move Designed to Maintain ‘Profit Margin’ Between Livestock and Feed Prices, Encourage Food Output

SWEDEN READY TO ACT   Neutral FPapected To Bar Transit Of German Troops

INVASION Or EUROPE FHM WEST WAITS PROPER HOUR   Allies Can’t Be Forced Into Striking Gere many Until Stage Is Set   NO LENIENT ARMISTICE FOR HITLER   House of Commons Told Nazism and Prussian Militarism To Be Crushed

ITALY 1S THIRD BATTLE AREA HE SAYS   Prime Minister Also Pledges End of Naziism and Prussianism

PROMISE MADE BY CHURCHILL IN WAR REPORT   Makes lengthy speech today before British House of Commons

Attack From West Promised Nazi Europe   Churchill Characterizes Present Blows os Prelude

Air Victory Test Seen In Churchill Address   Observers See Reich Demoralized By Bombing Before Invasion Move

European Invasion May Be Only An Occupation   Some See Churchill Talk As Hint After Axis Is Prostrated By Aerial Blows; Offensive On Japs Predicted

MILITARY OBSERVERS BELIEVE ALLIES MAY BEAT AXIS IN AIR  _ AERIAL BOMBARDMENT SC SEVERE INVASION ARMIES  BAVE EASY TIME

Axis May Be Prostrated By Aerial Bombs, With Occupation Following   Some See Churchill Talk As Hint That Allied Military Leaders Are Trying To Shatter Axis Europe By Aerial Bombardment.

altied Plans Mav Be To Defeat Axis Powers By Aerial Bombardment Alone’    Benes Thinks War Will Be Over In Year   Fay < CONFIDENT

Allies May Blast Axis With Bombs   While Attempt Will Be Made to Knock Out Italy and Germany By Air Preparation for Invasions to Continue

RURAL GROUPS HELD MEETINGS   SEVERAL GROUPS HELD REGU. LAR MEETINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK

More Than 500 Bombers - Take Part in Raid on City * PATERNO IN SICILY 1S ALSO ATTACKED  Another Heavy Aeria! Blow 1s Struck: at. Catania

500 ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST NAPLES FROM DUSK T0 DAWN   Vital Italian Port Subjected to Most Shattering Attack of War in the Mediterranean

NAPLES NEARLY PULVERIZED BY ALLIED BOMBERS   More Than 500 Planes In Greatest Aerial Attack, Of Mediterranean War   CARPET OF FLAMES SPREAD OVER CITY

Sver 500 Allied Bombers Make Shattering Daylight Attack on Port of Haple:

MORE THAN 500 BOMBERS TAKE PART IN SWEEP   Americans Predominate In Mauling Of Big Italian Port On Mainland

Follows Attacks by RAF On Vital Italian Port; Sicilian Points Pounded

Naples Attacked By 500 Bombers   Great Air Fleets Devastate Port City

Naples Hit by Bombs of 500 Allied Planes  Air Raid Lasts From   Air Raid Lasts From Dawn to Dusk al Vital Port City

Vast Fires Spread Over City  Royal Arsenal.  D..:1 V..d4.   Royal Arsenal Rail Yards: Shattered

U.S., RAF Shatter Naples in Record Air Attack  Mediterranean Gets  Its ag tg —s-—s Rad awes te All lace

500 BOMBERS PULVERIZE NAPLES, ITALY,   In Greatest Raid Of Mediterranean War; Large F leets Of U.S. Planes In Unprecedented Offensive   Small Resistance

Allied Bombers Hit Naples in Shattering Raid   Over 500 Planes Rain Explosives on Vital Harbor

ALLIES POISED FOR DRIVE T0 CRUSH MUNDS   American Jungle Troops Put Squeeze On Jap Garrison

Allies Aim Final Drive at Munda   Yanks Closing in On Enemy Garrison

MUNDA WILL BE ATTACKED      Allies Getting Ready for Final Thrust on New Georgia Island —Jungle Troops Closing in from East and North. ,

Appropriations Comm. Makes Large Slashes   Push to Reduce Gov't. Expenditures Gets Under Way

House Slashes Deficiency Bill   By Tony Smith United Press Staff

CONGRESS GIVES APPROPRIATIONS BILL BIG CYT   Nearly One Billion Dollars Chopped Off Deficiency War Reaqrvest

House Unit Cuts 85 Per Cent Out of Appropriation   Believed Start of Campaign To Slash At Excess Funds: .

Congress Body Junks Billion Deficiency Bill   Total Cut 85 Per Cent ir Historic Economy Mawa

HOUSE COMMITTEE SLICES ESTIMATES BY NEAR BILLION   Only Much Criticized OW1 Escapes Unscathed — Over 3 Quarters Of Cut Navy’s *

NEAR BILLION SLASHED FRM BUDGET ITEMS   Biggest Cut Made at Request of. Navy; OWI Escapes Without a Sear.

Billion Cut From Budget   Congress Group Makes Big Slash,  Demands Econoniv

ECONOMY BALL NOW ROLLING IN CONGRESS   House Committee Chop: Billion Dollars From Deficiency Bill

Planes Run Guns to Guerrillas Fighting Nazis  French Patriots Defy Enemy Ultimatum

Planes Run Guns to Guerrillas Fighting Nazis  Feanch Deristatea   French Patriots. Dety Enemy Ultimatum

Resume Parleys  On Mine Wages   Southern Owners  Meet With Union

Small users of fuel oil get new card   Priority given rubber program

BOND CHAIRMAN DISTRESSED BY LAGGING SALES   County Drops To Seventh Place In District Sales Total

Quota Passed By $37,086 Thursday   Bond Sale Hits $1,867,086; Report 15,894 Purchase: Are Made; ‘Don’t Stop Now,’ Is Chairman’s Plea

Christmas Spirit   Jewish Soldiers to Take Duties of Christian Mates

Lend-Lease Aid Asked For Another Year  Program Called  C15. 8 Pc, Big   Program Called Vital Factor In Carrying On War

SUPPLY LINES VITAL FACTOR TOBEAT AXIS   LEND - LEASE HELP MUST CONTINUE, CONGRESS TOLD

LENO - LEASE AID EXTENSION WAGED   Stettinius Calls Upon Congress to Maintain Mutual Supply Lines Between This Nation and Allies

Stettinius Asks Continuance Of Lend-Lease Plar  Termed Vital Factor Ir   Termed Vital Factor In Forcing Axis ''Unconditional Surrender”

Germans Make Frantic Stand At Kharkov —   Drain Off Strength From Other Areas But Reds Press On

German High Command ‘Attempt: ing to Strengthen Defenders —  . Russians: Have Little Respect for Stiffened Resistance.

FALL OF KHARKOV RUSSIA'S FOURTH CITY, IMPENDS   Village After Village Overrun by Red Army

Balkans Seething With Current of Anti-Axis Feeling   Leaders in Rumania and  Bulgaria Are Becoming More Outspoken.   May Develop Before Invasion by Allies

Rumania, Bulgaria  Stir With Revolt   Increasing Resistance Seen In _ Satellite Countries; Axis Frankly Worried

Cairo Reports Increasing Resistance of Opposition . Within Axis Satellite Nations

Axis Foes In Europe  Are Bolder   The Under-Grownd Movement Spreads Among Satellites

Resistance Within Occupied Regions Reported Growing; Rumania Disturbed

Nazi Opposition Grows In Satellite Nations   Underground Leaders In Rumania And Bulgaria Becoming More and More Outspoken; Germans May Be Biding Their Time

Balkans, Long Trouble Spot, Causin;  {nvasion-Conscious Axis Concern   Underground Leaders In Rumania And Bulgaria Becoming More Outspoken; Rumania Reported To Have Asked What She Might Gain.

OPPOSITION GROUPS  IN AXIS DOMINATED  NATIONS ARE BOLDER GENERAL REPORTS OF  DISSATISFACTION AMONG CERMAN CATEITITES

BALKAN UNREST 5 INCREASING   Underground Leaders in Rumania and Bulyaria More Outspoken.   RUMANIA MAY DESERT

[BALKANS GIVE GERMAN WAR LORDS CONCERN   ‘Qpposition Groups Increase Resistance, Axis Reorganizes Ruman- fan Police

Rumanian Crack-up Seen as Possibility   Bulgaria Also Turns Eyes Toward Russia-—-Germans Move To Put Down Unres'

BALKAN UNREST CAUSE GERMANS GRAVE CONCERN  RUMANIA, BULGARIA sere reroe ocrnming   RUMANIA, BULGARIA LEADERS BECOMING MORE OUTSPOKEN

INCREASING RESISTANCE BY  OPPOSITION GROUPS REPORTED WITHIN AXIS SATELLITE NATIONS

Satellites  May Produce  Axis Worries Unrest In Balkan  Countries Reported To Be Increasing

AXIS SATELLITE FOES INCREASE   Resistance Among Opposition Groups Grows Increasingly Bold

DISCONTENT INCREASING IN BULGARIA   Southeast Europe Causing Germany, Italy Graye Fear

UNDERGROUND. CHIEFS MOREQUESPOKEN   Germans: Handling Situation With’ Unusual Liberality

Opposition Groups Allowed Freer Hand As Satellites Of Hitler During Flareup

BALKANS’ ATTITUDE WORRIES AXIS HEADS   Word Reaching Cairo Hints Trouble for Hitler

Underground Worries Axis In Satellite Countries Under the Heel of Herr Hitler's Gang

Satellites Becoming Outspoken Germans Seem Liberal  _ Toward Resistance In _ The Conquered Nations

GOOD WEATHER AIDS BOMBERS   RAF Pounds Italy, France and Ruhr in Heavy Night Assaults

Wheat Farmers To Continue Figh On AAA Penalty   Are Determined to Get Case Before  Supreme Court

Lemke Charges AAA Administration Corrupt, Lacks Honesty And Also Uses Threats To Make Farmers Vote Right

MEAT, CHEESE AND BUTTER TO GO ON RATIONING LISTS   Red Coupons in War Book Two Will be Used For Meat: Weekly Limit Set

NEW FOODS T0 BE RATIONED APRIL FIRST   Butter, Meat And Cheese Included

FURTHER FOOD RATIONING IS CONSIDERED   Meat, Cheese, Butter, Cooking Fats and Oils Will Be Rationed April 1st

Butter and Cheese Will Be Included   Cooking Fats and Oils Also Listed In New Ration Move

MEAT, CHEESE RATIONS WILL BEGIN APRIL 1   Report Says Probable Meat Quota Will Be 1% Pounds Weekly for Each Holder of Red Ration  Connoncs.

Meat and Cheese To Be Rationed First of April   Cooking Fats and Oils to Come Under Decree, Officials Say.   No Period of a ‘Sales  Freeze’ Contemplated

MEAT, BUTTER. RATIONING TO BEGIN APRIL 1   Reported In Washingtor That Plan Will Start Within Four Weeks  Under OPA System   CHEESE INCLUDED   Red Coupons Would Be Used, It Is Reported, and Weekly Ration  Set At 134 Pound

Meats, Cheese And Various Fat: To Be Limited   Aprif 1 is Set As Date Says Report Today

Meat, Cheese, Butter Ration Due April Ist   Current Program Includes Cooking Fats, Oils; OPA Refuses Confirmation   NO FREEZE. EXPECTED   Black Market Drain Will Determine Size OF Portion From Butchers

Meat, Cheese And Butter Rationing Tc  Begin April]   Cooking Fats And Oils Included ;  To Use Red Coupons In Ration Book 2

Meat Rations , Start April    Cheese, Butter, Cooking Fats . and Oils Are Also Included  See St ececk bear:

Meats, Cheese, Butter, Oils Rationed April 1   No: Préliminary Freeze Contemplated.

Meat Ration Is Under 1 Pound:      Cheese, “Butter, Oils°Or  Aorik” L List:

Meat, Cheese, Butter, Fats Will Be Rationed April 1   Red Coupons of No. 2 Book to Be Used: No “Sales Freeze” Being Contemplated

Plan Rationing Meat And Butter  Cheese, Cooking Fats, To Be Included On April 1

MEAT, BUTTER TO BE RATIONED   Allowances May Start Apri al for Cheese, Cooking o> Fats and-Oils

MEATS, CHEESE RATIONS DATED   Butter,.Cooking Fats and -QilsFe Be Sold By Points April [

MEAT, BUTTER — RATIONING DUE TO BEGIN APR. 1   Meat Ration of About 1 } Lbs. Per Person Weekly Indicated—Black Market Curb Sought

MORE FOOD TO BE RATIONED APRIL   Meats, Cheese, Butter, Cook ing Fats and Qils on Latest Program.

Other Foods On Ration  Lists Soon    ‘Butter, Cheese, Cooking Fats and Oils Under Control by April 1; Meat. Allowance Low

Set April 1 as RationDate forMoreF ood:   Meats, Cheese, ‘Butter, Cooking Oils and Fats Are Listed Under New Plans

Butter, Cheese To Be Rationed  Rationing of Meat Expected to Begin

NEW RATIONING PLAN   Meats, Cheese, Butter, Cooking Fats Program Going In April 1

Will ration meat, cheese. butter, fats   New schedule to begin April 1,  agencies expect

TO PUT CHEESE AND BUTTER ON ‘LIMITED SALES   “Sales Freeze” Before Start of Program Js - Not Contemplated

Meats, Cheese; Butter, Oils, “ And Cooking Fats .To- Be Rationed Startins: Avril 4

Say Individual Meat Allowance 13-4 Lbs. Weekly After April 1; Cheese, Butter, Fats, Oils Af fected

More Food Rationing  On April 1   Meats, Cheese and All Fats To Be On the New List

Rationing of Meat, Butter, Lard, Oleo and Other Foods Seen Next Month: Cheese Also to Be Includec

Will Ration More Foods   Meats, Cheese, Butter, Fats To Start April 1

MEATS, CHEESE, BUTTER, OILS, COOKING FATS 10 BE RATIONED   Red Coupons In Number Two Ration Book To Be Used; Rationing Begins April 1; Meat Reduced to About 1 3-4 Pounds Per Person A Week.

MEAT RATIONING STARTS APRIL '   Cheese, Butter, Cooking Fat: and Oils Will Be Included in List.

neese, Butter, Cooking Fats And Oils Will Be Rationed Under New Program Of OPA

Butter and Cheese Next In Rationing   Meat Quota Tentatively 1% Lbs., Beginning About April 1

House Votes fo Keep Pearl Harbor Guilt Case Alive   Rushes Extension Of Limitation Law  On Prosecution

Great Allied . War Acts Due   Decisive Results In 1944 Beina Predicted

FDR OFFERS PLAN TOAD SOLDIERS’ ~—-DEMOBILIZATION   Muster-Out Poy and Social Security Included   FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD FINANCE PLAN

THREE-POINT PROGRAM FOR ARMED FORCES   Congress Asked by F.R. to Immediately Consider Program to Tide Men, Women Over.

CONGRESS GIVEN PRESIDENT'S PLAN -INPOSTWAR DAYS   Roosevelt Says Nation Must Give Armed Forces Notice That People Will Not Let Them Down.   EXECUTIVE SUGGESTS THREE-WAY PROGRAM   Uniform and Reasonable -Mustering-Out Pay For All Men Honorably Discharged ‘Is First.

SERVICEMEN'S ND OUTLINED BY PRESIDENT   Suggests Mustering-Out Pay, Unemployment Compensation Benefits

THREE-POINT PROGRAM FOR SERVICE MEN   Presented by President to . Congress Today

Congress Asked to Pass Bill   Jobless Benefits, Mustering Out. Pay Advocated

WANTS SOLONS TO MAKE PLANS FOR AID NOW   Cites Jobless, Muster-Out Pay

F. D, REQUESTS POST-WAR AID FOR VETERANS   Submits Three - Point, U S. Financed Program To Congress

FDR Has Three Point Plan for Post-War Times   Program Would Tide Over Servicemen in Readiustment Period

FBR Seeks Aid For Service Men, Women During Postwar Period Of Readjustmen

FDR Offers Postwar Plan For Veterans   Urges “Immediate Consideration” of 3-Point Program

FORMER PRISONERS OF JAPS NOW AT JERSEY CITY PIER   PASSENGERS ON EXCHANGE SHIP CHEER AND WEEP AS THEY FINALLY REACH  - HOME PORT

Three Held On Assault Charges   Russel Godby Fined On Driving Count

TRIO FACES HEARING ON ASSAULT COUNTS   Russell Godby Is Fined $25 On Hit-And-Run Offense

ARMISTICE ON SUBSIDIES IS DECLARED OFF   New Fight Betweer Congress, Administration Seen

Congress Faces * Another Fight on Food Subsidies   Farm Bloc Railies Behind Drive to’ Curb Appropriation

2 GAS FIRMS ~ CITED BY OPA   St. Joseph Companies Told To Appear for Hearing Aug. 9

Rubber Aplenty Is Predicted By End of Year  Forty U. S. Plants Seon to Work.   Forty U. S. Plants Soon to Work, Jones Declares

Predicts High Rubber Excess   Commerce Secretary Says By End Of Year Enough Rubher For Essential Needs.

RUBBER INDUSTRY  END YEAR TO MEET  ALL REQUIREMENTS MANUFACTURING CAPA CITY BY DECEMBER WILL REACH gnn nan TONG

Fees ee rT nat etn some  Rep. Halleck Is Choice For Post   Indianan Chairman of GOP Congressional Committee —

A Ac ca a au a  Rep. Halleck Is hnice For Post   Indianan Chairman of GOP Congressional Committee

UKRAINE CITY FALLS AFTER DARING DRIVE   Soviet Troops Land Upon the Kerch  Peninsula

Routed Nazis Are Pursued By Russ   Substantial Soviet Bridgeheads Established: On Kerch Peninsula At East Tip Of Crimea

Red Armies Fan Out Thru Crimea   14 German Divisions Face Trap, Russians Jubilant Over Victory

Reds Drive Beyond Kiev   Troops Fan Out After Taking Key Bastion

Soviets 50 Miles from Old Poland   Kerch Landing to Start Pincer Push On 75,000 Nazis

 FARTHERST NORTH THROUGH BUS SERVICE OPENED -- DAWSON CREEK TO FAIRBANKS

ae! in the News IFARTHERST NORTH THROUGH BUS SERVICE OPENED - - DAWSON CREEK TO FAIRBANKS

LONGER WORK WEEK GOES IN FFFECT DEC. 1   Copy Of Official Order Is Waited Here To Learn Details

AMERICANS TO BE BEST FED   Total Food Production For “43 Seen Four Per Cent Above Last Year

IMPROVEMENT REPORTED IN FOOD OUTLOOK   Total Food Production To Be 4 Percent Higher in 1943

U.S. CIVILIANS WILL CONTINUE TQ BE BEST FED   Total Food Production To Be Four Percent Higher This Year

AMERICANS — STILL BEST FED IN WORLD      Total Food Production Ir _ 1943 Will Be 4 Per Cent Over 1942

FOOD OUTPUT GAINS IN 1943   TOTAL PRODUCTION UP 4 PER CENT OVER 1942

34 Ordered For Induction   Jones County Men Included In Small April 3 Call

VISUALIZE STATE AIRPORT SYSTEM   PENDING MEASURES SEEK FEDERAL AID FOR CONSTRUCTION

RIVER CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM IN FOUR DAYS   William Perry Perishes As Boat Overturns Near IC Chute

WLB ORDERS PACKARD MEN BACK TO WORK   20,000 Unionists Still Delaying War Work

WLB Issues Order lo Motor Workers  eo oe Teed:   End of Detroit Walkout Directed

PREPARE NEW AIR ATTACKS FOR GERMANY   U. S. bombers are ready to carry out round.  the-clock assaults

American Bombers To Make Daily Raids   Experimental Stage In Daylight Bombing Has Ended

DIPLOMATS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE   Diplomatic Offensive Will Prepare the Way for Invasion.

Soviets Take 12 Towns In Dnieper Bend   Russians Fight Fiercely Against Nazi Drive On Kiev

‘Axis Loses 103 Tanks in Day Fighting  One of Greatest Battie: of War Rages Along 40-Mile Front  SOVIET LINES HOLD  ” Red Army Captures More Towns on Dnieper Band      Red Army Captures More Towns on Dnieper Bend

Nazis Hurled Back By Reds In Kiev Bulge   Writer Says Drive Long Planned By Germans, Breakthroughs W ith Force Expected

Soviets Absorb Enemy Attacks In Kiev’s Bulge   German’ Armored: Forces Wrecked;. Advance 1s Made On Dnieper

Russians Hurl Back Nazis In Great Battle:   American Fifth Army Gains From Both East, South In Italy.   EVACUATE CHIGRIN

SOVIETS HURL ~ BACK GERMANS   Wreck 103 Tanks, Kill 1,500 in Kiev Area

Russians Snap Back in Kiev Sector  One of Greatest Tank Battles at Us awe TleAdae Us nce

SOVIETS HALT NAZI ADVANCE WEST OF KIE\   TWELVE TOWNS ARE WON BY REDS IN DNIEPER BEND

HITLER LOSES 103 TANKS IN GREAT BATTLE   1,500 Nazi Soldiers Reported Killed

Soviets Hurl Back Nazis Before Kiev   Russians Wreck 103 German Tanks, Kill 1,500 Troops

RUSSIANS ABSORB POWER OF MASSED GERMAN. ATTAGKS   Reds Hurl Nazis Back West Of Kiev in One of Heaviest Actions or War   WRECK 103 TANKS, KILL 1,500 GERMAN SOLDIERS   Second Ukranian Army Con. tinues Offensive in Dnieper Bend, Capturing 12 More  @Towns; Street Fighting Rages in Cherkasy

SOVIETS SCORE GREAT VICTORY WEST OF KIEV   Absorb Power of Massed German Armor in One of Greatest Battles of  War .   RUSSIANS CONTINUE DNIEPER OFFENSIVE   Berlin Announces aed Troops Had. Evacuated Town of Chigrin in Face -   of Red Pressure —_!

HULL FEELS PEOPLE TOO OPTIMISTIC   ... Greater Efforts To Shorten War Needed

NEW WORK STOPPAGE BRINGS SPEED-UP FOR ANTIL-STRIKE BILL  ICKES APPARENTLY SEEKING WAY OUT OF HIS ORDER FOR FINES

SERVICE FOR GEORGE BARKER      Life-Long ‘Concord Resident , Had Been Ill Long  Time

Power Action  Biocked   ... Mandamus Petitions Are Filed In Court

Nazi Defenses Stiffen, Down 22 Bombers      Destroy Fan as. Germans. Retoliote-

OWI Chief Also Says He Il Quit   House Clips Wings Of Maior Aaencies

NEW DEAL SET TO SAVE FOOD SUBSIDIES, OWT   Administration Is Gathering Forces To Restore Funds Cut Off by House

Senate Moves To Save Food Subsidy Plan   Davis Threatens To Quit; Food Price Rollback Pushed

Some Success Is Obtained With Senate   Little Hope Felt by Administration of Preserving OWI Work

Administration Takes OPA, OW! Fight to Senate  Seeks to Lift House’s Curbs  On Food Subsidies RESTORE FUNDS Less Hope Held  To Save Domestic  Branch of OWI

Aaministration Moves To Save Subsidy Program  Senate Is Asked   Senate Is Asked To Restore Funds For OPA, OWI

Hasty steps to salvage  food subsidy   House revolts against measures

SENATE-GROUP SEEKS TO SAVE ROLLBACK PLAN   Administration: Battles T Salvage Proposéd: Subsidy Program, By: Res storing Funds   KILLED. IN HOUSE   Domestic Operations O  OWI.Endangered, Davis  Says Hell Quit If’ Branch. Is Lopped

Lenate Moves to Salvage Food Subsidy Program  Effort Seen for ¢,; Restoration  Of Cash for OPA

MOVE, 10 SAVE. ‘ODME PART OF FAN SUASINY   Effort to Be Made in Senate for Restoration of Appropriation.   LESS HOPE HELD THAT OW! WILL GET MONEY

Subsidy Program Salvage Sought   Administration Tries To Subdtie Revolt

Administration Seeks to Save Food Program  Efforts to Restore OPA Funds Cuts by Senate

OWiand OPA Fight Looms.   Effort Being Made To Replace Cut In OPA

 Administration Seeks To Salvage Wreckage OF OPA; Dati is Threatens To Quit OW! Job

EFFORTS MADE TO RESCUE OPA   Food Subsidy Program Left Up In Air By  House Revolt

Administration Takes Hasty Steps to Salve Food Subsidy Program: Outlook Favorable

Effort to Save OPA Subsidies  Made in Senate   Lite Fight Indicated, However, to Retain  seas 4 owen

Administration Leaders Will Try to Restore to OPA ‘$35,000,000 Denied by House—Taft Calls for Showdown on Issue—Elmer Davis Threatens to Quit if Upper Branch Votes to Abolish OWI Home-Front Activities.

Administration Fights for OPA, Owl; Elmer Davis May Quit Job; RFC Will Finance Meat Packers

ELMER DAVIS THREATENS 10 GIVE UP POST   Secretary Jesse Jones Orders RFC to Back Subsidy Program

OWI Chief Also Says He'll Quit   House Clips Wings OP Maiar Aden ciae

REDS THUNDER TOWARD KIEV   Nazis Lose Bryansk and Baghitza Six German Divisions Routed

REDS WEDGE NAZI LINE AND SWING TOWARD KIEV      Mighty Army Thunders West After Capturing Bryansk

SOVIETS’ MIGHTY FORCES THUNDER TO WHITE RUSSIA   Russians Snap Giant Pincer Around Fortifications West of Desna

REDS MARCH 0 AFTER FALL OF BRYANSK   Remove Obstacle in Path of Drive to White Russia

GERMAN TANK WAVES BLAST 28-MILE GAP   Soviets Repel Attempts To Widen Breach Near Kharkov

REDS HOLD FIERCE THRUST   GERMANS SENDING WAVES OF TANKS AT KHARKOV

NAZI TANKS CUT ~ SMALL HOLE IN KHARKOV FRON   Reds Stoutly Oppose WidenIng of Gap—Soviets Gain In Central, Northern  Antes

German Tanks Stop Red Push Near Kharkov   Russians Putting Up Stonewall Defense ; Despite Heavy Attack

REDS RESISTING ~ TERRIFIC BLOWS   Japanese Invasion, Plans Are Blasted After Greatest Bomber Raids.

Axis Tanks Blast Gap in Soviet Lines   Russ Fight Desperately Against Attempts to ’. Widen Wedee   PLANES IN BATTLE   Nazis Hammered Back Toward Smolensk on Central Front

NAZIS ADVANCE NEAR KHARKOV   Hordes of German Tanks Used in Offensive — Red Army Tutting Up Stonewall Defense Against Attempts to Widen Gap.

NAZI TANKS ADVANCE ON “RED FORGES      Make Slight Gains But Red Army Puts Up Stout’ Defense -

Nazi Tanks Blas Slight Advance In Kharkov Area   Reds Halt Attempt To Widen Gap

OIL FIELD BURNING   Great Fires Rage in Ru: mania After U: S. Liberator Attack ~-

RUMANTAN OIL FLKLD FLAMES STILL RAGING   yew lingsses to Raid by S. Fliers Say Fires Bingest Ever Seen; Awed by Destruction

AXIS BATTLES GREAT FIRES IN PLOESTI AREA   Seven U. §. Bombers Forced Down in Turkey, Crew of Eighth Makes Land, is Interned

Axis Battling Great Fires In Ploesti Field   Eyewitness. Declares. Raic n Rumanian Petroleum Area Terrific  nae

American Bombers Spread Devastation Over Ploesti Fields With Daring 2,400 Mile Round TripAttack—Eyewitness Says Bombs Hit Everything Worth Hitting

Fight Great Fire In Ploesti Fields  Destruction Heavy On Rumania’s Oil

Fire Rages In Entire  Oil Area   Rumanian Fields Hit By American Liberators Sunday

Ploesti Burns  As Result Of Sunday's Raid   Firemen Seek To Halt Flames Consuming  Enemy Oil Field

Yanks Carve 70 Sq. Mile North Bulge   After Raid Hysterical Eyewitness Says  Whole Nazi Oil Area Afire

HUGE FIRES STILL RAGING IN RUMANIA   Claim Eight Plane Crews Interned in Turkey

U. S. Bomber Crews Interned In Turkey. ....  Axis Forces Battle Great Ploesti Fires

Battle a Great Fire Raging in — Axis Oil Area   District Near Ploesti Is Hit Sunday by American  Liberator Bombers.   Eyewitnesses Tell of Terrific Destruction

Rumanian Oil Fields Sull Afire After Great U.S. Raid   Enemy Forces Knew Americans Were Coming ; Fierce Low-Level Attack Threw Them Off Aim!

Eyewiiness Account   Terrific Destruction Started By Allied Raid On Ploesti Oil Field Continues As Huce Fires Rage On

Ploesti Fire Crews Busy  — a. 00mté<C«~é   Great Blaze Rages In Petroleum Area

Report Germans Fight Oil Fire   Great Fire Said to Be Raging After U. S.  R.iA fore TP . oamenee

GREAT FIRES RAGE IN RUMANIAN OIL FIELD-SECTORS   German and Rumanian Fire Fighters Trying to Stop FlamesiStarted to Gomberrs

Ploesti Oil Area ‘Being Destroyed By Raging Fire   U.S. Air Crews Interned In Turkey Following Spectacular Assault

Rumanians And Nazis Battle Ploesti Fires   Seven Liberators Forced Down In Turkey After Delivering Bombs On Enemy Oil Fields; Crews ® Are Interned

GREAT FIRES FOLLOW Ol FIELD RAID   Ploesti Blaze Called “Biggest”: Reveal Crew of 8 Liberators Interned in Turkey.

AXIS BATTLES BiG OIL FIRE NEAR PLOEST!   Eyewitness Says U. S. Liberators, in Sunday Raid, Started  Blaze Over Entire Rumanian Petroleum Area.

Fires Rage In Rumanian Oil Fields, Report   Ploesti Area Badly Damaged As Result O Allied Air Raids

Great Fires in Ploesti Oil Fields   ‘Just About Everything Worth Hitting’ Was Bombed Eyewitness Savs   TELLS OF TERRIFIC BATTLE IN SKIES   Widespread Fires Biggest He Ever Saw Anywhere; Production Halved

BATTLING GREAT FIRE RAGING IN PETROLEUM AREA   Entire Oil Field Near Ploesti Hit Sunday by American Liberators.   7 U.S. PLANES DOWN   Forced to Land on Turkish Soil While an Eighth Reported Crashed at Sea.

Merger Of Companies  Up Again   Measure Affecting Postal, Western Union Will Be Revived

Jap Destroyer Sunk bv Bombs  In Solomon Islands   Cargo Ship, Corvette Left in Flames; 15 Zeros Downed

Americans Brave Fighters to Smash Vessels   U. S. Fliers Sink Destroyer and Leave Cargo Ship, Corvette Blazing; Enemy Planes, Land Bases Are Struck

Three Jap Ships Are Blasted   Destroyer Sunk, Two Others Left Ablaze

AMERICAN FLIERS EXECUTED FOR DEFIANCE OF JAP COUR   ‘Sure, We Bombed Your Damn Town and We'll Bomb It Again’, One of Prisoners Shouted

Yokye Raider Seals Doom with Challenge ts Jap Military Court but Gives ‘Nation Another Fighting Slogan

American Hurls  Defi At Japs   Death Follaws “Arrogant”? Remarks

Japs Defied By ~ Doomed Yank   Flyer's Last Words Warr Of ‘New. Attack

‘A HERO SEALS HIS DOOM e Bombed Your ae Town  Dale We'll Bomb It Again’

Allies Smash Nazi Winter Lines in Italy   Seize Strong Points Vilal to Rome  Defense Strategy

Americans Capture San Pietro  Deen Teh fees MY   Drive To Cut Off Section Of Rome Road Continues

Strong Point 1s Taken Following Bloody “ Battle GAINS ARE SCORED . BY THE 5TH ARMY  Most Aircraft ts Grounded by Inclement Weather

Americans Take San Pietro in Terrific Battle   Strong Nazi Point Falls to Yankees

Fifth Army Drives Straight Ahead After Taking Town of San Pietro

SAN PIETRO IS TAKEN BY YANK GROUND TROOPS   Town Is One Of Strongest Points In Nazis’ Defenses  Before Cassino   GEN. LUCAS COMMANDS ARTILLERY FORMATION

SAN PIETRO IS SEIZED AFTER BLOODY BATTLE   Allied Positions Along Orsogna Improved; Fliers Grounded By Weather

Germans Lose Strong Point In Their Line   Other Americans Capture Village of San Cerasuola

Americans Take Strong Point In Nazi Defense   Battle of San Pietro One of Bloodiest Encounters of War

Yanks Make Important  Advances   Front Line Dispatches Say Victory Is Costly; Other Villages Taken  EIGHTH ARMY GAINS

San Pietro - Falls After - Hard Battle   Strongest Point in German Winter Line. Swept Up by Fifth Army in Piller. Bloody Fialt

YANKS SURGE AHEAD AFTER TAKING TOWN   Battle for San Pietro ‘One of Bloodiest Battles of the War

War Labor Board Stripped of Its Principal Power   No Longer in Position To Correct Inequalities in Wages

WLB Is Stripped of Wage Powers  James F. Byrnes Now in Authority

WLB Is Stripped of Power to Change Pavrolls. Officer Acknowledges

YANKS, BRITISH POUNDING AXIS NIGHT AND DAY   Rommel, von Arnim Being Plastered Harder and Harder As Infantry Closes In.

Byrnes Warns Of Inflation   Backs Subsidies, Tax And Savings Boosts

Warns of Inflation, Says Must Hold Line Now As Can’t Retreat Farther   Can Set Up New Line

Inflation Threat Must Be Checked, Byrnes Declares   Mobilization Directo Sounds Warning of Unstable Future

BYRNES. ASKS FOR WATIONAL UNIT   ‘Says Americans Must Beat Down Threat of Inflation; Reveals 150,000th Plane Off Lines Yesterday

Facing a “Crisis On Home Front’  Byrnes Warns Against Moves to End Food Subsidies

BYRNES APPEALS TO AMERICANS FOR MORE UNITY   War Mobilization Director Says Government Subsidies Must Be Retained   PRESSURE GROUPS ARE ALSO UNDER ATTACK

Byrnes Pleads For Subsidies  Says Inflation Threat Mauct Re Nafentad

BYRNES DECLARES SUBSIDIES NEEDED TO MAINTAIN COST   Director Speaking on Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Expects 7 Per Cent Oost in Food Prices.   GREATER SAVINGS AND FAXES ARE IMPERATIVE   “Pressure Groups” Seeking to Boost Wages, Time Has Arrived to “Lay That Pistol Down.”

Byrnes Urges Subsidy Plan   Farmers Asked To Aic In Stabilization Move

Byrnes Appeals For National ‘ Unity To Prevent Inflation   Greater Savings and Greater Taxes Imperative, War Mobilization Director Says in Pearl Harbor Addrecc

Byrnes Lays Out Pressure Groups   War Mobilizer Demands  Price Line Be Held

Warns of Inflation, Says Must Hold Line Now As Can’t Retreat Farther   Need All-Out Control

Byres Renews Subsidy Appeal   More Savings And Tawace Said Meade

BYRNES IN PLEA FOR NATION TO BEAT INFLATION   Says Subsidies Must Be Maintained or Food Prices Will Advance 7 Per Cent.   PRESSURE GROUPS TOLD TO “LAY PISTOLS DOWN”   War Mobilization Director Declares Greater Savings and Taxes Im s perative.

Byrnes Pleads For Subsidies, Higher Taxes   Sees Inflation As Alternative

Byrnes Calls for Subsidies, Higher Savings and Taxes, Assails ‘Pressure Groups’

BYRNES URGES BEATING DOWN NO. 1 HOME FRONT FOE---INFLATION THREAT

“Home Front Faces Crisis”   Byrnes Warns Against Danger of Inflation In Banning Subsidies

AVERT PERILS OF INFLATION, BYRNES ASK!   Says Subsidies Need. ed, Urges Greater Savings, Taxes

FLOOD ROLLING. DOWN THE OSAGE   But, ItIs Not. Not-. Expected: Te  Catise- as. Much Damage.” as Recent Deluge:

President Making A War Camp Tour   On Trip Thru Southeastern States by Special Train  and Motor   VIEWS A STRONG ARMY   The President Spent Paln Sunday at Camp Rob inson, Ark.

BETTERMENT NOTED IN U.S. WAR EFFORT   Has Visited Bases From So. Carolina To Arkansas

Army Camps in 6 States. Are Visited   Southeastern Jaunt Takes Chief Executive to Training ‘Centers and Army Posts. ”

ND LONG TRIP OF INSPECTION   Sees Thousands of Soldiers To Be Used on ‘Second Front.’   ISAYS TROOPS ARE FIT

Makes Swing Through Southeast   Visits Marine Corps Base, WAAC Training Center and Five Army Posts. During Week

President Lauds Soldiers, Marines, WAACSs On Trip Into Deep South

President On Second lour Of Inspection   Trip To Army Training Centers Has Been Under Way For Week   SOUTHERN AREAS HAVE BEEN TOURED

FDR INOPEOTION TOUR INCLUDED Voll 10 BAMA   Montgomery Air Base Viewed By Chief Last Wednesday, Greeted By Sparks   AMERICAN TROOPS FIT FOR WAR ROLE HE FINDS   Executive Is Much Impressed By Conditions Of Troops At Various Centers

CHIEF EXECUTIVE VISITS SERVICE TRAINING CAMPS   Mr. Roosevelt Reports Great Improvement in American War Effort Since

President Finds Bigimprovement In Nation’s Effort   Left Washington on Apr. 13 For ‘Incognito’ ‘Trip Around Country

PRESIDENT ON ANOTHER TRIP OVER THE U. 3   Left Washngton Quietly on April 13 to Visit Our Army Camrs.   NEWS JUST RELEASED   s Greatly Pleased With Training cf Men and High Mcrale.

FDR Completes: Through South.             President Visited N and ‘South Carolina

PRESIDENT NOW TOURING NATION INSPECTING WAR CAMPS AND INDUSTRIES   Has Visited. Many States Since Leaving Week Ago, It is Disclosed Today At The White House — Southwestern States Visited.

Roosevelt Touring Nation Again; Says U.S. Troops Will Do Good Job

President Says Men Will Do Good Job In Europe; Improvements Are Noted

Attended Palm Sunday Services With Sun-Tanned Troops; Went To Fort Benning Officers School   WAACS' Aplomb Sadly Upset; President Sits Along Firing Line At Camp; Fine Soldiers  Surprised My Visit: Vell Selves Tloaree

‘President Sees Marines, WAAC’s, Troops  ; ‘Go Through Training Paces On Week’s Swing

 Roosevelt Reviews Troops In South ‘ On Second Major: War Tour Of Nation

Chief Executive Has Been Through Southeast States   Troops He Saw Will Fight to Glory on European Front

CHIEF EXECUTIVE VISITS MILITARY CAMPS OF SIX STATES WITHIN FIVE DAYS   President Continues Trip Through Southeastern Area, Looking Over Five Army Posts, Marine Corps Base and WAAC Center— He’s Impressed With Troops.

Men Are Fit, ‘Morale Very, ~ Very High   Some. May: Be Used in Sec: ond Front: Operations, » President Indicates       SEES IMPROVEMENT = IN’ MEN, EQUIPMENT   Eyes Light Up as the Chief Appears; Better.: Perspecttive Than in Washington

President Says Troops Set For Second Fron   Chief Executive Hints Early Invasion Of Hitler’s Europe

President Making Second Inspection Journey Of Nation   Chief Executive Finds Washington Is Still Lagging Behind Rest Of Nation In War Effort; WAAC Center Is Visited 

VISITS SERVICE CAMPS, WAR FACTORIES   Again Observes That eonle Are kar Ahead of Washington

President Now: On Another Inspection Trip   Tour Made Up > Largely of Visits”. Te Traine Camas

mw Has Toured Virginia, North Carolina, South Corolina, Georgia, Alabamo And Arkansas

Has Visited In Six States Now. Continues Trin   Left Washington Or April 13; Laud: Great Improvemen' In Troops

Finds Troops In S. E. Training Camps Fit To Do Good Job On Second  enant In & iseame

F. R. Making Second Tour Of Inspection   President Has Seen Tens of Thousands of Fit and Bronzed Troops

Checks Armed Forces, War Work In South   Reviews Thousands Of Fighting Men; Tour Includes N. C.

PRESIDENT ON ANOTHER TOUR OF INSPECTION   Left Washington April 13: News of Trip \Vas Withheld

Inspects Troops In South   President Hints They’re Destined for 2d Eurapean Front

PRESIDENT MAKES ANOTHER TOUR Ut WS. INSPEGTION   President Returns Today Krom Trip to Army Camps.   HIS OBSERVATIONS BROADCAST TONIGHT   Finds Improvement in War Effort Since Last September.

NATION TO EAR BROADCAST AT 10   President Will Make Report On Journey To Training Camps

President Left Washington on April 13,  Well Satisfied with Condition of : American Soldiers

F.R. on Second Tour of Nation   PRESIDENT INSPECTS THOUSANDS OF U. S. TROOPS WHICH WILL BE USED TO HAMMER OUT OR MAINTAIN SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE

TRAINING CAMPS ARE INSPECTED BY PRESIDENT   Fighting Men Cheer Chief When He Visits Them In Southeast States   TRIP STARTED .WEEK AGO   ‘Morale Found To Be High; No Factories Visited:  Secret Well-kept

President Is Impressed By Fine Health Shown In Men Now Under Arms

FDR INSPECTS TRAINING FOR SECOND FRONT   Visits Army, Marine, WAAL Camps in Southeast, Notes Improvemen! in Troops   FINDS NO ‘BLOCS’   Declares People Away from Washington Have Better Sense Proportion, Perspective

FDR Ends Swing Around The Southeastern States   WAS AT CAMP ROBINSON, ARK.   Will Report To Nation Or Trip At 10 Tonight

President Inspects Forces In Southeastern Axrea, Says Troops Show Improvement

FDR'S SPECIAL TRAIN SWINGS THROUGH SOUTH   Chief Executive Sees Great Improvement In Troops

Chief Executive Impressed With Nation’s Effort   FR Visits Training Camps In Southeast On Curren Trip

PRESIDENT MAKING SECOND INSPECTION OF U. §. WAR EFFORT   VISITED TRAINING CAMPS AND OTHER PLACES SOUTHEASTERN STATES

F.D.R. Tours Southern States   Marine Base. WAAC Center, Five Army Posts Inspected; No Wer Plants end Ne Speeches; Impressed by Militery Might

EGAN JOURNEY \EWBEK AGO WASHINGTON   vs, In Permitting An ouncement-of Trip, He  Finds Morale Among Troops High   IGS" CONGRESS" WN BLOC ACTIVITIES   vs WAACS Relieving  len to Deal Out Type of Murder Reguired by War

VISITING SOUTHS TRAINING CENTERS, SEES MANEUVERS   Watches Troops Work Undes Live Ammunition—Fledgling Pitots.

Chief Executive Finds Great Improvement in Troops and Camps Visited During Trip

LEFT CAPITAL APRIL 13 ON SECOND TOUR   Confined Visits To Southeast Part Of Country

f On Second Tour Of In  FDR Finds Troops Fit   Morale High And Trainees Eager For A Crack At Foe: Visits Southern States

Troops Are Fit, Their Morale ‘Very High’— FDR Spent Two Day: at Warm Springs

President Impressed With Military Might  Viewed In Southeast   Soldiers, WAACs, Marines Display Equipment, Techniques Of War  On Executive's Second Big Trip

Men Fit And Eager, Found By President  bp... + Pa   Roosevelt. Touring Army Camps Of The South During Week

So Far Trip Has Covere Mainly Camps Of Armed ‘Forces Of The  Nation  TOUR BEGAN APRIL 13  Chief Exeoutie Feels U.S “Soldiers Will Give Good Account 

SECOND TOUR  ‘BY PRESIDENT IS REVEALED   ROOSEVELT PLEASED BY ‘TRAINING PROGRAMS—RA‘BIO ADDRESS SCHED. ULED FOR TONIGHT

FDR Inspects US Troops On Trip To South   President Tours Virginia. Carolinas. Georgia, Alahama. Arkansas.   LEFT CAPITAL APRIL 13

Chief Visits Army Camps In Many States   Party Travels By Special Train And Motor Cars

Roosevelt On Second Tour Of Inspection      Says Morale of Our Fighting Forces Very High—They Want , to  sarht

SEES TROOPS EXPECTED ON SECOND FRONT   Commender in Chief, Touring Southeastern Military Posts, Finds Men in Shape to Do a Good Job in Europe.

Daily Increase Of $1.75 Urged For Mines Pay   Winois Operators Join UMW in Compromise  Lye Was e-el] Tt

MINE PAY PACT GOES T0 BOARD   Illinois Agreement is Held To Have Good Chance For Approval

WLB Gets New Agreement to  Raise Mine Pay   Union Wins Illinois Operators Consent  To $1.75 Increase

Would Boost Miners’ Daily Earnings $1.75 or More   TRAVEL TIME PAY   Sacrifices Miners’ 7 - Hour Day, However; Believe WLB Will Approve

WAY IS OPENED FOR SETTLEMENT OF CONTROVERSY   ‘Union And Operators In Illinois Agree To $1.75 Daily  Wace Increase   W.LR LABOR BOARD IS EXPECTED TO APPROVE

SCOUTS’ BANQUET TUESDAY, FEB. 9TH   Aanual Scout Event to Be Held at ihe Methodist Church; Will Give Awards to 37 Scoute

SCOUTS’ BANQUET SET FOR FEB. 9TH   Annual Scout Event to Be Held at Methodist Church; Will Give Awards to 37 Scouts

Russian Forces Are Now Jomed On Dnieper River   Hold Control Of 250-Mile Stretch Of Twisting Dnieper River   WINTER OFFENSIVE COMING SAY REDS

RUSS ARMIES JOIN TWO BRIDGEHEADS   Now Control 250Mile Stretch of Dnieper River Area

Unusual Naval Record Is Made By O’ Bannon   Destroyer Has Seen 14 Rough and Rugged Months of Hard Service

“FIGHTINGEST” SHIP BACK HOME   Destroyer Participated In Five Major Battles

Report Cites Middle East Importance   Better Understanding Of This War Phase Is Given

Ways and Means Members Favor Pay-as-You-Go  House Group Ready For New Tax Plan With Reservations  LITTLE ‘FORGIVENESS  President Indorses Principle Also But Fears Revenue Loss   House Group Ready For New Tax Plan  With Recervatians

Hull Endorses  Post-War Plans   Declaration Wins Secretary's Support

HULL FAVORS DECLARATION   Says Senate Stand on PostWar Problems Will Be Helpful

Hull Favors World Plans For Future   Confers With Eden On ‘Problems Of Post-War “Problems OF Allies

Soviets Fight Into Suburbs Of Korosten   Forces Now Only 55 Miles From Old Polish Border As Drive Grows

Chinese Tighten Net Around Japs  10,000 Japanese Reanorted Filled

HUNAN PROVINCE NET TIGHTENED   Chinese Report Nearly 10,000 Japs Killed In Rice Bowl

War Bond Drive Fands Needed To Bay Tools Of War For Army   Citizens Are Offered Type Of Bond Best Suited For Individual Needs

U. S. to Borrow Thirteen Billion For War Tools   Hopes to borrow. that  amount from individual citizens; loan will be largest ever.

POSSES, AND BLOODHOUNDS SEARCHING FOR MEN WHO MADE SENSATIONAL . PRISON BREAK

Se ee  Willie Johnson Wishes People Would Quit Holding Geo. Washington's Nose

IS NEW SCHOOL HEAD   Thomas J. Moore Has Been Named Superintendent at Oskaloosa

Troops Rule In City of Essen  Big Nazi City Put Under Martial Law

NAZI MILITARY GUARDING WAR INDUSTRY AREA   German Newspaper Re- veals Special Trains Leav_ ing Bomb-Blasted City   Daily With Evacuees      MOST OF METROPOLIS LAID WASTE BY R.A.F.   Nazi Airmen Strike At Localities In East England; British Raid Dutch Coast Shipping

Martial Law Rules Essen   Imposed on Great Nazi Industrial City Following Bombing

OGIENCE MAKES NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT  MAMMALIAN CANCER  MYSTERIOUS NEW SUB STANCE QUICKLY CAUSES  WANMEED DY INNArIN ATION

Quick Cancer Producing ~ Substance Is Discovered   { Be a Discovery of New Substance, Resembling Virus, Made:  By American Scientists At University of Texas;  Produces Cancer Quicker Than Any thing Previously Known 

Discover New  Substance  Causing Cance! Water-Clear Extract   Water-Clear Extract Taken From Tissues Resembles Virus

Science Discovers New Virus Which Causes Cancer, Taking Long Step in Ancient Battle With Dread Malady

KU. ON THE LIST   Thirteen Schools Designat. ed for Army Training Program

Italians Shot In Back By German:  Scores Found Wounded. Killed On Battlefield

Italians Shot in Back By Nazis   Germans Sought to Halt Surrendering

AXIS PLANES FAIL DO ANY DAMAGE TO INVASION VESSELS  MANY CAPTURED ITALIAN: HAD BEEN SHOT IN BACK BY GERMANS -

OPA SETS RATION VALUES OF 4 T0 6 POINTS A POUND ON JAMS, JELLIES

RATION VALUES ANNOUNCED FOR JAMS, JELLIES      To Be on Sale Sunday After Seven-Day Freeze

Meat Ration Values Down   Canned Fruits Increased in OPA’. Monthly Revision

Jam and Jelly Values Set By OPA; Meats Are Cut; Butter Stays at 16 Points

OPA SETS VALUE ON JAMS AND JELLIES TODAY   Fruit Spreads and Butters Added te List; Some Meats Reduced

JAMS, JELLIES PLACEDON RATION LIST   Some Meat Cuts Are to Require Fewer Points

Jams, Jellies Set at 4 to 6; Some Meat Cut   Pork, Veal, Lamb Reduced, But Beef Remains Same

Ration Value Of Jams And _ Jellies 4 to © roints   Fruit Spread Sale Resumes Next Week; Butter Remains At 16 Points; Pork, Veal, Lamb Values Go Down

Points Set for Jellies;  Margarine Boosted —  Pork, Veal Down on New OPA List; Saft Cheecec Tre Chilkt BPatinwed

Ration Values On Jams, Jellies Put At 4 to 6 Points Per Pound; Other Changes In Point Values Reported

OPA SETS. VALUES OF 4 T0 6 POINTS GN JAMS, JELLIES   Butter Still 16, Margarine Up 2 Points — Meat Front Better But ’ Beef Unchanged

Sweet Spreads To Be Rationed   Reduction in Points Made in Certain Pork, Veai and Lamb Items

Baby ‘i'o Receive Two Mementoes Of Heroie Father   Posthumous Awards Will Be Given Capt, Landess For N. African Exploit

SUGGEST JAPS MAY ABANDON RABAUL BASE   Damaging Raid Followed Up By New Allied Air Blows

NEW AIR BLOWS ALL ALONG VAST SOUTH PACIFIC REVEALED   100 U.S. Planes, Hammer Big Kahali Airdrome, 300 Miles Southeast ‘Of Rabaul -

NEW ALLIED AIR BLOWS DIRECTED AT ENEMY BASE"   Kahili Airdrome Hit As Followup on Tremendous Raid At Rabaul.

New Allied Air Blows Struck in  5-West Pacific   Rabaul May be Virtually Given I'in hv lananese

JAPANESE MAY HAVE TO QUIT RABAUL BAS   Allies According No Let-up in Their Aerial Warfare Against Japs in Pacific

Yanks Blast Kahili Field In Solomons   Growing Air Blows May Force Japs to Flee Rabaul Stronghold

NAZIS TELL-OF NEW RED DRIVE   Report 5 Soviet Tank Brigades Make Attack  Se i a ea ea

Officers Named By County 4-H Boys at Dinner   ASU Ys Col A ABSERM’™  uist Tells Importance oi Club Work at Meée  Wruwn Wiraedayv

Officers Named By County 4-H Boys at Dinner   Quist Tells Importance ol Club Work at Meet Here Tuesday

Soviet Forces Mop Up Nazis  tn West Ukraine   More Than 50 Towns, Villages  Are Taken

PRESIDENT GETS IN OHIO DISPUTE   Opposition To Revision Of Women’s Laws Read

CHANGES OPPOSED IN OHIO LABOR LAW   President Urges Standards For Women and Children

e@ AN ARIA ARRIVES   Now You Can Hear “Pistol Packin’ Mama’ as Often as You Please

Married Men With Children May be Drafted   Selective Service Soon to Announce Neweet Plan

PLAN STUDIED FOR DRAFTING MARRIED MEN   Selective Service To Announce Plans For Extending Draft

U.S. Fathers to Be Called Up in Draft   Summer-End Induction Seen as Ranks of Single, Childless Married Men Thin

Move To Lift Ban On Fathers For Draft Seen   WMC Orders Board Te Speed Reclassification Of Essential Workers

FATHERS MAY BE CALLED BY FARLY JULY   Selective Service Officials in Washington May Soon Lift Ban on Drafting Men With Children.   STEPS NECESSARY   Moard Also Lists 35 Essendial Industries in Which the Married Men Will be Placed in Class 3-B.

U.S. TOLIFT DRAFT BAN ON “MARRIED MEN   17-Year-Olds Can Enlist In Army and Air  Reserves

GERMANS ADMIT THE EVACUATION OF BRYANSK   Was Greatest Axis Base On Entire Central Front

HUUT GERMANS EROM BRYANGK   Great Bastion Was Anchor Point For Nazi Southern and Central Fronts

German Homeland Given Warning Of ‘Terrible Winter   Day And Night Aerial Bombardments Are Promised By Allies

‘TERRIBLE WINTER’ IN REICH PROMISED NAZIS BY ARNGLD   ARMY AIR FORCE COMMANDER DECLARES BIG AERIAL OF. FENSIVE TO START SOON

»Bill-Reading In Senate ls Still Going      REPUBLICANS, MEANWHILE GQ PLUGGING ALONG HOPING FOR AVJOUKRNMENT BY APRIL 2°: GROUP OF MEASURES READY.   Get-Together Says Martin

Senate Filibuster Is Continued By Democrats   But Republicans Plug For Early Adjournment Of State Lecistature

COM PRODUCTION 5 RESUMED TOON   Most Of Nation’s Miners Back On Jobs

Holiday Violent Death Figure Mounts to 195   Traffic Accidents Take 140 Lives, Fires Fatal to 21]

195 VIOLENT DEATHS COUNTED ON HOLIDAY   Three-Fourths of Total Due to Traffic Accidents, Seven Occurring in Missouri.

ITALIAN TROOPS LET NAZIS GET OUT OF CORSICA   Defection Of Fully E.quipped Italian Forces Held Re sponsible For Escape  Of 20,000 Germans.

Italians Let Nazis Escape From Corsica   Almost No Fighting by. 85,. 000 Troops: Fully Equipped - UONMVith Tanks: Guns’   20, 000 GERMANS ee MADE GETAWAY   Only Serious. Damage: Was Inflicted by. Allied Airmen and-U. $.-Bombers

Italians Slowed Corsica Drive  Every Allied Move Opposed by Chief

ESCAPE OF GERMANS FROM CORSICA: DUE 10 FAILURE OF ITALIANS  CLAIMED 85,000 FULLY EQUIPPED ITALIANS GIVE WAY FEW NAZIS

Italians Let 20,000 Nazis Flee Corsica   §5,000 Gave Patriots N« Help in Battle to Free Island

ITALIAN UNITS LET GERMANS FLEE CORSIC/   Refused lo Fight Former Allies Gallagher Says—De Gaulle De mands Their Arms

Failing to Hold Bridges on Corsica Italy Blamed for Escape of Nazis

RAF Bombers !n Heavy Attack On German Centers   Research Establishment Gets Chief Attention of Raiders

Research and Developmen Establishment of Peene muende Strongly Attack ed By. Heavy Bombers: Berlin Bombed Again.

FLIERS CRUSH NAZI CENTER   PEENEMUENDE SHATTERED; MOSQUITOS ROCK BERLIN

RAF Bombers Attack Big Nazi Plant   Peenemuende Located Northwest of Stettin Object Of Night Aassault

PEENEMUENDE, BERLIN AMONG MAIN TARGETS   American Planes In First Britain-To-Africa Daylight Shuttle Bombing; Other Attacks

RAF HEAVY BOMBERS BLASTED IMPORTANT PEENEMUEMDE PLANT  BRITISH AND AMERICAN PLANES IN WIDESPREAD RAIDS ON AXIS

Bombing Is Begun   RAF Probes Deeper Into ~ Nazi Industry   Peenemuende Radio Location Device Factory Principal Night Target

RAF Bombers Blast Large German Plant   Berlin Also Raided; 41 Bombers and On« Fighter Plane Are Reported Missing

Great German Factory Near Stettin Hit   41 Bombers Lost By RAF In Attack Far Into Germany

NAZI RESEARCH PLANT, BERLIN BOTH BOMBED   Fortresses Batter Aircrafi Factor. ies Deep in Germany, Fly From Britain to Africa   CALAIS STRAFED   41 Bombers Missing from Nigh! Operations, 36 from Day, 43 Enemy Planes Downed

41 Planes Lost In Raid on Reich   Heavy Bombers Make Strong Attack on Research Plant.

NAZI RESEARCH CENTER IS HIT: BERLIN RAIDED   Night Raids Follow Britain-To-Africa Attacks By Yanks

Peenemuende, Berlin Attacked; Americans On A Shuttle-Bombing  Fxnedition

BERLIN AGAIN HIT BY BOMBS   Other Air Raids Carried Out In Other Areas 

Heavy Bombers Blast German Research Plants   Bright Moonlight Features Attack On Enemy Bases

BLOW IS PART. OF A STRONG AIR OFFENSIVE   Other Targets Include Peenemuende, German Research Center — Attacks Cost British 41 Bombers, One Fighter.

Heavy Raid Conducted By British   Airfields Maintained By Germans In Holland And France Raided By Americans Today

PEENEMUENDE © IS HARD HIT BY BRITISH   41 Bombers Lost; Americans Inaugurate  Britain-Africa Shuttle. pL,

41 PLANES MISSING IN NIGHT RAID   RAF Assault Follows Daylight Attacks By Americans

BRITISH LOSE 41 BOMBERS OVER GERMANY   Berlin Raided; Yanks Adopt “Shuttle Service” Against Nazis

RAF CONTINUES HUGE RAIDS ON REIGH CAPITAL   British Bombers Also Hit Largest Research Plant In Germany; Berlin Again Bombed

Biggest German Research  Center, Berlin, Plane Plants and Other Areas Are Taraets.

BERLIN AAIDED. AGAIN BY RAF   Heavy Bombers Hit Research Center at Peenemuende Near Stettin.

Big German Researeh Plant Hit By Bombers   Heavy Attack Made  On Peencmuende, While Mosquitoes Raid Berlin aAgun: 12 Planes Lost

WOMAN ASSIGNED TO NAZI TASKS" IN U.S. IS ARRESTED   Agent Was Told to Picture U.S. as Decadent; Nine Other Aliens are Held

BOYS ARE RESCUED FROM PILE OF SAND   Buried Up to Chins After Night Near Death

FIFTH ARMY SMASHES ON TO INTERIOR   Islands Off West Coast, Close to Naples and Rome, Scized in Daring Allied Coup

Expecting Germans to Make Stand   [Initiative Now in Allied Hands—Germans Claim  Capture of Elba

Congress Honors Wright Brothers   Missouri Solon Says Flight Was Disaster

U.S. TREASURY 3RD WAR LOAN STARTING DATE SEPTEMBER 9   NEWS FROM UNCLE’S BOYS JN SERVICE HERE AND ABROAD

Welles Asks For Four-Power Pact   Thinks Nation’s War Aims Should Be Told

WAR DEPARTMENT RELEASES NAMES   23 Indiana Men Listed as Prisoners of the Germans.

SENATE WRITING OF NEW TAX MEASURE HITS HOME STRETCK   Committee Has Already Cut Yield Under Two Billion

Pantelleria Shows That Americans Fulfilled Promise  Only One Hangar !s Intact; Airfield Is Litter of Pocks

Lone Hangar All That Is Left  At Pantelleria  ' Devastating Force of Air Power Is —. Seen by Recul te

MINERS REBEL AGAINST ORDER   Thousands Refuse To Work As Ickes Slates Meet

Senate Votes: For Reduction Of Sales Tax.   Compromise Is: Adopted After Long Deadlock

SULONS MEET WARREN SLASH   SENATORS COMPROMISE ON STATE TAX CUTS

FACES JUDGE   Soldier, Indicted For Murder, Enters Plea Saturday.

British Speeding To Contact Enemy, 5th Breaks Siege   Sen. Clark Promises Capture Of Naples, Rome And All Italy; Montgomery's Seasoned Forces Are Within Striking Distance

ALLIED TROOPS DOGGEDLY DRIVE ON IN TUNISIA   Allied Air Forces Go All-Out To Stage Most Successful Attack Of War On Axis Shipping.

Yankee Troops Use Bayonets in Fierce Drive   Stubborn Advance Toward Mateur Is Continued by Men

2 DESTROYERS ~AND CRUISER APPEAR SUNK   Use of Long-Range Artillery by Americans Follows Capture of Two Points in a_ Fierce Charge With Bayonets.

jhell Mateur   Allied Planes Blast Massed Axis Shipping, Sink 7 Vessels. Including 3 Warships: Ist Army Falls Back

WEATHER   Yanks Seize Hill 609 in ’ Bitter Battle   2nd Height Also Taken in Bayonet Charge; Big Guns Blast Mateur   KEW BLOWS BY AIR   Doolittle Airmen Score Hits on Axis Warships Off Tunisia

Mateur Is Under Fire of U.S. Guns   American Second Corps Presses Forward, Capturing High Points   AXIS WARSHIPS SUNK   Enemy Shipping Is: Heavily Hit in Raids Over  Mediterranean .

Yanks Storm, Take Height Near Mateur   gegin Shelling City At Long Range; British First Army Is Handed Another Setback

Open Artillery Fire for First Time} On Mateur After Taking Three: Viial Positions j   AXIS CRUISER HIT   Two Desiroyers, Other Ships Sunk or Sef on Fire—British Again Lose Ground

Axis Says Big Convoy Passes Gibraltar and Eighth Army Artillery Prepares New Drive

US. Troops Advancing Qn Maiteur   Allies Pound Axis Supply Lines From Air

‘AMERICAN FORCES STORMED, CAPTURED IMPORTANT POSITION   ALLIED AIR FORCES BLAST ENEMY SHIP CONCENTRATION FRIDAY

Happy Birthday to These Men in Service This Week   GREETINGS IN. SA.

FD. R. Arrives To Take Part In War Parley   Churchill Joins Welcoming Party At Quebec Siding

Quebec Gives Welcome To Roosevelt   Nation’s Chief Arrives for War Conference

INVASION wll TO NAZI GERMANY   “Mother of Russian Cities’ Sacked on Many Oc-

VITAL STRATEGIC  IMPORTANCE HELD BY  FORTRESS OF KIEV IT'IS GATE*TO NATURAL INVASION ROUTE HA

BIG BASE ATTACKED IN NIGHT   Fourth Block-Buster Raid This Month Is Made— All Planes Return Home Safely.

BLOCK-BUSTE BOMBS RAINED ON SUB BASE   Fourth Shattering RAF Raid Made; All Planes Safe

BRITISH AIRMEN BLAST (GERMANY   LONDON’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF - RAD FAILS-'6 DISCLOSE OBJECTIVES,

To Organize Group to Make Peace Bill   Senator George’ Would Pick Experts to Probe’ into Economie Probleme:

Attention Is Given PeaceTime Issues   Broad Program is Outlined By Senator George As He Calls Meeting  TO AVOID THEORISTS

SENATOR GEORGE CALLS COMMITTEE TO STUDY POST-WAR PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN BUSINESS   Broad Field Will Be:!Covered and: Committee Will Seek Advice From Practical-Minded People With Real Experience. Wants to  _ Avoid Theorists

GALLS SENATE GROUP 10 HELP POSTWAR PLAN   George Seeks Authorization to Name Advisory Body of Nat’! Leaders.   WOULD MAP NATIONWIDE CO-OPERATION PROGRAM

ORGANIZE POST WAR INQUIRY   SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETS TO DISCUSS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

GERMANS LOSE OU TANKS IN SOVIET DRIVE   Hitler's New Offensive Also Costs 10,000 Men in 24 Hours

First Hours Costly For Nazi Army   Russians Report 800 German Tanks Lost

Blasted Convo Chased to Lae   Third Transport Sent to Bottom, Fourth Crippled as American Airmen Keep Up Merciless Pounding: Few Get Ashore

Vessels Are Pursued Into The Harbor Of. Lae  TOLL IS HEAVY Three Transports Are   TOLL IS HEAVY   Three Transports Are Sunk And Fourth  Damaged

Third Jap Transport  ‘Destroyed   Wisconsin Troops Are Among Those Praised By MacArthur For  New Guinea Campaign

JAP CONVOY, IN HARBOR AT LAE, POUNDED AGAIN   Three Transports Sunk, Fourth Damaged; Remaining Jap Ships Pursued To Lae, Given Merciless Pounding  There By Allies.

32nd Division Gains Praise  Of MacArthur   Units Participating In New Guinea Triumph Win Recognition Of Commanding General

Planes Pound Fleet   Three Transports Sent To Bottom; Aerial Support Routed

Only “Fragmentary’ Reinforcements for Guinea Forces Land   Enemy Installations at Lae Given Merciless ~~~Pounding From Air

YANKS PURSUE NIPPON CONVO)   Merciless Pounding Giv. en Ships By Every Kind Of Warplane

ALLIED AIR UNITS STILL ATTACKING JAPAN'S CONVOY   Enemy Lands Few Troops in Harbor of Lae, New Guinea

Battered Jap Convoy Given Huge Pounding   Toll of Losses Reaches Three Transports And Total of 38 Aircraft

U.S. Bombers Hit  Japanese Convoy   Enemy Vessels Given Merciless Pounding in Harbor of Lae   A LANDING BLOCKED   38 Enemy Planes Covering the Movement of Troops Shot Down

POUND CONVOY IN LAE HARBOR   Allies Sink 3 Ships, Chase Others Into Port For Merciless Hammering.

Hit Japs Hard at LaeHarbor   Merciless Pounding Given Convoy by Allied Planes.

D TRANSPORTS  REPORTED SUNK   Fourth Enemy Ship Damaged In Merciless Aerial Pounding   Only ‘Fragmentary’ Enemy Troop Elements Reach New Guinea

THREE ENEMY TRANSPORTS, 38 PLANES BAGGED   Remnants of Convoy Chased into Lae Har har

BATTERED JAP CONVOY DRIVEN TO COVER AT LAE  ONLY FRAGMENTS OF   ONLY FRAGMENTS OF TROOPS SURVIVE MERCILESS ATTACK

Pursue Jap Ships Into Lae Harbor   Three Transports Sunk by Allied Bombers

ALLIED WARPLANES MERCILESSLY POUND ENEMY TRYING TO LAND REINFORCEMENTS ON NEW GUINEA   Convoy Pursued Into Lae Harbor and Shore Installations and Landing Area Mercilessly Attacked. Only Remnants Landed.

20 MORE JAPANESE PLANES ARE DOWNED   Enemy Beach Installations Take Merciless Pounding Eram Allied Airmen

BADLY BATTERED JAPANESE CONVOY PURSUED INTO LAE   THREE TRANSPORTS SUNK AND ANOTHER DAMAGED BY ALLIED ACTION

Rome Attack Said Coming  Allied Air, Seaborne  Drive Is Expected

2,000 Tons Hit Capital Last Night   Hour Barrage Called Heaviest Attack of War

RAF Loses 58 Plages: in. Tremendous ult; Area Is Ripped Wide Open By 2,000 Tons OF  Rombs.

Flames From Last Night Raid on Berlin Seen 250 Miles Away.  ROYAL AIR FORCE LOST 58 PLANES  Allied Airmen at it Again Today as Alemeda Heads for France.

DISPOSAL UF FINAL LEGISLATION   Reapportionment, Revision of Compensation Set; Plan to Buy Ferris Institute

PRESSURE ON PAY FORMULA 18 GROWING   WAR LABOR BOARD'S "LITTLE STEEL” WAGE RULING IS “CENTER OF HEATED DISPUTE

U.S. WARPLANES GETTING BETTER   New Developments, Many of Them Secret, Increase Speed And Lengthen Distance

UNITED STATES COMBAT: PLANES FLYING FASTER   Will Climb and Dive More — Swiftly In Next Few Months As Result of Discoveries   BOMBERS BETTER   Newspaperman and High Army and Navy Officials Witness Demonstration of Achievements

COMBAT PLANES NOW FLY FARTHER AND. FASTER  - New Inventions and © Improvements Increase Tleafulnace at

YANKEE PLANES FLYING FASTER   American Combat Craft Are Designed to Fly Farther. Faster. _

American Combat Planes Are  ‘Flying Farther And Faster   Corsairs, Demonstrated For Navy Heads, Spell Bad News For The Germans And Japs

U. S. Combat Planes ‘Fly Farther, Faster   In A Few Months American Bombers Will Carry Bigger Loads For Greater Distances-As Result Of Recent Technical Discoveries

Fliers Work Havoc on  Rail Yards   Travel by Train Is Almost Paralyzed As American Airmen Continue Relentless Raids on Vital Centers

Relentless Air Attacks Cause Heavy Damages   Allies Down 20 Axis ‘Planes In Assaults

ITALY’ S TRAIN TRAFFIC HALTED   Allied Air Blows Have Disrupted Railways Through South

Rail Traffic In Italy Paralyzed  Wrecked Trains, Li ines Stopping Movements

Transport Lines Wrecked: Allies Hammer Naples  Italians Declared  of fg

ITALIAN RAIL LINES SMASHED   Traffic From Naples South Paralyzed By Allied Air Attacks

Ttalian Train Traffic Has Been Paralyzec   Big Allied Planes Continue Relentless Raids

ITALY’S TRAIN LINES SMASHED   Allied Bombers Renew As  -sault on Naples

South Halian Rail Lines . Demolished By Allied Raid  Few Trains Are Now Moving And These Have Trouble In Getting Over The Bombed Lines

TALY’S TRAINS ‘RUNNING LATE’ AFTER ATTACKS   Allied Bombers Have Wrecked Part of System in Naples Area

ltaly Railways Paralyzed By Allied Raids   Vital Italian Cities Are Hammered By American Bombers

Train Traffic In Italy Paralyzed.   Wide Section:Hard Hit By Air Raide .

Allied Fliers Hammer Italy, Also Germany   Air Blows Virtually Communication Lines Of Southern Italy; Nuernberg Suffers

Italy’s Train Traffic Paralyzed As Allies Pound Naples Anew   Air Scourging Of Southern Italian Mainland Continued; Tracks Strewn With Wrecks

Steady Raids Block Italy Train Traffic  Transport South   Transport South From Naples, Almost Ceases

South Italian Railroad Lines Are Paralyzed   Headquarters Says Recent Bombings Set New High Mark

Train Traffic In ltaly Paralyzed   Wide Section Hard Hit By Air Raids  wmrenqes oe Oe Ow TUE OT STRUT

POULTRY MEN WANT CEILING   Offer Plan to ‘Unfreeze’ Food Markets.

Sixty American Bombers Lost In Raid Over Germany Yesterday   Sixty Fortresses and Two Fighters Failed to Return,

It Happened This Week... .  Gen. Marschall To Command All Allies

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Is Choice of Roosevelt and Prime Minister   Selection Learned Amid-Rumors of Planned Shift   By KIRKE L, SIMPSON (Copyright 1943 by the Associated  The ame %

MARSHALL SLATED TO DIRECT FIGHT IN EAST AND WEST   Plan Is to Make Genera! Commander of All AngloAmerican Ground, Sea and Air Forces.   DECISION REPORTED REACHED AT QUEBEC   Selection Subject to Approval of British Cabinet and Its Indorsement is Predicted.

Marshall Slated As Global Commander Of Allied Force:   Kirke Simpson Says U. S. Army Chief Designated to Put Into Execution Pattern of Victory Shaped at Quebec Conference

Roosevelt - Chur e Will Choice to Lead All Anglo - American Forees In the Smashing of the Axis

Marshall Slated For Commander  ‘Of Allied Forces   Chosen to Lead all Anglo-  American Forcés in Smashing the Axis. -

LEADERS PICK MARSHALL 10 CONDUCT WAR   AMERICAN GENERAL TO BE WORLD COMMANDER

Unified Command Of All English-Speoking Services Will Be Put Under One Leadership

DRIVE PATTERN SET IN AFRICA   Unified Command Points To Major Objectives In New Pacific Offensive

Major Objectives Aimed At In Pacific Campaiar   Program Set at Recent Joint British-American Staff Conferences, Simpson Says—MacArthur - "in Supreme Command

Allies Strive For Major Goal in Area   Merger of Command Indication of Unity Among Leaders

OUTLOOK BAD FOR TOKYO IN SOUTH PACIFIC   UNIFIED COMMANDS ARE OUT AFTER BIG STAKES

Unity Of Command Under MacArthur Indicates Major Objectives Sought

Value Of Unified Command Technique Already Proved   Major Strategic Objectives Aimed At By Joint Forces Moving Under General MacArthur

House Refuses Farm Payments   Farmers Not To Be Paid For Increasing Production

SUBSIDY IS REJECTED   House Committee Votes Six To One Against the Administration Plan   HOLD OUT FoR HIGHER PARITY   Whole Question. Expected to Come Up This Week in Meet With Wickard

HOUSE SUB-COMMITTEE TURNS DOWN FDR'S REQUEST FOR INCENTIVE PAYMENT FUNDS FOR FARMERS   President Had Requested $100,000,000 Be Made Available For Payments to Farmers For Increased Food Production. Tarver of Georgia Cast Only Vote For Request

EDITORS GIVEN 'LOW-DOWN' ON WAR SITUATION   Better Understanding Attgimed Aer Verkal  ‘Slugging Match’   MEASURE ON FARM SUBSIDY REJECTED

HATCH WOULD KILL BERET PAYMENTS .   New Mexico Senator Wants “Fair Level” Farm Peicac Inetoad

HOUSE GROUP VOTES NO ON FARM SUBSID}   Approprialions Subcommitlee Dis approves Roosevelt Request by 6 to } Vole :

Refuse F.D.R. Plan For New  Farm Payment:   Appropriations Subcommittee Rejects Proposal For Incentive Payments.

Farm Subsidy Plan Rejected By Committee   Roosevelt Denied 160 Millions For -Bribing Growers

Subsidy Payments Opposed by Group  House Subcommittee  Against $100,000. 000

Refuse Plan For Farm Payments  House Subcommittee Refuses Request

INGENTIVE PAY OR FARMERS 0 VOTED OWN   Subsidies Are Not Desired By Farmers, Claim Foes Of Roosevelt Plan

LOCAYT, GOR PERVATTOWE   Farm Subsidies Beaten in House   Subcommittee Votes 6 to  1 Against $100,000,000  in Pay mente.

Votes 6 to 1 Against Farm Subsidy Plan   Senator Hatch Favor: Price Fixing at ‘Fair Levels’

HIT CROP SUBSIDY   House Subcommittee Turns Down Request for Incentive Payments

Solons Oppose Incentive Pay To Boost Crops   House Subcommittee Rejects FDR Plea For Funds

F.R. Farm Payment Plan Is Vetoed   Incentive Funds for Agrarians Rejected

Farm Subsidy Is Voted Down   Honse Group Rejects ‘Incentive’ Payments

Farm Parity Fund Loses   House Subcommittee Votes Down F. R.’s Request For $100,000,000 Fund

Committee Rejects Aid For Farmers   100 Millions Asked By President Gets The Ax In Congress   Meant As Incentive For Food Production   Policy Against Subsidies Again Affirmed In Act

Farm Subsidy Turned Down by Subcommittee   Roosevelt's Request for Funds Refused

Committee rejects farm subsidy plan   President asked incentive funds

Request By FDR For Farm Fund Meets Refusal   House Committee Rejects Plea For 100 Million For Incentive Payments

Capture ‘Iwo Highly Important Industrial Centers In Corner of Loop Imperilling A Million Axis ‘Troops: Drive On Kirvoit Ror

Two Important Industrial Cities Fall to Russians   Soviet Advances Further Imperil Estimated 1,000,000 German Troops in Southern Ukraine and Crimea: Tank Division Trapped

Reds Continue To Tighten Dnieper Trap   Take Dnepropetrovsk, Dneprodzerzhinsk In Northeast Corner  HRERBACLE IMMINENT

Soviets Further linperil Million. Naz Treops in Sevthern Russia as Plight - Of Germans in Lower Ukraine Apploaches Debacle. Front Dispatches Say 23rd Tank Division Al - seady Trapped at Krivoi Rog.

Reds Crush German Dnieper Bend Defenses to Capture Industry Areas From Nazis

New Red Gains Further Peril Million Nazis      Nazi Plight in South Ukraine Fas ~ Approaches Debacle as Russians Take Two Industrial Genters

Plight Of The Nazis In Lower te Ukraine Fast Approaching Debacle

NAZIS’ RIVER LOOP POSITION IS ENDANGERED   Two Red Armies Advance To Take Important Towns On Dnieper  Defense Line

Plight Of The Nazis In Lower Ukraine Fast Approach se Dhahanla *      ing Debacle

SEAL FOES’ DOOM IN THE CAUCASUS   Blasts Hitler Hopes Of Sending His Veterans To Italian and Ralkan Areas

Hitler Sends Many Planes Across Channei For Heaviest Blow in Months; Red Offensiv: Rolls Again Along 2000-Mile Front

Canadians Hear U.S. President   ROOSEVELT DECLARES QUEBEC CONFERENCE INFORMATION WOULD MAKE ENEMY LAY DOWN ARMS RATHER THAN FACE DISASTER AHEAD

WILL BROADCAST   Churehilt to Address Allied World From t". @& Sunday

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE HEADS INTO TOUCH HALF   . During First Eight Days Of Drive Only $7,679,Q00,000 Raised

3rd War Loan — At 7.6 Billion   Hardest Half of Campaigr Ahead, Director Says

BOND DRIVE IN TOUGH HAL   Kasiést  Part Now. Over, _ Total on Thursday $7,679,000,000

SOVIET AND NAZI AIRMEN = INCREASE THEIR ACTIVITY      AERIAL, WARFARE DOMINATES RUSSIAN FRONT AS ARMIES MASS FOR. NEXT GHEAT BATILES

RUSSIA, AXIS AERIAL BLOWS CONTINUING   Red army force hit Nazis another devastating blow today

REDS AIR FORCE HIT NAZIS DEVASTATING BLOWS FROM SKIES IN MASS RAID SUNDAY

Aerial Wartare Dominates On Russian Front   ‘Soviet Force Hits Nazis An other Devastating Blow From Skies Says Moscow  Tees pre eI Osa eee

U.S. Cannon Break Down Nazi Morale   Heavy Bombardment Of Enemy's Positions In Sicily Described

Germans Are Baltling. to Prevent Rout   Pull Fighter-Bombers Off Other Fronts in. Attempt to. Silence. Our Guns   BUT THE ACTION FAILS TO SCORE   Waves of Messerschmitts Sent Over, But They Aren’t Up to Former Standards

STRIKE THREAT FACES ALABAMA WAR INDUSTRIES   Gas Supply Affected. Meanwhile Steel Workers Return to Their Tasks Over the U. S.

SIXTEEN AXIS WAR PRISONERS TRY T0  ESUAPE SOUTHWEST   OUT OF 3,000 THAT NUMBER TRIES AND FAILS TO CRT AWAY

Axis Prisoners. ‘Who Try Escape Have Little Luck      16 Of 30,000 Held in U. s. . Try. ItBut ‘Are Caught; Oue Killed By Rancher

16 Prisoners Failed In Escape Plans   Were Among 30,000 Nazis Interned In Southwest Camps

Fredericksburg Man — Elected President of District Medical Group

Dependency Pay Increase Favored  Sudden Sentiment   Sudden Sentiment Reverse Takes Place

Germans Probably Wish They Had Not Been So Destructive In Stalingrad in Better Days

Other Kiev Invaders Left Something Worthwhile, Hitler Only Hatred,

All-Pervading Stench of Dead Japs Marks Last Two Miles to Sanananda

PROVED COSTLY FOR HIGGINS   Pays $250 Fine in Lowell Court and $95 to Concord Officials

War, Peace Will Be Prime Topics As Congress Opens  Draft Will Be Given Much Attention ‘Nith Home Problem:

Starting Temorrow Congress to Consider ‘U.S. Peace Participation

Foreign Policy. ¢ First Matter to © Face, Congress  Question i jrafting Fathers Apt: To Be “ Delayed as Result: ”

Solons to Face Peace Problem   America’s Role Will Come Before House

U.S. Peace Role Foremost Issue Facing Congress  House Leaders Agree " wes Ui. Abhaae   House Leaders Agree To Take It Up Ahead O{ Domestic Matters

1944 Elections Injected Into Tax Debate   Democrat Expresses View GOP Has Pledge Of Campaign Funds  If Year Is Skipped

TEMPERS FLARE IN TAX DEBATE   1944 Election Brought In Discussion Of  Rum! Plan

Debate in House On Taxes  Growing Hectic  Dingell Thinks GOP   Is Promised Campaian Funds

Reed Charges Present Income Tax Plan Drives Many fo ‘Loan Sharks’

MINERS HEDGE STRIKE THREAT   Union Policy Group Will Allow Outlying Mines To Operate

OZARKS MAY GET SOLDIER HOSPITAL   Rockaway Beach on Lake Taneycomo Studied as Site for Convalescent Institution.

MME. PERKINS  ASKS COALACTION   Expresses Hope for Inside of Stabilization , Program

HOPES FOR AN EARLY PACT IN WAGE DISPUTE   Steelman Reports To Perkins In Washington

PERKINS HOPES  MINE PACT WILL SATISFY NWLE   Labor Secretary for Wage Agreement “Within Framework of Stabilization: Program”   NEW DEMANDS MADE   Hard Coal Miners Ask New Contract Providing For $2-A-Day Increase In Pay

REPORT PROGRESS IN-MINE PARLEYS   SECRETARY OF LABOR EXPRESSES HOPE OF WAGE AGREEMENT

New Britain Beach-head is Widened   Air Offensive Continues — Several Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged

BEACHHEAD OF U.S. WIDENED ON NEW BRITAIN   Australians on New Guinea’ Turn Jap Retreat to NearRant .

Yanks Extend ~ Their Beachhead On New Britain...  Hot Halted by® _ Renewed Enemy

BEACHHEAD WIDENED ON NEW BRITAIN   Japs On New Guinea In Full Retreat Before Aussies

U.S. Beachheads In New Britain Are Deenened   Several Jap Ships Are Sunk by  —s S ,-. .. 7

BEACHHEAD ON NEW BRITAIN IS WIDENED TODAY      Aussies On New Guinea Turn Japanese Retreat Into Near Rout

HEARING IS ADJOURNED   James C.-Petrillo Is Before a War Labor Board Panel

Petrillo Demanding Use Of Musicians   Says Stations Must Employ Staffs in 60 Days

Pronaganda Of Goebbels Hit   New Voices on Air, ‘Fillers’ Used in Broadcasts

Nerve Center Of Germany Hit Hard   Communications With Outside World Knocked Loose With Raid

ONLY 5 CONTESTS  IN €ITY PRIMARY   Six Candidates Seek Positions on Board of Education _#   IMAYOR IS UNOPPOSED

CONTESTS  IN CITY PRIMARY   Six Candidates Seek Posi tions on Board of Education  MAYOR IS UNOPPOSED

BRITAIN IS READY FOR BIG OFFENSIVES   Leaders Declare Empire’s Armies Are Prepared to Strike at Foe.

AXIS ISSUES MANY RUMORS   Radio Reports Churchill Is Meeting Franco.

Discount rumor of new talks   No weight given reports Churchill  meeting Franco

Churchill, Franco Meet Is Reported   Air of Expectancy Created by Flood Of Axis Rumors

U.S. Fortresses Battle 100 German Fighters Over Wilhelmshaven  And Lose 12 Bombers  AXIS ‘SLAUGHTERED’ IN MEDITERRANEAN  Bag of Axis Aircraft At 186 in Two Days Of AHied Bombings

Flying Fortresses Pound Emden, Wilhelmshaven In Two Separate Attacks   Terrific Air Battles with Focke-Wulfs Fought High in Clouds; Twelve American Bombers Fail To Rejurn; Double Assault Believed To Be Start of All-Out Offensive to Knock Out the Axis

Australians Use Cavalry Against Foe in New Guinea  P eee ese, ee a   Japs Counterattack On Bougainville; U. S. Battleships in Action

AUSTRALIANS IN CLASH WITH JAPS   Battleships Used in Bomb. ing of Nauru, Adm. Nimitz Reveals

Strategy Board Urged By Wilkie  ‘Asks Full Support Of    Four-Power Group

GEORGE MEGIN « D SUDDENL' “INWATERTOWR      Owner ‘of  West : (Concord Laundry, Was Active in : Town Affairs

Annual Spring — Meeting Will Be Monday Nigh   Rex Beresford and Nels Kraschel Will Be the Headline Speakers

Cattle Feeders To Hold Banquet At Plover H.S   Nels Kraschel, Former Govern: or, is On Program

MINERS TRICKLE INTO PITS FOR ~A-MONTH PEACE   Lewis Orders Union To Work Till Oct, 31 Under Ickes

Rebellion to Lewis order is predicted   Few companies forced to bank blast furnaces

WELLS 10 DIRECT LIBERATED AREAS   Indiana U. President Named - Deputy Director of OFEC

Two Children Spread Alarm Of Slayings   Doctor And Wife Are Brutally Slain At Home in Littlefield

FRENCH CHIEFS REACH ACCORD ON WAR POLICY   Generals DeGaulle and Giraud Meet In North Africa, But Fail to Decide Leadership   AGREE THAT AXIS MUST BE DEFEATED   Liberation of Nation By Union of Frenchmen Is “Aim, But Program Is Not Revealed

Giraud, DeGaulle May Meet Anew   Further Parleys and Exchanges of Views Expected to Follow Casablance Conference Leaders Agree on Military Points

French Leaders Report Results  Say “Exchange of Views Will Continue’

FRENCH CHIEFS IGCUSS VIEWS   Claim Substantial Resuits Obtained for France Ouring Conference.

FRANCE OBTAINED GOOD RESULTS FROM ALLIED MEETING   This Was Result of a Communique From the Giraud Headquarters.   MET GEN. DE GAULLE   Permitted Examination 0: Conditions Now Existing in France.

FRANCE GAINS BY PARLEY, IS GIRAUD SLANT   PERMITS REAL PLANNING FOR FRENCH WAR EFFORT

GIRAUD REPORTS ‘SUBSTANTIAL’ RESULTS   FINAL SETTLEMENT OF FRENCH RIFT MAY BE TEDIOUS

FrenchUnity May Result   Giraud Says Co Conference Will Enable Factions To Smooth Differences

GIRAUD SAYS PARLEY WILL HELP FRANCE   ‘Exchanges Of Views’ To Be Continued; Priority On Armaments Obtained

GIRAUD SAYS FRANCE WILL BE BENEFITED   Little Information is Given Out About Meeting of Leaders of Two Military Factions

FRENCH UNITS TO BE GIVEN MODERN ARMS   Agreement to Equip African Forces Comes Out of Meeting of Allied  _ Leaders, Including’ Giraud and de Gaulle.

DE GAULLE TAKES PART IN PARLEY   French Leaders Arrange for Exchange of Views on War Effort

“Substantial  Results,’ Says Gen. Giraud   _ Gain Seen for French Cause. by Africa Chieftain

Churchill Going To White House   Will Confer Again With Roosevelt

Axis Predicts Two Invasions   Expects Blows From Mediterranean and Great Britain

Poised fo Strike Any Time, Axis Radio Warns.   ‘Leaves Beginning to Fall’ in London; Italy Battered

Vast Invasion Armadas Reported Massing In Mediterranean and Britain for Stab at Continent

Two Invasion Armadas Massing, Axis Reports   Try To Discourage Plans

Allies Massing For 2 Invasion Thrusts, Enemy Radio Asserts   Armadas Ready in Mediterranean, at Britain, Foe Says

Axis Claims Allies Set  For Invasion   Series Of Radio Broadcasts Claim Armies Now Massec

Axis Broadeast Reports Allied  Invasion Ready   Reports Show Nazis Jittery — Flotilla Said Ready in Britain And Mediterranean

Claim Vast Forces Being Massed Both In’ Mediter ranean and in Britain .

TWO INVASION FLEETS MASS   ‘DNB Sees France as Objective. Claims Nazi Troops Move Wes! From Russian Front   SEE DUAL ASSAULT   Paris Redio Reports 2 Baitleships, 4 Aircraft Carriers, 20 Cruisers, 48 Destroyers Gether at Gibraltar

GERMANS FEAR TWO INVASIONS   Assert Allied Armadas Massing In Britain, Mediterranean

GERMANS SEE 2-WAY ATTACK ON CONTINENT   Nervous Broadcasts Reveal Uncertainty Inside Fortress

Axis Reports Allies Massing Yor Invasion   Radio Commentators Are ‘ Nervous Over Reports Of Preparations For Assault On Continent

Invasion Jitters   Axis Believes Allies Massing !nvasion Armadas on Two Fronts

Axis Reports Allied Forces. Are Massing   Nerveus Broadcasts Tell of Big Invasion Armadas in Two Sectors   SAY ATTACKS MAY COME ANY TIME   No Indication Whether New Reports Are Based Upon Facts or Fancy

Big Forces Gathering tn Mediterrancen and ‘Briteia for Dual Blow

Nazis Claim Allies Massing Invasion __ “Armadas in The Mediterranean, Britain

Foe Nervous Over Convoy At Gibraltar   Axis Radio Also Reports Armada To Cross Channel

ALLIES PLANNING TWO-WAY ATTACK, GERMANS REPORT   Axis Radio Commentators Declared Vast Invasion Armada Was Gathering.   MAY BE SPRUNG SOON

Nervous German Broadcasts Declare Allies Are Massing  Two Great Invasion Fleets   Gathering In Mediterranean And England For Two Directional Attack, Nazis Say

GERMANS ARE JITTERY OVER WHAT’S NEXT?   Broadcast Reports Of Allied Invasion Armada Massing For Attack; Toe Of Italy Saftened   Shift Troops

Germany Reports Allies Ready To Invade Continent   Berlin Declares Forces Prepared

NERVOUS AXIS. RADIO SHOU ATTACK FEARS   Commentaters Recount Allied Massing of Ships and Landing Craft.   PLANES STILL BUSY ON SOFTENING UP OF ITALY

Rail Travel, Electricity Curbs Mapped   Ickes Says Steps Necessary To Conserve Fuel Supply

Suspension Of All But Essential Rail Travel In Prosbect.   [rain Mileage Reduction And Nation Wide Electric Dim-Out Planned Durina Strike

Phosphorous Bombs Added to Rabaul’s  Weapons of Defense   Fail to Retard Relentless Allied Drive Against Big Base

Big American Guns Wreck German Attempt To Launch Counter-Attack In Italy

MASSED FIRE OF LONG TOMS WRECKS NAZIS   )   Heavy American Field Guns Foil German  Plans to Halt Allied Advance.

BIG YANK © GUNS BREAK UP ASSAULT.   Concern Shown By Germans Over Way Fighting Is Goina

Bl GUNS BEAT NAZIIN ATTEMPT TO ROUT YANKEES   Morocco Reports Montgom: ery Has Launched General Offensive With Germans Falling Back.   CHINESE MOVING UP IN IMPORTANT AREA   Americans Repulse Japs When Small Counteratiack Is Made on Bougainville, 100 Enemy Dead.

U.S. Artillery Shatters Nazi Counterdrive   Germans Unable Tc Attack Americans Qn Hills

Yanks Crush Nazi Drive in Italian Hills   Big Guns Shatter _ Enemy's Attempt to Save Road to Rome

EIGHTH ARMY ADVANCING IN ITALY   Americans Smash Counterattack Of Nazis

Hurricane Kills  18 At Mazatlan   Appeal Is Sent For Government Aid

B. DOBBERT, 66, DIES IN CALIF.   Former Resident.:Of . ‘This County Was Well’  Known Here:

: D bed) DIES IN CALIF.   Former Resident OF . This County Was Well’.  Known Here

Henry Dobbert  Dies At Pomona Born And Grew Up  In Stanton Township

ALLIES RAID DOZEN AREAS INPACIFIC —   Japanese Return Blows By Attack On Allied Field

Jap Bombers Hit Outpost In Australia  Allied Planes Blast Dozen Nip Bases

ALLIED PLANES. HIT JAP BASES   Party of Japs Ambushed Near Salamaua—Enemy Raids Australjan Airfield

Japanese Atfack Remofe Allied Field   Aerial Activity Noted in Pacific

Cuba To Provide Neutral Spirits For Our Whisky   Price Will Go Up 30 Cents a Quart, OPA Statement Indicates

JAMES CALLS ON ROSS. TO GIVE HIM EVIDENCE   Demands Facts On “Payroll Ivregularities”   WRITES TLETTER   Governor. Awaits Official Notifiea- — tion

ROSS CALLED FOR SHOWDOWN   Governor James Asks for Information He Claims to Have.

James Calls On Ross For Information   Governor Wants Facts Or Evidence of Payroll Irregularities   SALARIES ARE RELEASED

WOMAN SLAIN IN APARTMENT HOUSE   Body of Attractive Model Found in Burning Room -

Pacific Drive Making Progress   GEN. MacARTHUR LEADS OFFENSIVE IN TWO. AREAS

TWIN ATTACK BOTHERS JAPS   Gen. MacArthur In Charge Of Combined Army, Navy Offensive

MIGHTY THRUST IS MADE AT JAPS BY LAND, SEA AND AIR   Great Jaws Expected To Close On Japs At New Britain   M’ARTHUR HOLDS FULL COMMAND

Invasion Directed  By Gen. M’ Arthur   [win Prongs of Momentous Offense Thrust Against Japs in Pacific.

GENERAL DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUI _ INSUPREME COMMAND OF LAND, SEA. AIR OPERATIONS   Upper Prong at Rendova and New Georgia Islands in Central Solomons. Lower Prong Formed Out Unopposed Landings on Trobriand and Woodlark Islands Off New Guinea

Two-Pronged Offensive Under Way  MacArthur in   MacArthur in Command on Combined Operation

MacArthur Send: Offensive By Twin Prongs   Allies Make Thrust Against Japanese By Land, Sea and Air

Two Islands Off Papua Occupied In Unified Action   New Guinea Forces Mee! Opposition In Landing Ai Nassau Bay

Twin-Pronged Offensive Is  ‘Thrust Out   MacArthur Commanding - The Entire Operation With Halsey Assisting

Enemy Caught Napping   Second Allied Thrust Under American Chief Takes Isles Unopposed

GE DnWE AIMED AT FOE   Attack Is First Big Push Against Japs Since ‘ Last Yaar.   MAC ARTHUR JIS CHIEF

MacArthur Directs Twin Offensives Aimed At Clearing Southwest Pacific

Air, Sea, Land Forces Strike Sudden Blows   Gen. MacArthur, Admira! Halsey Lash Out At Enemy In Twin-Pronged Attacks Aimed At Smashing Foe: Nip Fleet Chellenoed

Twin Prongs Of Fork Thrust Against Japs In Allied Drive   MacArthur In Supreme Command; Land, Sea And Air Forees Coordinate In Creat Attack

MacArthur Commands New Offensive on 700Mile Arc  Bi i ke  RE ee it   Yank Bombers Pin Enemy to Ground as Forces Effect Landings

Two-Pronged Offensive Under Way   MacArthur in Command on Combined Operation

OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPANESE NOW UNDER WAY SOUTH PACIFIC  TWIN PRONGS. OF MOMEN.TOUS DRIVE THRUST BY LAND, SEA AND AIR

OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPANESE NOW UNDER WAY SOUTH PACIFIC  TWIN PRONGS OF MOMEN. - TOUS DRIVE THRUST BY

Smash Nets New Toehold:   MacArthur Directs Momentous Offensive By Land, Sea and Air

MacArthur in Command of Campaign   Perfectly Coordinated Sea, Air and Land Blows Against Japs   LANDINGS MADE ON NEW GUINEA   Fighting in Progress as U. S. Pushes Master Plan Drawn Un in April

Reds Outflank Dnieper Bend Rail Center From the South   OTHER FORCES ARE CLOSE TO ZNAMENKA   Germans Throwing in Big Forees of Infantry end Tanks

RUSSIAN IS RETREATING IN THE NORTH   Germans Have Thrown Record Number Of Tanks Into Battle Around Kiev   DNIEPER RAIL LINE IS CUT BY SOVIETS

RUSSIANS ARE FORCED BACK IN KIEV LOOP   RAILROADS CUT BY REDS IN ADVANCE ON ZNAMENKA

Big Rail Line Cut By Soviet   Nazis Advance Steadily In Mighty Kiey Bulge Assault.

Reds Outflank Dnieper Bend Railway Center   Russians Fall Back In Kiev Bulge for Second Day in Row

Dnieper Rail Line Cut By Reds   German Tank Unit Still Drive Soviets Back Near Kiev

Reds Fall Back For Second Day In Kiev Sector   But Russians Cut German Rail Line

RUSSIAN COLUMNS OUTELANK DNIEPER BEND RAIL POINT   Big Line From Znamenka to Nikolaev Cut by Soviets in  18-Mile Advance in One sDay.   REDS FORCED TO FALL BACK IN KIEV BULGE   Moscow Admits Second Retreat in Two Days Before Nazi Drive Using Almost 2.000 Tanks:

Nazis Throw 2,000 Tanks Into Big Counter-Attack And Menace Chernyakhov

REDS CUT RAIL LINE, CLOSE IN ON ZNAMENKA   Gains Scored In Dnieper Section While Army Is Set Back In Kiev Bulge

REDS GAIN IN -DNIEPER BEND   Threaten Strategic Junction, But are Forced Back in Kiev Bulge

Russians Cut Rail Line to Nikolaev   Soviets Fall Back Before Germans in the Kiev Bulce

Pictures Show Damage To Messina   Area 2 Miles Long Seems Single Blaze

Smoke Hides Raid Ruins At Messina   2-Mile-Long Area Ablaze as Bombs Blast Both Sides of Strait ‘

Tree Saves New Mexico Town Damage by Stopping Runaway Freight Truck

REPORT MARSHALL TO REMAIN . AS U.S, ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF   ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL SAYS GENERAL WILL NOT TAKE ACTIVE INVASIGN COSEMIAND

DRUNK DRIVER ASSESSED $50   Herman Goshia Pleads Guilty to Offense With Auto in Second Street

DRUNK DRIVER . ~ ASSESSED $50   Norman A. Zellers, Napoleon, Found Guilty in Court” of Galliers

MOTORIST FINED AFTER COLLISION   C. M. Winterhalder Arrestec on Charge of Woman Driver

Chase Indictment InN. M. Dismisset   Judge Rules For Attorney General

Chase Case Dismissed  By U.S.   Cat Pradace Evidenee Sufficient 10 ‘Sustain Conviction’

OPA Setup Is Changed ;By Bowles   Business Men Playing Greater Role In Policies

- American troops hammer German mountain defense in attempted breakthru

40-Mile Gap is Slowly Closing   Patton’s Infantry, Tanks Hammer Nazi Forces East of El Guettar

WEATHER CHECKS BATTLE ON AT!   Allied Bombers Operating Ir Pacific Theater, Ship ls Destroyed.

ENEMY CORALLED; SLEET, SNOW, RAIN HAMPERS PROGRESS   Espiritu Santo Bombed -= Japs May Have Lost 7 More Planes In Last Raid

Americans Fight Jans And Cold On Island   12 Of 16 Nip Planes That Made Attack Believed Smashed

[American Troops Continue Advance  On Attu Island   Weather Conditions Hamper Operations Against Japanese

Two Men Die,  Homes Burned  In Race Riot Attack On White Mother Sets Of Flare

“Impossible” Done By. Sania Fe Last Year   "Handles 35 Per Cent More Freight With 4 Pct. More Equipment

U. S. Chief Is Hurt On Tunisian Scene of Fighting  McNair Injured, Lear Will Succeed, War  Department States

GEN. MCNAIR IS HURT IN AFRICA   One Of Army’s Highest Leaders Wounded On Tunisian Front;  Lear Called

Lt. Gen. MeNair Is Casualty  In North Africa      U. S. Ground Commander ‘Seriously Wounded,’ Army Hour Discloeses

TOP AMERICAN COMMANDERIS BADLY WOUNDED   Lt. Gen. McNair Hurt On Tunisian Front Last Fridav PRenart Statec

Velikie Luki Claimed by  Russians   News ‘Blackout’ Confronts German ‘People as Radio Opens This Morning

DENY CAPTURE OF VELIKIE LUKI BY RED ARMIES   Russians Report Nazis in Harried Retreat on  1,000 Mile Front

DENY SOVIETS TARE VITAL RAIL CENTER   Nazis Say Fighting Goes On At Velikie Luki   ENEMY GARRISON   Wiped Out When Defenders Refuse To Surrender, Russians Announce

MUCH MATERIAL LEFT BEHIND BY FLEEING NAZIS   German Propagandists Are Silenced by Red Surge Into Caucasus Area   NEWS FROM AFRICA GOOD   Rommel’s Force on the Run With British Close Behind: New Guinea Fight Rages

Reds Claim. Velikie Luki And Elista   Germans Deny Surrender of Velike Luki but Admit Loss of Elista; Claim Allied Losses in Naval Battle .

GERMAN FORCES “AT VELIKE LUKI ~ AREANNIHILATED   Berlin Admits Evacuation of Elista; Nazis Claim Allied Vessels Darsaged in Arc tir Sea Clach.

Berlin Witholds Russian News   ‘“‘No News Available’? Germans Told in Morning Broadcast —Nazis Deny Velikie Luki Has Fallen—Later Broodceosts Admit Loss of Elista

Claim Sinkings In Naval Fight Off Bear Isle   Germans Deny Loss of Velikie Luki But Russians Insist Entire Hitler Garrison Slain on Refusal to Surrender.

Invader Routed From Caucasus City Of Elista   Fall of Nazi Stronghold Velikie Luki Alleged by Reds. Denied by Foa

Germans Admit Withdrawal from Kalmyck Capital but at Last Reports Friday Denied Northern Citade} Lost   REPORT ARCTIC CONVOY ATTACK   ‘German Radio Seeks to Bolster Home  _ Morale by Telling of Purported  Allied Losses in Sea Battle

Acknowledge _ Reds’ Sweep ‘Into Elista   But Germans Say the Caucasus: City Was Burned, Then Evacuated   NEWS BLACKOUT  ~—s- FOR THE GERMANS      No Reports to ‘People for "Several Hours'as War   Picture Blackens

Deny Velikie Luki Taken By Russians; Claim Victory At Sea   Report Motorized Axis Units Are Forced Back In North Africa:     ~ Enemy’s Tunisian Supplies Hit

‘Nazi Command Denies Loss of Key Stronghold   Say Velikie-Luki Is Still Holding Out Against Red Army  ELISTA EVACUATED  Russians Say Loss Laid : Open Enemy Shipping System  :

Reds Declare Hitler’s Invasion Armies Are In Harried Retreat Along 1,000-Mile Front.

Transport Center Was Taken After Lona, Bitter Siege   British Say Rommel ls Again Retreating In North Africa

Nazis hetuse To Admit Loss Of Stronghold   Of Stronghold  German Defense Lines In Central And Eastern Areas Endangered By

CLAIMS. OF RUSSIAN CAPTURE STRONGHOLD VELIKIE LUKT DENIED  PEM ADMV DEDADT CTAT..   RED ARMY REPORT STAT: ED ALL DEFENSES OF POINT WIPED OUT

“No News Available’ Germans Told in Morniitg Broadcast—Nazis Deny Velikie Luki Has Fallen—Later Broadcasts Admit Loss of Elista

Soviets Claim Steady Gains   Declares Invasion Armies Retreating  On 1,000-mile Front.

Germans Deny Velikie Luki Falls To Reds   But Admit Loss Of Elista After Destrovine Citv   Claim Damage To Convoy In Arctic Sea Battle   Axis Forces Flee Ahead Of British In North Africa

High Command Concedes Evacuation Of Elista, Denies Velikie Luki Lost

Illinois Senate is + for Constitutional .  Ban on Third Term   s Initiated Move to Ask Other States to Act for Amendment

VICTOR ADVOCATE  Tavene’ Caeand fildact NMawennanear _. Fetahliehoed 1846

SAYS SICILIAN BATTLE TOUGH   United Press Head Is Back From Fighting Front

Victory Ahead, President Says   We've Turned Corner in War. He Writes

URGE “DIM-OUT ON NATIONAL SCALE   OCS Advocates Move to Save Fuel and Transpor fattan

MODIFIED NATIONAL “DIM OUT” PLANNEE   Plan Is Advocated in Or. der to Save Fuel and Transportation Over United States.

‘NEARLY SOLVED   U. S. War Production Has Only Few Kinks Left, Truman Says.

Germans Claim Allied Commandos Try To Land on Island Off French Coast

JAP CRUISER AND DESTROYER HIT BY AMERICANS   Series of Raids Carried Out on Japanese Bases In Southwest Pacific

JAP CRUISER HIT BY 3 BOMBS FROM AMERICAN BOMBER   Also Score Near-Hits:on 7,000: Ton Cargo. Vessel in Rabaul Harbor—Other Areas Sub. jected to Raids

JAP WARSHIP IS HIT AT RABAUL   Flying Fortresses Drop Three 500-Pounders On Enemy Cruiser Or Destroyer; Waterfront Roambed.

Bolivia Cabinet Declares War On Axis Nations   Formal Approval O} Congress Expected; Wallace Pleased

BOLIVIA JOINS WAR ON AXIS   Latin Nation Is 33rd to Join on Side of Allies

BOLIVIA JOINS ALLIES IN WAR      33rd Nation to Declare War Against Axis

BOLIVIA VOTES TO WAR ON AXIS   Becomes 33rd Nation to Join the Allies

ONE PASSES ARMY AIR CORPS TEST   Only Three Took Examination Held at V. F. W. Hall by Examining Board.

GENERAL URGES DIRECT BLOWS AGAINST JAPAN   Policy Of Hopping From Island To Island Is Condemned   WILL CARRY OUT ORDERS   ' Sharply Worded Statement Replies To Report Of Curtailed Command

McARTHUR PREPARED TO‘AGCEPT ~ SECONDARY ROLE IN FAR EAST   HERO OF WAR IN PACIFIC DE: CLARES HIS ONLY DESIRE — 18 VICTORY OVER ENEMY

HINT OUSTER OF MAC ARTHUR   Expects To Be Shelvyed Soon  Condemns Policy of ‘sland Hopping

Gen. MacArthur  ~ Gives Statement   Replies To Press Statements Implying He Is To Play Subordinate Role   AGAINST ISLAND HOPPING PROGRAM

MAG ARTHUR TO LOSE COMMAND   ones to Be Shelved, But Will Fight On  ;

GEN. MARTHUR EXPECTS 10 BE DEMOTED   Issues Sharply-Worded Reply to Recent Rumors

Berlin, Rest of Europe Hit in Raids   RAF Mosquitos and American Bombers Scatter Destruction on ‘Fortress’

Berlin Attacked By Light Planes   Night Raids Follow Heavy Blows at Four of Ger. many s Air Bases.

RAF Mosquito Bombers Sting Berlin In Raid   London Attacked Big Formations  Roar To Europe

BERLIN RAIDED BY RAF FOURTH TIME IN WEEK   Seven Rail Trains in France Strafed by Single Plane

BOMB CREW HITS BERLIN IN GOTH RAID   Enemy Installations Hii As Air War Pace Kept Up

Berlin Targets Raided by RAF  50 Enemy Aircraft Were Reported Shot Dewn hv Allies

ALLIED OFFENSIVE. I) CARRIED AGAIN 10 NAZIS’ CAPITAL   Raid On Berlin Constitutes Third Attack On Reich Capital Within A Week and Comes Only Few Hours After Allied Smash At Kiel and Flensburg.

FAST BOMBERS STAB BERLIN   FIGHTERS RAP CONTINENT AIRFIELDS, RAIL LINES

Berlin Bombed Again by RAF   All Planes Return Safely From Foray

NAZI CAPITAL BOMBED AGAIN   Unescorted American Fortress Shower Kiel With incendiaries.   ITALY AGAIN ATTACKED

AMERICANS RAID KIEL NAVY BASE   Formation Of Allied Planes Return To Europe Today

Speedy RAF Bombers Hit Berlin Third Time In Weel   Swarms Of Allied Planes Cross Channel Again Today Iu Other Attacks

RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAID REICH CAPITAL   95 Planes Bagged By American Craft In European Blow

RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAID WAZI CAPITAL   Planes Make Third Attack on Berlin in Week: U.S. Blasts Shin Yards.

Block Busters With Showers of Incendiaries Leave Trail of Destruction In Smashing Air Offensive   BOMBER LOSSES SMALL

RAF Hit: Berlin, Airtields   Wide Range of Targets Blasted in Continuous Attacks

Berlin Again Is Attacked  BRaet RAK Macanitoe   Fast RAF Mosquitoes Visit Nazi Capital

Mosquito Bombers Hit Berlin   Big Formations Cross Channel This Afternoon

Speedy RAF Planes Bomb Reich Capital   British Blast  Continent Sites

RAF PLANES. HIT BERLIN TARGETS   important Air Bases In France And Holland Smashed By Fortresses

Berlin Again ls Target For Night Bombers   Continental Airfields, Railways Also Attacked By Allied Airmen.

BERLIN TARGETS AGAIN ATTACKED BY THE BRITISH   Mosquite Bombers Made Raid While Fighters Struck at Airfields,   RAILWAYS ARE ALSO HIT   Four Important Bases in Hol. land and France Were Raided.

Air Offensive Rolls In High Against Nazis   RAF Hits Berlin Again After Americans Raid Kiel Flensburg; More Planes Over Todav

R.A. F.  Smashes at Berlin   REICH CAPITAL SHUDDERS IN 3RD ATTACK IN WEEK; YANKS ROCK SHIPYARDS

RAF Pounds Berlin Third Timein Week   Night Raid Foilows U. S.  Attack on Flensburg and Kiel

British Again Attack Berlin   R. A. F. Bombs Targets In German Capital for Third Time in Week

British Again Blast Berlin   Fighters Hit Targets On The Continent

Berlin raided for fourth time in week; attacks on axis railroad lines heavy   Airfields and barges also targets; nazis strike back feebly at London

MOSQUITO BOMBERS MAKE FOURTH RAID ON BERLIN IN WEEK   Two Big‘ Formations Roar Across Channel Again This Afternoon To Continue Attack

4 Important Enemy Bases Are Bombed   50 Enemy Aircraft Also Shot Down in Raids on Holisnd and France   MOSQUITO BOMBERS HIT BERLIN AGAIN   Other Aircraft Keep the Wide Allied Air Assault Going Strong

RAF Bombers Take Con: tinuing . Allied: Offensive To Berlin Shortly After ° American. Fortresses Set Fire To. Nazi  _ Submarine -And - Shipbuilding Yards:

Berlin Again Blasted For Third Attack   Carry Continuing Air Offensive To Reich Capital

BERLIN ATTACKED AGAIN BY MOSQUITO BOMBERS LAST NIGHT  AIRFIELDS AND RAILWA\ TARGETS ON CONTINENT ALSO RELASTED .-

SUB STATIONS ARE BLASTED BY AMERICANS   Floods From Bombed Dam: Rolling Ahead   NAZI PLANES   Driven To Sea From Coast Of Britain: Allies Lose: Only Six Bombers

NAZI CAPITAL IS BOMBED LIGHTLY: OTHER AREAS HIT   Southern European Flank. Is Heavily Attacked—EnemyPlane Loss Hioh.

RAF Bombers Stage Another Berlin Raid   Allied Air Offensive Rolls In High Gear; Fortresses in Assault

RAR HOSQUITOS STRIKE REICH CAPITAL CITY   All Planes Return From Far-Ranging Attack, But Details Are Withheld  _ by London   LARGE FORMATIONS IN AIR AGAIN TODAY   Enemy Air Bases at Poix, Amiens-Glisy and Crecy En Penthieu Raided During Night

[Raid On Berlin Follows Blows By Fortresses On 4 German Air Bases

NEA AIR ATTACKS UN EUROPE CONTINUE   Airfields, Railway Targets Under Bombardment

LONDON (UP) — American Flying Fortresses smashed in. force at Nazi Europe Monday.

Fourth Attack On German Capital Within Week Carried Out By Royal Air Force Mosquito Bombers—Kiel And Flensburg Submarine And Shipbuilding Plants Blasted By U. S. Flying Fortresses—Large Formations Of Aircraft Extend Offensive By Daylight

Berlin Hit For ‘Fourth Time In Period of Week   Mosquito Bombers Deliver Another Blow At German Capital

Swift Mosquito Raid On Berlin   AIRFIELDS & _& RAILWAYS TARGET FOR RAF ATTACK

Berlin Is Again Hit By Bombers   Continuing Offensive Is Carried. Across Channel By Heavy Forces

RAF Bombers Strike Berlin   Fighter Planes Attack Airfields, Railway Targets On Continent.

50 NAZI PLANES DOWNED; ALLIES BOMB CONTINEN]   Berlin Blasted By Mosquitos; Forts Bombard Airfields

Third Raid on Reich Capital Within Week   Speedy Mosquito Planes Carry On Air Offensive

LIGHT BRITISH BOMBERS REHIT BERLIN TARGETS   Vital Nazi Airfields Hit iv Holland, France; Down 50 Enemy Planes

\F Bombers Take Conmuing Allied Offen-. ive To Berlin Shortly After American Fortresses Set Fire To Nazi Submarine And Shipbuilding Yards.

FAST MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT AGAIN ATTACK BERLIN   50 German Planes Are Shot Down in Air Fights Over Eurone

YANK AIRGRAFT ATTACK U-BOAT YARDS AT KIEL   All Bombers Get Back From Raid On Nazi Capital

3 ast British Planes Again Raid Berlin   Fortresses and Others Strike at Airfields and  Railways on Continent

SUB BASES AND cH YAR AC HIT   American Flying Fortresses Blast Kiel And Flensbure    BARGES SHOT UP   Newift Attack On Nazi ' Capital Is Made By Mosquito Bombers

Third Attack On Capital In Week   Comes Shortly After Yanks Blast Sub And Ship Yards

Allies Blast Important Bases In France, Holland _ Shooting Down 50 Enemy Planes; Rail Targets  In Belgium Also Hammered

Berlin, Kiel Blasted by RAF, Forts   British Stage Cascade Raid on Reich's Capital Following American Exneditions   FRANCE IS RAIDED   Flensburg Another Target of Fort ress Squadrons, Revealed as Ex panding Steadily

NAZI CAPITAL HIT 3RD TIME WITHIN WEEK   Raid Follows Series Of Smashes At Other Targets On Mainland

BERLIN IS RAIDED BY BRITISH FLIERS   Targets in France and the Low Countries Also At. tacked by Airmen

Mosquitos make raid upon Berlin   Flying Forts blast U-boat and shipyards

AIRFIELDS, RAILROADS ALSO HIT   -Night Raids Follow Daylight Attacks On Coast Targets

MOSQUITOS HIT WAR PLANTS IN REICH CAPITAL   Meanwhile, Fighters Strike’ at Airfields and Railway Targets on Continent   50 ENEMY PLANES  ARE SHOT FROM SKY   Strong German Air Sectors in Holland Targets of American Flying Fortresses

RAF BOMBERS AGAIN RAID NAZI CAPITAL   Blow by Swift Mosquitoes Coupled With Attacks by Fighter Planes on Airfields and Railways on the Continent.

Fortresses Stage Raids Upon Docks   Both RAF And American Fliers Are Kept Busy.

BERLIN TARGETS BLASTED BY RAF   Mosquito Bombers Hammer At Objectives, Following Up Heavy Yank Raids

ALLIED BOMBERS BATTER BERLIN, ITALIAN ISLANDS   American Fliers Meet Strong Axis Resistance in Their Raids on Sardinia, Sicily

BRITISH PLANES ATTACK BERLIN   Mosquito Bombers Carry Out Raid—U. S. Fortresses Hit U-Boat Base

Berlin Targets Raided by RAF   $0 Enemy Aircraft  Were Reported Shot Piswn ty. Altes

Berlin: RaidedFor Fourth Time tr Past Week   Northern France And Belgium Also ‘Are Attacked _

Allied Bombs Hit Berlin, Occupied French Areas   Fourth Air Attack On Reich's Capital Fourth Time in Week

Swift Bombers Stab Berlin; London Braces For Attack   Raid Sicily And Sardinia

BERLIN AGAIN HIT BY RAI   POWERFUL: BRITISH FORCE  ‘BOMBED GERMAN CAPITAL—  s DAYLIGHT. RAIDS STARTED \” BARLY TODAY

Mosquifoes Keep Up Raids On Berlin   Fighter Planes Hit Railroads, Airfields in Europe

BIG CITY ATTACKED BY R.AF.   Speedy Mosquito Bombers Drop Loads on Blasted City — Hit Other. Taraets.

n Aerial Offensive Continu  Rerlin = “Bombed For Third Time In A Week

ALLIES ALSO BLAST TARGETS Ss NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGI RESUME RAIDS AGAIN TODAY.

Errol Flynn Takes Stand to Deny Girl's Charges   Says He Was Not With Peggy Satterlee Alone In Yacht Stateroom

FILM STAR DENIES HE ATTACKED GIRL   Errol Flynn Takes: Stand ‘in His Own De fonce

BREAK IT UP   Mi. P.'s, Shore Patrol Disperse Angry rvice Men. 1

Shells, Bombs Hit Japanese Island Base   One of Marshall Islands Also Target for American Raid

CARRIER PLANES JOIN IN ASSAULT; DETAILS AWAITED   Territory Is Second Enemy Position to Undergo Heavy Bombardment in Last Few Days.   BASE FACILITIES AT JALUIT RAIDED   Navy Announces Liberator Sunk Patrol Boat end Probably Destroyed Three Other Vessels.

BLOW STRUCK “AT FOE WEST OF GIBERTS   One Jap Ship is Sunk, Two Probably Destroyed in Raid

Navy Announces New Attacks on Jap Positions   Patrol Boat Sunk, Three Ships Hit

Four Vessels Believed Sunk by Plane   Details of Naval Assault Are Still Unavailable

Island Lies 3020 Miles From Gilberts   Wareo in New Guinea Taken by Australians In Continuing Drive  JAPS LOSE CHANGTEH

CARRIER TAK FORGES ATTACK   Isle Slated for Same Drubbing Given Marshalls   WAREO CAPTURED   Important New Guinea Hub For Jap Supply Lines Falls to Australians

Eyewitness Tells  Of Rome Bombing  ‘Only Targets Hit’ Bombs Struck No  Closer Than Four Miles of Vatican

Witness Tells Of Rome Raid   Hit Grounded Planes With Deadly Aim

Only Military Objectives Suffered in Rome Bombing, Witness in Plane Asserts

Eyewitness, Flying With Two Men Who Bombed Tokyo, Tells of First Raid on Military Targets in Rome; Explosives Fall With Accuracy

Italian Fighters Fiddlec While Rome Burned Monday AP Correspondent Declare:   Not Single Enemy Plane Challenged Raiders And Defenders’ Anti-Aircraft Fire Indicated Lack Of Practice; Only Military Targets Were Hit

Wife Hears Mate Lives   Reassured By Navy Department, Woman Continues Job

NEW HARDSHIPS SEEN LOOMING FOR AMERICANS   Food Rationing To Be In creased With Meat Point Values Being Upped   AUTO TRAVEL RESTRICTED   Shortages Feared In Manpower And Fuel; Draft ‘Hits Every Household

CANNED NED MILK. ~ JS RATIONED   RED: COUPON PER. POUND NOW REQUIRED--HIKE IN MEAT " BOINTS PREDICTED *

ANG DEFTAT WILL DEMAND OAGRIFICES   Average American Family Is Facing Addiotinal Hardships.    THIS IS NECESSARY   More Rationing, Hike in  Point Values and Short ages Are Seen.

Nr LAL I te NR en  STRIKE HALTS FREIGHT LINES   Tons of Freight Pile Up In Warehouses On Fifth Day of Strike; Sign of Break In Memphis.

Freight Piles Up In Motor Strike   For Fifth Day Truckers and Helpers Refuse to Work in Mid-South.

MOTOR FREIGHT 16 TIED UP WN SOUTH   WLB Refusal to Grant Pay Hikes Cited as Reason for Strike of Drivers

a ae  By Announcing ‘Detaching Movements in Urimea—  Berlin Admits Failure To Halt Russians

Berlin Admits Nazi Retreat _ From Crimea, Dnieper Lines   Whole 2,000-Mile Front Appears To Be Collapsing Under Russian Attacks, War Expert Simpson Points Out

Fair Managers Expected to Oppose Any Move to Cancel 1943 Expositions

Bomber Raids Hit Jap Ships   Sonth Sea Theater Has DAOOD Me Fliaehic

Americans Achieve Disastrous Raid on Jap Base  Fliers Go 2,400 Miles "To Fire Docks, Oil   Depots at Makassar

U1 5, BOMBERS BLAST DOCKS AT MACASSAR   Huge Fires Started at Japanese Base in Dutch Celebes ©

Americans Hit Makassar in  Dutch Celebes   Docks, Fuel and Oil Depots Fired: Base At Bougainville Next Allied Objective

Makassar Is Hit hy Allied Bombs  Fuel, Oil Depots, Docks Shattered

DUTCH CELEBES BASE POUNDED ON LONG TRIP   American Bombers Hop 4,200 Miles To Hit Makassar; Enemy  Ship Damaged

Liberator Bombers Fly 2,400 Miles To Raid Japs in the Dutch Celebes

Raid Made On Dutch Celebes  — Base By Liberator Bombers   2,400 Mile Round Trip Made by Fliers to Bomb Makassar-—Twenty- five Tons of Explosives Rained on City

Liberator Bombers In 2,400-Mile Trip  Blast Docks And Depot: At Makassar

JAPANESE BASE HEAVILY BOMBED   ALLIES UNLOAD 25 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ON MAKASSAR, DUTCH CELEBES.

Makassar Is Hit by Allied Bombs  moor fF!   Fuel. Oil Depots, Docks Shattered

Allied Planes Blast Makassar   Docks, Fuel and Oil Depots Set Ablaze

Liberators Hit Dutch Celebes   Huge Fires Started At Bia Enemy Base

GAIN IS MADE IN MOUNTAINS BY 5TH ARM)   Heavy Barrage Blocks Enemy Roads Back Of Battle Area

Yanks Lunge Toward Blazing Naples   Two Main Towns in Southern Corsica Fall to Allied Forces

Germans Try To Escape  From Corsiea   Allied Torpedo Boats ©  Attack Enemy Shipping Off Coast of Albania  EIGHTH MOPPING UP

GERMANS TRY 10 ESCAPE CORSICA   Rangers, Patriots Herd Foe Into Northeast Corner   EIGHTH MOPS UP   Air Force Blasts Targets Be. hind Enemy Lines On Italian Mainland

‘fon-gomery anc O.ar< Concer; 2, ~. Xoacs Sin< $19s ax */a_ona Ran ine 3 a can /uneradLicv

Artillery and Bombers Annihilate Nazi Mountain Positions; Allies Sink German Ships in Adriatic

Nazis Trying Desperately to Escape Corsica   Allied Torpedo Boats Raid Enemy Shipping Off Albania: Fifth  Army’s Progress Slow

Germans Fail  To Check Allies Gains   Full Offensive Continues, More Cities Fall Despite Severe Resistance; Battle of Corsica Is Near Conclusion

American Fifth Army Closing in on Naples   Air and Artillery Fire Is Terrific

Gen. Clark Confers With British Chiet  New Battle Plan Mappec With Montgomery

Foe Being Herded Tn Corsica Corner Clark’s Men Meet Heavy Guns, Mineficlds

PLUNGE FORWARD BEHIND ARTILLERY AND AIR BARRAGE   Advance Is Slow and Fighting Severe—Targets Behind German Lines Blasted.   BROAD FLANKING MOVE IS INDICATED   Pressure on Foe Enables Eighth Army to Mop Up —French Take 2 Main Towns in Corsica.

Nazis Trying Desperately to Escape Island of Corsica  BOLD RAID STAGED IN ALBANIA WATERS  Motor Torpedo Boats Sink Loaded Ammunition Ship

Axis Desperately Seek to Escape From Corsica   Vulnerability of Balkans Shown by Torpedo Boats

AIR BARRAGES AND BIG GUNS BATTER NAZIS   ENEMY IS HERDED INTO CORNER IN CORSICA

NAZIS TRYING DESPERATELY TO ESCAPE FROM CORSICA; ALLIED TORPEDO BOATS RAID SHIPPING OFF ALBANIA.

Positions of Nazis Outside City Reduced   Principal Towns of Corsica Captured by Allied Invaders

NAZIS STRIVE TO FLEE FROM CORSICA TRAP   Violent Rarrage Smashes Enemy Positions In Italy; Balkans Bay Raided

2 Killed in  Blast At Navy Supply Depot   Five Others Hurt As Tank Explodes Near Williamsburg

Navy Recruifers — At Post Office   Also Interested In Sceding Boys of 17 and Men Over 38 Years Old

Navy R Recruiters Ab Post Olfiee      Also Interested In. Seeding Boys of 17 and Men Over, 33. Years Old :

Reds Roll On  To Krivoi Rog   Nazis Throw In More Reinforcements to Prevent Pin In

GERMANS THROW IN  ADDITIONAL FORGES  STEM SOVIET ADVANCI RETREATING NAZIS HAVE  ONLY SINGLE RAIL LINE NE ECCAPE 7

Russians Drive 50 Miles From Fallen Melitopol   Other Forces Storm Krivoi Rog and Jar Whole Nazi Defense

Nazis Lose Power City On Dnieper   Russians Reach Krivoi Rog Outskirts; Push On Past Melitopol To Cut Off Crimea.

Desperate ne To - Hlalt Reds   Nazis Throwing. in - More a “Troops, Planes, Tanks “and: Artillery   ‘SEVERAL KEY POINTS EXPECTED TO FALL   Grew ‘Climax Is. Indicated Says German Broadcast, - Heavy: Red Attacks

WITHIN SIX MILES OF KRIVOI ROG   Mighty Red Steamroller Engulfs 50 Villages, Kills 2,000 Germans: Take . Losovatka

NAZI POSITION IN RIVER BEND IS UNTENABLE   Soviets Near Krivol Rog; Several Important Cities Already Outflanked

Nazis Hurl MoreTroor  Into Battle   Fight Back Fiercely In Effort to Check Onslaught of Russians

GERMANS BATTLE DESPERATELY T0 STEM OFFENSIVE   RUSSIAN ARMY ROLLS ON TO WITHIN SIX MILES OF KRIVOL ROG

Nazi Collapse Predicted As Red Gains Grow   Another Spike Driven Into ‘Crimea Coffin; Huge Booty Captured

RUSSIAN ARMY CLOSING TRAP ON KRIVO! ROG   Soviet Army Pushing TwePreaged Attack From 4% Melitopol

GERMANS THROW ALL THEY HAVE AGAINST REDS   Narrow Gap Is Only Way Out For Germans: Russians Within Six Miles Of lron And Rail Center Of Krivoi Rog.

Germans Give Up Hydroelectric City On Great Bend   Nazis Battling to Check Encircling Move of Russians

Move Threatened to Sack the Germans Up in the River Bend as the Red Army Advances.   RUSSIANS WITHIN 6 MILES OF KRIVOI ROG   Only Way Out for the Germans Is a 50-Mile Wide Gap From That City to the Dnieper River.

GAINS IMPERIL THOUSANDS. OF NAZI SOLDIERS   Germans Desperately Try to Stem Mighty Tide of Soviet Forces

Drive Ahead in Dnieper Bend   Near Krivoi Ro After Melitopo Taken by Soviets.

Krivoi Rog But 6 Miles Ahead Of Red Force   Russians Attempting To Seal Off Crimea, Trap Nazi Garrison; Heavy Fighting Rages

ARE WITHIN SIX MILES OF KRIVOI ROE   Fifty-Mile Gap From That City, Southeast ~(ward the River, Is Only Way Out for Nazis Imnerjled in the Bend.

GERMANS THROW IN ADDITIONAL FORCES OTEM SOVIET ADVANG  RETREATING NAZIS HAVI ARTY CIAIFITr DA tre   RETREATING NAZIS HAVE ONLY SINGLE RAIL LINE OF ESCAPE

Lists Deferred Government Men Monthly Renorts   Monthly Reports to Be Submitted

RUSSIAN TANK BATTLE RAGES   NAZIS SEEK END OF COMMUNICATION GRIP

ALLIED TROOPS IN ITALY PUSH SLOWLY AHEAD   Plod through deep mud to capture Perano in north sector

BRITISH EIGHTH SEIZES PERANO   Strategic Town Captured in Stiff Fight; Fifth Improves Position

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   8th Army Plods Ahead A gainst Stiff Opposition

Eighth Army In Five Mile Advance Qn Italian Front   Capture Perano And Push Ahead Against Stiff German Opposition   BAD WEATHER STILL HAMPERS ATTACK

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.   TInigieted Today.

TKTLUED, 9 HURT INST. LOUIS FIRE   Warehouse Wall Collapses On Fire Chief As He Warns Firemen.

CHIEF KILLE FIGHTING FIRE AT ST. LOUIS   Death Caused by Collapse of Five-Story Building —Nine Members of His Department Are Hurt, None Seriously.

ST. LOUIS FIRE CHIEF KILLED DURING BLAZI   Caught Under Falling Walls of Five-Story Downtown Warehouse,  Burned to Shell   EIGHT FIREMEN HURT   Four, Standing on Roof Drop With it to Basement; Chief Dies Warn + ing Men of Danger

Wickard Asked  Where He Will Get Payments   Senate Committee Seeks Source of Incentive Pay ments

Huge Bond Drive Starts April 12   Quota for Douglas County Has Been Fixed at   County-Wide Committee to Be Organized to’ Conduct Campaign ~

Huge Bond Drive Starts April 12   Quota for Douglas County Has Been Fixed at  y   AN. INTENSIVE: DRIVE   County-Wide Committee to Be Organized to‘ Conduct Campaign ~ .

COURT HEARING INTO SHOOTING OF YOUTH   Testimony Will Be Taken Into Case Of President's Grandson And Death Of Playmate

ANALYSIS   Igolation Of Axis Forces  Wn Sicily First Object Of Allied Advance

lhe War lfoday  First Stage Of History’s Greatest Amphibious Attack Seems Success

The War Today  The Allied Boot Is At Last Jammed Into Door Of Continent.

WHILE LITTLE GIVEN OUT IT IS INDICATED ALLIES HAVE WON FIRST ROUND IN SICILY

The War Today   Sicilian Invasion Greatest ‘ Amphibious Attack in History

Start Great Amphibian Attack Is Successful  Allies May Cut Communications

OHIO'S DRAFT QUOTA SLASHED   War Department Orders 14.2 Percent Cut for Month e of April

14 PCT. CUT Th PRAFT CALL i TATE ORDEREL   War Department Direct: slash Without Revealing reason; 77 Boards To  _ Send None In Period

OHIO GETS CUT IN APRIL DRAFT   77 Boards To Cancel Inductions Late [In Month To Meet 14.2 Pet. Slash

OHIO DRAFT QUOTA IS REDUCED; 38-45 MEN FACE WORK OR FIGHT   Selective Service Order Effective for Current Induction Period: Older Registrants To Get Essential Jobs

DARWINRAID — SHOWED POWER OF THE JAPS  Enemy Can Deliver Long Distance Aerial Blows

‘Darwin Raid. Was ‘Feeler’ Experts Say   ‘Demonstrated Japs Can Deliver Long-Range ‘Aerial Punches

Raid Reveals Jap Air Might   Derwin Atteck Shows Ability to Deliver Long-Distance Blow

JAP LONG-DISTANCE AIR STRIKING POWER INDICATED BY RAID   Darwin Attack Viewed As Prelude To Blow At Australia

JAP RAID. SUNDAY SHOWS: ABIEHY: TO DEAL HEAVY BLOWS   Bombing Of Darwin Gives Rise To Belief Enemy . Might Attempt Air Drive In Force

Jap Threat Seen In Air Offensive   ABILITY .T O .ADMINISTER LONG-DISTANCE LICK DEMONSTRATED.

Rommel Now Has  Sea at His Back   200,000 Axis Troops Clamped In Tight Pocket Climax Near

Sousse Is Occupied By British   Battle for Tunis and Bi zerte Next on Schedule for Allied Armies

Dash Through Past Kairouan Sousse Moving   CAPS WEEK OF BRILLIANT AERIAL SUCCESSES BY BRITS AND U-S.

ALLIES DRIVE AXIS ARMY INTO SMALL AREA OF TUNISIA   Kairouan, Moslem Holy City, Also Captured as Rommel’s Forces Flee to Mountain District.

Sousse is Captured By Allies   Last Axis-Held Port On East Tunisian Coast Is Taken

Kairovan. Holy City. Falls To Allies; Preliminary Phase Of Battle Of Tonisia Ends; Axs Trcops Clamped In Pocket  RUSSIANS SEIZE  eereEe: “Ererrereesrs

Lord Mountbatten Lost His Shirt to Japs in Tokyo on Visit There ©

KELLY TO TALK TO LEGISLATUAE   Michigan’s 62nd Legislature Convenes at Noon: GOP Is Strong.

State Group Convenes at Noon Today, to Receive Governor’s Instruction Tonight

HITLER SAID T0 BE EXPANDING “ELITE” ARM}   Move a Precaution Against Collapse of German Army.

HITLER EXPANDS ELITE SS ARMY   Fuehrer Reported Taking Steps to Avoid Meeting Museslini’sa Fate.

WKS CONSOLMATE   HITLER BEGINS BIG EXPANSION OF ‘HIS PRIVATE SS ARMY. LONDON HEARS

ADOLF TO EXPAND PRIVATE SS ARMY   Precaution Against Sudden Collapse Of Nazi  Forces

Draft of Fathers Authorized Oct. 1   Few States Could Pass That Date

FATHERS SUBJECT TO DRAFT CALL AFTER OCTOBER 1   Since Ban Is Lifted Only Few States Can Get Through October -Without. Some Draft - ing of Pre-Pearl Harbor  on

MNUTT LIFTS BAN ON DRAFT ~ FOR FATHERS   Few States Can Avoid Taking Dads After , “Oct. 1   300,000 MAY GO   Report Seraping Bottom Of Manpower Rarre]

States Scraping Bottom of Manpower Barrel; Most Regions See Father-Draft by October

STATE QUOTAS EXHAUSTED, TURN TO DADS   Every Effort Will Be Made To Spare Fathers However

Only Handful Of States ‘Can Avoid Drafting Of Fathers After Oct. Ist

Only Handful Of States Can Avoid Dratting Fathers After Oct. 1, Unofficial Survey Show

Draft Dads In October   Ban Lifted to Enable States to Meet Quotas; About 300,000 This Year

FATHER DRAFT IS AUTHORIZED   Most States To Take Men — With Children During October

FATHER DRARE:  SEEN GLOSE IN MANY STATES      Survey Shows Number of States Scraping Bottom of Manpower Barrel

October Will Find Fathers Being Drafted   Few States To Be Able To Go Past October On Single Men

Ban, Against” Drafting O - Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers: “Lifted. By Selective: Sevic.

DRAFT 10 GALL FATHERS OCT, 1 SURVEY SHOWS   Restrictions On Famliy Men Are Lifted By Gov’t

Fathers Will Be Called Up in October   Lifting of Ban Will Affect Practically Every County in Missouri   NEARING BOTTOM OF SUPPLY NOW   But Boards Will Delay Call Except Where Absolutely Reauired:to Meet Quota

Father Drafting Expected to Begin Next October   Local Boards to Take Only Those Necessary To Fill Quotas

Ban Lifted On Drafting Of Fathers; Action Soon   Induction By October Is Expected In Most States; McNutt Issues Warning

Begin Father Induction In  October Call   Some Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Will Be Drafted To Meet Nebraska Quota.   ESTIMATE 300,000

OCTOBER GALLS TOGET FATHERS   Only Handful Of States Can Meet Quota Without Fathers -

Fathers Must Go To Army Oct. 1   Several Midwest States Scrape Bottom of Manpower Barrel.

GAN [LIFTED DRAFT OF DAD I) COME SOON   First Calls Are Scheduled For October In Several States, Survey Shows

FATHERS WILL BE CALLED DIRECTLY AFTER OCTOBER    ANOTHER SELECTIVE SER “VICE RULING PUTS FAMLY TIES IN‘DANGER —

FEW STATES IN SHAPE TO PASS DRAFTING DADS   Most Of Them Must Call Fathers to Fill Oct.  Quotas 7   MICHIGAN LISTS 18,000   [McNutt Limits Number To  Be Called To ‘Abso  lute Requirements’

DRAFT BY FALL      Fathers Will Have to Go Into Uniform to Meet Octoher Quota.

But Handful of States Can Avoid Drafting of Fathers After Oct. 1,. Survey Shows

FATHERS FACING INDUCTION SOON   FAMILY MEN TO BE DRAFTED BY OCTOBER, SERVICE BOARDS SAY

Only Small Number Of States. Seen Getting Through October Without Drafting Of Fathers

Draft of Fathers      Reclassification of Michigan .Pre-Pearl.Har‘por Fathers and: Others: in :4-F Group Expected by September

GREEK STRAIT LEFT BLOCKED   Levkas Shut Off To Axis Shipping By Vessel Overturned In Bombing

RAF, U.S. Keep Hitting From African Bases   Axis Shipping Suffers New Attacks; American Fliers Send Four German Planes Down During Fight

RAF, U.S. Keer Hitting From African Bases  Axi § Shippin sae s New Attacks; American Fliers Sen id Four

ALLIES FIGHT ON ONE FRONT NEAR SALERNO   Critical Period for Gen. Clark's Forces Believed Ended

Nazi Wedge Eliminated Near Salerno; Enemy Retreating Toward Naples

House Debates Extension of Trade Program   Senate Hears Plea Aganst Creation of Independent Civilian Supply Agency; Efforts to Settle Coal Situation Continue

Measure to Extend Reciprocal Trade  . Pacts Is Debated   House Discussion of Proposal Center of Capital Attention

HOUSE OCCUPIED WITH DEBATE OVER TRADE. AGREEMENTS   SENATE HEARS PLEA  AGAINST CREATION AN/ OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY

HOUSE OCCUPIED WITH DEBATE OVER TRADE AGREEMENTS  SENATE HEARS PLEA AGAINST CREATION AN.

“Food for All” Basis for the U.S. Ts _ - Demand of Nation's Farm. Leaders

 “Food for All” Basis for the U.S.Is  Demand of Nation's Farm Leaders 

ALLIED AIRMEN POUND AT JAP SHIPPING   7,000-Ton Vessel Probably Destroyed, Another Heavily Damaged

BILL CALLS FOR MUSTERING- OUT PAY UP T0 $300   Unemployment Provisior Included In 7 Billion  Dollar Program

Mustering Out Bill Aids Jobs, Asks 7 Billions   15-Month Period Is Set For Compensation In Wark OQeect

MUSTERING-OUT PAY IS PLANNED   Demobilized Service Men And Women Promised Financial Aid

‘Tuscering 2 u- ay, « cler Sene- 1S Jor Ze-urning So.ciers Sous r

Veterans Aid Bills Offered   7 Billion Dollar  Program Submitted

Mustering Uut Pay of $300 Is Proposed To Congress  Seven Billion Dollar Financial Aid Plan

CONGRESS GIVEN SERVICE DRAFTS   Program Would Aid Demobil ized Personnel Financialive 4 Senarate Bills

Atherton Assumes Duties as Ist Delegate to Serve Foreign Power in Canada

JAPS TRACK AUSSIES WITH BLOODHOUNDS   Guerrilla Warfare On Island  Of Timor Lasts Over Year; Australians Aver Japanese  Didn’t Play Fair.   Spoke In Whispers

Claim Japs Use Bloodhounds   Australians Reveal Clashes on Timor

TAKE INTEREST IN NEW TAX PROGRAM   Military Officials Do Not Want It To Hinder War Effort

IMILITARY AUTHORITIES  (WANT TAX LEVIES HELD DOWN   Low Tax Levies Create More Incentive To Produce

Senate-Passes:On.. Bill To Buy Bonds With State Surplus   Measure! ‘Concerned With Investment In State or Federal Seeurities. :

AMERICAN PILOTS IN CHINA TAKE EVER-INCREASING TOLL JAP SHIPS   Australian Prime Minister Warns That Japan Is Rich In Materials and Men.

NEGOTIATIONS STALL   New Ceal Price Ceilings Stall Miners’ Negotiations

New Coal Price  Ceilings Assailed   Increases Fail to Satisfy Operators

BID TO UPSET ALLIES’ OWN OFFENSIVE PLANS IN TUNISIA LAUNCHED BY AXIS FORCES   New Assault Is Made with ‘Terrific Strength,’ Front Reports Say

21 German Tanks Are Knocked Out   .Nazi Commander Tries Desperate Gamble in Tunisia

Germans Lose 21 Armored Units In First Clash   Americans Straighten Out Tunisia Line In Capture Of Pichon

BIG BATTLE IN PROGRESS IN TUNISIA   Rommel Making Bid To Upset British , Eighth Army

THE USUAL FORAYS OVER CONTINENT ° TUESDAY NIGHT   Intruder Planes Were Active While the British Heavy Bombers Took a Rest. 2   Low Level Attack Over Le Havre, France Was Successful. Lp

RAF. BOMBERS. REST AFTER HEAVY RAIDS   Review of July Bombing Shows One-Third of Tonnage Dumped on Hamburg

Intruder Planes of RAF. However, Carry Out Usu:. al Forays Over Continent Tuesday Night.

HEAVY BRITISH BOMBERS REST   Intruder Planes Make Forays Over Continent, But Big Boys Take Night Off.

RAF Planes Carrying Out Usual Forays   Heavy Bombers Take Rest  After Continuous Action  For Two Weeks; Axis Ships Set Afire

BOMBERS STAY HOME AS NAZIS ARE HARASSED   Big Planes Take Night Off; Airfields Oat Riactinga

RAF’s Heavies Take Night Off  Typhoons, Whirlwinds  Keep Enemy Busy

RAF BOMBERS REST AFTER 2 BIG WEEKS   aa al  Smaller Planes, However, Attack Axis Convoy

Teachers Ready For Ration Task   REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY   Issuance of Ration Book 2 Will be Made in Six School Buildings

Insurance and Disability Payments To Service Men Detailed; to Cost More as Married Men Taken

DRAFT OF MARRIED MEN TO COST MILLIONS IN BENEFITS   Questions Regarding Payments to Families of Men in the Armed Services Set Forth—Many Fathers Face Early Induction

Army of Fathers Will Cost Government Millions In Payments to Dependents, Disability Benefits

COMPROMISE TAX PLAN INTRODUCED   Embodies Principals of Both Ruml Skip-A-Year Plan And That Advanced By Ways And Means  Cammittee

Compromise Tax Proposals   Includes Features of Both Ruml Plan and  House Committee Program

TREASURY COULD REDEEM ALL WAR BONDS, BELL SAYS   if Peace Came Now, He Asserts, Half Could Be Paid From Funds Kest by Borrowing.

Problem of Meeting Heavy Demands — for Bond Redemptions Considered

CHANGE SETBACK FELT IN ASSEMBLY   WPB Frowns on Ohio — Going In Central  Time Zone

Florida Vegetables Killed by Cold  3,800 Carloads Said Ritined by Chill

BISHOP WALDORF IS ILL   His Condition Is Reported to Be “Very Crith&a al”

BISHOP WALDORF IS ILL   His Condition Tk Rey eS tate sported to Be { rit fe 2

Manufacturing City Hard Hit In Great Raid   Many Fires Set in Second Major Assault in Two Nights  Berlin and ‘Nazi Airfields  SIGS shale etn Be a ef

RAF Bombers Attack Milan As Mosquitos Bomb Berlin   Two Vital Sections of Italian City Hit: American Marauders Blast Nazi Air Fields In France; E-boat Is Sunk in Channel,

Cities of North Italy Evacuated as Milan Battered by Bombers   The World at War Today’

Allied Bombs Again Punish Milan, Hit Arms Works  Angry Crowds Call For Peace in Battered Town

Allied Bombs Again Punish Milan, Hit Arms Works  Angry Crowds Call For Peace in

Another Heavy Bomber Attack Shatters Milan   Fires Visible in) Swiss City 35 Miles Aways Breda Pounded

Heavy Attacks } Made Sat_ urday and Sunday Nights THIRD ASSAULT ON CITY IN FOUR DAYS  Nazi Capital Is Assaulted by Mosquito Planes

MOLLY PITCHER TAG: DAY S AUGUST TH   American Legion Auxiliary Of Jewell Will Have Part In A Nationwide Campaign To Sell War Stamps.

OBSERVE TAG DAY SATURDAY, AUG. 7   “Molly Pitcher” Day for Selling War Bonds and Stansps Will  Be Held in Ruthven. !

MOLLY PITCHER TAG DAY AUG. 7   Legion Auxiliary S po nsors War Stamp Sale

Plan Molly ag Day August 7   As part of the war bond and stamp sale throughout nation.

Japs Pour  Aid Into Marshalls   ALLIES POUND AT _ LAST RESISTANCE ON APPROACHES TO RABAUL

News From The Homeroy Churches   IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Pp EF. Ross. Pastor.

BRAKE RELEASED ON LEGISLATURE   Governor Says Lawmakers Have His Permission To Act On Time Change

ASSEMBLY RECEIVES ‘FREE HAND’ ON TIME   Bricker Releases Brake He Has Held On Legislature

TIME GHANGE UP TO LEGISLATURE   Bricker Says Assembly ' Can Take Any Action It Desires. -

Expect Exchange Ships To Arrive af Portuguese India October 15 and 16

Japanese Exchange Ship At Mormugao   Gripsholm Expected To Reach Port Saturday

Strategy of Past Week ~ Unfolding   Japs Caught Flat Footed In Daring Landing By MacArthur’s Men

YANKS LAND ON        Move Aimed at Crushing Jap Power in Solomons

Allies Invade Bougainville, Surprise Japs   Invasion Exposes Rabaul to Attack  . And Promises to Open Road to Philippines

Allies Strike At Japs’ Last Solomons Base   Invasion Of Bougainville  To Lay Rabaul Open To Frontal Attack.   Fnemy Completely Fooled.

BOUGAINVILLE NEW INVASION SITE OF ALLIES   Jap Air And Sea Forces Refuse To Challenge Landings Of American Troops

Japanese Suffer Crushing Blow  Adm. Halsey's Marine: Land on Boucainville

INVASION TO CRUSH JAPAN IN SOLOMONS   Troops of Admiral Halsey Using Landing Barges, Occupy Garrison of Bougainville   AIRFIELDS ARE BOMBED

Drive fo Open Sea Lanes To the Philippines Opens With Solomon Attack

YANKS INVADE BOUGAINVILLE: CAPTURE BAY   Action To Crush Japs In Solomons Begun By Halsey

Drive Aim: To Clear  Solomons   Jap Navy Defied as Ynvaders Land for Bougainville Attack

BOUGAINVILLE IS INVADED BY AMERICANS   Japs Taken By Surprise; Capture Empress Augusta ge Opposition Reported  ight

Climactic Battle For Solomons On At Bougainville   Strong Yank Invasion Army Drives Upon Japs

American Forces Invade Island Of Bougainville   Master Stroke To Crush Japan In Solomons Takes Nips By Complete Surprise and Exposes Rabaul To Frontal Attack.

Powerful Marine Force Invading Bougainville   Navy Bombards Shoreline And Challenges Japanese Fleet To Come Out and Fight

Allied Forces Land Far Up Bougainville   Master Stroke Puts Powerful Force in 260 Miles Of Key Rabaul Base

‘Troops Capture ‘Empress Augusta Bay Monday At Dawn With Scant Opposi tan

Exposes Rabaul To Frontal Attack, Clears Sea Lanes    Opening Of Final Drive For Philippines Seen As Yanks Land, Surprise Japs

U.S. INVASION FORCES LAND AT JAP BASE   Port On Bougainville Is land Is Taken In Surprise Attack

Bougainville invaded By Yank Forces   Master Stroke To Crush Japs In Solomons Developing

Crucial Battle For Solomons  Is Under Way   Bougainville, Great Jap Base, Invaded By Allied Forces.

South Pacific Drive Started   MASTER STROKE TO KILL JAPS LAUNCHED BY ALLIES

Bougainville Push Puts Allies Close To Big Rabaul Base   Japs Baffled by Surprise Move of Powerful Task Force

Master Stroke To Crush Japan Now Developing   Powerful American Invasion Forces Are Landed  on Bouganville.   U. S. Cruisers Slash At Airtield at Buka

Allies Develop Master Stroke To Crush Japan   Powerful U.S. Forces Open Bougainville Invasion; Would Expose Rabaul

Allies Get Set For Knockout Blow At Japs   _ Powerful American Forces Invade Strategic Bougainville Island Under Naval and Aerial Bombardment Cover;  : Nips Fooled and Yanks Meet Slight Opposition

ALLIES BEGIN MAJOR BATTLE FOR SOLOMONS   Mates Stroke to Crush  Japs Developed With Invasion of Bougainville By American Forces

’owerful U. S. Invasion Forces Strike  Master Stroke To Crush Japs In All Solomons Developing In Pacific

Jap Navy Defied In - New Push    Marines Are Landed on Bou‘gainville Under: Naval cand Air Cover...   SURPRISE BLOW: CAPTURES BAY,   Enemy. Cruisers’. Flee’ at Show. of Fight; New Drive-. + Being Developed

AMERICAN FORCES IN STROKE TO CRUSH JAPS IN SOLOMONS   Will Ultimately Burst Open  the Sea Lanes to the : Philippines.   INVASION FORCES LAND   Leaped From Barges 45 Miles Up West Coast of the the Enemy Base.

Powerful American Invasion Forces Land On Bougainville Island In New Stroke To Chase Japs From Solomons

Gen. WArthur Defies Enemy  ~ Navy To Shov   Capture Empress Augusta Bay In Attack Which Fool ed Japanese,   JAP VESSELS RETREAT

Troops Under Halsey Make Dawn Landing Under Cover of Naval Guns and Air Power   BYPASS JAP FORCE   Jap Cruisers Coming from North Flee as Allies Race to Intercept, Jap Planes Turn Back

Enemy Caught By Surprise In Newest Move   Little Opposition Met After Airfields Of Nips Knocked Out; ‘Master Stroke’ To Expose Rabaul To U. S. Planes

Smash Nearer Rabaul   Invasion of Bougainville Direct Threat To Main Jap Base In South Pacific

BY-PASS JAPS, LAND 45 MILES UP WEST COAST   Gen. MacArthur Wants Crack at Nipponese Fleet

Master Stroke To Crush Jans Has Started   Powerful American Forces Invade Bougainville

Marines Land  On oun In Sudden Push  jmault Believed ig Sea Lanes Tok Philippines

AMERICAN INVASION OF BOUGAINVILLE 1S NEW BLOW AT ENEMY  SEABORNE TROOPS LANE ON IMPORTANT ISLAND

Soviets Repel Nazi Efforts Retake Height   Germans Lose Heavily In Fierce Fighting

German Hill Is Captured By Russians   Soviet Forces Remain In Possession After Nazi Counter Attacks

Reds Capture Height at Velikie Luki   Hold Vital Position Against 23 Nazi Counterattack:

RUSS CAPTURE VITAL HEIGHT NEAR SMOLENSK   23 Counter-Attacks Beaten Off Over Six Days

RATION BLANKS PUT INTO MAILS   Applications For Book 3 To Be Returned After June 1

HE MIGHT BE TOO INTERESTED   Tombstone Salesman Barred From Murder Jur.

LABOR: BILLS FACING TEST. ~~ IN CONGRESS   “WORK OR FIGHT". LEGISLATION AND COMPULSOLY LABOR DRAFT PROPOSAL ARF IN SPOTLIGHT

WORK OR FIGHT BILL GETS TEST   House Weighs Legislation Aimed At Putting End To Absenteeism

Third War Loan Drive Launched With Ringing Of Church Bells   Washington County’s Goal Is $2, 500,000; City Of Hagerstown Gives Campaign Spurt With $100,060 Bond Purchase.

BOND CAMPAIGN TO BE STARTED TODAY   Third War Loon Drive to be Launched This ' Morning

SAILOR IS WOUNDED BY FORMER OFFICER   Man Shot As He Attempted to Force His Way Into House Seeking Girl.

American Troops Land At Two Points Near Jap’s Munda Air Base   U. §. Warships Hurl Hundreds of Shells Into Enemy Positions on Kiska, Hinting New Offensive in Aleutian Islands

ENEMY SHIP LOSS IN FRAY SET AT9      Reds Announce Crushii Crushing Nazi Losses ___InGerman Offensive; Jap Raid     ~—~—On Rendova Costiv

TWO PLANES COLLIDE: FIVE ARE KNOWN DEAD   Bodies Found in Wreckage of One of Ships—Four Parachute to Safety.

PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK SOON ON FOOD SUBSIDIES   Contends His Program Is Best ‘Method to Control Inflation.

French Join Forces South Of Mareth Line   Bombers Beat On Jap Shipping

French Seal Trap Around Axis Troops   Allies Capture More Than Thousand Germans and Italians, Destroy Over 100 Tanks; Reds Almost Complete Encirclement of Vyazma

ROMMEL'S ARMY IS HEMMED IN AT MARETH LINE   Fighting French Forces Drive Through Successfully on Flanking Movement   RUSSIANS HOLD KHARKOV   Fierce Fighting However, Is Raging — Reds Advance In Smolensk Area

Circle Vyazma As Nazis Put Up Stiff Fight   Germans Hurling Heavy Forces Into Come-Back Front Near Kharkov With Battle Reported Still In Indecisive Stage.

Furious Battle Rages For Khar kov; at Edges Of City, Berlin Says   Soviet Forces Under Timoshenko Advance to Within 80 Miles of Smolensk! Germans Battle Deaperalely tc Retain Hold on ¥yazma; Nazis Hang’ Italians

Seal Trap on 250,000 Men   Attack On North Allied Lines Is Beaten Back.

Red Forces Advance In Central Russia, Nazis Near Kharkov   Allied Troops Hurl Axis Attacks Back in Northen Sector with Heavy Losses Near Sedjenane

FRENCH UNITS SEAL TRAP IN NORTH AFRICA   Russians Report Gains On North,  Central Fronts

French Soldiers  Help the Allies   ‘Stimson Reports 250,000 of Rommel’s Troops Are in a Trap  t   "TAKE AXIS PRISONERS   Russians Report Stiffening _ German Resistance Is  Broken

French Forces Surround Nazis   TWO ARMIFS UNITED TO FNCIRCLE. GEN. ROMMEL

Stimson Reveals Revelopmenis in  North Africa Seen as Sealing  Rommel’s Doom   VILLAGES TAKEN   Stimson Reports 59 Americans Killed, 176 Wounded, 2,007 Missneg

British Prepare  For Vital Blow At Axis Forces   Big Guns Rain Havoc Upon Mareth Defenses

‘Germans Fight ‘to “Hold  Vyazma, Now Almost Encircled, fll   DESPERATE BATTLE ON KHARKOV FRONT,   Patrols Active on Tuni-. sian Fronts, Weather Delays Operations.        BULLETIN

FRENG JOIN HANDS 10 COMPLETE RING   _e Clerc’s Fighting Frenchmen Close Ring By Contacting Giraud’s Forces; Axis Attacks Repulsed In Tunisia  With Heavy Losses.

Flanking Movement Around Marefh Line Threatens To Seal Fate Of Axis Legions

FRENCH TROOPS MAKE CONTACTS IN FLANK MOVI   U.S. Casualties More Than 2,000 Between Feb, 14th-20th, in Tunisia Action

FRENCH FORCE CLOSES RING ON ROMMEL   Stimson Reveals Losses On Both Sides High   GREAT BATTLE   Is Shaping Up In Tunisiag Nazis Have No Choice But Fight To Finish

Flank Movement Effected South © Of Mareth Line   Fighting French Contact Giraud’s Men; Stimson Reports Tunisian Losses Heavy

Flank Move — Gets Fox In ~Mareth Line   Stimson Reports Allied Forces Have Better of Week’s Ficht

FRENCH SEAL LAST LINK IN ALLIED CHAIN   Soviet Troops Come Within 80 Miles Of Smolensk

F rench Troops Joined To Hit  Rommel’s Line   Bolsheviks Move Against Smolensk While Hitler Hordes Threaten Kharkov

Russian Noose Around Vyazma Tightens; Battle For Kharkov Still Is  lecdarwswe

Russians Gain Ground Along Northern Line   Stimson Says Allies ‘Had Much The Better Of The  Fighting’ In Africa.   BATTLE AT KHARKOV

ALLIES HAD MUCH THE BETTER OF FIGHTING IN AFRICAN THEATRE LAST WEEK   Secretary of War Stimson Declared in Statement Today. Free French F orces Close Gap in Drive OF 1.200 Miles From Lake Chad Region

250,000 Axis Troops Trapped In Tunisia; Reds Circle Vyazma   Flanking Movement To South Of -—Mareth-Line Effected By French; Nazis Fight On Edge Of Kharkov

Fighting French Have Closed. Vise on Axis Forces in Tunisia, War  Goerataryu Declares.

Fighting French Complete Circle Around Rommel   Russians Regain Part Of Losses, Take 44 Towns In New Offensive

250,000 Axis Troops Are Surrounded   ——  Losses Heavy in Tunisia, Stimson Reports; Reds Circle Vyazma, Near Smolensk

SPEAKER DANIEL OF  TEXAS HOUSE NOW  MEMBER OF ARMY STEVENSON CONFERS  WITH EDUCATION BOARD ON SPECIAL SESSION

Few Mines Shut Down Over Fines  BeingAsked   Protest Spreading With Likelihood Of New Strike

Fifth Strike In Protest Of Fines   MORE MINES SHUTDOWN AS REACTION TO ICKE’S RULE

Out in Fine Protest      Walkout Limited To A Few Southern Coal Mines: Majority Work

COAL WALKOUT THREAT GROWS      Three Alabama Mines Shut Down In Protest To Ickes’ Fine

SaUIDOWND IN COAL FIELDS START TODAY   Bituminous Miners Walking Out In Pro poy   OPPOSE FINES   Movement Begins In Alabama; 3 Mines ‘C)aeca

New Coal Strike Spreads To Two States In Protest Of Fines For June Walkout   Strike Movement Starts In Alabama When 3 Mines Shut Down; However, Vast Majority Of Coal Miners Remain On Jobs

MINERS BEGIN FINE PROTEST WITHWALKOUTS   One. Smalt Sector of Bi tuminous Field Shut   Down; Others Vote  to Follow   GET OLIVE BRANCH   Ickes Says Penalties Can be Appealed to Operators; Latter May Rescind His Order

MINE WALKOUTS SPREAD; PITS IN 2 AREAS CLOSED   Strikes Called In Protest To Gov’t Fines

INFLICTS HEAVY LOSSES ON AXIS; U.S, UNITS GAIN   Germans Trying to Keep Anderson’s Forces Off Plains Leading to Tunis

NAZIS SEEK TO HOLD DEFENSES OF TUNIS PLAIN   First Army's Forward Lines Maintained In Thrust Aimed At Axis Base   PLANES GET TWO SHIPS   American Troops Make Gains In Salient Pointed At Mateur And Bizerte

German Resistance Holds Allies On All  Fronts In Furious Struggle For Tunisia

ADVANCES MADE BY U.S. TROQES   Medjez-El-Babh Area I Still Scene Of Heavies: Fighting   AIRCRAFT ACTIVE   Two More Enemy Ships Are Reported Sunk In Mediterranean

John Fehler, Pioneer Business Man Dies On 5th; Ill Several Months

Mother Appeais for Prompt Return Of Kidnaped Three-Year-Old Girl

Mother Pleads With Kidnaper   Officers Hunt Young Woman as Suspect

PROBE OF AIRCRAFT CORPORATION BEING CARRIED ON MONDAY   Justice Department Proceeds With Investigation of Curtiss-Wright  Carnarntian —

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO  PROBE CHARGES AGAINST ICURTISS-WRIGHT FIRM

SOVIETS SCORE NEW GAINS (IN ALL FRONTS   Cheered by Stalin's Order Hailing Liberation of Stalino

SHELLS, BOMBS BLAST FLEEING AXIS GARRISON   Capture of Pr ized Ttalian City Said Near

Retreating Foe Badly Battered   Bairoko Evacuated LRA Horan, Glen:

Hundreds Killed As P-T Boats Hit At Craft Helping With Evacuation

NIPS RUN AWAY, » BUT THEY CAN'T ESCAPE LOSSES   @yYank Troops Count Hundreds Of Dead Japs After Taking Bairoko

Hundreds Die As Yanks Sink Their Barges   Bairoko Victory  Seals Doom of 10,000 Japs at Vila, American Spokesman Declares

APS QUIT ON NEW GEORGIA: DEIN FLIGHT   Second Wholesale Retreat Is Costly; Hundreds Cut Down in Boats.   NAVY MAN SEES CHANGE IN JAP BATTLE ATTITUDE

May Indicate Change in Jap Attitude From Old Stay-and-Die Determination; 10,000 Japs at Vila Cut Off, to Starve or Give Up

Death OF Boris Presents Problem  In The Balkans   dans Evacuate New Georgia With Heavy Losses

Nipponese Scurry For Safety Under U. S. Fire  Allies Chase Japs Away From Vital Pacific Zone

ARTILLERY FIRING ON VILA BASE   Bairoko Harbor Taken Without Fight As Japs Pull Out

JAP TROOPS QUIT FOR SECOND TIME   Enemy Abandons Bairoko On New Georgia

JAP SOLDIERS BEAT RETREAT SECOND TIME   HUNDREDS KILLED IN DEPARTURE FROM BAIROKO

ABANDON “ANANKO HARROR   Second Time Foe Has Quit Fighting, Run Away   CHANGE TACTICS   fevacuation Costs Japs Hundreds of Soldiers; P-T Boats Sink Barges

Retreating Foe Badly Battered   Bairoko Evacuated ‘Lnder Heavy Fire.

P-T Boats Blast Heavily-Loaded Jap Troop Barges   Nipponese Again Flout Tradition; Flee From Enemy

Japanese Quit Bairoko Port, Refuse Battle   Strategy Shift, ar Foes Cannot Take What  a ee .  . ae

ALLIES TAKE BAIROKO; JAPS QUIT AND RUN   Many Nipponese Killed In Latest Running Attempt

Japanese Quit At Bairoko On  Georgia Island   Unlike Kiska Sneak. Evacuation Costs Hundreds Of Enemy Soldiers.   CHANGE IN ATTITUDE

HUNT ON IN DETROIT FOR KNIFE KILLER   Bride of Army Officer  Found Slain at Home

Japan Doomed, Chiang States   [talian Fleet) Serrender Heatlod he OUbieftain

WITHHOLD NUMBER KILLED IN NAZI RAID   Bomb, Machine-Gun Some 20 Towns

Mito, IA BARNES ILL LONG TIME   Resident of Arcadia All Her Life; Died at Noblesville Hospital.

‘JAP BASES HIT.  BY U.S, PLANES   New, Heavier Losses tor Nip Forces Seen This Summer

GILOLAT LoLAND hota Ut JAPa BIVENPOUNDING   American “Fliers Ranging All Over Pacific To Hit At Enemy Centers

BOMBERS POUND JAPANESE BASES   t. S&S. Planes Altack Enemy-licld Islands And Asiatic Cities

‘Reverse’ Draft to Place Yanks in  Jobs After War   Patterson Says Army Ha: Responsibility for Men in Service

To Find Jobs For Soldiers  After War   Undersecretary of War Says Selective Service Will Be Reversed By War Depart man?

ARMY TO GET JOBS FOR FIGHTING MEN   Undersecretary of War Sees Post-war Responsibility

‘REVERSE DRAFT TO LOCATE JOBS   WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL OUTLINES POST-WAR PLAN

SCIOTO SOLDIER AMONG MISSING   Sgt. Osmeyer Of Lucasville Sector Fought In Africa

War s breatest Naval Conflict Believed Near  Widespread Attacks  On Both Sides, Nav:  Spokesman Explains ‘SPARRING’  U. S. Land Forces rT mm Se

Fleets Sparring for Position in the Southwest Pacific  SERIES OF FIGHTS REPORTED SO FAR  Losses on Both Sides Reported in Navy Communique =:

FLEETS MANEUVER OFF SOLOMONS FOR BATTLE POSITIONS   Units in Isolated Clashes, but There Has Been No Struggle on Large Scale.    TOKYO SAYS FIGHTING  BEGAN ON JANUARY 29   Large Forces Apparently Are in Area and Struggle May Be Greatest of the * War.

SAY WARSHIPS ARE SPARRING FOR POSITION   Big Naval Engagement Believed Likely in  Solomons Area

Main Battle Yet to Start, Knox Reports   ‘Fighting Thus Far Called Series of Engagements Between Units, Not Joined Contest

Air and Land Batfles Are Renorled   Few Defails Given: Navy Say Units Only Into Fighting

Forces Sparring For Advantages   Air And Surface Engagements Continue In Area Around Guadalcanal; Enemy Doing Utmost To Retake Airbase Island

War’s Biggest Naval Battle May Be Near   But Naval Spokesman Says Pacific Fighting Only by Units So Far  SILENCE POLICY HOLNDs

Japs, Yanks  Sparring In Pacific   War’s Biggest Naval Struggle May Be Imminent; Action Thus Far Only Series of Unit Engagements

BIGGEST SEA STRUGGLE OF WAR ON WAY   JAPANESE TRY TO REGAIN HOLD ON GUADALCANAL

Air, Surface Engagements Are Renorted   Fighting So Far Described as ‘Feeler’ Aitacks

News Censorship  May Be Relaxed   President Hears  Protest by OWI

CENSORS 10 GIVE. MORE REALISTIC ~ PICTURE OF WAR   OW! Conference. In White  House Results In More Liberal Policy.

AMERICANS WILL BE GIVEN VIVID PICTURE OF WAR   Shift In OWI Policy Has Been Approved By President Roosevelt

SOVIETS MAKE NEW GAINS ON GERMANS IN SMOLENSK’ AREA   Moscow Urges Troops T Carry On Softéning Up Operations On Enemy

Red Offensive — Hailed As Major   Reconnaissance Thrusts  Made Near Smolenske

GUERRILLA CHIEF SOUEHT BY NAZIS   Post Reward ¢ of 100,000 Marks for ‘Tito? Who Eludes German Net

Onen Revolt Flares Out of Holland   Ex-Soldiers Rebel Against Internment

Dutch Ex-Soldiers Urged To Defy German Registration   Unprecedented Broadcast From Officials In London Stirs Dutch Unrest

ACTIVE UNREST IS REPORTED SPREADING INTO BELGIUM ALSO  REPORTS SAY CONQUERED   REPORTS SAY CONQUERED PEOPLES RISING IN SERIES ATTACKS ON NAZIS

HOLLAND URGED TO DEFY NAZIS   German Government Enforces Registrations With Executions

DUTCH URGED TO DEFY NAZI LABOR ORDERS   Ex-Servicemen Advised To Defend Selves Against Attempts At Arrest   EXECUTION LISTS GROW   Unrest Spreads In Conquered Countries After Axis Rout In Africa

Nazi T roops Are Attacked By Populace   Military Establishments and Communications Also Targets as Deadline Airives for Reinternment of Soldiers

Unrest Stirs All of Europe  Some Violence   Dutch Urged to Resist Any Attempts of Captors to Reintern Soldiers

‘After Ettects of Allied Atrican Victory Shake ‘All of Hitler’s Europe

British Order All Craft From Channel   ‘Dutch Told To Defy German Orders To Register; Unrest Spreads In Nazilane

1,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Duisburg; 34 Planes Lost   Mussolini Admits Last Resistance Ends In Africa; Invasion ‘Go Ahead’ Seen -

Dutch Urged To Defy Nazis   Ex-Service Men Warned Germans Intend to Make Them Slaves

DUTCH LEADERS TELL SOLDIERS TO DEFY NAZIS   Broadcast Made To Holland By British Station

MORE NAZI TROOPS ARE ~ RUSHED IN   Railways: Being “Attacked: at Many Points in'Europe. as Rebellion: Svreads. :   ALLIED VICTORY:  SPARKS: UPRISING   Dutch Radio Tells: All Ex: Servicemen ‘to Resist. German: Orders. -.

Attacks Made On German Soldiers   General Resistance Is Reported All Over Europe

‘Transport Center Of Duisburg Target Of British Raiders   Over Fifteen Hundred Tons of Bombs Are Dropped By British Fliers Over Vital Axis Base On French Coast   THIRTY-FOUR ROYAL AIR FORCE PLANES LOST

Open Revolt Rages In Occupied Holland   Armed Clashes, Sabotage, Resistance _ Against Nazis Spreads As Germans Reported Moving Into Low Countries.

REVOLTS RAGING IN HOLLAND, HIT GERMAN TROOPS   Report Sabotage Acts in Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece Today

ACTIVE UNREST IS REPORTED SPREADING INTO BELGIUM ALSO   REPORTS SAY CONQUERED  PEOPLES RISING IN SERIES  , oe. oe ok te ee ot te te Se hel

AXIS DEFEAT STIRS UNREST THRU EUROPE   Revolt In Holland Sweeps ‘Like Wildfire’ Inte   ATTACK NAZI TROOPS   Sabotage, Armed Clashes Reported In Other  Countries

Revolt Flares Throughout Nazi Europe   Rebellion in Holland Spreading Tnto Belgium

RAGING REVOLT IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES REPORTED SPREADINE   REPORTS OF SABOTAGE, ARMED CLASHES AND GENERAL RESISTANCE ~

Dutch Revolt Rages, Spills . Into Belgium   Communications of Hitlerites Suffer From Sabotage

Sabotage, Armed Clashes Increase In European Areas Held By Germans

Axis Defeat Stirs Unrest   Dutch Ex-Soldiers Get ‘Resist’? Order

HOLLANDERS URGED TD DEFY NAZI ORDER FOR RE-INTERNMENT   Dutch Ex-Servicemen Told Germans Intend to Make Them Labor Slaves   ‘DELIVERANCE IS PLEDGEL

Unrest Rife On Heels Of Great Victory  Nazis Meeting With More Trouble In Occupied Countries

Revolt Flares In Belgium, Holland  Attacks Made On Nazi Troops, Transport

Dutch Troops Urged To Defy German Orders   Do Not Register For Internment Soldiers Told

DUTCH URGED TO DEFY NAZI REGISTRATION   Ex-Service Men Warned to Fight Against Being Drafted Into Slove Labor   EXECUTIONS CONTINUE

Revolt Is Raging In Holland With Unrest Spreading   Series of Attacks on German Troops in Belgium Are Reported.

Reports of Allied Victory Stir Unrest lin Occupied Countries, Patriots Attack

DUTCH REVOLT la SPREADING  THAU EUROPE   News of Allied North African Victory Stirs Unrest on ~ Continent,   RADIO APPEALS HELP FIGHT AGAINST NAZIS

RAGING REVOLT IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES REPORTED SPREADING   REPORTS OF SABOTAGE,  ARMED CLASHES AND   REPORTS OF SABOTAGE, ARMED CLASHES AND GENERAL RESISTANCE

Jumps Border And Flares Anew Over ~ Areas In Belgium   Attacks On German Troops, Sabotage Reported As All Of Hitler's Europe Shakes to Reverberations of Allies’ Africa Victory

ALLIED VICTORY SHAKES EUROPE   Entire Continent Seethes With Unrest; Nazis Having Trouble.   GERMANS ARE ATTACKED

Dutch Urge 400,000 to Defy Nazis   Ex-Service Men Told To Defend Themselves From Threatened Arrest

[Resistance Spreads into Belgium,  Uprisings Reported in Lithuania, Latvia   TRAINS WRECKED   Troop Train and Two Ammunition Trains in Belgium, As Vehicle Garage Raided

Former Dutch Troops Urged to Defy German Registration Order   News of Smashing Axis Defeat in Africa Inspires New Unrest

Uprising Spreads Like “Wildfire’: Nazis Attacked   Reyolt Raging In Holland; Spreads Into Belgium; People Fight Germans

Conquered Peoples Aroused by Allies’ Victory in Africa   Whole of Hitler’s FortWith Rebellion

May Compromise Trade Treaties   Asks Quick Action On Agreement Extension ©

PEOPLE OF WYOMING ADVISED TO BUL INSSURANCE FROM WYOMING REPRESENTATIVES

People of Wyerhitig Advised To Buy Insurance srence From Wyo: Ripreséiitatives

Herald-Mail Company Buys Theater Seats As Contribution To Army Fund   Tickets For Premiere Here Of “This Is The Army’ To Be Distributed To Volunteer War Workers _

Herald-Mail Co. Buys Theater Seats As Army Contribution   Tickets for Premiere Here of “This Is the Army” to be Distributed to Volunteer Yaar Workers— Showing to be Held Sept. 22

Vice Admiral Helfrich Reports Dutch Navy Back in Action, Predicts—  Japanese Must Be Licked Man By Man

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF NETHERLANDS FORCES IN FAR EAST TALKS   REVIEWS EVENTS OF WAR AND SAYS DUTCH NAVY NOW BACK IN ACTION

FASCIST DEAD      [Italian Marshal Kills Self, “Rome  . Radio Renoris. ©

Navy Breaks Down Japanese Losses  Inflicted by U. S. U.-Boats This Far

Must Lessen War Cost by Onick Peace   GOVERNOR TELLS YORK AUDIENCE PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT A_ $300,000,000,000 DEBT MEANS.   Must Practice Virtue

rT—.mUC<C—Lh - - re % of od Bd - -— a a - » ~~ 7 - — 7 — r + r  Whistling Fer VJhisilers  AA  *- Fy — T™\ Yo.  , .  BF PO A, T_ .}.W.   Movies Lure Delegates, No One At Parle

TAX REPEALER FACING DELAY   May Shelve Focd Tax Measure Until Fund Bill Is 0. K.’d

SALES TAX REPEAL ON FOOD HITS SNAG   School Subsidy _ Bill Alsc Sidetracked in Ohio

NO POST OFFICE RUSH   Packages for out of Town Should Be Mailed Before Friday

National Walkout Looms; 49,000 Are Already Off Jobs   Four Plants Closed As Unionists Protest WLB Rejection Of Wage Demands; Old Contracts With Firms Has Expired

BANDIT FLEES PRISON   Kansas Prison Offical Says Allen Woolworth Is Missing.

FORMULA NOT ¥ET FOUND TO ELIMINATE. THREAT OF NA+ TIONWIDE STRIKE BY — -TWO UNIONS  1

SFEK TO FIND PLAN TO AVERT RAIL STRIKES   President Attempts To Reach Some Solution For Scheduled Strikes

Post Fights To Stay In Legion Fold   SOUTH FORK MEMBERS STAND! BEHIND APOLOGY TO JOHN L. LEWIS BRINGING OUSTER DE MAND FROM WARING.

JUDGE HUGHES — MADE JUSTICE   Governor Names - Washington Jurist to. Supreme Bench

JUDGE HUGHES APPOINTED TO SUPREME COURT   Named By Governor Martin Tx Succeed Late Justice Wm. M. Parker

SURGE FORWARD FIFTY MILES IN LAST TWO DAYS   Nazis Report Counter-Attacks Recapture Hills West of Mateur

ON LOWER DON IN ONLY 2 DAYS   Germans No Longer Offering Organized Resistance in Caucasus

Soviets Sweep Ahead   Rout In Caucasus For Nazis; British Lose A Position

RUSSIANS RIP ‘THROUGH NAZI LINES TODAY  Reds. Move” Ahead   Reds Move Ahead On: ‘Twenty-Mile -Front ¢   SWEEP FORWARD   Advance Within Seventy-Five Miles Of  Dactayv

GREAT GERMAN BASE CITY OF ROSTOV 15 THREATENED BY REDS   RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE PUSHED FORWARD 50 MILES IN TWO DAYS

Soviet Troops Continue Push Toward Rostoy   London Says Nazis Falling Back To Protect Pivot Of Caucasian Operations.   SKIRMISHES IN AFRICA

GERMAN PEOPLE TOLD NOTHING OF SOVIET PUSH   Nazis Report New Successes on Tunisian Front

RIP T NAZI LINE ON RIVER FRONTS   Cover 50 Miles in Two Days With Hitler's Armies Facing Disaster In Cola Country.   Rv ASSOCIATED PRESS

RUSSIANS RIP THROUGH NAZIS ON WIDE FRONT   Break Through Enemy Defenses On 20Mile Front; Headlong Nazi Flight Begins To Look Like Debacle.

Great Sweep Rolling Up.  German Line   Nazis Rapidly Falling Back Through Caucasu:

Rip Through Germans On 20-Mi. Front Along Both Sides Of Lower Doan River.

Red Armies: Are 75 Miles  From Rostov   Russian Troops Advance 50 Miles in Two Days; Nazis Recapture Hill Positions at Important Crossroads West of Mateur

Other Soviet Successes Reported Along Don River Wah Germans’ Hold on

RUSSIAN DRIVE PUTS GERMANS TO WILD FLIGHT   Slashing Soviet Fighting Men Chase and Slaughter Hitler’s Invaders   NEW CLASHES IN TUNISIA   Yanks and Aussies Cut Down Jap Forces in New Guinea Jungles

Soviet Forces Driving On Vital Axis Base: Allies in Desert Retreat in Mateur Area.

Rip Through 20 Mile Front Along Don; Capture 21 More Towns, Axis Losses 339,150

Russ  » » » REDS 75 MILE!   30 To 50-Mile Advance In Single Day; Retreat Of Axis Almost A Rout

Russians Rip Nazi Lines ~ On 20-Mile Front on Don   Drive Carries to Within 75 Miles of Big Nazi Base at Rostov, Gobbles Up 21 More Cities and Towns   ALLIES LOSE TUNISLAN HEIGHTS   Germans Recapture Ground Previously Taken by British Near Mateur—Jap: Gather Huge Armada at Rabaul

U. N. Admit Nazi Gains In Africa   Continuing Lull Reported In Pursuit Of Rommel Troops Across Libya

20-WILE GAIN ON LOWER DON ALSO CLAIMED   Nazis Regain Positions In Land Clashes on  Tunisian Front

Now Only 75 Miles From Rostov Base   Hitler Finally Hints Of Disaster Over Berlin Radio   Axis Forces Re-Take Positions In Tunisia   Commandos And Rangers Reported To Have Withdrawn

Russians Pushing Closer to Rostov   “Are Within 75 Miles of Base of German Operations ' "in Caucasus   SWEEP WEST. ON DON   Allies Take Axis Outpost and Lose a Hill in Tunisian Fighting  go

Russian Troops Continue Drive Toward Rostov   eT NS RR ee SSS le  Toward Rostov  Nazi High Command Still Gives People No Hint Of Events  JAP BASE POUNDED  ‘Reuters Says Germans in Africa Recapture Two Hall Posts

Russian Troops Continue Drive Toward Rostov   Nazi High Command Still Gives People No Hint Of Events  JAP BASE POUNDED  Reuters Says Germans in Africa Recapture Two - Hill Posts

Germans Regain Hill Positions West of Mateur   Russian Invaders May Have Ceased Organized Resistance

21 Towns Are Taken By Soviets   Russians Sweep West Along Both Sides ot Don,   50 Miles Gained   Hitler Tells People His Men Repulse Bil Foe Attacks.

Rip Through 20 Miles Of Nazi Lines on Don   Rapidity of Soviet 'Advance Indicates Hitler Has Ordered General Withdrawal « Caucasus Front Is Collapsing.

German Pivot City In Danger As Reds Advance   21 More Cities Taken; In Africa, Allies Lose Mateur To  Germans

AUSOIARS ARE 7h AMILES FROM ROSTOI   Germans Unable to Offer Effective Resistance as Red Armies Rush On

Reds Rip Through German Lines on Lower Don River   Are Within 75 Miles of Great German Base at Rostov Today

Russians Pushing Closer to Rostov   “Are Within 75 Miles of Base of German Operations  in Caucasus   Allies Take Axis Outpost and Lose a Hill in Tunisian Fighting

REC CERRRE KERB Raw AV EEE ES  Indian Wins Highest British Award

NAZIS LOSING b PLANES TO QUE    SCORE ON 18 U. S. RAIDS IS 571 GERMAN AND 106 AMERICAN SHIPS DOWNED.

U.S. BOMBER LOSS   Down 6 German Planes to 1 American, Army Discloses

Price Controls Are Extended .  a ee ees   Most Commodities to Ba Affected

Extension Of Controls Over Prices Effected   Price Administrator Brown Orders Rollback Of Prices That Are Considered “Out Of Hand.”

REDS NEAR KEY BASES OF NAZIS   Hard Drive Be Being Made Down Old Napoleonic Escape Corridor   MAY FORCE VAST NEW AXIS RETREAT   144 Towns and Villages Recaptured in Two Days In Central ‘Front. Push

DROP IN COST OF LIVING INDEX NOTED   Hold-The-Line Order Expected To Be In  Rarknn Gann

DROP NOTED IN LIVING COSTS, WILL CONTINUE   OPA Pleased With Latest Cost Of Living Index, Drop Two Percent

Russians Take Bryansk, Stab Deep in Ukraine  Japanese Garrison At Lae Doomed, MacArthur Reports

Red Banner Half Way To Odessa   One of Fastest of Russian Advances In Season’s Fights

Key Rail City Reported Abandoned by the Gormons   BATTLE CONTINUES, MOSCOW REPORTS   Consistent Gains Along Entire Front Claimed by Soviets

Reds Smash Crimean  Rail Lines   Nazis Announce Evacuation  Of Bryansk City

Russians Cut Crimean Line   ‘Nazi Report That Bryansk Given Up Ignored By Reds

GERMANS ADMIT BRYANSK'S FALL TO RED TROOPS   Confirmation Of Capture  Of Vital City Not Made  Bec Ab poo, »   STREET FIGHTING AT NOVOROSSISK

Reds Cut Crimean Railroad Soviets Ignore German Report  Of Withdrawal From Bryansk

Soviets Take Key Rail City Of Bryansk   Announced by Nazis, Not Claimed by Reds, Who Tell of Gains  Alana Kntira Deant

Planes Devastate Communications   Traffic At Standstill At Some Sicilian Ports

RAPS KILGORE AGENCY BILL   Chamber Of Commerce President Says Plan Would Only Add  To Confusion

Coastline Areas Under Martial Law   Sicily, Sardinia Under Constant Bombardment

Civilians Warned to Get Away   Allied Air Might Loosed on Southern [Italian  islands Again

(CIVILIANS EVACUATE ‘DANGER SPOTS   Action Increases On Long Russian Battle Front

Allied Aircraft Blasts Italy, Bag 39 Planes Sink Six Ships   Il Duce Puts Invasion Coast Under Martial Law      Newspapers Favor Paid Government Advertising For War Bond Drives

ALLIES STEP UP AR ATTACKS ON ITALIAN ISLANDS   Mussolini Declares Martial Lew in South Italy   ALLIED INVASION NOW APPEARS IMMINENT

STATE CONTROL OVER WELFARE RUNS INTO SNAG   Bill To License Watchmakers Attacked by Sen. Daniels From This District

LOWER HOUSE DEFEATS NEW WELFARE BILL   Rejects Proposed Change in Calling Special Sessions

War Profits Are Not All Excessive   Renegotiators Find 3 Pct. Of Contracts Are Reasonable

TROOPS WILL HELP ~ REPAIR THE DIKES   Three Hundred Soldiers to Be Used Along the  Kaw River   IN WEAVER BOTTOMS

TROOPS WILL HELP REPAIR THE DIKES   Three Hundred Soldiers to Be Used Along the  Kaw River     TA) WEAVCD BATTOAIC   About 50 Breaks

Registration Date For War Ration Book IV Set For October 27 to 29

* FLASHES    Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates' World News Today,   Biil Avuproved,.

Pope Pius: Temperature Goes Down    No Reason Now for Anxiety, Ayis Radia Save

1,000 FAMILIES OUSTED BY FLOOD   Below Flood Stage Promised By Friday

EXPECT NORMAL STAGE BY FRIDAY   1000 Families Wait for Ohio River To Leave Doorsteps

Men Over 38 to  Lose Deferment   Baruch Committee Expected to Report To President

4-H CLASS IS DICARDED BY DRAFT CHIEFS   New Order Designed to Enccurage Men To Take Up Farming

ARMY OR FARM FOR MANY MEN OVER 38, PLAN   Special Manpower Survey Leads To Revision of Draft Regulations   ACTION NOT YET FINAL   Men Over 38 To Go Back to Original Status With No Age Deferment

Today In Washington:  Jobs In Army Or Behind The Plow Faces Thousands Of Men 38 Years and Over

38s In For Army Or Farm Job   Dratt Office Erases 4-H Class In New  Moannawar Mace   ~urvey Is Begun   Special Committee Headed By Brynes Studies Problar..

OR INDUCTION {S OFFERED   4-H Men Given Until May 1 To Enter Agriculture   ACTION TAKEN   To Keep Up Food Output: Military Goal Of 11 Million To Be Held

FOR 38 CLASS TO AID FARMS   Job In Army Or Behind Plow Looms For Thousands In Group Under Order

STRIVE TO KEEP FARM OUTPUT UP FOR DURATION   May Use Men 38 Years Old and Up for Agricultural Work

FARM OR FIGHT ORDER LIKELY   4-H Class for Men. Over 36 Dropped To Induce More To Help with. Crops.

CONSIDERATION 48-HOUR WORK WEEK OPPOSED   Senaté Leaders Prepare to Block Action On Bill Sponsored by Senator Reed   COMMITTEE-BOUND   Meanwhile, Bill Proposing “Freedom to Work” to Be Aired By SubCommittee

Senate Due To Block 48 - Hour Work Week Bill   Leaders Plan To Bury Reed Proposal Deep In Labor Committee.

48-Hour-Week Facing Delay   Democratic And Republican Leaders Agree On  Procedure.

Senate Chiefs Plan To Block 48-Hour Week   Barkley, McNary Agree Bill Offered By Reed To Be  * i il ‘ > Sent To ‘Graveyard.   TALK AGAINST STRIKE

LEADERS MAY BLOCK STUDY OF BIEL FOR LONGER WORK WEEK   Reed's Measure Would Pro vide 48-Hour Week On teaizht- Time

BRITISH FORCES SEIZE MARETH LINE OUTPOST   Rommel! Believed Withdrawing To Fortifications To Meet 8th Army Threat   PLANES SPREAD DAMAGE   American Forces Consolidate New Positions In Mountainous Region

Take  Tathouine, Drive To Crack, Flank Line Due   Americans Consolidate New Positions te Northwest With Rommel Offensive Believed Called Off

MINE DEADLOCK MAY BE BROKEN   Possibility Seen With Meeting Postponed Till Tuesday For  ‘Developments’

Break in Mine Wage Deadlock Held Possible   Developments Predicter before Next Meeting Tomorrow

PROPOSE 25 PER CENT PAY-AS-CO WITHHOLDING TAX   Treasury’s Plan Would Eliminate Present Victory Idea and Substi ' tute New Method.

MONEY BILLS TOBE STUDIED — BYCONGRESS   Republicans Set for Close Check on Government Spendina

NYE DEMANDS WATCH ON CASH   Asks Minute Scrutiny Of Appropriations On Eve Of Budget Message; Haste Rapped

Solon Demands Study of Appropriations   Nye Asks Fuller Accounting of All Monies

SPENDING CHECK REPUBLICAN AIM   Congress To Buckle Down To Work __.._Today; Budget Message To _ Be Presented _

Republicans Plan Searching: Study Of New Budget   Nye Says There Must Be Careful Accouniing of All Appropriations

Republicans Plan Close Watch on All Appropriations  Announce Purpose On Eve of Budget  Message to Congress 100 BILLION LIKELY  President Expected To Name Figure, Leave Trimming to Members

Republicans Set for Check On Spending   F.D.R.’s Budget Message Awaited by Congress And Huge Figures Seen

OOOO PPP IPP PP PPO PPADS  Southwest Pacific News Includes New Planes

U.S. Planes Strike Japs in Pacific, Manned by Aussies  Diving Craft Makes Debut in Australia Jane: Recult Gaad

DIVE BOMBERS SWIPE AT JAPS   Vultee Vengeance Planes Make Appearance In Southwest Pacific

Optimistic Review of War Given   Roosevelt and Churchill Heard At Council Meet

 Oe Ae 8 ee el > seta eae  Becomes New Slogan For Japs In Jungle Warfare

The best advertisement a town can have is a good, prosperous newspaper.   Meer ALFRED WELSOW  - MAN OF ACTION ON THE IRON ORE FRONT

Japs Ship Wounded to Philippines So Own Folk Won't Know of Toll   Red Cross Worker Reports Filipinos Loyal To U.S. But Giving Enemy Little Trouble

FDR Asks Congress For Money For UN Rehabilitation Program; Each Nation To Decide Its Share

Each Nation to Help Get War Victims Back To Self-Sustaining Status

Asks for Funds to Feed Starving  President Requests Conaress to Act.

PRESIDENT ASKS  CONGRESS PROVIDE ..  FUNDS FOR RELIEF WANTS MONEY FOR UNI}  ED STATES TO PARTICIPATE IN INRRA

DR REQUESTS UNARA FUNDS   Will Report on United Nations Relief Meet at Atlantic City. ~   ALL WILL CONTRIBUTE

FOND 10 hELP UNARA ASKED BY ROOSEVELT   Requests Authorization from Congress for U. S. Aid in Rehabilitation.

Seeks Funds  For UNRRA   President Roosevelt Asks Congress For Appropriations ‘Today.

FINANCIAL-ATD FOR LIBERATED PEOPLE ASKEL   Roosevelt Calls On Congress to Authorize Appropriation For U. 8. Participation UNRRA

POST-WAR AID FUND IS ASKED   Roosevelt Will Ask Specific Appropriation  After Meet Ends

PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS PROVIDE FIINDS FOR RELIEF,  WANTS MONEY FOR UNIT. ED STATES TO PARTICI PATE IN UNRRA

F. R. Requests Relief Fund   Message to Congress Would Place VU. S. in United Nations Activity

CONTRIBUTION FOR U.N.R.R.A. IS REQUESTED   President Asks Congress to Authorize Appropriations For Participation By nited States   WILL ELABORATE LATER

Relief Share  Is Requested By President   Roosevelt Says Each Nation to Determine Amount, Character, Of Own Contribution

Funds for UNRRA _ Specific: Sums Will - Be Named After   Conference Enda‘

FDR Asks Relief  Funds   Congress Urged to Authorize Sums for World Postwar Plan

Tells of Big Job In Freed Nations   Roosevelt Asks Congress for Fund to Participate  in Relief Work.

U. S. Contribution ToUNRRA Requested   President Tells Congress He Later Will Specify America’s Needs for Participation in World Relief and Rehabilitation.

U.S. Funds ‘Asked For War Relie!   UNRRA Provides Framework for ‘First Aid,’ President Says; More Is Needed   BACH NATION TO . SUPPORT PROGRAM   Axis Has Deliberately Stripped Many Countries; Fresh * Bridence in Italy

WILL ASK CONGRESS TO AID IN UNITED NATIONS RELIEF   President Roosevelt Would Participate in the Rehibilitation Administration.   UNRRA NOW IN SESSION   Each Nation Will Determine the Amount and Character of Its Contribution.

PRESIDENT ASKS UNRRA FUNDS   SPECIFIC AMOUNTS NOT MENTIONED IN CONGRESS MESSAGE

Asks Money For Invaded People   President To Report Results Of U.N.R.R.A.

Asks Congres: For Funds for Allied Relief   President Seeks Cash for American Participation

President Says Aim Of Relief Group Is to Extend First Aid to War-Stricken People

FDR Asks Funds For Allied Aid  Says He Will Report On Relief Parley When ]t Is Finished

PRESIDENT ASKS SOLONS TO VOTE SUM FOR UNRRA   After Meeting at Atlantic City Ends, Special Amount To Be Cited

Mr. Roosevelt Asks Funds For UNRRA   U. S. to Take Part In Relief For Liberated

F. D. R. Asks Relief Money   Wants Congress’ to Provide for Relief And Rehabilitation

F.R. Requests Funds To Aid UNRRA Plan:   Specific Appropriation To Be Announced At End Of Conference In Atlantic City   Liberated People Help

UNRRA PLANS 10 PROVIDE RELICT AT CLOSE OF WAR   Roosevelt Asks Congress For Appropriation For United States to Participate In Program.   UNINVOLVED LANDS TO” PAY PART OF INCOMES   Relief Bill May Cost Country Billion and Half Dollars, Livestock Will Not Be Shipped.

AMANA PLANT SWEPT BY FIRE THIS MORNING   Building loss placed at quarter of a million dollars

Says School Nurseries Can Be Valuable Aid In ‘Solving Labor Shortage

LABOR BOARD TO TAKE OVER MINE DISPUTE   issue Certified and Session Is Called for Saturdoy

WLB ‘Takes Over Mine Wages Cease   CALLS HEARING FOR SATURDAY 10 A. M.; OPERATORS’ REPRESENTATIVES AND LEWIS BIDDEN TO SESSION.    QUICK DECISIONS OUGHT

Hearing Called for Saturday  WLB Accepts Jurisdiction ‘Over Soft Coal Wage Dispute

U.S. to Settle Wage Dispute In Coal Mines   Hearing Set Saturday After Perkins Sends  ma.

WLB RECEIVES MINE DISPUTE   Hearing on 1 Coal Pay Controversy Set for Saturday Morning

Labor Board Calls Mine Pay Hearing   Secretary Of Labor Perkins Certifies Case To Board; Uninterrupted Production Of Coal Is Stressed

COAL DISPUTE Is PASSED ON TO LABOR BOARD   Federal Agency Has Scheduled Hearing In Wash ineton Saturday   ASK FOR EXTENSION OF PRESENT CONTRACT

Mainland Blasted By Land, Air, Sea As Troops Move In   Terrific Barrage Covers Invading Forces as They Surge Across Messina Strait at Night   APPEALS MADE TO ITALIANS   Attack on Fourth Anniversary of Britain’s War Declaration Made By British and Canadians

Beach Heads Are Established On Coast of Italy   Historic Assault is Launched in Vicinity of Reggio Calabria

Allies Move On italy Mainland      BRITISH 8TH ARMY PB FOOTHOLD ACROSS STRAIT

ALLIES LAND IN ITALY AS FIGHT RAGES   British Invade Calabrian Coast ‘on Big Scale,’ Italy Says: Beachheads Seized

President Says Mine Dead Line Not Acceptable   Camments on Lewis’ Action as Leaders Combat Walkouts

F.D.R. Hits at Coal Stoppage  Will Not Recognize U. M. W. Deadline

MORE QUIT MINES; FURNACES CLOSED   About Half of Nation's 520,000 Coal Miners Idle

F.D.R. Warns Coal Strikes Can Throttle War Effort   Situation More Tense As More Miners Quit And Coal Shortages Close Blast Furnacee   ICKES AND OWNERS DISCUSS PROBLEM

FDR Declines To Recognize UMW Work Deadline   Grim Warning To Miners Says Life Of Nation Involvec  Te UYrrrAn T DEA CART

DEADLINE SET BY LEWIS HIT   President “Says Men Forget Life of Nation Is at Stake

10,000 Miners Join Strike as Furnaces Close   More Than Half of UMW Now Out and Others May Follow

COAL MINING MUST GO ON, FDR ASSERTS   Life of Nation at Stake, President Says at Press Conference

FDR Refuses To Recognize  UMW Deadline   Half of Miners in U. 8. Believed Sull Tdle

President Rebukes  Miners —   WLB Asks That Coal Union Be Disciplined

OVER 200,000 STILL IDLE IN COAL DISPUTE   PRESIDENT IGNORES DEADLINE, CALLS FOR MORE FUEL

FDR REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE MINE DEADLINE   Says Stoppage Could Defeat War Efforts of Entire Nation

20.000 More Coal Miners Quit Working   President Avers He Won't Recognize New Deadline

More Miners Join Holdouts; Furnaces Close   - Estimated About One-Hal! Of Nation’s Diggers Idle; 14 Furnaces Now Down

Won't Recognize UMW Deadline: O! Oct. 31, Says F FDR   Grimly Reminds Nation That War Is On And: -That Prolonged Coal Stoppgge — Could Throttle War Effort

ABSENTEEISM I SPREADINGIN PENNSYLVANIA   FDR Will Not Recognize October 31 Deadline; Reminds Nation We Are At War   Crucial Test Monday

MORE QUIT MINES: FURNACES CLOSED      About Half of Nation’s  “520,000 Coal Miners lAle

President Insists Upon Continuation Of Coal Mining Despite Dispute, IRefuses to Recognize UMW’s Deadline

Coal Must Be Mined To Support War   PRESIDENT REFUSES TO _ RECOGNIZE OCT. 31 DEADLINE FOR CONTINUED COAL PRODUCTION; PEOPLE FORGET.   145.000 Miners Idle

20,000 MORE COAL MINERS QUIT JOBS: 960.000 NOW OUT   Half Nation’s Diggers Join Revolt Against Returning to Pits Without a  Contract.   PICKETS FORCE SOME ' TO LAY DOWN TOOLS   U. S. Steel Corporation Closes Four Furnaces and Slows Operations of Big Coke Plant.

Rabaul Plastered Again, Ship Fired.   Jap Night Fighters Ineffective: Other ‘American Bornbers Roam Far ‘And Wide

Host Of Captured Soldiers Already In United States   Thousands More To Be Brought From Northern Africa, It Is Expected

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Hundreds of Nazis Already in American Prison Camns

DR. KELLOGG SUCCUMBS AT 91   Exponent of Meatless Diet Expected to Be 100

USS. Navy Tells of Thrilling Actions Of Marine Fliers   All 84 Pilots And Aerial Gunners In Midway Bat. tle Decorated; Forces Destroyed 43 Jap Planes, Losing Onlv 13.

Dive Bombers of Squadron 241 Go Out Alone to Attack Jap Armada; Entire Aerial Defense of Midway Fell Unon 25 Planes

Midway Pilots, Gunners. Decorated For Heroism  _ As Fight Story Is Aired

Heroism Against Staggering Jap Odds In Midway Victory Disclosed By Nav:

Defense of Island Fell Upon 25 Planes When 100 Enemy Bombers and Fighters Launched Attack—Forty-Three Japanese Ships Were Shot Down Against American Losses of 13—All Pilots and Gunners Are Decorated.

Colin Kelly’s Outfit Comes Back to Texa:   142 Marines Decorated for Heroism ‘In Battle of Midway Island Last June

Butter Is Also Included In Next Order For Rationing   Two And One-Fourth Pounds Of Meat Will Be _ byailable Weekly. Food Leader Estimates

Wickard Order: Rationing of  Meat. Fats. Oils   Action Includes Butter, Cheese, Canned Fish: Will Become Effective on or Before April 1: Amounts Not Definite

RATIONING T0 START ON OR BEFORE APRIL    Each Person Will Be Allowed 2% Pounds Weekly; Butter Included.

Meat Curb To Begin In Few Days   OPA Orders Rationing On O; Before April 1

MEAT RATION PLANTOBEGIN END OF MONTH   Butter, Cheese and Con. ned Fish Included iri Order of Wichord

Rationing of  Meat. Fats. Oils   Action Includes Butter, Cheese, Canned Fish; Will Become Effective on or Before April 1; Amounts Not Definite

Expect Meat Ration Wil Be Fixed At About 2! ,  Pounds Per  Week.

NOTTOOHARD TO UNDERSTAND   What to Do If You Pass Out of Eastern Short- age Area

MINERS ORDERED TO SIGN PAPER   WLB Throws Bombshell As It Requests Mine Workers a Sign On The Dotted  ine. 

Congress Expects To Go Ahead with Anti-Strike Bill   WLB Action Throws Bombshell Inte Coal Settlement; Seen as Bid for Recognition

WLB Order Adds To Coal Muddle   UNION AND OPERATORS ORDERED TO SIGN CONTRACT

MARTIALLAW  RULES ESSEN   Action Taken to Preserve Order in Shattered German City. -

Essen Under Martial Law   Action Taken Following Recent Destructive  Raids by RAF Bombers

Martial Law For Essen Declared   Bombing Of Nazi City Leads To Panic

Essen Under  Martial Law   Schools Closed. Many Stores Wrecked In Heavy Raids By British.

RUML PLAN IS ELIMINATED IN BITTER FIGHT   Measure appears to be mired in midst of political controversy

ISE VOTE HAS SHELVED TAX CHANGE   PAY-AS-GO PROPOSALS ‘MAY “NOT COME UP AGAIN FOR ‘MONTH AB RESULT OF   ‘> VOTE SCRAMBLE -

State Legislature Will Consider Resolution to Limit Session to 60. Days

State Senate Sets March 15 As Final Adjournment Date   House Likely To Oppose Short Term Plan; Simple Inauaquration Ceremony Set Today

NEUNMONIA TAKES     sO DIERS LIE   Ireton Man Contracts. ‘Dis: ease While Sleeping. on  Snow Bed:

EDITOR PUT ON ‘PROBATION’ IN  SUIT OF LIBEI   Somerset County Weekly Publisher Must Discontinue Type of Articles Causing Indictment

AMERICAN TROOPS EGAN POSITION LOST 10 RERMANS   British Make Gains at Atessa While Fighting Progresses In Cold, Rain, High Winds and Mud.   ALLIES FORCES GIVE UP LERO TO GERMANS   Fortresses Help Wreck German Airfield at Marseille, Spread Destruction Or Long Front.

Strong Nazi Hill Defense Holds Allies   Americans Regain Some Ground in  Cold, Snowy Fighting

BIITER WEATHER “FALS Td S10P MARK’S STH ARMY   Believe Nazis Have Perfected New Elaborate Defense . Sustam . -

AMERICAN TROOPS REGAIN POSITIONS QN ITALIAN FRONT   Nazis Perfect Elaborate Defenses in Lines Guardina Rama

Fourth Term Run For FOR Predicted   Roosevelt Denial Asked by Landon

MARTIN THINKS -ED.R.WILLRUN   Former G.O.P. Chairman Believes President Wants Fourth Term,

ouse Group kehs Measure or Food (Czar   Would Hove Complete Control Production, Distribution, Pricing And Rationina Food

FOOD PROGRAM FACES SHAKE-UP   Sweeping Changes Proposed In Plan To Place It Under Single Administrator

Food Czar Is Approved By  House Group   Committee Votes Setup _ Frowned Upon By  .  : Roosevelt   WOULD STRIP OPA   Chester Davis Would Be Director Of All Food Problems In U.S.

HOUSE GROUP IN FAVOR OF ACTION   Congress Dissatisfied Over Home Front War Operations   OPPOSED BY F.D.R.   Twelve Republicans And Six Democrats Support Proposed Legislation

Approve Plans In Committee  For Food Czar   Centralizes Control Over Production, Distribution, Pricing, Rationing.   FROWNED ON BY FDR

House Group Favors ‘Food Czar’   Bill Would Take Rationing and Pricing Powers From OPA

Approve Bill For Food Czar   Reflects Growing Dissatisfaction Over Home Front.

‘FOOD CZAR’ BILL APPROVED BY COMMITTE!   House Measure Would Combine All Food Production, Distribution. Pricing, Rationing   ELIMINATE OPA   War Food Administrator Davis Would be Made Czar Under Plan Backed by Republicans

Food Gzar Bill Trims OPA Power   Plan Centralizing - Control Is Passed By House Committee

BILL WOULD CUT POWER OF OPA; FOR OPPOSES IT   If Finally Voted, Act Would Put Rationing Under Chester Davis

House Group Would Create ‘Food Czar”   New Head to Control Production, Distribution, Pricing and Rationing

Food Czar Bill Wins Support Of House Group   Committee Favors One Man Control Of Home Economy

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES MEASURE ~ CREATING FOOD: CZAR      Would Take From OPA All Food . Rationing and Pricing: Powers   DAVIS WOULD BE BOSS

WOULD APPROVE OF ‘FOOD ZAR   House Agriculture Committee Votes ta Create Foad Controller.

BILL CREATING "FOOD CZAR" IS APPROVED   Sweeping Legislation May Take Rationing and Priceing Powers From the O. P. A.   CROP PROSPECT GOOD

Food Czar Bill Starts On Way   House Committee Votes 18 To 8 to Establish This Office for Davis

APPROVE FOOD CONTROL BILL   MEASURE WOULD CREATE CZAR OF FOOD PRODUCTION

All Rationing Powers Would  Be Given Him   Step Reflects Congress Dissatisfaction With Present Setup

APPROVE BILL FOR GHEATION (FOOD CZAR   Would Take All Rationing o' Food and Price Power Away from OPA.   ADMINISTRATION WOULD BE GIVEN CHESTER DAVIS

APPROVE BILL 10 PROVIDE CZAR IN HANDLING OF FOOD   Complete Control on Production, Distribution, Pricing and Rationing May Occur Shortly.   ROOSEVELT FROWNS UPON PROPOSED PLAN   Yestrictive Legislation Considered as Means of Pre: venting Government Funds For Subsidies.

Food Czar Bill Given Approval   Measure Frowned Upon by President Favored 18 to 8 in House Committee   ALL REPUBLICANS, 6 DEMOCRATS FOR IT   8 Democrats Oppose Move Which Would Take Over OPA Control on Prices

House Group Asks ‘Czar’ Handle Food   Measure Is Opposed By F. R.; Would Remove Considerable Power  From Price Office

Bill creating U. 5. food ezar ratified by hesiies committee   Sweeping plan would hand Davis all of OPA’s ration, price power

Chester Davis  Would Be Czar   S. C. Democrat’s Move Wins Solid G.O.P. Support

BILL TO STRIP OPA OF POWERS ON FOOD GAINS   Committee In House .Approves Measure SettingUp One-Man Rationing Head   ROOSEVELT OPPOSES   Focal Point of Genera: Crescendo Toward Climax On Whole Issue Food Control

Food Czar Recommended By Committee   Bill Would Remove Rationing From OPA Control

HOUSE COMMITTEE OKAYS “FOOD CZAR   Measure Would Strip OPA Of Rationing Powers

One-Man Food Control. Urged   House Agricultural Committee Approves Bil] Providing for Appointment of “Car?

House Committee Approves Bill to Creafe Food Czar   Head Would Control Production, Prices And War Rationing

Food Czar May End OPA; ‘Bill Is Being Mappec   Would Put Davis In Full Charge

HOUSE STUDIES PLAN FOR 'ONE-MAN CONTROL OVER ALL PRICES, RATIONING

FOOD ‘CZAR DEMANDED BY HOUSE PANEL   Committee 0. K.’s Bill That Would Strip OPA of Price and Ration Powers.   OPPOSED BY PRESIDENT   Measure Gives Davis Authority Similar To That of WPB Over Oil and Rubber.

‘Food Czar’ Voted By Committee   Would Have Complete Control Over All  Departments

0.P. A. May Be Stripped Of Powers   Measure Would Put Rationing And Pricing Under Chester Davis.

Plans Are Made For Next Blow   Churchill, Marshall And Other Allied Leaders Work Out Strategy For Next Campaign

Worst Blow Yet Against Axis To Be Struck Soon   Churchill, High: Allied Leaders Hold Conference In North African Theate:

INVASION ORDER THOUGHT GIVEN AT CONFERENCI   Prime Minister In London Afte 2-Day Discussion With Allied Generals.

ALLIED TROOPS GHAGK UEFENot LINE UF JAPS   Fall Of Finschhafen Imminent After Buma River Crossed In Drive

Allies Crack Jap Defenses Before Finschhafen Sector  Forces Drive Southward Across Bumi: River Toward Stratecic Enemy Base On Peninsula

MAIN BASE “INCREASED   ‘Stiff Nip Opposition & Met By Aussies In Push Over River

Allies Drive Acrcss Bum! River onHuon   Jap Defense Line At Finschhafen Cracked by Allies

MORE MEATIS SAID IN OFFING   More Fair Distributior Is Promise of O. P. A.

O. P. A. PLANS NEW -MEAT STORE DEAL   Officials Think Proposed Standardized Prices May Help.   SAY SOME STORES BEING "SQUEEZED"

OPA Planning Standardized Rules on Meat   Fairer Distribution is Expected to Result From New Order  COMING IN TWO WEEKS

NAZI ATTACKS IN ITALY FAIL   Allied Fighter-Bombers: Aid In Repulsing Fierce Foe Onslaights

AIRMEN HALT NAZI PUSH ON ITALIAN FRONT   BRIDGEHEAD ACROSS SANGRO WIDENED BY 8TH ARMY

STH ARMY THROWS BACK ASSAULTS ON SANGRO POSITIONS   Tommies Improve Bridgehead in Face of Heavy CounterAttacks Launched From High Ground,   BOMBINGS HELP HALT GERMANS’ THRUSTS   Montgomery Sends Reinforcements Across River—Nazis Still Sheiling English Supply Lines.

Fighter Planes Aid in Halting German Attacks   9-Mile Bridgehead Improved—New High Ground Is Captured By Montgomery's Men

eighik Army Mrives Nazi ‘roops Back   Foe’s Prisoners Blame Bombings For Retreat

N azi Attacks Repulsed by Eiehth Army   American and British Fighter-Bombers Aid on Italian Front

BRITISH CHECK NAZI ATTACKS   Wedge Across Sangro Is Improved After Sharp Encounters

British Sharply Beat Off Nazis, Strengthen Hold   Air Assaults Put Fear Into Enerny On Sanaro Front

Eighth Army Repulses Nazi Attacks   Brisk Fighting Is Reported Near Middle of Front

ENEMY’S FIERCE COUNTERATTACKS AGAINST EIGHTH ARMY SLACKEN CONSIDERABLY; PRISONERS SHAKEN BY AERIAL POUNDING.   (By NOLAND NORGAARD

Britons Repulse Nazi Attacks   Air Blasts Check German Onslaughts

Bridgehead Across Songro River Reported Improved   CEASELESS AERIAL ATTACKS ARE MADE   Counter-attacks by the Enemy Slacken Considerably

Nazis Thrown Back With Help Of Yank And British Airmen   "Fighting 45th,’ Composed Of Some Of Patton's Warriors, Making Record; Eighth Army Putting Dents In German Lines

Eighth Army Halts Nazis   Every Onslaught fs Repulsed By British

Vinson Fights Rail Pay Rise   House Committee Asked To Offect Senate

Vinson Opposes Rail Wage Hike   Predicts Appeals By Other Groups

VINSON RAPS WAGE ACTION   Urges House Committee to Kill Measure Granting Boost to Railmen

Vinson Stands ~~ = Firm § in Fight > Against Boos!   Sees Railway Osmond Opening Wedge for  Other Groups

Cane Gloucester ~ Landings Made By U.S. Marines   Surprise Invasion At New Point In New Britain Successfully Carried Out   LANDINGS MADE WITHOUT LOSSES  MWriysc Trin

1D INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN SINCE DEC. 15   Surprise Landing Made Sunday Under Air and Naval Cover

JEFFERS PLANS FINISH FIGHT   Rubber Director Will Hit Charges That Program Blocks War Projects

OPA Cuts B,C Gas Coupons to 2 Gallons   East’s ‘A’ Cards Are Hiked to: Two Gallons; West Coast Is Unchanged

B AND C GASOLINE RATIONS CUT AND MILK DELIVERY RESTRICTED IN MOVE TO HEAD OFF SHORTAGES    Congress, Meanwhile, Continues Argument Over Father Draft  As It Gets Under Way and Takes Up Other ' Questions Related to War  1

‘B’, ‘C’ Book Holders Cut to 2 Gallons: ‘A’ Book Allotments Raised’  In East

B, C Coupon Values Cut; Restrict Milk Deliveries   Extend To Othere

Gas Ration of B and C . Books Cut; A Books Are Still. Good For 3 Gallon.

Milk Subsidy Program  Is Ordered ©   FDR, Churchill Agreed” on Postwar Freedom of the Air; Farm Bureau Head Lashes Out at Program

Stettinius To Replace Welles   Leo Crowley Heads  Nlaw Fronomic Pac

Stetfinius Gets Undersecretary Post Of Welles  » Tintin nmat   Career Diplomat Resigns; Crowley Given New Job

Stettinius Named to Take Welles’ Place   Surprise Selection For State Post; Crowley Heads Office Centralizing Foreign Economic Functions

LEND-LEASE HEAD SUCCEEDS WELLES AS AID OF HULI   Roosevelt Announces Resignation of Undersecretary and Appointment of Stettinius.   SHIFTING OF LATTER COMES AS SURPRISE   President Also Announces Creation of Foreign Economic Office With Leo Crowley as Chief.

WILL REPLACE WELLES, WHO Hho Reolbhel   Roosevelt Reveals Creation of New Economic Office Under Crowley.   TO CENTRALIZE WORK OF THREE FORMER GROUPS

F.D. Announces  Welles Has Quit   Stettinius Named As His Successor

Lend-Lease Head Takes Over Welles’ Position  Stettinius Moves Into State Department Job

SUCCESSOR TO WELLES NAMED BY ROOSEVEL]   Edward Stettinius, Jr., LendLease Administrator, Gets State Dept. Job

STETTINIUS TO GET STATE POST   ‘Welles’ Resignation Accepted;    New Office Formed

ED STETTINIUS WMMED TO. FIL WELLES’ PLACE   FDR Also Acts To Streamline U. S. Economic Agencies On Foreign Fronts

FDR ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION OF SUMNER WELLES   Edward Stettinius, Jr, Given Statehouse Post

Stettinius Will Succeed Welles   President Announces Diplomatic Change

STETTINIUS WILL REPLACE WELLES   Lend-Lease Administrator Named Undersecretary Of State   ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW FOREIGN OFFICE IS TOLD

Sumner Welles Resigns Post In State Department   Edward R. Stettinius To Succeed Him New Office To Be Established

Stettinius Named By President To Succeed Welles   Undersecretary Of State Quits Post

Resignation Of Sumner Welles Is Announced  Stettinus Named as Undersecretary; Crowley Appointed

WELLES LEAVES JOB WITH HULL   Edward R. Ste Stettinius Jr New Undersecretary Of State

Yugoslays Regain. Ihre Towns and Resist Tank Unit   Bulgorioan Guerrillas Continue Activity In Balkan War

Slavs Take 3  Balkan Towns   Bulgarian Irregulars Wreek Trnon Tr

Twin City Sergeant Is Presented Silver Star Award for His Heroism

Present Medals To War Heroes  Vernon Diegel Gets The Csleae Khar

Ginnings of Ellis Cotton To 57,021   PRODUCTION ANNOUNCED BY STATISTICIAN FOR GOVERNMENT.

Ginnings In Ellis Co. to 56,945 Bales   ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE BY STATISTICIAN FOR GOV'T,

RED FORCES CLOSING IN ON KIEV   Hand-to-Hand Fight ing Develops on Dnieper Line

REFUGEES oA} CITY LEVEL BY THE NAZIS   Bitter Hand-to-Hand Battles Rage Along Crumbling Dnieper Line.

Patterson Hits Move To Defer All Farm Labor   Undersecretary of War Says No Other Nation Would Even Consider I

MAY BE ABLE TO. ADJOURN MAR. 181   Legislators Driving For End to Session 17 Days - Ahead of Schedule

GEN. ASSEMBLY — MAY BE ABLE TO ADJOURN MAR. 1ST   Legislators Driving For “End to Session 17 Days Ahead of Schedule

AMERICAN NURSES ESUAPE BOMBED HOSPITAL SHIP   Coolness of Nurses and Bravery of British Sailors Prevented Major Tragedy.

Heroism of British Sailors Also Credited in Kescue of American Women From Hospital Ship Battered and Set Afire by Nazis Outside Gulf of Salerno — Some Fiee Nude to Lifeboats Through Steam and Hot Water.

London Observers Believe Laval May Be Forced Out of Leadership   Reports About Open Break With Petain Are Believed to Have Been Substantiated

Petain Defiance May Bring Falk Of Laval's Bloc   Vichy Radio Goes All-Out To Quiet  MAnrmtinn  lrAroct

Petain Move May Cost Laval Post   But Swiss Reports Insist President Under House Arrest

BERLIN GIVES CONFIRMATION OF VICHY CRISI   Number of Petain’s Friends, In cluding Three Generals, Re ported Under Arrest

Collapse of Laval Bloe Held Near   Vichy Denies Report Petain Has Resiened

Conditions Unsettled At Vichy   Reports Of Crisis Are Partly Confirmed In Statement Issued By Nazis At Berlin

Pefain Defiance May Bring Fall Of Laval’s Bloc   Vichy Radio Goes All-Out To Quiet  RA print tee  femme

FATE OF LAVAL BELIEVED SHAKY   Collaborationist Blo « May Collapse After Rift With Petain

Berlin Hints Vichy Crisis Over Petain   Several Friends of Mar shal Reported Seized ; Cabinet Shifis Seen

Laval Expected  To. Be Loser From  Petain Crisis Break Between Two  Vichy Leaders Seems *To Be Confirmed  :-

'Petain Out, Say Morocco ‘And Dakar  ‘Broadcasts   Rumor Not Confirmed From Other Sources; His Democracy Decree  Wae Synnreccad

French Group  May Collapse   Laval Bloe May Fall Before Petain’s Move For Democratic Government.

PETAIN DEFIES NAZIS   Action Of Aged Marshal May Col  lapse Pierre Laval Regime

Nazis Admit Vichy Crisis Over Petain   Marshal Reported To Have Resigned; Germons Deny It

Vichy Crisis Confirmed By Nazi Official   Petain’s Resignation Denied In Berlin; Seeks To Avert Revolution When Nazis Are Ousted

PIERRE LAVAL BLOC THOUGHT NEAR COLLAPSE   Moroceo Radio Reports Petain’s Restenation

MI0-WESTERN STATES WOULD BE AFFECTED   Would Make Coupons Worth 3 Instead Of 4 Gallons

EXPECTS 25 PCT CUT IN GASOLINE   Mid-West, Southwest and South Face Stash Sunday

More Delay In Gas Rationing   Hopes Of Eastern Motorists Appear To Have Been Premature   SLIGHT INCREASE IS NOW IN SIGHT

COUPON VALUE : be GASOLINE WILL BE CUT   REPORT REDUCTION FROM , FOUR TO THREE GALLONS   ., TO BE ORDERED FIRST  H QF WEEK

Sees 1943 as Road to Rome. Tokyo, Berlin   Reviews War's Progress and Gives Report on Arms Production in U.S.

The text of the President’s message to congress appears on page 2.

Coffee Ration After May 31 To Be Greater   One Pound in 30 Days Available, OPA Chief Declares

RATIONS OF COFFEE WILL BE INCREASEL   Boost Due To Bigger Supply In This Country

IS INCREASED   Supply Of Green Stock Warrants More For  Consumers

New Coffee Ration Is Largest Yet; Will Give Pound a Month  Supplies Increase But Brown Says Change May Follow

INCREASE IN COFFEE RATION IS ANNOUNCED BY THE OPA   Stamp No. 24 to be Good for Pound for a Period of 30 Days——No Assurance Given of Pound Per Month Being Permanent

W.P.B. Freezes Dress Styles   Limit Amount Of Material   By Sizes; Ban Certain  Articles, —<

STATE SENATE PASSES EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN   REVISED MEASURE NOW GOES TO HOUSE FOR CONSIDERATION

Revised-Equal-PayBill for Women is  Adopted by Senate   Administration Measure Passed Upper House of Assembly Today

Price Controls Over  Live Cattle Ordered  Directive Will Confine Range Within G1 Snraead in Fach Divician

Price Control Set On Live Cattle By Federal Order   Top for Choice Animals Pegged at $16 With $1 Spread in Each Grade and Continuation of Slaughterers’ Subsidy

Watch For Fierce Counter Attacks, Observers Warn   Much Too Early For AllOut Optimism Over Sicily, Warn Veteran Military Men.

Counter Blows Are Expected   Allied Military Men Predict Real Test Of Invasion to Come

No Ships Lost In Greatest Invasion Armada of History   Mighty Air Force Maintains Aerial Cover For Men, Equipment Ashore

CRISIS IN SIGILY S STILL AHEAD   Veteran Military Observers Say It’s Much Too Early for Unlimited Optimism: Counter-blows Will Count

HARD FIGHTING IN SICILY LIKELY   OBSERVERS SAY CRITICAL MOMENT WILL COME WHEN AXIS COUNTER-ATTACKS.

CURLEY. INDICTMENT VOIDED BY RULING   Congressman And Associates Are Released On Technical Grounds By District Court

Tm. Re  V. $. Pat,  WASHINGTON MERRY-GO: ROUND fi  Gy DREW PEARSON

U.S. Undersea Raiders Sink 5 Japan Ships   Torpedo Toll In Pacific Is Raised To 117; Tieup With Solomons Seen   TWO OTHERS ARE HIT   Relief By Army Troops Of Original Marines On Guadalcanal Reported

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 4 SHIPS   U. S. Navy Reveals Further Damage To Japanese Vessels.

U.S. SUBS SINK  FIVE JAP SHIPS   Destroyer and Four Others Raise Submersible Toll to 117

SINK ENEMY DESTROYER, 4 VESSELS   U. S. submarines strike new blows against Japanese in Pacific

U.S. Subs Sink Jap Destroyer: 4 (ther Ships   Navy Reports That Two In Addition Are Also Struck By Torpedoes   MAKES 117 BOATS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS

Menacing Jap Lines Of Supply   Undersea Boats Seriously Interfere With Nipponese Shipping to Islands.

Allied Air Units End First Week With New Attack:   Planes Continue Non-Stop Blows All Over Sicily

Allied Bombers Batter Messina Strait Lifeline   Italians Say U. S. Putting On Strong Offensive Inland

YANK ‘BLITZ SHATTERS BASES ON ITALY'S BOOT   Rou noclock bombings Destroy Ferry Port Opposite Messina, Mainland Drome:

Allied Airmen Outfight Axis Aviators ‘Over Mediterranean And In West Europe

ALLIED FLIERS HIT MESSINA STRAIT AREA   Finish Week With Furious Attack Against Supply Ports

ITALIAN SUPPLY BASES BATTERED   ALLIED BOMBERS CLOSE WEEK OF VICTORY WITH BLASTS AT PORTS.

Allies Win Full Mastery In Air   Ports And Bases Pounded At Will

Italian Mainland Gets Stiff Blows  Allies Continue   Allies Continue Bomber Attacks

U.S. and RAF Score One of War’s Greatest Triumphs  Airmen Blast Number Of Enemy’s Most Valuable Airfielde

U.S. and RAF Score One of War's Greatest Triumphs  Airmen Blast Number Of Enemy’s Most  ‘tstdeeetkel. Affe re

BOMBERS ATTAUK MAINLAND PORTS   Allied Air Units Virtually Clear Mediterranean Skies of Axis Planes; Keep Up Non-stop Attacks

Blueprint of Postwar Order Shown   Congress Hears of Vast New Plan Of American Life

CRADLE-T0-GRAVE SUGTAL SECURITY PLAN TO CONGRESS   Far-Reaching Proposals Presented by Roosevelt With Request for Consideration.   LAWMAKERS MANIFEST LITTLE ENTHUSIASM   Program Would Make U. S. Partner in Many Businesses With Labor Shar. ing in Manarvement.

BROAD NEW SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM OUTLINED BY FDR   Plan For ‘Freedom F rom Want’ Given Concress.

SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM GIVEN   Roosevelt Offers Congress Vast Cradle-to - the-Grave Plans; Sketches Blusprint Of Post-War America

REPORT GIVES VAST PROGRAM FOR SECURITY   Congress Gets Proposals of Resources  Planning Board

New Cradle-To eGrave Progratr To Congress  © Roosevelt Blueprint for Post-War U. 5.

Roosavelt Lays Far Reach.  ing Cradle - to - Grave  - Proposals Before Legislators—Full Considera‘ton Acked

Government Would Be Partner in Businesses and Labor Would Share in Management

Resources Planning Board's Proposals for Post-War Natior Are Also Outlined

Government Would Regulate Life From Cradle-To-The Grave Under Program   ROOSEVELT PROGRAM IS COOLLY RECEIVED

Includes Blueprint Of Post-War America, Asks Consideration By This Congress STEPS PROPOSED BY PLANNING BOARD  Labor Would Share Shop Management, Public Works Urged

Congress Cool To Wider Social Security Program   Little Chance of Action This Session, Senator George Says

perunily for People Goal; Action Urged   €ongressmen Lack.’ Enthusiasm; Senator Sees No Action Soon

SOCIAL SECURITY — HOPES INCLUDED   Blueprint of Post-War America Shows Government In Partnership With Businesses: Labor to Share

A LIBERAL PLATFORM   F Willkie Will Accept the Republican Party Nomination

WILLKIE WANTS LIBERAL POLICY BY REPUBLICANS   Former Presidential Nominee Outlines Five Planks In Platform

Willkie Would Support Liberal GOP Platform   Replies to Query as to Whether He Will Be Candidate

Willkie Will Be Worker Or Candidate For G.O.P. It Party Becomes Liberal

Willkie Willing to be GOP  Nominee or Work in Ranks if  ..Party’s Platform is Libera

WILLKIE READY -~ (F GOP LIBERAL   Will Serve Either A Nominee or Worker in Ranks

‘Action On Bill To Boost Benefit Povments Of Dependents Postponed

ARMY DENIES LEWIS’ STOR}   Agents Not ‘Intimidating’ Coal Miners, Declare Officials.

NEGOTIATIONS DEADLOCKED   Operators to Certify Dispute Before War Labor Board Next Week

Burke Advises —WLB Coal Pact   Alternative Is Deadlock ‘Until Doomsday’

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Jap Ship Concentration Wilay Be Major Effort To Build Defenses

Interpreting  The War   Sicily Looks Logical As Stepping Stone To Occupied France

Fall Of islands Will Blockade Italy— —by Kirke L. olto}  Invaders Must Sneed To Sardinia, Corsica

Sardinia And Corsica Next Allied Objective   Nestern Sicily Logical First « Drive To Liberate Contir   First Advance Base Fe Continental France

Jap Destroyer Convoy Routed Off New Guinea   Bomber Foils Attempt To Reinforce, Supply Troops in the Area  WARSHIP SUNK

SCHOOL SYSTEM S GRITICIZED   ‘Educational Setup Failing ‘To Benefit Those Needing  It Most, Report Says

Education System Scored In Report   Fails To Benefit Those Needing It Most, Sloan Savs.

Official, Show Werry   Carl L. Owens, Hopkins,  Commissioned an Ensign

ALLENPORT MAN COMMISSIONED AS AN ENSIGN   John N. Scott In Class Of 127¢ New Ensigns At . New York

GERMANS REPORTED REELING BACK IN CRIMEAN RETREAT LAST RAIL LINE BROUGH)  WITHIN EASY ARTILLER'  BIpE RY PENG

ABOVE GRIMED   Reds’ 4th Ukraine Army Batters Close to Last Rail Exit of Foe.

GERMANS BEING ROLLED BACK INUTTER CONFUSION ALONG — CHOKED RETREAT ROADS   Fourth Ukraine Army Batters Way to Within & Miles of Last Rail Exit from Peninsula. Railway - Virtually Useless to Nazis :

RETREAT ROADSIN: RUSSIA CHOKED ~ WITHNAZITROOPS   Last Rail Exit From the Peninsula Is Under Artillery Fire   GERMANS POUNDED BY RED AIR FORCE

Germans Retreat in Confusion in Russia   Roads Chaked Above Crimea as Soviets Near Last Exit from Peninsula; Enemy Being Attacked Relentlessly.

Russians Block Only Railroad. From Peninsula   Nazis Attempting To Flee Death Trap Bombed Unmercifully

Germans Facing  Red Trap   Russians Near  Last Escape RR  SL — =< = a

Unable to Evacuate Large Force by Only: .:. Railroad From Crimea

Reds Almost Close Trap on the Crimea   Soviets Are Within Eight Miles of Last Railway Line of Escape—Nazis Choking Retreat Roads in Utter Confusion.

Russian Guns Command Last Railroad Line  Out of Crimea   Germans Retreat in Confusion Over Choked Roads

Nazi Route Of Retreat  Is Severed   Capture Of Perekop At Entrance Of Peninsula Closes Trap On Huge German Force

THOUSANDS OF GERMANS FACE SUDDEN DEATE   Soviets Annihilate Nazis in Area Above Crimea—Escape Path Neorrow

Germans in Crimea Facing Entrapment; Reds Near Railroad   Russians Within Eight Miles of Last Escape Railroad

Reds Pound Nazis, Fleeing In Confusion   Isthuuns* Railway From Crimea New Useless to Cermaus

GERMANS REPORTED REELING BACK IN CRIMEAN RETREAT   LAST RAIL LINE BROUGHT WITHIN EASY ARTILLERY FIRE BY REDS

Germans in Bad Plight as Roads In Area Choked   Russians Take Chaplinka, Making Railway Retreat Route Useless,   Fleeing Nazi Columns  Are Pounded From Air

RUSSIANS BRING ESCAPE LINE UNDER FIRE   Moscow Reports Nazis Reeling Back in Utter Confusion With Escape Virtually Blocked   POUNDED BY FLIERS   Soviels Caplure Chaplinka, in Easy Artillery Range of Vital Railway. Line

GERMANS ARE IN TURMOIL ALONG CRIMEA   Red Army Running Roughshod Over Nazi Troops

Germans Admit’ Breakthrough In Crimea Aree   Ragsians “Also Suffer Big . Losses In Flank Attacks . By. Nazi’ Mobile Forces

FLEEING NAZIS CHOKE ROADS IN UTTER CONFUSION   RUSSIANS ADVANCE TO WITHIN 8 MILES OF LAST RAIL EXIT

NAZIS REELING BACK IN UTTER CONFUSION NOW   Russian Forces Within Fight Miles Of Enemy's Last Rail Exit From  Peninsula; Fleeing Germans Pounded.

Germans Flee In ‘Confusion Above Crea   Retreat Roads Choked 4 as ; Russians’. Fourth Ukraine Army. Pushes Way. to Within. Eight Miles of. Last Rail Exit

Nazis Choke Retreat Road   Russians in Eight Miles Of Last Crimean Rail Escape~

Nazis In Retreat Above Crimea  rer eee, . Be   Last Escape Railway Shelled By Russians

EW CRISIS SEEN IN RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND FINLAND      Most of U. S. Legation Staff Leaves Helsinki; Fear New Nazi Coup   FINNS ARE QN THE -SPOT

FINNS ‘ON SPOT IN LATEST CRISIS   Withdrawal Of Americans Regarded As Squeeze

A Threat Is Seen in Finland Move   Seen in Diplomatic Quarters as a Factor Behind Helsinki Crisis.

Tiny Nation Involved In An_ International Triangle; U. S. Move Puts On Pressure

NAZIS MAY OCCUPY FINLAND   To Make “European Fortress” 100 Per Cent Pro-Axis.

FINLAND MUST DECIDE WHICH SIDE TO TAKE   Expect U. S. Move To Force Showdown in War Triangle

NEW FINNISH CRISIS HINTS HITLER COUP   Showdown Believed Near In Little Country’s Strange Position In Conflict

WAR OF NERVES IS APPLIED 10 FINLAND NOW   Diplomatic ‘Squeeze’ Put On By Allies as American Legation Staff Leaves   NAZI INVASION IS FEARED   Imminence of Attack on Germany by Allies Makes Hitler Desperate

GERMAN COUP THREAT SEEN FOR FINLANE   Speculation Aroused That Scandinavian Peninsula May Figure in Allied Offense Plan

Berlin Gets Own Dosage   Fear of Nazi Coup Seen Behind Finland’s Crisis

To Force Showdown   Hitler. May Force Finns into 100 Percent Participation with - Axis

THREAT OF NAZI COUP BELIEVED FACING FINLAND   Seen in Many Quarters as Forcing Showdown in Helsinki’s Wartime In ternational Triangle   U.S. ACTION VEILED   Washington Merely Says  Departure of Legation Staff to Stockholm Is “ Administrative’ Move

Kxpeet German Blow At Finns   “Small Republic May Cut Herself Off Completely From United States.

SEE SHOWDOWN OVER FINLAND   Observers Point to Threat of Nazi Coup

Germany Or U.S. are Her  Alternatives   U.S. Fails to Comment But Observers See a Showdown Developing

COUP IN FINLANE   Reported Inspired By Hitler’s Growing Fears For His “European Fortress” and Designed To Set Up 100% Pro-Axis Govern ment.

Finnish Showdown May Be Near; U. S. Legation Departs   Expected To Force Final Action In Nation's War Triangle; Strict Censorship Clamped On Dispatches From Findland

Showdown Neal In Helsinki’s War Triangle   Threat of Nazi Coup in Finland Seen by Diplomats

FINNISH SITUATION HOLDING ATTENTION INU. 5. CAPITAL  LABOR NEWS COMES TO FRONT WITH NEW

Final Showdown Coming In Helsinki. ... . Nazi Coup Seen As Likely In Finland

WAR TRIANGLE EXPECTED 10 COME TO HEAD   Nothing Revealed By U. S State Department   NEW ACTIVITY   May Be War Of Nerves To Get Finns Out Of ied Other Theories

FINNISH CRISIS MAY BE RESULT GF NAZI THREAT   Think Hitlerian Plans for < 100 Per Cent Pro-Axis Gov ‘ernment In Finland Wil Bring a Showdown

Crisis Near and May Have Effect on Stand of Finns For or Against Hitler in  - War on Russia.

THOUSAND TONS OF BOMBS ON BERLIN   Followed By Heavy Raid Last Night On Sub Base At  Saint Nazaire

~ NAZI SUB BASE AT ST. NAZAIRE   ‘Hundreds Of Tons Of  Bombs Poured On Sub marine Pens By British Flyers.

Secret Session Lasts Two Hours   5000 Fascists Reported Under Protective Arrest Thruout Italy

British War Cabinet Talks [talian Peace   Called Into Extraordinary Session Early Today To Brpaiiss Reported Peace Feeler Or To Set Deadline For A Reply To Allied =  Tarme- Binte Apa Snvaadine In Teale

London Paper Says Italy  May Be Out Of War Today   High British Officials Told To Stand By For Developments In Riot-Torn Italy

BRITAIN'S WAR CABINET GETS SUDDEN CALL   Members Routed From Bed For 2-Hour Meeting

British War Cabinet Meets Twice Amid Peace Speculations   ‘Ministers May Be Considering italian Situation

Cabinet, Chiefs of Armed Forces Get Orders to Stand By For Possible Week-End Events

British Cabinet In Session To Consider Crisis   Sudden Call Leads To Speculations As To Possibility of New Developments Following Eisenhower’s Offer

Reason For Conference May Have Been to Discuss Peace  Feeler Offered By Italians   Also Might Have Concerned Deadline for Reply to Allied Terms—Cab7 inet Aroused From Sleep  fae Gaccinn

QVERTURES FOR ARMISTICE ARE EXPECTED SOON   Badoglio’s Troops Said To Have Clashed With Reinforced German Divisions   Citizens Want Peace

1:30a.m. Parley At 10 Downing   Observers Speculate on Peace Bid

Midnight Parley Indicates Major Break In Italy   Churchill And War Cabinet Meet Twice, Once At 1:30 A.M.; Italians Ignore Order

Heads of Fighting Services Also Told to be in Readiness   PAPER SAYS ITALY TO QUIT WAR TODAY   Churchill Keeps Silence as Momentous Word Awaited

Ordered to Stand By During Weekend  For Developments; Report Further German and italian Clashes

LLL LALA LEAL STC  Italian Peace Offer Hinted   British Cabinet Stands By After Two Hasty Sessions

Grave Developments Predicted in Neutral Dispatches as Unrest in italian Cities Spreads

British Cabinet Scans New Developments   Churchill’s Aides Stand Watch; England Silent

Ministers Called From Beds For  Special Session   Radio Moscow Says Goering Has Arrived Secretly In Rome

LONDON KEEPS SILENGE OVER HASTY PARLEY   Straws In Wind Indicate Italian Answer to Allied General's Terms May Have Been “No”   TROOPS REFUSE TO HALT PEACE PARADE   Demonstrators In Italian City Unmolested; Military Commander Oust ed by Badoglio

Allied Bombers Strike Continent Again in Night; Continue Sicily Advance   Allies Cut Deeper in Center of Axis Line on Isle; Berlin Looks With Particular Interest on North Italy; Reds Take 20 More Populated Places in Orel Drive

LONDON WAR CIIIEFS ALSO PUT ON ALERT   Anticipated Developments Over Week-End, Apparently Concerning Italy, .Bring Action.   CHURCHILL SILENT ON THE SITUATION   One Newspaper Says “Italy May Be Out of War Tomorrow” — No Armistice Overtures. ©

Despite Official Confirmation Indications Were Meeting Linked Closely To Italian Situation   BRITISH APPROVE EISENHOWER PLAN

Churchill Calls Session Of Cabinet   Italian Withdrawal From Conflict Is» Believed Imminent

WAR CABINET KEPT ON DUTY BY CHURCHILL   BADOGLIO’S TROOPS AGAIN CLASHING WITH GERMANS

OFFICIALS SILENT AS TO REASOR   May Have Discussed Ital. ian Peace Feeler or Set Deadline for Badoglio.

British Cabinet Is Ordered To Stand By Over Sunday For Developments in War

ey EEE EERE Eee  CHURCHILL CABINET IN 2 SESSIONS   As Italian Affairs Near Crisis; One Session Held in Middle of Night; Rioting In Italy   Neutral Haven

Italian Peace Offer Hinted   British Cabinet Stands By After Two Hasty Sessions

Possibility That Leaders Discussed Italian Peace Feeler Moves  TWO HOUR MEETING Eden “Tells Commons Of  Government’ s Present Position

British Cabinet Members Expect An Early Move ‘   Badoglio Urges People to Wait With Patience

No Official Word Of Peace Is Issued   Marshal Badoglio Warns Italion Citizens That Negotiating Peace Terms Takes Time

CABINET PREPARES FOR PEACE TALKS   Prime Minister Churchill anc His Cabinet Met Twice Today.

ITALIAN TROOPS REFUSE TO FIRE UPONRIOTERS   U. S., Canadians Advance ji Sicily, May Trap Nazis at Cantania

Hamburg Blasted Again; Allies Making Progress In Sicily, Russia And Pacific

British War Cabinet In 2-Hour Session At 1.30 This Morning   Italian Situation Believed Under Discussion: Events There Moving Rapidly: Crackup Near

REAR ADMIRAL SAID MISSING ON TRANSPORT   Search Being Pressed For Huge Navy Airplanes

Admiral, Nine Other Officers (On Missing Plane   Pacific Fleet Submarine Chief Feared Lost; Second Plane Not Found

BIRTHDAY PARTIES LARGELY ATTENDED   Many Walk or Ride to Se cials in National Canital

Ball Crowds Are To Walk  Nov el Ideas Helping  oh Deccl..nt. Fo.

uge Cargo Of Butter Goes 0 Waste On Alaskan Beach   ee Hundred and Fifty Tons Spoiled Because It  ad To Be Left in Open for Lack of Storage  Space; Brine in Which it Was Packed Freezes and Barrels Break

REPORT WASTE   Business Men Say Huge Carg Of Butter Snoils In Alaska.

300 TONS OF BUTTER LEFT ON BEACH IN ALASKA, S CHARGE   Seattle Newspaper Makes Accusation in Interview

OME ORG CES SMR Me ee ee  3507 Tons of U.S. Buiter Left on Alaskan Beach, Spoils, Paper Is Told

HITLER FRANTIC NOW ~ FOR AID OF BALKANS   Indications Are That Germany Is In Desperate Need of Assistance from Her Satellites in Advance of Possible Invasion Through That Troubled Land After Mop-Up in Tunisia ke Camnlated

ADOLF HITLER SEEKING AID   Appears to Be Working Franticall to Enlist Aid cof Balkan Satellites in Advance of Possible Invasion,

HITLER WORKS TO GET BALKAN AID TO DEFEND EUROPE      Confers With Rumanian Premier — Will Meet Hungarian Prime Minister

HITLER WORKING FRANTICALLY 10 BOLSTER DEFENS   Germans Show Fear of Balkan Position—Satellites Uraed to Helin

Music-Therapy May Cure Coma Victim  California Child Has Been Asleep 65 Days

GIRL IS AROUSED BY VIOLIN MUSIC   Sleeping Sickness Victim Conscious Brief Time

Gandhi’s Condition Remains Grave As Protest Fast Enters 14th Day

SAY GANDHI MUST SOON EAT OR DIE   India Leader ‘Demonstrates Will. To Live On 14th y Day Of Fast -

MINE OWNERS DISPUTE, VALUE OF ILL. WAGEPAC'   Tell WLB Mode! Calls For Unjustifiable Increases

Says UMW Plan  Increases Wages   Appalachian Coal Workers In Opposition

MINE OWNERS OPPOSE WAGE SUGGESTION   Say It Would ~ _Not Lead to  Greater Production

Japs Admit Guerillas Continuing Resistance in Mountains Of Luzon

NAZIS FACE ‘LOSS OF OREL TO RUSSIANS   Russian Assault Forces Plunge Forward About Seven Miles

Seven-Mile Advance Made During Fighting Saturday  ® Foll Of Threatened German Base Expected  ape: Atece i Se eee bee

Allies Smash Attack, Gain On Huon Gulf   Japanese General Horii's Death By Drowning : Confirmed By MacArthur   GASMATA 1S BOMBED   New Battle Scene Is 135 Miles Up New Guinea Coast From Sanananda

NEW DRIVE IN GUINEA OPENS   Allies Defeat Jap Thrust In Huon Gulf Area

Alhes Lhrow Back Renewed  Jap Attack  General of Enemy’ Papuan Army Is

Jap Attack In Huon Area Is  Thrown Back   Attempt To Take Outposts Of Allied Forces Is Frustrated — Death Of Gen. Horii Confirmed

Heavy Defeat Administered To Attackers   Nipponese General Drowned; Allied Troops Pursue Enemy

MORALE SAGS AMONG NAZIS FIGHTING REDS   ENEMY CRACK-UP IN NEAR FUTURE IS PREDICTED

Morale of Nazi Troops Sinks   Enemy Crack-up Maj Not Be Too Distant

MORALE OF NAZIS IN RUSSIA LOW   SOME AUTHORITIES LOOK FOR GERMAN CRACK-UP ON EASTERN FRONT.

Soviet Drive Towards Kiev Gaining Force   Fall of Stalino Imminent Dispatches From Front Say

300 Towns Are Taken as Reds  Continue Push   Moscow Reports 10,000 Nazis Kalled and Gains to 15 Miles Yesterday.   Stalino Is Expected To Fall Momentarily

ADVANCE 25 MILES BEYOND KONOTOP BASE   .Forces Are Now Within  100 Miles of Objective  _—Other Units Gain in  ' Four More Key Sectors of the Front.

SOVIETS CRACK INNER STALINO DEFENSE LINES   Summer Offensive Batters Nazis On 5 Key Sectors Along 600-Mile Front   RACE ON TOWARD KIEY   10,000 Germans Killed. 300 Towns And Villages Seized In Advances

ACTION TAKE FOR HARMONY      New Lend-Lease Agreement Signed; Russia to Do More for Allies.   ENVOYS ARE IN MOSCOW

WILL: AID RUSSIA   British, U. S. mudd Canad. Promise To Send More  _ Munitions

1). §. Moves fo Help Soviet Relations   New Lease-Lend Aareement Signed

Russia To Get More Materials   ..Under New Four-Power Lend-Lease Agreement

WILL AID RUSSIA   British, U. S sid Canad: Promise To Send More  Munitions

POSTWAR PLAN APPROVED BY SENATE GROUE   No ‘Change Made In Connally Resolution

Post-War Bill - IsGiven Okel   Senate To Start Debate on Measure Pledging Nation To Cause of World Peace

RESOLUTION (a ADOPTED WIT NO ALTERATION   Rejects Proposals to Clarify and Strengthen U. S. Statement.

SENATORS OKAY PEACE LEAGUE   Committee Approves House Post-War Bill  Without Change

Ie W ashington— Senate Committee Passes Postwar Resolution As Is

World Peace Move Okehed   Senate Committee Endorses Connolly Resolution “As Is”

CONNALLY PROGRAM  FOR WORLD PEACE I  APPROVED THURSDAY SENATE FOREIGN RELA TIONS COMMITTEE FAVORS RESOLUTION 20 TO 2

Senate Group Approves Connally Resolution on U.S. Part in Keeping Peace

Group Favors  Connally Bill   Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves World Cooperation.

Senate Peace Pledge Ok'd In Committee   Cennally Resolution Adopted; Changes in Text Rejected

RW 7 B44 oe eS Oe lOO CUD ee tl ail  JAPS CLOSED DEAL FOR NEXT WAR AT PARIS CONFERENCE.

JAP DEALS OF 1919 REVEALED   Notes Of Paris Peace Conference Are Published

JAPS PREPARED FOR CONQUEST PACIFIC IN 49   Paris Peace Conference: -Reeards’ Disclése How Tokyo Managed a Deal  for Strategic Islands

STALIN ASKS ALLIES HELP AUSCIA MORE   Declares Red Army Is Carrying Whole Weicht of War.   RELATIONS MAY BE IMPAIRED    Discloses That 9 Million Nazis Have Been Put   Out of War.

STALIN'S LONE, WOLF REMARKS EXPECTED TO BRING HOWL FOR QUICK ALLIED INVASION PLAN

F ederalAgencies To Decide on  Milk Inerease   Fate in Dark in View Of Government Move For Subsidy Proeram

State Board Net Interested in _ Milk Subsidy   Commission Goes Ahead With Plans for Price Boost Oct. 1

Allies Open Up In Italy   Fifth Army Opens Major Attack; E:ghth Pounds Eight  Miles Ahead.

Fifth Army Begins Major  Attack In Drive Ori Rome  Massed Artillery Lays Down Blazing Barrage Ahead Of Advancing Allies As Drive Beains

Pay-As-You-Go System Before House Group For Thorough Study;  Problems Numerous Re BRANT TSR wa Te WMAY

JAPANESE ISLANDS BOMBED BY FLIERS   Attack Concentrated at Northern Tip of New Britain Coast

JAP DEFENSES ON NEW BRITAIN COAST ARE HIT   Admiral Declares That Rabaul Is No Longer Tenable To Enemy   AUSSIES ADVANCING TOWARD WAREO BASE

Yankee Bomber: Blast Japanese   New Britain Bases Heavily Attacked _

Yank Bomhs Shoot Up Jap Island   New Britain Coast Blasted Monday By Heavy Assault

ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST JAPANESE SUPPLY BASES   Air Force Scatters 150 Tons Of Bombs On Variety Of Targets; Bombing Attacks Augmented By Fierce Strafing

Heavy and Medium Bombers Attack ‘Japan's New Britain Supply Ports

NUMBER DIE IN CRASHES OF 4 FORTS   Entire Crew Of One Killed; Six Missing; Others Use ‘Chutes

TOO MANY SPUDS   WEA Has So Rig a Supply Potafoes May Go To Waxte.

TOO MANY POTATOES   Federal Support Gets Results Beyond Expectations

Restaurant Man Tells of Plight   Dishwasher Gets More Pay Than-He

Bond Drive Near  Goal in Nation   Campaign Now at 80 Percent Mark

Progress Better In Bond Campaign   Sales Total Today More Than Million

Third War Loan 80 Per Cent Met   Time of Campaign  Extended To October 2

NELSON SITS TIGHT AT HEAD \OF WPB TABLE   End of War or Appearance of “A Better Man” All That Will Move Him

COMMITTEE TO APPROVE FLYNN   Favorahle Vote Predicted Tho Fight May Be Continued Before Senate

Cees eee <> OOO LEO EEE ee  New Labor StAbilization Pian Is Now In Effect

Labor Freeze Now Effective In The Valley   Full Instructions Are Received Here

NEW DRIVES ON JAPANESE LOOM   Meanwhile MacArthur Keeps Applying Pressure To Tojo’s Fighters

Forecast New Blows At Japs   Large-Scale Attacks In Scattered Pacific Areas Are Indicated  ne. FSA Leer a .. a. 6

Badoglio Regimes Scored For Delay by Allied Radio;Peace Rumors Receive Jolt   Hopes Still Held That Surrender Terms Will. Be Met; Disorders Still Spreading Throughout Northern Italy

Allied Warning Quashes Report of Peace Talks °   Italians Warned To  Stay Away From All” Military Targets “**

KING PRIME MINISTER  i B SREETS ee BEE 2 ee  MAY FOLLOW IL DUCE: PEOPLE STILL RIOTING

ALLIED MOVE SEEN AS AID TO UPRISINGS   Pressure on Badoglio Grows

CIANO, MUSSO’S SON-IN-LAW HAS. QUIT POST TOO   Swiss Say Badoglio Has Drafted Four-Point Plan to Take Haly Out of the War, . Return to Neutral Statie il

Waynesburg Jurors Are Given Recess  Carmichaels Man Is Triec  On Murder Charge

Air Battles Rage In Russia As Armies Jab At Each Other   Red Fliers Successfully Fight Off Nazis; Lines Remain About Same

RUSSIA FIGHTS BATTLES IN AIR   Fighters Successfully Turn Back Nazi Raiders

RUSSIAN AERIAL WAR INCREASES   RED ARMY FLYERS STRIKE AT NAZI SUPPLY COLUMNS

AIR BATTLES OVER RUSSIA FRONT SHOW INCREASE THURSDAY  RED ARMY’S FLIERS _ HOLDING OWN IN GROW-

RED AIRMEN HI NAZI SUPPLY COLUMNS   Land Armies Jab At Each Other in Sectors of Long Line

STEPPED UP AIR BATTLES REPORTED OVER:SOVIET FRONT   Nazi Supply “Columns . Again Come Into the Sights ‘of Red Airmen—Land . Armies Jab at Each Other .;

Fighting In Air Sharpest Of War   Reds Hammering Hard The German Supply Columns

AIR ACTIVITY ON RED FRONT   Gilmore Says Best-Liked Americar Plane in Airacobra—New Fight ing Along Donets

AERIAL FIGHTS INCREASING ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Red Fliers Again Concen trating On Nazi Supply Columns; Fighter Planes Score On Foe   LAND ACTION DULL   Armies Jabbing At One An: other In Various Sectors: New Battles In Donets Area

AIR BATTLES IN RUSSIA HEAT UP   Increasing Aerial Activity Noted; Russians Concentrate On Nazi Supply Columns.

AIR BATTLES ON INCREASE OVER RUSSIAN FRONT   Ground Forces See Little Action Due. To Weather

AIR BATTLES OVER RUSSIA FRONT SHOW INCREASE THURSDAY  RED ARMY’S FLIERS HOLDING OWN IN GROWING AIR ACTIVITY

Gulfport District War Loan Bond Drive Over $250,000  Committee Confident of Success

Se REENEE on. ae gece ENS  Nazi Guards Submit to Yank War Prisoners

GOPPER WAGE BOOST QENIED   WLB Declares General Increase Would Be Unstabilizing Influence.

Ruml Plan Hit By La Follette   Urges Forgiveness Feature Be Abolishec

Ruml Plan Woult Increase Levies  LaFollette Reports His Viewpoints

Third Largest City In Russia Under Attack   Germans Already Reported Fleeing In Face Of Soviets As Capture Of Smolensk Is Confirmed; Arc Clamped On Gomel

Germans Unable to Halt Rolling Red Offensive   Soviet Troops Battle for Dnieper Crossings North and South of Kiev; Take 5 Towns

OUVIETS ORIVE GEHNAND DAGK ALL ALONG LINE   Russian Summer Offensive Moves On Despite Bitter Resistance Of Nazis

Reds Battle Germans in  Kiev Suburbs   Russia's Third Largest City Being Abandoned

Capture Of Kiev Is Expected Soon   Bottle Of Dnieper River Rages Along Wide Front Following Russ Canture OF Smolensk

REPORT NAG FLEEING FROM UKRAINE BASE   Reds Seize Smolensk After Smashing Germans Back Block by Block.   MOSCOW SAYS 4,100 NAZIS KILLED IN DAY

River Fight Raging On 300-Mile Front   _Red Crossings Believed. Imminent; Stalin Announces Fall of Smolensk:

British-American Conference Slated   Top Diplomats Will Talk After F. R.-Eden Meeting

BRITION-AMERICAN CONFERENCE TODAY   Top Diplomatic Figures o! Two Nations Meet at White House.

BRITAIN TO. FIGHT ON UNTIL ENEMIES ARE ALL CRUSHED   Eden Premises England Will Remain ‘in. War Until Japs are Defeated

FEAR LEWIS ~ PLANS GALL FOR STRIKE   MINE WORKERS LEADER MAY. FORCE SHOWDOWN IN C@NTROVERSY OVER WAGES

MINE STOPPAGE MAY 1 FEARED   NWLB Intervenes as Lewis Confers With Soft Coal Operators

Lewis Offers To Work With Ickes To Find Some Sort O; A Compromise

LEADER OFFERS TO NEGOTIATE WITH ICKES   Proposal Comes Too Late, However, to Avoid Shutdown

Eastman Tells of Labor Troubles Rail Operations   Lists Manpower Shortage, Severe Winter Weather Among’ Hindrances To Railroad Operations.

Heaviest Blows Hits  NewGuinea   Busy Supply Center Wrecked By Rain. Of Explosives,  Unopposed.

Japanese Base On New Guinea Is Wiped Out  ~ Heavy Air Raid ' Destroys Base

United Nations Relief Cash May Be Spent in Donating Countries   Financial Plan Provides for Purchases Inside Own Borders; U. 5. Share Set af $1,500,000,000

LOW MILEAGE CARS GET ONLY RETREADS   Cars with - 560- -plus Ration Get New ‘War’ Tires

‘WAR’ TIRES WILL BE AVAILABLE MARCH 1   Motorist Who Drive Over 560 Miles Monthly Eligible

Prelude to _ NewFront Is Now On   AERIAL OFFENSIVE PRE. PARES WAY TO INVASION BY ALLIES,

fat Court Of Honor -To Be Held Friday, Mar. 12   ored There That ‘ll Be A New gle Scout

—AIR POWER—  ALLIED AERIAL MIGHT CROWIN   Greater Armadas To Be Sent To Blast Germany, Occupied Countries

Mounting Losses Termed Sign Of Allied Air Might   Numerical . Losses © OF Planes Over, Europe. I: Higher, But Rate Of Losses Not:

Allied Losses Show Air Might   Numerical Losses Higher, But Rate Is Not. It Is Said

\Air Force Officers Say Bomber Losses \Tust a Sien of Increasing Aerial Might

(Mounting Losses of Allied Heavy Planes, ‘Officers Say, Is Sign Of Increasing Might

Mounting Loss of Bombers Called Sign of Increasing Allied Power Over Europe

‘LOSSES OF BOMBERS SHOW AIR POWER GAIN   Sending of Greater Aerial Armadas To Blast Germans Indicated by Losses

SIGN OF GREATER STRENGTH IN AIR   Mounting Losses Mean Increasing Allied Air Might, Officers Say

MOUNTING LOSSES OF ALLIED BOMBERS SIGN OF STRENGTH  _ THEY MEAN THAT AMERI CA AND BRITAIN SENDING OUT MORE PLANES

Sign of Allied Might in Air   Number of Planes Lost Necessarily Great As Air Offensive Mounts

Sign Of Increase  In Allied Might   More Bombers Are Lost But Many More Seeing Action   GERMANY STILL TAKING A LICKING

ALLIED AERIAL MIGHT GROWING      Heavier Losses Indicate Increasing Numerical Strength

Greater Losses Of Bombers Over Europe Sign Allied Air Might Grows

Losses Indicate Growing Allied Air Might... .  Total Airplane Losses  Mount--Rate Does Not

GREATER MIGHT BY ALLIED AIR FORCES IS SEEN   Reason for Mounting Losses of Heavy Bombers Over Europe, it Is Pointed Out

ALLIED AERIAL LOSSES KEPT IN SAFE. RATIC   Bombers Shot Down Increase but Bombs Dropped, Enemy Planes Destroyed, Race Far Ahead

PLANE LOSSES UP--BUT RATIO MUCH SMALLER   Heavier Bomber Attacks Reason Officers Say

Yanks, British Pummel Europe   Ceaseless Day-Night Bombing Continues

Fortresses Blast Great Enemy Airplane Centers  : Germans Again Expect Major Assault As Allies Cut Loose

Forts Pound At Paris Outskirts   29 Nazis Downed In Day's Battles

Fortresses Hit Plane Factory   Western Europe Is Heavily Blasted

SUPREME COURT SAYS TAXPAYERS NOT INFORMED   Rules County Court’s Overdraft Not Set Forth

BITUMINOUS ODDS GROWING   U.S. Coneiliators Not “Able to Reconcile Differences

TIME RUNNING OUT ON MINERS’ PAY HIKE FIGHT   Negotiations Between Unionists and Operators Continue Deadlocked as  Recess Is Taken   STEELMAN ANXIOUS   U.S. Conciliator Says “Time Is Getting Very Short, and Situation Correspondingly Serious”

Compromise  ON Tax Plan   Year's Income Tax May Be Skipped Under New Proposal

SEE COMPROMISE ON TAX PROGRAN   Possibility That Republicans May Compromise On Abatement of Around 50% of One Year’s In come Taxes.

House May Find lax Compromise  Plan ‘Would Abate Half Income Tax  >. weweaar ere asrewT es asta =

COMPROMISE MAY BE REACHED ON TAX PLAN   , Bi-Partisan Group  Making One Last Try To Bring About  Avcreement.

Senatorial Demand For Open Sessions of Food Conference   Parley Is Premature i People Can’t Be Told, Sen. George Says

Ktforts For A Tax Program Boe Down   Agreement, If Any, May Be For 50 Pet. Abatement

Compromise On Tax Plan Is Possible  Abatement of 50 Per Cent Of One Year’ ’s _ Taxes

Disney Foresees Tax Compromise  Two Party Meeting Set For Tonight

COMPROMISE ON TAX BILL SOUGHT   Abatement of 50 Per Cent of Year's Levy May Be Part of Agreement.

HALF AYEARIN INCOME TAXES MAY BE SKIPPED   Possibility of Such a Compromise Between Republicans and Democrats Developing   Bi - Partisan ‘ ‘Compromise Group” Encounters Vir-_ tually Complete Collapse Yesterday

Compromise On Tax Plan  Is Possible   Abatement of 50 Per Cent Of One Year’s Taxes May Be Accepted

Skip-Year Plan May Be Settled By Comproimisé   New System Would Drop Half A Year’s Levies; Agreement Seen Today

50 PER CENT TAX DISCOUNT IS POSSIBLE      Compromise Group Believed Nearing Agreement on Half Abatement for 1942—Another Conference’ Tonicht.

May Abate 50 Percent  of Taxes      Possibility Develops Compromise Committee Will Agree on Forgiving Part of Taxes

Fail to Find Compromise In Tax Meet   Disney Says Conferees Appear Nearer An Agreement

Tax Abatement Agreement Nea  Compromise Not Yet Made, but Forgiving Half of Levy Gains

Still Chance Of Tax Peace   Republican Leader Declares Today To Settle Compromise Question.

BOMBER CRASH BLAZE TOLL 29   Fire Flares Anew in Packing Plant Causing Death of Fireman

PRODUCTION IN 4 KAISER YARDS IS HALTED BY STRIKE   Machinists Involved tn Juris dictional Dispute Stay Away from Jobs.

Kaiser Shipyard. Machinists Strike   Merchant. Ship Production Slowed

Yank Soldiers, Playing Part Of Nazis, Surprise British In Battle Maneuvers

AMERICANS PROVE FITNESS IN - SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE BATTLE   Officers In England Praise Speed, Precision And Ag‘gressive Punch Of Doughboys In Maneuvers Sim  ulating Invasion Of European Continent

Audacious Americans Exhibit Skill They Will Use in European Invasion. Score High in Training

Alibi Offered For de Marigny At Nassau Trial   Marquis on Stand Finds His Story Is Questioned

ALIBI! WITNESS IS FLUSTERED   Statements Conflict m De Marigny Case

Friend Supports  — de Marigny Story  Was At Home At Time Of Murder, Claim

Marquis Fails To Aid Defense Of De Marieny   Crown Shows Conflict In Statements Made By Companion Of Accused Man

GERMANS DECLARED BE TAKING STRONG STAND IN BALKANS  EFFORTS BEING MADE  TO SMASH YUGOSLAV PARTISAN TROOPS

Guerrillas Try For More Coast   Yugoslavs Battle On 160-Mile Front

Nazis Trying To Halt Guerrillas Throw Divebombers Into  BE samt Gitano.

Nazis Apply. Heavy Pressure In Yugoslavia   Take Strong Measure: In Effort To Smast Guerrillas Assemblec Close To Fiume

4 LIVES LOST, 66 INJURED IN STATE MISHAPS   Two Duncan Residents Killed As Car Collides With A Train

Five Killed Over State   At Least 66 Injured As Ice Makes Highways Hazardous

Strikes Continue ‘To Halt Industry    Coal Mines And War Production Plants Are ¥ Now Closed Because OF Spreading Strikes

Work Halted By 36,000 In Auto Plant:   Strikes In Eastern Coal Fields

BENITO PROCLAIMS 2 NEW WAR ZONES IN SOUTHERN ITALY   Nervousness Over Course OF Next Allied Invasion Is Spread

Interoreting  The War   Chapter Unpleasant To Japs About To Be Unfolded

U. S. Heavy Bombers Direct More Bombs At Targets in France   BEAUMANT LE ROGER. ST. NAZATRE HIT  RAF Attacks Convoy, Sinks Two Nazi Ships And Another Beached

J. $. Heavy Bombers Raid St. Nazaire And Beaumont Le Roger; Two Foe Ships Are Sunk By RAF

STRONG FORCE HITS AIRFIELD AT BEAUMONT   Bombing Results ‘Good’ On Both Targets; 2 German Vessels  Sunk By RAF   New Blows Indicated

REVEALS NIP FLEET 1S IN TRUK AREA   Japs Lose 30 Planes In Attack On Milne Bay

Jap Invasion Again Menace To Australia   Vast Transport Fleet And Combat Force  In Readiness   ONLY 3 DAYS AWAY   Huge Air Force Is Also Believed Assembled By Nipponese

IS MAINTAINED CONSTANTLY A TRUK, THREE DAYS SAILING FRO NEW GUINEA; BAG MORE .. .  TAP PI ANES

Massing of Naval, Air Units Heralds Savage Onslaught   Great Fleets Sighted at Truk and  Rabaul; Enemy Loses 30 Planes in 100-Craft Assault on Guinea Ales

Australia in Grim Danger of Attack by Japs   Air Minister Makes Statement

GREAT ONSLAUGHT BY JAPS 1S FEARED   Air Commander Says Enemy Has Too Many Airplanes In South Pacific.

AUSTRALIA IN DANGER SAYS “AIR OFFICIAL   Great OnSlaught Impen: -ding From Japanese Hordes, Warning

JAPS MASSED FOR ATTACK, AUSSIE SAYS   Peril to Australia Great As in 1941, Reports Air Minister

Great Enemy Fleet Poised at Truk Base   We Are Outnumbered, Says Air General

Australia in Peril, Air Leader Says   Japs Lose 30 Planes in New Guinea Attack

MILITARY SITUATION IN CHINA BRIGHTENS   New Offense Is Believed To Depend on Reserves

JAP DRIVES IN CHINA FAILED   Brighter Picture Of Military Situation There Painted Bv Chinese.

TELLS BROWN DURING FOOD SUBSIDY ROW      Sénate Group Hears Need For More  Rollbacks

Claims Meat Shortage Due To OPA Rules   Taft Attacks Efforts To Roll Back Prices And Brown Points To Heavy Army Purchases

OPA Criticized By Taft for Scarcity of Meat   Packer Buying Halted on Major Markets

Brown Asserts More Subsidies  Are Necessary   Taft Charges OPA Program Already Has ‘Demoralized’ Markets  HITS ‘ROLL BACK’  Declares Civilians Will Be Without Meat in Month

TAFT CRITICIZES PRICE ROLLBACK   CONTENDS IT WILL DEMORALIZE MARKETS AND CAUSE SHORTAGE

No Meat for Civilians, Is  ‘Taft Charge   Senator and OPA Chief Engage in Heated Debate Over Subsidy Plan

Price Chief Fears More Increase ‘In Living Costs   KKK OK OPA) Boss Will “Clean Up Mess’

TART WARNS OF MEAT SHORTAGE   Ohio Senator Declares OPA Program Is Demoralizing Markets   NO FOOD ‘CZAR’   President Roosevelt Reported Opposed To Congressional Plea

HEATED DEBATE MARKS HEARING OVER SUBSIDIES   Taft Assails Brown’s Arguments for Payments to Roll Back Prices:

Taft Criticizes Brown's Efforts  Save Natian Faces   Says Nation Faces Meat Shortage

Senators Tilt With Brown On Subsidies   Price Policies Mean No Meat, Taft Declares

Rollback Scored By Sen. Taft   Markets Demoralized by .Program, He Says; Sees '. Meat Shortage Ahead   DUE TO NEEDS OF ARMY, BROWN SAYS   Senator and OPA Chief in  Sharp Clash on the Subsidy Propram

ROLLBACK IN FOOD PRICES   Ohio Senator Declares Civilians Will Soon Go Meatless

FOR SHORTABES   Ohio Republican Senator Bitter In Criticisms Of OPA Policies   NO MEAT FOR CIVILIANS NEXT MONTH PREDICTED   OPA Administrator Brown Replies Army And Navy Taking 45 Per Cent

BROWN CALLED TO TESTIFY ON FOOD SUBSIDY   Foes of. New Food Price Program Decline Answer To Challenge

Taft Foreeasts Meat Shortage   Tells Brown OPA Has *Demoralized Market’

Sen. Taft and Brown Disagree On Rollbacks   OPA Administration Declares Subsidies Must Be Paid

SENATOR TAFT SCORES PLANS FOR SUBSIDIES   Says They Demoralize Markets, Predicts Lack of Meat

Rollbacks Defended By Brown OPA Is Blamed   OPA Is Blamed In Shortage Of Meat

Chief of OPA, Senators Clash Over Rollback   Brown Favors Policy Extension; Taft Says Markets Demoralizec

Ohio Senator Says Program Has Demoralized Markets And Will Leave Civilians Without Meat Next Month

Taft, Brown In Wordy Clash At Subsidy Hearing   Senator Says Demoralized Markets Mean No  Meat For Civilians.

Senate Blames Subsidies For Meat Shortage   Legislators Taft, Wherry Assert Packers Virtually Halting Purchases.   FOOD CZAR IDEA OUT

BROWN DEFENDS OPA SUBSIDIES   Senator Taft Blames Rollback Plan For Demoraliz ing Markets

Meatless July Predicted In Subsidy Quiz   Brown, Under Fire For ‘Demoralizing’ Market, Calls Payments Vital   TAFT SEES LACK   Solon Seeks OPA Funds Curb Aftér Roosevelt Bans Food Czar idea *

Direct Drive On Japan Forecast   Island-by-Island War Aimed at Tokyo Is Out, Says Knox

GROWING. OFFENSE ON JAPAN’S S BASES IN PACIFIC” SEEN   Secretary Knox’ Indicate: Strategy Now Involves Bold Thrusts At’ Enemy Aven

Allied Drive Against Japs From China Seen   Island-by-Island March Also Likely

CHINA IS PROBABLE NEW BASE   Attacks from Asiatic Mainland Seen As Possible As Campaign Plans Are Laid.

NO ISLAND TC ISLAND DRIVE AGAINST JAPAN   Churchill, F. R. Believed to Have Designated Points for Allied Invasion Action.

BOLD THRUSTS AGAINST JAPAN ARE PREDICTEL   Knox Explodes IslandBy-Island Drive Theory

Allied Drive At Japs Frem China Likely   Knox Discounts Plan of Island-by-Island Push Toward Tokyo

HINT AT DRIVE BASED ON CHINA   Knox Denies Nevy Plans Loag Island-By-Isiand Way To Tokyo.

Township Won't Vote Next Apri   Officers To Remain Or Job Another Year

F reight Trains Crash; One Dead   Minneapolis Brakeman Victim of Collision —

Great Reich War Center Left Ablaze   Hundreds of British Bombers Pound City; Suburb of Rome Also Raided By Allied Fliers: During the Night

RAF Resumes Attacks on  Ruhr Valley   Malta-Based Planes Also Bomb Suburhs of Rome

Big Nazi Inland Port Hard Hit   Suburb of Rome Also Attacked by British Bombers

RAF Bombers End Lull in Air Fighting With Heavy Raid on Nazi Steel City of Duisburg

STRONG FORCE POUNDS NAZI STEEL CENTER   Large Fires Result as Air Offensive Is Resumed

RAF Starts Huge Fires In Duisburg   Block-Buster Raid Staged ‘on Great German City

Adm. John Cunningham Becomes Commander O1 Fleet ln Mediterranean

Misery And Unrest Spreading In Italy   Nazis Seek To Force Beaten Allies Into Drarrtnarchin: lLtealiane Finkht Rack Hard   U.S. Develops Short-Range Heavy-Load Bombing Plane

Misery And Unrest Spreading In Italy   U. S. Develops Short-Range Heavu-Load Bombing Plane

[RADE POWER QF ROOSEVELT UNDER ATTACK   House Proposes to Apply Congressional Veto Rowers to Reciprocal Trade Pacts   PARTY-LINE FIGHT   Democrats Contend GOP Proposal Would Be ‘Kiss © of Death’ For Reciprocity Program ,

House Joins — Battle Over Trade Pacts   Republicans Seeking to - Recapture for Congress  Its Treaty Power

PARTY-LINE FIGHT OPENS IN HOUSE   Republicans Seek to Trip President’s Powers from Reciprocal Trade Acts 

REGISTRANTS SELECTED FOR INDUCTION BY DICKINSON COUNTY LOCAL BOARD

(25 CALLED IN JANUARY BY CO. SELECTIVE SERV   GROUP SENT TO INDUCTION CENTER THIS WEEK TO ENTER SERVICER

Murray and Green Pledge “No Strikes”   Lewis Silent; Coal Miners Expected To Return Monday

No-Strike Pledges Renewed By Heads of - Major Labor Unions   House Follows Lead of Senate in Enacting Anti-Strike Law Over Roosevelt’s Veto; Coal Production is Low .

CHIEFS OF ClO, AFL FLAY LAW   End Seen Monday Tc Miners’ Rebellion  To Lewis’ Edict

Labor Leaders Applaud Veto By Roosevelt   190,000 UMW Coa Workers Remain On Strike Despite New Law   17 FURNACES BANKED   Union Chiefs Consider Law Is A Result Of Congressional Displeasure

CIO, AFL Again Vow ‘No Strikes’   UMW Still Silent Following Passage Of New Measure

AFL, CIO Pledge Support To President Roosevelt; Renew “No-Strike” Pledge

No-Strike Promises Renewed      Green, Murray Say Unions Will Keep ou the Job

WAKE WAKE ISLAND BASE WRECKED — a BY GARRIER- BASED BOMBERS   AVY REPORTS 61 JAP PLANES  ‘DESTROYED. AND INSTALLATIONS BLASTED TO BITS BY ATTACK 

Counter-Attacks By Nazis Halted   Tunisian Fighting Largely in Air; French Advance Nearer Tripoli

NAZIS FALL BACK ALONG RUSS FRONT   Caucasus Offensive Is Within 10 Miles Of Georgievsik

No King, Dictator Can Govern People As Wisely As Selves, F. D. BR. Says

PRAISE GIVEN TO JEFFERSON   ROOSEVELT, IN DEDICATION ADDRESS, STRESSES [DEALS  OF, NATION'S TAIAD . ** PRESENT

Yanks And French Take Group Of Hills As Lull  Develops In Tunisia

U.S., FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY GROUP HILLS    Capture Commanding Position 12 _ Miles from Mateur as Lull Envelops Front Elsewhere   ITALIANS ON FRONT   Enemy Forces Withdraw Slighily af Some Points to Occupy Beiter Positions

Lull Developing Over Major Part Of African Front   Two Weeks Of Fierce Battles Have Left Both Sides Spent From Heavy Losseg

Yank-French Forces © Capture More Hills In Blow at Mateur   Allied Fighter Planes Beat Off Air Attack on Convoy; Giraud Sees Nazis Crushed in Africa’ This Month

YANKS AND FRENCH TROOPS QCCUPY A PRAIID AF HITS   Both Sides Spent And Suffering From Heavy Losses   ENEMY STILL FAR FROM CRACKING

Frenun froops Capfure Hills   Drive Forward to Tighten Pressure On Mateur, Bizerte; Lull Elsewhere

Soviet Infantry Advances Toward Novorissisk Base   Pushes Forward Under Cov. er Of Heavy Artillery Barrages Moscow Reports   ARTILLERY DUELS ON CENTRAL FRONT

Germans Seek To Stave Off New Disaster In White Russia; Lash Out In Counter Attacks Against U. S. Troops In Italy   NORWAY OBJECTIVES — ARE NOT IDENTIFIED

SLAVS JOIN IN ALLIED BALKAN AIR OFFENSIVE   Norwegian Raid First For U.S. Air Foree Since July 24

Munda Hit By 186 Tons Of BombsSunday  Record Raid of Pacific   Record Raid of Pacific War: No News Given On Ground Fighting

Munda Takes Real Pounding  Jap Base Target For 186 Tons of Bombs

South Pacific Air Attacks Intensified   Over 186 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Jap Positions at Munda, New Georgia  eae an ae Aa ake a Gai ark ane 4m # oe a oe oe

200 AMERICAN “PLANES BLAST -IAPSATMUND!   Mightiest Aerial Assault o Southwest Pacific Sees 186 Tons Loosed On Nipponese   AUSTRALIANS ACTIVE   Execute Heaviest Attach Yet Made On Japs At Gasinata; Break Up  Attack by Enemy

186 Tons Bombs Loosed on Japs in Munda Sortie  Mightiest Aerial Foray of War Is Tinleached Sunday

YANK BOMBERS IN MIGHTIEST ATTACK: OF WAR      200 Planes Blast Jap Base In Southwest Pacific

Munda Hit By 186 Tons Of BombsSunday   Record Raid of Pacific War: No News Given On Ground Fighting

Mightiest Aerial Assault In Southwest Pacific War; More Than 200 Planes Participated in Attack; Only One Failed to Return.

MUNDA BLASTED BY BIG ASSAULT   American Bombers Drop 186 Tons of Bombs on Japanese Base.

Mightiest Southwest Pacific Ass  Heavy Load Of Bombs Is Dropped On Mund

Munda Suffers Worst Bombinc   U. S. Air Forces Stage Record Attack

HEAVIEST BOMBING ATTACK OF WAR ON MUNDA AIR BASE  _ MORE THAN 200 PLANES ALL KINDS USED IN GIGANTIC RAID

DIFFICULT LIVES   Round The World Expanding Allied Raids Batter Essen And Munda

Americans Raid Japs On Munda   -186 Tons of Bombs Dropped Sunday

MUNDA HIT BY HEAVIEST AIR BLOW iN PACIFIC   ‘American Fliers Drop 186 Tons of Bombs on Japs, Over 200 Planes in Raid

War's Heaviest Assault Made Against Munda   Australian Fliers Bomb Airdrome In New Britain

JAPS BEATEN OFF BY YANK PATROLS EAST OF MUNDA   Clash Takes Place Three Miles From Aijirfield as Americans Move _ For ward From Beachheads.,   BATTLE FOR CONTROL ~ OF AIR SLACKENS   But Punishing Blows Are Dealt Sources of Supply of Important Nipponese Base.

Patrols Fight Near Enemy Air Base On New Georgia; Attempted Foe Landing on Rendova Repelled

U.S. Patrols Push Ahead Near Munda   Other Yank Forces On New Georgia Island ‘Consolidate Positions  ATR FICHT ST ACKENS

PATROLS CLASH WITH OUTPOSTS NEAR AIR BASE   Japanese Beaten Off In Skirmish Only Three Miles From Jap Stronghold   Landing Effort Foiled

Americans Go  Far Toward Big Jap Base   Enemy Attacks Fail to Halt Troops As March to Munda Continues; Air Battles Support Men on Ground

REPULSE JAPS NEAR MUNDA DROP BOMBS   Clash Involves U.5. Forces Which Had _ Established Landings To Pave Way For  Pincers Movement   3 Zeros Cowned

Marines, Army Patrols Gain on Nips   Americans Seek To Capture Munda Air Base

PATROLS CONTACT ENEMY QUIPOSTS   Beat Off Japs in Clash Three Miles From Munda   JAPS RAID RENDOVA   Make Futile Effort to Land ® From Barge on Islet Off Northeast Coast

SQUEEZE PLAY BY AMERICANS DOOMS MUNDA   LAND PATROLS CUT OFF NIPPONESE AT KEY BASE

Patrols Get Close to Big Jap Air Base   Nipponese Patrols Are. Beaten Back by American. Troops .

Jap Airfield Seen Object Of Assault   American Marine And Army Ground Patrols Push Forward To Feel Out Jepan Defenses

Advanced Patrols Beat Off Japanese in Engage-" ment   BATTLE FOR CONTROL  - OF AIR SLACKENED   Nine and Possibly Eleven Enemy Ships Are Destroved ©

365-TON RAID WRECKS JAP’ BSAE AT TARAWE   100 Bombers Take Part In Seven Hour Affair

REICH ATTACK ‘TERMED GOOD   Many Tons of Bombs Fall on Capital; British Lose 19 Planes

HEAVIEST PLANE ATTACK OF WAR ON CAPITAL CITY   Pilots Report  Much Damage In Night Assault

900 TONS OF BOMBS DUMPED ‘ON BERLIN GIVES NAZI CAPITAL HEAVIEST DOSE OF ALL-OUT WAR

Other Targets in West Part of Germany Hit as U. S. Planes Bomb Naples

REICH CAPITAL LEPTIN FLAMES BY HEAVY RAID   Nearly Two Thousand ‘ions of Bombs Dropped On German Metropoiis In Half An Hour   19 BRITISH PLANES FAIL TO GET BACK   Flier On Way Home Sees Fires From Bremen and Hannover; Berlin Acknowledges Fires

RAF FLIERS BOMB BERLIM   Continue Non-Stop of. fensive Against Western Europe

Raid Is Heaviest Made On Capital   19 Planes Lost As Allies Continue Non-Stop Aerial Offensive Against Axis; Germans Acknowledge Fires Started, 89 Killed And 213 Injured

RAF CONTINUES NON-STOP AIR RAIDS ON REICH   Berlin Heavily Hit; Fires Seen Many Miles Away

MISSING IN ATTACK   Thousands Of Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazi Capital

Fire Started by First Waves Seen by Late Arrivals for 20 Minutes Before Reaching Target; 19 Planes Lost

Continued Non-Stop Allied Aerial Offensive Against Western Europe and Western Germany.   NINETEEN PLANES FAILED TO RETURN   The Berlin Attack Was De. scribed as “a Heavy Concentrated Assault” in Clear Weather.

FIRE DAMAGES FORD FACTORY   Box Car Of Magnesium Chips Halts Aircraft Engine Products

Luxury Deliveries Doomed by Latest! ‘Gas’ Restrictions   ODT Orders 40 Per Cent Mileage Slash For Buses, Trucks and Taxis in 12 States In East; Priority List Being Prepared

GASOLINE RESTRICTIONS WILL HIT EAST HARDER THIS WEEK   Deliveries by Truck To Be Drastically Curfailed; Bus and Taxi Travel To Be Reduced

Reverses Gloom Anniversary of Hitler’s Power   British in Tunisia Still Pursuing Axis Armies; Tighten Hold  REDS VICTORIOUS Russians Capture Three  Italian Generals in Huge Bag

SOVIETS CAPTURE 40 MORE TOWN!   New Allied Gains Or 10th Anniversary 0} Hitler’s Rise   TIGHTEN POCKET   German General's Escape Corridor Threate ned By Allies

40 MORE TOWNS TAKEN BY REDS NEAR VORONEZH   Deep German Defenses Are Shattered and Nine More Nazi Divisions Trapped   SUB BASE BLASTED AGAIN   Japan, Too, Feels Avenging Might of Allies as Yanks Mop Up in Jungles

British Move  Into Tunisia   Conquest of Libya Completed; Tighten Corridor of Axis

—HITLER'S MANPOWER WANING—  Conquest Of Libya Ended   British Moving Into Tunisia; Russians Seize 40 More Towns West Of-Voronezh

Britain's Advance Libyan Units Are Now in Tunisia   Russians Regain 40 More Towns to West of Voronezh

ALLIES PUS INTO TUNISIA AS REDS ROUT AXIS   Deep German Defenses on 44 Mile Russian Front Are Shattered

BRITISH FORCES ENTER TUNISIA IN PURSUIT OF NAZIS   Great Red Army Drive Engulfs 40 More Towns in Russia; Lorient Bombed bv Raval Air Farce,

Nazi Escape Corridor Narrowed   German Troops Reported Held In Death Vise By Reds In Voronezh Area

REDS TAKE 40 MORE TOWNS IN OFFENSIVE   General Eisenhower in Denial of Any Dissension Between British, American Staffs.

British Eighth Army Moves Into Tunisia    Conquest of Libya Is Complete; Reds Capture 40 More Towns West of Veronezh; Allies Going All Out Against Nazi Undersea Raiders

U.S. Carrier Planes Start Fires in Bold Raid on Nauru Isle   Naval Fliers’ Attack ‘Intensifies Army  Bomber Thrusts at Japs’ Mid-Pacific Bases; Aussies Push Ahead in Solomons

Carriers Jom In Attacks On Island Base:   Task Force Moves Far Southwest Of Hawaii To Aid In Offensive In Gilbert Islands

NAVY AIR FLEET BLASTS AT NAURU   EXPAND ATTACKS ON JAPANESE BASES IN MID-PACIFIC AREA

Carrier Task F orce In  Pacific Adds Power To  American Aerial Units

Air Phase of Promised Offensive Under Way As Attacks On Foe Expand

U.S. CARRIER FORCE BLASTS JAPS ON NAURU   Joins Army In Attacking Enemy Bases In MidPacific Area

90 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nauru  Bold Task Forces From Carriers Add To Blows At Jap’s Pacific Bases

AIRMEN WIDEN PACIFIC RAIDS   Carrier-Based Planes Dro p 90 Tons of Bombs on Nauru

U.S. Task Force Active In Baitle. Of Mid-Pacific   Report Australian Troops Appreach Vital Plateau In Solomons Campaign

PACIFIC AERIAL - WAR EXPANDED      Bomber Squadrons Smash At Nauru

Navy Airforce Adds Might ir Pacific Battle   Aircraft Carrier Task Force Joins Army Bombers

U.S. Expanding Offensive In Pacific Area   Japs Mid-Ocean Bases Being Pounded From The Air...

AERIAL PHASE OF PACIFIC WAR PICKS UP PUNCH   Yanks Hit Enemy Air Bases at Nauru, Far from Hawaii

CARRIER FORGE AIDS ATTACKS   Moves Boldly Into Waters Far From Hawaii to Hit Jan Bases.

Planes Strike Boldly at Eastern Islands, Bombing Narau. Strona Enemy Base

AIR ATTACKS ON. JAP MID-PACIFIC BASES EXPANDED   Aircraft Carrier Task _ Force Adds Might to Land-Rased Planes

CARRIERS TAKE MAJOR ROLE IN AERIAL BLOWS   Army Bombers Join Huge Force Raiding Nippon’s Bases On Islands in Mid-Pacific   AMERICAN BASE IS BELIEVED “SECRET”   Litt’ Opposition Shown by Jap Fighters, None of U. S. Craft Lost in Stepped-up Raids

Yaval Airmen Join Army in MidPacific Attacks, Indicating Of fensive Well Under Way

Carrier Task Force Attacks laps on Nauru   - Air ond Surface Offensive Against Nip Bases Grows

Jap Strongholds In Central Pacific Hit As Offensive Begins   Otfensive Under Wavy

GERMANS EXECUTED FOR AIDING ALLIES   Eighteen, Including Several Army Officers Court Martialed

With Our Fighting Men   Germans In Trouble Over Helping Foe   SEVERAL ARMY OFFICERS AMONG THOSE GIVEN DEATH PENALTY.

ADD TO RATION BOARD   K. W. Davidson Is Information Officer of County Organization

 Representative Demands Full Study of  Draft Deferments Before Calling Dads

DEMANDS FULL SURVEY OF DRAFT PICTURE   ® VFW national command er says hundreds hiding in industry

BILL TO COMP MILITARY BUILDING   Would Allot $69,000 to Finish Work at K.U.

BILL TO COMPLETE MILITARY BUILDING   Would Alloy $68, 000 to Finish Work

AROUND U. 5. WITH STRIKES   LABOR TROUBLES CLOSE BAY MEADOWS FOR DAY

BAY MEADOWS CANCELS RACING MEET TODAY   Strife Between Guild and Unior for Clerks Blamed .

900 MORE NAZIS ARE KILLED IN KUBAN SECTOR   54 German Planes Reported Shot Down West Of Krasnodar   ENTIRE RED FRONT TEEMS WITH ACTION

Reds Inflict Big Losses On Germans   Nazis Miss 900 Men, Number Of Warplanes

Kuban Sector Of Red Front Has Fighting   Entire Line From Caucasus Area to Leningrad Is Active

Russia Reports Violent Battles   Enemy Dead During Past Week 8 500

RUSSIANS KILL 900 NAZIS IN CAUCASUS   FIGHTING FLARES OVER VAST FRONT—FIFTY-FOUR GERMAN PLANES DOWNED.

ACTION FLARES ON KUBAN LINE   Violent Fighting Takes Place In Caucasus; 54 Nazi Planes Brought Down

REDS KILL 8000 IN KUBAN AREA   Dog Fights Rage In Air Over Battlefields Of Caucasus

Russian Troops Kill 900 Nazis In Kuban Sector   Bring Total of Enemy Dead in the Last Week to 8,000  Renewal of Fighting on   Renewal of Fighting on the Leningrad Front Reported

Soviets and Nazis Fight - Ait Many Places on Front; Kuban Area Battle Fierce

In Violent Fighting In Caucasus; Actions Flare All Along Vast Front North To Leningrad   Blow Up Dump

Reds Fight Grimly To Wipe Out Hundreds of Nazis  War in Air Grows Intense; Enemy Loses 54 Planes

heds Claim 1,280 Nazis KilledMonday   900 Reported Killed In Violent Fighting In Kuban River Area  AIR CTRIICNOYT RC Darn

HOUSE COMMITTEE MAJORITY LEANS TO FEDERAL SALES TA   Favored <As_ Alternate To Treasury’s Tax Proposals

Get Behind That ‘Equal Rights’ Bill, Boys—Its Passage May Give Us Men a Few Privileges, Too

What's Sauce For A GanderCan Also Sass Goose, Solons Find In Equal Rights Bill

Sauce For Gander Can Sass The Goose  Women May Get Their Equal Rights And Live To Regret Lost Privileges

‘Equal Rights For Women’ Might Give Hubby A Break   Strong Backing From Men Is Seen For Proposed Constitutiona! Amendment, Due To Wording Which Would Make Henpecked Husband Equal To His Snoirke

Air Committee Battle Stirred      arlin Endorses Proposal Rut Cumpaign to Block it ls Mapped         Hubbies See Possible Boon In Equal Rights for Women

TRAIN OVER 30,000   Guy Keeler Discusses Scope of K. U. War Training at Rotary ~

Bricker Urges America To Take Post-War Leadership   BROWN PREDICTS PRICE CONTROL COLLAPSE IF PARITY BILL IS VOTED

ane DECLARES AMERICA MUST BE POST-WAR LEADER   GOVERNOR IN NEW YORK SPEECH SAYS DIFFICULT PROBLEMS AHEAD— FLAYS BUREACEATS IN GOVERNMENT

100 MORE JAPO ARE WIPED OUT ON NEW GUINEA   One Of Remaining Pockets Held By Foe Liquidated By Allied Fighters

150 JAPS SLAIN IN NEW GUINEA   ALLIED PLANES WIN HOUR'S BATTLE WITH 25 JAPANESE

JAP POCKET WIPED OUT BY ALLIES   One of Four Groups Liquidated In. Sanananda Sector .

JAPANESE GRUISER BOMBED BY ALLIES   TWELVE ENEMY PLANES DOWNED AND 6 DAMAGED IN FURIOUS AIR BATTLE.

Allies Kill 150 Japs in Liquidating One of Four Pockets Near Sanananda

One Jap Pocket Cleaned Up In  Sanananda Area   150 Nips Slain; Allied Planes Victors In Big Air Battle.

ALLIES CLEAN UP POCKET OF GUINEA JAPS   CONE OF FOUR REMAINING IN SANANANDA SECTOR LIQUIDATED

One Of Last Four Pockets Of Resistance Held By Japs In Sanananda Sector Liquidated

WIPE OUT JAP ARMY POCKET   Allies Hampered by 10 Inch Rain in One Day

One of Four Last Pockets of Japs ls Now Liquidatec   150 of Enemy Slain By Allied Troops In Mopping Up

ALLIED FORCES ELIMINATE ONE MORE JAP UNIT   150 Japanese Slain in This Operation, Heavy Rainfall Hampers Fighting

POCKET HELD BY JAPANESE IS LIQUIDATED   Hundred and Fifty Enemies Slain In Operation Back Of Beach Near Sanananda   MANY PLANES DOWNED

Jap Pocket ls Wiped Out   Allies Kill 150 Japs; Twelve Enemy Planes Down, Six Damaged

Only Few Jans Are Left At Sanananda   Another Pocket Was Mopped Up Today

ALLIED TROOPS LIQUIDATE ONE ENEMY POCKET   150 Jap Troops Slain During Isle Operation

Another Nippon Nest Wiped Qui   150 Japanese Slain Ir New Guinea Battle

Ten Inches of Rain Hamper Allied Army in Sanananda Area   But Troops Slog On For Kill; Navy Tells of U.S. Base Bombed

JAP: POCKET CLEARED OUT FUR ADVANGE   Sanananda Threat Erased with 150 Nips Slain in ~ Rainstorm. .

POCKET OF JAP RESISTANCE CUI   Three Remain to Oppose Allies in New Guinea

Allies Wipe Out Jap Pocket In Sanananda Sector   Rain Hampers Attack In Which 150 Of Foe Slain

ANOTHER JAP POCKET DECLARED WIPED OU   [Allied Airmen Bring Down 12  Enemy Planes

Allies Take One of Four Jap Pockets   Ground Forces Kill 150 Enemy as Planes Hit Bases, Shins '

Allies Rub Out Enemy Pocket At Sanananda   150 Japanese Slain Or Rain Swept Front; Ai! Forces Hit Cruiser   POUND SHIPPING   Merchant Ship Also Is Battered; 4 Bombers Down 12, Damage 6 Planes

Racial Relations Strike In Motor Plant Is Broken   Several Thousand Packard Employes In Detroit Return to Jobs After Walkout Over “Upgrading” To Machine Jobs of a Few Negro Workers; Union Leaders’ Apneals Being Heeded

SOME GO BACK TO WORK   About 35 Per Cent of Packard Employes Are on the Job

END PACKARD “PLANT STRIKE   Expect Full Production of Plane Engines By  Monday

PACKARD STRIKERS RETURN IN PART   Day Shift Approximately 35 Per Cent of Normal, Says Official.

AIR OFFENSIVE  SLACKENS OFF   German Raiders Drop High Explosive Bombs on England but Few — Casualties Reported.

BRITISH, NAZI BOMBERS TRADE HEAVY BLOWS   London Attacked _By Single German Bomber

BIG U. S. BOMBERS RAIDED ROWEN AND RENNES TODAY   Latter Is a Key Railway Junetion on Lines Running to German Sub Bases.   Rouen Is on the Main Paris to LeHavre Railroad.

U. S. Bombers Blast Rouen and Rennes   Key Rail J unctions Are On Lines Running To Nazi Sub Bases.   FIFTH U..8, RAID IN ELEVEN DAYS   Allied Raids . Are Keeping Hitler Ever Alert For An Invasion: of France

Nazi Bombers RaidCounties Near London   3 of Warplanes Downed; RAF Flight Over Helgoland Reported

U.S. Bombers  Raid France   Attack Rouen and Rennes in Fifth Raid in 11 Days

Germans Bomb © ~ English Areas   But Only Small Number Of Casualties; Three Of Raiders Downed.

England Raided By Nazi Planes   DY NGL FiGiivs  Slight Damage and  Some Casualties A. Dee...

German Raiding Force Of 25 Planes Drop Bombs In Britain   Casualties Declared Light; RAF Activity Limited To Sowing Mines

NAZI RAIDER OVER ENGLAND; DAMAGE SLIGHT   Only Small Number of Cas:  ' ualties Reported As. Re  sult-of Attack by Force Twenty-five Planes   THREE SHOT DOWN   RAF Lays Mines In Enemy Waters; Silent On Berlin Report of Bombers  Over Helgoland

New Sweep Is Threatening Collapse of Enemy lies And Conquest of All Sicily

Allied Gains Cut __ Axis Escape Road At Mt. Etna’s Base   Heart Of Nazi Army Corps Broken; Battle For Messina Underway; See Swift Conquest Of Sicily

Diplomatic And Vatican Activity Raises Hopes Of Armistice In Italy

Germans Give Up Orel to Russians; Jap Grip Pierced   New Talk of Peace Circulates From Italy, But Germans Mass Troops For Fight

Allied Troops Occupy Sicily Strong Point   Cut Off Axis Escape Road; Warships Blast Only Other Route Of Retreat.   ‘DEFENSES COLLAPSING

Kscape Road Cut   Capture of Paterno, To The Northwest, Blocks Retreat; Whole Enemy Defense Totters

CATANIA AND ¢ PATERNO: FALL TCO BRITISH   German Goering Division and Nazi Paratroopers Smashed

Blow Threatens To Crush Entire Mt. Etna Defense   Paterno Is Seized As Ships Cut Off Escape

TRIUMPHANT ALLIED OWEEP THREATENING ENTIRE AXIS LINE   GEN. EISENHOWER SAYS ADVANCE ALONG WHOLE FRONT CONTINUES

Allied Troops Advance on > Entire Front   Seize Paterno to Cut Off Enemy’s Western Escape Road; Intense Diplomatic Activity in Rome Renews Italians’ Hope for Armistice

Western Escape Road Is Cut Off   Paterno, Northwest of Catania, Also Falls to Allies—Paves Way for the Swift Conquest of Sicily—Warships Blast Axis Only Route of Retreat

Paterno, Northwest of Catania, Also Falls to Allies-Paves Way for the Swift Conquest of Sicily—Warships Blast Axis Only Route of Retreat

Troops Continue Advance all Along Front, Whole Mt. Etna Defense Line Threatened, Way Believed Paved for Sicily’s Conquest

Final Collapse of Axis Defenses in Sicily Appears Near   Alternate Route Around Mt. Etna Blocked by Allies

SOME FEAR OF JAP OFFENSIVE UN AUSTRALIA   Others Think Japs Will Attempt to Sever Supply . Lines First.   ‘WE ARE PREPARED   Few Believe the Japs Will Make Another Attack on Hawaiian Islands.

SWISS-ITALIAN ~ FRONTIER CLOSED BY THE GERMANS   This Announcement Made by the Swiss Radio, London Reports.   PASSPORTS CANCELLED

Revisions of Game Laws Are Proposed   Many Measures Come Before Houses One Bill Is Killed

Fish and Game Law Changes Are Proposed   Solon Offers Bill to Abclish State Canvassing Board

Solons Seek Revision Oo Game Statu   Abolition of State Food Distributors Board Also Proposed

Heavy Mud Bogs Down Fighting   Allied Bombers Busy Over Aegean Sea and Italian Mainland as Rain Hampers Armies

With Land Front Bogged Down War In Air Intensified   Island Ring Around Greece Target of Allied Air Forces

Bogged In Mud;      Greek, Italian Islands in Aegeat Raided; Wedge Threatens Nazis Before Rome

Planes Active As Mud Slows  Italian Drive   German Island Barriers Guarding Balkans Bomb er By Allied Aircraft.   RAINS FLOOD. RIVERS

Allied Planes Rain Havocon Nazi Targets   Italian Campaign on Land Bogged Down by Mud and Rain; Russians Capture Eastern Suburbs of Gomel

Reds Taks Gomel Suburbs, Strategic Rail Center of White Russia—Incessant At. ~ tacks: on J apanese—Sabotage In- i  creases in France

Allies Bomb Islands Guarding Balkans; Mud and Rain Slow Land Drive in Italy

Ohio Fire Causes  $3,000,000 Loss      Roundhouse Burns At Bellefontaine

British Bombers Assault Burma   Allied Patrol Plane Drops Bomb on Japanese Cruiser

Knox Says Germans Have Developed New Submarine Warfare Tactics To  Combat Allied Attacks On U-Boats

29 Enemy Subs Sunk by Yanks   American Forces Accounted for That Many Alone During May, June, July   TOTAL OF 90 SUNK DURING PERIOD      But Enemy Will Return, Knox Says, Discussing the War at Sea

‘Americans Account for 29 of 90 'U-Boats Sunk in Three Months’ Period

American Ships and Pianes Destroyed 29 Of More Than 90 Avis Submarines

Sub Menace Is Becoming Less Serious   Navy Discloses More Than 90 Enemy U-Boats Sent Down in Three Months   U. S$. AIRCRAFT BUSY

KNOX EXPLAINS WITHDRAWAL OF ENEMY U-BOATS   Being Equipped With More AntiAircrait Weapons, U. 5. Navy Secretary Believes

NAUV (1 AIMG 90 AIIT  Ar  i VLATIV av VU i  OF 90 U-BOAT VICTIMS

29 OF ENEMY’S U-BOATS BAGGED BY U.S. FORCES   Of More Than 90 Destroyed In Three Months, Navy Sank 24

Navy Reveals U. S. Warships, Planes Destroyed 29 U-Boats in 3 Months

U-BOATS NOW BEING FITTED FOR ATTACKS   Secretary indicates Craft Wil Use Anti-Aircraft Guns Against Blimps.   HITS HELICOPTERS   Thinks They'll Have Doubtful Value Against Renewed Raids Rv Germans.

Spooks in New Orleans’ Haunted House Move Out —War Work Takes Over

BRIDGEHEAD RED ARMIES IN JUNCTION   ‘This Joining More Than Offsets Russian Retreat in Small Theatre of Long Front.

Nazi Dnieper Pocket Trapped by Soviets  Gomel, Kiev Armies Mect to Form

Germans Force Russian Retreat for First Time Since July Offensive

Establish Solid 170. Mile Line West + Of Dnieper   NAZI ATTACK FORCES RETREAT WEST OF KIEV

GOMEL AND KIEV JOIN   Heavy German Assault @Stops Soviet Drive On Zhitomir Front

SOVIET ARM ON GOMEL, KILV FRONTS MERGE   Early German Withdrawal into Pripet Marshes Believed Probable

REDS MAKE MOVE. TO STOP GERMANS IN HARD ATTACK   Russians Forced to Retreat For the First Time Since Opening July Campagn But Loss Is Offset.   ALLIES DOWN 13 JAP PLANES, HIT VESSELS   Six German Motor Columns Are Converging on Trapped Partisan Forces Along Adriatic Coast.

THOUSANDS OF ‘NAZIS DOOMED IN ~ NEWEST POCKET   Soviets are Forced Back Few Miles In Southwestern Area.

TWO SOVIET ARMIES JOIN REHIND NAZIS   Trap Thousands of Germans; Russians Rally Aiter Counter-Attacks Force First Retreat.

Effect Junction On Gomel, Kiev Battle Fronts   Thousands of Enemy Soldiers Trapped In Pocket, Say Reports

20 Men Killed In Plane Crash   Army Transport on Routine Flight ¢

Italian Division Joins Yugoslav Partisan Foree  Mihailovic Army Accused of Fighting Drug Tito’s Men

Italians Line Up With Yugoslavs Against Germans  Disputes of Factions Continue to Cause Internal Difficulties

Italian Division Joins Yugoslavs  Charge Mihailovic Aiding Germans

Russian Forces Pounding Ahead ~ In White Russie   Soviet Troops Forced To Abandon Rail Center Of Korosten Hoavever

RUSSIANS LOSE KOROSTEN; GAI IN OTHER AREAS   Second Rail Center Regained -by Germang in 11 Days

OUVETO POUND  ANCAD [IN WEE HUDolA SECTOR   Evacuation of Rail Junction Is Second in Eleven Days

BATTLE STILL RAGES IN TRIESTE STREETS   Yugoslav Patriots Reported Inflicting Severe Punishment on Germans.

MARINE LOSSES ONTARAWA ARE “VERY HEAVY"   First Accounts of Conquest i of Gilberts Tell of Bit ! ter-end Japanese  fF -Fichtine

Heavy Losses Reported on Gilbert Isles   First Reports Tells of Bitter Fight for Tarawa

Battle For Tarawa Toughest Ever Fought In History Of U. S. Marines

Eye-Witness Account Of Gilbert: Conquest Tells Of Bitter-End Japanese Fighting, Heavy Losses

Marines Gain Goal On Gilberts by Sheer Tougt-iess  Commander Describes  Achievement as OS RMUEREERe: (Neer ge ate:  Seay eee ena

VETERAN OFFICER TELLS STORY OF PACIFIC. VICTORY   ‘Determination, Tenacity, Courage’ Won Battle on Atoll

‘Determination, Tenacity, Courage’ Brought Marine Victory In Gilberts

‘Determination, Tenacity, Courage”’..  Colonel Tells How A Fe ew Marines Blotted 4,000 Japs Out In Three Days

TARAWA TOUGH ASSIGNMENT), ‘CARLSON SAYS   Only Blood and Guis Enabled Ma rines fo Annihilate 4,000 Firs Line Jap Garrison

First Accounts of Gilberts Conquest Hint at Heavy Toll   Marines Fought One of Toughest Battles in History of Corps

‘Marine Losses Heavy in Gilberts; Colonel Tells Of Bitter“Jap Fighting

ENEMY INFANTRY   Marine Determination, Tenacity, Courage Wiped Out 4,000 Japs In Tarawa Battle

Harines Gain Goal in Gilberts by sheer Tougt-2ess  Commander Describes Achievement as Hardest in History

LOSSES OF U.S. IN MID-PACIFIC TERMED HEAVY   BATTLE OF TARAWA CALLED TOUGHEST IN MARINE HISTORY

U.S. Marine Hero Tells Of Great Tarawa Victory   Determination, Tenacity and Courage Explains How A Few Leathernecks Annihilated 4,000 Japs to Capture Gilberts’ Air Base.

President Plans  Radio Broadcast   Will Make Address On Christmas Eve To Yanks Around World   TELLS OF NAZI PLOT “DURING RECENT TOUR

Roosevelt to Address —* Talks at Teheran in Christmas. Eve Message

PRESIDENT TELLS PRESS CoN. FERENCE OF TEHERAN HAZ. He : ARD—PREPARING SPEECH   ” vor af Nee ‘FRIDAY

SHOWDOWN BATTLE IS DEVELOPING FOR KIEV BULGE   Red Army Pouring In Reinforcements In Effort To Win Back Towns Of  Korosten and Zhitomir.

Soviets Hurling Heavy Reinforcements In Fight To Retake Vital Towns

REDS HURL IN REINFORCEMENTS   Seek to Retake Khitomir and  Koresten

Keintorcements Are Pouring Into the Russian Lines.  MOSCOW ADMITS THE LOSS OF KOROSTEN Battles in Dnieper Bend  Are Less Spectacular.

U.S. Airmen Hit Solomons Bases of Japs   Three Raide’Made on Munda and One 6n -Kolombangara

4 RAIDS MADE ON JAP BASES   Munda Is Hit For 63rd Time By U. S. Air Force

New Flames Peril Malibu Movie Homes   BLAZE LEAPS WINTER CANYON TRAILS; FRESH BREEZE WHIPS FIRES

FLAMES AGAIN HIT AT MALIBU   Fire Races Out of Control in Canyon

De Valera Wins Re-election   Again Made Prime Minister of Eire By 67 to 37

DE VALERA AGAIN PRIME MINISTER   William Cosgrave, Leade: of Opposition Party. Beaten. 67 to 37.

CRETE INVASION BY ALLIES THIS SPRING SEEN BY GERMAN)   Propaganda Ministry Gives ‘Lowdown’ On Big Parley

Kilday Principle Incorporated  In Draft Bill   Would Require Scraping Of Manpower Barrel Before Calling Fathers

FATHERS’ DRAFT CUSHION URGED   Legislation Ay pproved To Scrape Manpower Barrel Clean

FATHERS DRAFT BILL ADVANGE:   Military Committee Approves Bill Putting Call of Fathers On Nation-wide Basis; Get Priority

DELAY SOUGHT IN DRAFTING FATHERS   House Committee Wants ‘Manpower Barrel Scraped Clean

House Committee Votes To Defer Draft of Fathers until the Last   Military Group Backs Original Kilday Bil To Call All Single Men throughout Country   Rack Kilday Plan

pi #0: TURN BACK CLOCKS CAN HOUB. WILL BE RUSHED (THROUGH STATE LE. GISLATURE” =. -

OHIO EXPECTED TO RESUME OLD TIME ON FEB, 14   Passage Of Measure Foregone Conclusion As Objections Are Removed   BRICKER GIVES APPROVAL   Federal Offices, Interstate Commerce To Continue On War Schedule

MADAME CHIANG SEES VICTORY   China Is Determined to Win War With Japan, She Tells America

U. 0. PAYING Col TO ENGLAND FOR Joe OF MATERIAL   Stettinius Letter Reveals Lend-Lease Not Working to Our Advantage.

Score 210 To & Over Japs   Record Number Of Nip Planes Shot Down By Allies Sinee Sunday.

YANK AIRMEN CRUSH ENEMY   U. S. Pilots Down 210 Jap Planes While Losing Only 8

Allied Air Victories Over Japs Are Almost Fantastic   Since Sunday United States And Australian Planes Have Run Up Score Of 210 To &. Dispatches Claim.

Allies Smash Bougainville   Allies Hang Up Score Of 177 Jap Planes Shot Down to 5

Air Score Heavy Against Japs In Pacific Battles   Yanks and Aussies Toss Up Score of 210 to 8 Since Sunday; Bulk of Loss Registered At Rabaul.

Allies Extend Air Blitz To Bouaainville   More Than 100 MacArthur Planes Hit Kahili, Rupr Toll Up To 210   SINK 2 BIG SHIPS   Details’ On Rabaul Raid Shows Defense Gunners Caught Flat Footed 

JAPS LOSE 210 PLANES TO 8 FOR U. N. SINCE SUNDAY   Bulk of Score Was Registered Tuesday at Rabaul When 177 Enemy Planes Were Dektroved

Allied Air Force Scores 210 To 8 Win Over Japan   Pulverize Pair Of Enemy Bases

ALLIED FIGHTERS SHOOT DOWN MANY JAPANESE PLANES  ’ SCORE NOW STANDS 211

—P ACIFIC  Japs Lose 210 Plane: In Recent Allied .  Bombing Raids    Inly Eight Aflied Planes Reported Lost; Enem} Caught Completely Off Guard In Devastatin: Attack On Rabaul oo.

Allied Fliers Rip Rabaul And Kahili   100-Plane Raids In Solomons Take Enemy by Surprise

YANKS-AUSSIES TAKING TOLLOF JAP PLANES   Have Run Up Score of 219  to 8 Since Sunday Over Two Enemy Strong-  holds

Score 210 to 8  Allied Flievs Run Up Impressive Record Against Jan Planes.

Yanks Add To Score On Japs   Day Before Rabaul Blitz Won Big Kahili Air Fight

Jap Air Force Hit Hard Blow  Record of 210 to 8 Scored n Two Raids

Allied Flyers Score 210 To 8 In Air Battles   Japanese Pilots Routed In New

Plane Score - Over Japs Is ~ Now 210 to &   Other Big Raids at Rabaul ~ Are Revealed in Added Communiques

ALLIED AIRMEN SCORE 210 10 8 WIN OVER JAPS   Report Totals of Air Victories Since Last Sunday; Wreck 177 Tuesday

American, Australian Planes Run — Up Score of 210 to 8 Against Japs

ALLIES SCORE 110-8 TRIUMPH OVER JAPANESE   Attack On Rabaul A Complete Surprise

Japs Lose 210 Planes To Allies’ 8 In Last Week Over So. Pacific Bases

Japs Lose 210 Planes In Big Allied Raids   Bulk of hat Number Shot Down in Tremend_ous Raid On Rabaul Tuesday, Others Downed Over Bougainville.

Allied: Planes Score Heavily « on Japs in South Pacific Fighting

BATTLESHIP WORTH 80 MILLIONS SOON IS TO SEE ACTION   Super- Dreadnaught lowa Is About Completed— Length Is 880 Feet, Beam, 108 Feet.

NEW BATTLESHIP IOWA SOON WILL IOIN US. FLEE]   45,000-ton Sunerdreadnought and Five Sister Ships are Roing Ruoshed.

MINERS 10 PLEAD ‘NO DEFENSE’ 10 STRIKE CHARGES  a Will Seek Mercy of   Will Seek Mercy of Court, Attorney Reveals   FACE PRISON TERMS AND HEAVY FINES

Admiral King Says War Bonds Are Double Investment For Purchasers   See ¥  By ADMIRAL ERMEST J. KING

Admiral King Says War Bonds Are Double Investment For Purchasers

Admiral King Urges Purchase of Bonds   By ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING  Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Fleet  (Written for the Associated Press and The O11 City Bligzard)

Why Buy Bonds?   Ry ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING  Commander-tIn- Chief, U. 8. Fleet  (Written for the Associated Press and The Gazette)

WHAT IT TAKES   ’ By ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING (Commander-in-Chief. U7. S. Fleet}

Admiral Ernest J. King Urges Everyone to Buy War Bonds  Purchase Is Double Investment

Axis Prisoners Taken in Africa To Be Sent to U. S. And May Do Farm Work

Many Axis Soldiers Captured In Tunisia Fight Will Be Shipped To U.S. And Britain

Axis Prisoners Are Acute Problem, May Be Given Jobs  Captives Are Expected To Be Put on Duty In U. S. and England

RAIDS BLAST GERMAN AIR FACTORIES   Foriresses Team With Light Bombers In 3-Pronged Raid

RAIDS BACK ON 24-HOUR BASIS   ‘Tiying Fortress Daylight Attack Follows RAF Assault

ALLIES RENEW AIR ATTACKS   Rouen And Rennes In France Hit By Big Bombers.

\merican Bombers Do Heavy Damage In Precision Bombing At Rouen, Rennes.

West Penn Does Part In County War Bond Drive  Total Of $247,000 : Allocated To Fayette's Third Campaign

War Loan Drive Given Boost By Big Purchases   Sinking Fund Committee And West Penn Hike County Totals

Wartime Contro Lessening Seen  Bowles Expects Chonae Coming Year

OPA May Ease Up In 44, Bowles Says   But Tire and Gas Situation Tighter

Nazis Lose 150 Planes In Heavy Russian Attacks   Moscow Report Says Large Number Of Enemy Planes Knocked Out   SEVEN HUNDRED PLANES IN ATTACK

Roosevelt Rebukes Wallace, Jones, Transfers Powers to New Agency

WALLACE AND JONES LOSE POWERS   Battlers Relieved of Authority in Foreign Economic Matters

Head of Economie Warface Named   President Rebukes Wallace And Jesse Jones

ROOSEVELT. STRIPS VICE PRESIDENT AND COMMERCE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC DUTIES

Wallace And Jones Rebuked      President Strips Both Of Power In Foreign Economic Matters   CROWLEY IS NAMED TO DIRECT EFFORTS

WALLAGE, JONES FRED BY Blloe: CROWLEY (AMEE   Feud Betwe:n Vice Pies-dent and Commerce S¢ctary Is Cause.   NEW RUNNING MATE   Roosevelt Serves Notice Wallace Will Be Ditched in Next Canra‘gr.

Quarrel Results in Stabbing  Man Confesses Butcher-Knife Slaying of Stepson’s Wile

BUTCHER KNIFE SLAYING SOLVED   Detroit Man Confesses Killing Stepson’s Pretty Wife

Evidence Is Next Blow Will Be Soon   Madrid Says Attack on Europe Is But Few Hours Off

YANKS DESTROY 60 JAP PLANES IN RABAUL RAID   Additional Ships Are Sunk in Attack on Stronghold

Yank Bomber: Bludgeon Rabaul Japs   Sink Three Vessels, Bag 60 Planes In Surprise Raid

Tank Attacks Repulsed In Montenegro   Drug Tito's Peoples Liberation Army Smashes Enemy Drives  OUISLiIiNGsS CAPSTLIREN

SLAVS BREAK UP NAZIS’ ATTACKS   Tito’s Liberation Army Smashes Enemy Tanks In Montenegro.

YUGOSLAV FORCES CONTINUE TO MEET BALKAN SUCCESSES  GERMAN TANK ATTACKS IN MONTENEGRO REPORTED SMASHED

Vote Removal Of Restrictions FR      But Flouse Also Reported Demanding Lovett, Watson And Dodd, High Officials, Be  Fired.

Vote fo Remove F.D. R. Funds Bar   House-Senate ‘Body Aarees on Plan

Hand-to-Hand Fighting on RedFronts    Russians Hold Own on Donets—Mud Mires Offensive

NAZIS UNABLE TO LOOSE REDS’ GRIP ON DONETS   Russians Slay Near Company of Germans in Counter-Atlacks— Continue Smolensk Advance

RUSSIANS PUSH. = ‘TOWARD SMOLENSK   Consotidate Captured Lines; Fighting Continues in Worst Weather of :Year

Treasury Has Given Congress  New Tax Bill   Proposals of Secretary Morgenthau Carry Endorsement of FDR in Seeking Numerous New Taxes.

Big Tax Boost Is Looming-Request Made   Raise on Income. Stuff Tax on Luxury ltems Asked bry  Treasurer Morgenthau

There'll Be No Railroad Strike Now   Three Unions Who'd Balked At Arbitration Call Off Their Strike   ‘Will Be No Strike

Railroad Strike Is Called Off By Union Agreement   Steel Production Climbs Back Toward Normal With Resumed Work

Three Rail Unions Call Off Strike   Joint Statement Issued After Conference With

Last 3 Unions Agree Not to Defy Army  No Wage Arbitration  While U.S. Runs Roads, Says Gen. Somervell  PLEA BY STIMSON Secretary Says People Expect Cooperation and Confidence

LEADERS OF THREE WILL NOT IMPEDE WAR PRODUCTION   Announcement Is issued After Agreement With Lieut. Gen. Somervell After Lines Are Seized Monday.   STIMSON APPEALS TO PREVENT HOUR'S LOSS   Lines to Be Returned to Prvate Ownership Just as Soon as Roosevelt Sees Strike Is Off.

THE NATION-WIDE RAILROAD STRIKE 1S GALLED OFF   Last Three Operating Unions Resisting Offer of Arbitration, Signed Up.   MADE DECISION TODAY   Apparently Cleared the First Hurdle in Return of Roads to Private Operation.

IS CALLED OFF   Government Can Now Plan To Return Roads to Private Oneration.   TROOPS WERE IN CHARGE

Decision Follows Conftab   Union Chiefs, Somervell Issue Joint Statement

Railrc ad Strike Is Off; Three Operating Un‘ons Agree to Keep Working

LINES REMAIN IN CONTROL OF ARMY   Final Three Brotherhoods Announce Capitulation   NO ALTERATION   Of Schedules Is Planned; Early Return To Private Hands Seen

Three Groups, After Resisting Earlier Proposals For Arbitration, Agree To Cancel Nationwide Tieup Set For Tomorrow—Decision Follows Similar Action By Seventeen Others—Move Clears First Hurdle In. Way Of Returning Roads To Private Control

—RALLAUADS—  DECISION ERASES WALKOUT THRE   Union Chiefs, Gen. Somervell Issue Statement After Parley   WILL ARBITRATE   xovernment Assumes Control Of Operating Nation’s Railreads

Clear First Hurdle In  Move To Restore Nation’s Railroads To Private Operation

3 Rail Unions Call Off Strike Set for Thurs.   Regarded as Step Toward Early Return of Carriers. To Owners

Army Informed Brotherhoods Will Carry On   First Hurdle In Wage Dispute Reported Cleared

OPERATING UNIONS AGREE 10 CANCEL SLATED WALKOUT   Heed President's Warning Not to Interfere with Wer Trancnartation

OPERATION TC GO FROM U, S. GOVT., EXPEC]   Will Be Restored to Roads After: Three Operating Unions Call Off Their Walkout

Announce Decision After Mecting With Lt. Gen. Somervell   Three Remaining Branches Assure U. S. Rail Boss They Will Not Hold Up War

3 Hold Out” Unions End Tieup Threat   Action Taken After Parley With Somervell

Action Taken -Affer Talks - With Army.   Last of. Three Brotherhoous Resisting Arbitration Offer. Cancel Previous Order      WAGE DISPUTE * NOT. YET SETTLED:   vecretary of. War Calls for Co-operation of Al in. Weeks Ahead:

STATEMENT IS GIVEN OUT BY THREE CHIEFS   Approximately 230,000 Employes Are involved In Latest Move in Wage Controversy   NO WAGE ARBITRATION

> Operating Unions Agree On Arbitration   Decisi sion Clears First Hurdle For Return To Private Ownership.   STEEL WORKERS BACK

ORDER OF 3 GROUPS CANCELED   Woldout Brotherhoods Agree To Continue Work After Talk

‘Union. Heads Agree to Call Off Walkout   Threat Has Caused President to Order Seizure of Railroads

Rail Strike Called Off   Lest 3 Unions Yield After Resisting Plea for Arbitration

THREE RAILROAD OPERATING UNIONS CALLED OFF STRIKE  FIREMEN, CONDUCTORS

OPERATIONS OF CARRIERS STILL ARE UNDER U.S.   First Hurdle for Return to Companies Apparently Cleared

Walk-Out Called Off After Talk With Somervell   May Be First Step 4 For Returning Lines To Private Ownership

Brotherhoods Join Two Other Unions  Conference With General Somervell Brings Results. -

First Hurdle In Way Back Now Cleared   Decision Reached During Conference With Gen. Somervell

d BIG HOLOOUT, UNIONS ACT OX GOV'T REQUEST   Secretary of War Announces Agreement to Cancel ._ Strike Order. s

3 Operating Unions Drop Walkout Plan   Decision Is Announced After Meeting With Gen. Somervell; Army In Control

RAIL UNIONS AGREE T0 CALI OFF STRIKE   Three Remaining Unions Announce They Will Take No Action Which Might Imperil War Effort

Last Three Brotherhoods Give In   First Hurdle For Return Of Roads To Owners Is Cleared Today

Brotherhoods Decide Not te Imperil War   Action Helps Clear Way for Return of Roads To Private Owners

Peril Ends in Okay by Unions   THREE OPERATING GROUPS AGREE TO WORK THROUGH DEADLINE SET FOR THURSDAY DECISION FOLLOWS SIMILAR BROTHERHOOD ACT

No Railroad Strike Tomorrow; Heads of  All Unions Agreed   Heads of Three Remaining Unions Will Call Off Strike Order

Action Points Toward Early Return Of Roads To Private Operation.

Indebtedness Hits 33-Year Low In Most Counties   Twenty-Four Debt Free Is Report to Equalization Board

Indebtedness Hits 33-Year Low In Most Counties  Twenty-Four Debt Free   Twenty-Four Debt Free Is Report to Equalization Board

Speedy Service Vote Law Asked   Constitutional Amendment Ureed hy O'Mahoney

Reds Fan Out And Gobble Up 60 Towns   Food, Ammunition, Trucks, Guns, Tanks Abandoned by German:  ASD RATT Vie LDA Vint

Ukranian Army Storms Through Battlefield Littered With 3,500 German Dead

3 500 Germans Killed in New Red Offensive   Nazis Abandon Guns and Flee

SOVIETS PUSH 42 MILES DUE WEST OF KIEV   Reds Hurl Back Foe on - 70-Mile Front, Peril  Rail Junctions

REDS STRETCH ASSAULT ARC WEST OF KIEV   With Nazis Acknowledging Further Retreat; Rain. Cold And Fog Fail To Halt Russians.   Taman Area

Russians Sweep Toward Borders   Berlin Admits Retreat  Krom Kiev Sector

Fan Out On 70 Mile Front Over Ground Littered With German Dead to Capture District Centers of lvankey And Grebenki [In 42 ALiWe Advance

Y azi Xeor er —escrides Surv o> Ree Rarrage, wi-1a ig 3 sun ar: ‘e_-or taci” ‘wen-v Yarcs ~

More Than 60 Places Taken  By Russians   Fields of Battle Are Covered With Nazi’ Casualties, Equipment

Reds Capture 60 Towns  and Hamlets  Soviets Fan Out an 7f.Mila   Soviets Fan Out on 70-Mile Front Beyond Kiev

Reds Capture 60 Towns and Hamlets   Soviets Fan Out on 79-Mile Front Bevond Wiey

RUSGIAN TROOPS PUSH WESTWARD ‘IN LONG FRONT   Fields of Battle Littered With German Dead, Abandoned . War Material   REDS FAN OUT BEYOND CAPTURED KIEV CITY   “More Than 60 Towns and Hamlets, Including District Centers, Fall to Onrushing  € Russians; Reds Gain More Ground in the Crimea

Sixty) More Towns and Hamlets Captured by Soviets  FEW DETAILS ARE ~ GIVEN OF FIGHTING  Nazis Facing Disaster in the Dnieper River — ‘ Loop

Over Sixty Towns F all To Soviets   Heaviest Fighting Is In Kiev Area; Reds Gain In Rair

Fan Out on 70 Mi. Front Beyond  Kiev fo Junction   Gird for Major Drive in Crimea; Nazis in Retreat

Reds Fan Out On Wide Front Beyond Kiev   Russians 40 Miles From Zhitomir; 60 Towns and Hamlets  Fall in Offensive

issians Storin Westward Over Prostrate Nazis   1 ttlefield Littered with 3,500 German Soldier Bodies

Dino Grandi Heads Group.  Swiss Claim   Conversations With British Diplomats May Be Under Way

Grandi Heads Party Reportec  Now. In Lisbon   - Diseussions For Peace Rumored Already Under Way :

Italian Peace Commission Is  Now In Lisbon      Count Dino Grandi Said To Be Heading Move For Armistice

alian Mission Said in Lisbon  May Start Confabs On Separate Peace

ITALIAN OFFICIALS ARRIVE IN LISBON TO DISCUSS PEACE   Commission: “Is. “Is. Headed “By Count. Dino Grandi = 4 ’ Second Mission-  In Month

ITALIAN MOVE FOR PEACE REPORTED   Count Dino Grandi Said to Head Commission Now  in Lisbon.

IN LISBON SWISS SAY   Count Reported to Be Preparing to Start Discussions for Armistice and Peace.

Former Ambassador Said Heading Group  -Count Grandi ‘Appr: aches Allies;

Report Count Grandi Heads Italian Peace Mission In Lisbon For Talks

GRAND! IN LISBON 70. DISCUSS PEACE SWISS RUMOR SAYS   Former Ambassador to London Believed to Head Second Mission.

Report Peace Group In Lisbon   Say Count Grande Heads Italian Unit

Halian Mission in Lisbon To Start Armistice Talks, Swiss Newspaper Declares   Mussolini's Ex-Foreign Minister Reported at Head of Peace Move; Unrest Spreading Throughout Italy

Planned Social Security W ould Call For Total Of “ive Billions Annually

\Social Insurance Program to Extend \Levy on Payrolls to 10-12 Percent

Employer- Employe Contributions of Over Five Billions Yearly Would Be Required Under Proposed Social Security Program

Threaten fo Pin German Forces Against Sea   Pursue Battered Foe From Beyond Kiev; Take 60 Towns

Nazis Leave Many Dead InKiev Area  Reds Claim 15,00C   Reds Claim 15,00C Germans Killed, 6,200 Are Captive

TAKE 60 TOWNS IN RAPID DRIVE FROM KIEV ARE!   Declare 15,000 Germans Were Killed on Battle Fields of Ukraine Capital and 6,200 Captured.   NUMBER OF VICTIMS TRAMPLED TO DEATH   Russians Slash Way to Within 115 Miles From Poland and 140 Miles From Rumania.

Chase Battered Remnants of German Forces   12 Nazi Divisions Are Routed From Wrecked Kiev

‘Reds Forming Another Trap   Giant Pincers Develops As Soviet Lunges On Westward

Soviet Blows  Stagger Nazi Armies    Enemy Suffers Tremendous Losses as Red Troops Surge Into Southern Ukrainian Steppes With Notable Gains

Lt. C. L. Garrett, Jr. Awarded Air Medal At Sicilian Base  Lt. Will Hadden, Jr., Receives DFC To Add To His Honors

Lt. 0. J. Crawford Awarded Medal, Oak Leaf Clusters   Is Pilot With the “Avenger” Group in Attack on Sicily.

Senator Wheeler: Continues Battle Against the. Drafting. of Fathers

WHEELER TO ASK RECALL OF CONGRESS   Demands That McNutt Withdraw Plans To Draft Fathers

U.S. Forces Clean Nazis Out of Sened   City Captured In Heavy Raid by Combat Team

FORCE DRIVING ON MAKNASSY GAPTURES POINT   Little Progress Mace Against Enemy Holding Faid Pass

AMERICANS TAKE TUNISIAN TOWN, CONTINUE DRIVE   Sened Is Captured In Advance Towards Maknassy   ‘FORTRESSES’ BLAST AXIS SHIPS AT. TUNIS

U.S. TROOPS TAKE SENED IN TUNISIA   Convoy Bombed In Axis Port Of Tunis

IS 22 MILES FROM STRATEGIC CITY OF MAKNASSY; FLYING  FORTRESSES BLAST. ENEMY” CONVOY

ARMY BOMBER — TOSSES SCARE INTO HUNTERS   PLANE DROPS FOUR PRACTICE MISSLES NEAR THEM   ‘Hawarden Nimrods Turn Blinds Inte Fox Holes Amid Exploéions " .  -And Machine Gun Fire 

arden Hunters’ Bombed ! and Strated By U. S. Plane   ap Out of Blind and s Fist at 4. Motored Liberator.

Mrs. Randall Is  Given 5 Years   Must Serve Sentence For Killing High School  Youth.

HAND OUT RATION BOOK 4 TOMORROW   And Issuing to Lawrence Residents Continues  Thru Friday   MUST BRING BOOK’ :

BOOK 4 TOMORROW   And Issuing to Lawrence Residents Continues  Thru Friday

FDR Backed For Head Of Peace Board   Diplomats Favor Wallace Plan But Sentiment Of Solons Qualified

WALLACE HAS ANEW PLAN      MIXED REACTION IN WASHINGTON TO SUGGESTION ROOQSEVELT BE PEACE CODiMISSION CHAIRMAN

FOOLED THE GERMANS   Russians in Kiev Let Their Beards” Grow Long

1% BILLION SPENT FOR RELIEF SINE 35, REPORT SHOW   Details Are Contained im 507-Pace Decument Sent te Congress by   UPTURN IX EMPLOYMENT   Expenditeres Drep frem Mere than 2 Billion Dellars im 1535 te 308 Witten im 1047

Rain Mires Allies In North Africa   Germans Contro! Strategic Hill

DeGaulle May Walk Out Again   FRENCH LEADER PEEVED AT GIRAUD WAR FACTION

De Gaulle Seen Ready To Quit If Plans: Fail  Concern Expressed Over Giraud’s

Three-Pronged Drive Closes Tn on Rostov   Soviet Advances of as Much as 18 Miles Reported

DON VALLEY BATTLE NOW NEAR CLIMAX   Leningrad Offensive Is Unconfirmed By Soviets

Under Secretary Of State Outlines Principles For Postwar World   INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM FOR PEACE IS DEMANDED   _anguage Strongest Yet Used By Administration Leader Of This Country

-CANTOR'S ADVICE.      ; ys War Entertainment + Shouta Be Kept Clean.

CANTOR'S ADVICE.   Says War Entertainment — Should je Kept Clean.

Bulgarian Soldiers Defy Reiizviei Revolt Climaxes  Heavy Fighting Against Yuaoslays

BULGARIANS WITH GERMAN ARMY REVOLT   ‘Troops Disatimed = © ‘After Refusing To . Fight With Nazis<<

BULGARIANS REVOLT   Bulgar Treops With Rotime! Stage Revolt, Yugosiavs Report

LM. H.S. STUDENTS ‘SET FOR CITY DAY   Annual Event Sponsored by American Legion to Be uesday

-M.HLS. STUDENTS I FOR CITY DAY   Annual. Event Sponsored by American Legion to Be i. Tuesday   A LUNCHEON AT NOON

ENEMY IS DEFEATED IN FIGHT   Marshal Rommel and His Men Stream Eastward Make New Stand if Possible,

MORE RETREAT 1S NOW NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE STAND   Germans Are Entirely Forced From Area West of Pass, Now Face New Menace From Other Troops.   CLEAN CUT REPULSE REPORTED BY ARMY   Hitler Issues Proclamation Indicating Plans to Conscript Army In Occupier Lands.

ROMMEL SENT REELING BACK BY AIR ARMADA   Germans Stream Through Kasserine Pass Under Terrific Punishment.

ALLIES SMASHING AT NAZIS’ MOTOR - TRANSPORT UNITS   U. 3. Planes Drop Bombs On Enenry’s Gun Positions In Kasserine Gap Area—New Threat To Rommel  _ Looms In Ceniral Tunisia

AXIS FORCES FLEEING IN TUNISIA   Allies Air, Land Units Hammer At Retreating Nazis

‘Face Second Peril In Central Tunisia   Swarm of Planes Chasing Rommel; Flank Attack Brings Axis Worries

Avengers In Hot  Pursuit   American Planes  Shower Gap Wrist, Diwan

PLANES HIT RETREATING TROOPS HARD   Rommel's Afrika Korps Flees Eastward Thru ’ Kasserine Pass

YANKEE PLANES SWEEP BACK AND FORTH OVER ROUTE   Great Losses Being Suffered By Fox Whose Dash Was Wrecked.

a0 Trak 2UUMdy Meeting of Hitler and  Mussolini May Be Farewell tsa Axis.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Right Flank Of German Line In Russia Faces Rollback At Orel

 the War today  Hitler Just Couldn't Promise His Bellicose Buddy A Thing

The War Today Hitler Has Little Help To Spare For Benito, Could Use Plenty Himself

Hitler-Il Duce Meeting Could Have Brought Little Solace Both Leaders Greatly Concerned

MEETING OF HITLER-MUSSOLINI MIGHT WELL HAVE SAVORED OF FAREWELL BY BANDIT PARTNERS

So Benito Replied To Adolf—  ++ + @ ++ + +  “It Shouldn’t Happen To a Dog” Or Words To Th: - Effect

International Farm Co-op Suggested   World Producer Link Proposed

WORLD CO-OP EXCHANGE URGED   International Agency Proposed at Parley

World-WideFoodPlan Would Unite Farmers   Delegates of 30 Countries Seek Producer Marketing Co-operatives

WOULD LINK THE FARMERS OF WORLD IN ORGANIZATION    Discuss Probability of Inter. national Group of Producers Marketing Cooperative.   WAS ADVANCED TODAY   Discussion Held at the United Nations Food Conference.

International farm-linking step dered   Allied delegates hear + tense tell of co-operatives

Cooperatives Advanced By Food Parley   30 Delegates Proposing International Hookup For Marketing

Boy Tells . of Killing Neighbor   A Young Mother Is Slain With Rock For Fear She Would Tell on Him   HE WENT HUNTING  THOUGH FORBIDDEN   Victim's Two Children Gave Alarm After Mother Was Gone All Night

GAIN 4 MILES IN SURPRISE BLOW AT AXIS   More Prisoners Rounded: Up in Both Northern and Southern Sectors and Rommel’s Positions Again Are Blasted.

Montgomery's ath, Joined by Yankees Pushes Forward   Germans Admit Allied Superiority In Men, Materiel

Allies Capture Key Island Of  Simi Near Foe   German Attack Driven Off And Convoy, Escort Wiped Out.

BRITISH OCCUPY ISLAND OF SIMI, NORTH OF RHODES   This Disclosed When an Attempt by Germans to Retake It Was Repulsed.   NO MENTION OF COS   Reported British Also Had - Landed in Cycledes Islands  in the Aegean Sea.

British Land On Isle Near Rhodes  Beat Off Nazi Attempt To Retake Simi

British Occupy ~ Island Of Simi In Dodecanese   Rumors Say Ferces Also Land On Cyclades In Aegean Sea Off Greece

Battling for - Approaches to  * the Balkans   British Occupation of the Island of Simi Off Western Turkey Disclosed .   OTHER SIGNIFICANT MOVES. TO LIGHT   Censorship Guards. Allied Maneuvers, But Mounting Activity Is Evident °

BRITISH FORCES TAKE ANOTHER AEGEAN ISLAND   Simi, Only 20 Miles From Rhodes Is  Orecunied

BRITISH TAKE SINILISLAND IN DODECANESE   Also Repulse, With Heavy Losses, German Move to Retake Prize, Which Is 25 Miles From NaziHeld Rhodes.

BRITISH TAKE SIMI ISLAND IN DODECANESE   Only 25 Miles From rhodes, Report Says

British Take Simi Island  Beat C@ German Attempt at Recapture; Silent on Cos Battle

Russian Forces Move Wéstward   ‘Pursue Shattered German Divisions Toward Poland

TWO RED ARMIES PURSUE TWELVE NAZI DIVISIONS   180,000 GERMANS, BLASTED FROM KIEV, FLEE TOWARD POLAND

Reds Pursue Nazi Forces From Kiev   12 German Divisions Shattered by Fierce Russian Attacks

REDS PRESS, NEW DRIVES ON BORDERS   12, Nazi ‘Divisions Shattered When Kiev Fell

Reds Beat Toward Poland and Rumania   Russians On Heels of Shattered Nazi Divisions; One Force 28 Miles West Of Kiev, Another in Nevel Sector.

2 Red Armies Are MovingWestward   Russian Forces Are Bounding Toward Rumanian Frontiers   ON HEELS OF GERMANS   Second Soviet Spearhead Is _ Striking Doupbwest of  Fastov

OTHER FORCE IS DRIVING ON RUMANIA   Nazis Lose 15,000 Dead, 6.200 Captured In Futile Effort At Kiev: City Is Wrecked

REDS NEAR OLD POLISH FRONTIER   Nazi Controlled Radio Tells Of Violent Attack

TWO SOVIET ARMIES  POUNDING WESTWARD  TOWARD FRONTIERS RUSSIANS CLOSE ON  HEELS OF SHATTERED DEFENDERS OF KIEV

Russians Sweep on Toward Polish and  Rumanian Borders   Threaten Vital NorthSouth Railroad Line  in Ukraine Area

Germans in Flight Before Red Armies   12 Divisions Shattered As Soviets Drive for Poland and Rumania

Soviet Armies Pursue Broken German Units   Shattered Remnants Of 1: Nazi Divisions On Run hh  Kiev Area.  ct thie  ALLIES GAIN IN ITALY

TWO SOVIET SPEARHEADS ARE STRIKING   One Red Army Surging  Beyond Makarov, and Other Driving Southwest of Fastov   CHASE TOWARD BORDER

RUMANIA AND POLAND NEXT FOR SOVIETS   Envelopment of Nazi Forces Threatened  By Red Advances

Russians ?ound Westward Toward Rumanian, Polish  Borders On Heels Of Foe

Smashing Assault On Hitlerites In Crimea Reported   180,000 Enemy Troops Near Rout; Soviets Within 140 Miles Of Rumanian Rorder

2 Red Armies Pounding West On Heels of 12  Nazi Divisions   Other Soviet Forces Only 20 Miles from Old Polish Border

Russians Push Toward Poland And Rumania   Drive Southwest of. Fastov Aimed at: Trapping Thousands of Germans Still Fighting Between Dnieper; Black.Sea

Germans Flee in Wild Panic Before Reds   Soviets, Following Fal! of Kiev, Push Toward Peland and Rumania

RED ARMIES RUSH TOWARD TWO BORDERS   Germans Evacuating Civilians From Several Cities

Remnants of 12 German Divisions Fleeing; Reds Threaten Rail Junction

Two Russian Armies Pursue Fleeing Nazis   Soviet Troops Pounding Toward Borders Of Poland And Rumania From Base At Kiev

Russians Sweep Toward Poland  And Rumania    . Two Soviet Armies Pound . Close On Heels Of . Fleeing Germans. a

Russians Reported Within 20 Miles Of Border Of Poland In Drive From Nevel In North

AXIS IN CRITICAL TEST IN SICILY      Italians Show Hatred of Germans, Boo Prisoners, Surrender in Droves to Allies

REP. DITTER DIES IN PLANE CRASH   Murphy Represents _§. on Advisory Group

Murphy Will Represent  U. S. in Italy   He Helped Pave Way for Invasion Of North Africa

ACCUMULATIONS OF MUNITIONS BY ARMY DENIED   Reports of Surplus at Docks Denied - - Pacific Forces Not Neglected, ’Tis Said

Full Basie Equipment For Army By End Of 1944   Gen. Somervell Says  It Is Far From Meeting Its Needs: No Front  Is Being Nevlected

General Somervall Says It Will Be 1944 Before Equipment is Up to Needs: Flavs Parlor Strategists.

SAYS ARMY'S SUPPLIES ARE NOT ADEQUATE      General Somervell De claves All Troops Will Not Be Furnished With Basic Equipment Until Late in 1944.

Finds Supply Of Munitions Below Needs   Army Will Not Be Able To Furnish All Troops With Basic Equipment Until Next Year

Must Increase Production Of War Materie’   Brand Reports On Oversup. ply Of Munitions Propaganda To Aid Axis.    MUST AID ALL FRONTS

No Surpluses Accumulated for Shipment; Troubles in Providing Ship Cargo Cited

GENERAL SOMERVELL DENIES REPORTS OF SURPLUS MUNITIONS  . NOT ABLE TO SUPPLY TROOPS WITH NEEDED ‘ARMS HE DECLARES

SOMERVELL SAYS U.S, BEHIND ON MATERIAL   Will Not Meet Goals Until Next Year

Says Army Still Short   Of Munitions   Brands Rumors of Huge Stores Awaiting Shipping Space As NaziInspired Propaganda

Army Is Far From Needs in Equipment   Unable to Furnish Al Troops Until Late Next Year, Somervell Says   NO SURPLUS, MUST PRODUCE MORE   Denies Any Neglect on Any Front; Says Winning War Comes First

No Surplus Of Munitions, Says Gen. Somervell   Can’t Supply All Our Own Troops With Basic Equipment Until ’44.

Will Not Have Enough Basic Equipment For All Troops Until Late Next Year, Says Somervell; No Surplus, But No Neglect.

ALL WAR FRONTS BEING PROVIDED WITH MUNITIONS   Lieut. Gen. Somervell informs Commerce Chamber: U.S. Is Not Accumulating:  Any Great Surplus.   SUPPLIES GO FORTH BEST OF ABILITIES   Head of Organization Beelares Members Must Dédicate Themselves to Winning War and Peace.

Says it Will be Another Year Before All Troops  Can be Furnished   Basic Equipment    DENIES SURPLUS BEING ACCUMULATED   Pays Caustic Respects to “Drugstore Admirals and Powder Room Generals”

U.S. Munitions  To Supply Army   Somervell Savs Yorces Will Not Be Properly Armed Until Next Year

SAYS U.S, STILL SHORT ON ARMS   Gen. Somervell Denounces Tales Of Big Surpluses

Army Will Not Get All Equipment It Needs Until 1944. Somervell Says

Troops At Home Still Short Of Equipment   Somervell Denies Army Accumulating Surplus Of Munitions.

GEN. SOMERVELL CITES LACK OF WAR EQUIPMENT   Service Force Chief Hits ‘Powder Room Generals’

YANKER AIRMEN HARRASS FORKS [IN SO. PAGIFIC   U. S. Liberator Bombers and Catalina Flying Boats Attack Japs on Naura   LARGE FIRES SET   All American Planes Return Safely; Jap Loss in Guadalcanal Battle May  Total 94 Planes

WORK - OR - FIGHT BILL PLACED IN HOUSE HOPPER   State-Wide Bill May En. counter Opposition From Western Counties —   EASTERN SHORE IN FAVOR OF MEASURE

About 250 WPA Employes Work Last Shift  Organization to Be Suspended by February 15

About 250 WPA Employes Work Last Shift  Organization to Be  Suspended Le Po le

Army, Navy Will Use 281 Colleges   Plan Training OFf Specialists

MILK COMMISSION NOW BOWS 10 OPA   State Agency Gives Up At. tempt To Raise Prices Without Federal Approval— Dealers Relieved

bee GROUP “GIVES UP FIGHT   Dealers’: Relieved, Pro. ducers Skeptical at . Price Action

Young UnwedDenverW oman Calmly Tells Of Drowning, ‘Hidina:-Three Of Own BRobies

WOMan Keeps Bodies of Babies In Hope Chest  Denver Suspect Tells of Drownings, Detectives Report  SHOWS NO EMOTION

Potato Tale Takes Brand New Twist   Big Spud Flow Follows That Recent Famine

LOCAL MAN SAW FLEET SURRENDER   James F. Messersmith Is Back From Mediterranean Duty

FREDERICK MAN SAW SURRENDER   James F. Messersmith Was At Malta When Italian Fleet Gave Up

FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR POTATOES OFF   Last Night Was Deadline _ Here and Rain Nipped .  Digging Plans = _..-7   OTHER CROPS PERK UB

FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR POTATOES OFF   Last Night Was Deadline Here and Rain Nipped _  Digging Plans   [OTHER CROPS PERK UP

American Crew Home From Europe Tell How to Beat Nazis.  LEARNED HARD WAY IN BATTLE

BOMBER CREWMEN THINK WAR CAN BE WON WITH BOMBING   First Bomber Crew to Return From European War Theatre Intact Thinks Continuous Air Attacks Will Turn Trick

‘JACK THE RIPPER’ TEN BACK HOME   After Bombing Germany, Say War Can Be oN Oy Git Aire

Say Bombing Will Win War  Fortress Crew, ‘First To Return To U. S., Tall OF Rilawe To Newvie

imericans Satisfied Nazis Can be Defeated from Air   aitle-Toughened Bomber Crew, Back From European  Theatre of War, Say Conflict Can Be Won With Smashing, Continuous Raids of Germany; In Eleven Bombing Missions

Government Asks Cour! To Perpetually Enjoin A. P. Use Of By-Laws

AP EXCLUSIVENESS CHALLENGED AGAIN   Another Attack on By-law Made by Government

GOVERNMENT ASKS FOR SWEEPING ORDER AGAINST THE A. P. PROPOSED JUDGMENT  WOULD MAKE A, P, NEWS OPEN TO AIT.

U.S. GOV'T ASKS AP BE ENJOINED   SEEK TO RESTRAIN PRESS SERVICE FROM OBSERVING BY-LAWS

APS BY-LAWS UNDER ATTACK   Government Would Impose New Regulations on Distribution of News

Government Asks  Restraining Order  In AP Suit. Would Not Permit Organization to  Deny Service to Non-Members .

ALOST AS TUG SUNK IN STORW   10 Rescued From Beach Af ter Voyage On Raft

Liquor Tax Plan Returns To $10  House Committee Still Undecided On Levy

Liquor Tax Boosted By Jommittee  _ Moved Back Up To $10 a Gallon —Take Up Se Olea rh ic:

CHANGE MINDS, PUT TAXES ON LIQUOR AT Sil   First Raised From $6 to $10, Then Cut Back to $8.—Now Committee Wants $10 a Gallon.

* LIQUOR LEVY TO - $10 PER GALLON   House Committee Again Changes Mind, Boosts Whiskey Tax $4

LIQUOR TAX IS BOOSTED AGAIN   COMMITTEE VOTES TO INCREASE LEVY TO $10 A GALLON

Increase in Liquor Tax Again Voted  House Body Reverse:   House Bocly Reverses Itself on Levy

VINSON FAILS T0 SAVE TAX PLAN   House Committee Doubts Need For 10 Billion Boost

Vinson Fails To ‘Sell’ New  Tax Program   Congressmen Say His Arguments  Won’t Hold Water

TAX LEADERS SAY VINSON KAYOED IN TRY TO SAVE PLAN   Sent To Congress To Sell Program, Says It Was “Modest” Request For Revenue

VINSON’S SALES TALK FOR NEW TAX BILL FAILS   House Leaders Are ‘Sold’ Instead On Federal Sales Tax

Claim Vinson Fails to Save. Tax. Program   Opposition in - House Believed Too Strong .

MASTERY OF SKIES STILL MAINTAINED   MacArthur Asks Planes to Meet Men:  ace As Jap Fleet Concentrates At Base of Truk .

Allies Capture Mountain Peak Within 30 Miles Of Tunis in Bitter Fight   New Finnish Crisis Is Reported as Result Of Berlin’s Demands of Leningrad Offensive; Russia Reports Local Action on Muddy Fronts

CLAIM ALLIED FORCE THAT ATTEMPTED TO LAND TANKS ON JUGOSLAV COAST WAS THROWN BACK INTO THE SEA   LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN ONLY COMMANDOES SEEKING INFORMATION, HOWEVER; BALKAN PICTURE CONFUSED BY CONFLICTING REPORTS

Germans Scuttle Ships In Naples Harbor. Early Evacuation Of Port By Enemy Seen.

GOP GROUP MAKING POST-WAR PLANS      49-Member Council Is _ _ Appointed To Study (7 Deogram

GOP Post-War Advisory Council Named   Prominent Leaders To Submit  Racammoendatiange

Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt New Head Of Women’s National G. O. P. Club

High Draft  Deferment   Nearly Tenth of State Registrants Deferred Because of Farm Work

General Gamelin Also Taken Out Of France As Nazis Get Set For Future

Daladier.Gamelin.  Blum Are Seized   Nazis Take Trio to Ger. many as Hostages

GERMANS SEIZE FRENCH LEADERS   Petain Protests Bombing Of Renault Works By Yankees

Senate Split in Warring Factions After Roosevelt's Blast Against Globe Trotters

SENATE SPLIT OVER CHARGES   FORMAL INVESTIGATION MAY BE MADE OF CHARGES MADE BY GROUP THAT TOURED BATTLE ZONES

Nazis Make Much Of Small Gain   Capture of Samos Hailed as Victory

Germany Claims Samos Victory   Nazi Balkans Position Reported Weakening

NAZIS CLAIM SAMOSTAKEN FROM ALLIES      Reconquest of Island Announced by Berlin Radia .   BALKAN SITUATION - REPORTED TENSER   Nazi Position in Bulgaria and Rumania Weak. enina

Nazis Claim Last Allied Aegean Isle   Reconquest Of Samo: Fails To Dispel Storm Over Balkans

NAZIS CLAIM SAMOS TAKEN   Loss of Island Had Been Expected; Foe Bitterly Engaged in Balkans

BERLIN CLAIMS FALL OF SAMOS IN AEGEAN SEA   German Successes Dimmed by Rising Storm In Balkans; Tito Opens Drive

Samos i in Aegean Ts Recaptured By Germans   Partisans Announce. Counter-Offensive Against Nazis in Balkans

Germans Claim Samos Retaken   Storm Clouds Over Balkans Increasing

GIRAUD HEADS WEST, NORTH AFRICA ARMY   DeGaulle Command: All Other Military  Forces

ADDITIONAL SAVING SEEN’ IN TAX CUI   Cut In Personal Praperty Levy On Banks Will ; Bring Saving’ ..

NUREV 26 IS SURI ¢D.T0 RD -AAID   Chier Commercial City in Province of Bavaria

Nuremberg Is Asan Bombed By RAF. Fliers   Heavy Attack Is Made On Chief Commercial City In Province Of Bavaria   RAIL TRAFFIC TO ITALY WILL SUFFER

Third Largest City in the Reich Bombed for 116th Time.   GERMANS ADMIT BIG DAMAGE LAST NIGHT   Invasion Jitters Are Increasing Daily in Axis Countries.

REPORTS SAY TURKS BREAK VICHY TIES   Jittery Axis Reports Huge Invasion Fleets and Forces

DROP HUNDREDS OF TONS ON ARMAMENT CENTER FOR TIOTH TIME DURING WAR

Axis Propagandists Claigg That Allies Are Getting Ready For cor mt Activity Seen Aléag  Med itarranaan.

FORMER ARGENTINA OFFICIAL SUCCUMBS   Third Former President to Die Within Year

JUSTO, FRIEND. OF U. S., DIES   Former President of Argentina Favored Collaboration With United Nations

FORMER PRESIDENT GF ARGENTINA DEAD   Was Likely Candidate For Office This Year

2 NEW ACTIONS FILED IN COURT   Salem Township. Trustees eck ‘to Transfer Funds; Divorce Sought

CLAIMS JAPS HAVE TOO MANY PLANES IN PACIFIC AREA      Lieut. Kenney, Air Chief Im Southwest Zone, Says ' Enemy Has Larger Number

Lt. Gen. Kenney Says Japs Have Numerical Superiority in Planes In Southwest Pacific War Zone   Axis Now Rocking Under Three Front Bombing Offensive; Reds Join In

Lt. Gen, Kenney Says Japs Have Numerical Superiority in Planes In Southwest Pacific War Zone

Reds Strike Nearer To Smolensk, Key Nazi Point Along Main Moscow-Warsaw Railroad And Throw Enemy Back Alona Dnieper River

Red Ouster Plans Laid By Solons   House Moves To Cut Off Pay Of All Left Wingers In Government

 MOVE TO. WEED OUT COMMUNIST SUSPECTS BASED ON CUTTING OFF APPRO' PRIATIONS

Announce New Meat Product Point Value:   New Schedule Designed To Shift Public Taste To Unnopnular Cuts.   STEAKS, CHOPS GO UP

OPA Hikes Point Values for Meat   New Regulations to Induce Nation’s Meat Eaters to Switch from Round Steak and Expensive Cuts to Spareribs, Brains,  Tongue and Pig Knuckles

OPA ANNOUNCES CHANGED MEAT RATION RULES   Round Steak, Center Pork Chops, Loin Roasts Up

POINT VALUES OF MEAT 1S REVISED   OPA Announces New Schedules Will Become Effective Sunday   ‘SOME INCREASES   Round Steak, Center Pork Chops Among Items To Be Raised

Meat Ration Changes Given  Revision of Point   Revision of Point Values Effective Sunday Morning

RATION VALUES FOR MEAT WILL CHANGE SUNDAY   OPA Issues Revised List in Ration Set-up, With Round Steaks Upped,   Some Pork Down   USE E’s SATURDAY   Few Changes Are Listed  in Canned Fish, Oils,   But Cheese, Butter   Remain the Same

WEATHER   Most Popular ‘Meat Cuts Go ' Up in Points   New OPA Regulations Are Effective at Mid- nicht Sunday   ROUND STEAK IS 9   Sausage Schedule Un-! changed Despite Demands by Industry

Round Steak, Pork Chops Boosted in Point Value; Variety Meats Reduced

REVISED MEAT RATION POINTS ARE REVEALED   Round Steak and Pork Chops Raised Point On New List

Steaks And Chops Take More Points  New Schedule Effective - On Sunday

OPA REVISES MEAT POINT VALUES   Point Value on Choice Cuts Raised to Encourage Use of Cheaper Cuts.

OPA Raises Point Value of ‘Round Steak, Pork Chops   Order Would Switch Appetites to Other Meats

Values Of Choicer Cuts Increased In New Order   EFFECTIVE ON SUNDAY   Revision of Canned Goods Point Values Seen  Over Week-end

ROUND STEAK I$ BOOSTED 10 9 POINTS APOUND   Changes Are Made to Switch Many Appetites to Different Classes

MEAT POINTS JUGGLED IN NEW VALUES   Round ‘Steak and Pork Chops Now Require an Extra Point.      SPARERIBS, PIGS’ FEET ARE LOWER   Top Quality Steaks Now May Be Had at Lower Point Rate.

New Poin Values. For Meat   Change, Effective On Sunday, Expected To Lessen Demand for  Certain Popular Cuts

Point Values Up On Choice Meats, Down On Others   OPA Seeks To Switch Appetite Habits

MEAT RATIONING VALUES REVISED   Round Steak Raised Point to 9 Per Pound—OPA Order Effective Sunday

 ‘Point Values On Some Meats Raised, Others Lowered In ‘Revisions Announced By OPA   Ration Point Changes To Become Effective Sunday-Under New Decree   (NEW TABLE ON PAGE. 2)

Values of Meat Points Changed   More Expensive Steaks Become Attractive on Point Comparison.

MEAT RATION POINT VALUES CHANGED T0 SWITCH PURCHASING  MORE EXPENSIVE CUTS RAISED WHILE OTHERS ARE LOWERED

Some Cuts Increased  To 9 Points   American Appetite Faced With Brains, Knuckles, Spareribs As Substitutes

OPA Revises Meat Stamp Ration Value   Attempt to Switch American Appetites From Certain Cuts

OPA Revises Meat Ration Point Values   New Scale Effective Sunday

MEAT RATION VALUES ARE REVISED BY OP!   New Schedule Becomes Effective Sunday Morning

Center Pork Chops And Round Steaks Are Up A  Point; Spareribs Down.

OPA Increases Point Value Of Steaks, Some Meats Reduced.   EFFECTIVE SUNDAY A. M.

CHANGE MEAT RATION VALUES; START SUNDAY   Raise Round Steak, Pork Chops One Point, Lower Others

Revised Values Of Meat Rations In Effect May 2   Points Raised  On Round Steak

Changes Designed To Switch Buying From Prime Cuts  To Other Choices

SCARCE IN NEW “CHART FOR MAY   “Luncheon Meats Are Left Untouched; Cheese And ‘ Butter Also Same

Point Values for * Spareribs, Brains And Tongue Sliced   Round Steak, Center Pork Chops, Loin Pork Roasts, Slices of Boneless Ham and Beef Flank Steaks Each Increased

“Round Steak, Beef And Veal, And Cente Pork Chops Raised A Point—Spareribs, Knuckles, Voriety Meots Reduced.

ROUND STEAK, CENTER CHOPS POINTS HIKED   OPA Revises Meat Ration Values, Effective Sunday Morning   VALUES BOOSTED ON BETTER CUTS   Action Taken to Turn Appetites To Other Se lactiane

NEW POINTS FOR MEAT ANNOUNCED   Round Steaks, Genter Pork Chops, and Several Other Cuts Un 1.   SPARERIBS, VARIETY MEATS REDUCED   Famburger and Sausage Not Affected by Order, - Effective Sunday

Round Steak, Chops To Cost More Points   OPA Revises Meat Ration Schedule, Will Be Ef. fective Sunday   SPECIALTIES ARE CU]   Spareribs, Tongues, Pig Knuckles, Brains Will Drop In Value

POINT VALUCS OF MEAT CUTS BEING CHANGED SUNDA   Points For Few Select Cuts To Be Boosted: Slightly As * Others Are Lowered Under Orders of OPA. Bg   NO CHANGES ORDERED FOR LUNCHEON MEATS   Board Had Not Previously Ordered Any Major Changes Since Rationing Began on March 29.

NEW MEAT POINTS FOR MAY GIVEN   Round Steak Cuts Are Boosted; Spareribs Get Reduction

Meat Ration Values Revised   Revised food tables, may be found on page nine.

STEAK, CHOPS “ADVANCED, 25 TENS LOWER   New Order, to Be Effective Sunday, Seeks to Change Appetites.   BETTER STEAKS WILL  BE NO MORE COSTLY

New Meat Ration Values Effective Sunday; Chart On Page Two Today

POINT VALUES ARE RAISED ON CHOICE MEATS   OPA Seeks To Switch Amer. ican Appetites To LessAppealing Cuts   FEW REDUCTIONS MADE   Luncheon Meats, Hamburger, Cheese And Sausage Stay At Old Figure

MEAT RATION POINT VALUES ARE REVISED   Change Will Switch Many Appetites From Round teak and Chops to Other Cuts   IS EFFECTIVE SUNDAY

Meat Ration Values Revised: Effective on Sunday Morning   Revisions Expected to — _ Demand for Expensive Cuts

OPAREVISES: "MEAT VALUES   Ration Coupons Switch Many Appetites to Cheaper Cuts

Allied Squadrons Resume Attacks On Axis Targets   9,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped On Europe In Five-Day Spree

AXIS TARGETS BLASTED HARD IN AIR RAIDS   9500 Tons Explosives Dropped In Five Days and Nights

Packers Hope  For Supplies  After Threat Growers May Not  Take It Seriously to le The Duct

Pork May Have Ceiling Levels   Hope Seen That Farmers Will Start Marketing ‘ Their Animals

PORK CEILING CUT MAY FLOOD MARKEI   Packers Say Farmers Wil Beat Expected Drop Selling Animals Now

PACKERS HOPE FOR EXPANSION HOG MARKETING   Feel ‘Threat:of ‘Ceiling Be: low Current-Prices Will. _Throw Packers On >. Mart- °   $14.59 OR $15 LOOMS.   Hogs Now Selling At Around $15:50 Hundred’ -. Pounds; Previous . Threat-Ignored- ~~

PACKERS HOPE THREAT OF A CEILING OVER HOCS BRINGS MARKET EXPANSION

Labor Union Secretary Chérged With Throwing ‘Son From Hotel Window

ALLIES RETAIN AIR MASTERY OVER ITALY   Down 34 Axis Fighter Planes in Raid on Salerno

34 AXIS FIGHTER PLANES DOWNED IN SALERNO RAIL   Italian Rail Lines Blasted as RAF Pounds Nazi Chemical Works

Down Axis Planes  In Salerno Raid   Thirty Four Planes Shot Out Of Skies As Americans Blast Italian City  Ry PIFRRE FF tarce

First Thanksyiving Turkeys Leave To Adorn Soldiers’ Menu Overseas ©

ALLIES PLUNGE Td WITHIN 30 MILES OF MESSINA   German, Italian Lines Thrown tnto Confusion Ae Result of Landing.

SPECTACULAR MOVE. BY AMERICANS UNHIN GES.  DEFENSES; § ‘ TOWARD MESSINA

U. 5. BOMBERS BLAST SICILY   Shatter Airdromes for 2-Day Toll Of 158 Enemy Planes,

Middle East Command Takes Over’ Assault. as  Pre-Invasion Move _—im0w.

Island ‘Ts Hit from _ Both Sides   TINY ISLAND OF LINOSA GAVE UP YESTERDAY TO ESCAPE .  POUNDINGS SIMILAR TO PANTELLERIA, ‘LAMPEDUSA:

Enemy Planes: Hit in Raids Made on Sicily   Two Airdromes Attacked by U. S. Bombers

Pre-Invasion Raids Wreck  Two Airdromes   Middle Eastern Army Carries Ball for ~ Aliee °:

Pre-Invasion Air Warfare Pushed Against New Isle   Two-day Toll of Axis Planes Hit In Attacks Said At Least 158

AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Third Italian Island Surrenders Without Shot Being Fired

Airdromes In Sicily Become Bomb Targets   Pre-Invasion Offensive Is Carried Out By Planes Sent Against Italy By Middle East Command

MIDDLE-EASTERN COMMAND BEGINS ASSAULT BY AR   Attack Made on Two Air.  _ .dromes. Within 24 Hours After - Others Oamaged Three Airfields.   SIX SHIPS, GERMANY ARE HEAVILY BOMBED   100 Tons Hourly” Dropper During Record -48-Houw Assault, Three Cities Are Main Targets.

a8 K N KM IVE Y  PLANS DOWNED IN TWO DAYS   Pre-Tnvasion Aerial Offensive Being Pushed by Planes From Middle-Eastern  Pt

American Planes Blast Airdromes On Italian Island   Big ‘Stepping Stone’ Next to   Italian Mainland Gets  All-Out Blasting

THREE ITALIAN ISLES GIVE UP IN THREE DAYS   Last Of ‘Nuisance Bases’ Eliminated When Linosa Falls

= LIFE COMES TO CAPITAL   Washington Society Perks Up Over White Slave Scandal

CHOICE SCANDAL.   Washington Society Buzzes Over White Slave Trial.

WASHINGTON IS ENJOYING TRIAL   But Some Officials Hope For Early End Before Names Are Revealed

Will Take Measures ‘Against... Any: German Forees . Laylig ‘Mines in Swedish  “Territorial * Waters

17 Nazi War Prisoners Flee  Canada Camp   Ontario and Kingston Police Notified to  Watch for Men—Some May Trv to Reach U.S.

tER MANS FLEE YJ YANADIAN CAMP. H ROR. PRISONERS: I   Nineteen Prisoners Makc Getaway During Night, ‘But Four Nazis Are _ Recaptured Later

19 War Prisoners Escape in Canada   Ontario Fugitives Reported All Germans

NINE ESCAPED ~ HUNS RETAKEN   Wide Hunt Underway fot Ten Others from Ontario Camp

17 AXIS PRISONERS FLEE ONTARIO CAMP   Nearby Police and Army Officials Start Search Near Kingston— Believe All Germans.

15 War Prisoners Still Are Missing   Four Recaptured After Break In Canada

19 NAZI PRISONERS ESCAPE IN CANADA   Nine, However, Are Caught Within 12 Hours

NAZI PRISONERS. FLEE FORT HENR)   Nine of 19 Recaptured in Wide Search

YANKS READY TO OUST JAPS IN ALEUTIANS   MacArthur's Fliers Blast Nippon Bases on New Guinea

Allies Rip Through Nip Pacific Lines   Blast Guinea Madang Base Ruin Enemy China Drive

SURPRISE TEST -': “RATED AS O. K   Some Violations Noted In NineCounty Daylight ‘Raid.’

OPA SEES SAVING: ON POULTRY COST   BELIEVE NEW SCHEDULE, SET TO BREAK BLACK MARKET, WILL BRING PRICE CUT.

POULTRY PRICES REVISED BY OPA      “Substantial Savings” Promise Follows Basis for New Schedules...

SCREEN STAR AND CAPTAIN TO WED   Dorothy Lamour to Be. come Bride of William R. Howard II!

DOROTHY LAMOUR, CAPTAIN TO WED   Studio Says Marriage Set ; Soon as Groom Gets Leave

Slow-Down in War Production —  Serious, Nelson Says   « aw Aircraft, Equipment and Naval Material Increases but Declines Are Listed  in Other Phases of Work. Director Gave

Production Lag Called Serious   Nelson Gives Hint  OF Imminent Drive:

NELSON CONCERNED OVER LAG IN WAR PRODUCTION PAC   Reveals May Slump Ir Arms Output; No Reason Given

NO GAIN SHOWN IN ARMS PRODUCTION   Nelson Warns the Nation That Efforts Cannot Be   Relaxed an Instant. 

Arms rrocuction Fails to Gain, Nelson Warns  Very Serivus Matter, Says WPB Chief In Report on May

REPORTS SLUMP IN PRODUCHION PACE “SERIOUS MATTER”   About 40 Percent Of Year's Objectives Gained At Half-Way Mark

ARMS OUTPUT DROPS IN MAY   Tanks, Artillery, Other Ordnance Lags; Gains Made In Aircraft  Production

Arms Production  Fails to Show  Gain During May Slackening Pace Is  Serious Matter Chief Nelson Says

Information is That Pace Slowed Up in May Enough to Become Serious Matter — Will Also he Disappointing .in June.

PRODUCTION PACE SHOWS A FALLING OFF DURING JUNE   Slackening in May to Be Duplicated Last Month, Is Belief at Capital.

ARMS PRODUCTION SLUMPED IN MAY   Nelson Says Slackening Of Paes Is “A Wery Serious Matter”; Hints At Invasion Soon

ARMS OUTPUT FAILS TO GAIN   May Slackoff Is Very Serious Matter, Says Chairman Nelson

Production of Arms Lags; Nelson. Expresses Concerr   WPB Chief Reveals Output in May Failed to Show Any Gain Over April, Except in Aircraft and Ships for Army and Navy—With Nation on Verge of “One of Greatest Trials,’ He Describes Situation as Serious.

War Production Lag Reported   Nelson Warns Slump Is Serious Matter

PRODUCTION MUST KEEP INCREASING   Munitions Output In May Was Same ‘As in April

Production of Armament FallingDown   SLACKENING OF PACE “VERY SERIOUS MATTER”, SAYS “AAIRMAN DONALD NELSON; AIRCRAFT UP.   Insufficient Output

WAR PRODUCTION SLACKENS AGAIN, NELSON REPORT’   WPB Chairman Sees Dectine In Some: Categories As “Seriaus Matter.”

BRICKER GETS CAPITOL-BOOST   Ohio Governor’s Presidential Possibilities Aired in Conaress

FBI ROUNDS UP BIG TIME BANK ROBBER   Object of Nationwide Search Since 1935

OHIO BANK BANDIT - NABBEDIN ALABAMA   ‘Roy Brown and Wife Picked Up by G-Men

Anti-Aircraft Strenath Growing   New Gun Designed to Match Five-Incher Nazis Employ

KILLING OF YOUTH ADMITTED BY FARM HAND TO OFFICERS   Six-Year-Old Son. of His Employer Is Victim of Hammer Sfaying Near  Celina.

ROCKFORD FARM HAND ADMITS HAMMER DEATH   Sheriff F. Roy Shaffer Helps Get Confession from 17Year-Old Parolee

General Broz Receiving British Aid   Turks Are in Control Of Main Avenue For Attacking Reich

Romme! Opens Offensive In Yugoslavia   Partisans Start Own Drive In Cratia, Taking Booty

NAZIS OPEN - HEAVY DRIVE IN BALKANS   Move by Rommel Against Yugoslay-Liberated Territory Is Characterized as a Full-Scale Offensive,

Rommel’s Force Launched Attack   FULL SCALE LE OFFENSIVE STARTED BY NAZIS ON BALKANS

Axis Forces Attack Slavs   Offensive Breaks Into City of Prijepolje, Headquarters of Tito

Greyhound Corp. Proposes Use of Bus Terminals As Hangars for Helicopters

Plan Fleet Of Air Buses   Greyhound Would Use Present Bus Terminals For Helicopter Service

Air Bus Service Being Planned   - Helicopters to Operate on Large -- Scale. Proposed

BIG FIRES ARE REKINDLED IN NAZI CAPITAL   Fifth Major Assault On City Within Past  Month

Hundreds Of Bombers Rip Nazi Capital   Great New Fires Sweep City After Sixth Air Attack In Month.

RAF Shatters Nazi Capital In Big Raid   City Set Afire— Americans Strike North Germany   Invasion of New Britain Chief Allied Ratile Stroke of War Acainst Jananese

Nerve Center Of Reich Hit For 41st Time   Night Assault by RAF Causes Great Fires; Forts Blast Bremen

BERLIN'S FLAMES RISE AGAIN FOR THE 41st TIME THIS YEAR   Sky Reddened With Flames After Two Weeks Respite; Streets Choked With Debris; Acknowledge Heavy Damage To Bremen Also.

{AF Thunders Wer Berlin n Huge Raid   Fliers Drop 1,500 Tons Of Bombs on Nazi Capital, Spread Ruin

BERLIN RAIDED LAST NIGHT FOR 41ST TIME IN *43   RAF Hits After Two-Week Relapse; City Heaves Up Fiame, Smoke

Alst Raid Of Year Leaves Nazi Capital Great Field Of Fire   Sixth Attack In Month Follows On Heels Of Yank Assault On Reich; Report 30 British Planes Lost

Berlin Reels in New Sky Smash   HUNDREDS OF GIANT, BLACK R. A. F. BOMBERS LOOSE EXPLOSIVES ON NAZI NERVE CENTER FOR FORTY-FIRST TIME THIS YEAR; CITY BURNS AGAIN

NAZI CAPITAL: BELCHING FIRE, THICK SMOKE   Degree of Assault Leaves No Doubt RAF Intendsto Finish Job of Leveling Metropolis   ‘THIRTY BOMBERS ARE LOST DURING RAID   British Strike Quickly Af ter Yanks Hit Northwest.  _ Germany to Keep Ber- liners From Beds

1,000 TONS OF ‘BOMBS: FALL-IN BIG RAF ATTACK   Stockholm Reports Streets of German  Capital Are Choked

BERLIN WAS BLASTED HEAVILY LAST NIGHT. BY BRITISH BOMBERS STRICKEN CITY WAS   REPORTED IN FLAMES ACAIN TODAY

Berlin Given 41st Big RAF Raid of Year   1500 Long Tons of Bomb: Dropped By Determinec Night Attackers

GERMAN CAPITAL LEFT IN FLAMES   Meanwhile, Nazis Battered in Russia and Italy

SIXTH MAJOR ASSAULT ON REICH CAPITAL   Stockholm Dispatches Say Berlin Is Burning Again Today After Two Weeks Respite   FLAMES REDDEN SKIES

Transport System of Hitler's Capital Reported Paralyzed and Telephone Communication With Outside World Cut

Death, Ruin Again Rained Upon Berlin   Forty-first Raid of Year Made by RAF Thursday Night

1500 TONS OF BOMBS   Smashing Night Raid Follows U. S. Blow  Against Bremen

ARE DROPPED ON CAPITAL   Pounding Costs 30 Planes; Yanks Lose 11 Bombers In Daylight Smash At Northwest Germany

ITH ATTACK ON CITY IN A MONTE   ritish Report Loss Of 30 Bombers In Thursday Night Assault   ‘BADLY BATTERED         tockholm Dispatches Say Flames From Buildings Redden Sky

More Bombs Batter Boches   French Fight In Italy   x kK KK Ke Nazis in Italy Tough and Confident

MIGHTY NEW BLOW DEALT NATZICAPITAL   Thunderous Bombing Fallows Heavy U. S. Raids in Northwest

RAF BOMBERS SET BERLIN ~— AFLAME: ABA   Thunderous Explosives Are Dropped On City For 41st. Time This Year   } BOMBERS ARE LOST

Huge Fires ‘Again Rage In Berlin   Another Gigantic Blow Struck by RAF; Follows U.S. Air Assault

Heavy RAF Raid Follows Atiacks on Northwest Germany by U. 5. Bombers—Bremen Mentioned   GREAT FIRES SET   30 RAF Bombers Lost on Berlin Raid, 1] American Bombers, One Fighter Missing

BERLIN BOMBED FOR 41ST TIME   German Capital Burning Again After Heavy Attack By RAF.   SIXTH RAID IN MONTH

1,900 TONS OF BOMBS POURED ON CITY BY RAF   Heavy Oamage Reported in 41st Attack This Year: 30 Planes ‘Lost.

RAF BOMBS TOUCH OFF GREAT FIRES IN NAZI CAPITAL   MORE THAN 1500 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES FALL; THIRTY BOMBERS LOST

BERLIN RAIDED FOR 41ST TiMe   30 Planes Lost As RAF Renews Devastating Raids On Nazi Capital

BERLIN BLASTED ANEW BY RAF'S HEAVY BOMBERS   Sixth Raid on Capital is Month Leaves City in Flames Again

RAF Hits Berlin For Sixth Major Attack In Month  Stockholm Reports Nazi Capital Again

Berlin Again Target Of: RAF As Bombers Attack With Heavy Explosives 

Fires Raging In Berlin As RAF Strikes City Again   Thirty British Bombers Lost As Nazi Capital's Center Is Pounded;  Seourove Wilhalmetraces

HIT AGAIN BRITISH     BY U   Bombers Damage German Capital  In Nignt Raid

WAS THE FORTY-FIRST BOMBING THIS YEAR   Flames From the Nazi Nerve Center’s Gutted Buildings “Reddened the Sky”; the Sixth Raid in a Month.

Berlin Given Big Bombing   RAF Leaves City Stricken Aflame With 1,500 Tons Of Explosives

GREAT FIRES AGAIN RAGING IN CAPITAL   Telephone Communication Is Irregular and Transportation Paralyzed by. Debris in Latest R. A. EF. Agssanilt.

City Heaves In  Flame And Smoke After New Attack   Over 1,500 Long Tons Of Bombs Loosed. on Capital Last Night — 30 RAF Bomberg Lost — Americans Raid North - west Germany.

Lash Berlin Again   Great Fires Kindled In Agonized Reich Capital

BERLIN BURNG AGAIN Ra Hat RENEWS BLOWS   Brief Respite Ends as Hilge Air Fleet Rains Bombs on Stricken City.

Reich Capital Burning Again After Respite OF Two Weeks, Says Stockholm Dispatch

R. A. F. Hands Berlin New Terror   Mighty Raid Carried Out Against Nazis’ Capital City

1,500 Tons  Dropped; 30 Planes Lost   Attack Made Just After Yanks Return From Raid

Fires Rage tn Center of City; Great Damage   30 Planes Lost in 1500-Ton Attack; Bremen Also Hit

RAF BOMBERS IN BIG ATTACK   British Planes in Strong Force Seen Roaring  Toward France

STRONG FORCE OF RAF ABROAD   Bombers Roar Out Over Northern France in Large Formation;  7 Ships Downed

Destruction Piled On Vital Ruhr— British Lose 23 Planes.  ACT’ £2 RF ITTRT &

Americans Press Hard Attacks on Italian Outposts   Rubr Steel City Gets Hard Raid; Mosquitos Fly Far Inic Reich

Ware Police Chief Heard) At Mrs. Bouvier’s Trial On Slaying Of Husband 

Charleston Man Leads in Taking Vital Nazi Post  Tre KRannole  Pletaan

Americans Take Strong Point in Drive for Italy   Capture Hill 1017 In Hard Fighting

TAYLOR QUITS   Leaves Liquor Post To Joir Army: Fisher Takes Over.

STATE LIQUOR ~ HEAD RESIGNS   TAYLOR TO ENTER ARMY. AND ASSISTANT (DIRECTOR FISHER TO TAKE CHARGE

Wallace Agrees. With President   Says Aims Of Charter Are Attainable

WALLACE HESITATES ON CHARTER SECTION   Asks For “Second Look’ Be. fore Applying Section 4 to Axis

Wallace Reminds FDR of Section 4  Atlantic Charter Proviso Doubtful,  mue Vien Preatiaan

REDS TIGHTEN HOLD ON OREL   Fall Of Nazi Bastion Imminent After Soviets Slash Thru 70 More Towns

RUSSIAN ARMY NOW FIGHTING NAZIS IN OREL   Reds Attacking Within City. I: Report — 40 Villages Taken

BELIEVED IMMINENT   Russians Tighten Arc Around Base, Capture 70 Towns

1 KILLED, 2 HURT IN AUTO-TRUCK WRECK   Vehicles Collide Near South Bloomfield Today

Tells Roosevelt Present Program Cannof Succeed   Offers To Remain Shorf Time, but President Says To Go Now   Popular with Congress, but Unable To Work under FDR

Davis Quits Post as Food Chief   Administrator States Anti-Inflation Program Is Futile

Program Wont Work In Present Form, Tells FDR  In Resignation se   Judge Marvin Jones Appointed As Suceesstr} Caps Week of ‘Turbulent Debate -

Contending the Program to Combat Inflation Won't Work in Its Present Form, Davis Quits Food Post

Davis Resigns War Food Post   Says Anii-Inflation Program Won't Work

St. Louis Banker Declares Program To Combat Inflation Fails; President Sharply Defends Plans

Chester Davis Quits Food Job,  Jones Is Named   Davis Tells President Program Unworkable In Its Present Form

F. D. Appoints Judge Jones as Administrator   Banker Tells Chief Executive Program to Fight Inflation Won't Work As It Is Now

Skepticism Over Food Program Brings Action      mt Tells FDR Method Won't Com avis Tells FER Method ® Form: Letters Mediura

Roosevelt Plan Held  Failure   Disagreement Is Brought. To Light ©

DAVIS RESIGNS WAR FOOD POST   Flatly Tells President Anti-Inflation Plan Won’t Work; Jones Takes Over

Judge Jones Is Named Successoi To Chester Davis   Davis Notifies FDR His Anti Inflation Program Won't Work

Davis Resigns Food Post, Tells FDR Plan to Fight Inflation is Unworkable   (President Names Judge Marvin Jones as New Administrator, Defends Subsidy Program For Rolling Back Retail Prices

C. C. DAVIS QUITS FOOD POST; RAPS PRICE CURB PLAN   Administrator Tells Roosevelt ‘That Program to Combat Inflation Won’t Work as Drafted.   POINTED LETTERS EXCHANGED BY TWO   Marvin Jones, Former Member of House, Appointed to Succeed St. Louis Banker,

TEXAS COMMUNITY GROUPS ASKED WORK FOR POST-WAR PLAN  TEXAS COMMITTEE ON POST.WAR PRORI EMS SET

NIPPONESE RAID BOBDUBI FORGE   Allied Move Threatens To Cut Off Supply Line To Mubo

CAP Plane Takes Infant to Surgeon   Plane Forced Down at Buffalo to Replenish Oxygen for Des Moines Baby

First Triple Launching At Portsmouth      Christen Subs On Navy Dav

Russians Smash Dnieper Line  at Three Places   Fighting Flares Along Entire Front as Soviets Take Last Strongholds in Kuban and Open New Drives in the North

RUSS [roops. Hit Nazis At Three Points  Red Finhtina Elamac   Red Fighting Flames Into Action Again As Dnieper Is Crossed

Explosion Toll -Of Nellis Mine  Increases to 10   Rescuers Recover Bodies Of 9 Workers, Other Thies in Boenital

TENTH VICTIM OF BLAST DIES   Lawrence Vincent Added To Toll Of Explosion In Nellis Mine

Committee Proposes High Command For Domestic Front  Group Recommends Centralized Home Leadership

FINDS HOME FRONT [5 BREAKING DOWN   SENATE WAR § MOBILIZATION GROUP CALLS FOR DOMESTIC “HIGH COMMAND.”

Senators Demand ‘High Command For Home Front   War Effort ‘Sags’ Dangerously, Says Committee Report

[Home Front Is Suffering : [Because High Command Is Lacking, Senators Assert

URGENEW WAR EFFORT SETUP   Senate Committeemen Seek “High Command” for Sagging Home Front

High Command for Home Front  Demanded: by Solon   ‘War Mobilization ‘Committee Points to Sagging Production and TDissinatian hu Tarnce Bares pepemnee ph

Senat tor Group Claims Home Front Sagging   War Mobilization Body Cites Lack Of Centratization

High Command for Home Front:  Demanded by Solon   War Mobilization Committee Points to Sagging Production and  Tiieeination by Tance Manacqament

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oe! 2S coe Invasion in 14 Days Predicted In Official German Statement   Series of British Commando Stabs Reported; Allies Massing Big Fleet in Gibraltar Area

THRUST FEARED IN TWO WEEKS   Nazis Sound 2 Invasion Alarms: Commandes  Raid Island

ALLIED INVASION VESSELS MASSING, GERMANS DECLARE   Wilhelmstrasse Official Asserts Thrust Acruss Channel Can Be Expected  ' in 14 Days.   BRITISH COMMANDO RAIDS ARE REPORTED   Nazi News Agency Says Two Stabs Have Been Made at Sark Island to Gather Information.

'Two Invasion Alarms Sounded  ‘By Germans   Wilhelmstraus Official Says Big Allied Trust Coming Within 14 Days

NAZIS ANTICIPATE ‘ATTACK IN 14 DAYS   German Official Believes Com mando Raids Are Forerunners Of Invasion

Nazis Say Big Blow Is Near   Invasion Expected In Two Weeks; Two Alarms Sound

DAVIS MAY HAVE LAID FOUNDATION FOR POST NAZIER!   Anglo-American-Saviet Coop22 ~eration Believed: Main: Accianmant. °

INCOME LEVY ABATEMENT IS NOW CERTAIN   PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX COMPROMISE SENT TO SENATE

TAX BILL PASSED ~ QUICKLY BY HOUSE      Compromise Pay-As-You.Go Measure Sent to Senate

HOUSE PASSES TAX MEASURE   "ay-As-You-Go System Becomes Almost Certainty For Nation

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan Voted   House Adopts Bill By 256-to-114 Ballo’

House Passes Pay-Go-Tax Bill, 256 to 114   Compromise Measure Goes to Senate With Assurance of Enactment; Leaders Say President Will Approve

Tax Plan Given House Approval   Senate’s Passage ‘Believed Certain

HOUSE PASSES PAY AS YOU 60 TAX MEASURE   Quick Passage In Senate Virtually Certain; Vote Is 256 To 114   Long Battle Ends

PAY-AS-YOU-G0BILL PASSED BY HOUSE, 256-114   Roosevelt Expected to Let Compromise Measure Become Law After Senate Gives Its Approval.   BITTER PARTY FIGHT "ENDED BY ADOPTION   Legislation Provides 75 to 100 Per Cent Abatement of One Year’s Obligations of Taxpayers,

House Passes Tax Measure;  Up To Senate Pay-As-Go Progran Is Approved, 356 To 114

Pay-Go Tax Program Is Virtually Certain for U. S.  House Passes Measure, President Expected To Let Act Become Law

New Tax Is About To  Become Law      PAY-AS-YOU-GO MEASURE SLATED FOR QUICK PASSAGE IN SENATE; BELIEVE PRESIDENT WILL SIGN.

Pay-as-You-Go Taxation Is Now Virtual Certainty   House Passes and Sends to Senate Compromise Measure

Pay-Go Income Tax Collection Seen Certain   Measure Passes Houses Reported Acceptable  Pe a

House Passes Compromise Tax Measure   Approved by 256-114: _ Pay-as-You-Go Now Virtually Certain

PAY -AS-YOU- 60 COMPROMISE IS GIVEN APPROVAL   Quick Action Expected To Follow House Vote: Levy Begins July 1   TAXPAYERS MUST PAY SECOND INSTALLMENT

Hitler Orders Blood Wall Builf Across Northern Italy: Allied ion Plaster Nazi Cities   Germans Report Soviet Armies Launch Fresh Assault on Dnieper Lines; YugoSlavs Active; Finschhafen Is Taken

ALLIEO DAT ILE TOWARD ROME: FACE ROMMEL   Russians Capture 320 More Towns; Guerrillas Snipe Nazis

Allied Leader Declares Road To Rome Open   Rommel. Leader German Forces In Orderly Retreat Toward Capital.   BOMBS HIT RUHR AREA

‘A table showing the revised meat point values will be found on Page 7.

CITIES ON RISING DHIO PREPARE FOn HIGH WATER PEAK   Army Engineers Go to Portsmouth to Bulwark 62-Foot Dyke Protecting City   CRIES FOR HELP COME FROM OTHER SECTIONS   ha emy Joins Coast Guard, Red Oross and Citizens Defense Oorps in Evacuating Hundreds of Residents; Peak to a Exceed First Forecasts

Today’s War Commentary  ‘General Nerves’  Now Fighting On Side Of Allies

SALERNO AERIAL BLOWS HEAVIEST   n 2,000 Sorties, Allies Lose No Planes, Nazis Disappear

AIR UMBRELLA OVER ALLIES AT SALERNO   Allied headquarters say situation “slightly better today”

CIANO TO PLEAD WITH HITLER FOR MORE HELP   Duce’s Son-in-Law Leaves for Germany

ITALY PLEADS FOR AXIS HELP   Ciano On Begging Mission A: Mussolini Awaits Invasion

CIANO IN GERMANY T0 SEEK HELP   Pleads for Hitler To Send More Aid  To Italian Forces

DUCE'S SON-IN-LAW IS PLEADING WITH HITLER FOR HELF   Ciano Carries List of Urgent “ty Needed Facilities to Resist [nvasion.

CIANO ENROUTE TO GERMANY T0 ASK FOR HELP      Carries New Italian Plea Te Hitler For Much Needed Aid

Armies 23 Miles From Goal On Tebourba Road; French Reported at Pont du Fahs

Allied ‘Armored Forces ~ Drive Within 4 Miles of . Tunis Road   MGINNTIAINO Pb DIN  Leave Dead Unburied in Quick Retirement Before Americans

At Some Points Germans Retreat So Rapidly They Leave Dead Unburied On Field; Allied Planes in 1,000 Sorties

Rearguard of Enemy Retreats So Rapidly They Leave Their Dead on Field, As Battle Continues With “Unabat ed Ferocity”; Show Signs of Exha tion in Giving Up Strongholds — out Fight. cg

Axis Whole West Mountain Barrier Apparently Crumbling   Enemy Forces May Be Split in Two Separate Pockets; Retreat So Rapidly They Leave Many of their Dead Unburied; Many Mines

Mountain Barrier Held By Axis Units Appears Crumbling   Eisenhower Reports Major U. N. Gains In Four Tunisian Sectors; Threaten To Split Axis Forces

'ARMIES OF ALLIES DRIVE GLOSER TO TUNIS AND BIZERTE  -arZ TUITE Co pTr eres   ' ENEMY’S WHOLE WESTERN MOUNTAIN BARRIER APPEARS CRUMBLING

R.A. F. Blockbusters Hit Duisbuerg Again; Germans  ‘Admit Russian Setbacks

ALLIED ATTACKS SQUEEZE FOE IN ‘COFFIN CORNER’   ‘Hard-hitting Yanks Surge Through Abandoned Lines Toward Bizerte Base   FIERCE FIGHTING RAGING   Reds Are Reported To Have Captured Nazi Novgorod Base in New Drive

Axis Defenses Crumble in  Allied Attacks   War Planes Carr Carry on 1,000 Sorties; Germans Retreat Swiftly

Axis Forces Abandon Vital Defensible High Ground  Without a Fight and Allies on Threshold of the Tunis 2 eee   Three Main Gateways to 2 Ports Are Under Direct Allied Assault

ALLIES SCORE GAINS IN FOUR VITALSECTORS   Americans Last Reported Attacking on Line Three Miles East of Sidi N'Sir   DRAW NEAR TO MATEUR

Enemy’ Western Mountain Barrier Appears Crumbling as Germans Abandon Vital Defense Points without Fight.

Allies Once More On Threshold of Plains of Tunis   Americans Pushing Toward Lake Achkel Planes Cooperating

Vital, Defensible Ground Is Abandoned Without Battle   3 Main Gateways To Tunis-Bizerte Zone Aré¢ Under D:rect Assault By Allies   AMERICANS ADVANCING RAPIDLY  RAF Continues Block- Busting Raids On  Germany With Attack On Duisburg

Allies on Threshold of Tunis Plain— Yanks Race Along the Road to Mateur — French Nearing Lake Achkel— Anderson Smashes Beyond German Outer Line of Defenses

Surging Allies Only 23 Miles From Tunis & Bizerte   RAF Does Up Duisburg

Allies Assault Three Major Gateways To Tunis-Bizerte With “Unabated Ferocity”’

Nazis Give Up Vital Ground Without Fight   Whole Western Mountain Barrier Appears To Be Crumbling; Major Allied Gains in at Least Four Sectors Announced; Reds Blast Nazi Airdromes, Rail Stations

NAZI MOUNTAIN LINES CRUMBLE BEFORE ATTACK   Allies Drive Within 23 Miles of Tunis and Bizerte, Report

AXIS BARRIER SHOWS SIGNS OF CRUMBLING   Major Gains Made by Forces on Offensive at Threshold to Vital Plains of Tunis

German Strength. Being. Reduced Hourly, Big 60-Ton. Tiger Tanks Knocked ‘Out as  Allies Again Near the Tunis Plain:

British First Army Forces Push Ahead In Drive on Tunis   earguards Protecting Nazi Withdrawal Leave Own Dead — Unburied   Rearguards drawal

Allies Hammer To Threshold Of Tunis Plain In Major  Gains On Four Fronts

\azis Give Up ital Ground Nithout Fight   Aliies Pushing Closer to Tunis And Port of Bizerte

ALLIED ARMOR PUSHES AHEAD   Patton’s Men Move So Fast Nazis Haven’t Time to Bury Their Dead. :   BRITISH DRIVE FORWARD

French Reach Pont Du Fahs; Nazis Lose 80 Tanks In Battle; Yanks Repulsed

Germans Abandon Vital High Ground Before Tunis Plain   Fleeing Hill Barriers Without Fight; Allies Make Four'Major Advances, Drive on Three Gateways to Coast

ENEMY YIELDS MILL POOITIONG 10 QUA TROOPS   Three Main Gateways To Axis Positions In Triangle Within Allied Reach

French Slash to Pont du Fahs   BRITISH, AMERICAN FORCES CLEAR WAY FOR TUNIS PLAIN ONSLAUGHT; FLYING FORTS RIP GROSSETTO FIELD IN ITALY

Americans Turned Back in Asssult on One Hill but Capture Another Near

ALLIES KNOCK QUT 80 TANKS. -IN ONE AREA:   Move Swiftly All Along the Front, Approaching Within Four Miles of the Vital Tunis-Pont du Bahe Road.

GATEWAYS TO TUNISIAN PLAINS EITHER UNDER DIRECT ASSAULT OR IMMINENTLY THREATENED   ‘Allied Warplanes Flew More Than 1,000 Sorties: in Offensives of “Increasing Intensity” _ Against. Axis Troops. American Troops + Continue Advance on Road to Mateur.

Allied Armored Forces Drive Within 4 Miles of Tunis Road   GERMANS FALL BACK   Leave Dead Unburied iz Quick Retirement Be fore Americans

Allies Within 23 Miles Of  Tunis. Bizerte   Nazis Giving Up Strategie Points Because Of Lack Of Reserves.   RED ARMIES ADVANCE

Bills Impose Fines for Failure to Save Cans: Victory Garden Thefts

British. Nazis Claim Victory  In Biseay Row   German High Command Claim Sinking Of Six Brit. ish Destroyers.   SPOTTED BY FLIERS

BOTH BRITAIN AND GERMANY CLAIMING SEA FIGHT VICTORY  - GERMAN CLAIMS DOUBLE THOSE OF BRITAIN; AM-

Britain, Germany Both Claim Naval Victories In Biscay Bay Battle

Flotilla of German Destroyers First Spotted by Yankees   Shadowed Them 6 Hours Until British Warships Arrived

Nazi Version Is Different   Claim Sinking of Six British Destroyers in Bay of Biscay Action

GLAM VICTOR      Britons, Nazis, Suffer Los. ses in Naval Battle in Bay of Biscay.   TWO CRUISERS DAMAGED

British, Germans Claiming Victory Nazis Report Sinking Of  Six Destroyers

Germans Now - Claim Victory: in Sea Fight   Six British. Destroyers Sunk in. Bay of Biscay, Berlin Version Says F

NAZIS CLAIM WIN AT BISCAY   GERMAN COMMAND SAYS 6 ALLY DESTROYERS SUNK

Nazis Claim Naval Victory   Dalte Badia Cave   Berlin Radio Says Six British Ships Sunk in Bay of Biscay

AMERICAN NAVAL FLIERS SPOTTED NAZI FLOTILLA   Signalled British Warships Which Sunk 3 Destroyers And Damaged Others

American Fliers Shadow Nazi Flee! And Summon British Ships for Kill

BRITAIN - GERMANY CLAIM SEA VICTORY   Two American Navy Fliers Spotted Nazi Convoy

45 More Planes Of Japanese Are Wrecked At Rabaul Base   Allied Bombers Drop 115 Tons of Expfosives on Big Airbase—Some Enemy Opposition En’...' countered ot -Choicenl . —-

45 More Planes Of Japanese  Are Wrecked At Rabaul Base   Allied Bombers Drop 115 Tons of Explosives on Big Airbase—Some Enemy Opposition Encountered at Choiseul

U. S. Warships Seore Victory Without Loss in Solomon Isles   Foe Had Tried to Break Up Shelling of Munda and Vila

Two Japanese Destroyers Sunk  Sent Down by VU. S. Warships Off Solomon Islands

Japanese Lose Two Destroyers  Fail In Attempt To Halt Bombardment

2 JAP DESTROYERS  SUNK BY U. S, SHIPS  IN-SOLOMON AREA NC AMERICAN SHIPS LOS’  IN LATEST ENGAGEMENT IN SOLOMONS AREA

U, §. WARSHIPS SINK THOHEAVY TAP MRN-(?-WAR   Both Destroyers Sent to Bottom When They Attempt to Break Up Yank Bombardment in Solomons   FIVE PLANES BAGGED   Meanwhile, Allis Mop Up Last of Jap Convoy; Wreckage and Oil  Stains Alone Left

Japs Lose Two Destroyers In Solomons Area   Light Naval Force Tries To Break Up American Bombardment

Try To Halt Bombardment Bv U.S. Fleet   Navy Also Announce: Torpedo-Plane Attack On American Convoy Beaten Off

No American Craft Lost in Bottle of Task Forces Off Tila and- Munda

U. §. Warships Sink Two More Jap Destroyers   Enemy Tried to Stop Shelling of Solomons Positions

emy Fails ‘Halt US. ellfire   ve Japanese orpedo Planes lso Destroyed

NAVAL FORCES SINK TWO JAP DESTROYERS   Engaged by Enemy Surface Units While Bombarding Vila and Munda in Central Solomons -

Enemy Loses Vessels in Effort to Stop American Bombardmentin Solomons

U. S. WARSHIPS SINK TWO MORE JAP DESTROYERS   NAVY ANNOUNCES TWO MORE SINKINGS IN SOLOMONS AREA

Naval Force Tries to Halt Bombardment   Fierce Battle Results In Central Solomon Islands Friday Night

Japanese Naval Force Tried to Break up /American Bombardment of Their Installations in Central Solomons and Loose T wo of Their Destroyers

EnemyDestroyers Sunk In Solomons   Surface Battle Fistlowe At tempt to Stop U. S. Bombardment   NO. AMERICAN LOSSES   Number of Japanese Ships Sunk in Solomon Area  Raised to 62

Five’-Enemy “Planes Also » Shot: Down in Clash in Solomons:Area   “JAPS ATTACKED © : : U. 8: TASK. FORCE   Americans Beat ‘Beat Off All. En. _ ey ‘Craft, Continued to ve Bombed Base

Navy Discloses Arrival of Convoy Mission  Without Loss Despite  attack From Air

J. S. VESSELS SINK TWO JAP DESTROYERS   Battle Takes Place During Yank Bombardment of Enemy Positions in Central Solomons—No American Craft Lost.

stroyers o Bottom n Solomons   U. S. Warships Knock Out Light  Enemy Naval Force   —_ Aircraft  b Munda, Buin   Another Task Force Bombards Installations  At Munda And Vila

‘Enemy Attem pled To Drive Off U. S. Task Force Bombarding Installations On Tslands      None Of Our Ships Lost, Navy Reports; Recent Attack On Convoy By Torpedo Planes Was Also Frustrated

Destroy Two Jap Cruisers   Sunk Trying to Break Up U. S.  Attack in Solomons.

ACCUSES POLAND OF IMPERIALISM   Kussia Claims Eastern Part Of Country Qn Racial Grounds; Polish Government Stands Firm

POLAND STANDS FIRM IN DISPUTE WITH RUSSIANS   Premier Sikorski May Mee! Stalin Soon to Discuss Roundaries.

POLANO WANTS BORDER AREA LOST TO AUS:   Demands Restoration Despite Moscow's. Charges: of Imperialism.   TERRITORY INVOLVED HOME OF UKRAINIANS

Allies Are Forced Back After Taking Heavy Toll of Foe  NEW SOVIET DRIVE  Germans Report Violent Campaign On in Kuban Area

CLAIM SLICE OF POLAND   Ambassador To Mexico. Tells “Of Intentions’

Air and Ground Attacks in Africa   British Main Army Closer to Border

U.S. Troops In Tunisia  Make Gains   Armored Force, However Stopped by Germans In Faid Pass Drive

Germans Fail To Widen Tunisian Escape Corridor   Axis Unable To Make Any Gains In Stabs At Front

U.S. Combat Teams Score Gains In Tunisia As  Air Force Blasts Sfax —

Yank Troops Repulsed In  tush On Faid   Americans Reverse Original Plan, Occupy Sened After Defeating Axis.   BRITISH 89 GAIN:

Yankees, Held At Faid Pass, Capture Sened   Original Plan To Withdraw Is Reversed; Fliers Batter Sfax Supply Port   8TH ARMY ADVANCES   Montgomery Prepares To Enter Tunisia, Following Up Armored Patrals 

GROUND AND AIR FORCES STRIKE HARD AT ENEMY   \merican Armored Force, However, Repulsed In Fierce Drive Against Faid Pass: Review Of War In North Africa

AMERICANS GET PRISONERS FROM PUSH AT SENED   U. 5. Fliers Smash At Rommal’s Supply Port OF Stax

OWIFT DEATH ta DUE FOR OE NATE AISE ON CORK   House Leaders Predict Bil! to Raise Ceiling Price Is Doomed.   ‘UPPED 33c A BUSHEL   Farm Bloc Leaders Feel Congress Should Not Fix Prices.

PREDICT QUICK DEATH OF CORN BILL IN HOUSE   Delegwation Takes Problem to Food Administrator Jones

Injuries Fatal To Inventor of ‘*‘Lewisite’ Gas   Fall From Porch Results In Death; Evolved Gas Used in War

Lobby haven curtailed by solons’ vote   Must keep off unicameral floo when in session   The legislature recessed at 12 noon Wednesday to reconvene at 3b. m.

Legislative council is constructed   Each district is allowed 4 men

Approves council for development of ag industry   Bill shows unexpected strenath in final vote

State not to pay interest on fair ’stand   Senators hold no obligation on  aid to board

Give 6 bills final stamp of approval   Bank changes favored; total passed now 132

Legislators advance 20 more bills’   Become stalled on cornerstone laying measure

Legislators advance 17 more bills   Number upon general file now total 100

1,000 Planes Raid Nazi Naval Base      Fifth Army Completes  Capture of Massico Ridge as  8th. Army Moves Forward

Follows Raid By 1,000 Big Yank Planes   Fifth Army Takes Massico Ridge— Russians Near Kherson Outskiris

Swift Sequence tc Blow by 1,000 U. S Planes. on Wil helmshaven — T« Hit Bougainville

AERIAL ARMADA SPREADS HAVOC ON RUHR CITIES   Once Proud Nazi Force ir Russia Fleeing Mob Now; Jap Destroyers Sunk

YANKS CAPTURE MASSICO RIDGE DEFENSE ANCHOR   Cossacks Pursue Retreating Nazis Across ~ . Steppes.

BRITISH BOMBERS . IN STRENGTH BLAST GERMAN WAR PLANT:  AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY COMPLETES CAPTURE

BRITISH BUMBERS IN STRENGTH BLAST GERMAN WAR PLANT   AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY COMPLETES CAPTURE OF MASSICO RIDGE

Nazi Industrial Cities Blasted In Huge Raids   Fifth Army Completes Capture of Massico Ridge; Reds Continue Rout of Germans; MacArthur's Air Power Smashes Jap Counterattack

Higher Than Parity   Lend-Lease Supplying Needs For ‘Relentless Offensive’ Against Foe

Congress Told Lend-Lease Aid Big War Factor   Gives The Allies Supplies For Relentless Offensive And Inevitable Victery

LEASE-LEND AID DRAWS PRAISI   House Bady Urges Its Con -tinmance; Oil to Spain Report Denied

LEASE-LEND AID TO ALLIES PROVING VITAL FACTOR   In Supplying Needed Supplies to Allied Nations for ‘Inevitable Victory’

LEND LEASE AID - PROVIDING A VITAL FACTOR TO ALLIES   Supplies United Nations for “a relentless Offensive and “Inevitable Victory.”

Flathead Lake  Given Up By Government   Army and Bonneville Officials Declare All Plans to Use Waters for Columbia Development Are Cancelled

Bonneville Power Administrator Says All Plans Affecting Flathead Lake Will Be Abandoned: Will Urge WPB to Make Materials Available for Immediate Development of Water Storace on South Fork

BOWS 10 MILITARY POWER OF ALLIES 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AFTER ENTERING WAR   Temporary Military Armistice Granted by Kisenhower;: Kingdom Fought Only One-Sixth as Lone as Sicily

50,061 Receive Ration Book 2  Total for County ra 25 bi on  Lee pe ee

Vote On Postwar Action Delayed   Young Senators  Win In Skirmish

Young Senators Win Skirmish, Delay Vote on Foreien Policy Resolution

U.9. DEBT NOW 40 BILLIONS   Federal Spending During Past Year Totaled $78,178,885,240 —

FEDERAL SPENDING HIT 78 BILLIONS   Fiscal Year Outlay More Than Double That of Previous 12 Months.

(8 BILLIGN SPENT BY U. 5. IN YEAR   ALL BUT 8 PCT. OF FUNDS GO FOR WAR—PUBLIC DEBT NOW 140 BILLION.

British Take  New Position  At El Hamma   Patton’s Forces Reach Coastal Plain Fringe

Ickes Placed In Control On FDR's Orders   President Roosevelt Directs War Department To Aid Where Neces sary; U. S. Will Keep Control Until UMW Submit to WLB

Flag Now Flying Over Mine Shafts   Use Of Troops May Be Averted §f Miners Will Return To Their Jobs And Work For Country

 LAA A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL Uncle Sam Warns There's No Shortage Ot Clothing Now

CLOTHING SHORT AG RUMOR DISCOUNTEL   Rationing Not Contemplated. Nation Is Assured

No Rationing of Clothing Is Seen   Government Officials Denounce “Seare Buying’ Reported in some Places Today

Scare-Buying Spree Hit By Officials   Plenty of Clothing in U. S., Brown and Nelson Report

SUPREME COURT RULES STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS OUTLAWED CONTEMPT CONVICTIONS OF T. J. PENDERGAST

Supreme Court Rules Pendergast Not Guilty   Conviction of Kansas City Democratic Boss and Associates Nullified by Opinion

OcEK VICTORY CORP FUNDS IN SENATE   Federal Aid to Prepare Youths for War and Peace Is Asked

CONSIDER LARGER. COLLEGE AIRPORT   New Buildings, Runways In Store For Beacon.  Airwave

College Trustees Meet This Week  Important Matters To Be Considered

German Disaster Complete as — Once-Great Army Is Destroyed by Reds

R.A.F:HITS — BERLIN, SETS HUGE FIRES   Drop 1000 ' Tons Of Bombs; Fires Visible 120 Miles

ROCKET’ GUNS FIRED IN DUEL GERMANS SAY   Allies Wouldn’t Know. But Smash Again At ‘Rocket Coast’

U.S. HAS WHEAT TO FEED WORLD   Ever-normal-granary Supply To Stand Allies in Good Stead; Corn Surplus Drops

No Shortage Of Grains   Ever Normal Granary Surplus Would Go Far Toward Feeding World

U.S. Taking Steps to Cut Down Prices   Poultry, Eggs and Fresh Vegetables Among First To Feel OPA Order

Hint‘Roll Back’ Ot Vegetables   OPA May Also ‘Cut Egg. Poultry Prices

High Government Circle Hint. They May be Included With Fresh Vegetable Cost Reduction   HOG PRICE CUT SEEN   Will Not Affect Retail Meat Prices But Would  Safeguard Retail Cuts     - From Increases

Vegetable, Egg Prices Due for Dir   OPA May Atieinpt To Depress Level For Hogs on Hoof

Hint Price Cut In Poultry, Eggs And Vegetables  Order to Force Down   Order to Force Dowr Price of Live Hogs Expected Soon

Fowl, Eggs Vegetables First Cuts   Farm Heads Pledge Aid to FDR, but Powder Dry

POULTRY, EGGS MAY BE ‘ROLLED BACK   OPA Silent on Move but Reports Persist in Price Cut of Fresh Veagetables

EGG, POULTRY PRICES MAY BE CUT FIRST   Fresh Vegetables Also Among Those Expected to Get Initial Consideration in Anti-Inflation Rule of F. D. R.

COST OF VEGETABLES, POULERY AND EGGS MAY BE REDUCED      Plan Hinted to Force Down Live Hog Prices From $16 To $14.50   REPORTS NOT OFFICIAL

OPA HEADS HINT CUT IN CARRYING OUT FOR'S PLAN   Brown, Davis Favor Lowering Price of Hogs to About $14.50

PRICE CUT IS INDICATED FOR CERTAIN FOODS   Eggs, Poultry, Vegetables May Be First Under FDR Order

aleG  EoT PRODUCE PRIDES TQ BE CUT   Poultry, Egg, Vegetable Prices May Be ‘Rolled Back.’ Hint.

Prices of Poultry, Eggs, Vegetables May Get First Cut   Officials Hint They’ll Be First Affected by the President’s Order

POULTRY, EGGS AND TRESH VEGETABLES PRICES MAY BE CUT  THESE COMMODITIES MA PE °PATIEN Race”   THESE COMMODITIES MAY BE “ROLLED BACK” ALL ALONG LINE

PROPOSED CUT IN POULTRY, EGGS AND FRESH VEGETABLES   These Are Expected to Be Among the First to Be Cut by the OPA.   DROP COST OF LIVING   Likely to Be “Rolled Back” at All Price Points, It Was Announced Today.

Early Price Cuts For: Vegetables, Eges, Poultry   Seen By High Government Officials As First To Be Affected By FDR Order

New Allied Landings Alarm Nazis   Balkans, North Italy Threatened By U. S., British

NAZIS IN FEAR OF LANDINGS IN ADRIATIC AREA   Threat From Corsica And Sardinia Seen As Guerrillas  Hold Open Bridgehead   180,000 YUGOSLAVS UNDR ALLIED ORDERS

Berlin Fears New Landings By Allied Forces   Italian Coast And Balkans Are Vulnerable

Leghor mn Landing Pear ed by Enemy  c ‘orsiea. Sy linia May  Provide Uinhrellg

linproved Allied. Position Causes. Marni in Berlir   Germans Fear Landing: Flanking Defenses _  Or Balkan Stab

Peril Seen In Balkans By Berlin   Flanking Move,  Invasion’ Are  Feared

Germans Reveal Their Nervousness As Allies Improve Positions for New Landings in Italy or for an Invasion ef the Balkans.

BERLIN. VIEWS WITH GRAVITY ALLIED GAINS:   Concentration of Allied Air and Naval Forces on Sardinia and Corsica Arouses Haare   Nazis Strengthen Bulcaria

New Headache for Adolf: BERLIN TAKES GRAVE VIEW OF LATEST ALLIED GAINS      Strong Concentrations of Power in Italy Give Germany Another Attack of Jitters

Vanguard Convoy of 180 Army Trucks Will Roll Out of Fort William Henry Harrison Monday on  First Leg of Statewide Scrap Metal Collection Drive

Coast Guard Cutter Saves Convoy, Destroys Sub, ane Captures 40 Nazi Seamen

CUTTER SAVES OCEAN CONVOY   Nazi U-Boat Sunk And 10 Jittery Crewmen Surrender

BIG U-BOAT SUNK IN ATLANTIC AS “ITSTALKS CONVOY   Depth Charges and Gunfire From U. S. Coast Guard Citter Send Raider to Bottom.   40 GERMANS GO OVER SIDE TO SURRENDER   Lifeboats on American Vessel Are Riddled by Nazi Fire During the. Battle.

BASE VT  ‘German Gar n May   iGerman Garrison May  Be Isolated by Attackers   PRESSURE GROWING ALONG WHOLE FRONT

U.S. Infantry But Ten Miles From Bizerte.   British Repulse Strong Attack: By Germans —

FOES FACING ISOLATION FROM MAIN LINES   Enemy Threatened From Two Sides at Ferryville

NEW THRUST THREATENS 10 ISOLATE ENTIRE AXIS FORCE AY BIZERTE FROM MAIN LINE   American Troops Turn Back Two Desperate Axis Counter-Attacks

MOST OF GERMAN TANKS IN ATTACK ARE KNOCKED OU)   Yankees Capture Eddekhil: as Important Part of Pro gram to Crack Defenses 0 Tunis Plain.   RAF BOMBERS VISIT COAL, STEEL CENTEF   Damage Done at Fortmund as American Flyers Bomb at Antwerp For Second Time During Month:

JUDGES SONS PASS BAR EXAM   Successful Applicants To Be Sworn in Next Week

Confusing Cite  Typical Example Of Legalistic Lingo Of OPA Runs In Circle

Concealing Of News Charged   OWI Assails War Manpower Commission for Methods

WMC Is Rapped For Suppression  Of News By OW!   Flmer Davis Charges McNutt’s Unit

OWI Accuses WMC Of Withholding, Concealing News  ‘Father Draft Cited As Instance of Puhlic Confusion

OWI Says WMC News Policy ls Inadequate   Elmer Davis Sends Protest Letter To Paul V. McNutt

WMC's Concealing of News Hampers War Effort-Davis  OWI Director Tells McNutt That Department Policies Lead ta Cantu cinn af the Pakii-

OWI Accuses WMC Withholding, Concealing News  Elmer Davis Reports McNutt’s Office Handicapping Work

MARIGNY FREED OF MURDER BY BAHAMAS JUR)   Jurors Recommend That Frenchman Be Deported  From Nassau

Deportation From Nassau Recommended; Uproar Drowns Out Voice of Foreman

Jury Acquits DeMarigny of Oakes’ Murder   Courtroom Cheers Verdict, Prisoner Joins His Wife

Marigny Found Not Guilty of Slaying Oakes   Frenchman, Freed, Faces Deportation

SET HUGE FIRES IN RAIDS ON FOE   Believe Toll of Planes Lost in Jap Raid on Guadalcanal May Reach 94

"God-Awful Pasting" Awaiting Japs Says Knox U. S. HasLots of Planes

ALLIED FLYERS ATTACK NAURU   FIRES VISIBLE 40 MILES AFTER HEAVY NIGHT RAID

U. S. Bombers Blast Jap Base at Nauru   Heavy Attack “Very Successful; Hammer Nip Ring of ‘Islands North of Awetralia

U. §. Bombers Take Big Raid 650 Miles From Guadalcanal   Losses to Japanese Force of 120 Planes May Have Been 94

BIG RAID ON JAP BASE ON NAURU ISLAND   Other Strong Point Held by En.emy in Australian Island Area Pounded by Our Fliers

BOMBERS LEAVE JAP BASE AFIRE   Flames Are Visible for 40 Miles After Raid

U. S. Bombers  Strike North  Against Japs Heavy Raid  Made 650 Miles  iB: 4 hy Gee

Enemy Biveuacs and Oil Dumps Blown Up; Meny Other Nipponese Bases Pasted

~~WAR IN FACIIL-—  NAURU IS SET AFIRE   «Flames Visible For 40 Miles After Heavy Raid

Fires Visible For Many Miles   JAP BASE ARE BOMBED HEAVILY BY U. S. PLANES

Raid Cost Japs 94 Planes Out Of 120, Report   Great Fires Set Last Night By Yankee Raiders At Six Jap Bases

 Soviet Claims 1,843 German Tanks  Are Destroyed; Allies t Hit Cologne

ACCOLADE WON BY U.S. CRUISER   American Warship Goes Down Fighting, Sinks 3 Of Enemy Fleet

2 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK, 60 MORE PLANES BAGGED   Yank Mitchell Bombers Smash Enemy Units at Key Base of Rabaul

AABAUL POUNDED AGAIN BY ALLIES   Two Warships Sunk, 60 Planes Downed By Raiders

BOMBERS SINK ‘TWO WABSHIPS IN RABAUL RAID   Destroy Sixty More Planes in Surprise Atiack — Japs Open Of fensive on Finschhafen

6 Jap Planes, Two Warships Lost At Rabaul   Enemy Troops Open Offensive, Gain On Finschhafen

Two Jap Vessels Sunk In Raid On Big Rahaul Base   Nips Open Drive Toward Finschhafen; Landings Attempted

60 Jap Planes, Two Warships Blasted in Air Raid on Rabaw   Aussies Are Forced to Fall Back in New  Guinea Campaign

Nip Ground Forces Take Offensive At Finschhafen Destroyer And Gunboat Sunk As Mitchells Take Enemy Garrison By Surprise

Allies Destroy 60 Jap Planes,   Mitchells’. Close ‘Parsuit Forces Zeros Dip Wings Inte Sea Near Rabaul

MITCHELL BOMBERS  DESTROYED 60 MORE  JAPANESE PLANES ENEMY GROUND FORCES  HOWEVER, ATTACK IN FINCHAFEN SECTOR

Airmen Destroy 60 Jap Planes And 2 Warships   Second Rabaul Pounding In A Week; Aussies Fall Back In New Guinea.

Allies Destroy 60 Olen Planes oe Wl Raid   _uke Offensive Against Finschhafen; Mitchell Bombers Surprise Enemy

60 Jap Planes, Two Warships Lost att at Rabaul   Nips Go Over to Offensive in Finschhafen Area

2 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK IN SECOND AERIAL ATTACK   JAPANESE TROOPS TAKE OFFENSIVE AT FINSCHHAFEN

RABAULBOMBED TWICE WITHIN WEEK'S TIME   Aerial Scorching of New Britain by American Air Force Stepped Up Evervwhere   JAPS ON OFFENSIVE NEAR FINSCHAFEN   Australians Resisting Suc cessfully Enemy At - temptstoRetakeIlm- — portant Base

POUND RABAUL AGAIN: DESTROY 60 JAP PLANES   Allied Bombers Sink 2 More Warships in Raid on Key Base

Blast 60 Planes, Two Jap Ships In New Rabaul Raid   Australians In Retreat On New Guinea Front

U.S. Wins New Rabaul Victory   MITCHELL BOMBERS POUND NEW BRITAIN BASE AS ZEROS DIP WINGS IN SEA AND CRASH; NIPS TRY OFFENSIVE IN FINSCHHAFEN AREA

2 JAP WARSHIPS REPORTED SUNK   New Allied Raid on Rabaul Results In Loss of 60 Enemy Planes

POUNG HABAUL, GET 60 PLANES   Japs on Offensive on Land Front Near Finnschhafen, New Guinea.

60 Jap Zeros, Two ~ Warships Blasted  New Raid On Rabaul; Anssies Fall Back

Jap Otfensive At Finschhafen Now Launcher   Key Japanese Base At Rabaul Pounded By Ally Bombers  Successfully

‘JAP SHIPS AND PLANES ) ARE SMASHED AT RABAUL; -FOE ATTACKS IN GUINEA

AUSSIES FALL BACK ON NEW: GUINEA FRONT   Japanese Lose 60 More Planes At Rabaul

Rabaul Raid Stuns Japs .   60 Planes, 3 Ships: Blasted by MitehcHs

Rabaul Raid - Nets 60 More Jap Aircraft   2 Warships Also Sunk in Mast-Level Raid Which Baffles Zeros

Bombers Gef Jap Planes And. Vessels   Destroy 60 Planes, Two Warships -At Jap Key Base of Rabaul

NEW RABAUL RAID DOWNS SIXTY PLANES   Two Warships Sunk In Second Air Pounding of Week of New Britain's Fortress   AJSSIES DRIVEN BACK

MITCHELLS HIT KEY JAP BASE      60 Planes Destroyed, 2 War. ships Sunk At Rabaul .

Sixty More Jap Planes Destroyed   American Bombers Dip Low in Raining Destruction at Rabaul.

BLAST RABAUL IN NEW RAID   Japs Take Offensive Ir Finschhafen Area;  Make Gains

Japanese Turn Zeros Into Sea   U. S. MITCHELL BOMBERS DESTROYED 60 MORE NIP PLANES

Jap Warships Sunk, Planes Downed in Raid   Allies Turn Guns On Rabaul Again With Good Results

Rabaul Scorched Again By Yank Heavy Air Attack   60 More Planes Destroyed and Two Jap Warships Sunk; Second Pounding of Fortress Within A Week.

AMERICAN BOMBER ATTACK ON      Jap Zerds. Tidvertently Dipped Wings J in Sea And Cached

60 More Planes Wrecked af Rabau   But Japs Advance At Finschhafen

U.S, FLIERS HIT RABAUL, DOWN 60 NIP PLANES   Japs Regain Offensive from Australians in Finschhafen Sector

JAPS’ PLANE LOSS GREAT IN SOLOMONS   American Ai*men Fly Low Over  Enemy Bases

Allies Bag 60 More Japanese Zeros: Aussies opDefense in New Guinea

60 Planes, Two Warship: Blasted In Allies’ New Aerial Attack on Rabaul

60 Planes, 2 Warships Hit in Raid   Japs Take Offensive on New Guinea; Push Assies Back Toward Finschhafen

News Behind The News  fManorichnt McClure Newspaper      WASHINGTON By Ray Tucher

121,000 TAKEN PRISONER BY AMERICANS   British Suffer Twice as Many Losses as Yankee Forces

RATION BOARDS GIVEN RULES ON HEARINGS   For Enforcement Of ~ Ban On Pleasure Driving’   Local - Boards - Must Keep Harrisburg - Informed

RANUN DUAR) GIVEN RULES ON HEARINGS  For Enforeement Of Ban On Pleasure hoe      Local Boards Must Keep Harrisburg  Informed ~

Storms Wins New Greenfield Trial   High Court Returns Case on Technicality

Six More Bodies Found in Smith Bear Creek Mine   Known Death Toll Is 19 With Little Doubt About Others

Six More Bodies  Found in Mine   Montana Death Toll Raised to 19

RAF Bombers Hit Cherbourg   500-Pounders Lash Docks Tu Effort to Cripple lj-Boat Pawer

British Bombers Blast Cherbourg   Nazi Sub Base At ‘Lorient Also Hit

Tn Ware Theaters   German Sub Base Bombed   Chevbourg Also Feels RAF Blasts

Cherbourg Is Bombed In Daylight Raid Of RAF   No Fighter Opposition Met in Attack on Docks at French Port—Submarine Pens at Lorient Are Bombed

LORIENT SUB PENS BLASTED   Naval Base Devoted T« U-Boats Pounded By RAF; Cherbourg Hit By Day

British Bombers’  Attack. Cherbourg  In Daylight Raid RAF Follows Up-- s  Heavy Attacks on Leeloet Buen

RAID IS MADE ON CHERBOURG   British Bombers Swiftly Follow Up Attack on Lorient Sub Base

ENGLAND BOMBED BY NAZI AIRMEN   CASUALTIES CAUSED IN ;: AREAS — RAID FOLLOWS RAF ATTACKS ON FRANCE,

Cherbourg ls Target Of British Bombs   German U-Boat Base Hit: Nazis Hit at Enaland

RAF Bombers Blast Docks At Cherbourg  Attacks by Bostons, ~ Spitfires: Meet -No Air Opposition

EIGHT DOYLESTOWN MEN ARE INDUCTED   Half of Those Sent by Board No. 3 To Train In Army

INDUCT 38 FROM DOYLESTOWN AREA   Eight In the Group Are Men Who Resided In  Doylestown

Announce No More Coffee Rationing   Stocks of Coffee in United States Increasing, OPA Announces:

Edge Whetted On Strike Bill   Penalty Said Provided For Aiding Walkout

STRIKE BILL IS SLATED TODAY   Joint Committee Gives Measure Sharper ‘Teeth’ To Curb  Walkouts

Sharper Teeth Go Into Strike Bill:   - Early Decision On  t Psst & Menctire Foracnet

Sharper Teeth Go Into Strike Bilt   Early Decision On Measure Forecast

ANTSTRIKE BIL VOTE QUE TODA   Unit Sharpens Draft’s Teeth to Prevent Recurrence of Coal Walkout

Winters, Public Welfare Head, Was to Take Office Facing Threat of Cancellation ‘Of Old-Age Assistance Matching for Texas

DISASTERS SET RECORD IN U. 5. IN 14 MONTHS   130,000 Victims Are Aided As Red Cross Spends More Than $1,500,000 In Helping To Allay Havoc   RED CROSS READY TO ANSWER CALLE

Disasters Set: Record in U: S: In 14 Months:   ae Trae     130,000 Are Given Assistance  ‘By Red Cross:

Memorial Poppies Aid War’s Living   Money Derived From Sale of Flowers Go Into Rehabilitation Fund.

Poppies To H ” Those Of. ae The World Wars   Legion Auzillary: Mary, Will Sponsor  B per Sale: om. Streets’ Here: tardy Need is Greater  Thde Ever. This’ Year.

HEARING ON RAIL RATES REOPENED   ICC ACTS UPON REQUESTS FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES AND LINE USERS.

Treasury Islands Seizure Admitted   U. S. to Drive Japs  From Solomons

ALLIED POlot FOR GLEAN UP OF SOLOMONS   Landings In Treasury Group Put Americans On Spot For Ousting Enemy

House To Drop FSA; No Action On Pay- Go Plar  Agriculture Payments, Crop Insurances And .  Other Subsidies frrrvtaitead Bu bdanca

' Today In Washington:  Food Conference, Farm Security, Black Markets ‘And Taxes Discussed

Open Sessions at Conference Demanded    Claim Food Meeting Called Too Soon If Deliberations Must Be Kept from Ameriean People

FIGHT SECRET FOOD PARLEYS   Senators Continue To Insist That Public: Be- Informed on Talks.

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Another Small Italy Isle Quits   British Destroye ‘Captures  l aaneea 2

 Linosa Falls Without Bloodshed; Bombing DrivLaunched On Sicily   PRISONERS ARE MOVED 'TO AFRICAN MAINLAND

Without Firing  Linosa Gives Up f Single Shot   anicky Garrison of 140 Soldiers Glad To Get Out of War   Americans Bomb Sicily Which May Be Next Allied Objective

New Isle Falls; U. S. Strikes  Sicilian Points   Captured Italians Thank Invaders For Sparing Them Bombing; Garrison Gives Up Without Fight

Linosa Falls, Sicily Next Target; U.S. Bombers Blast Bremen, Kiel U-Boat Bases

Third Italian Outpost Surrenders   American Planes Switch Their Attack to Sicily

Third Island to Surrender in Three Days; Garrison Glad To Escape Bombing

U.S. bombers and fighters switch ‘knockout puneh’ to Sicily; g garrison to prison   ‘Large number of nearly 150 planes on , ground at three airports said riddled

LINOSA GIVES UP TO ALLIE'   U. S. Bombers Switch Their Assaults To Sicily

Third Italian Isle Gives Up Without Shell Being Fired   British Destroyer Accepts Bloodless Fall Of Linosa Near Seized Lampedusa: Allies Send Scores of Big Bombers Against Sicih

Italy Loses Third Island Outpost in Three Days  NOTA SHOT FIRED IN ISLAND SEIZURE  Heavy Forces Join in the Assauit on Island of Sicily

Panicky Little Linosa Runs Up White Flag As Destroyer Nears  LAMPEDUSA BOWS AFTER BOMBINGS  Three Islands Now ‘In Without Allied Soldier Being Placed Ashore

Italy Loses Third Island: _ Outpost in Three = Days  NOT ASHOT FIRED __. IN- ISLAND SEIZURE  Heavy Forces Join in the Assault on Island =.” of Sicily — Re

Allies Launch Air Offensive on Italian Island   Sicily is next objective in Allies offensive in Mediterranean; attack ‘airfields first. <-

GARRISON ON LINOSA GIVES UP TO ALLIES      U. S. Bombers Switch Their Assaults To Sicily

ALLIED FORCES CONCENTRATE ON SICILY FOLLOWING SURRENDER OF LINOSA; NOT A SHELL FIRED AT TINY ISLE.

Linosa Gives Up: Big Bombers Rain  Blows on Sicily  150 Axis Planes Reported Destroyed - At Three Airports  : SOVIETS BUSY IN AIR  Italian Naval Craft _ Try Torpedo Raid  But Flee Quickly

RAF Raiders Swing Over Europe Again  Guns Heard on Coast: london Has an Alert

ADJUSTMENT 10 BUDGET BEGINS   State Officials Ponder Department Cuts; Old Sweet To Be Deserted

STATE OFFICIALS STUDY CURTAILED AUDGET FIGURES   Seek to Fit Machinery to the $80,593,857 Allowed by — The Legislature    ATTACHES COMPLETE REPORT FOR RECORDS   T. J. Ingersoll Talkes Over Job as Acting Director of Public Assistance; Plan to  @ Evacuate 93 Patients From Old Sweet Springs

RAF BOMBERS STRIKE BLOW WITHOUT LOSS   Western Germany Heavily Hit In Night Bombing

AERIAL BLOWS: AGAINST NAZIS ARE INCREASED   Mosquito Bombers Ham mer Western Germany   After Terrific Assault  - By Yanks On Bremen   AMERICANS TESTING SATURATION SYSTEM   Precision Bombing Will Be   Used to Wipe Out Reich   Cities; Air Power Mounting

Opponents of Trade Treaty Program  Are Planning to Continue the Fight

Nikirk Hearing Is Postponed  Will Await Attorney's   Will Await Attorney's Return From Service

SOVIETS DRIVE ON SMOLENSK, NOVOROSSISK   Strong German Defense Lines Pierced In Blows At Key Enemy Base   'NAZ ASSAULTS HALTED   Caucasus Offensive Revived As Reds Push Toward Black Sea Port

Soviet Forces _ Pierce German Defense Line:   Red Army Continues Steady Drive Toward Great Base Base At Smolensk   RENEW OFFENSIVE IN CAUCASUS AREA

GERMANS ARE FALLING BACK UN oMULENoK   Soviet Troops Have Pierced More Strong Nazi Defense Points.   STILL DRIVING AHEAD   In the Caucasus Russians Open an Offensive Near Novorossisk.

EMANUELE TRYING TO SAVE HIS THRONE   Italian Monarch Confers With Advisers on Parties’ Demands That He Abdicate.

WRECKAGE OF PLANE LOCATED IN PERU   TT  Fate of 15 on Transport Is Left in Doubt

RESCUERS SEEK TO REACH PLANE   Fate of 15 Aboard Is Still Unknown as Bad _ Roads Halt Rescue Attemps

Workers Attempt To Reach Plane   Pan American-Grace Transport Down South Of Lima, Peru

DELEGATES AT CROP GOAL _ CONFERENCE URGE HIGHER GUARANTEES AND MORE PRODUCTION IN 1944

Heidelberg Co-ed Killed, Four Injured As Truck Sideswiped; Driver Escapes

2 Big Points in Statement From Teheran   Length ofthe Expressed Friendship to. Determine’ Good: Results   RUSSIA EMERGING - AS NEW POWER   Little Nations Also, Given Hope in. Declaration Rerarding. Iran...

PARING IS DUE   Fruit, Vegetable Prices T: Be Put Under Ceilings   OPA Amends Slaughter Rules On Home-Produced Meat Of Farmers

Farmer To Consume Meat “Ration Free’   ray Acquire Meat from Custom Slaughterer

FARM MEAT NOW FREE OF RATIONS   Custom Slaughtéring Will No Longer Require . Stamps

RAF STARTS ON SECOND THIRD OF CITY AFTER LAYOFF   41 Bombers Lost in One of War’s Most Furious Air Battles   CORRESPONDENT WHO COVERED RAID MISSING

FEAR WRITER WAR VICTIV   LOWELL. BENNETT OF INTER. NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE  MISSING AFTER RAID  ON BEELIN

Three Newsmen Missing After Raid On Berlin; Last Story On Take Off

3 WAR NEWSMED ARE MISSING Ih RAID ON BERLIN   ‘Lowell Benneti, Interna: tional News Service; Australian Reporter and Unidentified Writer Lost

Smoke, Fire Billows Up Afresh' from Blasted Seat of Hitler's  Fortress of Europe

Correspondent Toll Is Heavy   Lowell Bennett, of INS *Lost In. Berlin’ Raid With 2 Others

LANCIANO EVACUATED   3 War Reporters Are Missing in Raid Over Berlin

American~ Corre spondent Was in R. A. F. Bomber Theat Attackad Rartin

SO ll  _:LULUOCO~<‘—sSOSCS  I.N.S. CORRESPONDENT MISSING AFTER RAID

Lowell Bennett of I. N. S. Reported Missing In Action; These Papers Use I. N.S. To Inform Readers

THREE WRITERS MISSING IN RAID   U. S. War Correspondent Among Absent Trio

#ould Relax Merit System   Kansas Legislature Plans Hearing Tonight On Receiving Center

Would Relax Kansas Civil Service Plan   McCarroll Offers Measure Exempling Some Appointees

Navy Announces Cut in Physical  Requirements   New Standards Coincide Substantially with Army For General Service   CHINESE VICTORY PROVES They No Longer Fight Alone

Physical Standards Lowered By Navy   Requirements Are To Coincide With Those of Army

NAVY LOWERS ~ REQUIREMENT   Physical Standards to Be More Lenient

GILLETTE MAY BE OPPONENT OF ROOSEVELT   HINTS GIVEN IOWA SENATOR ' MAY BE CHOSEN TO LEAD OPPOSITION WITHIN PARTY .

COUNCIL HANDLES ROUTINE BUSINESS   Short Session of City Fathers Was Held Last  Evening : MEINE INO  Treeric 9 Drrp NnrpasTro

COUNCIL HANDLES ROUTINE BUSINESS   Short Session of City Fathers Was Held Last  Evening  Carats  ISSUE 2 BEER PERMITS

WLB 10 HEAR MINE WAGE DISPUTE   Proceedings to Begin Thursday Regardless of Lewis

WLB TO RESUME COAL HEARINGS ON THURSDAY   Board Will Proceed With Case Even If Lewis Refuses To Appear   STATEMENTS CONFLICT   Fresident And Ickes Demand Final Decision Must Come From Agency

CAPITAL PRINTERS STRIKE AROUSES WAR LABOR BOAR   Typos Ordered Back to Work; Baker Summoned to Hearing

Strike Closes Four Papers in Washinetor  WLB Orders   WLB Orders Typographers To Return To Work

tepublican Congressmen To Support Rumi “Skip-a-Year Income Tax Plan

*FLASHES   Leased Wire Butietins on Latest World News Today.   PRendk Vetter af Protest.

ROOSEVELTS — ASK FAIRNESS   Letter from Lt. Col. Elliott Roosevelt. Protests Against Untair Congressional Criticism of Himself and His Brethers.

MILK PRICES UP ONE HALF CENT   OPA Grants Increases For Parts of Columbiana, All Of Mahoning County

OPA APPROVES HIKE IN MILK PRICE IN OHIO   ‘Increase To Prevent Diversion From Youngstown  Area

NO WHS ALUMNI BALL THIS YEAR   The Annual Banquet Will Be Held At The PennWells Hotel.

U. 5. Develops Super Bomber  Soon to Be in Large Scale Production

New Super-Bomber for Army's Air Forces Will Surprise, Hurt Enemy

America’s New Super-Bomber To ‘Surprise and Hurt’ Foe Now Getting in Production

SUPER-BOMBER — BEING PRODUCED   It Will ‘Surprise and Hurt’ the Enemy, Says Rep. Sparkman

SUPER-BOMBER OUTPUT GROWS      Preduction Near Full Scale, Report Says

SENATE PASSES MEASURE TO MERGE TWO BUREAUS   Hotly-Contested Bill Approved By 27 To 20 Vote In Special Session

Merger of Public Assistance Control Approved by Senate   Downing Bill Is Passed After Hot Debate in Illinois Assembly

4000 Centenarians Reported in U. 5.  Census Bureau Says Figures Doubtful

CENSUS FIGURES ARE QUESTIONED   Even Officiais-Doubt-ttem-of 4,000 Centenarians

Red Airmen Rip Enemy's Supply Lines   Soviets Gain As Fighting Front Spreads

OHIOAN KILLED   Utica Soldier Dies In Crash ot Corpus Christi Seaplane,

Leaflets Warn Germans That Convicted Killers Will Be Hung After War

English Leaflets Warn Germans Death Due Those Who Kill, Torture Captive Peoples

Revolt Sweeps Across Europe   Three Trains Wrecked By Belgians, Germans Rush In Additional Troops.

ALLIED VICTORY INSPIRES NEW SIGNS OF UNRES]   FREQUENT UPRISINGS OCCUR IN GERMAN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES

Armed Clashes Break Out Following Allied Victory Over The Axis In Africa

RIOTING BROKE OUT IN BERLIN   Started When Women and Elderly Men Sought Informatién of Relatives.

‘Reports Reaching London Say Revolt Rages in  - Holland, Belgium   WIDESPREAD SABOTAGE   Hitler’s Europe Shaken by Outbreaks in Occupied  Countries

PRESIDENT TALKS WITH DELEGATION      Revests That National Government Idea Was Not Elaborated Upon.

NEED NATIONAL GOVERNMENT: FR   President Tells Demo Big Shots His Aim Is To-Keep Administration Out af Politics During War.

Australians Aim At Finschhafen In Quick Thrust   Seaborne Forces Come Ashore On New Guinea

Base Northeast Of Lae Captured By Australians   Another New Guinea Stronghold Falls After Hard Fight

Finschhafen Is Threatened   Aussies Land Above Jap Base on New Guinea Coast

Aussies Strike Above Lae With  Seaborne Troops   Allies Expand Operations and Destroy Jap Garrison on Arundel.   Finschhafen Is Object Of MacArthur’s Drive

Aussies Land Above Jap Base   Remnants of Jap Garrison on Arundel Island Destroyed

Finschafen Threatened By Aussies   Seaborne Troops Land North Of Stronghold 60 Miles Above Lae; Smash Foe At Arundel

Australians Land For Atfack on Finschhafen Base   Terrain There Is More Suitable for Ground Action

 M’ARTHUR FORCES. OPEN NEW DRIVE AGAINST JAP BASE AT FINSCHHAFEN

Land 60 Miles To Northeast Of Lae   Warships And Planes Protect The Landing Forees   NINE OF JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN

MacArthur Announces Two New Blows Against Japs Aussies Land Near Finschhafen; Jap Garrison On Arundel Is Cleaned Out

JAP BASE ON NEW GUINEA   Other MacArthur Forces Wipe Out Japanese Garrison at Arundel Island.   AIR BLOWS SPREADING   Tokyo Tries To Rally People Behind Tojo’s Newest Mahiiizatinn Plan

Allies Land At Finschafen,  New Guinea   Its Capture Would Place Huon Gulf Under Rule Of MacArthur

AUSSIES LAND NEW JAP BASE   Australians Go Ashore Near Finschhaten, 60 Miles Above Fallen Lae.

Jap Base North of Lae Captured   Australians Land At Finschhafen

Seaborne Army Land North Of Lae, Routs Japs   Arundel Jap Garrison Is Destroyed By Allies; Aussies Lead Raids

AUSTRALIANS LAND FAR ABOVE LAE ON NEW GUINEA GOAST   CAPTURE OF FINSCHAFEN WOULD GIVE MACARTHUR IMPORTANT BASE

Seaborne Landing of Australians Above Finschhafen Proves Another MacArthur Stroke

Allies Shorten Route To Bases   NEW ATTACK PUTS JAPS INTO GREATER TRAP

SEABORNE AUSSIE FORCES THREATEN BIG NIPPON BASE   MACARTHURMEN CLOSE IN ON RABAUL WITH FINSCHHAFEN LANDING

AUSSIE LANDING NEAR FINSCHHAFEN   Seaborne Australians Land Under Plane-Warship Protection; Americans Destroy Jap Garrison On Arundel.

Australians.Land Above Jap Base Along New Guinea Coast   Finschhafen Capture _ Would Give Allies Control of Gulf. .

MacArthur's Men  Drive on Jap Base   Australian Treops Force Landing Near Finschhafen

AUSSIE TROOPS LANDED ABOVE FINSCHAFEN   Remnants of Jap Garri son On Arundel Island In Solomons Destroyed

Aussies Menace Japanese Base  At Finschhafen   Yanks Destroy Remnants Of Nipponese Garrison On Arundel Island.

TROOPS ON SHORE   Australian Soldiers Land at Enemy Base on New  Guinea Coast

New Allied Landing Menaces Japan’s Base At Finschhafen   Australians Go Ashore Above Big Center Under Cover Of Warships And Planes; Remnants Of Nipponese Garrison Cleaned Out On Arundel Island

New Landing Made By U.S. In New Guinea  Japanese Garrison Ie Dectroved On   Japanese Garrison Is Destroyed On Arundal Island

IES LAND  ON COAST NEAR FINSCHHAFEN   MacArthur Opens New Offensiv: in New Guinea After Affack o1 Ships Beaten Off   ARUNDEL CLEARED   Jap Garrison on Solomons Island Destroyed, Bringing Allies Within Artillery Range of Vila

SEABORNE LANDING MADE BY AUSSIES ABOVE FINSCHAFEN   General MacArthur Also An" nuonces Destruction of Re-' maining Jap Troops on Arundel Island. in the Soio mons 

Australians Make Seaborne Landing Near Finschhafen   Remnants Of Garrison On Arundel Destroyed

Aussies Battle To Win Control  —~OfVantage Spai   Capture Of Finschhafen Would Put New Britain. In Striking Distance.

Anzacs Land to Shorten Road to Rabul   Capture of Finschhafen Woulc Give MacArthur Access of} Biq Jap Base

Aussies Make Cuinea Attack   MacArthur Announces Landing On Coast 60 Miles Northeast Of Lae.

AHEAD OF'ONLY ONE STATE   Nebraska Governor May Have to ' Pay Off ‘His Bond Wager

American Planes Blast Jap Ships  Two Destroyers Are Possibly Sunk

2 Jap Destroyers May Have Been Sunk In Action   Apparently Were Seeking Land  Men At Vila

Justice Parker  Dies Suddenly   Jurist Is Victim Of Heart Attack

Judge Parker Dies Suddenly At His Home   Well Known Oil City Jurist Succumbs After Brief Illness Early Today   HAS AN ACTIVE CAREER

JudgeParker Victim Of Heart Attack   STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME IN  OIL CITY; HAD BEEN IN GOOD HEALTH.   Leaves Four Children

LEGISLATURE SESSION WILL OPEN TUESDAY   Quick Action on War. time Problems is  Aim of Leaders

Vital Problems Facing Assembly To Meet Tuesday   Will Organize And Then Recess Until Jan. 18; Short Session

Death-Dealing Mosquito Bombers Born in Rehabilitated Plant Making Secret Plywood

USE NEW PLYWOOD! IN BOMBER PARTS   SECRET PROCESS MAKES PLUSWOOD STRONG AS METAL

rth of Mosquito Plane In Wisconsin Disclosed   ‘ath-Dealing Bombers Came to Life in Rehabilitated Plant Making Secret Process Plywood; Postwar Uses of Resin Impregnated, Heat and Pressure Treated Plywood Unlimited

Use Plywood To Make Mosquite Planes; Many Post-War Uses   Virtually Unlimited Future Foreseen; Is Made From Finest Birch And Maple Trees

Lincoln Parish Ration Board Office To Be - Closed Friday Feb. 26

GERMAN COAL CENTER REELS UNDER BLOWS   Latest British bombing exceeds 1,000-plane raid against Cologne

Greater Than On Cologne, Reports State   Believe More Bombs Struck Their Mark

REDS CARRYING ENTIRE BURDEN IN WAR--STALIN   Warns Russians Of Bitter Fight Still Ahead

Stalin Attacks Allies For Lack Of Second Front   Says Red Army Alone Bears Weight Of War; Four Million Nazis Slain

STALIN PUTS NAZI DEAD AT FOUR MILLION   Says Lack of Second Front Places Whole Burden Of the War On Red Army  BITTER FIGHT REMAINS

STALIN DECLARES RED ARMY BEARING WHOLE WAR WEIGHT  RUSSIAN LEADER SAYS FOUR MILLION GERMANS KILLED ‘IN 20 MONTHS

RUSSIAN CHIEF SAYS REDS BEAR WEIGHT OF WAR   CONTENDS THAT TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON GERMAN INVADERS

RED UNITS HIT ATOREL FROM THREE POSITIONS   600 Germans Killed as Soviets Capture Number of Fortified Towns

\Fight To Death Ordered Against. The ‘Nazis On Soviet’s 25th Anniversary

STALIN RENEWS URGENT APPEAL FOR 2ND FRONT   Exhorts Reds To “Fight To Death” Against Enemy In Anniversary Talk   4 MILLION NAZIS SLAIN    Soviets Wipe Out Garrison: Near Stalino, Push Drive Toward Orel

Stalin Says Lack Of 2nd Front Puts Whole War ‘Burden On Reds; Reports 4 Million Nazis Slain

Stalin Says Soviet Army — Has Whole War Burden In  Absence of Second Front   FDR Warns Asmaricans Are: ‘Still-Facing. New.  “6 Reverses: Misfortunes””

STALIN DEPLORES LACK 2ND FRONT   In Telling of Nazis’ Huge Losses He Says Russia has Been Carrying Whole Weight of War In Europe.

Premier Speaks On 25th Anniversar y Four Million Nazis Killed, Says Stalin  *eeeee

Stalin Hails Russia’ s Forces As  Army Of Avengers y   Says Red Army Is ‘Bearing Whole Weight of War.’

Whole Weight Of War Is On  Russia: Stalin   Acclaims Red _ Forces On Anniversary As An ‘Army Of Avengers’

Soviet Troops Bearing Whole Burden OF War  amo T ALAIN   Red Chieftain Says Army Has Slain 4.000.000 Nazi Invaders In 20 Months,   SECOND FRONT ABSENT

STALIN HAILS REDS AS ‘ARMY OF AVENGERS   Russian Premier’s Orde:  Of Day Stresses Soviet Union Bearing Whole Weight of War   WARNS HIS PEOPLE   Bitter Fight Remains, He Says; Derides German Strategy; Reds Kill 4 000.000 Fascists

Death of Nazi Invaders, Says Joseph Stalin   Russian Premier Says  His Country Is Bearing Whole Weight of War With No Second Front

Russia Carries Full Weight of War Says Stalin   Huge German Losses Told At Moscow

RUSSIAN FORCES HAILED AS ‘AN ARMY OF AVENGERS’ BY PREMIER STALIN TODAY   In Absence of Second Front in Europe Russians Bearing Whole Weight of War. Orders Fight To The Death of German Invaders

RUSSIAN LEADER BRINGS UP LACK OF SECOND FRONT   Says Reds Carrying ‘Whola Weight Of War; Places Axis Losses At 4 Million

Stalin Says Time Favors The Allies   Praises Red Army In Address On  Red Anniversary   Urges “Death To The German Invaders”   Enemy Is Not Yet Conquered And A Hard Fight Looms

Ten Men Killed In Mine Blast      Tragedy Occurs in W. Virginia Shaft

UNION SETS NEW DATEINORDERING MEN BACK MONDAY   Policy Committee Makes No Allusion to President’s Order In issuance of Instructians    ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BEFORE CONFERENCE   Union Blames Operators, Says Government Seizure on May 1 Seriously Confused Situation.

Miners To Resume Monday  Under New Truce; Lewis : Sull Issues Orders

June 30 Deadline for  Walkout if Contract —  Issue Remains Unsettled

NEGOTIATIONS ARE T0 BE RESUMED ” IN NEAR FUTURE   Lewis, However, Continues t¢ Ignore WLB—Deale With Ickes.

Men Ordered By UMW To Return To Work Monday   Demand Satisfactory Wage-Hour Agreement Within Two Weeks

COAL STRIKE STILL THREAT   UMW Sets June 20 Deadjine For Aereement With Operators

Miners Will Return To Pits Monday   Lewis Orders 530,00¢ Workers To Resume

June 20 Walkout Deadline   To Quit Work Then Un Less Wage-hour Agreement Is Reached

Cards Win By 4-3 Score To  Even Series  H E 001 300 000—4 7 2 YANKS . 000 100 0023 6 O

]  410 3, 10 THE SERIES   Burdened With News of the Death of His Father, Mort Cooper Triumphs in a Great Com ;¢ petitive Exhibition.   me ‘  Score by innings: R.H.E.  Cardinals . ....001 200 000—4 7 2 Yankees . .000 100 002-3 6 0!

MARION, SANDERS POLE HOME RUNS TO GAIN VICTORY   MORT COOPER HURLS AIR-TIGHT BASEBALL TO SQUARE SERIES   aI VwWwiAry

Cards Knot Series When Cooper Wins   National Flinger’s Father Hod Died Suddenly on Wed.

MORT COOPER IS MASTER OF NEW YORK CLUB   Home Runs By Marion And Sanders Help Red Bird Pitcher

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Martin Marion Clouts   Home Run In Third   Inning To Set Pace For His Team

CARDS WIN SECOND ON 4--3 COUNT   Yankee Rally In Last Half Of Ninth Inning Falls One Riin Short.   MORTON COOPER WINS

Cooper Boys Take On. Yank Sluggers Despite Death of Their Father

St. Louis Ace Hurls 6-Hit Win   COOPERS HIT BY NEWS OF FATHER’S DEATH, CARRY ON TO TRIUMPH

9th Inning Rally Fails; Yankees  Defeated 4 to 3   Saddened By Death of Father, Mort Cooper Hurls Cardinals to Victory In Second Game of Series   (2 2 ££ Tes Sa cares 1... 6 © t Bete ee eet Tt 2 Yanks:...0 @ 6168 0 6 3 3 6 6   VPIFTH INNING

Cooper Wins for Cards and His Dad   Yanks on Small End of 4-3 Score

Cards ...4 Yanks ...3  Cardinals Even Series   Cardinals Even Series Despite Threatening Rally In Last of Ninth

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CARDS OQUARE WORLD othita WITH YANKEES   Saddened By Death Of Father, Mort Cooper Hurls 43 Win For St. Louis

CARDINALS EVENED SERIES WEDNESDAY, WINNING 4 10 3  HOME RUNS BY MARION _ AND SANDERS PUT GAME TY CARNY CRENIT

Dad’s Death Fires Cooper Brothers   Marion and Sanders Hit Hom- ers to Help Cards Even Baseball Classic

SECOND GAME WON BY THE CARDINALS   Mort Cooper Turns in a Victory Over the New York Yankees

Cardinals Even Series Count wb Win   Three-Run Rally In Fourth Puts Game On Ice

Cards Square Series   Morton Cooper Carries Team to 4-3 Victory  Over Yankees in Second Game of Annual Classic

Cards Win 4 to 3 In Second Contest   National League Stars Turn Tables Today on New Yorkers

COOPER HURLS CARDINALS TO FIRST VICTORY   Pitches Great Competitive Exhibition to Even Series  With Yankees.   Marion Starts Cards Off With a Homerun

SERIES EVENED AS CARDS WIN BEHIND COOPER   St. Louis Boys Slug Out Early Lead Yankees Can’t Over Come in Rally

Cards Tie Series in 43 Win   Mort Cooper, Burdened - by News of Father‘s. Death,  Horls: Red Birds to. Victory   MARION, SANDERS Sapp HOME RUNS   , Holding on Grimly, . Card am! Ace Holds Off ‘Late Yankee: Uprising

Report Ifalian Troops Again Refuse fo Fire On Peace Demonstrators

Warns State Of Epidemic   Alarming Increase in Number of Infantile Paralysis Cases in Kas.

July Production Of Planes Down   WPB Sees Nation Failing To Reach Goa

Plane Production Reaches New High   7,973 Aircraft Turned Out During Jaly

JULY PLANE OUTPUT TO NEW HIGH RECORD   Total of 7,373 Craft in Month, 4 Pct, Above June, Still Short at Schedule.

Warplane Output Hits 7,373 Record, ‘But Laas Behind Schedule for July

Tax Structure  Being Studied   House-+Committee - Delay: Action On Changes In * Corporate Levies

NEW PRESSURE FOR SALES TA}   Action Looms After House Bans Income Levy Boost

GEORGE PREDICTS SALES TAX DEMAND   Believes Putting Ban on Raise in Income Rates Will Create New Pressure for Levy.

ORPORATE TAX SET-UP STUDIED   Signs Attempt Will Be Made To Pea Combined Normal And Surtax Rates at Present 40 Per Cent Level

ETAIL OLED TAX PRESSURE MOUNTS   Committee Refuses To Hike Income Tax Levies

New Pressure  For Sales Tax   Refusal To Raise Income Tax Brings New Revenue Method Forward.

PRESSURE SURE FOR SALES TAX   Changes In Corporate Structure Delayed To Next Week

NEW PRESSURE FOR SALES TAX HELD CERTAIN   House Committee's Re fusal To Increase Individual Income Tax Load Held Cause

Army, Navy Move To Halt Zoot Riots   Military Punishment For Servicemen

Rutledge Hinted As Next Justice   President Ready To Make Choice

ROOSEVELT TO FILL COURT VACANCY SOON   Wiley Rutledge of Towa Believed by Some to Be Slated for Seat on Wichest Tribunal

Food Hoarding Is Patriotic “(For Uncle Sam) to Meet Military, Lend-Lease Needs

Pvt. Byron Bennett - Now a Sharpshooter   Received His Medal for His Accuracy on Range at Training Center.

Madrid Reports Mussolini Killed When German Paratroops Attempted Rescue

Correspondent Predicts Allied Invasion Of Europe Within Three Weeks.

FORTS BOMB AIRDROMES AT FOGGIA   Ruin Important Plane Assembly Center in Raid

RULES ISSUED ON KILLING OF STOCK   OPA, WFA Prepare State ment on Legal Processing on Farms.

POINT-FREE MEAT SET-UP   OPA and WFA give  joint rules on home consumption & slaughtering

SLAUGHTERING RULES REVISED   OPA Announces New Regulations For Farmers

ee err mn  Farmers And Livestock Producers May Easily Determine Slaughter Facts,  According To OPA And WFA Rulings

Two Dixon Boys Are : Held in Probe Into Auto Theft in Amboy   15-Year-Old Boy Will Not Become Legionnaire Today as He Expected

Johnny, 15-Year-Old Soldier, Finds He  Is Stillin The Army; He Deserted

Chinese Re-take Two Key Cities   U.S. Planes Credited with Key Roles In Checking Drive On Chungking

Jap Army Is Pursued  By Chinese   Demoralized Troops Are Driven Back Along Yangtze River Toward Base At Ichang

DEMORALIZED JAP ARMY BEING GUT TO PIECES NOM   Chinese Lured Enemy Into Trap and Then Opened Uo Full Blast.

CHINESE PRESS GREAT VICTORY: ~ TAPS RETREATING    Big Jap Army Now  Threatened With  Disaster   U. S. AIRMEN LENDING HELP TO CHINESE

Chinese Drive Back Japanese  — m™/,* ee Coe an    Foe Demoralized All Along Line

ARMY WILL SHOW OFF HERE SEPT. 25   Yanks and Tanks to Put on Two-hour Exhibition Here.

-_ ° NOW _IT CAN BE TOLD  Duce Seized in Rome to Save Him From Angered People, Clark Lee Learns   Other Reason, of Course: Ridding Italy. Of His Fascist Government

Report Mussolini Seized Not Only To Rid !taly of His Government ‘But Also to Protect Him From People

Navy Reveals Two of Enemy’s Liglit Cruisers, Oiler and Three Cargo Vessels Sent to Bottom   Hard Fight Still Ahead, Manufacturers Warned

Long Fight Still Ahead for U. S.   Government, Labor  Industry Chiefs Meet

OHIO AG CHIEF HITS FOR VETO   Brown Says _ President _-*Thwarts Rights of Free People’

RAPS VETO OF PETERSON BILL   Charges Roosevelt. Is Thwarting Rights (Of A Free People

fo OHIO AGRICULTURAL BOSS HITS ROOSEVELT VETO ‘OF SEED SHIPPING BILL

OHIO FARM HEAD HITS FOR’S VETO   Claims Roosevelt’s Rejection of Peterson Bill Cuts People’s Rights

ON SHORTAGES   Wickard Sets up Machinery To Handle Maldistribution Problems

FOOD MACHINERY IS BEING SET UF   Committees to Serve Until Inauguration of Rationing

NELSONVILLE BOY STRUCK BY BOLT   One of 40 Hospitalized; One Soldier Killed

14 of 19 Warships: Damaged At Pearl Harbor Repaired   [Salvaged Craft Have: Left. Scene of Jap Attack ‘Under Own _ Power—Battieship Oklahoma, Turned. Upside Down Dur-. ing Raid, Finally Righted—Only Three of All Vessels: Hit Are Written Off by Navy as Lost..’

Battleship Oklahoma and Many Other Ships Damaged At Pearl Harbor Salvaged 

Battleship Oklahoma is Finally Righted; 391 Pearl Harbor Dead Still in Her Holds

Most Ships Wrecked at Pearl Harbor Are Now Better Than New; Only Three Are Given Up: Salvage High

FINGERPRINTO ol AND UP IN OAKES TRIAL   De Marigny Defense Fails To  Shake Evidence

Judge Admits De Marigny Fingerprint   But Defense Scores by Questioning Location of Print on Screen

FATE IN A PRINT   Nassau Defense Attacks Validity, but Fingerprint “Js Admitted

8,789 PLANES IN ONE MONTH STILL  SHORT OF NEEDS   Nelson Calls for Higher Pro: duction Despite November Record.

41 Jap Planes Are Shot Down Over Week End   Liberators Make Longest Of Pacific Flights’ To Date To Raid Borneo

Allies Down 48 Jap Craft In S. Pacific   22 Zero Fighters, 12 Dive Bombers Are Razed Over Weekend

43 JAP PLANES, ONE REFINERY: ARE BLASTED BY YANKS   Nips Lose Heavily Again. Borneo Qil Center Blown to Bits By Americans.

Forty-Eight Jap Planes Shot Down in South Pacific   Allied Bombers Brave Bad Weather To Hit Salamaua

43 Nippon Planes Are Shot Down In South Pacific   Americans Lose Only 2 Craft In Fights From Kahill To New Georgia

43 Jap Planes Are Shot Down Over Weekend   Allies Attack Salamaua Despite . Bad Weather

ALLIES DESTROY MORE JAP PLANES   Germans Thrown Back as Reds Drive At Strongest Axis Bastion

48 ENEMY - PLANES SHOT DOWN; ALLIES BLAST SALAMAUA   Tokyo Claims Three Allied Ships Sunk ~— Jap Supply Lines Raided

48 JAPANESE PLANES ARE DESTROYED   Allied Bombers Raid Salamaua and Borneo Refineries

YANKEES DOWN 48 JAP PLANES   Enemy Hit Heavily In Week End Activity Over South Pacific Area

YANKS SCORE AIR VICTORY   DOWN 48 NIP PLANES, HAMMER AT SALAMAUA

48 MORE JAP PLANES ARE BROUGHT DOWN   Week-End Toll In Pacific; New Raid On Salamaua

YANKEE FLIERS DESTROY MANY JAP AIRPLANES   48 Shot Down In Southern Pacific During Past Weekend. Repart

Japs Shift Many Of Our Soldiers From Philippines   Former Prisoner Tells of Seeing Many Looking Well

Out of Butter? Make It Yourself, With wing Band, Some Cream, Elbow Grease

Short Of Butter? All You Need Is — Elbow Grease, Cream, Swing Band

You Can Ignore Butter Shortage With Cream, Elbow Grease, Hot Swing Tune

Out of Butter? Make It Yourself with a Swing Band, Some Cream and Plenty of Elbow Crease

HOW TO MAKE ~ BUTTER AT HOME   Former Pennsylvania Legislator Gives Tip on Overcoming Shortage.

Autumn Rains Have Made Red Army Slow Down.   WIPE OUT ENEMY REGIMENT AT GOMEL   Russians Establish Stand Twenty-five Miles Mogilev.

Rubber Director Jeffers Testifies Little Progress Made in Synthetic Program Because of Confusion

Jap Threat to Reds Reduced   Chance of Nipponese Attack Held Near Vanishing Point

HITLER APPARENTLY TO RECEIVE NO ASSISTANCE. IN HIS EFFORT AGAINST RUSSIA FROM TAPANESE

RAF Bomber Fleet Blasts Nazi Iron City   Eight British Planes Missing After Night Raid-on Bochum, Center of Ruhr’s Cake   -and- Steel. lndustey:- Le]

British Bomber Fleet Returns To Ruhr Valley   Big Iron City Of Bochum Is Target of RAF

RUGR FACTORIES GET ANOTHER Bla BOMBING ATTACK   The Center of Great Coke and Steel Industry In the Ruhr Valley Was The Target For Great Bombing Raid From RAF.

British Bomb Bochum, Big Nazi Iron City   RAF Hits Ruhr  Valley Targets

BOMBERS RIP RUHR IRON HUE   R.A.F. FLEET ROCKS BOCHUM IN GIANT RAID

German Iron  City Blasted   Bochum ‘And Other Ruhr Objectives Hit; Eight Bombers Lost.

RAF HITS BIG IRON CITY; 8 BOMBERS LOST   British Return To Ruhr; Important Canal Hit

BRIT FLIERS RAID NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITY OF BOCHUM.   RAF Returns to Great. Indus trial Rubr Valley After Month’s Interval — Eight Bombers Lost

lron City Of Bochun Blasted By RAF Raider:   Ruhr Again Bombed From Air

BOCHUM HIT AT COST OF 8 BOMBERS   Attack On Valley ls Resumed After Month’s Interval

BIG IRON CITY OF BOCHUM HIT IN NIGHT RAID   RAF Bomber Fleet Attacks  Bochum, Partially Devas- tated In June; Eight Planes Lost

RAF Heavily Pounds lron City of Bochum   Other Objectives in Ruhr Valley Raided in Third Attack by British on Reich Targets in Last Eight Nights.

RAF BOMBERS BLAST BOCHUM, STEEL CENTER   ‘Other Objectives in Ruhr, Including Dortmund - Ems Canal, Scourged by Raiders

BRITISH BOMBER FLEET RETURNS T0 THE GERMAN RUHR   Gave the Big Iron City of Bochum Its Fifth Heavy Pounding of Year.   8 BOMBERS ARE MISSING   Other Objectives in the Ruhr Valley Also Were Hit in the Raid.

Other Objectives In The Ruhr Hit   Bochum Center Of Ruhr Coke And Steel Industries   CITY DEVASTATED IN RAID JUNE 12

Chinese Recapfure Town of Tehshan  Are Few Miles From Fallen Changteh

Thousands Drown in Floods in Ruhr Industrial Valley   Keport Cities Inundated or Isolated After RAF Smashes 3 Dams  BULLETIN

THOUSANDS IN AREAS BELOW DAMS PERISH   Three Blasted Dams Allow Torrents to Spread in Full “Catastrophe.”   ALLIES STRIKE SOUTH GERMANY BY ‘NIGHT

Perfect Devices Against War Gas   Announcement Comes With: Reports Axis Preparing  to Use Gas.

Allies Ready To Fight Gas   INVASION ARMY MAY RUN UP AGAINST THREAT

AXIS WARNED ONUSE OF GAS   Roosevelt. Promisgs Foes Swift Retaliation As Reports Are Heard

ENEMY WARNED AGAIN ON GASES   Roosevelt Says U. S. Ready At First Sign Of Use

AXIS PREPARING TOUSEGASTO STOP INVASION   Roosevelt Says Allies Equipped To Meet Inhumane - Weapons

FOR AGAIN WARNS THE AS AAS USE OF POISON GAS   States That Use of Gas ‘Against Any One of United Nations Will Be Regarded As Having Been Committed Against U. S. and Will Be Treated Accordingly’.

USE OF GAS IN WAR FEARED   But Americans Equally Ready, Axis Warned

Troops Ready To Fight Gas. Expert Says      President Warns Axis U. S. Will Retaliate in Full and Swiftiv

DEVICES AGAINST POISON GASES HAVE BEEN PERFECTED   Announcement Made by the Chemical -Warfare Service.   SAID TO BE EFFECTIVE   Evidence Axis Making “Significant Preparations” to Use Gas Warfare.

FDR Promises Avis That U. 5. Will Refaliate If Poison Gas Is Used Against Allied Invasion   Pantelleria Snubs Chance To Survive   Italy Not Too Happy On 3rd Anniversary In War   U. 5., Britain To Recognize French Group In Algiers

AMPLE PROTECTION AGAINST POISON GAS HAS BEEN ASSURED  POSSIBILITY THAT POISO!

Poison Gas Admonition Given Axis   Roosevelt Warns Of Retaliation if Foe Uses It

‘Nazis May Use Gas On Invasion Armies’--FDR   Roosevelt Warns Of Quick Retaliation [ Rumors Of Axis Plan Prove True

AXIS BELIEVED va FOR  AS WARFARE   ffective Protective De vices Developed by United  Nations President Roosevelt Declares   LARGE AMOUNTS READY

REPORTED AXIS MAY LOOSE GAS 70 HALT ALLIES   Roosevelt Asserts Enemy Will Get Same Medicine If Outlawed Poison Fumes Are Used   U.S. PREPARED TO PROTECT TROOPS   Army Leader Announces Foes Will Get More Than They Dish Out”  In Retaliation

U.S. Held Ready, for Gasin Way   Roosevelt Warning To Axis Provokes Berlin Reply

AXIS MAY TURN TO POISON GAS WHEN INVADED   President Reports Signs of Such Jntent, Promises Retaliation—Defense Measures Taken

President Says U. S. Ready if Germans, Italians and Japs Resort to Inhuman Warfare.

Axis May Hurl Poison Gas At Invading Allies, But Army Says It Can Hand Out More Than It'll Take

Warn Axis On  Using Gasses   Roosevelt Tells Of Evidence Enemy Preparing For Gas Warfare

Allies Set To Meet Axis Use Of Poison Gas   U. S. Army Says It Can Hand Out More Than It Will Have To Take.

U. S. Forces Ready To “Pay In Kind”; Invading Troops Will Be Prepared

PRESIDENT SAYS ENEMY MAY TRY IT   Promises Axis Will Take More Than It Gives   GERMANY, JAPAN   Have Large Quantities Of Gases Ready For Tough Spot, General Says

Axis Warned on Poison Gas Use  Roosevelt Promises Swift Retaliation

America F ully Prepared  To Use Gas if Necessary   President, Noting Axis Preparations, Says Enemy Centers Will Be Doused With Pojsan

Axis May Subject Allied Invaders To Poison Gas But Army Is Ready   ‘Army, Promising Protection, Says It Can Hand Out More Than It Will Have To Take; President Serves Warning On Enemy.

Asks British Share Equally In Invasion   Wheeler Opposes U.S. Bearing Brunt

Up To Men Who're To Head Invasion   Senators Leave Ratio Of U. S. Troops to Them

Congress to Get Preview of Food Conference Plans   U.S. Delegates Pledged To Inform Congress Committees of Program

Congress To Get Preview of U. S. Food Program   Differences over New: Coverage Will Likely Be lroned Out

Attorney for Accused Slayer of Sir Harry Oakes Attempts to Break Down Crown’s Case

James Urges State Tax Cut Totalling 50 To 70 Million   Retiring Governor Also Asks Assembly To Probe Conduct Of F. Clair Racc   SAYS FUNDS MISUSED AND TRUST ABUSED  Ross Welcomes Probe, Says He Is Checking  On Administratian —

JAMES CALLS "FORTAXCUT OF $50,000,000   Also Asks Legislative Investigation Into Official Conduct Of F. Clair Ross In  Meceace.   Ross Warms Up

Fulbright Peace Resolution ‘Out’   Senate Committee to Draft Own Declaration

Senate Shelves Post-War Bill   Solons to Ignore Fulbright Resolution Draft Own Measure

Stop Measure  By Fulbright   Senate Group Decides To Draft Own Post-War Poliey Declaration.

Senate To Write Own Postwar Resolution  Fulbright Proposal Sidetracked; Jones Leads Fight For

Peace Resolution Of House Shelved  Senate Committee  Will Draft Its Own

Senate to Draft Post-War Policy   House-Approved Bill ls Dropped

THE FULBRIGHT RESOLUTION GOES INTO PIGEONHOLE   Senate Foreign Relations SubCommittee to Draft Bill of Its Own.   NO ACTION DATE SET   “Will Draft Resolution Ex. pressive of Its Attitude,” Says Connally.

Fulbright measure pigeon-holed; grour will draft new plan   Action may be delayed until after three-power parley, Connally says

SENATORS TO DRAFT OWN POST-WAR PLAN   Will Pigeon Hole Fulbright ‘Lasting Peace’ Action

Senators Slow Fulbright’ Post-War Plan  Solons to Draft Own Policy For Peace Era

SENATE WOULD DRAW UP OWN FOREIGN POLICY   Fulbright Resolution Pigeon Holed By Group

LESS BUTTER — JS FORECAST   FOOD ADMINISTRATION - SAYS FIVE PERCENT DROP IN "SUPPLY DURING THE,  “COMING YEAR

WITNESS EXPLAINS MARKET -N-MEAT      Senate Unit Told Situation Worst !n Nation’s History

NAME LOCAL LABOR PANELS   Will Hear Labor Disputes  That May Arise In  This Area

OFFICERS IN A RAID   County Officers Arrested Two for Gambling at Eudora

Stalin Is Pleased With Summer Prospects— ~—By Glenn Bs  Tojo Won't Get Respite He Had Hoped For

Japs Given More Attention At Allied Washington Parley  nRierpretettren  a CNINI DAD

Second Robbery Suspect Is Held   Girl Also Is Held ' On Federal Count

Ho Hum, Here’s T Manville Again!   To Make Ex-Wife (No. 5)  Spouse No. 7

Asbestos Heir May Rewed Wife No. 5 All Because of A Water Heater Explosion

RUSS. CONTINUE GAINS, GERMAN LINES: PIERCEL   Nazi Battle Lines Waver on 1,000-Mile. Front Afier Break-Threough.

GERMAN LINES WAVER ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Soviets report new gain: in frontal drive toward Kiev

NAZIS WAVERING ON 1,000-MILE FRONT IN RUSSIA   Reds Break Through Desna Defense Wall, Take Key City in South

SUFFERING ; HEAVY LOSS   Russian Offensive Northwest Of City Of Stalingrad

NAZIS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES, MOSCOW SAYS   Axis Retreat Continues In Caucasus; Reds  Reach Zolsky   BERLIN CHALLENGED   Dared To Tell Truth Of Nazi Reverses On  East Front

PADDOCK KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Famous Track Star. Marine General Among Victims In Alaska Accident

BLOWS WILL HIT NIPPON   Secretary of Navy, Knox Says All Pres liminaries Now Finished.

DELONE HIGH PLANS FOR COMMENCEMENT   Forty-Nine Students Will Be Grad. uated At Exercises Sunday Evening, June 6

49 TO GRADUATE AT DELONE HIGH   Diplomas Will Be Awarded At Commencement Exercises To Be Held Next Sunday Evening

ANDREWS’ TRANSFER INDICATES EISENHOWER MAY BE NAMED FULL COMMANDER IN AFRICAN SECTOR:

The War Today      Andrews’ Post Held Portent of Top Role for Fisenhower

German Tanks Score 20-Mile Break-through, Threaten Gatsa   Overwhelm U. 8. Artillery Guarding Exit of Faid Pass   Garrison at Gafsa ‘Gravely Endangered’ NORGAARD  me NOLAND

U.S. GARRISON ATGAFSAIS ENDANGERED   Swift Stabs by Axis Armored Columns Result In Furious Tank Battle

Rommel Men Believed To Be In Action   Gafse, 60 Miles From Faid Pass, In Danger As Enemy Launches Tank Attack

MENACE BASE AT GAFSA IN TANK BATTLE   Enemy Assault by Armored Units, Artillery and Dive-Bombers Scores 20-Mile BreakThrough in Faid Sector.

GERMAN FORGES SMASH AT FAID   Break Through for 20 Miles West of Pass; Americans Threatened.   RAIL TOWN IN DANGER

20-Mile Break Thru Endangers Anchor Position in ; —Gafsa’   HEAVY FIGHTING IS ON   American Artillery Post_ tions Overwhelmed in  Quick Attack

ODT CHANGES ARE ANNOUNCED TODAY   Area, Locations Of Office: In Altoona District Altered

SING IN LAWRENCE   Soprano Will Open University Concert Course  Next Fall   OTHER ARTISTS COMING

WILKINS TO SING IN LAWRENCE   Soprano Will Open University Concert Course  Next Fall   OTHER ARTISTS COMING

Argentine Ban on Jewish  Newspapers Hit  Demntelmed Moti! 7.   President Criticizes Action Sharply in Press Statement

Argentina Litts Jewish Paper Ban   Action Follows Roosevelt Criticism

ian on Jewish Papers Lifted In Argentine   tohibition Measure Dropped Soon After Roosevelt Rap

Argentine Ban  on Jewish  Newspapers Hit President Criticizes  _ Action Sharply  im Derace Sintaman?

County Has No Black Market:   Ration Chief Declares Situation In Hand

WMC T0 LOWER FREEZE BARRIER   Nation - Wide Employment Stabilization Program to Be Revealed Friday

MOVE TO LOWER JOB BARRIERS   WMC ENDEAVORS TO STABILIZE NATION'S EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

ARMY TO RELEASE 13,000 STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING   Agree To Turn Over These Students It Sends To College for Specialized Training To the Hard-Pressed Civilian Industry When They Complete Courses.

Army Yields To Industry   Said to ‘Have Agreed To Turn 10% of College Trainees Back For Civilian Work 

ARMY TO SHIFT 13,000 ENGINEERING STUDENTS OVER 10 CIVILIAN INDUSTRY

INDUSTRY MAY GET ARMY MEN   Some 13,000 Engineering Students, Sent to College by Army, May Get Civilian Jobs

INDUSTRIES T0 GET SOLDIERS   Specialized Trainees Tc Help Relieve Manpower Shortage

Tom Harmon Was Deeply Religious Letters To Priest From Flier Show

HOME PROJECT ~ GROUP WRITES 8 PROJECT   Mable. Phipps Aids in Formulation.

Open Hearing On Coal Case:  Lewis Absent   Express Hope United Mine Workers Change Minds And Attend Talks.   UNION BOSS SILENT

Open Coal Hearing To Public   Action Taken After UMW Officers Fail To Show Up To Advise People of Proceedings

WLB Latchstring on Outside For Lewis and Mine Workers   Public Hearing for Soft Coal Wage: Dispute Decided Upon When Only Operators Put Into Appearance: Transcript for UMW

Mine Unionists Still Ignoring W.L. B. Efforts   Bituminous Operator: Testify In Hearing Or Wage Dispute.

OPEN HEARING  IN COAL CASE   WLB Says ‘Latch String Is Out’ for John L. Lewis And Union.   OPERATORS ARE PRESENT

Lewis Dodges  Mine Hearing   Only Operators and Reparters Are Present When Labor Panel Convenes

HOPE LEWIS WILL COME TO HEARING   Latchstring on. Outside of Door, WLB Panel Says, as Session Starts   REGRETS U.M.W. IS NOT REPRESENTED   Hearings to Be Open to Press: and Public, the Chairman Says

WLB STARTS PUBLIC COAL HEARING   Officials Express Hopes That Lewis and Other Mine Officials Will Change Minds and Attand

START PUBLIC HEARING   WLB Hopes to Rench an Agreement in the Mine Dispute

UMW Continues To lonore WLB In Coal Dispute   Operators Present Testimony In Wage Deadlock Hearing

Door Is Left Open  To Union   Members Of Board Are Hopeful That Lewis Will Change Mind And Attend Hearing

Labor Board Panel Opens Mine Dispute Hearings to Public   John L. Lewis Continues To Ignore Invitation ____To Attend Sessions

WLB Throws Coal Hearing Open To Publi   Panel Chairman Hopes Lewis Will Take Part, ) Says ‘Latchstring Out!   UNION .STILL ALOOF   Ickes Sets Up Systam For Seizure Of Fuel In Ar Emergency

DORTMUND IS BATTERED BY RAF BOMBERS   Heaviest Air Attack of War Is Made on German City

Hull Gets ‘Fed Up’ at GOP Attack on Trade Pact Plea   Nature of Questions Stirs Tennessee Anger of Secretary: Tension at High Pitch in House

QUESTIONS IRK SECRETARY HULL   Committeeman’ Stirs Anger To Point Where He Acknowledges Himself ‘Fec up’; Urges Trade Programm

Hull Angered By Republicans At Trade Hearing   Secretary of State Resents Questioning on Treaties

Hull Backs Up Trade Pacts   Secretary 1s Angeret By G. O. P. Attack

TRADE TREATIES ARE DEFENDED BY SECRETARY   Hull Loses Temper Under Questioning And Admits Being “Fed Up”   3-YEAR EXTENSION URGED BY OFFICIAL

ensthy G. 0. P. Juiz Annoys Hull   Secretary Is Target At Trade Hearing

AIRMEN HIT AXIS BASES IN TUNISIA   Allies Tighten North African . Nutcracker On All Sides

Allies Blast. Tunisia Ports.   - British and ‘American Planes. Hit Bark Ends of Front _

Allies Close North Africe Nutcracker   Bizerte Blasted; Fighting French Surge Forward

“FRENCH MAKE ~NEW GAINS TC NEAR TRIPOLI   Bizerte Is Bombed Heavily By U. S. Planes; British  Hit Rommel’s Army

RING TIGHTENS AROUND NAZIS ON ALL SIDES   New Air Commander For Africa Is Named

TNS SAE SPEEDING OVERSEAS      Being Sent Acrosé* Faster Than New Men Are Inducted 7

HUGE FORCE IS SENT OVERSEAS   Nazi Collapse Seen Soon After 2nd Front Opening

U.S. Troops Now Moving Overseas Faster Than ‘New Men Are Inducted

MEN MOVE FASTER THAN INDUGTIONS   German Military Power May Be Destroyed Shortly After New Front Opens.

Wants Teeth In No-Strike Act   Smith Accuses Labor Unions Of Repudiating  Acreement.

Charges Unions  Broke Pledge   Smith Recalls Their Promise Not To Strike

Reinforced Nazis Suffer Heavy Loss ‘On Italian Front   Three Fierce German Counter Attacks Of Nazis Are Repulsed By Yanks   MANY PRISONERS REPORTED TAKEN

YANKS DRIVE OFF PANZERATTACKS   Inflict Heavy Losses, Take Many Prisoners in Fierce Italian Action

BRITISH FORCES ARE ONLY 100 MILES AWAY   Mediterranean Is Alive With Ships and Planes Speeding Up Men Under Direction of Eisenhower.

Food Czar Still Being Opposed By Roosevelt _   Says Congress Will Have To Take Blame For Inflation Spiral

FDR Bucks Creation of Food Czar; President Says Congress Would be To Blame for Inflationary Spiral   Chief Executive Points Out Dangers Of Rising Prices

FOOD-CZAR OPPOSED BY ~-ROOSEVLT   President Opposed To _ Propesal’ As Being Too Inflationary

Food Plans Arouse Ire Of President   Congress Warned Czar Proposal May Start Inflation

Roosevelt Opposes Food Czar   Warns Congress — Against Developing Inflation Spiral

Roosevelt Opposed to Food Czar   Says Congress to Blame if Prices  Get Out of Hand

President Warns Congress Against Creating Food Czar; Cites Hardships ‘Of High Prices On Small Wage Earners

Is Seen as Policy of Inflation   Responsibility Up to Con gress, Says President at  Press Conference

FDR Still Opposed to ‘Food Czar’   Claims -Real Question Is Possibility of Inflation

President Raps Food Czar, Backs Congress   Solons Claimed To Blame if Inflation Grows

PRESIDENT IN . ‘NEW BLAST AT FOOD CZAR’   Declares Congress Must Take Full Responsibility If It Creates Position. .   CATTLE BUT NO BEEF   Meat Situation Highlights Condition That Brings Attack on OPA.

Savage Aur Fight Rages Over Front  Ge ‘rinans Forced Beyond  Ranee of Fast Bank

Des Moines ~ Drivers Are  ‘Filling Up     Business Reported All the Way Fiom ‘Brisk’ to ‘Rushing’ Today

MARCH BOND QUOTA HERE 18 BOOSTED   February Allctment Is $39.100, But March Will Be Over $60,000.   SAYS JUDGE RUSSELL   And the County Sales at the Present Time Are Not Very Large.

MARCH BOND tl HERE ~ 48 BOOSTED   Present TimeAre Not  And the County iva: ‘the Very Large.

New Whisky Brands Hit by OPA Ceiling  Voli: Cee Bietsece:   Believe Some Prices May Be Rolled Back

What'll It Be, Boys? $3.30 a Fifth for Bonded Whiskey After Jan. 6 Ordered by the 0.P.A.

OPA STRIKES BLOW AT LIQUOR PRICES   Price Ceilings Imposed or Domestic Distilled Spirits

Reds Destro} 1,300 Planes In 2 Weeks   Russians Seize Bridgehead West Of Donets River

[Reds Claim 1,300 German Planes Destroyed in Week   Russian Army Seizes Another Strong Bridge-) head on Donets Below Kharkov; Many Fires Set by Russian. Raiders

Red Air Force Destroys 1,300 Nazi Warplanes   Seize Another Stron Bridgehead in the Donets Section   Germans Believed Preparing To Launch a Triple Offensive

Soviet Air War Gains Ferocity Reds Net 1,300  Nazi Craft In.  Teon Waele

Reds Destroy 1.300 Planes In Two Weeks   Troops Seize Anothe: Toehold on Donets: Big Bombers Attack Three Vital Places

Reds Claim 1300 Planes In Two Weeks   Soviet Ground Forces Seize Bridgchead on Banks of Denets

Many Planes Shot Down by the Russian Army  BRIDGEHEAD TAKEN IN KHARKOY AREA  Total of 1300 Enemy Planes Destroyed in 2 Weeks

New Toehold Seized South Of Kharkov   Reds Claim Destructiox Of 1,300 Nazi Planes In Two-Week Period.  AIR RAIDS CONTINUE

Russians Destroy Hundreds of Nazi Airplanes  Enemy Loss Mounts Greatly; Many Soldiers Are Killed

Lady Astor In England Fined   Guilty of Technical Ration Violation

JAPANESE MAD OVER NAMING OF CHARLES TAFT   NAZI AERIAL ATTACK WAS PRELUDE TO INVASION

CIO Chieftain to Appear in Texas Court Today    Thomas: to Answer Charge of Contempt After Pelly Speech 

Turkish Mission  In North Africa   Twelve-man Turkish Delegation Arrives At United Nations Headquarters  ROI.D MOVUPF Te

American - British Forces Closing Pincers in North Africa.  STH ARMY ADVANCES 16 MILES IN 24 HOURS  Retreating Axis Armies Under Constant Air Attack.

American Air Forces Pounding Tunis, 31 Ens emy Aircraft Downed. Naples Was Again Rombed By 'American&

HOUSING QUOTA EXPECTED HERE   Before National Housing Administration For Approval

BRACKEN SEEKS NEWS RELEASE   BRITISH CHIEF ASKS FOR IRAN COMMUNIQUE

British Commander Will Take Over Mediterranean, Roosevelt Says in World Broadcast

FASCISTS ARE URGING MORE REGIMENTATIUA   “Gravity of Moment” Requires Action, Party Says

18,000 REPORTED DROWNED IN TUNNEL   Tube Under River Near Hamburg Said to Have Been Punctured During Air Raid.

HAMBURG I$ ONE GREAT CEMETERY   18,000 Persons Drowned ' When Bomb Hit Tunnel Under River

LOCAL SOLDIER IS ~ MISSING IN ACTION   Word Received by Mrs. Nora Zecher, Fairground Avenue   PARENTS HEAR FIRST WORD OF "SON IN ABOUT SIX YEARS   John R. Myers, Held as Prisoner by Japanese, Is the Son of Mr. and Mrs, Charles Myers, Near * Leitersburg—vVeteran of Navy

LOCAL SOLDIER 15 MISSING IN ACTION   Word Received by Mrs. Nora Zecher, Fairground Avenue

Invasion Fear Is  Blamec   To Bombers’ Defenders Adc  Destruction

TRAPANI PORT FIXTURES ARE MADE USELESS   Allied Bombers Continue Relentless Pounding Of Island; Tiber Centers Rocked   , Sardinian Town Hit

Report Italians Blow Up Port Installations   Wreck Harbor Quays Which Might Aid Allies in Landing

AXIS BLASTING SICILY'S PORT INSTALLATIONS   Quays at Trapani Demolished; Allied At tacks Continue

Axis Blows Uj Facilities — in Own Poris   Allied Planes Stage Daylight Attacks on Sicily, Sardinia

Italians Wreck Ports to Deter Invasion   Photographs Show Demolition of  Qnays in Sicily

Defenders destroy quays at Trapani to prevent allied use in landing operations   Palermo, big air and naval base, ceases to exist, reports declare

Mme. Chiang Appears At Symphony Hall Tonight; ‘Overcome At Wellesley

Strikes Start As Miners Learn  Of Adverse Rule   Portal-to-Portal Pay Forbidden As Hidden Wage Increase, But Miners Are Given * Recourse To Courts To Justify Claims.

NEW SECURITY PLAN   Secretary Perkins Plans to Send roposal to Congress

U. S. Planes Pound ‘Boot   Enemy Fighter Fleet Riddled by Raiders

RESISTANCE CEASES IN AFRICA; ISLANDS BLASTED FROM AIR   Cornmunique Says. No Axis Forces Remain Except _ Those In Hands: _. Of Allies --

Last Axis Forees in  Africa Quit   Allies Bombard Mediterranean Bases and Italy

Tunisia ging Ended After: ° Six Months   Aerial Operations 7 On ‘Islands Is ‘More Extensive

Allied Offensive Turns To Islands In Mediterranean   All Resistance In Africa Now At End,  Says Communique

Capture 15 Towns, Fifth Army Troops Cross Regia Canal   teavy Rains Foree Advancing Forces ‘To Use Mules To Pull Equipment To Battle Lines

Clark's Army Rams Against Foe's Anchor   Advances Squarely Against the Lofty Mount Massico

YANK, BRITISH ARMIES MAKING ADVANCE, ITAL)   Only Few Miles From “Little Rom. mel” Line With Offensive to Be Launched Shortly.

Fifth Army Advances T« Flank Western Anchor Of New Nazi Defenses

TROOPS ENTER THE TOWN OF MONDRAGONE   Three-Mile Advance Puts Them Squarely Against Mount Massico, Western End of German Defense Positions.

BRITISH TROOPS NOW OCCUPY TOWN OF MONDRAGONE   Rammed Squarely Against Mount Massico, It Was Announced Today.   American Forces Captured Pietravairano, Dominating the Upper Volturno.

Squarely Up Against Lofty Italian Peak   British 8th Army Also Forges Ahead to Take Trigno Position

Flanking Move Develops Amid Hard fighting   Fifth Army Storming Mount Massico As Eighth Advances

Allied Armies * Advance Slowly ~ Through Rain   Southern Pincers Of Russian Forces Goes Ahead Rapidly, But Krivaoi Roa Still Hald-

Army \ps Canal  >In Rain   jomery’s Eighth } Ahead In  , Advance

Some 15 Towns Fall as Allies, Taking Advantage of Break in Weather, Advance .   FORTS HIT GENOA   Rail Yards ai Grosselo, 100 Miles North of Rome, Blasted bv British Wellingtons

Allies Hit  Anchor. of Nazi Line   British: Storm: Across: ‘Cana . to: Take Dominating Town : '- 90. Miles. From Rome * 2      pea ee GAIN IN: FLANKING MOVE      Fortresses. Bomb Genoa, Far: North: of Battle Area, and” Score: Direct Hits — 2°:

British G Get Monte-mitro, 14 Miles from Bridgehead; ‘Yugoslav Guer.rilas.In Hungary, ~’

Nazis Periled as Ally Armies Threaten Hill   BRITISH CROSS REGIA CANAL TO CAPTURE MONDRAGONE; YANKS SEIZE PIETRAVAIRANO, KEY CITY; MONTGOMERY GRABS MONEMITRO

Mondragone, Pietravairano Fall to Yankees; Russians Tiqhten Noose at River Bend

Fifth Army Makes Three Mile Gain   British Storm Across Canal to Take Seaside . Mandragone   FIFTEEN TOWNS TAKEN   ‘Flying Fortresses Blast the Port of Genoa in Heavy - Paid -

Mondragone, 90 Miles From Rome, Falls fo 5th Army   Russians Continue Closing DnieperCrimea Trap’s Jaws

Yankees Seize Vital Point in Drive on Rome   Fifth Army Sloshes Through Rains to Cap ture Pietravairano.   Russians Tightening Noose on Nazi Army

MONDRAGONE IS OCCUPIED BY 5TH ARMY   Pietravairano Along Main Capua - Rome Road Taken: Genoa Raided By Fleet Of Flying Forts

FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES FIVE MILES   Allies Forces Within 2 to 3 Mis. Of Rommel! Line

oth Advances To Western  Nazi Anchor British “Troops: Storm  Across Canal to Seize Seaside Town  FLANKING THREAT  Americans Take Village Dominating Main Road to Rome   FLANKING THREAT

Americans Take Over  Mondragone   Advance Three Miles In Downpour Of Rain

BRITon GAN ACROSS CANAL   Americans Develop Flanking Threat Against German Line.   15 MORE TOWNS TAKEN

American ForcesDevelop Flanking Threat Against German Mountain Lines

Regia Canal Crossed By British: Americans Win Strategic Highway Town

Fifth Army — Crosses Nazi Defense Line   Yugoslav Guerrillas invade. Hungary; Allied Plahes Bomh Dalmatian Coast

Fifth Army Smashes Against West Anchor Of Nazi Lines In Italy   - While British Units Storm Canal, Yanks Develop _ Flanking Threat Against New . German Defense Line. . OOM

ALLIES THREATEN TO FLANK GERMAN MT. MASSICO LINE   FIFTH ARMY TROOPS STORM ACROSS REGIA CANAL; 15 TOWNS FALL

US Fifth Army Gains Control Of High Areas   Eighth Army Captures Montemitro; Reds Within 50 Miles of Perekop} Yugoslav Guerrillas Invade Hungary

British Troops Cross Regia Canal Today   New Nazi Line In Italy Threatened By Heavy Attack

Reach West Anchor Of New Nazi Line In 3-Mile Plunge   Mount Massico Faces Flanking Threat As Americans Capture Inland Town Of Pietravairano

BRITISH CROSS REGIA CANAL IN 3 MILE PLUNGE   Ram Against Massico, Western Anchor of  New German Line

Anchor Of Na zi Line Threatened   Mourit Massico Lies In Path Of Fifth Army Which Has Occupied Town Of Mondragone

BRITISH TAKE MONTEMIRTO   American Flying Fortresses Blast Port Of Genoa

Strongpoint on Nazi Line Falls   Mondragone Captured in” Prelude to General Assault

“LITTLE ROMMEL” LINE BENT BACK BY ALLIED TROOPS   Signs Indicate Full Scale Offensive Against Biggest Barrier ‘on-Roman Road 4 Ten recridic:

In Three-Mile Plunge Occupies Mond At Mount Massico Base; Raitis and Mud Hinder Allied Advance. Yee

Allies Take West Anchor Of LittleRommel Defense   Allies ‘Drive, To Within 2 To 3 Miles Of Line All Across Italian  Waist — Offerisive To Hurdle oN. Barrier ‘Appears Imminent _

ALLIES SCORE GAIN OF THREE MILES IN RAIN   Seizure of Seaside Town Throws British Troops Squarely Against Hun Defenses   PLACES FORCE 90 AIRMILES FROM ROME   iIMeanwhile, American Forces Develop Flanking Threat Against Massico,  Taking Pietravairano

British and Yanks Are Storming. Nazi Italian Positions on Mountain

BRITISH FORCES OF FIFTH ARMY STORM ACROSS REGINA CANAL  AMERICAN TROOPS DE VELOP FLANKING THREAT FURTHER INLAND

Allies Slowed Up in Italy by Mud, Rains; Make Some Advance:   Flying Forts, Based in Mediterranean, Blast Genoa on Friday

FIFTH ARMY MAKES GAIN, SIETES TOWN   Strong. Barriers May Fall Soon

Fifth Army Units Capture Mondragone   British, Americans Advance 5 Miles Through Rain, Mud

Fifth Army Group Fights Way Across Vital Regia Canal   British Troops With American Army Occupies Seaside Town Of Mondragone And Now Is Squarely Against Lofty Mount Massieo

Storm Into Mountain Line of Foe   British Units Take Seaside Town of  Mondragone

BRITISH FORD REGIA CANA   Attack Western Anchor o!  New Nazi Line  In Italy

Now Squarety Against German Mountain Line   Yank Capture Of Pietravairano Threatens Nazi  Flank Inland In Italy.

15 Italian Towns Captured by Allies   British Troops Drive Against Western Anchor of German Line

Seize Key Nazi Base In Italy   U.S. Fifth Army Poses Threat to Anchor of  German Defense Line; Fortresses Bomb Genoa

15 Towns Fall To Allies; Rain And Mud Slow Push Up Italy   Fortresses Raid Genoa, Hammer Steel Works, Freizht Yards

CAPTURE CITY OF SPARANISE, BEAT NAZIS OFF   Allies 5 Miles North of Volturno Astride Split in Highway

TROOPS OF FIFTH  ARMY CAPTURED  MONDRAGONE TODAY RUSSIAN FORCES CON.  TINUE EFFORTS CUT OFF CERMANG IN CRIMEA

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE TOWN OF PIETRAVAIRANO   Important River Outlet To Rome And Capua Road

CONGRESS UNEASY ABOUT EFFECT OF DRAFTING FATHERS   Pressure Continues Toward Substantial Increasa In Dependent Allotments _

LIQUOR RATIONING — BILL FOR QHIO IS BEING CONSIDEREL   House Sub-Committee Begins Drafting Measure — Difficulties Are Seen.

Liquor Rationing Problem Studied   Arguments for and.  Against Are Heard

Walker Objects To Postal Hike   Plans to Make Study Of Rate Structure

RUBBER INDUSTRY BACK TO NORMAL   Union Plans To Apply For , Reconsideration Of Wage Case

Rubber Plants Approach Normal   Workers Will Seek New Wage Demands

RUBBER PLANTS NEARING NORMAL   Regular Shifts at Work ir   Major Factories

RUMORS SIFTED AT WILLOW RUN   Senate Committee Will Check On Cause of ‘No Production’

Nazis Send Naval  Force Into Arctic   But They Report Only Minor Success on Convoy Route to Russia.

Berlin Claims Sea Victory   Allied Destroyer Sunk, Cruisers Damaged, 4 Ships Hit, Report

Germans Trade  Ship For Ship   Nazis Claim British Destroyer In Convoy Sunk, Admit Loss Of Own Vessel.

Nazis Report. Naval Battle ir Arctic Waters   Both Sides Lose” One Destroy er, “Enemy Announces

GERMAN (LAIMS LIGHT ON NAVAL AFFAIR OF NORTH   Admit Loss Of Destroyer Say Allies Lost how

Nazis Risk Naval Squadron But Boast Only Minor Success   Germans and British Trade Destroyers During Attack Made on Convoy to Russia

Nazi Attack On Northern Ship Route   British Still Guarding Details; Berlin Boasts of Only Minor Success   ALLIED DESTROYER CLAIMED SUNK.   London Not Expected to Tell More Until All Ships Reach: Port

FIGHT FOR CONVOY   British: *and Nazi Naval Forces Clash on Far Northern Route

Contlicting Reports on Naval Fight   Germans Say British Destroyer Sunk, Other Vessels Damaged; British Say Nazi Déstroyer Sunk

Nazis Report Battle at Sea   Risk Party of Strong Northern Naval Squadron Against Russian Convoy

U.S. Soldier Superior to Germans, Says Officer Who Saw the Fightine   Col. Stovall Pays Tribute to Ground Forces, Who Are Engaged in ‘Great’ Battles Constantly

Warns Against. Advertising Slump   President of Grinnell College Warns Against Advertisine Slumn

fowa Gollege tlead Sees Danger to Free Press in Newspaper Advertising Slumy

lran Declares  War on Reich   Move Reported by Dis patch from Teheran

STRUGGLE RAGES AS HUNS OPPOSE NAPLES LANDING   BRENNER PASS SAID SEIZED BY ITALIANS FIGHTING HITLERITES

IRAN REPORTED AT. WAR WITH NAZIS   Declaration by Nation Re, ported in Reuters’ Dispatch

TAKE GERMAN PRISONERS IN SHORE BATTLE   Joint American and British Forces Effect Landing in Naples Area,   "LYING FORTS WIPE OUT GERMAN HEADQUARTERS

IRAN ENTERS WAR ON NAZIS   Country Permitted Allies To Route Supplies Through For Months

Uncle Sam  Gets Cut. . On Luxuries   New Revenue Act Adds Many Nen-essentials to _ Tax List and Gives Boost to Income Rates

Jones Said To Be —- Obstructionist   COMMERCE SECRETARY ACCUSED BY WALLACE

Vice President , Aims Blast at JesseJones   Calls Secretary Of Commerce an "Obstructionist’ 

WALLACE TERMS CABINET MEMBER OBSTRUCTIONIST   Accuses Jesse Jones of Uniruthful Testimony in B. E. W. Hearings

Wallace, in. New Clash of Administration Figures, Says Jones Blocking War Effort

Wallace, Jones In Latest Clash Between Major Administration Figures.

Latest Administration Clash  Wallace Hurls Bitter Charges At Jesse Jones

WALLACE ACCUSES JONES OF TACTICS, HARMFUL TO WAR   Vice-President;“as Chairman of BEW Asserts Jones  Testified Falsely Before * Point Croup.   DECLARES JONES HAS HAMPERED MATERIALS   Jones and RFC, Wallace Says, Failed Dismally In Import Field to Build “Authorized Stocks.

Wallace Raps Jones’ Tactics Against BEW   Vice-President Charges Jones With ‘Obstructionist Moves

The War On The Home Front © Wallace Accuses Jesse Jones  Of Harassing Work Of BEW   Charges Commerce Secretary With Creating ‘False Impression’: Tells Story Of Quinine

Wallace accuses Jesse Jones of falsification    Charges commerce secretary tactics ‘obstructionist’

lowan in Attack on J. Jones   Secretary of Commerce an ‘Obstructionist,’  De clares Vice President

WALLACE FLAYS  JESSE JONES IN BITTER TERMS      Vice President Accuses Commerce Secretary of “Obstructionist Tactics”  Before Senate Group   HARASSES BEW, HE SAYS IN STATEMENT   Declares Jones Refuses to Accept Authority Delegated Under Board of Economic Warfare

‘Vice President Is After Secretary of “Commerce-RFC Head   Wallace Calls Jones an > “Obstructionist” In Statement Today

Vice President Charges Obstruction, Texan Accuse Wallace of Malice And Misstatements

JONESACCUSEDOF ‘OBSTRUCTION TACTICS BY VICE PRESIDENT   Wallace- Says He ‘and RFC ‘Staff Failed to Build Stocks of. Vital Materials   RUBBER “STALLING” CITED

Wallace Terms Jesse Jones ‘Ohstructionist  Blames Secretary For Scarcity Of Vital Goods

ACCUSATIONS MADE BY VICE PRESIDENT AGAINST SEC, JONES   Accused Him of “Obstructionnomic Warfare Board. nomci Warfare Board.

NEW CLASH BREAKS QUT IN WASHINGTON   Wallace, Jones Tangle Over Vital Material Stocks

RETARDING OF WORK OF BEW CITED   Vice President Would Cut Agency Loose From RFC Unit

Jones Boys in News  Jesse Attacked by Wallace as Marvin Assumes New Posi

JONES IS ACCUSED — BY WALLACE TODAY   Vice-President Says Secretary of C. of C. Made Misrepresentations.

TESTIMONY ON B. E,W. FALSE, V,P, DECLARES   Commerce Secretary Also Accused of “Obstructionist Tactics” in Wallace Statement

ice-Presiden’ fallace Fla, esse Jones        Accuses Secretary Of “Obstructionist. Tactics” to Board Of Economic Welfare

Vice President Tells Senators RFC Has “Har' assed” BEW by Tactics  CITES RUBBER ISSUE  Declares Stock Piles  Necessary toHelpShorten  War were Neglected

Accuse Agency Of Holding Up  War Measures   Wickard Charges RFC Boss With Delaying Army Quinine Project.   BEW MOVES BLOCKED

RFC FLAYED IN ACCUSATION BY VICE PRESIDENT   Obstructionist Tactics Are Sounded As Prolonging End Of Conflict   ATTACK HURLED AT JONES   Purchase Of Materials Not Completed, Statement Declares

Wallace Accuses Commerce Chief In Statement   Obstructed Securing Adequate Stocks Of War Materials, Is Claimed

DECLARES AFG HEAD BLOCKED BFW PROJECT   vice President in Blistering Statement Accuses Jones . ‘of Misrepresentation. .   CITES CASE OF QUININE  . WANTED BY MacARTHUR

BEW Chairman Says RFC Head has Created  False Impression and Obstructed Efforts to Seciire Adequate Stocks of Strategic War Materials:

JESSE H. JONES OBSTRUCTIVE   Says Commerce Secretary Harrasses Board Economic Warfare in Building Adequate Stockpiles   REPLY BY JONES   Commerce Secretary Charges Vice President with Malice, Missstatemeris, Gives Figures

Wallace Points Accusing Finger at Jesse Jones   Misrepresentations Of BEW Charged  Ry Virce.Pracident

Wallace And Jones Having C onfroversy   Vice President Scores Com merce Secretary As "Obstructionist"   HEARD BY COMMITTEE

Financial Freedom of  Vice President Proposes W arfare Group do RFC

ACCUSED OF OBSTRUCTING. B.E.W. SET-UF   Secretary Charged With Failure To Create Vital Stockpiles

Wallace Hurls Obstructionist Charge At Jones   Alleges BEW  Is Harassed

Jesse Jones Is Accused By Wallace   Obstructionist Tactics and Harrassing of  BEW Charged

100 Of Choicest Hereford Bulls Of Domino Strain To Be Offered At Kimble Sale

100 Of Choicest Hereford Bulls Of Domino Strain To Be Offered At Kimble Sale March 6th In Douglas, Arizona

Senate Group Supports U. S. Postwar Aid   Few Changes Likely In Resolution Adopted Ry Subcommittee

Senate Group Swings Behind Peace Action   Senator Vandenberg Among 12 in Committee to Favor Collaboration with Allies

Postwar Policy Before Senate  Sub-committee Work Given Endorsement

Senate Blamed   May Sees: ‘His’ Inability. To Stop Taking Us S.: Father Group

REDS RESUME KUBAN DRIVE   Series Oi German Pillboxes And Trenches Taken.

Red Army Troops Resume Active Attacks Af Kuban  Pea, nT en ee   Soviet Troops Force River Barrier To Reach German Defenses In Latest Soviet Offense

Red Army Renews Offensive, Captures Nazi Pillboxes, Trenches in Kuban Sector

Soviets Report Slight Gains  In Kuban Sector   Germans Thrown Back In Izyum Sector Again

Year-Old John Tucker Rescued; Lost 50 Hours   Former Chief Of Police, Wife, Hear Cries, End Dramatic Search

Berlin Is Bombed In Wide Raids on  Vital Factories   First Attack Since September 4 Carried Out by Swift Mosquito Planes.   Factory Near Vichy Under Heavy Attack

Widespread: Air. Blows - Over Continent ..Are.. .Resumed Wednesday

Berlin Feels Bomb Attack: London Is Hit   Rubber Plant In France Gets Pounding From RAF

R.A.F. Resumes  Aerial Blows   Rubber Factory In France Blasted; Berlin Also Raided.

U.S. BOMBERS IN AFTER DUSK RAID ON FRANCE   Flying Forts Blast Nantes Toda; in Follow-Up to Bombing of Air: fields, Plants   BERLIN AGAIN HIT   Tire Factory at Montlucon One of Principal Targets in Night Altacks

FORTRESSES FOLLOW RAF RAID   Bomb Installations At Nantes After West France Raid

Attack Made On Berlin By RAF Planes   Vital Rubber Factory At Montlucon, France, Also Is Target Of Raiders Sent Out During Night

Berlin, Paris Areas Are Hit In Wide Raids   American Bombers Tear Up For First Dusk Attack  Success Is Hailed   ALSO BOMB NANTES   RAF Rips Big Tire Fac: tory At Montlucon; Nazis Blast London

Allies Again Blast Berlin   AERIAL ASSAULT ALSO INCLUDED RAID ON FRANCE

New Raid On France, Naval Base Is Hit   Fortresses Plaster Nantes Following First. Night Raid by Americans

Forts and RAF Team In Attack   Join to Smash Tar gets In Nazi-Held France During Night.:

German Capital Attacked First Time Since Sept. 4, Presumably By Mosquito Planes—Aircraft Plants In French Metropolis Blasted By Americans— Heavy Assault Staged On Rubber Factory At Montlucon, France—Nazis Over England

HEAVY FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS HIT RUBBER FACTORY  NIGHT RAID OF BRITISH FOLLOWS AFTERDUSK U. S. ATTACKS

ALLIES BIGGEST NIGHT ASSAULT IS MADE ON EUROPE   Bombed Naval Installations at Nantes, France Today in Second Forays in 2 Days.   LIBERATORS GIVE AID   Nazi Airfields and Aircraft Plants in France Were Plastered.

OTHER ALLIED FLIER BLAST PART PLANTS   First After Dusk Attacks by Combined Air Fleets Held Success.   WAR FACTORIES TARGETS FOR HEAVY BOMBINGS

BERLIN RAIDED BY MOSQUITOS   Germans Attack London Area From Air

RAF RENEWS BOMB ATTACKS   Vichy France Rubber Plant and Berlin Two of Targets

BERLIN BOMBED IN WIDESPREAD ALLIED FORAYS   TIRE FACTORY NEAR VICHY MAIN TARGET OF YANKS, BRITISH

Bombing of Hitlerland From England Resumed; London Area Also Hit

Bombers Raid Nantes, France, After First Dusk Assault On Continent

U. S. Airmen Stage Day Raid in France   Attack Naval Installations at Nantes, Following What Probably Was Biggest Night Assault to Date on Continent.

Flying Forts Shatter Nantes   YANKS BATTER NAVAL INSTALLATIONS AFTER INAUGURAL DUSK RAID ON HITLER’S EUROPE BRINGS BIGGEST NIGHT ASSAULT TO CONTINENT

HEAVY RAID ON FRANCE MADE: BERLIN BOMBED   German Planes Make Severe Assaults on Suburbs of London

FORTRESSES HIT FRENCH CITIES; BERLIN BOMBED   S Yank Airmen Carry Devastating Blows to Enemy; War Plants Rocked

VITAL PLANTS ON CONTINENT ARE TARGETS   Rubber Factory at Mount lucan in France and Air crafi Works and Airfields , Visited By RAF   EIGHT FAIL TO RETURN

FORTRESSES HIT NANTES; BERLIN AMONG TARGETS   American Planes Escorted By Thunderbolts In Day Attack; French Aijirfields Battered In Gigantic Night Operation.

Berlin Hit Anew During  Last Night   Widespread RAF Raids Are Resumed After 9Day Lull

Flying Forts Blast Nantes ‘Naval Base; Airfields and Factories; R.A.F. Hits Berlin

Europe Hit In Heaviest Bomb Raids   Flying Forts Follow First Dusk Attacks With Daylight Blow At  AWonte«c

BERLIN BOMBED AGAINLAST NIGHT BY RAF   Heavy Raid Made On Vital Rubber Factory In France

Forts Blast Naval Bases In France   RAF Planes Hit Berlin Anew; Rubber Factory Shattered

‘Forts Join RAF In Heavy Attack On Foe   Heavy American Bombers On Initial Dusk Raid Hit Targets In France.   POUND NANTES TODAY

Fortresses Hit Targets InFrance  Berlin Again Battered by RBAE Planac

Resume Bombinc of Targets in Nazi Territory   Berlin, Paris And Other Cities Are Attacked

YANK FLIERS BOMB PARIS; LONDON HIT   Attack On German Capital Believed Light: Rubber Plant In France Main Objective Of British

HEAVY FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS HIT RUBBER FACTORY  NICUT RAIN OF RRITICE   NIGHT RAID OF BRITISH FOLLOWS AFTERDUSK U. S. ATTACKS

Rubher Factory, Berlin And Paris Targets Of Raids   Americans Go Out On First Night Attack

Berlin And Paris Hit; Fortresses — Hammer Nantes   American And British Air Forces “Strike Heavily In Renewing Onslaught

FRENCH NAVAL INSTALLATIONS ~ ARE BLASTED   Allied Planes Follow Up Biggest Night Assault On Europe

U.S. Planes Pound French Industrial City Today’ After Heavy Night Attack

HOLD AREA NEAR SENED   Raid On Faid Unsuccessful, Says Communique

~ DIGGING IN NEAR SENED   Battle for Important Faid Pass Has Apparently Ended Temporarily in Favor of Axis

Sened Taken In Tunisia Yankee Drive   Attempt to Seize Faic Pass Blocked as Axis Holds Approaches   ROMMELHALTING   Leader of Afrika Korps Likely to Try Stand at Mareth Line

Battle for Faid Pass Is  Nazi Success   American Troops Dig into Positions Mile East of Sened

Lad Fails to Rally After  Amputation   Jackie Frank, Injured While on His Way to Meet Mother, Loses Fisht for Life.

No Relief From Current Shortage Seen Until After Conflict, Con . gressional Group Says   Failure to Encourage Development of New. Oil Field Also Blamed for  Production Shortage

SHORTAGE OF OIL DUE TO CONTINUE   Congress Committee Warns It Will Run Un. til After War.  PRODUCTION NOW ‘FALLING BEHIND

No Relief in Oil Pinch During War   Nation Warned Demand on Supplies Only Beginning

No Easement in Oil Pinch Seen Till After War   House Committee Urges New Wells, Production Hike

HEAVIER DRAIN ON ‘OUR OIL. SUPPLIES IS NOW FORECAST   Congressional ‘Committee Wants Nation Not to Expect Any Relief Until After War

Fire Lassie   Oil Outlook Not Bright   Congress Group  Doubts Relief

~ OF NO OIL RELIEF   Congress Group Expect No Let-Up in ‘Pinch Un“til After War

DEMAND OF WAR ON OIL SUPPLIES HAS JUST STARTED WELL  CONGRESS COMMITTEE WARNS NATION.NO RELIE UNTIT AETER WAR .

Chunk of Mountain Creeps into Valley   Earth Movement Arouses Village

YANKS SEIZE ITALIAN ROAD JUNCTION   Take Teano as Battle for Mount Massico Gets Under Way

YANKS SEIZE RC) JUNCTION rF A GERMANS   N gains in Italy threate:_ to rill Nazi fle k eastward

U.S. Fifth Army Seizes Teano In Italian Advance   Junction Of Four Strategic Roads Is Taken By Gen. Clark’s Forces   NAZI FLANK MAY BE ROLLED EASTWARD

DETROIT DAIRY SCENE OF FIGHT   Nine Hurt As CLO Group Routs Picket Line Of AFL Drivers

CHANGE IN PICTURE   Brady's Lawyer Was. Appointed Prosecuting At- torney Today

HUGE LIQUOR STORAGE CITED   Present Federal Tax-Exempt Law Boosts Shortage

WHISKEY STORAGE PROBLEMS HEARD AT LIQUOR PROBE   Senate Group Told If Government: Would Cut Tax Exempt Storage Time Much Whiskey Could Be . Released For Markat

LIQUOR SHORTAGE PROBE LAUNCHED   Senate Begins LongAwaited Inquiry Into Present Conditions.

iate Committee ns Probe Whisky Stocks  uge Total Declared ow Being Held U. §. Warehouses

Senate Committee Opens Probe On Whisky Stocks  Huge Total Declared Now Being Held In U. S. Warehouses

Americans Return from Nazi Prisons Tell of Germans’ Pessimism, Anger

Yanks Report Germans Are Now Gloomy   Some of Returned Wounded Men Tell of Civilians Venting Anger on Them

Germans Becoming Pessimistic Over Chances. Freed War Prisoners Report   me JOHN F. CHESTER

Germans Pessimistic Over Outcome of War. American Prisoners Spat Upon and Stonec

Wounded American Prisoners Back From Germany Declare Nazis Pessimistic Over War   Most Of Them Expect It To Be Over By January; Some Stoned By Civilians

American Soldiers Freed from Camps in Germany, fell Tales   Say Pessimism Reigns in Reich; Many Nazis Angry at Yankees

Repatriated U. S. Fliers Hate Nazis   AMERICAN AIRMEN WERE TREATED CRUELLY BY GERMANS

‘You Learn Unselfishness’ In Nazi Prisons Say Wounded Yanks Who Have Been There

NAZI CIVILIANS STONE, SPIT ON ‘U,S. PRISONERS   Americans Freed From: German Prison Camps  Claim Counirys  Morale Low ‘

Hreed Yanks Report  Germans Blue Over War Outcome  Spat Upon and Stoned Americans

Freed Prisoners Tell Experiences   Released Soldiers Say Nazis Gloomy

Ger mans Spat On Flyers Whe Hit Hambure   Other Airmen Attacked; Report Nazi Cities Are Badly Battered

Nazis Gloomy, Americans Say   Exchanged Wounded Yanks Say Germans Fear Outcome

TALKED TO NAZIS WHILE PRISONERS   DECLARE MANY SEEM TO THINK WAR WILL BE OVER BY JAN., 1944

Allies Attack Jap Shipping  ‘Enemy Destroyer Tinwtanme Tiree rice

‘Mrs. Miniver And ‘Yankee Doodle’ James Cagney, Greer Garson Win Movie Awards

‘Oscars’ Go to Cagney, Garson   They're Recognized as Outstanding

CAGNEY, GARSIN NAMED AS FILM “OSCAR” WINNERS   ‘Mrs. Miniver” Voted Bes Screen Production ol Year; Academy An nourzes Other Awards.

“OSCAR” AWARD TO NEWCOMERS   James Cagney and Greer Garson Selected ' Best in 1942.

Garson, Cagney Obtain ‘Osears’   Miss Miniver and Yankee Doodle Dandy Players Tops In‘ Votine ~

Greer Garson, James Cagney Get Film Awards   ‘Oscars’ Given For Outstanding Movie Productions

Cagney And Garson Are ~ Winners Of ’43 Oscars   Win Acting Awards For Parts In “Yankee Doodle Dandy’ And ‘Mrs. Miniver'’ 

CAGNEY AND CARSON RECEIVED AWARDS OF BEST PERFORMANCES  YANKEE DOODLE DANDY  AND MRS. MINIVER WERE THEIR VEHICLES TO FAME

CAGNEY, GARSON WIN TWO AWARDS   Motion Picture Academy An: nounce Winners During Annuat Dinner.

CAGNEY AND GARSON WIN MOVIE ‘OSCARS’   Academy Awards Made on Votes of 11,000 Experts

42 “Oscars To Cagney, Garson   Get Academy Awards For Best Pictures;  First Time For Both

2 MOTION PICTURE AWARDS ARE MADE   James Cagney and Greer Garson. Were Best Per formers in 1942   SELECTED BY 11,000

Greer Garson, James Cagney Given. Osears.   Mrs. Miniver And Players Take Many Of High Honors

IMOVIE ACADEMY SELECTS GREER GARSON  AND TIM CACNEY AS “OSCAR” WINNERS

Former’s Award Was Forl Performance In “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” By Warner Bros.   ACTRESS’ ROLE IN MRS. MINIVER BEST   Van Heflin Is Best Supporting Actor, and Teresa Wright Best Supporting Actress

‘Oscars’ fo Cagney And Greer Garson   Best Performances Of ‘42 Are Cited

CAGHEY AND GARSON WIN MOVIE AWARDS   Mrs. Miniver Is . 1s Judged Baxt Picture of 1942; Sweeps List of Bests

Greer Garson, Cagney Tops   Film 'Oscars' Awarded: ‘Mrs. Miniver’ Wins  Selection as Best

Greer Garson, James Cagney Award Winners   Miss. Russell, Van Heflin Best Supporting Artists; ‘Mrs. Miniver’ Top Film

United States Invasion Of Gilberts Called ‘Another Road To Tokyo’ By Admiral] Chester W. Nimitz

U5, OPENING NEW ROAD 10 TOKYS   ADMIRAL NIMITZ BELYEVES ‘JAPAN WILL BE DEFEATED FROM CHINA.

De Marigny Acquitted At Nassau»   Quick Decision Made, But Jury Recommends Immediate Deportatior  VERDICT IS REACHED [IN HOUR, 40 MINUTES  Jurors Regret Lindop Allowed To Depart  WieLnaut BPactifving

Verdict Orders  Deportation of Count at Once   Jurors Vote 9 to 3 To Free Man; Nancy Looks Stunned by News: Lasts 22 Days

Jury Frees De Marigny Of Slaying Father-in-Lau   Votes 9 to 3 for Acquittal After Deliberating Hour and Forty Minutes—Recommends Immediate Deportation of Defendant From British Colony—Tremendous Cheer Goes Up as De Marigny Leaves Courtroom With Wife.

Great Combat Fleet Of Japs In Truk Area   Within Three Days’ Sailing Of New Guinea MacArthur Warns

Big Jap Fleet Massed at Truk Declared}  “New Threat to New Guinea and Austrade   Planes Pledged To Halt Jap

Japs Keep Combat Fleet 3 Days From New Guineé   Heavy Allied Shipping Toll Claimed By Japs

THREAT FACES ALLIED POSTS IN NEW GUINEA   MacArthur Spokesman Amplifies Reports Of Offensive Plafined By Nips   AERIAL FORCES SMASHED   30 Downed In Attack Over Milne Bay; Enemy Seen Seeking Soft Spot

Gonvoys Operating Constantly Out of Range of Allies’ Land-Based Planes in South Pacific

ANOTHER WARNING OI CONCENTRATION OF JAPANESE WARSHIPS  GREAT FLEET IS MAIN. TAINED WITHIN THREE DAYS OF NEW GUINEA

Concentration Of Ships Is Only Three Days Sailing Distance Of Allied Territory

WITHIN 3 DAYS SAILING OF NEW GUINEA   MacArthur’s Headquarters After Third Jap Air Attack in Forces In Four Days

MacArthur Spokesman Points Out That Japs Are Maintaining  Big Fleet in the Areca of Truk

FOE MAINTAINS COMBAT FLEET   Naval Force Concentrated At Truk, Three Days From New Guinea,   FOE RAIDS MILNE BAY

Third Warning of Jap Concentrations Comes from MacArthur Headquarters

Jap Combat Fleet Being Maintained In Truk Area; Ni Planes Hit Guinea

Pacific Alarms Increase; Knox Promises More Planes   MacArthur Spokesman ~ Cites Huge Eneniy Fleet Concentrated at Truk

WARN OF JAP FLEET IN TRUK      Enemy Loses 30 Planes In Attack On Milne Bay ¢

More Planes and Supplies Are: Pledged MacArthur Who Again Warns of Huge Fleet at Truk.

MacArthur Renews Warning On Japs Massed ‘Three Days Sailing Time’ Fram Guinea -

JAPS MAINTAIN COMBAT FLEET INTRUK AREA   It Is Within Less Than Three Days’ Sailing Distance of New Guinea,  Ie Claim   NEW ATTACK MADE   Raid On Milne Bay Cost Enemy Probable Losses of 30 Planes, Includ- . ing 22 Bombers

Japs Lose 3) More Planes Over New Guinea   Foe May Be Planning Big , Pi aa )

JAP COMBAT FLEET WITHIN 3 DAYS OF ALLIED. OUTPOSTS   Being Maintained In Truk Area — 250,000 Tons Of Shipping Also At Rahaul

CITY OF ROSTOY IS WITHIN RANGE OF RED ARMY ATTACK      Soviets, Advancing From Den, Only. 63. Miles From Key Rail Junction

iMPORTANT CITY OF ROSTOV WITHIN RANGE OF RED TROOPS   Germans Said to Be Losing 5,000 Men A Day; Boche Communications Imperiled

Reds Are 75 Miles From Rostov   Huge German Force Threatened With Encirclement

ANS FAGE DISASTER; REDS PUSH ON ROSTOV   Soviet Army Sweeps Through GermanHeld Towns   CAUCASUS GATEWAY NOW WITHIN RANGE

GATEWAY. CITY WITHIN RANGE (F AED ATTACK   Wedge Thrust 18 Miles from “North Brings Fall of Bolshayaorlovka.   DRIVE SOUTH PERIL TO GERMANS BEYOND DON

LIST NEW CAUCASUS ADVANCES   Germans Reported Fearing Black Sea Offensive   ‘GAIN AT STALINGRAD   Combined Land, Sea And Air Attack Expected

50 Mile Gain Down Don Perils Rostoy   Sharp Wedge Cuts South To Bolshayaorolovka, May Turn Toward Salsk   TRAP FACES GERMANS   Russians Sweep Through Towns On Four Fronts, Kill 5,000 A Day

REDS PREPARE T0 STRIKE ROSTOV OR MOVE UPON SALSK   With German Communications Threatened Little Opportunities Are Left -to Give Help.   BRITISH FORCED TO CHANGE THEIR LINE   Allies Lose Position West of Tunisia, Withdrawal Is Successfully Made Under Cover of Night.

Reds 75 Miles From Rostov, Smash Forware   German Armies South Of Don River Facing Disaster

RUSSIAN ARMY IN POSITION TO ATTACK ROSTO\   German Forces South Of Don Face Disaster As Red Column Approaches Gateway To Caucasus,

German Armies South of Don Face Disaster   “City of Rostov) Brought in Range Of Attack .

Red Army Gains On Fonr Fronts, Using Infantry, Cavairy, Mechanized Eauipment And 8ki Troops—Seize Villages   AXIS LEADERS IN TUNISIA REPLACED

Rostov’s recapture nearer as Russians strengthen position   German armies face disaster; red General Vatutin gains ground fast

RUSSIANS ARE “NOW WITHIN 75 MILES OF ROSTOY   Plunging Reds. ‘Advance Al High Gear on All Fronts.

NEW BLOWS AGAINST JAPS   5-Ship Jap Squadron Crippled; New Raid on Wake Reported

AP Wins Partia!  Victory in Suit   Membership Limitation  Legal, if Rule Changed

AP Ordered To Amend By-Laws   Court Says Trust Lawe Are Violated

COURT HOLDS AP. IN VIOLATION OF ANTI TRUST LAWS   Opinion Leaves Changes Open for Associated Press Action To Adopt Substitutes.

GRAINS HIT HISH FOR MANY YEARS IN CHICAGO PITS   Spectre of Inflation Seen as Cause; Stocks Get Opposite Reaction

GRAIN PRICES RISE AS INFLATION LOOMS   Trading in Chicago Pits Indication of Trend

Jitters Seem To Have  Caught Up With Japs   Sustained Air Attacks From Land-Based Planes What Tokyo Is Now Justly Fearful Of

Unrest Mounting InPennsy Coal — Mining Region   U. M. W. Official Says 8,000 To 10,000 To Stay Off Jobs Today.

CoalUnres Grows In State   UMW Leader Says  Over 8,000 to Stay  OF Jobs Today

Unrest Grows In Soft Coal Fields Of Pa.   Strike Affecting 2,000 Workers May Spread

LIBERIARVISIT “WILL HELP US, ~ WITHOUT DOUBT   Brazil Expected to Give Di rect Assistance to an _ Invasion...   CUBA IS ALSO LISTED   ‘President's ° Visit to South ; .America Will Have  Good Results,

First Army Slashes Into Rommel’s Lair  Over 6-Mile Area   Allied Forces Now Only 70 Miles Apart; Three American Columns Striking Enemy ; Reds Cling to Donets Line, Roll Toward Smolensk

ROMMEL’S ESCAPE _ ROUTE IN PERIL   British Eighth Army Gains Six Miles Yanks Advance 20 Miles In Tu nisia; Reds Repel Masses.

Alaska i in the News Anthony J. Dimond Says Area od Support 10 Million Persons

 Alaska in the News jArithony J. Dimond Says Area Could Support 10 Million Persons

CHINA PREPARES   e@chungking Defenses Against Jap Drive Bolstered

Chungking May Be Jap Objective   China Bolsters Defenses A: Japs Apparently Start Drive For Capital

U. AND BRITISH WARSHIPS SHELL “ENEMY POSITIONS   Drive on Messina Making Slow but Steady Progress; Bombers Smash at Enemy Escape Port.

Allies Drive On In Sicily; Naval Guns Pound Foe   Americans Capture 1,500 Germans In Sea’ Landing Behind Axis Lines

WARSHIPS RAIN DESTRUCTION ON SICILIAN ENEMY   SHIPS OF THE LINE AID GROUND FORCES IN STEADY ADVANCE

Rain Shells  On Axis Army     Along Coast   i Heavy Warships Pounding  Sicily as Allies Deal Out: : Every Punch in Book   GERMANS REELING UNDER ATTACKS   British, U. 8. Patrols Make Junction; Large’ Enemy Rearguard Force Trapped

Progress Reported Everywhere Along Line By Ground Forces In Sieily: Axis Position Desperate   Yanks Take 1500 Prisoners In Landing Behind German Lines Near Cape Orlando; U. &., British Troops Race To Be First To Reach Messina

AIRCRAFT POUND MESSINA OUTLET OF AXIS FORGES   Bitter Fighting Slows Advance Of  Americans, British

BAIS CLOSING ~ AROUND. MI. FINA   Yanks ‘Take’1,500- Prisoners. . In: -Landing....Behind - > » Enemy’s' Lines 5

Progress Slow Against Bitter Nazi Resistance   Warships ‘Shell Enemy’s:Expased Coastal. Positions

Ground Forces Continue Advance In Slow, Steady Drive To Messina Base

Doughboys Take 1,500 Prisoners in Battle Behind Line   Progress of Troops, Spearing Toward Messina Tip, is Officially Described as "Slow and Steady" With Enemy Offering Stiff Resistance   iG WARSHIPS RAIN SHELLS ON COASTAL POINTS

Axis Reeling Back Under Heavy Fire  Allies Pushin na Steadily Clos

Amphibious Force Again Joined _ with Paiion’s Seventh Army. " Advances up Coas!   BRITISH ADVANCE   Airmen Keep Axis Roads and Bottleneck at Messina under Heavy Strafing

WARSHIPS SHELL NAZIS TO CLEAR PATH FOR ARMY   Amphibious Force Reports Capture of 1,500 Prisoners Sunday Night

Allied Troops Make Progress On All Fronts   Yankees Land “ Behind Lines to Capture Germans

Warships Shell Foe’s Positions   1,500 German Prisoners Taken by Yanks in Landing Behind Lines; Progress Toward Messina Tip ls Described as ‘Slow and Steady’

Allies Gain _ Ground All Along Coast   Raider Force Joins Main Body of Troops — 1500 Germans Captured

Axis Seeks to Retard Pursuers   British Progress In Drive to  Circle Mt. Etna

Warshins Pound Nazi Rearguard Coast Position   1,500 Nazi Prisoner Taken By Yankees French Moroccan: Helping

Battleships Pound © Coast of Sicily   Allied Ground Forces Make Steady Progress in Spearing Toward the Messina Tip in Effort to Trap Germans.   United Nations’ Air Fleets Enjoy Absolute Supremacy Over Sicily

Warships Rain Shells Upon Coast Point   Yanks Capture 1,500 Germans By Daring Landing Behind Lines

Allied Push On Messina Slows Down   But Progress Continues All Along Front; Foe Being Shelled By U. S.. British Warships

Fleet In Action As Land Forces ~ Press Foe Back   Devastating Fire Aimed At Positions Near Messina Strait

HIT SICILY'S NORTH AND EAST COASTS   Heavy Bombardment Batters Way for Ground Troops Advancing Slowly, but Steadily All Along the Front.

SICILY BATTLES DESCRIBED AS SLOW, STEADY’   Germans Are Resorting to “Every Device to Hold Up Relentless Advance of Our Forces”   YANKS SEIZE 1500 IN SURPRISE MOVE   Heavy Warship Units Rain   Torrents of Shells On  Foe; Battering Way For American Troops

Yanks Take 1,500 Prisoners; Allies  Push Nazis Back   Gains Made In Bitter Fighting; Warships And Planes Pour Hail Of Explosives On Retreating enemy; Progress Reported Slow

U. 5. Warships Battering Way For 7th Army   Axis Loses Anchor Bases When Americans Take 1500 Nazi Prisoners

Warships Shell Nazis in Sicily   Enemy Staggers Back Under Pounding From Sea and Air; Seventh and Eighth Armies Neor Junction at Randozzo

SICILIAN GROUND FORCES SUPPORTED BY HEAVY WARSHIPS  i) PROGRESS REPORTED / EVERYWHERE ALONG © ’ FRONT IN SICILY TUESDA’

Steady Progress Made By British And Yank Troops   Warships Bombard Axis Coastal Positions; Germans Shooting Works In Retreat To Messina

Allied Ground Armies Gain   Escape Port of Messina Kept Under Blasting Attack

BIG WARSHIPS RAIN SHELLS ON ENEMY TARGETS   1,500 German Prisoners Are Seized By Americans In Daring Raid   ‘ANCHOR POSITION TAKEN   British Troops Smash Thru Defenses In Race For Messina

BIG WARSHIP UNITS SHELL ENEMY LINES   Yanks Land Behind German Positions, Take 1,500 Prisoners: Campaign Slow But Steady

Advance on Entire Front a: Warships Pound Coastal  Positions   TAKE MORE PRISONERS   Lack of Roads Hamper: Pursuit, Which Is Slow But Steady

Steady Progress Reported Along Front As Germans and Italians Yield Ground Under Air, Ground and Naval Pressure

WARSHIPS AID BY SHELLING COAST AREAS      Yanks Cature 1,500 German Prisoners Behind Cape Orlando Lines

MEAT PRICES DOWN MONDAY   Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton, Most of Pork ‘ Average 10 P. C.

MRS. FLORY RESIGNS   Long Had Been Probation Officer of Ju¥enile Court

A. P. Correspondent Describes Part Of Nazi Attack on Yanks in Africa

Reporter Tells Of Wild Melee as Yank: And Nazis Battle   Newsmen Have Narrow Escape in Thick of Stuka Battle

Rostov. Trap Being Closed By Russians  Nazis Fail To Fix Stable Line On Manych River —

KEY MEASURES UP FOR ACTION   Half Dozen Important ProbJems Ready for Congress Showdown.

NEW FLAREUPS REPORTED ALONG POTOMAC FRONT   Brehm One of 6 GOP Members Voting Against Lease-Lend

SCATTERED SKIRMISHES IN CONGRESS   Controversies Over Major Wartime Problems Reach PitchedBattle Stage   GOP BOOSTS RUML PLAN

Republicans To Back Ruml Plan   White House Party Nice But “Converted Nobody”

President Submits Plan Recommending Gradual De mobilization Of Armed Forces And Relaxation O Rationing And Price-Wage Controls

BITTER FIGHTS UP IN CONGRESS   Republicans Are Mobilizing Tc Press Pay-as-you-go Tax Payment Plan

Last Coach Wrecked Congressional Limited Yields Four Bodies To Bring Total Of Known Killed To 62

RAIL DEATH LIST IS RAISED 10 78   Fourteen More Bodies Are Taken From Pennsy ‘ Wreckage Tuesday

Death Count Totals 126 In Tragedies  eee =e  a ee,   Injury Toll Is 168 In Train Wrecks And Houston Fire

65 Dead Counted In Philadelphia Train Crack-Up  Another Rail Wreck At Canastota, N. Y. Leaves Three Dead

CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED DEATH TOLL SET AT 78   27 Bodies In Philadelphia Morgue Are Still Unidentified   BURNED OUT JOURNAL BLAMED FOR WRECK

65 Perish as Pennsy Train Piles Up After  Losing Wheel   123 Injured: ‘Hot Box Blamed for Labor Day Tragedy

Eight Cars Of Penn Limited Smashed Up   Wreckage Yields 65 Bodies; Another Mishap Fatal To Three

Wreck’s Toll Mounts to 78   27 Bodies Unidentified: 1°23 in Hoasoital

65 Lives Snuffed Out in Rail Wreck   Pennsylvania's Congressional Limited Piles Up in Philadelphia      AT LEAST 123 HURT   Sorrowing Relatives Visit Morgue to Attempt —  Tdentification

Limited Crashes at Philadelphia   MANY NEAR DEATH IN OVERCROWDED HOSPITALS AFTER 16-CAR PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN PILES UP ON CURVE; 20TH CENTURY WRECKED IN NEW YORK

TRAIN WRECK DEATH TOLL PLACED AT 65   Another 123 Hurt as °.. Pennsylvania Limitéd Splits in Two in One of Worst Rail Disasters in Nation’s History.

41 Passengers In Wreck Of Speeding Train  Hospitals Crowded In Philadelphia As Travelers’ Holiday Ends In Great Crash

Scores Hurt ~ In Disaster; Hunt Bodies   Congressional Limited Develops ‘Hot Box’, Crashes; Carried 541

ACCIDENT ON N. Y. CENTRAL FATAL FOR    Locomotive Explodes, Derailing Crack Twentieth Century Ltd. in New York State

KNOWN DEATH TOLL FROM PENNSYLVANIA WRECK REACHES 69  “HOT BOX” BLAMED FOR

65 Bodies Found In Pensy Crash   Crack Pennsylvania Train Pilees On Curve; “Hot Box” Cause

2 KNOWN DEA AFTER LIMITED SPLITS IN TWO   124 Other Passengers On Congressional] Limited Listed As Injured

NUMBER DEAD IN WRECK OF TRAIN IS 62   123 Others Injured; “Hot Box” Blamed For Accident

113 Perish in Train Wrecks Hotel Fire   Leope Rails, Hits Pole, Killing 65

Many of 123 Injured Are \ Near Death   ‘Hot Box’ Causes Washington, New York Fast’. Express to Crash   PASSENGERS ARE BURIED IN DEBRIS   Woman Pinned: in. Wreck Six Hours, a-Heroic Victim, Dies in Hospital

Eight Cars of Pennsylvania Railraad’s Congressional Limited Wrench Loose and Pile Up in Wreckage in Philadelphia

J 23 Others Injured In One Of Nation’s W orst Rail Line  Disasters: Passengers Buried   Roy Howard And Wife Escape Unharmed; Galle Workers In Diner Scalded; One Woman Penned In Debris Six Hours: Troops Patrol Scene

Pennsylvania Railroad Disaster Fatal To 78; 3 Die On 20th Century

WRECK'S TOLL LISTED AT 78 SABOTAGEOUT   Bodies Lie In Morgue At Philadelphia; 123 Are In Hospitals,  Many Critical   Investigations Begin

Rail Wreck Toll at 78 — And 123 Still In Hospitals   Last of Bodies Believed ~ Taken from Wreckage  Of P. R. R. Limited  26 Hours After Crash  SEVERAL PROBES ARE UNDER WAY  Burned-Out Journal To Be Examined And Tested by FBI

Fear More Pinned. In Tangled Coaches       Fast Flier Piles Up in Philadelphia;  Hunt Continues; ‘Het Box’ Blamed:

Reaches 65, With 125 Injured When Crack Passenger Train Meets Disaster

Death Toll Reaches 78 in Pennsy Wreck   Grim Task of Identification Proceeds In Philadelphia Morgue; Sabotage Ruled Out; Many of 123 Injured Near Death

orn Dead In Wreck 78: Injured 123   FOUR SEPARATE PROBES INTO CAUSE OF LABOR DAY DISASTER—WORST IN RAIL ANNALS SINCE 1918.   Sabotage Out

(RASHES WITH ROAR AS ‘HOT BOX’ CUTS AXLE   At Least Sixty-Five Are Dead and Many of 123 Injured Are Reported Dying   DISASTER SCENE ONE OF HORROR   Decapitated Body of Woman Falls From One Coach  When Crane Raises It;  Service Men Victims

65 KNOWN DEAD, 123 INJURED IN RAIL HOLOCAUST   CARS SEARCHED FOR MORE BODIES; OTHER WRECKS PLAGUE U. S.

65 Known Dead InP. R.R: Wreck   123 Injured In Crash OF Congressionel Limited

65 Killed n Rail Disaster   Many of the 123 Injured Reported Near Death In Wreck of Limited — Near Philadelphia

OF 123 INJURED MANY SAID Td BE NEAR DEATH   Congressional Limited Piled Up When “Hot Box” Frees Wheel.   CARRIED 541 PASSENGERS WASHINGTON TO N. Y¥,

en, "Nrecx — 0. ce -Reacies 73; ° 2 Crewmen vie ‘n 2.1 Sen: S3i.

‘At Least 65 Dead, 123 Injured In Crash Of Washington-New York Train

Check of Hospitals Shows Many of 123 Injured Are Critical   Rescue Workers Seek to Crack Open Last Crumpled Coach Known to Contain Still More Bodies — In Limited Crash   HOT WASTE-PACK JOURNAL BOX IS BLAMED

65 Persons Are Killed in Train Wreck   At Least 123 of 541 Passengers Injured, Many Reported in Over-Crowded Hospitals Near Death

At Least 123 More Are Injured, As Limited Gets ‘Hot Box’ And Crashes With Roar on Curve

AXLE CUT OFF BY “HOT BOX;” 123 ARE HURT   Last Crumpled Coach Is Cracked Open by Crews Near Philadelohis

Many Of Injured Reported Near Death After Congressional Limited Crashes In Northeast Philadelphia—“Hot Box” Blamed For Disaster, One Of Worst In Nation’s History—Most Of Victims Occupants Of Seventh And Eighth Coaches

Eight Cars of Crack Pennsy Washington to New York Express Piled-Up   HOT JOURNAL BOX   Seven Bodies Found in Last Two Cars Broken Into—Many Dead - Unidentified

65 KNOWN DEAD IN DISASTER AT PHILADELPHIA   Officials Fear More Bodics Remain In Congressional Limited Wreckage   “FROZEN” WHEEL BLAMED   Two Coaches Are Smashed, Six Others Are Piled Up Along Tracks

Death Count Totals 126 In Tragedies   Injury Toll Is 168 In Train Wrecks And Houston Fire

ESSIONAL LIMITED   Flyer Is Split In Two at North Philadelphia; Scores Are Injured

78 Persons Die in Rail Wreck  Disaster Is Worst in U.S.Since 1918

One Of Worst Rail Mishaps In Nation’s History. ... .  65 Killed, 123 Injured In Tragic Train Wreck

62 Bodies Taker From Wreckage At Philadelphia   20th Century Limited Wrecks Few Hours After Crash Of Congressional Flier

Rescuers Find 65 Bodies in Wrecked Cars   Congressional Limited Leaves  Rails and Plows into Steel Pole. Splitting in Half.

Many Bodies Taken From Congressional Limited As Speedy Flyer Leaves Rail

Death Toll in Train Disaster Raises to 19   123 in Hospitals; Many Near Death; Sabotage Ruled Out

Toll of Railway Wreck Said 78   Total of 123 Injured Reported in Hospitals

War of Nerves ls Now Turned On The Axis   Nazi Espionage Agents Watching For Tip-Off on  Invasion Plans

Gulf Coast In Path of Hurricane   District Between Free port and Galveston  Threatened

STATE LABOR LAW EASED FOR WAR   WOMEN ALLOWED TO WORK 10-HOUR DAY ° DURING EMERGENCY

WOMEN ALLOWED TO WORK LONGER HOURS IN STATE   New Pension Laws Are In Effect; New Bills Signed

10,000 Japs Moving Up From Lashio To Attack Chinese on Salween River

Japs Attempt To Knock Out  China’s Army   Assail Burma Road Positions—Tokyo Beare TT] SS. Attack

AXE MURDER — 1S ADMITTED   FORMER DELAWARE, MAN HILLED BY WIFE TQ STOP HIM BEATING SMALL  “gen

Czecho-Stovak President Says He Does Not Fear Soviet Interference

CONFIDENT IN SOVIET PLANS   Dr. Benes Says Russia Will Not Interfere With Other States  Following War

Closing Act of Political Drama To Be Presented   ‘Candidate for Supreme Court Fights Against  Disbarment Action

U.S. Looking To Finn Election      CHANGES ARE EXPECTED AS PRESIDENT JS NAMED

FINNISH MAY BE AXIS POINT   Election Watched with Interest Here for WarPeace Feeling

TURNING POINT IN FINNISH SITUATION NEAR   President To Be  Elected Soon; Ryti Probably Will Be Retained

FINLAND 10 VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT NEXT MONDAY   Observers Think Election May Affect Future Course OF Nation

FINNISH PEACE KEY HANES ON ELECTION   lf Pro-Nazi President fs Upset, Relations with Allies May Be Improved

Fin-ish Election May B:ing Peace With Reds   Turning-Point In Finnish Situation L Ahead; President To Be Named

TURNING POINT MAY BE JUST AHEAD FOR FINLAND  Finland Elects New President Next Monday

Senate Cuts © FR’s Power Over Dollay   Stabilization Bill Is Hurried to House Floor

Weather   Stabilization ‘Extension Bill Goes To House   Senate Cuts Out President’s Power To Devaluate Dollar.

v. S. CURRENCY STABILIZATION FUND CONTINUED   President’s Power to Further Devaluate Dollar Amputated From  Moana enmra

SENATE DENIES DEVALUATION POWER TO FD   Sends Curtailed Currency Stabilization Measure to House, Spurred by Bond Drive

SENATE STRIPS ROOSEVELT OF SOME POWERS   Authority to Devalue Dol  lar Stricken From Ex  tension Currency Stabilization Fund   HELD AID TO NATION   Contended War Bone Buyers Are Assured Against Further Dollar Devaluation

SENATE BLOG CUTS FOR PRICE POWER   ‘Authorize Extension of Currency Stabilization Fund; Refuse FDR Authority

British Hit At Japs in Burma   Bombers Raid Rathedaung Area And Akvyab Island

COUNT DE MARIGNY IS ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF OAKES   Son-in-law of Multi-millionaire Accused—Crime Climax of Quarrels.

All Aboard Killed, Say Residents   10 Persons Believed On Board Four-Engimed Craft

WHISKY STOCKS AT LOW LEVEL   Outlook Not Hopeful For Some Thrists And Appetites

WHISKEY HITS LOW MARK IN 7 YEARS   Beer Production Below Consumption, Government Reports

TROUBLE BREWS FOR ALCOHOLIC THIRST OFU.S.   Whiskey Stocks Are At Seven-Year Low And Still  Going Down x   BEER CONSUMPTION CAUSING SHORTAGE

OPA Predicting Many Shortages Drinks, Foods   'Aleoholic Drinks, Canned Foods, Fish and Other Items Shrinking at Rapid Rate.

Price Increases On Canned Fruits Granted by OPA   Treasury Reports Shortage of Whiskey, Distilled Spirits  BEER DEMAND UP  Fishing Industry Falling Far Behind  tf. 4QA2

Beer and Liquor Becoming Scarce, Latest Federal Rep orts Declare

GLOOMY PICTURE FOR FOOD, DRINKS   Variety of Government Reports Indicate Shortage In Whisky Stocks and Certain Foods.

RAF Blasts -' Canal Gates   Bullseyes Scored by Bombers on One of Holland's Busiest Waterway Links

STATE BUDGET PROVIDES FOR $80,593,857   Adopted After All-Night Session Ending At 6:25 a. m. Sunday  Morning   Teacher Raise Passed

(00 JAPS KILLED ON NEW GUINEA   ALLIED JUNGLE FIGHTERS SEIZE INITIATIVE AND WIPE OUT TWO POCKETS.

ALLIES GAINING IN NEW GUINEF   Jungle Fighters Clear Out Enemy Garrison and Kill 100

Bh hn Ob 0 i bn ht hn bp tp  100 Japanese Killed In New Guinea Fighting

TEST ON TIME CHANGE LOOMS IN ASSEMBLY   Five Representatives Reported Ready With Bills Favoring Hour Setback   WPB APPEAL IS STUDIED   Observers Believe Senate And House Would Override Bricker’s Veto

OHIO ASSEMBLY ON ‘SPOT’ OVER CLOCK CHANGE   , Early Test Of Sentiment Due In State’s Legislature

TIME CHANGE IN OHIO FACING A HOT DEBATE   Predominate Disposition to Turn the Clocks Back One Hour to Central War Time Is Seen In Assembly—At Least Five Representatives to Introduce Bills Making Change During Present Seceinn

Five Yanks Hold Off B 3 Nazi Tan! Tanks Probably. Save Salerno Beachhead

Rail Smash Injures Two   37 Cars Pile Up As Freights Collide Near Marysville Depot.

JAP SHIPPING ATTACKED BY ALLIED PLANES   Destroyer Badly Damaged By American Planes

Bombers Strike At Jap Shippine   Large Destroyer Hit Convoy Attacked .

‘Propose Next Destroyer ‘Launched by Navy Be Named “9 Sullivans”

FORMER JOPLIN MAN TO REFUGEE OFFICE   Patrick Malin Appointed Vice Director of Allied Intergovernmental Committee.

“LONG WAY TO 6O:” PATTERSON   Enemy Not Yet Vitally Affected by Defeats

Scores Die in Naples Mine Blast   NAZI-SET EXPLOSIVE RIPS POST OFFICE IN ALLY-HELD CITY

Fatal Naples Blast Shows Allies’ Peril   Mine Hidden by Germans in Postoffice Cellar Takes Heavy Toll

The Foe We Fight....  Time Bomb Left by Nazis Kills Scores in Naples

Many Killed By Mine In Naples   German Delaved-Action Trap Effective

MAY CANCEL PART OF THIS YEAR'S TAXES   Substantial Part of 1942 Income Taxes May Be Forgiven

House Narrows  New Tax Plans   Chairman Doughton  Suggests Half Of 1943 Bill Be  Cancelled.

Committee Nears Vote On Tax Plan   Part of One Year's Income Taxes Probably Will be Cancelled

RELIEF FROM 1942 INCOME TAX MAY YET BE APPLIED   Part Cancellation Plan Gains Weight With ‘House Committee

VOTE IS NEAR ON TAX PLAN FOR CITIZENS   Committee Expected to Recommend at Least Part Cancellation of 1942 Payments in Payas-You-Go Measure.

DON'T PAY OFF ALL YOUR TAX; CUT MAY COM   House Committee, Meeting Behind Closed Doors, Might Shave °43 Levies

TO TAX SHOWDOWN   Congressional Move Toward Partial Cancellation  Gaining Weight

Pay-Go Plan Boosted in Committee   Report Ways and Means Body Favoring ‘Substantial’ Cancellations

U. §. May Erase Part OF fl Tax   Defeat Of Rum! Plan Seen By Compromise

CHANGES SEEN PART OF GOV'T TAK TO BE CUT   One Suggestion to Commitiee Would Cancel Half of 19043 Tay.   MAJORITY ON RECORD AGAINST RUML PLAN

PARTIAL CUT INCOME TAX IS NEW PLAN   Pay Half 1942 Tax; Then Begin on 1943, Dough‘ ton Suggests.   TREASURY SEES - LOSS OF “ASSETS?   Taxpayers Held to Payment of First 1942 Installment.

Knox Reports Campaign As ‘Satisfactory’   Yanks Believed Making Progress; Capitol Forecasts Drive   THE WAR TODAY

KNOX TERMS ATTU BATTLE SATISFACTOR   Weather And Terrain Aiding Tenacious Enemy In Bitter Battle

DEVELOPMENTS HINT POWERFUL PACIFIC DRIVE   Joint Army-Navy-Air Operations Make Thrust Possible ®

JAPS BATTLE NOT GOING WELL   Something Brewing, Conferences Indicate   SHIPS AND MEN   Available In Great Numbers, Report; Knox Makes Statement

Widespread Drive On Japs Seen — By Observer:   Offensive Action  In Aleutians And Conferences Point To Things To Come

Believe U.S. Will Hit Japanese at Several Points in Pacific   American Troops Land from Transports, Outcome of Battle in. Aleutians ~ Depends on Supply Route 

Attack On Aleutian Isle Hailed As Pointing Way To Larger Pacific Drive

American Offensive Seen as Beginning of Barrage of Blows Against Major  Jap Positions   BELIEVED ATTACK ON ATTU FORCEFUL   Knox Claims Battle Is Going Satisfactorily Basis for Belief Enemy Is  Being Overwhelmed

ATTU ATTACK MAY HERALD PACIFIC DRIVE   High Command Conferences, Indications of Allied Strength May Indicate Widening Front

U.S. Forces On Attu: Strong Enough To Take Island Is Now Belief.

ALLIED STABS AT OTHER JAP SECTORS LOOM   Conferences Stress Joint Action Between Army and Navy   ISLAND BATTLE IS NOW IN FOURTH DAY   "Going Very Satisfactorily’, Announcement by Secretary Knox

Yank Attu Attack Seen As The Start   Heavy Subsequent Blows At Foe In All Pacific Areas Held Likely.

U-BOATS' JUNE TOLL 20 SHIPS   Harassed German Submarine Fleets Have Bad Month; Punished By Allies As Never Before.

Enemy Reports Only 20 Sinkings During Last Month   Admission Confirms Effectiveness of Anti-Sub Activities

13,000 View Opening of Utah’s Fair   Newcomers, Boys From Camps Crowd Displays

Fair Salutes Role of Utah Labor  16,000 Visitors See Reviews,  ee ee i Cee pee eee

0.P.A. ECONOMIST IS UNDER ATTACK   House And Senate Members Charge Attempt To Change U. S. Economy

BISMARCK SEA BATTLE BIG VICTORY   Triumph Of Land Based Planes Over Surface Ships

SEARCH FOR ROOMS FOR WAR TRAINEES   “Between 50 and 500” Women ‘Start Arriving at K. U. Tomorrow   FOR THE AIR INDUSTRY

FOR WAR TRAINEES   “Between 50 and 500” Women ‘Start Arriving at K. U. Tomorrow   FOR THE AIR INDUSTRY

Crete ls Hit In Air Raids   Pre-Invasion Test Of Defenses Is Hinted

HOW EMBARRASSING!   Japanese Cherry Trees Now Bloom Under New Name

SCHOOLS. MUST AID   Group of Educators Attend Labor Commission . Meeting

HUGH GRAY, TOURIST PIONEER, DIES AT 74   Dean of Tourist Industry, Developed State Park System and Advertised State

TOURIST TRADE PIONEER DEAD   Kidney Ailment Fatal to Hugh J. Gray of Grand Rapids

SITUATION IN UKRAINE AREA HELD ‘SERIOUS’   Nazis Throwing Hundreds of Tanks and Thousands of Infantrymen Into Battle   FRONT AFLAME, RED DISPATCHES REVEAL   German High Command Declares Elite SS Guardsmen Had “Shattered Enemy Resistance”

DESPITE MUD, GERMANS GAIN KHARKOV AREA   DESPERATE BATTLE SHAKES UKRAINE STEEL CITY

Nazis Gaining At Kharkov, . Soviet Admits   Moscow Bulletin Admits Peril To Industry City

Violent Battle Rages tor  City of Kharkov   Russians Admit They Have Been Forced to Fall Back Again, Despite Heavy Losses Inflicted on Carmeare

Germans Hurl Tank Columns Into Battle   Russians Admit Four Withdrawals Under Pressure

i i as SIR a  Nazis Claim Heavy Gains   Reds Admit Situation At Kharkov Now Is "Serious’

WARPLANES RAKE UKRAINE CITADEL   Red Field Dispatches Term Situation ‘Serious’   GERMANS CLAIM   Elite 8S Guardsmen Have Smashed Red Resistance; Street Struggles Rage

Nazi Hordes, Tanks Thrown Into Battle   Situation Serious Russians Repori; Fight in Streets

GERMANS REPORT NEW GROUND WON IN KHARKOV FIGHT   Declare Russians Are Slowly Falling Back as Bloody Battle Rages On in Streets.   NAZIS MAKE NON-STOP AIR ATTACK ON CITY   Central Portion Reported Devastated—S oviets Announce Advance on Road to Smolensk.

Valiant Red: Face Heavy New Assault   Germans Hurl Thousands of Men, Hundred: Of Tanks Into Battle for Key City; Soviets Keep Gaining on Central Front

Nazis Claim. Heavy Gains   Reds Admit Situation At Kharkov Now Is "Serious"

Russ Pressed Back by Nazis   Battle Raging for Kharkov; Hundreds OF Tonks Make Attack

SOVIETS ADMIT SITUATION IS VERY SERIOUS   Russian Defenders Forced To Retire  To New Positions For Fourth Time.

SOVIET TROOPS ADVANCE ALONG CENTRAL FRONT   Russians Admit Situation In South Is Serious

SOVIETS ADMIT FOE ATTACKING ON THREE SIDES   Reds Report Making Good Headway in  Smolensk Area

Kharkov Situation Called ‘Serious’ As Nazis Score Gains   Fiak Near Coast

UKRAINE CITY UNDER ATTACK FROM 3 SIDES   Soviet Field Dispatcheg Term Situation As a “Serious”    BIG TANKS USED  Russians Advancing Steadily In Smolensk. District

Germans Gaining  In Kharkov Fight   Are Paying Dearly for Gains in Russian City; Soviets Admit Situation “Serious”

RUSSIANS’ SITUATION ‘SERIOUS’   New Gains Reported In Red Army’s Drive  For Smolensk

Nazis Gain In Struggle For Kharkov   Bot Russians Still Advance  Teaward Sanalenclk

Germans Open Mighty Assault On Three Sides   Hundreds Of Tanks, Thousands Of Infantry Thrown Into Battle

TAKS il +BY GERMANS   Serious Situation Seen By Soviet Officials =»

FLGnTING NAZI ATTACKS ON 3 “alls OF GM   Hundreds of Nazi Tanks and Thousands of Troops Push . “Asealic —   GERMANS CLAIM RED RESISTANCE SHATTERED

FROM EIGHT STATES   Students From 42 Different Towns Are Enrolled ei wr

FROM EIGHT STATES   Students From 42 Different Towns Are Enrolled  in L. M. H. S.

Mi. Doolittle And War Dept. Predict Devastating Attacks By U. S. Airmen On Tokyo   Woman Bound To ¥ idespread Aerial Higher Court For Blows On Japs In  ‘Stabbing Husband Southwest Pacific

Sicily Losses By Americans Reported Light   Stimson Reports On Casualties in Island Campaign

ANNOUNCE AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN SICILY   Total 6,741 Through July 21, 501 Killed

Casualties In Sicily 6,741 Included 501 Killed And 2,370 Missing

GPOPCOOCOOP PPO DOOD EDA IAPS  501 Americans Killed In Sicily Up to July 22

U. S. Losses In Sicily Total 6.741   501 Killed, 3,870 Wounded 2,370 Missing Up to July 22

SECRETARY REPORTS ON CASUAL ES   Stimson States Through July 22 in Sicily 501 Americans Killed 3,870 Wounded   CONSIDERED MODERATE

Stimson Reports ' Moderate Losses Considering  Iceland's Terrain

ONLY 501 AMERICANS ARE KILLED IN SICILY   Losses Moderate Considering Number There, Belief

501 AMERICAN DIE IN SICILY   3.870 Others Wounded 2,370 Missing, Says  Stimson

U.S. Casualties in Sicily Total 501 Killed, 3800 Wounded and 2370 Missing, Says Stimson

TEMPERATURES:   501 Killed, With 3,870 Hurt, 2,370 Missing - Through July 22

BOI Yanks Killed In Sicily Action  3870 Are. Wouhded,. 2370 Missing .

U.S. CASUALTIES IN SICILY LISTED   501 Killed, 3,870 Wounded, 2,370 Missing

YANKEE CASUALTIES IN SiCiLY MODERATE   3,870 Wounded, 2,370 Missing Throuch July 22

Moderate Yank Loss In Sicily   501 Killed In Compailn, 3. 870 Wounded, 2.37 ud Viss ing Through Faly : a

British Seize Paterno, Crack Line on Coast   Flash Ahead 10 Miles After Taking Key Port Bitterly Defended Since July 15; Battle for Messina . Opens. Allies Advancing.

Chicago Plans To Buy Cruise   Would Raise 40 Million In 40 Days To Replace One Sunk By Japs: ~

Weather Death Toll In East Reaches 36   Chicago Launches Campaign ’ To Replace Sunken Cruiser

\Chicago Starts Speedy [Bond Drive to Purchase ! Another Heavy Cruiser

CHIGAGO COMPAIGNS FOR NEW CRUISER   $40,000,000 Bond Drive on To Replace Lost Warship

Chicago Starts Fund Drive For Replacing Sunken Ship   Bond Selling Campaign to Raise 40 Million Is Launch ed, With Goal of Quickly Obtaining Money to Build Warship, After U. S. S. Chicago Was Sunk In Recent Battle

Drive Started By Chicagoans   Will Sél] Enough Bonds To -Replace Cruiser , With Citvs’ Name

“cuse “NW arms 02 70 af-a-~ av Per *~7 € -or:So Cier edenc encyv

HOUSE DEBATES FAMILY UPKEEP   Minimum Of $1 A Day For Children Of Enlisted Men Favored

$1 Daily Asked For War Child   House Benefit Debate Takes Ttharal TT...

HOUSE DEBATES 51. DAY MINIMUM   May Raise Servicemen’s Dependency Benefits; Probably Insist On $1. Day Minimum Minor Standard.

House Debates Allotments   See Hike in Pay for Soldier Dependents

BOMB REICH, ITALY AND BELGIUM   Provide Unequalled Example of Co-Ordi. nated Air Warfare

WAR PENSION BILL BROACHED BY GROUP   Proposal Introduced From Cuyahoga County

MAY GREATE BOARD TOAID WAR VETERANS   Committee of Three Would Permit Claims

KILL 1500 JAPS, FOURPRISONERS   Chinese Put Japanese Casu alties at 30,000 Troops In Central China.

At Least 1,500 Japs Killed on Attu      U.S. Troops Take  nly 4 Prisoners

FOUR JAPS TAKEN ALIVE ON ATTL   1,500 Nips Killed and Only Four Prisoners Taken,

1,500 Jap Troops Killed On Attu —   Only Four Prisoners Taken, Navy Reveals

1500 Japs Killed In Attu Victory   Only Four Prisoners Taken. Navv Reports

AMERICANS KILL MANY JAPS, TAKE FEW PRISONERS   Connt Covers Only Known Foe Casualties — 1.500 Japs Slain

ENEMY FOUGHT TO Aol MAN, NAVY ASSERTS   Report On Jans’ Casualties ls Factual Evidence Of Terrific Fight

1,500 Enemy Slain On Attu; Four Captured   Final Count May Swell Nippon Casualties; .Neo Mention Of Wounded   KISKA (8 POUNDED   Cremation Of Bodies By Foe Leaves Exact Total Still In Doubt

News Behind The News  Copyright MeClure Newspaper   WADHINGLiON By Ray Tucker

French Discuss Changes In North Africa, Speed Political Agreement

POSTWAR AIR TRANSPORT IS FAVORABLE, BABSON BELIEVES   Prefers Owning Stock of Transport Companies to Corporations Making Airplanes Producers Have Ups, Downs.

BABSON PREDICTS Blt AIR TRANSPORT BOOM   Noted Economist Looks Forward To Aircraft Industry Sparking Business In The Post-War Period.

The Future Of Air Transport   BABSON SAYS POSTWAR OUTLOOK IN U.S. FAVORABLE

Draft Edict Goes fo Local Boards on Essential Jobs   Men in Nondeferrable Occupations Have 30 Days to Make Change

TO SPEED CHANGE T0 WAR JOBS   Local Boards Directed to Give Non-Deferrable oan Men 30 Days      TO. RECLASSIFY IF OMAN DOESN’T CHANGE   Other Changes Considered in Classification of Mar“vied Men and Fathers

HOT SESSION OF CONGRESS ~~ [$ FORECAST   WIDE RANGE OF CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES FROM TAXES TO POSTWAR PLAN- — NING PENDING

Storms Brewing On Capitol Hill  Over Legislation   Anti-Poll Tax Legislation Likely To Be The Focal Point Of Storm   GUFFEY COAL ACT EXPIRED MONDAY

VETERAN ATTORNEY,  DAYTON MOSES, DIED  FT, WORTH THURSDAY FORMER COWHAND ROSE  TO TOP RANK AMONG TAWVERDC HE TEYAS

Dayton Moses Dies In Fort Worth  Former Cowhand Rose to Top of Texas Lawyers

GOVERNOR 5 WELL PLEASEL   He Says Republican Major ity in Legislature Is Quite Serious.

Dissension Flares In Dies Committee Over Annual Repor  , Request to House   Request to House To Continue Group Is Expected

Voorhis Hits  At Dies Body  3   Some Dissension Revealed Among Body; Group : “May Bé Continued

DIES COMMITTEE MEMBERS: BitFER ”: ON WORK REPORT   TEXAS HOUSE MEMBER EXPECTED TO ASK RENEWED LIFE FOR PROBER‘

Battle Brews On Dies Work   Rep. Voorhis Criticizes Colleagues On Committee As Funds Request Near.

Dies Committee Report Brings Out Dissension   May Have Effect On Request For Continuance Of Group.

Dissention Flares, Dies Committee Not in Full Accord on Program It Has Pursued Since Creation in ’38

HOLD SPRING MUSIC FEST   Franklin, Pa., Bandinan Tx  Direct Band, Friday

French Are Puzzled By  Eisenhower   Delay Of DeGaulle Visit Is Not Understood

French Harmony races New Riff by DeGaullists  Negotiations Seen As Endangered By

Fighting French Quarters Puzzled ‘Over Statement Made By Eisenhower

British First Army Gains In North Tunisiz   Patton’s Force Joins Montgomery; Aerial Squadrons Pounding Rommel’s Positions   New Misunderstanding On French Plans Seen

FRENCH STILL     PUZZLED OVER DELAYED VISIT   Eisenhower Said Surprised Over His Note

FRENCH HEADS HINT TROUBLE IN NEW SETUP   Word from Algiers Quotes Gen. Eisenhower Surprised Over Statement

Eisenhower, French Are “Surprised”   Algiers Dispatches Say Whole Situation Concerning De Gaulle’s Visit Is Result of Misunderstanding

DeGaulle Like Eisenhower Is  Also Surprised   French Seem Puzzled By View Expressed By American Commanding General

Everybody "Surprised" by DeGaulle Postponing Visit to North Africa

BRITISH ARMY ‘MOVES ON JAP BURMA FORCES   CPERATE ON BOTH BANKS OF MAYU WITH R.A.F. SUPPORT

REPORTS SUGGEST ‘MUSSOLINI FLEEING TO FOREIGN EXILE   Authoritative Source. Says Britain Ready To Talk Peace Terms With New  - Italian Rule   DEEP MYSTERY CLOAKS : -BADOGLIO’S INTENTIONS

FORMS CABINET OF OBSCURE BUREAUCRATS   Future Course Of Government Still Unknown

BENITO GIVES UP HIGH RANK UNDER DEEP MYSTERIES   Nazi Propaganda Seeks te Convince Europe That Italians Will Fight on as German Ally.   FASCIST ORGANIZATION tS BEING LIQUIDATED   Dusk-to-Dawn Curfew Ordered, Public Meetings Are Banned to Prevent Civil War Between Factions.

Demonstrations Against Fascism All Over Italy  Communists And , Socialist Groups  i Staga Paradeac

AIR SHOW BY CAP WAS BIG. SUCCESS   15 Boys Sign for Army An Cadet Training and‘20  More May    DREW A BIG: AUDIENCE

AIR SHOW BY CAP WAS BIG. SUCCESS   15 Boys Sign for Army Air Cadet Training and'20 — More May

8TH ARMY STREAMS UP APPROACHES 10 BASE AT - TRIPOLI   Allied) Planes ‘Continue Blasting Last] Enemy Base And Columns Fleeing Beyond

Wreckage Litters Path. of Retreat   F ugitives Choke Road to Tunisia:  ‘Licht Defense by Axis Foreseen

‘Allied Planes Attack Retreating — Troops, Americans Hit Airdrome Af Gabes, Down Two Messerschmiffs

AXIS EXPECTED TO MAKE ONLY TOKEN DEFENSE   Fires, Confusion, Death For Nazis On Road To Tunisia

Little Defense Of Tripoli Seen By Axis Forces      Allied Planes Bomb Retreating Nazis Leaving Wreckage Strewn Along Road; Tank Units Believed In Sight Of Tripoli Base

NAVAL FIGHT ON WN "BLIND BAY” £085: 19 HEAVY   7 fap. and U. S. Navy" ‘Tangle ‘in Kula Gulf Off New. ° ~ Georgia Islard.:   NO DECISION 'TO DATE:   Total Ships Sunic: in Past Year. Amounts to Betier™ Than a Hundred. 4

NAVAL FIGHT ON  "BLIND BAY. L085 19: HEANY   Jap and U.S. Navy Tangle in Kula Gulf Off New Georgia Island.   NO DECISION TO DATE   Total Ships Sunk in Past Year Amounts to Better Than a Hundred.

Congress Hears Madam Chiang On China In War  Chungking’s First Lady Asks More Aid; Food Problems Take

FEUD RAGES IN CONGRESS OVER FOR MEASURE   Opposition to President’s ‘Supertax’ on Incomes Grows 

AUGSBURG HIT IN U.S. BLOW FROM AFRICA   Forts and Spitfires Cross Channel for Daylight Assaults

U.S. Bombers In New Attacks On Nazi Territory   Flying Fortresses Make Attacks On Northwest Germany During Day   GERMAN FLIERS IN THRUST AT LONDON

SALINA YOUTH DECORATED   Ralph E. Korn a Hero on Sub. - marine Patrols in Pacific

Michigan Dads To Be Relisted   Reclassifications To Gel : IInder Wav

QUREN BLIZARETH RETTER.   Wheeler Says United States of Europe Is World Peace Hope Rather Than Trying to Force Democracy on Others

Wheeler Says United States of Europe Is World Peace Hope Rather Than Trying to Force Democracy on Others

JAPS YIELD AT FINSCHHAFEN   Allies Closing In On Three Sides     Pound Enemy Bases

JUNGLE TROOPS CLOSING IN ON FINSCHHAFEN   Australian Unit Crosses Bumi River, Last Natural Barrier Before Base

Allied Troops Now Closing In On Finchhafer   Japanese Supply Port In New Guinea Is Believed Near Fall   THREE FORCES ARE NEARING BASE

STONES ARE CAST AT NEW TAX PLAN    Some Lawmakers Would Cut Treasury's Demands in Two

REVOLT DEVELOPS ON TAX PROGRAM   CONGRESSMEN FAVOR ECONOMIES INSTEAD OF NEW TAX LEVIES

TAK PROPOGAL 5 HIT AGAIN   GOP Members Declare in Favor of Immediate Government Economies.   LAWMAKERS IN REVOLT

More Stones Are Hurled At  Tax Measure   Some Lawmakers Reques' That Treasury Offer Five Billion Dollar Substitute Program

Lawmakers Ask Treasury To Cut TaxNeed 50P.C   Republicans Also. Demand Huge Cuts In Expenditures; Vinenn Ear Enil Tay

Ask Treasury ToCut Tax Bill   Solons Urge Slash From 10.5 to 5 Billions

SUBSTITUTE TAX PLAN DEMANDED   ‘Administration’s $10,500,000,000 Preposal Meets New Opposition

Demand Tax Program Be Cut in Half   Some Solons Ask 5 Billion Substitute—- Ask Economies

NEW TAX PLAN ATTACKED ANEW   Lawmakers Demand Treasury Offer 5-Billion-Dollar Substitute Bill

HUGE TAX PLAN IS UNDER FIRE OF LAWMAKERS   Heuse-Commitree Head to ‘Demand One-half Slash ‘In Ten Billion Asked by Morgenthau

REVISED TAX BILL SOUGHT   Congressional Opponents of Treasury Plan Demand Substitute Measure

ADMINISTRATION'S NEW TAX BILL GETS ADDITIONAL STONES  SOME LAWMAKERS DEMAND BILL BE CUT MOR THUAN HALE RY TREASUR'

REFUGEES REPORT HAMBURG IN RUINS   SAY ALLIED RAIDS HAVE LEVELED ENTIRE BLOCKS AND KILLED 10,000.

ramburg  Mambpurger  Shattering Raids Level Ger many’s Second City

Eyewitnesses Say Hamburg Ceases To Exist After Week Of Shattering Allied Air Attacks

People Flee Razed City, 10,000 Dead   Harbor Area Flattened, Few Houses Undamaged

HAMBURG DEATH TOLLS 10,000   Port ‘Ceases To Exist’, Swedish Eyewitness Report Says

ENTIRE BLOCKS: OF PORT CITY LEVELEDBY RAF   Ten Thousand Persons Believed Killed in Continuing Attacks, Eyewitnesses Report   ONLY FIFTY HOUSES REMAIN UNDAMAGED   Week of Devastating Air Blows Ends With Allied  Planes Again Over   Much of Europe

IN WAR GIVEN   61,126 Casualties Suffered Since Combat Outbreak.

CASUALTY LIST TOTALS 61,126   Figure Includes AN U. S. Killed. Wounded. Missing And Interned

DUKE OF YORK HIT FLEEING SCHARNHORS]      Nazi Battleship First Engaged by Cruisers, Returns to Biatile, Then Seeks Hide-away

Gal Sailors Go For Tattooing In Middle West   Chicago Artist Conceals Scars

CAPTURE OF 3,000 AMERICANS REPORTED   Germans Also Say They Inflicted Heavy Casualties On Allied Troops In Africa

GERMANS REPORT YANK PRISONERS   Broadcast U. S., Britain Lose Much Materlel In Africa, Too

NAZIS CLAIM CAPTURE OF 3,000 AMERICANS   Declare Two U. S. Divisions and 3 British Brigndes Were “Annihilated or Mauled.”

Messina Harbor Heavily Pounded In Allied Attack   Allied. Bombardment Of Island Of Sicily Is Being Continued   REVEAL DAMAGE IN FLEET ATTACK  /RITT T STIN\

MESSINA TARGET OF RAF AS NAZIS ATTACK SHIPPING   Axis Claims Allied Transport Vessels Hit in Battle off Pantelleria

NEAR RACE RIOT IS NIPPED BY DETROIT POLICE   Two Officers Manhandled And Crowd Exhorted To Violence at Arrest

Senate Debates Post-War Plan   Resolution Offers  Treaty Framework

Danaher Urges Nations Forego Territory Gains   Postwar Collaboration Resolution Defended  By Committee Chairman

RESOLUTION FOR BEFORE THE SENATE   Danaher of Connecticut Proposes Alt Parties Forego Territorial Gains:

Prevent Others’ Land Grab First, Senators Urged   But Pepper Asks International Body to Preserve Peace

Daher Requests That Post-War Program Include Condition On Territorial Gains

HITS TERRITORY GAINS FOR ANY NATION IN WAR   Danaher Amendment !s Offered in Senate Foreign Policy Debate

BOMBS RAIN ON WEWAK AND LAE   Americans Drop 156 Tons Of Bombs On Japs In New Guinea In Six Quick Raids

YANKS CONTINUE RAIDS ON JAPS   About 156 Tons Bombs Are Dropped On Two Bases

Decision To Delay Vote Protested   No Need Of Waiting Week Before Action On Veto Of Repealer, Goodland Contends

U3, TROOPS abun TO QUIT DETROW   Troops Unnecessary As Cily Returns To Normal

American Pincers Closing —   Japanese Resistance At Salamaua Crumbling As Allied Troops Press Enemy Forces Into Narrowing Trap

   Allies Crack Jap Defenses Near Salamaue   Enemy Resistance Crumbles as Allies Close in; Santa Isabe May Be Evacuated

SAP DEFENSES ON SALAMAUA ARE SHATTERED   Allies Press Pincer Attack Around Fading Jap  Troops

Crack Jap Defense Lines    _ Enemy Resistance * Crumbling As Allies Close in on Forces South of Salamaua

Closing Jaws on Salamaua   Allied Pincers Tightened; Island Possibly Abandoned.

Their Resistance Slowly Crumbling   Gen. Me Arthur Talks Of Japs Offering Rear Guard Action   GIVING GROUND ~ ON OTHER FRONTS

[Allied Defenses Press Nearer to Salamaua as Enemy Defenses Crack

JAP DEFENSES AT SALAMAUA ARE WAVERING   Yanks and Aussies Moving in Important Airdrome

Jap Defenses Cracking Again   ALLIED PINCERS CLOSING IN ON BIG NAVAL BASE

ALLIED PINGER JAWS READY TO SNAP ON JAPS   Enemy’s Crumbling Resistance Called “Rearguard Fight” By General MacArthur   SANTA ISABEL IS DESERTED BY ENEMY   Americans Open Fire On Kolombangara Island With Artillery After  Attack By Air

Jaws of Allied’ Pincers Closing  - Relentlessly on: Salamaua Base

PINCERS CLOSE ON NIPPONS AT SALAMAUA BASE  IAD AWECE NEFENCES   JAPANESE DEFENSES REPORTED CRACKING AT GUINEA AIRFIELD

ALLIES PRESS NEARER TO SALAMAUA   Spokesman for General MacArthur Indicates Resistance Crumbling

; — a ae ow SS  Pincers Of Allies Closing On New Guinea Airdrome: Americans Skirt Pillboxes

JAPANESE DEFENSES:  SALAMAUA AIRDROME  REPORTED CRACKING INDICATED ENEMY MAY  HAVE ABANDONED SALOMOQNS ISLAND POINT

Allied Pincers Catch Enemy In New Guinea   Americans Skirt Enemy Pillboxes In New Campaign

Allied Pincers Are Closing In On Salamaua   Japanese Defenses Described As ‘Rearguard’ Only

ALLIED PINCERS CLOSE ON JAPS   Troops Surrounding Crumbling Defenses at Salamaua Airdrome.   AUSTRALIANS ADVANCING

Jap Defense Reportedly Is Cracking   Allies Believe Nipponese Have Evacuated Santa Isabel Island

Allied Pincers Closing On Base At New Guinea  Bae fn ‘oer K lew   Foe May Abandon Airbase; Solomons Fighting Subsides

Jap Defenses At Salamaua  Are Crackec   Pincers Close Around New Guinea Base; Nips May Have Abandoned Santa Isabel Isle

JAPS’ DEFENSES CRACKING UNDER ALLIED ATTACKS   Enemy Forced to Yield Ground In Fighting Near Salamaua Bose

Allied Forces Closing In On  Salamaua Base   Jaw Of Pincers Being Drawn Slowly Shut On Airdrome

REPORT JAPS DESERT FIELD   Believe Salamaua airdrome Abandoned, Indicating Nips Give Way

ALLIED PINCERS TIGHTENING ON SALAMAUA PORT   Santa Isabel Island Believed Evacuated By Nipponese

Allies Pinch In On Salamaua   Jap Resistance Crumbling; Abandon Rekata Bay Base

Americans Open Artillery Fire On Kolombangara Isle   Allied Fighters On N ew Guinea Force Way Doggedly Toward Salamaua Airdrome; Marcus Attack Stirs Speculation

ALLIED PINGER CLOSING DOWN ON SALAMAU   Yanks Split Force Three Ways to Wipe Out Japs onScout Ridge.   ENEMY’S RESISTANCE SAID TO BE CRUMBLING

Enemy. Retreats From Lower Pron:  Of Allied Pincer   ‘Vise Now Presses Nearer  Base, With Allies Push:  _ ing From * “Below” and ve

JAP DEFENSES CRACKING UP AT SALAMAUA   Americans Virtually Surround Ridge Posilion in Flanking Movement—Defense ‘Rearquard’   AUSSIES PRESS IN   Rekala Baq Anfi-Aircraft Batteries Silent, May Indicate Japs Have Fled

Senate Passes Strong Strike Curb Measure   Would Make it Crime To Instigate Stoppage In U. S.-Seized Plants

SENATE PASSES ~~ PLANT SEIZURE         Strike In Federal rol Places Made Crime Iné Leaislation

Strike I nstigation Is Made Crime I n Plant Seizure Bill  ‘eassed. Bi 4G one: i a cm) ae eS

Strike Instigation Is Made Crime In Plant Seizure Bill ‘Passed By Senate 63 To 16

ANTI-STRIKE BILL PASSED BY SENATE   EMPOWERS GOVERNMENT TO SEIZE PLANTS AND OUTLAW WORK STOPPAGES.

Senate Votes Bill to Seize Struek Plants   Connally Act Imposes Penalty for Causing Work Stoppages: Act Ie Sent to House

PLANT SEIZURE _ BILL APPROVEL   Senate Passes Measure Making it a Crime to Instigate Strikes in Plants, Mines  e Taken Over by U. S.

Crime To Instigate  War Strike   BILL PASSES SENATE 63 TO 16 AND GOES TO THE HOUSE AFTER THREE DAY OF DELIBERATION.

ure Is Senate Answer ewis's Refusal To Submit Dispute             rnment Given Powel Take over Plants Needed in War

PLANT SEIZURE PLAN APPROVED   Senate Measure Would Make Instigator Of Strikes Criminal

STRUCK PLANT SEIZURE BILL   Bans Calling Strikes in Factories, Mines  Taken Over

Anti-Strike Bill Passes Senate. By Big Vote  Final Version of — Connally Bill Also

Anti-Strike Measure Up to House   Instigation of Worke Walkouts in War Plants of U. S. Crime

Plant Strike Bill Passed   Bill Is Much-Amended Measure By Connolly

Senate Passes Bill To Curb Strikes  Measure Would Back Up Plant Seizures

SUPPLY ARTERY OF JAPS 1S CUT   Allied Bombers Wreck Bridge On New (;uinea Coast

Bombers Batter Wewak Highway   Important Jap Roac In New Guinea Cut

Supply Lines Of Japs On Guinea Heavily Blasted   Other Areas Feel Weight Of Almost Daily Air Forays  sewmemar twrFawrenaerT? eer.   Berlin Frantically Secks To House RAF Bombing Victims

Allies Hit Big  Japanese Bridge   Planes Strike at Vital Highway Along New Guinea Coast

Supoly Lines Of Japs On Guinea Heavily Blasted   Other Areas Feel Weight Of Almost PyYathy Ate Eneaiie

Rich Contractor Admits Slaying   Bludgeoned Attractive Wife With Steel Shoe; Suspected Her of Infidelity.

Varied Issues Cause Friction  Among Solons   eS as at ee he . Tarbulence Break Out In New Congress Today

HEAR DEMANDS FOR SHOWDOWN ON BIG ISSUES   Senate Resumes Inquiry inte Flynn’s Qualifica-  tions

Farm, Rubber Programs Are Due for Airing   Aviation and Conflicting Agency Relationships Also on List: Continue Hearing

SHOW DOWNS ON SEVERAL ISSUES DEMANDED TODAY   Immediate Showdowns Are a@cht On Farm Prices, flicting Agencies, ss of Synthetic Rubber Program and Aviation Regulation. '

Congress Hits Snags On Two Major Issues  Farm Prices, Flynn Appointment Bring Increased Woe

MORE INQUIRIES BEING DEMANDED BY LAWMAKERS   Signs of New Turbulence Break Out in Congress On Variety of Issues   CRITICS HAVING HEY DAY   Farm Parity Formula and Synthetic Rubber Program Holding Limelight

CONGRESSMEN ROR SHOWDOWN ON MANY ISSUES   Signs of Increased Turbu lence Break Out Over . Farm Prices, Rubber, ~ Aviation Reoulation   SIX PROBES ASKED      Meanwhile, Witness In “Flynn Investigaiion _ Balks; Subpoena May  ~~ Be Resorted To

NEW ISSUES UP ON RUBBER PLAN, PRICE CONTROL   Senate Foreign Relations Committee Resumes Edward Flynn Inquiry

GRAVE FAMINE CONDITIONS IN DENSELY POPULATED EAST INDIA AREA GIVING GREAT CONCERN

The W ar Today— Famine In India Growing Worse, May Be Used To Political Purposes

Famine Brings Fear of New Political Crisis in India   By De Witt Mackenzie Associated Press War Analyst

The War Today   amu TE Ge & satiemen:* se Famine in India Present Grave Problem, Innortant to U.S”

Sweltering Heat Continues: Death Toll Reaches 16   Thousands Seek Relief at Beaches. Parks. Mountains

1,000 Boys and Girls Pare  ticipate In Music Revival   Prof. C. A. Fullerton o Cedar Falls Visits. — Plymouth Co,

Thousand Join In Music Program © During Week  Prof. C. A. Fullerto  Conduete Garviac

Thousand Join In Music Program During Week  -Prof. C, A. Fullerton Conducts Series In County Schools -

ALLIES KEEP ROMMEL IN. ‘HOT’ WATER   Double Threat Develops Against Nazis On Tunisian Front

British Army Hits Axis From South While French  Threaten German Flank

Nazi Positions Are Periled By British Stabs   Major Fighting Dies _Down, However, Because Of Weather

Axis Facing Twin Threat   French, British Units In Tunis Form Pincer

ROMMEL’S POSITION IN TUNISIA WORSENS   Eighth Army, French Troops Develop  Twin Threat

Harrassed By Attacks From East, South   IN RUSSTA, REDS SHOVED BACK 80 MILES BY NAZL HORDES.

FRENCH MENACE FLANK, MOVING FROM TOZEUE   8th Army Patrols Harass Foe; Weather Slows Air "Acti

Rommel Faces Double Threat   British, French Troops Harass Afrika Korps

LARGE-SCALE FIGHTING ON SOUTH-CENTRAL FRONT SLOWED DOWN BY WEATHER   British Patrols Harass Axis and French Troops Menace Nazi Flank

‘BRITISH, FRENCH FORCES OFFER DOUBLE THREAT TO POSITION HELD BY AXIS

BRITISH EIGHTH IS HARASSING AXIS   Large - Scale Fighting Sub sides, Weather Prevents  Extensive Air Action.

SITION OF NAZIS IN PERIL   hth Army Strikes from  uth and French Push  Eastward to Enemy Flank.

French Army Set for Blow At Rommel   Foree That Took Tozeur on Sali Lake Moving Toward Gafsa

ROMMEL FACES TWIN THREAT   BRITISH DRIVE NORTH AS FRENCH HIT FLANK

ALLIES GAIN ON 2 FRONTS IN TUNISIA   8th Army Pushes Up From South, French From West

By Pau MALLON   .  (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction in Pull or in Part Strictly Prohibited.)   WASHINGTON ~— GOV. BRICKER

Larry Allen Still Thinks in Terms of News in War Prison      Associated Press Correspondent and Winner of Pulitzer Prize Spends Time Translating Italian Newspapers For Fellow Prisoners; Brushes Up On Italian and Spanish

NEW HELIUM PLANT   Government Will Spend $2,000,000 in Con struction at Otis

DETROIT REMAINS UNDER ARMED SIEGE TODAY   Two-Day Racial Disorder  Cost 29 Lives and Much Property Damage in City

Trouble Continues In Race Riot Area.  Two Negroes Shot in ew Detroit Rioting

Rioting-Ravaged Detroit Still Under Armed Siege   Street Fighting Death Toll Mounts to 29; - War Outnnat Slumns as Workers Stav at Home

DETROIT DEATH , TOLL NOW 29   Riot-Ravaged Negro Sections Remain in _ Armed Seige

Race Rioting Death Toll Mounts To 29 In Detroit   Sporadic Outbursts of Violence Continue Despite Troop Patrols; Authorities Appeal! To Workers To Res ume Work

DETROIT RACE RIOT DEATHS MOUNT TO 29    Sporadic Outbursts Continued Dur ing Night— Workers Urged t Return to Jobs ~

RACE RIOT-RAVAGED DETROIT SWINGS TO NORMAL SLOWLY; WAR PRODUCTION HAMPERED

DEATH TOLL IN RIOTS NOW 25      Disorders Bring Drop In War Production

Urge Rioters Return to Jobs To Offset Losses   Speradic Outbursts of Violence Occur Despite Troops

DEATH TOLL 10 29 AT DETROIT   Negro Sections Are Still Watched Closely By Fed-   eral Troops Today 

URGE WORKERS TO RETURN 10 JOBS IN DETROIT   Death Toll Grows To 29, Six More Negroes Injured Last Night

Lagging Production Brings Urgent Plea For City’s Workers To Return To Jobs

TROOPS WATCH OVER DETROM      Back - to- Work Urged To Offset Interruption Caused By Rioting

Soldiers Keep Peace In Detroit  29 Dead, With Few Outbursts Quickly  Pieraltead-2A4 Ianilad

Absentee: Total. ‘High In Detroit th Wake Of Rio:      - Report Death” Foll:.29

DETROIT RIOT TOLL HITS 29   Restrictions Eased as Order ts Restored; War Plant Production Slowed.

MANNIX IS GIVEN 18 YEARS FOR RAPE    Government Official Found Guilly i  joe Atlack On WAVE By Federal } Jury In Baltimore

American Airmen Down Seven Japs In Chinese Area   Enemy Raids American Airdrome And Three Nearby Villages

TRAIN SUBSTITUTES DRAFT HEAD HINTS   78,000 War Workers in Ohio May Be Called Soon

DRAFT TO NAB WAR WORKERS      78,000 Ohio Employes Sub ject To Call Gable Says

PLAN DRAFT CALL FROM WAR WORKERS   Report 78, 000 Eligibles i in Ohio Defense Plants

JAPANESE BASES HEAVILY BOMBED OVER WEEK-END   Fires Visible For 150 Miles Started In Raid On Rabaul Airfields   MUNDA IS SUBJECTED TO HEAVY ATTACKS

HURLS GAUNTLET AT U. S. INDUSTRY   SLOAN SAYS GENERAL MOTORS WILLING TO EXPAND AFTER WAR

CALLS FOR RISK BY BUSINESS IN POSTWAR DAYS   Chairman of General Mo tors Believes it Necessary to Provide Maximum Use Manpower   WOULD PRESERVE -FREE ENTERPRISE   Calls Jobs “a Social, Po litical and Economic  -. ‘Must’ in Era After  Conflict

SLOAN WILLING TO MAKE START   General Motors Will Put Up $500,000,000 To Help Provide Maximum Use Of Men After War.

THE WAR  TODAY  By DeWITT MACKENZIE (Accaciated Precc War Analvst’

WORLD'S IMMEDIATE ‘UTURE DEPENDS ON COLLABORATION ~   Essence of Fact Emphasiz. ed by Anthony Eden’s Re port to House Commons On Moscow Meet---Mac Kenzie.

The War Today   World’s Future Seen Hinging On Collaboration of “Big 3”

Today’s War Moves   Future of World Depends Upon Unity Among Alliae

 The War T oday—   World Future Depends Chiefly On Collaboration Of Big Three Powers

COLLABORATION AMONG THREE BIG ALLIED NATIONS CARRIES FUTURE HOPES ENTIRE WORLD

Accidents High On Home Front   Fewer Soldiers Killed On War Fronts

Industry Told to Dock Absentees   ‘Hit the Pocketbook  Is Knox Proposal

Week End Dissipation Held by Knox ~ Most Serious Cause of Absenteeisn

FINES FOR ABOENTEE WORKERS ADVOCATED   “Hit "Em In Pocketbook,’ Urges Secretary Knox

Would Hit Absentees in  Poekethooks Most of Those Guilt   Most of Those Guilty Safe From Draft, Knox Declares

ABSENTEE DOCK  CURE ADVISED   Hit Absentees In Pocketboo! Urees Navy Secretary

Churchill And FD Mapping Offensive Against Japan  Autumn Drive Is Expected To Be Outcome Of Darlaeve Ratwoon Two Minh Allied Officiale

Driven Back After Thrust At British   Nazi Army Again Loses The Initiative

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON AXIS COLUMNS   R. A. F. bombers strafe German units in retreat to north

Thrust By Axis On Mareth Line Is Beaten Back   Rommel’s Forces Run Into British Artillery Unexpectedly And Are Routed   HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY NAZIS

INITIATIVE LOST AXIS RETREATING NORTH 10 HILLS      Eisenhower Reveals Yank Bombers Blast Eight Ships in Convoy

Roosevelt Returns From Vacation Trip  Holds Conferences With Officials

Roosevelt Returns To White House After Fishing Trip   Plunges Into Work After Enjoying Short Vacation in Canada

FDR'S VACATION IN CANADA BRIEF      President Returns After 10+ Day Trip; Conferences . Follow

President Back From Vacation  Business May Have Occupied Him, Too

Roosevelt Back From Vacation Trip to Cariada  Many Conferences Held by President on ‘Return to Capital -

Roosevelt Returns to Washington After W eek’s Vacation in Canada

FOR TAKES UP TASKS AFTER VACATION TRIP   Sees Hull, Marshall and * Halifax on Return From Canada

PRESIDENT HAS SHORT HOLIDAY   Returns From Ontario Vacation; Churchill  Meeting Foreseen

ACCIDENT FATAL TO SGT DAOUST   Body of Former Resident Coming from Kansas for Burial

 Girls in the Service Are Not Entirely Professionel — Some Are Homesick

Capital Cheers End of Il Duce   Remains Cautious on Appraising Situation

Italian Ferry Terminals Hit   Great Weight Of High Explosives Dropped By TJ. jrymen.

ITALIAN FERRY TERMINUS HIT BY LIBERATORS   Fuel, Ammunition Dumps Hit: Railway Yard Pounded

POR ROO EROOER ORES EER EE RSS SG  Tough Copper Retires to Milder Pursuit

House Passes Bill  To Defer Fathers  Would Place Draft On State-Wide Basis

SECRETARY URGED TEN AND f. ALE MILLION ) °AXES   Attacks House P:ssed Bill as Contributing to Inflation Sp_ral

TAX INCREASE ~” AGAIN URGED   MORGENTHAU TELLS. CON.  '° @RESS  EXCESS . MONEY  - CRACKING. PRICE, CONTROL PROGRAM.

HOSTILE SENATE GROUP +WARNED OF INFLATION   Secretary Of Treasury Says Federal Price Controls Being Cracked   WAR COST EMPHASIZED      Nation Able To Pay More On Incomes And In Excise Levies, Is Claim

Anti-Strike Legislation  to Be Added   House to Take Connally. Bil and Add Major Provisions of Smith's: Measure

NAZI, ITALIAN LEADERS HOLD WAR. PARLEY   Military and Political Heads Meeting at Verona, Bern Reports.   BADOGLIO MAY MAKE ROME AN OPEN CITY

Top axis leaders meeting   May be planning moves to check allied invasion

WANTS ESCAPE FROM FURTHER BOMB ATTACKS   German Army Chiefs Confer in Verona On ‘Collapse’

German - Italian Chieftans Hold Important Meeting In Northern Italy

F.R, PROPAGANDA CHARGES DENIED   President's Life Booklet Not Political, Says Elmer Davis

Victory Draws Roast; Said Magazine Is Used for Political Purposes

Oregon Democrat Accuses “Victory” of Booming Roosevelt For Fourth Term   Senator Taber Assails OW] For Using Shipping Space For Magazines Instcad Personal Packages

Congressman Tabe: Charges Federal Bureau With Promoting “4th Term, Dictatorship”   ACCUSATION DENIED   Representative Exhibit: Pamphlet Dealing With Roosevelt and Distributed Among Soldiers

Propaganda Charge Is Made Again   Republicans Say 4th Term for Roosevelt Urged in Army

FOURTH TERM « PROPAGANDA TO. MEN OVERSEAS   But Democrats Deny G.0.%§: Charge That Pamphlets Sent Men dave Political Purpose

Davis Denies.  2 Any Polities   Defends “Victory” Booklet . Is Intended’ To Boost FDR’s 4th Term °°

()WI Denies Charge of Rep. Taber on Pamphlet Used for Fourth Term

Denies Pamphlet Is Propaganda For Fourth Term   “Davis “Davis Says Book Not Meant For Circulation Among  -U. S. Troops Overseas

DENY BOOKLET IS    - FDR PROPAGANDA   O.W.L Says Half-Million Copies All For Foreigners,   HOUSE TOLD SOME WENT TO SOLDIERS

Davis Denies Pamphlet on FDR is “Ath Term Propaganda” as Charged

Duisburg and Norse Coast RAF Targets   ‘Thunderbolt Raid’ Spreads Flame and Ruin in Ruhr Valley

orpedo Plane Attacks Are ade Off Norwegian Coast   Round-The-Clock Bombings Also Hit North France And The Netherlands Torget Areas

REDS REPULSE AXIS ATTACKS   Soviet Vanguards Again On Move On Long Front

W. V. Dobbins Dies; Veteran  Lincoln Newsman _. . Asst. State Librariar

Hitler Or Japs? War Strategy Plans Debatec   President And Churchill Be. heved Discussing Greater War Against Japs   STRONG DEMANDS FOR JAP ATTACKS

CHURCHILL fo NSTOTING Oh MILER FRO!   United States Is Demanding Mcre Aitention Be Paid to the Jans.   DISCUSSION STILL ON   Compromise War Prozram Likely to Come Out cf Washirgton.

Anti-Strike Act Expected to Get Speedy OK  ~ Solons Reach Agreement On Penalties

Anti-Strike Bill Near Enactment   House and Senate Virtually Agreed

Reach Accord On Anti-Strike Bill   Final Draft Expected © To Be Ready June 20

HOUSE, SENATE NEAR HARMONY ON STRIKE BILL   Stringent Measures May Be Passed by End of Coal Truce

Final Report Of Conferees Is Seen Soon   Expect Draft of Plan Ready for Passage ~ Before Deadline

Passage Is Likely by June 20   Enactment Before Dead. line on Miners’ Strike Predicted Today

Anti-Strike Legislation _ [Strikes Snag And May Go Back To House Floor

AGREEMENT ON ANTI-STRIKE LAW IS NEAI   Bill Due to Be Realy Before Coal Truce Expires

ANTI-OTRIKE BILL AOOURED PASSAGE   Conferees Virtually Agree On Provisions Today

Legion fo Support Drafting of Pre Pearl Harbor Dads   Approves U. S. Participation in Post War World

Legion Backs  No-War Pact   Father Draft Supported At Omaha Meetine

ATHERTON HEADS AMERICAN LEGION   Veterans Endorse U. S. Participation in Association of Nations; Approve War Manpower Policies

Legion Parley Supports Father Draft  Delegates Approve Postwar Union To Insure Pearce

DRAFT OF FATHERS BACKED BY LEGICN   Committee Reports Are Adopted and New Officers Elected

Legion Indorses Collaboration   Also Backs Present Manpower Policies

Legion Favors US. Participation In World Peace Group   Throws Suppert Behind War Manpower Poli cics of Administration,

LEGION SUPPORTS DRAFT OF FATHERS   BACKS U. S. PARTICIPATION IN POST-WAR LEAGUE TO MAINTAIN PEACE.

LEGION FAVORS "POST-WAR PACT   Manpower Policies Are  Endorsed, Including  : Draft Of Fathers

Lepion Endorses -Parlicination in Post War League  Nattenal Conventior   National Convention Also Approves of Father Draft

American Legion Favors Participation In Postwar International Association; Supports Draft Move

Legion Supports Postwar Plans, Elects Atherton   Favors Marshall's Father Draft idea

LEGION ELECTS ROY ATHERTON   Organization Supports Drafting Of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers

Urges Jeffers Supplant Ickes   Colorado Senator Urges Change In Fuels Czar In Letter To Fresident  wee. iYswysyTtwTasse ewes

BOOM JEFFERS © ‘AS FUELS HEAD   COLORADO SENATOR WANTS RUBBER ADMINISTRATOR ~ TO SUPPLANT HAROLD ICKES

IEFFERS BACKED FOR FUELS CZAR   Senator Urges President Replace Ickes With Trans portation Expert.

DESEnT FO [O FEJEGTING A DEGToION   Reported Rommel Has Withdrawn from Battle Line With British.   AXIS STILL MENACED   British Have a Focthold on the Strongly Fortified  Defense Line.

DESERT FOX < ‘Bb FRETS  A DECISION   Reported Rommel Bas With drawn from Battle Line With Britich .   AXIS (STILT. MENACED   British Have a Foothold ox “the ‘Strongly Fortified ; ‘Defense “Line;! ! :

FBI CONFERENCE IS HELD IN CITY   Officers of  Washington and Frederick Counties Gather

FBI CONFERENCE. ~~ 1S HELD IN CITY      Officers of Washington and Frederick Coun. i ties Gather

‘Death Sentence Is Effective   Court Refuses  ' Seekown Davitssc

Treason Senfence Upheld by Court   Tribunal Fails To Act on Review

Stephan, Convicted of Treason, Fails To Get Snpreme Court Review

RATS WANT CHANCE TO FILL WALLACE’S PLACE BECAUSE OF DEWEY’S PRESIDENTIAL CHANCES

WELL-ARMED GUERRILLAS ROAM CEBU   Special Nipponese Forces Kept Busy In Jungles

PEANUT GOAL IN STATE!S HIGH FARMERS TOLD   Acreage in Erath County To Be Greatly Increased; Will Bring Big Money

Upshur’s 1943 Peanut Crop To Be Larger   Tough Job Faces Far mers, Lewis Says

D-C Finances In Limeligh   Clark Is Absent From Court Trial Today

1944 OFFENSIVE RESTS LARGELY ON AIRPOWER   Unprecedented Production Of Planes Needed To Bring Early Peace   INDUSTRY OPTIMISTIC   Manpower Highest Hurdle Confronting Builders Of Needed Craft

EX-SENATOR DOXEY SELECTED AS NEW SERGEANT AT ARMS   lurney Resigns; {Incurred ‘Wrath OF Anti-Poll Tax Bill Onnonents

Jap Rice Bowl Drive Failure   Chennault Says They’re Now Trying To Extricate Army.

Gen. Chennault Says Nips Trying to Extricate 10,000 Troops Near Tungting Lake  -

Japs Beaten In Rice Bowl Drive   Gen. Chennault Says Troop, Plane Losses Were Severe

‘rimary Entry List May Narrow Down To Contest Between Attorney General Tom Herbert And Cincinnati Mayor Stewart

HUON PENINSULA: UNDER COMPLETE ALLIED CONTROI   Fall of Finschhafen Cllmaxes Successful New Guinea Camnaian.

Allies Mop Up At Finschhafen   Control Coastline Opposite New Britain

ALLIES ‘FIRMLY IN CONTROL OF HUON PENINSULA TODAY   93-Day Campaign Weakens Jap Hold On New Guinea—Aussies Bear Brunt

ALLIED FORCES NOW IN CONTROL OF FINSCHHAFEN   Ninety Three Day Campaign Has Weakened Jap Hold On New Guinea

Allies in Firm Control Over Finschhaten   93 Day Campaign Against Japanese Ends Successfully

ALLIES WEAKEN JAPANESE HOLD ON NEW GUINED   Fall Of Finsehhafen Imperils Other Enemy Bases

Japs’ Coastal Grip Slipping InNewGuinea      Capture of Finschhafen  Followed by Aussie’  Drive for Madang

U.S. Task Forces Believed on Prowl in Pacific  Possible Objective Is Jap Base at Paramushiru

BROOKLYN SHIP FIRM INDICTED BY GOVERNMENT   Sullivan Dry Dock And Repair Corporation Charged With Submitting False Claims.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Five Officers And Employes Of Brooklyn Ship Repair Y ard

STOCK PRICES, VOLUME SUP   Encouraging Red Wa News Offset on Market By Solomons Tension

WAR OFFICIALS TO TOUR IN PACIFIC   Undersecretary . Of _ War Patterson. Leads Group

CLASSIFY DADS IN AGE GROUPS FOR ARMY CALI   Boards Instructed To Delay All Fathers If Possible

Will Draft Fathers by Age Groups   Local Boards Told To Take Youngest First, May Claims

German Capital ls Rocked Hard By Air Attacks   Smoke-Palled Berlin Faces Prospects Of Big Evacuation

Strong Bomber Force Heads For Nazi Continent   Blows at Berlin Bring Prospect of Mass Evacuation

IVACHATION OF RERTIN INDICATED   Wholesale Depaiture From BombSwept Capital Rumored. Fourth Raid Last Nicht Repo, ted

NAZIS PREPARE TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF CAPITAL   Prospect Follows Third Consecutive Attack; New Forays Are Indicated

Bombers Again Over -Continent   ‘Americans Observe Thanksgiving Day

LARGE PARTS OF BERLIN MAY BE ABANDONED   Reception Areas May Get Over 3,000,000 Evacuees

Berlin Evacuation ‘Is Aftermath Of Bombings By RAF   American Fighter-Bombers Raid France After Third Straight Night Of Attacks On Berlin; —Germon Radio Stations Silent Again Thurcday

MASS EVACUATION OF BERLIN BEING NEGOTIATED BY NAZIS   Over Three Million Bombed-Out Evacuees Being Transferred To Other Sections Of Reich; Upwards Of 10,000 Citizens Killed

Germans May Have  To Abandon Berlin   Smoke-Palled Capital Hit Lightly in Third Successive RAF Attack: Fighters Carry Bombs for First Time in Area

Large Sections Of Berlin May Be Abandoned   Preparations Reported Under Way to Evacuate Peo Bie New Allied Forays Inditated as Germon Radios Shut Down

Report Berlin Areas May Be Evacuated   Blackout of German Radios Indicates Raid Thursday Night

Report parts of Berlin may  be evacuated   Capital lashed day and night

Great Raids Followed Up By Mosquitos   Three to Four Million May Be Evacuated From German Capital  ATIRETET DNS ROMREN

YANKS GAIN IN HARD FIGHT 0} BOTIGAINVILLE   ‘Successful Beyond Our Fondest Expectations,” Declares Admiral as Soldiers Aid Marines.

Enemy Troops Badly Battered At Bougainvill   Conflict Goes On In Welter Of Tanks And Mortars In Wild, Rough Country

REGULAR ARMY TROOPS NOW ON BOUGAINVILLE   Reinforcements Join Marines In Battle Against Badly Decimated Japanese Forces; Landed Without Loss.

Marines Get Army Help at  ‘Bougainville   Jap Counterstrokes in Solomons Crushed; Foe’s Forces Still Strong

Marines, Aided by Army Troops Advance Against Decimated Enemy‘ orces

STEADY GAINS ARE REPORTED AN SOLOMONS   Japs Lose 26 Aircraft In Futile Effort To Stop Landing; Convoy Escapes Heavy Damage

Troops Join Marines On Bougainville   Reinforcements Take Part In Battle Against Japs

Marines Aided by Army Thrust Japanese Back on Bougainville; 26 Nip Airplanes Knocked Out

Soldier 's Help  ‘Marine Force   Bougainville Attack -Has Been ‘Augmented ; Japs ‘Taide Heavily 

Doughboys Help Marines To Win Qn Bougainville   Soldier Reinforcements Join In Turning Battle Tide Against Japs.

More Americans  Landed On Islance   Regular Army Troops Reinforce Marines And Japanese Are Badly Mauled In Fight For South Pacific Stronchold '

New Men Join Marines Winning Solomon's Base   Ally Invaders Wir As Outnumberec Japs Fall Back In Pacific

Enemy Facing New U.S. Troops      REINFORCEMENT RUSHED TO AID MARINES ON ISLAND

U.S. Marines Aided By Reinforcements Repulse Japanese   Recy Admiral Robert B. Carney Reports That the Bougainville Operations Have Been Successful Beyond Fondest Expectations   LARGE NUMBER OF ENEMY INVADERS ARE SLAIN

¥  Without Loss on Bougairiville Islands.  Bougainville Operation Has Proved: Successful Beyond Fondest' Expectations Rear Adm. Carnev Savs:  Powerful-U. S. Troop Reinforcements Landed —   WARSHIP GUARDED TRANSPORTS: LAND TROOPS AT BOUGAINVILLE

Army Units Land On Bougainville To Aid Marines   ae of Battle wings In Favor Of Americana

Bougainville. Battle Swings Toward Yanks   Powerful Reinforcements of. Army Troops Land Without Loss and Join Marincs in Jungle Battle With Japanese.

Army Goes Ashore to Hit Japs   Troops Landed Without Loss to Back Up Marines on Bougainville   JUNGLE BATTLE CONTINUES ON   Tide Swings Definitely Toward Americans in Invasion Push ~

Army Lands On Bougainville   Jap Navy Challenged To Come Out And Fight As Soldiers Rush To Assistance Of Marines

Tide of Jungle Battle Swings To U. S. Favor   Powerful Regular Army Reinforceme ‘nts Aid Marines at Bouganville.   26 Jap Air Raiders Shot Down by Yanks

AID MARINES END THREAT   Not On Landing Ship Lost During Jap Air Attack

U. §. Army Men Join Marines At Bougainville   Tide of Conflict In Solomons Turns Toward invaders

Army lroops Aid Marines in Bougainville   “Side-by-Side in Battle Against Solemons Jans

Army Troops Arrive fo Aid Marines   Tide of Battle Swings Toward Americans; Joep Air Raid Fails

ARMY OUTFITS JOIN MARINES IN JAP FIGHI   Enemy Thrown On Defens. ive In Solomons After Reinforcements Arrive

Army. Aids Marines in Jap Battle   Powerful Forces Safely Landed in Bougainville Fight

ARMY TROOPS JOIN MARINES INSOLOMONS   Land Additional Soldiers 2 Bougainville Without Any Losses

Army Troops Join Marines Tn Solomons   Bolster Spearhead That Is Smashing Japs Back on Bouzainville

Army Joins Marines on Bougainville   Japs Unable To Stop Reinforcements Of Americans

Not One Man Lost As Marines Get Aid   Jap Pincers Operation Broken and Heavy Losses Inflicted on Enemy

Jungle Battle Is Going In Yank Bag   ‘Operations Successful Beyond Fondest Expectation    BMA DPCctation  JAP PLANES TAKE A BAD LICKING

BOUGAINVILLE FIGHT ENTEACD BY ARMY UNITS   Regular Troops Are Landed To Help Marines Oust Japs From Island

Army Units Join Marines In Great Jungle Battle.   Tide Swings ‘In Our ‘Favor After Reinforcements Arrive.

Army Troops Reinforce U. $. Marines   Soldiers Go Ashore On Bougainville Without Loss and Hurl Back Japarese

U. S. Forces Land Without Loss To Threaten Rabaul      Operations in Northern Solomons Described as ‘Successful Beyond .. Fondest Expectations’

Japanese Counterstroke Crushed In Solomons  - Powerful Army Reinforcements   Powerful Army Reinforcements Strengthens Marine Spearhead

FEW CASHED IN   17 Billion In War Bonds Sold; S$ Per Cent Redeemed.

NAVY AND AIR FORCES BLAST AXIS SECTORS   Harbor at Pantellerie Is Gunned; Naples Is . Bombed Again   DUMP HEAVY LOAD IN CAGLIARI AREA   Only Axis Forces Remaining In North Africa Are Prisoners

Sea-Air Blows - himed At Italy   Mediterranean tsles And Mainland Suffer. ©

Air Force, Navy Hit At Bases   Allied Ground Forces In Tunisia Rest After Coup.

Ground Forces In Tunisia Given Rest As Bombers Continue Heavy Offensive

Pantelleria Isle  Shelled by Navy   20 Broadsides Fired ‘Into Harbor Area; Cagliari Ripped

AIVIES BLAST ITALIAN BASES   Airmen Set Sights 0 Stepping Stones To Europe

ALLIED NAVAL FORCE SHELLS ITALIAN PORT   Allied Air Squadrons Strike Again at Island and Mainland Cities.

ALLIED. NAVAL FORCE BLASTS PANTELLERIA   Air Squadrons Strike Again a! Cagliari, Sardinia and Naples as Grotind Forces Rest   AXIS TROOPS QUIT   17 Axis Generals Counted “Among Nearly 275,000 Prisoners Taken in Tunisian Campaign.

Naval Base A Shambles After U.S.  Assault —   Ships Left Burning; Railway Yards And Decks OF Nanles Ramhkhod

Compromise Anti-Subsidy  Bill Written   Turbulent Days Ahead in Congress For Attack on Roosevelt Idea

NEW VERSION TN CONGRESS   Way Smoothed After Rollback Plan is Changed; Other Appropriations Now Go Ahead.

SENATE-HOUSE GROUP DRAFTS SUBSIDY CURE   Measure Would Permit $150,000, 000 io Subsidise Transportaiion Metals Food   BUY FOOD AT LOSS   Bill Sets Aug. 1 as Date to Liquidate Obligations Under Price Rollback Plan

VOTE TO RESTRICT ALL SUBSIDIES   Meat and Butter Included by Senate-House Conferees

CH ACCORD ON SUBSIDIES   Revamped Opposition Legialation Sterts Through Congress Once More

Legislation Would Ban Rollbacks   Money Headache Still Hanging Fire; Wallace-Jones Probe Asked

Anti-Subsidy Bill Would Kill Rollback       New ‘Hybrid’? Measure Provides Ouly for Cav rent Price Limits

WMC Setting Up Interstate Labor Plan.   Expéet to End Complaints About Raids on Workers

WMC STUDIES PROGRAM FOR SEASONAL WORK   Complaints from Some States That Employers Are ‘Pirating’ Heard

LABOR PROGRAM BEING MAPPED BY GOVERNMENT   Steps Being Taken To Prevent Pirating Of Help By States

ADJUSTMENT OF LABOR PLANNED   West Virginia One Of 4 States Agreeing Not To Raid Workers

War Man Power Commission Offers Plan To Provide Seasonal Workers

MARSHALL 10 RETAIN TITLE, IT ISREPORTED   Decision on Global Com. mander Means Strateay Completed   DECISION REACHED AT QUEBEC PARLEY

Global Strategy Plan Completed At Conference   New Set up Made Possible Naming of Gen. Marshall

GLOBAL WAR PLANS MADE   Full Strategy for Victory Outlined at Quebec, It is Indicated

PLANS ALL SET IN GLOBAL WAR   U. S. Chief Of Staff To Take Field, Direct Defeat Of Axis

Marshall Move  Means Strategy For Victory Set   U.S. Army Chief of Staff Likely To Retain Title After Taking Command

BiG PARADE 10 FEATURE WAR RALLY HERE   Gov. Green Principal Speaker on Saturday Program

Nazis Renew Sub Campaign   Canadian Destrover, St. Croix, Torpedoed, Sunk On Convoy Duty.

MMBARE LST IN WARSHIP SINKING   Canadian Destroyer I: Sunk By Sub While Or Convoy Duty

iOnly One Member of Crew Survives; Recalls Churchill's Mention of Sub Attacks

Destroyer’s 8 - Crew of : 14 Lost. at Sea’          Canadian Warship ‘Sunk From Convoy Only 1 Man Saved.

Canadian Destroyer Sunk By Sub With Loss of 147; New Attacks are Reported

CANADIAN SHIP SUNK BY U-BOAT   Destroyer Member of Convoy in Atlantic; 146 Men Lost

U-BOATS AGAIN IN NORTH ATLANTIC   Canadian Destroyer Has Been Sunk With A Loss of 146 Men While On Convoy Duty.

DESTROYER IN CONVOY SUNK, OTTAWA SAYS   Former U.S. Ship in Canadian Ser vice Lost with 146 Men—Details Not Revealed   U-BOATS RETURN   Survivors Tell of Three-Day Bat. fle of Convoy, Say Nazis Have New, Deadly Torpedo

A DESTROYER SUNK   The Canadian St. Croix Torpedoed on Convoy Duty

FORMER U.S. WARSHIP SUNK   Canadian Destroyer Hit By Nazi U-Boat

CANADA REPORTS LOSS CF DESTROVE   German U-Boats Renet _ Battle For Control  of Atlantie

Destroyer Sunk By German U-Boats   Canadian Vessel Lost With 146 Men During Attack

Canadian Destroyer Sunk by Sub   German U-Boats Have Returned to North Atlantic Supply Lanes

GERMAN alli STILL ACTIN   Canadian Destroyer Sunk; U-Boats Prey on Supniv Routes.

South Africans Vote Strongly — To Stay In War   Smuts And War Party Win Overwhelming Victory At Polls.

GRAIN DEALER FOUND GUILTY ON OPA COUNT   lowa man charged with seven violations of ceiling price

Japs in Relocation Areas Refuse to Work Earnestly      Many Won’t Do Good Work For $19 Month Government Pays: Others Applying Themselves to Build Experience Record for After War; Loafers Feel U.S. Must Feed Them

VITAL RAILWAY JUNCTION IS SEIZED BY REDS      Germans South Of Rostov Have Only Two Avenues  Of Escape

MAIKOP. OIL AREA TAKEN BY SOVIETS   Tikhoretsk Is Also  Reeaptured By , ~ Red Army 

Russians Also Seize the Important Rail Junction of Tikhoretsk In Another Move Toward Rostov

KEY OIL CENTER OF MAIKOP IS RETAKEN BY RUSSIAN FORCES   Hitler Loses Center Of Only Oil Resources Taken From Reds; Soviets Mop Up On Trapped Nazis Near Voronezh

Reds Retake Maikop Oil Field Region   Hitler Loses Only Base In Caucasus; Vital Rail Junction Falls

Vital Railway Junction Is Also Seized   Entrapment Of 307,000 Germans Threatened By Speedy Soviet Advances

Soviet Seizes Only Oil Area Taken By Axis   Red Soldiers Advance Steadily On Voronezh Front To ward Belgorod, Kursk.   TRAP THREATENS FOE

VITAL RAILWAY JUNCTION NEAR ROSTOY. SEIZED   Capture of Tikhoretsk Major Goai of Reds; Presses Germans Into  ‘Corner of Caucasus   SOVIETS ADVANCING TOWARD KRASNODAR   Only Means of Escape For Germans in Entire Caucasus if Rostov Gate  Closes .

RUSSIANS DRIVE NAZIS FROM OIL GITY OF MAIKOP   Loss Deprives Germans of Only Petroleum Resources Gained in Their Caucasian Campaign,   REDS TAKE VITAL OIL TOWN OF TIKHORETSK   Other Soviet Armies Push Westward on Voronezh Front—Fighting Bitter in Leningrad Area.

Maikop Oil Is Wrested From Hitler's Troops   Reds Win Back Only Petroleum Area Lost In Caucasus;. Tikhoretsk Falls: Soviets Advance On Krasnodar

FATHERS INTO ARMY BY END OF YEAR   Number of Children Makes  No Difference

MAN KILLED AND WIFE INJURED IN CAR SMASHUP   /Baltimoreans Victims of Youth’s Desperate Attempt in Stolen Auto  to Outrace Police   CRASHES INTO POLE.   Strikes Pair Waiting for Bus; Tavern Crumpled, Flying Debris Injuring Others

One Dead, 9 Hurt In Wild Chase   Smashup Terminates Long Chase In Baltimore Of Stolen Auto.

ixpayers Urged ) File Returns   Pay-as-Go Plan Cancel March Payment

URGE PROMPT FILING OF TAX RETURNS   Congressional Leaders Warn That First Quarterly Payments Must Be Made March 15.

Russians Repulse Heavy Nazi Attack   Heavy Counter Assault Near Novorossisk Crushed By Red Forces   TROOP BARGES REPORTED SUNK

'Penn'a Is Ready For First Blackout Under New Rules Beginning at 8°50 Tonight

BLACKOUT   Yellow—8:30 p, ni. Blue—8:50 p. nt. Red—9:10 p. mi. Blue—9:20 p. m. White—9:30 p. nt.

Blackout At 8.40 Tonight  All Clear Signal Given By Street Liahts And Radio

A WAITRESS KILLED   Army Bomber Crashes Thru Roof Of Mess Hall at K.C. Field

Allied Forces Shake Axis Land Positions ‘In North Africa And Southern Russia; Berlln Says Germans Planes Raid Moscow

Nazis Suffer Reverses On Land Fronts  Russians Press  Ahead On Every

Allies Push On In Russia And Africa   British Now Only 130 Miles From Important Tripoli   Russians Continue Te Close In On Rostov   Rommel’s Defenses Believed Cracked Rey Purenine Rritich

ROMMEL FLEES WITH BRITISH HOT ON TRAIT!   Montgomery Cracks Axis Defenses, Pursues Axis to Within 100 Miles of Tripoli

CONGRESS WILL QUIT TOMORROW FOR HOLIDAYS   Second Session Of 78th Congress Will Cortvene Next January 10

Congress Will Adjourn Tomorrow After Year Of Political Rebellion

:  Congress to Take 3-Week Yule Holiday   Adjournment Tuesday Is Planned After 350-Day Session

78th Congress To Adjourn After Anti-FR Session   Administration Beaten At Nearly Every Turn On Domestic Policies

Congress Prepares to  Adjourn After Year of Stymying  Adminictration

WASHINGTON’S ELITE GREET MME. CHIANG   Two Thousand Persons, Including Gen. Marshall, Attend Receptinn at Shoreham Hotel.

NAVY VOIDS CONTRACT WITH BREWSTER FIRM      Henry J. Kaiser, Recently Named President, Asked For Cancellation

Knox Says Gilbert Smash First Step in Japan Drive   KNOX LAUDS NIMITZ FOR NEWS HANDLING

SECRETARY KNOX REVEALS DRIVE AIMED DIRECTLY TO KNOCK JAPS OUT   United States Marines Storm Ashore On Island and Mop Up Jap  Cawrrienn.

Americans Invade New Pacific Isles   Japs Battle Fiercely To Hold Outer Rim of Defenses

AMERICAN WARSHIPS AWAITING JAP FLEET   Marines Storm Ashore on Abemama, Third Island in Group.

Rush Freedom lor Islands   Ask Congress To Assure Independence At Earliest Feasible Date.

Independence For F ilipinos Asked by FDR   Congress Requested to Legislate So That President May Act

President Urges Philippines Aid   Early Independence Proposed For Islands in Congress Message

Roosevelt Asks Early Freedom For Filipinos   Seeks Authority For Prompt Action

Asks Power To Make Isles _ Independent   Says Fortunes of War  May Make Action Feasi ble Before July -f, 746   3 OTHER STEPS DUE   Would Provide Security. Adjust Economics and Insure Rehabilitation

‘Early Freedom For Filipinos?   FDR Asks Authority  To Grant Independence “Ag Soon As Feasible”

FREEDOM ASKED FOR PHILIPPINES   Roosevelt. Says Islands Have Won Right To Nationhood

Independence Of  Philippines Viewed  F. R. Seeks Authority To Grant Freedom

Roosevelf Asking Legal Independence For Philippines   Wants Congress to Furnish Authority For Move As Soon As Feasible

SAYS ISLAND HAS EARNED ITS FREEDOM   Filipinos Have Given Allies  Cooperation

‘posevelt Asks Power to Grant Islands Freedom  ities . Heroism, _Leyalty  Of Filipinos in Canptnl Dla

ACTION WOUL BE TAKEN SOON "AS FEASIBLE’   1946 Date Which Had Been Set for Independence But Perhaps it Will Come Sooner

INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES ASKED BY FOR   Proposal Made To Congress To Become Effective as Soon as War Permits

F.R. Asks For An Independent Filipino Nation   Urges Free Status For Islands In Advance Of Established Date.

DESIRES FREEDOM OF PHILIPPINES   FDR ASKS AUTHORITY TO PROCLAIM LEGAL INDEPENDENCE SOON

Congress Urged To Authorize © Freedom Sooner   War Developments Might Permit SelfRule Before 1946

TO FREE ISLANDS   President Asks Congress to Authorize Grant of Independence —

FDR Asks Congress for Authority To Grant Philippine Independence

ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR AUTHORITY T0 FREE PHILIPPINES  WOULD MAKE ISLANDS SELF-GOVERNING AS amrmratr ae nncerpt ff

FDR WANTS TO FREE PHILIPPINES AS» SOON AS FEASABLE   Congress Asked For Authority to Proclaim  Independence

LIBERTY MOVE . FOR ISLANDS   ROOSEVELT IN SPECIAL MESSAGE ASKS INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINES AS SOON AS FOSSIBLE

Independence Of Philippines Is Requested   Congress Is Asked To Authorize President To Proclaim Islands As Legally Independent

Roosevelt Asks Authority to Advance ‘Date of Philippines’ Independence

Tropical Gale Rips Into Texas Cities  Property Damage Heayy; Troops Hold Down Planes

132-MILE-HOUR WIND RECORDED NEAR HOUSTON      High Water Causes  Heavy Damage : In Galveston

2 New Members Named To Conservation Commission;   Catlin and Adams Are Out

Step Comes As Surprise; Leopold, Moreland To Replace Catlin, Adams  As Conservationists

NAZI BLOCKADES ARE SET UP ON ROAD 10 ROME   Mud and Flood Handicap Advance But Air Attack By Allies Goes On

Allied Patrols Probe Nazi Line   Strong Entrenchments Confront Fifth Army, It Is Disclosed

‘Entrenched Germans Plan To Hold Italian Line All Winter If Possible

NAZIS PREPARED FOR DESPERATE STAND IN ITALY   BLOODY BATTLES BREWING AS ALLIES PROBE ENEMY LINE

Nazis Mass Detenses Before Yanks   Germans Determined To Hold Italian Hills for Winter

NAZIS STRENGTHEN DEFENSIVE LINES. FACING FIFTH ARMY   Germans Seek to -Hold Their Garigliano River Line All Winter’ If. Eeauate Bite Fight Foreseen: ;

Germans Mass Troops in Italy  Nazis Determined Ta Defand t inaoc

Nazis Dig In to Hold All Winter   Strong Positions in Italian Hills Fortified for  Defense   PILL-BOXES, GUNS WIRE   Defend Valley From Cas_ sino to Rome Natural -Army Route

GERMANS SEEKING TO HOLD ITALIAN LINE ALL WINTER  REAU ©. Panee ae rr,

Nazis Mass Army Before Clark's Boys   Bitter, Bloody Battles Ahead Before Germans Can Be Reuted

GERMANS SEEKING  TO HOLD ITALIAN  LINE ALL WINTER HAVE CONCENTRATED  BULK OF STRENGTH ON PIETY ARMY FONT

Nazis Dig in To Fight for Winter Line   Pill-Box Defense Ais to Sinve Off  " Vankeo Advance

Winter Lines Fortified By Nazis   Fifth Army Improves Position Despite Heavy Shelling

GERMANS PLAN TO HOLD LINE AGAINST ROME  Bolster Def Str ante rca

NAZIS CONCENTRATE BULK OF FORCES BEFORE FIFTH ARMY   Determination to Hold Garigliano River Line Becoming Increasingly Clear

ENEMY DIGS IN FOR LONG FIGHT AGAINST YANKS   Germans Determined to Slow Fifth Army's Advance On Eternal City

Bulk Of Germans Massed On Line Opposite Fifth   U. S, Bombers ‘Blast. Two Airfields Near Athens; Ground Battle Slower

Nazis Mass Army Before Yanks On Road To Rome   Desperate German Bid Portends Bitter, Bloody Battles. .

Nazis Strengthen Forces To Hold Fifth Army Line In Drive On Rome

Bulk of Nazis Are Along Valley Leading To Rome and Well Entrenched in Mountains; Overlooking Route Fifth Army Must Take

Germans Concentrate Bulk Of Defensive Strength Along Fifth Army Front In Desperate Bid To Halt Rome Drive

Nazis Cling To Line On  Garigliano   Strong Positions Held By German Troops In Fifth Army's Natural Route To Rome

HITLER WOULD HOLD DEFENSE LINE IN ITALY   Germans Determined To Stand At River

ec me ia  sf ‘ me i  -, mm G :. Bak a Sue  Be oF aa = “a : “aaa  ‘ a a mee Al on: ae .   Fortify Fixed Position First Time Since, . Salerno   BITTER BLOODY  BATTLES AHEAD

Concentrating Bulk of Defensive Strength Along Fifth Army Front In Italy

Germans Brace For ‘Winter Line   Weather And Mountains Plague Allied Drives In Italy

BULK OF NAZIS IN VTALY FAGt U.S. ATH ARMM   Enemy Appears Determined To Hold Present Line, Halt Drive On Rome

GERMANS MAKE DESPERATE BID TO HALT ALLIES   Nazis Concentrate Defensive Strength Along Fifth Army Front In Effort To Hold River Line; German Aijirfields At Athens Bombed.

Sinking of Two Ships Is America’s Worst Disaster Of War At Sea; 850 Lost

850 Perish in Sinking   Two Cargo-Passenger Ships Hit by Torpedoes in North Atlantic, Navy Announces

MORE THAN 850 DEAD, MISSING IN TWO SHIPS      Vessels Torpedoed, Sunk in Less Than 30 Minutes in North Atlantic, Navy Reveals

Navy Reveals Worst Sea Los:   Two Passenger-Cargo Vessels Sent Down By U-Boat Torpedoes Early This Month; Known Dead Or Missing “More Than 850” ; News Given of Sinking  of German and Japanese Submarines.

VESSELS SUB VICTIMS: IN NORTH ATLANTIC   Both Go Down In 30 Minutes; Scant Hope Held for Those  linakaarnitend TAF

Over 850 Dead Or Missing In Sinking Of Two Cargo Ships In North Atlantic

850 Lost In Sinking Of Two U.S. Passenger-Cargo Ships As Subs Strike In Atlantic   Called America’s Worst Loss-Of-Life Sea Disaster Of War; No Hope For Missing

Sea Disaster Worst of War      Loss Of 850 Lives In 2 LS. Ship Sinkings Stuns Nation

Sea Disaster Leaves Nation Mourning 850   Slight Hope for Rescue of Any Survivors of Atlantic Sinkings

850 DEAD, MISSING IS GRIM TOLL   America’s Worst Loss-of-Life Sea Disaster of World War 2 Shocks U. S.

America Counts Worst Sea Loss   Two Transports Sent to Bottom of North Atlantic— Gale Apnarentlv Hindered Rescn,

850 Americans Lost With Two Atlantic Ships   Enemy Subs Strike at Night, Four Days Apart: Military, Civiliene Di..

NATION COUNTING DEAD IN WORST SEAS LOSS OF WAR   950 Lives Lost Within Four Day Period From Sub Sinkimgs in Atlantic

U.S. COUNTING 859 LOST IN WORST DISASTER AT SEA   FDR Warns There ‘Will Be More Reverses In Wash‘ington Day Speech

TWO PASSENGER SHIPS SUNK BY NAZI U-BOATS   Casualties Mostly Army, Navy Officers and Men

NATION COUNTS DEAD IN WORST WAR DISASTER   850 Persons Known Dead Or Missing In Sinking Of Two Ships

850 Perish In Sinking of Two Vessels   Troop-Cargo Vessels Attacked by Submarines In North Atlantic

850 Lives Lost When Subs Sink U.S. Cargo Ships   Report Loss Of 2 Vessels Occurred In N. Atlantic Earlier This Month

890 LOSS SETS RECORD FOR WAR   Two American Ships Are Sunk By U-Boats In North Atlantic Area

Group To Decide   Military Needs  Production To Hinge On Reports

ACTUAL NEEDS WILL GOVERN   Joint Attack on Material Manpower Wastes Is Started.

Actual Strategic Needs, as Determined IBy Army-Navy Committee, Will Be \Yardstick for War Industry Production

ACTUAL NEEDS FOR WAR WILL: BE DETERMINED   Joint Army-Navy Group Named for War industry Production Yardstick; to Hald Waste to Minimum

MINES RESUME IN NEW TRUCE’ PACT SEEN NEAR   UMW Operators Are Believed Anxious To Agree   800 STILL OUT AT MIDLAND, PA., MINE

Miners Go Back; Negotiations To Be Resumed  Operators Caucus   Operators Caucus To Decide Split  Between Groups

Allotment Increase For Dependents of Service Men Passed sv The Senate

RAISES AMOUNT FOR CHILDREN OF SERVICEMEN   Quick Action In Senate

Aussies Repulse Jap  Attacks Near Wareo   Fliers Continue to Help Ground Advance As Encirclement of Enemy Base Develops; 95 Tons of Bombs Fall on Bougainville

Justralians ight Off ap Thrusts   ir Power Helps Allies Tighten Wareo Defenses

JAP ASSAULTS   Three Foe Counterattacks Before Wareo Futile; Air Raids Staged

AUSSIES THROW BACK COUNTER DRIVES BY JAPS   Air Power Continues To Lend Hand To Slowly-Ad vancing Ground Troops   ENEMY-HELD ISLANDS HEAVILY BOMBARDED

JAPANESE FAIL IN COUNTER - ATTACKS   Australians Tighten Grip on New Guinea‘’s Huon Peninsula

Yanks Closing In On Japs At BairokoHarbor   Contact Made With Enemy By Americans Out To Wipe Out All Resistance

Yanks Close In on Japs  At Bairoko   Fight Thru Flank  To Enemy Garrison

YANKS CLOSING IN ON JAP LAST STAND ON GEORGIA ISLAND   Troops Fight Through Left Flank Of Enemy’s ,  Garrison At Bairoko  -

Americans Close In On Japanese   Release Names Of e Units On Munda

U.S. TROOPS CLOSING IN ON BAIROKO   Fliers Sink 18 Japanese Barges, One Cargo Vessel

Yanks Close in On Japs Making Final Stand «   Soldiers and _Marines Move -Up From Munda

Japs Trapped On New Georgia  Doomed Enemy Makes Lest-Stond Fight At Beiroko Harbor

STATE SENATE GROUP SCRAPS LIQUOR BIL   McClayton Measure to Be Redrawn by Attorney General’s Office With ‘Features Retained   CHAIN LICENSE HIT   Committee Recommends Abolition of Virtual Multipie Permit Monopoly By Baltimore Firm

President Says Writer Lied On Russ Views  Drew Pearson Stirs Roosevelt to Vitriolic Rebuke   Free Polish Order Complains Of Delay in Second Front ._

YUGOSLAVS SCORE MORE SUGCESSES   Fighting Fiercely Against Strong German Attacks, Aggressive Yugoslavs Capture Coal Mine Sup hn Vital Belgrade

GOOD FOR THE CROPS   ‘Winds Helping to Ma to — Soil More orkable

Fall Of Orel Heavy Blow To Nazi Plan   German Lines May Have To Be Withdrawn Clear Back To Kiev

Identity Bomber Found in Hills Of West Virginia   Mystery Plane Left Nash ville, Tenn., Feb. 7, Officials Say

POLAND IS HUNGRY COUNCIL IS TOLD   Seed and Farm. Equipment : Called Vital Need

RELIEF COUNCIL HEARS OF NEEDS   Atlanti¢ City Conference Hears Of Plight Of Starving Millions In Europe.

RELIEF COUNCIL GETS REQUESTS   Emugys of Poland, Yugoslavia,  Belgium Tell of German  Ravaces

GENERAL RELIEF “AFTER WAR TOLD ~ AT CQUNCIL NET   Poles Exist on 800 Calories Daily While Polish Jews Get 400, Many Hebrews. Reported Dead.    GREAT FOOD SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR EUROPE   Relief Program Is Disclosed By Lehman But Expense of Rehabilitation Not Yet Determined.

Government Fails to Take ltsOwn Medicine In Respect to. Manpower

Ask Government To Discharge 300,000 Worker:   Congress Committee Charges Abuse of Power, Fund Waste

Urge Dismissal Of 300,000 Civilians On U. S. Payroll   Joint Congress Group Charges Abuse Of Manpower

Clash Climaxes Feud: Jones Used Obstructionist Tactics Wallace Says   “Malice. and Misstatement’ Commerce Secre. tary Replies; ‘Row Between: High: Government ” Heads. Flares; Takes President:by. Surprise   Roosevelt Tells Reporters Press Responsible for Controversies’

FDR AGAIN MAKES _ ATTACKS ON PRES!   Charges Newspaper Writers Stirring Up Con. : troverciec

Roosevelt Says Writers Stir Up Serious Trouble   Otherwise Things Are Go: ing Well on Home Front, He Holds

President Roosevelt Expresses Belief That "Things Are Going Along Pretty Well on the Home Front’ at Press Meet

FDR AGAIN MAKi’' ATTACKS ON PRESS   Charges Newspaper Writers Stirring Up Controversies

President Charges Newspapers With Agitating  Some of Controversies  Between Agencies Blamed on Writers

PRESS FLAYED BY ROOSEVELT   Declares Some of Contro. versies Stirred Up by News Writers

BOMBERS POUND JAP-HELD INDIES   Oil Port at Macassar Hit by American Raiders

US. PLANES BOMB AND sea PORT OF MACASSAR      Other Bombers Raid EnemyHeld Tanimbar And , Kai Islands North Of Australia

American Planes Again Blast At  'Macassar Base   {aberator Bombers Strike Deep Into Jap-Held Indies

MACASSAR IS BOMBED BY LIBERATORS   Aussies Gain In Drive Toward Jap Base At Madang

YANKEES BLAST JAP OIL PORT   Macassar Left Flaming After Fourth Bomb Raid

HUGE BOMBERS RAID MACASSAR IN EAST INDIES   Burn Big Enemy Oil Port In Celebes — Docks Are Blasted

City And College Men Leave Today   Large Group Departs For Army Duty Via Pennsylvania Railroad

Last Of Men In March Draft Are  Given Farewell   Final Contingent Leaves City This Morning To Begin U. S. Service

Biggest Ohio Expense Bill Passage Due   Action Seen Wednesday As Committee Makes 1 Per Cent Cut.

Legislature WillPass Fiscal Bill   Finance Committee  Hikes Ohio Budget

German Counterattacks "Made In Freezing Rain   Reds Take 60 Towns West of Kiev; U. S. Soldiers Bolster

First step of Europe’s liberation is underway [Eisenhower tells French

First Invasion Of Italian Soil Opens   American, British And Canadian Upits Under  General Ficenhower Make Initial Landinas

British, Canadian, American Troops  Make Bold Thrust   Reinforced by German Forces, Italians Expected To Make Spirited Defense of Island

Canadian Troops Join Americans, British; Eisenhower Times Thrust With Message Of Hope to France; 2 Miles From ‘Boot’

iEisenhower Cautions French Not To Revolt, This Only Start  Reinforced Axis Outpost Expected To Offer Strong Resistance

Americans, British And Canadians Join in Operation   General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commanding Armies, Tells Axis-Controlled France That Step Is Beginning of ‘Liberation of Continent’

Leader Says Europe  May Be Next   U. S., British, Canadian Troops Land; Air, Naval Forces Assist; Threat to Italy Becomes Reality

PREDICTS AXIS WILL ATTEMPT TO BOMB OHIC   State Defense Director Sees Raids Planned To Bolster Enemy’s Morale.   NAZIS HAVE PLANES   Craft Could Fly Atlantic and Return in Good Weather; War Plants Likely Target.

Ohio Open To Air Raids ‘And Defense Boss Warns Even Gas Might Be Used    Every Area of State Getting Full Share of Equipment, Ohio Civilian Council Assures, To Prepare for Emergency

Buckeye State Considered Prime Target Because of War Industries and Hitler Needs Something Spectacular To Bolster Sagging German Morale and He Has Planes Big Enough To Cross Atlantic Ocean

Three-Ship Jap Convoy Strafed By Flying Fort   Kavieng Base, Hit And Bornbers Lash Nips In Bia Area

Jap Convoy Hit dy Ailied Phase   Flying Fort Strafes Three Vessels at Kavieng, New Ireland

JAPANESE CONVOY - STRAFED BY PLANE   Flying Fortress Bombs Enemy Ships at Kavieng

BOMBER RAKES 3-SHIP CONVOY   Jap Vessels Discovered At Kavieng, Scene Of Recent Victory

BADOGLIO PRODS ITALIAN PEOPLE TO AID YANKEES   Premier Also Urges Then To Aid British in Opposing Nazis

ITALIANS TOLD TO FIGHT NAZIS BY BADOGLIO   Declares War Also on Ilalians Aid ing Germans, Allies lialy Wilk United Nations

Allies The Best — Friend Of Italy   Badoglio’s Leadership Ranged Squarely Against Musso   GERMANS THE REAL ENEMIES OF ITALY

Italians Told By Badoslio To Aid Allies   Every German Is Enemy, Says Premier-Marshal

Badoglio Tells Men To Aid the Allies   Says It Is Their Absolute Duty to Join Yanks and Tommies Against Nazis and “the Few Senseless Italians” With Them.

Badoglio And Mussolini Now Lead Opposing Italian Units   Premier Says Italy Taking an ‘Aggressive’ Attitude Against Former Axis Ally  ITALY MAY BECOME ‘UNITED NATION’  Allies May Rearm Captured Italians Soon; Badoglio Says Nazis Attacked Italy

Badoglio In Call To Fight   Italians Urged To Resist Germans By Force of Arms

ITALIANS TOLD TO FIGHT THEIR DISLOYALUNITS   “Absolute. “Duty to Fight On Side of British and Americans," Badoglic Declares

Marshal Badoglio Tells Italians In Broadcast ‘It Is ‘Their Absolute Duty To Fight On The Side Of Allies

ITALY IS PUI ON ALLIES” SIDI   Badoglio Tetls'People It's Their. Duty To Fight Against Germany.

ITALIANS WARNED  BY BADOGLIO FIGHT  FOR ALLIED CAUSE PREMIER SAYS ITALY  HELPING DRIVE GERMANS FROM COUNTRY

Badoglio Calls On Italians te Fight Nazis   Says It Is Their Absolate ‘Duty to Fight on the Side of the British and _ the    Americans

Marshall Says Fathers Are Needed As Stand-By Troop:   Says Benito Was Due At The White House September 16   Badoglio Urges Italians To Fight

BADOGLIO VS. IL DUCE   Premier Calls On ‘Htalians Te Fight Germans, Not Help Them  {

Urges Italians To Fight Nazis   Badoglio Tells Countrymen It Is Their Duty To Aid Allied Troops

BADOGLIO URGES ITALIAN PEOPLE TO FIGHT NAZIS    TALK SEEN EVIDENCE DEFEATED NATION MA\ JOIN UNITED NATIONS

TIGHT NAZI," SAYS BADOGLIO   Tells Italians It Is Their Duty to Fight With Yanks, British.   ‘URGES GUERRILLA WAR

Badoglio Ordered Aid for Allies   Line Clearly Drawn Between Factions

Badoglio Urges Italians fo Fight German Forces   Duce's Successor Broadcasts Under Allied Auspices

Badoglio Tells. Italians It's Their Duty To. Fight With Allies Against Nazis

Urges Italians  To Aid Allies   Premier Badoglio Urges Countrymen To Fight Germans. Faseist Italians.

Aid Allies, Is Request Of Badoglio   Italian People Urged Ir Broadcast To Figh At Side Of British And  Americans

CASTS FUTURE OF ITALY INTO ALLIED HANDS AND CALLS ON ITALY TO FIGHT THE NAZIS   _ Says It Is Absolute Duty of Italians to Run Germans Out and Expresses Belief America and British. Will Give Italy A Square Deal

Absolute Duty To Fight By Side Of The Allies, Badoglio Tells Italians

SURRENDER PLEA IS ROIECTED $0 BOMBING GOES ON   Allied Planes “Work” on New Island Target Same As Bainre.

ALLIED AIRMEN SHIFT ATTACKS 70 LAMPEDUSA   Small Island Getting Same Treatment As Pantelleria   10 AXIS SHIPS HIT IN FIERCE BLASTING

Compromise Bill to Boost Allowances For Servicemen’s Children Gets Aporoval of House Committee

MORE THAN 600 KILLED IN QUAKE   HUNDREDS OF BUILDINGS DE. STROYED IN NORTH CENTRAL TURKEY,

PRESIDENT SAYS NOTHING OF MEETING   Roosevelt-Churchill Press Conference Next Week   NEWS OF CONFAB   May Be Released At That. Time; Prime Minister Came To U. S. By Boat :

“MANY MARCHES” PLANNED PRIME MINISTER SAYS   In Broadcast to British Home Guard Churchill Declares “tt Is No Good Having Only One March Planned”

To Offset Tunisian Debacle  Hitler May Strike Desperate Blow At Reds

Churchill Tells British Allies Must Make Plans   Tells Homeguard In Broadcast Hitler Must Be Beaten

AID IS PROMISED CHINA TO DRIVE THE ENEMY OU}   ‘Churchill Pledges Action in Message t6 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek

Fear Germans May Hit Anew on Red Front   Only Place Hitler Has ir Striking Hard to Regair Lost Prestige

Big Push to Come, Asserts Churchill   Meeting With Roosevelt In Washington to Play Ahead of Advancing Army

“New Hitler Move Urgent Problem Of Conference   Believe. Fuehrer Will Attempt Spectacular Strike After Losses

Looking Far Ahead, Report By Churchill   General Offensive Plans Are In Making, Says British Prime Minister In Broadcast Today

BELIEVE HITLER WILL ATTEMPT TO REGAIN PRESTIGE   EXPECT NAZIS TO TRY DESPERATE DRIVE ON RUSSIAN FRONT

CHURCHILL SEEKS TO BOLSTER CHINA   Promises Aid in Routing Jap Invaders

LITTLE NEWS REVEALED ON C ONFERENCES   Speculation on Next Move Of Axis Believed Foremost in Discussions At Capital

Nazi Boost Seen   Roosevelt, Churchill Continue Talks on War Strategy

Churchill Hints of New Push   MEETS WITH F. D. R. TO “PLAN AHEAD OF ARMY FORWARD MOVE”

Churchill Says Meeting Is to Plan Well Ahead of Fast-Moving Armies, Indicates General Drive in Making

FAR AHEAD OF ARMIES   Churchill Gives Hint That General Offensive Is in the Making   VICTORIES GAINED ARE ONLY A SPUR   Speaks From White House to Britons on Home Guard Anniversary

VICTORY IN CHINA PROMISED LEADER  Churchill Sends Special Message

Allied Chiefs Looking Ahead   Gencral Picture Is Given By Churchill

No Word Soon  On Conference   President Says Nothing Important In Churchill Talks Before Monday.

Expect Hitler To Hit Russia In Next Move   Need for Military Recoup Of Prestige Will Be Governing Factor

Planning Ahead, Premier Says  Indicates General   Indicates General Offensive Plans Are in Making

DRAW PLAN FAR AHEAD OF GAINS MADE BY ARMY   Churchill Indicates General Offensive Plans Are Being Made

~-STRATEGY MEET~  a  oint Confabs Go On   --- President Asks That Lid Be Clamped Down

CHURCHILL SENDS MESSAGE TO CHINA   Aim to Drive Japs from Chi nese Soil

Hitler May Launch Air Raids On U.S.   May Seek To Restore Lost Prestige B: Desperate Attempt For Victory

PLANS BEING LAID AHEAD OF ARMIES  BRITISH PREMIER BROAD CASTS TO BRITISH HOME CTIIARN FRIDAY  Pu Ll

Seeks to Restore German Morale: °° - May AHempt to Bomb New York. Washinato

Churchill Hints New Offense Plans  Gaye Adee Wisk ER op   Says Met With FR to Plan Weil Ahead OF Armies

Spectacular Move Against Russia By Hitler Looms To Restore Morale   Poses Urgent Problem For Roosevelt, Churchill And Military Advisers Now Conferring . In Washington.

INDICATE GENERAL OFFENSIVE PLANS ARE IN THE MAKING   This Was Declared Today by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.   MUST PLAN WELL AHEAD   It Is No Good Only Having One March Ahead Laid Out, He Said.

HITLER 1S EXPECTED MAKE SPECTACULAR EFFORT BEAT RUSSIA   EXPERTS PREDICT NAZI LEADER TO SEEK TO OFFSET AFRICAN LOSSES

Leaders Planning ‘Ahead of Armies’   Churchill Speaks From Washington

FOR, GHURGRILL CAPE HIT LEH TO STRIKE oUOK   Nazis Must Offset Tunisian Defeat's Effect On Home Morale, Is Belief

Hitler May Make New Drive On  Russian Front.   New And Spectacular Actions Seen As An Effor To Pen Up Morale Of Germans

 Pediaees Day Will Come When We Shall Rejoice at Feats of Arms of United Nations Which Will Surely Drive Jap Invader from China.

Spectacular Air Raid on U. S. or Move Against Russia Are Considered Most Likely.

CHURCHILL PROMISES UNITED NATIONS T0 FREE CHINESE SOIL  BRTAIN’S PRIME MINISTEI REPLIES TO GENERALISSIMO CHIANG

Predict Move By Hitler To Build Morale   Desperate Attempt To Win Major Victory Over Russians May Be Made Soon

NAZI TRY FOR SPECTACULAR VICTORY SEEN   Officials Anticipate Attempt To Offset Loss Of Prestige In Tunisia   PRESENTS NEW PROBLEM   President Silent At Press Conference Concerning Churchill Confab

PREDICT STAB AT RUSSIA BY HITLER ARMIES   Move Anticipated To Offse' Crushing North African Defeat

DESPERATE TRY IN RUSSIA SEEN   Hitler Expected To Try To Offset Defeat In Tunisia

 Hitler’s Plans For Move On Reds Seen Presenting Major Problem For Roosevelt And Churchill

Planning Ahead, Premier Says   “Yndicates General Offensive Plans ‘Are in Making

WILL PLAN AHEAD   Churchill Indicates Plans for Allied Offensive  Are Making

Hitler Expected Make Desperate Bid Against Reds   Attempt to Improve Nazi Morale Due Next Few Weeks

Churchill Offers Threat To Japs  Allied Commanders Hint At New Blows

ALLIES EXPECT AXIS T0 STRIKE HARD IN RUSSIA   Believed Hitler Will Make Spectacular Move In Attempt to Restore Ger ' man Morale   HELD AT LOW EBB   Meanwhile, Roosevelt and Churchill Continue Their Strategy Talks For Third Day

HITLER MAY MAKE A SPECTACULAR MOVE AGAINST RUSSIA TO REGAIN SOME RECENTLY-UOST NAZI MORALE

NEW NAZI DRIVE IS EXPECTED BY ALLIED EXPERTS   Strategists Theorize Hitler Will Try To ‘Save Face’ by Something Spectacular   MIGHT EVEN BOMB JU. S.   Roosevelt-Churchill Confab Maintains Silence on Invasion Strategy

Japs From China   So Churchill Tells Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek

Hitler May Seek Russian Victory tc Offset Prestige Loss in Africa

NEW ATTACK ON REDS SEEN AS NEXT MOVE   Allied Observers ‘Expect Hitler To Try. tor Victory To Otset African’ Defeat,

CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT MEETING HELD TO PLAN WELL AHEAD OF SWIFTLY MOVING ARMIES   Prime Minister Churchill Addresses English Home Guards on Anniversary of Organizatio From White House in Washington.

Hitler Expected to Try Desperate  Drive in Russia or Some Other Spectacular Move to Offset Loss of Prestige. Morale

‘Hitler Expected To Make Spectacular Move Against Russia To Restore German Morale   -ONFEREES SILENT

Hitler Expected To Make Desperate Bid To Restore Morale Of Germans

Japs Will Be Driven From China - Churchill  British Prime Min  British Prime Minister so Informs Chiang Kai-Shek

DARING DRIVE ON REDS SEEN   Expected By Hitler Ti Restore German Morale

Next Allied Blow Nervously Awaited By Axis Leaders   Enemy Broadcasts Variously Report Great Unitec Nations Fleet Massing in Western Half Of The Mediterranean   PULVERIZING AIR ASSAULTS ARE CONTINUED

ATTACKS AGAIN HAMMER SICILY   La Linea, Spain, Says Another Big Convoy . in Gibraltar Harbor

George VI Inspects Victorious Forces; War News Summary   Germans Report  Invasion Armies Massing in Syria

Another Big Allied Convoy In Gibraltar   Leningrad Says Russians Ready to Hit ‘Mighty Blow’

VISIT OF ENGLAND'S KING TO AFRICAN FRONT IMPRESSIVE  WHOLE MEDITERRANEAN AREA HELD BY AXIS

Axis Senses ‘Zero Hour   .» Foe Nervously Reports Big Allied Fleet Massing

May Be Final, Pre-Zero Hour Countact With Army Girding for Invasion ~   AZIS ALARMS RING  AT PEAK INTENSITY,   Enemy Making Various Reports-as Pulverizing Air Rlows Continue

British Monarch Sees Troops Priot To Big Offensive   Enemy Says Allied Preparations Extend Eastward to Syria

King Inspects Victorious Troops and Bestows Insignia of Knight of the Grand Cross, Order of Bath, on Gen. Eisenhower

ENEMY TENSELY AWAITS NEXT ATTACK; REPORT GREAT ALLIED FLEET MOVES IN PROGRESS   Dispatches From La Linea, Spain, Report Another Big Convoy Entering Gibraltar Harbor; Turkish Border Closing Rumcr Causes Speculation

Nazis Hint Invasion .  Of Turkey   Reported Sealing of  Syrian Border Is Termed Significant

May Be“PreZero Hour” Inspection   Invasion - Jittery Axis Looks for Attack All Along Mediterranean From Spain to Turkey

Axis Invasion Alarms Ring With Peak Intensity   Enemy Broadcasts _ Report Allies Have Invasion Forces In ‘. Syria, Mediterranean

Axis Reports Tell of Huge Allied Fleet   Jittery Enemy Rings Invasion Alarm from End to End of Mediterranean

TRIP BY KING HINTED ‘ZERO HOUR’ FLIGHT   Axis Invasion Alarms Ring From Gibraltar te  Swria   REPORT SEA CLASHES   New Convoys Claimed By - Axis To Have Arrived In Mediterranean

Views Allied  Forces Ready For Invasion   Axis Anxiety Increases In Mediterranean Zone

Vionarch Peecorates tisenhower   nvasion Alarms Conhnue Along: Mediterranean; Report Fleet Ma

BritishKing Pays Visit To Africa   Enemy Persist Big Allied Fleet  In Mediterranean.

King May Be On Pre-Attack Visit   Axis Invasion Talk Ranges From Gibraltar To Turkey — Another Big Convoy Is Reported by Spain~RAF Blast Targets” From Denmark to Brittany

Axis Insists Ally Armada Massed In Mediterranean   Invasion Army In Syria, Says Berlin, And Adds Allies Wooing Turkish Aj4

SIX FIREMEN Dit IN CHICAGO FIRE ON NORTH SIDE   FIVE OTHERS WERE FOUND ALIVE IN DEBRIS BUT ARE STILL PINNED UNDER THE WRECKAGE.   SECOND FIRE IN BUILDING IN DAY   Rescue Squads Dug Through the: Basement Wall of , Adjoining Building to Reach Three of the Firemen Who Were Still Alive.

SIX FIREMEN PERISH IN BURNING BUILDING   Three Others Rescued From Basement Of Chicago Structure; Find One Body; Five Trapped, Feared Dead

Seven Chicago Firemen Die  In Blaze   Three Men Trapped In Basement of Ruildine Aliva

SIX FIREMEN DIE IN CHICAGO BLAZE   Rescue Squads At Work To Reach Three Trapped In Basement

Reds Clamp Strangling Grip On Gomel;: Soviets ~ Now 50Miles Off Border

Gomel to Fall Next To Soviets   Spearheads Move To Within 50 Miles Of Old Poland

SUVIETS CLAN? STRANGLE. GRIP AROUND GOMEL   Twin Victories At Korosten, Rechitsa Seal Doom Of Nazi Garrison

SOVIETS ABOUT: TO TAKE GOMEL, CUT: OFF NAZIS   Korosten Captured; Reds Approach Poland   STALIN RECALLS START OF STALINGRAD DRIVi      Blows at Jap Outposts Herald U. S. Offensive

Red Army Clamps Strangling Grip On Gomel Center.   German Escape Corridor Narrowed To Thin Gap, Threatening to Trap Enemy Pocket Behind Dnieper Line

German Escape Route Narrowed By Latest Drive   Soviet Troops Within 50 Miles of Polish Border In New Drive

Soviet Spearheads Drive Past Captured Korosten To Within 50 Miles Of Old Polish Border

REDS CLAMP GRIP IN GOMEL SECTOR   U. S. Warships “Back Fron the Grave” For Bombardment of Buka Island.

Nazi Esc:           AB aipe Seer,  -ENTRAPMEN? OF ‘GARRISON THREATENED; OTHER: RED” WITHIN 50 MILES OF POLANE

CLAMP GOMEL IN VISE   Narrow German Escape Route; Reds Attack rom 3 Sides

Americans Gathering Prisoners   Anglo American Force 3 Miles North Of Wadi Akarit; First Army Advances.

Many Prisoners Taken When British, Yanks Drive Ahead   British Right Wing Driving Near To Busy Nazi Suooly Harbor OF Sfax: Planes Active

ALLIES DRIVE 30 MILES PAST WADI AKARIT   Prisoners, Materiel Is Seized by Yanks, Eighth Army

9 BURN TO DEATH IN HOME ON FARM   Three Others in Family Are Critically Injured

(Gunman Goes On Rampage; 5 Are Deac   Judge Who Granted A Divorce To Wife Of Killer Listed Among Victims Of Shooting

Utah Gunman Runs Wild, Killing Five   Victims Include Judge Who Granted His Wife a Divorce

Judge, 4 Others Are Killed By Shotgun Blasts   Slayer Captured After Attempt To Shoot Up Police Station -

FIVE PERISH AT HANDS OF OGDEN SHOTGUN WIELDER   Lone Gunman Preys on Two  Homes in Utah City—One of Persons Killed Is Judge Who Gave His Wife Divorce

District Judge Among Victims; Final Blast Fired in Police Station

Five Persons Are Killed by Gunman   Among Those Slain Was Dis. trict Judge Lewis Truman of Ogden, Utah.

NMAN KILLS FIVE PERSON   One of Victims, Judge Who Granted Assailant’s Wife Divorce,

FIVE PERSONS SHOT TO DEATE IN OGDEN, UTAt   District Judge, Who Granted Divorce to Assailant’s Wife, Among Those Slain by Gunman   3 WOMEN VICTIMS      Slayer Captured; Wife Had Accused Him of Trying to Tear Her Tongue Out

Kills Judge Over Witfe’s Divorce   Gunman Kills Five Persons in Bloody Attack on  Two Homes.

 Husband Kills Five Persons Including Judge Who Gave His Wife Divorce In Ogden

Five Killed  in 2 Homes.  -by Gunman   Fudge Who Granted Slayer’s Wife a Divorce Among Those Shot Down   4 OTHERS KILLED HALF HOUR BEFORE   No Motive Apparent for First Attack; Assailant Jailed After Struggle

5 Slain in Gun Attacks In Utah City   District Judge Who Granted Assailant’s Wife Divorce Among Those Killed By Shotgun Blasts Early Today

LONE UTAH GUNMAN  KILLED FIVE PEOPLE,  INCLUDING JUDGE WENT TO POLICE STATION  AND FIRED SHOT REFORE CAPTIIRE

WOGE WHO FREED WIFE AMONG FIVE KILLED BY GUNMAN   Divorced Utahan Runs Amuck, Shooting All ir Sight, Finally Invading Police Station.

Gunman Kills Five Persons, Including District Judge Who Gave His Wife Divorce   Assailant. Leaves Bloody Trail Through Ogden; Utah, but Loses Liberty When He Fires Final Shot at Policeman

Gunman’s Rage Ends In Death Of Five Persons    Divorced Man Murders District Court Judge; Opens Fire On Police

Gunman Kills Five Persons At Oaden, Utah   Final Blast Fired In Police Station Before His Capture

MADMAN KILLS UTAH JUDGE, 4 OTHER PERSONS   Three Others Wounded As  Assailant Runs Amok  In Two Attacks   MOTIVE IS REVENGE   Kills Jurist Who Granted His Wife Divorce  Decree

GUNMAN KILLS FIVE OVER DIVORCE CASE   Capture Murderer at Utah Police Station

Gunman Kills 5 In Attacks on Homes In Utah   Assailant Then Walks Into  Station With Gun

‘Man Who Slew Five Captured lo Gun Battle   One Of Victims Judge Who Granted Wife A Divorce.

5 Persons Slain By Ogden Gunman   Judge Who Gave Divorce to Killer's Wife Among Victims of Early Morning Shooting

Reports Alarming Breakdo tin . In Juvenile Moral Standards   J, Edgar.Hoover Says Vice Especially Prevalent Among Minor Girls — Arrests Increase 55.7%

FBI Chief Discloses An Alarming Breakdown in Moral Standards Of Juveniles; Figures Cited

F.B.I. Alarmed By  Juvenile Crimes   Court Records Show Amazing Increase In Sex Crimes. Drunkenness, Of Minors

Parents Told To Take Care Of Daughters   Moral Standards Among Minor Girls Are In Decline, Asserts Head Of Federal Bureau

CHURCHILL PAYS TRIBUTE TO RUSSIANS   Second Front Is Promised on Sound Military Plans

THE RYANS ARE MARRIED   All Principals in = aie nee Cere. " mony Bear That

THE RYANS ARE MARRIED   All Principals in Springfield Cere. mony Bear That Name

Russo-Finnish Peace Reports Are Increasine   Washington Is Filled With Rumors Of An * Impending Truce

Rumors Have It That Finns Have Relayed Peace Terms To Russia Through Sweden

Early Peace For Finland?   War-Weary Country Said to Be Eager to End Conflict With Russia

Rumor Finnish Pact With Reds  Report Peace Terms eing Considered.

Revi rive Rumor That Finland May Ouit War   Little Country Reported Ready To Make Peace

Would Be Happy To Get Out of War   Wants Only Guarantees Of Integrity And Territory   NO LONGER ACTIVE IN MILITARY WAY

No Peace Move.  Says Helsinki   Finland Rumored Seek '. ing Red Accord

Washington Hears  “Feelers” Already Sent Out Through Swedish Mediums

Finns Ready To End War With Russ   Peace Terms Reported Sent Through Sweden; Regain Lost Territory

RUSS-FINNISH PEACE RUMOR   FINLAND MAY END ARMED CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA

Finland Is Reported Again On Verge Of Withdrawing From War Against Russians

REPORT FINNS’ PEACE TERMS SENT RUSSIA   Washington Hears Stockholm Intermediary; May With-: draw Nazi Troops

FINNS REPORTED READY FOR PEACE   Efforts to Get Out of War With Russia Rumored in Sweden.   HELSINKI SENDS OUT FLAT DENIAL

WFA Warns That Farm Help Program Must Be Hurried To Save U. S. Food, Feed Crops

FOOD, FEED-CROPS MAY BE LOST OVER, ~ NATION THIS. YEAR   Speed Up of Farm Labor Program Is Needed--_Labor Supply Is Not  Adequate. :

ALLIES MAKE BOMBER RAID ON JAP BASE   Attack at Amboina, Former Dutch Navy Base, as Well as at Capital of Timor Island

Former Dutch Naval Base Is Heavily Bombed   Local Fighting on Burma Front Leaves Situation Unchanged

ALLIED PLANES HIT JAP BASES   Dutch Airmen Attack -Koe pang; Burma Situation Unchanged

ALLIES ATTACK JAP QUARTERS   Hit Nips at Former Duteh Base 600 Miles North of Australia

Allied Planes ‘Attack Amboina   Japanese Barracks, Seaplanes, Hangars At Base Bombed

AMBUINA AGAIN UNDERGOES RAID   Jap Barracks, Hangars and Seaplanes At Former Dutch Naval Base Attacked By Allied War Planes.

Allies Bomb  Amboina Base   Blast Through Jay Fighters at Former  Dutch Naval Base

JAPS’ AMBOINA BASE BATTERED   Liberators Break Through Heavy Screen Of Zeros; All Return Safely.

LL Ss Senses  ALLIED WARPLANES BREAK THRU ENEMY SCREEN TO BOMB AMBOINA

OWN BILL BRINGS CLOSE 10 CAREER   Norris’ Lona Conaressiona' Tenure Fnded By ‘Speeding’ Law

JAPS IN ANXIOUS SEAT   Tekye Spokesman inadvertently Admits Fear Of Future Raids

Momentum - = Increases on " Six Fronts   ANOTHER 5,000 ° GERMANS KILLED OR CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS,

Germany Fears Early Invasion Of Norway   Far Northern Army Reinforced As Berlin Sees Red Drive Through Finlanc

AXIS PREPARING TTS NORWAY ARMY   Sweden Expected ta Put An End to “Leave Troops” Hungary Recalls Men.

NAZIS FEARFUL OF ATTACK ON NORTH NORWAY   Reinforces Army In Northern  Norway Against Arctic Offensive

NAZIS — REINFORCE ARMY IN NORWAY FEARING INVASION   lf Norway Becomes War Theatre Sweden Will top “Leave Troops’! Peon Créciine °

TRIBUTE FROM U.S. GENERAL   Eisenhower Uses Glowing Terms in Telling of Fine Feats of Doughbovs and Tommies

Tribute to ‘Foot Soldiers’  Fe: Ee eee Ya Bee ie ne Fe heap es Samana a

Eisenhower Lauds Ally Foot Soldier   WAR CHIEF SAYS FEATS OF DOUGHBOY TO “FILL MANY BRIGHT PAGES”

Denmark Seethes As Nazis Take Over Country; Fleet Is Scuttied; King Is In Custody

FIERCEST BATTLE OF ISLAND CAMPAIGN IS UNDER WAY IN AREAS   Fighting Rages Only 15 Miles South of the East Coast Port of Cantania After Allied Forces Smashed Through Vizzini—_ More Than 30,000 Prisoners Captured in Addition to Tanks Guns—Montaomery Is “Satisfied.”

US., British Armies Take  More Ground   Progress Slower As Axis Puts up Desperate Battle

ALLIES SMASH THROUGH AFTER SEE-SAW BATTLE   More Than 20,000 Prisonerg and Many Tanks Guns Captured; Axis Resistance Increasingly Desperate in Sieiiv

ALLIES CONTINUE TO SURGE AHEAD IN SICILY FIGHT   Naval, Air Bombardment Aids Yanks, British In Bitter Fichtinag.

Veterans on Cort "mans   Violent Battles Being Fought For Vital Roads—20,000  Prisoners Taken

ALLIED OFFENSIVE SURGES ON; AXIS RESISTANCE GROWS      Many More Towns Taken As United Nations Forces Continue Invasion

CATANIA PORT OBJECTIVE OF FIERCE BATTLE   Ve Prisoner Take Mounts To 20,000 As Allies Reach Central  Plane ~

FIERCEST BATTLE ON ISLAND RAGES SOUTH OF CATANI   Montgomery Says Re-forme  ' Nazi Divisions Are in Ac  tion But Everything Offer. ed Is Smashed Back,   NAPLES IS SUBJECTED TO HEAVIEST BOMBS   Alexander and Montgomery In Conference, Commander Makes Second Inspectio: of Front Lines.

Allies Drive Forward In Sicily As Enemy Resistance Increases   Fierce Battle Raging Near Catania Between British and Nazi Forces U. S. Troops Increase Gains

FARM UNITS URGE SUBSIDIES’ BAN   Serve Notice of New Bitter Fight This Year in Conoress

Ban On Subsidy Proposal Urged   New, Bitter Fight le Seadn On lecue 2

PRICE-ROLIBACK SCHEME OPPOSED   FARM GROUPS DEMAND CONGRESS PUT BAN ON CONSUMER SUBSIDIES. 4  rw) i ee

Moscow Housewives Get Real Surprise   Supply of Ham Placed On Sale

American Hams Please Russians   Good News Of Arrival Spreads Rapidly In Citv

HOT DEBATE SIN STORE FOR SENATE   €ome Senators Think We Should Not Disclose Post-   War Plans Now.   NOT TO BE RUSHED   Others Contend Our LendLease Should Carry Specific Piedges.

HOT DEBATE. “GIN STORE AR SENATE   Some; Senators - Think We Should Not Disclose Post. ~ - War Plans ‘Now. ge   WOT TO: BE RUSHED   Others Contend Our Lend. a. Lease Should Carry. Specie Peder ‘e

WORLD PLAN  NOW BEFORE  THE SENATE   MINNESOTA SENATOR INTRO. DUCES BILL PROVIDING FOR ) POST-WAR. PEACE  _ ALLIANCE

Ground Troops Kill Another 150 Ninvonese   Heavy Raids Are Made Against Enemy Naval Bases

BOMBERS RAID JAP BASES IN PACIFIC AREA   Cruiser, 3 Cargo Ships Believed Sunk In Raids

NAZIS HEAD FOR SPANISH BORDER   Dbeervers Doubt, However, There Will Be Any New Major Military Venture Now

Kyser’s Appeal Supported by OW!   Musician’s Work Deciared Useful ©

BRITISH STH ARMY HEADS FOR BATTLE ~— OF MARETH LINE   RY WILLIAM B. DIKINSON

Town of bed : Gardane Is : Captured       TOWN IS SITUATED 20 MILES  INSIDE. TUNISIA; NAZIS FORM TWO THREATENING SPEARHE AI

Allies May Strike Sicily And Crete At Same Time   More Raids On Sicily   Tojo Gives Japs _A Pep Talk ~

Tribune Mitten   - Allias in Syria May ~ Be Ready To Move Against Axis Area

Troops Massed For Invasion Enemy Learns   Sicily Reported As First Target For New Drive

GOP Caucus For Surtax Elimination   Majorities Sufficient To Override Veto Of Goodland In Houses Of Legislature

HONG KONG HIT BY U.S, AIRMEN   Giant And Medium Bomber: Pound Docks, Ships

AMERICAN PLANES IN CHINA. BOMB ENEMY NAVAL BASES   DOCKYARDS AT. HONGKONG AMONG OBJECTIVES BLASTED DURING RECENT RAIDS

Report Raids On Hongkong   U. S. Planes In China Make Raids On Jap Docks And Shipbuilding   NO ENEMY PLANES ARE ENCOUNTEREL

Canned Snakes Take Conspicuous Place ‘In Food-for-Victory Show, But Get Slight Approval From Customers

Mine Problem Snoulders As Workers Gripe    Operators Say Lewis “Through,”  Demand Government Lay Cards  On Table.

MINERS Aok FOR GOVERNMENT 10 CLARIFY STANT   Half Of Nation's Coal Workers Still Idle As Unions Watch Capital

Miss Perkins Undependable. Says Murray   Declares Secretary  Disrupts Maximum

Secretary Perkins Attacked by Murray   C.1.0, Leader Charges “It Is Impossible to Rely on Any Statement” She Makes

Special Session Of Legislature?   Texas Severance Tax As. Be Asvac

( 5. HERO DEAD ARE HONORED kT ARLINGTON   Solemn Promise Made eNation Will Carry On the Fieht

ARE HONORED hT ARLINGTON   Solemn Promise Made @Nation Will Carry On the Fight

Unknown Soldier Tlonored Anew.on Memorial Day   Lt. Gen. Somervell Is Speaker at Arlington Cemetery Ceremonies

A Pledge Renewed Solemn Promise Is Made To Nation’s Soldier Dead

Allied Airmen Sink 22 Ships ~ And 15,000 Nips   Tokyo’s Invasion Troops Wiped Out Almost To A Man; 12 Transports, 55 Planes, 10 Warships Lost

Foe Loses 15,00€ Men, 55 Planes In Great Battle   Enemy Force En Route to New Guinez Wiped Out; Defeat Called Major  Disaster for Tokyo's Campaign

J) Axis Planes bagged, 15,000 Troops Drowned As Allies Lose 4 Planes

Aerial Armada Almost Completely Destroys Enemy Convoy, Wiping Out 15,000 Troops and Downing 55 Of Foe's Aircraft in War's Greatest Air Victory

Major Disaster Heaped On Enemy In The Battle Of Bismarck Sea— ' U.S. Gains Maior Victory -

Foe Suffers Major Disaster When 10 Warships and 12 Transports Are Blasted in Bismarck Sea

10 Warships, 12 Transports: Destroyed: 15,000 Men On Craft Lost Almost to a Mar

Ten warships and twelve New Guinea-bound convoy transports are destroyed

oO Enemy Planes Downed in Battle, Allies Lose Four   Foe’s Attempt To Reinforce Lae, New Guinea, Complete Failure, One of Greatest Defeats of War

Great Allied Air Fleet Wipes Out Convoy In Greatest War Triumph   15,000 Japs Aboard Transports Die; 55 Protecting Enemy Planes Shot Down; Bismarck Battle Ends

MacArthur Says 15,000 Japs Killed in Major Sea Battle of War in Pacific   Fifty-five Enemy Planes Guarding Convoy Sho! Down by Allied Forces; ‘Battle of the Bismarck Sea Now Has Been Decided,’ Communique Asserts; 90,000 Tons of Enemy Shipping Destroyed

Ten Warships And 12 Transports Are Sunk or Disabled   15,000 Nipponese Troops Killed 55 Planes Shot Down; Our  Losses Are Small

95 Enemy Planes Seeking To Cover Vessels Bagged By Allied Airmen   15,000 ENEMY TROOPS DROWNED OR KILLED

Major Disaster Is Inflicted on Foe   Great Victory Off New Guinea Costs Allies Four Planes; 55 Jap Aircraft Shot Down

Women Parade Streets of Rome, Genoa, Milan Carrying Banners  “Peace Now—Germans Get Out”; Badoglio’s Cabinet Tries to Deal With Situation

Italian Underground Radio Appeals To Italian Armed Forces to Surrender As ‘Duty to Open Road fo Allies’

Italians Seek to End  Resistance   Madrid Reports Numerous Peace Demonstrations

ITALIAN PEACE CHORUS SOARS TO CRESCENDO   Invasion Touches Off New Demands To Toss Out Nazis

Invasion Touches Off New Peace Clamor In Italy   - Underground Radio Calls For Troops To Throw Down Arms

Peace Efforts Are Redoublec By Italians   Demonstrations Are Admitted By The Rome Radio

Invasion of Mainland Touches Off New Italian Peace Demonstrations

adicationsA ‘Are that Country Might Throw OffGerman Shackles — Urging Strikes and ‘Sabotage to.        Sia eva rieie .

Oust Nazis, Rome Told. Bv Civilians   Strikes, Sabotage Urged on Populace By Patriots’: Radio:

NEW PEACE MOVES IN ITALY TOUCHED OFF BY INVASION   Indications * Country May Throw: Off German «“War Shackles’.  Increase

INVASION SPURS FOES AGITATION ~ FOR EARLY PEACE   Indications Increase That ttaty Will Throw Off German Shackies.

VOLTURNO RIVER CROSSED BY MAIN ARMY QF CLARK   ‘Americans, British Secure . Bridgehead on Bank and are Exosnding It Now.

Clark Troops Start Major Push on Rome   Allies Gain Footho!ld on North Bank After Night Attaek— Advances Ales Made in Northeast

Swarm Over River; Great Drive Starts   Mass Crossing Wins Bridgeheads On North Bank After Nazi Assault Crushed; Open Second Stage Of Rome ‘Push’   By RICHARD D. WMeMILLAN

HERE GERMAN DEFENSE FAN La TO STOP DRIVE   Tanks And Big Guns Poured Across River To Support American Bridgeheads

FULL DRESS PUSH ON ROME UNDER WAY   Fifth Army Pours Heavy Armor to New Bridaeheads

Americans Open Big Push Along Road to Rome   5th Army Smashes Over Water Barrier In Night Attack

WIN FOOTHOLDS NEAR CAPUA ON ROAD TO ROME   Port of Naples Now in Use

YANKS ESTABLISH BRIDGEHEADS ON VOLTURNG RIVEF   Cross Stream Above Nanles, Are Pouring Tanks and Big Guns Against Strong German Resistance.   FATE OF KIEV HANGS IN TITANIC BATTLE   Crucial Struggle Rages A.bove City, Germans Bring Up Fresh Troops, Reds Pour Men Into Fight

VOLTURNO IS CROSSED BY FIFTH ARMY   —Bridgeheads Are. Secured On North Bank of River

ALLIES GAIN MORE GROUNDS IN ITALY IN MARCH TO ROME      Air Forces Hit Albania For First Time In: Drive For New Bases

oth Army Gains Ground Northeast Of Naples Area   Is Advancing Toward Rome In New Drive

Threatening To Outflank Strong ‘German Forces   Eighth Army Wins Entire Gargano Promonitor Spur Of The Italian Boot, By Reaching Fortore River.

NoGrand Jury Investigation  to Be Made   Fact-Finding Committee Says No Evidence Available! to Call Court into Session

RESTORE ORDER IN MOTOR CITY   Investigating Committee Says No Need for Grand Jury Inquiry

No Grand Jury Probe Of Riot   Action Unnecessary Governor Declares

Fact-Finding Committes Re -- ‘parts: Such ‘an: Inquiry is: : “8 Not Needed-:"   CITY. . NEARS.” NORMALCY

italy Gives Up  19 Submarines,  27 Destroyers Recapitulation Of Situation

19 Submarines, 37 Destroyers Saved By Italy   Official Naval Statement  Situation On Fleet

19 SUBS JOIN — ITALY’S FLEET IN ALLIED PORTS   2? Destroyers Accouated for, Along With Five Battleships, and Six Cruisers

RAILWAYS ARE BOMB TARGETS IN RAF SWEEP   Eight Trains Strafed In Germany And France

B TRAINS STRAFED BY RAF IN A RAID ON TUESDAY NIGHT   Aerial Offensive Against Germans Is Resumed— Occupied France Also Hit.

NOW DEFINITEL' KNOWN WELLES HAS RESIGNED   U. S. ambassador to Mexice may be new undersecretary of state   - DEFINITELY KNOWN By Arthur F. Hermann INS Staff Correspondent

Messersmith May Succeed Welles   Rumor Of Welles’ Resigna. tion Receives Wide Credence In Washington  ”.. «4PTers'pD FC itEewmrwr a war

NO QUICK TURN TO “WONDER AGE’   Progress Will’. Be Slow, Kettering Believes; U.S. Has Plenty of Weapons

65,000 WORKERS BACK ON JOBS IN WAR PLANTS   Jurisdictional Dispute That Tied Up Chrysler Tank Production Ends   AKRON BACK TO NORMAL   Output of Rubber Factories Resumed After Walkout In Wage Quarrel

ClO STRIKE ENDS AT CHRYSLER PLANTS   Ouiput Managers Expect Full Production Soon

Most Chrysler Workers Busy Production Seen  ; SE ee at: Gnas   Production Seen Increasing

Two-Year Probe Of Texas Old-Age Assistance Voted  Legislative House Moves to Continue Investigation

GUADALCANAL IS WORTH MORI THAN IT COST   Gen. Vandegrift declares new base is of high naportance

Mass Execution Of Chinese ~ s Disclosed. a   Morgenthau Has Cable From Gen. Chiang Kai Shek

JAPS SLAUGHTER CHINESE WHO AIDED DOOLITTLE RAIDERS   MORGENTHAU REPORTS NIP BUTCHERS MURDER WOMEN, CHILDREN IN CHINA COAST “LIDICE” AFTER AMERICANS BOMB TOKYO

Chiang Reveals Japs Wiped Out All Residents in Areas Where U. S. Fliers Landed: Compares Act With Lidice

Japanese Troops Slanghter Civilians — In Areas Where Tokyo Bombers Landed

Residents in Areas Where U. S. Fliers  Chiang Reveals Japs Wiped Out All Landed: Compares Act With Lidice

JAPS WREAK VENGEANCE ON CHINESE   Slaughter Men, Women, Children in Areas Where Doolittle Fliers Landed After Raid

KALSHEK REVEALS NEW CRUELTIES ON PART OF JAPANESE   Morgenthau Learns Every Person In Areas Where Fliers Landed After Raid Massacred

Reveal Chinese Who Aided Toky Raiders Killed   “Lidice” Massacre Made By Nipponese “In Coastal Areas

BLACK MARKET SLAUGHTERING ARFECTING WAR   Cutting Down Source of By-Products of Animals Turned Into Needs of Battle by Scientists   SOME LIFE SAVERS   Lechithin and Cephalin Which Comes From Cattle Brain Tissue, Used For Snake Bites

Malleable Pant Strikers Begin Return To Jobs   Work Stoppage Protest Against War Labor . -. Board Ends

END STRIKE ~ AT MALLEABLE   Men Return to Work To day; Full Production  Seen Tomorrow

A GRAND JURY OcdullN ON KLEVLA GAOE   Investigation of Shooting of Robert Kieyla Before the Bedy.   AN INDICTMENT SEEN   Since Son Admits the Shoct-. ing, Jury’s Acticn Seems 7 Indicated.

A GRAND JURY — SEIN We ~ALEYLA GASE   Investigation of Shooting o! Robert’ Kleyla Before the Bedy..   AN -INDICTMENT SEEN   Since Son. Admits the Shocting, Jury’s Action Seems Indicated.

HEDY LAMARR NOW MRS, JOHN LODER   Hollywood Star Marries fo Third Time Thursday

Germans Fail  To Check Reds   Wave After Wave of Germans Hurled Back By Weight of Russian   Charge. .

SOVIETS SMASH NAZIS AT OREL   German Reinforcements Battered Back As Reds Close In On City

New Troops Fail To Hold Reds In Check   Mud Slows Infantry, Russians Use Cavalry To Throw Back Enemy

GERMANS RUSH NEW TROOPS INTO OREL   Fail’ to Check Crushing Soviet Cavalry Charges as  Mud Halts Tanks

GERMANS RUSH TROOPS INTO OREL BREACH   Red Drive Continues; 3,000 Nazis Killed In Battle Area

Germans Fighting Desperately To Hold Orel REDS DRIVE ON Russians Claim They Sull Are Advanc ing

racow GERMAN UNITS AT OREL   But They Fai# to Slow Rus sian Drive—3,000 Nazis Are Slain

Nazis, in Desperate ‘Stand, Fail To ‘Halt Crushing) Drive on Orel

NAZI RESERVES FAIL AT OREL   Germans Bring In Reinforcements In Attempt To Halt Russians

GERMANS FIGHTING DESPERATELY 10 KEEP HOLD ON OREL   Fresh Forces Brought in Thursday From France and Germany Unable to Stop Russian Drive

NAZIS RUSK RESERVES 10 OREL FRONT   Units from France and Ger: many Fail to Check Soviet Drive, Moscow Claims   OCCUPY FORTY TOWNS

SOVIET TROOPS CRUSH GERMAN UNITS AT OREL   Reservists Thrown Into Battle Fail To Halt Russians

REDS SCORE SIX MILE GAINS IN OREL DRIVI       Report Germans Bring in Fresh Units from France, Germany, bul  Fail to Halt Advance   40 TOWNS TAKEN   Russians, Unable to Move Tanks, Infaniry in Mud, Use Cavalry to Take Three Positions

FRESH GERMA FIGHTERS FAIL TO STOP REDS   10 Additional Villages Taken by Russians in Their Drive to Take Back Ore! Base.

FRESH GERMAN UNITS AT OREL   Troops Drawn from France and Home Bases Fail To Check Russians.

New Red Gains Despite German Reinforcements   Cavalry Charge Drives Nazis From 3 Positions  At Orel’s Edge.

MOSCOW SAYS NAZIS BRING FRESH TROOPS FROM WESTERN FRON!   REINFORCEMENTS, HOWEVER, FAILED TO CHECK SOVIET DRIVE

Germans Draw‘From. Reserves’ To Protect Orel   Soviet Bulletins Atinourice Red... Troops Continue ‘Advance Toward: Base

Nazis Bolster Orel Defenses But Reds Gain   Troops Withdrawn From France To Check Advance

Nazis Fail To Check Red Drive   Mud and Rain Do Not Stop Russians In Orel Offensive

GERMANY POURS FRESH TROOPS INTO RED FRONT   Brought In: From: France and Germany In Desper{ ate,Attempt to Halt  1 ad  { . the Russians   ATTACKS BEATEN OFF   Half of Nazi Regiment of 1500 to 1800 Men Wiped Out; Cavalry Overcomes Mud

Nazis Fail to Check Red Brive   Russian Cavalry Throws Germans From Three Positions

Unable to Check  Russians at Orel   Germans Bring Up Fresh Units From France to  Halt Offense.

Fresh Units Fight Reds.   Nazis Try Dexperatel To Hold Orel Front

FRESH GERMAN UNITS FAIL 10 HALT SOVIETS   Cavalry Charge Ousts Nazis From Three Fortified Positions Near Orel   40 VILLAGES OCCUPIED   New Leader Orders ‘Fight To Death’ To Avoid Defeat Of Hitler Army

FRESH UNITS FROM FRANCE, GERMANY TO THE OREL FRONT   Axis Are Fighting Desperatelv to Hold That City at All Costs.   FAILED TO CHECK DRIVE   Russians Turned to Cavalry When Mud Threatened to Slow Their Tanks.

Germans at Orel Bring Fresh Units To Aid Defense  Nazis Fail to Stop   Nazis Fail to Stop Crushing Red Driva Through Mud-Rain

LOCAT, ORSPRVATIONE   Wells to Quit Collector’s Job   Buchanan County Official Says He's Not Guilty of Wrong Doing.

Sharp Thrust Nets Eighty Prisoners, Imperils Rommel’s Retreat  Line.

Lightning Raid Is Feeler For Attack   Allied Forces Advancing From All Sides As Axis Troops Retreat: Planes Aciive

SWIFT RAID ONMAKNASSY IS SUCCESS   British Eighth Army Crosses Border Into Tunisia

SALE OF ALL CANNED FRUITS, VEGETABLES: JUIGES WILL BE CUT   Drastic Curtailment Is Predicted for Civilians by Wor Food Admin-  istration.

DECREASE SEEN IN FOOD SUPPLY FOR CIVILIANS   However Supply Will Be Greater Than It Wasgn Period 4925-1929

WEA SAYS CIVILIAN SUPPLY OF CANNED FOODS TO DWINDLE      Next 12 Months Will Show :-~ Big Reduction “In Canned Fruits, Vegetables

SUPER-SEXED CAREER WOMAN DROWNS BABIES   Blonde Girl at Denver Killed Infants Because They Were “Children of Sin,” Admits

NEW BIDDING SYSTEM   Kincaid Plans to Spread Out the  State’s Business

Son, Daughter Of Louis Dracoulis Arrive In Meyico Citv For Funeral

JAP LOSSES IN AIR BATTLE INCREASED   AMERICANS DOWN 94 PLANES, INSTEAD OF 77, IN GUADALCANAL FIGHT.

Score Swells To 94 Jap Craft Lost   Ratio Ils Now 16-1 In Favor of American Fighters

Fresh Tally Ups Toll of Jap Planes to 16-1  Americans Bag 94 During . Wednesday Figh

War Bulletin Discloses That Enemy Sought to Attack ‘Supply Convoy in Vicinity of Guadalcanal. U. 8. Loses Six Planes in Engagement

Union Will Fine Some Of Members   Will Collect $5 From Each For Unauthorized Strike

Union Punishes Rebel Striker:   Assesses 179 Members Fines Of $5 Each

NEW FINN CHIEFS MAY SEEK PEACE   May Attempt to Take Nation Out of War  w=olee << mere,

Gas Truck Driver  Perishes In Fire 18 Critically Burned   7 See ee Sees Sees

GAS TRUCK PYRE FOR ITS DRIVER   18 PASSERSBY ARE BURNED WHEN FUEL FLAMES IN STREET

LEGION 10 OPEN OMAHA PARLEY   Political Leaders Watch 25th Meeting for Hint.  on ’44 Sentiment

Suspect Is Held In WAC Slaying   Victim Probably Raped. Officers Believe

OFFICIALS PROBE KILLING OF WAL   See Probability That Corp. Maoma L. Ridings Raped Before She Was Slain; Body Found in Hotel Room

Adsen- S-ain Vi_'>resen— vue: "ec Jon-erees Aacco1 > isiec “Var 7a:

Spreading Character Of Red Drive Shown   Estimate Of What Russia Hopes To Achieve Ir Her Summer Offensive Looks Far Ahead

Are tareatenca Vath far veal. as aster—— —By Kirke L. Simpso  Allies May Join Red Offensive Via Balkan.

United States To Equip Large Force of French   Giraud Reveals Plans To Put 300,000 Men in Action

Will Equip French Army   F. R. Pledges Equipment For 300,000 Men, Says Giraud

PRESIDENT BANS RECOGNITION OF FRENCH REGIMES   J. S$. To Withhold Action While Bulk of People Remain Under Germar

Giraud Promises War Against Japar   Describes French Army of 300 000

GRAUD : SAYS AD JAP wa         Claime U. S. to Equip  et African

Says French Will Fight Japs  Lr eeccdd Afelbac Di...   Giraud Makes Pledge With U.S. Offer to Equip Troops

U8. WILL EQUIP 200,000 FRENCH   GIRAUD TELLS NEWSMEN COUNTRYMEN WILL FIGHT ON AGAINST JAPS.

ROMIGES TO EQUIP ARM   Free French Now Have 75, 000 Troops; To Get Weapons for 300,000.   DEFEAT OF AXIS IS AIM

FRENCH PLEDGE FINISH BATTLE   North African Army Of 300,000 Promised U.S. Equipment

Giraud Pledges French Resistance Until All Axis Forces Are Beaten

French To Fight _ Japanese—Giraud ‘Will Help When Hitler   Is Conquered. He Savs

Pledges French To Fight Japs  Giraud Says 75,000 Men Ready; U. S. Recoanition Held Up

FRENCH AID IN JAP DEFEAT 19 PLEDGED   General Giraud  Discloses Roosevelt Promise to Equip 300,000 Men

Giraud Pledges French to Help Fight the Japs   French General Also Says FDR Promises to Equip French Army.   He Avoids Political  Issues in No. Africa

General Giraud Reveals President Will Equip French Army, Pledges His Country to Fight Against Japs

Giraud Pledges France Will Fight To The End   Commander Discloses That United States Will Equip -French Africon Army of 300,000 Men— Speaks at Press Conference

FRANCE WILL FIGHT UNTIL WAR {S OVER   Gen.GiraudPledges Assistance  Of His Country In Licking Japan; United States To Fauip French Legior   Dines With F.D.R.

Giraud Promises French Support  Forces Will Help Fight Japs, After Defect of Aixs

Pledges Aid Against Japs   Giraud Tells Press France Will Fight Till Full Victory Won

FRENCH ARMY   Giraud Reveals Plans, Says France to Fight Until All of Axis Beaten

Gen. Girand Pledged Today That the French Forces Will Help Fight the Japanese After Deteat of Axis Powers

French Will Fight To End, Says Giraud   Roosevelt Promises To  Equip French Army Of 300,000 In Africa Te Fight For Allies

Giraud in  *Pledge to Fight the Jananes   “Declares France Will Be at Side of U. 8. After Defeat of Hitler   qo: 8. WILL EQUIP FRENCH TROOPS   No Recognition Is Being Given French Committee, r’ Roosevelt Says

FRENCH FORGES ARE PLEDGED 10 FIGHT JAPANESE   Giraud Says Roosevelt Has Promised To Equip An Army Of 300,000   GENERAL SILENT ON POLITICAL QUESTIONS

French Leader Promises io Stick to End, Reveals FDR Promise to Help Equip French Army

a. ae ee —_— (ae  CONGRESS ADJOURNS   French To Fight With U.S. Against Japs After Defeat Of Hitler, Giraud Pledges

U.S, TO EQUIP FRENCH FORCES   Gen. Giraud Pledges Aid ir Fight Against Japs After Fall of Hitler

WITNESS IN FRAUD PROBE SENT TO JAIL   inion Official Is Held In  Contempt of Court For E Refusal to Turn Over Records   APPEAL TO BE TAKEN

UNION OFFICIAL JAILED   Refusal Te Turn Over Records Te Jury Brings Sentence

A STATE OF SIEGE IS PROCLAIMED IN MARSEILLE   This Announcement Made by the Vichy Radio Today.   ‘HOMES ARE FORTIFIED   Angry Frenchmen Fired on German Soldiers Carrying Out Order.

Frenchmen Fire On Germans And Fortify Homes   Protest Evacuation Of 2nd_ Largest French City, Due  For Invasion

FRENCH OPPOSE NAZI TROOPS IN MARSEILLE   Vichy Proclaims State of Siege in City Where Old Port Section Or- dered Evacuated, Razed   REPORT 250 SHOT   Residents Fortify Houses as Ger mans Move in to Raze Section o: Historic City

40,000 Marseille Citizens Under Arrest; State of Siege Proclaimed.

House-To-House Fight ing; Revolt Increase: Hitler’s Woes; Russians. British Press On.

150 Are Killed At Marseille  Anary Evanch man   Angry Frenchmen Fire on German Troops, Reported

Proclaim State Of Siege In Marseille; Report 40,000 Arrested In Outbreak

40,000 Seized As French Residents of Marseille Refuse to Evacuate City

Revolt Breaks In Marseille   Frenchmen In Port City Barricade Homes. Germans Move Up Artillery.

NAZIS DECLARE STATE OF SEIZE   Angry Frenchmen Fire on German Soldiers in Marseille

Hundreds of French Men, Women Are Reported Shot by Nazis Attempting To Evacuate Ancient Port Area   Allies Sharpen Pressure In Africa

FRENCH HOMES BARRICADED IN OPEN REVOLTS   Germans Threaten to Devastate Area Unless Resistance Is Ended

Nazis Put Marseille Under State of Siege   40,000 Reported Arrested for Revolt Against German Orders; Artillery Used To Threaten Recalcitrants,

State of Siege Proclaimed In. Marseille...  : Vichy Reports ~~ Revolt Put  -Down in Area

Put to Death For Violating State of Siege   Order Imposed by Vichy When Angry Frenchmen Fire on German Soldiers

Trouble Seen  In Marseille   State Of. Siege Ordered In ‘Port’ Aebern French “Defy Captors ~

250 REPORTED SHOT BY NAZIS   Angry Frenchmen Resist Evacuation From Port Area of Marseille.

Marseille Placed In State Of Siege _As French Revolt     Angry Residents Fire On German Soldiers Who Attempt To Evacuate District; 40,000 Persons Reported Under Arrest After Outbreak In. Port Area

MARSEILLE IN STATE OF SIEGE   Angry Frenchmen Firt On German Soldiers

STATE OF SIEGE IS PROCLAIMED IN MARSEILLE   Vichy Author: orities Act   When Angry Frenchmen    Fortify Homes In Old : Port District    SHOOT ‘AT GERMANS   German News Agency Says 40,000 Persons Have Been Arrested; Death Threatened for Others

250 Reported Shot In Siege Of Marseilles   French, Angered At Evac: uation Order, Resist Nez Soldiers, Gestapo   80 WOMEN EXECUTED   French Patriots Snipe A\ Germans Who Seek Te Evict Them From Homes

State Of Siege Proclaimed As French Revol   France’s Second City Seethes; Citizens Fire On Troops

‘Flame Of Open Revolt Flares ‘In France; Angry Inhabitants ‘Open Fire On German Soldiers   State Of Siege Proclaimed; People Ordered Out; 40,000 Arrests Made

250 ARE SHOT AT MARSEILLE AFTER REVOLT   State of Siege Imposed When Angry French Fire on Nazi Soldiers.   German News Agency  Says 40,000 Arrested

Vichy Proclaims State Of Siege In Marseille   Frenchmen Jn Port District Fire On Nazi Soldiers

Wants City To Issue Pamphlets   Mayor Sweeney Suggests Plan Of Education To Combat Disease. .

VENEREAL CONTROL: EDUCATION URGED   Mayor Proposes. Distribution of 25,000 Pam_phlets

Corregidor Anniversary Finds America Making Ready To Attack Japan

U.S. Preparing Bases to Be Used for i  the Eventual Bombing of Jap Cities

CASE IS NEAR JURY   Bonner Springs Housewife Says ‘ She Made Mistake in Rent

LEWIS OR U.S.? SEEN AS ISSUE IN COAL BOUT   UMW President Declared To Have Challenged Sovereignty of Nation   — TRUCE TO EXPIRE TOMORROW   Operators Told Not to Negotiate Until Further ’ Orders

Labor Leader Said Challenging U. S.  A hasan and Darwannd Mha   Above and Beyond The Laws Applying To Other Citizens   MINERS HOLDING OUT FOR CONTRACT

Charges Lewis’ Defiance _ Only Bar To Successful Conclusion, Coal Dispute

WAR LABOR BOARD SAYS JOHN L. LEWIS HAS CHATTENCED SOVEREIGNTY OF U.S.

WLB Says : Lewis Challenges U.S.  Soveréianty ©    Still (No -:Settlement...Re: ported In» Mine’ - Disputé; Truce: Epires To: morrow. Night:

“LEWIS OBSTACLE ~ STANDING INWAY FOR SETTLEMENT   WLB Denounces Coal Miners’ Executive After His Defi_ance Over Contract to Operate Mines.   LEWIS REFUSES TO ATTEND CONFERNECE   Statement Contains Harsh Comment on Whether Stands Beyond Laws Applicable to All Others.

—COAL—  SAYS AUTHORITY (FU. 4. DEFIED   Operators Ordered Not To Meet With United Mine Workers Head   _ DEADLINE NEAR   Sage  Fifteen-Day Truce Expires Tomorrow Midnight; No Decision Yet

DEFIES U. 8. SOVEREIGNTY   it Labor Board tssues Sharp  tatement as Miners Spurn Contract Parleys.   WNNOUNCES UMW LEADER   ys Issue !s Now Whether  Lewis Is Above All Laws In thea Natian

mine head above laws of America   Board tells operators not to resume parley

Say Law Is Defied By Lewis   Labor Board Scores Refusal To Attend Parley

WLB Denounces Lewis Failure To Attend Meeting   Says Defiance Only Thing Standing In Way of New Contract

LEWIS CHALLENGES THE SOVEREIGNTY OF UNITED STATES   Refused to Appear at a WLB Meeting in Washington.   POSSIBILITY OF TIE-UP   Present 15-Day Truce Will Expire at Midnight Tuesday.

Says Lewis Challenges Government   War Labor Board  Denounces Attitud:

WHO'S BIGGER, U.S. OR LEWIS? IRED WLB ASKS   Threat Of New Coal Walkout ~ Grows: Truce To Expire At Midnight Tuesday

LEWIS CHALLENGING SOVEREIGNTY OF US. LABOR BOARD SAYS      Says Issue Now Is Whether He is Above Laws Applying To Other Citizens   NEW COAL CRISIS NEAR

WLB Declares Lewis Challenges United Siates   Declares Issue Is Whether Lewis “is Above And Beyond The Lows”

IS HE ABOVE, BEYOND LAWS, W.L.B, ASKS   Board Reportedly Has Ordered Miners Not to Resume Negotiations Until Further Orders

CHALLENGE TO NATION LAID T0 JOHN L. LEWIS   Scathing Criticism Hurled At Mine Union Chief By Labor Board   MEETING AGAIN IGNORED   Next Step To Prevent Strike : Set For Wednesday Undecided

IS JOHN L. LEWIS ‘BIG ENOUGH T0 DEFY ALL LAWS:   wWLB Asserts Union Leader Has Challenged Sovereignty Of United States

“CHALLENGE TO RIGHTS OF NATION   #\ssue Now Is Whether Mine Boss ‘Above Law’  HE S ‘ONLY HINDRANCE’  @ Board Doesn’t Mince Words As Truce Deadlock Nears

War Labor Board Denounces Lewis For His Defiance   Lewis’ Defiance Declared To Be Only Thing Standing in the Way of Working Out New Contract For Mine Workers

Lewis Aids Axis, WLB Charges as  New Crisis Nears    Statement Says UMW Leader  Now Only Obstacle to Mine Contract

Union Chief Again Defies  Government   Fails to Appear At Parley; Strike Slated Wednesday

WLB Charges Lewis , With Challenging U. S. Sovereignty   Po Action of Chief of Miners’ Union Gives Aid to Enemies

Lewis Challenges U. S. Sovereignty, W.L.B. Says As New Crisis Threatens

IIEAD LL DEFIES ARD ORDERS   -Day Truce In  Mine Wage  es Finds Tuesdav

LEWIS DEFIANT AS LABOR BOARD ORDERS PARLEY   UMW Chief Won’t Commen' on Probable Work Stoppage

War Labor Board Declares that United Mine Workers Chief Has Put Challenge Before Nation.   FAILS TO APPEAR AT HEARING TODAY

UMW LEADER HAS AGAIN IGNORED OFFICIAL BOARD   Board Wants to Know Why He Is “Above Laws Applying to Others.’’

Sovereignty Of U.S. Challenged, Board Declares   "No Steps Announced To Avert Strike When Truce Ends  Tuesday

WLB Raps Lewis; Sees UMW Leader Challenging Nation   Board Denounces Miner Chieftain After Union Again Shuns Meeting; Next Step in Dispute Not Revealed

Mine Dispute ‘Issue Called ' Test of Law   Mine Leader Is Defying Established Procedure, Savs Statement   NEW TIEUP FEARED   Truce in Bituminous Parley Will Expire Tomorrow Night

WLB Says Issue Now is Whether John L. Lewis ‘Beyond Laws’   Board Says UMW P resident Has Challeng: ed the Sovereianty of the United States

LEWIS RAPPED IN WLB EDICT   No Sign of Settlement As Mine Truce Nears End

Labor Board Says It’s Now Lewis vs U.S.   Statement Says Issue Presents Challenge to Sovereignty of U.S,

MINERS BOSS DRAWS BLAME IN STALEMATE   Operators, Board Meet in Lewis’ Absence; New Negotiations Lag.   STATEMENT DECLARES HE DELAYS CONTRACT

UMW Chieftain, Denouncing WLB Again, Refuses to Attend Hearing to Arrange for Resumption of Negotiations   NEXT MOVE WLB NOT REVEALED   Board Says Issue Now ‘Whether Mr. Lewis is above and beyond Laws which Apply to All Other Citizens U.S.’

WLB SAYS LEWIS’ DEFIANCE ALONE IN WAY OF CONTRACT   Board Accuses Union Chief Of Giving “Aid And Comfort To Our Enemies”’

LABOR BOARD DENOUNCES JOHN LEWIS   WLB Charges He Alone Blocks New Union Contract

Held Sole Blame For Troubles   War Labor Board Raps Labor Leader Sharply In Statement Issued To Public

Labor Board Denounces Mine Leader  Lewis Still   Lewis Still Silent As Coal Crisis Nears

WLB Orders No: Renewal of Bargaining   Say Lewis Has Challenged ‘Sovereignty of the United States’ in Mine Stand

War Labor Board Charges Lewis Challenges U. S.   Withering Statement Is Issued Against Coal Miners’ Chieftain

Asserts Issue Is Whether Lewis Is Above And Beyond Laws Which Apply to All Other Citizens of the United States

WLEB Charges Lewis with AidingEnemy   Statement Issued After Meeting With Operators

WLB Flays Defiance  Of Lewis   Say Sovereignty Of U. 8. Challenged By Leader In Refusing Conference

Operators Said Ordered Not To Attend Parley   Uncertainties Exist As To What Steps Will Be Taken To Avert A Shutdown

SCORES UMW HEAD, ABSENT FROM MEE]   Conference With Operators on Resuming Parleys Held

Labor Board Says Sovereignty of U.S. Challenged   John L. Lewis Is Denounced for Miners’ Defiance   Truce Near End.

Kaiser Doubts Miner's Readiness to Strike; Opposes Absentee Laws

Compulsion in War Work Held Unwise   Kaiser Would Leave Attendance on Basis of Volition

RAF Blasts Capital Of Nazidom in First Daylight Visit Today   British 8th Army Vanguards Enter Tunisia, Russian Forces Continue Advance on All Fronts

Big Jap Base In Marshalls Raked   Seven Zeros Down,  Three Raiders Lost By LEIF ERICKSON’

FURY OF AIR WAR RISING IN PACIFIC   Army Liberators Raid Enemy Base in Marshall Islands

TAROA AIR BASE OF JAPS RAIDED   Sky War Over Marshalls Mounts To New Fury; Zeros Give Battle

Big Jap Base In Marshalls Raked   Seven Zeros Down, Three Raidere lL oct

Russians Force Wedge Between German Units   Moscow Reports 10,000 Nazis Die Near Novorossisk

WEDGE IN AXIS ARMY ALONG STREAM   Red Fleet on Guard to Prevent Any Attempted Nazi Evacuation by Water Routes

Three Ardmore Persons Die as Train Hits \. .-:   Cleburne Walk, Whe, 5-Year-Old Daughter Meet Death at Garland. To Be Buried Here

] Jap Leaders Know They’re Licked, Say A. P. Men Just Released By Nips

Leaders Keeping Facts From @ Well Drilled Populace and Morale Is Good   WAR, LORDS. HOPE TO WIN THE PEACE   ‘AP ‘Correspondents’ Long im Orient Tell Conditions; “Now Enroute Home

Japs Know War Is Lost      Exchange Prisoners Declare Only Jap  Citizen Is Unaware Of Impending Doom

JAP LEADERS KNOW THEY'RE FIGHTING A LOSING CONFLICT   Keep It a Secret From Populace Who Shows No Signs of “"@ Weakening Morale Despite Hardships .

WRITERS FROM ORIENT SAY  [Japs Know War Is Lost (Keep It Secret From People      Two AP Correspondents Aboard Gripsholm Declare Nip Military Leaders Expect Long Conflict, but Hope for Peace Enabling Them to Keep Empire So They Can Trv Again ?5 Years From Now.

Claim Nippon Leaders Have Given Up Hope   But AP Writers on Gripsholm Report Morale Unbroken

Jap Leaders Know They're Fighting Losing War, But People Haven't Been Told

Japan War Lords See Losing Fight   People’s Morale High Due To Propaganda

Jap Leaders Know They re Losing But People Don t   Two Associated Pres: Men on Exchange Ship Send Reports

JAP CHIEFS KNOW WAR IS LOST, AP. VETERANS REPORT   American Fleet Routs Enemy  Vassels in Pacific Clash

Writers Say Jap Leaders Expect To Lose War But Hope To Win Peace

Believe Jap Leaders Know They Are Losing War Now   But They Are Keeping It From Populace; Issue 2-Year Ration Cards

CLAIM ENEMY LEADERS KNOW WAR I$ LOST   Newsmen Say Fact is Being Kept From Japan People

FOUR MORE JAP SHIPS DAMAGED   Flying Fortresses And Flying Boats Team Up On Raid.

ISSUES A CHALLENGE   Schoeppel Favors Another Scrap Drive in the Near Future

‘State's Congressional Delegation Urges Full ‘Support For Loan Drive

Germans Evacuating Ukraine   PULLING OUT OF AREA FROM POLTAVA TO CRIMEA IN MOVE BELIEVED DESIGNED TO AVOID ENCIRCLEMENT AS REDS THREATEN KIEV

Allies Should Tip Caps to Gallant Fighting Services Which Have Continued to Hold Pacific Lines While We ‘Beat Hitler First’

 Fhe War Today  Yanks: in. Pacific Doing More Than Hold. Japs Back, Forcing Defensive

TRIBUTE PAID TO OUR GALLANT FIGHTING SERVICES WHICH ARE HOLDING LINES IN PACIFIC

The War Today  Gallant Fighting Troops In Pacifie Area Deserve Salute.

GLOBAL WAR'S CHALLENGE MET BY RED CROS   Vast Resources Back Nation’s War Effort Abroad and at Home By Big Organization

Russian Surge Traps Germans In: Crimea Area  German Battle Losses Heavy

Invasion Is Threatened From Three Directions; Nazis Facing Debacle

RED PRESS IN ATTACK HINT   NAZI TANKS RAP AT DONETS AS DRIVE SEEN

Nazi Tanks Open Attack Near Donets   Red Press Warning Great Axis Summer Offensive Brewine

GERMANS MOVE THOUSANDS OF MEN 10 FRON]   “At Decisive Stage Of War,” Paper Says; Says Nation “Must Mobilize Our Forces”

RED PRESS WARNS OF GERMAN PLANS FOR GREAT DRIVE   Axis Summer Offensive Believed About Ready to Start on Southern Front.

Nazi Tanks - Resume Drive  Against Reds   RBIPTER STRUGGLE GOING AHEAD ON SOUTH BANKS DONETS.

ASSAULTS RENEWED ON GERMAN FORCES BY SOVIET TROOPS   Firmly-Held Bridgehcad is Objective of Red Army Below Izyum Today,

Soviet Press Warns That __ Nazis May Be Preparing Huge Summer Offensive

NAZI TANKS RENEW ATTACK ON DONETS RIVER BRIDGEHEAD   Russian Press Warns Against Possible Great Axis Offensive In Summer

Germany Is Hit  InBad Weather "By Big Bomber:   Nazis Admit ‘Allies Re. sume Daylight Attack /-- On The Reich

GERMAN BASES BOMBED BY DAY   Allied Attacks Bring On Acute Rail Problem  In France

NAZ! TARGETS ARE RAIDED BY AIRMEN   Daylight Attacks Are Announced by German News Agency

Southern-Based U. §. Bombers Attack Germany   Nazis Report Heavy Yank Losses, Many Aerial Combats

BOMBERS SINK 5,000 TON JAP CARGO VESSEL   All Allied Bombers Return From Raid On Wewak

Tomorrow Deadline For Mailing Applications For Ration Book No. 3

1000-Pound Bombs Smash Jap Bases   Bombardment Take Place Under Noses Ot Japanese Fleet

High French Officials Out In Vichy Shake Up   Foreign Diplomats Take Leave of Petain fo Switch to Giraud

VichY SHAKEUP HINTS MOUNTING UNREST IN FRANCE   Five of Laval’s Cabinet Members Ousted in What Berlin Calls “Move For Harmony.”

Indications Point to Major Shake Up in Vichy Government of Laval

Drastic Changes Made by Laval In His Cabinet .  ! Development Follows “Many Desertions of . Vichy by Diplomats

Shake-Up in Vichy Regime Is Indicated   French Diplomats and Officials Abroad Drop Away from Laval’s Government in Important Numbers

VICHY GOVT. SHAKE-UP INDICATED   Five Ministers Dismissed From Cabinet in Effort To Concentrate Power

Vichy Cabinet . Shaken Up, Five  Ministers Ousted   French Diplomats  Switching From Laval to Giraud   (REVEALED BY BERLIN  German Radio Insists Changes Are ‘Harmonious’

MAJOR SHAKEUP SEEN IN VICHY   Reports From Various Sources Hint Much Trouble For Laval; French Leaders Dropping Away From Vichy Regime.

FIVE OF VICHY CABINET FIRED   Ministers are Ousted by Laval; Government Deserted by Envoys

Cabinet Shakeup Reported   FIVE CABINET MEMBERS OUSTED TO “INSURE SUPPORT FOR LAVAL”

NAZIS SHAKEUP VIGHY REGIME   Five of Laval's Cabinet Dismissed; Diplomats Drop Away

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Major Shake-Up Is Indicated In Vichy Government of Laval   Five Cabinet Ministers are Dismissed In What Is Described as Harmonious Move

LAVAL POWER INCREASED BUT UNREST GROWS   14 Diplomatic Officers in Madrid Pledge Allegiance to Giraud

Vichy Government Shakeup Reported  Diplomats Are Said Switching to Giraud

Laval Regime Runs Into’ Difficulties   Five Cabinet Members Ousted, Diplomats Quit

Laval’s Regime In France Due For a Shake-up   Berlin Radio Announc. es Dismissal of ‘Five Officials

Laval Makes Over French Government   Unrest Believed To Have Caused  Premier’s Action   New Ministry Expected To Carry Nazi Banner   Defections From Diplomatic Corps Indicates Trouble

Big Shake-up In Cabinet of Laval Starts   Whatever Backing ‘At Had in France Rapidly Shrinking

Report Shake-Up In Vichy Government:  Growing Unrest In France Indicated

HITLER WORRIED OVER GROWING FRENCH UNREST   Major Shake-up in Laval’s Government in Vichy Is Now in First Stages   FLEET ALREADY IS LOST   Strong Segments of Army Not Conquered in Africa Are Getting Together Now

DISCORD IN VICHY RULE NOTED FROM SCATTERED FRONTS   Major Shake-up Appearing a Cabinet Members Quit; Dipwe Neto: Pete

Hannah Dempsey Has Breakdowr   Sensational Divorce Hearing Delayed

DEMPSEY TRIAL IS POSTPONED   Ex-Boxer’s Wife Collapses After Sensational Testimony

DEMPSEY DIVORCE HEARING POSTPONED   Wife of Ex-champ Suffers Nervous Collapse, Claim

Lloyd George . Again Wedded   British’ ‘Statesman - And Secretary Marry At « Country’ “Estate

Final O. K On Wire Merger   FCC Approval the Last Step Needed to Give Nation a Single, Efficient Telegraph System

Merger Of W. U., Postal Approved   F.C.C.’s Action Climaxes Years Of Study By Federal Agencies. _

FCC Approves Merger Postal, WU Companies   Employes Both Companies To Be Retained; Integration Expected to Take Two Years

2 TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS TO BE COMBINED   FCC Approves Merger of Postal and Western. Union, Designed to Give Nation One Vast Communication System.

Approve Merge Of Postal And  Western Union   Action By F. C. C. Means Single Vast Telegraph Svstem For Nation.

FEDERAL GROUP OKAYS MERGER WIRE CONCERNS   Western Union to’ Absorb Postal for More Efficient and Economic Operation

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES WILL MERGE   Western Union, Posta Telegraph Given OK By F.C.C.

TELEGRAPH MERGER IS APPROVED   FCC Gives Okay On Western Union, Postal Combine

Western Union, Postal Merged  Monopoly Believed   Monopoly Believed Most Efficient

COUNT SCORES AGAINST CROWN   Police Official Fails Te Identify Fingerprint & At Murder Trial 4

GREAT SUPPLY CF PEACHES RELEASED   750,000 More Cases Ordered From Government Stock For Civilian Use.

Airfields May Already Be In.  American Hands   Arawe Diversionary _ Attack Made Landing  On Gloucester Success

YANKS CLOSE IN ON JAP AIRFIELDS   Meet Scattered Opposition On Cape Gloucester

MARINES EXTEND BEACHHEAD, MAY TAKE AIRFIELDS   Japanese Putting Up Little Fight on New Britain   JAPS CLAIM BIG TOLL OF ALLIED WARSHIPS

"Ys nks Ring  7 Aetial Base   Marines €losing In-on Twin: Fields. Behind ‘Tank: Atiack,

AMERICANS GAIN ON CAPE GLOUCESTER   Strategy Revealed; Arawe Landing Just a Feint

DEVILBOGS CLOSE IN ON TWO AIRFIELDS   No Opposition As U. S. Feint Works Perfectlv

Marines Lash At 2 Airfields  Held by Japs   Cape Gloucester Force Closing in on Enemy From Two Sides   TARGET HILL TAKEN   Artillery Knocks Out Pillboxes Barring New Britain Road

JUNSLE-WISE MARINES EXPAND INVASION SPAN   Close in 2 Sides of Jap Airfield Behind Cape Gloucester

MARINES ADVANGE ON JAP AIRFIELDS ON NEW BRITAIN   Extend Seachhead At Cape Gloucester, j take Target”

MARINES CLOSE IN ON JAPANESE ON NEW BRITAIN   Capture Target Hill — Close In On Two Sides Of Cape Gloucester

PLIGHT SAD NT LANDES   Bombardment Is Pas: ed by Air, Naval  PFoarcas

ntelleria Hit ‘rific Blows  sm Sea and Air   ‘roop Invasion Hinted ‘fter Fortress Given ,emand to Surrender  NESE GO AHEAD  sussians Claim Big victory in Air Raids Nazi Airnorts

HEART AILMENT CAUSE OF DEATH   Pvt. Marvin Woolworth, 26, Former Hinton Resident, Succumbs

JAP ZERO PLANE NO SUPER-CRAFT   General Explodes Theory Nippon Fliers Have  Wonder Ships

Theory Zero Is Super-Plane Exploded By American Tests   Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold Says 1 Has Maneuverability, Due to Light Construction and Lack of Ruggedness and Protective Armor; U. 8.  Ships Greater Diving Speed

Jap Landings Menace Chinese   New Drive to Take Changsha Is Feared

GREAT U. S. BOMBER FLEET IN DAY RAID   Attack Back on 24-Hour Basis

New System Qn Prices    OPA Announces a Cost‘Plus Basis for Fixing Food Price Ceilings

Revised Price Program Set   New Control Plan To Supplant Present Ceiling Price Setup For Food,

New Contro! Plan For Food Prices Revealed by Browr   Unpaid Local Groups To Administer Limit On Mark-Up Margin

Administrator Of OPA Announces Plan To Appoint Price Panels  - For Ration Boards

DEVERS hINTS NEW INVASION   U. S. EUROPE CHIEF SAYS CHANNEL CROSSING AIM

WANTS SECOND FRONT ACTION   Lt: Gen. Jacob. Lb." Devers; ‘Comman. “der «of Anterican ! Forces - in Eu“ropean Theatre: Says: ‘0 jective is ‘to. Get Across Chamel' Water.

OVER-CHANNEL INVASION NO. 1 U.S. OBJECTIVE   Gen. Devers Says Blow Coming As Soon As Possible

DEVERS DISCUSSES ‘NEW ATTACK PLAN   French Are Expected to Ask Equal Voice When PostWar Councils Open.

"Second Front Soon As Possible,’ Says Gen. Devers   "Our One Objective Is to Get Across This Narrow Strip of Channel Water"

oO On Parade and On : ‘The Field of Battle  aa oie pee gees en va Sues   Devers Stresses Need Of (More Material To Speed...  'Cross-Channel Blow Soon

GEN. DEVERS HINTS 2ND FRONT NEAR      “Says Objéctivé To”” Get Across Channel Soon As Possible

2 ————E————— =e Ee ——  U.S. Commander In England Anxious To Get At Germans

Reveals Plan For Invasion   Yanks’ Leader in England Eager To Cross Channel

Devers Sees Invasion Drawing Near   Says Allies Anxious To Get Across Channel

Record Raids Made by Allied Bombers On Seven Italian Island Outposts and Cities

LIBERATOR FLEET TEAR FURIOUGLY AT ITALY HEEL   But Big Invasion Anticipated By Axis Fails To Be come Reality

“”\merican Liberators Rake Vital italien A\irdromes Causing Heavy Damage

Liquor Issue Forced Back In Spotlight   Charge is Made That Shortage in State is Reviving Bootlegging  TAVERN OWNERS JIRKED

Federal Aid School Bill Is Assailed   Utah Senator For It, Republicans Oppose Common School ‘Subsidies

ON SCHOOL SUBSIDY   Plan Is Upheld and As _ sailed in Debate in   Senate Today

GOP'S LEADERS OPPOSE SCHOOL FUND MEASURE   Taft, Two Other Senators, Join in Fight Against Federal Subsidies

Moscow's Guns Fire to Mark Bryansk Capture   New Victory Ranks With Kharkov, Stalino and Taganroc

Bryansk Falls To  Russians  Nazis Are Sent Reeling Along  See aera a

REDS CAPTURE BRYANSK, KEY RAIL JUNCTION   ENEMY STRONGPOINT ON DESNA RIVER OUTFLANKED

Japs Attempt To Dislodge Chinese   Casualties High On Both Sides

DOG BITES SOLDIER, FIND RABIES LATER   Service Man Unaware of Autopsy Results

SOLDIER IS HUNTED; - BITTEN BY MAD DOG   Unaware of Peril and Name Or Station Unknown

FRENCH DISCUSS CATROUX REPORT   Envoy is Expected to Return tc Take Views Back to Giraud

NORTH OHIO COATED WITH SHEET OF ICE   Transportation Paralyzed and War Production Slowed

MAY FIX $20 AS MINIMUM WAGE FOR SOUTHEAST   WLB Has Authority  To Determine Minimum Standard; Actions Indicate Below $20 Considered Substandard.

COLD SHOULDER BY LEWIS OVERLOOKED BY LABOR BOARD   HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARD APPEAL FOR PUNISHMENT LABOR SATOTEURS

COLD SHOULDER BY LEWIS OVERLOOKED BY LABOR BOARD  HOUSE COMMITTEE HEAR      HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARD APPEAL FOR PUNISHMENT LABOR SATOTEURS

WLB Panel Begins Hearings On Coal Dispute  Miners Take No Part; Senate Committee  Starts Consideration AVC Dau Caw Tav Diane

TO IGNORE WLB COAL: HEARINGS   Lewis Not Represented As Labor Panel Resumes  Investigation   PREPARE FOR CRISIS   Ickes Makes Plans To Divert Coal To Needed Industries

DOORIS OPEN ~-TOJOHNLEWIS   If He Wants to Come In, It’s O. K., Attitude of WLB  Panel

FOR DENOUNCES SALARY RIDER   De-Limiting Amendment In Debt Bilt Results In Refusal To Sign

PAY UMIT ACTION an   PRESIDENT BITTERLY ASSAILS _ CONGRESS FOR KNOCKING OUT HIS $25,000 SALARY. LIMITATION

SALARY LIMIT KILL CRITICIZED   FDR Denounces Congress For Rider Attachment

21 COUNTY MEN PLACED IN ‘I-A’   Draft Board Also Announces Re-classifications for 37 Others Here

19 COUNTY MEN PLACED IN 1-A   Next Group of Draftees to Leave for Induction At Tulsa Soon

SHARE-RIDE DRIVERS LIABLE   Supreme Court Holds Such Cases Are Not Covered By Guest Law

mt ‘SHARING COURT RULING   STATE SUPREME COURT HOLDS ACCEPTING PAY FOR RIDE VOIDS “GUEST” PRO- TECTION

KILLED IN ITALY, 5,023   British-American Allies Have 16,000 Wounded in Campaign.

BOMBS ON ASTRIA   Messerschmidt Works at Wiener Neustadt Hit in Daylight Raid -

ltalian People Cry For Immediate Peace   Thousands Besiege Pope With Appeals; Secret Radio Calls For Revolt Against Badoglio; U. S. Troops Take Randazzo In Brilliant Attack

Blast Warplane   Plant In Austria  No Part Of Germany Is Rafa Fram Attack

Yanks Smast Nazis’ Austri Plane Plant   Cembers Fly 2600 Miles to Better ‘Uateucheble City’

SMENTS A COPY—18 CENTS A WEEK ES A WEEK  American Liberators Bomb Nazi Factories No

LIBERATORS POUND HUGE PLANE PLANT   2,500 Miles Flown by Middle East Airmen in Bombing Attack to South of Vienna.

372i Plane lorks Hit Big Raid   frican-Based mmbers Score  n lana Miccian

Messerschmitt  Plant in Austria Bombed by U.S. Ninth Air Force   350,000 Lbs. of Explosives Dropped in High Altitude Raid

Bombers Hit in Austria —  American Liberators Ravage Inner Sanctum of Hitler’s Industrial Fortress

President’s Advice To Government Officials Headed For Major Tes!

Recent Advice to ‘Button- Your: Lips’ Gets Test   Elmer Davis and  Rubber Czar ‘Are Concerned in Case

MODIFICATION Ot 46-HOUR ORDER CFEN AS LIKELY   To Provide Exemptions For Steel Flants, Says McNutt   DENIES HE RECEIVED INDUSTRY'S PROTEST

M'NUTT WORKING OUT PLANS WHICH WILL AID LABOR   Washington Announces Today That Regulations Are Being Made To Allow Some Exemptions From Longe Week   FIRST ORDER WOULD HAVE WEAKENED MILLS

40-HUUR WEEK IN EFFECT JULY 1   Exemptions From This Order Throughout Steel Industry.

BACKS DOWN   M’Nutt Prepares Exemptions on 48-Hour Week For Steel.

‘Poppies Arrive; sLegion Auxiliary Begins Work   2,500 Poppies Are Shipped Here From Veterans Hospital

POPPIES ARRIVE IN LINTON TODAY   Annual Poppy Day Will Be Observed Here Mav 29.

POPPIES HERE FOR SATURDAY   Members of the Americar Legion Auxiliary Arrange Flowers.

POPPY DAY IS NEXT WEEKEND   Legion Auxiliary preparing little red flowers for annual sale

,. War Analvst Savs   U. 5. Still Has Ample Food Our Soran Beat Axis Diet

Food Problem Is Discussed   NEW YORK SITUATION IS OVERRATED, SAYS WRITER

 The War Today ‘Food Waste In U. S. More Shocking Than Complained-About Shortages

[The Food Situation in the US Is Being Exaggerated We Are Not Likely to Go Hungry

DRIVE “OVER THE TOP”   Second War Loan Oversubscribed, Says Treasury Official

OVER SUBSCRIBED GOAL S ASSURED   Second War Loan Campaign Concludes Friday at Midnight

BOND SELLING PASSES GOAL   Oversubscribed by About $2,500,000,000

OVERSUBSCRIPTION © ON WAR LOAN DRIVE   Number Of Ratlies Are Planned Throughout Nation To Boost  Sale.

Quota Passed  In Bond Drive   Treasury Reports Thirteen Billion Mark Already Exceeded ja Second War Loan’

DRIVE TOPPED BY $800,000   Keep On Buying, Is Treas ury Message To All Americans

Bond Drive Booms Far Beyond Quota   ANNOUNCE CAMPAIGN TO NET $2,500,000,000 ABOVE ORIGINAL GOAL

Officials Predict War Loan Drive Will Be Oversubscribed  Less Than $500,000,000 Is Needed Jo Reach Goal of $13.000.000.000

GONFEREES GET BEER LEGISLATION   Joint House and Senate Conference Group to Iron Out Differences; Health Bill Goes to Governor

JOINT PARLEY ON BEER SEEN   Controversial Measure I: Headed For Ironing Out Session

Lower Physical Standards May Tap 4-F Pool   Hershey in Full Charge of Service

Moves to Tap 4-F Pool May Slow Up Draft of Fathers   Plan to Release Young -Men Now Deferr-d Also Pendered

House Seeks Way Out of Father Draft   4-F, Occupational Deferred Pools Offer Alternatives

PHYSICAL ST ANDARDS LIKELY TO BE LOWERED    Pool Of 4F Selectees May Also Be Tapped To Slow Down Drafting Of Pre-War Fathers

MOVEMENT ON FOOT TO TAP 4-F POOL   Tentative Plan Would Lower Physical Standards for Army

Two Deviees May Be Used To Slow Draft Of Ratharc   Physical Standards May Be Placed Lower To Tap Large Pool Of Men in 4-F Class   Ae NM Ee ea Ee NAAR ORS  OTHER CONCERNS YOUNGER MEN  Plan Would Remove Occupation Deferment For Any Under 22

Train Control Failure Officialiy Blamed for Fatal Crash in Dixon

Political Emotions Run High as French Assembly Meets for Session in Algiers

FRENCH IRKED BY U.S. POLICY   Bitter Feeling Evident As Consultative Assembly Gets Under Way

FRENCH RESENT YANKEE POLICY   Consultative Assembly May Name De Gaulle Leader

Senate Approval Expected for Bil   Salary Limit Order Would be Revoked

Kiwanis Club To Mark Founding   Will Observe 28th Anniversary Of Kiwanis International

Kiwanians Dedicated To War Service On 28th Anniversary   Local Club Plans Observance During Week of Jan. 17-23

JUDGE REID SWEEPS INTO JUSTICE LEAD   Hold 4,000-Vote Margin, Canvass Will Determine Justice in State Election

REID LEADING IN VOTE RACE   Chandler Runner-Up and Boyles Is Third in State Contest,

Tension Rises Inside Franee   Indicate Germans Complete Plans To Take Over Entire Country.

‘REPORTS INDICATE NAZIS WILL TAKE OVER ENTIRE ‘GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE

NAZIS MAY TAK FRENCH GOVT.   ‘Tension Mounting As Arrests Are Reported From All Parts of  CC msarehwer

BELIEVE GERMANS ABOUT TO TAKE OVER ALL OF FRANCE   Widespread Arrests Reported As Resistance to Repression Increases   “TERRORISM” IS RAMPANT

Nazi Seizure Of Vichy Rule  Seems Certain   Tension Inside France Mounts; Arrests Reported All Over Country

Nazis Ready To Take Over French Rule   Tension Mounts, Laval Under Gestapo Watch as Terrorism Rises

Hear Germany Preparing To Take Over Government Of All France   Laval Reported Virtually Prisoner Of Gestapo As He Attempts To Drop Quisling Role As Allied Victories Mount.

{ . . . . ‘Tension Mounting in France As Nazis Increase Pressure

Indicate Nazis To Take Control Of All Of France   Claim Laval, Anxious To Quit, Held By Gestapo; Swedish Relations Taut

SHY FRENCH RULE 10.60 T0 NAZI   Hint Germans Ready to Take over Government of Entire Country as Unrest Spreads

Canning Factory in Second Week of Season Pack   Opens “Second Front” Friday; A@ditional Help Employed

Race Program For Thursday   ‘MISSION TO MOSCOW’ SHOWN TO RUSSIANS

Renort 191 Jan Plenes Knocked Ont   New Attack On Roahanl By American Romhers

IN] JAP PLANES SMASHED AT RABAUL   MacArthur's Liberators Stawe Devastating New Assault

RECEIVES AIR MEDAL   Kansan Has More Than. 100 Hours in War Theater

NAVY SEA-AIR POWER GREAT   Inventory Discloses Building Of Greatest Fleet in History.   U, S. HAS 613 WARSHIPS

U.S. Navy Best In World Now   Inventory Shows America Operating Mightiest SeaAir Force.

America Sea-Air Power Is  ‘Mightiest In The World’   Navy Inventory Shows Fleet Now Include 14,072 Ships Against 1,076 In 1940

American Fleet ls Described As World's Largest   Navy Inventory Shows U. S. Holds 613 Warships

AMERICA BUILDS WORLD'S RECORD SEA‘AIR FLEETS   MIGHTY NAVAL ARRAY GROOMED FOR GLOBAL VICTORY OFFENSIVES

U.S. NAVY TOPS WORLD FLEETS   BUILDING SWELLS SEA TOTAL TO 14,072 SHIPS

Mention Winant As U.S. Delegate  To Commission   Strang And Pusef Selected By London And Moscow For European Board

WINANT IS HINTED COUNCIL MEMBER   British and Russian Representatives For European Commission Named.

Winant May Be Delegate To Council   London Expects U.S. Appointment

Cairo Reports Clark’s Troops  Entering Port   Germans Make Italian Port  City Of Horror Wie — Burning. Shooting.  sessed   i; MT A RTC y¥$wta*t;?¥Y¥* mm’ A TST Tc   INAZIS LEAVE NAPLES

Pompei ¥y In Hand, of : Fifth Army   Nazis Flee Northward After Machine - Gunning Women and Children in Streets of City at Foct of Vesuvius

GERMANS FLEE INTO NAPLES AND ON TO NORTH, BRITISH FLEET BOMBARDING CITY.   Cairo Broadcast Says American 5th Army Swiftly Investing Burning, Dynamite-Wrecked Port. Nazi Troops Machine-Gun Women, Children in Streets

Entering City From Two Points   Germans Report British Fleet Is Shelling Town.

Women, Children Machine-Gunned By Escaping Nazis   Eighth Gains 20 Miles in Advance Up East Coast

Battered Foe Heads North   ..+ Germans Machinegun Women And Children

Report Women, Children Machine-Gunned in Streets By Retreating Nazi Hordes

INVESTMENT NAPLES REPORTED UNDER WA} BY FIFTH ARMY MEN  GERMANS LEAVING AFTTER MACHINEGUNNING WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Nazi Forces Are Fleeing From Naples   Germans Machine-Gun Women and  - Children on the Streets; Soviets Storm Bridgehead Defenses Below Walls of Kiev

FDR TO MEET WITH CONGRESSMEN TONICHT   Move Interpreted as Effort to Improve Relations Bewteen White House and Canitol Hill

FDR Will Talk With Freshmen      After “Dinner. Conference Of New. Lawmakers To. Be Held: Fonieht .

First Army in Sedijenane Gain   PATTON’S AMERICAN FORCES BATTLE TO PUSH FORCES OF ROMMEL NEARER TUNIS SEA; FIGHTING LULLS AS EIGHTH ARMY MOPS UP

B iN It TERRF BOMBARDMENT   Stax Area Also Bombed By Largest Force Yet Employed

U. S. Troops Retake Hill   British, U. S. Chiefs Meet for Conference

@ WRITTEN FOR YOU  This Is What Hitler Would Do to America—If He Could

FLASHES.   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘oday.   Coanviphon Usheld.

Coal, Clothing, Milk On Ration Possibility List   Probability Of These New Programs Declared Remote, However.

May Ration Coal, Milk, Clothing And Electricity ©   O.P.A. Asks More Funds But Hints They May Never Come.

Coal, Milk, Clothing, Electricity  Viewed as Ration ‘Possibilities’

MILK, COAL MAY BE RATIONED IN UNITED STATES   Electricity And Clothing Also In Probable Program

Coal, Clothing, Electricity And Milk Facing Ration List During Next 12 Months

Milk, Clothing Rations Loom  Funds Asked in Case Six More Programs Me

No Rationing Of Booze And Fags Planned  Restricted Use Of   Restricted Use Of Many Other Items  Possible, However

Coal, Milk, Clothing, Electricity May be Rationing Possibilities

MAY RATION ELECTRICITY, MILK, CLOTHING   Head List Of Possible Items To Be Rationed

May Increase Ration List   Coal, Milk, Clothing. Eleetricity Included In ‘Possible’ Category.

COAL, MILK, CLOTHING AND ELECTRICITY MAY BECOME RATIONED  ALL ON POSSIBLE LIST   ALL ON POSSIBLE LIST BUT NONE REALLY EXPECTED REALITY

OPA CONSIDERING & NEW RATION PLANG   Coal, Milk, Clothing, and Electricity Head List of Program.

Coal, Milk, Clothing And Electricity Head List Of Ration Possibilities

Coal, Milk, Clothing, Electricity May Be Rationed In Near Future

Four Items May GoOn  Rationing   Coal, Milk, Clothing and Electricity Said Scheduled

Coal, Milk, Clothing, Electricity Head Possible New Ration Programs

NEW ROAD TO TOKYO CUTTING INTO BURMA   American Force Overcomes Hills and Highwater

American Engineers And Natives Hack “Road To Tokyo” Through Jungle

LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE’S VERSION OF CONDITIONS AT TATTNALL PRISON CHALLENGED BY FORMER WARDEN LAWRENCE   Says if There Were Big-Scale Irregularities They Broke Out After He Left Office. Statements Issued From Law Office of Former Governor Fugene Talmadzge.

DENIES CHARGES OF PRISON VICE   Former Warden of Georgia Mode! Prison Challenges Findings of Committee”

ltalian Cruiser Goes Down Under Fortress Pounding  ACDICA MENITEDDAMEAN

F orlresses Bag 2 Ships, 80 Planes  Cu nemn Daterenne   Space Between Tunisia, Sicily Unsafe For Nazis

ltalian Cruiser Trieste Sunk by Fortress Airmen   en Thousand Ton Shir Sent to Bottom by U. S. Fliers   Cruiser Gorizia Also Hi and Damaged in Same Attack

Nurses in Africa Ask New Style In Uniforms; Army Mule is Gone   Usk SCHOO!LROOM

Private George Wm. Apple, Jr., At  Denver University   Sen Of Mr. And Mrs. Geo rze W. Apple, Sr., Of Me Kinney Is Well Known This Citv.

IMY AaKO JOD PROPAGANDISTS      OWI Chief Tells Plan; Also Praises Press Correspondents.

Russ Close In On Big Nazi  Rail Junction   Put Georgievsk In Steel Arc,

Russians Capture 43 Towns   German Defense Triangle Around Caucasus Rail Network Is Broken.

MESSINA IS HARD? Hl BY BOMBERS OF ALLIED FORCE!   Another Cargo of Bombs Loosed On Ferry Terminus By Wellington Bombers From Northwest Africa; Medium Bombers Escorted By P-38’s Follow Up.

Allies Blast Axis Bases In Sicily  Shab Pomscsm En   16 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Latest Attack

Ferry Terminus On Sicily Pasted; American Bombers Blast At Airfields

MESSINA AND OTHER SICILY AREAS RAIDEL   Double Week-End Blows Are Dealt; Heavy Bombs Used

American Bombers Raid Enemy Airfields; Deny Rumors Italy Seeking Separate Peace Prepare For Last Ditch Stand

UNLEASH HEAVY BLOWS ON SICILY AND ITALIAN TOE   SIGNS INDICATE THAT FASCISTS PREPARE FOR DESPERATE STAND

ITALIAN CITIES HIT BY BOMBS   Rome Claims 16 Allied Planes Shot Down, Reports Attack On Convoy

POTATO CROP. ~ S PROBLEM   FOOD OFFICIALS FEAR POTATO “FAMINE” NEXT WINTER IF , SUPPLY Ig NOT SAFE‘ GUARDED

A FAMINE’ Ih POTATOES [5 “HELD LIKELY   If Unchecked This Nation Will Feel the Pinch Next Winter.   ONIONS WILL BE SHORT   Government Contrcl of All Scarce Focdstuffs May Be Established.

FAMINE” IN ~FOTATTE 5 HELD LIKELY   If Unchecked’ This Nation . Will Feel the Pinch “Next Winter.   ONIONS WILL BE SHORT   Government Contrcl of All _. Scarce Focdstuffs May . .Be Established... —

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Jap Destroyer and three Large Cargo Ships Sunk.  11 JAP WARPLANES WERE DESTROYED  Landing Is Made Without Loss of Men, Planes or Ships.

Communique Says Land« ing Was Made With Practically No Loss Of Ships, Planes, Or Men.

U.S. PLANE AGAIN RAID KISKA PORT   Navy Reveals Daily Bombing Of Munda Field

MAXIMUM SALARIES COMMISSIONERS BILL PASSED BY HOUSE  COUNTY VALUATION BRACKETS USED AS BASI FOR REMUNERATION

House Passes Bill Setting Maximum Salaries for County Commissioners

Bases Suffer Continued Heavy Blows   New Battle Is Seen As Warships Shell Vital Point

Dive bombers attack Bairoka anchorage, Rekata plane base.   Toll of enemy planes downed since  a 2)! en a ee Ce fad J

U. S., Mexico Sign New Era Pact of Peace   Neighbors Map Method Of Bringing About Dave of Plenty

KERR CALLS ON GILMER TODAY   Governor Offers Help to Tulsa Grand Jury in Textbook Inquiry

Kerr Visits Gilmer, Offers Legal Aid   Will Do It In Way That Is Clearly Legal, He Says

Soviets Jubilant Over Pantelleria   Victory Viewed as Prelude to Invasion

RIVER YIELDS STRUNK’S BODY   Recovered 40 Feet Below Point He Fell Into Water

Strunk's Body ~-Found In Rive   Local Man Missing Since Christmas

CRIPPLED YANK. CRAFT ONLY STRIKING WE/ APON  Tane Currier Plied Pacific Year Ago

Navy Has “Ocean Full" of Carriers and Ships to Carry War to Japanese

WARNS OF HARD WAR IN PACIFIC   KINKAID SAYS ALL ROADS TO JAPAN ARE DIFFICULT

U. Ss. Carrier.  - Force Raised   Sufficient - Ships Ready For Attacks On Japan ~ State Officials

G.0P. COUNCIL 10 FRAME PLATFORM AT FALL MEETING   “Shirt-sleeve” Session Called for Sept. 6, 7 in Michigan; May Listen To Will lie Hoover.

GOP TO MAP 1944 PLANS AT RESORT    Mackinac Island Is Pickec by Republicans for Sept 6-7 Meeting

G. 0. P. Meeting Set for Sept. 6-/   Platform for 1944 Might Be Started

Republicans Map Platform For 1944   Party Leaders Call Meeting for September To Outline Preqram to Combat New Deal

GOP Meet Sept. 6-7   Plan to Lay Foundation For Party’s Platform In 1944 ‘Campaign

SEEK PLATFORM TO TOPPLE FOR   Republicans Meet to Form Foundation of Program For 1944 Race.

G.0.P. Plans: te Frame "44 Platform, Challenging New Deal, in September

NEW DEAL POWER WILL BE EYED AT GOP CONFERENCE   REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO FRAME PLATFORM AT MICHIGAN MEET

GOP Chiefs To Meet In September   Mackinac Island Confer: ence Will Lay Foundations of 1944 Platform

MEAT POINTS — . SLASH URGEL   WASHINGTON OFFICIALS BACKING MOVE FOR REDUCTION--CHARGE  ‘ MEAY SPOILING

ASKS CUT IN POINT VALUE OF ALL MEAT   Charges six tons are spoiling each week in Washington

ASK SHARP GUT IN MEAT POINTS   Food Officials Say Six Tons Spoil Daily in Nation’s Capital

ASKS POINT GUT   Meat Spoiling Due To Lack Of Storage Facilities

Italians Profiteer On Soldiers   Moneyed Classes, Which Never Suffered Under Fascism, Cash in on Americans and British at Expense of Countrymen Deep in Poverty With Rising Prices

RIGH ITALIANS REAP HARVEST   Store Owners Profiteer al Expense of Americans And British.

Italians Reaping Golden Harvest Of American Dollars, British Pounds

More Nazi Troop Trains Wrecked   French Flee. to os Avoid Conscription

FRENCH WRECK THREE GERMAN TROOP TRAINS   Anti-German Sabotage Is Continuing

RENCH PATRIOTS WRECK 3. MORE BIG TROOP TRAINS   Youths Flee to Hills to Escape “Slave Army” Round th

ESCAPE TO MOUNTAINS OF FRANCE   dundreds of Thousand: -Run Off to Escape Con: seription in Nazi Slave Legions.

FRENCH BLAST MORE GE MAN “TROOP TRAN   Patriots Increase Activities _ While Youths Flee trom Nazi Conscription.   BEST YOUNG MEN MUST FIGHT ON EAST FRONT

French Youths Flee Into Mountains; Patriots Wreck Trains and Kill Germans

879 VESSELS BUILT AN 43   Shipyards Produce More in First Six Months Than In All of ’°42.

LAYS BLAME FOR BAS SHIRTAGES   Army katled To Estimate Needs, Nelson Charges At Hearing

ARMY GIVEN. BLAME FOR GAS SHORTAGE   Military Failed To Estimate Its Needs, Says Nelson

4 Two Montana Officers Among Men Cited in North Africa   Entire Battalion of Tanks Draws Praise for Conduct

enn ae ene  Speakers Ask Removal Of Hitler Regime ‘For Good of Germany

Annual Dinner Of Area Scouters To  Be Held At Masonic Temple Feb. 

3,000 HOMELESS IN N. DAKOTA FLOODS   New Rise In Missouri River Threatens Further Damage

JOHNSTON WILL GO IN TUESDAY   Olin D. Johnston To Be Inaugurated As South Carolina’s Governor For Second Time.

WAR RATION BOOK NO. 2 FAIREST WAY OF DISTRIBUTION   W. P. French, Chairman of Board, Urges Public  to Study Provisions of Dian

Point Rationing Will Begin Soon, Chairman Says   Sets Forth Highlights Of Program Assuring Equality to Rich, Poor

Point Rationing System to Be Sel Upin Village —   Public Urged. to Check on New Distribution Plan

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allied Bombs Stripping [Reich Of Its Ability Vo Equip Army

(WHAT JUSTIFICATION IS THERE FOR GERMAN CLAIM THEIR ARMY IN FUROPE WILL BE INVINCIBLE?

Berlin Claims Armies Too Strong for Allied Success But Boast Has No Justification

Ma MAKE RATION COUPONS AVAILABLE BORDER MEXICANS   NO SUGAR OR COFFEE AND _ LIMITED, AMOUNT MEATS YO BE ALLOWED

Sen Connally Reportedly Has Backing Of State Department in Determination To Delay Debate on Post War Policy

Connally Gets Backing of Hull   Believe Senate Will Delay Post-War Policy

Former Envoy Urges Confidence In Russia's Word   Won't Make Separate Peace or Interfere  With U. S., Davies Says COMMUNIST ‘BOGEY’  Declares Soviets Have Kept Word  For 25 Years

Davies Raps Critics of  Russ, Policies   Says Moscow Will Not Violate Promises to Allics

Russia Can Be Trusted, Former Envoy Declares   Soviets Will Keep Their Word, Joseph E. Davies Asserts—"Bogey of Communist Dominance” Scored in Statement

yal isit: Oy ica ee  DAVIES GAYS AEDS WILL KEEP WORD   Former Ambassador to Russia Says Soviets Will Not Make Separate Peace With Hitler; Praises Record

DAVIES STATES RUSSIANS WILL KEEP PROMISES   Declares They Will Not Seek Separate Peace Or Interfere With  U. S. Government   Sees Propaganda Line

American-Born Japs Refuse To Take U. S. Loyalty Pledge      Director of Relocation Camp In Arizona, Where 11,000 Are Held, Testifies Before Dies Committee That 450 Wave Refused to Repudiate Allociance to Emperor

Japs Refuse To Swear Allegiance   Are Still Loyal To The Emperor

Leased Wire . Bulletins on: Lates “World News Today.   Starting Attacks.

GUERRILLAS IN GREECE ACTIVE AGAIN   Starts Series of Attacks Against Axis Occupation Force

Continued . US-Soviet  Accord Asked   Ickes Says Fate of Civilizatice Depends on Relations Between US and Russia; Mes. eow Pact Acclaimed

Hail SovietU.S. Aecord   Says Russia Will Repay All. Debts; Slap at Patterson, McCormick, Hearst

HOUSE COMMITTEE PLANS HEARING TODAY ON PROPOSAL DESIGNED TO HELP COLLEGE   Welfare Director Brandon Expands His  Fight Against Consolidation Program

WAGES FIGHT ON PUBLIC AID BILL   BRANDON BROADENS ATTACK TO INCLUDE APPROPRIATION BILL

Japs Finally ey Defensive  Solomons   * (While DeWitt Mackenzie is on vacation, this daily, column is being written by Max Hill, former ohief of the Associated Press  bureau in Tokyo.)

The War Today— Heavy Plane Losses At Guadalcanal Indicate Japs On-Defensive There   By MAY HYITt.Y.

THE WAR TODAY  JAPS FIND THAT REAL AIRMEN ARE MAN NING U. S. PLANES.

'The Japanese Are on the Defense in Guadalcanal Arez That Was Our Role for Many Months

GUADALCANAL AIR BATTLE IS APPARENT INDICATION JAPAN ON DEFENSIVE IN THAT AREA

JAPANESE ON DEFENSIVE IN SOUTH PACIFIC   Max Hill Believes Great Air Victory Proves _ Desperate Jan Position 

Call-Down For Wallace-Jones Seems Likely   Feuding Officials May Be Summoned To White House By President  ion. ~~, eh Seas * ee ~~ rae &A Ses Ea on

ROOSEVELT GREATLY IRRITATED. ~ BY WALLAGE-JONES BICKERING   PRESIDENT TO LECTURE PAR.  TICIPANTS IN SQUABELE—  AGAIN CRITICLZES NEWS. MEN AND COLUMNISTS

GERMANS SLAPPED ALSO AT FAID ARD: ‘AT PONT-DU FAHS   Allied Bombers Striking At Tunis Hit Two Ships

AMERICANS DROVE GERMANS OUT OF SENED, YESTERDAY   U. S. Troops Withdrew After Accomplishing Their Mission.   The Allies Shot Down 12 Planes Over Tunisia, a Spokesman Said.

Yanks Take Village But Abandon It    Plenty Air Support Given Americans In Tunisian Fighting

WITHDRAWAL IS ORDERED AFTER SURPRISE BLOW   Fighter Planes Aid Yank Columns in Smashing Attack on Sened

U.S. Soldiers Take Town In  African Raid   Americans Enter Village Of Sened, Repulse Counter. attack, Withdraw.   ACTIV ITY INCREASES

AMERICANS CAPTURE TUNISIAN VILLAGE AND LATER WITHDRAW   AMERICAN FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS SHOT DOWN DOZEN GERMAN PLANES

Yankees Raid Sened Village, Then Withdraw   American Airforce Shoots Down 12 Nazi Planes, Lose Four; Hammer Tunis Harbor

STRIKE NEAR ESCAPE ROAD OF ROMMEL   Unified Command Near; Heavy New Raids Are Made

YANKS BATTLE “AXIS IN TUNISIA   12 Eenmy Planes Downed Ir Heavy Aerial Action

Push Nazis Back  In Tunisia Drive   alk Continues For a Unified Command of Alhes  in Africa.

U.S. Drives Nazis Out Of Village, Then Withdraw:   2 German Planes Are Shot Down

Expeet Unity Of Command in N. Africa Soon   Eisenhower Likely to Be in Charge-— Americans Raid Sened

Accomplish Mission, Officials Say   Continue Effort To Win Control Of Pass at Faid  From Germans

YANKEES DRIVE GERMANS BACK   U. S. Withdraws After Accomplishing Mission in Raid on Sened.   BOMB DOCKS AT TUNIS

One U. S. Column Pushes 20 Miles West of Maknassy   TUNIS IS BOMBED   Reports Persist Eisenhower Will Head Final Drive in Nerth Africa

U. S. Troops Take: Sened, Then Retire   Tunisian Fighting Is Marked By. Jah Of Americans And Axis; Severe Air Duelling Is Reported

TUNISIAN ROAD ON COAST NOW ALLIED GOAL   U S Troops Drive Nazi: From Village West Of Maknassy   COUNTER BEATEN OFF   12 German Planes Are Downed In Severe Aerial Fight

Americans Gain Tunisian Village   YANKEES DROVE NAZIS OUT OF SMALL TOWN

U.S. Troops Drive Nazis Out Of Sened Village   Counter-Ailack By Germans Repulsed And Then Americans Withdraw On Orders

Sened Seized In Quick Jab Into Village   Americans Withdraw Aftes Accomplishing Mission; Aerial Activity Intense

Bickér For Pass Leading To Coast   Americans Find Nazis Holding Tight to Tunisian Defile   “"R UNITS ARE ACTIVE   Americans Raid Village in Movement Nearing Gulf of Gabes

U. S. FORCES. TAKE LEADING ~~ ROLE IN WAR IN TUNISIA   American Raiding Force Drives ‘Germans From Sened, Fight Strongly With French In Attempt To Wrest Back Control Of Key Pass.

Eisenhower May Be. Givin Command of African Campaign   American Considered As Likely Choice for  Generalissime—

DRIVE ENEMY FROM SENED, IN TUNISIA   Troops Then Retire After “Accomplishing Purpose’—Raid on Route to Gulf of Gabes, Rommel’s Path.

Yanks Drive Germans Out Of One Town   Harbor At Tunis Heavily Bombed By U. S. Fliers

GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF SENED AREA BY YANKS   Counterattack Repelled; Allied Airforces Blast Away; Talk Of Eisenhower As North African Commander With Rank Of Full General.

Allies in New Tunisia Push   Yanks Take Sened as Fliers Clear Sky

Enemy Driven From Village In-U..S.- Raid   - Americans Withdraw on Orders -Affer Repulsing Counterattack, Planes Down 12 German Fighters

Allies Strike In 3 Sectors Against Axis   Foe Battles To Keep Coastal Stand; Yank Raiders Take Sened. Do Job. Withdraw   Beat Off Enemy Planes

7 Counter - Attack Turned Back Before Americans Are Pulled Out  @ THEIR MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED  Trial Jabs in Other Tuni© sian. Sectors; Fierce “ Aerial Warfare

ATTACK PURELY RAID, MILITARY OFFICER SAYS   i  After Smashing Into Sened, West of Maknassy, Yanks  Repulse Nazi Counter Attack &   ADVANCE UNDER PLANE UMBRELLA   Allied Infantry Attack En emy At Faid; Axis Suffer Reverses Near  Pont Du Fahs :3

ALLIES POUND 3 SECTORS IN TUNISIAN WAR   Americans Seize Objective Then Retreat According To Plan In Fighting

FLYNN: TRIAL IS IN FINAL PHASE   Actor Described as ‘Great Glamor Boy’

FLYNN DEFENSE IN FINAL PLEAS FOR ACQUITTAL   Actor Described As ‘Great and Glamorous Boy of Screen” By Deputy District Attorney   ASKS PRISON TERM   Reference to Abortion Brings Defense Objection; Case May Reach Jury Tomorrow

Move Over Greatest Distance’ To Attack Base; 172 More Tons Dropped On Salamaua

Borneo Bombed By Allied Aces   Bombers Fly 2500 Mile: To Assail Japanese Base on Island

Allied Planes Bomb Oil Port In Borneo   U.S. SUBMARINES STRIKE AT JAPS   American U-Boats Bag ¢ Nippon Vessels And Damage 5 More

VAST DEPOSIT OF BERYLLIUM ORE LOCATED      Breaks Stranglehold On War Supply By Germany

CONCRETE BARGE PROGRAM HOUSTON CONCERN ASSAILED  TRUMAN : COMMITTEE DE CLARES GREED, FRAUD, NECLICENCE RAMPANT

Infantrymen Battle Japs   Use Bayonets and Grenades to Clear Them From Attu

Hand-to-Hand Fighting likely on Attu   Americans Getting Tiny Island by Hacking and Blasting

TEN ARRIVES 10 FCW IMPORTANT HAR DISCUSSIONS   oviet Relations First On List OF Vital Subjects   0 SEE ROOSEVELT IN FIRST MEETING

EDEN VISITS US: SEEKS AGREEMENT ON POSTWAR VIEWS   Full Understanding Possible As Result of Foreign Minister's Mission.

ANTHONY EDEN IN ‘WASHINGTON FOR -WARDISCUSSIONS       Understanding ‘Between’: Na* tions: “Sought Without ~ Any Binding Commitments Over Situation:   PRESENT MEETING IS. _  / ONLY PRELIMINARY STEP   tussian Question: Is: Involved After British’ Refusal: to “Open Second Front Last Veor.

KEEPS SEWELL   Brow nie President Signs Manager  Far Tun More Yeare

*ELASHES   Leased Wire Huiletins on Lxtest World News Today.   Miukes Demand,

FARM BLOC PLANS FIGHT TO KEEP.  PRE-PEARL HARBOF FATHERS AT HOME   Bureau Of Labor Warns Of Huge Unemployed Army After War.

Octogenarian Offers Wickard Plantation For $1°a Year, Suggests Soldiers Till It

NAMES OF TEN OTHER VESSELS ALSO. SUNK ARE ” DISCLOSED—-ALL PREVIQUSLY ANNOUNCED AS LOST: BUT NOT IDENTIFIED: .

Ten Other ‘Warships Destroyed   Vessels Lost During Santa Cruz Battle With Japanese Forces

y Names 11 War ced As Sunk.  CARRIER HORNET, TEN OTHER LOST WARSHIPS IDENTIFIED

Names of Carrier and Ten Other Warships Sunk Held Back For Military Security

NAVY RELEASES NAMES OF SHIPS LOST IN BATTLE   Aircraft Carrier Hornet One Of 11 Vessels Destroyed

Hornet's Guns Fired Defiance ToLast   THEY'RE NO ATHEISTS eet TARPEDOS HIT

OFF SOLOMGN:   Ten Other Warships Lost in Furious November Battles With Japs.   LOSSES HAD BEEN TOLD

Navy Tells ‘Names of 11 Lost Ships   Aircraft Caxrier - Hornet -Among Vessels Sunk in Pacific Warfare   37 JAP WARSHIPS ; SUNK IN BATTLES   Losses Were Announced Some Time Ago,But Names of Ships Withheld

Names of 11 Ships Lost in Action Are Given Out by Navy   Ai craft Carrier Hornet mong Warships Lost in Pacific Fighting

Navy Reveals Carrier Sunk Was Hornet   Names Of Ten Other Ships Previously Listed Lost Are Made Public”   FOE PAYS HEAVILY   Northampton, Juneau And Atlanta Were Among Sea Casualties In Solomons

TOOTHER SHIPS, NOT PREVIOUSLY NAMED, ~ ALSO WERE SUNK   Hornet Sent To Bottom Oct. 26 In Battle Off Santa Cruz Islands   JAPANESE LOSSES HEAVY:

NAVY REVEALS HUANET 3 Loo IN SULOMONS   Aircraft Carrier And Ter Other Warships Lost In Oct. 26 Battle

NAVY ADDS ll SHIPS T0 LIST SUNK BY JAPS   Aircraft Carrier Hornet And Ten Other Warships Lost in S. Pacific Waters

) U.S. Aireraft Carrier Hornet And 10 Other American Warships {Identified As Lost Recently In Action Off Santa Cruz Islands

U.S. Carrier Hornet Lost. Navy Reveal:   Announce Names Of 10 Other Warships Sunk In South Pacific In Recent Months

Navy Reveals Vessels Lost In S. Pacific   List Includes Carrier Hornet

Identify 11 U.S. Ships Sunk   Carrier Hornet, 3 Cruisers and 7 Destroyers 

U.S. Reveals Hornet Sunk in October Fight   (Picture snd further details on P. 3)

Names of 11 Ships Listed as Among Those Lost in Pacific   Hornet Went Down After Inflicting Heavy“ . Daniave oo Exetaye

Navy Reveals Ship Losses   Aircraft Carrier Hornet and Ten  Others Are Sunk

Navy Publicly Announces Ships Names   Hornet Sunk by Jap Bombs, Torpedoes -Off Santa Crua Oct. 26

Carrier Sunk After Claiming Terrific Toll   0 Other U.S. Warships Lost In Pacific Battles Named

ALL SINKINGS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED   Aircraft Carrier Hornet Among Ships Named   THREE CRUISERS,   seven Destroyers Go Down In Turning Back Japs During November

NAVY ANNOUNCES NAMES OF WARSHIPS PREVIOUSLY LOST  AIRCRAFT CARRIER HOR. NET IDENTIFIED AS BIG  re a ee ee ee ee ee

Navy Tells Of Sinking Of Hornet   Aircraft Carrier Among 11 American Ships Lost In South Pacific Oct. 26

US Aircraft Carrier Hornet Sunk in Pacific   Navy Makes Public Names of Ten Other Warships Including three Cruisers, Seven Destroyers Which Were Previously Announced as Lost But Not Identified

Navy Lists Carrier Loss Along With 10 Warships   Captain Lyman Knute Swenson of Provo, Juneau Shipper Among Those Missing

Hornet Among Losses identified by U. S. Navy   20,000-Ton Aircraft Carrier Sunk in South Pacific Last October

HORNET’S LOSS IS ANNOUNCED   10 Other Warships Sunk In Pacific Battles

CARRIER HORNET SUNK IN PACIFIC ON OCTOBER 26   List Names of 10 Other Warships Lost, All Previously Announced

ICY WEATHER CONTINUING   Unidentified Ma n Is Found Frozen in Coke Oven

Brush-Offand Run-AroundGiven To To Secretary Of War By Army Heads

Higher-Ups Get Brush-Off  Stimson, Gen. Surles Get Run-Around On Booklet Showing Official Policy

WITH ACTIVITY   More Than Thousand Ger man Troops Killed On Leningrad Front In 24 Hours   REDS HOLD INITIATIVE

REDS SAY WAR IN RUSSIA ENTERS DECISIVE PHASE   ENTIRE BATTLE LINE SURGES WITH NEW INTENSE ACTIVITY

Fighting Flares Up Anew On 'Leningrad Front; Reds Hold Initiative All Along Line   Russians Say War In Decisive Stage; Red Airmen Keep Germans On Jump

Soviets Kill 1,000 Nazis   New Activity Flares On Leningrad Front

1,000 GERMAN TROOPS KILLED ON LENINGRAD FRONT IN LAST 24 HOURS: ENTIRE FRONT MORE ACTIVE   Activities on Leningrad Front Appeared To B: Scouting Operations in Force. Attempts to Establish New Sector Line Beaten Back.

1,000 NAZI TROOPS LOST IN LENINGRAD FROM PAST 24 HRS.   Entire Battle Line Surges With New Activity From That Northern Sector To Continuing Struggle Around Novorossisk; Germans Also Lose 56 Planes.

Full Russian Battle Line Flames Anew   German Attacks On Leningrad Renulsed

NeW ACTIVITY Tilo. AUGUIAN FRONT SHARPLY   Over 1.000 Germans Killed Upon Leningrad Front In Last 24 Hours

New Action on Russian Front  Reds Hold Initiative All Along The Line

Entire Russian  Front ls Surging With Activity   Germans Are Attempting to Establish a New Line at Leningrad.   Reds Hold Initiative Generally Along Line

BATTLE IN RUSSIA FLARES   Activity Reported In Leningrad Area And Novorissisk

New Activity Reported Along Entire Russian Front; Soviets Say Battle Reaches Decisive Stage; Struggle For Novorossisk Continues   By BODY GILMORE

‘Over 1,000 German Troops Killed on Leningrad Front   Red Army Generaily Holds Initiative Everywhere Along Line; Nazi Rail Lines So Punished They Turn To Trucks

RUSSIANS SLAY 1,000 GERMANS   Large Number Of Nazis Die In Leningrad Area; Activity Grows Along Black Sea Front.

AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Fight F or Novorossisk Continues; Soviet Artillery Active

Reds Pulverize Nazi Posifions At Novorossisk   Soviets Maintain Initiative Along Vast Battlefront

Reds Wipe Out 1,000 Nazis In Last 21 Hours   Bloody Mighting Rages as New Struggle Surges On Leningrad Kront. Soviets Tlold Initiative In Practically All Seetors.

RUSSIANS KILL 1,000 NAZIS IN NORTHERN ZONE   Entire Battle Line From Black Sea to Leningrad Is Again Surging With Activity   MOSCOW SAYS WAR IN DECISIVE PHASE   Reds Pounding Germans _ At Novorossisk Base, Seek to Pulverize Foe’s Positions

Russ Battle Line Active   Fighting at Leningrad As Struggle Around Novorossisk Continues

ENTIRE BATTLE LINE IN RUSSIA REPORTED MORE ACTIVE TODAY  MORE THAN 1,000 GER. MANS KILLED ON LENIN. GRAD FRONT 24 HOURS

1000 Nazis af Leningrad Die   Russian Battle Line Activity Growing; 56 Planes Smashed

1000 NAZIS DIE IN FIGHTING AT NORTHERN CITY   Fresh Activity Is Reported On Long  BResensam Meant

SOVIETS KILL 1,000 TROOPS IN 24 HOURS   Entire Front Surges With New Activity—Reds Say War With Hitlerites Has Entered Its Decisive Phase.

Red Army Holds Off Diver“sion Attempt While Keeping on Hammering at  _ Black Sea Port.

New Activity On Northern Red Front   Nazis At Novorossisk Pounded With Bombs, Artillery

1,000 GERMAN TROOPS KILLED AT LENINGRAD   Russo-German Front Flames Into New Action

Reds Repulse Nazi Attacks   New Activity Along Most of Long Front

WAR TOLL HIGH ON LENINGRAD FRONT   More Than 1,000 Nazis Killed In Last 24 Hours, Russian Claim

1,000 Germans Killed By Reds   RUSSIANS ARE SURGING FORWARD IN NEW DRIVE

Entire Soviet Battleline Surges With New Activity During Past’ 24 Hours~

BATTLES FLARE ALONG ENTIRE RUSSIAN FRONT   More than 1,000 Germans Slain Near Leningrad, Nazis Repelled Alona Donets River   INITIATIVE. RUSSIAN   Reds Seek to Pulverize Germans at Novorossisk with Planes, Artillery

SOVIETS SLAY 1000 GERMANS   Reds Gain at Leningrad And Novorossisk, on Black Sea Front

REDS TERM WAR AT VITAL STAGE   Russians Hold Initiative Or Most Of Broad Front

Reds Report Over 1,000 Nazis Slain   Soviet Fliers Blast German Supply, Communication Centers

Russian Forces Within 40 Miles of Old Poland   Bypass Zhitomir As Germans Flee In Disorganized Rout

RUSSIANS RIDDLE NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Germans Facing Disaster Bigger Than Stalincrad

Retreat of Nazi Army Speeded Up   Stream Through Gap in German Defenses—British  Capture Ortona

Big German Bastion On Way to Poland, Balkans Is Toppled   Germans Are in Panicky Retreat Across Western Ukrainian Front

Fate of Bryansk Sealed As Russ Pound Ahead   Yelnya Capture Cuts Main General Central Front. Defenses

Nazis Flee Before Big Red Attack   Throw Away Guns and Equipment in Headlong  Rush to Frontiers

RED: TROOPS ADVANCE IN NEW TRIUMPE   Sialin- ‘Announces. Cap: { ture Of -Yelnya In “4  Solensk Area

ON MEDICAL SERVICE   ‘Total of 814 on List i in County for August

ON MEDICAL SERVICE   Total of 814 on List in County fer August  7,

SERVED 864 PERSONS      Douglas County Medical Service Reports for June

BADOGLIO STILL  FIDDLES: PEOPLE BECOME RESTIVE   New Italian Leader Seemingly Trying to Play Double i With Allies and His People

Italy Continues Hints Of Peace; Badoglio Stalls   Allies Give Notice Of Invasion; March On Rome Looms

Nip Propagandists Gloss Over Losses  Japs Under Delusion of Vict ory

Sousse Is Captured by Eighth Army   Axis Troops Flee from Kairouan Before Other Columns; Soviet Airmen Bomb Eastern Germany; Russian Front Unchanaed

Axis Evacuates Kairouan, Vital  As An Air Base   Rommel's Troops Are Foreed in Narrow Square Behind Mountains.   Allied Airmen Strike  Heavy Blows on Axis

Allied Forces Speed Toward Final Phase Of African Campaign   British But 70 Miles From Tunis; U.S.-Britain Intensify Air Drive; Axis Destr "oys Stores In Retreat

Rommel Flees For Cover In Tunis, Bizerte   Allied Armies Advancing On All Fronts; Patton’s Troops Take Faid Pass.   'REDS BOMB RAIL TOWN

Allies Capture  Sousse, Kairouan   Rommel’s Men Speed Flight ‘Toward Tunis, Leaving Burning Equipment Behind

Sousse Fallsto Eighth   Rommel Burns All Stores in Holy City of Kairouan

AXls ABANDONS VALUED STORES [IN ARAB CITY   Africa Corps Rapidly Being Forced into Narrow Square Near Tunis

Kighth Army Is Only Seventy Miles From African Goal   Hitler, Mussolini Hold ‘Crisis Conference’ Final Stand in Tunisia Nears

Holy City Sacked By The Nazis   Mad Coast Race Continues; German Cities Bombed

MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY CAPTURES SOUSSE; AXIS - TROOPS FLEE KAIROUAN   Enemy Destroys Stores of Supplies as They Evacuate Kairouan, Arab Holy City and Importent Air Base. Ruined, Abandoned Fauinmert Litters Roads

Sousse Falls to Rampaging Eighth Army   Axis Troops Push into Shrinking - Field Behind Mountains, Desert Bases

POWERFUL DRIVE BY BRITISH AND YANKS ROLL ON   Rommel’s Remnants Routed From Kairouan—Equipment Destroyed or Abandoned   FLEEING NAZIS BOMBED   Reds Advance Slowly in Russia—Hitler and Duce Hold Vital Parley

Zero Hour (Near for ‘Rommel   Asis Forees Being Pushed [uta Corner of Tun

Rommel’s Men Being Forced Into Narrow Square Behind Mountains — Sousse Only 70 Miles From Tunis — Terrific Pace  Of Air Offensive Continues

Axis Troops Have Fled Kairouan, Important Base   Withdrawal Has Totalled 125 Miles In Past Six Days

tne  AKIO DEFENto FALL TO Pitta UNDER ATTACKS   Badly Mauled Axis Forces Continue Withdrawals Before Onslaughts

Rommel Reels  Under Impact   First Army Knocks Out Armored Remnants of German Africa Corps; Allies Deliver Heavy Blows by Air and by Land Forces; Air Forces Shoot Down. 41 Enemy Planes. os

8th Army Forces Kommel Back Toward Tunis  ' Final Stand Of Axis _ In Africa Expected — _cn Bizerte-Tunis Area

‘Montgomery Captures Sousse Anis Troops Are Forced info Narrow Square Behind Tunis   Russians Hammer Koenigsberg From the Air As Allies Smash at Points In Sicily and Italy; Japanese Lose 23 Raiders

POWERFUL FORCES OF ALLIES DRIVING RAPIDLY ON TUNIS   FINAL SIEGE PHASE OF NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN {S NEAR

Rommel Will Be Forced fo Make a Stand   Americans Capture Faid Pass, Scene of Tneir First Defeat

DAIRY LEADERS URGE APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT   Gov. Martin of Pennsylvania Gets Conference Report, Wails on Oiher Governors

Milk Problem May Be Put Up To Roosevelt   Presidential Intercession Is Suggested by Governors of 12 States

PROTECT FARMERS IN ROLLING BACK OF FOOD PRICES   Senate Takes Two Votes On Question. of Roll-Back Subsidies With Use of Federal Funds.   DAVIS IN CONTROL OF PRICES, DISTRIBUTION   Observers Believe Davis Wil Be Food “Czar,” Pla Vigorously Opposed By Roosevelt,

Senate Bans Price-Cutting Subsidies   Follows House In Voting Down Administration Plar

SENATE VOTES DOWN SUBSIDY PAYMENT PLAN   Price Cuts Will Not Be Rolled Back To Farmers

Battle On Farm Funds Developing   House May Be Forced ta Argue for Days Over Committee Plan

Farm Battle Flares in House Over Supply Bill   FSA Abolition, Crop Insurance To Cause Fight

Another Farm Fight In House   Flareup Threatening To Riddle Appropriations Bill

New Farm Fight Flares      Battle Over Abolition Of FSA May Be Only Beginning Of Strugele

FARM FIGHT IN HOUSE FLARES   Appropriations Bill Cause Of New Battle

SA Abolition Move Stirs  Farm Fight in House   Appropriations Commitlee Procedure Draws Rebukes From Southern Groups, CIO; Opponents Get Ruling to Block Maneuvers

Farm Bill Open To Bitter Fight   FSA Supporters Get Debate Rules Changed

Farm Battle over Budget Hits House   Appropriation and Agriculture Committees at Odds in Writing Appropriation Bill

‘FARM BATTLE FLARES IN HOUSE OVER  AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION MEASURE

Draft Ruling: Stir Fire of Senate Group  Morale Breaking Down, Wheeler’  Save at Tearing

Deferment Needs Discussed  In Committee  It Is Said Men in Military Forces To total 12 Million

SHOWDOWN ON DEFERMENT FOR FATHERS NEARS   Induction of Older Men is Viewed By Solons  i

Many Capital Showdowns Near   Temporary Truce On ManpowerMilitary Front

MOON STRUGGLES CONTINUED   Capitol Hill Facing _~ Many. Battles . At Present

NEW STRUGGLES —ARQUSE CAPITA   Congress Continues Study Of Plans To De: fer Fathers

DRAFT POLICIES ARE UNDER FIRE BY LAWMAKERS   Demands for Deferment of Fathers and Induction Of Older Men Grow   FARM RUMPUS SUBSIDES   Civilian Government Workers Target of Questions About Service Deferment

OPPOSITION TO INDUCTION OF FATHERS   Temporary Truce is Called On Military-Farm Manpower Front at Capital  SHOCK FORCE REVIVED

Draft Questions Face Showdown In Congress   Worried Democrats Seek to Bolster Lines Against GOP

SHOWDOWN DUE IN CLASH OVER SERVICE QUOTA   Wheeler Says Men In 38 to 45 Bracket May Get Draft Call In Order to Meet Demand   WNUTT’S POLICY ALSO UNDER FIRE   Roosevelt Lauds Editor For Report On Number Of Federal Workers  Also Available

DEFERMENT SHOWDOWN SHAPING UP   House . Speeds Action iy Protest to Policies of Manpower Chief   KILDAY MEASURE.  TO FOREFRONT   But Sen. Wheeler and Others Would Go Further;.Allied: Problems Discussed

PLAN RAISE WAGE LIMIT OF DRAFT MEN   Aim to Protect Fathers, Call Older Men With out Families.   CONGRESS SCANS JOBHOLDER LIST      Congressman Says Million Eligible for Draft Not Yet Called.

Military Group in ® House Speeds Draft Deferment for Dads   Rattle Is One of Many Facing Capitol Hill; Washington News

Three Plans For Blocking Father Draft   Perkins Rebuked For Labor Strife In Fiscal Hearing

Showdown On Draft Setup  Draws Near Wheeler Asks Deferment   Wheeler Asks Deferment Of Fathers Living With Families; Differs From kildav Plan

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS    L Russians Now Threaten Complete Recapture Of Crimean Area

Interoreting The War   Another Disaster Looms for Nazi Heads to Explain

New Russian Trap Closing As Nazis Mourn Over First  Interpretation By  Vebe  Simncar

Interpreting the War   Russian Forces Threatening to Recanture Crimea

Victory Seen For 3rd Year   Teheran Agreement Gives Hopes. For Early Win. Over Axis Lands

MILITARY MEN FORESEE GERMAN DEFEAT IN 1944   ANTICIPATE TWO MORE YEARS OF WAR WITH JAPAN

Teheran Pact Strengthens Belief Germany Will Be Defeated Within A Year

Victory Over Japs Expected to Take Two Years  Strategists Predict - German Defeat

SIGNS OF NAZI DEFEAT IN 1944 STRENGTHENED   Experts, However, See Two More Years Fighting With Japs

Victory Over Japs Expected to Take Two Years  Strategists Predict German Defeat In Next 12 Months

Experts See Nazis Defeated in Year; Nips Take Longer   Washington Strategists Study Effects of Allied Leaders

See Two Years Fighting Before Japs Are Beaten, Reich’s Fall In Next Year

Experts See Two-Year Fight Against Japan   Turk President, Churchill, FDR Meet In Africa

Teheran Accord Strengthens Belief That Germany Will Be Defeated Within a Year

Hitler’s Defeat Seems Assured In Third Year Of American Fighting

Nazi Defeat Within Year Is Predicted   , But Two:Years More Will Be Required to Smash Japs, Experts Believe   BALKAN OFFENSIVE ~. , INDICATED SOON   Massive Thrust There. May Be Forerunner of Attack Across Channel

Third Year OF War To Bring  Germany's End   Military, Naval Officials In Washington Say Japan In Tn OV eer.    BITTER BATTLE AHEAD

PACIFIC FIGH] IS EXPECTED 10 RUN INTO 1945   Unprecedented Offensive: Against Germany, Japan Seen in Next Year

DEFEAT OF GERMANY IN YEAR SEEN   " Officials’ Believe ‘Japan.Can: Hold  Out 2 More: Varo

General Belief That European ~-War Nears tnd   Strategists Are of the Opinion That it Will Take Three More Years To Finish Off Japan.

See Defeat Of Germany In Next Year   Experts See Fight With Japs Going at Least Two Years More

ANOTHER YEAR TO WHIP REICH   But There'll Be Two More Yeors Before Japan Quits, Experts Say

Officials Believe Jap War Will Last at Least Two More Years,   EXPECT BiG GFFENSIVES

Chiefs See End of War in Europe in 1944, At Least Two More Years To Crush Jap

Foresee 2 Years Of War to Bring  Japan to Knees   High Military Officials Believe Nazis Can Be Whipped This Year.   Meetings of Allied Chiefs Called Epochal

(German Defeat “in: 1944”: but: ‘‘at Least Two More Years” in: Pacific

Nazis May Quit War In 1944   CAIRO MEETING BRINGS "MUCH HOPE FOR FUTURE

MICHIGAN MAN BUYS 10° WORTH OF GOVT. TAPE   Now it Will Cost Him. 20c to Get The Dime Back He Tried to Spend For Map.

Professor's Dime Gets Lost In Red Tape of Government   Curator of Clements Library at University of Michigan Had Sent Coin to Secretary of Interior Ickes for Map; Refund Check of Amount Forwarded Costs 20 Cents to Cash; Ickes Sorry

SOLONS PROBE STATE TAX CUT   ASSEMBLY CONSIDERS PENSION RAISE BILL

F.R, GOLD POWER ‘UNIMPORTANT’   Morgenthau Says Post War Conditions May Require Dollar Devaluation Authority.

Dollar Devaluation Power Removed From President    . .  Registration for 'Liquor Rationing  'Will Start May 3

Thousands View Remains Of Ford; ‘Last Rites Today   Calls Wife On Phone Daily; She Never Answers It; She Did This One Time And So-o-o0, He’s Angry

DETROIT PAYS FORD TRIBUTE   7,500 Visit Funeral Home To View Body

RED FORCES DRAW CLOSE TO VITERSK   Expanding Breach In German Line  On Railw av

Russian Force But 20 Miles From Vitebsk   Breach in German Line Extended By Red Army

BALTIC ARMY NEARS VITEBSK   Progress Brings Forces 50 Miles From Polish, Latvian Fronts.   NAZ] TROOPS REINFORCED

Reds Pour Through Gap In Nazi Line   Drive Within 20 Miles Of Vitebsk; Germans  Feel Pressure

RUSSIAN TROOPS ° GAIN 15 MILES   General Bagramian's Baltic Army Is Within 20 Miles ® Of Vitebsk

SOVIET ARMIES TWENTY MILES FROM VITEBSK   Nazis Withdraw Troops From Kiev Front

Russians Plunge — Jo Greater Gains   Important Rail Town Taken in New Drive

Russian Army Plunges Ahead In Baltic Drive   Reds Only 20 Miles From Vitebsk, 50 Miles From Old Border

amet ern  Reds Now “45 Miles From The Old Polish and Latvian Frontiers; First Ukraine Army Back In Korosten Sector.

RUSSIAN BALTIC ARMY PLUNGES DOWN TOWARD VITEBSK  SUCCESS IN NORTHERN RUSSIA HAVING EFFECT A ATI—IeRHR CrreraAapa

BALTIC ARMY ROLLS AHEAD UNCHECKED.   - Entire Nazi  Left Wing Threatened By Soviet Gains

Soviets Barely 50 Miles From Latvian. Borde:                Great Red Drive in North: Threatens. Entire Ge. man Defense 5; Toward, South as ! my Diverts Huge Reis forcements. Into Neve! Rattle.

eds Plunge Near Vitebsk   Expand Breach in German Lines Near Old Poland

This Represents Advance of 15 Miles As Russians Stand 50 Miles From Old Poland

Baltic Army Drives Ahead 15 Miles   Soviets Break Through in Dnieper Bend Area, Nazis Say

Reds Expand Breakthrough Near Baltic   Drive Toward Poland. Latvia

Soviet Troops Widen Break In Nazi Lines  Baltic Army Plunges lo Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk  HEAVY AXIS LOSSES  Use of Reserves Indicates Germans Have Dropped Drive for Kiev

Baltic Army Pushes Within 20 Miles  Of Vitebsk; Nazis Abandon Kherson

REDS ARE 20 MILES FROM VITEBSK BASE   Reuters Reports Advance Which Represents 15. Mile Sweep — Soviet: Now 50 Miles From Pol ish, Latvian Borders.

SOVIET BALTIC ARMY WIDENS ITS BREACH   Russians Plunge Down East Side of Nevel-Vitebsk Railvay Within 20 Miles of the City   APYANCES 15 Wh LES

RUSSIAN BALTIC ~ ARMY EXPANDING TTS NAZI BREACH   Plunged Down East Side of Vitebsk Railway, Reuters Reported Today.   20 MILES FROM VITEBSK   Advance of Some 15 Miles for Soviet Forces; Nearing Old Polish Frontier.

REDS WIDENING BALTICBREACH IN NAZI LINES   Soviets Plunging Down East Side of Nevel-Vitebsk Railway to Within 20 Miles Vitebsk

Reds Widen Baltic Gap  In Nazi Line   Flanking Attack Nears Rail Center Of Vitebsk

REDS EXPAND LATEST GAIN   Baltic Troops Now Within 20 Miles of Vitebsk, Moscow Reports

BALTIC BREACH BEING WIDENED BY RED FORCES   Muscovites Drive To Within 20 Miles Of Vitebsk

SOVIET FORCES NEAR VITEBSK   Reds Steadily Expandins Breach In Fortified  German Line

Reds Plunge Ahead on Rail Route   Gains in North Give Relief to Army Of Southern Front

Russian Baltic Army Moves Up Fifteen Miles   Nazi Defenses South Of Leningrad Gravely Threatened

Red Baltic Army Widens Breach In German Line    Advance Of 15 Miles Takes Russian Troops To But 30 Miles From Vitebsk

RED ARMY ADVANCES 15 MILES   Russians Plunge Down Railway In Drive  Toward Vitebsk

RUSSIANS DRIVE TO WITHIN 20 MILES VITEBSK    Bargamian’s Reds Wipe Qui 1800 Nazis in Oifensives Aimed at  Vitebsk and Pololsk   NAZIS RETREATING    Russians Surge Back in Bulge, Drive on Girovograd as New Of.  fensive Eases Pressure

RUSS ADVANCE NETS 15 MILES   NAZIS BRING UP REINFORCEMENTS FROM KIEV AREA

Baltie Army Cains Fifteen Mile Advanee   Germans Declare BreakThrough Near Kirovograd Disnersed.   ‘OUT OF KIEV BULG

Baltic Army 20 Miles From Vitebsk Today   Steadily Expanding Its Breach in Nazi Line, Reuters Reports

Russ Baltic Army Moves On Vitebsk   Gen. Bagramian Forces Within 50 Miles of Old Polish Frontier

Also Resurt Sense Orn 3 Fronts            TIMOSHENKO IN COMMAND. GE NEW ATTACK AT LENINGRAD  GOING ON PAST ‘48 HOURS.

REDS ATTEMPT TO LIFT SIEGE, SWEDEN HEARS   German Broadeasts On Battle Trend More Pessimistic

BOUGAINVILLE GRIP TIGHTENS   MacArthur Says Over 800 Slain; Three Nippon Planes Downed

KILL S00 JAPS AND ENLARGE BEACHHEAD   Strong Raids Against Gilbert, Marshall Islands Revealed

AND ENLARGE BEACHHEAD   Strong Raids Against Gilbert, Marshall Islands Revealed

ALLIED TROOPS CONTINUE 10 POUND JAPS   Americans enlarge beachhead on Bougainville;  800 Japs killed

American Troops On Bougainville   Allied Beachhead On Em. press Augusta Bay Is Being Enlarged   OVER 800 JAPS REPORTED KILLED

LEGISLATION 10 KEEP FATHERS Al HOME IS LIKELY   TWO BILLS FOR FURTHER DEFERMENT OF HEADS OF FAMILIES ALREADY ON THE AGENDA.   SPEEDY LEGISLATION TO BEAT THE DRAFT   Plan to Raise Twelve Billion DolJars Through Increased Income Taxes Meets Some Opposition in Congress.

Labor Mediation Groups Drop Out Of Dark Picture         American Legion Commander Says Threatened Stoppage Is ‘Stab in the Back’

Power of National Government Facing  Unprecedented Test   Ultimatum oe Miners’ Chief Defiance of FDR’s Authority

Sales Contest Among Employes With Miss Betty Walker and Mrs, Mae Bhrlich as Captains af Two Competing Teams,

J.C. PENNEY CO. STORES TO HOLD NATIONAL DRIVE   U.S. Treasury Department Wires Best Wishes; Local Store to Push Drive

Germans Make Small Gains;  Losses Heavy   Russian Forces Able ‘to Recapture Some at Lost Ground

“wet [owe - c* 3 eae  1 wel,  ts in hy ww _ ne i ae 1  “ . a ai we . 4 i , “ei 0 Heer wit ~ EEL Ow ‘ ; sot hy pres es . :  “ree Taroug Y ee: 3 Pe roc [ure Are Zeogu see sovy 12-0

5,000 MORE NAZIS KILLED IN FIGHTING   Germans Use 90,000 Men in Ambitious Break ‘Through Attempt in Vital Sectay. ;   DRIVE NEW WEDGE IN BELGOROD AREA   Moscow Says Invaders’ Losses in Four Days Include 1,848 Tanks and 810 Planes.

Soviets Hold  Most of Big Sectors   German Advance Is Costly; Loss Mounts To 5,000 Men in Single Day; Foe Plunges at Belgorod With Some Success

Full Control — Of Biggest Crop Assumed  Future Quotations   Future Quotations Also Under  Government Hand

OPA Orders Corn Ceiling Into Effect   “Maximum Prices on: All Varieties; . = Fixes Future Levels

OPA slaps ceiling prices  on every variety of corn   Maximums set up under seasonal pattern. effective tnmediately

DOLLARS-AND-CENTS CEILING ONCORN   New Regulations Put Maximum Prices On AN Varieties From  Farm To Retailers

Price Ceilings Set on Corn  Darcertlartinewns Rum   Regulations Are Effective at Once

OPA Puts Price Ceiling on Corn   Dollars-and-Cents Values Specified

PRICE CEILINGS ON CORN ARE PLACED   Maximum Prices Put on All Varieties and Types of Groin

Axis May Be Invited to Quit   Believe Churchill Prepares Invifation

BELIEVE CHURCHILL WILL WARN ‘AXIS      Prime Minister To’ Give Important Address Tomorrow

Churchill's Tuesday Talk Expected to Have  New Invitation to Axis

LEGISLATURE — TO GET DEWEY TAX PROPOSALS   Extension of Income Deductions and :Exemptions Proposed — Fight on Qleo Gets Spotlight

American Embassy In Berlin Damaged   Swiss Forced to Abandon Use of Bombed Building

BEIRUT UNDER ARMED TRUCE   British Minister Hopes to Settle Crisis

ARMED TRUCE PREVAILS IN BEIRUT   Member of Brit. Cabinet Arrives -To Settle Crisis

Armed Truce Prevails in Beirut   Casey Attempting To Settle Crisis  In I ahanan

Armed Truce Prevails In Beirut: Seek Solution Of Lebanese Crisis

TRUGE PREVAILS AS CASEY SEEKS LEBANON PEACE   General Catroux Flies’ froir Algiers to Negotiate for French.

Three-Power Heads . May Confer ‘Soon’  An Early Meeting Wit!  Stalin Is Forecast

Allies in Accord On Postwar Plans   Coming Conference May Map Program

Bombers Wipe Out Massed Air Fleet Hit 3 Destroyers   Only 10 Of 225 Jap Planes Left After Aliied Airmen Finish Job

Broughton Joms Protest Against 4] Cent Ceiling    Says Ceiling Too Lev for  Type of Tobacce Sold  on-'Leaf Markets Here,  Asks 5 Cents Differen tial in Wire to OPA and  ~~ Houston.

Sweeping Scope Of Allied Agreement Is Blow To German Morate   Interpreting The News

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German Morale May Be Shaken By Moscow News   Even Japan Gets Solemn Warning

Nazis Military Front Will Get More Allied Air Blow:  Concentrate On Home Front But Plan Bigger Blow

Aesulls Exceeded Hopes Ur Washington— —By Kirke L. Simpson  ‘Moscow Agreements Blow To German Morale

GOVT. SUBMITS EVIDENCE. AP HAS MONOPOLY   Attorney Says Government Not Seeking To Control Or Regulate Press

ARGUES: A. P. CASE   Government Seeks _ Summary Judgment Against News Organization. .

GOVERNMENT NOT SEEKING CONTROL OF PRESS IN AP SUIT   PROSECUTOR CLAIMS FACTS UNCONTROVERTED SHOULD BRING JUDGMENT

AP OPPOSES GOV'T ACTION CHARGING TRADE RESTRAINT  NEWS AGENCY DEFENDS RIGHT TO CHOOSE

TO RULE PRESS   Government Asks Summary Judgment Without Trial Jn AP Suit.   ARGUMENT CHALLENGED

3 DESTROYERS, 8 MERCHANT VESSELS SUNK   Allied Airmen Make Seventh Raid on Rabaul i in Less Than a Month 7.

Japanese Poundex By Airmen In Rabaul Sector   Three Nipponese Destroyers and Eight Merchant Vessels Sunk in Seventh Attack by Allies in Less Than Month

U.S. Fliers Sink > Jap Destroyers   Eight Merchantmen Also Destroyed; 67 Jap Planes Downed

lowa Farmers Set New Food, ~ Feed Record   Al, 000,000 Tons Produced, 6 Per Cent Above 1942 Mark

MINUTT FAVORS — PAID VACATIONS   6  as Way to Combat Absenteeism

Truce Reached In Strike of 9000 Auto Workers   Dispute Over Lunch Hour to Be Negotiated ; Reopen Plant Monday

Mass Arrests At Oslo Reported   Norwegian Capital Aflame With Indignation Over Actions Of Nazi Police

TURK INVASION ROUTE SEALED TO AXIS, HINT   Spain Now Believed Only Avenue Open To Germany

TURKISH AID INWAR SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Middle East Route Is Sealed Against Nazi Conquest, Is Claim

Gasoline Truck Burns, Two Hurt   ‘Four Hale’ Center ; Houses Threatened

WAR SECURITY BILL DENOUNCED AS DANSEROU   Congressmen See Hysterical Prosecution of Citizens Under Terms 0} Measure Sought By FB!

Germans Are Furious at Italian Government; Say They _Were. Not Informed

NAZIS BETRAYED, GERMANY 15 TOLD   KADIO SAYS ROME LEADERS DID NOT REVEAL INTENT TO GET OUT OF WAR,

‘BIG BRITISH BOMBERS RAINED DESTRUCTION ON GERMAN GAPITAL   AXIS POSITIONS IN RUSSIA AND NORTH AFRICA ON LAND SHAKEN

Rain Of Destruction Makes Hitler Reprisals O London Seem Puny; British Within 100 Miles © Tripoli In New Drive; Russians Thrust Menacingl  At Kharkov.

Nazis Return Raid, Fail To Match Damage   British Eighth Army Within 100 Miles Of Tripoli, Rome  mel In Retreat.   REDS CROSS DONTES

Few Germans Get Through London’s Guns   But R.AF.. Hits German Center With Everything: in Two Big-Raids. :-::            29 BRITISH PLANES 2 °°: LOST IN SECOND.   Damage: in London Area Declared Slight; Ten- Ger-. pian Bombers Shot Down:::

German Capital Has Worst Week-end As Allied Forces Pound at Enemy In Russia And North Africa; 22 British Bombers Lost.

Close in on Key Base at Rostov As Bombers Blast German Capital; 2ritich May Cut Rommel Retreat

Reds Drive for Kamensk—British 8th 130 Miles from Tripoli, 400 Miles from Al lies in Tunisia; Fighting French Closing in from South ,

ROMMEL'S ARMY ON RUN AGAIN ACROSS AFRICA   Russians Swarm Over Donets Basin in New Thrust Toward Vital Kharkov   NEW JAP DRIVE SCENTED   Allies Strike Severe Blows From Air with Growing Aerial Strength =.

Union Rows Held Out of Sourt Field   High Tribune! Rules Jurisdiction Fights Up to Medietion Roerd

Aussies Warn on  Air Try   ARMY MINISTER FORDE REPORTS BASES; ALLIES HAMMER HUBS OF ENEMY

Artillery Pounding ‘At Rostov   REDS DRIVING TOWARD KHARKO\ ON BIG SEMI-CIRCULAR FRONT}: TRIANGLE HAS NAZIS TRAPPE

DUCE’S ACTION SEEN TRICK TC SHIFT BLAME   Son-In-Law Count Ciano Was Ready-Made Scapegoat   GRANDI FEARED   Free ITtalian Movement Head Says Mussolini Cheats Nation

Ciano Ouster By Mussolini Viewed Trick   Head of Free ttalian Group Thinks W Duce Trying To Shift Blame For Defeats

Feder: fal Cour I   U.S: Sub Wi ins Duel With Small Jap Shiv in Pacific

U.S. SUB SINKS JAP PATROL SHIP.   One of Subs Crew  a)  ee  BW casl. Maeve   One of Subs Crew Killed, Little Damage. Suffered By Sub

U. §, SUB SINKS JAP WARSHIP IN CTANDING FIGHT   Violent Thirty-Seven Minute Battle in Mid-Pacific Costs American His Taf,   SUNK SHIP SMALL   Was of Corvette Type; U. S. Bombers Blast at At MundapNiavy A kn  AO IHreac

Submarine Commanded. By Fresnan Sinks Enemy Warship In Mid Pacific

SSINK A JAP WARSHIP   U. . S. Submarine Scores After 37 , Minute. Fight in Pacific

Predicts Second Front Soon; Russians On Road To Poland   x «kK Kk& Kw Stalin’s Speech   KK » «K CK Kiev the Gateway ‘To Hitler’s Fortress

Stalin Finds Military Plan Of Allies Okeh   Premier. Declares Second Front Is Not Far Distant

STALIN SAYS SECOND FRONT      indicates Satisfaction Over Moscow Accord and Says Military Plans Made by Allies Must Lead to Victory.

STALIN INDICATES SECOND FRONT IS NOT TOO FAR AWAY   Expresses. his Pleasure Over the U. S. and British Military Program — Announces Fall of Kiev at Anniversary Celebration --

STALIN IS PLEASED   Russian Marshal Says Plans Made at Moscow Lead to Victory

STALIN SEES “OND FRONT   SOVIET MARSHAL LAUDS ALLIED COLLABORATION

Germans Ous' British From Hich Ground   Untried Americans Facing Rommel’s Veterans

British Driven Back, But Axis Fears Big Push   Germans Believe 8th Army Is Nearly Ready To Launch Assault

NAZIS CAPTURE HILL IN SUDDEN COUNTER DRIVE   ’ Bad Weather Hampers Aerial] Activity, But Bizerte Raided

BRITISH LIKELY TOLEAD ALLES TUNISIA DRNE   American Troops Not Ready For Major Battle Role   BRITISH FIRST ARMY IS SPEARHEAD FOR ALLIES

Axis Supply Line To Africa Hit by Allied Bombers   Germany Expects Two-Way Drive Against Tunisia

British U-Boat Sinks 4 Ships Just Off Italy   Allied Planes in Heavy Raids on Gabes and Sousse

AERIAL BLOWS DEALT AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA   ‘British Sub Sinks Four Ships ir _ Single Day While Airmen Raid Messina, Sousse,. Sicily

Supply Lines Are Blasted In North Africa   Long Range Allied Aerial Offensive Keeps Up Its Momentum    LAND FRONT SLOWS UP

Aerial Offensive Against  Axis Supply Lines Continue   Allies Smash at Italian and German Bases As Part of Softening Process Which May Presage Big — Drive; Four German Ships Sunk by Subs

Allied Bombs.Rain Down On Axis Ports At Both Ends Africa Supply Line

BERLIN EXPECTS BLOWS IN AFRICE   Reports Eisenhower, Mont: gomery Are Preparing Sinashes From Two Sides

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE BOMBED AXIS SUPPLY LINE   A British Submarine Reported Sinking Four Ships in a Day.   OFF THE ITALIAN COAST   Bombers of the Middle East Command Pounded Messina.

POWERFUL ALLIED BLOWS ROCK AXIS   Ports At Both Ends Of _ Mediterranean Supply . Line Bombed   FOUR SHIPS SUNK   Concentrated Smash At Enemy In Tunisia ~1: Believed Near.

Allies Dealing Punishment In North Africa   Long Range Allied Aerial Offensive Keeps Up Momentum: Four Axis Ships Surtk

AERIAL BLOWS CONTINUE IN /AFRICAN AREA      British Sub Accounts fo1 Sinkings and Yank Fliers for Burning Vessels —Axis Expects 2-Way Allied Drive.

Allies Bomb Axis Supply Line Ports   Montgomery’: Guns Pound Rommel’s Rear Guard

NAVAL FORCE FOR M'ARTHUR TO COMMAND   One of Our Seven Fleets Assigned to Australia. Fliers There Still Battering Japs

B Raids On Kiska Made by U.S. Thursday  Numerous Fires And  a i  a a ee c    Numerous Fires And Explosion Caused; One Plane Shot Down

JAPS ON KISKA ~ RAIDED BY AIR   Bombers Cause Numerous Fires in 13 Visits in a Day.

Hits Scored In Main Camp And On Runway During Furious Attack By Army Bombers

U.S. FLYERS SINK TWO JAP VESSELS   FORTRESSES HIT DECK OF ONE WITH 1,000-PQUND BOMBS.   BULLETIN

Kiska Raided 13 Times in One Day.   Numerous Fires and Explosions Seen On Foe Positions

13 RAIDS MADE IN ONE DAY ON JAPS IN KISKA   Nipponese Striving to Put New Air Base on Island Into Operation

Reds Get 50 — Towns in Driv on Smolensk   Axis Counter-Drive in Donbas Believed to Be Subsiding

REDS CAPTURE FIFTY TOWNS   Announce German Drives in South Subsidinge’- °°

GERMAN DRIVE ON SOUTHERN SOVIET FRONT IS WANING   Reds Capture -More- “Towns and Hamlets In Vicinity of ‘Smolensk,

REDS CAPTURE 50 TOWNS IN NEW. ADVANCE   ‘German ~-Counter-Offen=" sive Shows Signs Of Subsiding

NAZI DRIVE ON DONETS SAGS   RUSSIANS TAKE 50 TOWNS NEAR SMOLENSK

RUSSIANS, AXIS ~~ INFIERCE FIGH   Allies Clamp Hold on Stretct of New Guinea, U-Boat Base ts Bombed.

REDS TAKE 90 TOWNS IN DRIVE   German Offensive I South Reported To Be Subsiding

SERMAN DRIVE NEARS END IN KHARKOV ARE}   Counter-Push Slackens; Reds Take 50 Towns On Northern Front

Nazis Admit Donets Push Nearing End   Reds Capture 50 Towns in Advance Qn Smolensk Front

Reds take 50 towns in Smolensk sector   German counter-drive in south near end. commentator asserts

ussians dvancing in Smolensk   Nazi Offensive In South Reported. Nearina an End

CITY SCHOOLS MAY BE CLOSED   ‘Dayton Employes Call Strike For March 15 Unless Demands Are Met

Se ange  STRIKE MAY GLOSE SCHOOLS IN DAYTON   Protest Inactivity on Wage Increase Demands

THREATENED STRIKE MAY CLOSE SCHOOLS   Wage Increase Sought B: Dayton Employes

COMPLETE LIST OF CASUALTIES IN CRASH REVEALED   Andrews and Barth Dead; In.  crease War’s Toll of’ Generals to Nine.

ONLY SURVIVOR OF CRASH WAS OHIOAN   Youngest Army General Among 14 Victims

Ask Columnist  To Tell About George's Vote   Pearson Claims Promise On Tax

SENATOR CALLS DREW PEARSON ON TAX CHARGE   George Issues Challenge on Col umnisi's Charge His Vote Al ready in Commerce Chambe Docket’

New Argentine Regime Fires  Old Officials   Arrest for Espionage Made in Province of Buenss Aires

JUDGES USTED BY ARGENTINA   30 Nations Give Recognition To New Revolt-Formed Government

11 Americans Become "Aces"   Three Oklahomans Are Included in List of Air Heroes

250 EMPLOYES ILL AFTER EVENING MEAL   City Health Commissioner Launches Investigation

250 EMPLOYES ARE POISONED   Lazarus Company Workers Removed to Hospital After Eating Meal

290 Lazarus Employes II! After Dinner   Capital Authorities Probe Food Nausea: 85 Hospitalized.

Stockyard Activities Slow Down As Effects Of Meat Subsidy Payments Watched Closely

Federal Subsidy  Slows Livestock   Market Is Weak Since Rollback in Prices Ordered Next Week.

MAJOR LIVESTOCK  MARKETS WATCHED  ON SUBSIDY PLANS GOVERNMENT DISCLOSES  DETAILS OF SUBSIDY PAYMENTS PROCRAM

Slowdown of Activity in Stockyards Result,  Packer Snokeeman Save

REACTION WATCHED IN PACKER SUBSIDY   Payments To Be Made With Roll Back of Prices

SHOT IN BACK   Columbuxe Man Tells Different Stories to Chicago Police.

300,000 Lbs.Of Bombs Rained On Italy’s Ports   U.S. Liberators Deal Punishing Biow; Shoot Down 10 Enemy Craft

MINE PARLEY STILL ON SNAG   Souther? Operators Join In Refusal To Accept Federal Proposal

DEADLOCK IN PAY DISPUTE   SOUTHERN MINE OPERATORS , JOIN NORTHERN OWNERS " JN REJECTING GOVERNMENT. SUGGESTION

Miners Slow In Returning   WLB Okays Wage Agreement, Sets Return Deadline

COAL STRIKE ISSUE AGAIN HEADS TO FDR   WEB, Rejecting [inois Plan, Proposes $1.12} Per Day Increase Instead of $1.50   MINERS STAY OUT   Non-Operating Railway Unions to Join Operating Brotherhoods in Taking Strike Vote

Governor's Secretary  Dies Today   Leo Duster, 49, Worked At Desk Yesterday But Was Stricken in Night

"FOR AID OF FILIPINOS   Promises Independence as Soon as They Are. ina > -Position to Collaborate   SPEAKS BY. RADIO _FROM MANIGA   ‘Declares. Japs Now Are Prepared to Deal ‘Decisive ‘Blow at~ Enemy

Big Talk By By.  Jap Premier   Ready To Give Decisive Blow, Declares Tojo

Tojo Claims Japs Are Now Ready To Strike Again   Heavy Bombers Hit Jap Base in Burma And Sink One Ship

Jap Premier Says Position Strengthened   Now Prepared to Dea Decisive Blow At the Enemy

Premier Tojo Tells People * Of Philippines Japan Ready  To Strike a ‘Decisive Blow

COSMIC RAYS   WHEN DO WE EAT?  WHAT ARE YOU DOING? BoND DRIVE JUST AIN'T ereanry STIFF, NQ DOUBT

COSMIC RAYS   WHLN DO WE EAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? BOND DRIVE JUST AIN'T

MCCLELLAN SOLDICR IN AFRICAN ACTION   "warrant Officer Kelly Serves With Tank Unit

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT Disorder In The OPA

SINGLE BOMBER BLASTS JAPS   Three Barges And Warship Are Set Afire By Plane.

GAS RATION ROOKSE arnrew   BOAT MAKFS STRANGE fatruo   BIG BATTLE IN SICILY May Be on Plains of Catania

Allied Invasion Is Termed Most Brilliantly Executed   Overruns Whole Coastal Communication System,  j   Road And Rail, From Licata To Syracuse  i

HEAVY RAIDS ARE MADE ON RANGOON   Nearly 30 Tons Bombs Are Dropped On . Jans

British Fliers Bomb Rangoon   Use American-Made Liberators in Raid On Jap-Held City

Japs Pounded By RAF Bombers   A merican Made Planes Raid Rangoon Supply Port

How Modern Transport Moves Men And Supplie: As Contrasted With ‘18

GOP Members Of Ways, Means Se ek To Kill Administration's Tex Program

Will Fight  ‘Tax Increase   : ‘Republican Stand Means Death Blow To Treasury Plan

New Tax Program Definitely Killed   Republicans Demand Economy Instead of Income Levy Increase

Republicans On Committee Kill Tax Plan   Stand Against Any Hike in Individual Or Corporate Income Taxes

Treasury's Tax Program Scuttled   GOP Joins Demo Bloc  In Opposition To Income Tax Boosts

G.0.P. Stand Kills Tax  Proposal   Ten Republicans on House Committee All Opposed ‘to Hikins Income Rates   ECONOMY MOVES URGED INSTEAD   Their Stand, Coupled . With Known Opposition of Bloc of Democrats, Kills Bill

New U.S. Levy Plan Blocked   REPUBLICANS PROPOSE GOVERNMENT ECONOMY PROGRAM AS SUBSTITUTE

Roosevelt's Tax Increase Plan Killed   G.0.F. Members of House Committee Ask U.S. Economy Instead

New Tax Program Virtually Killed By House Group   Republicans Take a Stand Against Any Further Income Taxes.   Believes Further Tax Would Be Inflationary

Republican Action Regarded as as \Killing ‘10 Billion Tax Proposal

GOP Knifes Treasury, Tax Bills   Ways and Means Repub licans Solid Against Big Program   WANT ECONOMIES   Sales Tax Also Dead Is sue Rep. Knutson ~ Asserts 

REPUBLICANS — AGAINST MORE. INCOME TAXES   Stand by Members House:  Committee In Effect Kills j  Administration $410.-  300,000,000 Program

Higher Levies Blocked By GOP And Democrats   House Committee Calls  For Economy; Sales  Tax Called Dead

Death Blow To  New Tax Plan   Republican) Members TakeSolid State \gainst In r , crease Taxes.

GOP Members Of House Committee Solidly Against Any Further Income Tax;  Must Start Over On Tax hint.

GOP Solons Oppose Hike  In Taxatior   Stand Against Federal Levies On Corporate, Individual Incomes Made In Statement   Would Be Inflationary

Economy; Not New Taxes Is  GOP Proposal   Members of Ways and Means Committee Stand Against Further Taxes

Tax Load Too Great, Is Claim   Solid Stand Is Taken By Republican Members Of House Committee Against Tax Program

New Tax Plans Tq Be Studied   Incomé And Sales Levies Are Thrown Out; More Economy Is Ureed

HOUSE TO MAP OWN TAX BILL   Administration Plea Side tracked After Hearings

Seek to Kill Treasury's Tax Program   Republicans Propose Economies and Elimination of Waste; Increased Dependeney Allotments Assured

Ask Economy Instead Taxes  G. O. P. Takes Solid Stand Against Levy

TAKE SOLID STAND  AGAINST INCREASE  ANY FEDERAL TAXES REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE  MEMBERS PROPOSE ECONOMY PROGRAM

Republicans Scuttle Tax Program  Present Solid Front Against  lennmma Taw Bian

ako ECONOMY INSTEAD TAXES   GOP Congressmen Take Solid Stand Against New tL avies.   ASK ECONOMY PROGRAM

Members of Committee Upnose Taxes   No Mention Made  Of Sales Tax—~  {ssue Is Dead, Ome Member Say:

REPUBLICANS SEEK TO KILL TAX BILL   Coupled with Announced Dem Opposition, $10,500,000;000 (Program Seems Doomed -

Call For Govt. Economy Instead Of Added Hikes  In Income Levies.

Income, Corporate and Sales Tax Plans Thrown Overboard .   Ten Republican Members of House Committee Announce Opposition to Increasing Levies— Economy Advanced as Substitute

SALES TAX MAY NOW BE HEADED FOR SIDETRACK   Drive For Revenue Bogged Down Badly

TAX PROPOSALS SHUNTED ASIDE   SALES TAX DRIVE BOGS DOWN; START WORK ON NEW PLAN

Ways and Means Republicans Solid Against Higher Income Levy: Some Democrats Also Oppose.

ORGANIZATION FOR 1943 BOND DRIVE      Fayette County Quota Is Practically the Same As For the Year Just Passed

J.F. Miller Remains County Chairman   ‘Local Chairmen Are Also Same Men in Charge in 1942

SHOWDOWN IN PROSPECT ON UIVING COSTS   Seek To Determine If Rollback Will Be Dependent On Subsidies

Showdown Nears  On OPA Subsidy   Taft Preparing Laws To Stop Present Way

SEE SHOWDOWN SOON ON ROLL BACK PLAN   Action Is Approaching on Whether OPA Is to Gain Permission to Act.

Vorgenthau Flies To War Fronts   Secretary and Aide On Extensive Tour

SEC. MORGENTHAU TOURING WAR FRONTS   Treasury Chief Expected to Hold Conference on Use of New Allied Military Currency.

RS CHIEF QUITS 10 HELP FRENCH UNITY   Peyrouton Out, Takes ~ Rank of Captain in - DeGaulle Infantry

ALGIERS CHIEF QUITS TO HELP FRENCH UNITS   Peyrouton Out, Takes Rank of Captain in’. DeGaulle Infantry

PERSHING’S 83   Follows War’s Progress From Walter Reed Hospital.

PERSHNG IS : §3 YEARS OLD   COMMANDER. OF AEF IN .WORLD WAR \. NOW LOWITS HIS ACTIVITIES TO NOS  PITAL QUARTERS~

CITIZENS OF JAP. ANCESTRY I UAT      Loyal Ones in Hawali New Eligible in Army as Volunteers

Jap-Americans lo Be Inducted  May Volunteer for tree sy 1 4 ) eqs

GEN. GIRAUD ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON   French Chief Confers With Roosevelt, Marshall

Japs. Dealt Hard Blows At Munde   Allied Flyers Strike At Ships, Planes

8 Jap Ships § Sunk © In Solomons Area   American Warships and Allied Planes Spread Havoc Througt Nip Flotillas Trying To Bring Supplies to Forces on Islands

Jap Destroyer Flotilla Halted   U. S. WARSHIPS MAKE NIP FLEET RUN TO COVER

Navy Turns Japs Back Twice More   Seven Enemy Ships Were Sunk Saturday

ENEMY SUPPLY BOATS BEATEN OFF AT MUNDA   Japs Turned Back by U. S. Navy In New Attempts To Reinforce Island

Enemy Attempts To Supply Munda Base   Allied Air Fleets Heap New Damage On Air, Sea Units

Jap Flotillas Are Turned Back   American Airmen Sink Eiaht Shios

U. S. Blocks Jap Supplies   Turn Back Two More Destroyer Flotillas on Way to Aid Munda   Toio Makes Promises

TUYO EXPRESS UEAAILED AGAIN BY U. 5. FORCES   More Efforts To Reintorce Jap Defenders On Munda Turned Back Sunday

DEATH TAKES AGED VETER   Gordon? Williams, “Age “96, _Died at Home in Koko/™mo Friday.

DEATH TAKES AGED VETERAN   Gordon*Williams, Age 95 ‘Died at Home in Koko‘mo Friday,

NEW POINT VALUES FOR VEGETABLES AND FRUITS IN CANS TO BE ORDERED   New Values Will Go Into Effect April  Numerous Reductions In Various Cans, Bottles And Packages Indicated

New Point Values For Fruits And Vegetables To Be Given   Will Be Announced Sunday By OPA —— Believed Substantially Lower Than Present Coupon Costs

Some Food Point Values Will Be Cut For April   New Table Scheduled For Publication In Sunday Newspapers OPA Annonuneesc   CANNED FOOD SALES REPORTED DOWN   April Coupons Good, But March Coupons Run Out This Month

New fable Of Peizi Values for Processed Foods Will Be Set   Chart To Be Announced Will Be More Leninent Sevs Office Price Adm.

Point Values Lower on Fruit: Vegetables  New Order on Foods fo Be Announced

NEW OPA POINT ~ VALUE TABLE DUE   Sunday Release Is Planned For Lower Coupon. Cosis ;

OPA Slates Cut in Food Coupon Costs   Processed Fruit And Vegetables Listed for Change

‘New Point Values Are to Be Posted ! ‘Monday for Processed Fruits, ‘Vegetables: Effective Next Month

Point Value Changes Are Promised      More Processed Foods Are to-Be Allowed

Lower Point Values  To Be Listed Sunday   April Quotas on Canned, Bottled, Packaged Food Will Permit Purchase of More; Some to Be Raised

Lower Coupon Costs for Foods After April   OPA to Change Point Values For Canned Fruits, Vegetables

Point Values On Canned Fruits And Vegetables To Be Revised April I

NEW POINT VALUES TO BE ANNOUNCED   Program to be Given in Newspapers Sunday Mtornina

POINT VALUES WILL BE CHANGED SUNDAY   New Table Of Points For Processed Fruits And Vegetables Now Being Arranced

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Point Values To Be Lowered, OPA Indicates   New Chart To Be Issuec Sunday as Result of Complaints

CHANGES IN POINT VALUES OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES MADE   New Coupon Costs, Which Are Said to Be Substantially Lower, Will Be Announced Sunday.   BASED ON RATIONING EXPERIENCE TO DATE   Recent Drop in Canned Goods Sales Reported by Dealers —New Chart Effective April 1.

Point Value Changes Are Promised  More Processed F Ar  e tg-Re Allawed

Children’s Society Officers Reelected   Directors Are Also Elected For Coming Year

Society Heads Are Reelected   Society for Crippled Children Also Picks  Directors for Year

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDY NEAR   REQUEST FOR MORE FUNDS TO OUCH OFF ANOTHER CON-  “ TROVERSY IN CONGRESS

FOOD SUBSIDIES FIGHT FORESEEN   Jones To Seek Continuation Of CCC. More Capital

MINE CONTRACT IS BEFORE WLB   Lewis To Appear In Person To Fight For Pact

LEWIS TO APPEAR BEFORE WLB TODAY   Will Plea for Higher Pay for Coal Miners

JOHN L. LEWIS IN ABOUT-FACE   Carries to WLB Plea for Fatter Miner Pay Envelope

WLB WILL HEAR JOHN L. LEWIS   CIO President Booked For Personal Appearance To Plead United Mine Workers Case for Fatter Pay Envelope.

ISLAND NEAR TURKEY EVACUATED BY ITALY   Germany Fears Allied Attack From Syria Now

Italians Reported To Have Evacuated Dodecanese Isle   Abandonment Of Easternmost Island Of Italian-Dominated Group Alleged

Greatest bombardment of history engulfed German  city in blazing destruction   1,000 planes strike heart of nazi war effort; raid exceeds Hamburg

German Citadel , Target Of RAF ~ Bomber Experts  Great City Left Smoking: — Thousands Of Casualties Claimed

1,000 PLANES LEAVE CAPITAL SMOKING RUIN   BLAST NAZI TARGETS WITH 2,300 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES

but 26 Bombers Are Lost Ir Huge British Raid Monday   Heavy Clouds Prevent Germans From Sending We Fichter Planes And Usina Searchtichte

33 Communities Make Reports in Red Cross Drive   ALL THREE DISTRICTS OF JONES COUNTY HAVE EXCEEDED QUOTA

Contributions of Districts and Communities of Red. Cross War Fund Drive

Four-Fifths Of Miners At Work   30,000 Return to Jobs Today, Following the Plea Broadcast Last Nicht by Sec. Ickes

ICKES PLEA IS UNHEEDED BY COAL MINERS   Return of Scattered Workers Offset by Drive to Close Pits in Upper Monongahela   TWO DISTRICTS TIED UP

MINERS VOTING 10 RETURN 10 WORK   Only About 104,000 Men Are Still Out Of Mines

More Miners Back in Pits: 104,000 Out   No Break in Thousands of Insurgents in  Hard Coal Field

More Miners Resume Work   Nation’s War Progress Miraculous, Says Knox

MORE MINERS ~ RESUME WORK   Thousands Return to Pits In Pennsylvania and Alabama Regions

MINERS CONTINUE TREK INTO PITS   Ickes Appeals to Workers to Aid in Military Drive; 30,000 Still Out

104,000 MINERS ARE STILL IDLE   But Majority of Strikers Has Returned to Pits In Pennsylvania

RETURN OF MINERS INCREASING DAILY   Estimate Only 104,000 UMW Still on Strike

26,000 MINERS ‘RESUME WORK; ICKES APPEALS   Around 104,000 Still Out, Spreac of Strikes in Monongahela Val ley Threatened

104, 000- Miners — 3 ‘Stay On Strike  Despite Appeal   Anthracite Wor hers: Start: "Trek: ‘Back To Baties; Union Heads: Confident

MORE MINERS BACK AT WORK   Many However, Ignore Plea Of Ickes To Produce Coal For War

AROUND 190,000 MINERS STILL IDLE IN" S.   Estimated 30,000 Returned to Work Today. Less Than Fifth of Nation’s Miners Still Idle

Ickes Appeals To Men —   Thousands Of Miners Back At Work; 104,000Still Idle

Thousands More Refurn To Work In Coal Fields   But Many Remain Idle With Steel Production Down

130,000 U.S. MINERS SHUN ~~ ICKES’ PLEA   Stay Away From Coal Pits on ‘Eve of Greatest Military Campaign In History.”   UMW LEADERS HOPEFUL   Foresee End of Third Strike; 170,000 Tons of Steel Estimated Last.

One-Fifth of Nation’s Miners in Producing Fields Still Idle.”   'MINES OPERATE JULY 5

MORE MINERS RETURN TO PITS IN TWO STATES   Couple Thousand Coa Diggers Take Up Tools Again In Alabama Operations   104,000 STILL IDLE   Ickes Appeals to Men t End Strike “On Eve of Great Military Campaign”

104,000 Miners Yet Out Despite Plea Of Ickes    - More Thousands Return, But No Break In Int  aurvents’ Lines. *

MINERS RETURNING TO AID WAR EFFORT      Action Follows Statement o' Nearness of Attack

130,000 Men Still Out in Mine Dispute      Some Minexs Return to Pits in Two States After Appeal by Ickes

22ND ANNUAL ROSE FESTIVAL WILL BE STAGED ON LIMITED SCALE WITH ROSES BEING USED EXCLUSIVELY   Old Van H. Priest Store Building Near Post Office on Broad Street Scene of Exhibit.— Open From 11 A. M. to 11 P. M. Public Invited..-

22ND ANNUAL ROSE FESTIVAL WILL BE STAGED ON LIMITED SCALE WITH ROSES BEING USED EXCLUSIVELY

Warren  to Seek Machines   STATE LEGISLATURE TO STUDY REQUEST TO PUT STORED TOOLS TO WORK

FINAL REPORT OF FAYETTE JURY 1S EXPECTED TODAY   Special Prosecutor Tc Draft Report To Court   ‘SUPREME COURT TO  DECIDE ON DUMBAULD

OPA Hog Ceiling Conferences Open   Deputy Chief Says Limits Necessary

Ceiling On Live  Hogs ‘Necessary  OPA Official Speaks Te Livestock Delegation

Operators May Oppose New Union Coal Pact   Stand Is Made Known In Advance Of Hearing Called For Thursday By War Labor Board

OPERATORS T0 CONTEST UMW ILLINOIS PACT   Appalachian Owners Will Express Objections Before War Labor  Board Thursday

Roosevelt At Head Of Peace Table, Urged   Vice-President Wallace Suggests Selection Of President As Chairman OF Peace Conference

ROOSEVELT URGED PEACE CHAIRMAN   Wallace Offers Suggestion at Press Conference Without Authority.

Suggestion Made by Wallace That FDR Be Made Peace Table Chairman

F.R. Urged As Head ot Peace Table   Wallace Proposes U. S. President to  Lead Conference

Make Roosevelt Peace Chairman Wallace Urges   FDR Most Important Man in World for Conference, He Says

PROPOSES F. R. BE PERMANENT PEACE LEADER   Wallace Says Roosevelt Not Aware of His Idea  for Peace Chairmanship

ADKG ADUSEVELT AT PEACE TABLE   Wallace Wants President As Permanent Chairman At Negotiations

Hull And Eden Open Post-War  Conferences   Secretary Emphasizes Full Understanding Among Allies Needed

SECRETARY HULL STRESSES NEED OF ALLIED ACCOR   War May Last-Longer Than - We Think, Cabinet Official Says After First Talk wat Bden.

Hull Would — Widen Talks — On Allied Aims   Begins ‘With Eden, But Thinks. Others Misht Join ,

a pata  Agreement Sought On  Peace Aims              FIRST MOVE TO BRING ABOUT UNITED NATIONS AGREEMENT  ON WAR AND PEACE OBJECTIVE

SECRETARY OF STATE HAS HOUR TALK WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY EDEN   Hull Tells Newsmen He Feels Better as Result of Initial Talks

LORD HALIFAX ALSO ATTENDS CONSULTATION   Historic Conferences Now Beginning Might Be Extended to Soviet Union.

Lumber Workers Ask Relief From Job Freeze Rule   Job Freeze Kule  New Mexico, Arizona Union Officials Wire McNutt, Labor Board  SAY WAGE TOO LOW Charge U. S. Agencies  Failed in Promise To Arbitrate Scales

College Girls Join the WOW And Still Keep Up Studie:   ‘Student Employment Plan Devised to Give Co-Eds Work In War Plants For Three Months, Then Switch Back to College For Equal Period; Will Aid Those of Limited Means

72-Hour Cycle of Bombing Given German Points  Severe Strafing Is Perhaps Sign Invasion Is Near

RAF BOMBERS KEEP UP RAIDS   Round Out Devastating Month’s Pounding At Nazi Targets On Broad Front

RAF Hits Nazis For 72 Hours   February Sees Most Devastating Blows Yet at Continent *

Planes Continue Bombing Drive   Blast at Nazi Bases For 72-Hour Period

RAF IN HEAVY DAYTIME RAIDS   Allies Close Out February As War’s Month of Most Devastating Attacks

British Bombers Attack Germany's Bases in France End Month of Februar with One of Greatest  en we .

RAF Bombers End 72-Hour: Cycle Of Axis Bombings   Jap Reinforcements Are _ Massing; Attack Expected   Enemy Concentrating Main Effort in Preparation for Front, Command of General: MacArthur Reports—Massing of Power Revealed

AIRMEN STRAFE AXIS WARSHIPS, TRANSPORTS   <7) Merchant Ships Sunk, Tw: Destroyers, Two Transport: Damaged Off Sicily

ltalian War Industry Hit In Heavy Raid   RAF Torpedo Planes Strike Blow At Axis Naval Units

Sky Armadas Blast Enemy Supply Bases   Airplanes Play Big Part in Great Attack on Sicily

Troopships of Axis Blasted   Ferry Terminals and Supply Centers Are Hit in Allied Raids

Sky Fleets Blast Axis Transports   Supply Centers Also Are Battered by Ceaseless Allied Air Atiacks   TROOPS AND CARGO SENT TO BOTTOM   Lighter Planes Patrol Sea Lanes as More Allied Convoys Arrive

ALLIES BLAGT TROOP BOATS   Hit Transports in Sicilian Waters and Bomb Supply Centers.   INVASION PROGRESSES

Allied Airmen Paralyze Sicily’s Shipping, Bases   Destroy Transports

Transports Of Enemy Blasted By Sky Fleets   Supply Centers Located On Messina Strait Also Are Pounded Heavily  By Allied Planes

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST ENEMY’S SUPPLY ROUTES   Desperate Attempts of Axi: to Reinferce Sicily Defenders Frustrated By Sky Fleets   TRANSPORTS SUNK   Fliers Batter Supply Cen. ters On Both Sides of Messinia Strait As Invaders Advance

Sky Fleets Blast  Axis’ Transports   Batter Supply Centers on Both Sides of the Mes sina Strait.

Earthquake Rocks Germany   Number of Persons Near Stuttgart Slightly Injured

New Retreat By Attu Jans   Americans Battle Enemy In Conflict Waged Above Cloud Line In Aleutians  By JOSEPH A. BORS

AMERICANS DRAW NEAR CHICHAGOF   Organized Resistance Appears To Be Crumbling

300,474 ACRES OF CROPS LOST IN ILLINOIS   Estimated 1,257,698 Acres Flooded in This State Alone

: es e Davies Arrives  At Fairbanks   Carries Stalin's Reply To President

Davies Arrives At Alaska Base   Returns From Mos: cow With Answer To Note

JOS. DAVIES AT FAIRBANKS   F.D.R. Envoy Reaches Alaska After Visit to Stalin

EMISSARY TO MOSCOW ARRIVES IN SEATTLE   Joseph Davies Declines To Be Interviewed; Leaving Immediately For Washington

. e Davies Arrives  At Fairbanks   F.D.R.’s Special Envay Tx Russia Bringing Stalin’s Reply.

JOSEPH DAVIES IS BACK IN U. S.   Carried Message from FDR To Stalin

DERRY HAS CASE OF JITTERS   No . One Injured* When - Blasts Wreck Arm-.ament Plant .

British Win After Battle Of 30 Hours   Correspondent Tells How Montgomery Arm Pierces Mareth Line  200 TTATTANS NERCERT

Montgomery's Forces Continue Battle To Consolidate and Widen Gap so Armor and Men Can Be Poured Through It; Germans Use Panzer Grenadiers in Effort To Hold Line

BRITISH TRYING TO WIDEN (AP   NAZL LINE CRACKED IN) Tt. NEISEA ARPIER 30 HOURS OF SAVAGE FIGHTING,

BRITISH BROKE THRU MARETH LINE AT 3 A.M.   Three Hundred Italians Throw Down Arms And _ Deserted To Mercy Cf Eighth  Army.   30 Minute Barrage

U.S. Heavies Set Mark of 11 Raids in Month   They Were Supported By American, R. A. F., Canadian and Allied  Fiahters on Micscion

U. S. airmen mark up new  high in raids   Hit reich for 11 attacks in month

11 Raids In Month U.S. Total   Heavy Bombers Set New Record For  Operations

Heavy U.S. Bombers Hit  Nazi Targets   American Force Is Accompanied By Many Fighters

FAST BRITISH BOMBERS HIT WEST GERMANY   Fortresses Pound Port Of Bremen

Mosquito Bombers Blast Nazis   West Germany Missions Carried  Out Without Loss

Make 11 Major Bombings From England Bases   Daylight Attack Today Continues Allied Blast ing Of Germany.

U. $. Eighth Air Force and RAF Bombers Continue Raids on Germany.   ‘COLD WEATHER IS MET

BOMBERS OVER GERMANY FOR ATTACK TODAY   Total of 11 Major Raids Heaviest Operations From British Bases

R. AF. Hits Reich Following U.S. Rail on Bremen   Nazis Threaten To Unleash Secret Weapon”

American Bombers Hit _Targets In Western Germany As Offensive In Air Continues

YANKEE FLIERS BOMB GERMANY INDAYLIGH'   Raid In Western Part ot  Reich Sets Record of   J] Major Assaults For One Month

Eleventh Air Raid on Reich in Month Made by U. S. Force   Heavy Bombers Given Support of RAF and Canadian Fighters

RA BLASTS AT WESTERN AREA AGAIN   French And Dutch Airdromes Also Paid Visit

"RAF’S BOMBERS  RAID GEMANY NONE ARE LOST   Attack by British Follows Yank Foray on Bremen Yesterday

New Record In Major Attacks Set By Allies   Kighth Air Foree Heavy Bombers Raid Targets In Western Germany.   BIG FIGHTER SUPPORT

U.S. BOMBERS SET RECORD FOR ATTACKS   Eighth Air Force Follows on Heels of R. A. F. Raids On Targets in West Germany   AIRFIELDS DAMAGED

U.$ HEAVY BOMBERS  ATTACK TARGETS IN  WESTERN GERMANY DAYLIGHT RAID BY AMER. ICAN HEAVIES FOLLOWS  BITC? RAITT PY DAT

U. S. BOMBERS RAID GERMANY BY DAYLIGHT   Bring to 11 Major Raids from Brit ish Bases in Month, Added to If  LDAP Pp. Li. OY fat Bombers   BREMEN BLASTED   Forts Hit Port Second Time in Four Days Encounter Severe Icing Conditions

US. Fliers Blast More Targets In West Reick   Nazi Airfields In Holland And France Are Also Subjected To Bombing

U. §. Bombers Attack Western Germany Targets   Record of 11 Major Raids in One Month Set

BOMBERS HIT NAZI CITIES AGAIN TODAY   Bremen Port Gets Blasting From U. S. Airmen

Allies Carried Out Kew Raids   GERMAN CENTERS ARE BLASTED BY AIR RAIDERS

Western Electric Workers Strike In Baltimore   Defy W.L.B. over Racial Problem

FIVE DIVORCE SUITS AND ONE TRESPASS ACTION ARE FILED   Three Husbands Seek Divorces from Their Wives in Court Actions   2 WOMEN ALSO SUE   Trespass Suit is Result of An Automobile Accident In Lansdale on Oct. 17th

SIX SUITS FILED FOR DIVORCE AND - ONE FOR TRESPASS   Nyda R. Downs, Bristol, Starts Action Against Her Husband for Divorce   JACOB LINES IS SUED   Andrew Gall, of Bristol, Charges Wife With Cruel  and Barbarous Treatment

BRISTOL MAN SUES FOR DIVORCE FROM WIFE   John Keller, Mill Street, Files Action In the Bucks County Court   OTHER SUITS STARTED

Sees Possibility Of Food Wasted At Army Camps   Senate Group Assured By liarterinasier Genera  Suck Practice Will Cease

Gen. Gregory Denies Army  Wastes Food   Says There May Have Been Instances But No Any More

FOOD WASTE ENDS   Quartermaster General Says ‘Army Camp Practices Have Improved

Army not to waste food, says seneral   Gregory admits possibility of past misdeeds

Chandler Gives Cardinals 7 Hits   SPEED PAYS OFF FOR NEW YORK; 68,676 SEE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS SCORE TWICE IN FOURTH, SIXTH; GORDON HOMERS

Crosetti Speed © In Sixth Brings Victory te N. Y..   BRAY tcarRe  Bae le ee ee ee

Unandler Is Winning Pitcher   Fancy Running by Crosetti in 6th Gives Bronx Bombers 3rd and Winning Run

4 10 2 SCORE IN SERIES OPENER IN NEW YORK CITY   Chanller ‘Makes Hits; Crowd Num“bers 68,676 Payiiz  BIER ORO

PLAN PRICE CONTROL ON VEGETABLES   Step will be taken by O P. A. within next few months

CEILING COMING ON VEGETABLES   Recent Sharp Advances, Canned Goods Ration Behind Move

Price Control For Fresh Vegetables   Ceilings Necessary Because 0! Sharp Advances

WETE REISER AT RILEY.   lyn Outfielder Is Getting His sic Training

New Meat Prices To Be Effective May 17   New Ceilings Will Remain In Effect Until Rollback On Inne 7

Entertain Winners In Ten Aue Yield      Are Guests Of Farm Bureau And. Chamber Of .Commerce

Farmers To Get EKnough Gas, Is Word   ?roblems Expected To Be Ironed Out By March 31

Reds, Czechs Sign Agreement to Halt Nazi Advance  Poland Is Included In Move Which  Will Block Germany

Fred Lowe Asks New Jury Panel   Alleges Jurors Who Convicted Strong Would Be Preiudiced

CAUGHT IN ACT      Soldiers Selzed In Bushes as They  Went? Weider

Vichy Radio Quits Air   Silencing Believed to Halt Embarrassing News

Tax Bypassing For Either 1942 Or 1943 Proposed   Accountants Institute Would Take Larger Of Two Years’ Levies

Two Groups Urge 1-Year Tax Skipping   House Committee Adopts Night Sessions to Speed Measure

Tax Year Skip Plans Outlined Lo. House Com.   Ways And Means Group Is On Day And Night Shift To Speed Legislation

HOUSE COMMITTEE SPEEDS WORK ON PAY-GO TAX PLAN   Two More Witnesses Propose Skipping Year’s Levy to Put Payments on Current Racie

Another Income Tax Plan Studied  Solons Hear Proposal To Put Payments On Current Basis

NEW TAX PLAN TO SKIP A YEAR   Retail Association Officer Recommend Payments Be Put on Current Basis

SPEED ACT  ION ON TAX PLAN   House Ways and Means Group Working Day and Night Shifts.   SUGGESTIONS ARE HEARD

NEW TAX PROPOSAL GIVEN STUDY AND PLANS DISCUSSED   Committee on Day and Night Schedule to Enact RevenueGathering Measure

PAY-AS-YOU-CARN TAX PLAN URGED   Accountants, Retail Group Ask House Committee to Adopt Income Plan

Proposal To Skip Tax Year Is Made To Committee   Compromise Plan Is Favored by Many Members

TAX SKIP ADVOCATES PRESS CASE   Two More Proposals Go Be. fore Committee Now Work. ing Day and Night   DRY GOODS MEN FAVOR PROPOSAL   Accountants. Also Offer Plan; Both in Favor of Withholdins. Tax

COMMITTEE GOES ON 24-HOUR SHIFT TO GET TAX PLAN   Taxpayer May Know Aniswer Yet Before Aoril First

SPEED STUDY OF TAX PLAN   Committee Hears Proposal -~To Skip Year's Bill

TWO GROUPS ASK SKIPPING OF TAX   Air Plans To Put Payments Upon A Current Basis

NEW PAY- AYO BOTA PLANS ARE SUGGESTED   Congressional Committes Working Night and Day Shifts to Speed Enact: ment on Time

SKIPPING TAX ‘YEAR PROPOSED   institute of Accountants Spokesmen Favors Payments on Current Basis

Hear Two More  Proposals For Tax Year ‘Skip’   House Group Steps Up Hearings On Pay-As. You-Go Plan.

List Men Who Pass Army Test   County Board Two Has Large Number Accepted For Service At Pittsburgh   WILL LEAVE AFTER THREE-WEEK STAY

City Board One Lists Selectees   Men Accepted For Militar Service At Pittsburgh Last Thursday Are Announced

GIRAUD'S DOOR: ISKEPT OPEN TO GEN. DEGAULLE   Offers to Meet Head of Fighting French Half Way In Objectives of War   FOR FREE FRANCE   Says. Union Must Be Ef fected for Rebirth of Republic; Abolishes All  _Vichy.Laws —

PRO-VICHY AID LEAVES GIRAUD   French Genera! to Purge Nazi Influence ‘in North Africa

TO END VICHY INFLUENCE IN NORTH AFRICA   Giraud Plans Like Action in West Africa—Offers to Meet de Gaulle Halfway in Fight for New French Republic.

Giraud Will Clean House of Vichy Mer   Gen. Bergeret Resigns it First Move of Drive for French Union   OTHER MEN AND MEASURES To Go   French Hero. Also Will "Have Army of 300,000 for the Altes

we ee  Last Influences Of Vichy In Africa Cut By Giraud; Atlantic Charter Followed

French High Chief Willing To Meet DeGaulle Halfway; Pleads For Unity

Pro-Vichy Chief At Algiers Quits   Giraud Announces African Clean-Up

GIRAUD MOVES TO UNION WITH DE GAULLISTS   Embraces Principles of Atlanti Charter, Promises to End Vichy’: Influence in Africa

GEN. GIRAUD OFFERS TO MEET “BREE FRENCH HEAD HALF WAY   Begins Drafting Series Of Decrees Repudiating Last Of Vichy Influence In North And West Africa, Including Anti-Jewish Laws.

Giraud Makes Overture To Gen. DeGaulle   Implies That Two French Leaders Can Work Out Trusteeship  MPLIADTOCH 1C CrAs4BDDOD AMC

Repudiates Vichy [dicts in Africa   General Giraud Offers to Meet DeGaulle Half Way  ‘ y in a Union.

Giraud Seeks  United France   Offers’ To Eliminate Axis Influences Whether *“Measures Or Men.’

Urges Union of All Anti-Axis French People   Giraud Repudiates Vichy Influence On Dark Continent

GIRAUD OFFERS TC MEET DE GAULLE   URGES UNION OF ALL ANTI-AXIS FRENCHMEN

GIRAU OFFERS - DEGAULLE PLAN   Prepares Decree to Repudiate All Vichy Laws

Giraud’s Assistant Commander Turns In Resignation  Gen, Bergeret Had  Been Criticized As Pro-Vichy

Giraud Makes Pledge to Cut All Vichy Ties   Welding Army of 300,000; Acts as Servant of France Only, He Sass

GIRAUD PLANS UNITY OF FREE FRENCH LEADERS   Military Chief Has 300,000 Men Equipped with American Weapons

GIRAUD QUITS AFRICAN VICHY   Promises People Right to Choose Own Government

Giraud Drafts  More Decrees   Offers To Meet DeGaulle Half Way In Union To Save Republic

Giraud Wants De Gaulle Aid   Makes Effort To Compose Differences Of French Factions  wrriinvr mw

Olive Branch Is Waved At Free French   Giraud Calls For Union Of Factions To Win The War

GIRAUDS SPEECH ISSATISFACTORY 10 GENER’L DE GAULLE   Expresses General Satisfaction and Reaffirms Desire To Study Means of Achieving Unity With Algiers.

Speech Aids French Unity      De Gaulle Is Pleased By: Statement Made By “Giraud Yesterday

DRAFTS DECREE REPUDIATING VICHY REGIME.   300,000 Frenchmen ‘Being Equipped With American Arms

2 WITH VICHY LEANINGS QUIT CIRAUD GROUP   Resignations Point to Closer Work by Main Factions of French

Giraud Receives. Resignation Of Gen. Bergeret, Pro-Vichy; De. Gaulle Okehs Unity Plea

De-Gaulle F avors Giraud’s United .. Free French Aims   Giraud. Seeks Unity: of Aims® for Rebirth : of French. Republic. Supports Atlantic Charter.

Giraud Prepares Decrees To Repudiate Vichy Laws; Offers To Meet De Gaulle Half Way   Promises’ Homeland Rights To Select Own Government Will Be Safeguarded

ViGhY. INFLUENCE: TS REPUDIATED BY PIRAIID IN AFRICA   Offers to Meet DeGaulle Halfway In Effort to Restore French Republic   SAYS HE WANTS UNITY

Allies Enthused By Reports of Moscow Harmony   Berlin Radio Charges Agreement Was Made ‘To Bolshevize Europe’

Elation Mounts. As Three-Power Conference Ends  London Enthused While Nazi Organs Play on  Barly Invacian

Announcement or Talks Expected  Tri-Partite Meet Nearly Concluded

NEW FRONT TO OPEN SOON, BRITISH THINK   Moscow Conferees Believed ta Have Settled Inyo sion of Western Europe . :

REPUBLICANS  For ‘Tratisportation To The. Polls   CONFERENCE RESULTS MAY BE TOLD SOO         Elation Over Success At Moscow Growing In London

Germans Predict Early Invasion   Multiple Thrust, Soon, Nazis Say

REPUBLICANS  For Transportation To The Polls  PHONE 333   RESULTS MAY BE TOLD SOON   Elation Over Success At Moscow Growing In London

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Jap Convoy’s Destruction Simplifies Allied Task In New Guinea Area

STRATEGIC PLANS OF JAPANESE ARE UPSE'   Destruction of Great Convoy Dislocates Whatever Program Enemy Had Been Working Out in the Area North of Australia—Jap Hold on Northwestern New Guinea Now Shoky.

REPORT FROM WAAC,   New Albany Girl Reveals Much In Her Diary. .

FDR ANNOUNCES COMPLETE HOLD IN ALEUTIANS   Japs Retreat Under Cover Of Fog

SURPRISE EVACUATION OF JAPANESE REVEALED IN JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY ROOSEVELT AND MACKENZIE KING

U.S.- Finnish Relations Take Turn for Worse   Tension Seen as Tip-Off to Spring Military Program

FINGAND MAY PLAY ROLE IN SECOND FRONT   Speculation Increased as U.S. Moves Most of Legation Staff From Helsinki.

TENSION GROWS IN SCANDINAVIA   U. S. Moves Diplomats from Finland; Invasion Hint Speculated,

Believe Scandinavian Peninsula May Play Important Part in Allied Drive

FINLAND MAY BE SPRING DRIVE AREA   Removal Of U. S. Legation Staff Has Finns Worried

LEGATION STAFF OF U.S. REMOVED FROM HEI SINK   Action Revives Speculation ef New War Theater to Be Set Us In North.

IL DUCE MAY MOVE CAPITAL OF WTALY   Hitler Seeking to Steady Shaking Allies; Hint Balkan Conferences

Il Duce and Hitler Play Tug-Of War With Balkan States   Rumania’s Antonescue Seen Slated For Talk With Mussolini in Rome;  Boris’ Visit to Reich Sicnificant

Axis Clash on Balkans Hintec   Veiled Reports of Spat Reach London

HINT BALKANS MAY BE PAWN IN A TUC-OF-WAR BETWEEN HITLER, IL DUCE

Announce Names Of 25 IIlinois Soldiers Who Are Missing In Action

Senate Passes Big Lend-Lease Bill   House Proviso on Subsidies Removed

State Patrolmen Trail Path Left By Weary Man-——Car With Empty Tank Found.

‘A’ Card Forced Robbers To  Take To Feet, One Is Tracked To Home and Admits His Part

Yanks Push On Despite Grim Battle   British Gain in South, Overrun Enemy While Racing to Join Americans; Germans Hold Strong Hill Positions

Casualties Heavy As Germans Fight In Desperation   Yanks Meet Stiff Tank Opposition

Fierce Battle Sull Rages on Salerno Front   Yanks Push Forward On Southern Sector: Crotone on Toe Falls In British Advance

HEAVY LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY AMERICANS   BRITISH CAPTURE CROTONE, MOVE UP 30 MILES

Germans Hotly Contest U.S. 5th Army Advance But Americans Press On

Casualties Heavy on Both Sides in Furious Salerno Gomibat, British Forees Capture Crofone

oth savagely throws back nazi horde   British Eighth eaptures Crotone

Germans Trying To Stave Off Pincers   Casualties On Both Sides Reported High As Tank And Artillery Duels Are Fouaht

Most Violent Battle of All Mediterranean Campaign Rages at Salerno Bridgehead

Small Pieces of Ground Change Hands Number of Times During Attacks and CounterThrusts—Enemy Artillery on High Ground Commanding Allied Bridgehead ——Losses on Both Sides Heavy.

iCrucial Combat Is in Full Fury Near Mount Vesuvius   HEAVY CASUALTIES MARK ENGAGEMENT  Nazis Trying to Hold Open an Escape Route

Salerno Now Center for Major Battle   ‘British Take Crotone ‘as Americans Face Foe Further North

Tanks And Reinforcements Being Thrown Prodigally Into Crucial Fight   SOUTHERN ITALY IS CLEARED OF GERMANS

Both Sides Throwing Tanks, Heavy Reinforcements Info Crucial Fight: Nazis Command High Posifions   Americans Hold Doggedly to Bridgehead; Push Into Mountains; Clark’s Forces'Encounter Stiff Tank Opposition; Many Casualties

BOTH SIDES THROWING TANKS AND REINFORCEMENTS INTO CRUCIAL COM.  BAT; HOTTEST BATTLE OF ANY CAM.PAIGN.  ‘ 4 ae @ 2. F 

Resistance By Nazis Mounts  Yanks Advance In Face Of Violent German Assaults

COMMISSION HALTS SHLE OF LIQUOR   Expect Freeze ‘to Be on Until Aug. 2 When Rationing Starts

Titular Chief of Republicans Goes Back to New York But Keeps Mum   On Future Plans

Willkie Ends  “Vacation”   Month in Indiana Spent Largely in Conferring With GOP Leaders

POLITICAL PARLEYS CLOSED BY WILLKIE   Many GOP Bigwigs Confer at Home in Indiana

Wendell Willkie Ends Month's Vacation ‘During Which He Conferred With ‘Scores of GOP Leaders in State, Nation

Willkie Confers With Scores Of Republicans   Month’s Sojourn At Indiana Ended by Leader

Willkie Confers With Scores of GOP  Leaders During Vacation in Indiana

WILLKIE HEADS BACK TO NEW YORK   Follows Sojourn with Many GOP Big Wigs as Visitors in Hoosier Home

Pay Bill Faces Speedy ‘Action   Mustering-Out Legislation ~ Fot Fighting Forces. Ready. For Helis

Pope Denies © Supporting War   “Enemies of God". Are Blamed? — .

Legislature To Get Bills Providing Benefits for State's Returning Vets

Conferences Face Leaders During Week   Sessions on Domestie Questions as Well as War Issues Are on List for Week.

Conterence Set In Washington   Charchill and President to Confer—Other Capital Happenings

DEBACLE IN RUSSIA MAY DOOM FUEHRER   Recent Conference with Hitler Said to Have Been Called by Leaders Seeking to End War

Militarists May Junk Hitler And Party— Bik omBy Kirke L. Simpso:  Nazis Admit Blackest Day Since War Began

Greater Military Catastrophe Than Stalingrad  Seen in Fast-Moving  Events Along  Hitler's Blood Wall

MOVE HINTED FOR OUSTING ADOLE HITLER   POLITICAL UPRISING MAY BE BREWING WITHIN REICH

NAZI CAPITAL AND STUTTGART hit BY ROYAL AIR FORCE   American Bombers Smash Bremen in Record-break= ine Attack

Most Vital News of War Is Expected   Report of Momentous Developments Seen By Commentators

GREATER CRIME PROBLEM SEEN   Increased : Air Travel Tc Aid Criminals, Police Chiefs Told

ee allan ened en a ee ee  Will Bar Public But Admit Press At Kromer Hearing Monday Afternoon

Xromer Trial To Start Next Monday Belore Civil Service Commission

Fathers May Be Inducted By July 1   Hershey Would Post. pone Induction as  _Long As Possible

FATHERS SCHEDULED FOR JULY INDUCTION   Hershey Says He Would Like ‘Ye Postpone Calls As Long As Possible

Calling Fathers Likely-To Begin About July 1   Strong Attention Report. ed Directed to Revising Classifications.

FATHERS EXPECTED TO GET EARLY CALL   General Hershey Says the Calls Will Begin About July 1

Fathers May Be Drafted In July Hieihes Opines   New revisions hinted; changes would be little more than paper transfers. however.

Hershey Sees Father Draft By July 1st   Elimination Of Dependent Classes Expected; Advance Notice ls Promised   AWAIT BAN LIFTING   McNutt, Davis Go Ahead With Overage, 4F 'Wark Or Fight’ Policies

MORE CHANGES IN CLASSIFICATIONS   Hershey Says Drafting  Fathers May Be Possible About July 1.

ARMY INDUCTION OF FATHERS MAY BEGIN IN JULY   Hershey Says Ban Against Drafting Them Will Be Lift-ed in Advance of Date They Are Called.   TALK CLASSIFICATIONS TO BE CHANGED HEARD   Selective Service Chief Says Subject Is Under Consideration but None Has Been Ordered.

FATHERS 10 BE CALLED IN JULY   Ban Against Induction Will Be Lifted To Meet Quotas

FATHER DRAFT LIKELY JULY 1   Hershey Indicates Call on Heads of Families by Middle of Summer   No Changes Ordered

July May See Drafting Of Fathers   Hershey Says Delay Will Be Tried Change Is Unlikely

Ban Against Induction To Be Lifted, Hershey States   Revision Of Classification is Seen With Essential Men Landing In 2-A or 2-B Unit

WILDCAT STRIKE ENDS AS MEN RETURN TO WORI   Only About 3,000 Miners Idle ‘This Morning, As Deadline Neared

LEADERS DOUBT ACTION NEEDED BY PRESIDENT   Only 3,150 Still Idle As 22Day Wildcat Walkout Is Concluded      UNION THREAT IS AID   Work Is Resumed At Eight Mines Of World's Largest Producer

COAL STRIKE WANES; MORE MEN RETURK   Only Three Mines Still Idle In Defiance Of President

Backbone Of Strike Is Broken   : Majority of Miners Back to Work Out of ‘Courtesy to President’ Don’t Admit Defeat

Action Courtesy To The President   Miners Say They Are Not Accepting Terms Of Peace   FEW THOUSAND TO AWAIT ZERO HOUR

UNION’S OUSTER THREAT CRACKS MINERS’ STRIKE   UMW’s Ultimatum More Potent Than FF. D. Order 

Barely 3,000 Left Idle At Roosevelt’ s Deadline   ‘We Don’t Want to Embarrass President’ but Will Continue Fight Against Dues In. crease, Revolt Leader Says

Miners Obey FDR’s Order      All But 2.400 Anthracite Strikers Resnme Work fh: Pennasl vania

Strikers Go Back To Jobs In Coal Mines During Day   Return Few Hours Ere  Deadline Of President

MINERS BACK INHARD COAL MINES TODAY   ABOUT 3,000 REPORTED AS VOTING TODAY TO RETURN

Anthracite Miners End Long Tieup   ALL But 3,000 Heed FDR Edict ‘Reenter Pits

Miners Go Back Before Deadline   At Least 21,000 Now at Their Jobs

ONLY 4 UNIONS FAIL TO RETURN TO WORK TODAY   Two To Consider Back-toWork Vote This Morning

Miners Refurnine To Their Jobs in Anthracite Field   Action Termed Courtesy to President

Wildcat Strike «Of Anthracite  Miners Ended   Leaders Say ‘Courtesy tc The President, Not < Defeat’

DEPURL VEAL  On 5,000 Stilt Idle; _ President Gratified at "Response

» Major » Plants » Work   Only: 3,000 of Four Locals Not Yet ‘Back At Work      Action Few Hours Before Deadline  Set by FDR

MINERS TROOP BACK TO JOBS IN COAL FIELDS      Three-Week-Old Strike in Pennsylvania Apparent. ly Over a Few Hours Before End of President’s Deadline.

The Pennsylvania Strike Has Ended   Anthracite Mine Workers Return to Work Before the President’s Deadline.

ANTHRACITE STRIKE WANES AS MOST OF WORKERS GO BACK   Struck ‘Collieries Hurr y To Mines’ Before The Deadline Of Order . By FDR.

STRIKERS AT WORK TODAY AT NOON DEADLINE   Most of Men Return to Hard Coal Workings and President Expected to Delay Action.

Strike Subsides tn Pennsylvania Mines   Workers Return to Collieries Before Deadline Set in President’s Order

Miners Return To Collieries On FDR Ples   Only 3.000 Continue Strike. Others Back As Courtesy To President.   ROOSEVELT ‘GRATIFIED’

Strikers Go Back To Jobs In Coal Mines  Fivnn Hearina   Flynn Hearing Draws Big Crowds In Senate

HMNERS START 10 AETURN 10 PIS: STRIKE BROKEN   fight Collieries Open, “Only 3,150 Are ; Still Edle   GLEN ALDEN MANAGER SAYS STRIKE 1S OVER

COSTLY COAL MINE STRIKE ENDED TODAY   After Three Weeks of Idleness Anthracite Miners  Go Back to Work.   Beat Deadline Set By Chief Executive

Miners Return To Pits. Avert Federal Move   Nearly All Strikers On Job; Bare 3,000 Are Still Out And They Are Expected Back

Pennsylvania Anthracite Strike Ends   Thousands Of Miners Return As A ‘Courtesy To President.’

MINERS RETURN 10 PENNSYLVANIA PITS   22-Day Strike in Anthra. cite Fields Nears Cad

Hard Coal Diggers Return to Work at Order of President   Of 24,000 Wildcatters Barely 3,000 Known ~~ Stil To Be Idle

THOUSANDS 0 BACK TO WORK IN COAL MINES   Return to Job Only Few Hours Before Deadline Set by F. R.

Striking Coal Miners End 22-Day Strike  All but 2,400 Were Back to Work by Noon Thuredavw

WALKOUT ENDS IN COAL MINES   Pay Increase of $2 and Reduction In Union Dues Requested

BULK OF STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK AT DEADLINE HOUR   Mines Rapidly Getting Back Inte Production As Walkout Wanes.

WILOCAT STRIKE IN MINES ENDEL   All But About 3,000 Have Returned To Jobs In :Pennsylvania

BACK TO WORK MOVE SPREADS; ONLY 3 HOLD OUT   Uprising in Pennsylvania Against Union Leaders Who Would Raise Dues

COAL MINE SITUATION IS FASED   Miners Rush Back To Work Ahead of President’s Deadline

Strikers Back  In Mines After Most Expensive Dispute Of War   Miners Say It’s Courtesy To President: Go In Few Hours Before Deadline

MINERS RETURN TO WORK IN PA.   Members Of All But Two Local Unions Return  To Pits

ONE COLLIERY UNION. VOTES-10.STAY IDLE   Other Scattered Unions Have  ‘Arranged To Ballot SomeTO Tada

MINERS RETURN TO WORK TODAY   Strike Leader Describes Move As ‘a Courtesy to The President.’

End Strike Just Prior  ToDeadline   Barely 3000 Of 24,000 In Wildcat Walkout Are Reported As Still Idle

OPERATIONSIN STATE MINES ARE RESUMED   Wildcat Strike in Anthracite Fields Ends Few Hours Before Back to-Work Deadline   COURTESY TO CHIEF

Anthracite Miners’ Strike Is Waning   Threat to Expel Strikers from Union Does Trick

Wildcat Strike Of Miners Ends   Men Back To Work  In Pennsylvania

Coal Strike Virtually Over, F.D.R. Pleased   Only About 2,400 Men Out of 12,000 Strikers Defy President’s Order

WORK IS RESUMED   Coal Mine Strike Ends Before Deadline Set by  Roosevelt

Thousands Go Back to Work In Coal Mines   Only Three. Locals Remain Out at Noon; Special " Meeting Called>   BIG MAJORITY RETURN TO WORK   Barely 3,000. of D0. of 24, 000- Who ‘Went on Strike Are SH] Idle

Three-Weeks-Old Wildcat Strike In Pennsylvania Coal Fields Comes to End

Miners Troop Back To Their Jobs  Mine Strike Ends In Shadow Of Deadline  *e #e#e

WILDCAT MINE STRIKE ENDED, ITIS BELIEVED   Hard Coal Miners Return to Their Jobs In All Major Collieries In  Pennsylvania   3,000 REMAIN IDLE   Back to Work Movement Gets Underway Few Hours Before Deadline   Set By Roosevelt

Eight More Mines Terminate Strike   3,150 Miners Still Idle in Three Collieries as Deadline Is Reached

STRIKE ENDS BEFORE HOUR SET BYF.D.R   Enthusiastic Miners on Job "As Courtesy To President’

MINERS RETURN TO JOBS BEFORE FOR’S DEADLINE   Only About 3,000 Workers Are Still Idle in Eastern Anthracite Fields

Wildcat Strike Seen Ended Today Before Deadline  3,000 STILL OUT Strike Costliest In  Man Hours Lost During War

For Roosevelt Miners Return To Their Posts   They Still Object To Extra 4 Bits Monthly To Lewis

Majority Of Miners Back; 2, 400 Stall      EXETE MINERS AVER THEY HaVE NO WRITTEN ORDER DEEiVERED BY WHITE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE,   No Compensation

WORKERS CALL OFF WILDCAT STRIKE AT HARD COAL MINES   Return To Jobs In Collieries Shortly Before EDRs Deadline

COAL STRIKE COMES TO END   All But 2,400 Miners in Anthracite Field Heed Roosevelt Order

BOW TO FDR’S ORDER TO END 22-DAY STRIKE   Most of Miners Go Back Tc Jobs Before Deadline Set By President.   NO DISORDER REPORTED   Cries of ‘Back to Work’ Ring  Through Halls as 1,800 Caet Balinte

Miners Returr To Jobs; Only Few Stull Idle   Three Pits Employing 3,150 Not Operating; Strike Virtually Ends

3,000 REMAIN DLE AS MOST MINES REOPEN   Plan to Continue Fight Against Increase in Dues to Union.

STRIKERS BACK IN GOAL MINC WALKOUT OVER   Only 3,000 Men Still Idle As Roosevelt’s Request Heeded By Majority

Strike In Mines.  Is Ended   Thousands of Miners Go Back To Work In Face of F. D. R. Ultimatum

Workers Return As Roosevelt's Deadline Nears   Thousands Troop Back To Jobs; Only 3,000 Out Of 24,000 Are Now Idle

Coal Strike Ends, Miners Back On Jobs   Men Back To Work Before Deadline Set By President

WILDCAT STRIKE IN ANTHRACITE MINES APPEAR BE ENDED.  STRIKERS RETURN TO

Only 3,000 Now Known To Be Idle A: Others Heed President’s _ Warning

Nearly All Strikers Obey Order To Return To Work   23 Counties In Northern Ohio To Participate In Big Blackout

Striking Miners Return To Work Under Ultimaturr  All But Two Anthracite Collieries Vote To Respond To FDR Call

Wildeat Strike Ends ‘As Miners Go To Work   Only About 3.000 Men Known To Be Idle; Two Locals Meeting Today

Vote Quickly to Reopen Coal Mines   Comply with Pre President’s Order for Few Hours Before Deadline; 3,000 Vote Today

THOUSANDS HEED ROOSEVELT ORDER TO RESUME WORK   Union Leader Describes Move “Courtesy to President;” Will Continue Fioht Against Dues.

PREDICT EISENHOWER TO HEAD ALLIED UNITS   Lietit Gen. Andrews Appointment Adds to Belief

Fisenhower May Get Command   May Head All Allied Forces in North Africa

WRECK LAST NIGHT   One Man in Hospital and Another Arrested Fol lowing Accident

Nazi Radio Calls Atrican Conference a Fourth-Rate Hollywood Bigwig Pow-wow

Axia Calls Parley Hollywood Show, Labels Roosevelt “Criminal Figure ’

Fourth-Rate Hollywood Bigwig PowWow", Says Nazi Radio of Conference

‘ALL BLUFF’ SAYS AXIS REPORT   AFRICA CONFERENCE CALLED FOURTH RATE HOLLYWOOD POW-WOW

Germans Give Axis Version  Of Conference  Nazis Say. 10. Days Necessary to Gain. Allied Harmony ©

Berlin Says Meeting Is ‘Hellywccdish’   Scoff At Results, Say It Took 10 Days To Establish Harmony

AXIS SCOFFS ATPARLEY OF ALLIED HEADS   DESCRIBED AS HOLLYWOOD POW-WOW, LACKING IN HARMONY

10-Day Conference Draws Nervous Jibes From Axis   Nazis Call Meeting 4th Rate Hollywood Biawia Pow-Wow

CONFERENCE IS DENOUNCED BY GERMANY, JAPAN   it Took Ten Days to Establish Harmony Between the - Chiefs, Germans Said.   NEWS FLASHED AT 3 A. M.   Meeting Was Held to Win Favor of Public Opinion, Tokyo Said.

GERMANS SCORE ~ ALLIED PARLEY   FDR, Churchill Meeting ‘Took  “10 Days for Harmony,’ Nazis Contend

NAZI RADIO RIDICULES CONFERENCE   Claims Ten Days Needed For. Allied » Leaders To Agree

SENATOR SICK; PEARSON QUIZ ISPOSTPONEL   Coluimnist to Appear Later Before Committee to Explain Assertion George's  Vote Controlled 

SENATE CALLS DREW PEARSON   Columnist Summoned To Ex. plain Statement About Senator George.

‘Conquests Peril ~ Poland, Rumanis      Aremenchug, = fudnya  Thawasecneece) 20 OX Se Ee Qas

Red Army Rolls To Within 110 Miles of Poland   Troops Are 210 Miles From Rumanian Line In Southern Drive

Soviets are victorious ai two points   Roll within 110 miles of Poland

Great Gains Are Scored in Widely Separated Blows   RUDNYA CAPTURED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Victories Announced in Orders of Day by Marshal Stalin

SOVIET ARMY IS 110 MILES FROM POLAND   KREMENCHUG FALLS ON EAST BANK OF DNIEPER

Rationing of Shoes Scheduled to Start Tuesday; Each Person Can:Have Only Three Pairs. a Year

All Sales Stopped For Today   Coupon 17 Buys One Pair To Tine 15

Rationing Of Shoes Is — Ordered By Government   Sales Prohibited Today With Rationing on Tuesday— Eoch Person Will be Allowed Thies - Pairs @ Year .

Selling Prohibited Today; Family May Exchange; Bargain Sales May Be Permitted Later

PLACE SHOES. ON RATIONED. ~ LIST TUESDAY   ALLOT THREE PAIRS A YEAR TO BACH INDIVIDUAL   Stamp No. 17 of Sugar-Coffee Book Will Be Used. Until. June 18; Families May Pool

Gov't. Puts Shoes Under Rationing: 3 Pairs Year Allowed   Program Is Scheduled To Start Tuesday Morn, Over Nation

PLACE SALES BAN   3 Pairs Yearly Per Person Planned; _No. 17 Stamp Good Until . ~~ June 15 For Pair

Limit Will Be 3 Pairs Per Person Each Year; Sales Prohibited Today

Sale Prohibited Today, bul Will Resume Tomorrow   hree Pairs a Year of Leather Footwear for Each Person   Fach Family May Pool Coupons To Provide for Others

-ch Person May Purchase aree Pairs During Year; ‘les Banned Until Tuesday   -early All Footwear Under New Regulation sued From White House Without Warning; ‘ugar Coupon No. 17 Will Be Used by Buyers

RATIONING OF ALL SHOES 10 START AT ONCE   Buying Limited To Three Pairs a Year; Order Prohibits Sales Today   Step Blocks Hoarding

Shoe Rationing Is Ordered By  Government   One field in which there will be no future demand for rubber; more satisfactory.

}, S. Places hees on ation List  Surprise Order Puts Plan in Effect Tuesday

SHOE SALES CUT IN SUDDEN MOVE   Rationing To Be Started Tomorrow; 3 Pairs Allotted

Three Pair A Year Allow od Under Program With Ration Coupon 7 Good  Until dune 15, Starting Meso gdaa.   MAY POOL COUPONS

Government Orders Shoes Rationed Effective ‘Tuesday   Sales Are Prohibited Monday ‘to Prevent Hoarding: Three Pairs Will Be Allowed a Year for Each Individual

Shoes Are Put On Rationing List By Government      Ration is Three Pairs a Year for Every Person.

Ration Shoes 3 Pairsa Year Tomorrow   NO SHOE SALES ARE PERMITTED TODAY: STAMP 17 WILL BE OPEN SESAME TO PURCHASE OF SHOES.   May Pool Rations

NOUot VUTto WAR POWER FUR GOVERNOR   Authorization For Dealing With Any War Emergency ls Granted Sparks

TAX SLASHING BILL REACHES LEGISLATURE   Democrats Still Block Confirmation of Ramage and Shroyer

laeciemiidaia: tnmeibtilistaiiailiiniln laiatiahiiaiaiaidleideidatehdik lind  (  Allies C Getting Ready For Invasion Of Italy

AXIS DOOM SEEN IN NORTH AFRICA   GENERAL DEVERS CONFIDENT OF ENEMY’S EXPULSION OR ANNIHILATION,

AXIS 1S DOOMED IN NORTH AFRICA REPORTS DEVERS   Chief of Armored Forces Has Just Returned From A Six-Weeks Tour of the African War Zone Ordered By General Marshall.

FEDERAL RAIL OPERATION I SEEN PROBABLE   Majority Of Unions Reject President's Offer To Arbitrate Dispute

Rail Peace Hope Fades   Gov't. Ready to Take Over Operation of Roads to Avert Strike

Railroads Face _ U.S. Operation   ROOSEVELT IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANY STRIKE

Last-Minute Uncertainty Looms Now   Roosevelt Orders Papers Drawn For Plan

FDR Takes Steps To Avoid Tie-up   New Offer by 15 Non-operating Unions Adds Uncertainty To Transportation Situation

Rail Trainmen Call Off Strike   Announcement Made At White House

Government Operation of Rails Looming as Part of Workers Reject FDR Offer   Three of Brotherhoods Refuse to Accept Decision of President in Settlement of the Dispute With Railroads on Wages

Plans Made As \ egotiations A ppear Futile   Three of Five Lnions Reject President's Offer Of Mediation

GOVERNMENT MAY MANAGE RAIL LINES   No Avreement Is In Sight On Wage Strike

GOVERNMENT IS READY TO SEIZE RAILS AT ONCE   New Proposition By 15 Non-Operating Unions Adds Touch Of Last Minute Uncertainty To The Picture.

Roosevelt Orders Preparations for Running Railroads   Attorney General Told to Get Necessary Documents Ready

GLOBALONEY’ SPEECH IRKS CAPITOL FOL!   Mrs. Luce Stirs. First -Lady. Wallace to _.. Comment _s_.

_KISKA SUPPLIES.   May Be Run in With Aid of Subi marine ‘Cargo Carrier.

Japs May Use Cargo Subs To Supply Kiska   Such Is Belief Of U. S. Naval Sources—-Kiska Cut Off From Direct Contact

BRACIL FANLET. TD AFFECT WAR, VARGAS nis  says He and FDR i Bil iascord . on

BRAZILIAN © PRES. saber       Complete Accord At Conference With Roosevelt

Chinese Make  Burma Advance   Jungle Fighters Aided By American Planes Have Pushed worware  zs — =< ee ane ene

JAPAN YIELDS PART OF BURMA   American Planes Aid Jungle Fighters

Boston Police Blamed for Anti-Semitism   Saltonstall Gives Report to Bushnell And Army

A Fierce Battle At Donets Elbow   Germans Mass Strength to Force Crossing Southeast of Kharkov   RUSS DRIVE IN NORTH   Further Gains Are Reported in the Direction of Smolensk

Four Spearheads Are Aimed At German Key Base Of Centra! Front,  ‘Moscow Savs   Red Star Says Hitler Took Ukraine Metropolis: But Did Not Win Battle

Reds Drive On Toward Smolensk   Furious Fighting Reported Near Izyum, Southeast  Of Kharkov

4 SPEARHEADS ARE AIMED FROM VYAZMA   Form Strong Line East 0 Recaptured Kharkov   Suffered By Invaders In Taking City: Severa Towns Occupied

SMASHING DRIVE IN DIRECTION SMOLENSK CONTINUED TUESDAY  : RUSSIANS ALSO APPEAR  TO HAVE ESTABLISHED  DINE FAST OF KHARKOV

Fall Of Ukraine City Confirmed. Bryansk In Peril   Russians Gaining In Four Drives On Smolensk

Russians Score New Advances  Take Rail Station In Drive To Smolensk

Defense Line Established  Near Kharkov   Moscow Admits The Evacuation Of Southern Citw

Reds Drive New Wedge West Toward  Smolensk   But Germans Are Making Major Effort To Cross Donets South Of Kharkov

Fall of Kharkov To Germans Is Told by Moscow   Russian Columns Threaten Another Important Base

4 Spearheads Peril Smolensk; Kharkov Is Lost   F oe Set Up Strong Line East Of kraine City; Red Army Column reall West Com Dniener -

CHERKASY FALL IS REPORTED   END OF GERMAN STAND TOLD IN BROADCAST

RUSSIANS GAIN ON ONE FRONT   Soviet Legions Are Driving Toward Smolensk—Admit Fall of Kharkov

Berlin Communique Ignores Fighting In North But Claims Advances In South

REDS CUT RAL LINE ON ROUTE TO SMOLENSK   Advances West Of Dnieper Are Contested Bitterly By German Forces   SEVERAL TOWNS SEIZED   Heavy Fighting Rages In Kharkoy Area; Push Ahead On Staraya Russa

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE TOWARD “NAZI KEY BASE   Germans Mass Tanks In Kharkov Area, Seek to Drive Russians From Donets Sector   BERLIN ANNOUNCES REDS ARE TRAPPED   Timoshenko's Artillery Blasts Nazis Out of Forts In Far North Near Lake [{men

PUSH WEDGE TOWARD NAZI KEY BASTION   Russians Capture Railroad Station in Their Drive On Smolensk.   But in South Nazis Try to Cross Donets

Russians Admit Kharkov s Loss   Continue Drive To Smolensk, However

Soviet Thrust For Smolensk Gains Ground  German Attacks in Donels Basin Met hy suite Resistance  NAZI LOSS IS HEAVY  Russian Columns Offer Threat to Axis Base at Bryansk

REDS CAPTURE ANOTHER TOWN ‘WEST OF RIVER   ‘Red: Armies Reported in Force ai Several Poinis Beyond Dnieper,  an North   FIGHT FOR DONETS   Continue Fierce Opposition to Germans in Kharkov Area, Score Some Gains

ANOTHER WEDGE 15 ~ DRIVEN DEEPER IN DRIVE ON SMOLENSK  GERMANS MASSED TANKS ’ AND MOTORIZED INFANTRY FURTHER SOUTH

MAY DEFEND AREAS EAST DE AMARKN   Nazis: ‘Make Claim Of More Gains,   Fée Losses. ~

New Russian Wedge Aiming  For Smolensl   Soviets Claim Victory In Giant Tank Battle ~ For Control Of Donets  Vallev Below Kharkov

LOSS OF KHARKOV ADMITTED   Reds Say More Towns Fall In Offensive  In Northern Area

THE RED ARMY IS CONTINUING TO SMASH WESTWARD   Moving Toward Smolensk German Key Base of the Central Fron.   NOW EAST OF KHARKOV   Appeared to Have Established a Strong Line in That Area.

RAIL STATIO RECAPTURED IN OFFENSIVE   Germans Making Effort To Cross Donets River   HEAVY FIGHTING   n Progress Southeast Of Kharkov: Weather Good For Tank Warfare

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE 6 MILES WEST OF RIVER   Four Spearheads Aimed By Russians Toward Smolensk

APPEAR TO BE ENTRENCHED NEAR KHARKOV   After Losing. City Captured'Only February 16, ~yThey Are Believed to }Have Established Strong Line to East.

Soviets Claim Nazis Capture Only Dead Bodies at Kharkov   Additional Towns West, Southwest o Vyazma Fall Into Russian Hands; Four Spearheads Continue Drives

Russians Drive For Smolensk   Soviets Establish Strong Line East Of Fallen Kharkov

Four Spearheads Are Aimed At Great City   Soviets Admit Loss of Kharkov; German Divisions On Smolensk Front Reported Routed

Reds Push On Toward  Smolensk   Score New Gains  In West Advance

Smolensk Is The Soviet Objective   Red Army Has Established a Strong Line East of . Kharkov   ADMIT LOSS OF CITY   Russian. Troops Take a Railway Station Fighting in Snow

Smolensk Is The Soviet Objective   Red Army Has Established a 7 East of  arkov   ADMIT LOSS OF CITY   Russian Troops Take ¢ Railway Station Fighting In Snow

RUSSIANS FORM STRONG LINE EAST 1OF FALLEN KHARKOV   Four Red Spearheads Aimed At Sme lenck

RUSSIANS WIDEN GAINS, MENACING SMOLENSK BASE   Capture of Rail Station Announced in Drive to Seize Foe Stronghold

Russians Smashing On Toward Smoiensk   Four Spearheads Point Toward Important City; Soviets Assert Strong line Establishec East of Abandoned ‘Kharkov.

Boost Pace to ~ Ease Pressure Near Kharkov   Russians Take More Towns West Of Vyazma, Seize Important Railway Station 80 Miles From Bryansk; Loss Of Kharkov Admitted.

Germans Mass Men To Drive Across Donets   Furious Fighting Is Reported South Of Fallen Kharkov   Reds Push Steadily On Toward Smolensk   Russians Claim Capture Of Igorievskaya, 50 Miles West of Vyazma

FOUR SPEARHEADS THREATENING CITY   2 More Towns Captured by Reds Southwest of Vvazma

Strong Front Formed East Of Kharkov   Loss Of Ukraine City Announced; Was Recaptured Only Feb. 16

SOVIET TROOPS SMASH THROUGH AXIS DEFENSES   German CounterBlows Repulsed On South Front

Give Up Kharkov But Establish Strong Line Outside City Where Germans Are Thrust Back.

REDS DRIVE — ON NAZI BASE AT SMOLENSK   Also Establish Strong Lines Last of Kharkov, Taken  bv Germans.   More Towns to Soviet Troops Near Vyazma

‘AEDS SMASH NEW WEDGE WESTWARD TOWARD SMOLENSK, CAPTURE THE CITY OF IGORIEVSKAYA ENROUTE

OBJECTIVES ‘IN. AXIS NATIONS AGAIN BOMBED   Cities In Italy Ate Hit While Berlin Is Raided For Third Time

South Italy Battered by Air Attacks   Air Fields, Rail Yards Bombed; Berlin Hit Again

England To Use Gas If Nazis Do   Attlee Speaks To ‘House Of Commons

' BRITISH FIRM ON ‘GAS’ WAR   Atlee Reiterates Nation Will Retaliate in Kind If Poison Is Used

FOUR SHIPS IN CONVOY SUNK   Heavy Blow Struck by Axis U-Boats Off South Am erica Revealed

Punch in Nose and Kick in Seat of Pants Delivered to Rudolph Hess

COMING TO U. S.?   Giraud To Be Included In Allied Monetary Parla.

Loss of Sicily Set at 167,000 Axis Casualties   Eisenhower Warns of Another Drive by British and Americans: Puts Own Losses In Fall of Italian Island at 25.000 Men.

Showdown in Congress Nears on Vital Issues  Committees Will Act on Tax Program, Flynn Nomination,

Showdowns Set On Vital Issues  During Week   Congress Committees To Decide on Flynn, Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plat  SIZE OF ARMY  Senate Wants Balance Of Manpower Between Corvices Production

CONGRESS HAS ACTIVE WEEK ON CALENDAR   Tax Plan, Other Key Issues Await  U. S. Solons

PAY-AS-YOU-GO ACTION LOOMS   Important Questions Facing Showdown in Congress  In Coming Week

Showdown on Important Issues Seen  New Conaress Is   New Congress Is Faced With Very Busy Week

Congress Ready  To Consider’ Top:Problems” Pay-as-You-Go Tax. * Plan, Size.of Army Among Oueslions

Congress Groups Face Busy Week  See Showdown on Taxes, Army, Flynn

Showdown on Important Issues Seen   New Congress Is Faced With Very Busy Week

U. 5. LOSS ON ATTU WAS 342   1,791 Japs Known Dead; Only 11 Captured; Airfield Being Repaired

Losses Upon Attu Light   Only 324 Were Killed in Capturing Island

42 AMERICANS KILLED ON ATTL   Landing Operations Accomplished Without Loss of Single Ship or Naval Personnel, Knox Reveals

34 U. S. Soldiers Killed at Attu Sec, Knox Reports  Jap Losses en Time: as Great; 1,135 Wounded: 58 a3 U.S

34? Lives Lost In Taking Attu   Enemy's Casualties Are Five Times U. S.

JAP LOSSES HEAVY IN ATTU FIGHTING   Enemy Casualties Five Times as Great as Those of U. S.

Attu Conquest Costs U.S. 342 Men; Jap Loss Five Times As Great   

Jap Losses Far Exceed That OF US.   Knox States All Ships Safe Alter Landing Operations

 Americans Lose 342 on Attu; Japs Lose 1,791; Important Task of Building Airfield Is Progressing

342 American Idiers  Killed On Attu   Jap Losses Are Five Times As Great

342 AMERICANS — “AND 1,791 JAPSKILLED ON ATTU   Total U. S. Casualéies in Battle Were 1,535, Including 58 Missing and 1,135  -Wounded.    NO VESSELS LOST IN LANDING TROOPS   Island’s Airfield Is Being Improved and Is Expected to Be Used as Bomber Base.

342 Americans Killed In Conquest of Attu   Japanese Losses Are Five Times as Great as U. S Pepeont Trond fe *Roatthe Far dir Beene?

Japs Lose Five To One on Attu  U. S. Forces Improving   U.S. Forces Improving Airtield on Island

JURY SPEEDS STRIKE PROBE   9 Witnesses Including UMW District 4 Head Questioned About Coal Walkouts

Hiynes Tells Grand Jury About Strike   UNITED MINE WORKERS DISTRICT 4 PRESIDENT ONE OF NINE WITNESSES HEARD IN PITTSBURGH.   Will Call No Operators

District And Mine Officials Testify Before Grand Jury   Nothing Government Wants To Learn From Mr. Lewis, Assistant To Attorney General Biddle Tells Inquiring Reporter

Says Parsons Water Pure ;   State Official Sure Contamination Claim Must Be Mistake

oth Army Pierces  German Defenses   British Continue to Move North Along East Coast of Peninsula

DAYLIGHT ALERT TO BE HELD FEB’Y 17   New Signal System to be Put in Effect on Wednesday

DAYLIGHT ALERT TO BE HELD-FEB'Y 17      New Signal System to be _ Put in Effect on Wed- -

STARVATION TAKES HEAVY INDIAN TOLL   Disease Adds tc to Scourge; Free Kitchens Unable to Feed Hungry

Files $12,000 Court Here   Local farm youth asks damages for ac cident injuries.

RAGING FIRE SWEEPS THRU BiG BUILDING   Three Other Firemen Injured In Crash Of Balcony

Ready To Ge Any Minute   Axis Losses High; Allied Forces Can Strike Any Time

Allied Armies ‘Ready To Go’ Says Eisenhower   Thunderous Air Offensive Hits Every Part of Europe

Armies Ready Tc Go Any Minute; Casualties Listed   Axis Lost 167,000: Allies 25,000 Men In Sicily; Artillery Duel Waged

167,000 AXIS TROOPS PRIGE PAID IN ICI   Eisenhower Says Number Lost in Sea Evacuation May Never Be Known.   ALL ALLIED CASUALTIES ESTIMATED AT 25,000

Great Masses Of Raiders Hit All. Flanks Of Hitler   Forts Hit Southern France First-Time; RAF Follows U.S. On Raids Deep In Reich

llied Armies eady To Open nother Front   ‘an Start New Offensive 3! Any Minute, Eisenhower Asserts   inited Nations’ Casual ties in Sicily Placed at 25,000

EISENHOWER HINTS ACTION "ANY MINUTE   American Seventh, British Eighth Army “Ready to Go,” Allied Commander Tells

Eisenhower Boldly Hints At New Blows With Twin Armies Now In Readiness

Many More Are Killed In Attempt To Escape; Our Casualties 25,000

Allies Lose 25,000 Men --Eisenhower   Says Nazi Losses While Crossing Strait Probably Won't Be Known

GEN. EISENHOWER  DECLARES TWO GREAT  ARMIES READY TO G0 GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE AT TACKS EVERY SECTION HITLER’S FUROPE ~

The, Allies, During the Entire Sicilian Campaign, Lost 25000, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Said Today.   NEW BLOWS HINTED BY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF   Announced the American 7th and British 8th Armies Were “Ready to Go at Any Minute.”

Allied Losses Reach 25.000  New Blows Hinted With U. S., British ‘Ready’

Badoglio Begins Action To Make Rome Open City   ENEMY LOSSES IN SICILY SET AT 167,000 MEN      Gen. Eisenhower Says Axis Lost Heavily On Troops Killed, Wounded Or Taken Prisoner

Sicilian Victory ‘Far Ahead — Of Schedule’ Allies Reveal   Massed Allied Warplanes Already Carrying War To Italian Mainland Today 4   140,000 AXIS TROOPS ARE CAPTURED

Invasion Points   Are Softened Up      EE  Greatest Over-All Air Offensive of War Plants Explosives from English Channel to Shipping in Aegean Sea; Allied Bag in Sicily Is Set at 140,000

Allies Step Up  Air Attacks  On Nazi Europe Southern France  Berlin Hit By R.A.F., Yanks

Axis Lost 167,000 In Futile Stand   Eisenhower Says American 7th Worthy Partner for Famed British 8th

30,000 NAZIS’ TOTAL WITHOUT LOSS IN STRAIT   Allied Conquest of Sicily, Cost 25,000 Casualties, Commander in Chief Estimates   ALLIES SUPREME   General Praises Coordination of Arms, Says German Boasts Exploded

Fixes Enemy Casualties In  Battle For Sicily At  167,000   ALLIES LOST 25,000   Thunderous Air Offensive Hits All Flanks or  Europe

Bombs Hit Germans on  ~ All Flanks   Continuing Air J Air. Attacks In. tensify Nazi Problem of, Where Next?   RAIDS ON FRANCE . WORRY ENEMY,   Nazis See the Offensive . aa Prelude to Invasion, ” Stockholm Hears

Axis Losses 167,000 Men Up to August 10   Allied Casualties Total'25,000 for Entire Cam-paign—32,000 Dead or Wounded Included in Score Against Enemy.

25,000 Allied Casualties Reported, Covering Bat tle From Beginning to End Were Not Broken Down. Axis Losses of Equipment and Supplies Considerable

ALLIED ARMIES READY TO MAKE NEXT ATTACK   Americans, British Ready “To Go At Any Minute,” Says Eisenhower

Eisenhower Says Allied Casualty List to 25,00(   Allied Commander Hints a New Blows to Be Aimee  at Axis Powers.   Losses in Evacuation May Never Be Known

Americans and British Are Ready   Eisenhower Says Allies Have Two Real Armies; Hinis at New Blows   CAN DEAL MIGHTY ONE-TWO PUNCH   Tells of Axis’Losses in Sicily Far in Excess of Allied Casualties

General Eisenhower - De clores Two Superb  Armies vies Ready  AXIS LOSSES PUT =. AT 167,000 MEN Big Guns Continue Duel  Across Messina Strait

General Eisenhower Declares Two Superb Armies Ready  AXIS LOSSES PUT AT 167,000 MEN  Big Guns Continue Duel Across Messina Strait

SIUILY BATTLE LOSSES BARED   TELL AXIS TOLL; NEW HIT READY: EISENHOWER

Europe Shakes Under Record Bombing Raid:   American Planes Continue Raids Wednesday: Nazi Research Center Hit.   CONTINENT COVERED

Axis Sicily Losses Set At 167,000   Allied Casualties About 25,000; Aerial Attacks Blast Every Corner Of  Hitler’s Furone.

Gen. Eisenhower Hints New Blows   American and British Armies Ready to Go At Any Minute Says Allied War Commander

U. S. Troops Tighten Trap on Beleaguered Jap Garrison At Bairoko Harbor, Near Munda—Yanks At-   tack Nip Base At Vila™

Eisenhower Announced Allied Casualties At Approximately  25,000; Axis Lost 1.491 Planes   Attack On Southern France Was First From North Africa; Heavy Damage Inflicted To Ships On Ground: Bombers Continue Raking Troops

TWO SUPERB ARMIES SET FOR CALL “ANY MINUTE”  Re BME? BAZBRRF Affe TO TRE

ALL SICILY NOW UNDER RULE OF ALLIED FORCES   “We'll Go Ahead,” Says Headquarters; Artillery Duel Rages

HINTS THAT NEW BLOWS ARE AT HAND   \ In Formal Statement Com ' mander Declares His  Deputy Has “One-Two  , Punch” in British and ' American Armies.

AIRMEN SMASH FREIGHT YARDS, SINK 8 BARGES   Artillery Fire Exchanged Over Straits; Armies ‘Ready To Go’ On New Campaign   1,691 Planes Destroyed

ady To Go , Reports enhower   h 8th, Ready To  ; Armies, U. S. 7th He Announces

Heavy Damage Inflicted On German Planes   Allied Big Guns Exchange Shots Across Strait With Axis

Axis Lost 167,000 Men In Sicily War  -.. Allied Casualties 25,000

Eisenhower Hints at New Blows at Axis   Says US 7th Army and British 8th Ready to Go at Any Minute; Air Offensive Hits Every Flank of Herr Hitler's European Fortress

Thunderous Drive Hits Every Flank ~ Of Hitler Fortress   Greece; : Italy, France, Germany, Holland And Belgium Bombed; _.Famed Research Center. Target

ALLIED LOSSES CET AT 25 00   Eisenhower Announces Axis Casualties Are 167,000 In Sicily.   HINTS AT NEW ATTACKS 

ANGLO-AMERICAN ARMIES READY 10 G0), CENERAL SAYS   Sicilian Conquest Complete, Allied Airmen Pound Axis  in Germany, Italy, France  aad Greece.

Casualties For Allies At 25,000   Figures by Eisenhower Take Only to Aug. 10; New Blows Hinted

FORTRESS OF EUROPE ROCKS UNDER BOMBINE   Greatest Over-All Offensive of War. Mosquitos Strike Again at Reich Capital

Allies Lese   Says Nazi Losses While Crossing Strait Probably Won't Re Known

Axis Loses 167,000 Men In Sicily: Allies ‘Ready To Go Says Eisenhower

EISENHOWER HINTS OF NEW ALLIED BLOWS   Allied Casualties Set At 25,000: Enemy Loses 6 Times As Many Planes; 260 Tanks Taken

Germans Suffer Heavily Crossin Messina Strait.   Allied Casualties Only 25,000  Ficeanhonwer. Save

FURIOUS BLOWS HIT ALL SIDES OF NAZI) FORT   41 Bombers Lost in Concentrated Assault on Nazi Research Center

Axis Losses In Sicily Put At 167,000 By Eisenhower   Includes Killed, Wounded and Prisoners up to Aug. 10; Allied Casualties E stimated at 25,000 

Thunderous Air Offensive ‘Hits Every Flank of Adolf Hitler's European Fortress   British Air Minister Says RAF Mosquito Planes Attacked Berlin While Block-Buster Raiders Struck at Research Center at Peenemuende   FORTY -ONE FIGHTERS LOST IN NIGHT'S OPERATION

A Wheeling Youth Was on the Helena   No Word Received Regarding John Ewing by Brother, Otis Ewing.

Lasting Co-operation Of Russia and U.S. Seen By Hull and Molotov

EXTRA GAS FOR, AHEM, GAS   But Ration. ‘Boards Are to Watch Candidates Oh, So Closely

Hull Reaches ran Capital   Anthony Eden and Averell Harriman Also in Teheran

Berlin Reports Secretary Cordell Hull, Ambassador Harriman, A nthony Eden ‘Are Well on Their Way For Moscoi Veet

CORDELL HULL ON HIS WAY TO MOSCOW   Berlin Radio Reported He and Anthony Eden Had Left Teheran, Iran.

SECY. HULL IN IRAN ON WAY TO MOSCOW   That Is Report Sent Out by German Radio

ALFALFA CEILING   OPA Puts Lid On Meal Used in Makine Poultry Feed.

Five Cans of Pre Rationing Food Allowed   Consumers Having Excess To Be Penalized, Says Price Board

PRESS rRECDOM MOVE S URGED   Kent Cooper, A.P. Executive, Proposes Worldwide Press Freedom As Peace  - Move.

Cooper Sees _ Press Freedom Peace Guarantee   AP Executive Director Crusades for Application  On Nation-Wide Basis

Bo 2, ‘Tanager . -1Zes Orusace for  "Wor. Vice ress = “reecom; Says “ruc Jan -reven- “ucure “Wars

Largest Number Of U.S. Bombers Attack Rangoon   Docks and Railroac Station Are Hit

FAVORITE SON’ DEADLOCK SEEN   Democrats Forecast Such a G. O. P.  Nomination

Hospitals Need War Objectors   Twenty-Five Serving At State Hospital Here

COUNTY BOND SALES; FORGE AHEAD SLOWL'   $438,040 Is Lenawee's Total Sale This Month

$800,000 10 &0 IN BOND CAMPAIGN   Lenawee Sales to Date Amount to $1,200,298

 One Nazi Sub Geing Down for Every  Allied Cargo Ship Sunk in Atlantie

GERMANS SHARPLY REDUCE CLAIM OF U-BOAT SINKINGS   Assert 31 Merchantmen Sunk By All German Agencies In Month of June   LOSE ONE U-BOAT FOR EACH FREIGHTER SUNK   Failure of Submarine Warfare in June Seen Greater Than Germans Acknowledge; Allied Shipping Losses Lowest in 46 Months

Nazis Lose at Least One Submarine For Every Allied Freighter Sunk: Proportion Is Increasing

Germany Losing U-Boat for Each Ship They Sink   British Naval Observer Report Gains for Allies at Sea

NAZI SUBMARINE LOSSES RUN UP   One U-Boat Bagged For Every Freighter Sunk In Sea War

Axis Losing More U-Boats   Allied Shipping Loss For June Decreases

FIGURES SHOW SUBS’ FAILURE   Nazis Lose One U-Boat for Each of Freighters Sunk in May

Qne Nazi. Suh ‘Going. Down: for. Every — : Allied’ Cargo Ship: ‘Sunk: in Atlantic

Pleasure Ban  May Soon End   New Ration Program In Two Weeks Predicted

CHINESE ARMIES GOING 10 TOWK   Are-Paced:By. American Bombers Smashing Tan Racca

Chinese Halt Nippon Drive, Force Retreat   U. S. Bombers Pace Chiang's Counter Offensive From Tungting Lake   ICHANG RECAPTURED   Nipponese Suffer Heavy Losses In 35 Mile Chase Down Yangtse River

U.S. BOMBERS LEAD CHINESE ATTACK   lags Thrown Back in Fighting Around Tungting Lake.

‘Paced By American Bombers, ‘Chinese Hurl Back Japs At Ichang With Heavy Losses   Declared On Offensive In Other Sectors Of Yangtze Path To Chungking

li Jap Cargo Ships Bombed In Solomons   All Believed Destroyec in Pre-Dawn Raid by Americans Off Buin   iLAE BLASTED AGAIN   Catalina Flying Boats and Fortresses Used in Blow at Enemy Ships

U. 5, BOMBS HIT BURMA BRIDGE   American Bombers Score Direct Hit On Strategic Rail Span.

U.S. Bombers Slam Bridge On Irrawaddy   RAF Liberators Smash _ Rangoon Rail Yards and Docks

HIT ALL SECTIONS OF GERMAN. OCCUPIED EUROPE FROM SOUTE FRANCE TO NORTH NDENMAPR

American Bombers In Attacks   Take Turns with British iu Raids Over Nazi-held —  Areas in Europe  

Bombs Falling on Germany Around the Clock; Other Action Imminent

Indications Are That Axis Has Lost Aerial Supremacy Which It Held So Long On Russian FPront   AMERICANS, BRITISH HAMMER OBJECTIVES

GREAT ALLIED AlR OFFENSIVE STARTS IN GERTAIN AREAS   Drive Is Opened to Force Nazis to Their Knees— Lose Aerial Supremacy  In Russia.

American and British Bombers Pound Nazis From Copenhagen to Southwestern France

 ° Largets in Germany,  Denmark and France Hit: Nazi Defense Weaker   Axis Forces Trapped at Stalingrad Mutiny, Surrender in Large Numbers; British Continue Nipping Afrika Korps

Yanks Occupy Viru Harbor, Down 65 Planes And Strike At Land Forces On Island

Yankees Beat Off Jap Aerial Attack   Land Troops Take -Viru. Harbor on. New Geordic Isle

American Forces Lose ] Planes, Empty Transport   Gen. MacArthur's Troops  Continue In Direction   Of Salamaua

Powerful U.S. Sea and Land Forces Beat Off Jap Aerial Counter-Attack on Solomons

Hope of Luring Jap Navy Out  Is Indicated      inst Air Counter-Blow Repelled—Port Near  ADannrcles Clcnaataaecaceld

AT LEAST 65 JAP PLANES DESTROYED jp  VIOLENT BATTLE OFF RENDOVA IS: AND; TRANSPORT SUNK.

Cadet Lonergan Admits Killing Heiress Wife   Confesses Story About Stealing of His Uniform By Soldier Was False

Dist rid Atforney Announces Air Force Cadet Confesses to Slaying of Wife

Lonergan Tells Police He Killed Heiress Wife  : Says She Refused to Let Him See

FLIER ADMITS KILLING WIFI      Wayne Lonergan Breaks Down After Hours of Questioning

CANADIAN CADET ADMITS SLAYING HIS HEIRESS WIFE   Wayne Lonergan Says He Beat Woman With Candlesticks When Refused Permission to See Baby.   CONFESSION FOLLOWS: FOUR-DAY GRILLING   New York Police Begin Drag: ging East River Into Which Prisoner Declares He Tossed Uniform.

LONERGAN SAYS HE KILLED WIFE IN APARTMENT   Beat Her To Death Because She Refused To Let Him See Baby   RCAF CADET’S ALIBI FAILS TO STAND UF

AIRMAN ADMITS WIFE'S MURDER   Heiress Bludgeoned With Candleholders; Alibi Story Faked

Cadet Admits Slaying Wife Over Her Refusal To Let Him See Child   Gotham's Murder Thriller Solved When Confessior ls Wrung From Wayne Lonergan

LONERGAN ADMITS MURDERING WIFE   Threw Uniform In River; Says Quarrel Over Baby Lead To Killing.

Lonergan Admits  Slaying His Wife   RAF Cadet Signs Complete Statement Admitting Crime; Slew Heiress When She Refuses to Let Hira See Their Baby

c rhe: War Reporter Rep od Missing: ‘After. Raid: ‘on Wilhelmshaven -

Newsman Lost in Raid   Robert P. Post of N.Y. Times Fails to Return From Wilhelmshaven

Times Reporter On Bomber Lost In Reich Raid   Robert P. Post Observing Wilhelmshaven Assault When Ship Is Disabled

NEW YORK WAR REPORTER LOST IN AIR ATTAGK   Robert P. Post, Times Cor.  respondent, May Have  Parachuted to Safety During Raid   BOMBER PASSENGER   Army Holds Hope He  Landed Safely — “Lady Luck” Rides With. Planes on Assault

Stray Plane Used Bombs and Guns To Scare Horse and Stampede Stock

NEW CAMPAIGN FOR TAX BILL   McCormack Leads Drive For PayAs-You-Go Plan.

Early Action On axtrged   Pay-As-You-Go Bill Is Given New Support

Solons Battle to Revive Tax  House Leader Head   House Leader Head: Drive for Measure

Battlewagon s Finish  SE ee CNA ee CRO MMS er eae Seer tale fa’ 1 Ae eN IR Nae ewle een, = = ee ae”   Scharnhorst Flees British Cruise

GIVE FULL oT ORY OF SGHARNHORS!   British Torpedo Finally Sent German Battleshy To The Bottom

Weather in Helena  The T & Weather Purran   Churchill Ends Visit to U. S., Africa And Calls Cabinet for Secret  Meeting: Invasion Is Anticipated

Weather in Helena   ‘Churchill Ends Visit to a Ain And Calls Cabinet for Secret Meeting: Invasion Is Anticinated

British Prime Minister Holds vecret Conference With War Cabinet Which Is Followed by Unusual Activity of Chiefs

Plans Ready for Great  Allied Blow   Unusual Activity Is Reported Among ‘the Service Chiefs

CHURCHILL IN SESSION WITH WAR CABINET      Holds Secret Meeting ‘after Return from Africa and: Washington.   REPORT NEW ACTIVITY AMONG SERVICE CHIEFS

Churchill Act Quickly to Meet Cabinet   Tnyasion Rumors Are Prevalent, After Ministers Return

Churchill At Home, Calls  Conferences   Invasion Speculation Quickens After Parley In Africa

Churchill Confers With War Cabinet   Viewed By Some as Meaning Operations  Were Pending

BRITISH CABINET CONFERS SECRETLY   TALKS STIR SPECULATION THAT MAJOR MILITARY DzVELOPMENTS IMPEND,

War Leader, Back In England, Met Marshall in Africa   Minister's Action — Said Indication of Major Operations

SPEEDY ACTION MARKS RETURN BRITISH HEAD   Prime ‘Minister Summons War Council to Side Immediately on Reaching London   MAJOR OPERATIONS PEND, IS BELIEF   Need Quick and Final Ap proval, It Is Indicated; Creates New Outburst Invasion Enthusiasm

BIG. MILITARY OPERATIONS SEEN PENDING   Swift Actions Create New Outburst Of Invasion  Enthusiasm   LEADERS MEET   African Session Believed To Have Mapped Next ‘Allied Moves

British Premicr Meets With Cabinet After Flying Visit To Mediterranean

Churchill Summons  British War Chiefs   Cabinet Called For Long Conferences On  Return Of Prime Minister From Meetings  In Washington And North Africa

Swift Action Creates Invasion Enthusiasm  Gen. Marshall in N.   Gen. Marshall in N. Africa; Unusual Activity Among Chiefs

Major Allied Move Nearing:   Churchill, Back From U.S. And Africa, Calls Cabinet

Churchill Back In London Calls: Secret Meeting   Eludes Nazis Planes In Dramatic: Trip Home; Unusual Activity

Zero hour draws near for massive European thrusts   Calls secret meetings after dramatic flight from Africa

NEW OUTBREAK OF INVASION OPTIMISM SEEN   Return Made By Air Over Dangerous Roante

Churchill Returns To London, Orders Hasty Meeting Of War Cabinet

Strong Force, Accompanied for Firat Time by Newsmen, Hits Northwest Reich   American Assaulis Today Follow RAF Raid on Bavarian City, U. S. Strafing of Naples

UNITED STATES BOMBERS RAIDED WILHELMSHAVEN   This Was the Second Attack by Americans on the German Port.   ISEVEN PLANES MISSING   Considerable Enemy Opposition Was Encountered It Is Reported.

Wilhelmshaven hit anew by U. S. bombs   Third American attack on nazi soil: follows assault by R.A. F.

STRONG FORCE OF U. S, PLANES STAGES ATTACK   Northwest Germany Target Of Heavy Raid; -Americans Follow Up Smashing RAF Blow At  Nuernberg.

Daytime Raid Follows Fierce Night Assaut   U-Boat - Engine Center Is - Devastated. By Tons Of Bombs

Waves Of Big Planes Roar Over Coast As RAF Completes Blow Ta Nunernhero

Strong Forces eof U. S., RAF Bombers Pound Nazi Citie:   Americans on Move Few Hours After British Attack in Force ——

Yanks in Day Raid On Wilhelmshaven   Attack Is Third-by American Bombers on German Soil—Seven Planes Missing—RAF Stages Big Night Attack on Nuernberg.

A.A.F. Bombers  Blast Germany   Four Motored Bombers Fol. low RAF Night Raids In Large Scale Raid.

Waves Of Heavy  American Bombers Raid Sub Building Bases In Germany

BERS RAID -ROAT BASES   Strong U. S. Force Attack Sub Building, Industrial Targets.   RAF BLASTS NUERNSERG

U. S. Planes Pound Nazi Sub Base.   Seven Flyers Lost in Heavy Daylight Raid On Withelmshaven; 3rd Attack on Germany

Allied Fliers Pound Nazis   .. Hapless Italians Left As Rear Guards

IS RADED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Seven Planes Missing After Big 5 ghtA a Port of      THIRD ATTACK B BY U.S PLANES ON Fae SOIL

Wave After Wave of Four Motored Planes Roar Over U-Boat Plants   FOLLOWS RAIDS ON NAPLES, ITALY   Americans. Take. Up. Big Air Offensive After RAF Flicht Returns

Air War Hits Axis Cities:  ae ihe sy.    Nuremburg And Naples Pounded

BIG UNITED STATES BOMBERS IN NEW RAIN ON WILHELMSHAVEN  ATTACK FOLLOWED NIGHT BOMBING OF NUERNBERG  Ny DHITICEY DAMProDce

7U.S. BOMBERS MISSING AFTER RAID ON NAZIS   Heavy Assault Made on Wilhelmshaven After Attack on Nuernbere

Yanks Smash German Port By Daylight   Seven Bombers Lost In Attack on Base At Wilhelmshaven

STATE RELIEF AID IS GUT OFF   15 Northern Wisconsin Counties Have Relief Funds Stopped.

BRITISH TANKS IN ACTION IN NORTH AFRICA   French Forces Push Deeper To Tunis-Tripoli Highway.—Libyan Thrust Deepens.

Receive Reports Of An Impending Shakeup In Nazi Foreign Ministry

VON RIBBENTROP IS OUT OF FAVOR   Hitler to Oust Minister, According to Shakeup Rumors

CERMANS ISOLATE TROOPS MOVING TO DESTROY. BRIDGE   Ne ee ey  AWS EALTESR LY BOA ED RRNARSPE LD APRN OY LE ORNS  2000 Trapped Yanks Rescued

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CORN 13 MOVING TO PROCESSORS   industrial Users Now Getting Enough, But Eastern Feeders Are Suffering.

GOAN Ovi TD INDUSTHY UoERS Hut Uo. FARM   WFA Spckeswan Says the Farmers Are Releasing Grain fcr Use.

Sar pew geen Strives Only for Limitation As FDR Vetoes  Moaaqira

Offer Trial Plan for Six Months   House Votes 228 to 154 to Uphold Veto; Pro pose $250,000,000 Allotment to CCC for Extension of Subsidy Payments to Keep Prices Down

Refuses !o Send Bill Back to Commillee, Votes Stop-Gap Exienston for COC   SENATE TO ACT   Sentiment Reported Shiiting to Limited Subsidies Raiker than Outriqht Prohibition

MODIFIED SUBSIDY   Senate Seeks Curb on Sys: tem After Roosevelt  Veto Is Upheld

MAY PROPOSE LIMITED PLAN ON ROLL BACK   Warns Congress Not Responsible for Inflation If Veto Overridden—FDR

ANTI-SUBSIDY PLAN STOPPED VETO IS UPHELD   Congress Appears in Full Retreat From Its Once Overwhelming Stand Against Rollback   LIMITS ARE SCUGHT      Senator Taft Would Curt Commodity Credit Corporation’s Expenditures  at $250,000,000

Congress Beats Hasty Retrea   Upholds CCC Veto By President Roosevelt

RESPONSIBILITY FOR BAN DUCKED BY LAWMAKERS   Bill Vetoed by President And Congress Fails To Go Over His Head   FOOD SUBSIDIES STAND   Retail Price Rollbacks To Be Started With Help Of Government

Congress In Full Retreat  On Subsidies   Curb on Expenditures for Subsidy Felt Probable Next Move

Congress Retreats In Subsidy Fight   House Fails to Override Veto

Subsidies Again Come To Life After FDR Veto   Roosevelt Contends Subsidies Necessary To Hold Down Prices, Maintain Rolibacke

Food Subsidy Fight Is Lost By Congress   Some Limit May Be Sel On Administration's Efforts To Roll Back Excessive Prices

ANTISUBSIDY VETO IS SUSTAINED AS ROOSEVELT MOVES   President Puts Issue Squarely Before Lawmakers In Veto of Bill to Continue CC C Two Years. ©   BRANCHES PASSED ACT ° WITH BIG MAJORITIES   House Refused to Override Veto as Senate Puts Off Action, Sentiment to Curb Subsidies.

CONGRESS APPPEARS TN FULE RETREAT   President-:S.a y's. Medsure Blacks. Out Program to” Reduce Living Costs”.

F.R. Veto Is Upheld   Congress Now Moves To Put Limit On Rollback Subsidy Program

FDR Wins Subsidy  Battle   Senate Appears Set  To Follow House Lea In Voting to Uphold  President’s Veto

Conaress Goes Into Retreat On Subsidies   House Immediately Supports President's Latest Veto

YIELD 70 FOR ON SUBSIDIES   Sentiment, However, Gains In Senate for Some  Sort of Curbs

SiBSIDY BILL   Solons Appear To Be In - Full Retreat From Previous Stand   LAWMAKERS STUDY PRESIDENT’S VETO   House Refuses To Override Veto: Senate Delays Tts Action

CONGRESS BACKS DOWN ON SUBSIDY   President’s Veto Of CCC Legislation Sustained In House

HOUSE REFUSES TO OVERRIDE SUBSIDY VETC   ee mis aa ears To Be In F ult Retreat From Canacition To FDR's Rollback Pro nnenl i.

House Sustains President's  Veto and Passes Resolu. tion Providing Limited Payments.

PRESIDENT’S C. 0.0. VETO SUPPORTED   Vote 228 To 154 To Uphold Administration; Stiff  Message Sent Congress : On Inflation Control

Both Houses Back Down On Subsidies   President’s Veto of AntiSubsidy Mocks Language of Measure

Congress Seen In Full Retreat , Boporan Action By President — On: Controversial Subsidy Bill

HOUSE BACKS SUBSIDY VETO   Refuses To. Override Presi -dent’s Rejection of Ban on “Food: Subsidy.

Congress In Full Retreat From Its Anti-Subsidy Stand After F.D.R. Veto   Striving Only For Limitation Of Retail Price Rollbacks; House Refuses To Overrride Veto, While Senate Puts Off Action Until Today.   Warne OF inflation

State Legislature Closes — Martin Praises Work Of Group   Interparty Bitterness Eliminates Usual Closing Horreplag * — Final Gavel At 4:48 A. M. Sunday

F.B. Backs New Price Formule   State Farmers Back New Parity Plan

FARM BUREAU BACKS NEW PRICE FORMULA   ‘Proposal Includes Cost of Farm Labor to Determine  Parity Price Plan

OPA Expects Cost of Living Will Go Down   Officials Claim FDR Stabilization Plan Not Needed

(CPA. OFFICIALS. T0 CUT LIVING COST WITHIN 2 MONTHS   Hope Stabilization Plan Of President Roosevelt Will Not Be Needed

OPA LEADERS SAY ROLLBACK PLANS ARE HOLDING LINE   Officials Believe .F.R.’s Alter: native Program Will Never Be Necessary.

OPA BELIEVES STABILIZATION PLAN UNNEEDED   Congress Thinks Full Effect 0: Rollback To Be Felt Soon

OPA STILL HOPES TO LOWER LIVINE   Roosevelt May Attempt Plar to Hold Present Levels With Wage Boost

UPA HOPES T0 PUT HOOL ON DOWN SPIRAL   Will Attempt To Avoid Substitute Plan Of Roosevelt

War's Over For These   OPA Sees Cost of Living Cut Within Two Months

Food Costs On Decline, OPA Claims   Slight Drop Noted In Latest Labor  Bureau Figures

NEW PRICE PLAN MAY BE. UNNECESSARY   OPA Expects to Have Living Costs. Lower in 2 Months

OPA EXPECTS CUT IN COSTS   Hope to Make President Roosevelt's Substitute Stabilization Plan, Unnecessary.

OPA EXPECTS TO CUT BACK HIGH COST OF LIVING   Aim to Make FDR’s Price Stabilization Plan Unnecessary

HEAT: HEADS THIS WAY   No Rainfall Was Reported in Kansas in the Past 24 Hours

19 LOSE LIVES iN YULE FIRES   Amusement Pier, Hotel And Apartment House Razed

Amraunition Depot Blows Up In’ Italian’ City; ‘Cause Undetermined

UW! ANALY LABOR TURNOVER   Finds Many Causes of Workers Quitting Jobs; More Permanent Peacetime Jobs Sought by Many, Declared

PARTIAL PARDON I5 GIVEN WM. LAWSON      Former State Official Gets Restoration of Civil Rights

Lawson Granted Partial Pardon   Conduct Justifies It, O'Conor Says

Send Telegram To President; Work To Stop Tonight Unless Some Form Of Pact 1s Reached   ‘We Want To Work’ Says Message Releasec After New York Conference: Blames War Laber Board For Prejudicing Case

Message Is Sent To FR:  ~ No Comment   100,400 Miners Already Out on Strike Check Reveals Today

Miners File Reply ToFDRWork kdict; Want Agreement   Ask For Renewal of Collective Bargaining With Mine Operators; Charge Labor Board Has Prejudged The Union's Case

WANT AN AGREEMENT AND WANT TO WORK IS GIST OF STATEMENT g   PRESIDENT TOLD HIS ™  ORDERS ARE UNFAIR AND UNJUST TO WORKERS

Union Answers Ultimatum By Pres. Roosevelt   Accused Labor Board OF Prejudging Issues; Crisis Reached

MINE UNION REPLIES TO ROOSEVELT   Claim WLB Hos Prejudiced Miners‘ Coce

Claim Renewal Of Bargaining Is Fair To All   Lewis Gives Out Text Of Committee Message

Asks Negotiations Taken © Away From the War Labor Board; Declines Comment   Union Spokesmen Say Work Stoppage To Begin Tonight In Absence of Agreement   Americans, French Advance   Miner Asserts FDR Should Take Orders From Lewis   Roosevelt Has Plenty Power to Act   U.MLW. Says the “lake-Home’ Counts  Labor Bureau Says Miners’ Earnings Nearly Doubled

STAND FIRM IN ANSWER GIVEN TO ROOSEVELT   Prospects Mount Men Will Refuse To Obey Orders To Return To Work

FORAGREEMENT IY WACK FICHT   Tell Roosevelt WLB Can't Act Fairly Because Hands Are Tied   WALKOUTS INCREASING   R enewal of Collective  Bargaining Asked   By Lewis

PROPOSAL IS OFFERED BY LEWIS   Renewal of Collective Bargaining With Operators Is Asked   “WANT AGREEMENT, WANT TO WORK’   Charge Reiterated’ That Labor.Board Is Prejudiced Next Move Awaited -

100,000 Now Idle In Six States   Their Counter-Proposal Reiterates Charge That WLE Had Pre-Judged Miners’ Case; Tell President They Want To Work; Ask Renewal of Collective Bargaining With Operators.

Strike Growing With A Deadline 10 AM Saturday   John Lewis Callec ‘Dictator, An «  Outcome Is Uy; To Him

Miners Ask Renewal of Work Agreement   Counter-proposal Riterates War Labor Board Prejudiced Case; Walkout Threatens Tieup of Industies.   lie ta White BHewee

MINERS TELL PRESIDENT THEY WANT AN AGREEMENT’, ASK RENEWAL OF BARGAINING   Telegrams to President Says War Labor Board Has Prejudiced Miners Case. Check of Miners Shows 100,400 Already on Strike.

Counter-Plan Is Offered by Mine Workers   War Labor Board Prejudged Case Declares Message

Charge That WLB Prejudiced Miners’ Case Is Repeated   Soft Coal Workers Ask for Renewal of Collective Bargainina

STOPPAGE OF MINE WORK ANTICIPATED   Miners Tell FDR War Labor Board Had Prejudged Case

Proposes Renewal Of Collective Bargaining: Thousands More U. M. W. Men Walk Out.

UMW Chief Silent on  FDR Appeal   Sentiment with with Lewis, Indications Point Suspension of Operations at Midnight

UMW Asks Renewal of Col lective Bargaining, Hits at WLB.   NEXT MOVE UP TO FDR

Telegram Signed by Lewis and Others Charges Agreement Wilfully Blocked by Mine Operators, Objects to WLB   ASKS JUSTICE AND EQUITY   Asserts WLB Circumscribed by Wage Rule, Has Prejudiced Miner’s Case, Asserts Miners Patriotic, Want to Work   Ask Contract Be Extended

“Miners Move eNearer Strike, Blame the WLB   Ask Renewal of Collective Bargaining With Owners

Hitler’s Former  Friend Aids U.S   Dr. Hanfstaengl, Once Form . er Press Chief, Gives Information.

‘One-Time Foreign Press Chief Of Nazi Party Now Gives Information to U. S,

Open Season For Tax Ideas   Usual Routine Calls For Several Months Of Exploration

IT'S OPEN SEASON FOR NEW TAX IDEAS   BY JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGE ZIFLKE

There'll Be A Lot Of Smoke First. ....  Onen Season On Tax Ideas is Under Way

GLAM UF OT AND ALONG UNIEPER VANISH   Nazi Defenses Crumble At Gomel, Anchor Of White  Russian Line

GERMAN LINE [AROUND GOMEL 1S CRUMBLINC   Nazi Loss Of Stronghold Would Open Road To Poland and Baltic  States For Russia.

Fierce Battle Is Raging North and South of Kiev.  RUSSIAN ADVANCES ON EASTERN FRONT  Some Soviet Units Have Entered the City of Gomel,

Nimitz Visits Scene of Bitter Battle  Future Offensives _ Hinted at by Naval Leader

NIMITZ VISITS BATTLE FRONT   Admiral Hints Marines Ready to Hit Marshalls

WORLD RELIEF PROBE ASKED BY SENATOR TAFT   Form And _ Administration Of Program Criticised By Ohioan   FOR ASKS, FOR’ FUNDS      Blank Check’ Authorization Draws Opposition Of lowa Democrat

Address Heard by Assembly   Former President, in Iowé for Governors’ Meet  Talks to Legislators

HOOVER CITES PEACE ROUTES   Three New Approaches Are Listed by Speaker

Standley Believed Quitting Due To Cold Diplomatie Air   By EDDIE GILMORE Associated Press Staff Writer

‘Ambassador Standley, Tired of Being By-Passed by Washington, May Quit

ADMIRAL STANDLEY IS FED UP! WITH MISSIONS TO MOSCOW,   Ambassador Tells AP Correspondent That He Plans  To Resign Rather Than Be By-Passed By White House \Masiage Carriers To Stalin; Davies Advertised Trip

Washington's Frigid Diplomatic Air May Cause Standley, _ Ambassador to Russia, To Resign Before End of Year

Germans Admit Loss Of Corsica  Allied Troops Wipe Out Last Resistance

NAZIS BOAST OF SKILL IN CORISCA EVACUATION   Activity on Italian Isle Seen As Semi-Victory by German Chiefs

RUSSIAN SPRING OFFENSIVE STARTS   Red Troops Destroy 25 German Positions in One Day.

Reds Hammering at Nazis Near Novorissisk; 23 Axis Positions Destroyed

Russia Adds Recognition ToFrenchmer   De Gaulle-Giraud Group  Hailed as ‘Trustees’ of French Interests

Ickes Promises to Review Case Davis Expresses Hope Area  May Get More ‘Gas’ in Month

ALARMING TAX DELAY   Citizens Urged To File Income Tax Returns Quickly

Synthetic Rubber Program So Good, Guayule Plan Cu   Planting Program Curtailed As Synthetic Begins To Roll; Over-Optimism Hit

RUBBER SITUATION BETTERING ENOUGH TO REDUCE GUAYULE  QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER DECLARED INCREASING

COVEL PLANT STRIKE ENDS   Men Return to Jobs Under Agreement to Arbitrate Dispute

Reds Smash Nazis wiih ‘New, Powerful’ Blows   Ground Troops Battling to Wipe Out Axis Caucasus Bridqehead on Kuban

Angry Workers Wreck Theater   Near Riot Starts When ‘Stag’ Show Suddenly Halted In Maine City.

Near Riot Is Staged As Midnight ‘Stag’ Show Is Abruptly Halted; Workers Partially Wreck Theatre

German Radio  Works Blasted   Lancaster Bombers Travel 500 Miles, Raid Friedrichshafen

RAF Blast. Radar Plant   Friedrickshafen Hit By First Maier Raid

Lhe Spyhunters  How FBI Has Trapped Leading Nazi Agents In Key U.S. War Industries

SOLDIERS BREAK STRIKERS’ LINE   Coal Outlook Brightens ir Ohio and Alabama

JUSTICE LARKIN ON APPELLATE COURT BENCH   Olean Jurist Named Additional Member, Fourth Department — Cunningham Presiding Justice

DEWEY APPOINTS ~ COURT JUSTICES   Cunning Nomed Chief of ._ Appellate Division

Ford Asks Army Aid in Harvest   Will Seek Volunteers Frgm Troops in State

Soldiers Will Help In Harvesting On Montana Farms  Governor Ford Cites Great Shortage Of Workers in State

LIGHT ATTACK REPLY TO RAID ON DUSSELOORE   German Industrial _ Center Smoking Ruin After RAF Bombinc.   NEW NIGHT ASSAULTS  MADE ON. FRENCH AREA

4-HGirls to Enjoy Walther League Gamp July 11      MRS, EDITH BARKER TO ‘LEAD DISCUSSIONS AT GIRLS’ CAMP

MINE CONTRACT IS NEGOTIATED   Two-Year Pact Signed With U.M.W. By West Virginia Co,

SHIP REPAIRING  NEEDED SERVICE   Local Men Enlist In Unit At Monroe Recruiting Station

More Men Join Navy Ship Repair Unit As Petty Officers   Much Valuable Time Saved By Making “Soot” Repair Work

STALIN REVEALS “GREAT VICTORY ~~ OFSOVIET ARMY   New Disaster Overtakes Hit_ ler’s Forces on Eastern Front

Soviet War With Nazis Reviewed In Speech By Premier Josef Stalin

CHINESE LASH BACK AT JAPS   Surround Big Nip Force In ‘Rice Bowl’ Region

Meanwhile, Chinese Beating Back Invading Forces by Land And Air Attacks in Hunan Province With Aid of American Bombers—Pacific Island Bases Blasted by Yanks

JAPS FALL BACK “IN CENTRAL CHINA   Allied Planes and American Warships Continue Raids On Enemy Bases

Japanese in Central China Pushed Back   Allied Planes and US War _ ships Continue Assault on Enemy Bases in Pacific; Aussies Reinforced

IAP FORCES DRIVEN BACK BY CHINESE   Lose Another Stronghold in “Rice Bowl” as U. S. Warships Harass Nips Along “Invasion Route” in Pacific.

JAP FORCES ARE PUSHED BACK IN CENTRAL CHINA   Yank Planes And Warships Widen Assaults On “invasion Route’ Bases

JAPS FALL BACK IN CHINA BEFORE STRONG FORCES   American Warships Pounc Enemy Bases Along Invasion Route

Japanese Fall Back In China   Allied Planes Keep Up Assault on Enemy In Southwest Pacific

Chinese Drive Japs Back as 0.8. Fliers Aid  Nips Also Hit In Pacific  Island Fronts

Japs Fall Back In Central Chine In Allied Drive  Co... _ List FoI...   Another Japanese Stronghold Falls; Japs Counter-Attack In Rice Bowl Area:

JAPS REEREATING IN CENTRAL CHINA UNDER HEAVY FIRE   American Ships and Planes Blast Enemy Bases in  Beefs GCraan

ALLIES CHALK UP GAINS IN CHINA, PACIFIC THEATERS   Japs Fall Back in Central China Under Pressure of Air and Ground Assaults— Nip Pacific Bases Pounded

JAPANESE FELL BACK  IN CENTRAL CHINA  DUE TO PRESSURE ENEMY OUTPOSTS IN CENTRAL PACIFIC  DAMDEPT ANIM CLruriicn

Japs in Central China Fall Back: Air Assaults On Nip Bases Continue

CHINESE PRESS JAPANESE BACK NEARCHANGTEH      U.S. Battleshios Blas! Naura Is land, Enemy Attack Thrown Back on Bougainville   U. S. AIRMEN BUSY   Hanoi, Indo-China, and Other Nip Targets in China and Pacific Blasted

Chinese Announce Successes as Jap Invaders Retreat   Allied Planes and U. S. Warships Give Aid to  Chiang’s Warriors

Japs Forced Back in China Fight   U. S. Planes, Ships Keep Pounding “Invasion Route”

JAPS PRESSED BACK   Land and Air Attacks Around Rice Bowl City Tip Balance

Japs In Central  China Retreating U. S. Planes, Ships Still  Hitting Enemy Bases

U.S. Warships Hit Nip Base on Tiny Nauru   Hit Borneo, Celebes in Long Distance Raids; Allies Advance on New Guinea

GOP VOTES  KILL LITTLE  HATCH ACT PROPOSAL   Democrati¢ Measure Is Defeated 83 to 51 in Fight on Tax Consolidation   ANGRY DEBATE FLARES IN HOUSE   Democrats Ask Curbs on Political Activity of Proposed Arency

Hatch Feature In Consolidation Bill Defeated   Measures Not Designed to Set-Up Political Machine

Price Ceilings Placed on Five  Fresh Vegetables   Retailers Given Advantage of Jumping Prices

OPA Sets Ceiling Prices on Five Fresh Vegetables; Others to Follow

PRICE CEILINGS ARE PLACED ON FIVE VEGETABLES      Order Issued Last Night By OPA —Yesterday's Prices Prevail

CEILINGS PUT ON 5 FRESH VEGETABLES AFTER PRIGE RISES   Point Values Liberal On Dry Beans, Peas And Soups

Rockford Man Killed In Takeoff Crash At Base Somewhere In Alaska

AMERICANS TAKE TST UNRATIONED COFFEE IN MONTHS   Sugar to Be More Plentiful But Butter Is 20 Per Cent Short.

NO MORE STAMPS FOR COFFEE, BUI 1-5 LESS BUTTER   Rationing of Coffee Ended at Midnight Last Night

Coffee Is Now Unrationed   However, 20 Per Cent Less Butter In Next 12 Months

BUTTER SUPPLY CUT AS COFFEE IS UNRATIGNED   People Receive Notice That But. ter Supply Is Of 20 Percent

COFFEE RATIONING LIFTED TODAY BUT BUTTER TIGHTENS   Americans Drink Ist Cups Of “Free” Java In 8 Months — Plenty .” Of Margarine —

7,000 Vessels Used in Thrust   Sicilian Armada Said Biggest in History

More Than 2,000 Ships Participated in Allied Landing on Sicily; Newsmen  Give Eyewitness Accounts of Invasion

2,000 Vessels Take Part in Sicily Coup   Fisenhower Lauds Work of Allied  Navies in Landings

2,000 Vessels Participate — In Invasion   Allied Armada Greatest In History, Dwarfing North African Fleet  EISENHOWER LAUDS EFFORTS OF NAVIES  Getting Force Ashore Without Real Mishaps Stupendous Operation

INVADERS USE 2,000 VESSELS   History’s Biggest Armad: Is Employed in Sicily Attack by Allies

Storming Allied Troops Are Firmly Entrenched Along 100 Miles of Sicily’s Shores   American Airman Who Watched From Skies Says Yankees Had Things All Thar Own Wav   More Than 2,000 Ships Participated in Allied Landing on Sicily; Newsmen  Give Eyewitness. Accounts of Invasion

Italian Airports Heavily Blasted  33 Planes Are:Shot Down by. Allies

JAPS MA HAVE REACHED LAE   Air Force Keeps up Continue ous Attack   RUNNING FIGHTS   Japs Lose Total of Three Transports, 38 Zeros in Reinforcement Effort

MacArthur’s Bombers Down 20 More Planes In Attacks on Convoy   Airmen Score Direct Hits on Another Enemy Vessel, Pursue Fleet Into Harbor; Landing Forces Described as ‘Fragmentary’

YANK PLANES BLAST SHIPS BOUND TO LAE   38 Zeros are Downed In Furious Battle  Off New Guinea

SOME TROOPS POSSIBLY ARE PUT ON SHORE   Guinea Landing Attempt Has Cost Enemy 3 Vessels, 38 Air Craft   Mopping Up Papua

MacArthur in Tribute to {1st Division   American Units Get Great Credit for Campaign on Papua

Three Enemy Troop-Carriers Sunk And 38 Planes Lost In Action   SOME TROOPS LANDED ON LAE DESPITE FIGHT

Twenty Zero Planes De‘stroyed in Attacks ’ on Convoy WORK OF DIVISIONS LAUDED BY GENERAL Enemy Vessels First Sighted by Plane on Jan. 6

Davis Takes Over New Job   Holds Conferences on Production and Distribution Problems

NEW FOOD BOSS SHOWS INTEREST IN FARM LABOR   Indication That His First Concern Is in Production Comes as He Takes Office   LAND ARMY IS MENTIONED   Status of Wickard Still Uncertain - - Rumors Are Continuing in Capital

DAVIS ASSUMES DUTIES AS FOOD ADMINISTRATOR   BEGINS SERIES OF CONFERENCES WITH U. S. FARM LEADERS

DAVIS STARTS CONFERENCES UN FOOD JOB   New Administrator Will See Roosevelt and Farm Leaders Tuesday.   INDICATES BIG CONCERN FARM LABOR SITUATION

FOOD PROGRAM PLANS WAIT ON CHESTER DAVIS   President and Farm Leaders to Confer with New Chief —Wickard Talked for New Post

Davis Begins His New Work As Food Chief   Administrator To Confer At White House With Roosevelt And Leaders Of Farm Groups

DAVIS TAKES OVER AS NEW FOOD CHIEF   Administrator is Sworn in Without Ceremony By Assistant Director   WILL SEE THE PRESIDENT

DAVIS TACKLES FOOD JOB AND SEES WICKARD   Farm Labor Problem : First Task; Confers With Director

DAVIS TAKES OATH FOR JOB   NEW U. S. FOOD CHIEF SLATES F. R. CONFAB

Farm Labor First Concern  Of Food Boss  Davis And Others To Meet FDR At

ROUND OF PARLEYS ON FOOD TASK   Chester Davis Takes Over As Administrator; Long Talk With: Wickard   SECRETARY MAY Go TO NEW POST   y New Policies Will Not Be. Discussed Until They Are Fully Ironed Out

Davis Starts On Hard Job   Concerns Himself Principally With Farm Labor Data

SFORZA URGES CALL TO ITALY   Says Proper Message Ti People Will Aid In Allied Landing

TEXAS CIGARET AND LIQUOR TAXES GAIN   OLIESTION: WILL HE LIVE THAT LONG?

Nurse Reported Drowned Is Married. In Chapel Where Her-Requiem Mass Was Celebrated Less Than -Year Ago .

New Drive Moves Ahead Twenty Miles   Many Inhabited Localities Are Taken

TANK FORCES IN NEW DRIVE FOR LATVIA   Open 50-Mile Breach in German Lines and Kill 50,000 Nazis

Russian Winter (ffensive Makes Steady Progress   Report Red Troops Advance 20 Miles Through Breach In Nazi Line   THOUSANDS OF RED SKIERS JOIN DRIVE

Japanese Had 10,000 Men At  Kiska Garrison      Non-Stop Air And Naval Bombardment Forced Enemy Out

JAPS HAD 10,000 MEN ON ISLAND   First Time Foe Gave Up Without a Fight

Promises _ Defeat Of              TELLS PEOPLE ON ANNIVERSARY‘ OF REICH THAT NEXT SUMMER: WILL MAKE GERMANS  FORCET STALINGRAD

Question Whether Miners Would Heed Presidential Order to Go Back to Work Unsettled

State Miners Are Insisting On Contract   Are Opposed to Going Back to Work Under Another Truce

MINERS MIGHT IGNORE DECREE      Order From Roosevelt Is Speculation Topic

MINERS MIGHT IGNORE PLEA BY ROOSEVELT      ‘Some District Locals Say ‘Unionists Are Tired of Promises of  , Contract   PICKETS UNNEEDED   Union Leader Contends Such Move Unnecessary to Keep Men From Pits In Nation

Flynn fo Face Heavy Barrage From Senators   Appointment Called Insult To Australians

TAX WRANGLE RUINS HOPES -FORVACATION   Lawmakers Heed Cries For Compromise Draft ~

SOLONS GET NO EASTER RECESS   Action On Pay-As-YouGo Tax Legislation Is Still Deadlocked

Easter Recess Hopes Fade As Tax Row Grows  GOP Leader Is Opposed To Any  Recess Now

be ener atanesimnte ts  Local Draft Office To Be Closed Afternoons

Russians Report Resignation of German Navy Head   ‘Widening Breach. Between Hitler, Top “Generals Marked

IF ADMIRAL DONITZ HAS QUIT IT PROBABLY MEANS LAST GASP OF HITT ER’S INTUITION RULE

Boy. Struck By rc ar. Suffers a Rib   Actress Joan Feonutaine Beeame« t. &. Citizen

Japs Assert 14 Ships Are Hit  Also Claim 77 U.S. Planes Destroyed

Japs Say 14 Allied Ships Are Sunk   Enemy Also Reports 77 Planes Destroyed

ArmsOutput In Big Gain   “Spurt:in All Lines of Munitions Recorded By WPB for August

Production Of Munitions Has  Hit A New Peak   Gain During August Is Greatest Since April, ‘Says WPB.

PLANE OUTPUT BETTER, STILL LAGS SCHEDULE   More Than 7,000 Planes Turned Out in August as Production Gets “Second Wind”,

RECORD OUTPUT IN MUNITIONS iPLANES SHOW!   Nelson Reveals Production In August Scored Biggest Gain Since April; Ships Hit Peak

Arms Output   4 Per Cent. Gain in August Over July—Biggest Gain Since April

PRODUCTION FRONT GETS SECOND WIND   Recovery Is Noted After   Sharp Summer Stump—   Munitions Output in Climb.

With Ships and Planes Showing Way  lS Wer Production Shews Spurt in August

AUGUST ARMS OUTPUT HIGH   Deliveries Of Navy Vessels Set Record, Plane Prohae See a Ye nen

War Production  Climbs In July   7,612 Planes Reported Delivered In Month

SPURT IS SHOWN IN WAR OUTPUT   Nelson Reports August Gain Biggest Since April

WPB REPORTS INGREASES IN AAS OUTPUT   Production of Bombers Up 11 Per Cent in August Over July.   ARMY TRIES TO PUT CURB ON NELSON’S OPTIMISM

MUNITIONS OUTPUT IN AUGUST HIGHER THAN JULY TOTAL   WPB Says Production ‘I Getting ‘Second Wind’ After Summer Slump

Court Rules For Phillips In O. U. Case   State Tribunal Decides by 5-4 Vote That Earl Deacon, Former Governor’s Appointee, Entitled to Regent’s Seot.

Phillips Wins Court Battle   His Appointment of Erl Deacon as O. U. Reaent Is Upheld

Court Rules For Deacon In Regents’ Test   Also Holds That Man Can’t Go Into Army and Hold State Position, Too

ON OTHER FRONTS   ‘Wenatchee, Wash., Reports Two Sliaht Temblors

Leaders Follow Events Closely   Churchill, FDR Retire Before News Flashed

[FDR-CHURCHILL [FOLLOW CLOSELY INVASION ITALY   Two Were Up Till 1 A. M. Awaiting Flash That Landing Had Been Made on  Italian Mainland

Churchill and F.D. R. Alert   Two Leaders Watch Closely Progress of Italian Invasion

Roosevelt and Churchill Follow italian Invasion   Two Great Anglo-Saxon Leaders Stay Up Late _ Watting Word of Landing — Washington, - London Take News Calmly

Leaders Sit Up Until 1 A.M, Awaiting Flash Of Landing in Italy    ‘London Cheered by sh News; Expects Attack: Deeper in Italy

Churchill, FDR Continue Conferences   Follow Closely Progress of Allied Invasion of Italy’s Mainland; FDR Meets with Danish Minister

YANKEES, ABSENT IN INVASION, MAY. STRIKE ELSEWHERE   Speculation Over. Attack Circulates In Capital — Word Comes Durin z  Conference

EYES ON ITALY IN WASHINGTON   Roosevelt and Churchill Are Watching Developments

ALLIED CHIEFS STUDY NEWS   FR. CHURCHILL WATCH INVASION DISPATCHES

INVASION MOVE TAKEN CALMLY IN WASHINGTOI   ttalian Venture Causes Scarce ly Ripple In Official Circles At Capital

Ifaly Invasion Seen As Result Of Old Planning   Little Excitement Noted At Capitol As Allies Attack

U.S. Waits Word of Other Blows   Yankees Expected to Be in Action Soon

FR, Churchill Watch Italian News Closely   Allied Chieftains Hold Conferences With Several War Experts

Roosevelt and  Churchill Follow Reports of Battle   Capital Wonders  Where U. S. Troops Will Strike Next

Churchill, FDR Follow Invasion Accounts Closely   But News Does Not Sti Washington; — Official:  Knew of Plans.   Hint Other Plans Ready For Pacific

ALLIED FORCta SUORING GAING IN AFRICA ALSO   United Nations War Picture Considerably Brighter On Latest Events

Seeking ta Escape  Red Trap   Blow Up Bridges and Mine Roads in Advance of  Pursuing Cossacks

OPA SETTING. ~ MEAT PRICE   REVAMPING OF. PRICE CON‘TROLS UNDERWAY AND  . SCHEDULES TO GO f° INTO EFFECT SOQN = +

NEW CEILINGS ON MEATS DUE   Texas Listed In Base Zone Under OPA Edict

CONGRESS BLOCS WAR ON MNUTT   Manpower Chief Blamec  for Growing Disputes: May Demand Ouster.

VINSON BLASTS PRICE TRIES   SCORE SOLON ATTEMPTS TO RAISE CEILINGS

OPPOSES HIGHER CRUDE OIL PRICE   VINSON DECLARES AGAINST BILL BY SENATOR THOMAS

Reds Drive To Divide, Slay Nazis   Push On From Fallen Bakmach Toward Dneiper

Russians Push On In Drive To Split Germans   Fast-Driving Soviets Closing In On Foe’s Last Defense Line.

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLING AS REDS DRIVE ON   German Line Split on Road To Kiev by Attack from Liberated Donets Basin   SOVIETS NEARING DNIEPER   Last Ditch Stand of Hitler Horde About To Be Given Its Final Acid Test   Bv HENRY C. CASSIPY

REDS BATTER AT NAZI DEFENSES   Capture of Bakhmach Splits Enemy Sectors. Attack Is Pressed

Allied Bombers Blast at Lae  An TM... _f Deestlin   20 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped

JEALOUSY IN -  §, AMERICA   U.S. Lend-Lease Policy Seat of Trouble Between Some of the Smaller Countries

UNEQUAL ALLOCATIONS OF LEND-LEASE GOODS CAUSE TROUBLE, SOUTH AMERICA

Mrs. Spreckels Granted Divorce; Claims Husband’s Sprees Were Embarrassing

Crude Gushes Two Feet in Air  Break in ‘Big Ineh’ Oil Line  Found on Farm at Doylestown

Two Main Areas for Attacks   Germans Worried Over Possibility of Blows Aim ed at Norway

Allies Lay Plans  To Invade Europe   Reds Move Closer to Key Cities; Weather Slows Tunisia Forces

LIST SEVEN POSSIBLE OBJECTIVES OF TWO MAIN ALLIED BLOWS   Germany Now Victim Of ‘Nerve War,’ Jittery Over Possible Attack On Norway; Reds Closer To Kharkov, Rostov   Re IINITEND PRESS

MANY PROBLEMS FACE CONGRESS AFTER HOLIDAY   Tax Bill, Wage Stabilization Among ov Per:

“Congressmen Leave For. Holiday Rest ‘But Face Many Problems On Returning

’ FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘laday.   Prossoutian Conchided.

U.S. Wins Suit Against 27 In Mine Strike  Workers Placed On Probation For Three Years

Allies Reject Peace Feelers Of Bulgarians   Balkan State Seeks To Get Out Of Losing War

British Report Says Plea Sent To Soviet Unior   Say Foreign Affairs Head Declares Nation Must Make Peace Quickly

Girls Teaching Army Mechanics and Their Work is Okay, Officers Say

a an NnE  Gals Who Teach Soldiers All About _ Mechanics Daffy About Their Jobs

ATRDOROME ROWRED   Jewelry Making In Germany Halts   Fy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 

ROUTED NAZI ARMY FLEES WESTWARD   All East of the Dnieper Threatened By Triumphant Reds

DNIEPER RIVER SEEN AS NEXT DEFENSE SPOT   Soviets in Hot Pursuit of Germans In Flight Following the Capture Of Kharkov.

PACIFIC AREA CHIEFS CONFER   Coordination Of Commands Expected To Intensify Allied Offensive

MEETING MAY POINT TO BLOW AGAINST JAPS   President Calls Session of Pacific War Council

TTALIAN INVASION ©   Experts Agree Additional ‘Thrusts Onto Hapless Peninsula Will Be Made

Round Two   Awaited in Washington    Churchill’s Presence in U. S. Capital May have Been Timed With War Events

MORE THRUSTS INTO MAINLAND BY ALLIES DUE      Washington Observers Say Additional Attacks to Be Made On Italy to Back British

U.S. NAVY BOMBERS STAB ONCE AGAIN AT TARAWA ISLAND)   Stab At Gilbert Base May Be Prelude To Full Scale American Offensive  «.

AUolANG PUSH TOWARD ENEMY ANCHOR POINTS   Red Offensives Draw Nearer Goals Of Kursk, Karkov and Rostov

lfalians Warnec Of Onslaught    Europe Is Assured Invasion Is Near

Breathing Spell Over For Italy   Badoglio Censured; OWI Makes Appeal

Haly Given Last Warning   Britain Tells People Invasion Is Comina

Great Invasion Of Continent is Reported Planned   lalians Warned Wha They Face if They Do Not Surrender

ITALIANS TOLD TO PREPARE FOR INVASION SOON   Allies Claim Badoglio Has Temporized Too Long; Naples Raided

Breathing Spell Ends, Allied Ultimatum Says   Eisenhower Declares Mainland Onslaught Hour Nears; . Invasion of Continent Impends

Italians Warned Land Forces Soon To Open Invasion  Necesitated By Betrayal Of Country By Mussolini And Badoglio

FORTRESSES POUND NAPLES HIT SHIPPING   ALLIES ITALY WHAT 10 LOOK FOR   After Gen. Eisenhower Sound: Warning Aerial Assault, Would Punish Italians; Put  Blame on Bodoglio   “Breathing Spell” is Over; In. vasion of Continent is in Preparation; Horrors of Wai Imminent for Italy   bermans in the North

ALLIES HURL BACK NAZI ATTACKS   Americans Dig In, Forming New Line In Tunisia

ROMMEL’S KORPS NOW THREATENED BY BRITISH ARMY   Germans Make Thrust at Pass Held By Americans But After Small Gain Is Driven Out.   3000 YANKS REPORTED TAKEN PRISONERS   Big British Guns Begin Softening Mareth Line, Contacts With Enemy Have Been Announced.

Stabilize New Lines: Alexander Assumes Duties   Atlacks to Test Strength of Positions or Ridges Turned Back With Aid of British [nits

BRITISH ARMY'S GUNS POUNDING MARETH FORTS   Gen. Alexander Arrives To Begin Eisenhower Afde Duties

16 PERSONS EXAMINED   Clinic Held Last Evening for Mem‘bers of B. and P. W. Club

my te Summon en in Colleges   Bulk of Reservists  Face Active Duty

ENLISTED RESERVES TOBE CALLED SOOM   War Now Begins To Drain College Students

COLLEGE STUDENTS TO GET GALL SOON   Reservists In Varied Branch es of Study Will Enter Service Shortly.

ARMY’S ENLISTED RESERVISTS 10 BE CALLED UP SOON   COLLEGE YOUTHS TO BE ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY AT END FIRST TERM

Plan to Call Reservists In Colleges   Varied Induction Dates Depend on Course  Of Training

ERG 70 BE CALLED IN NEAR FUTURE   Students To Be Called in Various Dates Depending On College Operation Plan; Several Exceptions Noted

Reservists Face  Call to Service  College Men Will Receive Summons

RESERVISTS TO BE ORDERED TO ACTIVE SERVICE   Army Plans To Call Men  Now In Colleges In The  Near Future   SPECIAL TRAINING PROGRAM ARRANGED

U.. ARMY ENLISTED RESERVES GET CALL   Youths in Colleges to Be Called Up at End of School Term

Floods Of Middle West Termed War Effort Hazard By Representative — Who Seeks Control Completon -

Breeder Consigns  to National Sale   Popham Brothers to Send Gilt to Memphis Duroc Sales.

O. F. DAVIS & SON RECEIVE NAT’L RECOGNITION FOR PUREBRED DUROC HERD

RETREAT AT SALAMAUA   Chased Back Toward Inner Defenses, Says MacArthur

FOUR MAIN DEFENSES   Nips Withdrawing To Inner Lines; Air Battle Fought

JAP FORCES RETREAT AT SALAMAUA   Chased Back Toward Inner Defenses, Says MacArthur

AMERICAN BEATEN BY ARGENTINA GANG   Motive for. Attack Unknown But He Is Recovering

Nation's Capital Has Attention On New Plans   War Against Japan Being Plotted from Several Angles Under Direction of New Commander.

Mountbatten Plots Squeeze Play on Japs With American Strategists

Russians Take Initiative on  Ukraine Fron   Red Artillery Te Credited with Win. ning Great ¥iclory

Soviet Takes Gateway To Rail Center   Red Artillery Has Knocked Out Kiev Drive, Turned Tide

FOURTH DRIVE QUOTA GIVEN   ‘Let's All Back The Attack Is Slogan For New Drive

Make Advance In Effort To Recapture Naval Base Of Novorossisk   SOVIET AIR FORCE STEPS UP ASSAULTS

Weiss Calls onHousek or Gas Probe   GASOLINE IS BEING DUMPED INTO THE GROUND BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY TO SHIP SURPLUS.   Refineries Suspend

Surplus Gasoline Dumped on Ground, Congressman Says  Rep. Weiss Reports or Plight of Pennsylvania

Weiss Urges Early Action On Resolution   Rules Committee Informed Refiners Dumping Gasoline Into Ground  WOULD EXTEND SCOPE

Congressman Wants Inquiry Into Oil Field ‘Dumping z Charges.  ICKES DECLARES STOCKS ARE low

Australians Are Pursuing Japs   Close On Heels Of Retreat ing Enemy In Jungle North Of Finschhafen  Ry FRANK ROBERTSON

NEW TAX BILL BEFORE HOUSE   Rep. McCormack Proposes 4 Percent Cancellation of Obligations for 1942.

Compromise Is Proposed In Tax Deadlock   Plan Weuld Cancel 44 Per Cent OF  1942 Obligations

Committee Reports New Tax Bill Calling For Imposition Of ‘41 Rates On ‘42 lincomes

HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORTS TAX BILL; BEATS RUML PLAN   Measure Cancels 44 Pct. of Last Year’s Obligations, Imposes 741 Rates on "42 Incomes.   DEMOCRATS BID FOR GOP SUPPORT   One Day Debate Is Agreed Upon—Finish Fight to Come When Substitutes Are Offered.

NEW BILL CUTS OFF 1942 TAXES   Compromise Is Offered In Attempt To Lift House Deadlock

NEW PAY-Ko-YOU-b0 BILL READY IN HOUSE   Plan Would Cancel 44 Per Cent Of 1942 Tax Levies

House Given Demo Version  Of Tax Bill   Bid for Harmony Not Warmly Received by Defeated Republicans

New Tax Bill Is Nearing  Shawdown on House Floor   or Yankees Tougher Than Nazis

Democrats Ask for Unity On Proposal   But Republicans in Ways and Means Committee Appear Cool to It   FLOOR FIGHT SEEN   Plan Said to ‘Remit’ Total of $4,400,000,000 From 1942 Returns

Democrats Bid For GOP Support Of New Tax Bil!   But Republicans Indicate They'll Fight  For Some Rum! Plan

44 Per Cent Slated For Cancellation Under Plan Offered By Democratic Bloc

AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY CAPTURED A ROAD JUNCTION   Alife Was Taken in Ten-Mile Advance; Beat Off Furious Counterattacks.   THE BRITISH ACTIVE   Checked a Massive German Attack Aimed at Caneello, on the Volturno.

5th Army Gains 10 More Miles   CLARK CAPTURES ALIFE, VITAL ROAD HUB, AS AMERICANS BEAT OFF FIERCE COUNTERDRIVE; FLIERS KNOCK 16 ENEMY WARPLANES FROM SKY

Captures Road Junction City; Holds It Despite Heavy Counter-Attacks

Proximity Of Allies Prevents Germans  Forming N ew Lines   Furious Exiemy Counter-Attacks Beaten/Back On Italian Front; Bomb Nazi Sites In Yugoslavia

IU. S. Troops Of Fifth Army Capture Alife, Important  Road Junction, Pursuing Enemy Too Closely To Permit Setting Up New Defense Positions—British Repulse Massive Attack Aimed At Cancello—Allied  Planes Aid In Assault, Blasting Axis Bases

Glose Pursuit Keeps Foe Reeling; Counter Thrusts Repelled in 10 Mile Gain

Clark’s Men Score Ten Mile Advance While Germans Battle for Time, British Repel Assault on Cancello

Keep Enemy Off Balance; Report A Ten-Mile Gain   Capture Important Road Junction; British Consolidate Gains to East.   U. S. Planes Bomb Coastal Shipping

IMPORTANT HIGHWAY JUNCTION OF ALIFE TAKEN BY ALLIES  HEAVY GERMAN COUN. TERATTACKS ON ITALIAN

Clark’s Yanks Gain 10 Miles; Repel Furious Counterattack   British Beat Off Massive Nazi Attack Aimed At Cancello

ALLIES MOVE TEN MILES IN RAPID DRIVE   Giving Germans No Chance To Alter  Retreat :stoute

VITAL RAILWAY! JUNCTION FALLS TO YANK TROOPS   ‘Americans of Fifth Army  3 - Beat Off Furious Ger   man Counter-Attacks to Take Alife   ACTION SUPPORTED BY WAVES BOMBERS   ‘British Eighth Army Ham— mers Back Hun Counter Attacks Aimed At Cancello

BEAT OFF GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK IN 10-MILE GAIN   NAZIS PURSUED TOO CLOSE TO SET UP NEW DEFENSE LINES

IMPORTANT ROAD JUNCTION SEIZED   British On Fifth Army’s Left Wing Beat Off Fierce Nazi Attack   TWO TOWNS FALL   Germans Unable To Establish New Defense Positions In Italy

U. S. Warhawks, Supporting Yugoslav Guerrillas, Shoot Down All in Formation Of Six German Stukas Near Zara

U.S. Troops Carve Out 10-Mile Gain   Allied Airmen Sweep Italian Rattle Area

Push Hard toKeep  Nazis In Retreat   Americans Prevent Enemy From Establishing New —  Defense Line   COUNTER DRIVE FAILS   Allied Air Forces Swarm Over Northern Italy and  Yugoslavia 

Germans Counterattack With Fury; Town of Alife Falls to Clark's Columns

ADVANCE MADE AGAINST STIF NAZI ATTACKS   ‘Aerial Forces Hit Over Wide Territory; British Console idate Positions

Fifth Army Takes Wital Road Point   American Troops Keep Retreating Germans From Establishing New Deferise Positions

Guerrilla Forces In Balkans Given Support From Air   Massive Hitlerite Attack Beaten Back By British Shipping Struck By Airpower

oth Army Captures Vital Road Center   Clark Gives Fleeing Germans No Time To Establish New Defense Positions; British Hurl Back Biq Counter-Attack

NAZIS UNABLE ‘TOR NEM - DEFENSE LINE   Junction Town of Alife Taken by Americans; British Renel Counterattack.

Yanks Repulse Nazis; Drive  For 10 Miles   ‘Anglo-U: S. Troops Make Steady Progress in Italy

Americans So Close Enemy Has No Time To Put Up  Defense Pocitians.

Fieree Nazi Counter Push Thrown Back   Allied Planes  Active Bombing, Machine-Gunning Enemy Positions

Two Highway Towns Taken  In Advance   Enemy Is Repulsed At Cancello; British 8th Consolidates Position On Right Wing

Fifth Army Stays On Heels Of Enemy As Nazis Retreat   Capture Important Junction, Beat Off Furious Counter-Attack

KEY JUNCTION OF ALIFE IS CAPTURED   Violent German Counter Attacks Beaten Back Planes Damage Three Enemy Ships

RETREATING FOE PUSHED  WTO NORT   2 Counter-Attacks Of Foe Beaten By Allies

ROAD JUNCTION TOWN CAPTURED IN NEW THRUST   Fierce German Counter-Stab Beaten Off After Gains In Italy

Fifth Captures Town OF Alife   British Troops Beat Off Massive Nazi Attack Aimed At Cancello.

5th Army Captures Alife As British 8th Beats Off German Counterattacks

YANKS PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS   Capture Important "Road _ Junction Town in 10 Mile Advance.

Yankees On Heels Of Retreating Foe   Fifth Army Makes 10-Mile Advance And Beats Off Nazi Counter-attack

American Army Pursues Nazis On Italian Front  British Eighth Army Beats Off German Counter Attack

PURSUIT KEEPS GERMANS FROM DEFENSE LINE   Allied Fighters Gc To Rescue of Jugoslavs

lyciad Tos owns of. Alife and Piedimonte D’Alife s ¢:{nland: frog Mediterranean Captured. onsolidates Positions on      ON NAUES HOH THEN TO: ‘Names ene NEW LINE

NAZIS UNABLE TO ESTABLISH A NEW LINE   Fifth Army, in Close Pursuit Beyond Volturno, Gains Another 10 Miles, Beats Off Fierce Counter-Attack.

Fifth Army Scores 10-Mile Advance to Take Junction City   British Troops Beat Off Massive Enemy Assault Aimed at Cancello on North Bank of Volturno Eight Miles From Sea   WARHAWKS SUPPORT YUGOSLAV OPERATIONS

Yank Pressure Prevents A New Stand By Nazis   Americans Seize Impor. tant Road Junction In Their Hot Pursuit.

FIFTH TAKES ALIFE IN ADVANCE   City’s Capture Puts Americans Jn Good Position

Clark's Troops Step Up Drive, Harassing Nazis   5th Army Chases Back Foe 10 Miles To Seize Alife; British Troops On Flank Beat Off Big Counter Attack

Ulark s Army Hotly Pursues German Foes   Germans Given No Chance to Establish New Defense Lines

3-B DRAFT TAGS TO BE DROPPED   Georgia Director Discloses Action Due Monday

ALLIED BOMBERS HIT NAZI ARMORED CARS   Damage 12 Vehicles Near Mareth Line Area

Flame Throwers Used On Nippons   First Time Weapon Used Since Buna

American Soldiers Send Streams of  Pire into Piiibox Gunslits of  Japanese — First Successful Use of Weapon in Pacific War.

YANK TROOPS USE FLAME THROWERS IN MUNDA BATTLE   Streams of Fire Are Sent Through Gun Slits of Pill Boxes.

AMERICAN TROOPS USE FLAME THROW TO-ROUT JAPANESE   Fire Streams T) Thrown Into Pillbox:Slits In First Successful Try In Pacific

Americans lit Munda With Flame-Throwers  Allies Prepare Big Offensive Against Japan

Six-Day Halt In ‘Coal Production Comes to An End   Indications Are No Further Interruptions Will Come: Early Agreement On New Contract Predicted by Both Sides

COAL WORKERS BACK IN MINES   Agreement ls Hoped For Out Of Resumed Negotiations

MUST OF MINERS RETURN TO WERE   Conferences Over Differences May Resume Without Instructions By WLB.

Miners Go Back; Wage Accord Near   Lewis Threat of New Strike Seen As Mere Gesture

MOST MINERS RETURN TO © WORK TODAY   Negotiations Are To Be  Resumed

530,000: Miners Begin Going Back Into Pits:   Indications Are’ They Will Stay, There. This Time

EXPECT EARLY AGREEMENT IN MINE DISPUTE.      Miners Are Going Back to. the . Pits Today

Most of Nation’ s Coal Miners Go: Back On Jobs —   Early Agreement Seen: In.Dispute Between» - Workers, ‘Operators.

KILL 2 NAZI POLICE HEADS IN NORWAY   Also Slay Two Norwegians for Turning Traitor

Hershey Is Called To Explain   Manpower Heads Want Control Over Those Outside the Draft Age

MANPOWER COMM: SEEKS = LEGISLATION   Would Force Men Over Draft Age Into War Work

EXPLANATION SOUGHT _ OF NEW DRAFT PLANS   elective Service-Director Is Summoned to Explain New Program. Designed to Force’ Men Outside Draft Age to Change from Non-War ‘to «War Industries—Some Opposition. _ Voiced in Senate.

Men Outside Draft Age May Get Job Order:   ‘Congress to Be Asked fo Legislation Widening Powers

FUEHRER, IL DUCE (MEET 10 DISCUSS MILITARY AFFAIRS   British Eighth Army at Gates of Catania with Americans Knifing Into Heart of Island.

US. SEVENTH ARMY CLOSING IN ON ENNA   American Forces Show Speed; Seek To Cut Island In Two .   Bulletin:

FRESH REBUFFS FOR PRESIDENT ARE INDICATED   White House Said Unperturbed Over Dissention

More Rebuffs. Seen For FDR  But  He Is ‘Unpert turbed’  i. ae /  ee 7

FRESH REBUFFS FOR FOR LOON   White House Represented as Not Greatly Perturbed Over Current Dispute with Congress; McKellar Bill Pushed

SOLONS GPPOSE FOR ON ALLRED   Texan To Face Opposition Over Appointment

Fresh Senate Rebuffs Seen For FDR; Allred Opposition Mau Cause His Withdrawal

WHEAT TO BE HIGHER   Economists See Slightly Lower : Prices for Hogs and Cattle

PREDICT HIGHER PRICES   Kansas State College Economists  Comment on Markets

Big Force of RAFSwarms Toward Nazis  Great Blow to Pave   Great Blow to Pave Way for Invasion Is Expected to Fall

Huge RAF Force Of Bombers Roars  Toward Germany Takes Nearly Hour   Takes Nearly Hour For Airfleet To Cross Channel

Nazi Steel Production Cut Over Million Tons Annually   At Least Million Germans Driven From Theis Ruined And Roofless Homes After Attacks

Large force RAF bomber: on night raid   Takes hour toeross channel

TIPTON HAS. (TS. OWA RAGE ACT   Tennessceaus and J: aniaicans Tangle at Stokely Canning Plant Here.

THPIOW HAS Ho OWN RAGE RIOT’   Ternesseeaus and Jamaicans Tangle at Stckely Cannine Plant Here.

Japanese Will Move Prisoners   Hope Voiced for Joining — Of Two French Factions

WHAT 70 D0 WITH ‘GERMANY. HAPAN?   Specialist In ‘German His‘tory Guest Spesker At Final Forum :

Last Meeting Of Civic Forum Next Wednesday  ' After War Program To Be Discussed By Educator

WHAT TO DO WITH GERMANY, IAPAN?   Specialist In German History Guest Speaker At Final Forum

Allied Air Forces Call Halt to Cap Bon Bombing   Troops Infiltrate Over Almost Entire Peninsula Area

Daylight Raids On Sofia, Athens   Nazi-Held Points Are Bombed By American Fliers Allies Report   TOTAL OF 71 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN

'TACKLEFOOD PROBLEMS   FSA Representatives Holding Two Day Session in Wichits ©

Would Boost Food Output   Central Kansas Group Confers In Wichita

New Plans Are Considered On Price Controls   President Roosevelt Says No Plans Yet Been Agreed On    Another Black Market  Critical Shortage In Eggs Is Seen For Nation

SHORTAGE OF EGGS   Will Be Critical by Next December Says’ Spokes- man for OPA.

EggShortage By Winter   Worst in Nation’s History, But OPA. Weon’t Try Rationing

Egg Shortage Looms In U.S   Situation Seen Critical When Winter Comes

Egg Shortage In Prospect For U.S. With Storage Stocks Going To Wai

CAPITAL PURGE SEEN IN 1944   New Deal Is Discordant Note In War Effort, Says GOP Chief

SPANGLER LASHES AY NEW DEALERS   Declares it ‘the Only Note of Discord’ in the War Effort; Blasts Bureaucrats and Lame Ducks

New: GOP Chief Says New Deal Falling Apart”   “Says Only Note Of ‘Discord Is Facing Purce'ln ‘44 Vote

New GOP Chiet Says New Deal Falling Apart  Says Only Note Of   Says Only Note O1 Discord Is Facing Purae In ‘44 Vote

MOND 190 HOT FOR !APANESE   Treasury Island Forces Flee As Amphibious Troops Land

Patton And Staff Arrive In Cairo Developments Brewing In Middle East, Belief

Patton and Staff Show Up in Cairo   Speculation Stirs on Developments Brewing in  Middle East   THRUST IN BALKANS?   Conferences With Govern: ments in Exile a Possible Mission

PATTON, STAFF SEEN IN CAIRO   Causes Specuiation on New Developments

Patton and Staff Show Up in Cairo   Speculation Stirs on Devel  THRUST IN BALKANS?   Conferences With Govern.  ments in Exile a Pos  sible Mission

GEN. PATTON AND STAFF MEMBERS NOW IN CAIRO   Arrival of Commander of U.S. Seventh Army Starts Speculative Talk

Patton Visits Cairo; Stirs Speculation   Commander of 7th “Army and Member: Of Staff Arrive  In Eayptian City

GENERAL PATTON ARRIVES IN CAIRO   STIRS SPECULATION AS TO DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

BALKAN DRIVE FORESEEN SON IN CAIRO MEET   Gen. George Patton And Staff Arrive  For Conference

GEN. PATTON IN CAIRO; STIRS SPECULATION   Arrival Linked with Possible Balkan Moves; New Use for General Hinted in Washington

Pation’s Visit Forecasts Events   NEW ALLIED ATTACKS EXPECTED AFTER CONFERENCE

Balkan Drive Thought Near   General Makes No Attempt To Mask His Presence

Patton Makes Cairo Visit   Arrives Unexpectedly In ‘Cairo On Unexplained Mission.

Patton’s Arrival in Cairo Brings New Speculations   "Patton Incident" Prohabivy Closed

GEN. PATTON AND STAFF IN CAIRO   Arrival-There Brings New Speculation Regarding Middle Bast Moves

New Developments Loom As Gen, Patton And His Staff Arrive In Cairo

Arrival of Gen. Patton at Cairo Spurs Talk of Balkans Push   Speculate on Conference: With Yugoslav and Greek Exiles

PATTON IN CAIRO, HINT NEW MOVES   May Be Conferring with Greek and Yugoslav Government for Balkan Invasion

New Balkan Action Seen   Lt. Gen. Patton, Jr., Arrives in Cairo With Staff Members

NON-OPERATING RAIL UNIONS 10 VOTE ON STRIKE   Nation Faced With Grave Threat to Transportation

Threat of Vital Railway Strike   Protest Against Decisions Affecting Wage Increase

LONDON AWAITS CONFIRM ATION OF DUCE RESCUE   Axis Hails Reported Coup As Restoring Leader To Blackshirts   WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN   Nazi Parachutists And Elite Troops Credited With Successful Raid

Argentina Faces New Spy Charge   Vast Nazi. Ring Is Clairhed Harbored

PEARSON SAYS WIRES TAPPED   COLUMNIST BLAMES HULL FOR ALLEGED TAKING OF TRANSCRIPTS OF TELEPHONE  CONVERSATIONS

inductees To Get Three-Week Stay  Effective Immediatelv In West Virginia

U. S. Bombers Batter French Railway Yards  Swiss Alarm Point: To Another RAF Raid On ltaly

U.S., RAF Hit Rail Yards In Two Raids   New Attack Is Seen As Planes Cause Switzerland Ala?’m

U.S. Bombers Strike at French City   Abbeville Railway Yard Hit; British Raid Wide Area

RAIDERS SMASH NAZI RAILWAYS   American Bombers Visit Abbeville: RAF Picks Brand New Target

American Fliers Smash Railway Yards in France   RAF Planes Blast Grea Peugeot Motor Works at Montbeliard

Railway Yards [At Abbeville Yanks’ Target   RAF Hits New Point, “ Montbeliard in France; Italy Likely in Line

FRENCH TARGETS UNDER ATTACK   Railroad Yards At Abbeville And Large Motor Works Are Damaged

More Men  In Class 1-A   List Announced By Selective Service Office

Italians Under German Domination In Greece And In Dangerous Mood

‘Air War Flares Over Burma; Town, Rail Hit.   Two Jap Planes Shot Down, Several Damaged, Says Report From New Delhi

BRITISH FLIERS STRIKE BURMA   Japanese-Held Village, Railway Hit During Lull On Ground

British Stalk Fleeing Nazis   -Amerjcans Capture Pass [n-Mountain 

BRITISH ARMY CLOSES IN ON MARETH LINE   ROMMEL REPORTED GETTING READY FOR ASSAULT

Assault on Rabaul Destroys 177 Japanese Aircraft   Largest Allied Air Fighter Force Yet Assembled in South Pacific Area Makes Devastating Raid on Big Base

117 Japanese Aircraft Destroyed With 17,600 Tons of Shins When MacArthur Forces Spring Surprise   3 Destroyers, Merchantmen Sunk as Enemy — Is Caught Unaware; Wharves, Warehouses of One of Finest Pacific Harbors Wiped Out

Americans Destroy 6 Jap Ships and 177 Planes in Biggest Pacific Assaul      “Crushing and Decisive Defeat foi Enemy at Vital Point” Reported By MacArthur in Statement

MIGHTY RAID ON RABAUL STRONGHOLD   By Largest Allied Air Force Ever Assembled In South Pacific; 177 Enemy  Aircraft Destroyed.   Large Harbor

IS IN OPERATION   ‘Big Inch’ Flowing 100,000 Barrels Of Oil Daily

‘BIG INCH’ OPEN   Dumps 100,600 Barrels of O11 Daily Intn Bactern Tanke.

LOCALA LOSES LIFE IN CRASH OF PLANE   Lieut. W. T. Delaplaine, Ill, USN, Was Aboard Navy  Th mmeen wk

Invasion Talk Mounis, Spurred by Presence of Eden and Brooke with Prime Minister   ELUDES NAZI FLIER   Rome Broadcasts Warning Invesion Near, Calls on Pantelleria tp Stand Fast

CHURCHILL IN BRITAIN AGAIN   Homecoming Coincides With Speculation of An Allied Invasion.

Churchill Is Back Home after Parley   Prime Minister Confers with General €fsenhower in North Africa

FLIES BY NIGHT THRU HOTBED AXIS AIRPOWER   Homecoming at Dawn Coincides With Mounting Speculation Invasion Blow Is Near   ANXIOUS ITALIANS URGE FIGHT TO END   Rome Radio Calls On Pantelleria to Stand Firm: Churchill Confers With Eisenhower

CHURCHILL VISITS INNORTH AFRICH   Prime Minister Arrives Hom Safely, Immediately Resumes His Work.

Churchill Home, Eden With Him  Stopped In Africa To See Eisenhower

CHURCHILL — ARRIVES HOME   Invasion Talk Reaches High est Pitch, Axis Anxious

Churchill Pays Visit To Africa On Home Flight      Sees U. S. And  French Leaders

Churchill Returns Via  North Africa   Prime Minister Confers with Eisenhower and Sees French Leaders Returning from Wachington

Churchill Back in Britain Escorted by Fighter Planes   Talk of Invasion Goes To New Pitch as Prime Minister Returns

Churchill Returns. to London   Calls War Cabinet After Talks With Eisenhower

Churchill Home Ready To Start Invasion Plans   Conference Held With High Chief Upon Arrival

British Chief In  London   --- Prime Minister Stops In Africa for Talks

Final Instructions To ~ Commanders Said Giver In African Conference

Ke KR KK ” British War Council Huddles   x *= General Marshall In North Africa

FIGHTER PLANES ESCORT BOMBER ERAMN AFPICA   Secretary Eden With Britain’s  Prime Minister

LONDON PAPER ASSERTS ZERO “HOUR 1S. HERE   Rome Radio Says “the Attack Is Coming” — Churchill, Meanwhile, Meets With Members of His Cabinet.

CHURCHILL RETURNS  TO LONDON AFTER  WASHINGTON TRIP ALSO MADE STOP IN NORTH AFRICA TO CON  TAVIS

Churchill Returns   To London   Invasion Talk Hits New High As He Returns Home.

CHURCHILL IS — NOW IN ENGLAND   BRITISH CHIEFTAIN ARRIVES HOME SAFE; TALKS TO EISENHOWER

Churchill Is Home; Evades German Trap   Flew From North Africa With Foreign Secr etar y" i Kden

IS BISCAY TRAP ELUDED BY CHURCHILL   Premier Arrives In London After Flight From North Africa   PLANE ESCORTED BY FIGHTER CRAF'   Invasion Talk, Meanwhile. Mounts In Pitch In British Capital

DLIDAY TOLL 200 LIVES OVER NATION   Accidents And Violence Make Heavy Claims

Yanks Raid 2 Plane Plants Near Paris   One Is in Outskirts and Other Northwest of City—Other Fortresses in Day Attack Bomb Five French Airfields.

FRENCH PLANT   Flying Fortresses Bomb Aircraft Factory on Outskirts of Paris.   AIR FIELDS ARE BLASTED

U.S. Bombers Hit  In Paris Area  Strike Heavy Blows As Italv Invasion Opens

Americans Hit Aircraft Plant   Bomb Factory on Outskirts of Paris; Attack Airfields

North France ~ Bombed Hard   Paris Hit, Broadcast from Rome Says

Yank Air Fleets Hit Paris Area Plane Factories   Huge Forces Roar Ove: Channel To Blast Nort!  France, Low Countries

Third Gilbert Island Invaded By Marines: 27th Division In Area   Troops Trained At Fort McClellan Participating Today In Central Pacific Offensive Against Tananaceo Farcac

RAGING ON THIRD ISLE   Second Division Units . Land On Abemama; Nauru Raided

Japs Fight Fiendishly On Tarawa   Foe Makes Glowing Claims.as U. S, Unit Pours on Abemama

Gains On First Two Extended    LAND ON ABEMAMA, 80 MILES SOUTH OF TARAWA; JAPS OF CONSIDERABLE GROUND =: **: RESISTANCE

MARINES EXPAND THEIR OFFENSIVE   Knox Describes Landing of American Forces on Three Gilbert Islands.

Government Areas Ripped, Embassy Center Smashed: Gilbert Push On

Yanks Win Landing on Abemama Atoll as 27th Division Troops and Leathernecks Battle on Makin and Tarawa

Heavy Weight Of Men Sent ‘ Abemama. 80 Miles South  Tarawa; Landing Accomplis ed, Statement Says   IMPROVE POSITIONS ON TARAWA, MAK

Breakers Loom For Plan To Permit Overseas Duties By Waves: Old Line Admirals Ohject

REVOLUTION IN BOLIVIA ANTI- ALLIES   Staged By Sociologist And  - Group Believed To Be ProNazi; Will Probably Curtail Shipments Of Tin.   Papers Suspend

NEW LEADERS © PLEDGE AID TO UNITED NATIONS   Army Officers Lead Revolt

REVOLT GROUP OPPOSED TC U.S. POLICY   Pro-Allied President Enrique Penaranda, Three Members of His Cabinet and Others. Are Reported Tinder Arrect.

New Movement Described as Being Militantly Anti-U. 5S.  PENARANDA HELD AFTER RESIGNING  Victor Paz Estenssoro Installs Himself as Leader

Penaranda, Staff Officers Arrested By Revolutionists   Army, Youth Groups Head Coup;. : Nationalist. Leader Enters Palace;. Newspaper Publications Suspende

New Regime In Bolivia Pledges Full  Co-operation   Leader of Swift Coup Says Atlantic Charter And Other Obligations Will Re Moaintainad

Pro-Allied Regime Out In Bolivia   Group Antagonistic  To U. S. Policies Seizes Reins of Government In a Military Coup

Hero of War With Paraquay Ousted   Revolutionary Group Opposed to Policies of U. S. and Allies

Pro-Allied Bloc Ousted In Coup  Deposed by   Deposed by Group Termed Opposed to  U. S. Policies

Leaders of New Gov't. Promise To Keep Pledges   Pre Dawn Coup Is Success; Villarroel Takes Oath of Office

U.S. Foes Now In  Saddle   President Penaranda, Others Seized By Rebels.

Revolution Sweeps Out Bolivia Heads      Hold President,  Staff Prisoners

COVERNMENT OF BOLIVIA 1S * QVERTHROW   Faction Reported t Be Anti-U. 5. is In Power

‘Anti-Allied’ Group Effects Bolivian Coup   President Penaranda and His Government Ousted By Nationalists

OVE REVOLUTIONARY   Group Organizing Revolt Strongly Opposed to Policies of U.S.   CAPITOL IS INTERESTED

et = ee TT LLL RL AnsTaT  OTAL WAR FUND IS $14,000; - SARATOGA GOES OVER QUOTA

-MAY DELAY SCHOOLS   Postponement in Parsons and Labette County Considered

Halt Berlin Migration   Goebbels Orders No One May Leave Home Without Approved Reason

MASS MOVING IS PROHIBITED   Goebbels Bars Berliners Act to Escape Bornbs 3

Bar Berliners From Fleeing  Raids To Woods   Cannot Leave  Homes At Night

STOP EVACUATION OF BERLIN RESIDENTS   To Force People To Clean Up Streets After Raid

FURTHER MASS  MIGRATION FROM BERLIN BARRED   Goebbels Instructions Are: That No One Leave City At Night Without Approved  R 2aersr.

Goebbels Halts Mass Migration Of Berliners  Citizens Ordered  To Stay in City And Helo Clean Li

FLIGHT FROM BERLIN FORBIDDEN BY NAZIS   Civilians Told They Will Have To Take Bombings

Yanks - Recapture First Soil From Japs   Only A Few Scattered Snipers Remain Ic Offer Resistance On Barren Isle

‘Enemy Resistance On Attu Crushe   Barren But Strategic Island ‘Is Again Under Amer ican Control .°   FINAL BLOODY BATTLE   Tokyo Radio Admits Destruction of Last Jap-anese Force

Kiska Garrison  Virtually Cut Off  Nippon Believes Its Entire Force Perished

Defeat Is Admitted In Tokyo   -.- Recapture of Attu by U. S. Cuts Off Kiska

Attu Battle Ends As Yanks Smash Counter Attack   Japanese Concede Loss Of Aleutians Base Which May Be Used For Bombing Excursions On Paramushiru, Tokio

Attu Island Is Now In American Hands   Last Main Jap Force Annihilated in Bigges' Battle of 19-Day Campaign—Tokyo Admits Nips’ Defeat in Suicide Stand.

Japs Blasted Off  American Soil   Opens Northern Route Of March Toward Tokyo   KISKA GARRISON VIRTUALLY CUT OFF

Attu Cleared Of All Japanese   U. S. TROOPS WIN BACK STRATEGIC ISLAND IN NORTH

s Attu Battle 1 — Ends; Japs is Admit Loss   Only Few Snipers and Machine Guns Left as Key Isle Is Regained

Aleutian Island Is First U. S. Soil Recaptured in War  JAPS ADMIT LOSS Only Snipers Remain to  Se en a ane... 4   Only Snipers Remain to Oppose American Troops

Loss of Desolate Island Is — Conceded by Japs - - Kiska   Forces Now Cut Off

Attu Ours—Kiska May Be Next Goal   Island First American Soil Recagtured in This War U. S. May Drive West Toward Jap Homeland Next

Attu Rewon:; ‘Jap Forces Annihilated   Way Opened For Attack On Kiska Or On Islands

ONLY SNIPERS REMAIN OF ENEMY FORCE   First U. S. Soil To Be Recaptured From Nips   KISKA   Believed Next Objective Though Drive On Tokyo Not Impossible

Americans Win Attu on March Towards Tokyo   Yankees Annihilate Strongest Japanese Force on Important Aleutians Island   _ Aleutian Chronology  ee eanwi Pewee

Last Battle Biggest One In Aleutians   Final Large Force On Isle Annihilated ; Tokyo Admits Loss

Few Snipers And Machine Gunners As Foe Remnants   Victory Leaves Nippon Garrison On Kiska Virtually Cut Off

BATTLE FOR ATTU 18 FINALLY WON BY U. 8 TROOPS OVER JAPS  ONLY FEW SCATTERED SNIPERS REMAIN ON ALEUTIANS OUTPOST

CAMPAIGN ENDS INANNIAILATION OF JAP FORCES   Marks First American Soil to Be Freed of  Nipponese Invaders

JAPANESE. ADMIT ISLE HAS BEEN LOS!   Only Scattered Snipers anc  Few Machine-Gun Nests Aen loft

DETROIT’S FLOOD LOSS I$ MILLION   Six Bridges North of City Down or Unsafe; Army Air Field in Peril

Fighting French Aid Gen. Giraud’s Forces  With Drive in Libya   North African Action Remains of Local Nature; Night Raid Deals Essen New Disasterous Blow ; Allied Sweeps Over Nazi Objectives in France

Fighting French Force Establishes Liaison With General Giraud In Southern Libya

REPORT CONTINUED CAUCASIAN GAINS   Soviet Driving Again Toward Rostov; ’ French Forces Take Spotlight In North Africa ;

REVIOED RUMIL PLAN IN SENATE PROBABLE   Senate Finance Committee Voting On Measure

Committee Goes Into Executive Session In Effort To Arrive At  Some Agréement

SENATE GROUP [8 READY FOR VOTINC   Committee fs Expected Tc Finish With Modified Rum! Plan For Taxes.

Senate Winds Ur Public Hearings : On Pay-Go Plan   Committee Rushing — Action On Measure To Settle Matter

AUBERT WhlGhT PROBATE JUDGE   Appointed By Governol _ Harry Kelly Today to Fill Vacaney

IRONWOOD MAN iG NEW PROBATE JUDGE   American Legion State Commander Robert R. Wright, Succeeded Judge Nolan

WRIGHT NAMED COGEBIC JUDGE   State Legion Commander Replaces Ousted Michael Nolan

ANTI - STRIKE BILL URGED IN CONGRESS   May 18 Deadline On Ceal Strike Truce — Demands Action

EXPECT EARLY HOUSE 0. K. OF CONNALLY BILL      Would Enable Government T Delay Strikes In All War Plants

MEMBERS OF HOUSE PREDICT APPROVAL OF CONNALLY BILL   Revised Bill 1 Would Give Government Power To Delay Strikes For o0 Davs

URGES: PASSAGE OF STRIKE BILL   ‘House Group Puts Connally Mea sure on Floor

KENTUCKY GOP CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR LEADS   Virtually Complete Returns Shows GOP Victors in Other States   PLURALITIES EXCEED LEADERS’ PREDICTIONS   Stock of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, for GOP Presidential Nomination Turns Upward; Walker Sees no National Trend

REPUBLICAN LEADS IN KENTUCKY VOTE   Simeon 'S. Willis Appar. ently Winner in Close - Contest

Milk Ration Plan Drafted   OPA May Try System Of Local Adjustment

PLANS DRAWN FOR RATIONING OF MILK   OPA Prepares Set-Up Just In Case Step Is Necessary

PREPARE MILK RATION PLANS ‘JUST IN CASE   OPA Gets Ready, But WFA Hopes It’s Unnecessary

Plans Being Prepared For Possible Milk Rationing, As Shortage Is Forecast

Most Public Secret War's ‘Worst Mix-uf   Complaints from All Sides on Censorship of Story Concerning Meeting of Thfee War Leaders in Cairo

EARLY BREAK DUT OF RILLo 5 EXPECTED    Nazis Force Slight Withdrawal By British Army in Center.   GERMANS MAY FALL "BACK TO BIZERTE   American Troops Reported Nearing. Mateur, Gateway to Bizerte.

_ Ist: Army Lines —  > Straightened. . As-U. S., French  - Gain On Flanks

BRITISH FIRST ARMY FORCED TO WITHDRAW   Allied Warplanes Smash at Shipping in Mediterranean

Allies Knife Deep   Enemy’s Desperate Attacks Cause Retirement of Britsh

British Back Slightly Under Counter Blows   ‘But American and French Forces Knife Deep In Tunisia

IN azis May ‘Quit Tunis   Allies Still Command Mnjor Breaches in Mountain Lines

Battle Of Tunisia At Peak Fury   American Troop Now Threaten Key Gateway.

BATTLE BLAZES INTO PEAK FURY AS SHIPPING HIT   Yanks and French Forces Knife Deeper Into Defenses But British Drop Back   NAZI NAVAL BASE BOMBED   Jap Ships and Bases Blasted And Russians Open Up With Fierce Air Attack

Nazis May Not Try fo Defend City of Tunis   Americans Threaten Mateur, Gateway to Huge Naval Base

British First Army. Is Forced To Fall Back  In Center FIERCE FIGHTING  Allied Warplanes Lash Out At Axis Shipping

Ist Army Is  Pushed Back: Yanks Drive   ‘Fierce German Thrusts in Center Battle Line Offset by French; U. S. Gains on Ends

Mateur Is Now ‘Threatened By . Allied Advance   JAPS FEAR RAID   German City Bombed By RAF; Russians Down 50 Enemy  Planes

Australians in New Guinea Capture New Vital Positions   Yank Marines on Cape Gloucester Advance Kive Miles.

Wade A. Woodke Aids In Blasting New Britain Japs  _ LeMars Bombardier  - Given’ Honorable Mention in Operation:

President Plunges Into Work, Setting . Speed for Capita!   Calls in Secretaries of Cabinet and Leaders of Both Houses

Roosevelt Sets Pace at Capital   Flynn’s Name Is Withdrawn Today

PRESIDENT TAKES  UP DUTIES QUICKLY  AFTER RETURN HOME WITHDRAWS FLYNN NOM INATION AND CALLS LEAD  rMnOC Trt MOAT

Flynn Averts Senate Fight   Asks President To Withdraw Nomination As Australian Envoy

Flynn ‘Ceases Senate Fight   Grew Mentianed as     Envoy to Auste

FLYNN 13 OUT BUT COMMITTEE OK. 5 RUTLEDGE   Jeffers Appears Before Committee; High Court Hands Down Decisions; Roosevelt Is Busy

10 WITHDRAW FLYNN NAME   President Says He’s Comply. ing With Request, But Doing It Reluctanily

Auto Licenses Good To July 15   Extension Of Time Due To Tardy Shipments

Might Abandon Branch Rail Line   Spur to Clearfield Would Be Left

Secretary Knox Thinks Italy Will Make Early Bid for Peace.  UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ASKED  No Overtures Yet Made to Allies by Premier Badoglio.

SCARRED AND BLACKENED IF REFUSE   Prime Minister Gives Edict in  House of Commons

Role of Press In War Effort Is Forum Topic   Price to Discuss Ways of Censorship, Propaganda

SUSTAINED EFFORT TO REDUCE DEFENSES BOUGAINVILLE BY AIR   JAPANESE ANSWERING . CHALLENGE BY BRINGING IN MORE PLANES

U. S. Fliers Continue Air Attacks to Reduce Jap Defenses on Bougainville

PLANES SLASH JAP BASES ON AOIUGAINVILLE   Night Raids on Big Airdromes Followed by Daylight Fighter Attacks.   NAVY STRIKES AT TWO ENEMY-HELD {SLANDS

Allies Maintain Sustained Drive On Bougainville   ‘Yanks Blast Jap Air Bases fit urther Reduce Foe's Plane Reserves

Surprise Raids On Bougainville   KALI AND  BALLALI AIRDROMES TARGET OF YANKS

YANKS ATTACK BOUGAINVILLE   Aerial Assault Enters Second Week; Gilbert Islands Attacked.

Yanks Press Attack Upor Bougainville   Bombers Raid  Jap Defenses

Allied Aerial Forces Hammer Bougainville   Japs Send 60-Intereeptor Planes Aloft In Effort to Retain Last. Strong Solomons Position And Stepping Stone to Rahaul. Lose 16 Planes.

SUSTAINED EFFORT TO REDUCE DEFENSES BOUGAINVILLE BY AIR  JAPANESE ANSWERING CHALLENGE BY BRINGING

ALLTED AIRMEN POUND JAPSIN BOUGAINVILLE   Making: Determined Effort to Reduce Defenses of Enemy On Guardian of Rabaul

BOMBS CRUSH BOUGAINVILLE   Allies Bag 16 More Jap Planes as Air Battering Enters Its Second Week.

American Aerial Strength Turns On Bougainville   Bombs Are Wrecking Jap Installations

State Curb Market Sold $716,846.99 Farm and Garden Product: In Nine Months

Cullman Curb Market’ One Of 22 In State With Total Sales Of $716,846.

Legal Fireworks In Flynn Trial   Mistrial Is Sought By His Lawyers

Nazi Subs and Planes Can't Stop Supplies But Lewis May, Says Davis

WORK STOPPAGE IS — SCORED BY DAVIS   OWI Chief Says Lewis May Prevent Supplies From Reaching Allies

DeGaulle Offers Unity Program   Present Effort Is “Said “Shattered”

RATIONING BOOK MAILING ENDED   Huge Job Completed Or Schedule With 6,897,109 Being Handled

ALL MAILED   No. 3 Ration Books Go Out as Volunteers Meet Deadline.

VILA AIRFIELD NEXT GOAL OF YANKEE TROOPS   ‘Halsey Says Pacific Battle To Be Fought For Japan

Two Charged With Wrecking Train  Men Held in Kilgore By FBI After l&GN Roilway Accident

More Autos Than Ever After War   Manufacturer Plans to Boost Its Production 25 to 50 Per Cent.

General Motors Plans Manufacture Of Cars 60 Days After Exrd Of War

SIGNIFICANCE IN ELECTION SEEN   Hallanan Says Dawson's Victory ‘Portent Of Things To Come’

DAWSON VICTOR BY 4.246 VOTES   Capital Observers Predic GOP Mayor Will Be Aspir. ant for Gubernatorial Nom. ination in 1944

Tells Workers Troubles Ended   Henry J. Kaiser Then Leads Brewster Workers In Sonc.

LOCAT. GHREVRVATIGNE   High School Boys Called to Service   Three Maryville High Graduates Are Accepted For the Marines.

Russians Smash German Forces In Dnieper Area   Take 22 Hamlets In Powerful Drive

RUSSIANS BATTLE THROUGH BLIZZARD   EEE  Red Army Slashes Toward Rumanian Frontier in Drive

SOVIETS TAKE 22 TOWNS IN DNIEPER BEND   RAILWAY LINE CUT TO DIVIDE HUGE ENEMY FORCE

SOVIETS DIVIDE CERMAN FORCE   Advance Through Storm To Cut Railway In Dnieper Bend

SOVIET ADVANGE DIVIDES NAZIS   Reds Stage Powerful New Smash Inside Dnieper River Bend; Cut Through Snowdrifts Howling Blizzard

RAILROAD LINE VITAL TO NAZIS CUT BY SOVIETS   Important Advance Made Despite Severe Winter Conditions   NAZIS ACKNOWLEDGE RUSSIAN ADVANCES

NEW RED SMASH TAKES 22 TOWNS IN DNIEPER BEND   Huge German Forces Divided as Smela-Znamenka Railway Is Severed in South westward Push.   SLASH WAY FORWARD IN RAGING BLIZZARD   Central Ukraine Salient Is Threatened, Imperiling Big Nazi Armies Near Mouth of Vital River.

Soaring Unrest Adds To Germar Woes In Europe   Germany Switches Propaganda Theme To Nefencive Afar

DRIVE AGAINST EUROPE HINTED. REVOLTS SOAR   Axis - Controlled Radio Boasts That Hitler Has 14 Million Men To  Meet Invader

Nazis Forecast Battle for Germany Soon   Prediction Is Made As Tide of Unrest Sweeps Conquered

SAY STRUGGLE FOR GERMANY NEAR AT HAND   Nazis on Radio Stress Difficulties Confronting Allies   Crowd Hurls Stones In Black Market Disorder

Reports of Soaring  Revolt on Continent   G-ermans Broadcast That ‘This Battle for Germany Is About to Begin’ with Selves On ‘Strategic Defense; Hitler Army Set

Nazi-Controlled Danish Radio Predicts Battle for Germany About To Begin; Revolt Reported Soaring

Soaring Unrest Adds To Germar Woes In Europe   Germany Switches Propaganda Theme To Defensive War  By EDWARD D. BALL

SAY STRUGGLE FOR GERMANY NEAR AT HAND   Nazis on Radio Stress Difficulties Confronting Allies

Nazis Admit Real Crisis Approaching   Battle for Germany About To Commence, Axis Radio Predicts   UNREST INCREASES THROUGH EUROPE

invasion May Follow POE-Caarcaill Meeling: Nazi Radic fs Pessimistic

Battle for Germany To Begin Soon, Nazi Controlled Radio Predicts

BATTLE FOR GERMANY IS STARTING   Danish Radio Broadcasts Difficulties Ahead Of Allies In Invasion Of Europe; Unrest In Conquered Lands   French Eager

NAZIS BELIEVE _ INVASION TS NEAR   DECLARE OVER DANISH RADIO _ “BATTLE FOR GERMANY Is ABOUT TO BEGIN.”

Supreme Commander For European Theatre Soon   Allies Concentrating On Opening Up Second Front In Europe

SUPREME WAR DIRECTOR FOR EUROPE NEX]   expect Allies Will Name Overall Chief Soon For Operations

Allies May Name Supreme Leader  Would Conduct oe  _ a pid is cna G es Baie

ALLIED COMMANDER OVER EUROPE MAY BE APPOINTED SOON   African, European Forces May Be Consolidated With A Single. — Coerdinator

LONG DROUGHT - SAID BROKEN   More. Rain  Expected Fol. lowing Atlantic Coast Gale

Rains Fall in Most Of State   Drought Broken But Water Supplies Still At Low kevel

PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST SWEDES SIMILAR. . TO OUTBURSTS AGAINST  POLES IN 1939 

HITLER FINDS NO ROAD BACK AFTER 4 YEARS   Slips From Mastery Into Whirlpool of Uncertainty

Believe Hitler May Hope To Take Sweder   Same Old Pre-Invasion Pro gram Is Being Staged By Nazis   FOUR YEARS OF WAR MAKE MOVE HARDER

President Uses County Beauty Spot To Gain Rest   Churchill Has Been (Guest At Catoctin  Recreational Area  Several Times

DAIRY GROUP. ASKS INQUIRY   SUBSTITUTION. FOR NOON RADIO PROGRAM YESTERDAY -\« BRINGS “DEMAND FOR. EXPLANATION

Dairymen Refused - Air, Subsidy Speech By CIO Chieftain Substituted

Germans Waging All-Out Battle For Winter Line   Brifish Eighth Army in Action

All-out Battle Rages in Heights On Southwestern Flank Of  Italian Lines

Foe Fighting Desperately With Nine Divisions to Hold “Winter Line;” Eighth Army Captures Ridge

Nazis Throw 9 Divisions  Into Struggle   But American, British Make Steady Gains At Winter Line Flanks  SAN VITO CAPTURED

Su_ Weigro: 5-1 anc 41¢.171 Armies .n.eas.iec' 4s Germans “No 7- Savage v Aor -1. 2omes

Yanks Storm Key Bastion In Rome Drive   Nine Nazi Divisions Fail to Hold Back Onslaught by Allies

ALLIES DRIVE  WINTER LINE   American Infantry Storms Mount Maggiore in’ * Great Battle °°”   NAZIS THROW IN... NINE DIVISIONS.

ALLIES DRIVE INTO GERMAN WINTER LINE   American Infantry Storms Mount Maggiore in Great Battle   NAZIS THROW IN NINE DIVISIONS   Allies Show Full Power for First Time Since Invasion

MT, MAGGIORE IS STORMED BY ALLIED TROOPS   Germans Throw Nine Divisions Into Battle To  Save Winter Line   MONTE CAMINO TAKEN ON ROAD TO CAPITAL

U.S. Troops Storm Nazi Strongholds   American Infantry Fights Bloody Battle Near Pass To Rome

Allies muster full power in Italian battle   Encounter tough nazi resistance

éth Captures SanVito After Tough Battle   Fifth Army Fighting Is Infantry-Artillery Affair as Rain Cuts Allied Air Activity

US Is Now World’s No. 1  Merchantman   Fleet Has Gained 250 Per Cent Since Pearl Harbor; Ships Chartered to Maritime Allies

LOAN SHIPS 10. ALLIED NATIONS   Increase in U. S. Merchant Fleet Is Cause for Lending Plan.

3 WAAC APPLICATIONS   Lawrence Civilian Recruiting. Committee Has Been Active

Post-War Bill Put In Shape By Goodland   Rehabilitation Fund Is Provided In Measure Which Will Be Placed Before Legislature

NEWEST STRIKE HITS JOHNSTOWN   Bus, Trolley- Operators Protest War Labor  Board Order

Italian Armed Forces Held on the Alert, Berlin Radio Broadcasts Today as Fears Rise of Sudden Action by the Allies—incessant Bombing of Crete Mounts and Nervousness Is Seen at All Vulnerahle Points.

IN STATE OF ALERT   All Leaves Are Cancelled for '  Armed Forces

ITALY GANCELS ALL LEAVES IN ARMED FORCES   Vichy Radio Declares Craft Filling Allied  Mediterranean Ports

RAID IN CRETE ~ WORRIES ITALY   Leaves Cancelled As Axis Strengthens Defense Lines

ALL LEAVE WAIVED FOR ITALIAN ARMED FORCES IN ITALY   British Commando-Like Raid On Crete Boosts Invasion Fears Todav

BELIEVE TIME FOR EARLY INVASION OF EUROPE JS FIXED   Details Of Many Points Of . Interest At. Meeting Not Outlined To Reporters

TIMETABLE 18 SET, CAPITAL SOURCES SAY   Sensational News Yet To Come, Reporters On Scene Belive

'Washington Believes Full Story ‘Of-Conference- Still Untold, ‘Sure European Invasion Decided

NEWOMEN Ot OPINION TALE NOT ALL TOLD   Belief Grows Conference al Casablanca Set Time to Invade Germany.   UNEXPLAINED INCIDENTS  ‘ayeriy CORRESPONDENTS

Washington, London Agree Full Casablanca Story Not Told   Correspondents Hint That Much More Remains to Be Related

FINAL DESPERATE ‘ATTEMPT ‘yO KNOCK RUSSIA ouT or. WAR MAY START  THIS WEEK

SHIPS FAIL 10 LAND FOOD AT GUADALCANAL   20,000 Starving Nips Sed@ Yankees Beat Back Eight Destroyers 4   TWO DESTROYERS SUNK   Hitler’s Invasion  Forceg Fleeing In Disorder Before Russians J!

Yanks Wipe Out 150 Japs In Battle On Guadalcanal   American Forces Gain High Ground In Advance On Island Japanese   NAVY ANNOUNCES LATEST CLASHES

SOLDIERS KILLED IN NEW PUSH   Six Counterattacks Are Repulsed By Leathernecks

FAILS TO SUPPLY SOLOMONS JAPS   Enemy Fiotilla Driven Off After U. S. Sinks Two Destroyers

LEWIS MAKES “NO COMMENT” ON NEW MOVE   53 Companies Scat. tered Through 10 Coal States Returned Monday

More Coal Mines Returned To Private Control; Question If Miners Will Keep Promise

Invasion Route ‘Into Marshal! Islands Shelled By Army, Navy Bombers As Japs Face Defeat   “New Bunch Of Hitler Spies And Saboteurs Expected In U. S.

Hitler’s Prize Spy Ring Ready To Visit U.S. And FBI To Play Host

Hitler Has Espionage-Sabotage Ring Ready for Action in U. S., but Keep Calm—Your FBI Knows All About It   By FRANK I. WELLER.

Hitler's Spies Ready To Descend On U.S. With Fire And Poison   But Hoover's G-Men Know Atl About Plots To Blow Up Plants, To Murder And Wreck Supplies

J. Edgar Hoo Doing A Jar  DON'T WORRY T00 MUCH ABOUT SPIES WHILE G- MEN ARE BUSY

HITLER’S EMERGENCY SPY RING IS PACKED TO PROWL, BUT FBI KNOWS ALT ABOUT THEIR PLANS

Japanese Gird For World's Grimmest War   Cairo Statement Is Lash; Nippon Will Fight to Death

WRITER BELIEVES JAPS ARE (HRDING YFOR FINISH FIGHT   Predicts Allied Promise to Break Up Empire Will Lead to Most Vicious War in History.   SAYS PEOPLE PREFER DEATH TO ITS LOSS   Russell Brines, Who Spent Years in Orient, Says Cairo Decisions Will Bo!ster Resistance.

OPA Sets Limit Of Five Cans Of Food A Person   Small Containers Are Excluded; Order Represents Drastic Cut

Five Can Limit Allowed Each One in Family   No Coupon Penalty Will Be Taken for Such an Amount

Canned Goods  Limit Likel   Five Cans Per Person Allows able Under Tentative Ra: tioning Program,

Application of Penalties tor Excesses Looms as Biggest Task for Volunteers

Each One May Have Five Can   Not to Be Deprived of Any Coupons When Rationing Starts

CITY FARM HANDS ARE REALLY GO00D   Volunteer Workers Prove Worth in Solving Help  Shortage   ARE’ ALL FEELING FIT

CITY FARM HANDS ARE REALLY GO0D   Volunteer Workers Prove Worth i in Solving Help: - _ Shortage ;

GASTON’S JUNE WAR BOND QUOTA IS HIKED 50 PCT;   [Treasury Department Increases Local Quota By Approximately $180,000; Sales Lagging; Buying Urged.

ENGLISH FEAR U. S.   Address ‘tates Manufacturers’ Concern for Trade

MAKING TAX SURVEY   Change May Be Made in Eatate and Gift Levies

War Loan Sales In Southeast Area Going Over Top   OCD Division 2 Sales 50 Per Cent Better Than in Spring Drive.

YANK ARMORED FORCE PUSHING NEARER COAST   Cutting of Supply Line May Force Rommel to Try Escape by Sea

Mud Blocks Early Fall Of Rome   Nazi Resistance Grows; Allies Gain Mile Daily

Pace of Fifth  Army in Italy  Slowed by Muc Eighth Army Takes Villages of  ween cna Oratin

Pace of Fifth Army in Italy Slowed by Mut   Eighth Army Takes Villages of Busso and Oratio

Mud Slows Allied Progress In Italv   Hope For Quick Conquest Of Rome Fades; Nazi Reports Of Landing Plans Pereict

ALLIED RUSH TOWARD ROME NOW STALLED   FIFTH ARMY HELD UP BY MUD AND NAZI POWER

Mud Slows Up Yank Advance Toward Rome   Fear Hopes of Swift Conquest of Capital City Are Fading Out

Hopes for Quick Allied Conquest Of Rome Fades   Mud Slackens Pace of Clark's Advance on City

Enemy Puts Up Stiff Resistance   Hopes of Quick Wir Fade as Weather Hinders Operations

Hopes Of Quick Allied. Conquest ‘Of Rome Fade   The Fifth Gains, - Only 21 Miles In 21. Days. Eternal City Stili 100 Miles Away. German Resistance Stronger ~

MUD BLASTS HOPE OF QUICK ALLIED CAPTURE OF ROME   Fifth Army Moves at Slow Pace and Difficulties Are Increased by Stiffer Resistance.  o   ADVANCE AVERAGING ONLY MILE A DAY   Montgomery’s Troops Seize Village of Russ o—Now Face Hill Defenses of Enemy.

PUSHES AHEAD SLOWLY IN MUD   Hope of Quick Allied Conquest of Rome  Is Fading

Muddy Terrain Virtually Stalls  Clark’s Forees   Fifth Army Averages Mile a Day in Area;  Some Gains Made by Montgomery's Troops

Hopes of Quick Allied Conquest of Rome Fade   ONLY SLIGHT GAINS BY AMERICAN ARMY   Village of Russo Captured by Montgomery's Eighth Army

Hopes of Quick Allied Conquest of Rome Fade  ONLY SLIGHT GAINS BY AMERICAN ARMY  Village of Russo Captured      Village of Russo Captured by Montgomery's Elahth Army .

Allies Bog In Mud on ..WayNerth   Hopes of Quick Entry “Into Rome Fade as Germans Resist... Fiercely

TERRAIN GROWS MORE DIFFICULT ON NEW FRONT   Slight Advances Scored Against Enemy’s 27Mile Line Along Massico Ridge

Mile a Day Average Gain  Of5th Army   Situation Removes Hopes for Conquest Of Rome at Early Date  EIGHTH TAKES RISson

17 Of 81 Alabama Coal Mines Open  Captive Workings For Steel Mills Closed

MOST OF oTATE MINERS IGNOR PLEA OF LEWIS   Fully 80 Per Cent Of Miners Fail To Heed Work-Return Request Of Union

Miners Ignore Plea Of Lewis   Great Majority Of Alabama Pits Continue Idle

Diggers Slow in Returning but OF ficial Says Dilaforiness Usual, Sees Strike End

Miners Return To Work Slowly After Lewis Call  Return To Work Plea Of Union Leader Does

STILL HOPEFUL MINERS GOING BACK TO JOBS   80 Per Cent of Diggers in Ala bama Idle Despite Appeal From Chief John Lewis

80 Percent Of Alabama's Idle Miners Fail To Heed Lewis, Return To Pits

SEVEN ALABAMA. COAL MINES REOPEN TODAY   Great Majority.of State’s Miners Remain Idle After Lewis Back to Work  Renneat

17 OF ALABAMA MINES REOPEN      SO‘: Of State’s Miners However, Refuse  Work Pleas

MINERS MARCH ~ BACK TO WORK   But Ranks Aren’t Same in Ala. bama, Where 80 Percent Still Striking

ONLY 17 COAL MINES REOPEN   Eighty Percent of Alabama Workers Fail to Heed John L. Lewis’ Plea

Seven Alabame Mines Opened  But Most Workings   But Most Workings Ignore Lewis’ Plea

Miners in No Hurry To Return to Work   Straggle Back Slowly Despite Appeal of Lewis, Movement May Increase Within Next Few Days

Many Miners Fail to Heed Return Plea   80 Per Cent.  Of 22,000  Alabama Miners . Sal Out

A Slow Return — To Mines   Some Are Reopened But Most Miners Fail to Heed Lewis Plea to Go Back

BACK-TO-WORK MOVEMENT SLOW IN IDLE MINES   47 of Alabama's 81 Union - Operations Reopened; * 80% of 22.000 Miners Still Out

Still Closed after Appeal   UMW Official Predicts ‘Growing March Back to Mines’ Makes Radio Anveal

17 OF ALABAMA’S 81 MINES OPEN   80 Per Cent of Miners Fait to Heed Appeals

17 GOAL MINES IN ALABAMA REOPEN   Still 80 Percent of Strikers ignore Lewis’ Appeal

17 ALABAMA UNION MINES REOPENED FOR WORK TODAY   At Least 80 Per Cent of the Idle Miners Had Failed to Return:   IGNORED A LEWIS PLEA   The 17 Mines Now Operating Normally Employ Approximately 4500 Men.

BLUEPRINT FOR VICTORY READY   Allied Leaders at Quebec War Conference Plan New Attarks.   MEETING ENDS TUESDAY

Victory Pattern Apparently Cut By Allied War Conferees At Quebec

Victory Pattern Mapped at Quebec   Conclusion of Allied War Conference Near as Leaders Complete New Plans

TENSE AT QUEBEC   Council Nears Stage Where  Public Pronouncements Are Expected

WAR PATTERN      Allied Meeting In Canada Nears Stage of Public Pronouncements

Pattern Cut For Allied Victory F. R. Slates Address Tc  Canadian Parliament

War Conference To End Tuesday At The Latest   Churchill, Roosevelt Cut Pattern of Victory For Allies

Announcement President !o Spend Wednesday in Ottawa Indicates End of Parley Tuesday

Air Of Expectancy Pervades Temporary Allied War Capital As Conference Nears Stage Of Public Pronouncements By Its Principals—End Of Talks By Next Tuesday Definitely In Sight—Better Teamwork With Russia Under Study

WORD OF NEW BLOW AT JAPS 4§ EXPECTED   Meeting To End Tuesday; Roosevelt Will Address Parliament; Hull Meets Eden For Discussion

PATTERN FOR VICTORY TS BELIEVED CUT AT QUEBEC CONFERENCE   Word Spreads That A New Blow Against Japanese Expected !Soon   TALKS NEARING AN END

Allies Have Cut Pattern For Victory   Quebec Conference Regarding Military Program Be- ' lieved Finished   GENERALS CONFER ON SOME DETAILS      Roosevelt Address To The Canadian Parhament. To Be Broadcast

War Council Has Cut Pattern For Victory   F.D:R. Fo Address Parliament In Ottawa Next Wednesday; Question Of Better -Teamwork With Russia Considered.

Pattern for Victory Appears to Have Been Cut at Quebec   End of Conference Next Tuesday; F. R. to Talk at Ottawa

VICTORY PATTERN BELIEVED GUT AT QUEBEC PARLEYS   Air of Expectancy Pervades Conference City and Word Spreads That News of New Blow Against Japan Might Be Forthcoming Soon.

Victory. Pattern . “Apparently Cut At Allied Parley   President : Is Scheduled To Address Parliament In Ottawa Wednesday

Victory Plans Completed At Quebec Parley   Pattern Calls For Big Drive Aainst Japan, Reports Say

PATTERN 1S CUT FOR NEW ALLIEL MOVE IN EUROPE   Word Spreads in Quebec  That News of New Blows  Against Japan Are Farthcoming

PATTERN FOR VICTORY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN CUT AT QUEBEC MEETING   Air of Exgectancy Pervades Temporary Allied Wa Capital as Word Spreads News of New Blows At Janos Mav Be Forthcoming

VICTORY PLANS COMPLETED AT QUEBEC CONFAB   Principals Turn To Pollitical Phases of  War   TO END WEDNESDAY   FDR Will Address Ottawa Parliament On Way Back To Capital

Allied Pattern For Victory Is Cut At Quebec   F. D. R. To Address Parliament At Ottawa Next Week

Pattern For Victory Cut At War Meet   FDR To Address  Conadg Solonc

EXPECT WORD OF NEW BLOW AGANST JAPAN   ‘Strategy Discussions Al Quebec May End Tuesday

President Roosevelt Will Address Canadian Parliament Next Wednesday

Pattern for Victory Is Now Ready   End of Conference Said Definitely in Sight— Other Evidences

WLB Wage Formula  Under Fire   But AFL Says It’s Okay If Prices Are Kept in Hand

FDR To Ask Congress for UNRRA Fund   Senate Committee To Investigate Liquor Industry; Supreme Court To Decide Portal-to-Portal Pay Question

RUSSIAN AIRMEN SCORE GREAT 2-WEEK VICTORY VER CERMANS   Soviets Claim 1300 Nazi Planes Blasted By Their Fliers In Recent Weeks.

TALK POST-WAR FOOD PROBLEMS   FDR and Byrnes Meet Big Group of Congressional © Leaders

Nineteen Zeros  Are Shot Down   Americans Also Lose Seven Planes In Furious Air Battle Over  Solomons  (RITT.T.ETIN)

Former Michigan Worker Arrested in Washington After Tip from His Wife

Traffic Violation Traps Man Sought In Plot to Assassinate President

{RAZED MAN'S PLAN TO KILL ~ FDR 1S BARED   Washington Police Nab Detroiter After His Wite Gives Tip

‘Man with ‘Electrode Running [Through Brain’ Skulks 10 Days iWaitina to Kill Roosevelt

Man With Wild Plan To Assassinate FDR Eludes FBI, But Is Arrested Jaywalking

Weird Plot On President Is Revealed   Man Admits Going To Washington To Kill President Roosevelt

Plot to Slay F. D. R. Reportec   Suspect Is Held at Hospital for Insane

Yanks Doom Foe On New Georgie   Last Japanese ‘Caught In .American Trap

Yanks Closing  Down on Japs   Choking Off Last Hold on Bairoko Harbor; Bomb Salamaua

GEORGIAN JAPS IN YANK TRAP   Allied Bombers Rip Enemy Base at Salamua With Attack

TIGHTEN ON JAPS   ast Enemy Holding on New Georgia in Solomons  Attacked

Trap Foe On  Georgia Isle   Action In Baireko Area Described As “Bataan In Re*  ‘Yipee &

YANKS TIGHTEN BAROKO NOOSE   Last Jap Position On New Georgia Island Is  Near Fail

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT Mach ENZIE  (Associated Press War Analwat)

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Defeat Of Tunisian Army Represents Dwindling Of Axis Strength

Allies Winning in Africa by Process of Annihilation — Only Way Battles Can We Won 

The War Today— ‘If Allies Control Mediterranean ‘They Have Victory Within Grasp   By DEWITT MACKENZIE

The War Today   Mediterranean Major Stake In Great Tunisia Conflict

GERMAN AND ITALIAN CASUALTIES IN NORTH AFRICA UNIMPORTANI IN CONNECTION WITH STRATEGY

Y UG0-TON JAP SHIP SUNA BY U.§. FLYERS   One of Four Escorting Destroyers Is Damaged

Jap Seaplane Tender Is Sunk By US. Bombers   One Of Escorting Destroyers Also Damaged As 9,000 Tender Is Destroved   MANY BOMB RAIDS ON JAP-HELD BASES

Irish Dub Navy Repair Officer  “Miracle Man”   Workmen at London-derry Navy: operating base set records in efficiency and speed. 

Soldier Held In Shooting   To Be Questioned in Death of H. D. Pickett, Lawton Taxi Driver

3,266 VESSELS REQUIRED FOR SICILY THRUSY   Loss of Life Heavy When British Hospital Ship fs Deliberately Bombed

3,266 SURFACE CRAFT USED IN SICILY LANDING   2,000 Boats Big and Liitle Took ’ Part in First Assault, First Of. ficial Recounting Shows

3,266 Vessels In Sicily Invasion  All Types Play Part In  Large Operation

3,266 Surface Craft  of All Types Took Pari in Invasion of Sicily

3,266 CRAFT IN SICILY’S WAR   U.S. Troops Now Two to Three Miles from Messina

SICILY INVASION  VESSELS NUMBERED  3266 CRAFT ALL KINDS MAIN LOSS OF LIFE CAME  WHEN LIGHTED HOSPITAL SHIP WAS ROMRED

3266 SHIPS ARE USED FOR BLITZ AGAINST SICILY   HUGE ARMADA PAVED WAY FOR SUCCESSFUL INVASION OPERATION

3,226 Ships Took Part In Invasion  Hacnital Shin Rambha   Hospital Ship Bombed By Axis Planes

Allies Employ 3,266 Surface Ships In Sicily  Rear Admirals Lead Landings

MORE ‘GAS’ GIVEN SALESMEN, OTHER:   OPA Enlarges Men Eligible For ‘C’ Cards

C Rating Given For Driving Job  ceeantinl Datana   Essential Rating Is Extended For Workers

All Who Drive While Working Get C Rations  «Says OPA; Order Does

Drivers To Get ~ More Gasoline   OPA Orders G-Cards For - Many Thousands

More Eligible. For “C” Gas   Persons Using Cars In Work Are Affected

Planes Will Be Sent fo Pacific, Stimson Asserts   Fnough lo Counter Japan's Stepped Up Attacks Promised   Needs of MacArthur Kept in Mind, Secretary of War Says

Stimson Gives Pledge of Air Aid in Paeitie   Declares Supplies Will Offset Japanese Output

STIMSON PLEDGES MORE PLANES FOR WARTHUR TO COMBAT JAP POWER   Assures Enough Air Might To Counter Japs’ Stepped Up Air Attacks; Needs Kept Constantly In Mind, Declares

Pacifie Front  To Get Planes   Stimson Promises Action as Furore Over Area Continues

MOREPLANES WILL BE SENT TOM'ARTHUR   Stimson Pledges Aircraft far the Southwest Pacific

STIMSON PLEDGES MORE, PLANES FOR WARTHUR'S FORCE   Promise Made as Pleas for Help to Beat Off Japanese Come From Southwest Pacific.   FOE INCREASES AIR STRENGTH IN AREA   Secretary Says Sufficient Craft Will Be Sent to Counter Growing Might of Enemy.

PLENTY OF AIR WEAPONS 10 MEET THE JAP   Secretary Of War Stimson’ Assures His Weekly Press Conference In Reply To Australians.   Kenney’s Concern

Soviet Court Convicts Four Of Atrocities   Russian Traitor Had Con fessed to Aiding Murder of 60 Children

AUSOIANS HANG 4 FOR ATROCITIES   One Traitor Executed With Three German Brutes

«Russian Mechanic Admits He Aided Nazis In Killing @60 Children Between 6-12

Hang Three Nazis For Atrocities   And a Russian Accomplice Dies After Conviction for Mass Executions.

WAR CRIMINALS ARE EXECUTED   40,000 Appiaud As 3 Ger. mans, Russian Traitor Hanged

Reds Condemn Nazis to Hang   First of ‘War Guilt’  Trials Completed

A WAR CRIMINALS HANGED BY REDS   Public Square at Kharkov Is Crowded During €xecutions

Reds Sentence Four fo Die   War Criminals Convicted Include Gestapo Agent

Traitor Tells Of Killing 60 Children   Gas, Machine-Guns y Aud Torture Used  Against Civilians

40,000 SOVIETS SEE GERMANS EXECUTED   Three Nazis And One Russia: Traitor Are Hanged In Public > Square Of Kharkov

REDS HANG 3 KHARKOV NAZIS, 1 RUSSIAN AFTER TRIALS   CROWD OF 40,000 SEES CONDEMNED MEN DIE; GESTAPO MEN CONVICTED BY SOVIET MILITARY

Four Convicted of War Atrocities in Russia Are Hanged   Bodies Swing From Pub. lice Gallows in Kharkov Public Square

Russian Traitor Tells How He Helped Germans ‘In Slaughtering Young Children By The Dozens

Military Tribunal At Kharkoy Dooms Four Men  First War Criminal Trial of War Is on Mass Slaying

Death on Gallows in Kharkov Repays 3.Germans, I Russian for War Atrocities   WRITER DESCRIBES KHARKOV DEATH SCENE Rv M S HANDLER

RUSSIANS HANG  FOUR CONVICTED  OF ATROCITIES EXECUTIONS END  THE FIRST WAR ODIAMINAL CACESC

Young Soviet Traitor and 3 Germans Face Hanging for Atrocities Against Muskovites.   GUILTY IN SLAUGHTER OF SIXTY CHILDRES   Witnesses Say Nazi Invaders Slew Thousands of Innocents by Gas, Gun and Torture.

Soviets Want 16 Member: On Allied Commission Debating War Criminals

RUSSIA BEGINS TRIAL OF WAR CRIMINALS  NAZI SLAUGHTER OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN REFVFAIFID AT KUARKOV DPR ARING

ARE HUNG FOR ATROCITIES   German Soldiers and Russian Who Helped Them Pay With Lives.   OTHER HORRORS TOLD

Trio Executed As Traitors By Russians   Forty Thousand Watch With Great Satisfaction and Applause   TRIED BY TRIBUNAL

Traitor Bares Nazi Horrors  Young Russian Admits at Trial He-Ajded Cermane in Killing £0 Child... 

Three Nazis, One Russian Traitor Hanged in Kharko   40,000 People See  Execution of Men  For War Atrocities:

Sentence Four War Criminals  Die on Gallows   Russian People Acclaim Sentence After Court Martial

40,000 Russians Cheer As They Watch Terrorists, Traitor Hang   Three Germans And Russian Executed In Kharkov Public Square For War Atrocities Following. Trials

TRIALS ENDED, 4 ARE HANGED   Three Germans, Russian Traitor Sentenced For War Atrocities

Convicted Nazi War Criminals Publicly Hanged   40,000 See Execution Of Three Germans, One Russian Traitor

Four War Criminals Hanged In Kharkov’s Public Square    Three Germans, One Russian Meet Death While  40,000 Spectators Applaud — Plea They ! Obeyed Orders No Defense

Moscow Views Four Hangings   3. Germans,, Russian Pay Penalty For Enemy's Atrocity. Cases

THREE GERMANS AND  RUSSIAN TRAITOR  HANGED AT KHARKOV WERE TRIED AND CON.  _ DEMNED TO DEATH FOR Wap ATROCITIES

SENTENCED 10 HANG AS FIRST TRIAL CLOSES   Witnesses Give Details Of Horrors Inflicted Upon Kharkov

WAR CRIMINALS ARE HANGED IN KHARKOV   Three Germans and Russian Traitor Swing in Breeze Before Crowd of 40,000

Soviets Execute Germans, Russian For War Atrocities  ee cen ct  Hangman’s Noose ‘Awaiting Hitler

Reds Hang 3 Nazi Killers Amid Cheers   First of Executions For German Brutality Carried Out

rol CONVICTED ~ OF WAR CRIMES   Three Germans and. Rec Traitor Hanged As 40,000 Applaud

40,000 WATCH NAZIS HANGED   Russians Cheer First: Atrocity Punishment

olay Kussian Admits His Part In Mass Murder!   Trial of War Criminals Brings Out Harrowing Details of German Atrocities in Russia

RUSSIANS CHEER AS FOUR HANGED FOR ATROCITIES   Doomed Nazi Agents Reveal Terriorism and Brutality Basic Nazi Policy

Russians Hang Wai  Criminals   Convicted Nazi Lays Blame on Government’s Program of Education “Into Lowest Passions”

Russians See Four Hanged   Same Fate Awaits Hitler As War Criminal, Says Paper

RAF Makes Big Attack on Ruhr   Heaviest Blow of War Dea*® Duisburg: Yanks Raid in Day

AMERICANS COMING HOME   second Exchange Of Nationals Arranged With Jap Government

Exchange Move Set For October   1,500 American, Jap Nationals To Return

New’ Exchange With Japs Due About Oct. 15   Arrangements About Ready For Exchange Of Jap And American Prisoners

WALLACE SEES DREAMS UNFOLD   Brotherhood Of Nations About To Come True, Tells Chileans

Fascists Become Scarce in Rome, — Reporters Clain   Sponish Writers Say Nazis Withdrawing No, iiward a

Spanish Hint Nazis Depart From Rome   Also Say Fascists Rarely Seen There

Millions Of Americans Celebrate New Years   DuBois Is Rapidly Resuming Normalcy  After Holiday Flood

British Splash Through Gabes With Rommel Continuing Flight Northward,

Stockyards In Chieago Now Nearing Record   Not far fr om the center of: Chicago, it is largest stock yards’ in world,’ :

SET RECORDS AT CHICAGO STOCKYARDS    War-Time Activity On a Fronta Mile Square

Meat Shortage in Northern California Acute as More Packing Plants Close

P-38 Which Crashed, Killing 4, Injuring 16, Wasn't Low, Says Officer

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Wpifticulties Piling Up lor Conqueror Hitler In Italy And Balkans

Nip Bastion Is Blasted; Navy Plans For Six More Years Of War On Japan

United States Corries the War Closer to 7 Tokyo  NAVY WARNING OF LONG WAR GIVEN  Paramushiro in the Kurile Islands Severely Bombed

Long-Range Air Raids Made on Jap Islands   Americans Carry War Closer To Tokyo With Damaging Attack On Paramushiro; Celebes Base Also Struck

Questions and Answers For New Rationing   LocaL RATION HOARD FEELS - ONLY FAR. WAY. OF APPORTIONING ..

Cold Weather On The Wane   Moderation Expected Tonight And Tomorrow By Weather Bureau

WARMER WEATHER IN   Minimums of 15 to 20 Degrees Forecast for Tonight

Polio Spread Over U.S. Is Now Epidemic   Highest Total of Cases For Nation For Several Years Reported

Polio Epidemic In Southwest   Cumulative Figures For Entire U. S. Highest In 12 Years.

Polio Cases On Increase   Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis in Oklahoma California and Texas

Poliomyelitis Declared ‘ Epidemic Now in Several States of Southwest

HUGE NUMBERS FILE INCOME TAX RETURNS   Revenue Department Estimates 45,500,000 Persons In Nation Make Returns This Year

Plans for Irrigation of Upper Missouri  River Basin Are Drawn   hlver Dasin Are L/rawn  Proposals Outlined at Reclamation Hearing in Miles City; Governor Ford Says  Mantana Will Plaw Part in Develanmen}

Missouri River Plans Revealed By Bureau Aide   Eventual Watering of 3,700,000 Acres in Upper Basin Forecast

HULL FORESEES LENGTHY WAR   SECRETARY OF STATE TELLS OF EDEN TALK

HULL AGREES WITH ‘EDEN’S WARNING   Secretary of State Feel: ” Conflict Will Be Long Drawn Out

Hull Agrees With Eden’s War Views   Says Long Drawn-Out Conflict Possible Before Victory

TO WARNING FROM EDEN   War Will Be More Long Drawn-Out Than One Might Expect   HE TALKS WITH BRITISH SECRETARY   Reports Good Beginning on the Task Ahead of United Nations

HULL AND EDEN IN ACCORD ON LONGER WAR THAN EXPECTED: URGES NEED OF UNDERSTANDING

Long War Ahead Is Warning of Eden and Hull   British Foreig: Secretary Meets High Officials

Hull in Accord» With Eden That War to Be Long.  British Envoy And  Lord Halifax: Talk With Secretary

EDEN AND HULL IN CONFERENCE MONDAY ON WAR AND POST-WAT  BRITAIN’S FOREIGN SEC~ RETARY HAS ROUND OF - MEETINGS SCHEDULED

War To Last Longer Than Many Expeet  mt t LO   Secretary Of State An. nounces Complete Agreement With Anthony Eden.   [CALLS NATION ALERT

Hull Agrees — With Eden on War's Lenath   Says War Will Be More Long Drawn-Out Than One Might Expect om Hasty Judg ment

SECTY. HULL Is IN ACCORD WITH ANTHONY EDEN   On Last Saturday’s Warning to American  Public About War

TO AMERICA   American Secretary of State Invited to Visit England

VISIT 10 US. IG SUCCESS COMMONS TOLD   Eden Greatly Encouraged by General Agreement He Found Here.   HULL TO MAKE TRIP   Discussions in This Country Broadly Divided Into © Three Phases.

ENCOURAGED BY RECENT TRIP TO AMERICA   American Secretary of State Invited to Visit England

EDEN REPORTS U.S. MISSION “WORTHWHILE”   Tells Commons He {s Greatly Encouraged By American Attitudes   HULL INVITED TO ENGLAND   Common Policy ts Agreed Upon In Respect To European Neutrals

—REPORT TO COMMONS—  Talks Please Eden   . ~~ Mall Is Invited To Visit Britain

LAUNCH 2ND SEA TUG TODAY   Craft to Slide Down Ways At Dachel-Carter Plant This Afternoon

HOUSE COMMITTEE CUTS ANNUAL COST   Appropriation Is Slashed For Legislative Branch

Full Story Told Of Tokyo Raid   Army Releases Details of Doolittle Exploit

Unions Menace To Government Congress Told   Roosevelt Backer Challenges President To Ston Lewis

WHEREAS.... THEREFORE .... Steverson Procaims March As WAAC Recruiting Month

Gov. Jones Proclaims March As WAACS’ Recruiting Month   Patriotic Citizens Urged To Help Stimulate Enro!!ment

U. S. Senators Visit Yank Bases Abroad   Brewster Is Among Group

Defense Rattles Fingerpfint Expert In Nassau Trial  Court Adjourned When Defense Presses Witness

Defense Ratiles . Fingerptint Expert  In Nassau Trial  . Court: Adjourned ‘When Defense ~ Disecac Witness

Airmen Lash Jap Warships   Troops Block Nip Route Of ‘Supplies To Base At Munda

Airmen Lash J jap Warships  nme Rlacl Nin Rainte OF   Troops Block Nip Route Of Supplies To Base At Munda

Jap Navy Units  Bombed: Direct Hits Are Scored   Driven Out After First Appeargnce Since Kula Gulf

Yank Airmen Score Hits On Jap Warships Sneaking To Aid Trapped Nips On Munda

Yankee Planes Bomb Force of Jap Navy Units   U. S. Troops Have. Thrown Roadblock Shutting Off Source -Of Supply From Munda

TWO BOMB HITS SCORED ON JAP NAVAL VESSELS   ‘Allied Airmen Blast Cruisers and Destroyers Moving to Aid of Imperiled Munda.   VANKS MENACING AIR BASE TIGHTEN PINCERS   ‘Americans Throw Up Roadblock Cutting Enemy’s Line to Supply Port to North.

U.S. Fliers Bomt Jap Warships  Two Direct Hits on Vessels; Roadblock Cuts Off Munde Base

Direct Hits Scored on Two Vessels   Ground Troops Cut Communications Between Nip Forces

Japanese Navy Sneak To Aid © Munda Blasted   American Planes Bomb, Drive Off Enemy Fleet; Roadblock Cuts Off Air Base; Enogai Inlet Is Captured 

Two Direct Hits Scored —   Units OF Jap Navy Bombec Near New Georgia By Allies

Cruisers And Destroyers Try Sneak Rescue Assault  Fortified Roadblock Cuts Communication  Fortified Roadblock Cuts Communication Line Between Main Japanese Base Holdings

U.S. Planes Bomb Jap Ships Off New Georgia; Munda Is Cut Off From Supply Port

Main Enemy Position Isolated From Posts In Bairoko Region  AIR WAR CONTINUES  American Warship Shells Japanese On Kiska Island

U.S. Planes Bomb Jap Fleet Units   Munda Cut Off. From: Nearby ‘Supply Port.

Temryuk, Last Nazi Fortress In Caucasus, Is Captured By Reds In Hand-To-Hand Fight   Russians Hurling German Remnants Into Dnieper River In Attempt To Enc ircle Kiev; Huge Quantities Of Equipment Seized By Soviets

Soviets Capture East Bank Area Of Steel City   Last German Fortress In Caucasus Smashed, 1.320 Villages Liberated

Wipe Out Groups in Fighting Along Dnieper and Hurl © Some Troops Into   the River.      TAKE 1,320 VILLAGES  wey USUAL   Huge Gains Scored in Push Into White Russia—Both Wings of Nazi Defense Threatened.

Caucasian Fort Is  Captured By Reds   Fall Of Temryuk Foreshadows Flight Of Nazis From Peninsula; Savage Fighting Rages On Banks Of Dnieper River

Soviets Smash At Foe Along Dnieper Banks   Take Dnepropetrovsk Suburb After ‘Hand-to-Hand Fight; Nazis Give Up Last Fortress in Caucasus

1,320 Towns Fall In Day To Russians   Soviets Reach More Points On Dnieper River

Heavy Fight Rages For Dnieper Banks   Russ Sweep Up 1,320 Villages For Biggest Day’s Haul Of Ware Nazis Hurled Inta River

Savage Struggle Rages for City: Smash Temryuk   Enemy Fleeing as Red Armies Rush on for New Gains

SMASHING RE ARMIES REACH DNIEPER BEND   ENEMY LOSES LAST DEFENSE BASTION IN CAUCASUS

Red army captures east bank suburbs of ‘Dnepropetrovsk   Take Temryuk and 1,320 villages for biggest day’s haul of war-

Take Suburb Of Key Dnieper City   Russians.Crash Through to Point Across From Dnepropetrovsk in Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting; Air Arm Active

Last Caucasian Base Is Smashed   ‘Huge Quantities O1 ‘Equipment Taken

Battle in Suburbs of Big Steel City And Strengthen Drive on Kiev; Seize Nazis’ Last Caucasus Barrier

REDS SEIZE EQUIPMENT TAKE SUBURB   Hurling German Remnants Into Dneiper and Capturing Individual Groupings; Free 25,000 Civilians En Route to Germany.   Wings Threatened

1,320 Villages Freed, Germans Forced To Flee   Huge Quantities Of Arms Seized

DAVE ON AUSolA WEAREND IN FACE UF AED DEFENSE   Stalwart Russian Fighter: Stand Firm in Fa:e of Onslaught.   INITIAL POWER SPENT   Believed Nazis Have Exhausted Original Offensive Strength.

OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED IN ATTEMPT AT BREAK-THROUGH SAID TO BE LOSING FORCE

German Assaults On Russian Lines Decrease In Fury   Desperate Nazi Offensive Seems To Be Somewhat Diminished   RUSSIAN DEFENDERS ARE HOLDING FIRM

SOVIETS STAND FIRM AGAINST NAZI ATTACKS   German Offensive Be. lieved to Have Spent Its Main Strength

Price Ceiling On Live Hogs Oct. 4   New Policies Mean Marketing At Lighter Weights

Price Ceiling on» Live Hogs Oct. /   The New Price Policies Mean Marketing Should Be at ‘ Lighter Weights

PRESS AHEAD IN 36 MILE FRONT   Nazis in Position for Dash to Sea or to Meet Break in Mareth Line

RATES OF PARITY PAYMENTS KNOW   Corn Is 7.2 Cents Per Bushel Wheat 13.7 Cents, Tobaceo Is Included.

AFL Would Keep Ban on Chinese Immigration   Action on UMW Application for Re-Affiliation Is Deferred .

AFL Convention Delays Action On Admitting Lewis   Progressive Mine Work. ers Enter Vigorous Protest; Ban Chinese

‘AFL Goes on Recordas _ ‘Opposed to Relaxing Ban On Chinese Immigration

AFL PUTS OFF UMW DECISION   Progressive Union Cause: Delay in Action on Lewis Application

AFL Protests wis Group Re-admission   ALSO AGAINST RELAXATION OF BAN ON CHINESE IMMIGRATION; PROGRESSIVES CALL LEWIS “DISRUPTIONIST”,

AF OF L OPPOSE RELAXING BAN   On Chinese Immigration; Action on the Application of The UMW for Re-affiliation ls Deferred

Care Urged in Re-Use of Season-Old Anti-Freeze Solutions This Winter

WARNING GIVEN T0 VEHICLE OWNERS   Those Planning to Use Old Anti- freeze Should Have It Tested.

New Plan For Raising Revenue and Draining Off Purchas- — ing Power Studied.

SHARP CLASHES SEEN ON NEW TAX MEASURES   Treasury Believed Favoring Excess Profits Levy On Individuals   OPPOSES SALES IMPOST   President Given Challenge To Propose Some Concrete Program

Interpreting he War   Too Little, Too Late Now Becoming Axis Bad Dream

TWO VARIETIED UATS PLANTEL   Tama and Vicland Oats Planted for Demonstration Purposes.

TWO VARIETIES. “OATS: PLANTEE   Tama and Vicland } Oats  Planted for Demonstra-tion Purposes. 

“BOMB? [5 MAILED TO REV. COUGHLIN   JERSEY POSTAL EMPLOYES FIND PACKAGE—BULLETS FAIL TO EXPLODE IT.

BOMB IS SENT TO FR. COUGHLIN   Ticking Box Mailed At Nutley, N. J., Taken Apart By Police

BLOCK BUSTE BOMBS SHAKE NAZI CAPITAt   AIR RAID IS WORST EVER DELIVERED BY THE RAF

Berlin says 191 persons killed in raid   268 more hurt in nazi capital’s heaviest lashing

American Cities Will Feel ‘Reprisal Bombing Attacks  Following Berlin Pounding   Nazi Radio Promises Reprisals Within A Few Months; German Capital Subjected To Devastating Attack; 191 Killed And 268 Reported Injured

WORST BOMBING GERMAN CAPITAL EVER GOT LASTED 31 MINUTES; CENTER OF CITY SUFFERS HEAVILY.

BERLIN RAID MONDAY NIGHT ‘DEVASTATING   Huge Fires Set; Germans Admit It- Caused Great . Damace

Germans Report 191 Persons Die In Berlin Raids   Heaviest Bombing Evel Delivered on Nazi Capital Is Reported

191 Germans Killed, 268 Others Injured Berlin Radio Admits  RAID CONTINUES BIG RAF OFFENSIVE  Threat of Retaliation Against Britain, U. S.,  Heard in Rroadeacte

Reprisals Threatened by - Germans After Air. ) Attack   DEATH LIST GROWS IN NAZI CAPITAL   Targets in France and Bel.  gium Attacked Durina Day -

Nazis Threaten Full Reprisals   Raid Said Worst In City’s History

Nazis Lhreaten Reprisals for Berlin Bombing  see ae ee ige   Warn That Even U.S. Cities Will Be Raided: 191 Killed

Retaliation Promised By Germans   Heaviest RAF Scourge Raid Leaves Fires Burning in Capital

NAZI REPRISAL IS THREATENED   Germans Admit Losses In Berlin Raid, Promise Retaliation ‘Few Months Hence’

GERMANS REPORT RAID ON BERLIN: COST 191 LIVES   Injured Said to Number 268— IHustrious Street and Noted Church Are Damaged.   BLOW HEAVIEST RAF HAS DEALT CAPITAL   Bombs Weighing Twice as Much as Those Dropped on London Hit City—Nazis Threaten Retaliation.

Soviet View Wanted For  Peace Plan   Senate Would Delay Action Until Our Allies Have Indicated Wishes

ASK MOSCOW VIEW   Senators Would Know Russian Attitude on PostWar Problems

RUSSIAN WANTS IN POST-WAR WORLD SOUGHT BY PLAN-MAKING U.S. SENATE

Senate fo Await Russian Decision  May Delay Action On Postwar Plans

Senate Wants To Find Out What Moscow Thinks and Wants Before Deciding On Definite Internationa! Set Up for Maintaining The Peace After War.

Mine Operation Near Normal  Local Dispute Keeps   Local Dispute Keeps 1,600 Men Idle in Anthracite Area

Lewis Accuses War Labor Board Of Illegal Acts   In Conflict with Nationa Labor Relations Act, He Declares

Quarter-Million ‘Nazis, — Also Japs And Italians May Face Postwar Trial

Allied War Criminals Commission  Formed To Dea! With Axis Killers

Reds Close In On Orel   Last Strongly Fortified Northern Link—Bolkhov —lIs Captured

Red Forces Move Nearer To Orel   Crash Through Last Strongly Fortified  Link on North

Reds Smash Last Defense Link In Qrel’s North Line   Germans Claim 9,000,000 Troops Involved In “Biggest Battle Of Attrition Ever Fought”

Pincers Closing On Nazi Bastion   Russians Crash Through Last Fortified Line in Orel Defenses.

Reds Take Last Orel Defense   RUSSIANS CLOSE LINES ‘AROUND GERMAN POSITIONS

Crash German Defense Ring Around. Ore!      ‘Reds. Still. Movitig’ Ahead in 3-Way Drive; Enemy Losses Mounting   NO BEEAKTHROUGEH, BERLIN CLAIMS   But. Struggle. Is. Termed Greatest Battle of Attrition Ever Fought

REDS IN NEW GAIN AT ORE   Storm Through Last Ma  jor Link In Germans’ Defenses

LAUNCH SIEGE Ao DEFENSES UF CITY FALL   Soviets Report Assaults Now Being Directed on Vital Center.   BELGOROD RECAPTURE SEEN IN NEW BATTLE

REDS ATTACKING OREL AFTER MAIN DEFENSES GRAGK   Pincers Close on Big German Base; 56,000 Dead   BERLIN RADIO ADMITS HEAVY FIGHTING

SMASH OUTER DEFENSE, LAY SIEGE TO CITY   Pound At Gates Of Nazi  §$tronghold#*Battle Near Climax

Key City 35 Miles Above Stronghold Crumbles ; Under Attack  HUGE AXIS LOSSES  0-Day Battle Has Cost ” Germans 50,000 Killed, 6,000 Captured

Russians Crash Through Last Of  Orel’'s Defenses   50,000 Nazis Killed, Other Losses Soar; Pincers Close On Vital City

Russians Take Huge  Toll of Enemy In — Fierce Battle For Key City.

Soviets Crash   Nazis Defunses In Orel Sector   50,900 Germans Reported Killed In Big Offensive As Reds Close Pincers

Russian Forces Crash Through Last Strongly-Fortified Link In City’s Northern Defenses—Moscow Lists German Losses In Ten Days At 50,000 Killed And 6,000 Captured—Great Quantities Of Material Reported Destroyed Or Seized

Pincers Around Orel Tightened By The Soviets   Report 50,000 Nazis Slain, 6,000 Captured

GERMAN DEAD ESTIMATED AT OVER 50,000   Russian Column Reported Pounding to Within 11 Miles of Key Defenses  Of Base   MUCH MATERIAL TAKEN

50,000 Germans Killed And 6,000 Taken In 10 Days   Column Is Moving Up Tc Make Three Way Drive

Russians Break Through Last of  Orel Defenses —   Claim 56,000 Nazi Casualties; Start Drive For Belgorod

Soviets Crash Orel Defense, Big Nazi Loss   Ten Day Offensive Costs Germans 50,000 Killed, 6.000 Cantured.   RED ADVANCE STEADY

50,000 Nazis Slain In Ten-Day Drive; German Resistance At Belgorod Wane:

Launch Assaults On City From East, Northeast —56,000 - Nazi  Casualties  HIGHWAYS . BLOCKED  Battle Is Sopronching Its Final Staze-—Bolkhov -

REDS SMASH KEY DEFENSES NORTH OF OREL   Bolkhov, 35 Miles to North end By passed Eartier, Crumbles Unde: Russian Blows   TROOPS NEAR CITY   Columns Moving In from East and South Repel Counter-Attacks fo Continue Advance

SOVIET FORCES CUT. DEFENSES NORTH OF OREL   - Pincers Drawn Tighter Around Nazis Despite Fierce Counter Drives

RUSSIANS BREAK THROUGH NAZI DEFENSE LINES   Reds Closing in on Orel from North, Advance on Other Fronts

THREE-WAY DRIVE THREATENS BASE   German Fortifications Reported Crumbling Under Heavy Attack   SEVERE LOSSES   Russians Say 50,000 Hitlerites Killed In 10-Day Battle

1000 GERMANS KILLED AT OREL, RUSSIANS ASSERT   Nazis Declare. Up to 9,000,000 Men Engaged in Terrifie Onslaught for Bas-

3-Pronged Drive: Beats  Foe Back   Greatest Battle of Attrition Fought Is Nazi View: Nine Million Men on Hard

Russian Troops Tighten Pincers  Orel Defense Link Crachad hy Rede

GERMANS’ LINES CRUMBLE BEFORE RUSSIAN TROOPS   Reds Drive Through “Orel’s Northern Defenses—50,000 Germans Killed

FIGHT FOR OREL INFINAL STAGE, REDS NEAR CIT}   Reports Indicate Cer. mang May Abandon Key Point

RUSSIAN ARMY DRIVES NEAR TO BASE AT OREL   Soviet Appeal Is Made To Germans To Overthrow Hitler for Peace

OREL IS UNDER DIRECT ATTACK   Russians Burst Through Last Nazi Defenses

50,000 Germans Killed, 6,000 Captured  Russian Army Closes Pincer  Tight At Orel

CITY BEING ~ ATTACKED BY  - RED COLUMNS   Battle for Nazi Key Either in Final Stage or Approaching it as Reds Pound Ahead.

Despite Furious Nazi Attacks —   Russians Crash Through Strongly Fortified Defenses North Of Orel To Close Pincers On Vital Peint

Russians Break Last of Nazi Defenses at Orel   Germans Suffer Severe Loss. -In Men and Arms

AEDS TIGHTEN OREL PINCERS   Russians Break Through Last Fortified Link in North.

Russians Say They Have Killed 50,000 In Ten Day Offensive To Nip Off Great Nazi City.

RUSSIANS CRASHED THROUGH LAST LINK IN OREL DEFENSE  GERMANS HAVE LOST 50,000 KILLED AND 6.000 CAPTURED THERE

Last Big Outpost Of Orel Captured   Bolkhov, By-passed In Drive, Crumbles

Reds Tighten  Orel Pincers Qn Hitlerites   Smash Last Major Defense Link To North Of German Stronghold.

Soul [RT PINCER ON GERMANS A1 OREL TIGHTENS   Russian Forces Crash Thri Last Strongly-Fortified Link In City’s Northern Defenses   NAZI LOSSES HEAVY   Reds Claim 50,000 Enemy Killed and 6,000 Captured; Bolkhov Crumbles

Russ Blast Way fo Gates of Orel   Two Armies Smash Last Nazi Defenses

Report 50,000 Ger. mans Siain, 6,000 Captured      Reds Crack Last Link In City’s Northern Defenses

Red Forces Move Nearer To Orel  Crash Through Last Strongly   Crash Through Last Strongly Fortified  Link on North

SOVIET TROOPS ‘CRASH THROUGH OREL DEFENSES   Report 50,000 Germans Slain New Offensive

SOVIETS BREAK FINAL DEFENSE LINE AT OREL   Russian Armies Launch Attacks On German Bastion From Two Sides   BATTLE IN FINAL STAGE   Nazi Escape -Routes Narrowed; Reds Launch Drive To Take Belgorod

Red Forces Drive Thru Final Link About Orel   Nazi Losses High When Pencers Close In

NAZIS REPORT MORE REDS:IN OREL SECTOR      Say 7,200,000 to 9,000,000 Men Face Each Other Along Front in Greatest War of Attrition  _ Ever Fought.

Bolkhov Falls; Ring Tighfened On German Base   50,000 Nazis Killed In 10 Days Of Russian Offensive

eport 50,000 ermans Slain, 5000 Captured   Nazis Call Struggle ‘Greatest Battle Of Attrition’

President Has”  Slight Illness   Postpones For Second Time Scheduled Meeting With Labor Leaders  Ry ARTI P © ttetwrreance

RAIL CENTER AT CANNES IS AERIAL COAL   American Bombers Blast Railways; Heavy Damage

RAF Hammers At Nazi Railways In France, Italy  Heavy Bombings Qver Wide Area

GERMAN RAIL CENTERS HIT IN RAF RAIDS   Attacks Said “Heavy And Well Concentrated”

Bomb Nazi Rail Lines In No. Italy   Out To Cut German Supply Lines Into Italian Battle Area

U.S. Army Productior Will Be Staged Here Monday Night  Spectacular Demonstration io Feature  Sham Bettle Which Will Be aos

U.S. Army Productior Will Be Staged Here Monday Night   Spectacular Demonstration to Feature Sham Battle Which Will Be as Genuine as Shot and Shell Can Make It

General Montgomery’s Eighth Army Troops Occupy Outpost of Foum Tatahouine at Southern End Mareth Line

Sharp Activity Is Developing Along Mareth Defenses   AP Writer Tells Of American Valor Under Heavy Fire

GERMAN BROADCAST REPORTED BRITISH DEVELOPING SQUEEZE   SMASHING 66-MILE NAZI ADVANCE AGAINST AMER. ICANS BELIEVED ENDED

Axis Thrust Into Allied  Front Broken   British 8th and Ist Armies Move Up on Both Flanks in North-South Squeeze; Red Troops Capture Sixty Towns

Axis Troops Blasted By Yank Planes   Americans Entrenched Twelve Miles Inside Algeria

British Armies Begin Squeeze: Yanks At Flank   Reds Cut Into Foe ‘Escape Cerridor’: 250,000 Germans Flee Aleng Coact

Very Little Activity:’ U. S. Troops Dig In   Allied Planes Blast Axis Units Thet Advanced Rapidly

British Move to Squeeze Axis Flanks   Yanks Hold Defense Lines While Planes Blast Foe; Italians Cite Huge Gains

French Pull Back To Guard Flank; Yank Sector Quiet   K K& KO OK Tough Going Only Makes Yanks Mad

‘a Russians Near Taganrog, Drive  30" Orel, Key 8 paint In North 

MONTGOMERY’ § BIG GUNS AIM      Enemy’s ‘Sunday Punch? Fades As Allies Consolidate For New Offensive

British Develop NorthSouth Squeeze On Foe; Russians Only 25 Miles  From Tacanroc.

BRITISH FORCES PUT SQUEEZE ON AXIS IN REAR   Local Operation Continues In Central Tunisia as Battle Tapers Off   NAZIS ON RUN IN RUSSIA   Reds Slash Rearguards To Block German Invaders’ ‘Escape Corridor’

Americans, British  Break Nazi Attack   Powerful North-South Squeeze Is Developing Against Vulnerable Axis Forces After Enemy's Swift Forward Rush

North-South ‘Squeeze’ of Rommel’s Forees Develops  As Allied Armies Move Up

See Pincer Menacing Axis Army   U, S. Headquarters Reports 2  Very Little Activity On:  Central Tunisian Front

British Advance Threatens From Two Directions   Nazis Say Flank Move Is Developing Squeeze

German Thrust Finally Halted By The Allies   British Renew Drive West Into Tunisia Russian Tide Continues Forward Sweep

BRITISH ARE MOVING UP ON TWO FLANKS   Eighth Army Occupies Outpost at Southern End Of 60-Mile Mareth Line   NEW TANKS ARE HALTED

Allies Redraw Line To Avoid  Encirelement   Germans Say Say British 8th And Ist Armies Move Up On Both Flanks.   TOMMIES HALT ENEMY

BRITISH MOVEUP ON NAZIS   In North-South Squeeze Against Germans in Tunisia

British Moving Up in Flanking Move on Nazis   Alter 4 Days of Battle There Is Little Activity on Tunisian Front.   Americans in Strong Defensive Positions

YANKS DRIVE FORWARD IN CENTRAL AREA   French Take Pont du Fahs and Americans in North. Further Constrict En-. emy by Cutting Last. Tunis-Bizerte Road.

Thousands Of Prisoners Taken Following Capture Of Tunis, Bizerte And Pont du Fahs.

MANY ATTEND . TESTIMONIAL 10 LETTERMEN      Fathers of Football Squad Among Guests; H. Paul : ' Larrabee, Toastmaster -

GARNER WOULD TAKE ‘HOBBLES OFF PEOPLE   Declares They Will Solve Their Problems if “Allowed to Think and Act for Themselves.”

NIGHT RAID ON  LUDWIGSHAFEN _ MADE BY ALLIES      Axis ‘Europe From Berlin to.Athens‘Is < Bombarded

GERMANY RAILS BECAUSE ITALY DESERTED AXIS   ‘TREASON!’ CRIES BOCHE, HINTING OF NEW FASCIST SETUP

War Bulletins   LONDON —(AP)— Madrid reports Tuesdoy said invasion rumors had caused biack market iitters in Paris.

PHONE CALL EVERY 5 MINUTES   Xenia Liquor Store, Others In Ohio To Get Unlisted Numbers; Auditor Orders Probe

URGES RETURN TO NORMAL IN BEEF FECUINE   WFA Official Tells Meeting of Feeders, “High Finish” Not Patriotic.   PLENTY OF CATTLE BUT ECONOMY IS NECESSARY

JAPS COULD. STAND YEAR OF BLOCKADE DESPITE SHORTAGE      Loss Of Shipping Tonnage Forces Tokyo To Order ‘Drive For Wooden  Vessels

Taft Offers New Dad Dralt: Plar   Would Induct Only Men Under 30 Years Old

NEW PLAN LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE OF WHEELER BIT   Sen. Taft to Demand Showdown on Draft Proposal to Take Only Fathers Under 30 Years of Age

Seek To Limit Father Draft   Would Restrict Selective Service Call To Dads Under 30,

Seeks Showdown On 30-Yr. Limit ‘On Dad Drattees   Taft Offers Substitute After Wheeler Bill Appears Licked.

Taft To Press Vote On Bill Blocking Draft Of Prewar Fathers Over 30

SENATOR WOULD TAKE DADS WHO ARE UNDER 30   Wheeler Bill Appears Licked; New Suh Rill Saen

TAFT SEEKING SHOWDOWN ON FATHER DRAFI   Ohio Republican Would Limit Inductions to Parents Under Thirty Years Old

ENEMY PLANES RAID ENGLAND   RAF Also Thought To Be Active As Radios Blackout.

' Deferring thers’ Draft  sses Senate   it .  ‘ent to White House ‘Iver Protest of War ‘lanpower Director

Fathers’ Draft  Measure Goes  To White House   Not Expected, However, To Change Radically Current Draft Program

FATHER BILL IS GIVEN FINAL CONGRESS OKEH   McNutt Feels Plan On Manpower eriled

Bill Delays Father Draft   Manpower Chief About Stripped Of Powers

FATHERS’ DRAFT DELAY MEASURE AT WHITE HOUSE   Legislation Putting Parent: At Bottom Of List, May Be Vetoed   LITTLE PRACTICAL EFFECT FROM BILL

Legislation On  Drafting Fathers ls Sent To FDR   Main Change To Be Removal Of Power From WMC Head

FATHERS DRAFT BILL APPROVED   Places Pre-War Fathers In Pool At Bottom Of Draft List

Prewar Fathers Gel Uncertain Delay in Draft   Non-Fathers First in Each Local Area

Senate Passes Bill to Cushion Fathers Draft. Wheeler Says It Lacks Force

May TakeDraft Authorily From Manpower Boaril  Little Change Expected

Fathers Draft Bill  Passes; Faces Vet Won't Halt Nor Chang  Current Procedure

FATHER'S ORAFT BILL APPROVEL   Senators Question Practical Effect Because of Escape Clause Written Into Measure; M’Nutt Protests

DRAFT MEASURE IS FINALLY APPROVED   Bill to Put Fathers at Bottom of Pool Sent to President

LESS FOOD WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 1944   Government Nutrition Expert Say; Civilians Will Have Less Meat, Eggs, Fats, Sweets

"GREY MARKET” TERM EMPLOYEE   People Who Eat Out, Stil Use Coupons at Home,

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Skip-A-Year Plan Rapped By Committee  Majority Report Flays Peogram. De«scrihes It   Majority Report Flays Program, Describes It As ‘Robbing Peter To Pav Paul A Bonus’

TAX-FORGIVING PLAN SCORED   Hit Scheme as “Robbing Peter for Paul Bonus”

Flays Plan to Skip Year’s  Income Tax   . House Conunittee Says It's Robbing Peter to Pav Paul Rouus

House Group Terms Skipping 1942 Tax Levies ‘ ‘Robbing — Peter to Pay Bonus to Paul’’

Ruml Tax Plan Again Assailed By Committee .   Any Abatement Of 1942 Levies Is Opposed

HOUSE COMMITTEE HITS TAX SCHEME   Report Is Preview of Anticipated Fight Over Tax Collections.

Majority Tax Opinion Given   Administration Criticizes Ruml Plan As “Robbing  Peter To Pay Paul.’

‘Like Robbing Peter To Pay Bonus To Paul   House Ways And Means Committee Denounces Rim! Plan

Tax Skipping ‘Robs Peter,’ Says Report   Preview Given of Bitter Fight Expected Over Ruml Plan

TAX FORGIVING PROPOSAL HIT  BY HOUSE BLOG   Majority Report Says It  Is “Like Robbing Peter  To Pay Bonus To   Paw” 3    MINORITY TO FILE      Republican Members Of - Committee to Urge Turn_ ing Tax Clock Hands ~- “Ahead One Year.

HOUSE COMMITTEE OUTLINES NEW TAX COLLECTION   Plan of Administration. Criticizes Plan to Skip — A Year’s Taxes

OK’S FDR PLA   Score Skip-Year ‘Idea, As Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Bonus

HOUSE GROUP RAPSHOVETO EXCUSE-TAXES   “Like Robbing Peter To Pa} A Bonus To Paul’ Says Committee

SWIP-YEAR TAX. PLAN CRITICIZED   House Group’ Likens Pro posal to “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Bonus”

Skip-A:Year Plan Draws. Criticism.  Of House Group   Counter Proposal ‘Likened To. “Robbing Peter To: '. Pay A Bonus To: Paul”

Tax Program Report Made   House Group Criticizes Counter Proposal for Skipping 1942 Levies

Committee Raps Ruml Tax Plan   Minority Report, Supporting Plan, To Be Filed Later

‘SKIP YEAR’ HIT   House Committee Criticizes ‘Forgiveness’ Tax Plan

Government May Take Over Entire Facilities of Engineering School Before War is Over.

THREE-WAY PILOTS BEING TURNED OUT FORNAVY ATR. P   Naval Aviation Cadets Receiving Instruction as Navigators, Bombardiers and Gunners. °

Bring Pressure To End Strike   Government Makes Offer in Coast Dispute

U. § PRESSURE IS EXERTED 10 SETTLE STRIKE   Trains and Buses Tied Uy In Los Angeles Area;   . BRT Members Stage  Mass Meeting

Draft Official,  Son Arrested  Face Charge Of Trying  To Defray Federal Government

WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS FORMED BIG CEREMONY   No longer WAACs, the regular army oath is administered

PAPER SAYS WILLKIE WILL BE A CANDIDATE   Declares He Will Make Whirlwind Campaign for GOP Nomination in States Holding Primaries.

WILLKIE IS CANDIDATE   £40 Republican Standard Bearer To Seek ‘44 Nomination

PAY-AS-YOU-GO FAVORED   Letiers To Congressmen Reveal! Peaple Favor Tax Plan

Congressman Robert Persons Overwhelmingly In Favor Of Pay-As-You-Go Income Tax

Congressmen’s Mail Is Said to Show People for Pay-as-You-Go Plan

WELFARE CROPS SHOW DECLINES   Unfavorable Weather Blamed For Slashes In Institutional Harvests

T. V. Soong Joins Quebec Meeting   Presence Of Chinese Leader May Indicate New Strategy In Far East  By ARTHUR F WHER\Wawwe

INTENSIFICATION OF WAR AGAINST JAPAN INDICATED _ BY QUEBEC CONFERENCE  . HAPPENINGS

QUEGEO GONTAB MAY Be ALICE AT JAP oPHtht   Attempt by Allies to Drive Japan Out of War First Object cf Parley.

Allied Planes Blast Naples And Nurnberg   British Hammer At Germany, Yanks Pound At Italy

sig Working::Qn: Albert  pea Sota “Jauer Place Near.  ‘Hinton . ..

NANCY BRIDGES WEDS OFFICER IN TED WES)   Marriage e Terminates Career Of ‘‘Personality Girl’.

NANCY BRIDGES WEDS OFFICER IN MID WEST   Marridge Tex Terminates Career Of "Peisonality Girl’: .

1 With Our  \ Soldiers  and  Sailors   John Strohm Gets ’ Call to Report For Army Duty

With Our Soldiers and Sailors ee                   John Strohm Gets * Call to Report For Army Duty

se vess wes Se  Fi iremen Of Nin ine Towns Quell Ohic oline Blaze

Flaming Gas Menaced City  Flows Into Storm Sewers At Ashland, O. After Cars Derailed.

Faith In America To Be Pledged Anew Or Poppy Day, May 29   Wearing Of Pappy Is Tribute To The Dead Of Two World Wars

Annual Poppy Day Sale ' Qoturday May 90   Wearing Poppy is Pledge to Keep Faith with Those Who Died for America

Poppy Buyers Will Pledge Anew Complete Faith   In America on Poppy Day, Saturday, May 29

POPPY DAY WILL BE SATURDAY, MAY 23   On That Day the American Legion Auxiliary Will Distribute Poppies.

POPPY DAY WILL BE OBSERVED HERE TOMORROW; BURGESS ANDERSON URGES CITIZENS TO AID CAUSE

POPPY DAY SAT., MAY 22 FOR WELFARE FUND   Disabled Men of Both Wars and Children Benefit From This Fund.

SPANISH CONVEY APOLOGY   Falangists Who Insulted British Consul to Be Punished

POST OFFICE HAS A BIG YEAR AHEAD   Picture of War Time Boom Given in Repart of Business

A BIG YEAR AHEAD   Picture of War Time Boom Given in Renart of Business   (RECEIPTS TO $236,012

FARMERS ‘ADVISED NOT. TO:SELL "HOGS. UNDER: CEILING PRICE   Which Has Been Set at $13.25\ Governmént Permits Farmers’ . ho KU and:-Sell’ Pork, °°"

Proposal For Retail Sales Tax Rejectec   House Committee Has Only About $2.000.000.000 Of New Revenue.   NEED TEN MILLION

HOUSE BODY VOTES DOWN ~SALES LEW   Action Completed Upon General Tax Bill

Action On Bill Nearly Completed   Only. Two Billion Dollars In New Revenue In Sight As Committee Winds Up Its Work

SALES TAX PROPOSALS REJECTED   Ways and Means Committee Rejects All Proposals For National Retail Sales

National Sales Tax Is Droppec   House Ways And Means Committee Kills It

ALL PROPOSALS FOR SALES TAX ARE REJECTED   House Committee Virtually Completes Tax Bill With Only Two Billions In New Revenue Accounted For.

Sales Tax Plan Rejected by House Group   Committee Completes Its Work; Bill Only Fifth of Askinas

Thumbs Down On Sales Tax   Bill As Approved By House Committee Will Bring in Only About $2.000,000,000 Revenue

MAY BE NEW COUPONS FOR PUBLIC USE   Start Talks Today On Sales Tax; To Debate Draft

House Group Votes. Down Sales Levy   Bill Now Provides Only About $2 Billions in New Revenue. ..  ’

Retail Sales Tax Plan Is Rejected  Committee-Okaved _ Bill Raises But $2 Billion

Sales Tax Killed in  Committee   All Such Proposals Are : Turned Down; Action on, Bill About Complete   MEASURE TO RAISE ABOUT 2 BILLIONS   Administration Had Asked Increases Bringing Total to $10.500.000.000

LUEDER TELLS OF ILLINOIS’ PART IN WAR EFFORT   Waysand Means Committee Reiect Sales Tax Proposals

House Ways And Means Committee \Kills National Sales Tax Proposal

» Tax Framers Reject Sales ’ Levy Scheme   Action Virtually Com pleted On Bill Provid ing Only 2 Billions Ir New Revenue.

REJECTED   House Group Virtually Completes Tax Bill; Shy 8 Billions

ALL SALES TAX SUGGESTIONS ARE REJECTEL   Action by House Commit tee Virtually Completes Action On General Levy Bill

END OF WORK ON BILL NEAR   Far Short of Goal Fixec By Administration

Solons Veto U.S. Retail Sales Tax  Z   WAYS, MEANS COMMITTEE ENDS ACTION ON LEVIES; $2,000,000,000 IN SIGHT

Reject Sales Levy  ry   House Committee Work Now Virtually Complete

HOUSE GROUP AGAIN REJECTS TAX ON SALES   Committee Actions Leave Only About Two Billion New Taxes, $10.500.000000 Asked

FEDERAL SALES TAX PROPOSALS ARE REJECTEL   ‘House Ways and Means Committee Still Hunting For New Revenue

Revenue Bill Action Nearly Completed Now   House Committee Fails to Heed Treasury’s Plea

Sales Tax Is Also Banned   Little Left of Administration’s New Tax Plans

Dangerous Tension Is Reported in French IndoChina.   75% OF THE NATIVES SAID PRO-ALLIED  Jap ‘Airdromes, Harbors, re, es . 7 rr a y

Protest Handling By O.P.A.   Agricultural Committee Demands Departmental Change.

Groups Carry Fight on OPA To White House   Congress Leaders of Both Parties Demand That Food Control Rest Entirely in Hands of Davis

New Story Told In Flynn Case   Girl Admits On Stanc Undergoing Abortion

Girl Admits Had Operation Almost Year After Her Affair With Flynn

FRENCH AGREE ON CONTROL ‘OF LEADERS:   Belief. Expres That U.N. Will Recognize  ranch Committee

HARMONY RESTORED IN FRENCH DISPUTE   Believe United Nations Will _ Recognize French Committee as Unity Is Reached

UNITED NATIONS 10 RECOGNIZE FRENCH   Recognition Believed to Be Near As French Reach Agreement.

Leaders Claim French Unity   Express Belief Allies Will Recognize French Regime

Recognition of French Body Seen   Harmony Restored To French Factions

French Factions In Harmony Nov   Expect Speedy Allied Recognition of Committee As Provisional Government of France

RED ARMY PLOWS FORWARD TOWARD BRYANSK BASTION   Surging Troops Capture Towns At Rate Of Five An Hour.

ee STATES: PROPOSES  ~~ CHARITY BODY FOR WORLD   GREATEST. INTERNATIONAL,  CHARITY ORGANIZATION   EVER KNOWN IS PROPOSED TO 39 NATIONS

AMERICAN PROPOSAL TO CREATE ‘WORLD CHARITY ORGANIZATION IS SENT TO UNITED NATIONS

44TH VFW MEET OPENS TUESDAY   Expect 3,500 Delegates ai ‘3-Day Session .

RCAF Cadet Is Held in Slaying  Page 14  Willkie Charges Government Fumbling . . . Page 7  Allied Fliers Hit Wewak Again  Page 2   Germans Building 3 New Fortified Lines . .. Page 2   The War in Brief

Advances4 Miles Towards Rome  In Hard Fighting   ‘Nazis Give Ground Slowly. Try Frequent CounterAttacks on Yanks

Americans Capture Two Towns As British Eighth Army Patrols Probe New Enemy Lines—Raid   Rome Communications   BLOODY BATTLE * RAGING AT KIEV

Russians Speed Towards Crimea To Cut Retreat   Germans Admit Dnieper Battle Grows More Serious; Losses Are Heavy

 Fifth Pushes To Within Five Miles   Of New German Defense Line From Mondragone To Venafro In West Italy   SRENEE ENLARGE TRIGO BRIDGEHRAD

Our Hearts Bleed for Them But Pity Is Not Enough; Only Our Dollars ( Can Help  EHITARTIAT.

Our Hearts Bleed for Them But Pity Is Not Enough; ‘Only Our Dollars Can Help  __AWN EWNITTOARIAT

ats Vay as ip ActualCause OfBori’ Dealt   wbeating by Hitler tr Assassindion by fanatic Advamced = -

NEW SPECULATION ON BORIS’ DEATH   WELL-INFORMED IN TURKEY CONVINCED KING DIED AT HANDS: OF ENEMIES,

Wallace Gets Big Welcome —  From Chileans   Crowd Said One of Biggest in History of Nation

FDR Says This Is Not Age Of Miracles, Takes Issue With Those Believing Victory Is Just Around Corner

tte cays Lhis Is Not Age Of Miracles, Takes Issue With T hose Believing Victory Is Tust Avound Carnov

SMOLENSK A KIEV MENACED BY RED HORDES   Germans May Leave Big City  SARDINIA FALLS  Allies Capture Other Important Isles

‘SMOLENSK, KIEV PERILED BY NEW SOVIET ADVANCE   Russian Army Topples Last Major Nazi Strongholds East of Dnieper

RED ADVANCES MENACE KIEV AND SMOLENSK   Last Major Nazi Strongholds East Of Dnieper River Are Toppled   1,200° TOWNS LIBERATED   Capture Of Krasnograd May Trap German Forces in Kharkov Area

Espionage Group-In- Chile Moved To Argentine After  Relations Were Broken

Axis Spies Operate i in  Argentina Thirty Reportin   Thirty Reporting On United States, Is Charse

Duisburg Raid Heaviest Of War Made On Reich   Bombs Dropped On Industrial City Total 1,500 Tons

Estimate Over 100 Bombers In Duisburg Rate   Heaviest Aerial Assault In History Carried Out Last Night   VAST AREAS OF CITY LAID WASTE

HEAVIEST BLOW OF WAR ON GERMANY   Important In Industrial Center Battered  T'o Pieces   34 BOMBERS ARE  LOST IN THE RAID

R.A. F. Drops 1500 Tons on German City   34 Bombers Lost in Greatest Air Attack in History

1500 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED ON MAJOR CITY   Thirty-F our Bombers Fail to Return From Attack

BRITISH BOMBERS DELIVERED HEAVIEST ‘ATTACK ON GERMANY   DUISBURG BLASTED BY 1,500 TONS BOMBS; 34 BOMBERS WERE LOST

Heaviest Raid Hits ‘Duisburg.   ‘More than 1,500 Tons of Bombs— Ton fo Acre—Blast Hiller’s Key  do Transport   RAILS CRIPPLED   Recent Raids Strike at Western Europe's Vital Arteries—France  Raided Today 

HEAVIEST RAID OF WAR LAUNCHED ON CONTINENT BY RAF   1,500 Tons af Bombs Dropped on Industrial Center of Duisburg   34 BOMBERS ARE MISSING

Raid Is Heaviest Ever On Naziland   R. A. F. Loses 34 Bombers In Blasting Communications And Transport Center; Other Planes Reported Over France Today

1,900 TONS OF BOMBS LET GO ON DUISBURG   Heaviest Attack of War On Germany Is Reported By London   34 BOMBERS ARE LISTED AS MISSING   Raiders Stream Over Channel This Morning, Following Night Raid

4 BOMBER LOST QURING NIGHT ATTACK   Raiders Drop More Than 1,500 Tons of Explosives on Factory Center.   BERLIN ADMITS HEAVY DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES

Over 1,500 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Industrial Center and Railroad Juncfure in Ruhr Area.

RAF Batters Duisburg in  Heavy Attack   Raid Called Largest of War on Germany ; 34 Bombets Lost

British Make. Heavy Affack Upon Duisbure   - Drop 1500 Tons of Bombs Upon German Industrial City; Lose 34 Planes

Duisburg Gets 1,500-Ton Bomb Raid From RAF.   1s Heaviest Attack Of War Delivered Aaainst Germany

Explosives Weighing Over 3 Million Lbs. Poured On Duisburg   British Report 34 Bombers Lost; Attack Occupied French Coast; London Says Results Excellent

Called “Heaviest Raid Of War” By British Air Ministry Today - 34 PLANES MISSING  Required 1,000 Mile Trip From Bases In —  - England»

DUISBURG, VITAL WAR CITY, CHIE PLANE TARGET   1500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped During Attack

VITAL RUHR CENTER IS SMASHED   1,500 Tons of Bombs Are Dumped on Duisburg in  Great Night Raid   S40F BRITISH =  BOMBERS: MISSING   Americans Follow Up Big Attack: Raids Centered ; on: Transportation «

DUISBURG GETS HEAVIEST RAID   RAF Drops Record Bomb Load On Nazi Arms Center. 

Sixtieth Raid On Duisburg War’s Biggest   Record Tonnage of Bombs Dropped—Ton for Each Acre of City

34 PLANES LOST OVER DUISBURG   More Than 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Key  Transport Center.   \CONTINUING ATTACKS

Heaviest Attack Of Year Made on Industrial City  RAF Drops More Than 1,500 Tons of Bombs

DUISBURG TARGET FOR MORE THAN 1,500 TONS BOMBS   Is First Great Night Attack On Reich Since Raid at Dortmund May 4—Thirty-four'  Rombers Lost

DUISBURG WAS HIT HARD LAST NIGHT BY THE BRITISI   Fifteen Hundred Tons of Bombs Dropped on Industrial Center of City.   34 BOMBERS WERE LOST   First Great Night Attack on the Reich Since Raid on Dortmund.

DUISBURG IS TARGET FOR ‘ HEAVIEST BRITISH AERIAL ATTACK OF THE WAR   More Than 1,500 Tons of Explosives Dumped on Germon Industrial Center. 34 Bombers Failed to Return From Raid.

RAF Reports 34 Bombers Lost In Raid   Planes Resume Attacks On Continent By Day: Hurl In Excess Of 1.500 Tons On City

Industrial Center Is Devastated   British Lose Thirty-Four gBombers In “Heaviest * Attack Of War” At Rhine-Ruhr Junction

1500 Tons Bombs Hit Duisburg   Thirty-Four Bomber: Lost In Heaviest Attack.

RAF LOSES 34 PLANES IN ATTACK   More Than 1500 Tons  Of Bombs Reported Dropped On City

Industrial City of Duisburg In Germany Raided  Tons of Bombs Dropped By RAF

Duisburg Bombed; French Ports Hit   More Than 1500 Tons of Explosives Dropped on Cit Used by German Troops

RAF'S HEAVIEST ATTACK OF WAR HITS DUISBURG   More Than 1,500 Tons of Bombs Lash Vital _ Transportation Center

Biggest Ratd Hits Germany   1500 Tons of Bombs . Grind Nazi Factory Center; 34 Planes Lost

RAF Stages Heaviest Air Raid of the War   Drops More Than L 500 Tons of Bombs on Duisburg, Exceeding Weight Unloosed in Famous Cologne Assault—34 Craft Lost.

DUISBURG GETS BRUNT OF RAF'S GREATEST RAID   Shattered With ,500 Tons of Bombs; Allied Planes Go  Into Action In Daylight Attacks.

RAF Makes ~ Biggest Raid On Germany   TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED ON INDUSTRIAL CENTER.

1,500 TONS OF BOMBS DROP ON REICH CITY   Raid 1s Greatest Night Assault Since May 4 Attack On Dortmund   34 PLANES ARE LOST   Allied Raiders Continue With Daylight Smash At Occupied France

Heaviest Air Attack Of ‘War Is Made  On Germany   More Than 1,500 Tons Of Bombs  Dropped And 34 Planes Are Lost

On Industrial Center Of Duisburg—34 Planes Reported Lost In Raid—Allied Fliers Follow Up Night Assault With Daylight Offensive Against EnemyOccupied Coast Of France

34 RAF PLANES FAIL TO RETURN FROM MISSION   Canadian Air Forces Take Part in Raid, Report Large Fires

War's Mightiest Raid Costs RAF 34 Big Bombers   Fierce Attack Centers On Duisburg; Day Raiders Stream Across Channel

BIG PORT HARD HIT IN NIGHT   Fewer Than 1,000 R.A:F Planes Participate—34 Ships Are Reported Lost.

Germany Gets Heaviest RAF Attack Of War   1,500. “Tons of. . Bombs Dropped. On Battered Industrial Center’. of Duisburg, Allied Planes Raid French Coast.

How Illinois Senators And Representatives Voted To Override Veto

PLANES, CREWS ARE INTERNED   12. Airacobra Fighter Planes Are Forced Down in Portugal.

12 YANK PLANES HELD IN PORTUGAL   Forced Down During Storm, Crews Surrender

LISBON HOLDS UV, S. PLANES   Crews of 12 Ships Forced Dowr by Storm May Ke Inferned

Total Collections from Drive for Crippled Children Fund to Date Is $1,116.40 In Wilson; May Be More When Final Check Up  Comes In.

BIRTHDAY DRIVE GOES WAY OVER F850 GOAL HERE   Total Collections from Drive for Crippled Children Fund to Date Is $1,116.40 In Wilson; May Be More When Final Check Up  Comes In.

ENEMY FORGES  SURPASS U.§      Plans for Increased American Troops Won't Overcome Superiority.   YANKS IN 50 SECTORS

FIGURES ON WAR STRENGTH PROVE NEED FOR ARMY   Axis Troops In Europe, Pacific Outnumber Allies

Axis Soldiers Outnumber Us In Vital Zones   Stupendous Demands For Trained Military Personnel Explained By Military Leaders

Military Leaders Declare Axis Powers ‘Stull Have Manpower Edge on Allies

Reasons Why U.S. Needs Large Army United Nations Are Far  Outnumbered In Major Theaters Of War  rT — oo ... = ro rer ca ae

Axis Holds Big Edge In Armed Strength. ....  Why Army Of Eleven Million Is Required

‘SAY AXIS FIGHTING FORCES GREATLY SURPASS THOSE OF UNITED NATIONS

Allied Force:  In Tunisia Begin Drive   Rommel Drags Battered: Panzer Units Out of Clutches of British Leaving 50-Wrecked Tanks in Field

ROMMEL DRAGS “BEATEN ARMY OUT OF REACH   Powerful Enemy Air Formation Is Smashed Over Sicilian Straits.

Goering s Air Forces  Get Thumped   German Leader Leaves 50 Tanks on Battlefield

Allies : Initiative On Land and Jn Air In Tunisia; Rommel Loses 50 ‘Tanks In Abortive Yhrust At Mareth Line

AXIS ARMIES BATTERED BY LAND AND AIR   AMERICANS SCATTER NAZI FORMATION OF 50 PLANES

‘ALLIES ASSUME INITIATIVE IN TUNISIAN ZONE   Rommel Retreats With Loss Of 50 Tanks; 19 Axis  Planes Downed   ENEMY CASUALTIES FAR EXCEED BRITISH

Panzer Column Is Badly Batfered by British; Americans Down 19 Planes   Rommel Drags His Balfered Forces out of the Clutches of Montgomery's Eighth Army

Flying Forts, Lightnings Bag 19 Nazi Planes in Sicily Strait Battle; Retreating Rommel Loses 50 Tanks

Allies Take Initiative On Land and in Air  In Tunisian Theatre  NAZI TANK LOSSES INCREASED TO 50  19 German Airplanes Smashed in Struggle Over Sicilian Strait

Rommel Drags Panzers Away From British   Americans Hash Powerful Air Force Over Sicilian Strait:

ROMMEL DRAGS HIS BATTERED PANZER COLUMN OUT OF CLUTCHES OF BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY.

Rommel Backs up  From Eighth Army   Panzer Columns Leave 50 Wrecked Tanks After Clash With British At Mareth Line: 19 Axis Planes Downed

VANKS DOWN 19 NAZI PLANES OFF TUNISIAN COAST   Americans Attack Formation of 50 Craft and Score Heavily in 30-Minute Engagement.   FLEEING ROMMEL COLUMNS BOMBED   Observers Believe New Attack by Marshal Unlikely in View of His Decisive Defeat.

Foe is Badly Battered By Eighth Army   American Planes Down 19 Nazi Craft In Battle; Allies Get Initiative On All Tunisian Battle Fronts

Rommel Drags  His Army Away From British   American Planes Bag 19 Nazi Warplanes; Series of Attacks in North Beaten Back

Allies Take Initiative; Nazi Forces Withdraw   Fifty Wrecked Tanks Left on Battlefield by Retreat. ing Nazis—Powerful German Air Formation Smashed

HARE SYSTEM IN ACTION DEFINITION oF Pr. R weepy YOTE COUNTS   NO NIT, NO RUNS, ONE ERROR

Walton Resigns Post With A & M   Action Advised By.  Dhyvcicinn Ha Save

Walton Resigns Post With A& M   Action Advised By, Diwvetetaw LlLe Gewe

Attempt by Japs To Stop Allied  Invasion Blocked Naval Forces Repel  _ Warship Blows at  Bougainville Zone

Warns “Economic Fascists”’ Plan For False Security   Governor Martin Says System Proposed At Washington Would Control Every Step Made By Americans

MANN AGAIN COMES QUT IN OPEN UPON MATTER OF VACANCY   ATTORNEY GENERAL FEELS VACANCY OCCURS WHEN MAN JOINS ARMY

Hopes Revived ‘For Rum! Plan   House Prepares ‘To. Vote On 2'Tax Measures; © “Parties Divided

e()ptional “Pay-AsYou-Go’ Bill Gets Committee's 0. K.   House Republicans Plan Bitter Fight for Ruml Collection Bill  *”

Income [a> Plan Gets - Support   New Confidence Is Voiced by Ruml Supporters

House Ready ForSkip-Y ear Tax Debates   Democrats Offer 6 P.C. Discount for 43 Payoffs —GOP for Ruml Plan

NEW CONFIDENCE [5 VOICED BY RUML PLAN SUPPORTERS   HOUSE READY FOR STORMY BATTLE OVER NEW TAX PROGRAM

HOUSE MAKES READY FOR TAX BATTLE —   Republicans Tighten Alignment For SkipA-Year Tax Proposal

Supporters Of Rumi Plan Map Big House Fight   Voice New Confidence As Chamber Girds For Stormv Tax Rattle.

(HARGES   Ruml Plan Supporters Voice New Confidence As House Makes Ready For Stormy Tax Battle

RUML PLAN SUPPORTERS ARE HOPEFUL   New Confidence Voiced by  Adherents as Stormy Tax Battle Seems  Certain 

STORMY MEETINGS OF HOUSE LIKELY OVER TAX PROGRAM   Supporters of Ruml Plan are Gaining Strength; Commitlee Ranarte

HOUSE READY: FOR ONE OF STORMIEST TAX BATTLES IN HISTORY      ‘New Confidence Is Voiced By ‘Backers of Ruml Revenue Plan   OKAYS WITHHOLDING TAX

House Expects Stormy Battle Over Tax Plan   Republicans Back Rumi System for Year's Abatement

>uml Tax lan Bloc  Confident   itter Battle Expected Over Income Tax PayAs-You-Go Proposal af N.Y. Banker   EPUBLICANS BACK  SKIP-A-YEAR IDEA   }yemocrats Dig In For Finish Fight Against “Yorgiving” Levy On 1942 Income

STORMY BATTLE ON INCOME TAX PLAN LOOMS   CONGRESSMEN DIG IN FOR FINISH FIGHT ON SKIP-A-YEAR

Republicans Hold Out For  Rum! Program   Hot Tax Battle Indicated When Debate Begins

Guadalcanal Is Attacked By Japs   Some Material Damage Done By Air Raiders But No  Casualties

OBSERVE 60‘ ANNIVERSARY OF MARRIACI   The Christopher I. FitxGeralds Mark Event at Notre Dame Academy

Operators Are Given Back Coal Mines   Government Returns Property in Spite of Lewis’ Attitude

COAL DISPUTE IN SHOWDOWN   Government And Lewis Renew Old Battle In Coal Fields

53 More Mines Are Released  By Government   Showdown with Louis Appears To Be Growing;  Miner Chief Is Silent

ICKES RETURNS MINES BACK TO 53 OPERATORS   Showdown With Lewis on Work Order Foreseen; Raleigh Operation Is Released   UMW Chief Silent

Ickes Returns Mines to 33 Operators   Action Challenges Lewis Under Oct. 31 Deadline

U.S. Returns  Mines to Owners   Heads for Showdow n  With John L. Lewis

Threat Of Strike Seen As Mines ; Return To Owner:   Lewis May Contend For Government Operation ‘To October 31, Bul Has No Coniment ta Make

Return Mines To Private Owners; Lewis Is Sileni  UMW President Has ''N«   UMW President Has ''Ne Comment’; Action By Government

GOVERNMENT RETURNS MINES OF 53 OWNERS; TEN STATES INCLUDED   Few West Virginia Mines Restored Under Or der; UMW Chief tain John L. Lewis Silent On Developments

 Government's Return Of Coal Mines To 53 Operators ‘May Result In Showdown With John Lewis By Octoher 1

Ceiling Prices “On Used Trucks Issued By. OPA   Rulings Effective April 26' Sets Top Legal Figures! Below Market Price!

Costs of Used Buses, Ambulances, Commercia  Vehicles Chopped Down by ©. P. A.

PRICE CEILING ON USED GARS   }OPA Acts to Cut Down War Inflated Prices for Vehicles.

CEILING PRICE ON TRUCKS AND BUSES ORDERED   Move Made To Stop Inflation Thruout U. S.

CEILINGS ESTABLISHED ON USED TRUCK PRICES   Maximum Figures Also Decreed For Second-Hand Buses And Other Commercial Vehicles

OPA Slashes Prices Of Used Trucks   Ceilings Placed on Commercial Vehicles

Ceilings On Used Trucks Is Imposed   OPA Moves To End Inflationary Prices For Aged Vehicles

set Ceilings on Used Trucks   Passenger Cars, Tractors Exempted From Order

O.P.A. DEFLATES PRICES OF TRUCKS   O.P.A. Decrees Resale Rates Pro-Rated With Vehicle’s Age. ~   SET PER CENT OF ORIGINAL COST

Maximum Prices for Used Vehicles   Ceiling Prices Placed on Used Trucks, Ambulances and Busses.

Clamp. Lid Used © rucks   ‘Buses and Other Used 'Commercial' Vehicles Included; A Crack At ‘War-Inflated Prices

Used Commercial Vehicle Price Sef  New Regulations _ Are to Go Inte Effect April 26

Ceiling Prices  Set For Used  Trucks, Busses Other Second-Hand  Commercial Vehicles Are Aleo Affected

Used Car Price To Be Cut?      Inflated ‘Price of Trucks, Commercial Cars Sliced

 Set Joseph Delaney Of Fitchburg -Member Of U. S. Fortress. Crew Blessed With Upside-Down Luck

ESSEN SITF OF KRUPP WORKS HEAVILY BOMBED   “Blockbusters” Unloaded In Great Weight on City Saturday Night

ESSEN IS SUBIECTED TO A DEVASTATING RAF BOMBARDMEN   Great Weight Of Bombs, In. cluding Two-Tonners, Dropped On German City   VAST FIRES LEFT RAGING

Great Krupp Works Bombed by Allies   “Blockbusters” Used by Fliers

ESSEN SMOKING AFTER ASSAULT   RAF Unloads Great Weight Of Bombs On Site Of Vast Krupp Armament Works.

Nazi Essen In Flames   RAF Leaves Krupp Arms Works In Smouldering Ruins

RAF Bombs  Essen Again   Fires Seen 100 Miles . As Krupp Works Given _Fiftieth Raid of War

BULGARIA-AXIS SPLIT LOOMS   MOBILIZATION, CABINET SHIFT HINT SHOWDOWN

Lilt Seeding Of Wheat, Corn   Acreages Up 103 And 106 Percent Over Last Year, Soybeans Lose Out.

U. S. Troops Drive Far Forward  Toward Jap Base Air, Sea Forces Help To Push Campaign Against Munda Field

ALLIES CLOSING MUNDA PINCERS   Japanese Base Is Given Hardest Air Pounding Of Pacific War

Yanks Forces Push Closer To Munda   Heavy Sea And Air Bombardments Aid In First General Ground Advance On Base

U.S. Troops Drive Far Forward  Toward Jap Base  Air, Sea Forces Help Te Push Campaian

Ground Attackers Push Far Into Munda Defenses  Under Air Support, Advance Within 500 Yards of Airfield  KISKA BATTERED Ten Flights of Planes

Uot NEW CONQUEST AS EFFECTIVE BASE   Beach-Head at Vella Lavel ia Island May Be Made Into Spearhead.

FDR Expected To Veto Bill  Speaker Rayburn Sees House Voting On QOverridina

Commodity Bill Veto Is Expected   Rayburn Says FD Will Kill Subsidv Bill

PREDICTS F DA. WILL VETO BILI   Ban Against Subsidies To Be Returned To Capito! Hill

Today’s War Commentary  Nazi Manpower  Nese ancl War Dlante Koel Shartad

lonia Girl 18, Is Found Strangled   Body Of War Worker Is Discovered In Alley

Akron Tied Up With Strikes: Work — Stoppages On Throughout The Nation

Strike Halts War Work   49,000 Idle in Rubber Co. Plant; Transit Line Employees Lay Off to Attend Union Meeting

Allied Planes Hit Italy, Sicily, Sardinia  Concentrate Attack Aaainst Rail

Italian Ports, Rail Yards Mi  By Big Bombers   Much Damage Is Done By Relentless Air Attacks

GIANT PLANES CONCENTRATE ON RAIL KEYS   Salerno, Foggia Are Targets of Big Bombers

Planes Pound aly Coast   Moinlond Railways 3n Italy Are Hit Acain

Allied Planes Hit Italy, Sicily, Sardinia   Concentrate Attack Against Rail Centers on Mainland

FRENCH ARMY "BEING CIVEN ~. LATEST ARM   GIRAUD ANNOUNCES THAT ARMY OF 300,000 WILL BE READY TO JOIN IN  ‘ "INVASION

Approach Last Nazi  Bastion   Vyazma, Goal Of Shock Troops, Was Nazi Line Key For Seventeen Months.

Soviets Sweep on Toward Nazi Bastion   Powerful Force Threatens to Cut Off Germans

COLD WAV" NOW SWEEPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY   Northern Midland States Have Below Zero Tem peratures. Move Southpret Ward

LERO WEAT PREDICTED Ik THIS SECTION   Light Snow Fall In Central And  Southern Area

MOVES SOUTH   Duluth Shivers at 21 Below zero, Coldest in the Nation.

Predict Cold Wave In State   Light Snow Covers Narrow Between In Nebraska On One Border.

Jap Air Force Vacates Munda   Marine Officer Says Nips Driven Out

uae, MUND!   U. 8. PILOT REPORTS FIELD THERE, AND. AT VILA, BLAST- — ED OUT OF USE,

GRENOBLE KNOWN TO COUNTY SOLDIERS   Many Veterans Of First World War Visited Eesort City Following The Armistice

BRICKER FAILS TO CLARIFY HIS 1944 INTENTION   May Reveal. Plans At ‘Stag’ Dinner Sunday

BERICKER’S GOVERNORSHIP PLANS MAY BE REVEALED AT STAG DINNER SUNDAY

Grew Demands Crushing Drive On Japs At Onee   Union College Group Hears Willkie Say Leadership Must Well From People

Offensive Against Japs Demanded   Former Tokyo Ambassador Fears Waiting; Willkie States Peace Depends on Young America.

J. §. BOMBERS IN CONTINUED ATTACKS ON ITALY AIRFIELDS  METHODICAL DESTRUC‘TION OF RAIL FACILI.

AIRFIELDS IN NAPLES AREA HIT BY BOMBERS  S., Siete ees ‘edi de- a ke

NIPPON SUPPLY LINES BLASTED FROM SEA, AIR   American Bombers Sink Enemy Cargo Ship Northeast Of Jap-Held Kiska   PRESENCE IS MYSTERY   Task Force nits Munda Airfield; Cruiser Is Attacked Near Buin

Jap Supply Lines In Pacific Areas  Are Being Bombed   U. S. Aircraft And Surface Units Range Far Over Pacific Areas   JAP VESSEL SUNK SOUTH OF KISKA   One Day Mvysterv Is Created By Position Of Jap Vessel Later Sunk

ENEMY BASES BOMBED OVER LARGE FRONT   Much action in Solomons; Jap ship sunk  off Kiska Island

MINERS ORDERED BACK BY LEW   Committee Indicates New Walkout June 20 Unless Contract Achieved

TWO WAR LOSSES ARE INVESTIGATED   Senate Committee Wants Facts on Bari Ship Sinking, Tarawa Capture.

Mighty Red. Thrust Aimed At Crimea   Three Strongly Fortified Points in Kuban Area Captured

SOVIETS MAKE NEW ADVANCES TOWARD GOMEI   320 More Towns Taken In Russian Offensive

SOVIETS SEIZE 320 TOWNS IK WHITE RUSSIA   Nazis Pushed Back To Marshes In Cauea sus Area

Soviets Hit i in South U~ ‘Berlin Clas   Russians Advance Up to Seven Miles Toward Mogilev in White Russia

yy as tgs ee a  Germany Claims Allied Convoy is Attacked in Aflantic

German Ruhr ~ Valley Again Bomb Targe   Heavily Blasted During Night By Force Of British Bombers   U. 8. FLIERS MAKE DAYLIGHT ATTACKS

BOMBS STRIKE RUHR VALLEY ARMS CENTER   Great fires, also at Mes sina, Sicily; two-ton  block busters used

U.S, ‘AIR FORTS’ OVER CONTINENT   Yanks Carry Bombing Into Fifth Day After RAF Hits Oberhausen

2 Top U. S. Air Chiefs Reach Britain And Begin Study of Military Setup

SPECULATION THAT NEW MOVES TO AtD CHINA ARE PLANNED   THREE IMPORTANT LEADERS FROM INDIA ARRIVED WITH CHURCHILL

May Discuss New Moves tc Aid China   Presence of Leaders from India Theatre in Washington May Mean Joint Offensive Against Japan

New Moves to Aid © China Are Forecast   Speculation Based Upon Churchill’s Bringing Three Leaders From India Theater to _ Conference With F. D. R.

May Chart New Ways to Aid Chinese   India Leaders in . Washing. ton With Churchill Give Rise to New Speculation   BURMA ROAD DRIVE MAY BE LAUNCHED   Japs in New ‘Threat to China‘s Rice Bowl; -More Patrol Skirmishes

Pacitie Area Due For More  Consideration   Experts Point Out Control Of Mediterranean To Permit New Actions.   NEW DANGER TO CHINA

Leaders From India Theater  Arrive In U.S. With Premier   Washington Speculates On Joint Land, Sea, Air Smash In Attempt To Pry Open Burma Road As American And British Chiefs Confer At White House

CLEAR GIBRALTAR, ALLIED SHIPPING   70 Merchantmen, Including Two Transports and Tankers Left Yesterday.

RECORD DEER ~ HUNTING LIST   2nd Wartime Hunt Opens Under Favorable  Conditions

It's All Right Gals, You Can Stop oo Your Knitting Those Old Maid Caps

Girls, You Can Relax; Sociologists See No Post-War Shortage of Males

Committee Sets Tax on Whisky At $8 a Gallon   Would Raise Other Levies to Boost Revenue Total

APPROVES NEW LEVY ON SEVEN EXCISE ITEMS   Whisky Tax Increase Is Cut in Half By Committee

BILLS ON TIME CHANGE READY   Two Dozen Representatives Vie For Introduction Honor, Money Act Passed

TIME CHANGE FOR OHIO IS PLANNED   Representatives Rush for Privilege of Presenting Bilt in Assembly.

SENATORS TAKE UP NEW ISSUE OF ‘WORK OR FIGHT   Launch Large-Scale WarTime Food Rationing Program Today

DECREASE IN PRODUCTION LAGS SOUGHT   "Work or Fight" Legislation One of Most Important Items Now Before Congress   DRAFT IS CONSIDERED

Labor Bills Are Tackled By Congress   Absenteeism in War Plants Hit; Seek Deferment of Farm Workers

WORK OR FIGHT’ UP TO CONGRESS   Lagging Production in War Industries and on Farms Causing Concern

OPA STAFF TO BE INCREASED   To Add Members To Help Give Out Rules, Hold Clinics

ENEMY LANDS MORE TROOPS ON CHINA SOL   Japanese Begin New Attacks Against Mainland

JAPS GAIN IN CHINESE AREAS   Five Enemy Ships Land Troops In French Territory.

Congress Takes Preliminary Steps To Give Servicemen Vote In 1944

'48-Hour Rule Shuts Door on Pay Demands   Miners, Rail Brotherhoods Cannot Go Above Little Steel Formula

SENATE HEADS FOR SHOWDOWN ON PATRONAGE   Administration Strength Will Face Test On McKellar Bill   OPPOSED BY ROOSEVELT   Solons Demand Chance To Pass On Appointments To Salaried Jobs

SENATE FIGHT ON PATRONAGE COMING SOO!   EOUTHERN. DEMOCHATS LINING UP AGAINST ROOSEVELT ON CONFIRMATION OF  ENXVLOYES  *

Powerhouse Drive Crushes More Axis Defense Salients, Take Toll of Axis Troops   BRITISH 8TH GAINS   American and British Naval Forces. Draw Noose on Northeast Sicily, Take Toll of Shipping

Crushing _ Attacks ~ In Sicily    ‘Heavy Axis Casualties As Allies Makes New Gains aud Bombers Blast Away   @ AIR BLOW AGAIN REACHES MAINLAND   Americans Take Still More Prisoners, Germans 12 rs Majority First Time 

Naval Units Have Tightened Noose Around Sicily   More Axis Defense Salients on Island Are Taken by Allies

ALLIED ARMIES ~ CRUSHED DEFENSE SALIENTS OF AXIS   American and British Navy. Threw Tight Noose About Sicily’s Northern Tip.   WAR PLANES ARE ACTIVE   Laid Down a Heavy Offensice Against Mainland Airdromes.

NAVIES DRAW NOOSE AROUND TIP OF SICILY   Meanwhile Powerhouse Allied Drive Crushes More Axis Defense Salients.   Driving From West They Score Big Gains

BRITISH; AMERICAN ARMIES MADE GOOD PROGRESS IN SICILY  ALLIED NAVAL AND AIR FORCES SWEEP ITALIAN WATERS. AIRFIELDS

llies Step Up atfle Agains! xisin Sicily   Land Gains Scored: hHieavy Blows Also Struck by Air. Sea

POWERHOUSE DRIVE BREAKS HOLD OF AXIS   Defense Salients in Arxis-Held Corner of Sicily Smashes as Noose Drawn Tighter

Allied Forces Batter Ahead In Sicily   Naval and Air Forces Also Active—Eighth Army Advances

LLETUCEULUIOS  More Defense Salients Crushed   Allies Make Good Progress On “Coffin Corner’ Of Island; Germans Captured In Large Numbers; Planes Hit Axis Dromes

In Strong Attack On Axis Positions   More Enemy. Salients Are Driven Back Along Sicil jan Front   ENEMY FIELDS BOMBED   Naval Units ‘Increase Ac tivity in Strait and Along Mainland

Noose Tightens Around Enemy In Sicily Drive   Defense Salients On Island Crushed By Allies Troopers

Allied Ferees Batter Ahead fn Sicily  Naval and:Air Forces Also   Naval and Air Forces Alo Active-—Eighth Army Advances

LLIED ARMIES mate GAINS GAINST ENEMY   1an 500 Germans in Capturing Agira; Three  TIelands Surrender  oe Capture More i   ORTHEASTERN TIP NOOSE TIGHTENING   merican and British War hips Rake Itatian Coast al Waters, Areas Near Rome Bombed ;

Sea and. Air Forces Join. In Assault   Allies. Carry. _ War: Directly. toItalian Homeland   Ameri¢ans Soon To Drive. Straicht at Jap Homeland

Tight Knot On Salient Being Made More Taut   Naval Forces Are In Thick Of War With Shells.

SICILY COAST   Powerhouse Drives of Allies Crush Axis Defenses On Land

Sicilian Trap Is Closing   Both 8th Army and U 8S. Canadian Contingent: Score Gains

COLD WAVE BACK WITH VENGEANCE   Mercury Dips to 20 Below at Spirit Lake

Scramble for Balkan Power F ollows Mysterious Death of King Boris _

British Observers Foresee Mad Rush For Control of Bulgaria; Nazis Face Dilemma on Widespread Fronts

King Boris’ Death Adds to Axis Woes  Hitler Faces Prospect 4Of Realkan Reank.Tly

Balkans May Be Scene of Revolt Against Germany   Death of Boris Blow fo Hitler

Mad Scramble For Balkans: Power Is Seen   Bulgaria Is Shaken By Death of King; Nazis Face Trouble

Sofia Crowds Demonstrate For Peace   Scramble for Power Predicted in London, Setting Balkans Ablaze  ITT ERR CATT CONTR AR

HITLER’S HOLD ON BALKANS IS BEING MENACEI   Mysterious Death Of King Boris May Set Bulgaria Ablaze   GERMAN EMBASSY IN SOFIA IS STONED

BORIS DEATH BRINGS ON NEW AXIS TROUBLES   London Expects Scramble For Power Which May Upset Satellite Countries   Conference Is Called

BORIS’ DEATH GIVES NAZIS MORE TROUBLE   Precipitates Crisis In Bulgaria; All Communications With Foreign Countries Suspended; Demand Premier Resign   Funeral Sunday

Boris’ Death May Start Balkan Blaze   Seramble for Power Predicted by London Papers

Mad Scramble for Power in Bulgaria As Result of King’s Death Is Predicted

Veto Is Predicted.   WINDSORS VISIT BRITISH EMBASSY IN WASHINQTANW

One Lone Garrison  Still Holding Out!   Abdication of King Unconfirmed; Warships Scuttled; Army, Navy Officers Jailed

Labor Chief Green, Speaker at Legion Convention, Pledges Organization To Prevent Production Interruption

LEGION HEARS GREEN PLEDGE   AFL Will Not Let Up in War Effort, Omaha  Convention Told

LABOR IS DEFENDED BY AFL PRESIDENT   Green Tells American Legion Convenlion Workers Are Abiding  By No-Strike Pledge

Green Reaffirms Labor’s Pledge; Waring Hits ‘Dangerous Minority’

WORK OF SESSION READY FOR REVIEW   Legislature Adjourns; Governor Has 200 Bills to  Consider  WAS LAVSIH SPENDER

50th Kansas Legislature To an End   ‘Final Gavel Sounds 36. ‘Hours After ‘Nominal ‘Adjournment; ‘Shortest ‘Session in Years ©

Legislature Finally Quits   Agree To Raise Officials’ Salaries In Most Counties

SOVIET TROOPS FORCED ENEMY TOLBAVE CITY   Berlin Admits Garrison Withdrawn From Vital Base, Says Move to Shorten Lines   BRIDGES SPANNING VOLGA DESTROYED   Russians Advancing On Kharkov Despite Nazi Counter Attacks By Reserve Troops

GERMA SAYS RETREAT FOLLOWED PLAN   Russian City Northwest Of Moscow Abandoned By Invaders;: One Of Strong Points On Central Front; Reds Drive On.

Nazis Give Up Salient After 18-Month Hold  10 Italian Divisions Recalled by Duce From Soviet Front

THE EVACUATION OF RZHEV BY GERMANS ANNOUNCED TODAY   Town Is Located 130 Miles West and Slightly North of Moscow.   WAS ACCORDING TO PLAN   The Berlin Radio Said the Evacuation Was to Shorten the Front Line.

Red Offensive Forces Further Enemy Retreat   Berlin Reports Forces Withdrawn In Order To Shorten Front Line

TOWN OF RZHEV EVACUATED, NAZ COMMAND SAYS   Nazis Shortening Their Lines In  Central Russia

Berlin Claims Move Made To Shorten Lines   City Was One Of The Strong Points In German Defenses On Central Front

Abandon Town Of Rzhev West Of Moscow As Russians Push Ahead Along Wide Front

BERLIN ANNOUNCES RZHEV EVACUATION   German High Command Says Forces Withdrawn According To Plan In Order To Shorten Front Line.

RUSSIANS BEAT DOWN GERMAN RESERVE FORCES   ADVANCE WEST OF KHARKOV; GAIN ON OTHER FRONTS

TROOPS QuIT RZHEV, BERLIN RADIO STATES   Withdrawal From Strong Point on Central Front Made, Germans Claim, in Order to Shorten Their Front Line.

Rzhev Fortress Is Evacuated by German Forces   Nazis Say They Withdraw in Order to Shorten Their Lines.   May Be Retreat on The Northern Front

Enemy Line May Have To Be Set Up As Far Back As Its ‘Old Base At Smolensk      Nazis Say Withdrawal From City, Once Heavily Fortified, Was “\ceording T Plan’: To Sharten tine

WEATHER SLOWS SOVIET ARMIES   Russians Say Foe’s Counter Attacks Increase on All Fronts

NAZI BROADCAST SAYS GERMAN FORCES WITHDREW DURING THE NIGHT, ACCORDING TO PLAN, IN ORDER TO SHORTEN THE FRONT .LINE—FIRST MESSAGE “WITHDRAWN” BUT LATER IS AFFIRMED

Stronghold Tn Corridor ‘Untenable   Berlin Says Action Taken: to Straighten Front in Narth

Nazis Announce Evacuation OF  Town Of Rzhev   Siys®: Withdrawal Made td Shorten Front Ling.

NAZIS ADMIT RZHEV'SFALL; ~-STRONCPOINT   12th Century City All But Encircled By Russia’s Winter Drive

Nazis Evacuate City OF Rrher, Berlin. Reports   Hitler Quits Stronghold “To Shorten Lines As. Russ Sweep On. ©:

German Line May Anchor At Smolensk   [oe Says Fortress Now Cleared According To Plan; Far - Reaching Retreat Hinted

Action Taken To ‘Shorten Front Line’  City Is Strongpoint on Central Front West of Moscow  DESTROY BRIDGES  Russians Fail to Confirm Announcement of Axis Retreat      DESTROY BRIDGES

Hitler’s Armies May Retire To Smolensk   High Command Says Action Taken To Shorten Defense Lines; Nazis Say Russian Attacks Repulsed In South

A German-American League Is indicted   Organization and 27 Officers and Members Accused of Conspiring to Act as Nazi Agents Without Notifying U. S.

Carriers, Brotherhoods Unable To Agree On RR Workers Wage Demands

Railroad Parley Termed “Failure”   Parley of Management. Brotherhood, Fails To Reach Agreement

Rail Parley Shows Little ‘Hope of Peace   Carriers and -Brotherhoods Still Far Apart on Special Pay Considerations

BROTHERHOODS AND CARRIERS NEARER SOLUTION   Se ee  Asks 4 Cent Per Hour Increase and the Overtime to Be Carried As Extra Vacations ©   DEMANDED $3

New Rail Pay Deadlock Up To Roosevelt   Disagreement Reported Again as Dec. 30 Strike Deadline Nears

Brotherhoods To Seek Pay Hike   RAIL CONFERENCE HOPE-. FUL OF SETTING WAGE ISSUE

RAILROADERS AND CARR STILL AT ODD   Joint Committee Reports to White House Inability to  Agree On Wage   Tisinande :   ‘PARLEY TERMINATED, UNIONIST CLAIMS   Believed Conferees Seek: ing New Guidance In Effort to Prevent Strike December 30

WAGE DISPUTE _ JS UNSETTLED   Railroad Brotherhoods Make Little Progress; Strike Nears

RAIL LEADERS SEEK WAY 10 AVOID § aii Take   Carriers Reaciy To Concede On Some Points

Rail Groups Fail to. End Differences   “Roosevelt Told.” Committee Unable To Reach Accord:

Railroad Brotherhood Envoys, Management Visit White House; Believe Agreement Submittec

Russians Repulse Nazi Attacks on Their Bridgehead on Donets River

REDS FIRM ON DONETS FRONT   Nazis Abandon Attempt To Crack Line Near Leningrad

Reds Battle To" Hold Bridgeliead On Donets River   Attempt To Break Through Lines In Leningrad Area Fails

REDS BATTLE 10 HOLD BRIDGEHEAD ~ INDONETS AREA    Heavy Artillery Fire, Tank Assaults Kill Many  Navic.

SOVIETS FIGHT TO HOLD BRIDGEHEAD ON DONETS RIVER   Action Follows Futile Nazi Attempt To Break Through Russian Lines

 Keeping Men Contented With Meals One of Toughest Jobs in the Army

Air Fighters Get Fresh Eggs Due To Good Management By Mess Officer

Government, War Industry  Work Deferments Blasted’. As Draft:Probe Is. Sought

Selective Service to Be Probed  ‘Desk Heroes’ to Be Forced Into Uniform

Russian front bristles with. hard fighting   Artillery, air and sround thrusts

2ussian Front Is Active with Air And Grou: Battles   ierce Fighting Still Flare: in Kuban Area Held by Nazis

Submarines Sink  Seven Jap Ships   Reds Beat Back Nazis In Caucasus, Kill 1000

Keds lhrow Back Charges  By Germans R wcciane Tlulancl   Russians Unleash Drive By Air, Ground

CLIPPER CRASH KNOWN DEAD 23   Number Near Death While Several Others Are Missing

Workers March Today Through  Burnine Ruins   City Again Heavily Plas‘tered With Bombs Last Night.

MILAN WORKERS REPORTED MARCHING THROUGH RUINED STREETS CRYING OUT FOR PEACE

MILAN VIRTUALLY CEASED 10 EXIST AFTER LAST RAIDS   People March Through Burning Ruins Shout ing End War   MANY THOUSANDS  ARE FLEEING CITY

Refugees Stream Out of Ruins in Bombed Milan  Socialist Bloc Calls For Peace and

DEMONSTRATION FOR PEACE BY WORKERS OF BATTERED MILAN   ARMED GUARDS IGNORED AS PEOPLE DEMAND PEACE AND BERATE RULERS

Refugees Stream Out of Ruins In Bombed Milan  Socialist Bloc Calls For Peace an Erasure of Throne

DEMONSTRATION FOR  PEACE BY WORKERS  OF BATTERED MILAN ARMED GUARDS IGNORED  AS PEOPLE DEMAND PEACI ' AND RERATE RITTER

WORKERS IN MILAN RENEW PEACE BID   ‘Stage New Demonstrations Alter RAF Raids

Milan Workers Stage Peace Demonstration   Many Inhabitants Are Said Fleeing Toward Switzerland

MILAN CROWDS SHOUT ‘PEACE   Thousands Flee to Swiss Border After Devastating British Raid

People of Burning, Bomb-Wrecked Milan Stage Peace Demonstrations Amid Ruins Left by R. A. F. Planes

ULAN WORKERS *IEMAND PEACI   March Through Burning Ruins of Once Great Industrial City In New Demonstration.

New Peace  Demands In Milan After Heavy vy Raid   Industrial City In Ruins, Fires Out Of Control, Government, king Both Cursed

Milan Workers Stage Peace Demonstration   Crowds Demand Peace After Latest RAF Bombing Attack

Panic, Debris , and Swelling Cry for Peace   Mobs Storm All Trains at ® Milan; Lake Shores Black With Evacuees   ALL SHOUT WAILS FOR END OF WAR   Upturned Rails in Yards Resemble Trees; Rubble in Streets 15 Feet High

CITY SAID VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT   Workers Defy - Guards, Shout For End Of War

RAF Blows at Milan Bring  Peace Pleas   Thousands Reported Fleeing Toward Switzerland’s Border

Italians Stage Peace Riols in Ruins of Milan   Thousands Demand End of Monarchy

MILAN WORKERS ASK FOR PEAGE   Bombing Raids Have Almost Destroyed City

PEOPLE IN MILAN CALL FOR PEACE   Workers Pick Way Through Debris - Littered Streets in Peace Demonstration Five Hours After Air Raid

Debris In Streets Thirty Feet High After RAF Raid   Labor Demonstrates : Berlin Also Hit Again; Fires Seen By Swiss 

Milan Workers Cry For Peace   Thousands Fleeing For Swiss Border

OPA PLANS T0 RATION MAJOR FOODS APRIL 1   Bread, Potatoes, Fresh Vegetables, Eggs, Milk Mav Escape

OPA Completes Plans For Rationing Of Major Food Items By First Of April

WILL RATION. ALL MAJOR FOOD ITEMS   Plans Made to Begin in Most Cases on Apr. 1

Most Foods to: Be Rationed by First of April      . Few Exceptions Are Listed at Washinaton

RATIONING LISTS WILL BE WIDENED   OPA TO SEEK VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE WITH FOOD, GAS RATIONING PROGRAM

British 8th Army Drives To Edge Of Catania; Allied  Fliers Pound Foe

SWEEPS OVER PLAIN TOWARD VITAL PORT SIX MILES DISTANT   Allies Gain Up To Ten Miles In Hard Sicily Fighting, Occupy One-Fifth Of Entire Italian Island

Seize Key Highway Junctions   Hard Fighting Reporte as Allies Cut Deep Into  Enemy Defenses

Battle Strong Resistance on Sicilian Plain   ‘Score Gains of 10 Miles In 24 Hours. Threaten Gerbini Airdromes; Lentini And Agrigento Fall: Yanks Take  Big Booty of Gasoline. Bombs. °

Record Number Of Fortresses Used In Raid   Nazis Admit Russian Front ‘Elastic’;  \ Reds Silent On  , Yer & ~ er   ITALY IS BLASTED   \Americans take All But Small Corner Of Attu, Continue  Advance

U-Boat Nests and Rennes Area Blasted; 13 Big  American Planes Lost   Berlin Admits Setbacks in Kuban Battle ; Huge Bombs Strike St. Nazaire, La Pallice Bases; Further Heavy Attacks on Italian Area Revealed

Eden To Confer With President   British Foreign Secretary Arrives For Series  Of Conferences On Post-War Problems

Eden Is On Visit To U.S.A.   Britain’s Foreign Min: ister Here to Pave the ‘Way for Allied Talks On War Probiems

(S PLANNING TALKS WITHULS. OFFICIALS   To Discuss All Aspects of Wal and Problems Arising’ From It

EDEN STARTS TALKS WITH FR. TODAY   Stalin Pleased With Discussions In Washington Of Problems Coming Up After War

Eden Confers With President on Many  Problems of Worle   British Foreign Secretary Arrives Friday. for Conferences

BRITAIN'S EDEN COMES 10 U. S, TO DISCUSS WAR   Conference with President Is First on Schedule for Foreign Secretary   HULL CUTS OFF VACATION   Russian and Chinese Views. On Post-war Also Expected To Be Put into Pattern

Eden and Roosevelt Open Conferences   British Foreign Secretary Flies to Washington, Accompanied by Strang, Expert on Soviet Russian Problems «

EDEN HERE FOR MEETINGS WITH GOV'T LEADERS   Conferences With FDR Open In Washington

EDEN TOMEET FDR TODAY, SEEK NATIONAL UNITY   Arrives in Washington Friday Brings Expert on Russian Problems

Churchill Taik Known, But Nazis Don’t Avenge 10th Anniversary Raid

HAS PARTIAL VISION   Archbishop Curley Has Detached Retina OF Teft Euan

THROW TANKS INTO BATTLE.   . Marines Locked la “Struggle Whi Japanese Landed on Istana! by Barge.

U: §. MARINE TANKS RAGE INTO. FIGHT AGAINST JAPANESE   Struggle’ On Bougainville Rivals,Guadalcanal As Men Cut Through -3,000 Of Enemy

U.S. MARINES USE TANKS IN ISLAND FIGHT   ‘Japs In Major Challenge To Yank Beachhord

YANKS USE TANKS TO COMBAT JAPS ON BOUGAINV!LLE   Enemy Lands Reinforcements to Control Marines Ad¥vancing on Island.

MARINES ASSAULT ~NEW JAP-FORGES   Red Army Reported Closing In on Three Important German Anchor Bases.

MARINES THROW TANKS IN FIGHT AT BOUGAINVILLE   Japanese Landing Forces Trying To Drive Marines From Beachhead

MARINE TANKS GU INTO ACTION AGAINGT JAPS   Japanese Land To Challenge ~ Americans’ Beachhead On Bougainville

-3,000 Japanese Troops Slip Ashore In Major Challenge To Marines

Marines Throw Tanks At Japs In Raging Fight   Regiment Believed Landed By Barge In  Northern Solomons

Marines, On Their Anniversary, Battle New Jap Landing On Bougainville Isle

Marines Throw Tanks Into Fight Against Japanese   Foe Challenges Bougainville ‘Beachhead

Enemy Troops Land On Bougainville Island In Attempt To Block Americans’ Advance

Possibly 3,000 Enemy Troops  Slin Ashore   Leatherneck Tanks Being Thrown  Into Heavy Action

APPROXIMATELY 3000 Ji LANDED ON ISLAND IN-ATTE TO RETAKE IT FROM AL]

GOOD CROP WEATHER   Showers and Poona cntorms Fore. cast for Tonight

GOOD CROP WEATHER   Showers and Thunderstorms Forecast for Tonight

NURSES ARE NEEDED   Douglas County Reer Recruitment Committee Met Monday Evening

Family Plans Burial of Victim of Husband’s Fury pe CLUES VAGUE Description of Wanted Blair Sink, 31, Broadcast

Human Torch Slaying Is Reconstructed   Indiana County Authorities Foiled In Attempt to Arrest Murderer   BABY'S LIFE IS SPARED

Story of Horror Told By Sheriff In Indiana County “Torch”? Murder

RETAIL SALES TAX WILL NECESSITATE INCREASED WAGES   CiQ President —‘ Testifies Before Ways And Means Group Today

[8th Army Aid Being Awaited   Montgomiery’s Big Attack Believed Imminent

American Armored Forces Stabilize New : Line ; NAZIS HALT: NEAR  . ALGERIAN BORDER British Eighth Army Is Rapidly Pressing Onward .

British Move Closer to —  Nazi Flauk   Montgomery’s Troops Clash With the Enemy Along Mareth Line

Rommel Drive  Halted Near  Algerian Line Central Section of   Central Section of Allied Front Moved to Stronger Position

ALLIED FORCES SET NEW LINES IN MOUNTAINS   American Losses Now Held Less In Tunisia Than Reported   ROMMEL AWAITING BRITISH ADVANCE

TUNISIAN LINE 15 STABILIZED BY U.S. TROOPS   FRENCH MAKE RAID AND CAPTURE PRISONERS

Only Light Action Announced Friday In Tunisian Struggle  BRITISH THREAT MAY BE RESPONSIBLE  Estimates of Losses In American Equipmen  May Be Cut One-Third

Sth Army Move Threat to Flank   Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops To Strong Position West Of Ousseltia Deprives Rommel Of Opportunity For Rear Thrust

U. 5. ARMORED FORCES FORM STRONGER LINE   Allied Communique Reports No Action Ot Consequence During Friday.

Losses Less Than Reported   Rommel Ends . Drive In Tunisia; Allies Stiffen Defense -

Yank Forces Stabilize African Lines   Violent Drive by Marshal Romme Slackens Off to Mere Unit Skirmishing: Front Moved Back

FRENCH WITHDRAW TO STRONGER DEFENSIVE POSITIONS ON WEST SIDE OF OUSSELTIA VALLEY; FIGHTING DESULTORY '

VOTE 1S HELD AFTER WARNING BY PRESIDENT   500 Men Will Returr To Jobs In Newark Plant After 13  Days Of Striking.

Reds Make Thrust Into Nazi Line, Smash Big Force   All Fighters Jockey  For Position in

RED TROOPS MAKE THRUST AT GERMANS   Smashing Strong Reconnaissance Groups Near Rostov, Hammer At Tanks Anco Troops Enroute To Front   Blow Up Train

Soviets Make Summer Drive Feeler Thrust   Nazi Keconnalssance Group Smashed Near Rostov

Reds And Nazis Still Sparring  MS. o wast er, LI. eee   Russians Hammer At Concentrations

Reds Make Thrust Into Nazi Line, Smash Big Force   All Fighters Jockey For Position in Coming Major Drive

REDS BLAST NAZIS MOVING TO FRONT   BIG GUNS AND PLANES HAMMER AT CONCENTRATIONS OF TANKS AND MEN.

Soviet Forces Smash Strong Foe Near Rostov   Russian Airmen Hammer Troops in Frontward Move

Russia Feeling Out German Line On Rostov Front   Reds Sparring in Preliminaries fo Great Summer Drive

RUSSIANS SPAR FOR OFFENSIVE   Feeler Thrust Smashes Enemy Detachment Near Rostov

FEELER THRUST MADE BY REDS   Great Summer Offensive Expected To Start At Any Time

Strong Nazi Force Is Smashed   Feeler Thrust Is Made Into Enemy's. Lines

Red Troops Spar For Summer Drive  Sraash StrongGermat Eearce Near Rostov

lydings Charges Packers Cannot Sell at Profit   Senator Holds Price Sity ation Results in Losses

MEAT SHORTAGE PUT ON OPA REGULATIONS   Ty dings Says Price Should Be bived All The Way From The  Grower To The Cansumer

FALL FROM HORSE KILLS JOHN CUDAHY   FORMER DIPLOMAT SUFFERS BROKEN NECK WHEN THROWN FROM HIS MOUNT.

Accident Fatal To Former Envoy   John Cudahy Thrown From Horse, Killed

LUFTWAFFE LOSES 4 PLANES IN MINGK RAIDS ON BRITAIN   RAF Bombers Rest—Reconnaisance Pictures Shaw Essen Devastated.

Framework Sef For Lebanon Order   French Committee Reinstates President Racrhnen Khoury

Peace Step In Lebanon   French Reinstate President, Promise To Negotiate Question Of Full Independence

Quick Return To Order in Lebanon Seen   French Committee to Negotiate Question Of Independence

Lebanese Regime Is Reinstated   'rench Committee Moves To Restore Order to Troubled Country

-rench Committee Releases Arrested Officials And Will "Study Question Of Nation’s Independence

LEBANESE HEAD REINSTATED: BY FRENCH GROUP   Jeu From Beirut and  Order Liberation of Premier Soh!

ORDER IN LEBANON   French Committee Promises to Negotiate Question of Independence

FRENCH LIBERATE LEBANON CHIEFS   Quick Return to Normalcy {s Expected; to Negotiate Independence Question

WLB Rejects Miners'Demand For Portal Pay   Issue Turned Back To Collective Bargaining Or Court Litigation, Presenting New Strike Threat

ALLIES FIGHT ON EDGE OF JAP AIRFIELD   Artillery Shelling Big Nip Bases At Finschhafen

USE ARTILLERY AGAINST JAPS   Australians Pound Enemy at Finschhafen As Patrols Fight On.   U. S. WARSHIPS ATTACK

aratroopers Hunt Fleeing Japanese   er.can Bombers Drop 21  Tons of Explosives On “rinschafen; 6,200 Enemy Soldiers Slain Since July In Lae Sector.

AUSSIES SHELL NIPPON BASE OF RINSCHH ARE)   isch Shots. Over Frontline Patrols Which Have Beaten Down Enemy Resistance

Third Japanese Base Pounded   Tell of Operation Against Finschhafen

AUSSIES POUND JAPS’ BASE AT FINSCHHAFEN   Details of MacArthur’s Amphibious Operation Disclosed

40 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN CONVOY ATTACK   American Fliers Pile Into Formation of 70 Nips To Spread Havoc   NOT ONE SHIP DAMAGED   Meanwhile, Allied Jungte Troops Press Attack on Another Enemy Base

FINSCHHAFEN UNDER FIRE ATISTRATLTANS   Gen. MacArthur’s Army is Within Two Miles of Third Jap Base Which Will Probably Fall Soon.

Pound Jap Base - At Finschhafer   Australians At Edge 0}  Island Airfield

Australian Big Guns Pounding  At Finschhafen   Japs Face Loss Of Third Air Base On New Guinea Cinna Same 19:

Finschhafen -Harrassed By - Aussie Guns   Jap Resistance Weakens And Troops Approach  New Guinea Base

Australian Artillery Shells Finschhafen As Soldiers Bid For Base

Aussie Artillery ~ Hits Finsechhafen  Allied Troops Reach Nearby Air Base

AUSSIE ARTILLERY POUNDS JAPS AT FINSCHHAFEN BASE   MacArthur's: Forces Confront Nipponese With Loss of Their ‘Third Airbase Since September 12.

GUNS TEAR JAPS INFINSCHHAFEN   Allied Patrols Gain Edge 01 Air Field North Of Base

Finschafen fs Next For Allies   M'ARTHUR’S LONG RANGE GUNS SHELLED JAP SECTORS

Threaten Big Jap Air Base   Allied Troops At Edge Of Finschhafen Airfield in Fast-Moving Amphibious Operation

Aussie Big Guns Soften Up Nips; Details Of Shore Assault Revealed

Aussies Shell Jap Air Base   Japs Lost 40 or More Planes Trying to Block Landing ~

Aussies Close  In On Airfield   Allied Artillery Pounding Japs In Finschhafen Coastal. Base.

FINSCHHAFEN BROUGHT UNDER - ARTILLERY FIRE    Allied Patrols Reach Edge of Air:  field Two Miles North of New  Guinea Objective   Warships, Planes, Aided Landing Operations—6,300 Japs Dead at Lae, Salamaua

SHOOT DOWN 40 JAP PLANES   Australian Artillery  Pounds Japanese In Finschafen Base

Aussies Near Finsehhaten   Shell New Guinea” Base: Troops Reach Edge Of Airfield Outside City.

AUSTRALIANS BATTLE JAPS IN NEW CUINER   Heavy Fighting In Air; Japs Are Losers

SHELLS POUND JAP BASE -FINSCHAFE   Allied Patrols 2 Miles from Objective; Jap Losses in Killed Heavy.   40 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN BY ALLIED FLIERS

Aussie Guns Shell Jap Base   Front Line Patrol Reach Edge of Field At Finschhafen

AUSSIES SHELL JAP BASE ON NEW Gti!   More Than 12,000 Japanese Troops Killed in SalamauaLae Battles

AUOOIE GUNS POUR ontlla ON JAP BASE   Coastal Base Of Finschhafen On New Guinea In Grasp Of Allied Forces

JAPS WITH THIRD LOSS   Artillery Pounds Enemy Coastal Base At Finschafen

OPA Scored in Meat Shortage   Urge Control to Aariculture: Dept.

16 Jap Zeroes. Are Shot Down   Five U.S. Planes Lost-in Hard Battle ~

16 OF 25 Tan ‘Planes Shot Down In Battle   Five U.S. Planes Lost, But Two Pilots Saved, Navy Reports

Yanks Shoot Down 16 Jap Zero Planes   U. S. Loses 5 In  Solomons Action

JAP AIR FORCE DEFEATED OVER RUSSELL ISLAND   American: Fighter Planes — Shoot Down Sixteen of Twenty-Five Enemy Zeros   BATTLE FURIOUS   Five U.S. Planes Lost But Two Pilots Are Saved; Jap Positions Raided

16 JAP ZEROS ARE DESTROYED   Five American Planes Lost in Battle Over Russell Islands

U. S. FIGHTERS DOWN 16 ZEROS   LOSE 5 AMERICAN PLANES IN BATTLE OVER RUSSEL ISLES

Yankees and Japs Locked in Battle on Island of Attu   U.S. Troops Landed on —Base West—of—Kiska—  in Force Tuesday

~ TBJAP ZEROS   Battle 23 Foe Planes Over Russell Islands: Kiska Raided Again

U6. PILOTS WIN SOLOMONS BATTLE   16 Japanese Planes Downed Against 5 Americans

Allies Mass for Second Big Push   Rommel Attempts to KO Yankees as Fighting Reaches Feverish Pitch

Heaviest Fighting Of War In Africa Now Taking Place Gn Mareth Line; Beitle In Russit Confined To Smolensk Area   RUSSIA, JAPS EXTEND FISHING CONVENTION

Details of Battie Are Censored   Meager Reporis Indicate Rommel Throwing in  Whole Strength

Rita Hayworth, Film Actress Suspended For Refusing Part in Movie

OIL CRISIS GRAVE -INRHODE ISLAND   Providence Draws on Re“serve Supplies for Hospi gt.

LeMars High To Hold Homecoming  This Week End  Annual Celebration Includes Parade   And Football Game

LeMars High To Hold Homecoming  This Week End  _ Annual Celebration   Includes Parade

AIVIVIVVVV VV VVVV VV yy Victoria Service Station Hi-jacker Escapes from Farm

T LAA AAAAAAS   Victoria Service Station Hi-jacker Escapes from Farm

Congress Hints Severe Slash In Treasury Plans   New Revenue May Be Cut To Third “Of Amount Asked

NO LOAN LOBBY CAN BE FOUND      Rep. Lahey Adds That * He Knows of None in This Session

Norton Urges Cotton Farmers To Sign Insurance Applications Before Closing Date April Ist

SET UP FOR CITY   nditures Totalling $4,. “500 Under This Year's  Planned   MORE FOR THE AIRPORT

TENTATIVE BUDGET SET UP FOR CITY   Expenditures Totalling $4,000 Under This Year's  Planned ‘   MORE FOR THE AIRPORT

Democrats Hit As ‘Appeasers’   Connally Lashed by Willkie at Rally

HUDDLE OVER NEW TAX BILL   House Leaders Seeking ‘Middle Ground’ In  Controversy

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 MAY FACE VOTE   Compromise Fails Over Weekend, But Backers Optimistic.

AGREEMENT ON COMPROMISE IS POSSIBLE SOON   Doughton and Knutson Optimistic Over Lesislation

WEEK-END ATTEMPTS SETTLE TAX PROGRAR FAILED OF OBJECT  SENATE LEADER BARKLEY INDICATES LITTLE ACio

MIDDLE GROUND IS SOUGHT ON PAY-AS-GO TAX   Both Sides Hopeful Of Compromise For House Vote ° Within Next Week   POST-WAR PLAN TALKED   Poll Reveals 32 Senators Are Opposed To International Police Force

PAY AS YOU 60 ISSUE REVIVEL   Advocates of World Police Force After War Are Encouraged by Poll

HOUSE GROUPS SEEK SOLUTION TO PAY.GO TAX   Committee Members Go [nto Huddle with Leaders in House.

MIDDLE GROUND FOR TAX SOUGHT   Week-End Attempts To Reach Compromise Plan Fail

Tax Group Still Works or  Compromise .   Hopeful Agreement Can Be Reached This Week or Next; Senate Takes Poll on Postwar Collaboration.

BREMEN PLANE PLANTS RAIDEL   Germans Are Surprised: RAF Force Returns Without Loss

ENEMY REELING UNDER SLASHING ALLIED ATTACKS   Clark's Army Strikes at Heart Of Winter Line—Leipzig Bombed

State Defense Staff Slashed By Goodland   Forty-Three Taken Of Payroll By Kingsley Following Orders Fron State Executive

FOUR CONCORD U.S. SERVICE      Draft Board Now Preparing ‘October Call of Induction to Dutv

OFF-SET LOSS WITH ADVANCE (N SMOLENSK   Drive on north front continues despite resistance near Kharkov

Smolensk Drive - Making Progress Moscow Renorts   Russian Forces Yield Some Ground In Attack Southeast Of Kharkov   HEAVY FIGHTING IN DONETS REGION

Soviets Have Been Compelled to Fall Back at Chuguyev, But Are Advancing on Smolensk

RUSSIANS _ CONTINUE DRIVE GN SMOLENSK   Lines Hold Firmly On Gonets Front

10 DEAD IN MINE BLAST   Eighteen Other Miners Rescued at La Follette, Tenn,

MINE EXPLOSION IS FATAL TO TEN MEN   18 Others Are Rescued After Blast Wrecks Main Tunnel Of Ten nessee Shaft

Ten Coal Miners Killed by Explosion; 18 Others Found Alive by Rescue Squad

10 Coal Miners Perish in Blast  18 Others Are Found Alive by Rescuers

10 MINERS ARE BLAST VICTIMS   18 Brought Out Alive After Tennessee Explosion

Mine Blast Kills 10 In  Tennessee   RESCUERS FIND 18 ALIVE DEEI YN TUNNEL BEHIND BARRICADE THEY HAD ERECTED FOR PROTECTION.   Victim Near Death

TEN MINE Ao ARE KILLED IN BLAST   Rescue Squad Finds Eighteen  ' Others Alive in Torn Ten  nessee Mine; Trapped Men Erected Barricade

10 MEN KILLED IN MINE BLAST   10 Others Found Alive by Rescue Squad After Ex plosion in Tennessee

Russia to Join In Global War  Leader Plan   Marshall to Take Over After Parley; Chiang May Sit in

Four-Power Link Mapped   Clase Co-operation With Russia Slated Under Marshall

Russia To Be Part of New War Commanc   Plans Indicate Marshall Will Become Supreme Allied Commander

GEN, MARSHALL TO LEAD DRIVE   Plans Laid for Co-ordination Of Allied Forces in Global War

Closer Relations With Reds Seen  Full Co-ordination of Supreme Staffs Saugh:

Co-ordination of allies and Russ planned   Marshall will  head former

SET PLANS FOR NEW ALLY PACT   MARSHALL APPOINTMENT AS STAFF HEAD SEEN

AMERICAN GENERAL MAY BE GHIEF FOR ALL ALLIED FORCES   Conference of ‘Big Three’ : Expected To Decide Plan

“BIG. THREE” STAFFS WILL WORKCLOSELY   China May Join U. 5. British-Soviet Military Councils—Marshall Ex pected to Head Anglo: American Group.

To Coordinate Allied Blows With Russia's   Marshall. To Head Staff Commanding American and British Forces   COMPLETE PLAN THE MAIN GOAL   Chiang May. Join Expected Conference of . Roosevelt, “Churchill” Stalin (°°

Anglo-U. S. Supreme Staff Plans Closest Co-ordination With Russia

Coordination Is Planned In Allied Staffs   Russian, British, American Groups Will Now Work Together Closely

Roosevelt, Churchill And Stalin Conference Is Still Unconfirmed; See Coordination Plans Result

Coordination Stalls Review   . e Russian. Anglo-American  High Commands Project  Closer Cooperation,

Close Military Cooperation   Anglo-American Staff Under Gen. Marshall Plans to Coordinaté Work With Russians

French High Commissioner Robert Complains About Hull’s Action In Rupturing Relations   RECALL U.S. CONSUL GENERAL REGRETTED   Admiral Holds Act “Shuts Out All Possibility of Fresh Proposal On My Part”

PROTEST OVER MARTINIQUE   Break of Relations New Concern At State Department

Senate Farm Bill Sidetracked Into Committee   Measure Was Vetoed By President as Baing Inflationary

Bankhead Concedes Vote - to Over-ride Veto Lecking  BARKLEY PLEADS . ; TO SUSTAIN VETO Action Would $ Strengthen  Morale, Senator . Asserts -

BANKHEAD BILL NOT DEAD YET   Farm Ceiling Plan May Be Pulled Out Again At Any Time

Farm Bloe  Lacks Power To Override F.D.R.’s Veto   So Bankhead Moves To Send Farm Bill Back to Committee And Questionable Fate   SENATORS LIKELY TO ACQUIESCE TODAY

BANKHEAD BILL TO BE SHELVED BY INACTION   Leaders Concede Vote Tc Pass Farm Measure Over Veto Is Lacking   May Be Revived

Farm Bloc Sees Defeat of Effort To Upset Veto  Bankhead Moves To Send Measure  Back to Committee RAP BROWN, WICKAR Both Fail te Appear NS 2 ABR Seer «= Neneceeetny

BANKHEAD FEARS ~ SENATE STRENGTH   Debate Hints Needed Votes Lacking To Override Presidential Action on Bil]

Bankhead Concedes Vote to Over-ride Veto Lacking  BARKLEY PLEADS  TO SUSTAIN VETO)  Action Would Strengthen Morale, Senator Asserts

GROUP DESPAIRS OF OVERRIDING FARM BILL VETO   Bankhead Concedes Defeat in Fight for Measure and Asks That It Be Sent Back to Committee.   BARKLEY IN MOVE TO KILL LEGISLATION   Tempers Flare as Bloc Finds Itself Beaten—Campaign of Misrepresentation Charged.

Bankhead Farm Measure Appears Headed Back to Committee   Sponsor Asks It Be Sent to  Agriculture Committee; Votes To Override Velo Are Lacking

Bankhead Bil May Be Shelvec   Appears Headed for Senate Committee

VETOED FARM ‘BILL APPEARS TOBESHELVED   Bankhead Lacks Votes Needed ta Override : President

Farm Bloc Admits It Can’t Override President’s Veto In Senate   VOTE SCHEDULED SOMETIME TODAY

Head Vetoed Farm Bill To Committee   SENATOR BANKHEAD LIKELY ABLE TO RETAIN MEASURE AS CLUB TO USE ON ADMINISTRA: TION AS NEEDED.   Lacks Vote io Override

VIG TIM oOUGHT IN TRAIN WRECK   [hree Possibly Killed, Six Injured When Trains Crash This Morning

THREE KILLED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT   Two Sections of Tamiami Special Collide; Pittsheld Man Victim.

ROOSEVELT AND STEINHARDT IN A CAIRO CONFERENCE   Newspaper, Aksham, Made  This Announcement in  Ankara Today.   All Turkish Newspapers Carried Stories of a “Momentous Conference.”

TURKS SAY CONFERENCE UNDERWAY   U. S. Embassy In Ankara Declines To Comment

Roosevelt And Churchill To Meet Stalin There; Kai-Shek May Attend

WILL GONFER WITH STALIN IN FEW DAYS   Three Allies Will Force Japan Off Pacific Isies  wTeIyYTyY FT Warny wy

~The War Today— Medley Of Impressions From News Offered By War Analyst Mackenzie

WAR ANALYST TURNS TO SOME GENERAL NEWS THAT GOES MAKE UP WORT D WHERE WAR CONTROTS

Among. Them Proof of The Contrast i in Meting Punishment in Democracies and in Totalitarian Countries, As Witness DeMarigny’s Trial in Reisieh Necean

Aey Verman-feid City in Fasy Range Of Red's Artillery  Axis Rostov Defense Lines Also Crumbling ; Nazis Blame Weather

Soviets Box In Kharkov From  Three Sides   Swift Stabs Cut All Main Rail Links, Take Town II Miles From City: Net Tightens About Burning Rostov

All Rail Lines — Are Cut; Rostov Said In Flames  Germans Believed   Germans Believed Getting Ready To Withdraw Forces

GERMANS SET ROSTOV AFIRE, HINT RETREAT   KHARKOV MEN ACED ON THREE SIDES BY SOVIETS

All Rail lines © Are Cut, Rost fo\ Said In Flames   ‘Germans Believed Getting Ready To  Withdraw a

City Attacked From 3 Sides By Russians   Tighter Hold Is Clamped On Area About Rostov As Drive Continues

Ukraine City Within Range Of Red Artiller)   Russians Cut Main  Communication Lines; Also Tighten Hold on Rostov, Key City on Don

NOOSE DRAWN TIGHTER ABOUT DEFENSE HUB   Nazis Reported To Have Fired Rostov Preparatory To  Their Withdrawal.

BELIEVE NAZIS ARE PREPARING TO QUIT ROSTOI   Reported Setting Fire To Cit 7 Before Evacuating Farces   HALF-CIRCLE TIGHTENIN ON KHARKOV'S OUTSKIRT:   35-Mile Thrust To Southwes Made Since Capture Of Belgorod

Advance To Pound Outer Areas of City   Tighfen Hold on Rostov; Enemy Sefs City Afire

Reds Tighten  Rostov Siege Lines   Main Rail Lines Into Steel City Cut by Russians; Germans Reported Burning Don Capital

Germans Set Rostov Afire  As Reds Neat   All Main Railway Communications With Steel City Cut By Soviets.   CAPTURE EIGHT TOWNS

Senate Backs $5  License Fee Cut ‘Upper House Messages _ Measure To Assembly

Approves Cut In Auto Fees   Final Action Is Up Te Assembly Because Of Previous Decision For Only $2 Reduction

One. Wearing American Khaki Uniform and American Shoes, Drops Into American Embassy in Moscow to Express His Gratitude; Says Wearing Apparel “Good:” Receives Stamps for Collection

Careful Shopper Proves Value of Own Advice; Leaves Over $400,000

WASHINGTON IS JUBILANT OVER NEWS   resident And Churchill On Alert For Development: Final Victory For Allies Assured, Is Sentiment

Aerial-Battered Convoy Retires   Ships Turn Back, Disappear At Sea

U. S. Submarines Sink Jap Destroyer, Three More Merchant Ships   Enemy Vessels Flee Aroe Islands Area North of Australia After Attacks by Allied Airmen; Three Other Ships Are Bombed

Jap Convoy  Forced To Retire   Small Group of Nipponese Vessels First Sighted, Bombed In Vicinity of Aroe Islands

Japanese Convoy  Forced To Retire   Search of Seas North of Aroe Islands Fail: to Locate Enemy Shipping; U. S. Subs Sink Destroyer, T hree Other Vessels

Allied Bombers Force Japanese Convoy To Retire   Succesful Action North o Darwin Reported by MacArthur

Enemy Convoy  Driven Back   Allied Bombers Force Tan Shins to Retire

CLAIMS DEMOCRATS USED APPEASEMENT   Willkie Says Party’s Actions Belie Advocacy of Freedom.

Willkie Charge: Appeasement  Asserts Democrats Abridge Freedom Of Southern Voters

Manpower Ban Tightens Today   Whole Nation Goes Under WMC Control

Strict Manpower Regulations Go In Effect Today   oe Doaxs Will Find  Harder To Change Jobs in Future

CHANGING JOBS NOT EASY NOW   U.S. Employment Service Takes Tighter Rein On Migration

Allied Bombers Pound Germans   British and Russian Planes Raid Cities

RAF Bombers Assault Berlin, Stettin, Rostock   Baltic Ports Hit Hard; Russians Raid Tilsit In Eastern Germanv

RAF Keeps Up Air Offensive   Berlin, Stettin and Rosivc! Hit, Sows. Attack East Prussia

BRITISH BOMBING ATTACKS ON GERMAN CITIES GROWING   Baltic Ports of Stettin and Rostock Set Afire; Wilmersdorf of Berlin Heavily Bombed

RAF ,RedsBlast  4 German Cities Finland and Occupied  a, ae a a. es

BOMBERS ATTACK ROSTOCK, STETTIN   RAF Offensive Extends From France to Berlin; Red Air Force Attacks East Prussian Railway Center

Allied Bombers Smash at Reich  Fires Visible 100 Miles Are Started

Danish Troops Are Resisting Germans   Many Prominent Danish Citizens Are Held Captive After Serious Revolt In Country

Military Dictatorship Set Up to Mete Out Penalties   CABINET HAS QUIT, DISPATCHES ASSERT   Fresh Troops and Arma: ment Rush to Quell Rebellion

DANISH TROOPS STILL RESIST MILITARY RULE   King and Most Of State Chiefs Under Arrest; 450 Reported Slain At Svendborg   All Courts Suspended

DANISH TROOES BATTLE NAZIS; CABINET HELD   Germans Seize All Civi} and Court FuncHons in Country

Nazis hold King Christian  and most cabinet officers   Danish guards still fighting  fiercely against German troops

DANES CONTNUE BATTLE GERMANS   Nazis Seize All Civil and Court Functions   CABINET RESIGNS   Scores of Prominent Persons Arrested; Nazis Roundup» Jews and Refugees

Danish Troops Continue To Battle Against Nazi Military Dictators

NAZIS RUSHING FRESH TROOPS INTO DENMARK   600 Danish Soldiers Still Holding Out Against  German:   KING AND CABINET ARE UNDER ARREST

Nazis Arrest Danish King   Troops Fighting Despite lron Fist Of Oppressors

NAZIS SEIZE ALL CIVIL AND COURT FUNCTIONS AND GIVE SEVERE WARNINGS TO DANES.   (Rv TOHN : W COL RURN)

DANIS BATTLE NAZIS; CABINET HELD   Germans Seize All Civil and Court Functions in Country

Battles Rage In Some Parts Of Denmark   Stern Measures Taken To Down Rebellion, Many Reported Killed  SOME DANES ESCAPE

Trapped, Beaten In  Kula Gulf   Buna Expected To Fall Within Week, Result Of Heavy  Pounding.

New Batile in Kula Gulf Is Reported   Enemy Is Striving  ‘to Reinforce New Georgia Forces

FLEET SINKS AT LEAST 4 NIP WARSHIPS   Cruiser, Destroyers Sent to Bottom in  Kula Gulf

Will Release Results Of  Conference   Communique to Be Issued Monday by “Bio Three”

J-WAY PUR AGAINST NAZI BEING PLANNED   Big 3’s Discussions Include Both Military, Political Matters, Is Belief

Nazis Say Leader Of Turkey Now In Cairo For Parley   Political And Military Problems Discussed At Teheran, Belief; Invasion May Not Be Necessary, Says Army-Navy Paper

To reveal details of allied powers’ meeting Monday   Nazis claim Turk leader  will meet FDR, Churchill

Col. John H. Wigmore, Dean Emeritus of N. U., Dies After Auto Crash

Nazis Build New Defense Line Thru Poland to Meet Latest Red Threat

Red Army’s Offensive is Cutting Deep Into Nazi Lines Near Baltic

Russians Sweep Up More Than 100 Towns In Day-Long Advance; RAF Mosquito Bombers Garry War Back To Germany   NORTHWEST GERMANY BOMBED BY AMERICANS

SOVIET FORCES ONLY 15 MILES FROM VITEBSK   Allied Troops Advance Slowly On Entire Italian Front

Solon Submits Work Or Fight Evacue Plan   Chandler Suggests Real Concentration Camps For Pro Tokio Japanese   CUT EXPENSES      Senators Report On Tour Of United States War Relocation Cames

SUPERVISION OVER JAPANESE JS GRITIGIZED BY CHANDLER   SENATOR URGES CHANGES IN THE WANDLING OF JAP . EVACUEES FROM WEST COAST

Fires Visible for  75 Miles; American Damage Only Two Holes in One Plane

More Than Half Of Jap  Force On Island May Have Been Killed; No  American Caaualties.

BROWN IS PLANNING CLEANUP OPA MESS AFTER VACATION  PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BACKS UP OPA CHIEF {IN SUBSIDY PLAN

FDR CHALLENGE IS EVADED BY SUBSIDY CRITICS   Food Price Roll-back ls Taking Spotlight in Nation’s Capital   ‘OWl PROBE PROPOSED   Labor Board Expected To Make Some Decision in Min@ Wage Dispute

BROWN 10 PURGE OPA FOR CRITICS   TO Clean Up ‘the Mess People Think OPA Is In’ Administrator Reveals

Price Administrator Starts Drive To Clean Up Ration Bureau “Mess”

Bolivia Jumps Into World War   Decree Published at La Paz and Mobilization Is Ordered

BOLIVIA JOINS UNITED NATIONS   Declares War On Axis Orders Mobilizing Of Forces After  Cabinet Meet

War Decree Issued By Bolivia   Action Against Axis Now Needs Congress’ Okeh

STAFF SERGEANT IS” MARRIED TO A WAC   Honeymoon In Suburbs o} Algiers Starts After Wedding on Thursday.

‘Senate Commitice Will Consider Statutory ee on Personnel of Armed Services

New Manpower  Probe Planned   Senate Military Affairs Group Will Consider Limiting Army

U.S. Manpower Probe Planned By Senate Group   Committee To Stady  Ceiling on Personnel For Fighting Forces

~ Senate Committee Will Consider Statutory ~Corlines on Personnel of Armed Services

Allies Keep Pressure On Nazi Armies   Offensive Against Mareth Line Is Continuing Gains   Americans In Surprise Attack Toward Fondouk   Mystery Shrouds Flanking Force Near El Hamma

8TH ARMY ADVANCES AT MARETH   British Forces Lash Out At Enemy In Northern Area

Montgomery s Hard Offensive Against Axis Satisfactory   Wins Further Success in Tunisia in Spite of Stiff Resistance

FURTHER SUCCESS WON DESPITE FIERCE NAZI RESISTANCE   AMERICANS QN CENTRAL FRONT LAUNCH NEW SURPRISE ATTACK

Mareth Line © Operations ° Continuing   British Meet Stiff. Axis Resistance; Yanks in Local Activity

Open Drive In Vicinity OfFondouk   British Are Successful Ir One Sector Of Marett Line Despite Stubborr Resistance

8th Army in ‘Satisfactory Progress’ Against Mareth Line; New Drive by Yanks

PROCEED DESPITE  STIFF RESISTANCE   Only Local Activity Reported In American Theater of Onerations

Many Prisoners Taken; Only Local Activity in Gafsa-Maknassy Theater   British First Army in Northern Tunisia Begins Reconnaissance in Force — Allies Planes Continue to Range  Up and Down Axis Positions

Central Front Attacks By U.S Are Minor   Operations Proceed According To Plan; Resistance Met

‘Satisfactory Results’ Are Reported From Mareth Line Drive By Montgomery’s Army   Movements Of British First Army Indicate It May Strike Soon; Americans In Central Tunisia Launch Surorise Attack

MONTGOMERY'S FORCES DRIVE CONTINUALLY      Sustained Offensive Getting “Satisfactory Results” Allied Head- — quarters Announces   BRITISH FORCE IN NORTH LASHING OUT   American Troops in Central Tunisia Launch Surprise Drive Toward  Fondouk.

MOVE TOWARD FONDOUK IN CENTRAL AREA   First Reports Say They Are Making Good Headway — British Progress at Mareth Line, Attack in North.

British Lash At Nazis on North Front   Many Prisoners Taken as Eighth Army Smashes Deener Into Forts   YANKEES GAIN ALSO   U. S. Armored Force in Drive Toward Fondouk, Near Axis Airbase

BRITISH GAIN IN DRIVE ON MARETH LINE   And Americans Launch a Surprise Offensive Near  Axis Air Base.   Satisfactory Results Reported by Allies

Americans Shifting Attack Toward South   Kighth Army Keeps Up Steady Offensive Against Mareth Line In Bitter Battle

BRITISH 8TH ARMY ~ CONTINUES DRIVE ON MARETH LINE   The Sustained Offensive Is Getting “Satisfactory Results,” It Is Said.   WON FURTHER SUCCESS   American Troops in Central Tunisia Launched Drive Toward Fodouk.

Attack Brings Success, Take Many Captives   Only Local Activity For American Forces

Satisfactory Results in Offensive Noted; American ‘Troops Strike At Fondouk

SURPRISE DRIVE FOR FONDOUK IS MADE BY YANKS   Satisfactory Results in Offensive Against Mareth Line Reported

Move Up Despite Nazi Resistance   British Eighth, Army Is Getting “Satisfactory Results”   TAKE MANY PRISONERS   NL ATT  American Troops Launch Surprise Attack in Central Tunisia

ALL ACTIONS SAID 10 BE SATISFACTORY   British Take Prisoners In Mareth Fighting   SMALL ADVANCES   Made By First Army Near Bizerte-Tunis: Yanks Seem To Be Waiting

AKE HEADWAY AGAINST NAZIS   British Eight Army’s Offense Getting ‘Satisfactory’ Results.   FIRST ARMY LASHES OUT

U. S. Troops Reported Making ‘Good Headway’ in Surprise Of fensives in Tunisia   1ST ARMY ACTIVE   British in Far Norih. Engage in "Reconnaissance in Force’—Axis Gains Foothold én Height

British First Army in Northern Tunisia Begins Reconnaissance in Force — Allies Planes Continue to Range  Up and Down Axis Positicns

Yanks Launch Surprise Drive Toward Fondouk   Many Prisoners Reported Taken By British Troops:

LIQUOR HIJACKERS REPORTED AS BUSY   Menace Legitimate Shipments, Insurance Underwriters Say Today.

British Crush Major Axis Land Thrust   First Attempt by Rommel to Break Out of Coffin Corner Repulsed by First Army

8th Army Hits Rommel's Line With Bayonets   Bitter Hand To Hand Battle Rages All Day After British Repulse 3 German Thrusts Destroy 27 Tanks

BRITISH FORCES ‘BEAT BAUK NAL COUNTER ATTACKS   Inflict Heavy Losses on Enemy Troops and Machines.   ALLIES WITHIN 30 MILES OF TUNIS   Slowly, Steadily Driving Deeper Into Enemy Positions.

After Covering Marine Obstacle Course, Correspondent Knows Why Army Sends Home Men Over Forty

University Head Assails Trustees   Blames Politics For Dismissal

HINTON BABY DIES AFTER DRINKING QUANTITY GAS   Loretta Mae Morey, 15Months, Sips From Tin Container

DPINING QUANTITY GA!   Loretta Mae Morey, 15: Months, Sips From Tin Container

Baby Swallows Gasoline With Fatal Effects  Infant Child Of Mr. and Mrs. H. Morey Of Hinton

AXIS LEADERS SHOW JITTERS OVER TUNISIA   Enemy is Startled by Completeness of African Defeat

Africa*FiascoStartles Axis: War Leaders  Allied Victory Bring: New Peace Feeler~ From: Franco  Be TARE EE Tako

NAZI JITTERS RESULT OF TUNIS’ FALL   Axis War Camp Is Started By Completeness Of North Africa’s Collapse Refore Allies   Hitler Tells Of Woes

AXIS WAR CAMP LEFT STARTLED   Hitler Grimly  Recites Hardships; Franco Advances Peace Proposal

SHOW JITTERS OVER TUNISIA   Enemy is Startled by Completeness of African Defeat

Hitler's Dream of New Order F ading on Third Anniversary Of Germany's Invasion of Small, Helpless Nations in Europe

Franco Insists On Peace Plan   Lowlands Tension Reaches New. Peak

QUICK DEFEAT IS BLOW FOR ADOLF HITLER   PEACE FEELERS ARE SENT OUT BY GEN. FRANCO

U.S, AIRMEN HIT NAZI SHIPYARDS   200 HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK WILHEMSHAVEN AND CUXHAVEN—38 MISSING,

NAZI TARGETS HAMMERED BY U.S. BOMBERS   MORE THAN 200 HIT WILHELMSHAVEN AND CUXHAVEN

TWO WEEKS REMAIN TO SETTLE DISPUTE      Deadlock In UMW Minera Case Becoming More Serious

Vandercook Deals Studied By Jury Allegedly Fictitious Operations Probed

Second Big Inch Pipeline Urged   Jester Insists On .. Two More Outlets

SECOND BIG-INCH PIPELINE ADVOCATED CONVEY OIL EAST   MEMBER OF HOUSE OIL SUBCOMMITTEE MAKES

Tons of Bombs Rock Bases Screening Italy   Luftwaffe Seen in Imminent Danger Of Being Swept From [Invasion Path

Italy’s Screen of Air Bases Hit by Massive Weight  Of Explosives.

Allies Boost Air Score In  Italian Area   272 Enemy Planes Are Kayoed In Three Days Of Allied Attacks On Sicily And Sardinia

‘Heavy Attacks Are Centered On  Sicily, Sardinia   Axis Planes Being Knocked Off At 22 To One Ratio

RAIDS 0  ISLANDS CONTINUED   3-Day Toll Of Enemy Aircraft At 272; Italy Attacked

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK ITALY   Thousands sf Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Three-Day Offensive— Total of 273 Enemy Planes Knocked Out of Action.

NORTH COASTAL GAINS THREAT TO BRIDGEHEAD   San Agata-Cesaro Line Obliterated In SeaLand Thrust; 8th  Near Nazi Base   Many Troops Trapped

Disintegration of All the Messina Bridgehead Threatened   DEFENSE SYSTEM-OF NAZIS IMPERILLED   Hundreds of Germans Captured in Rocky Fortifications

Combined Sea-Borne and Land Attacks Batter Nazi Defense; Rout German Suicide Squads

Suicide Troops Recoil Before Yankee Attacks   Obliterate Line; Hundreds of Germans Captured

AL Messina Bridgehead Is Threatened   Seaborne and Land ‘Assaults Combined to Effect Gains

Encirclement Move By Allies Succeeds   British Eighth Army Also Reported Making Good Headway In Advance On Eastern Coast

Surprise Move Imperils Axis Defenses   Messina Bridgehead Also Threatened by British Forces

Fall of Messina Looms as Allies Near Bridgehead   Complete Defeat of Axis Forces in Sicily Nof Far Off

ALLIED ARMIES MAKE ADVANCES   Americans Obliterate San Agata-Cesaro Line   ENTIRE MESSINA   Bridgehead Is Threatened by Drive; Hundreds of Nazis Captured

HOPE 15 SLIME FOR ENEMY IN NORTH SICILY   SUICIDE FIGHTERS OVERWHELMED BY AMERICANS

U.S. Within 43 Miles Of Messina   German Defense System In Sicily Is Imperilled

PATTON'S TROOPS. TRAP HUNDREDS IN BRILLIANT RAD   San Agata-Cesaro Line Wiped Out and Entire Messina Bridgehead Placed in Danger,   TWO FORCES MOVING  ON BASE AT RANDAZZQ   Advance Imperils Whole Ger« man Defense System About , Northern Slopes of Mount Etna.

Nazis Drop Back fo New Sicily Lines.   Seaborne and Land Attacks Force Enemy to Recoil

Allies Close In From All Sides   Messina Bridgehead ls Disintegrating

British Forees Only 7 Miles  From Randazzo   American Amphibious Operation Traps Many German Prisoners;  Messina Line Menaced

Foe’s San Agata-Cesaro Defense Line Obliterated By American Attacks; Messina Brideehead Threatened

Land and Sez Drive Hits Nazi Defense   Getman Suicide Troops Recoil From American Attacks Against Mountain Positions on Sicily North Coast as Prisoners Are Taken

Americans Land at Rear Of Defenders   Operation Threatens Early Disintegration  Of Messina Br idgehead RANDAZZO BIG GOAL

M’NUTT ORDERS DELAY FOR MEN WITH CHILDREN   Corrects False Statement Made About Fathers

R ORDERS NOT TO DRAFT FATHERS   McNutt Now Says Boards May Not Induct Men With Dependent Children Until Authorized To Do So

To Protect — Family Long As Possible   McNutt Issues Statement, Correcting Earlier One,on Drafting of Fathers   TELLS PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED   Regulations _ Governing: Re"Classification. ‘Told by WMC Head

Not to Draft Fathers Yet   McNutt Says Local Draft Boards Must Await Authorization:

DAFT OT ATU UF FAMILY MIEN Io GLARIFIED   Those With Dependent Children Not Yet Being Called, McNutt Declares

ORDER ISSUED ON DRAFTING OF FATHERS   McNutt Says Local Boards Directed Not to Call Men With Dependents

McNutt Says Local Boards Are Still Under Orders Not To Draft Fathers

McNutt Clears. ‘Draft Ruline   Boards Ordered Not To  “Call Fothers

LOCAL BOARDS CANNOT DRAFT FATHERS YET   MeNutt, Correcting Earlier Statement, Says They Must. Await Authority

SAYS FATHERS NOT SUBJECT TO CALL YET   McNutt Says Boards Must Await Authorization   Manpower Head Corrects Earlier Statement

McNutt Clarifies Selective Service Issue  Draft Boards Are Still  Under Orders To Hold Up Drafting Of Fathers

MNUTT ORDERS BOARDS TO END DRAFT OF DANS   Says Call Must Await Authori zation From Selective Service Chief   PLAN GOOD UNTIL APRIL 1   Men tn Non-Deferrable Occupations Must Shift Jobs To Escape 1-A

McNutt Alters His Report on Draft Orders.   Says Boards Have Orders Not To Draft Fathers Unless Ordered

Fathers Not to Be Drafted — Until Boards Get Authority To Take Them, M’Natt:Says

DRAFT BOARDS: WAIT ORDERS TO TAKE FATHERS   McNutt Corrects Statement on Mex With Dependents—Reclassificetion Order Stands

MeNutt Gives New View on Father Draft   Parents Taken Acquired ‘Dependency After '' Dec. 8, 1941

Will Take All Single Men First   Manpower Director McNutt Corrects Earlier Statement   Only Men Married After Pearl Harbor Are Taken   Others Will Remain In Classes 3-A And 3-B For The Present

Induction Regulations  Cleared Up   Present Draft Limited To Those Who Have Acquired Dependency Since Dec. 8, 1941

Local Boards Still Can’t Take Men With Depen-. dent Children.   McNUTT EXPLAINS RULE

CAN'T DRAFT MEN WITH CHILDREN M’NUTT DECLARES   CLARIFIES STATUS OF FAMILY MEN WITH DEPENDENTS

Parents Not To Be Drafted By Local Boards Until Notified By National Headquarters

McNutt Corrects Statement on Drafting Fathers  ibe Boa rds Mu st t Await  ee

Local Boards Not Drafting Family Men   MeNutt Says:  _ Pre-Pearl Harbor  Fathers Not Called

McNutt Says-Dratt Boards Under Orders Not to Induct Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers

WNutt Alters Dad Statement   No Call Now for Those Wed Before War

Family Heads. Are Deferred   MeNutt. Clears Up Statuy Of Those Men Having Dependent Groups

MCNUTT CORRECTS EARLIER DRAFT ‘STATEMENT. . :   War Manpower Commissioner Clarifies Statement Concerning Inductees .

Draft Boards Still Defer Pre-Pear! Harbor Fathers   McNutt Explains Procedure for Future Draft Calls

Yet, McNutt Says   Dependency Explained by _ War Manpower. Commission Chairman.

Manpower Director Lists Order In Which Selective Service Will Summon Males

Made His Qualifying Jump Friday Night   Junior Posey Completes Parachute Jump Training at Ft. Benning, Ga.

8,000-TON JAP SHIP IS SUNK IN BISMARCK SEA   Three Jap Destroyers See Liberaior Bomber Score Hit—Jap Unit in New Guinea Wiped Out

DESTROYERS FUTILE AGAINST U.S. BOMBER   Lone B-24 Sinks Jap Merchant Vessel

ALLIES SINK ENEMY SHIP IN BISMARCK SEA   High-Flying Liberator Scores Direct Hit

RAPS ‘SMEAR?’   Spangler Says New Deal Uses Huge Propaganda Scheme.

Correspondent Finds Sicilians Hungry Because Of Bunaling By The Italians

WANTS STATE RULING   Mitchell Opposes” Action i in Federal -- Court on Labor Union Law

REDS IN TWO DRIVES WEST OF DNIEPER   Threaten Disintegration of Entire German Front, Moscow Re ports,   Wide Gap Is Made in  Defenses Inside Rend

Cermans Hint New Withdrawals Impend as Threat of Entrapment of Huge Forces Increases   KIEVGRIP TIGHTENS   Battle Still Rages in Melitopel Streets—Hitler Orders Crimea Defended to Last Man

JAPS EXPECT YANK RATDS   Soldiers Polished Up At “Killing Academy”

FAIL TO FIND OAKES’ WEAPON   Detective Changes Story On Fingerprint Evidence :

MARIGNY’S TRIAL MOVES TO CLIMAX   WEAPON USED TO KILL OAKES NEVER FOUND, TRIAL JUDGE REVEALS

De Marigny’s Fingerprints Were Found In Room Where Sir Harry Oakes Was Found Murdered

Rommel Turns To  - Night Air Attack:  Four- Motored Bombers  Brought Into Action Re HAROLD VV ROVLE

ROMMEL'S ARMOR IS BLUNTED   By American Forces. Three Tanks Knocked Out In First Barrage, Othere Flee

Rommel Trying Night Air Raids Over U.S. Lines   Best of Nazi Armor Hopelessly Lost In Ground Fighting

AXIS ARMOR FAILS   Turns to the Air to Supplement Its Waning . Power

18 U.S. Planes Missing After Raid On Germany   ‘Smoking Ruins Left In Wake Of Hleavy Bombers

Yankees Outscore Luftwaffe   kighth U.S. Air Force Engages In Thrilling Cloud Battle.

ALLIES MEET STRONG NAZI OPPOSITION   51 Bombers Lost In Heavy Attacks On Ruhr

Heavy Bombers Attack Nazi Targets Jn Northwest Areas  Industrial Centers In Ruhr Battered; 18

SENATE VOTES DEFERMENT OF FARM WORKERS   M eanwhile, Manpower "Draft Measure Is Facing   Revision by House  7 Committee   TO SOOTHE LABOR   Also’ to Assure More Women Workers In-Older . _ Age Group; Nye For Limiting Army ~

CIVILIAN DRAFT BILLS EXPECTED TO BE REVISED   Senators Renew Talk Of Limited Army And Navy

Labor, Women  ‘To Be Soothed   Manpower’ Program Being . Broadened’ To Include . -Oldér Ase Group *

CIVILIAN DRAFT         Senate Votes Farmer Defer: ment; Army. Curb Talked Again

CIVILIAN. DRAFT FOR WAR JOBS SEEN POSSIBLE   Send Bill Deferring Essential Farm Workers to House for Study

LABOR PROGRAM FACES REVISION   Senate Passes Measure Tc Freeze Agriculture Workers On Farms

Allied Bombing Planes Hit Rabaul   Parked Aircraft Blasted At Base

Japanese Base At Rabaul Hit   Allied Airmen Deliver ‘A Maior Blow.

Rabaul, Jap Base Dealt A Major Blow; Fires Rage   Raid Follows Spotting O: Big Concentration Of Planes.

Jap Base At Rabaul Pounded By 16 Tons Of Bombs In Hard ‘Air Attack

‘Japs’ Rabaul Base Smoldering After Major Allied Attack   Bombs Kindle Parked Aircraft; Fires Visible 100 Miles Away; Three Airdromes Receive Hits

BOMB RETREATING _ AFRICAN TROOPS   Sly General Rommel Putting Up Bluff At Wadi Zemzem' While Main Army Flees Westward.

Allies Bomb Retreating Axis Columns   Strafe Corps Forty Miles From Tripoli

WHEELER ASKS ~~ DRAFT DELAY   ALLE ON WMC TO POSTPONE _ DRAFTING FATHERS UNTH . VOTE’ GN HIS BILL -

200 FIGHTERS HIT ABBEVILLE   Virtually No Resistance Met In Sweep Over Occupied Area

U'DALE PASSES 66 PER CENT IN WAR BOND DRIVE   Push Plans To End Campaign Next Tuesday

C'DALE MOVING ALONG FOR 2ND VICTORY DRIVE   39 Per Cent Of War Bond Quota Sold In Area

Axis Casualties in Middle East, Africa Over 600,000      Total Triple That of British, Commons Told; Names of Estimated 5,000 Casualties of Last Four Weeks of Tunisia Campaign Expected to Be Added to U. S. War Victims

House Downs Skip-A-Year  Tax Program   Third Rejection Follows Threat Of Veto By President Roosevelt.   RUML PROPOSAL DEAD   Axis Losses Triple Britain's In Africa

8th Army Drives Wedge In Mareth Line; Yanks Take Maknassy In Sea Drive

ROMMEL USES TANKS IN LAST ESCAPE CHANCE   U. S. Takes Maknassy, 8th Army Breaks Mareth Line In Move To Cut Off Axis Retreat

AFRIKA KORPS IN DESPERATE PLIGHT INALLIED GAINS   British, Americans Within 30. Miles of Sea at Points In’ Tunisia, Have in Suc. paceac  . a!   ALLIED PLANES ARE “IN SUPREME POSITION   Germans Open’ Aerial Counter-Attack But Lose After  - American Forces sil ” Maknassy. :

CAPITAL NEEDS IN WAR PLANTS DONE   Machine Tools For Production Ready, Some Migration ls Anticipated.

OVER PRODUCTION BRINGS THREAT OF ‘UNEMPLOYMENT   WPB DECIDES TO HALT CONSTRUCTION WORK ON MANY WAR PLANTS

WPB Stops Work on Plants Which Can't Be Ready by Oct. .   U.S. Now Has Produc tion Tools Needed to

Last Nazi Junction  In Ukraine   Beat Off Strong Nazi Attacks At Fastov; Destroy 70 Tanks Now Wlanse-

Soviets Drive Toward ‘Vital Junction   Are in Shelling Distance of City of Zhitomir

Yanks Sink Two Enemy Submarines   German Destroyed In  Atlantic, Jap Knocked Ont In Pacific

SHIP REACHES Port    Medium-Sized Merchant Vessel Was Hit by a Torpedo

COMBINATION OF BOMBS AND  ' BROADCASTS TO ITALIANA ~ :.  BEING USED IN. THE . 92> QOPFENBEVE

Allied Strategy Plan Will — ~ Have Italians Free From  Mussolini By Next Fall

Few Enemy Reinforcements Reach Land —U. S. Air Force Strikes Heaviest Blow on Bizerte; Fortresses Bomb  Vital Axis Port in Three Raids

CHINA'S NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DECLARES WAR ON U. S. “BRITAIN   Jap Premier Announces Declaration of His Puppet Government in hina

NANKING GOVT. DECLARES WAR   Action of Jap Puppets of No Mil itary Importance but May Af fect Nationals in Area

Nanking Puppets  At War With U.S.  Declaration Likely Te : Affect Americans lw  - Area Under Rule

YANKS SMASH AHEAD AFTER AXIS ATTACKS   New. Gains Made in Savage Tunisian Clash; First “army Hard Hit.   VON ARNIM CALLS ON HIS FRESHER TROOPS

Nazi Martial LawDeclared;   Disorders in . Denmark Bring Martial Law to Danes; Fires Blaze in Harbor

COPENHAGEN PORT REPORTED ON FIRE IN ERMAN ATTACK   Axis Gunners Kill Great Number of Refugees In Attempts to Escape, Small Boats Are Sunk.   45 VESSELS OF NAVY ARE SENT TO BOTTOM   King Christian Is Reported Interned, Rebellious Kingdom Placed Under Military Chiefs.

BIG FIRES BLAZED AMONG SCUTTLED DENMARK NAVY   Nine Naval Ships Reached Safety in Sweden Before the Nazi Rush.   SHOT AT FLEEING DANES   Scores of Persons Drowned as Nazi Gunners Sank Many Small Boats.

Danes Battle Nazis As Fleet Scuttled; Bulgaria Still In Turmoil   Anti-German Elements May Take Over Control   King And Cabinet Members Interned By Hitlerites

War Law Decreed By  ~ Germans    Scuttling of Fleet of 45 Answer to Dictators

KING CHRISTIAN X INTERNED IN CASTLE   Scores Drown As Nazis Fire On Refugees Fleeing To Sweden In Boats

Sailors Act As Comrades Battle Nazis   Germans Take Kingdom Under Ruthless Army Rule; Troops, Tanks Ponred Into Country

Denmark Battles Germans After Scuttling Navy   Little Nation Struggles Under Fierce Martial Law; Aged King Christian Jailed; Germans Shoot Refugees Flee ing To Sweden

TIGHT CONTROL IS PLACED OVER ALL OF NATION   Spirited Batile Is Fought When Scofiling Occurs in Copenhagen

KING CHRISTIAN X HELD PRISONER BY GERMAN INVADERS   Nazi Patrol Boats Fire on Refugees Fleeing to Sweden; Military Dictatorship  g TDarraad

DANTGH SHIPS ARE SCUTTLED   Germans Clamp Down Military Dictatorship on Re- ~ bellious Nation.   'NINE WARSHIPS ESCAPE

Nazis Shoot Down Danes Fleeing Fron Military Law   Hulks Of Scuttled  Naval Ships Barn In Copenhagen Harbor; 45 Ships Were Sunk

Danish Naval Vessels Burn  As Nazis Set Up New Order   Naval Aviation To Lead Offensives. McCain Savs   New Hornet Launched: as Knoy Predids. Bigger Raids on Japs

WILD DISORDER AS NAZIS MOVE TO TAKE OVER   Big Fires Blaze in Co.  penhagen Harbor; Many Flee

45 Danish _ Ships Are Destroyed   Scuttling of Fleet Is Tiny Denmark’s Way of Making Protest

INTERN KING AND DECREE MARTIAL LAW   10 Vessels Flee To Sweden As 45 Others Are Sunk By Crews: Royal Guard Fires To Protect Castle

King Christian, Members of Cabinet Interned Alier Marines, Guards Baitled Germans   REFUGEES SLAIN   Nazis Impose Army Rule, Death for Sabolage and Strikes—i3 Ships Reach Sweden

Germans Shoot At Danes Fleeing» New Nazi Military Dictatorship; Scuttled Ships Masses Of Flames

BIG FIRES BLAZE FIERGELY AMONG COLITTL FT) SHIPS   Few of Denmark’s Warships Escaped To Sweden   NAZIS AFRAID TO ORDER BLACKOUT

MANY DROWN AS NAZIS SINK SMALL BOATS   Meanwhile, Danish Cabi* net Reported Interned With King Christian— Fires From Scuttled Shins Are Raging.

9 Danish Warships Reach Safety In Swedish Harbor   Violent Disorders Rock Denmark; King May Be Interned Or Abdicate Throne

KING INTERNED; SCUTTLE FLEET AT COPENHAGEN   German Patrol Vessels And Planes Fire On Boats Fleeing To Sweden   [BATTLES RAGE IN STREETS   Armored Cars Enforce Martial Law; Strikes, Public Gatherings Banned

NAZIS RUSH FRESH TROOPS INTO DENMARK   After Violent Disorders Which Reached Peak Sunday

Military Dictatorship By Hitler Follows p Revoll Of Danes; Some War Vessels Get To Safety In Sweden: Royal Guard Fiahts

FLEEING DANES ARE SHOT DOWN BY THE GERMANS   Big Fires Blaze In Copenhagen Harbor Following Scuttling Of Denmark's Fleet; Nazis Use Iron Rule In Wake Of Revolt. Revolt.

Great Fires Rage After Scuttling Of Danish Fleet   King And Cabinet Are Interned By Germans

Martial * Law in — Denmark   Decree Follows Flaming Rebellion in Tiny Kingdom; Most of Danish Fleet is Scuttled

GERMANS FIRE ON REFUGEES CROSSING SEA   Intern King Christian X, Set Up Nazi Rule in Denmark

TEMPERATURES:   Little Denmark Defies - Hitler; Reign Of Terror Beains

Nazis Fire on Danes Fleeing Dictatorship   Refugees Say Scores Drowned As German Gunners Sink Escape Boats; Scuttled  Hulks of Naval Vessels Still Burn.

Nazi Rule Clamped On Revolting Danes As Fleet Is Scuttled   Disorders Bring Drastic Action; 45 Ships Sunk; 10 Flee to Sweden; King Interned, Government Quits

KING CHRISTIAN HELD AT CASTLE BY NAZI GUARDS   Nine Ships Escape to Swecen; Cabinet In Denmark Quits

Martial Law Decreed in Copenhagen   Germans Rule After Fleet Is Scuttled

DESPERATE NAZI LEADERS STRIVE TO RULE DANES    Fleet Scuttled in Copenhceyen  Harbor—Germons Fire at / Small Motorboats

TROOPS HOLD KING CPTI WHS CASTLE   Germans Threaten Death for Inciters of Strikes or Resistance.   DANES SINK 30 NAVAL ' SHIPS: NINE GET AWAY

Tanks, Troops, Planes Being Used To Hold Little Nation In Line   Most Of Danish Fleet Scuttled Right Under Nose Of “Protecting” Hitlerites.

GERMAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP BEEN CLAMPED ON DENMARK   DANES SCUTTLE FLEET; MANY DROWNED AS GERMANS SINK ESCAPE SHIPS

Japs Caught Flat-Footed on New Georaia   Viru Harbor Taken Air Attack Fended

Japs Caught Flat-Footed By Rendova Landing; Enemy’s   Biahter Pilate Tlee Suicide Tartiee Aaginet Innaders

Eyewitness Story of Pacific Offensive of U. S. Forces is Related by British Corresrondent.

Japs Caught Flat-Footed By Rendova Landing; Enemy's Fighter Pilots. Use Suicide Tacties Anqinet Innadoye.

400 PART-TIME WORKERS ARE NEEDED TO HARVEST FARM CROPS IN ALLEN-CO      Japs Caught Flat-Footed, Observer Says

Landing Of Men, Materials Started Before Enemy Opened Fire, Writer With Yanks Reports

EYE-WITNESS. ACCOUNT OF OFFENSIVE   Landing of U. S. Troops on + Yi Rendova Described

FROM 9 COUNTIES   Ration Board Officials’ Held Session Here Last } Night

Reclassification Of Draft Age Men Ordered In State   Those Acceptable , For - Limited Service Placed In New Category

HOUSE 10 BALLOT ON PEAGE POLICY   Leaders Expect Resolution, Setting Up» Peace Machinery, to Pass Easily

House Expected To Take First Step In Committing Congress On Post-War

Peace Plan Bill Before  Congressmen   House Votes On  Post-War Policy

Traffic Mishaps Claim 9Lives   Christmas Week End Death Toll Claims Nine Lives In Traffic Accidents In State; One Found Frozen To Death.

Christmas Week End Death Toll Claims Nime Lives In Traffic Accidents In State; One Found -Frozen To Death.

Last Nazi Defense Line Endangered   Important Soviet Gains Are Scored In Area Near Nazi Escape Corridor As Germans Flee

Russians Storm To Zhlobin   Kill 5,000 Germans Move Within 12 Miles Of Another Vital City.

STEPPING STONES — TO ITALY FEEL HARDER AIR BLOWS   Occupied Countries Nervous As Invasion-Day Nears.

Allies Mass For Final Air Drive   Leave Trail of Wreckage at Sicily Sardinia, Gerbini

KRUEGER T0 GO TO NEW PLACE   Heads Lists Of Promotions Sent To Senate For Confirmation

Naples Hit By Big U.S. Liberators:   Harbor Is Bombed While. R.A:F. Strikes At France -

Rest Camp Is Heaven to Men From Solomons   What a Man Needs i The Way of Solid Comfort Is Provided

Dry Sand, Dry Clothing, Big Steaks— That’s Heaven-on-Earth to Men at Buna

TEMPERATURES:   — NO RATIONING — Jungle Vets InRestCamp Eat Hearty!   Niles Soldier Finds His Idea Of Heaven After. “Long Fight _~.

Revolutionary Heroine to Be Honored With Sale Of Bonds And Stamps.

Revolutionary Pcroine to * Be Honored With Sale (0§ Bonds And Stamps.

CANTEEN OPENS. IN CLEVELAND   Dancing and Free Food for  Men in Service Provided  At Big ‘First Night’

JAPS MUST BE CRUSHED, SAYS CHINA LEADER   Congress Told of China's Part in War by Madame Chiang Kal-Shek Today   U. S. AND CHINA ARE IN WAR FOR SAME CAUSE

Mme. Chiang Wins Congress Cheers  Japanese War Machine Must Be Smashed, She Tells Solons

Mme. Chiang Urges Quick Blow at Japan   Generalissimo’s Wite Tells Congress of Dangers of Delay

APPEAL MADE IN CONGRESS FOR CHINESE   Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Is Given Ovations On Her Appearance in Both Senate and t:ouse   MUST DESTROY JAPAN

A COMMON ENEMY   First Lady of China Ad‘dresses United States  Lawmakers

MME. CHIANG KALSHER SEES —JAPS REAL FOE   Wife Of China‘ Leader Addresses Congress

Must Not Let Japs Continue   Threat to Civilization, Says Mme. Kai-Shek in Speech to Congress   RECORD TURNOUT FOR HER ADDRESS   Four Freedoms a Gong of Freedom, She Says; Wins Great Avviause

U.S. AND CHINA BOTH FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM   Mums. Chiang Kai-shek Tells Congress Jap Military Might Must Be Removed As Threat To Civilization

Big Offensive Against Japan Scheduled Soon   Undersecretary Of War Patterson To Confer With MacArthur

U.S. Military Group Tours South Pacific   Patterson Sees Attack On Japs

War Leaders To Confer at Pacific Bases   Patterson Says Troops and Weapons for Growing Striking Power Being Sent to Southwest Pacifie Zone

Visits  Pacific Bases   Undersecretary of Wat Predicts Early Increase in Striking _ Power Against Japan

Predicts Heavy Blows In Pacific   Patterson In Australia For Conference

MORE BOMBS FOR JAPS   Undersecretary of War Is Visiting MacArthur’s Headquarters

Robt.-Patterson, Gen.. Knudsen With MacArthur   Under Secretary Of War - Sats Heavier Blows At ‘Japs Are Coming Soon

Undersecretary of War Arrives at MacArthur's Pacific Headquarters

PATTERSON SEES PACIFIC FORCES   Undersecretary of Wor to Confer With MacArthur, Aussie Leaders

PATTERSON IN SOUTH PACIFIC   TWIN OFFENSIVES WILL HIT JAPS IN VITAL ZONE

Patterson Visits General MacArthur  Predicts Heavy Blows At Japan Coming Soon  2 a ae yet

—PACIFIC— .  NEW DRIES PACIFIC INTE   Patterson, On Inspection, Predicts ‘Blows Of Increasing Strength’   IN AUSTRALIA   Declares ‘Growing Striking Power’, Being Sent To Southwest Pacific

FRENCH FORMING: GUERRILLA BANDS   Youths Flee Labor Camps for ——-Patriet-Gompanies-ia—  Bhan

Back-to-Work Move > Sends Many Miners Back to Their Jobs   “chrysler Workers Also Return to War Work  in Detroit, Mich.

Labor Front Presents Spotted Picture. .. . Miners And Chrysler Workers Going Back

W.L.B. Is Expected To Give Ultimatum To Lewis On Coal Situation Next Week

WLB Studies Panel Report On Miners’ Pay   Back-to-Work Trends. Noted in Coal Fields, At Chrvaler’s

IDLE MINERS DECLINE BUT  PAY ARGUED   Green Warns No Strikes, if Lewis Group Joins A. F. L.

Coal Mine Trend Is Back'to Work   Labor Troubles in Other  ‘Fields Present Confused  Picture   VERDICT ON COAL SOON   War Labor: Board Studies _ Report of Fact-Finding   Committee

Chrysler Plant Strikers Start Back To Work: Few Miners Remain Idle

CRISIS IS NEAR IN MINE STRIKE   Showdown With Lewis To Come Soon—Back-to-work Starts Chrysler Plants

DECISION IS NEAR IN COAL DISPUTE   Miners Going Back to Work As Panel Report Is Submitted

WLB LOOKS FOR EARLY SOLUTION ON COAL DISPUTE   Most, Idle Miners Return to Work as Board Issues Report

Striking Miners Return To Jobs In Coal Fields   Picture Clouded By Conflicting Developments

NUMBER IDLE MINER DWINDLES SATURDAY LABOR PICTURE BAD  STRIKERS IN SOME WAR PLANTS RETURN WORK WHILE OTHERS QUIT

Coal Dispute Picture Brighter   Many Miners Back To  Work Following Panel Report; Lewis Stand on WLB Decision Doubtful

~ IN MINORITY: PEACE NEAR   WLB Report May Clear Coal, General Labor Picture Cloudy

Decision Due  Soon In Coal Pay Dispute   Chrysler Strike In Detroit Ends

\Number of Idle Miners Dwindles; WLB Gives Report on Controversy

Red Surge Cuts Orel Rail Line   Russ Say Nazi: Face Another Stalinerad

SOVIETS SLASH OREL-BRY ANSK KEY RAILROAT   One Day’s Battle Costs Germans  9000 Men

Importance Attached to Stettinius’ Appointment   Seen as Bold Move By F.D.R. To Prepare For Coming Meetings With Britain. Russia   EX-LEASE-LENDER SUCCEEDS WELLES

Naming Of Stettinius Seen As Paving Way For Conferences   Appointment of New Undersecretary of State Regarded as Bold Move to Prepare for Forthcoming Meets With Russia and Britain

Stettinius Naming  _ Emphasizes Red Policy   Doubtless Will Accompany Hull To Moscow Next Month As TriPartite Meetings Loaom

Nation’s Chiel Readies for Russ Parley  Names Stettinius, Friend of Soviet, Ac Initial Mawe

Stettinius May Be Key To Next Move To Stalin   Say President Makes Bold Stroke In Successor  To Mr. Welles

FDR Seeks Closer Ties With Reds   Big Job Given To Stettinius By Roosevelt

i ow @ : . ‘ ~ se S:e—ini is A.990in-men: -ncica es Acmin’s ra ton Sn-rus-ing Sovie™ %e-9ICNS Wi1 Susiness ‘en

FDR PREPARES 70 NEGOTIATE WITH SOVIETS   Naming of Stettinius Heid Move to Get Ready For Talks

Stettinius Appointment Finds Favor ‘In Congress, Is Seen as Bold Move to Improve Soviet Relations

Hard-Headed Policy Seen Towards Reds   Stettinins and Harriman  Known as Practic: ih ria »

TO NEGOTIATE WITH SOVIETS   Naming of Stettinius Held Move to Get Ready for Talks

Stettinius appointment has bold post-war implications   President’s choice is approved by both parties: look for new harmony

Smash Junction Points Of Two German Forces   Lone American Flier, Carrying Single _ Bomb, Demolishes Nazi Headquarters .  Building; Russians Roll On,  : Take 13 More Villages.

WRB Will Reorganize Soon, Report   Prineipal Result Will Be Reshuffling Of War Contracts

BARRETT LOSES DISPUTE OVER U- LAWYERS   BUT SUPREME COURT RULES SALARIES SHOULD NOT BE PAID

Supreme Court Rules for U. Ill. in Action Brought by Attorney General

CALLED INTO SERVICE   State Representative Barr Enlisted Last October

Soldier Voting Brings Problem  Two Sides to the Current Arqunent

SENATE OPENS TAX HEARINGS   auiimneene FoR aoML PLAN INSTEAD OF COMPRORHZK . ‘MEASURE 19 REFORTaT :

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN GAINS SUPPORT   Senate Frowns On Measure Passed By House

SENTIMENT IN SENATE SHIFT® TO RUML PLAN   Hearings Launched; Debate May Begin Next Monday

French, U.S. Forces Hur! Back Axis   Armored Attack Is Repulsed as Airmen Smash Tank Cache

Axis Armored  Attack Repulsed   German, Italian Prisoners Captured; American Airmen Raid Port of Sousse

Americans Take Nazi, Italian ‘Prisoners in African Repulse; ‘Yank Fliers Overwhelm Foe .

FRENCH HURL BACK HEAVY NAZI ARMORED ATTACK AND TAKE PRISONERS IN TUNISIA

French Troops Destroy Six Enemy Tanks   U. S. Anti-Tank Gunners And Planes Help; 28 Axis Planes Knocked Down

Tunisia Allies, Repulse Tanks, Hit 62 Planes   Yankee Gunners, Flier: Support French After Heavy Air Battle

FRENCH, BACKED BY U. 5. ANTI-TANK GUNS, HURLED AXIS BACK  AMERICAN AIRMEN STAGE _ TWO HEAVY RAIDS ON ENEMY OBJECTIVES

Yanks, French Repel Violent Axis Attack   American Airmen Also Bomb Enemy ‘African Ports

American Forces Join In Defense Of French Lines   Allies Hurl Back Heavy Armored Attack; Shoot Down 28 Axis Planes During Raids

FRENCH FORCES HURL BACK AXIS RAID IN AFRICA   U. S. Anti-Tank Gunners Assist in Thwarting Newest Enemy Attack

HEAVY ENEMY TANK ASSAULT HURLED BACK   French Forces Effectively, Aided ky U. S. Gunners Score Victory Southeast of Pichon   SOUSSE PORT RAIDED

German And Italian Prisoners Captured Southeast Of Pichon, Headquarters Announcement Discloses— Two Raids By American Airmen Destroy Six Tanks At Sousse—U. S. And British Planes Down 28 Enemy Aircraft, Damage 34 Others

Anti-Tank Troops Back French Units   Armored Thrust South of Pinchon Turned Back—  Prisoners Taken

Growing Allied Air Might Hits At Axis Bases   American Fliers Brave Bad Weather to Shoot Down 28 Enemy Ships.   French Forces Push  Back An Axis Attack

French Backed By Americans Repulse Nazis,   American Airmen in Light Bombers and Fighters Attack Port of Sousse

Heavy Axis Tank Attack Beaten Off By French   U.S. Anti-Tank Gunners And Planes Aid In Hurling  Rack Fnemvyv

Allies Blast Axis Armored Force Attack   American Airmen Hit Armored Equipment In Pair Of Raids On Sousse Port

U. § AIRMEN DESTROY TANKS   Hit Axis Units Near Souisse; Allies Down 28 WarPlanes

French Troops Repulse Heavy Armored Attack   American Airmen Blast Tanks of Enemy at Sousse

U. S. Anti-Tank Crews Aid in Hurling Back Axis Attack     YANK FLIERS ACTIVE     Allied Air Power Mounts With Flying Fortresses  In the Lead

ALLIED AIR FORCE SHOOT DOWN 28 AXIS AIRCRAFT IN TUNISIA DURING WEEK-END   American Pilots Flying Light Bombers and Fighters Attack Axis Armored Equipment Concealed About Port of Sousse

U.S. FORCES PARTICIPATE IN BATTLE   Allies Down 28 Enemy Air: craft In North Africa   Attempt Thrust In Region Of Foudouk; Foe Raids \lgerian Port

Fall Of Orel To Russians Is Near As Advances Are Made   German Radio Prepares People For City’s Eall Ry Calling It OF Lo cal Imnortance

Soviets Expand Operations On Eastern Front   Smash Deeper Into German ‘Defenses In Orel Scctor

Soviets Drive Forward  on Six Fronts Reds Are Within   Reds Are Within Five Miles of Orel Bastion

Soviets Drive Forward on Six Fronts   Reds Are Within Five Miles of Orel Bastion

Last Twenty-Four Howrs Most Evenitul For Allied Arms; Two Nolable Evenis In Russia And Battle Tide Turns In Italy

 BEST NEWS COMES FROM SALERNO  ‘Three Notable Allied Gains in 24 Hour:

THREE NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS FOR ALLIED ARMS IN 24 HOURS; MORCENTHAL’S TALK CRITICIZED

wrrrtrrTity   Hitlerites Suffer 3 Grave Setbacks in Past 24 Hours

The War Today  Three Notable Achievements For Allies In Last 24 Hours.

The War T oday— os Writer Hails Seizing Of Initiative  At Salerno As Notable Allied Feat

CRITICS MUM   Won’t Attack Army Fund Bil Now: Criticism Due Later.

WEATHER SLOWS TUNISIAN DRIVE   Allied Campaign Bogged Down In Mud

British Ready For New Blow At Rommel   Patrols of Eighth Army  Reaching Into Tunisia . *No-Man’s Land”

RELAKING OF. DRAFT RULES 19 PROPOSED   ‘Senator Bankhead Would =" Gonfine Draft to Air Corrs apa Navy. -    STEP WILL BE DRA2TIC   Sire of the. Army Is Becoming a [Major Issue in Our Congress.

RELAXING Ot DRAFT PULES 1 PROPOSED   Senator Bankhead Would Confine Draft tc Air Corrs and Navy.   STFP WILL BE DRA3TIC,   Sice of the Army Is Becoming a Major Issue in Our Congress.

FIRST STEP COMPLETED IN REFLOATING HUGE \LAFAYETTE: HULL   Former French Liner Normandie Reached 49 Degree fle Yesterday On High

U. S.S. Lafayette Partly Righted In First Major Step Of Salvage Job

DISABLED VESSEL IS RIGHT SIDE UF   Lafayette, Former Norman: die to Be Ready as Transport Within Year.

Liner Afloat, To Be Refitted   Will Be Converted Into Troop Transport

Normandie Is  Off Bottom   French Liner Normandie  Expected to Be Raised it Six Weeks

Treasury Checks Up on Gigantic Expenses of War   Billions Being Spent for All Purposes, Reports Declare

HOUSING PROWO™T avonnucn   U.S. Has Biggest Spending Year, But Even Bigger Period Ahead

United States Embarks Upon  Costliest Year   Big Expenditure For War Procram

BRITISH PURSUE ROMMEL'S ARMY ON ROAD 10 SFAX   10,000 Additicnal Prisoners Captured by Allies; Amer icans Mop Up on Central Front.

Nazis Being Pushed Deeper Into Trap — Doubt Exists Whether Rommel Can Make Another BigScale Stand South of Sousse,

ROMMEL DRIVEN FURTHER: NORTH, GOING GETS TOUGE   Bulk of Prisoners Italian. Patton Mopping Up Hill Sactions Now.

10,000 More Prisoners Are - Taken by Allies   FRONT AND REAR SUPPLY LINE POUNDED HARD  BY AIR POWER.

ILLNESS FATAL TO MCINTYRE   White House Buffer Dies While His Chief Is Away On Trip

IIIness Claims F. R.’s Secretary   ‘Was Associated With President Since 1920

JAP U-BOATS INWOLF PACK SINK 9 SHIPS   ALLLIED SEA LANES OFF AUSTRALIA ARE RAIDED

FIVE ALLIED SHIPS SUNK BY JAP SUBS   VESSELS TORPEDOED EAST OF AUSTRALIA—MOST OF CREW MEMBERS SAVED.

SMUTS HAS HOPE BF PEACE IN °44   So. African Chief Convinced g of Allied Victory After Study in London

Premier Smuts Has Conference With Roosevelt   South African Leader Hope. ful European War Will End During Next Year

Leaders Plan Attack Details   Premier Hopes For End of War By Next Year

TUGWELL SAYS REVOLT LIKELY IN PUERTO RICO   Governor Tells Congress It Faces Choice of Giving Economic Aid or ‘Suppressing’ People

LEAVES. STOCK TOFOUNDATION   Edsel Ford Estate Inheritance Tax May Amount To $12 Million.

Estimated Inheritance and Transfer Taxes Might Not Amount to Much More Than $12,000,000 Because He Bequeathed Greater Part of Company Stock to Ford Foundation

Edsel Ford Stock  To Foundation   Inheritance Tax May Be Around 12 Million Aa Result.

Ford Inheritance  Tax 12 Millions   Greater Part of Edsel Ford Motor Co. Stock Goes to  Foundation.

EDSEL FORD'S WILL IS FILEL   Bulk Of His Ford Motor  Stock Bequeathed  To Foundation

FILE WILL OF ~ EDSEL B, FORD   Bequeaths Larger Part ot} Motor Stock To Ford Foundation

FOUNDATION 10 GET FORD STOCK   Edsel’s Will Shows Tax On Estate May Not Exceed 12 Million Dollars

FORD FOUNDATION GAINS IN WILL   Inheritance Taxes May Only Amount to About 12 Millions as Money Gdes to Charity

Edsel Ford Gives Bulk Of Stock To  Foundation   Taxes Will Be About $12,000,000; Estate Estimated Worth An On OOD

EDSEL FORD'S WILL PROBATED   Tax May Not Exceed Twelve Million Dollars; Foundation Given Stock,

Ford Witll Is Filed Ine Court   ee Estimated Estate Is About $200,000,000

EDSEL FORD LEFT AN  ESTATE VALUED AT  ABOUT $200,000,000 GREATER PART OF  HOLDINGS LEFT TO EnNRN EOUNDATION

EDOEL FORD'S EOTATE TAXED GUT BY GIFT:   May Not Amount to More Than $12,000,000, Estimate of Attorneys.   MOST OF COMPANY STOCK GOES TO FOUNDATION

Edsel Ford Wills Most of Stock fo Ford Foundation  As Result, Taxes. hdece Rbeh Acmacceh Be

WILL OF EDSEL  FORD PROBATEL   Attorneys Say Estate Probably Will Amount To $200,000,000

Foundation Gets Most Ford Stock   Unele Sam May Get Paliry 12 Millions From Edsel Estate

Auxiliary Naval Building Approved   House Committee Passes Measure

Black Market in Liquor Revealed   OPA Planning to Smash Ohio Ring

BLACK MARKET IN LIQUOR REPORTED   OPA Plans to Smash Hugs Ring Dealing in Hard Drinks in This State.

FOURTH TERM. BATTLE! SEEMS IN FULL BLAS   Michigan G.O.P. Congressman Renews Fireworks With Charges..      [IS MILD SENSATION   All the While President Rocsevelt Sits Silently on. Sidelines.

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OPENS ON THE WASHINGTON FRONT   FIRST OPEN BLASTS OF 1944 PRESIDENTIAL RACE ARE “ NOW-BEING UN- LEASHED

Declares Fourth Term Campaign Now In Progress   Congressman Bradley As. serts Miles, Frankfurter, Laski Group Directing   DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS SILENT

OPEN CONCERT COURSE   Marie Wilkins Will Present Program at Hoch This Evening

MAY INCREASE OHIC LIQUOR RATIONS SOON   New OPA Ruling May Enable Larger Supply

LIQUOR SUPPLY MAY IMPROVE   Price Ceilings in Other States May Improve State’s Purchasing

SHOWDOWN NEAR IN DRAFT FIGHT   Congressmen Favor Limit On Army Size, Oppose Calling Fathers

DRAFT PLAN AND ARMY SIZE COMING TO-SHOWDOWN SOON   COMMITTEES . RUSHING HEARINGS PRELIMINARY TO: TAKING QUESTIONS TO FLOOR OF CONGRESS

LONDON SOURCES DECLARE ITALIAN RUMORS ‘PHONEY   Decline To Accept Reports Being Circulated About Imminent Italian Collapse  Be. FAYLVETY PENNE DST

Mercury to Dip Further   10-Degree Drop In Lakes Region Tonight Forecast

OPERATORS GIVE EMPHATIC “NO” 10 J. 1. LEWIS   Coal Men and Union Leaders Disagree as To Cost of Increasing  Ractn Paw af Minor:   PAREEY CONTINUES

OPERATORS TELL MINERS “NO’   Wage Conference Continues in New York Today

NEW RAIDS BF PAGIFIG FLEET ON JAP BASE   Are Seen As Part Of Drive Tc Force Enemy Back To Truk

Pacific Blows Aimed At Truk   Tarawa, Nauru Latest Target For Planes

U. $. Planes Hit Jap Isle Bases   Carrier Bombers Strike at Gilberts

Churchill, Marshall Fly to North Africa  To Check Final Plans   Greatest Offensive Blow Yet to Be Dealt the Axis Ready to Be Sprung; Allied Leaders Inspect Troops in Africa

Curtain to Raise Before — Very Long   ’  ZERO HOUR DECLARED TO  BE UNDENTABLY AP HAND. :

ALLIED STAFF MAPS PLAN IN NORTH AFRICA   Churchill Confers With Highest Leaders

Greatest Offensive Blow ‘Of War Is Claimed Ready   Churchill Returns To England After Flying » Boldly To North Africa From Meet In U. 5S.

Spectacle Assured by Vote of Senate Foreign Committee   Confirmation of Brown  Deemed Certain

Can't Dodge  Tax Payments   At Least Ist Quarter Required March 15

INCOME TAX LAW ROUSES SOLON’S IRE   Would Repeal Measure He Terms “Pay-as-You-Go-Before-YouKnow-What-You-Owe” Plan

Flying Fortress Crashes into Sea, Crew All Rescued   "Old lronsides, Riddlec with Bullets, Unable To Reach Home

FORTRESS GREW'S RESCUE SWIFT   “Old _lronsides.” Crashes Into North Sea After Attack on Huls

PATTON LEADS RAPID THRUST BY U.S. UNITS      March to east threatens to split forces of  Marshal Rommel

tunisia Yanks Push Eastward In 2 Columns   Troops Occupy El Guettar, 72 Miles From Gabes: Others Near Senad   NO OPPOSITION   British Withdraw From Tamera As Natis Jab In Sedjanane Sector

Capture Oasis East of Gafsa   Only Slight Interference Is Encountered

Asks Fighting Money From “Shareholders in America’”’   By HENRY MORGENTHAL. JR. Secretary Of The Treasury (Written For The Associated Press)

Uncle Sam Wants To Borrow 13 Billion Importance Of Campaign Is Cited Bu Moraqenthay

Uncle Sam Wants To Borrow 13 Billion Importance Of Campaign Is Cited By Morgenthau   By HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR. Secretary of the Treasury (Written for The Associated Press) pe anda mnmgmees haecctt Pe rat  Se aa a aries aereas

Nazis Flee Over Their Own Dead   Many Menaced By Strategy Of Yanks  By HAROLD V. BOYLE

Nazis Flee Over. Their ( Own Dead   Many Menaced By Strategy Of Yanks

Brothers Beat Sheriff, Flee Colorado Jail   Loot’ Sheriff’s iff’s Office, “Steal His Auto And-Escape; Wanted Qn' Murder Charge

AXIS PINNED INTO CORNER ~~ OF TUNISIA   French Seize Key Hill, Capture 1000 Foes

Rommel’s Flight Nears End, Lacks Place To Go: French Take Djebel  Karachoum.

Giraud Annuls All Vichy Legislation in French “North and West Africa, De Gaulle Accepts Bid

VICHY ORDERS ARE ANNULLED BY GEN. GIRAUD   Ends Discrimination Against Labor Unions, Jews

bes COVO APOC E FE AVE Ge  Says Provisional Government Is Solution to Indian Tangle   Rv DEWITT MACKENZIE

BLOODY INDIAN REVOLT HELD AS ALTERNATIVE TO SPEEDY CETTIEMENT INDIAN QUESTION

Strong Government Along National Lines Favored  To Settle Indian Crisis   [MacKenzie Finds Surprising Number Of Native And British Leaders In Agreement On  Need Far Strong Mensures   RY DEWITT MACKENZIE

Britain Has Already Promised Absolute Independence To india, But Arguments And Side Issues Are Blocking Settlement

Revolution Held Probable  In Settling India’s Issue   Many See Revolt As Alternative Unless British and Warring Parties Reach Agreement On Differ ences In Dispute Over Independence; Three Cardinal Points Involved

POSSIBILITY OF REVOLT IN INDIA-MACKENZIE  immediate Settlement Demanded

Attack Adds To Peril Of Germans   Soviets Sweep Forward to Nazis’ Path Into Crimea; Many Towns Fall; Enemy Loses Heavily in Men, Material

Reds Open Way For Closing Nazi Escape Roufe   Nizhne-Saragozhy Big Prize to Soviets; Taken in Sweep

Russians Race to Seal Off  Crimean Trap  - Reach Final Lap of Highway  T aweltaaa ta Dasalean

Russian Troops Closing German Trap in Crimea   Moscow Reports Important Gain

Reaches Point 60 Miles From Perekop Through Which Nazis ‘Must Flee if They Abandon Peninsula.   RETREAT OF GERMANS DESCRIBED AS ROUT   Soviets Cut Rail Line Between Dnieper and Bug Rivers by 35-Mile Gain in Krivoi Roo Area.

Soviets reach final lap to Crimean door   Take village in  move to trap foe

SOVIETS RACING TO SEAL FATE ‘OF NAZI ARMIES   Red Troops Are Now Only 60 Miles From Germans’  Crimean Doorway   RETREAT BEGINNING TO APPROACH ROUT

Russ Troops Near Perekop   Nazi Crimea Doorway ls Being Threatened

Set Stage For Su preme Drive - Against Nazis   New Conference Begins In Iran Few Days ’ After North African: Meeting In Which Solemn Resolve Was Made To Deprive  Japan Of Her Sprawling Empire -:

NEW INVASION OF EUROPE IS AGREED ON BY U.S.-BRITAIN   Pledged Unrelenting War te Thrash Japan Into Unconditional Surrender.   A FIVE-DAY MEETING   Participated in by President  Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek.

INVASION OF CONTINENT IS MAIN ISSUE   Japan To Suffer Island Losses In New Pact

FDR, Churchill, Stalin’ Meet In Tabriz, Iran,  Swedish Report Saus

Charges Administration's New Tax Bill Would Impose Unbearable Burden on Taxpayers and is Indefensible,

A FIGHT ON HIGHER TAXES   Republicans and Democrats Join Hands On Issue

BULK GAS COUPONS OLT   Users of 960 Gallons Will Get Deposit Certificate

Berlin Rocked By RAF Assault   Half Of Capital’s  Riitdinne In Rutine

Berlin Rocked By RAF Assault   Half Of Capital's  Ririldinac In Ruins

Half of Berlin In Ruins After New RAF Raid   41 Bombers Toll;  1500 Tons Dropped ~on’Central Area ~

CRUISER ONLY COST VICTORY OVER JAPS   No Other American War ship Even Damaged During Naval Engagement

6,000-TON JAP SHIP DESTROYED BY ALLIES   Enemy Installations At Wewak, New Guinea, Are Given Heavy  Poundine

6,000 Ton Jap Ship Is Sunk 'In New Guinea   Allied Bombers Also Hi Harbor Boat and Attack Airdromes

JAP OFFENSIVE BID SQUELCHED   Ground Forces Mop Up On Defense System In New Guinea

Japs Suffer Heavy Loss in Aircraft   Three Nip Coastal Vessels Are Reported Bombed

Blast Jap navy base at Rabaul   See more signs growing plans Jap offensive

Allies Strike Hard at Rabaul Port   Troops Discover Sign Of Elaborate Offensive Planning

Allied Airmen Rain Bombs On Jap Bases      Mighty Assaults Blast Rabaul, Invasion Centers

Predicts Victory for Progressive Elements in Party Struggle With Conservatives   PROUD HE’S IDEALIST   “Old-Fashioned American: ism Last Refuge of Fascists,” He Declares -in Interview

Suicide Snipers Delay U.S. Forces in Bizerte   Artesia, N. M., Soldier Among Fighting Engineers Who Clear Enemy From City

CAPTURE OF BIZERTE DESCRIBED BY ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER   Harold V. Boyle Tells Story of American Doughboy Attack on German Snipers in City

U.S. Doughboys Rush Nazi Machinegun Nests to Drive Snipers From Bizerte

High Praise For Sicily’s Conquerors   Gen. Alexander. Terms Feat “Magnificent” ; Says Military Achieve ments Remarkable

Gen. Alexander Lauds Americans  Praises Engineering Feats In Sicily

CHECK ORDERED OF ALL REGISTRANTS   Draft Status of All Men Under 45 to be Determined

DRAFT STATUS TO BE STUDIED   Local Boards Directed To Check Classifications Of Registrants

Wirt Franklin at Meeting Of Grade Crude Group Calls for Expansion

PAW Executive Urges Oil Men to Expand Drilling   Franklin Tells Penn Grade Association That Both Ickes and Davies Will Not  Relax Drive for Boost in Crude Price

Executive Urges Oil Men To Expand Drilling   Will Not Relax Drive For Boost in Price Of Crude Oil

Six Traffic Deaths Occur Over State   Total for Year 262, Still Below 1942 Total

THREE INJURED IN ; AUTOMOBILE (RAST      Car Hits Unoccupied Res taurant Tuesday Aftarnoon

THREE INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASE   Car Hits Unoccupied Restaurant Tuesday Afternoon

SOLONS HAIL SHOWDOWN ON LABOR POWER   Anti-Racketeering Act Is Up for Consideration In Congress

SHOWDOWN LOOM: ON LABOR STRENGTH   Hobbs Bill Will Provide Clue On Revisions

LABOR TEST IN CONGRESS NEAR   Outcome To Indicate Whether Sharp Revision Is In Ofting

ORGANIZED LABOR TO GET FIRST TEST IN 7RTH CONGRESS    Majority Whip Suggests Public Hearings “To Clear The Air’

ORGANIZED LABOR FACES 11S FIRST TEST OF STRENGTH IN NEW CONGRESS

Port Moresby Bombed  By 100 Nippon Planes;  Fifty-T wo Shot Down

Dogfights Rage Over New Guinea Port as Enemy Launches Heaviest  Raid in Theater.   CRAFT BAGGED IN 2 DAYS INCREASED TO %6   Allied Losses Described as Light — Nipponese Air Offensive Believed Blunted.

Japs Suffer Bad Loss In New Fight   Allies Shoot Down 37 Of 100 Attacking Planes: Hit Holdinas

Thirty-seven Attackers Are Shot Down   100 Aircraft Make Assault on Vital Allied Port

efenders Blast 7 of Enemy's stacking Craft   Tokyo's Offensive Apparently Curbed, Says Communique  LLIES STRIKE, TOO  Convoy Is Battered And Bases Bombed In Series of Raids

Japanrae Air Offensive Is . Turned Back      Armada of 100 Jap Planes Repelled at Port Moresby Base

TECHNICIANS TO STATE   Additional Physio Therapists Sent by National Foundation

ALLIED AIRCRAFT HEAD FOR FRANCE      Bombers In Maneuvers For Second Night  In Row

Hull Says Moscow Conference  Lays Basis for World Peace for All   Secretary of State Wins Thunderous Ovation From Senate and House

HULL CHEERED IN REPORT ON MOSCOW PACT   POST-WAR PEACE AND SECURITY FORESEEN

PARLEY LAID PEACE BASIS, HULL STATES   Secretary Reports Personally to Congress  On Moscow Meet

Hull Gets-Ovation-As He Tells Plans To End International “Anarchy”

HULL CALLS PACT OF MOSCOW STEP TOWARD SECURITY   Telis Congress Foundation Was Laid for Post-War Peace for Nations, Both Great and Small.   TREMENDOUS OVATION IS GIVEN SECRETARY   Packed GaHeries Hear Him Declare Accord Will Abolish Need for Balance of Power.

Hull Tells Congress Foundation Laid For Lasting Peace   History-Making Personal Report of Secretary Of State Received With Acclaim; Tribute to Soviets Loudly Seconded

Congress Hails Hull for Report On Soviet Pact   Secretary Expresses Conviction Agreement Laid Foundation for Post-War Peace Era

Hull Says Parley At Moscow Pave d W ay For W orld Peace   Secretary of State, in History-Making Report to Con gress, Outlines Plans to End International “Anarchy”—Lauds Russians and Stalin

SURE TARY HULL REPORTS MOSCOW MEET 10 SOLONS   Asserts Declaration Lays the Foundation for Post-war World of Peace   ADDRESSES JOINT MEET OF SENATE AND HOUSE   Receives Ovation With Address Interrupted Fre. quently by Applause; De-. clares Conference Made Steps in Shortening War

Congress Hears Hull Hail Moscow  Declaration   Foundation Is Laid For Post-War World Of Peace and Security. Gacretary Relieves   RECEIVES ACCLAIM FROM LEGISLATORS

Hull Sees Basis For Lasting Peace. Security   Moscow Statement Said Foundation For Postwar Accord

Morgenthau, Boiling Mad, Says Tax Bill ls Worse Than No Bill af All

REDS BREAK LINE OF ENEMY AT OREL ASAP TURE BASE   Nazi Command Is Throwing Great tanks Into Fighting For Escape Corridor in Donets Basin Area.   JAP WARSHIP IS HIT BY THREE BIG BOMBS   President Inonu Says Turkey May Be Forced to Enter War, Not Hostile to Any Nation.

REDS BREAK ENEMY LINES BELOW OREL: GAINS IN UKRAINE   Russians In Immediate ‘Area Of Dneiper — é Germans Resist At Poltava

Break Thru Line South Of Key City   OTHER RUSSIAN ARMIES ARE.THOUGHT TO BE IN IMMEDIAT! AREA OF THE DNIEPER RIVER.“

Red Assault Troops Break Through Line   Several Fortified Villages Seized In Latest Drive

SF. CHEERS MME. CHIANG   CHINESE FIRST LADY WELCOMED AT BAY CITY

Coast Gives Mme. Chiang Big Welcome   Pier Obscured by Bowers Of Eucalyptus Boughs, Apricot Blooms

Lindell Hears it Will be in 9th Ward; Objects   Location Reported to be South of Lake, Near Cottage Grove Ave.

GERMAN FLIERS RETALIATEIN PUNY ATTACK   Shells Dropped In Edge Of British Capital In Face Of Heavy Ground Fire   Midlands Are Hit

R. A. F. Bomber Attack Causes   Pires In Berlin   Four-ton block biister bombs and incendiaries’ dropped. on.  Nazi capital, ©,   Rolletin

Spangler Flays New Deal Laws   Address Ends G. O. P Session at Missoula

Spangler Charges New Deal Replacing Laws   National Republican Chairman Stresses Importance of Domestic Issues In Coming Campaign, Scores Spending

Colin Kelly's Bombardier Killed   Sergeant Levin Dies in Pacific

Sat. Meyer Levi Killed In Action  Kelly's Bombardier Thrice Decorated For Aerial Combat

Colin Kelly's Bombardier Killed  Won Flying Cross For Part in Sinking OE tha Horuna

Sgt. Levin, Colin Kelly's Bombardier, Loses His Life   Brooklyn Hero Killed In Pacific Following Numerous Close’ Calls

POST-WAR FOOD AATIONING SEEN   Food Meet Delegate Urges international Action to Prevent Wide Fluctuation in Food Produets

Troops Rushed to Rivers In Middle West to Help In Fight Against Floods   Ever-Normal Granary Is Talked at Food Parley

Food Planners See Chance of New World Grain Plan  U. S. Delegate Says — Rationing May  Continue for Years

NEW PAY-AS-YOU-GO   Senate Conferees Advance Com. promise Proposal For 1942 Taxes

De Marigny's Pretty Wife Testifies In His Defense as Trial Nears End

Marigny’s Wife Begs Jury to Free Husband   Defense Rests After Nancy Takes Stand; Count Weeps Silently

Nancy Tells Jury Belief In Husband’s Innocence; - Final Arguments Today

WIFE PLEADS FOR ACCUSED SLAYER      Nancy Oakes de Marigny Asks .Acquittal of Husband

Jittery Germans, Fearing Invasion, Seek To Put Down French Uprisings   Confer With Paris Police On Measures To Prevent Outbreaks In Hinterlands When Allies March On Continent.

Gen, De Gaulle Hopes French Can Revolt Exactly at Time of Continental Invasion

FEAR OF INVASION WORRYING GERMANS   Unrest in Occupied Lands Gives Hitler Jitters

FEAR AN INVASION   Nazis Are Wondering How French Guerrillas May Be Checked .

‘Prospects of Invasion Give Nazis Jitters   Germans Confer with Police in Paris on Measures to Prevent Outbreaks When Allies Arrive

Nazis Try ToPrevent Outbreaks   Hold Conferences At Paris On Measures To Be Followed In Case Of Invasion

AEDS BREAKING GERMAN LINES   Russian Army Cracks Defense Defending City in Central Ukraine.   HEAD TOWARD DNEIPER

SOVIETS ROLLING TOWARD ONIEPER   German Resistance Cracks at Lozovaya in Central Ukraine Fight

RUSSIAN ATTACK BROKE THE GERMAN DEFENSE LINES   Were Defending Lozovaya in the Central Ukraine, It Was Announced.   A GENERAL ADVANCE   Autumn Rains Have Started Falling in the Ukraine, a Dispatch Stated.

Red Army Presses Drive on Dnieper   Autumn Rains Start to Slacken Speed Of Maneuvers in Great Russian Campaian

Night Attack Cuts Nazi Line Holding Lozovaya; Dnieper Offensive Gaining

Soviet Cracks Nazi Line at Lozovaya   Russia Hasn‘t Said Bryansk Captured

AHEAD IN CENTER   Autumn Rains Intervene to Delay Progress of Russian Armies

MAKE GAINS IN SPITE OF FALL RAINS   Last Of German Ukranian Bastions Appears Doomed

ON TOWARDS DNEIPER RIVER   Autumn Rains Begin Falling In Ukraine and  Slow Down Operations

SECOND DAYLIGHT RAID IN3 DAYS   Followed Mosquito Attacks by RAF Last Night

Allies Beat Germans to Punch on the Road to Rome.   runcn on tae Woaa to Rome.  ROOSEVELT WITHIN 200 MILES OF FIGHT Positions in Balkans Be coming More Uncertain Hourly.

In Southern Europe, the Americans Have Again Beaten Nazis To the Punch On Road’ To  Dawe

Baruch Demands End of Turmoil InWar Effort   ing’ Has Confused the Public

Baruch Hopes Byrnes Will End Bickering  Rath Are Advocates   Both Are Aavocates Of Simplifying War Fffort

NATION PUT ON PAY-GO BASIS   President Signs Tax Bill As Aides Confer on Raising $16 Billion   “Infernal Bickering” Hurts War Effort, Baruch Claims

Larger Supplies  Of Meat Foreseen  U.S. D. A. Confirms WEA Prediction

End Of Meat Scarcity For ‘Year Sighted   rleavier Marketing Of Cattle, Hogs Is Assured

AMWPFRPRICaANe POoOory Ow   RAF Bombers Pummel Targets In France And Northern Italy

MOTOR WORKS AT MONTBELIARD IN FRANCE ATTACKED   RAF Halifax Bombers Pound Peugeot Motor Plant as Other RAF Units Hammer Northern Italy

Truck Plant s Hit By Bombers   RAF Blasts Factory In North France

AXIS WAR FACTORIES BLASTED BY BOMBERS   RAF Hits Plants in France And Northern Italy

Motor Vehicle Works At Montbeliard In Northern France Attacked Thursday Night; Targets In Northern Italy Pummeled Also.

RAF RAIDS MOTOR WORKS IN FRANGE   Cross Mountains To Assault Targets in Italy

British Gain Against Heavier Resistance On Adriatic Front   German Command Orders Armies To Hold Present Line in Italy for at Least Kight Weeks

NAZIS LASH AMERICANS AT VENAFRO   Allied Bombers Blast Italian Port Today

Ariillery Fire Halts Attacks With Heavy Loss  Resistance Strong Along Nazi Lin

YANKS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS   Germans Put Up Fierce Defense of Italian Road to Rome

Allies Say 60 German Subs Sunk   Allied Bombers Raid Genoa, Arms Site Southwest of Turin; DeGaulle Wins

Nazis Stab Viciously. At Yanks   Enemy Strives to Hold ‘Winter Line? ty Veuafro Area

Allies in Italy Repulse 9 Nazi Countér-Attacks  Artillery. Fire Infliets Heavy Toll On Foe Defending-Road to Rome

YANKS REPULSE NINE ASSAULTS IN VITAL AREA   Enemy Resistance  Stubborn Along Entire Line

NAZI ASSAULTS HURLED BACK IN VENAFRO FIGHT   American Airmen Hammer Nazi-Held Factories In North Italy and Aid Slav Patriots

Hurl Back Nazis Units At Venafre   Nine Counter-Attacka : - 24 Hours Fail = Ti  Cause Americans Te  Give Up Ground

BOMBERS LASH PLANTS MAKING BALL BEARINGS   Nazis Lose Heavily in Effort to Protect “Winter” Defense Line

Germans Lash Out in Furious Counterattacks Without Suecess At New Enemy Winter Line in Italy

Americans Hurl Back 9 German -Counterattacks   Bombers Batter Italian Ball Bearing Plant And Genoa Steel Works.

Nazis Launch Offensive to  Check Yanks   Americans Moving Against Greatly-Reinforced Winter Line in Venafro Area

Americans Hit Winter Line of Nazis in Ifaly   U. S. Artillery and Infantry Fire Takes Heavy Toll as Nazis Try to Hit Back

Germans Fail To Break Up Offensive   Heavy Toll of Nazis Taken By Strong Allied Fire

Enemy Casualties Heavy; Nazi Ball Bearing Plant — Smashed By Liberators

Germans Battle Siubbornly for Core of New Winter Line—British Advance in Eas!   BEARING PLANT HIT   Liberators Blast Villar Perosa Plant, Forts Bomb Steel Works, Docks, Railroads at Genoa

Allies Block Nine German Counterattacks   Bombers Blast Ball Bearing “Works Near Turin

Nine Furious Enemy Thrusts Are Repulsed   Americans Hitting At Core of New Defense Line

Nine Nazi Counter-Attacks Thrown Back By Clark’s Men In Venafro Area

HEAVY LOgata ARE INFLICTED ON NAZI TROOPS   American Artillery, Infantry Fire Take Terrific Toll Of Attacking Germans

Clark’s Fifth Army Stems Nine Furious Nazi Counterattacks   U. S. Liberators Blast Vital Ball Bearing Works in Italy

Frenzied Nazi Sallies Cost Heavv Tol]   Fifth Army Repulses Nine Counterattachs in Venafro Area

U. S. Artillery Takes Heavy NaziToll    Liberators Smash  Turin Plants: Forts:  Batter Genoa By Edward Kennedy  AYYV¥YTwN troeannmweay®

NINE COUNTE BLOWS BEATEN OFF IN ITALY   Fighting in Mud and Blood Costly for Germans in Casualties and War Prisoners

mericans Pressing Vena fro Area Against Core Of Enemy Winter Line Score Successes   F  ESISTANCE STUBBORN

Germans Pay Heavy Toll In Attempt To Prevent Advance Of Yank Troops

Yanks Stop Nine Nazi Attacks   Firce Fighting Rages In_ . Italy As Germans Attempt To Hold Winter Line

COUNTERATTAGKS BY NAZIS THROWN BACK BY AMERICANS   German Troops Lashed Out Nine Attacks in Past 21 Hours.   A HEAVY ENEMY LOSS   American Liberators Battered the Ballbearing Works at the Villar Perosa.

Yanks Repulse Frenzied Nazi Counter-Blows   Enemy Sustains Bloody Losses In Effort To Hold Winter Line

Liberator Batter Ball Bearing Work:   Nine Offensive Assaults Made by Germans in Italy

REINFORCED NAZIS ON ITALIAN FRONT FAIL STOP ALLIES  NINE FURIOUS COUNTEI ATTACK REPT CEN

Main Defense Reached Now; Foe Stubborn   Pantared Documents  Show Orders to Hold  Line For 8 Weeks

ENEMY TRYING TO HOLD LINE FOR WINTER   Captured Documents  .yShow Orders to Keep Present Positian at Least Eight Weeks — Blows Costlv to Germans.

AMERICANS BEAT BACK GERMANS’ COUNTER-STABS   Nine Fierce Attacks Ars Launched by Enemy in Venafro Area

Airmen Shatter Turin   FLYING FORTS SMASH VITAL PLANTS AT GENOA; BRITISH GRAB NEW HILLS

Germans Strike Back Fiercely   Enemy Tries To Hold Italian Mountain Line but Loses Manv Men to Allies

YANKS REPULSE ENEMY ATTACKS   Germans Driven Back in Nine Furious Counterattacks in Day.   ENEMY LOSES HEAVILY

NAZIS UNLEASH 9 ATTACKS ON YANKS IN ITALY   American Artillery Beats Them Back With Heavy  Casualties

Germans Retreai After Desperate Drives Collapse   Liberators Pound Ball Bearing Works At Villar Perosa

YANKS REPULSE FURIOUS ATTACKS IN VENAFRO AREA   15TH AIR FORCE STRIKES BLOW AT VILLAR PERSOA

U.S. Forces Repe 9 Counterattacks   Artillery and Infantry Fire Repulse Chargi ing Nazis - "an TE   A HEAVY: TOLL TAKEN   American Liberators in a ~ New Blow at German ; War Production

INFLICTS HEAVY LOSSES   German Resistance Along Entire Front Stiffens: American Airmen Bomb Ball Bearing Plant

BRITISH IN EAST GAIN "FOUR MILES   Three Key 1 Towns Fall] ® To 8th Army; Many Nazis Are Slain

GERMAN ATTACKS IN ~TTALY HURLED BACK _ BY YANKEE SOLDIERS   Last ‘Italian Source of Vital Ball. Bearings Pounded . By. Liberators.   STEEL PLANT IS. BOMBED

Yankees Hurl Back Furious Nazi Attacks   Fortresses in New Raids near Turin And at Genoa Plants

HEAVY COUNTER BLOWS STAGED BY NAZI FORCES   American Fire lakes Heavy Toll As Germans Are Thrown Back: New Ajir Blows Struck At  German Factories.

Americans In Venafro Area Repulse 9 Furious German Counterattacks

Rev. Mr. Patterson Il; St. Pauls Man 'To Preach Tonight   Evening  Services Continue at . Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Mr. Patterson Ill; St. Pauls Man  To Preach Toni elit   oon s ae a  vening Services Con ' ‘tmue at Presbyterian Chureh.

Miners Will Sign Contract Today  a See See Meer ei   Referendum J udges Report Adopted

Reds Threaten To Complete Kharkov Trap   Forces Capture Zmyey And Only One Railway  Remains for German Wee

Reds Cross Donets. Threaten Railway   Ring Tightens On Kharkov And Troops Converge On Brvanck Fram Thenaa Cidne

Russian Troops Menacing Vital German Railway   Kill 2,000 Nazis in Har Fighting in Kharkov Sector

Kharkov: cal For Second Front   Would Cut Down Length of War Red Star Reports

RUSSIANS SEIZE EMYEV IN DRIVE ACROSS DONETS   Capture Threatens to Cut One of Last Railways. Over Which Supplies Move to Kharkov.   MENACE TO GREAT ' STEEL CITY GROWS   Armies Moving Qn. Bastion From West and Northwest Kill 2,000 Nazis in 7Mile Advance.

REDS GETTING NEARER to CITY OF KHARKOV   In “Decisive Assault” That Proves Fatal To Many Germans; Threat To Last  Railways   Eastern Gains

Reds Strike Across Donets  For Victory   Last of Railways to Kharkov Menaced by Russian Action

Reds Cross Donets Threaten Railway   Ring Tightens On Kharkov And Troops Converae On Brvansk From Three Sides

ANOTHERCITY IS RECAPTURED BY RED TROOPS   One Of Last Railways Feeding Kharkov Is Now Threatened   ADVANCE TOWARD BRYANSK CONTINUES

Soviets. Gain  On Kharkov   Red Army Pleads Anew For 2nd European Front

RUSSIANS MAKE GENERAL GAINS   1,200 Germans Killed In ‘Decisive Assault’; Vital Railroad Is  Threatened

Russians Capture Zvmev, 20 Miles  South of Kharkov   Reds Threaten to Cut Last Railway Feeding Great Ukraine Base

REDS TIGHTE NET ON NAZIS UARAINE BASE   ZMYEV CAPTURED IN DRIVE AGAINST KHARKOV

Red Armies Make New Gains in Hard Smashes ’ At Fee:in. Kharkov Area

Soviet Forces Take Zmyev,  20 Miles South Of Kharkov   Troops Kill 1,200 Germans and Threaten to Cut One of Last Railways Feeding the Besieged Base of the Ukraine

j2d Front Again  Asked by Soviet  Reds Want Ee ui rale “at At roan,

Soviet Siege Tightens At Kharkoy   Soviets Take Zmyev, Kill 1,200 and Threaten Railway

Russian Troops Capture Zmyev   Threaten to Cut Kharkov Supply Line

Reds Seize Zmyez, Kill 1,200 Nazis   Germans Suffer Heavy Losses But Soviets Gain

Lindbergh Trial Witness in Jail   Archibald Loney Is Held for Theft

LINDBERGH TRIAL WITNESS IALE   F. B. L. Announces Arrest of Man Who Testified for  BMenntmann.

JAPS: FOOLED BY LANDING   DIVENSIONARY ATTACK MADE ,BY FEW HUNDRED MABINES to COVER BIG LANDING ON BOUGAINVILLE

3,000 Tons of  Bombs Smash ‘Arupp City’   RAF Fights Way Through Increased Air Defenses to Blast Arms Plants In Raid Called Mightiest of War: Yanks Blast Rennec

ST. BERNARDS: H NINES      Senior, . Junior Teams Cop Games By One-Run Margin

Pledges of $75,000 Received by Hospital   Three Local Famiaes Contribute $25,000 Apiece to Building Fund: Confidence in Ultimate Success of Program Is Expressed

NAZI GAMBLES AND LOSES IN AFRICAN FIGHT   Rommel Pays Dearly for Five Mistakes in Campaign

ALLIED PLANES RAID JAPANESE   Ground Troops Hack At Enemy Positions On New Guinea

WLB GETS DRASTIC NEW POWERS   Severe Penalties For Violators  Told by President

WAR LABOR BOARD GETS NEW POWERS FROM PRESIDENT   It’s the Army For Strikers  From Now On.

Flynn Offered Dad's Role Blonde Demands Acto! Support Her Daughter

NAZI PLANES BEATEN TRYING 'TO SAVE SICILY   Flying Fortresses and RAF Planes Knock Down Over - 100 in Three Days; Pound   Bases.

BOMBERS PRESS ATTACKS ON ITALIAN ISLES   Shoot Down 45 Mort Enemy Planes, 3-Day Total Exeeeds 100

CONTINUE ‘BLASTING OF AREAS   Crippling Blows Struck As Prelude to Invasion— 48 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down.

ATTEMPTING 0 CRIPPLE AXIS   Many Enemy Aircraft Shot Down— ", Blasting of Vital Installations in -Slelly ‘and Sardinia.

‘NATION'S GOVERNORS URGED TO MAP FINISH FICHT AGAINST GOVT. BUREAUS.

Maw Urges Chiefs To Map Fight Against Bureaus   Problem Bigger, He Says, Than Any Polities

WTAN'S GOVERNOR ATTACKS. BUREAUS   Greatest Lobbying Power In Washington, Executive Charges

POLES ACCUSED (F REING SPIES   Reds Blame Government In Exile For Rift In Relations

POLES ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE   Russian Official States Exile Government Is Favoring Hitler In Activities

Soviet Official Accuses Poles  Of Espionage   Charges Seen in London Serving To Widen Break Between Governments

Russia Accuses Poles in Exile Of Espionage Actior   Under Pro-Hitler Influence Vishinski Tells Reporters

POLES SPIES, ~ REDS CHARGE   Assert Government-in-Exile Under Influence of ProHitler Elements

MKELLAR IS OPPOSED T0 NAMING FLYNN   Administration RightHand Man Hopes FDR Will Reconsider

Senator McKellar To Oppose Flynn  President’s Nominee To Australian Post May Face Rejection

Senator McKellar, Tennessee Democrat, Announces He Will Vote Against Confirmation   HOPES APPOINTMENT WILL BE WITHDRAWN   Senator Barkley Has Said Confirmation or Rejection Might Depend on  Turn of One Vote

Rejection of His Nomination to Be Minister to Australia Believed Foreshadowed by Opposition of McKellar—Tennessean Voices Hope Appointment Will Be Withdrawn, but Barkley Says it Will Come Up Monday,

McKellar Against Flynn Approval   Tennessee Senator Will Vote Against Nominee

Sen. McKellar. Against Flynn      Surprise Move Virtually Assures Loss Of FDR Selected Envoy

Senate Rejection  Of Flynn as Envoy  To Australia Seen Senator McKellar  Joins Opposition; May Be Withdrawn

Sen. McKellar’s Opposition To Flynn Seen As Indication That FDR Nominee Will Be Rejected

McKellar Joins Foes Of Flynn   Rejection Of Nomination Indicated

~ 42 TN A 2eF UTR EE AYLibe i GY ELE (ERE EBay al % f CO ene. ee we a  piece Dalnce va a i? on Ye A. t iH oh We By LEC ENE oe  Ha, Hae               Tennessee Senator May Hold Controlling Vote on Confirming Envov

E, J: FLYNNELOSES SANOTHER BALLOT   Senator McKellar of Tennessee Declares He Will Oppose FDR’s Choice

Pound at Nazis On Russian Front   Germans Forced to Fall Back to Fortified Posi tion Near Smolensk.

REDS PURSUE DRIVE EAST OF SMOLENSK   Announce Hand-to-Hand Fighting in One Sector and Capture of Arms and Radio Equipment in Another.

NAZL-FREE AREAS OF YUGOSLAVIA TO BE RULED BY PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

Slavs Agree OnNew Government  Provisional Setup   Provisional Setup Made to Rule Liberated Areas

ISET PROVISIONAL RULE   Yogoslay Government Established for Liberated Areas

FREE YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT IS ANNOUNCED   Challenge io King and King, Puric and Mihailovic, Embarrassing to Allies   RULE FREED AREAS.   Dr. Ribar, First President of Firs! Provision Government After World War I, Elected

STRUGGLE LOOMS DVER PLAN TO CUT STATE TAKES   Drastic Revenue Cuts Seer Headed for Opposition From Administration :   LEGISLATURE WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY   Picture Has Remained Same for Past Two Weeks with Respect to Contestants for Legislative Offices; Caucusses Set Tuesday

‘Man Wanted for Passing Worthless Checks Here '10 Years Ago Arrested

U. 5. 5, South Dakota Identified by Navy ‘As Famed Battleship ’X’

‘Legion Will Seek Trial Of Axis Leaders’  ct... Beets... f'aeocmhalii

Governor Stevenson Lauds Texans In Service In Annual Christmas Message And Greeting

ICKES SAYS HE WILL USE FULL AUTHORITY   Calls 11 District _Managers To-Washing ton For Instructions

Operators Are Made ‘Agents’ Of Properties   Mines in Athens County are idle See Page 5,

REGIONAL CHIEFS GET INSTRUCTIONS   Government’s New Managers Assembled in Washington; Will Fill Important Role in Coal Production

Argentine Axis View Deplored   OULS. Joins: Britain “In Condémnnatien

Argentine Axis View Deplored   U.S. Joins Britain In Condemnation

ALL ORDERED BACK TO JOBS BY PRESIDENT   Draft Rule to Be Put Into Effect Monday, Reopening Deadline

ORDERS BOARDS RECLASSIFY ALL IDLE WORKMEN   President ‘Directs Digging Resume Monday, May Back Strike Ban

FIVE FELONS FLEE JAIL IN CINCINNATI BUT ARE CORNEREL   Guard Beaten: Doomed Man Refuses To Join Escape

Police Cornering Two Kidnapers and Three Bank Bandits Who Broke Ont of Cincinnati Jail Fridiay Night.

TRUMAN GROUP SET TO UMPIRE GASOLINE FIGHT   International Complications Take Capital Spotlight

War Labor Board Appeals To Union Leadership to Help In Stopping Spread of Walkouts

Capital Spotlight on Miners, Rubber Gasoline Disputes   International Picture Also Discussed; AP  Summarizes News

Feeling Against Morgenthau Has Arisen in Congress   Both Party Leaders Against New Tay Prooram

Sentiment forMorgenthau's Removal Gains   Favorite to Replace Him Is: Fred M. Vinson

Removal of Morgenthau Demanded   Economics in Wat Budget, Federal Sales Tax Urged

Cards Square Series With Yankees      Tax Rebellion Boosts Sentiment For Morgenthau Oustel

Morgenthau Ouster Askec   Revolt in Congress Against Treasury Tax Program Grows

Congressional Sentiment for Removal Of Morgenthau Increases As Opposition To New Tax Program Spreads in House

Anglo-American Talks Near End  Anthony Eden Guest Overniaht af F PP R-

Anglo-American Talks on War and Peace Problems Believed To Be Near End

Anglo-American Officials Meet  Eden Sees FDR, Six  Others; Conferences se ae Rice Bal

EDEN MISSION NEARING CLOSE   British Visitor Confers With Roosevelt And High-Ranking Officials

Major Battle for Tunisia Believed Already Launchec   Algiers Reports American Troops Reach Maknassy, Only 33 Miles From Gulf Of Gabes In Advance Toward Mareth Line

MARETH LINE MENACED BY FRENCH ARMY   MAJOR OFFENSIVE ABOUT TO BEGIN IN TUNISIA

Top Military Officials Of Britain and U. S. Talk with Eisenhower  ALLIES NARROW ROMMEL CORRIDOR  French Threaten Southern Terminal  Of His Mareth Line

Push To Maknassy Narrows Corridor French Combine   Indications Of Allied Offensive Grow; Bizerte And Sicily Bombed _

Yanks Slice Corridor to  33 Miles   48-Hour Allied Military Conference Indicates Major  . OFfensive in Offing

U.S. Troops Narrow Escape Corridor   Highest Military Officials Meet With Gen. Eisenhower

Believe Allies Beginning Tunisian Drive   Military Leaders Confer; Yanks, French Make Gains

Now Only 33 Miles Wide— Americans in Position to Sever Link Between 2 Axis Armies.   MAJOR ALLIED DRIVE APPEARS UNDER WAY   British Show Marked Activity in Areas Facing Tunis and Bizerte — Military Chiefs Confer.

BEGINNING OF MAJOR ATTACK BY ALLIES IN TUNISIA IS INDICATED   48-Hour Conference is Held By High Military Leaders of U. S. and Britain; French Troops Gain

YANKS REACH MAKNASSY, 33 MIFROMGABES   Military Tops Confer At Head. quarters Of Lieut. General Eisenhower Through Twa Whole Days.   Axis Gave News

Yanks Pinch Corridor Of Escape   Highest Allied War Officials Meet With Eisenhower

ROMMEL'S PATH OF ESCAPE 18 WHITTLED DOWN   Military Officials Of U.S. And Britain Hold 48-Hour Full  Dress Conterence.

Wheeler Hits Proposal to Draft Fathers   Declares Selective Service Full of Inconsistencies

BOND SALE IS OFF “TOA SLOW START   If Quota Is Met the Daily Average Must Be ~=  $41,500   135 SOLD YESTERDAY.

BOND SALE IS OFF TO A SLOW START   If Quota Is Met the Daily Average Must Be ~ =  a   135 SOLD YESTERDAY

LOCAL BOND DRIVE. GETS A BIG BOOST   Total “After ‘Four Days Is  $239,706.75 for Doug~ las County .  STANDARD LIFE BUYS

AXIS ARMIES ALONG TUNISIA (OAST SHELLED   seneral Montgomery At acking Enemy Below Ma reth Line; Patrols in Armored Battle   GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BACK AT OUSSELITA   Entrenched British Troops Repulse Strong Enemy Thrusts From Heights  on Range

EASTERN SHORE FIRM CLOSING BUSINESS   Co-Owner Savs He Can No Longer “Be A Bookkeeper For The Government”; Too Much Red Tape

CONFERENCE OPENS ON REFUGEE RELIEF   British And Americans Tc Study Means Of Aiding Trapped Persons

ALLIES BEGIN DISCUSSION OF REFUGEE PLIGHT   tt. S.-British Meet In Bermuda To Plan Relicf For Homeless Jews

AXIS LINE IN SICLY 1S FAST FALLING APART   Lt. Montgomery Shepard ~ Relates Thrilling Capture of Gela   SHIP LED TASK FORCE   Italian Prison Island of Ustica, Off Palermo,  Also Taken

AMERICAN TROOPS IN BLOODIEST FIGHTING CAPTURE ANCIENT CITY OF TROINA AS BRITISH ADVANCE   German Lines Now So Disjointed As to Prevent Junction of Retreating Divisions Which Hope te Reach Messina and Fscape

Troiana and Biancaville Fall As Mt. Etna Line Breached; Prisoners Number 250,000   Axis Defense Line Only 45 Miles Leng as Retreat Route to Messina Threatened by Allied Offensive

Hard-Fighting Americans Take Troina   British 8th Army Seizes Biancavilla; Reds Seize 150 Villages in Drive Outflanking Kharkov; Bryansk Is Threatened

SEEK HUSBAND OF MURDERED WOMAN      Body Of Mrs. Edna Sink, 19, ‘Found Burned Near ‘Indiana, Pa. .

FOREST FIRES STILL BURNING IN MICHIGAN   Blaze Under Control If Wind Does Not Change

FLAMES SEAR 7,000 ACRES OF TIMBERLAND   Conditions Easing; May Be Able To Release Some  Fire-Fighters

HOUSE REFUSES   ignores Senate Objections, Also Raps Use of “Incentives”  —

Honest Youth?.....   Diogenes, Put That Lantern Dewn—In Johnstown

JAPANESE ollB 0 GORE HERE   Two-Man Suicide Craft Cap. tured at Pearl Harbor on Tour.

WAPANESE SUB ~ TO GOME HERE   Two- Man Suicide Craft Cap - tured at Pearl Harbor.  on. Tour. . a8

M.E. NOLAN RESIGNS AS MEMBER OF BAR   Bar Asks Court for Delay; Nolan Confident Future Will Vindicate Him.

British Eighth Army Now 50 Miles From Tripoli. in New Desert Offensive

Montgomery Columns Are Near Tripoli   Rommel May Leave City, Withdraw Into Tunisia

Spurted Into Home Stretch of Its Drive Across Libya Today With Gen. Montgomery Pressing Attack.   AXIS MAY WITHDRAW TOWARD THE BORDER   Allied Most Advance Column Was Operating Inland, Driving Axis From Beni Ulid.

ROMMEL FACES 2-PRONG THREAT   Has Only Matter of Hours to Decide to Stand or Quit Libyan City

British Continue Advance in Libya   Lroops of Eighth Army Are Within 50 Miles of Tripoli   PLANES ARE IN BATTLE   Axis Forces May Withdraw and Join Soldiers in  Tunisia’

Allied Rush Is 30 Miles From Tripoli   Pursuit of Rommel . Into Tunisia Seen as Chase Narrows

Brits Spurt Into Home Stretch Drive In Libya 50 Miles From Tripoli

BRITAIN’S EIGHTH ARMY CARRY FIGHT NEARER TO TRIPOLI   ADVANCED COLUMNS OF GEN, MONTGOMERY WITH. IN 50 MILES OF CITY

BRITISH CLOSING IN ON TRIPOLI: FOE IN FULL ROUT   EIGHTH ARMY NOW WITHIN 50 MILES OF COVETED GOAL

EIGHTH ARMY'S TREK AGROSS DESERT SWIFT      Second British Columns Striking Along Coastal Road Passes Through Misurata. Garibaldi   TRIPOLI IS ALREADY UNDER AIR ATTACK   Rommel Expected to. Pull Up At Tunisia for Final, Desperate Effort to Stem British

Montgomery Advances So Fast Junction of Rommel With Tunisia Forces May Fail.

Montgomery Army's Advance Into Libya. Is Nearing Tripoli   Rommel Is Expected To Make Last Stand on  Tunisian Border

British Units 50 Miles From Tripol   Rommel Must Decide on Stand Or Quit City  For Tunisia

ROMMEL'S ARMY HARD PRESSED; LOSSES HEAVY   Foe May Yield Important City Without Offering Battle   ENEMY TANKS DESTROYED   Large Fires Started After Heavy Bombing Raids On Bases

LIBYAN DRIVE NEARING ENO   British Advance Toward Tripoli As Yanks Bomb Axis Bases.   FOE MAKES SOME GAINS

AXIS MUST STAND WITHIN FEW HOURS ‘OR ABANDON CITY   Big Base Under Heavy Air Attack As Column ISwoens Close To City

50 Miles or Less From Tripoli  Axis Must Decide on Stand or Quit

Two English Units Within 50 Miles or Less of Tripoli Base   B-24 Liberators of Ninth U.S. Air Force Attack German Fortified Base in Libya

Both Attacking Columns Driving On AtHigh Speed   Eighth Army Within 50 Miles Of City; Axis Has Only Matter Of Hours To Act

BRITISH TROOPS ONLY 50 MILES OUT OF TRIPOL   Axis Army Has Only Few Hours to Make Stand Or Run Again

ROMMEL MAY NOT DEFEND CITY   Most Advanced English ’ Column Is Inland :

British Are Closing In On Tripoli   Eighth Army Is Entering Home Stretch Of Its Drive Across Libya To Main Port

British Drive For Tripoli   Gen. Montgomery’s Army Reported Within 50 Miles of City

British Spurt To Final Phase Of Libya Drive   Eighth Army Advances Within Fifty Miles of Port of Tripoli.   2 Columns Converge For An Attack on Axis

Mussolini’s African Empire in the Bag   Rommel’s Flight Toward Tunisia Unchecked—F oriresses Batter His Line of Escape

ROMMEL NEARS TRIPOLI BUT MAY YIELD CITY   British Sweep Through Beni Ulid, Keep Contact With Foe Only 40 Miles from Big Base   PLANES RAKE FOE   Fall of Misuraia Expected at Any Time — Tripoli, Other Bases Bombed

Nazis Appealing To Hungary For Aid In Fighting Slavs  Tank-Supported German Forces Wage Fierce  Fight Aaainst Particans In Eactern Racnin

CIVILIAN NEEDS CET ATTENTION   War Plants ' To Switch Into Production Of Essential Goods

QUICK CONVERSION   Production of Essential Civilian Goods to Be Sneeded

England’s Premier Lauds Stand Made By Russian Troops   Soviets Were Not Invited To Quebec Parley Because Conference Was Concerned Mostly With Pushing War Against Japanese

REALLY NO PLACE FOR RUSSIA TO BE   Churchill Says Recent Confab Was Mainly Against  Taps   TO MEET. REDS’ SOON

Allies Not To Invade Europe Until Sure Of Military Success   Prime Minister Hopes for United Nations Conference, Which Includes Soviet Officials. Soon

Doeswit Blame Russia For  Asking For Second Front   Churchill Pays Tribute To Magnificent Stand Of Red Armies; Heavy Blows Against Japan

Churchill explains Russian absence   ‘Quebec conclave mostly concerned with Japan war’

WAR ON JAPAN PRIME TOPIC IN QUEBEC PARLEY   Premier In Broadcast Asks Early Conferences With Soviet: Speaks Of Third Front In South Pacific

THIRD FRONT’ OPENING SEEN BY CHURCHILL   Premier Says Russia Will Be Invited to United Nations’ Conference Scheduled Soon

CHURCHILL   Churchill Reveals Hope Of United Nations For Stalin Parley   Declares In Quebec Speech Recent Conference In That City Was Concerned Principally With ‘Inflaming’ War Against Tanan

Says It Is Hoped Soon To Hold United Nations Conference At Which The Soviet Is Represented.

Churchill Bares Meet Nip Plan   PRIME MINISTER SAYS SOVIET UNION WOULD HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSED BY ATTENDANCE AT MEETING; SEES NEW ALLIED CONFERENCE

QuEBEC PARLEY DEVOTED To INFLAMING:- WAR -WITH JAPAN, CHURCHILL SAYS

RUBBER BATTLE OVER NELSON'S ACTE ONIS DUE   Jeffers Asserts Move By WPB Chief Designed to’ Take Authority From ... His Department   MAY RENEW RIFT   Truman Committee Report Urges One-Ma nControl] to Solve Dispute of U.S. Officials.

CAPITOL HILL MAY SEE NEW WORD-BATILE   Jeffers Fears Nelson Will Wipe Him Out

Point Values To Be Announced Today  Era Of Can-Opener Nutrition Is Closed

Happy-Go-Lucky Can- Opener Era Is Ended for Duration   This Is Day for Taking Inventory of Pantry And Three-Day Registration Begins Monday

WAS UNUSUAL MONTH   Rainfall for This Section Is Below  the Normal Average

New Blue Stamp Values Fixéd  Points on Several . Itame Ara: Raised

COLD WIND MOVES IN   Warmer Weather Is Forecast fo Tonight; 18 at Concordia .

Not Quite So Cold Tonight   But Change Will Be Slight, Says Weather Bureau

Socialite In Trouble   Vanderbilt Grandson Te Face Army Court Martial

Army Plans Curb For Play-Boy   Impersonating Officer Anc Flight Mean Trouble For Socialite

TOMATO JUICE VALUE IS CUT   Reduction Is Only One In New Canned Goods Point Tables For June

FOOD POINT  VALUES GIVEN   ‘Point Value of Tomato Juice to be Cut in Half on Sunday — Changes Confined to. Tomato Juice Praducts. ves PH a

Point Value Of Tomato Juice Cut  Is Only Revision In Canned Food Values

Indicates Hitler Intends To Draft Soldiers From  Occupied Nations

\Hitler Believed Read) To A Arm Sla: Ve j Nations   Proclamation Hints Conscription: In France. Other Occupied Nations

ULTIMATUM ISSUED BY ADOLF HITLER  To Raise Conscrip' oa .®§., eo #£ =f, FY a   To Raise Conscript Armies in All Occupied Countries

France, Poland and Other Nationals Must Accept Terms or Be Slaughtered, Is Report.

NAZIS WILL RAISE CONSCRIPT “ARMIES IN-OCCUPIED LANDS      Intend: To’ Massacre “AR Who Oppose Them—Read 3 Proclamation. In _ - Hitler’s Absence -..

HITLER TO ARM ‘SLAVE TROOPS   Proclamation Indicates He Will Conscript French, Others By Terrorism.

NAZIS HINT OF CONSCRIPTION   Hitler Says Conquered Na. tions Must Aid Fight To Save Germany

LATEST NAZI STEP DUE TO HUGE LOSSES   Germans Will Mas. sacre All Who Op: pose Scheme for Conscript Army.

Hitler Reveals Plan to Raise Big Slave Army   Proclamation Read At Nazi Fete Indicates Ruthless Measures To Stave Off German Defeat

See Threat in Hitler Proclamation To Draft Armies From France and ‘Other Occupied Countries

MINE WORKERS ARE SOMEWHAT HOPEFUL   New Argument Submitted May Help WLB Approying of Illinois Pact.

NEW EVIDENCE MAY WIN WLB APPROVAL OF WAGE DEMANDS   UMW. Denies Basing Claim Entirely On Wage-Hour Law. .Now In  Effect

COMPLETE ACCORD BETWEEN  GIRAUD, DEGAULLE REACHED   t a troux. _ Preparing, For Early Meeting” Of New Executive Committeee

Smashing At Mareth Line   . «+ Americans And 8th Army Strike In Unison

British Eighth Also Unfolding An Offensive   Russians Lost Belgorod but Edge Closer to Smolensk

ALLIED OFFENSIVE FROM SOUTH, WEST SMASHING AT ROMMEL  AMERICANS AND BRITISH STRIKE IN UNISON UNDER

Ameriean Armored Forces. British Kiehth Army Move Ahead in Southern Tunisia

Gen. Montgomery's British Columns Strive to Penetrate Mareth Line and Americans Score Successs in Central Tunisian Sector.   Armored Forces Driving Forward Under Great Canopy of Air Power

American Army Now 52 Miles from Coast   British Making Progress Against Mareth Line as Forces Strike in Unison To Force Enemy From Africa.

US Forces Are   Within Sight Of Maknassy   Americans, British Strike in Unison Under Canopy of Planes; Red Army Engaged in Fierce Defensive Battle ain South

Berlin Indicates Rommel Withdrawing, After Italian Rear Guard Attacked; Upwards of 1,000 of Latter Taken Prisoner—Reds in Fierce Defensive Battle in South

PLANE CANOPY AIDS ATTACKING ALLIED ARMIES   Signs Seen That Nazi “Desert Fox” May Be Retreating Already

Move Ahead Under Canopy of Airplanes   Americans — Are Within Sight of Maknassy, Only 52 Miles From Coast   NAZI UNITS MAY BE WITHDRAWING   Italians Flee; Montgomery Progressing Satisfactorily in. Mareth. Line Area

U.S. Tank Forces Advance on Central Front Under Patton   Capture Over 1,000 Axis Prisoners; Germans Take Belgorod, Located 50 Miles Northeast of Kharkov

AMERICAN FORCE DRIVES TOWARD TUNISIA COAST   British Eighth Army Hits Mareth Fortifications and Rommel’s Remnants   ASSAULTS COORDINATED   Russians, Meanwhile, Have Good and Bad - - - Advance On Smolensk Continues

AFRICA CORPS IS BATTERED FROM THE AIR   Communique Suggests Possibility Rommel May Be Withdrawing Forces   1TALIAN PRISONERS

Mareth Line Puncture And Americans Nearing Makassy   British And Yanks Strike In Unison And Progress Seen; Russians Holding

ROMMEL RETREAT HINTED; BOMBERS POUND AXIS RANKS   Italians Surrender Before Lightning U. S. Thrust; Savage Fighting Rages in Russian Ukraine.

ALLIED OFFENSIVE FROM SOUTH, WEST SMASHING AT ROMMEL   AMERICANS AND BRITISH STRIKE IN UNISON UNDER AIR PROTECTION

Yanks in West, British in South Launch Attacks  Eighth Army Pierces Mareth Line, Aims At Port of Gabes   Close-Up of Tunisia Fronts

U. 8. Armor Within Sight Of Maknassy in Effort To Cut Pathway to Sea   Montgomery Used Old Plan In Opening Mareth Attack

Attack On Italians Indicates Retreat  Of\Rommel Troops   Drive Takes Americans To Within 32 Miles Of Gulf Of Gabes; Red Defense In Fierce Battle

Forces Near Sea; Mareth:  Line Totters   Americans Take 1,400. Italian Prisoners; Rommel May Have Started Flight

TAK DOLLAR BROKEN UW   Yoder Chart Shows Your Dollar Buys More This Year.

TX DOLLAR ~ BROKEN DOW!   Yoder Chart - Shows 2 Your Dollar Buys .More This Year.

Bricker Proposes Way to Pay Debts   Advocates Full Production Slate

G.0.P, Renames McNary as Senate Leader   Bay State Solon Sees F. R.'s Talk As Fourth Term Bid

M'NARY 15 CHOSEN: MINORITY LEADER      Oregon Senator Unani. mously Named at Harmony Meeting

MCNARY RE-ELECTED MINORITY LEADER   Republicans Piedre Minute Ex: amination Of All Fed eral Expenditures

M'NARY RENAME MINGRITY LEADER   Assignments Find Republicans Gaining Added Representation on Committees;  - To Watch Expenditures

M’Nary Reelected As GOP's Leader   Harmony So Thick It ‘Run: Down Cheeks’ —4th EDR Term Seen.

MCNARY NAMED ¢. 0. P. LEADER   Republican Minority In Senate To Be Led By Oregonian; Outlay Siash Planned

CHURCHILL ACTS: TO.BRING POLISH BACK INTO LINE   Two Officials in Exile At 10 Downing St. to Air Break With Reds

CHURCHILL IN CONFERENCE WITE POLISH LEADERS   Relations Between Countries Said “Suspended”

Russia. Poland Break Holding World Notice   Churchill Seeks To Patch Differences Between Two (_oavernments.   GERMANY OVER-JOYED

POLISH CHIEFS AGAIN CALLED BY CHURCHILL   For Second Successive  . Day, Prime Minister to Straighten Out Difficulties With Reds.

POLES SEEKING TO HEAL RIFT WITH RUSSIA   Churchill in Peacemaker Role, With Threat of Rival Polish Regime Gaining Ground

STRIVE TO PATCH BREECH BETWEEN RUSSIA-POLAND   NAZIS REJOICE OVER SPLIT AS VICTORY FOR GERMAN PROPAGANDA

Churchill In Session With Polish Chiefs   Attempts To Iron Out Trouble With Russia; Germans Happy Over Propaganda Victory

RELEASE POLE!   Deny Any Suggestion of Contact, Understanding With Hitler.

CHURCHILL TALKS TO POLES   Tries To Remedy Diplomatic Impasse With Russia

Churchill And Poles Seek To  Placate Russia      Axis Jubilant Over Allied Split

pecond. Front Coming’   Churchill Reaffirms That Time Is Near When “Mass Invasion Of Europe Will Begin. Italy Is “Third Front.”

MEDITERRANEAN MERE SIDESHOW, COMMONS HEARS   Main Attack Will Be Across Channel, British Prime  Minister Savs

Churchill Spoke of Invasion Plans to Commons Today   Mussolini Escaped  Be‘ause Italian Guards Disobeyed Orders.

Allies Agreed on Plan to Recover the Wealth Looted by Germans in Europe

2 reed. on Plan to Recover ‘the “Wealth Looted. by Germans in Europe

70,000 UNION MEN OUT TODAY IN 11 STATES   Operators Prepare Fo: Shutdown; Barring E.R. Action

apital’s Feminine Workers Form  *Right-Girls- To-Every-Man’ Club

——e een ee  8 GIRLS FOR EVERY MAN IN WASHINGTON   Appeals to Officers of Nearby Service Camps .

JAMES HOUCK IS LIEUTENANT   Indiana Young Man Completes Course at Yale

- LEE SILBO IS COMMISSIONED  SECOND LIEUTENANT IN  TE ARMY ATR CORPS

INTEND 10 REDUCE SOME PRICE CEILINGS   OPA Head List Increasing Production Reason

Compromise  On Tax Plan?   Open Hearings Tuesday On Pay-As-Go Proposal

New Tax Setup Obtains Favor   Robertson Plan Would Be Used; Erases °42 Levy In Low Brackets

Treasury Apparently Favoring Robertson Compromise In Row Over Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan

TREASURY COMPROMISE ON RUML TAX PLAN   Would Erase 1942 Per sonal Income Tax Obligations in Lower Brackets   PROPOSES 20% TAX   Would be Withheld From ‘Net Earning; Also Calls for 10% Compulsory  Saving. Levy

TREASURY BACKS TAX COMPROMISE   FAVORS ERASURE OF 1942 OBLIGATIONS 1N LOWER INCOME BRACKETS,

TREASURY EY ta PAY Aa YOU Gl COMPROMISE   Proposal Would Erase 1942 Payments, Impose Levies Upon Current Income   CANNOT HALT MARCH 15 INSTALLMENTS, CLAIM   Officials Warn Taxpayers Returns Must Be Filed At An Early Date

New Pay-as-You-Go Tax Bill Has Treasury Okeh  Compromise Measure Would Take 194.   Compromise Measure Would Take 1942 Load Off Backs of Lower Income Group

Treasury Favors Proposed Tax Plan Compromise   Public Hearings on Measure Will Be Started Tuesday

U.S. Proposes Compromise  On Rum! Tax   Plan Would Call For Imposing 20 Per Cent Levy

Treasury Ready To Compromise On Pay-as-You-6o   Approves Erasure Of 1942 Income Tax  In Lower Brackets

Treasury May Back Tax Compromise   Twenty Per Cent Withholding Levy On Net Taxable Income For Current Debts Favored

COMPROMISE ON PAY-AS-GO TAX GAINS HEADWAY   Twenty Per Cent Withholding Tax Is Suggested; Hearing Is Tuesday

RIVERS WITHIN BANKS   Heavy Rains Would Cause Rapid Rise, Says Forecaster

‘Must Enclose Cards Mailed Overseas   Greeting Messages Must mh Placed in Sealed Envelopes, Is Postal Information

MAIL XMAS CARDS TO SOLDIERS NOW   Christmas Cards for Men in the Army and Navy Should Be Mailed This Month.

should be a considerable asset to Burnet when it gets in full operation. Our * people: are ready to help such a cause in every possible way.   FIRST CLASS MAIL

MAIL XMAS CARDS DURING NOVEMBER   Christmas Carde for Men in the Army and Navy Should Be Mailed This Month.

Russian Forces Drive Westward  Through Ukraine   Move Forward Despite Stiff Resistance Given By Nazi Troops   BIG GAINS MADE IN NORTHERN AREA

HED ARMY to AEEPING UP Id GAMPAIGH   In the Ukraine Germans Are Puttins Up Some Stiff Resistance.   BUT GIVING GROUND   In the Far Nerth Russiars Pursue Battered German Forces.

Pursue Parts of German 16th Army   Several Localities West of  Kharkov Taken

Von Papen Wooing Turkey Earnestly   Campaigns to Keep Turks Out of War Alongside Allies

ENVOY TRIES TO KEEP - TURKEY OUT OF WAR   Von Papen Opens Campaign Against Nation’s Entry Upon Return to Istanbul.

*Work-Or- Fight’ Plan Is Doomed   House Group Opposes Draft Use As AntiStrike Weapon

Miners Revolt Against FDR’s  “Work Or Fight” Plan Spreads   RY TINTTET) Prrec

“Work-or-Fight” Plan Met Coolly   Pigeon Hole for ™. Proposal Predicted

Red Cavalry Unsets Nazis   100 Towns Retaken And Nazi Escape Flotilla Is Smashed

Red Army Nears Zhitomir. jn Westward Ad- =: vance  MANY TOWNS HELD _ BY SOVIET TROOPS  Steady Progress Is Being Made in the Drive on Korosten — 

RED ARMY PUSHES STEADILY TOWARD POLISH FRONTIER   Cavalry Hurled Into Struggle By-Pass and Surprise Nazis —Latter Lose 100 More Towns,   GERMAN FLOTILLA SMASHED IN CRIMEA   Troops Attempting Evacuation Drowned—1,000 Hitlerites Defending Gomel Slain in Fighting.

Red Cavalry Upsets Nazis.  100 Towns Retaken And Naz   100 Towns Retaken And Naz Escape Flotilla Is Smashed

Russian offensive rolling against great rail center  close to old Polish border   Germans admit fresh retreat on soviet frozen north central front

Reds Drive Close To Zhitomir: Push Nazis Back   Extend Gomel Break Through; Near Border

Reds Withir 15 Miles Of Zhilomir   Cavalry Used ‘In Offensive: 100 Towns Fall

Reds Advance Closer to Polish Border   .Many Towns Surrende: As Onslaught Gathers More Speed

Russians Hurl Cavalry into New Offensive   Take 100 Towns, Kill 1,500 Nazis

Service Station Operator At Pleasantville Slain   W. H. Bare Shot Through Heart While At Work At Station

> SOLON DEMANDS STRONG POSTWAR NAVY   1OOK OUT! JAPS PLAN BIG OFFENSIVE

AERIAL BLOWS PAST 24 HOURS HELD CRUSHING   Swiss Dispatches Place Dead In Hamburg, Kassel and Duesseldorf At Nearly 200,000   FIRES STILL RAGING DUESSELDORF AREA   Much of Withelmshaven Lefr In Ruins by Record American Force: 4,000 Tons Bombs Dropped

Germany A Land Of Terror Reich Bombed At Rate Of 74 Tons Per Minute!      Unprecedented Aerial Attacks By U. S., British Bombers Challenge Imagination; Swiss Report 197 000 Killed. 8.000.000 Homeless

SHIP'S SURVIVORS LANDED GN (SAN   Japanese Dive . Bombers Sink Destroyer Off-Sa- * vo Island Feb. 20 

LARD 10 END PLANS GF U.S,   Diversion of Supplies Should Benefit Production

lard fo Be Used  For Soapmaking  Hope to Head Off Rationing Threat

OX JURY TAMPERING ARRESTS ARE MADE   Jefferson County Residents Post Bonds Today

Forts Hammer Kiel, Heinkel; Bag 30 Planes   Allies Lose Only 10 Bombers in Raids Through Nazi Packs

KIEL 1S HEAVILY BOMBED IN RAID BY U. 5, FLIERS   Flying Fortresses Also Hit Heinkel Aircraft Factory at Warnemuende ina Sweep Over Baltic.   BRITISH BOMBERS HEAD TOWARD ITALY   May Be After Targets in Northern Part of Country Due to Heavy Movement of German Troops.

Anti-Goddard Movement Wins   Senate Approves Amendment Designed To Bar Ardmore Mon

HAWARDEN SOLDIER TALKS FROM GERMANY   Pie. Gilbert Wallenburg Informs Parents That He Is All mee (ATC  La

HAWARDEN SOLDIER TALKS FROM GERMANY   Pie. Gilbert Wallenburg Informs Parents That He Is All Riieht

Nazis Seize Americans As Hostages to Force Release of Commission

GERMANS HOLD U. S. HOSTAGES   Trying To Force Release Of Nazi Commission Caught In North African Coup

Nazis Seek To Force Release Of Commission   ‘Americans Seized In- France, Being: Held As Hostaaes

US. Diplomat: eAre Seized As Hostages  . Reporters, Red Cross Workers Among 140 _- Ordered to Garmany

Germans Hold U.S. Envoys . As Hostages   Enemy Seeks Release of Nazi Armistice  Commission Capturec in North Africa

Germany Attempts to force Release of Armistice Commission in North A frica by Seizing  American Diplomats, Nationals as Hostages

U.S. Diplomat *Are Seized As Hostages       1d: Cross. Workers Among'140. Ordered: to Germany:  Reporfers, Red:Cr

U.S. Diplomats Made Hostages   Germany Trying to Force Exchange of Nazis Taken Prisoner in Africa

Germans Hold  U.S. Envoys  As Hostages Nazis Try to Force  Release of Africa Soe eS 4. oupeoat rene ectne.. qeeine peo

Nazis Holding Americans As Hostages   Seeking Release of North African Nazi Commission

Democrats in Sapitol Look For Unity Plan   > Estrangement Between White House, Congress _ Jeopardizes Party -

FIND WRECKAGE OF FLYING FORTRESS   Body of Passenger Leads To Discovery

FIND PLANE MISSING SINCE LAST MARCH   Discover Body of Soldier Five Miles from Bomber

RIBBENTROP IN ROME, CONSULTS WITH GUARIHLIA   Discusses Removal Of German Troops From Italy; Ciano Held

STEP TOWARD GETTING FREE OF AXIS GRIF   High Fascists Reported Under Arrest on Charges of War Profiteering.

Italians Ask Removal Of  German Army   Effort To Take Nation Out Of War Still: Seems Urider Way.

Report Ribbentrop Is in Rome for Conferences on Italian Request For Withdrawal of Nazi Troops

REPORT ITALY HAS ASKED GERMANY TO MOVE TROOPS OUT   Foreign Ministers Confer In Rome—May Result In Italy Getting Out Of War

NAZI FOREIGN  MINISTER IS INROME      Von Ribbentrop Conferring With Italian Officials

RIBBENTROP IN ROME TO DISCUSS NAZI WITHDRAWAI   King. Turns Down Hitler's Offer to Grant Asylum  4_ WMaeeniini_

RIBBENTROP IN ROME FOR TALKS   Italians Angle for Better Peace Terms

AXIS HEADS CONFER ON ITALY'S FUTURE   Wilhdrawal Of German Troops Reported Sought Sc Nation Can Quit War: Fascists Seized As Profiteers

3 DAY PARLEY HELD WN ROME BY RIBBENTROP   Reported Studying Italian Request for Troop Withdrawals

May Take Nazis From Italy Soil   Say Ribbentrop In Rome For Conference

TO WITHDRAW GERMAN TROOPS   Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop Conferring in Rome with Italian Forelgn Minister — Step ‘Being Taken to Take Italy from War.

Corn Loan Rates Set  WFA Will Support Prices From 81 to 97 Cents Per Bushel

MOSCOW TENSE WITH BIG. ACTION IN WIND   Start Of Summer Campaigns Believed Near

Walkout Grows as Heads Confer   460,000 HARD, SOFT COAL WORKERS AWAY FROM PITS AS LEWIS, ICKES SEEK NEW SETTLEMENT; SIGNS LACKING OF MOVEMENT BACK TO PITS

Sfart Trials Of {1 For Atrocities   Reds Say Prisoners Buried Alive, Thousands Suffocate

RUSSIANS START HEARINGS FOR 11 CHARGED WITH TREASON   Persons Were Members Of German 17th Army And the Gestapo

RUSSIAN AIR WAR REACHES INTENSE PEAK   ' a ee Interfering with Ambitious Plans of Germans, According to Word Out of the Soviet

Russia Steps Up lts Air Assault   Nazi Reinforcements Are Bomb Targets

POST-WAR FOREIGN POLICY WINS FAVOR QF SENATE GROUP   ‘Debate ~ To Co Continus Fo: Another Week Before Voting Takes Place

Senators Favor Military Force In Post-War Pact   Connally Bloc Bolstered By Roosevelt

Third series international meetings on   FDR, Churchill,  Inonu, conferring

ia, Britain, », Pledge War  ‘Germany Falls   'sheran Conference vans New Fronts, *yst-War Peace Union

iirc. Grea: JonZerence _.e30r-ec. uncerwav “Vi FN, Caure aL. anc nonu ‘ee-ine no. é-rica

INUNU REPORTED IN ALLIED PARLEY    TURK PRESIDENT SAID TO BE CONFERRING, WITH CHURCHILL AND F. D. BR, “

Third Parley on Turkey's Future In North Africa   Big Three Said to Plan Another Meeting Soon

Inonu, Churchill And Roosevelt In North Africa   Turkey May Soon Join the Allies

Another Series Of Parleys Disclosed   FDR And Churchill In Session Believed Closely Associated With Turks’ Future

Roosevelt, Churchill Said To Be Conferring With Turkish Leaders   Fden With Charechiit

Three German Divisions Reported in Bulgaria Moving Toward Turkey 

SOLON DEMANDS PATTON'S QUSTER   Senatorial Committee Calls For Full Report on General’s Action in Slapping American Soldier

Congressman Urges Removal Of General Patton   Senate Committee Demands Army Report On Hospital Slapping

GEN. PATTON'S REMOVAL URGED   CONGRESSMAN SAYS OFFI CER’S USEFULNESS AS COM-_ MANDER IS AT END.

UNION BOARD  ~ ENDS SESSION   GARMENT WORKERS’ BOARD FAVORS LIFTING IMMIGRA_ TION LAWS FOR WAR REFUGEES

ALLIED THOOPo IN EVE MILES OF SALAMAUA   New Guinea Base Of Japan Facing Early Threat From MacArthur

ALLIES NEAR JAP BASE IN ~NEW GUINEA   Nip Subs Bag Five Ships Off Australia, Says MacArthur

MacArthur Men Take Village   Capture Bobdubi, Five Miles From Big Jap Base at Salamaua

Japanese Lose Bobdubi, N. G.  Allies Report Loss of Five Freighters

Allies Capture Village Near Big Jap Base   Salamaua In Hands Of Yanks; No Big Drive Planned

Allies Capture Japanese Base Near Salamau:z   Thrust Represents Closest Penetration To Big Base In New Guinea Drive

ALLIED TROOPS TAKE  NEW GUINEA VILLAGE  NEAR BIG JAP BASE ANNOUNCEMENT MADE THAT JAPANESE U-BOATS  CUNY Cre ATTICK CLuIpe.

TOWN TAKEN NEAR BIG JAP N. GUINEA BAS!   Close Penetration To Salamaua. Five Allied Freighters Sunk By Japanese Submarines

Five Allied Freighters Sunk by Japs   MacArthur Announces Capture of Village Only 5 Miles from Salamaua; Close Fighting in Progress in Burma

BOBDUBI TAKEN BY MACARTHUR   Village Only Five Miles From Big Jap Base At Salamaua

Nearing Big. Japanese Base   Loss Of Five Allied Freichtera Revealed

(AP SALAMAUA AoE MENAGED BY NeW ORWE   Ailies Five Miles from Big New Guinea Base: Air Arm Pounds Nips.   FLOW OF SUPPLIES TO AREA CONTINUES

ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE BOBDUBI, 5 MILES SALAMAUA   Nn Indication of Major Allied Offensive to Take Big Jap Base.

ALLIES CAPTURE BOBDUBI, NEAR SALAMAUA BASE   Nearest Penetration To Big Jap Base In New Guinea Reported;  Jap Subs Get Five   Allied Freighters.

Allies 5 Miles From Salamaua In New Guinea   Jap Submarines Sink 5 Cargo Ships In Waters East Of Australia.

Allied Troops  Near Salamaua      Capture Village Of Bobdubi Only Five Miles From Jap New Guinea Base.

Allied Troops Take Village Of Bobdubi   Drive Continued Upor Japs’ Naval Base In New Guinea

ALLIES CAPTURE eA VILLAGE NEAR LARGE NIP BASI   @MacArthur’s Forces Only 5 Miles From Salamaua After New Conquest

ALLIES TAKE VILLAGE IN NEW GUINEA   Advance Within 5 Miles Of Jap Base At Salamaua

Allies Take Bobdubi Near  Jap Salamaua   Still No Indication 0! Major Offensive in the South Pacific

MacArthur's Anniversary   Year Ago Today He Landed hi Australia; Has Done Much   Lacking Resources, He Can’t Take Initiative But Has Performed Brilliantly

MacArthur wilt Not forget  General Promised Year Agc His Return to Philippines

He's Been Gone A Year M’'Arthur Will Return To Philippines When He Gets The Planes, Ships, Men

Solon Asks Floor of $2 on Crude Oil   NEW BILL WOULD ALLOW HIGHER PRICE CEILING; ICKES APPROVAL SEEN

Weather Holds RAF Bombers   Daylight Raids Made On Railway Targets

MODERATE RALLY _ IN STOCK MARKE}   Rubbers, Rails, Specialties 3 Predominate at Close

DIM-OUT LOOMS FOR ALL OF U.S.   Drastic Limitation On Use Of Electricity And Fuel Considered By WPB

MINERS TO GET MORE GASOLINE   Kilgore Announces OPA Lifts Restrictions On Extra Supply

Gasoline: for Workers   Kilgore Says Supplemental Ration Ban Lifted

War May Hit Highest Pitch Soon   Summer Finds Allies Poised for Big Events Everywhere

Observer Sees Invasion Soon  Allies Are Poised As Summer Approaches

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Summer's Opening Finds Allies Ready To Deal @lows On All Fronts

Heaviest Attack Is Made On Lae   Big Japanese Base On New Guinea Hit By Tons Of Explosives

CONTINUED BOMBARDMENT OF PANTELLERIA MAY MEAN EARLY IACCUPATION ATTEMPT BE. MADE

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   (Gonquest Of Pantelleria @ Important Prelude To Allied Invasion

The W ar Today— Allies Must Erase Mighty Dot In Mediterranean To Start Invasion

4 Axis Ships Sunk By British Submarines In Italian Waters   Terrific Explosion That Shook Raiding Sub Indicates One Was Ammunition Boat

POPULAR: HAWARDEN. . COUPLE MARRIED   Helen  Barlene: Bilks and Jutiu: _B Schiefen Exchange MarPlage” Vows

POPULAR HAWARDEN COUPLE MARRIED   Helen Darlene: Eilks and Julius B. Schiefen Exchange MarE rlage’ Vows

TUNISIA ENTERED BY EIGHTH ARMY   English Continue Pursuit Of Rommel’s Fleeing Corps

British Troops Advance Into Tunisia;  Tightening Of Axis Pocket Is Started

IOWA SENATE DISAGREES ON EMERGENCY AC   Heated debate in uppe: house over powers of chief executive

Disorders Flare Up In Berlin as Result  Of Tunisia Defeat   Anti-Aircraft Fire Hits Nazi Plane Flying Over Sweden

Nazi SS Quells Berlin Riot — By Relatives Of Lost Troops; ‘Unrest And Defiance Mount

Nazi Occupation Forces Rush to Low Countries   Organized Bands Operate Against Enemy Establishments; May Mean Attack

GERMAN POPULACE ENGAGES IN RIOT   Relatives Of Men In Africa Corp: Stage Demonstration In Berlin

Violence Grows In Holland And  Belgium Areas   ( prising In Low Countries Interpreted As Sign Of Imminent Allied Invasion.

Nazis Trying to Provoke Premature  Violence, Dutch Warned; Disorders  Are Reported to Be Spreading

Report Rioting in Berlin  Anxious Relatives  Saale Teabaoem cotiaw

Rioting Reported in Bers lin Among Anxious Relatives 4.  SIGNS OF INVASION NOTED BY UNREST Violence Against the Axis Forces in Halland and Belaium Spreads

Nazis’ Relatives Riot In Berlin; Holland Astir   Silence on fate of the troops in Tunisia stirs up trouble; unrest in Belgium, also,

NEW REVOLTS BREAK OUT IN NAZI EUROPE   STRiBES Fin Ul RAIL TRAFFIC; MANY SHOT

Reds Say Winter Offensive Over, Cite Axis Losses   Issue Communique As Spring Thaws Boa Dawn Fronts

Soviet Winter Campaign Comes to End   Russians Report 1,200,000 of Enemy Were Killed

ALERT IS PLANNED HERE NEXT MONTH   Air Raid Alarm Due Any. time After the Holidavs

ALLIED PLANES INK, DAMAGE TEN JAP SHIPS   Rabaul Is Scene Of Heavy Attack By MacArthur’s 1 Massive Bombers

ATTACK FOLLOWS ‘WARNING JAPAN 15 (MASSING BIG FLEET   Eight Enemy Vessels Left Ln Flames Or Sinking

Enemy Ships Bombed in Rabaul Port   Allied Bombers Sink or Dam age 10 Ships in Sixth Raid in  “Ten Days on Japanese Base

Ten Enemy Ships Hit by Bombers   50,000 Tons of Shipping Under Attack; Allied Airmen Range Far to Bomb Foe

Developments Are Expected Shortly   French Cut Important Road, Endonger Axis Flank: Americans Edae Into Axis Defenses

VEHICLE SPOUTS 30-FOOT SHEET OF FIERY DEATH      Spectacular Move Is Expected at Any Moment

Allied Planes Sink Jap Sub In Lae Harbor   Nip Raiders Offer Heaviest Attack In Months Near Buna

Jap Sub Sunk as lt Unloaded in Harbor at Lae   It May Mean That Enemy's Supply Needs Are Desperate

Allied Planes Smash Jap Suh  Cargo Carrier   Big U-Boat Bagged As Bombers Unload Destruction On Lae

ALLIED AIRCRAFT SINKS JAP SUB AT LAE HARBOR   Opposing Air Farces Exchange Blows on South Pacific Front

ALLIED AIRMEN SCORE HIT ON JAP SUBMARINE   ‘U-Boat Discovered Un loading Cargo in Lae Harbor by MacArthur's  Scouting Aircraft   NIPS BOMB HARBOR   Damage Inflicted on Wharf at Portlock on North-east Coast of New Guinea

ALLIED BOMBS DESTROY SUB OF THE JAPS   Caught While it Was Unloading In Lae Harbor, New Guinea. Other Shipping Under Attack.

Fifth Captures Two Key Hills   Fighting Rages In Ortona Streets; Warships Shell Drvenik.

Bill fo Return Land Is Offered   Navy Would Turn Back To Owners Land in Moore Oil Field

Navy Wants to Be Fair, Says Knox   Oil Discovery Complicates Situation Near Moore

DONNELD'S TAX PLAN INDORSED   GOP CAUCUS PAVES WAY FOR HOUSE PASSAGE OF CONSOLIDATION SCHEME.

Republican Caucus Endorses Donnell Tax Plan  House Passage of 32 Measures Assured by

REV. LANDGRAF LEAVES SEPT. 15   Accepts Call From Second  . Presbyterian Church, Freeport, Ill.

REV. LANDGRAF TO FREEPORT, TLL, SEPT. 15   Pastor of Presbyterian Church Here for Five Years,

DRIVE THREATENS: TUNIS AND NAVAL BASE OF BIZERTE   Yanks Smash Through Strongly Fortified Hills to Reach Town With Losses Heavy on Both Sides.   NAZIS STILL FLEEING UNDER AERIAL ATTACK   French Troops and Other U. S. Forces to North Stab to Within 15 Miles of Bizerte.

The Germans Held Strong Positions Before Troina Boobytrapped Their Mines

Battle In Sicily Is Like This   Artillery Din Terrific as Yanks and Germans Fight in Close Combat - - Wounded Americans Shot If They Move - - So Are Those Who Trv To Get Them Off the Field

EXTEND STATUTE OF LIMITATION FOR *  GOURT MARTIAL   Senate Approved Resolution Applying to Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major Short.   FOR A 6 MONTHS PERIOD   Action Came After the HouseApproved Resolution Had Been Revised.

But Two Years Will Be Needed to Stop Japs. Five Million to Be Hurled Against Europe

RAR CRIES MAPPING STEF   Strike Possible in :10Month Fight for * Higher Wages .

ot Take One Airstrip At Arawe   4.14 Tons of Bombs Hit Cape Gloucester On New Britain Island  MABRSHALLS TARGET

Record Bomber Loads Hit Japs: Capture Airfield   U. §. Troops Advance Three Miles to Take  New Britain Base

Rain Bombs on Cape Gloucester Attack Mili Atoll   American Troops Advance in Arawe, Capture Airfield

NEW THRUSTS TOKENED BY “1S. BOMBERS   Cane Gloucester. Mili Atol! Pounded in Pacific

PAY-AS-EARN TAX PROGRAM ‘SPEEDURGED   Budget Director Appeals For Program Start . By April 

NEW WASTE FAT PLAN   Housewives to Get Ration Point ) for Each Half Pound of Fat

BRITISH, NAZI FLEET UNITS IN SHARP BATTLE   News of Engagement Lim ited to Report German Cruiser Damaged, De-. stroyer:Probably Sunk   PAPERS SPECULATE   See Possibility of Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen Being Intercepted by British

Naval Engagement Continues To Rage In Northern Waters   Clash Of British And German Fleet Units Leads To Speculation In London

NAVAL BATTLE RAGING   British Ard German Fleets Engaged In Northern Waters

Second Front Is Rated First  In Importance   Moscow Paper Calls For Three-Power Meeting Providing Second Front  Will Be The Outcome

TAFT SAYS NATIONS MUST PLAN PEACE   Ohio Solon on Speaking Tour Of Country

Call On Nation To Plan Peace  Bi-Partisan Groups Tour Country With  Camman Purnoce

BUDGET BILL TQ THE FLOOR THlo WEEK-END   Committee Is Half Way Through This Volumincus Measure.   CIVILIAN DEFENSE CUT   Hundreds of Bills, Including Local Option, May Die   in the ‘‘Mill.” 

CIVILIAN DEFENSE. CU1   Hundreds of Bills, Including Local Option, May -Die _  in the ‘‘  Mill.” 

FEAR OF ALLIED ATTACK GROWS IN EUROPE   Italians Extremels Nervous, Germans Are Shocked

Growing Fear In ~ Germany and Italy   Expect Allied Armies To Thrust Into Homelands

Populace Of Sicily Is Reported Panicky Following Tunisia Defeat   ITALY AND GERMANY PREPARE DEFENSES

FEAR MOUNTING IN. AXIS LANDS   Germany Still Strong, But Has Little Relish For Certain Invasion

NAZI GENERAL MURDER VICTIM   Shot To Death During RAF : Raid Last Tuesday

Feed Shortage. InN. E. Critical, - Senator: Metin   Dairy And ‘Poultry Farm Unable To Keep Stock, . Places ‘Blame..On OPA

Henry Kaiser to Manufacture $400 Car of Magnesium, Sell It in Gas Stations

$400 POST-WAR CAR PLANNED BY KAISER   Machine WiH Be Sold For Cash A Filling Sta‘ions, Shipbuilder Declares

$400 Postwar Car Promised by Henry J. Kaiser   Shipbuilder Says He Wil Sell Them in Every Gas Station

KAISER PROMISES A $400 MOTOR CAR   SHIPBUILDER PLANS TO SELL POST-WAR AUTO THROUGH GAS STATIONS.

POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE BEING RELEASED   Gen. Franco Plans To Conditionally Free All Republicans As Gesture Of National Units

MEXICAN MOTHER, HER SEVEN CHILDREN PERISH IN FLAMES AT NEBRASKA TOWN SATURDAY

CITY IN MOVE TO  IMPROVE AIRPORT   New Hangar and Other Proposed Additions to Cost   COST SPLIT 3 WAYS

CITY IN MOVE TO ~ IMPROVE AIRPORT   New Hangar and Other Proposed Additions to Cost $15,000  9 ,     CNeT enrrr $4 wats

STILWELL SEES HARD JOB AHEAD   But General Declares Allies To Roll Against Japs When Possible

STILWELL SEES DEFEAT OF JAPS   Hard Job Ahead, Says General After Conference Jn Washington

Chinese Needs Weighed At Roosevelt-Churchill Conference, General Reveals To Newsmeu

Stilwell Now Back In China After Washington Talks ‘  Commander Declares Defeating Japs To Be Hell of a Job

URUSTING JAD IS TOUGH JOB SAYS STILWELI  Returns To China War Front From Wash     Will Start Offense Ags Soon As Is Pos eqpnla

STILWELL SEES “HELL OF A JOB   Declares United Nations’ Are Determined To-Crush Japs as Soon as Possible. -

STILWELL SEES HARD CAMPAIGN   Savs Allies Determined To Crush Japs Soon As Possible

Hard Fighting Still Ahead   Jap Bases Bombed. Subs Report 12 Nip Ships Sunk

Allies Building Up Blows Against Foe In Pacific, U. S. Chief Pledges

Stilwell Says  Hard Job Is ‘Ahead of Us   New Series of Allied Aerial Blows Against Jap Bases Announced; US Sub Sinks 12 Nip Ships

OTHLWELL WARNS OF BIG JOB AHEAD   ‘Hard Fighting with Savage Foe Is Task Facing Yanks and Chinese

Stilwell Returns to China, Declares "Hard Job Ahead’   Needs on War Front There Considered, General Reports

Stilwell ‘Emphasizes Big Job Ahead i in Crushing Japanese   Calls Enemy Savage and Numerous; Declares “We ° Will Have a Hell of a Hard Job Ahead.” my

AID TO CHINA IS DISCUSSED BY STILWELL   Lieutenant General in Chungking Warns of Tough Job Ahead Defeating the Japs

OFFENSIVE SHAPES: UP IN THE PACIFIC   New Blows Against Jap Bases in China and the Southwest   'U. §. SUBS ARE DEADLY

Allice Are Determined, But General Stilwell Sees Hard Job Ahead Before Japan Can Be Defeated

Gen. Stilwell Sees Hard Job Ahead   But Allies Are Determined to Start Rolling as Soon as Possible   CHINA IS GIVEN FULL CONSIDERATION   Action In Orient Has Been, Will Continue in Co-ordination With Other Fronts

STILWELL NOW BACK AT FRONT      Returns to Chinese Front After Strategy Conferences in Washington.

Hard Job Ahead To Crush Ja ps. Stilwell Warns At Chungking .   ‘We Have A Savage Enemy And There's Plenty Of Him,’ Says General, Back From U.S. Confab:

HARD JOB AHEAD TO CRUSH JAPS GENERAL WARNS   Allies Ready To Get Rolling In  Pacific Area

Stilwell Back “In China After Strategy Talks   Voices Allied Determina: tion To Push Big Job Of  Crushing Japan.

Says Japs Are Hard To Beat  Stilwell Outlines s gitar " ioe Bee  Br pees

“A Hard Job To Crush Japan’ .—s-_   But Gen. Stilwell Says Allies Determined, to “Start Rolling As  Soon As Possible” °—

Stilwell Sees Hard Job Ahead To Beat Enemy  Fe En    American General Returns to China To Conduct Drive

STILWELL SAYS HARD JOB IS AHEAD IN CHINA   New Aerial Blows Struck By MacArthur In South Pacific

Huge Job Ahead To Crush Japan, Stilwell Asserts   American General Says Allies Will Start Push Soon

Stilwell, Back In China, Sees Hard Job Still Ahead   Japs A Savage Enemy And Plenty Of Them, Says Leader.

‘Hard Fighting Said Ahead In Pacific Strugele   But Stilwell Says Alfies Deterinined. to  Start Rolling as Soon as Posethle.

AlD FOR CHINA IS TO INCREASE   Gen. Stillwell Back from U. S. Confab, Cites Opening Of Mediterranean

Stillwell Says We Have “Hell Of AHard Job Ahead In East   Newsmen at Chungking Say Problems Of China Were Thoroughly Considered At Roosevelt-Churchill Conference

Pacitie Drive Being Mapped. Stilwell Says   Chinese Assured All Possible Attention Being Given War In Orient.   BIG RAID ON RABAUL

who Se oI +0 Anead io Crush Japs, Says Stilwell   We Have Savage Enemy, But We Are Determined To Get at Him, U. S. General Tells Chinese

UNITED NATIONS GET AFTER JAP   Enemy Savage One, Avers Gen. Stilwell; Chinese Make New Gains

Allies to  Go After Japanese   Plans Made to Carry Out Big Job Stilwell Declares

Enemy Will Be Defeated as Soon as Possible and May Be Stopped With:Increase of Supplies for China, General Declares.

Stilwell Returns to China  Allies Determined to Crush Japan as Quickly as Possible

HARD JOB AHEAD, SAYS STILLWELL   DECLARES JAPS ARE A SAVAGE ENEMY; PLENTY OF THEM

Stilwell, Back In China From U.S. Parley, Declares Allies Face Hard Job Crushing Japan   Determined To Start Ball Rolling Soon As Possible, He Asserts

*MacArthur’s Planes Blast at Japanese * Strongholds Monday   60,000 Pounds of Explosives Dropped on New  ~—s Britain Keystone

United Nations Thoroughiy Determined to Do It As Soon As Possible, He Says   CARRIES BACK PLANS FROM ALLIED PARLEY      Says “China Thoroughly Considered and Her Needs Gone Into At Lencth”

Allies To Start Rolling Against Javanese Soon As Possible, Stilwell Says

LIEUT. GEN. STILWELL BACK IN GHUNGKING   Ends Trip Which Called Him to Washington

JAP CONQUEST WILL BE HARD — STILLWELL   United States Officer Back In China After Washington Confab   ¢ pLANS MADE TO AID CHINESE OPERATIONS   Mediterranean Situation Is Expected To Help In Supplies Shipment

Hard Job to Srush Japs, Stilwell   Will Start Rolling as Soon As Possible, Ceneral Says

NEW GASOLINE SHORTAGE SEEN IN PITTSBURGH   Deny Reports Government Will Take Over Service % Stations

Optimistic Report Made On Foed Crops   Civilians To Get 75 Per Cent Of Production

Fourth Inning—Cards   Fifth Inning—Cardinals   Sixth Inning—Cardinals

U.S. Troops 22 Miles From Western Coast   Aajor Axis Airfield Is Taken In Slashing Drive As American Near Palermo; Catania Still Resists

CAPTURE 18 MORE TOWNS ANE REACH POINT 22 MILES FROM:. WESTERMOST TIP OF ISLAND.

Ais Defenses _ In Sicily Are. Fast Collapsing’   Americans and Canadians Take 18 More Towns

ALLIES CAPTURE 18 MORE TOWNS, AND DRIVE WESTWARD   British Eighth Army Still Locked In _ Furious Battle At Catania, But Rest Of Allied Line Surges On

British Army Still Battles  For Catania   American Forces Push Northward at Mile-an-Hour Rate

ALL BUT 22 MILES OF SOUTH COAST SEIZED BY YANKS   Castelvetrano {s Captured  Eighteen More Towns  and Villages are Taken.

Axis Armies Offer Little Opposition   Conquest Of Island Now In Final Stage, Field Reports Say

Yanks, Canadians Make Progress; British  Sth Army Still Eiagkhtinge far Catania

MORE TOWNS   American and Canadian Armies Pushing Through Central and Western Sicily — Within 22 Miles of Westernmost Tip of Island...

Citizenship Is Granted to 25:  Hearing Is Held  ta Padarel Carré

Landings on Islands Are Successful   Seen as Opening Blow 90; New Offensive Against Japs In Pacific

Sky-borne Allied Troops . Land on Choiseul Island To Flank Bougainville   ‘MacArthur's Troops Now Control All Approaches to Raboul, Keystone of Tap Defenses.

Oakes’ Friend Hammered on Slaying Tale   Christie Angered by Cross Examination on Movements Night of Deed

Guest of Oakes Cross-Examined At Nassau Trial   Attempt Is Made To Upset Story Told by Christie

OAKES’ FRIEND GRILLED ABOUT MURDER SCENE   Defense Attorney Pounds ~ Question After Question At Harold G. Christie

CHRISTIE GETS STIFF QUIZZING   Defense Pounds At Evidence Offered In Oakes Murder Trial.

WARIS FIRST   U. S. Requests End Of Poles” And Russians’ Dispute

‘Soviets Drive  Into Ukraine In Flanking Move   One Column Pounding Toward Key Rail Junc‘tion At Lozovaya. -

SOVIRT FORGES SURGING AHEAD IN FLANK MOVE      Drive Nazis Back Toward:  Dnieper River Defenses And Strike South For  More Gains !

RUSSIAN ARMIES STRIKE DEEP INTO HEART OF UKRAINE   Red Drive Presses Toward  German Defenses on Dneiper River; Nazi At tacks Repulsed.

Would Use Food Stamps   As Aid to Low-Income Group If Price Rise Follows Subsidy Ban

Food Stamp Plan Revised   Farm Bloc Leaders Offer It In Anti-Subsidy Fight

New Food Plan Given Revival  Would Help Lower  Nee a ee ap eae a

PHILIPPINES 10 BEWARE QF JAPS   Quezon Warns The Jap Freedom Is The Slavery Kind

FILIPINOS WARNED   Jap Promise Of Independence Play. e_d By Manuel Quezon

‘Freedom’ Plax  Is Meaningless  Look What Happened In Korea. Manchuria

QUEZON SCORES RULE OF JAPS   POINTS TO “FREEDOM” OF KOREA, MANCHURIA

Quezon Speaks To Philippine People   Says People Should Not Listen To Nips

2600 More Japanese ‘Americans To Shelby   Head For Camp After Induction At Honolulu

Eisenhower, Ashore In Sicily, Inspects Scenes Of Activity   Rides In Borrowed Jeep To Visit Canadian Troops — Get: Up-To-The-Minute Picture Of Operations

EISENHOWER ON PERSONAL TOUR OF SICILY FRONT   Men Astonished to See Supreme Commander tn Zone of Action.

Nelson Ready To Quit WPB Post   Wants Group To Handle  Postwar Reconversion

BRITISH PLANS ARE HEARTENING   BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst  {Rae FG es rremtecci

TODAY'S WAR: MOVES   (Reg. U. 3. Pat. Office} _ BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE Tinlted Presse UWUlar Analwvat

GENERAL SEES CAMPAIGN END   Enemy Has Backto Wall He Tells Soldiers  In Tunisia

No Changes At Western Union For The Present   No Arrangement For  Military To Take Over The Institution:

DLR. MAY SEE CHURCHILE AGAIR   BRITON’S PLANS TO VISIT CAPITAL STIR TALK PARLEYS MAY BE RESUMED,

Stimson Says Army Ban on Political Activity Not Aimed at MacArthur

Ban on Politics Stirs Senator   Vandenberg Arousec By Army's Order

Vandenberg Challenges Stimson Ban   ORDER NULLIFIES FUNDAMENTap .RIGHTS OF AMERICA) MTIZENS, TENDS TO MILITAR IZE DEMOCRACY.   Barkley On Defensive

VANDENBER G HITS AT ARMY POLITICS BAN   Stimson Denies Order Is Aimed at Gen. MacArthur

ARNT RELE STIRS POLITICAL LINES   Debate Centers on Eligibility of ~MacArthur, {f Candidate

GOP and Demo Senators Argue About MacArthur Army Rule on Polities

Invasion Plans Are Checked at African Parley   Press Thinks Next Major Blow to Fall Upon Italian Island Outposts or Balkans

Invasion Is Seen Near; Churchill Meets With Aides   American May Lead  March Into Europe Fortress

Invasion Plans Believed Ready  .. Po ls   ‘Mass Arresis Staged by Germans °

Allies Gain Slightly on Ttalian Front   Nazis Put Up Heavy Resistance With’ Artillery. and Planes

Yanks, British Make Slight Gains in Italy   Fighting Marked by Heaviest Nazi Air Activity Since Salerno; Americans Advance Despite Many Counter-Attacks

Allies Gain Despite Big Nazi Guns   ‘Yanks, Nazis Engage In Fierce Mountain Fighting

Small Gains Made by oth. 8th Armies   Air Blows by Enemy Described as Heaviest Since Battle of Salerno  Wwws4uaAXt7T€e€tr,r AIF TRTO’ WiFi y

Nazis throw heavy aerial  barrage aloft   Blows heaviest since Salerno

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Tleavy Air Blows Struck By German Fliers In Italy   American and British Troops Advance Slightly at Eastern End of Battle Front in Spite of Enemy Artillery and Air Blasts

Germans Fail ToHinder Allies in Italy   Invasion Advances Despite Heavy Assaults by Air

U. §. and British Forces Advance In Mountains   Berlin Admits Loss Of Important Height

ARTILLERY I$ USED BY NAZIS ON GARICLIANO   Enemy Also Employs Fighters To Protect Road Ta Rame

YANK FORCES MAKE GAIN ON ITALIAN FRONT   Better Positions Despite Many German Counterattacks

Nazis Battle To Protect Road to Rome   Allies Score Gains In Face of Furious Resistance

Yanks Improve Positions in Italy Area   Germans Lash Out With Heavy Air and Artillery Blows

Nazis Step Up Their Resistance   British and Yanks Make Slight Gains

COMMITTEE NOT TO GIVE M’NUTT APPROPRIATION   Offcial’s Future As Manpower Commissioner Imperilled By Action   PROGRAM REPORTED BEHIND SCHEDULE

McNutt Faces Congress Battle to Keep WMC Post   House Committee Refuses Request For ‘Essential’ Fund; Seen as Challenge

McNutt Status As MP Head s Imperilled   House Appropriation Refuses Request for Essential Funds ~

M'NUTT FUND REJECTEDBY HOUSEGROUP      Future of War Manpower Chief Impetitled by Committee Action

MeNatt Ouster - Threat Grows   House Group Refuses Request For Funds

McNutt’s post in balance as funds refused   Hints congress anll be blamed

M’Nutt Gets 3rd Rebuff; No Money   AMERICAN PHARAOH’S FUTURE IS IMPERILLED BY HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE’S REFUSAL OF $2,454,000 MORE   Under Congress’ Fire

Extra Funds Are Refused. MeNutt’s Job In Jeopardy   ‘Appropriations Group Turns Down His Plea  For Money ‘Essential’ To Manpower Agency  VIRTUAL CHALLENGE FROM CONGRESSMEN  Administration Balked On Other Requests For Appropriations

MNUTT'S JOB IS PERILED BY FUND REFUSAL   House Committee Denies His Request  For Cash

MNUTT’S PLEA FOR FUNDS DENIED   HOUSE GROUP’S ACTION IM. PERILS HIS FUTURE AS : MANPOWER CHIEF.

McNutt's Request For Funds Fails To Get Results   House Appropriations - Committee Refuses To Vote $2,454,000

McNutt Progran Said Imperiled   House Body Rejects Request for Funds

FILE APPEALS TO CORRECT CERTIFICATER OF WAR NECESSITY FOR TRUCKS

CLAIM JAPS USED GAS   China Reports Many Are Killed by the Japanese

EARLY VOTE ON STRIKE BILL IS BEING SOUGHT   Action Postponed For Week: Swift Pas sage Seen

HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE HIKES LIQUOR TAX   NEW TOP OF TEN DOLLARS GALLON FAVORED; NO GASOLINE INCREASE

Vote To Raise Tax On Liquor   Ways, Means Committee Rejects Proposals To Increase Tobacco Levies.

Vote a Higher Tax on Whisky   But House Committee Refuses Any Increases on Tobacco and Gasoline.

Tax On Liquor Is Upped $4.00   Gas, Tobacco Levies Are Left At Old” Figures By House Crown

APPROVE LIQUOR TAX INCREASE   Reject Proposals To Raise Tobacco, Gasoline Levies

House Group Votes Hike In Liquor Levy   Would Boost Tax From $6 To $10; Reject Tobacco, Gasoline  Imereacee

Okey Hike In Liquor, Beer, Wine Tax, Reject Boost In Tobacco, Gas Levies

HOUSE GROUP VOTES LIQUOR TAX INCREASE   Committee Approves Boost From $6 to $10 a Gallon. but Refuses to Hike Tobacco and Gasoline Levies.

Move To Raise Liquor Taxes   Committee Would Leave Tobacco, Gasoline Tax Same

Committee Votes Higher Whisky Tax   Refuses Increases 1 Levy Against Gas And Tobacco

VOTE TO BOOST TAX ON LIQUOR   HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS INCREASE OF $4 PER GALLON

LIQUOR TAX HIKED   86 To $10 Per Galion Increase Vot. ed By House Committee

HOUSE GROUP VOTES TO RAISE LIQUOR TAXES   Would Hike Gallon Levy from $f fo S10, Beer from $7 to $8 Bar. rel, Wines Up 50 PC

Liquor Tax Hike Approved By House Group  Solons Reject Increase on  lL...) Of acntina

Committee Votes Higher Liquor Tax  Rejects Proposals  Fo increase  - Tobacco or

ENACTMENT OF RETAIL SALES TAX ISURGED   Held Only Source Open For Wartime Finances; Postage Increases Proposed

$10 Gallon Liquor Tax Approved   House Committee. Boost: Rate Above. Recommendation: Present Levy 56   REFUSES HIKE ON = TOBACCO, GASOLINE   Sales Tax Again Urged; Thi “Time by a. Republican’ Member of Committee’:

Vote To Up Liquor Tax   House Committee For $4.00 A Gallon Tax Boost

Liquor Tax ‘To Go From $6 To $10   Increase Of $4 A Gallon Is Voted; Reject Any Increases In Gas Or Tobacco Levies

AN INCREASE OF $4 A GALLON WAS VOTED ON LIQUOR   All Proposals of Any Increases In Tobacco and Gasoline Levies, Rejected.   12.5 CENTS PER DRINK   The House Ways and Means Committee Will Vote On Other Taxes Late Today.

$20 BOOST FO PENSIONS SEEN   Shivers Co-Author Of Bill T« Raise Payments

C-47 Planes Join Ranks Air Heroes   Return from Carrying Human Cargoes to Sicily Filled with Holes and Much Shot Up; Lumberton Man Co-Pilot

"0 ran BY SOVIETS        Reds Have Seized Initiative; Take New Towns

REDS REGAIN INITIATIVE IN KIEVE BULGE   Russians Attack Fiercely South and Southwest of Malin, 55 Miles West Of Ukrain Canital

RUSSIANS REGAIN LOST GROUND IN SALIENT AT KIEV   Danger Is Not Entirely Over -But Observers. Believe Germans Unable to Plan Another Offensive.   TENSION MOUNTS ON.  BULGARIAN REPORTS   U. S. Bombers Strike German Areas By Daylight After Mosquito Raiders Visit Reich.

Soviets Stop German Drive  Toward Kiev   Red Army Regains Initiative in Mammoth Battle

Russians Menace Malin After Repulsing Germar Attacks In Kiev Bulge

Russ Regain Initiative in Kiev Salient   Lost Ground Recovered as Massed Nazi Altack Is Smashed      XIS POWER WANES!   Soviet Troops Drive Inte Outskirts of Kirovograd, Rail Center

Russ Regain Offense Near Kiev   Red Army Attacking South of Malin, Take Strong Points

Reds Regain Initiative In Kiev Sector   Several Villages Are _ Retaken; Nazis Say Several Points Near Kirovovrad Captured   NEE ——OOr  Fake Convoy, Other Ruses Employed By Powerful — TTS Task Force. Fail To Bring Nazis Into Fight   “T ame Duck” Falis

RUSSIAN TROOPS ADVANCING AGAIN IN KIEV SALIENT   Red Army Regains Initiative After Smashing All Garman Attackbe

RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON KIEV FRONT   Regain Initiative After Crucial Battle

MASSIVE FIGHT TURNS IN FAVOR OF RUSSIANS   Soviets Regain -tnitiative and Push Nazis Back After Heavy Battle.

Reds Regain Initiative in Kiev Bulge   Attack Fiercely After First Major Turn In Vital Battle

Aitacks Fiercely South and Southwest of Malin After Taking Several Towns   1,000 NAZIS SLAIN   Road Running to Chigirin from Southwest Cut, Threatening Germans wilh Encirclement

Russians Back “On Offensive _In Kiev Bulge   Tide Turns As Reds Attack Below Malin; Take Chigirin In South.

Russians Regair  Initiative In ‘Kiev Salient   - Crucial Month-Long Battle Costs Germans  More Than 1,000 Tanks

SOVIETS REPEL NAZI ASSAULTS IN KIEV BULGE   Russians Threatening Ma kin In Fierce Attacks to to Mark Major Turn In Sector

Eight More Towns Fall To Russians In Renewed Drive At Dnieper Bend

Soviets Regain Initiative In Kiev District   Stop Na zi Attacks And Regain Some Lost  Ground   DANGER NOT OVER   Tremendous Losses In German Army Cause Slackening

Powerful Columns Blunt Tank Attack   Soviets Wrest Initiative From Foe  After 4 Weeks of Bitter Fichtine«

Soviet Army On Offensive  In Kiev Bulge   Weeks of Heavy Defensive Fighting Brought to End With Turn of Tide

NAZIS LOSE 1000 TANKS IN BATTLE   Soviets Stop Germans And Recover Some Lost Ground

Red Forces Turn Tables in Kiev Bulge   Take the Initiative After Four Weeks of Defensive Fighting

Report Major Turn in Battle for Kiev; Attacking Fiercely   Red Army Threatening Malin; Assaults of Nazis Repulsed

REDS ATTACKING IN MALIN SECTOR   CAPTURE CHIGIRIN IN NEW DRIVE FOR TOWN OF KIROVOGRAL

BULGE BATTLE FAVORING REDS   Russians Regain’ Initiative And Are Attacking Fiercely.   ‘GERMANS ADMIT CHANGE

WREST TOWNS FROM GRIP OF NAZI INVADEF   Huge German Forces, Equipment Swept Back in Savage Charge of Determined Reds

Reds Regain Initiative In Kiev Area   Scale of Intensity Of German Attacks Reported Waning

ENEMY FAILS IN ATTACK ON US. POSITIONS   Sharp Clash With J apanese Task Force Is Reported In Bulletin   MET AND REPULSED IS NAVY MESSAGE   Americans and Australians Threaten Salamaua from Three Sides

Enemy Cruisers and De. stroyers Attempted Te Turn Their Big Guns Or American Positions; Driv. en Off By U. S. Nava  Units.

Enemy Frustrated In Sharp Solonious En gagement Today Navy Department Reports   Nip Force Included Three Cruisers And Four Destroyers; U.S, Army May Have Pursui Elecing Fee Inte Central Solomons

Bombardment Of Rendova  Isle Failure   Cruisers, Destroyers Retire; Pursuit May Be Continuing; Size Of U. S. Force Not Told

Enemy Atfacks Rendova Island, Put To Flight   U. S. Fleet Is Believed In Pursuit; Enemy Base Imperilled

Long Awaited Challenge To Navy Ends In Defeat Of Enemy Surface Craft

—SOLOMONS—  ALLIES MENACE SALAMAUA BASE   Sharp Naval Engage ment Is Reported Near Rendova Island   FORCES JOINED   American And Australian Patrols Meet In New Guinea Drive

SEVEN WARSHIPS BEATEN OFF IN FIERCE SEA FIGHT OFF NEWLY-WON POSITIONS IN SOLOMONS; BITTER BATTLE IN JUNGLES

Allied Troops Within Sight of Salamau Base In New Guinea   Attacking Force Consisted of 3 Cruisers,  4 Destrovers

JAPS DRIVEN OFF IN NAVAL BATTLE   NIP FLEET TRIES TO TURN BIG GUNS ON RENDOVA ISLAND

‘Driven Off by U.S. Units in Sharp Battle   Cruisers and Destroyers Attack; Final Outcome of Engagement Not Known

JAP WARSHIPS DRIVEN OFF IN RENDOVA ACTION   On Land Front, Allies Threaten Salamaua Base, Meet Stiffer Resistance at Munda

Night Attack By Jap Ships Soon Beaten  U.S. Surface Craft Drive Off 3 Cruisers and , 4 Destroyers AIR RAID FAILURE Navy Says Some Were Killed in Initial Attack on McCawley      ‘AIR RAID FAILURE

DRIVEN AWAY NEAR RENDOVA   Heavy U. S. Artillery Shells Enemy Positions at, Munda. oe   AUSSIES, YANKS JOINED

REPULSE THE JAPS   Enemy Was Attempting to Train Guns on U. S.  _ Positions

Yanks and Australian Patrols Join   Nips Put 3 Cruisers, 4 Destroyers into Futile Sea Action

Four Destroyers % And Three Cruisers In Raiding Force   Details of Today's Engagement Are Withheld by Navy

NIPPONESE FAIL IN EFFORTS 10 SHELL YANKEES   - Sharp Engagement in Central Solomons Revealed by Navy

SHARP FIGHT TAKES PLACE OFF RENDOVA   Navy Says 3 Cruisers, 4 Destroyers Driven Off in Short Order After Unsuccessful Shelling Attempt.

AU, S. NAVAL UNIT ROUTS JAPANESE   An Unsuccessful Bombardment Attempt Made on Rendova Island.

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Australian Forces Cut Through Jungle  To Join Americans   Attempt To Bombard Rendova Isle -. Results In Sharp Engagement; Pressure On Munda Continues

U.S. Navy Units Force Cruisers To Quit Battle   Jungle Fighters Menace Japanese Base of Salamaua

BOMBARDMENT MOVE PROVES UNSUCCESSFUL   Enemy Retires in Short Order, Navy Department Reports, Without Giving Details      POSSIBLE JAP SHIPS ARE BEING PURSUED   Meanwhile, American and - Australians Close in From Three Sides on Japs on Salamaua

REPULSE: THE JAPS   Enemy Was Attempting ‘te Train Guns on U. S,   : -. Positions

U.S. Surface Ships Block Shelling Of Troops Ashore   Allies Close In From 3 Sides On Salamaua Air Base In New Guinea

Roosevelt Defends Rome Raid   Necessary When Enemy Refused to Have It Designated ‘‘Open City”

F.D.R. Says Allies Still Hope Rome ls Called Open City  ph.._°'J,..4 “—...   President Says Bombing To Protect American. British

Raid on Rome Defended By Roosevelt   President Urges Designation As Open City

Open City Would End Bombings   Roosevelt Recalls How Italian Government Ignored Allied Pleas   For Open City :

ROME MAY BE SPARED NOW, It OPEN CITY   President Roosevelt, and others renew this suggestion

FDR Says Allies Want Rome Spared   Sull Hope Axis Will Declare Rome Open City Despite More Than A Year of Futile Effort by Allies. Says City Im. portant Military Cen. ter.

‘Open City Status For Rome Hoped  ‘President Explains U. S. _ Stand On Issue

ALLIES HOPE ROME WILL BE AN OPEN CITY   View Reported by President, Who Says Bombing Was Undertaken to Protect American and Ryitish Lives.

F. R. Defends Bombing Of Rome   Hopes It Will Be Made Open City; Tells Of Efforts Of Past Year

"resident Claims Bombing Necessary And Voices Hope li Duce May Ye Declare City ‘Open’

Allies Want Rome Declared  An Open City   President Reveals Desire—Tells of  New Plans for Price Control Program

CALLS ON AXIS TO MAKE ROME AN OPEN CITY   Roosevelt Recounts How Allies Tried Vainly To Obtain Italian Agreement.   MUM ON POPE’S LETTER   FOR Lists Military Targets In Capital, Still Hopes For  Thair Ramnayval

BOMBING OF ROME viene AY FAR   Asks That City Be Desiadl _ “Open” to Prevent. Fur... ther Damage.

'PRESIDENT SAYS ALLIES ‘STILL HOPE ROME WILL \BE DECLARED OPEN CITY

F. D, DEFENDS RAID ON ROME   Necessary To Save Lives, President Says

PRESIDENT HOPES FOR ROME 10 Bt MADE OPEN GIT   President Tells Press Conference Efforts Wer Made For Over Year Te Save Bombina.   POPE HAS NOT SENT HIM COMMUNICATION   Executive Describes City as Important Military Center With Railroads and War Industries.

FR Defends Bombing of Rome Areas   Necessary To Save Lives of American Boys

Allies Wanted Rome Open City   Axis Refused to Declare Capital Open City, Roosevelt Says

President Still Hopeful Il Duce To Move Plants   FDR Discloses Mussolini Repeatedly Has Spurned Demands That He Declare Rome An Open City—-Makes No Comment on Pope’s Letter.

OPEN CITY OF ROME 1S URGED   EDR Hopes Axis Will Declare Capital Free of War Targets

Wish Rome Made Open City, FOR   Allies Have Tried For Year to Have Axis So Act

ALLIES STILL HOPE  GERMANS, ITALIANS  MAKE ROME OPEN CIT) PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT  REFUSES COMMENT ON LETTER OF POPE

New Orleans Cotton   Chicago Rye   Bombing of Rome Necessary To Save Lives, Roosevelt Says

Roosevelt Urges Open City ForRome, But Says Bombing Saved American Lives

Allies Still Hopeful Rome Will Be Open City, FDR Says   President Defends Bombing Of War Objectives In Ancient Italian City

Rome’s Fate Up To Axis, In Roosevelt’s Opinion   CATHOLIC REACTION

F.D.R. Says He Hopes Rome s Declared Open   Upholds Bombing As Long As Munitions Plants Are There

Il Duce Blamed In Full   FDR Still Hopes For An ‘Open City’ Declaration

BUNGING UF AUN DEFENDED oY toh   Asks That City Be Declared ‘‘Open” to Prevent Further Damage.

Hopes Capita Will Become “Open City”   Declines to Comment on Pope's Messace

OPEN CITY PLAN FOR ROME STILL GOAL OF ALLIES   FDR Says He Has Not Received Letter From Pope

Bombing of Rome Necessary fo Save Lives President Says  ‘Still Hopeful — It Can Be Made  mn Oran City.

BOMBING Of ROME WAS NECESSARY   Says President In Order hs Save U. 5. Lives; Hopeful Mussolini Will Declare It  Mean City   Pone’s Letter

FDR SAYS ROME KEY WAR CENTER   PRESIDENT DECLARES ENEMY RESPONSIBLE FOR RAIDS ON CITY

CHIEF EXECUTIVE DEFENDS BOMBING OF ETERNAL CITY   J. §S. and Britain Had Pleaded with Axis Leaders for Year to Declare Rome “Open,” He Sava.

EDR Savs Allies Still Hope Germans And Fascists Will Declare Rome An Open City

ALLIES HOPE ROME OPEN CITY   FDR Says High Com. mand Has Tried Over Year for Action

Bombs Dropped Tc Save U. S. Lives   Allies Have Tried Unsuccessfully For Year To Have Italians Remove Military Targets

Allies Hope Rome Made Open City   Roosevelt Reveals Efforts Been Made More Than Year for Axis to Give Declaration

STATES RAID MADE TO SAVE ALLIED LIVES   “Retaliation Not Question. He Adds: Italian Capita Regarded As Important Military Base

FOR DEFENDS ROME ATTACK AS NECESSARY   Reiterates Plea That City Be Declared “Open”: Appeals Failed.   PRESIDENT DECLINES  TO ANSWER VATICAN

FDR Reiterates That Rome Be Declared Open   President Declines To Comment On Pone’s Statement

ROME BOMBING NECESSARY TO SAVE U.S. LIVES. FOR STATES   President Declares He is Still Hopeful That Italian Capital Will be Declared Open City-——No Comment on Pope's Letter

Raid on Italy Capital City Is Defended   Repeated Efforts To Avoid Bombing Said of No Avail

FD Still Hopes Mussolini Will Save His Capital   President Expl ains Allies Tried For Year: Is Silent  On Pone

F.D.R. Stl Hopes Axis Make Rome ‘Open City’   Efforts For More Than Year Have  Been Failure

Rome Bombed For Protection, Says F. D. R. ..  Still Hope Rome Will Be Labeled Open City

In Move to Make Rome Open City   Alhes Try for Year to Have Capital Made Free From Attack

FR Wants Rome An ‘Open’ City   Says Year's Effort  Proyvec Frisittace

. Say Attack Necessary ~To, Save. Americans —  Fae ¢ ST 2 te  'F ighting In ‘Sicily

Rome Attack Is Defended By Rooseve::   Allies Yui-ded fe. ‘va  to Have f° - 7 + laced G.

Allies Hope Rome Will Be Declared Open   Roosevelt Says That Efforts So Far Have Been Fruitless

FD. R. Defends  Rome Bombing,  Seeks Open City Raids Essential,  He Says, to Gena Vawnlk Ttwwes

Roosevelt Hopes Rome Will Soon Be an Open City   President Deplores Bombing but Points Out Real Necessity

Roosevelt Hopes Rome Will Yet Be Declared To Be ‘Open City’   FDR Says There Was No Compunction About Destruction Of 4,000 English Churches. Hospitals

BOMBING ROME SAVES U.S, LIFE   FDR Defends Air Attack, Hopes for ‘Open City’ Status Soon

British Open Door In South   Montgomery's Men Race Miles; Seize Port of Crotone

ANOTHER LANDING POINT INTO ALLIED INVASION WEB   Americans Drive Into Hills Beyond Salerno   MUSSOLINI REPORTED RESCUED BY GERMANS   May Return to Italy As Head of Puppet Government

DELAY IS SEEN IN GAS REPORT   Eastern ‘Fun’ Driving Ban Will Be Continued

RAID JAP SHIPS OFF CHINA COAST   French Indo-China Positions Also Smashed in Blows by Americans

JAP SPIRITS NOW LOWER   ENEMY FIGHTER PILOTS BAID TO BE MORE RELUCTANT TO BATTLE U. S.  ei, PLANES

Irvin S. Cobb Reports He Has Not Departed;  Suaaests Patton’s Bed-side Ways for Tule Lake

Irvin S. Cobb Breaks into Print With Some Facts about His Il!ness

PATMAN PULLS FOR VETERANS   Legislation Prepared To Put Men Back On Their Feet After War

NAZI PRISONERS ESCAPE IN TEXAS   F.B.I. Joins in the Search for Young Germans.

Allies Believe Italian Fleet Is Held in Reserve   To Aawai Momentou: Development in European War

Battered Italian Fleet Remains Threat To Any Allied Invasion Of Italy’s Territory

Speculation Rife On Italy's Fleet   Two Possible Uses CSiinnectorn Ener 1+

Speculation Rife On Italy's Fleet   Two Possible Uses Ciinnactod For It

Italian Navy Holds  Threat Against  Invasion by Allies Possibility Is Seen for  Surprise Move  To Defend Continent

ITALY’S BATTERED FLEET A THREAT T0 ALLIED INVASION   Washington Believes -Warships Are Being Held in Reserve for Some Mo. mentous Development.   7 OR 8 DREADNOUGHTS  IN FIGHTING FORCE   These and Other Craft Could Offer Considerable Resistance to Thrust Across Mediterranean.

ITALIAN FLEET ‘HOLDING BACK’   Observers Opine Duce'’s Ves. sels May Eventually Defend Coastal Areas

ITALIAN FLEET STILL THREAT TO AN INVASION   Believed Being Held in Reserve for Some Momentous Development in Furopean War   TWO POSSIBLE USES   Might be Employed t Battle Invasion or for Use as Peace .- Bargain

lialians ) May Be ‘Aw: aiting. Allied Jny asion Before Riskine Fleet

Day Long Air Raic Heaviest of War In Pacific Area   U. §. Troops Reel Back Japanese in Munda Jungle

Allies Smash  Jap-Held Bairoko Harho   133 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Beayy Air Attack

PLANES LASH JAPANESE ON NEW GEORGIA   [Bairoko Hit With 133  Tons of Bombs in  Allied Raid

BAIROKO HARBOR ON NEW GEORGIA HEAVILY BOMBED   U. S. Airmen Drop 133 Tons of Explosives in Heaviest Raid of Southwest Pacific War.   TROOPS BELIEVED ADVANCING ON POR   Nipponese Launch CounterAttack at Munda, but Are Hurled Back With Heavv Losses.

\llied Bombers Make Heaviest Raid on Bairoko   150 Planes Strike Harbor in Support Of Ground Forces

Japs Sent Reeling Back As Bombers Aid Ground Attack   Heaviest Air Barrage Of War Released On Bairoko; 19 Nips Downed At Madana

Enemy Takes Big Loss In New Fight   Fliers Get Good Score And Ground Troops Report Many Advances

Allies Smash Jap-Held Bairoko Harbo:  183 Tons of Bombs   133 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped in Heavy Air Attack

Japs Sent Reeling Back As Bombers Aid Ground Attack   Heaviest Air Barrage Of War Released On Bairoko; 19 Nips Downed At Madang  Te RATIRY IN CGorwecrn

133 Tons of. Bombs “Reined upon Harbor Of Bairoko. To Aid Attack on Munda

150 Bombers Unloose 133 Tons.of. Ez: ‘plosives “On T. ‘roko’ ‘Harbor.

NEW GEORGIA ENEMY BASES POUNDED HARD   ALLIES DROP 13: TONS OF BOMBS ON BAIROKO

Jap Defenses Are Blasted   U. S. Troops Send Jap Offence Reeling Rack

Reds Take: Big( to Celebrate   CAPTURR GARRISON AT STALINO AND TAKE MANY _ PRISONERS.

REDS CELEBRATE. ANNIVERSARY BY CAPTURING TOWN   Wipe Out Garrison Near Stalino, Killed 3000 Enemy Troops and Have Additional Suecess.   STALIN TALKS ABOUT SEARING FULL WEIGHT   Premier Declares Germany ls Becoming Exhausted But Warns That Enemy Is Not Yet Conquered.

REDS WIPE OUT GARRISON IN STALING ARE!   Kil! 3,000 Troops, Capture Strong Points Below Orel

REDS WIPE OUT MORE GARRISONS   Russia Bears Whole Weight Of War, Stalin Tells Troops In Anniversary Speech

RED ARMY IS CLOSING IN ON OREL   Russians Driving Ahead On All Fronts Today

BABSON THINKS:ARMY PLAN ABOUT TRAINING IS CRAZY   I. Q. Tests For Selection of Boys As Suggestec By Late President of Harvard College Is Disapproved By Writer. -

Training Men For Executives    BABSON THINKS ARMY  PLAN IS CRAZY  ‘ NOW

23 Killed, 700. Injured During: Street Battles   1,300 Arrested In Day Of Looting And Fighting; Steel-Helmeted Troops Restore Order, Patrol Transportation System.

INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES WAS PROCLAIMED TODAY   This Was Done in a Series of Japanese Propaganda roadcasts.   LAUREL is PRESIDENT   Hailed Japan ax the “Greatest Power of East Asia™ in His Proclamation.

JAPAN PROCLAIMED INDEPENDENCE. FOR PHILIPPINES TODAY  PROPAGANDA BROADCAS SAYS JOSE P. LAUREL

Japan Gives Philippines ‘independence   Jose P. Laurel Inaugurated President of Puppet Republican Government Set Up Under Thumb of Jap Forces

PHILIPPINES ARE GIVEN ‘FREEDOM   Japs Report Independence : In Broadcasts

Philippine Independence Proclaimed   Jap Propaganda Move Is Widely Publicized By Tokyo Radio

JAPAN PROCLAIMED INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINES TODAY  PROPAGANDA BROADCAS SAYS JOSE P. LAUREL FIRST PRESIDENT

SEE EER ce Ne ee RENE ORME SE a  Japanese Proclaim Philippines Indenendent

JAPAN “FREES” PHILIPPINES   ee YE Nippon Names Laurel Pr esident of Puppet Government

Japs Proclaim Independence Of Philippines   Propaganda Broadcast Says Jose Laurel is First President   DECLARATION IS ISSUED

HAPANESE   Puppet Government Headed by lose P. Laurel Inaugurated to Rule  els wveda

ARMY TROOPS MAKE LANDING ON ISLAND WITHOUT LOSS DESPITE HEAVY ENEMY ATTACK

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Japs Lose 67 More Planes  To Allied Flyers   U. S. Army Troops Reported Aiding In Island Struggle

SOLDIERS LAND DURING AIR RAID; SUFFER NO LOSSES   Thirteen Enemy Bombers and 13 Fighters Blasted Out of Skies—Yanks Lose Eight Planes.   U. S. MARINES SCORE  DECISIVE VICTORY,   Employ Tanks in Clash, Killing 150—-Enemy Dead in Struggle to Date Estimated at 300.

LANDING (3. MADE WITHOUT LOSSES   Make Landing Despite Heavy Enemy Air Attack   MARINES KILL   Half of Jap Force Recently Put Ashore From Barges North of Beachhead

Army Lands Big Force To Back Up the Marines   MacArthur Reports Impressive Gains

Marines Kill Half of Jap Force Which Made: Landina   ENEMY PLANES ARE DOWNED IN BATTLE   Divebombers and Fighters intercepted During Raid

Marines Kill 150 Nips in Last Clash   26 Enemy Planes Are Downed in Heavy Attack

More U.S. Army Troops Landed   Bougainville Japs Nercicively Ranten

BOUGAINVILLE SITUATION IS WELL IN HAND   Marines Reported To Have Killed Half Of Jap anded BPAtha   REINFORCEMENTS LANDED ON ISLAND

U.S. Marines Slay Half of Jap Force At Bougainville   U.S. Army Troops Put Ashore to Reinforce Northern Solomons

Senate fo Look Into A & M Change  - Walton Resignation, — Williamson Firing

Russians Roll On In Drive To Seal Ott  Crimea   Germans Sustain Terrific Losses

Reds Battling to Close Trap Around Nazis   Destroy Line North of Krivoi Rog and Melitepol Nears Fall

Enemy Fighting Improvised Actions Under Constant Battering; German Naval Forces Reported Bombing Coast of Sea of Azov.

German Positions On Dnieper Disintegrate   Two German Armies In Melitopol Area And Crimea Threatened With Entrapment;  German Losses Tremendous.

Positions Lose All Semblance Of Line As Enemy Fights From Point To Point At Krivoi Rog   Dniepropetrovsk Keported Completely Encireled By Russians; Three German Armies Threatened With Entrapment

Francisco Franco Expresses Opinion Neither Side Has Power to Destroy Other      CALLS FOR PEACE TO END SACRIFICES   Says Sooner Or Late: Deadlock Would Force Belligerents to Listen to Such Pleas

[PeaceUr ‘ged By Fr Anco Af ter ‘Axis Debacle   Spanish Leader Issues Appeal In Almeria Speech

FRANCO SAYS WAR NOW AT DEADLOCK IN “PEACE FEELER®   Declares Neither Side Has  Power To Destroy The  Other; Thinks It Senseless:  To Delay the Peace.

Franco Puts Out Peace Feeler   Spanish Leader Says The World War Has Reached Deadlock.

GEN. FRANCO Ioato NEW PEACE FEELER   Neither Belligerent Can Win Victory, He Claims

Peace Feelers  Made By Franco   Says Warring Nations Now Deadlocked

FRANCO SEES DEADLOCK IN PRESENT WAR   Says Neither Power Can Destroy The Other

FRANCO ISSUES PEACE FEELER IN ADDRESS   Says Either Side Unable to Strike Final Blow

FRANCO ISSUES PEACE FEELER   Spanish Leader Says War In Deadlock, Neither Side Has Power To Win

Sabotage Bill  Opponents Pin Hope On Senate   Claim House - Approved Measure Menaces Press  And Speech Freedom.

Anti-Sabotage Bill Passed By  Lower House   Opponents Of Provisior For Death Penalty Ar: Looking To Senate Tx Reject. Measure

OPPONENTS LOOK TO SENATE TO KILL ANTI SABOTACE BIT   Some Congressmen Claim It Could Be Used  To Curb Freedom of D.....

Sabotage Bill Anti’s Look To Senate To Kill Measure   Re WILLIAM F ARROGARKT

Approves Death For Sabofeurs   House Passes Bill But Senate May Shelve It

Anti-Sabotage Bill Approved  Opponents Claim It Will Muzzle Speect

DEATH PROVIDED IN SABOTAGE BILL BY HOUSE ACTION   Opponents Now Looking to Senate to Kill Measure or Rewrite After House Rejected Amendments.   RAISE QUESTION ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH   Claims Made Justice Department Could Prosecute Innocent and Muzzle Newspapers.

LOOK ‘TO THE SENATE   House Expects Bill Curbing Free ' dom of Press To Be Killed

Speech Curb In Sabotage Bill, Claim   Opponents Look to Senate to Kill House Approved Measure

RUSSIANS ARE WIThiN 79 MILES OF KHARKOV IN LATEST ADVANCE   27,500 Hungarians And 22,. 000 Italians Are Reported Captured   RAJL JUNCTIONS TAKEN

Investigation to Be Made By Members of the Commission.   POLITICS HINTED BY ROSS LEFFLER

GAME BOARD TO PROVE SELF   Leffler Says Hanes Not  Legal Member of Group

DETENTION OF U, 5. DIPLOMATS LABELED BLACKMAIL   Sumner Wells Denounces Nazis For Holding Up U.S. trong From Vichy

Nazis Assailed For  Seizing Diplomats Welles Calls Act   Welles Calls Act Cheap Effort At Blackmail

WELLS DENOUNCES FERMAI DETENTION OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC OFFICIALS

PUSH TOWARD JAPS’ BASES   Landings Split Enemy Units On Island Into Two Sections. Y   EXPECT STIFF FIGHTING

Bitter Fighting in Prospec' As They Push Toward Jap Barge Concentration

Americans, Blasting at Airfields, Continue to Push Solomons Landings

—PACIFIC—  YANKS IN NEW SULOMONG PUGH   Two Landings Made On Choiseu3 Island By U. » & Traans   American Paratroops Carry Out New Attacks By Boat ~

TWOLA ON CHOISEUL SUCCESSFUL   Fairly Heavy Opposition Met: Action Is Accomplished By Paratroops Landed From Ships

Americans Press Solomons Drive  Two Landings Made in South Choiseul

Yanks Quickly Press Advantage’ Following Seizure of Two of Treasury Islands

UNITS ADVANGE TOWARD MAIN NIP STRONGHOLD   Troops Land by Boat, Expect Fierce Fight When Forces Clash

Bodies of Missing Flyers Are Found   Cousins Crashed Year  Ago Near Silver City

Hoover Predicts Crisis in Food Output in U.S.   Sees Symptoms of Danger ously Degenerating Agriculture

Hoover Sounds Warning  ‘to Home Front  Says Degeneration of Agriculture

Hoover Fearful  Of Food Situation   Once More Urges  Farmer Deferments

Hoover Urges Solution of Nation's Food Problem As Vital To Win Wau

HOOVER TALKS ON FOOD SITUATION   Symptoms of Dangerously Degenerating Agriculture Seen by Former President;  @ Addresses Gathering

Hoover Sees ‘Dangerously Degenerating  Agriculture’   It Must Be Stopped  Hf We Are To Win War Ex-President Says  At Gavernoare? Canfah   OHIO GOVERNOR FEARS CRISIS SOON  Cornbelt Executives To Draft Program To Prevent Shortage

‘Agriculture Degenerating Hoover Says   » War Front Weakened _ by Food Problems ° Former President: Says

HOOVER SAYS FOOD. OFFERS BIG PROBLEM      Former President Points to" ‘Dagenerating Aariculture”

Hoover Says ‘Dangerous _ Degeneration’ In American Aariculture Must Be Halted

DEGENERATING AGRICULTURE MAY LOSE WAR   Former President Herbert Hoover Says _ Influences That Weakened Europe 25 Years Ago Are Here.   Speaks At Des Moines

Hoover Sounds Warning ‘to Home Front   Says Degeneration of Agriculture Must Be Stopped

“Agriculture Degenerating Hoover Says  ‘g War Front Weakened   @ War Front Weakened by Food Problems Former President Says

FOOD ESSENTIAL TO WINNING WAR HOOVER STATES   Former President Sees Signs Of “Dangerously De generating Agriculture”   PRODUCTION DROP IS SERIOUS THREAT

GASOLINE RUSH ASSURED TODAY   New Regulations Take Effect At 12:01 a. m. Tonight

Accept News With Mixed Emetions   Wave Of “Fill ’Er Up” Buying Expected

Australians-Throw Away. Calendar With Advance Surpassing Fondest Hope

AUSSIES NEAR MADANG GOAL      Far Ahead Of Schedule In Markam Valley

Aussies Moving Nearer Madang  Infantry Far Ahead Of Schedule With U. S. Plane Aid

AUSTRALIANS FORCES SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AHEAD OF SCHEDULE  CO-OPERATION WITH U, S. TROOP CARRIERS AND ENGINEERS SEEN

AUSSIES WITHIN 45 MILES OF JAP BASE AT MADANG   Running Far Ahead of Schedule In New Guinea Campaign; Driving Up The Ramu Valley.

AUSSIES ARE ADVANCING ON MADANG BASE   Shrinking of Nips' New Guinea Holdings Credited to Fine Work of U. S. Air Forces   AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

JAP HOLDINGS IN NEW GUINEA ARE SHRINKING   Aussies Within 45 Miles of Nip-Held Base At Madang: Far Ahead of Schedule

Aussies Move In Guinea Af Record Speed   Conquest Ahead Of Schedule, Thanks To Full Coordination

Aussies Are Ahead of  Calendar, New Guinez   Combined Aerial and Land: Fighting Driving Japs’ Backward Speedily 

SALES TAX IDEA BEING SHELVED   Senate Expected To Leave House Bill Unchanged

Decline Fight on Sales Tax Issue   Solons Not Likely  To Increase Levies

TWO LEADERS NOT TO PRESS FOR SALES TAX   Senate Group Unlikely To Increase Yield Of Revenue Bill

2 Sales Tax Backers Will Not Offer Bill   Belief Strengthened the House Levy Will Be Little Changed

RUSSIANS “MAKE ~NEW ADVANEES I ATTACK ON ORE!   Split Wedge Into Nazi Lines In Thrust In Belgorod  - Area   GERMAN . LOSSES. -HEAVY

Concern Felt Over Fate Of Pope Pius XII   Neutral Territory Of Vatican City Has Been Respected So Far 1s Word In Switzerland

POPE VIRTUAL PRISONER    Catholics Concerned Over Fate Of Pope At Nazis’ Hands

Pope Is Reported Virtual Prisoner   Catholics Concerned With His Fate

The TOP Feur LEAGUELEADERS   FINAL PACIFIC COAST LIP        Catholics Fear For Safety of Pope; \Renorted Virtual Prisoner

FEAR FOR POPE      atholics Couverned at Report  Pius NIE Being Weld Prisoner,

POPE IS PRISONER OF NAZIS, REPORT   Troops, However, Respect Vatican Neutrality

Pope's Fate Causes Concern   Pontiff Virtually Prisoner of Nazis In Neutral Vaticon

GERMANS PAY HEAVILY FOR RAID ONKURSK   Hitler Air Force Reported In Moscow to Have Lost 162 of 500 Engaged In Attack   NEW SCHEME IS FOILED

FIGHT BEGINS ON VELIZH LINE   Russians Hurl Reported 50,.000 Men Into Day and * Night Assault.

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletina on. Lates World News Today,   “4‘ompromise Agreement.”

REPORT FRENCH: IN AGREEMENT   Conpromise on Division of  Powers Is Revealed

MIDWAY HERO TO HEAD FLEET   Spruance Made Chief Of New Central Pacific Command

Decisive Turn Predicted By Reds For May   Air Of Expectancy Pervades Moscow; Great Land Drive About To Open, Hint

SEEK TO KILL COUNTY SOLONS’ DRAINAGE FEES   Burge-Backus Bill Directed At $5 Per Day Assessments By Commissioners

OAKES CORPSE FREED FOR TRIP T0 MAINE HOME      Body of .Slain Multi-Mil lionaire Had Been. Recalled .After. Funeral . Plane Left:Nassau   PURPOSE VEILED   Was Taken Back to Au. topsy Room; Picture of Body Taken; Son-in- Law Awaits Hearing *

Oakes’ Body Is Flown To U. S.   Authorities Satisfied After Final Autopsy

Qhio Man Becomes Newest  One-man Army Of Pacific      Sgt. James Burgess, Of Lakewood, Ohio, Attacks Jap Force; Kills Twenty

New One-Man Army Kills 20 Out of 100 Japs   Sergeant Defeats Enemy on Beach

Sergeant Proves to Be One-Man Army, ‘Routs 100 Japs, Kills 20 But Has To Spend Four Days Getting to Base

DRASTIC RATIONING PROGRAM _ FOR RESTAURANTS ANNOUNCED   Allotments for Eating Places to be Determined by Separate Formula but Canned and Processed Foods Will be Cut in Holf

F. D. R. Opposes Ruml Tax Plan  Declares It Would  Reduce Incame

F.D.R. Opposes Ruml Tax Plan   House Floor Battle On Party Lines Seen

FDR Opposes Ruml Plan at Press Meet   Statement Sharpens Party, Conflict in Congress Over Plan

arty Lines Drawn n Pay-as-Go Bill   Roosevelt Opposes Rum! Program

Roosevelt Sees Ruml Plan as  Favoring Rich   Executive Declares Flaily Against Skip-A-Year Scheme

President Hits Ruml Tax Plan As Aiding Rich   FDR Says Government  Revenue Would Be Cut DR. Dee f Dencwaim

President Against Plan of Ruml On Income Taxes  Party Lines Drawn On Issue, GOP  Is to Back Ruml

F'.D.R. Opposes Ruml Tax Plan   Chief Executive Fights Proposal as Boon to Wealthy

ROOSEVELT NOT FOR RUML PLAN   Issue To Be Battled Out On Party Lines In Congress

Roosevelt Says Ruml Plan Would Favor the Rich   President Strongl against Pay-Go Income Tax Proposal

RUML PLAN IS ATTACKED AS BOONTORICH   Roosevelt “Flatly Voices Opposition to Tax Program

FOR SCORES RUML PAY-G0 TAX PLAN   Opposition Sharpens Party Lines Along Which Issue Probably Will Be Battled Out on House Floor

President Says Ruml Tax Setup Would Reduce Gov ernment’s Revenue

Axis Forces Pinned Back  Against Tunisia Beaches   End of Big Scale Fighting On North Africa Front Appears To Be Imminent

AXIS FORCES TRAPPED BY RAPID DRIVE   General Sir Harold Alexander Orders Beaten Foe Driven Into the Sea.

OUTSKIRTS OF CITY — ARE PENETRATED BY YANKEES ON FRIDAY   British First Army Captures Suburbs of Tunis in Lightning Thrusts As the Axis Troops Are Pinned Back Against the Beaches of Tunisia —End of Big Scale Fightirig in North Africa Seems Imminent Today.

BRITISH ON OUTSKIRTS OF TUNIS   Fierce Aerial Action On  Russian Front

IN TUNISIA CUT IN TWO   Axis Remnants Pinned Against the Sea By the Allies

Clogged Enemy Transport Columns Believed Trying to Fall Back to Cap Bon

GERMANS RESIST, HEAVY FIGHTING MAY END SHORTL'   British Boardcast Quotes Axis Radio Commentation On Last Stages of Battle of Tunisia.   TAKE FOUR HILLS IN PREPARING FOR KILL   Alexander Orders Offensives To Prevent Enemy From Catching Breath, Drive tc Dunkerque.

AMERICAN FORCES REACH OUTSKIRTS OF BIZERTE AND BRITISH SEIZE TUNIS AREA   Battle of Tunisia Reaches Last Staaqc, German Radio Says

U.S. Army Closing in On Bizerte   Reported Americans Have Entered Suburbs—Planes  Batter Nazis

TWO ILLINOIS MEN SLAIN IN AUTO GUNFIGHT   St. Louis Gangster Hunted By Law In Killings

TURKISH SHIP SUNK   Territorial Waters Of Turkey Invaded By Attacker

Turk Ship  Torpedoed Near Samos   German Sea Craft: Believed Attackers: Act May Sway Nation

Sales Tax Vote Sef This Week  ouse Cammittee   House Committee Meets Determined Opposition

ARMY RESERVISTS TO GET CALL SOON      All Except Certain Technical Students Go in Two Weeks

Program For New Vear Emphasizes Increased Food And Peed Production

AAA Program For Next Year Is Announced   Schedule for °44 Places Emphasis on Food and Feed Production f or War Effort.

INCREASED WAR FUND IS SOUGHT   Roosevelt Asks Congress Tc Boost Appropriation To Build Planes

72 Billions Asked For Army Use By President   $6,000,000,000 Increase Accounted For By Planes; Naval Bill Passes

Asks 72. Billion From Congr ess _ For The Army   Projected  “Expansion: Of U.S, Aireraft Program Accounts For. Increase

President Wants Nearly $72,000,000,000  For Army During Fiscal Year. Naval Funds Set At $29,000,000,00 0—Largest Appropriatior In History.   FDR WANTS $72,000,000,000 MADE AVAILABLE FOR ARMY WOR HIRCAT. VRAR

ROOSEVELT UPS FUNDS REQUIRED FOR U, S. ARMY   Asks 72 Billion Dollars For New  Fiscal Year

Roosevelt Asks $72,000,000,000 For Army Budget   Boosts Previous  Total 6 Billion

Big Increase In Aircraft ls Planned   Production Next Year to Ex. ceed Output of All. Other Nations Combined   72 BILLIONS FOR MILITARY BUDGET   23. Billions of Total to. Ait Force; Bill Provides for Army of 8 Miliion

72. BILLIONS FOR ARMY [S ASKED BY ROOSEVELT   President Boosts His Jan: uary Budget for Fiscal Year Beginning July 1  Over $6,000,000,000   FOR PLANE OUTPUT   Provide 1,147,000,000 Pounds of Aircraft, Exclusive of Weight of Engines and Motors

72 Billion For Army[n A Year Asked By F.D.R.   Increase Accounted For By Aircraft Program Expansion.

PRESIDENT ASKS FOR NEARLY SEVENTY-TWL BILLIONS FOR ARMY  PROJECT EXPANSION OF AIRCRAFT PROGRAM

PRESIDENT 8 BOOSTS ARMY FUND REQUEST   Increase in Airckaft Accounts for Larger Budget Request for War Proaram

72 BILLIONS   Expansion Of Airplane Production Program  Disclosed

PRESIDENT ASKS 12 BILLION FOR NEEDS OF ARMY   -. D. R. Boosts January Budget Request By Six Billion; Sum ls For Fiscal soe Beginning July

99 Billions For Army And Navy In Year   President Requests 72 Billions For The Land Forces

MORE BILLIONS ARE ASKED FOR ARMY   President Steps Up His Budget Figures To 72 Billions

FDR Asks Congress For Additional Army Funds   January Budget Figures Boosted By More Than $6,000,000,000 With New Request

President Boosts Budget; Asks Nearly 72 Billions For Army In Next Year

72 BILLION FOR ARMY 1S ASKED BY ROOSEVELT   Increase Will Help in Expanded Aircraft Program for Year

ARMY BUDGET IS INCREASED — SIX BILLION   President Asks Congress for Almost $72,000,000,000 for Year Beginning July 1 — Boost Is for Aircraft Expansion.

Big Air Force Boost Asked By Roosevelt  Budget Total Increased by 6 Billions in Note Sent to Rayburn  § MILLION TROOPS  House Ready to Approve 29 Billions Supply Bill   House Ready to Approve 29 Billions Supply Bill for Navy

F.D.R. Boosts Army Budget   PRESIDENT REQUESTS $72,000,000,000 FROM CONGRESS IN JUMP FROM JANUARY ESTIMATE FOR PROJECTED EXPANSION IN AIRCRAFT

FR Requests 76 Billions: In Army Bill.   House Unanimously Approves Over 29 Billions for Navy

Fund For Army Is Boosted By Six Billion   Rooseveli Calls For Appropriations Of 72 Billions

Army Needs $72 Billions More--F.D.R.   January Budget Figures Up $6 Billions i in Latest Request

72 Billions Sought for U.S. Army   President Ups January Estimate Bv Six Billions

$/2,000,000,000 ASKED FOR ARMY BY THE PRESIDENT   Boosts His January Budget Figures By More Than $6,000,000,000; Increase Accounted For By Projected Expansion of Aircraft Program.

F.R. Requests $72 Billion To  Finance Army Budget Figure Raised  By Aircraft Plans: $29 Billion For Navy  je eee a. ee ae } 82.43 2h

President Asks 72 Billions for Army   Boosts January Budget Figures by ¢h NOO 000 000

$72,000,000, 000 Asked for Army   President Roosevelt Boosts Budget Figures By Over $6,000,000

12 Billion For Army Asked  TT Billions Needed : To Cover Soldier, Dependent Pay .

CONGRESS ASKED TO PROVE 71 BILLIONS IN 1944   FOR Request Will Cover Army Expenditure for Next ¥Ypapr.

OMX BILLION MORE ADDED TO AWAR FUND   President Asks Congress io Make Ready for Big Aircraft Output.   MESSAGE SHOWS U. S. GOALS ARE CLIMBING

71 BILLIONS REQUESTED FOR ARMY   Means Spending Over 100 Billions For War In Year

F.D.R. ASKS ARMY SUM OF $72 BILLIONS   Aircraft Expansion Plan Adds to Needs, He  Declares

Aircraft Program I: Expanded   Budget Figures Raised By $6,000,000,000 In Appropriation Sought For New Fiscal Year

Police Press Search for Train Slayer   ‘Man in Upper 13 Held as Witness In Bride’s Murder

SLAYING OF BRIDE IN PULLMAN BERTH STILL IS MYSTERY   Oregon Authorities Say No Real Progress Has Been Made in Wierd Murder.

Press Search For Murderer Of Bride   Weird Slaying Occurs On Train Speeding Through Orecon

POLICE SEARCH FOR BRIDE’S MURDERER   Man In Upper 13 Held As Witness To Murder In Lower 13

SUSPECT HELD IN MYSTERIOUS TRAIN MURDEI   Bride In Lower 13 Berth Slain; Quiz Man In Upper 13

CLUES LACKING IN PROBE OF TRAIN. SLAYING   Marine Private And Porter Are Being Held As Material Witnesses   ‘MONEY IS UNTOUCHED   Nature Of Wound Ifndicates Killer Was Splashed With Victim’s Blood

BOND SALES IN CARBONDALE FOR NOVEMBER 6000   Plans Being Madge For Fourth War Bond Drive

Reds Advanee On 5 Fronts      New Gains Announced Today By Moscow

Announcement Made of New Soviet Gains   Rail Junction Of Millerovo In Red Hands

Russians Continue to Drive Germans Out of. Territory — Resistance of Trapped Germans in Stalingrad Area Nearing End,

RUSSIANS MAKE NEW GAINS ON 5 MAIN FRONTS   Reds on South Voronezh Front Reported 110 Miles From Kharkov

Russian Armies Report Successes On Five Major Fronts; Millerovo, Nazi Supply Center Taken By Red:

REDS REPORT GAINS ON FIVE KEY FRONTS   Tanks Ripping Into -Remnants of Axis Stalingrad Army

RUSSIANS ADVANCE ONS MAJOR FRONTS OF 550-MILE LINE   Red Army Within 11Q Miles Of Kharkov-—Within 25 Miles Of Salsk  Junction

KISKA AIR. FIELD FINISHED BY JAPS   Could Accommodate Enemy Planes Say Army Observers

NAZI SUB OFFICER CAPTURED BY NAVY   U-Boat Commander Was Decorated For Sinking Of Royal Ark:

ALL EUROPE   VARIOUS REPORTS SWEEPING AXIS, ALLIED AND NEUTRAL : CAPITALS FOLLOWING , HISTORIC CON:  FERENCES. 100 1614

Rioting Tule Japs Plotted To Burn White:   Oil Soaked Straw Set Around Building,  Peahore Tain

Study of Nip Flares  Opens   ARMY QUIETS CENTER AS COMMITTEE WEIGHS EVENTS AT CAMP

—3-A Reclassification——  Non-Deferrables Face First Draft Of Fathers

KNOX AoachTs OP TIMoMM CF PUBLIC SILL!   Naval Chief Says U. S. Will Be Fighting Japanese for 6 More Years.   WPB SAYS PRODUCTION SCHEDULES FALLING DOWN

Aussies Menace J ap Stronghold  Advance Threaten: ' The Entire Huon  Peninsula in:  ‘New Guinea

AUSTRALIANS ARE CLOSING TRAP ON NEW GUINEA JAPS   Half of Huon Peninsula Captured and Troops Ad Yonce Inland

INVASION NOW SEEMS LIKELY   Jap Possession of Huon  Peninsula in Northeastern New Guinea Threatened

Japs’ Hold On Huon Is Threatened   Two Australian Units ip Advance to Clear Area Adjacent New Britain

CLOSE IN ON JAPS   Australians Battling for Invasion, of New Britain Island

‘AUSSIES' GAIN IN NEW GUINEF   Threaten Nip Holds on Entire Huon Peninsula

AUSSIES FIGHT SLOWLY AHEAD ON NEW GUINE!   Two Units Advancing on Huon Peninsula. Lull in Ground Aection in Pacific Southwest

Aussies Push Japs Back To Huon Region   Allied Bombers Continue To Smash At Japanese Bases In Solomons

Aussies Hold Half Huon Peninsula   Tarawa Battle May Bring New Tactics  ee ee a

JAPANESE HOLD ON HUON PENINSULA 15 BEING THREATENED  TWO AUSTRALIAN UNITS BATTLING TO CLEAR WAY TO NEW BRITAIN

CLEARING HUON OF JAP FORCES   Possible Invasion of New Britain Seen; Bomb Solomons

Huon Peninsula Nears Collapse  Japanese Being Forced From New Guinea

Germans Claim Velizh Advance   Report Kuban Front Clashes Continue

GERMANS CLAIM WINNING FIGHT   Radio Asserts Battle Of Velizh In Central Russia Improved Nazi Lines

New Patton Word Blast Disclosed   STIMSON BARES GENERAL THREAT TO SOLDIER FOR LACK OF LEGGINGS

RAIN SOAKS TOP SOIL   Verdigris Flood Threatened by 6.27 Inches at Independence

Meat Rationing Policy Changed   May Permit Increase In Home Quotas

Homes to Get More Meat By New Plan  OPA Revises Basis Of Allotment to

AIRMEN REPEL HUGE NIP RAID   Hat Oi Force Of 45 Jap Planes Knocked Out

Jans Lose Half Of Air Raiding Force In Clas!   Allies Drive Off 45 Jap Bombers And Fighters In New Guinea   NEW ATTACKS ARE MADE ON JAPANESE

WAGE RI i CLARIF 2 WHITE Hovis          Action Rais : .  That Coal §  Can Be Avo _

‘LITTLE STEEL’ : PAY FORMULA: RULING MADE   WHITE HOUSE ‘DIRECTIVE CLARIFYING: WAGE "FREEZE" ORDER GIVES  wad RENEWED} hi POWEE:

Senate Holding Secret Session For Peace Talk   ‘Round-World Inspection Tour Aired Behind Closed Doors

SENATE TO CONSIDER CONDUCT OF WAR IN SECRET SESSIONS   Final Peace Terms Also To Come Up Soon In Considering Report of Investigators

Senate Will Hear War Report in Secret Session   Inspection Committee ‘Had Its Eyes Opened,  Spokesman Declares

Lawmakers Who Toured Fronts ToShare Information at Secret Session of Senate Wednesday

Senators Await Report on War   Will Be Given Data At Secret Session

WAR REPORTS WILL BE MADE IN THE SENATE   Sofons to Take Up War and Peace Matters This Week   FLYING. SENATORS ' TO GIVE FINDINGS   Delegation Will Make Re-—-. port Behind Closed  Doors

REPORT ON WAR TOUR EXPECTED   Senate Committee Will Reveal Findings On Wednesday

Secret Senate Session Is Set Wednesday  Solons Will Tell of Visits to the War Fronts

U.S. Subs Sink 400 Ships In Jap Waters  Aussies Slay Nip Raiders  In New Guinea

460 Jap Ships Hit During War   U. S. Subs Account For Heavy Damage

NEW JAP SHIP ~ LOSSES LISTED   Total of 460 Credited tc  U. S. Submarines

Knox Reveals — Toll Taken by American Subs   Japs Ships Sunk, ' Probably Sunk and Damaaed Total 460

Steel Workers Threaten Industry With Paralyzing Strike as F. D. R. Is Stalled In Railroad Situation

BUSINESS WILL GET FAIR DEAL   New OPA Official Promises ‘Practical Approach’

BUSINESS TO BE GIVEN HEARING   New OPA Price Official Pledges “Practical Approach” To Future Work

Tomato Trust Action Filed   Indictments Returned Against Many Firms

Grand Jury Indicts Ozark Area Canners   Firms Accused of Violating Anti-Trust Act ir the Purchase and Sale of Tomatoes in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma.

STRONG FORCES OF RAIDERS All SUK NAZI CITED   Marks The Fourth Successive Night Of Furious Aerial Attacks On Reith   FRANKFURT SHAKEN IN SECOND ASSAUL’   Germans Acknowledge Heavy Destruction At Frankfurt And Mannheim; Twelve British Planes Are Lost In Night's Operation

ENEMY SHIPPING IS HIT BY FLEET   German Industrial Cities  Blasted By The RAF

BIGGEST RAID OF WAR RIPS UP FRANKFUR}   INDUSTRIAL CITIES ON RIVER LEFT IN FLAMING RUINS

BERLIN ADMITS BOMBS CAUSED CREAT DAMAGE   Frankfurt is Hard Hit In Its Heaviest Raid Of the War

British Raiders Strike. German Cities in Fourth Night of Aerie! Assault

Rhineland ls Raided Again  Nazis Admit Four Of Kev Cities Rambed

Nazi Industrial Cities Pounded   RAF And Fortresses  Ctema Onelentnbte

6 Towns Raided, Frankfurt Hit  For Second Time   Furious Air Offensive Carried into 4th Night Rv RAF Heavy Bombers

R. A. F. Blasts Six Nazi Cities   Frankfurt Hit Twice Within 12 Hours

R.A.F. Bombers Give Frankfurt Heavy Pounding   city Is Torn and Shaken bi Second Raid in Twelve Hours

FRANKFURT IS SHAKEN BY RAF   Bombers Punch At Least Six German Towns In Heavy Onslaught;  12 Planes Lost

BOMBS CAUSED CREAT DAMAGE   Frankfurt is Hard Hit In Its Heaviest Raid Of the War

merican Ships ‘Aid in British —*Aleet Activity  Close to Shores rt Aro

FRANKFURT GETS SECOND BIG ATTACK   In 12 Hours With Five Other Industrial Cities Pounded By RAF; Many Important Plants Under Attack.   In Paris Area

MASSILLON STORES ARE OPEN THURSDAY NIGHT—4D.   GIFTS FROM SEGEL’S Wirt. PIE ACE ASIT anw

Glow of Previous Raids Guides Pilots to “King Target” in Big Assauit

Churchill Says Parley With Stalin Desired   Doesn't Blame Russians for New Front Pleas

Churchill Says Meeting With Russia Ureent   a Stalin te Sit In But Will Take Lesser  Figures

Says Foreign Ministers Will Hold Parleys   Also Hopes Leaders May Be Able To Have  Conference Soon

THREE-NATION TALKS URGENT, SAYS LEADER   Asserts Ministers Must Meet He and FDR Will Keep Trying To See Stalin.   PRAISES CANADIANS   Hints Allies Will Cross English Channel In Full  Force.

OPERATION WITH SOVIET IS DESIRED   Stresses Desire Of Allies to Work With Russians

Conference Necessary, He Asserts   Eden Reported Conferring With Russian Leaders in  London Today

PLANS SEEN FOR PARLEY WITH STALIN   Quebec: Meeting. Devoted to War Strategy Against: Japan

CHURCHILL SEES NECD FOR ALLIED MEETINGS SOON   Seys Russian, British, American Envoys Must Confer   SPEAKS AT HISTORIC CITADEL OF QUEBEC

NAZI CAPITAL HAMMERED IN TWOSUCCESONE  NIGHT ATTACKS   One British Plane Lost In First’ Visit. But TwentyTwo Are Lost In the Second; Moving on Rommel  _ Again

Block-Buster Lambasting Is Dished Nazis   CHECK-UP ON RETALIATION ON LONDON REVEALS Iv WEAK,

NAZI CAPITAL ATTACKED 20 STRAIGHT NIGHT   Twenty-two p lanes Lost; Weak Raids Made on London

RAF Hits Twice At Nazi Capital   British in Libya.Advance Within 90 Miles of Tripol:: Base Bom/sed

Nazis Retaliate Weakly With Raids Over London; British Drive On Tripoli Opened Yesterday By Gen. Montgomery   RUSSIA ANNOUNCES MAJOR FRONT GAINS

Activity Seen On Five Fronts; Russians Make Further Big Advances

A. Wollcott Nofed Author, And Actor Dies   Collapsed at (BS While Participating in Program

AUTHOR-ACTOR DIES SUDDENLY   Alexander Woollcott Is Stricken During Radio Broadcast.

Alexander Woollcott Dies in New York  Author, Actor Stricken During Broadcast

Alexander Woollcott Collapses On Radio Pregram, Dies In Hospital

Famous Auther Stricken With Heart Attack In New York And Taken. To Hospital   DISCUSSING WAR   Was Participating in “People’s Platform” Program On Subject of Ger WOW’

Death Takes Author-Actor  Woolleott Collanses   Woolleott Collapses During Broadeast

Alexander Woollcott Diesin New Y ork; Stricken During Radio Broadcast

ALEX WOOLCOTT DIES   Famed Entertainer Fatally Stricken During Radie Broadcast

Heart Malady. Takes Auther   Alexander Woollcott, 56, *. Dies After Collapsing Jn Studio Booth

Woollcott Dies After Collapse During Broadcast   Heart Attack Brings Sudden Death To Famed Writer, Radio Personality

PLAN LAST RITES FOR WOOLLCOTT 56   Noted Author Stricken at Broadcast

Heart Attack Is Fatal-To Author   Woolcott Stricken At Radio Proaram

REDS DRIVE ON. LIBERATING 50 MORE TOWNS   Latest Important Prize Is Rail City of Verkhne-Dnieprovsk

ALLIES PUSH MAIN JAP FORCE BACK SIX MILES AT WAU, NEW GUINEA   Engagement Marks Step-up In Tempo Of Ground Approaches To Salamau; Jap Explanation Papua Defeat Nailed

Japs Beaten Back At Wau   Allied Push To Drive Japs Off New Guinea Stepped Up

Allies Push Japs Back Six Miles   Tempo Of Ground Fighting Picks Up In New Guinea

JAPANESE FALL BACK SIX MILES   Main Force Retreats At Wau; 100 Of Enemy Slain By Patrols At Salamaua

JAPS HURLED BACK 6 MILES AT WAU   ALLIES STEP UP DRIVE ON APPROACHES TO SALAMAUA, NEW GUINEA.

5 Injured As Rocket Is Derailed   Fast Train Leaves Tracks Near Waterloo, Early This Morning

TRAIN LEAVES. RAILS 9. E, OF LAPORTE CITY   Packed Streamtiner: Going 70° Miles an Hour; Broken Rail Blamed.   FIVE OF INJURED. ARE BROUGHT HERE

ROCKET JUMPS LA PORTE CITY TRACKS: 6 HURT   Conductor Catapulted Down Aisle, Suffers Severe Back Injuries

LIVESTOCK FEED DEMANDS GROW   U. S. Stocks Reduced Faste: Than New Crops Can Replenish Supply

Grain Demand Drains Supply   ‘Weed, Food, Alcohol Needs Reducing Stocks Rapidly

APS SQUEEZED ON NEW GUINEA   MacArthur’s Communique Reports New Progress In Bitter Campaign Against Vitally Strategic Base At Munda.

NEW ADVANCES ARE MADE ON MUNA   Yanks, Supported by Bombers, Less Than One and One-Fifth Miles Away

VILLAGE OF TETERE I CAPTURED   ‘Considerable’ Gains Reported; Salamaua Heavily Bombed

ALLIED ADVANCE AGAINST ISLAND BASE REPORTED   Tighten Positions Around Japanese  Holding Munda

JAPS SQUEEZED TIGHTER BY YANKEE TROOPS   Americans Only 2100 Yards From Airfields At Munda

AMERICAN JUNGLE GAINS AT MUNDA   Squeeze Nipponese Into An  Ever-Shrinking Finger of  Land—Are Within 2,100  Woende of Air Base

Nippos At Munda Being Throftled   Yanks Squeezing Enemy Into Shrinking Area

New Progress Reported By MacArthur  Squeezing In On The Japanese At Munda

Japs Pushed Back Upon Munda Base By U. 5. Troops   Jungle-Wise Soldiers Reported Advancing Slowly on Enemy

YANK FIGHTERS SQUEEZE JAPS AT MUNDA BASE   Jungle - Wise American Fighting Men Advance  On Strategic Solomons Air Base .   FIGHT IS BITTER   Avenger and Dauntless Bombers Plaster Enemy Gun Emplacements-Despite Anti-Aircraft Fire

HOME FRONT ISSUES LOOM   Taft Believes They Will Bulk Large In *44 Campaign

CHEST DRIVE WILL OPEN MONDAY   Lawrence Paper Co. and Employes Pledge $1, sae  for Fund

WAR CHEST DRIVE WILL OPEN MONDAY   Lawrence. Paper Co. and Employes Pledge $1, 250  for Fund   QUOTA IS $29,617.00

Montana Gets Same Gas Ratior   Middle, Southwest States to Have Less

MANAGEMENT AND LABOR IN SPLIT   No Agreement Reached in Ohio Regarding Relaxation of Labor Laws.

Hearing Monday On Curfew Law   New Ordinance Drawr For Commission

LAW OFFERED   Fixed For 10 p. m.; Puts Responsibility Upon Parents

Captain Extols Spirit of AntiAireraft Men   Not praised enough for their work during ‘Guadaleanal campaign ‘and at other points. —

BERNICE HUMPHREY IS REPORTED SAFE   Father of Soldier Receives Relayed Short Wave  Message   WAS ON CORREGIDOR

BERNICE HUMPHREY IS REPORTED SAFE   Father of Soldier Receives Relayed Short Wave Message

FOOD PARLEY TOPICS GIVEN   Delegates Will Take Up Distribution Of  Surpluses

Nelson Takes Blame — — In GasRubber Tiff   Wide Scope of Problems Face   Group at Food Conference

Food Conference Agenda Calls for  No Commitments  State Department Announces Object Is to Solve Problems  THREE MAIN TOPICS  Consumption, Output, Distribution to Feed All Peoples   State Department Announces Object Is to Solve Problems   THREE MAIN TOPICS

ALLIED § SECOND FRONT MAJOR TOPIC OF MOSCOW   Russians Want to Know When Cross-Channel Invasion Will Take Place

The War ‘Todav   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE Aenoclated Prees War Analyst

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Setting Of Invasion Date Appears Main Problem Of Moscow Confab

Preparations for Invasion Of France Continue Apace Great Forces Gather in England

The War Today  Question On Timing Of Invasion Is Point To Be Settled.

‘ONLY ONF POINT REMAINS BE SETTLED CONCERNING CHANNEL INVASION AND THAT IS WHEN?

The War Today   Timing of Channel Invasion Paramount Tssue at Mascaw

Americans Hit At Wake Island   Heavy Sea and Air Blows Delivered at - Japanese Invaders

Severe Blow Handed Japs On Wake Isle   Reveal 1.051 Tons Of Explosives Rained By Huge U. S. Carrier Farce Recently

Attack on Wake Equal to Allies Heaviest Anywhere   Fourth 2,400-Mile Raid on Makassar Made by Bombers

CKurchill Warnc That RAF. Yanks Will Beat Life Out Of Industrial Germany To Hasten Viclory    Wake's Lashing Was Allies Greatest In Any Theatre Of War

Task Force Hits Island   American Warship Flotilla Huris 1,051 Tons of Bombs and Shells into Base

Results At Wake Seen Justifying Efforts Of Allies   Attack Said Comparable To Heaviest Single Blows Dealt Axis During War

Wake Lashed By More Than 1,000 Tons Of Bombs, Raid Leader Reveals

Attack On Wake Island Blasted 61 Jap Planes, 2 Ships, Installations

Island ‘Not Wiped Off Map’ But Is Hit By 1,051 Tons Bombs.   DUTCH CELEBES RAIDED

Japs’ Wake Island Outpost is Almost ‘Wiped Off the Map   Recent Lashing Comparable With Heaviest Blows of Conflict

In Addition to 320 Tor« Bombs Dropped by  Carrier-Based and Lar d-Based American Bombers. 61 Enemy Planes De. troyed and Numerous: Shore  Inetallatianea

LASHING GIVEN JAPS ON WAKt GREATEST YET   Attack Equal To Any Staged In Any Theatre Of War, Reports Reveal

Raid On Wake Marked Heavy   Over One Thousand Tons Of = Used, Task  Commander Says.

GREAT BLOW DEALT WAKE BY SEA, Alf   1,951 Tons of Exploding Steel Neutratize Jap Positions at Cost of 13 Warplanes

NIPS FEEL NEW BLOW ON WAKE   Rear Admiral Reveals More Details of Heavy Shelling Week Ago

Unrest Seen IfNo-Strike Bills Passed   Senate Nearing Vote on Measure To Curb Walkouts

APPROVE LENDLEASE ACT   COMMITTEE FAVORS AID TO NATION'S WAR PARTNERS

Extension of Lend-Lease Ad Till July, 1944, Approved by House Foreign Affairs Group

Committee OKs Lend Lease Bill  Approves Extension of Allied Life Line

Shipping, Labor Points Told to Representatives   Many Problems Now Confronting House and Senate

att NAZIS “BACK REVOLI   OUSTED: BOLIVIAN. PRESIDENT CHARGES AXIS, INSPIRED  OVERTHROW OF HIS _ GOVERNMENT . 

Present Miners’ Contract Through War is Proposed   Lewis Declares Rejection Of Coal Operators’ Plat Is Assured Without Putting Question To Vote

Northern Owners See Pact Failure   Operators Declare UMW Agreement Cannot Be Reached By Further Parleys; Suggest Extension For Duration

Mine Parleys Near Break; No Contract   NORTHERN OPERATORS WILL ASK WAR LABOR BOARD TO TAKE OVER UNLESS SITUATION CHANGES OVER NiGHiiT.   Extend Present Pact?

Coal Parleys  Reach Climax   Northern Operators Say Wage Agreement Appears Impossible

we IS POSSHLE, “BURNEY SAYS      TILITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTER DECLARES ACTION WILL BE TAKEN IF PRODUCTION NOT INCREASED

LOBOR DRAFT MAY BE ANSWEE LAG IN OUTPUT   dj Gurney says something must be done to speed war production

AN TO DOMINATE 5. FOOO PROGRAN   Wickard Names W. Clifford  Townsend to Run Food Pro duction Program

J, P, MORGAN SUFFERS OLD HEART AILMENT   Resting Easily at Last Report, Gravely Ill

FINANCIER IS HOLDING OWN   John Pierpont Morgan Rests Easily After Heart ‘Attack.

J. P. Morgan Is Gravely II]   Financier Suffers From Heart Ailment: “Sticke Waek Aan

MORGAN SHOWS IMPROVEMENT   Famous International Banker Has Recurrence Of Old Heart Ailment

John P. Morgan Is About Same   Financier Stricken With Old Ailment At Winter ~_ Resort. In South

J.P. Morgan Gravely Ill.   Financial Giant, 75, Has Heart Attack ©

BRITISH DROP BIG BOMB LOAD ON RUHR AREA   Pulverizing Attack Aimed At Muenchen-Gladbach And Rheydt Districts   28 PLANES ARE MISSING   Medium Bombers Stab At Net. work Of Nazi Airfields, Communications

Channel Skies Filled With lanes as the British Subject ~ Germany to Heevy Pounding

R.A. F. RENEWS PULVERIZING OFFENSIVE   Stages Stron g Attack on Muenchen-Gladbach and Rheydt

Blitz Bombing Raids Resumed  On Rhinelanc   Pulverizing Attacks Are Made On Industrial Cities By Huge Force   MUENCHEN - GLADBACH AND RHEYDT TARGET

Stevenson, Labor Agree to OutlawAll Work Stoppages   Governor Signs Pact With Texas Groups To Be in Effect For War's Duration

Governor, Unions Sign Pact Which Outlaws Strikes   Compromise For War  Made Today

French Criticize American Troops   New Caledonian Dispute Reported

BEHAVIOR U.S. TROOPS IN NEW CALEDONIA HI’   Governor Christian Laigret Especially Criticises Negro Soldiers In Noumea

Censure U.S.  Troops Action   French Governor Of New Caledonia Criticizes Behavior Of Soldiers.

NEW CALEDONIANS VOICE CRITICISM OF YANK FORCES   Chief Complaint Is The U. S. Negro Troops And Their Administrators — Claim White Wemen Molested

J, S. TROOPS IN NEW CALEDONIA ARE GRITICIZED   Governor Of Island Doesn't Like Behavior of American Soldiers, Particularly Negroes; Reporter Says Charge Unfounded.

U.S. Troops Criticised By Island’s  Governor   Frenchman Caustic; AP Correspondent Say: Americans Have Been Repeatedly Gouged

AMERICAN TROOPS ON NEW CALEDONIA SHARPLY CRITICIZED  GOVERNOR OF ISLAND

Action Of U.S. Troops Rapped  New Caledonia Official Criticizes Yanks

U. S. Soldiers Criticized In New Caledonia   french (Governor (Complains of Conduct — AP Writer Differs

American Troops Criticized by French Official  Negro Soldiers Serving  0 On New Caledonia:

AMERICAN TROOPS ON NEW CALEDONIA SHARPLY CRITICIZED  GOVERNOR OF ISLAND SAYS U. S. NEGRO TROOPS LTACY NICCIPI ING

New Caledonia's Ruler Crificises ‘American Troops   lowan Commanding American Forces Has No Comment

TWENTY-FOUR CRIPPLED VESSELS LITTER HARBOR; RUBBLE OF WRECKED PLANES LITTER MAIN AIRPORT.

200 TONS OF BOMBS RAINED ON AXIS BASE   Patton’s Troops Occupy New Hill Positions In Southern Tunisia   Airdrome Wrecked

U.S. Flying Fortresses Drop 200 Tons Bombs On Italian Port  YANKS IN TUNISIA CONTINUE EASTWARD  Axis Radio Reports Renewed Activity By Two British Armies

FORTRESSES HIT 24 SHIPS IN AXIS PORT   Patton’s Forces Take Hills Near GabesGafsa Road

Great Italian Port Gets  Heavy Blow   Mass of Flying Fortresses Rains 200 Ton: Of Explosives on Naples ; Infontry Grobs Tunisia Hill Zones

Patton's Forces Win Command of Gabes-Gafsa Hills   Yanks Press Toward Junction With British; Montgomery Attacks

FORTRESSES IN MASS ASSAULT ON KEY PORT   Ground Action Is Overshadowed By Work Of Airmen: Patton Wins Hills

Fortresses Sent From Africa  Hammer Naples   Bombers Cripple 24 Vessels, Blast Main Airport of Tialian Port: Allied Armies Close in on Rommel

Port of Naples Pasted From Air  Raids Carried Out From African Bases

ITALIANS ADMIT HEAVY DAMAGE FOLLOWING RAID   Nearly 100 Fortresses Drop 200 Tons Of Bombs On Port Of Naples   24 SHIPS CRIPPLED IN 14-MINUTE RAID

Fliers Leave Harbor Littered With 24 Crippled Ships; Yanks Advance in Tunisia

FORTRESSES HIT 24 SHIPS IN AXIS PORT   Patton’s Forces “Take Hills Near Gabes-: ’ Gafsa-Road-: 2

TALIAN PORT HAMMERED BY UI. §. BOMBERS   LAND ARMY TAKES HILLS ON ROAD TO GABES

Terrific Raid   eave Naples Burning “after Unusually Heavy Bombing      Americans Turn Back Ger man Counter-Attack in Tunisia

U.S. Planes Blast Naples And 24Ships   Americans Still Gaining Against Nazis In Africa

Naples Blasted By Nearly 100 Heavy Bombers   Flying Fortresses Drop 200 Tons Of High Explosives

GOAL Ghtala TILL OEMS I EVIDENCE   Mine Owners Want Property Back and Miners Are Idle.   ICKES HAS REAL JOB   Ccal Czar Tiying to Form Workgtle Program for Governmen*.

COAL CRISIS ~ STILL SEEMS IN EVIDENCE   Mine Owners W ant Proper' ty Back and Miners. Are Idle. .  :   ICKES HAS REAL JOB   ‘Ccal Czar Trying to Form Workatle Program for Government.

GERMAN LINES CRUMBLING IN ITALY, RUSSII   lurk Officials Confer With F. D., Churchill. Berlin Says

Powerful German Units Rushed To Turkish Border Over Weekend, Fearing Turkey May Be Drawn Into War And Open New Front   RAINS HAMPERING AMERICAN 5th ARMY

Troops Sent to Turkish Border   Fifth and Eighth Advance in Italy; Soviet Forces Threaten Breakthru

NAZI RETREAT IN TTALY: Miko ON TURK FRONT   Hard Pressed Germans Feat Turkey Will Be Drawn ‘Into War

Axis Invasion Jitters Mount   Italian Army Placed ‘ In State of Alert =?

INVASION JITTERS ARE INCREASING   Germany Begins Troops Maneuvers Along Coastline

STATE OF ALERT IS REPORTED   Dispatches Say Italian Army Prepared for Action Against Allied Landing.

INVASION © JITTERS INCREASING DAILY IN AXIS EUROPE      Germans Begin Extensive Troop Maneuvers Along North Sea Coast Aran

Uncle Sam Will Have Enough To Outfit 55 More Soldiers Today   President Asked to Certify Mine Wage Dispute to WLE

Hog Market Jam Grows More Acute   Embargo on Shipments  Ordered in Several Midwest Cities

Hog Marketing at Critical Stage  Majer Market Centers Jammed by Shipments

SINK SWEDISH SHIPS WITHOUT WARNING   Germans Attack Vessels Off Denmark Coast

BY NAZI ATTACKS   Two Fishing Boats Sunk Without Warning; Sharp Protest Expected.

NAZIS SINK TWO SWEDISH VESSELS   Swedish Fishing Boats Sunk Without Warning Off Northwest Coast of Denmark By Two German Minesweepers.

14 Lives Lost in  Texas Hurricane   Property Damage Set at 10 Millions

Stormy Political Career to End   Governor of: Kansas ‘ Dies in Fort Scott

J. M. DAVIS DIES   Bourbon County Mar Served as Governor of State Two Years

J; M: DAVIS DIES   Bourbon County Man  ‘Served as Governor of   State Two Years.

TACTICAL VICTORY BY BRICKER NOTED IN OHIO TAX PLAN   Doubt Expressed, However, Executive Will Win Substance of His Proposal,

Tax Reduction of at Least $40,000,000 is in Prospect  READY WITHIN A WEEK

ATTACK JAP POSITIONS IN PACIFic   Raids carried out against Kiska and two Solomons bases

Two Veteran Congressmen Are Dead, Session Adjourned Today   Congressman Ditter Was Killed in Plane Crash; Steagall Has Attack.

“LIFE’S STRUGGLE”  SUBJECT AT SUNDAY. ~ NIGHT SERMON   Rev. Fallon Will, Deliver Talk A Lanten Service at Bopyuaetr~ Church, :

“LIFE’S STRUGGLE” *. ‘SUBJECT AT SUNDAY ~ NIGHT SERMON   Rev. Failom Will Deliver “Talk A Lenten Service at Borromeo Church. 4

COAL STRIKE NEARING END   Anthracite Miners Heeding Orders To Return To Jobs In Mines   (BULLETIN)

Sixteen Points Per Week Limit for Each Person In America Under System

HIGHEST POINTS ARE FOR READYTO-EAT MEATS   One Pound of Butter and One Of Steak Will Cost Week’s  Points For One Person

U.S. Chutists’ Clawed Path For Invaders   Yank Air-Hawks Fought Magnificently, Eyewitness Says

Glider Troops Caught in Sicily Make Escape   British Writer Tells of Bitter Fight Against Odds

Tells Of Glider Troops Landing   Correspondent Lands With Gliders, Is Captured And Then Rescued   GLIDER TROOPS FIGHT VALIANTLY

NEWSMAN WITH. GLIDER-UNIT AMONG PRISONERS RESCUED   WORK OF AIRBOURNE TROOPS LAUDED BY CORHESPONDENT FOR DISORGANIZING AXIS DEFENSES

Allies Gaining On All Fronts; New Lend Lease   Russia To Get More Sup:  plies; Will Furnish  Raw Materials

British Pound Back Nazis On Hill Near Ortona   Morocco Radio Reports Montgomery's Drive To Pescara, Chieti Opened

BRITISH SEE ~ IMPORTANT AREA NEAR ADRIATIE   Eighth Reported Launched on New General Gftenzive.

NAZI WINTER LINE TOTTERS ACROSS ITALY   British Push Germans Back in Bloody Battle.—Hold of U,. S. Fifth Being Bolstered.   In Bloody Battle Rw ASSOCTATED PRESSE

Allies Dent Italy Lines   Yanks Smash Attack; Sth Drives. Forward

ALLIES KEEP UP AERIAL ASSAULTS   Bombers Again Blast Hannover, Prize Nazi Industrial City; London Has Fourth Successive Night Alert

Allies and Foe Trade Air Blows   R. A. F. Hits Hanover; Nazis Raid London

Allies Keep Up! Aerial Onslaucht        ; iP in Day Assaults; Nazis ‘Rail: London

Nazis Offer Little Opposition  Aerial Onslauch   Aerial Onslaught on Continent Kept Up by Allies

Allies Maintain Onslaught On Continent  Pilots of RAF Dumr   Pilots of RAF Dump Loads on Hannover; London Has Air Raid

ALLIES CONTINUE AERIAL ONSLAUGHT      Nazi Transportation Is Bombed During Bay Assaults

Allies Maintain Onslaught  On Continent  Pilots of RAF Dump Loads on Hannover; landan Mae Air Baia

Nazis Offer Liitle Opposition   Aerial Onslaught on Continent Kept Up by Allies

Grade Schools Closed In Twin Cities As Blizzard Disrupts Traffic And Communications

Allied Planes Raid Rangoon   Drop 1000-Pound Bombs And Lighter Explosives On Burmese City

47,000 ALREADY OUT OF PITS AS DEADLINE NEARS  Charge Arms Output Will   Charge Arms Output Will Be Paralyzed If Walkout  Te Staged Friday

LEWIS INSISTS ON $2 PER DAY PAY INCREASE   539,000 May Be Idle When Contracts Expire Friday Night

Showdown Figh Shapes On Plan For Sales Tax   Opposition Grows On Administration Revenue Proposal

House Votes Refund On Victory Tax   Immediate Credits Ranging Up To 40 Per Cent Would Be Allowed   REPEAL MAY FOLLOW   Democrat Forces Split As . Solons Battle Over Retail Sales Tax Plan

HOUSE VOTES REFUND ON VICTORY TAX   Refund Would Range Between 25 and 40 Per Cent

House Votes  Tax Refund   Credits to Portion Of Victory Tax Provided by Plan

Refund Of Part Of Victory Tax Voted By House   Credits Of 25 To Forty Per Cent Would Be Allowed

Tax Credits On Vicory Tax  House Votés Partial Refun nd; Outright

Refund Portion ’ of Victory Tax   Action, as Voted by House Would Be Through Immediate Tax Credit.

House Seeks More Billions To Finance War   Agitation Grows Over Sales Tax To Raise Revenue

FAVOR TAX GREDIT ON VICTORY LEVY      HOUSE VOTES REBATES RANGING UP TO 40 PER CENT OF 5 PCT, PAYMENTS,

SOVIET WIDENS BRIDGEHEAD IN DONETS BASIN   Heavy Artillery Duels Break Stalemate In That Area

SOVIET BRIDGEHEAD IS WIDENED FRIDAY   Russian Troops, Backed by Artillery, Strengthen Their Positions.

SOVIET TROOPS WIDENING GAP   Heavy’ Artiiiery Duels Break Stalemate of Several Weeks in Donets Basi.

ON DONETS RIVER FRONT   Axis Attacks Are  Repulsed, Russians Widen Bridgehead

RED ARMY WIDENS BRIDGEHEAD ALONG 110-MILE STRETCH   Russians Break Up Attacks In Donets River Area —Heavy Artillery Duels

Axis Columns Threaten To Divide Front   Americaris In Vain Effort To Hold Long Line With Licht Tanke.   REDS PUSH FORWARD   Experts Not Surprised By Advance In Tunisia

Arrest Lewis for Treason, If He Turns Bown Order. Richmond Paper Uraes

MOSCOW PACT WINS APPROVAL   World Peace Organization Proposal Passes Senate 85 to 5

CONNALLY BILL - GETS APPROVAL   Postwar ‘Peace Plan’ OK’d By 85 To 5 In Senate

SENATE PASSES MOSCOW POLICY   Resolution Adopted 85 to 5 Favors International Peace Body

SENATE BACKS “WORLD PEACE PO-OPERATION   RESOLUTION PROPOSING PORTWAR INTERNATIONAL PEACE COMBINE 18 APPROVED  BY 83 TO 5 VOTE. .

U.S. ISOLATION POLICY DEAD   Bill Backing Moscow Pact Passed Resolution Goes To Roosevelt

SENATE PASSES FAR-REACHING RESOLUTION   Sends Connally PostWar Measure to White House

Postwar Peace Measure Sent  To White House   Senate Passes Resolutior Proposing International Peace Organization By 85-5 Vote

Churchill Warns ltaly She Must Quit Germany or Be Crushed   Will Be "Seared, Scarred and Blackened from End fo End” unless She Gets Out of the War

CHURCHILL WARNS ITALY MUST DECIDE   Expresses No Opinion of New Italian Government In Address Before House Of  Commons   Hopes For Surrender

 War on Italy To Continue, Briton Says    Churchill Withholds Judgment on Regime  Of Marshal Badoglio WANTS CTIROENNER

ITALY WARNED BY CHURCHILL TO ASK PEACE      Nation’s Surrender is Declared Only Hope To Avert Attach

[TALIANS WARNED BY CHURCHILL T0 DECIDE OWN FATE   ‘Must Choose Between “Relief From War and Freedom From Servitude” or Holocaust, He Says.   DOES NOT GLOAT OVER DUCE’S FALL   Prime Minister Tells Commons That, Thus Far, New Rome Regime Has Sent No Peace Feelers.

Churchill Warns ltaly On Choice   . Nation Can Escape : Holocaust, He Save

ITALY BY CHURCHILL TO ASK PEACE   Nation’s Surrender is Declared Only Hope To Avert Attack

Churchill Warns ltaly On Choice   Nation Can Escape . Holocaust, He Says By LEWIS HAWKINS *

Churchill Warns: Italy Mast “Quit War? Gr Take é  The Consequciees   Says No Peace  Approaches Received From Rome’ So Far, Allied Comimaiiders Ordered (o Prosceute ‘Confliet to the Finish

Quit War or be Crushed,  ‘Prime Minister Tells aa Italy   RESTRAINED SPEEGH MADE TO COMMONS      Hope for Unconditional Surrender Clearly Expressed

Churchill Gives aly Warning   Must End War or Face Terrific Blasting

Interoreting e War   Nazi Retreat of Unestimated Scope Indicated

Tarrant Bomber Hits Gas Tank and Is Destroyed   Crew of Twelve Reported to Be Aboard Desth Plane

Army Bomber Crashes in Chicago.   GIANT PLANE BURSTS INTO FLAMES AFTER GAS TANK COLLISION

FLAMING DEATH FOR 12 AIRMEN   All Aboard Army Bomber Perish Near Chicago

Fort Worth Bomber Hits Gas Tank   Occupants Burn Inside Tank; 10 Believed Lost

Bomber Falls Into Chicago GasTank. 12D ic   Sets Off 18 Million Feet  of Gas in Gigantic Blast

Plane Hits Gas Tank, 12 Dead   Army Bomber Crashes In Foggy Weather

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today,   Bomber Hits Gas Tank.

One Killed, 17 Are  Missing After  Crash in Pacific Poplar Soldier Amon:   Poplar Soldier Amonc Passengers Unaccounted For

Officer killed, 17 men missing in army crash   Nebraska radio operaior aboard

26 Missing In Air Crash   Body of One American Officer Found on Raft Near Brazil

One Killed, 17 Are Missing After: Crash in Pacific  Poplar Soldier Among Passengers Uneccounted For

MORE DEATHS ~ ARE REVEALED   25 Additional Americans And English Killed.

I] Are Missing — in Plane Crash  One Is Known Dead   One Is Known Dead Three Are Rescued

Army Reports 1 Killed, 17 Missing in Crash Of Big Plane into Pacific

1] Are Missing  in Plane Crash One Is Known Dead: Three Are Rescued

25 ON PLANE ARE MISSING   Body of Officer is Washed Ashore; Franklin Soldier Aboard Craft

ADVAN     KRORTH OF KURSK   Poplar Man Missing After Bomber Crash  y ifs CO hs Wr AER FG AMS    One Officer Killed, 17 Others Lost

OHIO LIQUOR STOCK IS BEING BUILT UP      Purchases Planned To Meet Holiday Demands

TWENTY 6-ENGINE TRANSPORTS FALL IN GULF WATERS   Allied Fighter Planes Destroy Entire Formation Of Enemy Aircraft On Way To Tunisia—Supplies,  Soldiers FallIntoSea

20 More Transports Are Downed By Air Force: Off Coast Of Tunisia

38 HUGE SIX-ENGINE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN BY FIGHTER! FIVE-DAY TOTAL REACHES 2°   British Eighth Army Turns Back New Counter-Attacks, Holds Gary

DOWN TWENTY BIG TRANSPORTS   Spor mr ry Supplies and Soldiers Into Mediterrranean Sea—British First Army Starts New Offensive Operation on Axis Fiank,

ENEMY TROOPS AND SUPPLIES FALL INTO SEA   New Aerial Victory Off Tunisia Boosts Allied Bag to 203 Planes.

SUPPLIES OF ENEMY ARE LOST   Soldiers Are Also Dumped into Mediterranean Sea by Big Allied Attack.

IOWAN IS DEAD IN 6-INCH SNOW   Storm Disrupts Minnesota Communications: 2 Die in Hurricane

1, SHIPMENTS HELPED SSI THLK TAXATION   House Chairman Disputes Rum! Plan: Wiekard Discusses Food; Manpower Unsettled

VITAL TO RUSSIA   Lease-Lend Cargoes Contribute to Victory There, . Says Stimson

Give U. S. Aid Role in Russia.   Seen as Playing important Part In Red Successes

Tax Program Is Debated In Congress   Congress Hears Stimson, Wickard On Aid To Russia

AMERICAN SUPPLIES AND FOOD CREDITED WITH RUSSIA STAND   ARGUMENT BREAKS OUT ON CAPITOL HILL OVER HOW RAISE TAXES

U. S. SUPPLIES ARE VITAL TO RUSSIA   Lease-Lend Cargoes Contribute to Victory There, . Says Stimson   DISPUTE ON TAX PLAN

U. S. Supplies Help Russia   So Soy Secretaries . Stimson and Wickard, Talking of Victories

U.S. Supplies" Play Big Role In Red Victory   Stimson, Wickard Promise Help To Russia Will Crow

PO PCE MARA VT MOMMARGG PACIICS — aw—by AK! ae TUE  Mountbatten ' To Lead Sea-Air-Land Attacks

Fall Of Port Seen As Signal For All Out Allied Offense   French in Tunisia Hard-Pressed By Germans Trying to Open Corridor For Rommel’s Retreat

Rommel’s Army On [he Ru As City’s Main Defen Works Fall Sealing Fate

Rommel! May Bypass City To Escape   Heavy Fighting On Entire Front  Indicates Showdown

PARTS OF CITY AFIRE: PEOPLE FLEE 10 SAFETY      Main Defense Works of Tripoli Already Have Fallen; British Artillery Shelling Harbor   ROMMEL’S FORCES — BLASTED FROM AIR   Retreating Columns of Enemy Attacked As Deep As 25 Miles Inside Tunisia

Planes Mauling Fleeing Germans   French Reported Bealing Off Strong Attacks by Germans to Widen Corridor For Rommel—British Light Naval Forces Attack Tripoli, Sinking Sub

Navy Units Enter Harbor To Damage Ships and Docks; Allied Planes Busy

GERMANS SEEK TO HOLD CORRIDOR OPEN   French Reported Beating Off Intensified Attacks In Timician Ares

Axis Seeks to Hold Open Tunis‘a..Path   ‘Desperate German Attacks ‘Near Border May. Presage Showdown of Strength   BRITISH GOING ON : - BEYOND TRIPOLI   Africa Corps’ Strengtli’ Being Sapped in Race-to : Tunisian Forces

Rommel Forces Now 25 Miles Inside Tunisia  Italians Indicate That Allies May

Rommel’s Fleeing Forces Mauled By Allied Planes: Fate of Tripoli “Sealed”

Rommel’s Fleeing Column as Deep as 25 Miles in Tunisia   On Central Tunisian Land Front, Gen. Giraud’s Troops Beat off Intensified Axis Attacks

FRENCH TROOPS REPULSE BLOWS INSIDE TUNISIA   Much Of Civilian Population Sent From Libya Capital

French Troops Beat Off Strong Axis Attacks In Battle Near Pont Du Faks:

British Storm Axis Held City, Enfer Suburbs   Nazis Score Slight Gains To Give Aid To Rommel

GEN. ROMMEL WITHDRAWING INTO TUNISIA   Heavier Fighting On Entire _ African Front Presages Showdown of Strength Soon   BATTLE IS SPREADING

Survivors Of Crash Aewait Aid   Rescue Party Hacking Through Burma Jungle

Survivors Of ‘Crash Waiting Jungle Rescue   Plane On Way To China From India; Doctor Goes  By Chute To Help.

19 Aw: vaiting Rescue Party In Jungles  Of Burma   Transport Plane With ULS. Group Aboard Landed In Wild Territory

19 Survivors ir Jungle Wait For Rescue   Survive Crash of U. S. Transport Plane In India; Supplied by Air

TRIAL OF MINERS SCHEDULED SEPT. 1   Federal Court’ Teld Early Trial Necessary To Protect U. S.

MINERS TRIALS HAVE BEEN SET FOR SEPTEMBER   Barly Trial Held Necessary To Protect Interests Of United States

New Year Finds Invasion Ready   High Command Conferences Expected To Begin Soon; Invasion Headquarters Ready for Eisenhower.

Await Arrival Of Eisenhower   Invasion Conference: Are Expected Soon

Invasion Staff” Await: Arrival Of Esenhower   Conferenca of High Commari likely to BeainShorly

FIGHTING STAFF READY FOR IKE   Gen. Clark May Be Field Commander Of U.S. Invasion Armies

Invasion Plans to Be Started Within Few Days   Commander of U.S Field Forces Still to Be Named

LONTON AWAITS (GEN, EISENHOWER   CLARK OR BRADLEY EXPECTED TO BE NAMED AMERICAN FIELD COMMANDER.

EISENHOWER SOON TO REACH LONDON   Invasion Headquarters in London Being Made Ready

Hundreds of Dutch Strikers Slain Following Defiance of Nazi Order

Thousands of Dutc Report ted Erecut ted  Siar aes of   Nazis Exact Tolf For General Strike

MUNCIE. IND.   Woman Says She Had ‘God's Approval’ to Kill Husband

DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE INTEND: TO KEEP POWER   John McCormack Is Re-Elected Majority Leader At Party Caucus.

HOLD CAUCUS TO TIGHTEN PARTY LINES      Rayburn, McCormack Again Chosen For Posts

MARION GETS SIRENS BUT CAN'T USE THEM   WPB Refuses Wire Needed for Installation

Union Head Faces Charge on Air Plant   CLAIM GUARDS SLEPT, WORKERS ROLLED DICE IN BREWSTER FACTORY

Roth Ends of Axis Drawing Hard Blasts   ATTU ISLE BASE CAN BE VSED FOR ATTACK ON JAP HOMELAND.

British Fliers Blast Duisburg   One of War's Worst Raids Carried Out Against Ruhr City

Duisburg Bombec Heavily by RAF For 45 Minutes   More than 600 Planes Take Part in One of War's Heaviest Raids

RAF Blasts Naz Industrial  City in Ruhr   British Drop Averages of 30 Tons Of Bombs on Duisburg Each Minute for 45 Minutes

Raid Placed in Class . With One Against Cologne 17 Bombers Casualties

DUISBURG HIT BY 1390 TONS OF BIG BOMBS   GREAT RUHR CENTER IN FLAMES AFTER RAF ASSAULT

Duisburg Blasted With ~ 1,350 Tons of Bombs         Great Industrial And Transport Center Is Target For One Of RAF’s Greatest Air Raide

Duisburg Is Leff Carpet Of Fire   RAF Hits German  Industrial Cantar

DEVASTATION AT DUISBURG   Great Ruhr Industrial Center Left With Vast Fires

RAF IN HEAVIEST RAID OF THE WAR ON DUISBURG   Lose 34 Planes, Indicating 600 to 800 Planes In Raid

RAF SPREADS DEVASTATION AT DUISBURC   Great Ruhr Industrial Center Left With Vast Fires

Germans Break Partisan Lines   Capture. Susak Port, Communications Hub

GERMAN - DIVISION RETAKES TOWNS OF SUSAK, OGULIN   Jugeslav Partisan Lines Fail To Hold. Nazi Forces Under  -Rémmel cee cee os

Stricter Control Of Transportation   Local Bus, Trolley Lines Put Under ODT

AUTHORITY OF ODT INCREASED BY FDR   All Domestic Transportation Is Covered in  Order

ODT AUTHORITY IS BROADENED   Presidential Order Puts All Transportation Under Control

NEW OUTBREAK OF AIR ACTIVITY IN SOLOMONS RELATED   Japs Raid. American Base At Espiritu Sante In New Hebrides : Islands.

RAID MUNDA IN SOLOMONS   Japs Retaliate With 2 Mild Raids On American Bases

THINK GRUISER HIT BY BOMBS IN RABAUL RAIL   Flying Fortresses A\lsc Damage Large Jap Cargo Ship

FIVE NEW ALR ATTAGKS PUUND BASES UF JAPO   American Airmen Continue Furious Offensive Against Enemy

FURIOUS NEV OUTBREAK IN TOLOMONG   Japanese Raid American Base at Espiritu Santo

BASE POUNNED CRUISER HIT   Allied Air Forces Strike Heavy Blows in Many Sections of South Pacific: Shine Damacded.

WR ee eee eee et  House Considers Three-Way Choice on Raising the Allowances for Dependents

HIGHEST ALLOWANCE PROPOSAL MAY GET APPROVAL OF HOUSE   CIOS .HATE’ BUGGESTION {WOULD PASS ON ROLL CALL, , OPPONENTS OF BILL ACKNOWLEDGE

ARGENTINA REVOLT ENDED      Military Junta Controls Court -Tcday — Revolution Lasting One Day Cost Lives of 32 Persons — Cutting of Last Axis Tie lo Western Hemisphere B)ieved Near,

Martial Law Proclaimed In Argentina  Revolt Cuts Last Axis   Tie in Latins  

ARGENTINA NOW UNDER RULE OF MILITARY JUNT  Anti-Axis Revolt Is £ . i   NEW GOVERNMENT TO BE ESTABLISHED SOON

Thousands Of Coal Miners Quit Pits As WLB Panel Takes Up Wage Controversy

Galveston Airman Performs Unusual Feat—Rides Bomb Back to Air Base

Senate Approves Aviation Bill 13-9   Liguor Control, Union Freeze Okayed

Aviation Bill Is Passed By Senate   Act Gives Control of Intrastate Activity To Rail Commission

FLANK MOVE THREAT FROM THE JAPANESE   Nipponese Suffering Casualties as Fighting Continues on Burma Peninsula Front

RENEW HEAVY FIGHTING IN BURMA AREA   Japs Reported to Be Suffering Heavy Casualties

NEW AIR ASSAULTS ON SICILY STAGED   Appeals Made to People to-’’Demonstrate for. - Peace”

Wounded Sicily Is Lashed Again   People Are Urged To Demand Pence

Messina Is Heavily Pounded By British   Broadcasts Urge Italian People To Demond Peace And To Throw Off Yoke Of The Nazis

Mighty Aerial Attacks Made Avainst Jtaly      ied High Command Continues Appeal for’ Peace’ Demonstrations

Allied. Bombers Blast Italians   Also Urge People To Call for Peace

Allies Smash Again at. Italian Sites   Commanders Appeal Directly to People for Peace

A'hied Air Arm Keeps Up Attacks  On Italian Areas   High Command Calls n People for Peace  Jemonstrations

Allies Bomb Italians Relentlessly   Messina Bombed Again And Other Towns Hit In Sicily and Italy

SICILIAN PORTS HIT BY ALLIES   Thunderous Attacks Are Continued; Italian People Asked To  Demonstrate

ALLIED AIRMEN RiP = MESSINA WITH BOMBS   Meanwhile Allied High Command = Calls Upon Italian People To Tinwsestiateaten Ear Paace   Naples Heavily Hit

Sicily, Italy. Struck Again By Air Might  Nation Is. Aske  “To. Demonstrate. - For Peace

STILL AWAIT PEACE MOVES. ~ BY BADOGLI   REPLY TO ALLIES’ DEMAND  _ MAY COME FOLLOWING MEETING OF ITALIAN CABINET, TOMORROW

HITS SCORED ON SEAPLANE BASES, SEVERAL SHIPS   Japs So Surprised at Jaluit They Failed to Send Um Shall

ALLIED PLANES IN RAID ON NEW GUINEA FRONT    Down Thirteen Planes, Score Hits : With Bombs On 13  Vessels

8 IP PLANES DOWNED 3 SHIPS HIT   Heaviest Attacks Birected Against Sougainville

ALLIED PLANES OMASHING JAPa ON WIDE FRONT   8 To 13 Enemy Aircraft Shot Down, Three Cargo Ships Are Hit By Bombs

LIBERATOR UOED Ih NEW RAI) SERIES   Latest Targets Of Bombers Were Jalint And Mili Atolls In Marshalls, Makin in Gilbert Islands   HITS ARE SCORED ON HANGARS, SHOPS

ALLIED PLANES BAG 3 SHIPS   PACIFIC AIRMEN DOWN 8 TO 13 JAP PLANES

Liberators Bomb  Siarshall Isles   First Time Land-Based Planes Have Hit Posts

13 More Enemy Planes Bagged   249 Jap Vessels Hit  Since November 

BOO-MILE FRONT IN SOUTH PACIFIC HIT BY RAIDERS   Three Cargo. Vessels. Damag ed By Bombs of Far Ranging Planes.

Alhes Carry  Out Widespread Raids in Southwest Pacific   Heaviest Attacks Are Directed Againet Ranesainvill.

JAP ISLANDS RAIDED   U. &. Liberators Bomb Marshall And Gilbert Bases

Enormous Damage Done to Berlin Revealed by Aerial Reconnoissance Pictures

Air Photos Bare Great ‘Raid Havoc   Assaults Did Enormous Damage to Berlin Wrap Planic

Aerial Reconnaissance Pictures Reveal Enormous Damage to Berlin Industry

Enormous Damage fo Berlin's Potent Industrial Structure Is Shown in Reconnaissance Pictures of Last Three Big Raids by the R. A. F.

Heavy Damage by RAF to Industry, — Pictures Revea   Berlin's Potent War Plants Heavily Hit In Three Raids

Jap Losses Costly, U. S. War Production Stupendous, Tokyo Broadcast Reports

Two New York Department Stores in Stocking Battle   Macy's and Bloomindale’s Stage Price War On Nylons That Drops Price From $1.85 Per Pair to 22 Cents Before Screaming Crowd of Women Bargain Hunters  “

BABSON’S WEEKLY REPORT   (Copywright, 1915, Publishers nancial Bureau, Inc.)

ADVANCE IN CORN PRICE SUGGESTEL   Senate Committee Believes An increase Would Put Corn on Market.

Russian Armies Move To Cut Rail Lines To Kharkov   Red Forces Race Across Steppes In Drive To Recapture Kharkov   ENVELOPING MOVE NOW UNDER WAY

CAPTURE OF RUSSIA'S THIRD LARGEST CITY IS EXPECTED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS

AEDS WT 16 MILES OF CITY; TAKE BOGOGUKO   Third Lar;es: Cty in Rassia Seems Destined to Slip From Nazi Grasp.

Soviet Army In Rapid Drive On Kharkov   Within Sixteen Miles of Ukranian Capital

SENATE EXPECTED TO APPROVE BILL      ‘Measure To Increase Checks To Dependeiits Moves Toward. Signing

Congress Votes Allowance Boost   Bill Provides $30 For First Child

German U-Boat Bases Damaged By U. 5. Fliers   Heavy Bombers Blast Axis Submarines at Vegesack

7 of 15 U-Boats Hit ~ By Yanks at Vegesack   RAF Photographs Reveal What May Be Biggest Blow Against German Submarines; Renault  Works Crippled

March 18 Day Attack Possibly Heaviest Blow Against Sub Production

YANK RAIDERS DAMAGED 7 Ot 15 U-BOATS   RAF Discloses Results Of March 18 Raid On Vegesack Submarine Constructon; Yards Impaired.   Heavest Blow Of War

Hard Blow Dealt U-Boats In Raid   _ Vegesack Damage ' Worst Single Lick

SEVERE DAMAGE INFLICTED ON NAZI U-BOATS BY AMERICANS    Heavy Blow Struck Against Submarine Production by Heavy Bombers Daylight Attack on March 18th

Hard Blow Dealt U-Boats In Raid   Vegesack Damage Worst Single Lick  By LEWIS HAWKINS

Photos Show Seven Subs Blasted By U.S. Planes In Assault on Vegesack

Heavy Blow Dealt U-Boat Base   Seven of 15 Undersea Craft Damaged By American Bombs

SUPER-TAX ON SALARIES IS ASKED BY FDR   Roosevelt. Would Cut -Incomer of Single Men to $25.000 a.Year  -

F. D. BR. Renews Demand for Super War Taxes   Asks Congress Not to Rescind Limit on Saleries

FDR Renews Demand for Super Taxes.   President Wants. Either $25,000 Salary  Limit or Heavy Taxes

DEMAND FOR: ~ SUPER TAXES   Chief Executive Sets Spendable Income Limit Anew .

INCOME CEILING PLAN I$ PUSHED   Roosevelt ~ Fights Move To Repeal His $25,000 Salary Limit

FDR DEMANDS INCOME LIMIT   Renews Drive For Super Tax Holding Net To $25,000

FADLR. RENEWS HIS DEMAND FOR SALARY LIMITS   Calis On House Committee to Hold Incomes of Single Persons to $25,000, Married to $50,000.   REPEAL ADVOCATES ARE STANDING FIRM   Disney Declares There Should Be Restrictions on Power if Earnings Are to Be Curbed.

-10-Year Search Ended By F. B. I. With Arrest Of Carl Straka; Said He Would Bomb Captor

Notorious Ohio Fugitive Wounded In Gun Battle With Federal Agents

NITROGLYCERINE DESPERADO IS HELD IN HOSPITAL AFTER BEING SHOT DURING CAPTURE

FUGITIVE TAKEN AT TILTONVILLE   Straka Wounded, Seized By FBI To End 10-Year Hunt

Bitterest Air Defeat of War Inflicted  One Squadron Downs 29 Planes

Over Two Million Nazi Casualties   Red Forces Sweep Within Four Miles Of Port Of Kherson: Much Equipment Is Taken

Report Nazi Casualties  at 2,700,000   3,800 Germans Are Killed During Thursday’s Battles

2,700,000 Casualties  Recorded   Reds Clean Last Enemy Off East  Bank For Entire Leneth Of River.

Moscow Figures Include 900,000 Enemy Dead as Stalin Heralds Complete Control Along Dnieper

Nation Near a Civil War as Masses Seethe   Appeals to People to Keep Calm; New Hint of Peace

FASCISTS HOLD HOSTAGES, FIRE ON THE TROOPS   Women and Children Taken Into Custody by Those Resisting New Government ~—~Bloodshed Reported.   STRIKES BORDERING ON CIVIL WAR DEVELOP   Stories Told of Rioting in Milan and Numerous Other Cities—Parts of Nation on Verge of Open Revolt.

Take All Chance To Help Rid Italy Of Nazi Invader   Churchill Joms President In Calling On Italians Time Has Come To Help Liberators And Get A Place With Forces Of Peace, Freedom And Justice

ROOSEVELT FAVORS ~ ARMY OF 7,500,000   President Believed To Side with Group Opposed to Big Armed Force De manded by Others

FDR PLACES 7,500,000 _ ARMY AS TOP NEEDED TO CARRY ON WAR   President Outlines Benes Of Casablanca Parley To Capital Legislators; Points Out Submarine To Of Shipping

Report Given On Trip By President   He Is Said to Fix 7,500,000 as Total for Army

Report President Sees Need for Maximum U. S. Army of 7,500 000 Men

Roosevelt Confers On African Sessior   Leaders in House And Senate Are Told Of Trip In White House Conference On Monday

Roosevelt Indicates Army To Be Limited to 7,500,000 Men, Thus Agreeing With Ed Johnson

ARMY LIMIT “IS DISCUSSED   Roosevelt: = Said” to Have Set 7;500,000 Men as : Rouch Estimate

Total Soldier Need Is Placed At 7,500,000   President Estimates 10,000,000 As  , Seapine Total

FIGURES GIVEN BY ROOSEVELT ON ARMY SIZE   ROUGH ESTIMATE OF 7,500,000 MEN IS MENTIONED

Roosevelt Tells Legislators Army of 7,500, 000 Is Maximum Needed to Win War Against Axis

Congressional Leaders Hear ‘Report by F.D.R   Resume of Parley at Casablanca Given to Solons

MAXIMUM ARMY OF 7,500,000 MEN IS NEEDED   Roosevelt Gives Legislators Rough Outline Of His  Casablanca Conference

ARMY LIMIT IS DISCUSSED   oo  Roosevelt Said to Have Set 7,500,000 Men as Rough Estimate

F.D.R. ESTIMATES ‘MAXIMUM ARMY OF 7,506,000 MEN   Indieates Over-all Manpower Needs of Country Are Such That Army Mhould Not Axceed EstiAppia dian.   PRAT CHANGE   Men inNon-Kssential Work Must Change Over to “War Work or Face Induction Inte the Army.

FDR CONFERS WITH LEADERS   Account Is Given Congressmen Of Casablanca Meet.

Head of U.S  Views 72  Million Army Tells Leaders  Of Needs At Conference

ROOSEVELT PUTS ARMY'S NEEDS AT 7,000,000 MEN   Fells Legislators Force of That Size Will Be Able to Beat Hitler and His Allies.   GOES OVER CONDITIONS FOUND IN AFRICA   Describes Axis Sub Warfare as Serious Problem—More Ships Being Built Than Sunk.

Roosevelt Favors 7,500,000-Man Limit for Army  Recent Casablanca Trip Also Discussed At White House

FIVE MER WN ARN SERVICE   Acceptances by the Other Branches Not Yet Re-—  ceived ir Tipton.  i

FE: MEN ARMY se   Acceptances by. the. Other. _. Branches Not Yet.Re-—   . ceived ir. Tipton.

Munitions Output Up 650 Per  Cent in 2 Years U.S. Industry Perform   U. S. Industry Performs Herculean Task Of War Production

Munitions Output Up 650 Per Cent in 2 Years  U.S. Industry Performs Herculean Task  ro 4

Navy Strikes Jap-Held Isle   U. S. Navy Reveals Extent of Growth On Sea and in Air

U.S. Gunners Get 17 of 35 Jap Planes   Torpedo Squadron Routed in Two-Day Attack in Solomons

Plan Meeting Over Refugees   United States, Great Britain Arrange Conference To Discuss Problem.

Japs Wiped Qut on Attu Navy Says   U. S. Bombers Soften Enemy’s Base at Kiska

400 JAPS DIE ON ATTU FRONT   3 U. S. Columns Meet On Harbor Shore As End Of Battle Nears

400 JAP ON ATTY SLAIN {fl TWO DAYS   Three American Columns Effect Juncture

400 Japanese Killed As U.S. Mops Up Attu   Three Yank Columns Effect Junction At Chichagof Harbor   KISKA IS BLASTED   . Navy Declares No Organized Resistance Remains  On Recaptured Island

U.S. TROOPS UNITED ON ATTU ISLAND   Three Columns Combine Forces At Chichagof Harbor

DESTROYING LAST VESTIGES OF JAPS   Chinese Troops Hammer Five Trapped Jap Divisions, Kill 3000 Men.

400 JAPS ON AYTU DIE IN LASTMOP-UP   U. S. Units Soften Kiska As Forces Merge In Aleutians

U. S. Troops Kill 400 on Attu Island   Three Separate Forces Meet at Chichavof Warhar

B&O Freight Train Bound For Willard Wrecked At Tiffin, 6 Tank Cars Lost In Fire That Follows, Damage $100,000

MACARTHUR’S AIR FORCES POUNDING JAPANESE CONVOY   Secretary Stimson Promises MacArthur Rein-forcements Have Been ‘Allocated —

Three Japanese Ships Accounted For; in Search of Rest.   JAP LOSSES 4 TIMES AS GREAT AS OURS   Allied Bombers Hammer at Huge Enemy Bases on New Britain.

UNITED oTAT Eo Hho lb onAnt UF UNRRA GOST   Two Formulas Advanced As Relief Committees Start Work

State Buys $550,000 Of War Bonds— Committee Raises Quota To $2,000,000

Plane Strafes Croc Stalking Rescue Party   Oklahoman Was Being Brought Out of Tangled Jungle

TODAY'S WAR MOVES   (Reg. U. S$. Pat. Office) BY LOUIS.¥. KEEMLE

FARMERS TOLD OF SHARE PLAN   Neighborliness is Emphasized in Mobilizaton Meetngs in Ohio

DOES ENGLAND WANT TO SETTLE INDIAN CRISIS? INDIAN GOVERNMENT THINKS NOT  India Officials, Writer Says, Have Intentions Of Pushing Independence

Analyst Poses Query Whether England Desires Sefflement of Indian Crisis ‘Or-Time-fo Retain Hold on-Country   BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.

MacKenzie’s Series On India  Is England Stalling On The India Issue?

The Crisis in India  Britain Intends To Go Forward Ané Forward And Hand Over Govern ment To Indians As Soon As Possible, :   Ry DEWITT MACKENZIE

ENGLAND WILL KEEP BOND TO FREE INDIA  Not to Reopen Question Now

Today’s War Moves   England May Hope To Postpone Granting of In glamamdamas ba flasalia

DOES ENGLAND REALLY DESIRE SETTLEMENT OF INDIAN CRISIS ‘OR IS IT CAME OF POLITCS>

Soldier Bonus Upheld by Senate Group  Payroll Taxes To Continue At Same Rate

Senate Approves Mustering-Out Pay For Veterans   Fast Action On Soldier Bonus

SENATE APPROVES SOLDIERS’ BONUS   Mustering Out Pay For Vet: erans of $200 to $500 Is Now Possible.

REVIVE TALK OF SOLDIER BONUS   GAINS MOMENTUM WITH SENATE APPROVAL OF MUSTERING-OUT PAY

Bonus Bill © Talk Grows      Proposed Allotrient  Would Be In Addition To Mustering-Oiut Pay

Muster-Out Pay Spurs Bonus Talk   One Proposal Would Give Bonds to Vets

Soldier Bonus Again to Front in the Capital   Bill Coming Up in Senate Would Provide Maximum of $1,250

Bonus Added To Plans for Muster Pay   quick denate Action  Spurs Bonus Backers  to Seek Approval

PROBE BOMBER CRASH WHICH COST 5 LIVES   Army Officials Visit Mason City, Scene of Latest Tragedy; Bodies All Are Found,

Miners Asked To Let Agency ~ Settle Dispute   Southern Operators Seek To Sut Matter Before  fClasernmen! BRady

White House Is Asked To Take Hand in Settlement ‘Ot New Waee Ditterences

RAF Will Join In  Attacks On Japan After Defeat Of Enemy In Europe

PROMISES RAF BLOWS AT JAPAN   Churchill Declares British Will Take “Full Part” In Eventual Attack.

CHURCHILL SAYS RAF WILL JOIN IN ASSAULT ON JAPAN   Once Axis In Europe Has Been Defeated, RAF “Will Help U. S,  Deal Blows

COUNTY GROUP ELECTS BOARD FOR NEXT YEAE   Annual Meet Of County Infantil Paralysis Board Held At Of fice Of Chairman C. N. Hol lerich In Spring Valley.

Red War Plants Are Commended   Standley Finds Them Turning Out The Goods

Ampressed By Soviet War  Industries   Compare Favorably With Those In U.S, Standley Declares

HE’S IMPRESSED   Standley Says Red War Plants Good. Fond Pientifni.

 The War Today— Orel and Catania Two More ‘Nails in Hitler's Coffin

Two More Spikes Driven Into Hitlerism’s Coffin Orel, Catania Were Vital to Nazis

COUPLE MORE STOUT SPIKES DRIVEN IN COFFIN HITLERISM BY CAPTURE ORFI. CATANIA

The War Today. . ; ma Ss Fall Of Orel, Catania Two More  Snites Put In Coffin Of Hitlerism

The War Toda  Fall Of Orel, Catania Two More Snikes Put In Coffin Of Hitlerism

POST-WAR SANITY   Chicago U. Professor In Armistice Day Talk At University   INAMES PREREQUISITES

POINTS A WAY TO POST-WAR SANITY   Chicago U. Professor In Armistice Day Talk At University    NAMES PREREQUISITES

SEE 1,000-TON ATTACKS DAILY   Allied Air Forces Thought Nearly Ready For Continuous Bomhardment Of Europe

1,000-TON AIR ASSAULTS SEEN   Allied Forces Planning Sys. tematic Bombardment Of European Targets

BRITISH, U. S.. RED PLANES WILL DROP 1000 BOMBS A DAY      Prediction Says Assaults On Nazi Centers Will Be Doubled In Next Month

Bad Weather Grounds Big British Bombers: Indicate Allies Soon to Launch Continuous Aerial Attack

ASSAULTS DUE SOON ~ IN AREAS   Average of 1,000 Tons of Bombs Every 24 Hours Ticketed for the   Enemy. -

Assert Allies. Will Rock Axis   Bad Weather Grounds Big RAF Bombers

Bad Weather Grounds RAF's Bio Bombers   Steady Attack to Be Made in Next 30 Davs

SNOW FLURRIES _ SNAP COLD WAVE      Federal Weather Bureau Sees Continued Warmer Days

Bombers Blasted the Capital With 2,300 Tons.  NAZI GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS HIT Germans Themselves Let  Out Agonizing Howl by Radio.

5.000 Political Prisoners in Africa Will Be Released All De Gaullists  _ Said to Have Been GQivan  thortyu

French Now Free Politicians Held  Africa Prisoners   De Gaullists Freed Restoration O Other Libertie Pledged

Prisoners To Be Released Soon   About 5,000 Still Confined In Africa

French Releasing  Their Prisoner:  Expect Completion O  Action Soon; None Are de Gaullists

FRENCH TO FREE 3,000 PRISONERS   Gen. Bergeret Announces Political Prisoners Will be Given Liberty

6 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. SUBS   Total Sent To Bottom 0 Pacific Raised to 222

New Draft Orders Lay Fathers Liable To Immediate Call   Officials Frankly Using It As Powerful Weapon In Shifting Of Needed Manpower

Fathers Holding Non-War Jobs Open To Induction Even Before October ]

NOW INCLUDES: THOUSANDS IN NON-WAR JOBS   May Be Inducted Even- Before Class Becomes. ‘Subject to Oct. 1 Call,   ORDER MADE TO COVER .. MANPOWER’ SITUATION

Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads Must Get Info War Essential Jobs Quickly Or Face Induction

More Manpower Demands : Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Not In Essential Work Face Draft

Stringent job-draft  rules set   Thousands more fathers laid open  to earlier service

Many Fathers May Be Liable for Draft Before October 1   New Government Manpower Rules Designed to Hold Essential Woriers on War-Useful Jobs, Shift Others From Non-  essential Tasks to Essentiat Work, and Furnish Men to Armed Services Without Cutting Production. 

“Non-Essentials’ to Be Called First as MeNutt Announces Plons te Force Mer More Men late Wer-Mecessary ladustry

vernment shtens » Control   y Maupower lers Aimed to Industry. Army

DRAFT COVERS MORE MEN Ih NON-WAR JOBS   LIST OF NON-DEFERABLE POSITIONS BROADENED

Pre-Pearl Harbor Parents Holding Non-War Jobs May Be Inducted Before October

Fathers On Non-War  Jobs Facing Induction ..   New Draft Orders Designed To Move Workers Into Essential Tasks Speedily

Man Power Call Speeds Draft Of U. S. Fathers   Pre-Pear] Harbor Groups Holding Nonwar Jobs Face Induction; McNutt Issues Sweeping Orders

PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS LAID OPEN TO ARMY SERVICE   Selective Service To Be Used As Instrument In Labor— Military Manpower Crisis   DON’T WANT LABOR DRAFT

New Manpower Rules Issued:  Jobs Classed   Add More Activites To Non-Deferrable Group: Aim To Help Labor. Military Problems

More Fathers Are Laid Oper To Quick Draft   & New Orders Broaden List " Of Non Deferrable Jobs To Shift Manpower   AID TO PRODUCTION   149 Critical Occupations Recognized; Employment OF Skills Demanded

FATHERS HAVING NON-WAR WORK FACE INDUCTION   WMC Issues Sweeping Orders To Prevent Manpower Shortage in Plants

CANNON IS CARVED BY NAVY TRAINEES   Machinist Mates Class Holds “Recitation” at the  Junk Yard   [HELP SOLVE PROBLEM

CANNON IS CARVED BY NAVY TRAINEES   Machinist Mates Class Holds “Recitation” at the  Junk Yard

LABOR DISPUTE CLOSES PLANT   Aluminum Concern Shuts Smelter To Prevent Striker Reprisals

I) KILLED IN DEPOT BLAST   Portage Ordnance Depot Explodes In Ravenna, Ohio

Ten Killed In Ordnance  Plant Blast    Explosion Rattles House Doors, Windows Thirty Miles Away

TEN WORKERS ARE KILLED IN BLAST   Explosion at Government Ordnance Depot in Ohio

Blast in Ordnance  Plant Is Fatal to 10   Information on Cause Withheld Until Probe Is Completed

TO DIE, 2HURT IN EXPLOSION AT RAVENNA PLANT   ‘Authorities to Hold Investigation Before Making Public Announcement of Blast

TEN ARE DEAD IN RAVENNA BLAST   ‘Cause Of Explosion At Ord: nance Plant Is Totally Unknown

10 KILLED BY BLAST AT ORDNANCE DEPOT   Body of Only One Found—Jar Felt 30 Miles Away

Ten Lose Lives In Ravenna, O..  Pow ‘der Blast   Two Workers Injured At Ordnance Depot, Others Accounted For

AMMUNITION BLAST KILLS TEN WORKERS   Two Others Seriously Injured In Explosion At Reyvenna, Ohio

RAVENNA DEAD TOTALIS TEN   None Reported from Thi: Region in Ordnance Explosion.

10 KILLED IN POWDER BLAST   Two Others Seriously Injured In Explosion At Ordnance Debot

NAZIS IN HEAVY COUNTER BLOW NEAR ZHITOMIF   150,.C09 Men and Hundreds of Tanks Try to Break Russian Wedge

Davies’ Visit Regarded as’ US. Triumph   existed Henpaemlt ‘View on Relations With -.  -? Moscow .

DAVIES TO BRING STALIN'S REPLY TO LETTER FROM FDR      His Mission To Moscow Is Regarded As Victory For U. S.—Goodwill  Prevails

YANKS MENACE NAZI BASTION ON ROME ROAD   Fifth Army Plunges Close To Main German Defenses

Battle For Rome In Opening Stage   Germans Launch Strong Attacks in the Termoli  Region   HIT LINE WITH ARMOR   Fire From Destroyers Helps ’ to Counter the Nazi Attack :

Nazis Open Great Drive In Adriatic Sea Sector   Reinforced Troops Are Being Faced By Montgomery

Sea and Air Forces. Help :- Wentawenor?   Reinforcements: Also Sent in for., Showdown: as Battle: *for-Rome: Begins   YANKS.GO AGAINST. "STRONG: DEFENSES   Repated- “Attack. in. Area Near Capu;Planes. Give Aid to Both Allied: Armies.

PANZER UNITS TAY TO BLOGK BAITISH ORI   Montgomery Aims’ at Pegs cara on Main Highway to Rome...   FIFTH BATTLING AGAINST RAIN AND’ DEMOLITIONS

Nazis Mrike Fiercely af Eighth Army   Switch Troops From West to Launch Big Ceunter Attack

BRITISH THROW OFF ASSAULTS FROM GERMANS   Battle for Rome Begins as Both Sides Put Fresh Troops Into Fight

Entire Armored Division in ‘Attack on 8th Army; Yanks ‘Near Capua, Strategic City

GERMANS FEAR TH FLANKING THREAT OF EIGHTH ARMY   3end Whole Division To Help Stop Montromery   WARSHIPS COME TO AID OF STH ARMY

GERM COUNTER-DRIVE   Launch Powerful Infantry And Armored Attack in Termoli Area.   SHIFT ENTIRE DIVISION

SHIFT FORCE TO WEST SIDE OF PENINSULA   Eighth Army, 130 Miles East Of Capital, Meets Onslaught; Air And Sea Support Given

Germans Seek To Halt Allied March to Rome   First Attacks Of Foe Beaten Off By Montgomery

British Eighth Army Stands 130 Miles East of Capital; Nazi Tanks Oppose Threat

Panzer division pitted against 8th   Montgomery reinforcement heat off German assaults

Armored Assaults Thrown Back And British Reinforced   Americans Work Forward As Germans Mass For Volturno Line Defense

Nazis Shift Forces And Attack The Eighth Army   Montgomery Reinforced For Showdown Fight; Navy Brings Him Artillery Aid

Battle For Rome Appears Under Way As Nazis Send Infantry And Armored Units Into Action Along Adriatic—Montgomery’s Forces 130 Miles East Of Capital City—British Destroyers Shell Enemy Targets On Coast—Aircraft Support Troops

Germans Launch Armored Attacks Against British   Destroyers Shell Nazi Positions From Adriatie

Lighth Army Gains Alarm Nazi Leaders   British Warship Aid Montgomery's Adriatic Advance

OPEN STRONG ASSAULTS ON BRITISH LINE   Attacks Beaten Off, Reports From 8th Army Say

British Troops Are Reinforced   Germans Fortify Volturno River and Rush Fresh Tanks Against Montgomery’s Troops Who Are 130 Miles East of Capital City,

BATTLE FOR ROME IS NOW UNDERWAY   Kighth Army Also Has Been Reinforced for the Showdown Fight; Beat Off Nazi Attacks.

Infaniry And Armor Attacks Alo  British Beat Back Powerful A Adriatic Cnly 130 Miles From Ro

Stop German Thrust 130 Miles Kast Of Italian Capital City   Battle for Rome is Now Underway; Allied Fliers Blast New Military Targets in Italy

Germans Launch Strong Attacks In Termoli Area   British Eighth Beats Off Powerful Attack By Reinforced Nazis

Nazis Shift Division To  Block Drive   Naval Guns, Fortresses Join in Softening Up Nazi Defenses

1  ¢  AINST 87 1   Battle For Rome is Opened in Termoli Area on Adriatic: Fifth Army Still Advancina.

Powerful Attack In Termoli Area Started by Nazis   Eighth Army of Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery Reported To Stand But 130 Miles East and Slightiy North of Capital City   NORTHWEST AFRICAN AIR FORCE VERY ACTIVE

GERMANS LAUNCH POWER;-UL BLOWS IN TERMOLI AREA   MONTGOMERY BEATS OFF ATTACKS WITH AID OF NAVY GUNS

Foe Hurls Tank Division Against 8th Army; Yanks Inch Forward At  Volturno Line.

Counter-Attack Along Adriatie Near Termoli   Armored Division Shifted; Allies Threaten Capua; British Beat Off Attack

General Montgomery, Reinforced for Showdown Battle for Rome, Has Beaten Off Attacks, Gen. Eisenhower Reports

NAZIS THROW HARD BLOWS ~ AT STH ARMY   Allied Headquarters Terms Attacks Repulsed; British Warships Pound Foe

BATTLE FOR ROME OPENS WITH GERMAN ATTACKS IN EAST   NAZIS REPORTED TO HAVE SHIFTED ARMOPEF DIVISION TO APRIATIC

Montgomery's Troops Also Have Been Reinforced for ‘Showdown’ Fight in Termoli Area, About 130 Miles East of Italian Capital—Yank Fighter Planes Active.

Powerful Nazi Troops  Attack Along Adriatic   Fifth Army Approaches Capua, Principal Bastion to Rome; German Tank Division  Opposes Eighth Along Biferno River.

Also Rushing To Fortify Volturno. ‘Avainst Sth Army   Gerinans. Sluft’ Entire Armored Division from West Side in Onslaught Against - Montgomery Northeast of City, But Reinforéed British Beat off, Attacks: Fifth Army Making —Dogged . Progress South of City To ward Volturno Line.

GERMANS SHIFT WHOLE DIVISION ~ TO EAST ITALY   Powerful Infantry And Armored Force Hurled At Eighth Army

6.0,P, SOLON’S CAREER ENDED   Advanced From Indian Fighter to Governor OF Illinois

Frank 0. Lowden  Dies In Arizona Former GOP Governor Of Illinois Was 82

EX-GOVERNOR OF ILLINGIS PASSES   WWIness Fatal to G. O. P. Leader at Age..:. Le Bighby-fywo lo

EX-ILLINOIS GOVERNOR DIES   FRANK O. LOWDEN, 82, PASSES IN ARIZONA

Lowden, 82, Former Illinois Governor, Who Once Nearly Won Presidency. Succumbs

Frank O. Lowden  Dies in Arizona  Pneumonia Fatal  To Aged GOP Leader

ILLNESS TAKES FRANK LOWDEN   Ex-Governor Of Illinois Dies At Desert Resort In Arizona

FORMER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR DIES   Frank Q. Lowden Was Twice Candidate For GOP Presidential Berth

FRANK LOWDEN, EX-GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, DIES   Attack of Pneumonia Proves Fatal to GOP Leader

Elder Statesman of Republican Party Succumbs to Pneumonia in Tuc- — son. Arizona   CAME NEAR TO BEING NATION’S PRESIDENT   Withdrew Name From Convention After Receiving 311% Votes on Eighth Ballot

FRANK 0, LOWDEN DIES IN ARIZONA   Noted Republican Was Governor of Iinois During First War.

Former Governor Lowden of Illinois Dies in Arizona at 82, Pneumonia Victim

Frank 0. Lowden Dies in Arizona   Former Governor of IWlinois and G. O. P. Leader Passes at 82

ISINK 50,000TON TRANSPORT   No Confirmation From Allies of Italian Raid, but Say Was Possible   RAF BLASTS RHINELAND   Weather Clears; More Allied Planes Over Continent Today

400 TROOPS LANDED ON SOUTH TIP OF MAINLAND SUNDAY, ALL BUT 30 ROUNDED UP. DNB SAYS

Republicans See House Majority For Ruml Plan   selieve Pay-As-You-Gc Income Tax Proposal Will Be Adopted   Nearly All Republican: and Some Democrats Favor Carlson Bill   Rep, Carlson's Plan

PREDICT VICTORY FOR RUML PLAN   ADVOCATES ENCOURAGED BY SUPPORT OF MARTIN AND STEERING COMMITTEE.

RUML BACKERS  SEE TRIUMPH DUE IN HOUSE      \Martin, ‘Unit Pledge Support On Tax  Planning

Rum] Backers Predict Victory   Republicans Throw In Their Support

 GOP Leader aml Committee Offer Suppo Backers of Ruml Pay-as-Go Ta: Plan Predict Victory in House

RUML TAK PLAN DRAWS SUPPORT   Backers Take Heart After Rep. Martin and His Steering Committee Join Forces; Begin to Predict \ictory

Russian Army Records New Advances   Important Gains in Kharkov Area Are Reported

Reds Crush Counter Atfack By Germans In Kharkov Area  Important Gains Are Also Made In Bryonsk Coptnyr Ae lebnttacd Dlnnee Ace Cantascd

Weather in Helena   Group of Manufacturers Anticipates Wonderworld After War; Many New Inventions Will Be Offered

 a  . Manufacturers Predict Wonders For Civilians’ Post-War Use 

AUTUMN fAINS FALL TO HALT OUVIET RIVES   Russians Pressing General  _ Advance Upon Dnieper  Line Of Germans

EXPEGT STALIN WILL ANNOUNCE BVANSK FALL      Order Of Day To Mark Opening Of Third Month Of Offensive

NEWS OF BRYANSK CAPTURE EXPECTED ALMOST ANY ‘TIME   Nazis’ Already Admitting Evacuation — Soviets Occupy Western -Part Of City

{MERICANS MOP UP JAP REMNANTS AT MUNDA BASE   First Major Victory Of Newest Pacific Offen aive.

MacArthur Reveals Fall Of Munda   Communique Says American Troops Are Cleaning Up

MOTORISTS HAVE FULL GAS TANKS   Traffic, Gasoline Sales Double Over Week End in Ohio

Most Drivers Fill Up ‘Gas’ Tank Sunday   Ration Coupons Now Worth Only Three Gallons; Service Stations Busy

TRYING TO SAVE EQUIPMENT FOR BATTLE OF ITALY   Fall of Randazzo Starts German Full-Scale Evacuation   ALLIES CONTROL MT, ETNA   Capture Towns on All Fronts, Messina Strait Under Constant Fire

DEFENSE LINES CRACKED; YANKS SPEED ADVANCE   All Mt. Etna Now In Allied Hands Dispatches Say

Allied Airmen: Pounce On Nazis. Attempting To Flee From Sicily —

Explosives Blast Evacuatinga Army   Enemy Fights Bitter Rear guard Action After Fall of Randazzo Speeds Retreat

Allies Occupy Randazzo, Push Toward Messina   Ships And Planes Blast Shipping Carrying Troops’ Across Strait; Nazi Retreat {s Reported As Orderly

ALLIED FORCES MOVE UP ON ALL’ FRONTS IN SICILY   Armies Rapidly Prying Lose Axis Rear-Guards:

NAZIS RETREAT AS ALLIES CRUMBLE MOUNT ETNA LINE   British-American Forces Only 34 Miles From Messina; Enemy Boats Under  Rarrace in Straits,

Germans Are In Hurry To  Leave Sicily   Fall Scale Evacuation Is On In Effort To Save As Much Material And Manpower As Possible

Rear Guard Of Germans Scattering   All Of Mt. Etna Is Now In Allied Hands; Nazis Trying To Save As Much Material As Possible.

Nazis Begin Full-Scale  Evacuation   Randazzo Captured, Allies Sweet Armies fo within 34 Miles o Escare Port   RETREAT ORDERLY   Strait under Constant Allied Fire but Big Guns on Italian Coas: Aid Axis Troops

Mt. Etna in Hands Of Allies   Navy Is Pounding Attempts To Flee Sicily .

Enemy Pounded From Sea, Air   Allied Coastal Flanks Less Than 34 Miles From Escape Port Of Messina; Randazzo Captured By American Ninth Division

FLEE TO ITALY UNDE BOMBARDMENT   Axis Island Defense Line Cracks With Capture Of Randazzo

Messina Straif Nazi Dunquerque As Troops Flee   Rearguard Resists But Allies Sweep Close To Messina

Attempting to Save Material, Manpower   Sea Escape Route Under Steady Attack; Heavy Rearguard Covers Retreat

EXTRA!   Full-Scale Evacuation  Under Way   Strong Rearruard Action Fought to Cover Flight — “From Island

acuation i  Scale   Drive Ahead; Randuzzo; Mt.  In Allied Hands Toc

Ring of Fire Laid Around Messina Area   Allies Attempt To Check Flight Of German Troops

German Forces Try Evacuation Move In Sicily   Battered Unmercifully As They Attempt To Get To Italy From Island   DEFENSE LINE IS NOW WEAKENING

ALL OF MOUNT ETNA IN HANDS ALLIED ARMIES      Enemy's Center Caved in With Capture by Americans of Randazzo   NAZI RETREAT FROM ISLAND IS ORDERLY   Aim Is to Save as Much Manpower and Equipment Possible; Rearguard Action Stubborn

Evacuation to Save as Much  Material and Manpower  ~-as Possible   UNDER HAIL OF STEEL   Advancing! American and British Force Rear Guard  ~' Back Rapidly

GERMAN GENTER IS CAVED IN BY FALL CITY OF RANDAZZ(   The Nazi Army Has Begun a Full-Seale Evacuation of Sicily.   IS NOW IN FULL SWING   Retreating Behind a Strong Rear Guard Which Fell Back Rapidly.

Vit. Etna Now Completely In Allied Hands   Capture Randazzo; British Score Gains In Drive Up Coast; Airmen Active

Axis Tries. To Save Men And Material For Battle Of Italy   Taking Of 5 Sicilian Towns Places All Mount Etna In Allied Hands: Invaders 34 Miles From Messina

GERMANS LEAVING SICILY   Put Evacuation Machinery Into Full Swing

Allies 34 Miles From Escape Port   All Mount Etna Now In Allied Hands; Randazzo Taken; Strait Under Fire

Nazis Try to Save Material, Manpower From Battle OF Sicily.   ETNA IN ALLIED HANDS

Full-scale Evacuation  Under Way   Advancing Allies Now Within 34 Miles of Messina

FALLS TOALLIES   Germans, Pelted by Sez and Air, Try FullSeale Withdrawal

FULL-SCALE EVACUATION UNDER WAY   With Their Central Front Caved in, Germans Are Moving Their Men and Material to the Italian Mainland.

Full-Scale Evacuation hy Germans   But Allies Are Driving In Hard Against the Fierce Enemy Rear Guard   BOMBS AND SHELLS RAINED ON STRAIT   Orderly Retreat Is Under Way, Foe Trying Hard to Save All Possible

REVERSED DUNKERQUE BEING CARRIED OUT BY FLEEING NAZIS  * CAPTURE OF RANRAZZO PUTS. EVACUATION MAmmpeenewmerear nines. FETT E eURrinif

FE ATTAGKED FROM. ~ LAND. SEA AND SKY   Allies : ‘Sweep -To. To: Within 34 Miles” OF: “Messina Ins

Steel Hail Hits Trapped Foe   ALLIED ARMIES TAKE ALL MOUNT ETNA AS SWEEP REACHES WITHIN 34 MILES OF MESSINA; MORE TOWNS FALL AS RAIN OF BOMBS HITS STRAITS

With Their Center Line Caved in by the Allied Capture of Randazzo, Germans Fall Back Rapidly From Mt.  Ftna.   Ships Try to Cross Bomb-Tossed Messina Strait to the Mainland

UVEVVIVV VV TV TV VV VI VV ‘Maps’ Turned Over To FBI Agents by Sailor Wallpaper

 AAA AAAAADAARAAAASAAAAL ‘Maps’ Turned Over To FBI Agents by Sailor Wallpaper

Girl on Stand In Morell Case   Threatened Unless She Fled With Him, She Declares

Might of Red War Machine Emphasized   German Propaganda. Lets ‘the Bars Down,  Encourages Stories on Red Power   NEW ATTEMPT. TO ‘WEAKEN ALLIES   Nazi Command Is Reported Using Strategic Reserves for First Time

‘ Nazi Propaganda Lets Bars Down On ' Stories of Fighting on Russian Front

NAZIS EAGER TO FEATURE RED STRENGTH   Picture Army as Giant Unaware of Own Strength, Inferring That Stalin May Have “Haymaker” for Allies.

Nazis Change Pr opag wanda On East Front   Now Portraying Russia As Giant Unaware Of Own Strength

Russia Pictured As Giant By German     Writers In Effort To Scare Allies

NAZIS WARN OF SOVIET THREAT   Propaganda Cites Communism Danger To Allies

Nazi Propagandists Picture ‘Soviets As Menace To World.  And Warn Allies Of Futures

German Propagandists Lower Bars On Reports of Red Power; Encourage Correspondents to Tell Grim Stories

ae PERIL’ CRY. REVIVED     ‘Nazis Picture Russia 'As Devouring Demon

Germany Harps On Strength Of Russia In New Departure Hinting Possible Peace Bid   Nazi Propaganda Pictures Soviets As Military Giant Saving Haymaker For U. S.

Nazi Fields Are Bombed   Advanced Airdromes Are Blasted In Raids

WOMEN OPPOSE SUBSIDY DEATH   Converge On Congress Ta Back Administration Plan

Women Fight Subsidy Ban   (See Nation's Capital on today's editorial page).

WOMEN ENTER FIGHT TO SAVE FOOD SUBSIDIES   March On Congress  Organized To Oppose Farm Bloc

Housewives Aid Battle To Save Subsidy Program   Senator Pushes Drive For Food Stamp Plan To Replace Subsidies

NAZIS FAIL 10 BURY OWN DEAD   Withdrawal Before American Advance Ir Tunisia So Rapid There Was No Time For Burial.

YANKEES FORCE NAZIS TO FLEE WITHOUT DEAD   Germans Pushed Back So Rapidly in Tunisia Battle They are’ Forced to Abandon Casualties   FIRST INCIDENT OF KIND IN CAMPAIGN   Enemy Leaves Extremely Heavy Minefields Which Hold Up Progress of Doughboys

Dead Left Unburied By Retreating Nazis   Germans Withdraw Rapidly; Minefields Hamper U. S. Proaress

PRODUCTION KEEPS ON   “Aircraft Plant Workers Meeting on Off-Shift Hours

Cost of Living Probe Opens  Amid Inflation Arguments   Business Leaders Expect New Demands For Wage Increases Following Coal Pact: Steel Workers May Seek Increase

‘LEGISLATURE IN MIDNIGHT SESSION OVER STATE BUDGET   Roosevelt Will Hear Plea  For Closer Coordination

Order Review of 1,500 Dreft-Deferred Federal Employes In Michigan

Retiring State Executive Delivers Farewell Message to Legislators

Wilson Urges Assembly Levy No New Taxes   Governor Leaves Today For Duties as State Senator

New Sky Giant Scores Success   Constellation Mokes Maiden Flight After Brief Delay

U.S.Tests Biggest, Swiftest and Most Powerful Land-Based Plane Built

New Secret Air Giant Passes Flight Test After Fiery Start   Motor on 8000-Horsepower Crait Blazes Just Before Takeoff, But It Rides Sky tor Hour

GERMANY WON'T WAIVE TREMTIINITY OF BOCTICNN   New Air Giant Has First Test

In First Night Raid Since Last Sunday Night.   HIT HEART OF NAZI WAR INDUSTRY   Twenty-one British Planes Are Lost in This Mission.

RAF STRIKES      Chief Target OFr Last Night’s Attack Was Duisburg, Big Steel City and River Port.

Numbered Gas Coupons Due Strips of Gas Ration Tickets Intended to Cut Black Market

GAS COUPONS WILL BE SERIAL-NUMBERED   New System To Be Put Inio Effect First Of Year Designed To End  Boatlegging

GASOLINE CONTROL TO BE TIGHTENED   TICKETS TO REPLACE RATION BOOKS TO STOP BOOTLEGGING IN STAMPS.

Serial-Numbered Gas Tickets Soon   New System Planned To Combat Chiselers

ENLISTS IN THE Na -¥   Earl Endacott Will S Will Serve as Electric Radiologist

ENLISTS IN THE Na-Y   ‘Earl Endacott Will Serve as Elec. tric Radiologist

POPE REFUSES TO GIVE REFUGEES TO GERMANS.      azis Wave “Bowed To This Deci« sion,” Reports To Swiss News-,  Paper Declare

VATICAN TURNS DOWN GERMANS   Refugees Will Not Be Delivered To Enemy Hands In Italy

Vatican Fdict fs Accepted by Nazis   Holy See Refused to Deliver to German Anti-Fascist Refugees.

Vatican Opposing  Germany s Request  Won't Deliver Refugee: From Holy City

YANKS APPROACH ENEMY AIRFIELD   New Br it ain Invaders Would Gain Valuable Air Base Near Rabaul

YANK INVADERS MAKE MORE GAINS AGAINST JAPS   Americans On Bougainville Pursue Japanese.  Rabaul Heavily AtLerLlad

Allies Cross Torokina River On Bougainville: 80 Fighters Raid Rabaul

San Vittore Which Is Only Six Miles From (Cassino.   YANKS GAIN 2 MILES IN LIRI VALLEY   Americans Bomb Japanese Freighter and Bag Four Planes,

Straw Boss Shortage In Industry   Ready for Initial Piece in Manpow er Jigsaw Puzzle

SENATE VOTES ON DEFERMENT OR FARMLABOR   First Concrete Step By _ Three-Months-Old:Congress to’Solve Manpower Puzzle   ISSUE COMPLICATED   Officials Indicate All 3-A Draft Registrants May Be Summoned For Induction by Midsummer

Farm Labor Deferment Vote Slated   Senate Takes First Move on Manpower. Problem Solution

SENATE VOTES ON DEFERRING FARM LABOR   First Move To Solve M-npow er Puzzle; Three Controversial Proposals

BRACE FOR STAND ALONG NEW LINE   But American Forces Now Dominate Garigliano River Plains

A Despised Weed May Be Money Crop  Milkweed Provides   Milkweed Provides Good Substitute For Java Kapok

Milkweed To War Use   Found to Be Excellent Livestock Feed, and Substitute for Kerri

"BACK ATTAGK,” F. R, PLEA FOR BOND CAMPAIGN   15-Billion Dollar Drive Scheduled to Open September 9. Will Be Largest So Far

‘BACK ATTACK’ DRIVE THEME   F. D. Urges Support Of Fall Bond Sales

Proclaims Sept. 9th for Opening of New Campaign   War Finance Committee Called Upon to “Up” Their Quotas

ROOSEVELT CALLS ON AMERICANS TO “BACK ATTACK”    Third War Loan Campaign Tc 7 Open In Nation On September 9

PRESIDENT ASKS LOAN SUPPORT   September 9 Set As Date For Opening Of Drive For 15 Billions

Third War Loan Is Proclaimed  Seek 15 Billions:  Starting Sent 9

THIRD WAR LOAN STARTS SEPT, 9   Goal of $15,000,000,000 Fixed by Treasury

Support War Loan Drive, F. R. Urges  $15 Billion Campaign Opens In September

Roosevelt Calls On Americans To “Back the Attack” In 3rd War Loan

ORD WAR LOAN DRIVE SEPT. 9   FDR Urges Every American to ‘Back the Attack’ With Bonds

FOR SETS DATE FOR WAR BOND CAMPAIGN   Urges All American’s To ‘Back the Attack’

Tommy Harmon Turns Up Again   Former Football Star Had Been Missing After Raid On Japs.

,New Bombardment Of Mainlani Near Lecri Announced; Air drome Only Eleven Miles Fron Rome Is Raided By Mitchells   P-T BOATS MAKE THRUST UP COAS!

SLAVS TAKE TOWN ~ IN MONTENEGRO   BIG GERMAN GARRISON MENACED BY RECENT SUCCESSES OF GUERRILLAS.

American Infantrymen Take. ~ Caltanissetta Standing Up   Italians Cuss Germans, Germans Cuss Italians But Sicilians Welcome: Yanks With Open Hands

HUNS, ITALIANS CUSS EACH OF THE OTHEI   Sicilians Weleome Yankees With Wide Open Arms

CUSSING SPREE IS ~ THE AFTERMATH OF ~ DOWNFALL OF TOWN   Caltanisetta Crumbles and Italians, Germans Welcomed Americans.

Japs Try to Machine Gun ‘Survivors of American Merchant Ship Torpedoina

Jap Sub Turns Machine Guns or Ship Survivors   U.S. Seamen Escape Methodical Attack By Diving Into Sea

Southeastern States Face Flood Threat   Hundreds Leave Their Home in Five Southern Statec

Floods Threaten Southeast States   Rain-Gorged Rivers Creep Toward Dangerous Crest; Flee Homes.

FLOOD DAMAGE IN SOUTHEAST   Hundreds Are Forced From - Homes. in Lowlands of Four States

Midwestern Rivers Go  On Rampage   Hundreds Forced From Homes in Four States

RisingRivers FloodEast.   Forced from Homes As High Water Sweeps Alabama-Florida Area

Flood Situation Brightens With Cresting Of Ohio; Hundreds Are Evacuated In Low Areas Of Southeast :   Newport Hit   Cincinnati Crest Expected Tuesday

Floods Hit In Southeast   Hundreds Forced To Evacuate Homes In Lowlands

Rivers Near  Flood Stage   Hundreds in Southeast States Forced to Evacuate Their Homes

FLOODED RIVERS IN SOUTHEAST AT DANGER POINT   Heavy Property Damage Is Threatened . and “Hundreds Ccmpelled to Leave Homes in Lowlands -

Swollen Rivers Threaten Flood  Hundreds Evacuate -~ Homes In South

RIVERS NEAR CREST IN SOUTHERN AREA   Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana Are Threatened by Floods

Hundreds Evacuated As Floods Sweep Through Five Southeastern States

Water Spreads Over Dixit As Hundreds Move Out; Cold Snap Saves Ohio

FLOODS SWEEP FIVE STATES INTHE SOUTH   Waters For ce Hundreds From Homes and Heavy Property Damage Is Threatened— One Man Is Believed Drowned.

LOWLAND HOMES      Southern States Face Threat. ened Floods; Rains Send Rivers: Upward

FLOODED RIVERS ROUT HUNDREDS   Heavy Damage Threatened in Southeastern States

FLOODS SWEEP © SOUTHEAST STATES   Hundreds Formed to Evasuate Homes, Heavy Property Damage Threatened

Floods Sweep Five States In Southeast   Evacuate Many, Damage Is Heavy

HEAVY RAINS ARE CAUSING FLOODS   Hundreds Driven From Homes At Hattiesburg, Miss.

FLOOD HITS SOUTH   extensive Damage Threatens in Four Southern States

Floods Threaten Southern States   Hundreds Evacuated As Crests Near

RIVERS FLOOD © IN FAR SOUTH: OHIO IS EASED   Hundreds Evacuate Homes it Southeastern States, Heavy Dam age Threatened

Relentless Aerial Bombardments Since May Pulverize And Soften Island For Landina

Sicily Invaston Is [Climax of Long, Arduous Campaign   Allies Made Big Gains  In Past Few Days To Prepare for Move

Priority System Established for Truck Operators   Limited Number of Com mercial Vehicles Will Get More Gas

Little Opposition Meets New Air Blows   French Fleet Joins Allies for Possible Use in Mediterranean; RAF Continues Heavy Blasting of Continent.

More Than 300 Planes Bomb Italy   Great Damage Done at Naples; Reds ‘Claim 2,069 German Planes Have  Been Destroyed in Past Month

Over Hundred Heavy Planes ~ Blast Naples   One Allied Bomber Lost, 14 Enemy Fighters Shot  Down In Area.   BOMB GERMAN CITIES

Seven-Man Executive Committee Named To Give Single Direction To Free French War Effort; American Bombers Smash Anew At Naples, Foggia And Italvy’s Island Outposts.

Southern Tip With Axis Air Support   De Gaulle, Giraud Together; French Naval Unit Joins U.Ns

100 Flying Fortresses Attack Naples; fslands Also Are Hit.   ALLIED LEADERS MEET.

Powerful French Fleet Tied Up at Alexandria Joins Allied Cause; Germans Hint Allies Plan For Invasion June 22.   Te ee Te  Hundred Flying Fortresses Bomb Naples and Foggia Air Base Hit   New French Unity

‘ITALY AND ISLAND OUTPOSTS STAGGER UNDER BOMBINGS  NEW FOUND FRENCH UNITY PROVIDES SOLID

ITALY AND ISLAND OUTPOSTS STAGGER INDER BOMBINGS   NEW FOUND FRENCH UNITY PROVIDES SOLID GROUNDS FOR INVASION

MUSSOLINTS BOOT ISALMOST DENUDED OF AIR PROTECTION   Italy Appears At The Mercy Of Allied Fliers   FRENCH FLEET HAS JOINED THE ALLIES

FRENCH LEADERS GET TOGETHER; INVASION PLANNED FOR JUNE POND GERMANS CLAIM   French Fleet Which Has Been Tied Up at Alexandria Joins Allies; German Radio Says Invasion Planned’ For June 22nd, Anniversary of Fall of France. —-

 DONE, ITALIAN AADIO ADMITS   Over 100 Flying Fortresses Rain Destruction Down Upon City Of Naples

No End To Aur Blasts.   . + Italy and Islands Shudder From Bombs

ISLAND POSTS HIT AGAIN BY FORTRESSES   100 Planes in Attack On Naples; Leave ‘Great Damage’

ign? FORE Uae aaa BYAFF: CONFEBRED, ; "Mao ARTHUE, NIMITZ AND  “f > OTHER, Hig RANR-> +. } ING OFFICERS .

Marshall Trip May Step Up War on Japs   Chief of Staff Probably Gave U.S. Leaders Data on Cairo Decision

Gen, Marshall Has Conference In Far Pacitic   Reveal U. 8. Chief Of Staff Recently Conferred With Gen. MacArthur   SEE SPEEDING UP OF PACIFIC WAR

CHURCHILL HINTS INVASION BY AIR   Indicates Hitler's Europe Will Be Hit Hard ~~"» By Bombers

The War Today   ' Little Change in Basic Strategy — Seen in Churchill’s Speech

Churchill and Roosevelt Appear To Be Waging  War of Nerves on Axis in Current  , a! FPS peer eon

‘TWO STATEMENTS BY CHURCHILL [BEFORE CONGRESS MAY INDICATE CHANCES IN ALLIED STRATEGY

No Change In Plan of Allied Attack Indicated  Bombing Necessary for Invasion

: The War Today.  \Promise Of More Aid To China Does Not Mean European Invasion Dropped

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ‘hurchill Speech Leaves FBnemy Still Guessing ign Invasion Action

EXPERT HELP FOR CANNING   Mrs. Wayne Furman To Conduct Classes And Demonstrations.

Parents Who Lost Son in War Turn Down Chance to Receive Medal From President

Patriotism of Hero's Parents Leaves War Department, President Humble

Parents Of Dead Soldier Reject Visit To President, Get Medal By Mail To Avoid Useless Spending

NAVAL FORCES ATTACK NAURU      Another Japanese Island Subjected To Heavy Pounding

TENTH AIRFORCE BUSY IN BURMA   Fliers Blast Bridges and Nipponese Supply  T inec

K. U. BEHIND, 0 TO 6   Warrensburg Teachers Take First Quarter Lead in Grid Game

EYEWITNESS STORY OF OFFENSIVE IN NORTHERN TUNISIA   LONG STOP HILL OBJEC. TIVE FOR BRITISH FIRST ARMY MEN

0. P. A. Announce New Point Table For Processed Foods   To Become Effective Sunday, January Second.

MOST FROZEN FOODS NOW RATION FREE   New Point Table, Effective Sunday, Also Lowers Points On Some Canned Goods

CHURCHILL 0 “REPORT ON TRIP   [Expected To Discuss Conferences Before House OF Commons

Churchill Is Preparing to Make Report   Long and Rousing Speech Forecast In Most Quarters

Churchill To... Present Report To Commons   Long And’ Rousing Speech Expected From Prime Minister

CHURCHILL 10 REPORT SOON ON LONG TRIP   Returns To London; Early Speech To Commons Promised

Winnie to _ Tell About Long Trip   HOUSE OF COMMONS TO HEAR PREMIER IN ADDRESs.,

Rousing Speech From Churchill Is Anticipated   Lengthy Report Due In Commons: Probably This Week

Churchill Home; Prepares Speech   Prime Minister to Report on his Trip

Churchill ls Home to Make Commons Report   Reaches London Sunday From Historic Parley

Prosecutor Says  Defense “Faked”   Asserts Murder Would Be Profit To Count

New Clashes On  Russian Fron!   Battle For Black Sea Naval Base Of Novorossisk Rages Without Letup

Hog Marketings Are ‘Disappointing   But Supply for Civilians Unchanged

UNC WILL TRAIN ENGINEER AIDES   WMC Sending Women To Chapel Hill.

N. C. COLLEGES WILL BE USED   Wake Forest And Negro College Are Anproved.

26 OFF TO THE ARMY   Group of Sel--tees Left This Morn. ing fur Leavenworth

Refugees Choke Roads; Big Jap Base Is Blasted   American ‘Sowing Bombs Like Wheat’ On Axis’ — Southern Front

Four Rationing Boards Threaten To Resign Posts   Demand Modification Of Recent OPA Rulings For Gas-Food Rations

RETURN OF MINERS IS SOUGHT BY W.M.C   Production. Stalemate From Walkout Continues

U. M. W. Calls New Meeting on Walkouts      AREA UNION CHIEFS TRY FOR SPEED IN BACK-TO-WORK DRIVE

There Will Be Plenty Of Rayon Stockings But They Will Be “Durable”

FARM LABOR MAN AID TO FARMERS   CHAMBERLAIN IS APPOINTED TE WORK WITH MILAM FARMERS IN PLACING LABOR

Hitler Reports Collapse of Italy Expected   Surrender Due To Sabotage, Fuehrer Avers

Surrender Is Called Betrayal!   Hitler Breaks Silence Of Six Months To Explain Loss Of His Italian  Partner

Hitler Breaks Silence To Curse Italians   Strange 16 Minute Speech Admits ‘We May Have To Cede Territory’   "SHAMEFUL BETRAYAL   Fuehrer Says Reich Wil Strike Back, Complain: ‘He Was Not Tipped Off

HITLER SAYS SURRENDER OF ITALY. CRIME.   Breaks ‘Long Silence : With. Denunciation - Of Ex-allies ~~

@ RATIONING QUIZ  OPA Asks Questions—and Gives Answers—on Rationing

T JAP WARSHIPS DRIVEN OUT OF SOLOMON AREA   Indicate Tojo’s Concern Over U. S. Offensive Underway

British And American Headquarters In South Pacific Alert As Japanese Mass Forces For Counter-Offensive   INDICATIONS POINT TO MUCH PATROL WORX

American Vessels  Fight Sharp Battle   Kmemy Resistance Stiffens— Australians and U. 8. Forces Join on New Guines

New Guinea Stronghold Nearly _- Encircled by Allies; Japs Rush Aerial Reinforcements   Australians, Americans Creep-Forward on New Guinea; Offensive Against.  Munda Proceeds.

American Naval Forces In Central Solomons Chase Japanese Task Force From Rendova Area

THREE CRUISERS, FOUR DESTROYERS IN NIGHT ATTACK   Brief Encounter Between   Surface Ships Results in Hasty Withdrawal of Jap Warships.   SEVERAL MEMBERS OF McCAWLEY CREW LOST   U.S. 14th Air Force tn China Has No Jap Aerial Resistance During Period of 10 Days.

Jap Ships Beaten in Solomons   Night Battle a Victory for American Navy—Siill Fight on Land

American Patrols Near Salamaua On New Guinea   Jungle Troops Fight Towards Solomons Base; Japs Bolster Resistance

MUNDA DRIVE  MEETS STIFF © RESISTANCE   Forces Within Sight of Salamaua; Advance New Georgia Landings by Marines From Guadalcanal Revealed

Allied Patrols —  Circle Salamua   Japanese Mass Planes in Effort  To Break U.S. Mastery of Skies

Chiang Kai-Shek Sees Victory   Tells Chinese People ' Offensives Will Open in All Theaters

CHINA MARKING SIXTH YEAR OF WAR WITH JAP   Generalissimo Chiang-Ka Shek Predicts Utter Defeat of Foes Within Two Years   RESISTANCE GROWS   Forecasts Offensive to Deal Crushing Blows to Army of Rising Sun In Near Future

CHIANG PREDICTS WIN OVER NIPS IN 2 YEARS   Chinese Prepare for 7th Year of War With Japs

Chiang Kai-Shek Says Time Limit For Defeat Of Japs Cannot Exceed Two Years

Two Years Jap Limit, Says Chiang   Chinese Commander Sets Time Limit For ‘Utter Defeat’ of Aggressor

DEFEAT OF JAPS SEEN BY CHIANG   Chinese Leader Confident Of Smashing Enemy in Two Years

CHIANG CHEERS CHINA      On Way to Victory at Opening of Seventh Year of War

CHINA'S LEADER IS OPTIMISTIC   Time Limit for Defeat of Japs ‘Cannot Exceed Two Years’ Says Chiang Kai-Shek

Sets Time Limit for — Jap Defeat   China’s Leader Says Allied Victory Will Come Within 2 Years 6th Year of War Ends

Time Limit Nearing For Defeat Of Japan--Chiang   Outcome Assured

Gen. Chiang Sees Victory In Two Years   Sixth Anniversary of War With Japan Brings Forecasts of Japs’ End

 Crushing Offensive Is Predicted... . .  Chiang Sees Defeat Of Japan Withi. 2 Years

DAWN LANDING NEAR NAPLES IS NEAT COUP   GERMAN MILITARY CENTER WRECKED BY FORTRESSES

More Troops Reported Moving Ashore   Contact Has Been Established, Prisoners Taken

Gen. Clark Leads New Invaders;  Big Battle Pends   Reinforcements Stream Ashore With Supplies Following; Airmen Blast Germans Near Rome

Clark's Forces Overpower Nazi Troops at Naples   Reinforcements Stream Across Messina Strait

First German Defense Lines Overpowered   Reinforcements Landed, Operations Proceeding,

U.S. Makes Gains in North Italy   Powerful American, British Force Is Under Command of General Clark; Italians Battle Against Nazi Army

Allied Troops And Fortresses Hammer Naples   Gen. Clark Leads American Forces

Air Arm Blasts Italian Cities To Assist Landinc   Flying Forts, Liberators Dump Tons Of Ex plosives In Italy

Seizure of Big Italian Port Is Threatened   Vast Invasion Armada Forges Bridgehead;  Progress Satisfactory And Prisoners Taken

Allies Battl: With  Germans at Naples   Stoutly Resisting Enemy Force Overcome By Gen. Clark’s Men; Nazis Staggered By Heavy Blow On Headquarters

Americans  And British Battle Nazis Near Naples   Troops Led by Clark Capture Prisoners;  Progress Satisfactory, Allied Bulletin Says    SINKING OF CRUISER \CLAIMED BY GERMANS   CLAIMED BY GERMAN  Italians Reported Resisting Germans At Genoa Garrison

British And Amerieans Under General Clark Overpower _ Resisting Nazi Troops

Roosevelt Hints Of Veto onRum Plan Tax Measure   Inequalities Pointed Out in Senate Bill; Favors Payment Plan

FD Hints Veto Awaits Bill to Skip Tax Year   President Reiterates Support of Pay-Go  Principle in Letters To Tax Committees

President May Veto Skip-a-Year Taxation Measure  Republicans Still Are Planning to Press For Passage of Bill

President Hints At Veto Of Skip-A-Year Taxation  Se Ee es Ome aod Maer AT aa eee 1  sacs   Letters To Chairmen Of Tax Committees Urge Pay-As-You-Go Taxes, But Deplores Rebates

VETO BEAPECTED.   President Hints’ That. He. Wil: Veto Rumi Plan.

FDR PROTESTS TAX ABATEMENT   Opposes Skipping Year's Levy On High Incomes In War Times

HINT OF VETO OF SKIP-YEAR BILL IS GIVER   Roosevelt Attacks Elimination of Year's Tax Burden —

FDR. OPPOSED TO CANCELLATION OF YEAR'S TAXES   President Throws Influence Against Ruml Plan and Hints at Veto if It Is Enacted.   11TH-HOUR MESSAGE SENT TO LEADERS   Declares Bill Would Lighten Burden of Wealthy and Force Those in Lower  Brackets to Pay More.

SKIP-YEAR-TAX MEASURE VETO HINTED BY FDR   President Sends 11th _ Hour Message to Congress

President Writes Note To Congress Leaders  On Eve of House Vote  ‘EEC AIN TH DICU   — —_— =  Republicans Confident Ruml-Tinged Measure Will Get Majority

FDR STRONGLY HINTS USE OF VETO ON BILL   iith Hour Message Sent Congressional Leaders

F.D.R. Hints He Will Veto Rumi Plan   Calls Upon Congress For Measure Without Year’s Exemption  SHOWDOWN IS DUE WITH VOTE TODAY  G.O.P. Leader Martin Proceeds with Plans To Press Legislation

Roosevelt Hints At Veto of SkipA-Year Tax Bill If It ls Passed   Cannot Acquiesce to Elimination of Whole Year's Taxes on Upper Income Groups Now

FDR Hints Veto. Of Tax Proposal   Abatement Feature Said. Unwarranted -

Nation’s Chief Hints Veto For Ruml Tax   Roosevelt Opposes Forgiving Levy On Higher Incomes

President May Veto Skip-a-Year Taxation Measure  Republicans Still Are Planning to Press Caw Bacco of PT

VETO INDICATED BY ROOSEVELT OF RUML PLAN   President Says He Cannot Approve Of Waiving Taxes In Upper Brackets   SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN GAINING SUPPORT

FDR Hints Tax Veto in Uth  Hour Messase   Says He Cannot Approve ‘Eliminating’? Burden OF Viewer Rreanl-cie

TAX ABATEMENT VETO IS HINTED   Roosevelt ‘Opposes Plan To Skip Year On Income Levy

President Hints He Il Veto Bill  F. D. R. Views Are Told in Letters

FDR Hints Veto Of Tax Proposal   Abatement Feature  Said Unwarranted _By FRANCIS M. LE MAY

FDR strongly hints veto on  Run tax bill   ‘Tax load falls  on low meomes’

CRASH FATAL   Airman Dies of Injuries Suffered dn Plane’s Plinze.

WANT AND HUNGER IN RICH FARMING AREAS REPORTED BY DOWNEY   California Senator Makes Revelation After Tour of Pacific Coast States.

Senator Conducts Own Probe Of Food ' Shortages In 3 Pacific Coast States

Stevenson Signs Twentv-One Bill: luto State Law   Defers Action On Chiropractors Lieense Measure

ALLIED FORCES. IN ITALY = ~-PECISTER NEW ADVANCES   FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES  ROLL FORWARD AS GER. ~ MANS ARE SLASTED FROM DEFENSE LINE

VENAFRO FALLS AS YANKS GRAGK LAST DEFENSES   British Victory of Equal Importance Scored on Adriatic’

Kifth Army And British In Advances   Russians Retake Kiev, Official Report Announces

TOWN OF VASTO TAKEN OVER BY BRITISH ARMY   German Mountain De fenses Cracking   a  Nazis Are Alarmed By Rapid Advance

Director of Mine Operations Name« Rv Ickes Is Railroad President .

Newton Appointed  As Mine Director   C.-0. Head to Have Charge of Production

Ickes Appoints Carl E. Newton Boss of Mines  President of ¢ & 0. Nam  President of C. & 0. Nam. ed as Director of Operations

Newton Named Director of U.S. “Mine Operations   See. Ickes Sets up Organization for Active Supervision

ES NANES NENTON COAL      ‘Railroad President ls ' To Direct Mine

C. & O. President Newton To Direct  Mine Operations   Appointed By Ickes To Head Organization Ty Keep Production Going Through Crisis; Strike Appears Slowly Ending

$25 BANK ACCOUNT FOR MEN IN SERVICE   Natick, Mass. _ Folks Plan Practical Welcome

ARM GROUPS SEEK PRESSURE ON BILLS      Also Want Davis Given Full Authority Over Farm Pricas.

HIGHER FARM PRICE FIGHT NOT FINISHED   Groups Bringing Pressure For New Legislation

FARM LEADERS PUT PRESSURE ON PRESIDENT      Want Davis To Have Farm Price Authority

Change OfVenue Granted. Woman   Mrs. Newton's Case Goes To Plainview -

AGED KINGSLEY RESIDENT GALLED   Mirs. George Krapfl Was Pioneer Resident of County

BOND SALE TOTAL IS $1,844,266.50   Workers Hope to Reach the Quota of $2,075,000 in  Few Days

BOND SALE TOTAL TS $1,844,266.50   Workers Hope to Reach the Quota of $2,075,000 in Few Days   ARE MAKING REPORTS

“Share the Meat ‘anid Pass “the Macaroni,” Subject of Disdusion :

MAYNARD TO SEAT GRANGE OFFICERS   “Share the Meat and’ Pass the Macaroni,” Subject — of Discussion .

House Votes  Monday on  Postwar Ties Party Chiefs Prediet   Party Chiefs Predict Backing of Plan To Enforce Peace

Allies Bomb Paris Field   Americans Down 37 0 Attacking Fighters

Americans Raid Big Nazi Base Outside Paris   Attack Five Other Fields in France

PARIS AIRFIELD UNDER ATTACK OF FORTRESSES   Vichy Radio Says 180 Persons Were Killed In Suburbs Of City   BERLIN AND MILAN ARE RAIDED AGAIN

17 German Fighters Shot Down in Battles Over Paris; 20 Others Are Downed in The Attacks on the Six  _ Airfields in France

U.S. Kliers Raid Big Paris Airdrome, 5  Other French Fields   37 German Fighters Shot Down During Battles Over French Capital and in Other Attacks; Milan, Berlin Hit Again

RUINED MILAN Iv PANIC AS RAT STRIKES      With More Than 100 TwoTon Bernbs; Paris Raidéd And Berlin Hit  A wate   Brightest Day

AMERICANS BOMB PARIS AIRDROME, d OTHER FIELDS   Shoot Down 87% German Fighter Planes, 17 in Battles Over Former French Capital.   VICHY RADIO REPORTS 180 PERSONS KILLED   Raids Follow RAF Attacks on Berlin and Milan—tItalians in Latter City PanicStricken,

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE SLOWS DOWN, = AUTUMN RAINS, COUNTER ATTACKS STALL ADVANCE IN WHITE RUSSIA

Pickets Parade — As O'Daniel Talks  Texan Repeats Charge ct Rueanueente

State Papers Trace Axis  Steps to War    Emotional Stress Made Possible Rise of Dictators

STORY FATEFUL DECADE TOLD IN WHITE BOOK   State Department Compiles American Diplomats’ Viewpoint on March of World Events   TRACES EMOTIONAL STORM AMONG AXIS   Inferiority Complex and  ‘Dislike of Other Nations —  Real Impetus Behind Germans

TORY OF FATEFUL DECADE 10 TOLD IN STATE PAPERS   White Book Reveals How Japan, Germany and Italy Moved Toward War   DISCLOSES AMERICAN DIPLOMATS’ VIEWPOINTS   Reports From Widely Separated Posts of Observation Show Storm Brewing in Minds of Axis Peoples Early  in Decade

Two Key Highway .And Railway Towns Fall As ‘Allies Push Ahead 4 Miles  GERMANS FALL BACK Enemy Rear Guards Active  —Demolitions Being _ Encountered —

HOME KILLED MEAT “MAY BE INCREASED   CourtteWar Board Has Aw thority to Adjust Slaughtering Quota .   PERMITS ARE JSSUED

“MAY BE INCREASED   CourtieWar Board Has Authority to Adjust Slaughtering Quota   PERMITS ARE ISSUED

Bill Would End  Corn Ceiling Senate Approves :  Bill to Set Aside  —_~g*.

5th Army Wins Victory Of Transportation, Supply In Race With Coming Cold Weather

FIFTH Al ARMY Y WINS BEHIND-THE-LINES VICTORY OF TRANSPORTATION SUPPLY .

AMERICANS WIN SUPPLY BATTLE IN NAPLES PORT   Amphibious Ducks Snake In Supplies, Trucks Converted inte Power for Rail Cars

HUGE POST-WAR BUYING IS SEEN   Autos. Homes, Electric Apparatus In Biggest Demand

CASUALTIES ARE “MUCH LIGHTER’ THAN ANTICIPATED   Details of First Ground En counters in Aelutians Ar Revealed, Fighting Stil. Prongresses.      JAPANESE ON WAKE BLASTED BY ARM)   MacArthur Discloses Wid Aerial Sweeps By Allies or Japanese Bases Near Aus:   tpaligs

ANNOUNCEMENT BY FRANK KNOX          Casusites ju Far in Campaign Much Lighter Than Had Been Expected — daps Entrenched Along Rocky Ridge.

TROOPS LANDED AT TWO POINTS ON KEY -ENEMY ISLAND BASE   Fighting Continues, Knox Says, But All Operations Are Successful—Japs Taken By Surprise As Landings  . Are Carried Out —

Main Center of Jap Resistance Is Overcome   U. S. Possession of Ridge Will  Allow Pincers Operation  Against Enemy

One of Main Jap. Centers Smashed  By U. S. Troops.   Stubborn Resistance On Island Continues, Says. Secretary Knox

YANKS GAIN ONE ATTU OBJECTIVE   Smash Resistance On Strategic Ridge; Casualties Called Light

NAVY REVEALS FIRST DETAILS OF OPERATIONS   Island Defenders Are Driven From Strong Defense Point

Knox Announces Capture of Enemy Ridge—Nutcrack-— er Is Tightening.

ONE MAIN POSITION IS TAKEN   Resistance Is Smaghed in One Sector But Japs Put Up Stubborn Fight.

Smash ae 1 Center of  Resistance       CAPTURE RIDGE WHERE ENEM’ WAS HOLDING AMERICAN  ADVANCE; CASUALTIES LIGHTER THAN EXPECTED :

SMASH ONE OF MAIN: CENTERS OF RESISTANCE   Lifting Of Secrecy By Navy Indicates Campaign May Be About Over

U. S. Forces Strengthen Grip on Attu      Capture Ridge From Stubbornly Resisting Japs

important  Ridge Is Captured   Secretary Knox says Cas ualties So Far Lighter Than Expected

YANKS TAKE MAIN RIDGE IN: FIGHTING   U. S. Casualties Much Lighter Than Had Been

American Subs Blast 7 Jap Ships  ‘One Destroyer Sunk, A. abn Taree cca

THREE HOLDOUT UNIONS REPORT FIGHT IS ENDED   Plan to Immediately Cancel Order to Quit Thursday

THREE UNIONS RECALL THURSDAY STRIKE ORDERS   Decisions Follow Conference This Morning With Gen.  Somervell

THREE GIVE PLEDGE 10 CONTINUE WORK   Army Ready To Operate Rails If Necessary Under Seizure Order

Walkout Was Scheduled  For Tomorrow   By Raymond Lahr United Press Staff

ROADS WILL REMAIN UND  FEDERAL CONTROL, HOW! UNTIL WAGE DISPUTES nae IRONED OUT.-:

“Will Take No Action That Will Imperil Successful Prosecution Of War” — Will Immediately Cancel Strike Order   LENGTH OF FEDERAL CONTROL IS PROBLEM

Union Leaders Agree to Cancel Their Strike Order.  NATION’S STEEL PLANTS AT WORK New Strike in Progress in Alabama Steel and Iron Plant.

Three Holdout Unions Decide  On. No Action   Cancellation Comes But 18 Hours Before Walkout Deadline

Brotherhoods Rescind Order For Walkout   Action Taken Within 18  Hours of Deadline Tomorrow ag

Last Three Unions Give Up Attempt   Assure War Department They Will Not Imperil  War Prosecution

Holdout Unions Give in   Strike Called off 18 Hours Betore Thursday Deadline

UNION CHIEFS CALL WHOLE THING OFE 1S. COMES FIRST   Only Few Hours Remained ta  Deadline—U.S. May Continue Operation for dig .  Ys

Threat of Nation-Wide Tie-up Ends   Conference Called y Gen. Somervel Brings Avcreement

THREE UNION HEADS ASSURE ORDER HALTED   Secretary of War Stimson Announces Brotherhood Leaders’ Decision.

CANCEL ORDER FOR WALKOUT ON THURSDAY   Promise Made After 11th Hour Talk With Somervell]

Chiefs of Holdout. Unions Cancelling Orders for Strike   Settlement Announced by Stimson After Conference of Trainmen’s ~.  Officials With Gen. Somervell

SEN. WILSON PRESENTS OWN PEACE PLAN   Iowan introduced joint resolution in Senate  this week

Favor Refention Of Victory Tax   Senators Also Hear Distillers’ Protest

Senate Finance Group Votes To Retain “V” Tax   Alternate Plan ic Disanproved

VOTES TO RETAIN THE VICTORY TAX   SENATE GROUP PREFERS LEVY TO ALTERNATE PLANS ADVANCED BY HOUSE.

Senate Finance — Group Reverses _ Treasury, House  Votes to- Keep Present Victory Tax; Hears

TAX RETENTION {5 VOTED. BY SENATE   Distillers Are Heard ai Session of Senate Finance Group

hurchill Plans dis Report on ‘uebec Session   dtalian Surrender Wiil Provide Speech With Victory Théme

Churchill, Back Home, Preparing Commons Report   Prime Minister May An swer Critics of Allied Strategy in Italy

Prime Minister Back in England After War Talks   Prepates Report ft Britain on Global War Picture -

CHURCHILL IN LONDON FIT FOR ANYTHING   After Nearly - Six Weeks in Quebec and Washington, British Prime Minister Is A+ Hamme.   Will Report to Empire

CHURCHILL HAS RETURNED HOME   Prime Minister Plunges Into Report On Conferences

Prime Minister Returns Home  After Parleys   Churchill Prepares Report to Nation on Talks With Roosevelt

Churchill Back To London Desk   Prime Minister Drafts Report to Nation

CHURCHILL PLANS REPORT TO NATION   Prime Minister Back in London After War Conferences

Death Blow Is Dealt Aviation Control Measure   House Tables Bill 70-53 As Session  RV peanase Rliaar fC lrcea

Death Blow Is Dealt Aviation Control Measure   House Tables Bill 70-53 As Session Ciirerwave, Rebesace 7 Tee

23 ARRESTED IN LOTTERY RING   ‘BLACK MARKET’ IN GASOLINE ALSO INVESTIGATED

Lottery Is Broken Up   Eastern Officials Crack Big Number Peol Ring

BARING, HARD WORK AND HARDSHIPS FINALLY LED TO AIB BABE 63 MILES FROM KISKA

Nazi Press Prepares People For Loss Of Italy's Islands   Allied Blow At Southern Europe Sends Axis Propaganda Machine Into Frenzied Action; Insist Invasion No Surprise

NAZIS BELITTLE INVASION VALUE   PROPAGANDA PREPARES PEO. PLE FOR LOSS OF ALL ITALIAN ISLES,

AXIS PEOPLE PREPARED FOR NEW DEFEATS   Berlin, Rome Say They Are Facing Threat With Confidence

Nazi Press Is Preparing People for Loss of All Italian Islands Soon

Allied Blow In Sicily Sends Axis Propaganda Machine Into Frenzied Action: Saus No Surnrice

NAZIS PREPARE FOR BAD NEWS   All Of Italy’s Islands May Be Lost, German People Told

Broadcasts By Axis Tell 0f Invasion   Nazi Propagandists Belittle Importance Of Invasion and Say It Was No Surprise

RADIOS OF AXIS REPORT FIERCE SICILY FIGHTING   Landing of Allies Sends Berlin and Rome Propaganda Machines Into Frenzied Action   VIEWS CONFLICT   One Commentator Belittle: Blow While Another Says Importance Not Underestimated

Nazis Prepare Peonle for Loss   All 'talian Islands Said Threatened

RADIO SILENCE INDICATES RAF BOMBING AGAIN   Wilhelmshaven Is Hit For Second Time In Four Nights Wednesday.

 Recent Meavy Rains, Floods Due to  The Stagnation of Air Masses

Here's Of fici al Explanation of Why. It Rained So Hard During Last Month

Gives Reasons For Heavy Rains   Stagnation of Air Masses Causes Unusual Atmespheric Condition.

*'Heavy Rains Which Caused Disastrous Flood Resulted From Stagnation of Air Masses Over This Area

AXIS ROUTED BY BRITISH 19 MILES FROM MATEUR   Attack Supported by RAF Hurricane Bombers, Fighter Planes

NAZIS DRIVEN FROM HILLS   Attack West Of Mateur Supported By RAF While U.S. Fortresses Active

British Push Nazis Back In Tunisia   Gain Strategic Hills 15 Miles West of MateurMopping Up

British Run Enemy From Hills West  Of Mateur  Ty. S. Bombers Do   U. 8. Bombers Do Heavy Damage To Harber Of Sfax; Sousse Attacked

BRITISH STAGE DAWN ATTACK ON AXIS BASE   First Activity on Northern Tunisian Front In Some Time Reported As Successfu!   MOP-UP IS UNDER WAY

Warplanes Support Advance, American Bombers Pound At German Airdromes

Flying Fortresses ieee Successful Hits On Harbor, Fire Power Station

British Troops Drive Foe Out OfDesert Hills   First Activity In Several Weeks Noted in Tunisia

Push Axis From Hill   British Mop Up In Northern Tunisian Activity

BRITISH TROOPS DRIVE GERMANS FROM VITAL POINTS NEAR MATEUR   Flying Fortresses Blast Port Of Sfaz; Score Hits On Cruiser, Power Station

British Drive Foe From Hills ' Of Strategic Importance With Renewal Of Tunisian Fight

Nazis Forced to Retreat West of Mateur, British Mop Up Strategic Hills

GEN. MARK CLARK HOLDS COMMAND OE U.S. FLAFTH ARMY   New Army Is Activated To  Battle Axis In North  Agcina

BRITISH DRIVE AXIS TROOPS FROM STRATEGIC HILL   First Action On North Tunisian Front In . Some Time

POSITIONS IN MATEUR ARE TAKEN   Gen. Clark Is Named To Head New U. S. African Army

BRITISH TROOPS MOP UP AFTER OUSTING ENEMY   Important Hill Positions Near Mateur, 20 Miles Southwest Of Bizerte, Captured: Allied Planes Continue To Pound Axis.

Germans Driven From Strong Position In Mateur Sector   British Forces In Swift Dawn Attack, Throw Enemy Out Of Strategic Hills

Attack on New York Declared Possible But Swiss Claim ‘Tes Not Worth /t

Charred Ruins, Wooden Crosses Mark Retreat Of Germans Before 8th Army on Road to Rome

Many Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers To Be Drafted  In Texas In December

GRASS FED STEERS FLOOD KANSAS MART   ‘Monday Receipts Largest ir : Several Years

REPORT LUNCHEON TO BE HELD TODAY   Wor Fund-Chest Workers Active Over ti.2 Week Pee 

REPORT LUNCHEON TO BE HELD TODAY   War Fund- 1.Chest Workers Active Overt 2 Weekend

Kiska Will Be Next On U.S. Invasion List  Japs Will Be Knocked Out  oan a @ y

PRESSURE 1S BEING EXERTED TO GET CORN ON THE MARKET   SENATE GROUP PRESSING FOS STEPS TO BRING OUT CORN STPRED ON : FARMS ‘:

Attended State Farm Insurance Meeting   Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kent and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bartlett at Brookfield.

Parents Get War Medal for Heroic Son by Mail To Save Expenditures

Couple Pen Touching Message Trip To Capital To Receive Lost Son’s Medal Declined

LIEUT. SIDAT-SINGH KILLED IN ACCIDENT   Former Syracuse University Ath: Jete Bailed Out Over Lake Huron Yesterday

[Allies Hold Vast Superiority in Air  ‘Over Tunisia, Loosing Steady Stream Of Attack on Axis, Correspondent Says

Allies Contro Air \n Fight Over Tunisia   Nothing Has Been Seer Like It Since Hitler's Early War Blitzes   OUTDO EL ALAMEIN   First Spitfires Roar Ou’ AtS A. M., Starting Day Of Constant Attack

Huge Gain To War Brokers   *  Sales Agents’ Receiving Shocking Amounts House Committee Told.

House Committee Counsel Says Sales Agents Making Shocking Commissions On War Orders

‘INFLUENCE BOYS’ STILL FLOURISH   Man and Wife Said To Have Taken Down $266,276 in ‘Commissions’ Last Year

WILL HELP TELL STORY   Army Personnel and Equipment to Be Used in Bond Drive

Berlin Fears U.S. Bombing  From Russi<   BY ROBERT WN. STURDEVANT

Russian Airbases Seen for Allies  Germans Fear New Attacks From East

SUGAR RATION TO CONTINUE REST OF YEAR   Civilians will keep on getting their half pound per week

REDS TAKE HILLS IN VIOLENT FIGHT FOR NOVOROSSISK   Push to Within Fivé Miles of Black Sea Port, Crushing Five Axis CounterAttacks.   TROOPS AT TIMES BATTLE HAND-TO-HAND   Soviet Warships Stand Offshore Ready to Smash Any Axis Attempt to Flee hv Roat.

9,000 nazis killed in Kuban area   Reds converge in pnush west to sea

Soviets Smash > Axis Attacks   Reds Kill 1.500 More Nazis in Big Battle in Caucasus

Heights Taken And More of Nazis Killed   Soviet Ships Stand Out to Sea to Step Evaecnatieon Attempt

REDS CLOSING IN ON GERMANS AT NOVOROSSISK   ‘Russians Claim Killing 9,- 000 Nazis In Two Days  Ee.      SOVIETS NOW WITHIN FIVE MILES OF CTY

Soviets Smash Five Nazi  Counter-Blows  - 1,500 Germans Are - Killed in Hoand.-to-Hand Ficht

Take Important Heights In Fight To Throw Enemy Into The Sea   Red* Troops Keported _Only Five Miles From “Novorossisk . Wh ile Soviet Ships Stand Réady to Smash Eva. cuation Attempt

Reds Smash Nazis In Five Violent Counter-Blows As Kuban Area Noose Tightens

Soviets Smash Five German Counter-Blows   Additional Ground Taken By  Red Forces

Soviets Crush  Five Great Nazi Attacks   Trap Tightens Around Germans in Red Oil Region; Escape Is Nearly Cut Off; Enemy Loss Grows Steadily

Russian Troops Continue Gains In Caucasus   Capture New Heights, Smash Counter-Attacks In Push on Novorossisk

Fierce Fighting Near Approaches To Novorossisk   Sround Forces Battle ‘Hand-to-Hand, Moscow Reports   Nearly 9,000 Germans Reported Killed in Last Two Days

Reds Smash Nazis In Five — Violent Counter-Blows As ‘Kuban Area-Noose Tiakton.

Red Troops Smash Five Nazi Aitacks   Soviets Reported Within Five Miles Of Novorossisk

Russians Move On Novorossisk   Russians Capture Number Of Important Heights In Struggle To Push Germans Into The Sea: Casualties Heavy ~

Reds Beat Off 9 Nazi Attacks Tn Kuban Arez   Russians Only 5 Mile:  Benn Nawnenettal

AXIS ATTACKS ARE SMASHED BY RUSS   Soviets Capture Important Heights in Vio* lent Struaale

Soviets Advance In Bitter Drive For Novorossisk   Five Counterattacks Hurled by Germans Smashed, Says Moscow  SLAY 9000 NAZIS Red Goal Appears  To Be Isolation  Of Axis Garrison

REDS REPULSE FIVE ATTACKS   Take Important Heights in Furious Battle Waged  Near Novorossisk

Russians Near Novorossisk: fo Block Evacuation   Germans Hurled Back to West; Strategic Heights Captured

Heights Are Seized By  Russians   Soviet Forces Kill 1,500 More Nazis, Communique States.

SOVIETS DRAW NOOSE CLOSER AROUND KUBAN   GERMAN TROOPS TO BE THROWN INTO BLACK SEA

Russians Near Key Sea Base   Conflictls Wagec Within Sight Of  Novorossisk

Russians Push Ahead in Drive On Novorossisk   Repulse Five German Counterattacks; Claim 9000 Slain

Anaconda Cable Ce Will Not Fioht Fraud Charges  Nolo Contendere Plea Scheduled In   Nolo Contendere Plea Scheduled In $5,000,000 Case

April Ration \s Unchanged   “Most Foods To Carry March Point Values

OPA Says Food Ration Points For April Remain At 48   Will Be No General Liberalization Of Values Point Items

OPA Will Not Raise April Ration Points   May Change Values For Some Iterns

ARMY WORRIES ABOUT LOSING SAY IN PLANES   Production Authority Problem Bothers Leaders

U. S. Asks Robert To Clarify Capitulation   French Chief's Offer Is Studied, But Government Declines To Make Deal With Admiral Over Caribbean Isles

‘ S. To Inform Martinique’s Chief It Will Help Him Capitulate But Will Let Him Dictate No Terms

~~ CHANGE SEEN   NAVY GFFICER SENT TO CON: FER WITH ROBERT ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM  Fe +: OFFICE. .

Russian Break-Through Serious Blow To Nazis   German Troops Face Disaster; Something Wrong With Hitler High Command Plans

aoe oar eo ml eae anita Yo  Disaster Hangs Over Nazi Troops In Russia

Prisoners fo Clear Dam Area   War Captives to Be Housed at Powell and Tishomingo, Announced

(Gentinued On, Hace Four) FORD OBSERVES 80TH BIRTHDAY IN GOOD SPIRIT

LAST TOO LONG   Disgruntied Husband's Meetings Too Pratrarcted Wite Saco

14 Lose Lives In Wisconsin Over Sunday   Seven Persons Drown And Accidents Take Lives Of Others; Four Are Killed In One Mishap

14 Die In State During Weekend  : Four Lose Lives When Car Hits Train

CURB ON NEWS T BE LOOSENED   OW! Director Davis Says Some Progress Has Been Made Toward Better Cordination of the News

WASHINGTON TO GIVE OUT MORE WAR NEWS   Announcement Made by Roosevelt After Meeting With Davis, Knox and Others,

President Says War News Will Be Loosened Up   Davis Reports Progress foward Better Co-ordination of News

NAZIS FEEL INVASION MAY FALL THIS WEEK   Cite Relentless Air Attacks Along Channel Coast

HAS FAREWELL PRESS MEETING   General Leaving Soon for Britain to Take Command Of Invasion Forces.   TO CREATE ALLIED STAFF

Jittery Nazis Expect Blow   Europe May Be Invaded This Week, Berlin Guesses Nervously.

Invasion May Be  This Week—Nazis Foe Nervously Awaits   Allied Blow

TEMPERATURES:   Allied Invasion May Come This Week, Berlin Believes

Berlin Expects Early Invasion  Maybe This Week, Say Commentators

F latly Predicts Triumph Over Nazis During  Next 12 Months   Makes Forecast at Final Press Parley Before Going to Britain   Invasion May Come We Wisk Pe

BRITON ORDERS DRIVE ON NAZI   Stop-Watch Timing : Noted Up and Down Battle Line

Monty Gives The Signal -And Primed 8th Army Is On The March Again!

Stop-watch timing marks thrust of British 8th on Mareth front   Old story of precision as fighting ‘Monty of El Alamein’ barks signal

Menty of El: Alamein‘'.. Is on the March Again ~   Same Old Story—Devastating Artillery, Aerial Attack, Infantry Assault by Night. -

MONTY'S ON THE MOVE ACAWN AS STH ARMY STARTS   ‘Montgomery Wouldn't Budge Untii Everything Was Ready.

TRADITIONAL RITES TO MARK ARMISTICE   Oriole Hall to Be Scene of 10-45 =P. -M. Ceremonies; Plan Parade for 7:30 PM

Michigan : Man, B Berserk, Kills Daughter, Self; Wounds Other Children

‘Bird - Proof’ Windshield Cuts Danger To Planes From Hich-Flvinge Birds

REDS CHASE NAZIS SOUTH OF OREL BASE   German Reserves Thrown In North  OF That City

Reds Pursue Germans in  Orel Sector   Enemy Using Fresh Reserves North of City

INAZIS REPELLED ON SOUTH OREL FRONT; REINFORCE NORTH   Red Army ‘Advances On: AL #, 'Prongs. OF. Drive’ “To Make City A}  i Sta hy peed ites:

Bill Financing Big Farm Army Before Senate   Opponents See Danger Of Postwar Bands Of  ‘Siner-Flaatere ’

SWIFT PASSAGE FOR MOBILE ARMY   Opponents Fearful PostWar Bands of “SuperFloaters”

40 MILLIONS IN BILL FOR FARM ARMY   Senate Raises House ‘Sum to Promote ‘ Mobil e ‘Force for Farms.   STATE SERVICES . ‘TO DO RECRUITING   Half of Sum .to Be for Use by National Ad ministration.

Ask Fund For  Farmer Aides   Forty Millions Would Previde For Gigantic Foree  Of Mobile Workers.

Passage of — ~ Land Army Bill Seen   Measure Provides Mobile Agricultural Workers For Farms

British War Cabinet Meet in Special Session,   TO CONSIDER PEACE FEELER BY ITALY   Allied Sea and Air Forees Continue Raids on Italy.

CROTONE, NAPLES, ROME SHELLED   Axis Defenders in Northeast Sicily Pull Back Lines

Italian Days As Belliger ent Numbered Either Way; Eisenhower Poised For Knockout Blow If Peace Rejected.

FOOD SUBSIDY” ~ FIGHT LOOMS   ADMINISTRATION AND FARM BLOC EXPECTED ‘TO BAVE SHOWDOWN IN TRE. © - NEAR FUTURE

SUBSIDY PAY PLAN FACED BY OPPOSITION   Member of Agricultural committee says House against it

i A iS RR ns  More Civilian Meat Appears in Prospect As Quotas Removed

U.5, PARAGHUTIOTS FIRST 10 STRIKE   FLOWN TO AFRICA, THEY TOOK AIRPORT, HOLDING IT AGAINST OPPOSITION.

Yanks Showed Way In Attack   First Allies Making Long Flight To Ratile

U.S. ’chutists led all air-borne soldiers into battle for. Africa   British. troops left England three nights later, fought in 2nd phase

J, S. MEN WERE FIRST ON JOB   British Air Ministry Reyeals Action of Yank Paratroops

LEAD WAY TO AFRICA—  U. §. Parachutists First Flown To Battle From Distant Base

Yank Parachutists Open Way for Africa Campaign   Americans Were First Air Borne Fighters In Historic War Move

DESTROY UNUSED RATIUN STAMPS   Expired Red or Blue Stamps Can Breed Black Market.

About That Welles RioMovie Snarl   Just Possible Film May Be Completed And Released

Coal Union Heads Vote to End Strike   Submit Findings  To Locals Today

Coal Miners Ordered To Go Back   Ickes Is Denouncing Strike as Jeopardizing War

Union Chiefs May End Strike   Vote to Send 24,000 Anthracite Miners Back to Work

CALL ON MINERS TO END STRIKE   UNION LEADERS IN ANTITRACITE FIELD URGE RESUMPTION OF WORK MONDAY.

HEADSHOVETI END WALKOUT   Vote to Send’ Approximate ly 24,000 Striking Anthracite. Workers to  Pits Monday   SUCCESS OF ACTION REMAINS IN DOUBT   Meanwhile, Solid: Fuels Coordinator Ickes: Describes Strike “Intoler ahle”

ANTHRACITE MINER VOTE WORK RETURN   Officers Heed Federal Request To End Strike

Miners Vote fo Go In Pits on Monday   Anthracite Strikers Hold Meet: 63 to 45 Work Vote Taken

fv CHIN 1 HCOUMCU  “NH COAL MINES   Union Votes To Send 24,000 Strikers To Jobs Monday

OFFICERS VOTE TO END STRIKE   24.000 Miners Will Mect Sunday To Consider Return To Work On Monday

Kaiser Builds Flat Tops  Ship Wizard Turns   Ship Wizard Turns To Producing Plane Carriers for Navy

K. U. IS NAMED AS AN ARMY COLLEGE   University Will cx Used for ~ Army ized Tedlding  TO CONTINUE ROTC.

K. U. IS NAMED AS AN ARMY COLLEGE   University Will Be Used for  Army Specialized   -Traming

Addresses Congress, Forecasting Blows At Axis In Europe   Points to 1942 Production as Cause for Pride; Asks Political Differences Be Set Aside

pera. ‘Address Is  Given to Congress   FDR Points Out Progress Made In War Production

PROGRESS OF WARIS OUTLINED   Says United Nations To Strike Hard At Aods in Europe

Reveals Progress and Forecasts Future in Message to Congress   “Enemies ‘‘Have Asked for It and Will Get It,’’  He Declares

Gives His  : : Message To Congress .              PROMISES UNITED NATIONS \ STRIKE HARD AGAINST AXIS.  EUROPE DURING COMING YEA

United Nations Going To “Strike — and Strike Hard,” Chief Executive Says: in Address To the Congress

SAYS ALLIES: ARE GOING TO STRIKE, ~ AND STRIKE HARD   Asks Congress To Set Aside “Political And Economic Differences” And - Concentrate On Victory And “Decent Durable Peace”:   REVIEWS PROGRESS OF . WAR DURING PAST YEAR

CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS NATION-13 HEADED STRAIGHT   Greatest Task May Still Be Ahead But United States is Over Hume.

RUSSIANS BEAT OFF MOUNTING COUNTER-ATTACKS IN UKRAINE AREA.   Enemy Drives Aimed At Restoring Nazi Winter Line Along the Dnieper  River.

The Weather tor Once ts Working Against the Russians.  BAD WEATHER STOPS RED SUPPLY SYSTEM  Make New Gains Both in Ukraine and White Russia.

WEATHER HOLDING UP THE RUSSIANS   Still Gaining, However, A: Germans Throw in Reinforcements

REICH RUSHES: “PANZER FORCES INTO RUSSIA      “Do or Die” Effort Made to Smash Bulrre West of Kiev 

Germans Rusti Reserves To Russian Front   Attempt Launched To Break Bulge in Line West of Kiey

KILLINGS IN BULGARIA   Member of Chamber of Deputies Is Shot to Death 

Reds and Poles Rupture Worries   Quarrel Causes Anxiety to Washing. ton Officials  And Diplomats

U. 3. VOICES REGRET UPON DEVELOPMENT   Rupture Between Two Members Of United Nations  Not Unexpected.

Red-Pole Break Causes Anxiety.   Soviet Determined To Keep Territory

WARNS NATION CAN'T AFFORD TRANSPORT HALI   Union-Company Talks Futile

SETTLEMENT PLAN FOR LEBANESE QUESTION STARTED   French National Liberation Committee Sends Catroux to Beirut With Power to Make “Gnot” Decisions

WACS Arrive in Italy To Relieve Men   Girls Think "It's Pretty Wonderful’ to Get Ashore In Some Real Action   DOG MASCOT ALONG

YOUNG COUPLE FACES CHARGE IN 3 SLAYINGS   ‘Just Got Mad’, Youth, 19, Asserts; Girl Also” Held

FARM YOUTH SAYS HE MURDERED 3 ON FARM NEAR MERCER   Girl Who Filed With. Him, Also To Face Charges 3 , =—Pair Arrested In Ohio

WARNING SEEN AS PRELUDE 10 BALKAN DRIVE   Allied Propaganda and Bombs Hit at Nazi Satellites

All Satellite Nations Given Grave Warning   Day of Invasion Believed al Hand

BALKAN STATES ARE WARNED BY SECRETARY HULL   Germany’s Satellite Gov ernments Advised To Drop  Axis Alliance    SOFIA 1S REPORTED BOMBED BY ALLIES

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Colder Tonight,  Is Prediction   King Winter Pays Salem Visit With Snow and Near Zero Readings

FARMERS WORK — ON AO RECORDS   Plant To Prosper Contestants Must Turn In Books By October 16

GL L ACQUITTED TTED BY JURY JN ‘SLEEP-WALK’ MURDER   GIRL WHO SAU) SHE “KILLER FATHER AND BROTHER DURING NIGHTMARE GIVEN  FREEDOM

BILL TO KILL MERIT CYSTEM IS DEFEATEL   House Committee Puts Plan On Adverse Calendar

U.S. Troops Occupy Port of Palermo   Axis Forces Running Towards Messina

Wet Wather Has Caused Serious Sefback Already   Reed Says Yields Might Fall Below Average; Oats Good

HOUSE VOTES TO SET TIME BACK   Pronosal, With Emergency Clause Reinstated, Approved 106 To 26

Italians Call Men Of 37 To  Fight invasion      Chance Of Surrender Seems Gone As Nazi Force Streams In

Axis Girds for Baitle of Italy  4 Italian 37 Year ABTS Men Called .

AXIS GIRDING FOR BATTLE. OF ITALY; NAZIS MOVE SOUTH   Last Waning Hope Italy Will Give Up: Before Invasion Has  Beaded :¢

Italy Calls Up Men 37 Years Old, Indicating Decision to Continue War

Axis Plans To Defend Italy Are Reported   Rome Calls Up 37 Year Olds As Allied Invasion Appears Imminent   NAZIS POUR SOUTH   Frontier Reports Carry Rumor Duce Shot, Nephew Also Liquidated

AXIS-GIRDS FOR BATTLE OF ITALY    German Troops Pouring Thru Brenner Pass

Fortress Crew Enjoy Home Visit  Beefsteaks Welcome; Warns New Fliers Of  nt Gorman Recentior

EGG-LACK FOR JACK THE RIPPER   Bill Leasure, et : al, Now in Spokane, Tell of Experiences

Mrs. B. Elsenbast Passed Away  Monday Morning  Had Been II] For Over A Year

Obituary of Mrs. B. Elsenbas' of Graettinger a  { ruews Ven mitin .....

HOUSE PREPARES FOR TAX DEBATE   Discussion Of New Collection Policy To Be Opened On Thursday

FORCES ARRAYED FOR BIG HOUSE BATTLE ON TAX   Debate Scheduled for Thursday on Rum! and Administrations Plans; Outlook Uncertain

A TAX BATTLE UP FOR DEBATE   House Clears Calendar to Take Up This Controversial Subject.

WIDE SPLIT OVER TAXES   HOUSE COMMITTEE AND GOP GROUP EACH CLAIM RICH FAVORED BY RIVAL  PLAN .

RELIEF-PROGRAM~ SENT TO ALLIES   Joint Action Agreement Hope Expressed By State: Department

War Victim Aid Plan Announced   Agreement Provides Food, Assistance

Editor Vindicated In Suspension of _ State Official’s Gasoline Rations

Legion Takes — Vital Role in War Effert   POST DECLARES iy HAS ODBLE GAPION PEREBORS NERDED SERVICE.

Roosevelt May Have Stopped at Dakar; Saw Vargas in Brazil   Also Paid Visit To Negro Republic Of Liberic En Route Home From Meeting At Cacoblanca

President Flies To Brazil For Vargas Talks   Roosevelt Visits Liberia, Stop At Dakar Inferrad; U Boat Study Hinted   DETAILS WITHHELD   Tiny Negro Republic Shows U. S. Chief Grow. ing Rubber Plantation

FDR Confers With Vargas On Way Home   President Visits _Libeia, May Have Stopped in Dakar

Conference With President ' Vargas Was. Surprise To United States Officials  WILL RELEASE DETAILS  Inspected Negro Troops Now Stationed In Liberia

Confers On Way Home From Africa With Central Figures In Southern Atlantic Defense Zone.

Confers With Vargas, White House Reveals   Conference In South America Comes As Big Surprise To Capital

STOPH =i NATAL, BRAZIL   Conferred V With. Pres. Vargas; May -Have Visited Dakar

President May Have Included Stop at Dakar   Reveals Parley With Brazilian Chief Executive.

SILVER STAR TO MISSOURIAN   Missing Houston Sailor Cited for Gallantry in Manila Theater

U.S. and Jap Navies Spar in Aleutians W th Conflicting Reoorts From Front

U. S., Japanese Naval Forces Spar off Alaska   Eight Enemy Warships Put to Flight after Long range Duel in North Pacific

\Naval Forces Spar In North  'Pacifie Area   Tokyo Says Enemy Ships Damaged, Washington Savs Japs Put to Flight.

WARSHIPS SPAR IN NORTH PACIFIC   U.S. Reports Jap Ships Put to Flight

PACIFIC NAVAL FORCES FIGHT      U. S. Light Forces ‘Spar’ With Japs Near Aleu- ; tian Islands.

NAVAL FORCES SPARRING IN NORTHPACIFIC   Report by Tokyo Radio Regarding Engagement Six Days Ago is  ' Unconfirmed   SOUTH AREA ACTIVE

Jap Navy Force Off Aleutians Put To Flight   U. §. And Enemy Reports on Engagement Vary

JAPS LOGE HEAVILY r MASS AIR ATTACK   '25 Planes Out of Action from  Fleet of 40; Ships Spar in  North Pacific

Eight Warships in Jap Convoy Driven  Off by U. S. Forces   Forced to Abandon Trip to Aleutians; News of War in Far Pacific

TOKYO CLAIMS DAMAGE DONE OUR VESSELS   This, However, Does Not Agree With U. 8S. Announcement of Activities in Aleutians

NAVAL SPARRING IN THE PACIFIC   Surface Engagements Reported Near Aleutians; Reports Of Results Vary.

Navies Spar Near Kiska      Navy Communique Denies Jap Claims of Three Ships Damaged

WARSHIPS SPAR NEAR ALEUTIANS   Tokio’ Chins 2 “Enemy ~Criisers Hit, US: sy Nippon Ships Fed -

American, Jap Navies Spar  Off Aleutians   Enemy Flees Following North Pacific Action

Tokyo Claims Hits Scored On Three Allied Warships In Vicinity Of Aleutians

Americans Have Sunk 180 Jap Warships   Chairman Vinson of House Naval Affairs Committee Says Nip Losses Include Three Battleships, Six Carriers, 38 Cruisers

Naval Affairs Committee Head Says 180 Jap Warships Have Been Sunk

House Group  Says Spending Must Be Cut   Jommittee’s Revenue Bill Calls For New Taxes Of 82.1 10,000,000,   OPPOSES MORE TAXES   Leros Capture Shows Germans Resistance

US. Fliers Smash 113 Ayis Planes   Three Bombs Fall on Dam  In Sardinia

In Swift Hit and Run Sweep Over Sardinia Allied Airmen Drop ‘Three Bombs on Dam

Sardinia Dam Is Bombed By U. 5. Fighters   Allied Smash At’ Italy, ‘Outposts Costs Enemy 113 Planes In Day   VICTORY JIS HAILED!   91 Axis Craft Wrecked On Ground; Seven Huge Transports Shot Down

Italy, Sardinia Pounded Hard In Whirlwind Raids   Three Bombs Dropped On Dam; Americans Have One Of Biggest Days Of War

113 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down   AIXS PILOTS WIPED OUT AS ALLIED AIRMEN BUSY -

U. S. Planes Destroy 113 Axis Planes in Raids on Italy, Sicily   "One of Greatest Victory Days in History of the Stratecic Air Force"

American Bombe Drop Explosives iS On Sardinia Dam  Greatest Victory TK... of Mg geet.

113 Enemy Warplanes Destroyed”   One Of Greatest Vic tories; Allies Lost One.

DAY ONE OF. GREATEST IN AIR HISTORY   Two-Day Action Sees 186 Axis . Planes Destroved

TOLL TAKEN      Success Called. “One of the Greatest Victory: Days in the History of the ety ategic Air Force.’

VICTORY RAID POUNDS ITALY AND SARDINIA   Enemy Plane Losses 186 in Two Days Of Allied Action

ENEMY SUFFERS BIG LOSSES IN SARDINIA, ITALY   91 Are Hit on Ground; Forces Under Direction Of Gen. Doolittle

FLIERS STRAFE ° AXIS BASES IN ITALY, SARDINIA   Doolitile’s Men Spread Havec in Air Gfiensive Second, Day in  Rau:   HIT SARDINIAN DAM   j1 Axis Planes Shattered on Ground, 22 Engaged in Comba! and Sent Crashing

American; Aviators Destroy 113: More Enemy Planes In Attacks on Italy, Sardinia

DAY OF GREAT AERIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS IS OFFICIALLY TERMED “ONE OF THE GREATEST VICTORY DAYS IN HISTORY OF THE STRATEGIC AIR FORCES”

Axis Loses 113 Planes To Yanks   British Bomb Berlin For Third Successive Night; Enemy Waters Mined

TARGETS ARE HIT HTALY, SARDINIA   22 Enemy Pilots Crash In  Flames In Air Battles   DA MiS BLASTED   Seven German Trans- ports Are Reported Shot Down

U. 3, AFRICAN Alf ARM BAGo [1d AIRPLANE   Devastating Raids on Sardinia and Italy Add to Axis Woes in Theatre.   DAM ON SARDINIA BLASTED BY BOMBS

'Doolittle’s Men Wreek 91 Axis Craft OnGround   Seven Huge German Transports Shot Down; Enemy Losses 186 In Two Davs

113 Enemy Planes Downed In Devastating American  Raids On Italy, Sardinia

KNOCK OUT 113 “IN SINGLE DAY ~— INTTALY RAID   Feat Called One of Greatest Victory Days In History of Air Force   BOMBS DROPPED ON SARDINIA DAM   Among Foe. Planes Shot Down Are Big 120-Man German Transports

Bring Total To 186 In Two Days   Raids Against Italy And Sardinia Called Most Successful Made By Doolittle’s Airmen

American Airmen Destroy 113 Enemy Planes in Wide—_ and Devastating Raids Against Italy and Sarinia.   Fine Precision Bombing Reported  On Airdrome 90 Miles From Rome

[Doolittle’s —   MenAchieve  NewTriumph   Total Bag of 186 in Two Days of Fighting in . Mediterranean Area.

Raids on Italy, Sardinia Destroy 113 Planes   Communique Says Seven of Enemy Ships Were Transports

Yanks Blast 113 Aircraft   Mediterranean Units Smash 91 on Field

Allies Rit Dam in Sardinia   YANKS DOWN 113 AXIS PLANES IN SMASHING ITALY, SARDINIA RAIDS

113 AXIS PLANES ARE DESTROYED IN SINGLE DAY   Strategical Air Force  ictorious In  Smashing Raids On Italy And Sardinia.

)] Shattered on Ground and 22 In Sky: P-38’s Smash at Dam   One of Greatest Victory Days.” Announcement Savs

Doolittle’s Airmen Destroy 113 Plane:   Amencans Lose Only One In Widespread _ Operations Against Foe On Sardinia And In Italy; ‘One Of Greatest’ Victories

DESCRIBE AERIAL ACTION AS GREAT DAY OF VICTORY   OPERATIONS INCLUDE DEVASTATING RAIDS ON ITALY, SARDINIA

Record Breaking Bag  For Americans in  Mediterranean Area   Airmen in P-38’s Drop Three Bombs on Dam in Northwestern Sardinia, Resulis Unannounced

U. S. Airmen Bag 113 Axis Planesin Day   ‘Bomb Hits Reported on Big Dam in Sardinia in Wide Sweeps

GROUND RUINED WITH ASSAULTS   7 of Planes Destroyed in Combat Are Huge Merseburg 323’s

Yanks Pound Italy, Sardinia In Heavy Raid:   Coup Claimed Great est Victory In Strategic Air Force

Planes Devastate More Of Hitlers War Plants; Soviets Keep Advancing   Australian Troops Find Japs Easier Foe Than Rommel’s Forces Were on Desert; Speculatior On Next Stand Grows as Germans Retreat

Allies Fight‘Way North Aloe “Road to. Rome”   German. May'Set Up Temporary Defense sine at Volturno River *

Miners Accept, Demand $1.50 Day: Operators Object   Owners Indicate Willingness To Accept Proposal Providing Retroactive Clause Is Eliminated.  Place All Strike Blame Upon Miners.

UNDERGROUND TRAVEL PAY 1S QUESTION   Operators Object to Retroactive Clause

Japs Lose 45 Planes In Attack On Base In China   American Planes Virtually Blast Fleet From Sky

45 JAP PLANES BLASTED OUT OF 98 IN ATTACK   Armada Flew in to Attack An Ameriacn Air Base

AMERICANS SHOT DOWN 45 RAIDING JAPANESE PLANES   Enemy Makes Attack With 58 Warplanes, and All But 13 Are De straved.

MEAT PURVEYORS  WARNED OPA PRICES  WILL BE ENFORCED EFFORT TO EVADE DEF INITE WHOLESALE TOP PPICRC TAW VIOLATION

SEES ACTIVE REAL ESTATE MARKET, MAY BECOME BOOW   Statistics Show Realty Boom Each Generation, Tremendous Supply of Money Will Be Available After War.

Noted Economist Visions Big Supply Of Money Looking _For Investment When War Is Over;.Much of Which ' Will Go Into Homes, Farms.

CANDIDATE Of LABOR TOPS DETROIT VOTE   Frank FitzGerald Will Oppose Jeffries Fer  Mavor *

3 New Indictments In Building Scanda  Added To Nine Other: Previously Indicted

CRASH FATAL TO THREE SAN MARCOS NAVIGATION CADETS   Fourth One Crawls 12 Miles With Broken Leg

Nazi Heel Felt By Italians   GERMANS TIGHTEN CONTROLS, FORTIFY 200-MILE COASTAL ARC

Report Nazis Tightening Control Over Italians, Setting Up Defenses

NAZIS TIGHTENING GRIP ON ITALIANS; FORTIFYING NORTH      Germans Rushing Batteries ‘And Coastal Guns To _ Forestall Allied:  Te Vasion

CHURCHILL BACK IN GREAT BRITAIN   Prime Minister Prepares Review of War for House of Commons

CHURCHILL DRAFTS COMMONS’ SPEECH   Government to Ask Questions over Delay in Italian In. vasion

CHURCHILL IN ENGLAND AGAIN   Begins Preparing War Review Parliament Expected To Raise Questions.

Churchill’s Report Due   Prime Minister Back --Beom Tl. S:. Canada

CHURCHILL T0 FACE COMMONS   Prime Minister, Back Fror U. S. Visit. Will Present War Review

Churchill In London   Prime Minister, Wife And Daughter Home After Epic Journey

Churchill Back In Britain;  Plans Report To Commons   Allied War Fleet Is Reported Moving Off Coast Of Turkey

MIR. HITLER HASN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET   Compared to the Hordes of American Planes to Be Made in 1944.

FARM PRICES HIGHER THAN A YEAR AGf   But Down Somewhat Between April 15, May 15; Still at Highest Level Since in 1920

lowa Farm Prices Have Declined   But May Level Is Highest Since 1920

RED ARMY THREATENS KHARKOY   South Voronezh Offensive Gains Momentum

ARARKOV NEXT OTOP ON Ao PALL OGHEDULE   Tank and Shock Troops Take Urazovo 79 Miles from Rail City.   ITALIANS SURRENDERING WITH TRUCKS AND GUNS

Offensive In Seuth Gathers  Momentum   5,000 Italian Troops Surrender In Mass; Gains On All Fronts

Storm Main — Enfidaville  Defense Line   30,000 Axis Prisoners Captured Since March 20; Allied Troops Continue Advance on Most Sectors Tunisian Front

ALLIES CONTINUE SLOW ADVANCE ON MOST FRONT AREAS   APPROXIMATELY 30,000 ENEMY PRISONERS TAKEN SINCE MARCH 20

Axis Defense Line Attacked by 8th Army   First Army Gains important Mountain Top After Fierce Battle with Naxis

’Enfidaville Is Under Attack By Montgomery   Total Prisoners to 30,000; Allies Continue Air Raids

British 8th Storms Axis Defense Line   Thirty Thousand Prisoners Taken Since Montgomery Cracked Mareth Line.   /-PUSH ON THREE SIDES

British Attack — Enfidaville as RAF Hits Nazis   ‘Stuttgart Pounded by Blockbusters While Allies Tighten Ring on Last Enemy Stronghold Near  Tunis; 19 Planes Bagged.

RAF Bombers Make Raid On Stuttaart   Fighting in Air Still Stands Out in Russian War Theater

EVACUATION OF FRENCH COAST TOWNS ORNEBER   RAF Blockbusters Attack Stuttgart In ‘Very Heavy’ Night Raid  AERIAL WAR OVER  RAQTITCA MnNArMemnrMNM PsA

AXIS DEFENSE UNDER ATTACK IN 3 SECTORS   Number of Prisoners is Increased to 30,000 Allies Report ©

OVER 30,000 PRISONERS IS ALLIED CLAIM   Further Advance of British Is Halted by Heavy Artillery on Road To Tunis

30,000 AXIS PRISONERS IN ALLIED HANDS   Gen. Eisenhower Proclaims Continuing Advance of Allied Troops in North Africa

Prisoners At 30,000 Mark Since March   Tunisian Campaign Enters New Phase As Rommel Deploys Forces—Big Air Battles Rages Over Mud-Bogged Soviet Front; New Drive Seen

Our Troops ” Advance in  Bll Sectors   Prisoners: Captured Since March 20 Now Total. an.onn   BOMBERS  BLAST ENEMY FIELDS:   Heavy Toll of Planes. Also Taken in Crushing Air Offensive

Pressure On Axis   In Tunisia   Allied Forces Drive Forward; Take 30,000 Germans and Italians Prisoner Since Mar. 20

British Storm Main Axis Line Below Tunis   Allies Advance on All Fronts; 30,000 Prisoners Captured

Allied Forces Have Captured 30,000 Valians and Nazis   Eisenhower Tells Of Advances in Most of Sectors

Strategic Point Taken by British      Seize Mountain Top West of Tunis _ After Fierce Struggle; Count of Pri oners Now at 30,000; Italians Repo ’ Lively Fighting; R. A. F. Drops Bi busters on Stuttgart. 5

STORM MAIN AXIS DEFENSE IN TUNISIA   Allies Take 30,000 Prisoners of War Since March 20 in Africa.   Axis Airports Under Heavy Allied Bombing

British First Army Opens Heavy Attack In Enfidaville Area    Number Of Prisoners Captured Since March 30 Totals 30,000; Allies Advance On Most Fronts

Total Climbs as Allies Attack Nazi  Defenses PRESS FORWARD British First Army  Seizes Mountain Top

Advance Continuing Upon Most Fronts, Eisenhower Headquarters Announces

ROMMEL'S LAST BRIDGEHEAD — HAMMERED   French Take Over 400 Prisoners in Advance  Over Range of Hills —

Enfidaville Objective of British Army   More Germans and Italians Taken Prisoner; First Army Attacks

Total Climbs. as ‘Allies ‘Attack Nazi  Defenses PRESS. “FORWARD British ‘First Army  Seizes: Mountain . . Ton. * .

Anderson Seizes Strategic Height   Montgomery Begins Storming of Main Axis Defenses at Enfidaville ~~ Total Bag of Prisoners Since March 20 Rises ta 30,000

Storms At Main Axis Defense Line   Allies Press Attack Or Three Major Sectors As Bag Of Enemy Prisoner: Reaches 30.000.

Rommel’s Defenses _ Fifty Miles North  of Tunis Stormec   British Eighth Army Is » Pounding Relentlessly at Fleeing Axis

Congress Marks “Fime On’ Most Major Issues ©   Nine Young Republicans May’ Cast . Deciding Vote on Farm Labor Cost Bill.

FOOD PROGRAM HOLDS INTEREST ON HOME FRONT   Powers and Functions o New Wartime Boss Are Not Yet Made Clear   TAX DEBATE STILL RAGES   Lull in Pacific War Viewed In Capital as Calm Before New Allied Offense

Russians Near  Black Sea Por’      Heights of Novoross Taken bv Reds

Reds Seize Hills  Over Novorossisk   Capture Of Mountains Rimming Last Major German Base In Caucasus Admitted By Berlin Broadcaster

Russians Near Last Major Caucasus Port   Red Army Seizes Mountains Above Novorossisk Base

Russian Troops Nearing Major Black Sea Port   Germany Concedes Reds Have Taken  Muuntam Positions

Russians Make New Caucasus Sector Advance   Germans Admit Reds Seize Mountains in Novorossisk Area

Nazis Admit Reds Make  Great Gains   Russians Now Hold Last Major German Stronghold in Important Zone Of Caucasus: Air Fiaht Increases

REDS IMPROVE POSITIONS IN N- MOUNTAIN AREA   Rocky Crags Rimming Black Sea Port Of No vorossisk Captured

SOVIETS HALT NAZT ASSAULT IN SEVSK AREA   Three-Day Drive With 100 Tanks Checked,  Moscow Says

RUSSIANS GAIN HEIGHTS NEAR GERMAN BASE   Berlin Radio Acknowledges Seizure of Mountains Near Black Sea Port   NOVOROSSISK LAST MAJOR NAZI CAUCASUS OUTPOST

Rocky Mountains Rimming Black Sea Port Seized   POSITION OF RUSS ARMY 1S IMPROVED   Eighteen “Enemy Planes Sent Down in Combot

Axis Admits Soviet Near Novorossisk   Rocky Mountains Rimming Sea Port Seized by Reds

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Reds take mountains rimming Black sea port of Novorossisk   Attacking force improves positions in last maior nazi base in Caucasus

FIRST RETREAT OF CURRENT CAMPAIGN   Slight Setback Offset by Advances in Other Sectors

RED INFANTRY, TANKS DRIVE TO RECHITSS   Pour Through Break In Nazi  Lines  HEAVY P IGHTING  Soviets Driven Back at One Point

MURDER MYSTERY CALLED SUICIDE   Body of Woman Found on Railroad Tracks

CORONER LISTS RAIL DEATH AS SUICIDE   Warner Says Heavy Rains Washed Away Blood

British Armor Had Forced a2 Complete Breakthrough, on Neck of Cap Bon Peninsula.   CLOSED THAT BLIND ALLEY AT ITS MOUTH   Enemy Forces Which Still Were Fighting Fiercely to the South and West Were Pocketed.

Another Force Asks For Terms   “it’s All Over,’”’ Allied General Declares —“‘Isn’t Going to be Any Axis Dunkirk”  British First Army Seals Forces  Tn fame Pim Pasesmassle

Another Force Asks For Terms   “it's All Over,” Allied General Declares Mant Going tc he Any Axis Dunkirk” —British Firet Army Seals Forces  In Cape Bon Peninsula

TANK BATTLE NOW RAGING. MAY BE LAST   On Cap Bon Resistance Fades and Prisoners Coming to. Allied Lines. .    DEATH TRAP GROWING . SMALLER DAY. BY: DAY

ARMORED FORCES HAVE BOTTLED UP REMNANTS OF AXIS   BRITISH FORCES SCORE BREAKTHROUGH ON PENINSULA NECK

Germans Begin Setting Fires On Peninsula   British and Axis: Remnants Fighting “Last Tank Battle”

British Slam Door on 80,000 Soldiers Trapped on Cap Bon   No Axis Dunkerque Is Possible; Allies Are nr nshiariatonr PRA ket

Hitler’s Famed Units Now A Panicky Rabble   Once-Proud Enemy Lose Nerve Completely As British Close Door To Cap Bon; General Ger man And Italian Capitulation Looms.

Axis Troops Cooped Up  On Peninsula   British Forces Enter Hammamet; Warships Smash All Escaping Boats

BRITISH CLOSE             Armored Forces, Making Complete Break. through, Also Have Pocketed Forces Still te South and West. oe

Fires Set, Giving Up in Great Numbers   Algiers Report Estimates 100,000 Prisoners Taken; British Armored Columns Race Down Both Sides of “Escape Peninsula.”

@ YOUR BOY SAILS   American Doughboys Take Off for War Afraid of Nothing

Texas Knocks Out Speed Law   Attorney General Mann Holds 35-Mile Limit Invalid

Highway Chiets Lack Authority Mann Discovers   Legislature May Now Make Changes In Speed Limit In State 

MORE OPPRESSION HEAPED ON JEWS   Mags Exodus from France Now Anticipated

WICKARD'S POST IN DOUBT; FOR HINTS SHAKE-UP   Farm Leaders Obiect To Some Official Food Policies   PRESIDENT EXPLAINS STAND AT MEETING

FDR Asks Farm-Food Revamping   Wickard’s Status Declared at Stake In Economic Crisis

FARM PROGRAM SHAKEUP LOOMS   Roosevelt Realizes Seriousness Of Food Situation Facing Country

Shakeup Proposed In Farm Program   Definite Suggestions Made By President At Meeting With Leaders Of National Farm Organizations

President Not Satisfied With Food Situation Calls Farm Leaders and May  Make Chanaes.

FDR CALLS FOR SHAKEUP IN US. FOOD PROGRAM   Future Status of Wickard : At Stake Following Pronosal.

FoodQutlook Discussed at  White House      Roosevelt Takes Problem up With  Farm Leaders

FARM SHAKEUP PROPOSAL BY F, D. STUDIEL   > Mickard’s Future Status In Food Program , At Stake

FARM LEADERS STUDY F.R. PLAN   I Organization Heads Hear President's Suggestion For ShakeUp In Farm And Food AAminis«tralions

FARM CHIEFS ~STUDYF.R'S SETUP PLAN   Future Status of Wickard At Stake, Due to Food Situation

Roosevelt Proposes Reorganization Of Farm, Food Set-Ups   Future Status Of Secretary Wickard Is At Stake Roosevelt Confers With Farm Organization Leaders

FARM PROPOSAL OF ROOSEVELT STUDIED TODAY   President Expresses Concern Over Food Situation—Will Do Scmething

SHAKEUP POSSIBLE INTWO PROGRAMS   Farm ‘and Food Administration Changes Are Suggested By Roosevelt.

OPA Increases Point Values On All Meats, Except Pork, "Also Raises Point Values On Corn, Peas And Tomatoes

POINT VALUES OF MEATS ARE SVEN BOOST   All Increased On Sunday Wit! Single Exception Of Pork

OPA INCREASES POINT VALUES ON MANY FOOD ITEMS   Effective Sunday, Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton are Advanced.

All Types Except Pork Go Up, Effective Sunday   OPA Charts On Page 6

POINT VALUES OF ALL MEAT EXCEPT PORK ARE: BOOSTED   Some Canned Vegetables Increased — Civilians Must Reduce Their Purchases

CIVILIANS T0 GET LESS OF SOME FOODS   Points Also Increased on Some Canned Vegetables. New Schedule Begins July 4th

Point Value of Meat Raised . To Reduce Use   OPA Cuts Some, Raise: Other Canned Vegetahlec

Point Values Up On Meats and Some Vegetables  Civilians For ced  m mm,   Civilians Forced To Cut Buying Of Rationed Items

ALL MEAT UP 1102 POINTS EXCEPT PORK   Corn, Peas, Tomatoes Bottled Fruits Increased

All Meats But Pork Get Point  Value Increases   Beef Supplies Will Be Smallest Since Rationing Started

POINT VALUES OF MEATS 10 BE INCREASED   Pork To Remain. Al Other Meats. To Raise Values

Point Values On All Meat Except Pork Is Increased   Meats to Go Up  One or Two Points . ;, as icici: ae

ROAD STRIKE PARLEY FRIDAY   Mediators Coming to Seek End te Walkout In Pay Dispute

County Highway Parley Friday   Negotiations To En Strike Scheduled

FDR Defends Red Position on War With Japanese   Says Russia May Have More Important Job on Her Hands

Roosevelt Takes Issue with War Front Criticisms   Complaints Regarding Oi and Truck Shipments Are Checked

FDR, REPLIES TO SENATE CRITICS   DEFENDS RUSSIA’S FAELURE TO GRANT BASES FOR ALLIED BOMBERS.

Senatorial War Critics Given Reply by F. D.R   Says Russia Is Too Busy Now to Take On Japs in Battle

President Raps Senator’s View On Soviet Bases  Ty. rT . eo 5S a +.   Declares Russ May Not Be Ready To Go to War With Japan; Cites Errors in Junketers’ Report

Russia Too Busy To Fight Japs Now  Roosevelt Says   President Replies To Criticism From Senate Travelers

FDR REPLIES TO CRITICS OF SENATORS   Presid ent Takes Issue With Complaints of Solons  QUESTIONS WISDOM OF PUBLIC REMARKS  Charges Followed Tour of War Fronts by Five Statesmen

War Front Complaints  Hit By FDR   Five Senators’ Reports On Tour Are Criticized

President Takes Issue With Senators   Says Maybe Russia Not Ready Right Now To War Against Janan   POINTS TO SUCCESS AGAINST GERMANS

President Holds. — Russia. Not Ready  To War On Japan   Takes Issue With  Critical Staiements Made At Senate Secret Session. Correets Other Errors At Conference

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EDR ANSWERS SPEECH ABOUT SIBERIAN BASES   Says Soviet May Have More Important Job Than War on Japs

5,500 Firms File Replacement Lists   Provides for Gradual Drafting of Three Million Essential Workers

Draft May Take Three Million On Essential’ Lis  5500 Employers Send Replacement  Schedules to WMC FOR GRADUAL SHIFT   Army Inductions ; Will Continue At 300,000 a Month

SENATOR URGES ARMY TO DELAY DRAFTING MEN   Savs More Farm Help Is Essential At Present Time

Downey Urges Immediate Halt Te Army Call.   Says More Men Needed For Farms To Avert “World-Wide Hunger”

Downey Asks Brake Be Put On Inductions   Senator Says U. S. Can Have Too Large-Armed Force Overseas -

DOWNEY WOULD HALT MILITARY ADDITIONS NOW   Reynolds Favors Resurvey ol Manpower Needs—Hoover Fear: Trying Too Much

Sen. Downey. Calls for Halt To Inductions   ‘Says Farm Help’ Needed to Avert . World-Wide Hunger

SENATOR DOWNEY CALLS FOR HALT ON INDUCTIONS   Agrees With Hoover More  Men Needed On Farms; ‘con Pepper Disagrees

Reynolds Wants Manpower Re-Examined. . ..  Senator For Halting Military Inductions

FDR OKAYS VOIDING OF OIL CONTRACT      Elk Hills Reserve's Future Considered By Navy, Congress Groups

Mexicans Aim Blows At Butler   .. For Recent Criticism Of Lend-Lease Policy

NEGROES ATTACK BUS ORIVERIN DETROIT   Hurl Piece of Concrete a! Operator

SYRACUSE FALLS T0 INVADERS   Big Port Now Held by the Alties Who Also Take _ 2,000 Prisoners of  Wer.

Big Syracuse Port Now in Allied Hands   Patton’s Men Block Tank Assault; 3.000 Prisoners Taken in Advances

Offensive Rolls 15 Miles Inland   Seven Enemy Counter-Attacks Repulsed in Invasion Drive

Allies Advance 15 Miles Inland On Axis Bastion   Seven Armored Counterattacks Turmed  Back By Combined Invasion Troops

Than 2000 Prisoners .   ADVANCE 15 MILES INLAND ‘ TODAY; REPULSE SEVEN " COUNTER ATTACKS; SYRACUSE AMONG CITIES TAKEN 

Two Large Transports And 27 Jap Planes Downed First Day   Allies Believe Big Concentration Of Enemy Fleet Is Aimed At Guadalcanal—Large Seale Battle Pendin;

MacArthur Flyers. Als Bag 27 Japan es Planes. Battle As ih portant" As © Midwa

Chief Orders Men to Return On Wednesday   President Acts as Strikes Paralyze Big Industry; Leaders  Of UMW Delay Action

Seizure Follows  Failure of UMW To Act on Strike   Fuel Administrator Authorized To Conclude  Bargaining Contracts With Miners; Pits To Open Wednesday

Coal Mines Of Nation Seized By Roosevelt   President, in Again Taking Government Control, Tells Miners to be on Jobs Wednesday—Action Comes os Strikes Paralyze Mines

Ickes Given Job To Run Coal Mines   Lewis‘ Policy Group Defers Action For Day

U.S. Takes Over Operation of  All: Coal Mines   President Seizes Properties, Orders Ickes to ‘Get Production’: Lewis’ Group Fails to Take Action

Men Must Refurn To Work, Chief Executive Says   Authorize Use Of U. $. Troops

FOR CALLS ON MINERS RESUME WORK WEDNESDAY   Authorizes Secretary Ickes Conclude Bargaining Contracts With Miners   POLICY COMMITTEE FAILS MAKE DECISION   Ickes Designates Presidents Of Coal Companies as Operating Managers; Penalties of Labor Disputes Act Put Into Effect

Nation's Coal ‘Mines Seized Again by FDR   President Calls on Men to Be Back _ On dob Wednesday; Ickes to Ask Stimson to Give Protection

Chief Calls All Miners to Jobs  U. S. Commander Acts  Onrviekly tn Orictc

Ickes Authorized To Negotiate New Wage Contract   Action Taken When Strikes Paralyze Fuel Output, Union Delays

Nation's Mines. Seized, Call To Work s Issued   President Urges _ Men To Get Back  -On' Job Wednesday

STRIRERS ARE TOLD 10 GET BACK 10 JOBS   ICKES WILL ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH WORKERS

Ickes Placed In Charge By Roosevelt   Production Virtually at Standstill; UMW Chiefs Delay Action

Acts After Union Group Adjourns Without Decision   Authorizes Ickes to Conclude Bargaining Subject to WLB

CALLS UPON STRIKERS 10 RESUME WORK   Acts as Production Tieup Is Virtually Complete —Ickes Empowered to Conchide Contracts.

Authority To Conclude Contracts Given Ickes   F.D.R. Rejects Course Of Waiting for Union Leadership To Act,  Probably Day or More  SAYS COAL NEEDED, FOE DOES NOT WAIT  ' Chief Executive Calls On Men To Return To Work Wednesday

MINES ORDERED SEIZED AGAIN BY GOVERNMENT   Roosevelt Authorizes Ickes To Begin Negotiations With Miners   SHAFTS TO REOPEN WEDNESDAY MORNING

Coal mines seized, miners ordered to work by president   Ickes authorized to bargain with miners, subject to WLB approval

BORDER BELT LEAF AVERAGES 41   Goes Over Ceiling; Georgia-Florida Price Trend Down

AXIS POSITIONS Th TUNISIA POUNDED   Ground Activity Curtailed Bu’  Air. Force Batters Enemy Air Fields

BOMBARDMENT OF AXIS LINES IS CONTINUING   Only Patrol Action Reported From Southern Front

NORTH MAIN CENTER NOW. IN DEATH GUEL   Montgomery Quiet In South; Planes Hit Hard

NOT “ALL” OF F, R.-WINSTON PARLEY TOLD   Hopes Stirred in Allied Capital While Berlin Jibes at Historie N. Africa Meeting.

Story of President’s Trip to Africa to Hove "Subsequent Chapters’

Senate Group Okays 8-Cent Rail Pay Hike   . .. Fall Approval Seen

Moorhead, Fargo Bread Prices To Get Cent Boost   Two Cities Involved In First Break of “Hold-The-Line’’ Order

PRICE OF BREAD. IN UTAH HIKED   Maximum Price Ceilings In Utah, Idaho Set For Sunday

Soviets Develop Great New Serum   Heals Wounds After Other Drugs Fail

Mann Argues In Supreme Court  Says Democrats or Negroes May Organiz  "Bf fF Pee, .

Kiska Hit 7 Times In Heavy Raids  By Americans   Six Other Raids Also Made In South Pacific, Navy Reports

RAID JAPANESE HELD ISLAND 16 TIMES IN 3 DAYS   Allied Air Forces Smash Nips in Several Sectors in Pacific

U.S. Undersea Craft Sink 8 Nippon Ships   Destroyer, Large Trans_ port Reported Among } Enemy Vessels Sunk   THREE ARE DAMAGED   Navy Reports 16 Attack In Three Days On Japan’ Kiska Outpost

NVASION SEEN ALL IN KISKA RAIDS UP   Joint. Army-Navy Attacks Damage Main Japanese Camp Area.

7 U.S. Raids Start Large Kiska Blaze:   Navy Also Reports Sis Aerial Attacks in South Pacifie

KISKA BOMBED SEVEN TIMES BY AMRRIGANS   Large Fires Started In Jap Camp Area and Anti-Aircraft Emplacements Damaged In Raids   NIPS ARE STRAFED   Navy Also Reports Six At tacks On Japanese In South Pacific With Bombers, Fighters

KISKA STARTED IN UL S.. RAIDS   Air Attacks Believed to Be Prelude to Landing Attempts

Bombs Again Strike Kiska   Large Fires Started And Gun Emplacement Hits; Landing Planned

Start Large Fire In Jap Camp Area      Kiska Is Attacked. 16 Times In Three Davs   TWO JAP SUBS BELIEVED SUNK

KISKA JAPS FEEL. WRATH OF U.S. AERIAL GUNNERS   Fires Started in Camp Area - and Anti-Aircraft Emplacements Damaged in Seven Raids by American Bomb-

THIRTEEN RAIDS MADE ON KISKA IN TWO DAYS   American Bombers Sel Large Fires in Japs’ Aleutian Base—Japs in Solomons Also Blasted

U.S. Bombers Make 7 Raids Upon Kiska   Fires Damage Jap Aircraft

U.S. Airmen Hit Jap Camp Area On Kiska Island   Aleutians Outpost Bombed 16 Times Three Daya; Raid Solomons Bases

Jap Atrocities Cited by War Tour Senator   Chandler Tells of “Operation” on U.S. Soldier; Secret Report Made

Britain Exhibits Some Dismay At Soviet Move  Newspapers Suggest More Frankness Among Diplomats

London Newspapers Do Not Expect Change in Policy  BRITISH OFFICIALS DECLINE COMMENT  More Open Diplomacy and Plain Speaking Needed

British Seek Meaning of Russ Reealls   Liltyinov’s Removal Stirs Fear in London Publications

Britain Exhibits Some Dismay At Soviet Move  Alawremmmare Gime,   Newspapers Sugges' More Frankness Among Diplomats

SECOND PAYMENT ~ MADE TO-SCHOOL!   State Mails Check for $14, 246 to Moberly; .Third Payment Expected.

Allied Planes Resume Air Offensive   Cross Channel to Hit French Coast Cities

REFUGEES FLEE ITALIAN “BOOT   Thousand of Bomb-Dazed Civilians Reported Flockdng Northward,   CONTINUE AIR ASSAULTS

Allied Warplanes Sting By Daylight Strong Force Crosses  English Channel

THE OFFENSIVE IS RESUMED TODAY BY ALLIED PLANES   A Strong Force Headed Eastward Across the Channel This Morning.   TO HIT FRENCH COAST   Probably Somewhere Between Dieppe and Boulogne, It Was Announced.

Allied Planes  in Uccupied  Arca Again Strung Force Headed. Across  ru. ae

CHARGE NAZIS SHOT CAPTIVES   Shootings Of Italian Officers Claimed

Italian Officers Slain by Nazis   Badoglio Accuses — Germens in Protest Forwarded to Madrid

Officers Shot By Germans, BadoglioSays   Spain Asked to Forward Italian Government's Protest to Berlin

Be  ITALIAN OFFICERS SHOT BY GERMANS   That’s Charge Coming from Aegean Islands

CHARGE GERMANS KILLED CAPTURED ITALIAN OFFIGERS   The Badoglio Governiment Has Asked That a Protest Be Made.   A SPECIAL COMMUNIQUE   The Latest Slaying Occurred When Germans Seized Dodecanese Islands.

ITALIAN ARMY MEN MURDERED   Captured Officers Slain by Nazis, Badoglio Charges

CHARGES ITALIAN PRISONERS SHOT   Badoglio Regime Protest:  Navi Fracution<e

Badoglio Says Officers Were Executed   CONTROL COMMISSION BARES PROTEST MESSAGE THROUGH SPAIN HEADS

ITALIANS SCORE NAZI SLAYINGS   Say Captured Officers Shot By Germans

WILL LEAVE FRIDAY   Scrivner Gets Election Certificate; Jones Is His Secretary

Scrivner Gets Electio: Election Certificate; Jones Is His Secretary

PIES AND CAKES TO RISE IN PRICE   NEW OPA FORMULA WILL INCREASE COSTS TO CON. SUMERS 5 TO 15 PCT.

Higher Ceilings Put on Pastries.  Pies and Cakes   Action Will Increase Cost to Consumer From 5 to 15 Percent

PASTRY CEILINGS CHANGED BY OPA   New Ones Increase Consume _er Costs 5 to 15°c: Bread Pricés Unaffected...

SOME ‘MINERS  ARE. VOTING TO RETURN TO WORK   Strike Against Absence of Contract Halts Steel In gustry  -

SIGNS POINT BACKTO-WORK MOVEMENT OF ALABAMA MINERS   Proposed UMW Contract In I[linois Under Attack

Gertrude Popken- —* _ ~. Married Sunday   United ‘To Alvin vin’ Semmervold - In Pretty Service At Akron. as Church AS a

Gertrude Popken  Becomes a Bride  Alvin Sommervold Of Alcester Is Groom

Gertrude Popken __ Married Sunday   United To Alvin Sommervold it Pretty Service At Akron Church

SCENT BUTTER PAIGE GUT 1a DUE JUNE 10   Meat and Coffee Roll-Back Scheduled for Later, Agency Reveals.

Butter Prices  Cut Under OPA Subsidy Plan   Move to Halt, Inflation Is Lanne rhed Despite

Shipyard Workers Ask Adjustment of Wages   War Labor Board Gets Its Biggest Case   Three Large Unions Are Precentine Demands

Wage Plan Faces Major Attack By Ship Workers   Yard Men Demand Salary Hike As Costs Mount

VACATION PLEA GETS BACKING   Kelly Hopeful Of Early Relaxation of Travel Restrictions

BOWLES GETS OPA POWERS   BROWN GIVES “MANAGER” * BROAD POWER AND ISSUES WARNING AGAINST UN. AUTHORIZED STATE- MENTS

» food Demands To Increase,  Americans Told  _ Lend-Lease Aide Says Civilians’  om" Supplies Lower

VOTES ‘FREEZE’ OF PAYROLL TAX   Senate Finance Committee Ignores Administration Opposition

Voté To “Freeze” Social Security Tax   Would Prohibit Increase of  Tax For Another Year

Even Hamburg Streets Ablaze In Fresh Raids   Great R. A. F. Fleet Back To Give City Its Ninth Blast In 10 Days.

ARMY PASSES UP — MICKEY-ROONEY   Se Rejects Film Astor a! er Thore ough Exe ’

MICKEY ROONEY IS REJECTED BY ARMY   Actor's Mother Says He Has 4A Heart Flutter And High Blood Pressure

ARMY REJECTS” MICKEY ROONEY      Mother Reveals He Has Heart Trouble, High Blood Pressure.

MICKEY ROONEY IS REJECTED BY ARMY   Young Film Star Not Happy About It

ROONEY REJECTED BY ARMY DOCTORS   Fail To Announce Specific Physical Reasons

ARMY REJECTS MICKEY ROONEY   Turns Down Young Actor After Physical Examination.

Mickey Rooney ls Turned Down  Rejected For Army After Physical Exam

MICKEY ROONEY REJECTED BY ARMY   Cause Not Made Public — Colonel Says Actor Underwent Thorough Framination.

Oppose Delay In Oil Lease Probe   Navy’s Legal Adviser Says Contract Considered Excellent One

Contract Probe Won't Be Delayed   House Committee Wants Details Now

Solons Spurn Request to Delay Standard Oil--Navy Oil Deal, Call For Action

Probe Delay Is Now Refused   Investigation of Navy Contract Is To Be Pressed

WHEN IN DOUBT, DON'T USE AUTO   That Is Advice Given By Rationing Board Chairman— Necessary Economic Activities Not Under Ban

Resolution Adopted By  Legislature   Motorists Are Giver Additional Time Tx Buy Licenses Afte: Goodland Vetoes Bil

Senate Upholds Goodland Veto Of Car Fee Cut   Would Upset Financ: Structure, Governor Explains in Message

20 Firemen Overcome By Smoke As Simultaneous Fires Break Out In Business District Of Lake (City   AERIAL TRUCK LOST: . AS WALL COLLAPSES

2 Firemen Die In Erie Blaze  Loss Half Million;  wT... re... .7. B47... 7...)

Two Firemen  Killed In Erie   Three Others Are Injured Battling Large Blaze In Erie Today   FISHER BROTHERS STORE IS BURNED

FIREMEN DIE IN HALF-MILLION, HOLOCAUST   25 Injured  in Blazes Four Blocks Apart‘in. Down-town Erie...

Balkans Routes Are Blasted By U , Fortresses  i a ee   Fierce Air Offensive : Unloosed In Greece And Crete

FOE HIT HARD I AEGEAN AND BALKAN AREAS   Fortresses and Libera. tors Blast German Airfields

Germans Blasted In Major Aerial Drive in Balkans   Aegean Area Aiso Bombed by ‘‘Foris’’

GREECE, CRETE HIT BY ALLIES   Blistering Offensive  Launched Against Balkans Area

FORCES IN AFRICA UNCORK AIR DRIVE   German Positions in Crete and Greece Attacked by Fliere /

GREECE-CRETE AIRFIELDS ARE BLASTED   eee  By Fortresses and Liberators From African Bases: Many  Grounded Planes Left Burning.   Seized In 1941

Five Airfields Are Attacked ir  Greece, Crete   American Lightning Fighters Knock Down 16 German Bombers Near Rhodes Island

Allied Planes Hit Nazis in the Balkans  Airfields in Greece and Crete Are Pounded Heavily

Africa-Based Planes Hit Balkans, Aegear   Aircraft From Italy Assist in Raids On Fields in Greece

Nazi Bases On Rhodes Also Target   Great Damage Done To Enemy Airfields, Many Planes Smashed

Flying Forts and Thunderbolt Escorts Destroy 102 Enemy Planes in Third Successive Daylight Assault on Germany

U. S., RAF Blister Nazis With Raid On Balkan Region  : Shattering Blows Hit  Nazis to Soften  Allies’ Invasion Read

Allied Planes  Hit Nazis  in the Balkans Airfields in Greece  and Crete Are  Daundead HManyvily

SUB VICTORIES, AIR SUCCESSES HARASS JAPS   U.S. Losses Termed Light

New Ceiling on Poultry Scored   Springfield, Mo., Man Says Regulations Will Hurt Smaller Cities

Pope Scorns Bomb Haven During Raid   Pontiff Prays in Private Chapel Adjoining Bedroom   The War Today   Shortening of Conflict Motive in Rome Bombing

POPE PRAYS AS BOMBS FALL ON ETERNAL CITY      May Make Protest to President Roosevelt and Churchill

SCORNING SHELTER; POPE PIUS PRAYS WHILE BOMBS FALL   Mussolini, About To Open Cabinet Session When Raid Alarm Sounds, Takes Cover

POPE PRAYED WHILE ROME WAS BOMBED   Refused to Go Vatican. ‘Sheltee

GIRDLER URGES SOUND LABOR, TAX POLICIES   Steel Man Tells N. A. M. Government Attitude DetersProduction

Sound Policy National Need   Uncertainty Of Government Attitude Towards Business Is Upsetting   POSTWAR PROGRAM IS BIG NECESSITY

Farm Bill  Hits New Obstacle   STATE SENATE VOTES TO RETURN BILL TO AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE

THINK TRAIN HIT _ BY ARMY PLANE   Eleven Fliers Hurt When Twelve Cars Derailed in Utah   BULLETIN

Army Bomber And Train In Collision   One Person Killed; Ten Oth  ers Hurt

1 AILLED Whe BOMBCR GRAGH WAEGKS TRAIN   Ten Others, One from lowa, injured, Report Says Some Seriously.   CREW TRAPPED IN PLANE BESIDE PILED-UP CARS

Indict Grocery Companies   Kroger and Safeway . Chains Charged With Conspiracy to Restrain And Monopolize Trade

Anti-trust Case Against — 2 Big Chains   Safeway and Kroger Are Indicted by Federal Grand Jury   PROMPT DENIAL FROM SAFEWAY   Government Charges. Say They .ATe Able to. Control Policies and Practices

MacArthur's Fliers Batter Jap Convoy   Seek to Cut Off Enemy Supplies To New Guinea

How fo Convince Russia There Will Be No ‘Anti-Soviet Butter States, Still Assure Little Naflons Thorny Post-War Problem

‘Buffer State’ Problem One of Thorniest Now Confronting Postwar Planners

Butfer State Idea Is Dead. Berle Thinks   Will Have Hard Time In Convincing Russia Of Intentions

No Barrier Of Anti-Soviet States Planned   But Allies Have Job To Convince Russia Of Post-War Map

CONVINCING REDS THERE WILL BE NO ANTI-SOVIET AREAS CALLED BIG JOB

CONVINCING RUSSIA OF GOOD POST-WAR INTENTIONS PROBLEN  THERE WILL BE NO ANTI   THERE WILL BE NO ANTI. SOVIET BUFFER STATES ° ACROSS EUROPE

Air Assaults On Japanese Increasing   All Planes Return Safely From Mighty Attack

248 TONS OF BOMBS RAZE AREA   Other Strongholds Or New Britain Island Also Attacked

New Britain Is Heavily Hit By Aerial Assault   Jap Bulwark Suffers Mightiest Blow Of The War By The Raid

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST GASMATA ON NEW BRITAIN   Over 100 Bombers in Heavy Assault on Supply Center, All Planes Return

NEW BRITAIN ISLAND RADED. ONCE, MORE ~~ BY TOD LIBERATORS   248 Tons: of Bombs Dropped On Japanese Base. in,”      JAP. OPPOSITION“ IS_-LIGHT:

JAPANESE SUPPLY CENTER BLASTED   ALLIES AIM ATTACKS AT ENEMY BASE OF GASMATA AND RABAUL

GASMATA GETS RECORD LOAD OF EXPLOSIVES   New Aerial Assaults Unleashed On New Britain

Mighty Assault On New Britain Made By Allies   Invasion Would Constitute Most Important Ground Action Toward West

BULWARK IN SOUTH PACIFIC IS HAMMERED   Over 100 Liberators and Mitchells Participate in Midday Attack on Supply Center   PLANES RETURN SAFELY

Announce Huge . Aerial Assault On New Britain   Bombers Drop 248 Tons of  - Bombs Sunday on Gasmata Area; No Allied Planes Lost.

MIGHTIEST AERIAL ASSAULT OF WAR ON NEW BRITAIN AREA  MORE THAN 100 HEAVY U. S. BOMBERS BLAST JAP STRONGPOINTS -

Mighty Air Attack on Island Brings Landings Nearer   Hundreds of Tons of Bombs Showered on Jap Positions

New Britain Isle Rocked By Air Blow:   Record Bombing Raid Carried Out; Drop 248 Tons On Japs’ Base At Gasmata

Heavy Boral Load Rocks New Britain   Gasmata, Important Jap Supply Center, Tarvet of Raiders’

Yanks Blast Jap Base On New Britain   Mightiest Blows Dealt Gasmata By Bombers, Seen _ Prelude'to New In-  - _-vasion Moves   ‘MOST IMPORTANT’  ASSAULT FORECAST   Over 100 -Liberators and Mitchells Dropped 248 Tons of Bombs, Gen. MacArthur Says

New Jap Air Bases Bared Through Raid   Daily Thunderheads Slow Allied Plane Activity Over New Guinea.

TO INCREASE BOMB ACTION IN EUROPE   Air Observers Are Looking Forward to HamburgType Series of Raids   TO WIDEN SCOPE

Increased Bombing Attempt to Put Nazis Out of War Expected in- Fall and Winter

NEW NAZI ROLE: TRYING TO HOLD A CITY OF RUINS   Reich Forces Find They Are > ‘Defending’, Not Attacking, Stalingrad

NAZI REMNANTS “FIEHT FOR CT}   Present Defenders of Stalingrad Are German, Not Russian.

REMNANT OF NAZI STALINGRAD ARMY NEAR ANNIHILATION   VAST QUANTITIES OF WAR MATERIAL CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS

Nazis Now Defend Stalingrad City   War's Strange Quirk  Reverses Stand

Trapped German  Force Cut Down   Only 12,000 Remain Out Of 220,000 Once In Pocket; Nazis Acknowledge Russians Extending Their Gainc

NAZI ARMY ‘CUT DOWN .T0 12,000   Original Axis Force Of 220,000 Nears  Annihilation

Tum hl es On Nazi Invaders   Complete Annihilation of Germans In Stalingrad Is Predicted

Trapped Nazis. Doomed   Spokesman Claims Red Army Will Soon Annihilate Enemy Troops Left in Stalingrad

Germans Are Defenders Of Stalingrad   Russians Slowly Mopping Up Last Of Great Army

Red Pressure On Stalingrad   Only 12.000 Of 220.000 German Forces Remain In City As Russians Attack.

German Forces In Stalingrad Numbering About 12,000 Are Given But 3 Days By Soviets

MEETING SEEN AS PRELUDE TO BALKAN DRIVE   Entry of Turkey Into War Not Indicated  By Communique

Sharp Effect On Bulgaria,  Rumania Seen   Move May Precipitate Satellites’ Collapse In Southeastern Eurone   ALLIES MAY GET TURKISH AIR BASES

Pact May Be Prelude To Smash at Balkan:   Effect On Hitler's Satellities, Rumania And Bulgaria, Expected To Be Explosive; To Keep Nazis Guessing

_ncon See’s “ur <ev’s . ew Scanc Ls *rs:S-e) nm 3a_<an Smas.; ‘Ya‘or 20_ica. %eac7ions Seen

Turkey’ s Alignment With Allies Poises Death Blow to Nazis in Prelude to Balkans’ Assault —   Collapse of Tottering German Satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania Foreseen; Alfies to Keep Nazis Guessing on New Events

Airdromes Are Neutralized From Air, Sea   Enemy Naval Units Forced Toward Rabaul in Battle

HEAR TWO COMPLAINTS   Commissioners in Session as Board Of Equalization  :

‘HEAR TWO COMPLAINTS   i tous a * ! Commissioners in Session as Board Of Equalization

Chinese Charge Japs Again Used Poison Gas   Vapor Bombs And Shells Employed, Chungking Says

Chinese Charge Japs Used Gas   Poison Shells Dropped Near Shanghai Monday

ACCUSING JAPS OF USING GAS   Fourth Charge Against “Outlaw ed” Weapon Which China Has Made Against Aggressors

‘Guadalcanal Battle Over  Six Months After Marine Landing for Offensive

U. S. FORCES NOW IN FULL CONTROL OF GUADALCANAI   ‘End Of Ground Fighting: Announced By: Major General Alexander  Patch.

SECRETARY OF. 8TATE TELLS FILIPINOS THAT PLEDGES «OF JAPANESE CANNOT.  “* 88 TRUSTED

THIS COUNTY: ©. PLACED HIGH IN STATE SHOW   : $e Eleven Tipton County Far: ‘mers Honored at Pur.  dutie University.   ALL RECEIVED PRIZES   Leon Warner, Now in Arniy, Outstanding Angus Prodiicer in State. -

Tilo GOUNTY PLACED HIGH IN OTATE oROW   Eleven Tipton County Far mers Honored at Purdue University.   ALL RECEIVED PRIZES   Leon Warner, Now in Army, Outstanding Angus Producer in State.

Small Carrier Has Big Part In Death ~ Of Ten Nazi Subs   Her Fliers Beat Off Two German Wolf-Pack Attack: On Convoy During 38 Hours Of Fighting; Not A Merchantman Damaged

Baby Flat Tops Help Fight Subs   Navy Describes Atlantic Tactics

Bombs Devastate Docks and Plants In City of Naples   10 Subs Probably Sunk By U. S. “Baby Flat Top’

U-BOAT PACKS ARE DEFEATED BY FLAT TOPS   AIRMEN ON CARRIER SINK TEN ENEMY SUBMARINES

“BABY FLAT TOPS” BLAST 10 AXIS SUBS   Delivers Merchantmen Abroac Without Casualty Despite Attack By Wolf-Pack; Tak«  41 Prisoners   Captain's Hat

Planes From Baby ‘Flat Top Blast 10 U-Boats From Two Packs   Two Nazi Submarines Definitely Sunk, Others Believed Smashed on Atlantic Trip

Ten Subs Blasted By flat Top   Atantic Patrol Beats Off Nazi Wolf-Pack

CLOSE RANKS FOR DRIVE ON RANDAZZ0   Plicht of Germans and Italians More Difficult Daily

LINES CLOSED ON CENTER OF BATTLEFRONT   Seventh and Eighth Prepare for Concerted: Assault on Key Town.   COMMUNIQUE ASSERTS AXIS PLIGHT DESPERATE

Axis Troops Are Forced Back In  Sicily Corner   American And British Forces Establish Junction In Offense   AXIS TROOPS IN DESPERATE PLIGHT

UNION OF BRITISH AND YANK FORCE DOOMS KEY CITY   Americans Who Land Behind Foe Lines Force Wide Withdrawal

UNBROKEN LINE READY T0 HIT AT RANDAZZ0   Situation of Germans is daily becoming much more difficult

Lorient, Brest Sub Nests Hit By Fortresses   Daylight Blows Ave Dealt 2 Nazi-Oceupied French Ports Following RAF Sweens to North   Heavy Opposition Put Up, 5 ‘Forts’ Missing   Locomolives, River Craft. Marching Infantry Shot Up by Britons

TWO NAZI SUB BASES HiT BY ALLIED BOMBS   Heavy Daylight Attacks Aimed At Lorient And  Brest In France   2 PLANES LYol     Fighters Damage Locomotives And Barges Along Coast «&

D.C. SPEAKER [PREDICTS SHARP CRITICISM MILITARY  CLAIMED PRODUCTION OF OBSOLETE PLANES PERMITTEN RE CONTINIIEN

Slap at Military  Plane Policies   Committee Report Said To Criticize Continued Production Of Obsolete Planes

Military Is Critized For Permitting Production Of Obsolete Airplanes In U. S.

CRITICAL REPORT DUE BY TRUMAN?   Manufacture of Planes Term ed Obsolete To Be Rapped?

PLANE OUTPUT IS UNDER FIRE   Investigation Report Is Ta Say Obsolete Models Not Discontinued

Criticizes Army For Building Obsolete Planes  "TT mee 5   Truman Group Report Ready

Plane Program Criticized By r 1 Truman Group   Investigating Complains Obsolete Aircraft Being Turned Out.   USE DEFECTIVE PARTS

CONGRESS GOES HOME TO TALK TO THE VOTERS   Should Stop Obsolete Plane Output..... Truman Report To Hit U. S. Military Leaders

RAF Strikes” German Ruhr Region Again   Big-Seale Bonibing of Continent Resumed After Brief Lull

ATTACKS ON JAPAN NEXT, SAYS STIMSON   Unofficially, Since Moppins Up Attu and Air Attack On Kiska; Activity in South Pacific   Use Venturas

Stimson Reveals 11,307 Are Held by Japan, 3,312 by Germany and 2,464 by Italy—Secretary Says Victory on Attu Island Puts U. S. Forces Within Striking Distance of Nipponese Territory.

Japan May Be Object of Attack Soon   Stimson Hints Move Is Possible, Releases Report

 US. Within Siriking Distance Of Japan with Capture of Attu Secretary Stimson Asserts

Stimson Hints U.S. To Attack  Japan Proper.   Secretary Also Reports 17,083 Americans Held  As Prisoers by Axis

Hints Given Of Blows On Japs   Stimson Tells Of Succescece On Atty

Partisans Start. Counter Offensive   Germans Push Ahead In Adriatic Islands

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT MachENZIE  Associated Press War Analyst)

reports of Sagging Morale In Hitler-Held Areas Grow   at Weariness and Mounting Unrest In Satellite Mem: bers of Fuehrer’s Europe Multiplying; Stories of Incipient Revolt In Rumania and of Hungary’s Anxieties Filter Thru Censorship

Puppet And Vanquished Countries In Europe Now In State Of incipient Revolt Against! Hitler; Rumania Hardest Hit

MacArthur Visits Hospital to See First Casualties from New Britain

Guilt Denied By De Marigny As Trial Open:   'Unpretentious Courtroom In Nassau Is Scene Of Trial Of Count On Charge Of Murder

COUNT GOES ON TRIAL TODAY IN NASSAU SLAYING   Charged With Murder Of His Pabuloudy Wealthy Father-in-Law

Not Guilty, Says Oakes’ son-in-law   Count DeMarigny’s Trial for Murder of ‘Gold King’ Begins

COUNT PLEADS NOT GUILTY TU KILLING OAKES   De Marigny Placed on Trial at Nassau for Slaying Father-in-Law.

Citizens Cooperate With Sul Ross In Course On Resources Conservation

'U. S. Beats Axis to Punch on "Rome Bombing Propaganda In Historic World Broadcast

ALLIES BEAT AXIS RADIOS TO THE PUNCH   News Of Bombing Given 8 Minutes After First Bomb Dropped

United Nations Beat Axis Propaganda To The Punch In Reporting Raid On Rome

United Nations Beat Axis On Rome Story..... Propaganda Machine Worked Like A Clock

THE ALLIES BEAT AXIS 19 THE PUNCH   8 Minutes After First Bomb Fell

United Nations Beat Axis to Punch In Getting Out News on Rome Raid

Leslie Howard Is Said Araong 13 Aboard British Air Liner Reported Shot Down Into Sea   Plane Disappears While Flying From Lisbon To London; Concern Is Felt

BRITISH PASSENGER AIRLINER 15 MISSING LISBON TO LONDON   ACTOR LESLIE HOWARD AMONG PROMINENT PAS SENGERS ABOARD

Noted Film Actor Lost With Plane   Air Liner, En Route Lisbon To London Shot By Germans

Liner Disappears, Leslie Howard Is Among Passengers   British Plane Said Shot Down Between Lisbon and Enaland

PLANE MISSING   Leslie Howard Believed On Transport Long Overdue

Leslie Howard on Missing Airline: From Portugal - - Reported Shot Down

Leslie Howard Missing   Airliner, 17 On Board Reported Shot Down

MISSING PLANE'S — FATE DOUBTFUL   Leslie Howard, Famous Actor, Was Passenger

Leslie Howard On Lost Plane  . B Passengers Aboar. . Transport Shot Down

NOTABLES ON BOARD PLANE LONG OVERDUE   Actor Leslie Howard Said To Be Passenger on Airliner That Disappears Enroute to England   BELIEVED SHOT DOWN

Plane With Leslie Howard And Twelve Others Is Lost Between London-Lisbon

British Air Liner Lost   Report Transport Shot Down By Enemy Plane; Leslie Howard Aboard

8. Actor Is Lost As Lishon-Londou Airliner Disappears  Plane Shot Down,  According to  Reports From Spain

BRITISH AIR - LINER MISSINE   Official Word Is That Leslie Howard, Actor, Aboard

Stage Star On Missing Transport   Leslie Howard. One of 13 Aboard British Airliner Attacked by Enemy   }ON FLIGHT FROM LISBON TO LONDON   May Have Been Difficult for Passengers to Take to “ Rubber Lifeboats

Actor Leslie Howard in 13 on Lisbon Passenger Plane Shot Down in Bay of Biscay

REPORT AGTOR 16 CN MISSING PLANE   Leslie Howard May Be Missing after Nazis Shoot Down Transport

DAO PLANE CARRYING FILM ACTOR DOWNED  Leslie Howard Among 13   Leslie Howard Among 13 Aboard Craft Reported Attacked by Craft Off Portugal   “ALT: FEARED LOST.   “Enemy Action” Suspected In London; English Air Liner Was Manned By Dutch Crew

Leslie Howard Reported Among Missing. ...  British Passenger Airliner Shot Down

BIG TRANSPORT REPORTED SENT DOWN BY SHOTS   Actor Leslie Howard Given As One Of Passengers On Hop To England

Big Passenger Airliner Has Disappeared’   British Plane on Way to London From Lisbon Reported Shot Down by Germans

LESLIE HOWARD AND 12 OTHERS ON LOST PLANE   British Airways Liner Reported Shot Down Over Bay of Biscay. Enroute Lisbon to Portugal

Loyal and Disloyai Japanese Evacuees Now Being Separated   WRA Now Undertaking To Segregate Evacuees Whose Loyalties Lie With Japan, To Be Ineligible For.Camp Leave

Byrnes Submits Relocation Report   North Bakotan Says Questions Remain

Homes Flooded As Dyke Breaks   Section of Lucas County Inundated

Russians Race ~ Foe To Dnieper   Kharkov’s Fall Cracks -Nazi Defense Wall

Red Armies Rush On Past Kharkoy   Pursuers May Reach Dnieper River Ahead of the  Pursued   NAZI WALL SHATTERED   375-Mile Drive Ends in  Capture of Ukraine “Pittsburgh”

Let’s.Get Behind Him and. Make —   Rationing a Success-Start Now to.   use more of the plentiful NON- RATIONED FOODS

HITLER STORM TROOPERS TAKE OVER IN VIENNA   ‘Hundreds of Patriots, Cheered By Moscow Parley, Promise, Seized by German Forces

Adolf Hitler Worried Over  Nazi Positior   Munich S peech Showe That He Realizes The Danger Of Collapse On Home Front

Anthony Eden s Guest of Sec. Hull At Formal Dinner at End of Visit

Eden Leaves For Canada .   "Series Of Méetings In Washinaton Ended

\Solidarity Dreams of Southern, Western Governors Blurred by Sugar Quota Tilt

CRUSHING BLOWS TO SUPPLY ARTERY OF SICILY ARE DEALT   MESSINA AREA AND SEVERAL OTHER ITALIAN POINTS BLASTED

AXIS SUPPLY ROUTES HIT IN SICILY AGAIN   Ferry Lines Under Constant Attack by Allies

Supply Route For Sicily Is P ounded Again  American And RAF Bombers Keep Up

R. A. F. Hammers At Duce’s Transportation System Richthofen’s Cousin Directs Air Defense Of Sicily; Round-The-Clock Raids Continue   Munda Being Dive-Bombed To Destruction By Yanks

MULE FEED HOT CAKES   American Soldiers in Italy Use Feed [ntended for Pack Train

Reds Pound Key Points About Orel   198 German Planes Destroved Last Week

Red Planes Blast Germans In Orel Sector; 498 Nazi Cratt Destroyed in Weel

Nazis Get Pounding From Strong Red Force of Bombers   Foe Loses 498 Plane: In Week; Total For June Is 1,250

Soviet planes lash nazi key points in Orel   Shoot down 498 planes in week

. . isu Air  Offensive Is  Maintained   Key German Points Bombed; Many Planes of Nazis Destroyed -

Russian Fliers  Hit Rail Link:   Bombers Blast Junctions At Gowmel. Brvansk

PROBE FIRE AT REFINING PLANT   Four Women Missing In Blaze Causing $200,000 Loss

FEDERAL AGENTS BEGIN PROBE OF REFINERY FIRE   4 Die, 17 Injured in Blaze; Victims Trapped in Building

JONE’S DEMANDS PROBE OF SCRAP   Commerce Secretary Claims Wallace Charges Are ‘Dastardly’

JONES ACCUSES VICE. PRESIDENT’ OF “DASTARDLY” CHARGE AFTER NEW STATEMENT ISSUED

City Brought Under Soviet Artillery   Red Army Hurls Furious Assault On Dnieper Base

Russians Close In On Gomel, Last Big Base   Continue To Edge Toward Korosten, Rail Junction Controlling Traffic On LeningradOdessa And Kiev-Warsaw-Railways

AT GOMEL FACE RED ONSLAUGHT   Russ Army Columns Edge Nearer Vital Base At Korosten

LAST. LARGE ENEMY BASE [SSTORMED   Hold Of Germans ‘Upon Korosten  ~ Weakens ©

Russians Storm City In Fierce Assault; Korosten Also on Verge of Collapse

BAD WEATHER SLOWS SOVIET UKRAINE DRIVE   Triple Assault Strikes German Forces in Korosten Area

Gomel Totters As Reds Draw Net Tighter   Hold on Kerosten Also Weakens With Loss of Rail Line

RED TROOPS CLOSE IN ON. GOMEL TODAY   Nazi Withdrawai From Dnieper  Is Hinted

AEDS CLOG  ING IN ON GOMEL   Storm Last Important German Base East of Dnieper River.   UKRAINE: PUSH SLOWEL

RED ARMY TROOPS CLOSE IN ON GOMEL IN FURIOUS ASSAULT  LAST IMPORTANT GERMAN BASE EAST OF DNIE PER RIVER STORMED

Stormed the Last Important German Base East of the Dnieper River in a Furious Assault.   THE CITY THREATENED BY THE RUSSIAN ARMY   Soviet Forces Pushed Westward From Their Bridgehead North of Gomel; Strike Beyond Dnieper.

RUSSIAN FORCES DRAWING TIGHT RING ON GOMEL   ~losing In On Last Important German Base East Of Dnieper; Ukraine Advance Slowed By Weather, But Edges Ahead.

Last Important German Dase East Of Dnieper Next On — List Of Ramnpasinge Reds

Russian Soldiers  Move In On Gomel   Soviet Forces Storm Las! Nazi Base East of  - Dnieper River   Red Troops Edge Toward Korosten, Important Rail Junction

Reds Closing In On Gomel   Weather, Germans Slow Advance in Ukraine

Gomel, Last Important Nazi Base East Of Dnieper River, . Is Menaced By Russians

Nazi Withdrawal From River Bend Hinted By Berlin   Soviets Say Germans Suffering Great Losses; Red Column Nearing Korosten

, oat FORCES ighten Ring Around Gomel   Reds Launch: Furious Assault Against City; Other Forces Push West From the Sozh

Reds Troops Surge Ahead tn Ukraine   Germans Hint Withdrawal In Dnieper Bend

Soviet Vise ‘Is Closing :On Gomel    _ Powerful Assault ‘Threatens to Add Important Base to ‘List of Triumphs

Gomel Under Siege Guns Of Soviet Arn   Fresh German Retreat From Dnieper Bend Forecast; Thousands Of Reds Attacking

Ukraine Army Continues Drive On Korosten, Important Junction On Odessa-Leningrad Line

Gomel Under Attack by Red Forces   Fall of Last Big German Base Looms; Soviets Near Korosten

Last German Base East of Dnieper is Threatened by Reds   Russians Thought in Position to Occupy Important Gomel

STORM LAST BASE ON EAST ~TONIEPER BANK   Severance of Third Rait Line Loosening Nazi Hold on Korosten,

Russians Close In On Gomel   Important Nazi Base Threatened By Furious - Assault By Red Army; Lull-on Italian Front

Soviets Close In On Korosten Rail Junction   German Broadcasts Hint Dnieper Bend Evacuation Near

Red Army Troops Launch Furious Drive On Gome!   Capture Of Last German Base East Of Dnieper May Be Near

Berlin Reports 25 Divisions of Reds Attacking Past Smolensk   Admits ‘Dents’ Near Kerch, Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoi Rog

CAPTURE OF NAZI BASE THREATENS   Korosten Rail Center Is Goal Of Three  Soviet Forces

ENEMY HOLD ON KOROSTEN WEAKENED   Great Losses In Troops, Material Suffered By Germans: Counteroffensives Repulsed

Red Army Closes In On Gomel, Last Innortant Town East Of The Dnieper

Reds Close In On Gomel With  Raging Assault   Ttalian Front Line Remains  Unehanged For Third  Consecutive Day.   STORMS DELAY MEN

GOMEL LAST Bit GERMAN BASE EAST OF DNIEPEF   Soviet Forces Inch Towar Korosten, Retake 60 Towns

Russians Closing in  On Gomel   Evacuation Hinted In German Broadcast Today

FURIOUS FIGHT BEING WAGED IN DNIEPER AREA      Red Forces, Meanwhile, Are Broadening Their Wedge Below Rechista, Vital Railroad Town   OVERCOMING FOE IN TWO UKRAINE AREAS   Soviets Edging Toward Korosten Despite Adverse  Weather and German - Counter-Attacks

Gomel Under Furious Attack by Red Army   Troops Are Closing in On Last Important German Base East of Dnieper River—Pace Through Urkraine Slackens.

German Attacks, ‘And Weather Slow  Western Surge,   One Column Now Oniy 14 Miles South of Kors osten, Field Guns Nov Shelling Gomel In Furi. ous Assault.

Fall Of City To Soviets Appears To Be Imminent   Red Army Continues To Travel Toward Korosten Junction

Furious Drive Against Gomel   German Hold On Korosten Weakened  As Rail Line Cut.

49 SCHOOLS AT DAYTON CLOSED   Non-Teaching Employes Quit Work In Effort To Force Wage Demands

Axis Planes Bomb Palermo  Some Occupants Didn't Even Leave Hotel Beds

Introduce Legislation To Establish 8-Hour Day 6-Day Week for Police

POUR INTO MISSISSIPPI   Rise to FortyYear Record Peaks, No Crest in Sight

Palermo Harbor Area Left in Smouldering Ruins by Greatest All-American Bombing ‘Raid in History, Eyewitness Discloses -

Yanks Level War Plants In Palermo   Biggest U.‘S. Bombing Raid in History Wrecks Sicilian Port

(Greatest Air Raid Of — U.S. Flyers Described After Raid On Palermo

RUINS. AFTER RECORD RAID   ‘Uighn Pilots: Plane In .. Which Correspondent . Watches Raid ©

Utahn Pilots Bomber That Blasts Sicily   To Duck, Comic Opera Cohorts From Keele,' On One Bomb

TRANSPORT DELAY SEEN   Eastman Fears Future Of Wartime Transportation  :

Transportation Crisis Forecast  Rubber Situation Gomllad Comet ncn

Plan Final Wallop for Nazi Army   Peace Trial Balloons Re ported From Italy and _ Germany Teday

RUMORS OF PEACE ARE BEING HEARD   Roosevelt to Be First Presi: dent to Visit Canadian Capital.

President Is Drafting Plan To Free Europe      Sixth Conference With Churchill Pays Off In War Of Nerves

PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER HOLD HUDDLE   Believe Plotting New Offensive

ADDING ALINE AT SUNFLOWER PLANT   Commanding Officer Announces Expansion of  Ordnance Works 4  ais CTART AT Narr

SUNFLOWER PLANT   Commanding Officer Announces Expansion of   Ordnance Works 4   WILL START AT ONCE

SOLONS ATTACK FLYNN RECORD   Nomination Of Minister To Australia Opposed; Hearing Scheduled

Evacuation  Begun at Kharkov   Novorossick Also Is to Be Given Up By Axis; Fate of Great Army Of Invading Germans Left in Doubt

RUSSIANS SWEEP THROUGH ROSTOV IN DRIVE WEST   Fate Of Germans, Who  Burned City, Is Not Roevaaled   NAZIS RETREATING TO DNIEPER RIVER

Voroshilovgrad Also Falls  to the Russians   Victory Wipes Out Nazi Gains During Last Summer!

Reds Capture Nazi Base of Millerovo  German Garrison   German Garrison Reported All but Wiped Out

Reds Capture Nazi Base of Millerovo   German Garrison Reported All but Wiped Out

Red Army Captures Millerovo   Voronezh Drive Makes Rapid Advance

MARSELLLES SIEGE TIGITET         250 Shot as Violators of Vichy  Reeutalions

KEY IS LA IN BOTH HOUSES OF LEGISLATURE   Resolution Adopted Commemorating 100th Anniversary Of Patriot’s Death   2 NEW DELEGATES NAMED BY O’CONOR

Texas Norther Fails to Reach Expected Low   Amarillo Coldest _. Spot in State With Minimum of 13 

FDR Plane In Forced  Landing?   Stopped In Azores To Repair Motor, Says DNB Dispatch

NAZIS CLAIM F. RS PLANE FORCED DOWN   Landed in Azores for Repairs While He Was on Way to Cairo, Teheren Conferences.

Germans Report Roosevelt Plane Made Forced Landing   Say Damage to Engine Forced Ship Down in Azores Enroute to Parleve

ROOSEVELT PLANE SAID FORCED DOWN   Germans ~ Report Stop Made On Azores Island

FDR GUEST AT AZORES   DNB Says Reosevelt Stopped At Island En Route Te Calre

F.D.R. Forced Down, Reported   President Makes Unscheduled Visit In Azores, Said

4,698 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED   U. S. 8th Air Force Lost 176 Bombers

10 KILLED IN CRASH OF TRANSPORT PLANE   Seven Army Officers, Includin; Brig. Gen. C. H. Wash, Among Dead in Accident.

Sedition Statute Invalid   Law Restricts Freedom Of Speech, Court Finds

U.S.SupremeCourtDeclares War-Time Anti-Sedition Law Unconstitutional

Vote Next Week On Strike Curb  House Ready To lake Up  Pannatiu Smith  ahare

: American Bombers Pound Jap Airbases at Munda, Kahili in Heavy Attacks   - Five Nipponese Zeros Shot Down by Yank Lightnings in Battle Over Salamaua; Ground Situation Unchanged; Enemy Fleet Flees

Strike New Blows. At Enemy In Southwest Pacilis, Pound Munda Hleavile

Repeat Allied Raids Pound Munda, Kahili   Bombers Score Two Direct Hits on Jap Naval Force

Jap Bases Pounded By Bombs   Fliers Set Pace For Solomons Conquest

Nippon Air Base At Munda Hard Hit By Bombers   Pound Rabaul, Powerful Enemy Harbor And Airbase In New Britain

Friedrichshafen Hit On Way To North Africa   Airmen Then Pound La Spezia On Way Home to British Base

Enemy Hit Going and Returning   Britons Hail Reports Of 2500.nile Runs; Duce Rese Ser five

Si ar ie Route of =.00 Miles’   Mearl h ‘Nazis Move Troops Into Bi and Italy and Mass Lu— 74 at-Industries

Hit Germans On Way To African Base   : Strike italy On The Way  : Back

RAF Makes. 2,500 Mile Bombing Trip   No Bombers Lost in Accomplishing Unprecedented Feat; Germany Is Moving Huge Forces into France and Italy; Massing Fighter Planes in Industrial Reaion 

HIT ZEP WORKS AND LA SPEZIA   RAF Bombers In Spectacu. lar Flight; Italian Navy Base Fired

Fly From Germany to North Africa and Smash Italy’s Big Naval Base on Return Flight to England Without Losing a Plane

Big British Bombers Sirafe Friedrichshafen on Way to Africa, La Spezia on Return   NAZIS BLAST HULL   North African, Middle East Airmen Carry on Air Offensive Agana Italy

British Planes 2 Crossed Germany To Africa Bases “   Italy Was Raided  On Return Trip; More Nazis Into France

FRIEDRIGHSHAFEN AND SPEZIA HAMMERED BY SQUADRONS O! FOUR-MOTORED LANCASTERS

Hits Reich, Italian Port      First Round-Trip 7 F light Takes British’ Planes Over -2500-Mile - Route

PLANES FLY TO NORTH AFRICA AND RETURN   Sunday Night's Reich Raiders Hit Italian Port Enroute Home

R. A. F., On Round Trip To Africa, Blasts Zep  Plant And Big Italian Ala<,-! Raca

“huttle Bombing Turned On Nazis   R. A. F. Fliers Bomb Both Ways on Round Trip to Africa .   HIT ZEPPELIN  WORKS   Italian Naval Base at LaSpezia Bombed on the . Way Home .

Make Shuttle Trip Bombing Germany, Italy and Return      Red Armies Attack German Defense Lines West Of  Belgorod

RAF Tries Shuttle : Bombing .   Planes Fly on to North Africa After Blasting ‘: Friedrichshafen; Hit La Spezia on Way Homa

Planes Crisscross Enemy Countries   Bombers Kept Busy on Round Trip to Africa; City of Hull Blasted by German Bombs

Friedrichshafen, La Spezia Bombed   Planes Bomb Zeppelin Plants, Fly On to North Africa — Pound Italian Naval Arsenal on Return Trip—No Planes Lost — Other Planes Active

ONUITLE RAID UN OPEZiA fo A HEAVY ONE   Italian Naval Base Hit by British After Trip to Germany.   DOCKS WERE BOMBED   Spezia One of Italy’s Important Submarine Construction Centers.

LAND IN AFRICA, ON RETURN RAID SPEZIA IN ITALY   Attacks Believed Prelude to New Pincers Assault on Axis Partners

Germany Is Bombed On One Trip And Italy On Return Flight   Remarkable ‘‘Shuttle’’ Raid Schedule Carried Out Without Plane Loss

RAF Bombers Flying Spectacular New Shuttle Route    Blasts German Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen June 20, Fly On to Africa and on Return Trip Early Today Bomb Italian Naval Base At La Speizz   NEW TECHNIQUE IN AERIAL BOMBARDMENT DEMONSTRATED BY RAF

Destruction Is Rained on Italy’s Airdromes and Sicily Raided Again

Nazis and Italians Hit  In Spectacular -~  F Flight et L ONG AIR TRIP  Germans Moving Big Forces Into F rance and Italy

RAF Starts Great Fires At La Spezia   British Bombers Bomb Ger man Base, Land In Africa, Return Via Italy.   ADMIT RUHR PUNISHED

ITALIAN SUB BASE SMASHED BY RAF BOMBS   Lancasters Hit Spezia On Returning From Africa After Blasting Reich   NEW TACTICS ARE HINTED   Docks Blasted, Oi Tanks Fired; Sardinia And Sicily Under Attack

Nazis Mass to Meet Attack   Resume General Attack on Italy's Anti-Invasion Posts

Planes Shuttle 2,500 Miles In Greatest Sweep   Hit Points In Germany, Italy Without Losses

PLANES ABLE TO DEAL OUT DOUBLE DOSE   Hit Germany on Trip Out; Hammer Italy On Return Hop

SHUTTLE ROUTE ACROSS EUROPE BEING SET UP   Big Bombers Take Off from England, Go To Africa And Return - - Blasting   AXIS INDUSTRIES SMASHED   Daylight Assaults Follow Night Attacks from Italy Throughout Germany

England-to-Africa Shuttle Route Used by British Bombers   Attack Zeppelin Works on Way Out, Italian Base Enroute Home

LONDON BASED BOMBERS LAND IN NORTH AFRICA   Bomb German, Italian Targets in Round-Trip, All Planes Return

‘SHUTTLE ROUTE FOR  COMING AND GOING  BOMBINGS REVEALED SAME BOMBERS HIT  NAZIS, FLY TO AFRICA AND TUEN HIT ITALY

Bomb Axisin New  Shuttle Method   RAF Lancasters Fly 2,500 Miles to Attack Germany; Continue On to North Africa and Bomb Italy on Return Home; Ger mans Make Heavy Incendiary Raid on Hull

ihe Wa rUn All Fronts  Zeppelin ‘Works Is Blasted By Allies      Spectacular 2,500 - Mile Flight Attacks Friedrichshafen, Then Italy

HIT REICH ON TRIP OUT, ITALY ON WAY HOME   2,500-Mile Round Trip From England to Africa Negotiated by Craft From the R.A.F.

President And Churchill Make  Invasion Plans   Conference At Washington Is Believed To Be Preparatory To Final Invasion

Churchill and Roosevelt in Close Conferences to Plan  a Second Front in Europe

Anti-Strike Bills Heard      arliamentary Tangle Halts House Delhart

ANTI-OTRIKE BILL GETS INTO TANGLE   Forces Launch Hard Drive For Enactment of Legisiation Aimed Primarily at Halting Coal Strike

Antistrike Drive Is Launched  House Embroiled  _ Over Various “Po ale

Starts Drive For Halting Coal Strike   BY ADMINISTRATIO FORCES FOR ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION; MILITARY COMMITTEE HAS MORE STRINGENT BILL.

Administration Forces Present Strike Measure  New Bill Ainted at Dealing Speedily With Coal Dispute

FIGHT OPENS IN HOUSE FOR STRIKE CURBS   Drive is Launched to Pass Bill Aimed at Coal Tieup

HOUSE BATTLES OVER MEASURE   Administration Hopes To Sidetrack Severe AntiStrike Legislation

BILL AIMS AT MINER STRIKE   Administration Force: Launch Drive For Ban On Calling Walkouts

SOLONS URGE BILL AIMED AT COAL STRIKE      Administration Forces Would Sidetrack More Drastic Act

House Battle: On Bills to Curb Strikes  Party Leaders Turn To Measure  Qn Coal Crisis

Anti-Strike Law Drive Launched   Administration Seeks To Sidetrack Other Bills

AIM LEGISLATION AT COAL WALKOUI   ADMINISTRATION FORCES USE STRIKE TO SIDETRACK STRINGENT LABOR BILL.

Yanks Among Toughest of Soldiers  Tommies Like to Have Them Around

Congress Faces Many Problems   Grave Issues Awai Solons’ Attention

BIG PROBLEMS FACING WEARY U.S. CONGRESS   SHARP DIFFERENCES WITH PRESIDENT DEVELOPING

Reds Swarm Toward Azov  Sea, Rostov   Soviet Guards, Mobile Troops  Leading Drives

riitler’s _Men Getting Dose Of Own Medicine As Russian Mobile Units Run Them Down.

SEA ROUTE ONLY MEANS OF ESCAPE LEFT OPEN   ONE RED ARMY IS ONLY 10 MILES FROM ROSTOV GATEWAY   Southern Column Reaches - Sea and Seals All Posstble Land Escape Routes.

Unurcnili Will Address U.S. Congress  Prime Minister to Speak  to Joint Session Next  Wednesday  ISTUDY BURMA ROAD

New Aitacks Against Japs ArePlanned   FDR, Churchill Include All Axis Nations in Talks

Churchill To Be Congress’ Guest   Accepts Bid To Address Solons Next Wednesday

‘Churchill Will Speak Wednesday   Arvangements Are Made For Prime Minister Of Great Britain To Address Congress -

Churchill Will Address Congress      Joint Senate-House Session Will Be Held Next Wednesday.

Churchill Will Address Solons  Will Speak to Joint Session on  Wednesday

CONGRESS WILL HEAR CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Will Broadcast on Friday

CONGRESS WILL HEAR CHURCHILL   British Prime Minister To Address Joint Session Next Wednesday At 19-20.

CHURCHILL 10 ADDRESS U.S. CONGRESS; BROADCASTS TO LONDON TOMORROW

CONGRESS TO HEAR PRIME MINISTER  ~~ Churchill Will  Speak Wednesday

India Discussed é As Offensive Base  Against Japan   Address Will Give Churchill Opportunity to Analyze Tunisia Vic. tory And. Discuss’ Future Conduct: Of War.

Churchill Will Address Congress   Minister Accepts Rayburns Invitation To Talk Wednesday

Churchill Plans Radio Speech to British People   Prime Minister Will Broadcast from Washington Friday Night

CHURCHILL TO MAKE RADIO TALK FRIDAY   Speech to British People Expect ed to Touch on War Parley in Washington.

Roosevelt and Churchill Open Momentous  War Talks  OFFICERS OF INDIA THEATER PRESENT  Lost Minute Check Being Made on Plans for Eu-

Wavell Joins Washington War Meeting   Other British Leaders From India Theatre Accompany Churchill   AMERICAN OFFICERS ALSO IN WASHINGTON   Decisive Campaign Against Japanese Reheved in Making

CHURCHILL TO ADDRESS U.S. HOUSE, SENATE   Rayborn Arranging for Speecl . Wednesday—Broadcast to Eng land Tomorrow

Congress to Hear  Churchill May 19   British Prime Minister Accepts Invitation to Speak  at 11:30 a. m.

Roosevelt and Churchill Open Momentous War Talks  OFFICERS OF INDIA THEATER PRESENT  Last Minute Check Being Made on Plans for European Invasion

Many Fathers Will Be Called  State Not To Be Affected Much By  Al nas T aw

War Labor Board Backs Plans for Food Subsidies   Declares Program Is Need ed To Hold Down Wages for Duration

WLB Extends Support to Subsidy Plan   Holds Program Essential to Conirol Costs

WLB CALLS FOR FOOD CEILINGS   Declares Holding Wage Level Depends Upon Control Of Costs

SUBSIDY PROGRAM APPROVED BY WLB   Board Cautions Price Ceil. ing Needed to Keep Down Waces

Stalin Lauds. Reds’ Victory At Stalingrad   More Than:500,000  Of Cream of Axis Army Reported Slain or Take At Volga Verdun

STALINGRAD FALL SPURS AED FORGES   Army. Gets Praise Of’ Premier On Victory

Nazi Stalingrad Army Liquidated   STALIN CONGRATULATED RED ARMY FOR GREAT VICTORY

GREAT VICTORY SPURS RUSSIANS   Berlin Admits Destruction Of Sixth Army In Epic Battle   STALIN HAPPY   Triumph Releases Crack Russian Troops For New Offensives

SHOCK UNITS ARE FLUSHED WITH GREATEST VICTORY   Armies Plunge Ahead On All Fronts — Gver 500,000 Of Cream Of Axis Troops Slain Or Captured

HAPPY SOVIET SHOCK TROOPS PLUNGE AHEAD   Stalin Sends Troops Congratulations: German Siege Lasted 162 Days

REDS PLUNGE FORWARD ON EVERY FRONT   Over 500,000 of Cream of Axis Soldiery Reported Slain or Captured In Offensive   GERMAN RADIO PASSIVE

Stalin Praises  Red Army   x *«* K YX Germans Admit Stalingrad Defeat

OF 162 DAYS NOW AT END   Premier Stalin Congratulates His Forces   AXIS DEAD   Estimated Over 275,000: Soviets Freed To Battle On Other Fronts

‘STALIN FELICITATES RED ARMY FOR HAVING LIQUIDATE GERMANS  MORE THAN HALF MILLION HITLER’S BEST TROOPS LOST AT STALINGRAD

Russians, Flushed by Victory. At Stalingrad, Plunge Ahead On Ail Fronts of Long Line

Stalin Lauds Army For Its Great Victory   Russian Army Units Now Free To Carry War To Other Secior:

STALIN LAUDS: CAVIET ARMY   Congratulates Red Forces For Liquidation of © Last of Nazis.

HAILS GREAT VICTORY AT STALINGRAD   End Of Siege Reveals Great German Losses

Stalingrad Siege Lifted After 162 Days of Battling   Nazi Defeat Complete; Red Troops Released for Other Fronts

STALIN EXTENDS CONGRATULATIONS TO MIGHTY TROOPS   The Fighting At Stalingrad ts Over; Seasoned Divisions To Kursk

SOVIETS BATTER GERMANS ANEW ON ALL FRONTS   Stalin Congratulates Red Ar my on Sweeping Victory In Stalingrad Area

278,000 NAZIS DIE IN RUIN OF STEEL GIT}   Vast Russian Forces Released to Join In the General Campaign to Rid Russia of Axis

STALIN COMMENDS ~ SOVIET ARM   Praises Troops As Siege of Stalingrad Ends; Reds ” Make Gains °

Red Division: Freed for New Attacks   Battle of Stalingrad Ends With Enemy Wipned Out

STALIN PRAISES SOLDIERS AFTER LONG FIGHT ENDS   162-Day Battle of Stalingrad Brought to Close With Over 500,000 Axis Killed or Captured.   SEASONED RUSSIANS TO HELP ELSEWHERE   2500 Officers Among 91,000 Captured In Past Three Weeks. Smash Enemy at Other Points.

Reds Plunge Ahead on All Their Fronts   Russians Are Flushed With Great Victory Over Nazis at Stalingrad.   Complete Capitulation Of Besiegers Is Made

Stalingrad Siege Ends, Nazi Defeat   Frees Red Army For New Drives

$30,000 NAZIS LOST IN SIEGE AT STALINGRAD   Moscow Announces Final Pocket Liquidated In Epic Battle to Free City On Volga   BERLIN VERIFIES VICTORY FOR REDS   German Radio Broadcasts Claim Russian Losses In 162-Day Struggle Exceeded 300,000

Stalin Praises Red Army For Great Victory   Last of Hitler’s Troops At Stalingrad Liaquidated

STALINGRAD'S SIEGE IS ENDED   Soviet Armies Plunge Ahead On All Fronts As Stalin Praises Victory

REDS PLUNGE AHEAD ON ALL BATTLE LINES   Soviet Drive on Rostov \loves Nearer Vital Southern City

U.S. BOMBERS HAMIMER AXIS U-BOAT BASES   LORIENT AND BREST ARE TARGETS FOR DAYLIGHT RAID

American Planes Bomb Lorient, Brest Sub Bases   Axis Radio Stations Quit Air, Indicating Night Raiders Active

Axis Suffers Bad Blow In Long Raid   Lorient, Brest Take Brunt of Attack; British Hit in Night

SOY BEAN PRICE. ~(SSET BY OP!   Ceiling Of $1.66 A Bushel Is Fixed For Top Grades

OPA PUTS LID ON SOY BEANS   Ceiling Of $1.66 A Bushel For Top Grades Unpra mene Bee:

CEILING ON SOYBEANS ANNOUNCED   Government Acts to Move More Oil and Oi] Meal to Market   1$1.66 TOP PRICE ON BEST GRADES   ft Applies to Beans Sold hy Farmers, to Country Elevators

Ceiling On Soy Beans   OPA Sets $1.66 For Top Grades With Apoproval of Wickard

Raid on Capital Underscores Allied Surrender Demand   Rail Facilities Used By German Troops Principal Targets

PARTIES CANVASS . FOR TAX BATTLE   Democrats Aim to Head Off Coalition; G 0 P Leaders Score Majority Proposals

Demos Gather Strength For Ruml Battle   Congressman Predicts Many Republicans Will Join  Democrats In Vote.   DEBATE ON THURSDAY

DEMOCRATS CANVASS HOUSE MEMBERS TO FORESTALL POSSIBLE COALITION AND PASSAGE OF RUML TAX PLAN   Democratic Whip, Rep. Ramspeck of Ga. Says Many Democrats Stil! Have An Open Mind On Tax Issue. But Some Are Confused

DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS SEEK KEEP MEMBERSHIP IN LINE   PULANS LAID TO HEAD OFF  DEMOCRATS AIDING RE_ PUBLICANS ON RUML PLAN

SOLONS: WARM UP FOR: - TAX: DEBATE FIGHT THURSDAY   Rum! Plan and No Abatement Proposal Both Said: to be Aid to Wealthy

Map Fight To Head Off Rumi  Plan In House   Demo Leaders Hope To Beat Coalition Behind Skin-Year Proposal.

Rival Income Tax Groups Map Showdown Fight   Republicans Label Committee’s Bill As “Stupid”

Democrats Rallied For Tax Battle   Ramspeck Finding Adherents Of Ruml Plan In Ranks

Mussolini Wilts More Quickly After "Burning Ships Behind,"'  Than He Blossomed Into Power   Famous ''Stab In The Back'' Administered France Was The Beginning Of The Downward Spiral Of Italy's Fortunes

RAPS WILLKIE VIEWS ON INDI   Solon Says He Was Never There, Doesn't Understand Situation

MOVE TO RECONCILE DIFFERENCES WITH ~ FARM BLOC TAKES SHAPE   Influential Senators Anxious to Avoid Bitter Floor Fight On Issues

American Airmer Blast Japanese  . Three-Day Attack Staged in Ching

Strategic Enemy Bases in China Raided by Yanks   Fourteenth Air Force At: tacks Japanese near Haiphong

West Bank Fighting Reported by Berlin; Belittle Significance   Strength of Soviet Units Not Told;Violenve Mounts on 400-Mile: Lines: Nazi Fast Shore Tocholds Smashed

REDS CROSS DNIEPER AT SOME POINTS   Nazi Radio Admits Russians In Action West of River

SHORTAGE OF FEED   Senate Speeds Measure to Allow Sale of Government Wheat

Demand Swift Senate Action   Crisis Looms In Livestock Feed And Alcohol Grains

News Behind The News  Caverigat WsClure Nawrpaper   WASHINGTON By Ray Teacher

NAZIS PULLING TROOPS FROM RED FRONT TO WEST.   Hitler May Retreat To Poland, Concentrate On Defense Against

MILLION GERMANS REPORTED SHIFTED TO WESTERN FRONT   Madrid Reports Over 70 Divisions of Reserves Leaving Russian Front

GLAMAN TROOPS BEING DRAINED FROM RED SOIL   . ‘oO  Madrid Reports Nazis Sending 70 Divisions To West And South

EndProbe of Riots at Tule   STATE SOLONS PLAN “MAN-ON-THE-STREET” TOWN INTERVIEWS

Flying Fort Tinker Toy Returns iS From Raid on Bremen Despite Crippled Condition, 2 Engines Gone

‘French Invasion ‘Coast Pounded By RAF Bombers   Essen Blasted In Heavy Raid On Thursday

Chinese Oust Chaneteh Foe   General Leads Bloody Steeed Flehtine

Japanese Driven Out of Changteh   Yank, Chinese Flyers Aid in Offensive

Allies to Sink. U-Boats, Crush Nazi Industry  So Promises British People Air Marshal

Briton Sees End of Nazi Power   Air Chief Declares Allied Fliers Will Wreck Country

Air Head Says Forces Pledge  To Ruin Reict   Harris Promises British That Command Will Smash Nazi War Centers.   WILL SAVE TEN MEN

DELUGE OF BOMBS PROMISED REICH   ATR CHIEF SAYS ALLIES WILL SHATTER 90 WAR CENTERS AND SMASH SUBS.

‘Nazi War Centers To Be Destroyed  90 Face Destruction,  British People Told

‘Air Marshal. of RAF Promises Aerial Blows  90 German Centers “War Production Said Marked for Ruin-

Sees Destruction Of War Centers   Says Bombings To Save Many Lives

Promise to Shatter 90 Nazi Centers   Air Marshal Says Ali Are Well on Their Way Toward Destruction

CAP PLAYS VITAL — PART IN DEFENSE   Rep. Vorys s Lands Air Grea For Work

MOTHER OF TWO SOLDIERS SLAIN   Mrs. Miley Owens Killed By Officers In Dispute Over Two Sons, Allegedly Army Deserters.

Mother Of Two Alleged Army Deserters Killed In Affray With Officers Near Lexington

Protest Ban on Pleasure Driving   Auto Association Sees ‘Persecution’

Patton Comands Seventh Army   Combined Allied Forces Known As 15th Army

J, $, AIR FORCE RANGES PACIFIC   Hits 3 Jap Ships, Bases From  Kiska To Solomons is "

Jap Ship Sunk, Two Damaged As U. S. Fliers Continue Raids on Bases

INVASION ARC EXTENDED 60 MILES IN ITALY   British Driving Ahead On Calabrian Coastal ‘Road, and Smash 10 Miles Inland   DELIANUOVO AND PALMI ARE SEIZED   round Forces Supported By Allied Airmen Battering Southern Italy and Napies

Push Further Up  Calabrian Coast   British Eighth Army Main_ tains Steady Advance “an Italy   IN ‘MINOR: ENCOUNTERS      Allies Rush Huge Stores of Materials Into War ‘Area

Extensive Demolitions Of Roads And Bridges Slows Up Progress Of Eighth Army

British Driving Steadily Ahead   CANADIAN COLUMNS ARE PUSHING ONWARD IN ITALY

Smash Ahead In Italy   Allies Now Hold 60Mile Coastal Strip; Air War Thunders Intc 6th Consecutive Day

British Extend  Invasion Arc  Push Steadily Ahead In Italian Push

Allies Extend — Invasion Arc About 60 Mes   Smash 10 Mr We,  4 UN In Sante. — oO av < . ToD — yy yes hs ’ 4° wee. ~ «0° “A O° .SNEDY  —) a¥,v? QUARTERS IN ~¥ UU? CA. Sent. 7.2) —

British Extend Invasion Are To Sixty Miles   8th Army Drives Ahead On Calabrian Coast Road; Take Palmi, Delianuova

British Broaden ltaly invasion Arc, Speed North   ‘(Map on Page 2-A)

LARGER LANDING ON MAINLAND IS PREDICTED SOON   OPPOSITION SCANT AS ALLIED ARMIES OVESRUN PENINSULA

British Forces Advancing Steadily; Widen Arc of  Invasion in Southern Italy

Invasion Arc ls Widened to About 60 Miles   Triangle Wedge Driven Inland By Allied Army

British Capture Palmi In New Thrust: Little Resistance Being Met   Eighth Army Pushed On Toward Interior; Axi: Sees New Blows Against Continent

BRITISH TAKE _PALMI, EXTEND  LINE 60 MILES   8ih Army Drives Steadily Ahead on Calabrian Coastal Road. Smashes Inland 10 Miles   SPEED NORTHWARD   ‘Reinforcements and Supplies Joiz Forces in Vtaly; Naples, Capua, Gaeta Bombed

Allies Push Forwardin Swift Drive   Fortresses Drop Bombs On Naples Area

Drive Farther Inland in Santo Stefano Area   Two More Towns, Palmi and Delianuova, Announced Captured by British and Canadian Columns in Offi cial Statement.   Allied Air Force Bombs City of Naples

Eighth Army Extends Invasion Arc In Calabrian Area To About Sixty Miles—Invaders Push Forward To Palmi On Western Shore And Beyond Melito In South—Inland Town Of Delianuova Captured— Scant Opposition Encountered

ALLIED TROOPS WIDEN ITALIAN HOLD GO MILES   British 8th Drives Up Calabrian Road; Capture Two New Towns

ALLIES DRIVE DEEPER INTO ITALY'S TIP.   Delianuova And Palmi Captured In 10 Mile Push

Allies Hold * Italy’s Tip, ~ 60-Mile Arc   New Landing Expected By Germans — Opposition Light So Far

Invasion Arc On Peninsula Tip Extended   Allied Troops Move Into Hilly Terrain For Ten-Mile Gain

Allies Now 20 Miles Inland: Push Up Coast   British, Canadians Carve 60-Mite Coastal Arc Capture Palmi and Del januova. New — Rein forcements Move Across Straits: .-

‘SMASH INLAND 10 MILES   Capture Of Palmi And Detianuova, Allies Announce

Invasion Arc In Italy Extended To 60 Miles; Palmi, Delianuova Taken

SIXTY-MILE INVASION ARC   As Some Eighth Army Forces Push Inland, Others Advance Up West Coast of Italy, Taking City of Palmi.

Invasion Arch Is Extended Around South Tip of Italy   Allied Troops Capture Palmi, Six Miles West of Bagnara And Strike Ten Miles Inland to Take Town Of Delianueve   BIG STORES BEING RUSHED INTO MEDITERRANEAN

BRITISH ARMY PUSHES AHEAD   Eighth Army Extends Inva« sion Arc to About 69 /  ‘  Miles in Haly. 2’   DRIVE 10 MILES INLAND

Powerful British Offensive Drives  Ten Miles Inland   Berlin Says Whole Of Southern Italy Has Been Evacuated; Two Towns Fall To Eighth Army; Opposition Is Still Feeble

BRITISH INVADERS DRIVE AHEAD ON CALABRIAN COAST AS OTHER ARMIES MOVE FORWARD

Steady Drive In Italy Made By British   More Towns Occupied: Naples Pounded By  Eleine Fortraccac

Allies Now 20 Miles Inland; Push Up Coast   British, Canadians Carve 60-Mile Coastal Are. Capture Palmi and Decl: ianuova, New Rein: fore ‘ame ents Move Across Straits.

British Eighth Drives Steadily Ahead In Italy   Additional Landings Are Predicted By Berlin Broadcasts

INVADING TROOPS OF ALLIES DRIVING AHEAD OVER ITALY  PROGRESS SLOWED BY DEMOLITIONS AND DIFFICULT TERRAIN :

Axis Abandoning Calabrian’ Area; Under Pressure .   Germans Expecting : New Invasion Soon ;

Palmi And Delianuova Fall To British Eighth Army; Extensive Demolition Work, Difficult Country Slow Inland Drive

Allies Smash Ahead To Palmi In South Italy   British Extend Captured Coastal Arc To 60 Miles, Drive 10 Miles Further Inland: Axis Exeects New Landing

BRITISH 8TH ARMY EXTENDS INVASION ARC SIXTY MILES   Smashed Another 10 Miles Inland in the Santo Stefano Sector.   REACHED DELIANWOVA

FARM, DAIRY LEADERS OPEN SUBSIDY FIGHT   Warn Administration of Another Legislative Battle If It Tries to Broaden Program

Men Sentenced For Bank Holdup  Three Plead Guilty To Robbery of Hawk

THREE CONFESS BANK ROBBERY   Prison Sentences of 35 to 50 Years Given Trio In Missouri

Rationing  Of Whisky Due To Start Next Monday   Retail Customers To Get Fifth and Pint For Initial Period Ending December 31   PLAN DESCRIBED AS EXPERIMENTAL  Ration Book No. 3 Will Be Utilized, Buyers Must Register

ate to Begin Rationing of  liqor Monday   Retail Customers to Get Fifth and Pint For Initial Period Ending December 31

Many Landing: Unotficially-~ Reported Now   President’s Invasion Hint Fulfilled With Startline Speed

FDR PROMISE FULFILLED BY NEW LANDINGS   Troops Reported Going Ashore All Along Western Coast  aft italy

FOR SAYS BOND. BUYING TESTS SELF-SACRIFICE   Speculation on Whereabouts of Future Landings Follows Address

War Isn’t Over, FDR  Warns Nation   Principal Enemies Yet to Be Licked, He Points Out

‘New Allied Landings on Hostile Shores Promised by President in  Address Opening War Loan Drive

F.D.R. Promise Of New Landings Being Fulfilled .   Mentions Troop - Movements in ; Radio Talk

Conclusion of Attu Conquest ‘Matter of Time   New Base to Give America Control of Jap Fishing Waters

Surrender or Die Choice of Japs on Attu   No Sea-Borne Escape Possible; US Control of Aleutians Will Be Serious Blow to Jap Food Supply

TOKYO BOASTS THAT FIGHT “FROM NOW ON”.  mM ErTEenT CaPerarl rar AVEC

Troops Drive Against Last Japs in Attu   Believed Only Matter of Time Till Last Of Enemy Bottled Up; Heavy New Blows Against Nips in South Seas.

JAPAN'S F SUPPLY 1S HIT   Yank Victory At Attu To Close Big Fishing  Grounds

Munda Base Fired in Raid   Dive Bombers Make Heovy Attack Upon Japanese Stronghold

Munda Given Big Drubbing   Dive Bombers Leave Heavy Fires Raging At Japanese Air Base

DIVE BOMBERS STRAFE MUNDA   Large Fires Set On Japanese Held Base By American Planes.

‘American Dive Bombers Start Many IFivasi in Their Raids on Munda

Dive Bombers Hit Munda Air Base   Japanese Shipping Blasted from Air.

Heavy Raid Or Jap Base At Munda By U.S.  Dive-Bombing Attack Starts Many Fires;

Wilikie Outlines Plan To' End Racial Discrimination   tude Must Be Changed” in Approaching Negro  Yate; Urges Political and Economic EqualJ ite for Rero  Tells Both Major Political Parties That “Their Atti

FAVORS MORE FREEDOM FOR NEGRO PEOPLE   _ Asserts Political Parties Must Change Attitudes

Strike Of ‘Steel Men. ‘Spreading   Grave Crisis Arises” At 135, 000 Workers, Stay - Away. From. Jobs A War Plants’ ~ -

Steel Walkout © Brings On Grave Labor Crisis   ‘Workers Claim They Are Protesting Adverse. WLB Decision

Steel Strike Spreads FDR Hurries Back to Washington   Workers Say Walk-Out Is Not Strike But Protest Against WPB ©

LARGE NUMBER OF WAR CHIEFS WILL ATTENT   Prime Minister Holds Conference With Canada Cabinet

Several Persons Believed Killed as Four Houses Wrecked: Streets Crowder

Nazi Planes Raid London   Several Persons Die In Attack By Enemy

[fal Boys’ Hit The Ball—  Ball From Biggs Field ‘Sets Style For Bombers

Morgenthau Pushes Pay-as-You-GoPlan  Secretary Says He Hones to Have It

EASTERN SEABOARD GAS SUPPLIES NOW ‘ON LIMITED BASIS  Ickes Tells Senate Commi

LITTLE HOPE OF RELAXING FUEL QUOTAS   Petroleum Administrator Ickes Tells Committee Supplies Are on “Hand to Mouth Basis"   SITUATION IS REVIEWED

Eastern Seaboard’s Supplies on “Hand-to-Mouth” Basis, Administrator Tells Senate Committee.

NO IMPROVEMENT TN OIL SUPPLIES   East To Be On ‘Hand-To Mouth Basis’ Says Administrator Ickes

OFFICIALS CALLED TO TESTIFY ON GAS, Ol RATIONING   Senatorial Committee Be gins Inquiry Seeking "Fairer Distribution”

RATIONING OF FUEL AND GAS WILL CONTINUE   Ickes Tells Senate Committee Supplies Were on ‘Hand To Mouth Basis’ in East

Petroleum Administrator Tolls Senate Group East Is On “Hand to Mouth Basis”   SEES LITTLE HOPE OF EASING RATIONS   Will Continue to Reduce Gas Consumption In Favor of More Fuel Oil,  If Necessary

Ickes Says East's Oil Famine May Last For Months   Henderson Charges People Are ‘Indifferent’ To "Gat Rationing Neéd

GAS AND OIL QNAHAND 10 MOUTH BASIS      Can't Relax Gas Rationing, Only Slight Easing In Oil Quotas, Says Ickes

GAS TO REMAIN SHORT IN EAST   Will Continue On “Hand-ToMouth” Basis, Ickes Tells Committee.

Japan Observes Navy Day with Review of Past   Fleet Is Away and Nip: Find Little Cause To Celebrate

MINERS SLOW IN RETURNING BACK TO WORK TODAY   Report Conditions Better Throughout Nation, 5 Ohio Mines Still Closed

Yanks, British Cross Stream At All Points; Fight for Hills   U. S. Bombers Blast Rail Yards on BelgradeAthens Line

YANKS CAPTURE FIVE VILLAGES; AIRMEN ACTIVE   British Eighth Army Also Gains—Troops Pour Across Stream

Bitter Fight For River Ends As Americans And  British Continue Gains

TWO ARMIES MOVE AREAD OVER RIVER   More Villages Fall As Nazis “Stage Retreat

Eight Towns Captured In Big Advances   Americans, British Swarm Across River At All Points

Americans Win Volturno Battle   ‘CLARK'S FIFTH ARMY IS VICTOR IN ITALIAN CAMPAGN

AMERICAN, BRITISH TROOPS CROSS RIVER ALL ALONG FRONT  GEN. MONTGOMERY'S EICHTU ARMY CONTINITES

ENTIRE RIVE AREA HELD BY BRITISH, YANKS   Vital Villages Seized As Germans Are Pushed Back As Resistance Drops

Victory to Allies Over the Volturne   and_ = Brritish _. Across the River  at All Points      MORE VILLAGES TAKEN   Bitter Infantry Fighting Re-- quired to Seize Moun tain Towns

J More Towns Talkenin Dash  RAAL A744  Toward Rome   U.S. Gain in East Sector Matches British Drive Over River Barrier

River Is In Allied Hands   General Eisenhower Pays Tribute To Infantry’s “Footslogger”

Victory to Allies Over the Volturno   American and —_ British Forces / Across the River  at All Points   MORE VILLAGES TAKEN   Bitter Infantry Fighting Re - quired to Seize Mountain Towns

Volturno River Battle Ends In Allied Victory   British and American Forces Swarm Across River at All Points

LINE IS TAKEN BY YANKS IN FIERCE FIGHTING   In Russia, Bitter Battles Rage as Reds Close Trap On Nazis on Crimea

Americans Capture Five Villages On The Eastern Sector   British Broops Between Capua and the Sea Sweep Over Difficult River Barrier at All Points on U. S.-Made Bridaes

5th Army Takes River, Crosses  At All Point:   8th Army Captures Santo Stefano And Montecilfone In  Advance

Both Armies Take Towns And Push Germans Back   5th Army Advances 3 to 3 Miles, Reach Titerno River. Montgomery's Forees Capture Santo Stefano and Montecilfone in Adriatic Drive.

Ally Push  Roars On in Italy   CLARK CAPTURES FIVE VILLAGES AS BRITISH SWARM ACROSS RIVER

CROSS RIVER IN FORCE AT ALL POINTS   Battle Of Volturno Ends: Bomber Fleets In Raid On Yugoslav Airfield; Infantry Praised

TAKES VILLAGES   Allied: Planes Blast Vital Rail Line In Skepleje

Volturno Battle tnds In Victory As Allies Capture Five Villages   Bth Army Push Puts Line Astride Tierno River; Montgomery Continues Advance Fram Adriatic

Americans Take 5 Towns on Kast Side Of 5th Army Lines   British Advance in Drive From Adriatic Coast; U.S. Fliers Rip Rail Yards In Yugoslavia

British and Americans in  The Advance   North African Air Force Holds Supremacy on All  Sectors

Fifth And Eighth Armies Crossing At Many Points   Five Villages Taken As American Troops . Continue Advancing

British 8th. Takes$ More Italian Towns   Clark’s Troops Cross River At All Points; Britons Punch Ahead From Adriatic Side

ALLIES SWEEP ACROSS RIVER   Volturno Battle Ends As Yanks, British Cross At All Points

American And British Troops Cross Water Barrier At All Points—U. S. Forces Capture Five Villages During  : Sweeping Advance—aAllies Now Fighting For High Ground Leading To Main Mountain Ridge Which May Be Next Defense Line Of Enemy

WIN VOLTURNC RIVER BATTLE   Yanks in Sweeping Advance OT Three to Five Miles Along Front.   AIR FORCE IS SUPREME

EIGHT ITALIAN TOWNS FALLIN ALLIED DRIVE      Three to Five Miles Gained . Against Slackening German Resistance By Yankecs and British   NAZIS DUG IN ON MOUNTAIN SLOPES   Gen. Clark's Forces Now Astride River Tierno, 95 Airline Miles From Eternal Citv

Allies Advance At All Points on Italian Front   Five Villages Fall to Yankees In Sweeping Drive

Defeated German Troops Begin Retreat North of Kiev: RAF Hurls Big Armada at Hanover

Yanks, British Effect Crossing At Every Poin      “Americans Take 5 5 Villages On Fifth’s East Sector; 2 Towns Fall To Eighth

VOLTURNO RIVER BATTLE ENDS IN ALLIED VICTORY   CLARK'S MEN PUSH AHEAD IN SWEEPING ADVANCE TO TITERNO

UNITS CROSS THE RIVER IN ALL SECTIONS   Having Ended the Campaign to Force a Crossing Fifth Army Forces Stage Advance of Three to Five Miles.

BATTLE OF THE VOLTURNO RIVEF REPORTED OVER   Allies Cross At All Pow ts In  Drive On Rome

American And British Troops Cross River At All Points And Capture Five [talian Villages   Montgomery's Eighth Continues To Push Bac! Enemy On Adriatic Front; American Forces Make Sweeping Advance Of 2 Te 5 Miles

Battle Along Volturno Is At End Now   Allies Mark Up Victory, Start Toward Next Line, In High Mountains

The Troops Captured Five Villages on Eastern Seetor of Their Line in an Ad vance of 3 to 5 Miles.   THE RIVER CROSSED BY U.S. AND BRITISH   Gen. Montgomery’s 8th Army Continued to Push Back the Germans, Capturing Two Towns.

ALLIED TROOPS CROSSING RIVER AT ALL POINTS   8th Army Continues to Push Germans Back; Planes Blast Skoplie

River Is Crossed At All Points By U.S. And British   Resistance Slackening North Of Line; Montgomery Makes New Gains Along Adriatic

Fifth Army Troops Sweep Over Stream; British Gain As Enemy Resistance Less

Fifth And British Troops Crossing It At All Points As  Montonmery Advances Tan

British Sweep Over Volturno River Barrier   Fifth Army Crosses River at All Points On Bridges Built by  American Enaineere

Rainbow Girls  Will Install   Joy Coen Will Be Worthy Advisor For Term Opening Saturday Night

Rainbow Girls Seat Officers   Edith Thompsen Is New Worthy Advisor Following Meeting Saturday Ninht

TO ASK PEOPLE   Servicemen’s Ballot Issue May Come Before Voters

Soldier Vote To : Go To Paonle   NEW DEAL , LEADERS iN THREAT ON BALLOT MEASURE

SOLDIER VOTE. HAY BEMAJOR ISSUE IN 1944   Administration Leaders Warn It Will Be Taken to People Unless Congress Grants Ballot

een a aeeeainaetiae ee cere e ae TOI oe  Congressional Refusal Of Service Men Voting Signal To Ask People

WILL TAKE VOTE BILL 10 PEOPLE   Will Make Campaign Issue Out of Servicemen’s Vote Dem Threatens

WEATHER  Cooler.      War Bulletins   LONDON—(AP)—Reuters said Monday that the German radio announced for the first time that German troops now are in Sardinia.

WITNESSES T0 BE SUBPOENAED   Hull May Be Called To Testify On Flynn's Qualifications For Ambassador

Soldier Centers Here Dedicated   Federal Officials Attond Deanracce

Soldier Centers Here Dedicated   Federal Officials  Attand Proaramc

  ussolini Not epresented  ‘Axis Powers Hald  Conference. at wv .aLbun Annnunerod

AXIS POWERS HOLD TOKYO CONFERENCE      Puppet Governments Are Represented; Mussolini Envav Absent.

TIPPLERS MAY GET QUART PER MONTH   Liquor Rationing Probably Will Start in May

MAYBE IT'LL BE QUART-A-MONTH   Survey of Six States Shows Many Registrants Fail To Roy Linuer.

LIQUOR RATIONS MAY BE DOUBLED   Pint-a-month Allotment To Go Up in Proportion To. Decreased Buying

LIQUOR RATION MAY BE BOOSTED   Officials Survey Other State Plans, See Possibility Of One Quart Per Month

CHANGES SLATED IN TAX PROGRAN   Finance Experts Conter with War Production Board, Army and Navy.

Tax Program May Be Changed Before [ Reaching Concress Earlu Next Month

MORE CHANGES IN TAX PLANS    Morgenthau Says Treasury I - ae Considering Higher F ” . $ndividual- Levies

AIRLINER 1S ~ LONG OVERDUE   SEARCH . BEING MADE FOR FLARE BOUND FOR CLEVE‘LAND WITH TEN PERSONS ABOARD

COALITION PARTY SEEN IN CANADI      Liberal Administration De feated In Election

Attacks cost Germans80(  on red front   Attempt to take important height

Nazis Fail to Gain Important Site,  Lose Many Soldiers  Reds Thwart Effort Despite Severe Thrust by Germans

RED OFFENSIVE EXPECTED SOON   Transport Movements On Huge Front Completed; 800 Nazis Slain

FEAR SHORTAGE OF LABOR FOR CIVILIAN FRON]   Uniess Armed Forces Revise Downward Their Plans for Putting 11 Million in Uniform

More Serious Civilian Labor  Shortage Looms   Senate Gets Bill To Defer Married Men Until Jan. 1

WMC Warns Army, Navy to Cut Demands    Says Civilian Labor Short. age to Be Critical in Next Year

RECORD MASS ATTACK MADE ON NIP FORCE   Liberators Smash Jap Positions Near Finschhafen

11 TONS OF BOMBS SHAKE JAP POSITIONS    Heavy Casualties for Enemy in the Greatest Mass Attack of Campaign in New Guinea

Massed Jungle Foe ls Bombed InNew Guinea   Liberators Flatten Supply Buildings, Troop Huts Near Finschhafen   BACK AUSSIE DRIVE   221 Tons OF Explosives Smash Targets; Japanese Casualties Are Heavy

Liberators Blast Foe in New Guinea   Biggest Attack of Campaign Rakes Jap Positions

Allied Bombers Batter Jap Positions, Troops In Record Air Attack

ALLIES MAKE MASS ATTACK ON ENEMY NEAR FINSCHHAFEN      221 Tons Of Bombs. Flatten Positions: “And “Several ~ Thousands Of Japs  In New Guinea

BOMBERS RAKE JUNGLE AREAS: JAP LOSS HIGt   221 Tons Of Explosives Dropped To Support Australians

Bombers Aid Australian Troops by Smashing Jap Force on New Guinea

FLATTEN JAP POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA   221 Tons of Explosives Do Damage

Jap Barracks Flattened in Plane Attack      Explosions Rip Through Enemy Force Moving on Finschhafen }

Air Assault Rocks Japs   Bombers Flatten Foe Sieging Finschhafen

Palermo Hit By Bombs of 400 Planes   Exclisively American Raid One of War's Biggeat Daylicht One:

Heaviest Raid Of War Smashes lfalian Plants   Fiat Factory Damagec Other War Industries Attacked   lremendous Fires Set i mportant Manufacturing Center

Big Forts Lead Huge  Armada   Industrial Ares Is Flattened Bv Raiders

City Suffers Severest Raid of War   Armada of 400 Planes Sets Record for Mediterranean Region

Reds Pledge to Pay Substantially For All U. S. Help  Donald Nelson Report: Stalin’s Stand on Postwar Obliaations

Russia To Pay All War Debts   Stalin Gives His BPledaae TA Keatenn.

Russia to Pay Obligations in Full—Nelsor   War Production’s Chief Reports on Moscow Visit

Good  News From Moscow:  ‘Russia Will Pay U. S. in Full, Stalin Promises Donald Nelson

‘Russia will repay U.S. obligations’   Stalin assures  Donald M. Nelson

OBLIGATIONS OF RUSSIA WILL BE FULLY REPAID   Nelson Says Stalin Intends To Compensate US. _  For Assistance

RUSSIA 10 PAY “FULL OBLIGATION   Nelson Quoting Stalin Says All U. S. Obligations To Be Paid In Full.

STALIN PROMISES  TO REPAY U.S,   DONALD M. NELSON REVEALS PLEDGE TO MEET OBLI- © GATIONS IN FULL.

Long, Lasting Friendship Between U. S., Russia  Predicted by Chairman

Russia Intends To Pay In Full, Donald Nelson State:   Marshal Joseph Stalin Quoted as Saying That Obliga tions of Nation Will be Repsid—Moscow Declarations Lauded

Russia to Pay U. $. in Full:   Nelson Says Stalin Plans No Token Deal

EIGHTH ARMY HAS BRIDGEHEAD NOW ACROSS SANGRE   Monty’s Men Succeed In Pen etrating Main Defense at Nazi Defenders.

 Kighth Army Improves Bridgehead In Face of Fierce Nazi Attacks   HUGE FORT ARMADA STRIKES GERMANY

ITALY HOLD BRIDGEHEAD   Repulse German Counter-Attacks In Sangro Area

STH ARMY FENDS OFF NAZI DRIVE   p-Mile Breach Opened By Montgomery In Gemans’ Line

SANGRO FRONT DRIVE REPULSED   British Strengthen Wedge Driven !nto Nazi Lines

British Eighth Army Repulses Counterattacks   Nazi Attempt to Reduce Bridgehead Fnde in Failure

HEA NAZI ATTACKS SMASHED BY BRITISH   8th Army Consolidates Sangro Bridgehead

BRITISH STOP NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS, ITAL!   Montgomery's Men Consolidating Brideghead Which They Forged Across the Sangro

BRITISH SMASH . INTO GERMAN WINTER LINE   Eighth Army Repulses Several Counater-Attacks on Sangvro River

BRITISH BOLSTER WIDE BRIDGEHEAD ON SANGRO RIVER   German Smashes Against Allied Positions in ltaly Repulsed

British Repulse Counterattacks  At Bridgehead   Eighth Army Can Now Turn Herman Flank In Pescara Region

SICILY BOMBED — BY FORTRESSES   THREE OPPOSING PLANES DOWNED IN RAID ON AIRFIELD AT COMISO.

Italy's Ring of Defenses Battered By Foriresses in Non-Stop Attacks

‘U.S. Fortresses »Bomb Comiso In Air Battle   Batter Southern Ring of Island Defenses in Non Stop Attacks

U.S. Bombers Smash at Italian Areas   Fortresses Slash Through Screen of Nazi Fighters

Fortresses Bomb Big Sicilian Airfield at Comiso;  Ships Hit Off Greece

SICILIAN BASE PLASTERED BY HEAVY BOMBS   FLYING FORTRESSES SPRAY STEEL ON ENEMY SHIPS

Klying Forts Wreck Big Sicilian Airport   Americans Continue to Pour It on Italy's Island Sentinels From Bases in Africa: RAF Fliers Sink Axis Steamer Off Greece

Build Floating Power Plants  Plan Dedication   Plan Dedication Service July 26

Hitler Proclaims His Confidence   Fails: to-Deliver: Messace Himself

AMARILLO IS HOST  Fat Stock )Show Dates March 8-Il   Hitler Calls For Sacrifices

Hitler Proclaim: His Confidence  Fails to Deliver ~ Messaae Himself

Civil Service Status Voted  Three Division Heads In  Office Included

Advance Bill For Extending Civil Service   ‘Close ‘Vote Is Cast On Measure For Granting Tenure To Heads Of Vehicle Department

Civil Service Bill Is Passed By Assembly   Three Division Heads In Motor Vehicle Bureau Are Affected By Bill Approved 66 To 28

Superintendent Tye’s County School News   County Superintendent Visits More Schools; Northwest ‘Teachers Meeting At Sfonx 7

Superintendent Tye’s  County School News       Faller And Cram OF The lowa State ‘Teachers College Held Study Centers In Sioux

AIR GROUP TO PRATT   About 100 Planes Expected to Take Part in C.A.P, Maneuvers

Over 1,300 Motorists Are Nabbed   Face Loss Of Gas Books When Found At Vacation Spots

0 i i i i Da al i i tt  Double Ring Weddings New WV oe for Jewelers

Today's War Commentary  Spain Sways  I> ee Se, Sia eles Ube ane Ur epee

Soviets Seize Ukraine Capital   PREMIER-MARSHAL STALIN ANNOUNCES NEW RED VICTORY; KEY DNIEPER BASTION FALLS TO RUSSIAN COLUMNS AFTER HUGE OFFENSIVE

LaunchThrust Toward Heart of Ukraine   Escape Corridor Behind Kharkov Now 13 Miles Wide as Soviets Squeeze Net

War Jobs . Not.a ‘Must’   Honorably Discharged Vetergns to Have Free Choice of Occupation

DISCHARGED VETS MAY CHOOSE JOBS   Consideration Will Be Given to 100.000 Now Released Each Month.

VETS 10 BE GIVEN EVERY ASSISTANCE   McNutt Says Discharger Servicemen Do Not Need To Take War Jobs.

Free Choice in Jobs Is Given Returning Vets   Civil Aeronautics Board Acts as ‘Military Necessity"   DETAILS NOT REVEALED

MNUTT VOICES WORK PLEDGE   ‘WMC Head Promises Ev. _ ery Assistance to Dis_ charged Servicemen

JOBS OF VETERANS HAVE NO STRINGS   Assistance Promised for Work Of Own Choice

War Veterans To Take Their Pick Of All The Jobs   Regardless of Manpower Programs Veterans to Get Suitable Employment On Return,

VETERANS 10 ~— CHOOSE JOBS   Assured Free Choice Of  Work; Women Move : To Hold Jobs

‘Blood And Guts’ General Wades In With Troops In Attack On Sicily;

SAYS PATTON LED HIS MEN ASHORE   American General Leaped Into Surf From Sicily Landing Barge.

AIR BASES, R. R. POINT FALL T0 THE AMERICANS   British Continue Advance on Cat-! ania, Axis Prepares for Invasion Of Italy Proper.

‘Gen. Patton Leaps Into Surf To Lead Americans as They Battle Germans on Beaches

Lieut. General Patton Personally Led Battle Against German Tanks

Patton Turns Tide of Battle   General Leaps Into Se: When Fighting Goes Wrong, Finds Victory

Patton Waded Surf to Take Part in Fight   Led Yanks in Toughest Battling of Whole Allied Invasion and  Drove Germans Back.

Patton Leaped Into Surf To T ake Personal Charge Of Bitter Fighting Against Nazis   Salvage Group Ready To Collect County's Tin Cans

Patton Leads Troops Ashore  ral Wadec   General Wades In Surf With Men

SENATE PASSES STRIKE-CURBING CONNALLY BILL   House Will Get Measure Authorizing U. S. To Take Over Struck Plants, Mines   Amendments Softened

Forand  Bill Gets Approval   PLAN ADVOCATES SEE CARLSON PASSAGE IN PROPOSED NEW ACTION

MeNutt Says Father Draft Ban Violated   --- Appeal Advised By War Manpower Chief

Prompt Trial For Atrocities Being Urged   Court Martial For All Leaders Stressed

The War Today— Jap Atrocities May Be Discouraged If Allies Announce Punishment Now

WAR ANALYST SUGGESTS UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCE PROGRAM OF PUNISHMENT FOR ATROCITIES

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Certainty Of Punishment By Military Might End Axis Atrocities

GUILT ADMITTED ‘IN BANK RIFLING   Most Of Loot Recovered By State Highway Patrol; ? In $25,000 Bond

State’ s New Farm Chief Is Practical _ Dirt Farmer with Record of Successes

ABANDON LIMITED SERVICE GROUP   Few Soldiers Wilt Be Discharged However, Draft Quotas Unchanged

LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR 13 ON PLANE   LONDON BELIEVES NaZIS ATTACKED ON CHANCE CHURHILL, MIGHT BE ABOARD.

Allies score 3 Victories On Far Flung War Fronts; Axis Hordes In Retreat

Three Victories Have Climaxed Strugeles Of Like Duration And Makeup— Americans, Britors. Russians, Canadians On the March   AXIS HORDES ARE NOW ON RETREAT

AXIS LINES AT CATANIA FALL APART   Mount Etna Road Junction Of Paterno Also Seized

Americans Take Munda In Solomons   Three Allied Victories in Scattered Zones Highlight War News

Nazis Lose 312,650 Men And 1,589 Towns To Russians In Six Weeks’  Drive.

NAZI ARMIES SAID TRAPPED AT STALINGRAD   Enormous Casualties Against Germans  . Claimed

ADVISE MICHIGAN MEN 0 GET CARDS   Men‘18-38, Not Yet Classified, Should Notify Draft Boards.

COURT MARTIAL TRIAL DELAYED   Selfridge “Field Officer's Counsel Asks For More Time On Case

O’Conor Offers 10 Point Plan As -—State’s War Effort Contribution   Also Aimed At Easing Shock Of Post-War Readjustment.

(CONOR BEGINS SECOND TERM IN BRIEF SERVICES   Outlines 10-Point Plan To Aid State’s War Effort

O'CONOR TAKES OFFICE, POINTS TOUNITY NEEL   Begins Second Term With No Customary Ceremony and Gives 10-Point Program to Solons   PROBLEMS CITED   Cooperation Urged In War. time Difficulties and After Victory “Sure  ~ to Come”

Farm Prices Action Near   Prospects Of Showdown With White House On In flation Increase,

Showdown Is Near in Farm Price Battle   House and Senate Bills, Disputing Administration Authority, Up for Action

2-FRONT FARM BATTLE LOOMS   Congressional ‘Assault Or Price Structure Seen

NEAR SHOWDOWN ON FARM PRICES   HOUSE-APPROVED BILL TO INCLUDE ALL LABOR COSTS

2-FRONT ASSAULT ON FARM PRICE STRUCTURE GROWS   FDR’s Farm Price Plan: Meeting With Inc: eased {)pposition In Congress

Fight On Farm  Price Policies Picks Up Force   Two-Front Assault In Congress Hints Early Inflation Showdown.

See Early Inflation Show Down   Farm Parity Bill Before Senate Sets Stage For More Action

Assault Grows on Farm Price Poliev  of Admin   Early Showdo —... An. ti-Inflation  :sures  Thought Likely

JE. WIDENER, MILLIONAIRE TURFMAN,DEAL   Financier and Art Collector Succumbs At Home Near Philadelphia; In Failing Health Years

Joseph E. Widener, Financier, Dies   Noted’ Figure in Furf World Owned Many: Famed: Horses

Joseph E. Widener, Noted Sportsman and Financier, Dies Unexpectedly at 71

Widener, Millionaire Sportsman, Financier,  Dies in Philadelphia

JOSEPH E, WIDENER DIES UNEXPECTEDLY   Wealthy Sportsman Had Been In Failing Health

wasnington Today Downey Demands Halt ; in  Inductions to Aid Farmer:    Knox Tells of Victory and Asks for More Ships to Speed Success; Dies Expects Continuation of His . Committee

Downey Would Halt Inductions  House Takes up Dies  Pa SE I, LD PRS Na aaa, BPC Gs,

SOLON DEMANDS HALT IN DRAFT, LIMITED ARMY   Dies Committe Asks for 2-year Extension of Activities

ARMY INCREASE HALT DEMANDED TO HELP FARMER   Administration War Policies Under Fire in Senate from Several Directions   TAX PLAN HUNT RENEWED   Hoover Warns Against Too Much Too Fast and Urges Knockout Next Year

STOP DRAFT, PUT MEN ON FARMS, SENATOR URGES   HOOVER’S PROPOSAL FOR ‘CAUTIOUS’ WAR AROUSES DEBATE

HALTING OF INDUCTION IS ADVOCATED   Sen. Downey Insists There Are More Men in Service Than Nation Can Maintain Abroad   TAX ISSUE IS UNSETTLED

DEMANDHALT TO INDUCTION IN US FORCES   SEN. DOWNEY ARGUES MORE MEN ARE NEEDED ON FARMS

Favor. Return of Manpower to U.S. Farms   Farm Quotas May Not Be Met; Hoover Tells Committep to *Take It Easy’

Today In Washington: Senate Hears Demand To  Halt Inductions; Dies  Committee Asks Extension

SENATOR ASKS PROMPT HALT TO INDUCTIONS   Downey Proposes Action Ir Effort To Get More Men On Farms At Once

ISSUE DEMAND FOR STOPPAGE OF INDUCTIONS   House Considers Dies Com mittee Plea for 2-Year Extension

Stop Inductions And Raise Food Senator Advises   ‘Crackpot’ Inquiry Is Ordered; Tax Problem Debated

RABAUL AGAIN HIT BY U.S. FORTRESSES   Hit 8000-Ton Vessel And Probably Seaplane Tender

Roads in Naples Area Severed By Allied Bombs   Enemy’ S ‘Adriatic Shipping Blasted By Warhawks

NORTHWEST AFRIGAN AIRFORCE. BLASTING VITAL NAZI ROADS  ENEMY SHIPPING IN ADRIATIC AND MOTOR ' CONVOYS ATTACKED

ITALIAN AREA IS SUBJECTED TO BOMBINGS   Nazi Motor Convoys Blasted; Shipping In Adriatic Is Hit

U.S. BOMBS POUND GERMANS WN ITALY   Enemy's Communication Lines Targets Of Attacks

Vital Roads © Near Naples Are Blasted   ‘Enemy Shipping, Railroads, Troop Columns and Convoys Bombed and Strafed

Neighbors Need Exchange Permit   Meat Transfers Must be Obtained Even Though Butchering Torether

FIGHTS  RELEASE   California Governor Warns of Menace From Internees.

Allies Continue Advance, Push  Germans Back   Montgomery to Join Clark for Drive on Rome, Naples, Northern Italy   War in Brief:

GERMAN FORCES BEING FORCED BACK IN ITALY   Yanks Continue To Blast Jap Ships and Planes At Base at Rabaul

British Move 5 Miles Up Adriatic   15,000 Germans Die at Kiev, Reds Are Only 60 mie from Rumania 

HERD NAZIS WEST   Stalin’s Men Launch A Violent Assault On Crimea From North

Soviets Launch Violent Assault Against Crimea   Panicked Remnants Of Dozen Nazi Divisions Fleeing West Of Kiev

RUSSIAN ARMIES POUNDING TOWARDS POLISH AND RUMANIAN BORDERS.      Reds on Heels of 12 Shattered Germans Division Blasted. from Ukrainian Capitol Last Saturday. Another Force Surging Forward West of Kiev

 Russian ‘Pincers ‘On Crimea   Harried Nazi Forces Pursued from Kiev; Allied Troops Beat Forward in Italy

Russians Launch Violent Assault. Int The Crimea   British Win Commanding Position In Italy; Yanks Puneh Toward Gaeta

ast Pincer Movement Cightening on Trapped Nazi Forces       NEMY IS IN PANIC   ther Soviet Troops Move swiftly Toward Poland and Rumania

Other Russian Armies Nearing Poland, Rumanic   12 German Divisions Retreat In Panic; Allies Advance In Italy, Too

Soviet Troops Attack Crimea From North   Bridgehead Established on Perekop Isthmus; 8th Army Gains Five Miles - on Adriatic Coast; MacArthur's Airmen Destroy 63 More Jap Planes

Violent Attack Against Crimea  Started by Reds   Panicked Nazi Troops Herded West of Kiev

Russians Pound At Northern Gate Of Crimea Today   Allies Make Some Gains in Italian Peninsula Campaigr

Final Plans Made for City  War Campaign   Local Workers Get Assignments for Opening—County Meeting Tonight at Brownstown

MORE GRADE 3 TIRES READY   Will “Be Sold to Dealers for $1 Each.

ENEMY CONFINED IN TINY CORNER IN ATTU MOP-UP   Heroi¢ American Raid On Steep Mountain Position Told

Japs On Attu Jammed Into Small Area   Heroic Victory Above Clouds Wins Vital Ridge

Japs On Attu Driven To Last Holdout Pocket   Americans Brave Murderous Fire To Seize Ride

Kiska May Be Next to Feel Wrath   “Cloud Battle” Gives U. S. Advantage Over Enemy Position

NIPS FACE LAST STAND IN SINGLE MOUNTAIN AREF   Yanks Close in for Final Kill After Major Victory Ahove Clouds

Americans Pin _ Japs Into One Area On Atte   Enemy Is Driven Into Area Covering 3 or 4 Square Miles; Heavy Attacks Continue

Last Japs On Attu In Pocket   Bulk Of Defenders In Mountain Corner

Japanese On Attu Hemmed In By Attacking Yank Units  Remaining Jap Force Under Steady Assault Following Heroie American Viectary On Ridac

JAPS PUSHED IN CORNER ON ATTU   American Forces Score Heroic Victory On Ridge Above Arctic Clouds

Americans Win Above Clouds   Yankees Scale 60-Degre Heights Under Fire To Oust Japs

One Attu Pocket Remains to Japs   Mop-Up Expected Within Few Days

Attu Battle Reported Nearly Over   Japs Are Confined to Area of Three Square Miles

\APS ON ATTU DRIVEN INTO SMALL POCKE]   Navy Reports Area Is Under Steady Assault By Yanks

NAZIS OUTBLITZED BY US. TROOPS   YANKS HAVE MOVED FASTER IN SICILY THAN GERMANS DID IN ’39 AND ‘40.

Allies Surpass Germans In Blitzkrieg War, Says Lt. Gen. Patton.in Sicily

PULP AND PAPER STATUS CRITICAL   WPB Says Appeals for More Newsprint Have  Small Chance -

PAPER OTRINGENCY GETTING TIGHTER   Appeals for Additional Supplies Have Little Chance Of Suerese.

NAZI RAIDERS STAB 3 TIMES AT LONDON   Fires Started in One Area of City —Other Planes Attack Southeast Coastal Town,

Flags Forbidden At Nazi Festivity   Hitler’s Proclamation to Be Broadcast on 10th.  Year of Reowme.

Hitler Still Talks Vietory   Nazi Leader Declares No Coalition Of Our Enemies Can Defeat Us.

HITLER EDICT TO BE ISSUED ON SATURDAY   IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS RISE TO POWER

Hitler Tries To Bolster People  Tells Them Allies To Be Disappointed

Allied Goal Not Near, Says Hitler  Axis Enemies Will Be Disappointed, Fuehrer Declares In Message

Hitler fo Issue Proclamation   10th Anniversary of Fuehrer’s Rise to Power to Be Observed

CELEBRATE TEN YEARS OF HITLER   Proclamation Of Der Fuek: rer To Be Read Saturday B MM By Coabbels

Goebbels Will Address Reich   Is 10th Anniversary Of Hitler's Rise To Power

A PROCLAMATION BY ADOLF HITLER TO BE BROADCAST   Propaganda Minister Goebbels Will Talk at 4 p. m. Saturday.

No Flags Will Be Displayed During  Celebration in Germany on Saturday

Germans Are Exhorted To New Efforts  Schickelgruber Is   Schickelgruber Is Sull a Fanatic, . He Tells People

F taglens Celebration For Germany Hitler Proclamation On The Air Saturday

‘Allies Will Be Sorry ---Hitler  “They'll Not Attain Goal,’ Soys Fuehrer; "I'm Still in East’

Interpreting  The War   Air Forces of U. S. Are Proving To Be Superior

bismarck occa Battle Froyves—  Why Japs Can't Stop Our Coming Offensive

Interoreting he War   Air Forces of U. S. Are Proving To Be Superior   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Wide World)

Senate Hears Black Market Control Bill   Measure Would Aid Federal Regulation of Rationed Goods

Bills to Draft War Workers  Before Solons  Canecrintinn of   Conscription of Labor Is Congress Proposal

oint Bills all for Vork Draft  Coancorece Want   Congress Would Assign Men,  Women to Jobs

ANPOWER MOBILIZATION ~< S PROPOSEL   Draft Civilians For Non-Combatant Duties —

,BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WOULD *BE AFFECTED   Vast Reservoir Of Farm And Factory Workers Pianned By Legislation.

HARD COAL 10 BE CUT, SAYS ICKES   Delivery of Anthracite tc  Dealers Will Be Reduced 10 Per Cent.

Annual Boy Scout Council Meeting and Banquet to Be Held Thursday

Butte to Honor Rev. English  Civic Dinner Set for This Evening   Annual Boy Scout Council Meeting and Banauet to Be Held Thursday

LATEST ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL CONFERENCE TO HAVE NO SMOKE SCREEN AS HAVE PREDECESSORS

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   pen Conference tween Roosevelt And British Chief

The War Today  Churchill-Roosevelt Conference May Herald Invasion Of France

Analyst Thinks Allied Chiefs Will — Decide Whether to Invade France, And Establish a Post-War Policy

The Conquest of Italy Has Lost Much of Its Fire ‘Hitler ls Nut We Want to Crack

ae War Today Opening of West Front to Be Roosevelt - Churchill Subject

Impending Roosevelt, Churchill Talks Likely to Be Most Momentous of War

RELIEF” PAY BILL IS QUICKLY PASSED   Legislators Pass Measure Providing Quarterly — Installmentc

STATE VOTING AGE WOULD BE LOWERED TO 1   Bill In House Would Provide For Referendum On Question   TECHNICAL HITCH STALLS PAY BILL

DEADLOCK IN ; COAL DISPUTE __ AGAIN LOOMS   SOUTHERN OPERATORS BALK: ING AT LEWIS PROPOSAL FOR $1.50 PER DAY  INCREASE

Developments In Coal Crisis   Hope For Speedy Settle. ment Dimmed By Threatened Negotiations  Collapse   ¥ tn YF DWMeECwWw

NEW SNAGS DEVELOP IN  MINE DISPUTE; LITTLE HOPE OF PEACE IS SEEN

Hope For Settlement Coal-Wage iCrisis Dimmed By Threatened Collapse Of Negotiations

HOPE FOR QUICH MINE PACT IS DIMMED   Operators Seek to Return Dispute to War Labor Board

ALLOTS $30,000   Children's Rurean Sets Cp Ohio Mateenity Care Fini.

VOTING AGE OF 18 IN STATE BACKED   CHARTER COMMITTEE WOULD EMPOWER LEGISLATURE TO CHANGE THE LAW.

Agree to Remove Constitutional Limit on Voting  Legislature Could . *boWer Age to 18” bv Two-Thirde Vote

LIQUOR ISSUE  ANDTAXESNON TWIN PROBLEM   Two-Fisted Floor Fight. ‘Affecting: Both, Impends . Before Senate After   ‘Alolidays.   FREEING OF STORED  ~ WHISKY IS ONE AIM!   Sen. Van-Nuys Expected  to Offer Amendment De . ‘feated in Committee; ‘OPA Under Fire

Liquor And Taxes  InA Twin Battle  Fight Over Proposals  a Toa © oo. ate

Senate Move Links Liquor, Taxes In Quest for Levy  Serious Floor Fight Is in Offing; Storadqe Tax Reaten

Taxes, Liquor NowLinkedin Senate Fight      an Nuys to Join George in Effort to Tax Bonded Whiskies

LIQUOR & TAXES CAUSING BATTLE   Separate Problems Become Twins As Senate Fight Develops.

Liquor, Taxes Will be Reason for Fight on Floor of Senate   Two-Fisted Battle iit Congress Impends; Capital News

Treasury Dept. Asks Workers to Lend Assistance  Salary and Wage Earners are Merely Making a

WAGES, SALARIES UP ONE-THIRD OVER 1942; MONEY IS AVAILABLE TO BOOST WAR BOND PURCHASES

191 Local Wells Given Allowable Of 7169 Barrels   Average Production Per Well is 41 Barrels: Daily.

7047 Barrels Per Day Allowable Set For Local Oil Field   167 Producing Wells Out of 207 Given November Listing.

BALTIC PORTS, BERLIN HIT IN NIGHT ATTACKS   Fighter Planes Follow With Daylight Sorties Over Northern France   REPORT 31 CRAFT LOST   Hitler Given Birthday Present Of Bombs On Coastal Installations

RAF Celebrates Hitler’s Birthday By Bombing 0f Berlin, Stettin, Rostock

RAF Bomb. Blast Nazi Key Cities   Stettin, Rostock, Berlin Pounded on Hitler’s Birthday

BRITISH CELEBRATE HITLER'S BIRTHDAY WITH WIDE RAIDS   Lose 31 Planes In Attacks On Berlin, Stettin, And _ Rostock——Return. .

RAF Celebrates Hitler’s _ Birthday With Raids On Berlin, Stettin, Rostock

3 GERMAN CITIES HIT BY RAF PLANES   Hitler's Birthday Celebrated with Severe Bombing

Berlin And. Other Cities Catch Licks   ROTH GERMANY AND OCCUPPIED FRANCE SPRUCK BY ERITEISH BOMBERS.

BLASTING — IS. GIVEN ~ TO AREAS   Triple Raids Executed Over Strategic Points —Allies Lose Thirty One Warplanes.   British Army Hurdles — Barriers in New Push

BERLIN, ROSTOCK, STETTIN ROCKED BY EXPLOSIVES   Attacked in Night While R.A.F Returns to Steady Pounding With Daylight’s Coming

RAF RAIDS MADE (N THREE CITIES   Berlin, Stettin and Rostock Hit on Hitler’: Birthday; 31 Planes Lost; Daylight Raids Follow

[RAF Celebrates Hitler’s Birthday By Berlin Attack   31 Planes Lost In Raids Throughout ‘Occupied Europe

BIRTHDAY BOMBS HONOR'HITLER   RAF Pounds Berlin, 2 Supply Ports Following Day Raids on Occupied Europe.

ROYAL AIR FORGE BLASTS BERLIN ON HITLER'S BIRTHDAY   German Capital, Stettin and Rostock Pounded by Heavy Bombs; Raiders Lose 31 Planes.

BRITISH RAID BERLIN AND STETTIN   31 Planes Lost In Attacks On Three Cities

Denver’s ‘Mabel’ M ystery May Become National Affair   Mural at Buckley Field Gives Her Phone Number And One Matron Has to Quit Answering Calls

EMERGENCY WAR POWER BILLS GET COOL RECEPTION   State Legislators Show Little Disposition to Act on Some Measures   “INTERIM COMMITTEE DRAFTS EIGHT BILLS   ouse Approves Riders to Bill  For Repeal of State Income  Taw, Director to Explain  Budget Measure to Finance a Committee Today

WAR MEASURES ARE SUBMITTED   Bills Giving Governor Emergency Powers Are Viewed With  Skepticism

Axis Reports Yanks Mass  In Britain   German Radio Sets July 4 as Day of  Invasion Attempt

BRITISH TROOPS ARE TRANSFERREL   Moved From Northern England and Northern Ireland to Southern England.

AMERICANS ON MOVE, REPORT   Axis Radio Claims They Are Be ing Transferred from Northern to Southern Isles

Paris Radio Claims Troops In North Ireland, England Are Moved Toward Channel

AXIS BROADCASTS REPORT YANK TROOPS MOVING TOWARD CHANNEL INVASION COAST FROM NO. IRELAND

ALLIES PLEDGE GERMAN OUSTER TO ITALIANS   King Emmanual  Is Reported To Have Quit

President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill Tell Italians to ‘Strike His Blow’

WORD IS GIVEN TO ITALIANS TO HIT HITLER NOW   Roosevelt and Churchill Renew Pledge To Drive Nazis from Country   INSIDE HELP SOUGHT, TOO   Radio Appeal Made To People To Do Their Part For Own Liberation

Allied Pledge To Oust Nazis Ignored King   No Mention Made Of House Of Savoy In Promise To Badoglic.

ALLIES 10 RID ITALY OF NAZIS   Question Arises As To What Is To Happen To The House Of Savoy.

Allies Pledged To Force Nazis Out of Italy   FDR, Churchill Send Statement To Italian People

Allies Pledge Aid To Italy  Promise People To Oust Germans From Their Soil

TOOUST NAZIS   Promise Raises Question As to What Will Happen  To House of Savyov

Allies Pledge To Rid Italy Of Nazis; King Ignored By Leaders   Hitler Speech Shows He Intends To Hold Italy

PLEDGE IS GIVEN TO TALIANS FOR CUSTING GERMANS   Fate of House of Savoy Rais  _ ed Immediately By People, Rome Denies Abdicatioon of Italian King.   RESIDENTS URGED TO RID SELVES OF HITLER   Roosevelt and Churchill Senc Message to Badoglio, Al: lies May Plan Deal With Marshal.

ALLIES PLEDGE ITALY OUSTING OF GERMANS   Roosevelt and Churchill Urge tialjans fo Strike for Own Freedom —King Ignored

ALLIES PLEDGE HELD TO ITALY   King Vittorio Ignored in FDR"Churchill State ment

Make Pledge To Rid Italy Of Germans   F. D. R, Ri and Churchill Ignore King in Promising Italians a Quick End to Nazi Terror

ALLIES VOW TO} OUST HUN FROM): ITALIAN SOULI   TO. NEW DRIVES Bi )MIALLIES LOOKEI ILIFOR BY BERLIT   Promise Directed by Roosevelt and Churchill to Badoglio; King Ig nored in Broadcast

Allies Pledged To Oust Nazis   sf  iPres. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Direct Promise in Join’  Statement to Premier Badoglio . Ignoring Italiari, King.”   MESSAGE SENT BY RADIO

Allies Promise To Oust Nazis From All Italy   Roosevelt, Churchill Ignore King In Pledge To Italian People.

Holland and  France Also Get Blasting   Airfields, Railways and Canala at 11: Points Hit as Altied Aerial Offensive Thunders Into Ninth Dav

Fury Of Air Assaults On Axis Mounts   R. A. F. Stabs At Berlin; Allies Destroy 73 Enemy  Planes In Battles Around leale

More Bombs Rock Nazi Capital; Report Allied Fleet at Gibraltar   RAIDERS DESTROY 73 ITALIAN PLANES

Blast Berlin In Ninth Dav Of Air Attael   Destroy 73 Axis Planes In Strong Raids Ou Sardinia, Cc: ..   SOVIETS SMASH DRIVE

Allied Air Offensive ThundersOt   ‘Pulverizing Assault On Italian Isles Bags 73 Axis Planes; Report Allied Armada Massing

Cities Hit From Italy  To Germany   Berlin Bombed; 73 Enemies Downed _ Over Mediterranean

Widespread Bombing By The Allies   Berlin, Other Nazi And Italian Areas Hit From Air

BERLIN ATTACKED BY MOSQUITO BOMBERS OF ROYAL AIRFORCE  SEVENTY-THREE AXIS PLANES DESTROYED IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA

2 Axis Planes Destroyed In Savage Battle   U. S., British Flyers Smother Foes Who Put Up Fight

Aerial Offensive Thunders Into Its Ninth Day   Bombing Attacks Range From Berlin To Mediterranean

Berlin Hit In Big Raid By British   Airfields, Railways, Canals From Holland To France * Among 11 Points Blasted

RAF Stabs at Berlin and Other Targets While Southern Ramparts Get Pounding

Battering Of Europe Tn 9th Day   Heavy Troop Move. ments Reported on Both Sites in Ruscta

Europe Blasted For Ninth Day by British Bombers   Pulverizing Raids Made on Berlin and Extend to Southern Part of Europe.   Allies Are Challenged In Sardinia Attacks

U. S. Fortresses Give Pulverizing As: saults to Sardinia and Sicily; 73 Axis: Planes Down—Germans Hint Sum mer Russian Campaign

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS IN EIGHTH DAY   Berlin Among Ob- jects Blasted By . RAR Warmjaneas   REPORT ARMADA   Nazis: . Claim’: Allies Massing Ships At > Cobraltar

Aerial Offensive Against Nazi Foe Rolls on Steadily   Thunders Into Its Ninth Day; News of War is Summarized by AP

BOTH ENDS OF AXIS BOMBED   Aerial Offensive Agains! Europe Goes Into 9th  Straight Day

ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSIVE IS IN FICHTH DAY   Berlin Among Objects Blasted By RAM Warnlanec   REPORT ARMADA   Nazis Claim Allies Massing Ships At Gibraltar

72 Vessels Reported at Gibraltar               Berlin Makes Bre Broadcast’ as      Smash: Island Outposts   RAF IN: ANOTHER BLAST ‘AT BERLIN   Harbors, .. Ships, - Planes, Trains. and’ Industries Are: Being Attacked. ~

Air Attacks On Europe In ~ Ninth Day; Berlin Bombed   Churchill Hints Invasion After Bombings Might Be ‘Mere Occupation’   JAPS ARE TRAPPED IN ATTU POCKET,   Tokyo Admits Losses Amount To 66 Per Cent; Russia May Lend Bases For Planes

RAF MOSQUITO BOMBERS POUND NAZI CAPITAL   U. S. Fortresses Strike at ~ Sardinia, Sicily

Fliers Smash At {1 Points Against Axis   Berlin Hears of 72 Ships Massed Off Gibraltar

Allied Planes Knock Out 73 Axis Aircraft    44 Planes Destroyed on Ground in Greatest Aerial Battle Since Fall of Tunisia; Allies Lose Four Planes; Russians Repel Counterattack

BERLIN, AIRFIELDS, RAILWAYS, HOLLAND AND FRANCE ALL FEEI MIGHTY ALLIED AIR RAIDS   U.S. Flying Fortresses Deliver Pulverizing Blows Against Sardinia and Sicily. 73 Axis Planes Destroved.   MOSQUITO BOMBERS RAIDED BERLIN  ARAING FAST AWE TT

ALLIED ARMADA IS MASSED AT GIBRALTAR, TIP   Reports of Invasion Fleet At End of Mediterranean Come Out of Germany   PLANES BLASTING PATH   Reds Turn Back Nazi Attack in Russia While Berlin Given Another Bombing

Destroy 73 Axis Planes In South   29 Planes Shot Down in Fierce Dog Fights; At Least 44 Others Hit on Ground—Berlin Reports Big Naval Armada at Gibraltar —-Mosquito Bombers Stab at Berlin   Cermans Driven Off

Germans Predic Invasion Today   Reporters Are Sent To French Coast

Nazis Resume Invasion Cries   “Contend Today Is Allied Zero Hour

GERMANS CONTINUE INVASION REPORTS   Matter of Hours and Minutes, Paris Radio Says

Invasion s Feared Near   Nazis Say Attack To Be Within Few Hours

Values Up   ‘Germans Siill Believe ‘Invasion’ To Start Sometime Saturday

NAZI RADIO NAMES THE DAY   Allied Invasion Due Today (Saturday) Broadcast Asserts

Germans Are So Sure Invasiot Will Start Today That — Paris Radio Sends Reporters

INDICATIONS ARE NAZIS WILL SEEK TO RETAIN ITALY   Germans. May. Try to Hold on to ‘Country at What.ever Cost May Be Demanded.

WITHHOLDING DEDUCTIONS   Body of Mrs. J. Z. Miller, Jr., Laid To Rest at Belton

Trials Of Year  Harsh—Goebbels Nazi Propaganda Line To Be Changed

‘lowa House Passes Bill To Return State From ‘War To Standard Time

U.S, AND CHINA SIGN UP TREATY   Relinquish Extra-Territorial Claims in Historic Document

TREATY IS COMPLETED WITH CHINA   First concrete move to ward end of western imperialism

U.S. TREATY WITH CHINA   First Concrete Step Toward End of Imperialism

U. S. ABANDONS RIGHTS IN CHINA   Extra - Territorial, Special Privileges Released By New Treaty

WLB Given Club To Punish Unions That Defy Orders   Presidential Order Gives’ Board Power Ti Withhold Check-Off Dues, Or Knock Out Other Contract Benefits

WLB IS GIVEN NEW WEAPON   President's Odie Provides Powers for Penalizing Defiant Unions

WILB Receives Power to Act Against Rebels   No Indication Seen Of Whether Lewis Will Feel Weapon

President Gives WLB Big Financial Club To Enforce Orders Against Defiant Unions

WLB Assume: New Powers Over Strikers  President Orders ——  rT Seer a ie   President Orders Dues Withheld In War Walkouts

Bosrd Might Hold Up Dues   ‘No Indication Miners To Feel Effects Soon

WLB Given Authority  To Penalize Labor Unions   Authorized To Hold Up Check-off Payments Or Knock Out Other  Contract Renefite   LEWIS’ MINE UNION MAJOR OFFENDER

WLB IS GIVEN ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY   NoIndication Board Will Swing New Weapon Immediately In Direction Of John L.  l aaa   Cases Pile Up

WLB Given Big Club Over Unions   President Gives  Reard Wide Powers

Financial Club Given WLB for Emergency Use   Board Gets Power To Punish Recalcitrant Union Members

CALL GROWING FOR PROBE OF JONES, WALLACE   Legislators Sweil Demands For Investigation as New Charges Fly.   WHITE HOUSE IGNORED   Secretary of Commerce Says Vice President Lies,  .. Snicandare Tava

JONEO-WALLAGE FEUD 19 FACING GUNGRESS PROBE   Ccngressional Demands for Investigation Increase  Sharply.   BATTLE STILL RAGING   Jcnes Accuses Wallace of Malice, Innuendo and Falsehoods.

JONES-WALLAGE “FFUD IS: FAGING PONGRESS: PROBE   Congressional “Demands fo - Investigation ‘Increase Sharply.   BATTLE STILL RAGING   ‘Jones Accuses Wallace of - Malice, Innuendo and. '  -Falsehoods..

RFC HEAD ASKS RECORD MADE OF CHARGE WALLACE UT-  TERED “HAL®-TRUTHS" AND “FALSEROODS”

Official Announcement Of Italian Surrender   BADOGLIO’S SURRENDER PROCLAMATION

FORMAL TEXT ON THE ARTICLES OF SURRENDER   Both Eisenhower and Badoglio Publish Acyreement Ta Warld

BATTERED NAZIS FALEING BACK ) ALL ALONG LINE   British Radio Says Full Scale Retreat In Progress Bow,

BATTERED FOE FALLS BACK ON NEW HILL LINE   Allies Seore General Advance Up To Seven Miles

SCORCHED EARTH POLICY IN RETREAT   Huns May Be Sending More Troops To Face 8th Army

SEND HELP 10 TROOPS FACING EIGHTH ARMY   Allies Gain Seven Miles

Kesselring Units Try Desperately To Make Stand   Scorched Earth Policy Adopted By Retreating Nazis On Italy Front -

ALLIES GAIN 9 107 MIS. IN ITALY   Scorched Earth Policy Observed By Retreating Nazis

ALLIES PAYING WAY FOR NORTH AFRIGA DRIVE   Observers Believe Bad Weather Might Delay Final. Showdown For Month Or Six Weeks   ADVANCES ARE MADE      British and French Move, Eight Miles On Northern Front; Fighting Continuing

REPORT ROMMEL WOUNDED   English General Was Injured in American Bomb Raid

Russians Surge Ahead: Rommel Retreats Again   Axis Plight In East Ane North Africa Becomes Increasingly Acute

BOUGAINVILLE WAS “NO PUSHOVER, SAYS - UP CORRESPONDENT   Xabaul Has Received Anoth er Pasting

LACK AUTHORITY TO CHANGE TIME   Such Legislation Would Vio: late Constitution of United States

meena mtn A aot a ee Sn 8 ee ee Si  CAN ASSEMBLY CHANGE TIME?   Question Authority of States To Act on Issue

Floods Hit Indiana, Tennessee As Three More Persons Die In Oregor

OPERATORS FLAY STEELMAN IN APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT   Southern Group Says Conciliator Goes against President's ‘‘Hold-the-Line’’ Order

Coal Men Ask That FDR Act   President Told Steelman Favors Wace Raonct

Steelman Reported Aiding UMW   Southern Group Says ‘Conciliator For Wage Raise

Miners Ignore  Declared Truce   2,00 Pennsylvania Workers Quit Posts

1,800 Coal Miners Stage Strike In Protest Against Negotiation Delay   43 Selectees Called to Report Here May 25 For Trip to Phoenix And Final Physical Examinations

2700 Miners Ienore Lewis Strike Truce   Quit in Protest— WLB Blocks Leader’ By-pass Route

MINERS STRIKE IN JOHNSTOWN REGION   Protest Developments In Connection With Wage Increase Demands

DEFENSE WILL BEGIN MONDAY   Prosecution Rests Case In Trial Of Errol Flynn

New Jap Aerial Offensive Develop: ‘In South Pacific   23 of 45 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Oro Bay Raid

JAPANESE LAUNCH NEW AERIAL DRIVE IN SOUTH PACHIC   MacArthur’s Headquarters Say Offensive May Attain A Considerable Scale of Effort; 45 Jap Raiders Attack Oro Bay, South of Buna,

JAPS OPENING MAJOR ACRIAL DAVE, BELIEF   Enemy Loses Over Half Of 45 Planes Raiding Ora Bay On New Guinea Coast

JAPANESE BEGIN HEAVY ATTACKS   General MacArthur Reports Aerial Offensive May Attain ‘Considerable Scale’

Japanese Open  New Air Drive   Twenty-Three Enemy Planes Shot Down In Battles With Lighinings.

Japs in New Drive In Pacific   23 of 45 Enemy Planes Attacking Oro Bay Downed.

Japs Continue Aerial Attacks  Lose 23 Planes In  Latest Blow At Allied Chime: finn Vacen! Lis

Japs Launch Air Offensive   Invaders Lose 23 of 45 Planes Attacking Ora Bay, South of Buna

Japs Launch New Aerial Offensive   45 Nip Raiders Attack on Oro Bay; 23 Planes Shot Down; Little Damage Done; Allied Losses Smal!

23 OF 45 Attacking Raiders — Downed As Japs Launch New Aerial Offensive In Pacific   Nips Try To Attack Oro Bay Shipping, MacArthur's Fliers Keep Up Attacks

JAPS LAUNCH AIR OFFENSIVE IN SOUTHWEST   45 Raiders Sweep South Of Buna In New Guinea, 23 Are Shot Down

23 Japs Shot Down in New Aerial Drive   Second Large Scale Raid by Foe Does Little Damage to Allies

45 Jap Raiders Attack —  New Guinea; 23 Downex   Opening Blow In New Enemy Air Drive Fails  MacArthur's ‘Milk Route’ Bombers Cause” Heavy Damage To Nipponese Bases

Japs Step Up Air Offensive   Hitler And Mussolini End War Conference

JAPS OPEN NEW AIR OFFENSIVE   23 Qut of 45 Raiding Planes Shot Down on Oro Bay—Navy Revises Guadalcanal Toll

ENEMY RAID ON ORO BAY IS BROKEN UP   Twenty - Three Nipponese   Planes Are Shot Out  Of Action in New Guinea    ioe kh oF od ee Ae Be he eo, in bh o 2a tito

Japs Stage New Threat From Skies   MacArthur Announcement Based On Attack By 45 Raiders Off New Guinea

AERIAL ASSAULT IN PACIFIC MAY HIT HIGH PITCH   MacArthur's Head quarters Announces Second Large-Scale Jap Air Effort With in Five Dave.

Japs Pushing New Aerial Oftensives   45 Enemy Planes In Raid, 23 Are  Rronght Dawn

JAPS. LAUNCH .. AIR OFFENSIVE   May Attain Considerable Scale, MacArthur Says  cmp Sa ae mer crease ees park een ek Paani anne:

NEW OFFENSIVE BY JAPS SEEN   Aerial Drive Launched, Says MacArthur

JAPS LAUNCH NEW AERIAL OFFENSIVE   In South Pacific on Large Scale. 45 Jap Planes Raid Oro Bay South of Buna

NEW JAPANESE AIR OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED SOUTHWEST PACIFIC  FORTY-FIVE-PLANE ATTACK ON ORO BAY SECOND BIG-SCALE RAID

$4 Billion Must ~ BeFrom People  Bulk Of Amount Raised Is From Large Firms

APPEALS FOR JEWS   Second War Loan Drive Rolls Up Subscription Of 9 Billions

Large Purchases  Boost War Bonds   Morgenthau Warns It's Misleading

$9 Billions Of War Loan Subseribed   Mor ‘genthau War ns Raising of Last 30 Per Cent OW: ill Be More Difficult

Senate Inquiry Into Lend Lease  Aid is Asked   Senator Ellender Wants to Know What Concessions U. 8, Get in Exchange

Lend-Lease Is Latest Agency To Be Probed   Louisiana Senator Asks In - quiry Into Expenditures To See That U. S. Is Benefitted

EISENHOWER AIDES ARE. BEING-NAMED   - Chief Marshal s Pedder is:to Be... "Deputy, Commander

EISENHOWER T0 APPOINT STAFF   Selection of Tedder First of  Coming Nominations

British Officer May Get Sea Command Post   Censorship. However. Forbids All Speculation Over Specific Nominees

TWO VACANCIES “ON EISENHOWER’ STAFF REMAIN   Sea Commander and Chief 0! Ainerican Forces Still” Ktinnamed.

More Invasion Posts Pending   Cunningham, Devers  May Get Places

Command 3 For Invasion  Takes Shape   Tedder, British. Air Marshal, Is Chief Deputy

Allies gain fast; enemy  losses high   Continue advance central Tunisia

Allies Regain Third of African Loss   Series of Axis Attacks in North Tunisia Completely Stopped; , Central Area Advance Continues

FOE ATTACKS IN NORTHERN TUNISIA FAll   Allied Forces Continue Advance After Taking Sbeitla

NAZI ATTACKS IN NO. TUNISIA ARE REPULSED   Enemy’s Casualties And Losses In Material Very High, Allied Headquarters In No. Africa Report.   Regain 1-3 Lost Area

SERIES OF AXIS THRUSTS SMASHED IN NORTH TUNISIA   Germans Believed to Have Lost at Least 600 Men and 24 Tanks in Three Days of Fighting.   ROMMEL’S FORCES STILL FALLING BACK   Marshal Loses Third of Territory He Occupied—Sbeitla and Feriana Fall to Allies.

Germans Stopped In North Tunisia After Slight Gains At Heavy Cost   Losses in Material and Men High; Allies Confinue Successful Advance; Capture Sheifla

NAZIS ARE HURLED BACK IN ASSAULTS   Complete Defeat of Series of African Attacks Revorted

Allies Defeat Axis Attacks in North Tunisia   Enemy's Casualties, Material Losses High: Allies Gain After Capturing Sbeitla

AXIS ARMIES RETREAT WITH HEAVY LOSSES   ALLIES PUSHING ON TOWARD COAST IN TUNISIA

NAZI ATTACKS ARE REPULSED IN TUNISIA   Enemy Casualties And Losses In Materials Are Reported High.

Nazis Turn Back In North Tunisia With Heavy Losses   Allies On Central Front Take Sbeitla And Feriana, Plunge.On After Rommel

German Attacks In North Africa Are Hurled Back   Allies Continue Their Advance in Central Tunisian Offensive

AXIS LOSSES ARE HIGH IN NEW SETBACKS   One-Third Of Territory Regained As Rommel Continues Moving Toward Coast   Italy Is Bombed

Nazi Attacks Prove Costly   Allies Repulse German Thrucic In Titn

Advance On Sheila Is Continuing  Complete Defeat o German Assaults in AliastlL Asan Ranavia

Sam Jones’ Appointed Sherif Seated in Plaquemines After Martial Law Js Declared

MARTIAL LAW WAS  DECLARED TODAY IN  LOUISIANA PARISH ARMED DEPUTIES OF PLAQUEMINES PARISH DI  MAE Ahr rr

ARMY’S SUSPENSION HABEAS CORPUS 18 BEING QUESTIONED GENERAL REFUSES RE LEASE TWO PERSONS HELE  INCOMMIINICADD

Rayburn Talks to Texas Solons, Lieutenant Governor Calls Him ’ Apologist for Bureaucrats’

WPB Squabble On Order Seen   Many Industries Object To Demand For Advance Plaeing Of War Orders,

Industry Fights Feb. 6 Deadline On War Order:   Unpublicized WPB Plans Widen Rift’ Between Neilson And Eberstadt

Deadline For War Orders Is Causing Row   Deluge of Complaints and Inquiries Coming In From Industries   CONFUSION TERRIFIC

Unpublicized WPB Deadline On War Orders for First 6 Months of 1943 Causes Row

Unpublicized Order ByWPB To Make Feb. 6 Final Day For Placing 1943 Contracts Rappec

PLANTS PROTEST WPB DEADLINE   MAKES FEB, 6 LAST DAY TO PLACE WAR MATERIAL ORDERS

WAS CAIRO “LEAK”   Reuters Chungking Manager Passed Thru on Way to London

China Asks Official Probe Of News Leak   Cairo . Conference -~ Story Traced to Chinese . Newsman Working for Reuters   CHUNGKING DENIES ANY PART IN It   Says Responsibility for Leak Rests With Editors of News. Service

tk tk fh bh te t& wm hk ok  Kitchen Police Capture With Utensils Last Japanese on Attu

ees, See eee, ee lea, Seer,  Kitchen Police Capture With Lbensils Last Japanese on Aitu

Food Chief Asks Subsidy Vote Now   Says ‘Politics Can  Wart’ Till Later

Amendment May Pass Fulbright — Bill In House   Will Probably Get _Republicans To Side With Administration

Germans Expect Italy to Be Out Of War Very Soon   Traveller Reports on Situation Inside Germany

Says Germans Think Italy Will Be Out Of War in 10 Days   Traveler From Berlin Declares Nazi Army Officers Think Italy Will Quit.

GERMANS REACT TO DUCES FALL   Nazi Air Officers Predict Italy Will Be Out of War Within Next Ten Davs: Underground Beats Goebbels

Unrest Reported Spreading amont Nazis in Berlin   Ousting of Mussolin Proves Hard Blow fo German Morale

Five Nazis Flee From Texas Camp; FBI Sent On Trail of Fucvitives

Five Germans Break Prison   Method of Escape Not Disclosed By Officials

Five German Prisoners in  US. Escape   Fugitives Missed During Checkup in Camp Hood, Texas

Prisoners of War Leave,  Camp Hood, Believed — Heading Toward Mexico

Five Germans Escape From Texas Camp   Aid of FBI Sought in Hunt for Nazi Military Prisoners

CHURCHILL IS GUEST OF FDR   Prime Minister To Stay Several Days With President; More Planning Seen

RAF ATTACKS TARGETS IN FRANCE   - Four RAF Fighters Lost. Two Enemy Fighters Were Shot Down

Attack Railroad Communications RAF Fighters Busy  _ Over the Weekend

U. 8. FIGHTERS WHIPPED BUNCH OF JAP ZERO PLANES  ANOTHER AIR VICTORY RECORDED IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA

YANKS ZEROS IN FIGHT OVER AIRFIELD   American Planes Score Decisive Victory As Japs Try Interce tion At Kahili In Solomons; More Blows Coming, Says Patterson.

Continued Making » of Unessentials Is War Dept.’s Worry   @ Manufacture of Jewelry, Artificial Flowers, Cosmetics Hit

Raps Making of Unneeded Items   Treasury Unmoved by Smaller Tax Receipts Than Last Year

Draft Law Urged for War Workers   Seven Districts Added _ to Acute Labor Shortage Areas; OPA Halves Weekly Gas Ration in Fast

DRGP 186 TONS ON MUNDA BASE IN BIG RAIL   Allies Make Heaviest Raid Ever Made in South Pacifie.

ALLIED AIR FORCE DROPS 186 TONS OF BOMBS ON MUNDA   Enemy Fortifications Are More Elaborate Than Supposed—Precision  Diving Difficult

Drop 186 Tons Of Bombs on Jap Base at Munda   Raid Is Heaviest _ ‘Made by Pacific Air Forces

Anti-Strike Bill Before President   Congress Lays Measure To Prevent War Strikes Before Roosevelt   LABOR LEADERS OPPOSE MEASURE

BILL, BELIEF   Organized Labor Expected To Ask For Veto of Measure Aimed at Lewis.   SPONSORS CONFIDENT   See Signing Before Present Coal -Mine Truce Expires on June 20.

ANTL-STRIKE BILL SENT 10 PRESIDENT   Chief Executive May Sign It Despite Appeals by Labor

SOME TYPICAL FIGHTING DONE BY AMERICAN AIRMEN ON COMBAT DUTY IN VARIOUS TUNISIA AREAS

Americans Marching Northward   Only Resistance of Any Importance Met at Catania

American Seventh Army Sweeping Through Central Sicily Against Little More Than Token Resistance; Montgomery Must prine Fichth Army   ‘HISTORIC RAID ON ROME OUTSTANDING

Sees Hard Fighting Still Ahead   Admiral Declares Ships Men and Planes Are Now  Available for Offensive

JAPANESE REPORT HEAVY CASUALTIES IN ATTU FIGHTING   Enemy Radio Says 66% Of One Jap Force Lost’ —Another Group a’. ~Wiped. Out -

Allies Hurl Back Big Jap Foree on  New Guinea Front   Over LOO Left Dead Or Wounded: Aerial Fighting Over Aroe

JAPS BEATEN BACK IN NEW GUINEA   ONE HUNDRED KILLED OR SEVERELY WOUNDED IN FIGHTING AT MUBO.

Japs Hurled Back in New Guinea   American Air Support Aids in Beating Large Enemy Force

Land Attack By Japanese Is Repulsed  New Guinea Dniv Is Shattered By  Australians

Japs Attack Allied Lines at Mubo; Hurled Back With 100 Dead   ALLIED HEADOE ARTERS ES AUSTRALIA. Wednesday. June 73

JAPS DEFEATED IN MUBO DRIVE   American Air Support Helps Australians Whip Enemy

LIKE SPRING AGAIN   Forecaster Says Warming Up Proc. : ess Will Continue  t

Weather Like Spring Again   Much Warmer In Eastern Kansas Is Prediction

FALL FROM AUTO FATAL TO CHILI   Leon Noel, Aged Five Years, Son Of Mr. And Mrs. Jerome E. Noel, York, Dies Here As Result Of Injury

LIQUOR. BOARD HAD GHANGED   Radical Dry Is Supplanted by Dalt Wocds of Normanda.

LIQUOR. BOARD HAS CHANGEL   2adical Dry Is ‘Supplanted ’ by Dalt Wocrds of  Normanda.

Allied Fliers In Hard Blow At Salonika   Hangars at Greek Port Set Afire; New Raids on Italian Istarids

U.S. Bombers Pound The Greek Port Of Salonika ‘From Middle-East Base

LIBERATORS HIT “AT GREEK PORT -INHEAVY FORA)   More Than 50 Planes Attack Historic Salonika for First Time

HISTORIC GREEK PORT IS BOMBED   U. Se A TIFORSE: => ATTACKS SALONIKA HITS THREE HANGARS

50 Liberators Carry Raids in   Attack on Historic City, Possible ; Objective of Any Balkan Invasion, Involves. Round Trip of 1.000. Miles

Greek Port of Salonika Hit By U.S. Fliers   Score Direct Hits On Hangars At Axis-Held Airport

GREEK PORT OF SALONIKA GETS HARD POUNDING   Sardinia, Other Enemy Targets Are Bombarded

U.S. Bombers Smash Drome At Saloniki   First Raid On Greek Port; Sardinia Centers Also  Hammered

Allied Planes In Bomb Raid At Salonika   U. S. Bombers Attack And Set Fires; Sicily Again Takes Battering

Greek Port Of Salonika Is Attacked   Great Swarms Of US Planes Batters Sardinia

Communications  At Sardinia Are Hit By Bombers   Historic Axis-Occupied Salonika Assaulted For First Time By American Warbirds; Hits Scored On Axis Airdromes.

Historic Port Of Salonika Is Bomber Target   Sicily Region ~ Also Attacked by American Planes

U. S. AIRMEN IN 1ST RAID ON SALONIKA   Meanwhile 300 American Bombers Batter Communications of Sardina.   Score Direct Hits on Salonika Airdrome

U.S. Bombers Strike for First ‘Time at Salonika From Middle East Bases, Other Planes Blast Sardinia

HISTORIC GREEK PORT OF SALONIKA WAS HIT YESTERDAY   Liberators Struck for First Time From Middle East Bases.   ATTACK IN TWO WAVES   : Scored Direct Hits on Three  -Hangars at Axis-Occupied Airdrome at Seliniki.

HEAVY LOAD IS DROPPED ON SALONIKA      Blow Is First for Ninth _ Air Force on Historic Base, Which Is Possible Objective of Any Balkan Drive.

U. S. Airmen Hit Sardinia and Salonika   Greek Port Gets First Dose of Bomb Terror; Airdrome !s Pounded.

LIBERATORS STRUCK AT SALONIKA PORT; SARDINIA BATTERED   DIRECT HITS SCORED O} HANGARS AT AXIS. OCCUPIED AIRDROME

U, S. NINTH AIR FORCE STRIKES AT GREEK PORT   iberators Bomb Greek Mainland; 13 Enemy Planes Shot Down In Spectacular Battle.

U.S. Liberators Raid Salonika For First Time   Middle East Planes Blast Airdromes At Greek Port

J. S. Bombers Attack Salonika, Greek Port: Other Planes Strike Sicily, Sardinia

‘DAVIS SHUFFLES , FOOD COMMAND   Seeks To Revitalize Important Organization

U. §. Air Force [s Pressing For Knockout Blow   Furious Fighting Breaks Out Again On Soviet . Front: Reds Gain

Congress Promises Action To Curl A bsenteeism In Defense Industries

ACTION SLATED FOR ABSENTEE WAR WORKERS   Employment.Records Will Be Given To Beards

Some Claims On Both Sides Of The Que  PLENTY OF AMMUNITION FOR ~~ ARGUMENT IN WAGE DISPUTE

CEILINGS ARE SET IN MEAT SALE PRICES   CONDITIONS GIVEN FOR POINT VALUE REDUCTIONS

PRICE CEILING ON MEATS SET FOR APRIL 15   Specific Costs For This Area Announced; OPA Moves To Curb Point Sales   Reductions Expected

RETAIL PRICE CEILINGS ARE SET FOR MEAT   Slashing of Point Val. ues Banned Unless Prices Reduced

New, Specific Price Ceilings Put on Beef, Veal, Mutton   Stores Also Forbidden To Cut Point Values Of Rationed Meats Without Cutting Prices   MOVES ARE AIMED AT BLACK MARKETS

Price Tops Set On Fresh Meat   Must Be Lowered lf Points Reduced

NEW CEILINGS PLACED UPON MEAT BY OPI   Veal, Lamb, Mutton, Veal Prices Effective April 15

CEILINGS PUT ON PRICES OF MEAT BY OPA   Steps Also Taken to Curb Point Sale “ Abuses”

Jap Plane Score Raised Up To 94.   Shore Batteries, Ships Get 17 More With Flak

Destroy 94 Jap Planes in Battle   U. S. Forces Lost Only Six in Victory

JAP LOSSES IN BIG AIR BATTLE BOOSTED 10 94   First Reported Toll Increased By Seventeen

AMERICAN SCORE AT GUADALCANAL ‘NOW AT 16-1 RATIC   Fuller Reports Reveal That “94 Enemy Planes Were Shot Down.

JAPS GUADALCANAL LOSSES INCREASED   Aerial Activities Indicate Reinforcements Were Sent to Southwest Pacific.

Russ Take Rail City of Armavir   Smashing Drive Is 10 Miles From Voroshilovgrad

Red Army Takes Key To Maikop   Armayir, Railway Junction To Tuapse and Maikop Oil Area Captured from Nazis

NEGROES, WHITE: SLASH IN TEXAY   Martial Law Is Declared in Beaumont; One Killed, 11 Injured and Shipyard Vir ad tually Shut Down

ONEFATALLY HURT IN TEXAS RIOTING   Clashes Between Negroes and Whites Reported:  in Beaumant

ALLIED JUNGLE FIGHTERS HURL BACK JAPANESE   Nippon Ground Attack In New Guinea Is First In Nearly Year

ALLIES REPULSE JAP LAND DRIVE   First Ground Action on Again . in New Guinea.

Allies Hurl Back  Japanese Thrust   First Land Drive In _ New Guinea For Year

Mysterious Woman Demands $2000 a Month from Fonda for Baby's Support

Fonda Accuser  . 8 Tells Deiails  Of Intimaey’   Mother of Four, Divorced Alleges Actor Seduced Her in Hotel

Nazi Bombs Catch Bari Unprotected   German Planes Send 17 Allied Ships To Bottom

Lack of Adequate Aerial Defenses Blamed for Loss of 17 Allied Ships

37 American Naval Men Among 1,000 Casualties In Surprise Air Attack

FOR SINKING OF WARSHIPS   Lack of Adequote De fenses Costs Allies 17 * Carao Shins   1,000 PERSONS ARE KILLED OR INJURED   Handful of Nazi Plones Blast Ships Like Sitting Ducks

PLACE BLAME FOR SINKING OF WARSHIPS   Lack of - Adequate Defenses Costs Allies 17 Cargo Ships

7 ALLIED SiUPS SUNK BY GERMANS IN ITALIAN PORT   Cargo Vessels Blown Up Like Sitting Ducks by Enemy Planes — 1,000 Killed or Injured.   HARBOR'S AERIAL DEFENSES INADEQUATE   Raiders Apparently Escaped Without Loss After Attack on Bari—Onslaught a Surprise.

RAID ON BARI   Cargo Ships Blown Up In Harbor by Nazi Bombing Squad

Lack of Aerial = ‘Defenses Cause  ~ Of heavy Losses 17 “Alli ad’ Ships. ‘own  re by tho fal “Nazi Planes. ~-

ALLIES LOSE 17 SHIPS AT BARI   German Raid On Supply Port Dec. 2 Causes 1,000 Casualties

“Spartan Standard Of Living” For Duration Asked As Work Week Is Stretched To 48 Hours

Extension To Other Areas Indicated; 1943 Invasion Of Europe Foreseen

LOCAL TEMPERATURE   No North Carolina Areas Affected By Work Order  Reaction To Minimum  48-Hour Wee: Is Mixed

GEARS NATION TO WAR oPEED FOR INVASION   Minimum Work Week of 48 Hours Ordered in 32 War Plant Cities.   PURPOSE TO PUT LABOR WHERE MOST NEEDED

44 -HOUR WORK WEEK: ORDERED BY AOUSEVELT   32 Areas Of Nation Affected In Latest Effort To Get War Plant Workers   OVERTIME FOR 6TH DAY WILL BE PAID LABORERS   Plan Evolved For Solving Manpower Shortages In Vital Areas

FDR ORDERS 48 HOUR WORK WEEK   To Hasten Day of Victory. Order Mean: Wage Increase For Many Workers

‘Spartan’ Living Standard in War   Americans Told They Must Buckle Down to Longer Hours on Home Front.

Extension Of 48-Hour Work Week, Ordered By President, To Other War Centers Seen   Postwar Prosperity Is Seen After Period Of Spartan Living In U. S.

PROSPECT OF AN INVASION IS ENVISIONED   Broad Outline of Struggle Ahead Is Given By Economic Stabilization Director

‘Spartan Standard of Living’. Prospect for U. S. Until Victory.   EXPECT INVASION SOON

48-Hour Work Week to Be Extended.   PROSPERITY GLEN IN POST WAR ERA

AS-HOUR ORDER REACTIONS VARIED   C10 to Demand Guaran teéd Weekly Wage: Some Idleness Forecast

ROOSEVELT EDICT ‘AFFECTS LABOR SHORTAGE ZONES   Americans Must Adopt Spartan Standard of Living to Hasten Day of Final Vic-

48-Hour- Week Ordered i in 39 Areas   Byrnes Says. Belt Tightening Needed For Things To-'Come

MAY EXTEND 48-HR. WEEK TO MORE WAR CENTERS   Postwar Prosperity Seen After Period Of Spartan Living; President Orders Longer Work Week To _ Hasten Day Of Victory; 32 Areas Affected.

Prospect of European Drive In 1943 and Post-War Boom Reward tor a 48-Hour Week

LONGER WORK WEEK ORDER GREETED IN (IFFERENT WAYS   THIRTY-TWO AREAS AFFECTED BUT WORKERS GET PAY INCREASE _~

Roosevelt Orders 48 Hour.Minimum -Work Week  HITS ALL JOBS  Would: M ea-n:: Pay Boost-Of.30 Per’.  gM og UWE LTA.

Thousands To Get Big Wage Boost In U. S.  Byrnes Warns Against ‘Creeping Inflation’; Postwar Prosperity

F.D.R. Orders 48-Hour Week On Extra Pay   Nation Must Adopt “Spartan Standard Of Living’ Until Victory Won.   COVERS 32 AREAS NOW

Orders Longer Hours   American People Told Spartan Standard of Living Now Will Assure Post War Prosperity -

48 Hour Minimum Work Week Is Ordered by FDR   ORDER LIMITED, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, TO 32 LABOR SHORTAGE AREAS IN NATION-—-EUROPE INVASION PROSPECT ACCENTUATED

Extension Of  Working Week   MAXIMUM HOURS NOW SET AT 48 FOR INDUSTRY

‘Unparalleled Prosperity’ Is Seen After War Is Ended   But First, 48-Hour Work Week Is Orderec By Roosevelt To Boost Production

48. Hour Work Week Move To Hasten Victory   Probably Will Be Extended To More Labors Shortage Areas.

A8-Hour Weex Ordered For War Speed-up  This Year Means Spertan Standards

Ordered   ...For Workers In Part Of Nation   FDR Decree Limited To 32 Shortage Areas For Time Being

LONGER HOURS, SPARTAN MODE QF LIFE ASKED   Workers In 32 Areas of U.S. Have Work Week Hiked to 48 Hours by Presidential Order   BALTIMORE LISTED IN CRITICAL ZONE   Overtime Pay Provided For Those Covered By Federal Act: Move to Curb Inflation

FORTY-EIGHT HOUR WORK WEEK ORDERED; INVASION HINGING ON OUTPUT FROM HOME FRC“T

Roosevelt Extends Work Week To 48 Hours; New Order Affects 32 Areas   Fresno Is Not Yet Included In Program To Boost Production; Byrnes Cites 1943 Europe Invasion Goal

Longer Hours Decreed for 32 Sections   Time and Half Pay For Overtime Means 30 Per Cent Wage Boost

Minimum Of 48 Hours Set By President In 32 Critical Areas, Including Manitowoc °

48-Hour Week Is Made Legal   FDR Increases Workers ‘Time Jn Vital ‘Areas To Speed Peace’

FDR ORDERS 48-HOUR MINIMUM WORK WEEK   Overtime Pay For Extra Work Included In President’s Plan To Speed Victory

Buffalo, 31 Other Districis Affected by Order — Time-and-Half for Owertime   TO SPEED VICTORY   Farm Belt, Small Employer Dissatisfaction Expressed fo Byrnes’ Declarations

Longer Work Hours In 32 U.S. Areas   Sweeping Decree To Boost Earnings Of Many Millions

THOUSANDS WILL GET 30 PERCENT PAY INCREASE  48-HOUR WEEK SEEN   48-HOUR WEEK SEEN AS PRE'.UDE TO BIG INVASION IN '43

Ogden Area Listed as Shortage Spot. Together with Cheyenne and Other Areas

/Order Affecting 32 War  Centers May Soon Be Exiended  MUST WORK LONGER  IN STRUGGLE AHEAD      Spartan Standard: Sought, Byrnes Indicates, in Fight on Creeping Inflation

48 Hours Ordered By F.D.R.   First Application Wilt Be Limited  Ta 35 “Shortage Area” Cities

48 Hour Work Week Slated In 32 Areas   ‘Prospects ‘of European -Atteck P rosperity “Alter War, Held Out

brunet i ROOSEVELT      Move Declared Necessary to Victory, Means Pay Increase.   OVERTIME. PAY. FOR OVER 40 HOURS   Byrnes Announces Intention to Fight Increase jin Farm Prices. °

President Sets 48-Hour Week   European Invasion in 1943, Postwar Boom Seen in Official Forecast

Byrnes Declares That Action Will Check Inflation   _ Wage Increase Will Result For Thousands

FDR Sets 48-Hour Work Week, Limited Now to 32 Districts   Time and Half Overtime Pay Fixed: European Invasion Seen This Year; ‘Spartan Standard of Livino’ Faced —

Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek Calls On United Nations For All-Out War On Japs

MILLION MEN ARE INVOLVED IN FLIGHT   Great Quantities Of War Material Taken: RearGuard Action Reported Stiff But Futile

Suffer Heavy Losses Of Life And Equipment As Russians Pursue Them

BATTERED GERMAN LEGIONS RETREAT TOWARD BUG RIVER   Badly Mauled Nazis Wage Desperate Rear Guard Battles; Retreat Accelerated By Red Capture of Dnepropetrovsk.

Bleeding Nazi Force Falls Back In Russia   F our Russian Armies Pursue German Troops From Dnieper Bend Toward Bug River; Foe In ‘Disordered’ Retreat

ALLIES ADVANCE IN ITALY WITH BITTER FIGHTING   More Jap Planes Downed in Pacific Area and Allied Planes Aid Yugoslavs

Foe Retreat Toward Bug A Near Rout   Earmarks Of Disaster In Desperate Flight On 200-Mile Front.

Jitler’s Battered .egions Staging A disordered Retreat   ront Dispatches Indicate That Badly Mauled German Forces Are Waging Desperate But Futile Rearquard Battles   NLLION ENEMY SOLDIERS FLEE ACROSS UKRAINE

Nazis Fleeing West Toward the Bug River   Four Red Armies Close on Fleels of Disordered Ranks

BATTERED NAZI LEGIONS FLEE DNIEPER BEND   Retreat Accelerated By Soviet Seizure Of Two Industrial Cities

Four Russian Armies Close In on Enemy  Nearly Million Germans in Mass Retreat Across Ukraine 2 KEY CITIES FALU Thousands of Nazis Slain in Fierce Fighting on Steppes:

SOVIET ARMIES PURSUE NAZIS AS THEY FLEE   Russians Seen Reaching Rumania and Poland by End of Year As Germans Give Ground.

RETREAT OF GERMANS FROM DNIEPER BEND CLAIMED DISORDERLY  ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY RESUMED OFFENSIVE TOWARD ROME

Germans Are in Disordered Retreat From Dnieper Bend   Berlin Commentator Says Campaign Is Deciding War's Fate

NACL RET HEAT FROM QONIEPE A NEARING ROUT   Tens Of Thousands Of Enemy Troops Flee For Lives Before Red Armies

Bleeding Germans’ Retreat in Dnieper Sector Disorderec   Allied Armies in_ Italy Resume Their Drive to Eternal City

Battle Decides Fate of Entire Eastern Front   Whole Dnieper River Bend, Important Economic Center, Is Captured.   May Be the Greatest  Disaster For Germany

Germans Wage Hard Rearguard Battle To Block Disaster   Seek to Salvage What They Can From Mounting Threat Of Disaster

Russians Say Retirement Is In ‘Disorder’   Four Hard-Hitting Soviet Armies in Pursuit of Remnants *

Germans Retreat Toward Bug River. Reds In Pursuit  o Allies Take Eight Italian  lI g~ 

Hitler’s Battered Armies Wage Futile Rearguard Battles On Lone Front

SOVIETS PURSUE FLEEING NAZIS   Greatest German Disaster Since Stalingrad Seen In Reich's Retreat

Nazis Attempt To Slow Swift Soviet March   Southern Front May Bring Greatest Disaster Since Stalinorad   AXIS SUPPLIES TAKEN

Thousands of Germans Slain in Fierce Fighting. Reds Hammering at Gates of Krivoi Rog Where 23rd Nazi Tank Division {s Said Trapped, and. Racing Through Melitipol Te 0  ward Crimea.

Hard-Hitting Soviet Troops Press Hitler’s Battered Legions From Dnieper Toward Bug River, 175 Miles Westward—German Withdrawal Described By Moscow Communique As “Disordered” —1,000,000 Enemy Men Believed Involved In Ukraine Rout

GERMANS LOSE QUANTITIES OF WAR MATERIAL   Desperate But Futile Rearguard Battles Are _Waged by Hitlerites

Hitler’s Badly Battered Troops Stage Disordered Retreat; Thousands Slain

RUSSIAN ARMIES ARE PURSUING THE ~-_- BATTERED NAZIS   German Troops Are Retreating Across Southern Russia Today.   TOWARD THE BUG RIVER   Waging a Desperate But Futile Rear Guard Battle Along 200-Mile Front.

Allies Take Eight Towns In Italy   Campaign Deciding Fate of War in East, Berlin  Commentator Sava   By RICHARD McMURRAY Be tet Poses Ulery Feitaee

NAZIS RUNNING FROM SOVIETS   1,000,000 Germans Reported In Mass Retreat from Dnieper River

Russians Label German Retreat ‘As Disordered’   Berlin Concedes Fate Of Eastern War In Balance

Badly-Mauled Nazi Troops Retreat Across Southern Russia In Attempt To Escape Hard-Hitting Red Armies   Greatest Disaster Since Stalingrad Seems Certain As Hitler’s Legions Wage Desperate Rearquard Stands Along 200-Mile Battlefront

NAZI WALL ISBLASTED. BY SOVIETS   Four Armies Push Hitler’ Forces :’ Backward

Fate of Germany’ § Russiah Campaign Hangs in Balance   Allied Armies in Italy Resume Offensive Aimed Toward  Rome

Reds Follow Up Victories On Dnieper   Important Cities Of Dnepropetrovsk And Dneprodzershinsk Fall

Four Red Armies Pursue Germans  On Long Front   Raviscania Captured In Italy By Yanks; Dnepropetrovsk Is Taken

Tighten Clamp Around Crimea   Allied Armies Engulf Eight Towns in Re sumption of Drive Toward Rome; British Evacuate Cos in Dodecanese Islands’ Under German Air and Sea Pressure

BADLY MAULED GERMANS FIGHT REAR ACTIONS   Berlin Military Expert Says ~ Campaign Is “Deciding Fate’ of War On Fastern Front      BEATEN HITLERITES RACE FOR BUG RIVER   Yield “Enormous Quantities’ of War Material In Rout From Captured Dnepropetrovsk

NAZIS WAGE FUTILE WAR ALONG RIVER   German Retreat I: One Of Greatest In History

CRIMEA LIKELY TO FORM TOMB      One Million Germans Declared To Be In Mass Retreat   REPORT LWOW MINED

FOUR SOVIET ARMIES ARE IN PURSUIT   Withdrawal Al Along 200Mile Section of Southern Front Characters ized by Red Communique as “Disordered.”

Red Armies Chase Retreating Nazis   Hitler’s Legions Wage Desperate Rearquard Battles with Russians

Dnieper Defenses  Smashed By Reds   Estimated Million Germans In Mass Retreat Across Russian Ukraine

‘DISORDERED RETREAT MARKS: FLIGHT OF NAZIS TOWARD BUG RIVER 175 MILES OF DNEIPER ~   Berlin Military Commentator Says Present Cam: paign May Be “Decidiing Fate” of War On Eastern Front.—Allies Resume Drive In Italy

Nazis Retreat In Disorder Before Soviets   Allied Armies Overrun Eight Towns in Advance Toward Rome; Nearly 800 Jap Planes Have Been Destroyed in Southwest Pacific 

Pursue Fleeing Nazis   Moscow Says German Retreat from Dnieper Bend is “Disordered” ; Resume Drive on Rom

Thousands of Germans Slain In Retreat Toward Bug River: Enemy Loses 10 Towns in Italy

Four Russian Armies Have Nazis on Run   Million Germans in Flight From Dnieper Bend and Crimee

Campaign Is Seen “Deciding The Fate” Of East Front War   [Reds Storm Krivoi Rog Suburbs; Million Germans Said In Retreat; Claim Enemy Mines Polish City

Russians Pursue Retreating Nazis   BADLY MAULED GERMAN ARMIES FIGHT BACK

MUCH MATERIAL IS CAPTURED BY RUSSIAN ARMY   3adly Mauled German Forces Fighting Desperate But Apparently Futile Rear guard Battles Along 200-Mile Front.

Nazis Retreating To Positions 175 Miles West of Dnieper   Hitler’s Troops Fight Rearguard Action Only in Attempt To Save Some Materiel

Hitler’s Forces Fleeing Toward Bug River Line   South Russia May Become Another German “Stalingrad”; Thousands Of Enemy Troops Being Killed

FOUR RED ARMIES HIT GERMANS   Retreat Called ‘Disordered’ In Soviet Communiaue

FOUR HARD-HITTING RED ARMIES PURSUE HITLER 3 LEGIONS   GERMAN RETREAT CHARACTERIZED AS DISORDERLY BY RUSSIANS

Soviets Push Invaders To  Bank Of Bug   Fate Of Eastern Front May Hinge Upon Battle

‘Disaster’ Threatens  In South   Wage Desperate Fight Backing Toward Bug River.

Italian Mainland And Her Island Of Sicily Wilting    Underside Of Axis Has Proved Far Softer At First  Test Than Churchill Could Have Foreseen

New Events Are Likely to Change Scheme   War on All Fronts Appears to Develop Faster Than Expected; Allies May Revamp Victory Plan to Keep Step

iftahan inesistance Expected lo Collapse Soon— —By Kirke L. Simpsor  Allies May Need To Map New Invasion Plans

Victoria Gives Up Her Trapeze to Do Man's Job--Being Shot from Gur

British, French, U. S. Troops Combine In Squeezing Afrika Korp Into ‘‘Coffin Corner”

BATTERED ENEMY ARMIES PLANNING FOR NEXT STAND   Armored Units F rom First And Eighth _ Armies Press Northward From _ Sousse—Other Units Make  New Gains

Rommel’s Men Expected To Make Next Stand At Enfidavile, North Of Sousse—French Are  Mewrmine Tn   BRITISH HAVE REACHED . ANCHOR POINT. SAYS RADIO

BRITISH ARMIES PUSH UP COASTAL ROAD TO WHERE ROMMEL MAY MAKE STAND   Allies Crowding Axis Into Corner Where Final Battle Will Be Fought

Rommel Prepares to Make Final Stand; Believe He Still Has 210,000

117 ARE MADE CITIZENS: HERE   To Receive Certificates Al Americanization Day Program, June 13

Citizenship Is Granted To 11;   Naturalization Day Held Held In St. Joseph -

Rivers On Rampage; Thousands Homeless   Red Cross Into Lowlands Of  Ohio, Wabash and White  Rivers

Demands Voicec For Publicity — At Food Parley   Senators Fear Vital Decisions May be Arranged

COLD HITS STATE   Coldest Weather in a Year Sweeps Across Kan sas Today

May Reach 10 Below Tonight   Sub-Zero Weather Blankets Kansas With General Snaw

ACTION ON FOOD PLAN DELAYED   Subsidy Program Shelved Temporarily

Administration Presses for Quick Action on New Food Subsidy Program

Administration Program Draws Fire in Congress   President to Send Message—'onferences With Farm Leaders  Unsuccessful

Food Subsidies Action Delayed   Roosevelt to Give Views on Subject

INCOME TAX RETURNS GROW   FIELD OFFICES SWAMPED WITH LATE RETURNS

Rich Income Tax Harvest Reported By Treasury Dept.   Field Offices Swamped With Late Returns as Record Established.   Majority Report on New Tax Plan Is Filed

Chinese Say Japs Score Advance   Report Bitter Fight In Yunnan Sector

iese Disclose W Eruption of ‘ller Strugeles  a Wh   of Three Main Jap umns Advancing to Salween River - -

Chinese Open an Offensive  Tene in VYunncn   Jeps in Yunnan Record Gains

Chinese Develop  Big Offensive in  Hangchow Area   Bitter Fighting Rages in Yunnan With Big Japanese Force

Army Relieves Marine Heroes In Guadalcanal   Patch Succeeds Vandagrift; Yank Fliers Hit Japanese Destroyer   SHIPPING ATTACKED   American Airmen Down 8 Japanese Zeros [n impress sive Air Battle

Army Troops Aid Marines on Island   Most of Guadalcanal Marines Removed

MARINES WhO OPENED Onl LEAVE (OLAND   General Patch New Commander of Graund Offensive Against Japs.   ANOTHER JAP WARSHIP DAMAGED BY BOMBS

NBC RAIL STRIKE TOMGHT HELD UP   Union Officials Delay Walkout Set For 10 P. M.

34,000 Pounds Of Butter Spilled On Ground When Truck and Train Crash

FASTERN STAR INSTALLATION   Regular Session of Chapter Follow ed by Installing of Officers “for the New Year

Some 300,000 Germans Are Now Facing Entrapment.   UKRAINIAN CAPITAL IS DOOMED TO FALL   Three-power Conference Begins Second Week Today.

Germans Now yoo 3 With Loss Of 300, Men In Dnieper Bulge  Area. Soviet Offensive.  Greater Than Last  Veaawr_

RUSSIAN ARMY PUSHES AHEAD INGOMEL AREA   Germans Report Reds In New Offensive Aimed at Minsk

Powerful Russian Army Forces Smash Northwest of Gomel to Sweep Up 80 More Villages

FRESH AUSOIAN PUSH APPARENTLY AIMS AT MINSK   Germans Report New Red Of fensive Rolling Down the Smolensk Road   RED FORCES SMASH NORTHWEST OF GOMEL   Carve New Gains on Two Other Sectors; Wipe Out 1,000 Germans in Vain Counter - attacks West of Cherkasy in Dnieper Bulge

RED OFFENSIVE AIMS AT MINSK   Russians Sweep Up & More Villages, Kill 1,500 Nazis

Powerful Red Army Sweeps . Toward Zhiobin; Towns Held   More Than 80 Villages Captured in Gomel Arex While Fresh Soviet Offensive Aimed at ‘Minsk Reported by Naxis

RED FORCES SWEEP UP 80 VILLAGES   While Fresh Russian Offensive Rolls Down Smolensk Road To Orsha; Carve News Gains Elsewhere.   Bleed Nazis

FRESH RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IS NOW UNDERWAY   Germans Report Soviet Forces Advancing Toward City Of Minsk   TANK BATTLES BEING FOUGHT IN DEEP MUD

Reds Make New Drive on Minsk   Report 1,500 Nazis Slain Near Gome!

CONGRESS OUT TO CLEAR WAY. ‘FOR VACATION      Leaders Call: ‘For, ‘Senate Action On Huge War. Department Appropriation Bill   OTHER SQUABBLES   Several Other Controver sies Must Be Settled Before Solons Can Take Summer Off

Senate Faces Action on Big War Dept. Bill   Vacation - Seeking Upper House Members Trying to Skirt Controversial Suhbiects

BROWN WARNING IS CHALLENGED BY FARM BLOG      OPA Head Warns He Will Not Surrender On Wage Tesne

HOUSE FARM BLOG LEADER DISPUTES BROWN’S DEMANDS   Says Higher Farm Prices Less Inflationary Than 48-Hour Week

CHIEF PLEDGES NO SURRENDER IN PRICE FIGHT   Longer Work Week Threatens to Enter Controversy

Farm Bloe Insistent On Prices   Labor Is Factor in Living Costs Too, Congressman Says

Lines Drawn ‘in Dispute Over Farm Problems.   OPA Chief Says’ Higher Prices Must Be Refused

CLASH OVER FARM PRICES   OPA Chief, Farm Bloc Leader Spar Over Parity and 48-Hour Week.

FARM BLOC SAYS 48-HOUR WEEK WILL RAISE LIVING COST   Clash With Prentiss Brown Qver Demands For Higher Farm  ” Prices

Two Withering Attacks Made on Jap Kiska Base   Batteries Bombecd From Low Level

800-Plone Reid Over Europe Causes Hure Less in Nazi War Production

TOWNS IN BRITAIN’ « BOMBED BY NAZIS   Number of Persons Killed _ in Raids Made Dur- -_. ina Dav

2 ENGLISH TOWNS BOMBED BY NAZIS   STORES, CHURCHES AND HOUSES HIT—NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED.

GEAMANS STAGE RAID ON ENGLAND   Nazi Planes, Believed to Include New Type BomberFighter, Bomb and Machinegun Twenty Towns

Germans Step Up Raids on Britain, 20 Towns Bomber  : Yards at Caen, Down 3 Raiders

NAZIS BOMB 20 ENGLISH TOWNS   Many Killed and Injured: Biggest Buildings In Sight Are Targets

TOWNS IN BRITAIN BOMBED BY NAZIS   Number of Persons Killed in Raids Made During Day

GERMANS RAID ENGLISH TOWNS   School, Churches Bombed In Picking Biggest Buildings For Targets

German Planes Hit 20 Towns In England   New Type Messerschmitt Used in Swooping Raids And Some Persons Killed

ALLIES CLAMP NAZIS TIGHTER   British Eighth Army Probes For New Push On Tripoli.

GRIM REMINDER OF  “ALLIED DEMAND FOR  SURRENDER OF ITALY AMERICAN TROOPS CAP TURE TOWN NEAR CENTER OF SICILY

Raid Is Surprise To Italians Who Sought Sanctuary   Daring Daylight Raiders Observe President’s Promise To Pope  To Avoid Cathedrals ee

American, Canadian Troops Capture 2 More Towns in Sicily   Caution Allied Airmen Not To Bomb Religious Buildings, Monuments  In Italian Capital

American Planes in Smash al ~ Rail Key:   Carefully Trained Crews Blast Axis Concentrations in Eternal City   ORDERED TO AVCID BELIGIOUS POINTS   Significant Daylight Raid Comes as Yanks Take Big Sicilian Inland Center

Leaflets First Dropped on City Crowded With Refugees Telling Them of What Was To Come—in Sicily Yanks Drive Injand Toward Catania Plain Where British Are Meeting Stubborn Resistance

Bombers.Only Hit Military Targets —   Italian People Are Informed of Reasons for  Raid; City Is Precision-Bombed in Day light; Allied Troops in Sicily Now Hold  One Third of Island with Advances:Re- °° ported on All Fronts

Military Targets Hit; Vatican City Carefully Spared   Allies Drop Leaflets Telling Italians Axis Has Made Military Arsenal of the Fternal City   RAILROAD YARDS HAMMERED  BY BOMBERS IN DAYLIGHT RAID

SICILY GAINS GROW   U.S. Wins Caltanissetta; British Nearer Catania

DECISION NEAR ON 6-DAY WEEK   OPA Allows Price Increases To Offset Overtime Pay For Extra Day

Six-Day Week For Coal Mines Seems Probable   Agreement Near; OPA Authorizes  Price Increase

SITUATION AT SAMOS ISLE DARK   German Invasion of Dodecanese Island Receives No Confirmation

GERMANS TOLD 10 FIGHT 10 DEATH T0 HALT REDS AT OREL   Fresh Troops Rushed To Front, But Soviets Report New Gains

GERMANS ARE DESPERATE IN OREL SECTOR   Bring Up Fresh Troops from France  To Aid Defense

AXIS MAKES Bl EFFORT TO SAVE FORCES AT OREL   Nazi Command Orders Bast to Be Held at All Cost te Avoid Unhinging of Twe  Other Fronts.   NEW GAINS MADE IN MUNDA BATTLE AREA   Americans Able to Advance 200 Yards After Destroying 14 Pillboxes Hidden In dundles.

 J apanese Submarine Captured at-Pearl  Harbor Now Works Against the Nips

SOUTHERN OHIO MINERS STRIKE   Walkout at Willow Grove Mine Diggers Seek New Contract

EASTERN. .OHIO. ~ ROLLIERY IDLE   Fear Miners in Other Buckeye Pits May Walk Out ©

STRIKE CLOSES Ble OHIO MINE   Other Walkouts Feared Ir ~ Demands For Signing Of Contract

WORK HALTED AT BIG OHIO MINE   Willow Grove Shaft Is Idle As Miners Protest Lack Of Contract

Navy Cellere Training examinations Will Be (tiven At School April 2

Services Tying Up More Meat   New Order To Take Effect On Monday

Admits Helping Nazi Saboteurs  Had Been Acquitted - On Treason Count

SOVIETS HAIL TEHERAN PACT   PRESS SAYS DECISIONS CONFIRM GERMANY BLOW

Soviet Press Hails Result Of Iran Talk   Praises Decisions Taken By Three Leaders On Future Conduct Of War

TEHERAN DECISIONS HAILED IN MOSCOW   Russian Press Predicts Doom at German Army

Winter Fails To Halt Red Army Drive   Bitter Cold and Snow Re.  ported in Russia,       Troops Press Attack

Russians Open New Offensive  To Seize Kiev   Storm And Capture Two Suburbs Of City In Swift Stroke   Germans Draining Off Men From Elsewhere To Resist Reds

REDS CLOSING IN ON ANCHOR LINES OF NAZIS   Soviets Thunder Ahead Over First Heavy Snows of This Winter in Western Ukraine

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Letes World News ‘Today.   Great Rattle.

Berlin hints of retreating past frontier   Soviets maintain fierce ascanilts

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS HOLD UP TAX FILINGS   ‘IT Won't Pay” Attitude Contrasts Sharply With Record-Breaking Returns   FAR AHEAD OF 1942   War Workers in Cleveland  Adopting “Come-and-Get Me” Aititude; Portland Workers Slow to File

BOTH BOUNTIFUL RECEIPTS AND OPEN DEFIANCE SEEN AS TAX RETURNS FLOW

Record Receipts In Tax Offices  ‘I Won't Pay’ Attitude Among Some Workers

INCOME TAX. “REVENUE IS ROLLING IN   Record - Breaking Receipts Are Reported Today From: Most Districts   FILINGS INCREASE... = IN SEVERAL AREAS   But an‘I Won't Pay’ Attitude Is Evident. in Some Sections

As Tux Payments Shatter Reeords  Many Take " Won't Pay’ Attitude

Income Tax Receipts Breaking All U.S. Records   Some War Workers Defy Government To Collect But Most Pay Cheerfully

Indicate Record On Income Taxes   Tax Filings Are Far Ahead of Past Years in Many Districts.  .

Tax Deadline  Brings Varied Attitude in U. S.   Record Returns And Refusal of Many to Pay

Predicts Tax Collectors To Be Rushed   Expect Record Volume Returns

 Of Paying Taxes On 1942 Wages   ors Seen Swamped Money, - Returns Ov er W cekend However

RECORD BREADING RECEIPTS FROM. MOST DISTRICTS 1S CONTRAST TO ATTITUDE “1 WONT PAY’    _Many Defense Workers Over The Nation Are Adopting Attitude of “Come And Get Me”  Over Income Tax Ret urns

Stiffening Axis Resistance in Sicily Indicates Nazis May Have Ousted Mussolini and Fascists

AXIS RESISTANCE STIFFENS TO’ HINT CHANGE OF EVENTS   Adolf Hitler May Turn Military — Liability Into ‘Temporary ” Agiat ‘

C.OF C.T0 MEET ON THURSDAY   ‘Election and Business Meet ing Slated at Legion Home.

Senate Group Asks Experts Of Government Information Service to Explain Methods

GROUP PROBES OW! METHODS   Senators to Call Davis to Demonstrate Press Conference Procedure

Germans Near Volturno River Defense Sector .   Eighth Army Makes 30 Mile Jump To Win Control Of Italian Boot Spur

Enemy Flees From Naple:   New Stand Expected Near Volturno River

Nazis Fall Back 20 Miles in Day   Fleeing Enemy Given No Rest; Next Possible Stand is at Volturno River

AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN JUNGLE FIGHTERS KILL JAPS  SEVEN HUNDRED ENEMY TROOPS SLAIN AND 100 . CAPTURED-NEW-.GUINEA

JAPS CLEARED OUT OF VALLEY   MacArthur's Forces Mop Up in Mambare River Section, Airmen _ Blast Eneniy Bases

Claim 700 Jap Troops Killed  In New Guinea   Allied. Jungle: ‘Fighters Clear Enemy © From Mambare, ‘River. Val:  Tay

Allies in Smashing Victory Over Japs on Guinea Coast   YANK, AUSSIE JUNGLE FIGHTERS KILL 700 ENEMY TROOPS, CAPTURE 100 IN CLEARING NIPS FROM MAMBARE VALLEY

CLEAR ENEMY FROM ENTIRE RIVER VALLEY   Many Other Nipponese Believed Dead of Starvation and Disease Since Dec. 15th.

ALLIED FORCES KILL 700 JAPS   Enemy Reported Cleared From Entire Mambare River Valley

ALLIES SLAY TOQJAPSIN GUINEA WAR   10,500 Chinese Claimed Killed in Battle By Tokyo

JUNGLE FIGHTERS KILL 700 NIPPON   Allies Clear Eni Enemy From Mambare River Vailey in New Guinea.

New Guinea Coast Valley Is Mopped Up   Jungle Fighters Kill Hundreds Of Japs In Campaign

700 Japs Killed  Tn Mambare Area   Airmen Continue To  Pound Bases

700 JAP TROOPS SLAIN BY ALLIES   Yank, Aussie Jungle Fighters Rout Enemy Forces On New Guinea

Japanese Force Is Cleaned Out Of Mambare River Secto. Along Coast Of New Guinea

ALLIED FORCES KILL 700 JAPS IN NEW GUINEA   Clear Enemy from Entire Mambare River Valley, Take 100 Prisoners

Claim 700 Jap Troops Killed  in New Guinea   Allied Jungle Fighters Clear Enemy Krom Mambare River Vallev.

Defeat Large Force Of J aps  In New Guinez   At Least 700 Killed And More Than 100 Taken’ Prisoner In Fighting Along Mambare River 

Allied Jungle Fighters Kill. 700 Japanese   ‘Clear Enemy from Valley on Northeast Coast of New - Guinea; Airmen Pound Jap

100 Jap Troops lo Allies’ Credit   South Pacific War Winninas Listed

700 Japanese Troops Killed   100 Prisoners Taken During Clearup Drive  In New Guinea Area

100 Others Taken Prisoner in Clearine New Guinea Valley   Tokio Reports Huge Chinese Losses; Use Of Gas Reported

Americans Nearing Coast, Closing Trap On Rommel   Allies Gain  In New Guinea

KILL 7 IN NEW GUINEA JUNGLE FIGHTS   Entire Mambare River Valley Cleared of Nipponese Troops

YANKS MOP UP COAST VALLEY ON NEW GUINEA   At Least 700 Japs Killed And 100 Captured by Allied Jungle Force   ISLAND BASES BLASTED   No Trace of Nip Destroyer Damaged by Allied Bombs Found by Scouts

Senate Votes Today On Proposal To Ban Subsidy Payments; OPA Advisor’ Warns Of 50% Hike In Living Costs

NAZI DRIVE IN DONETS BEING HELD   Full Might Of Hitlers Mobile Power Used For Second Day

Weiss Urges Roll Back of Prices   President and OPA Need Power. He Says

WEISS CALLS FOR SUBSIDIES   iSays Congress Failed to  Give OPA, FDR Any “Hold-Line” Order

BRITISH OCCUPY THREE ISLANDS   Hitler's Iron Ring Of Defenses Broken In Aewean Area

RAF Fighter Planes Striking Out From Newly-Won Island Off Greece

SEX TERRORIST IDENTIFICATION   Factory Employe Threatened Chi cago Women and Girls With Knife and Claw Hammer

SEX MANIAG CAUGHT BY CHICAGO POLIC’   Faints When Identified by Five Victims — Claims - Innocence Ine Statement.

NELSON UNABLE TO SAY HOW BiG ARMY CAN GROW   Doesn’t Know if 8,000,000 Can Be Supported, Army Wants 10,009,000

GERMANS HURL TANKS, PLANES INTO CONFLICT   Soviet Units Reported Holding Bridgeheads On East Side   LOSSES MOUNT   Reds Seize Additional Towns In Push On  Smolensk

14,000 interned Japs Refuse to Help With Crops   No Violence Reported as WRA Crlists “Men in Other Centers

Hitler Can Be  Crushed Soon   Pravda Says Allies Have The Advantage

Maeccaw Ontimictic   (By the Associated Press) BMlaele (Ylatesn 14 chine

RUSSIANS FOR ACTION   Pravda Says Early Crushing of Germans Is Possible

Pravda Cites Bnitish, U.S. Superiority Over Nazis in Sea Warfare

U.S. ADOPTS PLAN SIMILAR TO AXIS TO SPEED ARMS  FIRMS BEHIND TIME  WILL LOSE ORDERS

SHIFTING ORDERS INWAR CONTRACT!   Orders to Be Withdraws  From Overcrowded Firms   and Given to Others.

Plan to Break Bottleneck Expected © to’ Engage Small Plants.   PURPOSE TO USE ALL FACILITIES

Speed-up Plan  Is Announced   WPB Will Pool Forces Of ~Men, Tools To Piish : Defense Program: *:

WPB TO BREAK PRODUCTION BOTTLE-NECK   In Critical Components Products, Such as Valves Gears. Instruments, Etc.

To Eliminate Production Bottleneck   Plan Similar to ''Rationalization of Industry" is  Worked Out   IS REVEALED BY NELSON

Move To Break  Parts Bottleneck  Full Scheduling Scheme Scheduled; Similar To Nazi, Jap Program

WILL BREAK BOTTLENECK   WPB Announces Plan To Speed Up Products; Similar To That Of Nazis, Japs

RAF PLANES BLAST GERMAN RAILROADS   Night Fighters Operate. As Bad Weather Grounds. Big Bombers —

INSTATESHUT   Leaders Say Men Will Not Return to Pits Unless Ordered by Lewis

Deferment of Farm Workers To Be Pushed   Bill Will Appear For Action Next Monday in Senate

SEN.BANKHEAD 10 SEEK SHOW DOWN   SPONSORS BILL TO HALT INDUCTION OF FARM WORKERS»

BILL TO DEFER FARM WORKERS TO BE PRESSED   Senator Bankhead Dis. closes He Will Seek “Showdown on Bill to Halt Their Induction      iPASSAGE PREDICTIO?   Sponsor to Seek Floor Ac tion Regardless of Military Affairs Committee’s Action

CARRY FIGHT TO SENATE’S FLOOR   Will Seek Showdown on Deferment of Farmers Despite Opposition in Military Committee

POSITIONS OF EIGHTH ARMY ARE IMPROVED   British Troops Consolidate Hold on First Wedge in Enemy's Winter Defense Line   TRANSPORT DESTROYED

COAL RATION PLAN HINTED THIS WINTER   Violence Flares Up Ameng Strikers Near Mines

Drastic Action Due To Strikes   Warns Government Wil Take Strong Hold On Situation  Before Winter.

Flames Envelop Krupp Plant In Wake of Raid   Flying Fortresses Strike in Force At Amiens, Abbeville Districts; British Lose 23 Planes, U. 8. None

Krupp Works Are Still Afire After Great RAF Raid   American Forts Smash at France

KRUPP WORKS BLASTED IN HEAVY RAID   Flying Fortresses Hit Nazi Communications  In New Raid

GREAT FIRES STILL ROAR IN KRUPP PLANT   Flying Fortresses Smash Again At Communications In French Territory.

Girls’ Charges Denied by Flynn On Witness Stand   Testimony Nearly Completed in Trial of Actor

Gir Is’ Charges F alse- -Flynn   Actor Denies Making Love To Them

Father Draft Is Near Showdown   Congress Sentiment For Delay Grows; Report Roosevelt May Soon Urge National Labor Draft   (RULLELETIN)

Wheeler To Ask Quick Action On  Father Measure   a Claims Army Wastes : Manpower With Men Lying Around In Camps

SEN. WHEELER WANTS EARLY ACTION ON BILL a BAN DRAFTING     OF PRE-PEARL HARBOR DADS

SEN. WHEELER 10 DEMAND VOTE ON ~ FATHERS’ DRAF]   Charges the Army Is ‘Great Waster of Manpower’   CITES DEMOBILIZATION ACTION OF CANADA

Report FDR Will Soon Recommend  U. §. Labor Braf   Propose Moratorium On Drafting Fathers Pending Survey

SEEK MORATORIUM ON FATHER DRAFT TO MAKE SURVEY      «Roosevelt May Recommend National Labor Draft — Wheeler Will Resist Delay

Allied Armies Make Gains o1 italian Front   250,000 Russians Break Through in Nevel Area; Nazis Forced to Shorten Line

Reds Develop Drive Toward Kirovograd  Stranaely Silent   Strangely Silent on Fighting in North Section

REDS DEVELOP NEW OFFENSIVE ONKIROVOGRAD   Heavy Battles Rage Or Both Ends Of  Italian Line

Reds Develop Drive Toward Kirovograd   Americans Have San Pietro Almost Cut Off, Fight Toward Plains

Japs hint new U.S. land blow   Fliers lash area: down 30 aircraft

360 TONS OF BOMBS HIT AREA   30 Enemy Planes Sho! Down In Attack On Nips At Rabaul

Sleepers Flee $75,000 Blaze At Manchester   Three Story Building Is Razed; Parts Collapse Early Today

A Smiling Host  Stalin Talks With Davies For More Than Two Hours

Davies Says Stalin Appears Unworriec   American Expects Further Parleys

STALIN 1S READ SECRET LETTER   Envoy Davies Has Long Talk With Premier At Kremlin

Davies Is Welcomed To Moscow by Soviet Chieftain  Envoy Delivers Note But Refuses to Reveal Its Contents

Hawkeye Shorts   Basketball Used In State Tourney Brings War Bonds

Hawkeye Shorts _   bei Used. . In State Tourney: Brings War Bonds

Seven Persons  Killed In Crash   Train Strikes Auto On Crossing Near Monon. gahela This Morning   SIX OF DEAD ARE IN SAME FAMILY

Bus-Train Crash Kills 7, Injures 93   Collide at Johnston City  Crossing

Seven Persons Are Killed in Bus-Train Crash   Greyhound Bus Collide with Two - car Diesel Train in Illinois

Train-Bus Crash Kills 7, Injures 53  Most of Casualties Ara an Mater Conch

SEVEN KILLED IN TRAIN-BUS (RASE   Greyhound Bus and Passenger Train in Collision

SON WAY 1U VISIT HIS WIFE   Diedrich Jahn, Struble Resident; ‘To Be Buried Friday P. M.

Struble Pioneer  Dies Monday  Diederich Jahn Wa: 82 Years Of Age

DIES ON WAY 1 VISTAS WF   Diedrich Jahn, Struble Resident, To Be Buried Fridav P. M.

Age May Be Boosted to 45 Years   Draft Boards to Start Classifying Men Aged 18 to 37

Start Moves to Drive , Men Into War Work   Hint At Boost In Age Limit To Force Men Over 38 Onto Farms Or Into  =» 8 8B 1.2% 99% _

Compulsory Farm Labor Action Near   U.S. to Drive Men 18 to 45 From All  ‘Luxury’ Industries

GOVERNMENT DRIVE TO FORCE MEN INTO WAR WORK BEGINS   Draft. wBoards “Wilts “Start Reclassifying Workers. =In Non-Essential Employmeni _

Will Force Men Into War Work   U. S. Starts New  Program Tomorrow

Start Drive Tomorrow To Place Men In Essential Industries Especially On Farms of Nation   EA SIX-POINT PROGRAM GIVEN

MAXIMUM AGE LIKELY WILL BE INCREASEL   Those Over 38 May Be Forced to Take Job on Farm or Needed Industry.

U. S. Launches Worker ‘Draft      SIX-POINT PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PLACE OVER-AGE, PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED MEN IN ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES, FARMING

Deadline Here For Men to Get Into War Jobs   Dratt. Boards to Begin Reclassification Tomorrew

BEGINS DRIVE TO FORCE MEN ' TO WAR WORK   ic ST WMC, Food Chiefs Work Out De tails of Land Army Pian

THOUSANDS OF MEN TO BE RECLASSIFIED FOR ESSENTIAL JOBS   . S. Drive Begins Thursday To Channel ‘Non Deferrables’ Into Farming, Other Important War Work

POLICE SCATTER MOB IN GEORGIA SUNDAY   Crowd Gathers as Soldier Interferes With Officers

CINEF OF STAFF - DECLARES WHEELER'S PROPOSAL WOULD HURT MORE * ‘THAN GERMANS AND,  a JAPANESE —

Wants Fathers In The Army   ‘Gen. Marshall Opposes Bill To Delay

DON'T CUT NOW’ MARSHALL PLEA ON DADS’ DRAFT   Says Ban Would Harm War © Effort More Than Could Nazis or Japs

WARN DRAFT GUT Ao BAD Aa WAPS OF NAZIS   Would Bo More Damage to War Progress, Gen. Marshall Tells Senators.   SAYS GROUND FORCES TO GO INTO ACTION SOON

Austin Harrison Under Observation   Authorities Have Hard Time Figuring Him Out

Another Crisis Rises In French Relations   DeGaulle Sends Ultimative Demand To Giraud For Conference Immediately.

Axis Worries Mount Over Coming Allied Invasion; 133 Ships Are Reported Entering Mediterranean

INVASION FEVER GAPS AXIS. AS gONVOYS MOVE   133 Allied Ships Are Reported Leaving Gibraltar   GUERRILLAS READY TO ASSIST INVADERS

ALLIED CONVOYS SAIL EASTWARD IN MEDITERRANEAN   Island of Panteileria In Ur. gent State of Alarm for Invasion.

Strict Adherence To Price Ceiling   Used Appliances Must Not be Sold Over Fixed Price. Board Here Says

Sailing Date of Philippines, Japan Relief Ship Moved Up   Packages for Prisoners Must Be  In New York by Midnight of Aug. 2/7

MOVE MAILING DATE UP   Packages to Far East Should Be in New York, August 27.

JOHN L. WILL MAP STRATEGY IN MEET TODAY   Miners Policy Committee Working On Future Plans

CONSIDERING MINE TROUBLE   John L., Lewis Meeting with United Mine: !Workers . Policy Committee ~-Will Define Union Strategy for Next Phase of Controversy.

MINERS TO MAP NEW STRATEGY   Policy Committee May Discuss Outlook For Resuming Negotiations

LEWIS, POLICY GROUP DEBATE MINE STRATEG)   Union Must Decide On Next Move In Coal Case

LEWIS MEETS WITH UMW POLICY GROUP   Union Strategy In Coal Squabble To be Defined

Lewis, Aides to Decide Next Move   Study Strategy in Wage Controversy

95,000 MINERS ARE STILL IDLE   Back-to-Work Move Is Retarded by Pickets

PICKETING DELAYS MINE .WORK MO‘:   95,000 Miners Still On § -! , —45, 000 In State Arye: Idle. *

3,000 MINERS REMAINING IDLE   Picketing in Western Pennsylvania Blocks Back-to-Work Movement Among U.M.W.,

SAVE GASOLINE, COAST WARNED   East Using More Than Allotment, Ickes Declares

OPERATIONS ARE SIISPENDEN TEMMUPORARTIYV   War Department Reorganizes Army

Firepower Of Infantry To Be Increased  Manpower And Motor Vehicles To Be Cut

U.S. Army Divisions to Be Reduced  in Manpower, Increased in Firepower

RUSSIANS CUT NEW HOLES IN DNIEPER LINE   Street Fighting in Melitopol Rages Into Seventh Day

Victory Gardeners Organize To Protect Themselves Against Tall Garden Tales

Backyard Farmers Organize to Crack Down on Those Victory Garden Tales That Grow Taller Than Jack's Fabled Beanstalk

ASSURES CUTS AFTER ATTACK ON FARM BLOL   " Rep. Sabath Calls For Firmer Stand On Prices To Farmer

Cut Pledged For Prices   Bowles Promises —  Living Cost Rollback

Cost of Living, ‘To Be Reduced, \OPA Promises   Congressman Assails Benefits Granted Farm Bloc

Bowles Promises  Slash In Costs _   Says Level To Be Cut To September Scale

COST OF LIVING WILL BE FORCED TO LOWER LEVEL   Will Be Pounded Down To Sept. 1942 And Kept There, Says Bowles

Three Warring Groups Back Three Plans   Vote Today on Amendments—Real Showdown Balloting To Come Later

House Begins Voting Today On Tax Suggestions   Longest Debate Since Pearl Harbor Finds Three Factions Wrangling Over What To Do.

Allied Strategy to Keep China in War. And Aid Russia Outlined by Admiral

Must Keep China In War, Give Russia Help. . .  Allied World Strategy Outlined By Admiral

Admiral King Maps Strategy   Armed to Keep China in War and Assist Russia By Diverting Nazi Troops

ALLIED WORLD CTAATEGY TOLD      Admiral King Outlines Plans To Keep China in War, Aid Russia.   TELLS OF PACIFIC WAR

Strategy Told By Adm. King   Seek to Relieve Russia. Keep China in War

China and  Russia Aid -Ils Grand _ Strategy   Aautiral King Outlines General Scheme in Talk to Newsmen   REDS HAVE MEN. AND BEST POSITION   China in Somewhat the © Same Role as Regards War in Pacific

China Key ToPacific Strategy   Aid to Russia Also Most Important to  Allied Plan

Allied World Strategy Aims To Keep China In War On Japs   Admiral King Also Tells Of Every Possible Effort To Aid Russia By Drawing Off Germans

KING SAYS ALL — AID MUST GET TO CHINA AND RUSSIA   Admiral King Outlines Allied World Strategy to  Keep Pressure on Enemy

ALLIED STRATEGY  AIMS AT AID FOR  CHINA AND RUSSIA ADMIRAL KING, COM ‘MANDER U. S. FLEET, DIS CIICCEC WAR SITUATION

Map Strategy To Keep Reds, China Fighting   ‘Concerted Plan’ Now In Operation, Says U. S. Fleet Chief; Tells Guadalcanal Value

AN ALLIED WORLD STRATEGY T0 KEEP GHINA IN THE WAR   Announcement Was Made Today by Admiral Ernest King.   MATERIALS TO RUSSIA   Allies to Exert Every Possible Effort to Divert Nazis From Soviet Front.

x «kK KK YX China and Russia Keys in Allied Plans   xk kk Ok Japs Will © Catch It Soon

KING OUTLINES WAR STRATEGY   U, S. NAVY CHIEF SAYS BOTH RUSSIA AND CHINA HELPED

Admiral Says China Must Be Kept In War   Fleet Commander Adds That Russia Should Be Assisted

RUSSIA, CHINA SPEARHEADS IN WAR, KING SAYS   Says Allied Strategy Aimed at Giv. ing Both All Possible Aid, Di -Verling Foe From Them

Allied Strategy Outlined by King   Admiral Says Every Effort Will Be Made To Keep China in War Against Japanese

ALLIED MOVE! OUTLINED B) ADMIRAL KIN   Strategy Aimed at Keeping China in War Against Japs and Exerting Efforts to Aid Russia

Aid to China, Reds Is Allied Strategy   Admiral King Says Plan Includes Using Every ~ Possible Effort to Divert German Forces From the Russian Front.

Allied Strategy Is Aimed at Keeping Chinese in War   Admiral King Says Russia Holds Key To European Problerr

King Discloses War Strategy   Aimed At Keeping China In War And To Assist  Rivera.

OTAATEGY AIMED ~~ TORELP CHINA   Admiral King Declares -Munitions Must Be Sent Chinese, Russians

KING OUTLINES ALLIES’ PLANS   Intend. to Keep China In War Against Japs, Give Russia Further Aid

Allied Strategy Is to Keep China Fighting Nippons   Admiral King Says Plan Is to Put More Pressure on Communica ns.   To Divert Ge: many’s Pressure on Russia

Says Keeping China in War  Is Important   Admiral King Says Every Possible Effort Must Be Exerted to Assist Russia by Diverting German Force s

ADM. KING DRAWS PLAN. TO KEEP CHINA-IN BATTER   Would Also Exert “Every Pos sible Effort’ to Aid Russia . By Diverting Nazi Troops - From Russ Front

Aid To Russia And China Is Aim OF Allies   More Pressure Will Be Exerted On Nazis; Pound Japs Hard

TENLIST WOMEN FOR AIR FORCES   WAC May Request Assignment To The Air Forces

Allied Planes Raid Sicily   Rome Reports Attack But Claims Little Damage; 7 Planes Shot Down

NORTHERN ITALY AREAS IN RUIN   TRIPLE ATTACK BY RAF HITS MILAN, TURIN AND GENOA

THREE ITALIAN CITIES RAIDED: FIRES RAGING   Milan, Turin and Genoa Reported In Ruins. Under Hammer Blows of  British Lancasters

Monigomery's Forces Reach Ridge for Last Down Grade Sweep of Less than Fifty Miles   ‘AXIS BASES RAIDED   Allied Headquarters in Tunisia Reports Penetration by Axis Forces Near Pont Du Fahs   RULLETIN

13 Axis Vessels Sunk In 3 Days  Mediterranean Action Announced By British Admiralty

Destroy 13 Axis Ships   British Sink Vessels In The Mediterranean

LIBYAN CAPITAL SET ABLAZE BY AERIAL RAIDERS   FINAL SWEEP OF LESS THAN 50 MILES LIES BEFORE ALLIED PUSH

‘Many Taxpayers Required to Return ‘Income Declarations by September 15

YAZI TORPEDO FIRED —  AT SWEDISH VESSEL   rcond Attack Simee Swede: Stapped Troops Moving Across Country

‘Democratic Group Fight Ruml Plan      ACCEPT CHALLENGE OF REPUBLICANS AND SQUARE OFF FOR FINISH FIGHT; “ACCEPT NO COMPROMISE. 5   Favor Optional Withholding

COAL STRIKE CALLED OFF BY LEWIS   New Agreement Signed With Ickes Means Wace Boost

East Shivers As Miners Go Back To Pits   Coal Bins Empty, Steel Mills Closed, Result Of 3 Day Strike

Japanese Infernees Employed by Ickes   Needs Farm: Help Secretary Claims

Catholic Weeklies Differ In Views On Rome Bombing   Commonweal Et Editorial States No Distinction Should Be Drawn Between Kome and Cites of Géraany * and Britain; The Tablet States Allies Should Not “Ape” Axis Bombing of Churches

Catholic Papers’ In Disagreement   One Approves Rome Bombing, Other Doesn’t

EACTIONS 10 BOMBING VARY   Catholic Newspapers Have Different Opinions of Reme Raid.

Catholic Papers Disagree On Raid   One, Writing On Rome Bombing, Sees No Distinction.

Roosevelt Would Levy ‘Super-Tax’ On Securities Now Exempted, Hold All Income to $25,000 Annually

F. R. Urges Super Tax on All Net Income Over $25.000   Would Then Rescind Executive Order. of  $25,000 Pay Limit

SUBSTITUTE. COSIERED TD GEILINE   Would Cut. Limits Recently Fixed By Chief .

Roosevelt Asks ‘Super Tax’ In Place OF $25,000 Limitation On Salaries

FDR Requests Salary Limit   President Proposes Regular: Taxes To Reduce High Incomes. 

FDR PROPOSES SUPER TAX LEVY   Would Limit Single Persons to $25,000 Income; Married to  $50,000

Roosevelt Urges Super War Tax   Congress Ready To Accept PostWar Planning Now

Roosevelt Asks Super-Tax On Income Above Limit   Repealer Gains Support.

Limit on Incomes Is Askec      Roosevelt: Proposes . Special Tax Limiting Individual to. $25,000 a-Year   PREVIOUS ORDER ”. ON SALABY ONLY   President. Declares Action Necessary to. Prevent Gross Inequity

ASKS CONGRESS TO LEVY SUPERTAX ON INCOMES   President Urges Group To Pass New Measure

AP dCul OL Odlar UCI  Ready to Forego $25,000 Limit In Return for 100 Per Cent Levy on Excess From Any Source   Mediation Board Takes Over Rail Employes’ Pay Dispute

President Asks Super Tax As Salary Curb   Limit On Net Income Would Allow $25,000 For Single Person   $50,000 FOR COUPLES   Roosevelt Would Rescind Executive Order if Proposal Is Accepted

Super-Tax Urged By  Roosevelt   Levy On Large Incomes Would Limit Single Persons To $25,000, Married To $50,000

E.R. Offers New  Pay Limitation Super-Tax Would Down Salaries; $50,000 For  Married Men

Roosevell Favors $56,000 Limit For Martied Couples.   Super Tax Propased To Replace Ceiling Edict “Ot President

SUPER WAR TAK ON Bb INGONE URGED BY FOR   Limiting Of Net Incomes To $25,000 Remains Basic Principle   NEW PLAN WOULD AFFECT COUPON CLIPPER ALSO   Inequalities Of Present Tax System Must Be Erased, Congressmen Told

ROOSEVELT: — ASKS CONGRESS CURB INCOMES      Will Rescind Executive Order I Legislators Act ~Ruml Subs‘i - tutes Near Vote

Hundred Per Cent Tax On Big Incomes Urged By President   Super Levy Sought In Place Of His Peg May Forvive Part Of 1943 Taxes

ROOSEVELT OFFERS TO RESCIND SALARY EXECUTIVE ORDER  REQUESTS A SPECIAL TA} LEVY THAT WOULD TAKI

Roosevelt Wants Super War Tax fo Limit Incomes   House Committee Action on Salary Limit Answered

Slav Troops Besiege Lagreb  Partisans Bottle Five German Divisions,

MAIL XMAS GIFTS TO WAR PRISONERS BY OCTOBER 15   Instructions Given By Red Cross On POW Regulations

FATE OF DUCE NOW QUESTION   Mussolini Not Mentioned In Announcements of Italy Surrender

MYSTERY GLOAKS FATE OF IL DUCE   Mussolini Question: Still Unsolved Despite Surrender. _i‘“§

Valiant American Fighters Halt Nazi Thrust in Tunisia   BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY TAKES SOUTHERN OUTPOST OF MARETH LINE, SQUARES OFF FOR TWO-PRONGED TUNIS OFFENSIVE

SPAIN GETTING AMERICAN OIL   Caribbean Exports Give Country Higher Per Capita Supply Than In East

HALIFAX: SAYS: FUTURE PEACE * - - RFQUIRES: COMPLETE: VIETORY   BRITISH. AMBAGBADOR DECLARER AXIS MUBT SUF FER IRREVOCABLE DE_ . FEAT 20 PREVENT t WAR IN FUTURE

DEAF EAR T0 BE TURNED 10 HITLER'S PLEA   British Ambassador Says Huns Must Be Crushed For All Time   POST WAR UNITY URGED   ” Just Retribution For All German Crimes Promised Invaded Nations

CAPT.J.F. MARA SICILY AUG, 2      Lexington Man Had Many Relatives in Concord and Vicinity

U.S. INSPECTS PLANE ENGINES ON ALL FRONTS   Continues Probe of CurtissWright War Material

GovernmentSends Plane Prebers to Fighting Fronts   Curtiss. Engines Already in Use Are Being Checked

PLANE ENGINE CHECK WIDENED   Justice Department Inspects Curtiss Motors On Fighting Fronts

Survivor Of Exploring Expedition Dies At Age Of 85 In Hanover County

Medical Society Announces Advance In Quest To Learn Nature Of Elusive Viruses Which Cause Common Diseases

New Approach May Lead To Vaccines For Polto, Flu And Other Diseases

QUIT'AFTER 79 YEARS   Grocery Store Owners Tire of Filling Out Questionnaires

Hard Blows Also Struck at Messina And Other Mainland Supply Ports; 19 Enemy Planes are Destroyed

Sweep Enemy Planes From Sky, J9 to I, in Devastating Drives;.. Duce’s Men Join Greek Guerillas

Allied Bombers Smash at ltaly, Isle Defenses   19 Enemy Planes Destroved to Single Craft Lost: All of U.S. Raiders Return

Unbroken Attacks On Italy Kept Up   Alhes Continue Tearing Air Opposition Apar At Rate Of 19 Axis Planes To One: Homeland, Islands Pounded

ALLIES. KEEP UP --BLISTERING AIR — ATTACK ON ITALY   ‘Mussolini’s " Island Defense Outposts’. and Mainland Itself Subjected to, -Shat'~ tering Assaults.   ONLY QNE PLANE LOST " FOR EVERY 19 BAGGED   Supply Ports of Messina, San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria Are Dealt Heavy Blows.

Fliers Smash Key Ports; Loss Is Small   Allies Keep Strafing Enemy Centers, Proceed to Mainland

ALLIES SCORE 19 10 1 PLANE RAID VICTORY   MUSSOLINIS SUPPLY PORTS BLASTED BY BOMBERS

Shattering Assaults Made And Enemy Planes Bagged At Ratio of 19 to One 

CONTINUOUS BOMBING RAIDS DAMAGE ITALIAN POSITIONS   American and British Air Fleets Destroying Enemy Aircraft at Rate of 19 Planesto One -

Story Is Told of Shotter: ing Aerial Asscults  19 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED; ONE LOST Railroad Yards at Messina Sprayed With Bombs

JEFFERS SEES INTERFERENCE   Accuses Services of Delay  In Rubber Program

Sons Told of Hero's Death   Newsman, in Letter to Cotonel’s Widow, Gives Details of Last Battle

INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SAID EXPECTED   Sees Chaos If African State Given Freedom After War

School Honor Roll Announced   ROLL FOR SECOND NINE WEEKS OF SCHOOL IS ANNOUNCED.

Phyllis Kerr of Akron Married "Weds Geo. Huddles.  ‘ton of Minneapolis -

AKRON GIRL ANDMINNEAPOLIS MAN ARE MARRIED: HERE   Vows Are Taken At Ceremony In Methodist Church On: Wednesday

Air Sea Fights 1000 Miles Out Are Revealed   Cornered U-Boats Turn Guns on Planes to No Avail

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Lon-Doomed Gomel Fall No Indication German Collapse Imminent

Australians In Advance On Jap:   Drive On Wareo, Jap Strongpoint North Of Sattelberg, New Guinea   NAVAL FORCES AID IN NEW ATTACKS

Rommel Running  Out Of Rope   Churchill In Accord With French Program

DRIVING OF ROMMEL OUT OF HIS STRONG POSITION NORTH GABES HAS PUT HIM AT DISADVANTAGE

Rommel Loses Last Natural Defense iLine; Left To Fight In Open Desert

The War Today— Rommel Loses Last Natural Defense Line; Left To Fight In Open Desert

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rommel Forced To Quit “ast Natural Defense In Southern Tunisia

Rommel Deprived of Last Strong Position in Tunisia Seems Close to End of His Rope

THE WAR TODAY   By DEWITT Mac KENZIE i Associated Press War Analyst)

NORFOLK BLAST ISFATAL TO 17   Ammunition In Transit Blamed; About 257 Are Injured

Explosion At Norfolk;Toll of Dead High   BELIEVED BY NAVAL AUTHOR!TIES TO HAVE ORIGINATED IN AMMUNITION IN TRANSIT; FLAME, SMOKE BILLOW.  aang

Navy Base Explosion Claims 17   Antmanition in Transit Blows Up, birjures 957 ot Naorinik

Explosion Kills 24; Injures 250  Naval Air Station Badly Damaged

NAVAL STATION BLAST KILLS 24   257 Others Injured In Norfolk Air Station Catastrophe

Yanks Seize Heights In Salerno Area   Bolster Sea Blockade of Naples

FIFTH ARMY'S BRIDGEHEAD 1 MILES INLAND   Troops Seize Domination of Heights Overlooking Bay of Naples.   BRITISH TROOPS TAKE » GIOJA ON-EAST COAST

MILLIONS OF TONS OF WATER FLOWS ~ DOWN 2 VALLEYS   RAF Loses Eight Lancasters and Crews In Skillful Attack on Fifth Day of Aerial Attack   ORTIA, ROME PORT, BONBED, NEW PHASE   Clandestine Radio “Free Milan” Appeals to ‘talians to Free Themselves From Mussolini.

Allies Continue [Heavy Assault 'On Axis Sectors   336 Million Tons of Water Loosed Upon _Industrial- Regions

536,000,000 Gallons of Water Sweep in Waves Down Two Valleys.  NEW KIND OF BLOW AGAINST GERMANY  Italian Seaplane Base 15 Miles of Rome Smashed by Allies.

RAF Fliers Blow Up Two Big Power Dams In Raid On Germany.   Daring Blow To German ‘Production Re  ported To Have Resulted in Damaging Floods With Heavy Casualties

336,000,000 TONS OF WATER LOOSED IN TWO VALLEYS   Nazis Admit Heavy Casualties As Flood Gushes Through Industry — Area—Americans Carry Out  More Attacks On Continent —

RUHR AND EDER VALLEYS FLOODED, POWER IS CUT OFF   Eight Lancasters Lest—Dany Supplied Power to in-  dustrial Area. :

SECTIONS INUNDATED   8 Bombers Sacrified In Daring Attack; Berlin Raided

2NAZIDAMS BREACHED BYRAF.   Berlin, Ruhr And Rhineland Raided By Allied Airmen

DARING BLOW LOOSES FLOODS ON VALLEYS   Dams Supplied Industries Power; Flood Deaths Admitted

Supplied — Power for Industries            LOOSED 336 MILLION GALLONS OF: WATER, CAUSING MANY DEA Ss; FURNISHED POWER FOR  ._.  RUHR. FEDER ARFAS

336,000,000 TONS OF WATER LOOSE   Supplied Power To Industries, Cacnaltiee Many

Axis Forces May Abandon Southern Italy  Threat of Further Attacks Keeps the Axis Guessing

Axis Radio Hits Note of Despair OnItaly’sDoom      Worry, Hesitaney Seen  Jn German, Halian Bugsy

Axis May Abandon Italian Field  On Tunisia Pattern   Trouble Is Expected  Farther North  —Paat Vietary le Susra

Allies Control Messina Strait   Reinforcements and Supplies Pour Into Italy; Troops and Air Squedrons Reported Finding Practically No Resistance

Axis Army Is Falling Back In South Italy   Abandonment Of Boot Toe Is Linked To Threat Of New Allied Landings; Frach Gainc Are fieported

Axis May Abandon italian Field On Tunisia Pattern   Trouble Is Expected  Farther North

ASK NEW PARITY PRICE BASIS   Farm Groups Request 54 Hour Week For Industry

‘BIG FOUR" OF FARM ORGANTZATIONS HAVE DECIDED ON ' JOINT LEGISLATIVE , - DEMANDS.

_Farm Leader: In Requests , To Congress   “Big Four” requests new parity price bases, longer work week

DESTROY 34 NAZI CRAFT   Attack Castel Benito ‘Airfield Near Tripoli

NAZI PLANES DESTROYED IN TRIPOLI RAID   Total Bag Of Alhes ; 34, In Air And On Ground   75-MILE AIR FIGHT   American Lightnings Hi Axis Transport; 50 Trucks Out

Yank Tanks Beat Off Axis In Gafsa Raid   U.S. Forces Hold Firmly to Hill Position Over El Guetaria Pass   PRESS AIR ATTACK   sth Army Desert Force Near El Hamma After Flanking Sweep

DNIEPER BEND BATTLE RAGES IN BLIZZARDS   SOVIET DEFENDERS FALL BACK EAST OF KOROSTEN   Rulge Reduced

Russians Take Ukraine Rail Town Znamenka   Admit Great German Counterattack Ralls Back Reds Near Kiev

2.Term Limit For Presidents is Introduced  .-- Provisions Do Not Include Roosevelt

WLB Orders Union To Remove Pickets  \oves to Resume Work Ay age! Te : oe

FEW AMERICANS REALIZE DYE IS USED IN SHELLS   Officers of American Navy Improve French Color Invention

FAR-REACHING NEWS FLASHES ONTAP TONIGHT   ‘Important Announcement” Scheduled For 9 P. M., Washington Says

Russians Open New Offensive   Nazi Planes No Longet Hamper Troops—Mar.  seilles Citizens Resist

Reds Start N ew Drive  At Voronezh   Successful Raids By Commandos In Norway Claimed

Enemy Attacks Outside Salamaua Have Been Halter   ‘Many Japanese  Planes Destroyed © By Allies at Wewak

Strong Japanese ‘Counterattacks Crushed Only Miie Outside Salamaua

JAP ATTACKS REPULSED AT SALAMAUA   37 More Planes Destroyed At Wewak Field

Jap Attack Is Hurled Back In  Salamaua Area      Allied Ground Forces Crush Enemy Counterattacks; Bag Jap Planes

ALLIES STAVE OFF JAP RETALIATIONS OUISIDE SALAMAUA   Liberators Have Destroyed! , 37 To 49 Enemy Planes At Wewak _

Allies Break Up  Counterattacks   Salamaua Outskirts  Now Firmly Held

Appalachian Coal Operators Hold Fast Against Lewis   Negotiations Between Owners And Miners Break Down

COAL PAY FUSS. STILL MUDDLED   Operators And Lewis Break Off Negotiations

OWNERS REFORM UNITED FRONT IN OPPOSING LEWIS   Pennsylvania Group Is Back In Line With Ail Other Onerators-

Coal Operators Unite in Dispute   Wage Conference Again Stalemated   OWT Would Send Lecturers To ‘Sell’ Yanks to British

Negotiations Between Producers, UMW Coilapse   AWAIT WAR LABOR BOARD DECISION IN DISPUTE

MINE OWNERS AGAIN HAVE UNITED FRONT   Lewis and Penn. Operators Fail To Negotiate

HEAVY PUNCHES ARE DEALT OUT TO ENEMY BASES   ‘Jap Convoy Attacked By Lone Bomber Now Out Of Planes’ Range   KENDAIR DAMAGED BY ALLIED AIRMEN

U.S. Planes Strike Again at Japs Over Pacific Zone  Big Smoke Plumes Tel Of Damage From Flying Fortress Blows

ASSAULTS MADE BY AMERICAN: AIRMEN   Heavy Punches Delivered in Limited Easter Operations vee

Bombers Deliver New Heavy Blows To Bases of Japs  Convoy, Attacked Saturday, Is Beyond Range of Flyers

CIO Declines to Conmit lself On 1944 Choice   Convention Praises EDR, But Will Withheld. _o-s =Epelareamant”

Three State Cities Short Of Milk   Anadarko Holding Just Even, Blackwell Has Plenty

WRN — gin nace mateme ie eta gest  Three State Cities Short Of Milk   Anadarko Holding Just Even, Blackwell Has Plenty;

Pleasure Driving ~ Ban May Continue  For All Of Summer   Floods In Mid-West Cut East’s Gas Supply By Huge Amount

HEAR DECKHAND IN FLYNN CASE   First Defense Witness Is Presented By Star

Spotlight Swings to Farm Act   STATE SOLONS DISCUSS MANPOWER MOVE: BITTER PENSION BATTLE RAGES

To Speed Farm Manpower Bill.   Special Session to ‘Be Held Saturday. .

Germans Give Up Idea Of Total Mobilization Causing Shops To Close

28,000 STRANDED IN RCA SKYSCRAPER   Elevator Operators Strike Soon Over, However

STRAND 28,000 AT SHOWPLACE   Elevator. Operators Leave 20 Atop RCA Tower.

Official Says Japs at Arizona Relocation Camp Cached Food to Aid Nip Invasion Units

Japs In Relocation Center Cached Food For Invaders  Conditions In Camp Bared Before Committee - By Former Officer: American Flag Disaraced

Invasion Food Is Hoarded   Arrogant’ Nip: Prepare For Paratroops

Japs _Interned In U.S. So Confident They Hid Food For Paratroopers

INTERNED JAPANESE PREDICT NIP VICTORY   Hide Stolen Food in Desert for Invaders

‘JAP EVACUEES EXPECT SPEEDY DEFEAT OF U.S.   Store Stolen Food In Desert For Invasion Army

SOVIET 8 PRESSING TOWARD OREL   BATELE HAGING THAT MAY : DECIDE FATE OF VITAL _ NAZI BASE ON RUSSIAN FRONT

Germans Using Reserve Lroops  In Orel Battle   Reinforcements Are Brought  Up In Desperate Attempt  To Halt Collapse   RED ARMY MAKES : TIIRTHUEPR ADVANCES

FIERGE BATTLE IM OREL SECTOR   Germans Rush Up Reserves in Effort to Avert Coilapse

218 INDICTED ON LOTTERY CHARGES   Four Nation-Wide Lotteries Had $2,090,000 Revenue Yearly.

Senate Hails Moseow Paet   Congressmen Differ Over Its Relation To Post-War Re solution.

Hail Decisions Of Moscow Meet  Death Blow To German Propaganda, Belief   Mirht Change Keeotetion

BARUCH FAVORS RATIONALIZING OF WAR PLANTS   Plan Would Make For More Efficient Output Of Military Goods

To Rationalize Big Portion Of War Production   Less Duplications And More Simplification Of Design And Models

BATTLES DESCRIBED AS “MASS MURDER”   Germans Fighting with New Determination Face Great Disaster

Germans in Headlong Retreat Toward the Black Sea.   CITY OF MELITOPOL IN RUSSIAN HANDS   BATD BWW bh 4A 4A Be RRA TO  Tremendous Battle of Tanks, Guns, Troops Around Kiev.

14 LOSE LIVES IN MINE GAS BLAST: RECOVER 5 BODIES   Rescue Squads Dig Into Tunnels 1000 Ft. Below Ground Surface For Victims

SEEK VICTIMS OF MINE BLAST AT POTTSVILLE   Feurteen Men Killed In An Ex plosion; Bodies Of Five Recovered

14 KILLED WHEN MINE GAS BLAST CUTS OFF SHAF   Five Bodies Recovered—Rescue Crews Dig Toward Other Victims.

Tunisian Victory Is A Matter Of Months, Not Weeks, Veterans Say   No Doubt That Axis Bridgehead In Africa Will Be Smashed, But Magnitude Of Job Ahead © Appreciated By Allied Forces.

LABOR DEMANDS VOICE IN PEACE   Isolationism by U. S$. Must Be Abandoned, Says Green

‘Must Join. The Family Of Nations   APL. Applauds as Greer Declares U.S, Must Abandon Isclationism   LABOR DEMANDS ’ -‘YOICE IN PEACE   Sees Life-or-Death Test: for _Free Enterprise System After the War

‘U.S. Must Abandon Isolationism ‘Forever, A. F. L. President Says

Isolationism Out. _ AFL Meeting Told  Labor Demands Place At Peace Table—Green

Labor Asks Seat At Peace Table   By William Green at AFL Parley Abandon Isolation. U.S. ic Told

AF of L Head Wants U. S. To Join ‘World Family Of Nations.’   HITS AT LABOR CRITICS

LABOR FEDERATION PRESIDENT SAYS U. 8 MUST JOINT NATIONS  WAR HAS TAUGHT US AMERICA CANNOT ISO.

AFL PRESIDENT SAYS ISOLATION. MUST BE ENDED   William Gréen Tells Boston Labor Gathering America Must Join Family of Nations

Red Artillery Crumbles Nazi Defenses Soviets Drive To Clear  Dnieper Bend; Railway Link From Smela Is Cut

Reds Sever Feeder Line   Kirovograd in: Peril ‘As Rail Link Is. Lost

REDS ADVANCE IN BEND AREA   Russian Drive Aimed at Clear ing Nazis from Sector Along Omieper.

Russians Cut Vital Railway   Heavy Barrage Clears Way For Capture of Rail Town

SOVIETS SEVER VITAL ies AMAN       More- Towns All Along: Great Battle Line Fall to Adwiuring Rad Anentca&

Russian Drive Cuts Important Nazi Rail Line   Kirovograd Threatened In Push To Clear Great Dnieper Bend.

REDS CUT NAZI RAILWAY LINE   THREATEN VITAL GERMAN BASTION. AT KIROVOGRAD

REDS AIMING TO DRIVE GERMANS QUT OF DNIEPER   Russians Sever Enemy’: Vital Railway Line Between Smela and Znamenka

Russians Sever  Vital Rail Line.  To Menace Base Powerful Soviet Barrage Crumbles  German Defenses In: New Suecess

SOVIETS DRIVE DEEPER TOWARD RAILWAY LINE   Powerful Artillery And Air Barrage  Hittine Enemy

1s Cut Rail Line smashing ve on Ukraine  azi Horde Crumble: nder Heavy Fire

Russ Cut Rail  Line of Nazis   Threaten Important Kirovograd Stronghold; Advance in Blizzard

REDS PUSHING TOCLEARUP DNIEPER BEND   Smash To Within 23 Miles Of Kirovograd

Russian Troops Sever Rail Line In The Ukraine   Push Northwest Of Gomel; ‘Continue Heavy Attacks In Chernyakhof Sector

REDS ADVANCE TO ZNAMENKA IN SNOWSTORM   Sever Vital Smela-Znamenka Rail Line, Threaten Korovograd 23 Miles io West   20 TOWNS TAKEN   Other Red Forces Less Than Six Miles from Smela After By-Passing Cherkasy

Soviets Clearing Big Dnieper Bend  Launch Fierce Drive in Howling Blizzard

Reds Cut Vital Railway Linking Nazi Strongholds   German Defenses Crumbled By Heavy Artillery, Barrages

Russians Sever German Railway   Soviet Artillery And Air Barrages Smash Nazi Defenses

Reds Cut Rail Line In Smashing Drive on Ukraine  Nazi Horde Crumbles Under Heavy Fire Of Russians’ Forces

RUSSIANS CUT VITAL UKRAINE RAILWAY LINE   Stronghold of Kirovograd Threatened by Offensive Aimed at Clearing Dnieper Bend   MANY TOWNS OVERRUN

REDS MENACE NAZI BASE AT KIROVOGRAD   Troops Advance Upon Important Stronghold After Severing Vital Railway. Line Between Smela and Znamenka.

VITAL RAIL LINES OPEN TO SOVETS   Attacks To Clear Dnieper’s Bend Are Pushed

Nazi Defense Crumbled in Dnieper Benc   Red Army Troops Seve: Germans’ Vital Rail Line   MANY TOWNS FALL   Drive Staged at Height of Blizzard Through Heavy Snow

Kirovograd Is eatened As Smela Line Falls   New Offensive Appar ently Aimed At Clearing Great Dnieper  »Bend. 21 Towns Over“run In Squeeze,. Juncture of Forces Jnimin.ent.

SOVIET SQUEEZE CRUSHES ENEMY   p 900 Germans Slain As Reds Take 20 Towns—Vital Rail Line Cut

‘RUSSIANS LAUNCH DRIVE TO CLEAR THE DNIEPER BEND   Red Artillery and Air Barrage Smashes Nazi Defenses in Front of Advancing Soviet Tanks and. Troops

Red Troops Cut Vital Rail Line   Threatening Important Stronghold of Kirovograd

Dnieper Bend Clearance Is  Reds Object   ‘Another Vital Rail Line  Is Severed By Soviet Attackers

NAVAL FLIERS DIE IN GRASH   Bleak Laurel Mountain Had Also Seen “Sunracer” Down

Aussies Sink Jap Warship Off Gasmata   British Legions Meet First Jap Resistance in Drive Down Mayu Peninsula

JAP DEFENStO IN BURMA oL OW WAVELL ORIVE   British Meeting Stiffening Resistance By Japanese Along Bay Of Bengal

Japs Stiffen Opposition   Field Marshal Wavell Reports Heavier Battle: In Sector of Burma

Resistance of Japs Stiffens   Wavell Drives Ahead In Burma; Australian Planes Hit Warship

Wavell Meets  Stronger Line   Japanese Stiffen Resistance In Burma: Allied Planes Score Hits.

Japs in Burma Show Strong Resistance   Wavell’s Forces Drive Down Mayu Peninsula; Japs Want Lagging War Production Stepped Up

BRITISH BURMA DRIVE SLOWED   Wavell’s Columns Meeting Strong Resistance

Aussie Planes Credited With Sinking Cruiser, Destroyer      Nip Armada Massing ‘in New Britain Waters Hit by Torpedo

RESISTANCE IN BURMA GROWS   Big Jap Armada Reported  In New Britain Waters

Four More Shot Down: Total 680   Wavell’s British Drive On as Japs Stiffen in Burma

BRITISH TMPERIALS MEETING STIFFENED BURMA RESISTANCE  AUSTRALIAN WARPLANES - CREDITED WITH PROBA-

Jap Resistance To British In  Burma Stiffens   Enemy Warship Probab. ly Sunk By Aussies Off  New Britain.

Wavell Army Slowed Down By Japanese   American Fliers Shoot Down Four Zero Fighters

Fage Hirahita  Japs Stiffen Resistance to  Wavell Army  We. Tearnde uit   War Lords Cait On Mikado to Speed Un War Productian

Forces Control. Strategic Ridge   Yanks Mopping Up Areas Near Munda

FIGHT ON RIDGES BEFORE SALAMAU!   ALLIES TRYING TO DRIVE STTBBORN ENEMY FROM HILL POSITIONS.

Allied Troops Press Closer To Salamaua  Clearing Islands In Munda Area; ans... 8. oS

Allies Ferreting Out Japanese From Mountain Ridges  Salamaua Base Still Under American And Aussies’ Fire

EE SD  OPA HAS HEART; IT'S FROZEN  GET NO EXTRA GAS FOR GOLF VACATIONS

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Invasion Of Powder Keg Balkans Next Step In Allied Plans

Report Clash of French  _ Emigrants, Spaniards  £ieassas 4 A O26 Bees

YOUNG MATRON GOES ON ‘TRIAL INBOY’S DEATH   Attractive Socialite Held  For Shooting Youth At’  .. Her Home In Anne. .. Arundel County   HUSBAND: WOUNDED:   Woman’s- Friend Informed’ Police Boy Used Words,  That Are Unprintable.  In Her Presence —   t

 Device May Be Forerunner Of Winged Bombs— —Dy Howard VW. Diakes  ‘Bomb Carrying Glider New German Weapon

WARSHIPS BURIED IN KULA GULF   Indicated Battle Still In Progress

4 MORE ENEMY WARSHIPS IN PACIFIC SUNK   Sent to Bottom In Kula Gulf By Guns of United States’ Fleet   REPORT NEW BATTLE STILL IN PROGRESS   Two Other Japanese Destroyers Are Believed To Have Been Sunk

Weather Forecast   IN KULA GULE   Four Enemy Vessels Already Sunk As Fight Continues In Central Solomons

Two Other Enemy Destroyers Probably Were Sunk and Enemy Losses May Be Even Greater When All Reports Are In; Battle Believed Still In Progress.

Battle Raging On, Says Navy   Two More Destroyers Probebly Sunk And Others Damaged in Kule Gulf; No U.S. Ships Lost in Newest Action

KULA GULF AGAIN IS BATTLE SEA   Enemy Losses May Be Even Greater Than Reported When All Details Are In   FIGHT STILL RAGING

Jap Cruiser. 3 Destroyers Sunk; Fight Is Still Going On   Vessels Are Sent Down in Kula Gulf by U. §. Naval Blockade

Jap Cruiser, Destroyers Hit Bottom In Bombing   Navy Turns Heavy _ Guns On Enemy , In Pacific

Jap Cruiser, 3 Destroyers Sunk In New Battle At Kula Gulf, In Solomons 

4 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK IN BATTLE OFF SOLOMONS   Jap Cruiser, 3 Destroyers And Two Others Probably Sent To Bottom   FIGHT STILL IN PROGRESS   Allied Troops Closing Trap On Enemy Positions At Munda

Japs Lose Four More Warships In Munda Baffle  Other Loases Seen In Nip Effort To Rainfnares Racca

Fight Still ‘Under Way In Kula Gulf   Three Destroyers, Cruiser Go Down In Nicht Envacement

Japan Loses More Warships In New Kula Gulf Battle   Attempts To Reinforce Tottering Munda Base

NEW JAP SHIPS SUNK IN KULA   Cruiser, Three Destroyers Destroyed By U. S. Warships

HEA LOSSES   Four Ships Sunk, Two Others Probably Sunk in Kula Gulf Battle.   NO U. S. LOSSES LISTED

Reports Still Incomplete —   Japanese Cruiser And Three Destroyers Sunk Near Mund

More Jap Ships Sent to Botiom   Four War Vessels Sunk a  Start of Second Battle “of Kula, Guit   ENEMY LOSSES BELIEVED HIGHER   Yanks Tightening Clamp on Munda; Bombers Pound Other Points

Four Japanese Warships Sunk In New Attack   Enemy Appears Unable To Bring Relief to Munda

Battle Is Still In Progress tn  Kula Gulf Ares   \Japs Lose Battle Of Munda On Sea, Air And Land; Losses Are Soaring

IS REPORTED IN KULA GULF   Enemy Losses May Be Even Greater; Beating Handed Nips In Air And On Sea Around Munda

FOUR JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK IN NEW BATTLE   Cruiser And Three Destroyers Sunk By American Forces In Second Battle Of Kula Gulf; Munda Pounded Again.

Yank Warships Sink Four More Japanese Ships   Sink One Cruiser, Three Destroyers; Enemy Losing Munda

Japanese Warship: ‘Sent to Bottom   Cruiser, Three Destroyers Sunk in Battle Last Night with United States Navy Units

ENEMY 15 LOSING FIGHT FOR MUNA:   Nip Losses May Be Inereased As Clash Is Still In Progress   COSTLY VENTURE   Japan Has Now Lost Between 13 And 17 Ships In Two Battles

Japs Lose From Four To Six More Warships   U.S. Navy Deals Enemy Trying Té Reinforce Munda New Blow.

NAVY SINKS JAP CRUISER DURING ACTION ON KULA   Three Other Enemy Warships Join Nine In Naval Graveyard

Engage U.S. Navy in Night Battle in Kula   Other Enemy Losses Possible; Japs Trying To Hold Trap Open

REPORTS INDICATE JAP TASK FLEET 15 SEVERELY MAULED   ONE CRUISER AND THREE DESTROYERS SUNK IN NEW KULA GULF FIGHT

FOUR MORE NIP WARSHIPS SUNK BY U.S. FORGES   Two Other Enemy Destroyers Probably Sunk In Kula Gulf During Engagement Last Night:   GREATER LOSSES BY FOE ARE PROBABLE   Reports From MacArthur  Show Nipponese Every where Losing Their’ Fight for Munda

Naval Battle Rages In South Pacific With Yank Warcraft Dealing Blows

JAP CRUISER, 3 DESTROYERS SUNK IN KULA   Join Nine Giher Enemy Warships at Bottom of Guli—Twe Giher Destroyvers Prebably Suak   MUNDA ISOLATED   Dae Jap Ground Force Trapped Wiped Ovt as Americans Draw Nearer Big Base

Nippon Loses Cruiser And Three Destroyers : Kula Gulf Battle; Two Others Possibly Destroyed, MacArthur Reports

FOUR JAPANESE WARSHIPS SUNK IN KULA GULF   Two Other Destroyers Also Probably Disposed Of   STILL FIGHTING   Japs Trying To Reinforce Tottering Munda

One Cruiser, 3 Destroyers Sunk By U.S   Iwo Others ‘Probably’ Blasted: Battle Still In Progress: Foe Fails To Reinforce Munda

NAVAL BATTLE CONTINUING IN KULA GULF   Four Jap Ships Sunk and Two Probable and Result May Be Much More, MacArthur Savs. 

U.S. Sinks 4 Jap Warships In Kula Gulf  Cruiser and 2 Desirovers      Cruiser and 3 Destroyers Go Down; 2 -Others Listed as ‘Probable’   Enemy Losing Fight for Munda on Land, Sea and in Air

Jap Cruiser, 3 Destroyers  Sunk by Navy   Sons of Heaven Losing Battle for Munda on All Fronts

4Enemy Warships Sunk in Kula Gulf   Cruiser and Three Destroyers Down Under Guns ‘of U.S. Navy   [BATTLE , IS STILL ON   Reports Sage Japan Stead ily Losi  g the Fight  for Munda

AMERICAN NAVY GUNS HALT NIPS IN MUNDA AREA   ENEMY IS FOILED IN TRY TO HELP TROOPS TRAPPED AT AIRBASE

4 MORE SHIPS SUNK BY U.S. IN KULA GULF   American Jungle Troops Only Two Miles Away From Base

Four Jap Ships Sent To Bottom      U. S. SUCCESSES LISTED IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA

Four Japanese Warships Sunk   Others Probably Sunk, New Kula Bay Battle Still On

BATTLE STILL RAGING, SAY NO U.S, SHIPS LOST   Reports Show Nips Losing Out on All Fronts in Fight « for Munda

Japs Lose 4 To 6 Warships In New Kula Fight   U. S. Naval Guns Again Balk Reinforcement Of Tottering Munda.

Allies Set Up Military Government In Sicily: ‘Benevolent to Civilians’

American-British Install Governmen In Occupied Sicily  Specially Trained — Officers Compose New AMGOT

30 Per Cent — More Meat To Be Available   Beef Cuts Reduced; Pork, Butter To Remain Unchanged ©

Ration Points  Lower On Beel   Some Changes In Ration Points Announced To Become Valid Sunday

ae Se  More Beef. Available, Ration Points Slashed   Entire List Of Rationed Beef Items Cut From Two To Three Points; Lamb, Mutton And Veal Will Remain Unchanged In December

Porterhouse Steak Down To Nine Points; Other Changes In Beef Points

BEEF POINTS CUT SHARPLY BY OPA   Lamb, Mutton, Most Veal To Retain Present Values

QPA Announces 25) PC Reduction In Beef Points   Porterhouse Steak Value Drops From 12 To 9; Lamb, Veal Unchanged

Ration Values For Beef Cut 1-3 Points   Lamb, Mutton, Veal To Remain Same In December

MEAT ALLOWANCE UP 30 PER CENT   Ration Point Value of Butter Same, Cheese, Canned Fish Are Higher.

Cut Beef Point  Ration Values   Lamb, Mutton And Near ly All Veal Will Remain Unchanged.

Ration Value on Beef Slashed   Porterhouse Steak Is Reduced from 12 To Nine Points

30 PC MORE ‘MEAT ALLOWED FOR CIVILIANS   OPA Announces Sharp Red:ctions in Ration Point Values Beef— Choice Culs Off 3 Points

To Cut Beef Points; Butter, Mutton Same, Cheese Up   OPA Announces New Point Values, Effective Sunday

BEEF I$ REDUCED IN POINTS; CHEESE FISH INCREASED   Butter Unchanged as Steaks Go Down Three Points   INCREASED SUPPLY 1S ONLY TEMPORARY

Reductions In Meat Points Are Revealed   Consumers Get 30 ent More Under New Table Of Ration Values

Point Ration Values For Beef Cut   New Schedule Goes Into Effect Sunday

Points Reduced On Meat Cuts   But Ration Point Values Increased on All Cheeses  and Canned Fish.

More Beef  we 2.4 BBeadétne Vi ataes ow fast   Point Ration Values Cut; Butter, Pork Unchanged

FEWER POINTS ON BEEF CUTS   OPA Action for December Leaves Ration Cost of Veal Unchanged

OPA. Cuts Beef Ration Value But Lamb Stays Same   Butter and Margerine To Stay Same; American Cheese Raised Two Points; Fish Raised Four.

OPA CUTS MEAT ~ POINT VALUES, ABOUT 30 B.C   Lamb, Mutton, Pork and Bul ter Unchanged—Canned Fish Higher.

Ration Point Values Of  Beef Are Cut By OPA Edie   Pork, Butter Remain  Unchanged; Cheese Up  Lard Reduced; Canned “Bich BRaiced

BEEF POINTS TO BE CUT SHARPLY   Reductions Effective Sunday; Other Meats Unchanged

NEW VALUES TAKE EFFECT NEXT SUNDAY   Increased Cheese and Canned Fish Points Are Scheduled

December Ration Is Increased   Values Of Beef Will Be Cut Two To Three Points — Butter Will Remain At Sixteen

More Beef Looms For Consumers puring December  ~ Lamb, Mutton And Veal  Remain Same

Sharo Reduction in Ration Points Value of Beef Effective on Sunday

MEAT POINT DROP EFFECTIVE SUNDAY   Reductions Average Three Points; Cheese Values Are Raised by OPA

RUBBER RUSHED BY FULL SHIFTS   Production Termed Norma’ At One Akron Company

FULL SHIFTS ON DUTY IN AKRON RUBBER PLANTS   Workers Heed Presidential Ultimatum To Return To Jobs On Thursday   TOLEDO TROUBLE ENDED   Settlement At Spicer Factory Will Allow Resumption Of Jeep Output

RUBBER PLANTS IN PRODUCTION   Mayor Akron Companies Have Full Shifts on Duty

PRODUCTION IN AKRON RUBBER PLANTSRESUME   Full Shifts On Duty In Four Major Concerns After. Five-Day  . .. Strike   BOW TO ULTIMATUM   CIO Unionists Vote to End ~ Walkout Before Deadline Set by -Presi=.dential: Decree

Ohio War Factories Back To Normal As Strikes Are Ended   Work Stoppage in Akron Rubber Plants Causes Loss of $18,000,000 Worth of Equipment Needed by Fighting Men—Way Cleared for Jeep Production at Toledo

Plymouth County Almost One-third Over Bond Quota  With Some. Sales : Unreported Total.  DY... gaa ere 4 eee

Plymouth County Almost One-third Over Bond. Quota  With Sonie Sales Pe  Unreported Total. RI_~«. @4 9790 1 ee Se

PLYMOUTH DOES © WELL ON BOND SALE   Total Of $1,303,157.75 Worth Reported, With Quota Exceeded 31%

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Order Makes No Changes in Law For Time and Half Pay for All Over 40 Hours; Rule is Mandatory

Executive Order by F..D, R, Is Part of ‘Fullest Mobilization’ of - America to Carry Gut 1943 War Plans

48-HOUR WEEK APPLAUDED, HIT OVER COUNTRY   WMC Spokesman Asserts Only Those Entitled To Time And Half Will Get It   Points Cleared Up

Applies At Once In Critical Areas      Other Sections May Be Added To 32 Listed By McNutt; Observance Mandatory As Part Of ‘Fullest Mobilization’ Plan

WAR PRODUCTION: WILL BE SPEEDED BY LONGER WEEK   President Roosevelt Calls For “the Fullest Mobilization” For An Invasion of Europe.   32 AREAS, 12 STATES AFFECTED BX-QRDEF   Sections With “Critical Labor Shortage” Included Ir Ruling, Employers Are Given Time.

APPLICATION IMMEDIATELY TO 32 AREAS   Las Vegas Included; Extension Will Be Gradual

PRAISE, GRITICISE WORK WEEK EDIGT   Overtime not to Apply to Persons not Entitled to it By Law or Agreement; Green, AFL, Approves

WORK RULE TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER UNION CONTRACTS   Order Revokes in Areas Affected Agreements Calling for Less Than 48-hour Week.   NOT ALL GROUPS TO GET OVERTIME PAY   These Include Farm Laborers and Domestic Servants— Stores, Banks and Offices to Feel Pinch.

Minimum Work Week Order Cancels Labor Contracts   Overtime Provisions Not To Be In Effect In Some Affected Sectors Commiccion Save

Pres. Roosevelt Arders 48 Hour Work Week for *43 War Plans   Sweeping Order fo Mean Increased Week: ly Earnings:to Workers

32 Critical Areas Listed By McNutt   All Workers In Affected Areas Included In Sweeping New Order: Wage, Price Hikes Hit

ACTION TAKEN 10 INCREASE PRODUCTION   Directive Effective at Once in 32 Areas and Ls Expected to Be Applied in Others Later.   MEANS BOOST IN NATION’S WAGE BILL   Large Number Drawing Overtime Pay Will Get More — Called Home Front Pregram.

 Overtime Rates To Be Effective   Byrnes Says Move Will Free Many to Enter War Plants   America Preparing For Big Invasion   Losses Will Be Greatest In Nation’s History, U. S. Told

Uecree Issued By  Roosevelt Ruoyneac Warne   Byrnes Warns Of Many War  Casualties

Labor Areas In New Order Designated   Utah, Nevada Cities ’ Are Included In  ist

Work Order  Revokes Pact: Stipulatine Fewer Hours   48-Hour Week Rule Will Not Require Overtime Payment For Some Workers  WMC STATEMENT CLARIFIES ORDER  Affected Employers In 32 Shortage Areas

President Orders 48-Hour Work Week Wherever Necessary   President And Burns Says Needed To Back Up Invasion Drive

Invasion Of Europe, Sure In 1943, To Cost Lives Of Many American  Men.

No Change Is Made In Law or Agreements Calling for Overtime  Pay for Over 40 Hours APPLIED AT ONCE TO 32 CITY AREAS  Spurt in War Effort Aimed To Push Plans  For European Invasion

New Work Order Revokes Shorter  Hour Contracts  Time and One-Half Overtime Pay Not Mandatory for All  LABOR STILL ISSUE   Unions to Continue  Fight on ‘Little Steel’  Wage Increase Formul.

FDR Orders 48-Hour Week   Plan Applies To Everyone In Areas Set Out By WMC

EUROPE INVASION HINGES ON OUTPUT   ‘Roosevelt Tells WMC To Periods Where Needed; 32 Labor Shortage Areas Hit  __

Exceptions to Work Order Brought Out   Decree Revokes Any Shorter Week in Areas Affected

McNutt Designated By President to Name Areas Where Effective   Longer Hours Mandatory in Selected Labor Shortage Regions; 31 Cities Listed; Byrnes Outlines ‘Home Front’ Program

48-HOUR WORK WEEK S ORDERED WHERE NEEDED   President Issued Order; McNutt And Byrnes Supply Details      ONLY TWO STATE AREAS AFFECTED

48-Hour Aci Excludes Few Toilers   Farm Workers, Domestic Help Are Not Included

48-HOUR WEEK IS ORDERED AS PART OF WAR PROGRAM   Edict to Go in Effect in 32 Areas at Once — Home Front Program Outlined by Byrnes in Radio ’ Talk — Six Points Outlined

ORDER 1S PUT INTO EFFECT IN 32 AREAS   Mandate To Spread To Other Sections Of Nation Later  To Affeet All.

AS HOUR MINIMUM WORK WEEK ENDS LABOR CONTRACTS   Extra Time Payments Wil Not Be Paid Farm Laborers, Domestic Servants and Few Others.   UMC AUTHORIZED TO ACT ON COMPLAINTS   Federation of Labor Approves Plan as Employers tn  32 Areas Arrange For Op erations.

Fight Italian Provinces Under Martial Law  I] Duce Takes  Steps As Invasion  Nise CAT NJ aa ray

invasion Of Nation  Foreseen  Military Zones  Of Operation Minne

All Listed as Zones of War Operation   Areas Affected Are in South, Around Boot of Peningule

Suggested That F. D. R. Clarify Issue Congress Asks Uniform  Ruling On Service Men Seeking Public Office  *e @ @ @

Availability of Army, Navy Officers ‘For Public Office Is To Be Clarified

Uniform Rules  Are Requested   Ability of Army-Navy Men ToSeek ‘Public: Office “Reine .Debated .

Falling Bombs Mark Hitler  Anniversary   Goering Forced to Hold Up Speech; RAF Uses Fast Attacking Planes

RAF MOSQUITO PLANES POURED EXPLOSIVES (IN BERLIN TODAY   GOERING’S ANNIVERSARY BROADCAST PREDICTING VICTORY IS DELAYED

UR. A. F. Raid Hits Berlin as Anniversary Broadcast Starts  IN VICTORY PLEDGE Goering Reads Address,  Saying Hitler Is “With Soldiers”         IN VICTORY PLEDGE

Fast Bombers Halt 10th Anniversary Program in Hurling Explosives   Planes Sweep Over Capital Precisely At 11 A.M. In Penetrating 400, Miles Into Enemy Areas . 4

 Der Fuehrer Asks People To Fight Om  Doagedly Until Continent Saved .

German leaders call for final supreme effort ‘or holshevism will follow’

WR. A. F. Raid Hits Berlin as ¥ Anniversary Broadcast Starts  IN VICTORY PLEDGE  Goering Reads Address, Saying Hitler {s “With  Soldiers”

Secretary Hull Soundly Scores Senator For Attack On U. S. Policies Toward Central And South America

EDR APPOINTS BUSINESSMEN’S WAR COUNCII   Much Improved, President See Group for First Time Today ” Lunches With Stettinius

Aldermen Ban Use Of Streets  For Carnivals  Action Taken At City  Council Meeting i, cn en / ce fe

Aldermen Ban Use Of Streets  For Carnivals  Action Taken At City Council Meeting Tuesday Night

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- per War Council Cannot ignore lime— wr RSY EUSP fis SRR POUES Vee   Nazis Face Twin Crises In Italy And Russia

CHINESE WAR LEADERS ARE GIVEN HONORS   Gen. Stilwell Present: Legion of Merit To Chiang

Three "Teen-Age Killers Die In Electric Chair   Pay Penalty For Crimes In Executions At Sing Sing Prison

NAZIS ARE GIVING GROUND SLOWLY   Rainfall and Mud Again Are Hampering Operations

i]  Nazis Have Been Driven Back Two to Five Miles From Their Positions.  ALLIES LESS THAN 95 MILES FROM ROME  There Appears to Be No Danger of Important Setback.

Warren Yanks Recording Wires   Governor Bans Eavesdropping by Mechanical Contrivances in Office

FARMERS ABLE TO GET EQUIPMENT   Now May Obtain the More  - Ordinary Equipment Simply By Saying They Need It.

EASE RESTRICTIONS ON FARM MACHINERY   Eliminate Permits for 178 Designated Items

STERN ATTITUDE TAKEN BY WLB IN TWO GASES   Will Not Consider Complaint: While Strikes Continue In Piants

House Gets Dual Prohibitive Bills   Measures Proposed to Ban Legislators Holdi Executive Offir         « &

FARMER: KILLS 3, COMMITS SUICIDE   Four Bodies Found in Tenant Farm House Near .. Westminster

Farmer Murders Three, Commits Suicide on Farm  WY Sie, skeet OUT   Ralph Milton Wentz Kills Three and Himself Near Westminster

4 FOUND SHOT IN FARM HOUSE   Carroll County Case Seen As Triple Murder And Suicide

Nazis Perplexed Reds Sweep Nazis Back By Rioting Danes [mn Drive for Kharkov

Danes Ignore King’s Appeal   New Sabotage Reported Ow Bea Telhined

New Sabotage Outbreak Defies Danish Appeal   Nazis Attempt To Stamp Out Unrest in Norway

Danish Sabotage Acts Reported  People Are Urged To Halt Violence

OPA Turns Down Oil Price Raise   Offers Instead to Aid Wildeat Drilling

Brown Denies Oil Price Increase   OPA ADMINISTRATOR REFUSES ICKES PLEA FOR 35-CENT JUMP

AAUNCH COUNTER-ATTACK WEST OF FAID PASS AND DRIVE NAZIS BACK 6 MILES

Axis Force Advances  35 Miles   Yanks Drive Enemy Back At Faid Pass

ENEMY COLUMNS DRIVE dd MILES INTO U5, LINES   Americans Forced To Retire Lo New Positions Ip Southern Tunisia

AMERICAN TROOPS EVACUATE GAFSA, THEIR MAIN-BASE. IN SOUTH TUNISIA   Yanks Withdraw From City To Avoid Encirclement By Advancing German Columns.

German Forces Are Withdrawing Along 600-Mile Front Before Triumphant. Advance of Russians; 1500 Towns Freed

Soviet Force Only 3 Miles From Stalinc   Nazis Announce Russian Landing Behind Their Lines In North Is Handed Sethack

RUSSIANS CLOSE IN AROUND KEY NAZI POSITION   One Unit Of Russian Army Near Goal: Russian Landing At ‘* tempt In Gulf Of Finland Reported By Germans.

Red Naval Forces Attempt Large Landing In North   Northern » Laiiding - Attempt on -Gulfof Finland, Aimed at Lifeline of German Leningrad Front, Said Repuilsed:

Russians Within Three Miles Of Burning Staline   Axis Forces Withdrawing Along 600 Mile Front Which Extends From Shores of Sea of Azov North To Smolensk; Reds Take 250 More Towns.

Burning Stalino Three Miles Away From Red Forces  Nozis Claim Repulse Of Russian Attempt To Land Behind Line

CITY AFIRE; REDS WITHIN THREE MILES   Nazis Report Soviet Landing Behind Lines On Gulf Of Finland

SOVIET FORGE ONLY 8 MILE FROM STALIN   Moscow Says Troops Closing In on Burning..Key to Nazi Positions. :   250 MORE TOWNS FALL IN SUNDAY’S ADVANCE

Russians Advance Today To 3 Miles Of Stalino   Key German Position Threatened; Nazis Are Withdrawing Along 600-Mile Front

On Stalino: Fall Is Near   250 Mare Towns Token By Soviet Forces in Clearing Donets Area

Russian Troops Closing in On City of Stalino   Donets Basin Key in Flames As Nazis Flee

IS KEY NAZI BASE IN THE DONETS BASIN   @iermans Ave Withdrawing Along a 600-Mile Front as Reds Take 150 More Towns and Slay Qnnn af.the Enemy.

“GERMANS BEGIN DESTRUCTION MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AT SSTALINOINFACERED ADVANCE   Soviet Forces Reported Within Three Miles of Russia’s Twelfth Largest City and Key to German Position In Southern Russia

REDS 3 MILES FROM BURNING STALING   Soviet Naval Forces Attempt to Land Behind German Lines

Stalino Fall In Prospect   Soviets. Three Miles _ From Donets Bastion

Reds Encirele Stalino Base   Axis Withdraws On 600Mile Front: Soviets Capture 250 Towns,

Advancing Soviets Move Jo Within Three Miles Of Burning Donets City

Take 250 More Towns in Drive; Seize Junction   8,000 Prisoners Taken;  Konotop Encircled and Fall Is Imminent.   Berlin Reports New Assault in Finland

RUSSIANS ARE IN THREE MILES OF STALINO   Axis Still Reported Withdrawing Along 600-Mile Front

Soviets Three Miles From Key Position   Landing Attempted Behind Germans’ Lines Of Defense

RUSSIAN FORCES REPORTED WITHIN 3 MILES STALINO ©   AXIS WITHDRAWAL ALONG 600-MILE FRONT REPORTED BY SOVIETS

Nazis fall back on 600  mile front   Closing in on burning Stalino

Red Troops Reported Within 3 Miles of Burning Stalino   Axis Forces Continue to Withdraw Along 600 Mile Russ Front

Ressians Nov Only 3 Miles From Nazis’ Donets Base   Industrial City And Mining Center Aflame As Reds Push Closer

Russians Within Three Miles of  Flaming Stalino   Red Army Troops Close.in.on Key to Nazi-Positions in Donets Basin.as Germans Retreat on 600-Mile Front

Russians Maneuver For Knockout Of Key Ger man Position In Donets.

JAPS SEEK TO RALLY PEOPLE   Stress “Laid on “Mobilization : Of Labor Power

MORE JAP WOMEN TO GO TO WORK   Will Replace Men in 25  ‘Less Essential’ OccupaPS Soe oom = = ene FC

Propagandists Rallying Japs  Tleoad Toa Sunnart   Urged To Support Premier Tojo  ~~ e

Allied Troops Closing In For Final Mop-Up Process   North African Campaign Virtually Wound Up Six Months After AEF Landing In Africa: Pont Du Fahs Falls To French   Latest War Bulletins

Capture Many Prisoners and Large Stores  Of Equipment   Land, Air, Naval Forces Concentrate on Foe’s Annihilation

Axis Detachments Still In Flight Following the Fall of Tunis, Bizerte

FBI INFORMED FOE TRAINING ~ “SUB COLUMN   Berlin Spurred by Failure of Previous U-Boat ’ Stab af Coast.   SCHOOL ESTABLISHED   Men Drilled In Details -of Destroying Bridges And War Plante

Nazis Conduct School Near Berlin Tc  Train American Saboteurs, F- B I L earns

OABUTEURG MAY INVADE THE Uc   Germany Is Planning More Agents to Be Landed _ by Submarines.

New Saboteur Plots Framer   F. B.I. Says Nazi High Con mand Hopes To Land More Saboteurs In United States

PORT NAZIS ARE PLANNING .“TO SEND SABOTEURS TO U.S,   TRAINING FOR SABOTAGE DE- SCRIBED IN INFORMATION ‘ SMUGGLED OUT OF GERMANY... -

NAZIS PLOT NEW SABOTAGE IN U.S.   FBI Gets Plans Smuggled Out of Germany on Sub Landing Attempt

Draft Chief Under Fire  In Congress   Too Many Fathers Being Inducted, Rep. May Charges

CONGRESS ASKS EXPLANATION ON FATHERS’ DRAFT      Hershey Called On Carpet Tr Explain Future Pohcy Detail

House Calls ©  Hershey on  Draft Plans   Chain man m May — Charge: Deception; MeNuti Rescinds Work List

Legislators Quiz Hershey About “Dads”   Hold Secret Session to Ascertain What He Intends to Do

HOUSE GROUP ASKS FOR FACTS IN DADS ORAFT   Need Change in Standards Te Lower Fathers Induction Rate

DRAFT OFFICIALS LIE TO CONGRESS, REP. MAY SAYS   Gen. Hershey to Ex plain Policy Towards Fathers   NEW LAW UNLIKELY TO DELAY INDUCTIONS

FATHER DRAFT FACTS WANTED FROM HERSHEY   Capital, Meanwhile, Buzzes With Controversies Over Taxes and Land Boom

Asks Hershey To Explain Father Draft   Congress Group Hears Director

Touse Group: Calls On Hershe A i ‘Fo or. Details. ‘On. Father - ‘Draft; “Little. Change Under New Law

‘House Group Calls °Hershey to Explain Draft Bureau ‘Lies’   Con: gi ess W. ants. lo Know Why Words And. Actions Conflict. Reclassilying Of 3: 42s. Ordered After Bill Signed

HERSHEY ASKED TO GIVE VIEWS   Selective Service Head Call. ed Before Committee Te Tell What He Plans To Do About Drafting Of Pre-War Fathers.

HERSHEY IS 70 GO BEFORE HOUSE'GROUP   Draft! Head to - Aswer. Charges ‘Of Cong. May

Hershey's Views On Father- Draft To Be Disclosed   Selective Service Head To Be Questioned By Congress Group

Selective Service Chief Is Called Before House Com. To Explain Why Draft Officials “Have Been Lying

SEEK FACTS ON FATHER DRAFT   Gen. Hershey, Selective Service Head, to Testify Before House Group

ON DAD DRAFT      Asked By Congressional Group About Plans For Deferments

CALL HERSHEY ON ‘CARPET’ IN DRAFT PROBE   Selective Service Has ‘Lied To Congress’, May Charges

Series Of Short, Sharp: ‘Punches Is Russian Secret   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

Series of Short Drives May Be Red Plan to Keep Moving Despite Mud   Re HENRY C. CASSIDY

Stormy lax Debate Opens  anuent Wher re Elewad   Rum! Plan Fleyed By Doughton; G.0.P. Scores Compromise

ROUSE DEBATE ON PAY -AS-YOU-G0 TAX PLAN STARTS   Republican and Demo Faciicns Quibble Over Virtues Of the Ruml Plan and the Plan Supported ‘by ‘Deniocrats 

M’ARTHUR PLANES BLAST SHIPPING OVER VAST AREA   CRUCIAL STRUGGLE MAY DECIDE ISSUE IN SOLOMONS

U.S. TIGHTENS ITS HOLD ON GUADALCANAL   MacArthur’s Airmen Pound Jap Shipping, Task Force Bars Many: Planes

Ground Forces Strengthen Hold On Guadalcanal WhilSea-Air Struggle For Control Of Strategic Island Group Continues In Southwest Pacific—Downing Of Seventeen Enemy Torpedo Planes In Two Attacks Disclosed By Navy

GUADALCANAL GRIP BY U, S, TIGHTENS UF   Sea-Air Struggle for Control Still Raging Around Solomons in Southwest Pacific

Struggle for Control Spreads In South Pacific   Air, Sea Forces Active as Troops Gain in Solomons

ea-Air Struggle Rages In Solomons  American Grip On Guadalcanal Is Tightening

-MacArthur’s Air Force Pounds At Shipping Of Japs   U.S. Bags 17 Planes In Struggle For Solomons

Yanks Tighten Grip on Isle   Sea-Air Struggle Rages Throughout Southwest Pacific

Yanks Tighten Hold Upon — Guadaleanal   Ships Offshore Battle Enemy Reinforcements

Troops Tighten On Guadalcanal As Crisis Brews   17 Enemy Torpedo Planes Downed In Balking Foe Reinfor-amante

U.5. FORCES STRENGTHEN HOLD IN SOLOMON ISLES   American Bombers Leave I rail Cf Blazing Ships In Pacific Attacks

Gates to ‘Guadalcanal  Well Guarded   Navy Task Force Shoots Down 17 Enemy Planes; Ground Forces Tighten Grip on Island

SE A-AIR FIGHT CONTINUES FOR ISLAND CONTROL   MacArthur’s Multi-Motored Bombers Blast 20,000 Tons ofShipping

TIGHTEN HOLD ON SOLOMONS  Sea-Air Struggle Rag: ing In Southwest,      Dig Into Newly-Taken Territory On Guadalcanal

YANKS GRIP TIGHTENS ON SOLOMONS   Ground Forces Gain‘ on Guadalcanal While Sea _ Air Fight Rages.   MAJOR ADVANCE BY OUR INFANTRY   Sea Struggle is to Prevent ‘Japs Landing Ground Troops.

AMERICAN GROUND FORCES TIGHTEN UP ON GUADALCANAL   The Sea-Air Struggle for Control of Solomon Islands Rages On. = 2   TROOPS ARE DIGGING IN   MacArthur’s Bombers “eft Enemy Shipping Ablaze at Many Points. =

MacArthur's Fliers Blast Jap Shipping Over Great Sector   U. S. Task Force Bags 17 Enemy Planes _ in Solomons Battle

Deposed Duce Aide Killed   ‘Gen. Roatta Reported Auts Crash Victim

Congressional Record Unique   Members of Congress Can Laugh at Libel Lows in Writing

Congressional Record Provides ‘Popping-Off’ Place For Levislators

BOMBER HIT... ~~ BAS STORAGE   OWO OFFICER AMONG TWELVE KILLED IN SPECTACULAR CRASH AND EXPLOSION  : AT CHICAGO

Launch Inquiry Into Plane Disaster      Bomber Smashes Into Tank of Illuminating Gas

TURK CITIZENS — THINK COUNTRY TO ENTER WAR   Turkey Has Cast Lot With Allies In Matters Short Of War.

Dr. H. K. Ebright, Rotary District Governor, Will Be HereMonday’

ALL DAY SESSION   Dr. H. K. Ebright, Rotary District Governor, Will Be Here Monday

CIVILIAN LIFE SA BATTLE FOR RUSSIANS   Fuel Is a Problem; Food Is  Scarce; Some Hunger, Few Starve, ‘Says AP  ‘Raweay Head.   Electricity Rationed

All Threat Of Rail Strike Is  Now Removed   Announcement At Noon Calls Off Tieup Set For Thursday Morning   JOINT STATEMENT GIVEN TO PUBLIC

Scheduled Walkout Of Men Cancelled   Announcement Made after Long Cenference

- «= OFFICERS OF “HOLD OUT” UNIONS ANNOUNCE STRIKE  ORDER FOR TOMORROW i CANCELLED

THREE GROUPS BOW T0 STERN ARMY WARNING   Roosevelt Plans to Return Roads to Managements Soon as Possible

THREE UNIONS END THREAT OF TIEUP   Action Comes Less Than 24 Hours Before Deadline -

IS IN JAll   17-Year-Old Hitch Hiker Apprehended in. Jeffer son County

ONTARIO PART! IS VOTED OUT: ENDS 9 YEARS   Liberals give way to progressive-conservative coalition

Restrict Packaging Of Foods   War Froduction Soard Says Consumers May Have  to Be Inconvenienced

FLOOD DAMAGE REPAIR   Senate Votes 15 Millions Into Catch-All Bill

SUBSIDIES’ PLAN BATTLE RAGES   Administration To Fight Any Compromise Effort

Subsidy Wrangle Is Continued    Administration to Reject Compromise

RED ‘CHUTISTS FLOAT DOWN ON BALTIC STATES   Fierce Battles of Annihilatior Raging in Soviet as German Bastions Fold Up

Reds Drop Parachutes Behind Balkan Lines to Seek Support of People

SILY, SARDINIA, ARE HARD HIT BY ~~ AMERICAN. PLANES      Largest Force Since’ Pantelleria’s Surrermler Goes _ Inte Action   39 AXIS: PLANES DOWNED

Sicilian, Sardinian Targets Are Blasted   Great U.S. Force Hurls Destruction  On Foe And Shoots Down 39 Fnemy Plane:

SARDINEA-AND! SICILY TARGETS HEAVY BLASTS!      Thirty-Nine Enemy Planes in Combat Shot Down During Terrific Aerial Assault   HEAVIEST RAID SINCE! PANTELLERIA ATTACK   Ferry Terminal Leading to Italy’s Mainiand Bombed, and Airfields Are Set Afire

SICILY, SARDINIA POUNDED BY LARGE FORCE U. S. FLIERS   Described as Greatest Force of American Planes to Go Into Action Since the Fall of Pantelleria

Report 39 Enemy Planes Shot Down   American Fliers Into Action Over Sicily and Sardinia   THREE SHIPS WERE HIT   Air Force Raiders Carry Out Mission Thru Sniff  Opposition

Fortresses Blast Sicily And Sardinia   Shoot Down 39 Enemy Planes; Greatest U. S.  Raid Since Pantelleria

Bag 39 Axis Planes During Island Raid:   Eight Planes Are Lost By Gen. Doolittle’s Force In Attacks On Sardinia And Sicily

Biggest Air Blow Since Pantelleria   Americans Send Great For. ces Against Sardinia and Sicily   39 ENEMY PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN

Sicily and Sardinia — Feel Blast   Many Hits Are Made at Messina Near Mainland.

BEST ONE DAY SCORE MADE BY AMERICANS   Heavy Force Raids Sicily, Sardinia: Attempt Made By Axis Airmen To Hit Pantelleria

Sicily Undergoes Enlarged Attack:  Raid Is Greatest Since Fall ‘Of Pantelleria

ALLIES DOWN 39 PLANES IN DOGFIGHTS   Italian Isles Hit by Greatest U. S., Attacking Force to Go Into Action’ Since the Fall of PantelJeriag

Yanks Renew Air Offensive Against Sicily   Increased Drive Indicates Allied Invasion May Be Near

Huge U.S. Blow At Two Isles   39 Enemy Planes Downed at Sicily, Sardinia

Fortresses in Big Raid On Messina   Targets in Sicily And Sardinia Battered Anew

U. S. AIRMEN RETURN TO ITALIAN ISLES   39 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Combat Against Loss of Eight for Allied Forres   -NEW RECORD SET   Sicilian and Sardinian Targets Strafed, German Attempt to Raid Pantelleria Broken Up

LARGE YANK AIR FORCES LASH SICILY   Heaviest Since the Fall of Pantelleria; Sicily ar! Cardinia Targets Hit.   Lose 8 Planes But Down 39 Axis Units

GREATEST ATTACKING FORCE U. 5. PLANES RECENT DAYS USED  SICILIAN AND SARDINIAN TARGETS HIT; 39 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED

AMERICANS ALSO HIT SARDINIA   Greatest iu S. Force Of Heavy Bombers » Used In Attacks

SARDINIAN AND ~ SICILIAN POINTS: DOWNED 39 PLANES   Greatest Attacking Force of American Planes Since Pantelleria Surrender.   EIGHT PLANES ARE LOST   Fotal of 39 Enemy Planes th: Greatest Number in Single Day a Week.

WELCOME GIVEN TO REPATRIATES   Liner Gripsholm Brings 1502 Americans Home From Jap Camps

Thirteen Raids Made On Kiska   Attu Also Smashed In One Raid By U. S. Bombers, Navy Reports  Ws. ECAR EDS 46 ORLA

CAPITAL EYES MINE TRUCE AS SOLONS PONDER   Revelation of Dinner Parties For Officials Promised by ‘Mystery Man’

U.S. WAR PLANTS SET NEW RECORD FOR PRODUCTION   Congress Given Report as Anti-strike Measures Slowed by Mine Row   SCANDAL PROBE BREWING   Pay-as-you-go Tax Bills Heading for Some Sort of Decision Soon

Walters Struck By Tornado; 2 Dead: 3 Hurt   Spring Squalls  Hit State; Two Towns Strek; Heavy Hail Storms Reported

MILITARY PHASE CONCLUDED AT MOSCOW PARLEY   Political Aspects After War Believed Next Meeting Subject   HULL IN FINE SPIRITS   Soviet Believed Seeking To Strengthen Ties With Allies

Stalin Receives Eden As Tripartite Conferees Continue Discussions

BIG BRITISH AIRCRAFT HIT PORT   Northwest African Air Forces Confined To Patrolling

[Massing Of Allied Unvasion Forces  ‘Reported By Axis   Rome and Berlin Give Picture of Intense Air Activity in Invasion Triangle. — Northwest African Air Forces Pe. lay All-Out Assault for Second Successive Perv.

Allied Bombs On  Port of Messina   Allied Air Forces Still  Is Delayed  ‘But All-Out. ‘Assault by   \ 7   MUCH SEA ACTIVITY   Some. May Be Caused by Removal of Prisoners From ' Pantelleria ~

Allies Continue Raids On Sicilian Shipping; Blast Messina Terminal

As Allies Continue to Pound Islands Guarding Sea Approaches to Italy, Rome Commentator Says Invasion Is Imminent

Sicily’s Ferry Terminal Blasted By Allied Pilots   But For Second Successive Day All-Out Assault on Italy Delayed.   Consolidate Position  Of Captured Islands

Allied Bombs On  Port of Messina   But All-Out Assault by Allied Air Forces Still Is Delayed   ACTIVITY   Some May Be Caused by Removal of Prisoners From Pantelleria

ALLIES DESCRIBE ISLAND ATTACKS AS PRELIMINARY   SHOWER MESSINA WITH BLOCKBUSTERS AND INCENDIARIES

Axis Reports Convoy Battle; Sicily Pounded   North Africa Air Forces Idle Second Day; Attacks On Tyrrhenian Sea - Approaches Continue

Blockbuster Raid Staged  On Messina   Northwest African Airmen Rest While Malta-Based, Middle East Fliers Do Chores   STRIKE AT SICILY   Large Fires Staried in Railway and Harbor Installations, Ship in Aegean Set Alire

Blockbusters Drill Port AndShipping At Messina   Large Fires Started In Railway And Harbor Areas By RAF Wellingtons

Blockbusters. Dumped On. Sicily Straits   Axis Sources Report Big: Concentrations of Ships; And Landing Craft :

RAF Blasts Sicily With Blockbusters   Incendiaries Also Used in Sunday Night Raid —Shipping and Ferry Installations at Messina Are Wellington Targets.

GET READY FOR INVASION, ROME RADIO REPORTS   Report Massing Of Allied Ships In Strait

BRITISH WELLINGTON BOMBERS BLAST PORT FACILITIES MESSINA  ROME BROADCAST TELLS ITALIANS STAND BY FOR INVASION

Rome Reports Massing Of An Allied Fleet   Heavy Bombs, Incen diaries Dropped On Harbor

ItaliansWarned By Rome Radio Allied Vessels Are Gathering   Told Three-Day Battle Has Raged in Straits - Of Sicily

ALLIES BELIEVED MASSING SHIPS   Aerial Assaults on Sicily Continue As Italy Awaits Big Invasion

Sicilian Ports * Get ‘Softening’ Of Blockbusters   Stand By For Allied Invasion, Rome Air Waves Warn People Of Italy

In Sicilian Straits   Tiny Lighthouse Isle of Lampione, Near Lampedusa, Captured Without Opposition Sunday; Allied Air Blows Blast Sicily

Pre-Invasion Raids Continue Against Sicily  “Ferry” Terminal At Messina Hit

TWO SHIPPING AND ~ FERRY TERMINALS OF MESSINA, HIT   Besides Two-Ton Blockbusters, They Were Showered With Incendiaries.   For Second Successive Day African Air Forces Delayed Their All-Out Assault.

British Planes Hammer Sicily  Axis Picture Intense Air. Sea Activity

Troops, Ships Assembled For Attack On Italy   Blockbusters Showered On Sicilian Port As Hour Nears ad

Pane ARE STANDING BY FOR INVASION   Rome Broadcast Recorded In London Reports Intense Air and Sea Activity   BATTLESHIPS MASSING

ROME REPORTS FHT 5 RAGE IN SICILY STRAITS   _ Axis Sources Indicate Albed Ships Massing  in “Invasion Triangle’

600TH SHIP SUNK IN WEST ATLANTIC   U-Boats Increase Toll to Figure by Torpedoing British and Polish Vessels.

NON-DEFERRED FATHERS WILL GET CALL SOON   Illinois Plans First Call Oct, 22

ONTINENT IS GAIN RAIDED Y BOMBERS   _ A. F. Strikes Berlin and Ruhr Valley in Wide Sweep During the Night   MANY ARE SHOT DOWN

Flood Waters Cause Heavy Casualties  _Ruhrand Eder  Valleys Swept

BERLIN, ROWE’ AREAS STRUCK DURING NIGHT   Floods Pour Over Ruhr and Eder Valleys; Power. Supply’ Crippled.   HEAVY RAIDERS ATTACK 15 MILES FROM ROME

Flood Ruhr, Eder Industrial Valleys; Blasts Berlin Again   Produced Hydroelectric Power for Naz Plants; Berlin Reports Many Casualties as Water Covers Countryside

Heavy Blow To Nazi Industry;  Huge Waves Flood Ruhr, Eder Vallevs:Many Casualties Causec   Millions Of Tons Of Water Loosed In One Of  Most Damaging Blows War Dealt To Germany; Number Of Fine Flyers Lost In Attack

Crippling Blow Dealt By Air At Source Of Current For Ruhr Valley Industry

Power Souree In Ruhr Valley Is Destroved   Berlin Admits A Heavy Toll Of Cacnalties

Two Dams Blasted, Ruhr And Eder Valleys Flooded   Germans Raid London. Berlin Blasted Third Time in Four Nights~-U. S. Stages Largest Raid Yet on Emden   AERIAL PINCERS OPERATING   Planes from North Afric. Africa Raid Lido de Roma, 15 Miles from Rome—Sustained Offensive Goes into Sixth Dav

Destruction Of Huge Water Basins In Ruhr And Eder Areas Termed Severe Blow To Industrial Germany —Resulting Flood Reported To Have Taken Heavy Toll Of Casualties—Seaplane Base Of Lido Di Roma, 15 Miles From Italian Capital, Blasted

Many German Lives Lost To Flood Waters   Dams Important For Water Supply, Flood Control, War Industry Power,   ‘BOMB BASE NEAR ROME

Giant Floods Engulf. Ruhr, Eder Valley:   Hundreds Of Millions Of Tons Of Water Loosed Upon Heart Of Enemy's Industrial Region;. :: Other Squadrons Wreck Rome Airport ;     

NAZI OFFICIALS ADMIT FLOODS CAUSED DEATHS   Smashing Attacks on Berlm, Other German Targets Are Continued

Valleys Flooded, Industries Hurt In Daring Attack   Heavy Toll Admitted

British Smash Two Nazi Dams Cause Floods   Water Pours Down Valleys of Ruhr and Elder in Huge Waves; Italian Base Raided

Berlin Reports Heavy Loss of Life; Feat Cost Eight Bombers   Reich Capital, Rome's Environs Also Hit in Night Forays

BOMBERS BLOW UP TWO OF LARGEST DAMSIN GERMANY   Ruhr And Eder Valleys Flooded With Heavy  Tage af Life   POWERFUL BLOW AT aWVAR INDUSTRIES

BRIIISH BOMBERS ATTACK BERLIN, RUHR, RHINELANG   Two of Largest Dams In Germany, Burst During Raids, Flooding Valleys of Ruhr and Eder; Powerful Blow To Nazis.

RUHR, H EDER VALLEYS FLOODED UNDE ER R GIANT WAVES WITH      ‘Berlin and Environs Also Bombed in Mighty Two-way Offensive. Greatest Aquatic Disaster in History Caused by Blasting of Dams

ALLIES KEEP UP HEAVY RAIDS ON NAZI TERRITORY   STRIKE AT BERLIN AND AT TARGETS IN RUHR, RHINELAND

PYUSE FHUUOLTY  Hit Hard Blow In RAF Raid   British Attack Berlin, Rome Environs, Ruhr and Rhineland; Floods From Mohne and Eder Dams Take Heavy Toll of Casualties

VALLEYS ARE FLOODED IN. HUGE WAVES   Destruction in Ruhr and Eder Valleys  Powerful Blow to Industry—B: lin and Rome Enviro Also Raided.

OTHER TARGETS IN GERMANY BOMBED   Germans Report Heavy Loss Of Life In Huge Waves As Dams Break

BRITISH LAND HEAVY BOMBS ON TWO DAMS   Germany Says Casualties Are Very Great   BERLIN, RUHR   Targets Of Allied Planes; Continent Blasted For Fifth Night In Row

SERIOUS BLOW IS SUFFERED BY WAR INDUSTRY   Wall of Water Surges Down Ruhr and Eder Valleys Taking Heavy Toll   BERLIN SMASHED AGAIN   Italy Also Feels Growing Allied Air Power as Bombs Crash Nearer Rome

DESTRUCTION OF DAMS POWERFUL BLOW TO NAZIS   Flood Toll Large German Officials Announce Today

Bombs Wreck Two German Power Dams   Nazi Command Says Big Casualties Caused By Flood Waters

TWO OF GERMANY’S BIGGEST DAMS WERE SHATTERED TODAY   The Ruhr and Eder Industrial Valleys Are Flooded by the Break.   A HEAVY TOLL OF LIFE   The RAF Also Struck at Berlin and the Environs of Rome.

RAF BLASTS GERMANY ANEW   Mighty ~ Allied ~ Offensive Continues Unabated

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACKED BERLIN AND ROME ENVIRONS  RFRA TEAAT Sar Rie   DESTRUCTION. TWO BIG DAMS BELIEVED HEAVY BLOW AGAINST GERMAN’

Heavy Loss of Life Admitted By Germany   Great Blow Struck to War Industry; Other German Areas Raided

Millions of Tons of Water Set Loose in Industrial Valleys   ~ Powerful Smash at War Foundries   RELI eT

RUHR AND EDER bREAS FLOODED AFTER ATTACKS   Raiders Also Strike in Rerlin and Environs Of Italian Capital

Telling Blows  To Germany’s Industries   Bombers Based on Newly Won African Shores Pound Italy

TWO VALLEYS FLOODED BY FREED WATEF   One of Most Daring Blows of War Struck, New Kind for Germans to Conjure With

Berlin and Rhineland Also Attacked By Aliiad Fijers_   OFFENSIVE IN 6TH DAY

Bombers Strike At Berlin and Rome In 2-Way Offensive   Aquatic Disaster Is Powerful Blow To. Nazi Industry

Death Toll Is High As Big Waves Flood Ruhr, Eder Valleys   Elimination Of Two Structures Is Blow To Industrial Germany; Environs Of Berlin, Rome Hit

Bombers Attack Berlin and Rome In New Forays   Valleys Flooded As Two Dams are Cracked by Bombs

Berlin, Environs Of Rome Targets Of British Raids; TwoBigNaziDamsAreHit

2 of Largest Dams Burst After Raid Valleys of Ruhr and Eder  Covered by Huge  Waves HEAVY CASUALTIES ‘Destruction Is Serious   Blow to Industrial ' Garrone

Nazi Power Supply Crippled as Floods  Cover Two Vallevs   Ruhr and Eder Areas Inundated; Heavy Toll Reported by Berlin; Berlin Pounded 2 Timoc in 4A Niehe.

BERLIN, OTHER TARGETS RAIDED IN NIGHT BLOWS   Germans Report Many Civilians Drowned When Bombs Wreck Two Dams; Allied Planes Busy Over Europe Again This Morning.

Hard Blow to Industrial Ruhr   Berlin and Other Points Hit; Italy Feels New Attacks.

THOUSANDS OF TONS OF WATER FLOOD VALLEYS   Powerful Blow To Industrial Germany Dealt In New Allied Raids   LOSS OF LIFE IS HEAVY   Seaplane Base Near Italiar Capital Hit By Planes From Tunisia

Outskirts Of Rome Bombed From North African Bases   Berlin Admits Heavy Damage, Casualties Result From Breaking Of Dams   VITAI INDIISTRIES STRIICK RI OW   Berlin Raided Three Times In Four Nights; Nazis Retaliate With London Attacks

BRITISH BOMBERS ATTACKED BERLIN AND ROME ENVIRONS   DESTRUCTION TWO BIG DAMS BELIEVED HEAVY BLOW AGAINST GERMAN‘

Mac Arthur’s Bombers Score Another Amazing Air Victory   90 Jap Planes Were Destroyed on the Ground and 8 in the Air.

Navy Reveals That American Marines Landed On Nanumea Island September 4th.

Sergeant Gets Hands on Nazi Aerial Rocket   But He Gets Them Off Again, Too, and Just in Time to Save Plane.

Year's Biggest Fish; 337-Pound Sturgeor   Found Floundering In Lake Two Miles North Of Here

BRITISH BOMB’S-EYE VIEW OF BERLIN   Throng Attends Last Rites For J. L. Wiggins, Popular Former Lumberton Hieh School Student

Throng:Attends Last-Rites.For J. L. Wiggins, Popular Former Lumberton High School Student

Senator Murray En dorses FDR For Fourth Term   Democrat From Montana Sees Renomination And Re-election As Certainiv

Murray Endorses Roosevelt For Fourth Term Predicting Sure Nomination, Election

Senator Murray Endorses FDR For 4th Term   Says He Cannot Fscane Flection

SENATOR MURRAY ENDORSES F. D. R. FOR FOURTH TERM   Montana Solon Predicts He  Can't Escape Being Renom inated and Re-Elected —  Kiasn’t Talked With Presi - ee

SEEK CURE FOR COAL PROBLEM   Truce Nearing End With No Solution In "Sight

THY 10 AVERT MINE WALKOUT   IGovernment Operators Look to Four Quarters to Settle Coal Dispute

Positive Action by Government to Stop   Coal Strike Needer   Fifteen-Day Truce To Expire at Midnight Next Tuesday

HOPE TO AVERT MINE WALKOUT   FDR MAY INVOKE POWERS TO HALT WORK STOPPAGE ~

4 Avenues of Hope in Coal - Wage Dispute   Nothing Certain By Way Of Avoiding Anothe Walkout

Coal Truce Is Nearing An End  U. S. Looks For Help  ~ Eeam Faur Ouartere

PLANS MAPPED 10 AVERT MINE CTRIKE MAY 48   Government Officials Have Four-Point Program to. «Prevent Walk-out of U. S. Miners   WLB ACTION DUE   Ickes May Get Extension Of 15-Day Truce, Or Roosevelt May Use . Wartime Powers .

Soviets Take 12,000  Nazi Prisoners   Volokonovka and Armavir Are Reported Captured

Soviet Troops Capture Three Key Rail Links   Red Forees Break Backbone Of Nazi Communications In Southern Russia.   BREAK UP NAZI UNITS

SOVIET ARMY MOVES AHEAD NEAR KHARKO\   VOLOKONOVKA AND ARMAVIR TAKEN FROM NAZIS

Reds Take Volokonovka, Armavir In New Advances   Red Artillery Effective

SOVIET TROOPS IN GAINS ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Report Army Only 50 Miles From Big  German Base

Reds Within 50 Miles Of Big Nazi Base   Volokonovka Falls to Advancing Russians; Have Captured 64,000 Prisoners In Past Nine Days

RED ARTILLERY IND TANKS HIT FLEEING NAZIS   Russians Sweep Westward To Sever Rail Lines.and Take Strategic Caucasian Areas   NEARING BIG BASE ON VITAL RAILROAD   Germans Desperate In Ef. forts To Halt Red Drive On Rostov In Upper Caucasus

Russians Score Sfeady Advances On Enfire Front   German Withdrawal Termed Complete Rout At Points

Soviet s Capture Armavir, Vital Railway Junction   Forces Also Seize Volokonovka; Take 12,000 Nazis

Another Nazi Base Now Threatened   Russians Retake Rail Gateway to Oil Fields of Caucasus

Reds Capture Key City In Oil Fields   64,000 Prisoners . Taken in Nine Days at Voronezh

Price Control Panel of Rationing Board Ready to Function; Can Be Consulted on Local Price Problems

BATTLE OVER MINE WAGES IS RENEWED   Nation’s Fourth General Coal Strike Hangs in Balance

SUCCEEDS IN FIFTH ATTEMPT TO SEE SON   Woman Had Fainted 4 Times While Waiting for Boy to Ap pear in Guadalcanal Newsreel.

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.      and-te-Hand Firhtine Renewed.

FIRST ARMY HURLS BACK AXIS FORCE   25 Tanks Wrecked, 500 Prisoners Captured

AXIS LOSES 21 TANKS IN STIFF BATTLE   British Smash Fierce Counter-Attacks In Slow Advance:

HAND-TO-HAND “IGHTING RAGES WW FRONT LINE    British Use Bayonets, Hand Grenades on ‘ Mountain Slone Battles

BRITISH CHUTE TROOPS ACTIVE ~ AT KEY POINTS   Screaming Axis Soldiers Hurled Over Cliffs In Bitter Bayonet Charre

Open City For Rome?   Badoglie Said to Be Preparing to Remove Military Facilities

BADOGLIO TO DECLARE ROME AN OPEN CITY   All Military Authori' ties To Be Moved = Says Report

Hope That Italy Will Surrender Soon Is Fading   Move to Declare Rome Open City ts Said Planned

Showdown on Subsidy ~ Postponed   60-Day. Extension of . CCC Adopted in Senate Appears Certain of Approval   NO NEW SUBSIDIES -: PENDING A‘: VOTE   Congress. Makes Ready. for Recess,Leaving Several Big Issues Hanging” Fire

Life of CCC Is Extended to Feb. 5   Action Suspends Until Then a Showdown on Issue of Outlawing Food Subsidies.

Russians Kill 1400 More of Axis Troops Counterattacks by   Counteratiacks by Nazis in Caucasus Are Beaten Off

REDS REPULSE SEVEN FIERCE NAZI ATTACKS   6,200 Nazis Killed 1 Caucasian Fighting In Three Days

1,400 NAZIS KILLED BY RUSSIANS   Seven German Counterattacks Launched In Effort To Regain Important Height £2ized Several Days Ago.   Reach Targets

Russians Stave Off Seven Nazi Attacks in Caueasus   1,400 Germans Killed by Reds; Increased Aerial Activity General All Along Front

Russians Beat Off Nazi Attack In the Caucasus   Kill 1,400 Germans fo Three-Day Toll of 6,200 Men

Reds repulse seven nazi counterattacks in Caucasus region   Forestall enemy effort to retake an important position; kill 1,400

Nazis Thrust In Russia, Lose Heavily   Seven Attacks Bring Only Big Setback; Air Fights Increase

SLAUGHTER OF . STOCK CURBED   Controls Are Expected To Stamp Out Black Markets In Nation

Strict Controls For Meat Slated   New Rules to Enter Effect on April 

Plans Designed To Curb Black Markets Announced   Strict Controls Over the Slaughter and Sale of Meat to Go Into Effect April 1—Permit System ; to be Put in Operstion

BLACK MA TRADE DOOMED   Strict Controls Designed To Stamp Out Illegal Meat Transactions

MEAT CONTROL PLAN T0 START FIRST OF APRIL   Strict Regulation Of Slaughtering Aimed At Stamping Out Black Market   To Issue Permits

TANKS, AIRPLANES FROM. US. USED IN RZHEV RECAPTURE   Living I Ruins, Reds Found 247 of City’s Original 65,000 Population.

Allied Bombers Blast Rabaul  “80 Tons of Bombs  Quan ech Airvdeamea

Mighty Fleet Of Planes Off Across Channel On New Raid   Roar Of Engines Resound Over Coast Without Interruption Over Two Hours

Allied Bombers Continue Attack Qn Axis Europe  Cross Channel  For Dav Raids

AERIAL OFFENSIVE ~ AGAINST FORTRESS EUROPE RESUMED   Mighty Fleet of Allied Planes  Crossed the Channel in   Daylight Today.   BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS   RAF Fighter Bombers Carried Out Sweeps Over France, Low Countries,

OBJECTIVES IN EUROPE HIT ANEW   Nazis Strike Back In Small Scale Raids

AIR OFFENSIVE {6 INLEASHED TODAY   IPlanes Roar Toward Europe in Waves Lasting Two  Hours

Allied Planes Cross Channel   Mighty Fleet Leaves England to Strike At Hitler’s Europe

NAZI TARGETS ON CONTINENT UNDER ATTACK   Allied Planes Cross Strait of Dover in Continuation of the Daylight Offensive.

BIG FLEET OF ALLIED PLANES HIT CONTINENT   RAF’s Heavy Bomber: Quiet During Night; Airfields Hit

ALLIES CONTINUE AND ON EUROPE   Mighty Fleet Crosses English Channel to Resume Aeriat War.

Official Allied Comment Awaited on Italy’s New Order.  ITALY SOON MAY ASK SEPARATE PEACE  The Whereabouts of Duce Mussolini Still Is a Mystery.

elNDICATIONS MOUNTING THAT ITALY MAY ASK SEPARATE PEACE, BADOGLIO IN CONTROL, BRITAIN READY T0 DEAL WITH NEW REGIME

RELIEVE MEAT BAN ON COAST   Slaughter Quotas Lifted In 10 Districts in Five States

‘Connally Peace Manifesto Wins In 2 Test Votes   Senate Treaty, AUlantic Charter Amendments Thriuct Actele *

Connally Plan Wins Two Tests   Adoption of Post-Wai Resolution ‘Assured’

VOTE NEAR ON PEACE POLICY   Final Senate Action Today Likely; Resolution Wins In Two Tests

Connally. Measure Wins Test Votes  Eventual Adoption Of Resolution Seen

WARREN LAUDS LEGISLATURE   SEE SPECIAL SESSION FOR WARTIME PROBLEMS

NEW HEAT MARK SET FOR YEAR IN JOPLIN   Thermometer Climbs to 93 Degrees  to Exceed by One Degree  the Previous Peak,

Reds Pressing In Kuban Zone   German Reports Similar To Those Issued During Bad * Winter Months.

Russians Gain In Kuban Area, Germans Admit   Berlin Radio Declares Nazis Are Forced to Elastic Warfare  Near Novorossisk

Signs Suggest Reds Opening  Maior Drive   Moscow Reticent on Developments in Kuban Fighting

Nazis Admit Reds Gain In Caucasus   Soviets Batter Germans Back In Kuban Valley

NAZI RETREAT IN KUBAN HINTED   German Radio Says Troops Adopt *’Particularly Elastic Wartlare”’

Announces Sovict Batter!  ing Ram Forces Nazis to { “Adopt: Particularly  Elastic Warfare” 1   WINTER-USED TERM  DURING DEFEAT:   First Intimation, Russian! Power in Northwestern  Caucasus Had Produc.  ed Definiic Results 

AXIS RETREAT ISINDICATED IN CAUCASUS   POWER OF RUSSIANS BEING FELT BY GERMANS

Reds Compel Nazis To Adopt New, “Elastic” Warfare  Announcements Hint That Russia Is Opening Big Drive

Moscow Still Remains Silent on Progress of Battle in the Caucasus; Aerial Warfare Extends All Along  the PRuedian Front

RUSSIANS POUND GERMAN TROOPS   Nazi Legions Forced to Re treat in Fierce Battle in Kuban

Nazis Intimate Kuban Defeats   Battering Ram Of Soviete Fffective

SOVIET TROOPS IN CAUCASUS AREA ADVANCE   German News Man Gives Old Statement Again

A Show Down With Miners On Friday   War Labor Board Calls Leaders To Capital Meeting

Board Asks Full Details On Strike   Union Leaders, Operators Instructed By WLB To Appear Friday To Defend Themselves

Representatives Meet Today— Last Minute Effort Made To Fitd Basis Of Settlement In Lone Deadlock   DELAY CONFERENCE ONE HOUR TODAY

Calls a Hearing On Coal Strike   Order Made After 2,000 Striking Miners Demand They Return to Work.

erators Anc iners Called  ‘or Hearing   Meeting Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon To Solve Anthracite Strike

NLD WILL HOLD PUOLIU HEARING IN GOAL DISPUTE   Mine Workers Union and Operators Informed Ol  Board's Decision

WLB CALLS COAL ~ MINER HEARING   Strikers to Give Reasons for-Action; Ickes ‘Scores. «Stoppage 

WLB Orders Public Coal Strike Hearing   Lewis and Union Officers Called To Account for Walkout During Cae PRadenameane Nanan

WLB Calls Public Hearing In Anthracite Miners’ Strike  Lewis Savs He's Doing All He Can To End It:   Lewis Says He's Doing All He Can To End It: ‘Reckless Disregard Of Couutry. Ickes Savs

PUBLIC HEARING ON COAL STRIKE CALLED BY WLB   UNION LEADERS AND OPERATORS ASKED TO EXPLAIN ‘WHY’

Miners Split Over Issue of Ending Strike   Approximately 17,000 Defy WLB Ultimatum and  Remain Idle   NO DISORDER REPORTED

HEARING CALLED ON COAL STRIKE   War Labor Board Asks Un ion Leaders, Operators To Attend Session

Anthracite Miners Defy Government's  Edict to End Strike   War Labor Board Order Ignored; Next Move Up to Uncle Sam

WLB Serves Notices on Lewis and Local Leaders   Wants to Learn Why Why Miners, Citizens Sons. Brothers on Fighting Fronts, Strike Against National Welfare

Public Hearing in Mine Row Slated   Labor Board Calls  Session Tomorrow

Wage Dispute To Be Dropped Bacl Into WLB Hands.   Negotiations Between Operators, Union Reach Stalemate

UNION CHIEFS AND OWNERS ARE SUMMONED   Lewis Gives Assurance “Every_thing Possible’ Being Done To End Stoppage   15.000 HAVE QUIT PITS   15-Day “Wildcat”? Walkout Has Cost 500.000 Tons Of Coal, ickes Says

Seek Reason for Walkout Against No-Strike Policy; Union and Operators Calle«

LABOR BOARD ASKS REPORT IN DISPUTE   Public Hearing Called Tomorrow To Hear New Reports

WARLABORUNIT CALLS HEARING ON MINE STRIKE   Union Leaders and Operat ors Asked to Atfend Public Airing of Anthracite Tieup   MORE MEN RETURN   Seventeen Thousand Defy NLB Demand to End Strike; Lewis Trying  to End Walkout

2,000 MINERS RESUME WORK   17,000 Others Defy War Labor Board Ultimatum; Idle 16 Days.

PUBLIC HEARING ON GOAL TRIKE CALLED BY WLB   Both Miners And Operators Requested To Attend Open Conference   LEWIS TRYING TO GET MEN TO END WALKOUT   2,000 Strikers Vote Return To Work, But 17,000 ¢ Others Refuse

ORDERS A HEARING ON COAL STRIKE   Summons Lewis, Operators and Local Union Heads to Explain Why Workers Are Out in Time of War.

COLONEL IS ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING NEGRO   Officer Also Relieved 0 Selfridge Field Command

Arrest Selfridge  Field Commander  Col. Colman Replaced After Shooting Negro

Colonel Held After Negro  Soldier Shot  Officer Is Under  Observation At

Colonel Held For Shooting   Commander of ‘Selfridge Field is Relieved of Command for Attack on Neorn

Registration for War Ration Book Two _ ‘Lo Open Here Today   Complete Instructions on Procedure Announced by Board: Days of Unlimited Buving Are Ended

Registration for Ration Book II Is Set  Will Be Started Monday at County Schools

PACT 15 SIGNED BY LOCAL INDUSTRIE!   42 Agree to Fight Labor Piracy and Absen ézarcm

PACT IS SIGNED BY LOCAL INDUSTRIES   42 Agree to Fight Labor Piracy and Absenteeism

Union Demands 9000 Coal Miners End Their Strike   Locals to Vote On Action; Dispute On Wages and Dues  PRICE CEILING UPPED  Federal Grand Jury Indicts 29 Firms

Radio Net Sold For   ..- Edward J. Noble New Owner of Blue System

Paul Says Rum Plan Would Cause Inflation   Treasury Counsel Says Pay-as-You-Go Provides Safeguard

RIGHT T0 SOLICIT  UNION MEMBERSHIP  BEFORE HIGH COURT R. J. THOMAS, PRESI DENT UAW, APPEALS FROM CONTEMPT ORDER

MILITARY TRAINING FOR ALL BOYS LOOMS   Congress Studies Measure for Post-war Security

CONGRESS STUDIES "MUST TRAINING Of YOUTH AFTER WAR   identical Bill Introduced In Both House And wee

Trainine Urged For All Youths  syle we te C  ompnuisoryvy { raining

CONGRESS STUDIES POST-WAR PLANS   Would Require Compulsory Military Training

PARENT SHOULD REPORT BIRTH TO DRAFT BOARD   Those Who Do Not Notify Board Of Their Dependents Born On Or Before Sept. 15, 1942, Will Be Placed In I-A Class,

President Reveals Lend-Lease ‘Aid Totals £13,973,000,C00; _ Promises Help Will Continue

Brown Palace Was All Cleaned Up For President: Who. Didn’t Appear; Secret Wasn’t a Secret Very Long

Predicts Victory Not Far Off Benes Tells Congress Czechs  Will Uphold Peace After War

ARMY PLANE CRASH NEAR BURLINGTON   Two officers killed wher ship attempts landing near plant

PLANE CRASHES NEAR LO.P.   (Army Plane Falls Killing Two Officers

TO HELP FARM LABOR   An Ex eriment Is Being Tried in mployment Service ..

Public School Teachers In Pennsylvania Go On Sit-Down Strike For Wage Hikes

TEACHERS BEGIN SIT-DOWN STRIKE   PRESIDE OVER EMPTY CLASSROOMS IN RANKIN, PA— DEMAND PAY BOOST.

Co-operation on Gas Ration Imperative   MOTORISTS’ NEED FOR INDORSING ‘TICKETS ts EXPLAINED

Jap Convoy Chased ‘From New Guinea   Large Destroyer Believed Sunk, Others Head North Under Heavy Allied Barrage

Japanese Convoy Said Blocked Near New Guinea  Large Destroyer Also Believed Sunk

JAP CONVOY IS TURNED NORTH   Allies Believed To Have Blocked Attempt To Reach New Guinea  With Supplies

Jap Destroyer Convoy Blocked By Allies in Attempt to Land Supplies

JAP DESTROYER CONVOY CHASED      Attempt To Supply Their Troops In New Guinea Area Blocked

DESTROYER CONVOY BELIEVED BLOCKED   Japanese Thought To Have Failed To Supply Troops In New Guinea Sector

Japanese convoy is  ‘blocked’   Tried to supply  New Gujnea area

Jap Convoy Again T hwarted — In Move To Supply New Guinea   One Destroyer Bombed And Probably Sunk, Others Flee Northward

JAPANESE CONVOY BELIEVED BLOCKED      Large Destroyer Believed Sunk Off of Finsch. hate

JAPANESE CONVOY PUT TO FLIGHT   ALLIED AIRMEN BLOCK aT. TEMPT TO LAND SUPPLIES ON NEW GUINEA.

ARMY ACQUIRES 69,000 WOMEN   Bill Transforms WAAC To WAC; Age Limit Raised To 50

SENATE GROUP VOTES FUND   Recommends Appropriation For OPA and OWI

F. D.R. SCORES VICTORY FOR (PA AND OWI   Appropriations committee recommends funds for both agencies

WAR. AGENCIES — WON VicTORY   SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES _FOR FUNDS TO MAINTAIN - OPA, OW! AND OTHERS -

FARM LEADERS SKEPTICAL OF FREEZE ORDER   DISAPPROVE BUT PLEDGE SUPPORT TO HALT INFLATION

Anti-Inflation Policy Outlined By President - Hit By Farm Groups

Farm Leaders Criticize Freeze Order   One Terms Edict as Impossible of Execution

FARM LEADERS PLEDGE TO HOLD LINE  AGAINST INFLATION With Virtual F reeze

Farm Leaders  Support F.R. On Inflation   But They're Keeping Their Powder Dry For Fight; Organization Chiefs Critical

BLOC 10 BACK FARM PRICES   Agriculture Leaders in : Congress “Pledge Support. of President's Order,

FDR Ruling Displeases Farm Group   Leaders of National Bo. gies Object to New Or er

BANKHEAD 10 SUPPORT FDR'S WAR ON PRICES   Many Farm Leaders OutSpoken In Criticism

FARM LEADERS WAN FOR WAGE REVOLT   Farm Bloc Will Renew Fight if Salaries Continue to Climb Higher

Congressional Farm Leaders Pledge Their Support to FDR’s Inflation © ‘Fight, but Keep Their Powder Dry

Will Support F.D.R. Edict   But Farm Organization Leaders Are Outspoken In Criticism Of It.

Farm Leaders Pledge Support To F.D.R.’s Fight Against Inflation   Bankhead, Author Of Bill Vetoed By President, Will Support President’s Order So Long As Everybody Treated Alike.   You Think You Have Rationing Headaches; You Should Be In Ration Board’s Shoes

FARM HEADS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT PLAN   To Aid in Drive to Check Inflation

FARM LEADERS ' FALL IN LINE ON FDR ORDER   Congressional Farm Bloc Chiefs .. Plédge Support but Farm Organizations Critica}

Farm Leaders Arque Freeze  Controversy Brewing  On Roosevelt Order

ESSENTIAL THINGS WILL BE PRODUCEL   Nelson Seeks to Maintain Civilian Health, Welfare as War Goes On. .

NELOON PROMISES EOOEN TIAL GOODS   WPB Chairman Assures Public Of Necessary Articles

Allied Forces Stepping-Up Bomber Raids   U. S. Attacks In German} and France After RAP. Blasts inssen

Flying Fortresses Make Greatest Day: Assault of War On 4 Nazi Bases

U. S. Bombers Hit Germany; Essen Suffers  2,000 Tons Dropped By RAF On Biggest City In Ruhr In Heaviest

VETERAN AIDE 10 PRESIDENTS DEAL   Rudolph Forster Clerk at White House Since McKinley Regime.

White House Clerk Passes   Rudolph Forster, Aide to Presidents, Found Dead in Hotel

ALLIES MAKE NEW GAINS IN ITALIAN DRIVE   8th Army Fights Way Over River, 5th Takes Town

VETERANS OF MARCH FROM EGYPT TO  ITALY SEIZE THREE TOWNS; FIFTH ARMY ALSO BUSY.

Gain of Five To Six Miles Is Achieved ..   Three Towns Seized by Veterans in ~ Montgomery's Force

British Charge Stiff Line; U.S. Advances   Eighth Army Gains Hold on Trigno River As Americans Ram Nazi Defenses; Several Towns Fall in Bitter Fiahting

British Advance On Trigno River In Fierce Drive   Gain Five Miles, Take Three Towns

Forces of General Montgomery Advance Five or Six Miles   TOWNS ARESEIZED _ IN ARMY ADVANCE   New Holes Rammed ir Enemy Defenses by © Fitth Army

Clark’s Force Probes Enemy Hill Positions   Allied Lines Generally Advanced as Nazis Ficht Bitterly

PATTON'S MEN TAKE TOWN IN VOLTURNO PUSH   Montgomery’s Veterans Open Campaign On Anniversary Of E! Alamein

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Sth launches smash drive at Trigno line   Allies advance in _ all sectors

Allies Make Advances Along Three Sectors in Drive . To Oust Germans From Italy

oth Army Ram: New Holes Inte Nazi Defenses   Montgomery’s Veteran. Seize Three Towns in Launching Drive on Alamein Anniversary

Allies Advance On Three Italian Fronts   Montgomery’s Army Crosses Trigno, Takes Three Cities

Eighth Army Breaks Nazi River.Line .   -Montgomery. Direct: ‘Drive. Across The Trigno

Montgomery Cuis Trigno River Line   Yanks Ram New Holes In Foe’s Defenses In Wes!

Eighth Army Drives Ahead 9 0r6 Miles ©   Crosses Trigno River On Anniversary of Start at El Alamein  GOING DIFFICULT

‘STH ARMY OPENS DRIVE ON RIVER DEFENSE LINE   Early Advances Along Trigno Reported On El  Alamein Anniversary   MONTGOMERY’S MEN TAKE SEVERAL TOWNS

British Drive 8 Miles Ahead in Italy   Gen, Clark’s Fifth Army Rams New Holes in Nazi Lines

U.S. Forces Are Making Progress   Operations In New Georgia Are Proceeding According To Schedule   JAP REINFORCEMENTS ARE ANTICIPATED

ON SCHEDULE,   Military Operations in New Geor gia Group are on Time.

WITNESS TELLS CF EXECUTIONS   Adolf Hitler Responsible, Says Officer Tried As War Criminal.

First War Criminal Case at Kharkov Brings Out Sordid Details of Most Horrible Massacres in Modern Warfare. Gerinans Trained in Torture  QC .taman

German -Police Corporal Testifies At Trial OF - Horrors Inflicted On Civilian. Population

"GERMAN CORPORAL ADMITS PERFECTION IN TORTURE PRACTICE  DETAILS OF HORRORS IN FLICTED UPON KHARKO\ RESIDENTS PILE Up

Torture Methods Are Told   War Crimes Ordered By Hitler and Himmler, Nazi Prisoners Testify

Nazi forfure Told In Ukraine Trials   German Policeman Tells of Training

Free Subsidy Hand For Administration  Vacation-Bound Men Of Congress Declare Fight Next Foll

Administration Gets Free Hand To Subsidize Retail Price Rollbacks —   But New F ight On Subsidies Seen Next Fall, After Senate Abandons Fight To Accept Modified House Measure.

LIQUOR SUPPLY BEING HOARDED   Solon Charges Distillers, Wholesalers, Retailers Trying To Push Prices Up

Tap Whiskey In Warehouses, Plea  117 Million Gallons In Bonded Storage

Senator Charges Liquor Hoarding  Distillers, Others Are Accused   Distillers, Others Are Accused Of Effort to Obtain High Prices

SOLON CHARGES LIQUOR HOARDS   VAN NUYS SAYS DROP DUE TO PRICE TRIES

42 PER CENT CUT  IN WITHDRAWALS WHISKEY CHARGED   Senator Van Nuys Oper ly Charges Distillers, Wholesalers, Retailers With Hoarding

SHORTAGE DUE  TO “HOARDING   Van Nuy Believes There Is Definite Widening of Liquor Black Market.   HIGHER PRICES WANTED

WAR BOND PURCHASES LOW   Greater ~ Ratio of Re1, @emptions, Says Reserve Bank

Admiral King Expects Nazi Defeat in 44   Fleet Commander  Says Allies Gird For Pacific War

ADMIRAL KING SEES ‘44 WIN   Says Full Offensive in the Pacific Comes Later

De Gaulle’s Visit to Giraud Deferred For Time on Request of Gen. Eisenhowe:

"POLL RELEASED   Students' Win Places of Honor For Fourth  Ces ek

50S HONOR "ROLL RELEASED   Students: Win : Places o Honor: For Fourth .  nen peter

The Great Game of Politics   By FRANK R. KENT™ A Question Of Attitude

‘Find Body of Wife Slayer ‘Near Home   AFIER POSSE HAD HUNTED FOR HIM THREE p; AYS FOLLOWING MURDER OF  VIFE; F “ARMER DISCOVERS BODY.   Left Baby To Brother

WAREO, JAP HUB, TAKEN BY AUSSIES   Victory. Permits Allied Forces To Strengthen Lines

Allied Troops Capture Wareo, Supply Point   Increases Hold On New Guinea

WAREO FALLS TO ALLIED UNITS   Will Use Base in Invasion of New Britain

Allied Forces Capture Wareo  Springboard   Aussies Smash Jap Defenses and Capture Base For Coming Attack On New Britain.

AUSSIE TROOPS CAPTURE WARE( ON NEW GUINEA   MacArthur Tightens Hold On Island

‘American Soldiers Have Many Lessons to Learn Discipline Is One of Them

AFRICA BECOMES TRAINING GROUND      American Troops Are Preparing For The Next Move

K XK OF, SF Yanks Train For Next Job   x KK K Ke U-Boat Fleet First Defense Line

Need for Discipline and Physical Fitness Taught by War in Tunisia

NORTH AFRICA IS NOW VAST U, S, TRAINING: AREA   All Resistance Wiped Out, American Troops Prepare To Use Mediterranean Coast As Springboard For Invasion.

Moscow Says South Advance Mass Murder   en ttleribes Fight With ~Desperation—as—— Lines Crack

REDS SMASH INTO NAZ! DEFENSE LIME   Finish Fight Is Near at Hand, Russians Claim

HALF-MILLION GERMANS FACE MASS MURDEF   Only Eighteen Mi'es From Iron and Rail Center Which Will Be Key to Red Triumph

Russians Crush Dnieper Nazis   SOVIET TROOPS RACE PAST HALFWAY MARK SOUTHWEST OF DNEPROPETROVSK, CARRYING BATTLE OF RIVER LINE INTO “MASS MURDER”

Disaster to Nazi Forces Is Imminent   German Lines Reported Falling Apart—Slow Pro gress in Italy uy

BATTLE RAGING IN LENINGRAD SECTOR   New Spurt of Fighting on Long-Idle Front !s Reported

Nazi Radio Hints Reds May Have Taken Novogorod   Moscow Says New Fighting Breaks Out South of Leningrad

Fighting Flares Near Leningrad   Nazi Reports Hint at Novogorod Capture

LENINGRAD AREA FIGHT RENEWED   Radio Indicates Soviet Capture Of Pivotal Novogorod Base

ARMIES BATTLE NEAR LENINGRAD   GERMAN STATEMENT IND}CATES RED FORCES HAVE SEIZED NOVGOROD.

Red Fighting on Southern Front Flares Soviets Say   German Radios Suggest Loss of Important Base-at Novogorod

NOVOGOROD IS THOUGHT TAKEN   Berlin Radio Indicates Pivotal Base South Of Leningrad Is Recaptured

Allies seek Soviet, Polish Paci German Radio Indicates Novogorod Taken By Reds

ALLIES HIT ITALIAN AIRFIELD NEAR ROME   Make Record Breaking Flight from African Base

Two Italian Airdromes Heavily Hit  U.S. Planes Drop Many Bombs on

BARI AIRDROME ON ADRIATIC DEVASTATED   New Fires Started On Sicily And Sardinia; Other Targets Heavily Attacked

AIRFIELD NORTH OF ROME BOMBET   American Bombers Drop 250,000 Pounds Of Explosives On Targets   SEVERE DAMAGE   Big U. S. Planes Carry War To Italy With _ Crushing Force

BOMBERS RAID ITALIAN CITIES   74 Reported Killed During Fortress Attack Gn Air Field

Airtield Smashed In Central Italy; Bari Is Hard Hit   Grosseto Attack fs Seer As Hint Te Mussolini Of Coming Fate

Flying Fortresses Bombard Vital Airfield.North of Rome   Unprecedented Aerial Attack Is Waged On Italy, Giving Hint of Still More Blows

Bomb Air Field North of Rome   Grosseto Pounded— Also Bomb Bari on Southern Adriatic

NALIS MASSING IN BULGARIA   Troops. Are Reported . Near Turkish Frontier

Nazis ‘Reported Massing Troops Close to Turkey   Speculation About Possible Balkan  Invasion Rises

German Troops Reported Massing On Turkish Border As Speculation Mounts Turks May Join Allies   GEN MARSHALL BELIEVED SLATED FOR COMMAND OF FORCES EXPECTED TO INVADE WESTERN EUROPE SOON

MOVE AGAINST MLED THRUST INTO BALKANS   Nazis Fear Turkey to Enter War on Side Of United Nations

Germans Mass Troops In Bulgaria  Opposite Border Of Turkey, Claim

TURKEY MAY BE DRAWN INTC WAF BY: NAZI THREAT   German Troops Massing in Bulgaria May Invade Balkans --.

FDR, Inonu Conference Stirs Reich   Germany -Believed: Fearing Invasion: +  Through Balkans

INVASION OF BALKANS SEEN POSSIBILITY   Speculation Mounts That Turkey May Be Drawn Into War on Allied Side.

NAZI TROOPS.  ARE MASI G INBULGARIA   Gather Near Turk Frontier, Fearing Balkan Invasion

GERMAN TROOPS GATHERING NEAR ~ TURKISH BORDER   Forces Concentrated In Bul: garia Lend Weight to Rumors of New Front,

NAZI TROOPS MASSING IN BULGARIA   Enemy Fears That Turkey May Be Drawn Into War

Nazis mass troops near Turk frontie!   Fear neutral may be drawn in war

Balkan Invasion Reported Feared By Nazi Leaders   Opinion Expressed Turkey May Enter War On Allied Side

DRIVES 150,000 MILES; NEVER HAD ACCIDENT   (Turner W. Ashby, Edgely, ' Honored at Dinner of Bell   Telephone Employees  WALLET IC DDEreEenNTCNn   'WALLET IS PRESENTED

Bell Co. Honors  Floyd K. Steiner   Has a Record of 150,000 Miles Without Accident

ORTREGOES RAID PORT OF NAPLES   Bomb Bursts Shatter Shipping, Docks and Railway Station: Capodichino Airfield Damaged Heavily

Port of Naples Again Blasted By Fortresses   900-Pound Bombs Hi  2 Troop Transports a  ee

Great Bombers Hit Naples, Back Warning of Allies  Port, Airfield Take Severe Pounding; Others May Follow

ALLIES POUND NAPLES HARBOR   Great Fortress Attack Sent Against City After Warnings Are Ignored

Southern Italian Port of Naples Again Is Blasted .   RAILWAY STATION TARGET OF FLIERS   Powerful Raid Follows Warning of General Eisenhower

De Marigny  Again Haled Before Court   This Time Accused of IHegal Possession of Gasoline

De Marigny Says He Is Innocent   Denies Illegal Possession of Gasoline Supply

ALFRED DE MARIGNEY IS: BACK IN COURT   : Remarriage — Is Called Of Because Nancy Too Young

DE MARIGNY IN COURT ONCE AGAIN   Pleads Innecent on Illega Gas Charae

RUML PLAN AND NO FORGIVENESS BOTH DEFEATED   Renders Useless Work Of Three Months  Toward Taxation

House Rejects Tax Measure Three Months’ Wor!   Three Months’ Work Rendered Futile

JAP CAMP QUIZ READY T0 OPEN   Dies Also To Look Into Recent Race Riots

Two Important Investigations By Dies Group   Plans Made to Open Hearings on Relocation Centers and Detroit Riots  AGENTS ON THE FIELD

Dies Group Plans Look on Jap Camps   Recent Race Riots To Be Investigated Ry FJ] Committee

Dies Body Plans Probe of Jap Camp Conditions; May Look Into Race Riots

RABAUL GOAL OF ALLIED PINCERS   Occupation of Treasury Islands Outflank Jap Naval

RESISTANCE _ BY JAPANESE IS STIFFER   Two Strong Points Wiped Out by Artillery

US NAVY IS VICTORIOUS AT KULA GULF   Jungle Fighters Also Advance On Munda Aijr_ Base; Unload 32 Tons Of Rambhe.   Fire 2 Barges

Americans Continue Pressure On Vainda   Nake New Advances Toward Jap Air Base Despite Stiffening Enemy Opposition  MUNDA, OTHER SPOTS GIVEN MORE BOMBS  MacArthur Confirms Reports of Jap Losses In Kula Gulf Battle -

Defenses Stiffen As Allied Jungle Fighters Advance  General MacArthur’: Forces Report Capture Of Heavy Artillery

Yanks Move To Within Mile of Munda   Patrols Destroy Jap Defense Posts in Advance on Base

AREA DAIRYMEN ‘AIR SUBSIDIES: ‘FAIR PRICES   100 Hear Debate On Perti _hent Question at Cherry Flatce Meetine.

BATTLESHIP “X” IS IDENTIFIED   South Dakota Sank 3 Jap Cruisers Quickly

Interpreting he War   Time Is Near to Attack in Aid Of Russian Army

BAN BLACKOUT TESTS IN PENNSYLVANIA   Wait for Further Notice Unless Issued by Army ,

SOVIETS STEP UP AIR, SEA FIGHTING AGAINST FINLAND   Only Time Will Tell When Two-Year “Sitzkrieg” In North Will End

WASHINGTON TODAY -—~——_____—__________-___ War Declared Against Cartels 

VON ARNIM SAID TOUCH PRUSSIA   La Germa One of Hitler’s Best fommanders

House Outlaws U.S. Funds For Subsidy Payment   House in Voice Vote on ‘Bill Extending CCC

Chaplins Are  * Jn Sechusion   Film Comic and Young Pride Heneymooning After Perfunctory Wedding Ceremony

Chaplin, 54, Weds 18-Year-Old Daughter Of Eugene O'Neill As Ex-Friend Has Hysierics

Perfunctory Ceremony Unites Comedian and Last Year’s No. 1 New York Debutante Following Delay by Paternity Suit

Chaplin, Bride  In Seclusion   Girl Who Named Comedian In Paternity Suit Under Doctor’s Care.

PARENTS LEARN SONS ‘MISSING   Sought Revenge for Pal Killed at Pearl Harbor

FARMERS 10 GET MILLION DOLLARS T( INCREASE PLARTING   Soybeans, Grain Sorghum, Flax, Sweet Potatoes, niiad Poss Wanted

FARMER BONUS NOW PROPOSED   Uncle Sam Planning To Pay Them To Increase War Crops Against Handicaps

BETTE CLARK EDS A-C SCHULTZ   Marriage Solemnized at Army = Air Base in Santa Ana, Calif., Saturday, March 6

German Sub Base Struck By RAF in Greatest Bombina   Raids Continuing After Four: Days Unceasing Atteck; Soften. Axis for. Promised Invesion; Drubbing Out Over Bombings of England

German Sub Base Struck By RAF in Greatest Bombing   Raids Continuing After Four Days Unceasing Attack; Soften Axis for Promised Invasion; Drubbing Out Over Bombings of England   Bulletin’

NEW ENGLAND As HARD HIT ~~ BY BLIZZARI   KEMPERATURES AS LOW AS 31 DEGREES BELOW ZERO: RE CORDED—SIXTEEN DEATHS  > iin . REPORTED

HIT AT TWO TERMS   Republican Iowa House Adopts Resolution Today  :

NAZIS WARNED BROADER AIR BLOWS COMING   British Forces Smash Toward Key Adnatic  Port

Nazis Admit Rostov  Flank Peril Grows   Gen. Vatuiin’s Slavic Arniy 100 Miles West of City; Rear Threai Seen

Senate Committee Refuses to  Cut Exemptions   Treasury Recommend:  Retention of Present Victory Levy

Senate Committee Refuses to Lower Income Exemptions   Rejects Treasury Proposal; Deadlock on Subsidy Issue

SENATE GROUP VOTES AGAINST TAX PROPOSAL   Treasury Had Sought Fur. ther Lowering of Indivual Exemptions

Senate Committee Refuses to Cut Exemptions  Treasury Recommend  m2. .4,s.. .f   Treasury Recommends Retention of Present Victory Levy

ROMMEL INSPECTS . FRENCH DEFENSES   London Papers Tell of Vast U,S. Army Mass‘tan in Britain:

AMERICAN TROOP TRANSPORTS ‘CARRYING INVASION FORCES   ‘Millions Of Trained Fighting Men Are Reported By London To Be Streaming To Britian From United  States; Rommel Inspects European Defenses

Invasion Plans Changed:  Eisenhower or Alexander May Heat Great Army Instead of Marshall, Reports from Washington Indicate

London Displays Surprise at Shift Of Gen. Marshall   Yanks Said ‘Strap-Hanging’ Overseas for Invasion; Rommel ‘Inenecte’

U.S. Soldiers Streaming Into Britain   London Amazed To Hear Marshall Won’t Lead Attack

MIGHTY FORCE CROSSING SEA   Steady Stream of Yanks Ar riving in Britain for Europe Invasion

Gen. Giraud Arrives At La Guardia Field  Greeted By High Ranking Army Officials

Full Scale Nazi Occupation ‘(Of Northern Italy Indicated By Berlin Radio Propaganda   British Cabinet Members And Military Heads Ordered To Stand By Over The Week End For War Developments In Connection With Italy

PROPAGANDA DRIVE SEEN AS PRELUDE   Berlin Radio Makes Ominous Announcement It Is Looking “With Interest” Toward Area,   BLAMES REDS FOR “FRESH UNREST”   Says Military Situation. With All Its Urgent Necessities, Dominates Present Hour.

Mediterranean Aerial Blows Gain Impetus   [Allies Resume Task of Destroying Axis Air Power

Hfalian Bases Experience More Allied Assaults  "Allied Planes Pick Up Drive To Smash . Ate Dp  wrico me Danae

Bombers Hit Airfields in Sicily Again   sermany Also Pounded by Raiders on 5th Successive Night

Round The Clock Raids End Lull In Air Offensive   Enemy Loses 16 Planes In Addition To Scores Of Grounded Craft Hit.

Five Airports In Sicily Hit By Air Raids   7 Allied Planes With 16 of Axis Said Destroyed

Huge Allied Air Forces  Bomb Sicily   Big UN Convoy Reported Entering Gibraltar Harbor; Reds Set to Hit Germany Crushing Blow from East When Allies Invade Europe

Allied Planes Hit Airbases   Spill Hundreds of Tons Of Bombs On Sicily

AXIS AIRFIELDS IN SICILY DRAW ALLIED BOMBS   16 Enemy Planes Destroyed is Combat to Allied Loss of Seven fammunicne Savs   MANY ON GROUND   Berlin Claims Sinking of Two Al lied Landing Boais, Says Thre Transporis Sunk

Allies Start Air Assaults Upon Sicily   Five Airfields and Other Military Targets Splashed With Bombs

Heavy Attacks On Sicily Are  Continued   Airfield, Other Military Targets Showered With Bombs

Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Sicily’s Airfields In New Allied Air Raids

U. $. Suggests Stable Money Based on Gold   Morgenthau Believes England Will Agree To Some World Plan

REVISED PLAN IS PRESENTED   U. §. Favors Gold As Base For Post-War Currency  Stabilization

U. S. Proposes International Money Plat For Postwar Era, With Gold to Be Basic Foundation; England May Agree

Duce Shakes U; Cabinet To Nir  Peace Move   Fires Son-In-Law Count Ciano, And 2 Other High Officials

Mussolini Fires Oldest Advisors   Shake-up Reported To Have Been Demanded by German: Threatening Occupation

Giano Ousted ti Nip Italy, Peace Bid. Report   Washington Says Shakeup by Il Duce Designed to Ronst Morale

Mussolini Ousts Ciano; Plot Hinfed   Swedish Sources Explain Cabinet Shakeup As Move Against Peace   BADOGLIO INVOLVED   Eight Other Cabinet Aides Are Fired; Nazis Are Slow To Comment

One Version Circulated In Sweden Is That Mussolini Broke Up Peace Proposal

Mussolini Shakes Up Cabinet, Fires: Ciano to Nip Separate — Peace Plan, Sweden Reports

SHAKEUP IN CABINET BY DUCE SIFTED   Some of Appointments Are Thought Significant in Case Italians Seek Separate Peaée.

Shakeup In Cabinet Reported   Intended to Bolster Morale and Prevent Plan for  Separate Peace

Mussolini Fires Son-In-Law In Sweeping Shake-Up Of Cabinet, Germans Amazed

Action Rocks Europe   Son-In- Law Among Group Fired: More Moves Expected

CABINET MEMBERS QUSTER CAME AS ORDER OF HITLER   Demands Made For Mussolini te Withdraw From Active Politics, Nazi Threatened Invasion.   BADOGLIO, FOREMOST SOLDIER, INCLUDED   Discharge of Seven Members Qn Friday Was Complete  ' Surprise To Alt Europe, Even Germany,

MUSSOLINES.---NEW, CABINET SHAKE-UP STARTLES . EUROPE   Fires ‘Son-In-Law And Eight Other Cabinet Members  In. Sweeping . Change

CLAIM IL DUCE NPPED CIANO'S PLAN ON PEACE   German Intervention Said to Have Caused Shakeup in Cabinet

Duce Ousts Ciano, 8 Cabinet Members In Scapegoat Step   Augusto Rosso, Ex-Envoy to U.S., Goes.to Ankara in Significant Move; - Cavallere Thrown Off General Staff

[BOOSTER FOR MORALE    State Department Gives Idea on Ciano’s Remova

Count Ciano and Eight Other Cabinet Members Ousted; Sweeping Shakeup Startles Europe.

MUSSOLINI SHARES UP      Fires Son-in-Law;  Move Amazes Even Germany

Ciano Sought  Peace, Claim   German Step In, Order Shake-up, Dispatch Says

Seven Cabinet Members Fired: Army Chief Out  Count Ciano, Grandi   Count Ciano, Grandi And Badoglio Asked Break With Axis

Broadcasts Halted by Disruptors  Sun Spots Black Out All Radio  Service Between U.S., Europe

NIMITZ AND KING TALKING STRATEG'   Knox Reveals Purpose Of Trip From Pacific

NAVY ADMIRALS HOLD CONFERENSE   Secretary of Navy Tells Newsmen of Recent Meeting.

King and Nimitz Confer on Coast   Concerns Allied . Strateay Plans. -

Nimitz Confers  On West Coast   Knox Says Pacific Admiral Met King

WHEAT OF HIGH QUALITY      Ness City Crop Exceeds Capacity of Testing Machine

Pacific Area From Java to ‘Solomons Swept by Raiders; ‘Naval Base Target of Attack

Here Are Highlights of F. R. Message   REVEAL HIGHLIGHTS OF PRESIDENT’S TALK ON WAR AGAINST AXIS

Forced Savings, Food Price Cuts May Be Ordered   Anti-Inflation Steps May Include Slash In Prices Of Poultry,  EFraee Frach Vanptnhblec

Rolled Back. Prices Cause Controversy   Congressional Farm Leaders Adopt Wait and See Aittitude; Farm Chiefs Say  Diedare Thicerriminataryv

OR LENDING TAY TALKED   Compulsory 1 Measure One of Possibilities Under. Anti‘TInflation Drive   SOME FOOD PRICE CUTS CONSIDERED   Poultry, Eggs aud. Fresh Vegetables May Be Slashed First

FORCED SAVINGS CONSIDERED FOR FDR’S PROPOSAL   Lower Price On Consumer Items Is Discussed

Compulsory Savings Plan Urged To Check Inflation   Proposal Bobs Up Again as‘One Way. To Carry Qut President's Price: Control Prooram.

FORCED SAVING MAY COME 10 HALT INFLATION   Americans Must Spend Less To Keep Cost of Living Down, Is_ Belief   TAX PROBLEM BOBS UP TOO   Senate Committee Spices Capital Doings With Probe Of Conduct of War

Compulsory Savings By Public And Rolled Back Food Prices Seen As Anti-Inflation Moves

Inflation Curb Program Given New Impetus   Plan Considered For Compulsory Sayings Statute,

NEW AND DRASTIC ANTIINELATION MOVES ARE WATCHED  COMPULSORY SAVINGS B' PUBLIC BEING TALKED St WASHINGTON

CAPITAL FEELS FULL EFFECT OF FDR’S EDICT   Speculation on Inflation Topic Follows New ideas

Avers Roosevelt’s Only Chance Is To Convince People His Foreign Policy Is Sound —Says He Does Not Have One

LARE LUCE SOUNDS KEYNOTE FOR GOP   Party Is Ready to Mee’ Challenge of Postwar America. She Savs.

‘Clare Booth Luce Says ‘Administration Offers ‘Only A False Security

Believes Americans For Expanding Economy; ‘Name Committeemen At Appleton Meeting

Town Only Eight Miles From Important Railway Taken   Germans Are Reported Losing The Offensive in Zhitomir Sector Which They Have Taken

Hurl Back Huge Nazi Assaults   Break Enemy Resistance, Storm Through Eight Towns Toward Target.

 Rationing At A Glance   By The Associated Press MEAT, CHEESE, CANNED FISH EDIBLE FATS AND OILS

Valid Coupons   BY 1NC AsSOcieved 11CsS MEAT, CHEESE, CANNED FISH, EDIBLE FATS AND

Section of India Defense Regulations Held Invalid   It Was Under Terms of the Act That 8.000 Persons, Including Mohandas K. Gandhi, Were Imprisoned: Release of Them, Despite Court Ruling Held “Most Untikely”

Cashier Of Bank — Slain By Gunman  baa Man Attempting ~ Robberv Flees

Bank Cashier Is Shot By Robber  Youth Kills Employe, Flees To Woods

Surrender of 50,000 Men Announced   Four Nazi Divisional Generals Captured; Luftwaffe Gone

50,000 CAPTIVES TAKEN AS ENEMY FLEES IN PANIC   High Nazi: Officers Seized In Mopping-Up Operations ‘n Bizerte Area

German Air Force Abandons Troops To Fate on Cape   Four Division Commanders Among Prisoners Rounded Up; 400 Planes Pound Palermo

Heavy Fighting Continues Near City of Tunis   Americans Complete Mopping Up” of Axis Forces in Bizerte   Several High-Ranking ~ German Officers Captured by Yanks

Victors Rake Africa Foe  On Alll Sides   Prisoners Total 50,000; Commanders Are Captive; Americans Lead In Greatest Mediterranean Air Raid

Heavy Pounding at Enemy Pockets in Tunisia Reported  ATTACK ON SICILY IS MADE BY FLIERS Forces Closing in to Seal  Enemy Retreat on Peninsula

Four Enemy Generals Among Captives In Current Drive  NAZI PLANES ALL GONE 400-Plane Smash  Causes Havoc at Big Sicilian Port

Allies Capture 90,000 ‘Troops As Axis. Yields   Organized resistance is disintegrating: swiftly, but no signs of mass ’ evacuation are seen. 

4 Division Commanders  Are Seized   Speed of Attack Surprises Germans In North Africa

400 U.S. Planes — Raid Sicily Port   Four Axis Commanders Are T aken As Our Forces Rapidly Mop Up in Tunisian Area

4 German Divisional Com. manders And Staffs Cap tured In Tunisia   NAZI AIR FORCE HAS LEFT NORTH AFRICA

Broken Enemy Units Retreat Onto Cape Bon   Axis Makes No Move at Evacuation: Yanks Complete Mopping Up in Bizerte District

Nazi forces, shorn of air protection, are collapsing under consistent pounding   Axis planes apparently fled from  Tunisia; Bizerte resistance ended

FOUR DIVISION COMMANDERS INCLUDED IN ROUNDUP; AIR FORCE OF ALLIES BLASTS DOCKS AT PALERMO.

Foe Forces Collapsing Under Fierce Blows By Land, Sea, Air; Palermo Blasted in Biggest Raid

WLB Rejects Contract fo Hike Miners Earnings   Heads of Railroad Unions Decide on Strike Ballot

VLB Rejects Proposal for Pay Increase   al Wage- Dispute Reaches New Crisis as Labor Board Sets $1.12!/2 Cent Limit:

Fresh Crisis Impends in  Coal Dispute   Railroad Unions Decide to Take Baliot on Strike

Board Orders End of Strikes By Thursday   UMW’s Acceptance of Decision Will End  Controversy; 40,000 Miners Reported Idle

Labor board Rejects  Increase in Wages  Of Miners $1.50 Day,  Suggests $1.1214 Day THURSDAY DEADLINE SET FOR STRIKE END  If Walkouts Continue Case Will Be Turned Over to President

New Crisis Is Reached in ' Coal Dispute   War Labor Board Rejects Boost in Wades

U. 3. BOMBERS JUORE HEAVILY AGAINST NAZIS   102 German Planes Shot Down By Americans In Attacks Against Europe

eieaseitentseinmiimastalaiansiicanisaiili AALS — va  ‘Allies Join Showdown Aerial Battle to Blast Open Hitler's Europe

FULL DRESS CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED   Record Series of Air Blows Struck At Nazi Cities

Operators Willing To  Consider   Secretary Perkins Proposes Means Of Agreement That Is Gaining  Favor

MINE OPERATORS TO CONSIDER PLEA   Secretary Perkins Asks Guarantee Of Six-Day Week.

ILLNESS FATAL TO ROSECRANS   Selective Service Chief In Michigan Stricken At East Lansing

M’SWEENEY IN   Ex-Congressman Joins The Mili” teee Cneerpnment Rapejea

MOVE TO ANNUL CHILD'S MARRIA   SUIT CHARGES ST. LOUISAN USED SUBTERFUGE IN WEDDING GIRL, 12.

Cooper Officials Co-Defendants In  Marriage Case  Would Annul Wed. ding of Girl 12 and

IL DUCE'S MEN SURRENDERING BY HUNDREDS   Americans and Canadians Continue to Advance

Report Italian Troops Rebel  Against Nazis   Mutinies By Italians Com. manded By Germans Are Reported   HUNDREDS IN SICILY SURRENDER

Counties Credited On Quota In Third War Loan Drive   Cullman County Wil Receive $104,000 As Its Share

ALABAMA BOND BUYS PRO RATED  Counties Get Credit In 3rd War Loan

REDS GAIN IN DRIVE T0 TRAP FOE IN CRIMEA   Advance to Within 50  Miles of Perekop Bottleneck

Cossacks Chase Nazis 15 Miles Across Steppes   Push Through 80 More Villages to Within 25 Miles of Nikopol and 30 Miles of Perekop

Reds Sweep Through 80  More Towns   But Germans Continue To Resist Savagely Attacks on Krivoi Rog  TANK BATTLE RAGES

Cossack Horsemen Chase German Flecing Army In Advance (6 Within 15 Miles - of Northern Crimea Over Roads Strewn With Nazi Dend :

FLEEING HUNS ARE PURSUED BY COSSACKS   BOTTLENECK BEING CLOSED IN PUSH TO CRIMEA

GERMANS Ii FLIGHT; REDS PUSH ONWARD   Roads Strewn With Nazi Dead And Wrecked Enemy Equipment As Offensive Rolls Toward Crimea.   New Crossing

Cossack Horsemen and Tanks Pursue Beaten : Nazis   ROADS ARE STREWN  WITH GERMAN DEAD   New Crossing of Dnieper Anriounced in Communique

Cossacks Enter Big Drive Over Vital Districts   Soviets Move Closer To Actual Entrapment Of Germans

O.P.A. POLICIES ARE. ATTACKED -BY GIL CO. HEAD   Says It Is Heading Industry Toward Gigantic Mononoly

BRICKER HINTS HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT   Gives ‘Foundation’ Fo American Post-War Participation

Gov. Bricker Defines  His “Foundation” For  U.S. Post-War Action

Flynn Accusers  In Other Cases   Admit Earlier Illegal  Sex Actions

FLYNN DEFENSE DEMANDS ACQUITTAL   Attorney Attacks Betty Hous en’s Story

ACQUITTAL OF FLYNN IS URGED   Defense Attorney Says Accusers Admitted Acts Open To Prosecution

PLOT 10 OUST GEN. MARSHALL   ‘Army Chief of Staff Under Fire Transfer To Europe Sought

REPORT MOVE FOR TRANSFER _ OF MARSHALL   GROUP. OF CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS MAY, HOLD IN- — . QUIRY INTO RUMORS CLIQUE SEEKS . HIS OUSTER

Germans Claim Convoy Attack   Nazi Command Says Ger man Planes Bombed 22  Ships With Troops.

CLAIMS BY THE NAZIS   Germans Report Sinking of 272 Allied Transports Yesterday

Berlin Claims  Convoy Hard Hit      No Confirmation Of Sink ing Of Troop-Laden Transports.

werryrryrrTyy yyy r reer eee ee Robert E. Lee Wants To Evict Tenant Named U. S. Grant

ALLIES READY TO BOMB ROME WHEN WEATHER PERMITS   Bad Weather Prevented Raiding Of Italian Capital Last Night

BOMBING ATTACKS ON ROME 10 BE RESUMED SOON   RAF COMMENTATOR HINTS BERLIN IS DUE FOR AN AERIAL KNOCKOUT IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE,   MOSQUITO BOMBERS HIT RUHR VALLEY   British Naval Planes Sink Three Nazi Torpedo Boats and Damaged a Fourth in Attack on Channel Port Last Night.

An Aroused House Is Centering Attack on OPA and Serious Charges Are Made 

Man Is Charged With Violating Closing Law  Bound Over to: <Grand-Jury———~—-. Under $250 Bond

ALLIED LANDINGS ON EUROPE BEFORE SUMMER FORECAST   Curtain Ready To Go Up On  Big Show, Salisbury ‘Predicts From. London

Allies Hint Landings on Europe Soon   British, Yanks May Race To See Who's on Job First

Invasion thrust before summer appears certain   Allies ahead of their time-table

CT 7 TEACHERS FOR CITY SCHOOLS   Staff Positions Filled at judy Meeting of School 2  Board   TWO RESIGNATIONS IN

ELECT 7 TEACHERS -FOR CITY SCHOOLS   Staff Positions Filled at July, Meeting of School _ _ Board a e   TWO RESIGNATIONS IN

Former Orderly For Gen. MacArthur Is Instructor At Flying School Here

UMW Will Demand $2 Day Pay Hike   Lewis Denounces WLB’: ‘Little Steel’? Formula Acs ‘Arbitrary’

Mine Workers Ask Wage Hike   Seek $2 Per Day in Soft Coal Industry

Bituminous Mine Workers Ask Pay Raise   Demand $2-a-Day Hike And Encounter Looms  Over U. S. Wace Policies

Lewis Demands $2-a-Day Raise For Coal Miners  400,000 Workers Affected; Clash With WLB Certain  INEW CONTRACT   UMW Chief Assails ‘Little Steel’ Plan Of Reonlatine Waces

Coal Miners Demand. $2 Day Pay Hike   Would Become Operative April 1; Affects 400,000

Yankees ‘Thrust Inland   Allied Planes Operate From Sicilian Airfields

Planes Now Using Bases On Island   Americans Hald Bridgehead 25 (Miles Wide and 10 Milez Deep

Allied Planes Use Captured Fields  To Batter Counterblows of Germans

HIGH TEST GASOLINE IN GREATER DEMAND   Rationing Held ~ Responsible For Change

ALLIED RAIDS WIPE OUT 300 TOKYO PLANES   AIR REINFORCEMENT AT RABAUL BASE CRIPPLED

123 Tokyo Cratt Blasted at Rabau! In Two Days   MacArthur Reports On Aerial Success In Pacific Area

Enemy Air Reinforcement At Rabaul Crippled In Week. End Attacks   JAPANESE BAFFLED BY LOW-LEVEL RAIDS

[23 JAP PLANES WIPED OUT IN NEW RAIDS ON RABAUL   Twenty-Eight Blasted From Skies and Others Destroyed on Ground in Two Attacks.   CRAFT ONLY RECENTLY SENT TO STRONGHOLD   Makes 700 Knocked Out by Airmen in Last Two Weeks—Four Allied Ships Missing.

Rabaul Again Hit Saturday And Sunday   Total Japanese Losses In Four Recent Raids Has Mounted Over 300  ATTIFS TOSE FOTIR

Allied airforce destroys 123 Jap planes in. raids  on Rabaul reinforcements   MacArthur’s bombers increase enemy loss to 700 in two weeks

Foe Aircraft Losses in Pacific Area Soar to 700 in Two Weeks; Enemy Reinforcements Are Crippled

Two-Week Tol Of Enemy Craft Raised to 700   45 of Planes Smashed In Newest Raids on Ground; Allies Lose Four Craft in Attacks

123 Japanese Planes Are Shot Down In Air Raids At Rabaul   Airmen Strike Hard Saturday and. Sunday, Bringing _ Enemy Losses in Four Recent Smashes ql to Over 200

TWO-DAY RAIDS » TAKE HIGH TOLL   Japs Lose 700 Planes ir _ Pacific Area in 2 Weeks   ALLIED LOSSES LIGHT   Raiders Employ Low-Flying BTactics, Be wilder Ra-  baul’s Air Defenses

Nips Lose 123 More Planes    “45 Others Probably Lost; 2-Weeks Total Exceeds 700

Raids Inflict Terrific Loss on Japs   Airmen Brave Fire To Work Havoc At Slight Expense

GOVERNOR DECLINES TO ELABORATE ON LABOR LEGISLATION  COURT TEST OF BILL   COURT TEST OF BILL FORECAST; LABOR SAYS IT SMACKS OF FASCISM

Validity May Be Tested—  Labor Contrcl Bill Filed Without Governors OK

HOT FIGHT Of FARM BILL PROMISED   Leaders Resent Action of Appropriations Committee

Solons Hold Stormy Session on Taxes   F. R. Veto Threat Plagues House, Senate Conferees

FDR MIGHT VETO TAX ABATEMENT (MEASURE,   House and Senate Committee’s Break Up In Separate Groups After Hour Long Session

Stormy Talks On Tax Plans   Senate. House Conferees Attack Threat Of Presidential Veto.

Veto Threat Slows Tax Bill  Conferees Agree President Holds oes ee 2 ee ee  ee

WOULD GIVE ALL DRAFT POWER TO GEN, HERSHEY   F.D.R. Denies ‘Haven’ Charge

House Votes fo Delay Draft of Fathers   Measure Would Give Hershey Full Authority Over Selective Service

HOUSE PASSES BILL TO DEFER FATHERS   Federal Govt. Not Haven for Draft Dodgeers Savs FDR

Four Killed in Train-Auto Crash   Inquest Held in Columbus Mishap

Greek Guerrillas Repulse Force Of 4,000 Nazis   Germans Said To Be Pour ing Reinforcements into Yugoslavia

Greek Forces Repel 4,000 Nazi Troops   New Offensive in Central Greece Adds To Germans’ Already Grave Problem in Balkans; Allies Poised for Thrusts

BALKANS KEEP NAZIS ON EDGE   Greek Guerrillas Hurl Back Enemy, Advance On Rail Center

Greek Patriots Repulse Nazis   New Drive Adds To Germianv’s Problem

Greek Guerrillas Repulse Nazis  New Offensive Adds to German Worries

GREEK GUERILLAS REPULSE GERMANS   Advance Toward the Rail Town of Karditsa Reported

GREEKS ROUT GERMAN FORCE   Force Of 4,000 Repulsed In Advance On Town  Of Kardista

GREEK GUERRILLAS ~ BATTLE GERMANS   REPULSE FORCE OF 4,000— NAZI REINFORCEMENTS RUSH TO BELGRADE,

Greeks Hammer German Forces In Athens Area  New Offensive In Cen tral Greece Adds To Nazi Balkan Worry

Greek Guerrilla Gains Reported   Germans Fear Allied Thrust Into Balkans

Guerrillas Present New Trouble for  German Defenders  Greek Force Checks 4,000 Nazis in March to Rail City

SENATE GROUP RESOLUTION ON POLICY VAGUE   Expected to Win Approval

BALTIMORE WORKERS GIVE 30-DAY NOTICE   Employes Of Point Breeze Plant Protest Using Same Sanitary  Favilities ¢     Nerroes

THREE LIGHT CRUISERS IN BISMARCK BAG   102 Enemy Planes Knocked Out In  Action; Bombs 65 Percent Effective.

J JAP GAUGE AG AMONG LOoaba IN OIG BATTLE   ‘Numerical Superior Enemy Air Force Also Blasted Out Of Pacific Skies

THREE LIGHT CRUISERS SUNK IN SEA BATTLE   Final Report Made on Great Allied Victory

72,000 Women Requested For Detroit Plants   War Industries There in Need of 82,000 More Workers

72,000 Women  Requested For Detroit Plants  War Industries There in Nead of 89 N0N Mare

Japs Strive fo. Halt Advance on Guinea Bases   Reinforcements Are Drawn From Other Sectors

Japs Drawing Up Air Power   New Guinea Advance  Going Ahead Easily

JAPS LOSE 25 PLANES IN NEW GUINEA   Nips Increasing Air Forces Near Lae and Salamaua

REINFORCEMENTS TO BOLSTER AIR FLEET SUMMONEL   Japs Take Action in At. tempt fo Stop Allied Advance in New Guinea Sector.

JAPS MAKE NICVE TO GHECK ATTACK   Allies Tighten Trap to Take 20,000 Enemy Troops Jn New Guinea Area.

JAPS DRAINING OTHER THEATRES TO ASSIST LAE      Allied Troops Meet Strong Enemy Resistance Is Report Received

JAPS BOLSTERING AIR FORCE IN TRY TO STEM ADVANCE   Diains Planes From Other Theaters To Protect © Coastal Bases In New Guinea

JAPANESE DRAWING HEAVILY ON PLANE RESERVES, LOSE 25   Drain Other Theaters To Combat Allies In New Guinea

Japanese Draw Aerial Reinforcements: From Other Fronts In Effort To Halt Allies Advancing On Lae, Salamaua

Japanese Rush Aid To. Arniy In New Guinea:      ee ‘rom "South: Pacific is « “Hinted By: Tokyo

JAPS SAID 10 BE DESPERATE IN NEW GUINEP   Drawing Reinforce. ments From Other Theatres to Stop  Allied Advance

JAPS SEEK TO SLOW ADVANCE   Air Force Drawn From Other Theatres To New Guinea Defense

NAZI GENERAL ESCAPES FROM BRITISH TRAP   Kesserling Forced To Re- form Lines  BIG BATTL E NEAR  Nazis Wilt U nder Air Attacks   BIG BATTLE NEAR

ENEMY DROPS BACK TO FOR NEW DEFENSES   Kesselring Forces Wheel in Retreat Under Heavy Three-Way Blow:   BRITISH. COLUMNS ARE PUTTING GN PRESSURE

ADVANCES AND TAKES FBOL   Germans Swing Left Wing to Positions Beyond City

Drop Back To Escape New Threat   Indications Peat To Another Showdown Battle

PROBE ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN   ‘ Worker, Replacing Spikes, Fired Upon

OF NYA URGED   Leaders of House Economy Bloc Driving for Extermination of Peacetime New Deal Agencies.

Fight Over NYA Funds Impending   Economy Bloc Hits Another Agency

CAFE GROUP SEEKS SALES TAX LIFTING   May Place Plan Up To Public Vote

RESTAURANT MEN WANT TAX REPEAL   Threaten To Place Referendum Before Public

Allied Planes Smash At Jap Concentration:  54 Tons of Bombs   54 Tons of Bombs Rain

250 Nippon Planes Blasted In Mass Raid   Allied Bombers Unload 54 Tons On Enemy Air Concentrations At Rabaul   ALL AIRCRAFT RETURN   Returning MacArthurmen Alto Hit 10,000 Ton Japanese Transport

250 Japanese Craft Bombed On Airfields   No U. S. Bombers Lost in Heaviest Blow at Jap Planes

COMMOBITY   COMMODITY   CHEESES*   54 Tons of Bombs Rip Jap Rabaul Airfield

GROWING JAPANESE AIR POWER SMASHED IN SOUTH PACIFIC  MORE THAN 250 NIP PLANES FEEL WEIGHT O} TONS ALLIED ROMRS

ALLIED AIRMEN DROP BOMBS ON JAP AIRDROMES   Release 54 Tons of Expiosives, All Raiding Planes Return

Allied Bombers Break Up Concentration of Growing Nip Ai Power in Pre-dawn Surprise Raid on Rabaul—Ship Sighted And Blasted on Way Back—Not One Bomber Lost

Allies Blast Nest of 250 Jap Aircraft   Three Airdromes At Rabaul Bombed; Big Transnoxst Hit

ENEMY PLANES AT 3 FIELDS ARE BLASTED   10,000-Ton Transport Set Afire Off Gazelle   WAVELL ARMY   Fails In Four Attempts To Smash Defenses On Burma Peninsula

ALLIES BLAST JAP AIR BASES   Concentration At Rabaul. New Britain, Found By Reconnaissance

 ALLIED AIRMEN IN PRE-DAWN ATTACK ON JAP BASES   More Than 250 Japanese Fighter and Bomber Planes Felt Weight of 54 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Bases

ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST RABAUL, HIF JAPCRAFT   354° Tons of Bombs Land On ‘Nipponese-Planes Massed At Fields In - New Britain   TRANSPORT STRUCK   Japanese Aerial Power Smashed On Ground By Allied Assault Be fore Daylight :

Allies Smash 3 Jap Air Fields In South Pacific   Enemy Concentration Discovered, Destroyed In Dawn Bombina

GROWING JAP AIR POWER IS DEALT ABLOV   Allied. Airmen Loose 54 Tons -Of Bombs On Rabaul, Blast Other Jap Bases

ENEMY PLANES FEEL WEIGHT OF QUICK BLOW   84 Tons of High Explosives Dropped on Important Military Site

WILLKTE AND NEW (OP SOLONS MEET   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON POLITICS AND WORLD AFFAIRS EXCHANGED.

Union Pickets World-Telegram   Demands Elimination Of Pegler’s Column

HARVEST WEATHER IN   Worst of Rainy Spell Over, Says * RBorecaster

To Be Fair And Warmér   Let-up in Rains Gives Streams a Chance to Return to their Banks

Brazilian Ship Sunk, 56 Die  Attacking Vessel’s Identity Not Told

Soviets Have Driven Half Way Across Nogaisk ~ Steppes In. - - Drive   Enemy Throws Everything Into Battle For — Krivoi Rog .

Reds Take 100,000; Dnieper Stampede Gets Wilder Hourly   Hitler’s Rabble Hurled Backward 15 Miles in 23 Hours: Tank Battle At Krovoi Roo {s Greatest af War

Panicky Germans Fleeing Across Nogaisk Steppes   Thousands Cast Aside ‘Arms as Red Forces  ‘Tighten Crimean Vise

RUSSIANS RUSH TO CLOSE EXIT OF CRIMEAN AREA   Cossack Flying Columns Siash Into Rear of Retreating Invaders.

Germans Flee While Russians Surge Toward Last Crimea Land Exit   U. S. Fifth Army Advancing In Drive On Rome

RUSS CAPTURE 100,000 FOE IN DNIEPER BEND   German Retreat Becomes Rout as Cossack Columns Chase Invaders Across Steppes

Germans’ Casting Aside Arms in Effort to Escape —- Pursuing Soviet Troops Overrun Towns and Villages in Advance.

Nazis Abandon Arms ‘in Flight   -Retreat Rapidly. Towards Kiev —

Airmen Report That ‘Mussolini ls Suffering ‘From “Fallen Arches”

THE TIME HAS ARRIVED T0 CHANGE FROM WORDS TO ACTION, RED EDITORIAL SAYS

Action, Not Words Sought By Soviets   Article Says Second Front Necessary

Battleship Richelieu Dodges U-Boats in Dash To U. S. for Repairs   35,000-Ton French Craft Safe in New York After Rough Crossing With Other Warships; Seven Now in Western Waters; Reoutfitting Planned

French Warship in U. S. for Needed Repairs  _§.S. Richeleau to Rejoin Battle

New French Battleship Dodges German U-Boats To Arrive At New York

RICHELIEU 1S SAFE: SAILED FROMN.AFRICA   France’s Newest And Greatest Battleship Will Be Repaired, Refitted For Service With Allies.   Dodged Nazi U-Boats

Huge French Battleship Comes to U. 5.   Richelieu Arrives In New York for Extensive Repairs

2 Destroyers And Cruiser Also in U.S.   Richelieu Dodges Pack Of Nazi Submarines And Rides Out Gale  WERE FOR REPAIRS ~

French Warship in U. S. for Needed Repairs   S. S. Richeleau to Rejoin Battle Against the Axis

Meat Shortage Prospect Seen   Poor Corn Prospects - Threaten To Reduce Live® stock Production.

TO) HAVE LESS MEAT IN COMING YEAR   Crop Report Says Corn Crop May Be Short by 200 Millions of Bushels

STRIKERS TOLD BY ROOSEVELT TO END WALKOUT   President Calls Rubber Tieup “Flagrant Violation” Of Pledge’   TODAY NOON GIVEN AS FINAL DEADLINE

One of Four Akron Firms  End Walkout   Union in Session At Other Three Rubber Plants

FDR Calls for End Of Akron Strike By 120’clock Today   Says Government Will Take Necessary Steps To Keep Rubber Plants Producing; Walkout Branded Inexcusable

RUBBER STRIKE COMES 10 END   Officials Of CIO Unions Order Workers Back On Jobs Today

President Declares Unions Must Accept Labor Board Rulings   Chief Executive Cites Labors’ Non-Strike Pledge; Threatens to Act in Capacity as Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces

U.S. Will Act in Akron Strike President Says   Dispute Certified to White House by WLB; 51,000 Idle

CIVES 51,000 TILL NOON TO RESUME WORK   President Threatens to  Act if Walkout at Ak_ ron Continues Beyond ~ Today’s Deadline.   NATION SHOCKED, HE TELLS LEADERS   President Calls Strike Challenge to Government and Defiance of War Labor Board.

President Says Ohio Rubber Strike Inexcusable Action  Asks Workers Return To Jobs in Akron By 12 o’Clock Today

Key City Rocked In Raid   Nearly 1,700 Tons Of Explosives Blast rsenal

MORE RUIN Is HEAPED AGAIN UPON BERLIN   Big British Squadron, Feinting Toward the Reich Capital, Smashes Leipzig.

“RAF Feints At Berlin, ‘Hits Leipzig   - Key ‘Arsenal City Rockeil by Heavy. ‘Block-Busiter: Raid

LIGHT RAF BOMBERS STOKE BERLIN FIRES; BIG RAID ON LEIPZIG   Heavy British Planes Rock German Arsenal City With 1,700 Tons Of Explosives After Feint Toward Capital

Mosquito Planes Bombard Berlin: RAF'S Heavies Batter Leipzig After Feint at German Capital

BERLIN, LEIPZIG RAIDED AS RAF CHANGES TACTICS   Big Planes Feint to Capital, Then Hit At Leipzig   BUT LARGE MOSQUITO FORCE BOMBS BERLIN

BRITISH RAID BERLIN AND LEIPZIG   Big Bombers Feint Toward Capital, Then Turn Off

LEIPZ1G BOMBED BY RAF 10 FOOL BURNING BERLIN   Feint Toward Capitol To Confuse Enemy, 1700 Tons of Explosives Unloaded on Target.   WORE GERMAN LINES MAY COLLAPSE SOON   Allied Forces !n Italy Move Up Big Offensive Toward Rome. Many Big Guns In Attack.

Devastation Is Piled on . Nazi Capital   RAF Feint Toward’ Ber. lin With Big Bombers  Caonfiuser Puan   RAID ROCKS LEIPZIG   Key Arsenal City Is Left Flaming Under 1.700 Tons of Explosives

1,700 TONS BLAST NEW TARGET; FAST ~ SHIPS HIT GAPITAL   Big Force of Mosquitoes Kindie Fires As Heavy Planes Wove on Arsenal City.

CAPITAL, LABOR QUIBBLE AS PLANE PRODUCTION DROPS   Officials State That Labor Shortage Threatens Entire Aircraft Industry.

MANAGEMENT AND LABOR FUSS OVER LAG IN AIRPLANES   EACH ACCUSE THE OTHER AS BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING OFF IN PRODUCTION OF WAR PLANES.   WEST COAST PLANTS NEED 42,000 MEN   Estimated Only Nine Months Will Be Required for War Plants to Clean Up War Contracts and Convert te Civilian Goods.

Russian. Defenders .Of , Stalingrad Redeem Promise to Drive Nazis Out Of the Volga City.

Thunderbolt Raid Made By British On Stuttoart   23 Planes Lost In Concentrated Attack Reds Hit East Prussia

Raid Believed  War's Largest Hits Stuttgart   Coast ‘Says RAF Fleet Largest Ever To Cross Dover   CASCADE OF BOMBS'   British Report Loss Of 23 Planes: Berlin Claims But 15

Allied Planes Attack Germany From Two Sides, Stuttgart Target of ‘Very Heavy Raid’

STUTTGART TARGET OF BRITISH RAID ON NAZI INDUSTRY      23 RAF Planes Lost — East Prussia Bombed Last Night, Presumably By Russians

BRITISH BLAST. STUTTGART AREA IN HEAVY RAID   Two-ton Block Busters Used Extensively In Factory ana.

STUTTGART GETS SATURATION: OF BRITISH BOMBS   RAF Loses 23 Planes In Heavy Attack Last Night   GERMANS RETALIATE WITH FEEBLE RAIDS

British, Russian Planes Strike At German Bases   Heavy Attack Made On Stuttgart By

IMPORTANT RAIL CITY BATTERED   Germans Make Feeble Attack On England; East Prussia Hit

‘Stuttgart’s War Plants Taste Havoc   RAF Loeses Heavy Weight of Bombs On Industrial City

ALLIES ATTACK 2 NAZI CITIES   RAF Saturaies Stutigart, Russians Raid East Prussia Center.

75 MINUTES ARE SPENT BY PLANES TOCROSS CHANNE!   British Bombers Visit-Stuttgart 12th Time, Russian _ Aviators Make Attack on East Prussia.      STRONG AXIS PLACES  SMASHED BY BRITISH   Reds Hurl Back Two German Attacks, Enemy Oufit Misunderstand Order, Opens Fire on Own Army.

BRITISH RAID STUTTGART WAR PLANTS   Other Planes Make Attack On East Prussia

JAPS MASSING FORCES NORTH OF AUSTRALIA   MacArthur’s Pilots Blas: 37 Out of 100 Nippon Raiding Planes

ALLIES DRAW RING AROUND AXIS FORCES   Spearhead of British  units reach Emfidaville north of Sousse

New Ground Gained By Three Armies   British, American and French Units Advance

ALLIED FORCES IN TUNISIA CLOSING ‘NET- TIGHTE! ABOUT AXIS ARMIES IN PREPARATION FOR ALL-_  ' QUT ASSAULT. DESIGNED TO WIPE OUT ALL   " RESISTANCE—JAP AIR ARMADA, fo ae  MEETS DEFEAT . : a

Father Draft Delay Asked To Survey War  Air Experts May Testify on Bombing Nazis —

Asks Views On All-Out Air War   Sen. Downey Proposes Survey Of Possible Effects Of Full Use Of  Air Power

WESTBROOK PEGLER   Jailed Unioneers May Aid Cause Oi Rank And File

Vast Stores Of Booty Ins cluding More Thax 1,000 Guns and 280 Tanks Taken.

Africa Corps Now Behind  Prison Wire   18th Commander Of Axis, More Booty, Seized

Jungle Fighters Learn To Be Quiet, Patient;  But When It's Time They Fight Like Hell

TOWN MENACED BY LAVA FLOW   Newly - Opened Volcane Belches Rocks Near Mexican Village

MEXICANS FLEE TOWN. TO ESCAPE LAVA FLOW   Volcano, Inactive for Years, Belching Red-Hot Rocks us Large as Automobiles.

OFFICIALS SAY DRAFT QUOTAS REMAIN SAME   Army Budget Reduced $13,000,000,000 in .  Economy Move

Fathers Get No Hope From  Army Savings   Draft Officials Tell Them They’re Stull on List

ARMY BUDGET CUT WILL NOT LESSEN DAD DRAFT NEEDS   Overall Manpower Goal Unchanged Because Navy Quota Up

NELS ANDERSON LOSES — LIFE IN ACCIDENT      Head Was Crushed Between Two Tratlers On Farm South of Fayette Friday

CAMPS, FIELDS, TRANSPORT OF ENEMY TARGET   Is Follow-up To Medium Bomber Operations Thursday   HIT LANDING GROUNDS   Fight Axis Fighters Are Shot Down, Twelve Others Damaged

HITLER AIDES TO BALKANS   Nervous Adolf Would Prepare For Invasion Through There.

CAA Men Finish Probe of Crash  Plane Wreckage Is Taken to Missoula

Officials Conclude Investigation Into Air Crash That Took ‘Four Lives in Deer Lodge Valley

EXECUTIONS AT KHARKOV. STIR GERMAN PRESS   Threaten To Take Action Against Captured Bomber Crews

WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL BY REDS CAUSES UPROAR   American and British Airmen Called ‘Huns’ By Goebbels

Germans Threaten Reprisals Against  Prisoners of War   Propagandists Work Up Indignation Against Trials, Bombings

Nazis Threaten Reprisals Against Allied Airmen for Kharkov Trials

-—GOEBBELS RANTS—  Reich Trials Loom   Reprisal for Kharkov War Guilt Sentencing

THREATENING REPRISAL FOR RED EXECUTION   Imprisoned American, British Fliers Referred to as “Huns of Air” by Nazi Propagandists

Nazis Threaten Reprisals on Allied War Prisoners for Soviet Executions

ALLIED PRISONERS NOW THREATENED   Nazi Propagandists Work Up Indignation After Executions at Kharkov.

RED ACTION. DISTURBING ~TOGERMANS   Lentering: of Planes ‘Arouses. Stori “m  Of Anger

ACIS THREATEN TRIAL REPRISALS   Say U. S. Air Force in Hands of Gangsters; Link FDR with Kharkov Proceedings

Germans Promise Reialiation  For Russ Trials  Goebbels Describes Allied Fliers As “Huns of Air’

Bomb-Battered Nazis Screech  With Rage   Threaten Reprisals Against American And British Airmen

GERMANS CALL ALLIED FLYERS "HUNS OF AIR”   Hint Reprisals Over Kharkov Trials, Yank Names of Fortresses

Germans Threaten  Reprisal Actions  Call British, Americans “Huns Of The Air’

Reprisal Threats Made by Germans   Allied War Prisoners Mentioned in Indignant Comment on Russian Trials.

NAZIS THREATEN DIRE REPRISALS AGAINST U. S, AIRMEN FOR ceerinhe BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW” GALL THEM HUNS   iFBI Investigating (Theft Of Proparty ‘At Greenville Field

Allied Airmen Threatened By  Angry Germans   Hint, Ugly Measures To Be Taken Against War Prisoners in Retaliation  _or Bombing of Cities  ~ And Kbarkov Trials.

Reprisals For Executions At Kharkov Loom   Goebbels Calls British And American Aviators  ‘Huns Of The Air’.

Nazis Threaten Reprisals For Kharkov Convictions   Goebbels Turns Loose New Bitter Propaganda Campaign

Grim Threat Of Reprisal   Nazis Indignant Over  Kharkov. Trials and “Hunnish” Bombings

Reprisals Against Allied War  Prisoners Threatened By Nazis   Nazi Propagandists Indignant Over Trials Of Kharkov Slaughterers, Call United States Aviators “Huns Of Air.”

NAZIS THREATEN ‘REPRISALS’ ON U.S. AIRMEN   Drum Up German Hatred for “Huns of the Air’ After Kharkov Execu fions

Reprisals Threatened   Goebbels Calls U. S.-British Fliers “Huns of the Air’

Warn Of Reprisals Against Captured All Anglo Saxons   Action Is Result Of Execution In Kharkov Sunday Of Three Germans By The Russians. America, England Are Blamed

Nazis Threat Reprisals On»  Allied Flyers   German Propagandists Stir Up Indignation Over Kharkov Hangings.   ‘CALL AIRMEN ‘HUNS

Threat of  Reprisal By Nazis   Propagandists Seek to Work Up Indignation Against  the Kharkov: Trials ,   ‘WILL SOON DEAL’ ~- WITH PRISONERS   British. and, American Air Force Members Are Termed “Huns of the Air’

NAZIS HOT OVER KHARKOV TRIALS   Dark Threats Of Reprisals Come Flying Out Of Berlin.

NAZIS PROMISE U.S. REPRISALS   German Press Says Yank Air Force Controlled By Gangsters

BERLIN WARNS OF RETALIATION FOR ~ SOVIET HANGINGS   Blame Roosevelt, Churchill  for Executions at  Kharkav

GERMANS VOW WAR REPRISALS   VOICE INDIGNATION AT KHARKOV TRIALS, AIRMEN

Red Executions Bring German Threats of Reprisals Against Anglo-American Plane Crews.

Reprisals Are. Threatened By Nazi Leaders   Indignation Is Expressed Over Executions Of Three Germans After Trial At Kharkov

Reprisal Threats From Germany. After Hatiginas   Nazi Proptugandists -Indignant About Kharkov. Trials:

Propaganda Turned Against Captured ‘American Fliers   Kharkov War Crimes Trials Are Used by Goebbels as Excuse

Americans Called “Hums of the Air”   Berlin’s Spokesman Links Roosevelt and Churchill With  Wanaoimos of Four by Russians

Allied Prisoners Face Reprisals, Nazis Say, For Russian War Trials

Threats of Reprisal Against Allied War Prisoners Made As Result of Kharkov Trials

GERMAN REPRISAL THREATS AGAINST PRISONERS HEARD   German. Propagandists Indignant Over Kharkov Trials— Say U.S. And Britain Equally To Blame With Russians

TROOPS HOLD ENTIRE EAST SUBDIVISIONS   Soviets Are So Close to ' s Dnieper That They Can ’ Rake Cliffs of Big En emy Stronghold With Machine-Gun Fire.

Russians Storm Gomel   HITLER SAYS DNIEPER LINE “MUST BE HELD” AS “NATURAL FRONTIER”

Reds Are Closing in on Gomel   Strong Westward Thrust Topples Krichev, Sweeps in 170 More Towns   ADVANCE: RAISES THREAT TO POLAND   Reds Also. Hammering Kiev, Suburbs of City Already in Russian Hands

Rail City of Krichev Is Captured by Russians as They Advance on Vitebsk

Reds Shelling Cliffs of Kiev  Hold All of Suburb: On East Side of City

fjowa Farmers Plant Largest Acreage Since 1937; Decreased Yields Likely

Report Average Stand of Corn  Spotty Conditions In Parts of State

CENSOR A REGULAR GUY   Soldier Sends Him His Love and Is Neatly Repaid.

PROVINCE IN NORTH OF ITALY GIVES IN TO GERMAN ARMY   King, Queen, Crown Prince Have Fled To Sicily Says. Dispatch From Sweden

GERMANS EXTEND GAINS IN ITALY   -ombardy Province. Including Milan, Gives Up To Nazis; Royal Family Reported Having Fled To Sicily

Italians Report Surrender of Lombardy to Germans; Swedes Say King Victor Has Fled to Sicily

ALL LOMBARDY IN NAZI HANDS, SAYS ITALIAN REPORI   Allied Occupation of Many Coasta! Cities Not Officially Verified.

PUT HEAT ON PEGLER   Maritime Union Pickets NewspaPer Seeking Writer’s Dismissal

Columnist Is Union Target   New York Newspaper Picketed as Result of Assertions by Westbrook Pegler

Houston Fire Kills Woman, Five Children   Apartment House Destroyed by Blaze One Critically Hurt

American Leaque   National Leaque   German Surrender Believed  Unlikely Until Early 1944

NOT PROBABLE   London Sources Predict Germany Can Hold Out For Another Year

‘2 KILLED, 2 INJURED ~~ INFIRE AT CANTON   Second Major Fire in Last Two Days in City

Harvest Time May Find Labor Shortage Serious To Farmers Over Texas

Northern Ohio ‘Has Heavy Snow   Motorists Clamor For Anti-Freeze

U.S. WARNED MAY BE BOMBED THIS SUMMER   No Major Military Damage Could Be Done ~ However By Raids

WARNING THAT U.S. MAY BE BOMBED HEARD IN CAPITAL   Ineffective Bombings to Cre ate a Defense Psychology Is  Possibility Suggested by  Mythical Spokesman

Axis May Be Counting on  Raids to Create Frantic Defensive Psychology  ;  ‘THREE METHODS CITED

Axis May Attempt Air Raid On U. S.  This Summer, D. C. Speaker Warns

WARNS U. S. OF POSSIBLE RAIDS   Mythical Spokesman Issues Threat of Axis Aerial Bombing

Allies pound Lechorn. Sardinia   U. S. coasts may undergo attacks by axis—Speaker

BUMB WARNING FOR U.S. FOLD   CAPITAL SPOKESMAN SAYS RAIDS POSSIBLE

BOMBING OF U.S, BY AXIS THIS YEAR POSSIBLE   Enemy Desperate and May Make Suicide Raids To Break Morale

Air Raid on U.S. Likely   Axis May Attempt Attack to Create Defensive Physcology

Rome Is Famous As Eternal_ City; Shepherds.Tended Flocks On Hills   Bombs Fall On  City ( Of Nearly Millior Population For First Time But Vatican Is Spared In Raid

The Eternal City Built On Tiber 2700 Years Ago   Blend Of Monuments To Birth Of Christianity, Pagan Architecture

Ancient Rome, The City Of Seven Hills. Is A Metropolis Of One Million Souls, Capital Of Italy  A

Turkey Closer To Declaration   Public Prepared For Entry Into War

TURKEY NEARS BRINK OF WAR   Newspapers Are Believec Preparing Public For News To Come

Ottoman Envoy Departs Rome With His Staff   Blackout for Istanbul Looms as Britain's Paet Te lnentoad

Turkey's Entry Into. War Said To Be Likely   Cairo. Conference Sharpened Situation, Savs Editorial

WHOLE CONVOY IS LIQUIDATED BY MARTHUR   22 Ships Reported Sunk or Sinking;  15,000 Killed

Asks Supreme Court To Block Reapportionment (rdered By Legislature

ASKO HALTING OF AEAPPORTIONMIENT   Rep. Stenson Says Action of . House ‘Inequitable and Unfair.’

FIRST OIL FLOWS FROM ‘BIG INCH   WILL BE DELIVERED TO EAST COAST LATE IN THE WEEK

First Texas Oil Reaches Norris City Through World's Biggest Pipe Line

Yank Flyers Down 138  Nazi Planes   17 Bombers, Three Fighters Are Lost in Fighting

Port Hard Hit And Big Air Vietory Gained   One of War’s Most Intensive Aerial Battles Takes Place

Bombers; Three Fighters Are Lost By Americans;-City Thoroughly Blasted

138 Nazi Airplanes Shot Down   U.S. Planes, Score One of Greatest Air Victories

Yankee Raiders Leave Sea of Flames in German Industrial City Result Victory

Leaye Emden Burning After Most Intense Ac jal Battle of the War. Seventeen Bumbers and "Pree Fiehters Lost

Giant Fortresses and Liberators Score Victory in Intense Aeriat Battle

Americans Lose 20 Aircraft As Forts Liberators Attack   Heavy Bombers Claim 117 Enemy Fighters in Fifth U.S. Raid on North Sea Port—Other Assaults Under Way, Possibly by RAF.

1D BOMBERS. AND FIGHTER LOST IN RAID   Score Great. Aerial Victory in Attack on Nazi Port af Emden.

IN GREAT AIR BATTLE OVER EMDEN   Part of German Port City Left in Flames — 17 Bombers and 3 Fighters Lost in Raid.   FOE INFURIATED BY ONSLAUGHT   Enemy Airmen Machine-« Gun American Fliers Who Parachute Out of Crippled Craft.

GERMAN NORTH SEA PORT LEFT GIANT INFERNO   Flames Roar Over Half  Mhile-Square Area With  - Towering Columns of Smoke   17 BOMBERS, THREE FIGHTERS ARE LOST   Bremen Radio and Another in Netherlands Off Air, Indicating RAF Making Night Attack

VICTORY WON BY AMERICANS IN AIR CLASH   GERMAN NORTH SEA PORT IN FLAMES AFTER ATTACK

17 BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS LOST   One of Most Intense Aerial Battles of the War   INFURIATED GERMANS   Machine-gun Boys Who Parachuted Out of Crippled American Bombers

U.S. Bags 138 Nazi Planes   Great Victory Scored As Bombers Pound Nazi Port

BAG 138 NAZI PLANES; RAID PORT OF EMDEN   Yanks Lose 20 Planes In Attack; Port Left  Mass of Flames

17 Bombers and 3 Fighters Lost in One of Greatest Air Battles of War in Europe

amden Is Thoroughly Blastec In One Of The Greatest — Aerial Rattles Of War ©

U.S. Bags 138 Nazi Planes  Great Victory Sco   Great Victory Scored As Bombers Pound Nazi Port

Germans Expect Red Offensive   Warn That Russians Planning Thrust

Soviet Attack At VelikieLuki Told By Axis Reds Describe An  Attacks On Two Nazi Harbors

Overcrowding Great Hazard Influenza Outbreak Feared  Throughout U.S. Next Winter

DEPARTURE IS DELAYED   Baseball Tour Was Planned for the Pacific Area

DEPARTURE IS DELAYED   Basebal] Tour Was Pl. Was Planned for the Pacific Area

Life In Germany Held Most Modern Form Of Slavery      Evidence Found Among Youth cf Germany Fighting in Sicily Do Not Like Way of Life Hitler Has Forced on Fatherland; Interpreted as Definite Sign of Germen Heme Front Cracking

TOO MUCH PAMPERING   Topeka Air Base Commander Talks to Kansas Lawmakers

British Warship Dock Is Raised   King George VI Dock Saved By Japs

Big Drydock Is Raised By Japs   Dock Scuttled By British Salvaged

SEEKING TO HASTEN ANTI. NAZI REVOLT   Moves at Mascow Aimed at Getting Action in Austria

SHORTAGE SEEN THIS WINTER   Situation Is Serious  Some Sections, Says  Leonard

Largest RAF Force Slashes Turin, Milan   Tremendous Loads Rock Industries;  All-American Fleet Hits Rome Rails 

AIR OFFENSIVE IS STEPPED UP TO NEW PITCH   American Armada Strikes Eternal City; RAF Blasts at Reich Capital.

AMERICAN AIRMEN RAID ROME WHILE RAF HITS BERLIN   Aerial Offensive To Smash German; And Italy Into Surrender Rises To Highest Pitch With Today’s Kev Citv Attacks   TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO 4  AVOID MONUMENTS

All-U. §. Armada Hits  Eternal City: Aerial Blitz at Record Crest

Mighty American Air Armada From North Africa Hits San Lorenzo And Littorio Railway Yards, Also Milan And Turin   BRITISH PLANES HIT AT BERLIN

Americans And British Also Hit Milan, Turin In All-Out Air Assault

Allied Aerial Offensive Hits Highest Pitch of Intensity as Both Ends of Axis Take Blows   Yanks Handle Italian Capital Job and _ British Attend to Nazis’ First City, and Also Attack Two Major  Industrial Centers.

RAILROAD YARDS TARGET AT ROEM, BERLIN DAY VISH   Mosquitoes Return to Reich After Absence _ of. Three Months, Waves ‘Ave Over Rome For Two Hours..   RUSSIAN VANGUARDS SMASH INTO KHARKOV   German Garrison Reinforced With Fresh Troops From Reich Falling Back Into Narrow Corridor. 

France, Holland Also On RAF And Yank Air. plane Schedule As Axis Served Notice That Shattering Assaults To Gain In Intensity

WILDCAT MINE WALKOUT HITS PENNSY FIELDS   Nearly 700 Go On Strike: Action Defies F. D. Warning

VESTA STRIKERS RETURN 10 PIT: OTHERS NOW OU   Protest Assessment Of Penalties for Walkout   500 JOIN STRIKE AT SHANNOPIN MINE

STRIKERS. GO. BACK TO WORK AT JONES & LAUGHLIN MINE   500 Miners At  Company’s Greene County Mine Out On Sympathy Strike

Mines Idle In Ohio and  Pennsylvania      Threat of Work Stoppage When Truce Ends: Heard

WORKERS STRIKE AT FOUR MINES   Pretest Fines for Earlier Work Stonparces

Workers Return To Coal Mines   New Walkout Halts Plant Operations

Network Of Baby Turnpikes Plans In Pennsylvania  New System Of Roads To Open Every County To Variane Markeate

Funafuti Puts Yanks Many Miles Nearer Japan’s Gilbert Group  NEWS OF JAP RAID REVEALS SITUATION  Gives U. S. Outpost For Main Positions In Samoa and Fiiis<

U.S. Takes Over   Strategic Pacific Island   Jap Attack Upon Stronghold Fails; New Grip on Ellice Group le Protection and Aid to Allies

BASE HELD ON ELLICE ISLAND GROUPBYU.S.      American’ Forces Seize Position on Supply’ Route

American Forces Sef Up Base Near Gilbert Islands   Now in Position To Attack Important Japanese Positions

NEW U.S. BASE NEARER JAPS GILBERT ISLES   Enables American Seaplane: ToScoutEnemyInstallations; Occupation Of Funafuti Is Unopposed      Jans Raid New Base

; DNIEPER PUSH   Russians Determined to Give Weary Nazis No Rest Before Winter ‘Sets In.

TROOPS FOR OFFENSIVE   Russians Lined Up On West Bank Of Dnieper River

Reds Massing Men, Equipment For Assault on German Line   Both Sides Are Engaged in Heavy Artillery Duele

ASKS OFFENSIVE ~ WAR IN PACIFIC   Seratcr Warns U. S. May Be Deserted by Allies In Fight Against Japan

SOLON URGES MORE AID FOR PACIFIC ZONE   Sen. Chandler Asks M'Arthur Be Given Needed Arms

Pacifie aid is demanded  by Chandler   ‘Must carry fight to Japs at once;  fliers lash Kiska

10TH DAY OF BATTLE EAST OF ZHITOMIR   Reds and Nazis Battling to — “A Standstill

TANK BATTLE CONTINUES IN KIEV SALIENT   Germans Strive Fatilely To Lay Open Flank cf Red Army

Russians Fight Massed Nazi Armored Forces  German Tank Losses Are   German Tank Losses Are  Near 500 Mark

TANK BATTLE RAGES ON UKRAINIAN PLAIN; NAZIS’ ORIVE COSTLY   Russians Brace In Kiev Salient After Third Withdrawal; Germans Fought To Standstill, Moscow Reports

BIGGEST ARMORED BATTLE S RAGING   Massed German Forces Try to Break Open Flank of Reds Near Kiev.

heads netire  From City for Third Time   However, Russians Say That Their Lines Are Intact

39,0006 Germans Are Slain   Ukrainian Army Holding Germans After Withdrawal

Enemy Tanks Fail to Crack  Russian Lines   Armored Forces Still Locked in 10-Day Test of Power

RUSSIAN FORCES HOLDING FIRMLY IN KIEV SALIENT   Massed German Armored Units Are Unable to Breach Red Line

NAZIS FAIL TO DENT RED ARMY LINE   Big Armored Battle Enters 10th Day - In Kiev Sector

INITIATIVE TO BE DECIDED IN MAJOR ACTION   Germans Trying, So Far Unsue cessfully, to Lay Open South Flank of Red Force

RUMANIAN OIL CENTER GIVEN 300-TON BLAS}   'U. S. Liberators Fly 2,400 Mile Trip to Bomb Refineries at Ploesti

LIBERATOR BOMBERS BLASTED RUMANIAN OIL FIELD SECTOR   LOW LEVEL BLASTING _ REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN VERY DESTRUCTIVE

U.S. BOMBS HIT AXIS OIL FIELD   Rumanian Fuel Center Blasted by375 Liberators in Blow Costly to Enemy.

Rumanian Oil Fields Ablaze  Left in ‘Mass of Fire’ By Huge Bombers

175 LIBERATORS FLEW 2400 MILES TO MAKE ATTACK   The Ploesti Oil Fields in Rumania Raided by U. S. Flyers.   /FROM THE 9th AIRDROME   This Field Is One of the Chief Sources of Axis Fuel Supply.

Liberators Leave  Oil Field Afire   175 American Bombers Dump 300 Tons of Ex plosives on Rumanian Oil Field from Low Levels, Leaving Axis Oil Supply in Flames

Dump 300 Tons On Oil Field   20 Liberators Reported Shot Down -—— Some Have Not Returned

U. §. Air Fleet Hits Rumaniar Oil Fields   ‘Biggest Low Level Raid’ Made On Axis Fuel Supply Area

U.S. LIBERATORS BOMB PLOESTI OIL FIELDS      Chief Source Of Axis Fuel Supply In Rumania

Yanks Bomb Rumanian Oil Fields In Spectacular Low Level Raid * -

Rumanian Oil Fields Raided  By Liberators   U. 8S. Air Armada Hits Axis Fuel Supply Source In Biggest Attack Yet.  ot oA Kis Pl -ANES DOWN

175 U. S. Liberators Blast Ploeti Oil. FieldsIn' Low Level Attack   Greatest Low Level Mass Raid On Record Made Against Chief Source Of Axis Fuel Supply In Rumania.

175 BOMBERS HIT RUMANIAN OIL CENTER   Sevén Ploesti Refineries y Blasted in Greatest Low Level Mass Attack in History—Course of War Affected.

FIELDS HIT BY U.S. BOMBERS   Efforts Being Made to Destroy Source of Gaso line Supply of Nazis’

2,400-Mile Trip  Climaxed By Vast Low-Level Attack; Fuel Left Burning

Rumania Oil Kields Bombed   Yanks Lose 20 Planes In Daring, Mass Assault

Force Of 175 American Bombers Raise Havoc  In Ruamanian Oil Fields

Ploesti Oil Area Bombed   U. S. Liberators Fly 2,400 Miles to Dump 300 Tons   Speeding _ Evacuation of All NonEssential People

Axis Oil Supply Gets Severe Jolt   karge Fleet of Liberator Bombers Stage Daring Raid on Ploesti

CHIEF SOURCE OF AXIS OIL IS BOMBARDED   Armada of American Liberaturs Sets Record For 2,400-Mile Low-Level Bombina   TWENTY FAIL TO RETURN

Raid On Nazis’ Rumanian Oil Fields May Materially Affect War’s Course

Rumanian Oil  Fields Blasted   U. S. Fliers Bomb Refineries From Smoke Stack Height

WAR'S COURSE MAY CHANGE DUE TO RAID   U. S. Armada Of 175 Bombers Dump 300 Tons On Nazi Oil Supply Source

175 Bombers Raid Hitler's Fuel Supply   American Attack on the Ploesti Oil Fields One of Risceact in History   LOW LEVEL.ASSAULT = VERY EFFECTIVE   20 Liberators and 51 of the Enemy’s Planes Are Reported Lost

U.S. AIRMEN HIT AXIS OIL FIELDS TN RUMANIA   Ploesti Plants Flattened by Huge Bombs and Fires Started in Dering Daylight Raid Over Weekend.

Liberators Plaster Ploesti Oil Field;  Berlin Fears Raids   ‘Bombers Fly 2,400 Miles To Pound  Rimanian Field

OIL FIELDS BLASTED IN HEAVY RAID   Liberator Armada Flies 2,400 Miles To Attack Targets

VITAL RUMANIAN OIL FIELDS HIT BY YANK CRAFT   2400-Mile Raid Carried Out By 175 Liberators

175 Liberators Blast Ploesti, Set Oil Ablaze   Greatest Of Low Level Attacks Ever Made Highly Effective   ‘CUTS NAZI SUPPLIES   Field Furnishes Nazis With Third Of Their Oil Requirements

U.S. AIRMEN BLAST PLOESTI OIL REFINERIES   175 Liberators Atiack at SmokeStack Height in Biggest Low Level ‘Altack Yet Made   DESTROY TARGETS   Cairo Force Makes 2,400-Mile Round Trip to Rumania io Hit Main Axis Oil Supply

OVER 20 PLANES FAIL 10 RETURN RUMANIAN RAIL      Middle East Communique Says 20 Liberators Shot Down Over Target Area and Number of Others Have Not Returned To ' Base.

175 Liberator Bombers Blast Rumania’s Oil Greatest Low Level Mass  Raid Hits Ploesti; 20  Shot Down, Others

AXIS FUEL SUPPLY . SOURCE POUNDED FROM LAW LEVEL   Aviators Take 175 Liberators on 2400-Mile Trip, Unload Tons of Bombs In Pioesti Area.   AXIS GETS THIRD OF FUEL FROM TERRITOR\   20 U. S. Crafts Shot Down In Target Area; Number of Others Have Not Re ‘turned to Base.

Lc guardia Tipped Off. Off New Yorkers By Warning Them Against Walking

LYLE RUBUSH  WAS MULE  BVA TRNA   Sharpsville ‘Man Struck by _ Nickel Plate Early ‘Sunday.    BODY BADLY MANGLED   Funeral Services at ‘Warner Funeral Home’ Tuesday: _- Morning, © ~*:.

LYLE RUBUSH WAS KILLED BUA TRAN   Sharpsville Man Struck by Nickel Plate Early Sunday.   BODY BADLY MANGLED   Funeral Services at Warner Funeral Home Tuesday Morning. :

JAPS CRIPPLED IN BURMA PUSE   Manistique Photo Officer Reports On Damage Done By Bombers

Nippons in Burma Struck Hard Blow  Successful Defense Made Impossible

Hospital receives first  Tat in        1 be. Peer a) BUHL © AUALIC

PANAMA CEDED U.S. TERRITORY   Real Estate Holdings Turned Over; Old Debt Liquidated

SENATE. APPROVES PANAMANIAN AID      dl te House Gets Measure Ceding U. S. Holdings "There to Country

U.S. Property In PanamalsCeded   Final Action Now ‘Up To President

PANAMA CEDED U. §. HOLDINGS   Bill Sent To President Turning Over Large Properties

Nve Motion Shouted Down Senate Approves Bill Ceding To Panama U.S. Holdings There

SENATE VOTES PANAMA BILL   Measure Ceding U. S. Hold. ings is Sent to White House

Badoglio Says - Ttalians Loyal   People, Army Are Stil Rotthfiul to Kine

TREATY WITH CHINA WAS SIGNED TODAY   U.S. Abolishes Extraterritor. ial Rights After 700  VYpare.

RIGHTS IN CHINA YIELDED BY U. §   Treaty Signed Monday At State Dep’t.

Hull Signs Treaty Abolishing U. 5. Extraterritorial Rights in China

U. S. Signs Pact Giving Up Extra Rights In China   ‘All: special. territorial privileges - given / up; Britain. takes - similar action. =

U. S. RELINQUISHES RIGHTS IN CHINA   Treaty Abolishes 100-YearOld Extraterritorial Cliatms

U.S. EXPLAINS QUESTIONS ON -AB-HOUR WEEK   Steps Taken by Manpower Commissioner on  New Work Order

Americans Can Be Proud Of What Has Happened Since Japanese Sneak Attack Against U.S. Two Years Ago

TEMPERATURES:   War Anniversary Finds © Allied Victory Certair   Everywhere The Enemy Is’ On The Defensive With Their Armies In Retreat; America Accomplishes ‘Epic’ Achievement

ANNIVERSARY OF PEARL HARBOR BRINGS RECAPITULATION OF VAST CAINS MADE BY THE ALLIED FORCES   Led by Presidential Opposition to Any Move t Celebrate Day of Sneak Jap Attack, America Summarizes Efforts To Defeat the Nipponese

Victory Sure 2 Years After Pearl Harbor   Nation Can Look Back to ‘Day of Infamy'—Proud of Vast Gains Since

Anniversary Of Sneak Attack   TWO YEARS AFTER JAP ATTACK SEES MANY CHANGES

U.S. HasGone Far In Two  ‘Years Of War East And West   No Nation In History Has Ever Raised Such A Military Force In So Shart A Time

Dec. 7 Today Finds Cause For Pride In 2-Year Achievement   Since “Day of Infamy” We Have Rewon Offensive, Built Mightiest Air Force, Navy in World Today

2 Years Sees Miracle Take Place in War   Enemies Checked in Onward March and Now Facing Defeat

DAY OF INFAMY BRINGS CAUSE FORU. S. PRIDE   Nation Has Made Great Advances Since Dec. 7 Two Years Ago

Anniversary. Brings Pride In U. S. Might   Miracles Have. Been Performed -In.the Two Years. -Since Pearl Harbo!

Pride Comes To Nation On Infamy Day   Country Surpasses All Records In Rising To War Needs; Armed Forces Mount

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By Joseph Auslander   F. D. R. Wants No Celebration Of ‘‘Day Of Infamy”’....  United States Can Be Proud Of Record In Two Years Since Pearl Harbor Blow

Day of Infamy Brings Americans Cause for Pride: U.S. Surpasses All Records in Rising to Needs of War

Surpasses - All Records For Rising to War Needs After Attack On Pearl Harbor

Day Of Infamy Brings Cause For Pride: U. S. Surpasses All Records   President, In Vetoing Resolution To Commemorate This Day, Calls It One Of Infamy On Part.  Of Treacherous Fnemv.

‘Day Of Infamy’ Stirs Pride In  Accomplishment   All Records Surpassed By U. S. In Rising To War Needs.

A Cause For Pride Today   U. S. Has Assembled Greatest Military - Force in History Since Dec. 7, 1941

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK MADE TWO YEARS AGO   No Reminder For United States Is Needed

U. S. Achieves Record. In Raising Great Military Force In Short Time Since Jap Pearl Harbor Attack

‘U.S. HAS WORKED MIRACLES IN TWO YEARS   ANNIVERC ARV OF ‘DAY OF INFAMY’? FINDS NATION SCTROANCER THAN FVER REFORE

Pacific Drive To Be Enlarged   Bloodiest Campaian Of War Predicted

BLOODY PACIFIC CAMPAIGN LOOMS   INDICATIONS POINT TO DRIVE ON VAST FRONT TO CLEAN OUT ISLANDS.

Bloody Campaign Believed Imminent   World’s Longest Warfront Set For Action With Japs Well Entrenched Over Big Area

Not Drunk, Ex-Sheriff Tells Court   Hale Lost Memory For Week, Says In QOuster Answer

SAYS HE WAS: SICK   Sheriff George Hale o Wichita Denies He Was Drunk in Ottawa

Union Regulatory Bill Is Passed In Texas House  Final Vote Delayed; Heuted Debate Is Feature of Action

Labor Bill Near Final Passage   ~ Union Regulation.  ‘In Texas Set Up

Alert Woman Outwits Nazi   Legion Auxiliary Head’s Quickness Leads to Capture

Seek Motive In Shooting   "Teen-Age Expectant Mother Killed; Uncle Then Commits Suicide

SHOOTS NIECE, THEN HIMSELF   Police Seek Motive For Murder Of Young Expectant Mother.

Killing Of 2 Is A Mystery   Young Expectant Mother Slain, Unele Suicide

POWERFUL RED THRUST ACROSS MIDDLE DONETS   Retake Points . ‘Lost in 1941

New Russ Drive Told by Berlin   Artillery, Infantry Open Donets Attack

Mrs. Amos Dies of Brief Illness af Family Home Here  Came to the United ‘States From Scotland WhenaChild ~

Mrs. Helen M. Amo: Dies at Home Here  Following Stroke  Well Known Church Worker Had Been Ill for Short Time

Rickenbacker Assails Greed, States ‘War Could Be Lost by Too Much Money-Grubbing and Politics

qiy      BANIVI,   Rickenbacker Says Money And Political Angle In War Can Mean Defeat For Allies

Prison For Rationing Violator   Capital Filling Station Man Is Also Fined $2,000

hemember Pearl Harbor! FR  BERBREBRR   Must License Car By April First--Aud No Fooling

RUSSIA GAINS AT OREL, NAZI LOSSES HEAVY   Reds captured much war material and 100 Germans slain

Russians Make Some New Gains   Germans Ousted From Strategic Positions In Orel Sector Says Moscow   GERMANS MOVING UP REINFORCEMENTS

TOP MILITARY LEADERS LAND   General Chennault And Stilwell Will Meet With Marshall.

Higher Ceiling Is Sought For Dairy Products   Industry Representatives  _ Should Be Heard, Says   Agriculture Committee Of U. S. Senate

Increased Selling ~ Prices on Product ~ of Dairy Demanded   Senate Sub - Committee  Reports Many Farmers Are Forced Out

Boost In Dairy Prices Sought  Call For Increase In Ceiling Prices

SENATORS URGE INCREASES IN MILK CEILINGS   Charge Officials Show “Apparent Lack Familiarity with Industry in Freezing Prices

PRICE RAISE FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS ASKED BY SOLONS   Wholesale Slaughter of Milk - Cows Threatening Output, Congressmen Say

Increase in Dairy Prices Requested  Senators Investigate Slaughter of Cattle

Solons Demand Prompt Increase In Dairy Food Prices To Level High Enough To Avert Shortages

CONTINUE SEARCH FOR MISSING FLIER   Ex-Syracuse Grid Star Lost After Plane Burns, Crashes into: Saginaw Rav

Franco Begs For Immediate Peace   Proposes Allies,  Axis Cease Firing

FRANCO SEEKS WORLD PEACE   Says Communism Bent on Destroying European Civilization

Distributors of Milk Curtailed   Costs Must Be Cut, Says Wickard—Details of Milk Pro gram Out Soon

MANY MINERS HEED BACK TO ‘WORK APPEAL   Decide to End Strike “AS WPB Warns War Effort Periled

Striking Miners Drift Back to Coal Pits   WPB Warns War Production Will Be Curtailed Seriously By Additional Shutdown of Plants

Several Hundred Of 35,00 Idle ; Miner: Retur  on saders ta Dec ide Ta Resum Wor!

‘Some of Idle. Coal Miners to Resume Jobs  WLB Says Walkout: May Close

Mine Strikes Called Peril To War Front   Planis Already Feeling Shortage of Fuel,  teegeean

W LB Expresses Deep Concern Qver Coal Strikes In Nation   Hundreds of Miners, Heeding Pleas of Union Leaders, Decide to Return to Pits——Situation Called Serious

Some Miners Decide to Go Back to Jobs   WPB Issues Warning To Strikers; Rail  Unions to Take Vote

Nazi Army Chief Moves Headquarters . From Russia to Western Germany

NAZI ARMY HEAD MOVES FROM RUSSIA   Goes to Western Germany to Lead Defense Measures

HIGHEST NAZI  GENERAL MOVED   —Y— Leaves Russian Battle to Help Fortify Reich

FIVE MAN BOARD ~ TAKES UP DUTIES   Henry Grimjes Elected Chairman—Animal  Claims Allowed

215 Baltimoreans Cited by Police as Pleasure Drivers   Being Summoned: to Hearings to Determine Whether  Rationing Books Should Be Revoked; 35% Found  ; Before Theatres, 30% Bowling Alleys, 30%   Night Clubs; Others In “Lovers’ Lanes”

Report Martinique Commissioner Requests America Name Envoy; - May Mean Alignment With Allies

ADMIRAL ROBERT READY TO SEVER TIES TO VICHY   Martinique Gov’t Head Asks U. S. To Pick Envoy

Robert Ready To Cut Ties With Vichy   Talk Terms With United States

MARTINIQUE HIGH CHIEF ASKS U. S. TO NAME ‘TERMS’   BROADCAST SAYS ADMIRAL ROBERT REQUESTS ENVOY

ROBERT SEEKS TERMS FROMU,S.   Change in Authority on Martinique Suggested

MARTINIQUE ASKS FOR U.S. ENVOY   Admiral Robert Reported to Have Invited U. S. To Name Envoy To Fix Terms For Chance of French Authority.

STEPS TAKEN BY MARTINIQUE TO JOIN ALLIES   U.S. Asked to Name Envoy “To Fix Terms For Change of French Authority”   MOVE CONDITIONED   Seeks Renewal of Guarantee to Maintain French Sovercignty and NenIntervention

Robert Asks U.S. Action   Seeks Deal With U. S. For Martinique Rule

PACT PROPOSED BY MARTINIQUE   Commissioner Su ggests Terms Be Fixed For Chanae In'Authority

Request Terms On Martinique   Ask For U. S. Envoy To Arrange Change Of French Authority.

MARTINIQUE LEADER READY TO QUIT POST   Asks U. S. Envoy to Fix Terms— Wants No American Troops Sent to Island.

Admiral Robert Of Martinique . Requests Envoy   Desires To Fix Terms For Change of Authority On Island, Radio Says

Martinique Seeks Terms With U.S  Robert May Sever Tie: With Vichy

Hear Martinique Asks “Terms”   Broadcast Says Robert Seeks to “Avoid Bloodshed”

Vichy Dominated Martinique Moves  To Join Allies   MacArthur Heads Farflung Attack By Sea, Air, Land   Asks U. S. to Fix Term: For Change of French Authority on Island   ec were ee Se VY ewe Se a) we  Messina Strait Route To Italy Being Opened ; Germany Bombed Again   Allies Occupy Island Groups Of New Guinea, Land Near Japan’ Strong Base of Salamaua

AOBERT INVITES U5 FANVOY TO ISLAND   See Move as Step Bringing Martinique in Allied Camp After Vichy Tieup

Ask Terms For Change of Rule  _Martinique Official Messages U. S.

ROBERT YIELDS AT MARTINIQUI   Vichy Chief Asks U. 8S. To Send Envoy And Avoid Bloodshed

Martinique Leader Asks U.S. To Fix Its Policy   Uncle Sam Askec To Name Envoy Acceptable

‘Martinique Chief Asks Meeting With U.S. te Plan a Change of Authority .

Martinique Plans To Cut Vichy Ties   Adm. Robert Reported [To Have Asked for ~-Yeans

TERMS ASKED BY LEADER OF FRENCH ISLE   May Bring Martinique Into War On Allied Side

MARTINIQUE CHIEF CALLS U. $. ENVOY   Terms for Change ir French Authority to be Fixed

DESERTIONS OF SAILORS SERIOUS   Knox Says Action May Immobilize French Ships jn American Ports

800,000 Frenchmen Are Estimated Sent To Germany For Forced Labor

FRENCH GET COPY GF ViCHY CABINET MEETING MINUTES   Lava] Reports 800,000 Now Working For Nazis— To Send 250,000 More

Mercury Drops To 21 Degrees  Colder Weather Duwd otto , eee oe   By The Associated Press

BAN PLEASURE RIDES IN EAST   Only “Essential” Driving Permitted In 17 States; Fuel Oil Bations For Non-Residences Cut

Office Of Price Administration ‘Moves To Meet Eastern Oil Crisis

Pleasure Riding In _ Autos Is Outlawed   Non-Essential. Driving of Any Character Outlawed—Fue! Oil Rations For Non-Residential Buildings Slashed 25% — Punishment For Violators . .

PLEASURE RIDES ENDED IN EAST   art-Time Closing of Amusements, Stores in Prospect

MILLIONS IN EAST ENJOY THEIR LAST LEGAL AUTO RIDES   Motorists Ready to Put Up Their Cars--Ruling Hits Business In States.

CLOSED PUBLIC BUILDINGSINT7 STATES LOOMS   Fuel and Gas Shortage Caused New Moves  In Eastern Area

RATIONS FOR FUEL OIL ARE ALSO SLASHED   Millions of Motorists Take Last Legal Ride as OPA Order Takes Hold.

Easterners Take Last Legal Pleasure Ride   Stringent Order Put Into Effect By Leon Henderson

Non-EssentialDriving Ban Starts At Noon   Guilty Drivers Will Lose Coupons, OPA Administrator Warns

EASTERNERS END DRIVING FOR PLEASURE   Non-Residential Bldgs. Also Ger Fue] Oil Slash —

NON-RESIDENTIAL FUEL OWL SLASHED 25 PER CENT MORE   All Pleasure and Non-essential Driving Also OutJawed, at Least for Pres og

DRIVE-FOR-FUN BAN IN EFFECT AT NOON TODA)   Movies, Sports, Races Fall Under OPA Ruling   CHURCH, SHOPPING AND DOCTOR TRIPS OKAYED

Primo Cc arnera Is Said To Be Slated To Face German Firing Squad

Newsman Gives Eyewitness Story of Air-Sea Battle Which Was So Disastrous to Japanese   Rv FRANCIS L. McCARTHY

WRITER REVEALS SMASHING U. S. RABAUL RAID SHATTERING BLOW   e  HERE’S EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF POWERFUL CARRIER FORCE BLOW AT KEY PACIFIC HUB

Air, Land, Sea Units Engaged First Great Test  Of Summer Is Seen Near —

Tempo Of War ‘On Eastern Front Increases   First Great Test Of Summer Months Believed Near

Nazis Report Ferocious  Red Aitacks   Both Sides Hint First Test of Summer Drive Nery:

Largest Raid Of War Hits Wake Island   Mass Bomber Attack Wrecks Jap Installations; All Bombers Return

Jap Defend Suffer Heavy” Losses in Raid   Thrilling. Story Of Attack Told By Correspondent

Installations Torn Apart, Towering Fires Are Seen   Only Two Japanese Planes Get In Air As Sky Giants Strike Islands In Dark

Army Bombers Raid Wake Island   JAP BASES ATTACKED BY U. S. PLANES TODAY

tanks Stage Pulverizing Raid on Wake _ Island; Possibly Half of Japs Are Killed      By OLEN W. CLEMENTS.

4 More Towns  Fall in Sicily   Yanks, Canadians Push Along North Coast

Yanks, Canadian: Capture 4 More Sicilian Towns   Vital Central Road Junction Of Lenntorte i is en

Enemy Apparently Powerless To  Stop Advance   American Spearhead Now Only 75 Miles From Messina: Troops  ’ Advance 8 Miles In One Day In Coordinat “ed. Dovetailing Ad.  vance,

Germans Lose Key Point On Sicilian Fron   Abandonment Of Nicosia Told In’ Radio Repor' From Reich; Leonforte Also Held By Allies

ALLIES SEIZE MORE TOWNS IN SICILY DRIVE   Capture of Leonforte, Vital  Central Road Junction,   Followed by Surrehder of Nicosia   BERLIN SAYS AXIS ABANDONED LATTER   American and Canadian Troops Inflicting Heavy Casualties On Retreating Enemy

Giraud Quits As French’:Co- Chief: De Gaullists In Virtual: Control

GEN, GIRAUD RESIGNS LIQUOR SHORTAGE FRENCH COMMITTEE GROWS NATION-WIDE

De G autle  oa epg 7 re fee ies      .But Giraud Remains as Chief of Armed Forees

GIRAUD QUITS, DE GAULLE IN FULL CONTROL   Communists, Unrepresented on Reerganized French Committee. Condema Hasty Action   LEBANESE DEFIANT   Vote Constitutional Reforms on As: sumption of Independence—Assembly Reconvenes

De Gaulle Wins Full Control In French Affairs   Giraud Resigns As Co-President

De Gaulle In Sole Control Of Committee   Gen. Henri Giraud Resigns as Co-President of Free French

oo eee sherman  MORE POWER SEIZED BY GEN. DE GAULLE   Gen. Giraud Left With Only  Military Leadership

GIRAUD GIVES UP LIBERATION POST   RETAINS COMMAND OF FRENCH ARMED FORCES. IN SHAKE-U:

FEPING CHANGE  i DEGAULLE FNCH COMMAND   eral Giraud Resigns As o-President But Retains ommand of French rmed Forces.

Gen. Giraud Is Ousted   Sweeping .Changes in French Committee Give DeGaulle Control

Giraud Quits In Shakeup in French Group      je Gaulle tually ir Full Control; Censure by Communists

Free French Take Control of Committee   Breach Between Civic and Military Groups Widened Further

DeGaulle Wins ‘Full Control Of French Group   Giraud Dropped From Liberation Committee Post

DE GAULLE GETS FULL CONTROL   General Giraud Resigns As. Co-President Of French Committee; Communist’s Ousted From Leadership.

DE GAULLE IS HEAD MAN NOW: GIRAUD QUITS   No Communists Or Committee In New Set-up

DE GAULLE 15 NOW IN VIRTUAL CONTROL OF FREE FRENCH  GEN, GIRAUD RESIGNS AS  CO-PRESIDENT AND OTHE} CHANGES MADE

SUDDEN JAP COUNTER-ATTACK BEATEN OFF.ON NEW GUINEA   AUSTRALIANS TUBN BACK ENEMY ATTEMPT TO RECAP\TURE STRATEGIC PORT OF FINSCBRHAFEN

CHANGE WLB RULES FOR COMMISSIONS   Industry Wide Groups Shorr of Power to Make LaborWane Decisions

Russian Columns Besieging Rostov From Two Sides   Victory At Kursk Rivals Important Triumph Of Reds At Stalingrad.

One of Principal Bastions of Nazi Winter Line Captured GERMAN DEFENSIVE  . LINE 1S IMPERILLED  Pressure on the City of Rostov Increased by  Russians .

RUSSIAN PRESSURE IS INCREASED ON  ROSTOV GATEWAY TO CAUCASUS; WHOLE NAZI LINE S IMPERILED. 4

Entire Defense Line Of Nazis Now Imperiled: _ Smashing Victory ts Second Only To

RUSSIANS TAKE KURSK ON VITAL UKRAINE FRONT   Failed To Take City In Counter Offensives A Year Ago   THREAT TO ROSTOV INCREASED BY TURN

be essure on Rostov Is "“preased as Northern Nozi Pivot Crumbles      “Reeds Report Victory Approaches - Triumph at Stalir-;vad; Kharkoy Imperilled by i uw Successes

Soviet Drive Envelops  Vital Kursk   Smashing Red Offensive Brings Victory Approaching Value of Triumph at Stalingrad

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Germans Had Held. City Since 1941.   Was Main Springboard Of Hitler Offensive _ Last Summer    Triumph Establishes  Threat to Kharkov   Reds Believed to Have Given Foe in Rostov Ultimatum

Fall of Kursk Imperils All  Defense Line   Reds Also Increase Pressure on Rostov From North and South  KOROCHA ATSO FATTS

Smashing Red Offensive Brings Victory Approaching Value of Triumph at Stalingrad

CAPTURE OF PIVOTAL CITY ENDANGERS ALL OF NAZI DEFENSE LINE   Importance of Victory is Compared To Reds’ Triumph at Stalingrad; Pressure on Kharkov Mounts

RED OFFENGWE AIMG AT HEART OF NAZI SALIENT   Gigantic Russian Drives Roll Enemy Back 22  Miles In Some Places

RUSSIANS OPEN NEW THRUST AT GERMAN LINES   Red Army Seeks To Clear Out Donets Basin; Enters Territory Held By Nazis For Two Years.

SUIT TO QUIET.   duict Title Suit Filed In Cireuit  Conrt Today.

FIND BASHED BODY OF BOY   Missing Since Yesterday Discovered Today In Backyard

QGHUOLEDY fo FOUND MURDERED   13-Year-Old Barry Rothstein Had Been Threatened, Frantic Mother Tells Police.

DECLARED ALLIED AIRMEN CARRYING ON FIGHTING TRADITION  HOUSE ADOPTION RESOLUTION TO RECESS TINTIL MAY THIRD

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Legislation Battle Goes Over to May :   House Recesses; News of Nation’s Capital Today Summarized

‘GERMAN RIVER LINE GUARDING ROME 1S IN ALLIFN HANDS   WESTERN AIR WAR CONTINUES TO GAIN NEW MOMENTUM THIS WEEK

British Take Eight Towns in New Drive   Weakening German Defense Reported; Allied Bombers Break 17-Day Lull]

British Win Eight Towns In the East   Bitter Fighting . Rages in Streets OF Melitopol,  Po... bn Mo ce

Volturno River Is Captured   U. S. and British ‘March Toward Rome Russians Continue Dnieper Battle

River 4 ; Rome Is Dominated    Eighth Army Seizes Eight More Towns Against Slackened German Resistance; Bombers Hit Islands and Harbors.

Clark's Army Wins Battle of Volturno   Fifth Siezes Entire River Line, While 8th Army Moves Forward

Allied Successes on All Fronts of World War Recorded Today   News of All Battles in Global Conflict Reported Briefly

British Win Eight Towns In the East   Bitter Fighting Rages in Streets Of Melitopol,  Gateway to Crimea

Nazi Resistance Slackens on Line Defending Rome   British Seize Eight Towns in General “Advance of  4105 Miles.   Air Forces Blast at Germans in Balkans

Eight More Towns In Italy Seized By Allied Forces   Germans Reported Entrenched 90 Miles South of Capital

5th Army Captures Volturno Area and Pushes On; Bitter Fighting in Russia; Nazis Hammered From Air

Nazi Resistance Is Slackening   British Night Bombers Pound Hannover, Berlin; Bitter Fighting Rages Along Dnieper

US. TROOPS CAPTURE FIVE   British Eighth Army Captures Two Towns i ir Drive from Adriatic Coast = 32

Capture Eight Italian Towns   Fifth Army Captures Whole Volturno River Line Advance Five Miles,

Volturno River Line Captured By Fifth Army   Eighth Army Seizes Eight Towns; Hannover, Berlin, Skoplje Bombed; Jap Landing Attempt at Finschhafen Beaten Back

Yanks Join With Brit. ish To Take-8 More  Towns BOM BERS: BUSY  Bitter Fighting Con. tinues In Russia  Todav

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS LESSENS BEFORE ALLIES   Many More Towns Falling to the Steadily Advancing American Fifth, British Eighth Army

FUND REACHES $4.691   Money Will Be Available to Buy Shoes and Other Equipment

TE CONSIDERING. _ SUBSIY SAFE CHADN   Payments. Up to to $525, 000, 000 My Be Authorized

SENATOR GIVES UP FIGHT ON PRICE SUBSIDY   Expected To Approve Administration Plan Before Nightfall

Says Subsidy Fight Now Won by FDR   Opponents Concentrate 0) Preventing Payments fron Harming ‘Producer

Denison Man Dies Tuesday In Car Upset   Pfc. Herman Speck, 28, Was Home on Furlough From Seattle, Wash.

ORDER BENEFITS FEW OHIO DADS   Selective Ser vice Director Explains Directive

Naples Is City Of Filth And Thirst, Scientifically Paralyzed By Germans

State Health Board to Map Fight Against Infantile Paralysis   No Epidemic in New Mexico Yet, Dut More Cases Reported, Dr. Scott Says

Allies Bag 23 Jap  Planes Over Lae   MacArthur's Airmen Score Another Win

Allied Airmen Down 23 Japs   Second Air Victory In Two. Days Gained Without Loss

23 JAP PLANES BAGGED BY YANKS   AMERICAN AIRMEN EMERGE FROM BATTLE OVER LAE — WITHOUT A LOSS.

23 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED BY ALLIES      Attacks Made Over Lae by American Forcee

U.S. Flyers Bag 23 Japanese Pursuit Planes   American Losses Light In Big-Scale Fight  Over Lae, Salamaua KOEPANG HAMMERED  Drive on Enemy Bases In Pacific Believed Getting Under Way

U, S. Airmen Win Second Victory Over Japanese  Ameriéan Planes Get Probable Total of 23 Nioponese Zeros

Americans Report, Great Victory In Pacific Zone  U. S. Fliers Defeat  Force of Japs Twice Their Size

23 JAPANESE PLANES BAGGED BY AMERICANS   Only 13 Of Attacking Aircraft Survive After Raid On Lae Is Repuised By Lightnings

AMERICANS BAG 23 JAP PLANES   Second Victory In Two Days Smashes Raid Of 36 Nipponese Ships At Lae

ALLIES ATTACK RABAUL AIRBASE   Nipponese Planes Are Destroved; Great Fires Started

Allied Bombers Attack Rabaul   Fire Visible Over 100 Miles Started: Other Bases Raided

Allies Destroy 25 Jap Planes   Nip Fliers Sink One Ship in Raid on Oro Bay Off New Guinea

100 Japanese Planes Attack Allied Forces.   American And British Fight Back Without Aerial Assistance   BATTLE ON GROUND   Weather Hampers U. S. Drive To Clear Foe From Attu Istand

Japs Hurl 100 Planes Against §. Pacific Troops   Raiders Strike at U. S.-Australian Island Positions

100 Jap Planes Pound Allies  In New Guinea   Enemy Launches Sharp Ground Attack  In Salamaua Area

ALLIES ABSORB JAP AIR DRIVE   Enemy Hurls Heavy Dive Bomber Blow Against New Guinea

JAP PLANES BOMB. ALLIED SOLDIERS   TRUUPS WITHUUT AIR PROTECTION AS ENEMY BLASTS NEW GUINEA POSITIONS.

Japs Launch Major Air War in Pacific  Owar 111 Diaeneac   Over 100 Planes Sent Against Allied Targets

Lack Details Of Battle On Attu Island   Japanese Propaganda Machine Prepares People For Loss Of Base.   EXPECT OTHER ACTION

100 Jap Planes Hit New Guinea   Ground Fight Sways; Japs Reinforced

Allied High Command For The invasion Of Europe Practically Completed With: Selection Two Britons; is Veteran Staff

HIGH COMMAND  NEARLY READ)   Appointments Virtually Complete Leaders Under Eisenhower   NAVY LEADER NAMED

OVERALL COMMAND ALLIED INVASION ALMOST COMPLETED  TWO BRITONS NAMED TC COMMAND AIR AND

Asks Role for France   LEADER DEMANDS PART FOR NATION IN PACTS OF WORLD SETTLEMENT

French Seek Part In Talks   DeGaulle Declares Approval Of France Needed On Any Settlement.

Reds Threaten White Russia   Swift Advance Constitutes Potential Threat To Ger man-Held Poland.

Rudnya Falls As Reds Push Nearer Border   Advance Is Threat To Germ n-Held Poland. Riaa

Red Army Less Than 10 Miles From Northern Borders Of White Russia   Rapidly Advancing

Soviels Take Rudnya, Push On  To White Russia   German-Held Poland Threatened Now; Stand On_ Banks At Kiev

RED ARMY ADVANCING IN NORTH   Increasing Threat To Nazi-Held Pofiand ‘And Baltic States

REDS CAPTURE RUDNYA, SHELL CLIFFS OF KIEV   Plunge Ahead Toward Norihern Border of White Russia, Now Less Than 10 Miles Away   DRIVE FOR VITEBSK   Red Forces Occupy All Suburbs: of Kiev on East Bank, Threaten Citadel from Flanks

Russian Advance Poses Threat To Hitler In Poland   Soviets Plunging Ahead Toward White Russia; Kremenchug Taken Along With Many Small Towns

Red Army Less Than 10 Miles From Northern Borders Of White Russia

ALLIED AIRMEN BATTER PANTELLERIA AFTER ISLE REJECTS SURRENDER DEMAND

Big Increases In Taxes Seen   Sec. Morgenthau Wants Ten Billion More

DRAFT DODGER TOTAL IS LOW   Evasion Is Below Last War Although More Men Called

Osteopathic Bill Reaches House Floor  Bill. Reported Out Without Advice  Dh, Pa Re

OSTEOPATHIC BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE   Is — to the One Which  Controversy  in 194]   IMPORTANT BILLS UP

OSTEOPATHIC BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE   Is Similar to the One Which used Controversy -m 194]

Osteopathic Fight Looms   New Bill Similar To One That Caused Turmoil In 1941

 MAAR AAA AAAAAAAAAAAARAAS Siamese Twins Are Born at Beaumont To Nearo Couple

SEES QUISLING      Mitler Also to Cal In Heads of  Other Puppet State.

Russians Ask Second Front   Soviet Paper Says It Would be Key to Victory in 1943

RUSSIANS CLAIM WAR AT TURNING POINT   Predicts Fal] of Nazis in "43 If Allies Open Second Front

Situation Improved As Tank Spearhead Bogs Down In Heavy Fighting

Fighting for Pass Continues Bitterly   Aircraft Plays Vital Part In Stemming German Three-Pronved Tank Assaults

Nazi Attacks * Repulsed With Heavy Losse:   U.S. Tebessa Base And Strategic Pass Still Under Threat

ASSEMBLY 10 STUDY PENSION   GROUP TO PROPOSE $50 A MONTH, KIN CHANGE

Nazi Head In Tunisia Said Fired   British Forces Capture Town Near Mateur

Nazi General Changed?   Shakeup in German Tunisia Cammand Reported

Gen. Nehring . Said Ousted From  Tunisian Post   Gen. Von Arnim Is New Axis Chief iu  Africa, Renanrl Saves

Snowless Cold Weather Next   But Temperature Change In Kansas Will Be Slight

NO LETUP IN COLD   Weatherman Sees No Snow for This Section of Kansas

Fugitive Pair Is Nabbed At Trair Two Had Escaped Fron House Of Correction

Convoys Unload Thousands Of U.S. Troops, Tons of . Equipment for Grand Attack

U.S. Pours Great Army Into England   “Vichy Radio Says_ Gen. Fisenhower Already im London

Claim}Plans For Second Front Are In Full Swing   Radio Vichy Says Eisenhower Will Command Invasion Parcre

Allies Get Ready for Invasion   Trains in England Are Taken Over

Vichy Reports Shift To English Post As Secend Front Forces Gathering

Report Second Front Preparations In Full Swing Throughout England

Preparations for Western Europe Invasion Reported in Full Swing, Eisenhower Believed in England

Second Frent May Onen Very Soon   Much Preparation Seen; Eisenhower Mav be in Eneland

SECOND FRONT PREPARATIONS IN FULL SWINE   Troops, Supplies Being Moved To Base Points ~ For Invasion

On Germany Comes First   China’s Fight Believed Given Lov Priority. Ankara Repoils Second Mecling Slated for Tabriz

Crushing Reich Given Priority  On Allied List   Burma Road Reopening Promised to China As BFarly Fffapt

European War Has First Priorities   Generalissimo Chiang Assured Burma Road Will Be Reonened Before Japanese Conauest

China Promised  More Aid, Report   Chiang Kai-shek Back in Chungking

War on German Given Priority   Reopening of Burma Road Pledged China

All-Out Drive To Crush Nazis  Given Priority   End of European War Said Prime Topic of  FD, Churchill, Stalin: To Open Burma Road

“TORCH SLAYER” IS FOUND DEAD NEAR HOME AT INDIANA      24-Hour Search For WifeSlayer Ends — Case Is Listed As MurderQRassciela

ALLIES ADVANCE ON NEW GUINEA   SITUATION OF ENEMY HOLDING OUT AT SANANADA REGARDED AS HOPELESS.

ALLIED GROUND FORCE REDUCES JAPS IN PAPUA   Gains Made On Remnants Of Once Large Sector In New Guinea;  Lae Bombed   Timor Is Attacked

Japs Give Ground In Sanananda Area   Only Fragment of Former Enemy Army Holding  S Qt Thoren

May Boost Tax Levy on War Profits   Proposal Taken Up By Sen ate Group Considering New Tax Bill

RUSSIANS NEAR VITAL BRYANSK KIEV RAILWAY   90 MORE VILLAGES RETAKEN FROM GERMANS

Mrs. Thomas Kearns Dies In Hospital on Coast   ‘Succumbs in San Francisco After Undergoing, Major. Surgery.;--Noted for Charitable Activities:

Conaress To Pay Close Aftention lo War Expense  Favor Suggestion Of Having Experts Check

ECONOMY-MINDED CONGRESS TO KEEP EYE ON GOVERNMENT’S PURSE STRINGS

Nazi Offer Of Armistice To  Reds In Open   Budapest Dispatch Says Peace Plan Tendered To Russia In June Of 1049

Russian Armored Units Break Through German Defense Fortifications In Pronya Drive

Red-Nazi  Peace Rumored   DISPATCH BARES REPORTS THAT GERMANY OFFERED RUSS 1942 ARMISTICE

FOE OTIRG NEW RUSSIAN STORY   Germans Circulate ‘Denials Of Separate Peace With Reds.

REPORTS OF GERMAN  AND RUSSIAN PEACE  PLAN BROUGHT UP RUSSIA EXPECTED TO  TAKE SURPRISING NEW POLITICAL MEASURES

RUMORS OF NAZI PEAGE BIDS TG REDS REVIVED   Budapest Dispatch Brings Into Open Reports of Axis Origin Berlin's Offer ts Moscow

Attack On Gilbert Islands Strikes At Sinews Of Jap Power In Pacific

Rainfall Slacks Off   Streams Near Crest And No More Rain Is Expected For Awhile

FLOOD NEAR CREST   Several Highways in the Coffeyville Vicinity Are  ~ Closed

Italy Rocks Under New Air Attacks   Raids on Foggia and Tar. anto by Hundreds of Allied Bombers ;

Mussolini Reported Res cued From Kealians. By Enemy Paratroopers, 

NAVY SECRETARY. DECLARES U-BOATS WILL ALWAYS RE-. MAIN A MAJOR PROBLEM ~ DURING WAR

WALLACE SPOKE SUN. IN DETROIT   _ Says Certain ’ Groups Trying to ; Undo Gains of: éLast 10 Years

SOVIETS HOLD POSITIONS IN DONETS BASIN   Steady gains are scored by Russians in drive along Central front

LIQUOR SALES. STOPPED TODAY   STATE STORES STOPPED SELLING IN MID-AFTERNOON PENDING THE RATION SYSTEM.

ADVANCING ALLIED FORGES IN ITALY TAKE SANTO STEFAN   EXTENSIVE DEMOLITIONS AND RUGGED TERRAIN SLOWS ADVANCE

British And Canadians Cut Salient 10 Mi. Inland   3,000 Prisoners Have Been Taken; 10-Mile Coastal Stretch New In Allied Hands

Allies Push Along Coast Road in Italy   Cut Salient 10 Miles Inland to Santo Ste’ D‘Aspronte, All’ Headquarterr 0.

INVADERS WIDEN GAINS IN SWEEP 10 MILES INLAND   British-Canadian Troops Adyance in Mountainous Arco of Italian Toe

Resistance Slight; Take Prisoners   Extensive Bombing Raids Reported on European Objectives Today

Invaders Drive Inland And Take 3,00 Prisoners   Demolitions Fail To Check Advance Of Eighth Army

3,000 Prisoners Taken: Salient Strikes Inland    Invaders Capture Santo Stefani In Thrust To Interior; Gain On Coast

BRITISH ADVANCE 16 MILES DEEP IN ITALY, TAKING SAN STEFANO   Madrid Relays Rome Report Americans Have Sailed, Heading For Naples Area, Crete Or Greece

British Eighth Army Continues To Advance Inland In Southern Italy   - Only Weak Resistance Put Up By Enemy; Planes Pound Taraets In Invasion Area

10-Mile Mountain Salient Won; 40 Miles of Coast Line Seized ‘As 3000 Prisoners Are Taken

10-Mile Salient Cut Inland Along Italian Toe Coast   Advancing British-Canadian Forces Push Slowly But Surely Forward; Capture Three Thousand Prisoners

SAN STEFANI TAKEN; ENEMY ACTION WEAK   Invading British Army) Captures 100 Railroad Cars, Locomotives

Salient 10 Miles,Long Cut Island   Advance In Italy In Spite of Very Heavy Demolitions.

Many Villages Fall To Allies  In New Gains   Capture Much Usable Railway Equipment: Bombers Return To Naples.   ITALIANS FRIENDLY

3,000 Prisoners, — Much Valuable  ‘Booty Captured   Columns Advancing Along Both Coasts Now ,Occupy.40 Miles Shoreline. Italians Continue Friendly:

INVASION FORGES PUSHING SLOWLY ALONG COAST ROAD   Cut Salient 10 Miles Inland Capturing . Booty   3,000 PRISONERS . HAVE BEEN TAKE!

Terrain Aiding Enemy, But Resistance Is Still Slight; Work Of Commandos Lauded

Opposition Is Still Scarce   Demolitions Slow Advance in Country

ALLIES MAKING STEADY GAIN ON COASTAL ROADS   3,000 Prisoners Are Taken; Resistance Is Relatively Weak

‘ADVANCING ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY TAKE SANTO STEFANO  EXTENSIVE DEMOLITIONS AND RUGGED TERRAIN

10-Mile Salient Cut Inland By British, Canadian Force:   40 Miles Of Shoreline Is Taken In Italy; _ Resistance Is Still Very Weak

Santo Stefano Falls: Enemy Retreating Fast   Official Communique States 3,000 Prisoners Taken; _ Advance Being Made in Spite of Mine Fields Left by   Fleeing Axis.   British Troops Fan Out Around Toe

LOCAL TEMPERATURE   ‘Keep Hands Off Our Baltic Republics  Reds Give Post- War Planners Broad Hint

MOSCOW nINTS CF PEALE AIMS   Suggests ‘Hands Off’ Bessarabia, Republics of The Baltic.

Keep Hands Off Baltic States, is Soviet Hint to Post-War Planners

PRAVDA MAKES REPLY TOU.S. COLUMNIST   May Give Some Idea Of What To Expect Of Stalin After Germany Is Smashed

Reds Warn Hands Off.   Official Russian News_paper Says Baltic Republics Part of Soviet

WARNED TO KEEP HAND ‘OFF SOVIET TERRITORY  Reds Say Bessarabia Part of Russia

MOSCOW'S HINT ON BESSARABIA BEING SCANNEL   Russia Wants Postwar  Planners to Keep Hands Off Area and Baltic Republics Taken by Reds   VALUE STRESSED   Pravda Editorial Criticizes American Columnist’s Suggestion Soviets  Seek Large Area -

Soviet Union Hints Strongly That Bessarabia And Baltic Countries To Be Retained After War

Keep Hands Off Bessarabia, Baltic States, Reds Hint To Peace Planners

Russia Hints Baltic States In Her Sphere   Indicates Planners Should Keep Hands Off

TRANSPORT LOSS REMOVES REAL FIGHTING SHIP   MacCawley, Former Grace Liner, Took Care of Many Jap Warplanes Before “Demise”

Navy Building ‘Attack’ Fleet  Amphibious Warfare   Amphibious Warfare Foreseen in Great Offensive Tonnage

BOOST IN NAVAL CRAFT FAVORED   21-2 Million Tons Of Auxiliary Vessels To Be Added

Navy Going Amphibious   Expansion Emphasizes Invasion Style Vessels

Navy Poinis At Invasions   Fleet Expansion Bill Reveals Plans for Amphibious Warfare

NAVY EXPANSION BILL TO HOUSE   NEW STRESS PUT ON AMPHIB10US WARFARE BY $5,000,000,000 MEASURE.

Fresh Major Pacitic Battles Believed Nea   Gigantic Aerial Clashes May Be Prelude To New Large-Scale Action   JAPS SUFFERING HUGE PLANE LOSSES

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Aiy Battle May Be Prelude To Maior Clashes in Pacific

es Urges Development  { Synthetic Liquid Fuels   Oil Now Being Consumed Three Times as Fast as New Sources Being Found, Group Told: Crude Price Hike Can Offset Loss

Strike Ties Up Transit System   Cleveland Workers Are Forced to Walk

Cleveland's Transportation System Tied Up by Strike   Soo Line Notes Gains th Traffic Revennes

Transportation In The City Of Cleveland Tied Up by Motormen’s Strike

Clevelanders Walk To Work; Strike Ties Up Mass Transportation System   Many Pull Long Idle Cars From Garages, Creating Traffic Jams; Workers Defy Order Of Top Officials. Plea Of Patterson.

TRAM STRIKE IN CLEVELAND   All Street Cars And Buses Idle In Transportation Strike

KNOT CLEVELAND UP IN BUS STRIKE   Union Votes Strike; Transit Board Breaks Off Wage Dispute Relations,

STRIKE HALTS BUS, STREET CAR SERVICE   Defense Workers Forced tc Walk to Work in Cleveland

TRIKE TIES UP CLEVELAND LINE!   Street Car And Bus Oper ators Walk Out Ir Wage Dispute

STRIKE TIES UP CITY CARRIERS   Cleveland Unionists Quit; Thousands of War Workers Walk

TROLLEY, BUS SYSTEM (DLE   AFL Strike Ties Up Mass Transportation Throughout City   MANY WAR WORKERS ‘THUMB’ THEIR WAYS   Unionists, In Walkout, Defy Order of Internanational President

Cleveland Tied Up by a Strike   Walk-Out by AFL Halts the City’s Mass Transportation System.

Strike Ties Up  Transportation  War Workers in Cleveland Thumb Rides to Jobs

BUSSES IDLE AT CLEVELAND   Strike of Conductors and Drivers, Who Collect 1,315,000 Fares Daily, Forces War Workers to Thumb Rides.

Transit Strike Hits Cleveland   Not A Trolley Or Bus Moves In Ohio City °

TROLLEYS IDLE AT CLEVELAND   Thousands Walk Or Bum Rides As Transit Workers Call Strike

Workers Walk In AFL Strike   Motorists Share Cars in‘ Cleveland Walkout

Cleveland War Workers Put On Foot As Strike Ties Up Transportation

STRIKE TIES UP BUSES, TROLLEY SYSTEM IN OHIO      Thousands of War Work. ers in Cleveland Forced: “to Thumb Rides From  Friendly Motorists.   PLANTS OPERATING   Strike, Which Keeps Al  Transportation Facilities  in Barns, Unauthorized by Union Leaders

_ LORIN Wh Sago AEE  SOVIET SNIPERS SLAY 270 NAZIS NEAR LENINGRAD

2 JAPANESE PLANES. BOMB PORT MORESBY   Sixty Nipponese Killed in Ground Fighting on New Guinea : Since May 9.

Boost In ‘A’ Gas Ration, Forecast For Local Area   Plan Being Worked Out Now To Equalize Gas From East To Rockies .

Wheat Purchasinc Plan Defended  State Department Explains Policy

Destroy German  Radio On Base  Off Greenland Weather Tips  eo oe. Ce

NAZIS ROUTED AT GREENLAND   Yanks Destroy Weather Station Off Coast

OFF COAST OF GREENLAND ON ISLAND, REVEAL   Every Indication That Germar Radio, Weather Base Was Planned for Permanent Use.

AIR, WEATHER BASE DESTROYED   Secretary Knox Reports - New Hun Loss off Greenland

Destroy Nazi Base Off Greenland   Army Air Force Planes and Coast Guard Cutters Join in Wiping Out Enemry Base on Unidentified Island

U.S. Forces Take German  ‘Weather Post   Second Nazi Ohbservatior Base in Greenland Arex To Be Occupied

‘nox Sees Plan To Send Fliers Weather News   . 8, Army Sledge Patrol Discovers Secret Site; Dane Captures German

Nazi Greenland  Radio Destroyed   ‘Permanent’ Base Is  Found, Wrecked

NAZI WEATHER, RADIO STATION IS WIPED OU1   Base In Greenland Had Been Providing Enemy With Information   INSTALLATIONS WERE WRECKED BY BOMBS

STATION OFF GREENLAND DESTROYED   Knox Announces Radio, Weather Post Smashed

NAZI NORTHERN BASE SMASHED   KNOX BARES U. S. BLOW AT GREENLAND CENTER

FIND NAZI BASE ON GREENLAND   WEATHER STATION DISCOVERED BY U. S. ARMY SLEDGE PATROL

NAZI RADIO AND WEATHER BASE RAZED   Knox Announces That the American Feat Was Accomplished on an Island Off the Coast of Greenland.

Because Texas Soldier Was Sorry For Them. Italian Kids To Have Christmas

Portland Township Couple Married  Kenneth Port Weds Carol McElhaney

AKRON YOUNG FOLKS MARRIED IN WEST   Miss Carol McElhaney And Pvt. Kenneth Port. Take Vows Dec. 20

CALL YOUNGER JAPS   Boys 15 to.17 Years Old Will Be ‘Trained as War Airmen 

BEVERAL SECTIONS ‘OF STATE '. SUFFERED HEAVY PROP‘ _ERTY LOSSES BY WIND. : * sToRMS i

Baby Lost Three Days Found Alive   ‘Boy, 18 Months Old,  Expected to Recover

Montana Child Is Lost for Three Days Without Food or Water; Is Found Safe Despite Exposure and Dangers

QUEBEC BIDS JCE STALIN 10 NEXT PARLEY   Pattern For Invasion Of Europe Is Nearly Complete: Plan Governments For Conquered Lands   Knotty Problems

STALIN INVITED TONEXT MEETING   Council Makes Plans to Govern Reconquered Lands   CONFERENCE ENDS   Leaders Say Decisions Made For Forward Movement Of Armed Forces

Russia Asked To War Meet   Government Of Lands Retaken Is Discussed

Next Meeting May Be Held Before 1944.   Pattern for Invasion Of Continental Europe Seems Near Completion  WAR COUNCIL ENDS

Invasion Pattern Nearly Complete, Parley Reveals   Soviets Likely to Get Invitation To Attend Next Conference

INDICATE RUSSIA WILL BE INVITED TO NEXT PARLEYS   Iwo Developments Give Rise to Belief Invasion of Continent Is Near at Hand.   DECIDE TO CRACK ' DOWN ON JAPANESE   More Effective Aid Will be Given China—Momentous Conference Comes to Claca

Hint Invasion Pattern Set at Quebec   —LAY PLANS FOR GOVERNING RECONQUERED EUIROPE

Stalin Asked to Next Conference   Pe OMS ae  Finland and Denmark Stirred By Moves To Step Out of War

SECOND FRONT PATTERN NOW NEARLY READY   PLAN OF INVASION MADE AT QUEBEC CONFERENCE

Plans for Government of Reconquered Areas Also Mado  SILENCE MAINTAINER.   oN ie  (ON INVASION PLANS  Decisions Made to Provide Forward Action, State ne a: keen

RUSSIA INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN NEXT PARLEY   Pattern For European Inyasion Nearly Completed At Quebec   STATEMENT DUE ON FRENCH COMMITTEE

Plans for Allied Rule  After Reconquest Made   Report of Sumner Welles’ Resignation Gets Neither iConfirmation Nor Denial

Roosevelt, Churchill Hint Invasion Plans Are Nearly Complete   Soviets Fully Informed of Decisions, Allied Leaders Declare; ‘Final Decisive Blows’ Against Japs Mapped

R  rs . q :}  To Attend Next     © e i ;  Allied Parley   Pattern of New Invasion Believed Nearly Complete

Action Soon On Invasion ls Expected   Conclusion of Quebec Conference Leaves Hint That Pattern for Attack to Relieve Nazi Pressure on Russians Ils Now Nearly Complete

Invasion pattern nearly complete; Russia given bid to next war parley

Invasion Pattern Is  Drawn At Quebec   Methods Or Governing Reconquered Areas Agreed Upon; Red Co-Operation Invited.

PLANS MADE TO GOVERN IN FREED LANDS   Quebec Conference Al. so Opens Way for Parley With Reds

Zoot Hearings To Open Today   Los Angeles Action Begins to Subside

Hearings On Rioting Sef   Zoot Suit Troubles Will Go Inte Courts

Three More . Large Army Bombers Lost    Approximately 30. Dead; Hear Reports On Lost Transport

SINGLE FOOD LEADER ASKED   ‘Republicans To Press Demane For Unified Supervision

Demand Single Supervision Over All Food  ee ee ee, . onary   Quarrel Grows Over Use of Subsidies to Roll Back Prices

AP CORRESPONDENT WOUNDED IN ACTION   Bill Boni Hit by Splinters From Shell in New Guinea

BON CASUALTY FOR THIRD TIME   AP War Writer Gets Nine Wounds from Shell Splinters

Germans Organize Anti-Nazi Group  Moscow Publishes Tis Meanifacin

Germans Organize Anti-Nazi Group  Macranur Dishliichac   Moscow Publishes Its Manifesto

GERMANS PRAY, SING AS BOMBS RAIN DOWN   Scenes in Berlin Air Raid Shelters Described by Travelers Reaching Stocvckholn.

Explosions of Time Bombs Causing Terrible Nervous Tension In Berlin; Scramble to Get Out

Nazis Halted Completely In Big Drive,  Russians Say   German Army Confined To Unimportant Gains And Wedges Exposed,  —_ Red Star Announces   INVADERS TELL DIFFERENT STORY   Claim Big Advance And Serious Losses By Defending Force:

Nazi Tanks . Hurled Back In Russia —   Hitler’s Big Drive Definitely Halted, Mi newnty dodinakoc:

Assault by 400 nazi tanks fails to budge reds at Orel-Kursk   Russians hurl disorganized masses of enemy from 2 populated nojnts

A00-TANK NAZI ASSAULT FAILS AGAINST REDS   Axis Driven From Twa Populated Places On Orel. Kursk Front   HEAVY FIGHTING IN BELGOROD SECTOR

NAZIDRIVEIS HALTED, RUSS REPORTS SAY   Nazi Attacks Be Beaten Off Midnight Communique Claims

Russians Firm Along 165-Mile Orel-Kursk Front   Moscow Reports Enemy Routed From Two Places  LOSSES RUN HIGH  Both Sides Tell Of Heavy Toll Taken In Men Materiale

Nazi lank Assaults  Broken   Russians  hrow Germans From  Two Cities

400-Tank Germar Assault Halted By Sovief Army   Mechanized Masses Thrown from Two Sectors on Orel-Kursk Front

400-TANK NAZI ATTACK FAILS INKURSK AREA   Foe Unable to Break Through on OrelBelgorod Front

Enemy Is Hit Harshly, Thrown Back   Foe's Loss Skyrockets As Soviets Beat Severe Attacks Back

Russians Put Nazis Out of Two Places   Fighting Apparently Extremely Costly for Both Sides

Chinese Close in  On Big Jap Base   Port of Sungtse Is Under Attack

Island Groups Between New Guinea And Solomons Held: Renova Landing Reported

Allies Occupy Islands Off New Guinea; Yanks  Launch Solomons Drive   MacArthur Forces Move Onto Trobriand And  Woodlark, Part Of Coast; Americans Land On Rendova To Eastward

Forces Occupy Vital Isles In Pincer Move   MacArthur Directs Land, Sea, Air Units in Sweeping Offensive; _ Aim at Rabaul, Center of Jap Force

Pincers Movement Closing On Japs   Islands Being Occupied As Combined Forces Launch Attacks On Japanese-Held Positions

WEDGE DRIVEN INTO TOKYO'S DEFENSE LINE   MacARTHUR DIRECTS SURPRISE COUP; TIMING CLICKS

Seize Trobriand, Woodlark Groups Open Land Drive   Attack Jap Forces on New Georgia Island and New Guinea   MacArthur Directing Naval, Land and Sea Forces in Battles

Landings Made On 4 Islands  In Offensive   PincersMovementAimed At Nipponese-Held Rahanlk Indieniand

CRISIS DEVELOPS  ‘ON LIBYAN FRONT   Hitler’s Spreading Russian Disasters  Accompanied panied by Flight Peril

Reds Near Kharkov While British Troops Move Up On Tripoli   \Strong Railroad City Of Kamensk, 85 Miles North Of Rostov, Recaptured Along Lower Don; German Prisoners Mounting

Germans in Critical Plight as Soviets Move Near Vital Objectives   Allied Forces in Africa Batter Axis on Desert And in Tunisia; French Camel Corps Opens Way For New Push to Sea: Tank Fights South of Tunis

Yank Bombers Hit Three Jap Supply Ships   Army Slashes Enemy Lines, Gets to Coast Near Buna Sector

U. S. Airmen Celebrate New Year By Bombing 3 Jap Supply Ships at Rabaul; Submarine Is Damaged

Yanks Sef Three Jap. Ships Afire   Nip Sub Damaged, New Wedge Driven ‘Through Buna Lines

HARD HIT IN RAIDS   Three Big Enemy Supply Ships Destroyed, Sub Damaged During Holiday.

GROUND FORCES SLASH ENEMY IN NEW GUINEA   Third Big Raid Within Week Made Upon Nipponese Base In Pacific.

Three Enemy Vessels Hit In Rabaul Sweep   Allies Drive New Wedge Through Japanese Force In Buna Area   SUBMARINE IS HI   Half Ton Bombs Carry New Year Greetings Te South Pacific Foe

Late News Bulletins   Britain’s Bie Bombers Idle for Tenth Night   New Nazi Drive on Moscow Rumored

40 to 1 Ratio of Bombers fo Reich   And British Planes Carry Bigger Loads

Hunters Will Take To Field November 10   STATE CONSERVATION HEAD SAYS WILD GAME IS PLENTIFUL

2,150,006 ACRES ARE INUNDATED   Red Cross’ First Report Says Floods Hit Five States

154,248 Persons Reported Driven Out Of Homes   Breaks Send Muddy Waters Pour Over Thousands of Acres

BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETS IN MONTHLY BUSINESS SESSION   New Ordinance On Cemetery Trust Fund Approved In Meeting Last : Evening

BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETS; TRANSACTS ROUTINE BUSINESS   Garbage Trucks, Parking, Fire Equipment Are Among Subjects Discussed .

ROUTINE. BUSINESS FEATURES MONTHLY COUNCIL MEETING   Garbage Problem Discussed —~Prevention Of Fires Big Topic — Plan  Clean-Up Week

Russian Artillery Is Pouring Shells Into Orel From Three Directions As Trap Closes In   Soviets Penetrate 30 Miles Into Nazi Rear West Of Besieged City

130 More Villages Seized By Russian Army's Drive Against Nazi Point

Siege Guns Of Soviet Blast Orel   Reds Tightening Ring of Armaments Around Nazi Fortress

Reds Tighten Hold On Orel  From 3 Sides   Powerful Column Driving To Hinskoye Captured 130 More Villages.   RUSSIAN LOSSES HEAVY

Soviets Make Attack From Three Sides   Defenders Knock Nazis Back, Scoop Up 130 More Villages

SOVIETS RETAKE 130 TOWNS, GAIN ON ALL 3 SIDES   Red Units Repel 12 German Counter-Attacks Near Orel

Moving Close To Encircle  Town of Orel   Counterattacks Are Costing Germans Very Heavy Losses

Russian Siege Guns Blast Away At Orel   Now Have Semi-Circle Drawn Around Key German Bastion

Russian Siege Guns Pounding At Nazi Bastion   Russians Tighten Their Lines Around Orel

Red Siege Guns Pound At Orel From 3 Sides   Russians Tighten Semi  Circle Around Big Ger  Re: «He OT ee

Reds Sweep Everything Before Them. ....  Russians Advancing In Three Directions

Russian Siege At Orel Fierce   NUMEROUS VILLAGES TAKEN FROM GERMANS

Guerrillas Assist  Regulars In Battle For Vital Bastion; Nazi Attacks Fail

Orel Is , Blasted By the Russians   Red Army Tightens Its Hold Around the Nazi  Fortress   RESISTANCE’ IS  STIFF   Soviet Troops Rebuff 12 - Counterattacks Made by Germans 

Russians Take 130 Villages In Orel Drive   Soviet Siege Guns Blast Nazi Bastion From Three Sides

Powerful Russ Column . Penetrates 30 Miles in Nazi Rear  130 MEGLAGES FALL         Russians Beat Off 12 Axis Counterattacks During Day

WAR IN PACIFIC MAY BE SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE   Soviet Discloses It Has Not Beer Invited To Send Representatives

RUSSIA'S .ABSENCE FROM CONFERENCE PUZZLES EXPERTS   Guessing Game Underway As FDR-Churchill Confab Opens In Quebec’

PACIFIC BLOW MAY BE TOPIC “FOR MEETINGS   Next Roosevelt-Churchill Conference to Avoid Russian Moves.   BELIEVE STRATEGY IN EUROPE IS IN EFFECT

Japan Attack. Seen As Major Quebec Goal   Raids On Fleet, Major Cities, Plus Recapture Of Burma Are Aims   EUROPE NOT SLIGHTEC   Increased British Participation In Pacific Campaign Is Expected

BELIEVE ALLIED LEADERS HAVE DECIDED TO SWING HEAVY BLOW AT JAPAN

AIR, NAVAL CAMPAIGNS INDICATED   Quebec Parley May Be Setting Stage For Pacific Attacks

PACIFIC WAR LIKELY TO BE STEPPED Ut   Quebec Conference Hints at Major Naval Battle With Japs Soon.

Roosevelt, Churchill Plan Speedy Attack On Jap Cities And Fleet.

ATTACK UPON JAP FLEET, CIES IS. PLAN FOR AUTUMN   Recapture of Burma Another  ‘ Major Objective- During  Fall Under Program: at Quebec Meeting?   NO RELAXATION ON. EUROPE I$ PLANNED   Two Blows In Europe "and Pacitic Expected at About Same Time, British Navy Is In Pacific.

Moves On Japan Believed Major Topic At Conference   Autumn Drive To Retake Burma May Be Another Vita Topic—Leaders, However, Are not Overlooking Plans To End War In Europe

Believe Pacific Action Decided At Conference Of Churchill, Roosevelt

Start Father Draft Oct. 1   Will Be Taken Only As Fast As They Are Needed

Confusion Mars Blackout Test   Test Failute in Philadelphia, Thousands Agree

 Blackout Test Suecess Here   New Signals Get Almost ‘Perfect Co-operation

FIND. BLACKOUT ‘TEST IN PHILA. AREA. FAILURE   Change’: In ‘In Signals Causes Widespread ~ Confusion

Thousands Agree Rehearsal Was Complete Failure In Philadelphia   MIXUP IN PITTSBURGH

State Will Get Jap Laborers   Internees To Help Or Michiqan Farms

APPROVES RFC LOANS TO MINING CONCERNS   Senate Passes Bill to Finance Development of Mineral Resources —Now CGnea to FHonse.

GAS EXPLOSION TOLL I$ THREE   Half Million Dollar Blast and Fire Sweep Edison Works

National Service Bill Supported by  Secretary Stimson   War Chief Is Opposed by McNutt; Today’s News in Nation’s Capital

Stimson and McNutt Do Not Agree   Stimson Favors Drafting of Women and Men for Farm and Factory Work If Necessary

TWO ADMINISTRATION LEADERS IN OPPOSITE STANDS ON MANPOWER  STIMSON AND M’NUTT DIS. AGREE ON COMPULSORY ASSIGNMENT PLANS

Manpower, Work Controversies Before Congress   Opposite Views OF Service Bill Voiced by Leaders

TWO ADMINISTRATION LEADERS IN OPPOSITE STANDS ON MANPOWER  STIMSON AND M’NUTT DIS. AGREE ON COMPULSORY

TFPOSITE View + ON NECESSITY OF LABOR DRAF   McNutt and Stimson Can’t Agree; Knox Called on Absenteeism; Leas eLend Causes No Shortage

americans On Home Front Launch Greatest Bond Drive In History Of Nation

Presidential Proclamation  ‘Starts Third War Loan Drive   $100 Bond Above Regular Purchases Is Set As Quota for Every Working American

ASKS MORE FUNDS FOR CITY SCHOOLS   V. E. Phillips, lips, Kansas: City, Also Proposes State Aid for Libraries

PATTON STORY CONFIRMED BY EISENHOWER   Did Slap Soldier in Hospital: Apologizes to All Concerned

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Eisenhower Discloses Patton Struck Soldier

SEVENTH ARMY COMMANDER TOLD BY EISENHOWER TO° _ CLEAR HIMSELF .OR BE pe ’ REMOVED

Smolensk Goal Of Latest Drive By Soviet Army   Third Large-Scale Offensive Of Russians Against Nazis Under Way   FALL OF KHARKOV BELIEVED IMMINENT

GERMANS REEL BACK ON LONG SOVIET FRONT   Third Large Scale Offensive Opened by Russians

BRITISH PUSH PORWARD   President Asks Ratification Of Chinese Treaty

Senate To Pass On China Treaty   Gives Up Right To Keep Separate Courts For Trial Of Americans

Leon Powers Resigns From  FCA Position   Returning to Denison to General Law Practice With Partner

LABOR PROBLEM HAD BEEN MEI   Workers Available for De. tasseling of County Hybrid Seed Corn.

LABOR PROBLEM ~ HAS. BEEN MEI   Workers Available for. De: tasseling of County. Hy-, brid Seed Corn. —

ARMY BAGS 384 JAP PLANES IN 3 MONTHS   List Includes Only Those Destroyed ~—Americans Lose 54 Craft in Same Period.

Ideas Grow About Post. War World   Security At Home First Concern Of Most People

MORGAN, LEADING U. §. FINANCIER, [ DANGEROUSLY {LI   Banker Has Been At Boca Grande, Fla., Since Seizure on Feh 25th.

Think Knife Too Dull To Slit Throat   Defense Questions " Coroner On Edge Of Murder Weapon

Allied Air Fleets Shift Raids from Sicily to Italy   Axis Evacuation Craft. Disembarkation Points Are Pounded

ALLIES BLAST SOUTH ITALY   Air Armadas Smash Evacu: ation Craft, Disembarkation Ports, Railways

Allied Airmen ‘Attack Jap [Airfields   Small Enemy Vessel Bombed In Day Of Light Aerial Activity

SINGLE ALLIED  PLANES POUND JAP AIRDROMES   Huge Fires Left Burning; Air War In Lull

Likuang Recaptured By Chinese Forces   Bitter Fighting — Reported in China

Cletus J. Hansen Marries Loretta Fiedler of Oyens   Pretty Wedding Take: Place at St. -Catherine’s ‘Church

Cletus J. Hansen Marries Loretta Fiedler of Oyens  Pretty Wedding Take  Place at St. Crathaninn?. "AL. ow .

WILL GET NEW BOILER   County Commissioners Buy Equipment for County Farm

ANACONDA IS FINED   Wire Company And Five tndividuals sentenced tn Fraud Case

KIEV POUNDE BY ARTILLERY OF RED ARMY   CAPTURE OF GOMEI EXPECTED HOURLY IN MOSCOW

Russ forces batter into Drichev; battle for Kiev under way   Stalin hails fall of White Russian railway stronchold: Gomel doomed

RUSSIANS OPEN ASSAULT ON KIEV WITH ARTILLERY   Germans on City’s High Cliffs Shelled—-Enemy Guns Answer Bombard ment.    RED FRONTAL ATTACK IS SEEN AS LIKELY   Soviets Seize Krichev: on White Russian Front— Score Gains in Advance on Gomel.

Crop Incentive Subsidy Knifed By 6 to 1 Ballot   Wickard Urges Reversal As House Group Asks OPA Prien Bic.

100 MILLION SUBSIDY BILL 1S REJECTED   House Subcommittee Turns Down Program of * the President

House Subcommittee Votes Against “Incentive” Payments to Farmers

Incentive Plan~ Is Voted Down By House Group    Wickard: .Launches “Campaign To Have:

FARMER SUBSIDY FUND 19 DENIED   Administration Program to Give Farmers Bonus Receives Blow; Wickard Drives for Reconsideration

WICKARD PLANS NEW EFFORT FOR FARM PAYMENTS   Rebuffed By Committee, He Prepares To Campaign  For Reversal   COMMITTEE ASKS HIGHER PRICES

9 109,000,000 FARM SUBSIDY REJECTED   HOUSE GROUP DEALS BLOW TO PROGRAM TO MAKE  INCENTIVE PAYMENTS,

INCENTIVE PLAN CIVEN BLOW BY HOUSE GROUP   Wickard Seeks to Have Decision Reversed And Hopes It’s Not Final

fe = SS se  Hundred Million Dollar Farm Subsidy Fund Rejected by Committee

Incenfive Plan ls Voted Down By House Group  * tows § wk. lt.   ~ Wickard Launches Campaign To Have  Dacicinn Ravercad

Roosevelt Farm Plan ls Spurned By House Group   Bul Vice President Wal lace Will Continue Fight for Subsidies

Hitler Meets IIDuce Talks of War   Allied Invasion Is Principal Topic, Observers Suggest

HITLER MEETS WITH IL DUCE   ‘Complete Agreement’ O: All Measures Reported By Germans; Peace Hint Scented

HITLER - DUCE MEETTO MAP PLANOFWAR   Coming Allied Invasion of Europe Reported Chief Topic 

Berlin Reports Conference Of Axis Chiefs   Hitler and Mussolini Hold Four-Day Meet As Invasion Nears

WPA TO CLOSE OFFICES TODAY   Riggs Says Organization Will End Activities On Schedule

Allies Sink 2 8,000-Ton Jap Ships   Beach 5,000-Tonner, Cripple Another 8,000-Tonner in Attack on Enemy Convoy Off New Guinea

THIRTY DEAD AS FIRE HITS -SANITARIUN   Worker's Match Blamed Water Thrown on Oil Spreads Blaze

Thirty Die In Seattle Fire Tragedy   Authorities Intimate  , i os ee fT

CARELESSNESS' CAUSE OF BLAZE   Match Started Fire Which Kihed 30 In Seattle, ©

Inquiry Is Ordered By  Prosecutor   Head Of Lighted Match Falls Into Puddle Cf Oil Causing Tragedy Among Aged Patients

BLAZE IN SANITARTUM KILLS 30   Carelessness Caused Fire At Seattle Hospital

30 Dead in Fire  At Sanitarium   Holocaust Blamed On Carelessness

Wreckage Of Navy Seaplane Found,  19 Aboard Killed   Comdr. John J. Crane, Of Toledo Is Victim

SANITARIUM FIRE IS FATAL 10 30   Officials Hint Carelessness Was Cause of Blaze

SANITARIUM FIRE KILLS: 30 PATIENTS   Carelessness Believed To Be Cause Of Blaze. At . Seattle .

Kharkov Army Beats Off Foe   Nazis Continue Strong Attacks, Reds Say   Tokyo Says U.S. Sub Sank Red Freighter in China Sea

Nazi Pressure Increasing On  Kharkov Front   Soviets Report Enemy Pushing Toward City; Foe Claims It Already Holds Rail Station

HARD FIGHTING REPORTED AT KHARKOV GATES   Russians Say Nazis Press Attack Despite Heavy Loss of Men.

Germans Disregard Tremendous Losses In Manpower, Soviet Noon Communique States

GREAT LOSSES ARE SUFFERED BY GERMANS   Report 18,000 Residents Of Rostov Slain   West From Newly-Won Vyazma Continues; Many More Towns Taken

REDS REPULSE ENEMY ATTACKS NEAR KHARKOV   Noon Communique States Nazis Losses Heavy, Continue Push

‘ermans, Moscow Says  Continue Push on Khar kov in Face of Heavy — Russian Defense   ‘NEMY DISREGARDS MOUNTING LOSSES   feanwhile, Soviets Are Expanding Their Offensive West of Captured  . Vvazma

REDS DEFENDING KHARKOV REPULSE VIOLENT ENEMY ATTACKS WEST OF CITY   Germans Disregard Huge Losses in Men and Material in Effort to Retake City From Russians. 36 Nazi Tanks Destroyed in Two Davs of Fichting .

WEATHER   Nazis Storm Way Closer To Kharkov  eeetane   Russians Admit Defend ers Driven Back to New Lines   HEAVY AXIS LOSSES   Thousands Slain, Many Tanks and Trucks Destroyed

NAZIS ATTACK CONTINUOUSLY DESPITE LOSSES   Russian Defenders Repel Enemy Assaults; Red Offensive Expanded West Of  Vvazma.

FIERCE FIGHTING iN KHARKOY STREETS REPORTED SATURDAY NAZIS REPULSED WEST. 0! ' CITY BUT DISREGARD  BRncere ART. DITCLY AULATr

Russians Mop Up In Region Of Vyazma   Germans Disregard Big Losses In Men, Supplies

Moscow Says Tremendous Losses Inflicted on Attackers, Many Tanks Destroyed   VYAZMA PILLAGED   Russians Charge Germans Shot or Poisoned 18,000 Men,” Women, Children at Rostov

Reds Repulse Nazi Attack West of Kharkov but Foe  Continuing Their Advance

Russ Claim Germans Keep Up Attack Despite Heavy Loss of Men and Material

Hitlerites Continue Assaults or Strategic Kharkov Despite Great Losses   RUSSIANS EXPANDING DRIVE ON ONE FRONT

Reds Battle To efend Kharkov  Vyazma Drive Grows As Nazi Troops Fall

Violent. Battle - Still Raging   Russian . Expand. ‘Gain: West Of Vyazma

GERMANS FORGET ITERIFFIC LOSSES 'T0 PUSH ONWARD   Russians Expanding At Newly-Won Vy aie th a

Claim Heavy Toll Taken From Strongly Enforced Invaders; Soviets Expanding Offensive West of Newly-won Vyazma.

Reds Repulse Enemy Attack: West Of City   Hitlerites Disregard Tremendous Losses Ir Manpower, Material

Nazi Army ‘Continues Push In Ares At Kharkov   Violent Fighting West Of City; Reds Gains In Vyazma Sector Extended

DEFENDERS OF ‘KHARKOV ARE ~ PUSHED: BACK   Germans Disregard Losses, Say Soviets; Reds Mop Up In Vyazma Area

Russians Expanding Their Offensive from. Recently-taken Vyazme Toward Smolensk :

REDS REPORT AXIS LOSSES AT KHARKOV   Say Enemy Js Repulsed in Violent Fighting West of City, but Do Not Concede Its Loss— Nazi Push Continues.

Kharkov Battle Fury Mounts, Nazic Duch On   Tremendous Enemy Losses In Manpower, Arms Reported By Moscow; Berlin Claims Main Rail Station Taken

GERMANS CONTINUE PUSH DESPITE HEAVY SETBACKS   Soviet Forces Drive Ahead On North And Central Fronts, Dispatch Shows

Germans Repulsed In Kharkov Drive   NAZIS CONTINUE BIG ATTACKS ON RED  Hine

Repulse Nazis’ Violent Attack © Upon Kharkov   But Germans Continue Their Push in Night Fighting Against Reds.   Russians Expanding Drive From Vyazma

RUSSIANS FAIL TO CONFIRM FALL OF EMBATTLED CITY  EXPAND WESTWARD   EXPAND WESTWARD OFFENSIVE AFTER CAPTURE OF YVAZMA

American Troops Forge Closer to Nazi-Held Mateur   Allied Airmen Sink or Cripple Eight Ships Destroy An Entire Fleet of Five Big Junkers Aerial Transports

Yanks Set Allied Pace In Tunisia   Clamping Assault Arc Against Axis, Grab 3 Positions

Yankee Artillery Hammers Mateur   British Subs Bag 10 More Axis Ships; One Allied Plane Downs 5 Junkers

BLASTING WAY THRU JAPS ON GILBERT ISLES   New Drive Against Japs On More Direct Road To Tokyo—Knox

New Landings O7 Gilbert Islands Atolls Reported   Chinese Charge Japs With Using Poison Gas Near Changteh

U.S. UNITS HURL JAPANESE BAGK IN GILBERT ISLES   invade Third Nip Atoll, Tokyo Radio Claims American Losses High

Yanks Storm Toward Clima) In Gilberts   Land on Third Atoll; __ Punishing Air Blows Hit Other Jap Bases

U, S. WIDENS ATTACKS IN CENTRAL PACIFIC; ALLIES KEEP UP ATTACKS IN OTHER AREAS

MARINES EXPAND OFFENSIVE IN GILBERT ISLANDS: LANDING MADE ON THIRD ATOLL   Admiral Chester Nimitz Describes Broadening Wedge Against Japanese in Six Words “We Have Landed on Abemama Atoll’’

American Grip Is Tightened On Gilbert Isle:   Invasion Front Widens Infantry And Marines Storm Jap Posts

YANKEES WIDEN BLOWS AGAINST GILBERTS AREA   Third tsland Invaded As Soldiers, Marines Improve Positions

US Widens Invasion Arez In Pacific   Army and Marine Troops Gain Ground on Three Atolls in Gilberts; Jap Planes Raid US Positions 

Climax in. Gilberts —   * U.S. Forces Widen Invasion Front; . Ceaseless Assault On Foe Continues —

ALLIED ACTIVITY IN CENTRAL PACIFIC AREA 15 GROWING  FORCES INVADING THREE JAP ISLANDS HAVE GAINED GROUND

Jap Held, Islands Attacked by U.S.   Infantry and Marines Storm Beaches to Gain Foot: holds   OPPOSITION IS STRONG   American Planes Smash at Enemy Southeastern Supply Line

Invade Third Island In Central Pacific; Begin New Drive, Knox Says

PENSION BILL FOR JURISTS HELD OFF      Ohio House to Reconsider Its Passage Carly Next Week, Is Plan.

Shipping Blasted In North Arez   Yank Carrier Planes Bomb Carge Ships and Planes Around Norway.

Warships Hit Nazi Convoy   American And British Chine Damage Vessels

WARNS U.S.CITIZENS AGAINST BECOMING CRITICAL GRUMLINS   Sam “Rayburn Coins Word In Address To Alumni Of Mayo College,  Texas

Rayburn Cites Facts In Reply  — To ‘Grunlins   House Speaker Answers Critics And Grumblers By Pointing To Record Of Accomplishment

Speaker Rayburt Raps Grumlins, Minority Party @ Texan Scores  Saboteurs Oe TS. Snirit

SOLDIERS ARE  KEPT HEALTHY   ‘Doctors’ Journal Says They Are Doing Better Than Civilians.

Globe Trotting Senators Repo   -Make Statemeént: On Tour Behind. lacked Doors

SENATORS REPORT ON WORLD TOUR IN SECRET SESSION   Both Criticism and Praise ot U.S. War Effort Voiced By Salane.

SENATE HEARS REPORT FROM WAR FRONTS   Five Members Who Made Tour Present Much Criticism

AMERICAN LEADERS OF LABOR ACCUSED BY RUSSIAN GROUP   Magazine Says Berlin [s Aided by Inciting Strikes During the Wor Period,

Soviet Trade Union Organ and Working Class American Labor Leaders Aiding Berlin by Inciting Strikes in Wartime,

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NAZI CONTROL IN NORWAY = TIGHTENED BY NEW STEPS   ALL CIVIL LAWS SUSPENDED BY QUISLING DECREE AND EX-OFFICERS BEING ROUNDED UF

STATE OF SIEGE NEPORTED IN ALL NORWAY   Linked With Nazi Fears That Invasion Might Stir Revolt

ALL NORWAY   Linked With Nazi Fears That Invasion Might Stir Revolt

ANTI-SUG HELP GIVEN BRITAIN   Portugal Grants Request Under Terms of Ancient Treaty.   INATION STAYS NEUTRAL'

American Ships Will Have Access To Island Ports   Churchill Announces Pact Which Will Not Violate Portuguese Neutrality

Portugal Tarns Over Airfields And Seaports   Churchill Announces War Arrangement By 'Neutral’ Ally

SPAIN TO CONTINUE NEUTRALITY TOWARD WARRING NATIONS  IS MORE FRIENDLY THAN EVER WITH PORTUGAL

Vast Gain. Ih War: On ~ Nazi Subs         Portugal Will Maintain Neu “-trality. in: Burope; Nazis: “. May- Not. Attaeko-:      -AIR UMBRELLA 3) CAN BE COMPLETED.   Strategic Islands. Lie‘at the Crossroads: of: Vital AtJantic: Sea: Lanes: :

Tension High Over Nation's Coal Fields   Threats of New Strike Grow After Fines Ordered For Walkout Period

NEW STRIKES THREATEN IN COAL FIELDS   Miners: “Aboused ‘By _ Fines Ordered By

Miners Threaten Another Walkout   Powder Keg Atmosphere Envelopes Soft Coal Fields Again As Government Fines Strikers $1 A Day For Staving Away

Mine Crisis Anew   Men Threaten New Walkout in Protest Against Fines   POWDER KEG   Lewis Scores Ickes and Situation , Grows Tense

PROTESTED BY MINERS   Walkout Is Predicted By Union Leaders At End Of Truce

New Strike Peril Hangs Over Mines   Lewis Declares Ickes’ Fines egal; Truce in Jeopardy

Imposition Of Fines On Miners Brings Threat Of New Coal Field Tieup

MINE STRIKE ~ THREAT RAISED   Coal Diggers Reported Ready To Walk Out Again Ii Fined for Absence

Government's Fines on Miners Presages New Work Stoppage   Powder Keg Atmosphere Envelops Soft Coal Fields of Nation

New Strike Threats Heard In Coal Fields  Order of lees To Assess Fines  Poco Tankla

Miners Threaten New Walk-Out As Fines Orderec   Atmosphere Tense During Parley

SITUATION TENSE IN COAL FIELDS OVER ICKES FINES   Government Fines On Miners for Their Last Walkout Bring Threats of New Strike; WLB Cool Toward Wage Increase Agreement.

iners Protest ines Imposed By Government   Powder Keg Atmosphere Again Envelops Soft Coal Fields

UMW Votes to Put End to Parley   “Failure of Operators to Attend’? Prompts Action, Union Says   OPERATORS AWAIT ACTION BY W.1LLB.    Walkout Fines Protested; Board Cool Toward Pact With Penn Mines

iners reak Off arley   kes Walkout Fine eightens Row ih Operators

NEW WALKOUT IN PROTEST IS THREATENED   Powder Keg Atmosphere Hangs Over Nation's Coal Fields As Result of Government Levy

MINE FIELDS TENSE   Miners Incensed Over Fine Levied Against Them

U. M. W. WORKERS TO PUT FORMAL FINISH TO FRUITLESS. CONTRACT NEGOTIATING WITH OPERATORS— WALKOUT FINES IMPOSED ON THE MINERS BRING, THREATS OF ANOTHER STRIKE vie 

Ickes’ Fine, WLB Stand Anger UMW   ‘Powder Keg Aimosphere Hangs _ Over Coal Fields — Operators Split Info Three Groups   NEGOTIATIONS END   Miners Take Formal Action When Operators Stay Away — Ickes Fine Applies to Four Days

New Strike Threatened In Coal War   UMW Walks Out on War Labor Conference; Blame Operators

Tensieon Grows As Miners Balk At Sstrike Fines   Univ bnists Vote To Enc Ne: astiations ; Threaten ial Walkout.

ANOTHER STRIKE MENACES MINES   Coal Diggers Irked By Government-Imposed Fines,

CASTS LOOMS IN SOFT COAL PITS   War Labor Board Cool Toward Agreement In . Pennsylvania   CALLED ILLEGAL   Wespiration Of Contract Wiped Out Fines, Miners Claim

Fine On Miners Creates Threat Of New Strikes   WLB Ignores Conference Of Operators, Workers Adding To Tenseness

Government: ‘Fines Against Miner: In Recent Walkout Stirs Up Threats

SESSIONS WITH OPERATORS ARE ENDED BY UMW   Walkout Fines Imposed on Miners Bring Threat of New Coal Stopnage

Strike Danger Seen In Mines  As Fine Asked   War Labor Board Cool Toward Split Agreement On  Wage Dispute.   ‘CONFERENCES STOPPED

Angry Miners Say New Strike Looms   Alabama Pit Vacated in Protest Over Ickes’ Fine Imposed on 530.000 for Layoff

WLB Cool to Mine Wage Agreement   Mine Union Votes To Put Formal End to Wage Conferences

ICKES ORDER IRKS MINERS   Fine Stirs Hornet's Nest of Opposition; WEB Coa! To Agreenient.

WLBGANCELS ALL HEARINGS ON WAGEPLAN   Board Cool Toward Settlement Between Pennsylvania Miners, Union :

Fines Cause New Danger Of Coal Tieup   Men Resent Penalties . Imposed by Ickes for : Last Strike   BRANDED‘TYR.      WLB Coolness Toward Pay Increase Adds to  + Tensenese

MINERS’ GROUP VOTES TO END PACT PARLEYS   Policy Committee Action Taken “Because of Failure of Operators to Attend”   MINERS TO BE FINED  POR ONLY FOUR DAYS   Ickes Action Brings Threat of New Strike; WLB Cool Toward Compromise Wage Boost

POWDER KEG ATMOSPHERE GETS TENSE   Miners Threaten New Walkout If Fines Collected

Threaten Strike Over Fines  Lewis Bitter In, Assailing Ickes’ Latest Action

TENSE ATMOSPHERE HANGING OVER COAL MINES OF NATION  QHAUCRAIRACEIT RTAIES PART   GOVERNMENT FINES ON MINERS FOR LAST STRIKE THREATENS NEW ONE

Fines Bring Threats New Coal Strike   Miners Resent Ickes’ Action

RESENTMENT OVER CKES ‘FINE’ ORDER   Atmosphere of Tension Prevails on Coal Strike Situation .   WLB QUESTIONS TERMS

Absence Fines  Bring Fresh  Strike Threat   WLB Is Cool Toward One Agreement For Wage Increase

Fines Bring New Threats of Walkouts      UMU Says Contract Expired, {Megal for Gov't Levy; WLB Cool to Contract

Resentment of Miners Brings Fears of New Walkout. Tenseness Increased by WLB’s Coolness to Agreement Reached by Miners and Operators.

NEIGHBOR DAY SEPT. 16; THREE WEEKS EARLY   Event to be Big War Bond Auction. Donaters of Premiums Aid in Financing and Shortening of Great Conflict

ire el  Famone Prstartinr ce tay r MGS PaURING UF  Milan Threatened

Treasury’s Post-War Stability ~ Plan Includes Return To Gold   Also Would Establish International Stabilization Fund ’ Participated In By United Nations

WORLD MONE STABILIZING MOVE SHOWN   Morgenthau Presents  Proposal To Group  Of Senators

RESTORATION OF GOLD STANDARDS BEING SUGGESTED      Morgenthau Unveils. His ~ on’ Money ‘uestion’ After  : . War Before’ Small: Group of U.-§. Senators; :   FIVE POINT PROGRAM. . 1S BRIEFLY OUTLINEE   Sen. Thomas Declares Estab lishment... of World.- Bank “Inevitable But Too - Soon ~ For Plans.

Committees Hear Monetary  Stabilization Plan   Five Main Proposals Made Rv Morgenthau

Gold Standard in Postwar Plan   Currency Proposals Include Allied Fund

O'MAHONEY CHARGES 62 PER CENT OF ALL WAR CONTRACTS HELD IN COMPAR ATIVELY FEW STATES

SENATOR CHARGED WEALTH, INDUSTRY SHIFTS NEGESOARY   Chairman of the Post-War Plan Commission Urges Decentralization.

SOAKING RAINS CHEER FARMERS   More Precipitation Forecast For Wide Section of Oklahoma Tonight

Rains to Cool Off Oklahoma   Bartlesville First City in State to Get Soaking Rain

biel “ bod , * e  Nation Pays Tribute to U.S. Navy on 168th Anniversary

Nation Honors American Navy  Council Bluffs Joins in Celebration —

Nation Paying Tribute Today Tolt : Fighting Navy Forces   Re EFIGENE RIURNS

NATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO FIGHTING NAVY   Knox Says Ships on Move in All Theaters of War

U. s. CELESRATING NAVY DAY      “President. Roosevelt i in Letter to Secretary Knox. Says: Past.Navy Achievements Will Be Dwarfec By Future. ‘Achievements :

‘Destroy Enemy!” Knox Orders as U. S. Pays Tributes on Navy Day   Roosevelt Pledges More Ships and Planes in War for Human Liberty; Grew  Warns of New Jap Blows

NATION VIEWS USS. NAVY WITH PRIDE   TRIBUTE PAID TO DEEDS OF WORLD'S MIGHTIEST FLEET

HONOR -U. S. NAVY   Nationwide Observance of Navy Day Tribute to Men of Fleet

U. S. Fleet On Move In All Waters As Nation Observes Navy’s Birthday

U. S. OBSERVES BIRTH OF NAVY   Past Naval Achievements To Be Dwarfed In Future, Says FDR

MIGHTY U.S. NAVY HAMMERS AT ENEMY WHILE FOLK AT HOME PAY TRIBUTE ON “NAVY DAY”   WAR FUND DRIVE OPENED HERE AFTER GOVERNOR PRAISES FUND MORAL, SPIRITUAL INVESTMENT

Amertca Pays _ Homage fo Navy   Day Is Celebrated All Over Nation and Navy’s Work Lauded

Navy Hammers Enemy at Sea While  ‘Nation af Home Pays Tribute to Fleet

Confidence of Victory for Mightiest Sea Force In World Expressed as It Hammers Foes in All Oceans and Seas and in the Air

NAVY HAMMERS REMORSELESSLY AT THE ENEMY   United States Navy 168 Years Old Today

TEMPERATURES:   ‘Navy Day Finds American Fleet World's Greatest   "Seek Out The Enemy And Destroy Him! Is Order On 168th Birthday Of United States Sea Force! Nation’s Marine Strength Grows Daily

Second Navy Day of War Finds Fleet of U.S. Seeking Out Foe   Nation Pays Tribute to Men and Deeds of  Mightiest Fleet

Navy On Way To Mightier Future   Already Most Powerful in World, Achievements Of Future to Be Even More Glorieus, Is Promise

Already Most Powerful in World, Achievements Of Future to Be Even More Glorious, Is Promise

NAVY HONORED ON WEDNESDA)   U. S. Fleet Hammers Enemy As Home Front Pays Tribute To Men

Tax Pay Plan In Muddle   House Members Seek Administration View On 1942 Tax Forgiveness

CLARIFICATION TAX PROPOSALS BEING SOUGHT   House Committee Indicate: Intention of Asking Administration to Voice Choice   PLANS CONFLICTING   Committee Not Impressed With Proposals From Treasury and Budget Director

MAY ASK FDR VIEWS OF 42 TAX VOIDING   House Committee Dissatisfied With “Indefinite” Statements Of Treasury

ADMINISTRATION TO BE ASKED FOR DEFINITE TAX PLAN   What To Do About 1942 Taxes Holds Up PayAs-Go Idea

Size of Tax Forgiveness Is Now Issue   conflict in Plans Leads to Criticism of Smith; Paul Talks

U.S.CASUALTIES TOTAL 115.000   Army, Navy. Losses to Date Are Disclosed by Secretary Stimson

CASUALTIES IN U.S, ARMY NOW TOTAL 85,00   Breakdown, Not Including Saierno, Lists 10,682 Killed, 26,666 Wounded, 23.743 Missing

U. S. Casualties ~ 115.000—Stimson  Period Includes Pear! ~ Harbor To Salerno

CASUALTIES IN WAR TO DATE ARE 118,000   Army Dead 10,682; 26,666 Wounded, 23,743 Missing, 90,451 Prisoners.   STIMSON -FLAYS RUMORS ON MARSHALL’S TRANSFER

Army Casualties Now Total 85,000   Losses At Salerno Lower Than Feared

War Casualties Reach 115,000  Figures Include U. § Killed, Wounded,

Total 115.000  In Casualties   Salerno Losses Total 3.500 Killed. Wounded, Missing  -—St}Mson.

U.S. Army Casualties Total : $5,000, Stimson Announces   Include 10,682 Killed, 26,666 Wounded; Salerno Toll Lighter Than Feared

War Casualties.  Reach 115,000   Army Loses About 85,000 While Navy Announces Losses at 30.167.

CASUALTIES NEAR 115,00(   Salerno Casualties Put at 3,500— ‘Less Than We Feared,’ Stimson Reporis

Army Casualties To Date 85,000  Includes Period Of Dec. 1941-Sept. 15

WAR CASUALTIES ARE ANNOUNGED      Sec. Stimson “Breaks Down” Losses Since Pear! Harbor

Casualties Total Rising   Those at Salerno Less Than Feared, Says Stimson

Army Casualties Total 85,000.  Over 10,000 Killed; Of 26,666 Wounded Half Have Recovered

COUNT 112,000 UJ. §. CASUALS   3,500 Killed, Wounded Or Missing At Salerno, Stimson Says

New Casualty List Includes Salerno Action   Stimson Reports Total of 115,000 Americans On Casualty Lists

Nation’s War Losses Listed   Army and Navy Report Approximately 115,000 Killed, Wounded and Missine

TOTAL IS 115,000   Army and Navy Make a Re"port on the War Casualties to Date

American War Casualties Now  Total 115,000   Army Losses Are Sot At 85.000

U.S. War Casualties Are 115,000 to Date   Figure Includes 30,162 Reported by Navy and About 85,000 Announced by Army Through September 15 at Salerno.

ite House Reception Strictly Social, Two Rival Congressmen Acree

 “True Symbol Of Democracy” And “Symbol Of What We Need,” Democrat And Republican Describe President’s Open House   A Republican Reports   A Democrat Reports

FRESHMEN CONGRESSMEN ENJOY PRESIDENTIAL PARTY WEDNESDAY NIGHT: TWO GIVE IMPRESSIONS

By J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT  Democrat, Arkansas PAR ea Pee piv: penn daen Renee ¥

Two Freshmen Report on FDR's Party   Fulbright Writes for Democrats, Ellsworth for Republicans

President’s Reception Is Thoroughly Enjoyed   A DEMOCRAT RE PORTS By James William Pulbrigh,

New Congressmen Find President i in Good ‘Health and Jovial Mood al Social Gathering ‘Democat, Republican Give Their Views

UNION OF TWO FRENCH FORCES IS UNDERTAKEN   De Gaulle, Giraud Troops Once Fought Against Each Other; Fusion Thought Hopeful   War Council Delayed

Merging of Two French Factions Near, Is Belief   Problem Delays Establish: ment of War Council in New Government

Gasmata Reels . Under Air Blow   Jap Supply Base Hit By Heavy Rain of Explo-

GASMATA REELS UNDER BOMBING BY U.S. PLANES   Jap Air Base Gets Heaviest Pasting of War; Tanks Drive Nips Back In  New Guinea

Enemy Base on New Britain is Reeling  Under Bomb Attacks   American Marines and Soldiers Invade Two  Gilbert Islands

GASMATA ROCKS UNDER ASSAULT   Heaviest Bombing Of War Inflicted On Jap Air And Supply Base In New Brit ain.

Jap Base On New Britain Hit Hard   Allies Use Tanks To Drive Enemy Back  On New Guinea

Gasmata Reeling Under Heavy U.S. Air Attack  New Tree-Crushing Tanks Used in New Guinea Junale

Gasmata Under Heaviest Raid   Yanks In New Guinea Push Enemy Reluctantly Under  Added Pressure.

Heavy Raids Are Made On New Britain   Japanese Base Reels Under: Hard Terrific Pounding

Hurl Planes and  Tanks at Japs New Britain Base Handed Heaviest  Bombing; Squeeze ~ On New Guinea

Gasmata Is Target Of Big Bombs   Tree-Crushing Tanks Hurl Enemy Back on Nearby New Guinea

TREE-SMASHING TANKS PUSH JAPS BACK   Yanks Drop 138 Tons Of Bombs On Jap New Britain Base

Gasmata Reels Under Attacks   AMERICAN BOMBERS DROP TONS OF EXPLOSIVES

Gasmata Reels  Under Attacks      Jap New..Britain Base ‘Is Given Heaviest Raid Of Entire: War .\°

BLAST A JAP BASE   Americans Drop 138 Tons of Explosives on Gasmata Air Post

ACTION ON INCREASE IN MEDITERRAN’N   Naval Battle Is Raging In Central Solomons

REGAINS ALL GROUND LOST, KILLING 10,000 MEN, MOSCOW SAYS   First Gains Wiped Out As Germans Open Final Attack To Crush Russia Before Second Front Onened   Rv UNITED PRESS

Soviets Roll Back  German Thrusts   Heavy Blows Landed in Orel Region; Fortresses Pound Sicily, Sardinia

Yankee Luck Holds Out:  One More Push Would Have Taken Salerno, Headquarters Declares

Disaster Neared Once At Salerno   Chutists’ Landing Was Turn Of Tide

Fifth Army Was Once on Verge of Losing Salerno Bridgehead, Army Reveals

366 Million Dollar Budget Submitted To Legislature by Governor Bricker

Assembly At Work On Bricker’s Budget Of $366,028,921 For Next Two Years

NO NEW TAXES CONTEMPLATED IN OHIO. BUDGET   Governor Submits Plans for Running State This Year On $366,028,921   SURPLUS IS COUNTED ON   Legislature Given Free Hand  ——tIn_Apportioning Money For Most Part

OHIO BUDGET IS BEFORE SENATE   Foresee 17 Million Dollar Surplus At End of Biennium

Bricker Dips Into Surplus For Budget   Would Use $14.000,000 In Meeting Biggest Ohio Appropriation.

May Raise US National Debt To 300 Billion   Spending Sends it Near Limit

May Increase  Limit on Debt   Present Rate of Government’s  Spending [s Approaching  Statutory Raimdc

Study Gas, Oil Supply   Byrnes Promises Inquiry “In Light of New Developments”

Says Meeting At Moscow Is Success   President Hints Final Session Near With _ Parties Agreed

Moscow Parley Declared Success   Roosevelt Asserts Conference. Has. Now Reached Its Final Phase

MOSCOW MEETING A GREAT SUCCESS SAYS ROOSEVELT   Indicated it Was in Its Final  Phase Where Documents Are Being Drafted.   URGES COOPERATION   The Overall Objective, He Said, Is Peace in the World and End of Aggression.

MOSCOW PEACE TALKS SUCCESS   Roosevelt Elated Over Results Of Tri-Power Conference

Moscow Parley Seen as Success  But FDR Non-committal on Senate Resolution

TRI-PARTITE MEETING SUCCESS FUL-FDR   Conference in Final Stage, Drafting Documents Now

Moscow Talks Held Success By Roosevel   President Avers Parley  Reducing Discussions wh. Cpe BO

FDR DECLARES THREE-POWER MEET SUCCESS   Indicates Moscow Confer. ence Entering Its Final Stages

Moscow Parley In Final Phase   Cooperation. and Cordiality Keynote Tripartite Conference

Moscow Parley, In F inal Stages;  Great Success, Says President   Formal Documents Of Agreement Being: Drafted; Wants Senate Resolution That U. S. Will Cooperate. With Others.

President Reveals “Pig Things” Discussed; Meeting In Final Phase

MOSCOW PARLEY PALLED SUCCES:   President Hails Results _ Achieved By Allied Officials

ROOSEVELT  PLEASED AT TRI-PARTITE   Says Conference Is Success; Is  In Final Phase

Sees Talks "al Moscow as Success   Conference. Now in’ Final ‘Phases, Roosevelt Says; Good Spirit Evident.   PEACE OF. WORLD -° “MOST.IMPORTANT   President Favors. Senate ® Declaration to Co-operate” with Other Nations

Tri-Partite Pacts Lauded By Roosevelt   President Indicates Mos cow Conference Is in Final Phases

Moscow Parley Great Success, President Says   Roosevelt Indicates Conference in Final Phase, Drafts Formal Articles of Agreement

T0 COOPERATE “WITH AMERICA AND BRITAIN   Roosevelt Announces to  - Press-Radio Conference  Soviet Meeting In Its Final Phases   END OF AGGRESSION IN FUTURE PLEDGED   Roosevelt In Favor of Senate Declaration to Avoid War, Declin es Comment On Adequacy

Moscow Conference Nearing Its Close   President Says Meeting Great Success—Roosevelt Will Not Endorse Connally Plan

President Says Moscow Conference Of Allied Leaders Is Great Success

PRESIDENT SAYS MOSCOW PARLEY GREAT SUCCESS   FDR Indicates Conference i Final Phases, Agreement Being Written

Draft formal papers of  asreement   President favors senate resolution

F.D.R. HAILS MOSCOW TALKS   PRESIDENT SAYS CONFAB IS IN FINAL PHASES

Agreements Drawn Up In Red Capital   Post-War Unity Certain, President Tells Press Conference

Full Co-operation  Of Russ Assured   . . Soviets Will Help Maintain Peace After Victory

MOSCOW TALKS HAVE ENTERED FINAL PHASES   President Favors Senate Vote of Approval for Post-War Cooperation.

STATES PARLEY OF 3 POWERS IS IN FINAL PHASE   Supports Resolution in Senate for Postwar  Co-Operation by U. S.

FDR Declares Moscow Talks Great Success   President Favors Senate Statement To Avoid War

FDR AVS MOSCOW PARLEY & SUCCESS   Says Results of British-Russian4U, S. ‘Meeting Make lt a Tremendous Success

Roosevelt Hails Moscow War Parley Success   Chief Executive Cites Friendly Spirit Of Envoys; Favors Senate DeclaraHon On Poctwar Collaboration

I. D.R. Asserts Moseow Talks  Great Suecess   President In Favor Of Sen. ate Declaration That Couniry Cooperate.   COMPLETE BIG THINGS

FINAL PriASES BELIEVED NEAR   President Favors Senate Declaration on Post-War Policy. oe   SPIRIT OF PARLEY GOOD

PRESIDENT SEES PARLEY SUCCESS   Expresses Support Of PostWar Cooperation Idea

Conference In Final Phases   Formal Documents Of Agreement Being Drafted

CHEF ELATED OVER MOSCOW CHAT REPORTS   FDR. Feels. Talks Have Been Great Qnercesne

President Says Moscow Parley Great Success   In Final Stages Where Doeuments of Agreement  Are Being Drafted.   Is Confident Russia Wishes to Keep Peace

PRESIDENT CLAIMS  MOSCOW CONFERENCt  BEEN GREAT SUCCESS INDICATED BE IN FINAL  PHASES WITH AGREE. MENTS BEING DRAFTED

F.D.R. Indicates — T alks. At Moscow ~Reach Final: ‘Stage   Wants Senate. Declare That Ww Ss. Will Work With Other Nations; . Enyoys Strencthen Peace Plans.

‘Roosevelt Calls «Moscow Meeting Decided Success   Agreements Are Being Reduced From Formal Documents As Progres Being Made By Three Nations In Mapping Out Most Vital Peobleme

Roosevelt Praises  Russ Meet  Calls Conference   Calls Conference Big Success in Agreement, Spirit

Moscow Parley Great Success President Says   Formal Documents Of Agreement Now Being Drafted

Conference Is Believed Near Final Phases   President Declares Moscow Parley Has Been a Great Success  MACE Te KNICNT BEVGLAT Br

FDR ASSERTS MOSCOW TALKS  GREAT SUCCESS   Expresses Satisfaction With Defin ite Items of Agreement as Well  as Spirit of Parley   PEACE VITAL AIM   President Favors Senate Declara tion U.S. Ready to Co-operate te Avoid Future Wars

Badoglio Dissolves Duce's Party; Milan Is Center Of Fierce Street Clashes -

Ally Armistice Terms Sought, Sav Neutrals   Fascist Party Ordered.  Dissolved; Members Qlain

Japs Pour Reserves Into Southeast China Ty Prentoct “Trinnol oe’

TROOPS INTO CHINA      Japs Are Reported to Be Moving in Reinforcements ;

CONGRESS TO HEAR FDR   President Expected To Give Review Of Entire Trip

ALLIES BOMB JAPBASE BLOT OUT 6 PLANES   Surprise Enemy at Madang, N. Guinea, With Low Level Attack; Silence Anti-Aircraf Positions   Docks In Flames

Solons Okay $50 Pension   PREDICT WARREN WILL SIGN BILL TO RAISE STATE QUOTA FOR AGED

Pepperell Bombardier Missing   Sergt. Arthur Mahony Reported Lost in European Area

RUSSIANS SINK GERMAN BARGES   Set Fire to One Troop Transport and Sink Six Barges.

Nazis to Be Blasted Out Of the War   Quebec Announces Decision to Wage Ruthless Campaign

Declaration in Quebec Lays Plans For Ruthless Bombing to Finish; Eden Expects to Get Stalin’s Okeh

PICK GENERAL TO COMMAND. THE INVASION   British Assure Full Might Against Japs Next

Food And Tax Problems To Be '  Congress Topic   Two of FDR’s Closest Advisers Called To Tell Congress What Is Planned for En-., suing Year.

ood. Taxes Are Subject Of Parleys   House Committees Call High-Ranking Officials to Give  Views at Hearings

Conference Is Held in Luxury Hotel, It ls Disclosed   UNUSUAL MEETING LASTS FOUR DAYS   Correspondents Protest Manner in Which Story Was Handled

Conferences Held In Luxury Hotel Outside Cairo   Teheran Sessions Lasted Four Days

FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World Newse Thane   Diseluims Resooncibilite

Ickes Orders 6-Day Week  For Miners   Edict Is Necessary to Assure Adequate Supplies of Coal

MME, CHIANG WAS HONORED BY CONGRESS   FAMOUS WIFE. OF CHINESE  COMMANDER STRESSES WAR  AGAINST JAPAN AND POST. WAR PROBLEMS

Crush Japs, Pleads Madame Chiang In Appearance Before U.S. Congres:

Coal Price Goes Up If Portail Pay Pact Is Approved   4&4 Bee 10 SAPP eC Appalachian Field Mrsst  Have 35 Cents More Fo: eer ee See eee J

Vancouver Island Shelling Denied  Boat Captain Adds Mystery to Affair

Zhiobin May Be Abandoned By  German Forces   Threat Of Soviet Flank Attack On Railway Center Feared

RUSSIAN BLOWS PERIL ZHLOBIN   GERMANS MAY ABANDON KEY RAIL JUNCTION

REDS DRIVING FOR ZHLOBIN IN MUD, SNOW   Germans May Be Forced to Abandon This Railroad Center in White Russia Sector

MAY FORCE NAZIS TO ABANDON KEY CITY OF ZHLOBIN   Flanking Threat Would Open Way For Red Drive on Minsk, Frozen River to Ease Crossing.   JAPANESE ON HUON PEN: INSULA ARE THREATENED   American Planes Drop 97 Tons of Bombs on Kara Airdrome, Nearby Positions Are Strafed.

GERMANS MAY HAVE TO GIVE UP THLOBIN   ‘Reds’ Flanking Movemnnt Is ’ Threat to City

Russians may force nazis te  quit Zhlobin   Way paved for  drive on Minsk.

MORE DOCTORS GET ARMY CALL   Civilians Are Assured of Adequate Medical Care By McNutt

10. 000 Medics W ill Be Taken   Arnied F ‘orces, To Require Men; Much Shifting Seen This Year

BEING TRIED OUT ON WEST COAST >  WwOe 2B  If West Caast Labor Experiment Plan Is { abu cessful it May Be Ubecon In Other Shortage A... +.

‘ast S Gasoline Famine’ May Las t Least 10 Days   No Appreciable Relief s Seen by PAW for at Least a Month

Americans Are Cheered Wildly   Citizens of Palermo Welcome U.S. Men

8000 Die in Calcutta in Single Month   AMERY REVEALS HUGE TOLL OF STARVATION IN BIG INDIA CITY

Santa Claus Hit Hard; Supplies of Toys This Yeor Put at 50 Per Cent

ONOATAGE OF OlL I QcEN BY GKES   Declares U. S., Must Begin Immediate Production of Petroleum From Coal and Oil Shale

WOMEN'S CLUBS ~ MET THURSDA)   Twelve. Clubs  Present » Al Annual Convention: ‘ “In LeMare: .

WOMEN'S CLUBS MET THURSDAY   Twelve, Clubs  ‘Present - “At , nel Convention:  “In LeMars  -

Convention Of Federated Clubs Met Thursday  Twelve Plymouth Co Clubs Had Delegates At The Meeting

Republican Move To Cut Funds of — OW Voled Dow   Administration Force: Defeat Effort. to Slash Outlay 

OPA Sets Limit On Poultry For Entire State   Local Farmers Protes! Lower Broiler Prices at Springdale Meet

BATTLE WITH JAPS TO BE GREATEST      Knox Says War Against Nips Has Already ' Been Costly

SUBSIDIES, TAXES BEFORE GONGRESS   Solons Battle Administration over Banning Subsidies and Raising Taxes This Week

Three Southern Democrats Slated — To Rule Home Front In Big Shakeup

BIG SHAKEUP . WwW SCHEDULE SOF NEW DEAL   ROOSEVELT REPORTED PRE, PARING TO MAKE DRASTIC i‘) CHANGES IN ADMINIS 2 TRATION SETUP

MANY CHANGES TO BE MADE BY PRESIDENT   ~ o  Three ~ 2 vervatives toGe 7 1 Power to Rule &< ae Front

UMW, LEWIS SHUN WLB COAL PARLEY   Refuses to Go to Washington as Conference Is Opened on Coal Dispute

‘Lewis Defies WLB By Spurning Call   Board Decides to Proceed With Case With or Without Union Attendance

John Lewis Ignores Labor  Board Hearing   Extension Of Agreement Is Ordered Pending Settlement Of Dispute Over Wage Increase

1S ORDERED ~ EXTENDED      ‘Labor Board Directs Wage Agreement Gontinue Pendine Settlement   HEARING IGNORED BY JOHN L. LEWIS   No Word Received From Union Leader, But Board Will Go Ahead

WLB DECREES EXTENSION OF COAL PAY ACT   Agreement Continued Unti Settlement Is Reached; Lewis Snubs Parley

Lewis and Other UMW Officials Ignore Order, WLB fo Set Up Pan  OWNERS ATTEND   Panel Meeling, Set for Wednesday, Noi to be Held if Work in Mines Stopped Meantime

NWLB ORDERS EXTENSION Ot MINE CONTRACT   Aimost-Expired Wage  Agreement to Continue in Effect Pending Settlement of Disputes   UNIONISTS FAIL TO ATTEND CONFERENCE   To Proceed With Case With or Without Lewis; Strike Would Halt Hearings

Mine Workers Ignore Hearing Into Pay Dispute   Labor Board To go Ahead in Spite of Action

MINE LEADER OTAYD OUT OF CONFERENCE   Pending New Agreement, One Near Expiration Would Be Operative.   GATHERING STORM SEEN IN OFFING   Spokesmen fo r Miners Say Situation Looks Dark for Settlement.

JOKN L, LEWIS IGNORES WLE   Board Orders Wage Agreement Extended Pending Settlement.

‘Lewis Stays InN. Y. As WLB Takes Up Wage Case   None Of Miners’ Representatives Shows Up As  Wearing Tc Barun

SEGRET SESSION CALLED IN MINE WAGE ARGUMENT   Lewis May Not Attend Special Conference

W LB Has ~ Miners Case   But Lewis May Not » Attend in Effort to £ End Deadlock

Extend Mine Peace Terms   Lewis Ignores WLB Request For Appearance At Preliminary Hearing.

Miners Ignore WLB Summons   Fail to Appear for Close Conference  In Washington

Lewis Isnores  Board   ... But Discussions Will Be Held. Asserts WLE

COAL PACT GETS AN EXTENSION   Almost - Expired Wage Agreement Ordered Continued Pending Settlement Of Dispute.

To Re-Examine Enlisted Men .   “Limited Service” Men To Get New Tests

To Re-Examine Enlisted Men  “Limited Service”   “Limited Service” Men To Get New Tests

Z ALLIED SHIPS HURT IN: BATTLE FOR SHARNHORST  Magnitude: OER! “Aitied Victory’ Off Nor:

Scharnhorst Win Grows in Report   TWO OTHER VESSELS DAMAGED; ALLY LOSS MINOR SCARS ON 2 SHIPS

SIMPLE. RITES BRICKER OATE   Makes G. .0.P. P. History As the Governor of Ohio

BROWN ‘AND ' WICKARD  ‘ THREATENED WITH LEGAL .  eve: SEMOOONS BY: BENATE* “>: ~ AGRICULTURE COMMITTrres .

CONGRESS, FOR BREECH WIDENS   Senate irked By Refusal Of Government Heads To Heed Summons

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Foresee Widening of Breach Between Congress and Executive Branch of Government

SOVIETS SMASH NEARER TO OREL   U. S. Leaders Laud Russian Gains on Anniversary of Red Army

FORTRESSES ALSO OBLITERATE AIRPORT NEAR PARIS   Axis Expects Continental Invasion On Fourth of July Week-End

— Buy War bonds —  WICKARD BELIEVES FOOD OUTLOOK FOR ’43 IS “FAIRLY GOOD”

CPL. GOOD AMONG FORCES AT EVACUATION OF FERRYVILLE; DAZED BY RECEPTION

Flowers in His Helmet— Kisses a Hazard—  Cpl. Good Among Forces At Ferryville; Dazed By Reception

Wheeler Flays United Nations ‘Police Force’   Believes U. S. Should Trade With All, but. Have No Alliances

WALLACE SUPPORTS ALLIED PROPOSAL   Senator Wheeler Opposes Creation of United Nations Police Force ' To Enforce Rules

Wallace Approves Post-War United  Action Proposal  Connally Gets in Line  For Senate Assertion  faye W...I.] f. fh. swatsns

World Police Resolution: Being Talked   Senators Engaged in Framing It; Wheeler Opposed

Wheeler, Wallac Split on Plans To Police World   Senator Says He Will Figh Proposed Resolution to the End   Declares Boys in the Arm) Will Have Something To Say About It

Pro-Nazi Charge Against Gearhart Causes an Uproar   Frances B. Sayre and Con gressman Exchange Hot Remarks

10 Enemy Ships Sunk by British In Last Few Days   Five Submarines Destroy Vessels

Report Nazis Have Started To Loot  Rome Of Priceless Art Treasures

HEAR GERMANS LOOT ROME OF PRICELESS ART   Palaces And Museums Stripped; Treasures Taken To Berlin

REPORT NAZIS LOOTING ROME ON Big SGALE   Unparalleled Campaign Of Loot. ing Is Under Way In Roma

Germans Said Looting Reme Of Treasures   Special Squads Reported Stripping Museums. Palaces

NAZIS EMBARK ON LOOTING CAMPAIGN IN CITY OF ROME   Palaces, Museums, Private Homes Being Stripped -Of Priceless Art Treasures

Art Treasures Being Carried By Train to Berlin; Fear Pope May Be Made Hostane.

GERMANS LOOT ROME, REPORT   Thefts Unparalleled in History, London Says

EDEN TO MEET WITH LITVINOFF   Briton Seeks to Obtain ‘More Collaboration Among Allies

EDEN HELPS PAVE. WAY FOR CLOSER — COLLABORATION   ‘Between United Nations. Will Meet Litvinoff Tomorrow

Byrnes Fights For Subsidies In Radio Talk   Similar Pleas Is Voiced by Chester Bowles

Byrnes Appeals To All Groups To Lay Down Their Political Pistols

APPEAL TOUS. TO KEEP PRICES DOWN OR FAL   Economic Life of Nation Hangs By Thread, Says Byrnes, Bowles.

Lay Pistol Down, Byrnes Requests Pressure Groups   Administration Opens Fight To Salvage Anti-Inflation Plans

BYRNES LEADS LATE DRIVE 10 SAVE SUBSIDIES   Lay ‘Political Pistols’ Down, His Plea To All Groups

BYRNES MAKES PLEA AGAINST INFLATION   Leads Fight to Avert Collapse of Economic Setup

DRIVE AGAINST SUBSIDY PLAN    Administration In In Last Minute Effort To Prevent , CGollanse

Chiefs Plead For Subsidy   Byrnes, Bowles Fear “Fer Hold-Line Plan

‘Administration Presses Ahead in Drive to Prevent Collapse of The Anti-Inflation Program

Byrnes Says Nation Close  To Inflation   Pressure Groups Requested to “Lay That Pistol Down”

ALLIED SUCCESSES “STYMIE JANUARY 30 SPEECH BY HITLER   Fuehrer to Remain Silent for the First Time in 10 Years on Date Held Important in Nazi History; Goering Will Deliver “Pep” Talk to Soldiers Facing Russians Instead; Red Armies Continue Advances on All Fronts.   AMERICANS PUSHING INTO TUNISIA

SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT IN -DICATES ANNUAL TwaHOUR SPEECH NOT ON + TOMORROW'S PROGRAM

~-AIR BASE—  GEN. CRAMER REPLIES IN LEVY CASE   .. + Says Court Martial Findings Justified

MANY INSPECT THE MILITARY BUILDING   Kansas U. Structure Was Formally Opened Last  Evening»   MRS. BALDWIN A GUEST

MILITARY BUILDING   Kansas U. Structure Was Formally Opened Last Evening    MRS. BALDWIN A GUEST

Munda Likely to Fall This Week   Yank Soldiers and Marines Press  Ever Closer to Big Japanese Base

FALL OF JAP BASE EXPECTED WITHIN WEEK   Ground Troops Wait In Jungles As Planes Smash New Georgia Stronghold   NIP SEA FORCE ATTACKED   Enemy Air Activity Is Weakened Along Entire Pacific Operations Arc

Yanks Closing tn On Munda Base Rapidly   Supply Line Of Defending Force Cut As Americans Advance

YANKS CLOSE IN ON MUNDA BASE IN FINAL STASE   Final Battle Expected at Any Moment; Japs Cut Off

Japanese Center May Capitulate ‘Within The Week   Expect Final Battle To Start At Any Moment On Island .

jap Base Expected To Fall Within The Week.   INTENSE BOMBING  PRECEDING ATTACK

Final Battle May Start at Any Moment   U. S. Planes Are Softening Up Big Objective

FINAL BATTLE FOR MUNDA EXPECTED WITHIN FEW DAYS   Thousands of Americans are Closing In from Several Sides.

‘GIVEN 10 THE JAPS   Lose Men and Equipment and Supply Lines Are Cut Off—Bombing  Goes On.

MUNDAS FALL SEEN WITHIN WEEK; BASE ISOLATED BY YANKS   Bombers Soften Up Jap Air Base As Thousands  Of Ground Troopp Wait For  Final Assault

Final Battle For Munda Is Shaping Up   Yanks Closing in, Jap Base Expected to Fail Within Week

EXPECT MUNDA TO SURRENDER WITHIN WEEK   Thousands Of U. S. Soldiers Clos: ing In As Battle Enters Final Phase

Yank Soldiers, Marines Close In'on Munda.   “Jap ‘Alr Base’ Expected to Fall - Within. Weekes:

YANKS ARE CLOSING IN ON MUNDA   Isolate d Stronghold @ Expected To Fall Within Week

Final Battle. For: Manda Near; Japs’ Supplies Cut Off      Thousands of Soldiers, Marines Close in On Munda; Jap Base Expected To Fall. Within the Week, Report Says  Re REREVDOS TAVUES

ISCORELESS JINX   ON FIRST PERIOD   Neither Kansas Nor Washburn Threatening in Opening Quarter   PERFECT DAY FOR GAME

ISCORELESS JINX  ON FIRST PERIOD   Neither Kansas Nor Washburn Threatening in Opening Quarter

French Fighters Score in Africa   Nearly All Successes There  Made by French

ALLIED SUCCESSES IN NORTH AFRICA ARE SCORED BY FRENCHMEN Are Doing Good Job Against Axis

FRENCH FIGHTING MEN GETTING AHEAD VERY WELL WITH EFFORTS EXPEL AXIS FROM NORTH AFRICA

MOURNING SET OVER BIG LOSS   Germany To Grieve For Four Days For End Of Sixth Army  In Russia

GERMANS MOURN LUSS OF ARMY   NAZIS CONTEND THEIR TROOPS AT STALINGRAD FOUGHT TO LAST BULLET.

Reich in Mourning After German Defea! At Stalingrad   Nazis Admit Loss of Entire Army to Reds; Sacrifice ‘Not in Vain’

Gulf Coast Hit © By Heavy Storm   EXTENSIVE DAMAGE 38 REPORTED DONE AT HOUSTON

Bad Gulf Storm Strikes Houston   At Least One Killed and Property Damage to  Reach Millions.

Germans Form New Military Branch  Units Are Designed To Combat Invasion

NAZIS SET UP NEW COMMAND   Raeder Heads ‘General Service’ Divisions Formed Against  Invasion

FDR May Renew Plea For Food Subsidy Funds   Request. Expected If Anti-Strike Bill Approved

No-Strike Measure Weighed  FDR May Demand New EGuhe«etdiag Far Signing

President may demand nev funds for food subsidies   May sign anti-strike bill, request appropriation

New Subsidy Demands Are  Held Likely   President May Make This  Request If He Signs  Anti-Strike Bill

MORE SUBSIDIES APPEAR POSSIBLI   Some Believe Roosevelt Re luctant About Terms In Present Measure.

PRESIDENT MAY SIGN LABOR BILL AND DEMAND SUBSID)  SUBSIDY QUESTION MAY COME BEFORE SENATE - ON TUESDAY

Food Subsidy Funds Still Bein g Sought   President Believed Deter mined to Demand Plan  To Roll Back Costs   MAY BE COMPROMISE

FOR May Tie Strike Bill With Subsidy   May Make Demand For Subsidy Fund If He Signs  Strike Measure

ROOSEVELT MAY' RENEW SUBSIDY FUND DEMANDS      Possibility of Request From Congress Seen If He Signs: Anti-Strike  Legislation   APPROVAL LOOMING   Meanwhile, Passage of Huge War Appropriation Bill By House Today Appears Certain

@ SAFE AGAIN   Clark Lee, I. N.S. Writer, Again Narrowly Escapes Death

SAY RAID WAS SCOUTING TRIP   British Confirm Landing On Lampedusa

British Amplify Statement Of Re connaissance Raid Or Italian Island

BRITISH LIGHT NAVAL FORCES MAKE “LOOKSEE’ BAIN   All But Two Men Fail to Return From  Parenannaiccanca

DEATH ORDERED FOR SABOTEURS   House Votes Bill After Debate Over Charges of Menace to Press

ANTI-SABOTAGE BILL IS PASSED   Death Penalty Provided For Hostile Acts Against U.S.A.

Sabotage lo Carry Death Term By Bil   Amendment Inserted To Protect Papers

ANTI-OABOTAGE BILL ADVANGEL   House Sends to Senate Meas ure Providing Death Penal~ ty for Commission of Hostile Acts

HOUSE PASSES SABOTAGE BILI   Measure Provides Death For Hostile Acts; Free Speech Is Protected

SABOTAGE BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE   Drastic Penalties Are De creed for Hostile Act.

HOUSE VOTES BILL ON ANTI-SABOTAGE   Death Penalty Is Provided in Wartime Draft Sent Senate

Anti-Sabotage Bill Passed By House Provides Death In Commission Of Hostile Act

ANTI-SABOTAGE BILL APPROVED   Death Penalty Is Provided For Commission Of Hostile Acts

House Passes Bill Demanding Death for Saboteurs; List of Offenses Is Long

House Enaets Death Penalty For Saboteurs   Amendment Frees Bill of Potential Danger to Press

ARMY'S MAN GOAL PATTERSON SAYS  MAY BE INCREASED   Upward Revision Would Mean A Heavier Draft of Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers.

Army's Goal of 7,700,000 Men May Be Boosted   Patlerson Disclos ss Present Aim to be Minuihtauar Quota

High Official Hints Boost In Draft Goal   Patierson Informs Senators of Possible Revision

Army’s Goal Of 7,700,000 May Be Hiked Official Says   Increase Would Mean Heavier Conscription Of Pre-War Fathers, Patterson Declares   TESTIFIES BEFORE BYRD COMMITTEE   Says 145,564. Civilians Dropped from Payroll Of War Department

Heavier Draft In Army Seen By Patterson   May Go Over 7,700,000, War Undersecretary Informs Groun

SIZE OF ARMY. MAY BE HIKED   Patterson Th Senators 7,700,000 By January 1 May Not Be Enough

Army's Goal Of 7,700,000 By End Of Year Indicated As Too Low By R. P. Patterson

MAY BOOST SIZE OF ARMY'S GOAL   PATTERSON TELLS SENATE GROUP REVISION WOULD CALL MORE FATHERS.:

Size Of Armiy May Be Hiked   More Fathers Will Be Drafted, Head Fears

GOAL OF ARMY FOR YEAR MAY BE INCREASED   War Dep't Official Sees Heavier Draft of Eathorc   TESTIMONY GIVEN TO SENATE GROUP

Rostov In Fast Mounting Danger Of Total Collapse  Fall Of ney Nazi Positions Above Grozny Oil Fields  si en wee eee e re ee area yrs

Interpreting  The War   Evidence Mounts Germans in Russia Breaking

CAPTURE OF HUGE PORT LOOMS SOON; “NAZIS IN RETREAT   J. S.,. British Forces Reach Gulf As Naval Base Town South Of City Falls—Clark Calls On Men For Supreme Effort _

AMERICANS SURGE ONTO NAPLES PLAIN   Fall Of Italy's Largest Port Is Expected Soon

NAPLES’ FALL IS BELIEVED BE IMMINENT   Russians Smash German Dnieper Defense Lines

Begin Final March On Doomed City After Breaking Through Mountain Defenses In 6-Dav Battle

NAZIS BREAK IN FIERCEST FIGHT SINCE AFRICA   City in Range Of Longe Toms

5th Army Cracks German Lines In Fierce Assault   Germans in Full Retreat After Six Days of Heavy Bombardment By Allied ArtilJery: Fall of Naples Held Imminent

Resistance Finally Snaps and Allies’ Capture of Italy’s Third City Is Now Believed Imminent   Americans, British Enter Pompeii After  Taking Castellammare di Stabia, 15 Miles From Wrecked City.

Of German         ALLIES BEGIN MARCH ON ITALY’S LEADING PORT;. FALL IS BELIEVED IMMINENT

Fall of Italy’s Largest Seaport Said Imminent   Fifth Army Surges > Forward Onto Plains In Rapid Advance

Ame a3 and British Reach Gulf of Naples with Capture of Naval Base Town of Castellammare Di Stabia — Pursuing Retreating German ‘Troops.

Allies Reach Gulf Of Naples, Nazi Mountain Defense Line Is Cracked

‘cemmennenenennteemmemeedl  ALLIED FORGES ONLY 1 Milt FROM Blb PORT   Germans Retreat After Fifth Arm Smashes Defenses In Sharp Fighting

Allies Begin. March to tad City of Naples.   “Mountain Defensa: Of Germans - Is Cracked .

Texas Needs Rain; Farmers Haul Wate: For Livestock   Range Feed, Stock Situation Serious  Through Wide Belt

LACK OF RAIN HAS BROUGHT SHORTAGE WATER MANY POINTS  ASIDE FROM LACK OF CROPS MOISTURE WATEI

 Withdrawal From Russia Only Nazi Move— -—By Kirke L. Simpson   Berlin Command Running Short Of Reserves

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SIOUX CITY POST WILL ENTERTAIN   District American Legion Convention To Be Held There On November 3

Miners Refuse  To Be at Meet   Lewis Says WLB Has No Jurisdiction Now;  Ready for Talks

LABOR BOARD TO MEET WITHOUT JOHN L. LEWIS   President Of Miners’ Union Says WLB Shows “Malignity Of Purpose”   WILLING TO TALK WITH OPERATORS

WAY IS OPENED FOR - WAGE BARGAINING   ‘Miners, However, Not to be Represented Before  Board

Miners Refuse To Appear Before WLB   Union Ready to Talk Contract When Operators Show Up For Conference, Says Lewis

Lewis Rejects WLB, But Asks For Wase Talk   Still Ready to Negotiate, Mine Union Leader

Lewis Scorns Bid  To WLB Hearings   eee  UMW Will Not Be Represented At Session In Washington Today; Says Miners Ready Te Resume Taiks With Operators

MARINE DECORATED FOR KILLING JAPS   Pyt. Albert Schmid Shot 200 Enemy Soldiers in Night Battle.

MEDAL AWARDED TO MARINE HERO   It Is ‘As Great» a Thrill as Shooting Japs’ - - 200 of Them on Guadalcanal

Orders Issued to Defense Corps  : Butte’s Setup to Be Inspected Monday

Orders Issued fo: Defense Corps  Butte’s Setup to.Be Tneneacted Manday

lazi Dead timated At 50,000   {ost Desperate Battle Of War Under Way

Russian Troops Storm Main Defenses of Orel   10-Day Drive Costs Nazis 50,000 Men; Reds: Capture Vital Stronghold, Make New Gains on Three Other Fronts

Storming City Main  Defenses   Important Fresh Gains Made By Savage Fighting At Three Places.

Grand Scale Drive Gains   Thousands of Enemy Killed In Bia Battle

REPORT NORSE PATRIOTS SINK * NAZI WARSHIPS   Swiss Radio Says Large ~ Allied Convoy Moves ; on Albania

ALCOTT, ZEIMER TANGLE AT WLV   Former Shanghai Newspaperman Dismissed by Station

WLW Fires Alcoti for Fight With Ziemer; Hints "Background" Source Is Encyclopedia

WLW COMMENTATOR FIRED AFTER FIGHT      Carroll Alcott’s Wisecrack at Zeimer Is Finale

CARROLL D. ALCOTT 1S FIRED BY WLW   Fist Fight With Gregor . Ziemer Ends in Discharge

DATTA AND TANKS PUSH NORT AWARD   Report New Crossings of Volturno  “seer enssnman  RAIN AIDS NAZIS  Kesselring’s Flank Endangered

NAVAL VESSELS HELP TO BLAST PATH OF EIGHTK   Troops of U. S. Fifth Try to Gain More Crossings on Volturno

WAR RATION BOOKS WILL BE USED. FOR LIQUOR PURCHASES   Formal] System To Be Begun Before Holiday Season— Only Whiskey Sales Affected Now

RATIONING OF LIQUOR SET FOR NOV. 21    War Ration Book No. 3 will Be  Used To Controt Liquor’ Buying

Big Financial Measure Before Congress Today   Bill Asking $2,621,000,000 Appropriations, Mostly for War Purposes, Is Being Examined.

SMPARCR APE SASS  Senator Charges Scandalous Profiteering on War Jobs

Profiteering  Seen by Hatch   Propose$ Board  To Pass on Contracts

ITH AND OTH ARMIES JOIN IN ASSAULT   Combined Push Designed to Turn German West Flank

DeWitt Mackenzie Says  Allies To Seek Bases For Bombers In China

Japan May Move Seat OF _ Empire to Asiatic Mainland Would Represent Loss of Face

SURRENDER OF JAPAN PROPER MIGHT NOT MEAN END OF WAR WITH [JAPANESE IN FAR EAST

The War Today— Moving Of Jap Government From Nipland Proper Not Improbable

The War Today    Hirohito’s Seat of Empire Mav Move to Asiatic Mainland

The War Today   Chandler Gives Warning Japs May Move Capital Wy Mainland

MACKENZIE ALSO SEES POSSIBILITY JAPS MAY MOVE SEAT OF GOVT.   eV Cas WER VE UY E be  Such A Move Would Cause Loss of Face for Nips and Almost Be Cause For National Hara-Kiri

The War Today   By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst

SHOWDOWN VOTE ON SUBSIDIES 1S SOUGHT BY GROUF   Farm Senators Seek Action as WLB Chairman Davis Declares Abandonment Would Be Tragedy.      MODIFIED SUBSIDY SUGGESTED BY TWO   ‘Claim Is Made That Congress Has Deserted or May Disapprove Anti-fiationary Program.

AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK JAP BASE ON NAURI ISLAND   Installations There Believed Hard Hit

AMERICAN nll BASE AT NAURU   Japanese Base In Gilbert Group Suffers Heavy Bombing Attack

Standley’s Stirring Statement   Ambassador's Revelation Of Soft Pedalling Believed To Have O. K.  OfF. D.R.

APPROPRIATION BILL GOES 10 HOUSE FLOOR   29 Billion Dollar Measure Bigest In History

BIGGEST NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS MEASURE IN'HISTORY GIVEN TO CONGRESS; NAVY PLANS OUTLINED

ALLOCATIONS FOR NAVY SET NEW RECORD   Measure Reaches Flood of House With Hopeful Message of Certain Victory   REQUESTS 29 BILLION

$29,463,687 ,198 Naval Bill Goes  Before Congress   Largest Amount In I). S. History

Bulky Report Brims With Smash Enemy InvasionPreparation   Says Carrier Backbone Of Fieet But Battleship Still In Picture; Unconditional Victory Assured   Ry ALEX TH. SINGLETON

Record Breaking Naval Fund Bill To House Floor   Nation Assured of Victory It It Will Do Its Part

$29 Billions. For Navy Sets New Record   Broad Details of Invasion Operations Covered in 19.14 Supply Bill

Aircraft Carriers, Landing Craf Stressed in Broad Qutlines for Invasions   Report Sent to House Says Battleship ‘Different Story’ Since Pear! Harbor

Navy Requests Record Budget   Ask Over 29 Billion In Measure Presented On House Floor Today.

Set Fund  to Smash Enemy   LEGISLATORS PONDER MONEY AS MESSAGE OF COMING VICTORY GIVEN

29 Billions Sought for Naval: Warfare   Admirals Say Victory Assured If Ships Are Built

House Gets Big Navy Funds Bill   29 Billions Asked for Navy Is Largest In History

Biggest Navy Bill In History Goes”  To House Floor  $29, 463,687,198 Is Sought For Next —

Largest Navy Appropriation In History..... Staggering Navy Bill Asks For 29 Billions

$29 Billion Sought By Navy in Bill   Appropriation Measure, Largest in History, Sent to House Floor Today; Leaders Confident of Victory

NAVAL SUPPLY BILL Lt NEARLY THIRTY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS   HOUSE GETS RECORD MEASURE WITH ASSURANCE OF COMING VICTORY

—APPROPRIATIONS MEASURE—   - Largest Navy Fund In History Sent To House

Money For The Navy Largest Navy Appropriat on Measure In  History Of Nation Ready For House Action

NAVY ASKS 29 BILLIONS     Record Sum Needed To Achieve Victory, House Told

Largest. Naval Appropriation In History Asked As~ Navy Department Makes Preparations F or Invasions

Navy Prepares For Invasion Task As House Committee Approves Bill Outlining $29,463,687,198 Program

Command Of Big War Area Listed      BOTH MacARTHUR AND HALSEY RUNNING SHOW

Command In Pacific Is ~ Harmonious   Lack of Single Head Ne Bar to Co-Ordination of Striking Force

SPLIT COMMAND INS W, PACIFIC STILL EFFECTIVE   MacArthur, Halsey Hold Positions As Commanders

PACIFIC AREA STILL SPLIT   Command Divided, But Spirit of Perfect Co-ordination Prevails.

Authority Still Split In Pacific MacArthur And Halsey  Hold Commands

ADMIRAL HALSEY VISITS M’ARTHUR   Two Leaders Confer on Major Course of Action to Follow in Pacific

Pacitic Command Still Divided But Perfect Co-ordination Is Assured

WAR COMMAND IN PACIFIC THEATER REMAINS DIVIDED   COORDINATION IS ASSURED BY HALSEY AND MAC ARTHUR

Conference  Disposes Of  Many Issues   Report Progress Good Thus Far

So Far So Good In Moscow Meeting   Tri-Nation Leaders Settling Important Points

TRIPARTITE — CONFERENCE IN TENTH DAY   Some of Most Important Questions Reported to Have Already Been Settled

NAZIS COMMENT OW TRAN MEETING   Break Dam on Flow of Propaganda Aimed to Offset True Meaning of Resolution; Expect Invasion Soon   BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nazis Dope Out Parley Meaning   Statement Fishes For Allied Plons

Axis Snipes at Tri-Power Meet   Propagandists Angle For Tip on Plans

OVERSEAS FORCE 5 MILLION IN °44   Industrialists Hear Army to Spend 22 Billion on Supplies

WARNS NATION “BATTLES AHEAD   ARMY PLANS TO: DOUBLE FORCE OF 2,500,000 MEN: NOW OVERSEAS, DEN  §ON BAYS

Figure Told - At Conference   Army Ground Forces Will Have Big Supply Bill

‘\Colonel Tells Conference By End of Year.  U.S. to Have 5 Million Men Svirsens   (Details of Monday's conference on Page 2-A)

waa”. rereEeeEeEeEeEeeee  Herriot, Former French Premier,  Reported Dead

Seek Senate Committee’s Immediate Approval On US Post-War Resolution

ATTEMPT TO BOOST HULL'S POWER AT MOSCOW MEETING   Seek Approval Of Post-War Collaboration Plan By Senate — Group

16 Fliers Killed, Five Hurt In Two Crashes  Three Planes of Pocatello ; Base Crack Up

OO teeter SS  UNDER WAY TODAY   Judge Marvin Jones Tempor ary Chairman: Press ~-s- Barred

United Nations Food Meet Lacks Authority to Open’ lis Quarters to Press

FoodConference To Open Today At Hot Springs   Controversy Still On However, as to Rights Of Newsmen at Confab

FOOD PARLEY WILL _ BESTARTED TODAY   Job of Assuring Humanity enough to Eat to be — Tackled

Parley Press L Rule Stands   Food Delegates Unable To Admit Renarterc

Food Conference Will Be Closed To Newspapermer   Head of U. S. Delegatior Says He Can't Change Regulations

Food Parley Doors Close To Reporters   Chairman Expresses ‘Regrets’ in Talk  To Press Gathering

No Newspaper Reporters But Plenty of Liquol At Allied Food Conference Opening Tuesday:

Reds Recover  250 Villages On All Fronts   Arlemoysk Falls, Stalino Flanked. Germans Naedesait TDeseeccccct

Russians Sweep Ahead in Drive On Donets Basir   Overrun 120 Towns, Artillery Only 15 Miles From Stalino

Martin’s Inau uration — &  Will Keynote His Term   Governor-Elect Says His Tenure Will Be One Of Severe Military Simplicity—Ceremony. Curtailed

PARADE BANNED AT INAUGURATION OF GOV, MARTIN      Out Of Tune With Times, Said; Motorists May Drive To Inanucural

BOMBS ON Ib JAP VESSELS AVIENG   Sink or Damage Seven Warships and Five Merchantmen

DROP BOMBS ON Ip JAP VESSELS AT KAVIENG   Sink or Damage Seven Warships and Five Merchantmen

PACIFIC FORCE DISPERSED BY HUGE BOMBERS   Seven Warships And Five Cargo Vessels Are Sunk Or Badly Damaged   SUPPLY BASE IS SMASHED   Series Of Blows Routs Enemy Concentrated Around New Ireland

Flying Forts Score Victory   Gen. MacArthur's Airmer Sink Or Damage 12 Jap Warships And Mer. chantmen   THREE SUCCESSIVE PRE DAWN ATTACKS  oe oe ee a a a

Series Of Three Attacks By Allied Airmen Believed To Have Wiped Out New Concentration Of Foe   UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 5 #£=x(INS).—Ampican

With Our Soldiers and Sailors 2\e@ @           Lieut. and Mrs. Lawrence Cochran Are Visiting Here

With Our  Soldiers  i and \ Sailors 10 @      Lieut. and Mrs. Lawrence Cochran Are Visiting Here

9 Major Fields Blasted, 43 Axis Plane: Shot Down   Swarms of Axis Planes Seek to Ward Off Blows. 13 Allied Pianes Missing.

43 Axis Fighters Shot Down In Heavy Attack on Island; ltalians Blow Up Own Port   Raiders Also Aim Heavy Blows” At Seaptane Base Near Rome;  Elvina Eortresses Bomb France

Bombers. Hit Ai Fields in Sicily   43 Axis Fighters Shot Down - in Operations, Over.  _ the Island   ‘BOMB BASE NEAR ROME   American Airmen Spend In© dependence Day in Pro- , longed Attack

Allied Air Blitz Hits Sicily   43 AXIS FIGHTERS ARE DOWNED AS FIVE FIELDS ARE SMASHED IN RAIDS

Allies Smash Sicly Bases   U.S., R.A.F. Bomber: ‘Soften’ 5 Airtields, Down 43 Axis Craft

SICILY 1S HIT BY U.S, FLYERS   Yanks Strafe Italian’s Major Landing Fields in Bold Forays Sunday

Landing Fields On Sicily Again Targets of Bomb:   British and Yank Squadrons Attack Vital Installations

Allied Fliers Pour Bombs or Sicily Fields   Shoot Down 43 Axis Planes While Allies Lose Only 13; Base Near Rome Raided

Yanks Down 43 Planes In Fierce Fight Over Sicily   Raiders Hit Five Airfields Hard; Air Control Over Island At Stake

AIR SUPREMACY OVER SICILY OBJECTIVE NEW U. . OFFENSIVE  HiVe MAND CICITIAN AP.   FIVE MAJOR SICILIAN AIR DROMES BLASTED BY “AMERICAN FLIERS ©

AIR SUPREMACY OVER SICILY OBJECTIVE NEW U. 5, OFFENSIVE  FIVE MAJOR SICILIAN AIRDROMES BLASTED BY AMERICAN FLIERS

FIELDS GET POUNDINGS   Allies Lose 13 War: @ planes In Heavy Air Opposition

5 Major Fields Blasted, 43. Axis Planes Shot Down   Swarms of Axis’ Planes Seek to’ Ward Off   Blows. 13 Allied Planes + Mises. - °°

AIR SUPREMACY VER ISLAND IS AIM OF ALLIES   Heaviest Opposition in Recent Weeks Is Reported

SEEK COMPROMISE ON POSTWAR POLICY   Would Base Declaration On Moscow Pact

Group in Senate Asks Support of Moscow Accord   Compromise Plan Urged in Foreign Policy Dispute

‘Moscow Pact  Keys Senate Compromise   Bali- Burton- Hatch-Hill Group te Back World Peace Organization

MAIN DEFENSES OF JAPS NEAR LAE IN DANGER ON -FRIDA'   Two Allied Columns Approach Them, Bringing Artillery to Shell the Sector.

ALLIED FORCES APPROACH MAIN TAE DEFENSES:      Bring Up Artillery To Shell Bomb-Wrecked New Couinesa Const.

Allied Troops Nearing Lae™ And Salamaus   Air Bombardment ‘Reduces’ Big Base . Practically. To: Ruins:

ALLIED GUNS REDUCE FORTS A1 LAE TO RUINS   M’Arthur’s Men Push On Guinea Coastal Rase In Two Columns

Allied Pincers Closing en Lae   Two Columns Near  Main Jap Defenses

2 ALLIED COLUMNS REPORTED NEARING JAP LAE HOLDINGS   Moving _ Up p Artillery To Shell Bomb-Wrecked Coastal Base Of 7  Nia! wise awa

Allied Pincers Tighten on Lae   TWO UNITED NATIONS COLUMNS CONVERGE ON TRAPPED JAPANESE GARRISON; AUSSIES, YANK PARATROOPS NEAR NEW GUINEA BASE

TOBEAR ON LAE BASE BADLY  ine COLUMNS BRING GUNS SMASHED BY HEAVY BOMBING

ALLIED COLUMNS BRINGING UP ARTILLERY 19 SHELL LAE   Aussie Forces Reach Busu River Near Jap Base

Nebraska Base Has 2 Plane Crashes   13 Soldiers Killed Over Week-End

Hitler Use — Of Gas To  Be Countered   All Germany To Be Bathed: In Lethal Fumes-

Hitler Reported  Churchill Warns of immediate Reprisals, if Used

London Quickly Warns Nazis of Reprisals in! Kind if Carried Out.   GERMANS DENY ANY INTENTIONS

Premier Churchill Says Allied Forces Are Ready to Retaliate if Germans Resort to Inhuman Practice.

British Ready To Return Ga:   Churchill Warns Germans After Hearing Nazis Plan Use Of Weapon,

Hear Hitler Plans Use (Of Gas Against Soviets   British Government Vows Use Of Gas By Either Germany Or Her Satelites Will Bring Immediate. Reprisals 

Churchill Vows Reprisal In Kind If Germans Start   Danger Not Passed

GAS USE HINTED IN RUSSIAN WAR   pare Will Retaliate, Germany Warned by Churchill

Chemical Warfare Against ‘Russ Would Bring Quick ‘Reprisals, London Asserts

Britain Warns ‘Hitler of Gas   Britain to Make Immediate Reprisals If Axis Uses Gas

Hitler Ready To Use Gas London Hears   Britain Promises Quick Reprisals Throughout Reich

Britain to Meet Any Nazi Gas Use   Reports Received Hitler In tends to Employ Gas in Russian War.

HEAR AXIS WILL USE POISON GAS AGAINST RUSSIA   Churchill Issues Threat If Germans Carry Out Scheme

WARN HITLER ON USING GAS   British Vow !mmediate Reprisals Against All of  Germany.   EMPHASIZE AIR POWER

Hitler Preparing To Use Poison Gas In Russia; Britain Warns Of Retaliation

Britain Hears Hitler Planning Poison Gas Use   Churchill Warns Of Retaliation In Kind On All Of Germany.

BRITAIN AGAIN WARNS HITLER AGAINST USE GAS   British Will Retaliate Thruout Whole Expanse of Germany if Nazis Use Gas on Russians.

BRITISH WA NAZIS AGAINST GAS WARFARE   Report Hitler Planning Use of Poison Gas Against Reds

BRITAIN PROMISES. REPRISALS   Reports Of Plans For Using Poison Gas In Russia Heard

REPORTS REVEAL HITLER PREPARES FOR NEW OUTRAGE  BRITONS CHECK GAS   BRITONS CHECK GAS MASKS AS RESULT OF CHURCHILL WARNING

Britain Will Retaliate If Hitler Uses Poison Gas, Churchill Warns

Britain: Threatens: To Retaliate: If Germans Use Poisonous Gases

GERMANS WARNED OF RETALIATION SHOULD THEY USE POISON GAS  BRITISH GOVERNMENT ASSERTS NEW HITLER PLANS  MCOCA DCD

Prime Minister Churchil Says He Has Learned Supplies Have Reach ed Russian Fronts   BERLIN DENIES IT   Britain Promises Reprisals: Russia Says Seized Documents Reveal Chemical Warfare Plans

DARES NAZIS T0 USE POISON GAS   Full Retaliation Promised By Churchill If Chemical Employed   MASKS ARE CHECKED

Hitler Plans to Use Gas, British Hear  Churchill Reports “TT  »y PF... ft... Cf. gl   Churchill Reports That Russian Front Is Objective

England Warns Allies Promptly Will Retaliate   German People Told By Radio What To Expect After  Violations

NAZIS WARNED AGAINST USE OF POISON GAS      Churchill, Told Hitler Plans Its Use on Russian Front, Threatens  Wholesale Reprisal

USE OF GAS WILL BRING RETALIATION   British Government Vows That Immediate Reprisals Will Be Made If Accord Is Broken   BROADCAST TO BERLIN

Nazi Use of Poison Gas In Russia Before Long Feared - - Hitler Warned

Nazis Preparing to Use Gas in Russia,  Churchill Informec   British Prime Minister Sounds Warning of Reprisals to Hitler

Hitler to Use Poison Gas, Says London   Churchill Warns of Retaliation If Used Against Russian Troops

Hitler Gets Poison Gas UseWarnins   Attack in Russia To Bring Immediate Reprisal ly Allies

Britain Says Reprisals m Kind to Be Taken on Military Objectives

BLAST KILLS PLANT HAND, HALTS OUTPUT   Wrecks Windows, Chimneys for Six-Block Radius

Another Cold Wave On Way   Rain And Snow Expected Tonight With Mercury Diving

COLD WAVE ON WAY      Rain Changing to Snow Is Forecast For Tonight ‘

Food Weapon ir North Africa, Declares F. B.      'Iarmers Urged to Produce In Unprecedented Quantity

TO TAKE COAL _ WAGE DISPUTE   Refers Southern Operators Plea to Labor Secretary — Steelman Tells Conference Get- Busy

MINERS TO PRESS WAGE DEMANDS, LEWIS DECLARE:   Presidential Order Leaves Problems of Coal Industry Unchanged, Union Leader Asserts.

WLB DECLINES — ACTION IN COAL WAGE DISPUTE   Operators Telegram Requesting Immediate Intervention Turned Over to Secretary Perkins

WLB DECLINES 10 TAKE QUICK ACTION   Refers Mine Operators’ Telegram To Secretary Perkins

WLB DECLINES 10 INTERVENE IN MINE CASE      Refuses to Take Immediate  Jurisdiction of Wage Dis-” pute Between Union   and Operators   CASE TO PERKINS   ‘Meanwhile, Negotiators  Told by Conciliator to   “Get Busy and Do Something”

MINE DISPUTE UPTO PERKINS   WLB Refers Operators’ Appeal to Secretary of Labor, Who Can Certify Case

ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH IS SCENE OF WEDDING   Miss Colleen Joyce Good Becomes Bride Of Pfc. Donald W: Shaeffer At Ceremony There

WEDDING RITES OCCUR AT SHERMAN’S CHURCH   Miss Mary Elizabeth Stonesifer Becomes Bride Of William E. Bittinger This Afternoon

COLOGNE GETS PASTING FROM RAF BOMBERS   DEVASTATION PILED UPON GERMANY'S WAR MACHINE

British Batter City of Cologne For Second Time   Bombers Blast Industria Center in Continuing Great Raids

COLOGNE 13 TARGET FOR HEAVY RAID   Rhineland Industrial City Devastated By Fleets Of R A F Bombers; Flying Fortresses Also Roar   Bag Six Planes

RAF Blasts Cologne With Another Devastating Raid    Germons Admit Heavy Damage And Claim The  Fqgmous Cathedral Was Dealt Severe Damage

Blow at Rhine Capital Equals War’s Worst   Fortresses Follow Up Over France; Cruiser, “Refineries, Harbor 1 in Raid on Italy

Great Bomber Fleets Also Batter U-Boat Center at Hamburg  100 FORTRESSES POUND LEGHORN  Italian Light Cruiser, Four Cargo Ships Hit And Great Fires Set

RAF Batters Cologne,  Sub Nest   Devastation Heaped on Reich Reaches Record Proportions for Single Month With Twa Nichts Still ta Go

Greatest Sustained Bombardment of War Carried Into 11th Day; “Train Busting” Operations Renewed

Cologne and Hamburg Are Flyers’ Targets   Attack Rail . Operations in Northern France

COLOGNE AGAIN TARGET OF BOMBS   Industrial City Bears Brunt of Double Attack   HAMBURG BLASTED   RAF Fighters Renew Theit ‘Train-busting’ Operations Over North France

Cologne, Hamburg; Leghorn Feel Blast of Bombs In Mignly Air Offensive

RAF Lashes Two German Centers   Cologne, Hamburg Feal Allied Furv.

BRITISH AIRMEN POUND COLOGNE; LOSE 23 PLANES   Attack Made by Great Fleet ef Bombers—Other Fliers Hammer U-Boat Center of Hamburg,   RAIDS ARE FOLLOWED BY DAYLIGHT ATTACKS   Furious Bombardment of German-Held Europe Carried Through Its Eleventh Consecutive Day.

U-BOAT CENTER AND INDUSTRIAL CITY POUNDED   New High In Destruction Heaped On Germany’s War Machine In Month Of June   ! Locomotives Hit

British Planes Batter Cologne And Hamburg   Allied Fliers Carry Bombardment of Europe Through 11th  Consecutive Day

9-POUND TWIN BOYS BORN IN CINCINNATI   Believed Smallest Pair to Survive Birth—Doctor Gives Them Fair Chance to Live.

Fe ar-Reaching Effect. ‘OL Parley Foreseen; } Stalin May Join Duc

Anglo-American Staffs in Agreement As Churchill-Roosevelt Sessions Enc

WAR STRATEGY OF ALLIES HAS BEEN FULLY DECIDED   a ¥ iS FULL AGREEMENT REACHED.  ON STEPPING UP OFFEN .  BIVES IN EUROPE, AND: PACIFIC.

U.S. - Britain ln Agreement  On War Plan   President Roosevelt And Prime Minister Churchill Complete Strategy Program   OFFENSIVES WILL BE GIVEN IMPETUS

U.S. SHOULD MAINTAIN BIG ARMY, NAVY   Demand made at closing session of Legion Convention today

Wants Army, Navy Ready For Action   ‘National Defense” Resolution Is Adopted ji

Heavy Japanese Cruiser Hit in Raid on Rabaul   Enemy Preparing For Sea Battle

SHOWDOWN IS APPROACHING IN SOLOMONS AREA   Japs Continue To Reinforce Rabaul; One" Enemy Cruiser Torpedoed   GROUND TROOPS ARE STILL ADVANCING

Allies Again Score  On Japs in  Pacific Campaign Probable Hit Is Made  On Heavy Cruiser; Other Ships Bombed

to Rabaul or Showdown  Ships Move f   Torpedo Hit Scored On Heavy Cruiser: Bombers Sink Three Coastal Ships, Barges

JAPANESE CRUISER iS "PROBABLY HIT”   Allied Air Torpedo Be. lieved to Have Struck Enemy Ship

Japs Mass Ship: In Rabaul Area   Allies Report Light Pacific Operations .

ALLIES WIDEN — BEACHHEAD IN MUNDA REGION   179 Japanese Killed In Action Near Lilio Sector 

Beachhead Widened by Allies in — Attack on Munda      179 Bitterly-Resisting Japs Are Slain by Ground Forces; Bombers Carry Out Widespread Raids on Enemvy-Held Base:

Allied Chiefs Map Blows  Against Japs Marshal Wavell  Confers With FH R CMhaecehill

Momentous Talks Continue   Experts on Asiatic Theater With Roosevelt, Churchill

PLAN BLOWS AGAINST JAP AND HITLER   Military Chiefs From Asiatic Area Are In Churchill’: Train At Conferences In Washington   Invasions Of Europe

FDR, Churchill Map  New Blows at Axis   Campaigns Against Japan, as V ell as (-ermany. Foreseen as Two Leaders Begi:  Global War Talks: British Leaders Here

New Blows Against Japs Being Mapped In War Conference   Wavell, Other British Aides And U.S, Far East Chiefs Have Part In Parley’

War Parleys Map Blows At Japs, Axis   Britain’s Premier, Roosevelt Hint Double Offensive

CHURCHILL-FOR MAP PLANS 10 SMASH JAPAN   British India Commanders Included in Talks in Washington      LEADERS WILL PROBABLY CHECK EUROPE STRATEGY

Churchill And FDR In  Conferences   Kastern Experts Are Among Military Staffs At Talks.

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL PLAN NEW ATTACKS AGAINST THE JAPS   Discuss Campaign Plans with British and American Leaders Familiar with Situation

FDR, Churchill Map Blows On  Japs, Germans   Presence of Military Men  in Capital Points Definitely to Object of Conference

Invasions Of Europe Also Being Planned By Leaders   British Officers From India Theatre Of War } Are Attending Washinaton Parleys On Fight

Roosevelt, Churchill Mapping New Offensive Against Pacific Enemy   Allied Leaders Believed Arranging For Decisive Campaign Against Japs; Making Final Plans For E uropean Invasion

PACIFIC FRONT ACTION WEIGHED IN WASHINGTON   President Roosevelt and Churchill Consider New Attacks on Japanese Forces.   _WAVELL IS PRESENT ~ FOR MOMENTOUS TALKS   Observers Belieye Plans Already Made for Invasion of Europe and These Will Be Checked.

Roosevelt, Churchill Map New Blows Against Japan As Well as Europe Foes   British and American Commanders in Far East ‘At Washington Parleys; African Victory is Big Factor

Africa Victory Opens Way for  Blows at Japan Roosevelt, Churchill  Plan Pacific Moves  With War Staffs

Allied Blows Shaking Sicily   16 Enemy Planes Destroyed At Airdromes And Ground Installations Attacked On Italian Island

Reds Threaten Nazi Front In Southern White Russia Afte Capture of Gomel Bastion

Moscow Celebrates Fall Of Gomel To Soviet Attackers  Germans Had Admitted Evacuation. But The   Germans Had Admitted Evacuation, But The Moascow Announcement Withheld Until Friday

King George Back In Great Britain   Returns To England By Air Early Today After Trip To Africa

BRITISH KING 5 RETURNED HOMI   Makes Uneyentful Flight from  Africa After Surprise Visits to the Front.

KING RETURNS FROM N. AFRICA   Piict Says Air Trip Was Uneventful, With No Enemy Planes Sighted

MONARCH COMPLETES TRIP OF “4000 MILES THAT ‘TOOK . HEM 10 AFRICA AND MALTA.

ing George Concludes Historic Journey To View Battlefronts By Flight Back Home In Big Bombe:

Al, cA, LAND FORGES KEEP UP ATTAGK Gh JAPO   MacArthur’s Forces Pound _ Munda and Other Ene my Strong Points.   MOP UP NEW GEORGIA   Jap Defense Forces Still Resist in Viru Harbor Fighting.

AIR, SEA, LAND FORGES KEEP UP ATTACK OW JAPS   MacArthur's Forces Pound Munda and Other Ene‘my Strong Points.   MOP UP NEW. GEORGIA   Jap Defense Forces - Stil Resist in Viru Harbor Fighting. .—

DISASTER IN _ WILLAMETTE RIVER VALLE}   Ohio River, Meanwhile, Sweeps on to Crest With Damage Running Into the Millions

Flood Cause: Milions i in Damage   Six People Killed, Hundreds Evacuated, Highways Are Covered; Red Cross Officials Fear Disease Outbreak

BIG OREGON FLOOD   Six Lives Lost in Unseasonal Rise of Willamette River

SIXDEAD.AS FLOOD HITS OREGON AREA   Loss Runs Into -Millions In Willamette River Section   NEARS LARGE CITIES   AD Red Cross Directs Relief Work as Many Towns lsolated

Six Deaths In Oregon Flood; Damage Mounts   Swollen Ohio’ River, Meanwhile, Hurls Fury At Portsmouth.

Oregon Also Has Flood Trouble   Six Dead; Damage Runs Into Millions

Oregon Lists Six Dead, Huge Property Los:   Cities Along Willamette River In Path Of Record Flood

DEATH, DESTRUCTION IN OREGON FLOODS   Williamette Valley Is Swept By Surging Waters

To Defend Against Britishers   Montgomery’s Eighth Army Coming to Relief of American Forces

Rommel Tightens  Defenses   Russians March Westward and Close in on Orel

British Eighth Army About Ready To Make Stab At Mareth Line: On Red Front, Soviets Nearing Ore

Rommel Swings fo Defend Lines Against British   Allied Planes Blast at Nazi Positions; Yanks Dig in on Hills

Rommel Stilk Holds Edge In Tunisia For Moment After Inflicting Heavy Losses On   NO IMMEDIATE TEST ON MARETH BULWARK

GOP House Chiefs Confident That _ No Other Pay-Go Tax Bill Will Get Okey After Defeat Of Ruml Plan

HOUSE GOP. STILL CERTAIN OF FINAL VICTORY ON TAXE!   Only Rum! Plan, They De clare, Has Chance of Getting Maiority.

TAX PLAN IS REFERRED 10           “k uml Plan by Fi ahd-194 Vote

RUML PLAN HAS 3RD DEFEAT IN. HOUSE; OUTCOME UNKNOWN   Republican _ Leaders Fee! ’ No Other Pay-As-Go Plan Can Get Majority .

Republicans Hold Firm Against — Other Tax Plans   No Other Bill Will Pass, GOP Leader Tells Reporters

COMPROMISE MAY BE MADE ON RUML TAX PLAN IN U, S!   Optimistic Look Forward to Agreement, Others Predict a Long Dead Tock,

RAIN IS NEEDED IN SOUTHWEST SECTOR   Wheat Hit Hard by Weathe During Winter

Soviet Drive Through Estonia Is Forecast   Leningrad Sector Looms As Scene Of Next Major Blow; Defeated Germans Eyacuate Crimea With Reds In Hot Pursuit 5

FAMOUS ACE BUGGESTS  MOTHERS: OF MEN IN SERVICE ORGANIZE TO BACK  J... LEGISLATION © ¢

RICK FAVORS BAN ON STRIKES   War Mothers Are Urged To Work For Law Assuring Full Production

French Delegate Is  In Favor of  Several New Steps Conferee Says Credit,  Employment Are Part of Food Problem

On Display On Main Street Here ‘Saturday Night   Adult Admission Will Be $25 Bond; Children Admission 25 Cent Stamp

Japanese Sub To Be Displayed  In Pocahontas   Boat Captured by U. S. Navy : Near Pearl Harbor

Small Gain Is Made By Fifth Army   Strategic Heights Being Stormed by British Vets

British Veterans Continue Advance On Road To Rome   Gen. Montgomery’s Troops Gain Four Miles On 12-Mile Front; Yanks Of Fifth Army Capture Town; Airmen Support Drive

Adriatic      SAVAGE 36-HOUR BATTLES IN BRITISH POUNDING FOR IN MOVEMENT TOWARD RO

WIN SAVAGE. 36 HOUR BATTLE NEAR ADRIATIC   British Continue to Pound Forward in Offen: sive to Smash Open tie Roads ) ama.

British Break Into Main-Nazi Defenses in Italy   -“Success Comes Following 36° Hour Battle

FORCES MOVE UP AS ENEMY FIGHTS ALONG 12 MILES   Clark’s Fifth Army Advances One Mile, No Indication of General Attack From German Units.   BRITISH AIRMEN IN RAID OVER GERMAN)   RAF Bombers Remain on Ground Owing to Weather, Fires Still Burning In Parts of Berlin.

Nazi Winter  Line Cracked By British   Eighth Army Smashes Ahead on 12-Mile Front on Road to Rome

NACI DEFENaE LINE GRUNDLtS BEFORE ATTACK   Montgomery’s Men Push Forward In Savage Drive To Open Way To Rome

Anny Air Forces Ranked Equally With Ground Unit:   Post-War Radios May Be Available Sooner If Army Surplus is Released

NAZIS MENAGED ON BALKAN FRONT BY ALLIED THRUST   Occupation of Italy Provides Pivots for Several Other Attacks.

Last Principal Point On 1941 Defense Line   Steadily Pursuing Remnants  of Nazi Army

UVIET ARMY 1 UAIVING Oh AGAINST QREL   WAS GREAT VICTORY   Moscow Reports Russians Have Broken Strong Nazi Defense.

$1,359.92 Motion to adjourn, carried. A. W. Hansen, Clerk.  a ne omni:   Warning to Employers

NEW EMPLOYE TAX REPORTS OCT. 31   \Fi irst Quarter Payment of With holdings from Salaries and Wages Up to Sept. 30.

TIME TO REMIT WITHHOLDING TAX   Send In Money Withhele From Worker’s Pay

Russians Report Fresh Advances   Nazi Counterattacks Are Driven Back

Red Troops Roll On Slowly “in Orel Sector; Many Die   Major Axis Blow Fought To Standstill As ‘ts Nazis Attempt To Healt Russ Drive On Orel

Prelude to Invasion of New Britain   Mighty Air Blows Believed Blasting Path for an Early Smash at Jan Kev

NEW BRITAIN BELIEVED NOW IN MAKING BY STRONG ALLIED FORCE   Heavy Bombing Raids Seen As Opening Way fo Invasion and Later Attacks on Philippines or Grea Naval: Bastion of Truk

New. Britain  Island May Be Invaded Soon   Arawe, Gasmata and Linden Harbor Receive Heavy Bombardments from General MacArthur’s Bombers

LONG-THREATENED ALLIED INVASION OF NEW &Asca NEARING  PORT OF ARAWE BLASTEL BY UNUSUALLY HEAVY  mRhresEraam TBAT Ae

Yank Planes Batter Genoa   “Big Rail Yards Are Hord Hit In Attacks

Bright Christmas For Kiddies  +++ +4 Normal Load Of Toys Is Expected Despite Priorities

POSS SOOO SOSH SESH OSHS SESE6 O46 40646 660060464666648  War Can’t Stop Old Saint Nick

Santa Claus Will Do His Best fo Carry Full Pack For Nation's Youngsters Christmas Eve

WAR NOT 10 LIMIT SANTA’S TOY SUPPL’   St. Nicholas Works Overtime To Meet Extra Demands

CHINA DRIVES INVADER OFF KWANGTUNG   JAP TROOPS, SU PPLIES HIT BY AMERICAN BOMBERS IN BORDER AREA

YOUNG WELDER GIVEN 2 YEARS FOR SABOTAGE   Former Employe of Martin Aircraft Plant, Baltimore, - Convicted on Four Counts   TERMED UNFAITHFUL   Court.Says, in Passing-Sentence, “Those Fighting Must Know We Are Keeping’ Faith”

Thomas Gets Two Years On Charge Of Sabotage   Have To Keep Faith With Those Fighting For Us, Says Judge In Passing Sentence

WAR PRISONERS ARE — EMPLOYED ON FARMS   Stimson Says Facilities Are Available For Handling All Captives  In Tunisia

PRISONERS OF WAR NOW WORK IN U. S   Prison Camps _ Establishec But Location Secret

Nelson Wins  Over Critics      White House Denies He'll Be Removed

SOVIET ARMIES CONTINUE PUSH TOWARD ROSTOV   Five-Headed Drive Is Directed At Destruction Of Invaders   STALINGRAD DEFEAT ADMITTED BY NAZIS

SOVIETS ROLL ON IN ROSTOV DRIVE   Great Southern Offensive -of Russians Gains Momentum

Plans Are Drafted For Wheat Boost   But as Yet Farmers Are Not Assured of Price They May Get at Harvest.

1944 GRAIN PRICE STILL NOT SETTLED   Farmers May ‘Plant Without Government Assurance of Harvest Prices

Winter Wheat Program Slow For Midwest   Farmers May Be Forced To Plant Without Being Guaranteed Price.   JONES DELAYS PLANS

FLOODS DO DAMAGE IN FIVE STATES   Indiana and Illinois Are  Hit Hardest

Damage  To Crops Tremendous   Soldiers Sent to Several Points  Menaced by Flood

DEATH TOLL RISESINUSS. FLOOD AREAS   Five Dead, Many Missing In 5 Central States

Floods Drive Thousands From Homes   Rampaging Midwest Rivers Do Millions In Damace

RIVERS FLOOD FARM LANDS   Three Drowned, Hun dreds Missing in Five States

Swollen Rivers in Five States Go On Rampage and Inundate Farm Land in Five States: Several Drown   Mississippi Out Of Its Banks in St. Louis Area

ALLIES DESTROY ISLE AIRFIELDS   New Blows Cause Heavy Damage To Axis Bases On Sicily And Sardinia

BOOTLEG LIQUOR ERA ENVISIONED   Enforcement Agencies Advised To Combat Wartime Shortage Evils

RETURN OF GANG ~ ERA IS FORECAST   Beverage Chief Says Situation Comparable To Prohibition

Stimson Backs  Manpower Bill   Passave of Proposed Measure Ureed

SNOW MOVES THIS WAY   Weatherman Sees No/Extreme Cold . Weather! for This Area

Colder And More Snow   No Extreme Cold Expected In Kansas Says State Bureau

Drivers for Pleasure Warned, Officials Mean to Get Tough on Enforcement

Fire Damages Philadelphia P.R.R. Station. 100 Injured   seven Passenger Cars Are Swept by Flamés And Loss of $250,000 Estimated by Official  STATION’S 16 TRACKS PUT OUT OF SERVICE  Much Equipment Lost, ~1,500 Pieces Baggage Listed as Destroved

FIRE SWEEPS PHILADELPHIA PRR STATION   At Least 100 Injured: Damage Estimated A+ $250,000

$250,000 Fire. Hulls Station   More Than 100 Injared Tee Thadleaclesdealezes

WEA May Buy More Goods Te  Assure Prices   Advisable By Advanced Pro. duction Costs, Elimination  Of AAA Payments.   HAVE 2-PRICE SYSTEM

Food Chief Jones Is Against United Stales Buying Whole Food Supply and Reselling If to Beat Inflation, Aides Say

WFA MAY PURCHASE MORE COMMODITIES 70 HOLD PRICES UP   REPORTS DISCOUNTED, HOWEVER, THAT ENTIRE FOOD SUPPLY BE BOUGHT

WEA May Buy More Food To Prop Prices  Government May Have To Raise

Say W.F.A. May Have to Purchase More Commodities to Assure Prices

Government May Buy More Food   But Price Support Won't Cover 100%

DENY PLAN FOR GOV'T T0 BUY NATION’S FOOD   Food Czar Not Available For Comment

JONES SAYS U.S. MAY STEP UP FOOD BUYING   Designs Plan To Give Farmers Higher Prices

Two Persons Are Injured In Twisting Winds Over Texas  Scattered Thundershowers Cover Most Of  State And Fytand Nenrly Inta The Valley

Censorship to Be Stricter   Statf Doubled as Events Move Toword European lavaszion

British Fleet , Saved by Work Of Lone Pilot   Single Fighter Covered En tire Mediterranean Sea Area   Story of Bravery Giver Out by Admiralty for First Time

British Mediterranean Air Umbrella ‘Grew From a Single Fichter Pilot

Single Fighter Plane Was Once Sole Air Defense of Important British Fleet

Volunteer Bombardiers To Blast Japs’ Home Den   Stamp Drive To Build Huge Carrier

Substitute Tax Plan Is Offered   Forgive 75 Percent, Is George Proposal

OPEN INVESTIGATION ON LAKE COLLISION   Captain Loses Life as Ships Collide Sunday

Guess What Soldiers Want? Income Blanks!   They Fien’t Have ‘y" Fis If Abroad, But They Want ye Anyway

TAX BILL IS TRANSFORMED IN COMMITTEE   Measure Is Greatly Altered During Speedy Trip Through Finance Group   IS READY FOR DEBATE

Senate Gets New Version  Of Tax Bill   Would Abate Lower Of Either 1942 or 19413 Income Leyy

See Advantage In Tax Change   Retroactive Increased Tax Legislation Would Beeome Unnecessary.

‘SENATE FINANCE IREPORTS TAX BILL TO SENATE TODAY  DECLARED IT WILL BE  UNNESESSARY PASS RETROACTIVE LEGISLATION

MAJORITY REPORT GIVEN ON RUML SKIP-A-YEAR PLAN   Senate Group Feels It Unnecessary to Pass Retroactive Increased Tax Legislation If Plan Adopted

QPEN TAX DEBATE   Senate Finance Committee Favors Ruml-Carlson Plan

SKIP-A-YEAR’ TAX PLAN READY FOR.DEBATE.   If. Measure is Adopted It Will Be Necessary  . to Pass Retroactive  Taw  eoialation.

Red Cross Now Serving In 18 Foreign Areas      ORGANIZATION HAS LARGE NUMBER OF WORKERS STATIONED IN DIFFERENT COMBAT AREAS OF WORLD

THREATENS NEW. PARTY IN SOUTH   ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith Declares Now Is The Time For Purging

south AUPE’ FOR ~NEW PARTY-SMITE   Seeks Time in Senate to Wave Banner of Independent Demo Party.

A SOUTHERN DEMO PARTY IS ADVOCATED   “Cotton Ed” Smith of South Carolina Declares Time Is “Ripe” for Such a Move—Doesn’t Like Hankins 

WAVES BANNER OF NEW PARTY   SEN. SMITH DECLARES IT’S TIME TO PURGE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY

"Cotton Ed" Smith Doesn't Like Harry Hopkins’ Cooking, Urges Party Purge

Smith Wants New Party for Southerners   Says South Tired of Being Kicked Around by Democratic Party: Senate Committee Works on Tax Bill

SOUTHERN SEEK TO LEAVE DEM PARTY   Cotton Ed Says ‘Now Is the Time for Us to do Some Purging’

BELIEVES TIME “RIPE” FOR A PARTY REVOLT   Smith Says Purging Time At Hand

DEMOCRAT ADDS SPICE 10 CAPITAL WHIRL   Controversies Over Taxes And Subsidies Share Congress Spotlight

ONETIME PURGE TARGET CALLS FOR NEW PART   Cotton Ed Smith Says Time Is Ready For Southern Revolt

Smith Joins Dixie Revolt   South Believed Ripe For New. Party Unit

South Carolina Senator Joins Dem. Revolt   "Cotton Ed" Smith Says It Is. Time for Changes In Controlling Faction  DOESN'T LIKE HOPKINS

Time ‘Ripe’ Form Southern Party Says Cotton Ed   Dean of Senate Says It’s Time To Do Some “Purging” and Thinks South Is “Ripe” for Formation of New Political Party.

South Is Ripe For New Party, Senator States   South Carolina Democrat and  - Others Say Time for Some  - Changes Has Now Arrived.

SEN. SMITH FEELS TIME RIPE FOR A “SOUTHERN REVOLT’   Says South “Tired of Being Kicked Around in Democratic .-Party” and Urges - Move: For New Party.

“Cotton Ed” Smith Joins  Move for New Independent Southern Democrat Party

Briton May Carry Results of Meeting To Stalin; Roosevelt to Visit Ottawa

Eden arrival has political  implications   Roosevelt will visit at Ottawa

deo 3 in Quebec President Plans Ottawa Visit    Developments Provide Political Undertones To Allied War Meeting

EDEN ARRIVES IN QUEBEC TO JOIN PARLEY!   ‘President to Travel to " Ottawa; Hull May  Cia to Canada

‘Secretary Eden On Scene; Hull May Also Attenc   "President And Prime Minister Expected To Convey Word To Stalin

Eden's Arrival Stirs Politics.   Hull Expected To  Join Parley Soon  By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL Associated Press Staff Writer

ANTHONY EDEN IN QUEBEC FOR WAR SESSIONS   Secretary Hull Is Expected To Join Parleys Later This Week   PRESIDENT PLANS TO VISIT OTTAWA

Eden's Arrival Stirs Politics.   Hull Expected To  Tnin Parlay Cann

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS WALL GET ATTENTION   Eden Joins Quebec Conferees May Follow .

British Foreign Secretary Joins Group in Quebe   Political Angle Seen In Planned Trip Of F. R. to Ottawa

Eden in Quebec To Participate In War Parleys   ritish Foreign Secretary May Later See Stalin in Russia   Churchill and Roosevelt Holding Long Series of Conferences

Roosevelt to Go to Capital City of Canada   Cordell Hull May Join Parley of Allied Leaders

Eden Arrives To Participate In War Parley   FDR, Churchill, Staff Confer on Strategy "TA recuaskescawe: Thecus

EDEN ARRIVES ~ ATCONFERENCI   Political Angles Slated For Quebec Meeting Along With Plans To Smash Axis

Move To Regulate Menu Prices Out   Failure Of Federal Bureau Blamed For Inaction On Restaurant Prices

COLD WAVE IN. IOWA FORECAST   Sharp Dip Predicted; Snow Falls Over State

WARMER, THEN MUCH COLDER   Rain, Snow, and Variety of  Weather Ahead

Stormy Weather Forecast Tonight   Mercury Expected To Reach 5 Above

Increase in Coal Prices Authorized   Hike Ranges From 18°to 25 Cts. Ton

ENEMY. RESISTANCE DWINDLES To: SCATTERED _ CLASHES AS AXIS TROOPS SURRENDER IN DROVES. ON PENINSULA--OTHER AXIS FORCES IN HAM. . MAM LIF SECTOR ARE BEING CAUGHT =. “IN. PINCERS DRIVE -

ENEMY’S NERVE FAILS; CAP BON FIGHT SLACKENS   First Army Drives Across Peninsula, Preventing Escape By Land   NAVY MOVES IN ON KILL   Russians Score New Gains In Drive To Regain Novorossisk Base

80,000 Axis Men Trapped On Peninsula   ‘British Navy Moves Into Area

Bitter Battle Rages i in Italy   Fifth Army Launche: Attack on Key Post

Army Is One Mile From Rome. Road   Americans Swarm Down From Mountains To Hit German Defenses And Batter Pill Boxes

Secret Agents Thwart Plan to Kill FDR   Arrest Michigan Man Before He Was Able 46 Carry Out Plan

CHERRIES, BERRIES GET OPA CEILING   New Regulation Applies Only to Canners, Processors, Not to Fresh Fruit Market

New Order Pegs Blackcap Price At $2.55 A Crate   All Market Prices Will Soon Be Affected, Dealers Believe

OPA MOVES 10 PEG PRICES OF CANNED FRUITS   Sets Maximum Prices Which Canners Can Pay  To Growers   UNDER MARKET PRICE   May Spread To All Fresh Fruits On Local Market

Forty-Five- Year Old Dra Odds Are Only Three Out of Twenty   Registrants As Group Have Been Soft, Unfit, Colonel Says

lI. §. Bombers Plaster Emden in Record Raid   Six Heavy Planes Lost In Attack On Naval Base

John L. Lewis Has Not Signified Whether He Will Again Defy Law   ‘ICKES HAS THE POWER

Ickes Plans to Control Coal Supply   UMW Continues to Ignore WLB Hearings; Nation-Wide Dimout May Be Ordered

skeptical Administration Signals Safety Men to Gird-Themselves For All Possibilities   LEWIS TO IGNORE NEW WLB HEARINGS   ickes Prepared to Seize Coal Above Ground; Nationwide Dimout Planned

WLB PANEL RESUMES HEARINGS ON SOFT COAL DISPUTE; DOUBTFUL AS TO OUTCOME   May Seize Coal From Some Plants To Supply Industries With Low Supplies

Lewis Will Not Attend Meeting   Administration Has Fingers Crossed

OPA Hasn’t Any  Secondary Line   Bowles Says Subsidies Vital To Control

Rommel s Forces Keep Up Retreat; Pounded Heavily   American And British Troops Pursue Fleeing Axis Army   ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSSES

ROMMEL HARD PRESSED TO ESCAPE TRAP   Major “Squeeze Play” seen as British approach German Mareth Line

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Americans, British Pursue Rommel’s Troops

MAJOR VICTORY IN MAKING AT KASSERINE GAP   American Lads From Farms And Cities Prove Mettle In Great Battle   “SQUEEZE PLAY” NEAR   Germans Shoved Steadily Back As Reds Deliver Powerful Blows

Allied Planes Take Heavy Toll of Enemy   Aut Sections of America Are Represented In Battle

Oil Compact Unit Meets Saturday  a   Governors of Four States to Attend

OENATE APPROVAL  OF FOREIGN POLICY  RESOLUTION NEARS OPPOSITION HAS BEEN  REDUCED TO MERE HANDEIT AT PRESENT

Langer Stalls Early Vote on Postwar Bill   Revised Connally Peace  Resolution May Be Put To Test Fridav

RAF Bombers Pummel Germar Chemical Plant   Allies Make Slight Gains on Ltalian Front As Russians Open New Offensive

Big Nazi Chemical Center Is Among Latest Targets of Heavy Allied Planes.      SLIGHT GAINS MADE ON ITALIAN FRONT

EFFICIENT UNTO END!   Wife Moves in With Hubby To Argue More Freely

Allied Airmen Sweep the Sky   AMERICAN, BRITISH FLIERS DOWN 84 PLANES AS ENEMY AIRFIELDS ARE RUINED BY BOMBS; EIGHTH ARMY PRESSES ROMMEL DEFENSE LINE

* FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today.   British Oecuny Town

Witnesses Protest  Plan to Raise  Flathead Lake Level   A..T.-Reterson, Head-of Montanans, Inc., Declares Hearing Is ‘Empty Formality’---That Plans Already Made

Peterson Says Two U. S. Agencies Already Determined to Raise Dam   Billings Man Asserts Hearing on Kerr Proposal Is ‘but an Empty Formality’

Roosevelt Says U. S. Troops Will March in Enemy Capital:   Great, Decisive Action Against Japan Also Coming, He Says

ALLIES T0 CLING TOGETHER UNTIL FINAL VICTORY   United Nations To Invade Europe After Battle of Tunisia

FDR Promises Rockies Acts  In Global War   To Attack Japs In China. Japan

PRESIDENT AND HIGH MILITARY CHIEFS CONFER   Congratulations Pour in After Promise by Reosevelt of Invasions

TIME WAITS ON CLEANUF IN TUNTSI   Japan to Feel Decisive Blow, Not Island-by‘Island Advance.   ALLIES PLEDGED TO STICK TO FINISH   Coming Struggle in Tuni‘sia to Be One of Decisive Battles.

Pledges Offensive In Europe And Orient..... Roosevelt Promises A Concerted Action

FDR Promises Drives On Foe   Allies In War Until Their Troops March Through Berlin, Rome, Tokyo.

FRD PROMISES ACTUAL INVASIONS   President Gives Assurance of Great Drives Against Japan liself

WILL DRIVE TO BERLIN AND TOKYO   United Nations Determined to Destroy Nazis, Fascists and War Lords   ROOSEVELT TALKS ON WAR PLANS   No Slow Island to Island Offensive Planned; European ‘‘Invasions’’ to Come

Assures Nation In Speech That We Are In War Until U. §. Marches Into Berlin  Pr. BPRAPAT TY OU TAP

‘WAR WILL BE CARRIED TO JAPAN   Heavy Casualties Are Forecast; All Will » Fight To End

Will Hit Axis Nations Hard Says F. D.R.   Great Offensives in Europe, Asia Are In Prospect   Will March In Triumph In Berlin, Rome, Tokyo   Nations Hears First War Review Since Casablanca Parley

FDR Says “Invasion” Of Europe, Decisive Actions Against Japanese Planned

FDR PROMISES DECISIVE BLOWS DIRECTLY — AT TOKYO AND CONSTANT AND UNRELENTING PRESSURE UPON BOTH GERMANY AND ITALY   iy WTHTLIAM TT. PRACIMK

Direct Offensive On Japan Is Plan   Actual Invasion Of Europe To Follow Campaign In Tunisia, Roosevelt Asserts; Says Yanks Will March Through Berlin, Tokyo, Rome

FOR GONFERS — WITH LEADERS   President Follows Promise Of Invasions With Meeting of Chiefs.    SPEAKS OF OFFENSIVES

President Gives World Promise Of Finish Fight   Expects Major Battle in Tunisia: Foretells ‘Invasions’ of Europe: Pledges Direct Attacks on Japan.

PRESIDENT PREDICTS INVASION OF FIRAPE AND BLOWS AT JAPAN  ROOSEVELT DECLARES AL  LIES TO MARCH IN ROME  DItm TnAYYVoH

Will Carry  Out Promises  In His Speech   Hints Several Invasions Of Europe; Direct Blow Against Tokyo Indicated

YANK FIGHTERS ARE REASSURED BY PRESIDENT   Reports of Trouble on Home Front Called ‘Exaggeration’ By Minority Groups   FDR REPORTS TO PEOPLE   Tunisia Battle Described As Vital in Paving Way For Europe Invasions

“Great And Decisive” Operations In China And In Japan Itself, Instead Of Island-By-Island Drives, Promised By Roosevelt In War Review—‘“Actual Invasions” Of Europe Will Follow Battle Of Tunisia, Presi dent Declares

Allies To Strike At Nippons “In Skies Over China—And Over Japan Itself’; Uses Plural In Forecasting "Actual Invasions” Of The European Continent

FDR Promises Crushing Blows Against Axi   Enemy Will Be Driven Into The Sea, Chief Executive Says

Promises New All Out Attack on Jap Empire   Pledges United Nations Will All March Through the Main Streets of Axis Capitals’

Invasions of Europe to be Made, FDR   Also Promises Great and Decisive Actions Against Japan

President Says Well March Throug} Capitals Of Axis   Supply Lines In Iran Keep Aid To Russia Going

President Says Allies Will March In Tokio, Berlin   Executive Predicts ‘Great And Decisive’ Actions In China, Nippon Itself

Allies Will March Into _ Axis Capitals  Warlord Government to Be Crushed Forever, Says President  LAUDS HOME FRONT  Pressure on Axis Will Be Constant and Unrelenting            LAUDS HOME FRONT

RE-EMPHASIZES PLEDGE ‘OF ATLANTIC. CHARTER   Says Allied Nations Mean No  Harm to Common People oft Axis

‘Allied Armies Will March Through Streets Of Tokyo, Berlin And Rome--FDR

Europe Invasion Is F. R. Promise   President Vows “Great and Decisive” Action Against Japs in Ally Drives

Europe Invasion Is Promised By Roosevelt   Decisive Action Against Japs Also Predicted

oF. R. and War Heads Confer   President Follows Radio Promise of Axi Attack With Discussion of Means to That End; Full Aid Promised to China

President Used Plural in Talking o' Europe's Invasion   Great and Decisive Actions Promised For Japan‘s Defeat

U. 3. GHIEF IN CONFIDENT MOD   Reviews Results Of Casablanea Conference In Radio Address   _ VISIONS VICTORY   President Declares Axis Will Be Driven Out OE North Africa

Actual Invasions Are Promised by Chief Executive   President Forecasts Great and Decisive Battles Against Japan.   In War Until Allies March Through Berlin

FDR PROMISES INVASION OF EUROPE AND DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST JAPAN   Assurance Given That United Nations Are in This War Until They March Triumphantly Thru German, Jap and Italian Capitals

ENTRY OF AXIS CAPITALS AIM ALLIED HEADS   Roosevelt Says United Nations’ Armies Will Not Stor. Short - Berlin, Rome and Tokyo   TO STRIKE ENEMY ON MANY FRONTS   Warlords of Axis Powers, He Declares, Will Again Try to Dominate World

Invasions of Europe to be Made FOR   Alo Promises » Great-and :  Decisive:Actions  Agabvwt Japan

DRIVE ON EUROPE TO FOLLOW WIN IN TUNISIA AREA   President Also Promises “Great And Decisive” Actions Against Japs In China  Red Qvuae Tanan

Promises ‘Invasions’ of Europe And Follows Address by Conlerring with War Leaders :   "Many Roads Lead to Tokyo,’ Says _ FDR--Will Not Wait for {sland by Island Atiacks

Actual Invasions Of Europe, Decisive Actions Against Japan Promised By F D In War Effort

Invasions Of Europe  Promised   Direct Action Against Japan Also Assured By Roosevelt In His Radio Message

Will Come Following Tunisia   Great and Decisive Actions Planned For the South Pacific

White House Conference Follows Promise Of New Blows Against Nazis, Japs

Tokyo, Too, Will Suffer, He Reveals   ‘Great And Decisive’ Actions Against Nips In China And Japan Promised In Address

COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF ALLIED GOVERNMENTS NEEDED FOR SUCCESSFUL WAR’S ENDING

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Complete Understanding Among Allied Nations Greatest Need Today

Complete Understanding [Among Allied Govts is ‘An Absolute Necessity

Fear Atlantic Charter Only for White Races  Many Queries Raised in East

ALLIED NATIONS MUST COME TO UNDERSTANDING   Before End of This War to Avert A Third World’s War

Believe Rommel’s  Push Over   Risks Flanking Attacks by British Arn ies from 2 Sides

American Forces Suffer Big Losses By New Nazi Tanks   British 8th Army Reaches Mareth Line After 45-Mile Advance, Russians Continue Drives

Power-Filled’ Germans Push Yankees Back      British Eighth Army Reaches: Mareth Line; Axis Heavy: Tanks Roll over U. S. Lines:

Nazis Climax 66-Mile Drive With Captures   Take Sbeitla, Kasserine and Feriana as British Reach Mareth Line In Swift Advance In South: U. 5, Suffers ‘Severe Defeat.’

Veterans of Rommel Go Into Algeria   Heavy Loss of Men And Equipment Suffered By Yankee Forces

Farther Advance By Germans Is Believed Doubtful   British Eighth Army Moves Up to Center Of Axis’ Mareth Line

Battered Yanks Withdraw Into Mountains  Inside Algeria; Fresh  DD unease C use raeane

BATTERED U. S. UNITS FORCED 10 WITHDRAW   Setback Decisive But Not Critical; British Reach Mareth Line

Nazi Tank Columns Hold 3 Key Towns; BEF At Mareth Line   No Great Axis Drive Anticipated But Tunisian Setback Serious;  Reds Hasten Push Toward Kiev

SEVERE DEFEAT IS ADMITTED BY ALLIED LEADERS   British Eighth Army Catches Up With Axis Forces at Mareth Line, However   RUSSIAN DRIVE ROLLS ON   Slaughter of Nazis Increases As Vengeance-bent Reds Close in on Invaders 4

British Army Drives Up To Mareth Front   Battered American Troops Withdraw To Within Border Of Algeria.    RUSSIA EXTENDS GAIN

‘Three Towns To Germans In Tunisia   Americans Withdraw To Algeria After Severe Mauling In Big Offensive By New Mark VI Tanks

German Tank Columns Take 3 Key Towns   Nazis Advance 66 Miles from Faid Pass Region in Four Days; Americans Withdraw Into Mountains Inside Alaeria :

American Units Withdraw fo Inside Liberia  German Thei ir Push to Ay ert. .

Nazis Claim British 8th Army Attacking Mareth  U.S. IS HIT HARD  Russians Drive Is Headed For Kiev Today

Yank Resistance In > Tunisia Crushed By  German Tank Attack   Reds Continue To Fan Out From Kharkov With Kiev As Another Major Goal.

Reds Push Toward Kiev In Pursuit  Of Battered Nazis   Germans Fall Back “With “Bloody Edsses’ Before Victorious Red:Army.

NAZI TANKS TAKE THREE KEY TO!"KS IN DECISIVE MOVE   Americans Withdraw Into Mountains After Taking Severe Mauling from Axis  Armared Calamnce.

ARMY REACHES MARETH LINE   Severely Mauled _ Americans Withdraw Into Mountains Below  Tebessa

Decisive Defeat Suffered ‘In First All-Out Battle of War Against Nazi Tanks   Three Key Towns Are Lost

Germans Afraid to Risk More Advr se to West. British Reach Mareth Line

GERMANS OCCUPIED THREE KEY TOWNS CENTRAL TUNISIA   AMERICANS WITHDRAW TO MOUNTAINS AFTER BEING SEVERELY MAULED

Nazis Occupy 3 Towns Near Algeria Border   Whipped U. S. Troop: Pushed 66 Miles in Four Days by Tanks

: First Greek Commando Led Advance :  Around the Mareth Line in Tunisia 

250 Greeks Fight Axis In Tunisia  Of ficer Group Wait Day to Free Homeland

GONGRESG FAILS TO ANSWER PLEA FOR FULL UNITY   Roosevelt, Wallace Make Appeals But Congress In Fighting Mood

Miners Offer New Agreement To Operators   Men Would Work For Month While Pay is Discussed

UNION MINERS OFFER OPERATORS PROGRAM KEEP UP PRODUCTION  PLAN CALLS FOR ANY LA. TER AGREEMENT BE RETPOLSTIVE.TO APRIL 1

UW REQUESTS LIMIT ON TIME   Propose 30-Day Period in Which to Negotiate New Aareement.

URGE WLB ACTION ON ~ MINE PAY   Southern Operators Ask Immediate Consideration of Dispute   SAY CONFERENCE ‘ CAN’T SETTLE IT   Accepts Roosevelt Call to Continue Parley; U.M.W, Makes Offer

COAL OPERATORS ACCEPT FDRS PROPOSAL   To Continue Beyond April First Negotiations With Miners For New  Contract

Roosevelt Urges No Stop In Coal Production   Says Controversy Must Be Settled In Orderly Fashion

UMW Tells Miners They Will Be Expelled from Union If ‘They Fail To Obey Roosevelt

Coal Strikers Vote Not To Return fo Jobs   Defy Presidential Order af 4 Collieries: Expect Govi. Seizure

Four Mine Unions Vote To Continue on Strike   Two Locals Ballot Against Returning To Pits After President Roosevelt Delivers His 48-Hour Ultimatum

Danish Consulate Reports 200,000 Germans Killed In Last Week’s Air Raids

POST OFFICE TO COLLECT AUTO LICENSE PLATES   RURAL YOUTH CANGES PLACE FOR MEETIN(   CASTLE FOUTS DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME NEAR DEER CREE}

Trial Plea Is Denied By Kimmel   No Knox Letter Dispatched, Says Admiral, But Court Martial TE pleamecd

Kimmel Denie: Demanding He Be Tried Now   Counsel for-Admiral Says Letier,Sent-to Navy Department

Admiral Kimmel Welcomes Trial Any Time But Fears It Would Huyt War Pffart

Kimmel Desires a Court Martial He Says in Statement   Rear Admiral of Pearl Harbor Feels Entitled to Trial

KIMMEL APPROVES BELAY IN TRIAL   SAYS TO PRESS CHARGES AGAINST HIM NOW WOULD AFFECT WAR EFFORT.

‘Admiral Kimmel Replies to Statement That He Asks Court Martial Now, Seve Move May Impair War Progress

Assembl\ Rejects  Job Bill   VETO ACT TO ALLOW WAR WORKERS TO GO BACK TO CIVIL SERVICE

Count Sforza Back Badoglio  His Daughter In  New York Denies Cintamant

BLAST WRECKS DAIRY PLANT   None Injured As Fire Razes Building At Kearsarge

Ask Cooperation In County’s Farm Labor Problem   Farmers Urged to Postpone Jobs Not Connected With Food Production

RATION COUPON BANKING NEARS   Nill Be Inaugurated Here January 27—System Is Explained—-War Service Asked Of Banks By U. S.

BANKS TQ HELP IN PROGRAM OF POINT RATIONS   Local Institutions Already Are Engaged In Serving As Clearing House For Ration Coupons

Ration Coupon Banking To Go Into Effect In LeMars On dan. 27   No Charge Will Be Made For This New Service

BANKS TAKE ON MORE WORK   Ration Coupons To Be Handled Through The Banks In Separate Departments.

RATION COUPON BANKING OPENS IN CARBONDALE  System Is Put Into Operation

Boro Banks To Have Ration ‘Coupon Banking Department   Local Institutions to Open “War Service” Ration Coaunoan Rank Accounts.

Allied Planes And Ships Hit Axis Life Line   American Troops Drive For Coastal Road To Cut OFF Exemy   FRENCH IN ACTION   Within 500 Miles Of Tripoli In Sweep From Lake Chad

CONCORD GIRL COMMISSIONED   Katherine L. Christian First Local Girl in WAACS to  R~--eive Honor

Place Ban On New Patterns ‘Of Furniture   Production Board Allsc Orders Two-Thirds ‘Reduction In Numbe Of Existing Patterns

Report bitter fight in red  Kalinin area   Russians say 600 nazi troops dead

KALININ FRONT BATTLE REVIVED.   German Counter-Attacks Beaten Back 3° Times By Soviet Forces

NAZIS OUSTED FROM VILLAGE   Three  Counterattacks Beaten Off By Reds At Kalinin

Bitter Fight Rages Again on Red  Fron Near Moscow  Nazis Are Defeated In Ground and  Aerial Engagements

Fighting Resumes On Kalinin Front   " Russians Report fC 334 Apea RT nsbiroc

Next Wednesday Will Be Navy Day In LeMars, With Waves, Spars, A Cruiser and Music   Girls and Women Are In vited To Talk With Ww_A.V.E. S.

Navy Recruiting Cruiser To Visit In LeMars Wednesday and Thursday   Seek To Enlist Seabees, Waves And Svargs

KIDNAPER A VICTIM OF PFARL HARBOR      Says She Suffered ‘Brain Injury’ from. Jap Bombing

Kidnaper Tells Of Brain Injury : Received In Pearl Harbor Attack

POLICE AWAITING HONOLULU REPORT   Investigate Kidnapping O! Gurney Baby—Hear Woman’s Story

‘Draft Of Fathers Starts Oct. I,  Selective Service Announces   Selective Service Headquarters Gives Local Boards Directions for Induction of Men Living With ond Supporting Children

ARMY WILL BEGIN TAKING MEN WITH CHILDREN OCT.    Local Draft Boards Instructed to Call Gnly Number Needed to Fill Their Monthly Quotas.   INDUCTION OF 300,000 THIS YEAR PROBABLE   Reclassifications May Begin at Once — 774,000 Engaged in Agricultural Work Exempt.

Draft Boards Get Call to Induct Fathers   Selective Service Orders List Pre-Pear] Harbor Group; Becomes Effective October 1

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FATHERS’ DRAFT IS SCHEDULED ‘NEXT OCTOBER   About One Out of Every 22 Men Called Will Be In ducted Into Service   DRAFT BOARDS BEING GIVEN WIDE LATITUDE

Drafting Of Fathers Slated To Begin After October 1   tiductions Are Restricted To Those Essential For Quota

Estimate 300,000 Will Be Taken wilt Years Reclassification To — Be Started at Once 

Authorize Draft Of Fathers After October 1   To Be Taken Only as Absolutely Required To Fill Out Quotas

Pre-Pear Harbor Fathers Will Be Called in October   To Be Drafted Only as ‘Absolutely Required’

FATHERS ORAFT TO START OUT.   Selective Service Boards Authorized to Call up PrePearl! Harbor Fathers to To Meet Monthly Quotas

Calling Up Of Fathers Authorized After Oct. 1   Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers To Be Called Only When Necessary To Fill Local Quotas  300,000 EXPECTED TO GO THIS YEAR  Single and Childless Married Men Still At Ton af Draft List

Draft of Fathers Ordered to Start After October    Calling of Pre-Pearl Harbor Dads to Be According to Order Numbers Regardless Of Number of Children, Unless Deferred

Fathers Draft Will Start October 1st   Pre Pearl Harbor Dad: Subject To Call ‘As Required’ After October Ii   BOARDS WILL RULE   Induction OF 300,000 Men With Children, Expected In 1943

October Call Heavier Thar Preceding Two Months   Board One Likely To Summon Pre-Pear! Harbor Fathers Te Meet Its Quota

Draft to Get Fathers After Next Oct. 1      Only Small Portion Of Such Men To Be Taken, However

Induction Of Fathers Ordered   October  Date Set To Start  Prooram

aT FATHERS LL BE CALLED  IFTER OCTOBER    Pearl Har bo thers pe pe = irst; mpi. he a By N. Clase’ age ew Classi rmers Draft  Proof.

To Be Used Only To Fill Quotas   -,30.,000 Believed Slated This Year

Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers’ induction after October Ist   Authorized to extent absolutely required to meet monthly quotas

FRAU GOERING LEAVES   “Wife Of No. 2 Nagi Quits Reich Fer Switeeriand Refuge

Crown Scores in de Marigny Tria  Lifted. Fingerprint Admitted in Evidence

Fingerprint In Murder Room  Is Admitted   . Chief Justice Rules For Prosecution Follow-  . ins Disnute,

Court Admits Fingerprints  At Oakes Trial   Lifted Evidence Causes Sensation At Murder Hearing

Fingerprint Clue Is Allowed In Marigny Trial   Defense Loses Plea  To Kill It

ADMIT FINGERPRINT INTO NASSAU TRIAL   lustice Sets Precedent When ‘Lifted’ Prints from Bedroom Screen Are Offered

JUDGE ALLOWS ‘LIFTED’ PRINTS IN OAKES CASE   Set New Trial Precedent; Defense Receives  Setback

FINGERPRINTS ARE ADMITTED   Use at Nassau Marks British Court Precedent

AXIS ARMIES PREPARE FOR HEAVY SIEGE    Artillery Pounds the French Guerrilla Positions

Man Shortage Easing Up, Says ‘Texas U. Dean   War Training Helps to Solve Worker Demand

Labor Shortage Easing Up, Woolrich Says   15,000 Technicians Trained Here For War Work

U.S. ARMY LOSSES ARE NOW 31,126   Report Says 5,539 Killed; 17,621 Are Wounded

31,126 YANKS LOST IN ONE WAR ZONE   ARMY CASUALTIES SINCE LANDING IN NORTH AFRICA INCLUDE 5,539 DEAD,

American Casualties In Mediterrnean War Zone In Past Year Are 31,126

ARMY LOSSES ARE REPORTED   Casualties in Mediterranean Since First Landing Are 31.126.

Stimson Reveals Campaign Losses   Casualties set At 31,126 Today

ALLIED CAMPAIGNS COST 100,000 MEN   American Losses in African and Italian Battles (Nov. 7Oct. 29) Totals 31.126

“~~ Lal Lad baal “~ ~~ Te ” “oe  U. S. Casualties Are 31,126 in Mediterranean

JAP ATTEMPT 10 ALD GARRIGON {h OALAIIAUA FOILED   Four Frily Laden Enemy Supply Barges Sent to the Bottom.   OPERATION IS SUCCESS   Airdrome at Rebaul, Kahili and Vila Are Blasted Cintinuously.

NAVY CATCHES BARGES ON WAY TO NEW GUINEA   American Artillery Constantly Pounding Munda Air Base

Jap Supply Barges Sunk   Enemy Attempt To Reinforce Salamaua Garrisons Reported Frustrated   JAP AIRDROMES AGAIN BLASTED

Wiekard Will Revise Farmer Draft Deferment   Committee Is Named To Help Write Changes

Deferment for Vital Farm Labor Studied  Secretary Wickarcd Promises to

\Deferment-for: - Vital Farm Lahor Studied  Secretary Wickard Promises to  . Tl ze

German African Empire Two Prison Camps in a Field   Captured Nazis Still Confident of Victory; Spirit ls Unbroken

AMERICANS GUARD HUGE NAZI HORDE   THOUSANDS OF GERMANS CROWD LARGE PENS IN. NORTHERN TUNISIA.

British Boast Vast Underground City To Supply Europe Invasion Forces -

Vact [Inderoraund Warehouse Holds Ammunition for Allied Invasion

$40 Minimum For Old Age Proposed  In Lower House      Ten New Bills Introduced, Including One Tc Increase Personal Exemptions On State Income Tax Returns

SOLONS MAP STATE LEVY, OLD AGE AID   Senate Ok’s Stickers in Lieu of License Plates

Senators Test Synthetic Gas   Motor Fuel Produced From Coal a Success

FRENCH SET UP COMMITTEE TO GOVERN FRENCH TERRITORY AND DIRECT WAR EFFORT   French Naval Squadron at Alexandria Comes Over To the Allies Voluntarily. Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud Are Joint Presidents.

DeGaulle and Giraud Head New Council   French Fleet Joins Allies, London Savs

Group To Govern Free French Under DeGaulle. Giraud   7-Man Execiitive Committee te Govern French Territory, Liberated Frenchmen: and . Direct Frénch War a oo ae :

De Gaulle and Giraud Head 7-Man Executive Committee 4o Direct:Free. French War

Set Up French Executive Committee   De Gaulle and Giraud Presidents of Body Formed to Govern Liberated Frenchmen and Direct War Effort

Giraud And De Gaulle In Joint Moves   Head Seven-Man Board Leading Fight For _ Freedom of France

Seven-Man Comunittee To Govern Frenchmen   Giraud And De Gaulle To Act As Joint Presidents; Five Others Also Named

Unified Committce To Govern France’: Territory And War ‘Aid Until Victory

GOVERNING BODY SET UP   Group Will Rule Liberated French And Territories

GROUP IS ‘ORGANIZED   French Navy Squadron Officially Reported On Allied Side

FRENCH 'SET UP BOARD TO RULE TILL WAR'S END   Seven Membersson Committee, Including Gen. Henri Giraud and DeGaulle

Appoint Group Of Seven Men   De Gaulle And Giraud Joint Presidents For War Effort

De Gaulle, Giraud, Joint Presidents, Set Up Committee   Group Will Direct “War. Effort Until Nation Liberated

De Gaulle And Giraud Joint Presidents  Set Up Seven-Man French Government   n Soil To Be Recaptured. .  Battle Of Attu Over; _ Japanese Wiped Out

NEW FREE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SET UP AT ALGIERS MEETING; FLEET GOES OVER TO ALLIES

7-MAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NAMED Tt DIRECT FRENCH WAR  GENERALS DEGAULLE AND GIRAUD PLAN UNIFIED CAMPAIGN

Leaders Form French Unien   Seven-Man Executive Committee Set Up To Direet French War Effort.

Committee to Govern France   Giraud and De Gaulle Set Up Government; Algiers Is Capital

Men Past 38 Face Army or Farm Work   Committee Opens Broad Study of Manpower Needs

Men Over 38 Are Ordered Reclassified  Agencies Move To Drive Men Into Ravn Worle

Farm and Draft Program Is Told At Washington   Administration Hopes to Solve Both Problems

Entire Agricultural Setup ‘To Be Reviewed By Special ‘Group Headed By Byrnes

Move To Force 33-Year-Olds To Farm Work   Loeal Boards Instructed To Reclassify All Men Now In Class 4-H.   MAP OVER-ALL PLAN

Farm Blocs Attack Man Power Plan   Bankhead’s Group Wants Forces Cut To Keep Farm Labor At Home   Administration Wants No Reduction In Army   Manpower Commission Lists Deferment Qualification Orders

4-POINT PLAN OF DEFERMENT TAKES EFFECT   Boards Forbidden To In duct Those In Agricul! tural Work   Hope To Meet Farm Needs Without Reducing Military Forces

ADMINISTRATION 15 SENDING MANPOWER CASE TO COMMITTEE  ANOTHER LONG DELAY MAY BE ENCOUNTERED - BEFORE ANYTHING DONE

To Defer Essential Farm Workers: Draft Regroupings For Men Over 38

ORDER MEN OVER 38 RECLASSIFIED BY DRAFT BOARDS   MOVE SEEN AS AN EFFORT TO SECURE FARM WORKERS

SEEKING T0 AVOID CUTTING DOWN ON ARMED FORCES   White House Committee Agrees There Should Be No Reduction In Military Goals; Manpower Problem Attacked On Broad Front.

NEW WAYS TO PROVIDE FRAN LABOR SOUGHT   Deferments, Reclassification of Men Gver 38 Ordered  by Washington.   SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO REPORT ON MANPOWER

Oldster Groups Classed   Strive to Keep Up Farms Without Army Goal Cut

Older Men Lose 4-H Classit. Under New Rules; Essential be . Workers to Be Further Deferre

T AND NPOWER —  OLDER MEN ARE TO BE - REGROUPED   .--4Point Farm Deferment Plan Announced

Reclassification of e Men Over 38 Years of Age Is Ordered   .Four-Point Program Tc Ease Shortage of Man Power is Announced

‘ADMINISTRATION LEADERS HOPE.T0"MEET FARM NEEDS WITHOUT CUTTING DOWN ON ARMY: GEDER MEN:RE-RATED

U.S. MANPOWER NEEDS PROVIDE CRITICAL ISSUE   Chiefs Hope to Meet Farm Needs Without Reducing Military Goa

Manpower Problem Attacked _   Reclassify Older Men In Effort to Fill Farm’ Needs Without Cutting Size of Armed Forces

Men Over 38 May Be Called Or Put To Work On Farm   Committee Suggests Manpower Solution After Agreeing To Army Of 10.800.000

NEW PROGRAM   Selective Service Changes Will Place More Men on Farms or Into Army   MILITARY GOALS LIKELY TO BE GAINED BY DRAFT

Men Over 38 Are Ordered Reelassified   Move To Get Them Into Farm Work Or Armed Forces; Committee  Studving Problem

THE MANPOWER PROBLEM ATTACKED ON A BROAD FRONT   Selective Service Announced Draft Deferment for Essential Farm Workers.   Move to Get Them Into Farm Work or Possibly Into the Armed Service.

Armed Services Stick To Goals On ‘83 Strength   Older Men Slated For Regrouping In Draft Brackets

LOCAL TEMPERATURE   Men 38-45 Ordered Reclassified. .  Farm Manpower Is Spotlight Question

DRAFT BOARDS TORECLASSIFY MEN BEYOND 38      Those Up to 45 Years of Age to Be Placed In Same Categories As Younger Men   TO DEFER FARMERS   Men In Agriculture Work Before May 1 Will Not Be Inducted Into Armed Services

PLANS NOT TO CHANCE ARMY COAI   Government: Is. Striving’: to ‘Keep. Food. Production: Up: - Without Cutting. Military:   SELECTIVE SERVICE: = CHANGES. TOLD   New: Four. Point Program’ Affects Farm - Workers : and Men Over 38°.

A-POINT PLAN "MADE FOR FARMS   Leaders Hope ic Meel Needs Without Army Cut; To ReGroup Older Men

HOPENOWFOR BIG ARMY AND FARM FORCE   Administration Reported Aiming to Meet Both Goals at Same Ttime.    MILITARY GOALS  ' FIRST OBJECTIVE      Congress Group Places Chief Urgency on Preventing Food Shortage.

Action Taken In Move to Keep Enough Men Behind Plows Without Cuttin Down Size of Projected Army—Older Men To Be Classified Same As Younger Men.

LIT PROGRAM FOR DEFERMENT   Hope to Meet Farm Lahor Needs Without Cut in Armed Forees.

HOPE HELD FOR MEETING FARM LABOR SHORTAGE WITHOUT CUT IN SIZE OF U.S. ARMY   Selective Service Officials Announce Four-Point Program to Meet Needs of Farm Production and Industrial Needs. Men 38 To Be Reclassified

MEN IN 38-45 GROUP MAY BE RECLASSIFIED   Essential Farm Workers To Get Army Deferment

MEN OVER 38 AGAIN SUBJECT TO INDUCTION   Will Not Be Called Immediately, However—Chief Aim Is to Induce Registrahts Up to 45 to Work on Farms.

Set Up New Program To Get Help For Farms And Provide Limited Service With Army

Will Reclassify Men Over 38 For Draft, Farm Work   Hope to Meet Farm Labor Without Cutting Armed  Forces   Hope to Induce Older Men to Go to Farms

PLAN SEEKS TO MEET DEMANDS ‘OR MANPOWER   Committee Prepares to Recommend Program _ To Roosevelt

FROM PLANES -ONNAZICITY   Essen War Industries Are Smoshed by RAF Bombers

BRITISH AGAIN BLAST ESSEN   Veritable Cloudburst — of Fire, Explosives Hits Nazi Factory City

RAF in Super Raid on Groggy Essen   Cloudburst of Fire, Explosives Hit Krupp City

CASCADE OF BOMBS FALLS UPON ESSEN   Only Four RAF Bombers Lost Eighth Time In Eleven Nights RAF Bombed  Germany.   Tons of TNT

Super-Saturation Bombing Raid On Industrial Esser  100 Tons Of Bombs Hit Home City Of Krupp Works In 12 Minutes

RAF Plasters Essen With Tons of Bombs   Saturation Attack Punmels Home Of Krupp Factories

R. A. F. Planes Blast at German City  Tit “Faw oh GD cite tow   100 Tons of Bombs Drop on Essen in Just 12 Minutes

R.A.F. Planes Blast ai German Ciiv   100 Tons of Bombs Drop on Essen in Just 12 Minutes

Essen Blasted By Quick Raid   100 Tous of Bombs Poured On City in 12 Minutes Ry RAF Crews

BOMBS RAIN FROM PLANES ON NAZI CITY   Essen War Industries Are Smashed by RAF Bombers

Cloudburst Of Bombs Hit Ruhr   “Essen Pounded In ‘Quick RAE Foray

KRUPP WORKS BATTERED BY RAF BOMBERS   CLOUDBURST OF AIR FIRE RAINED ON ESSEN

Escape Route Of Germans Is Battered —   Americans Rain Shells On’ Foe. Across River. -

REDS BREACH IMPREGNABLE DEFENSE LINE   Russians Capture Key Rail Junction of Pyatikhatka To Cut Main Escape Corridor   ABANDON MUCH BOOTY

Armies Cut Off In Southern Bulge   Bloodiest Battle of. Eastern Front ‘Brings Rout of 4 Enemy Divisions.

LATEST ACTION TAKES PLACE SOUTHEAST OF KREMENCHUG—SOVIETS TAKE RAIL JUNCTION WEST OF DNEPROPETROVSK TO SLASH NAZI ESCAPE CHANNEL—GERMANS IN “BIG BEND” THREATENED

Soviets Cut Main Nazi Escape Lane  German Defense hee an   German Defense Line South of "Kremenchug Breached

Main German  Escape Route Has Been Cut   Impregnable Lines South Of Kremenchug Breached By Red Army

REPORT MUSSOLINI IS NOW PREPARING TO EVACUATE GOVT   Is Said To Have Appointed Secret Commissions; Plan To Leave Rome   ROMMEL AIDES MOVE   Key Officers and Technicians Are Taken To Messina, Sicily

Axis Armies Reported Abandoning Mahares And Inland Mezzouna  12,000 PRISONERS ADDED IN 3 DAYS  British Eighth Army, First Army, Americans Pich Savace Nrivec

British Capture Many Prisoners   Old Type Transport Planes Being Used By Nazis To Get Technicians Out Of Tunisia

SPEED RETREAT UP COAST; 12,000 TAKEN PRISONER   Allies Continue to Rain Blows on Enemy — Americans Capture Height in Plunge Eastward.   BRITISH FIRST ARMY GAINS MORE GROUND   Berlin Commentator Reports Allies Are Preparing for Drive Toward Big Axis Base.

Regular Army Hastens ltsRetreat   Axians Leave 12,000 Prisoners; U. S. Troops Are Praised

Il Duce Plans to Move Out of Rome   Axis Units Speed Retreat Before Advancing Allies

AXIS NATIONS FEAR ALLIED INVASIONSOON   VICHY RADIO TELLS OF LANDING BOATS AT GIBRALTAR

Claims Huge Allied Forces Massed in North - Africa, May Hit Sicily. Sardinia

Nazis Becoming Jittery Over Prospects Of Assault Soon on Sardinia and Sicily

Nazis Fear Invasion Is Nearer   Germans Believe Allies May Strike Frorn North Africa

NAZIS FEARING IMMINENCE GF INVASION   Berlin Radio Suggests Allies May. By-Pass Tunis And Bizerte To Enter European Continent   Nazis Prepare Defense

 . Nazis Fear Invasion  On Ther   ' Looks for Move. Against Sardinia And Sicily First

GERMANS JITTERY; INVASION IS NEAR   Nazis Acknowledge Grim Prospect of Early Attack

Germans Grimly Fear Immediate Allied Invasion   Believe Attack Is Scheduled Before Tunisia Clean-Us

Allied Invasion Of Sardinia and Sicily Is Feared   Axis Spokesman Envisions Attack May Come Soon from Gibraltar

Japs Reinforce Their Hold On Kiska   Enemy Able To Knock Down Three  American Planes

JAPS HAVE A FARMER HOLD   Have Strengthened Hold On Kiska Jn Aleutians; 2 U.S. ‘Fighters Lost ‘

JAPS RENEW HOLD ON KISKA IN ALEUTIANS   Surprise American Raiding Party And Destroy 2 Lightning Fighters And Medium  Rambher.   Munda Bombed

Japs Strengthen  Forces Holding Kiska Island  Three American Planes Downed by Enemy Fighters  ONE ZERO BAGGED U. §. Bombers Return  Score Hits on Two Cargo Vessels

Japs Tighten Hold on Kiske   Bag Three American Planes in Air, Rates an

JAPS STRENGTHEN SRISP ON KISKA IN THE ALEUTIANS   Destroy Two Swift Americar Lightning Fighter Planes ° And Medium Bomber .   ‘CLUMSY FLOAT-TYPE PERO PLANES USED   @avy Reveals Japs Have Succeeded in Delivering at Least Small Aerial Reinforcements; U. 8. Bombers  @ Attack Munda

Japs Strengthen Their Hold on Kiska Island   Three American Planes Are _ Lost in Battle

Japs Tighten Foothold on Kiska Island   Air Battle Costs Yanks Three Fighting Planes

Japs Shoot Dowr Three Yankee Planes at Kiska   Enemy, in Surprise Move, Downs Two Fighters and Bombe!

Japs Strengthen Their Hold on Kiska Island  Three American Planes Are

Japs Tighten ‘Hold on Kiska      Two Lightnings, . Bomber Shot Down With Loss‘ Of One Zera

Nips Strengthen Hold On Kiska   Two Fighters And A Bomber Downed

Navy Discloses Loss of Two Swift Fighters and Medium Bomber in Night Battle With Nipponese, Who Apparently Have Strengthened Hold on Island—One Zero Lost in Engagement—20 Enemy Troops Killed on Guadalcanal.

JAPS REINFORCE THEIR GARRISON IN ALEUTIANS   Two American P-38’s And  Medium Bomber Shot  Down By Enemy   ACTION TOOK PLACE WEDNESDAY NIGHT

3 U.S. Planes Shot Down Over Kiska   Americans Surprised And Lose Two P-38’s As Well as Bomber

Egg Prices Cut Sharply This Month   High Production, Lack OF Storage Space Are Among Reasons For Price Reductions

Leaders Of Four Major United Nations Reported Engaged In Conferences

WAGE AND PRIGE EXPERTS WARN AGAINST PAY HIKES   DECLARE BREAKING OF CFEILING ON WAGES WILL START RISING PRICE SPIRAL

ADMINISTRATION SEEKS 10 STEM LABOR REVOLT   Improvement In “Real” Wage Impossible, Says WLB Chairman   WARNINGS ARE SOUNDED   Increases Bound To Bring Prompt Boost In Cost Of Living, Experts Claim

Persons Who Can Walk to Work in 30-40 Minutes Can’t Get B-C Card:

B-C “Gas’ Rations  Cut   Affects Those Within 30-40 Minutes ‘Walk to Work

NEW RULING REGARDING B AND C GAS RATIONS   Should Not Be Issued To Anyone Living Within 30 Or 40 Minutes Walking Distance From Work

Jeffers, OWI Clash Over Muzzle Rule   Rubler Director Implies Refusal To Bow to Davis

JEFFERS AND DAVIS AT WAR   Question Arises As To Whether OWI Was In Order

SEES CHINA AS VICTORY BASE   Admiral Nimitz Confident of Progress Against laps in Pacific.   ISLE ATTACK SUCCESS

Spring Drive Against Fire ° Urged Here   CHIRE BLEVINS TELES OF JBFRECT OF BLAZES ON WAR EFEORT.

Italians Make First Thrust At.  Former Partner   Forced Into Retreat In _ Face of Superior  Numbers, Bad Losses

Italian Army In Comeback   STRIKES FIRST BLOW FOR ALLIES BUT FORCED TO RETREAT

Streamline State Defense  Council Setup   Governor Signs Act Which Transfers Direction of System to One Man

STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL DEAD   Capt. Donald S, Leonard May Be Named Director Of New Setup.

PETROLEUM YIELD MUST BE BOOSTED   Division For Military, Civil. ian Purpose Next Year Is Not Determined.

FINNS READY TO TALK PEACE   Indirect Overtures TX Russia Already Made, Capital Hears

DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES HEAR FINLAND MIGHT BRISK HIT-. LER WRATH IF SOVIET  _ RESPONDS ‘

ADVERTISING BOOSTED   Trust Institutions Urged Te Maintain Advertising Schedules

INCIDENCE CURVE OF POLIO AND TYPHUS CONTINUES UPWARD  NAVARRO AMONG COUNTIES REPORTING  CASES OF TYPHUS _—.

NEW SUBSIDY. PLAN FOR BEEF COAST DIMOUTS  1S IN EFFECTTO END NOV. I

New Beef Subsidy Program    Will Have Effect Of Live Cattle Ceiling of Around $16 Per Hundred

New Beef Subsidy Plan Designed To Aid Slaughterers Is Put In Operation

NEW BEEF SUBSIDY AIDS SLAUGHTERERS   To Have No Effect on Price of Meat

Labor in 7th Region Will Be Sufficient   About 7,000,000 Men and Women Gainfully Employed; 35,000 Being Trained for War Work

Elmer Davis Says  OW! Aims Give  Accurate News Denies Effort   Denies Effort To Sugar-Coat Infformation

Military Chiefs Oppose Ban of Drafting Fathers   Congress May Decide Matter Next Week

MILITARY LEADERS URGE DRAFTING OF FATHERS OVER IIS   Deferment Held As Detri. ment But Congres May Take Entirely Opposite View.

Wallace Itching For Coming Fight   Says All-Out Production Should Be Continued

ALL-OUT OUTPUT WALLACE THEME   Sponsors Domestic Policy for Production After  War

WALLACE URGES OPPOSITION TO BORPORATIONS   ‘Vice President Says Ad: ‘@ ministration On Side Of Labor

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Dover Area of English Coast Bombarded by Long-Range Guns

DOVER HIT IN CHANNEL DUEL   Big Guns Hurl Missiles  Heavy Shelling

RUMP GOVEFNINENT Draws Protest of Yugoslav Monarch  Evileed Danime Onnacesé   Exiled Regime Opposes Formation of New Committee

James Simpson To Seek Hill's Seal In Senafe   State Legislator Tells Intentions To Be Candidate

SIMPSON TO ENTER AACE AGAINST HILL   Birmingham Lawyer Announces For Senate

U.S. Policy Toward France  Is Defended   Patience In Regard To Martinique  Averted Bloodshed, Is View Of President Roosevelt.

Soviets About To Strike New Blow at Invaders in  Area of Don River Basin

LAMES Otol ROY LEIPZIG PLANTS   British Fliers Release Bomb — Cargoes On Big German  Rail Center

GERMANY RECEIVES TERRIFIC AIR BLOW   Berlin Raided Again for the Eighty-sixth Time; 17 Bombers Lost.

NAZIS MAKING STRONG EFFORT TO SHUN TRAP   Moscow Hears Reports Germans Have Started Evacuation Of Crimea

REDS YIELD KHARKOV BUT CONTINUE GAINS IN SMOLENSK DRIVE   Soviet Lines East Of Lost City Holding Fairly Well; Russian Army Smashes On Toward Starava Russa

NAZIS ATTACK IN DONETS AREA   Reds Hurl Back Assaults, Cain Lake Itmen Region

RED ARMIES CONVERGING ON SMOLENSK   Russians Yield Kharkov to Axis; Towns Engulfed

ADVANCE ON SMOLENSK; GIVE UP KHARKOV   Neutral Sources Report Fresh Forces Enroute to Donets.

AXIS SHIFTS TO. CDONETS AREA W -FAVELOPING PLAN   Soviet Communique :’ Makes No Mention of © Kharkov, Has Report-on Destruction of Enemy Equipment.”   EISENHOWER’S MEN: ARE TESTING LINES   Ground Fighting-Normal; Air Operations Indicate Preparations - For Final Blow  to -Rommel’s Army:

Kharkov Is Lost Again   REINFORCEMENTS STREAM  TO KHARKOV FRONT; RIDDLE NAZI DEFENSES AT STARAYA  RUSSA

Germans-Center Drive in Middle” Donets Area   Reds Converge Their Attacks On- Smolensk--:

i ENEMY SUFFERS   Timoshenko Keeps Plunging on Toward Smolensk Target.

Reds Still Advancing — On Smolensk   Holding Own In South After Fall of Kharkov

NAZIS SHIFT ASSAULTS TO DONETS AREA   Timoshenko’s Troops Continue Uninterrupted Toward Staraya Russa.

REDS PRESS NEW DRIVE. ON SMOLENSK   Russian Reinforcements Streaming: Into ’ .Kharkev Area

RUSSIANS KNIFE TOWARD SMOLENSK IN NEW PUSH   SEND HUGE REINFORCEMENTS TO BOLSTER DONETS-KHARKOV FRONT

ALLIED AIR RAIDS MEET ONE PURPOSE   German Bus ~ and Trolley Service Disrupted

‘GLAD TO BE HOME’ ‘CRY 1500 AS GRIPSHOLM LANDS REPATRIATES IN N.Y.

Shouts of — Joy From.  Grinsholm   1,100.On Board Fervently Thankful.as'They Reach * = Ameri¢an Soil: °°.”   HOME FIRST TIME... IN TWO YEARS   Statue: of Liberty. Cheered and All. Join in. Singing” “God Bless America’

Firat Sight Of Statve Of Liberty. Causes Thankful Americans To Burst Into Song ,

RUSSIAN TROOPS CONTINUE DRIVE TOWARD POLAND AND RUMANIA   One Spearhead Now 45 Miles From the Last German Held Railroad In the Ukraine.

Russians Only 45 Miles From Last Railroad East Of the Old Polish Border   21,000 Germans Killed in Three Days at Kiev; 500,000 More Apparently Doomed in the Lower Dnieper Valley

ited Army Drives Toward Poland and Rumania.  500,000 GERMANS FACE DEATH TRAP  Line Below Rome Seems Likely to Crack Before Winter.

TOKYO RAIDS FORECAST BY. NAVAL CHIEF   SECRETARY KNOX, AFTER. TOUR OF PACIFIC AREA, HINTS AT BOMBINGS IN NEAR FUTURE, 

Recording Industry Objects Paying for Making Records   Companies Declare Pr oposal “Startling New Kind 0! Social Philosophy For Both Industry and Labor;” Representatives Deny “Wholesale” Unemployment Among Federation Musicians

Turkeys Aplenty On Front Lines   Fliers Rush Birds To Fighting Yanks

After The War Employment Job   BABSON PREDICTS NEW TECHNICAL COLLEGES FOR WORKERS

AFTER WAR IS OVER   Babson Believes the Stored-up Consumer Demand Should Avert Danger of Unemployment If Businessmen Are Properly Alert.

Jnited States, Canada Will Face Large Unemployment Problem After This Wai

BABSON’S Authentic Statement   Copyright—1943—Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc AFTER THE WAR EMPLOYMENT

FRENCH UNJTY MUCH NEARER   GIRAUD ‘tO BE MILITARY CoM . MANDER OF TEMPORARY * - GOVERNMENT—PROVICHY_OFFICIALS. a OUSTED

Giraud May Command All French Territory Not Dominated By The Axis

Push From Stand On Fortore River  To Port Of Termoli   Important River Crossing Taken In Americans’ March On Rome Following Seizure Of Benevento

DAIRYMEN RAP OLEO INTERESTS   Claim Movement Begun to Wipe Butter From American Table

19 AIR RAIDS STAB AT KISKA   Hits Scored On Enemy’s Airfield, Sub Base; Wake Island Hit

19 Air Attacks Made on Kiska   New Aerial Blow Also De livered at Wake Island

New Attacks Show U. S. Intends To Widen Lines —  Japs Suffer Raids From Alaska to Wake, Lose Planes

New Attacks Show U.S. Intends To Widen Lines  Japs Suffer Raids From Alaska to Winks. leaco Planes

KISKA BLASTED BY 19 ATTACKS   Air Offensive Extended To Include Jap Base On Wake Island

U.S. BROADENS OFFENSIVE ON JAP DEFENSES   Batter Kiska From Air : As Pressure Mounts On Pacific Line «

Allies Broaden Pacific Drive   Attacks Press Upon Jap Defense Lines

Holiday Lights Dim In Penna.  Servicemen Honor   Guests At Home ho A

HAVE FULL SCHEDULE   Lawrence Guard Unit Busy Getting Ready to Go to Camp

€ole War Loan Drive Over Top By $629,000   @ Only $11,000 Short of 3 Million; Thursday Banner Day

$570,994 More War Bonds Must Be Sold for Quote   Only 7 More Days of Drive Remain; Tempo to Increase

Spitsbergen Hit lerrific Blow By Nazi Fleet   Big Battleships Get into Action

SHOE GUARANTEE IS NOT DEFINITE   Head of OPA Foot Wear Div vision Speaks to 3500 Shoe Dealers.

Shoes Go Back On Sale Today; Use Old Ones In Closets, Says OPA Chief

RESUME SHOE SALES TODAY   OPA Chief Uren Citizens To Buy Only as Needed Under Ration Plan

SHOE SALES WILL © BE RESUMED TODAY   OPA Chief Asks People to Refrain From Unnecessary Buying

3 Pairs of Shoes  Promise Denied   Mav Be Fewer, OPA  Official Announces

Freeze Ends, Shoe Rations Start Today   People Urged by OPA To Buy Only Footwear They Actually Need  FACTIARNIA “FORCQAT

3 PAIRS SHOES NOT DEFINITE   QO. P. A. Footwear Chief Says No Guarantee Can Be Made  On Purchases

U9. GETSLESD THAN 2 FOR 12 BILLIONS SPENT   Governments Stress Pagling Nations’ Resources in  CMnmmnan Osis

Britain and America  Give All They Have   Both Governments Make Reports On Lend-Lease, With U. S. Far Ahead in Money Spent

Says Britain Has Given U. S. Over 1 Billion Dollars Worth Of Return Lend-Lease Goods

LEND-LEASE 1S OPERATING ON ] 10 1 BASIS   President Reports U. S. Ex: penditures Of 14 Billion, With 2 Billion Return

U. S. Spends 14 Billions Receives Two Billions Sx Far, Roosevelt and Brit ish Report.

‘Mutual Aid’ HeldFactorin  U.S. Defense   Commonwealth’s Contribution Through June Is Estimated   CANADA PAYS CASH      Australia, N Zealand,  India Give Substantial Aid to Yanks

Britain Pays One Billion  In Return   Roosevelt Report Is Released With One From England

GAINFOR BOTH SIDES CLAIMED BY PRESIDENT   Figures to Congress Show We Have  Given 4 Billion

Britain Supplies  U. S. With Over Billion in Reverse Lend-Lease Says FDI

LEND-LEASE RATIO BETWEEN U, S. AND GREAT BRITAIN 7-1   Mutual Aid About Same In Relation To Both National Incomes

2 BRITISH COLUMNS REPORTED REPULSED   German Broadcast Says One Was Ambushed on Way to Reinforce Yanks in Tunisia.

Fitzgerald's Defense Is Begun Today   Seeks to Account For Phillips’ Movements At Rodeo Replying to Pruitt Story

DEFENSE OPENS CASE FOR ‘RED’   Witnesses Say They Never Saw Ex-Governor Snatch $150 Pay-off Moncey

Defense Clals Many fo Stand   Seeks to Account for Phillips’ Movements While at Woodward

State Executive Calls On Legislature To Build Financial Reserve For  Ise After War

Serious Problems  Ahead, He Claims  Acting Governor Speaks To Legislature; Calls For Short Session

IS SEEKING $10,000   Damage Action Is Filed in the s District Court

PLAN TO- HIT JAPAN ™   Presence of Chinese Foreign Minister at Quebec Significant

Allied Air Force In China May Be increased   Arrival Of Chinese Minister Stirs Rumors Of Big Striking Force

CHINA'S SOONG AT QUEBEC MEET   Foreign Minisfer*to Discuss  Jap War Plans

Minister Soong Of China Takes - Part In Parley   New Air Squadrons Based In China May Begin Raids On Japan

QUEBEC SPELLS BAD NEWS FOR THE JAPS   Decisions Believed Made To Start Bombing The Japs

CHINA'S SOONG NEW “ARRIVAL AT CONFERENCE   Presence May Mean Increased Activity In Pacitio idee

Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong Called To War Conferences In Quebec

See New Blows Against Japs As Chinese Envoy Called To Parley   Foreign Minister: Soong Arrives. At Quebec; Allied Air Squadrons In Eastern China May Bomb Enemy Lifelines, Jaé‘Mainland.

Soong’s Presence At Quebec Is Significant  Lay Plans To Bomb J apan From Air Bases In China

AGAINGT JAPAN   Allies Likely Will Build Up Air Squadrons For Attack On Enemy Life Lines

1. V. SOONG AT CONFERENCE IN QUEBEC TODAY      Chinese Minister's Arrival Hints of New Offensive In Far East

PlansFor Wai On Japs Are Before Meet At Quebec   That Is Why Chinese Foreign Minister Was Called To Conference

Chinese Envoy Taking Part in Quebec Parley   War on Japan Given Big Place At Conference

CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER IN ON QUEBEC CONFABS   Hint War Plans Mapped To Strengthen Air Force in China

JUONG HELPS PARLEY PLAN WAH ON JAPAN   Chinese Minister’s Arrival in Quebec Suggests Move on Tokvo.   BELIEVE CHINA WILL BE BASE FOR ATTACKS

Allies fo Bomb Supply Lines, Jap Homeland   Decisions Believed Made to Build Up Allied Air Strength In Eastern China

CONVOY REACHES BRITAIN AFTER LONG BATTLE WITH SUBS   At Least Two of 15 Attacked Are Sunk.

GENERAL ARAKI WARNS SE TOAGK QUITE POSSIBLE   Former Jap Minister Ouoted In Broadcast; Wash ington Is Silent

PARTS OF CALIFORNIA HAS EASTER ALERT   Sixth Air Raid Alarm Since Pearl Harbor

L. A: Blacks Out in Easter Raid Alarm   55-MINUTE “YELLOW” ALERT IN BAKERSFIELD; RADIO STATIONS QUIET

Five Brothers In U.S. Navy Lost in Action  All Were Members Of Lost Cruiser

Five Sullivan Brothers Said To Be Missing   Stationed on Cruiser Reported Sunk Near the Solomons

FIVE BROTHERS DIE IN NAVAL FIGHTING   Sullivan Boys Were Stationed On Cruiser Juneau Which Went  Down Last November

NEW DISEASE SEEN IN COTTON FEL   Bacterial Blight Due Mainly To Rainy Weather

COTTON FIELD BLIGHT WORRIES IREDELL. FARMERS   Widespread _ Infestation Of Local Fields Ob. served; Counter-Measures Urged.

Contributions   ¢A()2 9901) Incured Loss Caused by August Hurricane in Victoria

100°, Club   Contributions   HONQORARILE MENTION   $403 920 Insured Loss Caused by Auqust Hurricane in Victoria

Von Kluge Throws Entire Weight of Armored Coluinns into Attack to Pierce Lines at Belgorod) Wedge   Kiska Bombed 3 Times on Monday

3 Air Attacks: Made on Kiska  New Bombines Pushed   New Bombings Pushed  Despite Weather and Fog Which Hid Results

U.S, AIRMEN REHIT JAPS ON KISKA ISLE   Carry Out Three Raids on Enemy Installations

U.S. Bombers Blast Kiska 3 More Times   Observation of Results Prevented by Poor Weather

Americans Hit Kiska Island   Three: Attacks Made On Jap Installations, Navy Announces

AMERICAN VESSELS REPEL JAP FORCE: SINK 4 TO 6 CRAFI   Enemy Attempts To Land In Central Solomons With Reinforcements _ Meet Failure

KISKA BOMBED AGAIN   Three New Attacks Carried Out Against Japanese Base

But Congress Goes Ahead With Plans To Eliminate OPA’s Price Rellbacks

SEN. MAHONEY -FORSEES VETO  OF SUBSIDY BAN   Offers Compromise to Aiken Amendment to CCC Fund Bill, to Transfer Food Subsidies fo WFA

Veto Foreseen Of Measure to Ban Subsidies   Both Houses on Record for Flat Prohibition of Any  Price Rollback Bill

MONTH'S DELAY FOR DADS SEEN   Revolt Spreading Among Nation’s Draft Boards Over Oct. 1 Date

DRAFT DELAY 1S FORECAST   MANPOWER COMMISSION MEM“BER SAYS FATHER DRAFT NOT LIKELY BEFORE NOVEMBER

ANOTHER SCHOOL YEAR DRAWS NEAR   Activities For 62nd Commencement To Start  Friday

First High School Commencement Program Friday Afternoon This Week   Commencement Exercises Proper Occur One Week Later

Milk Production Drops In County   County Agent Offers Suggestion On Feeding

encuentran cr nnananneetantt titel  Stateville Prison Scene of Disorder

‘OPA Has Somewhat of a Surprise ‘Wedding Gift’ for Charlie Chaplin

No Coupon Coal Rationing Seen   Delivery Restrictions To End Dec. I

No More Items Are Slated To Be Rationed  Coal Is Possible _ Exception,   Savs OPA Chiel

Russ Capture Major City on Dnieper; Crack Entranee to ‘Smolensk Gate’

Advance On Orsha. Vitebsk   Major Development On “Smolensk Gate” Front Anticipated By Experts,

Russians Roll Across Plains  Of White Russia   Major Break Is Scored In Nazi  Defense Lines

Geaviest Loads of Bombs Dropped on Medang   DEPOTS ERASED   Lack of Fire Indicates Japanese Have Abandoned Santa Isabel Isle

Khers Smash Big Jap Base   4¥9 Tons Ur bombs Dumped “On Madang: Other Areas. Hit

Yank Raiders Leave Jap Base Ablaze   Wipe Out Stores Of Munitions Above Salamaua

Jap s Madano Base Blasted:   Havec Spread Among Enemy Installations

Jap Fuel, Munitions  Blown Up   Headquarters of Japs on Madang In Smithereens

Allied Bombers Blast Jap Bases   Enemy Headquarters Hit at Madang  ALLIED HEADOL ARTERS £

MADANG HEAVILY HIT BY ALLIED BOMBING PLANES   Army Headquarters, Fuel And Ammunition Dumps Are Destroyed   ENEMY OPPOSITION IS REPORTED WEAK

Allies Strike Heavy Blow On Jap Bases   New Guinea Is Hit With Record Tonnage of Bombs

Allies. Blast Japs in Madang Sector   206 Tons of Bombs Cause Heavy Damace in Area

BOMBS BLOW UP HEADQUARTERS OF JAPS AT MADANG   Ruin Spread by Planes in Area Above Salamaua— Huge Fires Level Enemy Buildings.   FUEL AND AMMUNITION DUMPS ARE DESTROYED   Nips Send Up Heavy AntiAircraft Fire, but No Planes Rise to Challenve Raiders.

Salary Fight Growing Hottel   Repeal Of $25,000 Ceil. ing Sought

CALL WITNESS TOBACK ALIBI OF DE MARIGNY   Marquis De Visdelov Takes The Stand ~ Today   DR. TESTIFIES   Claims He Fourid No Burned Hairs On Defendant

TITLED. FRIEND. OFDEMARIGNY “BACKS HIM UE   Marquis De. Visdelou Teske tifies Accused Slayer Was  - AtHis Apartment   -Night of Murder 

Nassau Party Is Described By Marquis   Former Prison. Physician Says Defendant Had No Burned Hairs

DeMarigny’s Alibi Is Supported By Friend   Marquis Georges de Visdelou On Witness Stand In -Bahamas Supreme Court Tells Of Dinner Party At Cottage They Shared

Loss of U. S pease Revealed...   With Ground, Air Forees  U.S. Pounds Munda Heavily

Kula Gulf Clash Believed At End   Complete Details Of Struggle Not Received In Washington; Destroyer Strong Sunk;  Fleet Bombards Japanese Positions

SEA BATTLE IS REPORTED IN PROGRESS   Japanese and American Warships Said to Be In Engagement in the Kula Gulf   TROOPS CLAIM GAINS

SOLOMONS AREA IN FLAMING ACTIVITY LAND, SEA AND AIR  NAVY COMMUNIQUE INDICATES BIG NAVAL BAT: TLE NOW UNDER WAY

ANOTHER ISLE ISTAKEN OVER BY AMERICANS   Invaders Reported To Have Overcome Sharp Resistance

Jap, American Fleets Tangle In Kula Gulf   40 More Zeros Shot Down Over Rendova Island

SOLDIERS MAY BUY CAR LICENSES FOR SIX MONTHS TIME   Move May Not be Legal But It is Being Done, Dempsey Says on Return

Navy States Troops Have Established Positions On Island   STIFF RESISTANCE   U. S. Army Planes Carry Out Bombing and Strafing Attacks

NAZIS IN FIERCE DNIEPER STAND   Reds Aim Hammer Biows at Kiev, Gomel, Vitebsk and Mogilev

KRICHEV FALL PUTS REDS ON MOGILEV. ROAD   Berlin Says Nazi Retreat Wil ' Be Halted At Dnieper = River Line

The War Today  Already United Nations Look For Next Invasion Spot—Maybe Italy

The War Today  Axis Resistance Increases, But Allied Success Is Assured.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Allies May Fool Hitler 4nd Not Move To Italy After Sicily Falls

EVEN THOUGH INCREASED AXIS RESISTANCE REPORTED SICILY IS APPARENTLY IN THE BAC

Fall of Italy Would Weaken Axis Morale Would Also Strengthen Allies

LULL IS BROKEN IN NORTH AFRICA BY AN ADVANCE   Gen. Alexander Reports Enemy Completely Driven Out Of Several Areas; U. S. Planes Rake Axis Forces On Tu nisian Front.

AXIS SEEKS. TO PREVENT NEW MOVES   Commander ¥ inds _ Large Sections. . Are Freed

8th Army Advance Begun In Tunisia   Vichy Radio Hints Rommel Reinforced Bs ~ Von Amim, May Be Turning To Battle British Near Mareth Line

EIGHTH ARMY BELIEVED ON MARCH AGAIN   German Controlled Vichy Radio Says Axis Has Launched Attack Against Allies

ALLIES STRIKE IN TUNE KHARKOV NEAR SURRENDER NEW PACIFIC ORWE SOON   Eighth Army Reported to Be Advancing; Berlin Controlled Radio Tells Of German Attack in Africa; Americans May Hit at Raboul   Base; Rommel! Turns.

LULL ON AFRICAN FRONT BROKEN BY ALLIED OFFENSIVE   Russians Smash German  Defenses on Three Approaches to Kharkov, Ukraine Steel Canital.

Battle Probably Will Be Along French Mareth Line   Russian Follow Up Kursk Victory With Other Advances

New Drive Started By British Forces; Report Axis Assault   Americans Bomb Enemy Air Base; Nazi Kharkov Lines Crumble; RAF Attacks Western Germany

Eighth Army Resumes Drive ‘Against Combined Axis Force   ALENANDER OL TEINES STE @rion

“AFRICA.   Montgomery's Big Push Is Getting Under Way   Supplies Massed.   Well Inside Tunisic.

British Resume Drive in Tunisia For a ‘Knockout   Allied Bombers Soften the Enemy Communication in Mediterranean Area.   Axis Counter Blows Start Against British

AXIS ASSAULT ALSO OPENED, VICHY CLAIMS   U.S. Planes Rake Enemy On Southern Front; Base Is Torn By Fortresses

RENEWED GROUND ACTIVITY BELIEVED NEAR IN TUNISTA   AS BRITISH OPEN NEW AD. VANCE AXIS REPORTED TO HAVE ATTACKED

Victorious British  Army Starts Drive Into Tunisia Today   Reds Menace Kharkov From Three Sides in Ukraine Fighting

xis Launching Attack, Claim   Vichy Report of German Attack May Mean Von Arnim Has Reinforced Rommel’s Battered Forces Fleeing From Montgomery

Gen. Alexander Contident Foe Can Be Routed   Germans Announce Attack Against British Launched  By Axis Armies.   ‘YANK FLIERS ACTIVE

AXIS FORCES OPEN ATTACK IMMEDIATELY   Every Indication That Major Battle Will Soon be Under Way on Mareth Line in Africa.

British Start New Advance Into Tunisia   Vichy Radio Asserts Axis Tunisian Forces Have Launched Attack Against British; Nazi Defenses Around Kharkov Crumbling

Russians Menace Kharkov From Three Sides —   (New Advance in Tunisia}

General Alexander Makes Statement; Axis Radio Reported Own Assault

Vichy Says Axis Attacked First: Kharkov Swavs   Lisenhower Reports Air Teamwork Harasses Foe on Southern Frant

Axis Radio Also Reports New Assault in Attempt to Forestall Allies   NO DETAILS TOLD; HEAVY AIR RAIDS   Rommel May. Have Been Reinforced; Battle Near Mareth Line Indicated

Lull Broken In African War Theater: Axis Stand Expected On Mareth Line

Axis Units Attempt New Counter - Blow To Check Advance   Strong Russian Forces Pour Througl Belgorod Gap in German Defenses North of Kharkov

British Launch  African Drive   Eighth Army Takes Offensive with New Ad vance into Tunisia—Vichy Claims Axis Forces Start African Attack; Reds Peril Kharkov

British Crossing Tripoli’s. Border   American Planes Hammer Other End of Line—Alexander Says Il Duce’s Empire Wiped Out

Advance Started After Several Day. of Massing Forces and Equipm Germans Strike in Counter-Attac : Americans Strike Hard Air Blow Southern Front, Attack Kairous Air Base.

U. 5. BOMBERS CONDUCT RAID ON NAZI BASE   Expect Rommel To Stand Behind Mareth Line If Possible

AXIS FORCES COUNTER ATTACK   Vichy Radio Says Counter: Attack Made To Forestall British Offensive

German Defenses Crumble At Kharkov As Russians Threaten Big Steel City

Vichy Radio — Avers Nazis Begin Drive   Assault Is to Forestall British Army, Driving Past Border

North African. Lull Shattered By Eighth Army   Meanwhile Red Armies Score New Gains On Russian Front

‘ARMY STARTS ~NEW ADVANCE   Moves Into Tunisia - Breaking Long’ “oe. Pall. *   Enemy Has Launched Counter-Drive On : Allies

New Advance By British In Tunisia   Vichy Also Reports Axis Offensive In North Africa Area   American Airplanes Hit On Land And Sea   Outer Approaches Of Kharkov Crumble As Russians Plunge On

Vichy Reports Axis Forces  On Offensive   Alexander Says Egypt, Libya Free Of Enemy

LAST OF ENEMY FORCES DRIVEN OUT OF LIBYA   Vichy Claims Axis Is Attacking to Forestall Offensive by British

EIGHTH ARMY [5 ADVANCING; AXIS ATTACKS   Enemy, to Forestall Allied Offensive, Turns on the British Forces in Vicinity of the Mareth Line, Vichy Indieatac.

RED OFFENSIVE, MEANWHILE IS SURGING AHEAD   Yanks Get Set To Intensify Assaults Against Japs From Pacific Islands   AXIS IN 3-WAY SQUEEZE   Russians Threaten To Trap Another Big Segment of Invading Nazi Army

HUN ATROCITIES WORST OF WAR   Delayed Action Mine In Naples Kills Women And Children

Nazi Bomb Takes High Naples Toll  Many Children Killed In Post Office Blast

Many Italians Killed by Bomb Nazis Planted   Women, Children, Slain in Naples

Russ Know War Moves, U.S. Aids Say  Statement Denies Charges of Veiling Strategy

EXCLUSION OF REDS REFUTEL   State Department Says Stalin Is Informed Of All Aspects Of Actions

Sec. Hull Denies Russia Is Kept In Dark on War   Full Co-operation Provided, He Says

POLICEMEN’S BALL   New Year’s Eve Benefit Panes Will Be in Community Bui

Greek King Hints al Invasion   Intimates Landing Can Be Expected

War Purpose World Peace Says Hoover   Former President Talks To Members of State’s Legislature

New Approach To Peacemaking Is Needed, Hoover Tells Iowa Assembly

LASTING PEACE U. S. WAR GOAL   Hoover Says Americans United Toward That _ Purpose

TRIBUTARIES ADD TO RECORD CRESTS OF MISSISSIPPI   107,000 Homeless; $40,000,000 Crop Damage In Great Midwest Disaster,

Germans Execute Italian Captives      Even Removed Wounded Who Had Opposed Them From Hospitals

GERMANS EXECUTE ITALIAN PATRIOTS   Prisoners and Wounded Shot After Battle

BALTIMORE SHIPPERS SEEK HIGHER PRICE   Higher Consumer Prices of: Other Cities Diverting  Shipments

Yanks Gain New Foothold Near Chichagof Harbor; Japs Progressing In China

Yanks Gain Foothold on Attu Ridge   Bombard Jap Shore Installations  Near Chichagof

Americans Get Foothold On Attu Hill   Heavy Fighting Reported; Japs Press Drive Into China

Yanks Gain New Foothold on Attu   Troops Receive Air, Navy Support

SOVIET TROOPS CLOSING IN ON 50-MILE FRONT   Several GermanHeld Towns Are Taken In Fight

MORE RUSSIANS LAND ON COAST   London Hears Germans Aré Evaciating Kharkoy ’ Under Shelling

Net Closing About Rostov And Kharkov  Continued Russian   Continued Russian Successes Claimed By Moscow

Southern Russia Armies Continue Heavy Fighting   Drive for Kharkov Is Spread Along Fifty-Mile Line

CONTINUES TINCHECKEN   Fighting Reported Mount. ing on 50-Mile Front Just Rast of Kharkov —   ENCIRCLEMENT OF ROSTOV CONTINUES   Germans Tell of Heavy Counter Blows and New Red Landings at Novorossisk_

FIGHTING MOUNTS AD AED ARMIES MOVE WESTWARD   Fifty Mile Long~ Assault Front Just East of Khar‘kov; Russian Tanks Too Much for Nazi Buggies —

ussian Tan k Crushes 200 Nazis To Death. .  Reds Form Long Assault Front Out Of Kharkov

VILLAGES BETWEEN BELGORGD AND CHUGUYEY SEIZED   Fifty Mile Long Assault Line Drawn Up Just East of Kharkov—Fighting Mounting in Other Southern Areas   By EDDY GILMORE

Soviets Capture Additional Towns In Drive On Kharkov; Extend Gains Around Rostov   Strategic Kharkov Now In Range Of Red Artillery; Fighting Intensified

Reds Organize 50- Mile- -Long Assault Front to Smash at Nazi Force Holding Kharkov

RUSSIANS DRIVE WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF KHARKOV   Red Advance Becoming Steamroller To Crush Nazis   RUSSIAN TANKS LEADING ATTACK

REDS PRESSING EVER CLOSER TO KHARKOV   Capture’ Towns 22 Miles South eas!, 36 Miles Northeast ix  Heavy Fighting :   CONTINUE DRIVE   Stockholm Reporis Germans Already Evacuating City —New Gains on Rostov

‘Russians Form 50-Mile Long Assault Front Just:   East of Enemy At   Kharkov  BELGOROD SEIZED:IN  CONTINUED MARCH        Chaugyey Also Captured] In Furious Battle; En-  circlement Rostov  Continues i   BELGOROD SEIZED:IN CONTINUED MARCH

Fighting Mounts On Russian Front   Red Army Forms 50 Mile Long Assault on the Nazi Forces.   TWO TOWNS CAPTURED   Soviet Troops Continue the Encirclement of City of Rostov

Reds Form 50-Mile Line Before Xharkov   Meanwhile, Fighting Is Reported Mounting in Other Sectors of Southern Russia, With Rostov Encirclement Continuing.

HED ARTILLERY SHELLING GIT}   Stockholm Report Says Soviets Only Six Miles From Goal  a   “FURIOUS FIGHTING   Encirelement Of Rostov Continues, Moscow Communique Reports

Kharkov in Range of Red Artillery; Base Threatened   Fighting Mounting on Fronts in Southern Russian Sectors

Russians Take 1 More Towns  Continue Their Driv On City of Kharkov

Kharkov Is Under Fire Of Russian Artillery   Germans Reported Evacuating Key City 50-Mile Assault  Line East Of City

REDS CAPTURE MORE TOWNS FROM NAZIS   Army Forms 50-Mile Long Assault Fronts Fast of Kharkov

GERMANS ARE EVACUATING KHARKOV ARMY   Soviet Troops Pour Down Kharkov Highway; Smash  - At Rostov

Chuguyev Taken By Reds After Heavy Assault   Fight Mounts In All Red _ Sectors In  Southern Russia  Today

Kharkov Now In Range Of Soviet Guns   Reds Extend Gains Ir Rostov Area; Furiou: Battles Are Reported  Alone Fronts«

Soviets Form 50-Mile-Long Assault Front East of Kharkov; Capture of Chuguyev and Volchansk Announced by Russians

Fighting Mounts In South Russia   Red Army Forms 50-Mile Assault Front East of Kharkov.

Axis Reported-To Be.  -Evacuating Kharkov   Great Russian Steel Center Being Pounded By Soviet Guns As Red Army Forms 50Mile Assault Front To East.

Russians Form Assault Front 50 Miles Long   Capture of Chuguyev And Volchansk, Also Pechhenegi Announced By Red High Command

Soviets Capture 2 More Towns or  Road to Kharkov. .   ~-Germans~Reported™ Evacuating City Under Heavy Shelling Attacks by Russian Artillery

REDS ANNOUNCE CAPTURE OF TWO MORE VILLAGES   Reequipping French Troops with American Arms in North Africa »

RED ARMY IS MOVING AHEAD AA_MILE LINE   Rumors That Nazis Are Evacuating Kharkov Are Heard and Heavy Fighting Reported.

cO-M'LE ASSAULT FRONT FORMED EAST OF KHARKOV   FIGHTING MOUNTS IN OTHER PARTS OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA

General Gains Are Reported In Big Smash   Furious Battles Take Place At Two Points; Germans Try To Hold By Counter Blows

D MILE FRONT NEAR KHARKOV   Red Army Captures More Settlements in Continued Advance.

RED ARMIES FIGHT ALONG FIFTY MILE FRONT AT KHARKOV  CAPTURE OF TWO IMPORTANT TOWNS ANNOUNCED BY RUSSIANS

Bricker Pressed To Veto Time-Change Action   Additional Cities Indicate Intention To Disregard Proposed Law

VETO OF TIME CHANGE URGED   Additional Cities Back Movement To Keep Ohio On War Schedule

PRESS BRICKER TOVETOTIME CHANGE TODAY   Nelson Will Request War Plants To Stay on Fast Time

TIME CHANGE OPPOSITION IN OHIO GROWING   Resolution Asking Governor To Veto Bill To Be Put Up to Legislature   CITIES ARE AGAINST IT   Heavy Vote in Passage at Request of Farmers To Influence Governor

CABBAGE AND ONIONS AMONG ITEMS LISTED.   Housewives Asked to “Police” Ceilings on Groceries

New Moves Made Tu Halt Increase In Living Costs   More Price Ceilings And Re ductions Are Ordered By O. P. A. Action   MANY PRICES ARE NOW FIXED BYO PA

OARING COSTS GET NEW BLOW _ BY OPA ORDERS   Suts Frozen Poultry, Onion. Codfish and Cabbage Prices

FROZEN FOULTRY, SALT. Con; ONION AND ‘CABBAGE +CEnJINGS". ARE ADDED TO  THE List

NO CONTROVERSY RULING AVERTS BITTER DISPUT   OPA Manager Bowles Ret sas Reply to Accusation Made By Secretary  lavan

NAZI COLUMNG ONLY 14 MILES FROM ALGERIA   Three Of Central Tunisian Towns Held By Americans Captured By Germans

British Approach Near Mareth Line   Threat From South Expected  To Bring German Advance to Enc

3 Towns Taken by  Germans   American Forces Fal] Back Into Hills—Axis Has More Men

HITLER DEATH REPORTSERR, BRITISH THINK   Diplomatic Quarters in London Intrigued by Fuehrer’s Silence

SWEEPING STOPPAGE WORK IN COAL NINES GREETED BY SILENCE   APPEALS TO PATRIOTISM MAY TAKE PLACE OF ANY FORCE PLANS

Administration Counts Heavily On Miners’ Patriotism; Stoppage Story Feeds Axis Propaganda Mil

DRASTIC ACTION AGAINST LABOR LEADERS LOOMS   Lawmakers Irate as Lewis Defies Government by Not Calling Off Strike

Solons May Take Hand in Coal Crisis   Drastic Labor Legislation Threatened by  Senators

Congress Eyes “Drastic: Action In Coal Strike   Lawmakers Ponder Steps For Legislation To Curb Stoppage

TAPITAL IS AROUSED BY WORK STOPPAGE   Témpers Short Among. Nation’s Legislators

DAVIS CHARGES) LEWIS HURTING MEN AT FRONT   OWI. Chief Makes Sharp Comments On Strike of Miners, Points To Disruntion   SENATORS DECLARE ACTION NECESSARY   Congressional Move by Monday Predicted to Give President Added Powers

Roosevelt To State Policy On Radio At 10 P. M. Sunday      'COAL CRISIS SHORTENS CAPITAL TEMPERS AS LAWMAKERS PLAN DRASTIC LABOR LEGISLATION

COAL MEINERS WORK STOPPAGE GREZTED WITH SILENCE IN NATION’S  ga\ a Farrre

Solons Bitter At Lewis Ac  ! Lawmakers Ready to  Be Back President to / pee @.. Chane

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES HIT NORTHERN ITALY   Blasted Three Vital Railroad Cities Yesterday on Lines Into Italy.   BRIDGES ARE WRECKED   Bolzano, Trento and Bologna Were the Specific Targets.

Yanks Blast Axis  Railroad Centers   In Pre-Invasion Assault, U. S. Fliers Bomb Northern  Italy Communications.

Bombers Fly Far Into Italy  Vital Railroad Citie Are Devastated...  re

JURY LIST DRAWN FOR APRIL TERM   Petit Jury Ordered To Re. port For. Service On Coot Paneth 99

FOR APRIL TERM      Petit Jury. Ordered To Re. port, For. Service On  " Aneil 12 

Hitler and Mussolini Veet Again   “Military Questions” Discussed At Conference In Northern Italy

PROSPECTS GLOOMY FOR FALL HARVEST   Bad Weather Combines With Equipment Shortage Delays Planting

MORE ALARM CLOCKS   Resumption Of Manufacture O Clecks Appreved By WPB

SM ae MONG eoareer ese treaty  RESUME PRODUCTION OF ALARM CLOCKS

Hourly Temperatures   Alarm Clock Production To Cut Down Tardiness

AIRMEN HIT AT APPROACHES TO JAPAN IN RAID   Kurile Islands, 700 Miles North Of Nippon, Attacked.

Axis Claims Yanks Bomb Kurile Isles   New Allied Gains In South Pacific Region Reported

Americans Bomb Kurile Isles For Third Time  Salamaua Drome Seized, Lae Advances Made

Finschhafen Given Terrific Pounding   Aussies Batter Last Defenses

AUSSIES POUND AT LAST JAP DEFENSES OF FINSCHRAFEN   Liberators Drop 61 Tons of Bombs On Enemy Bases At Hansa Ray

‘Australians Hammer at Finschhafen Defenses; U. §. Fliers Bomb Wewak

Aussies Rock Finschhafen as Yanks Rip Hansa Bay   Columns Converge

Hammer at Last ()f Finschhafen  Bing of Defense      Rear Bases of Enemy Attacked By U. S. Planes ©

Australian Forces Land, Dive Bombers Pound Jap Defenses At Finschhafen

AUSSIES POUND .AT DEFENSES RINGING FINSCHHAFEN PORT   U, 5. Big Bombers Support ‘Attack By Blasting Enemy Rear Bases:  -In. Northwest

Lewis Termed  “Labor Judas”   Union Official Assails President of UMW

SPEAKERS. ATTACK LEWIS AT ClO MEET; STUDY FDR SPEECH   Several Resolutions To Ee Considered Later — Mine Strike Is Assailed

MIDWEST’S GAS NEEDS CHECKED   Tightened Rationing In Prospect; Ickes To Discuss Plans

MONEY 1S NEEDED FOR SECOND FRONT   Morgenthau Says 70 Billiot Must Be Borrowed During Year.

Avis Soldiers Face  ‘Grave or Prison’  Eisenhower Says This As French Are Given Lend-Lease Material

Axis Men to Die Or Surrender   Gen. Eisenhower Says All Enemy Soldiers To Be Wiped Out

DESTROY NAZI TANKS IN U. S,, FRENCH ATTACK   Action Occurred on Southern End Of Tunisian aBttlefront With Aid of Fiying War Craft.

OPA TO RAISE CEILING PRICE ON ALL FLOUR   Increase is not expected to affect retail price of bread

FLOUR CEILING TO BE RAISED   Increase Not Expected Te Hike Bread Price

SLASH IN OPA FUNDS IS URGED   Charge Agency Wants Returning Soldiers To Pay For . Today's Groceries

OPA POLICIES . UNDER ATTACK TN CONGRESS   LATEST ATTACK BRINGS THREAT OF CUTTING MIL. ‘LIONS. MORE FROM  AGENCY'S APPROPRIATION

‘REPAIRING THE RUHR   Allied Bombers Have Dealt the “* Nazis’ Heavy Damages

Randolph Field Instructors Are Busy ‘Teaching Aviators How To Be Afraid

TIGHT REIN ON 'U. $. BUREAUS      Not Only Will Watch Expenditures, but Probably Their Interpretation of Laws and Assumption of Powers.

BUREAUS SUBJECT - TO ACLOSE CHECK NEXT TWO YEARS   Congress Put Them on Notice Today That a Check Would Be Made.   ECONOMY EMPHASIZED   House to Vote Tuesday on the Annual Appropriation Measure.

Spending Check On’ Bureaucrats   CONGRESS IN NOTICE TO ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES

CONGRESS PLANS TO WATCH COSTS   Vote Due Tuesday On Appro priation Bill For Treas ury and Post Office.

PEPPER AND CARAWAY PLEAD   Urge Senate Indicate Post-War Peace Work

PEPPER URGES DYNAMIC PEACE   Leads Drive for Specific  Commitments in Plan

CUMPROMISE PENSION SEEN   GROUP DEBATES TERMS OF FINAL STATE PLAN

Citizens Pensiort Group Meets to Report Again   State Senate Scheduled.to Take Up Budget

ROMMEL TEST ATTACK FAILS: REDS PUSH ON   Quote Nazi Reprisal Hint Of New Weapons; Gas Possible

RAF BATTERS GERMANY FOR NINTH NICHT   Bir Offensive Begins To Hurt: Reprisals Talked Of

BOMBARDMENT OF GERMANY CONTINUES      Allies Also Pushing Ahead  In Tunisia

Air Attack Has Started to Hurt   Germans Hint at New Weapons,  Possibly Gas; RAF Lays Mines

Bombardment Going Forward At High Tempe   INDICATIONS OFFENSIVE Is BEGINNING TO HURT EVIDENT.

THINK TEACHER IS FIRE VICTIM   Flames Rage in School at Gilmore City

Reds Report Advances in Kuban Area   Other Sectors on Eastern Front Not Very Active

Russians Add To Gains Along Kuban River   Nazis Fail In Effort Break  Donets Line

Nazi Force Facing Threat Of Being Split By Red Unit   Russians Take Several Villages In Offensive T., Derive Toward Sea Alona The Kuban River

Fingerprint Evidence Is Questioned   Defense Contends That Print Was Made. By Accused Long After Death Of Oakes

HYATT ASKS FOR A BEER LICENSE   Lawrence Man Wants to ~ Operate at Wonder Bar Location   WOULD CHANGE NAME

HYATT ASKS FOR A BEER LICENSE   Lawrence Man Wants to ~ Operate at Wonder Bar  ation

Weather Limits Action in Pacific   * Two Enemy Planes  Downed; Bases Bombed  ALLIED HFEFADQL ARTERS IN ALSTRALIA. Friday, June 4

Ceiling for Hogs Will Be $14.75   [o Bc Established Early in August, Is Announced Today

PREPARE FLAT PRICE CEILING ON LIVE HOGS   Tighter Control Of Hog Slaughtering Is Planned

NEW TIME VOTED BY OHIO SENAT!   Emergency Clause Refused to Make Change Immediately

KITT URGES PROBE OF LOAN AGENCIES   His Proposal Was Adopted by the House by Vote of 7 to 34.

Broad Probe of All Loan -—. Businacsac   House Orders Inquiry as Result. of Fight. Over - Small Loan Firms:      GOES BEYOND PLANS:—.OF REP. LAHEY   He Has Carried On, Long. Fight Against. Small Loan Group

HOWELL NEW POST HEAD   Morrisville Legionnaires Will Hold Induction This Week

TO INSTALL HOWELL AS POST COMMANDER   Morrisville American Legion  Officials To Assume Duties   HOME REDECORATED

Jap Bases On New Guinea Hit   500 Pound Bombs Rained On Salamaua

110,000 Axis Soldiers Trapped: Yanks Seize Marsala; Mt. Etna Line, Enemy Bastion, Menaced

AMERICANS PUSH ON, THREATENING LAST NAZI LINE   Yanks Grab Marsala In Swift Advance In Western Part of Isle

Trapani Reported To Be Controlled By Allied Forces   North Coast Town Of Termini, 20 Miles East Of Palermo, Taken As Americans Press Forward To Join British At Catania

British Army Batters Nazis At Catania   Americans Capture Marsala, Move.  Toward 3

Mount Etna Line Last Bastion Enemy Defenses   Yanks Seize Marsala: 60,000 Prisoners  Captured; Catania Still Holds

Allies Annihilate Enemy Armies In All But One Corner: Seize Marsala   50,000 More Prisoners Send Total to 110,000; Yanks Capture Major Portion; Allies Enter Trapani; British Batter at Catania

110,060 AXIS TROOPS CAUGHT  IN WESTERN PART OF ISLAND; U. S. TURNS TO AID BRITISH

Allied Troops  Converging On Mt. Etna Line  Trap 110,000 Soldiers Of Enemy; Trapania Is Reported To Have Reen Captured

Allies Converge On Efna Line in Final Campaign   Marsala Captured As Americans Cut Into Enemy Forces

WESTERN PART OF ISLAND 1S BEING CLEARED   Ports Of Trapani, Termini And Marsala Fall  To Americans   MENACE MESSINA     Germans At Catania May Be Cut Off In Push From North

TROOPS BEGIN. MOVING IN ON: NT, ETNA LINE   All Axis Armies Annihitated Except in Northeast Corner. of ‘Sicily,      MARSALA AND TARPANI ~ TAKEN BY. AMERICANS

CHANGE URGED IN OPA POLICY   Senators Suggest Personnel Be Reduced. Many Practices Abandoned

Senate Group Will Urge OPA Changes   Propose to Outline Suggestions at Parley on Tuesday

ill Be Urged on “Admin. trator Prenties Brown. y Members Senate  Finance Committee:   (OULD LIMIT PRICE ‘CONTROL PRACTICE   Regulate Profits and Favor Raising Farm ‘Product Ceilings  Abandoning ‘Attempts

Senate Members Will Urge Sweeping Changes In OPA Policies Upon Brown Tuesday

REFORMS ASKED IN OPA POLICIES   Criticism Forces Brown To Call For More Public Support

CHANGES LOOM IN BASIC OPA METHODS SOGN   Senate Group Will Seek Sweeping Changes in Report to Brown

Urge Changes In OPA Policy And Practices   Proposals Include Four Points: fo Meet for General Discussion

OPA Practices Will Be Aired   Senate Group Will Meet ith Brown To Review New Proposals

Sweeping Changes in Policies of OPA Are to Be Urged on Chief Brown

OWEEPING GHANGED IN OPA CONSIDERED   Brown To Confer Tuesday With Complaintants

TO WAGE GUTS IN OPA OTA, NEW POLIGIEE   Senators Will Outline Plan that Includes Limits on Price Control.   HERRING WOULD GIVE LOCAL BOARDS POWER

Today’s War Moves   Hitler’s Gains in Aegean Island Will Throw Turkev to Allies

 The War Today— : Hitler Grab In Aegean Shows Fear \Of Turks And Invasion Via Balkans

The War Today   Nazi Seizure of Aegean Islands Fits Growing Unrest in Balkans

Administrator Says « Government Has Quit Flathead Plan  Dr. Raver Addresses Congress Group During Final Meet

Flathead Project Is Abandoned  Hungry Horse Dam  Tee Diacsinnnsseesr cS

Popular Young Couple Wedded  Vernon Schroeder Marries Louise Kelle:

Popular Young Couple Wedded  Vernon Schroeder nA @ She ee rT, sa

LONDON AWAITING AUTHENTIC FACTS ABOUT PETSAMO   Finland, Fighting With Germany Against Russians Seeking Friendship of the United Statac.   RED ARMY OPENS ANOTHER NEW CAMPAIGN   Hitler, Facing Disaster In Russia Abandons Directing War, Now Looks te Generals.

Petsamo Claimed Taken by Russia   Report of Norway: Drive Unconfirmed

REPORT SOVIETS SEIZE PETSAMO   Swedish Dispatches Hint Of Russian Drives Against Norway And Finland

SAY RUSSIANS TOOK PORT OF PETSAMO   Swiss, Morocco And Algiers Radios Broadcast This Report

VAGUE REPORTS OF PETSAMO CAPTURE ARE UNCONFIRMED   Swiss and African Radios De scribe Opening of Red Northern Drive.

Coming War Loan Names Are Nifties   ‘New’ Amphibious Jeeps Have Been In Service Long Time

Bombers Altack Burma Railroad      United States Planes Hit Thazi, Just South Of Mandalay

RAID IS MADE ON JAP BASES INBURMALAND   BOMBERS POUND RAIL AND STORAGE FACILITIES  AT THAZI

US Bombers Blast Burma Rail Center   British Join In Heavy Attacks

U.S. Bombs Hit Burma   Allied Air Forces Conduct Daily Raids on Japs =‘

U.S. FLIERS RAID BURMA RAIL KEY   ” JAPANESE BASES THROUGHOUT INDIA SECTOR ASSAULTED

CONGRESS PROBERS SEEK FULL STORY ON ARMS COMPANY   Miranda. Brothers, Inc.,. Is Munitions Firm Involved In  ‘Check-Up .

State Cotton Crop Estimate Is Down   Corn Output Figure Down, Feed Situation Critical

Allied Planes Hammer Japs   Two Jap Zeros. Shot Down Over Wake Island 4

 Attack Plan Used With Success Enemy Balloons Carryi ing Fire Bombs Fall on Or egon I te

BOMBS DROPPED ON OREGON COAST   BALLOONS CARRY EXPLOSIVES—BELIEVED RELEAS.ED FROM SUBMARINES.

RIVER MENACES PORTLAND, ORE,   Shipyard Production I Affected By Flood On Willamette

Portland Awaits Crest of Flood .  ‘Leg: Raft Menaces ‘Bridges, Piers

FLOOD CURTAILING WORK IN SHIPYARDS   Crest Bears Down On Portland; Ohio Stops Rising

PORTLAND WAITS FLOOD CREST AS RIVER RAMPAGES   Ohio City Relieved as Stream Hits High; Deaths Mount

Vv With Our Soldiers  : and 1 Sailors ie @           Mrs. Harrie Sawyer Reports For Duty

With Our  \ Soldiers 1 and \ Sailors       Mrs. Harrie Sawyer Reports For Dut;

FLOUR SUBSIDY APPLIED DESPITE SOLONS’ ATTITUDE   Administration Determined tc “Hold-the-Line” In Fight, on High Prices

FLOUR SUBSIDY PLAN REVEALEL   Program Designed to Hold Down Bread Prices

Flour Subsidy   Plan Announced   $108,000,000 Annual Allotment Under Plan

Flour Subsidy Holds Steady Price of Bread  ) Fight Against Inflation to

CONTINUE TO ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS   Stubborn Counter. Attacks by Axis Beaten Back

YANKS 10 MILES FROM SEA BASE IN NEW ADVANCE   RAF Rips Dortmund After U. S. Flying Forts Hit Antwerp

KILDAY DRAFT DEFERMENT BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE   Gives Priorities to Men with Dependents and Puts Quotas on Statewide, Not Local, Basis

All Able Men ir U.S. Face Dratt   MAJOR REVISIONS IN CLASSIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE CONSCRIPTION OF VIRTUALLY ALL IN 18-38 DIVISION WITHIN NINE MONTHS

Brown to Give Business Men Voice in OPA   Hopes to Revive System Of: Industry Help in Regulations

Business To Say More on Price Rules   Enforcement To Be Largely In Hands Of U. S. Attornevs.

BUSINESS MEN GET VOICE IN OPA RULE   Brown to Grant Nation’s Business Men Bigger Share in Shaping OPA Policies

OPA to Give Bigger Voice To Business      New Price Head Moves To Eliminate Friction By Closer Cooperation With Business Men

Brown Planning To Give Busines Men Better Dea   Biqger Voice In Draft Of Price Regulations _... Assured.:Them .._.

BROWN PLANS VOICE IN OPA FOR BUSINESS   New Administrator Also Expected to Skeletonize Enforcement Division,  ' Putting Work on a Local Basis.

BUSINESS MEN WILL HAVE MORE VOICE IN OPA OPERATION   Advisory Committees System to be Revived by New Price  Administrator

Brown Plans To Localize Price Rules   Business Men to Be Given More Voice In Drafting Of Regulations

INDUSTRY AID   New OPA Chief Also Considers Decentralization Of Enforcement Division

A Bigger Voice To Business Man   New OPA Administrator to Have Industry Sit in on New Regulations.

PUBLIC'S VOICE TO GUIDE OPA   New Chief Tunes Ear t Complaints To Smooth Out Difficulties

NEW OPA CZAR TO GIVE BUSINESS VOICE IW DRAFTING RULES   Brown Will Revive System Of Industry Adcory Committees

BROWN WILL GIVE BUSINESS VOICE IN DRAFTING RULES   New Price Administrator To Revive Advisory Committee System, Revise Enforcement Plans.

BUSINESS T0 GET SAY IN OPA—BROWN   Industry Advisory Committees To Be Revived

Business to Have More Say in Rules   New Administrator of OPA to Revive Industry Advisory Committee to Aid in Price Regulations

Business To Get Bigger Voice In New OPA Regime   Localize Code On Price Rules

NEW AMERICAN ARMY REACHED MATURITY. IN BATTLE MATEUR  HALF YEAR OF SEVERE FIGHTING HAS MADE THEM VETERANS

Maturity Reached By New American Army atMateur   Capture Shows: How Fast-Growing Troop: Learned to Attack:

New American Army Reached Maturity at Mateur After Many Battles.   BENEFIT BY EXPERIENCE

LEE ‘MORRIS - ve te LETS ‘STEAM. ROLLER oo" BLATTEN CANS           ‘By: His Comrades. ,

Picked Troops Lead Invasion  Move On Sicily   ‘Especially Trained Canadjans Carry Out First Landing Attack   HEAVY DEFENSES ARE ENCOUNTERED

ITALIAN MAINLAND S OBJECTIVE OF DRIVE   Rome, Admats Invasion Has Be : oun

SECRETARY KNOX RETURNS FROM BIG TRIP TO PACIFIC   ports “There Are Darn Good Prospects Of An Air Attack On Tokyo

Knox Is Well Satisfied With Pacific Tour   "Darn Good Prospects of Raid on Tokyo,"' Naval Secretary Says  UNDERGOES ATTACKS

Tokyo Better Prepare—Knox   Secretary Of Navy Returns From Inspection Trip Of Pacific Outposts.

KNOX-WARNS*JAPS TO GET READY FOR NEW RAID ON TOKYO   Navy Head Visits South Pacific Front—-30 Days . Will Finish Japs.On Guadaicanal

KNOX INSPEGTS PACIEIG POSTS   Predicts Air Attack on Tokyo; Situation at Guadal canal Good.

KNOX ON TOUR OF PACIFIC BATTLE AREA   Visited Every So. Pacific Front

Knox Returns From Tour Of Pacific Area   Promises Aerial  Raid On Tokyo

WARNS OF NEW RAIDS PLANNED AGAINST TOKYO   Seeretary of Navy Returns From Inspection Tour in 8. Pacific Very Well Pleased.

KNOX SEES JAP PACIFIC POWER NEARING CLOSE   Navy Secretary, Back From Tour Of Front, Predicts Air Raids On Tokyo   ESCAPES ENEMY ATTACKS   Praises Offensive Spirit 0: Officers, Especially On Guadalcanal

JAUNT TO PACIFIC   Secretary Knox Returns From Inspection of Farflung Outposts

Knox Sees Tokyo Ripe For Attack:   Raid Forecast. As Naval Chief Ends Sea Tour.

Knox Hints Attacks.on  Tokyo Soon   Prospects Darn Good, He Says; Tell Japs To Get Ready

TOKYO AIR RAID IS. IN PROSPECT   Knox, Home From Tour of Pacific, Escapes Unhurt From Two Air Raids:

TOKYO MAY GET - NEW BOMBING   Secretary  “Knox Says Japs. Better Get Ready Soon.

Prospect to Bomb Tokyo Good—Knox   Secretary of Navy Also Says That Organized Resistance on Guadalcanal] te End im Thirty Days

N avy Chieftain Warns J apanese  To ‘Get Ready’   Secretary Finishes Up Tour; Party Twice Bombed By Nipponese

Knox, Home From Pacific Tour, —  Envisages More Tokyo Bombing:   aie Chief Also Predicts Early Disappearance Of All - Jap Resistance On Guadalcanal; Twice Was Under Jap Air. Attacks.

Knox Makes Two: Week Inspection In South-Pacific ~   Jap Resistance On Guadalcanal Ends Soon, Says. .

JAP RESISTANCE ON GUADALCANAL MAY END SHORTL'      Secretary Enox Predicts It Will End Within 30 Davys

FORESEES MORE RAIDS ON TOKY(   ‘Knox Returns From Pacifie Trip, Proud Of “Blazing Spirit” Of Men Jn Outposts.

KNOX INSPECTS PACIFIC PORTS   Navy Chief Predicts Capture of Guadalcanal Within 30 Days

GUADALCANAL~ FIGHT NEAR END KNOX BELIEVES   Secrelary, Under Fire Twice on 20,000 Mile Inspection -Trip in Pacific . *

Secretary Knox After Pacific Trip Says Attack on Tokyo Is Probable

TOKYO WILL BE BOMBED-KNOX   SECRETARY OF NAVY BACK FROM LONG INSPECTION TRIP

KNOX PREDICTS SECOND ATTACK      Navy Secretary Returns from Visit to Pacific War : Zone

Kncx, Back From Tour, Optimistic   Enemy Warned to Prepare for New Raids on Tokyo

JAPS NEARING AN, END OF FIGHTING ON CiUADALCANA   Plane Occupied by Secretary of Navy Was Target of Enemy at New Hebrides, Gradateanal.   GROUND ATTACKS ARE. PROBABLY OVERCOME   All Major U. $. Naval Bases In Pacific Are Inspected During A Trip Covering 20,000 Miles.

Secretary of Navy Predicts Final Guadalcanal Battle and Yank Raids on Tokyo

Knox Expects New US. Air RaidonTokyo   Navy Secretary Returns From 20,000-Mile Trip te Pacific War Zone

Air Raid on Tokyo Promised by Knox; Back from Far East   Secretary of Navy Under Jap Air Attack on Guadalcanal and  New Hebrides on Inspection - - - Confidence Radiated After Inspection of Battle Fronts in Far Pacific

PROSPECTS OF TOKYO BOMBING GOOD, KNOX SAYS   \Secretary: of Navy Makes Prediction After Survey “of U, S. Posts In the Pacific   ‘Declares All Organized Resistance On Guadalcanal Will End Within Thirty Days

Knox Predicts Jap Resistance on  Guadalcanal Will End in 30 Days

HAGUE NOW HAS REDS’ SUPPORT   Jersey City Mayor, Who Once Fought Communists, Endorsed By Daily Workor

SENATE GROUP OKAYS PENSION   FINANCE COMMITTEE APPROVES QUOTA JUMP

Total 170,000 War Prisoners —_ Now In U. S.  . War Dont Dicclaceec

JUDGE PENSION BILL IS BURIED   Measure To Put More Teeth In Anti-gambling Laws Ready for Legislature

OHIOANS PL FOR MACARTHUR   Movement Catches  GOF Leaders Unawares

OHIO M ARTHUR _ DRIVE OPENED   New Presidential Figure Injected Into Bricker Campaign Program

Ohio MacArthur Boom Catches GOP Unawares   Movement Is Launched As State Republican Leaders Prepare To Endorse Bricker For "Presidential Nomination ‘

‘MacArthur For President’ Campaign Develops Suddenly In Ohio GOP

DEATH CLAIMS BISHOP WALDORT   NOTED CLERIC DIES IN ALEXANDRIA BAY, NEW YORK HOSPITAL

BISHOP WALDORF DIED IN NEW YORK   Passed Away at Alexandriz Bay; Bishop of Methodist Church.

PARACHUTISTS REPORTS FALSE   Hoover Says Investigations   Failed to Find Proof

Germans Driven To House-T. House Fighting By Canadian Americans Battle To Lay Ope Rome Road Above Cassino   GERMANS EMPLOYING HEDGEHOG DEFENS

Hold-Line Issue Faces  Stiff Test   Organized Labor, Farm Bloc Are Chief Opponents

New Deal’s Hold-The-Line Policy Is Threatened By Farm Bloc, Organized Labor

GOVERNMENT'S BIG TASK LYING AHEAD      Administration Must Now ’ Fight Farm Bloc And Labor .

Nation Meets Quota   tiog Ceiling Here $14.20   Kansas Receives Additional Rains

PARADE SHAPING UP   Santa Claus Due in Lawrence at 4 o’Clock Friday Afternoon

Was. Master er. and., Football. Coach’ at. Middlesex School; _ Funeral Today

ROBERT FOSTER PASSED AWAY  ~ IN CONCORI      Was Master ‘and. Football, Coach at Middlesex School; ‘Funeral Today

(By ROSS MUNRO) (Canadiay Press War Correspondent) (Distributed By  The Associated

Italian Defenses Folded Like An Accordion, Declares AP Writer on Assignment with Canuck Invader:

Canadian Writer Watches Invasion  Italians Fold Up Like Concertina

Prisoners Are Happy  Writer Has Tough Job Keeping Up With Invaders

‘Canadian Describes Sicily Landing; Reports Little Resistance As Land, Air, Sea Units Advance

Sicilian Coastal Defenders Put Up Mild Fight; Canadian Losses Light   Axis On Alert For New Thrusts At  Europe: Expect New Heavier Blows   Berlin And Rome Concede That Allies Have Established At Least Four Bridgeheads In Sicily: Mounting Tension In Rome.

CANUCKS Nol CPPOSED MUCH IN SICILY WALK   Meet Little Resistance On Theit Beaches Four Miles South west Of PacCiruo, Eyewit ness Says   Take Many Prisoners

Canadian. Correspondent Accompanied British Soldiers on Invasion.   LOSSES 1ST DAY LIGHT

Dp: BET RLAN MORIN   Little Resistance Met By Canadians in Sicily

Canadians Press Ahead In Sicily Their Successes Mount As They Forge On

It’s Tough Job Keeping Up With Invaders, Correspondent Testifies

gana iaas “rac i ‘ica. MP Na. xe: ‘nwo Sic’ v 3e: inc! 32. 3e-ragze

War Correspondent Writes E yewitness Story Of Allied Assault On Southeastern Sicily

CANADIANS IN FOREFRONT OF BEACH ATTACK   ‘Went Thru Italian Defenses in Matter of Minutes Eyewitness Says.   LANDING BEACH LOOKED LIKE BIG TRAFFIC JAM

Canadians Pile Victory On Victory. ‘As They Rush Sicilian Defenses; Casualties Light, 700 Prisoners

Invasion Units Enjoy One Success After Another, Eyewitness Reports

LITTLE RESISTANCE FOUND. BY CANADIANS NEAR PACHINO   Correspondent With Invasion Force Says Warships And Air Forces Covered Attack Units With Thunderous Bombardment s; Casualties Are Light

Canadians Win Advance Rush Info Interior   Penetrate Into — Hilly Country With Little Opposition, Correspondent Says

Eyewitness Says Defenses On Beaches Weaker Than Troops Expected, Casualties Light

Canadians Swam Ashore In Sicily, Observer Says   War Correspondent Says Forces Met Little Determined Resistance in Pachino District—. Many Prisoners Taken

Trapped in the Crimean Garrison by Two Red Army Columns.  RACE AHEAD AT RATE OF 21 MILES PER DAY  Nazi Detachment Is the Largest Since Stalingrad Surrender.

SOVIETS LAUNCH MIGHTY PINCERS OF THOUSANDS TRAPPED GERMAN‘   Red Army Tanke Open Battle Of Annihilation  Against 90,000 Nazis  Cornered In Crimea.

OT RONG PINCE RG NORTH AND ERal MAY SQUEEZE FOE   Red Units Cross Perekop Isthmus; Others Strike At Kerch Straits

Kalispell Maps Protest to Raising Lake >   1,500 Residents of City, Flathead Valley Attended Mass Meeting to Oppose Destruction of Farms, Indusiry

Group Unites To Oppose Federal Plan   Montanans Give List Of Objections To Raising Lake Level

Civic Groups Join Kalispell Protest Acainst Raising Flathead Lake Level

Girls’ Clubs Have -Fine Exhibits and - Demonstrations   Dorothy Lathrop, Myrtle Nic olson Demonstration Winners Alois Omtvedt, Style Revue

Anti-Strike Bill Passed by House   Mine Shutdown  Hastens Action

HOUSE VOTES FOR ANTI STRIKE AGI   Provides Fine, Jail Term Fo Persons Who Interfere In Seized Plants.

BILL TO CURB STRIKES GIVEN 0.K, BY HOUSE   231-141 Vote Reflects Mounting Anger Toward Lewis

M’NUTT WILL PITCH   To Toss Out First Ball, for President, in Opener

-M’NUTT WILL PITCH   -To Toss Out First ‘First Ball, for President, in Opener

8-Day Air Raid Comes to Halt   But Continent Gets Sample of a New Phase of the  Global War.

Eight Days Non-Stop Bombing Gives Nazis Taste Of Invasion To Come

TEMPORARY LULL IN BLASTING OF HITLER DOMINATED EUROPE  GREAT EIGHT-DAY, NONSTOP BOMBING OF CONTINENT SLOWED UP

Allied Aerial Assault Eases On Continent   Lull May Signify Start of A Completely New Wai Phase

EIGHT-DAY. ASSAULT ON CONTINENT ENDS   Momentary Lull Signifies Beginning of New Phase Of Aerial War.

FIGHT-DAY AERIAL POUNDING OF NAZI CENTERS IS ENDED   Assault Upon Continent Only  ’ Sample of Mighty Blows That Will Lead to Decisive Drive on Germany: .

8-Day No Stop Allied Aerial. Assault lulls   Round- the- Clock. Air Raids Over: Germany, Showed Superiority

AIR ASSAULT ON CONTINENT NOW IN LULL   Likely To Be Resumed Any Moment; Europe Battered

Wait New Moves As Air War Lags   Sustained Assault On Continent Over

AIR WAR—  (ULL REPORTED IN-AIR WARFARE   Allies Ease Up After Eight Days Of Smash. ing Continent

ATTACKS AIR FIELDS   American. Fliers Continue ‘to Pound Italy’s Outpost Islands _

FOGGIA IS AGAIN BATTERED BY OVER 100 BIG BOMBERS      U. §. Fhers Kngck_ 137 Enemy Craft Out ‘OF Air In May—Third Raid In 4 Days=

DOOLITTLE’S FLIERS ~=BOMB ITALY’S FOGGIA   Flying Fortresses Continue Their Terrific Assault On Island Outposts Of Sardinia And Pantelleria.  Foe’s Aircraft Destroyed

100 FORTRESSES BATTER ITALIAN CITY OF Fogel   Airdrome, Railroad Junction Wade Targets For Third Raiding Party -In Four Dave.   JUNE BOMBINGS ARE OPENED ON EUROPE   Soviets Hurl Back Two Axis Counterattacks With Big Loss, French Ships To Be Ready Soon.

Foggia Battered For Third Time   Assaults Continue On Island Qutpost:  Ry DANIFI. DE LUCE

U.S. Bombers Blast Foggia AirportAgain   Doolittle Raiders Lash Island Strongholds OffItalian Coast -

Italians Given Another Blast By Fortresses   Foggia’s Airdrome Pounded, Grounded Planes Are Destroyed

Flying Fortresses In Mediterranean Area Hit Italian Islands, Coast

AIR CENTER OF GOFFIA BLASTED BY FORTRESSES   Attacks On Pantelleria And * Sardinia Maintained At Savage Pace   HEAVY DAMAGE REPORTED   RAF Squadrons Resume Daylight Assauits Along Channel Coast

Much Damage Is Done To Field And Pianes  U. S. Pilots Trained There In World War 

AIRDROME BATTEREI   Many Grounded Axi: Planes Are Smashed, Raising the Total for May to 337.

MAINTAIN ATTACK ON ITALY’S OUTPOST AT A SAVAGE PAGE   Flying Fortresses Gave Foggia Its Third Heavy Bombing.   {1 ENEMY PLANES DOWN

Airdrome At Foggia Hit Again   U.S. Bombers Also Pound Tele Baces

Yanks Keep Up Assaults On Islands   Batter Pantelleria, Sardinia, Give Foggia Third Heavy Bombing

Forts Hammer Noted Italian Aerial Center   Blast Field Used By U. S. Pilots In World War I

Savage Pace Maintained In Bombing   American Losses Amazingly. Low

YANKS AGAIN GIVE ITALY A HAMMERING   Outpost Islands of Pantelleria and Sardinia Blasted, as Fortresses Assault Mainland Base at Foevia.

ENEMY BASE IS BLASTED AGAIN BY FORTRESSES   Italian Rail, Aviation Center Target of Heavy Bomb- . ers’ Attack

FOGGIA, GREAT TALIAN AIR BASE BOMBED BY U.S   Railroad Junction Heavily Hit. 100 Flying Forts In Setian_

U.S, Fortresses Attack Italian Rail Junction.   Raise Total of © Planes Downed In May to 337

Foggia Bombed. For Third Time In Four Days   Sardinia and Pantelleria also Heavily’ Raided Many Planes Destroy. ed on Ground at Fog. gia Airdrome.

FOGGIA BOMBED FOR THIRD TIME IN FOUR DAYS   American Flying Fortresses Maintain Air Attack On Pantelleria and Sardinia At Savage Pace Monday; Allies Have Amazingly Low Losses.

‘FORTS’ HAMMER ITALIAN AIR BASE   Destruction Called Heavy At Goffia Plane Depot

BIG ITALIAN AIRDROME IS RAIDED AGAIN   U. S. BOMBERS KEEP UP POUNDING OF ISLAND BASES

Foggia Given Third Attack In Four Days   Amazingly Low Losses Reported In Continuing Attacks

Flying Fortresses Pound Italy’s Foggia Airdrome > Third Time in Four Days   Large Number of italian Aircraft on Ground Destroyed; Railroad Yards, Cars, Stations Are Blasted by American Raiders   British Planes Strafe Foe Channel Shinning, Railroad Lines in France

Air Assaults on Italy Are Continued   Flying Fortresses Unload Heavy Bomb Consignments

Continue Savage Aerial Blows on Italian Islands   American Flying ortresses Give Foggia, Rail Center, Heavy Bombing.   Yankees Lose Only 2  Planes to Italians

Yanks Keep Up - Bombing Attacks   ITALY’S OUTPOSTS ARE VICTIMS OF SERIES OF RAIDS ~

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS STRUCK AT FOGGIA AGAIN  ISLAND BASES OF ITALY ALSO BATTERED -

Bombing Attacks On Italian Base, Islands Continue   Rail Facilities Are Blasted; Yanks Find Little Opposition

Aerial Offensive On Island Bases Unchecked; 337 Planes Shot Down

100 FORTRESSES’ BATTER. FOGG IG AXIS BASE  ed ow In Month  ISLANDS NEAR ITALY

Rail, Aviation City Absorbs Third Bombing   Yanks Losses Remain Surprisingly Low In Italy Attacks

Flying Fortresses Pound Italy’s Foggia Airdrome * Third Time in Four Day:   _Large Number of Italian Aircraft on Ground Destroyed; Railroad Yards, Cars, Stations Are Blasted by American Raiders

U.S. CONTINUES SAVAGE RAIDING PACE ON ITALY   Yanks Suffer Amazingly Low Losses in Face of Dwindling Opposition

YANKS KEEP UP ATTACKS ON ISLANDS   Airdrome Raided Third Time In Four Days By Americans

FLYING FORTS BLAST FOGGIA, SARDINIA HIT   Panielleria Also Comes In for Fur ther Bombing from Norihwes: African Air Force   TWO PLANES LOST   Four Axis Ships Shot Down — May's Ratio for Americans Be! ter Than Three to One

100 Flying Forts Batter Foggia   Vital Italian Drome Put Out of Action

Foggia Given Third Heavy Air Pounding   Assaults Against Italy Continued by Yanks, Islands Raided Again  RAF HFAVIFS INTER

AMERICANS BOMB FOGGIA AIRDROME FOR THIRD TIN   Field Blanketed With Explosives—Large Number of Enemy Aircraft Destroyed on Ground.   AXIS PLANES RISE TO GIVE BATTLE   Four Are Blasted Out of. Skies —Yanks Keep Up Aerial Siege of Italy’s Defense Outposts.

PLANES GARRY NEW ATTACKS AGRO ITALY   Flying Forts Keep Up Savage Raids on Islands and Maintand Cities.   MANY ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED AT FOGGIA

100 Fortresses Batter Italian Base At Foggia   337 Enemy Planes Knocked Out of Air During Month of May

Airmen Blast Invasion Road To Peninsula   Installations at Foggia,  Pantelleria, Sardinia, ff? _., WF _...% weateeoe#:+s.

Foggia Battered For Third Time   Assaults Continue On: Island Outpost:

Fortresses Raid Foggia Airdrome North of Naples   Other U. S. Bombers Con: tinue Assault on Sar ;   dinia, Pantelleria

FOGGIA DROME BLASTED AGAIN   Little Opposition Found By Americans In Raids On Island Outposts Of Italy

CITY OF OLBIA TS DESTROYED   100 Flying Fortresses Wipe Out Area

LIGHTH ARMY REPORTED TO BE IN SUBURBS   Russians Move Ahead Against  Naz, Defencee

Jap Convoy Is Foreed to Turn  Back By F liers   Troops on some ships, but whether they landed or. not is not revenled-in report. .

Allied High Command Announces Ships Blasted Near Aroe Islands Apparently Failed to Reach Destination—Troops Aboard Decks of Two of Enemy’s Transports Were Raked With Fire Before Vessels Disappeared.

Bombers Raid Nip Shipping In Other Areas   Big Jap Base at Lae Blasted Again by MacArthur's Planes; Barracks at Dobo Hit

Convoy Fails To Reach Goal in Aroe Islands, MacArthur Announces  ENEMY DESTROYER SUNK BY U. S. SUBS  Three Other Ships Sunk And Three Damaged; Sub Toll Now at 199

SENATE TAX BODY BLAMES MORGENTHAI   Says Failure Due to His Opposition to Sales Levy

SCORE TREASURY OW TAY PROBLEM   Senate Committee Hits _Bureau on Sales Issue.

FEW U-BOAT ATTACKS BY NAZIS IN AUGUST   More Subs Than Ships Sunk During Month

NAZI U-BOAT FLEET INACTIVE IN N. ATLANTIC DURING MONTH OF AUGUST

NAZI U-BCAT PACK LOSES 115 POWER   Battered Fleet Made Virtually No Effort to Attack In August.

ALLIES LAND ON ISLANDS NEAR BUIN   Little Opposition Met As Japs Flee inland

MASSING FOR FINAL BLOW: IN SOLOMONS   Seek to Wipe  Out Remaining Jap Bases —

LAND, SEA, AIR FORCES WASSED _ IN SOLOMONS   U.S, and New Zealand Troops Make Surprise Landing on Treasury Island

New Drive Seen in Isle Landing   KNOCKOUT BLOW AGAINST NORTHERN BASES SET; YANK TROOPS OCCUPY MONO, STIRLING AFTER NIGHT-LONG NAVAL BOMBARDMENT

Allies Plan Final Drive In Solomons   Surprise Landing in Treasury Islands Is Reported

Allies Land On Jap Isles In Solomons   Yanks and New Zealanders Storm Ashore on Mono and Stirling

Yank, New Zealand Troops Surprise Japs In Landing On Vital Treasury Islands

TREASURY ISLE GROUP INVADED ALLIES REPORT   Jap Garrison Flee To Interior; Mop-Up Under Way

Capture of Treasury Islands Admitted By MacArthur   United Nations Troops Only 200 Miles East Of Nines’ Rahaul Rase

HICKENLOOPER CALLS PARLEY OF GOVERNORS   Corn Belt Executives, Washington  Officials To Be Asked To  March 15th Meeting

OWA GOVERNOR PLANS PARLEY FOR CORN BELT   Hickenlooper Invites Governors, Wickard and McNutt to Conference

Hickenlooper Calls A Farm Problem Parley   Governors Of 11 Corn Belt States Are Invited To Des Moines.

Ask National Figures To Iowa Conference   To Discuss Agriculture Production Problem s March 15

Other Convicts Greeted (Touhy With Jeers on  iRetum to Penitentiary

CHANGE IN GARB FOR U. S, SOLDIER   Army General Says OnePiece Fabric Designed for Practical Wear

Water Tower And New Levees Due For Fort Brown   ‘New All-Climate Uniform Planned; It’s Not Snappy, But It’s Convenient

Soldiers May Lose Neatly Tailored Appearance Coverall Garments for Universal Wear Sought

All-Climate Garment Devised For Men in United States Army   New Type Clothing Created to Serve Well In Chilling Arctic or Sweltering Pacific

U.S. Bomhers Smash Jap Base at Wewal   Destroy Munitions Depot and Large Fuel Supplies

American Bombers Smash At Jap Base  Called Biggest Explosions In S. W. Pacific

Jap Munition Base Wrecked   Main Supply Dump For New Guinea Blasted At Wewak

Bombers Blast  Big Jap Munitions  Dump at Wewak Eight Enemy Planes oe

JAP WEWAK BASE ~ AGAIN BLASTED   LARGE MUNITIONS. DEPOT. DESTROYED—AUSSIES ADVANCE ON FINSCHHAFEN,

JAPANESE ARMS DEPOT BLASTED IN WEWAK RAID   Americans Set Of Large Explosions; Aussies Move Up To Edge At  Of Finschhafen

American Bombers Blast Munitions Depot and Set Big Oil Fires at Wewak

U. S. Fliers Destroy Jap Munitions ©   Huge Fires Set To Enemy's Depot At Wewak

AGAIN HIT BY U.§. BOMBERS      Large Munitions Depot Destroyed in Acrial Attack   FIRES ARE RAGING, AIRMEN DECLARE

WEWAK AGAIN SMASHED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Japanese Efforts to Re-Establish New Guinea Bases Countered With Another Stunning Blow,   Sink Convoy

Munitions Destroyed AtWewak   Vital Jap Base Blasted Again -, By Airmen

LARGEST BLAST EVER SET IN ARES   Munition Dumps, Fuel Sup: @ plies Are Destroyed   AUSSIES BATTER   "hrough Defenses to Make First Advance in Days on Finschhafen Base

American Bomber: Blow Up Jap Munitions Depot   Enemy Base at Wewak, New Guinea, Hit Again by Long Range Aerial Force; Aussies Batter Way Through Jungles

Urges U.S. Take Some lernitory   Senator Suggests Some Territorial Possessions Be Accepted In Peace Settlement

30 BOMBERS, 3 FIGHTING CRAFT LOS]   . Blow Dealt Enemy’s An Fleet During Daylight Raids on Bremen and Vegesack.   NAZI STUKA PLANT POUNDED BY YANKS   Submarine Installations Also Are Targets — New Type Explosives “Used by Defenders.

Airmen Send 142 Nazi Planes Down   Stuka Plant Is Goal Of Raiders; Damage Is Severe

U. S. Bombers Destroy 142 Nazi Fighters   Bremen and Vegesack Ave Heavily Hit in Daylight Raid ‘-

142 Nazi Fighter Planes Downed In Bremen Raid   30 U. 5. Bombers And 3 Escorts Are Reported Lost

Allied Losses In Air War 33: New Attacks Begin   Raids on Bremen, Vegesack Take Big Toll From Enemy

VV With Our Soldiers and  \ Sailors            Charles Twogood of Lanesboro Reported 4 Javanese Prisone)

‘Texans In England Listen In Vain For Broadcast Of Texas-Aggie Game

Soldiers in England Couldn't Get Texas Tilt, Bui Guess Score Right

Pork Prices To Be Posted   Retailers May Obtain Official Lists For Their Stores

Brunswick Man Among 50 Given Medals for Risking Lives in Malaria Fight

British Airmen Attack Cologne   Drop Block-Buster Bombs and Incendiarie On Industrial Center

British Planes Bomb Cologne  Two-Ton Block Bust: ers Drop on City

RAF Bombers Hit Cologne In 112th Raid   Heavy Force Rains 100 Two-Ton Block-Busters on Nazi Center

British RAF Makes Periodic Visits to Prevent Completion of Repairs on Sub Machinery.

R.A.F. DROPS 100 2-T0N BOMBS ON COLOGNE, GERMANY   Shower Of Incendiaries Follows Blockbusters-——Is 112th Attack On Hard-Hit Rhineland City

100 Two-Ton Block Busters And Incendiaries on City   First Foray Against German Munitions Plants There Since October; Americans Repulsed in Drive On Faid Pass In Tunisia

BLOCK BUSTERS ON COLOGNE   Factories Turning Out Diesel En. gines, Batteries for Subs Again  Made Targets   ‘ENGLISH TOWN HIT   Four German Planes Make Raid, Agains! Probably Hundred Sent Against Cologne

COLOGNE OBJECT OF BIG RAF ATTACK TUESDAY NIGHT   100 Two-Ton Block Buster Bombs Dropped on the Industrial Center.   112TH RAID ON THE CITY   Last May Cologne Was the First German City to Feel the Big Raids.

RAF Bombs Cologne Witt Blockbusters   100 2-Ton Bombs Hit  Industrial Center During Attack

HEAVY ATTACK 1S COMPLETED IN 20 MINUTES   RAF Drops Thousands of Incendiaries on German Metronoljc

Losses Indicate That About 100 Planes Made Raid On Industrial City

COLOGNE DEALT  BLOCKBUSTER BLOWS BY RAK   100 2-Tonners and Thousands of Incendiaries Are Dropped On Reich's Second City   FIVE PLANES LOST   Principal Targets Factories Which Turn Out Diesel Engines; 112th Raid On City

Cologne Hit  Again By Big Block Busters   Incendiaries Also Seattered In Big Rhineland City

City First Hit [In 1000 Plane Raid Last May   Main Target Factories For Sub Batteries and Engines  REDS AT STALINGRAD  Russ Announce Collapse Of Resistance With Nazi Losses

RAF Bombers Raid Cologne   100 Two-Ton BlockBusters and Thousands Of Incendiaries Dropped

112TH RAID IS MADE ON NAZI CITY   Estimated F orce Of 100 Huge Bombers Used In Attack

BRITISH STAGE QUICK ASSAULT   Planes Drop 100 Bombs o1 Ruby City in Less Than - 20 Minutes

(City First Hit  In 1000 Plane  Raid Last May   Main Target Factories For Sub Batteries ant Engines   [REDS AT STALINGRAD

British Warplane: Smash AtCologne For 112th Time   100 Blockbusters Plaster Reich Industrial Center In Night Sweep

Heavy RAF Force Drops Block- Buste Bombs on Cologne ;   Incendiaries Are  Also Scattered: In Exploding Ruins

Cologne Blasted With Huge Bombs   RAF Carries Out 112th Raid on Rhineland Industrial Center.

4,000-Pound Bombs Rained on Cologne   RAF Drops 100 Missiles on Industrial City in 20-Minute Raid—Scatter Thousands of  Incendiaries in Exploding Ruin. 

RAF BOMBERS  RAID COLOGNE   Drop 100 Two-Ton Block busters on Average of One Every 12 Seconds

BRITISH BOMB COLOGNE WITH BLOCK BUSTERS   Five Bombers Lost In Raid On Ship Building Center

Cologne Raided For 112th Time   Nazis Second Largest City Hard Hit

Cologne Scene  Of RAF Attack   Large German City Paid Nicht Visit; Repair Work Destroyed

BLOCK -BUSTER BOMBS BLAST -GERMANCITY.   One Hundred 2-Ton . Bombs Thousands Of Incendiaries © Fall On Cologne

[Hundred 2-Ton ‘Block Buster’ Bombs, Numerous Incendiaries ‘Rained On Cologne By British   Hundred Planes Drop Bomb Every 12 Seconds; Heavy Damage Seen

Heavy Force Of RAF Bombers Attacks Cologne   War Industries Targets In Raid

‘Blockbusters’ Batter Cologne In RAF Attack   One Hundred Two-Ton Bombs Dropped On German  Industrial City At Intervals Of 12 Seconds, - Followed By Incendiaries :

100 Two-Ton Bombs Strafe Cologne Each 12 Seconds   Sudden And Fierce Attack On U-Boat Factory Center Made In Twenty Minutes

dd TREATED FOR FOOD POISONINE   20 In Hospital After Luncheon At Canton Club

Bridges Closed  Over Missouri   Flooding River Pours Swollen Waters Across Important Highwavs.

All Bridges - On Missouri Are Closed   Flood Causes Closing of AD Spans From Washington to Kansas City   HIGHWAYS FLOODED : AT JEFFERSON CITY   .  Widespread Damage Along River; More Rich Bottom  Lands Inundated

President And Churchill Will Make War Plans   To Meet To Outline War Moves To Hake Advantage Of Sudden Gains   SEVERAL LARGE PROBLEMS FACED

BRITISH LEADER ARRIVES IN CANADA   To Draw Up Plans for Allied Victory in Europe

PREMIER MEETS WITH CANADIANS IN QUEBEC HOTEL   Expect Blow at Continent Launched from Bases in British Isles

DECISION ON FAST ACTION _ $ EXPECTED   OPENING ONE OR TWO ‘MORR FRONTS SOON FORECAST: AS ONE RESULT OF CONFERENCE

POA ANG hie MINTOTER WILL MEET GTH TIME   Churchill Now in Cuebec; Site of Conclave ‘Somewhere in America.’ -

Garrisons of . Nazis Fall . Before Attacks   German Aitacks in’ Kharkoy Regions Are Repulsed by Russians

REDS ERASE 1, CAPTURE NAZI GARRISON   Russian Tanks Break Into Dorogobuzh, 50 Mules East Of smolensk In _ Frontal Attack.   Hold Firm On Donets

CENTRAL FRONT GAINS MADE T0 SOUTH OF BELY   Russians Reported Now In Dorogobuzh, 50 Miles East Of  Smolensk   Two Points Captured

Reds Wipe Out Yazi Garrison; Tirm in Donets  __ New Central Front   . New Central Front Gains; Soviet Tanks Break Into Dorogobuz!

German Garrison Wiped Out at One Strong. hold   FORCES IN DONETS - AREA ARE HOLDING   Russian Tanks Break Into Town, East of Smolensk

REDS RETAKE TWO VILLAGES ALONG DONETS   GREAT ARMIES SLUG IT OUT ON ROAD TO SMOLENSK

Reds Pushing On Near Smolensk   Nazi Blows Turned Back Along Donets

Reds Wipe Out Nazi Troop, Advance Again   Many Germans Perish in Attempts to Stop Soviets’ Hammering at Defenses; Russian Central Front Marks Good Gain

Russian Troops Repulse Germar Counter-Attacks   One Nazi Garrison Wiped Out and Another Captured   Moscow Indicated Red: Plan Concerted Drive for Smolensk

Red Troops Take German Garrison In Smolensk Area   Soviet Forces Also Reported Holding Near Kharkov In Donets River Sector Of Front

NEW ADVANCES ARE REPORTED BY RUSSIANS   Soviet Forces In  Donets Basin Hold Firm Against Nazi Armored Thrusts.

Russians Withstand Ger man Counter-Attacks On Donets River   VIOLENT FIGHTING AROUND KHARKOV

County Court News Of Sioux County   Grand Jury Indicts Three Hosper; Men On Charges Of Malicious Michief; Plead Guilty

Forces Drive to Within 7 Miles of Battered Randazzo  PROGRESS 1S MADE BY ALLIED TROOPS         Italian Forces Reported Withdrawn From Siciltan Front

Forces Drive to Within 7 Miles of Battered Randazzo  PROGRESS IS MADE BY ALLIED TROOPS  Italian Forces Reported ee eS —— ©: 2%   Italian Forces” Reported Withdrawn From Sicilian Front

Huge Aerial Force Returns to Blast European Targets  NI. an en! ee Daade   Nazis Dynamite Roads To Check Relentless  Drive on Randazzo  FIND HIDDEN ROAD  Berlin Reports New Russian Offensive Aimed at Smolensk

Allies Drive Ahead  On Messina Funnel   Center Of German Line Northwest Of Mt. Etna Is Sinashed; Dispatch Says Americans Only 2 Miles From Randazzo

Allies Smash Nazis Back On  -Messina Road   Yank Forces Drive to Within Seven * Miles of Randazzo: Germans Blast Mountainsides to Block Roads

Nazis Pushed Further Back  Into Funnel   Americans, Canadians And British Advance’ Steadily Against Foe  SHIPS SHELL ROADS

Allies Smash Nazi Center   Near Battered Randazzo As Germans Driven Into Funnel

“Key Base Of Randazzo Is Almost Encircled Tuesday   “ Germans Are Dynamiting Roods To Slow The American Advance: Italiane All Withdrawn

ALLIED FORGES PUSH STEADILY TOWARD MESSINS   Pace Slowed by Dynamiting of Roads and Mountain Sides by Germans as They Fall Back.   RANDAZZO ABLAZE FROM AERIAL ATTACK   Rome Radio Announces Withdrawal of All Italians From Sicilian Fighting Frouts,

Americans Said Only Two Miles From Randazzo   Bastion Is One of Enemy's Last on Road to Messina

Allies Hammer Nazis’ Slim Holds on Sicily   Smashing Blows Send Germans In Flight Toward Messina; Retreatine Foe Blasts Roads

SMASH CENTER OF MAL LINE   Northwest of Mt. Etna ir Drive on Sicilian City   AMERICANS ALSO   Take Western Terminus of Long Sought Hidden Ger. man Supply Road

ALLIES GRIND FORWARD T0 MESSINA ROAD      Warships Rake Coast; British And American Patrols Join In Central Sicily; Find Supply Road   Drag Equipment

Warships Rake Axis’ Exposed Coastal Roads   British and American Patrols United in Central Sicily: Air Attacks Continuing

Germans Get Beating on Center Line   Invaders Pound Enemy As Hitlerites Try To Retain Positions

LAST GERMAN DEFENSE LINE CUT IN SICIL   ROADS DYNAMITED TO DELAY DRIVE OF AMERICANS

PAY-AS-YOU-60 TAX PLAN GAINS SENATE SUPPORT   May Write Off Or Post. - pone Payment For  ‘One Year   COMPROMISE PLAN IS CONTEMPLATED

Some Form of Scheme Likely To Be Adopted, George of Georgia Says

Rumi Pay-As-You-Go Tax Is Proposed Anew   Proposal far Payment.Expected to Come Before In: coming Cangress-—-Compromise Is Expected te fhe Reoched at Session

PAY-AS-YOU-C0 TAA LEGISLATION TO NEW CONGRESS   Senator George of Finance Committee Believes Plan Will Receive Favorable Consideration.   BILL TO BE OFFERED FIRST DAY OF SESSION   Measure May Not Follow in Every Detail Proposal Advanced by Beardsley Ruml Year Ago.

Senator Sees Tax On Pay-As-You-Ge Basis in Offing  George and Other  Congress Leaders  Expect Adoption STUDY RUML PLAN  Solons Hesitate To Wipe Out Year's  I avy oan Income

Solon Leans To. New Tax Scheme  ‘Some Form Of ‘Pay _As You Go Asked

48th Congress ToReviveRuml Pay-as-Go Tax   Chairman George Predicts Adoption of Proposal In Modified Form  By Solonc    Carlson to Introduce New Bill Tomorrow   Majority of Congressmen Against Writing Off  Wesr'’s Lowy

At Least Three Warships Blasted To Bottom In Solomons Area and Remainder Sent Fleeing Or Limping Homeward.

THREE OTHER SHIPS HIT BY BOMBERS   Americans Lose 4 Planes: Pressure Maintained On Nip Base: Tight Blockade Stops Enemy

Air Blockade Around Munda Is Maintained   At Least Three More Jap Warships Are Sunk in Trring to Aid Troops

Jap Cruiser, 2 Destroyers Sunk by U.S.  Bomber Fleet   Rest of Munda-Bound Convoy Forced to Flee

Japs Lose 3 Ships In Munda Run   Allied Sea and Aerial Blockade Withstands Another Attempt

Enemy Suffers New Sea Loss In Pacific Ares   American’ Bombers Siuk Cruiser, 2 . Destroyers Steaming .To Munda

ENEMY CONVOY   American Bombers Sink Cruiser, Two Destroyers In Vella Guif.   FOUR BOMBERS LOST

3 JAP WARSHIPS SUNK BY YANKS OFF SOLOMONS   Attempt To Take Supplies To Munda Disastrous; Joy in Aleutians Too

Fliers Break Up Jap Convoy on Way To Munda   Enemy Cruiser  And 2 Destroyers Sent To Bottom

YANK BOMBERS SINK CRUISER OFFSOLOMONS   Two Jap Destroyers Are Sent to Botton, Along With Two Transports In Vetla Gulf   ENEMY ATTEMPTED TO HELP GARRISON   Ground Forces Advancing On Munda Supported By Dive Bombers; Nip Airdrome Blasted

3 Jap Warships Sent To Bottom By U.S. Bombers   Cruise r, 2 Destroyers Sunk Off Munda Area; Others Damaaed

Third Destroyer Probably Sunk, Transport and Desiroyer Damaged in Convoy fo Munda   JAP VESSELS FLEE   Allied Airmen Also Bomb Other: Jap Ships, Positions at Munda. Southwest Pacilic Bases :

Yanks Cheek  Enemy Convoy   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk In Attempt To Run Munda Blockade.

3 Japanese Warships Sunk 3 Hit in Convoy Off Mund   Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sent to Bottom In Effort to Run Blockade at Air Base

IN OULOMONS   Fourth Attempt Of Enemy To Reinforce Garrison At Munda Repulsed

Bombers Sink A Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers   American Fliers Break Up New Attempt To Run Munda Blockade.

MUNDA - BOUND SHIPS BLASTED   U. §. Bombers Break Up Jap Convoy Bringing Aid to Beseiged Nips

Were Seeking To Bring Relief To  Munda Garrison   Allied Blockade I: Tightened; = Allies Lose Four Bombers In Battle

JAPS TRYING TO REACH MUNDA LOSE 3 SHIPS   Bombers Sink Cruiser And: Two Destroyers in Convoy Running Blockade   THREE OTHERS DAMAGED   Aerial Forces Aid Ground Troops Closing In On Important Nip Base

NIPS LOSE THREE MORE WARSHIPS INSOLOMONS   U. S. Airmen Sink Cruiser. 2 Destroyers in Japanese Fleet, Damage Others

~PACIFIC—  Three More Jap Warships Sunk   American Bombers Destroy Two Destroyers And A Cruiser As Enemy Convoy Vainly Attempts To Reach Base At Munda .

JAPS HALTED IN EFFORT 10 RUNBLOCKADE   American Bombers Credited With Sinking Enemy Cruiser and at Least Two Destroyers  eee

WARSHIPS SUNK BYU.S. BOMBERS   Blast Jap Vessels Try ing to .Run Rilockade   Americans Tighten Ring At Munda Base

SUNK BY NAVY   American Flyers Crack Down on New Convoy Trying to Relieve Munda Base at Nichi.

YANKS SPLINTER 3 JAP WARSHIPS   OTHER NIP VESSELS DAMAGED IN FUTILE TRY TO AID MUNDA

YANK BOMBERS ATTACK CONVOY IN MUNDA AREA   Two Destroyers, Cruiser Bagged By U. S. Crews

3 JAP VESSELS SUNK TRYING TO SUPPLY MUNDA   Attempt To Run Allied Blockade Again Proves Costly

Cruiser And Two Destroyers Sent To Bottom During American Attack

Jap Cruiser. Destroyers  Are Sunk   Bombers Prevent Aid Reaching Tsolated Munda

Jap Convoy Hits Trouble Near Mund:   American Bombers Sink Enemy Cruiser, T wo Destroyers Attempting To Run Blockade

U.S.FLIERS — SINK CRUISER, ‘2 DESTROYERS   Vessels Attacked While Trying. To Get Aid To Munda

US. Bombers Sink Three Jap Warships   Three Other Vessels Hit Off Munda

U.S. Bombers Sink Nippon Cruiser and ?‘Destrovers          “Vainly to Run Allied” ’ Blockade Around Munda

Fail to Break Allied Ring  around Munda   Air, Sea Blockade Resists Attempts of Big Nipponese Convoy to Reach Base

Planes Block Suovplies For Munda Base   Third Warship Probably Sunk and Fourth Damaged During Attack

3 Jap Warships Sunk by Bombers   Enemy Convoy Makes Desperate Attempt To Run Allied Blockade Around Munda Base

WRA UNDER FIRE AGAIN  AFTER APPEAL 1S PUBLISHED   Jap Internees Asked To Teach Ohio, Mich Farmers Sanitation

WRA Appeal To Japanese Internees To Teach Midwest Farmers Health, Efficiency Draws Congressional Fire

Poll Indicates Californians Seek To Eject All Japs   War Relocation Authority Attacked By Congressmen for Article Stating Japs Could Teach Midwesterners

WASHINGTON AGOG OVER JAP ARTICLE   WLA Article Praised Their Cleanliness

New Deal Program to Have Japs Teach Ohio Farmers to Bathe is Revealed

Soviet Vanguard Fighting Way Across River at Many Points; Allies Advance on City of Naples   2000 Prisoners Taken; British Drive on Chain of Airfields; American Casualties at Salerno, 3497 Killed, Hurt or Missing

battle Across Dnieper River At Some Spots   Soviet Forces Storm Into  Suburbs Of Kiev Army Press Reports.   ATTEMPT : EVACUATION

Jnieper River Crossed by Reds as Germans’ Winter Line of Defense Crumbles

Ground Fighting Keeps Pace With Fierce Air — Battles In Kuban Area

NAZIS ADMIT WITHDRAWAL IN KUBAN AREA   Reports Indicate German Loss of Krymskaya, Junction Between - Novorossisk and Krasnodar

Axis Plane Losses In Russia Heavy   Ground Fighting Near Big Naval Base Also Is Mounting.

125 Planes Lost in 2 Days By Germans   Ground Fighting Near Novorossisk Said Mounting

FIGHTING RAGES IN KUBAN VALLEY   Nazi Lines Still Hold Reds Outside Novorossisk

Germans Reeling Under Red Blows   NAZI AIR FORCE HARD HIT BY SOVIET FORCES

GROUND FIGHTING ON RUSSIAN FRONT MOUNTS WEDNESDAY  GERMAN AIR FORCE REPORTED TO HAVE LOST 125 PLANES IN TWO DAYS

SOVIET nuns DOWN 495 NAZIS INKUBAN AREA   ‘Ground Fighting Mounts In Intensity, to Keep Pace With Aerial Fights Near Black Sea   DRIVING ON POR? HELD BY GERMANS   Red Artillery Pounds Foe Near Novorossisk As Russians Keep Up Major Assault

GROUND FIGHTING MOUNTING NORTH OF NOVOROSSISK   German Ajr Force Reported to Have Lost 125 Planes in Last Two Days.

Novorossisk Ground Fighting Keeps Pace With Kuban Valley Aur Battle

Stuff Fighting In Novorossisk Area  Air, Ground Clashes In Kuban Valley

REPORT MOUNTING GROUND FIGHTING AT NOVOROS SISK   Keeping Pace With Terrific Air Battles In Kuban Valley In Which Nazis Have Lost More Than 125 Planes In Last Two Days.

RED ARTILLERY POUNDING NAZIS   Ground Fighting Now Keeping With Furious Air Battles In Russia.

Ground Fighting In Kuban Valley Paces Air War   Russians Still Holding the Initiative—Nazis Admit Withdrawal

Ground And Air Fighting Mounts In Russian Battl   German Air Force Said To  Tlave Jost 125 Planes In Two Days In Kuban Valley Struggle,

Ground Fighting ~ In Kuban Valley Paces Air War  Russians Still Holding the  Initiative—Nazis Admit

Troops Halt Desertion Of War Plants In Italy While Nazis Admit ‘Heavy Crisis’

Troops in Genoa Keep Shops Busy \During Big Raid   Halt Desertion of Plants; Nazis To Allow Italians To Leave European Posts

Troops at Genoa Used to Halt Work Desertion   Stopage at Factories   Stopage at Factories Follows Air Raids On Big Italian Cities

Troops Used to Keep ‘Workers in Factories After Genoa Bombing   End of War Believed To Be Matter of Months by Observers in Switzerland

Troops Used to Halt  Desertions in Genoa   German Soldiers Put Out Fires Resulting From Heavy RAF Raids; Nazi Press Says  Nation Facing ‘Heavy Crisis’ in War

SOLDIERS COMPEL ITALIANS 10 WORK AFTER AIR RAID   Prevent Desertion of Plants in Genoa — German Troops Help Extinguish the  -Bires_   OTHER TOWNS BOMBED, WALKOUTS SPURRED   Disrupted Electrical Service Restored in Parts of Milan —Roof of Famed Opera House Hit.

Taxpayers Now Receiving Forms For Estimates   Many Who Pay Federal Income Tax Are Required To Submit Statement Before September 15.

'STATE GUARD TO CAMP   Members of Iola’ Company Strick. : en by Ptomaine Poisoning

IN KENTUCKY PRIMARY   Donaldson Apparent Winner of Governor Contest —

WOMAN TURKS GUN ON SELF   In Critical Condition A Mercy Hospital After Suicide Try

Woman Attempt: To Kill Hersel   Mrs. Chas Hutchinson Critically Hurt’

Forts Blast Plane Plant Near Berlin   Focke-Wulf Assembly Plant, in Hitler’s Sacred Territory. Smashed by Yanks

Flying Fortresses Hit Nazi Aircraft In Daylight Raid  Fliers Within 80 *Miles of Berlin On Uneccorted Tri

U.S. FLIERS HIT AIRCRAFT PLANT NEAR BERLIN   Forts Fly Alone in Daylight: Lose 23 Planes, Down 60 Nazis Craft

§, FORTESES. CLOSET BERL  American Airmen Bomb      American Airmen Bomb Aircraft Plant 80 Miles From Capital   23 BOMBERS LOST   Nearly 60 Nazi Fighters Put Out Of Action In Daylight Raid

FORTS BATTER PLANE PLANT NEAR BERLIN   Deepest American Penetration Of War: Hamburg Blistered

FLYING FORTS - BLAST PLANT NEAR BERLIN   Make 200-Mile Flighi Inio Ger many, Longest Yet, to Raid Air. crali Factory   23 BOMBERS LOST   Axis Targets in France, Belgium Hit as Round-the-Clock Offensive Kept Going

Yanks Dowr 60 Aircraft Near Berlin   Swarms of ‘Forts" Smash Oschersicben Aircraft Factory

Kiel Blasted . In New Raid.  hy Americans   Today's Blow Follows the Deep Yankee Thrust Into Germany at Oschersieben   RECALLS DAYS OF . BOMBINGS IN 1940   Blasts Across Channel Shaking Doors, Windows in Folkstone

NAZI AIRCRAFT PLANT SMASHED   Fortresses Fly Unescorted In Broad Daylight For Stabs At Reich

U.S. BOMBS HiT NAZI FACTORIES   Fortresses Fly Nearly to Ber. lin To Blast Airplane Factory.

GERMAN PLANE PLANT SMASHED BY U.S. FLIERS      Unescorted Flying Fortresses Travel Within SO Miles of Berlin to Deliver Blow   23 BOMBERS LOST   Upward of 60 Nazi Plane: Shot Down Over Oscherleben; Hamburg Is Smoldering Ruins

FORTRESSES STAGE BOLD DAYLIGHT TRIP   Nazi Aircraft Factory at Oschersleben Is Object of Deepest American  Thrust in Germany   HAMBURG SMOLDERING

FortsBomb - Factory InBerlin Area   RAF Night Raid on Fire Gutted Hamburg Biggest in Air History —

AMERICAN PILOTS BOMB NAZI PLANT   Fly Within 80 Miles of Berlin to Attack Aircraft Factory

Flying Forts Hit Nazi Plane Plant   Defy Fading Air Strength by Flying Within 80 Miles of Berlin.

Fortresses Go Unescorted To Oschersleben   American Bombers Boldly Defy Hitler's Fading Air Strength

AMERICAN FLYING FORTRESSES NEAR BERLIN YESTERDAY   Flew Unescorted and in Broad Daylight to Within 80 Miles of Capital.   RAIDED OSCHERSLEBEN   Nazi Aircraft Plants There and at Kassel Were Attacked.

Flew Unescorted To Raid German Citie  Fortresses Make Bold Day Attacks On Nazis

U.S. Flying Fortresses  Raid Plants   RAF Fighters Sweep Over North France; Hamburg Hit Again

MONESSEN RATION BOARD LISTS ALL GAS VIOLATORS      Former Belle Vernon Pastor Is Among These To Lose Gas Stamps

Treasury Drafts Principles k or United Nations Bank  Plan to Aid: Postwar Development Slightly Resembles RFC;

10 Billion Dollar United Nations Bank Proposed  American Proposa . Reseubles s RFC o

United Nations Bank Proposed   Share of U. 8. Would Be ‘Substantial?

Montreal Man Is Sentenced To Hang For Crime Committed 27 Years Ago; All Evidence In Case Circumstantial

Today’s War Moves   BY THOMAS J. DONOHUE  eee SS 2 Owe Ses ree GY

Today’s War Commentary  Powertul Russia  Strong After Two Years Of bighitins

PLANES POUND RETREAT PATH OF FASCISTS   American and British Tanks Pressing. Relentlessly - .

Air Force Batters Retreating Nazis   18-Mile German Retreat Forced 8y Allied Counter-Charge: Bitter Fiahting le Raaina

Drive Hard From Capturec Lebedin to Reverse Strategy Used  by Germans.

Many Tons Of Raisins And Prunes Are Released For Sale To The Public

HALT SALES OF BUTTER, LARD FOR ONE WEEK   Margarine, Edible Fats, Oils Frozen, Meat, Cheese Not Included

OPA Freezes Butter Until Ration Date   Margarin e, Lard and Other Edible Fats, Oils Included

Week’s Ban on Sale of Butter   Margarine, Lard, Oil Also  Ftozen by OPA

Halt Sale Of Butter   Edible Fats and Oils Also Under Ban; Freeze ‘In Effect Until Mar. 29

Go Easy on Butter, Folks, Its All You Get for Week   Retail Sales of Margarine, Lard and Other Edible Fats and Oils Frozen by Government Until Point Rationing of Meats and Cheeses Begins Next Monday

‘SALES OF BUTTER, OTHER FATS END UNTIL RATIONINE   OPA Makes Unexpected Or ders Effective at Midnight Sunday, Many Without Home Supplies.   RESTAURANTS OBTAIN CUSTOMARY SUPPLIES   Stores Open Sunday Have Runs as Public Hears Order, Salad Dressings Are Not Included.

Sudden OPA Orders Ends - Butter Sale   Other Edible Fats Alse Frozen For Week Priot To Rationing

Butter, Margarine, I Lard Sales Frozen For Week; Meat, Cheese May Be Sold

Butter, Fats, Oil Sales Are FrozenByU.S.   Retail Sales Will Not Be Resumed Until Next Monday Under Points   CHEESE UNAFFECTED   Heavy Public Buying Is Cited As Reason; Cafes May Still Purchase

Butter on Hand Today Must Last Another Week   Retail Sales Halt In Preparation for Rationing March 29

Retail Sales Stopped At Midnight And Will Not Be Resumed Until Rationing Starts Next Monday

BUTTER SALES NOT T0 RESUME UNTIL MARCH 29   Seeereen sar:  Cheeses And Meat Not Involved In Freeze Order

BUTTER, FATS: FROZEN UNTIL NEXT MONDAY   When Point Rationing Begins. Restaurants  Are Not Affected By Order

“ON: ROTTER S “SALES   Sunday Announceme nt Shut Off. Supply Last Mednicht.   RESUMES MONDAY  WITH RATIONING

BUTTER, EDIBLE FAT SALE FROZE   Purchases Resume Under Rationing March 28; Restaurants- Unaffected

Butter Sales Are Halted By Sudden Government Order   Margarine, Lard and Other Edible Fats, Oil: Frozen as “Protection to Buying Public”

Retail Sales Butfer Halted   Sales of Margarine, Lard and Other Fats Frozen for Week

Another Food Staple Added To Ration List  STARTS MONDAY  Retail Sale Is Haltec By Government

Freeze Butter Cooking Fats   Retail Sales Banned Until Monday, March 29

Butter Stocks Are Frozen until Monday   OPA to Release Ration Figures on Point Values Wed.; Feared Heavy Buving

Eat Your Bread With Jaw For a Week and Like It   Sales of Edible Fats, Including Lard and Margarine, Frozen Until Mondav

MUST DECLARE CANNED GOODS   Register For Book Two Week of Feb. 22-27

Give Out Rules On Rationing of Consumer Goods   Warn Public on Return Of Ration Books Of Men in Service

NAZIS BELITTLE PAULUS CAPTURE   Suggest Marshal Attempted to Take Own Life in. Soviet

Eisenhower Warns Struggle Ahead   Says Men Want Home Front Backing

General warns road to victory is rough, bitter   Soldiers Cheered.

Asks Home Folks to Support Boys  Eisenhower Broadcasts Appeal From Algiers

Victory Said Long Way Of   Eisenhower Says Men Know Road Is Bloody

Strike Ties Up Florida Workers  Machinists Walk Out, Bus Line Clocec

TRANSPORTATION STRIKE TIES UP JACKSONVILLE   285,000 P eople Affected by Walkout of 175 Motor ‘Fransport Machinists.

® Public Transportation In Jacksonville Out of Gear; Strike Cause

Free Govt. — Of Denmark Now Planned   Nazi Military Rule Clamped Down on Larder of Reich

Iron Fist Applied To Danes   trong Military Dictatorship Follows Nazis’ Battle With Revolters      BULGARIAN CRISIS CONFRONTS HITLEE      Rebellion Such as Occurred > in Denmark a Possibility in Balkans Nation

U.S. Forces Are Lashing Out At Japanese   Pacific Warfare Growing— U.S. Loses Largest Sub marine   AERIAL OFFENSIVE BEING CONTINUED

FOOD SHORTAGE IS FOREGAST IN EASTERN STATES   Government Is Told That Livestock Feed Supply Must Be Increased

Farmers of 13 Northeast States Plead for Feed   Shortages of Milk, Eggs, Poultry Impend, Government Is Warned

PRODUCE SUPPLY SHORTAGE SEEN   Dairymen, Poultrymen o Northeastern States Set Shortage of Supplies o Milk, Eggs and Poultry

SHORTAGE OF MILK AND EGGS FEARED   Food Administrator Warned by Dairymen and Poultrymen

TWO OTHERS ARE SEIZED BY OFFICERS   Quartet Among Eight Who Escaped CampBowieMonday

CORAL SEA BATTER.   Future Course of Aliied Opera.  tions Hinges on Naval Battle,

BATTLE RAGES IN KULA GULF OF CORAL SEA   Americans Complete Occupation of Vangunu Island

Fourth Term Note Heard  In Congress   Guffey Calls for Election Again of Roosevelt in 1944

Cuffey Gives Hi Term Issue Boost  Lauds Roosevelt And Attacks His Critics

Guffey Begins Beating Drum  For 4th Term   Good President Should Be Kept on Job, Senate Told

Fourth Term For Roosevelt Tn the Open   Sen. Guffey Telis Senate No Reason Why Nat

Bombs Blanket Jap-Held Areas   Ground Forces On Islands Pushing Or  ns we = sean

Bombs Blanket: Jap-Held Areas.   Ground Forces On: Islands Pushina Of

‘SHIPBUILDERS CAN INCREASE OUTPUT TO RECORD POINT   Undue and Unnecessary Delays - Must be Eliminated If Goal is Attained

Shipbuilding Delays Hit in House   TWENTY MILLION TONS OF SHIPPING IN YEAR SEEN AS POSSIBILITY

U.S. SHIPYARDS CAI BUILD 20 MILLION TONS OF SHIPPING   House: Naval Sub-Committee Says Delays Must Ba Corracted

GRANGE FIGHTS FOR STANDARDS   Declares « for * Equitable Farm. Prices i in Post-War

Grange Opposes AAA Pay   Lay Plans At National Convention For New Parity Price Base

Grange to Fight AAA Crop Benefit   Calls For New Farm Parity Price Formula in Federal Legislation.

GRANGE SEEKS REVISION OF PARITY RULE      Terms Present Formula Inequitable, Opposes Return of AAA Crop Benefit Payments

COMPLETED TEN YEARS IN OFFICE   Roosevelt Hopes To Win War And Peace— Takes Place Among Outstanding Presidents In History Of Country.

President Completes 10th Year —  - In Office Today With Greatest. Tasks OF His Career Still Ahead

BRITISH FORCES DRIVE ON TUNIS   Take Important Point As Allies Prepare For Final Assault On Rommel

Strategie Hil 35 Miles From Canital Taken   Eighth Army Masses Along Enfidaville Line For Assault

Overcome Strong Nazi Opposition To Capture Post   Other Forces Mass Strength For Drive On Enfidaville Line

SLAV PARTISANS BEATNAZIADVANGE   Bitter Defensive Battles Being Fought In Slovenia; Nazis Determined To Stamp Out Elusive Foe.

29 Victims In Bomber Crash At Seattle   Giant Ship Aflame Smashes Into Big Packing Plant

LEGION, UNION LABOR TO WORK TOGETHER   Cannot Split Organizations Says National Commander

r. LF. Barker, dled Eugenics uthority, Dies   fessor Emeritus of Med Kine at Hopkins Wrote Several Books

[KAISER, DURING WHIRLWIND  “WASHINGTON THIP, . ALSO “SHOWS MODEL OF NEW  L AIRCRAFT CARRIER

KAISER TAKES OVER TWO AIRPLANE PLANTS   Miracle Builder’ Promises Mass Produetion

FRITZ KUHN “FREED”   Fund Leader Released From Prisen But Will Be Interned

Army on Offensive In Italy   Allied Offensive Imminent Below Napes by 5th, 8th Armies

SMOLENSK IS IN GRASP OF SOVIET ARMY   Aerial Attacks On Continent At New Peak

Lt. Don Faurot Is Named Head Coach   Will Succeed Lt. Col. Bernie Bierman at lowa City PreFlight School.

ALES RAYE TAKER SUPERIORITY IN AIR   Plenes on the OUlfensive ; ; A ‘ou. the World

Allies Achieve Air Superiority In All Theaters   Many Victories Reported in 43

Fifth Army Moves Up Six Miles   Germans Rocked Back to New Defense Line South of Rome

Ten More Towns Taken in Genera! Northwest Advance   Fifth Army Gains Up to Five Miles Threaten Nazi Flank

FIFTH ARMY IN SIX MILE GAIN ‘ON WIDE FRONT   Eighth Also Advances As Nazis Retreat to Main Defense Line; Real Battle Aheaag.

‘FIFTH ARMY GAINS UP TO 6 MILES IN GENERAL ADVANCES   Rock Germans ‘Back, To New Defense Line — Overrun 7 Major Strongholds   PROGRESS ON 90 if MILE FRONTAGE

FIFTH ARMY GAINS UP TO SIX MILES   Key Towns Taken On 90 Mile italian Front

SEVERAL KEY TOWNS TAKEN FROM GERMANS   Gains of Six Miles Reported From Some Sections of Front as Showdown Battle Nears

SEVEN TOWNS ARE CAPTURED TN SHARP DRIVE   Showdown Battles For Rome Imminent As Nazis Fall Back Into New Lines

GERMANS FAL BACK TO STRONE DEFENSE LINE   Allies Gain in General Advance

OTH ARMY GAINS G MILES, CAPTURES 7 MAJOR TOWNS   Germans Thrown Back To New Defense Line of Rome   BRITISH ADVANCING ON EASTERN COAST

Yank Air Raids Give Japs Jitters   Bomber Attacks On Canton, Haiphong And Hainen Worry Japanese   RADIO ANNOUNCED REWARD FOR FLIERS

Air Force to Aid Yugoslav Army  Guerrilla Planes Already in Action

Captain Tells Of Attack On Jap Ships   Navigator Gives Vivid Details Of Sea-Air Duel

Destruction of Convoy Described by Navigator On Attacking U. S. Plane

102 GERMAN DIVISIONS DESTROYED   Stalin Reports On Soviet Offensive

102 German Divisions Lost to Russ   Stalin Claims Also Count 200,000 Captives

Caucasus Drives Converging   Upper Hinge Of Caucasus Freed As Reds Complete [wo Months Of Vic tories.

Father Pleads for Return of Stolen Baby   PARENT DECLARES LIFE OF CHILD'S MOTHER HANGS IN BALANCE

CONSERVE PROTEIN.   Protein Supplements Short, and Clary Urges Conserving Supply.

- CONSERVE PROTE         Protein Supplements Shert, and . Clary Urges Conserving Supply,

U.S. Bombers In Attack On Enemy Ships   Concentration In Southwest Pacific

Flying Fortresses Bomb Jap Ships Off New lreland   Concentration Of 13 Naval And Merchant Vessels Heavily Attacked   LONG-RANGE ATTACK IS MADE IN WAVES

MAY! COMPLETE. DEFENSE WORK   Makeup Offered in  Civilian Defense Classes ©

Resume Civilian Defense Classes  Here Next Week   Chance To Make Up Missing Lessons  Is Afforded

NEW TYPE WARPLANE TESTED FOR ALLIES   Design Is ‘Revolutionary’ But Still Secret

Churchifl Says Rommel Recovered Much Ground; Field Story Claims British Firm

Pattons Troopers Crumple One-third of Crack Nazi Tanks   MONTGOMERY'S EIGHTH ARMY CLAMPS TIGHT ON HARD-WON POSITION IN AREA OF MARETH VILLAGE IN HEART OF AXIS DEFENSE LINE

Chinese Follow Up Big Victory   Tightening Traps About Japs After Killing 30,000.

Chinese Continue  Attacks on Enemy  Violent Assaults Produce Results

TRAPS AROUND JAPS TIGHTENED BY CHINESE   Smashing Assaults Are Being Continued

Farmer Is Badly  Injured By Bull Family Dog Saves Life Of Master .

POTTEBAUN BACK “BROKEN BY BULL   Granville Farmer At Hos. pital Here and Making Recovery

Greatest Aerial — Fleet Ever Sent Over Continent   33 Bombers, Two Canadian, Lost From the Great Force Sent. to Important Rail-  way and Industrial Center

id BOMBERS LOST WN Ald ON NURNBER   RAF Switches from Battered Berlin to: Important m Rail Center.   TREMENDOUS FORCE OF GERMAN FIGHTERS MET

bHEATE GT AIR FLEET OF WAR HITS NURNBERG   Nazi Shrine City Is Blasted By Record Bomb Tonnage Of RAF, Canadians

33 Bombers Lost Over Nurnberg   33 Square Miles Of Berlin Said To Be in Ruins

Ceiling Price on Corn is Disputed   Wickard Says Rate Will Be Adjusted

VICTORY GARDE      Nickel Plate Railroad Makes Acre ~ Tract. Aynilable to Public.

VICTORY GARDEN,   Nickel Plate Railroad Makes Acr Tract Available to Public.

‘Italians Have ‘Honor’ Of Being Last Troops To Resict Conauering Allies

ACCIDENT TOLL IN NATION LOW   Indications Are This Labor Day Weekend Safest and  Sanest in Years

Safe and Sane Labor Day  Only 127 Violent Deaths Are Reported Across Nation

Food. Drink   Starting in Next Sunday's Issue  U.S. Army's Pocket Guide toa  IRAN

Nine Stars On Service Pin, “Mom” Has: No Place For 10th: Ting Othore Caming

Ten Service Stars in Her Flag 10th Star as Daughter Enlists ‘Mom’ Wonders How to Add

DRAFT PLANS OUTLINED iY -» BEN; HERSHEY   SELE cn; YE SERVICE HEAD SAYS TWO MILLION: MORE. : .  WILL BE. IN. UNIFORM... 2 or sung pe  patearsye

ARMED FORCES PLAN TOINDUCT 400,000 MONTH   Hershey Says Physically Fit All Needed for Military Program

FIRE HITS TATION IN PHILADELPHIA   16 Tracks in Broad Street Sheds Covered with Wreckade Estimated at $250,000

350 INJURED WHEN FLAMES FLARE IN RAILWAY STATION   Roaring Fire Leaves Pennsylvania Railroad’s Broad Street Station a Mass of Charred Wreckage

0250,000 Loss In P. R. R. Fire   Train Sheds at Broad St. Station, Philly, Destroyed—350 Hurt

350 Hurt In Fire In Philadelphia  Broad St. Station  Burns; FBI, Others ae ee See

LOS IN STATION BLAZE $250,000   Charred Wreckage Coyers Pennsylvania Tracks In Philadelphia

GOV'T PROBING STATION FIRE   Scores Hurt, $250,000 Damage In Spec tacular Blaze

FBI INVESTIGATES $250,000 RR BLAZE   6 Coaches, 1,500 Pieces of Baggage Destroyed

$250,000 Depot Fire And Train Wreck Occur Sunday   Two Major Tragedies On Pennsylvania Line Investigated; 350 Are Injured

Rail Station Fire In Philadelphia Jumbles Tracks  Resort Passenger Train Derailed  le hdinphkinne: 9

BROAD ST STATION HAS $950,000 FIRE   More Than 350 Persons Were Injured, Some Seriously, Battling Fiames   SCHEDULE CHANGED

$750,000 Blaze In Philadelphie   More Than 350 Persons Iniured By Fire

FBI PROBING PRR FIRE AT PHILADELPHIA   Damage fo PRA Train Sheds Estimated af ‘$250,000-—-Temporary Platform Pui in Use

RAIL STATION FIRE LOSS IS $250,000      Charred Wreckage Cluiters 16 Tracks After Philadelphia Blaze - ---. --

CHURCHILL SEES CHANCE TO WHIP NAZIS NEXT YEAR   However. He Believes It Will Bz 1945 Before Foe Is Beaten

Churchill's Statement Throws Cold Water on Optimists Who Predict End of War by Next Autumn

COAL WAGE ROW SNAGGED, THINK HOPES FUTILE   Company Operators Adamant On $2-day Increases Sought My UMW

MINE OWNERS THROW WRENCH IN PEACE PLAN   Miners Back at Work When Operators Say Further Negotiations Futile   IT’S HOT POTATO FOR WLB   Anti-strike Measures Being Considered; Farm Problems Hold Senate’s Attention   Lewis Offer Refused

‘THREAT HANGS   Operators Are Convinced Further Negotiations With Miners Futile

i erie Sa Se, Se eee: ~~BDy Kirke L, oimps  Soviet Trap For Nazi Army In The Making

Reds Trapping German Army Against Rumanian Borders   Simpson Calls Maneuver The Greatest Military Feat Of Its Kind In World History

TRUMAN GROUP PRAISES WAR PRODUCTION BUT DECLARES: _Tt COULD HAVE BEEN  LARGER 

UNDERSECRETARY OF WAR SPEAKS   Victories Will Be Won at Heavy Price in Dead and Wounded.

Considered A Taste Of The Future   BRITISH FOUR-ENGINE BOMBERS USED; ATTACK SECOND ONLY“: TO INITIAL RAID LAST SUMMEE

ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS REACK HIGHEST PEAK   RAF Raid On Key Nazi City Second Only To 1,000-Plane Attack

RAF Stages Big Attaek On Cologne      U.S., British Bombers Batter Industrial Cities

Allies Pound Nazi Bases in 24-Hour Raid   Munitions Factories and Engine Works Chief Targets   TEN BOMBERS LOST

O00 PLANES TAKE -PARTTO DAMAGE INDUSTRIAL CITY   Other Attacks Made Upon Centers In Germany, and   France In Initial Offensive Program For 1943.   ROMMEL SEEKS TO CUT COMMUNICATION LINES   Fighting Continues In Tunisia Sut Enemy Is Checked, Axis Still Pursued at har ‘serine Pass.

Hundreds of Planes Take Partin Raid   Attack Continues  "'Round-the-Clock" Aerial Offensive

TEN BOMBERS LOST IN BLOW IN RHINELANI   Biock Buster Assault Was Second In Scale Only To Last Summer's 1,000-Plane Raid

Continuous Day-Night Raids Getting Results; Cologne Latest Target

INDUSTRIAL CITY HIT BY GIANT BOMBS   Block-buster Assault Second In Scale Only to 1,000-plane Attack.

Ten Bombers Lost In Raid on Reich’s Third Largest City   Parade of Four-Engined Bombers Carpets Industrial Center With Block: Busters: Huge Fires Rage

City Plastered WithSmashing Block-Busters   Second Greatest Raid of the War: Hits Great Reich Industrial City; Americans Bomb Many Targets

COLOGNE ROCKED BY BLOCK BUSTER ASSAULT OF RAF   British Follow Up U. S$. Raid on Wilhelmshaven—500 Planes Jake Part.

Heavy Damage Listed   Allied ‘Aerial Offensive Placed On 24-Hour Schedule

Cologne rocked by heavy raid of 300 allied airmen   Diesel engine works and arms factories taraets of bombina

HEAVY RAID ON COLOGNE   Block-Busters Are Dropped On Nazi Industrial Center

EVENTS INDICATE ————_—___——_  Nazi Air Force Is Dwindling Unless Hitler Plans Surp rise

HAS GERMANY REALLY LOST CONTROL OF AIR  Bia Losses Indicate This Is True

JOWN P. MORGAN IS GRAVELY ILL   HEAD OF FAMOUS BANKING HOUSE SUFFERS HEART ATTACK IN FLORIDA,

PIERPONT MORGAN IS SERIOUSLY ILL   Head of Famous Banking House Suffers Heart Attack

J, P, MORGAN, 79, IS GRAVELY ILL   Noted Banker Stricken With Heart Attack In Florida

JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, BANKING HOUSE HEAD, GRAVELY ILL   No Change Expected Soon in Condition of 75Year-Old Banker

Aged Financier  Is Gravely Ill   J. P. Morgan Suffers Heart Attack While Vacationing in South

BOB HARMESON IS MISSING IN ACTION   Lieutenant and Pilot of Flying Fortress Lost Oct. 14

LEGISLATOR UNDER KNIFE   Rep. C. A. Williams in Stormont Hospital

Berlin Suffers From RAF Blow   - Raids’ Described As “An’Absolute Hell’

Berlin Hard Hit Sweden Hears   Hallensee District Blasted; Big Electrical Plant Reported Hit

LOCAL WOMAN DIRECTOR OF RECREATION   Mrs. Harrison Coday (Marion Derby) Wins Appointment at W. Harrison, N.Y.

WALDORF FUNERAL TODAY   Bishop Charles Flint: Was in Charge of the Services

WALDORF FUNERAL TODAY   Bishop Charles Flint; Was in.Charge the Services: :

FOR FAGT-tINDING COMMITTEE SEEKG KFY TO COL WAR   Search for Solution to Prolonged Mine  Wage Controversy ©

MINERS’ TIME BEING STUDIED   FDR’s Group Investigating Underground Travel

ALLIED NOOSE IS TIGHTENED ABOUT THE AXIS FORCES   British and French Armies Battle Against Stubborn Resistance   PROGRESS CONTINUES   Allied Air Forces Hammer Troop, Transport Concentrations

DEADLOCK ON _ FATHER DRAFI   HOUSE CHAIRMAN CHARGES SENATE CONFEREES WITH “RUNNING OUT" ON NE-~ GOTIATIONS

DODGING DRAFT ISSUE CHARGED   Senate ‘Runs Out’ On Deadlook, Rep. May Charges

FOOD SUBSIDY SETUP BACKED BY ROOSEVELT   CREATION OF CZAR NOT FAVORED IN WHITE HOUSE

FDR Backs Food Subsidies As Best Price Control Y et Pronosed. Frowns On Crary

loosevelt Backs   ing Czar’ with Over : No Intention of Creat: all Powers

FD Backs Idea Of Subsidies te Cut Food Costs   Chief Makes It Clear He Won't Name Czar With Vast Powers Over Food Matters

FOOD SUBSIDIES BACKED BY FDR   Challenges Critics To Produce Better Plan To Keep Down Inflation

SHARP STRUGGLE: ON BOTH ISSUES. APPEARS CERTAIN   Senators Rap Program as, President Invites Sugges-"" tions on Better Way to -.  Combat Inflation. :         'CONGRESSMEN PAY VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE!   Brown Says Controls of OPA Must Work or Nation Will: Suffer Major Defeat   on Home Front.

Food ‘Czar’ Idea Vetoed By Presiden   Believes Subsidies Best Method of Combating Inflation

Roosevelt Backs Subsidies To Cut Down Cost Of Food  President Has No Intention Of Appointing Rl a a: ee:

PLANS BACKED BY ROOSEVELT   Indicates He Has No Intentions of Setting up “Czar”

SOLONS INVITED * TO OFFER IDEAS   Evidence Sharp Struggle Developing _ In Congress On Food and Inflation Problems

Challenge to Offer Better Plan Issued   President Also Makes Plain That He Plans for No Food Czar

SUBSIDIES ARE GIVEN SUPPORT BY ROOSEVELT   President Leaves It Up To Congress To Devise A _ Better System   EXECUTIVE OPPOSED TO NAMING FOOD CZAR

F.D.R. Defends Subsidy Plan On Food Costs   Says He Has No Intention Of Creating Food Czar And Sharp Fight Looms

SUBSIDY IDEA IS APPROVED BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Says He Has no Intention of Naming Food “Czar”

Roosevelt Approves Subsidies Naming Of Food  Czar Termed Unuseful

BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Says He Has nc Intention of Naming Food “Czar”

President for Subsidies to Hold Down Food Costs   ‘If Critics Know of Better Way They Must @Come Out With It’

Munda Blasted By  Planes, Destroyers   Over 100 American Bombers Team With War ships To Pound Jap’s New Georgia Airbase: Ground Patiols Contact Enemy

Bombers Join Artillery and U. 5. Destroyers   Heavy Attacks Soffe Enemy for Advance of Infantry   Land Patrols Contact Japs Filtering through Jungle -

AICTE UGH 2 UP UUo  Blast Munda Base By Land, Sea, Atr  Destroyers and 100 Bombers ‘Soften’ Japanese Defenses  rararcamre BAarratrnmre Bt   PINCERS MOVE NEAR   ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN THE SOUTH  WEST PACIFIC, Saturday facies 10 $s AP) Alare thar

Yank Bombers Hit Japs Munda Base   Key Base In Central Solomons Now Facing Capture By Advancing Allied Ground Forces

Munda Air Base ls Hit By Airmen And Vessels    Over 100 American Bombers Team With Destroyers , . and Artillery in Giving Pacific Base Three-Way Pounding

MUNDA POUNDED BY U. 8, PLANES, SHIPS, ARTILLERY   Heavy. Bombardment Designed to Soften Up Key Japanese Air Base on New Georgia.   GROUND FORCES POISED FOR ATTACK   Americans on Island Consolidate Positions Preparatory to Pincers  Movement.

NEW GEORGIA BASE OF JAPS IS HAMMERED   RENDOVA ARTILLERY PULVERIZES KEY MUNDA SECTOR

100 American Bombers Join Destroyers In Shelling Of Japanese Air Base Of Munda   Heavy Attacks Made To Soften Up Key Base In Central Solomons For Ground Forces Which Have Landed On New Georgia Island

Japs Hit From Air  Sea, Land   Troops Deploy For Pincers  On Munda

Heavy 3 Way Attacks Soften Mid Solomons   Ready a Pincers; Ground Forces Make Double Landing

Allied Planes Control New Guinea Skies  Little Opposition To Kenney’s Bombers In Recent Attacks

ALLIED AIRMEN PUTTING ON BIG SHOW FOR JAPS   Big Bombers of Lieut. Gen.  Geo. C. Kenny Unleashing Most Impressive Coancentrated Assaults   RAIDS STEPPED UP   Total of 174 Tons of Explosives Dumped On Enemy In Seven Recent Atracks. It Is Revealed

BOMBER POUND BAge AT MUNDA: JAPS WEAKENED   Americans Face Task Ot Overcoming Machinegun nests One By One

British General Ordered Shattering 500-Gun Barrage at 4:30 A.M. Which Opened Great Nazi Breach   Tommies Now in Hot Pursuit of Desert Fox Who Runs Into Open Country.  Allies Shoot Down 31 More Planes, Lose Only 5.

Stubborn Fighting Reported   Axis Resistance Seems to Be Weakening—No Sudden Collapse Seen

ALLIED FORGES LUGGING AX ON TWO FRONTS   Gen. Montgomery Smashes Enemy In Front, Patton Moves In From Flank

SUBPOENAS MAY BE NECESSARY IN FLYNN PROBE   Senate Committee Without Funds to Pay Withessex “shat Might Be Called: dn Investisation   LAGUARDIA:HEDGES   Says He Will Not. Appear In Behalf of Democratic - Chairman - Until .- Forced to

SUBPOENA POWERS MAY BE ASKED FOR FLYNN INQUIRY   Senate Committee Expects Formal Complaint On \Acnoitment Friday

German Public. Is Astounded By African Loss   Policy of Reich Press In Covering Up Defeats Blamed for Situation

‘Germans In Homeland Are Stunned Over  ‘Defeat Of Axis Forces In North Africa

Yank Fighting Ability Shocks Nazis  Allied Successes Signal French Resistance

Tunisia Defeat Stuns Germans   Amazed by American Fighting Ability

Germany Stunned By News of Allied Victory in Tunisia  People Unprepared fc ad News; Resistance

Seek to Pass Major Bills   Many Measures are Doomed in Effort to Get Major Bills Through

MANY BILLS DOOMED BY FILIBUSTER   Republican Leaders Sacrificing Hundreds ot Measures to Push  Legislation   BUT FEW ARE ADOPTED

American Troops OnRoad ToRome   Capture Several New Heights In Advance

Allies Advance On Road to Rome   Heavy Artillery Aids 5th Army In Its Attack on San Vittore

Sth and 8th Gain A Few Miles    Darlan’s Slayer  Cleared of Axis Stigma

5th Army  NabsNew Heights   AMERICANS REACH RIM OF SAN VITTORE AS ORTONA BATTLE RAGES

RUSSIAN DRIVE THREATENS KEY TO GERMAN LINE   Fighting in Both Italy and Russia Is Increasing in Intensity and Cost

YANKS, FRENCH TAKE HEIGHTS INHARD FIGHT   ‘Heavy Artillery Helping Fifth Army In Mountain - Drive On Cassino As ' British Edge Ahead

OTH ARMY TAKES NEW HEIGHTS AS EIGHTH BATTLES   New Gains Made On Road To Rome; Montgomery's Men Fighting Germans In Streets Of Ortona

‘AMERICANS WIN NEW POINTS ON 'ROAD TO ROME   French Troops Help Fifth Army In  Advance

YANKS REACH SAN VITTORE   Eighth Army Bat Battles Nazis  In Streets Of Ortona

AMERICAN ARMY IN ITALY HAS CAPTURED MORE STRONGPOINTS  FRENCH TROOPS AIDING IN DRIVE ALONG MOUNTAIN SECTOR

Eastern Anchor Of Germans In. Italy Menaced   Eighth Army Battle In Ortona Streets; French Aid Drive.

Fifth Army Makes Gains   Capture New Heights; Eighth Battles Germans In Streets of Ortona

Units Reach Outskirts of San Vittore   British Troops Battle Germans In Streets  Of Ortona

AMERICANS TAKE NEW. HEIGHTS IN SWEEPING GAINS   Yank Forces Reach Outskirts Of San Vittore—British In Fierce Fight

Yanks Reach Outskirts of San Vitfore   British Eighth Army Battles Germans Witt Tanks and Infantry in Streets of Ortona

ARTILLERY AIDS FIFTH “ARMY PUSH   Eighth Army Battles German Tanks In Ortona Streets

AMERICAN STR ARMY IN OUTSKIRTS OF SAN VITTORE   Was Bolstered by Heavy Artillery and Mortar Fire, It Is Announced.   TAKE MANY VILLAGES   American and British troops Are Pushing Westward on Cassino.

Fifth Army in Outskirts Of San Vittore; British Battle in Ortona Streets

oth Army In Outskirts Of San Vittore   British 8th Fighting  In Ortona Streets;  Yanks Continue Slow Advance On Rome

French Also Take Parts Of Objective   New Gains Achieved On Allies Conquest of Road To Rome

Sth Takes More Hills   Heavy Artillery And Mortar Fire Assists In Italian Campaign

MORE HEIGHTS ARE CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   United States and French Troops Reported Attacking After Occupying Important Point   PILLBOXES ELIMINATED

STHREAGHES OUTSKIRTS OF SAN VITTORE   British Battle Nazi Tanks in Streets of Ortona

French Forces Fighting With 5th Army Yanks   San Vittorio Now Under Assault, With Americans Wiping Out Pillboxes Built Around City.

Fifth Slugs Way Steadily  Toward Rome   Pillbox After Pilibox Taken In Dovged Advance

YANKS REACT SAN VITTORE. TAKE HEIGHTS   French Aid Fifth Army Americans to Gain in Italy: British Battle Nazis in Ortona.

Fifth Army Forces Near San Vittore  On Rome Highway   Canadians Fight In Ortona Streets; Soviets 15 Miles From Vitebsk; Slav Partisans Push Nazis Back

TROOPS REACH OUTSKIRTS OF SAN VITTORE   Fifth Army Forces Bolstered in Their Gains by Artillery and Mortar Fire—British in Ortona Streets.

Yanks Reach Outskirts Of San Vittore   Methodically Eliminate Pillbox Defenses; British Fight For Ordona

FIFTH ARMY TAKES NEW HEIGHTS; 8TH CAPTURES ORTONA   Americans; Bolstered By Artillery And Moriar Fire, Also Drive. To San Vittore On Rome Raad .

Italy Sees New Gains By Yanks   AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY CAPTURED NEW HEIGHTS

Yanks Gain in Slow March © Toward Rome   Reach Outskirts Of San Vittore; British Fight in Streets of Ortona

Yanks Capture New Heights On Road To Rome   Reach Outskirts Of San Vittore; British Battle In Ortona Streets.

NEW HEIGHTS ANNEXED BY OTH ARMY   British Tanks Encounter Nazis At Ortona   Support Partisan Forces In Yugoslav Fighting; Terracina Hit

AXIS FEARS ALLIED INVASION AT ONCE      Report Huge Troop Reserves Massead In Algeria And Morocco

GERMANS FEAR INVASION OF SICILY   Think Allies Are Ready to Land Troops There

Nazis Aver Allies Amass Big Reserve   REPORTS TELL OF CONVOY OF SHIPS, INVASION : BARGES ALSO.

Nazis Fear Allied Invasion Prior To Completion Of Tunisian Drive

Allies Mass for Invasion of Sicily   Huge Forces in Algeria, Morocco, Reported Ready

Axis Claims Allies Massing Large Reserves In Africa   Think Attempt May Be Mad To Invade Europe Verv Soon

Government Will Buy, Resell  Dairy Animals  In Effort to Hold Milk Output To Highest Level

DARY COW SALES FEDERAL PROJEG   Purchase, Resale to Prevent Their Being Sold for Slaughter

WHEAT FLOUR CEILING PRICE TO BE RAISED   60 Cents Per Barrel Increase Slated By OPA

dames Freeman Dies af St. Mary's.  :: ‘Pallaway Earmer   ‘Callaway Farrner Hed Been Hil for:. Brief Pericd: -

James E, Freeman Dies af St. Mary's  Callaway Farmer Had Been Ill for Brief Period

Some 3-A Men ToBe Drafted During March   Will Take ‘C’ Grour Not Deferrable Because of Jobs

MINIMUM COAL PRICE REJECTED   House Rules Committee Refuses To Extend Guffey Act

END OF GUFFEY ACT INDICATED   Action of House Group is Seen as Rebuke to Min ers and Operators

GUFFEY COAL ACT IS KILLED BY COMMITTEE   Action Signals An End To Government-Established “Price Floors”  Under Soft Coal

House Body Ends Coal Price Floors  ak: cee Boise   Refuses Extension Of Guffey Act

Five Japs Only Survivors Of 15,000 Aboard Convoy Destroyed in Bismarck Sea

ONLY 5 JAPS ESCAPE   & Of 15,000 Troons Aboard Survive a Attack On Convoy

NUMBER FLU CASES RISING IN STATE   More Than Million Sufferers Reported Over Nation

177 Jap Planes Destroyed, Three Warships Sunk In Rabaul Raid   First Fighter-Escort Attack on Stronghold Costs Allies Five Craft; 350 Tons of Bombs Used

Biggest Allied Force Ever As sembled In Southwest ~ Pacific Hits Rabaul

Fighter-Escorteil Bombers Blast  Base At Rabaul   Destroy 177 Enemy Aireraft and Sink 17, 600 Tons of Ships, Including ‘Three Destroyers. Only Five of Our Planes Were Lost

Big Flight Of Allied Planes Blasts Rabau   “Air Armada Crushes Japan's Mair Southwest Pacific Fortress; Wipes Out 177 Planes, Hits Ships

Great Rabaul Base Wrecked   Other Shipping Damaged In. Record Pacific Aerial Blow

Allies Plaster Rabaul in Largest Raid  Wreck 177 Planes.   Wreck 177 Planes, Sink Seven Ships In Surprise Attack

SURPRISE RAID BREAKS BACK OF ENEMY OUTPOST   Biggest Air Armada Of Pacific Theater Also  Sinks 17,600 Tons;  Of Shipping '

Huge air armada wrecks main Jap fortress at Rabaul   Titanic surprise blow at Nips hailed ‘turning point of war’

Huge Allied Air Force De stroys 177 Jap Planes; 17,600 Tons Shipping   IS CRUSHING DEFEAT, MacARTHUR DECLARES

Foe Loses 177 Planes, 3 Destroyers   60.Per Cent Of Foe’s Aerial Equipment Lost

PRUGE AG BLAME OTEEL OWORTAGE ON THREE GROUPS   \rmed Forces, Big Business And WPB Accused In  Committee Report

BIG COMPANIES ARE BLAMED FOR STEEL SHORTAGE   Senate Committee Sjays Lack Of This Item Is Stumbling Block In  War Production.

Tri-City Area Is __ Hard Hit By Storm   Domoge In Galveston Is Estimated At More Than $].000.000 As Storm Moves Inland

Tri-Cities Area  Lashed by Storm   Damage:at Galveston Reaches $1,000,000 Mark; Homes Levelec By Hurricane Winds

Heavy Damage Left By Coast Hurricane   120-Mile Wind Reported At Houston And Other Nearby Areas’ Relieved: flit Ueedos

Subs, Planes Harass Enemy   Violent Fighting’ Reported Near Tunis

CARLY OPENING Ut GREAT DRIVE ID INDICATED   Increased Sea, Air Activity Point To Imminent Attack; Russian Army Rolls On

Heavy Fighting Reporte: At Both Ends of Front; Reds at Leningrad Gates   Timoshenko’s Forces Smash at Nazi Fortifications in City; Allied Planes, Subs Step up Activity

GERMAN RADIO. ‘ADMITS ADVANCE ~ STILL CONTINUES   Observers Believe Montgom. ery Ready to Attack Rommel Aaain.

Tempo of Activity Increases   Russians Repulse Counter attacks and Continue  Strong Offense

ALLIED OE A AND ALR AGTIVITY 1a ON Tre INGHEAOE   Violent Fighting Around Tunis; Soviet Sweep Carries on Undiminished In Fury

Doughboy Will Not Disturb His Nap To ‘Take Two Prisoners So Major Obliges

Worn-Out Doughboy Not Bothered, But— Italians Finally Succeed In Being Captured By American

Italians Awaken Yank to Surrender  But He Prefers Sleep to Prisoners

Berlin Radio Reports Churchill at Gibraltar  Rm. AteWwFIATIRHN PREAM

WILL PROBE ACTIONS OF WAR AGENCY   Writers who resigned post may be asked to give testimony

Tomato Juice  Values Slashed   Changes In Ration Markings Announced

New Appropriation Bill For Schools   Increase Amount For Board Of Education Institutions

INCREASES IN SCHOOL FUND ARE FAVORED   Senate committee approves $7,648,300 for board of education

SOVIETS DRIVEN FROM 8 CITIES BY NAZI ARMY   Germans Hurl 375,000 Fresh Troops Into Donets Basin Fighting   RUSSIANS HOLDING ONTO KHARKOV BASE

Assembly Ends Work—At Last   Adjourns at 11:06 After All-Night Session -

ASSEMBLY ENDS SESSION TODAY IN SPRINGFIELD   House Adjourns at 6 A. M.. Senate  Reconvenes

TWO EXECUTED.   Courle ef Convicted Slayers Pat \ to Berth at Sing Sing.

Tuberculosis is ‘Disease Which Can Be Defeated   Three Deaths in County Prove Danger af Disease Os Plome Frond

Nurse Advises Early. . Care. Tuberculosis   Is Calling on Persons Known to Have the Disease

Seasonal Labor Available Through . Extension Office   Workers Now 

Garin - etory “Gets” ann Into: Production This A. M   More To Be Added ‘Later Today _--

i Garnent Factory Gets ‘Into Production This A. M.   n Trainées Started More To Be Added ° Later Today

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Allied Armored Forces Batter Tunisian Forces Incessantly

Reports Britain ~ Massing Force:   ‘Something ‘Big Brewing In Tunisia, Nazis Say

RAF’s Night Forays On A Small Seale   Nazis Retaliate With Raids On London, Other Cities

RAF Again Carries Offensive Actoss English Channel   Germans. Drop’ Bomb: In London and. on. South Coast Town:

ROYAL AIR FORCE, GERMAN LUFTWAFFE EXCHANGE BLOWS  LONDON GETS FEW BOMBS; GERMAN OBJEC TIVES ARE ATTACKED

NAZI RAIDERS BOMB LONDON   RAF CONTINUES OFFENSIVE INTO SEVENTH NIGHT

RAF FORAYS ON RELATIVE SMALL SCALE   Axis Targets Across Channel Attacked; Nazis Bomb London

British Attacks On Small Scale; London Areas i   nieces: Wiles   German Explosives Wreck Postoffice, Rake Coastal Town

THE RAF DROPPED BOMBS ON AIRFIELD AT POIX, FRANGE   Also Peppered an E-Boat Off the French Coast With Cannon Fire.   SHOT UP TRAINS, BARGES

RAF and Nazi Planes Raid   British Continue Air Offensive As Enemy Strikes in London

R. A. F., Germans Trade Air Blows; Trains Shot Up      Another Big AmericanBuilt Airdrome Ready Eonr Service.

Axis Targets Under Attack  RAF Carries Aerial War Across Channel

GERMAN PLANES HIT LONDON IN LIGHT ATTACK   British Raids on Small Scale, Fire on Ammunition Train

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT TRANSPORT HITLER EUROPE   Germans Drop Single Bomb Over London, Wreck Postoffice — South Coast Tawn Bombed

GERMANS DISMANTLING FRENCH MAGINOT LINE   Remove 1,000 Tank Barriers Daily ta Provide More Land For Cultivation

Cuniniings Found “Guilty, Jury ~ Requests Merc)  Jury Finds 14-Year-Old Guilty of Voluntary  cy pa ne pene

Cummings Boy Is Convicted By Jury  Women Jurors Weep; Ask Court For Mercy

Large Weight of Bombs is Dropyed ‘On Emden and Wilhelmshaven in Spite of Fierce Opposition   At Least 113 Axis Planes Destroyed ‘In Allied Attacks in Mediterranean

Fiying Forts Attack 2 Axis  Naval Bases   12 U. S. Planes Lost In Heavy Raid on Sub Yards at Emden And Wilhelmshaven

American Fliers Attack German Submarine Yards   Terrific Battle With 100 to 150 Enemy Planes fought on Return From Wilhelmshaven, U. S. Airmen Report

Fortresses Hit at Sub Bases  Twelve Big Bomber: Rewa T met fea: Dated

FORTRESSES SMASH NAZI NAVAL BASES   Emden And Wilhelmshaven Scenes Of Heavy Assaults By U.S. Air Forces 12 Bombers Lost   Most Successful

Americans Strafe Great Enemy Naval, Sub Bases  wvT..,*. D.'- Moin’

Americans Strafe Great Enemy  Naval, Sub Bases Twin Raids Obtain Good Results; Battle Is Fierce

Opposition To Raiders Is Violent   Fighter Planes And Anti-Aircraft Seek To Stop Bombers.

Opposition For US Fliers  Withelmshaven And BKandan Raids 'Tangh

Large Weight of Bombs is Dropped On Emden and Wilhelmshaven in Spite of Fierce Opposition

Fortresses Hit at Sub Bases  Twelve Big Bomber: Are Lost in Raid

U-BOAT YARDS ~ RAKED BY U.S   Fortresses Brave Heavy Fire To Rain Bombs On Wilhelmshaven And Emden

U. 5. BOMBERS SMASH NAZI NAVAL BASES   BIG DAYLIGHT RAIDs COST 12 FLYING FORTRESSES

ying Forts  Rock German Sub Bases   U.S. Planes Smash Through to Emden and Wilhelmshaven

FORTRESSES hill © TWO NAVAL BASES   Attacks Made on Wilhelms@ _ haven and Emden   ENEMY PLANES   @otaling 100 to 150 Attack Yanks; 113 Axis Planes Destroyed in Near East

Seek Senate’s OK on Charter   Bill Would Approve At lantic Agreement

SECOND CAUCUS LOOMS ON FOOD TAX REPEALER   Governor’s_ Stand Prompts Further Con sideration

WAR ACTIVITIES ARE COORDINATED   Wesley A. Sturges Named Director of Offro at End of Sicilian Fight.

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Nazi U-Boats Destroyed im Month May Exceed Nou Wl ambar

WAP 2? NEMY ae “GAINS lv “ANY   Number Destroyed Tops New Ones Sent Into Service

Allies Sinking German U-Boats  At Higher Rate   First Lord Of British Ad miralty Reports Succes. ses In Combatting Subs   SHIPPING LOSSES BEING CUT DOWN

FIGHTING IS VIOLENT ON TUNIS PLAIN   Eighth Army Gains Objective in Renewed Surge Against Mountain Defenses   OTHER WAR HEADLINES

BRITISH ARMY PUSHES DRIVE IN COAST AREA   Nazis Report Major Soviet Offensive In Caucasus

AXIS ESCAPE PORT OF MESSINA LAID WASTE BY AIRFORCE  PORT INSTALLATIONS, BEACHES AND ROADS WERE LAID WASTE

First Division Defeats Flower Of German Army   Elite Corps Smashed In Savage Battle; Nazi Flank Exposed

Airmen Shatter Messina   “ESCAPE” PORT LAID WASTE IN SAVAGE RAIDS BY ALLIED BOMBERS

British Carry Out Air Offensive For 10th Night  Against German Cities.

Last Stamps In Ration Book 2 Valid Oct. 1 To Nov. 20. OPA Announces

Schenectady Also Included by War Manpower Commission in Areas of Critical Labor Shortages.

COLUMBUS ‘AND  MARION . AMONG CITIES, LISTED IN.   LABOR SHORTAGE : AREAS OF THE '  NATION. '  .

Suggests Personal Gasoline Ration Be Suspended For. Considerable Period And Official Ration Partially Suspended

CURTAILMENT TAWES RATION RIGHTS ASKED   OPA Enforcement Attorney Recommends Personal “Gas-Ratien be Suspended for “Considerable Period”   CALLS FOR BAN ON OFFICIAL GAS USE   OPA Panel to Fix Penalty for State Comptroller Who Admits Violating  Driving Curb

Buying Wave 4s Reported   Industrial Output !s oaring To New High

Rabaul Jap Base Heavily Bombea   Sixteen Tons Of High Ex plosives Dropped On New Britain Base By Allies

Allies Hurl Explosives At Important Japanese Air Base In New Britain

Certificates Being Urged   Wanted for Workers Deferred at Request Of Their Employers

‘STIMSON HOLDS UP USE OF TROOPS TO PICK ARIZONA COTTON PENDING INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE NEED

Withhold Orders To Use Troops   Real Emergency Must Be Shown Before Soldiers Will Aid In Harvesting Crop

4-H (arls Make Final Plans for Achievement Shov   Style Revue Will Again Be a Feature of Girls’ Program This Year

Achievements of 4-H Girls to Be  Shown at Fain   At 4-H Fair Thursday, Friday, August 26-27

Ssceeenmnsemieimaieeatinmmemeeseetat ee  AT LEAST 50,000 KILLED BY BOMBING OF HAMBURG

OULONS CHANGE REVENUE BILL SLOW ON VETS   Pari-Mutuel Tax Taken From Measure; Crowley Asks 500 Million

Pari-Mutuel Tax Dropped From Bill   Senate Committee  Adds Jewelry Levy

PETER KRUG, GERMAN PRISONER, ESCAPES   Nazi Flier, Who Testified Against Max Stephan, Reported to Have Fled Canadian Camp.

KRUG ESCAPES _ PRISON AGAIN   Nazi Officer Befriended By Convicted Man Disappears

Norwegian Pilot Declared Active  New Violence in France Reported

Norwegians Strike Hard Blows at Foe  [ent pemee es Perera me Be er   Inclependence Day Observed in Silence

Norwegians Hit Back At Nazis In Air, On Sea   Down 72 Planes, Sink 25,000 Tons Of Shipping

‘McKinney Young Man Completes Cadet Training   Aviation: Cadet J. QO. Odle Of This City Ordered To Pensacola, Florida.

Stephens Youth Ends Training   GIRVIS HALTOM, JR., 1S NAVAL AVIATION CADET

‘Aviation Cadet Completes Primary  Training At Dallas  2   Cadet Loey Proctor, Son Ot Mr. And Mrs. W. G. Proctor Of McKinney And Paris. Ordered To Pensa: cola, Florida.

Spain Offers To Intervene For Peace   London and U. S. Will Accept Only  Axis Surrender

SPAIN OFFERS 10 HELP. PEACE MOVE IN WORLD AT ONCE   Axis-Inspired " Movement , Predicted. By London And Stockholm Sources 

Spain Ready To Serve in Peace Move   Unconditional Surrender Still Objective Hull

Says Spain Is Ready To Offer Good Offices To Restore World Peace

BOARD WEIGHING D. A. SUCCESSOR   L. A, Prosecutor Dockweiler Career Ended by Death at Age of Forty-seven

District Attorney Dockweiler Of LA. County Dies   Pneumonia Ends life Of Prosecutor, Ex Solan: Was tricken Friday

BEGINNING OF WAR FOR U.S   Morgenthau ~ Calls fo. Bonds to Back At S Voge a, Mo, “Wa.

War Is Just Beginning For U. S., Morgenthau Says Chiding Americans For Criminal Over - Confidenc

MORGENTHAU CALLS ON PUBLIC T0 BACK SOLDIERS IN ATTACK  CITIZENSHIP URGED TO DIT ACINDT “ODIMINAT»?

Italy Invasion Beginning Of War For U. S.; We Must Back Assault      Treasury Head Warns Americans To Put Aside “Criminal” Over-Confidence And ;  “Back This Attack.”

MORGENTHAU CALLS ON PUBLIC TO BACK SOLDIERS IN ATTACK  CITIZENSHIP URGED TO PUT ASIDE ‘“‘CRIMINAL” OVER-CONFIDENCE

COUNCIL OF NATIONS   Willkie Calls for Planning of Co. operation After Victory

GERMAN U-BOAT PRODUCTION IS REPORTED TO BE LAGGING BADLY   Nazi Submarine Yards Said To Be Clogged Up With Subs Putting In For Repairs.

ARMY TAKING OVER FIGnTING IN SOLOMON:   Weary Marine Personnel Will Get Needed Rest  After Five Months

Gen. A.M. Patch of U.S. Army Now in Command of Forces on Guadalcanal

GEN, PATCH, ARMY, TAKES COMMAND ON GUADALCANAL ISLE   Mast Of, Marines Have Been ; Replaced By Army Personnel; Navy  , Reavanle

Situation Is Reassuring To Wickard   Face Future with Mor Confidence—Corn Pros pects Improve

UKRAINE BATTLE SEEMS NEAR END   Berlin Admits Reds Are Penetrating Positions, JugoSlav Cities Burned,

RUSSIANS RAGE TOWARD POLAND; SNOW PING UF   One Spearhead Only 30 Miles From the Old Frontier   BERLIN ADMITS LINES PENETRATED BY REDS

SOVIET ARMIES IN dO MiLba UF OL POLAND   Snows Beginning To Fall Presaging Resumption Of Red Offensive

GERMAN LEGIONS IN FULL RETREAT ON UKRAINE FRONT   Berlin Admits Nazi Lines Smashed by Thirty  Saviet Divicinne

UKRAINE FIGHT SEEN ENTERING DECISIVE PHASE   Soviets Making Final Plans Along Entire Front For Winter Drive

Nazis Admit Half Million Break-Throust   Russians Say Heavy Snow Will Prove  German Shroud

BERLIN CLAIMS RUSSIANS OPEN BIG NEW DRIVE   Rain Bogs Campaign In Italy; Yanks Repel 3 Heavy Attacks

CONFEREES FAIL IN COMPROMISE ON TAX PROBLEM   House-Senate Group Will Reach Agreement Today Or Quit   DEMOCRATS WOULD CONSULT PRESIDENT

Tax Compromise Again Delayed By Conferees   House May Vote Again or Accepting of the Ruml Plan

Tax Measure Conferees Face Failure   Senate Members Turn Down ‘Softening’ Plan

Pessimism Hits  Pay-As-You-Go  Tax Conferees Saturday's Parley  Will Be Decisive, Save Senator George

Tax Compromise Outlook Is Dim   Solons Pessimistic About Prospects

NO PROGRESS MADE BY TAX CONFEREES   Poll of Pessimism Settles Over Senate- House . Effort

LAWNIMKERS VIE FOR TRIP TQ WAR FRONT   Ambitious Plans of Solons Resounds in Congress; Truman Group Prepare

FRENCH FAIL TO. RESTORE. PEACE   President Beshara FlKhoury Reinstated

CONGRESS MAY PROBE INCIDENT TOLD BY WRITE   Claims “Blood and Guts” Called Him “Yellow,” Hit Kim With Hand.

Colorado Governor  Issues Order Against It, Today.   NO COMMENT FROM SELECTIVE SERVICE

Workers To Be Kept On Food Front   Taking Of 22 Farm Operators In One Group Brings Act

ORDERS A HALT IN DRAFT CALI   Colorado Governor Makes Order Against Taking Farm’ Workers

HALTSINDUCTION OF FARM LABOR   Colorado Governor, Noting Many Workers Leaving, Exercises Draft Powers

COLORADO HALTS FARMER DRAFTS   Governor Wants Workers  to Stay on Farms and Achieve War Goals.

Colorado Farmers Ordered Deferred  Governor Calls Halt to Induction Of Workers There

Orders Halt To Farmer Drafting   ‘Colorado's Governor Takes Action

State Orders Halt To Draft of Farmers   Colorado Governor Takes Drastic Step

Will Allow No More Farmers To Be Called   Colorado Governor Says He Has Been Granted Authority   Blames Bureaucracy For Farmer Labor Shortage   Senator Brands Remarks “Brazen  ”  Demovoguery...

Governor of Colo. Halts Farmer Draft   Immediate Stoppege OF inductions Decreed To Seve Current Crops

Governor Takes Drastic Actior   Clai ms Authority Te  Cancel Ouotas

FARM DRAFT HALT ORDERED BY GOVERNOR   Coloradoan Acts of Power to Administer State Army Induction

HALTS FARMER DRAFT   Colorado Governor Acts to Hol Workers For Crops

HALTS INDUCTION OF FARM WORKERS   COLORADO GOVERNOR TAKES ACTION TO ASSURE CROP GOALS

Authority Claimed By  Governo!   Crop Goals Cannot Be Met Unless Workers Remain On Farms, Asserts Executive

Orders Halt To Draft of Farm Labor   Governor of Colorade Takes Action to Aid Farmers

ON THE OFFENSIVE   Allied Air Forces Attack Nazi Ground Targets in: Tunisia

Vichy Says U.S. Offensive Begun Axis Reports Yankees  Had Built Big Force At Tebessa

HELENA COMMUNITY CHEST   Health Office Says Epidemic Is Now Beyond Peak

Expenditures To Establish New Record   War Costs Limited Only By Ability To Produce

HARSH PROGRAM OF TAXES TOGETHER WITH PLAN FOR FORCED SAVING IN CONGRESS

REQUEST TO LIFT TOTAL WAR COST TO 331 BILLIONS   President Terms Program as ‘Harsh’, Points to Sacrifices   More Taxes, More Rationing and More Work Meaning of Recommendation

HARSH PROGRAM OF TAXATION ASKED BY F.0.R   Hundred Billion Slated For War, Nine Billion Non-War Expense   “NATIONAL BLOC” URGED   Harmony Requested For All-Out Conduct Of Total Warfare od

16 BILLIONS BY NEW TAX, U, $. SAVINGS   “Harsh Program” Involves Forced Savings, Elimination of Frills From Our Living

Also Asked Congress For Enactment of “Harsh” Program to Raise 16 Billion More a Yoar RevemBAS?   DEBT MOUNTS War Bill Now Stands at Sum of $331,600,000,000 And May Ge Beyond As tronomical Fieures,

Program Is  ‘Harsh’ One, Warns FDR   ..»Brings Total War Cost To 331 Billion

Over Hundred Billion Budget Plan Submitter   President Presents Gigantic \ ‘war Budget’ To Congress This Afternoon   FURTHER TAXES ALSO SUGGESTEL   All Time Record Budget Is For Year Beginning On July 1, 1943

NEW REVENUE a) NECESSARY FOR TREASUR'   BOOKEVELT SUBMITS BUDGET CALLING FOR EXPENDI Pte OF ITONDHED AND “EIGHT BILLAONG NEXT.‘ - ‘FIBCAL YEAR’. 

DEBATE 15 ON   Senator Willis Says Four - United Nations Can Be Peace Nucleus.

PUSTWAR BILL OKAY LOOMS   WILLIS SAYS ONLY CHIEF POWERS TO HEAD GROUP

Push Vote On Connally Bill   Willis Declares World  Security Rests With  Principal United Nations,

Japs Paid With OwnBad Money   Prisoners Work Hard  For Phoney Cash

“Double Pay” Spurs Jap Prisoners, But ' Jt Is Their Gwn Country’s Bad Notes

DRAFT BOARDS ARE CALLING ELIGIBLES   Making Effort to Avoid Drafting Pre- Pearl Harbor Fathers.

Office of Price Administration— Announces Ceiling on  Live Hogs Next Month

Name Calling Marks Debate  On Tax Issues   Speaker of House Rules Demagog Is Horrid Word

Area Furnishes Principal Action  Riaohting Ahnrya and Ra.   Fighting Above and Below Orel Dies Down

RUSSIAN, NAZI SCOUTS CLASH   Activity Reported on Smolensk Front, Long Inactive—Germans Predict Red Offensive

MAJOR CLASH IS NEAR IN RUSSIA   Opposing Armies Are Moving Into Position for Battle In Orel

Major Orel Offensive Foreshadowed   Sizeable Opposing Armies Reported Massing Above and Below Orel Which Berlin Says Sovtets Will Use as Starting Front of Offensive.

Scout Clashes Indicate New Activity In Smolensk Area   Long Dormant Front Shows Signs Of Activity; No News Of Other Sectors

Principal Action On RussoGerman Front Is Clashes Between Scouting Parties. Soviet Summer Offensive Expected to Begin In Few Weeks.

NUANBERG PASTED BY BIG BOMBS   American Planes Strike At Naples From African Bases

U.S. BOMBERS MAKE DRIVE ON GERMANY   Presumed To Be Attacking Bases In. Northwest Section

American Air Force  Hits Axis   Many U. S. Planes  Take Up RAF  Assault on Germany

FIVE UNIT LEADERS OF GERMAN - AMERICAN BUND OR TRIAL IN SYRACUSE

Terrible Tragedy     Coffee Plantations In Coffeyville Area Flooded, Nazis Say

Enslavement Not Set For Germans   By RICHARD G. MASSOCK Agsociated Press Staff Writer

Free Germany May Be Pledge From Allies   Abolition of Hitlerism. Settlement of Polish And Red Differences Forecast in Reports

World Awaits Decisions at Iran Meeting   Freedom from Slavery May Be Promise Made To People of Germany  WAR OF NERVES ON

Germans May Ge! Freedom From Slavery Promise   Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Believed Mapping Offer

GERMANY MAY BEPROMISED HER FREEDOM   BIG THREE LEADERS MAP WAR PLANS IN PERSIA

Promise To Grant Germany Freedon From Slavery Seen As Possible Result Of Conferences

Allied Leaders Expected To Tell Germans Slavery Is Not Planned for Then   Vital Decisions for Defeat of Nazis to Be Made By “Big Three”; Will Ask People of Reich to Quit

SWEDISH IRE IS ROUSED BY NAZI ATTACK ON SUB   Second Note Delivered Protesting Mines in Neutral Waters

Sweden Sharp in Note to Berlin   Nation Irate Over  Nazi Attack on Sub

CERTAIN DRAFI CASES ORDEREL TO BEREVIEWEL   every Registrant Whos«  Principal Place of Employment and Local” ‘Board Differ Affected.

VOCATIONAL DEFERMENTS TO BE STUDIED   Selective Service Officials issue Instructions Requiring Review of All Cases  50.000 IN THE CAPITAL

ORDER REVIEWS OF OEFERMENTS   Instructions Affect Men Living Away From Registration Place.   WASHINGTON AFFECTED

Send Out New Draft Orders  Review Deferments Of Men In Different Areas

Gabes Trap For Romme! Seen Goal   Germans Report 8th Army Action ‘Real Offensive’

YOU SURE, TOJO?   dupanese Say Nylon "Chutes of Yanks Are No Giood.

Frenchmen Lose Track Of Rommel   Allies Attack Six German Transport Planes

FRENCH LOST TRACK OF MARSHAL ROMMEL   Intelligence Has Had No Report In Two Weeks, Reuter Reports

UMW OFFICIALS, COAL OPERATORS MEETING TODAY      Reopen Contract Negotiations In Effort To End Wage Disuute

UMW, Operators ‘of Coal Mines   [Renew Parleys   WLB Denies $2 Daily Wage Boost, Opens Path To Settlement

NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTRACI   Partial Union Victory Seen in WLB Order Tuesday

LEWIS, COAL MINE OWNERS — DISCUSS CONTRACT DEMAND   First Time UMW Chief Has Recognized WLB On Coa] Contract Dispute

LEWIo, OPERATORS AGAIN NEGOTIATING   Portal To Portal Pay Main Issue To Be Settled

NEGOTIATIONS ON MINERS DISPUTE NOW INPROGRESS   Operators From North, South Sit Around Bargaining Table With Miners For First Meeting.   LEWIS HAS PARTIAL VICTORY ON ORDER   Belief Advanced That Agreement on Portal to Portal Question May Result In $1 Inereasa.

PAY FORMULA CHANCE ASKED   OHIO FEDERATION OF LABOR  TO SEEK REVISION OF  - “LITTL ESTEEL” WAGE — YARDSTICK  .

British Eighth Advances Along Adriatic Coast   Fifth Army Front Relatively Quiet Except for Patrol Clashes and- Artillery Duels; Weather Improves Somewhat

LIBERTY SHIP IS LOST    Navy Reports Loss of 16 Lives and An American Tanker

Navy Reports U.S. Liberty Ship And Tanker Are Sunk   Losses Subsequent To  Columbian Ship Attack

TWO U, S, SHIPS REPORTED SUNK   28 Lives Lost in Attacks at Sea—Survivors Have Been Landed

WEA Forecasts Drop In Meat Supplies 1944  Government  Needs To Take

ihe War 1/oday  Italian Fleet, Spared By Allied Bombs, May Be Used Against Axis

Why Don’t Allied Planes ‘Bomb the Italian Fleet? They Are Over It Almost Every Day

WAR ANALYST GIVES THEORIES ABOUT WHY ITALIAN FLEET HAS NOT BEEN BOMBED RECENT WEEKS

Allied Planes Over Fleet ButNoBombs   In the temporary absence of Dewitt MacKenzie, this column is written today by J. M. Roberts, Jr.)

Allied Bomber Crews Soar Daily Over Italian Fleet But Failte Drop Ranrhes

DOWN 16ZEROS IN SOLOMONS   U. S. FLIERS WIN ‘AIR FIGHT AT GUADALCANAL

1b JAP PLANES on] DOWN tN SOLOMONS   American Lose Six Fighters In Fierce Engagement

AMERICANS DOWN 16 ENEMY PLANES      Fierce Air Duel Fought Near Guadalcanal In Solomons

Destroy 16 Nip Planes In Battle   Report Sharp Air Duel  In Solomon Islands

Navy Report: Flare Up in Solomons   American Airmen Shoot Down 16 Japanese Zeros

16 JAP ZEROS DOWNED OFF GUADALCANAL   Navy Reports Sharp Flareup In Solomons Area

J ap Fleet Attacked: 16 Zeros Shot Down   Navy Reports Violent Air Battle Over Guadalcanal And Air Slash at Aleutians

MORGENTHAU TO GIVE CURRENCY PLAN TO SOLONS   Reciprocal Trace Agreement - Comprotnise Is Drafted To Shorten Debate on Bill

DISCUSS PLAN T0 STABILIZE AFTER WAR CURRENCIES   Secretary Morgenthau Outlines Plan To Tie World Currencies To Gold and Establish International Stabilization Fund. —

Administration Monetary Program Is Announced   Would: “Tie. World “Gur   retiéy To Gold, Set Us International Stabiliza. tion Fund To End Cur. renev Wars.

Sealanes Battle Rages With Fury   Allied Nations Plan To De feat Intensified Cam paign By Axis Forces  TT’ @ errmoa oarrrr   U.S. SUBS SINK FOUR JAP VESSELS

County Bond Sales Reach Nearly $400,000, Judge Meadows Announces As Army Presents ‘Orders’

Army “Captured”’ By Local People   Judge Meadows Gets Order After Town Is Released By Its “Captors” This Morning

Explanation of - Mosley Release  ~ Given Common:   Home Secretary Fails to Quiet Dissenters in Parliament

TAX BILL REPORT LIKELY THIS WEEK   May Reach President’s Desk Dec. 15 Short of . Remuect

Ways and Means: Committee Wil Report on Taxt   New Measure Raisiy Two Billion to be -—Debated ‘Soon 

TWO PERSONS DIE, SEVEN ARE HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS   Three Hanoverians Among Those Injured In Collision At York Springs—Berks  County Soldier Killed   MARYLAND YOUTH OF 17 MEETS INSTANT DEATH   Nevin LeRoy Long,  Bruceville Succumbs To Skull Fracture Suffered In Crash Near Biglerville

2 Killed, 7 Hurt In Week-End Crashes   Soldier Dies Car Strikes AtYk. Springs, Bridge Wali

County Court News Of Sioux Count;   Find For Defendant In Hooyer ¥; Hulstein Case Which Lasted ‘Two Days; Other Notes

DEMPSEY IS GIVEN DIVORCE   Custody of Children to Be Decided Later

MPSEY GIVEN QVORCE FROM SHOW GIRL WIFE   Judge Young’s Decision. Upholds Charge of Wife's Unfaithfulness.

Knox Reveals  New Type Ship   Sleek Craft to Battle L-Boats: 150 Boats Made in February

NEW TYPE RHIP TO FIGHT SUBS   Several Score of Sleek Little Craft Already Flying U.S. Flag

‘DE NEW GRAFT FOR CONVEY WORK   Cross Between Corvette and Destroyer to Battle Undersea Raiders.

Vessel Called Cross Between Destroyer And British Corvette  PROTECTING CONVOYS BOATS’ SPECIAL JOB  150 New Warships, 130 Cargo Vessels Built in February

Talks Tough to Nazis Now That Allied Invasion Of Europe Seems Likely

Sweden Is Stickler For Neutrality   TAKES MORE POSITIVE ROLE AS GERMANY IS WEAKENED; MAY BE EMBARRASSING TO BACK UP   TAKE   Escape From Suffering

Service Stations Given New Hours   Night Service Banned For Most Cars

OF SUICIDE   Body Of Chicago Woman Recovered From Lake  At Harbert

Third Tragedy. Victim Found   Body OF Mother Who “Drowned 2 Recovered’

SPELLMAN 10 VISIT N. AFRICA BEFORE RETURK   Separate Allied Peace With Italy Hinted Topie Of Tour

SPELLMAN SURE OF ALLIED WIN   Belief Grows Archbishop Is On Important Diplomatic Mission For U. S.

Many Think Archbishop Spellman on Important . Diplomatic Mission

blee Grows that Archbishop Spellan is on Important Diplomatic  Mission for American Govern nit

Give Railroad Pay Debate To Special Board   Action Came As Time Neared For Meeting Of Operating Brotherhoods.   NOV. 15 DEADLINE

FDR Revives Rail Pay Case   New Board Appointed To Study Question

RAILWAY WAGE CASE UP AGAIN   Roosevelt Tosses Pa y Demands In Lap Of Another Board

SHOWDOWN IN AIR ‘OVER ITALY LOOMS   GERMANS PLAN TO SHIFT PLANES TO FRONT FROM RUSSIA, IS REPORT.

Final Nazi Gasp In Air Due Soon   struggle Promised In Skias Ovar Ital.

Battle for Air Supremacy Looms   Luftwaffe and Allies To Fight Over Italy

Nazis Are Planning  All-Out Aerial  Effort This Winter Italian Skies Will Be  Theater; Allies Welcome New Battle

German and Allied Pilots May Meet ‘in Last Big Air War Over Italy

Unrest Mounts As Germans Hint Invasion  WNagiland Warse   Naziland Worse Than in 1918, Swiss Declare

NEW STRATEGY SEEN IN PACIFIC   Advanced Enemy Airbase In Gilbert Area Is Heavily Damaged

Army Strikes Heavily Against Japs   Bombardments Cause Damage, Start New Expectations

Bombers Attack Enemy Air Base On Tarawa Isle   southeast Flanks of Main Jap Chain Badly Damaged   rmy Lightnings Launch Another Raid on Kiska Island

Strategy :  ‘Against. Jap: Advance Enemy Ai -Base'Blasted On  - Tarawa Island ©

New Turn in Pacific Strategy  Army Bombers Damage Advance Jap Airbase on Youien Island

Heavy Pressure Put on Japs   U.S. Airmen Attack Outpost in Gilberts

Tarawa in Gilberts Bombed, Turn in Allied Strategy Seen   Enemy Seaplane Base In East Indies Raided

OHIO MINERS GO BACK TO WORK   2 Mines in Hocking Valley -, Resume Operations Monday

OHIO DIGGERS END THIRD GOAL STRIKE   Number of Strikers Decrease in Other States

Flying Fortresses bomb 8 Nip ships attempting  to reinforce New Guinea   Bad weather hampering American airmen continuine to press attack

TWO VESSELS BELIEVED HIT BY OUR BOMBS   Enemy Still Trying to Reinforce New Guinea

2 OWIPS IN JAP GUNVOY ARE HIT BY Ble BOMBS   Enemy Again Risks Losses To Reinforce Invaders Of New Guinea

ANOTHER JAP CONVOY 1S HIT IN NEW GUINEA   Enemy Attempts To Bring Reinforcement: By Roundabout Route Saturday.

CONVENTION SITE STIRS GOP SCRAP   ODT Insists on Chicago and Willkie Group Irked

ODT Again Proposes Two Major Political Parties Hold Conventions in Chicago

Japanese Battle Psychology Is Study lin Contrasts, Correspondent Reports -

Nipponese Battle Psychol ogy Mystifies Militar; Leaders; Unusual Inci dents in Pacific Cited.

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Prison May Start A Night Shift   Producing Articles For the War Effort

NEW TRIALS FOR 6 AUTHORIZED BY HIGH COURT   Reprieves Granted To Three Doomed For Aiding Nazi Sabatour   FLAWS FOUND BY JUDGES   Improper Remarks Charged In Unanimous Decision Of Tribunal

SIX CHICAGOANS GET 2ND TRIAL   U. S. Circuit Court Reverses Conviction on Charges of Treason

Accused Traitors  Win New Trials   U. S. Appeals Court Re. verses Convictions Of Six Chicagoans.

Six Get New Trial In Sahotage Gase  Conviction Reversed rT tt  1 , i. es ie

6 Saboteur Aides Will Get Retrial   Appeals Court Discovers Errors in Procedure of Original Trial

APPEAL WINS AEVERSAL OF LOWER COURT   U. S. Circuit Court Declares Defendants Not Given . Fair Trial,   THREE MEN FACED CHAIR, WIVES PRISON TERMS

6 CONVICTED OF TREASON TO GET A SECOND TRIAL   Circuit Court Reverses Ver. dict Against Group in Aiding Herbert Haupt

NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED FOR CHICAGOANS   Convicted Last November Of Harboring Nazi Saboteur   UNANIMOUS REVERSAL   Three of ‘Accused Under Death Sentence In Electric Chair

Must Re-Try Treason Case   Court Reverses Con_Vvictions of Six Accused in Haupt Case

Treason Conviction Of Six Reversed In Federal Court   Chicagoans Will Have New Trial For Aiding Spy

CONVICTIONS REVERSED   Appellate Court Reverses Decision Of six Chicago Traitors

Sentences of Six Set Aside   New Trial Ordered for Persons Convicted on Treason Charges

CHICAGOANS TO RECEIVE NEW TREASON TRIAL   United States Court of Ap peals Reverses Convic tion of Six Connected  With German Spies   THREE FACED DEATH   Wives of Trio Had Been Sentenced to 25 Years Imprisonment for Aiding Saboteurs

COURT REVERSES TREASON CHARGE   Six Chicagoans, Who Aided Nazi Saboteur, Will Have _ Cases Retried

Court Upsets 6 Convictions For Treason   Supreme Bench Decision Uncnimous In Chicago Coses

COURT UPSETS TREASON CASES   Reverses Convictions Of Six Who Harborded Hans Haupt

ONC EDIGT GHANGED   Court Reverses Convictions Of Chicagoans on Treason Charge.

Conviction Of Six For ‘Treason Is  Set Aside   New Trial Ordered For Haupt, Wergin, Froehling And Their Wives

Conviction Of Six In Treason Case Reversed   Defendants Deprived Of Impartial Trial, Says Court In Decision In Haupt Case At Chicago

TREASON FIGURES TO GET NEW TRIAL   U. S. Circuit Court Reverses Conviction of Six Chicago Persons

GIVEN. NEW TRIAL   U. S. Circuit Court Reverses ~ Decision in Treason Case

Reverse Haupt’s Treason Sentence   He With Other Chicagoans Had Been Convicted of  Treason Charges.

Court Reverses Conviction On Treason Charges  Six Chicagoians  To Get New Trial

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‘Lost’ Army Of Chad Led By ‘Leclerc’   Mysterious ‘Story ‘Book’ Fighter in Command Oj French Moving Up on Libya

YANKS SMASH IAP ISLE TRY   COUNTERATTACK RUINED ON BOUGAINVILLE BEACH

SMASH JAPANESE COUNTER ATTACK ON BOUGAINVILLE   American Troops Gain Ground Over Bodies Of 104 Enemv Soldiers

Americans Stop Counterattack On Bougainville   Japanese Troops Fail In Desperate Try To Reduce Bridgehead

A OUGAINVILLE JAP. REPULotD BY AMERIGANS   U. S. Troops Gain Ground As Enemy Loses 104 Dead In Futile Attacks

LANSING HATFIELD TO APPEAR FRIDAY NIGHT IN TEMPLE   Holders of M. H.-B. And Temple Civic Music Assn. Tickets Eligible to Attend

TO APPEAR FRIDAY NIGHT IN TEMPLE   Holders of M. H.-B. And Temple Civic Music Assn.  Tickets Eligible to Attend

FARM PRICE ORDFRS  ON CORN AND HORSE  MEAT ISSUED TODAY CORN PRICE ADVANCE 0  FIVE CENTS PER BUSHEL PERMITTED

Yellow Corn Top Up Five Cents Todax   See Possibility of Corn to Eastern Zones at Million Bushels a Day

RAISE CEILING ON YELLOW CORN   OPA ALSO PLACES HORSE MEAT UNDER PRICE CONTROL

Announce Plan ‘To Move Corn  From Midwest   Commodity Credit Corporation To Subsidize Movement To Shortage Areas.   HORSE MEAT CEILING

CORN PRICE HIKE AND A SUBSIDY   Midwest Ceiling Boost Accompanied by Plan to Aid Deficit Areas   MAY MOVE MILLION BUSHELS A DAY   CCC Will Supervise the Movement to Take Feed to Bast and South

Horsemeat Placed Under OPA Control: Midwest's Yellow Corn Ceiling Up

THUAT GRSPRVATIONG   Will Subsidize  Corn Movement   To Allow 5 Cent Bushel Increase in the Surplus  Corn Area.

New Air Blows Administered’ To Japs By MacArthur’s Fifth Air  Te Asan   HUGE LOADS OF BOMBS DROPPED

PLANES HIT JAPS IN 50-MILE AREA   Coastline of New Britain Bombed: Airfield Threat to Rabaul

FURIOUS BLOWS AIMED AT JAPS   New Britain Coastline Receives Pounding

US. GOVERNMENT MINERS’ NEW BOSS   Chief Executive Appeals To Workers To Cease Obstructine War Effort

5-Man Bod) To Operate Coal Fields   Headed By John Forbes Of U.S. Mines  Bureau

CHINESE LIVED 131 DAYS ON RAFT BEFORE BEING RESCUED   And Trapped Rain Water In Piece Of Canvas To Live Through Sinking Of His Ship

Torpedoed Steward Spends 131 Days on Atlantic Raft, Sets New Endurance Mark

FBI AGENTS TAKE PETE BAIRD LAST NIGHT AT UVALDE   TEXAS GUNMAN HAD R CENTLY ESCAPED FROM U. S. MARSHAL

Texas Gunman Is  Trapped By F. B. I.   Pete Baird, Who Escaped Three Times From Police, Is Captured In Uvalde

FBI AGENTS TAKE PETE BAIRD LAST NIGHT AT UVALDE   TEXAS GUNMAN HAD R  wey Por.

GHIEF EXECUTIVE WARNS OF LARGE CASUALTY LISTS   Says United Nations Wil Use Force to Preserve Future Peace

FOR TELLS OF EISENKOWER APPOINTMENT   American General To Lead Forthcoming Allied Invasion

SELECTION TOLD BYROOSEVELTIN CHRISTMAS TALK   Americans Bomb “Rock Coast” as RAF Spreads More Destruction on Berlin With Heavy Bombing.   SUBMARINE GRAYILNG © IS REPORTED OVERDUE   British Report Near Cruiipling of Adriatic End of German Line, Rain Slows Up Americans.

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES SELECTION   FDR Confirms Rumors In Christmas Eve  Radio Address

GIVEN TASK QF LEADING BiG ATTACK   Roosevelt In Address to Nation and Armed Forces Confirms Appointment.

FDR Announces Appointment In Christmas Broadcast To World; Speaks Of The Over-Optimism In Regards To Early End Of War

Appointment Announced By Roosevelt   British Officer to Take Command in Mediterranean

TO COMMAND AIR, SEA AND LAND POWER   F.D.R. Addresses Armed Forces

Announced Today by Roosevelt   President Tells of Plans ir Christmas Radio Address to Nation

END IS NOT YET IN SIGHT, SAYS THE PRESIDENT   Claims International Force Will Preserve The Peace

YUGOSLAVS REPORT NAZI OFFENSIVE   - Big-Scale Drive .Along Dalmatian Coast Announced

NAZIS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE ON YUGOSLAV COAS   Seek To Take Islands And Beaches On Adriatic

POST-WAR PLANNING   The President Sends a Board's Re. Port to Congress

F.R. Urges  New Program   Calls for Expansion Of Social Security and Post-War Economy Cushior

Congress Gets Post-War Plan   Social Security Expansion Urged by FDR

FR. Asks Expansion of Social Security:   President Sends Postwar Proposals to Congress

Broad Social Security Plan Outlined —   FDR Sends Planning Board Report to Congress with Request for ‘Action This Session’

EXPANSION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOW REQUESTED   It Would Cover Individuals From Their Birth to the Grave.   REPORTS TO CONGRESS   It Also Calls for Cushioning the Post War Economy, the President Said.

POS PLANS TO CONGRESS   Social. Security Expansion Program Also Is Sent in by Roosevelt   ACTION AT THIS SESSION URGED   Recommendations Made for Demobilization of Soldiers. Workers

Roosevelt Asks Expansion Of Social Security   Planning Board Reports Call For Cushioning Of Post War, Economy   MUST MOVE FORWARLE      Work, Relief Policies Cov. ering Public Projects Are Planned Now

SOCIAL SECURITY EXPANSION PLANS GIVEN CONGRESS   Post-War and War- ‘Time Planning Activities are Sub mitted by FDR

Irrigation Heads Reject Parley Offers   VOW CONTINUED WORK IN FACE OF STRIKE THREAT BY EMPLOYES

AMERICAN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC PILOTS CARRY LUCK CHARMS ON IELICHT- ONE CARRIFS RED SOX

Fliers’ Odd Luck Charms Include Red Socks  Lice baat Ann Fanr  eat Clavar Search lnm Pariiie Mat (ithere Lh

‘Navy Says Only Raid Wa:  Scheduled: Tokyo Radio  First With Report

Silence Surrounds Conferences   No Announcemen On Proceedings Until Close

Silence Shrouds Tri-Partite Conference   No Announcements To Be Made Until End of Meetings

THREE-POWER ALLIED CONFAB SECRET AFFAIF   Progress Of Conference Will Go Unreported Until It’s Over

MOSCOW SESSION SURROUNDED WITH OFFICIAL SILENCE   Hull, Eden, Molotov Joined By Diplomatic And  Military Experts Today

Silence  Shrouds Confab   ALLIED CHIEFS SET FOR SECOND MEETING OF MOSCOW CONFERENCE

No News Comes From Conference   To Maintain Silence _ Till Parleys Are Ended

Roosevelt Gives Pledge to Green   President Says Prices to Be Cut

Production Battle Being Won--FDR   President Send Message Tc A. ¥. of i.

REDUCE COST OF LIVING   FDR Tells Labor ‘Convention Rell back In Prices Will Werk

FDR Informs AFL Cony. That Rollback Of Prices Will Reduce Living Cost

Roll Back Prices To Do Trick   President’s Message Read to A ¥ of L—Asks Help to Stabilize Prices

Congress Recess  Being Plannec   May Be Started On Wednes. day Is Report From Washington   FOOD SUBSIDY ACTION IS NEAR

SENATE 10 0.4. COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES   Passage May Permit Congress to Recess Late Wednesday

USSIANS GAIN AN ALL FRONTS   Three Red Armies Closing In On Key Nazi Base At Krasnograd

3 Red Armies Drive Across  The Ukraine   Closing In on Krasnograd, Important Rail Junction; Other Victories

Reds Close In ‘On Korosten   Three Columns Converge Or Strateaic Railway Junction

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REDS CLOSING IN ON CITY OF KRASNOGRAD   German High Commane Admits Evacuation of Bryansk, as Russians Smash On Westward   AUTUMN RAINS START

City Now Within Artillery Range From 3 Points   Nazis Admit Flight From Dnieper Bend

Retreating Rostov Foe Said in Panie   Russians Recover Scores  Of Populated Places, Liatee Naar Oral

THREE SOVIET ARMIES AIM AT KRASNOGRAD   Nazi Retreat Across Dnieper Sought Before Heavy Rains Delay Push   REAFFIRMS BRYANSK LOSS   Triumphant Moscow Communique Records Gains On Four Scattered Fronts

Soviets Throw Germans Back over Dnieper   Three Red Armies Close In on Krasnograd, Nazi Rail Junction

Nazis Hint of Flight from Bend Sector; Railroads Made Virtually  Useless

Fallof — Kransnograd Imminent   Three Red Armies Closing in On Nazi Bastion. Raid Head

Important Communications Line Under Ar- «= tillery Sights HEAVY LOSSES BY _ENEMY SUFFERED Extent of Penetration  West of Zhitomir Re- * mains in Doubt

REDS THREATEN RAIL JUNGTION, SEIZE 60 TOWNS   Korosten Within Artillery Range of Columns Moving on City From Three Directions.   SOVIETS SCORE GAINS IN THE GOMEL AREA   Kill 1,500 Nazis in Fighting— Germans Hint at Withdrawal From Dnieper Bend.

Reds Jubilant As Result Of New Victories   Fall of Seaport Gives Russians Chance To Drive Toward Border

lieved te Have been issued throughout the Germanoccupied portion of Italy.

Russians Closing On Krasnograd, Key Rail Junction   Nazi High Command Admits Evacuation Of Bryansk Today

3 Soviet Armies © Said Closing In _ On Krasnograd   Smash Westward Through Southern Ukraine To ; Vital Railroad Junction

Important Communications Line Under Artillery Sights  HEAVY LOSSES BY ENEMY SUFFERED  Extent of _ Penetration  Base   Extent of Penetration West of Zhitomir Remains in Doubt

3 Red Armies Closing In On Krasnograd Now   Sweep Up _ Ukraine After Four Majo. Victories In One  Day

GERMANS ADMIN BRYANSK FALL REDS MOVE ON   Three Russian Armies Smash Westward Thru Southern Ukraine Today

THREE SOVIET ARMIES CLOSE IN ON GERMANS   Capture Of Black Sea Is Setback For Enemy

RED ARMIES » CLOSE IN ON - KRASNOGRAD   Russians Push Germans Relent. lessly Back Toward Dnieper At ter Four Impressive Victories   RACE WITH RAINS   ‘Speed of Advance Encourages Be. lief Greater Viclories Yet Possible

AHEAD ON LONG FRONT   One Force Nearing Krasnograd, German Bastion, Rail City

THREE RUSSIAN ARMIES NEARING ENEMY BASTION   Germans Face Another Rout at Krasnograd as Sovicts Speed Attacks

Reds Capture 60 Villages West of Kiev   Russians Converging On Key Rail Junction From Three Directions  MANY NAZIS KITT ED

Supply Lines Virtually Lost to Nazis   Russians Closing Up Trap on Retreating Enemy as Victorious Armies Carry War Toward Former Border of Poland

AHEAD ALONG 600-MILE FRONT   Russians Are Closing In On Krasnograd, Nazi Rail Junction

Red Forces Within Artillery Range Of City From Three Sides; New Gains Made in-'Gomel Region

REDS SURGE ON AFTER DAY OF 4-PLY VICTORY   Moscow Fires Salute for Recapture of Novorossisk Base on Black Sea   RUSSIANS NEAR ODNIEPER   Soviet Forces All Set Now For Drive Against Nazis Caught in Crimea

Treasury Ready Tolssue Forms” For Income Ta)   iNew Sheets To De-in “Mails Soon. After: ¢ First of Year 

1943 Tax Forms To Be Mailed Early Next Year   Those with Gross Incomes Under $3,000 May Use Simplified Short Form

NEW INCOME TAX FORMS DUE SOON   TREASURY EXPECTS TO PUT BLANKS IN MAIL SHORTLY AFTER JANUARY 1.

Three Coloradans Are Shot to Death   Say Father Killed Children and Self

N azi Capital Again Target Of Bombers   Continental Railways _ And Coastal Shipping Suffer Fresh Blows  ALL PLANES RETURN

ALLIED BOMBERS POUND GERMANY INNIGHT RAIDS   British Blast Berlin While  Americans Rake Hitler’s  Datanese      FRENCH RAILWAYS GIVEN HAMMERING

Yankee Pilots Make 2 Sweeps  Across Channel]   Axis Targets in Wide Section of Europe  Attacked; Radios Off Air Hinting New Hits

ALLIES PRESS AIR ATTACK ON NAZI TARGETS   Pre - Invasion Aerial Offensive Kept Up Without Cease

Europe Gets Series of Air Attacks   Raids Are Reported Successful; Great Cities Hit

U. S. Thunderbolts sweep continent, destroying two_ craft and damaging others   Two enemy aircraft flights observed; American pilots report results cood

Mosquito Bombers  Hit Berlin   Multiple Raids Are Aimed At  Manv Cities

RAF And U.S. Fighters Bomb Important Targets In Germamy, Including Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall”   Lose Six Planes

BERLIN, OTHER TARGETS RAKED IN HEAVY RAIDS   Pounding of ‘Atlantic Wall’ Continued In Swift Attacks By U. S., British   Radios Silenced

R. A. F. Bombs Berlin, Other Targets   Allied Fighters Rake “Atlantic Wall” Positions

American Units And British tighth Army Make Advances; (J. S. Air Force Is Active

TAKE HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING RIVER VALLEY   Driving Enemy From Massico Ridge and Mount San Croce, Fifth Army Now Stands Before the  Gariohang Plain.

Fifth Cracks Nazis’ Strong Hill Position   Breaks Another Outer Defense of Rome in Fierce Fichting

STH ARMY FIGHTS WAY TO HEIGHTS   @-Mile Advance Made In Italy As Germans Are Outflanked

Heights Of German Anchor Defenses Seized By Allies; 8th Scores Gains

German Defense Lines Waver As Yanks Advance   American Units Win High Ground In Latest Attack

Massico Ridge Heights Seized By Fifth Army   Allies Gain Full Observation Over Garigliano  Valley In Italy.

AMERICAN UNITS PUSH FOE FROM HIGH POSITIONS   Advance to Enable Assault Against Germans’ Main Mountain Line  a eezee@ 4 Ove Or mea Pea e4* A A OT

Fifth Army Takes Heights   Holds Western Anchor Of German Line in Italy

Yanks Gain Complete Observance Over Broad Garigliano River Valley

Fifth Army Gains Control Of Heights   Seized Massico Ridge, Western Anchor of Germans’ Italy Line

bermans Lose: Western Anchor To Americans.   Eighth Army. Sets ~ Up New: Bridgehead Over Triano'River:

CRACK NAZI LINE SOUTH OF ROME   Take Western Enemy ‘Anchor; Air-Forces Smash Heavy Blows

Rome's 9nd Defense  Line Cracked Open   Valley Leading To Italian Capital Dominated By Allies; Enemy Facing Annihilation; Nlow 15 Air Force Raids Vienna

Allies Drive  Germans From Massico Ridge   British Eighth Army Sets Up Bridgehead Over Trigno River On Adriatic Flank

ALLIES ROAD TO ROME      Heights of Massico Ridge. Anchor of Nazi Line,  Taken by 5th Army

YANKS SEIZE HEIGHTS OF MASSICO   Pratella, Gallo Captured; New Bridgeheads Across _ Trigno Are Established; Other Advances

ALLIED FIFTH ARMY TAKE MASSICO RIDGE IN DRIVE FOR ROME  BRITISH AND CANADIANS OF EIGHTH ARMY CROSS TRIGNO RIVER

Yanks Look Down  On German Front   Allies Seize Massico Ridge, Western Anchor of En-.  -emy Line   EIGHTH ARMY. IN GAIN   Early Nazi. Retirement to New Mountain Line is   Probable:

MASSICO RIDGE ANCHOR OF NAZ LINE. IS SFIZEN   New 15th U. S. Air Force Blasts Messerschmitt Factory in Avstria

FIFTH ARMY WINS NEW HIGH GROUND   GAIN CONTROL OF UPPER VOLTURNO RIVER VALLEY

Massico Ridge Heights Taken   Allied Artillery Controls River Valley

FIFTH ARMY HAS SEIZED MAIN RIDE   Massico Is Taken Jn Hard Action - By Yanks

MASSICO RIDGE HEIGHTS SEIZED BY ALLIED 5TH ARMY   Nearby Mt. San Croce Also Taken to Gain Complete Observation Over Valley.   THE NAZIS ARE ROUTED)   Driven From Last Height Before Venefro, and Won New High Ground.

British Seize Key Ridge OnRoad To Rome   Massico Ridge, Germans’ Western Anchor In Ttalv. Falls.

ALLIED FORCES NEARING ROAD TO ROME TODAY   Fifth Army Seizes Massico Ridge; Held By Nazis

ALLIED ARMIES CHALK UP. FURTHER ADVANCES AGAINST GERMANS IN STRONG POSITIONS IN ITALY   Fifth Army Troops Occupy Massico Rridge, and Mount San Croce to Gain Complete Observation Over Broad: Garigliano Valley

Yanks Seize West Anchor Of Nazi Line   Massico Ridge Taken As American Troops  Win New Ground

Yanks Look Down  On German Front   Allies Seize Massico Ridge, Western Anchor of En emy Line   Early Nazi Retirement to New. Mountain Line is  Probable

Heights In Italy Captured   Allies Gain New Points On German  Anchor Line,

(suns Now Dominate  Valley   British Set Stage For Direct As aut on Rome Coastal Road

Fifth Seizes  Massico: Area   Americans Take Last Heights Before \ enatro: Win New High Ground.

Crack West End Of German Line  oth Army On Heights Of Massico Ridge  _ Deane 2 eee) 6 eee ee Oe CO eee

Allies Capture. Massico Ridée, Mt. San Croce   Complete Observation Of Garigliano River Valley Now Held By 5th Army

Western Anchor Of Italian Line Falls To Yanks   Allies Gain Complete Observation Over Garigliano Valley

5th Army Seizes New High Ground, Airmen Hit Hard   Americans Rout Nazis From Last Heights Covering Upper Volturno.   U. S. Bombers Blast At Austrian Factory

Fifth Army Storms Key Hilltop Posts   Seizes. Massico .- Ridge. Overlooking Nazi Lines’  Across Garigliano

YANKS ADVANCE TO CRACK OPEN NAZI DEFENSES      Slow and Painful Gains Made by Americans In Central Italy; Take Important Ridges   HUNS USE TANKS TO STIFFEN BARRIERS   British, Canadian Units Gain New Bridgehead On Adriatic, Flank and Cross River

WLB NOW QUARRELS WITH GREEN OF AFL   Union Head Protests Statement By Three MemBers of Board.

GREEN PROTESTS WLB STATEMENT ON MORE POWER   WAR LABOR BOARD IS INVOLVED IN QUARREL WITH AFL

WLB Tangles With AFL Chief on Question Of Giving Government More Power Over Unions

LABOR BOARD IN QUARREL WITH GREEN   A. F. L. President Sends Protest On Authority

WLB And Leader Of AFL At Odds   Quarrel Develops Over Coal Situation

STIMSON REPORTS U.S. CASUALTIES IN ATTU BATTLE SMALL   Americans Now In Complete Contro] Of Holtz Bay Area, Secretary Reveals

ASKS FARMERS *TO INCREASE FOOD OUTPUT   50,000 farmers pledge to speed up production during 1943

Allied Armies Make Short Gains in Italy   Fall of Krivoi Rog Is Imminent; Kiev Virtually Isolated; Three Japanese Airfields at Rabaul Bombed into Ueelessness

U.S. Mitchell Bomb ers Penetrate Over Balkans Again North Af ric . Force Idle™:

Nazis Gloomy h Admitting Red Reverses   Krivoi Rog Center  Of Bitter Fight; 5th, 8th Armieg Advance

Russian Columns Pound at Germans In Dnieper Trap   Huns Pour in Reserves in Effort To Step Red Advance; Kiev te Isolated

Advance Slowly In Italy   But Russian Drive Endangers Entire Nazi Armies in Bend of Dnieper River

ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY CONTINUE 10 ADVANCE SLOWLY   MOSCOW REPORTS FALL KRIVOI ROG IMMINENT WEDNESDAY

Germans Cling  To Rome Road   Allies Make Only Small Advances in Italy as Bomb ers Raid Salonika.

Nazis Mass  For Stand In Hills Region   Yanks, British Advance Against Foe In Italy

Fall of Tripoli Moral Blow Only Broadcast Says   ‘Citv Had Lost Its Military Importance’, italy Admits Loss

ROME RADIO MOURNS LOSS   Italy Admits Suffering Heavy Desert Uosses.

Allied Concentration On Shipping Lanes, Superior British Army Caused Defeat. Claim

Ktalians Discount  Importance of...  Fall of Tripeli ‘Only a Moral Blow’; British Say. Mussolini

Liberafor Bombers Blast Supply Port   Rangoon Battered By American Planes.

NEURNBERG IS ‘RAIDED BY RAF   Nine Planes Missing Ir Bombing Of Important Industrial Center.

AGHESON WILL REPLACE HUGHES ON C0. BENCH   Judge Hughes Will Be Candidate Next Year For Supreme Court. Announced

4.300 GERMANS SLAIN IN DAY'S HEAVY FIGHTING   More Than 50 Populated Places on Approaches To Vyazma Are Captured   Equipment Abandoned

‘Russians Capture ! 100 More Towns   i Timoshenko’s Offensive  Gains at Lake Ilmen

FDR Orders Officials  To Zipper Their Lips   Wallace and Jones Ordered to Cease Name Calling

WALLACE, JONES ARE REBUKED BY PRES, ROOSEVELT   Abolishes B. E. W., Sets Up New Office Of Economic Warfare

FDR Cracks Down In Jones, Wallace Fight With Severe Rebuke   President Orders Pair To End Scrap Or Quit Jobs; Also Issues Order Curbing Power Of Both Men

Wordy Sham Battle of Washington Adjourns With FDR's Orders to Officials To Cease Calling Each Other Liars

FDR SILENCES SQUABBLERS   —sTeo  Abolishes BEW in Rebuke to Wallace and Jones

Crowley Named By The President to Head New Agency   President Orders Appointive Officials To Cease Name-calling, Or To Resign, in Sensational Repudiation Move

Roosevelt Strips Wallace, — Jones of Foreign Powers; Order Aimed at Blow-offs

PRESIDENT ORDERS STOP TO FEUDING   Cracks Down on Wallace, Jones; Warns Others

President Junks BEW, Strips Jones, Wallace Of War Economic Duties   ) Leo T. Crowley Appointed To Heac New Office Of Eccnomic Warfare Vice President Reduced In Status

President Steps in to End Dispute   Abolishes Board of  Economic Warfare; Sets up Another

President Roosevelt “Orders Vice President Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones . to Cease Calling Each Other Names or Resign.

WALLACE, JONES MUST END THEIR ARGUMENTS   Verbal Spanking Handed Out by President Who Orders Them to Cease Calling Each Other Liars, Obstructors and Such-like for the Duration —Both Men Stripped of Some Powers.

FDR Issues Sharp Rebuke To Participants In Word Battle   Jones Hit Hard By President's Action, But Not So Hard As Wallace — BEW Abolished .

FDR SAYS QUIT ” CALLING EACH OTHER LIARS   President Sends Joint Letter to Wallace and Jones

FDR. Rebukes V.P. Wallace AndJones   Strips Them of Part-of Powers For Dienute

FDR Punishes Wallace, Jones   Embattled Officials Lose Many Powers

Japanese Destroyer Is - Sunk By Allied Airmen   Corvette and Cargo Ship Set Afire and Fifteen Zeros Destroyed in the Bourgainville Area mk tha Calamnane

Americans Sin} Jap Destroyer, Bag 15 Planes   Four U. S. Planes  Missing After Battle In Solomons: Kiska Attacked Five Times

JAP DESTROYER SUNK, 15 ZERO PLANES BAGGED   Losses Inflicted During Battle In Solomons; Kiska ls Bombed  Five Times   Buin Area Pounded

Four Jap Cargo Ships Attacked By U.S. Bombers   Kiska Bombed  By Light Naval Force

FLYERS SINK JAP: WARSHIP IN SOLOMON   Set Fire to Corvette Cargo Ship, Down x 15 Zeros

Roosevelt Dissatisfied With Part of Fathers Draft Deferment Bill

Automatic Sighting Device Gives U. S. Forts Superiority Over Nazi Fiahters

Automatic Sighting Device Gives U.S. F orts Superiority Over Naot Bichtove

Axis Planes Loss In North Africa Placed at 1,696   TWO-DAY AERIAL POUNDING OF AXIS BREAK5 RECORDS

Launch A Drive: Against Vice   Baltimore Commercialized Vice Called Among Worst.

American Fliers Resume the Attacks on Jap Bases.   RUSSIANS BREAK THROUGH NAZI LINE   Allied Raiders Headed for Nazi Targets Across Channel.

A GOOD INSPECTION   Federal Officera -Find Guard Company in Excellent Shape

Muskogee Strike ls ‘Unauthorized’  AFL Official So Terms   AFL Official So Terms Bus Driver Strike

Enemy Whipped In Naval Battle For Bridgehead   Nipponese Fleet Caught Trying Sneak Attack At Augusta Bay And Badly Mauled By Lighter Fleet Of American Fighting Ships.

No American Vessels Lost   Japanese Resistance On Mono Island Halts

Navy Gets Five Jap Warships  Cruiser, Fou  Destroyers Are Sunk —

Many Miners l'ail to Go Back to Jobs   One Third of U. S. Steel Miners Fail To Show up—Congres  Back at Work

Many Mines Are Still Closed In Several States   While Situation Is Improved Over Week End, Many Fail To Heed the Call Todav.

WASTE PAPER NEEDED   _ WPe Campaign Is Extended Beyond Mississippi

Axis Rear Menaced  By French   Eisenhower Warns That Germans Will Fight to  Last Ditch in Tunisia

NO FOUL PLAY “IN EIRESS’ DEATH   OFFICIALS BELIEVE JANET GILI’S PLUNGE WAS AC. CIDENT OR SUICIDE.

Blast a Murder Theory in New York   Autopsy Shows No Violence in the Death of Janet Gill.

AUTOPSY BELIES FOUL PLAY HINT   Death of Oil Heiress June 1 Brings Exhumation Court Order

TAX MEETING IS PROPOSED   Knutson, Doughton May Confer In South On Deadlock

HOPE FOR PAY-GC PLAN 19 REVIVED   ey of ‘Peace Meet® ing’ Between Leaders to Compose Differences in Prospect

FOOD SYSTEM OF NEW DEAL UNDER ATTACK   CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ‘CHARGES REGULATIONS ARE TO BLAME FOR LARGE PART OF CONFUSION

Charge Red Tape Tangles Food   U. S. Chamber cf Commerce Claims Government  Regulations to Blame for Nation’s Critical: Pond Sitnatian

“WPB ACCUSES KAISER FIRM   31 Violations Of War Supply Orders Are Charged.

STATE HIGHWAY. PATROL GIVEN MORE POWER—NEW LAV   Enacted By Legislature Now in the Hands of Governor Donnell For His Signature.

STUDENTS REVOLT IN AXIS COUNTRIES   Three From University In Germany Get Death Sentence

ASK ITALIANS TO SABOTAGE      Allies Want Them to Hinder Germans

People of Southern Italy Are Urged to Cut Communications as Allied Inspired Sabotage Spreads Rapidly

SEEK SETTLEMENT OF COAL DISPUTE   War Labor Board Spurs itself to Complete the Program Without Delay.

WLB WORKING ON COAL SETTLEMENT   Attempt To Settle Dispute Before Expiration   Of Truce’ 

SEEKING COAL MINE TRUCE   War Labor Board Working Against Time in Effort to Speed Settle ment — 15-Day Strike Truce Ex. pires on May 19.

House Votes For AntiStrike Bill   Would Permit WLB to Subpoena John L. Lewis

‘Matter Now Rests. Sq are ly With John 'Li: Lewis, Whether Or Not Loa! Strike Will .Be. Set

ALLIES SINK 3 DESTROYERS IN RABAUL BATTLE   Eight Merchantmen Are Also Sent Down In Worst Sea Defeat  Of That Area

Raid Nips Enemy Counterattack on U. S. Forces Expanding Their Beachhead on Bougainville

SHOOT DOWN b/ PLANES IN RABAUL RAID   ' Eight Large Merchant Vessels Blasted to Bottom in Devastating Attack on Base.   9 ALLIED BOMBERS, 10 FIGHTERS LOST   Direct Hits Scored on Two Heavy Cruisers— Entire Shipping Area Is Wrecked.

67 Enemy Planes Also Bagged : U. S. Marines Extend Beachheads  On Bougainville Isle

Three Japanese Destroyers Sunk   Nips Given Worst Defeat in Harbor

8 Large Merchant Ships Also Sent To Bottom; Two Cruisers Damaged   67 NIPPONESE PLANES BAGGED BY RAIDERS

I] Vessels at Rabaul Sunk By Bombers   Three Destroyers Are Among Casualties of. Big Acrial Attack

Bombers Sink Jap Warships   Rabaul Kaiders Clear Harbor, Destroy 67 Planes

BiG DEFEAT FOR JAPS AT NEW BRITAIN   Stronghold of Rabaul; “Three Enemy Destroyers And Eight Merchant Ships Are Sunk.   67 Planes

Convoy Is Caught At Rabaul  Smaller Vessels Knocked Out By Air Arm

Three Warships Among Toll At Rabaul Harbor   Jap Counterattack * Nipped Aborning In  Rairinninvilla Aran 

Three Warships Among Toll At Rabaul Harbor.   Jap Counterattack ‘ Nipped Abornirig In  Rouaninvilla Arex:

Report Italy Js Seeking To Halt  Nazi Invasion   Hear Reports Italy At. tempts To Halt Entry Of Nazi Troops At Brenner Pass   DEMONSTRATION IN SOME ITALIAN CITIES

Populace Demonstrates For Peace Amid Anti ‘Fascist Riots In Italy

Delay Called *Inexcusable’  Barge Construction Program Is Confused

Charge Delay In Relieving Oil Situation   Senate Committee Alleges Confusion In Barge Program   “NOT ENOUGH ACTION"

Committee Says Too Much Talk and Not Enough Action Causes—  Inexcusable’ Fuel Oil Situation

Charges Delay In Plan To Relieve Oil-Short East   Committee. Terms Delay . in Barge Construction Inexcusable.

Too Much Talk ‘Seen Over Oil   Committee Charges Delay. ‘Confusion In ‘Handling’ East’s Shortave

BARGE PROGRAM DELAY RAPPED BY COMMITTEE   Panama City Hit Through Lack Of Action To Ease Oil Shortage

“Inexcusable Delay” In Relieving East Coast Oil Shortage Charged

Senate Report Hits Oil Muddle   President Criticized For Confusion -

Work or Fight Bills Offered —In-Congres;   Strikes and Absenteeism Targets of Measures In Both Houses

AXIS SAYS ALLIED ATTEMPT 10 LAND ON ISLAND FAILS   Rome and Berlin Communiques Say First Allied Landing Attempt On Lampedusa, Italian Outlying Island, Repu]sed Monday Night.

ALLIES REPULSED, — ROME RADIO SAYS   Tell Of Unconfirmed Attempt On Italian Isle

Claim Allied Attempt To *  andRepnulsed   Russia Believes Zero Hour Near in Summer Offensive; Allied Planes Bomb Pantelleria and Messina

Rome Reports Island Invasion  Fully Repulsed   Italians Claim Allied Forces Attempt to Land on Lampedusa.   Allies Center Aerial Raids on Pantelleria

Battle of Atlantic Being Won   Few Ships Sunk by Sub marines — Still Hammer  at Italian Islands

Lampedusa Is Named As* Allied Goal   Not Major Offensive But Serious Attempt, Say Axis Reports ;

FLASHES   ueased Wire Bulletins on Lates World News Today,   Renort Landing.

Axis Reports Raid On IsleIs Repulsed   Claims. British Commando Landing on Lampedusa Is Furned Back   INO COMMENT FROM ALLIED SOURCE   German Claims Exceed Italjans’; Desert Spot Nota Likely Objective

Rome, Berlin Report Attack On Prison Island By Units _OF Britich.

‘Allies Mum On Report Landing Party On Small lampedusa Is Repulsed

Units Attack Island 70 Miles East Of Sousse, Axis Report   Vichy Radio Says Not Invasion Attempt, Expect Drive On Italy; No Word From London

British Commandos In Feeling Out Raid On  Lampedusa: No Invasion

 Garrison Makes No Reply  To Allied Demand;  Await Landing   RULLETING

Landing Upon’ Pantelleria Is. Thought Near   Wave on Wave of “Allied: Bombers Bring Destruction. :

Commando Attack On Lampedusa  Reported   Berlin And Rome Say British Effort To Effect A Landing Failed

RomeRadio Screams Of  Attack On  Lampedusa   Claims To Have Repulsed Allied Landings

ITALY CLAINS ALLIED THRUST UNSUCCESSFUL   Berlin Says Landing Move “Serious Effort” By Five Companies of Commandos   AXIS CLAIMS ARE NOT YET CONFIRMED   Forces Which Landed “Destroyed,” Enemy Says; Bombings of Pantelleria Continue

PANTELLERIA EXPECTED TO FALL SOON   Air Offensive Against Islands Is Stepped Up

Military Quarters Quiet On Result O1  Commando Raid   Rome Radio Reports Allied Forces Repulsed In First Landing Attempt; Prison Island Subjected To Repeated Aerial Attacks

Rome Reports Troops Are Repulsed   Allied Headquarters Are Silent on Report; Blow No Full Invasion Move

Axis Claims Repulse Of Isle Attack   Says Allied Landing Attempt At Lampedusas Smashed By Defenders

Allies Driven Off Lampedusa Axis Claims   Tiny Island Holds Fast; No General Invasion Attempt

Axis Reports Allied Attempt To Land On Italian Island Of Lampedusa Was Repulsed; No Confirmation Of Claim

AIR ASSAULTS CONTINUE OVER MEDITERRANEAN   /  [Rommel Rushing Defense of   France As Hitler Brags Death Awaits Invaders.

British Fail To Take Isle   Landing Attempted On Italian Possession?

Berlin Claims Invasion Stab  At Italy Fails   Rome Joins With Stories Of Repulsed Landing Attempt On Lampedusa,   BOMB SICILIAN PORT

Axis Reports  Lampedusa Thrust Fails   . ++ Called Serious Effort To Invade Italian Island

Says Allies. Try to Take Italian Isle   Axis Claims to Have Repulsed Attempt By _ British Commandos to Land on Lampeduza

ALLIED LANDING ATTEMPT FAILS   Rome Claims Island Seizure By British Commandos Repulsed

ISLAND LIES 10 MILES FROM SOUSSE   United Nations Make No Mention Of Move   COMMANDO RAID   3y About Five Companies Of British Soldiers, Berlin Radio Says

REPULSE DRIVE ON LAMPEDUSA ROME ASSERTS   Several British Naval Vessels Sunk, Say Italians   REPORT UNCONFIRMED   Allied Planes Again Batter Pantelleria and Messina

TAKE ISLAND IS REPORTED   Lampedusa Attacked By 5 Companies, Axis Claims

UNGRUKEN LIN IF BOMBS He HTALIAN ISLAND   50 Liberators Also Unloac 125 Tons Of Bombs Against Sicily

‘Lampedusa Landing Effort Said Foiled   Described hy Nazis as Commando Attack by ‘5 British Companies’

BYSCOMMANDO UNITS ON ISLE   Reports Indicate Attack Was Not Full Blown Invasion Effort

Germany Describes the Struggle Now as Terrific.   pILE MME BES 4 UY ah Terrific.  RED ARMY NOW ONLY  SIX MILES FROM KIEV  Take Several More Towns  in Their Drive West and South of Gomel.

SOVIET TROOPS — SWEEPING AHEAD IN CLOCKLIKE REGULARITY   Terrific Struggle Underway With German Armies. Warns Battles Will Get Worse.

GERMANS THROWING HUGE RESERVES INTO BATTLE OF DNIEPER      Axis Desperately Trying te Save 250,000 Convalescent Wounded in the Crimea

Portal-to-Portal Pay for Miners Assailed by Virginia Corporation

GOAL MEN GIVE TESTIMONY IN PORTAL PAY Gat   ‘Dr. ‘Huston St. Clair Says Pay Change Would Create Chaotic Condition   HEARING IN PROGRESS IN ROANOKE COURT   Decision Sought on Question Of Whether Travel Time by Miners Is Work Time; J. A. Hagy, Jewell Ridge Superintendent, Testifies

Admiral Who Knocked Japs Out Of Aleutians Takes Over In MacArthur's Pacific Zone

Reds Speeding Over Steppes To Black Sea   Cleaning Up Last 30 Miles beiween Kherson and Dnieper Estuary

NAZIS SHOW WEAKNESS IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Evidence of Demoralization Seen as Troops Retreat West of Crimea— Soviet Pace Remains Unslackened.

Russian Armies ByPass Sealed - Off Crimea; Swiftly Cleaning Up 30 Miles Remaining Before Kherson, At Mouth Of Dnieper  Estuary.

SOVIET ADVANCE OF 40 MILES IS BLOW T0 NAZIS   Reds Roll Toward Kherson to Rout Remnents of German Army

Advance Forty Miles Per Day  Beyond Crimea   Germans Show Signs Of Demoralization As Reds Sweep Past Perekop.  A Tre \ren A 1 sate caf Tere i . — .

FLEEING NAZIS SHOW SIGNS OF DEMORALIZING   Russians Drive Forty Miles Past Perkekop in Single Day

Retreating Germans Showed Signs of Demoralization as Red Army Swept West of Sealed Crimea.   NAZIS CLAIM STRONG FORCE AT THIS POINT   Forty Miles Were Covered in a Single Day’s Sweep Yesterday Beyond Captured Perekop.

Reds Keep Rolling On   Forces Closing Around Kiev; Southern Advances Greatest Through

CLEANING UP BEFORE KHERSON   Retreating Nazis Showing Signs Of Demoralization

Germans Flee Before Fast Moving Reds   Cossacks Push Across South Russia Steppes at Mouth of Crimea

RAGE 40 MILES —INSINGLE DAY   Focus of Battle in Dnieper Bend Is Still at Krivoi Roo.   BATTLE ON IN UKRAINE

Russians Within 30 Miles Of Kherson In Drive To Smash Nazi South Flank

NAZIS DECLARE RUSSIANS LAND IMEN IN CRIMEA   Retreating German Forces Showing Signs of Demoralization

FORTY MILES COVERED IN SINGLE DAY   Retreating Nazis Display Sign Of Demoralization; Enemy Counter-Attacks At Krivoi Rog

Red Army Races West Of Crimes At Record Pace   ‘Hard - Riding Cossacks Demoralize Hitler's Broken Legions

VETS POUND UN IN PURSUIT UF BEATEN FO   Cossacks Sweep Past Crimea By-Passing Nazis Bottled Up There

German Forces Smashed Back At All Points   Counterattack Fails To Spring Dnieper River Bend Trap

Germans Reeled Back Within 120 ‘Miles Of Rumania   Retreating Enemy Reported Showing Additional Signs Of Demoralization -

NAZI PLIGHT IN RUSSIA BECOMES MORE DESPERATE   SOVIETS RAPIDLY SEALING OFF LAST AVENUE OF ESCAPE

Cossacks Reported To Be Cleaning Up Last Thirty Miles Before Kherson

Crimea Left Far Behind By Russian:   Red Force 104 Airline Miles From Rumania: Enemy Still Holding  Veica: Rag

Soviet Troops Sweep West From Crimea   Cossacks Racing Toward Mouth of Dnieper Estuary   PACE UNSLACKENED         Retreating Nazi Troops  Showing Evidence of Demoralization

Russians Drive To Cut Off Nazi Escape. Corridor   Cossacks Leap Far Beyond Crimea At Unslackened Pace

REELING NAZIS FLEE SOVIETS   Reds Closing In On Kherson At Mouth Of  Dnieper

CRIMEA IS BY - PASSED IN SMASH   Mighty Pace Set By So. viets Continues  Unslackened

SOVIET ARMIES ARE 120 MILES FROM RUMANIA   Troops Pushing (Germans Back From Crimea

Germans Strive Desperately to Hold Open Escape Route From Dnieper Bend; Russians Within 120 Airline Miles of Rumania Now

RUSSIANS ROLLING STEADILY WESTWARI IN PURSUIT ENEMY  ISOLATED CRIMEAN PENINSULA TEMPORA. RILY BY-PASSED

Nazis Appear Demoralized as Reds Sweep on   Battle of Dnieper Bend Centers at Krivoi Rog, 120 Miles From Crimea

Mouth Of Dnieper Is Next Goa   Russian Troops Cover 40 Miles In _ Single Day’s Sweep Beyond Captured Perekop

CITES EXAMPLE OF HOW LOOSE TALK «GOST LEVES   Captain of Sunken Vessel Told By Sub Chief All About His Gwn Ship.

ees ee er poe a eer eee  NUTCHMAN WHO MADE ALL OKLAHOMA ‘RUNS’ IS DFAD

RV URN OF EGRET AKING HISTORY      y Believed Beautiful e: eathered Bird Was  - Rytinct

BROWDER MAKES AN ACCUSATION   Communist Leader “ Says “Americans” Conspiréd To Effect Execution Of Poiish Socialists In Bussia_

Red Cross Leaders Hear Reports  Groups Tell of Work . Achieved forWar

Red Cross Leaders : Hear Reporls   ~ Groups:Tell of Work *~Achieved*fo rer ’"Burther: Plans

Propaganda Build-Up On Allied Invasion Hit Peak Today; Nazi-Controlled Radios End Campaign With Heavy Sarcasm

Axis Disappointed As Invasion’ Proves Hoax   Radio Becomes Sarcastic As Fateful Hour Passe: Without Any Action On Part Of Allied Forces

MORE THAN 135,000 STEEL WORKERS IDLE MONDAY AFTERNOON  SILENCE GREETS URGENT PLEA PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RESUME WORK

WLB TO HAVE SPECIAL MEET   Will Take Further Action in Steel Labor Situation,   SILENT ABOUT FR PLEA

120,000 Steel. Workers -Idle   Work Stoppage Spreads Through Industry

135,000 Men Idle In Steel Industry   Operations Curtailed in Majority of Plants Despite President’s Appeal for Quick Settlement of Wage Dispute.

MORE THAN 135,000 OTEEL WORKERS IDLE MONDAY AFTERNOON  SILENCE GREETS URGENT PLEA PRESIDENT ROOSE-

OVER 155,000 STEELWORKERS ARE INTE TODAY   Widespread Work Stoppages Curtail Onerations   IGNORE F.D.R.   Presidential Appeal For Settlement Unheeded

STEELWORKERS QUIT DESPITE PLEA OF FDR   “Wail Action of WLB on Reosevelt’s . Deciaration for Retroactive Pay  Pending Settlement    LACK CONTRACT   Number of Idle Mounts to 135,000 with Republic, Youngstown, Timken, Wheeling Hardest Hit

Idle Steel Workers  To 135,000   Both Sides Silent.  As President Urges Return to Production; Union: Waits WLB Move

More Workers Sfaying Idle   More Plants Close, Murray Silent, WLB Says Nothing

STEEL WORKERS STOPPING WORK: 120.000 IDLE   President Makes Appeal To Head Of Unions

Big Ohio Plants Hit Hardest by Stoppa ges   2 LABOR HEADACHES LCAVERANT RAM SEVET Tr

F.D.R. Appeal Ignored, Steel Tieup Spreads   Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and  New York Affected

Work Stoppage Spreading In S Spite of Presidential ‘Plea for Early Settlement

Over 135,000 Men Idle In  /Stoppoge   CIO, WLB Officials Silent On FDR's Settlement Appeal

135,000 Steel Workers Idle as CIO, WLB Keep Silence or Throne Plea Made bv EF R

Thousands Of Steel Men Idle   Union and Labor, Board Maintain Silence About F, D. B. Plea for Action   MURRAY AWAITING WORD FROM BOARD   President Urges Production Continue Under Promise of Retroactive Wages

Idle Steel Workers Now At 135,000   Union Chief and WLB Silent on  Dencitonitc Bhan

120,000 Steel wr Orsers Idle  ‘over Nation   ClO-United Steelworkers of America Contract Expires; Walkouts Center in Ohio 

135,000 STEEL WORKERS HAVE WALKED OUT   Scores of Busy War Plants Being Forced to Close. WLB Silent on FDR’s Plea

135.000 Steel Workers Idle; ~ Heads Silent   Scores Of War-Busy Plants Fail To Reopen After  Christmas Holiday.   SUMMON TO ' SESSION

STEEL PLANTS STILL CLOSED   More Than 135,000 Idle Despite FDR’s Appeal

Crisis in U.S. Steel Industry   135,000 Workers Idle Despite Urgent Appeal From Roosevelt

120,000 Out In Steel Plants   Operations In Large Part of Industry Cut by Strike

135,000 Steel Workers Remain Idle Despite Urgent Appeal By President   Roosevelt Back In White House

Bis Ohio Plants Are Hit Hardest By Absenteeism   Appeal By President For Quick Setltement Fails To Halt Work Stoppage

120,000 STEEL WORKERS STAY OFF JOB TODAY   Work Stoppages Impair Production Schedules Over Wide Eastern Area

135,000 STEEL WORKERS IDLE SPREAD: LOOMS   Operations In Large Part Of Industry Curtailed Despite Appeal From ‘Roosevelt

Over 135,000 Idle As Steel Strikes Spread   Operations Heavily Cur tailed In Spite Of Roose velt’s Appeal.

120,000 STEEL WORKERS ARE  oRate <<: : ) Le oo          Work Stoppage Is Most Severe in Ohio; Little Steel Test Looms

MANY NOW IDLE AS SILENCE SHROUDS STEEL CONTROVERSY   Over 135,000 Workers Remain - Away Fram Work as Union and W.L.B. Quiet About Roosevelt's Pie for Settle meant

135,000 STEEL WORKERS WERE IDLE THIS AFTERNOON   CIO and War Labor Board Silent on President’s Plea for Early Strike Settlement.   SCORES OF PLANTS IDLE   Failed to Reopen Afier the Christmas Holidays When Contract Lapsed.

Crews. Flout President’ S_ Bid fc or Pact   Ope ations: Slowed: Tn First Séciou Upheaval Since

Steel Strike To Harass Nation   VITAL WAR PLANTS ARE HALTED BY NEW WALKOUTS

Speedy Settlement of Steel Strike is Roosevelt's Appeal   Number of Idle Steel Workers Passes 135,000 Mark Today

214 Plants Feel Shutdown As FDR Plea For Continued Work Is Ignored

PLEADS FOR QUICK SOLUTION   President Says Adjust ment Must Conform To Stabilization Act

135,000 Steel Workers Remain Idle in Stoppage   Union and WLB Silent To Roosevelt Appeal For Speedy Settlement

Over 135,000 Steel Workers Now Are Idle   Scores Of Plants Fait: To Open After Christmas Holidays.

139,000 STEEL WORKERS AWAY FROM THE JOB   Work Stoppages Halt Industry in Many Places Despite Appeal From Pres. Rooseve't

Strike Spreads Of Steel Workers   Union Chiefs and Labor Board Silent Over Plea by Roosevelt

Plea To  Unions   _. + 135,000 Idle Despite Pledge Retroactive Pay

FDR Request Fails to Stop Steel Strike   135,000 Workers Idle Monday; Walkeut Hits Ohio Hardest

195,000: STEEL “WORKERS IDLE   Silence “Maintained © About President’s . Plea _ Work . Re. Maintained

OVER 135,000 STEELWORKERS IDLE IN NATION   Scores of Plants in Eastern States Idle, Murray Remains Silent

DEWEY GIVES PLEDGE FULL _ WAR EFFORT   Calis for Sound Economy to Insur Victory, Give Jobs fo All Wher Peace Returns

NUERNBERG HIT BY 1,500 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   RAF Switches Strategy To Strike Finished Products Plants In  Germany   Blow To Supplies

Heavy Bombers Hit Nuernberg Terrific Blow   More Than 1,680 Tons o! Explosives Dropped on Big City

British Bombers Hit Nuernberg in Shift of Strategy   Germany's Finished Products Centers Will Be Destroved

Aerial Strategy Shifted In ‘The Bombing Of Nuernberg   Switch Designed to Destroy Germany’s Finished Prod ucts Centers Is Distinct From Already Ruined Basic Industries

Britons Blast At Nuernberg   Nazi: Shrine Hit by 1,680 Tons of Bombs

Fleet. Reorganized Around Carriers, Paves Way tor Massive Blow at Japs

Tactical Reorganization Of Navy Gives Aircraft Carriers Top Spot

Navy Regroupec In Pacific For Massive-Blows.   Formidable Force To Center Around Aircraft Carriers

SOLONS SHELVE TWO-TERM BILL   RULES COMMITTEE GETS PRESIDENT RESOLUTION

NAZIS BURY 5,000 IN MASS GRAVE   Allied Correspondents Witness German Atrocities

Witness Gruesome Sight as Grave Of Nazi Victims Is Opened at Orel

RUSSIANS OPEN MASS GRAVE OF 5000 VICTIMS OF NAZI SLAUGHTER AT OREL

SOVIETS REVEAL NAZI BRUTALITY   Mass Grave Filled With 5,000 Bodies Found Near Newly-Freed Orel

K «* OK OY¥ Massacre Graves Opened at Orel   Ry HENRY C. CASSIDY

5,000 Victims of Nazis — Found as Mass Grave For Russians Opened   By HENRY C. CASSIDY

5,000 Bodies in One Grave Near Orel Prison, Victims _ of Nazi Captors, Reds Say   Br BRENRY CC. CaAaAssmy

Nazi Atrocities Violate Unwritten Human Laws   hy HENRY C. CASSIDY

Open mass grave in Orel, mute evidence of German atrocities   Investigate Russia’s charge 5,000 prisoners starved or shot te death

AMERICAN ASSOCIATED PRESS \CORRESPONDENT SEES EVIDENCE. JOF ALLEGED GERMAN ATROCITY

Russians Lay 5000 Alleged Atrocity Deaths to Germans   By HENRY C. CASSEDY

Rank Odor of Decay Sickens the Strong .  Grave of 5000 Russians O Ovened

CASSIDY SEES OREL GRAVE OF NAZI VICTIMS   Soviet Authorities Claim Trenches at Prison Hold §,000 Bodies 0 Starved, Executed

COL. REYNOLDS 10 ADDRESS MEETING   War . Fund - Community Chest Plans to be Laid _at Dinner Monday

COL. REYNOLDS 10 ADDRESS MEETING   ——————EeEEE  War Fund - Community Chest Plans to be Laid at Dinner Monday

ENEMY IS ENCIRCLED — BY CHINESE FORCES   Chungking Report ‘Ss Japanese Resorted To Poison Gas In Attempt To Ereak Altick

Chinese Surround  Jap Invasion Force  Report 5,000 Enemy Soldiers Wiped Out

Harmon Scores On Enemy Zero   Famous Football Star Knocks Jap Plane Out of Sky

TOM HARMON BAGS JAP PLANE IN CHINA   Football Star Takes Part in Battle Against Swarm of Zeros—~ Five Shot Down

HARMON BLASTS ZERO FROM SKY   Former Michigan Football Stor Bags Jap Plane Near Hongkong

TEN MORE RAIDS MADE ON KISKA   Allied Planes Bomb Japs In Aleutians, Solomons, Southwest Pacific Area, And Burma.   (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

US. Smashe Foe at Kiska In Solomons   Jop Ship Probably Sunk, Others Hit; Kahili Drome Fired

RAID KISKA 19 TIMES 2 DAYS   Gun Positions Knocked Out, Si Jap Planes Destroyed, Two Ves sels Damaged ©

Kiska Is Raided 9 More Times By.U.S. Airmen  Continue Pounding Of Japanese In Ab eacsbreem lelanstic

9 Raids On Kiska Highlight Pacific  ‘Aerial “Activity 2   Al lied 1 Bonibe, ers Strike at

Yankee Fliers Batter 2 Jap Cargo Vessels   Nine More Attacks Are Delivered At Kiska; Attu Also Raided

U. S. FLIERS BATTER JAPS IN SOLOMON:   Raid-Base At —. Kahili And Hit Kiska Nine Times

ALLIED PLANE BATTER Aloka MORE TIMES   Enemy Ships In Solomons Also Battered Heavily By American Fliers

Notice   Kiska Had 10 Raids Friday, 9 Saturday   MacArthur's Planes Continue Active

> ATTACKS ON ‘JAP BASE   American Bombers) Pound Kiska, Scoring Hits on Runway and Camp   TWO CARGO SHIPS HIT IN SOLOMONS   MacArthur’s Bombers Also _ Continue Assaults in Area, Near Australia

Ten New Raids On Kiska by Americans  Chinese Kill 600 Japs in Battle Alona Yanatze

American Fliers Hit Cargo Vessels   Activity Reported In Kiska Region

Kiska and Solomons Hit Again   Damage Reported to Jay Shipping and to Air In. stallations

Kiska Under Ten Attacks   Allies Bomb Japanese Positions on Every Front, Reports Reveal

Americans Raid Kiska 10 Times —   Allies Also Bomb Japs In Solomon Island Area and in Burma

U.S. Raids Kiska  Nine More Times  Two Other Cargo Ships Damaged  In SaAlamane

YANK BOMBERS HAMMER KISKA   6 Jap Planes Destroyed, 2 Surface Ships Damaged

TWO JAP VESSELS BADLY DAMAGED BY U.S. AIRMEN   Believe One Cargo Ship Sunk —Start Big Fires at Kahili In Battering Raids in Solomons -

ALLIED FLIERS REVISIT KISKA   MacArthur’s Airmen Continue to Pound Jap Bases

Allies Bomb Japanese In the Aleutions, The Solomons, the Southwest Pacific  _ Area and Burma; Japs  Strike At Guadalcanal.

Heavy American Raids in Pacific Strike at Kiska and the Solomons

Large Carriers Bringing In Aid  25 Nazi Planes Shot Down and Eight Crippled  REDS AIM TO PUSH NAZIS INTO SEA

U.S. Planes Sink Jap Cargo Ship In Solomon Islands Area  Bis Fires Started At Kahili- Nine More Attacks   Big Fires Started At Kahili; Nine More Attacks Made On Kiska; Enemy Guns Silenced

JAPS BOMBED OVER WIDE AREA OF PACIFIC   Raids Carried Out On Enemy Bases at Kiska, Solomons and Burma.

Damage Two Enemy Ships.  In Solomons   American Planes Strike’ At Same Time At Jap - Installations ‘ On Kiska And Attu Islands

JAP SHIPPING BOMBED BY U.S. INSOLOMONS   Two Cargo Vessels Attacked With One Probably” Sunk: Fires Set At Enemv Base   KISKA AGAIN RAIDED   One Building. Destroyed, Gun - Position Knocked _ Out; Three Planes _ Strafed

U.S. AIRMEN HIT 2 JAP VESSELS IN SOLOMONS   American Pilots Continue Raids on Nip Positions at Kiska

American Flyers  Batter Japanese Kiska Hit Nine Times In One Day. Report

Pounding Of Kiska By US.  Is Continued   Liberators Slash At Aleutians Base Ten More Times

U.S. Raiders  Hammer Kiska   Nine More Attacks On Aleutian Base Wreek  Building, Silence Guns.

Lewis May Turn Tables, Warns   Barkley Calls For Vote. On Bankhead Measure

DEMO LEADER ‘ASKS VOTE NOW ON PARITY BILL   Urges Senate To Sustain Veto, Not Refer Bankhead Measure To Committee

FARM BLOG WARNED AGAINST USING CLUB   “Lewis May Out-Maneuver You,” Barkley Says

BARKLEY ASKS FORSHOWDOWN ON FDR’S VETO   He Now Opposes Bill Denounces Move  To Bury It

Tommy Harmor ls Found Safe  Former Gr id Star Missing  in Brasil =» Dave xc OK,

LT. TOM HARMON SAFE AFTER CRASI   PLANE DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE—FATE OF COMPANIONS IN DOUBT.

Tom Harmon, Old 98, Wins Way Back   Former Michigan Grid Star Safe After Crash In South America

NO DRAFT CHANGES, M'NUIT DECLARES   WMC Chairman Denies Any Intent to Resign Poct

MeNUTT TO HOLD JOB   Resignation Because of New Draft Law Not Considered.

UNCOVER BLACK MARKET SET-UP ON HUGE SCALE   FEDERAL GRAND JURY RETURNS INDICTMENTS FOR MEAT VIOLATIONS

Nation-wide black marke}  conspiracy   Seven firms and 11 individuals face indictments

Giant Meat Black Market ls Smashed   Conspirators Moved 10,000,000 Pounds  ‘East and Took $2,000,000 Overcharge  From Consumers, Office of Price Adminis* tration Reveals

9000 Tons Said Moved By Dealers   File N. J. Indictments For Conspiracy To Violate Federal... Regulations

Black Market Investigation Nears Climax   Seven Corporations and Eleven Individuals Are Indicted in Jersey

UNCOVER LARGE  BLACK MARKET SET-UP IN DRIVI   Seven Mid-West and New Jersey Corporations and 11 Individuals Indicted On Charges of Conspiracy To Violate Regulations On Nation-wide Scale.

PLOT CHARGED   Seven Corporations, 11 In dividuals Indicted By Grand Jury.

Bring Charge  In Meat Case   Price Administrator Says Action Biggest Blow To  Black Market.

Black Market On Nation-Wide Scale Charged   Seven Firms, 11 Indi viduals Indicted For Mea  Conspiracy.

OPA BREAKS UP NATIONAL MEAT BLACK MARKET   Seven Corporations, 11 Persons Indicted On Conspiracy Charges

Indict Meat Companies   OPA Charges Corporations With NationWide Price and Quota Violation Conspiracy

Many Indicted Tn Meat Probe   Charged With Conspiracy To Violate Price, Quota Regulations.

Trade Pact Bill Favored by 40 Of 39 Senators  19 Solons Not Giving Views in Poll Hold Balance of Power

ALLIES WRECK JAP FLEET OF 225 AIRPLANES   Also Kill 1,500 Of Foe In Greatest Raid On Wewak Area

dAP AIR FLEET lo WRECKED IN SOUTH PACIFIC   At Least 120 Planes Destroyed In New Guinea, 1.500 Fliers Killed

Stunning Blow Hits Sky Nips   COUNTERDRIVE RUINED AS 1500 ENEMY FLIERS, GROUND MEN ARE KILLED

ALLIED AIRMEN STRIKE AS JAPS WARM UP FOR ATTACK   225 Planes on Ground Wrecked, 1500 Men Killed by Bombs and Bullets

MacArthur’s F liers Bag 12] Tokyo Planes   Fleet Of 225 Ships Wrecked As Allied Bombers Raid Base

MASSIVE ALLIED: * AR BLOWS WORST IN PACIFIC AREA   Bombing Complete Before Japs Had Chance of Getting In Air, 10,000 Bombs Are Unloaded.   RUSSIANS WIN BITTER FIGHT NEAR KHARKOV   Reinforced Germans Struggle to Break Semi-Circle Enveloping Positions West of City.

Jap Air Fleet OF 225 Planes Is Destroyed   Parked On Four Fields, Fleet Is Virtually Wiped Out   1,500 JAPS KILLED   Crippling Blow Struck At Enemy, Thwarting New Guinea Attack

ALLIES BLAST JAP FLEET OF 995 PLANES   At Least 120 Planes Destroyed In Raid In New Guinea

ALLIED AIRMEN WRECK 170 JAP . PLANES IN RAID   Surprise Attack Breaks Up Nipponese Plans for Counter Offensive in New Guinea Zone:

PARACHUTISTS ARE LANDED IN DENMARK   No Indication Of Their Nationality Or Whether They Have Been Captured or Interned

‘Chutisis Dropped In Denmark   Anti-Axis Agents Thought Invelved: British Silent

Parachutists Reach Denmark In War Mystery   Believed To Be British and To Have Been Welcomed by Danes   Ninety-Eight Per Cent of Danish People Said To Favor Allies

Danes Claim ‘Chutists In Country   Residents Reported Sheltering Men Supplying Money, Information; Former Commerce Minister Linked

DANES WORKING AGAINST ENEMY   Parachutists Reported Landing In Denmark To Aid Allies

Danish Radio Tells of Descent Without Revealing Their Na. tionality—German Statement Declares Group Is Unfriendly to Axis and Has Been Provided With Money and Shelter —Nazis Form Anti-Sabotage Corps.

Report parachutists landed in Denmark   Radio’s statement links Moeller, indicating Danish agents involved

Germans Report Dane ‘Chutists   Former Official Is Linked With Action

Ban On Wartime Strikes Favored In House. Ballot   Bill Ordered Out "And Final Vote Is Exnected Friday

HOUSE TACKLES CONNALLY BILI   Advocates Of Anti-Strike Measure Bring Issue Before Chamber For Debate

Force Vote On Labor Measure   Expect House Ballot Thursday Of Friday On AntiStrike Bill.

Antistrike Measure Brought Out On House Floor  Current Coal Strike : Cited as Bringing Bill Up for Voting

‘CURBS ON LABOR ‘STRIKES ARGUED ON HOUSE FLOOR   Advocates Of Restrictions On Unions Win Test Vote 211 To 163   REP. SMITH CRITICAL OF THREATS BY AFL

Backers of Strike  Curb Measure Score  House Will Take Up Smith-Connally Bill

ofall Sends Smith Connally Bill to Floor ~ — for Action        ffe rts of Opponents Tc ; ock Action Killed by “3 Advocates

Anti-Strike Bill Up for Vote Today   House Gives Measure © Immediate Consideration; Allows 2-Hour Debate   LEWIS ASSAILED IN ARGUMENTS   Measure Called Up for Action Despite Opposition From War Agencies

PUSH STRIKE BILL   Backers of Legislation Score Victory in House oday.

Anti-Strike — Bill Brought  Before House   Lower House Opens Consideration of Smith-Counally Plan

House Calls Up No Strike Bill   Measure Comes to Floer Aw Party Lines Pall

ANTI-STRIKE BILL DEBATED IN HOUSE   John L. Lewis Condemned as Chamber Begins -Consideration

ANTI-STRIKE BILL TO HOUSE FLOOR   ADVOCATES OF CURB ON WARTIME WALKOUTS WIN FIGHT TO TAKE UP PLAN.

Midwest Produces  For War   Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin Lead Nation  in War Production

Flood Threat  On Missour!   Nemaha River Out Of Banks: ‘Tornadic Winds Kill Alliance Couple.

Secret Burial of Nitti In Striking Contrast With Usual Gangster Rites

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON SALAMAUA BASE   $6 Out Of 60 Jap Planes Shot Dowr Over Kahili, Communique Declare«

EXPECT REPLY FROM LEWIS ON FOR’S REQUEST   Wants Present Contract Continu ed Pending Negotiations On New Seale

AWAIT LEWIS’ REPLY 10 NOSTRIKE APPEAL   » Roosevelt Intervenes To Urge Mines Be Kept Open

State Is Alert For Paralysis   Health Department Advises Sanitation, Rest. Seclusion

SURPLUS CORN WILL MOVE TO DEFICIT AREAS   SECRETARY KNOX says:  Buy War Bonds!

Two Billion Start For Bonds   Drive Rolls Merrily Along; Wide Paper Support Given

Knox Says Buy Bonds To See That No Man Dies Because Of Shortages  VVV

Three Die as Flood Continues Over  Midwestern Region Rushing Waters Wast Out Bridges;  Relief Is Expected

Northwest Floods Roll on Claiming Three More Lives  Wide Area Under Menace of Rivers In Dakotas  ICE SMASHES RRIDGE

TradePacts AreFavored By Tar Heel In Address   Doughton Makes Strong Appeal House

House Launches Heated Battle On Trade Pacts   Refusal To Renew F. R. Powers Would Aid Axis,  Save Douchton.

ASKS RENEWAL OF FDR POWERS   House Begins Battle or Reciprocal Treaties

FOR A “DRY” RIDER   i Prohibition Leaders Have Plan te Outlaw Liquor for Duration

Prohibitionists Seek to Halt Liquor Sales Near Plants   Evidence Develops That Advocates Will Attempt to Tack Duration “Dry” Rider te Measure Designed . to Curb Absenteeism — Kansas Solon Thinks Chances of Passage Good

ROMMEL NA “ED TO NEW DUTIES   ‘Desert Fox’ Selected To Build Up Defenses Of Europe

Operators in lowa Refuse To Reopen   Must Have Increase in Ceiling Prices, Owners Say

TROOPS PLACED IN FORD PLANT   Platoon Guards Engine Division; Hearings On Riot Charges  Continue

FEDERAL TROOPS BROUGHT INTO FORD FACTORY   ‘Action Taken To Prevent   Disorders Inside Plane  Engine Plant   OFFICIALS PROBING CAUSE OF RIOTING

Brilliant Victory by British Navy in Bay of Biscay Told   Other German Ships in Convoy Crippled by Air, Sea Power   Fight Regan Monday

THREE GERMAN WARSHIPS SUNK BY ROYAL NAVY   Several Other Destroyers Damaged

ALSO CRIPPLE OTHERS IN AN AIR-SEA BLOW   Action Takes Place in Bay of Biscay and May Be Continuing—Considered Plainly a Large-Scale Enterprise.

Blockade Runner AlsoSentToBottom In Bay Of Biscay   Other German Vessels Damaged In Joint Warship, Air Action: London Sees Battle Full-Scale

British Cripple German Fleet by Sinking 3 Ships   Brilliant New Victory Scored in Bay of Biscay; Other Ships Damaged.   Large Scale Action Probably Continuing

Nazi Warships Sunk in Battle   Air, Naval Action Reported By Alites

GERMAN FLEET IS DEALT CRIPPLING BLOW BY BRITISH   3 DESTROYERS SUNK: OTHERS DAMAGED IN GREAT NAVAL BATTLE

Cripple Others With Combined Attack by Sea And Air Forees   Assault off France Apparently Large Scale Enterprise

Severe Jolt To Nazi Navy   British Sea-Air Action Cripples Others in Bay of Biscay

BRITISH NAVY IN BRILLIANT ACTION AGAINST GERMANS   THREE NAZI DESTROYER  SUNK AND OTHERS WERE CRIPPLED

Battle German Sea Forces In Bay Of Biscay   Large Scale Enterprise Undertaken; Complete Story Not Yet Giver Out By Admiralty

Three Nazi Destroyers Sunk By Air, Ship Action   Other Enemy War Vessels Crippled In Battle In Bay OF Biseay

BRITISH NAVY SCORES AGAIN   Three German Destroyers  Sunk in Bay of Biscay

Sink 3 Nazi Destroyers Off France   British Navy Ships And Planes Cripple Others In Bay Of Biscay.

Three German Destroyers Sunk In Bay of Biscay   incomplete Details Indicate Large Scale Naval, Air Enterprise

British Tell Of A Second - Naval Victory   Jown 3 Nazi Destroyers In Bay of Biscay — No Details Given

BRITAIN’S FLEET SCORES TELLING VICTORY AT SEA   RAF Teams With Navy te Blast Nazi Ships in Bay of Biscay

New Blow Struck At Nazi Fleet    German Sea Strength Crippled In Battle In Bay Of Biscay — Blockade Runner Sunk

British Warships and Planes Catch German Warships in Bay of  Biscay, Announced

Other Vesseis Damaged in Biscay Bay   Sea Battle May Be Continuing; Axis “Runner” Sunk

British Navy Sinks 3 German Destroyers in Bay of Biscay Struggle

K 3 GERMAN DESTROYERS IN BAY OF BISCAY   Other Shi ps Crippled In  Brilliant Air-Sea  Battle

Sink 3 Nazi Destroyers  British Naval Forces Score Again During Biscay Bay Battle

Briltiant New Victory in Britain’s Campaign ta Destroy Fleet,   FULL DETAILS NOT TOLD

OTHER VESSELS ARE CRIPPLED   Brilliant New Victory Is Scored In England’s Naval Campaign  oss ce meta Sum Reuse, wane  Sat a: Seamer: ee

British Sink Three Nazi Destroyers   Others Damaged In Brilliant Naval‘Action in Bay of Biscay

BRITISH BLAST NAZI VESSELS INBISCAY BAY   Sea And Air Units Take Part In Major Attack Which Still May Be Raging

British Sink > Destroyers  Ot Nazi Fleet   Southern Waters Off Coast Of France Is Scene Of Navy Battle.   BSCORTING CONVOY

Big Victory ore In. ay of Biscay   Crippling Of Other Vessels Is Reported

SEA VICTOR’ SCORED BY BRITISH   Ortona In Italy Finally Falls To Canadians   Widen Offensive West Of Kiev: Yugoslavs Push Nazis Farther Back

British Busy Clearing Seas For Invasion   Blockade Runner Also Destroyed, Other Ships Hit in Bay of Biscay   :

British Ships And Planes Hit Others  _ Axis Blockade  - Runner Sunk—  Clash May Be

New Victory * Is Scored in ‘Bay of Biscay   Blockade ‘Runzer Also Sent to-Bottom in Big Sea “> Engagement   ¢ SWIFT SEQUEL STO SCHARNHORS?   Action, Possibly Still Under .-Way, Is West of France, alls North of Spain :

‘Destroyers Hit, London. _ Reports, While Trying   to Run Blockade Off  '- Coast of France — 

CONGRESS MEMBER ARDICTED BY JURY   Jas. M. Curley, Donald W. Smith and Four Others Accused

Curley Faces Fraud Count; 5 Others Held   U.S. Jury Indicts Congressman  On Mail Misuse

> rons Re). . our. ev o Tos7on AM. v .1efs “ncic eC “or -.1ge Doncrac: auc.

WAR CONTRACT FRAUDS BARED   Rep. James M. Curley Of Boston Indicted On Racket Charge

Rep. J.M. Curley Others Indicted In Mail Fraud   Former NLRB Member Ainong 5 Others Named In ‘Brokerage Racket?

War Coutracts Racket Exposed ‘By Federal Men  Boston Politician and   Boston Politician and Former Member of NLRB Indicted

Congress May Propose Own Postwar Plar   Not Satisfied With the _ Suggestions Made Up - To Date

eer ee NO Tae, RRMA AES ET ae  SENATE GROUP  MAY DRAFT OWN ‘POST-WAR PLAN   Connally Expresses Dissatisfaction With Plans Already Advanced

Foreign Relations  Members Favoring U. S. Commitment To Preserve Peace

Red Army Hits Past Kharkov.   ‘Steel. Finger Threatens Vital German Bastions ©

Food Output Up Four Per Cent   But Civilians Will Get Less, Says U5. Report

Food Supply Will Show ©  Minor Gain   War Requirements To Decrease Quota for Civilians

U.S. Predicts Lowered Food Yield Per Acre   Per Capita Consuming Due  Tea Fall 3.7 Percent Dob 2 9

ISTETTINIUS SEES  BRITAIN AS BASE   Lease Lend Head: Pictures Isles as Area for Start of War Offensives

Stettinius Sees European Drive From England  Declares Other Offensives Stem From Briftnin

BRITISH ISLES ARE PICTURED AS BASE FOR BIG OFFENSIVE   EDWARD R. STETTINIUS STIRS SPECULATION IN  LEND-LEASE REPORT

Enemy Dealt Heavy Blows By Air And  Sea Forces  Te EN: Ob adel   Large Fires Started In Oil Tanks In Harbor; Enemy Seanlanes Bombed

20 AXIS VESSELS DAMAGED ALONG HARBOR IN SIGILY   Augusta Port Hit by U. S$ Flyers; No Fighting in Tunisia

Yank Bombers Sink 20 Axis Vessels In Sicily Harbor Raid   U. S. Four-Engine Planes Over North German Coastal Area: Berlin, Czecho-slovakia and Ruhr Valley Pounded By British

Fighting Still Goes on in  ~ Streets of Kharkov—Nazis   Counter-attack HeavBias +

Reds Take Karachev, Smashing OnBryansk   Germans Hurled Back Across The Snezhet River As Russians Blast Way Forward:

REDS WITHIN 20MILES OF BRYANSK  Capture Defense ~~. , £   Capture Defense Outpost of Karachev

Soviet Columns Converging Qn Bryansk From Northeast Along Railroad  NAZIS STRIKE BACK  Substantial ‘Reinforcementé  Have Reached Enemy  JT. 9 Acree

GERMANFORCES THROWN BACK ACROSS RIVER   Soviets Pierce Dense Woods In Drive Against Central Front Bastion   NAZI] ATTACKS SMASHED   Enemy Being Chased Out Of Kharkov; Karachev Falls To Red Trooos

RUSSIANS ARE FORGING AHEAD ON EAST FRONT   Germans Are Thrown Back as Soviets Push to Within 20 Miles of Bryansk.

NAZI BASE AT BRYANSK OPEN TO RED ATTACK   Capture Of Karachev Announced, Pall Of Kharkov Is Near

Rassians Capture  Vital Karachev   Reds Now Have Clear Road Into Bryansk

RUSSIAN TROOPS NEARING BRYANSK; KARAGHEV FALLS   German Reinforcements Unable to Check Red Of. fensive; Battle at Khar Lewes Cad oeceven’

Russians Near Bryansk, Axis Army Bastion   Soviet Troops Advance On Nazi Forces From Three Directions

Russians Push Within 20 Miles Of Bryansk Base   ‘Germans Flung Back Across. River On Central Front. -

REDS STORM CLOSER 10 BRYANSK   Bitter Fighting In Progress In Kharkov

 Ru Nereis orc Own.  ca LELDOIGLES VriLi  20 Miles From Brvansk Base

RUSS FORCES DRIVE CLOSE BRYANSK   Karachev. Captured As Russians. Contimue Their Advances

1H REPELS ATTACK BY GERMANS   Wind and Rain Curtail Other Activity on Italian Front

Counter Attacks By Strong Nazi Forces Repulse   Eighth Army In Italy Checks ' Strong Attacks By Nazis Near Atessa   WEATHER HANDICAPS ACTIVITIES AT FRONT

NAZIS ATTACK IN ROME AREA   Assaults Repulsed all Along Line Weather Conditions To Hamper Allies

Flynn Confirmation Expected Wednesday  Five Senators, However, May Change Result

UNITED MINERS AGREE RETURN TO THEIR WORK   Army Occupation Threat Sent to John Lewis

Bar Service Men To Halt War On  Zoot-Suiters   Most Of Those Wearing Freak Suits Are Of Mexican Descent.

NAVY EXTENDS “BOUNDS” AREA ON WEST COAST   Action Taken To Halt Trowble Between Servicemen And Zoot Suiters   OUTBREAKS DWINDLING   Los Angeles Mayor Denies Reports Police Lose Control Of Situation

Ban Ordered In Effort to Forestall Further Disorders Between Service Men and Zoot-Suiters   OUTBREAKS LESSEN   Mayor Denies Local Gov  ernment Authority Has  Broken Down; incidents Become International

Service Men Banned From Los Angeles   Action Affects Various Parts Of City Where Zoot Suit Riots Occurred

Los Angeles Area Is Out-of-Bounds  For Service Men Move Made to’ Halt

Out of Bounds Area Extended   Order Being Restored Between Navy Men and Zoot Suiters

Service Men’s War On Zoot-Suiters Draws  U. S. Attention   State Department And Mexican Embassy Study Situation As Law Enforcement Officers Act To Halt Pacifie Coast Disorders

U.S. Seamen Barred From ‘Zoot’ Areas   Navy Seeks to Head Off More Sailor-Zooter Clashes

Extend Ban In Zoot War   Los Angeles Suburbs Closed to Seamen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen by Navy

Mexican Embassy Enters Protest! Over Situation   Los Angeles Mayor Says Authority Is Not Broken Down In City

U.S, ACE WANTS PACIFIC ACTION   Capt. Foss Anxious to Avenge Tokyo Raiders

American Ace Wants Chance To Pay Short Visit to Tokyo   Capt. Joe Foss, With 26 Jap Planes To Credit, Says Then He Might Have Something to Talk to Scribes About

CONGRESSMAN DIES   Lewis, Colerade Democrat, Sueeumbs Of Heart Ailment

PLAN TO SAVE TONS OF TIN DURING 1943   Cut Use of Toothpaste, Shaving Cream Tubes

Soviet Artillery Shells Petsamo   Russ Only Seven and Half Miles From North Finn Port

Indicate That Russians ‘Have Opened New Drive On Finnish Arctic Front

FALL OF MUSSOLINI’S FASCIST REGIME. LIKELY TO HAVE GREAT IFFFECT ON MORATF ALT. AXIS

Russia Is the Logical Successor to Germany ‘Will Probably Dominate Europe

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   any European Nations Pixels To Adopt Soviet Form Of Government

The War Today Fall Of Mussolini Starts Other Axis Adherents On Fast Downward Path

RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF EUROPE SEEN AS LIKELIHOOD AFTER FALL OF FASCISM AND NAZI REGIMES   With Italian Collapse Accomplished, Early Fall Other Satellite States Seems Certain and After ’ War Russian Domination Indicated

Rome Betrayed Into Nazi Hands, Dispatch Reports   Fascist. Blackshirts Aided Germans to Overcome Fiaolian Police

Rome Could Have Resistec Nazis but Was Betrayed, Reports From Milan Say

FOUR MORE JAP VESSELS BLASTED   Allied Airmen Continue Raids on Enemy Shipping in Pacific Zone.

BOMBERS LEAVE PORTS, PLANES, IN SMOKING RUIN   Few Losses Are Suffered in Sweeping attacks in S.W. Pacific

‘ Monkeys, Bats, Worms, Even Snakes Good To Eat ‘If You’re Marooned—and Fish Juice Eases Thirst

Gasoline Denied State    Ickes Decision Gets Criticism from  Guffey

Ickes Says No Extra Gas ‘For West Penna. Counties; ‘Guffey Criticizes Ruling

Says Area Should Be Treated Same as Others on East Coast.     won Se Oe es eee np Um, S&S 4 6» Be oe   GUFFEY BLAMES ICKES’ ADVISERS

GUFFEY IRKED BY DECISION ON GAS BAN   Maintains Production Figures Warrants Change Requested For This Area   DAVIES IS CRITICIZED

Starting in Next Thursday's Issue  U.S. Army's Pocket Guide to  NEW GUINEA   Wave and Don'ts.

President Castillo Resigns   Started When Castillo Refused To Change Policy

INQUST RIALIOT CITES NEED OF COOPERATION   Girdier Offers Four-Point Program for Peace with Labor.

Girdler Outlines Industria! Peace   Cooperation Is Prime Requisite

OPA TO PERMIT RENEWAL-OF ‘4’ BOOKS BY MAIL   Brown. Announces ‘System To Save Time For Auto - QOwners, Eliminates   Re-Registration   LATER FOR EAST   Drivers In Eastern Part of U. S. Must Make ‘A’ Coupons Last Until ate In July

A Card Renewal By Mail Okayed   July 21 Deadline On All Gas Books

OPA To Permit Motorists To Renew ‘A’ Gas Ration Books By Mail To Save Time

OPA Mail Plan Is Offered Drivers For‘ A’ Gas Books   m Designed in Order to Avoid Another Regis tration Through Public Schools, It Is Announced By Directing Agency  Syste

Coupon Book To Be Mailed   Renewals Of Gasoline Rations To Be Rushed

OPA to Permit Motorists to Renew _ “A” Gasoline Ration Books by Mail

Registration Not Needed For A Books   ‘New Gas Cotports: T)] Be Mailed. °.., “Te Motorists °°

NEW A-BOOKS COME BY MAIL   Gas Coupon Renewals Simplified; Forms Out June 22

Renew ‘A’ Gas Books By Mail  Make Allowance To Save Time And Energy

MANN FIRES FIRST  POLITICAL GUN WITH  ATTACK ON MONOPOL' ATTORNEY GENERAL FEAR MONOPOLY WILL  ArtiecyT WwreecarpD arw

Ickes Calls upon Steel Companies To Participate in Mine Sessions

America Has Fascism, Says Labor Counsel   Movement Under Way To Destroy Democratic Free Trade Unions, Contends Padway

Standing Pat on Police    Dempsey Replies to Protest Against Draft Deferment

RUSSIANS DRIVE STEADILY AHEAD AGAINST NAZIS   ing Poltava On Route ing Polsava On Route To Dnieper River.

Shortage Of Labor Reported   Expected to Be Acute Soon in 102 Areas—To Inspect  Factories, Farms

48-HOUR WEEK PREDICTED FOR CALUMET AREA   McNutt Asks for Voluntary Cooperation From the Nation’s Plants

EXTENSION OE: 18 HOUR WEEK IS INTIMATED   Edict Might Be Made Mandatory: In 102 Other Areas

WEEK MANDATOR' iN OTHER AREAS   Employes In Other Sections Are Being Advised To Extend Week

48-HOUR PLAN MAY BEUSED IN 102 AREAS   Thousands of Questions Deluge Offices of War “Manpower

PAIN ADVISES ALL EMPLOYERS 10 PUT lIN 48-HOUR’ WEEK   May Be'Made Mandatory In 102.More ‘Areas Within Next Six-Month Period

U. §. Lend-Lease Chief Reveals 2.600 Planes Sent to Soviet Union, 3,200 Tanks, 81,000 Trucks, Jeeps

REDS GET 3,200 U.S, ARMY TANKS   2,600 Airplanes and 81,009 Trucks and Jeeps Sent to Aid Soviets

3200 U. S. TANKS SENT TO REDS   Russ Also Get 2,600 Yank Planes, 81,000 Trucks And Army Cars

SIX ARE CONVICTED OF EXTORTION PLOT   Prisoners Called Higher-up in Labor Union

CONVICT SEVEN OF EXTORTION   Phil D’Andrea In Group; Face Possible Ten Year Sentence

Seven Men Convicted   Found Guilty of Attempted Extortion Of $1,000,000

PLEADS GUILTY IN BOY’S DEATH   Youth Admits First Degree Mur.  ger Aroneantinn

MOVE COWES AD GHIY EECOVERD HUN ZNO RAIL   Italy Wiil Have t> Move All Military Installations From the Area.

State Action Follows New Bomb Attack   War Plants Must Be Closed  In City

U. S. FACES BIG. JOB IN PACIFIC      Cleanup of New Guinea Only in Beginning ) Stages

ISLAND WAR ONLY BEGUN NEW GUINEA   Japs Hold Most of Big Island With Strong  Bases.   TOUGH WORK FOR MacARTHUR’S MEN   Australia Calls for More Attention to Allied Front in Pacific.

End Of The Buna Campaign Just Fair Star On The Reduction Of Japanese Points In ~ Varieus Sections 01 New Guinea Island

THE WAR TODAY   ~ DEWITT Machh NZIE  Associated Press War Analyst)   Ry GLENN BABB

Bombers Pound Japs At Rabaul   Two Planes Lost’ In Allied Foray.

Allies Drop © 20 Tons Bombs Upon Rabaul   Concentrations of Jap Shipping and Aircraft Had Been Reported in Harbor

US. Airmen Blast Rabaul   20 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Docks And Three Airdrome:

U.S. Fliers Shake Jap Base With 20 Tons of Bombs  Airmen Blast Rabaul, Where Foe Is Said To Have Large Force

BOMBS RAINED ON NIPPONESE RABAUL BASE   MASSING OF ENEMY CRAFT WATCHED BY ALLIES

20 TONS OF BOMBS DUMPED ON RABAUL   ATTACK DIRECTED AT AIRDROMES “AND DOCKS—TWO ALLIED PLANES LOST. -

Demos Plan Final Fight On Tax Bill   Republicans Claiming Sufficient Strength  To Pass Measure i> Best he... ui.

Rum Plan fo Gel New lest  RC oa TREC Pane   Democratic Leaders To Renew Fight, but G.0.P. Claims Votes

DEMOCRAT LEADERS TO FIGHT RUML PLAN   Third And Final House Battle Scheduled Tomorrow

Ruml Plaa Try Slated Tuesday   Democrats To Make 3rd, Final Try _

DEMOS TO MAKE FINAL BATTLE IN TAX PLAN FIGHT   House Republicans Claim Sufficient Power to Send Senate Version ’ to FDR for Signature.

Modified Rum! Plan Up Tuesday   Democratic Heads To Stage _  Final Battle Against Tax

ITALY AGAIN TURNS ON ALLY AS IN WAR I   About-Face in 1 Declaring War on Germany Recalls Rejection ol Triple Alliance in First War —

ltalians Follow Closely On Part In World War    Role In First’ Conflict Similar To New About-Face

Axis Partner 3 Years Swings To Allies For Battle Against Nazis; Fleet Important

About-Face Duplicates  Other War   Italy Takes Same Course She Did 25 Years Ago

RUSS, GERMANS IN FIERCE BATTLE   Reds Kill 600 Nazis and Destroy Thirteen More Planes.

“BUGS” MORAN IS UNDER ARREST   Former Chicago Booze Racketeer Selzed After Tussle With Coast Guardsman

SOME OF HOUSTON’ CREW HELD BY JAPS   Speculation Over Three - Vanished’ Ships Aroused By Report.

ICKES IS PERMITTING . MORE GAS FOR FARMS   Limitations Imposed Last Decem: ber Are Lifted To Assure Agricultural Use

BIG ENEMY AIR BASE ISOLATED   American Roadblock Is Thrown Around  Bairoko Harbor

Purpose Of Enemy Ships Not Revealed   Road Block Thrown By Land Forces To Cut Off Munda Supply To Rairokoa Harbor

U. S. Bombers Pound Units Of Jap Navy   Road-Block Thrown On Reseiged Base Of Munda; Nips Cut Off From Supplies From North

JAP NAVY UNITS RAID TARGETS BY U.S. BOMBERS   Attacked While Approach) ing New Georgia Island  by Heavy Wellingtons  in Dark   TWO HITS SCORED   Nipponese on Jungle Approaches to Salamaua, New Guinea, Also As saulted From Air

JAPANESE NAVY UNITS BOMBED   Two Direct Hits Scored On Destroyer And Cruiser Force

Yank Planes Bomb Nippon Warships   Jap Munda Supply Line Blocked Off

Units Of Jap Navy Bombec   Direct Hits Scored On Force Of Cruisers And Destroyers Near New Georgia Islands; Ground Fiahting Grows

Japanese Get Pounding Over Pacific   Americans Bomb Units Of Enemy Navy At New Georgia Isle

Hits Scored on Vessels Near  New Georgia   Troups Blockade Enemy. Forces From Supply Source

Japanese Navy Units Appear   Allied Bombers Attack Enemy Fleet Near New Georgia; Blast Munda.

YANKS BOMB FOE WARSHIPS   Contact Enemy Ships in New Georgia Area

Reds Threaten Breakthr ough At Smolensk   * Germans Reeling Back On 700-Mile Front Under Heavy Blows

Soviet Advance A _Grave Threat To Central Front Bastion Of  Smolensk  12,000 NAZIS ~ DIE IN1 DAY

RED ARMIES GAIN ON 700 MILE FRONT   Advances Menace Nazis Bastion Of Smolensk

GERMANS SENT REELING BACK BY RED ARMY   Soviet Advance Is Posing Grave Threat To Smolensic Bastion

GERMANS RAGE. BACKWARD AS RED ~ ARMY AQVANCES   Smolensk Now Threatened. Bryansk Outflanked—Retreat Hear Rout Stage.

SOVIET TROOPS POSE THREAT Te SMOLENSK BASE   100 Russian ‘To wn: and Villages Liberated Every 24 Hours

Seek Vote on International Collaboration   Passage Would Affirm Significant Parts of Moscow Pact

Postwar Bill Supporters Press Vote   Brush Aside Amendments Submitted at Eleventh Hour

Senate Ready te Pass Resolution  Two Weeks’ Debate Drawina to Close

STATE BOARD POSTS FILLED   Members Named for Parole. Labor, Athletic Bodies  By Governor

JAP MLi VEDIRULIIVA In UW TRAP  US. Fleet Cleared Narrow Channel To Blast-Open Air Base

PRESS PROTESTS CONFERENCE BAR   Asks President to Atlow Full Coverage of Food Discussion

Japs Striving To Aid Rabaul Lose 12 Ships   Probable Torpedo Hit Scored On Heavy Cruiser In Simpson Harbor.    AWAIT JAPANESE MOVE

Assault on Japan's Navy Continues in  Bismarck Sea Fight   Probably Dozen Enemy Warships Sunk or Damaged Thus Far

Aerial Blows Continue To Harrass Jan:   Heavy Cruiser Believed Torpedoed; Invasions Of Enemy-Held Isles Progressing Favorably

ENEMY SUFFERS HEAVY LOSS IN RABAUL BATTLE   12 Nipponese Warships. Listed as Bismarck Sea Casualties

ALLIES TAKING HEAVY TOLL OF NIP SHIPPING      Probable Torpedo Hit On Heavy Cruiser Brings to 12 Number Sunk Or Damaged

Allies Smash 12 Jap Warships In Bismark Sea  Nips Claim 78 - Allied  Ships Damaged

JAPAN LOSES 12 MORE VESSELS IN PACIFIC BATTLES   Nipponese Ships Sunk by Allied Airmen in Bis marcrk Seq

Jap Ship Losses Now toa Dozen   Aerial Smashes Are Made Against Nippons Trying to Reinforce Rabaul.

Airdrome At Rabaul Bombed Again. ....  Aerial Blows: Cost Japs  Probably 12 Warships In Bismarck Sea Area

HEAVY ENEMY LOSS   Twelve Japanese Vessels Sunk or Damgaed in  Bismarck Sea .

MacArthur s Fliers Sink 12 Japanese Ships Trying To Bolster Rabaul Forces

Aerial Blasts Take Toll Of Jap Warships   Probably Twelve Sunk or Damaged Thus Far in the Bismark Sea   OTHERS ARE ATTACKED

Aussies Hit Jap Cruiser   Allied Land Forces Make Progress On Bougainville

AIRMEN STRAFE JAP WARSHIPS, SINK BARGES   Score of Enemy Batile Wagons i Bismarck Sea Now Probably 12, Many Other Shivs Sunk

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT 12 SHIPS IN BISMARCK SEA   83 Jap Vessels Put Out of Action in South Pacific in Past Week

JAPS LOSING WARSHIPS IN PARAL PAIR   Allies Report No Vessels Lost In Solomon Drive

Allied Aerial Smashes Against Jap Warships And Cargo Vessels Trying To Reinforce Rabaul Cost Foe Heavy

ALIAL GLOWS HIT JAP SHIPS   Probably 12 Enemy Warships Sunk Or Damaged In Bismarck Sea.   HEAVY CRUISER {S HIT

JAP LOSS SET AT 12 VESSELS   Allied Planes Take Toll of Ships Atempting to Reinforce Rabaul

12 JAP WARSHIPS BELIEVED SUNK OR DAMAGED   Efforts to Reinforce Jap anese Base at Rabaul . Proves Costly to Nips

ALLIES BATTER NIPPON FLEET   12 Ships Sunk En Route to Supply Jap Base At Rabaul

Japs Lose 12 Warships In Bismarck Sea  Allies Push Blows   Allies Push Blows At Nipponese Sea Strenath

AERIAL SMASHES AT JAPANESE WARSHIPS AND CARGO VESSELS  TWELVE MAJOR SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED IN BISMARCK SEA

Japs Attempt To Send Troops   ALLIED AERIAL SMASHES TAKE HEAVY TOLL AT RABAUL

Number Includes Twelve Warships   Disaster Causes Tokyo “Claims” Department To Get Rusv   NO MENTION OF ANY AMERICAN LOSSES

Japs Dealt Hard Blows At Rabaul   12° Warships. Sunk .Or Damaaed By Allies

‘Aussie Fliers Blast at Big ’ Jap Cruises   Most of Jap War Vessels Sunk or Damaged in Rabaul Harhor   KEW IRELAND RAID   Fires Set in Fuel Tanks as Allies Blast at Vanakanau Airdrome

Aerial Blows Take Toll Of Maior Jan Shins   Vessels Striving To Assist Rabaul Base Under Heavy Fire

12 Vessels Sunk Or Damaged; Ten Bombers Attempt Retaliation Blow

Allied Planes Blast Jap Ships   Score Probable Torpedo Hit on Heavy Cruiser

BLOWS AT JAPS CONTINUED BY ALLIED PLANES   Probable Torpedo Hit Scored On Nip Cruiser

TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY FLEET   AERIAL BOMBS SINK TWO JAP CRUISERS: DAMAGE TEN OTHERS

Probable 12 Vessels Are Knocked Out of Big Jap_ Convoy on Way to Rabaul

Allied Planes Bag Dozen Jap Ships In Bismarck Sea   Make Good Progress In Operations Upon Ground

Japs Attempt To Reinforce Ke y Base At Rabaul   Attempt Costs Enemy 12 Warships; Probable Torpedo Hit Scored on Heavy Jap Cruiser.

Jap Ship Losses Climbing   Desperate Attempt To Bolster Rahaut Costs Enemy Denr

JPANESE NAVAL LOSSES MOUINTIN   Attempts To Reinforce Rabaul Base Have Cost Japs Heavily   U. S. FLIERS BUSY   Eighty-Three Enemy Ships Sunk Or Dam. aged In A Week

SGT, NYSTROM WOUNDED, HIS PARENTS TOLD   Injuries Slight on Italian Front According to Message From U. 8S. War Dept.

Allied Losses High; © ~—Three Towns Suffer   Anti-- Aircraft Fire- Intense; Linosa Third Halian fland To Surrender In 3 Davs

FACTORIES IN GERMANY SET ON HIRE   American Heavyweights Make Targets For Destructive Daylight Raids Of Kiel  And Bremen   Allies Lose 26 Ships

Sky Fleets Blast German Cities,  Sicilian Airfields   U. S. Bombers, R A F Batter Bremen, Kiel, Rubr Valley; 50 Big Ships Lost in Atiacks

Many liners In Penn. Still Not Working   Justice Dept. is Analyzing New Stringent Measure

GOAL STOPPAGE “MAY BE TEST OF NEW STRIKE LAW   ‘Continued Revolt of Many Miners May Furnish First Case

Anti-Strike Act May Get Test In Mine Revolt  Many Stull Out In Walkout Called By Lewis

ANTI-STRIKE LAW MAY GET TEST IN PRESENT CRISIS   Corttinuing Revolt Among Some United Mine Workers May Cause Test

COLD FOLLOWS RAIN:   ‘Temperatures. Will Be Lower This Evening Over Entire State

WWLEAT HOME “ON FURLOUCE      John N. Hansen, Native ot Maynard Was Reformatory Officer

Landing Is Made Under Gen. Clark   Italian Units Reported Fighting Alongside Allies; Germans Claim Central, Northern Italy Under Their Control; New Invasions Rumored

Report New U.S. Landing   Allies Move Up Tyrrhenian Sea Coast with Italian Vanguard; Rumors Say Allies Land at Ostia, Port of Rome, and at Other Important Basas

NAZI OPPOSITION MET BY NEW FORCE OF INVASION TROOPS  ITALIAN SOLDIERS REPORTED FIGHTING ALONG SIDE OF ALLIES  b

U.S. TROOPS BATTLING GERMANS   Italian Soldiers Reportec Fighting Alongside Allied Troons

Italians Reported Aiding Allies In Northward Sweep   Eye-Witness Accounts Say Milan, Turin and Other Vital Industrial Centers Are Being Withheld From Nazis   BERLIN BROADCASTS REFLECT STATE OF NERVES

Americans Join In Sweep Northward   More Landings On Italian Soil Reported; Dispatch From Stockholm Says High Tension Prevails in Berlin.

Italian Soldiers Aiding Allies in Mighty Sweep Northward Along Tyrrhenian Ocean Front

Italians Join Allies ‘To Battle Nazi Force:   Allied Landing at Port of Rome Rumored, British Fleet Reported off Genoa, Ital. ians Held Vital Northern Cities

Germans-ltalians Battle. Report   Italians Occupy Brenner Pass, Berlin Radio Says — Italians in Control of Vital Northern Industrial Centers — Operations Satisfactory, Eisenhower Says

Italians Reported Alongside Allies In Sweep Toward Hitler’s Europe

Italians, Germans Clash in Fight for Control of Rich Northern Industrial Area

Italian Soldiers  Reported Fighting Alongside Allies   Claim Landings Made At Naples, Genoa, Leghorn, Other Points; Rome’s Army Holds Vital Cities

Gen. Mark W. Clark ls Leading Fresh Army Northward —   Italians Are Fighting Hitler’s Forces for Strategic Positions

Heavy Fighting Under Way AsNazi Occupation Troops Engage AlliedLanding Force   Italian Troops Reported Fighting Alongside Allied Forces; Airdromes Guarded to Prevent Seizure by Nazis

Ktalians Occupy Brenner Pais, Berlin Radio Says — Halians in Control of Vital Noethern Industrial Centers — Operations Satisfactory, Eisenhower Says

BITTER BATTLE WITH GERMANS AFTER LANDING   Nazis Claim to Have Control of Northern Italy But Allies Are Moving Up Coast   ITALIANS FIGHTING GERMANS   Fate of Italian Fleet Is in Doubt But Italians Claim to Have Control of Brenner Pass

Pre-Dawn Landings Made. By Ameri Forces In Naples Area Today: As Ger mans Put Up Fight To Retain: Hold On ‘Italy —- Allies Advance Northward

British Subs  Hit 8 Enemy Supply Ships  Six of Axis Craft Sunt  in Undersea Attacks in Mediterianean  SUB SHELLS TRAID  Allied Submersible Sur faces and Raids Sicily Rajlynad Statian

British Submarines       Six Supply Ships Destroyed, One Damaged ‘and Another Probably Destroyed in British Foray in Mediterranean

BRITISH SUBS SINK 6 AXIS VESSELS   Sub Shells Rail Station In Sicily, Many Hits Scored

BRITISH SUBS SINK OR DAMAGE 8 SHIPS   One Submarine Surfaces OFF Sicily Coast And Shells Railroad

CHRISTIE BECOMES ANGRY AS WITNESS      Closest Friend Of Sir Harry Oakes Testifies At Count’, Trial

Four units oppose allied columns; Yanks gain thru Maknassy, Gafsa sectors

Yanks Capture Mountain Chain, Hurl Back Nazis   British Are Stalled As Mareth Line Battle Dwindles; Allies Step Up Air Attack On Troops. Supply Port

Nazi Tankmen Reel  Back Under Heavy Blows by U.S. Army   AMERICANS MOP UP AROUND MAKNASSY; BATTLE OF MARETH LINE DWINDLES TO ARTILLERY DUEL AFTER FOUR-DAY CLASH

AMERICANS — GAIN EAST OF MAKNASSY   Rommel Forced Te Divide Tanks Inte 4 Groups -

BOLIVIA PLANS NO AXIS TURN, REBELS CLAIM   Will Make Good Pacts With United Nations,  Government Says

NATIONALISTS ENTRENCHED IN BOLIVIA   Troops Stationed At Tin Ore Mines Used in Manufacturing Arms for Allies   COMMITMENTS STAND

Bolivian Junta  Puts Troops At Tin Mines   Leader Of Revolt, Declares Atlantic Charter To Be 12 cosa act   REPORT BLOODY COUP

BOLIVIA'S WAR-VITAL TIN MINES UNDER GUARD BY NEW REGIME   Rumors of Counter-revolution Discounted as Nationalist Junta Which Ousted Pro-Allied Government Tightens Military Grip and Pledges To Meet Contracts With U. S.

New Bolivian Chief Seizes  Ali Tin Mines   Paz‘ Estenssoro Declares Regime Firmly Set and Denies Counter-Revolt

New Bolivian Governmentls Firmly Seated   Troops Placed Around Mines but New Leaders Pledge to Continue Tin Supply

New Rule Established  In Bolivia   Nation’s Obligations Te Be Maintained, Say: Leader Of Coup Which Overthrew Penaranda

NEW REGIME IN BOLIVIA BEING CONSOLIDATE!   Troops Guard Tin Ore  Mines; Counter-Revolution Rumors Discounted ; Voice U. S. Friendliness

TROOPS PLACED IN CONTROL OF TIN ORE MINES   Bolivian Junta Consolidates Positions

GUARDS PUT OVER MINES W BOLIVIA   Revolution Gr oups _ Agree To Stick By Charter

TROOPS GUARD BOLIVIA MINt AFTER REVOLT   New Rulers Of Country Offer Assurances Of Cooperation With Allies

Amy Guards Mines As Revol! Sweeps Bolivia  Junta Consolidates Gains, Discounts

Troops Guard Bolivian Tin Mines ‘As Nationalist Junta Takes Over

TROOPS GUARD BOLIVIAN TIN MINES TODAY   New Regime Will Live Up To Old Pledge

Army Guards Mine: In Bolivia as New Regime Starts  Officials Reiterate Friendly Status Toward U. S., Allies

Bolivian Junta -Discounts- Claim Of Counter Coup   Mines Producing Tin Ore Used For Allied Arme Guarded By Seldiers

Firm Hold On Bolivia   Deny Counter-Revolt Brewing; Take Over Control ot Tin Mines

Bolivia Will Continue Ties With Allies   Trouble Apparently Over Control of Tin Ore Mines

Bolivian Tin Mines  Guarded by Troops   New Regime Says Nation Firmly Held   Counter-Revolution Ru. mors Discounted: Won’ Swing to Axis

REPORTS INDICATE  BOLIVIAN REGIME T0  FULFILL PROMISES TROOPS, HOWEVER,  PLACED ON GUARD AT VITAL TIN ORE MINES

Troops in Control in Bolivia as New Regime Takes Over   Nationalist Junta Announces No Change in Its Relations

No Change In Bolivia’s Foreign Policy Expected As Nationalist Troops Guard Against Uprisings

Troops Guard Bolivia Mines   Nationalist Junta Firmly Entrenched, Heads Declare

* BLACKOUT ~ DUETHIS MONTE   New Signals Success, Declares State Defense Council

BLACKOUT TEST BEING PLANNED   Will Take Place Before End Of Month—Will Give New Air Raid Warning System Trial At Night

RUSSIAN WAR REPORTS IRV: SAYS AP MAN   Henry C. Cassidy Asserts News From Moscow Is As Accurate As War Times T>.cimae®   Checked On Figures

DROUTH IS BROKEN   Generous Rains in Western Kansas, Showers Extend East

TO REVAMP MAW SET-UP   Bill To Change Finance Commission At Top Of Calendar

MAW'S PLAN DELAYED BY UTAH SOLONS   Finance Bill to Increase Commission, Set Up Uniform Salary

DEFENSE ZONE CHIEF SCORES NIPPON RETURK   ‘A Jap's a Jap,’ He Says In Opposing Coast Movement

NIPS OPPOSEL BY DE WITT   General Tells Of Efforts to Bring Japs Back to Coast

WAR COSTS WILL REAGH NEW Hlbh   Expenditures Expected by Treasury Department to Reach $265,000,000 Daily During Fiscal Year

Mounting War Spending Seen   265 Million Per Day Planned by U. S.

‘DOLLARS DAILY FOR. ‘WAR PURPOSES   Six  Billion. For War: in 1941: Hing 7 Been ‘Increased ‘For: 7 ‘ ‘Billion For 1943; 5. -

Expenditures On War Program Hit 104 Billion   Amount Expected To Reach $265,000,000 Daily for Fiscal Year

WAR COSTS REACH 260 MILLION A DAY   TREASURY ESTIMATES OUTLAY FOR CURRENT FISCAL YEAR AT 97 BILLION.

DAILY SPENDING IS 265 MILLION   War Costs For Current Fiscal Year About 97 Billion

Daily Output For War Nears  $265, 000,000  Four- Year: Spending Total To Exceed

Daily War Cost To United States Is $265,000,000   $90,000,000  Former Figure

WAR SPENDING 10 HIT HIGH FIGURE      Costs for Year to Average About $265,000,000 Doilv

U.S. fo Speed Up War Spending  Daily Outlay to ©  Be $265,000,000

HOUSE OPENED WAY FOR VOTE TUESDAY ANTL-POLL TAX PLAN   _ ANNUAL BATTLE ON RIGH} OF STATES TO CONTROL VOTERS STARTED

Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Vote Due Tuesday  Fox Charges That Measure Is Bid

ANTI POLL TAX VOTE TOMORROW   House Opens Way For Ballot By Discharging Rules Committee From Further Consideration.

HOUSE SCHEDULES VOTE ON POLL TAX   Controversial Bill Taken From Committee Hands

Bitter Protests Of Southerners Fail To Block Effort To Relieve Committee

TARGETS OF NEWEST ATTACK UNIDENTIFIED   Halfway Mark in Plan to Erase Nazi Canital Ie Reached

HALF OF BERLIN IN RUINS AFTER 800-PLANE RAIL   U. S. Bombers In Day Assault

AIR ATTACK ON NAZILAND IS RESUMED   2,240 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped On Berlin

Americans Bomb Germany After RAF Hits Berlin   Raid On Nazi Capital Second Heaviest of  War; Drop 2,240 Tons

Capital Reported Half Destroyed   More Than 2000 Tons of Blockbusters Fall Through Heavy Clouds: American Fliers Follow

Food “Czar” Plan is OK’d by the House   DESPITE OPPOSITION BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; BILL WOULD TAKE ALL RATIONING AND PRICING FROM OPA.

FOOD GZAR BILL GIVEN APPROVAL   Roosevelt Disregarded Situation Critical, House Is Told

WarlimeFood Car Looms   Committee Action Is Opvosed By President

Food Czar Bill Wins Approval  House Agriculture Group Favors Step

Food ‘Czar’ Plan OK"dby House Unit   Committee Disregards Roosevelt's Wishes: Bill Designed to  Deal With Emergency

FDR Rebutfed In Approval Of U.S. Food Czar   House Group Asks Creation Of New  All-Powerful Post By FRANCIS M. LEMAY

FDR Rebuffed In Approval Of U.S. Food Czar   House Group Asks Creation Of New All-Powerful Post

FOOD CZAR IS APPROVED BY HOUSEGROUP   Legislation Designed to Deal With Emergency, Chairman Sav<

APPROVE MEASURE FOR FOOD “CZAR”   HOUSE COMMITTEE REBUFFS ROOSEVELT — SITUATION ‘DECLARED CRITICAL.

Today’s War Commentary  Fall Of Mateur  Paves Way For Tunisian Vieto:

Tokyo Suggests Allied Capture Of Finschafen:.   Australians Assaulting Stronghold, In South Pacific

JAPS JUMP GUN ON FINSCHHAFEN   Tokvo Suggests Base Falls, But Allies Report Attack on Main Defenses.

TOKYO REPORT TIPS FALL OF FINSCHHAFEN   Allies Say Base’s Main Defenses Being Assaulted

Finschhafen Expected to FallAny Time   Tokyo Reports Base Has Fallen To Allied Troops

GAS RATION CUT ORDERED, REPORT   ICKES SAID TO HAVE CALLED FOR 2% PCT. SLASH IN MIDWEST SUNDAY.

5,000,000 Workers To Push Campaign  National Bond Sale rit Fr oo. re fe 7

Drastic Action Needed   Volunteer Bond Sales Army To Visit Millions In Drive   Children Help. Too

Urge Farmers to Buy War Bonds This Next Week   $402,675.00 Bought in the County; Still a Long Wavy ta Go

OW! OFFIGE MAY SUSPEND JULY   Republicans Say Davis Help: Roosevelt In Possible Fourth Term.

ACTIVITIES OF OWI CURBED ON HOME FRONT AS FUNDS ARE SLASHED BY CONGRESS

Vote to End OWI Home News  Funds for Domestic Bureau Wiped Out Rw House

OWI Dealt Hard Blow By House   Votes. Against Funds For-Domestic Bureau:

HOUSE REFUSES FUNDS FOR OWI HOME BUREAL   ‘America Wants No Goebbels o Virginia Gayda in Washington, Starnes Says in Debate

OW! DOMESTIC BUREAU KILLED   House Erases Agency From War Appropriations Bill

“FUND IS CUT   Abolishment of Domestic Operations of OWI Approved by House

Davis’ Home Front Bureau  Faces Death   House Votes To Discontinue Propaganda Here

House Votes To Eliminate OWI Domestic Activities   ‘America Needs No Goeb. bels,’’ Alabaman Declares In Attack On Elmer Davis And Home Front Operations

Domestic Bureau Of OW! Faces Death Unless Senate Gives It An Extended Life

FOREIGN PROPAGANDA SETUP. NOT IMPAIRED   Davis Called American Labor: ite; Starnes Says: OWi Has  @nrialiet Tings :

KING REFUSES TO  SURRENDER BENITO   Goering In Rome To Probe Deposition

ITALIANS 10 KEEP MUSSOLINI IN ITALY   Reject Nazi Request To Send i} Duce To Berlin

SUPER RAIDS ON NAZIS PLANNED   Giant 1,000 - Plane Raids Will Come, Says British  Air Commodore, “When We Get The Planes.”

House Tables ~ Senate School Bill   Votes To Continue Study Of School Laws

SCHOOL BILL IS KILLED BY IOWA SOLONS   Revision measure reject ed as assembly speeds toward adjournment

Germans Pouring Large Forces into Salerno Struggle   British Eighth Army Pushing North ward To Join Allies Outside Naples

HINT OF PRESSURE ON ITALY, FINLAND   Agreement on Views Is Reported From Rome; Finns to Fight On

Sicily Center  Of Bomb Raids By Allied Fliers   Next On Schedule For Invasion After Pantelleria And Lampedusa Fall   DAYLIGHT RAIDS ON SICILIAN POINTS

SMASH TWO IMPORTANT AIRDROMES   Tiny Island of Linosa Frightened Into Surrendering

LINOSA, THIRD ITALIAN ISLAND GIVES UP FIGHT      Planes Smashed on Ground, Acres of Flames After New Air Blows

AMERICAN AND BRITISH  PLANES ARE ON “ROUNDTHE-CLOCK" BOMBING BASIS

10,709,581 IN ARMED FORCES FIRST OF YEAR   Congress Given Army Navy Program  FATHERS NEEDED  Wheeler Insists on Showdown

HUNG RERORTED FLEEING CITY: CITIZENS SHOT   Seek to Retard American and British Forces By Dynamiting Highways and Buildings   LIBERATORS BLAST PORTS IN CORSICA   ‘Allies Advance Northward  From Salerno, Capture Towns In Drive For Port of Naples

Germans Looting City and Destroy It Either for Defense or Flight   ISLANDS BEING MOPPED UP   Bombers Spread Devastation On Nazi Concentrations To Soften Opposition

Demolitions - Scar Ancient Italian City   First Phase of Italian Campaign Now Is Past, Declares Military

Huge Fires And Demolitions Scar Great Metropolis   Fifth Army Drives East From Salerno

Great Italian Port Pillaged; Thousands Die   Horror Grips City As Fifth, Eighth Armies Sweep Forward

NAZIS ATTEMPT TO SLOW ALLIED DRIVE NEAR CIT}   Defensive Ring Formed As Enemy Begins Destruction of Metropolis

Huge Fires Scar City As Germans Set Up Defenses   Fifth Army Expands Bridgehead Inland For 20 Miles; More Than Half Corsica Falls To French; Nazis In Bad Position

Americans and British Steadily Batile Way North and East from Salerno   TOWNS CAPTURED   Troops Meet Fierce. Resistance is Mountains, Elsewhere Fight Only Light Actions

Fifth Army Takes Three Towns As British Drive  Engulfs Highway Center

HUGE FIRES AND DEMOLITIONS IN NAPLES SECTOR   Germans Establishing Strong Defense Lines On Approaches To Naples: Nazi Garrison On Corsica Pursued.

“ifth Army Edging Closer East And Northeast As Germans Looting The City

NAZIS PUT UP DEFENSE RING   Great Metropolis Described As Overhung With Smoke  STM APRPAAY ARVANIC EC

Report Bay City Scarred By Fire And Demolitions   Fall Of Campagna Takes Americans 20 Miles Inland From Salerno

NEW DEFENSES THROWN UP TO SLOW INVADERS   5th and 8th Armies Continue Their Advances

'Demolitions Scar Ancient > Italian City   First Phase of ItalianCampaign Now Is Past, Declares Military  dank

ITALIAN PORT   Germans Form Strong Line On Approaches To City . From South, East

British Warships Bombard Naval Yard In Gulf Of Naples—Guardia Captured  125,000 PRISONERS  AUC PDEOCA COIr7tn

ITALIAN NAVAL YARD BOMBARDED   Allied Ground Forces Advance Up Sicily Coast

GROUND FORCES ADVANCE ALONG SICILY COAST   Prisoner Take Now 125,000

NAVAL BASE [9 BOMBARDED IN NAPLES GULF   British Eighth Army Captures Guardia, Bag Of Prisoners On Sicily Increased To 125,000, Anpounced Today   (AMERICANS ARE  NEARING RANDAZZO

BRITISH FLEET IN BOLD ATTACK ON ITALY’S GOAS)   Steams Third of the Way Up West Side, Bombards _ Naval Base. 

GULF OF NAPLES BOMBARDED BY BRITISH SHIPS   Allied Ground Forces Are Within Sight of Italian Mainland

BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMB NAVAL YARD ON ITALAN COAST   Ground Forces In Sicily Move to Locations to Within Sight of Italy, 125,000 Prisoners Held.   “B/YMBERS FLY DEEP INTO GERMAN AREA   Nurnberg, Major Armament Center of Reich, Blasted With 1500 Tons of High Explosives.

‘Allied Loops Within Sight Of Mainland   Number of Prisoners Increased Ty 195.000

Toe of Boot In Sight of British Arm   Ships Bombard Navy Yard on Italy's West Coast

BRITISH NAVY BOMBARDS NAVY YARD   Americans, British Prepare to Storm Randazzo Pass

Vessels Steam Up Italian West Coast To © Plaster Important Base; 125,000 Axis Prisoners Now In Allied Hands, Announced

WHILE ALLIES POUND FORWARD ACROSS SICILY   British Fleet Steams Third of Way Up West Coast to Bombard Navy Yard in Gulf

ALLIED SHIPS SHELL COAST NEAR NAPLES   Bag Of Axis Prisoners Increased To 125,000 Total

NAVY YARD IN NAPLES GULF IS BOMBARDED   Ground Forces In Sicily Are Pounding Along to Within Sight of Goal.

SAVES 4 FROM BLAZING FLAT   Man On Flying Trapeze Had Nothing On Meat Packing Worker.

Four Rescued : From Burning   Packing. Plant. Employee Is Jersey. City. ‘Hero -Of Large Fire ~

Four Saved From Burning Building by Trapeze Act   ‘Muscular 53-Year-Old Meat Packer Reaches Across Four-Foot Alleyway From Third-Story House to  Haul Two Men, Woman and Baby to Safety;  Leg Held By Daughter During Rescue

Rossosh Falls; Stalingrad Foe Heavily Beater   Drive to ‘Annihilate’ Volga Garrison Begins, 25,000 Killed, 600 Transport Planes Destraved

GERMAN LINES ARE RIPPED IN 37-MILE PUSH   Triple-Pronged Offensive Recovers 600 Populated Towns   ROSSOSH TAKEN   Nazis Trapped In Stalingrad Face Annihi lation

16 CHUTISTS ARE EXECUTED   North African Officials Have Captured: 4 Groups; Wore. Civilian Clothes

17 Axis Spies Are Executed  Parachutists Were Garbed As Civilians

Official Report On North Africa Parley Revealed   United States, British Chiefs-Of-Staff At  Conference

Historic Meeting Of President Roosevelt And Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Allied Bombers  Head For France   Weather Still Keeps  Heavy Bombers Down

DAY FORCE ROARS OVER CHANNEL IN SORTIE TO GAL AI   Huge New Contingent of Am  erican Airmen Arrives in England:

Htalian Destroyer Flees As Axis Merchant Ship Is Sunk  Troeps And Hundreds Of Workmen Aboard Craft Sent To Rottom Of Medjlerraneen

INFANT SWALLOWS PIN ABOARD AIRLINER   Plane Leaves Course To Reach Famous Bronchoscopist

‘Allied Shipping Loss In January Shows Gain Over 'Like December Period

DRASTIC SCALE OF RATIONING. VALUES ~ ANNOUNCED BY OPA   Consumption to be Limited to Less Thon Half of Nor si, ‘mal—Eoch Person Will be Allowed 48 Ratinn- Paina 

“Cost” Tabulation Reveals Processed Food Buying Will Drop Less Than Half

Consumption Is Limited to Half of Normal   Each Individual Could Buy 3 Cans Peas in Month

Consumption Is Limited to Hali of Normal  Foch Indiwinivert   Each Individual Could Buy 3 Cans Peas in Month

48 Points Per Month Gives Equivalent of 3 Cans of Peas; Food Supplies Cut in Half

First 48 points to cover March; ‘fighters will have  what they need’--Brown

Can Opener Tc Get More Rest   Less"Than Half As Much Tinned Food To. Be: Available Under U.S. Rationing Plan

Food Rationing Values Released by Government Men and Made Public Monday of This Week--- Point System.   POINTS CUT CONSUMPTION TO ONE-HALF   Raisins and Prunes ‘Most Expensive in Point System   FIRST AID CLASS — AT LIVERMORE  COMPLETES EXAMS

Point Values Set By OPA Limit Buyers Sharply   Book Two Ratings Admittedly a Blow to Homes Relying on Processed Eatables; Prentiss Brown Says U. §. Must Skimp to Supply Nation’s Allies

OPA RELEASES — RATION VALUES IN POINT PLAN   Consumption Cut To Less Than Half Of Normal Distribution   48 POINTS ALLOTTED  A PERSON, PER MONTH

DRASTIC SCALE OF RATIONING VALUES ANNOUNCED BY OPA   Consumption to be Limited to Less Than Half of Normal—Each Person Will be Allowed 48 Ration Points

48 Points for March Will Buy Two Cans Of Sliced Pineapple Or Three Cans of Peas  DRIED BEANS, PEAS, LENTILS INCLUDED  High Scale Designed To Cut Consumption Under Half of Normal

Stop Black Market’ Poultrymen Tol  Are Asked To Sell Eggs Through Auctions

Carrier Sinks Jap Destroyer   Two Large Cargo Vessels Sunk Off New Ireland

Warplanes Sink Three Jap Ships   Carrier Attack Made Off New Ireland

Boys Overseas Not Forgotten   New York Postmaster Reports 13,000,000 Packages Waiting.

SCHOOL START TO DENT 1088   Record Number of Berrien   Youths Employed  This Summer

~ GETS SETBACK   WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION AND NAVY OPPOSES PAs."  : 4 SAGE OF ARMY TRAIN. ey ING BILL NOW ©

LeMars Public Schools Will Start. Another Year's Work August 30   ‘Details Of Plans ‘For Opening Week Are Announced

TEXT BOOKS WILL GO OM SALE MON   Registrations, .Transfers—  Must Be Attended To.

Tokyo Broadcasis Admit Damage to Grounded Planes but Negligible ip Facilities   Another Broadcast Puts Total Planes at 160, Say Two Aircrali Carriers Involved

JAPS TELL ABOUT ATTACK ON MARCUS   About 150 American  Planes Blasted Teland

JAPS CLAIM 47 ALLIED PLANES SHOT DOWN   In Battle Over Russell Islands in Solomons  Last Thursday

160 U. S. Planes In Raid, Japs Say   Claim 12 Planes Are Shot Down in Attack; Admit Damaane

Daring U. S. Raid Against Island In Japan's Home Waters May Have Been Either Knockout Blow, Feint

MARCUS ISLAND STAB PRESAGES NEW ACTIVITY   Raids On Maintand Or Nearby Nipponese Naval Bases Seen Possibilities   IDARE GIVEN TO FLEET,   Enemy Defenses Are Reported Collapsing As Yanks Press On Salamaua

TWO U. S, CARRIERS PARTICIPATED IN MARCUS ISLE RAID  JAPANESE RADIO SAYS

LOSSES ARE DIFFERENT   Results of Battle in Pacific Are iven by Japs and , &.

TWO U. S. CARRIERS PARTICIPATED IN MARCUS ISLE RAID  JAPANESE RADIO SAYS 12 PLANES SHOT DOWN ADMITS DAMAGE

LOSSES ARE ‘DIFFERENT   Results: of Battle. in Pacific Are Given by Japs and U.S, 

FRENCH WARSHIP HIT BY 26-MILE SALVO BY U. S. BATTLESHIP   Jean Bart Destroyed a ’ Casablanca by Accurate Radio-controled Fire

North America  Moving From Europe  Scientists Find Continent Shifts

YANKEE FIFTH, BRITISH EIGHTH BLAST GERMANS   Huns Driven North Along Roads Leading From Naples To Rome   PLANES BLAST EUROPE   Further Success Reported From Both Russian And Pacific Fronts

BRITISH STAGE NEW LANDING: GAIN 17 MILES   Fifth Army Crosses Colore River and Takes Benevento

lreasury Asks Increasein Income Tax  Morgenthau Calls  Bae Danannt ME

Morgenthau Asks 103 Billions More in Taxes   Treasury Head Proposes Taking $6,500,000,000 of Total in Additional Taxes on  Individual Incamec   ASKS REPEAL OF VICTORY TAX   Lowered Exemptions for Married Persons and Dependents Proposed with Increas-' es in Corporate, Excise Taxes 

Wartime Tax Plan Is Given fo Congress   Former Asking Is Reduced by Billion and Half Dollars

Plan Presented By Morgenthau To Include Repealing Of Victory Tax

Victory Tax Repeal Is In The Program   Big Increases For Corporations And Excise Taxes

Morganthau Asks ~ For More Taxes   HEAVIER BURDENS FACE AMERICANS NEXT YEAR

Congress Asked For More Taxes   Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau Seeks Additional $10,500,000 a Year in Wartime Levies, Taking $6,500,000 Frorh Individual Incomes.   VICTORY TAX IS OUT

utlines  rine ax Plan   ould Repeal Victory ax, But Would st Income Taxes

Another Big Hunk Out Of The Income.....  Morgenthau Is Asking For 10.5 Billion More In Annual Tax Rake-In

Morgenthau Ask: For Additiona! $10,500,000, 000   $6,500,000,000 of This Sum to Come From the Individual Incomes

Treasury’s Tax Plan To Congress   Asks $6,500,000,000 From Individual Incomes and Sharply Increased. Excise Taxes

FAVORS HIGHER TAX ON INCOME OF INDIVIDUALS   Would Raise Rates on Excise, Corporations, Estate, Gift Sources

10.5 BILLION IN NEW U. S. TAXES SOUGHT   Morgenthau Request oi Congress Contemplates Taking $6,500,000,000 of That Sum From Indiv ual Incomes.

10 Billion Tax Hike Is Asked   Treasury Submits Four Point Revenue Program

Congress Gets New Tax Bill 10 Billions   Six Billions to Come from Individual Incomes; Measure Provides for Repeal of Victory Tax ,

He Recommends Taking $6,500,000,000 Of This Huge Sum From Individual. Incomes; Corporation Hikes Urged

Would Hike Individual Income Levy   Higher Corporation And Luxury Rates Provided; Repeal Of Victory Tax Also In Program.

BillionsIn_ Higher Taxes Requested  By Treasury   Morgenthau Urges Victory Levy Repeal Put Greater Income Rate. Lower Exemption

$10,500,000,000 More Asked Yearly By Morgenthau In Wartime Tax Plan

$103 Billion More Taxes  Are Asked   Repeal of Victory Tax Is Included in Treasury Program

BIG INCREASES IN ALL LEVIES ARE SUGGESTED   Individual Incomes to Bear Biggest Burden Under Plan

Treasury Asks 10.5 Billions in New Taxes; 6.5  Out of Income   2.3.5 Billion Refund Pro- Vided in Plan Charted By Morgenthau

-$10,600,000,000 In Added Taxes Is Morgenthau Plan To Curb Inflation and Win War

TAX INCREASES AND REVISIONS ARE PROPOSED   Pay.go Plan Would Be Kept But Rates Raised and * Returns Simplified

TAX INGHEASES ARE OUTLINGH BY TREASURY   Elimination Of Victory Tax, Increased Income Levies Among Proposals

10% Billion Tax Increase s Proposed   Morgenthau Asks Repeal Of Victory ‘Levy To Relieve 7,000,000 Families   STIFF LUXURY BOOST   Raised Rates, Lowered Exemptions Would Hit Individual [Incomes

He Would Repeal The Victory Tax   Hopes To Boost Annual — Federal Income To a 50 Billion   MANY OTHERS TO PAY INCOME TAX

Victory Levy To Be Repealed In Latest Plan   Mongenthau Tells Of Revenue Needs In Plea to Conaress

Asks Solons for 10 Billion  More in Taxes   Over Six-Tenths of Increase Would Come from Individuals, Plan Provides

ASKS CONGRESS TO REPEAL VICTORY TAX   Lower Exemptions Proposed; Says U.S. Needs 10 Billion Additional

VICTORY TAX REPEAL   $6,500,000,000 In New Taxes Would Come from Individual Incomes

Treasury Asks Ten Billions More Yearly   Stiff Increases Seen In Income and Luxury Levies Under Plan

Congress Asked For 102 Billion  More In Taxes   Would Repeal Victory Tax, Lower Present Exemptions. “

TREASURY REQUESTS ADDITIONAL TAXES OF $10,500,000,000  REPEAL OF VICTORY TA) INCLUDED IN ADMIN. ISTRATION PROGRAM

Individual Incomes Face Higher Rates   Congress. Gets Treasury Program Corporation. Excise Taxes Boost

Stiff Increases On All Luxuries Are Recommended Deeper Cut Into Incomes And Corporations Suggested By Morgenthau

‘HOUSE GROUP: “GES “TAXES” ‘TODAY.   Stiff ‘Increases. Are -Ex pected .in Income, Luxuries Levies’

Revised [ax Asked For By Morgenthau  Would Raise Rates,   Would Raise Rates, Lower Exemptions, Raise Luxury Rates

HIGHER INCOME LEVY, VICTORY REPEAL URGED   Boosts In Estate, Excise And Corporation Assessments Proposed

10 BILLION DOLLARS 15 REQUESTED   Morgenthau Proposes Repeal Of Five Per Cent Victory Levy —

Stiff Increases Proposed In Income, Luxury Levies   Sharp Rise In Tax Rates Asked By Morgenthau In Offering Program To Congress —$10,500,000,000 Requested

INDIVIDUALS T0      fapid Repeal Victory Tax Relieve Hard Pressed amilies From Tax = On Incomes”                      ORPORATION AND SEXCISE TAX ASKEI   isis Social Security Be ‘Boubled: Would Lower rried Men and Dendent Exemptions

Ask $101 Billion Additional Taxes For War Budget   Morgenthau Urges Victory Tax Repeal And Lower Exemptions On Income

CONGRESS ASKED TO RAISE RATES OF U. $. TAXES   Morgenthau Demands Solons Find Extra 1012 Billions; Luxuries Cited

VICTORY TAX REPEAL ASKED BY TREASURY   Instead Would Be Stiffer Excises to Boost Tax to  1014 Billions.   Would Cut Exemptions On Individual Incomes

Development Plan For Missouri Valley Wins Approval   Line of Levees From Sioux City To River’s Mouth

(+. Dowda. Former Loca! Resident, Relates Her experiences In S. Pacific

Plane Pilot Fights in Mud With Marines   George Bounds Tells of Flanking Movement. on Munda in Which US Force Wiped Out Two Enemy Outposts

Mystery Veils Trip By Lewis To Washington   New York Headquarters Of United Mine Workers To Be Closed At Once

Labor Observers Hint Lewis May Succeed Green  TIAIW Macac MFFi-.   UMW Closes Office In New York; Chief Goes To Washington

JOHNLEWIS GOING * TOWASHINGTON ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS   Leader Of Miners May Be Ready To Talk “Turkey”   HAS BEEN IGNORING THE LABOR BOARD

UMW Closes New York Office   No Immediate Explanation Given For Move

JOHN L. LEWIS CLOSES OFFICE IN NEW YORK   Expects To Unite With AFL Soon; Green To Quit

REASONS BEHIND TRIP KEPT MUM; STRIKE WATCHED   Capital Speculates Miners’ Leader May Talk With WLB About Dispute

Lewis fo Go To Washington   Headquarters of Miners in New York To Be Closed

LEWIS CLOSES OFFICE IN N.Y   Goes to Washington on Unexplained Business

LEWIS AIMING AT AFL RULE   Observers Expect Retirement ‘of Green If Miners Come Back Into Fold.

Lewis Leaving For Washington   Headquarters in New York Closed; Move Not Explained

LEWIS IS GOING TO WASHINGTON   Reason For Trip Not Given As Union Closes New York Headquarters

‘No Explanation Of Developments John L. Lewis Goes _ To Washington Today

MINERS CLOSE HEADQUARTERS N ae ony   John L. Lewis Authorizes Announcement He Is Going to Washington. This. ‘Afternoon,   REASON NOT GIVEN   No Indication Move Means  He Has Decided to Consult With War Labor Board ©

1.000.000 Would Get Raise  FD Hints Non-Operating Rail Workers May Get Overtime Pay

President Favors Time and a Half For Rail Workers  Recommendation Is for Nonoperaling Emploves on 48 Hour

President Backs More Overtime For Rail Group   =o we See NS a  Urges Time-and-Half Atter 40 Hours for Non-Operating Men  NOW 48 HOURS  Would Mean Boost Of Six Cents an Hour For Million Workers

FAVORS OVERTIME FOR RAIL WORKERS   FDR Indicates He Favors Time and a Half After 40 Hours for ‘Non-operating’ Emploves

SUGGESTS RAIL PAY HIKE PLAN   FDR Favors Time and Hall For Non-Operating Men ‘After 40 Hours

Roosevelt Favors Pay Increase for Railway Worker:   Supports Plan To Give Non-operating Employes : More Money

White Collar ‘Rail Workers May Get Raise  Roosevelt Favor: Overtime After. 40 Hours -

RAIL EMPLOYES RAISE FAVORED   FDR Indicates He Will O. K: Non-Operator  Increase

REACH THE U.S. A   Richard Hanson Was Firs! Kansan To Leave the Gripsholm

Robinson's Nam Name Taken From List  Was Fatally Injured Ye:   Was Fatally Injured Year Ago in Truck Accident

Robinson's Name Taken From List   Was Fatally Injured Year Ago in Truck Accident

REPUBLICANS TOSCAN DEMO CHIEF'S RECORD      Flynn Had Announced He Was to be Nation’s Ambassador to The Land Down Under

GOP TO DEMAND FLYNN HEARING   Full Investigation Looms I Ambassador Appointment ls Given Congress

MCNARY PLANS FULL PROBE OF EDWARD FLYNN   Republican Senator Serves Notice He Will Demand Hearing on Appointment   JURY PROBE CITED   Democratic Chairman Had Been Charged With Having Courtyard of Estate Paved by City

OP To Call or Hearing If lynn Named!   Would Ask Investigation Of Record If Appointed Envoy To Australia

Republicans to Demand Investigation Tf Flynn Given Diplomatic Post

GOP Would Probe  Flynn’s Record  Appointment As Envoy To Australia Might Stir Action

REPUBLICANS TO RAISE QUESTION AGAINST FLYNN   McNary Moves to Bring Prospective Appointee Before Committee

Flynn Faces Inquiry If Named Envo   McNery Seys G.0.P. Will Demand Senate B® Probe of Party Boss

G.0.P. to Probe Flynn's Record   Republicans Revive Courtyard Charge

FLYNN’ RECORD WILL BE PROBED   McNary Serves Notice Republicans Will Demand Hearing, Investigation If Flynn Named Envoy to Australia

M’Nary Asks Probe Of Flynn’s Record   Courtyard Charge.ouWhich Flynn Was Exonerated, 1s Brouneht Up

(DEAN TALKS TO CO-OPS   School Head Tells of Visit to Ft, Leavenworth Centers

SUPPORT GIVEN NEW TAX BILL   ‘Taxpayer ‘Forgotten Man,” Says GOP Minority in Asking Savinas.   REVENUE MEASURE CUT

DEEP CUT IN WAR SPENDING DEMAND OF COP MEMBERS   Republicans Back New $2,140,-.  000,000 Revenue .B ill—  Measure’. Will Arrive on Blanca Flanr Tussdag

Report New Tax Bill   Call Taxpayer “the Forgotten Man” in Offering WhittledDown Tax Measure

Deep Slashes In War Spending Are Demanded   Republicans Pledge Support Of New Tax Bill

REPUBLICANS DEMAND CUTS IN WAR COSTS   Minority Members of House Committee Condition Support of Bill on Retrenchment

TAX MEASURE SENT 10 HOUSE BY COMMITTEE   GOP Minority Report Claims Taxpayer Is Overburdened

G.0.P. Wants SpendingCuts To Pare Taxes   House Group Formally: Backs $2 Billion Bill, Sees Vast Saving Possible 

REPUBLICANS DEMAND RETRENCHMENT IN  WARTIME SPENDING  Demands Made in Pledg ing Support of New -$2,140,000,000 Revenue

Demand Check on Wartime Spending   Republican Members, House Ways and Means Committee to Support New Bill.

(.0.P’s Demand Economy in War Spending   U. S. Taxpayer Is Termed the “Forgotien Man”?

Economy Demand  By GOP   2 Billion Dollar Boost ‘All Country Can Bear’

20 PERCENT WITHHOLDING TAX URGED   Rayburn Proposes New Plan to Settle the Tax Controversy

Rayburn Offers Withholding Tay   Proposal Would Bar Vote on ‘Forgiving’

GLOBALONEY’ WAR SPREADS   Lady Astor Opens Fire in ‘Lip Stick’ Battle

Gremlins Give Er The Gun! _  ees a  Plane Takes Off Without Pilot. Soars. Then Falls

38 More Enemy Planes Destroyed In Day’s Battle   20 Transports Bearing Troops Shot‘Down By ‘Allied Fighting Ships

18 Other Enemy Planes in Italy-to-Tunis Service Are Blasted; 5-Day Toll Is 203   British Spitfires and American P-40-F’s Land on Gefmans——Land Fight ing Proceeding.

BRITISH STORM AHEAD AGAINST ROMMEL ARM)   Aerial Victory Over Gulf of Tunis  Wipes Out Huge Troop, Freight-Carrying Planes

ALLIES GAIN THREE MILES IN TUNISIA   RAF Fighters Down 20 Six-Engine Nazi Transports

SNOW AND RAIN HAMPER YANKS IN ATTU BATTLE   Navy Reveals Main Camp on Kiska Pounded by Bombers   Knox Discloses Japanese Are Now ‘Corraled’ on Peninsula

JAP REMNANTS ON ATTU LIQUIDATED; PLANES HIT RABAUL, GASMATA BASES

YANKS FIGHT ATTU'S ONOW IN ADVANCES   Navy Says Troops Are. ir ‘Drive to Push Japs Into Cold Sea.   ARMY AIRMEN STRIKE NEW BLOWS AT_KISKA

NINE TA FEEL FURY OF YANKEE AIRMEN      Four Vessels Sunk And Eight Hard Hit In Furious Assault   NIPS POCKETED ON ATTU   RAF Warplanes Streak Over Channel In New Blows At Battered Europe

British First Slams Door on 80,000 of Enemy  Axis Troops, Dazed by Allied Conquest, Have Lost Nerve

Foe, Unnerved by Predicament, May Not Try Last Stand   ‘Many Surrender at First Opportunity; Nazis Face New Trials  In Russia

British Warships Smash Axis Boats At  tempting Bridgehead Escape—Japs  Said 12 Miles from Indian Frontier—. Reds Edge Deeper into Invaders

LEWIS DIRECTS MINERS RETURN TO THEIR JOBS   =nd Comes Suddenly as Government Marshalled Its Powers to End Walkout   LEWIS TAKES ANOTHER JAB AT LABOR BOARD   Declare Members Place Own Vanity Above National Interests; Understands Negotiations to Resume on Return to Work

UMW POLICY COMMITTEE DIRECTS MINE WORKERS TO RETURN TO PITS MONDAY WITHOUT A CONTRACT.

UNION LEADERS TELL MINERS TO RETURN TO PITS   Policy Committee Adopts Recommendation to End Strike Monday—War Labor Board Denounced in Statement of Mine Union Chief

Strikers To Resume Jobs  On Monday   Recommendation Of Lewis Adopted By Policy Committee.

UMW Leader Orders Work Again on Monday   Crisis Ends Without Further FDR Action: Lewis Again Scores WLB

Union Committee Orders Strikers On Jobs Monday  UMW Chief's Action Comes as Government  Marshals Powers  ‘END COMES SUDDENLY  Miner’s President  Again Castigates  War Labor Roard

‘Coal Leader Denounces Labor Board As He Gives In   Lewis Puts Blame  For Strike on ‘Smug Shoulders’ of Members Of War Lahor Roard   ICKES TELLS LEWIS WHAT HE EXPECTS

MINERS WILL RESUME WORK NEXT MONDAY   WAGE CONTROVERSY REVERTS BACK TOWLB

Lewis Yields To Government Pressure While Castigating War Labor Board.   WAGE CONTROVERSY IS STILL UNSETTLED

Miners Will Go Back to Their Jobs on Monday   End Comes Suddenly As U. S. Marshalled Powers; Lewis Raps WLB in Statement

LEWIS CALLS. OFF STRIKE OF 500,000   Union Chieftain Bows to Roosevelt’s Ultimatum as U. S. Marshals Pow: ers to End Walkout.   WAGE CONTROVERSY. REVERTS TO WLB   Board Is Expected to De: cide Whether to Orde Negotiations on Portalto-Portal Pay.

ened LAMBASTS WLB   End Comes Suddenly As  Government Musters ©  Powers To Stop — Shutdown   To Open Negotiations

Leader of Union Yields in Face of Drastic Action By Government; Negotiations May Be Resumed

Union Chief Decries ‘Pious Arrogance’  Of Labor Board, Cites Pledge of FDR Congressman Had Asked That Lewis Be Jailed;  Tekec Preamicac Man Varatian Paw Banc?

Action Comes on Advice  of John Lewis  Union Head Again  Denounces _ War Labor Board

Miners fo Return to Jobs Monday; Lewis in Bitter Blast at WLB   Period of Crises Ended; Triumph for Roosevelt in End of Struggle; Congress Condemned in Senate Debate; House Approves Bill

Order for miners return to work on Monday has policy committee approval:   WLB scored by UMW as being  responsible for union strike

Miners Obey Order Will Return to Jobs Next Monday   Act Follows Reply - Of Lewis to

Calls Off Coal Strike on Date Sef by F.D.R.   UMW Chief Acts Suddenly as Government Plans Drastic Action   Takes Parting Shot at War Labor Board in Doing About Face

UMW Chieftain Advises Council To Heed Government’s Edict; * Men Will Return to Jobs Monday

Miners Obey Order Will Return to Jobs Next Monday  Act Follows Reply Of Lewis to President’s Demand

Recommends ‘That Workers Return ’ Next Monday As Pressure Mounts   ‘Takes Occasion to Fling Bitler Barb At WLB; Says Responsibiltiy For Conl Crisis Rests On Their Shoulders

Miners Ordered To Report On Monday   In Submitting To Presidential Demand ClO Leader Mokes Another Denunciation Of WLB

Lewis Yields To FDR Order   Miners Asked To Return To Jobs: WLB Assailed

CONVERGE ON NEW GUINEA JAP GARRISON   Enemy Pulls Back For Last Stand

Allies Pushing Toward Jap Base of Lae on New Guinea   Jap Fortifications Are Set Ablaze by American Airmen.

RESSING DOWN ON DOOMED NIP BASE OF LAE   Aussies Just Few Miles From Approaches.

YANKEES TAKE VELLA LAVELLA   Move Flanks Japs’ Air Base, Extends U.S. Control Nearer Rabaul

VELLA LAVELLA OLE (3 TAKER DY Lo. FORGE   Yanks Now Are Within 407 Miles of Big Enemy Base at Rabaul.

Yanks Take Island Flanking Jap Base   Vella Lavella Island Siezure Puts Americans 400 Miles Nearer To Rabaul

GOP Leaders Back House Amendment Hiking Dpendency Pay Allotments Beyond Senate-Approved Figures

DEPENDENT AID BILL DELAYED   Death of Member Causes  House to Adjourn

Whipsaw Air ‘Attack Blasts AXIs Positions   Flying Fortresses Down Or Damage 44 Axis Planes

\merican Airmen Account For Big Share Of 5] Planes Downed In  One Day.

Frank Speech   Would Tron n Out Probler With British Now In Calm Manner

Senators Would Discuss British, Yank Relations   Want To Get Along With England

Army Aide Out Tn Probe of Wright Plant   Control Tightened Over Inspection of Planes; Fed’! Action Hinted

CONTINUE PROBE OF AIR COMPANY   Justice Department Investigates Truman Group Charge Of Fraud

TROOPS LAUDED BY GEN. PATTON   DECLARES VICTORY IN AFRICA HAS ADDED LUSTER TO RECORD OF U. S. ARMY.

COMPARATIVE LULL IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA BELIEVED TO BE. NEAR END WITH JAPS READYING

LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL  COMPARATIVE LULL IN SOUTH — PACIFIC AREA BELIEVED TO BE NEAR END WITH IAPS READYING

“Rice Bowl” Key Regained By Chinese ©   Recapture of  Changteh Provides A Decisive Turn In Bitter Fighting

IAPS ARE DRIVEN i TO CHINESE CAUSE      China’s Life - Savirig Rice Bow] Clear-  ed of Japs   AMERICAN AIRMEN. GIVE VALUABLE AID

Chinese Take Rice City From Enemy   Defenders Recapture Changteh, Avert Threat to Capital

Chinese Take Changteh  - Important Rice Bowl City Recaptured From

Chinese Again Hold Changteh   Rewin Rice Bowl Center On Vital Supply Route

CHINESE RETAKE RICE BOWL CITY   Strategic Changteh Is Major Prize

Changteh Is Recaptured By Chinese Army Forces   Victorious Troops Crash Through East And West Gales, Says Hivh Command

DRIVE ENEMY FROM CTY I COUNTER RAD   }American Bombers Assists ir Turning Jap Victory Into Defeat.

CHINESE WIN BACK VITAL HUNAN CITY   Relieves Threat To Rice Bowl; U. S: Fliers Give Aid

YANKEE FLIERS AID NATIVES IN RETAKING CITY   Airmen Drop Ammunition, Food; Stops Threat on Changsha

Chinese Retake Changteh After Furious Battle   American Aircraft Aid In Recapture Of Important City

CHINESE REGAIN CHANGTEH CITY   Japs Driven From Strategic  Town In ‘Rice Bowl’

GHINESE TROOPS ~ HAVE REGAPTURED CITY OF GHANGTE   Fell to Japanese Dec. 3 After Many Days of Bloody Fighting.   IS AN IMPORTANT POINT   Loss of City Last Week Openened Prospect of Enemy Drive on Changsha.

Chinese Retake ~ Key City   Yank Fliers Aid Tn Chasing Japs Gut of Changteh

Chinese Troops Retake Changteh   Important City Is Recaptured From Japs in “Rice Bowl”

China Regains Rice Bow! City Of Chanateh   Victorious Stroke Breaks Up Threatenina Jap Drive

Rice Bowl Gate In Japs Hands For Over Week   Victorious Strike Provides Another Decisive Torn In Fortunes In War

Changteh Is Recaptur ed By   Victorious Chinese Stroke, Wrests: Door:to *- Vital: Rice, Bowl Region

Chinese Retake Changteh, Vital Rice Bowl City   Decisive New Turn In War Fortunes In Strategic Hunan Province.

VAST RICE BOWL MAJOR PRIZE IN HUNAN VICTORY   ‘Triumph Partially Avenges Annihilation of Virtually   Entire Division In  Losing City   ENDS FOR TIME JAP _ DRIVE ON CHANGSHA   Nips Had Stood Astride ' Hunan-Szechwan Supply ‘Line, One of China’s Main Avenues of Aid

CHINESE ANNOUNCE IMPORTANT CITY OF CHANGTEH RETAKEN ANOTHER DECISIVE TURI  IN BITTER BATTLES LOR “RICE ROWL”

JAPANESE HELD VITAL CITY FOR ONLY SIX DAYS   Victorious Chinese Stroke Provides Another Decisive Turn In The Fortunes Of War.

Drive Japanese From Changteh  Chinese Recapture City in Bloody Fight

SERIOUS THREAT TO FLANK OF THE — RETREATING NAZIS   Giant Squeeze Play Indicated by Latest Development In Allied Invasion Tactics

General Montgomery's Veterans Make Success« ful Landing At Termoli, Some 150 Miles Northeast Of Rome.

Summer Sizzles Way Into State   Few Thundershowers Scattered Over Northwest

BRICKER LAUDED BY OHIO SOLONS      Governor Is Acclaimed As An All-American By Representatives

SPEED CAMPAIGN FOR GOV. BRICKER   Ohio Republican Congress men Pledge Support In Presidential Fight

A STRONG ALLIED OFFENSIVE IS 19 MILES FROM TUNIS   Hundreds of Field Guns and Bombers Supported the Charging Infantry.   INITIAL BLOW LANDED   The Assault Was Begun Before Nightfall Yesterday on Djebel Bou Aoukaz.

GHOST VOICE IS HEARD   Someone Is Bothering the German News Broadcasters :

Siege OF Leningrad May Ge Lifted-— mBy eiton ©. Pay &  Russian Offensive Close To Nazi Homeland

Bill Hitting Unions Is  Adopted   Racketeering Act ‘Extension  Is Voted

Hobbs Bill Passes House By 270T0107   ROBBERY AND EXTORTION BY LABOR UNIONS ARE MADE PUNISHABLE UNDER 1934 ACT OF CONGRESS.   Cellar Loses Fight

Organized Labor Loses Struggle  Against Measure   House Passes. 270-107, Anti-Racketeering Bill: AFL Proposal Rejected

ANTI-RACKET BILL PASSED BY THEHOUSE   Measure Given Approval Despite Labor Opposition

BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE   Measure Given Approval Despite Labor Op- - position

ANTI-RACKET BILL PASSED   Organized Labor Loses First Fight of 78th Congress

LABOR IS LOSER IN HOUSE FIGHT   Extortion Anti - Racket Bill Passes Without Amendment

HOBBS MEASURE TO CURB LABOR RACKETS PASSED   First Defeat Handed Unions Since 78th Con gress Convened   LEGISLATION CALLED ANTI-LABOR ACTION

Labor Loses Battle Over Hobbs Bill   House Sends Measure to Senalé Without ° Amendment of AFL

Allies Ease Air Attack   Activity Yesterday Limited To Patrolling

N. W. AFRICA AIR FORCES TAKEREST   Activity Limited To Reconnaissance; Mideast Fliers Busy

WEATHER SAVES ITALIANS FROM HEAVY POUNDING   American Bombers Stay at Bases—Mosquitoes Raid Sicily, Southern Italy

Lighter Warplanes Carrying Out Raids   Bad Weather Grounds Heavy Bombers, Plywood Planes Take Over Burden With Speedy Forays Over Italy

Malta-Based Planes In Raids on Sicily   Swift Mosquitoes Attack Railway Lines Bridges and Military Huts as Bad Weather Grounds Northwest African Air Force.

RAF MALTA-BASED MOSQUITOES CARRY BURDEN OF ATTACK   BAD WEATHER HALTED FORAYS BY AFRICABASED HEAVY BOMBERS

Lull In Mediterranean Air Offensive  Malta-Based Mosquitoes Bomb Sicily; Weather Grounds African Force

MALTA FLIERS HIT AT SICILY   Attack Bridges And Military Camps With Cannon And Bombs   AFRICA UNITS QUIET

MALTA-BASEDMOSQUITOES STING SICILY}   Take Up Burden of Mediterrancan Aerial War While Northwest Af rican Bombers Grounded

ALLIES CONTROL THE SEAS   Statement Is Made In Speech by Spanish Naval Captain

Needn't Have “Jungle Jitters’’ About Boys Over There, Says Article in Army Magazine _

Hundreds Evacuated; Floods May Have Reached Crests —  But 50,000 Acres More. Are in Flood Path as Wolf Lake Levee Breaks

Floods Crush  Levees   - «+ Million Acres Under Water; Many Homeless

Flood Crests Are Believed Reached   Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois Rivers Are Slowing Down   100,000 FROM HOMES   More in Path of Waters Sweeping Out From Mississippi

LEVEE BREAKS ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER CONTINUED MONDAY  MORE FAMILIES EVACUAT ED AND THOUSANDS - MORE ACRES FLOODED

Flood Waters Probably Hav Reached Crest   More Land Inundated. However, And Families Evacuated

LEVEES CRUMBLE IN FLOOD SECTORS   ‘Hundreds Are Evacuated: Thousands More Acres  Are Inundated

Levee Breaks _ On Mississippi Spread Floods   'Five-Mile Long Dike Along Illinois Side Lets Go; Hundreds Evacuated

Midwestern Floods May Be at Crest   Hundreds More Are Evacuated Along Three Big Rivers

Swollen Rivers Rampage   HUNDREDS MORE MOVE OUT AS WATERS SWEEP THROUGH BROKEN LEVEES

FLOOD WATERD STILL SPREAD   Official Reports Indicated Rivers May Have Reached Crests.   100,000 ARE HOMELESS

LEVEE BREAKS, — ~ DAMAGE ena   Mass Evacuations: Under Way in Three Weat-.. ern States:

Levee Breaks Flood Lowlands   MANY FAMILIES FORCED TO ' FLEE FROM HOMES

HUNDREDS FLEE LEVEE BREAKS   Cairo, Wl, Thre atened With Partial Isolation

FLOOD CRESTS OF STREAMS IN MIDWEST SEEN   Continue Evacuating  Hundreds of Victims In Stricken Area

LEVEES BREAKING ALONG SWOLLEN MISSISSIPPI; ~HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES BEING EVACUATED ©   More Than 100,000 Persons Made Homeless Already And Million Ard Third Acres Flooded I Affected Six States

Levee Breaks Spreads Flood  to New Areas   Hundreds Forced to Evacuate Illinois’ Town; Million and a Third Acres Flooded

FLOODS FORC MASS FLIGHT FROM AREAS   Property Damage Mounts As Waters Cover More Land

FLOODING RIVERS NEARING GRESTS   Thousands Of Families Being Forced From Homes

More Families Evacuated When Levees Break   Mississippi Floods Whole Counties As Illinois Begins  New Rise

Fresh Levee Breaks Leave Thousands More Homeless in Flood-Ridden Middle West

LEVEE BREAKS FORCE MORE TO LEAVE HOMES   Quarter of Union County, Ilinois, Under Water, Crop Loss High

Rivers Reach Flood Crests In Mid-West   Evacuations Continue as Levees Break But Officials See Worst Past

Collapse of Levee Lets Waters Down On 4,500 People   Sea Wall at Claryville, Mo., Breaks; 900 Families  lsola ted.   Waters Receding In Oklahoma Area

Breached Dikes Spread Damage In Flood Areas   Additional Mass Evacuations Forced Along  Ramnacing Miccieeinni.

Hundreds Mors Families Flee  From Floods   Breaks In Levees Add To Disaster In Mid-West States

Flood Waters Nearing Crest In Middle West   Levees Collapse and Force Hundreds Of Families to Fiee

Breaking Levees Forcing Mass Evacuations In Flood-Swept Areas   Rivers Continue Rise To Record Levels In Three States; Property Damage Mounts; Concrete Sea Wall At Claryville, Mo., Collapses.

Levees Break On Flood-Swollen Mississinn   Farm Lands Inundatec 100,000 Homeless In 6-State Area

Hundreds More Families Evacuated in ‘Midwest; Floods May Have Hit Crest;

Flood Rivers Believed : To Have Reached Crests   50,000 More Evacuated In   Water’s Path    Breaking of Wolf Lake  Levee Spreads the In wundation .

LEVEE BREAKS ROUT HUNDREDS   Thousands More Acres Are Flooded in Mississipp! River Valley.

Mass Evacuation of Midwest's Flooded  Areas Is Continued   Reports Indicate Water in Three Big Rivers Has Reached Crest

Mississippi Levees Break   Thousands More Acres Flooded as Sea Walls Go Out Near Wolf Lake

Collapse of Wolf Lake Levee Covers Large Area on Illinois Side and Threatens To Isolate City of Cairo; 4500 Flee

More F orced To Flee As Flood Breaks Levee   Hundreds Of Families Evacuated But Official Reports Indicate Crests May Have Been Reached In Swollen Midwest Rivers

LEVEE BREAK AUD TD OANGE TRRU MID-WEST   Partial Isolation Of Cairo, lil.. Believed Probable After Levees Burst

FLOOD WATERS HIT NEW AREA   Levee Collapses in Path Of Mississippi River Overflow

Mississippi Flood Hits Larger Area   BARR Vk SRE  Levees Give Way And Rich Farm Land Tle lmundated

Thirty Bombers Reported Missing In Bremen Atfack   Nazi Installations Severely Damaged

Yanks Down 142 Germans   Trail Of Destruction Is Left In Blow At Bremen

DESTROY 142 NAZI PLANES   Fertveseen; Libevators Hit Hard at Bremen, Vegesack; 30 Bombers Lost

Fortresses Hit Vital U-Boat Base at Bremen  - Raid Follows R. A. F - Attacks on - Three Nazi Cities

American Blow Follows Heavy RAF Assaults   Bremen and Vegesack Hit in Daylight:  30 Bombers, Three Fighters Are Missing

U. §. BOMBERS DRUB BREMEN, U-BOAT BASE   HEAVY DESTRUCTION IS ADMITTED BY BERLIN

BREMEN HIT HARD BY ALLIED FLIERS   Attacks by Fortresses Fol. low Night Raids by the RAF

Gen. Arthuro Rawson As sumes Powers of Last American State Standing By the Axis   CASTILLO FORCED TO FLEE CGUNTRY   Purpose of Revolt Con. tinues Slightly Confused: Some Indicate Aim  Largely Domestic

Martial Law ls Set Un   Isolationist Castillo I Ousted In Lightning Revolt

PRO - ALLIED GEN. RAWSON RUNS NATION      Declares Revolt Is Aimed At “Guaranteeing Safety of People”   PRO-AXIS LEADER FRESCO ARRESTED   Pro-Democratic Papers Ask Compliance With Rio Resolution

LAST AMERICAN STATE TO HAVE TIES WITH AXIS   Overthrow Government of Ger: man Sympathizers, Declare Martial Law

Anti-Axis Unit Rules Argentina   ‘astillo’s Aides Arrive At Uruguayan Harbor: Say Ex-Pres. Follows

Pro-Ally  Rules in Argentina   General Dawson Heads Council After Coup d’Etat

PRU-ALLY GRUUP NOW IN CONTROL IN ARGENTINE  Isolationist - Castillo   Isolationist - Castillo Regime Overthrown      Full Significance O% Revolt Not Yet Clear

J. P. MORGAN RALLIES FROM HEART ATTACK   Associates Of Banker Say There Has Been “A Slight But De finite Improvement”

36 Listed as Available For Call in Draft   35 White, One Colored Man Eligible for Induction

39 Alton Men Listed for New Call in Draf   Registrants Available for Induction Inte the Army

46 Alton Men ‘Available’ for  Army Induction   Draft Board Lists 26 White Men. 20 Colored

Business Section Is Swept Away   Raging Currents of Osage River Course Through a Missouri Town.

[Almost the Entire Business District of Tuscumbia Is Flooded or Carried Away   The Approaches of the High Bridge Near Town Under Many Feet of Water; River Rose Rapidly Until 3 o’Clock This Morning

Eight Killed in Plant Explosion   Gulfport, Miss., Naval Stores Blast Fatal to Workers. it Is Said

EIGHT KILLED IN EXPLOSION IN WAR PLANT   Ninth Man Crifically Huri, Not Expected to Live, Near Gulfport, Miss.

Eight Are Killed In Plant Blast   Seven Negroes, One  White Are Victims

8S Persons Killed in an Explosion   Three Others Were Critically Injured Near Gulf Port, Mississippi.

GULFPORT BLAST FATAL   Eight Persons Killed Im Naval  Stores Explosion Teday

U.S. CONTROL SEEN IN SCHOOL GRANT   Legislation To Give Money To Public School Assailed As Federal Wedge in Controlling Education.

SOVIETS GIVE BLANKET 0. K TO COMMITTEE   U.S. and Britain Acknowledge Unit With Reservations Aimed at DeGauile.   LIMITED MOVE HELPS   Allied Action Seen as Boost To Cementing of Many Fronch Factions.

RUSSIAN ACTION AROUSES COMMEN’   Reeagnition of French Element Causes Diseussions in Allied Countries.

Soviet Union Extends Unqualified Recognition to French Committee

REDS’ SUPPORT GIVEN WITHOUT QUALIFICATION   Complete Anglo - American - Backing Withheld Until Greater Unity !s Shown   PEOPLE PLEDGED CHOICE   Fighting French Designation Dropped By De Gaullists As First Move

UNRESERVED ACT IS GREATER THAN APPROVAL OF U.S   Great Britain and Canada Put ‘Reservations “in Recognition Authorized Group Recently.      TWO NATIONS WERE _ NOT FULLY PLEASED   Failure to Secure DeGualle’s Cooperation Along Lines Suggested By Allig Was Main Cause.

BELIEVE UNITY TO BE AIDED BY ‘ALUED ACTIONS   - Qualifications by U. S., Britain Reportedly Based on De Gaulle View

FRENCH BODY RECOGNIZED BY 3 BIG NATIONS   Russia Joins U. S. and Britain, But Goes Step Further

TREATS GROUF AS DE FACTO GOVERNMENT   Goes Beyond U. S., Britain

Recognize Committee For France   Russians Give It Unqualified  Endorsement

Russia Endorses French Leaders   Blanket Recognition ( Committee Was Expected

rrench fF teased At Recognition Though Limited  Only Russia Recognizes Liberation Committee As Government  OTHERS RESTRICTED      OTHERS RESTRICTED   Reservations Made By British And U. S.  Statements

RECOGNIZE NEW FRENCH   Move Overshadows Recognition by U.S. and Britain

BRITISH CAPTURE TUNISIAN HEIGHT   FOURTEEN AXIS SHIPS BLASTED TO BOTTOM OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Subs, Bombers Of Allies Bag 14 Axis Ships   Land Action Along Tunisia Front Again Slows Down

Allies Sink 14 Axis Ships In Mediterranean, British Make Short Gain in Tunisie   [Americans Make Gain: ‘At Guadalcanal as Rival Fleets Skirmish

Land War In Tunisia  Into Lull   New Successes By Allies In The Destruction Of Ships Of Axis

ALLIES SINK 14 TO 16 SHIPS IN AIR, SUB RAIDS   New Successes Scored In Attrition Drive; Americans Capture  Italian General   Tunisian Hill Taken

14 Axis Ships Reported Sunk by Allies   Land Action Again Falls Into Lull in Tunisia

14-16 SHIPS OF AXIS SUNK IN MIDDLE SEA   British Seize Height Six Miles South Of Bou Arada In Central Mountainous Tunisin.   RommelHarried

New Success Against Axis at Sea   Action in Tunisia Again Falls Into Doldrums

Subs And Bombers Take Heavy Toll Of Nazi Shipping   14, Possibly 16 Ships Destroyed; Ground Action On Tunisian Front Falls Into Lull

REDS PREPARING CRUSHING BLOW AT NAZI ARMIES   Offensive, Moscow Says, Wil Be Launched to Coincide With Invasion.

RUSSIANS BREAK THROUGH GERMAN OREL FRONT LINES   Attacks Were Some o Heaviest Made This Summer.   FOUR NAZI COUNTER ATTACKS FAILED   ARR RABSLERAF 2 ARR BABAEYS  Nine Enemy Planes Were Knocked Out of the Air.

LAND ASSAULT ON STRATEGIC ISLAND NEARS   Russian Front Springs To Life North Of Orel

Soviets Break Lull, Atiack Near Orel   Heavy Fighting Takes Russians Into German Lines

STRATEGIC RIVER BARRIER   Attacks Made in Some of Heaviest Summer Fighting

USSIANS BREAK THROUGH GERMAN LINES AT OREL   Berlin Concedes That Reds Have Achieved  Some Success In Their New Drives.

Russian Attack Carries Across River Barrier    Nazi Defenses North. of Orel Penetrated — - To Considerable Depth

4GERMAN ASSAULTS REPULSED   Soviet Assault Planes Take Over Aerial 4 Offensive

Russ attacks carry across river barrier   Nazi defenses penetrated in heavy fighting

SOVIETS BREAK RIVER BARRIER   Battle Rages Thru Third Day In Region Around Orel, Mtsensk

Nurnberg, South Italy Hard Hit   Russians Make New Conquests as They Threaten  ‘ Dnieper River Line

Main Rail Lines In South Italy pint By Allies  Sulmona Target   Sulmona Target Of Bombers East of Rome

All Main Rail Lines In Italy Cut By Bombings   Sulmona Receives Concentrated Yank Air Pulverizing

Smash Made Or! Communication Lines, Attacks Range As Far South As Sulmona, 74 Miles East Of Rome   ISULMONA ATTACKED BY FLYING FOR'TRESSES

Allied Planes Blast Wide Gaps in Italy’s Shaky Rail System   Day and Night Attacks Pulverizing Stations Freight Yards, Rolling Stock; 20 Axis Planes Downed

Two Teen-Age Girls Wage Knife Duel Over Love of Married Man—Both Hurt

TEEN-AGE GALS DUEL OVER MAN   Both Suffer  Knife Wounds in Midnight Battle

Girls Fight Knife Duei      Teen-Age Girls Battle Over Married Man

In Moonlight With Seconds  Girls Fiaht Knife Duel   WASPS Taught To Ferry Forts

Moonlight Knife Duel Staged by Two Teen Age Girls Over Affections of Married Man; One Goes to Hospital

TWO TEEN AGE LOS ANGELES GIRLS FIGHT KNIFE DUEL  ‘Met at Midnight on Va   Met at Midnight on Vacant Lot With “Seconds” Fol lowing Formal Challenge

AASON CURRY   2 Leen-Age Girls Reported Injured in Maanlioht Dine

Girls Fight With Knives   Duel Over Affections Of Married Man Sends One to Hospital

DIES AT 132    Egyptian Who Thought Me Would ; Live Lots Longer, Succumbs.

A\ir--Stagnation Causes Record Spring. Rains   Unusual Atmospheric Conditions Blamed For Biq Storms   1943 Will Be Recorded As Year Of The Big Drip

Governors May Debate War Problems   Discussion of Food Situation May Highlight Sessions

Fresh Norther Whips Over Texas  Bitter Temperatures Clear Fog and Rain  ee ee ee

MORE FROST TONIGHT      Threat to Early Gardens and Fruit To Continue

RIGH RANKING OPA OFFICIAL WHO.HAS BEEN UNDER FIRE. QUITS BIS POST

OPA SHAKE-UP 15 UNDER WAY   Routing of Galbraith Thought to Be Start of General Improvement.

GALBRAITH RESIGNATION BELIEVED BEGINNING OF BROAD SHAKE-UP IN OPA

HITLER ANGRY   Reports Say He’s Threatened To Bomb Italian Cities.

ier RAGE ~ 18 REPORTED   ANKARA HEARS RUMOR ADOLF THREATENED TO BOMB . FEALY IF BENITO”.  + - SURRENDERS

Hospital Doing Best With Means At Hand In War Period: Show Manifold Problems   No Short-Cats. No Black Market Or Substitutes For Penna. Healne Lnastitutions

U. 5. Will Use Azores Bases In Emergency   President Reveals Japan Losing 130,000 Tons of Shipping a Month

ise OF Bases In The Azores Is Discussed By Roosevelt   United Nations to Use Bases in Emergency Cases, He Says——Heavy Shipping Losses Suffered by the Japanese Navy Revealed

FDR inon Plan to Get Bases   Président Gives Jap Shipping Losses at Press Conference

GERMAN U-BOAT PACK ROUTED IN FIVE-DAY FIGHT   Two Subs Sunk, Three Others Reported Hit

Give Convoy Battle Result: in Atlantic   London ‘Paper Says 59 U-Boats Have Been Destroyed in Last Two Months

iU-BOAT PACKS BEATEN OFF  Escort Carrier Helps Convoy Win 5-Day Battle

INCOME TAX NEWS BRIGHT   MORGENTHAU “SATISFIED: WITH COLLECTIONS

Sheriff May Face Ouster For.A Spree   Attortey General Investigating In The Hale Case

ARREST A SHERIFI   Attorney General Mitchell Will Investigate in Wichita

Might Oust Sheriff    Sedgwick County Offi cial Charged With Intoxication in Ottawa

ROME RADIO IN ATTACK ON ALLIED OFFER   English-Language Broadcast Seen as: Attempt at Bargaining to Soften the Demands.   SAYS BRITISH WANT NATION DESTROYED   Declares Churchill Would Pen Up Italians to Strangle Them Politically and Economically.

ALLIES AGAIN HIT GASMATA      Plaster Jap Air Bases With 142 Tons of Bombs

Bomb Torrent on Japanese Bases  - ‘Allied Airmen  _ Deliver Heaviest  ‘Blow Yet on New Rritain

GASMATA BAY AREA RAIDED BY FIGHTERS   142 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped

Heaviest Bomb Load On Japs   ANOTHER AERIAL RAID MADE ON ISLAND BASES

HE GASMATA AREA TS ABAIN BOMBED   Yank Airmen Plaster Japs With 142 Tons Bombs

ONRAF'S 257TH ANNIVERSARY   Two Towns in Reich, Foe Transportation Lines Blasted

Fast RAF Planes Batter Western German Towns   Residents Gape As Bombers Dip 50 Feet Above Ground

RAF CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY   Makes Low-Level Attacks on Towns in Western Ger. many; Startled Germans Stand Gaping in Streets

Surprised Nazis Watch RAF Raid   Four Planes Lost; British Air Force 25 Years Old

R.A. F. Blasts Two Towns in West Germany   Fighter Squadrons Also Make Attacks On Axis Railways

RAF Observes Birthday With Attack   Surprise Raid Causes Considerable Damage to Germans

PLANES DIP LOW TO BOMB GERMANY   BRITISH DROP EXPLOSIVES ON TWO TOWNS FROM HEIGHT OF 50 FEET.

MOSQUITOES DIP 10 50 FEET PLANT BOMBS   RAF Celebrates 25th Anniversary By Attacking Two Towns in Western Germany: Trier, Ehrang   4 Planes Missing

RAF Attacks Two Towns in Western Reich   25th Anniversary of Force Is Celebrated With Widespread  Raids on Continent

RAF Batters Nazi Cities   Anniversary Is Noted With. Roaring Attacks

RAF Marks Anniversary  In Two Raid:   German, French Target Sites Fee] Air Blows

MOSQUITOES HIT GERMAN PLANTS   Fast Bombers Fly Low To Plant Explosives On RAF Anniversary

‘RAF Observes Its Birthday _ Strafing Nazis; Two Towns in ‘West Germany, Railways Hit.

RAF OBSERVES 25TH BIRTHDAY   Towns In Germany, France And Belgium Are Bombed

British and American Troops Still Streaming Ashore; Landing Made Under Big Naval Barrage

GENERAL CLARK LEADS LANDING   Allied Reinforcements Cone tinue Stream Ashore   PRISONERS TAKEN   Flying Fortresses Destroy German Military Head. quarters at Frascati

GRIMES NAMED AS TREASURER   Osceola Man Succeeds Late Willis Bagley

John M. Grimes, Former Carroll Publisher, Named  To Be State Treasure

J. M. Grimes Is State Treasurer   Osceola Publisher Succeeds Bagley

American and British Planes Based in India Raid Japanese Troops in Burma

Burma Japs Assailed by Allied Planes   Americans Also Strike Powerful Blows at Islands

Russian Offensive ‘Vise Closes Further on Orel  Complete Encirclemen Apparently Only ‘Matter of Short Time

Encirelement Imntinent for. Nazis at Orel   Russian Offensive Gains More Ground,  Takes 30 More Places

MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN RUSSIAN SWEEP   Complete Encirclement of Orel is Only Matter of Time

Russian Drive Continues to Make Headway   Encirclement of Big Nazi Base at Orel Is Declared Near

Reds Take More Town: From Nazis   Russians Strike At Orel From Three Directions

Russian Troops Threatening To Surround Ore  Red Army Columns Cut   Red Army Columns Cut To Within Seven Miles Of Bryansk In East

THE THIRD RAID IN FIVE DAYS ON EAST PRUSSIA   A Powerful Attack on Stuttgart, Industrial Center in Southwest Germany.   25 PLANES WERE LOST   First Word of New Attack Came from the German Radio.

Third WarLoan Bursts Through Ceiling, $1,424,334 Already Tahulated: More Still Out

STATE PUSHING CEWAGE PLANE   Ask Bessemer Add to Plant Ontonagon Asked to Build Plant.

SEWAGE PLANTS URGED IN FOUR BERRIEN CITIES   Twin Cities, New Buffalo And Coloma Included In List

‘Strikes in War Plants Over ‘Meat Shortages Predicted   California Congressmen Demand Quick Action to Alleviate Acute Need on Coast

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Exposed Japanese Flank Will Be Main Target Of Allied Attacks ”

Interoreting he War   Exposed Flank of Jap Conquest Zone Can Be Hit   By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Wide World)

Japs Can Be Driven Out of China If Hundreds of Planes Are Provided

Senate Approves FSA Compromise   Sends Farm Bill Back  To the Conferees

Farm Deferment  Asked by Senator   Revercomb Says Crop Shortage “Might Bring Disaster.”

Action Sought  On Deferment   West Virginian In. Favor _ Of Blariket Move Due To: Food: Scarcity

WARM DEFERMENT URGED   Immediate Action On Manpower Is. sue Asked Of Senate

Bill Would Speed Soldier Voting  Ballots Would Be Sent by Air Mail

Tokyo Admits 7 Vessels Lost   No Mention Is Made Over “ Radio About Deaths OF. 15.000 Soldiers ~~.

Tokyo Limits Her Losses in Solomons to Only 7 Vessels   Radio Broadcast Quotes Imperial Headquarters As Saying Japs Lost Two Destroyers and Five Trans-   ports Between Feb. 16 and March 1, Against Allied Claim of 22 Ships Destroyed 

JAPS FINALLY ADMIT ‘SEVEN SHIPS LOST’   First Reference To Losses Made By Tokyo Radio

Pleasure Drivin Ban Lifted for Kast Motorists   Ruling Went Into Effect Tuesday Midnight —Drivers on Honor

PLEASURE BAN HAS BEEN LIFTED   Effective Last Night At Midnight — Appeal Made To Motorists To Save Gasoline.

AXIS 1S WORRIED ~ BY SOVIET SWEEP   RADIO LISTENERS TOLD NAZIS ARE WAGING DESPERATE DEFENSIVE WARFARE,

SERIOUS PICTURE PAINTED BY NAZIS   Broadcasts : Admit Des. perate Fighting on Russian Fronts

Axis Concedes Gravity of Rout in Russia   Nazi, Italian Radios Prepare Public For More Bad News

NAZIS SOBER IN RUSSIAN BROADCASTS   Commentators Tell Germans People Russian Winter Offensive Mounts In Fury-On Lorg East Front.   Axis On Defense

Axis Finding It rmbarassi.ig 10 Explain Defeat  Russia Described As 'Not A Countrv.' She Ils A   Russia Described As 'Not A Country,’ She Is A "Military Arsenal”

Nazis Indicate Defeat By Reds In Store  Axis Radios Warn People Of Mounting Fury Of Russians

Japs Forced to Retreat by Aussies   Land and Air Attacks Send Japs Running in New Guinea Jungles

Japs Retreat In Jungles of New Guinea   Second Invasion Front on New Britain May Open up Soon.

Nips Retreat In New Guinea, Bougain> ville . ALLIES GAINING ‘Chinese Troops Enter  Forward Jap Bases

JAPS RETREAT IN NEW GUINEA AND ON BOUGAINVILLE   OPENING OF SECOND FRONT INDICATED ON NEW BRITAIN

PRESSURE OF ALLIED  AIR ATTACKS FORCE  JAPANESE RETREAT BAYONET-WIELDING  AUSSIES ROUTED ENEMY IN NEW GUINEA AREA

BEFORE YANKS IN NEW GUINEA   New Allied Invasion Front On New Britain Is  Indicated

Second New Britair Invasion Is Hinted   Yanks in 5 Miles On Bougainville

ASecond  Landing on New Britain:   Heavy Bombing of Cape Gloucester Points Up Possibility; Japs Fall Back on Bougainville

Invasion Of Another Part Of New Britain Seen; ‘Kev Air Strip Near Arawe Taken By Americans —

SECOND FRONT MAY BE OPENED ON NEW BRITAIN   Chinese Troops Break into Jap Positions in Rice Bowl

JAPS FORCED INTO JUNGLES   Pressure of Allied Land and Air Attacks Causes Push Back,

Japs Evacuate Southern Part  Bougainville   Second Invasion of New Britain Is Expected; Chinese Threaten to Trap Nips in Rice Bowl Area

Arawe ‘Airstrip Captured; Another Landing Of New Britain Anticipated

Japs Flee fo South Pacific Dense Jungle:   Allies Score New Gain: in New Guinea and Also on Bougainville

See Another Invasion of New Britain   Japs Forced Back or Bougainville and in New Guinea

Nips Retreating In Jungle Fights   With Arawe Airfield Taken, Allies May Attempt New Invasion Front.

Japanese Forced to Retreat on New Britain Re ATORARIC F.ANNSRERST

ALLIES DRIVE ENEMY BEHIND JUNGLE FRONT   Japs Finding Pressure Too Great: Americans Seize Arawe Airfield

Second Invasion of Enemy Base on New Britain Seen Near   Allies Increasing Pressure on Japanese on All Fighting Fronts

Possible Attempt To Open Up Second Invasion Front On New Britain Indicated—Pressure Of Allied Land And Air Attacks Forces Japanese To Retreat In New Guinea And Bougainville Jungles—U. S. Troops Capture Arawe Landing Field

NEW GUINEA, ‘BOUGAINVILLE GAINS MADE   Meanwhile, Signs Point to Allied Attempt to Open a Second Inyasion Front Against the Japs on New Britain.

CONCORD MAN © HONORED IN ~NEW YORK   Greek-American War Vet erans Present Memorial Cross to Cedric Foster:

Greek-American War Vet erans Present Memorial — Cross to Cedric Foster.

CHANGE MADE AT BOWERSOCK MILL   New Product Used in Synthetic Rubber Being _ ‘Milled Here   ANNOUNCE MILL LEASED

CHANGE MADE AT BOWERSOCK MILL   New Product Used in Synthetic Rubber Being  Milled Here

RAID ON BERLIN WORTH BIG LOSS   Great Fires Still Raging In Nazi Capital—War Plants Hard Hit  Swabs

BERLIN STILL. ~ FIGHTS FIRES   FLAMES RAGING FROM RAID DESPITE INCESSANT EFFORTS TO GET THEM  UNDER CONTROL —

FIRES RAGE IN REICH CAPITAL   Saturation Raid Smashes Factories, Knocks Out Berjin Airdrome

‘Slow Allied Progress in Italy Stirs Demand ' For More Imagination on Strategists’ Part

Why Not Faster Progress in Italy?   Slow Rate of Allied Advance up Boot Criticized in London; Correspondents’ Comment on Subiect Presented Herre

Yank Audacity  Given Tribute   Correspondent Praises Courage Of Americans In Beating Japs   LANDING TOOK JAPS BY SURPRISE

Jap Offensive Expected Soon   India And Southeastern Asia To Be Used As Hopping Off Points

COMMANDO IS NAMED LEADER FOR ASIA AREA   MOUNTBATTEN CHOSEN TO DFRECT TWO-PRONGED OFFENBIVE AGAINST JAPS FROM INDIA AND CHINA

WORK OR FIGHT BILL ADVANCES   Legislation Striking At Absenteeism Considered By House Committee

THINK FLYNN MAY ASK WITHDRAWAI   Supporters And Opponents Think Action Passible If Defeat Looms

GUP Victory Predicted Nexi Year.  wr eo   ‘Draft Dewey’ Talk Increases After Election

P Candidate ads Kentucky vernor Race.  ft  ‘ew York Result  ‘een as Boosting  co le: Le ere

REPUBLICANS ARE CLAIMING VICTORY ASSURED IN 1944   {RESULTS WERE___ ‘EXPECTED; MAJORITIES: ARE A SURPRISE

Vote Sweep Encourages Republican Leaders To Predict Victory in 44   Stock of Governor Dewey for Presidential Nomination Given Boost by Results in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey

Republicans See Party Victory in 1944 Elections   Leaders Optimistic Over Sweep; Say People Dissatisfied

OOP. StES 44 VICTORY IN AIR   Dewy Presidential Stocks Sweep Upward; Republicans Greatly Encouraged.

Election Results Lad GOP to Look for 1944 Victory   Rewewal of Dewey Boom Sims From Hanley’s New York Success

Republican Victories Raise  Hopes Of Big Sweep In 1944   Leaders Predict Great Gains Next Year as Stock of  Governor Dewey for Republican Presidential Nominatinn Dicae .

Republicans See Sweep in 1944   Tuesday Victories Pass Expectations

JAPS BELITTLE RELIEF PARLEY   Agreements Reached On Important Problems

EIGHTH ARMY BLASTS PATH TOWARD TUNISIA; YANKS RAID, WITHDRAW   Activity Indicates Mongomery’s Forces May Be Getting Ready to Strike at Rommel Units From the South

EIGHTH ARMY IS PREPARING TO STRIKE ROMMEL   Germans Are Still Holding Key Passes In Maknassy  Reoian   AMERICANS STAGE LIGHTNING THRUSTS

Allied Skirmishes Hint Start Of Major Tunisian Struggle   Preliminary Activity Points to Real Task Involved in Ousting Axis From Last Stronghold on African Continent

Germans in Control Of Heights   Job of Pushing Axis Out of Tunisia Expected to Be Tough

Advance Force Of British 8th  Now in Tunisia   Offensive May Be Near; U.S. To Rush Weapons To Giraud’s French Army

British Set For Smash Against. Rommel’s Men   Unified Command Under. Eisenhower Is Believed Near

‘LYNN NOMINATION APPROVED 1310 10   Three Democrats, George, Van Nuys and Gillette Join Seven Republicans In Opposition.

Flynn Approved By Committee  Nomination os Envoy   Nomination os Envoy Goes to Senate After Favorable 13-10 Vote

FLYNN FAVORED BY SENATE UNIT   Committee Approves Nomination As Australian Minister By 13-10 Vote

OPPOSED TO. FLYNN   Three Democrats on Committee Vote Against Confirmation: °

Committee Vote Close on Flynn   He Gets Endorsement For Diplomatic Post by 13 to 10 Vote.

Nomination» OF ;      Nomination as Minister to Australia Must Be Approved by Senate.

Senate Group  Approves Flynn For Envoy Post   Three Democrats Join Republicans In Opposition

FLYNN 13 GIVEN COMMITTEE 0.4   ‘Senate Foreign Relations Group Votes 13°Ts 10 For Approval

Flynn Has First Okeh In Senate   Foreign Relations Group Goes 13 to 8 For FDR Friend.   Test Next Week   Chamber Voting On Dem Ex-Chairman As Aussie Envoy.

SCHOOL BROKEN INTO   (‘Story in High School Squibs on Page 2.)   FLYNN APPOINTMENT IS APPROVED BY A SENATE COMMITTEE

FLYNN APPROVED — BY COMMITTEE   Vote 13 to 10 But The Senate Hurdle . Remains -

Flynn Selection Meets Approval --Of Senate Group   Vote Of 13-10 Recorded By Foreign Relations Body On Australian Ministry

Committeemen Approve Flynn By 13:10 Vote   Washington Ready to Begin Axis’ ‘Unconditional Surrender’

FLYNN APPROVED BY 13-10 MARGIN   Wins Committee O. K. for  Australian Post

Nomination Of Flynn Approved   Final Committee Vote Is 13 to 10; GOP Opposes

Flynn Wins First Round in Senate   Foreign Relations Committee Approves His Appointment

FLYNN PASSED BY COMMITTEE   Foreign Relations Group Approves Nomination By 13 to 10 Vote. .

GROUP IN SENATE INDORSES FLYNN   Supported In 13-10 Ballot; 3 Democrats Vote ‘No’

FLYNN APPROVED BY SENATE GROU   Final Decision: by Upper Branch on Appontment to Australia’ Remains in Doubt

FLYNN GIVEN COMMITTEE'S OK AS ENVOY   Senate Committee Approves President’s Choice 4s Envoy To Australia

Flynn Passed By Committee   Close Vote May Indicate Rejection On Senate Floor

Flynn Approved by Senate Committee; Report:Next Week   Senate’s Decision on Nomination in Doubt; Capitol Agog

FLYNN GIVEN COMMITTEE OK BY 13-10 VOTE   Three Democrats Join Witt Republicans In Opposing Roosevelt Nomination.   SENATE ACTION DUE   Ballot Expected Next Week After Recommendation By Foreian Relations Unit.

Senate Group Passes Flynn   Approved as Ambassador To Australia, 13 to 10; Test in Senate Next

Committee Okays Flynn Appointment   Vote 13-10; Full Senate to Act on Nomination Monday

FLYNN GIVEN OK IN SENATE GROUP VOTE   THREE DEMOCRATS JOIN THE 7 REPUBLICANS IN PROTEST VOTE

1d RECOMMEND FLYNN FOR JOB   3 Democrats Join Republicans in Opposing Roosevelt’s Nomination.

Flynn Passes  First Ballot   Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves Roosevelt Nomination.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Approves Roosevelt Appointment Of Flynn To Australia

FLYNN NAMING APPROVED BY SENATE GROUP   Three Democrats — George, Van Nuys, Gillette—Join Seven .Republicans Against Nominee

Gillette of Iowa Is Against Flynn   ‘three Democrats on Foreign RKelations Committees Vote  Against Confirmation

Nomination Of Flynn Is Given O. K.   Senate Committee Votes 13 to 10 For N. Y. Politician

Approval Is Given Flynn's App ointment   Result of Vote in Foreign Relations Committe Is 13 to 10   NOW GOES 10 SENATE

Flynn Wins Approval of Senate Group   . Decision Gives FDR Victory in Test of Intraparty Strength

FLYNN NOMINATION GETS COMMITTEE OK   Confirmation By. Senate Is Considered Doubtful

Vote 13 to 10 for Ed Flynn ‘In Committee   Endorsement . Sends * the Nomination to Senate for -a Decision Next Week   THREE DEMOCRATS. ~. VOTE AGAINST HIM   Confirmation: in Doubt: as G.0- P. Is Expected.to Cast Solid. ‘No’ ‘Vote

“DUNKIRK” IN BLACK SEA FOR HITLER TROOPS:   Russians Cut Last R. R. Line Along Which Large Reich Force Could Escape From Caucasus.

100,000 Mok NAZIS IN AED ARMY PINGER   Soviets Cut Last Railroad by Which Germans Can Get Gut of Caucasus.   RETREAT HAMMERED BY RUSSIAN NAVY PLANES

123 BOCHE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN   Powerful Defense of Russian City Foils Raid

Russ Repulse 500 Planes in Kursk Attack   Germans Lose 123 Craft in Major Air Battle of War

ltalians Have Case  Of Jitters   Report Allies Have Massed 3,000 planes, Million Sol diers tor Invasion

BLOCKBUSTER BOMB RAID OVER COLOGNE   North African Offensive Eases Up For The Present

TEXAS CATTLEMAN WITH JEFFERSONIAN PHILOSOPHY AT TOP  GROVER B. HILL IS SERV ING AS MARVIN JONES’ MAIN ASSISTANT ©

Grover Hill Moves  In As Adviser  To Marvin Jones Amarillo Man Said  To Favor Strongly Non-Interference

Allred Appointment to Bench Denounced By O’Daniel; Opposes Subservient Judiciary

Chest, War Fund Total Passes $27,000 As Helena Staff Prepares for Intensive Campaign Opening Monday

Chest, War Fund Salesmen Attempting To Speed Flow of Subscriptions ; Nearly One-Fourth of Quota Raised

ALLIED AIR FORCES MAINTAINED STEADY POUNDING OF ENEMY  AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL EXPECT.  ING ENEMY ONCT AICUT

ALLIES EXPECT IIE‘ JAP ONSLAUGHT   Airmen Blast Foe in Burma, Solomons and in New Guinea; Japs Bomb India

New Air Attacks On Japs   Batter Enemy in Burma, Shipping and Solomons Bases.

Japs Prepare For New Blow At Guadalcanal   Allied Air Forces Land Telling Blows From China South   Enemy Planes Make Three Raids Over The Weekend   United Nations Plan Is To Unhinge Japan From Entire South Seas

BRA 2 NEW ATTACKS GUADALCANAL   Reveal Allied Offensive Plans Extend Far Bevond That Fiercely Fought-for Island

Kew Attack On Guadalcanal Is Expected Soon   Allied Airmen Keey Up Battering O: Japs In Burma Solomons

Murder on Train Is Described by Marine Witness Negro Cook Said by .  Private to Have Been Perspiring Heavily

CREWLESS T R ANSPORT TRAVELS 2,000 MILES   Plane Finally Crashed In Mexico After Eight Men Bailed Out Off Florida Coast

Farker Iheit 1s Attributed To Saboteurs   Dynamite. And Cap: Stolen, Dies ” Unit Told

Midcounty Objections To Seawall Plan Fading As INo Taxes Are Involved

Midcounty Objections To Seawall Plan Fading After Explanation   ‘McWhorter Answers Opposition At Parley With Nichol. son; No New Taxes Are Involved In Proposal

Croix de Guerre Goes To American Soldiers  ss ne eee -_i en, h hfe eee a

Sardinia Power Station Hit; Violent New Action Noted on Russian Front

Furious Fighting Breaks Out On Front In Russia   Davies Leaves Moscow With Letter For FDR

Flying Fortresses Lead Assault on Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria; Russian Front Flames With Action in Some Sectors

Forts Blast at Italian Bases Again   Furious Fighting Rages in Kuban Valley; Japs -Menace Chinese Capital

New Attacks Made on Axis  Island Bases    Violent Action Taking Place in Some  _ Sectors of Russian Front; New Threat to China Appears More Menacina

Violent Action On Russian Front   Bitter Fighting Reported in Kuban Valley Bridgehead — Russians Force Main Defenses Southwest of Velikie Luki —London Papers Hint Italian Collapse

Davies Leaves With Letfer From Stalin   London Hears Sensational Italian Devalopments in Prospect

New Activity in Russia and on Italian Front   Decisive Days of 1943 Appear To Be At Hand As Furious Fighting Is Reported In 2 Sectors

Savage New eAssaults On Axis Islands   Fresh Devastation In Sicily, Sardinia; Russian Front Erupts.

Italian Island Bases Attacked  Tons Of Bombs Loosed  On Enemy Positions

AFRICAN BASED U. $, BOMBERS CONTINUE BLAST AXIS ISLANDS  ALLIED WARNING FOR ITALY GET OUT OF WAR 1S POUNDED HOME

BIG NAZI DRIVE AGAINST REDS IS BELIEVED ON   Furious Fighting Raging in Air and On Land in Kuban And at Novorossisk   PRESSURE PUT ON ITALY   Collapse of Mussolini Is Hinted Brewing - - Hitler Guards Norway Gate

Battle To New Fury   ‘Bombing Attacks Rock Italy; Furious Fighting Erupts on Long Quiet Russian Front

Savage New Attacks By American Fliers Spread Devastation   Outbreak Of Violent Fighting On Several Soviet Fronts Indicate Decisive Days Of 1943 Are Near

AIR DRIVE ON ITALY GOES ON AS RUMORS HEARD OF UNREST; FIGHTING INTENSIFIED IN RUSSI   GERMANY HOPES FOR DELAY IN ALLIED DRIVES TO ALLOW TIME FOR BUILDING UP_NEW ARMIES

U.S. Bombers Blast Sicily And Sardinia   Savage Assaults Made On Axis Island Bases  In Mediterranean Area

U.S. Bombers Show ltalians Another Sample of Might   Russian Front Is Stirred Into Action In Some Sectors

Larger Scale Operations On Soviet Fronts   Heavy Bombings OF Halian Soil Continue: Slow Progress ‘With Attu Clean-Up

Bitter Fighting Reported in Kuban Valley Bridgehead — Ruasians Force Main Defenses Southwest of Velikie Luki —London Papers Hint Italian Collapse

SAVAGE NEW ATTACKS ON AXIS ISLANDS   Italian Islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria And Air Base At Comiso Traly Bit.

U.S. Bombers GiveWarning Of Italy’s Lot   ir  ‘Terrific Pounding Given  Mediterranean Outposts ' Of Axis Fortress

IS RAGING NEAR NOVOROSSISK   London. Papers Report Italy On Verge of ae * Panic

NO OTHER MEDIUM   New ‘Attacks _ Are Suffered _ By Axis Base:   Allied Fliers Continue Devastating Raids in Mediterran ean Area as Activity Flares on Russian Front

START OIL FLOW EASTWARD SOON   ICKES INDICATES DRASTIC CUT IN MIDWEST GASOLINE

GARDEN MERTING.   First in Series of Meetings to \id Gardeners is Wednesday.

. WHAT OUR BOYS S ARE DOING TO s WIN THE WAR   2. & 2 6. & & & 6. & @ @.

LOCAL SERVICEMEN ADVANCE IN STUDIES   PFC Robert Abrams Graduates From Schoo! In Texas   3 SAILORS ON LEAVE

PLANNING TO CLEAR CONGESTED DOCKET OF DISTRICT COURT  MANY OLD. DELNWUER

PLANNING TO CLEAR CONGESTED DOCKET OF DISTRICT COURT  MANY OLD DELINQUENT TAX SUITS FILED AND NEVER TRIED

Pay-as-You-Go \Tax System iWill Be Drafted   Congress Sets Out to Devise Plan Soon ac Poecibla

Congressmen Are Seeking Painles: Taxation Methoc  Pay-As-You-Go System fF Favored  By Ways fot  Kees. Seem

GONGREGD oPLEDS PAY-GO TAX PLAN   Formally Sets Out to Devise System as Quickly as Processes Permit; Committee Calls Public Hearings

Installment Tax Proposal Gains   Treasury Indicates “Some Compromise

COMPROMISE TAX. PROPOSAL SUPPORT SEEN   Pay-As-You-Go Plan Gains Favor In Capital

TAX COMPROMISE PLAN ADVOCATED   MOVEMENT UNDER WAY TO PUT PAYERS ON CURRENT BASIS QUICKLY,

HOUSE GROUP STUDIES NEW TAXPROGRAM   Pay-as-You-Go © Plan Expected to be Devised by Committee

Partial Canceling of ’42 Tax May Win Treasury Backing   House Ways, Means Committee Opens Hearings Tuesday on Pay-Day Plans; Forces Marshal for, Against Rum] Plan

Action Seen On Tax Plan   Pay-As-You-Go Given Treasury’s Backing

MORE WOUNDED FROM TEXAS’ FIGHTING THIRTY-SIXTH ARRIVE AT HOSPITAT. AND TELI. STORIES

More Wounded of 36th Division Arrive At Temple With Stories of Salerno Battle

More Wounded Texans Reach Hospital With Their Dramatic Stories of Fierce Fighting at Salerno

Four Oklahomans Win Air Awards   Won Decorations In European Theater of Operations

BATTLE DUAL CITIZENSHIP   STATE SENATE PASSES ANTI-JAPANESE MEASURE

OFFER LOANS FOR FREEDOM FARM PROJECT   Emergency Crop Cash Is Available.

DOUBLE PARKING. MUST BE ENDED   Two Arrests’ Were Mage by Police ‘Thursday Nignt in Tipton.

GERMAN PORT OF BREMEN 18 TARGET AGAIN   SOFIA IS) POUNDED; i2 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED

U.S. Heavies Lash Bremen   25 Bombers, 8 Fighters Are Lost And 42 Nazis Downed

U. S. Blow at U-Boat Center Costs 33 Planes As Germans Lose 42   Reds Report New Gains in Great Northern Campaign; Nazis Tell of Setback on Lower Dnieper; Allies Continue Painful Progress in Italy

AUSTRIAN TOWN ABOVE BRENNER PASS HAMMERED   Augsburg in Southern Germany and Targets in North France Pounded as Offen sive Is Stepped Up.   MEDITERRANEAN-BASED PLANES TAKE PART   Blast 37 Enemy Craft From Skies in Two Forays—11 Fortresses and Liberators Missing,

Southwestern Germany, Sofia Yankee Targets   U. S. Toll 25 Bombers, 8 Fighters; Nazi Losses 42 Aircraft

Bremen,Sofia. fnnsbruck,  Augsburg Hit   Nazis Lose Possibly 100 Planes in Raids And America: 44  NEW BLOWS HINTED

Reich Pounded Day and Night   Yanks Blast:Bremen, British Hit. South

Improving of Airport Is Delayed   Moberly Project Among Many Believed ‘Hopeless’ Until After War Ends   BEAM-SENDER AND LIGHTS ARE NEEDED   Moberly’s Situation Is a Part of Nation-Wide Problem Being Studied   Many OCnomnlications

FRED MM, HARRISON DIED AT ST, JOSEPH   Publisher of the Gallatin North Missourian Passed Away Today.

OPA PERMITTED TO STANDARDIZE FOOD PRODUCTS   President Signs Bill Which Will Continue Life Of cece

THINKS OPA MAY SET STANDARDS   ! —  President Says Bill Allows Stand ardization When Necessary for Price Control

STANDARDIZE ANY COMMODITY F.D.R, ORDERS   President’s Directive Aimed at Effeeting Price Control

Japanese Air Attack Sinks 4 Allied Ships   U. S. Announces Destroy: er, 3 Other Vessels Last: Blasts Tokio Claims   KAHILI IS RAIDED   BI7's, Avengers Strike Ir Shortlands After Clast Near Guadalcanal

FOUR ALLIED SHIPS SUNK BY JAPANESE OFF GUADALCANAI   Navy Reported the Sinking Was Result of Attacks : on Shipping.   WERE NOT IDENTIFIED   It Was Presumed That Most of Those Lost Were American.

4 ALLIED VESSELS   A Destroyer Lost in Air Attack Wednesday, Navy: Says- Name Not Given   TANKER ALSO SUNK BY ENEMY BOMBS   Next of Kin of Al Casu alties Will Be Notified

Tokyo Says 15 U. S. Vessels Sunk In Fight   Claims It Was 37 U. S. Planes Bagged, Not  Japanese

Tokio Claims A Sea-Air Victory Off Guadalcana   Asserts Allied Cruiser. Destroyer And 10 Trans. ports Sunk.

Japanese Sink 4 Allied Ships      Destroyer, Tanker Among Victims

Yankee Forces Drive Against Kscape Route   American Troops Take 1.300 More Prisoners In El (,uetar Sector,    EXPECT NAVAL BATILE

Rominel Force Abandons Two Strone Points   British 8th Army In Close Pursuit While Americans Press Closer To Coast

JAP AIRMEN SINK FOUR ALLY SHIPS IN GUADALCANAL RAID   DESTROYER LOST AS ENEMY HITS SHIPPING IN 98-PLANE ATTACK NEAR PACIFIC ISLAND BASE ON WEDNESDAY; COST IS 34 PLANES

Tokyo Claims to Have  Sunk 12 Allied Ships in Battle Near Guadalcanal

JAPSCLAIMING. A BIG VICTORY      Tokyo Says 15 U. S. Ships Sunk in Attack on Salomons Fleet.

Three Destroyers Reporied Lost by Navy in October   Borie Sunk after Trewing Blood in U-Boat Victory

Jap Planes Sink Four ‘Allied Ships   Attack Allied Convoy April 7, Report of Navy Department

4U.S. Ships Sunk In Jap Air Attack  Destroyer Is Included In Total Losses

Japs Claim Their Air Attack in Solomons Sank Cruiser, Destroyer And 10 Transports, Downed 7 Planes   RY UNITED PRESS

JAPS SAY 19 ALLIED SHIPS HIT OR SUNK   Also Claim Shooting Down! 37 Planes in Engagement Which U. S. Says Took Toll of Only Seven  ‘Amarpicean Opaft

Tokyo Claims Cruiser and  10 Transports   Lull Over in Pacific  Japs Frantically Moving in

tives Through 7 Days of Bombing: By Own Comrade:   \Veteran Tells of Harrow: ing. Experience as Prisoner in Sicily

Everybody Pitched In To Help Stem Nazi Tank Drive   Fairmont Indian. Among Those Who » Stood . By Their -Guns - Despite Heavy Fire: i

V enango County Youth Ts Here Tn North Africa   Johu Hetzler, Kennerdell, Rushes Shells Up Hill  To Stop Advancing Nazis

Early Action on Man Power Seen  Solons Push Farm Draft Deferment

Manpower Draft Bill Supported By Sec. Stimson   Backs Austin- Wadsworth Plan To Provide Farm Labor

MANPOWER DRAFT ACTION SPEEDED   Stimson Strongly Endorses Austin- Wadsworth Bill On Call

EARLY ACTION EXPECTED ON DRAFT PLANS   Austin-Wodsworth Manpower Measure Gets : Endorsement

Speedy Action Seen on Bill For Drafting Of Manpower   Stimson OK’s Measure To Draft Men, Women For War Factories And Work on Farms

Knox to Join Plea to Draft For War Toil   Senate Likely to Adopt Blanket Deferring Of Fariners

STIMSON BACKS BILL DEFERRING FARM LABORERS   Speedy Passage Of Manpower Draft Measure Is Foreseen In The Senate   SIZE OF THE ARMY UNDER DISCUSSION

EARLY ACTION ON MANPOWER DRAFT IS SEEN   Stimson’s Endorsement Of Austin-Wadsworth Bill May Speed Up Passage   Green Raps Big Army

Compulsory Labor Bill Is Arousing Support; Deferment for Farm Workers Also Will Be Advocated

BIG PLANE CRASHES DURING TEST FLIGH]   Three Members of Crew Killed in Experimental Cargo Ship Made Largely of Wood.

WOODEN PLANES CRASH, 7 KILLED   Experimental Troop And Cargo Ship Falls Apart

SUBS ATTACK SHIPS ON WAY TO GIBRALTAR   German U-Boats, Planes Destroyed  In Night Battle

DESTROYED ‘BY CONVOY   Nazi Sea Raiders Come -Out Second Best In -- Channel Battle

Five Nazi Subs Sunk, Many Planes Destroyed tn Battle With Convoy

Two Convoy Craft Sunk in Channel   All-Night Battle Claims: Many Nazi Planes: 25 Shins Listed in Convoy

U.S. Army Loudspeakers Telling of Food Help Starving Japs Make Up Minds To Surrender on Guadalcanal

Private Hasamoto Has Enough   Veteran Jap Soldier Vielates Code. Leads Group:to US. Lines on Guadalcanal :

Japanese Violate Warrior Code First Time In One Thousand Years By Surrendering Instead Of Dying

Group Of Tired, Hungry Japs On Guadalcanal Isle Surrendey   Veteran Of 3 Jap Campaigns Says Southeastern Solomons  Are Lost-—-Wants-To Come To America To Live

Hunger,-Incessant-American. Shelling. Lead Japs on Guadalcanal to Violate Old Warrior Code of ‘No Surrender’

BOMBARDMENT SNAPS NERVE OF NIPPONESE   Loud Speakers Urge Enemy to Give Up Arms

Hardened Veterans Of Other Victorious Campaigns Now Surrendering

Yanks turn on psychology to  crack enem y   Shabby Japanese  surrender selves

Japs’ Surrender  Violates War Code   Soldiers on Guadalcanal, Hungry and Tired, Give Selves up to Americans

Japs Break Old Code, Surrender to Yanks   Guadalcanal Veterans, Half-Starved, Despondent. Give Selves Un

WillExhibit Craft Here On May 24   Submersible, Captured At Pearl Harbor, Mounted On Trailer, Tours U, S.

BELIEVE DECISIONS HAVE BEEN REACHED   Moscow Conference Reported to Have Shifted to Political Topic.

ON POLITICAL TOPICS   Some Decisions Reported Made ir Moscow Conference

ONY TRI-PARTITE 5 QFE MILITARY   Learn That Molotov Is Presiding at Talks Between Eden and U. S. Sec. Hull

ILLINOIS LEG OF PIPELINE DONE   LAST JOINT WILL BE WELDED TODAY !N UNION COUNTY

   Walker Denies Loaded Dice Used During Party at Home   Postmaster General’s Aide Asserts Charge “Ridicu louie’? asnel Dnalereans is a  and Declares No “Educated Ivories” Were Rolled; Micht Have Tossed Gallening  245 Ne NA does pines,  Dominoes In “A Friendly Game”

FRENCH PRESS DRIVE TO PURGE VICHYITES   Extend System To Corsica From North Africe

GE VIGHVITES IN NORTH AFRICE   Clean-Up fnsisted. on By Gen. DeGaulle Extended To Corsica.

SULONS SLATE TERM ACTION   ASSEMBLY TO WEIGH PRESIDENT ACT MONDAY

40,000 SEIZED IN MARSEILLES AREA      Say Many “State Enemies” Have Been Active In District

RESISTANCE IN DGNETS BASIN AT AN ENE   d  Reds Pursue Battered  German Armies to — Dnieper River

Stolino Within Grasp of Soviets as Battered Germans Are Thrust Backward

GERMANS KEPT ON RUN TOWARD DNIEPER RIVER   Russians Near Contro Of Donets Basin, Chase Foe

GERMANS ON THE RUN IN DONETS BASIN   Two Thirds Of Basin Now In Russian Hands

Soviets Pursue Nazis Toward Dnieper River   Reds Close In On Stalino As Donets Offensive Continues

DARING RAIDS JOLT MORALE OF NIPPONESE   STRONG AMERICAN FORCE DEFIES ENEMY FLEET

Raid Direct Threat To Jap Nation   Tokyo Radio Warns Nips To Solidify Mainland Defense

Marcus Island Is  AttackedByU.S.   Powerful Task Force Bombs and Shells Jap Base In Direct Threat To Security Of Enémy Homeland

A tlonee: Feat Virtually llenges Japanese Fleet   Joponese Admit That Forces Could Have Made fame Kind Of Raid Upon Mainland Of Japan

Raid On Marcus Sets Off Jitters.   Japs Admit Blow On Tokyo-Possible

Marcus Island Assaulted by Sea and Air   U. S. Could Have Made Raid-on Jap Mainland, Enemy Radio Asseris

RAID HAD PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT ON JAPANESE WHOSE RADIO CALLS FOR HOME DEFENSE; DARE FLEET TO FIGHT.

IG U.S. TASK FORCE POUNDS FOE'S OUTPOST   Bold Raiders Dare Jap ~ Home Fleet to Come  Out and Fight

Naval Force Hammers Marcus Isle   Audacious Raiders Bomb and Shell Outpost Guarding Tokyo and Dare Nipponese to Come and Fight

U. 5. Task Force Bombs and Shell: Outpost of Tokyo   Marcus Island Gets Warning of Future

Powerful Task Force In Raid. On Marcuslsle   First Announced In Japanese Broad: cast; Later Confirmed By Navy Statement

Navy Attacks Japanese  Island Base  Outpost Guarding Tokyo Approaches Is Shelled, Bombed

Task Fleet Bombs Marcus Isle, Bringing Terror to Tokyo; Move Mav Mean Drive for Base

MARCUS ISLAND, 1,200 MILES FROM TOKYO, ATTACKED   American Warships and Planes Bombard Outpost Guarding Approaches  to Enemy’s Capital. —   SILENCE OF RADIO CONCEALS RESULTS   Battleships and Carriers Believed in Task Force That Makes Audacious Assault.

Audacious Raid Defies Japanese Fleet to’ Come Out  FIRST WORD CAME FROM TOKYO RADIO  No Details of the Assault Expected for Many Hours

Marcus Raid Announced  First by Japs   Enemy’s Worries Grow, Radio Avers Attack Might Have Hit Japan  PIIRPOSE NIVSTERY

LOCAL MAN FACES FEDERAL ACTION   Government Would Cancef Naturalization of Walter E. Gudert   AS NAZI SYMPATHIZER

LOCAL MAN FACES FEDERAL ACTION   Government Would Cancel Naturalization of Walter E. Gudert

Two U.S, Cruisers Sunk, Says Tokyo   Allies Smash Rabaul Again, Knock Down 45 Japanese Planes

NEW ATTACK ON AIRBASE AT RABAUL   Liberators Knock Out 45 Planes And Drop Many  Bombs On Vunakanau Airdrame   Sink Troop Ships

Allied Craft Drop115Tons Of Explosives   Opposition Encountered By Troops Who Invade Island of Choiseul  JAP FORCES SPLIT

Allied Planes Knock Down 45 Nip Aircraft  Smashing Raid Is - Made on Vital Jap Base at Rabaul

45 MORE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN AT RABAUL BASE   Latest Bag Of Japanese Aircraft Raises Total To 775 For October   ENEMY RESISTING ON CHOISEUL ISLAND

Allies Bag 45 More Jap Craft at Rabaul   Some Enemy Opposition Encountered at Choisful Island, Invaded by American, New Zealand Forces; Jap Defenders Split

Rabaul Gets Terrific Aerial Blow   Enemy Loses 45 Planes As Allies Smash Vital Jungle Target

MacA;thur’s Bombers Deliver Another. Sledge Hammer: Blov At Rabaul, New Britain, Sun

45 Enemy Airplanes Destroyed at Rabaul   MacArthur's Force Drops 115 Tom Of Bombs On New Britain Base; 775 Craft Bagged During October

oi Destroy 45 Jap Planes At Rabaul Base   Yank Peratroopers Encounter Enemy In Choiseul Thrust

45 Jap Planes Are Downed in  Rabaul Raid   Group Troops Landed on Choiseul Meet Some Opposition

Regional REA Officials In Meeting Here Name National Director. Pass Resolutions

Winning War Is U. S. Policy   That Alone Dictated U.S. Action in Africa, Hull Declares 

African Policy Is To Win War   Hull Outlines It Refore Committee

U.S. Policy Based On Winning War   Hull Says Only One Policy In Africa

PLANES BOMB W. GERMANY BY DAYLIGHT   With Escort of Thunderbolts and Spitfires; Duren in Ruhr Raided for First  ime.   Sweep Over France

METAL PLANT AT DUREN HIT IN BOMB RAID   FIGHTER OPPOSITION IS STIFFENED ON WESTERN FRONT

DAYLIGHT RAIDS TASH GERMANY   New Escort Technique  Employed To Ward Off Opposition

Metal Plant At Duren Pounded   Eight Big Bombers lost Ont] ¢ Ratt

METAL PLANT AT DUREN RAIDED BY FORTRESSES   Airfield At Gilze-Rijen, Holland, Also Attacked Wednesday Afternoon   LESS GERMAN FIGHTER OPPOSITION IS MET

Airfield in Holland Also Is Blasted by Americans  EIGHT PLANES LOST IN DAY ASSAULTS  Continuing Night Attacks  Indicated as Radios Go Silent

Yank Bombers Blast Metal Plant at Duren   11 Enemy Fighters Destroyed in Raid; Dutch Airfield Also Hit: 8 Bombers Lost

German Metal Plant at Duren Blasted  . Eight U.S. Bombers Are Lost in Daylight Attack

EIGHTH AIR FORGE RENEWS DAYLIGHT AAIDS ON REICH   Blasts Metal Plant at Duren; Airfield in Holland Target of Attack   EIGHT BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN FROM RAID   New Double-barreled Fighter Escort Technique Used to Meet Challenge of Fierce Nazi Opposition; 11 Enemy Planes Downed

REICH METAL PLANT BOMBED   American Planes Also Attack Nazi Airfield in Western Holland

Yankee Bombers Blast at Duren    Lose 8 Planes, Down 1] Enemy Fighters

FRENCH LEADERS SET UP CABINE]   GROUP TO RULE UNTIL PROVISIONAL. GOVERNMENT IS ESTABLISHED

Eleven Members Of Cabinet for France Named:  Several Places sul To Be Filled in . New Organization

French Governing Agency Set Up  Group to Act Until Freedom Its Won

Leaders Appoint French Cabinet Of 11 Members   Communiques Said Vague, Also Speak Of Special War Body

FREE FRENCH CABINET SET UP IN ALGIERS   Communique Also Announces War Com-/ anittee Formed

French Announce 11 on Commission   Agency to Govern  Until Home Land Is Free

REPORTS PACIFIC TROOPS WEARY OF PRETTY SPEECHES   Veteran Fires Blast at Mrs. Roosevelt and Labor Strikare

ANOTHER COAL CRISIS HINTED   Quirk in Ickes-Lewis Agreement Is Cited By SFA

REVEAL GOAL: C051 10 BE STEPPED UP   Increase in Earnings. Approved by WLB; OPA Ordered to Hike Coa! 17 Cents a Ton

Another Coal Crisis Looms   Quirk in Lewis-Ickes Agreement May Block Settlement

Quirk in Proposed Mine Wage Contract Threatening Crisis   ‘Joker’ Found in_ IckesLewis Agreement on Pay Increases

Coal Case Not Yet — Ended   Actual Amount of Working Time Is Crux of Controversy : WLB Studying Facts

Miners Pay Pact Causing Much Friction   Quirk in Agreement Come: To Fore on Basis of Data Submitted

Fear Another Coal Crisis ls Hatching   Underlying Fiction in Agreement Reached Is Brought to Light

Lewis and Ickes Hit Key Snag   Solid Fuels Explains Why Coal Prices Going Up Despite Wage Rule 

Declare Mine Pact Built On  ‘Fiction Basis   Another National Coal Crisis May Be Hatching As A Result.

NEW SITUATIONS ARISE OVER COAL   Sudden Change In Agreement of Ickes, Lewis Moves Toward Front.

Coal Situation Serious, But Not Critical. ....  Coal Agreement Quirk Explains Price Boost

ICKES: LEWIS ©       alls p Why. ‘Coal’ Prices Going Up.and Maybe ; 3a New Crisis

Find Quirk In  Mine Program   War Labor Board Approves Not Wage Increase. Increase In Earnings.

ICKES - LEWIS ASSUMPTIONS QUESTIONED   New Crisis May Be Hatching ir Disputes Over Wages vs. Earnings, Travel Time, Lunch Time

Roosevelt Finds Stalin's Letter Is Satisfactory   President Indicates Pleas. ure over Tone of Russian's Reply

STALIN'S REPLY WELL RECEIVED   Roosevelt Pleased Over Letter; Note Exchange Details Secret

FOR STILL SILENT   Gives Evidence of Pleasure  ‘Over: Reply Seon By Davies

HINTS ALLIES WILL DEAL WITH BADOGLIO, KING   Says Nazi Army Only Obstacle

EISENHOWER GIVES MESSAGE TO ITALY ON TERMS OF PEACE   Allied Leader  Implies Negotiations May Already Be In Progress

IMPLIES PEACE MOVES MAY BE IN PROGRESS   Special Radio Message to Italy by American Commander Demands Assistance to  ‘ Germans Must Be Stopped:

AXIS ASSISTANCE ‘MUST BE STOPPED, PLEDGES FREEDOM   German Aggressor Still In Italy Only Obstacle, Is Willing To Recognize Badoglio and King.   PRISONER EXCHANGE WOULD BE INCLUDED   Message In Four Languages, Congratulates Savoy For Qverthrowing Mussolini at   Near Disaster,

‘Germans Unly Remaining Obstacle to Honorable Peace   Offer is Made to Return Italian  Ware Deicanare

EISENHOWE OFFERS ITALY PEACE TERMS   Broadcast Urges Italians Cease ~ Aiding Germans

ASSISTANCE TO GERMANS MUST CEASE   Negotiations Already In Progress To Take Italy Out of War

Implies Negotiations Already May Be Begun Between Italy,. Allies

Cease Assistance To Nazi Troops, Says Eisenhower   Implications Made That Negotiations Are Already In Progress

Cease At Once All Assistance German Armed Forces in I He Tells Italians In Mes: “We'll Rid You Of The mans”   WILLING TO DEAL WITH GEN. BADOGLIO

SUPERMAN HAS BEEN DESTROYED MARSHALL SAYS   Army Chief Of Staff Says Democracies Have Call ed His Blutt   VICTORY PATTERN CLEARLY DESIGNED

Victory Pattern ls Clear, Asserts Gen. Marshall   Army Chief of Staff Tells Governors ‘Superman Has Had His Day”

Marshall Tells Governors Way to Victory Clear  Declares No Chance for Germany To Win; Ex-Russ Envoy Urges Confidence Between Allied Nations

VICTORY CERTAIN, MARSHALL ASSERTS   GENERAL SAYS: NAZIS FACE DEFEAT—“SUPERMAN HAS HAD HIS DAY.”

Large Naval Unit Escapes to Malta   Important Part of Italian Fleet Reaches Allied Port After Nazi Battle

TWELVE UNITS ITALIAN NAVY AT SPAIN PORT   Four Battleship Nine  Cruisers, Six Messanane,  Numerous Small Vessels Escape Nazi Clutch   ONLY FIVE AT MALTA  ARE IDENTIFIED   ‘Battleships Andrea Doria and Giulio Cesare Among Fleet; Roma in Spanish Hands

NAZIS SINK BATTLESHIP OFF CORSICA   Escaping Vessels Bombed;: RAF Pilot Tells Of Attack

Tells Sinking Of Battleship   Italian Craft ‘Split Open Flier Says

Ban On Fireworks Is Introduced In State Legislature   Measure Would Prohibit Use of Explosives: For Pleasure.

SMOKERS FACE - SOME CHANGES   CIGARETTE AND CIGAR SUP. PLIES TO BE LIMITED AND QUALITY, TO. BE  A LOWER. ‘

EXTENSION IS GIVEN MINERS   Contract negotiations with soft coal producers will continue

Aoree On Thirty Day Extension   Northern Coal Operators And Miners Agree On Month Longer Negotiation Period   EXPECT SOUTHERN SECTION TO AGREE

Germans Flee from Soviets   Russ Only 34 Miles from Dnieper River

NAZTO FLEEING BEFORE AINE ON PAVLOGRAD   Russ Advancing on 450-Mile Front and Kill Nearly 4,000 Germans.   NEW THRUSTS BELIEVED SEALING FATE OF POTAVA

Nazis Race For Dnieper In Disorder   Red Army’s Advance on Paviograd Routing Foe 34 Miles From River; Ukraine Capital Brought Nearer

ITALIAN WAR PRISONERS 10 WORK IN U.S.   Those in Custody at Least Six Months Will Be Allowed to Take Jobs Outside Prison Camps Without Guards.

EASE UP ON PRISONERS      Trustworthy Italians May Work Outside Without Guards

Relax Rules For Italians   Prisoners of War Sometimes Allowed To Work Unguarded.

Italians In U.S. Camps Guardless   New Policy Announced For Prisoners Of War

PLANNING BILL [S PRESENTED   McKinney One of Sponsors Of Measure for PostWar Program

Legislature Given Post-War Planning Bill   Auditor General Ross Denies His Department  Behind in Its Work

GOOD PROGRESS 15 REING MADE AGAINST AXIS NORTHERN AREA  PATROL ACTIVITY IS REPORTED ALL ALONG TUNISIAN FRONT

Satisfactory Progress Is Being Made, Eisenhower Says After Conferences   American and British Aerial Sorties Against Rommel’s Retreating Forces Continue —— Allied Commander Inspects Mareth Front in South

Bisenliower Meets British Heads, Fresh Troops Center Fight   First Army Makes Further Progress; English, American Planes Blast Axis Retreating Forces

America Proud Of Part Played By British Eighth Army, Leader Of All Allied Forces Declares   Announces United States Units Engaged With Enemy On Central Tunisian Front; Work OF Airmen Lauded: Returns From Inspection Trip

Tribune —   Allies Are Maying Aheod on All Fronts To Defeat the Axis

GERMAN TROOPS SUFFER LOSSES IN NORTH AREA   Allied Airc:aft Pound Retreating Enemy Forces

EISENHOWER IN PRAISE OF ALLIED ARMY   In Disclosing Disposition of Troops He Tells of Fine  Suipat   Makes An Inspection Of Axis Mareth Line

General Eisenhower lauds  progress of Eighth army   Yanks proving worth in all phases: ‘British-U. S. harmony is complete’

PRAISES WOR OF ALL UNITS IN CAMPAIGN:   General Says, Air Forces Have Produced Fight. ing Machine of Highest: Morale, Determined to Binich the Toh. ‘ff

Fresh Allied Forces Enter Drive On Axis   Eighth Army Concentrated For Fresh Drive To Effect Junction

FRESH FORCES PROGRESS IN DRIVING AXIS OUT OF AFRICA: EISENHOWER PRAISES TROOPS

EISENHOWER 1S SATISFIED WITH ALLIED ACTION   Continuing Progresss lr Task Of Smashing Axis, He.Says

Eisenhower Visits Front   Describes Disposition ‘Of Forces and Praises Cooperation of Allies

TASK OF SMASHING AXIS OUT OF AFRICA IS CONTINUING   Fresh Forces Under General Alexander Making “Satisfactory Progress.”   Share Pride of the British il Driving Rommel From Mareth Positions.

$Eisenhower Views The Mareth Front   British First Army Makes _ Further Progress: in -North Tunisia   CAMPAIGN “AS ALLIES   Commander Reviews Progregs Since African Operation Began

LEADERS HOLD A CONFERENGE   Eisenhower Reveals Disposition of Allied Forces In Africa.   CAMPAIGN IS DISCUSSED

General Says Fresh Troops Under Alexander Making Good Progress ©

 Short, Sharp Local Attacks Reported All  Along Line with Anderson in North  Making ‘Satisfactory Progress

ACTIVITY IN NORTH NOW; AXIS STUBBORN   Montgomery Gathers Men In South For New Assault; Planes Hammer Foe

EISENHOWER SAYS AFTER CONFERENCE   Every American Can Feel Proud, He States   AIR FORGES   Lending Tremendous Help; Several Advances Made By First Army

Desert Forces Make Progres: In Final Drive   Eisenhower Lauds Work of Yankee Troops Against Foe

PROGRESS MADE IN AFRICAN CAMPAIGN   Eisenhower Confers On War Plans With Montgomery and Alexander

EISENHOWER FINDS FOE NO MATCH FOR ALLIED ARMIES   Back Feony Conference With British Leaders, General Praises Allied Smash And Tells Of Pride Of  Americans In Success In Tunisia.

Allied Troops Take Breathing Spell in Battle for Tunisia   Commander-in-Chief _o! Armies There Meets His Subordinates

Gen. Clark's 5th Army Speeding Up Offensive   Canadians Beat Back Germans - On Adriatic —

YANKS CONTROL MIGNANO AND CANADIANS STEM GERMAN TIDE   Enemy Appears To Be Pulling Out of Central Italy After Burning Villages

Fifth Army Wins New Heights North of Road to Rome — Clearing Germans from South Bank of Garigliano River.

AERIAL FIGHTING AT LENINGRAD: IS ON 24-HR. BASIS   Nazi Bombers -In Steady At: tacks Fail to Exhaust Fighter . Defense.

NAZIS ATTACK AT LENINGRAL   Waves Of Planes Are Used: Many Are Intercepted

AERIAL FIGHTING OCCURS IN RUSS   American Subs Sink Eight Jap Ships, Damage Three Other Supply Vessels.

AMERICAN FORCES BATTERING THE JAP OUTER DEFENSES   Secretary of War Stimson Issued Statement on Pacific Progress.   DRIVE WAS PLANNED   Scheduled at Meeting in Washington Several Weeks Ago.

NEW JAP BASE IS - RAIDED BY FLIERS   Enemy Working Feverish“ly to Bolster Outer, Defences

Bombers. Hit New. Japanese Island Base Solomons Outpost Set Afire By

U.S. BOMBERS HIT NEW BASE   Vanga Vanga And Ringi Blasted In Widening Attacks On Enemy Defenses

Japs Attempting To Build Bases In the Solomons   Seek To Strengthen De fenses against Ring of American Forces

ROOKIES MAKE NEWS ALWAYS   And There’s No Exception with 2nd Regiment at Gap-

16 Zeros Downed In Solomons; Five  Vessels Pounded   Violent Upsurge Of Aerial Warfare Spreads Fron Guadalcanal To 190 Miles West; Six U.S. Planes Are Lost

AIR WARFARE HAS UPSURGE IN SOLOMONS   U. S. PLANES ATTACK FIVE DESTROYERS, BAG 16 ZEROS

JAPANESE PLANES STAGE COSTLY RAID   16 of 30 or 40 Zeros Shot Down by Yanks. Who Lose 6 Planes

U.S. BOMBERS ATTACK 3 AP DESTROYERS   Fighter Planes Shoot Down 16 Enemy Zeros; Both Action Took Place In Sol — ss   Kiska Attacks Continue

Japs Renew dir Warfare   American Planes Hit at Japanese Vessels

JAP VESSELS ATTACKED BY U.S. BOMBERS   Violent Upsurge of Aerial Warfare Reported in Solamone

Fighting Flares Anew Over Solomon Area   Americans Subject Five Jap Ships to Big Bomb Attack; U.S. Fliers Send 16 Enemy Planes Down; Yank Losses Light

Shoppers: Pack City’s Stores   Records Smashed  By EFaner Riiwaere

Shoppers Pack City’s Stores   Records Smashed By Eager Buyers  Be DD ff EFFABRIUWWIATS

Half-Tracks Down Planes In Warfare   Army Reveals  Deadly Vehicle

Fifty- [wo Go For Induction ~ From Carroll   First Local Group To Be Sent For Armed Service ~ Besides Army

New Group of Local Men to Army Service   Fifty-Five Leave From County This Morning For Induction

WILLIAM JEFFERS NAMES PATTERSON ARMY “MEDDLER”   Rubber Chief Says War Department Man Sought Ban on Pleasure Driving for the Duration.

RUBBER DIRECTOR SWINGS AGAIN ... Jeffers Charges Interference By  Army And Navy   Omahan Testifies Before House Investigators That Patterson Wrote Him Demanding All Pleasure Driving Cease Until Victory

RUBBER CZAR MAKES CHARGE   Says military faction is interfering with civilian economy

Other Bodies Sought In Ruins Of Small Hotel   133 War Workers And Transierits Registéeted In Houston Building

45 PERSONS ARE KNOWN DEAD IN TEXAS HOTEL FIRE   Searchers Still Digging In Smouldering Ruins For Others Still Unaccounted For; Blaze Discovered Shortly After Midnight.

49 DIE IN Blo HOTEL BLAZE   SEEK MORE BODIES AFTER TEXAS TRAGEDY

46 Dead, Others Missing In Houston Hotel Fire; Cause Of Blaze Unknown

HOUSTON HOTEL FIRE CLAIMS 45   Thirty-Two Hurt, 11 Critically, ‘After Midnicht

46 Die in Hotel  Blaze in Texas   Many Persons Unaccounted For in War Workers’ Lodginghouse Fire.

47 PERSONS DIE IN HOTEL BLAZE   Old Hotel Destroyed By Fire In Houston; Number In.  inweact 

46 Bodies Recovered Fear More   Most Of Victims Were War Work ers, Transients.

46 KILLED AS FIRE DESTROYS HOUSTON HOTEL   Only 3 Bodies Have Been Indentified Police : Report

i DIEINHOTEL FIRE. TODAY   Small ‘Mid-1 Town. ‘Hostel. “ty, Many Jumped to Safety

47 PERISH IN FLAMING HOTEL   Searchers Digging In Ruins For More Bodies Of Victims

47 PERISH IN HOTEL BLAZE   Guests Trapped on Secont Floor of Building In Houston. Texas.

46 Persons Die As Fire Sweeps Houston Hofel   133 War Workers and Transients Registered At Small Hotel; Blaze Cuts Off Fire Escapes

HOTEL BURNS IN TEXAS CITY; AT LEAST 46 DIE   Fire Escapes Cut Off By Blaze; 3 Bodies Identified

OTHERS MAY BE BENEATH TEXAS RUINS   Many Leap From Windows During Houston Disaster

Forty-Eight Die In Texas Hotel Blaze   Searchers Dig Through Charred Ruins For Others

46 Are Dead In Midtown Houstor Texas Hotel Fire   Other Bodies Being Sought Under Charred Debris

4] Bodles Taken From Texas Hotel 133 Guests Were Reg istered In Fire Swept _ Building 7

U.S. FORCE TAKES MOUNT AUSIEN ON GUADALCANAL ISLE   Last Japanese Position ‘ Dominating Henderson Field Taken With Light Losses

YANKS TAKE KEY RIDGE ON GUADALCANAL   Height Dominating Aix Field Captured By WS Parces

INITIAL AMERICAN OFFENSIVE AT END. DISPATCH REPORTS   Delayed Information from Guadalcanal Tells of Mount Aesten Falling.

U.S. Army's First Offensive On Guadalcanal Results in Capture Of Mount Austen; 267 Japs Killed   Gen. Doolittle’s 12th Air Force Maintains 2 to 1 Superiority Over Axis Airmen in N. Africa Fighting

ARMY CLEARS LAST JAP POSITION ON 1800-007 RIDGE   Henderson Field and En: virons Now Under Complete U.S. Control.

Plans’ Made to E: xpand Volunteer Group 2 OF Bows for- Work. on Farms tf Indiana.

Plans Made to Expand Volunteer Group of Bous for Work on Farms of Indiana

SUPPORT MOVE TO SCRAP NYA   Attempt to Remove Three U. S. Employes Fails

Senate May Not Vote to Abolish NYA   House Demands Supported By Bare Majority ir Senate Committee

WILLIS LEADS IN KENTUCKY   Republican Candidate For Governor Leads Democratic Rival By 5,000

GOP FORGES TO KENTUCKY LEAD   Gubernatorial Candidate Has 5.000-Vote Margin

10 SYSTEM OF “RISK CAPITAL”   Would Change U.S. Tax Statutes To _§— Pid Industry ——

Federal Tax Law Revision. Is Proposed   Rep. Dewey, Illinois, Proposes Return to System Intended to Prompt Capital Risk

WOULD FAVOR RISK CAPITAL      House Member Urges Tax ation Plan to Bolster Private Enterprise

 Civilian Supplies of Canned Fruits-and Vegetables May Have to Be Cut Sharply if War Lasts Much Longer, Due to Scarcity of Tin -

‘Scarcity of Tin May Cause Shortage Of Canned Goods; Government. iIs Studying Ways to Avert Trouble

Weather in Helena  Re 7 @ Weather Rurean   Scarcity of Tin May Cause Shortage Of Canned Goods; Government . Is Studying Ways to Avert Trouble

If War Continues Tin Shortage May Compel Alternate Cannine Methods

AIRCRAFT CARRIER  HORNET’S GUNNERS  MADE JAPANESE PAY SOME 59 OF 64 PLANES  ATTACKING SHIP WERE SHOT DOWN

Approximately 59 of 64 Jap Planes Attacking  Shot Down by Hornet's Gunners

JAPS PAID BIG TOLL IN ATTACK ONU.S, CARRIER   Approximately Fifty-Nine of Sixty-Four Enemy Planes Shot Down Over Hornet   TWO FELL ON DECK   “One Exploded On Flight Deck Near Bridge, Starting Furious Fire,” Crewman Relates

Just Like a Kickoff  Hornet’s Guns Downed 60 Planes Before Sinking

Hornet Gunners Knock Down 59 Enemy Bombers   Crewmen Tell How Japs Attacked In Waves; Set Ship Afire

Gunners Aboard Aircratt Carrier Hornet shot Down About 59 of 64 Jap Planes Betore Order Given To Abandon Ship

Japs Paid Dearly For Sinking Of Hornet; Lost 59 Attacking Planes   Two Shattered Enemy Planes Crashed On Decks; Japs Came In Two Waves At Aircraft Carrier While Own Planes Attacked Elsewhere.

Hornet Crew Shot Down 5§ Jap Planes   50 of 54 Shot Down in 7 or 8 Minutes, Crew  Members Say

Hornet Gunners — Shot Down 59 Enemy Airships   Only Five Escape Before Abandonment of Craft Ordered

HORNET GUNNERS SHOT DOWN 59 JAP PLANES   Two of Shattered Enemy _ Planes Crashed on Deck. One Exploded Starting Fire

HORNET DOWNS 59 JAP PLANES   Just Like Shooting Wild Geese, Says Gunner's Mate From Idaho

WHAT OUR BOYS ARE DOING TO 4 WIN THE WAR   One 2 2 2 oe «© &.@ 6.

Carol Opens Publicity Drive  King Spending $35,00( To Ser Forth His

Fruit Supplies Hit Al! Time Low Depend on Transportation, Progréss of War

To Make Sure $943 Supply      a Supplies at All-Time, Low mangportation Difficulties

MONEY POWERS POLICY UPHELD   Morgenthau Reports Sale Of More Gold Than U. S. Purchases

U. S. HAS SOLD MORE GOLD THAN IT PURCHASED   In Last Two Years Treasurer Morgenthau Tells Senate Banking -Committee

SOVIETS OCCUPY CITY OF BRYANSK   New Russian . Successe: Put Reds Three Miles from Nezhin

CAPTURE TWO OF JAIL BREAKERS   One Still at Large from Washington County Break

Three Escape Marietta Jail After Sluaging Deputy: Two Recaptured

SURPRISE ALARM TURNS OUT WELL   Daytime Air Raid Test  Given in Centrai Ohio

Minor Crime Wave Solved: 5 Students Held Under Arrest   Month-Old Spree Ends for University, High Schools Youths

AMERICANS ARE LAUNCHING NEW AFRIGAN BATTLE   Break Thru Area Set Up By Rommel Artillery Unit

General Rommel Afrik: Korps Forced Out Into Plains In Full Retreat.

Heavy Attack Launched From El Guetar Area   Britishers Seize All Key Positions In Nazi Defense Zone

Rommel In Flight As Americans Open Heavy Assault At El Guetar   Montgomery’s Troops Drive. Wedge Into Axi: Positions At Wadi El Akarit; Capture  FNM Delonnaws Bi acothe Tétalianc

Fighting May Prove a Dull Thing to Hugo   Air Cadet’s Extra-Curricular Activities Unusual, to Say the Least.

How's Cadet Hugo! Mama Shivvers Every Time  She Sees the Postman Start Up Her Doorstep

Cold Chills Creep Over Mrs. Wiener Every Time Mailman Starts Up Walk

FLIER HAS CRASHING GOOD TIME  Aviation Cadet Falls Out OF Plane in Path of Bull

Beating, Robbery Anti-Climax for. Aviation Cadet Who Fell From Plane

Frenchmen Not Bound By Moscow   National Committee Demands Voice Over Fate of Germany

French Make  Blunt Bid For Equal Place   France Will Not Consider Herself Bound by Decisions of Big Three

FRANCE BIDS FOR EQUAL PLACE WITH THREE TOP ALLIES   Will Not: Consider Herself Bound - By Decisions’ Unless She Has A Voice

Not Bound By Moscow Agreement   Committee Wants to Have Part in Plans, Indicated  in Statement

Has Skyview Of Invasion   Newsman in Plane Watches Jap Position Pulverized Before Marines Land

Ships, Planes Pound Coast   Tons of Explosives Land on Cape Gloucester Area Before Landing

Ration Banking Plan Explained  Butte Businessmen Hear State Officer

Enemy Iries To Retain Last Island   Japs Make Heavy Air Raid, Marines Battle at Beachhead

BATTLE Funk BOUGAINVILLE IS FURIOUS   Army Troops Landed To Support Marines Battling Japanese On Both Sides Of Empress Augusta Bay.   Damage Planes

WAR DECLARED ON OPA CRITICS   Chester A. Bowles Takes Over Reins, Blasts Pressure Groups

Charges GOP ‘Destructive’  In Polities   Dempsey Raps Action o: Junta on Tobacco Tax, Debentures

Lone Yankee Tank Takes On 4 Nazis   “Texas Unit Stages ‘Little Alamo’

Writer Tells How Lone American Tank F ought Off 10 Nazi Monsters in Tunisia

Lone U.S. Tank Fights Nazi Column, Wrecks 4 Mark IV’s And Saves 300 Americans

la SLAIN         soupnes ‘OF ENGINEER CORFS + SUNED IN CONNECTION © WITH MURDER Ral APARTMENT -

British Also Make Gains, Taking Many Nazi Positions and Knocking Out Tanks

Fifth Pushes Beyond San Pietro In  Nasty Battle   Italian Point Taken I.. Bloody Fighting ; Eighth Army's Tanks Overrun Nazis

Dth Army Troops Punch Forward On Italian Front   British Eighth Army Also: Said Advancing With Tanks Near East Coast

STH ARMY MEN PUNCH AHEAD   Gain Two Miles In Push Beyond San Pietro

Fifth Army Consolidates Battle Gains   Bloodiest Fight Since Salerno Takes Vital Town

Meat ‘Allocation Plan to Get Trial   Ordered in California And Rhode Island

Tommy Sets A Record!   Manville’s 7th Marriage Lasts Seven Hour:

WIFE NO, 7 REJECTED BY TOMMY MANVILLE   ee  Girl Married One Day Faces Ouster the Next

SEVENTH MARRIAGE LASTS SEVEN HOURS   Tommy, Manville And Bride “Bust Up” at Wedding Supper

‘Air War Over Russia Resulted In Loss 123  \Nazi, 30 Russian Planes

TAKE BIG TOLL TN AZT PLANES   Reds Shoot Down 122 German Ships at Kursk Alone as Heaviest Battles Go On

123 NAZI SHIPS ARE DOWNED IN KURSK ASSAULT   Force Of 500 Blasted In Strong Attack On Important Soviet Base   RUSSIAN RAIDERS BUSY   Huge Fires Set At Smolensk; Rail Junctions, Munitions Dumps Hit

Service Buttons For Discharged Men   Those Honorably Discharged to Wear Lapel Matker

‘Act on farm problem or face famine’   Open deferment debate, senate

Weather in Helena See ee   Senate in Debate on Deferment for Farm Workers: Said Famine Looms

Senate in Debate on Deferment for Farm Workers; Said Famine Looms

BRITISH. BOMBERS ATTACK BORDEAUX   Another- Force . Raids Sub Base Of Lorient And * “Left Dock Fires

RAF Hits at. Southwest French Coast   German-Held Port of Bordeaux Ice Rombed

BORDEAUX HIT BY. BRITISH BOMBS IN SERIES OF RAIDS   Another Fleet Visits Battered German U-Boat Base At Lorient.

EXTEND ALLIED AERIAL OFFENSE      British Heavy Bombers and Coastal Command ‘Planes Hit Targets in GermairHeld Ports in France -— Bordeaux Hit Hard During Night.

Hot Fight Rages For Key Heights   Fleet of Landing Barges Passes Through Gibraltar Straits, Follows Convoy

Losses Heavy On Both. Sides   Americans Involved In See-Saw Struggle For Control Of  Hill 609.

Nazis Entrenched On Strategic Hill   Although Only 180 Defend Hill Americans Are Hard Pushed To Reach Them With Their Guns.

Yanks Maintain Line in Fierce  Tunisian Battle   Locked in See-Saw Struggle for Key Hill Near Tunis and Bizerte; Larce British Convoy Passes ‘Rock’

French Leaders Hasten Plans For Assault to Come Against Nazis Occupying Their Land

FrenetrOn-Atert ‘As Allies: Near Captive Nation   Quicker Preparations For Anticipated Assault On ~ Germans In Country

FRENCH LEADERS QUICKEN PLANS FOR INVASION OF FRANCE  UNDERGROUND COMMIT. ‘TEE IN FRANCE GETTING READY FOR TEST

Powerful New Drives Crush Nazis on 400 Mile Front   Activity Increases On African Front; German Attack Beaten Off

T. Manville Flees Bride of 12 Hours   BRIDEGROOM EXITS THROUGH KITCHEN; RESERVES RENO SUITE

Shipworkers  Get Warning  From Officer   Prisoners Questioned by Martial Court _ - After Race Riots

Troops Alert For Trouble.   Beaumont Quiets Down : Following Big Riots -

Military Court Of Inquiry — Opens Beaumont Riot Probe; \Ominous Undertone Holds .

BOND AND STAMP SALES HIT $6,500      Local Firms Vie Ee Honors In City C ampDaion

Local Retailers Compete For First /Place In War Bond Selling Drive   Bond and Stamps Sales Hit $6,500 Durines First Week

BOND AND STAMP SALES HIT $6,500   Local Firms Vie For Hon-. ors In City Campaion

PEACETIME JOB PLANNING PUT IN OPERATION   Basic Research On After War Economy Sponsored By Committee Of Business Men   Unit In Wheeling

Industry Chiets Plan Program To Follow The Wat   To Absorb 29,000,000 Soldiers, War Workers  Into Normal Pursuits

POST-WAR JOBS TO BE CREATED BY COMMITTEE   Organization Of Busines: Men Formed To Assure Work When Peace Comes   FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARE GIVING SUPPORT

GROUP TO CREATE POST-WAR JOBS   BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE WITH VIEW TO GIVING 29,000,000 EMPLOYMENT.

Post-Conflict Needs Studiec   Semi-Official Committee Plans For After-War industrial Lag

Draft Threat Througt Waivers Faces Those Ir Non War Jobs   SPURS FARM DRIVE   Overage Group, 4F's Wil Have Until May ist Te Shift Occupations

New Draft Plan Aims to Hasten Aid to Farmers   38-44 Age Group to Be Deferred Only If in Essential Work

REGISTRANT IS AFFECTED   Men 38-44 to Drop Non-Deferrable Employment

Work-or-Fight Order Applies to Older Men, 4-F’s   Seek Men to Work On Farms; May Draft Men 38-44

Work-Fight Order Issued   AN Draft Registrant: Included Jn Rulinas

OLDER DRAFT REGISTRANTS FACE ORDERS   Work-or-Fight Orders Planned to Obtain Labor For Farms

WORK-FIGHT ORDER FOR REGISTRANTS   Communication: © Is Mailed to All. Local Draft Boords

16-45 GROUP INDUCTION T0 CTART MAY 1   Must Leave Non-Deferrable Occupation or Face Call. to Army.   TOP DRAFT AGE MAY BE PUT BACK TO 44

Work-Or-Fight Order Is Extended In Its Scope   4-F’s And Men Over 38 Are Included In Latest Threat Of Draft Authorities.

Work-Fight ‘Ultimatum’ Given Males   Men 38 Through 44 And 4-F's Included; Mav Ll Deadline Set

Rickenbacker, Back From Long Trip, Says Bombings Will Wreck Italy

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker Praises Air Power Of Allies   Says italy Is Being Bombed Out Of The Wa So Fast A ‘Complete Blowup’ Can Be Expected Any Time

OHIO BOARDS START TO RECLASSIFY DADS   Advised To Call Fathers Only as Needed

U5. AND JAP FLEETS READY FOR ACTION   Kither or Both May Strike at Any Time, Navy Men Say

Jap Bases Are Stormed By Allied Troops   Tanks Used In Drive Against Munda; Mubo js Almost lsolated

AMERICAN TANKS JOIN ACTION IN FIGHT ON MUNDA   Allied Troops Attacking Mubo Defenses To Break Main Bastion

ALLIES OPEN OFFENSIVE. AGAINST JAPS      Seek to Drive Them from N. E.  New Guinea Coast

Strike At Main Jap Stronghold ‘Before Salamaua   All-Out Offensive * To Clear Northeast ‘Guinea Coast Opened

CAMPAIGN BEGUN TO QUST JAPANESE ON GUINEA COAST   All-out Offensive Aimed at Mubo to Break Main Bastion Before Sala-

ATTACK ON MUBO OPENS AS MUNDA NEARS COLLAPSE   Aerial Bombardment Opener For Jungle Fighters as They Close in For Decisive Action.   MUBO GARRISONED BY ABOUT 1500 JAPANESE   Admiral Nimitz Says Outlook Has Brightened Steadily in Pacific During Past Two Months.

DEFENSE LINE TO SALAMAUA BEING MENACED   Aerial Bombardment Opens Path For Troops In Decii sive Ground Campaign      TANKS JOIN MUNDA PUSH   All-Out Offensive Aimed At Wiping Out Jap Bases In South Pacific

BATTLING IN PACIFIC   Munda Fighting Is In Lull, But Fall Is Expected Soon

Allies Smash At Mubo, Key To Salamaua   Munda’s Fall Seen Near After Assault Led by American Tanks

CLOSE IN ON AREAS   Jungle Trained Soldiers Set ‘For Decisive Action’ Communique Reveals Today.

ALLIES OPE NEW GUINEA OFFENSIVE   Mubo Attacked By Infantry After Aerial Blasting

Allied Jungle Fighters Close OnMubo Base   Yanks, Aussies Seek To Pinch Off Last Salamaue Defense Bastion   MAJOR OBJECTIVE   American Tanks Join As sault On Munda As Air Sea Attack Continues

ALLIES ATTACK MUBO, AP BASE NEAR SALAMAUA   Jungle Fighters Seek *Decisive Action’ In New Guinea   U. S. TANKS JOIN IN ASSAULT ON MUNDA

Seek to. Break Main Jap Bastion Before Salamauia   _Mubo Defenses’ Are Attacked .by . Allied ‘Troops

Se i, eri, are, ge, a ie ate ee. ee Seth, a  Rattlesnakes Do Their Bit

EXPECT BYRNES TO SETTLE ALL FEDERAL SPATS   Equipped With More Authority Than Ever Given To Subordinate

BYRNES READY FOR ACTION .   Congressmen Expect War Mobilization Director to Intervene Soon in Intragovernmental Dispute.

BYRNES EXPECTED TO INTERVENE IN OFFICIALS’. FIGHTS   Congressmen Wait. To See New OWM Chief Butt Tegether Heads Of   Squabblers

BOSS' BYRNES MAY IRON OUT INSIDE ROWS   Next Sound You Hear Te Be Heads Bumping Together

Expect Byrnes To Intervene   New Chief Likely Fo Settle Disputes

GOVERNOR LASHES AT GOP FOR STAND IN 16TH ASSEMBLY   Answers Radio Talk by Saying Thomas Jefferson Would  Not be Flattered

ALLIES BEGIN TO “SOFTEN” 4 JAP BASES   Bomb Salamaua, Vila Airdrome and Bairoko Harbor

JAPS POUNDED, BIG LOSSES IN AERIAL BLOWS   Softening up process works very well around the Salamaua base

Salamaua Is Heavily Bombed By Yank Fliers   Over Hundred Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Jap Island Base   OTHER JAP BASES ARE ALSO BOMBED

Half Way Measures Decried   Demands Congress Support General Marshall Or Throw Him Out.”

Baruch Appeals For Manpower   Says There Can Be No Fathers Draft Ban

Leb Rey Thoma Hes : Or ; eal Lauadress   Bread, A Jug of And Poetry of Caldiers

em Ray Thoma Hes  ‘Home OF Aboan Lowndes.   f Bread,‘A Jug ol And Poetry of Soldiers

Alaska 1n the News Alaskan Department Long Step Toward Prosecution Of War: Buckner Favors Occupation of Japan

fildsikda I Ge _NeEws  Alaskan Department Long Step Toward Prosecution Of War: Buckner Favors Occupation of Japan

Oakland Industrial District Swept by Furious Fire; Two  Blocks Destroyed by Flame:

Sen. George Urges Speedy Action On New Tax Bill  Proposals Affecting  Renegotiation of  Cantracte Offerad

George Urges Prompt Action Contract Bil!   Hopes By Saturday Senate Can Face Revenue Question Squarely.

SENITE COMMITTEE HACKS AT TAX BILL   Renegotiation of War Contracts and Slicing of Postal Raises Cuts Bill Again —

BODIES TRAPPED MINERS LOGATED   Rescue Crews Continue Battle Fire in Purseglove Mine Near Morgantown; Four Bodies Removed From Mine

Fire Still Blazes  In Pursglove Mine   Four Bodies Are Removed, Three Others of 13 Killed Lociuted

British Cruiser, ~ Destroyer Sunk   Ships Go Down During - Channel Battle

Two British Warships Sunk In Channel Convoy Battle   Cruiser and Destroyer Torpedoed; Life Loss js Not Announced; Nazis Claim Victory

British Cruiser, Dest froyer Lost  Vessels Hit During Channel Battle

BRITISH CRUISER LOST IN BATTLE   Destroyer Also Sunk in Channel} Conflict

BRITISH CRUISER SUNK BY GERMANS   Destroyer So Badly Damaged in Channel Fight It Is Sent to Bottom Tater.

tenentintine tind  Big British Cruiser Sun!  : Destroyer Damaged  In Channel Naval Battle With Nazis

ICKES MOVES IN COAL SHORTAGES   Declares 50.000 Additional Workers Needed To Provide Requirements.

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN MAY LEAD 10 FEDERAL SALES TAX   New Proposal Would Bring In Undisclosed New Revenues—<Action  Next Week

New Sonate-Heuse Conference Joxpected to Open Way for Drive for Federal ‘Sales Tax by End of Year.

FEDERAL SALES TAX DRIVE BY YEAR-END DUE   Suggest 10 Pet. Levy Best Way To Raise New Tax Revenue

8 ALES TAX BY END OF YEAR SEENINU. S   Dut No Income Tax Rate Hike Indicated for  Two Years

American Pilot Sees Invasion Sea  Black With Ships of Allied Navies

Sea Black With Ships That Set Leaping Flames Inland, First Eyewitness Pilot Says

RESIGNATION CAUSING TALK   Announcement by Don Power, Governor Brieker's Sveretary, Comes as Distinct Surprise. .

County Board Wants John L.  Lewis Squelched-  Strong Resolution Calls for Effective Dealing With Labor Dictator.

County. Board Wants John. I. Lewis Suieldled      8] With I Labor Dictator. 

[OWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY   Some Valuable Pointers on How to - Proceed: when Swimming or Boating-+Paste in Hat

Drowning Deaths This Month Exceed Highway Fatalities   State Safety Council Issues Timely Swimming Tips

J-POWER MEET BELIEF GROWS   Liberated French Fleet May Lend Aid to Allies

Blake Defeats McReynolds for. Chairmanship  McVay, Nacy Are Vice Presidents; -E L. Marre Secreta:

BLAKE ELECTED CONVENTION HEAD   ST. LOUISAN DEFEATS WREYNOLDS, 46 TO 29—THIRD ENTRY GETS 7.

May Quarantine  Capital Dogs   Health Authorities Move To Check Spread — Of Rabies.

MORE WOMEN ARE NEEDED IN PLANTS   WMC Says) 900,000 More Mus! Be Obtained in Labor Foree by July.

HUNTING TOLL NEAR RECORD   13 Deer Hunters Already Killed; Season Has Week to Go

American Forees Within Few Miles ‘Of 2 Enemy Bases   French Cut Into Axis Defenses; Invasion Convoy Of 20 Vessels Is Reported In Mediterranean

Yanks And French Sweep’ Within 10 Miles Of Bizerté      cK KK Ke. -‘AEF Proves Itself : A Fine Fighting Mac a

Yankees Near Key Town On Central Fron}   British Report Capture of Five Thousand Enemy Troops Since April 21.   FOE WARNS OF CONVOY

French, U.S. Troops Less Than 10 Miles From Fortified City   Second Branch of American Troops Only 4 Miles From Tebourba on Central Tunisian Front

Ten Miles of  Port of Bizerte   US Forces Only Four Miles from Tebourba; Other American Column Within Five Miles of Ferryville; Nazis Admit Fall of Krymskaya

Other Yank Units Nearing Tebourba   Another American Column Within Five Miles of Ferryville — British First Army Smashes Tank Attack —- Has Taken 5,000 Prisoners Since April 21

BIG NAVAL BASE WITHIN RANGE OF HEAVY GUNS   British Forces Press Drive On ‘Gateway to Tunis’ 5,000 Prisoners Taken   REDS NEAR NOVOROSSISK   Jap Convoy Near Aleutians Beaten Off by U. S. Force; Nazi Plants Blasted

AMERICANS AND FRENCH NEARER FORTRESS CITY   U. S. Troops Beat Off Nazi Attacks to Move Ahead

ALLIES PUSH ALONG COAST TO BIZERTE   Americans Make Steady Progress Toward Axis Port in Tunisia.   Are Only Four Miles Of Tebourba, Key City

TUNISIA BASES MAY SOON BE UNDER SIEGE   Fierce Battles Renewed On Russian Front In Kuban Area

U.S. Forces Drive On Tebourba, Key To Tunis Defenses   Third Column Reported Less Than 5 Miles from Ferryville, Shipping Center

Yanks Near Tebourba In Tunis Drive   Squeeze On Axis Tightens; Huge R. A. F. Ar mada Blasts Dortmund.

Axis Base Is in Gun Range of Americans   Nazi Reports of Huge Invasion Fleet Continue; RAF Smashes City of Dortlund

Steady Gain — Toward Big Naval Base   Three American Columns Pushing Ahead in Allied Pincers Move   MORE IMPORTANT HEIGHTS. SEIZED   British First Army Knocks Out 12. Tanks;5,000 Prisoners Taken Since April 21

GREAT AXIS NAVAL BASE OF BIZERTE I WITHIN GUN RANGE  ANOTHER AMERICAN COI UMN ONLY FIVE MILES

N ow Under Gun Fire   British First Ary Reports 5,000 Axia Prisoners Taken

Smash Closer To Bizerte   French and American Troops Only 10 Miles From Axis-Held Port; Score Gains in South

British First Takes 4,000 Germans, 1,00(  ‘Italians Since April 21—Germans Ad mit Loss of Caucasus Town Near  Naval Base

As Battle Races Toward Climax Axis Reports That Huge Sea-Borne Armada is Moving Eastward to Attack Islands of Sardinia and Sicily

Americans Also Near Outskirts Of Tebourba   Another Force Is Moving Close to Docks at Ferryville

BATTLE RAGING TO ITS CLIMAX IN NO. AFRICA   Yanks Storm Way Close to Bizerte, Tebourba And Ferryville   IBLAST GERMAN CITIES   Russ Take Krymskaya; Axis Again Reports Invasion Near

ANOTHER COLUMN WITHIN FIVE MILES OF FERRYVILLE, THE — DOCK AREA OFBIZERTE   British First Army East of Med-Jez-El-Bab Beat Off Strong Axis Counterattack With  Considerable Losses to Enemy.

ARMY, NAVY BOMBERS  BLASTED ISLAND OF  TARAWA IN WRECKAGE PRE-INVASION BOMBINGS  _ OF GILBERT ISLAND  ECWEDErBATT G LPatre

NN eee eee  Army And Navy Planes Unite To Reduce Tarawa To Rubble

Drive 50 Miles Behind Fortifcations, Widen Split In Primary Line.

Eighth Army Nears Gabes   British Flankers Threatening Encirclement of Mareth Line

U.S. Indicts 30 In Anti-Strike Quiz   First Action Under New Law Is in Pennsylvania

30 Indicted Under New Anti-Strike Measure   First Investigation Under Smith-Connally Act Brings Charges Of Conspiring To Foment Miner Walkouts

THIRTY INDICTED UNDER STRIKE LAV   Men Accused of Conspira. cy and Fomenting Coal Strikes

30 Are Indicted Under Anti-Sirike Law In Connection With Walkouts in Coal Mines

INDICT 30 FOF CONSPIRACY Ik MINE STRIKE   Two Weeks Investigation By Federal Grand Jury Bring! First Fruits of Anti-Strike  T > tay   Bench Warrants Issue

NO-STRIKE LAW HAS FIRST CASE   Grand Jury Indicts 30 For Stirring Trouble In Coal Fields

Grand Jury Indict 30 Persons for  Coal Mine Strikes   First Action Under New Anti-Strike Law; Arrests Are Ordered

STRIKE “UN TESTED “OD NOKTE   Coal Work Stoppage In Pennsylvania Is Basis

FEDERAL GRAND JURY INDICTS 30 IN STRIKES   Majority Of Those Placed Under Bond Are Union Mine Officials   FIRST ACTION TAKEN UNDER NEW MEASURE

30 Indicted In Connection  With Strikes   Five Union Local Heads Among Persons Charged By Pittsburch Jury

Grand Jury Indicts Thirty For Conspiracy in Recent Work Stoppages at Mines

JURY INDICTS 30 ~— IN COAL STRIKES   FEDERAL BODY CHARGES GROUP IN FIRST APPLICATION OF ANTI-STRIKE LAW.

SMALLER YIELD THAN EXPECTED   October Estimate Reduced By 36,000 Bales; Total Below 1942 Crop

COTTON CROP ESTIMATED   Production Surpasses Forecast, Fails Below ‘42

COTTON ESTIMATE DROPS   ‘Reduction Of 36,000 Bales From ; October Estimate Reported Today

iB AND C COUPONS RAISED 10 5 GALLONS 'BUT YOU WON'T GET MORE GASOLINE

B, C Coupons Good For Five Gallons After Dec. 1, But We Won’t Get Any More Gas

B, C Stamps to Be Worth 5 Gals. Gas   OPA WILL RAISE VALUE OF SUPPLEMENTARY COUPONS DECEMBER 1

President Saves Convicted Traitor From Gallows   ae wee rte lh lm  From Gallows  Commutes Death Sentence Few Hours Before Execution  COLLAPSES  ‘Treason of Different Qualities’ Cited  mp fief Pearentiwva

President Spares Life Of Stephan   COMMUTES SENTENCE OF DETROIT RESTAURATEUR FROM HANGING YO LIFE IMPRISONMENT.   Death Penality Too Hard

SENTENCE OF MAX STEPHAN ISCOMMUTED   Convicted Traitor Must Serve Remainder of Life in Prison

en Life Imprisonment  és German-Born Citi 1 for Treason   ecides Sentence Is Toc Severe for Crime  Against U. S.

President Spares Traitor   Stephan Penalty Reduce d To  Tate Term

Max Stephan Is Saved From Death By President   Gallows Sentence  For Detroit Traitor Commuted by F. D. R. To Life Imprisonment  CHIEF EXECUTIVE EXPLAINS ACTION  Sentence Too Severe As Treason Not Part Of Pre-Conceived Plan

Stephan Escapes Gallows As Roosevelt Commutes Penalty to Life in Prison

Americans Drop 221 Tons Of Explosive Destruction. ... .  Death Strewn Among Japs In Big New Guinea Raid

DEATH VISITS © JAPS JUNGLE QUARTERS AGAIN   221 Tons of Bombs Dropped In Yanks’ Biggest Display of Aerial Destruction; New Jap Forces On Way.

LEAGUE STANDING   U.S. FLIERS HIT JAPANESE HARD   Blast Reinforced Troops Near Finschhafen, Wreck 25 Nip Buildings

Japs Take New Aerial Shellacking   221-Ton Raid Heaped or Sattelberg, North of Finschhafen

Bodies Strewn In Jungles After 221 Tons of Bombs Shower Upon Sattelberg

BIG BOMBERS BLAST JAPS AT SATTELBERG   zo of 28 Buildings Blown Up Many of Foe Killed in Savage Aerial Atlack   RAMU VALLEY HIT   Main Jap Outpost post Strafed, Bridges  Blown Up, Road Obstructed by  Airmen

BOMBERS LASH JAPS WITH NEW GUINEA ATTACK   Nippon Concentrations of Troops Blasted in Big Aerial Display

Greatest Raid Smashes Japs   Yank Bombers Drop 221 Tons on Troop Area in New Guinea

LIBERATORS DROP 221 TONS BOMBS ON GUINEA JAPS   Is Biggest Display cf American Aerial. in a “Single” Naw Guinea  Temata GWartare

221 TONS BOMBS DROPPED ON JAPS AT SATTELBERG   _ Bombing Was Biggest Dis play of American Destructiveness Ever Delivered in South Pacific

DEATH STREWN AMONG NIPPONS ON NEW GUINEA   American Liberators Drop 221 Tons of Bombs in Biggest Display of Destructiveness

STATE 4 H HEAD TO BE HERE SOON   Meet Worker Here Friday, May 21

GOdoACKG CHASE GERMANS ACRDS. DNIEPER STEPPE:   Sensational Gains By Russian Forces Reported  West Of Melitopol

Soviets and Cosacks Seal ing Off the Crimea Area.   AVERAGING TWELVE MILES GAIN DAILY   Within 75 Miles of Trapping 600,000 Germans.

GOVERNOR PRESSES HIS CAMPAIGN FOR SALES TAX CHANGE      Wins Support of Several  Urban House Delega tions—Leaders Promise Caucus.

AXIS BROADCASTS INSIST ZERO HOUR OF INVASION HERE   Guerilla Armies In Greece Now Being Supervised. By Middle-East  cece ee i ee et OEE

ALLIES DIRECTING GUERILLA ARMIY W GREECE, REPORT   Axis Radios Insisting Invasion ‘Zero Hour’ Near  :   NAZIS SHIFTING AIR FORCE TO MEET TEST

GUERILLAS IN GREECE UNDER ALLIED LEADERS      Middle-Eastern Command Takes Over Direct Control Of Guerillas

ALLIES DIRECT GREEK FIGHTERS   Take Command Of Patriot Armies As Axis Insist Zero Hour Is Here

Soldiers Don’t Want Italians as Their Allies  Let Them Pay for Their Folly, Newspaper Save

U, S. and British Soldiers in Italy View Coldly Italian Attempts to Join Allies

POST-WAR PROBLEMS CONSIDERED GRAVE   British Minister Sees Big Job for Allies

ALLIES BLAST. JAP VESSELS NEAR AUSSIES   U. S. Planes Fight Zeros Off Russell Islands In Solomons

Another Jap Naval Fleet Is Broken Up   Allied Warplanes Rout 20 Enemy Ships From Isles Above Australia   MAY BR TRYING TO REACH SOLOMGONS   Tokyo Meanwhile Makes Claim of Shooting Down 47 Planes

American Forces Hit Enemy; Greatest SeaAir Battle 1s Impending  Both Sides Sustain Losses Navy   Both Sides Sustain Losses Navy Reports; Japs Strive to Break U. S. Seapower in Pacific:

MAJOR BATTLE IN SOLOMONS IS YET TO COME   KNOX SAYS ACTION [8 OF “FEELER” NATURE BY BOTH SIDES

Losses Suffered  by Both Sides in Huge Battle   Heavy Blows Have Been Dealt to Enemy in What May Be the Greatest Engagement in the Pacific to Date

JAPS ATTEMPT TQ RECAPTURE PACIFIC ISLES   Both Sides Take Losses As Yet Unrevealed; Boasts Of Enemy Discounted   Heavy Blows Indicated

Both Sides Suffer  Some Loss   Information Concerning Sinkings Considered Sufficiently Valuable to Be Withheld for Now

JAPANESE MAY HIT GUADALCANAL AGAIN      Allied Planes Scatter Convoy Above Australia

ALLIES SCATTER CONCENTRATION OF JAP SHIPS; SEE NEW THREAT TO THE U. S.-HELD GUADALCANAL

Both Sides Suffer Losses, but Their Extent Is Not Revealed—Japs Apparently Trying to Break U. 8S. Seapower and Land Troops on Guadalcanal—Enemy Claims Disputed by Washington.

NAVY ANNOUNCES JAPANESE REPORTS OF AMERICAN LOSSES ARE GROSSfy EXAGGERATED; NO DEFINITE  STATEMENT MADE.

Enemy Seen sGirding for New Attack   Thrust at Guadalcanal Is Hinted

Warplanes Scatter Jap Fleet   ‘Blast Concentration ‘Of Nearly 20 Ships  ‘North of Australia; Activity in’ Solomons

OEA-AIR BATTLE fAGES IN PACIFIC   Both Sides Suffer Losses, @ Communique Reveals   DETAILS WITHHELD   eport Follows Tokyo’s Claim Two U. S. Battleships, 3 Oruisers Sunk

Planes Scatter 20 Jap Ships   Signs Seen Japs May Be Thrusting Toward Guadalcanal

‘ALLIED WARPLANES SCATTER ANOTHER ‘SHIP CONCENTRATION   INDICATIONS POINT TO NEW JAPANESE THREAT TO GUADALCANAL

Sea-Air F ight May Turn Out Greatest  In Pacitfie   Heavy Blows Believed Dealt Japanese Navy; Enemy Claims Called Grossly Exaggerated  BATTLE CONTINUES, NO DETAILS GIVEN  Aid to Guadalcanal, Breaking U.S. Power Seen Jap Objectives

GUADALCANAL THREAT SEEN IN JAP CLAIM   Claim 47 Allied Planes Shot Down, on Heels of U. S. Aitack on Destroyers

JAPS LAUNCH MAJOR EFFORT TO RETAKE ISLES, NAVY REPORTS   Losses are Suffered by Both Sides in Action That Looms as Greatest In the Pacific to Date

JAPS LAUNCH NEW ATTACKS IN SOLOMONS   HEAVY LOSSES ARE INDICATED; NAVY DELAYS DETAILS

POSSIBLE NEW JAP STAB AT GUADALCANAL   Hits Scored on Vessels Congregated At New Ireland Harbor When Allied Fliers Attack.

NEW THREAT TO JADALCANAL IN RINGS SEEN       Allied Planes Chase Ships _ Above Australia; Tokyo . Claims Hard Blow

Signs Of New Enemy Thrust At Guadalcanal   Probable Hits Scored On Nip Transport And Cargo Ship

Bomb Jap Convoy Above Australia   Nippons Show Signs of Another Concentrated Threat to Guadalcanal.

NIPPONESE TROOF TRANSPORT, CARGO VESSEL BOMBED   Reports Hint Possible New Enemy Thrust at American Positions on Guadal-

Concentration in Islands  Above Australia Attacked by Bombers.   ENEMY THREAT TO GUADALCANAL

Both Sides Suffer Losses, Navy Says; Jap Claims Hooted:   Greatest Sea-Air Struggle Of War, With: Solomons At Stake, ‘Believed Under Way.

[20 Jap Ships Scattered by Allied Planes   US Fighters Shoot Down 16 Jap Zeros in Violent Air Battle Northwest of Guadalcanal

SCATTER ANOTHER CONCENTRATION OF JAPANESE SHIPS   Signs of Other Enemy Warships May Be Thrusting Toward Guadalcanal.   GERMANS MAKE CLAIMS   Asserted That Japanese Fleet Planes Had Shot Down 47 Allied Aircraft.

Bombers Seatter Nip Fleet   Send 20 Enemy Ships Senrvying For Cover North of Australia

Foe Renews Fighting InSolomons   Greatest Air And Sea Fight Of Pacific Seen

20 Shins Had Concentrated Above Australia   Another Push on American Hold in Solomons Suspected

Another Major Effort Launched By Enemy—Both Sides Have — Suffered Losses -

Jap And American Sea And Air Units Are Locked In Desperate Action   BOTH SIDES SUFFER LOSSES IN PACIFIC

Another Jap Ship Group Put fo Flight.   Enemy May be Making New Thrust Toward Guadalcanal

CONCENTRATION OF JAP SHIPS SCATTERED   Signs That Eenemy signs The May Be Thrusting Anew Against Girddalcanal

5 RAID 13 VESSELS IN KAVIENG PORT   Nippon Warships May Be Thrusting Anew at U. S.-Held Guadalcanal

ST. LOUIS URGES ACTION-ON MEAT   Dealers Report Shortage Extremely Critical, Ask Ouick Remedial Measures

Soviets Sweep Up 200 More Villages   Russians Are Only Eight Miles  From FEscane Route

KEUS NEARING LAST ESCAPE FOR GERMANS   Just 8 Miles From Railway From Crimea Sealing Fate  of Trapped Nazis: Fight Hard.   Fleet Ready

Red Army Surges to Within Fifteen Mites of — Perekop ~ “  MANY NAZIS FACE TRAP OF RUSSIANS  Capture of Novo-Alexeyekva Announced in Communique

Soviets Rush To Sever. Rail Line   8-Mile Advance Would Doom  Nazis In Crimea

REDS SMASH WITHIN 8 MILES OF NAZIS’ LAST ESCAPE LINE   Fate Of Téns Of Thousands Of Germans Trapped In The Crimea Is Virtually Sealed; Enemy Troops Are Being Cut To Pieces By Soviets

RUSSIANS PUSH FORWARD ALONG CRIMEAN FRONT   Red Army Reaches Point Only 8 Miles From Last Escape Railway

Tolbukhin’s Men Nearing Perekop  Germans at Krivoi Rog Beela Cachhint.

Soviet Forces Now 15 Miles From Perekop   Russians Eight Miles From Last Nazi Escape Railway From Crimea: 200 Villages Seized

Many Thousands of Nazis In Crimea Are Trapped as Soviets Menace. Rail Line

Russians Get Within Range Of Escape Line   Perekop Door to Big Peninsula Flanked by Swift Advance

Germans Have But Small Hope to Flee   Soviet Onslaught Puts Tight Clamp on Vise; Many Towns Fall

PENICILLIN DRUG NOT AVAILABLE TQ PUBLIC   WPB Allocates All of New Bacteria-Killing Medicine to the War Effort

Hornet Revealed As Carrier  Sunk Oct. 26   Navy Discloses Identity of Santa Cruz Battle Victim

2995 Die as New Famine Sweeps India   10,020 ADMITTED TO HOSPITALS IN PERIOD OF AUGUST 16-OCTOBER 18

CATROUX SEEKS PACIFICATION OF LEBANESE   General Who Proclaimed Their In dependence Peacemaker — Brit ish Support That Declaration   BRITISH ANXIOUS   indicate Ready to Take Control If Need to Prevent Spread of Unrest in Arab World

French Send Gen. Catroux To Lebanon   Will Attempt To Settle Disorders

JAPS, ADVANCE AT TUNG TING   ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVY IN CHINESE FIGHTING

PRESIDENT NOT LIKELY TO CALL OUT SOLDIERS   Officials ‘Believe Power ~ To Order Martial Law   Will Not be Used . in Coal Fields   ISSUES APPEAL   Capital Speculates Or Possible Moves - That. Roosevelt May Make  ’ to End Crisis

President Has Several Courses He  May Follow If Miners Reject Plea   Power Of Commander-In-Chief Ranges From Moral Suasion To Martial Law, With  Government Taking Over Mines.

Center Of Bremen Is Laid Waste. .... Hannover And Bremen   Are Targets Of Heavy   Air Attacks By RAF

Strike Hanover; Germans Admit Heavy Damage   Bremen Hit For Second Day; Berlin Attacked; . 30 Bombers . Missing

EROT PRUSS  I IS ATTACKED   U, S. Bombers Make Longest Flight; Fly Over Poland.   HANNOVER HiT BY RAF

RAF Raids Hannover And Bremer   31 Bombers  Fail to Return ~—-Mosquitos Attach: Berlin and Ruhr

Bombers Deep Into Europe      American Flyers Hit Targets As Far East As Poland and Prussia

Nazi Targets Hit in Poland. East Prussia  New Attack Follows  ei ie es

AMERICANS MAKE DAYLIGHT RAID IN EAST GERMANY   Bomb Targets In Pemerania, Poland and East Prussia; Deepest Penetration Into Hitler’s Fortress.

Follow Up Heavy RAF  - Night Blows   Hannover and Bremen Are Heavily Attacked And Left in Flames

HIT POMERANIA IN FLIGHT OF 1.600 MILES   Daylight Attack Follows Night Raids On Han nover, Bremen

U.S BOMBERS STRIKE DEEP — INTO EUROPE   Blast Important Targets In Pomerania, Poland and East Prussia

Yanks Rip Vital NaziHubs   YANKS FLY 1600 MILES AFTER R.A.F. FLIERS ROCK HANNOVER, BREMEN

BiG DAY RAID EXTENDS 10 EAST PRUSSIA   Targets in Pomerania, Eastern Germany and Poiand Also Hit in Folow-Up to Heavy RAF Assault on Reich.

East Prussia Feels Bombs   Deepest Penetration @f Germany Yet Made By Forts From England

HANNOVER TARGET OF RAF BOMBERS IN HEAVY ATTACK   BERLIN, BREMEN HIT; 31 PLANES FAIL TO RETURN

Deepest Daylight Penetration Into Europe; R.  A. F. Rips Hannover.

Record Daylight Stabs. Follow Mighty Attacks On Hannover, Bremen

HANNOVER AN BREMEN HIT BY RAF AT NIGHT   Intense Air Assaults Made on Many Areas of “Hitler’s Fortress”

Hannover Raked With Air Bombs   RAF Also Blasts Bremen, Berlin, Other Targets

U. S. Fortresses Continue Raids  Bombers Fly Deep Into Nazi Country

STRONG FORMATIONS AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT FAR INTO EUROPE  CAME AS CLIMAX TO BLASTING OF HANNOVER AND BREMEN

British- Based Planes in. Record Fight   Attack Follows: Big Night Raids  On German Bases

EAST PRUSSIA, POMERANIA AND POLAND BOMBED   Deepest Daylight Thrust Into Hitler’s Fortress From Britain Follows  RAF Night Attacks   YANKS TRAVEL 1800 MILES TO HIT FOES   Hannover, Bremen, Berlin Bombed by British: Fires From L. S. Assault Still Burning

Air Punch © Is Pushed — ~ Closer io ~ Red Front   Fortresses Go All the Way Across Germany to Deliver. Heavy Attack   ONLY.300 MILES. ! FROM RED LINES   Gives ‘New Evidence of the Mounting Air Power; Great Battle. in: Previous Raid.

Biy Formations Bomb Important German Centers   SUICSIAGOWS ay Wiel Allied Blows From Bri tain May Link With Reds RAF in Night Assault  On Hannover. Bremen

Rubber Making Center Hit In Great Force: Seaport Is  Auacked: Forts Down 142   American Four-Engined Bombers And Fast Thunderbolts Fight Way Through Fierce  Opposition: Allied Losses 61 Phines

HANNOVER HIT IN HEAVY RAID, BREMEN AGAIN    Bombers Fail to Return from Missions Over Germany—Concentrated Raids Indicaled   BERLIN, RUHR HIT   Reports Show Forts, Thunderbolts Got 142 Nazi Planes Friday, Lost 30 Bombers

MAKE DEEPE PENETRATION INTO EUROPE   Hit Pomerania, East Prussia, Poland: 30 Planes Lost In Bremen Raid; R. A. F. Active

152 GERMAN ~ PLANES DOWN   J. S. Scores in Bremen Raid—RAF Bombers in Clean-Up*Job

Targets in Pomerania, East Germany and Poland Also Hit   4.600-MILE FLIGHT   Attack Follows RAF. “Night Raid on Hannover and Bremen

FIRE CONVICTION APPEAL SHAPING   Cocoanut Grove Club Tragedy Brings -Manslaughter Verdict

HINT CHANGE “IN WAR DEPT   Streamlined Group Labeled New Deal Political  Organization

Fourth Month Or Tax Debate  Comes To End   Senate-House Conference Committee Comes To Agreement On Measure.

Compromise Plan Expected to be Given Approval  WITHHOLDING LEVY PROVIDED IN BILL Measure Will be Sent to  House ond Senate for Approval

Senate and Hous Conferees Agree On New Tax Plan   Persons Owing under $50 Would Pay Nothing and Others 25 per Cent

Cancels Year’s: Taxes fe Persons Owing $50 Less and’ 75 Pet. of 0 ligations of Others.         PASSAGE CERTAIN, = LEADERS BELIEV        ual Rates, sent : Any Rise This Year.

BULK OF INCOME TAXES FORGIVEN UNDER NEW PLAN   Compromise Measure Approved By Senate-House Conference Committee Is Virtually Certain of Final Passage.

Measure Called 75 pct. Ruml Plan By Knutson, Who Sees Passage; Agreement Ends Bitter Clashes

Approval Ends Bitter Strife on Income Tax Bill   Assures Measure’s Passage in Congress May Freeze Rates

 Pay-As-You-Go Plan Certain Of  Final Passage   Full year’s abatement for those whose «tax bill is $50-0r less; into effect July 1

BITTER STRIFE OVER INCOME LEVIES ENDEL   WHOLE YEAR WIPED OUT FOR AMOUNTS OF $50 OR LESS

AgreementOn Tax Reached   Committee Members Say Final Passaqe. Is Certain

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CONFEREES IN COMPROMISE ON TAX MEASURE   Persons Owing $50 Or Less Are Forgiven One  Year’s Payment   75 PERCENT SLASH FOR OTHER INCOMES

Allied Airmen Blast Europe   Yanks and Britons Teain Up in Drive

GOP WINS IN KENTUCKY VOTE   Carrier Beats Talbott for Representative Post

WIN IN KENTUCKY   Republicans Elect “Con gressman, Continuing  November 2 Trend

Japs May Be Preparing Maior Drive   Allied Planes  Carry Out Ten Attanake Thiuredavw

JAPANESE STILL MASSING SHIPS   Indications Seen Of New Major Pacific Drive

ENEMY MAY SGON START NEW DRIVE   Jap Ship Concentrations At Rabaul Indicate Maitor Push

Hint New Major Jap Drive on Australia   Nips Mass Troops, Transports Near Rabaul on New Britain for Big Push

Battle For Guadalcanal Ends In First Complete Victory For U. S. Forces

LIGHTNING KILLS     3 WAR PRISONERS   Bolt Strikes Tent Containing Italians; Ten Others Injured

FARNSWORTH’S DEATH DUE TO FALL IN JUNE   Actress Bette Davis Recalls Husband Slipped On Stairs In N. Hampshire Home

EXPECT BlG BREAK IN GRAND JURY   Some Warrants May Fall in Detroit, Senator, Representative Have Cross Words

"BREAK’ IN PROBE IS. IN THE MAKINE   Hint at Least One More Warrant to Be Issued In Inauiry.

Cooler Air Into Kansas   No Major Change Expected, Declares Forecast For State

COLD AIR MOVINC IN   Weather Forecaster, Sees No Major Temperature. Change

Solons Demand Economic General Staff  Subcommittee of   Subcommittee of The Senate Issues Report

Solons Demand Economic General Staff   Subcommittee of The Senate Issues Raenorit

Lady Oakes On Stand Against Her Son-In-Law   Murder Hearing Reaches Climax

rOR FUTURE   Believed High Ranking U. S. Official Will Talk With Stalin.   LIKE EDEN PARLEY   Welles, Wallace and Hop. kins Being Mentioned for the Job.

Parley Possible At Moscow Soon   High Ranking American May Be Sent To Russia For Conference  uP. wryaTs*c' eae ee a" «CO ;Ae eee

MOSCOW ENVOY MAY BE NAMED   Soviet Talks Will Parallel Those With Eden

MISSION TO hoscoW SEEN ~ FOR FUTURE   Believed High Ranking U, S. Official Will Talk With Stalin.   LIKE EDEN PARLEY   Welles, Wallace and Hopkins Being Mentioned for the Job. ,

BILLS ARE PUBLISHED   ‘Accounts Allowed by. Board to Appear in Journal-World

British Are Reticent Concerning Sea Battle: Germans Claim Victory

GERMAN BLOCKADE RUNNER SCUTTLED   CREW CAPTURED BY BRITISH —NAZIS CLAIM SUCCESS IN NORTHERN SEA FIGHT,

BERLE REITERATES POLICY FOR ITALY   Claims Government of Its Own {Choosing Is

STATE OF EMERGENCY DECREED IN BERLIN   Restrictions Tightened in Capital and 40 Other Cities by  ETimmiler

Berlin Reports Heavy Fighting Raging at Exit Of Sealed Trap   Tells of New Red Drives Near Kiev and Velikie Luki   Serious Disorders in

Trouble Within Reich Reported  Stete Of Emergency   Stete Of Emergency Put On Berlin

German Capital and Two Score Reich Towns Held Under State of Emeraency

Many Austrians Said Deserting   Hold Tighteried On Berlin. Other Areas

Boiler Explodes As Limited and Freight Crash   Cars Overturned; Live Steam Fills . Passenger Coaches

Fifteen Women Among Those to Lose Lives When Lackawanna Limited Hits Freight Engine.   MANY ARE SCALDED BY ESCAPING STEAM   Fingerprint Experts Called Out to Help Identify Victims—Six Cars Derailed.

iny of New York Crash stims Are Scalded When  ‘am Is Loosed in Coaches   ‘cawanna Limited, En Route to Buffalo, ocked From Track By Freight Engine ; ‘ of Dead Are Reported To Be Passengers

25 Known Dead In Train Wreck   _ Speeding Limited . Dives Into Freight

25 Persons Die, 60 Are Injured In Train Wreck   Lackawanna Limited And Freight Engine Collide Near Station

25 Passengers Are Killed And 60 Others Injured In  Lackawanna Train Wreck   New York To Buffalo Limited Rams Into Freight Pulling Out Of Siding Near Wayland, N. Y.; Steam From  Locomotive Escapes In Coaches, Scalding Victims

Steam Fills Coaches As Passenger Train Hits Freight Engine Outside Wayland, N. Y  3 COACHES, DINER, BAGGAGE CAR UPSET  Many of Victims of D.L. & W. Crash Friehtfully Burned

Crack Lackawanna Limited of D. L. ~ & W. Wrecked at Wayland, NV. Y.; Most of Victims Scalded

25 Killed, Many Hurt In Wreck   LACKAWANNA LIMITED COLLID. ES WITH FREIGHT ENGINE NEAR WAYLAND, NEW YORK MANY TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.      Cars For Chicago

Sixty Injured In Collision InN. Y. State   Four Passenger Cars Overturned

‘Trains Crash, Death List Of 290 Reported   Lackawanna Limited Hits Freight Engine Near Way land, N. Y.—Sixty Injured Persons Ace Rushed to Nearby Hospitals

Enemy headquarters admits defeat; annihilation of last large Nip force announced   Is first American soil recovered after seizure; only snipers remain

20-DAY BATTLE ON ATTU ENDS IN YANK VICTORY   Japs Admit Aleutian Defeat After Telling of One Last Attack

GIVES PLEDGE FOR FREEDOM AND SECURITY   At Ottawa, Reveals Quebec Parley Dealt With World Peace

Food-Medicine  For Conquered   Roosevelt Promises Freedom And Security To Axis People For Surrender  we BYTYroTrTy WHaAvVvrea

PROMISES 10 GIVE FREEDOM AND SECURITY   President Says They Shouldn't Fear Surrender to Allies

Strong Appeal Made to Axis Nations to Accept IIncanditional Surrender

FR Reports on Lend-Lease   Appeals To Axis Nations To Accept Surrender

CHIEF EXECUTIVE ASKS OVERTHROW OF AXIS DESPOTS   Lend-lease Message Prom ises Political Freedom anc Economic Security Under United Nations.

ALANG AWAIT EARLY (avast! BY ALLIED AI   Mob: liza ation of Clder Men Ordered — Peace Demonstrations Held.

PEACE RIOTS — BEING STAGED BY ITALIANS   STREET RIOTING IN MANY CITIES - ARE REPORTED STRIKES AND SABROTAGE RUMORED

auMUULS Buust OLAYO Ine oAlit   Nc Increas in 1944 Levy. Which Rema ns at $1.41 Per Hundred.

SCHOOLS BUDGET STAYS THE GARE   No: Increas in: 1944 “Levy,  Which. Rema ns at $1:41, Per Hundred... :

AMUSEMENT TAX 10 REACH HIGH FIGURE   Ohioans To Spend Near 70 Million for Entertainment

ADMISSIONS TAX TO SET RECORD   Chioans Spending 70 Millions For Entertainment

COUNTY FARMERS TO DISCUSS FOOD GOALS AT MEETING JAN. 1:   ROOSEVELT, GENERAL “IKE” IS ENHOWER TO BE HEARD ON RADIO HOOK-UP

DISPUTE ON FINES ERASED   Board Awaits Enactment Of Bill Giving It New Authorily

IS EXPECTED TO MARK TIME, AWAITING ANTISTRIKE BILL.   Negotiate Fines   Ickes Explains Misinterpretation > of Penalty—Some Mines Struck Again.

DECISION ON. WINE DISPUTE ' 1S POSTPONEI   WASSAGE OF ANTI-STRIRE BILL, (13 AWAITED BY WAR LABOR ‘BOARD IN’ COAD ; WAGE DISPUTE

WLB AWAITS LEWIS’ SIDE OF COAL ROW   Board Expected to Delay Til It Gets Power to Subpoena UMW Chieftain.   NO-STRIKE PASSAGE DUE   Senate Believed Ready to Pass Measure, Ickes  Wanatane nn Finac

Lightnings Make Debut as Escort For Fortresses   Austria, Hungary And France Raided

Bombers lash very heart of  nazi fortress   Allies preparing  long range blows

BOMBERS HIT NAZIBASES IN DAY ATTACKS   Allied Fliers Strike From _ Both North and South   AMERICANS PLAN LONG-RANGE RAIDS   France, Austria and Hungary Targets Are Battered

FAST LIGHTNING FIGHTERS BEING USED IN RAIDS   Speedy And Heavily Armed Aircraft Accompanying Heavy Bombers   FRENCH AND AUSTRIAN TARGETS ARE HARD HIT

Allies Attack Franee. Austriz  And Hungary   Americans Raid Nazi Fighter Bases Without Loss of Single Craft

Allied Raiders Whipsaw Nazis  France, Austria, Hungary Feel Bomh Imparis

Ee  ‘Also Blast Ship in Cher- bourg Harbor; Austria Hungary Attacked *

Allied Bombers Hit France, Austria, Hungary  Lightnings Make Debut as Long-Range Escorts

Bombs Hit France, Austria, Hungary   ‘Allied Airmen Strike at AXIS: Trom “+h and South.

GOUNTINENT IS DUMBED BY ALLIED FLEET   Nazi Fighter Bases Target For Raids; Many Planes Engaged in Mission Into Heart of German Fortress.   Alert At Budanest

BOMBERS Hil NAZIBASES IN DAY ATTACKS   Allied Fliers Strike From Both North and South   AMERICANS PLAN LONG-RANGE RAIDS

Allies Smash Heart of Nazi Europe   More Raids Expected As Fliers Reach Deep Into Foe’s Land

Bombers Attack Austria, Hungary   Yankees Prepare for Long-Range Thrusts

Two-Way Air Blows Rock  Nazi Fortress   Allied Planes Strike Simultaneously From North, South

POSSE CAPTURES SHERIFF SLAYER   Killer Shoots It Out Before Giving Up

Posse Captures Sheriff Slayer   Hunted lIowan Beaten    - Down After Shooting

RAILROAD MEN TO SET DATE OF STRIKE DEC. 15   Chiefs Of 5 Operating Brotherhoods Will Meet To Count Ballots

Rail Strike Date To Be Set Dec. 15   Five Brotherhoods Call for Meeting

Rail Strike Date To Be Set Dec. 15   Brotherhood Chiefs To Confer Then

RAILWAY STRIKE BALLOT DEC, 15   Operating Brotherhoods To Set Walkout Date In Cleveland

TOWARD RAIL STRIKE   Union Heads to Set Date in Cleveland December 15.

Meet Dec. 15 To Set StrikeDate   Object To Four-Cent Increase Ailowed

20,000 JAPS FACE ANNIHILATION AT LAE, NEW GUINEA   CUT OFF FROM ESCAPE BY DARING FORCE OF PARATROOPERS FROM LARGEST AIR FLEET EVER ASSEMBLED IN SOUTH PACIFIC

American Paratroopers Seize Jap Airfield on New Guinea   20,000 Japanese Trapped on Narrow Coastal Strip.

PARATROOPS CUT OF 20,000 NIPS AT LAE BASE  General MacArthur Di he ttack Fror

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"STALIN GIVES PUSSIANS NEW SIGN OF HOPE   p Mey Day Speech Reveals ¥ More Optimism Than  Ever Shown Before

RUSSIA SWEPT BY OPTIMISM IN WAR DRIVE   RED FLAGS FLUTTER IN MOSCOW; NAZIS CALLED LIARS

Reds Optimistic After Stalin Talk   Praises ‘Allied Wins In Africa

Russian Optimism Spreads Over Stalin's Order Calling Fer Surrender Of Hitlerites

Phyllis Spies Max Stevens Wed At Melbourne  Young Couple Will Live On Farm Near Kingsley

Phyllis Spies Max Stevens Wed At Melbourne  Young Couple Will Live On  / pe } a 2 on 

DOROTHY DENNLER MARRIED MONDAY   United in ~ Wedlock To Howard. Dobbins of  Merril]

Howard Dobbins Weds Dorothy Dennler Monday  Melvin Tentinger an  Alvira Miller

Rome News Agency Prints Ultimatum  Italy Not Mistress Of Her Own Destiny Says Editorial

Italy’s Press Prints Allied.  Peace Demand  Authorities Appear   Unable to Ignore Leaflet Attack ~

‘Can t Quit Now: ltalian Press   Surrender Would Make Italy German-Allied Battleground, Claim

WEATHER   : Italian Press Admits Nazis Are Keeping Country In War Despite Discontent Of Millions Of Her People

lfalians Weigh Surrender Plea, See No Peace”   ’ Italy Must Still Reckon With Nazis, Declares

Duce Fights Peace Leaflets In Open: Cries ‘Dishonor!   Demand For Surrender : Given Publicity In Italy Counter Propaganda

ST ey eee ea Tn re  ITALIANS STATE THEY CAN'T QUIT   nousevell-Churcotl Statement Carried In Full By Press

JAP PATROLS CHASED BY MACARTHUR UNITS   Enemy Commander’s Death On Papua Is Confirmed

Allies Pursue Jap Patrols Near Salamaua  a me   Continue Cleanup  Of Guadalcanal

Paralyzing Blows Are Landed; Transport System On Messina  Strait Pounded

ALLIES STRIKE. FOE’S LIFELINE   Allies Bomb Transportation Route Between Italy And Sicily,   HIT ITALIAN AIR BASES

New Paralyzing Blows Struck at Sicily’s Lifeline   Heavy Aerial Attacks Made  on Messina Strait Transport System.   Plant Rows of Bombs On Docks, Railroads

LC TLL ET CTS A ETE  HIT HARD BLOWS = ~—«ATAXS FEIN   Planes. Blast Messina Strait Transport :: - Swetem 7).

PRINCIPAL AXIS SUPPLY ARTERY HIT HEAVY BLOW   Allied Bombers Hammer At Messina-San Giovanni Ferry Line: British Bombers Strike At Italy And France.

Axis Lifeline To Sicily Paralyzed By Plane Attacks   Messina Straits And Air Fields In Italy Hit

Allied Air Units Bomb Supply. Line:   { Transport Systems and Bases In Italy and Sicily Blasted

Axis Lifeline Hit From Air   Paralyzing Blows Are Being Struck By Allied Fliers.

ITALY’S FERRY TERMINALS ARE AGAIN RAIDED   Messina Strait Transportation System and Enemy Bases From Heel Bombed   YANKS SCORE FIFTY DIRECT HITS IN AREA   Explosives Planted on Docks, Railroad Sidings and Ferry Line With Only Slight Losses

SICILY SUPPLY LINES AGAIN UNDER ATTACK   Allies Hammer Messina Strait Transport Sys: tem and Blast Air Bases From Heel to Toe or Italian Boot.

Yank Airmen Hit Messina In Big Raids   Enemy Airfields Shattered In Huge Daylight Assaults

Major Blowup In OWI Brews   Row Between Davis And Aide ‘Cooking’

OW! BLOW -UP DECLARED NEAR   To Involve Davis, One o! Top Aides, and Maybe White House

Big Blowup Of OWI Top:  Is Seen Soon   Observer Says Davis Showdown

LAST OF ITALIAN ISLANDS ID BICHAAN STRAITS TAKEN ) OVER BY ALLIED FORCES

AIRDROMES IN SICILY LEFT IN FLAMES AND NAPLES BLASTED—IAP OILFIELD BLOWN UP?

ROMMEL OPENS COUNTER DRIVE ON YANK FORCE   Allies’ Terrific Air Blows Send Axis Staggering in Tunisia   BULLETIN

MARETH LINE OUTFLANKED BY BRITISH FORCES   Allies Close In On Al Sides, Forcing Nazis To Showdown   U. S. FORCES NEAR SEA   Reds Check German Drive In Donets Basin, Move Ahead At Smolensk

CRACK DOWN ON DANE PATRIOTS   Five Factories Wrecked In Wave OL Sabotage.

Saboteurs Wreck Danish Factories   Nazis Preparing Repressive Moves

Soviets Take [Important  Kuban Port   Stalin Announces Capture in His Order of the Day

REDS RACE TOWARD KIEV; OUTPOST. OF NEZHIN SMASHED   Soviet. Summer Offensive Gaining Momentum Along 600-Mile Front

Reds Take Novorossisk  And Storm Approaches To Dnieper River Town

NOVOROSSISK IS CAPTURED BY RED FIGHTERS   Russians Bevin Race Against ‘Autumn Rains   Offensive Gaining Momentum All Along G600.VMile Front

FATHERS FACE CALL TO ARMY   Senate Kills Wheeler Bill, Boosts Dependency Pay

PLAN HIKE IN DEPENDENTS: ALLOWANCES   Senate's Refusal to Halt Draft of Fathers Signal for immediate Action on Sharp Increases

Cureean Diac   Father Drafting Opponents Win Victory in the Senate

BIGGER SERVICE BENEFITS LOOM   Senate Boosts Monthly Aic For Wives. Children

SENATE SEEKS TO HELP EASE FAMILY STRAIN   Would Increase Pay Allowance To Dependents

REFUSE T0 HALT FATHER DRAFT   Senate Votes More Pay to Soldiers’ Families

Senate Approves $100 Per Month For 2 Children   Upped From $72 Te Help Financial Burden Which Will Follow Father Draft

MORE PAY FOR DEPENDENTS   Refusal to Halt Pre-War Father Draft Brings New Act

HOUSE TO ACT ON LIKE BILL   Wife, One Child May Receive $80, Additional Children $20

Senate Boosts Aid To Yank Kir   Acts After Rejecting Dod Draft Ban

German Debacle Mounts Hourly on Rus: sian Front; Flee Kuban Bridgehead, Criméan Evacuation Seen——Berlin Says Subs Sink 12 Destroyers, :  9 Merchantmen—Jap Strong - hold at Finschhaven Shelled

ALLIED PLANES SHOOT DOWN7 GERMAN: TRANSPORT PLANES; BATTLE FOR NAPLES RAGES   - French Troops From North Africa Supported by _ American Rangers and Planes Battle for Corsica _-——Allied Drive for Naples In Full Swing

French Troops Supported By American Rangers Batter Remnants. of German _ Forces On Island Which Lies Only~110 " Miles From Southern’ Coast of France

Planes Trying o Save Nazis  Pore Down   Conquest of Corsica Appears Imminent; 5th Army Launches Full-Scale Offensive; German Debacle ir Russia Mounts Hourly

7 TRANSPORTS ARE DOWNED BY ALLIED PLANES   French Troops Drive Nazi Garrison Into Pocket  On Island Coast   BEGIN NAPLES DRIVE   Russian Army Advances - to Dnieper River Line In Force

NAZI RESCUE’ AIR FLEET HIT OVER CORSICA   / Transport Ships Downed With Allied Conquest Of Important Base Near

Allies Intercept Nazi Air Fleet In Rescue Effort      fifth Army Launches’ Full-seal Offensive in Naples Area

Allied Warplanes Intercept German Transport Armada   Gen. Giraud's French Troops Supported By American Rangers, Drive Battered Remnants of Nazi  Garrison Into Northeast Corner   WARSHIPS MAINTAIN TIGHT BLOCKADE BY SEA

German Command Tries fo Evacuate Corsica by Air   Full-Scale Drive On Naples Launched By American Army

Throw Naval, Air Blockade  Around Island   Fifth Army Launches Full. Scale Offensive In Battle Of Salerna.   NAZIS KILL ITALTANS

Aerial Escape Route Cut by Airmen   Fifth Army “Launches, Offensive Against ‘Mountain Gateway of City of Naples

ALLIES TIGHTEN GRIP ON GUINEA   ’ Ground Forces Are Steadily y Closing In On Japs

SON OF SENATOR ON OVERDUE NAVAL PLANE   Navy Advises George Family: No Details Are Given, ' Mother Says

STEEL EARMARKED FOR FARM MACHINES   40 Percent of Output Last Year Contemplated

Bulgarian Troops Occupy Former Yugoslav Area As Gift From Germans

MONTGOMERY'S ARMY PURSUING AFRIKA KORPS   British First Army Rips Into Axis Positions in Tunis-Bizerte Area.   REDS SEIZE INITIATIVE   Italian Army in State of Alert Against Allied Lahding,

Allies Tighten Arc Now Closing. - Around the Axis   Montgomery Scores Impressive Advance in Pursuit of Rommel as Allied Offensive Becomes Synchronized Operation

EUROPE ON GUARD AGAINST INVASION   Axis Leaders Hasten Preparations to Resist Allied Landings on Continent

JONES TREATS A. P. MAN   Wes Gallagher Was Injured When Jeep Turns Over in Africa

NAPLES BOMBED BY A SINGLE PLANE TUESDAY NIGHT   Bombs Were Dropped From a Great Altitude Causing Some Damage.   RAID FRENCH PORTS   Bordeaux and U-Boat Base at Lorient Also Were Targets.

REPORT ALLIED DESTROYER HIT   Italians Claim Ship  Torpedoed; Admit Damage In Raids On Italian Ter ritorv.

Allied Planes Fly Over Rome  Roosevelt-Churchill Message Given People

Allies Bomb Naples, Italy Radio Says   Four-Engined Planes Reported Raiding Messina in Sicily

AREAS OF ITALY, MAINLAND, AND CRETE RAIDED   Rome Reports Casualties and Damage Caused by Allied Bombers at Bologna   CITY OF SALERNO, NEAR NAPLES, HIT   Attack on Crete Wide spread; Ammunition  Dumps, Camps, Power Stations Blown Up

EXCESS FOODSTUFFS REACH MILLIONS OF GANS OVER COUNTR)   incomplete Figures Show That Between 80,000,000 and 100,000,000 Cans Are Held.

AALS 1U FEEL ALLIED BLOWS BEFORE JAN.  Devastating Attacks Predicted   JAPAN ONE GOAL

ALLIES PLA FRESH BLOWS: DURING FALL   NEW MAJOR OPERATIONS AGAINST “FORTRESS” AND  IN FAR EAST PLANNED FOR Tins YEAR

ALLIES 10 OPEN FOUR DRIVES BY CLOSE OF YEAR   Two Offensives Each Predicted Against Europe and Japan

Northern Italians display  burning hatred for nazis   Entire upper part of country eager and willing to resist to last man

$75,000 FIRE AT SIBLEY, 1A,   Central Block Razed Before Flames Were Brought Under Control by Noon Hour

Eisenhower Is. Commander Of North African Theater   U. S. General Has Authority Over Allied Troops In Tunisia, Algeria And Morocco.

Eisenhower s Africa Chief   American General Is Supreme Commonder

U.S. GENERAL HEADS AFRICA WAR THEATER   Dwight D. Eisenhower Now in Command of Forces

U. S. General To Command All Of Allies   British Eighth Army Expected To Come Under American’s Direction, With English In Command Of Various Fighting Arms.

Eisenhower Commander  In Big Area   American General Now Heads Entire African Theater

On Attu The Japs “Quit”   BY SHERMAN MONTROSE ACME Newspictures Photo geonher

—BY SHERMAN MONTROSE— ACME Newspictures Photographer  ~ Cl id oS & 2 oad awe}

Jap Soldiers Are Not ‘Invincible’   Attu Troops Fled Until Cornered

ISENATE MAY TAKE OVER U. 5. WORKERS DESPITE ROOSEVELT   Sub-Committee To Vote Yes Senate Control ¢4500 Employees

Nazis Dig In for Big Battle of Rome   Americans Tighten Noose Around Big German Pocket

Capture 8 ‘Lowns  On Hills   Germans Bracing Behind &85-Mile Line For Crucial  Defense Of Rome.

Fifth Army Takes Strategic Hills   Easily Defended Positions Now Held By The Germans May Make An Advance More Costly

OPA LAUNCHES DRIVE ON MEAT BLACK MARKET   Nation-wide Campaign Against Bootleg Selling Begun

QPA Moving Against Meatlegging’ Market  Many Alleged Violations Of Price Ceilings

OPA Launches Drive Against ‘Meatlegving’   Surreptitions Butet Violations of Ceiling  Attacked in Wide Cans        on   Bungling Is Blamed For U. S. Shortazes   Solon Calls For Stamping Ont of Mlegal Sales,  Fearing Spread

OPA Opens Drive Against Meat Black Market’   Bootleg Operations, Price Ceiling Violations  Cited at Washington

BLACK MARKET DRIVE OPENED   Nation- Wide Campaign Is Launched Against Price Violations, ‘Bootlegging’

DRIVE LAUNCHED AGAINST BLAGK MARKET IN MEAT   Government Gets Complaints of Bootleg Operations and Violations of Price Ceilings.   HIDDEN SLAUGHTER HOUSES ARE USED   Fear Held Wlegal Sales, if Continued, Will Cut Down Supplies Available in Stores.

Drive Launched Against ' Black Market In Meat   OPA Moves Against Alleged Violations of Price Cei ings and Bootleg Operations—Probe Opens in Marviand

OPA Launches Drive to Curb: Bootleg’ Meats   Black Market Cuts Down Supplies Available to Stores

THINK JAPS SEND CHINA, HOMELAND PLANES TO CUINEA   Heavy Aireraft Losses Forcing   Nips to Use Many Planes From Home Bases in South Pacific a

Allies Get Best Of Battle in Air   MacArthur Reports Jap— Plane Losses Total 1 ,000 in Month   STRONG POINTS ARE HIT   Allies Drop Tons of Bombs on Supply Dumps and Installations

Allies Get Best Of Battle in Air   MacArthur Reports Japanese Plane Losses Total  ~ 1,000 in Month   Allies Drop Tons of Bombs on Supply Dumps and Installations

JAP LOSSES IN PLANES HELD T0 BE STAGGERING   Believed Depleting Strength In China to Bolster Worsening Situation In New Guinea

Jans Seen Moving Air Power South  Mav Re Denletina   May Be Depleting Strength in Asia

Jap Air Force Staggers Under’. 1,000-Plane Loss  Believed Depleting Strength in China, Japan for New Guine:

Japs Attempt To Plug Air Losses   Fo  ~Rlanes-Are Drawn Southwest Pacific

JAPANESE AIRFORCE SUFFERS HEAVILY IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA   APPARENTLY BRINGING IN PLANES FROM OTHER BATTLE FRONTS

NOW DRAWING HEAVILY FROM OTHER FRONTS   Gen. McArthur’s Headquarters Reports Heavy Blows Dealt in S. and Southwest Pacific

Heavy Losses In Jap Air Forces Are Indicated   Believed Depleting Its Strength In China And Japan To Replace Staggering Losses in Pacific.

JAPS FORCED TO WITHDRAW CHINA PLANES   Allied Forces Meeting Little Resistance At Lae

Japs Forced To Give Up Planes   HEAVY ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS STAGGER  “ENEMY

OPEN SEASON ON PHEASANTS STARTS NEXT THURSDAY   Plenty Of Game In Towa, But Shortage Of Shells “fo Handicay Hunters

Pheasant Season Opens Oct. 28, At 9 A.M.   Conservation Commission Sets Most Liberal Pheasant Season In The State’s History

Italy's King Saves aie   Emanuele Wins Temporary Reprieve Until Rome Is Liberated.

-HAS SHORT REPRIEVE   King of. Italy Keeps His Throne for the Moment

Final Assault on Axis Forces Is Seen Underway   ‘Germans Say Drive Began With Heavy Shelling Of Mareth Line

ENEMY BEING SOFTENED UP FOR WHAT APPEARS 10 BE IMMINENT PUSH ON ROMMEL   German Broadcast Reports British Already Have Attacked Line

SEE SIX MORE YEARS OF WAR AGAINST JAPS   ‘lavy Heads Also Tell Of Heavy Raid On  Paramushiro

Navy Says Jap Kurile Island Base Blasted   Six More Years of War Against Nippor Is Seen by Admiral

NAVY PLANS 6 MORE YEARS OF WAR ON JAPS   Vice Admiral Horne Says Lags In Production Are Respoin: sible For Prolonging The Conflict   Attack On Paramushiro

American bombers Blast Jap Base in North Pacific   Navy Department Officially Projects Six More Years of War With Nips; Decline in War Production Deplored at Conference

Navy Plans6 Year War on Japs; U.S. Bombs Outpost   Long Range Plans Being. Made;Knox Gives Warning —

Fliers Strike Far Past Home Base   Navy Heads Expect Long War, But Will End in Victory

Navy Expects Prolonged War Against Japs   Warning Given Shorily Before Announcement of Ameriean Success

N  0  avy Planning on Six More Year: f Struggle With Japs in Pacific

Six More Years Of War With Japs Projected By Navy In Warning On Qver-O vtunism

KURILE ISLAND BASE BLASTED BY AMERICANS   NAVY PREPARES FOR 6 YEARS OF WAR AGAINST JAPS

Union Br idge Man Suicide; Shot Gun Used   Walter G. Johiisen Had Been In III Health: Aged 61

Airdromes On Sicily Given Daylight Raid  Ty & Attarnl EPoallawe   U.S. Attack Follows That Made At Night By British Planes

Big Wellingtons Shatter Naples Docks by Night   “Liberators: Aided By Malta Planes In Dayliaht Raid

Naples Docks, Airdromes In  Sicily Blasted   Heavy Damage Done By Liberators On Enemy Fields

Allied Air Planes Continue Attacks   MIDDLE EAST AREA SCENE OF MORE BOMBINGS

Shops, Hangars Are Shattered In Heavy Raid   RAF Drops Two-Ton  Blockbusters Along ' Naples Waterfront

JU. S. Bombers Blast Airdromes in Sicily   Daylight Assault by 50 Liberators at Comiso and Biseari Follows Night Raid by Wellingtons on Naples Docks.

SICILY’S AIR BASES, NAPLES DOCKS BOMBEL   U. §. Liberators from Middle East Strafe Airdromes at Comiso and Biseari

U. §. LIBERATORS ATTACKED SICILIAN AIRDROMES THURSDAY  BOMBINGS FOLLOWED NIGHT ASSAULT IN NAPLES BY RAF WELLINGTONS

U.S. LIBERATORS BLAST IMPORTANT AXIS AIRDROMES AND DOCKS IN DAYLIGHT RAID

LIBERATORS HIT AT SICILY ANEW   aRaids on Comiso, Biscari Fol low British Attack On Naples Docks

TWO AIRDROMES IN SICILY BOMBED BY U.S. LIBERATORS   RAF Wellingtons From North African Air Force Drop Several Two-Ton Block Busters Along Naples Waterfront.

Naples And Sicily Bombed   U. S. Liberators in Day Raids; RAF Flies At Night

Treasury Favors Committee Bill for Tax Collection, Calls Rum Plan ‘Inadequate, Unfair’

Democrats Said Aiding  Rumlites   Year’s Abatement Battle Taken By Republieans To Senate Comuittee

fae Paul Grades   Tax Bills on  Forgiveness   Treasury Expert “Sees Little Choice Among Three Proposals

GOP SEEKS DEM Ald TO PASS RUML TAX   Republicans Carry Fight fot Skip-Year Legislation to Senate Committee

TREASURY OFFICIAL SAYS THREE TAXABLE PLANS NOT GOOD  “BUT'PUTS FINGER OF ABSOLUTE DISAPPROVAL

Treasury  Raps at Ruml Plar   CARLSON MEASURE IS SEEN AS “THOROUGHLY INEQUITABLE, UNFAIR”

CARRY FIGHT FOR RUML TAX PLAN TO U.S. SENATE   REPUBLICANS ENLIST DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BATTLE

Ruml-Carlson Bill Opposed  Abatement Unfair, Says Treasury Spokesman

Treasury Analyses Tax Plans   Abatement Of Revenues Under Ruml Proposal! Is Unfair, Senate Committee Informed

Ruml Plan Held Unfair   Morgenthau Aide Flays Tax Abatement; ‘U.S. Needs All Income

Treasury Hits Ruml Measure   Senate Committee Told It Is Least Desirable of Three Plans Being Considered

Treasury Chiefs Talk fo Senate About Tax Plan   Ruml Measure Declared Unfair By Randolph Paul

Some Democrats in Senate May Support Ruml Plan for Lev:   Finance Committee in Upper House Takes Up  Controversy Today

CARLSON - RUML PLAN KNOCKED   Treasury Says Measure Is' “Unfair,” Although There  Is Little Room For Choice Between Three Proposals.

Pay-As-You-Go Advocates Are  Still Aetive   Republicans To Lead Another Fight For The Ruml Plan

RUML PLAN IS HIT BY PAU   Rebuffed Abatement Leaders Continue Fight In Senate

Carlson-Ruml Plan For Abafement Is Declared Unfair   Treasury Approves Both Committee And House Bills

Treasury Opposes Carlson-Ruml Tax Plan As Unfair; Republicans Carry On Fight for Ruml Proposal

'TREASURY OPPOSES CARLSON-RUML TAX PLAN   Measure Called Thoroughly Inadequate And Unfair Before  Gaonata (nmmiuttiaca -

SENATE GROUP BEGINS STUDY TAXATION BILI      Republican Rumlites Gain Support of Some Democrats As Hearings Open  Before Committee   FLOOR FIGHT VOWED   ‘GOP Members Look te  Senator Clark, Democrat, ' to Take Lead In Offer  ing Ruml Principle

Senate Group Gets Pay-Go ‘Tax Problem   Rumlites Get Some Democratic Support; House Compromise Under Study

Ruml Group Gets Aid From Democrats   Senate Committee Takes Up Pay-Go Tay Drala ne

TAX GROUP 3 - TAKES UP TAXES   Rumilites Get Some Dem« Support in Senate

TURKEYS SELL FOR $20. IN NORFOLK   Christmas Buyin Buying dag Re. sorted in Booming Wartime Port

TURKEYS SELL FOR $20 IN NORFOLK   Christmas Buying dag Reoorted in Booming Wartime Port

Claim GOP Charges $8000 Per Plate at Banquet to Fill Party Campaign Fund

Russians Smash Way Deeper Into  Nazi Defenses   Mud Slows Down Soviet Drive  On Smolensk

Nazi Defense System Is Penetrated  Russians Advance Steadily ‘ Against Enemy

Take Three Inhabited Sections   Powerful Thrusts Make Ap: preciable Advances Through Smolensk  Defenses.

HEAVY OPPOSITION.   : Encountered by Allied Planes tn Raids Over Europe.

ALL STORED EGG5 FOR GOVERNMENT   THOSE IN COLD STORAGE MAY 31 TO BE USED BY U. S.,, WICKARD DECREES.

MINESWEEPER LOST    Five Dead And 15 Missing Is Toll ) In Atlantic Capsizing

Loss of Biggest UBoat in World Is Announced by Navy   Argonaut With 102 Men Lost After Sinking Two Jap Vessels

Minesweeper Capsizes in North   5 Dead, 13 Missing Off Oregon Coast

ICKE  ES TITLES PROVE. PROBLEM   Futile Search in Pockets Ends With Use of Messenger

Smaller Supply of Tomatoes; Ceiling Price to Restaurants   Meals, Food Items and Drinks Are Under - Controlin ‘Southeastern States; Forty Per.Cent of-One Product-to Lease Lend

American Troops Make New Gair In Drive Along Upper Volturn Valley Toward New Nazi Positiort      Eighth Army Secures Bridgehead Across Trigno River After Engineers Construct Bridges Under Heavy Shellfire By Enemy

Two Towns Fall As Eighth Army shes Ahea   Report Enemy Resistance Jelling On Entire Front; Outposts Mowed Down

AMERICAN TROOPS ~ KEEP ON DRIVING “AGAINST NAZI   British Throw Bridges Across The Trigno River   BRIDGEHEAD OVER RIVER IS SECURED

Wedge Driven Into German Italian Lines   . British Eighth Army Als Advances To Bridge Trizno River.

Americans Den! Enemy Line on Upper Volturno   British Engineers Bridge Trigna River Under Heavy Fire

BRITISH PUT BRIDGES OVER THE TRIGNO   Enemy Resistance Report,ed Jelling Along Entire “Front as Allies Move Doggedly Toward Main Nefenses.

Yanks Drive Deep Salient Tn Nazi Lines   Enemy Resistance Is Stiffening Along Entire Front

Yanks Drive Wedge Into German Lines   Allies Pressing Ever Closer to Enemy in Mountain Defense Line

Allies Hammer  Wedge   AMERICANS DRIVE DEEP IN UPPER VOLTURNO; BRITISH CROSS TRIGNO

British Bridge Trigno River in Face of Heavy Artillery Fire   Two Allied Armies Are Nearing Foe’s Main Defenses

German Defenses Stiffen As Invaders Keep Punching Doggedly Ahead; Nazis Using Heavy Artillery Fire to Slow Advances

American Army Stabs Deeply Info Enemy Line   British Establish Firm New Bridgehead Across Triano River

RESISTANCE JELLS ALONG PENTIRE FRONT   British Gain Bridgehead Over Trigno; Castelmauro Is Captured; Air Raids Continue

enemy Lines Jell For Major Stand As Fifth And 8th Armies Move I Jr

A DEEP SALIENT IS DRIVEN INTO THE GERMAN LINES   American Troops’ Stabbing High Up the Valley of the Upper Volturno.   ENGINEERS UNDER FIRE   Built 3 Bridges Across the Trigno River Under Heavy Shell Fire.

oth Army Drives Into Nazi Lines  Deep Salient Reported From Headquarters

Allied Armies Advance Doggedly Ahead; Stron; Outposts Mowed Down

Salient Driven Into Enemy Lines   German Resistance in Italy Increases on Mountain Front

ALLIES PUSHING NEAR NEW NAZI FRONT IN ITALY   Engineers Put Bridges Across Trigito River Under Heavy Shellfire

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON GERMAN’S NEW LINE OF DEFENSE   YANKS DRIVE DEEP SALIENT IN UPPER VOLTURNO VALLEY

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE DEEP SALIENT INTO ENEMY’S LINES   ENEMY RESISTANCE REPORTED GROWING ALONG ENTIRE ITALIAN FRONT

Drive New Salient In Nazi Lines   Yanks Advance in Italy; Resistance  Of Germans Stiff

8th Army Bridges Trigno, Captures  Two More Towns; 5th Gains Ground

RESISTANCE OF FOE STRONGER   Two Allied Armies Push Doggedly Forward in Rough Country.   APPROACH MAIN LINES

FIFTH DRIVING “DEEP SALIENT - INTO FOE AREA   ‘One Strong Outpost After ' Another Mowed Down Northwest Of Raviscanina   BRITISH SPAN TRIGNO RIVER UNDER FIRE   i  jEngineers Continue to   Throw Bridges Across  : Stream Despite Artillery Bombardment

‘Clark's Forces Widen Base of Salient, Advance in Face of Artillery Fire   TAKE HIGH GROUND   \irmen Increase Strafing of Foe in Adrialic, Yugoslavia and Doderanese

FIFTH DRIVES SALIENT INTO ENEMY LINES   Americans, British Take Several Towns

Allies Approach Nazi Main Lines   American Trdops Driving _ Deep i into Enemy Held  Territory   BRIDGE HEAD SECURED   Eighth Army Units Are Helping Out in the Fierce Battle

Drive Deep Salient in Nazi Lines   Fifth Army Takes‘More Inportant High Ground and British ‘Bridee: Trieno   ENEMY RESISTANCE REPORTED JELLING   Beavy Artillery: Fire From Both Sides as Allies: Near Main German Defenses

Yanks Drive Wedge Into German Line   British Bridge Trigno River In Italy; Enemy’s Resistance Stiffens.

Yanks Drive Wedge Into Nazi Lines   British Bridge Trigno—Foe Resistance Stifenine

BRITISH SECURE BRIDGEHEAD ON TRIGNG RIVER   Enemy Resistance Is Reported Stiffening Along Entire Italian Front

British Throw Bridges Across Trigno River   General Montgomery Secures Bridgehead On River Despite Enemy Resistance

Advance Made Into Valley Of Volturno   Enemy Resistance Jells As Allied Armies Punch Over Rough Terrain

AMERICAN TROOPS DRIVE DEEP SALIENT INTO ENEMY’S LINES  ENEMY RESISTANCE REPORTED GROWING ALON TAITING IV AT ITAAT POCA

Yanks Drive Deep Salient Into Enemy’s Lines While British Score New Gains

Allies Closing in on German Defense Line in Rome Drive   Nazis Pose in Italian Hills for Possible Counteroffensive

Yanks Drive Deep Salient Into Nazi Line   British Engineers Under Fire Throw ~ Bridges over Trigno

éth Army Forces  Bridging Tri rigno  Under Heavy Fire   Americans Attack and Drive Germans From More High Ground De. spite Artillery Fire,

PIERCE NAZI LINES ABOVE TRIGNO RIVER   Germans Form New Defense Line to Hold  Rome; Bombed by Air.   Mediterranean Clear;  Adriatic Sees Bombing

ALLIES CLOSING IN ON NEW NAZI LINEINITALY   Fighth Army Units Cross Trigno River Under Heavy Fire

EIGHTH HOLDS A BRIDGEHEAD AGROSS RIVER   Engineers Throw New Bridges Across Trigno Despite Artillery Fire.

Eighth Army Puts Bridges Across River   Allied Armies Approach German's New Main Lines

ALLIES CONTINUE CTEADY ATWANCE   Eighth Army Engineers Throw Bridges Across Trigno River   SHARP FIGHTING   Fifth. Army Stabs Deep In Valley, Of Upper Vulturno River

ALLIES NEAR NEW GERMAN MAIN LINES   Outposts Wiped Out By United Armies Today

DEEP SALIENT DRIVEN INTO ENEMY LINES   American Troops Stab High Up Valley of Upper Volturno Northwest of Raviscanina   RESISTANCE IS JELLING

Yanks Sink Nip Destroyer   Chennault's Sky Dragons “Score on Amoy Raid

SINK 5 NIP SHIPS IN CHINA SECTOR   Include Destroyer in List of Warships Sunk by Fliers

Navy Reports Nip U-Boats  Near Shores   Heaviest Air A Assault in New Guinea Campaign. Carried Out by Fifth Army Air Force

ENEMY SUBS © OPERATING OFF PACIFIC COAST   Possibly ‘New Attempt Launched to Stop Flow of Supplies to U. 5. Troops In Pacific =

Report Japanese   Submarines Active ‘Operate Between U. S., Hawaii. Claim

Enemy Subs Returt To Pacific Region Off West Coast   Jap Forces Near Finschhafen Are Heavily Bombarded

Japanese Subs Between Hawai  And U. S. Coast   American Bombers Drop  Death On Pocketed Foe  Tw Now  rn

HOSTILE SUBS  ARE OPERATING  OFF WEST COAST ATTEMPT TO SINK  TANKER BETWEEN ii © AND HAWATI

Bomb-Ruined Ruhr Valley Gets Too Hot For Civil Population   War Summary

NAZIS EVACUATE THREE MILLION FROM RUHR AREA   Mass 1,000 Fighter Planes to Fend Off Allied Attacks

Nazis Vacate 3,000,000 Civilians From Bombed Area, Amass 1000 Planes

Germany Orders Evacuation of Three  ‘Million Civilians From Ruhr Resion   Nazis Mass More Than 1,000 Planes In Western Eurone

Evacuation of Ruhr Ordered, London Hears  1000 Planes Are _ Being Massed in Western Europe: 

GERAMNS MASS PLANES IN WEST   Evacuaic Ruhr, Prerare For Last Effort to Fend Off Bombers

GERMANS MASS DEFENSES OVER EUROPE’S WEST   Three Million Civilians Being Evacuated From Ruhr. Reich Realizes What's at Stake

Report Germany Has Ordered 3 Million Civilians Evacuated From Ruhr Area

3,000,000 Civilians Told To Move —  Nazis Order Evacuation of Ruhr

Germany Orders Evacuation Ot 3,000,000 Civilians From - Bomb-Shattered Ruhr Valley

NAZIS ORDER RUHR AREA EVACUATED   Move Fighter Strength in to Battle Bombers

Nazis Order 3,000,000 to Leave Ruhr   More Than 1,000 Fighter Planes Massed to Fend Off Attacks

Dempsey Awarded Divorce Decree  Custody Of Children To Bé Decided Later

JACK DEMPSEY GETS DIVORCE   Custody of Children To Be Decided by Court in Near Future

Divorce Decree Given Dempsey  Wife’s Counter Suit   Wife’s Counter Suit ls Dismissed

DEMPSEY GETS DIVORCE DECREE   Interlocutory Decree Is Granted Former Heavyweight Champion In Suit Against Hannah Williams Dempsey.

Court Awards Jack Dempsey Divorce Decree   Referee Rules That Charge By Fermer Champion “Proven Beyond Doubt

Former Champion's Charges of Misconduct Proved, Referee Says; Custody of Chitdecn Undecided.

Dempsey Granted Divorce Decree   Charges of Wife's Infidelity Proven, Official Referee  awe

Jack Dempsey Gets Divorce   Supreme Court Referee Rules Former Champion Has Proved His Case

Grant Decree Of Divorce To Jack Dempsey   Charges Proven Beyond  Doubt, Judge Asserts In Decision Issued At  White Plains Today

DIVORCE GRANTED TO JACK DEMPSEY   Former Heavyweight Wins ‘Suit: Wife’s Counter  Charges Dismissed

DEMPSEY GETS DIVORCE FROM ACTRESS-WIFI   Judge Rules Dempsey’  ,  Charge, of Wife's Infidelity “Proven Beyond Doubt”   EX-BOXER NAMED   Hannah Dempsey's Coun. ter-Suit for Separation Dismissed by Referee [In Case

Seek Decentralized Defense Setup With Adjutant General As Director

New Defense Bill Submitted To Legislature   Substitute Plan Keeps Lawmaking Right Ir Legislature's Hands Cuts Appropriation

To Trim Defense Council's Power  New Bill Knocks Out Drastic Provisions

JURORS TOREPORT TUESDAY MORNING   Four Criminal Cases Set for Trial in November Court ‘Term -

JURORS TO REPORT TUESDAY MORNING   Four Criminal Cases Set for Trial in: November  Court*Term     DROP SFEFVERAT CACES

IPIRD LOAN DRIVE IS NOW UNDER WAY   Workers in Linton and Greene County Well Pleased.

Nation’s War Bond Buyer: Are Rapidly Filling 3rd War Loan Drive Quotas

FOOD CONFERENCE PLANS ARE TO BE _ CHANGED SHORTLY   Modification of FDR's Ban on Normal Newspaper* . age Appears As’  Likely,

Gas Station Attendant Makes Mistake In His  Onetamer Far Cacalsne

Storm Over News Leak      Premature Release of Cairo Conference News Scored in U. S.. Britain

- - —CENSORSHIP— Leak On Cairo Parley \Brings: Many Protest:   British House Of.Commons Seeks To Place Responsibility For Radio Announcements: 24-Hours . Ahead Of Scheduled News Releases

LEAK OF NEWS ABOUT PARLEY -RILES BRITISH   British Information Minis . ter Favors Absolute © Security In Future  - Conferences :

Tighter Rein On News of Meets Seen   Briton Questioned on Responsibility for Leak at Lisbon

Conference News Leaks Under Fire   British Minister of Information Is Placed On Carpet

British Information Minister ls Questioned About Reuters Broadcast   ELMER DAVIS IS IRKED

SECECTMEN ORGANIZE FOR ~ COMING YEAR   William A; Buttrick Chos. ' en Chairman; Ivan D. Servais, Clerk

. Tsk, Tsk, General Marshall!   Ss ane Ss wee jr wet wewwrt &€ VY ws wet sate 6  x** a ee  x * *  Army Chief Gets by With ‘Sloppy Salute’

COAST GUARD CUTTER SINKS GERMAN SUB      Dramatic Chase Through An Allied Convoy

Cutter Chases Germans © Through Allied Convoy, Picks Up 40 Survivors ©

Coast Guard Cutter Sinks  Nazi U-Boat   DRAMATIC CHASE STAGED THROUGH CONVOY SUCCESSFUL.

CUTTER SPENGER SINKS U.BDAT IN DRAMATIC CHASt   Captures 40 Members of Crew; Gathers Photo  Record of Entire Fight-

U. §. Cutter Blasts German Sub and Seizes Crew of 40 Yankee Ship [Hits Nazi Craft as Ji Flees Charges

German Propaganda Says Allies Planned To Be In Rome September 16

CHRUCHILL PUTS OFF WAR STORY   Greatest Speech of His Career Awaited By English People

Admits Slew Wife, Friend Long Ago   Arrested 18 Years After Slayings in New York

Presidential Campaign Groundwork Starts With Rrickbats and Bouquets Flying Wildly

CAPITAL TALK CENTERS UPON BYRD, BRICKER   Brickbats, Bouquets Fly Among Politicians

Russians Take 120 Towns in 9-Mile Gain, Says Moscow   Nezhin, Vital Rail Junction, Seized, Menacing Whole Dnieper Defense Line

EUROPE’S ENSLAVED PEOPLES GETTING SUPPLIES AS WELL AS ENCOURAGEMENT FROM U.S.

ENSLAVED PEOPLES OF EUROPE REMINDED U. 5. AID 1S COMING  ASSISTANCE IN VARIED WAYS ALREADY BEING CIVEN ON MANY FRONTS

(U.S. Pours Printing Presses, Flags,  Food Info Europe by Underground and Parachute fo Undermine Axis Nations

slaved Peoples of Europe Getting Regular Reminders by Air and Underground That U.S. Will Do Something About Their Plight

Gifts Smuggled by U.S. to People Of Europe Aid Fight for Freedom

Enslaved Peoples of Europe Getting Regular Reminders Of Generosity of the U. S.

Enslaved Peoples Of Europe Get Regular Reminders That United States Plans To Relieve Their Plight

U. S. GETTING SUPPLIES AND PROPAGANDA AIDS TO PEOPLES OF HITLER SUBJUGATED NATIONS

American Food, Propaganda Supplies Reach Subdued People  ‘Heil Hitler-—Heil Hunger’ Says Message On

U.S. Pours Printing Presses, Food Into Europe By Underground, Air

Jnited States Pours Messages Of Help To Enslaved Europe Via Undergrouna

Allies Drop Food, Printing Devices To Europeans  Ingenuous Methods OF Distribution

U. S. Pours Printing Presses, Flags, Food Into Europe Via Underground

U. S. Pours Printing Press, Flags Anc Food Into Europe By Underground   Some Even Dropped By Parachute In Move To Use Propaganda In Undermining Axis; Sewing Kits, Seed, Soap, Tea, Etc. Dropped.

HITLER ENEMIES AIDED BY U. S.   EUROPEAN PATRIOTS GIVEN SOLID PROOF ALLIED BENEFACTORS

Enslaved People of Europe Reminded U.S. Standing by   Tieliediaw Peeeune ana and  Sewing nits, Stes, Seay, 2G ee 2 Free Poured Into Hands of Nazi-Controlled Citizens by Air and by Mysterious Underground Chan nele: More Substantial Than Leaflets  <

‘Gifts,’ Delivered By Underground Channels, Remind European People Of U. S. Intention

U. S. Pouring’ Printing Presses, ‘Food, . Seap, Tea Inte Europe by ‘Underground

Administration Forces See Passage of Modified Ruml Tax Measure in Senate   _ Compromise With Congressmen to Avoid Veto of Legislation Being Developed Under Leadership of Senator George

Compromise Is Expected In Tax Plan      CHIEF EXPONENT IS CHAIRMAN GBURGE OF SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE; QUESTION WIDE OPEN WHEN CONFEREES Meit   Provides Abatement

Compromise on Tax Bill Urged By Demo Solon  Senate Expected to  Pass Modified Form of Ruml-Proposal

Modified Levy Urged to Avert Pay-as-Go Veto   Compromise in Senate Sought to Reconcile  Tnwen Ansts-Jd.

Senator Urges Middle Path On Rum! Plan   Administration Aids Fear Veto for Total Forgiveness

Tax Compromise Is Envisioned   Finance Committee Chairman Backs Plar

COMPROMISE TAXPROGRAM UNDER STUDY      Plans Considered to Avoid Possible Presidential Veto

Tax Compromise Considered To Prevent Veto   But Senate Seems Likel To Pass Modified Ruml Measure

Veto, Rate Raise Possibilities in Tax Situation   Administration Seeks Compromise on Ruml  Flavored Senate Bill

MODIFIED RUML PLAN FORESEEN   Compromise With House Is Rejected On New Revenue Measure  To Avoid Veto

COMPROMISE   Administration Leaders Expect Senate to Adopt Modified Ruml Plan

Action By Congress Is Expected So As To Avoid Presidential Veto   TAX FORGIVENESS IS PRINCIPAL ISSUE

Compromise With House Likely Senate Passage of Modified  Ruml Tax Plan Seen by Leaders

200 Tanks, Armored Cars Rolling Out of Equipping Depot Every Day

PAPER COLLECTION ~ PROGRESSING HERE      Boy Scout Troops Report 14 Tons Gathered in - ’’ Current Drive

PAPER COLLECTION PROGRESSING HERE   Boy Scout Troops Report 14 Tons Gathered in Current Drive

Japs Strengthen Solomon Bases   Shortland Island Area Bombed By Americans

AFL Welcomes Back Largest Of tts Unions   Machinists Return Is Cheered; 625,000 Members Involved In Union

AFL Welcomes Machinists Assn. Back Into Fold   Group Gains Half-Million Men Amid Cheers In  Boston Convention Hall

MACHINISTS REJOIN AFL AS CONVENTION CHEERED LUSTILY  BODY IS LARGEST UNION AFFILIATED WITH LAROR FEDERATION

Machinists Back In AFL Fold  Jurisdictional Row With Carpenters Finally Settled

AFL WELCOMES MACHINISTS   Convention Cheers News of Recanciiatian

Union B: Back In AFL Fokc      Teamsters ‘Displaced ‘As-‘No. I Affiliate; 623,000 linvolved -

MACHINISTS IN THE AFL AGAIN   Membership of 625,000 Welcomed Back to Union's Ranks at Boston

MACHINISTS RESOIN  AFL AS CONVENTION  CHEERED LUSTILY BODY IS LARGEST UNION AFFILIATED WITH  DAD LCEHECD ATION

LIQUOR RATION. GETS SUPPORT   HOUSE PASSES BILL AUTHORIZING STATE DIRECTOR TO ” ESTABLISH RATIONING ‘ SYSTEM IN OHIO

LIQUOR RATION UP TO SENATE   Chief Authorized but Not Required to Limit Sales Under House Bill

First Annual National Angus Sale and Show Opens In Chicago Today

AEW ASSAULTS.   ' France, Htaly and Germany iit by R.A.BL Pombers. 

Peugeot Motor Works In France  Hit By Bomber:   Allied Fliers Range Far And Wide Over Europe For © Selected Targets    AIM TO CRIPPLE ALL HITLER AIDS

ALLIED AERIAL FORCES BLAST AXIS FACTORIES   Sweeps Made Over Vital Plants In France, italy, Reich, Low Countries   SEVEN BOMBERS MISSING   Twin Attacks Smash Messina And Foggia Airdrome On Italian Mainland

HEAVY RAIDS — OVER EUROPE   RAF RAIDERS BLAST AT AXIS  INDUSTRIES AND TRANSPORT  FACILITIES IN ~“WIDE=—-*SPREAD ATTACKS

MINE OPERATORS REJECT PROPOSAL   REFUSE 6-DAY WEEK WITH TIME AND A HALF FOR 6TH DAY

Six Day Week For Miners Rejected   Operators Reject Perkins Plan That Calls For Extra Pav.

MINE DEADLOCK - STILL CONTINUES   Operators Turn Down Guaranteed Work  Week, Pay by U.S.

PROPOSAL IS REJECTED   Unable to Reach a Settlement in Deadlock Over Mine Wages

MINEOWNERS DENY PROPOSED SIX-DAY WEEK   ‘Lewis Accepts Pian, But Secretary Perkins Says   Operators Have Thus  Far Rejected It   IDEA HELD FAIR   O'Neill Asserts Owner: Cannot Guarantee How Many Days Men Can Be Given Work

MINE OWNERS REJECT LABOR DEPT’S. BID   Lewis Had Accepted as ‘Basis’ for , Selilement Six Day, Time and * Hall Proposal

Northern Coal Operators Reject 6th Day Guarantee   Perkins’ Proposal Accepted by Lewis: Siaelaian Scee Conference Deadlecked

MINES REJECT — -SIX-DAY WEEK   Lewis Says Proposal May Be ‘Basis’ For Accord

Commission's Release Sought   Germany Wants to Free Nationals U. S. Took in Africa

RELEASE ASKED FOR DIPLOMATS   Germans Seek to Exchange American Officials for Armistice Group.

- NAZIS WOULD EXCHANGE U. S. DIPLOMATS “FOR THEIR AFRICA ARMISTICE BOARD

Nazis Hold Americans From Vichy   Refuse to Release ’ Group Until German Commission to North Africa is Released

Berlin Would Force Release  Of Nationals   U. S. Diplomats Are Pawns In Hi-Jacking Plan

Nazis Dicker For  Their Commission  Would Free Americans If Officers Seized In  Africa Are Traded

FREEDOM FOR DIPLOMATS IS BERLIN GOAL   PROPOSES EXCHANGE WITH U. S. FOR NO. AFRICAN COMMISSION

NAZIS SEEK RELEASE OF COMMISSION   Would “Trade” American Diplomats Held in France for Freedom of Armistice Group Seized in Africa.

Over-Supply of Butter Seen Due to High Point Value, Dealer States

OVERSUPPLY OF BUTTER THREAT   High Ration-Point Value Given as Cause by Creamery Head -

Discover White Indians Who Ac Like Gangsters   Tribe Lives In  British Guiana

Fabulous “White Indians’ Located In British Guiana Jungles By U.S. Explorers

SPLAT A AR AR CSE  FOOD FLOWN TO YANKS ON GUADALCANAL HILL BY FLYING FORT CREW

VERNON GOOD WILL CLUB ENTERTAINED AT HOME OF OLGA KLEEMAN, AUG. 1:

Nazi Radio Claims. Capture Of Chuguev As Soviets Drive On Staraya Russa

SOVIETS SCORE NEW GAINS IN SMOLENSK AREA   Hand To Hand Fighting Rages Around Lake Ilmen

Fresh Gains In North Reported   Lines Hold Under Terrific Pressure

REDS REPORT FRESH GAINS IN NORTH AREA   800 Germans Killed And 15 Tanks Are Smashed As Nazis Repeatedly Attack.

SOVIET FORCES GAIN IN DRIVE ON VITAL BASE   Wipe Out Nazis In Lake Iimen Area, Score Fresh Advances In Push To Take Smolensk   RUSSIANS HOLDING IN KHARKOV FIGHT   Moscow Claims Hitler's Attack In South Has Been Checked, With Heavy Losses

Soviets Are Holding Nazi Horde   Russians Mark Up Fresh Gains in Central, Northern Areas, Keep Enemy at Bay In Vital Donets Region; Fight Is Bitter

Fresh Gains In. North Reported   Linés Hold Under Tevific Preséuire ;

Reds Face Unceasing Attacks in Donets; Report Fresh Gains   Southern Lines Holding Firm Under Repeated Onslaughts by Reinforced German’ Troops

Russians driven against  Donets river defenses, ‘repel German onslauchts

800 Nazis Killed, 15 Tanks Smashed Below Kharkov .   Reds’ Southern, * : Lines Hold Against Ceaseless Attacke:

REPORT FRESH GAINS IN PUSH ON SMOLENSK   Nazi Tanks Blown to Bits by Mines South Of Kharkov

FOE LOSES 800 OTHER SOLDIERS AT DONETS LINE   Russians Report New Gains Near Smolensk—Nazi Tanks ‘Blown Up’

Reds Repulse Nazi Atfacks Near Kharkov   Russians Continue In Northwest and Center Gain Despite Spring Thaws

British Cain Against Axis Mareth Front   Soviet Troops Edge Forward Through Thiek Mud In  Northern Area.   AMERICANS ADVANCE

RUSSIANS HOLD FIRM ON LINES BELOW KHARKO   Declare Enemy Tanks, Attempting Break-Through, Were Blown Up on Entering Minefield.   SCORE NEW ADVANCE ON CENTRAL FRONT   Germans Report 50,000 Reds Killed and 19,594 Captured in Southern Drive Since February 18.

Indicate Lines Are Holding in Donets Area   Germans Claim the Capture of City of Chuquey

(Nazi Attack Is Smashed Near Kharkov   Gain Made Below Lake Ihnen and on Russian Path to Smolensk

Crop Report Has More Cheerful Note   Rapid Progress in Growth and Cultivation Reported by Crop Observer Reed

‘WEEK END TO BE RAINY   Rain. Was Falling Today in Most of Eastern Kansas

Heated Postwa1 Policy Debate Due In Senate   But Approval Of Pledge To Help Keep Peace Of World Indicated.

Mopping U¢ West Half  Of Island _           U.S. SEVENTH ARMY ROUNDI! DEMORALIZED ITALIAN TROY r BY THE THOUSANDS; STILL. FIGHT AT CATANIA a¢

ITALIAN SOLDIERS IN THOUSANDS ARE BEING CORRALLED   American Spearhead Slashes Around Southwestern Coast From _ Airfield Town Of   Castelletrano   LONDON OBSERVERS SAY WE ST: SICILY ACTION IS AT AN END

WESTERN PORT CAPITULATES T0 AMERICAN BOYS   Victory Over Isle in View

Friday Confab Is Slated as Legislature Hears Bills on Taxes, Appointments

MARIGNY ON STAND    Accused in Oakes Murder Trial  Tells of , Movements

Shirley Sergeant On Flying Fort In Skim Bombing   Leonard Gionet Radioman On Big Bomber Which Sank Cargo Vessel

Women Who Aided Executed Nazi Spy Refused Freedom on Bail in Chicago

GAS DISTRIBUTORS’ CUT IS RESCINDED   Full Quota Restored As Of August 19 In Eastern Seaboard States

Pe” ah te, <4  Twenty Five Percent Reduction In August Gas Deliveries In Section Is Res-cinded; Local Group Started Protest Action That Brought Results.

Allied Units in Italy Advance, 8th Takes City North of Mora   Russians Regain Offensive in Sector West of Kiev; Planes Blast Nazi Oil Tanks in Yugoslavia

RIVAL BOMBERS STRIKE HEAVILY FROM THE AIR      Germans Sink Seventeen Allied Ships At Bari   ALLIES -GAINING   Brenner Pass Lifeline Is Bombed By Americans

Brenner Pass Hit Hard by American Planes; War News   Events in Europe and Russia Summarized  by AP’s Editors

Dee. 2 Raid by 30 German Bombers Caught Defenses  Oft-Guard at Adriatic City

YANK BOMBERS BLAST BRENNER PASS. LIFELINE   Ground Forces Make Gains As Reds Open New Push West Of Kiev

Hint Enemy Offensive Is Past Its Peak   British 8th Army Continues Stow Push Toward driatic, Take Berrati

ALLIES HAMMER BRENNER PASS   Reds Regain Offensive In) Swaying Battle  Near Kiev

AMERICAN FLYERS HIT VITAL TARGETS IN BRENNER PASS   U. S. and British Troops Repert Gains; Reds on Attack at Kiav

Big Bombers  Attack Italy And Austria   German Planes Sink 17 Allied Vessels At Bari

MAIN GERMANSUPPLY LINES T0 ITALY BLASTED IN GIANT RAID ON BOTH SIDES OF GREAT PASS   Rail Facilities at Innsbruck, Austria, Hit and Other Centers Get Attention. American Bombers Make Other Foravs Into Balkan Sectors

WOMAN CUT TO DEATH IN TULSA   Son Gives Unheeded Warning, Estranged Mate of Air Worker Named

Man Sought in Tulsa Slaying   Woman Slashed to Death; Son Tries To Warn Her of Danger

Sen. Rowland Dies Suddenly In House Lobby   Sudden Heart Attack Kills Lineoln Solon

Plymouth Countyans  Who Have Given Their Lives In World War II  TT. Meréinhar 91. 1949

Wallace Says Japs To Quit War Soon   Pledges Democ ratic Regime for China

COMPROMISE ON SUBSIDIES SEEN   Administration And Congress Expected To Give Ground In Battle

Both Sides Fear Immediate Vote  On Subsidies   Temporary Extension Likely, Says One of  Program’s Opponents

Truce Appears Likely in Battle Over Subsidies   Neither Side Ready For Immediate  Test of Strength

COMPROMISE HINTED IN SUBSIDY BATTLE,   War-on-the-Nerves Battle Has Gripped Conaress

Truce Probable In Subsidy Fight   Both Sides Dodae Test of Strength

Truce Is Expected On Food Subsidies   Temporary Extensior Of Program Seen

TRUCE LIKELY WULS. SCRAP ON SUBSIDIES   Conerees Mulls Over FDR's Food  Apneal

HOOVER WOULD FEED OCCUPIED DEMOCRACIES   Use Idle Ships and South American Ships, Says Former President

LIQUOR MONOPOLY OF OHIO PROFITABLE   Budget Estimates Exceeded in Spite of Scarcity

SD OD OO Oe Oh th tp i i te  F.D.R. Still President Even If He’s Far Away

POLICE ARREST KILLER SUSPECT   'Foe' of Veteran Radical, Carlo Tresea, Held In New York

FLYNN WILL GO TO AUSTRALIA   lo Be Special Representative Of President.

Bled White By Casualties. New Crisis Looming   Finns To Moscow To Seek Peace Soon? Army Of 400,000 Would Quit   DNIEPER IS TAKEN   German Defenses In Italy Smashed In Garigliano River Vicinity

U.S. NAVAL TRIUMPH OFF BOUGAINVILLE COSTS JAPS 14 SHIPS  ALLIES PUSH THROUGH SHATTERED GERMAN DEFENSES IN ITALY

Russia Claims 11 Million Mer Lost by Nazis   2,700,000 Casualties in Four Months. 14 Jap Warships Sunk or Damaged  in Naval Battle Off Bougainville

BLED ALMOST WHITE  BY CASUALTIES NAZIS  FACE NEW PROBLEM STOCKHOLM REPORTS  FINNISH GOVERNMENT MAY SUE FOR PEACE

Hear Envoy May Be Sent To Moscow   Reds Hold East Dnieper Bank— Soviets Strike North of Kiev

Helsinki Leaders Instruct Ex-Envoy, «  Prepare For Talks   IGermans Face Loss Of Ally As War Casualties In 4 Flaming Months Are Reported At Nearly 3 Million

More Bad News After Heavy Losses In Russia.   By RICHARD McMURRAY  atl WW... Das.

Stockholm Reports Helsinki Sending Envoy to Moscow: Stalin Lists German Losses

Germany’s Loss es Mounting Rapidly   Russians Claim 2,700,000 Enemy Casualties in 4 Months; Reich — Suffers New- Blows a

German Ally Is Expected To Sue For Peace Terms   Swedish Paper Says Nation’s Fate To Be Settled In Few Days

14 Jap Warships Sunk In Blasting Foe’s Attempt  To Hold Solomons

Reds Now Stand.at Kherson Portal Miles from Sealed-off Crimea—Alli¢  . Armies Smash Through River ‘Defenses—Japs Lose 14 Warships a Bougainville :

HITLER'S HORDE CHASED OUT OF SOUTHERN AREA   Allies Continue Advance In Italy and Heavy Bombing of Germany

Envoy Is Ready to Ga  'to Moscow   Red Armies Continue Mop-Up of East Bank of Dnieper, Push to Kherson

Keadies Lo oend Former, Ambassador To Moscow; Peace Discussion Seen

Separate Peace for Finland?   Little Country Re ported Ready to Send Envoy to Moscow to Discuss Negotiations

Coal Dispute In Hands of 'WLB Panel    Congressional Compromise Group Races to Beat July 1 Deadline With New Tax Bill

Soft Coal Dispute Lands In Lap Of Labor Board; House Rejects Ruml Plan

Soviets Take Key Points   Break Silence on German Reports of Big-Scale Offensive

STRIKE 1 ENDED      ‘Sips Orange Juice as 21-Day Fast Concludes; Tired : But Cheerful

GANDHI ENDS 21-DAY FAST   Political Situation § I Status Quo; Leader To Be Confined

War Dispatches Written in Sicilian Chamber of Horrors. Walls Covered with Violent Murals 

Battle Front News Prepared in Sicily for America Writtenin Oddly Decorated Room

Improvement Of Flocks Of Indians, Aim   Head Stockman For Navajos . Explains Reduction Reasons -

The Home Front In Iowa   Beaev 2Aawesaw eran awe ae  HOW TO USE YOUR NEW RATION BOOK

GERMANS RUSH FULL DIVISION TO THE FRONT   Clark’s Vangua rds Wade Across River

Allies Point Three Drives  TowardRome   Frantic Nazis Rush Full Division Into Battle For Italy

GLAMANG HURL NtW OINTSION AT HTH ARMY   Fresh Nazi Outfit Promptly Thrown Into Retreat By American Forces

Three Allied Spearheads Aim at Rome   Nazis Rush Fresh Troops in Effort To Bolster Lines

MAY RESORT TO SUBSIDIES 10 CHECK PRICES   Program Might Involve $2,000,000,000 Annual Outlay

(SUBSIDY FOR ~ LING COST 18 PROPOSED   MANY ADMINISTRATION OF‘ IPICIALS BELIEVE suSsiDY  ~ ONLY WAY TO "HOLD  , THE LINE” ‘

MAY CONTROL LING COSTS. BY SUBSIDIES   This Appears the Only Way Remaining to Stcp Inflaticn.   WOULD BE EXPENSIVE   Themendsus Pressure ‘on Price Structure Getting Out of Hand.

FEDERAL CASH MAY BE USED ON FOOD FRONT   Two Billion Annual Outlay Regarded As _ Likely Under Program   STABILIZATION SOUGHT   British Control Cited As Proof Of Need For American Action

Gen. Eisenhower Defends Patton   Backs Decision in New Statement

Eisenhower Reports On Patton Case   Defends Action Refore Senate

Eisenhower Defends Action   Thinks Patton Should Still Keep Army Command; Patton Involved In Two Incidents.

REPORT MADE TO SENATE ON PATTON CASE   General Eisenhower Defends “Corrective Action” He Took   VALUE OF GENERAL TO ARMY OUTLINED   Secretary Stimson Backs Steps of Eisenhower

Gen. Eisenhower Defends Action; Says Patton Has Great Field of Usefulness

Fisenhower .. Reperts-on— ~ Patton Case      Defends Action of Correcting Officer ‘Without Removing Him From _ Command of Seventh Ariny

SENATE GIVEN PATTON REPORT BY EISENHOWER   Defends His Action In Keeping General In Command Of Army   NO EXPLANATION OF HUSH-UP BY COMMAND

Army Reveals Patton Involved In Two Incidents   Fisenhower Defends Handling of Case In Senate Report

Gen. Eisenhower Defends Action In Patton Case   Also Backed by Stimson; Full Report on Case Js Laid Before Senate

Actionin Patton Case Defended By Eisenhower   Reveals 2 Incidents Occurred—Believes Sound Decision Made — Matter Left Open

Eisenhower's Report on Patton Rebuke For Cuffing Soldiers Given to Senate

Reds Capture Vital Base  in Caucasus   Germans ‘Shorten’ Their Front in Lake Ilmen Region

Threaten Wedge At Kuban Riv.   Drying Swamps Give Russians Better Chance To Carry On Speedy  Move.

Reds Capture Base Of Strategic Importance   Russians Resume Their Kuban hiver Offensive As Swampy Terrain Dries.

F. R.’s Courage  Lauded By Green  wil Try To Make Use Of Law Unnecessarv

Lost Flier Reaches Yank ‘Lines At Last   Italian Deserters: Accompany Youth On Fight-Day Hike

MARINE TELLS ABOUT BATTLE   Hand to Hand Combat on Guadatcanal Described _ By Michigan Youth.

JAP PRISONERS LIKE U.S, SLANG, CIGARETS, PLAY   Provide Liberal Education in Upsetting of Firmly-Held Beliefs

Crew Safe After Grash Into Sea   Regular Drill of Marines in Forced Landings in Water Held  Responsible :by Pilot

Japs‘ ‘Reform” inU. 5. Prison Camp Anything but Resigned and Sullen

Another Belief Shattered Jap Prisoners Are Not Sullen; They Have Fun      Call Each Other ‘8-Balls’ And Are Eenjoying Good American Food, And Horseplay

DOZEN MARINES BLAST OUT JAPS   U. S Fleet Scares Nips Off When Reinforcement of Guadalcanal Attempted

AERIAL SMASHES FROM EAST, SOUTH, WEST ARE QN   Heavier Attacks are Due and Will Bring About Hitler’s Defeat.

U.S. Planes Blast Bulgarian Capital; Soviets Continue Drive At Nazis: RAF Bombers Raid Western Germany   Italian Army, In F irst Comeback Attempt Against Nazis, Is Forced To Retreat Due To Heavy Losses

STH ARMY WINS NEW BRIDGEHEAD   Clark’s Forces Consolidate Gains; Aerial Assault on Reich Continues

Fighter Fleet Failed To Save Schweinfurt   Stockholm Hears Nazis Massed 60 Per Cent Of Interceptor Strength   HAD 5 HOUR TIP   Increasingly Heavy Ai: Blows Appear To Be Preparing For Invasion

Hitler Can Be Beat In 1943 Bat Odds Are High Against Ii   Realistic View Is Based On Experience Of U. S., Britain “And Russia Thus Far Against Nazis

Odds Now Against Axis Defeat in 1943, Allied Experts Think   Victory Possible This Year, But Hitler Stil! Has Powerful Forces At Full Strenath

GERMANS NOT SO CONFIDENT AS THEY WERE   While Italians Are “Fed Up” and Glad to Surrender, According to Report From Desert

PPD DAD SOO O'S 4-0-0498 -O Nazi Captives Less Confident   --- So Says Briton Who Filmed Rommel Retrea   ITALIANS DEFINITELY FED UP

1943 Women’s Club Meeting, Cancelled   Convention Was to Have Been Held in Indianapolis May 10-15.

General Federation Of ‘Women’s Clubs Cancels ‘Its 1943 Convention

Soviets Battle Increased Nazi ‘Hordes In Donets   Germans Throw Masses of Fresh Troops, Tanks and Planes into Bloody Struggle East of Kbar Lerner

Mine Fields, Germans Fail To Slow Yanks   Gen. Geo. S. Patton Leads in Pursuit of Retreating Axis Forces; Reds Yield Slightly

Allies Advance To Sever Axis Coast Corridor   Patton Leads Americans In Rapid Push 73 Miles From Gabes; Nazis Hurl More Troops Into Soviet War, Claim Capture of Belgorod.

SEIZE TOWN OF EL GUETAR IN FAST DRIVE   Other Columns, Meanwhile, Roll Across Central Tunisian Hills in Move Designed to Cut the Axis Corridor.

Ist Army Retreats To New Positions In Northern Sector   Germans Continue To Throw Fresh Troops into Fight in Upper Donets River Valley

Seize Town of El Guetar   Little Activity By British Army At Mareth Line.

El Guetar Is Occupied After 12-Mile Advance; Drive Is Part Of Two: Way Squeeze On Foe.

Rapid Progress ts Made in Spite of Nazi Mine Fields   ‘Local Adjustments’ Are Reported Made Along Mareth Line

Another Advance Seeks To Slice  Nazi Corridor   Heavy Rains, Floods Hamper Operation: Patton Challenges Rommel   RUSSIANS YIELD   Belgorod Is_ Taker By Nazis Today US Bombers Raic  Germany

U.S. TROOPS TAKE EL GUETAR AFTER TOMILE ADVANCE   French Join Offensive and Airmen Blast Axis Supply Lines; Heavy Fight.

EI Guetar Occupied in U-N- Effort To Cut Axis- Held Corridor   Patton Leads Speedy U. S. Drive; Continue Mareth Patrol Activity; Reds Face Fresh Nazi Troops

ANOTHER TOWN TAKEN ON WAY TO “CORRIDOR’   Rapid Progress Being Made by World War Il Doughboys Despite Nazi Impediments.

YANKS PUSH ON DESPITE BIG FLOODS   Americans in Tunisia Advance 12 Miles Toward  Coastal Corridor.   British Falls Back In Clash With Nazis

US Armored Troops Seize El Guetar   Make Rapid Progress Despite Mine Fields; British Ist Army Withdraws Slightly; Nazis Increase Pressure in Ruecia

PUSH 12 MILES AHEAD IN MOVE TOWARD COAST   Thrust is Aimed at Cutting Rommel’s Corridor Along Sea

Allies Seek To Split _ Axis Forces   Yank Columns Push Gernians Back Toware Sea from Recaptured Gafsa in Tunisia

Move Ahead Despite Rain  And Floods   Push Southeast From Gafsa; British Army Withdraws in North

TOWN OF EL GUETAR SEIZED IN DRIVE TO GUT AXIS CORRIDOR   ACTIVITY CONTINUES ALSO ON NORTHERN, SOUTHERN TUNISIA FRONTS -

Tanks Drive  Dozen Mailes From Gafsa   Allies Seek To Sever Axis Coastal Corridor

Allies Would Force Battle With Rommel   American ‘Troops Move Ahead In Part Of Two Way Squeeze To Trap MS aie   /-VON ARNIM ADVANCES

Apparently Trying. to Cut: 300 Mile Axis Corridor. Along Coast  i

REPORT RAPID GAIN IN DRIVE TOWARD COAST   Axis Local Offensive In North Reported  Progressing

ESCAPE ROUTE FOR AXIS ARMY BEING CLOSED   Americans Push Toward Sea As British Eighth Army Opens Fire in South   SQUEEZE PUT ON ROMMEL   Fresh Masses of Nazis Are Hurled at Russians on Kharkov Sector

U. S. Forces Capture Town  Of °E] Guetar   Allied Aim Is To Cut German Forees in Two

Patton Seeks to Cut Axis Coastal Line   ‘Interesting’ News Forthcoming within Week; Yanks Blast U-Boat Nest ,

AMERICANS LED BY GEN. G.S, PATTON   Who Once Challenged Field Marshal Rommel To Single Tank Combat

Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers Will Be Called In October   State Draft Headquarters Authorizes Board To Induct “Specific Number’’ In Filling Quotas

SOME ‘FATHERS TO BE CALLED FOR OCT. QUOT!   Draft Boards Author: ized 'T’o Call Specif? ic Number

MAJORITY OF STATES WILL DRAFT DADS   Induction of Family Heads Will Start Immediately In Order To Meet Necessary Quotas   MANY ARE ALREADY IN

\ WAR PRISONERS KILLED   Germans Attempting To Escape Aliceville Prison Lose Lives

British Sink Two U-Boats   Between 25 and 50 U-Boats Fail to Get Through to Convoy

U-BOATS BEATEN OFF   Huge Pack Of 95 Toe 30 Subs Unable To Attack Big Convoy

BRITISH SINK TWO ATTACKING U-BOATS   ‘Nazi Subs Fail To Strike Blow : Against Allied Convoy

HUGE FORCE OF U-BOATS BEATEN BACK BY BRITISH   25 to 30 Submarines Strive to Intercept Great Allied Convoy but Ships Make Escape

British Rout ‘U-Boat Armada   Sink 2 of Between 25 and 30 U-Boats Trying Tc Intercept Great Allied Convoy.

U-Boat Pack Didn't Get In Attack   Convoy Defense Sinks Two, Drives Off Others

BAG TWO SUBS   British Planes, Ships Drive Off Attack on Convoy.

HOOL BELLS 70 RING SOON   ‘Most Town Schools Of County To Open Aug. 5

Faculty Is Practically Complete; Athleti Program Will Be  Continued.

DENMARK FACES DICTATORSHIP      Ruthless Nazi Action Is Impending

Danes, Nazi Troops Battling in Streets   Crisis Seen Near in Denmark; Kine Appeals to Maintain Order

THIRD GIRL FOR HOUSE OF ORANGE   First of Royal‘Pumily yo  Be Born Outside of Netherlands

AXIS FIGHTING FURIOUSLY TO HALT RUSSIAN CAUCASUS DRIVE.   Red Bombers Strike Far  Ahead Of the Soviet  Armies To Soften Up '~ German Defenses.

REQ SPEARHEAD ENTERS SMELA, Ric B AUNCTION   Other” Soviets Regain Initiative in Kiev; Rumanian Drive ‘* Tediceated -

TRIAL OF WOMAN, CHARGES WITH POISON DEATH OF HUSBAND, OPENS IN WAYNESBURG   Total Of 64 Witnesses To Be Summoned — Trial To Be Lone

GIELING FOR HOG Phitte   OPA Has Prenared the Order Which Awaits Approval of Wickard.

Birth Control Law Attack Is Dismissed .  Supreme Court Rules on Suit > RBennaht ha Dactnn

Birth Control Attack Quashed   Supreme Court Upholds Connecticut Law

Plans For Final Defeat Of Nazis Made At Recent Conference, Marshal Says

Stalin Praises Plans Of Allies   Red! Second Front. Said Not Far Off

Stalin Praises Plans Of Allies   Real Second Front Said Not Far Off  me... F TUT CF Bote rare

Stalin Tells Hanoy Russians Of New Front   “People Of Occupied Countries Must Again Become Independent”

Stalin Assures Russians Moscow Pact Satisfactory   Second Front Near, He Says; Communists Reassured: Europe Freedom Pledoed 

FLOOD TAKES TOLL IN WEST VIRGINIA   Six Are Dead, 14 Missing and Property Damage is Estimated At $2,500 000.

FLOOD WATERS RECEDING   Damage Is Estimated 9 Around $2,500,000; Six Dead

SIX DEAD IN FLOOD AREA   Waters Start Receding in Centra! West Virginia — Property. Dam age Estimated at $2,500,000.

PONT DU FAHS FALLS TO FRENCH FORCES   Allied Airmen Provide Unprecedented Support For Ground Offensive

PONT DU FAHS, BIR M’CHERGA ARE CAPTURED   Two More Enemy Areas Are Taken by French and Allied Troops   YIELD EQUIPMENT, MANY PRISONERS   Airmen Fire Destroyer and Sink Three More Ships In Tunis Harbor

Soviets Rewain Initiative On Donets Line   Capture 32 Inhabited Locali: ties Near Smolensk

Reds Driving on Smolensk at Great Speed and at Same Time Nazié Are Halted at Kharkov   Three Axis Subs Sunk and Others Were Damaged in Three-Day Atlantic Battle

Labor Waste In War Indusiry Under Debate   House Member Presents Bill to Correct Evils

SWEEPING MANPOWER LEGISLATION  STUDIED — Rep. Smith of Va. and   —_ ae ae  Rep. Smith of Va. and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Thinks Manpower Reing Wanted

Germans Seek To Reinforce Sicily Defense   Must Replace Italians As Large Numbers Are Surrendering   SHOOT DOWN 21 NAZI TRANSPORTS

DEFEND ALL OF MESSINA BRIDGEHEAD   Italian Surrenders. Become Increasingly Widespread ,

GERMANS REPLACE ITALIAN TROOPS IN SIGILIAN SECTORS   Mussolini’s Defection Bears Fruit as Nazis Fly Reinforcement Planes to Island

Soldiers  and’—sédék Sailors   Vincent Lawler of Breda is Reported Italian Prisoner

Crop Failures Threaten Further  Pinch on Foods   Farm Conditions Must Improve'Soon to—-~~ Relieve Situation

More Food Items To Be Restricted Because of Crops  Reduced Prospects seen; Outlook Dark

Heavier Cuts In Food Probable   Dark Crop Picture Seen By Officials

FURTHER RESTRICTION OF CIVILIAN SUPPLIES   Anticipated Food Shortage Is Likely To Lmpose More Curtailment, Bureau States

Russian Action Pleases Allies   Acceptance of Italy Removes Obstacle

SOVIET ACCEPTS ITALY'S ACTION   Source Of Irritation I: Removed On Eve Of  Conference

See Harmony On Eve Of  Conference   Soviets Approve  Radoolio’s Rule

Soviets Accept Badoglio's Rule  T owtbatine Dated   Irritation Point Appears Removed

TOJ0 SAYS JAPAN SEEKS SECURITY   DECLARES NATION'S “POSITION FOR OFFENSE AND DEFENSE” IS COMPLETED.

Tojo Outlines Jap Philosophy of War Against West  Says Nippon Marches To Crush United States and Britain

ENEMY HOLDING 17,083, REPORT   That Many Americans Are Captives of War With Large Majority in Hands of Japanese

17,083 Yanks Held Captive, Stimson Says   11,307 of ‘Prisoners in Jap Hands, Nazis and Italians Have Others

17,083 Americans Are Held Captive   11,307 Are Reported Japanese Prisoners; Totals Incomplete

17.083 ‘Yankees Captives   «+. U. 8S. Is In Position To Strike At Japan

NAZI PLANTS ARE HARD HIT ~ BY BOMBINGS   Many War Factories Totally Destroyed and Others Are Damaged.   BY SATURATION RAIDS   ‘“‘The Germans Are in a Dilemma,” Says London Spokesman.

Teen-Age Girls Forced To Serve In Brothels. . Women Treated “Worse  Than Cattle” In German Held Areas, Report Says

WOMEN IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED: COUNTRIES. TREATED. WORSE, THAN CATTLE BY ef NOUER

Enemy Treats Women Badly   New Book Tells Of Crime _ Record Against Those seized In- War

‘Women in Occupied Lands Held More ‘Cheaply Than Cattle by Nazi Troops

Russo-Polish Unity Sought  Britain And U, S. Try EE: eres eee Ee

ALLIES TRY TO HEAL BREACH   Steps Are Taken To Bring Russia And Poland Together

LOSE SEVEN CRAFT IN THREE DAYS   Bomb Sardinia, Sicily and Villa  San Giovanni

MANY DESTROYED WHILE GROUNDE    Alhed Bombs Shower Or Sicily, Sardinia In Whirl wind Attacks

HARMON PLANE CREW UNFOUND   Searchers Spend 2 Weeks In Jungles; Wreckage Is Located

Lebanon Unrest Growing Serious   Aftermath Of Arrest Of High Lebanese Officials Brings Clashes

LEBANGN UNREST BECOMES SERIDUS AFTER ARRESTS   Two High Officials Seized by French;  Civil War Under Way

LEBANON UNKtSI BECOiEd otklJue AFTER ARRESTS   Two High Officials Seized by French; Civil War Under Way

Fright Grows. in Italy” As Cities Are Bombed And Reds Whip Nazis

Red Victories Hit Morale Of Italians   Doubt of Axis Win Is Expressed in Fascist Newspapers

Italians Dropping Bombastic Tone as Russians Advance and Grow Fearful

HOUSE, SENATE OPPOSE FOR ON MANY ISSUES   Kill Guffeey Coat Act Despite  Appeals of President

Committee Votes Against Guffey Act   Senate Agrees to Drop Crop Insurance Funds from Farm Appropriations; To Investigate Business Restraints

CROP INSURANCE FACES DOOM AS GAP GROWS WIDER BETWEEN CONGRESS AND ADMINISTRATION   Regulation of Government's Regulation of Business Affairs Likely To Be Investigated and New Tax System Studied And Wallace-Jones Feud Grows More Bitter

ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS GO DIFFERENT WAYS  CONFERENCE COMMITTEES BUSY IN EFFORT LET CONGRESS OUIT

Allies Score First Definite Gains In Italy In Week; Red Army Fights To Repair Damage To Its Kiey Salient   [MUCH SPECULATION  ON PEACE FEELERS

RAF RAID MAY HAVE LOOSED WAR GAS IN RHINE VALLEY   Reds Repair Damage on Kiev Salient; Allies Make Slight Advances in Italy

EXPECT RIVER 10. LEAVE ITS BANKS   Flora Predicts Kaw Will Overflow Slightly in This Area

Kaw Valley Flood Threat   Streams Filled By Heavy Rains, With More Predicted

BIG CITY — ATTACKED IN NIGHT   Waves of Bombers Sweep Over Area In Heaviest, Raid for Sector This . Year.

‘Allied Bombs Hit Nazis, Fascists in Heaviest of Raids   Eden Warns Bombs to Continue Until Utter Defeat of Axis Regimes Is Accomplished

Ruhr Valley Center Suffers Heaviest — Raid of the Year   Ten Waves of RAF Bombers Smash Esse During the Night; More Than 1000 Tons of Explosives Are Dropped

Leon Phillips Joins G. 0. P.   Former Governor Will Register as Republican, He Says

BATTLESHIPS MAY RAVAGE  SUPPLY LINE   Tirpitz Joined by the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau

Three Capital Ships, Two Air Craft Carriers In N. Norway   Belief Expressed Germans Will Hunt  Alano Canwnw Dantac

Battleships, Carriers  In Norway   Full Attack on Russian Supply Route Indicated

Report German Fleet Assembling  Northern Norway  prnbtsmmn VIinenar

Nazi Flotilla Assembling   Major Action Brews Off Norwav's Coast

GERMAN SURFACE FLEET ASSEMBLES IN NORWAY PORTS   Allies Watchful of of Sudden Sortie for Raids on Convovs.

NAZIS MASSING FLEETIN NORWAY, STOCKHOLM SAYS   Swedish Reports Hint Germans About to Open Surface War on Allied Sea

STOCKHOLM SAYS NAZI FLEET READY   Entire High Seas Fleet Assembling In NorthernNorway

German Fleet Set to Strike, Sweden Hears  _ War on Subs Gets  Top Allied Priority, Oh sent Phan aioe

GERMAN SEA POWER MASSEL   Assembling in Northern Norwegian Waters, According to Advices Today From Sweden,

GERMANS WILL ATTACK NORTH SUPPLY LINES   Nazis Boast 79 Allied Ships Have Been Sunk First Half of March.

NAZI FLEET ASSEMBLING IN: NORWAY   Tirpitz, Super - Battleship. Prepares’ To Go Into Action

Hitler High Seas Fleet Mobilizes   ‘Three Capital Ships, Two Carriers Aesembling in Northeastern Norway

Senate Confirms Land's Selection As Maritime Head   “Detrimental Conduct’ Charges Hurled at Commission Denied

SENATE BLOC PRESSES FOR INVESTIGATION OF MARITIME COMMISSION  Despits Overwhelming  Confirmation of FDR’s Nomination of Commis-

ADMIRAL LAND __dS.CONFIRMED   But Critics of Marilime CommisSion, ‘Backed by AFL Charges, Promise io Reveal ‘Scandal’

CHIPPING AGENCY INQUIRY 15 ASKED   Confirmation of Admiral Emory Land Fails to Still Demand.

SENATE CONFIRMS LAND NOMINATION   Maritime Commission Conduct Weathers Criticism of Activities

LAND IS MADE SHIPPING CHIEF   Maritime Head Approved After Criticism Of  Commission

Land Confirmed  For New Term   Five Voting Against Maritime Head Seek Probe of Activities

Press for Probe  Despite Land Ok   70-5 Senate Approval of Maritime Chief

LAND RENAMED MARITIME HEAD   Senate Hears Charges Against Conduct Of Commission

Urge Probe Into Marifime Comm.   Labor Presses for Investiaation

GOP BLOC SEEKS MARITIME. PROBE   AFL Charge Spurs Senators to Open Up Investigation of Commission

VOTE DUE ON TRADE PACTS   Republicans Urge - Congress To Regain Power Granted to FOR.

GOP SEEKS 10 RULE TREATIES   Chance to Recover Lost  Power, Says Reed

Vote Due On Trade Paets   Hull Says No Class Benefits More Than Farmers From Measure.

G. 0. P. Considers Demand to Give Congress Veto Powers Over President on Trade Pacts

Congress May Hold Power in Trade Pacts   Martin Says Sentiments Favor Retention of Veto Right

GOP Sentiment For Veto Power   House Members Confer on Trade Pact Action

GOP favors veto powers in congress   Chance to regain tariff authority, Reed tells house

s Jabs Abandon 300 Dead on Bougainville   RUSSIANS SPLIT NAZI ARMIES   Small Japanese Bomber Force Raids American-Held Funafuti Island

OAR? FIGHTING —ONKUBAN DELI!   Noon Communiques Si. lent On Battle North  east Of -Novorossisk

Soviets Crack Nazi Defense   Hurl 150,000 Troops Against German Lines On Kuban Bridgehead

SHARP LAND AND AIR BATTLE RAGING KUBAN DELTA AREA  NO CONFIRMATION OF   NO CONFIRMATION OF NAZI REPORT REDS IN ALL-OUT DRIVE

Ground, Aerial Battle Raging In Kuban Delta   Germans Claim Red Army Of 150,000 Drives At Kerch

Furious Battles Said Raging On  Russian Front   Moscow Silent on Progress Of Fight; Germans Claim Large Forces Being Used

SHARP BATTLE IS RAGING IN KUBAN DELTA   Soviet Army Said to Have Thrown 10,000 Men in All-Out Smash to Kerch Strait   GAINS ARE ADMITTED

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI TANKS IN -KUBAN SECTO   Red Air Force Fighting Great Battles With Germans

BIG DRIVE, SAY NAZIS   431 Enemy Planes Are Downed In 2 Days, Soviets Report

150,000 Russians Hitting Nazi Line  Kuban Defenses Under Heavy Attack

SHARP LAND AND AIR BATTLES ARE NOW IN PROGRESS   Are Reported Raging in the Kuban Delta Area on the Eastern Front.   THE ATTACKS CONTINUE   No Confirmation of German Report Soviets Attempting an All-Out Smash.

SHARP LAND AND AIR BATTLES RAGINGIN KUBAN-DELTA AREA, REDS DRIVING FOR KERCH   Germans Say Russian Army of 150,000 Men ' Attempting to Smash Through to Kerch. Reds Renort 64: German Planes Downed in Day.

Soviet Silent Concerning Reported Bio Battle in Kuban Delta Area

Reds Speed Up In Kuban Delta Area   German Dispatches Hint Foe Has Started An All-Out Smash   KERCH STRAIT A GOAL   Novorossisk Sector Also _ Scene of Some Heavy Fighting Again’

SHARP BATTLE ee iN KUBAN      Moscow, However, Fails to Confirm -Berlin Claims Reds Have Launched  New Offensive   SOVIETS ‘MAKE GAINS   Germany Says They Were Wiped Out Later; Red Front Line Dispatches  Dispute Claim —

Confirmation Is  Lacking; Sharp Air Fights Seer   150,000 Reds Seel To Smash _ Kercl Strait. Claim: Germany

KUBAN BATTLES CONTINUE HEAVY   Soviets Silent On Nazi Reports Of All-Out Smash To Kerch Strait

RUSSIANS WAGE LAND, AIR FIGHT   Reds Fail To Say, However. That Drive Has Started

FIERCE FIGHTING IS REPORTED ON RUSSIAN FRONT   No Confirmation, However, of Nazi Communique About Big Soviet Drive

Land and Air Battles Rage InKubanArea   Russians Silent on Nazi Reports of All-Out Soviet Smash

SUBSIDIES CERTAIN IN HOLD-LINE E0UGT   Congress Will Be Asked to Provide Payments for Producers' and Distributors

FDR MAY ASK FOR SUBSIDIES   For Both Producers And Distributors As Means of Implementing Price Freeze Program

SUBSIDIES FOR PRODUCER MAY BE ASKED SOON   President May Obtain Roll Back Of Some Prices

PLANE HAD LEFT LOUISVILLE ONLY ~ SHORTLY BEFORE   Two Survivors: Farmer Hears Ship Pass and Then Crash in Hearby Hille.

TWENTY DIE IN AIR CRASH   American Airline Plane Crashes and Burns in Kentucky — Two Survivors -Listed.

20-DIE IN KY. PLANE CRASH AT TRAMME!   American Airline Transport Plane Crashes in Hills

JAPAN CLAIMS SWEEPING SEA FIGHT SUCCESS   No Confirmation, However, From Allied Sources That Plane Carriers Among Boats Lost.

Army-Navy Awards To Be Given  To Smeltermen  Anaconda Group Will Be Honored Today; Governor to Preside

Army-Navy Awards To Be Given  To Smeltermen  Anaconda Group Will Be Honored Today;

GOP Leader Tells Party  Race in Bag       Spangler Says Victory Ceshains Citin g " Recent Trends

UNITED PARTY   Spangler Assures Workers They can Count on 1944 Victory   War in Pacific to Last After '45, Navy Indicates

Republican Victory Looms:  Spangler Tells GOP Workers They Can Count upon Winning Next Fall

GOP Will Win In 44, Spangler Assures Voters   National Chairman Says The Democrats Are ‘Squabbling'

(te RRS ame GRR ERNE LOR ee SE  Big Pipe Line Broken By Flood Is Repaired

lowa s Famous Grid Star of “39 Was Navy Pilot   Had Been Aboard Aircraft Carrier in Unrevealed Locatior

Nile Kinnick Killed in Naval Action   Famed Iowa Football Star Led Hawks Of 1939

All-American Grid Star Ts Killed in Action as U.S, Naval Air Pilot

Nile Kinnick Reported Killed   Former U. of lowa Star Was Ensign In Navy

COLD IS ON WAY OUT   Milder Temperatures to Prevail in ; Kansas Tonight

Much Warmer Here Tonight   Mercury Is Not Expected To Get Below 12 Above

Frank Graass Is Defended By Gov. Goodland   Legislative Secretary Is Conscientious Servant, Asserts Governor In Statement To Papers

German Garrison Said Served With Ultimatum   Soviet Advances In Ukraine Area Are Reported

Nazis Execute First Dane For War Sabotage  Blow Up German Troop Trains

ALEUTIANS BOMBERS  RAIDED JAPANESE  ON KISKA ISLAND AMERICAN AND JAPAN ESE EXCHANGE AERIAL RIOWS IN COTITH DACIFI

Japanese Installations On  Kiska In Aleutians Paided  Omelet £EG LEE id Abe ee   (Poor Visibility Prevent Accurate Resulis Being Observed; Fifteen More Nips Killed on Attu, to Bring  Enemy Dead on Island to 1,800; Exchange  3 Blows in Solomons

US. Bombers Raid Kiska   Troops Also Slay 15 More Japs on Atty In Mop-up of Istand

Several Items Occupy House A: Senate Recesses   House Expects To Complete Action on Farm Supply Bill — Still Seek a Tax Compromise.

U.S. Chutists, Month Among Nazis,  /* Escape Tunisia Net in Axis Trucl

Wool Growers Open 42nd Annual Meeting   ‘Stormy Session _ Is Indicated for Saturday

Woolmen Split On Federal Purchase of Clip   President Opposes Revised Rates on State-Owned Lands

BRAZIL 10 MOVE RUBBER WORKERS   50,000 to Go Into Amazon to Double Production-of Crude Material

Tawes Not Guilty Of Violation of OPA Driving Ban   Board Finds Comptrolle Had Right To Drive to Wedding

TAWES EXONERATED BY RATION BOARD   State Comptroller Says He Did Not Violate Pleasure Driving Ban On Recent Trip

TAWES EXONERATED OF DRIVING CHARGE   Board Finds Official Did Not Violate Pleasure Ban

American Forces Will Need  287-Thousand More Workers   31, Million Approved for 19t1 Farm Labor Program,

BLAST A JAP BASE.   U. S. Bombers Pound Head.of Navigation on Irrawaddy

Russians Locked in Big Defensive Battle With Fnemy in Donets Basin   Soviets Continue to Retreat in Kharkov Area; Report Successes on Other War Fronts

Big Defensive Battle Rages in Kharkov Area   Scores of Populated Places Captured in Drive Toward Great Kev German Base

GERMANS REPORT REDS IN RETREAT EAST OF KHARKOV   Russians Fight Desperately to Stem Advance of Strong Nazi Tank and Infantry Forces.   HITLERITES PUSHED BACK WEST OF MOSCOW   Stalin’s Troops Advance to Within 50 Miles of Smolensk, Capturing Scores of Villages.

Nazis Rolled Back In North   Reds Take: Many Towns In Area, Tighten At Kharkov

REDS PLUNGE TOWARD GOAL OF SMOLENSK   TANK BATTLE RAGES AS SOVIETS QUIT KHARKOV AREA

Reds Arounc Kharkov  On Defense   On Front West of Moscow Russians Roll Germans Back to Within 50 Miles of Smolensk

SCORES OF POPULATED PLACES ARE TAKEN; FOES BELOW KHARKOV ARE LOCKED IN GREAT DEFENSIVS BATTLE. feo

Many Towns Taken On Northern Front   Russians Admit Heavy Fighting In Section Near Kharkoy Where Nazis Claim Advance

Soviet Force Is Within 50 Miles of City   Fierce Battle Under Way in Kharkov Area After Russian Retreat; Nazis Claim Further Gains

TROOPS LOCKED IN BATTLE IN DONETS BASIN   Berlin Says Soviets Are In Full Flight After Evacuation Of Kharkov Citadel

Soviets Capture Score Of Populated Places On Road to Smolensk  NOW ONLY 50 MILES FROM KEY NAZI BASE  Nazis Claim Russians Continuing Retreat Fast of Kharkov

NAZIS ROLL BAGK WEST OF MOSCOM   Red Army Captures Scores of Populated Places   STIFF FIGHTING   ‘Nazis Claim Ground Gained in Kharkov Sector and Northwest of Kursk

MASS FIFTH ARMY FOR ATTACK UPON GERMAN DEFENSES   British Make Small Advance In Rugged Mountains of Central Italy to Strike at Enemy Flank.   MORGENTHAU VISITS FIFTH ARMY FRONT   Leipzig Heavily Raided Witl Unloading of 1000 Ton: of Bombs, Mosquitoes Raid Berlin.

FIFTH ARMY GETTING SET FOR ATTACK   To Assault New Nazi Defense Line Guarding Rome

SET FOR FRONTAI ATTACK ON MAIN CRRMAN LINE   Sth Pushes Through Hills To Roll Up KRnomv’'s Flank

OTH ARMY READY FOR HUGE FRONTAL — ASSAULT ON FOE   Clark Masses Forces for Supreme Effort to Break Nazi Line.

F ifth Army Massing For Frontal Attack On German’s New Defense Line In Italy

FRONTAL ATTACK !5 IN MAKING   British Eighth Army Pushes on Enemy Flank

PLANS ATTAGK “ON DEFENSES BEFORE ROME   DNB in Berlin Renorts Allied Troops Landed by Sea. and Alr.

Fiith readies frontal blow upon Rome   Eighth strives to skirt flank

8th Army Drive Slashes 2 Miles   GERMANS PREDICT SEA-AIR ASSAULT ON ROME; MONTGOMERY GRABS ORATINO, BUSSO AS YANKS MOVE UP TO ENEMY LINE AT MASSICO RIDGE

Berlin Hears Rome Assault Is Imminent   Allied Planes Spread Destruction Behind Nazi Line

NAZIS EXPECT ATTACKS FROM SEA AND AIR   Bombers And Fighters Hit Gere man Defenses Behind Front, Visit Balkans

BEAUN GUAM HEAVY ATTAGK UN ROME NEAR   Allies Preparing Air And Sea Assault On Italy’s Capital, Nazi Br ~~" Asserts

Mountains   LT. GEN. MARK CLARK GATH HIS FORCES ON VOLTURNO FOR ATTACK ON NEW™ DEFENSE LINE

NAZIS REPORT SIGNS OF ROME ATTACK PLANS   Slight Advances Made by British Eighth, American Fifth in Their Campaign in Italy

General Clark Masses Army On Volturno Plain   German News Agency Sees Indications of  Big Drive On Rome

PAPAL REPRESENTATIVE EXPECTED TO BRING UP QUESTION OF ROME Ag “OPEN CITY”

VATICAN ENVOY ENROUTE TOU, S,   Meeting With Roosevelt On Rome Open City Declaration Seen Possible

ROOSEVELT PREPARED 10 EXPLORE POSSIBILITY OF YEAR'S TRAINING FOR YOUTHS   Chicf Executive Is Greatly Impressed by Improvements

PRESIDENT SEES ARMY AND PLANTS IN ACTION   Notes Great Improvement, Both Are in Their Stride; Gains New Confidence —   AGAIN CRITICAL OF WASHINGTOD   Use of Camps and Big Favtories After War Might Be Worked Out

F.R. Returns From Tour Of Plants, Camps  Believes Youth Of U. S. Could Give Year Of  Service To Nation In eee ees 

Program _ Only Part Military   - But Objects To Term “Compulsory Military Service.”

Year's Service Is Recommended   President Roosevelt Favors Training After Victory

Roosevelt Completes Long Trip   Is Highly Pleased With National Outlook As Far As Present War Is  Concerned

ROOSEVELT SEES IMPROVEMENT IN ‘OUR WAR EFFORT   As Trip Ends, President Considers Benefits of Year’s National Service by Youth

President Returns to Capital; Covers ~ 7,652 Miles on Tour   Is Convinced Nation’s Armed Forces, Home Front Are Hitting

CHECKUP IS ENCOURAGING TO EXECUTIVE   Trip Convinces Roosevelt  Armed Forces and Home  Front Are in Their   Stride   20 STATES ARE VISITED

FDR Returns From Tour ot  20 States   President Talks of Use of Military Camps After War One Year’s Training Youtn of Country

FDR. IS BACK FROMWAR TRIP   Suggests Youth Might Give Year To Government  When Peace Comes

FDR's Trip Suggests:  Youths Of America Might Give  Year's Service To Government

Traveled 7,652 Miles In Seventeen Days...  Checking Up On War Activities

TRIP PRODUCES IDEA OF SERVICE FOR U. S, YOUTH   Journey Home Takes Route Through Middle Of Land To Look At Plants   All Branches Of Army Represented In Victory Exposition Opening On Friday.

F. D.R., After Ending Big Tour, Has Idea Youths Might Well Give A Year's Service To Govt. After War

HIS 20-STATE WAR INSPECTION TOUR   ‘He Had Traveled 7,652 Miles in Seventeen Days He Said.   HAS PROBLEM ON HAND   Wondering What to Do With Camps and Plants After Victory Is Won.

Roosevelt Returns Tx Capital After Visit   ‘To Camps, Plants      President, After Travelling 7 3652 Miles In 17 Days. Says Attitude Of Country Toward War Better Than In Washington

TOUR OF NATION   Believes Youth of America Might Well Give Year’s Service To Government In Post-War Era.

YOUTH SET-UP AFTER THE WAR   Thinks Training Should Be Extended In Army Camps, War Plants   FAVORS YEAR’S STAY   Not ‘Compulsory Military Training,’ President Stresses

Year Of Service By Nation’s Youth After War Likely,  President Avers

IMPRESSED BY HIGH PRYSIGAL PROVEMENT   Believes Year of Service in Peace, After War, May Be Beneficial,   ENDS LONG TRIP WITH PRAISE FOR COUNTRY

OPPORTUNITY 10 USE CAMPS, PLANTS CITED   Would Avoid Waste of Facilities Which Cost Millions

Would Utilize The Facilities Already Built   Executive Back To Washington After Inspection Tour 

IMPROVING U.S. WAR EFFORT IS SEEN ON TOUR   President Completes 17 Day Tour, Gog as Far as Mexice

PRESIDENT BACK AT DESK AFTER 1,652-MlLE TRIP   He Decides That Youth of America Should Serve Country After War

ROUDEVEL BAUR AFTER INSPECTION “TOUR OF NATION   Favors Continuance of - Youth Training In Peace -

Has Idea For Youth in Post WarEconomy   Wonders If Year in Arms Or Industry Would Not Be Good Program

F.DR TRIP ENDS   Seeks Use For Camps After Victory Is Won   AMERICA IN STRIDE

THE WEATHER   -FDR Ends . Momentous Spring Tou   Ponders Program To Use Nation’s Plants and Camps

S BACK FROM TOUR   President Roosevelt Ends 20-Day Travel Covering 7,652 Miles

Roosevelt Returns From 20-State War Inspection Tour  President Favors Plan For All Boys And Girls To Give Government Year Of Service After Close Of The War

Roosevelt Returns To Capital From 17-Day War Inspection Trip   President Stops in Denver to Inspect Hospital, visits 12 Army Posts to See Growing Army in Actual Training

INSPECTION TOUR TODAY   Traveled 7,652 Miles in Seventeen Days Checking Up on Activities And Visiting Mexico.

FDR Returns To Capitol: — Ends War Inspection Trip   To Survey Possibility Of ‘Having Evely Young American Contribute Year Of Service To Government In : “Peace, As Well As In. War

Roosevelt Ends Inspection Trip, Favors Year's Service  For Youth in Post-War Era

‘FDR, Back from: His Tour,-Studies eace- Time Service for U.S. Youth

F.R. Cites Problems to  Follow War   Completes 20-State Inspection Tour; Year's Service for Youth Hinted

F.D.R. Ends Tour Of Twenty States   Favors Year’s Training for Nation’s Youth as ‘a Benefit to Young Men and Women and to Utilize Wartime Camps and Plants.

PRESIDENT ENDS 20-STATE SWING   FOR Hints of Postwar ‘Service’ by American Youth

Peacetime Plan of Army Service  Being Studied   Roosevelt Travels 7,677 Miles During 17-Day Inspection

LONG TRIP ENDED BY F.0,R, THURSDAY   Returns to Capital and May Urge All Young Americans Be Given Trainina.

FDR Heartened By Latest Tour      Studies Post-War Youths’ Training

RKoosevelt-Back From 2d Inspection of War Activities in 20 State:   Convineed Youth Should Contribute Yea of Service to Nation in Pastwar Era

TRAVELS 7652 MILES DURING 7-DAY TRIP   Says Industries In Stride On Home Front

President Returns From 17 Day Trip; Studies Plan for Continuation of Compulsory Training After the War

Returns To Capital After  Lone Tour   Has Idea For Keeping In Use Various Camps. Factories

Year of Service By Youths After War Is Proposed   Roosevelt, After 20-State Tour, Perplexed by Camp and Plant Use.   Army and Home Front Are in Their Stride

President Back After Visiting In  20 States   Ponders Problem  Facing War Workers When Conflict Ends: Traveled 7.652 Miles

EXECUTIVE FOR EXTENSION OF YOUTH SERVICE   Would Continue Training of Americans in Army and Industries During Postwar Era   SEEN AS MOVE TO PREVENT IDLENESS   Objects to Term “Compulsory Military Service” in Revealing His AfterWar Thoughts

VISITS. MANY WAR PLANTS   Reports Country Views War Seriously: and With Determination.   HINTS OF AFTER-WAR TRAINING PROGRAM   Believes Youths Could Give Year to Government with Benefit.

U.S. Youths May Give A Year To Federal Works?   FD Ends Long Tour; Offers. Plan

Roosevelt Ends Tour, Sees Postwar Year Of Service For Youths   Executive Impressed By Wartime Physical, Mental Improvement Praises War Plant. Training Proaress

PRESIDENT IS BACK IN WASHINGTON   Returns from Trip Covering 7,652 Miles

PRESIDENT ENDS 20-STATE WAR INSPECTION TOUR   INDICATES MILITARY TRAINING SHOULD BE EXTENDED AFTER WAR

Year's Service For Young Men, Women Sought   Discloses Idea To Utilize Camps, War Plants On Return To Capital

HITS 20 STATES IN 7,652 MILE INSPECTION TRIP   Youth of America May Serve Government in PostWar Era

FDR Completes 17-Day War Inspection Trip   Physical and Mental Improvement of Country Noted

FDR ENDS 20STATE VISITING   Has Idea Youth Might Give Year of Service in Post-War Eva

LOMPULSORY TRAINING PLAN BALKEL BY FOR   Year’s Service For American Youth In Postwar Period Good idea, He Says   UTILIZATION OF PRESENT EQUIPMENT ADVOCATED   President Back In Capital After 20-State Journey On War Inspection

Year’s Service On Part Of Every American Is Trial Balloon Proposal

ROOSEVELT VISITS ~ INST. LOUIS ON HIS RECENT TRIP   Spends Three Hours at Jefferson Barracks Tuesday, Sees 15,000 Men Sn Army For Only 28 Davs. .   SEES IMPROVEMENT IN ARMY SINCE SEPTEMBER   Expresses Wonderment ot Use of Camps and Plant at End of War, Million Are Invested.

Flood Damage Is Mounting   Mississippi Pushes Aside More Levees _

POISON GAS EMPLOYED BY JAPS ON CHINESE.   Chungking Admits That Enemy Is Making Pregress In Drive On Strongholds

Reds Sweep Forward On Long Front   Continue Taking Towns Despite Strengthened Nazi Resistance

Germany Is Preparing People For News of A Great Defeat   Press Emphasizing Difficulties, Paves Way To Announce Reverses

Preparing For Big Reverse  Nazi Press Beginning To Caution Pennie

NAZIS PAVE WAY FOR BITTER NEWS   Preparing German People For News Of Great Defeat On Russian Front.

Holders Of “Special” Gas Rations Can Obtain Used Or Grade 3 Tires

JAPS RETREAT FROM AIRBASE AT SALAMAUA   Enemy Leaves Much Equipment; 350 Dead Counted

Big Lnemy Base Within Fighter Airplane Range  vee 'VA/L VAS a sstoten'd   Men “Who Wouldn't Run'' Leave Considerable Equipment

City Manager Found Dead in Roswell  Clyde Fulton Shot Self, Sheriff Says

Employment Office Open To Shift Men To War Jobs   Will Receive Applications For Those Transferring From WNor-Essentia] Jobs

\  NAZIS BATTER ~PITY’S DEFENSES   Germans Claim Capture of Town But Reds Won't Canfirm I+,

RUSSIANS TAKE NEW POSITIONS  Still Make No Denial of the Loree nt Kharkav

BATTERED BY AXIS WAVES   No Confirmation Of German Report City Recaptured

SOVIETS FORM NEW DEFENSES NEAR KHARKOV   Hundreds Of Thousands Of Nazi Troops Batter Reds + In Ceaseless Waves   GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE   Russians Take Over 100 Towns In Converging Drives Against Smolensk

TONE OF REPORTS CHANGED, CAPTURE IS NOT CONFIRMED   : . Many of Enemy. ‘Forced: to. Desert  ~ Many Sunred  Gut Tanks  Along Line of Advance.: :         LIMITED. BOMBINGS ARE  ~ “EXCHANGED: SUNDAY

REDS DEFEND KHARKOV LINES   NAZIS BATTER DEFENSES IN CEASELESS WAVES

Russians Are Driven Back At Kharkov   Reds Hint That Nazis Crack City’s Outer Defenses

Waves of German Troops Thrown Against Defenders; Reds Hint Foe May Re in Snborhe

YANKS STAGE ANOTHER RAID OVER REICH      Heavy Bombers Strike Western Germany for Third Consecutive Day, and Other Craft Hit in Northern France,

Yank Planes-Hit Germany, France   Heavy Bombers In Third Successive Attack

BLAST GERMANY IN THIRD ATTACK IN AS MANY DAYS   ROUND-THE-CLOCK AERIAL BOMBING REACHES NEW PEAK

ENEMY TARGETS ARE BLASTED BY YANK AIRFORCES   Heavy Bombers Strike in Western Germany—Other Planes Pound France

Yanks Keep Up Air Raids On Germany   Blast Airports In North France

New Daylight Attacks On Germany   Raids Follow Night Assaults by R. A. F Mosquito Planes

‘AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS STRIKE  WESTERN ‘REICH   Fourth Day of Uninterrupted Round the Clock Bombing of Germany Renorted

ALLIED PLANES HIT GERMANY, NORTH FRANCE   Attacks Against Reich In Fourth Straight Day

Heavy Yankee Bombers Raid  German Areas   Strike Again in Western Section While Airfields In France Are Hit

U. S. FlyingFortresses Blast Western Germatiy; FranceAs Also Pounded

Americans Hit Nazi Targets   U. S$. Heavy Bombers Raid Western Germany For  Third Assault In 3 Days.

U. 5. Bombers Hit Western Germany, Marauders France   Fourth Day of Round-the-clock Bombs on Germany

WESTERN GERMANY AGAIN BLASTED BY AMERICAN BOMBERS  DAYLIGHT ATTACKS MAD! IT FOURTH DAY

YANK BOMBERS: HIT WESTERN GERMANY AGAIN   Northern France Also Blasted By Americans °:

Fourth Successive Day of Bombing by Allies is Reported   Round - the-Clock Raids Uninterrupted; Late Targets Unnamed

We <e xe SSgers a eat Western Germany Agair   Marauder Mediums ‘Batter Airfields  In Northern France R. A. F. Blasts Nazis

U. S. BOMBERS BEGIN MONTH ~ RAIDING REICH   Torthern France Also Hit in Doub le-Header, Solingen in Rubi Blasted Tuesdav   RAF HITS GERMANY      Nazis Fail to Halt Offensive, Go! No Planes Last Night. Seven U. S. Planes Tuesday

‘American Bomber: Hit Again at  Western Germany   Airfields in France Also Attacked As New Peak Is Reached in Air Warfare; Losses Are Listed

BIG U. 3. PLANES UME. GERMANY FUR THIRD DAY   Heavies Return To Attack In Daylight As Marauders Hit French Airfields

U, $, BOMBERS HIT NAZIS AGAIN   Marks 3rd Straight  Consecutive Day Raid

Yanks Bomb Targets in Germany  Fourth Day of Uninterrupted Round the

U. $. Bombers in Third Assault, Mediums Batter French Airfields.   ROUND-THE-CLOCK RAIDS

Germany Appears Helpless To Stop Allied Round Clock Aerial Raids   * American Heavy Bombers Pound Western Germany Today In Follow Of Last Night Raids In Which No Losses Sustained.

HIT GERMANY AGAIN   Daylight Attacks by U. S. Heavy Bombers Continue

Third Assault On The Reich in Three Days   Western Germany Again Hammered By American Heavy Bombers   TARGETS NOT NAMED

U. 8. Bombers On Third Raid  In Succession   Fortresses Flying Against Western Germany Again

U.S. Bombers Contivue Raid: Over Germany   Nazis‘ Are Unable To Break, Up Daylight Attack With Their New Rocket Guns ‘

U. S. Bombers Off Again In Continuation Of Great Day — And Night Raids On Germany      _ Americans Hit Western Reich: Attacks ’ Top Allies’ Best Offensive Month’

YANK BOMBERS BLASTREICHIN DAYLIGHT RAI   Western Germany Ham mered In Third Attack Made In Three Days; Nazi Fields Pounded

Fortresses Over Reich Wednesday   U.S. Bomber Loss Over Europe 829; Britain's 2,189

Round-Clock Attacks Continued As Yanks Hit Reich In Daylight   Without Loss

Reich, France Hit By U.S. Bombers In Double Raic   Round-The-Clock Blasts Continue For 4th Day; Nazi Defense Weaker

U.S. Bombers In Twin Raids On Continent   Heavyweights Hammer Germany, Mediums Hit French Airfields

AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS IN RAID ON WESTERN GERMANY    Marauder Mediums Also Bat tered Airfields in Northern France.   Beaufighters and R. C. F.  - Smashed at Enemy Convoy Off Norway.

Solingen Is Battered By U.S. Airmen   American Heavy Boimbers Staged Third Assault In Three Days

U8 5, BOMBERS STRIKE FRENCH AIRPORTS TODAY   Western Germany Hit Three Ti: ies In Three Days

Yanks Stage Doubleheader Air Assault  U.S. Heavies Hit sO © ae Ee.   U.S. Heavies Hit Western Germany While Mediums Batter France

Japan Conserving Dwindling Power   Prenaring for Big All-Out Defensive

MAOT AMIE? Lor Vomiting Un Mainiang—- mebey EONS, Fay  Japan Saving Army For Homeland Defense

Gas Ruling For Fishing Trips Given   OPA Declares Holders Of “A” Card Unaffected By 90-Mile Limit

Soviet Drive On Smolensk Gains Ground   ‘Three Towns Said Takea----Germans wRepaulsed' in South

Red Troops Hurl Back Axis Thrusts   Russians Smash Into Network of Fortifications

THREE MORE TOWNS FALL TO RUSSIANS   All Located Northeast of Smolensk

RUSSIANS SMASH FORTIFICATIONS OF THE GERMANS   Network of Nazi Strong. holds Taken by Red Army Still on Advance.

Nazi Attempts To Force Upper Donets Fails   Seventeen German Bombers Are Shot Down

Soviets Break Into Nazi Defenses Near Smolensk, Take Three Towns

Reds Capture Three Hamlets Northeast.of Smolensk — Nearly Sao German Officers and Men Killed in. Fighting,

RUSS SLASH SMOLENSK CUT   THREE TOWNS FALL AS NAZIS REEL ON DONETS

RUSSIANS REPORT SUCCESSES GO Oh   Allies Stem Two Jap Thrusts From Rising Air Power In Pacific Area.

BRIEF CAPTURE OF ROMMEL REPORTED   Field Marshal Is Also Said To Be Wounded.

FDR BACKS WL IN DECISION ON MINE CONTRACT   Miners Ordered Back To Work By Monday

INDUCTION RULE APPLIES TO ALL WAR STRIKERS   Chief Executive Silent Regarding Use Of Troops When Pits Reopen   MONDAY RETURN ORDERED!   Union Members Believed Awaiting New  Instructions From Lewis

Reaction from Idle  Fields Sparse and Wary; Four Days to Think It Over

Striking Coal Miners ‘Asked By President To Return To Jobs Monday

President Points Out Nothing New In Induction Angle; Union Leaders Say That Workers Are Unimpressed

WILLKIE DECLARES  WORLD LOOKING T0  U. 5. FOR LEADERSHIP REPUBLICAN PARTY  WARNED NOT CHOOSE LEARER WHO HEDGES

WILLKIE CITES: PEACE AIMS IX ST, LOUIS TALK   Would Make Agreement ' Worldwide; for America’s:  Well: Being, of Jobs, of Opportunity  +

A Challenge ToG. O. P.   Willkie Says Nation Wants Administration Change But Won't Ac‘cept An Isolationist

WILLKIE SAYS GANDIDATE MUST BE AGGRESSIVE   Declares World Is Looking To Us As Leaders

WILLKIE WARNS OF LEADERSHIP   Asks G.O.P. to Choose Presidential Candidate Who Is Unwavering

Say Willkie Throws Hat into Ring   GOP Standard Bearer Call for Republican with Leadership to Lead Party

WILLKIE ASSAILS PALACE GUARD IN KEYNOTEADDRESS   DECLARES PEOPLE OF AMERICA TIRED OF NEW DEAL POLITICS

PRESIDENTIAL BID MADE BY WILLKIE   Reception in in St. Louis Is Lukewarm by Comparison

GOP Leader Must Stand Out--Willkie   No Vascillating Position Can Be Tolerated, Says 1940 Candidate

Look to America For Leadership   Willkie Asks GOP to Select Candidate Who Doesn't  Hedge on Issues.

First ‘Jap Busters’ Are Dropped On  IKnemy Base   2,000-Pound Bombs Unloosed By U.S. Planes In Recent Attack On Kiska

Jups on Kiska Introduced To U.S. ‘Jap Buster’ Bombs   repped On Enemy In Aleutians for First Time March 15 In Heaviest Aerial Smash of War Against Nipponese-Held Island; Each Weigh a  Ton: 47 Dropped On Foe

JAP BUSTERS RAIN ONKISKA   One-ton Bombs Dropped By U.S.A. Airmen On Kiska In Biggest Raid

KISKAISLAND IS. SHOWERED DURING HEAVY BOMBING      One: Ton Bombs Make Debit ‘as 47: Tons: of. ‘Explosives - Unloaded: In- Day... Long _ Raid: March -15.     SIX: RAIDING GROUPS: ; _ FIGURE IN: RECORD   72 Planes Took Part, Varied Bombs Are Used; Three Japanese’ Zero Fighters  ~“Are-Encountered. a

Yank Warplanes Scourge Nippos On Kiska Islan   Many Tons Of Bombs Are “Bipppee In Heaviest Smash Of War 

72 Planes Bomb Kiska Nine Hours   Jap-Held Island Suffers Heaviest Pounding of War

Hank Bombers Blast Jap Base Near Gilberts   Important Jap Base 675. Miles From Guadalcanal Heavily Attacked   ™ FIRST ATTACK IN ” AREA IN MONTIUCc

Navy Scores 10-to-1 Win  Over Japan   US Warships Bombard Kiska; Soviets and Nazis Both Claim Successes in New Campaign on Russian Front

NAVAL UNITS ALSO SMASH IAPS IN KULA   Secretary Knox Says “Japs Have Taken Another Damned Good Licking,” With 6 Ships Sunk and 4 Hit.

Enemy Garrison Failed to Return Bombardment   One Cruiser Lost In Sea Victory in Solomons Yesterday

Bombard Last Enemy Hold In Northern Area   Score 10 To 1 In Favor Of Americans In Battle OF Kula Gulf.   ‘NO RETURN AT KISKA

SIX JAP SHIPS ARE DESTROYED IN KULA GULE   ‘Four Others Are Seriously _ Damaged; One U.S.  Cruiser Lost   STILL ON OFFENSIVE   Nazi Armies Pay Heavy Price For Gains On Russ Front

Triumph In Solomons Sea Battle      Ten Jap Ships Knocked Out; U. S. Cruiser Helena Reported Lost

AMERICAN WARSHIPS TAKE ROUND ONE OF SOLOMONS BATTLE  JAPS TAKE ANOTHER   JAPS TAKE ANOTHER GOOD LICKING SECRETARY KNOX DECLARES

Navy Hangs Up A 10 To 1 Seore   6 Jap Warships Probably Sunk and Others Damaged: America Loses Cruiser Helena

JUMPS BRICKER BANDWAGON   One-Man Club Switches To Taft, Then Is Jailed For Unpaid $41.65 Bill

CASUALTIES AT — SALERNO LIGHT   Losses Less Than Expected Sec. Stimson Asserts

U.S. Army Casualties in Sicily and Italy Less Than 12,000, Says Stimson

2 000 American Casualties So Far in Italy   Falerno Deaths Are Reported Less than Originally Feared

MELITOPOL IS SCENE OF FPIC BATTLE   Keiv, Krivoi Rog Areas Report New Red Army Gains

HEAT BATTLE UF MELT OP OL, KIEV RAGE ON   Germans Vainly Attempting To Hold Off Russians On Dnieper River

Allied Fleet, Army Woaitings ) Tarawa - Just Overture       (Harried: Huns’

Greatest ‘Naval Concentrations \In History And Many Thousand ‘Troops Ready For Jap Attacks   Light Craft Raid J ap Islands

Alles Mass Warships and Troops For Powerful Drive Against Japs :

Giant Fleet Set to Stab At Nippon   Record Naval Force, Army Wait Orders To Attack Japanese

Allied Forces Concentrating In the Pacific   Hundreds of Thousands of Troops Momentarily Expecting Attack Orders   TARAWA AN OVERTURE

Tarawa Only Overture To Big Drive Momentarily Expected Against Japs   Huge Allied Fleet And Army Await Attack Orders Against Hundreds Of Islands Forming Concentric Rings Of Jap Defenses.

Attack of Large Magnitude in Jap Area Is Expected   Largest Naval Force in History Concentrated in Pacific Theater.   Thousands of Allied Troops Are Massed

Allied Fleet and Troops Awaiting (Orders for Attack Against Japan

Great Forces Await Orders - to Hit Japs   Largest Naval Concentration in History and Thousands of Troops Poised for Action

Massed Allied Sea and Land Forces Pose Threat at Japs   ‘Attack Orders Looked For At Any Moment By Forces

Largest Naval Squadron Ready   ALLIED TROOPS WAITING FOR PACIFIC OFFENSIVE

46 Days in Open Boat, 6 U.S. Seamen Rescued   ‘Missing Lifeboat’ from City of Flint Picked Up-—18-Year-Old Youth Tells Story — Meets Brother, Home on Furlough from Air Corps

FOUR-PHASE AIR STRATEG) ISOUTLINED ©   Sorensen Reveals Sequence Of Raids Prior To Invasion

Kline Slated to Succeed Johnson  Likely Next President of lowa Farm Bureau

British To Raise Bar Along Coastal Areas   England and Sweden See Evidences of Coming Allied — Attack Aoainst Cantinent

Threatened Kerch Fired By Germans   Russians Battling Through Subarbs Of Nazi-Held City

Air Strength of U.S. to Equal . Combined Axis   Total of A. E. F. to be. near 5 million; made public in. mililary report.

Congress Studies 1944 U. S. Military Might   Aerial Strength To Equal Entire Axis Force By End of This Year; Overseas Units To Be Exvanded

STUDY STRENGTH OF THIS NATION   Air Force To Equal Axis By End of Year, 4,750,000 Are Going Over-seas.

BRITISH BLAST BERLIN AGAIN; CONVOY STRUCK   Knockout Aerial At tack On Europe Is Expected

Berlin Gets Another Severe Raid   Allies Keep Pestering Enemy, Withholding Big Force for Climax

Berlin Is Given 3rd Straight Raid  Two Vessels in Five-Ship Enemy Convoy Are Sint

Two Vessels In Five-Ship Convoy Sunk   Trains Shot Upin Widespread Raids  Over France

Berlin Again Is Target for Allied Bombs  Ships of Axis Sunk   Ships of Axis Sunk and Rail Targets in Europe Are Bombed

NAVY INVESTIGATES SHIPYARD SHOOTINGS   Five Workmen Hurt, Police Question Negro

Navy Investigating Chester Shooting   Five Workmen Wounded At Shipyard

Hold Tight!  +++ Hitler Reported Present At Dnieper Front To fesue Blunt Order

Report Hitler Visit to Red. Battlefront   Tells Generals Dnieper River Line  * Must Be Held

Hitler Says Line Must Be Held   Nazi Dictator Makes  Surprise Visit to ‘Russian Front

Makes Surprise Visit To Russian Front; Kiev ls Under Hard Pressure

DISTRICT USW IN CONFERENCE   Work Out Details on 48Hour Week Effective July 1

Interpreting The War   Allied Victories On Several Fronts Probable   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Wide World)

Promise New Activities On  All Major Fighting Fronts   Heaviest Blows Of The War To Date About To Fall In Both Russia And North Africa

HENEWALS UF AN” GAS BOOK   Applications for New Gas Rations at the Service Stations,

RENEWALS OF NGM ano   Applications for ‘New Gas - Rations at the Service — Stations.

COLUMBUS RESIDENTS TO GO ON FAST TIME   State Offices Not To Change Hours

FAST TIME ADOPTED FOR STATE'S GAPITAL   Clocks To Be Set Up Hour Again Sunday

Tribute Is Paid to Fighting Marines in Bloody Gilberts Battle by Col. Jas. Roosevelt

Army Landing Forces Lauded   Jimmy Roosevelt Saw 165th Commander Killed

High Praise For Army On Makin    Col. James Roosevelt Describes Brilliant Assault on Jap-Helfi Butaritari Island

Colonel Roosevelt Lauds U. §. Forces For Action on Makin; Natives Helpful

MURCHISON RESIGNS POST OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WELFARE  CORSICANAN ASKS TO BE RELIEVED AS FXYECUTIVE HEAD

Military Posts. Ships At Sea and Others Taking Over Task ef 600,0CO Volunteers

Gallant Cruiser Finally Wins  Her o’s Acclaim   Battered, Proud Pensacola Singled Out as Symbolic Of ‘Unflagging Spirit’

‘The Work Horse of the Pacific,’ the U.S. S. Pensacola, Comes Into Tis Due at Pearl Warhor

No Mention Of Teachers Pay In New Budge!   Governor Martin Says Decision Is Matter For The Legislature

7 PERGONG KILLED IN TRAINER CRASH   High-Ranking Officers Die as Plane Crashes After Leaving Charlevoix Airport

Six Killed In Plane’s Crash  High-Ranking Officers Lose Lives In Michizan

SEVEN DIE IN PLANE CRASH   Army Trainer Carries Top Technicians to Death  At Charlevoix

Six Killed In Crash Of Plane  Litaehkh Ranking Army.   High Ranking Army Officers Included

PLANE CRASH KILLED SIX   COLUMBUS OFFICER AMONG VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT INVOLVING ARMY TRAIN: ING PLANE

SIX PEOPLE DIE IN MICHIGAN AIR CRASH      Plane Wrecks on Take-Off, One Survivor

ARMY PLANE CRASH KILLS SIX PERSONS   Two-Engined Trainer Plane Crashes In Attempted Take-Off.

ARMY PLANE CRASH CLAIMS SIX LIVES   Several of Victims High Rank. ing Officers of Air Forces’ Experimental Staff

SIX MEN KILLED IN PLANE CRASK   Twin-Engined Army Trainet Falls and Burns in Michigan

SIX KICLED IN BOMBER CRASH   Three of Victims in Michigan Tragedy From ‘Ohio

SIX ARE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH   Training Plane Is Wrecked At Charlevoix, Mich., Airport,  Is Announcement

Invasion Of Bulgaria Possible Meet Topic   Expect Conference Of ‘Big Three’ To Be Held Soon

°HOPE FOR MEET   “Early Talks Of ‘Big Three _ Needed To Plan Blows”

INVASION: OF BULGARIA IS PROBABLE.   Will, Be Discussed At. Moeting of

FDR-CHURCHILL-STALIN CONFERENCE EXPECTED   Possible Invasion of Bulgaria May Chief Topic of Discussion

LIED INVASION: TF BULGARIA Is BELIEVED NEAR.   Stalin; Churchill. cand Roosevelt Will Discuss Subject in  Meet, Is Report «°

BIG THREE MEETING NEAR LONDON THINK’      ‘FDR, Churchill And Stalin May Confer Soon

Invasion of Bulgaria May Be Discussed  By Big Three   Germans Said to Be in No Position To Defend Sofia

Express Hope For Talk Soon With Stalin   Conference Of Leaders Of Three Nations Is Possible Before Long, 1s London Report

Think Churchill,  Stalin, Roosevelt Will Talk Over Balkan Invasior

EARLY MEETING OF BIG THREE LEADERS SEEN   Expect Roosevelt. Churchill And Stalin: Will Confer This Year

Union Slows Flying Fortress Production to Force Action On Wage Increase Demands

IMPLIED THREAT OF PARALYSIS SEEN IN AIRPLANE INDUSTR'   National Wor Board Con. fronted With Serious Condition in Vital Work.

Strike Perils West Coast Plane Plants   Demand For Higher Wages Put In Lap Of War Labor Board

Threat of Strike In Plane Industry Held Over NWLB   Union Closes Two Big Boeing Plants

Union Ultimatum  Directed at WLB   ‘Flying Fortress Plants Closec Three Hours To Show What Will Be Done tf Waces Not Set

AFL Union Delivers ‘Ultimatum’ to Labor Board     BOEING FACTORY IN

AFL Threat Made To Plane Building   2 Fortress Plants Shut Down By Workers’ Meeting Are _ Back In Operation, But Ultimatum On Wages Given

PARALYSIS OF WORK IMPLIED IN DEMANDS   Seattle Unit Closes Two Big Factories Temporarily, Asks Waue Directive.   PROGRESSIVE ‘STALL’   ‘Mass Meeting’ Used to Ge Around No-Strike Pledge of AFL Affiliates.

Airplane Production Threatened  West Coast Union   West Coast Union Sends Ultimatum To War Labor Bd.

BOEING PLANT (LOSED THREE HOURS THURS.   Workers Issue Threats of _ Further Stoppage

PLANE OUTPUT ‘PARALYSIS’ IS UNION THREAT   Boeing Workers Serve Ultimatum On War Labor Board

AIRCRAFT — UNION WANTS WAGE RISE   Threaten 24-Hour. “Mass Meeting” If Demands : Aren’t Met

PARALYSIS OF PLANE. PLANTS (S. THREATENED   Bocing’s Seattle Factories Closed In Show Of Union Strength   WAGE BOOSTS ARE GOAL   Ultimatum Calls For War Labor Board Action Within Few Days

WEDGES IN AXIS LINES   Signs Indicate That Major Operatiots Are About To Start In Russia; Bitter Battle Rages 21 Miles West Of Tunis   JAP BASES RAIDED BY HEAVY BOMBERS

DUCE PREPARES PLANS TO MOVE FASCIST REGIME      Invasion Jitters Increase In Italy —-People Going To Mountains

Duce to Move Italy's Capital  Government Shift to Bologna Imminent In Case of Invasion

MUSSOLINI MAKES PLANS FOR MOVING GOVERNMENT SEAT   Unconfirmed Reports From Europe Also Announce Meeting By Hitler And Benito

Report Mussolini Plans To Remove Government to Florence in Case of ‘Invasion; Italians Leaving Coast Areas

PLAN TO MOVE TTALY GOV'T FROM ROME.   Plans Made As Invasion Jitters Are Increased

DUCE PLANS CAPITAL MOVE   MAY DASH FROM ROME TO FLORENCE, BOLOGNA

IL DUCE ALL SET TO MOVE ITALIAN GOVT   ‘Italians Living Along South Coast Rushing to Mountains. Trouble in Bulgaria, Too

RUMOR MUSSOLIN PLANNING FLIGHT TO NORTHERN GITY    Europe Hears Duce Will Move Capital to Florence   or Bologna; Invasion Jitrn ee

DUCE PREPARES . TO MOVE CAPITAL FARTHER NORTH   Italians are Heading Into Mountains As Invasion Fears Rise. ,

Mussolini Is Reported Preparing To Flee Rome, Set Up Capital In North

VETERANS PUoh AGADSo OANGHG RIVER IN DRIVE   ‘Gen. Montgomery Putting Heavy Pressure On Foe In Latest Advance

CIGHTH ARMY TAKE BIT UF WINTER LINE   Forces Crossing of Flooded Sangro River, Drive on Pescara.

BRITISH, AMERICAN PRISONERS ABOARD SUBMARINE RESCUED  HAD HARROWING EXPER‘JENCE WHEN ITALIAN * TLROAT WAS SINK

COLD IS MOVING OUT   Severe Frost. Struck in Northeastern Kansas Last Night

ALLIES STRIKE AGAINST REICH   Strong formation of air craft continues round the-clock raids

Allied Planes Streak Over Dover Straits   Sardinia Gets The Heaviest Pounding

Dortmund Is Said To Be Dead City After Bomb Raids   Reports Reveal Devastation — Wrought By Terrific  Bombing Attacks   ALLIED FLIERS IN  NEW NAZI ASSAULTS

Eight Indicted In Detroit As Nazi Spies   Two Arrested by FBI And Enter Guilty Pleas; All Face Pessible Death

Eight Indicted =— As Nazi Agents By Federal Jury   Gruce Buchanan-Dineen's Gang Faces - Possible  Death Sentence

Eight Persons Are Indicted; Charged With Violation of Espionage Act   FBI Says They Suppliec Germans with Informa: tion on Defense anc War Moves

EIGHT INDICTED AS BEING SPIES   Two Arrested at Detroit in Espionage Case Enter Pleas of Guilty

NAMED AS SPIES BY DETROIT JURY   Face Possible Death  Penalty Providing Conviction

Coincidence Is Tragic in Case  Soldier’s Wife   Letter From General One Day; Telegram From Ulio on Next Day

BRITISH PLANES HIT NAZI BASES   German Bombers Demolish Boys School In Raid

NAZI, FRENCH RAIL LINES HIT   3AF Planes Make Daylight Attacks; Damage At St. Nazaire Is Heavy

R. AF. Keeps Up Attacks On Nazis   Northwest Germany And Occupied Countries Are Blasted Again

Fortresses And Liberators “Just Barely Clear Masts” In Sinking Four Jap Ships At Rabaul: No Planes Lost

Fortresses And Liberators “Just Barely Clear Masts” In Sinking Faony Jan Shine At Rahanl: No Planee Tact

DORIS CAMPBELL “L-QUNTARD WED   Former Merrill Young Peo_ ple United in New. Jersey

MacArthur Denies big Olfensive   Men, Equipment Not — in Southwest Pacific. Savs General

Red Central Front Flares   Germans Claim Stalingrad Veterans Open New Drive

‘Reds PushOnward In Muddy Ukraine   Spring Thaws And Stiffened Resistance Slow Offensive West Of Kharkov; Gains Made  In Caucasus In Novorossisk Area

Reds Announce  More Gains In Muddy Ukraine   ffensive Seems Slackened In Area, How ever; Soviets Hurl Stalingrad Veterans Against Centr al Front Lines

Messina Blasted Again By British   Planes Also Pound Bases Around (reece

Says United. Nations Should Retain Ties When Conflict Ends, and That U.S.Must Do Part to Restore Stability   Wuol) Text of President's Address on Page Six

1943 WILL SEE UNITED NATIONS MARCHING QF   Demands Permanent Disarmament Of Axis Nation Atter War Is Won.

BIG GAINS ON ROADS TO BERLIN, ROME AND TOKYO IN 1943 SEEN   President Says Allies Must Remain United to Enforce Peace; Calls For Planning for After War

PRESIDENT SUMS UP Ist YEAR OF WAR   To Stormy Applause Of Congress Mr. Roosevelt Predicts Advance In 1943 To Axis Capitals.   Disarm Axis

_ STRIDES TOREFAST   FDR’s Message To Congress Demands -of Foes After War

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Congress -Given-ReportOn War By President   Roosevelt Predicts 1943 Will See Substontial Advance Afong the Roads That Lead to Rome, Berlin ond Tokyo—-Messace Concilictory

rull Disarmament Of Axis Demandec By Roosevelt  President Gives Annual Message On State of Union

Demands Permanent Disarmament of Axis After War in Speech  Before New Congres   FINDS PRODUCTION FOR WAR EXCELLENT  Hints This Congress May Assume Hand In Making the Peace

Nation Must Help Global Economies   Enduring Disarmament Of3 Axis Powers : ~ Demanded   Dissents on Delays .._ In Domestic boss   GOP. Praises His Speech; Pian For Demobilizing Fohs Advise

Jom Session Of Congress Hears Address   Président Says Now's Time for Post-War ‘Planning, _Foresees  CC pain Vietiey?

CHEERS GREET 1943 MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT   PEACE OBJECTIVES ARE STRESSED IN FIGHTING TALK

CALLS FOR JOBS FOR ALL IN TALK BEFORE CONGRESS   Declares Planning Should Be Started to Give Employment to Returning Fighting Men.   REVEALS U. S. MADE 48,000 PLANES IN °42   Asserts Enemy Superiority Is Gone--Says Aim in Pacifio Is to Force Japs to Fight.

F. D. R. Predicts Substantial  Advance in 43   Chief Executive Demands Axis Nations Be Disarmed Permanently After War; Production Accomplishments Reviewed

Would Disarm Axis Nations Permanently When Struggle Ends; Advocates Planning to Meet Crisis on Peace

Conciliatory Message Stresses Victory Objectives And Accomplishments Of Allies

Miners Dety Labor Board In Wage Row   Little Steel Pay Formula Flouted; $2 Hike Demanded

GERMAN CITY OF GELSENKIRCHEN IS POUNDED BY RAF   2,000 Tons of Bombs Hailed On Ruhr Industrial City Last Night

Wi Rather ’ Surrender   AXIS BROADCASTS CLAIM DEMAND WAS MADE THAT ITALIA} ISLAND, SUR gENDER BUT WAS REFUSED .

Ultimatum to Yield Reported Rejected After Heavy Attack   Warships, Planes Batter Island; Axis Garrison Declares Leaflets Asking Surrender Are Ienored

RULES IMPRACTICABLE   Railroad Head Asserts Failure of “alee ODT Regulations

ODT Had To Revise Rules  Of Operation   ‘Featherbed’ Setup Was Absurd, Railroad President Declares

Russians Smash Nazi Lines and Take Prisoners   Brisk Activity Reported or Central Front West of Moscow

Soviets Report Foe Is Silent   Break Through Nazi Lines in Two Areas

Red Patrols. Harry Nazis During Lull Strangely Quie ‘ Germans Take  D aichmant

Soviet Scout Units  Break Through  Lines in Attacks Leningrad Sector Still  Feeling Weight O€é Alaw Air Activity

RUSSIANS. TAKE NAZI PRISONER:   Soviets Feel Out Strangely Quiet Enemy; Break-Thru Enemy Lines in Two Areas; Front Is Quiet

Soviets Smash Toward Black Sea Naval Base  Crush Attacks Of Nazi Forces

GRIM OUTLOOK FOR GERMANS IN MOUNTAINS   Claiming Superiority in Skies, Russians Are Pushing Steadily Toward Sea Base

Hitler's Hold in Caucasus Doomed   Russians Closer To Novorossisk

BiG BOMBERS SWARM BACK TO CAPITAL   41 Planes Lost During Operations Throughout Night

DEMLIN Ltt  "PARALYZED BY NEW RAND   1200 To 1,500 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Nazi Capital By RAF Last Night

Netural Reports Say Berlin Is Again Completely Paralyzed.  MOST VIOLENT FIGHT EVER STAGED IN AIR  May Establish Air Bases in Russia to Bomb Germany.

41 Bombers Lost In Night Assault On Nazis Capital   Surviving Two-Thirds Of City Hammered By 1200 To 1500 Tons Of Bombs In ‘Truly Devastating’ Attack By 600 Planes

METROPOLIS PARALYZED BY RAF BLOW   Surviving Two-thirds of Reich Capital Belching Flame and Smoke.

NAZI CONCENTRATE “FORCES 10 DRIVE AWAY RAF PLANES   Swedish Report Says City. Is Without Gas, Water, or Electricity, Streets Are Badly Blocked.   LOWELL BENNETT, INS WRITER IS MISSING   Allies Make Hard-Won Gains In Italy, Reports Indicate British Have Advanced Six Miles.

Forty-One British Planes Fail To Return. Three War Correspondents

FINE WEATHER AHEAD      No Change in Indian § Summer Conditions Is Forecast

Interoreting e War   Another Great Trap About to Clamp Down on Germans

Reds Weave New Death Trap for Foe  Lozovaya Loss _   Lozovaya Loss Presages Woe for Hitler

Commander 0' Hare Reported Missing  Flyer Was Hero of Coral Sea Battle

Ed O'Hare, Navy's Flying Ace, Missing   Presumed Lost on South Pacific Flight

NAVY AIR ACE ‘BUTCH’ O'HARE REPORTED LOS]   Flyer Who Single Handed Shot Down Five Jap Bombers in Coral Sea “Missing in Action’

‘Butch’ O’Hare, © Navy Ace, Missing   Called By President One Of Greatest Combat Flers.

“BUTCH” O'HARA MISSING   Naval Air Here Reported Lost In Active Duty 

Family Told Butch O’Hare Is Missing   Naval Air Hero Who Shot "Down Five Planes And Damaged Sixth in One Action Reported Lost °

KAISER - BUILT TANKER SINKS   16,000 - Ton Ship Splits Apart and Goes To River Bottom

SECRECY GUARDS “SUP. SINKING   Kaiser-Buiit Vessel Splits Apart While Tied at Portland Dock

Giant Tanker Rips Hits River Bottom   Kaiser-Built Vessel Splits Apart Mysteriously In Oregon

NAZIS’ DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO HALT REDS HAVE FAILED   Soviets Pushing Ahead On Plains With Poland And Baltic States As Goals

NAZIS ATTEMPT TO HALT ENTRY INTO SMOLENSK   Russians Overcoming Counter-Attacks, Drive Toward  Poland

Nazis’ ‘Hurling Massed: Tanks © and dnfantry ' Against:  Advancing {Soviet/Acmies — Russians’ Push: “ing: Relentlessly Across Plains.

GERMANS HURL MASSED TANKS AT RED ARMY   Fail To Halt Soviet Troops In Drive Through Gate At Smolensk

(A weeky news digest prepared by the Rural Press Section, OWI News Bureau)   TIGHTENING UP ON NON. FATHERS

‘SCARE BUYING’ OF CLOTHING. -- HIT -BY OFFICIALS OF WPB   ASSURANCE GIVEN THAT ADEQUATE SUPPLY ON HAND UNLESS “RUNS” DEPLETE THE STOCKS

Rationing Of Clothing Not Contemplate   High Officials Disavow Plans To Impose Clothing Ration Plan   SUPPLIES REPORTED IN GOOD SHAPE

Marines Win Costliest Victory on Tarawa; 4000 Japs Killed; Few ‘Americans Unhurt in ‘Toughest Fight’

Marines, Japs Died by Thousands on Tarawa In Marines’ Bloodiest Fight

Marine Victory At Tarawa Had Highest Blood Cost in Long, Historic Corps History

BATTLE ON TARAWA COSTLY TQ MARINES   Most Of 2,000 Men Killed Or Injured But Japs Were Wiped Out; Fight Called Toughest In Marine Corps History

Marines Paid Bloodiest Price in Corps History for Tarawa Victory

BiARINES. SUFFEF HIGHEST LOSSES IN HISTORY   60-Hour Battle on Ta. rawa Highest Ever in Bleod Cost

US. MARINES PAID HEAVY PRICE FOR TARAWA VICTORY   Corps Records Reveal Ne ~ Comparable Fatalities In Ite Lang History.

Anglo - American Invaders Loc Forces With Germans In Bitte Swaying Battle On Souther Approaches To Naples   ‘GERMANS FIGHTING DELAYING ACTIO)

U. S. Railways Set Transport Records  Freight-Passenger   Freight-Passenger Traffic Enormous

DUAL GLOW Al ITALY, FRANCE: 10 IN OFFING   May Be Matter cf Days or Weeks; Air War Being Stepped Up.

DOUBLE BLOW “AT FORTRESS? 1S’ PREDICTE!   LANDING OF ‘ALLIED TROOTS : ON ITALY EXPECTED TO. BE “IOOORDINADED WITH 2) OTHER OPERATION

Armored Expert Given Command  Lieut. Gen. Patton to Lead U. S. Troops in.   30 Years in Army

Patton Gets Tunis Post   Tank Expert Replaces Maj. Gen. Fredendall

Gen. Patton New Head In Tunisia   Replaces Gen. Fredendall as Commander of U. S.  Forces as “Offensive-Minded” General ; First U.S, Infantry Division in Action at Fall of Gafsa, First Armored and 34th Infantry Also in Action.

Patton Is New Chief  In Tunisia   Tank Specialist Placed'tn* Command Of American Forces

Patton Made Commander   Tough Leader Put in Charge of U. S. Troops In Western Tunisia

New Army Commander   Lieut. General Patton Placed in Charge of  Tunisian Front Forces

PATTON IN COMMAND OF YANKS   Offensive Minded Warrior Succeeds Gen. Fredendall

Patton Called ~ “Blood and Guts’      Gen. Fredendall Replac ed After Defeat In February   NEW LEADER HAS OFFENSIVE MIND

Tough General Heads U. S. Tanks   CHANGE IN COMMAND ON AFRICAN FRONT ANNOUNCED

Patton Replaces Fredendall   General in Charge of Troops in Tunisia Is Removed

Patton Commands In West Tunisia   Offensive - Minded Chieftain Succeeds L. R. Fred enall,

GEN. GEO, PATTON IS NEW COMMANDER ~ OFTHE U.S, TROOPS   Succeeds Maj. General Lloyd R. Fredendall on the Tunisian Front.   ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY   Gen. Patton Is an Offensive Minded American Armored Force Specialist.

Old ‘Blood And Guts’ Put In Charge Of U.S Army On Western Tunisian Front

Lieutenant General George S. Patton Replaces Major Gen. Lloyd R. Fredendall In Africa   NOTED COMMANDER OF ARMORED FORCES   Fredendall’s New Assign ‘ment Not Revealed; Headed U. S. Force In _ ‘Tunisia Withdrawal —

Tank. Combat Specialist fo Lead Yankees   Lt. Gen. Patton Takes Ove as Field Commander in Tunisia   ARMY CALLS HIM ‘BLOOD-AND GUTS:   A’Man of Action He Is Noted for. His Vocabulary and Fichtines Oualities

Pation Takes Command of Tunisia Troops   Succeeds Fredendal  as Commander of Wlactarn Coeandt

PATTON NAMED AS U.S.COMMANDER IN WESTERN TUNISIA   Armored Force Specialist, Called “Blood and Guts,” Takes Place of Major faneaval Feedandall

Patton Named Commander On  Tunisian Front   Tank Expert Known As “Blood And Guts” Is In Charge Of U. S. Forces In New Drive

New General ls Colorful   “Blood and Guts” Is Nickname For General Patton

PATTON TO HEAD U.S. TROOPS IN WESTERN TUNISIA   ‘Offensive - Minded American Armored § Force . Specialist Succeeds Maj. Gen. Freden all-in’ Desert

PATTON HEADS TUNISIAN UNITS   Armored Force Expert Succeeds Maj. Gen. Lloyd Fredendall.   _EADS MEN PERSONALLY

te And Sheriff Solve Part f Mystery Of Park Destruction   it Stealing Two  ‘Old Boys Als Bicycles

te And Sheriff Solve Part — f Mystery OF Park Destructior   a-Old Boys . Alsc mit Stealing Two Bicycles

NAVY SEIZES LOS ANGELES SHIPYARD   On Grounds Of Slow Production Of Escort Ships

Navy Seizes Shipbuilding Plant at L. A.   Too Slow, Says Criticism Four Ships Launched  In Two Years

ALLIES TAKE 100,000 MEN AS PRISONERS   Last Core Of Enemy Resistance Blasted By Ai Attack

BACK’ TO-WORK MIN MOVEMENT FAILURE   Miners Still Ignore Pleas 01 Leaders For Return

1500 MINERS RESUME STRIKE _ AFTER ONE DAY   Collapse of Back-To-Work Movement Seen After 1600 Had Returned af Other Mines

Back-to-Work-in-Mines_ Movement Gets Nowhere  More Than 20,000 Anthracite Miners on Strike, Pressing Bar @9.5.Nav Ronus

Back to Work Move Collapses   Collieries Which Resumed Yesterday Fail to Reopen

2-Week Old Coal Strike Deadlocked   Back-To-Work Movement Fails In One Section Of Anthracite Mine Fields

1,600 MINERS RESUME WORK      17,500 Still Away from Jobs in Anthracite Colliery Areas

BACK-TO-WORK MINE MOVE FAILS   500 Coal Workers Re jom 19,000 Sail Out. “in Pennsylvania

Doniestic Sugar-Producers Are Given Some Encouragement from Washingtor

CHINESE BACK IN CHANGTE   Japanese Positions Tak  Heavy Pounding From  Air. Land, Sea

Changteh Again Recaptured by Chinese Armies   Many Setbacks for Japanese All Along Line

Six Ships Sunk, 72 Planes Destroyed by Carrier Attack   Chinese Retake City of Changteh in Setback  for Nipponese

Victories Over Japs   Chinese Retake Changteth; Sink Six Jap Ships In Marshall Attack

Planes Sink Six Jap Ships During Marshall Attack   Nips, Despite. Reverses Boast Of Victory To Come In 1944

Rice Bowl’ Is Retaken By Chinese   American Planes Help Wir Back Strategic City of Changteh   JAPS HIT HARD IN THE MARSHALLS   Six of Their Ships and 72. Planes Downed by U.S.  Carrier Force

RETAKEN BY CHINESE   MacArthur’s Airmen Continue To Hammer New Britain; Allies Gain On Bougainville

JAPS BATTERED IN CHINA, LOSE CHANGTEH AGAIN   Other Defeats Pile Up for Nips — Severe Blows Dealt Out at Sea

Six Jap Ships, I Planes Destroyed   Chinese in Changteh As Allies Score In Marshalls

CHINESE REPORT RECAPTURE OF CHANGTEH   Another Setback for Japs Seen in Recapture of Hunan Province City ©

NIPS PREPARE FOR INVASION OF MARSHALLS      Premier Tojo Sees 1944 as Victory Year for  Japan :

CHANGTEH CITY RECAPTURED BY CHINESE ARMY   Swiit Turn-About in Rice Bow Batlle Tops Series of Jap Set hacks in Pacific   JAP WARSHIPS HIT   U. S. Carrier Planes Destroy; Light Cruisers, Oiler, 3 Trans ports in Marshalls

VITAL CHINESE CITY RETAKEN   Changteh's Recapture Completes Pattern of Jap Setbacks in Pacific.   SIX ENEMY SHIPS LOST

Changteh Is Retaken By Chinese Army   Two Japanese Cruisers Among Six Ships Sunk By Carrier Planes In Raid On Marshall«

CHANGTE CONTROLLED BY CHINESE ARMY  Recaptures City After Fier  er rierce

Carriers Sink 2 Jap Cruisers; Chinese Retake Rice Bowl Key   72 Enemy Planes Shot Down in Marshalls Raid

6 Foe Ships, 72 Planes Are Yank Victims   Allies Dump 1,300 Tons of Explosives on New Britain in Last Three Weeks

Six Enemy Ships And 72 Airplanes Bagged In Attack Against Marshalls

Six Ships, 72 Planes Lost by Jans in Attack   Marshall Islands Assaul Details Are Revealed By Southwest Pacific Allied Command

CHINESE WIN BACK CITY IN “RICE BOWL”   Reoccupy Strategic  Changteh to Complete  . Pattern of Jap Setbacks,  Topped by Heavy Losses in Marshalls.

CHINESE RETAKE CHANGTEH WITH AMERICAN HELP   JAPANESE LOSE 72 PLANES, & SHIPS IN MARSHALL ISLES

Changteh Is Recaptured By Chinese   Six Enemy Ships Sunk, 72 Planes Destroved in Marshall Islands: Tojo Says 1944 Jap Year to Win

Chinese Recapture Strategic City Of Changteh   U.S. Navy Force Destroys Six Jap Ships and 72 Planes

Recapture Changteh   Chinese.Push Japs. Back in “Rice Bowl”; Strike at Marshalls

LOSS OF CHANGTEH BY JAPANESE MARKED ADDITIONAL SETBACK  U. S. NAVY DISCLOSES SINKING OF SIX ENEMY CLInRGE ARreres Trew

War Crimes Are fo Be Prohed  Allied Nations Will  Pi metio, Mmwwenieotne

War Crimes Are to Be Probed  Allied Nations Will Create Commission

Allied Fleet Slips Througt Gibraltar   ‘Americans Capture 3 More ‘Localities, 200 Prisoners; ~ Reveal Ship Movenient

, Yanks Take 3 Heights, » Shell Mateut   Nab 200 Prisoners In North Tunisia; British First Army Falls Back.

Americans Take Hills As British Fall Back   Fierce Fighting Prevails on Tunisian Front; Eighth Army Opens Heavy Barrage, Berlin Reports Allied Armada on Move,

Americans Take — Important Towns   YANKEES GAIN AFTER BITTER BATTLE IN TUNISIA

RAF Night Raiders Blast; Essen Again; Stalin Calls For Great Blows On Nazis

Americans Pushon  In Tunisia   Hard Fighting Along Entire Front; Nazis  Report Huge Convoy Enters Mediterranean

BLOODY HILL 609 IS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS FRIDAY  ALLIED AIR FORCE IN DE   ALLIED AIR FORCE IN DE ~ VASTATING ATTACK ON ‘AXIS SHIPPING

Nazis Cling Posts   Launch Violent At tacks in Tunisia at Heavy Cost

Yankees Gain As British Ist Pushed Back   Giant Allied Armada Reported Moving Into Mediterranean Sea

YANKS GAIN ON NORTH END OF TUNISIAN LINE   British First Army Again Falls Back In Cen ter of Line   MATEUR UNDER FIRE   Axis Forces Pay Heavily In Bitter Defense of Mountain Passes

BATTLES RAGING AS AXIS FORCES DEFEND ‘COFFIN’   Americans Take Three More ‘Important Localities’ and Capture Many Prisoners   REDS STEP UP OFFENSE   Allied Fleet Is Reported Moving Past Gibraltar Into Mediterranean

STILL GAINING. IN TUNISIA   Capture :"Three: ‘More “Tmportant Lozalitia’?

British Fleet May   Smash Rommel’s Rear   RAF Whacks Ruhr Valley

Americans Capture Bloody Position on North Tunisia Fron!   Take Hill 609, 16 Miles Fro rom Mateur, Gateway : Port ~

US Troops Shell Mateur  First Time   American Troops Capture Three More Important Localities; British Ist Army Falls Back Slightly; Allied Planes Unleash Full Effort Attacks Against Axis Shipping

100 Prisoners Are Taken by Americar Forces in Tunisia   But in General Best Is Merely That Lines Are Holding

Bloody Hill 609 Falls to Yank Forces   U. S. Artillery Opens Up Against Mateur; British Armies Advance

Americans Capture 3 Important Positions In Northern Tunisia   Fighting Is Fierce In Medijez-El-Bab Sector

Eighth Army Opens Heavy New Barrage   Huge Allied Armada Said To Be Steaming East From Gibraltar.

THREE IMPORTANT LOCALITIES TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS   Two Hundred Prisoners Were Captured on Northern Tunisian Battle Front.   BRITISH ARE HELD BACK      Exceptionally Heavy Fighting Raged Throughout Yesterday.

‘anks Advance in North Tunisia 3ut First Army Retreats Again: Axis Eyes Mediterranean Convoy   ‘Subs Sink 10 Ships

First Army Falls 2-. in Center   Germans Lash Out in Many Counter Moves  In Medjez Zone

British First Army Falls Back Slightly For Second Time in 24 Hours Before Heavy Axis Counter-Attacks. Eighth Army Makes Shicht Cains. é

Yanks Held at Bay By Entrenched Foe   North Front Becomes Hot Spot as Eighth Army Braces for New Lunce

SUPPLY PROBLEM HELD INPORTANT   BY LOUIS F, KEEMLE Uniled Press War aAnatyst {Ree FI =< Pat Fen      Positions Consolidated By the Army of Britain

Relentless Air Attacks on Japanese   U. S. P40 Fighters and Mitchell Bombers Pour It -on Retreating Nips   ORDERLY RETREAT BECOMES A ROUT   Flying in Relays, Waves and Waves of Planes Attack Troops

Strong Forces To Meet Allied Pacific Drive   Japs Still Able To Muster Strong Battle Fleet

DOESN'T MAKE "SENSE, ISN'T FAIR         Weiss Decries Gas for Candidates, None for Service Men

ct etaeetiemenmemttemeinaene een  GASOLINE FOR POLITICIANS IS HIT BY CONGRESSMAN

Senate Passes Wilson Measure   Salary Increases for State's Teachers Proposed to Assembly

23,000-Ton Giulio Cesare, Seaplane Carrier Giuseppe Miraglia Reach Malia   FOUR DESTROYERS   Arrivals Bring io 38 Number of Italian Warships in Allied Hands, Ward of Others Waite

MORE ITALIAN SHIPS ARRIVE AT VALLETTA   Gient Seaplane Carrier, Four Destroyers and Number of Submarines Make Port

38 Warships Now In Allied Hands; Others Expected   Only One Battleship Is Unaccounted For

Italian Sailors Escape German:   32 Warships Now In Hands of Allies

More Italian Fleet Units Arrive at Malta  Warships Now in Riitaad tandale

More Italian  Ships at Malta   Battleship, Carrier, 4 Destroyers Safe

ITALIAN SHIPS DOCK ATMALTA   At Least 8 Destroyers And 14 Submarines Escape Nazis

Allies Await More Units of Italian Fleet   32 Ships Already Safely in Our Hands—Others Believed Enroute

PART OF ITALY "FLEET YIELDS   32 Warships Go ‘to Allies; Others Expected to Surrender Soon

MORETTALIAN WARSHIPS ARE »SURRENDEREI   Battleship, Aircraft Carrier and Four Destroyers Join Fleet At Malta; 38 In Allied Hands

ITALIAN HIPS REACH ALLIES   Naval Forces Arrives at Malta; Brings Total to 38 Warships.   ‘MAY BE USED IN PACIFIC

More Italian Ships at Malta  Number of Warships Now in Allied Hands Totals 38

Battleship; Seaplane Carrier, A Destroyers And Subs Added   Total Soars To At Least 38 Warships  oday; Half Of Sub Fleet Still Missing  FIGHTING IS BITTER AT SALERNO  Nazis Clash With American 5th Army And Seek To Stall Allied Advance There

Battleship, Four Destroyers, Air Carrier Arrive   Carrier And Number Of Subs Also Put In Valletta; 38 Units Now With Allies

WARSHIPS STEAM INTO MALTA PORTS   The New Arrivals Bring to: 3€ the Number of Italian Bat tleships Now Safe in Allee  Harhora

ANOTHER ITALIAN NAVAL UNIT ARRIVED AT MALTA MONDAY  GREATER PART OF ITALIAN FLEET NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIES

MORE OF ITALY’ SHIPS AT MALT  Battleship, Seaplane Car. winaw Amann nm 12...      Battleship, Seaplane Carrier Among Vessels Reaching Allied Port   38 TURNED OVER   Six Of Italy’s Seven Big Warships Not Accounted For

ALLIES GET 38 ITALIAN SHIPS   Others Believed To Be En Route Under Terms Of Armistice

ANOTHER NAVAL FORCE REACHES MALTA SAFELY   Big Italian Battleship, 4 Destroyers, Carrier There; Others Awaited

MORE ITALIAN SHIPS ENTER ALLIED PORTS   Half Of Submarine Fleet Missing; Some Interned

SECOND ITALIAN NAVAL FORCE AT VALLETTA, MALTA   ALLIES NOW CONTROL 38 VESSELS OF ONCE MIGHTY ENEMY FLEET

38 Warships Of Italian Navy Held By Allies   Another Force Surrenders At Malta

ALLIES HAVE 38 ITALIAN SHIPS   Another Italian Naval Force, Including Battleship And Carrier, Reaches Malta.

Allies Receive More Ships  From Italians   Destroyers, Subs Dock at Malta; Hope Is Seen That Others Will Follow; Surrendered Men Comply With Treaty

LARGE BATTLESHIP, SEAPLANE CARRIER AND OTHER VESSELS AT MALTA AND OTHERS AWAITED   Six of Italy's. Seven Battleships Now Accounted For Together With a Number of Cruisers, Destroyers and Submarines. London Reports

8 Destroyers And 14 Subs Reach Malta   Other Units of Fleet And Merchant Ships  Expected Momentarily  ONE BATTLESHIP STINK

(More Italian   ~ Ships Escape        32 Ready for Action Wex 41.7 . ic ee ee

MORE YTALIAN SHIPS. ARRIVE N MALTA PORT   38 Of Mussolini’s Warships Now In Hands Of Allies, Others Expected

Say Battleship, Plane Carrier Reach Valletta   At Least 38 Warships Are Now Reported To Be Safe In Allied Hands

38 ITALIAN SHIPS  IN ALLIED HANDS   Sixth Battleship And Other Warships Reach Malta

More Ships To Malta   Mare Nestrum Becomes Allied Lake As Units Of Italian Fleet  Cease to Be a Menace

Italian Fleet In Allied Hand: Crows to 32   Eight Destroyers and 14 Subs Reach Malta;  Nazi Planes Sink Roma

Another Italian Naval Force Puts Into Port at Malta   Makes at Least 38 of Italian Vessels in Hands of Allies

38 Italian Warships Now In Allied Hands, Including Four Battleships   Awaiting Word Of Arrival Of Other Units And Merchantmen Believed To Be Enroute Under Terms :Of Armistice.

ANOTHER ITALIAN NAVAL UNIT ARRIVED AT MALTA MONDAY  ARM Aer nméanr Ar   GREATER PART OF ITALIAN FLEET NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIES

WAR PRODUCTION HINTS BY COUNTY EXTENSION AGENCY   W. P. Brinkley Increases Corn Yeild By .29 Bushels Per Acre With Sweet Clover   TIME TO PLANT. GARDENS   Says 40 Days of Cold Weather Required to Cure a Twenty Ib. Ham

BILLIONS ASKED TO CRUSH AXIS   Navy Asks Congress For Almost 30 Billion To Win War

RECORD NAVY BILL BEFORE CONGRESS   Over 29 Billion Dollars in Appropriations Now Sought

Congress Asked For 30 Billions More for Navy   Largest Fund in Histor) Means $230 for Each Person in U. S.

$79 BILLION NAVY FUND REQUESTED   Price of its Preparations in Next Year for Final Blows Against Axis: Biggest Navy Fund in History 

Navy Asks Congress For 30 Billion During Next Year  Largest Naval Funds Bill in History Out of Committee

Navy Asks Huge Building Fund  Nearly 30 Billions Declared Needed

Thirty Billion Dollars in Naval Appropriations [Asked for Coming Year

Davis Expects  Last Ditch Fight   Leaders Know Surrende: Brings Execution

Massive Nazi Attack Forces Reds fo Retreat   Russians Evacuate Important Rail Center of Zhitomir

Soviet Airmen Hammer Nazis   Supply And Rail Centers Of Germans Are Heavily Attacked By Reds   REPORT 74 NAZIS PLANES SHOT DOWN  oe.. SCA VFAV IA RENE

RULING IN COAL CRISIS IS NEAR   Written Draft Of Decision Reported Completed By Chairman

DECISION OF WLB IN COAL CASE NEAR   Threat of Third Strik« Still Hangs in Balance

LEWIS THREATENS THIRD . STRIKE IF WAGE AGREEMENT NOT RIGNED EY SUNDAY ‘

WLE DEClolUN UN GOAL Act YO UMMINEN   Written Draft cf Decision Is Now Ready for the Board’s Vote.   AND STRIKE LOOMS   Lewis Ultimatum Bringing Walkout Will Exovire at - Midnight Surd y.

DESTROYERS, ONE CRUISER ON BOTTOM   Buin-Faisi Region Of Solomons Is Battle Site

200 Allied Planes Sink Seven Jap Vessels In Heaviest Pacific Raid

INVASION ON THREE FRONTS — FEARED BY GERMAN I EADERS   DEFENSES BEING STRENGTHENED IN BALKANS, ALONG FRENCH COAST AND  IN NORWAY 

NAZIS BOLSTER DEFENSES OVER INVASION FEAR   Army Of 300,000 Non-German Troops Organized To Protect Balkans o   COASTAL AREAS CLEARED   Hitler Reported Actively Directing All-Out Submarine Campaign

COC EXTENSION WILL BE SOUGHT   Permanent Commodity Body Aim Of Bankhead

Workers Return To Milk Plants On WLB Orders  Fe ._._ rf... oo er ee)   Four - Day - Old Strike In Metropolitan Area At End

TEMPERATURE TO DROP   To 25 or 30 Degrees in the East, Says Forecaster .

Some Colder Here Tonight   Mercury May Drop To 25 In Eastern Part Of Kansas

Two Heroes Fly Bomber Back   Pilot and Co-Pilot Land Crippled Plane On English Field

Deming Air Base Cadet Win: Precision Bombing Olympic   Kirtland Field Team Lands in Eighth Place In Competition for Pickle-Barrel Trophy

Weight Boost Is Granfed By OPA After Test   Berry Prices Now Fixed Close To Mark Before Ceilings Were Set   Protests Win Increase

British Seize More Nazi Ground In Italy: Fifth  Army Improves Positions

EIGHTH ARMY GOES FORWARD AGAINST NAZIS   Gains of a few miles  chalked up along eastern sector in Italy

Eighth Army Gains Several  Miles In Italy   Gen. Montgomery’s Army Pressing Forward On Eastern Front   BAD WEATHER IS HAMPERING ALLIES

500 REPORTED   Traffic Violators Names Turned Tem Warn Betton Face

WICKARD 10 CHOOSE PERSONNEL   Committees Due In 10 Days To ‘Relieve ‘ Shortages’

SHORTAGE OF FOOD DEMAND QUICK ACTION   Groups Over the Nation to Be Established to Insure Delivériss.   WILL BE RESPONSIBLE   Situation Is Especially Se. ricus in the War-Ewce’len Cities.

SN a a am a  WAR BONDS SELLING WELL IN IREDELL   Quota For January Is Again More Than Doubled

BLAST DAMAGES OHIO SHOE PLANT   Night Watchman Seriously Injured As Explosion Rocks Portsmouth

VIOLENT EXPLOSION.      Shoe Factory Dam: d and Night Watchman  Injured.

VIOLENT EXPLOSION.   Shoe Factory Damaged and Night Watchman Injured.

STOCK OF GASOLINE INU, S. SHRINKING   a ea el  Supply Diminishes Despite Increased Refining

U. 5. Bombers Bag 74 Planes in Day  Unescorted Raids Made on Germany

U. $. BOMBERS HIT AGAIN AT SICILY AND SARDINIA   Flying Fortresses Blast One Big Sicilian Air Base, It Is Announced.   -PANTELLERIA ALSO HIT   Air Fields at Ponte Olivio Bay Attacked by Mitchells and Marauders.

TOTAL 18 297 FOR LAST 8 ATTACKS   Action On May 21 Establishes New Record   OPERATIONS   This Month Are Greatest Since Americans First Bombed Germany

U.S. BOMBERS BAGGED 74 NAZI PLANES IN RAID   Establish Record in Attacks on Emden and Wilhelmshaven, With Loss of 12 of Own ;

Only 127 Lost On Attu And Last Resistance Crumbling   Record Single Day’s Bag Of Enemy Planes Made By Downing 74 In One Raid   RUSSIAN FRONT STIRS INTO VIOLENCE   Italy Pounded Hard From Air With Raids On Sicily, Sardinia. Pantelleria

AMERICAN FLIERS ESTABLISH RECORE   U.S. Bombers Shot Down 74 German Planes ' May 13

YANK BOMBERS SET SINGLE-DAY MARK   Destroy 74 German Planes May 21 Over Emden and Wilhelmshaven

U. S. Raiders’ One-Day Record Raises May Total To 297 —   HUNS TO SIT TIGHT THIS SUMMER Ry IOHN COLRIIRN

Record High Set in U-Boat Yard Raids  U.S. Planes Achieve Single Day’s Record Of 74-_-Plana Ran

U.S. Bombers Bag 74 Planes   Strike at Emden And Whilhemshaven; 12 Bombers Lost

U.S. Bombers Destroyed 74 Enemy Planes In May 21 Raid   Set Record For One Day In Attack Mude On Wilhelmshaven And Emden, U. &. Reports

FORD LOOKS AT 81ST YEAR   Prefers Not to See Natal Day As End of 80th One

Ford Disclaims Money Desire At Reaching 80   Cash Is Servant, Not Master, Says Vet Magnate

FORD OBSERVES HIS SOTH BIRTHDAY   Expects to Keep Going for Many More Years

THOUSANDS IDLE IN OHIO STRIKES   Walkouts Hamper War Pro: duction In Akron And Cleveland Factories

CHIO HIT BY LABOR STRIKES   War Production jin " Cleveland and Akron Disrupted — Several. Thou. sand Workers. Idle.

Strikes Disrupt Akron, Cleveland   Thousands Idle; War Work Slowed

ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL SEES BIG DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR AGAINST JAPAN

GUILTY IN WPB FRAUD   Two Fermer Officials Assessed Fines of $10,000 Each.

Europe Assault Continued After Record Month ©   26,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped, Americans Get 925 Nazi Planes

NAZI AIR NESTS IN-NORTH FRANCE ~ RAIDED BY YANKS   Americans. Believe July. Raids * “Broke the Back” of Mazi Luttwaife.

U.S. BOMBERS RAID LUFTWAFFE NESTS IN NORTH FRANCE   ‘Safe Return Of All Planes Testifies To Heavy Toll Of Germany’s Air   Strength 7   925 NAZI FIGHTERS DOWNED BY ALLIES

German Army Reels Back in Disordered  Retreat in Russia   Losing Fight for Very Life; Reds Drive to Collapse Flank

POUND THE NAZIS   Large Force of American Heavy Bombers in Raid . on Germany

FORTS RAID GERMANY   Biggest Force Ever To Operate From Britain Out Teday

LARGEST FORCE RAID GERMANY   500 dr More Bombers Might Have Taken Part In Raid on Western Ger.  WAT

Bib AIR FLEET RIPS GERMANY   BIGGEST SKY FORCE RAIDS NORTHWEST AREA

-Largest American Aerial Force Yet to Leave England -Roars Out Over Continent

Fighter Planes Escort Bomber Force of More  Than 400 Craft   Size of Armada Compares With That of RAF  Night Squads

More Than 400 U. §. Bombers Go   Western Germany Raid Biggest Yet

LARGEST FORGE OF U.S. PLANES YET T0 STRIKE   ndicated 500 Or More Heavy American Bombers Used In Great Daylight Raid On Northwestern  Germany; Other Raids.

Light Snow On The Way   Expected To Cover Most of Kansas; No Extreme Cold

DAY OF WINTER CHILL   Snow Is Expected to Reach Most of State Tonight

mvaston Fians Are Ne-alrirmed At Contlerence-—— —By Kirke L. Sim  Quebec Session Shows Full Unity Of Allies

Future Conference With Stalin Soon, Is Hinted   Roosevelt-Churchill War Talks In Quebec End On Calm Note Of Utter Confidence In Victory

Two Japanese Planes Attack Aleutians Ships   American Ships Are Object Of Attack But Escape Damage

American Fliers Attack Rangcon   Artillery Halts Japanese Advance

MacArthur Commands Pacific —   Meeting With Halsey Stirs Speculations About Major Joint Blow Against Japanese

OTRIKE TIES UP JEEP ASSEMBLY   War Production Line In Toledo Closed As 2,500 ’ Walkout.

Strike Halts Jeep-Makins   Assembly Line at Toledo Plant Ts Closed and 2,500 Men Thrown Into Idfeness

68 Miners Still Missing In Disaster   Six Bodies Recovered Four Others Found After Explosion

68 BELIEVED DEAD OF GAS IN COAL MINE   Only Three Are Rescued’ Fans Installed to Clear Shafts

TWIN CITY BOY ON STRONG   No Word Received By Parents Since Destroyer  Went Down

Axis Reinforcing Area of Greece With More Troops  Important Port Towns Closed to Any Unofficial Travel

Axis Reinforcing Area of Greece With More Troops  Important Port Town: Closed to Any  Dem hSiatal Tenval

Illinois Observes 125th Birthday in _War-Sobered Celebration at Vandalia

Teamsters Would Open  Union Books   Amendment Secks To Bare Records  Of AFL Affliates

Union Urges Open Books   AFL Teamsters ‘Want Coustitution Chanee

ITALIANS WANT OUT OF THE WAR      Informants Recently Returned From Italy Tell Of Feeling Among Italian People.

SEEK RELIEF FROM ALLIED BOMBINGS   Welcome Invasion Or Sep arate Peace As Faith Ir Mussolini’s Fascist Re. gime Lost

Italians Want To Get Out Of War, Escape Bombs      Rome Packed As Many Think City Will Escape; Food, Sleep Scarce

CIVILIANS OF ITALY  BETWEEN TWO FIRES   Fear German Bombings 1 They Drop Out of War

Separate Peace Or Invasion Said To Be Welcome   Evacuees Crowd: Rome For. Food, Lodging: ~ Shelter Inadequate :

ITALIANS WANT TO GET OUT OF THE WAR   Food Is Short And Natives Are Short Of Sleep Duc To Bomb ings: Kome Overcrowded

ITALIAN PEOPLE IN ACCORD THEMSELVES ON PEACE DESIRE   WANT RELIEF FROM BOMBINGS, SLEEPLESS. NESS AND HUNGER

ITALIANS LONG FOR WAY OUT   Nation Reported ‘Having Food  Troubles as Well as Bombings; Look to. Pope.

The Italian Peonle Want To Get Out Of War, Say Reports From Stockholm

ITALIANS WANT TO GET OUT ‘OF THE WAR   © Italian People Will  . Welcome Invasion or . -Separate Peace

I   TRAVELERS SAY ITALIAN PEOPLE WOULD WELCOME /INVASION, PEACE MOVE

Italian People Ready To Quit, Travelers Say   Visitors To Italy Find Populace Weary Of War

ITALY FAST CRACKING   Allied Aerial Blows And Wartime Sacrifices Leaving Marks

Italians Want To — Escape Invasion   LACK OF FOOD & SLEEP MAKE THE PEOPLE LOSE HOPE

ASSASSIN KILLS DUTCH FUEHRER, CEN, SEYFFARD]   ‘Hiiler-Named Chief Had Task of Mobilizing Netherlands

Dutch Nazi Legion Head Assassinated   Dies Saturday After Being Shot In Front of Home

NAZI LEADER IN HOLLAND KILLED   Fatally Wounded in Front Of Home Last Friday

Nazi Legion  Chief Killed   Assassin Fatally Wounds Gen. Seyffardt, Friend Of Conquerors.

Dutch Legion Head Killed   Lieut. Gen. Seyffardt, Fatally Wounded in Front of His Home

Indian Adventures Info Sewer Lines   McAlester Cops Trap Him, Decide Firewater to Blame

Indian Stirs Up Excitement   Says He Was Hunting Brother in Sewer; Police Took Him In

RECORD RCAF GROUP ARRIVES IN ENGLAND   Largest Personnel Ever to Be Dispatched Overseas Has an Uneventful Crossine.

News From Che Honveroy Churches   IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH P EF Ross Pastor.

Paris Radio Reports Reign Of Anarchy Sweeping France   Claim People Being Killed On ‘Every Street Corner’; Much Pillaging

Paris Radio Says Vichy Unable To Check Wave Of Anarchy In France

Government Can’t Cope With Crime   Audacious Banditry, ‘Murder Everywhere Reported by Radio

France Swept By Terrorism   Vichy Government Powerless, Paris Radio Declares.

Anarchy Sweeps Across France   Paris Broadeast Says People Being Killed on Every  Street Corner.

DISASTER ENDS ARMY MISSION   Transport Plane Bearing French Officers Wrecked In Crash.

Executive Secretary Of YWCA Is Retirec  Mrs. Grace Loucks Is  Named Successor

LID ON FRESH FRUIT PRICES BARED BY OPA   Order Fixing Effective Date Awaited by OPA Office   MAY BE NEXT MONDAY   Will Mean Loss of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars To Growers

SAMOS CAPTURED, SAY THE GERMANS   Was Last Allied Holding iz Aegean Sea

Wherry States Army Rejects  Too Many Mer   Nebraska Draft Board Mem. her Says At One Time 22  Out Of 32 Rejected.   PRESENT TWO LETTERS

JAP MANPOWER HELD ADEQUATE   Tokyo Says Nation Has Enough Men To Meet All Needs Of War

Largest Air Battle in the Solomons Area Since Last April.  JAP LOSS, 32 BOMBERS 45 ZERO FIGHTERS  Six American Planes Lost Wednesday in Big Fight.

‘Relations With Russia Slated To Be Reviewed During  Visit of Secretary

Chinese Seek To Oust Japs From Tungting Area  Large Number Of Enemy Troops Killed In Fights

Listen To Tax Broadcast 6:30 Tonight—WHIZ   Doolittle Family Is An Association

AOKa FOR TRUCE IN BATTLE ON SUBSIDY   House Told Action Would Give President Mandate To ‘Break Line.’

Says Subsidy Program Ban To Inflation   Xep. Monroney Pleads Apparently Lasing Cause in House

Solon Warns Of Inflation Subsidy Fails   Oklahomen Declores Defeat Will Give F. R. Free Hond on Waget

ROLLBACK BALILE—  Subsidy Truce  Is Asked   Break In Line Against Inflation Is Foreseen

le beeeetlietchenten! a> ietieed aes  Subsidies Death    “Would Be Mandate For President to  Break the Line Acainst Inflation”

Russians Forge Ahead; German Plight Serious   Soviets Within Gun Range Of Smolensk; Fall Of  Corsica Near

Plane Falls in  Front of Train   One Pilot Perishes After MidAir Crash and Two Coaches Are Set on Fira

et ANE CRASHES IN IN PATH OF FLYER      Derails Engine, Five Coaches; No Passengers Injured

PLANES COLLIDE HIGHINAIR .   -One of Them Crashes  in Front of Train

Driving Ban  Being Lifted   '‘Pleasure-Driving’’ Ban To End At Midnight In East Says 0. P. A.

DRIVING BAN. TO BE LIFTED   EASTERN MOTORISTS ASKED NOT TO WASTE GAS AB °  * SUPPLY IN EAST IS ‘ LIAXTED : i

Four Killed And 69 Injured When Giant Bomber Rams Through Marine Barracks

BOMBERS RAID GUADALCANAL   Jans Do Little Damage: Russell Islands Also Hit

Speed Limit Of 35 Miles Set For N.C.   Gov. Broughton Decrees War-Time Speeding Ban Effective Thursday.

New Decree Receives Approval of Council of State At Meeting With the Governor Monday Morning.

30-Mile Limit   Wartime Speed Ceiling ised — Labor Law, Changes Proposed.

Governor Orders 35. -Mile Limit:   Wartime Speed Ceiling Fi ced. — Labor

Washington Continues Busy: Connally Postwar Resolution Passed By Group

Connally Resolution Is Approved   Coal Operators Open Fight Before War Labor Board; Army Waste Denied by Patterson

——_—  Price Ceilings Put On Meats, Effective — Monday, April 15th

/OPA Sets Retail Ceiling Prices on Meat To Go ‘Into Effect April 15, Says Consumer Will Save

OPA Sets Uniform Price Ceilings For All Grades of Meat   New Regulations in Effect April 15: Black Markets Under Fire

(PA SETS PRICES ON ALL MEATS; MOST REDUCEL   Regulations To Take Effect April 15 In Whole Nation   EXPECT BLACK MARKETS TO GO OUT OF TRADE

ORDER GOES NTO EFFECT ON APRIL 13   \ew Rules on Grading Also Ordered in War On Black Markets

Prices of Meat Cut By OPA’s Uniform Retail Ceiling Edict   Action Seen Major Blow Against Black Markets Now Flourishing; Reef. Veal. Lamh. Mitton Cavered

‘UNIFORM RETAIL CEILINGS PLACED iON MEAT BY OPA   Applies To All Varieties Of Beef Veal, Lamb And Mutton

Retail Ceiling Put on Meat  Prices by OPA   All Cuts and Varieties to Have Fixed Price: Regins April 15th

OPA Orders Retail Ceiling on Meat To Blast Black Market   New Ceilings Apply To All Varieties of Meat; Effective April 15; Uniform Grading Standards To Be Enforced

OPA Sets Ceilings On Meats   New Retail Price Limits Are Effactive Anril 15

UNIFORM PIG CEILING PUT UN ALL MEATS   Action Is New OPA Attempt To Curb “Black Markets” Throughout Nation

Order Reduces Retail Prices In Some Cities   Regulaticns Require Equal Charges In Same Type Stores

OPA Rules Meat Must Bear Grade Mark After Apr. 15   OPA Sets Uniform Retail Ceilings on Meat; Says Move Hits Black Market

OPA Sets Uniform Retail Price Ceiling For Meats   New Ceilings Apply To All Varieties Of Beef, Veal, Lamb ~~ > and Mutton = Go Into’ Effect’ On April 1525 Aimed At Black Market

“BLACK MARKETS” BELIEVED DOOMED BY FEDERAL EDICT   Retailers May Sell Only Properly Graded Meats; Uniform Prices Established by Zones.

RAF BATTERS NAZI CONVOY   Two Ships Sunk, One Set Affre and Thre More Damaged Off Dutch Coast — War's Greatest Aerlal Offensive Goes into Ninth Day.

AXIS SHIPS SUNK BY RAF IN COAST RAID   War’s Greatest Aerial Offensive Goes Into Ninth Day Over Reich.

RAF SMASHES AXIS CONVOY: TWO SHIPS SUNK. 4. OTHERS HIT   Attack On Enemy Shipping Off Dutch Coast Second In 12 Hours; Air Drive In Ninth Dav

lowa Lawmakers Asked to Slash Alcohol in Beer   OOS OS Oe aon! Sr SES OS  Companion Measure Would Stop All Liquor Salec For Duration

HOUSE GETS ) DRY BILLS   Cut Beer’s Alcoholic Content, Close Liquor Stores. They Ask

Iowa Lawmakers Asked to Slash Alcohol in Beer   Companion Measure Would Stop All Liquor Sales For Duration

Report Eisenhower To Be Commander Of New Invasion   Army and Navy Register Says Gen. Eisenhower To Direct Furopean Invasion

Badoglio Move Hints Attempt To Effect Peace   Madrid Claims Emissaries Confer _ With Eisenhower; Broadcasts Warn Enemy Bomb Holiday Over

_  BADOGLIO FAILS 10 OUST NAZIS   Other Reports Say Emissaries Contact Eisenhower

Charge Badoslio With “Stalling”   Allies Warn That Holiday From  Bombs is Over; Peace Bid Seen

Vienna Region in Austria Attacked Also By Fortresses; One Yank Plane Shot Down By Swiss

FORTS GROSS ALPS TO BOMB MUNICH   BLAST FACTORY 25 MILES FROM VIENNA — CLOUDS HIDE RESULTS OF RAIDS.

Bombers From Africa Over Germany for First Time  LONGEST TRIP OF . WAR IS REPORTED  Heavy Clouds Obscure Observations of the Results

RAIDERS COME FROM BASE IN NORTH AFRICA   CRADLE OF NAZISM AND VIENNA AREA ARE TARGETS

Munich Hit By Heavy Bombers   Raid On Germany And Austria Made From Africa

Long Distance Hop Completed By Fortresses   Americans Make First Attack On Austria From North Africa

Austria Bombed By Yank Plane:   American Ghana Bom bers Also Smash At Munich in First Air Attack Against Reich From A frican Bases

First Raids Against Reich  From Afriea   Austrian Vienna Area Also Hit and Swiss Shoot Down One Plane  TEET OF SKY RATTHIE

Munich Target Of American Heavy Bombers   Strike at Vienna Region of Austria Also in Assault

American Bombers Smash at Areas Of Munich, Vienna  First Raid Undertaken On Reich From

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA ARE U.S. RAIDED   Bombers from North Africa cross Alps in bad weather; round trip of 1,800 miles   5 Fortresses Down

MUNICH AND AUSTRIA RAIDED BY U. S. FORTRESS BOMBERS   ‘Attack Is First Attempted From African Bases; Re sults Of 1,800-Mile Round Trip Over Alps   Obscured By Heavy Clouds

First American Attack Launched From N. Africa   Fortresses Cross Alps, Raid Munich

American Bombers Strike Munict And Vicinity of Vienna in Trip From Northwest African Bases

American Bombers Smash at Areas Of Munich, Vienna  First Raid Undertaken On Reich From Nerth African Bases

Fliers Carry Out Raid from  Afriean Bases   Swiss Claim Fortress Shot Down in Battle Between U. S., Reich Fighters Over Land

Bund Planned Revolution In United States   Reporter Who Became Storm Trooper to Spy on Nazis is Witness  SUBSTITUTE SOCIALISM

Newspaperman Says Hitler Planned U. S. Revolution   Intended io Substitute National Socialism for Democ racy Even With “Bloodshed In the Streets,”   Correspondent. Testifies At Trial of   Former Head of Bund

Hitler Plotted Riots In U: S.   Storm Trooper Testimony}  ‘Reveals Revolution *  ” Failed Fuehrer

HITLER PLANNED U. $. REVOLUTION  races Brought Out In Trial Of Alexander

REVOLUTION IN U.S. PLANNED BY HITLER   So Says Witness Who Joined Bund To Get News

“Very Heavy Losses’ on Axis Sub Fleet   Alexander Says Many German U-Boat. Afloat

TERMS U-BOAT LOSSES HEAVY   First Lord of Admiralty Says Foe Still Has Many at Sea

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   British Claim Heavy Losses Inflicted an German Il-Roate

French Have  New Problem   Recruiting of  Troaps Threatens Unity

RIVALRY SPLITS UNITED FRENCH   Giraud And DeGaulle At Odds Over Recruiting Fresh Troops

Rivalry May Split French   Territorial Basis OF Recruiting Demanded

ALLIED BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON A JAP SHIPS:   No Change in Situation At Wau, South of Salamaua

ALLIED BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON FOUR JAP SHIPS   One of the Four Vessels Damaged At Buin Was Hit Twice and Left Burning From Stem To Stern; Another Also Hit Twice.

CANADIAN CORVETTE  SUNK: 38 LIVES LOST   Sinking of Ship In Mediterranean As Result of Air Attacks Revealed

JEFFERS. ATTACKS, OW! RUBBER TALE   Says Report Issued Saturday “Stale,. Inaccurate, ~ Confusing” ¢

Jeffers Tangles With Elmer Davis On Rubber Outlook   Director Calls OW! Report Stale, Inaccurate and Confusing

ATTEMPTED T0 BOARD TRAIN WHILE DRUNK   Ottumwa man endangered his own life; sentenced in court

UNITED NATIONS GAIN MANY SHIPS AT MARTINIQUE   Naval Craft, Tankers,  Merchantmen Pass to Allies on: Bastille. Gay.

Martinique  Joins United Nations Camp   Four Warships, Several Cargo Ships Come to. Aliies

MARTINIQUE IS WON OVER INTO ALLIED ‘FAMILY   Robert Yields Command; 4 French Warships Are Acquired

Martinique With Allieson Bastille Day  Bloodless Victory Gained as Robert Resigns as Commissioner  RELIEF SHIPS SENT  French Get Roosevel Pledge of ‘Freedom of Tomerrow’

MARTINIQUE NOW IN HANDS OF ALLIES —   Vichy. High Commr Relinquishes His Command ~°

FDR PROMISES FRENCH LIBERTY   re Pledge That They Will Choose Own Leaders Coincides With Winning of Martinique

FRENCH ISLANDS TURN TO ALLIES   Roberts Gives Up On Martin ique, Guadeloupe; Food Supplies On Way

Bastille Day Brings Promise  Of Freedom To Men Of France   Four French Warships, 11 Merchantmen And Tankers Will Go Into Service Of United Nations

French Martinique Joins With Allies   Robert Yields Caribbean Isles To Hoppenot; Interned Warships To Serve With United Nations —

French Colonies Transferred to Aled Control   Guadeloupe and Martinique Won in Bloodless ‘Victory

Martinique, Guadeloupe Join Allies      Four Warships, 11 Merchantmen  Released to Fight

Martinique and Gaudeloupe Join United Nations —   Roosevelt Promises Freedom To F rench In Bastille Day Talk

Antilles Join Allies On Bastille Day   Martinique Leaves Vichy Control On Birthday 01 French Freedom   ROBERT IS OUT   Roosevelt Pledges Free Choice Of . Government; Relief Ships Sent

TO RECONSIDER ACTION ON TAX   Members Of House Committee Feel Action Too Hasty In Approving New Liquor Taxes And Higher Postal Rates.

Committee May Back Up On Tax Moves   House Group May Reconsider Boosting of Postal Rates, Liquor Excise Tax

HOUSE COMMITTEE FEAR TAX ACTION BEEN TOQ HASTY   MOVE DEVELOPS TO RECONSIDER HIGHER POSTAL RATES AND LIQUOR TAXES

House Ways-And-Meaners Repenting Approval Of Higher Mail Rates, Tax

SOLONS REVIEW TAX DECISIONS   Several Indicate They Acted Too Quickly on Higher Levies

Postal Rate,  Boosts Hit   House ‘Conimittee May  Reconsider Excise and --* “Mail Increases

MORE BATTLES ARE LIKELY ON FATHER DRAFT   Liquor Taxes and Postal Rates of Committee Too High, Is Belief

Liquor Tax Too High Fears House Group  Committee May Change Mind  Ahant Naw  avy

[Speculation About Kiska Increased by Sec. Knox’, Press Conference Remark

Debate on Beating Japs First May Be Sounding Board for War Strategy

‘BEAT JAPAN FIRST PROPOSAL HINTED   Senate Group Reported To Be Backing New Policy

Chandler Leads Battle To Shift Allied Strategy With More Emphasis On Effort To Defeat Nips

Solons Plug For Offensive Against Japs   Some Observers Think Top Military Strategists Backing Them

JAPAN FIRST, SOLON PLEADS   @nandler Says U. S. May Get Little Help in Pacific

POWERFUL FORCES MAY BE SENT AGAINST JAPAN   Three-Hour Senate Row Develops Over Proposal to Divert American Military Might.

JAPAN FIRST WAR STRATEGY 1S CONSIDEREL   Decision Expected Soon From F. R.-Churchill Conferences

“BEAT JAPAN” TALK MAY BE U. S. FEELER   Remarks Chandler Was “Encouraged” to Make _ Seen as Possible Sounding Board for White House Stratecv.

‘COOL FRONT MOVING IN   Lower Temperatures Due to Arrive Here by Tomorrow Morning

Hitler holds meet to make  Balkan plans   Converses with Hungarian heads

BALKAN GRISIS FRESH WORRY FOR FUEHRER   BULGARIAN REGENTS SUMMONED; BOMBS BACK YUGOSLAVS

Danger in Balkans Worries Hitler, Brings in Regents   Bulgarian Rulers Confer With Highest Reich Military Aides to Consider How to Meet Growing Invasion Threat

Bulgarian Heads Are Summoned To Hitler Meet   Strike in Balkans Irks Nazis; Peace Overtures Reported

Hitler Meets Regents of Bulgaria   Increasingly Grave Balkan Problems Reported Discussed

Hitler Summons Bulgar Leaders   Calls Conference In Balkan Crisis

Fuehrer Confers With Leaders Of Bulgaria   Guerrillas in Yugoslavia Smash Large Iron Mine And Take 120 Prisoners

ALL FIGHTING IS ENDED ON GUADALCANAL   Maj. Gen. Patch Announces a Complete Victory

“IS ENDED IN AREAS   Ground Activities Cease After Enemy Was Tstally Crushed by Ameri- : can Army. t

VET PROGRAM ~ 18 PROPOSED   HEAD OF VFW OFFERS PLAN FOR BENEFITS FOR VETERANS OF PRESENT STRUGGLE

VEW Leader For Welfare Expansion   44th Annual Encamp: ment Opens in New  York City

Arkansas River's Crest Sets Mark   Gets Safely Past Pine Bluff, However

Group Will Go To All Farms   Need of More Scrap Iron to Keep Steel Furnaces Producing War Machines

Local Chapter ‘Of Internationa! Re dations Formed   Unit of Southern Council Organized at Mecting J flere,

Of International Relations Formed   Local Chapter    Unit of Southern Council Organized at Meeting Here.

Roosevelt and Churchill Pledge Western Front At Earliest Possible Moment

FDR, Churchill and Stalin, At Parley in Iran, Fix Time For Attack From Three Sides

Soviet Premier Given What He Has Been Demanding For Two Years  PINCERS FOR GERMANY  Hope to “Banish Scourge of War for Many  Generations”

HITLER 10 BE ATTACKED FROM ALL DIRECTIONS   Overthrow Of Nazis Only Alternative To Complete Destruction Of Nation   SATTELITES GET BID   Allied Conference Plans To Banish Battle Scourge For Many Generations

FULL-SCALE CHANNEL INVASION PLANNED; SATELLITE NATIONS INVITED TO DESERT NAZI CAUSE   Ucheran Conference Of Three Allied Chiefs Developed F'ull Program For Prosecution Of War And Administration Of Peace To Follow

Chief Pledge Given Stalin At Conference   One Alternative Left For The German People

ALL. PLANES RETURN. FROM LONG-DISTANCE RAID THAT _. HIT, INSTALLATIONS, - AT MACASBAR

Hit With  50 Tons ‘ofBombs ~aMinute   R.AF.’s Third Big Assault on Hamburg Is Greatest Raid in History   “FIRES HAVE RAGED FOR SIK DAYS   Massive Attack Believed Al@ lied Experiment on Knocking Out City From Air

LIFT BAN ON TURKEY SALES ON OCTOBER 1   Civilians will get same amount as last year  after that date

‘Bombs Hit Every Part Of Berlin   Nazia Report New Russian Drive; Montgomery Slows

 CHARRED CAPITAL OF NAZIDON AGAIN BLASTED WITH UPWARDS. OF 2.000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   British Lost 41 Planes in Latest Attack Lasting fog Over An Hour and Half. Great Damage Infli And Many Large Fires Are Started 2

Air Battle Last Night Most Violent Over Reich Capital   British Lost 41 Planes in Latest Of Heavy Attacks

British Planes Kindle Great Fires In Berlin   Mosquitos Pound West Germany; 41 Bombers Lost During Night: Nazvic Awaited Attacl

A1 RAF Bombers Are Lost In Violent Aerial Battles Over Charred Nazi Capital   Reds Gain in Gomel Sector

Violent Air Battle Staged Over Berlin   2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazi Capital; RAF Loses 41 Bombers; Fifth Army Launches New Offensive: Reds Make Fresh Advances

PAIR OF PROBES FEATURE WORLD DEALINGS OF U.S,   Jones Called To Give Data On America’s World Trade; Dollars Rolling Into Treasury In War Bond Drive; Seek Definite Action On Pay-As-You-Go  Income Taxes.

Senate Heads Into Epchal Battle Over  Creation of International Police Force

Bombing Jolts. Two Jap Isles   Enemy Concentrates Ships In Marshalle Harhoar

20 JAP SHIPS SEEN IN MARSHALLS AREA   Concentration May Indicate Enemy Is Preparing to Resist Any Advance From Gilberts.

JAPS REINFORCE MARSHALL BASE FOR SHOWDOWN   20 Enemy Vessels Sighted By American Bombers; Tarawa Attacked   CAPE GLOUCESTER IS POUNDED AGAIN

Senate Drafts Post-War Plar   Proposal Said Stronger Than FPaulbrioh:tc

ACTS 10 FORCE EARLY VOTE ON LASTING PEACE   Senator Thinks Fulbright. Resolution Simplest

OPA PUTS CURB ON FROZEN FISK   Agency Also . Considering Fresh Fish Ceiling to Bar Price Rises

Top Prices Set On Frozen Fish   Seafoods Included In List Of Specific Values Set By OPA Which Become Effective April 13

Army Air Depot — Carrying Young Men, Gnau Says  V.EW. Official Charge   V.EW. Official Charges - Overstaffing and Oeferments

VFW Official Hits Deferments At Army Depot   Middletown Overstaffed With Draft-Age Civilians, Savs Draft Board Member

Haul Made in Big Raid On St. Nazaire Sunday, Seven U. S. Bombers Lost

PIONEER RESIDENT CALLED RY DEAT:      Funeral Services Tuesday - Afterncon, For Mrs. Henry Harms

GOP PLATFORM GUIDES BRICKER   Ohio’s Governor Gives Hint Of Presidential Aspirations With Open Declaration

2 MORE ‘FIRSTS’ FOR ROOSEVELT GO IN RECORDS   No Other Flew During Office Or Left U. S. During War

Tiny Island Showered In Possible Prelude to Large Scale Fighting   Marcus Island Only 1100 Miles from Tokyo; Daring Raid Is Made Far from Known U. S. Bases in Pacific

PROBE ORDERED OF OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION  WESTBROOK RESOLUTIO! SAYS SALARY INCREASES

PROBE ORDERED OF OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION   WESTBROOK RESOLUTION SAYS SALARY INCREASES GRANTED: PENSIONS LOW

STATE,WIDE BLACKOUT   It's Coming Soon, That's the ‘Story SS eee

‘Rear Guards Slow Allied Advance: Yanks Land From Sea to Pocket Defenders

North Coast Bridgehead Established   American Bombers Conduct Daylight Raid on Germany

Yanks Batter Past Nazis At Cape Orlando   Form Bridgehead In Face Of Stiff Nazi Resistance

AMERICAN TASK FORCE SWEEPS THROUGH FOES   Establishes Bridgehead East of Cape Orlando In Face of Powerful German Resistance   COUNTER-ATTACKS BY ENEMY REPELLED   1 ‘American Warships and Swarms of Fighter-Bombers Cover Invasion; Allies Advance

Americans Outflank Enemy Again, Land Back of Axis Lines   Stop Counter - Attack: Russian Forces Within Eight Miles of Kharkov, Fall Imminent

Yanks Cut Off Enemy in New Daring Assault   Nazis Evacuate Men to Italy Doy and Night

SURPRISE YANK LANDING BEHIND GERMAN LINES   Results in Turning German Flank Again. Germans Using Fleet of Escape Boats

Ships Cross — From Messina  Night and Day   Americans Land Behind Nazi Lines Again in Flanking Move, Establish Bridgehéad Against Counter-Attacke

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   German Evacuation of Sicily in “Full Swing”

Evacuation of Sicily Underway   Thousands of Germans Are Getting Away Each Day, It Is Said.

Yanks Establish A Bridgehead North Of Cape Orlando   American Task Force of Infantry In an Amphibious Operation More Daring Than First Cuts Through Powerful Nazi Resistance

Nazis Evacuate Men, Equipment In Great Hurry   Troops Leaving Sicily For Italian. Mainland Told - “Passport Is Gun”

NARROW STRAIT AT MESSINA IS SCENE OF FLIGHT   Germans Put Up Powerful Defense for Evacuation Under. Bombardment   YANKS CUT BEHIND LINES   Meanwhile, Red Army Drives To Close Trap on Nazis Caught at Kharkov  3

HEAVY ATTACKS ON ITALY MADE BY BAF PLANES   Warships Protect Troops In Surprise Landing Operation

Sea-Borne Yanks a Cut Behind Line Rhineland Bombed     i res SF :

Nazi Evacuation Apparently on— Since Late July   Using At Least 80 Boats In Day and Night Flight, Allied Airplanes Score

Yanks Land Behind Lines Again As Foe  Flees Across Straits      Big Nazi Force Trapped by Americans In North; Allied Planes Blast Retreat As Fortresses Strike Near Rome

Yank Landing Cuts Axis Lines   GERMAN EVACUATION IN FULL SWING WITH 80 VESSELS PLYING ACROSS STRAITS UNDER RECORD UMBRELLA OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE

Germans Withdraw Under Deadly Fire   Americans Outflank Last Defenders Who Ari Now Evacuating Island; Russians Surge. To Gates Of Kharkoy; Steel City’s Doom Sealed

Sicily Is Being Evacuated By Nazi Troops   Leave Island Under Tremendous Antiaircraft Barrage; US Troops Land East of Cape Orlando; Reds Within 714 Miles of Kharkov 3

Supplies, Troops Being Shipped To ‘falian Mainland   american Infantry Again Makes Daring Landing Behind German Lines in Amphibious Operation; Met by Strong Counterattacks

BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED AFTER FIGHT   U. S. Warships Cover Move: Nazis Believed Trapped; Aerial Action On Mainland Continues

U.S. Troops Cut in Back of Axis Lines   Warships. Support Surprige Landing Which Sets Trap for German Troops -

 fr  Thousands Of Troops M oving Nightly To Halian Mainland  Under Anti-Aircraft Barrave   American Infantrymen Again Make Daring Landing Behind German Lines, Consolidate Kridgehead Under Cover Of Bombardment

Vessels Plying Messina Strait  To Italy Under  Covering Guns   Foe Puts Up Record Umbrella of Anti-Aircraft Fire

Yank Troops Land Behind Enemy Lines   Swarm Ashore East Of Cape Orlando, Make Outflanking Action A  Querece

DEPARTURE IS IN FULL SWING   American Forces Make New Landing Behind Nazi Lines  MORE TOWNS SEIZED

Fight Hard To Protect Evacuation   Americans Make Daring Landing Behind Germans

BRIDGEHEAD IN SICILY   Catch Germans OffGuard on North Coast Second Time in Week

NAZIS RETREAT  ACROSS STRAIT   Americans Make New Amphibian Attack in Rear . Of Enemy Forces. *       ALLIED PROGRESS SLOW

Sridgehead Is Gained Nearer Messina Port   Amphibious Operation Puts Yanks Behind Axis Lines And Cuts Through Power ful Resistance Of Enemv      AXIS EVACUATION ‘IN FULL. SWING’

‘German Soldiers And Equipment Being Ferried To Main land With Many Vessels Plying Messina Strait Night  And Day Under Record Umbrella Of Anti-Aircraft Fire—Strong Rear Guards Slow Up Progress Of Allied Forces -

Flight To Italy Is In Full Swing   Outnumbered Nazis Strive To Salvage Arms as They Go for Mainland

Germans Rushing Troops And Equipment Sicily To Italy   Using Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire to Protect Vessels Plying Across Narrow Strait As Rearguard Holds

Seventh Army Troops Land East Of Cave Orlando In Surprise Attack -

—SICILY—  80 Vessels Carry Forces To Italy   Record Umbrella Of Anti-Aireraft Fire Protects Ships As They Play Between Messina And Italjan Mainland

Full Swing   Outnumbered Nazis Strive To Salvage Arms as They Go for Mainland

Boats Are Crossing Messina Strait 4 Beneath Barrage. .   Russians Are Now ~ Within 7/2 Miles of Great City of Kharkov

Equipment And Troops Sent to Italy   80 Vessels Operating Under Record Umbrella Of Anti-Aircraft Fire

ORSERVERS SAY EVACUATION 18 WN FULL SWING   Nazis Described as Crossing Strait Under Fire

The Passport To ~ Italy Is A Gun   Thousands of Nazis Are Escaping Across Strait   80 AXIS VESSELS TAKING THEM OFF

Americans Land Behind German Lines, Advance   New Troops Establist Contact Near Cape Orlando; Outflank  Germans

80 Vessels Taking Nazis Across Strait   Americans Again. Lard Behind Fee's Lines an Sicily

Yanks Land From Sea Behind Nazi Lines in Sicily   Establish Bridgehead East of Orlando in a Fierce Assault.   Action Probably Traps A Large German Force

Evacuation of  Sicily In Full Swing, Report   Americans Beat Off Violent Attacks To Establish Bridgehead Behind Germans; 7th, 8th Armies Battle . Fiercely to Achieve Gains.

EVACUATION BOATS UNDER AR ATTACK   Fliers Taking Heavy Toll of Vessels and Occupants Despite Terrific Barrage.   BULK OF ARMY MAY REACH ITALY   Narrowness of Strait Favors Escape Attempt —Rearguards Left Behind to Delay Allies.

Supplies, Troops Being Shipped To [falian Mainland   cimerican Infantry Again Makes Lines in Amphibious Operation; Met by Strong Counterattacks

EVACUATION UNDERWAY   Reuters Reperte German Troeens Already Leaving Sicily

AXIS TROOP EVACUATION UNDER WAY   Yanks Strike Eight Miles Behind Nazis And Rejoin Buddics

GREAT BARRAGE OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE AIDING EVACUATION   SECOND DARING AM. PHIBIOUS LANDING OF AMERICANS IS MADE

Evacuation Now Is In Full Swing; 80 Ships In Use   Flight To Italy Taking Place Under Vast Umbrella Of Anti-Aircraft Fire

HART RESIGNS   Quits as Banking Superintendent, To Take Cincinnati Job.

HART RESIGNS AS STATE BANK HEAD   Former Salem Man Ac cepts Job With Cincinnati Institution '

Axis Nations Are Promised Mighty Blows   Anniversary of Lend-Lease Is Being Observed

Allies Closing Tn on Vital Base at Munda   U.S. Navy Scores Second Victory Against the Enemy

Leaders of Both Parties Applaud Appointment of Lease-lend Chief   HE’S POPULAR IN RUSSIA   Successor to Welles To Go To Three-power Conference in Moscow With Hull

STETTINIUS IN DIPLOMATIC POST   SUCCEEDS WELLES AS UNDERSECRETARY IN STATE DEPARTMENT

STETTINIUS MOVE FORETELLS PARLEY   Regarded As Bold Move By President To Prepare American Diplomacy For  Russian Meeting.

STETTINIUS NAMED UNDERSECRETARY OF OTATE BY PRESIDENT  CAPITAL SPECULATES OD NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FOREIGN FIELD

Assistant To Secretary Hull Takes Up Post   Edward Stettinius, Jr., Former Lend-lease Director, Selected for Diplomatic Position.

STETTINIUS 10 - GOTO MOSCOW   New Undersecretary Popular With Soviet Union

EXPECT MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN DIPLOMACY   New Undersecretary of State : Will Go To: - Moscow

Laud Choice Of Stettinius   ‘Appointment As Undersecretary of State Seen As a Bid for Closer Russian Cooperation

Stettinius Is Appointed U.S. Undersecretary of State, Replacing Welles

Stettinius Takes Over For Welles  Capital Speculates On New Developments

NEW FOREIGN MOVES SEEN   Appointment of Stettinius to  No. 2 Diplomatic Position  Causes Speculation.

IMPORTANT © CHANGES IN POLICY SEEN   Former Lend-Lease Boss's Popularity In Moscow Hints Bid To Soviets.   BOTH PARTIES PLEASED   New Undersecretary Expected To Accompany Hull To 3.Nation Talks.

Stettinius Takes ~ Over Welles Job   I mportant Changes In Policy Hinted

Affidavits Filed Disclose Attacks on Jewish Children by Y outhful Hoodlums

JEWISH GROUP HITS ACTS OF ANTI = SEMITISM      Children- Attacked, Snyagogues Desecrated, Affidavits Charge ~~

Shoot Down ! Planes Of Jans   Allied Fighters Score Vic tory In Attack Near New Guinea

HOUSE MODIFIES §-HOUR DAY FOR WOMEN IN STATE   Relax Rules To Boost Output In Key War Plants

Senate Defeats  Food Subsidies   Votes, 39 to 37, Against Price Roll-Back   Emergency Permits of War Plants Reittstated by State

APPROVE BILL 10 RELAX LABOR LAV   MEASURE PROVIDES PERMITS TO EXTEND 8-HOUR WORK DAY

State’s Labor Law Provisions Relaxed by Labor Director   House Passage of Bill Concerning Women Brings Action

Must Gel Plane Plant Workers To West Coast Soon   Otherwise, Warns Baruch, Will Fall Short Of Production Program

RESTRICTION PUT ON TIRE REPLACEMENT   Li "4 ited Replacements llowed To Drivers In Utah Area

No Tire Replacements No Tire Repl For “A” Card Holders   Changes Effect Only Used And Recapped Tires. Says Brown

ULE QUT TIRE REPLACEMENT IN EAST ARE!   Limit All Others To Autos Used For Job Needs

CHANGES ANNOUNCED [N TIRE RATIONING BY DIRECTOR TODAY   New Standards Are to De. termine Eligibility for All. Replacements.

Ban New Tires For A Card Holders In The East, Tighten Restrictions On Rest Of U. S.

APPLICANT MUST SHOW REAL NEED   ‘A’ Card Drivers Must Use Car for  Work

STAGE WALKOUT AT LORAIN SHIPYARDS   ‘Strike Follows Appointment o!  : New Superintendent

aenentebieeneuammcantutrtdiatiinnmantisctaincainataananeeemmmiaiae tiated  POLISH-RUSSIAN ROW IS BLAMED ON NAZIS

AXIS ATTACKS REPELLED Ih NCRTH AFRICA   More Than 850 Prisoners Taken In 2 Days Betweer D jzbel Mansour And Cape Serrat.   Germans Lose 7 Tanks

Foe Attacks Beaten Back In Six Areas   Germans are Continuing Withdrawal In Central Sector; 11 German Warplanes are Shot Down

All Axis Attacks On 65 Mile Front Broken by Allies   Americans and British Holt  Lines in Northern  Africa

Air Forces in the Middle East Sap Axis Air Strength  11 GERMAN PLANES REPORTED DOWNED  Nazi Assault Neor Medjez-El-Bab Brought to . Standstill :

Allied Troops Beat Off Assaults in Six Seetors Of Northern Tunisia  11 GERMAN PLANES DOWNED IN SOUTH  Nazi Effort in North Believed Move To Aid Rommel! Escape Tran

Nazis Retreat As Yanks Drive  To Southwest   Axis Air Strength Sapped by Loss of 11 Planes Downed in Southern Tunisia

HANNOVER RAIDED AGAIN IN FORCE BY BRITISH. PLANES   RAF Also Visits Emden to Supplement Bombing By U. S. Fortresses.

Huge Postwar Income Is Seen   Chairman Of General Motors Forsees U. S. Income Of Hundred Billion   MOTOR INDUSTRY PLANS FORECAST

TREMENDOUS: PO STWAR BOOM —-- FORECAST: BY HEAD OF. GMI   BLGAN DECLARES NATIONAL INCOME MAY REACH PEAK OF HUNDRED BILLION ’ DOLLARS FER YEAR

CHINA WILL GET ALLIED HELP IN TIME   Urgency of War Against Japs Felt by Waslung:  ton.   DELAY ‘WILL HELP  JAPS CONSOLIDATE   Lifeline to. Chungking Being Maintained . by Freighter Planes.

Finnish President Denies Peace Talk   “War Will Be Continued,” An. nounces Ryti, Amid Reports Of Peace With Russia

REPORTS FINNS REMAIN IN WAR   Berlin Radio Quotes Ryti’s Inaugural Address as President

Chiang’s Men Push Central Front Victor.   Jap Units Annihilated, Air Fleets Depleted,

Chinese Expand Their Overwhelming Victory   Japanese Troops Falling Back In North Hunan Province Are Enveloped In Fighting.

JAP DEFEAT IS FOLLOWED UP   Chinese Expand One Of Greatest Victories Of War In Hunan  Province

Chinese Push Victory Over Japs   Thrust Forward Over Central Front, Pinching Off Foe

Nipponese Forces Enveloped and Annihilated as They Try to Cover Retreat in Hunan and Hupeh Provinces—American _ and Chiang’ 8 Airmen Drive Enemy From Sky as Great Victory Over Mikado’s Soldiers Is Expanded.

CHINESE EXPAND GREAT VICTORY OVER JAPANESE   Invaders Are Being En. veloped In Hunan And  Hupeh Provinces   HEAVY TOLL TAKEN OF JAP AIR POWER

GREAT VICTORY OF CHINESE EXPANDED   Japanese Enveloped in the North Hunan Prov.  . Inmeae

Chinese Batter Retreating Japs   - Sweeping Forward On 300-Mile Front

Chinese Batter Retreating Japs   Sweeping Forward On 300-Mile Front  Be CDENCER RIOOGA

Chinese Expand Smashing Victory   Five Jap Divisions ‘Completely Routed’

Chinese Seel To Trap Jap Troops   _ Nips Retreating Alter Heavy Loss On Central Front

CHINESE SCORE GREAT VICTORY   Five Japanese Divisions Crushed; American Airmen Help

Loan Drive  Started Monday   Increased Offensive Action Means More Money Needed

Index   ‘Lebanese guerrillas will fight unless their leaders are freed:

hips Burn As Germans Stop Fleeing Danes   efugees In’ Sweden Say Scores Of Persons Drowned By Nazis Gunes,   MINE SHIPS ESCAPE   ‘oal Production Falls Below Required Need

Rommel Nearing End of Flight In North Africa   German Commander Rush: ing Troops to New Line of Defense   British and American: Pushing Ahead with Reckless Speed

British Army Takes Sousse And Kairouan   Air Forces Continue to Strike Terrible Blows at Enemy; 20.000 Men Seized

Axis Retires To New Line In Mountains      British and U.S. Men Occupy Kairouan, Moslem Holy City

Allies Keep Pressing  African Foe   Sousse, Important Port, Falls; Rommel’s Chances of Escape Are Fading; Total German Defeat Is Known to Be Near

PATTON'S FORCES TAKE FAID Paso   Big Axis Base of Kairouan Abandoned to Allies   AIR FORCES STRIKE   Yanks Failure to Take Objective Throws Recent Operation Off 24 Hours

20,000 Nazis Taken  as Prisoners   Surviving German Army Streams Across the Plains

NOS LOLA, LOOSE ALON LL IO  SECOND U. S$. CORPS TAKES FAID PASS TO AVENGE DEFEAT   Little Opposition Offered by Axis Rear Guard as Tanks Clear Enemy Mine Fields

 \Montgomery’s Veterans Cov.     er 75 Miles From Sfax In 48 Hours   RETREATING ENEMY IS POUNDED BY AIR FORCE

BRITISH ARMY TAKES SOUSSE IN FAST MOVE   AMERICAN FORCES AVENGE DEFEAT AT FAID PASS

GAIN 70 MILES © IN 2-DAY SWEEP UP TUNISIA COAST   German Rearguard Opposition Is Weak—Bulk of Rommel’s Men Now Behind  Mountain Defenses,   SCORES OF ENEMY VEHICLES DESTROYED   Allied Airmen Shoot Down 41 Planes—Bomb Docks and Shipping at Tunis.

Rommel’s Forces in Flight Toward Enfida ville  75 MILES COVERED IN JUST TWO DAYS  100,000 Prisoners Taken by Allies Since El Alamin

SOUSSE ADDE TO CITIES WON FROM ENEMY   Veteran Eighth Army Covers 75 Miles  From Stax To Sousse In Exactly 48 Hours.

British Within Gunshot of New Enemy Line Near Enfidaville Occupy Sousse, Kairouan; Patton Forces  Take Faid Pass Without Opposition; Air  RLAseae oo "Ty weehin BPR acces A ee tt ik os ee ee

Charge Poles With Spying On Russians   Vishinsky Says Embassy and Relief Units Gave Nazis Data

Charges Spying By Pole Officials   Deputy Commissar Reveals Punishment

USSR Commissar Accuses Polish Govt. Of Spying On The Soviet Union

ACCUSES POLES -OF ESPIONAGE   Soviet Official Makes New Charge Against Exile Government

Also Say Poles Failed To Send Army Under Agreement Of 194]  ATTACK POLISH CLAIMS  Statement Dampens Hope Of Healing Breach  In Relations

-Accuse Poles ‘Of Spying On ‘Soviet Union   High Russian Official Declares Offenders Were Punished Or Expelled; Detailed Charges Are Made Known

RUSS-POLISH TROUBLE IS RENEWED   F oreign Commissar Charges Poles With Spying

RED COMMISSAR CHARGES POLES SPY ON SOVIETS, REFUSED TO SEND ARMY

15,000 Belgians Toil in Ruhr Area  500,000 Have Beer Deported to Reich

ROLLBACKS T0 STAY IN FORGE   OPA Officials Will Proceed With Subsidy Plans Unless Prevented

ARMY'S RULING BARS POLIT a   Soldiers May Not Seek Or Accept Election to PubNic Office.

Deny Soldiers Right To Seek Elective Office   New Army Order Stirs Political And Legislative Circles.

Service Men's Political Ban Branded Trick   Order Aimed To Block MacArthur Election,  ‘Republicans Say

Army Rule Barring Soldier From Public Office Causes Stir   Republicans Raise Question of Its Constitutionality

NEW ARMY RULE AGAINST SOLDIERS IN POLITICS ail   Democrats Deny Orde: Aimed at MacArthur: Ditter Denounces Edict as Arbitrary.

No Soldier May Seek An Office   War Department Ban Conspiracy, Republicans: Think

ARMY REGULATION T0  BAR SOLDIERS FROM  POLITICAL ACTIVITY ORDER CREATED STIR IN  POLITICAL AND LEGISTATIVE Clertine

SRETRREFZ ERS SHARE na Bee aRs Thinks Bomb Needed in This Country

Germany Is Facing Grave Crisis Fall Of Hitler Does Not Mean Allied Victory

[Shelving of Hitler. Wouldn’t Mean. i. Its All Over But The Shoutine

Nazism Is Still Alive, But Death May Strike Soon  EF mesten Lashnesan Wlaseen Whad   Louis Lochner Warns That Fuchrer’s Ouster Would Not Mean the End.

Late News   If Hitler Has Been Shelved, Says ‘Lochner, It Indicafes That Germany ‘Is in Throes of Internal Crisis

Shelving Of Hitler-For Goering Won't  Rid World Of Naziism, Declares Lochner

Hitler’s Collapse Said Psychological; Goering Is Poor Substitute

Shelving Of Hitler Would Mea Little To Allies, Lochner Says  Qanarinu Navar Wac Bakan Sarinnecly: Wanld   Goering Never Was Taken Seriously, Would - Prove Poor Substitute For Der Fuchrer

IF HITLER IS SHELVED WAR STILL ISN'T WON   Confirmation of Overthrow Should Be Welcomed Because It Merely Indicated Germany is in Throes of Crisis

Los Angeles Teen-Age Girls Battle With Knives Over Affection of Married Man and Both Are Injured

Two Teen-Age Girls Joust With Knives By Moonlight for Man's Affections

DROP OVER-AGE OFFICERS   Army Announces Move to Retire Many From Active Duty

Two Found Dead in Car   Bodies of Coed and Country Club Cook Pierced by Bullets

MURDER VERDICT IN DEATH OF COUPLE   Negro Cook, 55, and Young Cleveland Co-ed Found Slain.

Co-Ed And Cook Found Murdered   Shot To Death As They Sat In Parked Car Along Wooded Road.

COED, 23; NEGRO COOK MURDERED   Bullet Riddled Bodies Found in Auto; Surmise Robbery

VERDICT OF MURDER IN MYSTERY DEATHS   University Co-Ed and Negre Cook Found Slain In Car Near Akron

RETURN MURDER COUNT IN DEATH OF OHIO COUPLE   Pair Found in Car, Riddled With Bullets, Believe Robbery Motive

Co-ed and Colored Cook Found Slain in Car on Dark Road Near Akron

18 Are Indicted In Black Market   Poultry Peddling Gets Heuvy Blow

Tankmen Go for Mountain Masic; Infantry Likes It Sweet and Low, and Airmen Hot

Remnants of Afrika Korps Believed to have Retreated into Tripoli — Allied Fighters Machine Gut Axis Land Transport.

OF TROOPS ESCAPE TO AXIS BASE   Line Of Retreat Pounded By Allied Planes   ~MAY NOT MAKE STAND   #rench Forces  Smash Nazi Tank Attack To South

Axis May Attempt Stand to Give Men Long-Needed Rest   45-Mile Long Afr: tka Korps. Land: Ce ony oy Strafeil hy Allied, Flyers Fronch Units Bishtine Verceie

THURS, ATTACK ONLY 35 MILES TO THE EAS!   Road Jammed. With Axis Vehicles for 45 Miles

Breaks Thru Axis Defense: - North of Gabes in Heavy ; Attack.   TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS   Americans Renew Attacks, _ Threatening Axis Flank and Rear =!

AXIS HILL AND WADI DEFENSES BROKEN BY GEN. MONTGOMERY  AMERICAN TROOPS JOIN IN COORDINATED SQUEEZE  2wir FAR AKA

5000 Captured In New Drive   Montgomery Starts Moving After 500 Guns Shell German Held Hills North of Gabes, Yonkees in Double Pronged March to Sea

NEW VICTORY FOR BRITISH EIGHTH ARM)   English Break Through Axis Defenses, Reach Open Country in Tunisia, Churchill Reveals

Desert Drive Resumed Today Against Rommel   Americans Mop Up Enemy, Advance in Squeeze on Enemy

ALLIED ARMIES DRIVE WEDGE IN AXIS-LINES   SMASH BREACH IN ROMMEL’S DEFENSES AT WADI EL AKARIT

Americans Resume Heavy Assaults on Gafsa-Gabes Road With More Success

BRITISH 8TH ARMY TOOK ADDITIONAL PRISONERS TODAY   Americans Beat Down German Resistance in Striking From the West.   CLEAN UP BATTLEFIELD   Victories at Wadi Paved the Way for Junction With American Army.

Bayonet Charge Rout: Nazis From El Akari Area; Yanks Advance Ir  Co-ordinated Squeeze.

‘Rommel in New Retreat Northward   Yanks Pushing East From El Guetar in New Squeeze Movement

Eighth Army Cracks Axis Defense Line   American Troops Mopping Up In New Offensive

Defense Of  Axis Cracks   - » Foe Driven From Wadi Fl Akarit Zone And Retreats North: 6,000 Prisoners

AFRICA CORPS   British Hold Strong Points After Artillery Aids BreakThrough.   TANKS IN OPEN COUNTRY

French Patriots Battle Germans   Fighting Breaks Out In Savoy Alps Area

50 Feet Off Ground Bombers Hit Mark  RAF Bostons Completely Destroy Power Station

You're Not the Woman, She Says, Knocking Her Down. Pulling Out Hair

So Sorry! Just A Minor Mistake! But It Wesn't ef. i Dallas Woman

No Negotiated Peace For U.S.   Ambassador Assures Spain No Overturn Of Spanish Government Planned.

Hayes Hits Peace Idea   Tells Spanish Officials Victory Alone Will Win

U3, AMBASSADOR TELLS SPANIGH QF ALLIED AIMS   Carlton Hayes Spikes Axis Stories That Overthrow of Present Regime !s Contemplated

NEGOTIATED PEACE IMPOSSIBLE - HAYES   U. S. Will Never Be Party To Such Terms, Claim

NEGOTIATED PEACE WILL NOT BE MAD   Ambassador Hayes Address ed Group of Spanish Officers In Madrid.

No Negotiated Peace For U.S.  And Enemies   Speaker States Americans Will Not Impose

Spain Told U. S. Won’t Be ‘Pushed?’   Envoy Says. Peace Not - To Be Negotiated .

French Also. Advance on . Naval Base      Split: Axis ‘Forces Now * Leaving Northern Posts:       BEATEN..BACK AFTER. : 2 WEEKS’ POUNDING   Allied Drive’ Follows. “Lull in = Which: - Both Sides. Rested: ’

Germans Quit Northern Posts After Terrific Fighting Of Last Two Weeks

HILLS OCCUPIED BYU... FRENG!   BothSides Reported Wspent, Suffering From Heavy Losses   PLANES ARE BUSY   General Henri Giraud Sees Axis Defeat In Tu. nisia This Month

Threaten Axis Port Of Bizerte   Enemy Falling Back  Before Renewed Allied Attack; Increased Activity On Soviet Front

Weakening Germar Attacks Repulsed   Americans Edge Closer to Mateur After Fierce Fighting. Tron Ring Glosps: Tishter.

UNITED STATES ~ TROOPS NOW HAVE ENTERED MATEUR   Is Key Junction of Rail and Highway Communication Near Tunis.   FRENCH FORCES GO UP   Have Swept to Within 15 Miles of Bizerte, It Was Announced.

Mateur Is Captured by US Forces —   Allies Within 15 Miles of Bizerte; Nazis Abandon Kuban Bridgehead Offensive; RAF Hits Steel Center in Holland

French Troops Advance In Push Toward Bizerfe  Allies Force Axis Out Of Northern isia Area

AXIS FORCES N DANGER OF FATAL SPLIT   Von Arnim’s Army I Now Very Close To Bizerte

ALLIED ARMY ONLY 15 MILES FROM BIZERTE   Germans Pull Out of North Tunisia Positions After Hard Pounding   BREAK IN AXIS FORCES POSSIBLE   Yankee Troops Take Key Highway and Railroad  Center

GERMANS QUIT POSITIONS IN NORTH TUNISIA   Nazi Defenses Collapse  Under Heavy Allied   Guns   FRENCH NEAR BIZERTE   Germans Abandon Kuban Bridgehead To Rus sian Armies

NORTHERN FORCES OF  GEN, VON ARNIM FELL  BACK UPON BIZERTE AMERICANS THREATEN TQ  SPLIT AXIS FORCES IN TUNISIA Wag

Axis Defeat In May, Says Gen. Giraud   Predicts Corhplete Defeat of Boche in Tunisia; No Doubt of Outcome   TODAY’S GAINS ARE " VERY IMPORTANT   Allies Expected te . Push Advantage in Order to Use Good Fighting Weather

Yanks Take RailBase OfMateur   Allies Smash Within 15 Miles Of Bizerte

Mop Up Pockets Of Resistance In_  ‘Tunisia  SEE LULL, BRIEF  Gen. Giraud Predicts End In Africa This Month

Axis Forces In Tunisia May Soon Be Solit   Von Arnim Falls Back to Within 15 Miles of Bizerte

Key City Of Mateur Taken By Americans   French Advance To Within 15 Miles Of Bizerte

Allies Mop Up Resistence And  Plan Last Drive   African Lull Hint: Major Showdown Giraud Predict: Quick Win   War At A Glance

Allies Only 15 Mi. Out Of Bizerte   Americans Take Mateur Key Highway And Rail  road Center.

American Capture of Key Highway and Rail Center Threatens to Split Axis Forces in’ Tunisia, Axis Troops Abandoning Northern Positions With Great Rapidity.

Yanks Occupy Mateur, Big Enemy Base; Final Push On   british P-T Boat aid Described   Allied Planes And Subs Smack Japs

Axis Defense of Bizerte Crumbling Under Offensive   French Are Only 15 Miles From Big Naval Base Held by Nazis

Mateur Taken : By Yanks; Final Drive Launched   Other Allied Forces Are Within 15 Miles Of Bizerte Today

Germans Pull Out of Northern Positions After Two Weeks’. Battering — Allies Strike Forward After ‘a Day of Comparative Rest on Battlefronts

Allied Forces 15 Miles From  Bizerte Base   American Forces Advance 12 Miles To Capture Important Rail Town.   -AAF HITS ST, NAZAIRE

Mop Up Pockets Of Resistance In Tunisia .  SEE LULL BRIEF Gen: Giraud Predicts  _ End In Africa This pe Meth

Americans Occupy Key Junction Of Rail And Highway Communications Between Axis Bases—French Sweep To Within Fifteen Miles Of Naval Base As Enemy Pulls Out After Pounding Of Almost Two Weeks—Allies Also Advance In Other Sectors

Axis Forces Fall Back to Within 15 Miles of Bizerte   Capture of Key Highway and Railroad Center ——_isThreat-to Foe

German Lines Give Way in North Tunisia   Allies Press on To Within 15 Miles Of Port of Bizerte

Brief Lull In Tunisia Portentous   Interlude In Fighting Seen Followed By Next Great Phase Of African Battle 

Within 18 Miles of Bizerte; Germans Give Up Positions After Two Weeks  Pounding

Axis forces drop back to within 15 miles of Bizerte   Split of German groups in Tunisia threatened

Winchell Placed On Inactive List   Recent Speeches Are Criticized

Knox Removes Walter Winchell  From Active Lisi   Removal Seen As Result OF Charges Commentator  Thmapugned Congress

NAVY SHELVES W WINCHELL   Knox Reveals He Has Ordered Columnist on Inactive Duty

BUMPS WINGHELL   Knox Orders Commentator or Navy’s Inactive List.

In Death Friends Surround Her  ‘Chicago Girl, 9, Is Saved  From A Pauper’s Grave

Pay-Go Block New Reprieve ForRumlPlan  Supporters of One-Year         Supporters of One-Yea: Tax Forgiveness Are Encouraged   NEW COMMITTEE

DEADLOCKED ON PAY-NOW PLANS   Viewed as “Reprieve” for Rurol Proposals

Tax Deadlock Hints Reprieve for Ruml Plan   ‘House Committee Rejects Proposals of Compromise

POLICY DEBATE. LIMIT IS SET  IN THE SENATE   LEADERS AGREE TO HAVE VOTE ON FOREIGN Policy PROPOSALS DURING NEXT WEEK

CONNALLY VOTE DUE NEXT WEEK   Chief Opposition Leaders in Senate Agree to End Debate

 Germans Not Expected To Give Up Easity— —By John H. Wiggins   Nazis Ready To Turn Italy Into Battleground

New Invasion Thrusts  Are Next Allied Move   ‘Capitulation Of Italy Tears Pages From Victory Calendar; Expect Furious Battles

French Guerilla Army Fighting Nazi Rule Grows Daily; Many Arrested

ANOTHER MASS SLAUGHTER OF FRENCH FEAREL   Report Slayings Of Nazi Troops By Patriots Reach 600

Cuerilla Army Terrorizing Nazis in France   Enemy May Employ Mass Executions To Halt Patriots

Two Views on Jap Invasion Leave US Public in Doubt  It’s Really an Amazing Story

Allies Still Incapable of _ Waging All-Out Offensives in Europe, Asia at Same Time

The War To4davr- Clue To Pressure For More Planes In Pacific Revealed By Stimson

OUR JOB IN PACIFIC IS AGGRESSIVE HOLDING FOR THE PRESENT   Japanese in Pacific Must Be Held While Hitler is Conquererd

View Conflict Puzzles Public   Southwest Pacific Situation Arouses Wide Discussion

FEWER DRAFTEES TO GET LIMITED SERVICE   Group Will Comprise Not Over Five Percent Of All inductees, Official Says

QUOTA FIXED FOR LIMITED SERVICE   Number of Inductions of Men With Minor Defects to be Cut

Flourless Pies, But No Cake In  Nazi Prison Camp   U. S. Flier Brags Of His Baking

U.S. Prisoner Reports From Reich. On Baking Pies Without Flour; Longs For Phonograph Records

CAPTURED AIRMAN LEARNING COOKING   Utah Lieutenant Boasts of Baking Pies Without Wour in German Prison Camp — Wants Reeord “Begin the Beguine.”

UNUSUAL WARM WAVE   ‘Kansas Basked Today in Almost June Sunshine

soviet Forces Are Within 12 Miles of City of Zhlobin.   TEULJIN £ bushi Na 1d yy  150-MILE HALF-MOON  Russian Shells Burst On Troop Trains and QSunnle Dumnc.

290,000 GERMANS FLEEING DOWN A NARROW CORRIDOR   Three Russian Armies Deal Out Terrible Punishment Over 150-Mile Front

RUSSIAN TROOPS WITHIN GUNSHOT KEY NAZI RAIL CENTER ZHLOBIN   Big Berthas Of Soviet Army Hauled Into Position To Blast Ger   mans.

US. To Provide Bulk ‘of Troops   Sen. Johnson Says 73 Pct. Of Invaders Ta Re VYanke

RAF PLANES SINK SHIP IN AEGEAN SEA   CWEDEN CANCELS AGREEMENT WITH NAZIS

Agreement With Berlin Canceled   ‘Sweden Had Permitted German Troops’ Transit Through Country.

Sweden Bars Nazi Troops   Cancels Agreement For Transit Through Swedish Territory

CUT ASKED IN HOUSE   Investigating. Body for Reduction of Charges by Small Loan Firms   WOULD INCREASE -' RATE FOR BANKS   Preliminary - Report Made After. Several Weeks of Hearings in State

Lover Rate On Small Loans Recommended   Elimination of Some Fees Suggested By Investigators

ALLIES DELIVER SMASHING BLOW TO THE JAPANESE   Drop 10,000 Bombs On Four Nip Airdromes

 TQ JAP PLANES ARE WREC”ED AT WEWAK AIRBASE   120 PLANES WERE DESTROYED AND 50 DAMAGED OUT OF 225 JAP PLANES ON THE GROUND.   GREATEST BLOW ' OF WAR TO JAPS   Planes Were Lined Up Apparently in Preparation for Flight— More Enemy Resistance Cleaned Out in Pacific,

Record Crop Production for NationPlanned   Jones Announces Plans For   1944 And ‘Support Prices’

PRICE FLOORS; NO CURBS ON PRODUCTION   Favors “support prices” $300,000,000 for more  conservation

JONES PROPOSES RECORD-SETTING 1944 CROP PLAN   Farmer Is Promised ‘Price ¢ Support’ in 380 Million ; Acre Program   Fiuid Milk. Rationing by Fall ® Seen by Agriculture Department

PLANS RECORD CROP PROGRAM FOR NEXT YEAR   Rationing of Milk by Fall or Winter Is Predicted

SUPPORT FOR FARM PRICES. 1S PROMISEL   RECORD ACREAGE .TO..BE PLANTED FOR 1944 PRODUGTION PROGRAM—MILK RA _ TIONING PREDICTED.

» ‘Many Predictions Made, and Presence of Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., in Middle East May Presage ‘': Balkan Drive. Russian Attacks Also Pave Way

‘The War Today-— Invasion Date: Gucsiers Shae Event Is Certain And Fairly Close

The War Today  lino) Decision on Continent   Final Decision on Continent To Come Only in Land Action

PROPHETS ARE RUSHING IN TO GUESS DATE ALLIED INVASION WESTERN EUROPE BELIEVED NEAR

The War T oday— : Invasion Date Guessers Indicate Event Is Certain And Fairly Close

New Home Front Head of OW! Will Give People “Straight Information”

HOYT TO GIVE STRAIGHT NEWS   New OWL Director Declares There’ll Be No Propaganda

Generous Response Announced in  War Fund Campaign  Solicitors Are Urged to File Reports   Solicitors Are Urged to File Reports on Progress of Drive; Wide Scope of Work Is Stressed

Generous Response Announced in War Fund Campaier   Solicitors Are Urged to File Reports on Progress of Drive: Wide Scone of Work Is Streccad

NORWOOD POLICE CHIEF WOUNDED   Jack Skinner Is Near Death After Gun Rattle

N.C. Officer Shot During Gun Battle   Man He Sought To Arrest Wounded Less Seriously

NORWOOD POLICE CHIEF WOUNDED   Chief Skinner Critically Wounded When He and Another Officer Attempt To Make Arrest; Fugitive Also Injured.

hussians Only 16 Miles From  German Base   Second Rail Feeder for City Cut by Advancing Soviets

Second Railway Feeder Line Cut by the Russians   PRISONERS SEIZED BY SOVIET TROOPS   Early Entry Into Central Ukraine Indicated by Speed

Second Railway Feeder line Cut By Rushing Red:   Armies Racing Around Kharkov: Reaches Point 16 Miles Northwest

Russians Cut Railway Line To Kharkov   Troops Drive Within 16 Miles of German Base: Red Rirmen  Down 114 Planes

RACE AROUND KHARKGV CUTS RAILWAY LINE      To Reach Point 16Miles NorthWest Of German Base; Same Tactics Used Last February   Cannons Roar

Soviets Menace Kharkov Sector   Are Only 16 Miles From Big Nazi Base

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Kharkov threatened as Russian troops continue advances   800 German soldiers surrender to red forces; Bogodukhov is taken

IN THEIR PUSH FOR KHARKO\   Reds Sweep to Point 16 Miles Northwest of City

Russ Cut Nazi Rail Lines Near Kharkov   Troops Reach Point 16 Miles From  Vital German Base

Germans Hee As Soviets Slash Onward   Retreating Foe Leaves 200 Villages; Prisoners, Goods Taken

Reds Within 16 Miles Of Kharkov   Towns Captured Near Big Steel City In Ukraine

Red Troops May Envelop Steel City   Sever Only Railway Leading to Bryansk In Speedy Advance  12 TANKS SEIZED

FINAL RAILWAY TO KHARKOV [5 TAKEN BY REDS   Soviet Army Smashes On Around German-Held City to Capture Bogodukhov   Enemy In Retreat

SOVIETS GAIN IN THEIR PUSH “FOR KHARKOY   Reds Sweep to Poin!  16. Miles Northwest of City

RUSSIANS SEVER RAILROAD LINE NEARKHARKOV   More Than 800 Germans Surrender And Much Equipment Is Captured   ENEMY FALLING BACK TO DNIEPER RIVER

ig Nazi Base ikely To Fall oon, Reds Say   oviet Troops Now within 16 Miles of Next Objective   ermans May Retire te Dnieper River for Decisive Stand

pRIVE TOWARD FY RR. CITY SOUTH OF DON   rman Garrison Held 1, Elista as Reds By-Pass City  ‘i Ue

179,000 DEAD IN SIX-WEEK OFFENSIVE   Exultant New Year’s Communique Is Released   22 DIVISIONS   Trapped Before Stalingrad: Three More Towns Taken At Middle Don

Russians Claim Recapture of 1689 Towns in Advances of From 43 ta 125 Miles, and Offensives Continue

22 Divisions Trapped, Thousands Killed Or Captured and Much Booty Seized as Russian Winter Offensive Ralls Ahead.

Slashing Drive Nets 312,650 Nazi Troops   Powerful Soviet Offensive Picking Up Momentum In Furious Assaults

40 Mi. Russ Advance In Single Day   Smash Straight At Caucasus; Claim 312,650 Axis Troops Have Been Killed Or Captured.

Germans Encircled At Ehista, Soviet Offensive ts Aimed At Coucasus >

22 NAZI DIVISIONS WERE CAUGHT AT STALINGRAD; REDS AT POINT AQ MILES WEST OF ELISTA   312,650 Axis Troops Killed or Captured During Six Weeks of Winter Offensive. German Forces In Caucasus In Dangerous Position

MAKE BIGGEST ONE-DAY GAIN OF OFFENSIVE   Troops Have Driven to Shores of Lake East of Salskm 40 Miles Beyond Kalmyck, Capital of Elista.

Russians Trap Nazi Divisions Near Stalingrad   - New Offensive “Aimed. Directly ‘At the Caucasus

SOVIETS CLAIM NEW TRIUMPHS OVER GERMANS   ‘Hitler Declares “This Winter Can’t Possibly Be Worse Than Last”

Russians Push   Gains Follow Smashing Stalingrad Victory Witt 312,650 Killed, Captured   FAR BEYOND ELISTA   Soviets Report Biggest Single Day's Jump Of Drive Aimed At Caucasus

99, OF HITLER'S DIVISIONS IN RUSSIA SEALED   Apparently Doomed Before Stalingrad, Soviet Commuhique Says, In Re capitulation of Drive   1,589 TOWNS BACK UNDER RED BANNER   Russians Drive Beyond ’ Capital of Kalmyck to Menace. German ’ Forces In Caucasus

22 Stalingrad Divisions ‘Claimed Trapped — ” By Sovi Soviets  NAZIS. ENCI RCLED Million Soldiers Forced  Out of Action, Says Red Review

10  VISIONS OF NAZI ARMY CAIN TRAPPER   Russians Claim 312,650 Of Enemy Killed Or Captured   DRIVE TO CAUCASUS   Jump Of 40 Miles South Of Elista Is Made In One Day

EXULTANT NEW YEAR COMMUNIQUE TELLS OF SOVIET VICTORY  . RUSSIANS DRIVE TO _   - RUSSIANS DRIVE TO  SHORES OF GREAT LAKE IN THRUST AT CAUCASUS

40-MILE GAIh PLACES SOVIETS EAST OF SALSH   Russians Claim 22 Nazi Did sions Trapped In Stalin» grad, 175,000 Killed   1,589 . TOWNS CAPTUREL   Huge Booty. Seized As Soviets Riddle Enemy Lines On Eastern Front

Soviels Drive On 40 Miles Past Flista~   Russian Army Aims Offensive Diregtly “Toward. Caucasus .

Armies Roll On Following War's Greatest Victory   22 Nazi Divisions Doomed In Trap; 412,650 Men Are Dead Or Captured

Three-Way Push Against Japan Seen By Experts   Amphibious Attack — On Burma Held Key To Pacific Plans

Believe Allied Offensive Against Japs Will Get Under Way This Year

OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPS BY DECEMBER   Such Is Forecast Of Military Observers:

NEW GAINS REPORTED BY REDS IN NORTH   Germans Suffer Additional Losses In Men and Eournment

Soviets Rout Nazi Tanks in Furious Fight  Hitler Stages “All Out’ Counterattack in Donets Basin  RUSS LINES HOLD  Axis Suffers Heavy Tank and Infantry Losses in yon TNinuw Ratila   RUSS LINES HOLD

Furious Battle Rages Again In Stalingrad Aree   Hitler Launches Counter Assault In Attempt To Stem Defeat

JAPS RAID GUADALCANAL   Small Number Of Bombs Not Damaging To U. &. Forces, Says Navy

GUADALCANAL IS BOMBED BY JAPS   Small Number Of Bombs Dropped By Enemy Planes.

American Air Victory Grows   94 Japanese Planes Destroyed Instead Of 77 First Reported

Deanna Durbin Sues for Divorce   Film Star Charges Mental Cruelty

YANKS REPEL FIVE HEAVY ASSAULTS   Firmly Establish tridgeheads: Island of Ventotene Taken

REPUBLICANS EYE RETURNS AS KEY TO CAPITOL   GOP Candidates Win in East Reelect Jefferies in Detroit

Democrats Lose In Pennsylvania N.Y. and N. J.   Elections at a Glance

Republicans Win Out in Key States of East   G. O. P. Victorious In New York State, Pennsylvania and  New Jersey Voting

Wide GOP  Swing   Party Leaders View Election Returns As Sign of Victory in  ’44 Race for President

REPUBLICANS WIN IN EASTERN SEABOARD CONTESTS TUESDAY  DEMOCRATS BEATEN IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA

Party Leaders Cheered by Vote Cast Yesterday   Country Tired Of Administration Declares Willkie

GOP Win Seaboard  Elections   44 Victory Is Read Into Results of  Off-Year Voting

Voters In Key Eastern States  Slan New Deal   G. O. P. Sees 44 Promise In N. Y., Jersey And  Pennsvivania Victories.

GOP TRIUMPHS WITH OFF YEAR VOTE RESULTS   Democrats Beaten in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Election Results. Seen Disavowal  Of F.D.R. Policy   Willkie And Martin Believe Country Very Tired Of Present Administration

Republicans Win Seaboard Key Races   Democrats Win in Kentucky Lose in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

G.O.P. Sées "44 Triumph In Elections   New York, Jersey Republicans Win; Spangler Elated

GOP NOMINEES TAKE BIG EDGE INN. Y.. JERSEY   Party Chiefs See Victories  Promising 1944 Triumphs

G.0.P. Triumphs In East Point To 1944 Victory   New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Pile Up Biq Majorities

Willkie Say: U. S. Tired Of New Deal   Kentucky Race Is Close With Democrats Ahead

Republicans Capture Major Races   Roosevelt-Praised Candidates Are Beaten in the East

G. 0. P. Displays Strength in Fastern Voting  Fourth Term Hopes Hit  By Results

Hanley Elected Lieut. Governor Of New York; Edg Leads in Jersey   Philadelphia Elects Republican Mayor; Kenlucky Gubernatoria Race Is in Doubt

Election Results  Please Republicans  G. O. P. Candidates Win Important Posts

GOP VICTOR IN THREE STATES   Leaders View Results As Signposts on Road to 1944 Victory.   JEFFRIES IS RE-ELECTED

Republican. Vote Trend Ts Claimed   Yesterday’s Election Results Point One Way—Against New Deal—G.0.P.: Says   PARTY WINS KEY FASTERN. CONTESTS   Dewey’s Stock Is Boosted in N.Y. Results; Some. Returns. Are “Surprising

REPUBLICANS CARRY N.Y, PA: AND N. I.   Dems Lead in Close Vote in Kentucky .

GOP Winner in Important Off Year Vote   Leaders View Outcome As Signpost on Road to Victories in 1944

HANLEY WINS INELECTION IN NEW YORK   Republicon Candidate Is Elected Lieutenant Governor   GOP ALSO LEADING IN OTHER CONTESTS   Samuel Leading Bullitt in Philadelphia Conx feck

KEY ELECTIONS OWEPT BY GLP: HAOKELL LUDA   Retired McClellan Genera Beaten In New York State Balloting

Score Triumphs In. Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York As Democrats Take Maior Set-backs   VOTING IS HEAVIER THAN WAS EXPECTED   Democratic Lead Is Slim In Kentucky; Roosevelt Backed Two Losers In Election Yesterday

DEMOCRATS ARE BEATENINN.Y., NJ. AND PA.   Hold Narrow Lead In »-Race For Gov,. In Kentucky

Republicans Win New York, Jersey By Big Margins   Philadelphia Defeats Bullitt; Kentucky Democrats in Lead

Republicans hail election voting trend   ‘Clearly oppose new deal policy’

GOP Hopes Boosted by Victories   Candidates Win In New York and New Jersey; Dems Lead in Kentucky

Republicans Wir In Nearly All Of Chief Contests   Elect New York Lieutenant Governor, New Jersey Governor, Philadelphia Mayor; Democrat Leading in Kentucky

Republicans Ahead in All Races Except in Kentucky   G.O.P. Leaders Predict Doom Of New Deal Ir 1944 As Democrats Lose In New York And Philadelphia, Trail In N. J.

Hanley Rolls up Lead in New York: Edge Wins N. J. Governorship; ' GOP Victor in Philadelphia Race   Bulletin!

Republican Leaders Jubilant Over Victories in Yesterday's Election; Seen As Portents for Next Year

Republicans Are Leading   Kentucky Governor's Race Still Undecided

3 Key States Go Against Democrats   Gor Wins Tests in New York. New Jersey and Pennsylyania   CLOSE IN KENTUCKY   Republicans Retain Twe Congressianal Seats at Issue

aid L PRASECTS   ‘Democratic Candidates in New York, New Jersey and _Pennsvivania Beaten

REPUBLICANS ARE ELATED. GVER RETURNS   N. Y¥., N. J., and Pa. Elections Show AntiNew Deal Trends

Triumphant in Key Contests in East: Leaders Jubilant   View Off-Year Election Results as Pointing to White House

Note Further Anti-New Deal Irend In 4 States   Republican Leaders Hail Ballot Results As Omen For 1944

VOTE RESULTS GIVE CHEER TO REPUBLICANS   ;  Score Victories In New York,   New Jersey, Pennsylvania; Kentucky Close

COP Rolls Up Impressive Off-Year Wins   Republicans Claim Way Is Pointed To White House

Republican Cheer In The Elections   Democrats Defeated in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania   ALL POINT ONE WAY   Willkie Says Returns Show Country Is Tired of New Deal

GOP Jubilant Over Results in Tuesday Election   Trend Away From New Deal Hailed By Party Leaders

Edge Defeais Murphy in New Jer! sey by Over 100,000, Philly Elects Samuel Over Bulliit   Kentucky’s Race Close   Spangler, GOP Naiional Chairman, Sees Death Blow for Roosevelt Fourth Term in ‘Rebuffs’

Democrats Beaten In New York, New  Jersey and Penn’a   Acting Mayor Samuel of Philadelphia Is Elected Te Regular Term Over Former Ambassador to Russia, William Bullitt   VOTING IN SEVEN STATES HEAVIER THAN EXPECTED

REPUBLICANS SCORE ELECTION TRIUMPEKS   New Dealers Are Overwhelmed in N. Y. and N. J.

G.0.P. JUBILANT OVER ELECTION   Party Heads View Returns As Signposts On Road To White House

Republicans Are Chosen In  Eastern States   Joe R. Hanley Elected Lieutenant Governor Of New York—Edge Is   New Jersey Winner

Key Elections In East Won By the GOP   Democrats Lose Out in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; Republicans Have Moaior#ty of Governorshins

HANLEY ELECTED OVER DEMOCRAT BY NEW YORKERS   Republicans Leading In Philadelphia And New  Jersey Elections - ~   KENTUCKY BALLOTING ‘EXCEEDINGLY CLOSE

GOP Hailing Successes In Elections   Democrats Are Defeated In N. Y., New Jersey. Pennsylvania; Tide Turned. Claim

RESULTS IN FOUR  STATES PROVE ’42. SHIFT IS MOUNTING   New Jersey 25th State. Now Having _ Republican. ‘Governors — GOP Now , Has Big Majority © Of Electoral College

VICTORY VIEWED AS DEATH BLOW TO FOURTH TERM   DEMOCRATS BEATEN IN NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA

GOP Rolls Up Off-Year Ballot Win      Republicans Win in East, Also Get Majority of Governors as New Jersey Goes GOP

Democratic Coalition Overwhelmed, Notably in New York, New Jersey

Democrats Have Lead In Kentucky   Hanley and Edge Elected in New York, New Jersey— Kentucky Vote Close

KEY TO FUTURE SEEN IN. MANY ELECTION RACES   No Ohio Offices at Stake And Voting Is Light; Rhodes Columbus Mayor

Republicans Win Key Elections On Fastern Seaboard   Win Victories In Mew York, New Jersey Ard Pennsylyania

Scharnhorst. 60. Miles From Port  Reveal, Details of Sea Battle 

Youth Says He Slew Patrolman   Police Doubt Story Of Young Suspect

Officers, Marines Fight in Streets Mutinous Conditions Prevail Among German U-Boat Crews

Nazi Submarine Crews Revolting In Large Numbers   Morale Cracking, Reports Declare

LEWIS PUTS HIS CASE UP TO WLB   ‘Says American Miners Only  Ones In World Not Paid  For Travel Time; Pay Is  gue Aired.

Lewis Pleads To WLB for Portal Pay   ‘Miners of Other. Nation Get It, - UMW Chief Savs

Union Counsel Begins Arguments For More Money; Miners Ready To File Suits

JOHN L. LEWIS APPEARS AT WLB HEARING   Spokesmen for Illinois Operators Urge Approval of New UMW Contract.   BULLETIN

Lewis Appears Before War Labor Board   Says US Miners Only Ones in Any Civilized Cougtry Who Do not Receive Portal-toPortal Pay

UMW Begins Appeal For Portal Pay   Lewis at Last Facing the Board He Flouted Se Many Times

Lewis Attends  WLB Hearing   Savs American Miners Only Mine Workers Not Receiv ing Travel Time.

BOARD LISTENS TO JOHN LEWIS   Labor Chief Tells WLB That Other Countries Grant ‘Travel Pay.   SUPPORTS ILLINOIS PACT

LEWIS APPEARS BEFORE WLB   Has No Belligerency to Groun He Once Tenored

WLB APPROVAL IS SOUGHT FOR COAL CONTRACT   LEWIS PLEADS CASE OF ILLINOIS MINERS FOR PAY AGREEMENT

Travel Time Compensation  Is Defended   Only American Miners Do Not Receive Pay On Such A Basis, Is  Contention Of Lewis

New Angle On Mine Travel Pay   Lewis Tells WLB U. S. Miners Only Ones in World Not Paid for TiInderground Travel

Jap Outposts Again Bombed   Widely Scattered Attacks Made By U. S. Fliers In Pacific Areas

RAIDS RAIDS ON JAPHOMELAND =” NOT FAR IN THE FUTURE   AMEBICAN AIX STRENGTH IN CHINA 18 BEING STEADILY INCREASED FOR OFFENSIVE

State Budget Cuts Spending, Adds ‘Cushion’   Goodland Suggests Elimination of  Fairs During War

Biennial Budget Is Subniitted   Salary Adjustments And Rising Costs Prevent Large Reduction From Previous Budget 

Tax Cut Opposed In Goodland’s Message   Acting Governor’s Budget Report Calls For Economies; Revision Of Rural, County  School System Asked; Opposes Fairs

PITS PLANNED   Goodland Submits Reduced Appropriations Bill to Legislature.

Murray Attacks Connally Bill To Curb Strikes   Also Advocates ‘Truly Equitable’ Tax Program at Once

EXPLANATION OF OPPOSITION IS SOUGHT BY BOD’   Four Asked To Testify On Strike Bill

FAVORS WOMEN’S EQUAL PAY BILL   GOV, GREEN ASSURES LABOR LEADERS OF BACKING FOR BILL

Allied Bombers In First Attack Upon Innsbruck   Railway Junction North Of Brenner Pass In Austria Bombed   HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED BY RAIL

ALLIED BOMBG HIT TOWNS ON BRENNER PASS   Flying Forts Make First Raid _in Tyrol; ‘Blast Bolzano and Inisbruck.

SENATE PASSES It] MEASURES   Assembly Showing Determination To Adjourn Soon.

ALLIES ARE NOT LOSING SUB WAR   This Statement Considerz:d High Point Of Churchill’s Report  To Parliament

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   y Assurance Of Churchill On Submarine Warfare Is Heartening Note

U-BOAT STRUGGLE ~ HOLDS DECISION   Churchill Indicates Nazis May Be Making Last Desperate Efforts.  CRITIC SAYS WAR’S  PRrVIITMMaATE AT COT AL ET

No Doubt Coming U-Boat Campaign Will Surpass Any Previous Effort

HIGH POINT OF CHURCHILL'S CONFIDENT WAR: REVIEW WAS ALLIES NOT LOSING SUB FIGHT

Navy Sinks Sicily Supply Ships; Many Prisoners; U.S., Canadians Join

ANSWER STOVE RATION QUERIES   Government Has Rules’ To Rais ‘Anything. You May Think Of

Stove Rationing Plan Is Explained By Fuel Panel Chairman C. J. Eyres   Stoves Still Available For All Those Who Need Them

ANSWER STOVE RATION QUERIES   Government Has Rules To Fit: Anything You May ot. Think OF

Home Problems Are Discussed   Byrnes Confers With Six Top Officials

BYRNES IN CHARGE OF OVERSEA UNITS   War Mobilization Director Takes over Another of FDR Jobs

Byrnes Takes Over Foreign Economy  Conference Called Of Top Officials Of Overseas Agencie:

PASTOR ALIBI ~ DIDN'T WORK   EX-BUND LEADER WHO SAID _ HE WAS TWICE ORDAINED ‘CONVICTED FOR DRAFT ’ “WIOLATION

King Takes Charge Of Italian Army;  Badoglio ls Premier   Dramatic Event Is Shattering Blow To All Axis; Hope Is Held For Peace Moves by New Leaders   New Italian Premier Dislikes Nazis, ‘Is Close Personal Friend of ‘King: Career Is Long and Colorful

PREMIER BADOGLIG I) ANTI - FASCISI AND ANTI-GERMAN   The 72-Year Old Field Marshal Has Long Been A Close Personal Friend Of King Vittorio Emanuele; Resigned As Chief Of Staff In 1940.

New Italian Premier Dislikes Nazis, Is Close Personal Friend of King: Career Is Long and Colorful

New Premier Is Anti-Fascist   Aliso Noted for His Anti-German Stand

FIRE AT CARTER’S STATION   Damage From Blaze Is Estimated at About $50

Retains Party   Italian Press Says Badoglio Studies ‘How to Conduct War to Honorable Conclusion

Badoglio Is “Studying The Problem  Indicated New Crisis Is Brewing In Italy

Badoglio’s Excuse For Delay In Peacels That Hels Seeking An “Honorable Conclusion”

Badoglio Studies Means To End - War Honorably   ‘Vague Explanation Given “To Explain Policies “Of Government At Rome

Peace Strike Call in Italy   Badoglio Reported Seeking ‘Honorable’ Cenclusion of War

Italians Try to Explain Policy   Populace Again Reported Demanding Peace

1300-Ton Destroyer-Escort Delivered To Britain 25 Days After Keel Laying

OSS Se eSeyeaS TSS Srl Cl eS  British » Warship Built in 25 Days

Lands of Enemy Must Be Laid Waste and Their Fighting Forces Destrovyed-Connally

Courage of American Marines All That Saved Them on Tarawa Island

Berlin Admits ForcesCrippled   StockholmReport Stresses Need for “Calm Year’

Russia Hurls Her Greatest Aerial Attack Against Nazi Strongholds On Front Line

GREAT RAID MADE UN NAZI AIRFIELDS BY 700 RED PLANES   Greatest Soviet Aerial Drive of War; 150 German Aircraft Destroyed and Havoc Spread On Runways, Hangars, Fuel Dumps and Ammunition Depots.

RUSSIANS HURL 700 PLANES AT NAZI AIRFIELDS   Destroy 150 German Aircraif, Wreak Havoc on Runways, Hangars, Fuel Dumps

RUSSIANS HURL 700-PLANE RAID AT NAZI BASES   DESTROY 150 ENEMY AIRCRAFT, RUNWAYS, HANGARS, FUEL DUMPS

RUSSTANPLANES SPREAD HAVOC NAZI AIR FIELDS   (70.0 Aircraft Used In » Smashing Installations Along Eastern Battle Front   19 PLANES LOST   ‘Attempt to Bomb Armlament City of Gorki Turned Back and Seven Planes Downed

Greatest Aerial Assault Launched By Reds On Foe   Blast German Invasion Armies With 700-Plane Attack.

Soviet Says 150 German Planes Lost   Describe 700-Plane Raid On German Front Best Of War to Date

Huge Soviet Air Drive Hits Nazis With 700-Plane Raid   150 German Aircraft Reported Destroyed; Reds Welcome News Of Pantelleria Capture

700 Russian Planes Raid Nazi Fields  eatest Soviet   Greatest Soviet Aerial Drive of

Russians Hurl 700 Planes at Nazi Airfields   Greatest Air Effort of War Made by Soviets

 Millions Reported Dying From Hunger a  ‘Chinese Famine Said Worst \Disaster Since War Started

Pa a Reported Dying From Hunger  Chinese Famine Said Worst Disaster Since War Started

HONAN FAMINE BLOW TQ CHINA   Relief Rice Shipments Captured And Burned By Japanese

IN CHINESE AREA   NUMBER OF PERSONS AFFECTED PLACED FROM THREE TO SEVEN MILLION. —

nterprise Shatters Belief That Carriers Are Vulnerable. with Glowing Record of Punishment Inflicted on Enemy 

US. Plane Carrier, Enterprise,  Veteran Of Pacific Warfare,  Is Cited By The President

‘Correspondents With British Eighth Thread No-Man’s ‘Land To Join Fifth Army During Grin Salerno Battle

EN WIN DIPLOMAS FROM CHEVROLET C0.   Stephenville Motor Company Employees Given High Mechanical Award

MAYOR LA GUARDIA ASKED TO TESTIFY AT FLYNN PROBE   Cominittee Will  Explore Further Into Belgian Paving. Block Scandal

LA GUARDIA AND FIVE OTHERS ARE ‘INVITED   Mayor of New York City and Men Prominently Men. _ tioned in Flynn Case May Be Witnesses in Hearings on Charges Against Accused Man Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

LaGuardia May Testify in Flynn  Senate Hearing   Probe of Squabble Over Diplomatic Nominee Recesses

Yank Troops Welcome News Of Eisenhower  Announcement Of His Command Arouses Pride;  Repert U. S.  > = fae See  ene

Fisenhower Selection Meets Approval OLU.S. Army Lads; Date Of Enrope Raid Enigma

APPLAUD PICK UF AMERICAN TO HIT HITLER   British Commentator Recalls Eisenhower’s “Urgent” Date in Germany.

YANKS GIRDED, FOR INVASION OF HITLERLAND   Doughboys Accept With Quiet Confidence State-—  - ment 73% of Troops   - Will Be Americans

DOUGHBOYS SET FOR ATTACK ON THE CONTINENT   Thousands of Yanks Wait for Signal From Gen. ‘Ike’ Eisenhower

Reds 4? Miles Beyond Zhitomi In New Drive   Active Front West Of Kiev Is Now 140 Miles Wide

Ground Front Across Italy Remains Same   Berlin Asserts Other Forees Drive To Rail Junction, oe Se   -REPULSE NAZI RAIDS

hussians Profit by Nazi Split   Front Beyond Kiev Evapts Violently on 130-Mile Front

Reds Are Now Only 35 Miles  From Poland   Waves of US Planes Bomb Rail Targets at Sofia; Invading Germans Pressed Back an Island of Leros

JAPANESE FLEET IS BLOCKADED   Acquisition Of Airfield On Samoan Isle Completes  U. S. Defense Arc

Monday Final Day For Bills   Kansas Legislature Spends Much Time On New School Law

BILL LIMIT FIXED   Members of House of Representatives Looking to Adjournmen

Major Offensive to Smosh Axis Believed Under  Wray   PROGRESS IS M MADE, £ - COMMUNIQUE Says

British Eighth Army Is On The Move Against Rommel In Major Offensive In Tunisia   Churchill Reads Message From Gen. Montgomery Announcing Drive To Rid Africa Of Axis Troops; Americans Capture Coastal City Of Sened

Montgomery's Command Is “On the Move”   Churchill Reveals New Action at End of Address to World

Eighth Army ‘Reported ‘on the Move’   Co-ordinates Drive With Operations  hu Amarieenmn FParrac

Successful Start Of Great Offensive Revealed by Churchill  AIR FIGHTERS HELP Reds Lose Belgorod  To Germans as Heavy Fighting Continues

Monigomery Sends Note OnCampaign   Drive Started To Knock Rommel Out of Africa

Eighth Army Reported ‘on the Move’   Co-ordinates Drive With Operations by American Forces

CAMPAIGN IS TIMED T0 U. S. ARMORED DRIVE   Churchill Dramatically Announces Offensive In Radio Talk To World   Progress Satisfactory

British Eighth Army Starts Big Drive in Africa   ‘On the Move’ agains Rommel, Message to Churchill Asserts

Major Offensive to Smash Axis Believed Under Way  PROGRESS IS MADE, COMMUNIQUE SAYS  Italian Forces Routed by Forces Under Gen. Patton

News in brief   War Reports   British. 8th army on move to destroy axis in Africa’

German Air Base Said Destroyed  Yugoslavs Troops I   Two British Battleships Suffer Some Damage ir Battle That Ended Existence of Scharnhorst

Yugoslavs Destroy German Air Base  Partisans Report   Partisans Report Many Successes

German Air Base Said Destroyed  Yugoslavs Troops Wine Out GCerrican

SLAY PARTISANS REPORT ARVANCE   TITO’S MEN SAID TO HAVE DESTROYED NAZI AIR BASE NEAR CROAT CAPITAL,

TITO DESTOYS NAZI AIR BASE   Yugoslav Troops Break Through: Enemy Brings Up Reinforcements

BUMEL REPORTED TAKEN BY SOVIETS   2,000 Germans Said Killed, 180 Places Capture   THREE DAYS PROGRESS   Reds Make Another Important Advance Near Rechista; Railroad Cut

180 Populated Places Are Taken by Red:   Stockholm Reports Gomel Has Been Captured by Soviets

Wide Gap Torn: In Nazi Defense   2,000 Said Stain, 180 Towns Freed:

eds Advance To Kill Many  Enemy. Troops      Gomel Appears Either in Soviet Hands or Ahan Ta: Re Taleou. «

Twenty Thousand Ger_ mans Killed in Severe . Fighting  NEW DRIVE OPENED IN PROPOISK AREA  Stockholm Dispatch Reports the Fall of City . “+ of Gomel

Report Gomel Falls fo Soviets In Wide Victories   2,000 Enemy Slain, 180 Towns Are Captured

2,000 NAZIS KILLED IN NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE   37 Mile Gap Torn in German Lines on Upper Dnieper

SOVIETS LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE NORTH OF GOMEL   Red Army Has Torn 37Mile-Wide Gap In German Lines In White Russia   COUNTER-OFFENSIVE OF NAZIS CHECKEB

‘Gomel’s Fall Is Reported  From Sweden   37-Mile-Wide Breach Torn in German Line.  2,000 Nazis Killed KIEV PUSH STALLED

Russian Forces Roll Back Huge Nazi Onslaught   Important Citadel Is Surrounded; Described As Major Victory

Russians Seize 180 Towns. Kill 2,000 Germans   Stockholm Says Gomel Has Fallen to Soviets: Reds Within 6 Miles Of Upper Dnieper

NEW DRIVE IN PROPOISK AREA SMASHES AHEAD   Over 2,000 Germans Are Killed, 180 Places Taken On Upper  Dnieper

2000 GERMANS REPORTED KILLED IN NEW OFFENSIVE   Stalin’s Forces Plunge to Within Six Miles of Upper Dnieper, Capturing 187 Villages.   GREAT QUANTITIES OF MATERIAL TAKEN   Muscovites Smash Strong ¥Yortifications in Push— Cross Sozh and Pronya Rivers.

Potential Catastrophe for Nazis In Russia: Second Front Issue Agair

Loss of Orel and Belgorod Could Grow into Catastrophe Depends on Reds’ Reserve Strength

The War Today   Russian Suecesses May Develope Into ‘Second Pront? Situation.

Today’s War Moves   Second Front of War May  Start on Russian @ati

DOUBLE-BARRELED VICTORY OF RUSSIAN TROOPS MAY BRING CHANCE FOR INVASION FRANCE

BATTLE OF MAJOR PROPORTIONS SIMMERS IN BURMA   Berlin and Tokyo Radios Both Hint of Impending Developments

JAPS SENDING REINFORCEMENTS TO BURMA AREA   General MacArthur's Bombers Knock Out 60 More Jap Planes and Three Vessels.

FACING DIMOUT, CURB ON TRAVEL   New Coal Stril Strike Brings Drastic Action Plans in Congress

Defy FDR as Lewis Permits New Walkout   UMW Boss Cheerfully Repeats His ‘No Comment’ As Paralysis Spreads Through Nation’s War-Vital Coal Industry.

PRICE INAUGURATES MORE - BIBERAL POLICY—HITs , "CENBORS WITHOUT PORTFOLIO.”

ROMMEL 10 TAKE CHARGE BERLIN SAYS   Ace Nazi Soldier Leads War on the Yugoslav Patriots   ARMIES HIT HARD IN BALKAN FIGHT   Germans Make Move tc Quiet the Unrest in Nation

Harried Hitler, Worried By Seriousness Of Slav Front,  ‘Pute Rammell In Fadl Charae

TAKE CHARGE BERLIN SAYS   Ace Nazi Soldier Leeds War on the Yugoslay . Bateinte   ARMIES HIT HARD iN BALKAN FIGHT   Germans Make Moye to —uiet-the-Unrest-in-~Natian

Nazis Facing S tronger Foe On All Fronts   Growing Allied ~~ Power  Is Felt in Balkans Mi Boe Beto

Rommel Placed in Command Over Yugoslavia  - Germans No Lenge: Dismiss Foe as Mere Bandit Bands

Rommel Namec  To Direct War  On Yugoslavs Kesselring Reported  Recalled’ From Italy Ballawing Witcmiuta-

Rommel Placed In Charge Of Nazi-Held Europe   Steps Taken To Quiet Unrest In Germany

Rommel Is Selected To Lead Balkan Fight for Germany  Patriots Are Classed Now. as One of... Nazis’ Major Foes

Rommel Heads Balkans Troops   Threat of Yugoslavs Regarded Seriously

GETS BALKANS POST   Hitler Gives His Ace Soldier Command of War On Patriots

TOSS YUGOSLAV JOB TO ROMMET   HITLER PUTS “FOX” IN COCMMAND OF OPERATIONS AGAINST PATRIOTS.

Kesselring s ~ Fired In Nazi Staff Rivalry   German Marshal Is Re called After Another Clash With Rommel

Business And Professional Women  Hold District Meeting In Sioux City.   LeMars Club Had Charge Of Program Presented

 =        =  GS FNAL NEWS BULLEING   London Gets Third Straight Air Alarm

French Forces  Map Out Peace   Expect Completion Of Plan To Unite DeGaulle. Giraud Within 10 Davs.

FRENCH LEADERS NEAR AGREEMENT   UNIFICATION OF FRENCH FORCES APPEARS LIKELY

French Forces To Be Unified   Agreement Reported   Mee Te Alelape

UNION OF FRENCH FORCES PRESSED   Giraud And De Gaulle Agent Reported Well On Way To Agreement On Plan

‘PROGRAM UNDER WAY TOUNIFY FRENCH FORCES   Frenchmen Expect © ° Program To Be Com. pléted iri Next 10 Days

May Complete French Talks in Ten Days   DeGaulle to Come to Algiers to OK Outcome of Sessions Between Giraud, Catroux

UNIFICATION OF FRENCH FORCES BELIEVED NEAR   General De Gaulle Expected To Give Approval To Plan

French Map Program For Unification   Conferences Between Giraud and Catroux Are Bearing Fruit  MEGAITIIC 1€ EYDECTEN

Completion Of French Unity  Plan Nearing   Expect Gen. de Gaulle To Give Approval Tc Program Upun Arrival In Algiers

FRENCH UNITY PLAN PREPAREL   Giraud And Catroux In Agree ment; De Gaulle Looms As Leader

LAY PLANS FOR FRENCH UNITY   Generals Giraud, Catroux To Complete Program Within 10 Days

Unification Of French Nears   May Be Accomplished With 10 Days Result Of Conferences

PAVING WAY FOR UNIFICATION OF FRENCH UNITS   Gen. Henri Giraud and Gen. Georges Catroux Lay Groundwork At Algiers Conference   AGREEMENTS MADE   Further Housecleaning in North Africa Seen Nec-   essary to Bring Plan  to Realization 

Allied Bombers Pound Rabaul In Worst Attack   Greatest Allied Bombing At tack Of Pacific Area Is Made On Jap Base   VAST AREAS OF BASE LAID WASTE

JAPS’ RABAUL BASE BLASTED IN HEAVY RAID   Two Ships Believed Crippled As Waterfront Area Is Blown Up   OTHER AREAS ATTACKED   Nippon Resistance Reported Stiffening In Shortland District

LARGE BASE Ur JAPARESE WAd BLASTED   Greatest Allicd Asrial Bom. bardment in the Southwest Pacific.   HEAVY DAMAGE SEEN   Thirty Bie Bombers Battered Rabaul Urmercfully, Says. Report.

Mediterranean Bomber Fleets Build Up For Big Operations Against Reich

NEW BOMBER FLEETS TO BLAST GERMANY   Fliers in Northwest African Force Soon Will Spray Reich With Explosives.

MARTIN NAMES TWO TEMPORARY DEPT. HEADS   Will Direct Assistandée . And Highways % Sections   Legislators Face Pos» sibility Of Longer Meetinges .

Name Frame Acting Head   Martin Names Acting Head Pending Senate Action

TO DEMAND OWL CHECK   Ditter Says “a Thorough Probe” Will Be Asked.

Trip Hammer Blows At Axis War Centers By U. S., British Bombing Fleets; Russia Hits Third Side Of Triangle _—   GERMAN WAR LOSSES LISTED RY RUSSIANS

Tokyo Laughs at F. DR. Protest   TELLS U. S. FLIERS TO HAVE “ONE-WAY PASS TO HELL”

JAPS SCOFF AT PROTEST FROM F, 0. R   Hint Same Punishment Will Be In Store For Future Captured, Talk of Raids on U. 8.

Tokyo Radio Hints Others Will Be Shot   FDR’‘s Protest Not Taken Seriously, Japanese State

America s Reprisals Are Aimed At Instigators, Army Official Says Enemy s Radio Spurns Protest

Site ee ee) ee Ce ee eT ee eT eae ee ee ee = a Th Oe TT Te ee  Future Fliers Captured In Raids e On Japan Will Be Executed Tokyo Broadcast Hints; Defends Murder:

Japanese Radio Replies that Every American Pilot Had Better Have Return Ticket Home.   OUR FIGHTERS TURN ON NEW ASSAULTS

Tokyo Radio Says Execution Slated for Every Flyer   Says Accusation of EDR Seeks to Avoid Criticism

JAPS UNCONCERNED AT EDR’S PROTEST   President’s Accusation Made Against Execution  Of U. S. Fliers

Japs in Internment Camps Want to Go East and Not West   Nipponese Don’t Want to Go to California After the War Is Over Says Camp Official

Japs Won't Want to Return To California Affer War —   Nips Will Settle in East, Says Utah Relocation Center Director.

ITALY MAY . NOT FIGHT FOR SICILY   Reported Blowing Up Sec. tions of Trapani Installations

ITALY MAY  NOT FIGHT -FOR SICILY   Reported. Blowing. Up Seetions of Trapani Inehallatiannc

GEN. SIKORSKI, POLE PREMIER, DIES IN CRASH   16 Others Killed as Liberator Falls At Gibraltar

Polish Leader Dies in Crash   Wladyslaw Sikorski Was Prime Minister

Germans Seek To Run Down French Rebel:   Motorized Columns Go Into Hills After Youths Defying Labor Draft.   FRENCH SET TO FIGHT

Youths Defy German Order To Surrender   French Bands Continue Resistance A gains! Attempt Of Nazis Tc Force Them To Work

French Police, Nazi Storm Troopers Deploy Into Hills to Hunt Youths

Nazi SS Seeks French in Hills   Rebels Being Bombed in Haute Savoie

AXIS SEARCHING FOR GUERRILLAS AT LAKE GENEVA   Storm Troopers, French Police  Hunt For Band

French Revolt Harasses Nezic   “ERMAN TROOPS: FIGHT YOUTHS IN HILLS AND FORESTS

Rebellious Frenchmen Defy Nazis   Police Led By German —. Deploy Into Hills for Insurgents  ——

French Youth Still Resist  ~ Germans Use Bomber  In Attempt To Halt BA meee be'en Daurmlh

FRENCH POLICE AND © GERMAN SS TROOPS HUNT INSURGENTS  ~ Band of Armed Frenck Vanthe Cai tn Numba:

FRENCH POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR FRENGH YOUTHS   Thousands Defied the Nazi Ultimatum to Surrender.   ESCAPED INTO HILLS   Rebellious Against the Ger. man Labor Draft; Bombed by Germans.

HUNT FOR FRENCH ERRILLAS ON IN KE GENEVA AREA   itcrized: Vichy Police Led y Nazi Troopers Press In Search of Armed Non-Com-

Motor Police, Nazi Troopers Hunt Defiant  French Youths   By THOMAS F. HAWKINS

French Revolt Units Still at Large As Nazis Search Hills for 5,000 Patriots

Germans Hunt 5,000 French Insurgents   London Reports Say Nazi Planes Bomb Armed Youths Who Rebel Against Labor Draft and Defy Ultimatum to Surrender.

Troopers Hunt French Youths  Seek Those Who Are - Defvina The Nazis

IAZIS HUNTING FRENCH REBEL BOVS IN HILLS   SS Troopers Lead Motorized Police Seeking Labor Draft Youth.   INSURGENTS !GNORE DEMAND TO SURRENDEF

French Youths In Armed Rebellion   Over 5,000 Sought In Hills By Nazis

Nazis 5S Troops Seeking Young French Rebels   Arms Reported Dropped To Youths By Allied Planes

German Troops Sent After Defiant French   French Police Aid SS Troops in Hunting Down Youths

Hunt Thousands Of French Who Defy Nazi Order   At Least 5,000 Young Insurgents Rebel Against Labor Draft.   Expected 2nd Front To Open in Europe

Hunt Defiant French Youth   Part Of Insurgents Return To Homes; Sent To Germany

SWEDEN DECRIES GERMAN ACTIONS   Violence Breaks Out In Stockholm—Moves In Norway Blamed

Confesses Murder In ‘Last Mile’   Had Maintained Innocence —Two Slayers Execuied

United Nations Troops Gratified in Learning Romme! Commanded Offensive in Tunisia,

Allied Russian Relations Reach. Tension Point.  Ambassadors to Washinaton and

Allied-Red Situation Is Tense   Nothing in Air, However, to Indicate an Open Split

Soviet Withdraws Envoys to London And Washington; Seen as Move to Induce Launching of 2nd Front

REDS IMPATIENT OF ALLIED DELAY ON SEROND FRON   Retationships Ténse As Rus_ glans Still: Insist on Inyasion of Europe.

. Reds Move Nearer To  German Bryansk Base   Fall Of Kharkov Expected At Any Time; Germans Suffer Heavy Losses Along Front

AEDS WITHIN 15 MILES OF BRYANSK   Fall of Kharkov Expectec Momentarily; Soviet Advance Is Rapid

Red Troops Draw Closer  To Bryansk   15 Miles From Vital German Base; Fall of Kharkov Expected Hourly

GERMANY - HELD BRYANSK BASE NEAR CAPTURE   Russians Within 15 Miles of Objective; Reds Score Successes Along 500Mile Front

WRITS GRANTED TO TWO MARRIED MER   Court Orders Inductees Released From the Army

Court Decision Frees Married Men from Draft   Two Marylanders Are Granted Writs

REDS IN 2-WAY DRIVE TOWARD RUMANIA   Split South Front by Taking Rail City 40 Miles Beyond Kiev

Russian Forces Smashing Ahead  Toward Rumania   Twin-Pronged Drive Beyond Captured Kiev Now In Progress   PUSH 40 MILES  WITHIN 36 HOURS

One Shot, 30 Hurt  In Harlem Disorder   White Policeman Shoots and W ounds Negra Soldier During Altercetion in Hotel Lobby: Vehicuar Traffic Prohibited in Area

Riots in Harlem:  Man Shot, 30 Hurt   Negroes Aroused After Soldier Is Wounded

Disorders Sweep  Harlem Section  One Man Said Shot 30 Others Injured

Axis Claims. Sinking Five British Subs   "New Fighting Means” Used in Madjherranaan

Lend-Lease In Force for Another Yea   “United Nations Are or Offensive,” Roosevelt Says Signing Bill

Lend-Lease  Bill Signed  roves   President Approves Extension of Aid Measure Another Year

LEND-LEASE ACT EXTENDED FOR ONE YEAR   President Asserts United, Nations Are On Offensive

New rubber dispute by bigwigs seen   Synthetic future  not agreed on

PRESIDENT OF CHINA SUCCUMBS   Chiang Takes Over Duties of . 81-Vear-Old Lin Sen

RAF Bombs Supply Sound Effects for Broadeasts by Both Goering and Goebbels

Hitler's Anniversary Party Broken Up By Two Daylight Raids   ‘Daring RAF Raiders Swarm Over German Cily And Toss Words of One Year Ago Right In Der Fuehrer’s Face

Germans Also Yield Rail Points to Reds; Chase Rommel in Tunisie   RAF Loses Only One Plane in Raids on Hitler’s Capital; Goering Decries Soviet Trick in Fooling Nazis by Camouflaging Strength of Army

Goering’s Words Are Rammed Back Down His Throat As RAF Hits Berlin ‘On Schedule’

EXPECT FLOOD) TO INUNDATE MILLION ACRES      Estimate Made by U. S. Army Engineers as Arkansas and White Rivers Pour Record Crests Through Arkansas.

Ration Suit With Isinglass Pockets For New Cards Is Latest For Men

ROUGH GOING FOR MANY STOCKS   Trends Torn Downward After Fairly Good Opening Oils Are Favored

AWARDS MADE T0 U.S, AIRMEN   33 Oak Leaves and 110 Metals Awarded

Montana Men Win Medals After Combat   Meritorious Conduct In Action Wins Honors for Fliers

Giant Strikes Loom Large Over Nation   Rail Workers and Coal Miners Show Dangerous Unrest

WILDCAT STRIKES SPREAD TO MORE SOFT COAL PITS   Indications Increase That the W.L.B. Will Not Approve the Illincis Bituminous Contract in Its Present Form

‘Wildcat’ Mine Strikes Spread Sharp Reduction Noted In Production

COAL STRIKES SPREAD, FUEL SUPPLY DROPS   Some Alabama Men Reiurn bul Others Go Qui in Kentucky, West Virginia

‘Wildcat’ Mine Strikes Spread To New Fields   Sharply Dropping Production Of Soft Coal Is Grave Problem.

SHARP DROPIN PRODUCTIONIS NOW REPORTED   Kentucky Miners Join Alabama Workers Where Crews are Less Than Normal '

Strikes Spread Alarm   More Miners Quit As War Production Drops and Railroad Strike Also Looms

Continued Railway Service and Coal Mining in Balance   Strikes Threatened as Weekend Fails to Settle  Differences

ALLEGED “WHLDCAT” COAL STRIKES ARE SPREADING MONDAY   APPARENT THAT MINERS UNION OFFICIALS CAN’T CONTROL MEMBERS

Strikes Spread To More Coal Mines; Crisis Is Near In Railroad Problem

Wildcat Coal Strikes Stop More Mines   WLB Not Expected To Approve Illinois Contract as Model

STRIKES HIT MORE OF U.S COAL MINES   “No Contract - No Work’ Clause Cited as Reason For Work Stoppages

“Wildcat” Strikes Hit More Mines   Production Dropping Fast, Effects Hit Output Of Shipyards, War Plants

AELEAOE FARM LABOR TD TAKE POSE NTIAL JOE   Men Not Needed on Farms May Transfer Temporarily in Winter Months.   MUST REMAIN IN IOWA; KEEP DEFERMENT STATUS

FARM WORKERS TO PLANTS IN “OFF” SEASON   “May Transfer to Essential Industries Without Losing Their  Draft Deferment.

PATRIOT OUTBREAKS “WEAKENING GERMAN HOLD ON EUROPE   Italian Morale Breaking Up; 300,000 Flee To Rome From Southern Italy

Washington and London Dropping New Hints Of Coming Allied Invasion

Unlikely He Can Repeat His. Ist Succes:   HITLER IS BELIEVED WOW TO REALIZE GRIM DAYS AHEAD.

Farm Leaders Of State Will Meet During The Week   Federal Officials To Discuss Programs And Agircultural Mobilization

TWO NAVY PLANES COLLIDE   ‘Bomb Dropped on Marines in Field Po Kills 20, Injuries 29

Finds Gold In Bible   Sixty-Cent Bible Yields Three $1! Gold Pieces For Elisworth Woman

President Calls For Harmony   Says Minority Groups Must Be Held Equal

BRITISH PRESS ON IN TUNISIA   Eighth Army Moves Westward Toward Ben Gardane  Inside Frontier

Kighth Army Is Advancing  ~ Rommel Withdtawing Toward Ben Gardane

BRITISH BLAST AT FLEEING KORPS IN FLIGHT TO BORDEF   American Forces in Lower Tunisia Open Drive to Cut Off, Destroy Remnants.

‘BIG’ AMERICAN OFFENSIVE ON, VICHY INSISTS   Fighting Rages In Gabes Region Of Tunisia, Is Claim

EIGHTH ARMY HAMMERS REAR (OF AXIS FORCES   Americans, French  hattle Back Nazi Spearhead Nine Miles.

REPORT CONTACT WITH AXIS ARMY   American Troops Fighting Near Gahbes; Afrika Korps Rear Guard Only 56 Miles From Border

BRITISH HAMMER RETREATING NAZI TROOPS IN TRIPOLI   American Forces Said To .. Be Gpening Drive To Cut Off Rommel Soldiers

"OBSERVERS      . At The Hi igh School  Auditorium Friday a  Schedule Of Classes iy way  auncead,

250 AIRCRAFT OBSERVERS AT FRIDAY MEET   Woodin Stresses Importance of Classes; Civilian Observers Under Army Guid ccna.

STIFF WARNING GIVEN ITALIANS   Nazis Say Nation Will Become Battlefield On Surrender To Allies

Employment F und to Be Secured  ‘Pay Dirt’ Campaign. VA7'11 C..-le GE NAN

Employment Fund to Be Secured  ‘Pay Dirt’ Campaign Will Seek $5.000

The War Today   Russo-Jap Fishing Accord Clue to Postwar Attitudes

SENTIMENT DOESN'T ENTER INTO BUSINESS ‘WITH RUSSIANS   MacKenzie Sees The Renewal of Japanese Fishing Privileges As Proof of Russia’s Ideas

RENEWAL OF RUSSO-JAPANESE FISHING PACT BRINGS FORTH PRACTICAL NATURE OF SOVIETS

The War Today  owe  Russo- Jap Fishing Treaty Is ‘Practical  Tr) OUD ee RTL.

Today’s War Moves   Russo-Jap Fishing Pact Shows Sentiment Plays No Part, Even in War

Three Fliers Tell Story Ot Tokyo Raic   Participants Break  Long Secrecy; Recall Epic Event

3 AIRMEN TELL OF TOKYO RAID   FIRST EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF ATTACK FROM MEN NOW IN AFRICA.

Chinese Report  Two Advances   Jap Losses Heavy in Salween Fight

American Planes Hit Jap Base  Nine Tons of Bombs Reported Dropped

American Planes Hit Jap Base  Nine Tons of Bombs   Nine Tons of Bombs Reported Dropped

YreerreEayT InAD  TPALIAN LABUK STILL CLAMORS FOR END OF WAR   Agitation For Nationwide Strike Grows; Troops Used to Put Down Disorders

‘Agitation for General Strike ‘To Force Badoglio To Sue for : Peace Is Spreading in Italy   Italian's Officially Insist They PAust . Remain in War

TROOPS QUELL STRIKES IN ITALY AFTER HEAVY RAIDS BY ALLIED FLIERS

General Strike Looms In Ital   Troops Attempting To Preserve Order

Strikes In— Ttaly Are Intensified, Troops Used   Agitation Spreads To Balkans Where Rising Tension Comes ee  a ee ee 5 po ee ae

Troops Pressed_Into Service To Put Down Italian Strikes To Bring Peace

Strike Agitation Grips North Italy Following Raids   Nation-Wide Move Seen As Lever To Compel Govt. To Accept Allied Terms

Agitate Strike To Force Italy To Seek Peace   Strikes Intensify in Volume Following Heavy Raids  on Milan.   Walkouts Halted by  Troop Intervention

ISLAND SAFETY WORRIES TOKYO   Nine Zeros I destroyed At Wake: Kiska Hit  Twenty Times

Bombers Rout 30 Jap Zeros To Lash Wake   Increasing Enemy Alarm  Over Pacific Losses Dee: Ria     Desarcet,

U.S, BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON WAKE ISLAND   Liberators Batter Jap Positions, Destroy Nine Zeros

Army Liberators Blast at Wake   See Evidence Japan Becoming Alarmed

WAKE ISLAND BASE POUNDED   9 Zeros Shot Down As U. S. Airmen Break Through Defense

LANDONIN WASHINGTON      Former Kansas Governor Confers With President Roosevelt

Victories Improve Picture   Three First Rank Positions Captured, Threaten Middle Of Axis  Line.

Soviets Smash German  Defense Lines  Capture of Rzhev Opens Red Army Gateway to West

VITAL ANCHOR POINT IN NAZI SYSTEM FALLS   Germans May Leave Bastion of Orel To Russians

STONE REJECTS OFFER OF POST ON VOTE BOARD   Senate Begins Debate On Proposal to Give Soldiers Ballot

LOCAL SOLDIERS ARE GRADUATED AS BOMBARDIERS   Henry C. Bellinger and Robert G. Danknich Get Silver Wings in Texas.

Dike Built Around Hamburg ‘Believed to Be Adequate   Officer in Charge of Construction Lauds Volunteer Workers

Hold Dikes Against Rivei At Hamburg   Engineer Says Barrie1 To Withstand Water Of Flooded River

1,200 Ships Built Already in 1943   Land Says Taunts Of Axis Answered

Woman Struck By Hit-Run Car In Kane Street   Harve Haddix, 27, to Face Involuntary Manslaughter Charge As Alleged Driver

Woman Struck By Hit-Run Car In Kane Street   Harve Haddix, 27, Reported as Alleged Driver of Car

Mexico Seeks Source of Attack Hint   OFFICIALS BRAND AS FALSE REPORTS OF SHIP, PLANE SMASH

Guns Roar Over English Channel   British, Germans Duel in Night Bombardment

Action On OPA General Manager Issue Predicted   Bernard F. Haley Resigns As Head of  Textile Division

Shakeug In OPA Predicted   Professor, Director of Tex tile and Apparel Division,  Quits Post

Yugoslavs Deal Telling Blows To Nazi Forces  Destroy  Stores In Wide Sectian

Slavs Extend Their Attack   Mobilé Units. Being Used In’ Scattered Sections. Fo Harass Nazis’

Nazis Claim Red Drive Stalled   Soviets Remain Silent on Big Kuban Battle

RUSSIANS TRY 10 OUST FOE FROM CRIMES   AXIS FORCES HANG TO FOOTHOLD IN CAUCASUS

RUSS TROOPS ATTACK NAZI KUBAN LINES   Moscow Silent on Out. come of Caucasus Struaale

Moscow Reports 64 Nazi Planes Are Downed   Two Day Advantage of 130 to 39 Reds Say of Air War

LINES HOLDING INKUBAN AREA NAZIS REPORT   : ‘Berlin Says Hand-toHand Fighting is Indecisive

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Moscow Is Silent On Battle Outcome   Germans Claim Russian Penetrations Of The Defense Lines Have Been Wiped Out By Nozis

Soviets Throw Tanks Against Kuban Line   Sea Fleet Air Division Sinks 2 Enemy Barges ; *Fiehtine Continues?

Berlin Says Red Attack Repulsec   Moscow Is Silent On Kuban Outcome

Struggle Indecisive, German Radio Reports; Reds Remain Silent   SwULAMAMN MAGLIO NEporis Reds Remain Silent  GERMANS CLAIM THEIR LINES HOLD  64 German Warplanes’ Downed in One Day, Moscow Announces

Red Troops Beat Against Main Axis Eines in Caucasus   Italian Fears. of Invasion. Mount With News of Allied Landing Barges at Bizerte

Germans Claim Russians Fail Jo Break Lines    Moscow Maintains Silence On Trend OF Miiban Kinhting

REDS AND NAZIS LOCKED IN FIGHT FOR BRIDGEHEAD   Germans Claim The Thousands Of Soviet Troops Beat Off In Kuban Battle   RUSSIANS STILL SILENT ON FIGHTING’S PROGRESS

Reds, Nazis Engage In Bitter But Indecisive Battle  Moscow Keeps Silence On Struggle for  Position Near Crimea

REDS STORM MAIN GERMAN LINES IN CAUCASUS SWAMPS   Furious Struggle Sways Back and Forth With Troops Often Fighting Handto-Hand.   CHIEF SOVIET DRIVE IS ABOVE NOVOROSSISK   Berlin Reports Heavy Russian Losses With Scores of Foe’s Planes and Tanks Knocked Out.

Hand-to-Hand Battle Marks War in Russia   Moscow Silent on Progres: of Battle for Narrow Bridgehead

Russians fail to dent nazi lines in violent  Kuban area fighting   Reds throw 150,000 men backed by planes, tanks in swavine strussle

Berlin Says Furious Battle Rages   Moscow Continues Silence on Caucasus Struggle

MASSED REDS BEAT AGAINST KUBAN NAZIS   Russians, Estimated At 150,000, Are Backed By Tanks And Planes In Swayinc Struccle   64 Nazi Planes Lost

Big Forts Hover Low Over Prey.   One !s Believed ‘ Munitions Carrier

North Europe Is Seething    German Action in Denmark: Turns. Scandinavians to Allies’

All North Appears Seething in Anxiety to Revolt  . Germany Is Facing  ' New Dilemma  secs: grec: aaa

All North Appears Seething in Anxiety to Revolt   Germany Is Facing   New Dilemma j , ee ie «© eee. i

750,000 Axis African Losses  Figures Based On Official Announcement:

a a a ee ee ee ee ee a  African Losses Of Axis Total Over 750.000

Axis Losses In Africa Are Big   More Than 750,000 Casualties Estimated

Steady Allied Assaults Breaking Back of Main Nazi Mountain Defense

Nazis Retreat Toward Rome   BADLY BEATEN NAZIS REMAIN ORDERLY, HOWEVER, GARIGLIANO RIVER NEXT BARRIER TO ALLIED ARMIES

American Troops Smash Ahead Through Heart of Enemy Defense.  NAZIS IN ORDERLY RETREAT TO NORTH  Neutral Turkey May Soon Join Our Forces Against Axis.

Nazis Rear Guard Putting Up Stiff Opposition, Main German Forcéé Withdraw In Orderly  Fashion.

Corn Prices Frozen ~ At Monday’s Peak   OPA ‘Order Applies to All ‘Exchanges and Every Cash and Local Market Over Nation —Designed to Halt Further Advances. 

AGTS TO nALT INCREASED ON CASH MARKET   Wickard Approves Action by Byrnes, Director of Stabilization.   CEILING IS HIGH LEVEL PREVAILING ON MONDAY

PRICE OF CORN FROZEN BY OPA   Generally at Highest Levels of Sales Reported Made Monday

CORN PRICES _. ARE FROZEN      Action Of OPA Ordered By Byrnes To Halt Further Sharp Advances

OPA FREEZES PRICE OF CORN   Ceilings Set at Levels During High Period Of Jan. 8-12

Order Affects All Exchanges and Every Cash and Local Market  In Country    ACTION TAKEN TO HALT ADVANCES   Also Will Tend to Maintain “Favorablé Ratio” Be-tween Corn and Livestock Prices

ALL CORN PRICES ARE FROZEN BY OPA ORDER   Maximums Allowed to. Be Generally the Same .as . Yesterday’ ‘s. Tops“   SEEK TO PRESERVE PAVORABLE RATIO   Permanent. Price Regula. tion, Continuing Present Levels; Will Come Later

Corn Prices Everywhere  Frozen By OPA   Action Designed To Halt Further . Sharp Advances

OPA Freezes Corn Prices On All Exchanges In U.S.  Highest Levels faye a soa a Pa

CORN FUTURES FROZEN BY OPA   Move Designed To Hail Further Sharp Advances In Largest Farm Crop

Corn Price  Is Frozen   Fixed At Highest Level of Yesterday's Sales

ALLGORNPRICES AREFROZEN, TOPS FOR MONDAY USEC   Action Is Taken to. Check Advances In Corn Prices Pre- Viously Uncontrolted At ‘All   ayvale  60-DAY FREEZE $s. OPERATIVE AT ONCE   OPA Will Prepare Fer Permanent Regulation of Corn As Continuation of Present Order.

OPA Freezes Corn Prices   Action Affects All Exchanges and Local And Cash Markets

Corn Prices Are Frozen by 0.P.A.   Prices Established By 60-Day Freeze Regulation

OPA Freezes Prices on Corn   Halts Farther Sharp ‘Advances in Costs

Ceiling Price On AllCorn Sales s (OrderedBy OPA   Byrnes Stabilizes Market At Maximum Reached In Monday's Trading’

OPA Freezes Corn Prices on All Markets to Halt Sharp Advance; Dealers to Pay 90 Cents Here

Maximum corn price frozer  at high levels paid Monday   Temporary price ceiling to be followed by permanent "rulliie

Maximum Corn Prices Frozen At All Points   OPA Acts to Stop More Advances; Effective Tomorrow

Action Halts Sharp Advances in Quotations; Permanent Ceilings to Be Fixed

Corn Prices Are Frozen By OPA  Act Covers All Cash. Local Markets: Fix  Temporary Figure   How Controls Work

Action Taken to Maintain Present Favorable Ratio ‘For Feeders of Livestock

CORN PRICES FROZEN TODAY. BYRNES KEYS   Order Is Effective Fo: Period Of Sixty  Days   WICKARD APPROVES   In Large Markets Price: At Jan. 8-12 High; Local Jan. 11

Corn Is Frozen In All Markets For Sixty Days   Action Is Taken to Halt Further Sharp Advances in the Grain.   Ceiling Is Fixed at Highest Level Monday

DRASTIC ACTION TAKEN BY OPA TO HALT FURTHER ADVANCES IN GRAIN PRICES AT ALL MARKETS   Quotations Break Sharply in Chicago Pits But Wheat Recovers Quickly Although Rally Fails To Lift Corn — Order Affects Small Local Markets, Too

Freeze Prices _ On Corn   Action Will Retain Present Favorable. Ratio Between Corn And All Livestock .

OPA Freezes Corn Prices At Highest Levels Yesterday   Action Taken at Instruc: tion of Stabilization Di_rector Byrnes.

PRICES OF CORN ORDERED FROZEN   They Are Fixed Generally By OPA At Highest Levels At Which Sales Were Made Yesterday

‘Every Cash, Local Market Under Order   Action Taken to Bring Favorable Ratio With Livestock, Poultry and Eggs

MAXIMUM CORN PRICES FROZEN BY OPA ORDER   Level Set At Highs Of Sales In Nation's Markets Yesterday

CORN PRICES ARE FROZEN   OPA Restricts All Sales on Exchanges and Markets

Corn Prices Frozen by  Government   Sixty-day Order Is Effective Immediaiely

SEEKS 10 HOLD PRESENT RATIO INPRODUCTION   Action Taken to Check Further Advances In Corn Prices

Corn Price Frozen On  Exchanges   OPA Issues Order To Preserve Favorable Ratio Between Corn And Livestock Prices

CEILING IS SET GENERALLY AT MONDAY LEVEL   Action Is Designed to Halt Further Sharp Advances in Quotations

Hikes Are Banned On All Markets   Action Taken To Maintain Favorable Ratios With Livestock, Poultry And Eggs.

PRICES OF CORN “FROZEN” BY OPE   Values Pegged at Highest Levels of Sales Made Yes.  beeline

 On Noe 2 ellow Basis  Fon Pric   Government Feels Parity Has Been Reached Figuring Federal Payments By AAA

MAXIMUM CORN PRICES FROZEN ON ALL EXCHANGES   Also In Every Cash and Local Market Over the Country Today.   HALT FURTHER RISES   The New Price Ceiling Becomes Effective on Wednesday.

OPA Slaps On Ceiling   ... To Maintain ‘Favorable Ratios’   Wickard Approves.

INTERESTING DISPLAY WILL BE  ‘OPEN TO PUBLIC IN CON. NECTION WITH THE CANVASS HERE

Mobile Canteen Here Tuesday   Red Cross Kitchen Tc Be On Display All Day

Say Nazis Will  Evacuate Berlin   Germans To Celebrate Spartan Christmas

Bomb-Wrecked Berlin May Be Evacuated To Save City   Himmler And Goebbels Reported As Odds On Decision

ACTRESS’ HUSBAND DIES OF INJURIES   Bette Davis At Arthur Farnsworth’: Side When He Succumbed  To Head Injuries

Mysterious Injuries Cause Death Of Arthur Farnsworth in Hollywood

Mosquito Bombers Hit At Berlin   German Planes Make Token Raid on British Canital

AIR OFFENSE AGAINST NAZIS (S RESUMED   Mosquito “Bombers : Strike At Berlin—Day Attack Also ‘ on Acain.

ALLIED PLANES FOLLOW THROUGH IN DAYLIGHT RAID   Offénsivé Succeeds :3‘Day: ‘Lali in Attacks On Continent

AIR ATTACK OVER EUROPE 1S RESUMED   Brit. Mosquito Bombers Strike At Berlin

RAIDED BY MOSQUITOS   Allied Bombers Resume Attacks On Nazi Europe

Big Fleet of Mosquito Bomuzss Hit Capital for 84th Raid of War — Allied Planes Follow. Through ° with Daylight ‘Attack -on ‘Nazi’ Europe. # r

BERLIN BOMBED BY MOSQUITOES   Anglo-American Aerial Blows Resumed After Luil

Youth Is Killed  Fleeing Officers  Escaped From Waukesha  Industrial School

Knowing About Ivan Is to Know What Kiev Was Like Under the Nazi Heel

Here Are Retail Meat Ceilings   Include Nine Most . Popular Grade Types

U. S. O. Entertainers Aboard Wrecked Clipper; 23 of 39  Passengers, Crew Missing

TRANS - OCEAN SHIP WRECKED ON LISBON RUN   Plane Carried American Ens tertainers Heading For  Military Camps 4   FIVE BODIES RECOVERED      Five Crew Members, Two Women Rescued From Tas gus River Waters

Clipper Sinks At Lisbon; 23 Feared Dead  American Entertainers Headed for Military Camps on Board      16 PERSONS SAVED:   Search Is Continued for Bodies of 20 Reported ’ Missing

Yankee Clipper Carrying U.S: Entertainers to Camps Abroad Crashes i in Portugal, 23 Dead

OF SINGERS AMONG 39 ON BOARD   Jane Froman, Yvette Are Survivors Of , Air Tragedy

Ship Carried  Entertainers      Jane Frohman, Famous Singer, Among Injured

RADIO, STAGE STARS IN CLIPPER CRASH; 23 PASSENGERS Dil   American Entertainers Heading For Army Camps Abroad

CLIPPER CRASH TOLL SET AT 23   ee USO Entertainers Abourd Piane Which Dived Into River In Portugal,

USO’ Entertainers Are Among The Passengers  ’ OF Clipper Plane Lost At Lisbon

U.S.0. SHOW MEMBERS ABOARD   Yankee Clipper Sinks In the Tagua River

CLIPPER FALLS WITH 23 DEAD   Only 16 Saved as Craft Sinks; Entertainers of Camps Aboard

Entertainers Aboard I!l-Fated Yankee Clipper   At Least 23 Out Of 39 Lose Lives

New Parley On Miners Wages  IsScheduled   Expect Ickes And Lewis Conference On Coal Dispute To Be Started   MINES RESUME  FULL PRODUCTION

BRITISH COAST SHELLED   German Guns In France Pour Shells Across English Channel

JAPANESE. AIMING FOR FINSCHHAFEN   Two Enemy Columns Make Progress In Drive To Recapture Base

AERIAL SOFTENING UP OF ENEMY IN PREPARATION FOR INVASION 18  CONTINUED.

Forcing Axis Army Into Small Area   Capture Station on Road To Bizerte

GOP MEMBERS ON COMMITTEES   Speaker Rayburn Announces New Party Ratios.

First Victory Is Scored By Strong New Republican House as Ratios Revealed

Farm, Pay Limit Action Due Soon   Senate Is Expected To Vote as House Did

Vital Measures Reach Senate New Rebuits Fac;   New Rebuffs Face Administration

SENATE TO GET SALARY LIMIT, FARM MEASURES   Upper House Expected To Uphold Approval Of Both Bills; Tax Debate Set   Farm Bloc Optimistic

Senate Is Expected To Join House On Two New Bills  Administration May Get Rebuffs in   Conaress This Week

‘Revolt Scen on Farm and Salary Bills and Allred ©  Senate to 'T’ ‘ake Up Issues This. Weeks

Senate Is Expected To Join House On Two New Bills   Administration May  Get Rebuffs in

NEW REBUFFS FOR FDR SEEN   Senate Expected to Uphold House Action on Parity, Salary Limit Repeal

ACTION ON SALARY, . FARM BILLS DUE      Measures to Reach Floor of the Senate This x Week 

Senators Said Likely to End Salary Limit:   ‘We've Got the Votes, To Increase Parity, Farm Rloe Boactc

FARM, SALARY ‘LIMIT. BILLS FACE SERAIE   Block. Administraiipr Views In Siding With House

POLIO REACHES EPIDEMIC SIZE   Parts Of Texas Hit; Sanitation Being Urged

STATE-HEALTH-HEAD SAYS POLIOMYELITIS AT EPIDEMIC STATE  STATEMENT ISSUED . AS TO MEASURES

CARDINALS FIRE BIGGUNS AT YANKEES   Mort Cooper Pitches Mates to Victory Despite His Father’s Death Today

Cooper Brothers, Saddened By Father’s Death; Play Today   DIES SUDDENLY   Big Ernie Boham Is Pitching Choice Of New York Manager

Eighth Army In Pursuit of _ Africa Corps   Rommel’s Weary Men Badly Battered In Retreat; British Sailors Are Renoried Landed at Sfax

Nazis Under Relentless Pressure   Algiers Radio Offers Report British Navy Has Landed at Sfax  LUFTWAFFE FUTILE

Rommel’s Weary Troops In Flight   British Take Gabes And El Hamma, With Number Of Prisoners Steadily Mountina

Gabes and El Hanime Seized by Trium. © phont Troops   PRISONERS SEIZED IN SOUTHERN AREA   Americans Smash at Enemy Machine-gua Outposts

FIGHT ARMY IN PURSUIT: TOE BOMBED   Enemy Rearguard Offers Stubborn Resistance and Retreat Is in No Sense a Rout.   BRITISH OCCUPY (:ABES, EL HAMMA   Luftwaffe Tries in Vain to Ward Off Devastating Air Attack—Yanks Threaten Nazi Flank.

HEAVY: NEW RAIDS BLAST JAP POINTS   Coordinated Operations Involve Army, Navy,. Marine Planes’

Stockmen Score Bureaucracies in Washington  Charge Governmer  Tet sedi ben sent am   Charge Government Hampering Meat Production

Stockmen Score Bureaucracies in Washington  Charge Governmen Hampering  Ry. ..1 To... LY. ye

Light Vote  Reported in State Today   Few Voting In Philly—  . Rain in Some Sections

Light Vote Reported in State Today   Few Voting In Philly — Rain in Some

INVADERS POUR MEN AND ARMS ONTO MAINLAND   Resistance to Allies Weak With Welcome Everywhere by Population

EXPERIENCE OR TRAINING ESSENTIAL ‘Foe WAR WORK   USES Issues Statement For Men Seeking Jobs ‘Worth Deferment

FORMER AKRON GIRL WEDS AIRMAN OF NEWELL, IOWA   . ‘Miss Miriam Adams And Cadet G. W. Hemmingsen Take Vows At Phoenix

FAIR OFFICIAL DIES AT STATE MEETING   Heart Aliment Fatal to John Dunn

'Britain-Based Night Bombers Hit Italian Industrial Cities: i   Railrdad Yards Carrying  Nazi Traffic Are Struck  + jat Rome

Key Citadels In Italy Are Hit By Allies   U.S. Bombers Strike By Daylight In Second Raid On Rome

One of War's Most Destructive Aerial Assaults Agains' Key Axis Citadels Thunders to a Climax on Germar  Shipping Centers.   Northern Italian Munitions Plants Suffer Heavily From Bombardment

RAILWAYY ARDS IN ROME BLOWN UPINATTACKS   Ir Was All-American Assault Again By Bombers Under Command of Major Doolittle   HEART OF BERLIN HIT BY MOSQUITOS   Attack On Milan Described As “Most Violent” of War: Whole Blocks Leveled

RAF Hammers At North Italy; Forts Slash At Vital Railway Section   Mighty Day Of Air Activity Comes To Climax; Good Threat To Continue Attacks

Northern Italy Hammered By Heaviest Assault With Milan And Turin Principal Targets   American Bombers Again In Daylight Raid On Rome Railway Yards; Big German City Hit 68th Time By Swift Mosquito Bombers

MILAN, TURIN ALSO SUFFER HEAVY ATTACK   Italian Capital Gets Another Blasting From the Skies

'Britain-Based Night Bombers Hit Italian Industrial Cities   BOMB RAID ON BERLIN   Railroad Yards Carrying Nazi Traffic Are Struck  : tat Rome

Northern Italy Suffers Under Powertul Blow   Milan, Turin Pounded in Heaviest Attack On Area By Allied Bombers.   HEAVY BLOW ON ROME

Churchill's Warning To Italy Is Fulfilled   Heaviest Air Attack of War From Mediterranean Blasts Rome

Was One of the War’s Most Destructive Night and Day Aerial Assaults Against Key Axis Citadels.   MILAN AND TURIN ALSO WERE ATTACKED   American Bombers Struck by Davlight in Their Second Raid on the Italian Capital,

Warnings to Hialy Being Made Good      Vital ~ Railroad - Yards In Italian Capital Blasted By “ Bic’ Air Fleet’:   BRITISH ASSAULT OTHER TARGETS:      Mosquito Bombers: Sent . Over Berlin As. Big RaidsAre Centered On Italy

Berlin Gets A Punching   .- German Rear Guards In Sicily Battered

RAF Plasters Turin, Milan In Huge Raid   Rome’s Vital Railway Yards Ripped Apart; Attack On Northern Italy Heaviest Yet Made on That Region

Destructive Air Raids Carried Out By Allies   Milan, Turin Also Pounded in Heaviest Attack Ever Made on Northern Italy; 500 Bombers, 200 Fichters Take Pari in Raids

Turin, Milan Hit In Other Big Raids _ By Allied Bombers   Crow ds. “Parade Streets Of, Milan After Assault Demanding Peace; Damage’ ‘To Berlin. Unreperted

Allies Attack Key Axis Cities   BERLIN AND ROME BOTH RAIDED AGAIN

Rome Rail Yards Hit in Second Raid as Airmen Swarm Over Berlin Area

Czecho-Russian Assistance Pact Viewed  ~. With Disfavor in Official Circles Here

Official Washington Concerned Over Two Developments On Allied International Political Front

President ¢ Gets New Tax Plans   12 Billion Dollar  Program Considered -

Interned Correspondent Tells Japs’ Plans for Holding East Asia Empire

Japan Totally Mobilizing All East Asia To Cope With Anticipated Allied Attacks   Repatriated Writer Says Nips Building Lines For ‘Last Man’ Battle For Empire

Fathers, 18-37, Face Draft Call After October 1   Men With Children Born Before Last Sept. 15 Ta Be Reclassified

Draft of Fathers Ordered Begun On October 1   Selective Service Says Reclassification  Will Start at Once POOLS DIMINISHING  Key Men in Industry, Farm Work Will Get Military Deferment

OF'NOSTRIKE   UAW-CI0 Head Also Asks Union to Back FDR And Wallace.

PHILS DEAL IS CLOSED   Frick Announces a Memorandum for Sale Is Signed

Another Jewel In Mussolini’s Dream  Of Empire Lost With Fall Of Island

ISLAND POUNDEI FOR 19 DAYS FROMTHE AIR   First Stepping Stone On Path To “TL nderbellv”

ALLIES ADVANCE JN MEDITERRANEAN   HEAVY ALLIED WEAPONS BEAT DOWN PANTELLERIA   Jewel in Mussolini's Dream of Empire Succumbs to Might of America and Britain

Pantelleria’s Surrender Comes After 19 Days Of Naval And Aerial Pounding

fooséevelt Back . From 20-State Tour Of Wartime Establishments   Hints That When Peace Returns Wartime Plants to Be Used For Training Young ’ People; Impressed With Nation's Military and Tndustrial Profieipiey

U.S. Efficiency impresses  President During Tour   Roosevelt Returns to Capital After Visits In 20 States, Many Munition Plants; Sees Need to Put Youth in Peacetime Trainix

Youths May Be Asked to Serve U.S. for Year   Roosevelt, Back From Trip, Is Impressed With Military and Industrial Proficiency

Roosevelt Hints Wartime Plants May Be Continued  Says Army Is Now Over Growing Pains And

WHITE HOUSE BOSS TRAVELS IN 20 STATES   CHIEF EXECUTIVE IMPRESSED WITH U. S. ENERGY

FDR Back at Washington After Journey  President Proposes   President Proposes Peacelime Training Of Young People

F. D. R. Returns From Long Trip  Is Impressed With American Might

Long Tour Ended By  Roosevelt Postwar: Service By: Youths Is : Suggested ©

President Completes 20-State Tour   Praises Industrial, Military Proficiency He Observed Enroute

TRAINING OF ‘YOUTH AFTER WAR HINTED   Roosevelt, Back From Long Trip, Advances Pronacal *

SENATORS 10 WAGEBATILE ON POLL TAX   Opponents of . Anti-Poll ’ Tax Measure Threaten Filibuster   BILL APPROVED BY _ SENATE COMMITTEE   House Approval Given 265 : to j10 on May - 25¢h

Senate Judiciary Committee Backs Anti-Poll Tax Bill 12 Votes to 6

ANTI-POLL TAX BILL APPROVED   Southern Senators Threaten To Filibuster Measure Into Defeat

Hong Kong Docks Are Raided Again   Jap Wharf Hit At Hong Kong; Airdrome At Canton Is Target

SMASHING NEW ATTACKS ON JAPS IN CHINA   American bombers hit Hongkong second time in 72 hours

ACCUSED KILLER iS SURE OF OUTCOME   Alfred de Marigny Confident He Will be Acauitted

Blue Ribbon Jury For Oakes’ Murder  Say Son-In-Law Is Confident Of Acquittal

German Rail And Cana) Hub Blasted Wide Open; Italy’s Pantelleria And San Giovanni Pounded,

NAZI TROOPS IN SARDINIA   Ttalian Island Strengly Fortified, Berlin Reports

IN SARDINIA?   German Radio Says Nazi Now Garrison tela  ‘Froaps r

American Planes Take On Jap Zero Formation, Wipe Out At Least 14 -

14, Probably 23 Zeros Bite Dust   Not A Single American Plane Lost In Big Air Battle.

U.S, AIRMEN BAG 14 JAP PLANES   Nine More Probably Fail Te Reach Their Base, Battle Over New Guinea

AIRMEN RIDDLE JAP AIR FLEET   At Least 14 Zeros, Probably 23 Downed in Batile Over-Lae by Quinumbered Lightnings

U.S. Lightnings Destroy 14 Zeros  Not One U. $. Plane   Not One U.S. Plane Missing After Raid  On Jan Formation

Destroy 14 Jap Attack Planes  Americans Suffer No Loss In Battle

Counties Fail  in Raid Drill   New Success ts‘Scored In South Pacific   American Lightnings Swoop Down on Large Formation of Jap Zeros   14 AXE DESTROYED

ALLIES WIN NEW AERIAL VICTORY   AMERICAN AIRMEN DESTROY 14 ZEROS OVER NEW GUINEA

14 JAP ZERGES SHOT DEWN BY U.S, FIGHTERS   Nine Others In Flames After Plane Battle

AMERICANS GET {AENEMY ZEROS   Number May Go To 23—No U. S. Fighter Lost

U.S. FLIERS DOWN 14 JAP ZEROS GVER NEW GUNEA   Believe 23 Enemy Planes in  ) ALD May™ “Have “Been” ‘Shot   -Dewn—No Americana Planes Missing

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NO MORE COAL TO BE SENT MID-WES}   Anthracite Will be Held for Consumers in the East

SONI SI SIRES RR aimee ee eGR ee Ge cee ee  All Hard Coal Will Be Kept ‘For Use in East   ickes Bans Shipments West of Pennsylvania, Hits ‘Choosy’ Dealers

CIRCUIT COURT “NEWS AND OTE:   Tipton Man Is Given a Six  “Mignth Suspended Sen " tence to Farm. .

CIRCUIT COURT. NEWS AND NOTE:   Tipton Man Is Given a SixMonth Suspended Sentence to Farm.

MacArthur’s Men Take Big Jap Base Of Lae; U. S.-British Army Forms New Front At Salerno; Germans Retreating

Foe Pulls Back Salerno Lines to Avoid Pincers;  Fifth and Eighth United   Berlin Reports New Invasion Forces Near Italian Coast; Foe May Be Unable to Make Firm Stand South of River Po; More Balkan Unrest

Retreat From Salerno Begins After Junction Of U.S., British Armies

President Declares Time Is Fixed For New Invasion Blows in Europe

Soviets Down  5 Nazi Planes   Two Reconnoitering Forces Smashed Near Lisichansk Front. Says Communique

Russ Ambush Crushes Two Nazi Forces   Soviets Permit Troops to Get Near Lines. Then Open Fire

REDS REPORT NEW SUCCESS AT KHARKOV   Five Planes In German Bomber Formation Are Shot Down   NAZI TROOPS ROUTED IN LATEST ADVANCE   Germans Claim Positions Restdred After Counter-Atiack

Russians Down 5 Nazi Planes   Soviets Also Smash Two Reconnoitering Forces of Germans

REDS DOWN FIVE AXIS GRAFT NEAR KHARKOV   Only Small-S cale Fighting Reported on Ground

5 German Planes Downed By Reds   Nazis Say Soviet Attack Repelled

SOVIETS BAG 5 GERMAN PLANES   Nazis Take Another Beating in Ground Action, Russians Repart

SCORE IN AIR AND IN LAND OPERATIONS   Shoot Down 5 Of 9 Raiders; Mow Down Ground Attackers

TIME IS SHORT FOR COU?ON EXCHANGING   PACKAGES FOR OVERSEAS MEN IN MAIL BY SEPTEMBER 15 TO INSURE DELIVERY FOR CHRISTMAS IS REQUEST MADE

Helena to Greet New Year in Subdued Style  Stores Are to Close On Saturday;  Canscace Diannnad

Helena to Greet New Year in Subdued Style  Stores Are to Close On Saturday; Services Planned

Allied Bomber: Attack Naples  BMiany Hite Genrad   Many Hits Scored In Tareet Area

Naples Bombed By U. S. Planes   Rome Says Civilian Buildings Hit

SHIP FIRED, RAIL YARDS ARE BLASTED   U.S. Air Foray Follows British Raids In France

SICILY HIT ONCE AGAIN   U. S. Liberator Bombers Make Daylight Raid On Rail Yards.

GERMANS BACK TOWARD DNIEPER   Red Army Driving Forward At Fast Pace Forcing Nazis Tc Abandon Weapons By the Trainload.

Russians Within Sight of Their Main Goal in Summer Offensive.  27 MILES FROM NAZI STRONGHOLD, KIEV  Reds Now Within 10 Miles of White Russia Border.

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Tunisian Battle Opening Step In Carrying War To Hitler’s Europe

‘Allies Apparently Are On Highroad To Victory In Tunisia  GLENN BABB

Spring Returns To Its Old Job   Unseasonable Weathe: Passes From State's Picture Once More

FEW CELEBRATIONS SCHEDULED FOR 47h   Ohio War Plants To Supply ‘Fireworks’ for Axis

BUSINESS OF WAR SUPPLANTS JULY 4TH FUN   Celebrations Will Be Few War Workers To : Stay on Jobs

WILL PULVERIZE COAST DEFENSES BEFORE LANDING   Hope To Accomplish Landing In Europe With Minimum Of Casualties

Conditions of 1918 Preceding German Collaps Recalled by Berlin Moufhpieces Which Urg Those on Home Front to Greater Effort to De feat Communism and Save Nation ©

WRITERS PREPARE FOR BIG REVERSES   Weakness of Germans at - Home In 1918 Is Recaited  as Causing Collapse.

NAZIS PREPARE FOR BAD NEWS   People Told Sacrifices Necessary In Russia;  British Cited

Coal Decision  Rests On Pane!   (2,750 Miners Strike After  Ickes Said WLB Must Ap prove Contract.

WLB PANEL HOLDS FATE OF DISPUTE   Report Due Sometime This — Week with Full Board De- cision to Follow

COAL DISPUTE IN WLB HANDS   Ickes Says Board to Rule On Any Agreement

Mine Dispute Rests With WLB Panel  Report This Week to Be Followed by Full Board ; Decision  THEN UP TO LEWIS Ickes Says Any Contract  Must Have Ww LB

LABOR BOARD WINS ROW WITH LEWIS   Mine Strike ~ Threat Costs Labor Leader Prestige

MINE DISPUTE RESTS WITH WLB.   ICKES TELLS LEWIS BOARD MUST APPROVE A NEW WAGE CONTRACT]

ICKES ASSERTS WLB TO ACT IN  MINE DISPUTE   War Labor Board Panel Is - Due to Report ThisWeek -In Case, With. Ruling ~  Slated. By..May::31:°:.   LEWIS STILL.MUM.   Union Chief: Holding To Stand Board. Is. Unfair; Johnstown. Miners Vote To Strike’

WPB PANEL GIVEN COAL PAY DISPUTE   Fact- Finders’ R Report Ou This Week; Decision To Follow.

WLB MAKES REPORT FROM COAL PROBE   Question Again Arises As To What Action UMW Will Take In Case   IC KE'S ULTIMATUM

WLB Decision ls Expected  . Fact-Finding Panel   ; Fact-Finding Panel To Make Report of Coal Wage Dispute

3-MAN PANEL TO REPORT ITS FINDINGS   Ickes Tells John L. Lewis That Any Con tract Must Have W.L.B.’s Approval

Mine Dispute Rests In Hands OfWLB Panel   Tekes Backs Board Tn Firm Letter To UMW Chief

Facts Panel Considering Coal Dispute   Full Labor Board Will Report Decision By May 31

Miners Start Walking Out Today in Pennsylvania Despite Lewis' Reques’

Coal Dispute in Lap of Panel   Full WLB Decision Expected Before May 31

U.S-Mexican Relations Offered As World Model   Presidents of ‘Two Republics Give Addresses

ROOSEVELT, CAMACHO OFFER TO WORLD THE GOOD NEIGHBOR PLAN   [wo Presidents Submit a Model Program for Estab. lishing Universal Peace and Halting Forever the Coming of Dictators—Addresses Deliyered in Dramatic Setting.

AT THE FRONT-CASUAL AIRMEN QO OUT ON RAIL   Comrades Play Ball, Listen To Ra dio Play-By-Play Account Of Air Battles

CORDELL HULL APPEALS FOR ALLIED UNITS   Calls on United Nations to “Hold Fast to Eternal Principles” of Interna_ tional Morality   Statement Made in An nouncing Publication of Documents Covering American Diplomacy

Retain Morality, Hull Urges Allies   Says 10-Year Record Shows U. S. Advocated, Practiced Rieht Conduct -

- AN ADVANCED BASE IN  rrmnesrt cre TIrmey ss 2 SUB ESNE st rr. Lt

Lewis Advises President That Progress Is Being ‘Made In Negotiations

LEWIS TELLS OF PROGRESS  Sas wwertaesuae Wy 2   ‘Advises Roosevelt Negotiations Moving Ahead; Production To Continue

ALLIED RAIDERS C0 2000 MILES   Jap Cruiser Damaged In Long-Range Assault On Macassar

Planes Based i In Australia Bomb Macassar   ~-Jap~Cruiser Damaged~ , By Liberators Flying  2:000-Mile Round: Trin

Allied Bombers Smash at > Dutch Celebes   Planes, Manned by Americans, Fly Over 2,000 Miles to Hit.at Macassar; Direct Hits Scored on Japanese Cruiser

Jap vessel damaged by  Liberators   Second longest raid carried out

Allied Bombers Raid Macassar. Cruiser Damaged   Planes Fly 2,000 Miles to Carry Out Attack in Celebes

Allies Reinforcements Stop Nazi Armored Unit That Broke French Line

RUMORS ABOUT CLOSING PLANT ARE EXPLAINED   “Runt” Bishop Gets Report From War  Department Chief

RAF Smashes At Lorient Second Successive Night   Nonstop Air Offensive Enters Fourth Day; Western Reich Blasted

LORIENT, SUBBASEBOMBED, — BLAST TRAIN!   Bomb 15 Railroad Engines In France And Belgium; EngJand Raided

Lorient, Sub  Base Of Nazis. Again Under Heavy Attack   Targets In Western Germany Also Bombed By British; Large Fires Are Left

RAF BLASTS AT NAZI SUB BASE   Lorient Given Second Heav Pounding In 2 Days

AIRMEN START FIRES IN FRANCI   Bomb Targets “in Westert Germany; Nazis Strike at English Towns ~

Nazi Sub Nest at Lorient Again Target of RAF Raid   Port Well Iihumniated by: Fiares and Moonlight for Vifty-Ninth Attack on Sector During War; Large Fires Started in Dock Area; Railways in France, Holland and Belgium Blasted

RAF RETURNS 10 BOMB LORIENT   FIGHTER PLANES SWARM OVER RAIL TARGETS IN EUROPE

RAF Continues Big Attack On Nazi Sub Base   Lorient Heavily Bombed For Second Straight Night Raid

RAIDS BASE AT LORIENT   Wide Area In Europe Attacked By Allied Bombers

LORIENT RAIDED SECOND NISHT   U-Boat’Base Attacked in Non-Stop Air Offensive

Lorient Base Raided Second Straight Night   Concentrated Attack Is Made By British On Important Base Used By German Submarines

Ex-' Small Fr ry” of C capone Back In Bootlegging   ‘Errand boys” for underworld:boss.in prohibition days now try: ing to be “big shots.””

BLAST ST KILLS “ay SOLDIERS   FIFTY-ONE OTHERS ENGAGED IN BLASTING OUT STUMPS ‘. @ ARE REPORTED INJURED

Seventeen Are Reported Killed In Air Base Blas!   Explosion Occurs At Elgin Field, 65 Miles East Of  Pensacola

SEN, WHEELEA OPENS DEBATE   Asks That ‘Slackers Be Taken From Government Bureaus’.   GALLERIES ARE PACKED

DEBATE OPENS ON WHEELER MEASURE RAPS “SLACKERS”   Urges Fathers Be Deferred Until Slackers: Taken From, Government Bureaus and War Indnustrie«

Wheeler Asks Deferment Until “Slackers” In Government And Industry Are In Service

Congress In Showdown  On Dad Draft   Military Leaders Warn Germany, Japan More Powerful Than Ever.

DEBATE STARTED ON THE WHEELER DRAFT MEASURE   Asks That Pre-War Fathers Be Deferred Until Slackers Are Taken From Bureaus.   SCHEDULED FOR OCT. 1   Administration Leaders Be. lieve the Bill Will Be Defeated.

Take Slackers  — First’—Wheeler  Senator Again Demands Father Deferment

Capitol Hill Stirs With Wheeler Draft Talk And New Tax Hike Rumors

‘Solon Fires Opening Shot At New Deal   Wheeler Asserts ‘Slackers’ Should Be Taken From Government Bureaus Before Pre-War Fathers Drafted.

Wallace Speaks In Costa Rica   Vice President Given Great Ovation by San Jose Citizens

Jap Parliament Meets Today To Check Up on Wa   Officials Alarmed Ove Lack of Production Facilities

Kelly Takes State Reins for G. 0. P.   Will Outline Plans for Coming Term in Address to Legislature

KELLY WRITING STATE PROGRAM   Keeps Administration Plans Secret at Yesterday’s Inaugural,

NAZIS SPURN SWEDEN PLEA TO DROP EXILE PLAN FOR 1200 NORSE STUDENTS

Germany Tells Sweden To. Mind Own Business   ‘Inflation Is Big Battle In Canada

FALL BACK ON ADRIATIC END OF ITALY UNE   Eighth Army Captures 1,000 Prisoners in New Breakthru.

Break-Through  Forces Retreat   Enemy Is Falling Back Stubbornly And Slowly Says Allied Report   REINFORCEMENTS RUSHED BY NAZIS

NAZIS RETREAT BEFORE EIGHTH “IN TOUGH FIGHT   Slow Costly Withdrawal Awaits Reinforcement From North

DESCRIBED AS FULL RETREAT BUT NOT ROUT   Enemy Rushes Troops From N. Italy in, Effort to Halt British

DETROIT WORKERS STRIKE SPREADING   28,000 Automobile Work. ers Now Out on Strike.

Strike at Chrysler Spreading   28,000 Now Away From Work, Lewis Closes N. Y. Office

WILDCAT STRIKES HALT PRODUCTION OF TANK ARSENAL   Many Striking Miners Return To Work In Coal Fields In Western

1,390 WALK OUT AT FORD PLANT   Three Other Strikes In Detrcit Area Are Settled

A DENT IN DROUTH   Showers Bring Lower Temperstares Over the State

DRAFTING PROGRAM FOR MEAT RATIONING   Pound Of Sirloin Steak To Take 12 Pcints, Hamburger Only Five Points

RATIONING OF MEAT ON POINT BASIS T00   You Probably Can Get More Hamburger Than Steak

TWO POUNDS MAY BE AVERAGI   But Plans Call for 3.1 of Hamburger, 1 1-3 of Sirloin

Tokio Reports  Jap Home Isle Shelled By Sub   Enemy Scores New Successes Against British In Rurma.

Japanese Village Is Shelled by Allied Submarine   But Enemy Gains New Ground in Battle for Burma

TOKYO REPORTS ISLAND VILLAGE iSHELLED BY SUB   Japanese Say Shells From Submarine Missed Their Mark and Landed In Field.

CLAIM U.S. SUB SHELLS JAP TOWN   TOKYO BROADCAST DESCRIBES ATTACK ON KOKKAIDO ISLE

Sub Shells Village On Jap Island   Tokyo Claims No Damage Done;. New Gains-In Burma

JAPANESE RADIO  REPORTS SHELLING  HOMELAND VILLAGE SUBMARINE ATTACKS VIL LAGE ON ISLAND OF HOK  VAIN DIIT MICCrc

Shells Fall tn. Coast Village   3-Nippon Destroyers Hit* British Fall Back:

 Report Shelling Of Village On Hokkaido, Presumably By American Submarine, Carries War Direcily To Jap Islands

Yank Sub Shells Jap Coast  British May Have To Withdraw   British May Have To Withdraw  From Burma

Tokyo Claims Shells Miss, Fall In Field   Nippon Reports Troops Entering Buthedaung

Japs Score New Successes In Burma; Yanks Bomb Canton.   OTHER POINTS ATTACKED

AMERICAN SUB SHELLS JAPAN   Niopen Troops Score New Successes On Burmese : Front

Yank Sub  Shells Nip Village   TOKYO RADIO SAYS — WAR CARRIED DIRECTLY TO ISLANDS OF JAPAN

JAP HOMELAND SHELLED BY SUB   Allied Planes Continue Tc Blast Pacific Bases and Batter Three Warships

Weather Forecast   JAP AUNCLANE GIVEN oft LLIN BY SUBMARINE   Tokyo Radio Says No Damage Results From Incident: Japs Gain In Burma

Sub Shells  Strike Jap Isiand   Hokkaido Object of Attack; Nips Gain Further in Burma.

U.S. Sub Shells Japanese Village  Enemy Claims Attempt Missed lis Mark

TOKYO REPORTS U. §. ATTACK ON HOME ISLANDS   Claimed Shells Landed Harmlessly In Field; Japs Claim Successes In Burma; U. S. Planes Raid Canton.

Coastal Village Is Attacked By  American Crew   Japs Score Gains Ir Burma _ Jungles Allied Air Raid:  Continued

U.S. SUBMARINE STRIKES AT JAP ISLAND VILLAGE   Nips Score New Successes in Burma Jungles, Allies Concede

U-Boat Shells Japanese Isle  In Night Raid   Nipponese Advances In Burma Force British To Retreat Toward India.   YANKS BOMB CANTON

TOKYO REPORTS U.S. SUB SHELLS HOKKAIDO ISLE   Japs Push British Back in Burma, American Fliers Hit Destroyers

ALLIED SUBMARINE SHELLS JAP ISLAND  Report Made On  Japanese Radio

Jap Village Is Shelled By U.S. Submarine   Tokyo Says War Has Been Carried Directly to Japan

Sub: Shells Nip Village TokyoReports   British May Be: Forced to Establish Defense Line Alona Indian Border —

Sub Shells Jan Village   Tokyo Says Shells Missed Mark and Fell in Field

SUB SHELLS NIP ISLAND SUNDAY   Tokyo Reports Attack on Hokkaido—Japs Gain In Burmese Fight

YANKS SHELL JAP ISLANDS FROM U-BOAT   Nippons Gain in Burma; Allied Planes Bomb Enemy Bases

Jap Village, Under Shell Fire, Tokyo  Radio Announces   Says Shells, Presumably From U. S. Sub, Missed Mark; News of War

JAPANESE RADIO REPORTS SHELLING HOMELAND VILLAGE  SUBMARINE ATTACKS VIL LAGE ON ISLAND OF HOK KAIDO BUT MISSES

JAP MAINLAND SHELLED BY SUB   Ship Believed American; British Forced To Withdraw In Burma Area

Native Of Uniontown Aboard Lost Hornet  Ship Just ''Thumbed Nose  At Enemy’

DENIAL IS MADE OF PATTON REPRIMAND   General Still Commands Seventh Army, Statement Savs

DENIES PATTON REPRIMANDED   Algiers Says He is Still In Command; Pearson Sticks to Story

Gen. Patton  Rumor Denied   He’s Still in Command, Not Reprimanded by Chief

Chiefs Deny Reprimand for Patton   COMMENTATOR PEARSON SAYS GENERAL REBUKED AFTER ALTERCATION

Still in Command of Seventh Army  Never Reprimanded hv Gan Eicankawear

STORY IS DENIED   Allied Headquarters Report Patton Still Head of 7th Army

Allied Officials Deny Pation Report   Say He Continues To Command U. S. 7th Army Jn Italy ©

Reprimand For Patton Denied By Eisenhower   Pearson’s Charges Of Demotion Bring Official Statement

Gen. Eisenhower Denies Charges Of Pearson That  ‘Blood And Guts’ Patton Disciplined For Hitting Man’

FARM GROUPS ARE TO MEET   wi Formulate State. Farm, Pro: dution Program for 1944 — State Farm War Board Chairmaiy to: be in Charge.

Allies Smash 145 Axis Planes  in 24 Hours      Newly Reinforced, Rommel Launches Counter-Attacks

ENEMY SEEMS 10 BE PREPARING 10 MAKE LAST STANL   Forces Entrenched In Strong Positions But Air Forces Have 145 Planes Damaged. Destroved.   2000 AXIS PLANES REPORTED IN ITALY   Russian Troops Battling to Hold Donets Bridgehead. Bombers Make Six Attacks Upon Kiska.

Air Attack Paces War In Tunisia         AXIS RESISTANCE STIFFENS OUTER DEFENSES OF TUNIS BIZERTE; DOWN 145 AXIS PL:

ARE MADE IN AREAS   Allies Thrust Ahead, Pac ed by Shattering Aerial ’ Onslaughts in Three Sectors.

ALLIED AIR ONSLAUGHTS SHATTERING   Ground Forces of Enemy Beginning To Make Stand

Approach to Tunis resisted   Allies thrust ahead on three key sectors

AIR FORGES AIT AXIS ON ALL FRONTS   Allied Planes Strike From Britain, Northwest Africa, Midd e East And Russia In Cencertriz Assanit On Germany And Italy   AXIS GROUND FORCES PREPARING FOR STAND

AIR FORCES BLAST AXIS ~ POSITIONS   Axis Prepares For Last Stand Near Tunis * And Brerte

Allies Maintain — Powerful Night, Day Air Attacks   Patrols Meet New Resistance From Rommel Behind _ Strong Defense Line

Allied Concentration of Air .Power in Africa Strikes Hard: All Forces Move  Aaainst Rommel.

Axis Resistance. Increasing, Say Advance Patrols   _ Enemy Apparently Ready To Make Stand  In Enfidaville Area

RESISTANCE OF AXIS STIFFENS   Air Attacks Pace Allied Advance In North Tunisia

145 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN 1 DAY BY ALLIED AIRMEN   Rommel Making Long-Expected Stand In Enfidaville Zone—Fresh Troops Arrive—Allies Proceeding Cautiously Today

BRITISH PATROLS "FIND PLENTY OF OBSTACLES WPA   Believed That Defenders May Counter-attack At Any Moment.

ALLIED ARMIES PUSH ON IN NORTH TUNISIA; MEET STIFFENING RESISTANCE

nn lati  Allied Push Forward In Tunisia, German Resistaance Stiffens

‘Today In Washington:  Congress, U. S. Workers, WMC Chief McNutt Share Capital City Hot Spot

Washington Hears Rumors Of Russian Finnish. Peace   Attention Also Centered on OPA Acknowledgement of Secret Rationing Board Suppvling Congressmen With ‘Tires, Gasoline.

CAPITAL AWAITS PUBLIC REACTION TO OPA SET-UP   Admit Existence of SuperRation Agency for Lawmakers

FINNISH =PEACE HINTS BRIGHTEN OUTLOOK IN WAR   United States Capital : Stirred, However, by Other Controversies   INVESTIGATIONS INCREASE   Lawmakers Getting Special Ration Consideration and Wooden Guns To Stay

Gov't Workers Investigated By Five Committees  3,000,000 Federal Jobholders Facing ‘Inquiry; Congress  i. *.... B.2'.. BP....]}

Nation’s Capital Is Place of Hot Spots; Many Sharing Heat   Manpower Chief McNutt Fails To Get Fund To  Organize Control

Capital Hears Finns Seeking Peace; Say Terms Already May Be Submitted

February FBI Conference To Be Held Here   February 3 Set As Date For Quarterly Conterence Of Hill Country Peace Otticers

Editor of Fascist Paper Hits Party  Demands Change in Sicilian Command

Italian Editor Urges Shakeun   Change Of Leaders: In Sicily Demanded

Fascist Calls. For Shift In Sicily Heads  Use: OF Best Italian . _ Forces On. Isle” .  ‘Demanded. .:

Rocket Story in Error   Mistranslation Leads To Belief Germans Used Rocket Shells

German Shells Hurled Across ‘Channel Not Of Rocket Type ‘As First Reports Indicated   Usual Shells, Not New Secret Weapon As First Reported, Fall Into Britain

Nazis Hurl Shells At England But Rocket Is Absent  Explosives Are Throwr Over Channel; Dover. Deal Get Blow

Flare Shells Are Used In Channel Duel   Translation of First Report Leads to Belief That New Weapon is Employed   DAMAGE IS NOT GIVEN

GERMANS SHELL ENGLAND FROM CHANNEL COAST   “irst Report That “Rockets” Were Used Proves Erroneous; No Damage Reported By The British.

Rocket Shell Attack Story ‘Called Error   Nazis Used Same Old Stuff, Residents of Coast Say

No Monster Rocket Guns   _ Extravagant German Claims for New Weapon Fail to Materialize

GERMANS CLAIM ROCKET WEAPON NOW IN ACTION      Nazis Report Folkestone, Deal, Dover Hit; No Damage Say British

PACU ET OUNCE REPORTED USED   But Check Indicates Nazis’ Broadcast Mistranslated

German Shore Guns Fire On  Dover Coast   First Reports Had Germans Using Rumored Rocket Guns

German Guns  Shell Britain   Naval Shore Batteries In France Used Against Dover, Deal and Folkestone

—ROCKET GUNS—  NAZI GUNG SHELL CHANNEL TARGETS   No Damage Is Announced By British Following Night Attack

NAZIS SHELL CHANNEL TARFETS   Berlin Claims Dover, Deal And Folkstone Hit

Floods Threaten To Follow Heavy Storm In North   Bear River Levee Break Forces Evacuation Of 200 Residents

Over 100 HomesWrecked the ha Wind Storm   Five Deaths Are Reported; Damage Believed Heavy

CHERSO SEIZED BY YUGOSLAVS   Whole North Dalmatian Coast Under Control Of Liberation Army

'Yugoslavs Claim  To Have Taken  Important Isle Cherso, at Entrance  of Gulf of Fiume,  Ce Tea’ Pie teas

SHOE RATIONING EASED   Baby Shoe Up To No. 4 Size Ex empt From Rationing

‘Allied Aerial Offensive Gains In Ferocity   B-17's Batter Target 95 Miles  From Berlin

‘Germans Assert Withdrawal  Made to Shorten Nazi    { :  i Lines of Defense   War in Brief:

American Planes Smash at Nauru  Numerous Fires Are Reported Started

Pacific force hits Japanese base at Nauru   Phosphate ‘center is left in flames

American Planes Smash at Nauru  Numerous Fires Are  Toe ed. TOIT

Hull Returns From Moscow   Will Repori on His Greatest Diplomatic Triumph

Reds Gain ® In 3-Pronged Orel Drive   Counter Attacks Futile Against Ferocious Fight

GESTAPO TROOPS THROWN INTO DESPERATE BATTLE   Soviets Start New Drive In Beloorod Area

Speculate on New Thrusts Against Axis   Report of Conferences of Allied Leaders Cause Wide Discussion; Argue Over Giving Out Information.

MEETING WITH STALIN 10 BE HELD IN IRAN   Reuters Says Roosevelt, Churchill And Chiang Have Left Cairo   BAD NEWS FOR AXIS IS BEING PREPARED

FDR SAID TO BE ON WAY TO IRAN FOR PARLEYS   President and Churchill Would Confer With Stalin There, le Reanart

Three Leaders Meet in Tent Near Pyramids   Reuters Says Session Preliminary to Talks With Stalin in Iran: Communique Awaited

Berlin Reports Roosevelt, Stalin To Meet in Jran  Claims President, Churchill, Chiang Already Have Met

ED.R, Winston And Kai-Shek To Meet Stalin   Three Statesmen Conclude Conference Tu Cairo and Then Head For Persia. Resutts of Caire Conference Not Released ¥et

Conference Still In- Gossip Stage   But Report : of Big Four Meeting Widely Circulated andjAccepted   A COMMUNIQUE LATER   Owl, Trailing With News, Joins in the Broadba -_casting

Allied Leaders In Conference   Further Meetings Said Set In Iran

Dispatch From Reuters Tells Big-3 Meeting   Chiang Kai-Shek, President Roosevelt. Winston Churchill In Cairo.   ISSUE RESULIS LATER

Unofficial Accounts Say Roosevelt And Churchill Left  : For Conference With Stalin In Iran After Meeting  : With Chiang Kai-shek At Cairo—OWlI Criticizes Reuters For Circulating Dispatch From Lisbon, While News Agency Defends Its “Enterprise”

Reuters Reports Three Conclude War Conference Preliminary fo A Meeting With Stalin in Iran   Say Madame Shek Accompanies Husband; News of Meeting Spreads Over Europe; DNB Broadcasts Stories of New Parley

Report Tripower Meeting Is Over   Session With Stalin Planned at Iran

OWI Chief Criticizes London News Agency For "Leak" In Parley Report

Allied Parley With Stalin is Reported   Roosevelt and Churchill Said To Be on Their Way to Iran

HINT CHIANG IS IN ALLIED GROUP HEADED FOR IRAN   OWI Chief Says Reuters Broke Release Date If Story is True

ALLIED CHIEFS TO MEET STALIN FOR SERIES OF TALKS  MIGHTY NEW BLOWS AGAINST THE AXIS

MIGHTY NEW THRUSTS AGAINST: AXIS BELIEVED IN MAKING AS RESULT OF LATEST CONFERENCE   Reports Say New Meeting With Soviet Chief Wil ‘Be Held at Teheran and Follows the FDR-Churely WeChiang Kai-Shek Conference Held at Cairo

“Leak” in News of Cairo Conference  Explained by OWI   Davis Felt Forced’ to Broarcast Lisbon Dispatch on Meeting

Conferences Said Already Held In Cairo   Davis Criticizes Reuters For Story “On Big Confab:

Leaders Claimed Heading For Meetings With Stalin   Lisbon Report Says Roosevelt And Churchill Leave For Iran After Concluding Conference At Cairo

CAIRO MEETING S KNOWN FACT   Speculation of New Thrusts In Making Stirred By Unofficial Reports.   CHIANG MAY BE PRESENT.

British Agency . Reports Victory Talks Underway   Reuters Story is Broadcast By OWI To Foreign Areas

Fate Of Axis ls Planned   Conference To Decide What Each May Expect

‘UNOFFICIAL REPORTS DECLARE CONFERENCE BE HELD IN IRAN   BRITISH NEWS AGENCY SAYS LEADERS UNITED NATIONS MEETING

Yews eax on -iscoric ~ucce —raws 0°N_ “re; 2xdec~ ier “erms o- /.xis Surrencer S.1ajec.

World Awaits Confirmation or Denial of: ‘Big 4° Meetings Adriatl   MIGHTY NEW BLOWS AT ENEMY EXPECTED AFTER CONFERENCE

Allied Leaders Reported on Way To Meet Stalin   Reuters, Criticized by OW Chief, Says Cairo Session Over

Allied Chiefs Meet In Cairo Dispatch Says   OWI Carries Reuters Story of Gathering of Stalin, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek and Roosevelt-— - Further Talks Hinted

Hint New Blows In The Making Against Axis   Reported Parley Between  Allied Chiefs Stirs  - Wide Speculation

FDR. IN PARLEY IN CAIRO, REPORT   OWL BROADCASTS REUTERS STORY PRESIDENT MET CHURCHILL AND CHIANG,

United Nations Leaders Reported Enroute To Iran   Roosevelt, Churchill And Chiang Believed Journeying. to Conference With Stalin After Meet at Cairo.

OWI Radios Reuters Story To Europe   Major Psychological And Military Blows Believed in Making  ANNOUNCEMENT rit

OWi Chief Criticises Reuters for Lisbon Dispatch Reporting Conference   NO CONFIRMATION   Berlin Radio Reports Litvinoi! With Stalin, Benes Also to Mee! Churchill, FDR

Heavy Blows Against Foe Are Planned   Reuters Dispatch Says Chiang Also To Meet With Soviet Premier, Probably In Persia

Leaderson Way Io Confer With Stalin   Communique Agreed Upon At Long Session To Be Published Later In The Week; Next Parley In Iran

IRAN REPORTED AWAITING FDR AND CHURCHILL   Long-Awaited Talks With Stalin Are Believed Near At Hand

Repatriates Sing And Cheer As Gripsholm Docks   We Shall Not Fall Into Trap of Compromise Peace, Halifax Says

Meeting Concluded-in Egypt Said to Be Preliminary to Conference With Premier Stalin in Iran

MEETING WITH PREMIER STALIN IS SCHEDULED   Mighty New Thrusts Against Axis Powers Believed In The Making

Speculation Rife Concerning Big Developments in Front Against Axis

AXIS 10 GET ALLIED TERMS OF SURRENDER   BERLIN ANTICIPATES STAGGERING NEWS FROM IRAN

Even Davis’s Gwn Men Broadcast Report of Meetings at Cairo And in Tran

Great New Plans For Defeat of Axis Believed in Makine   Unconfirmed Reports Of Leaders’ Meeting Growing in Size

‘Churchill, F.R., Stalin  Discuss War   Conference Follows That With Chiang in Cairo; New Blows in Making

Solomons Battle Called 10-to-1 Victory for U. S,   Russians Say Germans Paying Terrific Price for Minor Gains in Three-Day-Old Summer Offensive

Yankee Warships Show Supremacy In Solomon Area   The Score Is Ten to One in Number of Ships That Are Sunk.   U.S. Holds Offensive In All Battle Phases

Nine Enemy Planes Downed Over Rendova, Seven More in At tempted Reid on Darwin   3 U. S. SHIPS LOST   Beached Japanese Destroyer Blasted by American Dive Bombers

Yankees in Night Battle Sink Six Japanese Warships and Damage Four Others at Cost of One American Cruiser

An American Cruiser Lost  In Kula Gulf   Yanks Hold Initiative On Land, Sea And In Aix

Battle Has Ended, Knox Says; Troops  Still Mopping Up on Redova, New::  Georgia—Huns Pay Terrific Price in  Russia—U. S., R. A..F. Planes .Pound Axis ’Dromes

SCORE 10 TO 1 IN YANKS’ FAVOR IN SEA BATTLE   ‘Another Damn Good Licking’ Given Nips in Pacific, Navy Secretary Says   REDS SLAUGHTERING NAZIS   Italy Subjected To Another Terrific Pounding by. American Bombers

Reds’ Say Nazis Paying Heavily for Slight Gains Made      Score in Pacific 10 to 1 in Favor of  U. S., MacArthur’s Headquarters Ravaal :

Liquor. Stores In Other States Still Have Liquor.   State Capitol News Letter As Reviewed by Sentinel’s Special Correspondent

Vichy Says Sth Army Starts Attack   U. S. Fliers Make Co-ordinated Raid On Gahec«

Raid Ports In Tunisia  And Sicily   Vichy Sends Out Report British Eighth Army Has Opened Attack In  Southern Tunisia

U.S, PLANES STRIKE AT AXIS PORTS -IN AFRICA AND SICILY   Eighth: Army Starts Big Séale Attack To Halt . Escape, Of Afrika, Korps

VGnY HEPORTS BIG ORE nhs ALREADY BEGUN   Montgomery Sending Advance Units Into German e Mareth Lines.   AIR FORCE CONTINUES TO BLAST SHIP LANES

BATTER AXIS SUPPLY LINE   British Start Drive to Hem in Rommel’s Army

REPORT ROMMEL BEING ATTACKED BY EIGHTH ARM   Vichy Radio Says Montgom: ery Has Started: His:New Push.

British Launch   Tunisia Drive, Vichy Reports   ~ Affack Under Way by Eighth Army To Deny Rommel.Forces Access ~ To Sea. Radio Broadcast Declares

U. S. Bombers Strike At Axis Bases From Sicily to Tunisia   Messina, Gabes and Sousse Blasted in Blows at Enemy Supply Lines; Vichy Reports Allied Land Drive Near

Yanks Batter Rommel Lines,  Big Drive Near   Vichy Reports Allies Have Already Started Heavy Assault

HASKELL HAS A 50 ACRE GARDEN PLOT   Plans Are Underway to In_ stall Dehydrating Equipment   GEO. SMITH IN CHARCE

HASKELL HAS A 50 ACRE GARDEN PLOT   Plans Are Underway to Install Dehydrating  Equipment  _ etree  GEO. SMITH IN CHARGE

Bombers Make Record Flight  Into Germany   Make Smashing Attacks On German Fleet's Base At Bydnia, Danzig.   ROUGH OPPOSITION

Yanks Raid East  Germany, Poland   British-Based Bombers Make Long Distance Flight; Refutes Nazi Claims Inner Empire Safe From Attack

roriresses Blast Nazi Gdynia Base   Three Planes Land in Sweden After Long Land Journey

Record Distant Flight Heavy American Bombers Blast German Centers

GERMAN FLEET BASE AT GDYNIA RAIDED BY U. §   Americans Make Record Distance. Flight Into Eastern Germany To Deliver Aerial Blows

FORTS TRAVEL 1,600 MILES T0 BOMB POLAND   Danzig, Anklam Blasted By Americans

Prove No Part of Germany Safe; Drop Bombs 450 Miles From Russian Front

GERMAN FLEET BASE AND SUB YARDS BLASTED   Raid May Have Been Shuttle Trip To Fields  In Russia

DEFENDERS OF DNIEPER ARE THROWN BACK   By Russians Whose Hold On High West Bank Seems Secure; Nazis Persist in Stiff Counter Attacks,   “Alarm Battalions”

Reds Continue Advances Beyond Dnieper Rivel   Advance Guards Smash Nazi Counter Blows, Hokd West Bunk

Soviets Throw Germans Back  Along Dneiper   Red’s Hold on West Bank Secure; Big Air Battle Rages in Area

Mental Patient — Slays Lieutenant   Stab Wounds Fatal To Ames, Iowa, Man

STAB WOUND IS FATAL 10 U.S. OFFICER   Bushnell Hospital Mental Patient Inflicts ’ Fatal Wound

Lieut. Glen Cunningham  Dies in Utah   Stabbing by Mental Patient Fatal to Ames Officer, 23

OFFICER DIES OF KNIFE CUTS   Menta! Patient Turns on Friend at Brigham With Pocketknife

Strong Raids Made On French Coast   Mosquito Bombers Damage Locomotives

Crippling Blow Struck at Axis  No Part of Europe Safe From Planes

American Bombers Strike Near Vienna   Fly 2,500 Miles In Factory Raid

Messershmitt Works Blasted Ih Longest R.A. F. Raid of War   Record-Breaking Raid Deals Heavy Blow to Big German Airplane Plant 30 Miles - From Vienna; Drop 350,000 Pounds

Liberator Bombers Blast  Plane Plant Near Vienna:  Direct Hits Are Scored On Plont Deep In "Greater Germany’ And All Planes Return

Amazing Story of Japanese Revolt at Tule Lake Told for First Time

VIOLENCE AT. _ PRISON CAMP   INVESTIGATORS AMAZED. AT DEFIANT TACTICS OF DISLOYAL JAPS HELD IN CALIFORNIA

JAP UPRISING FACTS HIDDEN, SOLON CLAIMS   Fear Of Losing Positions  Cause Of Delay In Call To Army, Is Claim   THREAT REMOVAL ASKED   Further Disclosures Pour Out Of Inquiry Into Tule Lake “Incident”

STRETCH OF NEW BRITAIN COAST BOMBED TODAY      Aerial Offensive Against Japan's Stronghold In Third Week

Jap Strongholds Blasted By Allies   New Britain Coast Target of Bombers

OFFENSIVE ON RABAUL ROUTE IS IN THIRD WEEK   130 Téns of ‘Bombs Dropped on Bougainville in Northern Solomons

Roosevelt in War Parley At Carthage   ‘Gen. Eisenhower Given  All Details of New Sirategy to Crush Nazis      Route and Arrival Time of President Not Disclosed

ROOSEVELT 1S ENROUTE HOME FROM PARLEYS   PRESIDENT HELD MEETING WITH EIBENHOWER AND HIS STAFF OFFICERS—  STOP AT LONDON  o RUMORED

CONFERS WITH   Believed Enroute 3 Home, But Nazis Say He's in Italy

POR TALKS 11 EOENHU! EP NOM ENROUTE fo U5   Stops Over at Carthage for Talks With U. S. General

FDR GIVES PLAN TO EISENHOWER   Stops in Carthage to Report Decisions of Allied Parley

President Holds Fourth Conference   Meets Gen. Eisenhower Near Carthage

State Orders ~ —T)Cent Milk After Nov. 1   Commission Ignores OPA In Calling for Boost ‘Of Local Prices

Mounting Counter-Attacks Slow Red Army Drives But Melitopol And Gomel Marked For Farlv Capture

REDS PLUN ACROSS. PLAINS BEFORE CRIMEA   Beat Back German Counter-Attacks; Try ‘to Trap 100,000 Nazis

Hiftier Hurtine Main Reserves Against Reds Resistance Suddenly  Stiffens As New Troops Used   HOT BATTLES AHEAD   Tedpact Of Reinforced German Armies Is Felt By Soviets

Melitepol, Kiev Fights Going Harder For Reds   Reinforcements Felt Along Whole Lower  Portion of Dnieper

GERMANS PREPARE SHOWDOWN FlGhT ALONG DNIEPER   Throw Main Reserves Into Tottering Line as Red Armies Storm Kiev, Gomel and Melitonol.   ALLIES IN FOLLOW-UP ON ROUTE TO RABAUL   Early Action Indicates Possibility of Allied Drive Into New Britain Fron New Positions.

MELITOPOL AND KIEV SCENES OF BITTER BATTLES   Last-Diteh Stand Begins

GERMANY THROWS -RESERVES INTO ~ RUSSIAN BATTLE   Counter-Attacks No Longer Regarded As Guard Action   REINFORCEMENTS BEING FELT BY RED ARMY

RESERVES ON DNTEPER LINE      Hurl Full Strength Into Showdown Battle in Desperate Effort to Halt Russian Advance.

STABILIZATION ACT IS CITED IN TELEGRAMS   President Says Dispute Must Be Settled As Any Other Under No-Strike Pact   Operators, Lewis Wired

F.D.R. Urges Settlement of Wage Dispute   Asks Negotiations Be Continued Without Stoppage

‘oosevelt Warns ‘Against Shutdowr Jf Coal Mines  ' Wires Union Leaders,   Wires Union Leaders, Operators Agreement Must Stick to Formula  VLB HOLDS CEILING  Refuses Labor Plea Te Raise IS Per Cent  sarinme

U.S. Bombers Make Long Raid On Jap Base   Japan Prepares For New Action In Pacific Area   United Nations Headquar. ters Sees Plans For New Stroke By Enemy Forces   ALLIED VICTORIES MAKE JAPS CAUTIOUS

DISPUTE CLAIM ~ PRICES LOWER   LABOR ECONOMISTS DECLARE THERE HAS BEEN NO AC- TUAL CUT IN COST OF LIVING 

Wartime Aviation Progress Eliminates Hazards Of Blind Flying, Says Bendix Chief

Blind Flying Hazarc To Be Conquered Aviation Research  Brings Many New Advances in Field

Hazards Of Night Flying Eliminated   Aviation Research Makes Strides As Result Of War

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 BILL SENT T0 WHITE HOUSE   President Expectec to Sign It; Other Revenue Sought

CONTROVERSIAL, SKIP-A-YEAR INCOME TAX BILL PASSED ~NEW TAXES. UP NEXT

Groundhog Stayed Out of Sight,—Twasn’t Weather—He Learned of Meat Shortage

Front Page of Newspaper Reveals Weather Forecast Missing Because of War—Headline About Muskrat Being Tasty Substitute for Beef Sends Groundhog Scurrying Back to Bed

Ground Hog Finds News Of Interest   Meat Shortage Seen As Menace To Prognosticatot

‘CHUCKY’ GROUNDHOG FINDS WORLD AFFLICTED WITH RATIONED WEATHER, MEATS TODAY—SCRAMBLES BACK TO BED

Meat Shortage Creates Fear  In Groundhog   Scampers Underground When He Glimpses Newspaper Heads

‘Why Groundhog Didn't See Shadow Or. Who Is To Blame For Early Spring

Groundhog’s Afraid He Will Be Seized in Meat Shortage   But He Doesn't Believe Rationing of Weather ‘Has Been Started Yet

DEMOS MELTING ON BOND ISSUE   EXPECTED TO VOTE FOR BILL TO INVEST STATE SURPLUS

Quick Approval of State Purchase of  U.S. Bonds Is Seen   Democratic Opposition to Green’s Proposal Reported Melting

OPPOSITION TO GREEN'S PLAN IS DISSOLVING   Expect Surplus “3 Fund Measure To Pass On Monday

NAZIS 0 MOVE U. 5. CITIZENS   PREPARE FOR THEIR TRANSFER FROM FRANCE TO GERMANY—HULL PROTESTS.

Nazis To Send Americans To German Camps  Transfer Group Naw In Franca

German Action Brings Protest   Americans to Be Taken From France

Charge Nazis Plan  To Move Americans Group Has Been Held  Atl] aurdee France

MAY ASK COURT TO DECIDE OHIO CLOCK PROBLEM   Herbert Rules Legislature Has Power To Make Change

CIO Head Asks Byrnes for Voice in OWM   Murray Points Need For Labor’s Aid In Forming Policies

(. 1. 0. Leader Asks QWM Participation  Murray Also Attacks Pay-as-You-Go Plan

Legislature Opens Today In Columbus   Bricker is Lauded; Republicans “Own’ 95th Assembly

BRITISH AND ITALIANS END RESISTANCE   Capitulate Following Arrival of Nazi Reinforcements

BRITISH, ITALIAN FORCE OF 8,000 NOW PRISONERS   Churchill Critics Expected to Seek Explanation in Parliament

Island Of Leros Falls To Nazis   Capitulation Of British And Italian Forces On Island Announced   GERMANS LAND REINFORCEMENTS

GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE LEROS   Fresh Nazi Reinforcements Oust Allied Defenders

Emanuele Is Logical Head  of Italians   (In the temporary absence of DeWitt Mackenzie, this column is written today by John Evans.)

The War Today   (In the temporary absence of DeWitt Mackenzie, this column is written today by John Evans.)

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   hing And Badogho Best . acige tae In Italy “or Time, At Least

RECENT EVENTS IN WAR-TORN ITALY SEEM TO HAVE RESTORED KING’S HOLD ON THAT NATION

iItaly’s King Made Mussolini Premier to Avert Civil War Took the Costly Easy Way Out

Senators For Gas Ban In Midwest   Favor Extending Order Against  Pleasure Driving

PUBLIC NOT TO HEAR CONNALLY BILL DISCUSSION   Joseph Eastman Appears Before Group

Allies Capture Three Islands In Aegean Sea   Italian Division Revolts  As Menace to Nazi Lt oP

YUGOSLAVS SEIZE ADRIATIC SEAPORT   AXIS GARRISON SAID TO HAVE SURRENDERED TO GUERILLA PATRIOTS.

Yugoslavia Seaport Taken From Nazis by Guerrillas After Siege of Two Days

YUGOSLAVIA GUERRILLAS TAKE SEAPORT   Army of Liberation Issues Communique Stating Adriatic Seaport Was Believed to Have Surrendered.   Russian Actions

Yugoslav Port Of Split Falls  To Guerrillas   Patriot Army Said Attacking Ogulin; Italians Surrender

Important Yugoslav Seaport Is Held By Patriot Armies   Split Falls to Guerrilla Forces After Siege of Two Days —Allies Occupy Batkan Out. ---- nact Iclande

Ttalians Said To Have Quit  In Yugoslavia   Fighting Reported Between Guerrillas And Nazis Near Klin   SPLIT IS IMPORTANT ADRIATIC SEAPORT

Yugoslavs Take Important Port   Split Captured After Two Days of Siege

VYugos.av suerri _as axe $9 i: cn /.cria’ cas Serious rou.e tor Axis S:reacs —1r0ouz 1 3a_<ans

Commons to Hear Eden Report on Allied Meetings  Assurance of Plan for Smashing German Nation FExnected

Plan To Smash Nazis Awaited   Satellites Flayed Bitterly By Press.

Eden Will Warr Nazi Satellites   Allies to Repudiate Any Political Trick

3eieve Icen “o Xeview ‘fas-er an <o Smas1 sermany; 3u-garia Snot izrec 4s A “%o02 er Scace”

Deferment Tc Yield to U. S. Need of Men   Armed Services to Have First Choice for Skilled Workers

M NUTT TELLS THE SCOPE OF DRAFT PLANS   No Such Thing as Per manent Deferment, He Asserts

ONLY SKILLED 10 GET DEFERMENTS   4,000,000 Men Will Probably Enter Armed Force During Present Year.

Army Calling Skilled Men   MeNutt Says No Job Gan  Guarantee Deferment

Permanent Deferment — Not in Book, MeNutt Says   Occupational Deferment Also Must Yield  To Army Requirements. Manpower Chief Says SIMPLE ARITHMETIC OF SITUATION CITED  But House Committee Pushes Bill To Delay  Induction of Fathers

Manpower Chief Declares Occupational Deferment Must Yield to Requirements of Armed Forces—Move Launched by = Congressmen to Put Off Induction of Fathers Until Single ' Men and Childless Married Men Have Been Called.

ALL DEFERMENT IS TEMPORARY   McNutt Says Services Have First Call On Skilled Men; 4  Million Asked

McNUTT TIGHTENS UP ON PLAN TO DRAFT MANY FAMILY HEAD!   Says Even Occupational Deferment Must Yield to Requirements of the Armed Forces

Armed Forces Will. Draft § pecially Skilled Men Regardless of Occupation Deferments--McNutt

War Drati Comes Ahead of Industry, McNutt Declares  Occupational Defermen Must Yield to Drive For 4.000.000 Men

DRAFT TO CALL IN SKILLED MEN   No Permanent Defer ment Possible Now, Says Paul V. McNutt

MOST OF MEN FACING DRAFT ARE MARRIED   McNutt Stresses Drastic Nature of Program for 1943

FIGHT OVER ORAFT OF FATHERS KEEN   W’Nutt Says Even Occupational Deferment Must Yield to Armed Services’ Needs; Special Calls Seen

COAL OUTPUT SHOWS RESULT OF 6-DAY WEEK   Highest Level In. 16 Years Reached In Nation

FIELD FORTUNE 1S 163 MILLION   Chicago Merchant Buys $10,000,000 Worth Of War Bonds

FORTUNE HANDED MARSHALL FIEUD   RECEIVES BETWEEN 170 AND  75 MILLION DOLLARS ON ©  50TH BIRTHDAY. :

MUST RECAP TRACTOR TIRES   brennan a   New Ruling Is Made by Washington OPA Officials

Three Allied Ships Sunk   Ry Assoeinted Pres:      Recount Ups Nip Plane Toli In Solomons Batile by Two

Nazi Bridgeheac Shrinks Rapidly   Progress Reported From All Sectors

Axis Armies Are Showing Little Disposition To Make Stand   ANGLO-AMERICAN AIR SUPERIORITY FACTOR

Allied Forces Making Progress on All Fronts  ENFIDAVILLE HELD, BROADCAST STATES  Airfields, Ports and Shipping Pounded by  Airmon

AXIS TUNISIAN BRIDGEHEAD IN TUNISIA SHRINKING UNDER PRESSURE OF ALLIED ADVANCES; NO SIGN OF BATTLE AT HAND.

FOE NOT INCLINED TO ATTEMPT STAND   Airdromes Near Tunis Pounded Powerfully By Allied Air Fleet

Armored Units Smash Through Enemy Lines 50 Miles South of Tunis; - Fortresses Blast Big Convoy

Fortresses Bomb Big Axis Convoy   British Armies Smash At Rearguard 50 Miles South of Tunis

Marshal Rommel’s forces showing no inclination at attempting decisive stand   British advance toward, Djebebina and repulse enemy at Lake Kelbia

Nazi Bridgehead Steadliy Shrinks   Progress Made On All Fronts By Land While Heavy Air Pounding Continues; Convoy, Bases Are Hit

Allied Advances On All Fronts in Tunisia Theatre   Enemy Pocketed Near Tunis, Bizerte Make No Effort to Attack

Allied Forces Making Progréss on All.  —_ ao . weno      ENFIDAVILLE HELD, — BROADCAST STATES   Airfields, Ports and Shipping Pounded by  Airmen

Allied Forces Advance in All Sectors   Enemy Rearguards Fail to Show Heavy Resistance

ALLIES KEEP INITIATIVE IN NORTH AFRICA   GERMANS UNABLE TO MAKE STAND ABOVE SOUSSE

ENEMY SHOWS NO DESIRE TC MAKE STAND   Allies Closing In On Northwestern And South Sides Of Tunis. Bizerte.

Nowhere Do Allies Encounter Attacks   British First Army In North Also Makés Advances. Moving Noose Tighter On Nazis

Algiers Claims Enfidaville Has Been Captured   French Forces Take Djebibina, get 1,000 Prisoners; Fliers  Blast Tunis Airfields

Germans Try Futile Plunge Near Belgorod   Admit Drive Has Slowed, Now Suggest Offensive Was Defensive Action

GERMAN ARMY Ia OTOPPED GOLD IN SQREL-KURSK AREA   Nazis Lose 1,100 Men, 9€ Tanks in Plunge in Bel» gorod Sector   BERLIN SAYS WEATHER HAS SLOWED CAMPAIGN   Russians Recover Some Lost Ground Near Belgorod; Declare Enemy Has Sustained Heavy Losses in Manpower And Equipment

Nazis Stopped Cold In Russia   Reds Claim Drive  Sannina Recourcec

‘Badly Mauled eGermans Halted On Red Front   Further Evidence Nazi Offensive Has Slowed

Nazis Stopped  Cold in Russia   Reds Take Heavy  Toll of Germans

German Drive Stopped Cold By Red Defense      Nazi Losses In Fighting Are Excessive

Germans fail to make big  scale attack   Belgorod thrust cost 96 tanks and 1.100 men

GERMAN DRIVE AGAINST REDS STOPPED COLD   Berlin Attributes Slow. Down Of Offensive To  Russian “Weather”      ENEMY HAS SUFFERED SEVERE CASUALTIES

Nazis St topped Cold In Russia   Reds Claim Drive  Co ao tes Dias peoene

NAZIS LOSE 95 TANKS IN LUNGE NEAR BELGOROD   Russians Cut Down German Wedge and Regain Some Lost Ground in Furious Fighting,   OREL-KURSK SECTOR COMPARATIVELY OUIFT   Berlin Admits Drive Has Slowed Down—Slackening Attributed by Reds to Foe’s Losses.

STOP GERMAN. COLD; MAKE NC COUNTER DRIVE   Futile Plunge in Belgorod Area Costs 96 Tanks; 1, 106 Men; German Resourceg Said to be Lower   Ko Quick Success

MAULED NAZI ARMY LETS UP ON OREL LINES   No Large-Scale Attack Attempted; 96 Tanks Lost In Futile Assaults   German Strength Wanes

Moscow Reports German Army Stopped Cold By Russians   Lose 1,100 Men and Ninety-six Tanks in Futile Plunge in Belgorod Area, Dispatches Say

DRIVE OF NAZI ARMY SLOWS, RUSSIANS SAY   No Large Seale Attack At. _ tempted on Tues day

LOSSES SLOW GERMAN DRIVE AGAINST REDS   Nazis Stalled in Orel Sector; Belgorod Allack Futile

LARGE SCALE THRUST GIVEN UP BY NAZIS   HUGE LOSSES FELT; REDS CLAIM 2772 TANKS BAGGED

Weather BlamedBy  Germans  New Successes   New Successes Claimed By  Russians

New Ceiling For Beef And Mutton Soon   Maximum Charges Listed; Prices Here Generally Lower

Ceiling Prices Placed a Beef, Veal, Lar’  ae u New Action Sets Dow. .» —°  «  wwf £28 Wate: 6K. - og hA

CENERAL CEILING PRICES ON MEAT EFFECTIVE SOON   Retail Maximums on Beef, Veal And Lamb In Force : On April 15

Specific Ceiling Prices on Mutton Beef, April 15   Housewives Will Know What Grade of Meat They Buy

‘Cents Per Pound Ceilings For Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton   Store-By-Store Maximums Wiped Out; New Schedule Of Charges Effective April 15

OPA Erects New Ceiling Priceson Meat       Housewives to Find Meat Costs Down in Most Cases After April 15

Lamb, Beef Veal, Mutton Prices Told   Think Prices to Restore Order in Retail Meat ' Distribution

ATES COVER EER, MUTTON, VEAL AND LAME   ffice of Price Administra. tion Aims to Curb Con- . ~ fusion and Black ~ Market Practices   EW SCHEDULE WILL BEGIN ON -APRIL 15   ipes Out Srore-by-Store  leat Price Maximums  Permitting Prices As Of March, 1942

OPA Puts Specific Ceilings On Beef, Veal, Lamb, Muttor   Declaring Prices Which Have Obtained Megal in Many Cases, Washington Looks for Reductions Effective Apr. 15

MUTTON, LAMB, BEEF, VEAL HIT BY NEW ORDER   n Most Cases Prices Will Be Lower, Effective , April 15

Specific Ceiling Put On Retail Price Of Meat:   Lower Costs May End Black Markets

'Here’s Sample Of New Meat Prices   General Meat Price Ceilings Are Set   In Most Cases Ceiling Prices Less Than Those Which Consumers Have Been Paying Recently; Wipe Out Store-By Store Price Maximums.

Ceiling Prices Are Placed On Meats   OPA Puts Cent-Per-Pound Limits on Beef, Veal, ~ Lamb, Mutton  CERECTIVE ADDTT oie

Lamb, Mutton, Beef and Veal Are Affected By New Rule   Action Will Bring Reduction in Price in Most Instances

Price of Meat Sold at Retail To Get Ceiling   Cost to Consumer To Be Reduced in Most Cases When Order Goes into Effect April 15—Action, Designed To Hit ‘Black Markets’ and Bring About Fair Distribution

OPA sets specific cents per pound meat ceilings   Beef, veal, lamb and mutton affected by April 15 order

A SPECIFIC CEILING ON ALL MEATS   Various Cuts and Grades to Have Same Top in All Stores   CHANGE GOES INTO EFFECT APRIL 15   Standard Schedules Are Or.dered as Solution to Geveral Problems

MOVE AIMS TO RESTORE ORDER IN MARKETING   Store-by-store Maximums Wiped Out After April 15

PRICE FIX ON MEAT DATED FOR APRIL 18   Retail: Ceilings on Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton May Be Little Lower.   PORK PRICES “ NOW CONTROLLED   Purpose Is to Make Black Market Sales Unprofitable.

OPA Predicts Cost Reduction to Buyers   Ruling Takes Effect April’ 15; Allows Slight Differential Between Big Markets And Small Dealers.

OPA ORDERS CEILING PRICE ON BEEF. VEAL   NEW PRICES EFFECTIVE APRIL 15 THROUGHOUT TWELVE DISTRICTS

Ceiling Prices Are Placed On Meats   OPA Puts Cent-Per-Pound Limits on Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton

RETAIL SALES TOPS ARE SET FOR APRIL 1   Covers 102. Different Cuts of Beef, Veal, Mutton and Lamb by. Zones.   IN MANY CASES MAY BE UNDER PRESENT PRICES

Retail Meat Price ~ Ceilings Are Made Specific by Order   OPA Says Housewives Will Find New Costs  Generally Lower

RETAIL CEILING PRICES PLACED QN BEEF, LAMB   OPA Claims Order Effective April 15 Will Cause Gen  eral Reductions   HITS AT BLACK MARKETS   Differentials Allowed Between Small Independents And Chain Stores

Specific Cents Per Pound Tops Fixed For Meat   New Prices Will Drop Cost To Consumer In Some Cases   EFFECTIVE APRIL 15   Prices Formerly Based On Top Figures Of March, 1942, Out

MEAT PRICES FIXED 10 HIT BLACK MARI   Ceiling Values Designed To Curb Confusion, tHegal Costs

OPA Lays Down Meat Ceilings   U. S. CEMENTS RETAIL SALES PRICES ON BEEF, VEAL, LAMB, MUTTON IN RULING TO BE PLACED IN EFFECT ON APRIL 15

Beef, Veal, Lamb And Mutton Placed On Cents Per Pound Ceiling Limit

Sirloin Is 45 Cents Here  Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton Get Specified Ceiling Prices

SPECIFIC CEILINGS PRICES PLACED UPON MEATS FOR APRIL 15  PRICES WILL BE LOWER, IN MANY INSTANCES,

OPA SETS SPECIFIC CEILING PRICES ON RETAIL MEAT SALE'      To Be Less In Most Cases Than Consumers Have Been Paying Recently   IS EFFECTIVE APRIL IE

Specific Price Lid Placed On Retail Meats   Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mut ton Added To Porl ‘Cents Per Pound' Control   HELPS CONSUMERS   OPA Also Rules Cut Ir Prices Must Accompany Point Values Slask

Veal, Mutton and Lamb Included in Ruling That Will Start April 15

Designed to Restore Order In Meat Distribution, End Black Markets.   LIST 102 CUTS OF MEAT

New Costs Effective April 15   Standardization Designed To Restore Order In National Distribution

Meat Ceilings Ordered By OPA Start April 5   New Zone Rates To Curb Confusion, Black Markets

Cents-Per-Pound Ceiling On Meat  New Order Applies To Virtually All Cuts

MEAT PRICES ARE STEADIED   OPA Puts Sp cific Cents per-Pound on Four Varieties

OPA Establishes Ceiling Prices On Beef, Veal, Lamb and Mutton, Bringing Reduction in Most Cases

Action Taken To Help Restore Order In Retail Dis tribution; Small Stores Permitted To Charg Little More Than Large Ones

(OPA Puts Specific Prices On Beef, Veal And Mutton In Order Starting April 15      Standardization Previously Applied To Pork Put In Effect; Small Independents To Be Allowed To Charge 1 To 3 Cents More Than Chains

BECK ASSUMES NEW DUTIES   EEO Sw Former Attorney General Joins Corporation Commission :

BECK ASSUMES NEW DUTIES   Former Attorney General Joins Corporation Commission

OPA SUMMARIZES IMPORTANT FACTS ON FOGD PROGRAM   No Restricted Goods May Be Purchased Before Monday, March 1.

RELLY SEEKING BROAD POWERS   Legislative Program -Receives Praise; Pledges Of Full Support,   ‘ASKS POST-WAR FUND

Kelly Seeks War Powers for State      Many Approve of Governor’s Stand; Urges Slowdown on Time Bill

EXTRAORDINARY WAR POWERS DEMANDED BY GOVERNOR KELL'      Advises Slow Action On ‘War Time”; Leave State’s Tax Structure Alone   PROGRAM GIVEN PRAISE

‘Churchill See:  New Drive.  Before Fall Foreeasts Attacks  -In Mediterranean 3 ge  , je wae,

ALLIED DRIVES ARE FORECAST BY CHURCHILL   Reports Toll of Over 30 Axis Subs Sunk In May

Churchill Sees Great Offensive   Also Says Japs Will Face British Might

More Thrusts at Axis Forecast by Prime Minister   Sees Heavy Fighting in Mediterranean Befgze Leaves Fall

Churchill Warns Nazis Invasion Plans Are Ready   Thrusts This Summer it Mediterranean or Elsewhere, He Says

CHURCHILL SAYS SUMMER MAY SEE HEAVY FIGHTING   Prime Minister, in War Ke. view, Hints at Allied Thrusts in Mediterranean and Elsewnere.   MORE THAN 30 U-BOATS DESTROYED IN MAY   Deciares Determined Nazi Effort to Halt Flow of Supplies From U. 8. to Britain Failed.

Churchill Delivers Triumphant Report Of War's Progress   Victory-Minded Assembly In London's Blitz-Blacken: ed Guildhall Told Of Heavy Fighting Before "Leaves Of Autumn Fall’

Over 30 U-Boats Bagged in Month, Churchill States   Forecasts Allied Thrusts This Summer’ ; Mediterranean And Elsewhere: Warns Germans Of Bigger Air Blows

Churchill Buoyantly Tells: Of Coming Offensive, Says 17-Roat A Dau Sunk In May

Subs Beaten, Churchill  Announces   30 U-Boats Destroyed During Month of May, Prime Minister Says  HINTS OF ALLIED OFFENSIVE SOON  Violent Fighting Due  In Mediterranean A..-] Bie aench aman

Heavier Air Blows Against the Germans Are Promised  TRIUMPHANT REPORT OF SUBMARINE TOLL  Full Co-operation Pledged in War Against Japanese

NAZIS LOST 30 SUBS IN MAY INVASION NEAR   Premier Curchill Warns German Leaders of Air Offensive Greater in Wratb  and Destruction.   Speech in Guildhall

Invasion Due This Autumn   Churchill Buoyant In Giving Review Of Wa:

invasion Is Hinted BeforeF all  Thirty German CO vriesp.....-4   Thirty Germar Subs Reported Sink In Mav

NAZIS WARNED OF FIERCE AIR RAIDS ON WAY   OVER 30 U-BOATS BAGGED DURING MAY ALONE

Guffey Out for FDR and Wallace in 44   PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR ENTHU, SIASTIC IN PRAISE OF WAL. LACE’S PAT ON HAND THAT SMOTE HIM.   “Shot Wrong Bird”-Smith

CUFFEY LAUDS WALLACE TALK   Senator Wants Him To Be Roosevelt's Running Mate

GUFFEY FAVORS . VICE PRESIDENT   Wants Wallace On Fourth Term Ticket; Speech Is Criticized

Guffey Backs Roosevelt, Wallace in °4.4  Lauds Vice President’s Speech Assailing © ‘American Fascists’

Vonliiaisetuce  _ Akpan ait aoeaaaai tt uacasn las  RENE. STALI N MEET

JUDGE GRAY THE SPEAKER   _— County nty Official Talks at Attorneys Meeting

JUDGE GRAY THE SPEAKER   Douslns County Official Talks at Attorneys Meeting

HOUSE VOTES END LEGISLATURE MAY 11 THEN RESCINDS VOTE  ADJOURNMENT RESOLUTION WAS LAID ON TABLE  SUBJECT TO CALL

12 MORE ENTER ARMED SERVICES   Left This Morning For Training At Fort  1 eavenwort

12 MORE EN ARMED SERVICES      Left This Morning For Training At Fort Leavenworth

FULL DETAILS OF SYSTEM TO BE ANNOUNCED¢LATTER PART OF WEEK, DIREC: TOR FISHER AN~“ NOUNCES  .

LIQUOR RATION VOTED FOR OHIO   Senate Passes Bill Provide “Equitable Distribution”

Miss Welfling Addresses Club  Moy 4.3... Mick 1t.........   Child Study Club Hears Talk On Clothing

Miss Welfling Addresses Club   Child Study Club Hear: Talk On Clothing

FDR Fishes And Feeds On North Ontario Fis}   Returns To Washington After A Week's Vacation Near Picturesque Indian Village

ROOSEVELT HAS LUCK WITH FISH   President Likes Ontario Waters, Says He Will Come Back

TRAIN IS INTERCEPTED      Armed Belgian Patriots Release Number of Jews

Armed Belgian Patriots Fight Battle With Nazis To Free 1,500 Jews

Absentees Held Kin to Slackers   Land Proposes Public Postine of Names

CHAIRMAN LAND HITS ABSENTEES   Suggests Names of Workers Habitually Absent From Job Be Posted in Post Office; Not Proper Remedy

ABSENTEEISM IS SLACKERISM IN LAND’S OPINION   Maritime Commission Head Would Publish Names Of Men Laying Of Jobs

ABSENTEES IN WAR PLANTS   Suggestion Made to Post the Nomes in Postofttices

Absentees May Have Names in Post Offices   Posting of Lists Advocated by Chairman Emory §. Land

LAND SCORES ABSENTEES IN WAR PLANTS   Suggestion Made to Post the Names in Postoffices

Jap Force Driven Off in Aleutians.  Friday Engagement May Be Repeated

ENEMY FLEET ~ FLEES AFTER —ATTU BATTLE   ‘Yanks in Aleutians Alert for Return Of Jap Ships

AWAIT RETURN. OF JAP FORCES IN ALEUTIANS      First All-Sarface Engagement Of North Pacific Won Byer DU. &.

Jap Ships Driven Fron Aleutians —      U.S. Force on Alert for Return Of Invaders

JAPANESE AVOID ‘SLUCGING IT’ OUT IN NAVAL BATTLE   Americans on. Alert Today fe Enemy Fleet Near Aleu- . ) ot. fan Waters...”

SCOUR NORTH PACIFIC FOR JAP WARSHIPS   American Naval, Air Forces Guard Against Return of Once-Routed Fleet.

The Russians Have Driyen to a New Victory.  NAZIS EVACUATE CITY OF GOMEL  Southern Anchor of the Axis Defense Line.

HITLER'S DEFENSE LINES IN RUSSIA HAVE COLLAPSED; GOMEL EVACUATED   A Large Number Of Axis Prisoners Reported To Have Been Taken In the Drive.

SECTION OF NAZI LINE COLLAPSES   FORMERLY WAS - HITLER'S QUARTERS   Germans Had Held City Since August 1, 1941

Yanks and Britons Prepare for Drive  Assault on Europe Will Be Gigantic

TURIN MOTOR PLANT HIT BY FORTRESSES      Rome Admits That Number Of Casualies Resulted From Raid On Fiat Bearing Wotks   ALLIED TROOPS ARE PREPARED FOR FORTHCOMING INVASION

STRONGEST ARMY U.S. EVER BUILT TO STRIKE NAZIS   Force Preparing for Second Front Will Be Best Equipped in Nation’s Historv.   NEW TECHNIQUES TAUGHT THE TROOPS   Smash of Americans and Their Allies at West Wall Will Be on Unprecedented Scale,

CROMWELL SEEKING DiVORCE FROM DORIS      Former Envoy Files Suit Against Heiress, Now Living In Reno

Yanks Gain More Ground At Munda  Slash Way Northeast And South of Center   Slash Way Northeast And South of Center Of Japanese Airport   MAIN ENEMY LINE BROKEN TO SOUTH

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Jungle Fighters Drive to Heart of Munda Airbase   Americans Overrun Strongly-Held Trench Barring Way to Center of Jap Defenses; Navy. Airforce Bomb West Coast of Base

Jap Lines at Munda Broker By Americans   Air Force Active While Infantrymen Are in Bloody’ Batlle

YANKS SLASH THROUGH JAP MUNDA LINES   Overrun Strongly Held Trench in Drive to  Take Air Base

YANKS BREAK JAP LINE AT MUNDA   INFANTRY ADVANCES SLOWLY AS U. 8, PLANES POUND “RNEMY . POSITIONS.

JUNGLE TROOPS GAIN AT MUNDA   Americans Inch Ahead On Both Flanks Of Jap Airfield

Jap s Munda Line Broken   Trench Defending Air Field Has Been Taken

Yankees Move Up On Big Jap Airfield   Fighters Reach Center Of Munda Drome; Japs Scurry to Reefs

ASKED NOT TO NAME SNOOPERS FOR OPA      County Defense, Councils Get Order From State Director

CAPITAL SEEMS DETERMINED ON SALARY FREEZE   Coal Production Must Gc On, Union Chief Told By President   STEEL FORMULA BACKED   » WLB- Warns Employers  Unauthorized Increases Will Bring Trouble

LEWIS MEETS WITH FEBUFE IN DEMAND   President Roosevelt Dooms Hopes of Miners for $? Increase.   MUST FREEZE WAGES   Any General Wage Boost Would Accentuate Spiral cf Inflaticn.

* AGREE NO HALT IN COAL OUTPUT   " Operators, Miners at Odds Over Time Limits on Negotiations

LEWIS MEETS — AT aEBUFE “WN DEMANDS   President Roosevelt ‘Dooms:  Hopes of Miners for $2 Increase.’   MUST. FREEZE WAGES   Any General Wage “Boost Would Accentuate piral ef Infiaticn.

COAL STRIKE IN APRIL 1ST. “NOW AVOIDED   MINERS AND OPERATORS AGREE TO CONTINUE NEGO." TIATIONS—ROOSEVEL® * OPPOSES GENERAL WAGE HIRES ones

MINERS AGREE TO PRESIDENT’S WORK REQUEST   No Stoppage of Coal Production Agreed By Conferees

See. Wickard Sees Further Rationing Necessary   Civilian Co-operation As Price of Victory Asked by Secretary  In Annnal Renort

WICKARD SEES MORE RATIONING OF FOODSTUFFS   Military And Lend-Lease Requirements Come Ahead Of Civilian Needs   PUBLIC COOPERATION _ AS PRICE OF VICTORY

Wickard Sees Gap In Available Food   Some Deficits Due, He Ask: U. S. 10 Accept Ration; Military Need First

Further Food Rationing  ‘Necessary, Wickard Says   Secretary of Agriculture, in Report, Asks for Full Civilian Co-operation as ‘Part of the Price. of Victory”

FURTHER F00D RATIONING I LIKELY IN 1943   Wickard Declares It’s Common Sense To Put Military, Alliec Needs First   People ‘Complacent’

Albright, Astride Horse, ‘Parades’ For State Hooch   Now ‘Second Paul Revere,’ One-time Box-Car Crusader Seeks to Save Contraband Liquor from Breakup; 200,000 Pints at Stake.

Crusader Goes to Capital to Plead For 200,000 Pints of Panther Sweat

Oklahoma Solon Turns Paul Revere To Save 200,000 Pints Of Whiskey

One Horse  Is A Parade  In Capital Oklahoman’s Fight  To Save Booze Is

ROME SAYS 166 PERSONS KILLED BY YANKEERAID      Injured Total 1,659, and Buildings “Sacred to Faith and Science” Hefd Damaged   CHURCH INCLUDED   Cemetery, University City and Hospitals Listed As Result Three-Hour Attack

166 Reported Killed, Shrines ‘Damaged’   Fascists Cite Loss as Very Great; Eight U. S. Bombers Said Downed

STATE LEGION MEET STARTS IN DETROIT   Opens With More Than 2,000 Vets of World War ~ ) Attending.

‘GUST SPEAKED   Past District Governor Tell: of Founding of Rotary

MAN IS CONVICTED IN ROBBERY CASE   Haywood -G. Cooper, 28. Found Guilty by Judge Mish

MAN IS CONVICTED IN ROBBERY CASE   Haywood G. Co Cooper, 28, Found Souilty: by Judge

Allies Converge On Rommel  From 3 Sides   Nazis Apparently Decide To Quit Sbeitla, Feriana Without Fight in Tunisia

Greatest Battle Of War Impendin In North Africa   Rommel’s Retreat Believ. ed Move To Meet British Attack

Rommel’s Phantom Panzers, KHaama British-Drive-Erom- .  2 OWUCILY EPP Ulloa Ft C LT Oli ©  South. Flee Hard.-Wan Arvoa

Montgomery Expected To Strike   Rommel Retreating to Gather Strength For Blow From South

Nazis Yield In Tunisia to  Allied Force   Rommel Fears Blow From South, Gives Up Conquered Territory

ALLIED ADVANCES SCORED IN AFRICA   Hard-Won Sheitla Yielded by the Forces of

Prepare For New Blow By British  Advanca Allied Fe   Advance Allied Forces Push Toward Sidi Bouzid: Regain Grounc

Axis Gathers Strength for Defense   Enemy Obviously Must Hoard Its Equipment

Marshal Yields Bitterly Won Territory in Central Tunisia Without a Fight to Regroup Forces to Face Montgomery —Improving Weather in Northern Tunisia Expected to Bring Violent Aerial Warfare,

Rommel’s Phantom Panzers, Facing British Drive From Routh Flee Hard.-Won Area

AXTS GIVES UP FERIANA AREA   Rommel Continues Retreat To Prepare to Face Eighth Army

MORE DESERT GROUND LOST BY AXIS ARMY   ROMMEL EXPECTING BRITISH ASSAULT FROM SOUTH

ALLIED ADVANCES SCORED IN AFRICA   Hard-Won Sbeitla Yielded by the Forces of Rommel

DELINQUENTS ~ FACETROUBLE   Draft Registrants to Be Surveyed, and Action to Come After Feb. 1.

Annual Farm Bureau Meeting Nov. 18th   To Be Melt In The Town Hall At Orange City, lowa, Beginning

Aerial Accident Kills Two Flyers And 20 Marines   Bomb Drops on Men After Planes Collide In Hawaiian Sky

Knox Sees Italy Surrender Soon   Thinks New Government  Will Make Attempt

SEES ITALY OUT OF WAR-KNOX   Expects Italian Officials T Seek Peace Terms With Allies

Badoglio CleansHouse Of Facism   Htalian Press Speake Out Again “We Are Free”

KNOX VISIONS EARLY ITALIAN BID) FOR PEACE   Thinks It Will Come In ‘Reasonably Near Future’   DODGES PEACE TERMS   Declares Peace Formula Rests With FDR and Churchill

EXPECTS ITALY TO DROP OUT OF WAR   Knox, In Press Conference, Says He Believes It Will Happen Soon

Knox Expects Italy fo Quit   Predicts Attempts To Take Nation Out of War in Near Future

KNOX SAYS ITALY INDICATES THAT SHE  WANTS OUT OF WAR   The Secretary Expects Some Attempt Will Be Made to That Effect Soon.   ‘HAS EVERY INDICATION   As to the Time, Knox Said “I Think It Will Come in the Near Future.”

Expects Italy . to Seek Way Out of War   ‘T Think It Will Come in the Reasonably Near Fu° tore,’ Knox Says

Knox Foresees Attempts to ‘Take Italy Out of War Soon   Secretary Declares Only Two Men—Roosevelt and tet     ! © urchii—e “aii ay aw OU IK “GT saad BCETder” Formula Would Apply; Italy Bases Seen   Useful For Advance of Allies On Germany

Knox Expects Italians to Quit War Soon, Nation’s Stratesic Position Pointed Out

Sees Italy Withdraw  From War   Knox Believes Attempt Will Be Made In Near Future

ITALY TO END FIGHTING SOON   So declares Secretary Knox Who Predicts Italy's Withdrawal from War

Knox Sees Italy Out Of War Soon   Navy Chief, However, Says He Has No Exclu sive Information.

KNOX SEES AN EARLY PEACEBID   Says Developments Indicate Move To Get Out Of The War

KNOX PREDICTS PEACE MOVE BY ITALIAN NATION   War Secretary Believes New Government Will Act In Near Future   ARMISTICE RUMOR HEARD   Mussolini And Other Fassist Leaders Reported In Custody

CHAIRMAN OF BOUSE COMMIT . TEE INDICATE EYFORT MAY BE MADE FOR LE GIBLAHRN:

Three Russian Armies Surge  Toward Orel   Soviet Troops Advance Upon Suburbs Of Orel Moscow Reports   aia TF ecctesttanl? ailicedee un  BIG SUCCESSES CFEFN RY RUSSIA

FATHERS FACE CALL IN DRAFT   Increase In Size Of Armed Forces Is Reason

Ten Million Under Arms   Drafting of Married Men With Children To Start By October

10,420,000 to Be in Uniform By End of the Year; Fathers May Be Called Next Winter

Fathers May “Be Drafted ~ Next Winter   Plans for: Ten} Million”. Man ‘Army Indicates They Will Be: Called.’   MARRIED MEN MEN. “BEING TAKEN   Study of. -the ‘Manpower Sit~ Mation ‘Is Continued in: : Congress i

Dratt Poliey OFU.S. Stands  At Crossroads   Married Men May Be Called This Year. Need 6 Million More Workers.   48-HOUR WORK WEEK

DADS MAY BE IN ARMY BY WINTER   Married Men Without Chil dren Will Be Exhausted  By Next October.

To Dig Deeper For Fighters  Mon With Childeoan   Men With Children To Go Next Winter

To Call Men with Children Next Winter   If Army Is to Pass 10,000,000 Mark Men Without Children Will Be Exhausted in About Ten Months

FATHERS MIGHT © BE DRAFTED SOON   ARMED FORCES WILL TOTAL 10,420,000 BY END OF YEAR

DRAFTING FATHER $ SEEN BY YEAR END   Nation's Armed Forces “Total Over 10 Milton » = Men. in 1943

HIGHLIGHTS   “ce ee oe = aA Pertinent Points of President’s Message on Food Today

Farm Youth Confesses 3 Killings   He's Sorry, But Doesn't Know Why He  Did It

Young Lovers Tell Of Triple Slaying   Employer’s Wife, Mother And Hired Man Found Murdered After Flight Of Couple

CAA Fears Future Helicopter Traffic Jams, 'Will Draft Rules for Family “Air Flivers”

Stilwell- Chennault Visit To U. S. Bodes Jap Misery   Chief Danger Is That Of Leaving China Too Long To Stand Alone Against Strong Enemy

—By Glenn Babb   jt tiwell, Chennault Flanhning oerateg y—— mre he yy NALCUETL   Tans Fear Storm Clouds From China Skies

Leaders Claim lax Bill Short   Will Raise Fraction Of 12 Billion Goal

Morgan Suffers Turn-For Worse   Famed. Banker Appears To Be Losing Ground

COAL STRIKE THREATENS U. S. WAR EFFORT   Strike Against Uncle Sam a: Serious as Loss of Major Military Battle

PHIL PREPARED FOR 0, C, HEARING   Young Kennamer Released from Penitentiary Today; Records Are Assembled

U.S. ENVOY HONORED ON VISIT IN RUSSIA   Joseph E. Davies at Dinner Given by Stalin

Democrats Form Bloc To Boost Pay-Go Taxes   Forty Members of House Seek To Force Immediate Action

PAY-GO TAX PLAN NOPE 15 REVIVED   Block of Democrats Forms Behind Drive for Immediate Reconsideration of Income Tax Legisation

PAY-AS-YOU-60 BLOC INSISTENT   Democrats Bring Knotty Issue Up Again In Congress

DROP PLANS FOR SUMMER RUSS DRIVE   Reports From Vichy May Be Efforts To Confuse

OCR Believes Stock Of Civilian Needs Will Hit Low In November   Items Of Insignificance Will Be Manufactured To Keep Up  Morale And Efficiency

CHRISTMAS STOCK 10 BE VERY LEAN   WPB Says Supplies For Civ: ilians Will Be Very Low By November.

Civilian Goods Stocks Are Low   War Production Board Taking Steps to Replenish Stocks of some Items

SUPPLIES MAY HIT NEW LOW   War Production Board's Office of Civilian Requirements has Visions of Lean Christmas This Year.

O’CONOR IN APPEAL FOR MORE GASOLINE   Governor Asks Ickes To Ease Situ ation Affecting War Workers In State

Q'Conor Appeals To Ickes To Send Gas to Marylanc   Governor Declares Large Number of War Plants May Close Down

ARGENTINA T0 STAY NEUTRAL ‘FOR PRESENT’   New Government's Stand Leaves Way Open For Change

Argentina to Remain Neutral “For Present”   President Rdmirez. And New Cabinet Are Sworn In

ARGENTINA TO REMAIN NEUTRAL FOR PRESENT   New Government Makes Pledge on Foreign Policy Through Its President Today—Foreign Interference Not to Be, Tolerated, He Declares in Statement at Buenos Aires.

ARGENTINE IS STILL : NEUTRAL .   New Government Maintains. Old): Policy ‘Temporarily

ARGENTINA WILL REMAIN NEUTRAL FOR THE PRESENT   Way Left Open By New Government for Early Change In Attitude.

Argentina To Maintain Neutrality   Ramirez Declares Country Impartial “for the Present”

Fortresses Set Record in Raid   Knocked Down 106   Knocked Down 100 Nazi Fichters

U.S. Airmen Play Havoc With Axis   Japs, Nazis Lose Nearly 200 Planes In Recent Battles

U.S. Score May Be As High as 100 To 26 Against Foe  Kiel Raid Is Triumph For Americans, Army Heads Declare

GERMANS LOST 100 FIGHTERS IN RAID   BREMEN AND KIEL ATTACK SAW NAZIS BEATEN IN AIR BY FOUR TO ONE.

100 NAZI FIGHTERS BELIEVED DESTROYED   Flying Fortresses Took Heavy Toll Enemy Aircraft Over Bremen And Kiet

I. Davis Calls Bridges Charges’  Against OWI False   Forts Destroyed 100 German . Fighters In Bremen, Kiel Raid

Yankee Fliers Stop Japanese In Attu Ratc   Five Of 16 Enemy Planes Downed Sunday; U. S§&. Naval Vessels Attacked.  UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT

TRY 10 EASE PRESSURE ON BEATEN ARMY   Two American Planes Downed by Foe; One Pilot Rescued

U.S.FIGHTERS SHOOT DOWN JAP PLANES OVER ATIU ISLAND      Enemy  Raiders - Believed Based On Aerial ' And Naval Base In Kuriles

Japanese Lose Five Bombers In  Attu Relief Raic   Enemy Attackers Believed Based In Paramushiru;y American Grounc Forces Continue To Advanca —

Yanks Down Five Jap Bombers In Attack Upon Attu   One U.S. Plane Missing And Another Shot Down

JAPANESE FAIL 10 AID ATTU FORCES   Five of 16 Planes Shot Dowr In Attempting Relief to Ground Forces,

5: JAP PLANES ‘DOWNED IN ATTU RAID   Japs Send Force Of 16 Bombers Attempting To Stop Yanks

FIVE NIP CRAFT SHOT DOWN IN SECOND ATTACK   American Ground Forces Mop Up Remaining Pockets Of Resistance;  Tokyo Claims Warships Blasted

D JAP DUMB CHa ARE MOT UUWN NAT TU BALD   Two American Planes Lost But One Of Pilots Saved After Fierce Battle

U. S. Fighters Shoot Down Five Nipponese Craft   Ground Units Continue. Drive To Wipe Out  Last Enemy Forces

JAPS LOSE 5 OF 16 PLANES   Twin - Motored Craft Shot Cown in Attampted Raid on Attu.

First Bomber Wave Fails to Sink Ships   Land Fight on Island Continues With Americans Tightening Trap

FIVE NIPS SHOT DOWN RY YANKS   Army Troops Continue Pressure Against * Enemy Pockets

§ OTIS HN MAKING RAID ON ATTU   Second Wave of Bombers Reported; 2 American Planes Lost in Battle

FIVE JAPANESE BOMBERS ARE SHOT DOWN BY AMERICANS   Part of Sixteen Japanese Twin-Engined Bombers Raiding Attu Island.   ONE U.S. PLANE MISSING.   Another Was Shot Down But the Pilot Was Rescued.

ENEMY MAKES SECOND RAID IN ATTEMPT TO RELIEVE PRESSURE   U. S. Ground Forces Driving Ahead; “A Number” of Nip Positions Taken

U. §. Forces Stave Off Jap Raid On Attu   Five Enemy Bombers Downed; Yank Pressure Continues

FIVE JAP BOMBERS ~~ SHOT DOWN AT ATTU   Attack on U. S. Warships ie Failure, Navy Says

Down 5 Big Jap Bombers Raiding Attu   Yanks Beat Off Second Air Attack; Two Amer ican Planes Lost.

Five Of 16 Jap Planes Downed By Americans  Planes Believed Based On Carrier Or In Kuriles

Americans Bag _ 5 Enemy Planes - In Attu Battle   U. 8. Draws First Reaction From Outside Forces In Aleutian Operations

ENEMY ATTACKS ISLAND SECOND TIME IN 2 DAYS   Information Lacking in Reports on Success of Nipponese Assault

Yanks Control Air Over Attu   JAP BOMBERS DRIVEN OFF AFTER SUDDEN ATTACK

Yanks Stop Attu Bombers   LIGHTNINGS BLAST WAVE OF JAP PLANES IN DESPERATE FIGHTING

2 Of 16 Jap Bombers At Attu Are Shot Down   Six U.S. Fighters Intercepted 16 Enemy Planes; One Of Ours Lost

JAP BOMBERS RAID TROOPS, SHIPS AT ATTU   Five of 16 Attacking U.S. Ground Forces Shot Down, One U. S. Plane Missing   ONE SHOT DOWN   Navy Says Attack on Ships Unsuccessful — Japs Claim Destroyer Sunk

Raid on Attu Costs Japs  Five Bombers   U. S. Navy Reports Two Planes Lost; Gne Pilot Rescued

Jap Planes Try To Help Troops On Attu Island   Five Bombers Are Shot Down By Americans

Five Jap Planes Bagged Over Attu  Enemy Launches Attack Against U. S. Forces

SECOND JAP AIR ATTACK BEATEN OFF      jFive of. Sixteen Enemy Bombers Shot Down by. U.S. Forces at Attu   TWO AMERICAN FIGHTERS MISSING   Air Blows Demonstrate in Reverse What Yankee Planes Can Do

3 OF 16 JAP BOMBERS ARE SHOT DOWN   Attempt to Give Relief to Japs on Attu Frustrated

YANKS REPULSE RAID ON ATTU   5 of 16 Japanese Bombers Shot Down In Aleutians

JAPS LOSE 9 BIG BOMBERS IN ATTU RAID   Attack by 16 Twin-engine Planes Is Repulsed By Americans   BATTLE IS SECOND WITHIN TWO DAYS   Two U. S. Naval Vessels Aid In Beating Off Nippon Fliers

Five of 16 Planes Raiding U.S. Forces On Attu Downed   Pressure Against Pockets of Enemy Resistance Continues

5 Jap Planes Shot Down in Attu Assault   16 Enemy Bombers Blast at ULS. Warships; Hop From Kuriles Likely

INDICATE U.S. CONTROLS AIR OVER ISLAND   Yanks In Position To Hit Paramushiro Base   Of Nips Are Holding Out In Hills: Rush To Complete Airfield

No News Is Given About Their Bases   One-U. S. Fighter Lost And Another Downed But Pilot Safe

Five Jap Planes Downed In Bomb Attack On U.S. Forces Trying To Capture Attu

AMERICANS BEAT (FF AVR ATTACKS   U.S. Fighter Planes Disperse 16 Jap Ships In Sunday Baitle   NAVY IS SILENT   Issues No Report On Outcome Of Similar Raid On Saturday

Five Of 16 Japanese Bombers Shot Down While Attempting To Aid Ground Forces

JAP BOMBERS ATTACK ATTU; 5 SHOT DOWN   ” Force of 16 Twin-Engined Planes Sent Against  : Americans, Following Saturday Assault by 15 of the Craft.

Down 5 of 16 Jap Planes Over Attu.   One Yank Plane  Missing in  Second Jap Raid - Om Island

Yanks Continue’ “Mopping Up" on Attulsland =   Three Groups of Japs Await Death Or Surrender ...

Five of Sixteen Raiders Shot Dow By Army Planes   Two American Fighters Lost In Sunday's Action

BOMBERS MAY HAVE COME FROM CARRIER   Any Damages By Planes Not Reported By Navy

NEWSPRINT CUT IS SUGGESTED   Advisory Committee Recommends Reduction of 5 Percent in Next Quarter

MEETING STARTS TODA   Representatives of 43 Nations Take Part; Reporters Protest Ban. -

DELEGATES SEEK TO ELIMINATE HUNGER, WANT  UNITED NATIONS’ FOOD CONFERENCE  OS =< - =< ss ae. 

Potentially Important Food Conference Gets Under Way   World Poverty And Malnutrition Claims Attention Of 43 Countries

Food Parley Opens Today In Virginia   Make Study Of Post-War Needs

ALL FRENCHMEN WILL BE UNITED IN WAR EFFORT   Generals Giraud And De Gaulle Agree To Work Together; May Give Aid To  Revolutionaries.

DeGaulle Studies Giraud’s Free ‘French Proposals   Special Session Expected To Act On Proposals For Union Of All Free French.

Young Men . Of France - Defy Nazis   DeGaulle- Giraud a Forces Will Unite

SEEK TO UNITE FRENCH FORCES AT CONFERENCE   General DeGaulle Calls Committee Into Session

Union Between:  French Likely   Giraud Invites DeGaulle To. Enter Agreement. on Merger: Of Forces

UNION FRENCH FACTIONS NEAR IT IS BELIEVED      General Henri Giraud In. vites: General Charles De Gaulle to Enter Unity Agreement   Gen. Jean Marie Bergere' Resigned From Giraud’s War Council In North Africa

DE GAULLE'S COMMITTEE CONVENES   Statement Relative To Answer Is Likely To Be Issued Today

GIRAUD SEEKS  FRENGH UNITY   DeGauile’s Group Meets to Consider Invitation Immediately.

LEWIS DEFIANT   Fighting French Move Toward Unity As French Youths Mass for Fighi

CIRAUD INVITES DEGAULLE TO UNITE FRENCH   DeGaullists Hold Special Session for Quick Consideration of Invitation

Giraud Bid Gets Action By DeGaulle   Fighting French to Payrley on “Encouraging” Developments

Wheeler Seeks Draft Delay   Asks McNutt to Halt Fathers’ Induction

Announcement Of Marshall’s New * Post Is Expected   Roosevelt To Release News On Return From ® Parley, Is Belief; U.S. Army Chief May Head Allied Invasion Of Europe

F.D,MAY SOON DEFINE STATUS OF MARSHALI   Expected To Confirm His Appointment As ‘Attack’ Chief

ANNOUNCEMENT GF MARSHALL'S KEW ROLE PENDS   May Synchronize With Raosevells Return to Washingtent Date Secret

LLIES LOOSEN HOLD — OF JAPANESE FORCES   ccesses in New Guinea Weaken. Enemy Defenses  on Northeast Coast of Island Today.— Record:  - ‘Tonnage of Bombs ‘Dropped on ‘Battered Wewak Where Air Fleet Was Crushed.

ALLIES LOQGEN JAP HULU ON NEW GUINEA   Ground Troops Score Gains As Bombers Hit Wewak

JAP FLIERS AT WEWAK BASE DODGE BATTLE   Allied Ground Troops Push Closer To Salamaua

Jap Hold on New  Guinea Loosened      112 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Wewak

Local Authorities Work Out First Concrete Plan In State In “Work Or Fight” Program As Police and Employment Office Here Go To Bat for War Effort:

VAGRANTS 10 GET "WORK OR JAIL” CARDS IN WILSON   Local Authorities Work Out First Concrete Plan In State In “Work Or Fight’”’ Program As Police and Employment Office Here Go To Bat for War Effort.

SHORTAGE OF NATURAL GAS IS FORESEEN   Critical Areas Indicated in Report by American Gas Association and Conservation Urged   WAR NEEDS GROW   To Launch Advertising Campaign to Show Consumers How to Save  Fuel Yet be Warm

May Face Fuel Gas Shortage   Householders Warned Of Possible Suffering If Winter Is Severe Told Wavs To Save

American Gas Association Warns Householders to Conserve or Face Heating, Cooking Shortage Next Winter

New OPA Directors  See Rise In Price  Overall Increase Of 39 Percent Since 1939

Guards Move Ahead   Price Rise   New OPA Chief Expects Steady Increase

SLOW INCREASE IN PRICES PREDICTED   Prentiss Brown Doesn't Think Prices Can Be Held At Level

Germans, Counting Heavily On  nvasion, Picture Scene If Blow Falle On France

Germans Release Advance Story On How They Will Beat The Invasion

GIANT RAIDS ON SCHEDULE   aude AJR. FLEETS ; ZOF IM. PROVED BOMBE R&S AND FIGHTERS TO. FILL SKIES OVER EUROPE

‘Neutral And Axis Capitals Await News Of Conference  - News Of Meeting ts Surprise To Nazis Who 1+ Thought Stalin And Allies Could Not Aaree

Report Stalin At Session Under Way In Teheran   Japs Belittle Cairo Plans To Punish Rising Sun Aggressors And Strip Them Of All Areas Siezed In Fifty Years Of Plundering.

LABOR BOARD IS ATTACKED   William Green, Philip Murray ask creation of super war agency

Occupied By Allied Soldiers   After Twenty Days o: Steady Attack By Air and Sea Forces

Mussolini’s Fall Has Shaken German Populace More Than Any Other Happening Of War

ACTION TAKEN BY MARTIN ON “MILK PRICE   Reopens Fight for In. ‘crease, Asks Vinson For Hearing

Showdown Is Seen Nearing In Events In Italy   Turbulence In Axis Europe Forecasts New Crisis For Hitler   FEAR CIVIL STRIFE MAY COME IN ITALY

BRITISH CABINET MEETS AS CRISIS MOUNTS IN ITALY   Badoglio Stiffens Iron Rule as Reports Say Civil War Looms   New Clashes Between Nazi: and Italians at Milan Rumored

Uptrend In Farm Prices Continues   Pressure To Revise  Retail Ceilings Seen

MOSSOW REPORTS FIERCE FIGHTING   Orel - Kursk» Belgorod Front Springs Into Action   SOVIETS CLAIM   Attacks Repulsed With Heavy - Loss to Foe; Admits Some i Penetration of Lines  4

Moscow Reports Fierce Fighting On 165-Mile Sector; Reds Blast 586 Tanks, 203 Planes

ATTACK REDS ON 165-MILE BATTLE FRONT   Fighting Violent With _ Moscow Reporting De_ struction of 586 Tanks   and 203 Planes.   WEDGES DRIVEN INTO SOVIET LINES   Engagement Is in OrelKursk - Belgorod Sector —Ends Lull of 96 Days in East.

Russians Claim Attacks Foiled in Fierce Battle In Orel-Kursk Sector   586 German Tanks, 203 Planes Destroyed, With Great Loss of Life; Moscow Admits Lines Dented in Some Places, But Not Menaced

GERMANS HAVE LAUNCHED NEW ALL-OUT PUSH   Battle Flares On Scene Of 1942 Lunge; 586 Tanks Are Already  Destroyed   Main Attacks Repelled

Russians Claim 986 Tanks Hit  Line Penetrated   Line Penetrated By Fierce: - Aecanlte

Russians Expected Newest Attacks   All Attacks Launched Monday Are Repulsed By Russians Who Had Anticipated Offensive

GIRAUD WILL KEEP POST IN NORTH AFRICA      He and de Gaulle to Retain Respective Commands Under Agreement Averting Crisis in New French Committee.

GOEBBELS ATTEMPT AT IRONIC HUMOR   Used Paris Radio Today for a. Series of Reports on Al-  lied “Invasion.” 

NAZIS RIDICULE  INVASION PLANS  IN BROADCASTS GOEBBELS RESORTS  TO IRONIC HUMOR AS ATTACK NEARS

Nazis Fixed Invasion by  Allies Today   Goebbels Uses Paris Radio Apparently to Ridicule Attack Plans

AXIS- FORECAST “INVASION DAY” IS PROVING DUD   Propaganda Minister Goebbels Resorts to Ironic Broadcasts to Ridicule Allies   ITALY IS JUMPY   Rome Radio Says Nation Will be Defended Inch by Inch;. Will Sacrifice Everything

His ‘Invasion’ Day Passes; Goebbels Jokes   Radio Used to Ridicule Allied Plans for Attack

Storied Mediterranean Basin to Have  Fateful Place in Allied Grand Attack

HOUSE REJECTS MARCANTONIO   American- Labor Party Member Denied Place  On Committee

Seat Is Denied   To Marcantonio   Democratic Caucus Denies Judiciary Group Past To New Yorker

NAVY IDENTIFIES 11 WARSHIPS SUNK IN SOLOMONS; JAPS LOSE 28 VESSELS   Aircraft Carrier Hornet Included In List Announced. Battle Also  Cost Japanese Many DP) wen

Navy Adds 11 More Ships to Roll of Honor   Names of Warships Sunk in Pacific Revealed by Navy

SENATORS REVIEW 11, 5, WAR AID PLAN   House Foreign Affairs Committee Pushes Plan for More Aid to China ©

County Paratrooper  Missing In Actior  Pvt. L. J. Cope Of Yor! Run Served In Africa

Celina Boy Reported To Be Missing      J. B. Stelzer Was Gunner On Flying Fortress; Son Mr. And Mrs. Fred Stelzer.

Lieut. Batte Is Missing in Action, Africa   SON OF MR. AND MRS E. ne BATTE, HUSBAND FORMER PEIYZABE TH GOODLETT.

BROTHER IS MISSING   Relative of Mrs. Clyde Burns Was a Tail Gunner

DUNKIRK GUNNER MISSING, PARENTS INFORMED TODAY   Charles “Chuck” Martinelli Was Member of Navy Bomber Crew.

German Keystone Defenses at Etna Cracked by Allies        — Prison Isle, Abandoned By  Germans, Succored By :  Yanks

More Than Hundred American 4 and 6Inch Guns Do Job   Battle Is Described As Most Savage of Entire Campaign

Center of Axis Line Is Taken >   Battle of Troina Described as Most eae of Sicilian Campaign as American 105MM  and 155MM Guns Lay Down.  Destructive Barrage eee ts a

Take Troina After Heavy Big Gun Fire   Nazis Battle Bitterly To Escape Allied Trap

YANKS FIGHT WAY THROUGH STREETS OF SAN VITTORE   Clark’s Troops Charge Tats Village After It Is Demolished by Artillery Rombardment.   GERMANS HAD MADE TOWN A FORTRESS   Before Americans Could Use Guns and Bayonets It Was Necessary to Destroy Every Building.

“Ss - “Fr, se rage : rice Je fe uw C8 1 FI 2 Ni ame rn — heen creo oy Foun wes ae tI — “~ w ew  Do-- gon, Jv Nezis”

YANKS DRIVE. NEAR: CASSING      Fight tn’ Streets of Sat Vittore; Nazis “Ripart “Leap Frog” Landing

YANKS DRIVE NEAR CASSINO   Fight in Streets of San Vittore; Nazis Report “Leap Frog” Landing

U.S. Troops Figh Through Streets Of San Vittore   Blast Out Path to Strategic Cassino; Canadians Advance

Americans Blast Path to Cassino On Rome Highway)   Strategic City Appears Doomed

Yanks Fight Through San Vittore   Blast Out Path io Strategic City of Cassino

Allies Press On Toward Rome   ‘Leap.Frog Landing: ‘Reported By Nazis

PATH BLASTE TOWARD ROME BY AMERICANS   SAN VITTORE FALLS; CANADIANS GAIN ON ADRIATIC

Americens Baile Through The {ving Uf san Vittere   Path Being Biicid te the Strategic City o: Cussino— —  Canadia:: forces Frass c* Beyond Ortona’ TJowarc Peccara:

U. §., Canadian Troops Advance   Germans Say Allies Make New Landing

Body Found in Creek Identified   Cleveland Youth Shot Three Times

Takes Over Italian Fleet, French Ships   AXIS) FIGURES 750,000 TONS SHIPPING NEEDED KOR EVACUATION,

Hitler Commandeers Italian Fleet. French Merchant Ships To Aid In Evacuating Troops From Afric:

Germany Is Reported Commandeering Italian Vessels For Evacuation.

NAZI MAY Wot [TALIAN FLEET IN EVAGUATION   Madrid Report Asserts Hitler Has Commandeered ll Duce’s Navy.   ALSO SAID TO BE GETTING VESSELS FROM FRANCE

BIG TASK IS FACED BY ENEMY   Around 1,000,000 Tons of Shipping to Be Required for Transportation Fob.

Enemy May Iry fo Save Army   Italian Fleet to Help, Spanish Rumors Say

Prepare To Evacuate Men. Arms      Big Sea and Air Battle Foreseen  On Withdrawal

NAZIS TAKE OVER . ITALIAN FLEET TO FVACHIATE AFRICA   Reports Indicate Hitler Has Decided on An Axis “Dunkirk’? for Rommel.

SERMANS USURP ITALIAN FLEET FOR EVACUATION   No Confirmation Of Report Now Possible But Claim Ts Wade”

ERMANS MASS Ble FLEET FOR AXIS “DUNKIRK’   azis Reported Taking Over French, Italian Ships To Evacuate Afrika Korps

NAZIS PREPARING TUNISIAN ‘DUNKIRK’ TO EVACUATE ARMY   Hitler Commandeers Italian Fleet, French Merchant . Shipping To Get Out Troovs

sangre a armament erematnt ooo  Germany Gets Ready For Axis ‘Dunkirk’

100 Bombers   Rip Coast of New Britain   218-Ton Gasmata Attack Made to Blast Path to Rabaul Forts   BRIG FIRES STARTED   Marine ’Chutists Widen Bougainville Position in 2-Day Batile

UNITED STATES AND BRITISH BOMBERS IN BLASTS AT ITALY   NAPLES, SARDINIA AND SICILY BLASTED BY BIG WARPLANES

Bombers Fron Africa Blast Italian Cities   Naples, Sardinia, _Sicily verge es

U.o., BRITISH BOMBERS ACTIVE   Attack On Naples Called “Prologue Of Things To Come’   PATROLS ACTIVE   Montgomery’s Army May Soon Resume Attack On Rommel

Hit Naples From Bases In Africa   U. S. Heavy Bombers Raid Across Mediterranean . Narrows   Mud Slows Ground Action; _ Axis Holds Important Passes

MUD BOGS ALLIED GROUND OFFENSIVE AW TUNISIA   8th Army In Contact With iRommel’s Forces In \Coastal Area

Strike Heavy Blows at Naples, Sardinia and Renew Sicily Destruction

Cagliari, An Air Base On Sardinia, Pitted: Central Tunisia Force  In Stalemate

Daylight Raids Are Staged On ltalian Cities  Naples Waterfront Left In Flames By Alliad Bliasce .

Bombers Hammer Italy   ; Commander Says At: tack from: North Afri_can Bases is “Prologue *Of Things to Come”

U.S. FLIERS BLAST ITALIAN PORT   8th Army Prepares to At tack in Tunisia; Weather “Curbs Activities

THE NAPLES i RONT. IS. ti ‘i MASS (IF FLAMES   Raid Called One of The Most Successful Ever Made   OTHER BLOWS ARE AIMED AT ISLANDS

me PLANES   Mud and Rain Again Bog Down Ground Operations In Tunisia   3 MERCHANTMEN ARE HIT

RAID ON NAPLES ONE OF BIGGEST STAGED IN WAF   Rain And Mud Slow Ground Activity in Tunisia; Rommel Hit Anew

Allied Bombers Leave Naples Waterfront Aflame, Also Hit Sardinian and Sicilian Bases

Naples. Sicily  Sardinia Are Pounded   Rain, Mud Slow Down Fighting  Hee Tesesiatoa

Hit Naples From Bases In Africa   U. S. Heavy Bombers Raid Across Mediterranean _ Narrows   ISLAND BASES STRUCK   Mud Slows Ground Action; Axis Holds Important  Passes

BIG ITALIA CITY GIVEN 40TH RAID   War Carried To Italy From Bases In No.  : Africa

Naples, Cagliari, Sicily Pounded   Planes Wing Out From Bases in North Africa—Naples Raid Called Most Successful Ever Made by Yanks in Middle Eastern Area

U. S., British Bombers Carry War to Italy from North African   British Eighth Makes Contact wilh Foe “in Tripolifanian-Tunisiar Border Area

CAMPAIGN IN TUNISIA IS BOGGED DOWN   Spotlight is Shifted to Libyan Frontier and The British Eighth Army  8 8Gee8 2 6 &¢ oe — an i «2 ea eee eee eee

EIGHTH ARMY SAID READY FOR BIG PUSH      Raids Called Preview Of Things To -Come; Big Fires Left At Naples

U.S. AND BRITISH BOMBERS  LEAVE NAPLES WATERFRONT:  AFLAME IN SUNDAY RAID   African Based Allied Planes Play Havoc With '  Axis Airfields and Ports. Temporary Stalemate Indicated in Tunisia. British Consolidating z. Positione i

SARDINIAN AIR BASE AND SICILY ALSO BOMB-HIT   Patrick W. Timberlake Chief of U. S. Bomber Command, Sends Two  Waves Over Targets   SAMPLE OF THINGS TO COME, HE SAYS   Hits Scored On Merchant Vessels In Naples Harbor; Tunisia Ground Lull Continues

American, British Bombers Take War To Italian Bases   Cagliari and Sicity Also Bombed in One of Successful Raids

British Patrols Active In Libya; Tunisian Fighting In Temporary Lull

Daylight Raids Are Staged On taian Cities   Naples Waterfront Left In Flames By Allied Fliers

U.S, AND BRITISH BOMBERS REVIVED THE WAR OF ITALY   Attacks Left Naples Waterfront Aflame, a Communique Said.   STRUCK BY DAYLIGHT   Naples and Cagliari, 300 Miles Apart, Were the Targets.

Americans Bomb Naples In Waves: Lorient Wrecked   U.S. Fliers Leave Naples Waterfront In Flames, Hit 3 Ships In Harbor

OPA TO EMPLOY 1,400 PROBERS   Brown Says Their Job 1 To Roll Back Cost Of Living

Sleuths Will Help To Halt Living Costs   Price Administrator To Employ ,400 Detectives   STRICTLY EXPERIMENTAL

To Hire 1,400 More Investigators To Help Roll Back Cost of Living

OPA Probers To Check Chiselers  Will Help Roll Back Cost of Living 

DEATH POSTPONES SUBSIDIES VOTE   House Likely ta Reject Ad.  minietroatian Plan

Sudden Deaths Of Two Congressmen Delays Showdown On Subsidy Ficht

Subsidy Ballot Delayed as Two Solons Die  Ditter Is Killed In Air Crash,

ANTI-SUBSIDY VOTE EXPECTED TO BE DELAYED   House Expected 1 To Vote A “No’ To Further Use Of Food Subsidies

CONGRESSMEN’S DEATHS DELAY SUBSIDY VOTE   Sieagall, Foe of Food Payments, ~ Succeeded on Banking Commit tee by Payment Advocale

Death Delays Subsidy Bill Vote in House   House Suspends Business 24 Hours — In Memory of Two Members Who Died

Death Delays Action On Disputed Bill... .. Congress’ Steamroller Aimed At Tax Bill And Food Subsidy Program

Deaths Delay Final Vote  On Subsidies   House Suspends Business for a Day Fol lowing Sudden Demise Of Two of Its Members

TWO CONGRESSIONAL IMPORTANT FIGURES DIED SUDDENLY   Rep. Ditter Killed in Plane Crash; Rep. Steagall Died of Heart Attack.   A POWER IN CONGRESS   Their Deaths Delayed Vote on Administration’s Subsidy Program.

Steagall Is Stricken At Capital   House Delays Showdown Vote After Sudden Death Of Chairman Of  Bankine Canmitheae

TWO DEATHS AMONG HOUSE MEMBERSHIP SUSPENDS BUSINESS   Showdown Vote on ConsumerSubsidy Program !s Delayed   DITTER, STEAGALL, DEAD

DEATHS DELAY SUBSIDY VOTE   Two Congressmen, Ditter And Steagall, Dead

DEATHS DELAY SUBSIDY VOTE   HOUSE TO SUSPEND BUSINESS 24 HOURS; TWO MEMBERS DEAD

DEATHS DELAY HOUSE DEGTOIUN UPON SUBSIDE   Showdown Vote On Program Delayed Until Tuesday, But Program Doomed

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDIES IS POSTPONED   Removal by Death of Two Leading Figures in Dispute Causes Delay In House Action   PASSAGE IS PREDICTED

House Still Expected to Defeat Plan   Rep. Ditter Killed in Plane Crash, Rep. Steagall. Dies of Heart Attack   BOTH POWERFUL _. . IN. PARTY COUNCILS   House Suspends Business 24 Hours, Delaying Action on Big Issues

House Deaths Delay Subsidy  Showdown Vote   Business Suspended In Respect To Reps. Ditter And Steagall.

Deaths Delay Showdown On Subsidies   Chairman of Senate Banking Group Had Opposed Plan

TWO SUDDEN DEATHS STOP SUBSIDY FIGHT   House Suspends Business For 24 Hours

SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDY PLAN TS POSTPONEI   Sudden Deaths of Con gressmen Delays For At Least Day Vote On.  t Measure

Two Deaths Delay House Subsidy Vote   Showdown on Administration Consumer Aid Program Is This Week

Subsidy Dispute Halted by Deaths   Heart Attack Takes Steagall; Ditter Killed in Plane Crash

Showdown Vote on Consumer-Subsidy Bill is Postponed   Deaths of Two Congressmen Bring Recess in Lower House

Deaths In House Delay Vote On Subsidy Plan  Steagall, Opponent   Steagall, Opponent Of Subsidies, Dies; Debate On Tax Bill To Follow This Week

Two Bitter Subsidy Foes Die Suddenly   Chairman Steagal Succumbs To Heart Attack Shortly After Ritter Is Killed in Plane Crash

DELAY VOTE ON SUBSIDY PROGRAM   Occasioned By Decth of Two Opponents

Food Subsidy and Ta: ax Program Fights Near Climax; Congr ess Steamroller Is Placed In Action

Bombs Fall on Swedish Island   Bombs Dropped Outside Swedish Naval Base At Karlskrona

SWEDISH NAVY BASE ~ ISLAND IS BOMBED   No Damage or Casualties by Unidentified Plane

GERMAN NAVAL BASE BLASTED AGAIN BY RAE   Nibelmshaven. sharget of SRO RE APEC In th   Tw enty- Three Bombers Were Lost      MINES ARE LAID   Unprecedented Operation Aimed at Nazi Plans for Next Phase of War

UNIDENTIFIED PLANE RAIDS SWEDISH BASE   Bombs Drop Near Large Naval Fort

BOMBS DROPPED NEAR SWEDISH NAVAL BASE   Authorities Seek Indentity Of Plane Involved

3 Bombs Fall on Swedish Navy Base   Investigation Begun Of Unidentified Plane: No Casualties

Losses to Axis In Tunisian War  Total 324,000   Allies Report That 30,000 Are Killed During the  Campaign.   Heavy Air Raid Made On An Italian Island

AXIS LOSSES IN NORTH AFRICA TOTAL 324,000   Number Includes Casualties in Final Tunisian Campaign Only

St. Joseph Crew Leaves Today On Errand Of Mercy   Axis Lost 324,000 . Troops In Tunisia   Seven Perish, Thousands ~ Homeless; Indiana, Damage Mounting

Axis Lost Many ~ Men IN Africa   OVER — 320,000 TROOPS CAPTURED AND KILLED

AXIS LOST 324,000 MEN IN AFRICA   30,000 Killed, 27,000 Seriously Wounded, 267,000 Captured, It ls Announced   IPANTELLERIA IS HIT HARD

: Axis lost almost third of million troops in final throes “of African campaign; allies hammer Pantelleria, Trapani

Axis Army Lost 324,00 In Tunis  Italian Island Hit By U. S. Air Corps

FINAL REPORT SAYS 30,000 TROOPS DEAD   Figures From Mareth Line To Final Surrender   Made By American Fliers On Pantelleria Island; Ship Destroyed

Losses to Enemy Mount in Africa  Third of Million Men Out of Action

Axis Losses In Tunisia Listed   Germany And Italy Lost 324.000 Men   97 Per Cent Of All Pearl Harbor Wounded Survived

PANTELLERIA IS LASHED BY 100 TONS OF BOMBS   Flying Fortresses Also. Smash at Important Sicily Base of Trapani

324,000 TROOPS LOST IN AFRICA BY AXIS FORCES   Believe 30,000 Enemy Soldiers  Killed In Area

GERMAN-ITALIAN LOSSES HEAVY IN TUNISIAN BATTLE   Total of Dead, Wounded and Captured Placed at 324,060 Men.   30,000 WERE KILLED   Seriously Wounded Totalled 27,000 and the Captured 267,000.

AXIS LOST OVER 300,000 MEN IN TUNISIAN SCRAP   ‘Nazi, Italian Losses in Kill ed, Wounded and Captur : ed Are Reviewed

African Finale Cost Axis 324.000 Troons   Losses from Smashing of Mareth Line to Final Downfall Included 30,000 Killed, 27,000. Seriously Wounded, 267,000 Captured.

Axis Losses In Tunisia At 324,000   Covers Period From Mareth Line Attack to End of Campaign

27,000 WOUNDED SERIOUSLY WITH MANY PRISONERS   224.000 Men Captured By Allies During Final Few Days, Heavy Raid Made On Pantelleria. .   BIG RAIDS MADE TO SOFTEN UP GERMANS   Russian and German Armie In’ Key Sectors Make Pun: ches, Feelers To Prepare For Big Battle.

AXIS LOSSES IN AFRICA PUT AT 324,000 MEN   267,000 Prisoners Taken After Mareth Line Smashed, Eisenhower’s Headquarters Says   ITALIANS STRAFED   Heaviest Raid Yet Made on Pan. felleria, Flying Forlresses Bomb Trapani

German, Italian Tunisian Losses Reach 324,000   30,000 Killed, 27,000 Are Wounded And 267,000 Captured, Report Shows

Axis Casualty List Reaches 324,000 In  Tunisian Campaign   Figure Includes Estimated 30,000 Killed, 27,000 Wound: ed, and 267,000 Captured; Heavy Air Raid On Italian Island Is Announced

324.000 LOST BY AXIS IN TUNISIA AFTER MARETH LINE BROKEN; BOMBS BLASTING ITAL)

ENEMY LOSSES IN NO. AFRICA TOTAL 324,000  ALLIES CARRY WAR TA ITALIAN RACEC:

Allied Bombers Blast Island Of Pantelleria   Axis Losses Placed At 324,000 Men; Italian People Warnec

Tunisian Campaign Cost —  Axis Total Of 324,000 Men   Official Announcement Discloses 267,000 Prisoners Captured; Fort resses Heavily Damaged Sicilian Base And Pantelleria.

324,000 AXIS ~~ "TROOPS ‘LOST’   Cost of Last Defense o: Tunisia Is Reported

Reveal 324.000 Axis Troops Put Oui of Action   Figures on Enemy Collapse in Tunisia AnnnlrAroad Tadayv

NORTH AFRICA LOSS TO AXIS SET 324,00   Halian Isle Heavily Hit By Bombers From America

TOTAL GERMAN AND ITALIAN LOSSES IN TUNISIA 324,000 MEN  _ HEAVY RAIDS BY NORTH AFRICA BASED BOMBERS ON ITALIAN POINTS

Axis Losses 324,000 In North Africa Allies Say   Figures Are Those From Time Mareth Line Was Broken Wo To Surrender

Axis Losses From Smashing of Mareth Line To Final Surrender Revealed As Near Third of Million; Blast At Italy From Ajr.

FLIERS HIT AT ISLANDS   Heaviest Raid Of Wa @ Is Made By Yanks On Pantelleria

Axis Losses In Tunisia Mount To 324,000 Men; Yanks Batter Pantelleria

AXIS LOST TOTAL OF 324,000 MEN IN AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. JTALIAN PANTELLERIA BOMBED   were  ~GHttcial Figures on Losses Are: 30,000 Killed, 27,000 Seriously Wounded and 267,000 Taken Prison>r During Entire  MMi Tig i Oe

Americans Closing on Japs at Attu   Axis Man Losses In Tunisia  Campaign Totaled 324,000

Axis Losses In Tunisia  Are 324.000   Heavy Damage Shown On ‘Stepping Stones’ To The Continent

Cut out basic glider course   Advance training will get emphasis

BREAKER OPENS ESCANABA PORT   First Ore Carries Expected to Come Through Todav.

EOCANABA HARBOR OPENED 10 SHIPS   Ready for Ore Shipping; Construction of New Docks Halted.

NATIONS’ FUTURE BROADCAST THEME   Friendly Meeting Cements Countries President Visits Army Camps  On Southward Journey

Sy lowan S vindled  i : Texas   One of Alleged Confidence Men Arrested in Nevada,  FBI Announces

POISON GAS USED ON CHINESE TROOPS   Hish Command Says That “Con     siderabie Castalicis’ Were  Inflictsd By Jars

SUBSTITUIE DRAFT MEASURE PASSED BY SENATE, 69 TO 0      House Leaders Assure Quick Action To Tighten Deferments, Boost Allowances

HOUSE EXPECTS SPEEDY ACTION ON GRAFT BILL.   Senate Substitute For Wheeler Deferment Will Get Quick Action

SENATE BACKS FATHER DRAFT, INCREASES All   House Sentiment Strong To Hike Dependency Allowances

SENATE MOVES TOTIGHTEN DEFERMENTS   Acted Unanimously Last Night; House To Act Quickly 

Increased Allowances Voted For Servicemen’s Families; In Wheeler Bill Substitute

House to Act To Tighten Up Draft Deferment   Bill Is Passed In Senate by, (69 to 0 Vote

Troops Aid Fight Against Flood In Omaha Area  Airport Threatened;   Airport Threatened Carter Lake, la.,  In Grave Danger

PARPPPPPPPPOPRPPAPPPPAPAS  600 Soldiers To Help In Omaha Flood Area

WORKERS STRICKEN BY FOOD POISONING   Over 300 Ill, Five Seriously at Erie, Pennsylvania

300 Ill After Cafeteria Meal   IIIness Described As Ptomaine Poisoning

300 War Worker: Are Stricken   Doctors And Nurses Mobilized At Ege  Afttae Palaanines

300 POISONED   Cafeteria Meal Suspected Ir War Workers’ Sickness.

Food Poisoning In Erie Plant Under Probe   Over 300 Workers In Gen. eral Electric Plant Stricken After Luncheon   FIVE BELIEVED SERIOUS

GREEN BEARISH   Doesn' Think = Labor Unity's  BPoealthtcs Liniadieinte

WEATHER IS NORMAL.   Warmer Temperatures Return to State With Sunshine

SOCIETY GIRL IS. FOUND BEATEN ON HARLEM ROOFTOP   Dog Howling In Moonlight _ Adds Sinister Touch to Mystery.

Navy Prepares For New Drive   Knox Says Japs Will Be Given Hard Blows

GREAT PACIFIC - BLOWS HINTED   Preliminaries Over, Heavy Assaults on Japs Coming, Knox Says

Hard Blows Against Japs Coming Soon. Knox Asserts   Preliminaries Over  In Pacific Campaign, Navy Secretary. Says At Press Conference   NEXT U. S. ATTACK MAY HIT MARSHALLS   Statement Expresses Navy’s Confidence Of Pacific Mastery

KnoxReyeals Eve of New Pacific Blows  Confident U. 8. Navy   Confident U. S. Navy Defies Tojo in Talk of Next Push

GIRAUDIS READY TO LEAD FRENCH IN EUROPE RAID   Want Overseas Council To Govern Empire, DeGaulle Told

Giraud Looks Forward To Invasion   Hopes To Lead French Army of 300,000 In  Venture; Says Provisional Gov’t Must Wait

Big Battle Not Joined -Yet---Knox   Flying Forts, U. S. Troops Smash At Foe At Rabaul And On Guadalcanal

Decisive Naval Battle Still Forming   Tokyo Reporis New Fighting—Jap Bases Bombed

Pacific Battle Brewing   Secrecy Shrouds Area As Rival Fleets Spar For. Position; U.S. Air Force Is "Active

U. JAP WARSHIPS NEAR GIANT CLASH IN SOLOMONS AREA   American Army Gains on Guadalcanal While Flying Fortresses Smash Enemy at Rabaul.

JAP BASE AT RABAUL I$ BOMBED   U.S. Army Troops On Guadalcanal Make yi  New Advances 

Spar for Opening In South Pacific   Maneuvering May: 'Precede Showdown Battle of U. S.-and Japs   GAIN ON GUADALCANAL   Allied Bombers Smash Ene‘my Bases at Rabaul a and Buin

Showdown Battle For Pacific in Opening Phase   Tokyo’s Claims Of Damage to Ships Denied

FOES BATTLE FOP POSITION IN SOLOMONS   !Great Showdown F ight Involving Fate of  Pacific Seen

No Details Of Yank - Japanese Naval Sparring   Jabs Preceding Show down Battle In Solomon: Area Continue.

Remember   Fate Of Pacitic Hinges On Fight Due Anv Minute   Military Secrecy Is Hiding Movements: Early Jap Claims Derided

Military Secrecy Veils Developments In Solomons Area   ‘U.S., Jap Naval Units Reported — Still Maneuvering for Showdown Battle in Southwest Pacific.

Maneuvers In Pacific Continuing   Major Naval Battle May Develop Soon In  Southwestern Area   Army Makes New Gains On Guadalcanal Island   U 5S. Planes Bomb Jap Concentrations  At Rabaul And Buin

Pacific Fight,  If Any, Cloaked  With Secrecy Even Tokyo Gives  Only Repetition Of Earlier Claim -

Showdown Is Imminent In Sea Battle   Navy Keeps Lid Or Vital Operations In The Pacific

YANK TROOPS ADVANCING ON GUADALCANAL   Navy Reports Indicate Only That Huge Sea Ficht Is in Prospect

FLEETS OF AMERICA AND JAPAN MANEUVER FOR TITANIC BATTLE  MILITARY SECRECY HIDES CRITICAL SOLOMONS

Fleets Move In For Fight   Americans Advance From Henderson Field Positions In Solomon Islands.

Bighth Army Drives Along Road To Isernia In Italy, As Six More  “Towns Fall To Allies; Four German Torpedo Boats Sunk   GERMAN RETREAT IN UKRAINE ALMOST ROUT

GREATER TAXATION OF SPENDING ASKEL   Economics Professor Presents Anti-Inflation Plan To Senate.

What Gripes You? OCR Asks People And Gets Answer   Butter, Meat, Sugar, Soap, Elastic, and Hosiery on List

 Civilians Found to Be Annoyed Most  By Loss of Little Peacetime  Comforts — Butter, Meat, Soap, Coal

 Governmenf Now Knows "What's Griping You"  Butter and Meat Tops on the' ‘Miss Parade”

TEN THOUSAND MINERS HAVE LAID DOWN TOOLS AND SLOW DOWNS ARE REPORTED IN OTHER MINES.

Mine Union Leader Ignores Request for List of Names  STATEMENT TO BE GIVEN AFTER MEET ‘Hearings on Dispute Are  Scheduled for Wednesday

War Labor Board Asks Mine Chiefs lo Halt Strikes   sees Danger ot War Effort Snubbed Again by John L. Lewis   resident of United Mine Workers Ignores Second Telegram

Mine Union Leader Ignores Request for List of Names  STATEMENT TO BE GIVEN AFTER MEET  Hearings on Dispute Are Colhadulead fae Wed,   Hearings on Dispute Arc Scheduled for Wednesdayv

‘abor Board Asks Miners To Halt Work Stoppages ~ As Dispute Nears Climax      “0,000 Diggers Lay Down Tools and Walkout Is Spreading; Lewis Again Snubs Federal Officials by Ignoring Request

Work Stoppages Bring WLB Plea   Coql. Mine Strikes Spreading Rapidly:

WLD Appeal Fails To Halt Stoppages  In Coal Area  More Walkouts Occur Despite Telegrams   More Walkouts Occur Despite Telegrams To Lewis and Other Mine Union Of fjcials   UNION OBSERVER SEES STRIKE SPREAD

Appeal Against Coal Mine Work Stoppage Made   WLB Makes Plea to Union After Snub From John L. Lewis

WLB CALLS UPON MINERS TO HALT WORK STOPPAGES   Appeal Sent to Union Chieftains as 10,000 Coal Diggers Lay Down Their Tools.   ACTION FOLLOWS SNUB OF BOARD BY LEWIS   Latter Ignores Summons to Hearing and Declines to Submit Names for Investigatory Panel.   RIVIETIN.

WLB Appeals fo UMW Workers to Halt Work Strike   Seek to Halt Coal Production Stoppage; as Climax Nears

LEWIS SNUBS LABOR BOARD SECOND TIME   10,000 Miners Lay Down Tools In Unauthorized  Stoppages; Panel Is Selected   Slow-Downs Reported

BOARD REQUESTS MINERS NOT TO STAGE WALK OUT   Lewis Snubs Federal! Agency By Refusing To Pick Member Gf Panel   10,000 MEN IDLE IN BITUMINOUS FIELDS

WLB Appeals to Labor Heads; 13,500 Miners Are Idle During Quarrel; War Production Suffers Bad Threat

13.500 Idle As Lewis Saubs Board's Plea   Coal Wage Dispute Moves Toward Climax: Panel Designated and Hearings Ordered

WLB Urges Halting of Coal Strikes   10.000 Miners Quit Work As Crisis Nears

‘Via appeals UMW to halt spreading mine work stoppage   Additional walkouts occur as Lewis maintains silence despite appeal

WLB Asks Union To Keep Coal Mines Operating  10,000 Miners Quit Work, Others Slow Dow  Bituminous Production LEWIS OBDURATE  Refuses Aid, and Board Names Panel to o Study  fe ae

LABOR BILLS IN OHIO SPOTLIGHT   Assembly Action Expected During Next Week After Four-Day Recess

Third War Loan Opens Unofficially Wednesday; Sales Leaders Will Meet

Problems Of War AindFuturePeace Will BeDiscussed   British Foreign Minister Will * Talk With F.D.R. And Press Today.

Anthony Eden Flies To U. S. For Series Of Talks Seeking Closer Allied Co-Overation

SECRETARY IN U.S. FOR VITAL TALKS   Parleys Intended to Bring Allies Together for Discussion of War and Peace Problems.   VISITOR TO SEE ROOSEVELT TODAY,   Trip Made in Churchill’s Plane—Diplomat to Inspect American War Factories.

LONDON SENDS TOP ENVOY 10 WHITE HOUSE   UNITED NATIONS ASK SAFEGUARDS FOR JUST PEACE

ANTHONY EDL ARRIVES IN U.S   British Foreign Secretary Reaches Washington   TO TOUR FACTORIES   Plan Talks Aimed at Cementing United Nations in Fuller Understanding

Diplomat Plans Exchange of Views on War   Briton to Make Tour Of War Factories; Issues Arising Out Of War to Be Studied

ANTHONY EDEN IN WASHINGTON TO KNIT ALLIES   Hull Ends Florida Vacation to Join Momentous Conversations

British Foreign Secretary Arrives for Conferences  INVITATION ISSUED BY UNITED STATES Great Wor Effort of the  ‘Nations Will be Viewed

itish Foreign cretary to See vosevelt Today  inter-United Nations Jiscussions on War situation Forecast  TOUR NATION  *ost-War Problems \lso Expected to Be xiven Close Study

Talks Aimed at Cementing Fuller Understanding Among United Nations

Few Details Of Purpose Of Trip Given   Giant Plane Bearing Foreign Minister Also Has Other Officials

Talks To Aim At Fuller Understanding   Joe Stalin Reported Pleased With Britisher’s Trip

ANTHONY EDEN IN WASHINGTON FOR CONFERENCE   British Diplomat Will Discuss Questions Arising  Out Of The War   STALIN INFORMED OF JOURNEY HERE

EDEN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON   British Secretary Will Exchange Views On  Problems Arising From War

Today's War Commentary  Key To Sicily  Allies Mav Rely On Plane-Tank Tear   New Orleans Cotton

Seek Support For 1944 Farm *Food Program   Administration Would Guarantee Essential Increases

Farm Subsidy Battle Drawn   Rural Groups, Congress Bloe Fieht Pavment

FOOD SUBSIDIES DRIVE LAUNCHED   Billion - Dollar Benefits Proposed To Boost Farm Prices

REDS SMASH NAZI DEFENSE 18 MILES SOUTH OF KHARKOV   Counter-Attacks  ‘Broken In Some Of. Fiercest Fighting Of This   Campaign

REDS TIGHTEN RING ON KHARKOV WAZIS   Main German Defense Line South Of City Smashed

Air Attack On Europe In Full Blasi   Thunderous Explosions Are Heard in Southeast Eng.  land Today

Soviets Draw Kharkov Trap Still Tighter      Drive Ahead To Capture New Series Of Towns, Villages Encircling Strong Base

NEW GERMAN DEFENSE-LINE     Resume General Advance Along Kharkov Front

SOVIETS SMASH ~-MAIN NAZI LINE — IN DONETS AREA   Russians Resume a General Advance On Kharkoy   CAPTURE TOWN ONLY 21 MILES FROM BASE

Red TroopsBreak Main Defense Line on Donets River.   ‘Occupy German Position After Breaking Attacks

Russians Smash Main German _  Donets Defenses   Press Closer To Nazi Base At Poltava As _ Kharkov Circle Closes

MAIN DEFENSE LINE OF GERMANS BROKEN BY REDS   General Advance on Kharkov Front Céntinues All fiona Main Line.

REDS SMASH MAIN GERMAN DEFENSE LINE   Resume General Advance On the Kharkov Front

2. ew 2 huss Gain at Bryansk, Take  ‘Twenty Towns   Moscow Claims Resistance of Kharkov Front Overcome

GERMAN DEFENSE SMASHED 18 MILES SOUTH OF KHARKOV   Russians Occupy Right Bank of Donets River  Below Citadel Held by WNeawis

U. S. Aimysa Official Pocket. Guide. to ~NEW GUINEA and the SOLOMONS Telling What the Customs Are and  Ly vce ten Klint) A dw et et tth ehh wn TAn inkl   Starting in Next Wednesday's Issue  U.S. Army's Pocket Guide to  ALASKA

STATE AGENCIES ON SLOW’ TIME   Effective Even In Cities Voting To Retain Eastern War Time

SAY NAZIS MASS IN S. E, EUROPE   Troops Are Counter Balance to Turk Pledge of Allied Friendship

Report Movement Of German Troops In Turkish Area      Believe Reports Are Axis-Inspired To Counteract Conference Results

WIDESPREAD SHORTAGE IS BEING FACED   Better Distribution Is The Key, Say the Officials

CONDITIONS RIGHT FOR FLU EPIDEMIC   Noted Authority Warns Industry to Safeguard Work. ers; Deaiin Rate Up

BOMBERS WRECK  SOUTHERN ITALY  RAILWAY SYSTEM YANKS AND BRITISH  AIRMEN RANGE FAR TO CRIPPLE ENEMY

TRAI NTRS PARALYZEDIN TOE OF ITALY   Air Scourging of Areas  South of Naples Sees No Let-up as Damage Is Surveved

Blasts-On Roads Hit Traffic Hard   Southern Italy's Railroad es Demoralized By Bombings   ARE VITAL IN DEFENSE.   Yesterday's Strafing Was Carried Out Against Fighter Opposition

SENATE OPE” DEBATE ON * TAX BILL   Revised Ruml Plan Near Vote: Opposed by Administration

Martin Cabinet To Be Completed Early This Week   T. C. Frame of Franklin is Mentioned for Highways Secretary

RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN CAUCASUS AREA   Reds Also Report Local Successes in Small Scale Fighting.

RUSSIANS SEIZE ‘KEY STRONGHOLD ~ OF NAZI DEFENSES   [Russians Are Making Progress In Caucas Drive. 600 Germans Dead and 13 Tanks De etroved.

RAYBURN SAYS SKIP-YEAR TAX BILL IS DOMMED   Speaker of House. Predicts  Its Defeat When. It. Is Put to Vote Tomorrow or Thursday   MARTIN CONFIDENT   Republican Floor Leader Says Proposal to..Eliminate Part of 1942. Pay ments Will Succeed

BATTLE RAGES ON RUML TAX PLAN   OPPONENTS PREDICT DEFEAT AS SPONSORS EXPRESS CONFIDENCE

House Is Split Three Ways on. Tax Propos  NONE MAY BE ABLE TO GET MAJORITY.

“Willow Run” Of The South Nearly Finished   Will go into large scale production in less than a year; look to women for employees. —

7-Week Nazi Air Losses in ‘Russia 3,645   Latest Bombings Start Large Fires in Hangars, Parked Aircraft

Reds Say More Than 3600 Nazi Planes Destroyed in Drive to Cripple Foe's \Air Power Before Anticipated Push

REDS DESTROY THOUSANDS OF GERMAN PLANES      Russians Determined To Crippl Axis Air Power; 3.600 Planes Lost

Reds Destroy 3,600 Aircraft      276 German Planes Lost In Past Week

NEGRO SEDITION SOCIETY BARED   Nipponese Agents Try to Stir Up Trouble In U.S. Armed Forces

Chiefs In Black . Dragon Indict ed   ‘Jap Society Faces. ; Gharaé Of Sedition

JAP SEDITION CASE IS BARED   Black Dragon Society Is Charged With Inciting Negro Disloyalty

Grocers Given ‘Panic Buying’ Ban Authority   Brown Says Government Will Approve Limit Of Meat Sales

‘PANIC BUYING’ HIT BY BROWN   ‘Stores Told To Act On Own To Combat ‘Rushes’

EAR MUFFS FOR SPUDS   Forecaster Commenta on St. Patrick’'s Day Planting

Clothe Your Spuds Warmly   Colder Weather Will Make St. Patrick’s Plantings Hazardous

Devers Thinks Sub Morale To Suffer   Doubts German Crews Can Stand Up Under Beating

. A.F. Bombings Precipitate Strike  Of 50,000 War Workers in Italy

Italian Strike Report Follows Rumor Of Nazi 'U Boat Crews Mutiny

SUVIETS FOLLOW FLEEING ENEMY OUT OF KHARKOI   Entire German Line In Ukraine Is Expected To Join In Retreat

NAZIS RETREAT WEST OF KHARKOV WITH RUSSIANS RIGHT ON HEELS   Military Experts Believe Germans Are Falling Back To Shorten Lines  Of Communication.

~ IN IRKES’ TALK   Mine Strikers Are Scored. As Official Hints At War Goal

Win War First, Ickes Urges Coal Miners   Says Grievances May Be Justified, but No Man Must Obstruet Military Victory

Patriotism Plea Made To Coal Miner:  Strikers Are Tol: U. S. Is On Eve Of Big Drive

ICKES CALLS ON ALL MINERS TO WORK IN CRISTS   Declares Nation Today Stands “On Eve of Greatest Military Campaign of History.”   GOAL IN WAR EFFORT IS ABOVE COMPLAINTS   Asserts Coal Diggers Are Not Only Ones Serving Country Under Economic Disabilities.

vays No Man Can nterfere with Military Goal   xpresses Belief Men D Nof Understand Grave Crisis   onditions Improve, bu! 130,000 Miners Are Still Idle

ICKES REQUESTS MINERS TO GO BACK TO WORK   No Man Or Group Can Be Placed Above Nation’s Mili tary Goal, He Says      100,000 ARE IDLE IN PENNSYLVANIA

Ickes Appeals For All Miners To End Strike   Asks Men Still Out To Return To Jobs For Sake Of Nation, Regardless Of What is Done About Wages

\CKES APEALS TO MINS TO RESUME FORK   Says Coal Must be Dug Regardless of Action on Wages

MINERS CALLED BACK 10 WORK   Men Who Hold Back Are Guilty Of Sabotage, Ickes Declares

229 Plant Inspectors ITo Be Named   Manpewer Commission Will Send Men Into War Plants to Speed Up Production and Increase Efficiency

HARBOR DRAFT “OF FATHERS IS UNDERWAY   Number Called in This State Restricted Information

G00D JOB DONE BY ROYAL NAVY   Activities Being Shifted To Pacific: U-Boats In Atlantic Whipped

BRITISH NAVY MORE ACTIVE IN PACIFIC   Admiralty Says Shift in Strength Made Possible by Encouraging Turn in Battle of Atlantic.

British Step Up Aid in Pacific   Royal Navy Shifting Warships to Area.

‘Royal Navy Turns Increasing Force  ‘On Jap With Victory in Atlantic

One of Spies On Hunger Strike   Has Refused Food  Ever Since Arrest

ONLY A FEW GERMAN REAR GUARDS LEFT BEHIND TO ENGAGE EIGHTH ARMY; FRENCH REPEL GERMAN THRUSTS.  re a a eee val

AXIS FORCES ARE FLEEING BURNING CITY   Only Rearguards Left Behind to Oppose British, Who Are Expected to Occupy Port Shortly.   ROMMEL TROOPS ENTER TUNISIA   Protectorate Is Scene of Bitter Battles With Germans and Italiang Being Driven Back.

Remnants Of Rommel’s Army Believed To Have Escaped Into Tunisia   FIRES ARE SWEEPING VITAL LIBYAN PORT

Main Axis Forces   Racing to Tunisia   Von Arnim Thrown Back From Strategic Hill By American Aid   Mussolini’s African Empire Passing Out   His Troops Sent on Ahead; Only Thin Nazi Guard Left in Capital

ROMMEL GETS AFRICA CORPS OUT OF LIBYA   STRIVES FOR UNION WITH NAZI FORCE IN TUNISIA

Remnants Of Rommel Army Info Tunisia   Tripoli's Fall Only a Matter of Hours; Fire Sweeps Cify

Rommel’s Fugitive Africa Corps Moving Into Tunisia   TUNISIAN ARMY OF  AXSS IS REPULSED   British Reported in the Suburbs - of Tripoli

ROMMEL'S ARMY STILL FLEEING INTO TUNISIA   German Rear Guard Fights Bitter And Bloody Battle  Before Retiring.

REARGUARDS OF AXIS FIGHT DESPERATELY IN DEFENSE OF CITY   Africa Corps Believed to Have Fled Into Tunisia; Von Arnim’s Forces Smashed Back in Tank Battles

Rommel Leaves Only Rearguard   Nazi Attempt For Corridor Smashed

Desert Port  Set Afire By  Fleeing Axis Only Rearguard  Units Left To Challanaa Beech

Last Major Defenses of  Tripoli Fall   Bombed, Bombarded City Swept by Fires, Some Set by Nazis  AXIS DRIVE HALTED

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Only Few Germans Left Behind to Engage in Bitter Last-Minute Action Amid Smoke of Bombs, Fire

NEW WHISKY TAX PROPOSAL FACES GROUP   Solons Hope To Force Liquor On Market

NEW WHISKY-TAXING PLAN PROPOSED FOR ‘SENATE TAY BI]   MEASURE CARRYING LESS THAN TWO BILLION DOLLARS ALMOST READY

WHISKY TAXING PLAN PROPOSED   Suggested Revenue Measure Upsets Tradition

WHISKEY TAX PROPOSAL IS UP TO SENATE   Members Hustle to Get 1943 Revenus« Bill On Floor

Tax Bill May Reach Senate Floor Friday   Levy on Whiskey One of Many Problems Confronting Committee   BIG DECISIONS MADE

WHISKY TAXES BRINGPROTEST FROMBARKLEY          Proposal ‘to Reduce ime “In Bond-Stirs’ Fight; Kentuckian: Asserts Program Upset

Decision Nearing  On Whiskey Taxes  Seek Levy On 117 Millian Gallons

Whisky Taxes Being Rushed   50-Year Old Plan May Be Upset ‘To’ Provide ‘New War ‘Revenues

SUPER-HEDGEHOG DEFENSE LINE S PLANNED BY NAZIS   Germans Belfeved ~—_ Behind Construction Schedule on “Soft Under Belly!"

GERMANS PLAN ~ VAST SYSTEM OE COAST DEFENSE   Atlantic Coast Well: Defended; South Europe Poorly   ITALIAN DEFENSES NOT BELIEVED FORMIDABLE

Nazis Believed Lagging Behind Schedule in Efforisto Build — Up Defenses Against Invasion

GERMANS SPEED UP PLANS 10 DEFEND AGAINST INVASION   Allied Plans. A Secret ‘Nazis Behind Schedule But “Soft Spots” Are  Bolstered ,

ITALO COAST ILL PREPARED FOR INVASION   Hedgehog System Has Been Used Where Defense Fortifications Have Been Constructed

BROWN FACES OPA CRISIS   DECISION ON LABELING OF CANS TESTS POWER

Grade Labeling Issue Critical For OPA Chief   Future Of Prentiss Brown In Administration Hangs On Forthcoming Decision

DECISION NEAR ON GRADE LABELING OF ALL CANNED. GOODS      Canners May Have To Grade And Label Products According To U. §. Standards

Yank Troops Cleaning Up Final Resistance Of Japanese Upon Attu   Split Enemy Forces In Small Groups On Island

Attu Battle in Clean-Up Stage Now   Jap Forces Split Into Many Small Entrenched Groups

Jap Units on Attu Cut to Small Grouns   Some of the Battling High In Mountains Above Clouds

JAPS ON ATTU “ARE SPLIT UP   Navy Says They Figh With Hopeless Desperation

No Prisoners, Much Booty Captured in Attu Island Battle   American Troops Face Severe Hardship —in— Aleutians Struggle

Jap Airfields Vacant After Bombardments   U. S. Planes Have Knocked Out Enemy Airdrome Of Kahili

Three Vital Jap Airfields Useless   Enemy Planes Gone - Following Bombings

U.S. Knocks Out 3 Vital: Jap Airfields   Rabaul Approaches Taken Out By Massive Aerial Bombings

JAPAN LOSES THREE LARGE PLANE BASES   Loss Of Important Station Is Big Blow To Enemy

THREE. VITAL JAP. .AIRFIEERS BOMBED INTO USELESSNESS  AIRDROMES HAD BEEN EXPECTED TO BLOCK Al LIED RABAUL ADVANCE

Three Jap Air Fields Put Out   Americans Bomb Them So Effectively Enemy Has Abandoned Them

Airfields Are Knocked Out   40,000 Face Trap as Wey Is Cleared for Atteck on Raboul

Three Vital Jap Bases Ruined By American Planes   Enemy Abandons Big Fields After Bombs Ruin Installations

Tht MAIN Alh hots Ot JARO KNOCKED OUT   Enemy Fields Are Abandoned After Terrific Pounding By Allied Bombers

SMASH THREE NIP AIR BASES NEAR RABAUL   ‘Clears Way for Invasion o' Jap Stronghold in South Pacific

Air Power Paces Solomons Drive Toward Rabaul   Japs Forced To Abandon Three Vital Airfields Without Struggle .

THREE MAIN JAP AIR FIELDS ARE PUT OUT OF USE   Bombs Render Vital Enemy Airports In Southwest Pacific Useless; Bitter Jap Attacks Near Finschhafen Repulsed.

JAP AIR BASES KNOCKED OUT   Loss of Vital Airfields Aids American March Up Solomons

3 Airfields On Rabaul Route Are Destroyed   Enemy Planes Abandon Kahili, Kara, Ballale Strips After Pounding   FOE REFUSES FIGHT   Knockout Punch Is Delivered Saturday By Four Raiding Parties

JAPS § ABANDON 4 VITAL FIELDS   Air Bases Depended On by Nips Are Rendered  Useless

3 Airfields Vital To Japs Made Useless By Bombines   Poses New Problems For 10,000 Of Enemy On Bougainville Ishind: Nip Air Power Stripped

Three Big Jap Airdromes Are Knocked Oui   Enemy Planes Abandon  Fields Used as Outer Guard for Rabaul

Allies Nullify Jap Airfields Guarding Rabau!  Three Key Panel ing Strips Knoe

Japs Blasted From Ring Of Plane Field:   Concentrated Raids Wipe Out Protective Cirele  Around Rabaul.   -BOUGAINVILLE THREAT

ALLIES SMASH JAP AIRFIELDS   Kahili On Bougainville Was Core Of Enemy Resistance

JAP AIRFIELDS BOMBED INTO USELESSNESS   United States Fighters Knock Out Airdrome of Kahili and the Kara Strip   ALL ARE ABANDONED

Vital Jap Airfields Blasted Into Uselessness As Attacks Are Speeded In Rabaul Area

Vital Japanese Air Bases on Approach  to Rabaul Wrecked   MacArthur Announces Successes of U. S, Fliers in Solomons

Yanks Knock Out Three Vital Jap Airfields   Bombers Blast Nip Airfields In New Guinea

Nippons Had Depended on Bombed: Out Airfields to Halt American Advance To Rahaul

Three Vital Jap Airfields Ruined  Enemy Planes Leave Smashed Airdromes

Airdromes Deserted After Smashing Raid  Bian dreds af Fnemv Planes Blasted   Hundreds of Enemy Planes Blasted In New, Lethal Blow in Solomons

THREE JAP AIR BASES WRECKED IN SOLOMONS   Enemy Forced by Daily Raids to Abandon Kahili Airdrome, Fields at Kara, Ballale

FRENCH COLUMN JOINS BRITISH AT TRIPOLI   SMALL EIGHTH ARMY UNIT REPORTED 30 MILES WEST OF PORT

Nomen Who Plan To E SPARS May Report Tht interview, Physical Ex:

Announcement at 9, CWT, May Concern Allied Consultation   London Press  Seethes With Anticipation;     News From Africa

LIQUIDATION OF WPB LABOR DIVISION SEEN   Two Potent New Bureaus Are Moving In On Field to. Absorb Few Re- — maining Functions’   PRODUCTION UNIT SHORN OF POWER   New Divisions Are “Manpower Liaison’ and-“Management-Labor Council,’  Feconomist Drafted

FDR Tanned and Fit, Reaches Washington   Meets Tumultuous Reception of Top Government Officials, Starts Planning Round of Conferences

Back  Home   President is Tanned And Fit After Long Trip to Conferences In the Middle East

Roosevelt Back in White House Bronzed and Smiling, But in Need ~_ of Haircut; Given Noisy Welcome   Won't Appear Before. Congress: Until He. Delivers Annual Message; Plans World-Wide Radio Talk Christmas Eve

WARM. WELCOME GIVEN PRESIDENT ON RETURN   Appearance Before Congress Not Expected Until Next Year

BRONZED AND SMILING, FDR RETURNS HOME   Reception Staged By Congressmen

Congress Chiefs Welcome FDR at  His Arrival Home   President Arranges For Conference With Diplo mats This Afternoon.   Looks Tanned and Fit; In Need of Haircut

ROOSEVELT GIVEN GREAT RECEPTION ON RETURN HOME   Cabinet Members, Other Top Officials Gather In Reception Room of Mansion To Greet Executive.      LE.WERS WILL GET REPORT IN NEAR FUTURE   President Will Not Appear Bofore Congress Until Anmual Message, Radio Address December 24.

Capitol Hill Must Wait Till January   Chief Executive Greets Diplomats, . Party Leaders

BIG RECEPTION FOR ROOSEVELT ON HIS RETURN   President, Tanned and Smiling, Remarks He’s in Need of Haircut

Tanned And Fit, President Is Given Hearty Welcome Home   “TI Need A Haircut, John,’ He Tells Negro Attendant At White House: Family Greets Him

TUMULTUOUS WELCOME IS GIVEN F. D. R.   President to Touch Upon Recent Parleys In Christmas Eve Message.

ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON   ‘Given Hearty Welcome by Men Of Both Parties

PRESIDENT BACK AT WHITE HOUSE   APPEARS TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH AFTER TRIP TO MID-EAST

President Returns As Many Problems Keep Congress Busy   Tanned and Smiling Chief Executive Arrives at White House From Overseas War Conferences—First ‘Report’ To Be Made To People — Lawmakers May Postpone Action on Controversial Issues

F. R. Returns To Acclaim Of Capital *   Warm Welcome Given Executive; to Talk On Christmas Eve

TOP OFFICIALS JOIN GREETING TO EXECUTIVE   Host of Senators and Congressmen of Both Major Parties Meet President at White House   CONFERENCES PLANNED

ROOSEVELT BACK HOME, TANNED, FIT   Vice President, Cabinei, Congressional Leaders Welcome Returning Chief Execulive   QUICK CONFERENCE   President Decides Noi to Address Congress Before He Delivers Annual Message in New Year

NOISY GREETING EXTENDER E.D.R   Cabinet- And Government Officials, Legislators On Hand

Needing a Hair Cut Roosevelt Confers With Cabinet and Top _eaders

ROOSEVELT BACK IN WHITE HOUSE AFTER MOMENTOUS JOURNE\  - BRONZED AND SMILING BUT IN NEED OF HAIR CU1 --PRESIDENT COMES HOMI

Home From War Front   President Will Speak To  World on Christmas Eve.

WASHINGTON GIVES BIG WELCOME   Five Weeks and A Day After He Left for Middle East He Is Back Safe .  And Sound oes

ROOSEVELT IS BACK HOME; 10 MEET DIPLOMATS   Will Make Radio Taik Christmas Eve To Nat'on

FDR Will Broadcast  Yule Eve  Capital Gives Chief A Heartu Welcome

BROWN AIDES QUIT; CRITICS POUND AT OPE   MASS RESIGNATIONS DENIED; FARMERS PUT IN KICKS

OPA SHAKEUP BRINGS ON 2 RESIGNATIONS   Fleisher, Phelps Leave After Disputes Over Policies On Hold The Line Order   Brown Defends Prices

Fresh Criticism of Agency Brown Admits Two Aides Quit In Dispute Over OPA’s Poliey

Two High Men In OPA Quit Over Policy   Director Denie:  Rumor Of Mass  Dow enntinn

Policies of OPA Again Attacked On Capitol Hill   Brown Admits Two Aides Quit, Denies Mass Resignations

Brown Admits Two Aides Quit In Policy Argument   OPA Administrator, However, Denies Mass Resigna: tions and Declares That the Agency Is “Going About Its Business” _

Brown Admits Two Aides Quif In Policy Disptite   Fresh Criticism of OPA Develops; Food Division Reorganized

Changes in OPA Are Minimized by  Prentiss Brown Clitet Acknowledges,

Two More Aides Abandon OPA in Policy Protests   Other Resignations Re ported and More Are Said To Be Planned

OPA Is Not Falling To Pieces Yet   ADMINISTRATOR BROWN DENIES MASS RESIGNATIONS AND DECLARES AGENCY IS GOING ABOUT ITS BUSINESS.

OPA Head Denies Staff Resigning   Admits Two Quit Over Hold-the-Line Order

APPROVE K.U. HOSPITAL   University Gets $49,377.83 for Training Cadet Nurses

LIEUT. J. BR. MUDD ' WEDS ST. LOUIS LADY TO-DA*   The Groom Is Son of Mr. and Vits. Charles B. Mudd of This. City.

MARRIED BY FR. — STRAUSS AT ST.  PETER’S CHURCH   Miss Rasalie Saale Became the Bride ‘ of Andrew Schneider Saturday Mornine.

NOVOROSSISK IS IN POSSESSION OF RED TROOPS   Springboard For Assault Upon The Crimea Falls After Street Fighting   RUSSIANS ARE NOW 55 MILES FROM KIEV

REDS REGAIN WARSHIP BASE ON BLACK SEF   TRAIL IS SHORTENED TO KIEV, UKRAINE CAPITAL CITY

Novorossisk Is Cantured By Russians   Way Opened For Big Drive Toward Crimea

Armies Near Capital Of Ukraine   Events Now Threaten - Bryansk; Other Stroncholds Crumble

Novorossisk and Novgorod Severski Recaptured  GUNS ARE BOOMED FOR TWO VICTORIES  Nazis May tiave to Abandon Last Caucosian Foothold

Reds Take Black Sea Port, Lunge On Toward Kiev   Nazi ‘Eastern Wall’ Near White Russia Smashed By Soviet

RUSSIANS TAKE BLACK SEA PORT IN STREET FIGH   Capture of Novorossisk After 5-Day Struggle Paves Way for Attack on Crimea.   RACE THROUGH TOWN 55 MILES FROM KIEV   Swift Pace of Stalin’s Forces Indicates They May Reach Dnieper This Week-End.

Reds Recapture Novorossisk: Race to Nosovka   Within 55 Miles of Kiev; May Reach Dnie per Over Week End

Russians Open Way to Crimea,  Push Nearer Kiev Smash ‘Eastern Wall’   Smash ‘Eastern Wall’ Guarding White Russia Nazi Radios Silent

REP, DISNEY CRIES POLITICS AS RESULT TAX ACTION DEMAND   OKLAHOMAN ATTEMPTS DEFEND HIS COMMITTEE’ LACK GE ACTION

GOP LEADER IN HOUSE PLAYED BY DEMOCRAT   ‘Rep. Disney Charges Mar tin With Playing Politics ; Over Controversial  i Tax Bill   MAKES SHARP REPLY   Republican Says House Should Be Given Chance To Vote on Pay-AsYou-Go System

GOP Playing Politics, Says Rep. Disney   Charges Rumi Plan Is Being Brought Up Again. for Political Purposes   MARTIN SEEKING VOTE ON-ISSUE   Few Surface Indications of Any Break in House Deadlock

Private Dies When Hit By Stray Bullef   Is First Casualty Of Kind At Air School

Bombing Of Berlin  Resumed   Nazis Seek to Minimize Damage Done by Big R.A.F. Bombers

NAZIS. CAPITAL DEALT TRAIL BLOWS BY RAE   Four-Motored Bombers Leave Widespread Devastation In Reich First City

PAY-£0 TAXATION ENDORSED BY Gi   Union, However, Opposes Rum Plan on Ground It Favors Wealthy Persons.

NEW DRAFT RULING FOR FARM WORKERS   They May Seek Employment Elsewhere During Slack Periods Without Losing Deferment Status

FARM WORKERS GET BREATHER   Job Done, They Can Take Essential Industry Work; Keep Status

Farmers May Take Other Job  Won't Lose Draft  Deferred Status If Eccential Work

Boy, 13, Accused Of Rape-Slaying   Body of Girl, 10,  Is Found in Field

SOVIET TROOPS LUNGING AHEAD ON ALL FRONTS   Key Junction Point Falls in Smashing Red Drive

HUSSIANG GET ARMAUI AND 12,000 NAZI   Capture. Key Junction Point on Central Caucasus Rail Network. —   BLOCKS ONE MORE LINE OF RETREAT FOR NAZIS

Armavir Captured By Reds; 225,000 Germans Forced Into Retreat   Germans Believed to be Abandoning Maikep Oil Fields To Avoid Entrapment;  Russians 40 Miles From Restoy

Jap Convoy Is Moving on New Guinea   Airmen Prepare to Blast Ships When Weather Permits

14 VESSELS THREAT TO NEW GUINEA   Weather Prevents Allied Planes From Attack

Weather Hampers Bombers   Fourteen Warships Ready To Serve As Targets When Storm Front Lifts.

Consumers Expected To Have Same Supply Available at Same or Lower Prices

Citrus Fruits  To Be Lower   Portion For Consumers To Remain About Same

20 Per Cent Withholding Tax Is Okehed   Levy Effective July Ist Gets Tentative Approval Of House Subcommittee   FOUNDATION PLAN   First, Second Parts Of 1942 Obligations Must Be Paid First

Criticizes Release of 28 JapaneseAmericans Described as Youth Branch of the Black Dragon Society of Japan,

Mother Dies — In Defending Deserter Sons  Deputy Sheriff Is Wounded In North  Caraling Rhnekuc

Nation’s Labor Situation Grows More Critieal With Chrysler Plants Still Idle

STRIKES DARKEN LABOR PICTURE   Akron Rubber Factories Have Walkouts; Tank Arsenal Closed

Reds’ Baltic Army Batters At Vitebsk   Water Barrier Crossed And 20 Villages Freed: Thousands Of Navzie Said Slain

GERMANS SMASH AT RUSSIANS ON ~— AQO-MILE FRONT   Gigantic Tank Offensive Begun Between Zhlobin in White Russia and Southern Ukraine.   REDS WITHIN GUN RANGE OF VITEBSK   Cross Water Barrier to. North of Big Nazi Base, Killing Several Thousand Enemy Troops.

PRESIDENT OBSERVES HIS BIRTHDAY; WHEREABOUTS NOT KNOWN TO NATION

PRESIDENT IS 61 YEARS OLD TODA\   Roosevelt Probably in South America After Eventful Trip te Africa.

PRESIDENT 61 YEARS OLD TODAY   Where and How He ‘Is Spending Day Is Not Known

TODAY HEALTHY   Strain of. World’s’ Greatest War Noticed But Only Slightly.

d .D.TravelingOn 61st Birthday?   Not Possible To Reveal Where Or How President  Observed Anniversary; Physical  Shape Excellent

LEWIS” PLAN FOR RETURN OF UMW TO AFL IS A NEW ONE      Strange Move Is Made by Labor Leader—No Interpretation Is Made As Yet.

Lewis Petition To Return _ UMW Union To AFL Banner Has Experts Speculating

Labor Stunned By Lewis’ Bid   ‘Take Us Back,’ Miner Chief Asks AFL

LEWIS UPSETS LABOR WITH A. F.L. APPEAL   Miner Union Chief Seeks Readmission With Group

Labor Circles Baffied By New Move Of UMW   SOME PREDICT POSTWAR FIGHT WITH CIO

NSE AA Fhe ALANS  WASHINGTON, May 20 (AP)—John L. Lewis' return to the door step of the American Federation of Labor stunned al! but a few insiders i labor circles today and left them aroping for an explanation.

Lewis Stands On AFL Step And Knocks   Labor’s Prodigal Son Seeks Return to Fold

Lewis Seeks To Re-join AFL Ranks   Surprise Move by UMW Chief Believed To Have No Bearing On Soft Coal Wage Dispute

Watchmakers Defeated   Lewis And U. M. W. Seek Membership In A. F. L.: Unified Labor Movement Believed To Be Obiect

LEWIS’ MOVE STUNS LABOR   Asks Return to AFL Fold: Application Welcomed

Reunion of Miners > and AFL Is Sought by President Lewis   Petition of Chief of Min. ers Union Stuns Labor Circles

Green Announces Request Received From UMW Head   Move May Overshadow Break Made From Union Seven Years Ago

Labor Leaders Surprised at Request of Lewis’ UMW for Readmission to AFL

Wants Unified Labor Movement   Some Think U.M.W. Head Had No Other Place To Go

LEWIS STUNS NATION AS HE TURNS TO AFL   Critics See Labor Leader Turning to Green's Union Seeking Place  To Go   RESULT SPECULATIVE

LEWIS ACTION BIG SURPRISE   Petition for Return of UMW To AF of L Welcomed By Leaders,

‘LABOR CIRCLES STUNNED BY LEWIS’ PETITION TO PLACE MINERS IN AFL

JOHN L. LEWIS SEEKS TO RETURN MINERS TOA. F.L.   FORMALLY PETITIONS ON BEHALF OF UMW FOR READMISSION

LEWIS’ EFFORT TO REJOIN AFL STRANGE MOVE   Surprised Labor Leader:  Try To Evaluate  Strategy

Lewis Asks To Get Back Into A. F. of L.   Sudden Move Stuns Labor Circles; May Be Desire For Unity; Or More Influence

LEWIS BIDS FOR ~ARETURN TO AFI   Explanation Sought Fox Latest Action Of Min ers’ Leader

Surprise At Lewis’ Return  To The AFL   Miners’ Czar Takes Only Path To Boost  His Qwn Stature

Lewis Seeks  To Jom AFL   Petitions For Readmission To Federation On Behalf Of Miners.

Motives Behind Latest Move Not Revealed By Miners’ Union President

JOHN L. LEWIS 18 SEEKING TO RETURN TO FOLD OF AFL   ACTION DECLARED EVIDENCE OF DESIRE FOR UNIFIED LABOR PROGRAM

Lewis’ Bid To Return UMW To AFL Fold Is Welcomed   All bui Few Insiders Stunnéd. by. Sudden Mave: Motive Behind: Aetion fis. Sought.

LEWIS WANTS READMISSION TO AF. OF L.   All But a Few Insiders [In Labor Circles Stunned By Petition   AFL WELCOMES ACTION

LEWIS PETITIONS A..L. FOR READMISSION   Move Stunned All But Few Leaders in Labor. ‘Request Will Be Considered in Sympathetic Wav.

Lewis Asks UMW Berth In AFL Fold   Sudden Decision To Rejoin Green Surprises Labor

Lewis’ Request To Get Back Into the A.F.O.L. Has Everybody Guessing

Leaders Ponder Lewis Aci   MOVE ROCKS U. S. LABOR HEADS; U. M. W. CHIEF ASKS A. F. L. ENTRY

Lewis Trying To Return UMW To A.F. of L.   Mine Chief May Be Planning Political Strategy

Lewis Seeks fo Rejoin A. F. L.   President of United Mine Workers Mokes Surprising Move

LEWIS ACTION PUZZLES LABOR   U.M.W. Leader Seeks to Return His Following to A.F.L.

Lewis Asks AFL To Take Back Miners   Critics See UMW Move As. Tactic To Force. ClO To Accept Peace Terms   GREEN OFFERS HAND   Friends Of Mine Chief Cite Unity Motive; Two! Hitches Are Sean

Lewis’ Return To AFL Stuns Labor Circles   Union Chieftain Makes Appiication For Readmission

Reason for Move Raises Speculation   Some Believe Aim Is to Oust William Green

LEWIS STRATEGY ON REJOINING AFL PUZZLES LEADER   Labor Units Speculate or Mine Czar’s Objectives " In Mave.

Why Did Lewis Decide To Jump Back To A. F. L.?   Most Observers Believe Action A Maneuver For Additional Power.

LEWIS ASKS AFL FOR READMISSION   Petitions For Miners, Some Believe Move Entirely For Other Purpose.

Lewis’ Bid to Join AFL Stuns Labor   ‘Miners’ Chief Formally Peti tions AFL for Readmission   in Surprise Move

Return of Lewis to AFL Doorstep Surprises; Many Seek Explanation

Lewis Seeks ToPutMiners In AFLGrour   Labor Leaders Grope for Reason Behind Mine Chief’s Move

Labor Stunned By John Lewis’ Return to AFL   Unpredictable President o UMW Formally Petition:  For Readmission.   Shows His Desire For Unified Labor Move

MOVE BY LEWIS TO RE-UNITEUMW WITH AFL 1S PUZZLING   Guesses Say It May Be An Attempt To Strengthen Both Labor _ Groups

CAMEL SABOTEURS   Not All Troubles of Yanks From Enemy In Africa

Coal Operators Ask WLB To Return Mines   May Complicate Four-Month Truce

‘Move Threatens A-Months Truce Halting Strike   Miners. Go Dack On Condition Government  ) Continues Control

Erwin Harry De Spretter, 53, Accused of Gathering Vital War Data For Germany   HELD ASSOCIATE OF ERNEST F. LEHMITZ   cH  iahimitz Admits Sending News of American Wear Preparations to. Nazi Intelligence Service

FBI Arrests Aide to Spy in New York   ‘Model Citizen’ en’ Supplied Nazi High Command with National Defense Data

FBI ARRESTS ALLEGED AIDE OF NAZI SPY    Consulting Engineer for Nationa! Defense Plants Accused of Aid ine Lehmite

2ND MAN HELD AS NAZI SPY   Another New Yorker. Seized on harge He Aided German High Command.

Second held on charge of enemy spying   FBI announces New York arrest

FBI Arrests Second Man As Nazi Spy   Says De Spretter Aid To Lehmitz

FBI Arrests Man On Spy Charges   Defense Engineer Said Collaborating With Nazi Informant

Second Man Taken as Spy   Charged With Getting War Information for German High Command

Lehmitz Aide Under Arrest   Consulting Engineer for National Defense Plants Faces Espionage Charge

Another Seized As German Spy   Consulting Engineer For National Defense Plans Held.

FBI Arrests Second Man On Espionage Charges; le Said Ta Have Collaborated With Lehmitz

Second Man In FBI Toils As Nazi Spy   Defense Plant Engineer Aceused of Plotting . With Lehmitz

Spy Ringster Nabbd by F.B.I   Second Naxi Aide OF Hitler Tumbles Into Government Net

Second Man Faces Charges Of Espionage   Consulting Engineer For National Defense Plants Arrested By FBI As Lehmitz Accomplice

German Confesses Sending Data In Invisible Ink  N. Y. Air Warden Arrest Held

Two Men Held As Spies As FBI Closes In On Espionage In New York   Zealous Air Raid Warden and Friendly Host To Men in Service Confesses Sending Information on Convoy Sailings

AMERICANS TAKE NAZI POSITIONS TN EAST TUNTSII   U.S. Troops Score Success In Mountain Battle South Of Tunis

AMERICANS DRIVE GERMANS FROM MOUNTAINS IN EASTERN TUNISIA   Fighting Is Hampered By Rainy Weather In Afewtcean Theatre Of War.

Another Coal Tieup Starts   ‘No Agreement Reached As Deadline On Truce Passec

Coal Strike Feared Near   New. Crisis Confronts Nation: Parley Fails

Miners’ Wage Parleys Fail To Reach Pact New Coal Crisi:  Confronts U. S. Ac Truce Ends

SGT. BERT KROON WOUNDED IN WAR   Sioux. Center Soldier left With K Company ' In 1941

Sioux: “Center : ter © Soldier. left With K Company A& In 1941-..

Franco Seeks to Rally All Spain Behind His Government, Grants Amnesty to Prisoners

OPENING JAILS   Political Amnesty Is Amon¢ Broad Spanish Changes

FRANCO TRIES TO RALLY ALL SPAIN   Political. Amnesty for Many Prisoners Decreed”

MAG. BUCHANAN DIES IN FULTON   Mother of Presiding Judge of Cole County Court I-A Year

‘Mother of Judge Buchanan Dies.   ) Mrs. Jchn H: Buchatian “Succumbs at Home of Dauchter in Fulton

DENMARK VOTERS BACK DEMOCRACY   Nazi Party Shows Only Slight Gain Despite German Army Support.

Danish Election Is Great Democratic Demonstration   Five Dominant Parties, United On Platform of National Unity, Poll 62,000 More Votes Than In Last Election In 1939 Despite Yoke Of Occupvine Germans

DANES THUMP NAZIS AT POLLS   Smashing Demonstratior of Democracy Is Given

SHOW SPIRIT   Danes Turn Out To Polls For Record ‘Democracy’ Vote.

Nazis Suffer Big Defeat In Dnieper Battle   Russian Armies Move Within 50 Miles Of Perekop

Leaders Await Captive Totals From Red Front   See Number Of Prisoners Determining If Defeat Is Major - Catastrophe

HAVE SUFFERED MAJOR DEFEAT   nay Men Await Mos. a in. Troops  Killed and Captured and Equipment Destroyed

Prelate Broadcasts Holiday Message   Archbishop Talks Over National Network

“ATTACK™ IS NEW COURSE, F.D.R. SAYS   Grim, Unrelenting and Smashing Will Be Drives From Now On, North Ireland Troops Told in Message.

FDR Promises Army inlrelane To Get Action   President Says - Days of Defense Past for Allies —

Announcement to  Be Made at 9 P. M.   Allies Think of Attack—F. D. R.   He Sends Message on Anniversary of U. S. Landing in Ulster

Roosevelt Promises Men Battle Action  “Attack” Is Only Word, He Wires  es . tienen ieee, &

a  FDR Tells Soldiers in Northern lreland That From ‘Now on We Think of Atfack’

ANNIVERSARY OF “THE LANDING OF US. TROOPS IN IRELAND   A Message From President Roosevelt Read at the Ceremony..   WAS HELD AT BELFAST   “From Now on We Think of Attack, Smashing Attacks”, Message Said.

sUADALCANAL $1 FORCES HOLD 17 ON TO GAINS    STIFF ATTACK TOBE COURSE OF US TROOPS   ROOSEVELT SENDS MESSAGE ON ANNIVERSARY OF IRISH LANDING

MRS. FRANK TRAUTT IS CALLED BY DEATH   Sickness Had Extended Over Si: Months Period; Rites ‘Tuesday Moraine at Akron

MRS. FRANK TRAUTT CALLED BY DEATH   ‘Tiness Had Extended — Over, Six Months Period; Rites Tuesday Morning

PRAISES COURAGE OF MEN   Wichita Soldier Remained Cool in . Face of Danger

FINAL VICTORY FORESEEN BY   Nation “Delivering Goods” for Offensives Against Foes

FINAL VICTORY FORESEEN BY PRESIDENT   Nation “Delivering C,oods” for Offensives Against oes

DOOM OF AXIS S TOLD I LEWD LEASE   President Triumphan‘ly Announced Complete Victory Assurcd.   FIGURES ARE GIVEN   United States Is Outbuild ing the Axis in Every Categcry.

WAR OUTPUT ~ NOW BEYOND AXIS TOTAL   ANNUAL LEND-LBASE REPORT REVEALS BOVIET UNION RECEIVED MOST MUNITIONS FROM THE U, 3.

Navy’s Top Fighting Admiral Drives Jap Fleet Into Hiding Since Pearl Harbor Raid

Increase Recommended By U.S. Armed Forces For ‘Dependency Allowances

SEEK BOOST IN DEPENDENT PAY   Minimum Increase Of 10 Per Cent Recommended To Congress By Armed Forces.

Allowance Increase Is Recommended   Would Boost Sums Paid Servicemen’s Dependents

Service Men’s Dependents Due For Extra Help   Armed Forces Urge Min imum 10 Pct. Increase In Child Allawancec

Raise in Dependents Pay Urged by Armed Forces in Bill to Congress

Benefits Pay Boost Urged   Congress Asked to Increase Help for Servicemen’s Families

FRISCO NAVY SUPPLY PIER HIT. BY FIRE   come In Spectacular Blaze

30 Hurt as Fire Menaces Navy  Pier, Munitions 100 Coast Guardsme  peeves cid Smoke Cc.  semamartcae ZA

Mass: Evacuation of Essen Is Under Way as Result of Terrific Bombings by RAF

UNARMED DOCTORS TAKE 20 GERMANS   Treating Wounded Corporal When Surrounded by Patrol.

MYSTERY VEILS WAR IN PACIFIC   Attack on Wake Island May Mean New Allied Drive

NAVY Y SWLENT “ON WAKE RAID   Japanese Seek To Flee Solomons Through  Sea-Air Net

Silence Shrouds Action at Wake  If Landing Was Made Central Pacific Drive May Be On

U. S. Silent On Success of  Wake Attack   Nothing Known Except Japanese Report of “Powerful” Yank Raid

ENEMY TRYING SOLOMONS EXIT   Japs Evacuate Vila Air Base: Await Details On U.S. Wake Raid

Drive on Wake May Mean New Pacific Action   Navy Remains Silent on Plans To Take Island

Japanese: Hold In West Pacific Being Loosened   Much Depends On U. S. Attack On Wake Island Outpost

Aim of Attack on Wake ls Shrouded   Use of Landing Parties ; Would Mean Opening . of Campaign   TO OPEN THE PACIFIC   Vila Air Base in Solomons: Has; Been: Evacuated _by Japanese

Silence Veil Covers Wake Island Atfack   Washington Awaits Word Whether It Was Raid or Opening of Pacific Offensive

SITUATION AT WAKE ISLAND IS A MYSTERY   Silence Shrouds Activities for Moment on Focal Point of Many-Tentacled War

NEW YANK DRIVE IN PACIFIC SEEN   Attack on Wake Island May Mean Beginning of Great Campaign

Silence  Shrouds Wake   YANK ATTACK SEEN AS NEW RAID OR STEP TO TAKE CENTRAL PACIFIC

Navy Silent on Blows at  Wake Island   Central Pacific Campaign May Be On, But Definite -Word Is Lacking   GOODS NEWS FROM MacARTHUR DRIVES

SILENCE SHROUDS ATTACK ON WAKE   ‘Await News Of U.S. As sault On Pacific Island  Held By Japs   IVILA IS ABANDONED   New Successes Scored. By  Allies In South Pacific  Drive

SILENCE STILL PROTECTS WAKE ATTACK BY U, S.   Hint Drive May Be on Tr Retake Island from Japanese

Meat Rations On Same Basis   No Rationing Change To Be Made In May

No Change Is Seer In Meat Rationing  Plan to Continue It On Weekly Basis

Seer et Rocket  ‘Gains Respect   Mlies Collecting Data. On W cape Germans gon  “Wilk Test Out”

“No Bluff” in Rocket Shell Of Germans   Allied Officials Have Enough Information to Know Secret Weapon True

Proj ectile Of ‘Rocket Gun  Weighs50 Tons   Allies Not Taking ‘Secret. Weapon’ Talk By Nazis As Bluff

Nazis ‘Secret Weapon’ Is ‘No Bluff’ In Opinion Of Allied Officials

Rocket Gun Not a Bluff   Milied Spies Report Nazi Weapon Is Being Readied.

Babson Forecast For 1943   Predicts Increased Prosperity For Agriculture

Babson Sees Industry Boom EVENTS MOV ING AT BREATH- TAKING SPEED

BABSON MAKES ANNUAL SURVEY OF CONDITIONS   Effect of Wartime Is Evaluated By Expert   Reteil Trade

DEMANDS OF WAR WILL RULE. TRADE OR 1943: BABSON        Ni ilian Business Face: = harp Curtailments. * New Problems

SINK A SUBMARINE   Brazilian Fliers Win E Win Duel Near Rio de Janeiro

Japs Trying Te Take Offensive In South Seas   Heavy Air Battles Are  Fought Between Foes And Allied Fliers   Jans Claim Gains Made

HEAVY AIR FIGHTS MARK RENEWAL OF PACIFIC OFFENSIVE      Jap Planes Suffer Heavy Losses’ In Atternpted Raid On Ora Bay, New Guinea

Private Bus  Use Is Cut   Picnics, Dances, Races Fairs. Baseball Hit

See Slim Hope For Increased Coffee Ration   ‘No grounds for optimnistic attitude of some people, reliable information points out.

LITTLE HOPE ON INCREASE IN COFFEE   Shipments from Brazil Are Still Not Enough

Like New Leader   Appcintment of Lord Mountbatten Hailed With Approval in Asia

SIX INCLUDED IN THIS DRAFT CALL   Left Today for for Army. Ex  '‘aminations at Fort

SIX INCLUDED IN THIS DRAFT CALL   Left Today for for Army Ex - __aminations at Fort   ~ Crook. Neb:

ALLIED LEADER IN INDIA HELPS PLAN STRATEGY   Many High- -Rank Officers Accompany Premier to Washington

Chinese Drive to Edge of Ichang   Take Important Jap Base of Kungan

Chinese Turn Jap Offensive _ Into Big Rou   Chinese Seize Kungan, Smash : Into: the Outskirts of Ichang on Yangtze

China Seizes Kungan Ares   Japanese Are Routed in Heavy Offensives

Badoglio Tells King He Must Abdicate Before New ‘Government Can Be Formed

ABDICATION OF KING VICTOR IS BEING DEMANDED   Monarch Told That New Government Is Impos sible While He Reigns

lfalian Regency May Be Invoked   King Told He Must Give Up His Throne

Italian King Is Facing Crisis  His Reign Blocks Cabinet Formation

King Must Quit, Says Badoglio   Premier Won't Form Government Under Him

ITALIAN RULER IN TOUGH SPOT   King Told New Regime Not Possible While He Is In Power

Reds Drive Wedge Into Nazi Lines   Hurl Back Enemy On Kharkov Front

Are Planning for a Prisoner Trade   Japanese-American Transfer May Be in Portuguese India.

EVIDENCE PILES UP AGAINST LONERGAN IN WIFE’S SLAYING      Many Discrepancies Found In Suspect’s Story’ Of His. Visit To:  - New York

Adopt Report Against Race Discrimination   Admission To Unions On Same Basis Of Equality As Whites Is Favored By Head Of AFL

Debates Race Diserimmation   AFL President Wants No Distinction Between Color ed, Whites.

AFL DEPLORES RACE PREJUDICE   Extensive Debate on Discrimination Heard

Battle Continues  To Control Leros  Greeks Join in Island Clash, Stop Fierce Assault by Germans

GREEKS JUIN FIGHT   Storm Ashore on Leros to Shift - Balance in Battle

GREEKS RESCUE BRITISH TROOPS   Join English on Leros in Time To Stop Invading Nazis

CREEK TROOPS TURN TIDE OF BATTLE OF LEROS   Andarts Storm Ashore Last Friday and Reversed Situation for Allies

GREEKS TURN TIDE IN LEROS BATTLE   Germans Demoralized by Attack from Reor

Greeks Smash Nazi Thrust .on Leros   FIERCE ANDARTS REVERSE ISLAND SITUATION; 2000 GERMANS ARE KILLED

Greeks Storm Ashore on Leros, Rout Nazis, to Strike First Revenge Blow

GREEK ANDARTS TURN TIDE OF LEROS BATTLE   ‘uerrillas Land. al Night ic Support British, Attack Nazis from Rear, Cope with ‘Chutists

Greeks Reverse Leros Situation   Refugees in Turkey Say Andarts Strike Revenae at Nazis

ANDARTS TURN TIDE ON LEROS   FIGHTING GREEKS SAVE BRITISH ON DODECANESE ISLE

Turn Tide On Leros   Greek Andarts, Put Ashore at Night, Hurl Back German Troops

Greeks Come to Aid Of Embattled British   Storm Ashore on Leros, Catching  German Invaders From the Rear In Gurnrice Attack by Sea

Greeks Swinging Battle On Leros   Situation Said Better On Island

REFUSAL TO REDUCE SALES TAX ASSAILED   Bricker Says He’ll Reject Ex penditures Of Fund

seeks Hit “At Solomons   Another Effort May Be ‘Under: Way To Retake « -Guadaleanal Area ~”

New Jap Attempt To Drive ‘Americans From Guadalcanal  In Offing; 3 Air Raids Made   Repeated Attacks Indicate Nips Launching New Drive For Island

New Campaign Believed In Offing. ....  Japs Prepare For New Drive On Guadalcanal

RENEWED JAP RAID BXPRCTED IN SOLOMONS   Three Air Attacks-Against   ULS) Positions Over   Weekend Indicate Foe ‘Planning New-Bout   DAMAGE “SLIGHT”   Jap Tactics On Guadalcanal In Past Have. Been to ~ Follow:Up-Raids With  - Transport Forces

Three Air Attacks Made on Island Over Week end.   JAP SHIPS SUNK: IN RABAUL. HARBOR

DRAFT BOARDS TO BE DRAFTED SAY OFFICIAL:   §. 8. Heads ‘Decree They Will Help Returning Vets Find Jobs

METER TAKE WAS $920.03   City’s Share for September Collec. tions Was $230.01.

METER TAKE WAS $920.03   City” s Share for Septe September Collec. tions Was $230.01.

REPULSE JAPS IN NEW GUINEA      First Surge of Ground Action Initiated by Enemy in Nearly One Year—Attack Allied Positions in Mubo Area

JAP ATTACK IN GUINEA ROUTED   Drive Seen Effort To Remove Threat To Lae And Salomaua Bases

JAPS INITIATE GROUND ACTION IN NEW GUINED   Suffer 100 Casualties Ir First Land Attack In Year

IAPS NEW GUINEA “ATTACK REPULSEL   Reds Methodically Smast Nazi Air Power, Four Jap Vessels Sunk In China.

JAPANESE OFFENSIVE IS QUICKLY STOPPED   First Surge of Ground Action by the Enemy in New Guinea in Nearly a Year Repulsed, General MacArthur Reports in Communique Issued Today—Jap Lines Given Thorough  Machine_fuanina.

GIN MARRIAGE LAW DOOMED   SEE STATE SENATE OKAY ON THREE-DAY ACTION

May Repe Repeal “Gin Marriage” law”   Demobilization of * Guard Proposed

YUGOSLAVS ARE NOW FIGHTING AMONG SELVES   Gen. Mihailovic Says Par tisans Have Attacked His Troops 2   EXCELLENT HARBOR TAKEN FROM NAZIS

Strike In Ottumwa Plant Settlec   Adjutment of Intermediate Wage Rates

N.Y. City Egg Dealers May Halt Selling   Threaten to Stop Wholesale Dealing if Ceiline Is Not Set

“TOMAR SCHOOL   Resumption: of Classes I Without Hitch—new  “Teachers

COURT HEARS OF DEATH THREAT AGAINST SOLDIER     Woman Testifies in Park_ Holm Murder Trial     State’s Second Witness Tella Of  ge ke a Be      State's Second Witness Tells Of Happenings At Her Home On Night Of Killing

COURT HEARS OF DEATH  THREAT AGAINST SOLDIER   Woman Testifies in Park Holm Murder Trial   State's Second Witmesa Teta Of Happenlags At Her Home Ou Night Of Kiuling

TWENTY DEATHS.   Two Bad Accidents During Army Maneuvers in Tennessce,

NTY DEATHS.      Two: Tad Accidents During, Arm) “Maneuvers. in ‘Tennessee,

Row Between Axis Leaders IsReported ©   Nehring, Rommel Squabbling Over Authority

ROMMEL NEHRING SQUABBLE OVER (COMMAND   Hitler Intervention Fails To Reconcile Two High Aymy Officers

Informs Senate Probers “Canned Music” Makes First Class Band Sound Terrible   INQUIRY RESUMED   Banned Members of His Union From Playing For Records to Aid Live Musicians

Morgenthau Wants Bond Goal Toppec   Present Quota Assured as $12,014,000,000 Is Recorded

Second War Loan Drive Totals Over 12 Billion; Now Sure of Success

Production Gives New Meaning To Allies’ Threat  Japan Will Soon Feel All- Out Wrath of

FULL-SCALE WAR AGAINST JAPAN IS NEAR AT HAND   Munitions for Big Offensive, Together With Ships to Transport Them, Now Available,   BEAT-HITLER-FIRST STRATEGY UNCHANGED   Two-Front Fight Made Possible by Vast Production of U. S. and British Arsenals.

Production Gives New Meaning To Allies’ Threat  Japan Will Soon Feel All-Out Wrath of  America and Britain

THIRD MAN DIES FROM ACCIDENT   John Wilities, Jr.. Of Wickham, Succumbs In Hospital Saturday Night

SECOND VICTIM OF AUTO MISHAP SUCCUMBS HERE      Felix Farris And R. L. Johnston Die Of Injuries; Two Others Improve in Hospital

MORE FROST TONIGHT   Many Localities Report Lowest Temperatures of Season

U.S, RAILROAD WAGE DISPUTE ‘GOES TO PANE   Brotherhoods and Major Lines Unable to Agree At Mediation Board Pay Hearings   TO FILE REPORT   Unions Ask 30 Per Cent Wage Hike; Both Sides Decline Arbitration In Negotiations

RR Wages to Emergency Tribunal   CHAIRMAN COOK ANNOUNCES NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD HAS FAILED TO MEDIATE LABOR DISPUTE.   Demand 30 Per Cent Hike

Effort to Mediate Pay Dispute Between Major Railroads and Brotherhoods End Without Agreement

RAIL DISPUTE. PANEL SOUGHT   Wage Issue Unsettled Following Hearings by Mediation Board.

RAIL WAGE PARLEY ENDS IN DEADLOCK   NLRB Mediator And Five Unions Unable To Agree On Raise

FAIL TO MEDIATE RAIL WAGE ROW   HEARINGS HEAD FOR CONSIDERATION BY EMERGENCY PANEL

Fail to mediate railroad wage dispute; union heads to ask emergency hearing

Mediation on Rail Wage Dispute Fails   Emergency Board Is Expected to Be Named to Hear Case

FAIL 10 REACH AGREEMENT IN RAIL PAY CASE   Mediation Board and Brotherhoods are  Deadlocked

Rail Wage Raise Still Unsetfled .   Emergency Panel To Hear Claims

SAFE 10 PLANT SECOND CROPS   V-Gardeners Told Seed ings Must Be Helped  Along

CONSTRUCTION STARTS   Haworth Hall Is Being Remodeled On the K. U. Campus

Allies In Tunisia Are Consolidating Positions And Mop-up During Lull

Allies Prepare for Final Move   Lull Covers Tunisian Front; United Nations’ Troops Clean Up Front in Preparation For Last Drive to Push Axis Out of North Africa

QUINTS MAKING FIRST U, S. VISIT   Dionnes In Superior To Launch Five Ships At Sunday Ceremony

BAD WEATHER AID TO JAPS AT KISKA   Enables Them to Sneak in Supplies and Reinforcements

NEW CORSAIRS INTERCEPT JAPS   Thirty Bombers and Zeros Believed Headed for Henderson Field

With Our \ Soldiers \ and  #\ Sailors Jee               Thomas J. Frey Is Petty Offiee icer Third Class, U.S.N

Smashing Defeat Is Given Japanese   Half Of Planes In Attack On American Airdrome Are Reported Shot Down

SALES TAX IS HIT BY GRANGE   Demand Reduced Spending In Lieu of Increas ed Levies

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS         Speech Praising bican-British Aid couraging Note

FF 6UM DEPENDENCY BEING COM  PLETELY RULED OUT AND   SCORES OF OCCUPA  TIONAL DEFERMENTS —  BEING ABOLISHED

ALL MEN MUST GET INTO WAR WORK IF THEY WISH TO BE GIVEN DEFERMENT

WMC Moves to Eliminate 3-A Class In Draft   Men in 70 non-vital: occupations. to be nondeferable ‘despite de nendenev. Auril -1.

BRIDE'S MURDER CASE PROCEEDS   Possibility White Man May Have Killed Woman - Injected Into Case

Cotton Loan Rate Set For County   Schedule of Rates Announced By Strieber

Cotton Loan Rate Set For County  ‘Schedule of Rates Announced By

Reds Also Gain In Steady Push To Take Kharkoy   More Villazes Are Occupied In Stalingrad Area

IMPORTANT KEY CITIES CAPTURE!   Russians Drive Through To Rolling Plains Of Rostov Province   FIERCE FIGHTING   Berlin Radio Says Axis Troops Have Evacuat ed Voronezh

RED ARMY SMASHES ‘THROUGH NAZI LINES IN ROSTOY SECTOR  _ IMPORTANT GERMAN STRONGHOLDS HAVE BEEN RECAPTURED BY SOVIETS

REDS SMASH RESISTANCE IN CAUCASUS   Russians Threaten Rostov by Capturing Rail City ol Peschanokopskoye.   Successes Against Germans Continue

RUSSIAN ARMIES,     10 nar:   Other Russian Forces Within 78 Miles  Of Kharkov   HITLER TROOPS IN CAUCASUS CUT OFF

Key Strongholds On German Lines Are Threatened   Many Prisoners Are Captured Moscow Reports

Rostov Now Menaced by Red Forces   Smash Nazi Resistance To Capture Railroad City

MOSCOW TELLS OF NEW SUCCESSES   Reporis Capture of Giiy Below: Important Industrial Center of Kharwoy

Russians Push Into Plains of Rostov Sector   Railroad City of Peschanokopskoye Falls to Reds Who Threaten Rostov

SOVIET TROOPS CAPTURE VITAL RAIL JUNCTION   Push On Toward Rostov; Germans Flee Voronezh

ALSO CAPTURE VITAL CENTER “IN UKRAINE   In Addition, Communique Reports Many Successes ‘From Voronezh to Farthest Nazi Outposts in Caucasus.

Gain Is Made To Push Drive For Kharkov   Total Approximately 70,000 Prisoners Taken In 11 Days Of Fighting

Reds Smash Through Nazi Lines, Take Rail Point, Push Nearer Rostov Base

Railroad City Taken By Reds  Nazis Admit Evacua. tian aft Varaney

Reds Roll On While Nazis Admit Losses  Rostov Threatened As North Caucasus Army Advances

IMPORTANT STEP IN DRIVE 10 END NAZI POWER   Capture Rail City of Pesckanokopskeye and Threaten German Stronghold at Rostov Now 95 Miles Distant

Entered the Rolling Planes of Rostov Province, Capturing Railroad City of Peschanokopskoye.   ROSTOV THREATENED, THE RUSSIANS SAID   This Important Advance Was Reported a Few Hours After the Capture of Starobelsk.

Soviet Pushes A New Threat ‘To Rostov   Other Key Points Captured In Drive From Caucasus

Advance Offers-New Threat to Key City   Gains Reported at Many Points on Long Front; Eastern and Central Regions of Caucasus Cleared of Germans.

AEDS THREATEN ROSTOV ATTACK   Soviet Advances Place Armies in Favorable Position to Capture Key Nazi Base _

Reds Push To Rolling  Plains Before Rostov   Key German Stronghold Now Threatened By New Advance Of Russians In Which They Captured Important Industrial Center Of Ukraine.

Railroad City Falls to Army Of Caucasus   _Reds Drive Ahead in Effort to Ring ’ Nazis at Kharkov

CAN DRIVE ON ROSTCY FROM SOFTEST SIDE   Liquidate And Capture Invaders In Area  Of Kharkov   Reds Successful Fron Voronezh To Caucasus

Russians In New Threat To Rostov   Southern Jaw of Pincérs Sweeps Up From the » - Caucasus   MAY CUT OFF GERMANS   Axis Finds Remaining Po' "sitions in Caucasus Untenable

RESISTANCE OF NAZIS — SMASHED —   Entire Eastern And Central Caucasus Clear Of Germans

REDS THREATEN TO ERASE NAZIS IN ROSTOV AREA   Rail City Taken, Soviet: Continue Sweeping Advance in Caucasus

RED ARMY SMASHES THROUGH NAZI LINES IN ROSTOV SECTOR  IMPORTANT GERMAN - STRONGHOLDS HAVE BEE!

RUSSIANS SMASH GERMAN LINES IN NORTH CAUCASUS   ADVANCING REDS CONTINUE PROGRESS TOWARD ROSTOV

RUSSIAN FORCE CAPTURES KEY RAILWAY CITY   Hake Peschanokopskoye, Hit Rolling Plains of Rostov Province

Reds Spear Into Soft Side Of  Rostov Defense   Kharkov Push Also Moves Ahead With Capture Of Starobelsk; New Stores Of Booty Fall To Russians

French Slay Nazi Leader   Head of Germany's Manpower Board in Paris Shot te Death   10 Executed for Slaving Dutch Nozi   When Will It End? Monty Won't Guess   Piedmont Man, 89, Injured in Crash   Palace Blown Up   ‘Bad Pennies’ Face Legislative Death   Thunderbolt Hits 840 M.P.H. Speed in Dive

EIGHTH ARMY HOT ON HEELS OF GERMANS   Axis Forces Facing Supply Problems As British Take Port Of Tripoli

INDICATE LOSS OF SPITZBERGEN   Imply Smali Garrison Overwhelmed by Nazis

Spitzbergen Is Taken By Nazis   Arctic Base East of Greenland Captured

MOTORISTS GET BREAK  VATA CLITA. TT SCVAL SD owlt = 6 «4182 0)hlCUsSCD

Leather Strike Continues In Peabody-Salem  2,500 Workers Defy FDR Order

Withholding Tax Vote is Disputed   Vinson Challenges Committee Action

Proposed Tax Challenged   Full Committee Must Act on Withholding Plan, Say Legislators

SPEEDY AGTION ON “OAIP- YEAR- TAX” PROPOSAL SOUGHT   Authority of House Subcommittee Challenged on Latest 20 Per Cent With ‘holding Plan.

Italian Army Commander Tells King He Cannot Guarantee Resistance

Sicily’s Leader Says End Near   Report He Has Told King of Plight

ILLINOIS HAS” ~ SEVERE FLOOD   MORE THAN 100.000 ACRES OF FARMEANDS FLOODED. AS WATER CONTINUES   : ‘TO RISE

ILLINOIS FLOOD DAMAGE RISING   swollen Rivers Spreading Qver Thousands Of Acres Of Land

HIGH WATER IN ILLINOIS   Lands Inundated By Worst Floods of Years

HEAVY RAINS — CAUSE SEVERE FLOOD DAMAGI   107,000 acres of Illinois lowlands inundated by  rising water

Stalin Army Edges Closer To Vitebsk   Areas of Penetration On Dnieper West Bank Further Widened  FIGHTING IS SHARP

Berlin Radio Reports New Drives by Soviets North of City; Russians Also Drive Nearer Vitebsk

Soviets Widen Penetration on West Dnieper   Armies Edge Near Vitebsk in Face of Heavy Opposition

Batter Down Strong Nazi Resistance   Germans Report New Soviet-Prive on Kiev; Vitebsk Is Menaced

Reds Batter Down Stiff Nazi Atlacks   Russians Begin New Drive North Of Kiev, Foe Says

Red Forces Edge Closer to the Citadel of Vitebsk  LANDING REPORTED BEHIND NAZI LINES  Troops Lined Up Behind Sozh River for Great Assault

Kills 1,500 Germans in One Furious Hand-to-Hand Struggle and Captures Vital Hill.   NEW SOVIET THRUST AT KIEV REPORTED   Muscovites Push Ciuser to Citadel of Vitebsk in Face of Fierce Enemy Resistance,

BAN ON PLEASURE DRIVING TO BE LIFTED IN FAST TONIGHT: MOTORISTS ARE NOW ON OWN

Lift Ban On Fun Driving At Midnight  we ret &   Motevists Will Not Be Steoned

Ban Lifted, but Pleasure Driving Still Unpairiotic   Determination of What Is Essential Driving U; To Individual After Midnight — No More Gas Available

Auto Pleasure Driving Ban’ Ends Tonight   1 Ban, In Effect Since May 20, lifted At ‘Midnight -

M’NAIR TO WASHINGTON   Commanding U. S. General Was Wounded in Tunisia on April 23

General McNair Arrives In U. S.   Wounded Commander Returns By Plane

Lt. Gen. L. J. McNair Is in Washington   Went Directly to the Army Hospital; Was Wounded April 23.

Axis Squeezed Tighter Into Sicily Corner  . Air Offensive ‘Of Allies Has 

Allies Tighten Hold on Foe in  Sicilv Triansle ms oO   Air and Land Attacks  Reach New Fury; WNasic Dativa

SQUEEZE AXIS TIGHTER IN NE SICILY   Air Offensive Stepped Up Against Italian Mainland

U.S. Troops, Canadians  Advance As War in Sicily  Is Intensified   Indications Are That German 15th Panzer Division le Retreatine

ALLIES BLAST BIG AIRFIELDS OVER ITALY   Double Break Through O:% American And Canadian  - Units Threaten To Isolate Catania, Sicily.

7TH ARMY MOVES UP WHEN PANZER DIVISION RETIRES   2000 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Hamburg as Parl of Plans to Erase Second Largest City.   50 BOMBS PER MIN UTE, LOST 28 PLANES   British War Cabinet Meets in Extraordinary Session, Probably te Discuss Italian Peace.

SHOWERS TONIGHT   Thunderstorms Starting in North- west Forecast for Kansas

Ickes and U.M.W. Reach $1.50 Daily Increase Settlement for All Fields  WLB STUDIES DEAL  Miners Give Up 15 Min.  utes of Half Hour Lunch Time in New Pact

MINE WAGE PACT MEANS A COAL HIKE   Agreement With UMW For Increased Pay Will End Week of Stoppage.   To Raise Coal Price To Meet Wage Boost

MINERS TREK BACK T0 PITS   Return to Work With $1.50 Daily Wage Boost Concession

Increased Coal Prices  Predicted   Pay Boosts For Miners Will Lead To Higher Prices, Says Ickes At Press Conference

MINERS AWAIT WLB APPROVAL NEW WAGEPACT   Only Trickle of Workers Report At Operations; Granted $1.50 Daily Boost by Ickes   TO INCREASE COAL. COST TO CONSUMERS   War Labor Board Promises  ‘to Consider Today Agreement Reached With __ John L. Lewis

'Nation’s Mines Return Slowly To Production   Bituminous Workers’ Pay Increased $1.50 Daily; Lewis Orders Return

Increase Needed To Pay Miners *: $1.50 More Daily    Mine Leaders ‘Agree’ To Accept Full Raise They Had Demanded

SETTLEMENT MINERS STRIKE WILL MEAN COAL PRICE HIKE  ONLY TRICKLE OF IMMEDIATE RESPONSE BY

Mine Pact Will Mean ¢ Price Hike   “Ickes Expects to Request e Boost Because of New Pay’ Wike for Miners   MEN QRDERED TO PFETURN TO WORK   ®Full Production Is Not Probable Before Monday; $1.50 a Day Increase

MINERS GRANTED PAY INCREASE OF $1150 PER WEEK   Must Work Longer Hours, However; Expect Boost in Retail Cacts

SFTTLEMENT MINERS STRIKE WILL MEAN COAL PRICE HIKE   ONLY TRICKLE OF IMME DIATE RESPONSE BY WwW nm Wardvrnde   CTYNIVWTIAl

ICKES PREDICTS LEAP IN COAL   FUELS CHIEF SAYS NEW PACT WILL LIFT PRICE

Coal Dispute Ends With Pay Increase   Consumers to Pay More for Fuel To Make Up Difference Says Ickes

Coal Strike. Ends   ‘Miners Back to Work  Under Agreement Hik. ing Daily Wage $1.50; To WLB for Approval

PLANS TO ASK JPA APPROVAL OF CONCESSION   Estimated Increases Are From 15 to 45 Cents Per Ton

Coal Cost Increases  Predicted   ‘Miners Returning to  Jobs After Lewis’  Order

Ickes Gives Miners Wage Boost; End of Walkout Seems Near   Increase in Consumers’ Price for Coal to be Asked by Fuel Boss

Agreement Ends Strike; Miners to Earn $1.50 a Day in Additional Wage

IGKES TO ASK APPROVAL OF LIBDR BOARD   Secretary Says . Settlement with Miners Makes Hike Necessary. -- Soom

Ickes, Lewis Reach Accord onMine Wage   WLB Approval Remains Only Obstacle in Way ot Work Resumption

Mine Peace Will  Raise Coal Price   Ickes Will Ask OPA For Increase in Cost to the’ Consumers   MEETS LEWIS DEMAND   Will Take Till Monday to Resume Full Coal  i Production

Coal Price to Be Hiked fo Pay Boost in Wages   Secretary Ickes Believes Disturbance In Coal Field Is Over; Miners to Work

Ickes Reports Pligher Prices tor Coal Needed  Increased Pay For Miners Under New government Contract

New Contract Given Miners   $1.50 Per Day Boost Is Granted; Work Return Seen Next Week

Increase To Consumer Is Sure: Ickes   With Pay Boost Assured, Miners Begin Trickling Back To Work.

AGREEMENT WITH ICKES CALLS FOR $1.50 A DAY MORE   DIGGERS ORDERED TO RETURN TO PITS BY JOHN L. LEWIS

Lewis-Ickes Deal Authorizes $1.50 Per Day More; WLB Must Give Approval

"Satisfactory Agreement". ls Reached With Secretary Ickes   'THOUSAND STILL IDLE

MORE MINERS JOIN STRIKE; 40,000 IDLE   Compromise Wage Plan May be Approved by WPB   FUEL PRODUCTION SHOWS BIG DROP

Federal Agency Nears Decision On Mining Pac!   War Labor Board May Compromise Plan Of Wages For Miners

WLB Passive As More Men Desert Mines   Union Reported Making  ‘Sincere Efforts’ TD Balt @estles

MOREMINERS JOIN. STRIKE; 40,000 IDLE  Piiccrccuaceamae ChPccc: ‘WVecux   Compromise Wage Plan - . May be Approved by WPB   FUEL PRODUCTION  SHOWS BIG DROP

Net Increase in Idle Coal Miners Is Noted as Labor Board Speaks of  Possible Seizure of Properties in Alabama Unless Strike Ends

STEEL STRIKE ENDS AS PLEA ~ 1S ANSWERED   Workers Heed Appeal By Murray to Go Back to Mills

Workers Are Returning to . -. Steel Plants   One-Day ‘Walkout Ended as ‘WLB Grants. Demand for Retroactive Pay.

Retroactive Pay Given Steel Men: Mills Are Opened   » Workers Obeying Orders of CIO President Murray to  Resume Production.   Steel Operators Will Seek Higher Prices

One-day steel walkout ended as demands met   Most workers obey order of Murray to resume jobs

ONE-DAY WALKOUT OF STEEL WORKERS MAY BE ENDED TUESDAY   ORDERS OF PRESIDENT OF ClO STEEL WORKERS GENERALLY OBEYED

WALKOUT OF MORE THAN 170,000 STEEL WORKERS ENDS AS WAR CABOR BOARD GRANTS DEMANDS   About 48 Hours Will.Be Necessary for Steel . Production to Be Restored to Normal, Say Offi- : cials. Retroactive Pay for Miners Is Provided fo

Steel Strike Ended; WLB ‘Takes Action   Board Votes Retroactive Pay Clause; Workers Returning to Jobs

Steel Strike Ended; Mills Start Again   Labor Board Agrees Upon Retroactive Clauses in (‘ontracts

WLB DECISION APPROVES NEW PAY INCREASE   Union Head Murray Orders Workers to Resume  Production

STEEL STRIKE APPEARS 10 BE SETTLED TODAY   Retroactive Pay To Workers Is  Main Issue

Steel Strike Appears Ended In Nine States.   Workers Demand For Possible Retroactive Pay Granted

STEEL WORKERS START RETURN TO MILLS TODAY   WAR LABOR BOARD VOTES GUARANT _E OF RETROACTIVE PAY

WORKERS OBEY ORDER SENT BY ClO PRESIDENT   Murray Sends Instructions After WLB, FDR «@ Ant

WLB REVERSES TISELF'T0 MEET LABOR DEMANDS      . Workers’ Representativ. es _;On Board Change Votes =e ‘Approve Pay Retro* activity Proposition   MILLS RESUMING ON... ORDERS OF MURRAY   Head of CIO Asks No Fur. -ther Interruption ‘of. Pro-: = duction In War Es=~ sential Industry

STEEL WORKERS RETURN 10 JOBS AS STRIKE ENDS   Guarantee by Labor Board Of Pay Retroactivity Gets Quick Results

Steel Strike Ends When WLB Reverses Its Stand on Wages   Workers Start Returning to Mills Quickly After Action

One-day Walkout Of Steel Workers Appears Ended  Demands Granted Moho Bg SET

Back To Work Trek Signals End To Big Steel Strike   Back To Work Movement Set In Motion _ As WLB Guarantees Retroactive Pay

Steel Strike At End   -Appeal of FDR, Murray Order Produce Results

Steel Strike Off Pending Negotiations   Workers Return When Assured of Receiving Retroactive Pay

Steel Workers Walkout Ends   Granting of Retroactive Pay From New Contracts Stops Strike.

Worker  Demands Granted   170,000 STEEL MEN GO BACK TO JOBS AS NEW CONTRACTS MAPPED

Steel Workers End One-Day Walkout   Possible Retroactive Pay Demands Met; Price Rise Seen

Steel Workers Returning to Jobs  pee gee Be Siete Phe   Demands for Retroactive Pay In New Contracts Are Granted

Operation Of Steel Plants Is Resumed   More Than 170,000 Men Return After Promise That Any Pay Raise Will Be Retroactive

MOGT WORKERD BACK AT JOBS   One-Day Walkout of More Than 170,000 Workers Anpears Ended.

Steel Men Returning To Plants   Retroactive Pay Guarantee By WLB Leads To Return

MINERS DECLINE RETURN 10 JOBS   Will Remain Out Until Company Withdraws Request For Draft Deferment for Machine Operator

STRIKE OVER DEFERRED MAN iS CONTINUING      Ridiculous Walkout Of Men At County Mine Over Third Draft Deferment

BIG FIVE RAILWAY  STRIKE VOTE TODAY   Union Demanding a 30 Per Cent Pay Raise

STRIKE VOTE ORDERED BY RAIL UNIONS   Coal Mine Strikes Continue To Spread in Five States

MARTIN FILLS UTILITY POST   Houck, Former Schuylkill Judge, is Appointed To Commission

THIRD MAIN ENEMY POSITION ON ATTU SUFFERS ATTACK   indications Are Entire Jap Force On Island Being Rapidly Broken Up Into Small Points of Resistance; Fierce Hand-To Hand Fighting.

Entire Enemy Force Is Being Broken Up Inte Small Groups, Reports Navy Department

Japanese Force on Attu Being Broken Into Small Group:   Increasing Bayonet and Grenade Fighting on Island Expected

JAP RESISTANCE ON ATTU ISLAND BREARS RAPIDLY  sae, 7 ee. ee ot ce ol

U.S. Attacks 3d Main Jap Post on Attu   Important Points Gained in ‘Hand-to-Hand Fighting

THIRD MAIN AREA ON ATTU IS ATTACKED   Indications Are That Entire Jap Force Now Is Being Rapidly Broken Up Into Minor Points of Resistance.

JARS THIRD MAIN POSITION ON ATTU UNDER U.S. ATTACK   Enemy’s Entire Force on the Island Is Being Rapidly Broken Up Into Small Points Of Resistance, Indicated

Yanks Continue Liquidation Of Nippos On Att   Bitter . Hand - To - Hand Fighting Continues,  Reports State

Indications Enemy Being Rapidly Breken Up Into Small Groups o! Resistance   GAIN RIDGE POINTS   Hard Hand-to-Hand Fighting Reporled—Aerial Blows at Kiska Resumed

Hand To Hand Fighting Rages In Fresh Drive   Enemy Force Being Broken Up Into Small Pieces Of Resistance

Enemy Force on Island of A Being Broken Ur   U. §. Troops Hit 3rd Main Position Which Japs Held

Yanks Attack Jap Position On Attu Isle   Entire Enemy Forces Believed Broken Up Into Small Points

JAP FORGES ON ATTU BROKEN Uf   Third Main Enemy Posi. tton On Island Attack. ed By U.S. Forces

YANKS ATTACK LAST OF JAPS ON ATTU ISLE   Resistance Very Small; Bombing of Kiska Resumed

Attu: Japs Broken Into  Small Groups   Thitd. Position: Attacked—Enemy  Clatmca: Sinlings -

U.S. UNITS GAIN ON ATTUISLAND   Launch Drive on Japs Third Main Positions, American’s Drive Wedge

YANKS ATTACK LAST JAPANESE POST ON ATTU   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages as End of Drive Nears

Third Main Jap Position Attacked   Attu Kesistance Being Broken Up

ON ITE LE   End Of Enemy Resistance Within Few Days Thought Likely In Capital

Last Main Jap Attu Position Under Attack   Indications Are That Entire Enemy Force Has Been Broken Up Into Small Groups. Fight Becomes _ Increasingly  One of Hand-To-Hand Fighting.

Enemy Force Broken Up in Close Combat   Hand-to-Hand Fighting Figures In Day’s Report

Third Main Jap Position Ou Attu Island Attacked By U.S  Entire Enemy Force Being Rapidly Broken Up: Bitter Hand-To-Hand Fighting Reported

RESISTANCE REMAIN ATTU, NAVY REPORTS  UNITED STATES TROOPS HAVE ATTACKED THIRD MAIN POSITION  is OMALL POINTS

Attu Yanks Assail Last Jap Pocket   Entire Enemy Force Being Broken Up, Sava Navy Report

MAY FINISH OFF JAPS IN FEW DAYS   Enemy Resistance on Attu Rapidly Breaking Into Small Units   BOMBERS TURNING ATTENTION TO KISKA   Main Japanese Base in Aleutians May Be the Next  Bir Tareet

ast Pocket f Defense nder Attack   dand-to-Hand tighting Is teperted

Yanks Hit Last Hold on Attu   ENEMY RESISTANCE BROKEN UP INTO SMALL POCKETS BY U. S. FORCES

Attu Jap Base. Attacked Again   U.S. TROOPS SMASHING INTO RANKS OF INVADERS

U.S. Reports Gains on Attu   Troops Attack Third Main Position; Aim to  Split Up Jap Forces

GRO POSITION   Gain Several Important Points on Ridge South of Chichago,   FIGHTING HAND TO HAND

Third Jap Position on  Attu Struck   Now in Hand-to-Hand Stage of Fighting With Hand Grenade, Bayonet

THIRD JAPANESE FRONT ATTACKED   Entire Foe Force On Attu Being Broken Up Into Small Segments

YANKS BREAK UP JAP ATTU RESISTANCE   Fight Might be Won by - Week-End; Japs Like = In~ fiahting

HOLDS NO-STRIKE PLEDGE BROKEN: HALTS PARLEY   Board Orders Cessation of UMW-Operator Talks, Warns No Agreement Reached During Strike Valid

Says Union Broke No-Strike Pledge   Will Not Approve Any Agreement Entered Into at Conference— President Gets Problem

Operators, Miners Start Negotiations * Anew in Washingtor   Steel Production Faces Curtailment as Strike  of Miners Goes On

Board Halts All Negotiations Until Strike Is Ended   Coal Strike Clear Violation If No Strike Pledge Declares Board   SITUATION NOW UP TO PRESIDENT

WLB Orders — "Negotiations  Termi nated   Refers Strike to President: for Any Action He Deems Appropriate As U. S. Soldiers Angrily Demand Mines -Reopen. -

Authority Of President Seen  As Challenged   No Extension Of Coal Wage Truce And Miners Walk. out Again  NO ACTION YET BY PRESIDENT

BOARD ACTS UPON GROUNDS STRIKE VIOLATES PLEDGE   Ickes Reminds Men They Act: ed Against Government and Without Adequate Coa! For War Purposes.   PRESIDENT MAKES NO INDICATION OF MOVE   Another Patriotic Appeal Is Possible, Drafting Into the Army Seems Another Likely Action,

Strike Of The Miners ~Has Been Thrown Into  Lap Of The President

Contract Negotiation Halted Until Miners Go Back To Work   Board Refers Matter To President; Will Not Recognize Agreement Under Pressure Of ‘Coercion’

War Industries Mine Siike      530;000 -Men::: a Refuse to Work For Second Day:.

Wage Talks Are Ordered Halted   Agreement Reached While Strike Continues Not Valid, WLB Claims

WLB TellisUnion, Operators to End All Negiotiations   Board Cites Defiance, Violation  : Of No-Sirike Pledge;  Roosevelt Silent

Operators, Union Start Over, Hope To Reach Accord   ckes Estimates Only 49 Days Coal Supply Left Above Ground

‘No Strike’ Pledge  Declared Violated; — Case Given to FDR   No Pact Reached During Walkout Will Be Considered by Board, Lewis and Onerators Notified

TALKS ARE HALTED BY WLB ORDER   Ickes Tells Miner: They Are Striking Against U. 5.

MINERS SITUATION STILL DEADLOCKED   U. M. W. Idle in Two-day Old Soft Coal Strike.

COAL FIGHT LAID ON ROOSEVELT'S DESK FOR ACTION   New Deadlock Comes After Both Sides Turn Down Compromise Plans

Board Charges Labor Has Violated “No Strike” Pledge; Walkout Handed To President Roosevelt For Action

Charge Violation  By the Miners of No-Strike Pledge   Board Again Refers the Case To President Roosevelt; No Agreement Reached While Strike in Progress Valid

DEMAND QUICK END TO STRIKE   Congress to Vote on Bill to Curb Action of Labor Unions

WLB Refers Mine Stoppage To President, Orders Negotiations Halted On Grounds UMW Violated No Strike Pledge

Strike Is — Now Up t to President.   BOARD SAYS LABOR VIOLATE NO-STRIKE PLEDGE; ANY. AGREEMENT REACHED WILL: NOT BERECOGNIZED

NEGOTIATIONS ARE SUSPENDED IN THE GOAL MINE STRIKE   War Labor Board Holds That No-Strike Pledge Was Violated by Labor.

NEGOTIATIONS RECESS UNTIL MINERS RETURN   Says Any Agreement Reached Under Coercion Would Not Be Approved   PRESIDENT GIVEN CASE   Action Taken Under Directive Of May 25 Ordering Mining Continued

OPERATORS AND MINERS BLAME _ EACH OTHER NOW   Proposal for fer = $1.50-a-day Raise Rejected By Mine Onerators.

Leaders Told To Discontinue Negotiations   Confusion Follows: Strike  Called Violation of Pledge

Operators and Miners Ready to Start: from Scratch   ——— Ye Gallitzin Union Will Work, Contract or:  No Contract ;

All Compromise Rejected; Mines Are Paralyzer   Owners, Union Heads Start Anew On Discussions To End  Strike

LABOR BOARD. DRDERS HALT  IN MEETINGS   iN . UNEXPECTED MOVE SHIFTS.. PROBLEM TO CPRESIDENT—NEGOTIA-  -. TIONS ARE AT STANDSTILL

Telegrams Sent To Both John L. Lewis And Representative Of The Mine Operators

Orders Suspension Of Contract Negotiations:  Coal Strike Up To FDR

Coal Parleys: Stopped Until Work Resumes   War Labor Board Refers Case to FDR; Debate on Labor Bill Scheduled to Start in House Today.

Pledge by Labor Is Violated?   War Labor Board Orders Miners, Operators to End Discussions

Declares Anv Agreement Made Between Operators And Miners During Strike Will No! Be Considered Or Approved By Board

WORK STOPPAGE SERIOUS THREAT TO WAR OUTPUT   Board Orders End to Bargaining While Strike Continues.

{Miners Still Absent From Jobs  Despite Ickes Warning They  Are Striking Against Govern Seana   No COMMENT FEOM EITHER SIDE TODAY

ICKES RENEWS URGENT APPEAL TO END STRIKE   ‘Owners and Officials of Union Begin Sessions “Erom Scratch,” Seek  Compromise Plan      LEWIS AND CERTAIN OPERATORS ACCUSED   UMW Leader Proposes Pay-of $1.50 a Day to Cover Underground Travel of Workers

ORDERS MINERS AND OPERATORS TO HALT PARLE}   Terms New Strike Clear Violation of Pledge to Keep Working

Jesse Jones Says Government Should  Get Out Of Business After The War

‘MUST GET OUT   U. $. Should Quit Business After War, Says Jones

PUBLIC TO GET MORE PORK AND LESS BEEF. TIF   Greater Beef Diversion To Armed Forces Planned

Slash in Beef Supply, Boost for Pork Seen   Civilian Allocation Plan Formed To Provide More Meat for Forces

CIVILIANS WILL GET LESS BEEF AND MORE PORK, BOARD STATES   Armed Forces to Be Provided With More Beef —Curtailment is Certain,

Lt. Jeff McNeely Of Lubbock Helps Lead First Patrol Into Bomb-Rocked Messina

SEEK 10 ABOLISH WAR TIME IN STATE   Sen, Mallery, Sponsor, Says Move Is Hardship On Farmers

U. S. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF SWINGS INTO ACTION ON RETURN FROM CROSS COUNTRY TOUR; 70,000 VITAL WORKERS ABSENT FROM JOBS IN THREE AREAS

FDR Will Consider Continuation, Draft After War Is Over   President Cheered At Improvement In National War Effort

Lewis Told Work Must Be Resumed By 10 A.M. Or War Powers Invoked

Anti-Strike Bill Being Prepared By Senators  Changé in Consially Bill Proposed by Author of Measure

ANTI-STRIKE BILL REVISION IS URGED   Senate Embarks on an At tempt to Remodel Con. nolly Measure

Senate Starts Work On Bill to Seize Plants Under Strike  Te... WFTarrter wey wT.

JAMES DUNN, 76, DIED SUNDAY AT IT WEST FRANKEOR'   SMOKELESS BURNER FOR SOFT COAL U OF  DEVELOPMENT

ST, LOUIS COAL MARKET MAY BE OPEN TO EGYPT   Smokeless Coal Burner Made At State University

POINT-RATION PLAN OUTLINED   Housewives Will Get Five-Can Allowance “Free.”

‘MANAGER’ FOR FOOD IS ASKED   Hoover Urges Con ress Ti Pass Fulmer Bill

HOOVER BACKS FOOD CZAR BILL   La Guardia Also Assails Continuing Administration Muddie In Washington

New Chester Latheran Charre   Y. S. Takes Part In Blood-Donor Program

Many Grass Fat Steers Arrive   240 Carloads Reach Livestock Market In Kansas City

Big Beet Supply To Cattle Yards   Shipment of 240 Carloads Is Received For Civilians  and War Supply.

Grass Fat Steers Hit K. (. Market   Heaviest Supply of Several Years Moving In

Powerful Forces Cross Italian River Despite German Counterattacks   Berlin Reports Great Dnieper Dam Blasted; U. 8. General Says Bombers Will Stop War By Spring; More Air Raids in Pacific

Nazis Outsmarted And Retreating To Defenses At Rome   Clark's Yankees Cross Volturno In Great Strength; Claim German Position Growing Desperate Amid Most Ferocious Battle

Allies Bomb Japanese  Island Bases   Huge Fires Said Blazing at Toeal— Foe Raids Burma

SURVEY REVEALS CROP PICTURE   Predict Farm Results To Top Quotas Set by Government

GRAIN CONDITIONS SHOW IMPROVEMENT   Government Crop Report Due Next Week

Infervenes As Husbanc Beats Son   Woman Slayer Says Victim Was Drunk

Wipes Out 1942 Debt of Majority Of Taxpayers   Provides 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy, Effective July 1

Showdown On Tax Plan ‘Due Today   All Proposals for Current . Payment, No 1913 “Holiday”

Pay-As-You-Go Measure - Is Approved by ~ Chomber  SESSION MARKED BY PLENTY OF DRAMA Modified Rum! Pion Defeated Before Final Action

HOUSE PASSES BLL TO WIPE OUT 1942 TAX   WITHHOLDING LEVY IS PROVIDED TO START JULY 1

House at Work On New Form Of Income Tax   Passage Expected By Tomorrow of Pay-as-¥ ou-Go Bill

HOUSE PASSES PAY-GO BILL TO EASE TAX   1942 Income Levy Wiped Out For 90 Per Cent Of Payers; Senate Gets Measure   First 19 Units Abated

Some Relief l'o Taxpayers Appears Sure  House Lines Up Again for Fight On Peavas-Vou-Co

House Approves Pay-as-Go Tax  pill Compromise   Measure Abates 1942 Tax Obligations of 90 Per Cent of Taxpayers and Imposes Withholding Levy; Act Goes to Senate

Compromise Bill For Pay-Go Taxes Passed by House   Rum! Plan Defeated By Close Vote: Proposal Adopted Abates 1942 Levy for 90 P. C. of Payers

House To Vote. New Tax. Bil   Withholding - Levy * Certain To-Pass

‘House Appears Certain To Pass Pay-Go Tax Bill Wiping Out At Least Half Of ‘42 Taxation

1942 Tax Wiped Out by  House   Withholding Levy Against Payrolls Adopted Under Compromise

HOUSE APPEARS READY T0 PASS PAY-AS-GO BILL      20 Per Cent Withholding Levy Expected To Pass

PAY -AS-YOU-60 TAX PROPOSAL GIVEN APPROVAL   1942 Income Payments F or 90 Percent Of Taxpayers Wiped Out   ACTION CLIMAXES HISTORIC BATTLE

Withholding Tax Passed By House   Most Of Nation’s Taxpayers Will Have All Of 1942 Federal Tax Liabilities Wiped Out

Party Fight Ended With Final Vote   Democrats Barely Defeat Passage Of Modified Rumi Plan.

SHOWDOWN ON ‘PAY: AS-YOU-CO TAX PLAN NEARS   Compromise: Levy Seen Possible End  To Ficht —

House Argues  Pay-Go Tax   Passage by Tomorrow Night Appears Certain; GOP for Ruml Plan

Pay-as-You-Go Bill Is Passed   House Votes 313-95 For Compromise

Pay As You Go Bill Passes in House 313-95   Wipes Out 1942 Income Tax Liabilities; Imposes 20 Pct. Levy

HOUSE APPROVES A PAY-AS-YOU-00 TAX BILL, 313-93   Compromise Measure Would Wipe Out Completely 1942 . Liabilities of 90 Pct. of Taxpayers.   VOTE FOLLOWS DEFEAT OF REVISED RUML PLAN   Legislation Abates 6 Pct. Normal and 13 Pct. First Bracket Surtax—Now Goes to Senate.

All 1942 Tax Cancelled for Most Citizens   100 Per.Cent Pure Ruml Plan Just Misses Passage

Showdown Today on Pay-Go Tax   GOP Backs Rum! Plan While Democrats Favor  50 Per Cent. Cut

SHOWDOWN NEARS AW PAY 4S YOU 60      Three Plans Before House with One to Win by Tues day Night

HOUSE PASSES TAX COMPROMISE PLAN   Pay-As-You-Go Bill Approved, 313. 95, After Democrats Beat "Plan Modification

Senate Gets Bill Putting Taxes OnPay-Go Basis   House Compromise Measure Would Wipe Out 1942 levy for 90 Per Cent Of Pavers, Begin Deductions July 1

Putting Taxes OnPay-Go Basis  Senate Gets Bill   House Compromise Measure Would Wipe Out 1942 levy for 90 Per Cent Of Pavers. Beain Deductions July 1}

SHOW DOWN LOOMS ON TAX PROPOSAL   Measure To Impose 20 Per - cent Tax on Salaries

Bill as Enacted Would Abate 6 Pet. Normal, 13 Pct. Surtax on °42 Payments; G OP Joins in Passage

Pay-as-you-go Tax Bill Back in Congress with House Approval Likely

Half or More of Ten Billion Tax Assessed Against Individuals To Be Wiped Out  LONG CIGCHT ENDS

See Showdown In Capital Today On Pay-Go Plan   Say Any Measure Enacted Will Have Withholding Clause For 20 P. C,

SHOWDOWN ON PAY-AS-YOU-C0 TAX PLAN NEARS   Compromise Levy Seen Possible End ~To Fight

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill Passage Seen   House Expected To Pass By Tuesday Night Measure Wiping Out Half Or More Tax Assets Against 1942 Individual Incomes

House Passes Tax Proposal   1942 Taxes Wiped Out For °90 Per Cent Of Taxnavers”

Provides for Cancellatior Of Most Income Taxes For the Year of 1942   Abates Six Per Cent Normal and Thirteen Per Cent First Bracket Sur-tax; Imposes Twenty Per Cent Withholding Levy against Wages and Salaries Effective July 1

House Passe: Compromise Tax Billi   Senate Is:.Given Measure to Kill Most of ’42 Levy

House Passes  Pay-as-You-Go  Tax Measure   Drops 1942 Liability For 90 Pet. of Taxpayers: Ruml Plan Barely Beaten

‘Three Tax Proposals In House For Final Vote   Debate Today And Vote Tuesday On Measures Providing For Pay-As-You-Go

Party Battle Ends tn Passage Of Tax Bill By Vote. Of 318 To 95   Bill Provides For Wiping Out 1942 “Federal Income Tax Liahilifies For $0 Per Cent of Taxpayers; 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy Imposed #

House Approves Pay-As-You-Go  Income Measure   Federal Tax Liabilities for 90 Per Cent of Taxpayers Wiped Out hy Measure __ Which Is Adonted on Vote of 313 to 95

REDS CONTINUE TO DRIVE NAZIS ACROSS DNIEPER: MANY ARE KILLED   Germans Leave Great Quantities Of Guns, - Tanks and Other War Material Behind As  They Flee To Cross  River.

Thousands of Nazis Have Fallen Before This Furious Attack.  BODIES LIE ON SHORE AND FLOAT IN RIVER  Left Behind Great Quan. tities of All War Materiel.

NAZIS BEING KILLED BY THE  THOUSANDS   Scenes at River Described As Horrible Beyond  Description

Camden Athlete Joins U.S. Navy   GEORGE REID BLOUNT STATIONED IN JDAHO

YANKS SUBJECT TROINA, SICILY TO FIERCE FIRE   Artillery Barrage Against Germans Devastating; Prisoners Helpless From Shell Shock

Shock Of Aerial And Artillery Barrages Hurled At Axis Fort Made Foe Helpless

FUGITIVE FROM HITLER’S GESTAPO TO SPEAK HERE   OSCAR STERN WILL TELL OF HIS EXPERIENCES AS NAZI PRISONER

4 WAR STO}.   Oscar Stern Will Speak at) Bap tix<t Charch Friday Night.

Will Grant Death Stay   Supreme Court To Rule On Appeal Of Winfield Slayer

Staggering Blow Is Struck by Reds   Russians Claim 311,000 _ Nazi Casualties in Six % Weeks of Campaign   22 DIVISIONS IN NET   R.A.F. OpensNew Year With Raids on Western Ger 4 many, Nort France

178,000 DEAD NAZIS fa Btal NEWo WN 340   Russia Sets Mark for Rest of Allies with Results of Six-Weeks Work   HITLER AGAIN ASSERTS HE’LL FIGHT UNTIL END

Offensive Lost to — Hitlerites   Power to Strike ‘Gone, Says President Of Soviet Union

ALLIED KEYNOTE FOR 1943 15 SOUNDED BY RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE  MORE THAN 311,000 CEPMANG VITTEN AD CAD.

OVER 312,650 GERMANS KILLED AND CAPTURED   Remnants of 22 Hitlerian Divisions  rapped By Soviets As Carefully - Timed Six - Weeks Cam paign Nears Climax.

Reds Claim Nazis Lose 312.650 Men   New Year’s Communique Declares Stalingrad Besiegers Are Definitely Trapped. °°:

Reds Deliver . Staggering  Blow to Nazis .   312,650 Germans Killed or Captured. in Six Weeks; 22 German Divisions Said \Trapped Before Stalingrad

REDS ROLL ON AND TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF NAZIS   311,000 Germans Killed or Captured in Russia in Six Weeks, Claim   AS MANY MORE TRAPPED   Jap Air Force Weakened by Yank Attacks — Jungle Fighting Is Slow

Staggering Blows. Blast Nazis Plans   By James M. Long  Associated Press War Pee,

ANOTHER ATTACK ON RUHR VALE   German Industrial Target Of RAF Bombers For Second Straight Night

PINT A WEEK LIQUOR RATION -[$ REPORTED BEING PLANNED   RATIONING PROGEAM NOW EBXFECTED TO GO INTO EFFECT ABOUT MIDDLE OF NEXT MONTH

LIQUOR RATION PINT PER WEEK   Stores to Close Two Weeks With Start Between May 15-June 1

LIQUOR RATION PLANS ARE MADE   Governor Signs Bill; Progran Will Be Started Late In May

MEAT CRISIS GROWS ACUTE; HINT STRIKE   Packers Close Doors; Feeders Refuse More Cattle

Nation's Meat Crisis Worsens  Receipts Fall Off at Major Markets

Meat Crisis Intensified Over Nation   Confusion Halting Shipments From Farm to Market

Russ Smash German Lines   Reds Within 23 Miles Of Vital German Base

Soviet Drive Splits Nazis   Central Ukraine Defenses Smashed, Rail Line Is Cut

War Bond Sales Treble Quofa In ‘Berrien Count   Total fs $6,363,669 Buchanan Hangs UpBest Record

BERRIEN HITS $6,363,669 IN 2ND WAR LOAN   County Triples Quota Of $2,140,000 In April  Drive   BUCHANAN TOPS LIST;   Oversubscribes Quota Six Times; St. Joseph Second

Massillon Fire  Loss $750,000   Explosion in Grain Elevator Blamed

6-YEAR PRISON TERM FACES GENE KRUPA   Drum-beating Ba nd_ Boss Caught With Narcotics

Krupa Facing a Term In Prison  Used Minor To Trans port Narcotics

KRUPA age tt      Bandieader’ Will Receive Sentence in Court Friday

Dim-Out Rulings Dropped   MONDAY ACTION SET; OPTIMISM REFLECTED ON ENEMY SUBMARINES

AllRestrictions On Lights End November 1st   Increased Security From Submarine Attack Brings End To U.S. Dimout   BROWNOLT IS URGED   Voluntary Measure Aims To Conserve Gas, Fuels, Electrical Sources

OHIO'S CLOCKS TO BE TURNED BACK FEB. 21   Governor Expected To Sign Slow Time Measure First Of Next Week   CONFUSION i$ EXPECTED   Federal Offices, Trains, Some . Buses To Retain War time Schedule

‘DOUBLE’ TIME SCHEDULED TO START FEB, 21   Await Bricker Signature On Bill Turning Ohio Clocks Back

Ohio Returns to Old Time Feb. 21   Senate Approves Emergency Clause

United Nations Plan To Attack Enemy in China   Move To Reopen Burme Road Believed Discussed in Washington

SEE MOTIVE FOR SLAYING   CLAIM CADET MAY HAVE FEARED LOSS OF WIFE

JEALOUSY SEEN AS - MOTIVE IN DEATH OF NYC. PLAYGIRL   Lonergan’s Fear of Losing Estranged Wife Believed Cause of Murder.

MRS.LONERGAN HAD BEEN PLANNING TO DIVORCE HUSBAND   Possibility Of Losing Her To Another Man Seen As Possible Mctive In Murder Case

Lonergan’s Wife Planned Divorce, Friends Disclose   Fear of Losing Her Seen as One Motive in Killing

Little Relief Promised Here   Ardmore Temperature Sets Year's High at 104: 109 at McAlester

22 Vw Re  'U. S Bombers Blast Aidrdome: In Fastern Mediterranean

' @&.Mextes Draft   eS °° °°”  Convicted of Murder in Death of Mail-Order Wife

10 EVACUATE ALL SURPLUS POPULATION   Those Unessential . To War Work Told To Leave Capital

ASK ONLY WAR PLANT HELP 10 STAY INROME   List 116 Killed, 1,659 Injured in American Air Raid on Italian Capital

THOUSANDS WARNED TO LEAVE ROME, BUT THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THEM 10 GO

WARSHIPS AND PLANES TAKE PART   Second Battering In 36 Hours for Two Towns   HAMPER NAZI RETREAT   Rome Radio Reports Heavy Damage by Bombers

State Surtax Bill Is Drafted By Committee   Levy Of 10 Per Cent. Tx Be Requested Wher Legislature © Resume:  . Seasion January: 12%

Income Surtax  Bill Proposed Postwar Planning Body To Ask 10 Per Cent

YANKS SINK JAP SEAPLANE TENDER, HIT DESTROYER   Allied Bombers Frustrate Attempt to Run Supplies to Nipponese Base at Buin,   13 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN IN NEW GUINEA   Americans Lose Two Aircraft in Fight — Destroy 12 Barges in Sweeps Along Coast.

Allied Bombers  Sink Japanese  Seaplane Tender   One of Four Escorting Destroyers Is Damaged in Attack by Heavy Torpedo and Dive Bombers in Solomons

Japs’ Effort To Reach Buin Fails   MacArthur's Bombers Repulse Supply Party, Sink Ship

Seaplane Tender Sunk, Destroyer Damaged by Hits   13, Probably 18 Enemy Planes Bagged In Aerial Battle  SILENT ON MUNDA  12 Japanese Barges Destroyed, 13 Others Seriously Damaged

Allies Smash Ship Convoy   Seaplane Tender Sunk And Destroyer Damaaed At Buin

Yanks Smash Jap Attempt To Aid Buin   Sink Seaplane Tender And Hit 4 Destroyers Of Bouvainville Coas   PLANES ALSO RAID MANY ENEMY BASES

US. Bombers Smash More Jap Vessels   Attempt At Supplying Pacific Garrison Is Again Turned Back

JAP SEAPLANE TENDER SUNK IN AIR ATTACK   Foe Attempt to Run Supplies to Buin Base Smashed

RAF RESUMES ATTACKS ON U-BOAT NESTS   Million Germans Killed, Captured  During Winter

Anglo-American Aerial Armada Harries Germans   Allied Troops Already Within 30 Miles of Bizerte, Says Report

WEST MOTORISTS FACE OPA CHECK   Citations Given B. C Ration  Drivers Near Resorts im Maiuntaine

Political Themes Hinted in Day's Tripower Confab  Friendly Atmosphere  Drevaile in Moscow   Friendly Atmosphere Prevails in Moscow Statesman Gathering

Political Themes Hinted in Day’s  Tripower Confab Friendly Atmosphere Prevails in Moscow Statesman Gathering

Moscow Talks Are Turning To Politics   -Alnosphere of Meet Is Described as ‘Very Cheerful’

MOSCOW GROUP TALKS POLITICS   Tri-Power Conference In Fourth Session With “Cheerful” Theme

Raiders Bomb  Mannheim And Ludwigshafen   Twin German War Production Centers On Rhine .Are Heavily Attacked   OTHER GERMAN TOWNS ATTACKED

AAF BLASTS 9 RINE. CITIES FRANCE 1S HIT   American Marauders Bomb Enemy Airfields at Evreaux-Fauville

CONGRESS READY TO TAKE ACTION TO STOP STRIKES   House Passes Bill Much More Drastic Even Than Senator Connally’s Suggestion; Would Outlaw Strikes.

Congressman Dirksen Gives Explanation Of  Anti-Strike Bills Before Congress This Week   By EVERETT M. DIRKSEN, Congressman 16th District.

Chinese Repel Jap Offensive   Rout Enemy Troops In One Of Seven Theaters; Allies Blast Nips.

MINE WORKERS INVITED TO AFL   Gesture Of Welcome Is Made Toward Lewis’ Union Group

AFL VOTES CURD ON READMISoION DF MINE UNION   Rejects Lewis’ Terms That Federation Take Mine Workers ‘as is’   EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO NEGOTIATE RETURN   Settlement of Jurisdictional Conflicts Must Precede Readmission; Leaders Make Pleas put no Obstacles in Path of Labor Unity

UMW Must. Make Change To Join AFL   Jurisdictional Conflicts Must Be Settled First

AFL Gives Welcome Sign To Lewis but Demands End To Jurisdictional Fights

LF Ne cemas SIOK  pone ‘ -- “77° LN -) wi * z — # - - n Re B we UM —

UMW IS GIVEN WELCOME SIGN BY FEDERATION   AFI, Convention Makes I Clear Jurisdictional Conflicts Must Be Settled

Gesture of Welcome Is Voted United Mine Workers by AFL   Settlement of Jurisdiction: al Conflicts Must Precede Regdmission

Hungary And Bulgari ia Seek Speedy Peace   2 Countries Trying Desperately To' Get ‘Out. From Under’.

AXIS SATELLITES REPORTED UNEASY   [Hungary Putting Out Peace - Feelers, Bulgaria Seeks  +6 Avoid Debacle.

BALKAN NATIONS FRANTICALLY TRY TO SCRAMBLE OUT   Hungary Starts Feelers ‘For Peace Through Turkey—Ready To  ‘Cede Land

BELLBOY QUESTIONED IN SLAYING OF WAC      Admits He Delivered Ice to Cpl. Ridings’ Room Night af Murder

BELLBOY IS GRILLED ON KILLING OF WAC      Previously Told Story About ‘Woman in Black’

QUESTION BELLHOP IN MURDER OF WAC   Changes Story on Last Trip To Hotel Room

Boy Scouts fo Aid Grease Drive Here .~ Need is Acute and  Women Are Urged to “Supplement Supoly

Boy Scouts to Aid Grease Drive Here  Need Is Acute and Women Are Urged te

Brit Bombers  Hit French Arms Plant  Report 3 Planes Missing in Saturday’s Raid

aA SORE 2-ATONBOMBS ON SCHNEIDER   Giant Blockbusters Are Dropped On Huge Armament Works At Le  Creusot   Like Krupp Plant

BOMBERS RIP , HUGE FRENCH ARMS FACTORY   Docks and Supply Facilities Between Sicily and Italy Blown Up

Schneider Arms Plant, Covering 750 Acres Hit Effective Blow, Only Three Planes Lost: Nazis Belittle Attack  40 PERSONS KILLED, VICHY RADIO SAYS  With Berlin Declares American Bombers Participate in Raid, Second During Conflict

Brit Bombers Hit French  Arms Plant  Report 3 Planes’   Report 3 Planes’ Missing in Saturday's Raid

Schneider Works Is Pounded   Vichy Concedes Bomber. Blow - Js Heavy

Planes Roar Across Enemy Land   Great Factory Is Hit By Tons of Bombs; Retaliation Is Faint

RAF Smashes Arms Works Infrance   Big Schneider Plant Battered, German Taraets Hit

British Planes Hit France's Biggest Armament Works   Blockbusters Fall On Plant Making War Articles for Nazis

FRENCH ARMS PLANT RAIDED   Heavy Blow Struck by British at Vast Schneider Works at Le Creusot

LARGE ARMS PLANT HIT IN RAF ATTACK   Schneider Works, Largest Army Plant in France, Bombed

Lord Mountbatten, Popular Warrior, Named to Push War on Japs; Action Follows Decision at Quebec

Lord Louis Mountbatten Leader of Commandos. ~ Directs Asiatic Campaign

Stilwell Arrives In Chungking to ‘Map Air Attack   Plane Offensive Directly at Japan Is Expected Soon

Plans Discussed In His Washington Visit Said To Mean Speedy Action

Gen. Stilwell Back in China With Program   Capture of . Airfields. May. Be First Objective

Labor Pledges Full Support  To Go All Out for   To Go All Out for Victory, Leaders’ Declare te People

FDR Calls For Greater Output   Praises “Magnificent’ Record Of U.S. Workmen 

LABOR WINS PRAISE FOR EFFORTS IN WAR   President Appeals to Workers of U. $. To Boost Output to Hasten Crash of Foe

FOR INCREASE PRODUCTION   Boost In War Outpu Will Hasten Crash of the Axis Nations

FDR, Other Labor Day Messages:  Americans Urged To Boost Output To Hasten Victory

FDF Asks Gree _er Output   Production Hike Calited For In Labor Day Talk

President Appeals For Output Boost  Labor Day-Message Uraes Greater Effort

SPORTSMEN TO URGE CHANGES   Later ‘Opening Of Hunting Season Will -Be Recom mended.

SPORTSMEN FAVOR CHANGE IN SEASON   Later Opening for Hunting Season in County Recommended

MUNICH BLASTED BY 1000 TONS OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES   Fortresses Lead Day’s Offensive After RAF Smash At Nazi Center.

MUNICH HIT BY HEAYY BRITISH RAID   Flying Forts Continue Attack On Axis Europe

AERIAL ATT ACK' UPON. GERMANY HITS NEWPEAK   Hundreds Of Planes Return Today After Pulverizing RAF Raid On Munich

SIXTH DAY OF AIR OFFENSIE OVER EUROPE   Amer. Planes Lead Attack to. Soften Up Axis

Allied Air,Attack On Axis Europe In Sixth Straight Day   American Flying Fortresses. Lead Pre-Inva_ sion Attack On Belgium. and France; Munich, Nazi Birthplace, Hit

ALLIED PLANES HIT AXIS EUROPE ANEW SIXTH DAY OF RAID   Anglo-American — Aitcraft . Have Made Well Over 30 Daylight Attacks In Past § Days

THOUSANDS LEFT DEAD, HOMELESS IN NAZI GAPITAL   Stockholm Reports Say 25,000 Were Killed During Past Two Nights

Death of Berlin May Be in Sight Say Experts.  38,000 More Are Homeless and Thousands Fleeing.

London Experts Predict Death Of Berlin Is In Sight. Raids May Pre lide [lHtimatum.

MORE WORKERS NEEDED   Women Are Busy Making Surgical Dressings at Red Cross Rooms

HEAT SPELL BROKEN   ee Cool North Breezes Come in With Showers .

Date for Safe Planting Set   Hessian Fly No Factor After September 27.

HEAVY ATTACK MADE ON AXIS BASE OF GABES   Moment. Approaching When Germans Will Be Thrown Out of Africa.

Eighth Army Poised to Hit Mareth Line   Planes Blast at Desert Forts; Axis Airfield at Gabes Raided

BRITISH STH ARMY AIRCRAFT ARE BATTERING MARETH LINE   Allied Pilots Make Heavy Attack On Gabes: Patrols Are Threatening Gafsa

Allied Planes Batter Mareth Axis Defenses   British Eighth Army Assault ‘Believed Imminent

Ayis Base at. Gabes Attacked   Seems First Move © In New Offensive

HEAVY ASSAULT MADE ON AXIS BASE OF GABES       irst Moves in Big Offensive Against Rommel Indicated  E

House Group Seeks To End Bickerings   Sifts Reports Of Conflict Between OPA And Food Chief

PARADE FOR HERO KILLING 200 JAPS   MARINE PRIVATE, NEARLY BLIND, UNABLE TO SEE COLORFUL CEREMONY.

Marine Hero Who Killed 200 Japs Gets  Navv Cross At Ceremonv He Fails To See

Ohio Steel Workers Stop Work and Othe: Workers May Follow   Contracts Expiring With No Agreement in Sight For Employers and USW; No Strike Called But Men Idle

iN i ON YULE HOLIDAY   Believed Forerunner of Paralyzing Walkout Involving Large Part of ; ‘War-Vital Industry   UNION: DEMANDING 17 ~ CENTS HOUR BOOST   Picket Lines Established in Ohio Towns; Remainder of Steel Mill Areas — Quiet

Work Stoppage By 40,000 Hits Ohio Steel Mills   Christmas Walkouts as Contracts - Expire Seen as Possible Forerunner of Paralyzing Str rike

Ohio Steel Strike May Paralize Entire Industry   More Than 40,000 Workers Walk Ow Christmas Day as Contracts Exnijrein 214 Mainline Companies

0,000 WORKERS IN STEEL MILLS LAY DOWN TOOLS   Waikouts in Four States Seen as Possible Forerunner of Paralyzing Strike of Half Million.   CONTRACTS INVOLVING 214 COMPANIES EXPIRE   Union Demanding Wage Increase Which, if Granted, Would Break WLB’s Pay Formula.

Paralyzing Strikes In Steel Industry Seen; 40,000 Workers Quit   Picket Line Formed By Ohio Strikers; Shutdown Expected On Monday

00 Workers « Out in Ohio T Mill Strike   ‘jon Asks 17-Cent ige Increase as -itracts Expire

Steel Strike In Prospect As Workers Quit  50,000 Stop Jobs in Four States as Contracts End

Steel Strike Looming With 40.000 ‘Out   Ohio Union Group Not Working; Rail Parleys May Be Resumed In Washington Today

40,000 IN OHIC ALREADY HAVE HALTED WORK   ‘Union Seeks Pay Boost As Contracts Expire

Christmas Strikes Spread in Steel {Industry in East  Collective Bargaining  Contracts Expire In Over 200 Plants

Truck Fees Bill Fails Of House Passge   Measure fo Add 2 1-2 Millions May Be Given Reconsideration   “The Day inthe State Lecislature.

Truck Fees Bill Fails Of House Passae — - 2 1-2   The Day in’ the State Legislature

Carriers Hit Naura Island   U.S. Fleet Demonstrates Ability To Strike Quickly In W ide-Spaces.

U.S. BOMBARDS NIP POSITIONS ON MAURUISLE   Hit Island 50 Miles West of Gilberts Four Days After Marshalls Attack

Pacif. “fleet 7 ‘Carri s 2 Might  Demet zratec   Ability To Strike Quickly Tn Separated Areas Is Test Of Strength

Pacific Fleet’s Growing Carrier Might Shown by Bombardment of Nau

Nauru: Bombed And Shelled by Carrier Force   Power Proven by Big -Roid: But 4. Days’ Af. ter Marshall Attack’

(QUICK STRIKING FLEET HITS JAP PACIFIC BASES   Carrier Planes Hit Nauru Four Days After Gilbert Bombing, Warships Shelling Islands

Navy Turns ' Heavy Guns ~ Upon Nauru   Swings Wide From Marshall Raid to Demonstrate Available Power

Pacific Fleet Striking Fast  Follows Up Marshall Raid te Visit Nouru

U.S: Fliers Over” Wide Territory. ‘In The Pacific   Aireraft Carrier Task Units Able To Strike Quickly In Nomber OF Areas

emi U2 Ef  NARU ISLAND {5 BLASTED BY U.S  Aircraft Carrier Task Forces Show Ability To Strike Quickly  MOVES SWIFTLY            Wareo, Important Jap Base On Huon Peninsula, Captured

Carrier Based Planes Bombard Nauru Island   ' Attack Comes Only Four Days After Smash At Marshalls; Pacifie Fleet’s Strength Growing

Phosphate - Producing Island In Pacific Bombed and Shelled By Warship Guns

Germany Mobilizes For Total War Orders Teen Age Boys And Girls To Register For Defense Of Reich

ven From 16 To 65 And Women From 17 To 45 To Be Affected By  series Of Decrees

Boys Also To” Be Registered  For Service   Desperate Fuehrer Likewise Puts Army Men Back In Commanc

New Labor Order Places All Nazis on Total Footing   All Now Subject to. Any Work Reich Needs Anywhere

Revolution Reports Fly After Rebuft   Vote of Confidence For Ramirez Cited Ar Buenos Alves

Russians Trap 200,000 Axis Below Rostov   Face Black Sea  “Dunkerque”

‘ American Big Guns Shelling Japanese On New Britain After First Assaults Are Repulsed

British Eighth Anny Closing In On Tripoli   Early Assault On Last Axis Port In Libya Is Now Indicated   REPORT BRITISH ONLY 30 MILES OFF

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY NEARS LIBYAN PORT IN PURSUIT OF THE BATTERED AFRIKA KORPS

‘RED STAR’ SAYS GERMANS SOON OUT OF RUSSI   Mariupol Is Latest Goal of Soviet Army on 100-Mile Front

39-MPH SPEED LIMIT FOR TRUCKS LOOMS   Regulations May  Be Cut for  War-vital Freight

May Speed Up Trucks   Modification of 35 Mile an Hour Limit Soon Under Consideration

TRUCK SPEED MAY BE RAISED   Plan Considered to Hurry Shipment War Goods Over Highways.

BRITISH FLEET ENGAGES FOE   Biggest Naval Battle ir Recent Months Seen

BRITISH FLEET DAMAGES TWO ENEMY VESSELS   Battle Is Underway Yet, Says Terse Disvatch

Japs Being Hit On Wide Front      Submarines Carry War To Nipponese

AMERICAN U-BOATS REPORT SUCCESSES  125,000 Tons Of Shipping Bagged

U.S. PLANES, SUBS SCORE SUCCESSES   MacArthur's Fliers Sank 93,000 Tons. Jap Ships In-April

Some Prices to Rise, Others Drop, With Little Effect On Living Costs.

RUSSIAN LINES HUD FIRMLY AGAINST NAZIS   Desperate German Efforts For Biy Break- Through Still Frustrated

Nazis Force New Breaches  In Red Lines   Tremendous Losses Are Inflicted By Soviet Army; Numerous Tank Thrusts Beaten Off

Russian Defense Withstands New Onslaughts  Nazi Loss Mount: As Soviets Hold Against Drives

Reserves Pouring In —   Soviet Resistance Limits German es! 0 Small. Gains In. Battle        Se ge ee

GERMANS LOSE GAINS AGAINST SOVIET FORGES   Break Through Defenses Yesterday Only To Be Hurled Back in Sav  aoe Counter-Attacks   CASUALTIES HEAVY   Enemy Tank Assaults Else  where Along 165-Mile  - Front Are Repeatedly Beaten Off

REDS STAND OFF SAVAGE CHARGES ALL ALONG FRON'   Germans Throw Huge Reserves Into Bloody Battle in Attempts at BreakThrough,   42,000 NAZIS KILLED - IN SIX-DAY STRUGGLE   Moscow Reports Liquidation of Enemy Forces That Broke Through Defenses  Near Belgorod.

GERMAN ‘BREAKTHROUGH SMASHED AT BELGOROD   Russ Crush Southern Anchor Attacks, Hold Firm All Along 165-Mile Front

Estimate 50,000 Made Homeless  In Ohio Valley   Flood Causes Much Damage To Cities Along Ohio River   EXPECT 62 FEET AT CINCINNATI   River Starts Receding In Area Of Wheeling And Steubenville

30,000 CITIZENS ARE SHELTERED BY RED CROSS   “Property Loss Caused By Raging Ohio Approaches $2,000,000 Mark   SCREST HITS MARIETTA   Portsmouth Still Facing Threat And Cincinnati » Expects 60 Foot Level

50,000 HOMELESS IN OHIO RIVER FLOODS   Waters Sweep Into ‘Lowel — Ohio-And Kentucky

eno-ALiies ATYCODE OF TUR.  KEY AND UNREST IN BAL. UKAN NATIONS MAKING AXIS JTETERY

AXIS STIRS UP DIPLOMATIC TORNADO   Peace Feelers, Recall of Consul Highlight Rumors

FB. I, SAYS TRAIN WRECKS ARE ACCIDENTS   Increased Mileage Blamed For Many Week-End Losses

No Rail Wrecks Since Pearl Harbor Caused by Sabotage, FBI Declares

Says No Rail Wreck Due To Sabotage   FBI Says Other Factors Can Be Just as Fatal and Accidents Are Increasing with Shocking Emphasis

Japan Faces Shrinkage To Size In 1853      Must Yield’ All Territory Taken: From Other Nations

Scores Die As N Nazis Seize Reins   King, Part of Cabinet Are Arrested; Troops Battle Enemy Against Terrific Odds; Civil Courts Close

O00 HET NAZIS UNTIL THEY ARE CUT OF BULLETS   King Christian and Members   of Royal Family Reported  Interned Under Military Guard.   SCULTLED VESSELS ARE STILL ON FIRE   Two New Destroyers and Nine Subs Among 45 Sunk —Ten Naval Ships Flee to Safety.

Danish Troops Battle Until Shells Are Gone   Put Up Brave Fight Against Nazis Who Seize Full Control

Christian, Cabinet Under Arresi   600 Soldiers Resist Until Forced To Quit

Civil and Court Functions Under German Control   Danes Warned of Extreme Penalty for Disobedience

ROYAL FAMILY INTERNED AND UNDER GUARD   DISOBEDIENT DANES PROMISED DEATH BY GERMANS

Fascists Demand Government Crack Down on Invasion-Panicky Italians

Fascists Have To Clamp Down   Serious Rifts In Home Front Says Broadcast

ITALTAN MORALE IS WEAKENING   Fascist Party ‘Forced to Take _ Emergency Action

IL DUCE BUSY ON HOME FRONT   Fascists Demand Crack Down on Panicky Italians

Nazi Mountain Line Falls Back Under U.S. Fire   French Report Troops Within 3 Miles Of Pont Du Fahs; Americans Appoach Road Junction Of Mateur

Allies Smash Forward In All 5 Main Sectors With Masses Of Tanks And  Infantry.

Allies Advance In 5 Main Sectors   ... Americans Attacking Enemy Violently

Nazi Tries To Stand off First Army   Goubellat Plain Held Likely Place for a Heavy Action

French Wipe Out Menacing Enemy Salient   Gen. Von Arnim Known To Have Ordered His Armor To ‘Fight It Ont’? In Corridor

RETREAT SEEN AS MANEUVER TO REDUCE LINE   British Lash Hard Against Center; French Push Up In Drive

DEMS COOLING ON TAX PLAN   ‘Administration’s 50 Per Cent Forgiveness Bill Fails To Hold Sunnort.

PARTY DEFECTIONS. FROM TAX PLAN OF FDR NOTED FRIDAY      Supporters of RobertsonForand Proposal Reserve Right to Offer Subecthitusta:

SEVERAL TAX PLANS WILL COME BEFORE HOUSE ON MAY 3      Administration 50% Flan   Opposed By Skip-A-Year  : And 75 Percent Forgiveness .

Democrats Balk on Eve Of Tax Vote   Support Withdrawn From Plan to Void  Half of U.S. Levy

BEMOS SUBMIT NEW TAX PLAN   ) Tough Opnosition Indicated For  50 Pct. Forgiveness  Proposal

NEW REGULATIONS ON MEAT ISSUED   Problems Facing Farmer: Are Clarified In Amendment of Administration.

“THE CITY OF NATURAL LAKES’   REGULATIONS CHANGED IN RE: BEEF SLAUGHTER

One Ship Breaking Up In Worst Storm On New Jersey Coast In Years

4 MERCHANT SHIPS BEACHED   United Nations Ships Go Aground During Severe Atlantic Storm

4 MERCHANT SHIPS AGROUND IN STORM   Coast Guards Remove Crew of James Longstreet as it Begins to Break Up

Clifford Johnson Leaves Hospital   Sumner, Mo. Youth Burned in the Cocoanut Grove Fire Is Recovering.

Eight Persons Charged ‘With Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses

Conferences Have Been Held By Military Leaders Of United Nations Concerning Strategy In Parifia   WASHINGTON HINTING OF ‘FURTHER ACTION

MacArthur Still Trying To Induce Jap Fleet To Come Out and Fight”

Foe Ignores Challenge To Come Out with Fleet In Northern Solomons

SHOULD RETAIN TAGS   Car License Plate Is Property of the Owner of Automobile

Local Board Announces New Gasoline Cut      EVERYTHING BUT ESSENTIAL DRIVING TO EVENTUALLY BE OUT

ALLIES 10 DISCUSS SEPARATE CONTRIBUHONS AT 3-WAY MEET   POSTWAR PROBLEMS ALSO TO BE SUBJECT OF TALKS AT U. S.-BRITAIN-RUSSIA CONFERENCE   Relations Improve   Postwar Problems

Press Will Stress Bond Purchasing   NEWSPAPER COUNCIL AND TREASURY GEEICIAES HOLD CONFERENCE,

PRESS ASKED 10 BACK BOND DRIVE   April Victory Campaign World’s Greatest Financial Undertaking.

Papers Asked to Back Loan Drive   13 Billion Sought To Carry on War

MS ae eee coral e  School Holidays Sfart At End Of Classes Dec. 23

Lorts Make Radicai Shift to Mass Pattern RBamhino   Despite Losses, Axis Might Seen Stronger Than at Outset of War

8th U. S. Air Force Expected to Soon Match 2000-Ton Raids of RAF

133 Ships in Large Convoy Steaming Eastward.  InN’ “*’ FEARS IN ITALY Estin me of Every Tex is Europe Is Against Axis.

CAPT. WHITE IS GRADUATEL   ’Local Sur Zeon Completes Course at Carlisle Barracks

TWO BUCKS CO. MEN SEEKING DIVORCES  CTumesle Eelesatames VAalarsd SO.   Frank Hudson, Walnut St. Files Libel in County  Courts

BRISTOL MAN ASKS DIVORCE FROM WIFE   Fred L. Greene Files Action With the Court Asking  Separation   ONE OTHER SUIT FILED

DIVORCE SUIT FILED BY WIFE OF BRISTOL MAN   Daniel Pica, Lincoln Avenue Is Named Respondent By Wife in Action Filed   ONE TRESPASS SUIT

BRISTOL WOMAN SEEKS DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND   Dorothy M. Stoop Charges Cruel, Barbarous Treat ment By Her Husband

TWO DIVORCE SUITS FILED IN COURT   One Involves Couple Mar ried For Over 35  Years

Today’s War Commentary  Lull In Pacific  May End Soon---Who ll Strike First’

APPOINTMENT OF AUCHINLECH. AS’ COMMANDER: SEEN. AS INITIAL. MOVE FOR AN OFFENSIVE

Believe Burma Drive Coming   ‘Diplomtaic Belief Is That Allies Plan Autumn Advance Upon Burma  ee. whe eee Sey Cer Yas

SENATOR STILL RESENTS YOO-H00   Would Deny General  Ben Lear His Promotion

LEAR’S PROMOTION — FOUGHT BY CLARK   Senate Puts Off Confirmation a Missourian’s Request—“Yoo Hoo” Incident Ficures.

Speculate On Impending U. S.-British  Conferences   Indications Appear That Britain May Bé Scene Of Major Military Operations

TALKS PRESAGE REAL SECOND WESTERN FRONT   Possibilities of Defeating Nazis This Year Cautiously Hinted In London

NEW BLOWS FORECAST FOR AXIS   Impending RooseveltChurchill Conference Stirs Flood Speculation

NEW BLOWS AT AXIS HINTED   Churchill Journey Interpreted As Forecasting New Offensive

Brazilian Offers New Relief Plan   Would Put Cost on Basis of Trade

ROONEY CASE ~ SEEN AS TEST   DRAFT CLASSIFICATION AP. PEAL 18 EXPLAINED. BY MOTION PICTURE : ‘ EXECUTIVES

CITY POPULATION OVER 15,000 MARK   Enumeration Report Will Qualify Lawrence for — First Class  'COUNTY OVER 27,000

CITY POPULATION. - OVER 15,000 MARK   Enumeration Report Will Qualify Lawrence for First Class

STALINGRAD {a STILL AND Blb BATTLE ENDED   Germans Shoot Officers Who Refuse to Surrender at Last Day.   THOUSANDS OF DEAD AND DYING LIE AS THEY FELL

Last Nazis Silenced at Stalingrad   German Soldiers Shoot Officers  Who Wouldn’t Quit

NEW LIFE SURGES THROUGH CHARNEL HOUSE OF STALINGRAD; LIBERATED RESIDENTS SEEK RUINS OF HOMES

STALINGRAD QUIET AS. BATILE ENDS   Civilians ‘Emerge To See Ruins —— Dead Still . Litter’ Streets

NOW CLEARING UP WRECKAGE   Last of 330,000 German Troops Surrender or Dic — Battle Started Last August When Germans Broke Across Don River.

RUSSIANS HUNT UNDED IN STALINGRAD   Thousands Found in Underground Hospital; Booty Great as Last of Nazis Surrender.

Fascist Party Purge Ordered   Housecleaning Is Undertaken By Duce.

United Nations Command: er Says Allies Will Force Axis to Unconditienal Surrender   THANKS FORCES   Says Losses Have Been Suffered But Enemy Have Been Frustrated and Twice Defeated

Eisenhower Confident of Victory  Will ‘Push Axis ‘ to Destruction”

American General Says Enemy Attermpts Beaten; Heavy Losses Admitted   Victory Believed Certain  Re VFIANTEY. Yael er

Rommel Trapped In Steel Hedge, Eisenhower Says   Destruction Now Waits Foe, General Order  ‘Of Days Reads

PUSH ENEMY TO SEA   Eisenhower Confident of An’ Allied Victory in Tunisia

Axis Army Fails To Break Out Of  Tunisian Circle   Allies Drive Toward Sea To Destroy Enemy

Axis In Trap In Tunisia, ¢ Eisenhower  Order Says   Allied Commander Declares Encircled Foe Will Re Driven Into The Sea

Resume Raids On Jap Bases   Navy Department Announces Identification Of Boats Lost On April 7  By WILLIAM THEIS

JAP SINKING “ON APRIL 7 YS REVEALED   DEBTROYER, TANKER AND NEW ZEALAND CORVETTE WENT ‘co DOWN DURING * ATYACK

NAVY RESUMES PACIFIC RAIDS   U.S. Destroyer and Tanke Among Vessels Lost in Solomons

AIR FORGES OF JAPAN AND U. 5. TRADING BLOWS   Parrying in Southwest Pacific: After: Manner of Two Wary Boxers   YANKS MENACE FOES      Striking Daily at Air Nerve Center From Which Nip New Guinea Raiders Probably .Come

Americans Taxed As Heavily As British, Canadians. But Ready to Add New Levies, Senate Finance Head Says

Congress Plans New Tax Bill For Americans   United States Now Paying More Than Britain, Georoe Save

Greater Tax Burden for U.S. Looms   George Says Congress Ready to Work on  New Measures

EXCISE LEVIES ARE PROPOSED   Roosevelt Prepared To Sign Pay-As-You-Go Tax Measure

READY TO START ON NEW TAX BILL   Prepare To Look For New Revenue, Although Americans Are Already Taxed As Heavily As British And  Canadiang

NEW TAXES ARE NEEDED INU, S., PRESIDENT SAYS   Congress Ready To Work On Any  New Suggestion

SOLONS PLAN NEW TAX BILL   President Indicates New Levies Are Not yuaroyyn¢

Tax Suggestions Will Be Studied  Americans Are Already Paying Heavily

ROOSEVELT PLANS  TO SIGN TAX BILL   President Says He Will Ask Congress For Additional Revenue Before Lone

Congress To Work on New Tax Proposals   tleavier Excise Levies on  - Cigarettes, Tobacco and Liquor Probable

New Tax Levy Ts Indicated By President   Heavier Excise on Tobacco and Liquor Seen Possible

Senate Leader Says U. S. Already Taxed Heavily  As Canadians and British People   BOOST CERTAEN   President Announces He Will Sign Pay-As-YouGo Bill to Make [t Effective July }

Heavier Taxes joBeAsked  by President   F. D. R. Says He'll Sign Pending Pavy-as-You-Go Bill

[Senate Finance Committee Head For. sees Need of Larger Tax — Slice

Congress Ready for Another Tax Bill  Income Levy Alone Said Inadequate to

CONGRESS READY TO START WORK ON NEW TAX BILL   PROPOSE HEAVIER LEVIES ON WHISKEY, CIGARETS, TOBACCO

White House Hint On New Tax Awaited  No Income Boost For This Year  rE. 1.12 2... Zh.

More Excise Taxes May Be  - Enacted Soon   Even New Withholding Tax Won't Take Up Slack in Revenue

Ready for New Taxes---George   New Levies on Cigarets Whiskey Seen

SENATE READY TO WORK ON NEW TAX BILL   Waiting Only For Presidential Recommendations

AWAIT FOR SIGNAL FOR NEW TAX LEW   To Sign Pay-as-You-Go Bil in Time for July 1 Deductions

Congress Ready To Go To Work On New Tax Bill   President Points Ou’ Need Of Additional Revenue

Pay-As-You-Go Tax Bill Not Adequate to Close Inflationary Gap.   NEW LEVIES ON CIGARETS

Point To Need Of New Taxes   Added Excise Taxes May Be Partial Answer To Revenue Problem.

TAX INCREASE IS IN PROSPECT   President Says He Will Sign Pay-Go Bill and Hints of Compulsory Savings

HEAVIER TAXES' DISCUSSED NOW.   Cigarets And Whisky Eyed As Likeliest Items

President Indicates Intention to Sign Pay-as-You-Go Tax Bill Soon, Hints at Request for Added Wises

CONGRESS SET - FOR ANY NEW TAX PROPOSAL   So Delares Senate Finance Committee Chairman Today   ® AMERICANS ALREADY ARE HEAVILY TAXED   War Taxes Equal That of Britons, Canadians, Sen. George Savs

NEW TAX PLAN 1S ADVANCEL   And It’s Entirely Sep arate from Current Pay-Go Measure

Americans Taxed as Heavily as British; New Taxation Coming   Congress Is Ready To When FDR Speaks

Congress Is Ready To Add New Taxes   Senate Committee Chief Agrees With Roosevelt Excise Boost Plan   HEAYY LOAD CITED   Present Levy fs Said To Be As Heavy As Britons, Canadians Pay

PAY-AS-YOU-G0 TAX 1S CERTAIN   ROOSEVELT SAYS HE WILL ; SIGN BILL INTO LAW—MAY ASK MORE REVENUE.

CONGRESS DECLARED  READY START WORK  ON NEW TAX BILL CHAIRMAN GEORGE OF  SENATE COMMITTEE SAYS CIICCESTIONG AWAITEON

Americans Taxed as Heavily as Britons But More Taxes Are Looming

George Claims Congress Plans More Tax Bills   Americans Heavily Taxed As British, Canadians; Predicts Excise’ Levies

NEW TAX BILL TO BE SIGNED BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt Hints That Request Will be Made for More Taxes

Paratroops Seize Airstrip Within 20 Miles of Lae   Americans Increase Tempo of Assaults In Sector Where Some 20,000 Japanese  Trapped: Aussies Defeat Enemy Force

ALLIES CLOSE IN ON JAPS IN REGION OF LAE   Yank Reinforcements Being Flown to Aid Paratroop Forces

Infantry Lands On New Field Allies Annihilate Outer Guards  OF Base

LAE AIRSTRIP IS CLEARED OF 1OFOOTGRASS   Twenty-Four Hours After Capture By Allied Para. troopers; Drop 45 Tons Of Bombs    False Report

20,000 Japs On Island Are Trapped   Australians Are Aiding Americans In Drive To Rid New Guinea OF Lest Jananese Troons

Twenty Thousand Japanese Hopelessly -‘Trapped Ja - Lae-Salamaua Area, American and Australian Troops Cut Off Enemy’s Land Supply Routes

Allies Closing “In Around Lae   “More Paratroops Flown Into Area

Paratroops Get Reinforcements   Australians Within 5 Miles of Lae Base

Paratroopers Advance Toward Lae   Reinforcements Are Flown Into the Sector   Nazis Equip Subs With Anti-Aircraft Weapons as Preliminary to New Challenge for Control of . Atlantic Sealanes; Planes Win Battle This Summer

Allies Increase Pressure On 20,000 Trapped Japanese   Reinforcements Fly In To New Guinea Airstrip Seized Inland from Lae

} JAP WARSHIPS, AND POSSIBLY 11 SUNK IN KULA GULF   Nipponese Cruisers and Destroyers Were Knocked Out Quickly by American Vessels.   NEW ALLIED SUCCESSES SCORED IN OFFENSIVE    Yanks Seize 2 Beachheads Near Munda and Aussies Take Hill on Approaches to Salamaua.

1944 Sure To See Invasion   ALLIES COMPLETE PLANS FOR KNOCKOUT BLOW

WESTERN EUROPE IS SURE SEE MILITARY SHOWDOWN IN 1944   EITHER DARING BATTLE OR SWIFT OCCUPATION OF GERMANY DUE

ACTION   MILITARY SHOW DOWN IN EUROPE SET FOR 1944 T0: LIFE OF WORED FOR CENTI   No One Knows When But All tals Do Not Doubt That Time fo “Second Front” Is Near At Har

Japs Reel in Allied  Sky Blow   NEW BRITAIN ROCKS AS AIRMEN SHATTER CAPE GLOUCESTER BASE

Alhes Score Heavy Attack on Cape Gloucester   Ninety-Four Tons Of Bombs Dropped  On lan Airhace

Yankees Raid  New Britain  From Salamaua Nip Planes Hit  U.S. Base On Guadalcanal

Pound Jap Base On New Britain   _ Allied Airmen _In Heavy Attack --

CAPE GLOUCESTER HEAVILY BOMBED BY ALLIED FORCES   Action Seen As Start Of Campaign To Smash Japanese Bases Near: Lae

NEW CAMPAIGN STARTS IN NEW BRITAIN AREA   Heavy Allied Aerial Attack on Cape Gloucester Heralds Opening of Drive to Destroy Jap Bases Within Easy Reach of Lae and Salamaua—Liberators and Flying Fortresses Take Part in Foray.

Allied Planes. Attack Bases On New Britain   Pr éparations Made For Launching Drive On Rabaul -

New Britain Base Raided   Cape Gloucester Japs Datrice to Bomb Rain

MORE JAP BASES FEEL WET OF ALLIED BOMBING   Cape Gloucester In New Bri. tain Subjected to Heavy Attack.

FLIERS RAID JAP BASES ON NEW BRITAIN   Cape Gloucester, Finsch Harbor Are Attacked

KNIGHTS WILL INSTALL NEXT “TUESDAY NIGH   District’ Deputy Robert J Muldoon Wil Officiate  at Ceremony

IME TO CONVERT 'T AGRICULTURE 10 WARTIME BASIS   Two Congressional Commit _ tees Hear About Situation on the Farms.

ee sgh re en # ry $  Pit a War Basis      Hunger at Home , Called Alternative

WARNINGS GIVEN IN A REPORT   Danger Signals Are Raised and Action Is Urged to Prepare for Future.

Crac* Soviet Guards Baty talion Leading _ Drivé Against Germans Eas Of Kharkov.

RED ONSLAUGHTS CONTINUE TO ROLL FORWARD ON ALL SIX MAJOR FRONT!   Slaughter of Nazis and Their Allies Terrific As Thousands of Prisoners Taken, Along With Hugh Quantities of Military Faninmant

Reds Slash At Don River Supply Route   Spearheads Drive Through 2 Nazi  Rail Junctions

FLOOD PICTURE BRIGHTENS FOR RIVER REGIONS    Beardstown, Il., Expected To Eseape Inundation. ‘Sippi, Ar kansas Set New Highs

FLOOD WATERS T0 NEW RECORD HIGH   Bright Patches, However, Showered Up Today in the Water-Logged Picture.

Beardstown Levees Expected to Stand, River Experts Say   Bright Patches Seen on  Water-Logged Picture  ) in Middle West

BRIGHT PATCHES IN FLOOD SCENE   Levies Expected To Hold At Main Danger Spot, Beardstown, Illinois; Waters, Continue, However, To  Swirl To Record Highs.

Flood Threat Is Lessened Today   Beardstown, IIl., Feels Safer Now

Records Fall in Floods      Mississippi, Arkansas Rivers Reach ‘New Heights but Begin to Recede--21 Dead

Beardstown Is Believed To Be Safe   ‘  Levee Experts Say That Rivers Will Now Be Held in Check

Broughton Calls Meet To Discuss Leaf Price Drop   Warchouse Ilotiday Be. ing Considered as Result of Price Drop

BROUGHTON CALLS MEETING ON WEED PRICE SITUATION   Widespread Price Dissatisfaction Prompts Action; Sees Disaster For Many Farmers If Situation Continues.

HOME OWNERS NOT AFFECTED BY NEW ORDER   Industrial And Commercial Bsers Will Feel Pinch Of 40°, Decrease.

MENGES OUSTED. THOMAS TO GET SENATOR'S POST   Will Be Sworn In Monday; GOP  Carries Issue

ILLINOIS SENATE TO SEAT THOMAS   RAPS ST, CLAIR CO. ELECTION FRAUDS IN MENGES OUSTER

Allies Smash Sub Attack   Ten Subs That Attack Convoy Possibly Sunk

Nazi U-Boats Lose Raging Convoy Battle   At Least 10 Subs Are Sunk or Probably Sunk

10 German Pig Boats Wiped Out   Enemy Pack Takes Severe Beating During 8-Day Attack On Convoy.

Ten U-Boats Believed To Be Sunk   Grim Eight-Day . Battle Is Fought In Atlantic Ocean.

IS STABBED BY MENTAL PATIENT   sowa Lieutenant Is Victim in Hoépital

italians Give Germans Assurances Of Staying in the War After Parley

ITALY TO FIGHT ON IS REPORT FROM FRONTIER   Italo, German Conferences at Verona Have Ended With Italians Giving Assurance They Will Carry ‘On Until the Allies Offer More Lenient Peace Terms—Nazis Reported to Have Sent 32 More Divisions Intn Cauntrs

Such Assurance Reported Given At Meeting With German Envoys; Tresps Rushed To Peninsula

500,000 Men Sent To Badoglio’s Aid   Four Panzer Divisions Reported Rushed to Bolster Greek Defenses

GERMANY SENDS 500,000 TROOPS TO AID BADOGLIC   Italian Premier Reported Against Allied Surrender Demand as Insult to House of Savov.

4) NEW NAZI SIONS SENT NTO PO ARE   Reports Say Badoglio Feels Forced to Continue War

ITALIANS WILL FIGHT ON, SAY AFTER PARLE}   ‘Hitler Reported to be Sending Half Million More Men Into Realm Of His Ally.

32 Additional Nazi Divisions iSent Into South   Latest Rumors From Contingent Say Hitler ‘Virtually Prisoner

Report Badoglio Has Promised Nazis He Will Fight on Unless Allies Grant More Lenient Terms of Peace

VERONA MEET ENDS; NAZIS MOVE TROOPS   Italy Quiet As New War Moves Are Awaited

Italy To Stay On In Hope Of  Better Terms      Will Stand By Germany For Present; Honor  Of Italy At Stake

Italo-Nazi Conferences  Have Ended   Italy Gives Word At Verona That Cha Will Fioht+ On

ITALY PLANS TO FIGHT ON IN AXIS RING   More Lenient Peace - Terms Being Sought from Allies, Reports  Claim.

Claim Germany Has Sent 32 Divisions Into Italy To Meet Anticipated Allied Invasion      Expect Military Dictatorship To Be Established Shortly In Germany

Italy Assures: Nazis She Will FichtOn.   Germany. Rushes 500,000-Men to Faltering Partner .

ITALY: AGREES TO FIGHT ON, SAYS REPORT   London Hears Germany Sends 500,000 Men Over Alps, Panzers Into Greece.   TERMS TOO STIFF

ITALY TO FIGHT ON TILL MORE LENIENT TERMS. ARE GIVEN   European Advices Assert Germans Are Sending: Troops To Italy And Greece   HITLER, RUMORS - ARE CIRCULATED

UD OFFENSIVE HITS SHIPPING   March Sinkings — Increase Over Previous Month, Knox Reveals

ALLIES SUFFERING LOSSES BY U-BOAT   big Rise Noted by Allies During Month of March.

MARCH SUB TOLL SHOWS BIG RISE   Situation In Battle Of At lantic Described As Very Grave By Knox

GERMAN HOME FRONT SHOWS SLIGHT CRACKS   Discontent Is Growing But Hitler Still — Is Secure   MOST PEOPLE BLAME NAZI SUBORDINATES

What Goes On In Germany? Here’s Answer   United Press Foreign Editor Morris Begins Enlightening Series On Nazis

German Home Front Is Beginning lo Fall Apart   Dispatches Are Now Being Released’ To Show What Is , Happening On Inside Cf Germany , «

Cracks Appearing in Nazi Home. Front, Dispatches Indicate, But No Immediate Collapse Seen   ‘BY. JOE: ALEX MORRIS... United: ‘Press _Foreign, -Ealtor ©

Home Front In Reich Shows Cracking Signs   But Conditions Still Better Than in 1918; No Serious Dissensior

MEASURE TO PAROLE KILLERS PROPOSED   State’s Welfare Director Endorses Idea

MORE PLANES * ~~ FOR INVASION   LARGE FORMATION " FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC BY BOMBERS 18 ANNOUNCED—AXIS  ~ LOSSES ESTIMATED 7—

More Bombers Reach Britain   U. 8. And Canadian Squadrons Arrive To Aid In Blasting Germany   REPORTS REVEAL BOMB DAMAGE

Legislation Sent to White House After Warning Is Given.   NEW STRIKES BREAK OUT

Texas University Chimes Notify Reservists They Are ‘In The Army Now’

NEWSPAPER WRITER INJURED IN TUNISIA   Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter _ Breaks Wrist

American-Born Japanese Enter Fight In South Italy With Smiles on Faces

Smiling Jap-American Troops Go Into Action Above Salerno   Would Rather Be Fighting Japanese, Says Commander, But That Will Come Later

_ ALLIES TAKE , 3 ISLANDS NEAR NAPLES   Permit Flanking Of Axis Port; Airports Used

Move Outflanks Port of Naples, \Goal of Clark —   Fifth Army Extends . Salerno Bridgehead, Regains Lost Ground

FOOD PARLEY 2-WAY CURES   Incentive Loans, Cut-Rate Prices to Be Suggested Before Conference.   INTERNATIONAL PARLEY OPENS IN VIRGINIA

U.$. TO OFFER WORLD ILL CURE   Cut Rate Prices, Incentive Loans To Be Proposed At Food Parley

STATE TAKES HAND IN PROBE ZOOT-SUIT CASE LOS ANGELES  _ WEEK OF DISTURBANCE   WEEK OF DISTURBANCES INVOLVING SERVICE MEN BE INVESTIGATED

State Takes Active Hand In Zoot War   Attormey Generel Kenny Arrives in LA. As Girls Steb Wemen

STATE TAKES HAND IN PROBE ZOOT-SUIT CASE LOS ANGELES  - WEEK OF DISTURBANCE!  INVOLVING SERVICE MEI —oDE INUERCTICATEN

JAPS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES   Twelve Nipponese Ships Known To Be Sunk At Kavieng.

Four to Attend Protest Meeting   Local Men to Join in Seeking to Get Area Out of Gas Zone 

Investigation Of Ickes’ Office Is Threatened   Congressman Asks Why Immunity on Gasoline Is Given to Few Towns

STRIKE CLOSES RUBBER PLANT   40 Workmen Stage Work Stoppage At Goodrich Factory In Akron

SYNTHETIC PLANT CLOSED BY STRIKE   Dispute Over Pay Does No Have Union Approval

Naval Aireraft Strafe Site of Enemy Field   Three More Attacks on Kiska, One on Attu Recorded

PARATROOPS LAND BEHIND AXIS LINES   Madrid Report Doesn’t Hint Of Strength Of Forces New In Italy

Paratroops Land. Behind  Axis Lines   Number Unreported By Madrid; Rail Junction Attacked

ee ee eer  BRITISH, CANADIAN TROOPS INVADE ITALIAN MAINLAND AND ESTABLISH FOOTHOLD

New Citizens _ Pledge Loyalty  Germans  fake Oath Of Allegiance.

Germans Flee Via 13-Mile Escape Hole   Head Toward Dneiper River In Retreat Marking Third Sethack.   NAZIS CONFIRM STORY

GERMANS REPORTED FLEEING IN DISGRDER THRU 13-MILE ESCAPE. GAP TOWARD THE DNEIPER RIVER   German High Command Admits Loss of Great Ukraine Industrial Citv, Present Retreat Marking Nazi’s Third Bitter Setback in Recent Weeks

THROWS UKRAINE — OPEN FOR SOVIET DRIVE TO DNIEPER   Comes Only Two Weeks After Start Of Russian Summer Offensive In * This Sector—City Hub Of  Communications

DNB SAYS CITY NO LONGER S VALUABLE   Its Fall Presented As Evacuation In Which Russians Had No Part

Germany And Italy Continue To Shudder Under Aerial Offensive Of Allies

Red Army Storms Nazi Stronghold In the Ukraine      Greatest German-held Base on the Southern Front Captured For the Second Time This Year by the Russian Forces

Retreat Marks Third  Setback In Recent. « Weeks 7  ALLIES ; ACTIVE  Planes Smash Italian Rail Center At :   Salerno

Nazis Evacuate Ukrainian Base   GERMAN RADIO ANNOUNCES LOSS OF FOURTH CITY OF RUSSIA; DECLARES RETREAT MADE “ACCORDING TO PLAN” AS SOVIETS MOVE ON

Nazis Assert City Ceased To Be Useful   Important Rail Lines Arc Secured to Russians By This Stroke

Planes Virtually Destroy Rail Center - of Salerno   FEAR GERMANS   Adm it Pressure Halts Italy’s With drawal from War

NAZIS FLEE FROM UKRAINE BASTION TO ESCAPE TRAP   Hitler Suffers Third Bitter Setback in Recent Weeks; Germans Headed for  Dniener River.

Triumph Climax To Russia’s Summer Drive   Germans To Attempt To Belittle Latest Important Conquest

nermans’ Greatest Position In South Russia Evacuated In General Retreat   Moscow Remains Silent On Capture Of Vital City; Gains Reported In Other Battle Areas

Germany Belittles LossasHavingno ° Military Importance   Fourth Time in War Big Ukranian City Has Changed Hands

ARMIES OF HITLER HAVE EVACUATED GREAT STRONGPOINT  GERMANS FLEE THROUGH - 13-MILE-WIDE ESCAPE  GAP FROM KHARKOV

Germans Admit Loss Of Kharkov To Russians  Nazi Army In Genera Retreat In The South Part OF Rureccia

Germans Fleeing Through 13-Mile Wide Escape Gap   Fall Of Great Bastion Marks Third Time Nazis Have Suffered Bitter Setbacks; Axis Forces May Retreat To Dnieper

Violent Fighting — Near City   Some Fateful Conclusions May. Be Near; Nazis Insist Retreat Is Orderly.   GREAT BASE ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT   German Move Indicates a Lack of Reserves; May. : Puli Back to Dnieper

German Troops Evacuate Kharkot   Announcement of Release of Reds Fourth Largest City Made by Nazis   Ukraine Open for Soviet Thrust to Dniener River

German Command Admits Withdrawal; City Twice Occupied By Foe Troops

German High Command Admits Abandonment of Kharkov, but Claims. Orderly Withdrawal to Shorten Lines

Escape Through 13 Mile Gap; 3rd Major Defeat Of Germans   Russians Recapture City For Second Time In Last Six Months; Is Fourth Time City Has Changed Hands Since War Began

GERMANS TRY TO BELITTLE LOSING CITY   Nazis in Retreat Toward Dnieper River After Their Third Bitter Battle Reverse

GERMAN ARMY IN GENERAL RETREAT FROM KHARK AVY   Reds Recapture Great Industrial Center In Ukraine   CITY OUTFLANKED BY SOVIET TACTICS

BERLIN ADMITS EVACUATION OF SOUTHERN BASE   Nazis Assert City Given Up Because It Is Now “Not Valuable” For  Sirategic Uses   FIGHTING VIOLENT WEST OF KHARKOV   Slashing Flank Attacks By  ~ Reds Successful, As In   Similar Tactics At Orel, Belgorod

RED VICTORY GREATEST OF 1943 DRIVE   Nazis Expected To Fall Back to Dnieper River

Ukraine City Held Again by Russian Troops   New Offensive Reaches Turning Point in Campaiar

Fall of Great Center Marks Third Bitter Setback the Germans Have Suffered at Hands of Russians in Recent Weeks.   Kharkov Has Been Base of Salient Which Menaced Moscow to Caucasus

DNIEPER THRUST POSSIBLE ENEMY NW IN RETREAT   Nazi Agency Says Axis Forces Have Withdrawn After Destruction of Important Installations.    COMPLETE EVACUATION DURING SUNDAY NIGHT   Allieg Now In Control of Positions Overlooking Salamaua Airdrome, Advance Two Miles.

UKRAINE IS THROWN OPEN FOR RED MOVE   Russia’s Fourth Largest City Again Changes

SOVIETS FORGE AHEAD AS NAZIS ABANDON CITY   German Retreat to Dnieper River Front Is Expected Now

General Retreat * In South Russia  Now Indicated   Berlin Says Armies Evacuated With ‘No Pressure’ By  Soviets

Nazis Claim City No Longer Valuable As Center Of © Traffic and Supplies _—

REDS OCCUPY BIG {UKRAINE CENTER, ADVANCE IN NORTH   Ranks With Orel In importance—-Nazis to Falt Back ta Oniener Now.

Open Ukraine For Russian - Dnieper Drive   Fall Of City, Admitted By Germans After. Two-Week Campaign, Gives Reds Key Communications Post; Bryansk Thrust Slowed.

Kharkov Now In Hands of Red Armies   Germans Fleeing Through 13-Mile_ Wide Escape Gap Toward Dnieper  River; Allied Planes Virtually De- Stroy Italian Rail Center at Salerno

Retreat May. Be General © on All Fronts   Germans Admit ‘General Shortening of Lines; Third Setback for Huns in Drive

Soviets Again Hold Key Ukraine City      Reich Chiefs Claim Sector No. Lonver of Value ta Defendere.

UKRAINE THROWN OPEN TO RUSSIAN DNEIPER THRUST   Evacuation Completed Last Night; Germans Minimize Im portance of Loss

RUSSIANS GET — BEST BASE IN SOUTH RUSSIA   Germans Say Enemy Pressure Had No Part In Withdrawal   IKEPT FROM PEOPLE

Hitler Sutters Grave Deieat   Axis Troops On Run Toward Dnieper Through 13-Mile-Wide Escape Gap.   “A Heap Of Ruins.”

Fy »  (germans Say Soviet Pressure Plays No Part in Evacuation   Report Fierce Fighting West of City, Russians Announce Gains at Bryansk, Donets Basin

Great Industrial Bastion in Ukraine Taken by Russians   Fall of Vital City is Presented by Nazi News Agency As Withdrawal in Which Soviet Pressure Had No Important Part   VIOLENT FIGHTING IS REPORTED WEST OF TOWN

Flight ‘To Dnieper Is Third Setback In Recent Weeks   City Changes Hands Four Times; Nazis Claim Positions Improved; Say Retreat Not Pressed By Reds

Germans Claim Withdrawal From Base Is Orderly   Announcement of Evacuation Not Immediately Confirmed by Russians.

STALIN ORDER ANNOUNCES FALL OF CITY   Victory by Russians Is Minimized by German Claim of Evacuation.

KEY CITY HELD AS RESULT OF FIERCE FIGHTING   Heavy Toll Taken by Soviet Forces as Invaders Are Driven Back Slowly   REDS WANT SECOND FRONT   Diplomatic Reshuffie Keeps World Guessing About Allied Relations

Russia’s No. 3 City Changes HandsFor Ath Time In War   American Warplanes Destroy Italian Rail Center; Nazis Pour  Through Brenner Pass: —

Nazis Report Evacuation  Of Big Base   Withdrawal In Southern  Region General Retreat

Movement May Foreshadow General Retreat By Enemy In Russia, London Believes   Violent Fighting West Of City May Presage Fateful Conclusions; German People Finally Told Army Had To Abandon Important City

UKRAINE AREA IS OPENED FOR SOVIET THRUST   Germans Report Withdrawal Orderly With Loss Of City Minimized   RIVER SALIENTS MENACED   New Stand By Enemy Forces Expected To Be Made Along Dnieper

GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF STRONG BASE IN RUSSIA   Mass Evacuation Of Ukraine City Not Confirmed

NEEDED, NAZIS SAY   Word Of Fall Is Not Yet Given By Soviets; Russians Report Capture Of 25,600 Troops

Russians Capture Big Industrial City; Also” Gain On Other Fronts

Only Few Hundred Men In Two Battalions Used Escape Wounds or Death

IMARINE OFFICER. SAYS NO AMERICAN VICTORY WAS EVER ACHIEVED AT HIGHER ' PRICE

Eyewitness Tells of Tarawa Battle, Toughest in History of Marine Corps

Toughest Fighting In History Marks Campaien In Gilberts   No Victory in American History Ever Attained at a Higher Price-——-No Official Count of Casualties Available .

Enemy Warship Struck by Three Bombs; Merchant Ship Also Damaged  COAST FIRES SET Iinemy Troop and Supply Bases Hit From Lae  To, oe ny es

Jap Warship Is Blasted By  U.S. Bombers   Direct Hits Made By Fliers In Attack In Harbor Of Rabaul   CARGO SHIP ALSO BADLY DAMAGED  DW. Ten Va” ar nra

Ration Chairman Fired - Frame-up By OPA Charged   Rumpus in Cleveland : Stirred Up by Incorrect B and C Book Issuance

OPA Fires — Ohio Portia, Draws Ficht   Whole Price Board Threatens To Quit ver Ration ‘Fromeaun

British Foree Driven Off,  Berlin Claims   Italian, Rhineland Cities Targets in Latest Air Raids

Say Thirty Escaped to Mountains   Germans Claim Raid by 400 British Soldiers ‘Completely Frustrated’

U: S. Purchase of Livestock. ~ Considered   Registration of . All Who ‘Handle Controlled Meat ‘Also- Proposed   WOULD ACT TO. “9. RELIEVE ‘SQUEEZE   Independent;.Packers’: Are Seeking ‘Help; Mik" Prices, “Also in Dispute’

Group Tackles Black Market   Suggest Government Buy Live Animals. Registration Of Markets.

SUSPECTED BANDIT DISPUTES IDENTITY   Got Wrong Man, He Says; Accused of Ohio Holdup

CHINA’S FIRST LADY REACHES CAPITAI   Madame Chiang Kai-shek Welcomed at Station by Roosevelt —~—Addresses Conrress Today.

Washington Welcomes  Mme. Chiang   Senate Today To Hear First Lady of China, Talk To Be Broadcast

Indications Persist That Axis Peace Feelers Being Developed Through Neutral Approache:

UUNTACTING ROLE GIVEN TD AL DIE   Ciano Is Planted At Vatican: City T6 » Aid Plan

The War Today   Axis Peace Moves No Sign Enemy Collapse Is Imminent

PINCERS ON RABAUL IS TIGHTENED   Air Field ts Put Into Operation On Bougainville

Aerial Pincers Closing In On Base At Rabaul   Bougainville Airfield Put In Operation By Seabees

Big Jap Base Is Periled   Seabees Credited With Swift Development In Airfield

Rabaul  Pincers Tighten   BOUGAINVILLE AIRFIELD IN USE BY U. S. AFTER FIVE WEEKS OF WORK

AERIAL PINCERS -QNRABAUL BASE ARE TIGHTENEE   Airfield on Bougainville Ac: celerates Pace of Attack on Japs.

Rabaul Base Peril Grows   Actial Pincers. on Japanese Tichiened.

New Airfield Is Built By Seabees At Bougainville   Jap Base At Rabaul Threatened By American Aerial Pincers Move

AERIAL PINCER TIGHTENED ON RABAUL BASE   Airfield Developed On Bougainville Isle By Seabees

Rum! Confident Income Tax Plan Will Be Adopted   Sponsor of Pay-as-YouGo Move Sees “'Early Action’

Early Action On Tax Plan ‘ts:Forecast By Beardsley. Ruml   Sponsor. Of ‘Pay-As"Y¥6u-Go System. Wants ‘Results Before Mar. 

Confidential Look Into War Job to Be Given by Army  Group of 200 to Be Let Into Secrets At Gathering Soon

Sull-Burning Berlin Hit Again by RAR   British ‘Report 33 Planes Lost In Night Raids

Berlin Is Given Another Severe Bomb Attack.   Report More Than 1000 Tons Are Dropped on City

DESTRUCTION RAINED UPON NAZI CAPITAL   Hundreds of Tons of Demolition and Fire Explosives Hurled by RAF.

BRITISH BOMB BERLIN, RUHR VALLEY AGAIN        Allies Lose 33 Bombers; Germans Strike Back ~ At England

SECOND IN 43 HOURS   Hundreds Of Tons Of Explosives Rained  On Nazi Capital

RAF BLASTS NAZI CAPITAL IN HEAVY RAID   Berlin Still Burning- From Last Assault, Main Target Of Night Force

1,OU0 TONS FALL ON NAZI CAPITAL IN GREAT ATTAGK   21 Bombers Lost In 2nd Raid Within 48 Hours of Each Other. -

-400 RAF Bombers Again Spread Ruin In Burning Berlin   Thousand Tons of Explosive Rain On City in Night of Terror; British List 21 Planes Missine After Foray

BLASTING ~ OF AREAS   Twerity-One British Bombers Lost Indicating That Nearly 400 Took Part.

RAF Gives Reich Capital _ No Respite From Attacks; Use Demolition, Fire Bombs

BRITSH BATTER BERLIN AGAIN IN GREAT ATTACK   Nazi Capital Receives Second Visit In 48 Hours   AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT HOLLAND, FRANCE

More Than 1,000 Tons Of Bombs Believed Dropped   Force Up to 400 Planes Return While Nazi Capital Still Smoulders From Previous Attack

R.A. F. Batters Berlin Again   21 Bombers Lost in Raid on Capital; 12 Lost in Ruhr Valley Attack

EW RAID >» WAR'S BIGGEST ; 21 PLANES LOS)   “£00 Bombers Batter Nazi Capital; Ruhr Area Also Pounded

Urgelarmers lo  ‘Take A Chance   County’s Food Goa May Fall Short Otherwise

No Rationing  Of Cigarettes   No Restriction on Manufacture Needed, WPB Officials Say

Good News For Cigaret Users  ‘No Restrictions Are Necessary Claim

Keep On Puffing, Folks; Cigaret Rationing Due No   Sales Soar To New High, But No Shortage Seen In Crops Or Manpower

No Rationing  Of Cigarets . Plenty Of Tobacco At Present Although  BDenadietian le Dacacd

Hitler Admits Severe Damage  In Homeland   Strangely Subdued Talk Delivered By Leader Of Nazis In Observing War Heroes’ Day

HITLER SUBDUED IN WARNING REICH OF ‘MORTAL DANGER’   Fuehrer Makes First Appearance in Months   SAY ONLY 542,000 GERMANS CASUALTIES

HITLER BREAKS SILENCE, GIVES SUBDUED TALK   Berlin Announcer Hints Fuehrer Has Yielded Army Command

Hitler Admits Allied Air Fleets Have Turned Part of Reich Into War Theater; Claims 540,000 Germans Have Been Killed In 3 Years of War

HITLER'S SPEECH BETRAYS CONCERN OVER BOMB RAIDS   His Remarks Indicate That Military Men are in Full Control.

Hitler Admits Germany. Turned To War Theater   “Subdued Speech ‘Reveals Concern Over Outcome -

HITLER BETRAYS HIS CONCERN OVER GERMAN MORALE   Fuehrer Admits Terrific Allied Air Attacks: Have Turned Home Front Into Theater of War.

HITLER SPOKE TOGERMAN PEOPLE SUN:   Showed Coricern Over Air. ‘Attacks On-German Cities

HITLER-SPEECH SHOWS CONCERN OVER AIR RAIDS.      Tone Bears Little Resemblance To Familiar Shouted Boasts

HitlerWorry About Raids Seen in Talk   Fuehrer’s Subdued Speech Indicates Army Helm Yielded

Hitler Speech Shows Concern Over Air Blows   Sets Nazi Losses At 542,000 for Three Years of War

HITLER CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY SHAKEN   Fuehrer’s Speech Reveals Deep Concern Over Outlook

British Move Up Adriatic Coast By Land, Water   Fall Rains Climax Russian Drive: Sink Jap Gunboat, 49 Barges

TITLER DUBIOUS OF LEGISLATION   Says Outlook Not Bright For Progressive Bills Due To ‘Corporate Interests’

Labor Legislative Outlook Said Dark   Tiler Tells UMW Meeting ‘Corporate Interests’ Are ‘in Saddle’

rT,  BOYS BEING CALLED TO RUMANIA’S ARMY   War in Russia Is Bleeding Country’s Manpower

CONGRESSMEN BACK F.R, TALK   Some Declare Address Not Specific Enouch

Congressmen Mainly Back F. D. R’s Aim   But some declare: the President. wasn’t’ specific enough on social security, —-

BRITISH LIBYA ARMY CROSSES TUNISIA BORDEE   Gap Between Allies  Now Cut to 150 Miles As Rommel Retreats

British Smash Into Tunisia  On Axis Heels   Imperials Draw Near Juncture With U. 8. Forecs

BRITISH 8TH ARMY MOVES INTO TUNISIA   Gap Between Two Allied Armies Is Less Than 150 Miles

EIGHTH ARMY PLOWS ACROSS TUNISIA LINE   Axis Mediterranean Supply Ports Battered

British Are In Tunisia   Americans Also Make Advance In The South

BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY SMASHES INTO TUNISIA   American Forces Narrow Gap Betwee Armies To Less Than 150 Miles.

SEVEN OHIO GIT'.S TO RECEIVE PLAQUES   Traffic Safety Council to Make Awards

Eire’s Chief Losing Grip   Long Rule of Irish Fianna Party Shaken

DE VALERA LOSES GRIP ON EIRE   SUFFERS DEFEAT IN GENERAL ELECTION; WINS ONLY 67 SEATS

'De Valera In Shaky Spot After Election   Prime Minister Of   Prime Minister Of Eire Loses Clear Majority In Dail

De Valera’s Grip On Eire Is Broken  Loses Clear Majority In Election

DeValera Is Faced With  Dissention   :  Must Make Agreement or May Be Forced From Leadership

Troops Smash Forward to Within Seventy Miles of Port of Gabes   German, Italian Tank Units Flee Headlong Toward Sea, Mareth Line

British Eighth Army  - Also Joins In Assault Against Enemy and Mareth I ine.

FARM MACHINE RATIONING CUT TO 31 ITEMS   Distribution Coniro!s to be Halved, Effective Oct. 15, WFA Official Announces

Sharp Reduction In Rationing Of » Farm Machinery   W. F. A. Announces Distribution Controls To Be Halved.

RATIONING REDUCED ON FARM MACHINERY   Sixty Pieces of Equipment Relieved of Restrictions — ;

PRESIDENT PRAYED DIVINE GUIDANCE IN VIGTORY AND PEACE   CAPITAL BUSIED ITSELF WITH PROBLEMS OF WAR ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Roosevelt Prays on Tenth Anniversary of His Presidency   Washington Busies Itself With Continuing Problems of Conflict

Bombers Hit Convoy Off New Guinea  Results of Attack Not Observed By Bomber Crews

Allies Bomb Japan Bases In Air Raids   Far-Ranging Bombers Pound Airplane Base With 21 Tons Bombs

Plane Assembly Plant at Kendari Blasted by Allies  At Least Ten Tokyo Planes Destroyed In Heavy Raid  STRIKE OTHER AREAS  Lone Raider Shoots Down Five of 12 Enemy Fighters

Allied Bombers. Damage Big Jap Base in Celebes; Plane Repair Shops Hit    Enemy Convoy Also Attacked _ As New Wave of Air Fighting _  Smnrincoce Tin in Pantfie War Zane

Allies Attack Jap Convoy; Down 5 Zeros   Communique Also Tells of 21-Ton Bomb Raid-on Kendari

Lone Allied Bomber Finds Enemy Convoy   Attacks Concentration Of Vessels Northwest Of Wewak; Dutchmen Raid Dili Airdrome

Allies Drop 21 Tons Bombs on Kendari Base   Allied Bombs Destroy Five Planes on Ground And Wreck Repair Shops; Attack Jan Canvov

Big Air Base Left Aflame.   Trail Of Fire Leaves At. . Least 15 Planes Wrecked

Allies Bomb Big Enemy Plane Plant   Five Jap Planes Down And Big Convoy Struck in Attacks

Japs’ Celebes Base Pounded In Heavy Raid   21 Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Big Jap Air Assembly Base

CHIROPRACTOR BILL PRODUCED DEBATE OVER EDUCATION   SENATE REFUSES TO CALL FOR CHANGE IN PARDONING-PAROLE POWERS

GRANGE FIGHTS U.S. FARM AND FOOD CONTROLS   Rural Opposition Voiced To Virtually All  Regulation

Proposes Permanent U. S. Possession Of British West Hemisphere Bases   House Tax Group Approves 2( Per Cent Witholding Tax

PROPOSE PERMANENT POSSESSION OF BASES   Traded 50 Over-Age Destroyers for Military Ports

U.S. MAY TAKE FULL CONTROL OF NEW BASES       House Committee Approve 20 Percent Withholding Levy

Permanent U. S. Possession Of British Bases Proposed; Congress Studies Tax Plan

ASE SWA LEGISLATION IN THE SPOTLIGHT   Drafting Amendment To Lend-Lease Plan For Permanent Transfer To U. S. Of Western Hemisphere Bases Leased From The British.

BRITAIN’S BASES TAKEN ON LEASE WANTED FORU, S.   Permanent Transfer Sought In Amendment Drafted for Lend-Lease Legislation   TAX PLAN IS DISCUSSED   Dispute Over Manpower Is Nearing Showdown in Bitter Controversies

NO ARMED AID BY TURKS   Istanbul .Newspaper .Says, .“This War Is Not Ours.”

MacArthur Makes Monkeys of Japs   They Never Know Where He'll Hit

Land Mines Become New Arm of Combat   Latest Weapons Used in Africa

Attu Combat Hand-To-Hand   Close Range Fighting Is Continuing For Control Of Aleutian Island   CLEARING JAPS FROM HIGH PEAKS

YANKS BATTLE JAPS ON ATTU HAND TO HAND   U. S. troops storm last two enemy strongholds on key Aleutian isle

HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE HAGES ON ATTU ULE   U. S. Troops Storming Last 2 Japanese-Held Positions in Fierce Fighting.   CLEARING ENEMY OFF HIGH PEAK HOLDINGS

ANK AND JAP FIGHT ON ATTU HAND TO HAND   Violent Combat Marks U.S. Storming of Last Two Enemy Positions

J. S. Troops Reported To Be Storming Last Two Enemy Positions Remaining On. Island: Kiska Raided

U. §. Troops Storm Enemy Peaks At Attu   Hand To Hand Battle Re ported; Outcome Already May Be Decided   PLANES HELP YANKS   Aerial Offensive Against Kiska Stepped Up With 3 Attacks In One Day

HAND-TO-HAND "FIGHT ON ATTU   Yanks Storm Last Two Enemy Positions, Cutting Japs Into Small Poskets.

LAST JAP PLACES ON ATTU STORMEL   Russians Press Large-Scale Offensive Against German Bridgehead.

Senate Group Sends New Tax  Bill To House      Two Billion Measure Provides Revenue To Supplement Present Amount.   NO RETAIL TAX PLAN   chinese Army Launchs Counterolfensive Plan

Chinese Open Drive On Japs  Heavy Battle Rage   Heavy Battle Rages In Rice Bowl

Idea of Trip Home Sounds — Good to Men   But Overseas Soldiers Doubt That It Will Materialize, Much as They Wish It

TROOPS HAPPY OVER SUGGESTION THEY BE GIVEN TIME OUT  SENATORS RECOMMENDEL TRIP HOME FOR SOLDIERS

SOLDIER LIKE IDEA OF RES]   Much Skepticism, However, That Senators’ Plan Wiil Re Used.

Sec. Perkins Stresses Importance Of Women in War Production Work

FIRMER GRIP AS WORKERS   Hiring Ratio Is Now § to 1 In U. S. Industry

WOMEN FLOCK TO JOBS   Outnumber Men Nearly 5 to 1 as New Employees.

Says Defendant Burned On Hands   Evidence Mounts Against Demarigny

De Marigny Burned, Says Police Capt.   Tested Suspect With Microscope, Miami Officer Says

CANADIAN CHIEF FORCED TO LEAVE   Illness Takes Lt. Gen. A.G.L. McNaughton from Helm of Canadian Army in England

INSTRUCTIONS ON WAR RATION BOOK NO, 4   Must Present Book 3 When Annlvine for Book 4.

F. D. R. CALLS GROUP   “Victory Committee” to the White House Saturday.

NEW ADVANCE UNDER WAY tN TUNISIA   Axis Loses 151 Aircraft In Three Days   FIRST ARMY   Makes Small Local Gains; Artillery Fire Starts 8th Army On Way

Heights Captured And Counter Attacks Are Beaten Off; Air Activity

GUILTY IN DROWNING   Denver Jury Convicts Unwed Wom in Baby’s Death.

Britains Will Not let Food Go to Nazi-Held Areas   Germans Would Cause More Starvation, Commons Is Informed

Refuse to Lift Food Blockade   British Suspicious Of Nazi Blackmail

BRITISH 18 HOLD FOS) BLOCKADE   Parliamentary Secretary Turns Down All Sugnections

Britains Will Not Let Food Go to Nazi-Held Areas  Germans Would Cause More Starvation, : Casmmneme le lnfacemadc

BRITAIN REFUSES TO EASE BLOCKADE   DISAPPROVES PROPOSAL TO SHIP FOOD TO GERMANOCCUPIED EUROPE.

Local Milifia Departs Today   Company D Ordered ‘To Eastern Michigan

Local Guard Unit Gets Orders To Entrain For Detroit Riot Area Duty

FIX 5 MILLION AS POSSBLE ANCUNT FORFOQD CANNING   Green Requests’ Two: Billion Subsidy For ‘Use. in Returning ving C Costs to 13 ’ Manths Aco.:   ACTION BASED UPON ORDER-OF ROOSEVELT   Effort Made to Produce Food Without Changing Price. to Growers, Allow Possible Waae Rise.

Subsidy for Vegetable Packers Ordered by Vinson to Forestall ‘ Hivher Prices on Essential Foods

FOOD SUBSIDY IS AUTHORIZED   Vinson Takes Action To Stabilize Vegetable Prices; Green  Backs Plan

Vegetable Packers May Get Subsidies   a I I I  Authorization Made To Meet Wace Hilee

Packers Given  US Subsidy    Vegetable Firma ‘Aided In Pay Hikes

Subsidy for Vegetable Packers To Make Up for Wage increase Ordered by U.S. Stabilizer

SUBSIDY ABSURD: WAGE INCREASES   Vegetable Packers to Be Compensated for Proposed Wage Increases Pending Before War Labor Board

Vegetable Packers  Given Aid   Subsidy Offsets Proposed Hike In Wages -

Morgenthau Says House Measure Is Far Short of Fiscal Needs.   ASKS FOR $10 BILLION

Morgenthau Calls  For More Revenue Sales Tax Too Costly To Collect. He Savs

MORGENTHAU NOT DEAD-SET AGAINST RETAIL SALES TAX   Says He Has No “Phobia” Against That System But Believes It Least Desirable Way to Raise Money

MORGENTHAU HITS SALES TAX   Treasury Chief Says Levy Is Lest Desirable Of  Revenue Sources

TREASURY HEAD TELLS CONGRESS OF TAXING NEED   Says Nation Must Help Pay Cost Of War Now

The Sales Tax Is Least Desirable   This Was Told the Senate Finance Committee Today by Sec. Morgenthau.

MORGENTHAU RENEWS TAX DEMANDS.   Tells Senate Finance Committee $2,140,000,000 Revenue Measure Falls Far Short Require manta

Morgenthau Repeats Plea for Enormous Additional Levies   Treasury Secretary is Questioned by Senate Committee Members

Morgenthau Condemns , Sales Tax   Tells Senate Committee Plan Is Least Desirable Way To Raise Revenue   RENEWS REQUEST FOR TAX SHIFT   . Treasury Head Meets Sharp ‘Questioning by Advocates of Sales Tax

RENEWS DEMAND FOR MORE TAXES   MORGENTHAU SAYS HOUSE BILL FAR SHORT OF NEEDS

Morgenthau Says ‘No’ to Sales Tax   Not Against It; He Believes It Is Least Desirable of All Methods.

Treasurv Head Says Sales Tax Not Desirable   Morgenthau Receives Sharp Questioning By Senate Finance (,roup.   PAUL CRITICIZES PLAD

Treasury Opposes Sales Tax Again  [ae f boiwae SMact awed bees Cmercmbn   Morgenthau Quizzed by Senate Finance Group on Income Needs

Treasury Chief Voices Opposition To Sales Tax But Morgenthau Continues Demands  For Big Increase In Federal Levies

OATS OALES TAX LEAST DESIRABLE   Morgenthau Faces Sharp Questioning Before Senate Committee

MORGENTHAU RENEWS VIRTUALLY HOPELESS TAX DEMANDS MONDAY  TELLS SENATE COMMIT TEE HOUSE REVENUE MLASIIRE FAR SHORT

Senate Hears Morgenthau Hit Sales Tax   Least Desirable Method. Says Secretary. Renewing Big Tax Plea

APPROPRIATE LEVY   Morgenthau Questioned by Finance Committee on New Taxes   ‘ASKS FOR 10 BILLION

Morgenthau Hits Sales Tax   Least Desirable of All Methods of Getting More Revenue, He Says

MORGENTHAU STILL SEEKING TEN BILLION   Senate Finance Committee Is Told House Measure Falls Far Short of Fiscal Needs   SALES TAX IS OPPOSED

BY TREASURE FOR HIGH TAX   Secretary Morgenthau Says “House - Approved: Meas- © * wre-Falls Far Short af Biseral Needs.   HOLDS NO “PHOBIA” ” AGAINST SALES TAX   Tells Close Questioners “It As the Least Desirable of ~ All Methods of Raising Revenue”

Renews Plea For Higher ‘Tax Bill   Morgenthau Says Sales Tax “Least Desirable Method”; Warns Again Of Inflation Danger

MORGENTHAU IN NEW EFFORT TO RAISE REVENUE   Treasury Secretary Declares He Hes No ‘Phobio’ Against Seles Tax

Morgenthau It New Plea For Big Tax Bill   Still Against Sales Tax, Says Nation Must Pay All War Cost Possible Now

TRAINING IN THERAPY   Courses Will Be Offered to Wacs ‘at Three Institutions

PACIFIC IS NOT SLIGHTED--KNOX   Navy Chief Says Major Ef fort Being Exerted

Remain neler State's Solons  aderige            » Tax Reduction, _ Pansién’ Increase . -Reauira; Attention

POWER BREAK ~ AT COLUMBUS   LIGHT AND, POWER OFF THROUGHOUT STATE CAPITAL AS RESULT OF  - EQUIPMENT FAILURE

ROAR ABOVE ETERNAL CITY IN MOONLIGHT   Coliseum and Palace Plainly Seen by Raiders

Planes Hit ltalian Base   Much Damage Is Done To Seaport Near Rome

Army Recruit Faces Maze  Of Regulations   Must know when to salute and when not to; ‘abbreviations. are confusing.

RAF ATTACKS BERLIN AGAIN   German Radio Says At Least Two Waves Of Planes Visit.

Mrs. Roosevelt Describes Trip   Says Its Purpose Was Three-fold; Men Reporters At Conference For the First Time

MEN ARE ADMITTED   Mrs. Roosevelt'Back Fron Tour Lets Them Attend Press Meet —

Work Continues At Boeing Plant   Deadline of Union  Ultimatum Passes

NO WORK STOPPAGE   Boeing Aircraft Workers Remain At Posts As Deadline Passes

Viereck Faces Charges Again   German Propagandist Indicted On Six Counts. Released Short Time Ago.

VIERECK FACES NEW CHARGES   Indicted on Six Counts as Foreign Agent

VIERECT IS INDICTED   Grand Jury Brings Six Counts Against Propagandist

‘Nazi Propaganda Chief Indicted   George Viereck Accused by Jury

MNUTT TO HELP VETS FIND JOBS   OUTLINES PLANS FOR AIDING . SERVICE MEN RETURNING TO CIVILIAN LIFE.

McNutt Organizes Demobilizing Plan   Tests Re-Emplovment System for Veterans

PROGRAM OUTLINED TO HELP VETERANS    McNutt Outlines Plans for Placing Men in Jobs

Demobilized Troops Will, Secure Employment. Through Federal Agency °

McNut! Stakes Claim To Task Of Absorbing Millions Of Service Men Back Into Civilian Life When Wer Erde

M’NUTT PLANS USE OF JOB AGENCIES      Employment Service Offices. Wouk Place Veterans in Jobs, Act. As Problem Counsellers

McNutt Outlines Plans for Vets   Seeks to Utilize Employment Service

WAR VETERANS JOBS LINED UF   Demobilization Program Announced By McNutt, Manpower Chairman

Roosevelt Says U. $., Britain fo Rush Modern Arms For 250.000 French Soldiers in North Africa 

U.S. TO RUSH AID TO FRENCH   President Reveals Arms Will Go To Giraud’s 250,000 Troops In Africa

U.S. Weapons To French In North Africa’  Roosevell Reviews Hic   Roosevelt Reviews High Points of Trip to’Press; U.S. Troops Magnificent

ALLIES RUSH WEAPONS 10 HELP GIRAUD   PRESIDENT PLEASED OVER CASABLANCA CONFERENCE

MODERN WEAPONS TO G0 10 GIRAUD   Rooseve't Emphasizes Four Confrence Highlights at Casablanca

French Army of 250,000 to Be Armed hy U. S   Momentous Parley at Casablanca Reviewed by F. D. R.

Allies Will Send Giraud Arms, Says Roosevelt   Executive Reviews Parleys With Leaders on Trip

President Tells  Of Conferences   Speaks In Generalities At His Pres: Conference; Says French Will Get U.S., British Weapons

ALLIES TO RUSH ARMS TO GIRAUD   WEAPONS FOR 250,000 FRENCH TROOPS TO BE SENT TO NORTH AFRICA,

WEAPONS WILL BE: RUSHED 10 GIRAUD   Roosevelt Reveals Plans for Big French Fight- . _ ina Force

WEAPONS WILL BE RUSHED 10 GIRAWD   Roosevelt Reveals Plans for Big French Fighting Force

~ HURT IN FALL   Adolph. Kovarna Fell 12 . Feet From Tree : imb:

Use Financial ‘Crutch To Roll ‘Back Prices   To Help Consumer Get Along And Beat Wolf Of Inflation

ALLEN FOILED IN ESCAPE TRY   AP War Corresponden Nearly Killed In Leap  From Prison Train

LARRY ALLEN IN 2 ESCAPE ATTEMPTS   RECAPTURED BOTH TIMES BY GERMANS, ONCE AFTER LEAPING FROM TRAIN,

House Nears Formal Vote OnRumlPlan   Tight Battle Foreseen Over Skip-a-Year Tax

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Lates! World News Today.   House Vetoes Amendreecit.

Softening Up Blows Rained On Key Islanc   No Announcement of Plans Contained in MacArthur Communiques  icc, wi en ee ie Bh Swen a ie BE ee

Softening Up Blows Rained  On Key Island   No Announcement of Plans Contained in MacArthur Communiques  By MORRIE LANDSBERG Associated Press War F.ditor

SOLONS TO PRY INTO OIL DEAL   Additional Testimony to Be Heard Friday as House Probes Transaction

Navy Oil Deal Is Under Scrutiny   Sec. Knox May Be Heard In Elk Hills Case

ELK HILL OIL DEAL INQUIRY BROADENING   ‘Suspicious Lawmakers of  Both House and Senate Demand Information On Transaction      WILL QUESTION KNOX

Navy Oil Deal Ts Likened to Teapot Dome   Justice Department Attorney Calls Elk Hills “More Far Reaching’

Data on Oil Deal Sought   Suspicious Lawmakers of Both Houses Take Action; Rivals Teapot Dome

avy s Deal Oil Field  aces Probe   we Information Asked y Suspicious Members  “In House, Senate In ~   Blk Hills Pact   : & SEEKS DATA ON POLITICAL’ ACTION   retary Knox Will Give  ‘ews At Hearing Into  Contract Friday by lands Committee -

LOUISA COUNTY FARM BUREAU NOTES.   (By Lael Moon and Louise Topp, Agents.)   COLLEGE SUGGESTS CUSTOM MACHINERY RATES

aggest Rates Custom Work in Pocahontas Co.   portage of Large Machines Creates Great Demand

House Votes . ‘Repealer’ to SalaryCeiling   Rider to Bill to Boost Debt Limit Passed in “Anti-Decree Revolt”

HOUSE VOTES REPEALER FOR SALARY LIMI]   Disney Rider on Debt Limit Bill Challenges President's Authority to Set Ceiling

DECREE RULE GETS OPPOSITION; RIDER GIVEN TO SENATE   Repeal of Salary Limitation Attached to, National’ Debt Limit Bil}

House Debates Salary Order   Coalition Gathers Behind Move to Fix Ceiling of Its Own

Decree Government Is Challenged in House Vote Friday   Measure Nullifying President’s Salary Limitation Is Passed

House Coalition Challenges Salary Limit   Attacks F. D. R. Decrees And Makes Plans To Fix Salary Ceiling of Own

MEASURE TO NULLIFY FDR'S $25,000 SALARY LIMIT PLAN IN SENATE   Wave of Opposition to “Government by Decree”’ Swept Measure in Senate

Salary Limit Barraged In Congress   House Engages in Its Worst Debate of Year; Action Is Due

Opposition To ‘Government By Decree Grows   Senate Likely To Support House On Repeal Of Salarv Limit.

Coalition Hits FDR's Plan To Limit Salaries   Powerful Group Challenges Government by Executive Decrees

Bill Limiting Salary Repealed   Senate Nullifies FDR’s $25.000 Top Act

HOUSE LASHES . SALARY ORDER   ‘Government by Decree Suffers SetZ back

CHALLENGE MADE ON SALARY LIN   House Opens ons Major Battle Over Roosevelt’s  Authority

COALITION FIGHTS PAY LIMIT EDIGT   President’s Power to Place $25,000 Top Is Challenged; Supporters Desperately Attempt Rally Forces

FDR'S SALARY LIMIT 15 OPPOSED   POWERFUL HOUSE COALITION SEEKS TO FIX A CEILING OF ITS OWN.

Senate Gets Salary Limit Repeal Bill   Treadway, Clason Help Put Measure Through House

SHLARY LAW FACES DEATH (WN SENATE   Opposition to “to ‘Government by Decree’ Spurs Solons to Attach Measure to Debt Bill

House Battles Over Salaries   Limitation Causes Acrimonious Debate

SALARY REPEALER REACHES SENATE   Wave of Congressional Op pesition Faces “Government By Decree”

“GOVERNMENT BY DECREE” OPPOSED BY MANY SOLONS   Reaction Shown. ‘in Measure Nullifying FDR’s Wage Limiting Order—Bill in the Sen-

House Voids Salary Limit   Quick Senate Action Seen on FDR’s Bill

NULLIFY $25,000 SALARY LIMIT   REPEALER NOW GOES TO SENATE AFTER ACTION IN HOUSE

SALARY LIMIT ORDER OF FDR IS ATTACKED      House Coalition Becks Move to Fix Ceiling of . Its Own

Jones Says heWelcomes Feud Probe   SECRETARY OF COMMERCE REPEATS BEFORE HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE HIS DESIRE THAT TRUTH BE KNOWN   To Disprove Charges

JONES WOULD WELCOME PROBE   Tells House Committee He favors Airing Of Wallace Feud In  Congress

House Committee May Investigate BEW-RFC Strife   Commerce Secretary Jones Tells Group It Would Be Welcome

WANTS PROBE, JONES INSISTS   House Committee Touches On His Feud with VicePresident Wallace

Tokyo Admits. U. 5. Warships Shell Island   Jap Radio Also Says Planes Raided Island; Could Have Attacked Japanese Homeland

JAPS SAY U. S. FORCES ATTACKED MARCUS ISLANDS   Enemy Broadcast Says Many Planes Raided Island And Surface Craft Shellec The Land =}

EVEN RANCID FATS ARE BADLY NEEDED FOR EXPLOSIVES   Mikeska Pleads For Full Co-operation Of Housewives, Butchers

APPALLING SIGHTS MEET THE EVE IN EVERY DIRECTION   German Corpses Litter ‘The Streets, Buildings ae Scarred

DIVORCES ASKED IN 3 COURT SUITS   Decree Granted; Judgment Paid; Wife Files Answer and Cross - Petition

DIVORCES ASKED IN 3 NEW CASES   Entire -Court Proceedings Over Week-End Centered Around Decree Pleas

Soviet Gains Continued in Other Areas   Workers In Moscow City Jubilant at News of Victory

Russians Thrill To News Siege of Leningrad Broken   Soviets Smash at Nazis From Lake Area to Caucasus

Nazis Being Pressed On Whole Front   Major City’s Siege Broken After A Year And Half

RUSSIA THRILLS OVER VICTORIES ON ALL FRONTS   REDS PRESS GAINS FROM LAKE LADOGA TO NEW LENINGRAD

RUSSIANS THRILLED AT SMASHING BLOWS BEING DEALT NAZIS  LIFTING OF SIEGE OF LENINGRAD HA!LED AS CREAT NEWS

Sagging German  Defenses Pounded From Lake Ladoga To High Caucasus

Leningrad Win Thrills Russia   eee  All Fronts Wictorious Moscow Claims

CORRIDOR FIVE MILES WIDE RIPPED OPEN   Two Russian Columns Lift Siege Which  Had Continued Since August, 1941

RED TRIUMPH AT LENINGRAD FIRES NATION   Nazis in Retreat Along Entire Front, Say Soviet Reports

Direct Land Communication a After 18 Months  of Siege  STRIKE ON LONG LINE  Hinjcestel Soviet Actions , Reported From Ladoga . of Caucasus

Reds Smash AtFoe Along Entire Front   All Russia  Thrills With Breaking of Siege Of Leningrad

Reds Smash Into Sagging Germans All Along Line   Battle To Widen Corridor After Lifting Long Siege Of Leningrad

Lifting Of Siege Of Leningrad Stokes Fire _Of Enthusiasm Among All People Of Russia

RUSSIANS WIDEN SWEEPING GAINS   Nation Thrills to Reports Of Conquests Over Entire Battlefront

Soviets Smashing Into Sagging German Forces From Lake Ladoga to Caucasus

PEOPLE THRILL AT SUCCESSES ON LONG LINE   Long Siege of Leningrad Lifted By Soviet Attacks   VELIKIELUK! GAINS   Kharkov Threatened By New Dnve From Voronezh

Russians Thrill to News of Successes  of Great Red Army   Siege of Leningrad Is __Lifted As Southern _  Advance Continues

Direct Land Communication ‘Restored After 18 Months of Siege      STRIKE ON LONG LINE   ‘Successful Soviet Actions Reported From Ladoga ‘of Caucasus

SOVIET FORCES ADVANCE ON ALL BATTLE FRONTS   Pierce German Ring Around Leningrad, Tighten Vice at Stalingrad

‘SUPPLY CENTER FOR REICH'S ARMIES IN SOUTH MENACED ”   Russians Smash Into Sag: ging Germans All Along 1.200 Mite Front .”

Russian Forces Battle to W.\s*\>".ridor Into Newly Opened Leningra ., Other Russian Forces Threaten Salks

Russians Thrilled At Red Successes   RED ARMY CONTINUING TO DRIVE GEMANS BACK

German Siege Of Leningrad ls Shattered   General Successes Scored By Hard-Driving Russians On Entire Eastern Front

RUSSIANS CHEER AS LENINGRAD SIEGE BROKEN   Thousands Weep Openly as Reds Smash Nazi Lines To Set Them Free

Russians Thrill to News of Release Of Leningrad and Armies Fight With Renewed Vigor on Long Soviet Front

SPIRITS SOAR AS LENINGRAD’S SIEGE BROKEN   i Russians Threaten Salsk, Tighten  Vice in Stalingrad Area and Pro' gress Toward Kharkov   INVADE UKRAINE   Capture Kamensk Rail Station and . Fight Way Into City, Bring Salsk in Range of Big Guns

Soviets Closing In On Rostov. ....  Russians Cheer As Leningrad’s Siege Is Ended

Russia Hails Leningrad 's Liberation   Northern Troops Smast To Widen Reliat Corrido Of Five Miles   MOP UP KAMENSK   Reds Move Toward Latvia Kharkov, Tighten Vise At Stalingrad

CORRIDOR THRU NORTHERN ARMY CUT FROM CITY   Tighten Vice On Axis Troops In Southern Trap

Reds Lift Long Siege Of Leningrad   Epic Struggle Ends With Russians In Control of City

Smash Into Sagging Ger man Armies All the Way From Lake Ladoga to High Caucasus   EPIC LENINGRAD SIEGE IS BROKEN   Other Russian Forces Move Further In Direction Latvian Border and  Kharkov

VETS  GERMAN SIEGE QF LENINGRAD   5-Mile Corridor Smashed Thru Fortifications By Russians   ® OTHER ADVANCES STAGED   +  Thousands Of Enemy Troops Killed As Campaign Continues

Smash Sayging German Lines  On Long Front   Another Russian A rm y Moves Up to Threaten German Supply Center.   A Terrific Barrage to Recapture Leningrad

RUSSIANS HAIL ARMY EXPLOITS ON ALL FRONTS   Northern Metropolis Opens Land Lines After Year and Half Siege

All Russia Thrilled by ~Red Advance   General Gains From Ice Bound North to Caucasus in: South BRevorted   LENINGRAD NEWS , . THE BEST OF ALL   Berlins Reports Concede Axis Is On Defensive on Big Red Front

‘DOPE’ BLAMED FOR RIOTS BY Z00T SUITERS   Search for Narcotics After Marijuana Found on Many Of Youths Arrested

Narcotics _ May Figure ~ In Zoot War   Investigation Requested By Gov. Warren, Following Incidents

"Violence Grows in West Coast Cities; > Officials Vigilant   State of Near Anarchy » in Los Angeles, Dist. Attorney Declares

Investigations In Loot War Start  Pasadena Also Has Disturbances

Firemen Trapped In Tunnel Blaze   Pair Believed To Have Perished

2 Chain Stores Are Cited For Violation  Kroger And Safeway Un. der Indictment

earer Is Chosen A President Pro Tem O Senate — Thomson  Named Speaker

Plan For Income  Tax Cut Held Up  Program Sidetracked As 66th Session Of Legislature Begins

NELSON TO RULE OVER WAR UNITS   McNutt, Eastman and Ickes On Production Board by FOR Order

Eastman, Ickes And M’Nutt PutOn WPB   Move Placing Them Under Nelson Aimed At Co-Ordinating War Effort: Ickes Fuels Power Increased

Denies Charges On Latin America   Wallace Apologizes For Solon’s “Slur”

Wallace Blasts Report   VICE-PRESIDENT SAYS BUTLER STATEMENT IS “SHOCKING SLUR”

Wallace Applogizes to Nations of Latin-America for Statements of Republican Senator From Nebraska

Wallace Says That He Will Refute  Butler's South American Charge

Vallace Is 0 Answer sen. Butler   Nebraskan Arouses Ire 0: Vice President by Latin  America Charges

U0, CANNOT (OOLATE SELF ~ CHURCHILL   America Must Assume Share In World Problems

BOMBING VATICAN LAID TO GERMAN}   LONDON EDITOR MALES CHARGE AFTER U.S. DENIES ALLIES MADE RAID.

Yanks May Smoke Out Jap. Fleet   Only Nip Navy Now Car Come To Rescue Of Attu Garrison

BATTLE FOR-ATTU ISLAND BAY BRING OUT JAP SHIPS   . om: PART OF FLEET MUST HELP IF . JAPAN 38) TO! HAVE ‘ CHANCE OF VICTORY -

FORT SAINT IS RECAPTURED BY FRENCH FORCES   Allied Military Leaders Hold 48-Hour Conference On Strategy   ATTEMPT IS MADE TO CUT OFF ROMMEL

Hard Sleepers May Be Able to Kill Their Old Roosters in the Future

Forget The Old Red Rooster!  +¢¢ #4 +¢+¢4 ¢  War Alarm Clocks Expected To Go On Sale Soon

PLACES CEILING ON ALARM CLOCKS   OPA Puts Price Limit of $1.65, Plus Taxes, ‘on ~ Sleep-Destroyers

OPA SETS PRICE FOR NEW ALARM CLOCKS   Date To Go On Market Remains Secret

Submits Lend-Lease Report To Congress For Past 12 Months   /REPORT SHOWS ALLIES GET LARGE SHARE. OF U. S. MADE BOMBER, FIGHTER PLANES; RUSSIANS ARE GIVEN BULK OF SUPPLIES  {

Accidents Showed Decline In 1912  rs ° Texas Highways   1,316 J.ost Lives In Accidents  During 1942

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Repori 89 Nazi Divisions Are Wiped Out  Soviets May Skirt Rosfov fo Anchor  falumn an Cas

KAMENSK TAKEN AS SOVIET ARMY PURSUES DRIVE   Kharkov, Big Steel Center, Is Now Threatened By  Russian Forces   52,000 PRISONERS REPORTED CAPTURED

Rampaging Soviet Forces Continue © To Lunge Forward   Gain 17 Miles Toward Kharkov; Closing On Strategic Rostov From Three Sides

Soviets Gain 17 Miles And to South Reach  Nanette River Cantor   And to sontin heach Donets River Center  OTHER RED COLUMNS CONVERGE ON ROSTO\  Still Others Approach Big Rail Junction,  Salek In Cancraecne

CAPTURE OF DONETS INDUSTRIAL CITY IS CLAIMED BY SOVIETS   Voroshilovgrad Reported Taken From Germans as Russian Forces Rush Toward Azov Sea to Trap Foe

Red Armies Sweep Back Germans to 1941 Highwater Invasion Mark; Key Locality in Rostov Area Taken

Reds Advance On Objectives   Storm Major Positions About Leningrad; Southern Forces Smash On Toward Kharkov; Nazi Divisions Cut Off

SEA OF AZOV MAY BE NEXT RUSSIAN GOAL   NOOSE IS LAID OUT FOR ALL GERMANS IN CAUCASUS

SOVIETS GAIN IN CAUCASUS AND UKRAINE   TRIUMPHANT REDS AIM AT ROSTOV AND KHARKOV

Red Army Continues. Westward Sweep; Near Key City of Ukraine   Kamensk Falls to Advancing Army; 52,000 Prisoners Taken in Week; Enemy Shows Weariness

REDS NEARING KHARKOV, BIG UKRAINE CITY   WESTWARD SWEEP NETS 52,000 PRISONERS

NALS BACK 10 INVASION MARK IN °4]   Railway Junction of Va: lu‘ki Falls as Russiang Try to Envelop Big Steel City.   ENEMY LOSES VITAL BASE IN CAUCASUS   Onrushirg Soviets, Mos' cow Announces, Have  Captured 52,000 Prison' ers in Week.

‘Kamensk Also Falls To Reds Advancing Upon’ Rostov; Russians Cross Donets River, Continue Advance.

RUSSIANS SLAY 500,000 SINCE NOV. 19, CLAIM   Capture Of Voroshilovsl Only 40 Miles From Strategic Armavir Is Announced   Kharkov Drive Pushed

Kamensk, 85 Miles North. of Rostoy, Falls to Reds  52,000 PRISONERS TAKEN IN A WEEK  Hungorian Troops Reported Suffering Heavy Casualties

Soviets Strike West Below Veronezh to Reach Point Only 85 Miles From Kursk; Other Key Towns in Line of Fire

REDS CAPTURE 92,000 TROOPS IN BIG SWEEPS   Strategic Nazi Base 85 Miles North Of Rostov Falls To Onrushing  Russians   Valuiki Is Taken

ROSTOV. KHARKON MAIN. OBJECTIVES   Reds Pushed Back to 1941 line in the Ukraine   KAMENSK FALLS   Onrushing Red Army Captures Nazi Key Town; Prisoners, Booty Taken   BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jo Columns Already Are Pressing Forward Toward Kharkov And Menacing Entire Area

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Kamensk Fails  To Onrushing Red Soldiers   Praaportinnt Rail Junction Listed Among Russians’ Latest Prizes.

THREE SOVIET ARMY COLUMNS ARE ADVANCING   Russians Reach Point 85 Miles Southeast Of Kursk.

Germans Forced Back 17 Miles Toward Kharkov   Soviets Push Way Relentlessly Toward Maikop Oil Fields

Important Rail Towns Are Captured In Drives on Kharkov and Rostov; 52,000 Prisoners Taken in Week

RUSSIAN SWEEP IMPERILS NAZIS ON BROAN FRONT   Plight of Germans Grows Worse From Central Part of Country to Sea of Azov.   ITALIAN, HUNGARIAN UNITS ARE HARD HIT   Moscow Radio Reports 500,000 Nazis Killed and 200,000 Captured Since November 19

RUSSIANS GAIN 17 MILES IN ADVANCE TOWARD KHARKOV   Stalin’s Armies Now Closing In on Important Base of Rostov From Three Directions.   RAIL JUNCTION OF SALSK MENACED   British Report Moscovites Have Partly Destroyed 89 Axis Divisions in Two Months.

Advances Continue In Kharkov Area; 52,000 Captured:   Several Columns Converging On Strategic’ Caucasus Gateway: Much Booty Said Taken

EXTENSIVE AIR RAIDS STAGED ON JAP BASES   Enemy Installations On New Guinea And New Britain Heavily Attacked   NIPS HAVE LOST 100 PLANES IN 10 DAYS

ALLIED BOMBS ROCK SOUTH PACIFIC Bases   edie Griaca and New Britain  Feel Impact Since Capture  of Lae and Salamaua Islands.   Air Punches

Allied Fliers Rain Bombs on  Japanese Bases   Five Grounded Enemy Planes Destroyed in New Britain Area

Allied Bombs Rock Jap Island Bases   - Grounded Planes And Gur Positions Are Wrecked As Tempo Of Raids Stepped Up

NEWLY EXPOSED JAP BASES ARE HIT BY ALLIES   94-Ton Raid Staged Or Cape Gloucester; Coastal Supply Dumps Fired

JAPANESE BASES HEAVILY BOMBED   RAIDS MADE ON ENEMY-HELD AREAS IN NEW GUINEA AND NEW BRITAIN,

ENEMY’S NEW BRITAIN BASE IS BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBER FORCE   Jap Strongholds Begin To Rock Under In: creased Weight Of Bombs Following Capture Of Lae And Salamaua

Allied Bombs Rock Jap Island Bases   Grounded Planes And Gun Positions Are Wrecked As Tempo Of Raids Stepped Up  een: es

Allies Enlarge Air Blows In  Pacific Ares  New Britain Fielc Is Blasted By  “ee

Japanese Bases In New Brifain And New Guinea Rocked by Bombs   ‘orfresses and Liberators Make 94-Ton Raid on Cape Gloucester, 120 Miles Northeast of Lae

Bombs Rock Jap Bases In Southwest Pacific:  Allied Raids Increase

Hotel Fire Is F atal To 45 In Houston   SMALL ANCIENT HOSTLERY IN TEXAS CITY HOME OF  MANY AGED AND CRIPPLED MEN.   32 More Injured

Houston Fire Toll Now 45  Most Of Victims Were r+ i . Ve. eee ee ee

HOUSTON HOTEL BLAZE KILLS 48   Screaming. Men Trapped In Small, Ancient 3-Story Building

48 Lose Lives In Hotel Blaze At Houston, Tex.   43 of Victims Trapped In Ancient Building, 32 Receive Injuries

45 LOSE LIVES IN BLAZE AT HOUSTON   Men Trapped in) Small Hotel by Morning Blaze

HOTEL FLAMES TAKE 45 LIVES   Fire Of Unknéwn Origin Sweeps Old Hostelry In Houston; Many Are Trapped

45 Men Perish In Hotel Fire   Flames Raze Ancient Building at Houston

Missoula Man to Head Vasa Order  _ Memorial Services Set for Today

JOHNSTOWN ~ STRIKE ENDED   Bethlehem Hearth anc Mill Workers Return. to Jobs

EIGHT KILLED IN FACTORY BLAST   Seven Others Injured As Explosion Rocks Cleveland Enamel Plant

A TRIBUTE TO CITY   George Foulke, Jr., Expresses Apprecation at Rotary

600 More Idle At State Mines   Continued Uncertainty Qiver Paw Whaaspil

PRIGE OF FARM PRODUCE DROPS   7% Decline From October But 11% Up For Year

Gandhi Failing, Condifion Grave   Government Rejects Plea to Release Him

Gandhi Condition Now Said Critical   Repercussions in India Are Feared Should Aged Leader Die

Condition of Gandhi Now ls Critical   Repercussions In Case of Death Of Much Concern

“Condition Is Grave,’ Latest Official Word  Hiya Cline welass Wrawecr nf   His Councilor Warns of Repercussions if End Comes   HALF THROUGH FAST   Government Answer tc Release Demarid Is Expected Soon

India Tense as Ghandi’s Strength Ebbs Rapidly After 10 Days of Fast

Plan Celebration  For Bradford   Labor Day Observance To Last Nearly a Week

Tentative Plans Made for Labor  Day Fete in City   Four or Five Day Fair with Parade as Climax Discussed

DELAYING ACTION CONFRONTS BILL 10 DEFER FARMERS   Measure Wil} Have’ Difficult Time Working its. Way Throuah House.

DEFERMENT MEASURE IS FACING A DELAY      Administration Action in House Committees May Hold Up Bankhead Bill.

DEFERMENT BILL MAY BE DELAYED   House Committees Slow Te Act On Measure Contrary To Administration’s Draft Policy

Farm Labor Deferment  Up to House   Passed by Senate, Bankhead Bill May Encounter Delay

RIVAL UNIGNG alot NON RAIDING PACT   Complications — in in View of Kaiser Shipyard Depelopments May Hinder Treaty

CIO, AFL Agree To No-Raiding  Complication Still in Way of Unity

Desperate Germans — Strive To Retake Kiev   Russians Admit Determined Bid To Recapture Ukrainian Capital, But Launch ‘Dvive That Threatens Industrial Cities.

Nazis Now Within 55 Mi. Of Kiev   New Russian Smash In South Threatens  Kirovograd, Krivoi Rog.

Nazis Continue Drive on Kiev  Yon Mannstein Hurlinc Armored Units in Fray

Russians Forced Back Again In Kiev Sector   Another Great Soviet Offensive Reported Fan North In Area Around Nevel

RED ARMIES ESTABLISH CONTACT   Columns From Cherkasy Meet _ Kremenchug Forces

GERMANS FORCE REDS BACK TO TAKE RADOMYSL   SOVIETS ADVANCE ON KIROVOGRAD AND KRIVO!I ROG

field Marshal Von Mannstein’s Armored Divisions Push Forward From Radomysl — Russians Launch Important Offensive To Southeast, Threatening To Engulf Kirovograd And Krivoi Rog—Forces From Cherkasy And Kremenchug Establish Contact

SOVIET FORCES MAKE GAINS IN SOUTHSRCTOR:   Nazi Armored Divisions In _ Kiev Bulge Advance to Within 55 Miles of Russian Base   REDS CLOSING TRAP ON ESCAPE ROUTE:   Terrific Losses Suffered by Germans In Drive to Recapture Kiev, Mos-:  cow Reports -

NAZIS ROLL ON TOWARD KIEV   Mannstein’s Armored Divisions 55 Miles  From City

Russ Armies On Dnieper Establish  Contact   But Mannstein’s Army Js Only 55 Miles From Kiev In German Drive To The East

0 MS  Nazis J Are 55 Miles  From Kiev   German Armored Divisions Force Russians Tc  Fall Back

Soviets Open New Drive On 2 Cities   Berlin Admits Losses Near Latvian Border

Nazi Retreat May Develop ~ Jnto Deback   Triumphant Soviet Armies Advance Into White Russia as Germans Systematically Wreck Port of Naptes

‘Soviet Armies Sweep Into  White Russia   German Dynamite Squads Systematically Wrecking Port of Naples; Nazi U-Boat Base at Nantes Bombed

U. S. 5th, British 8th Roll Up New Gains-o 10 to 15 Miles; Ships Scuttled in Naple. Harbor—Huns Flee Poltava,. Gateway to Ukraine—Threaten Jap * Base 60 Miles Above Lae 7

GERMAN TROOPS FALL BACK DEEPER ON APPROACHES — TG BURNING NAPLES =   Soviet Radio Says Troops Entering White Russi ‘In Gomel Direction. American and British Armies Rolling Up New Gains 

Germans Lose Hundreds of Towns to Russians as Stalin's Armies Sweep on To Victory   STRIKE IN GREECE

Soviet Forces Push  info Province  Bordering Poland   Allies Gain Up to 15 Miles in South ltaligin Campaign

Germans Fall Back Before Allied Push      American Rangers Support French in Driving Out Last of Nazi Garrison on Corsica

Scuttle — 30 Ships © In Harbor   Ruthless Destruction Of Big Italian Port City Probably Means Nazis Are Pulling Out

Nazis Are — Ruthless in Flight   Naples Being Destroyed as It Is Abandoned in Face’ of Allied Advance   THREE MORE TOWNS. FREED OF ENEMY   German Demolition Squads Scuttle at Least 30 Ships in Naples Harbor

Soviet Troops: Sweeping Into White Russia   Kiev Under Threat From 2 Directions

NAZI DEFENSE SEVERE, CLAIMS HIGH COMMAND   Berlin Communique Again Gives Black Picture of Plight Hitler Hordes In Stalingrad Area   REDS PUSH BATTLE LINES NEAR ROSTOV.   Also Moving Deeper Into Ukraine; Captu re of Another Unidentified  Town Announced

Russ Drive Growing In Violence, ‘Nazis Say   Tell Home Front About Plight Of German Army; Make Provress In South

SOVIET ARMIES PUSH DEEPER INTO UKRAINE   Nazi Reports Gloomy Over Plight Of Men At Stalingrad

REICH DECLARES SOVIET THRUSTS GAINING IMPETUS   Germans Claim They Hold at One Point—Paint Dark Picture Elsewhere

BERLIN SAYS REDS ATTACK _ INVIOLENCI   High Command Admits Plight  As Stalin Exhorts Army To Route Invaders

CANNING CENTER TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 7 ~ IN CARNEY BUILDING   NEW, MODERN EQUIPMENT IS INSTALLED FOR USE OF ~ HOUSEWIVES _..

NEED $7,000 MORE   Total War Fund-Community Chest Collection of $22,217   Rulletin

GERMAN NAVAL BASE BLASTED   Wilhelmshaven Is Bombed Under Ideal Conditions; 7 RAF Planes Lost

PLANES ATTACK NAZI POSITIONS   RAF Raids Wilhelmshaven. Other Allied Aircraft Strike On Continent.

RAF Bombers Hit Nazi Naval Base   Other Allied Aircraft Attack Rail Lines

WILHELMSHAVEN IS AGAIN TARGET _ OF RAF BOMBERS   Other Allied Aircraft Attacked Rail Lines on the Continent.   SEVEN PLANES LOST   The Attack on Wilhelmshaven Was Heavy; Made in Good Weather.

Nazis’ Naval Base Target Of RAF Raic   Wilhelmshaven Rocked by Bombs; Rail Lines on Continent Raided

GERMAN NAVAL BASE HARD HIT BY RAF PLANES   Good Weather Aids British Attack; Seevn Planes Lost

RAF BOMBERS RAID GERMAN NAVAL BASE   Heavily Pound Wilhelmshaven, While Other Craft Attack Rail Lines on Continent and Coastal Shipping.

Wilhelmshaven Is RAF Target: Shipping Bombed   Railways, Canal Lines In Belgium Blasted By Allies

BRITISH BOMB - WILHELMSAVEN   Nazi Rail Lines Blasted And Coast Shipping Attacked

WIDE FORAYS MADE BY RAF DURING NIGH]   Attack Rail Lines On Continent, Hit Shipping Off Coast

Wilhelmshaven Again Hit From Air by RAF Planes   Seven Ships, Including Four Bombers, Lost In Heavy Attack On German Naval Base; British Destroyers Escorting Convoy Hit Two E Boats In North Sea, Sinking One

Bombers of British Roar Back To Wilhelmshaven  Rail, Canal Lines in France, Belgium Continental Targets

Wilhelmshaven  Is RAF’s Goal   ‘Allied Bombers. Roaming -Over France, Belgiium  °  ’ Cause Damaze

Wilhelmshaven Hit in New R. A. F. Raid   Allies Smash Enemy Rail Lines, Coastal Shipping

RAINS INTO KANSAS   Scattered Thunderstorms Tonight " Forecast for State

Upbraid Nazi Officers For Pleasure Trips To Luxurioas Roman Spots

Stop Drafting Farm Labor, Plea in Poll   Shortage of Help Singled Out as Chief Rural Problem

YANKS STRIKE KURILES AGAIN   Bombers Pound Jap Naval Base At Para- : mushiro

New Attack on Kurile Isles May Be First Result of Aleutians Conquest

ALEUTIANS PAYING OFF IN ATTACKS ‘ON KURILE ISLANDS      Believe Avy’ Planes Took Off From Kiska or Attu to Blast Japanese Harbor

Bombers Attack Jap Naval Base  10 Planes Are Lost In Raid On Paramushiro

New Attack on Kurile islands Viewed Ac First Payoff From Aleutian Conquest

' Workiess Workers  -WPB Employe Led Life of Riley For’$3,200a Year

Former Employe Of WPB Raps Wasteful Spending   Ex-Statistician At $3,200 A Year Says He Actually Earned No More Than Messenger’s Salary

Ex-WPB Employe, Who Filled Char In Sof $3 200 Job. Saus He’s Glad He’s In Armu

Kx-WPB Employe, Who Filled Chair In Soft $3,200 Job, Saus He’s Glad He’s In Avira

Naine Akron Girl As Prize Winner Dorothy Milbrodt  Receives Award

Column Writer Accuses Roosevelt’s “Gestapo Agents” Of Wire Tappins

CIO Pledges Support For WEB Policies   Against Sky-Rocketing Of Wages; Lewis And UMW ‘Out On Limb’

ClO APPROVES WLB STABILIZATION AND WAGE SCALE POLICY   Desert  ‘UMW '¥ Which Will Demand A '$2-A-Day For Bituminous Miners

LEND-LEASE AID AGAIN EXTENDED   President S ign s Bill; Soviet Envoy Tells Of Results

Senate Passes. Roosevelt Signs  Lend-Lease Bill  Life of Aid Act Extended for Year  a

Lend-Lease Bill Signed: Life Extended One Yea:   President Acts After Passage by Senate, 82 to O— . Soviet Ambassador Says Russians Fully Aware of American Ald

Bill Extending Lend-Lease —  Becomes Law   Senate Rushes the Measure Through by Vote of 82 to 0

FD Signs Bill Extending Life  Of Lend-Lease   Senate Rushes Act Through by 82 to 0 Vote: Litvinoff Savs  Reds Aware of Aid

FDR Signs Lend-Lease Measure   Senate Passes Bill 24 Hours Following House Action

Lend-Lease Program  Is Extended   President Signs Bill Following Quick Passage

Quick Action Extends - Lend-Lease   Plan for Mutual Aid Will Continue; Houses’ in Agreement

Roosevelt Signs Bill Extending Lend-Lease Law   Nofables at White House for Action on Important Measure

PRESIDENT olbNi LEND-LEASE BILL   Measure Sails Through Senate by 82-0 Vote   LITVINOFF SAYS   ‘Russian People Fully Aware And Deeply Appreciative Of Lend-Lease Aid

KANSANS FOR RUML PLAN   Five oft State “Delegation Voted; Winter Was Paired -

Citizens Held By Grand Turvy   Charged With Broadcasting Axis Propaganda Abroad

Chicago Rye   U.S. Grand Jury Indicts 8 For  esidesting Axis P ropaganda

No Settlement In Rail Pay Dispute “Every Effort’ Made To  End Controversy

RAILROADERS ASt INCREASE OF 20 CENTS AN HOUR   DISPUTE INVOLVES 900,000 EMPLOYES OF U. S. RAILROADS

RAILROAD DISPUTE   Every Reasonable Effort Made to Get Adjustment But All Moves Failed

NEWSPAPERS BACK WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN   Preservation of All Human Rights Is the Reason

NEWSPAPERS TOBOOST BONDS   Zero. Hour of . National Selling. Drive is Next Monday.  - oo

Brewster Plant Employes Agree ~ JoLnd Walkout To Call Another Strike   Vote After 30-Day « Cool Off Period

Martin Workers To Take Ballot   Will Decide upon Bargaining Agent   Thousands of Strikers Return To Work in Great Kaiser Plant

PLANS DISCUSSED FOR PRISON LABOR      Governor and State Pa role Director Confer

Coal Parley To Start Feb. 22   Southern And Northern Operators To Meet

PEA CROP IS DAMAGED   High Water Has Slowed Up Operations at Canning Factory

Roosevelt in Warning on R. R. Strike   President Offers His Ser vices to Arbitrate Wage  Argument Today

Roosevelt Issues Rail Warning  a i, Oe ane oe Pe ee ee re ee ee ee ee ee ee ee “aM e “aeeae an”   President Tells Labor, and Management to Reach An Aqreement Now’

RATION POINTS T0 REMAIN SAME AS IN FIRST PERIOL   OPA Announces No, Change In Value to increase Present 48 Points to.64 During Present Period.   METAL CLOSURES FOR HOME FOODS AMPLE   Federal Agency Makes. Further Announcement on Use of Stamps For Most Bene* ficial Results.

; April Food-Ration Is Set at 48 Points. ra by Latest Regulations From the OPA

Triple Shift Of Generals Is Made By Army   Drum, Grunert And Embick Affected By Annotinced Changes

ARMY SWITCHES COMMANDERS   Appoint New Chairmen T Inter-American Defense Board

Triple Shift In Army Staff Made   Lieut. Gen. Drum ‘Will Head Inter-American Defense Board.

War Department Announces Shift In General Staff   Drum Relinquishing Post In Eastern Defense And First Army Commands

Triple Shift In General Staff    Drumm Succeeded As Ist Army Commander

War Department Makes Shift In General Staff   Assigns Drum To Defense Roard

Triple Shift Made in Army   Gen. Drum Succeeded By Gen. Grunert as lst Army Commander

THREE GENERALS GET NEW POSTS   Drum Made Chairman Of Inter-American De.tense Board

Triple Shift Of Generals Is Ordered   General Hugh Drum Is Moved to Inter-American Defense Board

BERLIN BLASTED  —_- FOR 81ST TIME   Large Numbers of Forts Over Continent Today

Large Bomber Formations Without Fighter Escort Roared Over Channel Today Headed Toward the Continent,

‘This Shall Be Century Of Common Man’ Wallace Tells Chile Coal Miners

CENTURY OF COMMON PEOPLE PROPHESIED   Wallace Addresses Coal Miners And Workers In Chile.

OHIO UMW OFFICIAL CHALLENGES ICKES   To Fight Payment of Absent Penalties

TAXES AND WAR CAPITAL TOPICS   Navy Secretary Reports on Anti-sub Measures

"AMERICANS HOLD UPPER HAND IN BATTLE WITH SUBS IN BOTH OCEANS, SAYS KNOX

AMERICAN FORCES GAIN UPPER HAND IN SUB WARFARE   TOTAL OF 474 JAP VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED, SAYS KNOX

U. S. GAINS UPPER HAND IN BATTLE OF SUBMARINES IN PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC

Submarines In Pacific Add To Their Record   Sinking Of 10 More Jap Vessels Announced. To Bring Total To 474 Since Start Of War 

American Forces Defeat Submarines  In Pacific and Atlantic, Knox Says

Winning In Battle On Subs   Sec. Knox Says Need For Landing Boats Now Exceeds Demand For Anti-Sub Craft

Yanks Have Edge Over Submarines   Stop Construction Of Slanned 427 Anti-Sub Shops

NAVAL FORCES BREAK UP AXIS SEA POWER   Destroy Subs in Atlantic, Shipping in (Pacific in TwoWay Squeeze, Knox Says

U.S. WINS SUB WARS PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC   Knox Reveals Construction 427 Mere Anti-Sub Vessels for Ailantic Cancelled

AMERICAN SUBS WIN IN PACIFIC   Conclusion Is Supported By Statements Made By Secretary Knox.

Knox Reveals Navy Has Acquired Upper Hand Over U-Boats   Planned Construction of 428 Additional Ves sels is Cancelled

Gain Upper Hand Jn Sub Warfare  U. S. Offensive Taking Toll Of Jap Ships

SUCCESSES ON SEA ARE SHOWN   Cancel Plan to Build 427 Anti-Sub Boats  Rv PVVANITIFAN Ww Brarne

U, 5, HOLDS UPPER HAND IN SUB FIGHT   Cancel Construction of 427 Anti-Submarine Vessels

U.S. Winning War Against Enemy Subs   Navy Calls Off Shin Building

U.S. WINNING U-BOAT BATTLE   Knox Says Contracts for Sub Destroyers Being Cancelled

Lonergan Held on Homicide Charge  Flier Accused of Meibiveeme bdantence Alida

Lonergan Admits Slew Wife, Gives Account Of Murder   Angered Over Refusal To Let Him See Their 18-Month Old Son

Cadet Denied Bond When Arraigned for Murdering His Wife   Lonergan Confesses tk Detectives After Long Grilling

John L. Lewis and Ickes Agree Gn $1.50 a Day Wage Increase   Lecal Mines Awaiting Approval of W.L.B.; Meet Today.

BOMBERS HIT wR LNT IN- GERMANY   Mannheim-Ludwigshaien ‘Factories Blasted In New Raid

British Bomber Fleet Stages Heavy Raid On Rhineland War Industries

BRITISH RESUME SMASHING RAIDS ON NAZI PLANTS   Great Industria! Center A : Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Aceailed.

NAZI INDUSTRIAL CITY IS BLASTED IN NIGHT ATTACK   Mannheim - Ludwigshafen Key War Factories and Other Objectives Are Bombed.

‘RAF Resumes Blasting Of German Industries   Bombers Strike Heavily Today At Key Factories In Rhineland

BIG FORCE OF RAF BOMBERS STRIKES AT NAZI INDUSTRIES   Manneheim-Ludwigshafen Is Target; Mosquitos Hammer Objectives In Ruhr

British Blitz War Factories In Mannheim   Ludwigshaven Included By RAF As Attentions Shifi To ‘Rhineland Port Area   ‘FLAMING INFERNO   New Target Is Believed Marked For Destruction Similar To Hamburg's

BRITISH PLANES IN HEAVY RAIDS OVER KEY GERMAN CITY   Manheim-Ludwigshafen Target — 2000 Tons Of Bombs Are Dropped   RAF SHIFTS RAIDS BACK TO RHINELAND

RESUME HUGE RAIDS ON GERMAN SOL   Andustrial Center — Was: Target oF Last Night's Bombs

Rhineland Area Hi by Bombers  May Be Revival ONE Liawhkhirrnm Carnac

"ANOTHER "HAMBURG": SERIES  inne enone,  R AF. Bombers. Rock Mannheim   More Than 1000 Tons Dropped on Rhine Cities, War Factories; Nine Planes Lost

RAF Gives Two Cities On Rhine I leavy Pounding   Mannheim-Ludwigshafen _ Port Installations May Be Another ‘Hamburg’ 

RHINELAND CITIES ARE BLASTED   Inland Port At Mannheim Hit By British Bombs

Fighting At New Intensity Along Dnieper   Kiev Is Being Ilanked By  Soviet Forces

Brownfield Man Heads Bankers   Texas Group Flays Rureaucrats’ Rise

Jap Reverses Pile Up In The Pacitic Area   Tokyo Radio Tells Of Allied Air Raid 650 Miles From Japan

REVERSES PILED UP FOR JAPANESE ON SEVERAL FRONTS  AMERICAN SUBS SINK NINE SHIPS AND 46 MORE PLANES LOST

Ravarses Continue To Pile Up For Japs In Most OF Pacific: Yanks Raid Formosa

Reverses Pile Up For Japanese in Widespread Sectors   Air Attack 650 Miles From Enemy’s Islands Is Reported

Gilberts, Formosa Hit   Japanese Suffering New Setbacks In Pacific Warfare

DEALT JAPS IN FOUR SECTORS   46 Planes Destroyed Near - Gilberts; Mop-up On  Newly Won Isles

U. §. WARPLANES CONTINUE TO BLAST ENEMY ON KISKA  WAKE ISLAND ALSO BOMBED FOR SECOND TIME IN FOUR DAYS

Kiska, Wake Under Fire   American Forces Keep Up Bombing Attacks On Two Islands

Kiska And Wake Island Take New Poundinas   Yanks Near Prize Enemy Airfield In Central Solomons

Army Bombers Go Back fo Jap-Held American Outpost   Frequency of Kiska Attacks Hint Of Invasion Soon

Step Up Kiska Bomber Raids   Blast Enemy Stronghold With Fury Suggesting Invasion May Be Near.

KISKA ATTACH   Warplanes Carry Out 19 Raids In 2 Days: Wake 4 Island Hit Again

Heavy Action Against Japs in Aleutians   ‘Strong Raid on Wake Also Reported and Americans Close In on Munda   AIR RAIDERS FAN <OUT IN PESTON        Japs Make. an_ Unverified Claim That Their Subs. Sunk U. S. Cruiser. ~

U.S. Bombers Batter Kiska 19 More Times, Pound Wake In Second Attack

HEAVY ATTACKS THERE, ALSO ON ISLE OF WAKI   Seven Zeroes Shot Down at Wake. Americans Storming Nearer Jap Base at Munda

Hit Kiske 19: Times Two Days   Fury of Attacks Indicates Invasion May be Nearing

Wake Island Is Also Pounded Second Time in Four Days By American Fliers

Liberators Down 33 Jap Zeros  Heavy Toll Of Enemy  Planes Taken In wT... Ontd- Mw Alabea

Republicans Win in Every Major “Contest   Hanley Victor in New York: Bullitt Loses in Philadelphia

Further Wage and Salary Raises Are Placed Under a Ban   ORDERS ISSUED TO COMBAT INFLATION  President Also Orders Stop

WAGE BOOSTS ARE FURTHER RESTRICTED   Brown and Davis Ordered to Put Ceilings on All Commodities Affecting Living Costs.   SWITCHING OF JOBS TO BE CONTROLLED   President Says Line Against Inflation Must Be Held—Unfair Prices to Be Cut.

Directs Ceilings Be Placed on Every Cost of Living Item, Authorizes Setting Up of Hiring Controls

Move Aims Blow At Inflation; Seeks New Laws   Directs McNutt to Restrict Changes Of Jobs to Get Wage Boost; Ceilineos Placed on All Food Product:

ROOSEVELT FURBIDS HIKE GF ALL WAGES   Places Ceilings On Prices Of Commodities Affecting {he Cost Cf Living In Executive Decree.   Binds Workers To Jobs

Freezes All Cost Of Living Prices And Wage Hikes   Price Ceilings Ordered in Drastic Step to Prevent Spiraling

All-Inclusive Price Freeze Action Taken   Wage Increases, Job Changing To Be'Put Under Strict Control

Prices, Wages 'Froze By FDR Order Thursday   Moves Against Threat Of  Inflation

New Restraints Are Placed On Wages And Living Costs   President Says The Purpose Of Edict Is “Hold-the-Line’”’

Cost of Living Ceilings Are Directed   WLB’s Little Steel Formula Governs All Salary Boosts

VIRTUALLY ALL PRICES FROZEN BY NEW ORDER   Wage Increases Also Restricted; Price Ceilings Go On All Foods.

Further Wage and Salary . Raises Are Placed Under a Bon  ORDERS ISSUED TO  P~miie se PRICED A Tia

Congress Asked To Enact Tax.  Savings Ediets   MeNutt Ordered Not to Let Anyone Take  New Job at Higher Pay If War Plan Not Aided

Curhs Set On Wages, Commodities   President Orders Regulations to Combat Inflation

FDR BANS RAISES, PLACES CEILINGS   Steps Taken to Combat Inflation; Me: Nutt Ordered to Watch Shifting of Jobs e!

BLOWS AIMED AT INFLATION BY PRESIDENT   SWITCHES IN JOBS FOR HIGHER PAY TO BE STOPPED

Roosevelt Orde Virtually  Freezes Prices  ! Barriers Against Wage Increases Are   Barriers Against Wage Increases Are Drastically Tightened in Maneuver Aqainst inflation

F. D. R. Virtually Freezes All Prices, Further Restricts Pay Hikes in Anti-Inflation Order

Wage Increases Also Pegged in Drastic Order   resident Places Ceiling on Cost of Living in Nation   Nation  Declares Pay Boosts Can Come Only under Farmula

Drastic Order Issued Freez. ing Cost Of Living And  Wage Increases   HIRING CONTROLS PUT  ON NATICN’S WORKERS

President Seeks To Hold Line Against Inflation   Executive Orders Little Steel Formula  Virtually Sole Basis Bnr Ane Paw Rancte   SEEKS TO PREVENT JOB SWITCHING, TOO

EDEN’S SPERCH AWAITED WITH  KEEN INTEREST   Observers Believe Addi tional Light Will, Be Thrown On Post- . War Questions   TO BE BROADCAST   Address At Annapolis Ex pected to Be Sequel to Churchill’s Sunday Talk

Organized Jap Resistance In ‘Solomons Nears End As Yank: Wreck Evacuation Fieet

Allied Air Offensive Sting Japanese in Southwest Pacific   Nips Behead American Transport Flier in New Guinea.

varry Q. Levin Jut for Dewey   Advocated Nomination Of New York Governor

Announce Brown Swiss Classification Results   P. 3. De Groot of Hull Has Herd OF 3 Very Goad, 7 Good Plus And 3 Good Milk Cows

ZOOT SUIT TICKET FOR JAIL IN WEST   Police Uncertain Whether Clothes Cause Crime or  Vice Versa.

Earthquakes Rock North Utah Today   No Harm Seen From  ‘Sharp’ Quakes

Utah Is Jarred by Light Earthquake   Site of Copper Mines Shaken, But No Damage Reported

‘Quake Rocks Northern Utah   Bingham, Famed Mine Center Shaken, But No Damage Reported

Northern Utah Reports Quake   Copper Mine Area Sharply Shaken; Other Quakes Recorded.

HERO WELCOME GREETS FLIER 1N MINE TOWN   Fredericktown Residents Stay Up Late — Greet Flier With Band

Montgomery, Stormin; Mareth Line With 4: Tank, Foot Divisions   U. §. Troops Continue Parsuit of Nazis Beyond Gafsa As British 8th Army Ascails Both Romael Flanks; Gigantic Tank Battle Flames iu Donets Valley

30-Mile Drive Nets Vital Axis Air Base  In Central Tunisia   British Smash At Mareth Line; Big Battle Rages Near Kharkov; -- Raider -Kils-5 n-Encland—

British Smash At Mareth Line With 4 Divisions As Allied Offen sive Widenc.

Americans Nab Base After 30 Mile Gain   Meanwhile, British Eighth Army Storms Mareth Line With Infantry and Tank  Forces.

Air Base At GafsaRetaken By US Troops   British 8th Army Storms Mareth Line; Gigantic Tank Battle Rages in Donets  River Basin; Reds Drive Toward

Sth Army Improves Position Along Mareth Line; Titanic Tank Struggle Taking Place in Donets Valley

BRITISH STORMING MARETH LINE WITH FOUR TANK AND INFANTRY DIVISIONS   General Dwight D. Eisenhower Reports Allied Position’ Improved in Northern Sector on 60-Mile Front, Allied Patrols Inflict Losses On Enemy in Santh SEs

U. §.Troops Pursue Germans  In Flight Towards El Guetar   Montgomery’s Grand Assault Against Nazt Mareth.Line Admitted By Eisenhower   RUSSIANS STOP GERMAN OFFENSIVE   Gigantic Tank Battle Rages In Donets Area Below Kharkov; Red Lines Holding

Little Axis Opposition Encountered   Yanks Pursue Foe Past Rail City and Airbase; Mareth Line Battle Rages

Red Lines Hold In ‘Great Tank Battle ‘In Donets Valley   Tank and Air Battles Rage Below Kharkov as German Assault Intensified. Red Vanguards only 30 Miles from Smolensk.

CLIMAX OF 30 MILE DRIVE IN NORTH AFRICA   Four Divisions of British Eighth Army Storming Mareth Line on Southern Part of Front

Strategic Hun-Held Air Base Falls   Reds Advance in Smolensk, Staraya

Gatsa Retaken, 8th Army Hits Mareth Line   Americans Pursue Enemy. Toward El Guetar; Signs Seen of Widening Allied  Offensive Against Rommel’s Forces.

STRATEGIC AIR BASE DECLARED RETAREN BY Ul. §. FORCES   ALSO CLAIMED ALLIED POSITIONS IMPROVED AT NORTH OF MARETH LINE

British 8th © Storms Nazi Mareth Line   Allied Communique) Reveals That Americans Find Little Opposition

GAFSA CAPTURED BY YANKS WHILE BRITISH DRIVE IN   Montgomery’s Eighth Army Storms Mareth Line Where Rommel is Entrenched   FIERCE FIGHT IS RAGING   Giant Plane-tank Battle Roars Over Donets Basin; Reds Near Smolensk

Nazis Back Up Betore Attack By Americans  Flanking Of Mareth Line Under Way:

FOUR DIVISIONS OF BRITISH 81H ARMY RAM MARETH Ute   Yanks Chase Retreatirg Axis Forces in Tun'sia Despite Hundreds of Minee and Rachv Trac.

Climax 30-Mile Drive; British Storm Mareth   U. S. Troops Pursue Axis Garrison on Road Toward Gabes as Gen. Patton Takes Command of Yanks; Huge  Tank Battle Rages In Donets.

SMILE DRM N ENTER OF NAZI LINES      [Action Time d With Eighth Army Attack i in. South.   BIG TANK BATTLE. ‘IN DONETS VALLEY,      Red Army Declares Lines Hold Against Nazis in. Kharkov Area.

Climax 30-Mile Drive In North Tunisian Sector   British Storm Mareth Line With Men, Tanks

Stragetic Position in Central Tunisia Falls to Americans   Capture Is Climax-of-30= Mile Drive; News of  War Summarized

The War I oday Question For Il Duce; Whose Bombs Blasted English Religious Shrines?

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Bombing Of Eternl City Has Humanitarian Aim “Wespite Axis Claims

Humanitarian Motives Inspired First Raid on Rome Ii Duce Could Have Avoided It

BOMBING OF MILITARY SPOTS IN ROME CARRIED OUT WITH HIGHEST HUMANITARIAN MOTIVE:

Packers Subsidy Will Affect Only Small Part Of Industry, Says OPA

SAYS FEW TO GET PACKERS’ SUBSID}   OPA PREDICTS 80 PER CENT OF VEGETABLE CANNERS CAN ABSORB WAGE HIKES.

CANNED GOODS PRICE STABLE   Vinson Says Packers Must Hike Pay, Absorb Costs Sans Price Hikes

Automatic Pilot Makes Yank Bombers Aerial “Platforms”   Axis Finds Seeret

Jeffers Called By Committee  Says Army, Navy Should Stick To War

Wants Army. Navy Keep Out Rubber Setup   Jeffers Says Their Business Is To Fight, Not Direct Civilians

Tells Congress Army, Navy Jol. Solely To Fight   Must Not Run Business Or Direct Civilian Economy In Opinion Of Jeffers

Jeffers Avers Task of The Army and Navy Is to Fight, Not Dictate Home Affairs

War ‘Loafer’ Blast Denied By Jeffers   Rubber Czar Says Job of Army and Navy Is Only to Ficht

Jeffers Tells Congress Army And Navy Job Is To Fight, Not Run Business, Civilian Economy

Army's Job to Fight, Not to Direct Civilian Economy, Says Jeffers

JEFFERS FLAYS ARMY AND NAVY IN WAR EFFORT   Rubber Director Says Their Job Is to Fight and Not to Run Business   DENIES CHARGE   Claims His Definition of Loafer Is Person Assigned to Unnecessary Job

IEFFERS EXPLAINS LOAFER REMARK   Made No References to Army and Navy, “Loafer” Is Unnecessary Person.

Jeffers Says Military Job Is To Fight   Should Not Try To Direct Civilian Economy

Army And Navy Meddling In   Rubber Czar Says They Have.No Place In Rubber Program.

ARMY, NAVY JOB iS TO FIGHT, NOT RUN INATION--JEFFERS   Insists He Did Not Call These Officials “Loafers”, However

JEFFERS DENIES CALLING ARMY, NAVY ‘LOAFERS’      Says Services Should Keep Hands Out Of Business —      Rubber Czar Asked To Explain His Statements

Jetters Denies “Loafers” Term   Says Job of Armed Services Is  To Fight

Death Claims Mary Waddick School Teacher  Popular Instructor Ir LeMars Schools   Bor Twentu Veaeare

Death Claims Mary Waddick School Teacher  Popular Instructor I   Popular Instructor In LeMars Schools For Twenty Years

Secret Bases Are Probably Used By Yanks   Believe Bases Close Tx Kiska Now In Service Of U. S. Bombers  MWe POG PET 46 ORAS

U.S. AIRMEN AT SECRET BASES IN ALEUTIANS   Engineers Push From One Uninhabited Island to Another

Drivers’ Dispute  May Halt Buses   Union Seeks Limit On Standees

Allied Advances In South Pacific Crack Nippon:   Rapidly Gain Position Te Swing Sledgehammer Blows

Triphammers Set Up to Slam Rabaul  Munda Airbase Bei  Imnmroved ac Kev   Munda Airbase Being Improved as Key For Airborne Blow

Allies Preparing For Hard Blows Against Rabaul   Recent Advances Place Yanks in Position for Attacks

Allied Gains in Pacific Area Seen as Paving Way For Air Blows at Rabaul

Triphammers Set Up to Slam Rabaul   Munda Airbase Being Improved as Key For Airborne Blow

To Allot Extra Canning Sugar   Will Be Given Housewives ‘On Same Basis As 164? .

CANNING SUGAR TO “BEAVALABLEIN TIME FOR FRU   System For. Distribution Will  - Be Similar to Last Season  But Is to Have Some-Re finaniantse.   MERCHANTS REMOVING ; WRONG FOOD STAMPS   MeKeough Announces Dollars and Cents on Retail Meal  ’ Due Thursday !s:Postponed Until May 17.

RATION STAMPS NOT NEEDED FOR CANNING SUGAR   Will Be Available on Approximately Same Basis as Last Season.

LARD FOR LEND-LEASE   But Civilians Will Have as Much as They Had Last Year

Bill Ending Agents Profits Favored   Measure Checks Those Handling War Contracts

EXCESS COMMISSIONS   Bill Te Curb Commission Profits By Agents Is Approved

Heaviest . American Raid of — Conflict.   Many of Enemy Fighter Planes Destroyed During Raid

OTHER NAZI TARGETS ARE HITBY YANKS   ‘Good Bombing Results’ Are Achieved by U. 5S.

BLAST TARGETS AS FIRE BOMBS RAIN OVER AREA   Germans Retaliate Weakly With Seven-Plane Attack On British Coast

Fire Bombs: Sowed ‘Like Grain’ in U. S. Raids on Germany   _Incendiary Attack Rocks. Emden; _ Other Military Targets Hit Heavily As Flvine Forts Set New Receardc

Pounding Paves  Way to Invasion   Fire Bombs Sowed “Like Grain” On Emden by Flying Fortresses

“All-Incendiary” American Attack Sets New Record   Largest Force of Heavy Bombers Sent Over Germany to Date Attacks Harbor . Installations at Emden

INCENDIARIES ARE HURLED UPON EMDEN   Anti-Aircraft Curtain Meets Heaviest Raid of War

GREAT GUNS OF WARSHIPS BATTER NIPS   American Soldier 8  Storm Important Ridge   VICTORY NEAR   Wake Island Raided By Liberator Bombers

Fleet In Pounding Positions From Sea   Although Japanese Resistance Continues It Appears That Fote OF The Island ts Sealed

Jap Defenses on Aitu Are Cracked   American Victory Appears Near: Watke Isle Bombed

Prepare Trap To Spring On Japs -In Mountain Pass   American Victory Looms Near As Battle For Bridge on Road To Tokyo Roars Toward Climax; Land; Air, Sea Forces in Operation.

PURSUIT OF FLEEING — GERMANS RELENTLESS IN KHARKOV SECTION   Red Army Is Out to Finish the Enemy Once and For All, Dispatches Indicate Teday—Panzer and Infantry Divisions, Making Up the Cream of Invading Armies, in Headlong Flicht,

POST-WAR PLAN IS DISCUSSED   Farmers Should Have First Call On Military Equip ment, Group Says

Propressin Sub War Revealed by Secretary Kno)  Navy Abandons Plan te   Navy Abandons Plan te Build 427 Ships to Fialt U-lfoats -—

Sec. Knox Points To Sea Victories   Finds Submarines Less of Menace

TEN MORE JAP VESSELS SUNK BY SUBMARINES   Four Others Damaged In  Attacks In Pacific-China ®.. Acne   CONVOY CONDITIONS VASTLY IMPROVED

UNDERSEA VESSELS ~ SINK 10 JAP SHIPS   Knox Reports Gr Great Prog  ress in Submarine  Warfare

NAVY CUTS BUILDING PLANS AS GAINS ARE MADE AGAINST NAZI RAIDERS.

U. 5. Subs Sink 10  More Jap Vessels  Nazi U-Boat Threat Fades in Atlantic

>. §. Scores 2ig Sains on --30a°s, Sinx en .a) Siios, -amage ‘our: “ance 227 Ani-Su) 20a7 Jrcers

U. S. Again Scores Highly in Sub Battle on Axians  Japs, Germans Lose Heavily in Both Major Sea Theaters

Today’s War Moves   By THOMAS J. DONOHUE  timiétéead OMerace Anmaltvet

Today’s War Commentary  Pacific Foes  L.S. and Japan Gird For New Action

Allies Sieze Desert Town   250 Italians Reported Killed in Attack By Fighting Camel Corps

French And U. § Units Take Axis Base On Border   Camel Corps Routs Italian Forces In Tripolitania

French, Yank Camel Corps Capture Town   Action 800 Miles South of Tunis May Be Timed With Movement of Troops Northward from Lake Chad

Allied Foree Takes Town Near Tripoli   Camel Corps Raid Is Deepest Penetration Reported

An Allied Camel  Corps Captures A Desert Point   Americans and French Take Tanout Maller, 200 Mile: From Tripoli.   Capture Accomplished Against Heavy Odds

ALLIES CAPTURE TANOUT WALLER   French, American Camel Corps Wins Position Against Odds.

ALLIES RIDING CAMELS SEIZE TANOUT MALLER   French And American Camel Corps Scores Success, Killing 250 Italians In The Operation.

Camel Corps Penetrates © Axis Lines   Partially Motorized French and American Unit Takes Tunisian Town   DEEPEST THRUST IN TRIPOLI AREA   250 Italians Killed by Raiders; Weather Closes Northern Sector

U. S., FRENCH CAMEL CORPS SEIZE POST   Kill 250 Italians, Taking Position On Tripolitanian Line

TRAP BEING SET FOR ROMMEL   French and Yank Camel Corps Driving To Block Road To Tunisia

U. S., French Camel Troops Defeat Axis   Capture Tanout Maller On Tripolitanian Border; 250 Italians Killed

FRENCH, YANK CAMEL CORPS MAKES ATTACK   Assault Upon Position— Tanout Maller, Nea Tiaret— Made Against Heavy Odds—250 Italians Killed.

HEAVY BOMBERS POUND SICILY   RAF Starts Fires at Tunis; Camel Corps Kills 250 Italianss

Attacking Against Odds They Kill 250 Italians, French Spokesman Declares

Camel Corps In Africa Attacks, Takes New City   Tanout Maller Falls To U.S., French

Camel Corps Takes Post In Algeria   Americans, French Slay 250 Italians In New Thrust.

AMERICANS JOIN WITH FRENCH T0 JAR FOE’S HOLD   Allied Camel Corps Captures Tanout Maller in Southern Tunisian Desert

French-American Camel Corps Mer Kill 250 Italians   Tunisia Border Thrus? Takes Town 200 Mile: Southwest Of Tripoli

CAMEL TROOPS CAPTURE CIT)   French and American Unit Takes Tanout Maller

French-U. S. Camel Corps Kills 250 Italian Troops In Fight Near Tarat

ALLTES SEIZE AREA IN NORTH AFRICA SECTOR   French and American Camel Corps, Attacking Against Great Odds,  * Capture Tanout.Maller. ~   950-ITALIANS KILLED   Point Is On TripolitianAlgerian Frontier 800 Miles. Airline From  Trnie

Yank Camel Corps Helps Take A City   Combined Action Gets Results In African Desert   Closest Penetration So Far To Tripoli   American Trucks Supply Natives In Unusual Drive

French-American Camel Corps Captures Positions On Route To Tripoli; Closest Penetration

FRENCH, AMERICAN CAMEL CORPS ATTACK AGAINST HEAVY ODDS  CAPTURE ENEMY STRONG:   CAPTURE ENEMY STRONG. POINT IN SOUTHERN TUNISIAN DESERT

Nazi Subs Now Slugging It Out So Allies Forced To Use Fast, Heavily-Armed Planes

Departments Listed for Probe By Legislators   Committee Announce:     More May Be Added If Request Is Made  MAY DELAY TAX

/Fire Sweeps Two Navy Piers at San Francisco; 185 Are Reported Hurt

83 PERSONS IN HOSPITALS AFTER BLAZE   Two Navy Piers Are Swept by Fierce Flames

Ask Mistrial In Case Of - Film Actor   Two Women Jurors Ex. pressed Opinions, Pro. secution Charges

ASK MISTRIAL IN ERROL FLYNN CASE   Woman Juror Alleged to Have Declared Intention to Acquit.   CHARGES BY THREE WOMEN NOT ON JURY

Mistrial Is Requested   Charge Prejudice on Part of Two Flyna Jurers

CLAIM MISTRIAL IN FLYNN CASE   Two Women Jurors Express Opinion with Relation to Actor

ALLEGED REMARKS BY WOMEN JURORS HALTS FLYNN CASE  PROSECUTION SEEKS MISTRIAL IN MOVIE ACTOR’S RAPE TRIAL

Mistrial Asked InE. Flynn Case   2 Jurors Charged With Prejudicial Remarks

Flynn Jurors Talked Before Trial Opened   Defense Makes Demand For Mistrial; Charges Listed in Affidavits

MISTRIAL ASKED IN FLYNN CASE   Prosecution Claims Prejudicial Remarks’ By Two Women Jurors; Defense ls Opposing Plea To Court

Question Jurors’ Remarks At Tria  Mistrial In Flynn Case May Be Called For Pre-Trial Remarks

Driving Germans Into Dnieper Dam Some Crossings   Paratroops Harry Rear Of Disorganized Enemy Behind River; Kuban Bridgehead Sealed Off, Large Army In Caucasus Is Threatened.

Germans Flee Under Fire  of Red Troops   Dnieper River Is Crossed at Several Points

FROST TO RULE GN CROP RETURN   Killing Freeze May Cut Harvest Greatly Below Forecasts For Ohio

Fighting Starts. As Free French Actin Lebanon British Enyoy Make  Pentect Apainst

Halian King and Badoglio Have Provisional Capitai_ In- South. Part of Country

Bills Would Add Millions To State Costs   Statistically - Minded Observers Warn of Mounting Expenses   BONUS FOR SOLDIERS

3 Bills Would Increase Costs   Bonus to Soldiers And Gifts to Mothers Cited

SHOWDOWN FOR CONTROL SEEN   Administration's Slim Majority Is Threatened.

Enlist Seven New Recruits For Guard Company —  Hope To Get" Company Up To Full Strength Soon

Enlist Seven New Recruits For Guard Company   Hope To Get  Company Up To Full Qtoasankk Ga ww

MEAT TRUCKS ~~ ARE STOPPED   NEW YORK POLICE AND SANITARY INSPECTORS START CLEANUP OF BLACK MARKET

GOVERNOR REFUGES TO EASE SPEED LAW   Report Shows State’s Cars, Tires Are Wearing Qut Too Fact

KELLY REFUGES 10 RELAX SPEED-LIMIT   Report Shows Motorist Face Serious Transportation Failure.

RUSSIAS LITTLE PEGPLE CALM AS CLIMAX NEARS   Tend To Own Affairs -And. Leave. Hitler To Stalin and‘Red Army

‘People Of Moscow Calm But Ready  With Nazi Army Poised For Attack   Rv ENDIF GIMORFE

KAISER INDIGNANT AVER CHIP CHARGE   Erroneous Report of Ship Breakage :Draws Shipbuild are Eira

RESULT ANNOUNCED IN PLANT ELECTION   NLRB Reports SOW Workers Choose AFL Bargaining Unit   TOTAL IN PERCENTAGE

His Story of $240 Worth of Unstamped Liquor For Sick Wife Goes Unheeded

MINE OWNERS REJECT LEWIS’ WAGE DEMANDS   O'Neill Says Profits Do Not War rant ‘Extravagances’ Such a Union Indicates

At Least 10 Die in U.S. Floods  82,000 Persons Are Left Homeless

Damage Increases In Record Floods   More Than 82,000 Homeless As Swollen Rivers And Streams Rage in Five States

At Least 10 Die in U.S. Floods  82,000 Persons Are  Es eee <M ale Oem, (rool ar

Christmas Arrives for Americans in Front Lines of Campaigning in Italy

Santa Arrives At Front-- With Full Pack  2) gmg pee eg Af Fy ee ee ee. ee a Ce Ln ey 2   Great Loads Of Christmas Gifts Reach Doughboys On Italian Front

‘MEN IGNORE ‘DO NOT OPEN? SIGNS  Christmas Arrives for Yanks; Gav Packages Flood to Front

Senate Set For Foreign  Policy Battle   Debate May Rival One on Issue of League of Nations

JOHNSON ANO ANDREWS MAKE READY T0 DEBATE   Two Aging Senators Dedicate Live's to Their Post - War Tdea}

Additional Point Values Listed  Liberal Allowances in April Forecast

Point Rationing May Be Eased   Say More Liberal Amounts Possible

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS WILL. NOT CONFIRM REPORT IS? LAND BASES ARE BEING OCCUPIED

War Bond Sales In 3rd War Loan Drive $142,938   Sum Does Not Include Pledges; County Soles Out

Rural Cole Co. Bond Purchases To $34,494.50   Total Is Below Expectations of Drive Leaders

Point Values on Foods Revised  Increases Ordered on Six Varieties

Up Point Values Of Canned Fruit: Cut Beans, Corn   Dried Peas, Lentils Made Ration Free in OPA Order

POINT VALUE BOOSTED ON PROCESSED FOODS   Increases Ranging From Eight To Eleven Poinis Each Go Into  Effect Next Sunday

Sharp Increases Made in Ration Point Value of Six Types of Canned Fruit

Increase Canned Fruit Points   Boosts Range From Eight to 11 Each

Fruits Take Sharp Point Value Hike   Corn And Beans Lowered And Dried Peas Made Ration-Eree Under New ADA Mut.

Sharp Point-Value Increases Are Announced for Six Types Of Fruits: Other Adjustments

BOOST POINT COST OF CANNED FRUITS   SIX TYPES OF COMMODITY AFFECTED — CORN RATION  VALUE IS REDUCED. 

Sharp Increase In Point Value Ordered By OPA   Reductions Listed Fo Several Types Of Canned Vegetables

Point Values Increased On Six Types  Canned Fruits   Reductions Are Made For 2 Most Popular Types Canned Corn, Green or Wax Beans   NEW POINT TABLE EFFECTIVE SUNDAY

Canned Fruit Points Hiked In New Tabk  Ration Values Ris Becomes Effective  Next Sunday

POINT VALUES ARE CHANGED   Increases Ordered for Six Types of Canned Fruits; Several Reductions

NAPLES BOMB EXPLODES   Time Bomb Left By Nazis Explodes 20 Days After City’s Fall

USE SCORCHE _ EARTH POLICY AGAINST ITALY   Civilians as Well as Their Per sonal Property Devastated by Retreating Nazis.

Murder Civilians, Burn Homes And Crops, Kill Animals As They Retreat

Late News Bulletins.   -Anathar Nasi Pima Ramh Penlndae im Wawlae

TIME BOMB LEFT BY HUNS IN NAPLES EXPLODED TODAY   Unknown Number of Civilians Kille¢—Building Next U.S. Consulate.

Nazis Near Collapse in Sicily Drive   Fall of Orel to Advancing Red Forces Is Expected  soon

(me. Chiang Asks Support of Four reedoms and Men Who Suggest Them

Reds Suggest ‘Retreat May Become Rout   Tell. of Enormous German Losses as. Advarice.” Carries Within 120 Miles cf Rumama   SWEDEN HEAES OF GERMAN DISORDERS   Bombizgs: Increased and Al: lies Show New Gains” in All. Sectors.’

NAZI ARMY LOSING FIGHT FOR ITS VERY LIFE ON EAST FRONT  SWEDISH REPORTS TELL AT cCArPHRIATIc ricnrTrin hr

RUSSIANS ROUT FLEKING NAZIS ABOVEGRIMEA   ‘Reds Only 30 Miles From Vital Port of Kherson On Black Sea; Huns Are Demoralized   GERMANS STILL HOLD BASE AT KRIVO!I ROG   Thousands of Foes Trapped In Crimea By Russian Armies As Aerial Blows Increase

U.S.5th Takes Nazi Defense  Line Anchor   Swedish Reports Tell of Disturbances in Germany; Rusrians Press Offensive

Troops Advance 40 Miles in Day   German —— Showing Si  Of Demora Soiion

RUSSIANS PURSUE GERMANS TOWARD RUMANIAN BORDER   Cossacks Pass Crimean Peninsula to Seize Black Sea Pert

Slow and Painful Advances Made By Allied Armies in  “Central. Italy; Challenge Japs at Bougainville

Nazi Army Reels Back In Disordered Retreat To Within 120 Miles Of Rumania—Swiss Reports Tell Of Serious Disturbances Inside Reich—American Fifth Army Captures Pratella And Gallo—New Air Force Bombs Wiener Neustadt

Soviet Forces Now120Miles  From Rumania   Nazi Retreat in Russia Appears To Be Turning into a Rout; Serious Dis: turbances Reported in Germany

Hear Reports Of Disorders In Germany  Reds 120 Air   Reds 120 Air Line Miles From Rumania—Slow Cains in italy

Cossack Troops Thunder Across Desolate Steppe   Say State Of Emergency Imposed On Berlin To. Offset Grave Disorders

DISTURBANCES ABE REPORTED WITHIN: REICH   Russians Say Retreat  Becoming a Rout

GERMAN LINES ARE CRACKED BY YANKS IN ITALY   Fierce Fighting Rages on Bougainville Island But No Details Given

German Army In Retreat From South Russia  Cossacks Range Far Over Steppes Toward Bua River: Disorders

Crimea By-Passed And Left Behind By Red Advance   Allies Continue Slow Gains Into Nazi Defense Line

A German Debacle In Russia      Nazis in Disordered Retreat As Reds Drive on Toward Rumanian Border

NAZIS REEL IN DISORDER IN RUSSIA   Reports of Internal Disturbances in Germany Reported in Sweden.   German Retreat in South Becomes Rout

INAZIS REELED BACK ON [RUSSIAN FRONT; ITALIAN ‘LINE IS CRACKED OPEN

Report Hitler Ready To Form State Of Emergency in Berlin   Fifth Army Captures Heights of Massico Ridge; Turn Back Jap Sea Force in South Pacific

Tell of Unrest  As «Nazis Fall Back  -. In Russia FIGHT FOR = LIFE  Retreat of German Forces Seen Becom. timo Rant

DISTURBANCES ARE REPORTED IN GERMANY   Swedish Rumors Say That a State of Emergency Has Been Imposed In Berlin   FIFTH ARMY ADVANCING

INFANT MURDER CHARGED      Prominent Lawyer Charged With Electrocuting 6 Months Old Son

Harvard Graduate Accused of Electrocuting [Mentally Deficient Baby With Extension Cord

Accident Happens When Three Cars Of Tamiami Champion Jump Track. Northbound East Coast  Champion Smashes Intea Draretia#l Teatma

OPEEDING TRAIN HTS od COACHES THAT LEFT RAILS   Death Toll In Atlantic Coast Tragedy karly To.  day May Reach 75

RAILROAD WREGA TAKES MANY LIVES   New York- Florida Train Jumps Track at Rennert, N.C.

Two Plane Crashes  ~ In West Kull Four   Separate Crashes In Utah Fatal Newspaper Man, Three Army Men

Stimson Orders Further Proceedings  In Case Of Selfridoe Field Office:

Missing Two Weeks, AAF Giliccrs Found   Flyers’ Plane Crashed On Slope of Chinati Peak

MARSHALL'S VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE HEIGHTENS INVASION TALK   ‘Knox Adds to Speculation With Comment on Churchill’s Prediction of Amphibious Operations t Come As a “Conservative Statement

Lifeboats and Barges With Convoy Survivors Also Are Destroyed  ONLY SHIP WRECKAGE REMAINS ON WATER  Total of 82 Airplanes Knocked Out by Allies, Hicsh Command Saye

Allies Destroy Survivors Of Japan’s Convoy   Initiate Attack Series On Important Lae Base

Wreckage, Oil Stains on Water All that Remain of Big Japanese Convoy

27 More Enemy Planes Shot Down For Total Bag of 82  UPSET JAP PLANS  Powerful Base At Lae Pounded In Heavy Raid

DEBRIS ON SEA ONLY TRACE OF 22 FOE SHIPS   U. S. Leaders Say Disaster Upsets Nippon Time Table

BITS OF WRECKAGE. AND OIL STAINS ALL THAT'S LEFT OF CONVOY  Barges, Lifeboats And Rafts Sunk

Allied Air Force Mops Up Last  Of Nips’ Convoy   Finish Off Destroyers, Shoot Down Planes to Swell Total to 82: Jap Troop Loss Placed at 15.006

Few Survivors After Yanks Finish Attack   Japs On Rafts, Barges Bombed And Strafed

LAST OF JAPS ARE MOPPED UP   Bombs Destroy 200 Jap Soldiers In Lifeboats, Last Of 15,000 Killed In Con VOY.

Air Squad Cleans Up Jap Trail   Sinking Of Three Boatloads Of Nips Ends Convoy Saga.   Lae Is Pounded   New Britain Drome, Akyab. Burma, Base Feel Bomb Bursts.

Enemy Barges, Lifeboats five Are Destroyed   Floating Bits of Wreckage Only Trace Left of 22 Vessels; Troops Move on Lae

Oil on Water Only Mark of Jap Convoy   Final Lifeboats Are Shattered By AHied Bombs

BODY OF FLIER IS FOUND IN FLORIDA   Ship of Lt. Col. Boyd Wag. ner Crashed on Routine Fliaht--

REDS SAY ARMY IN STEAMROLLER. DRIVE EVERYWHERE   German-Held Orel May Be Next Sector Th, Tannle

May Close Towson State Teachers’ School   House Ways And Means Committee Considers Plan

CLOSING OF ONE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL STUDIED   Elimination Of College At Towson Foremost In Discussion

DAYS PEACE TERMS TOITALY SPURNED   ROME ASSERTS WAR CONTINUES BECAUSE ALLIED OFFER WAS UNACCEPTABLE.

Kharkov trial sets pattern for axis chiefs   Observers assert procedure legal

Sat pS big ate wee gee As Sha  La}  is srt   “Plan Same Method Of Trying Nazi — Higher-Ups

USWA A Admits  Huge Finances   Compr chensivé. Statement Shows “Membership and > Official Heads

Recognition Of French Regime. Said Agreed On   Official Statement  Expected To Come < i Bee Chee Ee erste

Recognition Of French Regime Said Agreed On   Official Statement Expected To Come  Aftar Cranfaranras

US & BRITAIN TO RECOGNIZE FRENCH CLAIM      Oversea® Until General Giraud’e Armies Arrive jn Homeland,IsReportCirculat. edIn Algiers, Present Ca pital   Full Unity

See Recognition Of French Grour   Report U. $., Britain Reach Agreement

U.S.. Britain Set to Recognize French Liberation Committee   Algiers Believes Joint Anglo-American Statement to Be Made at FD-Churchill Meeting: ‘Liberation Clause’ Likely

Recognition Is Promised New French Committee   Believed Joint Anglo-American Statement Forth coming From FDR-Churchill Meeting

SAID AGREED OW BY ALLIES   Move Would Recognize Committee As Trustee 

U. S. AND BRITAIN READY RECOGNIZE FRENCH UNIT   Reports In Algiers, Temporary French Capital, Says French Committee Of National Liberation To Be Recognized

SEE RECOGNITION (F FRENCH GROUP   U. S. AND BRITAIN EXPECTED TO APPROVE DE FACTO STATUS FOR COMMITTER.

WPAARAAPAPAPPPPPPAPPPLEALS  Algiers Reports Allies ORB French Committee

U.S, BRITAIN TO RECOGNIZE FRENCH GROUF   Algiers Body Will Be Government Until France Invaded

Leaders Will Visit  Families   Roll Call Planned fo March 1-20 — Would Re lease Commercial] Stocks

WAGE FREEZE TU Be EASED BY ROOSEVELT   New Regulations Expected to Avert Strike of the  Coal Miners.   DEMANDED BY WLB   Apparent Wage Increase of Some Form Will Be Won by Lewis.

Lien Is Filed Against Errol Flynn Because Of Unpaid Income Taxes

MILK DEALERS ASK INGREASE   Oppose Rationing But Favor Cost Increase, Price Rollback

HULL HONORED ON RETURN 10 N.§, CAPITAL   “Gallant Old Eagle” Not Prepared For Honors Awaiting Him

MME. CHIANG BREAKS   First Lady Of China Grows Faint During New York Ceremony

MME. CHIANG IN WN.   Part of Reception Cancelled When She Became Falol

PART OF RECEPTION FOR CHINESE FIRST LADY CONCELLED   - Mme. Chiang Kai-shek Grows Faint While Greeting Public in N. Y. Mayor’s Office

IN MIDDLE EAS!   Resigns as OCD Director: To Direct Economic Operations g

JAPS TRYING TO EXTEND GRIP ON BURMA ROAD   Thrown Back By Chinese When They Attempt to Cross Salween River

> FLASHES   Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today.      chunce New Blows,

‘Nazis Declare Allied Invasion Preparations In Channel And Surrounding Areas Are Increasing

UTILITIES SHOW A POPULATION HIKE   City Has More Water, Gas and Light Users Than  a Year Ago

UTILITIES SHOW A POPULATION HIKE   City Has More Water, Gas and Light Users Than a Year Ago   ABOUT 400 INCREASE

Combined American Forces, Dressed in Spotty, Jungle Suits, Break Jap Defenses on Rendova.

Americans To Storm Jap Airfield On Munda Island   Simultaneous Landings Were Made On Rendova During Initial Attack

Writer Describes Rendova Invasion   Americans Planned Push Toward Munda, Great Landing Field

Move ‘Greatest’ Vet In Pacific  Air Umbrella Covers Rendova Landings

TRAP CLOSING ON GERMANS IN DNIEPER BEND   Fall Of Krivoi Rog Expected In Few Hours

Russians Blast Westward To Threaten Encirclement Of Still Powerful But Disorganized Germans Below Dnepropetrovsk—Fall Of Krivoi Rog Now Appears Mere Matter Of Hours—Berlin Reports “Large Withdrawal Movement” In Dnieper Bend Pocket

Krivoi Rog May Fall At Any Moment   Strongly Defended City Reported Flanked on Three Sides

FALL OF KRIVOl ROG, NAZI BASE IN RUSSIA NEAR   Pivotal Area For Whole German Defense Setup Above Crimea Flank ed On Three Sides   RED MANEUVERS ARE FORMING BIG POCKET   Still Powerful But Disorganized Enemy Forces Threatened With Encirclement

NAZIS FACE NEW RED THREAT   Disorganized Germans Caught In Closine Pocket

Fall of Strongly Defended Krivo’  Rog is Imminent   Capture of Pivotal Defense Base Would Enable Russians to Turn Northern Army Into South Toward Melitopol Sector   MOSCOW SAYS ENEMY IS IN STEADY RETREAT

TM SE Ame  Soviets, Driving Ahead On 150-Mile Front, Close In On Nazis   Disorganized But Still Powerful Germans Facing  Entrapment In Pocket Below Dnepropetrovsk In Southern Rirecies ;

Soviet Force Lunges Across Ukraine Front   Vast Ring Tightening; Krivoi Rog Invested From Three Sides; Fall Of Citw Near

Blast Way Ahead on 150 Mile Front   Fall of Krivoi Rog Believed To Be Matter Of Hours

RED TROOPS ENCIRCLING NAT} APMIES   Enemy Surrounded On Three Sides  Near Krivoi

Fall Of Krivoi Rog Believed Matter Of Hours   Great Battle Continues as Germans Throw in More Reinforcements in Desperate Effort ‘To Stem Westward Drive of Soviet Juggernaut and Get Out of Trap.

Reds Pound Krivoi Garrison; Fall of Center Imminen'   Russians Close Dniepe: Bend Pincers in Drive Against Germans

FALL OF KRIVOI ROG EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT   Berlin Reports ““SuperBattle’ With Germans Completing A “Large Withdrawal Movement.”

Reds Closing Trap Around Nazi Forces   Soviets Blasting Forward on 150-mile Front Above Crimea

Great Battle Continues as Germans Throw it More Reinforcement: in Desperate Effort T«  - Stem, Westward Drivé of Soviet Juggernau and Get Out of Trap.

JUVIETS BLAST TO WESTWAAL   Threaten Encirclement of Powerful, But Disorganized Germans.   KRIVO! ROG FALL NEAR

SOVIETS SLOWLY CLOSING POCKET IN SOUTH RUSSIA   FALL OF KROVIO ROG BELIEVED TO BE BUT A MATTER OF HOURS

Soviet Forces Threaten To Trap Germans   Fall of Krivoi Rog Believed To Be Matter of Hours

YanksClosing In On Bizerte   Column Also Moves South To Aid Of Stalled British

Counter Attack By Nazis Is Repulsed   Three Columns Are Converging On Bizerte In Northern Tunisia: French Group Gains

German Positions Menaced by Two American Units   rench Troops Also Attempting To Turn German Line   British First Army Report. ed 20 Miles to the West of Tunis

French and American Columns Only 10 Miles From Nazi Base; Italy Pounded

Three Columns of Yankees-French Push on Bizerte   Threaten Axis Posi- — tions Holding up British First Near Tunis

British Report 2.000 Germans  Taken in Drive   Big Allied Guns Able to Shell Ferryville  and Axis Naval Base: French Make Headway

Americans and French Close To Bizerte   German Positions That Have Delayed British Are Being Threatened

Three Columns Converging on Important Nozi Base  FERRYVILLE NEARED BY U. S. SOLDIERS Germans Resist British  Forces Stubboraly in the South .

Americans and French Converging on City In Northern Tunisia  ONE U. S. COLUMN NEAR FERRYVILLE  Another Threatens — Flank of Nazi Forces Holding Back British

REACH POSITION 10 MILES FROM BIG NAVAL BASE   One Column Moves Forward to Attack Enemy Troops Defending Tunis

Threaten German positions delaying British 1st army;  repulse nazi counterdrive   Junction of British and Americans would facilitate attack an Tinie

Americans and French 10 Miles From Axis Base; Enemy Counterattack Repelled; Foe Resistance Fierce

Three Columns Converge on Bizerte   Americans, French Reach Point 10 Miles From Base

Ble ALLIED GUNG SHELL TWO CITIES   Yanks Threaten Turn Nazi Positions Holding British   PRISONERS TAKEN   French Reach Cap Koran, 10 Miles West of Bizerte; Nazi Attacks Repulsed

Bitter Nazi Defenses Hammered   American and French Troops Reach Point 10 Miles From Axis North Tunisian Base at Two Points

WITH- BIG ALLIED GUNS SHELLING BOTH TOWNS; BRITISH TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES.

Americans  Threatening  Nazi Flank   U.S. And French Columns Are Within 10 Miles Of Bizerte.

VICTORY DRIVE NOW 10 MILES FROM BIZERTE   BRITISH TAKE 5000 PRISONERS SINCE APRIL 21

AMERICANS AND FRENCH TROOPS NEAR BIZERTE   Allied Column Is Reported Within 10 Miles Of Vital Naval Rase   FERRYVILLE REDUCED BY AERIAL BOMBING

3 Columns Threatening German Base   Allies Continue Moving Forward In Coffin Corner

YANKS BEAT OFF COUNTER-ATTACK BELOW BIG BASE   Another U. S. Force Striking at Tebourba May Outflank Enemy Holding Up British First Army.   LATTER IS MEETING FIERCE GPPOSITION   How Long Axis Can Continue Fight Believed a Question of Supplies  and Reinforcements.

Americans Threaten to Deflect Nazi Forces Holding Up British Advance Toward Tunis

CHANGES IN LAWS  GOVERNING STATE  INSTITUTIONS URGED INEFFICIENCY, WASTE,  CRUELTY CHARGED; CON TROT ROARD REPTIFS

ANTI-STRIKE BILL BEING PUSHED TO COMPLETION   House-Senate Committee Compromis-. Seen On Measure To Halt Strikes. 

ANTI-STRIKE BILL HEADS © FOR APPROVAL: TAX FIGHT   Bill’s Backers Are Fore. ing It Before Mine Truce Ends.

British and American Pincers Closing in on River Area.   BIG NUMBER GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN   Bad Weather Slows Up Air Fighting Over Italian Front.

German Rear Guard Units Still Holding Out North Of Capua Along Main Road To Rome.

Air Feeder System To Be Set Un   Vast Network of Local Ser vices Being Planned. to Connect Trumk Lines   SEVERAL COMPANIES: MAY IOIN PROJECT   Plans Call for Services Between New York,’ the Rockies and Texas

TREASON POSSIBLE AGAINST & YANKS   Americans Broadcasting Ir Germany May Be Defendants In Indictments.

Broadcasters For Axis Face Indictments   Six Americans Who Are Aiding Nazis Through Propaganda Will Be Accused Of Treason

To Indict Nazi Broadcasters.   Americans to BeAccuséd of Treason

Jane Anderson, 5 Other Americans Broadcasting From Axis Nations, Soon To Be indicted For Treason

SIX AMERICANS TO BE INDICTED   Suspects To Be Charged With Treason.

HOICTMENT OF (i AMERICANS PLANNED SOOM   Kaltenbach Is Among $x Broadcasting for Axis Nations

6 AMERICANS FACE TREASON CHARGES   Are Broadcasting From Germany, Italy

GOVERNMENT WILL, INDICT 6 PERSONS SPEAKING FOR AXIS   Six Who Broadcast From Germany And Italy Will Be Warned Against Return

Six Americans, Broadcasting From Italy, Germany, Face Indictments

WILL INDICT 6 AMERICANS AS TRAITORS SOON   Two Women, Four Men Who Broadcast from Axis Face  Trial If They Return to  the United States

Russians Drive Within 10 Miles Of Zhitomir, Vital Trunk Line City

NAZI DEAD LITTER ROUTE OF FLIGHT THROUGH UKRAINE   Russians Only Ten Miles from Zhitomir, Vital Reilwov Center

REDS WITKIN GUN FIRE OF ZHITOM   Americans Secure Beachhead to Drive Jap Forces From Bougainville.

OMELLING FALL HUB 65 MILES ~ FROM POLAND   Russian Columns. Step Up Onrush, Despite Snow, Slush and Nazis.”

NAZI DEFENSE LINE IS PUSHED NEARER POLAND   Soviets Gain 20 Miles Daily tn, Pursuit Of Fleeing German Troops

ZHITOMIR IS NOW WITHIN RANGE OF Bie SOVIET GUNS   Vatutin’s Flying Columns Step Up Speed to Twenty Miles 2 Day.

Zhitomir Within Gun Range   German Defense Line 65 Miles from Polish Border Hit

Reds Peril Big Zhitomi Rail Center   Guns Hammer Last Nazi Line in Russia; Snow Slowing Drive

Nazi Defense Line Only 65 Miles From Old  Polish Frontier   Reds Advance 20 Miles a Day Despite  Gane andl Giaak

Red Armor Smashes. for  Polish Border   Brings Nazi Rail Center Under Artillery Fire

20) MILES: DAILY BLING GAINED BY RED FORGES   Germans Order Evacuation Of Civilians From Two Polish Cities

Battered German A rmies — Fleeing Toward Pre-War Poland: Fighting Fierce

New Fortifications. For Berlin Told  DNBSaysAnti-Aircraft Artillery Towers

Berlin Now Fortified Like Ancient Cities   duge New Anti-Aircraft Towers, Concrete Shelters Prepared

BERLIN FORTIFIED FOR SIEGE T0 COME, PEOPLE ARE TOLO   Artillery Towers. and Ail Raid Shelters Praised

NAZIS BOAST OF THEIR DEFENSES   Anti-Aireraft Artillery Tow ers Described As ‘Gigantic’ In Broadeast

Sofia Attacked In Surprise Raid   Plight of Germans Caught in Red Trap is Growing More Desperate

Traffic by Railway Hit In Balkans   Sofia Yards Blasted in Day. light Raid—Retreat in  Russia Continues

STRATEGIC POINTS = IN BUENOS AIRES . SEIZED BY REBELS   Move Seen a as Effort to Reverse Argentine, Foreign, -Namactic Policies

Rape Suspect Is Shot by CG Officer   Shooting Takes Place During Questioning of Man in Cases Involving Small Girls; Policeman Also Wounded

Turn to page 2 for official list of point values for all canned foods.

WAR PLANTS OF LEIPZIG STRUCK BY RAF BOMBERS   HUNDREDS OF FOUR-MOTORED BOMBERS VISITED ANOTHER IMPORTANT : NAZI CENTER. LAST NIGHT.   FIFTH ASSAULT ON BERLIN LAST NIGHT   American Flying Fortresses Attack War Plants in Western Germany and Holland Earlier in the Day.

The Great Game of Politics   “By FRANK R. KENT™  Fourth-Term Question

DETAILS OF GEN. PATTON INCIDENT REVEALED   “Old Blood and Guts” Hit Shell Shocked Soldier

U. 5. SUBSIDY BATTLE RAGES   BOWLES SAYS PRICES DEPEND ON SOLON ACT

FOGD SUBSIDIES FICHT CONTINUES   Congressmen Head Home for Christmas

Subsidy Row Unabated   Farm Organizations Keep Plugging to Defeat Subsidies

House Grou; Acts to Hike  Farm Prices      Bills Approved to Liberalize Parity Ceiling Formulas

FARM CEILING BILL GK’D BY HOUSE GROUP   Act Prohibits Deduction Of U. S. Benefits, Includes Labor

HOUSE MOVES TC PASS FARM BILL      : 4 a) 2  _ Measure to Act Passed By Senate: Farm Labor Wefeement Bill Halted

Liberalizing parity plan sets approval   Banking group  reports bills

GROUP APPROVES BILL FOR BOOST IN FARM PRIGES   Committee Favors Including Cost Of Farm Labor In Computing Parity

LEGISLATION LIBERALIZING DARITY FORMULA APPROVEL   House Banking Committee Acts on Bills Tending to Increase Farm Prices

FARM PARITY HIN APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   Liberalized Parity Formula For Farm Ceilings Moves Step Nearer   INCLUSION OF LABOR COSTS GIVEN BACKING   Plan Would Also Prohibit Deduction Of Benefit In Fixing Ceilings

FARM PARITY JUMP OKAYED   ARMY COTTON ORDER RESCINDED BY WICKARD

RICHELIEU RETURNS TO ACTIVE DUTY  France’s Great Battleship Ready for Action

Germansin: Full Retreat. From Salerne   Big Port Within Range of ‘Long Tom' Artillery.

U.S. STH ARMY NOW 15 MILES PAST SALERNO   Clark’s Troops Dominate Heights on Sorrento Peninsula

—NEBRASKA-~~  "AA Wheat Outlook Very Dark   . . Estimate Crop Only Half of °43 Production

Final Fight Of Destroyer Borie Told   Yanks Hurl Knives, Empty Shell Cases at Sub Pinned Under Hull

Technique of Last Gallant Battle of Old Destroyer Told   Officers Tell Details of Death Fight of 20-YearOld Borie

ALLIED BOMBERS STILL SMASHING INVASION DOORS   Hitler Pulling Forces Back For Defense With Threat From All Sides   ITALY SUFFERING MOST   In South Pacific, Allies Continue To Blast at Jap Island Bases

GERMANS FEAR INVASION WILL HIT DENMARK   Allied Air Activty in Mediterranean Area  Is Unabated

GERMANS FEAR DANISH INVASION   Defensive “Nerve Centers” Built In Jutland, Heavier ' Guards Put On Danish Trains

Germans Have Named June 22 As ‘Der Tag’ But Nobody Knows When or Where Blows to Fall

Put Heavier Garrison In  Danish Area   Algiers Reports Italian Emissaries Seek Peace

a a aT or a A a a a aa ie i a ee  GERMANY FEVERISHLY BUILDS DENMARK DEFENSES, LOOKS FOR INVASION JUNE 22; RUMOR OF PEACE MOVE ON PART OF ITALY

Denmark Garrisons Increased   U: &. Planes Wallop. Sicily . In One Of Biggest Raids ‘Since “Pantelleria. Fell

Invasior Jitters Grow   Northern Europe  Gets Surcease; Messina Blasted

THINKS NAZIS: FEAR A DRIVE INTO DENMARK   German Attitude Is Reflected in Reports That Anti-Invasion Measures Have Been Taken in TIntland.

Swedish Reports Tell of Defensive Preparations There   Heavy Aerial Blows Continue to Fall In Mediterranean

Allied Planes Again Active {n Mediterranean   Algiers Hears Rumors Of Arrival of Italian Peace Emissaries

Hitler Fears AlliedInvasior Via Denmark   Build Up Anti-Invasion Defenses in Jutland; Italian Peace Emissaries Reported in Algiers; Allied Planes Blast Italian Islands

Nazis Fear Allied Invasion Army May Strike via Denmark   Elaborate System of De. fenses Are Built; War Summarized

WATCH IN DENMARK   Germans, Fearing Invasion, Build Guard Centers in Jutland

ELABORATE SYSTEM  (F ANTI-INVASION  “NERVE CENTERS”. GERMANS HAVE SET NEX1 TUESDAY AS ALLIED  TAIUPF ACTA fA Er

- Allied Bombers , Keep Up Raids  — In South; Quiet  - In Northern Arec

ADD TROOPS 10 AREA GARRISON   Great American Air Force Bombs Targets in Sicily And Sardinia.   DUSSELDORF !S BOMBED

Nazis Bolster Northern Defenses; Islands In Mediterranean Suffer Paralyzing New Blows.

INTENSIFY AIR RAIDS ON SICILY, HINT ZERO HOUR   Largest Force To Operate in Assault Since Fall of Pantelleria

GERMAN FEARS THAT INVASION ARMIES MAY STRIKE IN DENMARK REFLECTED IN NEW DEFENSES   Troops in Danish Garrisons Reported More Than Tripled in Recent Months; Allied Warplanes  Renew Paralyzing Assaults on Sicily

REDS THREATEN TO SPLIT ENEMY ON ENTIRE FRONT   Drive to Within 490 Miles of Polish Border in Wide Break

Red Armv In Pursuit of 22 Divisions   Surge To Within 40 Miles of Old Polish Border

Soviet Armies Pursue Routed Nazi Divisions   Red Troops Pour Through 190 Mile Wide Gap In German Defense   RUSSIANS DRIVE NEARER TO POLAND

Allied Bombers Continue Cross-Channel Raids On Southwest German Targets

FARMS FOR DISABLED MEN DISCUSSED BY FSA CHIE   HANCOCK SAYS HE FAVORS LEGISLATION TO HELP WAR DISABLED 70 SETTLE ON FARMS

YANKS TAKE VILLAGE IN NEW GUINEA   Capture Town 14 Miles from Sanananda Point

AMERICAN - TROOPS DRIVING AT LAST ENEMY IN PAPUA   Have’ Captured- Tarakena Village Near Enemy’s Beachhead At Sanananda

U.S. TROOPS TAKE TOWN IN PAPUA   Allies Now 11/2 Miles From Sanananda Point

Yanks Push on in New Guinea   Drive Against Last Jap Force in Papua

ALLIANCE WITH U.S. URGED IN AUSTRALIA   Former Information Chiet Outspoken in Policy

Historic Junction of American and British Armies in North Africa Is Simple Affair

 Wild Scene of Rejoicing As Tough Allied Troops Stage Historic Junction

HISTORIC JUNCTION IN AFRICA IS TOLD OF IN LATE REPORT   Americans in Jeeps Mect British on Road from Gabes to Gafsa and All Were Happy.

DRAMA MARKS ALLY JUNCTION   YANKS, EIGHTH ARMY CLASP HANDS IN DESERT

Dusty British, U. S. Troops Shout Congratulations as Armies Meet,

County Supt. of Schools is Ist Lieutenant   Roy Johnston is on army duty at Camp Wallace, Texas.

[Important Farmers Meeting Slated At  Fairmont Tuesday   Specialists To Discuss Proper Method of Harvesting and Marketing County’s 4,000) Acres Irigh Potatoes, Other Truck and War Crops To Be Discussed.

Important Farmers Meeting Slated At Fairmont ‘Tuesday   Specialists: To - Discuss Proper Method of Harvesting and: Marketing  ' County’s. 4,000 -Acres Irish Potatoes.” Other Truck and. War’ Crops :To Be Discussed: .

Finns Seek Better U. §. Relations   New Bid Disregards  German Pressure

Finns Set Out To Woo U.S. Forget Nazis  _ Open Bid Made   Open Bid Made For Recognition At Peace Table

MERCURY IN A DIVE   Temperature From 15 to 20 Predicted for This Section

Another Cold Spell Coming   Mercury Expected To Sink As Low As Ten Above Tonight

MISSING SUB-DEB RETURNS 10 HOME FROM COLUMBUS   Margaret Moore, 14, Came Back This Morning “Physically Exhausted”

MISSING GIRL IS BAGK AT HOME IN NEW YORK GIT}   Whereabouts of Sailor  Unknown As Yet—Girl “Physically Exhausted.”

FIRST BERRIES IN: BRING $8   Coloma Grower Sells Ini tial Offering of Home grown Fruit

: OFFICERS IN CONFERENCE   Deputy Chief of Staff Visits Fort : Leavenworth ‘Today

OFFICERS IN CONFERENCE   Deputy Chief of Staff Visits Fort venworth Today

APPEAL REFUSED FOR MAX STEPHAN   Only Hope For Man Convicted Of Treason Is F.D.R.

West Coast Manpower ls ‘Frozen’   Byrnes Orders Other industry te Yield te Plane, Shigballding

WMC GRANTED WIDER POWERS   Empowered to Recruit Labor for West Coast

WMC TO PLAGE MORE WORKERS ON WEST COAS]   ‘Thousands Needed in Shipbuilding—Tight Controls Over Labor Supply

TIGHTEN LABOR CONTROL IN WES!   MANPOWER BOARD GIVEN POWER TO RECRUIT WORKERS FOR WAR PLANTS.

WMC MOVES 10 ASSURE LABOR FOR W. COAST   Wants Vital Shipbuilding Industry To Have Workers

Controls Over Labor Tighten In Coast Area   _ WMC Order Takes Effect Sept. 15; May Be Extended

Government Moves to Assure Needed Man Power for Pacific Coast Plants

Coast Manpower  Rules Tightened  Act Teo Control Labor For Planes. Ships

WMC Tightens Labor Control On West Coast   Move Designed To Provide Labor For Shipyards

WMC Is Told To Round Up War Labor   Broad Powers Are Giver To Recruit Workers, Enc West Coast Slump   AID FOR FARMERS   Acute Help Shortage Ir Ship, Plane Factories Spurs Drastic Step

PRODUCTION THREATENED BY DISPUTE   Sharp Differences Of Opinion Imperil U.S. Food Output

43 PRODUCTION 10 BE HURT BY PRICE POLICIES   Administration And Congress Fail To Come To Terms

FOOD PRODUCTION PLAN THREATENED BY PRICE POLICY   Administration and Congress ir Sharp Differences Over Allotments

FARM PRICE POLICIES IK HARD TANGLE   Secretary Wickard Seeks: to Subsidize Farmers to Plant Desired Crops.   FARM BLOC AIMS TO BOOST PRICES   Both Going Ahead, Leave Farmers in Uncertain State.

POLICIES ON FARM PRIS CAUSING SHARP DIFFERENCE   Differences Between Administration and Congress Stand Out As Threat To Food Production Program; May Not Be Settled For Weeks.

Farmers in Dilemma as Administration, Congress Squabble Over Food Prices, Planting Time Nears in Many Sections

Farm Policy In Muddle   Failure to Agree on Price Questions Threat To Food Program

Farmers Would Like To Have Problems Made Clear As Crop Planting Time Is Only Few Weeks In Distance

CLASH ON FARM PRICES LOOMS   Administration Insists Maintaining Present Price Levels

Food Production Seen Threatened By Wrangling   Sharp Differences Arise Between Administration And Solons On Subject

Food Production Program Periled   Administration, Solons At Odds Over Prices

WLB PROPOSES MODIFICATION OF WACE ORDER   To Give Body Some Leeway in Dealing With Wage and Salary Inequality.

Global Agenda for Food Conference Is  Given Public Today   May Lead to Revolutionary Changes in Econ-— omy of Nations

CAPITAL'S EYE ON LABOR BOARD IN COAL CRISIS   Closed Hearings by 3-Man ) Panel Get Under  Way

ASKS TRIMMING OF OWI SAILS   Propaganda Against Pay As You Go Tax Plan Laid To Bureau

OWI Is Accused Of Plotting To Beat Ruml Pla   spread Propaganda against Income Tax Bill, Rep. Helleck Charges

OWI IS ACCUSED OF HARMING TAX PLAN   Indiana Congressman Says Goverament Agency Has Been Caurht Red-Handed

Millerovo in Hands of Soviet Army   Gate to Rostov From North May Be Closed by Russians

26 Towns Taken In Offensives in 50-Mile Front   Millerovo Biggest Prize; Another Soviet Army Moves on Maiko)  HUGE BOOTY SEIZED  Russians Fighting To Exterminate Nazis West of Stalingrad   HUGE BOOTY SEIZED

Reds Advance Toward Kharkoy in Ukraine And Maikop Oil Fields  NUMEROUS TOWNS CAPTURED IN DRIVE  Stalingrad Garrison Said To Be Reduced To 50.000 Germans

REDS MENACE KAMENSK ON ROSTOV ROAD   Other Russian Armies Push Into The Ukraine Toward Kharkov And Maikop Oil Fields.   Take 26 Towns

Waite Phillips Announces Sale  Of State Ranch   McDaniel & Sons Pays $1,300,000 for Stock, And 119,000 Acres  .AST OF HOLDINGS Heck Brothers Buy  Famous Maxwell  Ranch Home

18 MINERS SAFE, 10 PALS KILLEL   huddled Behind Hastily Erected Canvas Barrier

10 DIE IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION   18 Survive ‘Black Damp’ By Erecting Canvass Barrier

10 Perish in Mine Blast  18 Others Save   18 Others Save Selves With Canvas Barrier

10 Miners Are Sulfocated  in Explosion      18 Others Huddle Behind Cloth Barrier to Escape Death from Fumes

18 MEN SURVIVE TENNESSEE COAL MINE EXPLOSION   Save Selves With HastilyErected Canvas Barrier— Ten Other Miners Dead

TEN MINERS DIE IN BLAST, 18 SURVIVE   Canvas Barrier Hastily Put Up 2, 000 Feet Underground Save: Men Herded Into It

18 Survive Mine Blast Behind Cloth Barrier   Had Just About Given Up Hope When Reicuedly Ten Killed.

18 GOAL MINERS SURVIVE BLAST   Huddle Behind Canvas to Avoid Gas Fumes

RIGHTEEN MEN . SURVIVE BLAST IN MINE: 10 DIE   Workers Saved*Huddled ‘For Hours Behind Cloth Barrier Against . “Black Damp”   WERE NEAR DEATH   Two “Buddies” Become Panic-Stricken and Dash From Enclosure to Death Fumes

Your Today’s Star   ‘AP’s Eddie Gilmore Visits Ravine Near Kiev Where Germans ‘Butchered 60,000 Jews; Bodies Later Dug Up And Burned

Thousands’ Of Jews: Butchered 5: Miles. Outside: Of Kiev By Nazis, ‘Russians Assert

Claim Nazis Killed Between 60 and 80 Thousand Jews at Kiev and Later Burned Bodies   Eddie Gilmore Retells Revolting Story as it was Told by Three Jews Who Were Forced to Dig Up Bodies Before They Were Cremated

One of Most Horrible Places in World Today Is Quiside Kiev, Where Germans Slaughtered Jews

Lewis Tells Men To Put Law Above  “Scale Demands   Attacks WLB As ‘‘Jealous And Vindictive,”’ Accuses Collusion With Operators: Policy Committee Unanimous Behind Leader.

LEWIS ACTS ON DEMAND FROM ICKES   WLB Must Summon Parties for New Talks

x BREAKFAST   Mess Quarters for 773 Men Are Transferred to Barracks

A-12’S BREAKFAST JIN: LINDLEY: HALL   Mess Quarters for 773 Men Are Transferred-to  an Barracks   A DINING-STUDY HALL

LEWIS FIGURES INDEBATEON CONNALLY BILL   Gore Opens House Debate With Charge Lewis Trying to Take Measure of President

BILL TO FORBID STRIKES RUSHED TO HOUSE VOTE   Sponsors Hope To Get Actio Quickly On Legislation to  Set Up Regulations  _

Push AntiStrike Bill   Solons Launch Fight To Outlaw Strikes; Score Lewis Stand

Who Is Boss, Lewis or Roosevelt?, Sen. Byrd of Virginia Inquires

A TEST IN HAWAII   Scope of Civil and Military Jurisdictions at Stake

MILITARY RULE IN WARTIME MAY BE GIVEN TES]   Clash Over Authority Of Military, Civil Courts

Allies Gathering Forces For Next Big Push To Crash Through Enemy Barriers On Road To Rome.

LIMITED GAINS MADE ALL ALONG ITALIAN LINES   Drive on Rome Imminent as Fifth Army Captures Dominating Height

{No Rebef In Sight Tonight After Temperature Gains Slightly Frem Yesterday's Sub-Zero  } )06tnte   OFFICIAL LOW OF ZERO HERE TODAY

20 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK BY 50. S. HEAVY AIRGRAFT   Naples, Reggio Also Attacked During Nicnt

SARDENIA, SICILY AND ITALY WERE BOMBED YESTERDAY   U. S. Flying Fortresses and Medium Bombers Delivered Smashing Blows.   CALAGIARI THE TARGET   This Port Long Helped Support Axis Forces in North Africa.

Allied Ground Forces Rest After Tunisian Coup; Navy, Air Raids Aim at Stepping Stones

Tunisia Won,  Allies Bomb. Axis Islands  a   Italy Herself Feels Big Bombers Might Again Thursday Night ot

Ally Fliers Rain Bombs on Italy   TUNSIA-FREE AIRMEN LAY DOWN SHATTERING HAIL OF DEATH ON SARDINIA, SICILY AS ROARING GUNS OF NAVAL FORCES OPEN UP

Ttaly And Islands Heavily Bombed By Allied Fliers   Drive No Longer Halted By Necessity For Support Of Troops In’ Tunisia:

Allied Airmen Strike Heavy Air Blows on Htaly   Lardinia, Sicily Attacked; 20: Enemy Vessels ‘Struck

Islands Given Their Worst Pounding   N. Africa Air Power Unleashed After Axis Surrender

ALLIED PLANES RAIDING ITALY   Rain Powerful Blows on Sardinia, Sicily, and Mainland.   ALL AXIS TROOPS TAKEN

Sardinia, Sicily And Italy Targets For Planes Freed By African Victory

British Naval Force Bombards Harbor Area  of Pantelleria at Dawn

20 SHIPS ARE SUNK BY YANKS   British Warships Bombard Island Of  Pantelleria

Allied Airmen Attack Italy, Nearby Islands   Ships Are Sunk In Heavy Raids

Allies Turn To Raids On Italy   U. S. FORTRESSES STAGE HEAVY ATTACK ON ISLANDS

Ha FEELS LUIED      Sardinia, Sicily And Italy Proper Heavily. Bombed

ALLIED AIR FORCE IN AFRICA DELIVERING POWERFUL BLOWS ON SARDINIA, SICILY, ITALY   U. S. Fortresses Deliver Powerful Blow Against Cagliari Which Long Helped Support Axis. African Forces About 20 Enemy Vessels Sunk.

Allies Blast  Italian Bases   Flying Fortresses Deliver Smashing Assault On Cagliari, 20 Ships Sunk.

ALLIED AIR ARM HARASSES ITALY   Sardinia, Sicily Feel Sting of Bombardments.

Raid Ports In Sardinia  And Sicily   Allied Planes Cente Their Efforts On Italians As Tunisian Fighting Ceases

Planes Pound Italian and Isle Bases   20 Enemy Ships Sunk, Damaged In Harbor  Of Augusta

SLANDS FEEL FULL FURY OF HEAVY ATTACK   Victory in Africa Sets Loose More Raiders  To Strike Axis

Sardinia, Sicily and Italy Struck From North Africa As Land Army Rests

Italy and Isles Hard Hit by Air   Naples and Cagliari: in Sardinia Suffer Heavily; Many Enemy Cratt Are Destroyed ©

ATTACK BASES FROM TUNISIA   No Longer Divided By Necessity Of Supporting Ground Troops  PRISONERS IN CAMPS

Bombs Rained On Islands in Mediterranean   Allied <Air and Nava. Forces Begin Series of Softening Up Raids   AIR FORCES FREED FROM NORTH AFRICA   Campaign There Finally Closed, Last Remaining Axis Forces Surrender

SICILY, ITALY AND SARDINIA GET POUNDING   Allied Planes and Warships Rain Powerful Blows In Strong New . Offensive Against Axis.

ITALY, SICILY AND SARDINIA BADLY BOMBED   U.S: Flying Fortresses and Medium Bombers Deliver Smashing Assault On  . Cagliari   20 ENEMY VESSELS - SUNK OR DAMAGET   Large Oil Fires Started In Attecks Seen As “Softening Up” Prelude to Thrust

Raid Is Made On Sicily and Italy   Allied Air Squadrons in An Offensive to North and East   20 ENEMY SHIPS SUNK   All Axis Forces in North ' Africa Are Prisoners , of Allies

ITALY, SICILY AND SARDINIA HIT BY ALLIES   20 Axis Vessels Sunk Or Damaged

SINK OR HIT 20 SHIPS AND SET OIL FIRES   Blow at Sardinian Targets Is Heaviest Yet Undertaken — Fortresses Deliver a Smashing Attack on Cagliari.

Allied Airmen Hammer Sicily, Sardinia, Italy   ‘Softening-Up’ Offensive Seen As Prelude To In vasion Of Furone.

U. §. Bombers Sink Twenty Axis Vessels   Raids Seen As Soften ing Up Prelude To Southern Europe Invasion

ALLIED AIR FORCES STRIKE AT ENEMY IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA  NAVAL FORCE ATTACKED PANTELLERIA HARBOR; AIR FORCE ROAMS WIDE

PLANES SMASHED SUB WOLF PAGK   Navy Indicates Ten U-Boats Sunk in Atlantic Engage mMmante

U.S. Planes Sink 2 Subs, Smash At 8   Navy Reveals Record Of Defense; Convoy Reaches. Destination

11 AXIS SUBS HIT BY ESCORT PLANES   Attacks Took Place _ While Protecting Convoys In Atlantic

Baby Aircraft Carrier Death To Nazi Subs   Destroys Two, Probably Eight Others,

BABY PLANE ARRICK DAMAGES 10 SUBS   Convoy Is Delivered Safely By New Type Vessel

Planes of Baby Carrier Sink 2 Subs   Eight Others Probably Lost Disperse Two Wolf Packs

10 Subs Attacked By Plane Carrier In North Atlantic   Pint-Sized Craft Sinks Two Subs For Sure, Has Eight Other Possible Scalps.

Planes From Baby Carrier Smash U-Boats   10 Probably Sunk In Protection Of Allied Convoys; Subs Kept Awav From Ships

One Litile * Flat Top Scalters  Sub Fleel   ~¢ Planes From Carrier B Drive Off Two Wolf Packs, Take. Convoy Through   TEN SUBMARINES ry PROBABLY SUNK   Great Record of New-Type Baby Carrier Probably the Best in Atlantic

Baby Carrier Planes Blast U-Boat Pack   Sink 2 and Probably 8 ‘Others and Deliver Two Convovs io Europe

Rout Pack Of U-Boats   Planes from Single Baby Aircraft Car‘rier Attack 10 Subs

New Baby Aircraft Carrier Takes 2 Convoys Through Without A Loss

BABY CARRIER PLANKS BLAST ENEMY U-BOATS      Small Vessel With Convoy Launches Aircraft Over Atlantic; At Least Two Subs Sunk   OTHERS ARE HIT   Navy Reveals How System Of Floating Airfields Is Defeating Hitler In Ocean Battle

Baby Aircraft Carrier Destroys Ten Submarines   Two Definitely Sunk, Eight More Probably’ Accountedfor, as Tiny  Ship Delivers Two Convoys Safely

Baby Carrier. Proves Worth Aaainst Subs   Sink Two Submarines Positive and Probably Eight Others in Delivering Two Convoys Across Atlantic

Baby Aircraft Carrier Gefs Ten Submarines  Planes from Craft Win Sensational Battle in Atlantic

Planes Atfack 10 Submarines   Two U-Boats Sent Down And It Is Probable Eiaht More Sunk

AIRCRAFT CARRIER BEATS OFF SUBS   Sinks Two, Probably Sev:   eral In Escorting Convoy  Across Atlantic

‘Baby’ Flat Top Proves Metfle   Drives Off U-Boats Tc Safeguard Convoys

10-Sub Toll Attributed To Carrier   Planes From ‘Baby’ Flat. Top Repulse Pack in Atlantic

Baby Carrier Routs 11 Subs on Convoy Duty   2 Enemy Craft Sunk And 8. Others Listed As “Probables”

Claims Midwest Won't Yield on Gas Rationing   Senators To Fight Imposition of  Eastern Ban

Midwestern Congressmen Organize To Fight Slash in Gasoline Rations

Stephen Sullivan Dies After Short illness  Former Treasurer Was Employed By Bank 27 Years

Stephen Sullivan Dies After Short Illness  Former Treasurer Was Employed

British Mass For Assault  Into Tunisia  Allied Fighter-Bombers Smash Axis Vehicles Along Frontier  ENEMY TAKES HILL  Intensive Artillery Fire  Pounding Axis Lines in Central Sector   ENEMY TAKES HILL

WAR CONTRACT JOB DEFENDED   Patterson Denies Warren’s Charge of Excessive Waste

State Growers Hear Review Of Market Muddle   Dr. N. L. Partridge Says Federal Meddling Caused Chaos

Illinois Sen&tors, Like Motherly Hens Flock Together to Save Young Chicks

BELGIAN PATRIOTS EXECUTE 16 NAZIS   Germans Put to Death in Reprisal for Slaying of Eight Hostages bv Invaders.

3,000,000 Volunteers Sought for Farm Labor   Town, City Dwellers To Be Asked To Leave Non-War Work Jobs To Help Out Farmers   TO GET 30 CENTS OR MORE AN HOUR

U.3. 70 ENROLL Bla “FARM ARMY”   PLANS TO MOBILIZE 3,500,000 VOLUNTEERS FOR WORK THIS SPRING.

Millions Face Call to Duty InLand Army   3.900.000 Farm Volunteers  Sought by U. 8.

3,500,000 Americans Will Be. Asked to Leave Cities, Towns: To Help Farm Labor Shortage

Urge Millions To Aid Farm Labor Shorfage  Plans for Mobilizing Voluntary lend  peau’ Annaunra

LAND ARMY T0 AID FARMERS TO BE FORMED   Government to Ask 3 500,000 Volunteers This Year

Land Army Volunteers Sought To Aid Farmer:   Government To Ask 3,500,000 Persons To Go On Farms Temporarily To Solve i Labor Shortage There

Town Help For  Farmers Urged   Government To:Ask For Voluntary Aid

FARM WORKERS TO BE REGRUITEL   Government to Ask Some 3,500,000 Persons to Leave Work in Towns and Cities To Aid Farmers

Urge Millions  To Aid Farm Labor Shortage   Plans for Mobilizing: Voluntary ‘Land Army": Announced

Manpower Number { Problem of Farmers In Northeastern U. S., School. Children, Part-Time Workers Due fo Fase Situation

WHAT DIRT FARMERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR FOOD  wneT Nr NOD TURACTECRh   MOST OF NORTHEASTERN STATES EXPECT PRODUCE LESS THIS YEAR

U.S. Planes Pave Invasion Reute   HIT AIR FIELDS NEAR LILLE FRANCE

AIRFIELDS HIT BY YANK FLEAS   Two Enemy-Held Fields in France Blasted By American Marauders.

Yanks Raid TwoAxis Airfields in France   Targets Are in Vicinity of Lille—U. S. Fighter Craft Make Sweeps Over Northern Part of Nation and Belgium.

Allied Bombers Round Out Week Of Heavy Blows   U. 5. Marauders Blast At Air Fields Near Lille; Fighters Sweep Belgium.

Yanks Blast At Nazi Air Bases   Round Out Week of Non-Stop Assaults

U. 5. Marauders Blast Air Fields In France Today  Rounding Out Week Of Non-Stop Raids  On Enemy Territary

Two More ~ Airfields Blasied   Week-Long Bomber Assault Has Carried to 25 Enemy Fields in France

AMERICAN BOMBERS BLAST TWO AIRFIELDS NEAR LILLE, FRANCE   WEEK OF BOMBINGS OF ENEMY OBJECTIVES BEEN ROUNDED OUT

AMERICANS BOMB NAZI AIRFIELDS. IN FRANCE TODAY:   Twin-Engined Ma rau der Fs Pound Two. Enemy Dromes Near Lille—Fills Out Week at Aeanulte 2 ,

Enemy Bases In France Hit By Bombers   Marauders Strike Vital German Installatione

Sky Blows Shatter Lille Area   U. S. MARAUDERS BLAST FRANCE FIELDS; BELGIUM, NORTH FRANCE ROCKED

Blast Nazi Air  Fields in France   American Bombers Round Out a Full Week of NonStop Air Attacks.

Marauders Hit Axis Air Fields Rounding Out Week of Nonstop Pre-invasion Softening Raids

MEN WILL Olt Whit LEWI3 BOco 10 COURT   Coal Strike Ended by Orders for Miners to Work Until Oct. 31.   MEANWHILE UNION WILL SEEK PORTAL PAY RULING

LEWIS TO ASK COURTS TO PASS ON CLAIM OF MINERS FOR UNDERGROUND TRAVEL PAY

UMW WILL TAKE CASE  TO COURTS   Continued  Govern: ment Operation Of Pits Is Demanded

New Coal Strike  ~ Truce For Four Months Prevails   Miners Again Directed To Return To Work, Until October 31   COURT ACTION ON :  PAY ISSUE SEEN

Truce Of Four Months Will Enable Lewis To Take His Case to Court

MINE CHIEF LEWIS WILL CARRY TO COURT BATTLE TO OBTAIN HIGHER WAGES FOR MINERS

LEWIS TO CARRY FIGHT FOR MORE PAY 10 COURTS   Remains Defiant of WLB; May Restore Full Output by Friday

A-Month Truce In Coal Strike   Third Paralyzing Coal Strike Ended Until Oct. 31

Agrigento Said To Have Faller  To Americans   Gain Not Yet Reported Officilaly; British In 12 Miles Of Catania

4 MORE TOWNS FALL AS INVASION GOES INTO SECOND WEEK   Lentini, Key Rail Center, Falis—British Now On Rim Of Cautania Plains

Advances Range  Up to 10 Miles   British Eighth Army Within 15  Miles of Catania; Lentini Taken

Four More Towns In Sicily Taken By Allied Drive   Axis Casualties Are Reported Heavy

MRS. LYDIA S. FREY DIES AT AGE OF 93   Widow Of David M. Frey Was One Of Hanover’s Oldest Residents —Funeral Wednesday

HANOVER RESIDENT DIES AT AGE OF 95   Mrs. Lavina C. Klinedinst, Widow Of John Klinedinst, Passes Away After Prolonged Illness

BLOCKBUSTER TO BLAST TAX PLAN TO FLOOR   Repubs in New Tactics to Force Action by Committee

To Blast Out Skipping Plan   Martin Skippers Move To Sav Ways and  i a i a

SOLONS TRY FOR NEW VOTE ON RUML PLAN   GOP Group Seeks to Blast Pay-as-You-Go Measure Out of Committee as Demos Favor Partial Tax Abatement.

GOP Seeks Vote On Ruml Plan   Martin Threatens Discharge Petition To Force Action

Republicans Seek To Blast New Tax Bill Out To Get Vote On Ruml Plan

Try to Release Ruml Tax Plan   Republicans Seek Signers to Force Skip-Year Pian Back into Circulation \

GOP WORKING FOR ANOTHER PAY-GO VOTE   Resort To Blockbuster Tactics In House

GOP Still Battles To Get New Vote On Run Tax Bill   Try Blockbuster Tactics In Effort To Achieve Pay-As-You-Go Measure

GROUND REGAINED ‘BY SOVIET FORCES   Mora. Hamlets. Taken. in _ the Sweep Toward Smotensk

Russian Troops Regain Ground Below Kharkov Capture Dozen Hamlets   Moscow Reports Important Advance in Sweep Toward Smolensk; Germans Meet First Real Setbacks Since Start of Their Counter- Offensive; Many Nazi Tanks Destroyed and Guns Captured

Reds Retake Ground in Donet: Battle, Repulse Nazi Attacks; Press Drive Toward Smolensk

REDS REGAIN DONETS RIVER LOST GROUND   For First Time Since Nazis Retook Kharkov, Russians Report Retaking Positions Near Chuguyev.   Repel Nazis Near Sevsk

Soviets Regain Some Ground  Below Kharkov   Continue Sweep Toward Smolensk ane Drive New Holes in Nazi Lines Near Lake IImen in North

Reds Regain Cround in One  Kharkov Area   More Hamlets Seized in Smolensk Drive: New Holes Driven in Lake Ilmen Lines

RUSSIANS GAIN. GROUND ALONG DONETS RIVER   NEW HOLES DRIVEN IN GERMAN LINES AT LAKE ILMEN

Reds Claim Victory in Southern Area   Timoshenko Also Has Reports of Fresh Gain in North

Successes Reported By Russians  Fight Offensively at Chugeyev; Beat Off Six Attacks

Reds Push Ahead Near Kharkov   Russian Forces Continue Gains Toward Smolensk

Reds Gain Ground In Donets Battle   Advantageous Positions’ Captured Arounc Chuguyev; Advances Made In Sweep  Toward Smolensk Stronghold

RUSSIANS SEIZE DOZENS OF TOWNS BEFORE SMOLENSK   Win, Ground at One Point Near Kharkoy and Rip German Lines in Lake Iimen Sector.   NAZIS REPORT NEW GAINS NEAR BELGOROD   Declare Encircled Reds Have Been Pressed Into Narrow Arca Southeast of Big Ukraine City.

Nazi Lake Ilmen Lines Punctured  Dozens Of Hamlet: Ava Claitmasl Eraal

Red Army Even Gains In Counter-Offensive South of Ukraine City  CONTINUES SWEEPS TOWARD SMOLENSK  Also Drives New Holes In German Lines In Lake men Area

Russians Gain Ground in Donets Basin  Sweep on Smolensk Embraces Dozens

Nazi Lake limen Lines Punctured   ..Dozehis OF. Hamlets Are Clatrred- Rigel

Successes Reported By Russians  Fight Offensively  st Chunavav: Raat

oviets Drive New Wedge Into German Lines  Near Smolensk   AIOLENT FIGHTING ON SOUTHERN FRONT

Wanpower nope Seen as Industry Nears Its Peak  Nelson Predicts Cut in Employment Total by This Fall

War. Production Nears Its Peak   Nelson Statement Heard Hopefully.

Nelson Sees Peak In Need for Men  Says Levelling Off Is Possible by Fail

Shortages of Manpower May Be Eased   Demand fo Lessen as Production Hits Peak, Nelson States

WAR OUTPUT TO HIT PEAK SOON   WPB Boss Believes Production Will Reach Goal By Next Fall

Nelson Says War Production To Hit Peak Next Fall; Will Slacken Demand For Workers

Nelson Eases Manpower Worry. By Saying Production Of War Goods: Will Soon Attain Peak

PRODUCTION PEAK TO COME IN FALL   NELSON SAYS DEMAND FOR WORKERS WILL NOT BE SO GREAT THEREAFTER.

War Produciion Nears Its Peak   Relief Is Seen in Man Power Problen

Lieut. Thomas Harmon Leaves Paramaribo For Unreported Destination

MOVE HARMON FROM US. HOSPITAL BASE   Army Authorities Fail to Announce Destination

WOULD FORCE IT   Fisher Wants Court To Order OK of Bin Linuor Check.

EIGRTH ARMY CUTS NAZIS’ LATERAL RAIL   Patrols Swarm Across Swolien Sangro River

BRITISH EIGHTH GAING MILE AGAINST NAZIS   Enemy’s Last Lateral Railway Below Rome Cut By Montgomery’s Army

Patrols Cross Sangro River   Montgomery’s Forces Advance in Face of Fierce Nazi Resistance

Opes OVE, yard sth UE at  Isatveremng  Every Yard Gained ts  Contested By German:  Fight’ seny

Mosquito Bombers BlastBerlin   Armies in Italy Drive To ward Rome—Reds Weather Nazi Attacks

Berlin and Leipzig Pounded From Air   Soviet Forces Withstand Heavy Counter-Attacks by Nazis

WILL GET WHEAT   UC. 8. Expected To Get Part O: 180,000,000 ‘Loan’ Bushels.

WHEAT LOANS DUE APRIL   Most Farmers, However, Are  : Expected To Let Government   Take It By Default

FEDERAL LOANS ON WHEAT DUE APRIL 30   Elevators Will Release 18¢ Million Busheis Weekly

3 BANK ROBBERS TAKEN IN BATTLE   TRIO CAUGHT FEW HOURS AFTER HAWK POINT, MO.,, DEPOSITORY IS LOOTED.

3 Bank Robbers Captured in $0 Mile Chase After Hawk Point Hold up   $2500 Taken After Cashier and Assistant Are Locked in Vault; Patrol Shoots Tire and Forces Car Over Embankment at Clarksville

DESTROY JAP ZEROS   American P-38 Unit Displays It Is Superior to Enemy Planes

Japs Plan Face- Saving Invasion Attempt to Offset Island Disaster

Japanese May Plan New Thrust   ‘Face-Saving’’ Invasion At. tempt Against Minor Pacific Base Is Likely

TROOPS LAND NEAR NAPLES   British Eighth Army Advances Another 25 Miles Northward

Trailer Truck And U.P.Train Crash, 1 Dead   Main Line Traffic Tied Up While Wreckage Is Removed

Red Cross Asks Early Returns  Effort to End Drive This Week Is Made

BRITISH SE 1 O00 TONS OF BOMBS   Catch Defenses Off Guard: Americans Raid North France

Is Hitler Still Top Leade Leader? Nazis Indicate He’s Slipped   Fuehrer Still Pursuing “Vocation As General”: Mistakes M ade Gnrehhale Save

10 Per Cent of Quota Is Raised Now   Monday Report Lunch Reveals $39,888 Has Been Contributed Now

Nearly Half of Fund s Collected   Total of $24,511 Is in Hands of Chest Treasurer So Far

Nazi Still On Duce ‘Theme’   Goes Into New Chapter Of “Thriller” on Mussolini

Germans Tell Details How Duce Rescued   Claim Guards Thought Chutists Were Friendly

RALO APPROVED. BY MONSIGNOR   Former Rector in Rome Grateful Nonmilitary Gbjects Spared.

14 Known Dead, Nine Missing in West Va. Flood   Two Million Dollars Pro: perty Damage in Three Counties

WEST VIRGINIA FLOOD KILLS 12   Victims Are Trapped In Their Sleep; Damage Near $2,000,000

12 DIE IN FLOOD, 6 OTHERS MISSING   HIGH WATERS IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA CAUSE §82,000,000 DAMAGE.

TWIN WAR-FACTORY CITIES ON RHINE ARE HEAVILY BLASTED   AMERICAN BOMBERS: FOL LOW NIGHT RAF RAID WITH DAYLIGHT BLOWS

Bombers Turn 2 War-Factory Rhineland Cities Into Ruin; U.S. Raiders Strike In Day   Large Formations Swarm Over Channel Night And Day In Continued Attacks

TWIN WAR-FACTORY  GITIES ON RHINE ARE  HEAVILY BLASTED AMERICAN BOMBERS FOL LOW NIGHT RAF RAID  TWEET FLAUWEITCEr nr aware

RAF Armadas Blast Factory Towns On Rhine   American Bombers Follow Up Attack With Daylicht Raid

NAZI FACTORIES BOMBED BY RAF; BATTLES RAGING   Yank Bombers Follow Up British Raids With Attacks On Germany

FACTORIES IN 2 GERMAN CITIES RUINED BY RAF   Great Night Assaults Followed by Widespread Daylight Air Attacks

Thousand Tons  Of Bombs Dropped   Twin War Factory Cities Are Showered With Bombs   SOME 700 PLANES TAKE PART IN RAID

~-ROUND.-THE-CLOCK BOMBING—   Cities In Ruin   « « « Mannheim, Ludwigshaven Blasted In Allied Raid

Twin Nazi Cities Left In Ruins By RAF Attaek   American Bombers Follow Up With Heavy Daylight Rilows At Germany

Continue Bombing Ot Nazi Territory   In Fifth Successive Day of Attacks, More Than 700 Bombers Take Part.

MANNHEIM AND LUDWIGSHAFEN SMOKING RUINS   RAF Attacks Twin War Centers In Germany In “Very Great Strength;” American Bombers Follow Up With Daylight Attacks.

R. A. F. Batters Mannheim And Ludwigshafen   Factory Cities In Ruins; Yanks In Daylight Raic On S. W. Germany.

TWO RHINE CITIES IN RUINS AFTER HUGE RAF ATTACK   Twin War Factory Cities-of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen Turned Into Smoking Ruins "By RAF Bombers In ‘Very Great Strength’.

Rhine Cities Are Left In Flames   Great Fleet of American Daylight Bombers Follow RAF Night Raid

RK. A. F. Leaves Factories In Smoking Ruin   Large Force Of Four-Engined Bombers Smash Mannheim, Ludwigshaven.   U. §. CONTINUES: RAID

Germany Bombet By Yankees, RAF. Hits Rhine  Targets Blasted — At MannheimLudwigshafen

Germans Fight Yankee Airmen   Large Formations of American Planes Raid in Germany

Yanks Over Naziland In Force Today   Great Air Battles In Progress, Says Foe; 700 RAF Bombers Hit  Twin Rhine Cities

- BOMB GERMAN CITIES   Twin War-Factory Spots, Mann! heim .and Ludwigshafen Hit

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Bond Drive Over Halfway Point   Over. Two Million Remains On Quota

State Department  ‘Refuses Comment  On Sumner Welles No Confirmation  Undersecretary Has Resigned

RESIGNS, REPORI   Friction in State Depart Talked for Three ‘** Years

WELLES SHIFT RUMOR GROWS   Undersecretary Of State Refuses To Comment On Resignation

REPORT WELLES HAS QUIT UNCONFIRMED   State Department, Secretary Hull and Undersecretary Himself Have No Comment,

WELLES REPORTED TO HAVE RESIGNED      State Department Does Not Confirm Nor Deny Rumor

SUMNER WELLES REPORTEDLY OUT   Requested Resignation Of Diplomat Now On President’s Desk

PAPER REPORTS WELLES IS OUT   State Department Silent On Story Hull’s Aide Has Resigned His Post

Nearly All Of Union’s 930,000 Miners Leave Pits; Ohio Mines Idle   NEW YORK, (UP) A United Mine Workers spokesman estimated today that 515,000 miners were on strike.

25,000 OHIO MINERS JOIN WALKOUT   FEWER THAN 25,000 MINERS STAY IN PITS; OTHERS DEFY ROOSEVELT

FLOODS CONTINUE TO POUND LEVEES IN MANY AREAS   GOV. GREEN ORDERS OUT STATE MILITIA TO AID REFUGEES

3,700 PEOPLE MOVED TO SAFE AREAS SUNDAY   Water Lapping Over Concrete Seawall Today

Purpose of Meetings : Is To Strengthen Morale   Interesting Program Scheduled For Evening

U.S. Hurls New Marshalls Blow   SINGLE AMERICAN CARRIER DIVISION BAGS 46 JAP PLANES IN GILBERT INVASION PHASE OF YANK OFFENSIVE IN MIDPACIFIC AREA

AERIAL BLOWS ON MARSHALLS ARE DISCLOSED   1 Jap Planes Downed By Carrier Planes In Gilberts

New Air Blows Are Delivered At Marshalls   “46 Jap Planes *Shot Down in: Gilberts Invasion

NIMITZ REPORTS NEW AIR ATTACKS   American Subs Operating Near Japan Proper Destroy Nine More Shops.

New Air Blows Against Japanese On Marshall Islands Reported; Yanks Smash Jap Assault At Bougainville

NEWU.S. AIR ASSAULTS ON MARSHALL IDS.   Also-Bring Down 46 Jap Planes . Over Gilberts

45 JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN ON WARSHALL ISLES   New Series of Air Blows -Reported by Nimitz sth

Americans Shifting Attack lo Marshall  Islands In Pacitic   New Series Of Air Blows Smash At Japanese Bases North Of Captured Gilberts, Presaging Early Invasion Campaign

Attacks Aimed at’ Marshalt Islands —Carrier-Borne -.and Land-Based TKombers epee ini Latest Assaults. Be

NEW SERIES OF AERIAL BLOWS. ON MARSHALLS   Single Carrier Division Shoots Down 46 Japanese Planes

JUNIOR CLASS PLAY JEWEL CY KO. §   Three-Act Comedy, The Curse Of The Incas, To Be Presented By Jewell Juniors Directed By Miss Carter.

REDS ROLL WEST UN LONG FRON]   Report 200,000 Captives Taken in Two Months   STALIN SAYS   102 Enemy Divisions Routed In Advance of 245 Miles; Nazis Admit Losses

VORONEZH FALLS AS SOVIET ARMY DRIVES FORWARD   Stalin In Order Of Day Reports More Than 200,000 Axis Captives   ROSTOV GRADUALLY BEING ENCIRCLED

Soviet Armies Expel Nazis At Voronezh  Chalin Ardave:Tenanx   Stalin Orders Troops fo Hurl Back Enemy Over Boundaries:

SOVIET SURGE REACTION TO STALIN PLEA   MORE GAINS IN UKRAINE, CAUCASUS, LOWER DON ARE CLAIMED

SOVIETS MAKE [2-MILE GAIN IN CAUCASUS   Onrushing Muscovites Only 40 Miles From Key Rail Junction Below Rostoy.   NEW ADVANCES MADE IN UKRAINE   Thousands of Enemy Troops Killed or Taker Prisoner—Counter Attacks Smashed.

STALIN GIVES ORDER OF DAY TO HIS TROOPS   Orders Red Armies To Hurl Invaders Beyond Boundaries Of Motherland.

Soviet Armies Expel Nazis At Voronezh   Stalin Orders Troops fo Hurl Back Enemy Over Boundaries

Stalin’s Order Of The Day Instructs His  Armies To Push Nazis Back Over Borders  More Than 200,000 Axis Captives Claimed Taken By Russian Forces In Two Months

Capture Main Jap Defense on Attu   Operation on Ridge on Aleutian Island Climaxes First Phase of Campaign in Face of Stubborn Resistance.   Army Troops Have Full Support Of Warships and American Planes

Knox Reports U.S. Troops Advancing Across Island, With Victory Almost Uniting Two Forees

sENEMY SUPPLY LINES TO GET “HEAVIER BLOWS   General Appears Te Indicate Early Big Scale Campaign By Allies In Tunisia.

Will drive axis into sea, general asserts; planes blast supply lines

PUSH SEEN IN TUNISIA   American Leader Promises to Destroy Enemy

Showdown Tanis Fight Said Near   Weather Clearing in North Africa; Eisenhower Pledges to Push Enemy Into Sea:

2,000 IDLE IN NORTHERN AREA AS MOVE GAINS   Walkouts Probably Will Be Joined By Locals In Other Fields By Saturday

Big Drive on Rommel Begun   Yonks, R.A.F. Shoot Down 23 Planes; Believed to Be Start Of Giant Move to Crush Afrika Korps

Large Scale Dogfighting Carried On By Day And Night In Effort To Control Tunisia

Intense Air Activity In Tunisia Area   23 Axis Planes Downed: Believe British Eighth Army Beginning New Smash At Rommel

23 GERMAN AND ITALIAN PLANES DESTROYED   BRITISH REPORTED RENEWING CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROMMEL

‘Twenty-Three German an¢ Italian Planes Blasted From Sky in Day and Night Encounter   ACTION JS INTENSE OVER ENTIRE FRONY   Germans Try te Bomb Ad. vanced Allied Airfields; Ground Activity Limited

AMERICAN AND RAF FIGHTERS BATTLED AXIS AIRGRAFTS   Said to Be Biggest Scale Aerial Dogfighting of the Tunisian Campaign.   SHOT DOWN 23 PLANES   Aerial Activity Was Intense Over the Entire Tunisian Front.

Intensity Air Fight In Tunisia   New Drive on Rommel Forces in  Lybia Indicated.

TUNISIAN DOG FIGHTS SET RECORD   Foe Loses Transport Plane: Off Coast; 8th Army May be on Move

he BATTER X15 AIRGRAF I   U.S, RAF Battle Enemy . Planes in Intense Aerial Dogfight.   ATTACK AIR TRANSPORTS

Total Of 23 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down   More That Half Of Toll Taken In Two Actions; Seven Transports Downed

MEET 50 AXIS SUPPLY CRAFT IN ONE AREA   Transports Apparently Were Reinforcing Rom. mel, With Whom Brit: ish Report Several Pa: trol Clashes.

23 PLANES IN COMBAT   "British May Be Starting Drive Against Rommel   NAZIS CLAIM   Eighth Army Repulsed At Wadi Zem-Zem: Predict New Offensive Soon

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Seven Transport Craft Among Those Lost By Enemy In Bitter Fighting

Allied Pilots Get 23 Axis Planes In Tunisian Fighting   Aerial Activity Is Heavy Along Entire Front A » Reports Indicate Last-Stage Battle For Tripolitania Has Been Launched

Allies Blast 23 Planes Out Of Tunisia Sky   Britih Are Reported Striking Toward Tripoli; City Is Bombed   HOLD AIR COMMAND   Heaviest Dogfighting Of Campaign Costs Eight British, U.S. Craft

AXIS AIRMEN ~ MEET DEFEAT   Intense Air Battles Rage Over Tunisia; 23 Axis Planes Shot From Skies

UNITED STATES AND RAF FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS IN ACTION   TWENTY-THREE GERMAN AND ITALIAN PLANES SHOT OUT OF SKIES

U. §. And British Fighters Rout Foe Squadrons   Pursuit Of Rommel Is  Resumed In Tripoli; Bases Are Blasted

BRITISH, U. 8. FIGHTERS WIN BIG DOGFIGHT   Largest Scale Dogfighting Of Tunisian Campaign Ends Favorably For Al lies.

CONGRESS MAY LIFT SALARY LIMIT ORDER   Ways, Means Group Votes for New Ceiling

House: Moves to  Repeal Pay Limit   Act Would Nullify  Roosevelt's Ceiling

Fathers Nearing  Draft Call   CALIFORNIA DADS WILL FACE INDUCTION AFTER OCTOBER 26 DEADLINE

Little Meat In Lockers, Report  Supply Excluded From Rationing Controls

Woman Identifies Suspect as Killer Of Wyoming Man; Officers May Link Two Other Deaths to Prisoner

Woman Identifies Suspect in Death Of Wyoming Man   Sheriff Says Mystery Solved in One of Three State Killings

SCHOOLS SEEK USE OF NYA EQUIPMENT   Boards Hold Priority That Conducted Program

SCHOOLS SEEK USE OF NYA EQUIPMENT   Athens Included On List Of Petitioners

17 ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN OVER PORT OF SARDINIA   Allied Bombers Blast Vital Rail Supply Lines Through South Italv

24 AXIS PLANES > FALUTO ALLE   Seventeen Shot Down in Dogfight Over Sardinia, Others Over Italy.

Spot News To Be Furnished By Newspapers Despite Expected Curtailment Because Of War

SPOT NEWS TO - BE CUT LAST   Editors, Studying Effect Of Restrictions On Materials, Make Pledce.

SPOT NEWS WILL NOT BE RATIONED   PUBLIC PROMISED COVERAGE AS LONG AS PRESSES ROLL

No News Shortage!  Public to Be Keni Iiforniad » Saciaty at Eaitoes Pledge

SPOT NEWS WILL BE SERVED NEWSPAPER READERS REGARDLESS   THIS 1S‘FLEDGE OF EDITORS AS SHORTAGES SHOW AN INCREASE

SPOT NEWS WILL KEEP TOP PLACE   But Newspapers. May. Cut The Trimmings; Emergency May Improve Press

PAPERS WILL APS ADMIT LOSS RETAIN SPOT OF 7 SHIPS IN NEWS COVERAGE SOLOMON AREA

SPOT NEWS WONT BE RATIONED   American Newspaper Editors Make Pledge to Keep The News Before Readine Public

Spot News Will Be Last Thing Cut Out of U. S. Newspapers   War Restrictions May Force Trimming of Many Features

SPOT NEWS TO BE CUT LAST   Editors Studying Effects of Material Restrictions

Maryland At Top In Bond Drive   State Has Already Raised 35.5 Percent Of Its Ouota.

STATE SENATE COMES TO VOTE ON TIME ISSUE      Proponents of Change Se Emergency Clause Approved

SENATORS VOTE ON TIME TODAY   Must Decide On Immediate ™’Changé Or 90-Day Wait

REVISION ASKED   Adustment Of  Farm Prices ls Requested By Solon

AUGMENTED IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AREAS   Stimson Sets Casualties at 6,774 Up to Volturno Battle

CASUALTIES IN STH ARMY, 6774, STIMSON SAYS   Number Ineludes Losses Up ‘To Beginning of Volturne Battle

NAZIS HASTE MASS BUILDING OF DEFENSES   Many Arrests Are Made In Occupied Countries To Strengthen Position

FALL WOULD TRAP NAZIS IN CAUCASUS   Germans Fight Desperately  To Hold Corridor Open   Playing Major Part In Advance Across Lower Don; Many Towns Taken

Nazis Burn Villages As They Retreat   Land‘ Mines. Also” Being: “Used: in’ Desperate. Fight to. Stop Soviets.”   ‘REDS. WITHIN 65... MILES OF CITY.         40° More: Towns ° Retaken’ Nazis Also:Facing New,’ Threat at Rzhev.~."

RUSSIAN COLUMN ONLY 65 MILES FROM ROSTOV   GERMANS FIGHTING DESPERATELY TO KEEP ESCAPE OPEN

Fall Of Key City Would Spring Trap On Enemy Forces; Don Valley Open

Crack Desperate Nazi Resistance In 10 Mile Gain   Soviets Lunge Forward To Within 65 Miles: Of Key City

Say Nazis Fighting Desperately   Seeking to Keep Escape Corridor Open

Capture of City Would Doom Nazis In the Caucasus   Grain Ten Miles Since Yesterday ; Germans Reported Fighting Desperately To Keep Open a Corridor to Caucasus

FALL WOULD TRAP FORCES IN CAUCUSUS   German Losses in Men And Supplies Still  Increasing

German Losses Mount As Soviets" Sween 10 Miles Nearer Vital City

Soviets. Within 65 Miles of Key To All Caucasus   Planes Blast Way for Army Tanks, 40 More Inhabited Places Reported Captured in Steady Russian Push ©

Red Army Smashes Germans’ Attempts to Form New Lines; 140 More Towns Liberated

Fall of Enemy Base Would Trap Nazis In The Caucasus   Soviet Bombers Blast Path For Army Tanks

SOVIET TANKS. PLANES BLAST PATH TO BASE   Troops Reported Within 65 Miles Of German Port

GERMANS REPORTED FIGHTING DESPERATELY   But Russians Drive Through Hastily Massed Tanks Ard Infantry

SOVIET TROOPS DRIVE 10 MILES NEARER ROSTOV   Germans Fight Desperately To Keep Open A Corridor  Into Caucasus   IRZHEV BEING EVACUATED   Berlin Radio Admits Reverses, Reporting Front Positions Are Shortened

Roll Within 65 Miles Of Rostov: Nazis Desperate   Smash German Attempt To Make Stand; Bombers Blast Path For Soviet Tanks

TANKS AND PLANES BEING USED AGAINST CAUCASUS INVADERS  NAZIS REPORTED FIGHTING DESPERATELY TO KEEP CORRIDOR OPEN

VICTORIOUS LEGIONS SMASHING GERMAN RESESTANCE WITH “TANKS AND PLANES 7        Berlin Admits Reverses For First Time. Fall of Rostov Would Cut Off 500,000. or More Axis ” Troops. Geitmans: Burnie: Villages

RUSSIANS ARE NOW WITHIN 65 MILES OF ROSTOV   Smashed Through the Wall  of German Resistance On the Don.   WAS A GAIN OF 10 MILES      Fall of Rostov Would Trap the Nazis in the Caucasus.

Gains Reported In Campaign to Retake Rostov   Germans Battle Desperately to Open Corridor

SMASH NAZI LINE IN TANK, PLANE ATTACK      Soviets 65 Miles From Objective as Germans Fight Desperately to Save Units in Caucasus From Doom.

ADVANCE OF 10 MILES CLAIMED IN SINGLE DAY      Fall of Area Would Trap Germans In Caucasus; Berlin Admits Reverses In Sector   NAZI LOSSES IN MEN, MATERIAL MOUNT   Front Line Dispatches Say Enemy Fighting Desperately to Keep Open Caucasus Corridor

Gain 10 Mile: In Big Drive For Rostov   Nazis’ Losses In Men And Material Continues To Mount Higher

Russ Smash Lower Don Nazi Lines And Drive On   Soviet Army Now 65 Miles From Roetov: Germans, Fighting Desperately, Fall Back

REDS SMASH WAY CLOSER TO ROSTOV   Russians Force Back Germans to Within 65 Miles of Key Point.   Nazi Losses Heavy In Great Red Drive

U.S. Fliers Help Chinese in Decisive Battle  Enemy Loses Ground, Suffers Great Losses Generally

U, S. Airmen Blast Japs, Chinese Recapture City Nipponese Lose Point  Prized as Gateway kT. Ohta. 7. t

Nazi Spies Plotted To. Kill “Big 3” in a Iran, Roosevelt Say:   President Moved From U. S. Legation to Walled Soviet Embassy te Avoid Rid& ing Through Streets of Teheran

PLOT OF NAZIS TO SHOOT THREE LEADERS BARED   Pres, Roosevelt Remained At The Fortified Red Embassy Three Davs

F A TELLS OF PLOT 10 ASSASSINATE ‘TWREE AT TEHRAN   President Moved to Russian __ Embassy on Advice of Premier Stalin.

GERMAN SPIES THWARTED BY SOVIET POLICE   Forced Roosevelt To Move; Will Report To Congress Soon

Nazi Plot to Kill Big Three At Tehran Caused President to Move ‘Into Russian Embassy With Stalin

CHURCHILL PAYS VISIT 10 CYPRUS      Pledges to Turkey, Greece Announced; Reds Carry Broadcast

TURKS PROMISED DEFENSIVE AID   Churchill Visits Isle of Cyprus; Pledges Eventual De. liverance of Greece from Bondage and Tyranny

CHURCHILL VISITS CYPRUS ON RETURN   Prime Minister An. nounces Piedge of Aid to Turkey

CHURCHILL VISITS. CYPRUS ON RETURD   Prime Minister An nounces Pledge of Aid“Be hbo 

Coal Miners Begin Their od Walkout Since April ]   Start Early To Stay Away From Job As Time Nears For Last Truce To Expire

PAY DENIED 3 U.S. WORKERS   eee eee  . Passes Bill To Restrict Use Of FDR’s Funds

House Denies FSA  Emergency Funds   Also Refuses Salaries  To Three U.S. Employes

House Refuses Funds To Farm Bureau Or Planning Board   Also Denies Salaries + -- To Employes Held As Unfit for Office

 Red Cross Explains Meaning—  Of Strange Words in the Address of War Prisoners

Explains Meaning Of Strange Words In Mailing Addresses Of WarPrisoners   Must Be Used Precisely as Given In Letters from Men

HAAN PREDICTS JAP ATTACK ON IU. © MAINLAND   Washington Kepreseniative Of Sino-Korean League Says Separate Peace Will Be Ottered China.

HIGH COMMAND GETS WARNING THAT JAPAN PLANS TO ATTACK U.S.  COMES FROM SAME   COMES FROM SAME MAN WHO WARNED OF PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

MAN WHO GAVE WARNING  OF PEARL HARBOR SAYS JAPS PLAN U. S. ATTACK   60 NAZIS DIE IN EXPLOSION

Information Sent To High Command?  Japan To Attack Us This Summer?

KOREAN HINTS IAPS PLANNING US.INVASION   Peace With China Slated By Nips, According To Envoy

Plans To Invade U. S. In’43  Have Been Made By Japanese,  Korean Representative Warns

Testimony of Jap  Aims \s Referred  ToHigh Command ‘Korean Says: Nips to.  Make Peace With. Ching Attack: U.S.

Invasion May Involve 60 Per Cent of Navy   Korean Leader Warns House Group Of Plans for Direct Raid on Coast

same Man Who Gave Two Month’s Advance Warning ( Peat Harbor Has’ Mare. 13:

Korean Warns Jap Invasion  Set For 1942   Kilsoo Haan Tells House Committee Nips Would Stop War On China.   NAME INVASION CHIEF

WARNING OF JAP INVASION TRY IS ISSUED   Testimony Comes From Man Who Gave Advance Prediction of Pearl Harbor Attack   DETAILS ARE OUTLINED

Prophet Haan, Who Warned of Sneak, Reveals Tokyo Still Plans "43 U. S. Blow

High Command Given Warning Of Jap Attack   Korean Who Warned Of Pear] Harbor Predicts Invasion

Korean Representative Bares Details Of Offensive Planned By Japs

‘Study Warning Japs Plan Separate ‘Peace With China, Attack On U.S.

Japs to Affack U.S. Korean Says   To Use Warships, Land Troops, Submarines, Planes, He Says

Claim Japs Plan Attack On Coast   Peace With China Also In Program Of Jap Leaders, Committee Is  Told By Korean

JAPS PLANNING U.S, INVASION?   Pearl Harbor Forecaster : Talking Again

Dickstein Advises High Command Of Japan’s Plan To Attack U. 8.3 Pearl Harbor Warning Recalled

Jap Attack On U.S. Soon Is Hinted   New Warnings From Maz; Who Foretold War

Dickstein Warns Of Jap Attacks On U. S.   ~~ J aps Will Make Separate Separate Peace with China, Ther Attack United States

Korean Says Japs to Try U.S. Invasion   Man Who Forecast Pearl Harbor Sees New Jap Strateay

Purported Jap Plan Of Attack On U. S. Given to War Chiefs   Rep. Dickstein Cautions Them This Source Also Predicted Pearl Harbor Attack

HIGH COMMAND GIVEN REPORT   Previous Information Has Been ‘Fairly Accurate’-—One Was of Hawaii Attack

Man, Who Foretold Pearl Harber, Warns of Jap Plans to lnvade W. $.

KOREAN PREDICTS JAPS TO INVADE U.$   Kilsoo K. Haan, Who Warned of Pearl Harbor, Says Foe Ready to Strike

KOREAN WARNS  (F JAP PLANS   Testimony Given High Com: mand; Says Foe Plans Invasion.

HIGH COMMAND GETS WARNING THAT JAPAN PLANS TO ATTAGK U.S   COMES FROM SAME MAN WHO WARNED OF PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

No Pleasure Gas for East Coast   Opening Big-Inch Helps Situation

CLEARING SKIES FAVOR ALLIES IN NEW DRIVES   Yankees Hurl Nazis Back Nine Mifes And British Advance Five   HUNS REEL BEFORE REDS   Japanese Forces Feeling Mighty Force Of U. S. And Aussie Fighters

BADOGLIO SAYS REICH BREAKER NE DI EDGES   Also Calls Nazis Criminals to Whom Nothing Is Too Low

Good Government Rests On Public Understanding, Martin Tells Educators

Congressman Asks Halt in Drafting  Kentuckian Favors Temporary Letup

May and Downey Suggest Halting. ——Aniny inductions   Proposals Made with ' View to Improving touLor. Situation

Urges ‘Armistice  In Draft Calls   Rep. May Proposes Better Co-Ordination

Waterloo, Gettysburg May Be Surpassed In Campaigns       Gravely Warns Allied Sacrifices May Be Extreme; ‘Nazi Sub Campaign Broken’

CHURCHILL SAYS NAZIS WILL QUIT   Tells People That War Cannot Be Over ’Til ’44

Churchill Warns Of New Sacrifices   Defeat of Enemy Cannot Come Before 1944 Says Prime Minister

Greatest Loss Of Life In All History Seen For U. S. British Fighters: Praises The Russians

GREAT SACRIFICES BY ALLIED ARMIES - APPEAR POSSIBLE   Declares Russian Offensives Are Wrecking German War Machines, Wounds to Prove Fatal.   BACKBONE OF U-BOAT ATTACKS IS BROKEN   Mentioning of Unconditional Surrender He Urges Against Possible Confusion When War Is Ended.

Sees Victory Over Nazis af Terrible Cost   Premier Churchill Says German Downfall Will Not Come Before 1944

Prime Minister As serts He Lacks Time * Now To Dream ‘of '  Braye New World

Ruin Ahead For Germany, He Asserts   Allies Will Face Heavy Toll in Invasion; Nazi Forces Still Powerful

Churchill Proclaims Impending — Nazi Ruin; Sees Defeat In 1944   Campaigns of Coming Year To Be Comparable To Waterloo and Gettysburg; Praises Magnificent Russian Offensive and American Pacific Campaign In London Speech.

But Not Before 1944      Utters Solemn Warning To Expect Greatest  Losses of War During Next Year’s Offensives

Premier Sees Enemy’s Ruin   BRITISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS CAMPAIGNS OF NEXT YEAR MIGHT BE GREAT TRAGEDIES; 1944 MAY SEE HUGE U. S., BRITISH SACRIFICE

Sub Menace Seen Beaten; Liberation Of Europe Vowed   Prime Minister Warns of Grave Sacrifices on Part of All Allies; Fall of Hitler Possible After °43

Great, Costly Battles Seen Before Victory   Back of Nozi U- Boat:Warfare Broken:  By Allies; Reich’ 5 Wer: Machine Wrecked By Russians, Prime Minister Says’

Prime Minister Warns Campaign to Be Costly For British, US Armies

Greatest Sacrifice Of Life for Allies Must Be Expected   Prime Minister, In Address at Luncheon for New Lord Mayor, Says War May Surpass Tragedies of Waterloo and Gettysburg   BACK OF NAZI SUBMARINE WARFARE IS BROKEN

Nazi Foldup Not In Sight Before 1944.   Enemy Force Wrecked By Russians, He Says; No Time To Relax, Premier Declares

Says Drives To Come Will Be Costly   Back Of Nazi Sub Offensive Broke, Churchill Says

PREMIER WARNS ARMIES FACING HUGE STRUGGLE   Battle Sacrifices Will Be Most Severe and Costly to Allies Yer Fought, He Tells Commons   ONLY SOME HAPPY EVENT CAN BE BAR   Possible Enemy Mav Succumb to Red-Inflicted Wounds: Back of Sub Warfare Broken

PREDICT 1244 WILL BE YEAR OF GRIM COST   Churehill Says Russ Blow to Nazis May Be Mortal but War Not Over.

SAYS NAZI DEFEAT CAN'T COME BEFORE THE YEAR OF 1944   Prime Minister Churchill Proclaimed the “Impending Ruin” of Germany.   HE PRAISED RUSSIANS   Their Valiant and Brilliant Offensives Wrecked German War Machine.

ICKES WANTS LASTING U: 5.RED HARMONY   Calls Press Groups Biggest Liars

CHURCHILL GRAVELY  PROCI.AIMS RUIN OF  GERMANY IMPENDING BRITISH LEADER DECLARES NEXT YEAR’S  CAMDAICNIC BE CACTIYV

— Ruin of Germany Predicted When British and Americans Invade Etrrepe—Pledge That Britain Wil   Continue Fight Against Japs Is Renewed

Churchill Asserts Anglo-Americans  Face Big Losses   Views Red Wins Fatal To Reich; Air Blows Speed Enemy Defeat; Backbone Of U-Warfare Broken

British War Chief  Warns Nazi Defeat Won’t Come In °43, But Foe Weakening

Prime Minister Warns Campaigns Of Next Year Will Prove Costly Unless some Happy Event Alters Situation   Backbone Of Nazi Submarine Warfare Broken, Air Might Has Been One Of Prime Forces In Impending Ruin Of Hitler. Leader Declares

German Ruin Is Forecast  by Churchill:   Believes Defeat of. Nazis Cannot Come Before 1944; U-Boat Back Broken

Coming Year To Cost Many Allied Lives   Prime Minister Warns That Hitler Still Holds 400 Divisions in Reserve

Sacrifice Of Armies To Be Great   Impending Ruin of Germany Forecast By Premier

BRITISH LEADER FORSEES GREAT LOSS OF LIVES   WARNS NAZI DEFEAT NOT LIKELY TO COME BEFORE NEXT YEAR

Germany Facing ‘Impending Ruin,’ Premier Asserts      British Leader Warns Next Year Will See Greatest Sacrifice Of Allied Lives; Reds Praised; Says U-Boats Whipped

DECLARES CAMPAIGNS NEXT YEAR MAY SURPASS THE TRAGEDIES OF WATERLOO AND GETTYSBURG — FORESEES GREATEST SACRIFICE FOR U. § AND BRITISH ARMIES YET TO COME

Says Red Army Wrecked Nazis   Prime Minister Asserts Campaign In Europe May Cost More Than Gettysburg, Waterloo; Pays Tribute To Hull, Moscow Conference

REICH’S RUIN IS PREDICTED BY CHURCHILL   But Prime Minister Forecasts Great Sacrifices by  Allied Forces.   Victory Over Germany  Won’t Come Until ’44

HAVE WRECKED GERMAN ARMY   Back ef U-Beat War Is Broken, Churchill  Telle Commons

SAYS SOLDIER ‘TOLL TO RISE ~ INNEXT YEAR   Back of Nazi U-Boat Campaign Broken, Minister Says

Warns Defeat Of Germany Cannot Come Before ‘44   Predicts Severe Campaign And Heavy Losses; Praises Soviet Accomplishments

Expects Coming Struggle to Be Costliest of War ForU.S..Britain   Predicts Ruin for Reich. Says Reds Smashed Nazi War Machine

Only. Fortune That Can Not Be Counted on Will ' Avert Sacrifices   NAZI DOOM IMPENDING   Prine Minister Thiaks Final Defeat Can Not Come Before 1944 -

Churchill Predicts Fall Of Germany In 1944 Bul The Allies Wiil Feel It

Warns People Of Sacrifice Stored Ahead   Declares Valinet, Brilliant Russian Offensives Wreck. ed War Machine.   MENTION OF ELECTION

Asserts Back Of U-Boat War Broken   Doubts Nazi  Defeat This Year—-. Reds Have Wrecked Nazi War Machine -

Final drive to be costly says Churchil   ‘Cannot count on  end before 1944’

Prime Minister Foresees Next Year as One of Victory And Heaviest Fighting

WARNS DEFEAT OF NAZIS CANT BE BEFORE ‘44   “Impending Ruin” of Germany Proclaimed by Prime Minister

Prime Minister Says Soviets Have Wrecked Nazis Military Machine;  . : Allies Past Sub Crisis

JAP BOMBERS STAGE ATTACK ON ENSHIN   Loads Of Delayed-Action Bombs Dropped On Town; Chinese Raid Ichang

China Fights Furiously To Save Capital Soldiers Complain Japs Are Hard. ©   To Fir

Japanese Bomb Chinese City  Land Troops Battle El wk md Tol wees:

CHINESE BATTLE JAPANESE DRIVE   Engage Enemy West Of Ichang; Aerial Blows Traded in Hupeh Offensive

LAST OF JAP CONVOY SHIPS ARE DESTROYED   Allied Planes Add 27 More Enemy Planes To Bag For Total Of 82.

Every Enemy Ship Accounted For As At Fighters Drop 27 More Planes.

[It’s the ‘Hardest Job in the Army,’ Notifying Relatives of Casualties on the Battle Front:

Sympathy Dominan Attitude In Casualty Branch   Accuracy Other Watchword As Reports of Service Death, Injury Checked

-Ryti Calls for Defeat of Russia, But Leaves Door Open for Peace

Door Left Open for Separate Peace Ryti Calls on Finns To Continue Battle

INVASION PLANS COMPLETED IODAY   Roosevelt and Churchill Meeting at Quebec Under Way.

Een nn eee eeeeee eee eee ee  White Seed Potatoes May Be Sold Now Only For Planting

CHECK POTATO SALE EVASION   OPA Acts to Break Up Black Market in the White Seed Potatoes.

HARD FREEZE TONIGHT   Flora Says Kansas “Temperature: Will Be Below Normal

Year-Old U. 5. Supply Depot in India 'Now Sending Tons of Essential Planes, Tanks and Ammunition fo Battlefront

TONS OF VITAL WAR MATERIALS FLOWING TO INDIA AND CHINA  HUGE AMERICAN MAINTENANCE DEPOT WAS .

ROLLBACK PLAN OF OPA FLAYED   GOP Group Says Subsidies To Cost $1,600,000,000

U. 8. Will Lift Dimout Orders  Lights Are to Go  faa hilhecmamabear 7

PENSIONS FOR OHIO JUDGES GET HOUSE 0. K.   Financial Experts Figuring Out Cost to Buckeye State

CONGRESS PAUSES TO HONOR DITTER   Recesses Until Tomorrow: Subsidy Showdown, Tax Bill Debate Near

DITTER DEATH DELAYS ACTION   Coalition Plan for Quick Action on Outlawing Subsidies Delayed.

Fights in Congress Postponed By Death Of Two Lawmakers   Tussle With Administration Over Curb for Cost of Living Had Ton Billing With Those Over Mine Wages and Taxes Added Attractions When Recess Taken as Mark Of Respect to Tw o Representatives

Fight on Subsidy Delayed by Death   House to Suspend Business in Tribute to Pennsylvania Lawmaker.

Mark Time on  Subsidy Measure Expected Passage - Delayed by Death  Of Ditter; House Suspends Business

OPA Hard Pressed  By Bloc   .. « House Seems Ready For Subsidies Ban

DITTER'S DEATH DELAYS ACTION ON SUBSIDY BILL   House Suspends Business ir Tribute to Pennsylvania Lawmaker

Two House Deaths Delay Showdown   Lower Chamber Is In 24-Hour Recess

MINERS EXTEND TRUCE FOR TWO MORE WEEKS   Lewis Says Dispute Must Be Settled in That Period

MOVE BY LEWIS DELAYS STRIKE   But Government Still Has Coal Row To Settle Within Coming Two Weeks.

Another Two Week's Truce In Coal Strike   Lewis Demands Settlement Of Coal Dispute By May 31 To Avoid Strike   ICKES IS PLACED IN FOREFRONT AGAIN

TWO WEEKS MORE FOR NEGO; TIATIONS PROVIDED By ‘ _ NEW “TRUCE AN (WAGE, DISPEE

Omaha Bomber Plant Behind   Production Of Sub-Assemblies Retarded By Ft. Crook B-26 Plant.

Work-Fight Edict Goes In Effect   Mandate, Coupled With 48 Hour Week, Expected To Aid Farms, Industry

Two Manpower Edicts Become - Effective Today   ‘“W ork-Or-Fight’’ Decree Becomes Effective For Men Subject To Draft  Call   FORTY-EIGHT HOUR WEEK MANDATORY

WORK OR FIGHT’ AND 4 ‘HOUR WORK WEEK DECREES DESIGNED, TO BOLSTER  “WAR EFFORR --

Tax Hikes ’ Revised in - Committee   Boost on Liquor Cut to $8 a Gallon Instead of $10; Cigar Tax Doubled   OTHER INCREASES " ARE APPROVED   Compulsory Savings Plan Promptly Turned Down; Other Means Considered

WAYS & MEANS GROUP CHANGES TAX PROGRAM   Liquor Levy Cut bui Those on Cigars, Electric Light Bulbs, Jewelry Hiked for Nei Hike

HOUSE PS TAX RATES   Decides To Slice in Hal Proposed Tax Rate On Alechol

HOUSE COMMITTEE CUTS TWO DOLLARS FROM LIQUOR TAX  . OTHER CHANGES IN _ PRDAPNCAL TAY ‘RINT

Proposed Tax on Ligor Is Cut in Half   HOUSE WAYS, MEANS GROUP SLICES $4  BOOST RECOMMENDATION

GOEBBELS MAKES SPEECH IN BERLIN PARALLELING ONE OF KAISER’S LAST

Whitney: Not - Backing Four. Cent Boos!         ‘T Will’ Not ‘Recommend It; ‘Says. Head of Trainme .. Discussing Pay Dispute:            VOICES: SYMPATHY.’ = . FOR ROOSEVEL!   But He Criticizes Congress “for. ‘Shirking’. Its. Duty’ ~-om: Stabilization:

RAIL BROTHERHOODS SPURN WAGE INCREASE   President Of Organization Say: Case Has-Been Kicked Around  Rv Caveaernment

LABOR MEN, FOR TO CONFER TODAY   BRT President Whitney Assetrs Wage Stabilization Is No-Longer Morally or Politically Defensible

Trainmen Oppose 4-Cent Pay Raise   Brotherhood Chairmen to Meet Friday to Discuss Next Move

Rail Pay Increase “A Farce’   Trainmen President Says 4-Cent. Advance Offered Would Not Be Acceptable

Whitney Refuse: To Recommend ACent Pay Boost   BRT Chief Heads For ‘Strike’ Convention With Criticism Of Congress

WHITNEY HITS 4 CENT RAISE   Won’t Recommend That Union Accept; Strike Vote May Be Taken.   INVOLVES 350.000 MEN

SUSPEND PROBE OF MUSIC BAN      Senale Committee io Waii Peril. lo’s Efforts to Reach Settlement

TWO HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS ARE DROWNED   Third Narrowly Escapes Fate o! Companions at Mexico, Mo.— Three Were Hunting Frogs.

Fliers Marooned on Rock Are Saved When Last Signal Flare Is Sighted

33 Negroes Leave For Army —   Are Being Examined In Huntington Today

TIME CHANGE UP TO OHIO SOLONS   Bricker Tells Legislature to Do as It Wishes Regarding Bill

BOMBS BATTER AXIS. TARGETS   Allied Raiders Hammer Europe And Pacific   Bases

NAZIS ADMIT BRIDGEHEAD PENETRATED   Report 150,000 Russians Driving Towards Kerch

ast of Tragedy ctims at Seattle  derly Invalids  Only 18 Are Saved From Fiery Death Despite Efforts  /HERS MAY DIE  4)il Burner, Being Repaired, Starts Tragic Conflagration

18 Sanitarium Patients  Are Rescued   Two of Those Saved Are Declared Critically Burned

28 Lose Lives As Fire Razes  Sanitarium   Others Badly Burned At Home for Invalids On Outskirts of Seattle

Many: Die in Firein Sanitarium   Seattle Institution Consumed; Only 18 Are Rescued

PRODUCERS URGED TO WITHHOLD HoGs   Peak Slaughter In November Results In Congestion Among Packers.

MANILA STRUCK BY TYPHOON, FLOOD   Most of City’s Streets Under Weiter lane Renart

Spaatz, Patton Given 3 Stars   Nominated by FDR te  Be Lieut.-Generals

BOY, 7, KILLS GIRL, AGED 3   Juanita Virginia Hartle fs Fatally Hurt by . i Brother

NAVY SINKS 4 PROBABLY §, Ih NEW BATTLE   Fight May Still Be on: Enemy Near Defeat on New Georgia

o4 NIP SHIPS BLASTED IN "NEW FIGHT   Full Details Of 2nd ® Kula Gulf Battle Not Received

AULA GULF FIGHT BUSTLY WiTh alk SHIPS POSSIBLE   Four Known Sunk, But Two More May Be Down— Total Now 13.   BREAK JAPANESE GRIP   Hold on New Georgia Broken With Reinfc reements Impossible.

Second Battle In Kula Gulf fs Costly To Japs   Probably Six Enemy Warships Sunk In Latest Reinforcement Attempt   AMERICANS CLOSING IN ON MUNDA BASE

Order by Lewis Is  Unheeded   May Refuse to Work Until They Have Contract for Wages

105,000 Shun Pits  In Pennsylvania Vote New Threat Raised for Steel Work;   New Threat Raised for Steel Work: Contract With Increases Demanded

F.D.RS PLAN T0 DRAFT STRIKERS ADDS TO WRATH   ——— Ickes Hints Stoppage May Cause Coal Rationing.

Thousands of Miners Refuse to Obey Order Of Lewis to Go Back   Threat to Steel Production Continues As More Blast Furnaces Forced to Shut Down in Eastern Steel Belt

Production of Steel Seriously Threatened   Officials of UMW Locals Say Men Will “Cool Off”

Nation’s Steel Production Still Badly Disrupted As Many Plants Idle   UNION OFFICIALS THINK MEN WILL RETURN SOON   Pennsylvania Fields Hardest Hit As 23 Locals Vote To Continue Strike

FR SUGGESTION POINTS 10 VETO OF ANTLSTRIKE BILL   Strong ‘Wave of Opposition tc Advancing Age Limit la Davelonina.

Majority Refuse To Return to Pits   President’s Threat of Draft Also Makes Them Angry— Steel Production Slows Aca

Yanks Advancing At Bayonet Point   Clark’s Troops Lay Down Mighty Barrage, Equal to El Alamein

Hundreds Of Nazis Die In Attempts To Flee Corsica  Hundreds Of Guns Massed Behind Fifth Army Batter Germans ‘Jn Retreat in Naples Area

Vicious fight to hillerests over Naples   Nazis drown fleeing Corsica

Bayonets Flash in Italian Fight   Allies Force Way to Hills Near Naples

FIFTH ARMY TAKES HILLS BEFORE CITY   Allied Fliers Shoot Down Many Nazi Transports

Allied Armies Reach Hills Above. Naples   Yanks’ Massed Guns Take Heavy Toll Of Men, Machines

Fifth Army Threatening Naples Plain   Bayonets, Big Guns’ : Drive Germans. Back To Crest of Hills

Allied Forces Hold Heights Above Naples      Fifth .Army Battles Ai Bayonet Point To . Gain Heights

NAZIS FEAR MULTIPLE INVASION   Threat Of Massive Thrust By Allies Cause Of Meeting

Expect Thrusts From All Sides   See Allied Determination To Carry War to Decisive End .   ITALIAN PEACE HOPES BLASTED

MULTIPLE ALLIED INVASION IS NOW FEARED BY NAZIS   This Was One of the Objects of Nazi Party and Army Leaders in Conference.   The Reichsmarshal Tried to Convince Germans Plans Were Being Made.

PLAN ANNUAL MERTING   Douglas County ity Red ( ——, Chapter To Convene Jan. 2

PLAN ANNUAL MEETING   Douglas County Red C Red ero Chapter To Convene Jan. 2

TRIP IN QUICK TIME   A 6,100-Pound Cruiser Part Is Flown 5,300 Miles.

PATROL FUNDS NOT REDUCED   Effort for Allotment Cut Beaten in House

Aerial Terror Spreads Over Italian Island  Sicily ls Hammeres _ By Planes From . Three Bases

MANY ISSUES UNSETTLED AT SESSION’S END   Congress To Face Knotty Problems On Return January 10

Congress Starts Holiday Vacation Today, Will Be In Recess Until Jan. 10th

Congress Quits Work For Holidays      Action on Several Important Issues To Await Return

LOTS OF WORK FOR CONGRESS  AFTER RECESS   Adjournment Leaves Mass o Unsettled Issues to Be Voted On.

CONGRESS 10 BEGIN RECESS   F ew Members on Hand to  Hear Final Gavel

GROUND FORCES CLOSING IN ON GUINEA BASES   20,000 Enemy Troops Trappec As Yanks. Australians Extend Gains   -PARATROOPERS ADVANCE   Pressure On Salamaua Intensified; Bombers Smash Key Positions

NEGRO ADMITTED SLAYING BRIDE, ‘OFFICER STATES   Killed Mrs. James Because She Resisted His Advances In Train Berth   HIS TYPE OF WOMAN DEFENDANT SAID

COOK ADMITS BERTH MURDER   Quoted Confession Tells Of Slashing Throat  After Resistance

Confession Of  Nesro Given  Cook Attracted   Cook Attracted To Woman He Killed

Reconversion Of Industry Big Problem   President Faces Choice Of Nelson or Baruch As Boss of Huge Job

TUNISIAN DRIVE BEATS SCHEDULE   U. §. Will Equip French Army; Axis Chiefs Reveal Anxiety

: ee ‘ SHOR STORES OPEN      { “af But-Nohody Sold Any Sho “... der Government Freeze.

SHOE STORES OPEN.   But Nobody Sold Any Shoes Under Government Freeze.

Girl Describes Attack to Jury   Sobs After Testimony  In Flynn Trial

 Betty “Has No Opinion” About Actor's Removal Of Her Slacks  Girl Led Weeping From Court After Day  log Detailing Bedroom Scene With Flunn:

Errol Flynn AccuserSobs      “Admits: She ‘Made No Objection’ to Advances’ “O£-Movie Actor —‘"

President Roosevelt, Churchill and _ Stalin Agree On Master Plan To Crush Germany From Three Fronts.

Three Powerful Offensives in the East, West and South.  PEACE BLUEPRINTS MADE AT MEETING  Confidence Tehran Meeting Will Shorten the War.

DECISIONS MADE BY “BIG THREE” AT TEHRAN ARE ANNOUNCED; STALIN RETURNS HOME BUT ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL BACK TO CAIRO TO TRANSLATE WORDS INTO ACTION

Independence of lran Recommended Under Charter Principles   AH-Out War Planned

—™, ag A 3 Cperanng Personne! at Ord8 Sees Ee nance Waorss Will Be ereased  CRERATE NEW CASS

24,000 Pounds Of Bombs Hit Jao Wake Base   Yank Bombers Also Shoot Down Three Intercepting Zeros

Wake Battered By Liberators   Fifth Raid Made Without U.S. Loses

Wake Battered By Liberators   Fifth-Raid Made Without (1 S- ] Ree

WAR ON WAKE ISLAND PUSHED   American Liberators Bag Three Zeros, Drop Block Busters

BOMBERS KEEP DEATH SHOWER   INCESSANT POUNDING RIPS CZECHOSLOVAKIA, BERLIN, RUHR VALLEY

EighthArmy Turns West Upon Rome   Volturno . Crossed; Nazis on Adriatic. In Headlong Retreat

oth Army In 95 Miles Of Rome As Volturno River Crossing Made   British Sth Army Smashing Inland From Adriatic Sea With German Forces In Headlong . Retreat All Along Front

Americans Cross Volturno River   Fifth Army Uses German Pontoon Bridges in Crossing Stream

Americans Span Volturno With Nazis Pontoons   5th Army Drives To Within 95 Miles Of Rome; Sharp Fighting Continues On Narth Rank Of River

Americans Within 95  Miles of Rome   Fifth Army Troops Cross River On Germans’ Pontoon Bridges

Nazis In Retreat On Adriatic Side   Eighth Army Smoshes Inland; Fifth Crosses Volturno On Germans’ Own Pontoon Bridaes

Invasion Begur By British And Canadians   - Whereabouts Of American Seventh Army A Mystery

Yanks Seek to Cut Lifeline to Beleaguered Sicily   French Crisis Is Indicated  DeGaulle Likely to Leave Algiers

De Gaulle May Leave Algiers   French Row Hinders Allied War Effort

Major Provisions of Skip-a-Year Jax Bill as Passed by the Senate

Yankee Bombers Deliver Heavy Raid On Messina   Smash At Sousse Blasts 2 Ships; Gabes Attackers Down 18 Axis Planes

Liberators Batter Port of Messina  Storage Tanks,  Power Statian

BOTH ENDS OF SUPPLY LINES HIT   Americans Batter Messina In Sicily; Sousse Is Attacked

Americans Hit Messina Again   Make Direct Hits on Oil Storage Tanks And ower Stution

P-24Liberators Weathers Presents Bill Asking Batter Messina Five Per Cent Commission For With New Raid Merchants Collecting Sales Tax

MINERS WILL SKIP HOLIDAY   Most Of Pits Expected To Be In Operation During Day

Spearhead Drive To Force Japs From Solomons   Bougainville Nex! Goal of Americans

PARATROOPS CLEAR JAPS FROM VOZA   Flee Without Offering Any Fight As Americans Continue Drive to Chase Enemy From Solomons.   Blast Airbases

Yank Chutists Take Key to  Solomons Drive   Paratroopers Land on Island Helc Last Barrier to Bougainville; Japs Flee Without Making Fight

ALLIED PARATROOPS LAND ON ISLAND NEAR BOUGAINVILLE   Village Of Voza On Choiseul Taken Without Fight; Move Is Preliminary To Offensive Drive On Jap Stronghold Of Rabaul; Enemy Workers Slain

Net Tightens About Rabaul   Japs Flee Without Fight As: Bougainville Threat Mounts

Bougainville F lanking Push  Continues   New Landings Follow Move Against Islands In Treasury Group  BUKA BASE BOMRBFD

Japanese Flee Without Offering a Fight. THREAT JS RAISED TO BOUGAINVILLE  Only a Few Hundred Japanese Found on _ Mono

U. 5, PARACHUTE TROOPS LAND ON CHAISENT IST ANT   iJapanese Flee Without Offering Fight—Invasion Increases Threat to Bougainville.   LATTER ONLY BIG BARRIER TO RABAUL   Allied Airmen Continue to Destroy Enemy Airfields in Area Without Meeting Opposition.

Japanese Rur As U.S. Troops Land   American ‘Chutists Plummet Onto Islanc Of Choiseul in Solomons, Chase Foe North, Add Peril to Bougainville

Spearhead A Drive to Clear Japs From Isles   Second Invasion Increases Threat to Bougainville

Japanese Flee Without Offering Fight   Landing Increases Threat to Nips on Bougainville

Yankee Paratroops Open New Invasion  Japs Flee Without Putting Up Fight

Fitth Army Sets For Cut-off Play Against  Nazis Mountain Line         Yanks Land On ~ Choiseul Island   Japanese Flee North Without Offering to Figth; New Invasion :ncreases Threat To Bougainville   10 More Jap Vessels Sunk   Navy Reports Two-front Progress In Submarine Warfare; Covers New Victories In Atlantic and Pacific

Yank Paratroop Units Land on Choiseul Island   Japs Flee Latest U. S, Thrust to Clear Foe From Solomons

City To Regulate Taxicabs; Adopts  Strict Ordinance   Board Fixes The Fares and Makes. Other Strinsent Regulations.

G ity To Regulate Taxicabs; Adopts Strict Ordinance      Board I‘ixes The Fares 1 and Makes Other Strin 6 pent Regulations,

Will Victorious Allies Fight Among Themselves and so Lose Peace?-Mme. Chiang

  Say Rumania Seeks Peace   Hungary ‘and Bulgaria Also Reported Sending Out Peace Feelers

TALKS SAID UNDER WAY AT ANKARA   Reported Meeting Tri-Partite Chiefs In Move To Quit Wa:

ania S Peace, s Nazis   From Madrid Rumanians Talk With  ey; All Rumors Tho

REPORTS SAY RUMANIA IS ASKING PEACE   Some Rumors, of German Origin, Have It That Negotiations Are Under Way With Allies in Ankara, Turkey.

Rumania in Peace Plea?   Envoys Declared in Turkey, Conferring With Allied Delegate:

Rumania Is Rumored In Peace Move   Some Reports of Alleged Peace Move Are Clearlv of German Origin

Hear Rumanian Envoys Seeking Peace Of Allies   Reported Negotiating With Allied Envoys At Ankara, Turkey.

Claim Rumania s New tiny For Armistice   Madrid Hears Spokesmen For Government Meet Allied Group In Ankara

Says Rumania Conterring For  Allied Treaty   Reports, Some Of German Origin, Say Envoy In An kara. Turkev.   WANTED REDS OMITTED

RUMANIA iA REPORTED ° TOBE TRYING TO NEGOTIATE © “BEALE WITH ALTLIBS®-

Withholding Tax Favored by Treasury  Total Deduction of 24 Per Cent

Treasury Favors  24 Per Cent Levy   Opposes Forgiving Of All 1942 Charges

24 Percent Withholding Tax Proposed      Levy Would Include © Percent Victory Tax Allow Deductions   TREASURY OPPOSES RUML TAX SYSTEM  Plan Would Provide Exemption of $8 For Each Dependent

ASKS LEVY OF 24 PER CENT   Treasury Proposal Aims To Put Country On Partial Pay As You Go Basis

TREAQURY OFFERS TAX WITHHOLDING   Plan to Take Total of 24 Per Cent, After Deductions, From Pay Envelopes Is Proposed to Committee

Treasury Expert Proposes ‘24. Per Cent As- You-Go Tax   Figure Would Include Present Victory Levy, Plus Rates Now Applied to Most Incomes

PROPOSAL ON POPULAR PLAN   24% From Pav Checks Deductible Under Suggestion

Withholding Tax Favored by Treasury   Total Deduction of 24 Per Cent Seen as Possibility

TAX PROGRAM IS PROPOSED BY TREASURY   Withholding Tox of Per. haps 24 Per cent Is © Suaaested

TREASUE YX. WOULD  TAX 24 PER CE FROM WEEKLY PAY   Aid of Government is to Put the . Country Taxpayers on Pay As You Go Basis,

KNOX SAYS U. S. MUST MAINTAIN SEA, AIR FORCES   Will Have .To Contribute To Establishment Of  Economic System

Knox Asks U.S.  Enforce Peace  He Wald Atd RaclkecnuJd   He Would Aid Backward In Bettered World

KNOX FAVORS Ble AIR, NAVY FORCE!   After War United States Must Be First to Enforce Future Peace.

POST-WAR TASK TO REQUIRE BIG ARMY, KNOX SAYS   Believes U. S. Will Be Called Upon to Furnish Most of Troops to Enforce the Peace,   ADVOCATES BASES IN ALL PARTS OF WORLD   Declares Political, Economic or Military Isolation Is No Longer Possible for Nation.

Sec. Knox Urges Powerful Bases For U. S. Force:   Secretary of Navy Addresses Lincoln Day Exercises

KNOX TELLS NEED ~ OF KEEPING BASE!   System Stretching Arourid World After.the War Envisioned

‘SYSTEM HELD NEED OF UL §   Secretary Knox Urg- es Establishment  - For Peace

Knox Says U. 5. World's Keeper   Powerful Sea-Air Forces Are Uraed

7 Knox Asserts that After the War the U. S. Must Maintain Strong Sea and Air Forces From a System of Bases Girdling the Globe     H, e; vis

Knox Says U. S Must Help Police World   Urges Big Postwar Sea, Air Forces, Bases Around Globe

US. Must Maintain Powerful Sea and Air Forces After War 'With World Bases, Says Knox

Says Negro Cook Plotted Crime   Passed Victims Berth Several Times To Unfasten Curtains.

SURPRISE IS SPRUNG IN MURDER TRIAL      Prosecutor Outlines Theory Of Sleeping Car Killing

TRAIN MURDER TRIAL NOW IN PROGRESS   Claim Negro Planned Entrance of Car Berth

Coo Fighting Continuing, Allies Claim   Yugoslav Patriots Engage Nazis Heavily On Adriatic Front  TrAR TIP RATY TINES   EARLY LULL INDICATED On Italian, Russian Fronts

GERMANS oLGURE FOOTHOLD ON COC   Nazis Wrest Several Strong points From British on Do decanese Isle; Yugoslavs  Heavily Engage Foe

GERMANS BATTLE BRITISH ON (00   Several Strongpoints Have Been Taken by Nazi Army

Germans Capture Several Holds On British-held Coo   Yugoslavs Keep Up Determined Fight On Long Front; Allies Given Setback In Aegean Sea Campaign

Strong Points Are Taken by Nazis  Yugoslav Patriots Battle Germans

Reich Regains  Ground on Coo   CounterAltacks Oust British Forces

NAZI FORCES TARE BRITISH BASES AT COC   YUGOSLAV PATRIOT ARMIES KEEPING ENEMY BUSY

NAZIS CAPTURE STRONGPOINTS ON COO ISLAND   Patriot Armies Heavily Engage Enemy In Yugoslavia   By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE.

REMAINS UP TO ‘EATERES   Limited to 75% Used In December of Last Year

Amount of Meal, Fats Restricted for Cafes, Restaurants, 75 Pct.   Portions They May Serve Each Customer Not Restricted

25 Per Cent Cut For Restaurants  OPA Announces Meat Rationing Plan

OPA Limits Meats For Restaurants  ' Butter Total Also  Cut to 75 Per Cent

Restaurants Limited to 75 Per Cent Of Meat They Sold in December, 194?

Restaurant Rations Set   Institutional Eating Places Given Orders

Engineers Begin Detailed Survey Of Rio Grande   Another Step Toward Conservancy's Goal  Of Federal Flood Contro!

New Agency fo Mefe Out Power   Will Sell Energy  To Be Produced by Th tae. Rin Nha nce:

He Just Hires His Patients      Manpower Problem Solvec For State Institution

SENATE BALKS ON 2 OFFICIALS   Rejects Appointment Of Kenny, Downey, Gives Approval To 128

SENATE REJECTS TWO NOMIESTIONS   Refuses to Confirm Public Assistance Director Kenny And Liquor Commissioner Downey; Others Approved

Senate Rejects 2 Nominations  Confirmation Is Refused To Kenny. Downey

More Than Third Of Pennsylvania  Miners Still Idle   Alabama Coal Production Outlook Slightly Improved

New Walkouts In Pennsylvania_ Mar Coal Picture   Large Coke Companies Will Have To Reduce Output 50 Per Cent

U.S. Developed Radar, Which Lets Warships ‘See’ Through Fog, War's Most Revolutionary New Weapon Turned Guadalcanal Battle Into Costly Rout for Japs

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Copyright, 1843, By The  pO pmOneiel or Gay an aaa

Radar U. S. Secret Weapon  Radio ‘Eye’ Gives Guadal  Victory to Yank Seaman   By JOHN BIGHTOWER 1M. by the Associted ‘ieee:

U.S. Has Secret Super-Weapon Despite Doubts   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER   Mines Closed Again ~ But Door Open For Federal Operation

U.S. Might Have Lost the War but for Discovery of the New Weapon-Radar   By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Copyright, 1943, By The ASsocilated Pres5)}

Naval Scientists Developed Radar To Give Allies One of Their Most Valuable Weapons Against Nazis

SHORTAGE OF FARM "HELP HITS COUNTY   ‘Many Laborers Are Needed for the Rush Harvest   ason oe ~.   SITUATION IS ACUTE

SHORTAGE OF FARM HELP HITS COUNTY,   Many Laborers Are Needed for the Rush Hary est   Season a “a

ELUSIVE FUGITIVE IS HELD BY POLICE      Wm. Gempp, 29, Wanted in Three States, Is Captured

EDGE ELECTED JERSEY GOVERNOR   LEADS DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT BY 104,620 IN 2,752 OF 3,647 DISTRICTS.

Axis Hold in Tunisia Gradually Constricted By Advancing Allies GERMANS FALL BACK ON MATEUR FRONT French Push Forward  To Within 3 Miles Of Pont du Fahs

Enemy’s African Losses Since Jan. 1  Set at 66,000 RUSSIA WAR GROWS  Germans Strike Below Leningrad;  Polish Dispute Hot

IOWA POISONER GIVEN SENTENCE   Faces Life Imprisonment  For Killing Father

Knox Given _ ~ Life Term For Slaying   Sigourney Man Convicted Of Poisoning Father Last July .

Perkins, McNutt Attacked   Congress Leaders Say The’ Will Refuse Funds to  Two Agencies

Congressional Bloc Seeks to Force Ouster of Frances Perkins, McNutt

PAUL MNUIT, Mloo PERKIN NEW TARGETS   Congress Apparently Going After Heads Of More Cahinet Officials   SMALL APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS ARE DENIED   Prominent Members Demand That President Appeint New Auencyv Heads

Kid In Mud Amidst Jap Snipers Howls In Disgust As He Reads How Enemy Doesn’t Want Fight

Declares Advance Of  200 or 300 Yards Could Be Equal To 50 Miles In "The Euronean Theater

Dewey Orders Woods Open For Hunters   Action Based on Report of Inch Rainfall; Only Partridge Affected

LEGISLATURE RACED TIME IN ATTEMPT TO GLEAR CALENDARS   SENATE MOVED CLOCK BACK TO SAVE BILLS THAT WOULD DIE AT NOON

3-POWER TALKS — BEGIN IN HOSCO   HULL, EDEN AND MOLOTOV OPEN THER PARLEY IN CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE,

Tri-Power War Parleys Open   Hull, Molotoy And _ Eden Start Talke

Foreign Secretaries of U. S., Britain, Russia Open Formal Session of Tri-Power Meet

THREE-POWER ROUND TABLE WORK BEGINS   NO SNAGS EXPECTED FOR CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW

War, Post-War Discussed at Moscow Parley   Hull, Molotov and ‘Eden. Confer in Ovenins Session

Three power meet opens; leaders hold first formal parley   Will prepare groundwork for future ‘big three’ conference; spirit friendly

Long-Awaited Allied Parley Gets under Way   First Formal Session Held No Permanent Snags Anticipated

Moscow Parley Is Featured By Frank Subjects   Hull And Eden Sit A: Conference Table  With Molotov

FOREIGN SECRETARIES MEET IN FIRST FORMAL SESSION   iF irst Full Day Of Three-P ower Conference In Cordial  Atmosphere At Moscow; Frank And Free   Discussions A re Anticipated

Three-Power Parley Is Started   Secretaries Sit Down at Conference Table

3 Power Parley Opens With a 2 Hour Session   Opening Talk by Hull Eden, Molotov Is Satisfactory

SECRETARIES WORK DURING FIRST DAY   Of Three-Power Conference In Cordial Atmosphere: Pay and Return Formal Calls Before Session.   Third Visit

THREE-POWER CONF ERENCE ~ TS CONVENEL   Hull, Eden, Molotov in - First Discussion  Of Problems

New Lend-Lease Pact And Permanent Military Mission in Moscow Made

Officials End First Formal Moseow Talk  Conference Details   Conference Details Kept Secret by Foreign Secretaries

SECRETARIES OPEN 3-POWER PARLEY   Officials Hold First Ses. sion in Cordial Atmosphere

[Food Parley Barring /Of Press Sets Pattern ‘For Future Assemblies

FIGHTING NEAR TUNIS   Land and Air Operations ‘Are. Reported From Front

Forces Clash  In Tunisia   Infantry and \rmored Engagements Reported; Enemy Makes Gains

Mrs. Nellie Nevill Named Senior  Field Worker   Reports Tyler For Work Beginning Mondav

FEDERAL JUDGES IN SOUTHWEST COME UP OFFICIAL CRITICISM  FAIL TO IMPOSE JAIL SEN TENCES ON HOT OIL ACT OFFENDERS

LITTLE TAX ON STATE OFFICIALS   Less Than $5,000 Personal Property Assessed Against Five High Men   NONE I8 LISTED FOR McKITTRICK   Figures Are Given by Missouri Expenditure Survey Group

DEATH TAKES HAROLD HALI   Internationally Known Lo cal Pianist Dies In  Ann Arbor

Harold H. Hall Dies Thursday   Noted Pianist Will Be Buried Here

SPIES OPERATING IN THIS COUNTR\   Naval Intelligence Chief fr Radio Talk Says Many Are Captured.

Network Of Axis Spies Cover U.S. War Centers   Large Number Captured But Admiral Train Reports Many Others Operating.

TAX ISSUE GROUP MEETS TODAY FOR ‘DO-OR-DIE’ PARLEY   Final Attempt To Reach Agreement On “Pay-AsYou-Go” Plan Is Being Made

COMPROMISE TAX FIGHT 1S NEAR CLIMAX   Leaders Say Tuesday Conference Will Decide Pay-AsGo Principle   VOTE ON FARM BILL   Matter Of Killing Incentive Payments Is Still Under Hot Debate

FINAL TRY AT TAX AGREEMENT   House Greup Confers in Last Attempt to Find Compromise

Another Try For Tax Bill Will Be Made   Efforts For Compromise On Pay-As-You-Go To Be Continued Today

One More Try On Pay-Go-Planned   “Do Or Die” Parley Slated In Congress

CHECK ON MEAL PRICES   Copies of Menus Must Be Filed With Local Rationing Board

CHECK ON MEAL PRICES   Copies of Menus Must Wit h Local Rationing ate

Allies May Outftlank Nazis Above Naples   Could Beat Retreating Germans To Volturno Plains; Eisenhower May Strike By Sea Again

Late Events Hint That Italian Fight Will Shift  Nazis May Retreat Farther North; Allies Are Ready

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SENATE APPROVAL OF SUBSIDY HOPEFUL   Taft Expresses Belief Altered Measure Can Pass

MeatProgran Subsidies ‘Saving Price   Payments on Dairy Feed Also in Danger

CAPITOL HILL DRAWING NEAR TO SALES TAX   ~ May Be 5 Per Cent With No Exemptions

Support Grows For Sales Tax   ‘Now Talk Of Five Percent Tax With No Exemptions.

No One Can Predict With Any Certainty, But  Trend Now ‘Toward Sales  Tax And Cut In Spending

TREND ice RETAIL SALES TAX: NOW    Member House Tax Com mittee Says Sales Tax Is Creeping Up on: Body

NATIONAL RETAIL SALES TAX LOOMS   Trend On Capitol Hill Is Toward Adoption of Five Percent Retail Sales Levy With No Exemptions.

TREND TOWARD 5% SALES TAX GAINS GROUND      . ta F Plan Would Include “No Exemprion” Clause; — _Doughton. Drops His Opposition

J. Grant Frye Faces Charge in Tennessee   Well. Known, Lawyer. and Republican Leader Accused of Libel, Extortion   AN OUTGROWTH OF LAWSUIT   Trying to Intimidate Me, He Says; Extradition Hearinoe Ordered

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MARINES ARE HERE   New Group Will Be Trained at K. U. and Municipal Airport

HITLER'S NAZI MOVES BEGAN IN AMERICA IN 38   Fuehrer Planted Many Of His Trusted Agents In : U. S., Dies Commit  tee Reveals   WORK UNMOLESTED   Other Reports to Deal With “Fifth-Column” Activities of Other Axis Powers

Dies Report Tells Of Nazi Plofs In U.S.   Scheme For Spread Of Naziism Revealec By Committee

GERMAN WEB IS BARED BY DIES   Committee Publishes Report That Once Split Group Over New Deal

DIES DETAILS NAZI WORKINGS   Long-Delayed Report Tells Of Exposing Activities

Dies Reports On Activity Of Nazi Agents   Hitler Began More Than Five Years Aga To Spread Naziism, Says  -  Committee’s Report

Scheme To Spread Nazism Over World Started By Hitler In U.S. 5 Years Ago According To Report ByDies Commitiee

DIES COMMITTEE REPORT REVEALS NAZI -AGTIVITIES   “LEGITIMATE” GERMAN SOCIETIES IN U. S. DIVERTED TO NAZIISM CAUSE

Scheme to Spread Naziism  In U.S. Told by Dies Group   Trusted Agents of Hitler Said Already Here Years Before Committee Created

Pursue Nazis  In Snow, Sleet Canadians Push On Toward  Pescara After Fall of Ortona

Ortona Tomb For Soldiers  ‘And Civilians   Dead Lying In Streets. Doorways; Remaining Inhabitants Stunned

By RICHARD McMURRAY Associated Press War Editor   Town of Ortona Resembles Tomb and for Many Soldiers, Citizens It Is

Ortona Called City Of Deatt   Italian Seaport Now Resembles A Tomb

TOWN OF ORTONA RESEMBLES TOMB   Streets Piled High with Battle Wreckaae

Jones’ Food Policy Plans Are Outlined   WFA Chief May Be Able To Put President’s Program Over

DELIVERY BAN NOW IN EFFECT   Drastic Gas Rationing Orde: Effective In Eastern Zone  Today

Italy Approaches Fourth Year of tag in Poor Shape  Weakest Link in Country’s Defenses ‘Ie Its Air Arm

Victory Garden Plans Are Now Taking Shape  Rationing Makes Home Gardening Necessary

Victory Garden Plans Are Now Taking Shape  Rationing Makes Home Gardening

NO APPEAL IS MADE TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE VWASRETING Tan  DD Peeha:

Allied Leaders Chart New Era Of World Peace   Expected Ultimatum To Germany Fails To Materialize   Nazi Propaganda Line Snarled By Teheran Meeting

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RAIDS ON GERMANY SET NEW DEATH RECORD  Deaqratime Tranediae Eelinced   Peacetime Tragedies Eclipsed By Toll of Civilians from Bombs

Nothing to Equal Raids on Germany   World Has Never Known Anything Equivalent. in  Quick Deaths.

Thousands Killed in Air Raids   Germany’s Toll Probably Never Will Be Known;Slim Chance of Accurate Count   LONDON’S LOSSES OFFER A GUIDE   Few, If Any, Disasters of Peacetime Take as Great a Toll as Bombs

MOBILE PUBLISHER FINED AND JAILED   Habeas Corpus Writ Wins Freedom From Custody

Madge Bellamy, Former Movie Star, Is Figure In Shooting   Fires Three Shots At Executive Who Jilted Her To Wed Another—But Misses

Ex-Movie Star Shoots At Lover   M. Bellamy Jealous Wh  en He Weds

Silent Movie Actress ~ Takes Wild Shots at ~ Lover Who Jilted Her

Actress Has Role In a Real Drama   Madge Bellamy Accused for Firing Shots at Her Lover

Shoots Three Times At Socialite Because He Wed Another Girl In Baltimore  BULLETS. HIT CAR     Lumber Firm Executive Scrambled For Cover When Former Movie

Jilted Actress Held In Shooting   Madge Bellamy, Of Silent Films, Admits Firing Three Shots.

EX-STAR WEEPS AFTER SHOOTING   She Admits Firing Shots At Lumber Firm  Executive

MADGE BELLANY “OF SILENT FILMS TN HEADLINES   Takes Three Shots at So cially Prominent Lumber Man Who Wed New York Mode! Recently

MADGE BELLAMY IS HELD IN SHOOTING    Sitent Actress Admits Firing.at  Ex-Escort 

Eighth Army Begins To ‘Put Pressure  On Rommel   Ha rassing Patrol Activities Begun All Along Mareth  Line

War Deparlment Orders _ Virtual Flimination of © Aircraft Warning Corps

Aircraft Spotting Program Slacks Of  Volunteer Group Put On Part-Time Basis

KILLER UNABLE TO FLEE TRAIN AFTER MURDER   Conductor Testifies That All Car Doors Were Closed   MRS. JAMES DEAD WHEN HE ARRIVED

onductor Says Slayer of Bride Stayed in Car  sie tac Who ‘illed Mrs. James Could  ee eae

American Mitchells Attack Rail System in Force Yesterday   Battle Lines in Italy Remain Virtually Unchanged Over Sunday   BULLETIN

Breaks Axis Defense Line North Of Oudref  Rommel’s Forces Severely Trounced In Latest Surge Of Montgomery’s Forces  rey   GERMANS FLEE UP COAST      GERMANS FLEE UP COAST      Many Ships Sunk By Air Blitz At Trapani. Sicily

American and_ British  Troops Within 35 Miles Of Unitine Farcee: 

HIT BIZERTE, OTHER SPOTS   Major General Carl Spaatz is named Allied air chief in N. Africa

Knox Says Huge Fleet Plans Pacific Action   Tells Midshiprnen at Graduation Rites Of Impending Thrust

Says Big Battle For Italy ~ Has No More Than Started   War Expert Expresses Views On Allied March Toward Rome; Nazi Divisions Facing Trap

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Stimson Puts Patton Case Up to Eisenhower Ae Demand Grows in-Conaress for Action ~

COURT MARTIAL IS ASKED BY SENATOR   Stimson to Leave Patton Case in Hands of Eisenhower

Trial Demanded For Gen. Patton   Stimson Says Case In Hands of Eisenhowe:

Court-Martial Action Asked   Senator Says Patton Should Be Tried

Triple Raids Rip Axis U-Boat Bases With Blockbusters   St. Nazaire, La Pallice, Military Targets at Rennes, France, Hammered by Flying Fortresses, Liberators in Devastating Foray

U. 5. BOMBERS SPREAD ATTACK IN DAYLIGHT   Block - Busters Dropped On St. Nazaire, La Pallice Sub Bases   i3 PLANES LOST.   Winds Up Most Devastating Weck-Long Bom-, bardment Of Axis

'Ballseye Attack Scored by Yanks In Teole Smosh   Two Thousand Ton Block-Busters Dropped On Nazi Bases In France; Forts Ignore Swargs Of Fighters

TWO SUB BASES, FRENCH AREAS BADLY SMASHED   Flying Fortresses Crash Through Swarms of Enemy Planes to Blast St. Navaire    BULLSEYES SCORED ‘WITH BLOCKBUSTERS   Vichy Acknowledges Heavy Damage From Bombs Dropped at Gpeat Height

Flying Fortresses Smash at St. Nazaire And Rennes While Unescorted Liberatars Pound U-Boat Base at La Pallice

DROP ONE-TON BLOCK-BUSTERS ON ST. NAZAIRE   Military Targets at Rennes Pounded;  3 Bombers Lost

Attacks End Full Week Ot Air Fury   Tons Of Block Busters Land On U-Boat Bases

Mighty Fleet Of Y. 5. Bombers Hits Triple Obiective   Scores Bullseye Hits In Thundering Finale to Week-long Bombardment

U.S. FLEET BLASTS ATTU, HALTS WORK ON BASE   Attempt to Convert Westernmost Isle Into Major Threat to Alaska Foiled

U.S. Ships HeavilyBomb Attu Island   Torrent of Shells Hurled Against Aleutian Island

Navy Shells Jap Toeholds In Aleutians   Surface Task Force Smashes Attempt to Set Up Important Base   ENEMY BEATEN OFF   Navy Also Announces Two More Aix Raids on Japs in Central Solomons

American Warships Bombard Japanese On Island of Attu      U.S. Destroyers Attempt: to-Wreck Enemy Plans for Co OEY

HILLMAN SOLON ASKED $600 COURT 1S TOLD   Accusation Against Rep. William Green Made At Hearing   DEAL FELL THROUGH   Cosmetologists Tells of  Mysterious Call to  Hotel Room

LEGISLATOR NAMED AS SEEKING BRIBE   Identified at Preliminary Hearing By Witness Today.

Raids onGermany Continued by U:S.  Attack for Third — ” Straiaht Day

YANK PLANES RAKE NAZIS AGAIN TODAY   Shattering Raids Carried into New Month by Allies

U, S, BOMBERS ‘CONTINUE RAIDS   Follow RAF Night Attack ’ For Third Straight Day

YANKEE BOMBERS OPEN NEW MONTH OF AIR ATTACKS   oe Germany Hit Again for Third Straight Day Ry Record Smash.

RAID WEST GERMANY   Nazis Air Fields In North France Also Bombed

WESTERN GERMANY IS AGAIN BOMBED   American Medium Bombers Bomb ’Dromes in France

Yankee Heavy Bombers Raid  Over Germany   Follow British Light Raiders For Third Straight Day

PUBLIC TO GET INFORMATION ON SUB CAMPAIGN   Allies Are Modifying A Policy Of Silence On U-Boat Warfare

ALLIES MODIFY SECRECY POLICY ON SUB WARFARE   U. S. and England to Give Public More Information in Future About Results Achieved.   KNOWN SINKINGS WILL BE DISCLOSED   Argument Advanced Enemy Morale Will Be Hurt if Undersea Crews Hear of Own Losses.

Allied High Command Decides to Release to ‘Public More Information on the ‘Fight Against Nazi Germany's Submarines

GIB WAR SECREGY   Allies abs poner ‘= Shem in rei Againet U-Boats

Public To Get More News on Nazi U-Boats   Allied High Command _ Reverses Its Policy Regarding Sinkings

PUBLIC WILL GET U-BOAT WAR NEWS   High Command Decides to Release More Information On Fight Against Menace; Regulations Are Modified

Allied: Nations Decide to Air Sub War Facets  Public Will Receive  [ones

britain Serap Policy kerecy About Sub War       guand Decides to Give Public Information; inls Effect on Morale of Nazi Crews

Alliesto Modify U-Boat Policy  Will Reveal Sea Battles.   Will Reveal Sea Battles, But No Overall Toll

BITTER DIVISION OF HINDUS AND MOSLEMS BIGGEST PROBLEM IN INDIAN POLITICAL CRISIS

PA. WARNS ON SUBSIDY NEEDS   S-ys Failure To Approve Con. tinuation Will Be Serious Anti-Inflation Blow

SENATE COMMITTEE CHARMAN DECLARES GOVERN: MENT-BACKED PRO"GRAM FACING . DEFEAT

Hornet Sinking Tokyo ‘Revenge   Japs Say It Launched Plane Attack

Japs Claim Hornet Carried American Planes That Hit At Tokyo Targets April 18

Japs Point To Hornet   Identify Sunken Carrier As Take-off For Tokyo Raid

JAPS CLAIM REVENGE: FOR RAID ON TOKYY   U. S. S$. Hornet Carried Bombers For Raid, Claim

GET MORE TIN CANS   dity Trucks Were Busy Collecting Yesterday and Today

FEW SURVIVED — ~ SHIP SINKING   REPORTS INDICATE. MORE THAN 1,000 MEN WENT DOWN WITH THE SCHARNHORST

WOULD DELAY INVASION OF GERMANY   Adolf Arranging Excuse of Communism for Such Action

HITLER RUSHES MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NORTH: ERN ITALY AS RUMORS PERSIST BADOGLIO WILL MAKE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TOMOR.  ROW—ITALY ALREADY REGARDED AS OUT OF WAR AS BEING MILITARY FACTOR

Break Within Next Few Hours  Likely In Italy   Hitler May Seize Alleged ‘‘Communist Uprisings’’ As Invasion Excuse   MANY REPORTS ON ITALIAN SITUATION

Upstream Torrents Receding  Danger Is Still   Danger Is Stil Great; Dikes Ave Broken

OVER 160,000 ROUTED FROM FLOOD REGION   ZONE IS NARROWED; BEARDSTOWN, ILL., DANGER SPOT

Midwest Flood Zone Narrows As Rivers Drop   More Families Flee From Homes as Other Streams Rise

Hundreds Forced to Leave Homes  mae —   Midwestern. Flood Zone Narrowed

Water Lower, However, at Some Points   Danger Poinis Are Now Located More in Southern Area

FLOOD DANGER MOVES SOUTH   Greatest Danger Area Now Below St. Louis; About 160,000 Homeless

Floods Narrow As Raging River: Drop Upstream   Crest Reached in North, But Lower Zone Menaced; 160,000 Persons Affected

Midwest Flood Zone Narrows   Damage Rises And - 160.060. Homeleace

Weather in n Helena  Ur U. 5. Weather Boreas   Torrents of Water Pour Over Dikes Forcing Hundreds of Families To loin Multitudes of Homeless

Flood Perils  Lessen in  Two Sectors 40.000 Families  Homeless in Miidwect Area

FLOOD CRESTS BELIEVED NEAR   Midwestern Streams Are Narrowing At Heads; 160,000 Persons Affected

ZONE NARROWED AS RIVERS DROP   Recessions Upstream Ease Mid-West Flood Peril; Broken Dikes Force ’ More Homeless To Flee .

American Bombers Smash Jap Gun Position at Munda  : Series of Raids on  Solomons Area Targets Continues

RAIDERS SMASH JAPANESE GUNS   American Planes Bomb Munda Air Base; All Return Safely

THREE OF SEVEN ESCAPED CONVICTS WERE RECAPTURED  “MOVIE-THRILLER CHASE STAGED IN GOOSE CREEK AREA LAST NIGHT

Campaign In Pacific Prepared   ‘Surprise and Dauntless Assault’’ Told in Genereral’s Radio Address

CAPTURE MANY POINTS; 6,000 MADE PRISONER   Bridgeheads Extended as Deep as 20 Miles Inland in Some Areas

British and Canadian Troops Fought Their Way Into Two Strategic Communication Centers.

Parcels For Overseas   Heavy Demand Being Made For Cargo Space And War Department Asked Mail Reduction

Overseas Mail Must Be Made  Smaller in Size   CARGO SPACE MAKES NEW REG. ULATION IMPERATIVE. PAR. CELS FOR MEN OVERSEAS BE LIMITED IN FUTURE.

House Group Favors Game Law Measure   Committee Report Approves 2 A. M. Clesing of Saloons

Bill to Close Saloons Early Nears Passage  Favorable Reports by Committee

Bill to Close Saloons Early Nears Passage   Favorable Reports by Committee Adopted at Session

Bills Favored By House Committees   2 o'Clock Closing of Bars Recommended Senate Session Busy

Japanese ‘Will to Fight’ Deteriorates as Nip Losses in Planes, Ships and Men Increase

'U.S. Eseort Carrier Sunk In Gilbert’s Fighting   Rear Admiral Mullinnix Reported Missing; Only Naval Craft Lost In Operations There

Eseort Carrier Liscome Bay Is Lost In Battle   Sunk By Japs In Gilberts; Is First Carrier Lost In Over One Year

Loss of Light Escort Carrier Is Announced   Small Air Craft Carrier Was Torpedoed

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Lost In Gilberts   Victim of Jap Sub, the Liscome Bay Was Only Vessel Sunk —

CARRIER IS LOST   Jap Submarine Sank One U. S. Vessel in the Gilbert Engagement

Japanese Sink Small Carrier   Liscome Bay Is Reported Tortpedoed In’ Attack In Gilbert ‘sles

U. 5. Carrier Liscome Bay Sunk  Only American  Vessel Lost in frilkarct Mnareathianec

First Loss  of Escort Carrier Is Announced   The Liscome Bay, One o Small-Types of Flat Tops, Sunk in the Gilberts   TORPEDOED BY JAP SUBMARINE   Total Casualties Are Not Announced; No Other Ship  Losses in Gilberts Batile 

U.S. Carrier Sunk by Japs   Torpedoed by Submarine In Gilbert Island Battle, Navy Reveals

ESCORT AIRCRAFT CARRIER LISCOME ~ SUNK BY JAP SUE   Rear Admiral Mullinnix’ 4s Among Men Lost on New Type of Vessel, Some Facts Still Being Withheld   AMERICAN WARSHIPS ' BOMB JAP-HELD BASES   Vital Supply Lines Severed In Deepest Penetratration of Waters Formerly Controlled By Enemy.

One U.S. Ship Lost in Gilberts   Escort Carrier  Sunk by Torpedo

ESCORT CARRIER  ONLY YANK SHIP LOST IN GILBERTS   Rear Admirat Mullinnix an Captain Wiltsie Missing In Action.

Rear Adm. Mullinnix, Cant. Wiltsie Missing, Nevy Dept. Announces

Escort Carrier Sunk by Nippons   Loss Occurs During Gilbert  Island Operations; Only Vessel Lost.

U.S. Carrier Sunk by Enemy Sub   Admiral and Captain Missing After Gilberts Sinking

\Navy Reveals Only One Warship Was Lost in Gilbert Isles Battle; [Escort Aircraft Carrier Torpedoed

AIRSRAFT CARRIER LISCOME BAY HAS BEEN TORPEDOED   Sunk by a Japanese Submarine During the Gilbert Islands Operations.   BLOODIEST OF PACIFIC   The Total Casualties Have Not Yet Been Disclosed by the Navy.

LIscome way JUNK  U.S. Escort Aircraft Carrier Lost In Pacific Engagement

ST REACH THE U. S. A   CARRIER IS LOSTIR   Jap Submarine Sank One U.S. Vessel in the Gilbert Engagement

ESCORT VESSEL SUNK BY JAPS   Carrier Liscome Bay Lost In Gilberts Conquest, Navy Announces

Escort Carrier  Sunk In Gilberts   Only Ship Lost In Naval Operations

LOUORT PLANE CARRIER oUNK BY ENEMY SUR   Rear Admr. Mullinnix and Capt. Irving BD. Wiltsie Reoorted Missing.

U. S. Escort Aircrait Carrier Sunk During Gilbert Island Operations

SMALL U.S. PLANE CARRIER SUNK IN. GILBERTS BATTLE   Navy Announces the Escort Carrier Liscome Bay Was Only U. S. Vessel: Lost Dur ing the Encacement

U. S. CARRIER LISCOME BAY I VICTIM OF JAPS   Escort Aircraft Carrier Was Sunk During Battle For Gilbert Islands

U0, EOGORT CARRIER QUNK IN GILBERTS   Small Carrier Torpedoed By Japanese Sub

U. S. Loses One Carrie At Gilberts   Navy Announces Sinking in Conquest of Islands —  Admiral Missing

U.S. ESCORT CARRIER SUNK OFF GILBERTS      ‘Small Aircraft Carrier Only Ameri canVessel Lost in Engagement Navy Says   ADMIRAL ABROAD   Total Casualties Not Yet Revealed and Complement of Vessel Noi Stated

Jap Sub Sinks U.S. KEseort Carrier   (Further details on Pare &-A)

REPORT VESSEL SINK BY JAPS   Escort Aircraft Carrier Lis. come Bay Only One Lost In Gilberts.

Warship Sunk By Jap Sub in Gilbert Battle   American Escort Carrier Liscome Bay Sent to Bottom During One of Bloodiest Engagements in Pacific Area

U. $. CARRIER TORPEDOED AND SUNK BY JAPS   Liscome Bay, Escort Vessel, First to  Be Lost In War

U.S. Escort Carrier Lost   Vessel ‘Sunk By Jap Submarine in Action Off Gilbert Islands

U.S.CARRIER SUNK BY JAPANESE SUB   LISCOME BAY LOST DURING GILBERT ISLAND OPERATIONS

Jap Sub Sinks U.S. Carrie   Liscome Bay Torpedoed In ‘Gilbert Battle

‘Baby’ Carrier Only U.S. Vessel  Lost In Gilberts   Sinking Of Escort Ship By Japs Reperted By Navy; Reveals Battle Terrific

Axis Masses Major Plane Fleet in Italy   Spezia Naval Base Blasted by British 4-Engined Bombers

Allied Fliers Hit Spezia Naval Base In Shattering Raid   British-based Bombers Dump Cargoes of Block-busters On Italian Naval Base While Yanks Raid Southern Italy

BLAST ITALY’S ~ BIG NAVY BASE   Planes From Britain Join Growing Allied Assault on Axis Partner

NAZIS MASSING AERIAL MIGHT IN SO, ITALY   British Bombers Strike at Spezia While Africa-Based Planes Attack Sicily, Sardinia

Italian Naval Base Blasted By RAF Planes   Britain Based Bombers Join In Shattering Allied Attacks   BLOCK-BUSTERS HIT      Germans Rushing 2,000 Planes To Help Defend Italy

Allies Pound Italy From Two Sides; RAF Crosses Alps To Plaster Spezia

‘Axis Partners Confer on Defenses   Nazis Said to be Massing Planes in Southern Italy

Air Offensive  Against Italy  Is Mounting British Planes  Attack Naval Base at Spezia

BIG BRITISH BOMBERS HIT ITALIAN BASE   RAF Joins Acrial Offensive Against Italy on Tuesday

AIR PINCERS TIGHTENED ON ITALY; BRITISH RAID NAVAL BASE AT SPEZIA   Allied Bombers From Africa Raid Southern Part Of Fascist Country, Sicily and Sardinia

RAF Attacks Axis Navy Base   Italian Possessions, West Germany Hit

AXIS REPORTED TO BE MASSING 2000 PLANES IN ITALY   RAF Bombers Join In Raids On Enemy—Shattering Attack On Spezia Naval Base

HIT SPEZIA AS AXIS MASSES 7.000 PLANES   Airmen From Africa Continue Attacks on South Italy

Naval Base At Spezia Attacked; Bombers In Africa Also Hit Cities

Shattering Raid On Spezia Naval Base Reported   Axis Said Massing 2,000 Planes In Italian Airports

ALLIES PUMMEL DUCE’S COUNTRY FROM ALL SIDES: NAZI ‘PROTECTORS’ ASSEMBLE 2,000 SHIPS IN READINESS   BritishBombers Make Long Trip to Bomb Spezia Naval Base; Germans Look Invasion Threat Full > al Dawn

ITALIAN NAVAL BASE IS BOMBED   Axis Reported Massing 2,00( Planes To Combat Any Allied Invasion

Naval Base in Italy Is  Hammered   Bombs Are Unloaded On Spezia By Fleet Of Bombers Operating  . From British Fields “

GET DOSE OF BOMBS   RAF Strikes More Than 700 Miles Across Channel—-Axis Prepare for  ge Wt

Washington Roundup  Wheeler Insists FDR Will No! Be Irandidate tn 1044

PREDICTS FOR WON'T BE 1944 CANDIDATE   Senator Wheeler of Montana Says Republican Trend Will Defeat Dem Nominee

Says Republicans Wil Win in 1944  Gan Whanlae Paukbc   Sen. Wheeler Doubts FDR Will Make Race

WHEELER SAYS DEMOCRATS 10 LOSE ELECTION   Asserts FDR Will Not Run For Fourth Term

Wheeler Says FDR Couldn’t Win 4th Term   Feels Only GOP Split Or The Naming Of Willkie Could Defeat Republicans

SUBSIDY SCRAP AND POLITICS STIR CAPITAL   Wrangle Over Servicemen’s Ballot Bill Also on Last Lap in Congress

Wheeler Says F. R. Will Not Run  Doubts Any Bourbon Can Win in 1944

WHEELER DOUBTS ANY DEMOCRAT CAN WIN IN 1944   PREDICTS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION

WHEELER SEES COP VICTORY   Predicts Roosevelt Wil! Not Be Candidate In 744

FOR WILL NOT TUN, DECLARES WHEELER   Even Roosevelt Couldn't Win In 1944, Says Senator

WASHINGTON HEARS STARTLING REPORT ON 1944 CAMPAIGN   SENATOR WHEELER   SENATOR WHEELER TALKS ON POLITICS AND “SENATOR GEORGE ‘ANGR}

Wheeler Avers FDR Won't Run Again, Points Out He Can See Republican Swing

Wheeler Says FDR Will.Not Run  Says President Can   Says President Can Sense Definite Trend Toward GOP

Wheeler Predicts GOP President Will Be Elected  Montanan Does Not Think FDR Is To Run in 1944

22 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Jap Base at Munda   Nine Nipponese Planes Are. Downed ir Air Battles, Five of- Them Over Salamaua and Four.in Other Sectors

Allied Pilots Drop 52 Tons Of Bombs on Munda; Rabaul Also Is Pounded From Air

Allied Flyers Pour More Bomb  Loads on Munda   Buin-Faisi Region And Rabaul Harbor Also Are Targets

52 ‘Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Jap Base at Munda  _ Nine Nipponese Planes Are Downed in   Nine Nipponese Planes Are Downed in Air Battles, Five of Them Over Salamaua and Four in Other Sectors

Munda, Rabaul Take Pounding In Allied Raids   Fifty-two Tons of Bomb: Dropped on Japs New Georgia Air Base

Japanese Airbase Again Bombed By Allied Fliers   Rabaul Is Also Raided, General MacArthur's Head. quarters Reports—Ground Position at Munda Unchanged

BOMBS DROP ON MUNDA ANI RABAUL POSTS   Five Jap Zeros Shot Down By American Lightnings In Battle Over Salamana   Five Fires

Allied Planes — Smash Munda Heavily Again   U.S. Troops Closing In; Bombers Pound Rabaul And Other Jap Bases

Fliers Blast Enemy’s Vital Bases   Jap Holdings Are Hit By 52 Tons of Bombs During Raids

MUNDA POUNDED BY 52 TONS OF BOMBS SUNDAY   Jap Warships Sighted Near Kolombangara, Flee  Taward Faia   HEAVY BOMBERS IN ATTACK ON RABAUL

Bombers lash Japs’ Munda  airplane base   Drop 119 tons of bombs in two days

LAUNCH CHEST DRIVE TONIGHT   CIO Leader To Addres: Industrial Division’s ‘Step-Off’

OE LOSES 1211 TANKS, 314 PLANES IN BATTLE   Battling Between Orel anc Belgorod May Spread to Smolensk Area.

FIERCE SOVIET ATTACK PUSHES GERMANS BACK   Nazi Armored Legions Hit After Capturing Two Villages Near Belgorod   ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY   Fresh Units Join Attempt To Achieve Large-Scale Break-  Thru At All Cost

BATTLE WILL END IN MAY SAYS GIRAUD   Three British Motor Torpedo Boats Sink 3000-Ton Axis Merchantman And Other Boats; Claim Carzo Ships At Gibraltar   MYSTERY SEEN IN RUSSIAN FIGHTING

Giraud Predicts Victory in May   Ground Battle Subsides; Big Convoy At Gibraltar Reported by Vichy

FORECASTS ALLIED VICTORY IN AFRICA BY END OF MONTH   Gen. Giraud Also Predicts Allies Will Win War By 1944

American Flier Interned In Russia Is Thinking Of Joining Red Ski Unit

SENATE 10 PROBE LIQUOR SHORTAGE AND HIGH PRICE'   Some Think Scarcity Is Arti ficially Created By Monopolistic Interesis.

AMERICANS END JAP RESISTANCE IN ARAWE AREF   Pacific War Intensification Seen as Roosevelt Calls Parley

YANKS EXTEND  POSITIONS AT ARAWE   Japs Stage Three Ain Attacks, Using Nearly 100 Planes

Four Allies Take Part  In Victory   Total of 82 Nipponese Planes Shot Down, Two Damaged Cruisers Sunk to Complete Bismarck Triumpt

Total of Jap Planes Lost  Is Increased   Helpliss Destroyers, Lifeboats and Barges Are Hunted Down

Four Allies Gang-up On Japanese   Americans, Dutch, Australians and British in Action

Cabin Craiser Hits Log In Lake Chapin; Sinks ; Seven Passengers Saved

U.S. Lines Are Lengthened on Guadalcanal  Ground Forces Are Closing

U.S. Lines Are Lengthened on Guadalcana!  Ground Forces Are Closing In for the Kill

Yanks Close In For Kill As Evacuation Of Guadalcanal By Ian Foreee [ec Indicated.

American rorces Mopping Up Japs On Guadalcanal  Knox Says Enemy _ Evacuates Island But Some Remain   MUNDA BOMBED New Jap Thrust

U.S. Forces Pressing Advantage   Foe Believed Moving From Hot Spot On Guadalcanal

FORCES ADVANCE IN JAP TERRITORY NAVY DECLARES   Ground Forces Lengthen Main Line In Preparation For The Kill   AIRBASE AT MUNDA IS ALSO ATTACKED

AMERICANS DOMINATE ALL GUADALCANAL   Secretary Knox Says Only Few Small Groups Of Enemy Troops Remain In Islann   Jap Effort Costly

Yanks Close In For Kill As  Evacuation Of Guadalcanal Rai TH: BaAwatia. la. Imad Aad sel.  me oes CPL EB ' @75 tot ER OR UG es:

YANKS WIPING OUT JAP GROUPS STILL ON GUADALCANAL   Americans Lengthen Line After Knox Announces Bulk of Enemy Has Withdrawn From Island,   24. NIPPONESE KILLED, ONE TAKEN PRISONER   Defeat of Foe Stirs Speculation as to Next Move of United States Forces in Area.

FURTHER YANK ADVANCE MADE IN SOLOMONS   Navy Reveals Gains After Tokyo Re ports Evacuation   Munda Base is Bombed

ISLAND FORCE OF AMERICANS SET FOR KILL   POCKETS OF ENEMY TROOPS BEING WIPED OUT

Newly Won  Positions Are  Consolidated Only Scattered Pocke   Only Scattered Pocket: of Jap Forces Yet Remain in Islands

NEW CEILINGS ON MEAT ARE NATION-WIDE   Cents Per Pound Retai Prices Go Into Effect Next Mond>y.   LIVING COST IS CUT   On June 1a Reduciicn o! Ten Per Cent Will Be Ordered.

MEAT CEILING PRICES ISSUED   Effective Monday, Shifting Enforcement Burden to Consumer

OPA ISSUES LIST OF NEW MEAT PRICES   Schedule Expected to Result in Some Reductiens

Worst Blizzard in 50 Years Clears In Northeast Area  Half-Hundred Person:  Marooned Five Dove in Plentvwood

Japs Withdraw Ships, Men In  Pacifie Areas   Believed Planning New Operation; Tension  Is Eased

JAPS IN SOLOMONS SLOW OPERATIONS   Experts Believe Enemy Is Preparing For New . Operation

Solons’ Big Book About Small Talk   Congressional Record Serves No Useful Purpose

PENALTIES SEVERE UNDER NEW RULING   Blackout, Air Raid Drills To Be Conducted Differently

NEW PENALTIES FOR VIOLATORS OF BLACKOUTS   ‘Extra Teeth” In Set-Up To Ex force Compliance During Drills

Jap Bases Are Being Bombed (ver Wide Area   New Allied Aerial Campaign Hits Principal! Bases In Southwest Pacific   RABAUL BLASTED TIME AND AGAIN

Air Raid on Japanese Held Lae 95 Per Cent Effective   Ameriman Planes Encounter Ack Ack But No Interception By Zeros; Australian Troops In Suecessful Raid on Mubo

Durant Flier Leads Affack   Lieut. Art Small Leads Formation Which Hits Japanese-Held Lae

LT, BURDICK IN NEW GUINEA AIR RAID   Was Co-Pilot on Bomber Which Blasted Japanese Supplies at Las

Mrs. Maleolm New President of Local ~» Legion Auxiliary   eSuceeeds Mrs. S. L. McIntire;  New Officers Installed Next Regular Meeting

Old B-C Gasoline Ration Books To Be Called In   New Style Coupons After Sept. 1; “A” Coupon Value Drops Tonight

B AND C GAS BOOKS WILL BE CALLED IN   New Type Coupons to Be Issued by Boards to Prevent Use of Invalid Stamns.

Band Books To Be Invalid   New Ration Books To Be Issued to Replace Old Type

NEW GASOLINE BOOKS   OPA Will Make Changes In B And € Katien Reeks Seon

LARGE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN  ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR KNOWN DESTROYED 43

EREMY PLANES ; RESHOTDOWN   South Pacific Air Force Takes “Great Toll From Japs in ; Series of Raids   ONE- SIDED VICTORY 15 "SCORED OVER NEW GUINEA

Allies Down 104 Jap Planes   — %  "92 Shot Dawn, 12 Destroyed on Ground In Two De-s«

104 JAPANESE PLANES BAGGED OVER WEEKEND   Enemy Suffers Heavily in Attempts to Attack Allies In Southwest Pacific Areas

Blast 147 Jap Planes From Sky   Allies Score One-Sided Victory Over Nippons in Southwest Pacific.

OVER 100 JAP WARPLANES ARE SHOT DOWN   Allied Airmen Account For Probably 147 Enemy Planes In Series Of Brilliant Victories In Southwest Pacific.

\Allied Fliers Knock Another 104--Probably 147--Warplane: Out Of Japanese Airforce   One-Sided Victory Scored Over Oro Bay In New Guinea, Repulse Raiders

104 MORE JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN IN PACIFIC   92 Shot Down and 12 Destroyed on Ground in - Series of Brilliant . Victories .-

GUNS OF ALLIED FLIERS DESTROY 104 JAP PLANES   92 Aircraft Shot Down and 12 Destroyed on the Ground in Series of Brilliant Victories Friday and Saturday

147 JAP Planes Are Shot Down   U. S. AIR FORCES IN BIG VICTORY PAST WEEKEND

NIPS LOSE 104 MORE PLANES IN SOUTH PACIFIC   List 43 Others as Probably Lost in Air Battles Last Week

JAP AIRFORCE KNOCKED OUT AGAIN   Toll May Probably Be 147—Enemy Bested In 4-1 Score

2-Day Raids ~ Destroy 104 Jap Planes   Damage in South Pacific Fighting May Have Been Even Greater

OVER HUNDRED JAP PLANES KNOCKED OUT   Series of Brilliant Victories Are Recorded Over the Weekend by Lt. Kennevy's Fliers   U. S. LOSSES ARE SMALL

—PACIFIC— —  ALLIES DESTROY 104 JAP PLANES   Brilliant Air Victories Are Registered Friday And Saturday   LOSS MAY GROW   Attempted Attack On Oro Boy Turns Out Badly For Japanese

Japs Lose 104 Planes In Two Days, Maybe 147   Allies Score Series O} Brilliant Victories Ir Southwest Pacific.

ALLIED FLIERS ~JAP AIRCRAFT      War Birds Shoot Down 92 and Destroy 12 Planes on the Ground in Series of Brilliant Southwest Pacific Actions.

Only One Allied  Plane Missing   MacArthur Said Enemy Fleet Was Virtually Annihilated; May Have Lost 147 Planes; Yanks Intercept Jap Surprise Attack.

AIRCRAFT MISSING   Nips’ Attempt To Surprise Oro Bay Fails As Great Fight Results: No Report Of Land Action

‘Allied Airmen Destroy 104 Japanese Aircraft In Heavy Weekend Raids

Alles Bag 104  Enemy Planes   One-Sided Victory At Oro Bay With 26 Jap Bombers,  20 Fighters Down.

Allies Knock Out More Than 100 Jap  Planes In Pacific   Damage Many Others In Concerted Air Action

Allied Airmen Blast {04 Jap Planes From Sky  Weekend Victories Whittle Enemy’s Binernen Fe Danwnifian

LARGE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN  ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR  KNOWN DESTROYED 43 ATUTDC HOMhD éADt Ke

Deal Heavy Blows to Jap Air Force  Series of Victories Scored in Pacific

U.S. RUINS 147 JAP PLANES IN SMASHING TWO-DAY DRIVE   LT.-GEN. GEORGE C. KENNEY’S FLIERS SCORE BRILLIANT VICTORY IN PACIFIC AREA

Like Shooting Ducks On Pond   Yanks Blast 46 To 57 Planes Down Without Losing Plane   SAME THING EVERY TIME THEY CLASH

Tax Bill Change Offered by lowan   $65,000 Lobbying Deal Investiaated

‘WAS NICE FACTORY’ YANK BOMBER SAYS   Ohioan Tells of Sights He Saw Over Germany

Only $50,000 Subscribed As Red Cross Drive Enters Final Week   Chairmen Hudson and Yauch Renew Pleas To Residents and Workers; $123,000 Goat Stl Far Off

$45,000 Still Needéd In Red Cross Campaign   Drive In Final Stages But Far Short of $123,000 Goal

WARS FIFTH YEAR BEGINS   OFFICIALS SEE VICTORY ON FOURTH ANNIVERSAR)

5th Year Of European War Opens With Allie: Definitely Over Peak, On Road To Victor   Majority Of Expert Opinion Gives Hitler 12 Months Before Nazi Collapse   Only Question Is How Long Nazis Can Hold Up Under Terrific Attacks

Hitler's End Near; Question Now is How Long It Will Take Alas  ee ee ee ee ee See ee eC

Nazi throne totters at 5th milestone   Reeling Germans face 3rd winter in Russia

WAR’S END WITHIN NEXT 12 MONTHS FORESEEN AS FIFTH YEAR IS OPENED

Fifth Year Of War ' Opens With Allies Set For Big Events   United Nations On the Threshold of Big Events Expected Po Bring Hitler To the Brink of Catastrophe

Germans Report New Retreat in Donets Basin Area; Claim Other Attacks Beesiemn Off   Announcement Shows Germans Are Falling Back to Staling-ine      Alhes on Threshold of Big Events Expected to End Hitler’. Rule

‘War Enters Fifth Year   Observers Look For Nazi Crackup Within 12 Months

‘World War II Enters Fifth Year Today:   BY HARRISON SALISBURY 4TIP\ Ctaff Cayreacnandent

Only Question Debatable _ Now Is Time When Enemy Will. Give Up  RE-DOUBLE EFFORTS  Successes “Of Past Six Weeks Cause Many To Change Est Estimates —

After 4 Years, Hitler Nears Brink; Victory Within Year Predicted

Fifth Year of War Opens As Allies Are on Threshold of Big Events

Allies On Threshold of Big Events, 5th YearofWarQpens   How Long It Would Take To Liquidate Hitler Is  Only Question

End Of War In Sight As Fifth Year Begins   By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Job Freezing Now in Effeet nS. M. County   Twelve Main Concerns on War Work Are Affected Here

TOWN TAKEN      Rats Prowl Cagliari, Once Proud City Of 80,000 People

OPA Will Halt  Deluxe Charge   Says Various Businesses Are Upping Rates For Reeular Service

OPA Stiffens Rule On ‘De  Luxe’ Services   Cites Examples By Laundries, Shoe Repair Shops, Other Agencies

OPA HITS FANCY new SEAUICE   Stiffens Regulations in Regard to Repair Men Who Try to Escape Céilings

MacArthur Air Force Attacks 10 Jap Bases  Enemy Shipping, Airdromes Struck

AIR BLOWS DEALT JAPS IN 10 PLACES   SHIPS AND AIRDROMES 0CCUPIED BY ENEMY BOMBED BY ALLIED FLIERS.

SELECTEES 60 10 FT. LEAVENWORTH   Nineteen Left Local Bus Station This Morning for Induction Center.

19 YOUNG MEN TC FT, LEAVENWORTH   Left Here Early Today to Report to the Induction Center.

Hoover Urges Trusteeship of United Nations to Establish Peace Program

Hoover Proposes Trusteeship To Manage Peace  Victory. Viewed Inevitable’   Victory. Viewed ‘Inevitable’ By Ex-President

3 DESTROYERS ARE BATTERED OFF SOLOMONS   One 1,000-Pound Bomb : Direct Hit On Japanese Warship At Gizo   FOUR ENEMY ISLAND BASES UNDER ATTACK

U.S. Strikes Heavily Against Japs   island Bases Are Hi In Severe Raids; Three Ships Struck

3 JAP VESSELS ARE DAMAGED   One Direct Hit Scored On Destroyer In Big Raids Throughout  Solomons Area

3 ENEMY VESSELS POUNDED IN RAIDS   One Destroyer Suffers Di rect Hit in the Solomons

Direct Hit Made on Destroyer U.S. Fliers Batter 3 Jap Ships  And 4 Bases in Solomons Area

Paralysis Fund Campaign Soon  Annual Drive First - Two Weeks of January

PARALYSIS FUND. PLANS FINISHED   Will Depend . Mostly on -Voluntary Contributions by Mail

ONE OF MAJOR BLOWS TO JAPS   Installations Wiped Out In Final Air Raid; Survivors Are Pursued

Japs Who Escape Annihilation Are Being Pursued  Into the Jungles   Taking of Air Base Is One of Biggest Victories over the Japanese Since the War Started

Remnants Of Enemy Garriscn, Fleeing Annihilation, Being Pursued In Jungle   RABAUL STRONGHOLD TO BE NEXT OBJECTIVE

Siege, Started on September 4, Ends in Victory  PINCERS MOVEMENT ACHIEVES CAPTURE  One of Biggest Victories to be Scored Against The Japs

Big Victory Is Scored Against Jap:   Rabaul May Be Next Objective Of MacArthur

FUNERAL SERVICES SET FOR TUESDAY   Simple Rites to be Helc . for 4. Pierpont  oraqn

Morgan To Have  Private Funeral   Ashes of Financier Will Be Taken ot Hartford, Coun,

Yanks In Africa, Now Hardened To Battle, Eager for Invasion   By C. R. CUNNINGHAM “Tt RP Staff Correcnondent)

Yanks, Hardened by African Campaign, Eager for Next Round—Invasion of Europe

African Victory Seasons Green American Troops, Now Ready and Anxious to Tackle Nazis on Soil of Europe

Tunisian Victory Turned Yanks Into First Class Fighting Force   American North African Army Stands Poised And Eager For Next Big Jump-Off

Lives of 150 Are Endangered in Eastern Oklahoma  Flood Leaves Untold  Property Damage,  Six Known to Be Dead

Japs Open Big Push for Area   Both Sides Lose Heavily in Sea, Air Fight

Bombs to Fall On Tokyo, Says Fleet Commander   Final Chapter to Be Written In One Short Year; War Lords To Pay Heavily For Atrocities

South Pacific Leader Says Time Is Short For Japon; Bells Are Tolling For Axis

Admiral Halsey Predicts Allies Will Achieve Final Victory Over Axis Powers During ’43; Fleet Commander Warns Japs of Acts to Come

fir William Halsey Predicts Complete Victory for United Nations in 1943  Hirohito Warned: YourTimels Short’

Allied. Victory Tn 1943 Is Forecast   ‘Admiral Halsey. In Typical Directness Sees ‘Complete. Axis Defeat This Year.

ADMIRAL SAYS VICTORY WILL COME IN 1943   U. S. FLEET CHIEF IS DEFINITE IN PREDICTIONS

Adm. H alsey Sees Complete Victory in °43   Navy Chief Gives Plain Answer and Issues Warning to Japs

Halsey Sees Axis Defeat Daring 1943   United Nations Offensive On All Fronts in “Very Short Time’ Forecast Bv U.S. Admiral

x +*« * * *  Allied Victory In 1943 Is Forecast   Admiral Halsey In Typical Directness Sees Complete Axis Defeat This Year

‘United Nations Victory in 1943, Complete and Absolute Forecast by Admiral Halsey   Commonder of South Pacific Forces of Pacific Fleet Sends Defiant and Confident Message to Japanese

Halsey Bluntly Says Japan And Axis Will Be Defeated   Sends ‘Messages’ To Jap Leaders And People; ‘Hopes’ For Bombing Of Tokyo Again

Commander William Hal. sey of South Pacific Fleet Says It Will Be Complete   FORECASTS FALL OF “JAPAN WITH NAZI%      Allies, Ue Says, Have Definitely Passed from De fensive to Offensive   War

Victory, And In 43, Seen By Fleet Boss   Halsey Believes Axis Can Be Routed  By End Of Year

House Sends Highway Bill to Senate   Fate of Bill in Upper House Is Uncertain, Opponents Sav Thev Wilt Defeat Act

Goebbels Admits Crisis   Danger Threatening Reich, Says Minister In Nation-Wide Talk

‘Unvarnisned Truth’ Told to Germans  Not the Moment for Asking Questions, Goebbels Says “in Broadcast   RED STRENGTH NOW. REVEALED   The Triumphant Soviets Meanwhile Continue Push on Wide Front

Reds Score New Gains In Kharkov And Kursk Areas   Move Forward In Donets Basin, Threaten Nazi Retreat

Tokyo Raiders Tell Story Of Their Escape Into China   Thrilling Adventures of Daring Airmen Revealed in Details of Attack on Japanese

Veterans Of Japan Raid Describe Horrors, Laughs After Leavina Carrier

Allied Aircraft Smash At Nazi Communications In Italy As Action On Battlefront Slows

Large Scale Raid Made Into German Defenses In Italy   Fifth Army Makes Decisive Reply To Counter At-  tacks By Enemy   AIR FORCES KEEP UP STEADY RAIDS

2-5 Mile Gain By Fifth Army Despite Fierce  Fight by Nazis   Fallen City Rated Major Objective in Southern Italy

Aussies Halt Jap Atlack   Finschhafen Assoult By Japs Frustrated

AMERICAN TROOPS MOPPING UP AT BAIROKO HARBOR   Japs Apparently Trapped With Backs to Sea

Himmler's Appointment Sign of Hitler's Weakness The All Highest Is Showing Fear

ELEVATION OF HIMMLER, CHIEF NAZI MURDERER, TAKEN AS SIGN OF GROWING WEAKNESS OF HITLER

The W ar Today : Himmler Appointment As Reich  Blood Boss Has Sinister Sound

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   ters Placing Himmler Yn Home Front Control Reveals Weaknesses

State Taxes Set New Low Mark   Federal Levies Are Heaviest in History

Russians Repel Nazi Attempt ‘To Gross River   Germans Talk of Third New Soyiet Offensive On White Riureeian Veant

SOVIETS SCORE IN KIEV BULGE   Nazi Forces Are Chased Qut Of Several More Towns

RUSSIANS CONTINUE — ADVANCE ON NAZIS   Ukraine German Army I: Dispersed With Heavy Casualties

Russians Break Up Nazi Attack   Take More Towns In Kiev Section   Twin Drives in South

Nurnberg, German War Production Center, Hit In British Air Attack

NURNBERG TARGET FOR R.A.F. BOMBS   important Nazi Arms and Rail City Is Blasted

NURNBERG: WAS RAID VICTIM LAST NIGHT ©   British Air. Armada ‘Dropped 1500 Tons Bombs

Huge British Air Fleet Blasts Nurnberg, Nazi — Shrine and Arms Center

ALLIES MAKE SEVENTH RAID ON KEY CITY   Attack Said to Match Heaviest Assault  On Hamburg

RAF STABS DEEP INTO GERMAN ARMS CITY OF NURNBERG   1,500 Tons Of Explosives Rained On City By Mighty Air Armada

MIGHTY BRITISH AIR ARMADA HITS CITY OF NURNBERG   Nazi Party Shrine and Arms : Producing Center: ts Heavily Raided. _

NURNBERG HIT BY 1500 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES   Bombers Leave Trail Of Fiery Destruction Thruout Factory Area   16 PLANES ARE MISSING   Evacuation Of Nazi Government To “Secret Destination” Reported

Mighty RAF armada hits  at N urnberg   Put trail of ruin thru vital center

Nurnberg Hit By Bombers Last Nicht   Fliers Penetrate , Deep Into Germany --To Blast Key ‘City

ANNUAL EASTER OBSERVANCES NOTED IN WORLD   Holiday: -Paear ‘Echoes Thi oughout . War-Torn Snhere —   BOMBERS QUIET   Fighting . Continues, However In Africa. And Russia

Christians in Free Lands Observe Easter With Spirit of Hope Amid Grim War

Christians in Free Lands Observe Easter Amid Grim Trappings of War

EASTER CELEBRATED  THROUGHOUT WORLD  DESPITE GLOBAL WAR EVEN BOMBERS RELATIVELY QUIET OVER  EICLUITING ADEAG

EASTER IS OBSERVED WITH SPIRIT OF ROPE AMID GRIM TRAPPINGS OF WAR

Easter Observances Spread Panoply of Worship Through War-Torn World

Fill Churches On Easter      All Over Christendom Throngs Join:To Woriship The Risen Christ

EASTER OBSERVED 'ALL OVER WORLD THIS YEAR   Traditional Easter Worship Spread From Moscow to Jerusalem, From New York to London.

YRNES SEES REDUCTION IN LIVING COSTS   Vast New Operations Are Declared Imminent

Living Cost Cut Pledged By Byrnes   Hints at Vast New Operations by Allies: Work Day in Coal Mines Is Lengthened

Substantial Cuts Forecast by War Mobilization Head: Outlines Plan   Hints of Vast New Operations Impending; Says Progress Is Being Made on Stabilization of Food Costs; To Lengthen Days in Mines

Greater Battles Are Said Ahead   Progress Reported In Snflation Fight

Byrnes Promises Substantial  Reduction” In Cost Of Living   Outlines Home Front P rogram Geared To The Major Fighting Which He Said Still Lies Ahead Of United Nations

Byrnes Promises Early Reduction In Food Prices   New Cost Program Soon, He Declares

BYRNES PROMISES SUBSTANTIAL CUT IN LIVING COSTS   Declares Program Is Being Drawn to Put Prices Back to Levels of September, 1942.   SEES LONG, HARD ROAD TO VICTORY   , Declares Major Battles Lie Ahead—Says Our War Casuaities to Date Number 90,454.

lization Chief nes Program Home Front  1, war   t  sevelt Warns ‘jor War Battles Al Are Ahead   FAVORS US  sent Edge Must Followed Vigorously ction Is Told

Major Battles — Still to Come, Byrnes Warns   Promises Living Cost Cut As U.S. Entera Main

COST OF LIVING TO BE REDUCED, BYRNES STATES   Coal Mines Will Be Put On 48-Hour Week To Spur  D9 -aduction   MILITARY OPERATIONS SOON TO BE LAUNCHED

Byres Pledges Cut in Living Cost; Warns There's No Reason to Expect Quick Victor;

Cut In Cost OF . Living Part Of  Home Front Plan   Increased Jaxation Also Necessary ta Stay inflation, Warns — of Overeconfidence, Favors Subsidies

Substantial Cut in Cost Of Living  Is Promised   WMO Director Byrnes Says Definite Progress Made in Stabilizing Of Food Casts   LONGER WORK DAY IN COAL MINES OK’D

‘Sharp reduction in living costs soon; major battle ahead   Hints at vast new operations to follow advantave already szained

Byrnes Promises Living Costs Will Come Down But Warns Fighting Must Continue Hard Until Victory

Byrnes Promises Substantial Cut In Living Costs  Hold-The-Line Order Or Price And Wage Fronts

LIVING COSTS TO DECREASE, BYRNES SAYS   Mobilization Director Makes Promise in Radio Talk   VAST OPERATIONS HINTED IN SPEECH

Byrnes Promises Price Cut      Extend Mine Week, Major Battles Ahead

Byrnes States Living Cost to Be Reduced   Home-Front Plans Being Geared to Battles Ahead

Living Costs Cut: Promised By Byrnes   48-Hour Week Is Approved for Coal Mine Workers

Evacuate City After De stroying Harbor Installations —   LEAVE SCENE OF RUIN   Fifth Army Closes in On City From Around Vesuvius Volcano

GERMAN FORCES FLEEING NORTH   Nazi Machine-Gun Squads Spread Terror Among Italians  rmretowrrnie ms mAk imate is 1

Germans Kill Civilians In  Wild Retreat   Nazis Dynamite Port Now In Shambles State

Gen. Eisenhower's Communique Announces Capture of Both Pompei and Mercato With Reign of Terror Raging Among Residents  BERLIN CITES DESTRUCTION OF INSTALLATIONS

CLAIM HARBOR 5 DESTROYED   American Soldiers Capture Pompei and Other Cities: in Area,    ADVANCE IS UNBROKEN

Rebel Activity, Allied Pressure Force Retreat   Large- Scale Sabotage Also Factor, Beeline Says; Say Harbor Destroyed

Fifth Drives Beyond Pompei   Berlin Dispatch to Stockholm Says Germans Evacuating City Because of Risk of New Landings — Report British Fleet Bombarding City

Nazis Blame Sabotage And Riots for Loss; Threaten Hard Reprisals on Italians

EVACUATION (5. ANNOUNCED BY BERLIN RADIO   Cairo Radio Says Fifth Army Investing Port from Two Sides,   ALLIES TAKE POMPEI IN DRIVE FROM SALERNO

Second Port  Of Italy No  Longer Safe   Montgomery Consolidates - Newly Won Positions in  Foggia Area

SAY REVOLT BY COMMUNISTS 1S PARTLY CAUSE   Fear “New Allied Landings in Naples Itself” Is Report

Harbor Facilities Said Demolished As Troops Retreat   Sweden Receives Berlin Dispatch; Say British Fleet Bombards City; Yanks Move Toward Objective

AMERICANS ROLLED ACROSS PLAINS 10 NAPLES THURSDAY  LAST STAGES PRIOR TO OCCUPATION OF BIG PORT REPORTED

FALL OF PORT CITY IN DAY OR ; TWO EXPECTED   Cairo Broadcast Says American Units Driving Into Naples Fram Two Directions   MERCE E ALLIED PUSH COST DEARLY, CLAIM   Meanwhile British Eighth Army Is Consolidating Newly Won Airbase At Fogyia

Nazis Reported Using Machine Guns Against Women And Children   Clark’s Forces Overrun Several Outlying Towns Last Stages Of Advance Begun  BULLETIN

Evacuate City After De stroying Harbor Instal lations   LEAVE SCENE OF RUID  Fifth Army Closes in On City From Around Vesv- vius Volcano         LEAVE SCENE OF RUIN

BLOW UP PORT INSTALLATIONS AS THEY FLEE   Sabotage On Big Scale Helping to Force  Retreat   WARSHIPS SHELL CITY   ‘Russian Army’s Big Siege ' Guns Are Bombarding i Kiev

BERLIN SOURCES SAY HARBOR OF NO VALUE NOW   Meanwhile, Eisenhower Announccs Pompei’s Capture, Gains by Fifth Army

Wreek Harbor Installations  In Departing   Risk In Remaining Toa Great, Says Military

Germans Flee To North After Machine-Gunning Women And Children In Streets; Fall Of Pompei Announced By General Eisenhower

SOME CREDIT BEING GIVEN COMMUNISTS   Harbor Installations Destroyed by Desperate Germans. Americans Driving Into City

THE GERMANS HAVE EVACUATED NAPLES   Risk Of New Landings Regarded Too Great , To Hold On

TROOPS SAID TO INVEST IT AT 2 POINTS   Report Comes From Cairo Radio, but Official Communique Says Fifth Army Is in the Vicinity of Vesuvius.

POMPE! FALLS TOINVADERS IN FIERCE FIGHT   American Fifth Army Reported Close to Port City

RIDTS BREAK OUT, GERMANS REPORT   Montgomery's Fighting Eighth Dashes 22 Miles Up East Coast

Pompei Falls To Modern Vesuvius As Invaders  Sweep Through Old City

oth Army ‘Nearness’ Causes Withdrawal  Sahotace. Rewalt Said ay Pin C...1..   Sabotage, Revolt Said on Big Scale; Gen. Clark’s Forces Enoulf Pownei}

GERMANS HAVE EVACUATED NAPLES, BERLIN REPORTS   The Nazis Destroved the Har bor Installations, It Was Announced.   COMMUNISTIC REVOLT   The Berlin Military Spokesman Said the “Rebels” Were Aiding Allies.

GERMANS EVACUATE NAPLES « &   Communist Revolt and Sabotage Partly Respon. sible for Withdrawal

-ompei Takan and Berlin Says Germans Withdrawing As Harhor Destroved

Seal canned vegetable anc  fruit prices   Price clamps set for stores in 130 cities

METHODIST CHURCH NOTES Rev. R. M. Stockton, Pastor   VERNON WOMEN’S SOCIETY MEETS THURSDAY, JULY 2:

DEFERMENT OF FAMILY MLN CONGRESS AIM   House Committee Speeding Action To Prevent Call Of Nation’s Fathers   WMC IGNORING INTENT OF CONGRESS, IS CLAIM   Bill Putting Draft Quotas On State-Wide Basis Being Studied

Billi Pushed To Postpone Father Draft   House Gr oup Considers  Statewide Basis

House Group Speeds Bill on Defermeni   Military Committee Head Predicts Passage of the New Measure   SEEKS TODELAY  ** CALL TO FATHRRS   Action Sought Following, Report on Army Plans to Call 12.000 Men Daily  ;

DRAFT DELAY FOR FATHERS PLAN MAPPED   Executive Session Slated “To Study Selective Service Bill

ACTION ON FATHER DRAFT SPEEDED   House Group to Study Ki day Bill on Selective Service Quotas

HOUSE STUDIES DRAFT MEASURE   Military Committee Speeds Action on Bill Granting Deferment,

House Group Flails Action of Draft Chief   Chairman. May of House Military Committee Schedules Eyaritive Sacsinn

House Fight Looms Over  Draft Plans   Effort Will Be Made To Pass Legislation To Delay Fathers

Speeds Legislation To Grant Draft Deferment To Men 18 to 38 With Dependent:

In Move To Defer Fathers   Measure Would Call Uy All Fatherless in a State First, Regard‘less of Occupation

House Group Speeds Action On Bill to Delay Dratt of  Fathers; Passage Forecast

SPEED ACTION ON DRAFT DELAY FOR FATHERS   House Group Says Manpower Chiefs. “Ignored” Congress   SOCIAL SECURITY   May Obviate Need for Any Post War Legislation

HOUSE MILITARY GROUP RUSH LAW 'T0 DEFER FATHERS   Step Up In Action Follows Saturday Night Reports Of \Hershey And McNutt

Congress May Act To Delay Call To Married Men  Military Committee Would Put Choice On State Basis Despite WMC Pennnuncement

GROUP IN HOUSE SPEEDS ACTION ON DRAFT BILL   Pending Measure Would Delay Induction of Fath~ ers Until Other Lists  Are Exhausted   MNUTT CRITICIZED   Chairman May Says Manpower Chiefs Ignore Congress In Revealing Drastic Induction Pisns

SPEED ACTION ON DRAFT DEFERMENT FOR FATHERS   COMMITTEE FLAYS PLAN TO DISREGARD ALL DEPENDENCY

House Rushes Dratt Measure   Predict Enactment Of Plan Calling For Deferment Of Mestad Men.

Group Seeks Draft Delay For Fathers   Military Committee Speeds Action on Legislation For Deferment

er Bes eS BR BF O44 BAS SEERA Be  LEGISLATION   For Married Men With Dependents After  Selective Service ‘

SMOKERS WILL RECEIVE SHARE OF CIGARETTES   No Restrictions On Manufacturing Or Distribution Necessary At Present, WPRB Save   STOCKS ADEQUATE   No Labor Problem Exists In Industry; Production Running At All-Time  High to Meet Demand

“FLASHES   Leased Wire Gultetins on Latest World News Today,   AWoarkars Acdiresril

KING VISITS U.S, BRITISH, TROOPS      Inspects Units Of Combined British, American Fleet

High Point Youth Assists In Preparation Of Tasty Meal For King George VI

KING GEORGE MEETS YANKS IN NO. AFRICA   Inspected Army and Naval Units and Met Men Who Cover the War News   HAD A GOOD TIME

KING GEORGE SEES VARIOUS FIGHTING UNITS NORTH AFRICA  _ VISITS AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY ALONG WITH BRITISH FORCES

Tokyo Calls For Report On Tule Lake   Japon Halts Exchange Of Netionals Pending Internment Probe

Daily Temperatures   Japan Halts Exchange of Prisoners Pending Probe of Tule Lake Camp

Washington. Believes Second Fr ont ‘Now. . Herve ‘With Italian: Invasion Pr ogressing

a . a Washington Believes Second Frent Now Here With Italian Invasion Progressing

Castelvetrano Is Taker In Swift American Push   Halian Collapse in West Sicily Grows; 8th Army Makes Slow Progress

Allies Cut Down Savage German Sicily Attacks   Yanks, Canadians Advance Over Nazi Dead; 21 Troop Carriers Downed

"3A >romises Servicemen.3as ‘i--s Zan on > easure'20a-i1 2    7a. Xains ONer _ azis —03e™ F3eane “rom. ussicn ra °

Gas for Troops During Furloughs Promised by OPA   Ban Also Lifted From Motorboats

SERVICEMEN WILL GET GAS   OPA Indicates No Early Lifting of Ban On  Pleasure Driving

RESTRICTIONS ON GAS EASED   Ban On East Coast Pleasure Boating Lifted; Serv icemen Get Fuel

NEW YORK FACING SHORTAGE IN MILK   Acute Situation Brought About as Drivers Balk

ALLIED FLYERS RULE SKY OVER MEDITERRANEAN   Convoy In Sicilian Straits Loses 31 Aircraft To Yanks, British   BOMBS WRECK AIRFIELDS   New Warning Sounds That Japanese Are Preparing For New Move

Germans Rushing Toward Hills In Effort Teo Avoid Attack. 246 Trucks Destroyed By Our Airmen.

Full Scale Withdrawal From the Salerno Area of Italy.   NAZIS PUT UP STIFF DEFENSE OF NAPLES   Se ES 0 So a  a  Our Pilots Hammering at Enemy With Night and Dav Barrage.

GERMAN FORGES   Stream of 1800 Enemy Trucks Provide Target  For Allied Fliers

ATTACK ON GIT)   Germans Continue To Fall Back Under Pressure Of Clark's Fifth Army

Fifth Army Now Is Only 15 Miles From City of Naples.  FALL OF NAPLES MATTER OF DAYS  Mussolini’s Efforts to Remobilize Fascist Militia Have Failed.

ALLIES MAY INVADE THRU SCANDINAVIA   Would Carry the War Closest to ° : Heart of Germany

FEARS OF ALLIED INVASION TOUCH AT HEART OF GERMANY   Nazi High Seas Fleet 1: Based At. Narvik — Finnish Crisis Watched

Roosevelt, Churchill Tell Italians to Cast-off Leaders or Sutter Total War at Home

Swarms of Allied Planes Roar Over Italy With Copies of Ultimatum.   DiE FOR MUSSOLINI OR LIVE FOR ITALY   Although No Time Limit Is Set, It Implies We Won't Wait Long.

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL TELL PEOPLE TO MAKE PEACE OR SUFFER CONSEQUENCES

Plymouth County — 4-H Show Held In LeMars Aug. 26-27   Arrangements For Exhibits At 4-H Fair Grounds Complete 

British Hold To Positions   British Bombers and Fighters Support Land Troops in Burma

NOT THE CHAIRMAN.   irs. Charles Lineback t(. Sapervise Soldier Kits Only.

Byrnes Denies Ambitions To Become Vice-President: Seeks to Settle Disputes

Byrnes Avers He Doesn't Desire  Vice Presidency   OWM Director Acts To Iron Out Rows Over War's Conduct

BYRNES DENIES POLITICAL AIMS   War Mobilization Chief Doesn't Want To Be Vice President

BYRNES DENIES — POLITICAL HOPE   Names Bernard Baruch One of His Key Aids; Ignores

Steel Armor For Flyers   All Crewmen of U.S. 8th Air Force Heavy . Bombers to Wear Suits

Our Bomb Crews To Wear Armor As Did Knights   16-Lb. Sleeveless Vest Of Manganese Steel Already Successful

U.S. Heavy Bomber, Crews To Get Manganese Steel Vests as Armor _

Crews of American Heavy Bombers in Eighth Air Force to Wear Steel Armor

Aircraft Strike Halts Production   Workers Not On Strike Says Union Official ‘‘Just Quit Working’

PRODUCTION STOPS AT BREWSTER; WLB IN APPEAL   Government Agency Asks Striking Employees To Return by Noon   NIGHT SHIFT OUT   Management Makes Formal Statement As To Cause of Stoppage

DETER SIGN-UP FOR RATION BOOK FOUR   Will Be Held From Oct. 25-31, Because of Teachers Convention.

FLYNN FACES REAL GRILLING   Senate Commitiee Plans Investigation Into FDR Appointment

JAPANESE REWARD THAILAND FOR AID      Tojo Cedes 6 States in Burma, Malaya; Propaganda in Spotlight

Churchill, F.R. to Plot  New Drives   Offensives in Northern Europe and Southern Asia Under Consideration

FDR, CHURCHILL FACE CHOICE OF INVASION CHIEE   North Africa-Sicily Commander: Draw Speculation in Europe— Burma Indications Few

New Offensive In  Europe, Asia Seen      Churchill And Roosevelt To Map Next War Blows At Parley; Attack Due Soon?

mE. ABD CHURCHILL MAY SELECT NEW COMMANDER   For New Alied Offensiv In Northern Europe and Southern Asia

Naming New Commanders ls Expected   Roosevelt and Churchill May _ Name Chiefs in Europe. Far East

May Pick New War Leaders   Churchill and F. D. R. Face Job of Choosing Men to Lead Possible New Allied Offensives

CHURCHILL -FDR MAY PLAN NEW ALLIED DRIVES   Offensives In Europe and Burma Expected In Few Weeks   'MUST NAME LEADERS   Eisenhower, Stilwell Are Yank Candidates For Campaign Heads

MAY NAME NEW ALLIED LEADER   F.D.R. Churchill May Appoint Commander For European Drive   BURMA ON LIST   Expected To Consider Difficult Task Ahead In Pacific

2 Big Army Commander Posts Open   Roosevelt And Churchill "May Name Leaders for Bic Offensives   ONE FOR EUROPE AND ONE FOR BURMA DRIVE   Possibility of Maintaming Split Commands for European Operations

Problem Of Selecting Two New Operational Chiefs Posed For Roo sevelt And Churchill

May Select Europe, Burma Commanders  One Of Problems To Be Discussed At  OW I eno Mant

ARMY LEADER CHOICE LOOMS   F. R., CHURCHILL FACE TASK OF NAMING CHIEFS

Allied Command One Problem Of War Conference   Roosevelt, Churchill Ponder Selection - OF Leaders

May Select Commanders at Conference   Prospect of New Allied Offensives in Northern Europe Makes Naming of Com mandere Nereacary

Anxiety Voiced on Gandhi's Condition   Indian Leader Now In Second Week OF 71-Dov Fast

Oakland Worker Has ‘C’ Card, Runs 30 Miles Day to and fr -om Jot

ITALIAN CRUISER HIT   British Sub Torpedoes Prize War. ship In Straits Of Messina

SALES TAX SEEN AS MAJOR ISSUE   Taft Advocates 10 Per Cen! Levy; Other Congressional Problems Listed

SALES TAX IS LIKELY; OTHER LEGISLATION   Subsidy law needed; var ious tax plans studied  by Senator Taft

LEVY CITED AS CHECK ON _ INFLATION   Ohis Senator Calls It Way To Help Meet Vast War Expenditures.   SUBSIDY REVIVAL DUE   Six Big Questions Expected To Come Up When Congress  Baannvanac In Fal!

Sees Big Surplu Of Canned Food:   Civilians. May Get More, WEA Executive Says

FDR Advises Postwar Curb  On Barbarisn   Would Organize Relations -Among Nations to End _ Future Irruptions  . Of Savagery   President Proffers Peace Cooperation      Sees ‘Supreme . Necessity’

UNITY OF NATIONG POST-WAR SOUGHT   FDR Calls for After War International Cooperation   PRESIDENT EXPECTED   Follow up Wallace’s World Council Idea in Address to Congress Thursday

FDR CALLS FOR ~~»: POST-WAR UNITY         President Hopes Hopes Another Cor ; flict Will Be Impossible }

UNITED NATIONS MUST PROMOTE POST-WAR PEACE   Roosevelt Calls For Unit; Of Powers To Check  “Forces Of Barbarism”   WILL PRESENT IDEAS IN TALK NEXT WEEK

ROOSEVELTAIMS TOPREVENT WAR IN FIUTIURE YEARS      Spreading’ of Blessings: For _ Peace. of. All. Mankind “Is Urged In-His. Statement on  * Naw Yaare.   MEN ARE CONSCIOUS = OF PREPARATIONS   Postwar International’ ‘Organization Suggested But No Recommendations ‘Are Offered. :

Post-War Prosperity, Unity Urged   FDR Asks Nations To Help Keep Down ‘Barbarism’

FDR APPEALS FOR POST-WAR ALLIED UNITY   Asserts Nations Must Stand Together to Safeguard Peace  _ rereveatPracne * re ren arr mm

FDR Cites Needs Of Planning For World After Wai   Main Objective, Not De. tails, Important Now Says The President

ROOSEVELT URGES POST-WAR ACTION TO KEEP PEACE   President Says United Nations Should Co-Operate to Hold Forces of Barbarism in Check.   CRUSHING OF BANDIT ASSAULT FIRST TASK   Declares Soldiers and Their Children Must Be Assured Against Another World Cataclysm.

United Nations Must Remain United, Chief Declares: Safequarding Of Peace Is Vital

International Co-operation For Peace,  F.D.R.’s Plea   Urges Post-War Unity Of  Nations To Check Forces of Barbarism ‘And Promote Prosperit   WOULD EXTEND BLESSINGS OF PEACE   BLESSINGS OF PEACE  Implies U.S. Pledge To Full Participation In Pact- War Fffort

-POST-WAR-UNT      Cooperation Aimed at Mabe ing Another War Impose. sible, Spreading Peace...

President Says Allies Must Apply Battle Unity To Problems After War

FDR Urges Peace Agreement Making Wars Impossible   Common Effort At Spreading Blessings Of Peace To All Mankind To Be Sought

HIKE EXPECTED IN ALLOWANCES   Bill To Aid Soldiers’ Families Moves Forward

RUSHING BILL ~ FOR FAMILIES   INCREASED -ALLOWANCES FOR FAMILIES OF MEN IN BERVICE REGARDED AS ASSURED

ALLOWANCE BILL MOVES RAPIDLY   House Passage Seen In Ten Days Giving More Cash To Soldiers’ Families

Byrd Says U. 5., Business Won't Mix after War   senator Declares Death o Private Enterprise System Threatened

Get U.S. Out Of Business Quick --Byrd   VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT TELLS IN: SURANGE AGENTS ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED TO UTILIZE PERSONNEL.   Congress America’s Hope

ICKES ACCEPTS © BIG BEND LAND   STATE IS TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL 15,236 ACRES YET NEEDED IN PARK AREA

Further Cut In Supply Of Meat Is Seen   Livestock Feed Shortage, Late Spring Factors

LATE SPRING, FEED SHORTAGE IN THE NORTHWEST MAY CURTAIL MEAT SUPPLY

lialians Occupy Brenner Pass; Baitle Nazis   Germans Seize Key Towns and Set Up Puppet Government

Italians Battle  Nazis In Streets Tension Is Increasing  - Hourly, Report

Germany Admits Battles Between Nazis, Ifalian:   Berlin Asserts Troops Complete Occupation In The North

Germans and Italians Fighting in Streets   Brenner Pass Reported Occupied bv Italian Troops: Balkan Smash May Be Next Alled Move; Rerlin Ie Tense

New Love Seats to Be Tested by OPA To See if They’ lt Sland Wear and Tear

New Tires Available On April I   Will Be Obtainable Under Rationing for Holders of “RR?! and wi hd Cards

Additional Tires Will Be Made Available To Holders Of B. C Cards

LEWIS MAKES ~ AFL DEMANDS      MINER.LEADER WANTS AFL TO REPUDIATE WAR LABOR BOARD BEFORE MER-  ~ GER MOVE .

LEWIo MIGHT REJECT ENTRY INTO THE AFL   He Does Not Like Attitude of AFL Members in the WLB.   RESENTS AFL CENSURE   Lewis Believes He Is Fighting a Great Battle fcr All Labor.

LEWIS MIGHT ~ARIET ENTRY. NTO THE AFL   He Does Not Like Attitude -. of AFL Members in -  ; _ the WLB.   RESENTS AFL CENSURE   Lewis Believes He Is- Fighting a Great Battle for. ° , All Labor.

Be Ready To Help. Belgians Advised  Aid Allied Armies On  emteet, Pleo

GERMANS FACE TRIPLE ASSAULT BY ALLIED PACT   Nazi Forces Now Outclassed by Land, Sea Air

GERMANY MUST SPREAD ARMIES OVER EUROPE   Greatest Military Array In History Facing Nazis

Triple Drives To Split Hitler Defense Troops   Teheran Conference Assembles World's Mightiest Army

(sermany Must Spread Forces To Meet Promised Onslaught On Three Sides From Allies

Numerically Inferior Forces Will Make Effort to Avoid Destruction.   ALLIED POWER GROWS

Germans Facing Triple Assault;  Outclassed On Land, Sea And Air   Russia Alone Can More Than Match Ground And Air Forces, While United Nations Navies Command Seas; All Growing Stronger.

‘Nazis Weaker Than Allies on Land, Sea, Air   Forces Aligned Against Germany Spells Certain Defeat for Hitler and His Satellites

Triple Assault  oe acing Germans Enemy Outclassed On Land, Sea And In Air

UNITED NATIONS WELL PREPARED FOR FINAL BLOW      Once Proud German Military Forces Now Completely Outclassed By Land, Sea And Air; End May Come Quickly Once Big Assault Begins.

Germans Hit Between Eyes By Promise   Must Dispose Force To Meet Mightiest Military Array

Hitler Forces Outclassed By Land, Sea, Air   Fuehrer Confronted With Problem of Avoiding Destruction  ARMY OUTNUMBERED

Tanai anamuimaima ies aciuntausemcecea rmaianme cae naleateiaineeiaalaleeeaaaaaii aaa  Hitler power is outclassed

N azis’ Lack Of Reserves ‘Big Weakness   100 of Hitler’s 320 Divi sions Scattered Around an Continent

Teheran Accord Dooms Germany, Outclassed On Land, Sea And In Air

DISTRIBUTING “FORCES, MAJOR NAZI PROBLEM   Russia Alone Can Match Hitler’s Combined  4 Armed Night

Nazis Are Now Outelassed On Land, Air, Sea   Facing Three-Way Blow As Allies Gather Huge Forces

GERMANS FACE TRIPLE BLOWS   Hitler Facing Destruction By World's Mightiest Military Array

Germany Facing Problem tc Dispose Troops to Prevent Crushing Defeat by Allies   Outclassed on Land, Air and Sea, Germans Confront Assaults From Three Directions: Ultimate Defeat of Hitler Seen Inevitable

TEHERAN VOW SEENDOOM — FOR HITLER   Faces Triple Blows Outclassed On Land, Sea'And tn: The Air’

Germans Face Triple Assault By Allied Power:   Hitler’s Forces Now Outclassed On Land, Air, Sea

PLANE SHORTAGE NOW ONE GREAT NAZI PROBLEMS   ‘How To Avoid Destruction from Great Allied Aerial Armadas Is Problem for Hitler

Qutclassed Hitler Faces Attack From East, South, France   Faced With Problem of Placing Numerically Inferior Forces

WPB To Send Engineers To Area To Inspect Sites For.  Aleohol And Rubber Plants:

Resume Production at Chrysler Plants   This Was Reached in a Limited Way in Some of the Six Affected Plants.

(Continued on Page 2)   Some Workmen At Chrysler’s Plants Return

Claim Raid By British lsRepulsed   Germans Also Report Invasion  e Move Is Imminent

GERMANS SAY LARGE FLEET AT BIZERTE   Report Allied landing by 400 men on southeast coast of Italy

NAZIS FEAR EARLY START OF INVASION   REPORTS OF CONCENTRATIONS OF ALLIED SHIPS . AT VARIOUS POINTS ARE EMPHASIZED

YANKS BLAST JAPS AGAIN OVER KISKA   American Airmen Score New Successes On Pacific Front

‘Subs’ Sink 4 Jap Ships   Destroyer Included; Planes Pound Kiska

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 4 SHIPS   Destroyer And Big Transport Included In Latest Bag.

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL CONFER FOR SECOND DAY, BELIEVED TO BE PLANNING JAPANESE WAR

PRES. ROOSEVELT ; AND CHURCHILL CONTINUE TALKS ABOUT WAR PLANS   Military Leaders Believe Two Leaders Are Turning Their Attention To the War Against Japan.

Roosevelt and Churchill in Second Day of Planning.  ‘BELIEVED MAPPING NEW BURMA BATTLE  Aiming for a Break Leading Through to China to Get at Japan.

OPA CEILING. PUTON FRESH ~ VEGETABLES   Action Held Necessary te Heod Off Speculative

Emergency ceiling prices are ordered on fresh vegetables   Announce dried food point values; higher allotment April possibility

CEILINGS PUT ON PRICES OF ~ S VEGETABLES   Surprise Action Taken To Halt Speculative Boosts

Quick Action Is Taken as  Costs Soar   * Beans, Peas, Carrots, Tomatoes, Cabbage Are Put Under Ruline

Price Lids Clamped On Five Major Fresh Vegetables As Ration Plans Move Ahead

Emergency Price Ceilings Put On Fresh Tomatoes, Carrots, Snap Beans, Cabbage and Peas

Clamp Price Ceilings On Fresh Foods   Major Fresh Vegetables Affected; Action Follows Recent Rationing

PRICE CEILINGS ARE PLACED OVER FIVE VEGETABLES   Fresh Carrots, Cabbage, Tomatoes, Green and Waxed Snap Beans Affected bv Order.   FREEZE IS INTENDED TO CURB SPECULATION   Action Applies to All Dealers Except Growers—Follows Announcement of Point Values.

EFFECTIVE TODAY;  NEW VALUES OUT   Tomatoes, Beans, Carrots, Peas, Cabbage Under Order; Dried, Dehy drated Food Points Released

OPA CEILING PUT ON FRESH VEGETABLES   Action Held Necessary to Head Off Speculative Boosts

OPA Freezes > Vegetables To Check Rise   Tomatoes, Beans, Peas Included—More Poiuts Listed

EMERGENCY PRICE CEILINGS PUT ON FRESH VEGETABLES   Ceilings Clamped On Major Fresh Vegetables To Check Possible Rise In Cost; New Point Values Given for Dried Foods.

PRICE CEILINGS ON VEGETABLES SET ON MONDA)   Tomatoes, Beans, Carrots, Cabbage, Peas Affected By Order   DEALERS SURPRISED BY FEDERAL ACTION

HERO'S WIDOW TO WED AGAIN   Mrs. Colin Kelly Plans Marriage Friday

0). P. A. Hopeful Of Easing Gas  Rationing Now   Any Possible Change May Be Known Within Two Weeks Time

Shot By Watervliet’s Chief of Police; Sues For Damages Of $15,790

DeMarigny Is Silent During Court Session   Counsel Would  Summon Witness

U.S. Will Build 100.000 Planes   Business Heads Hear Output Prospects

100,000 Planes This Year Goal Of U. §. Plants   Nineteen Million Tons of Shipping Also Predicted

BARES RECORD. PLANE OUTPUT   Batt Says 100,000 to be Built; 19 Million Tons Of Ships Promised

100,000 Planes In 1943 Seen By WPB Aide   Business Chiefs Told U. S. Also Will Build  Huge Tonnage in Shing

U.S. Production Rising Rapidly   100,000 Planes To Be Built In Year

100,000 PLANE OUTPUT IS AIM   WPB Official Says Shir Production Will Be Almost 19 Million Tons This Year

PLANE OUTPUT ABOUT 100,000   Ship Production Nearly 19 Million Deadweight Tons For 1943

Bright Production Picture Painted  For Industrialists 100,000 Airplanes and 19,000,000 Tons  Of Shipping This Year

100,000 PLANES TO. BE BUILT IN 1943      Chomber of Commerce Is Given Figures on U.S. Production

100,000 WARPLANES IN ’43 PREDICTED   Business Men Given Estimate ot! Production—19,000,000 Tons of Ships Forecast.

"43 Production Aims Revealed   Chiefs Note Increases In Food. Arms Quinat

HUSBAND IS HELD. FOR STABBING RIVAL   Knife Wielded in Fight Under Night Club Table

TURKISH PAPERS FEATURE INVASION   Istanbul Press Pictures Sicily “Smash Turning Point of  th.

Turkish Newspapers Declare Editorially Invasion Of Italy Is Turning Point Of War   Say Italy Has Begun To Reap Fruits Of Her Alliance With Germany

‘Turkish Papers Scream About It   Turning Point of War, They Call Invasion of Sicily

NAZIS TURN TO DEFENSE PHASE   German Chief Reveals Lightning War Tactics Abandoned By Reich

SOME FEEL GERMANY AFRAID TO TURN RACK ON ALLIES AND ATTACK RUSSIA

GERMANS TURN TO.  DEFENSIVE PHASE   May Be Unable to Mount Big Summer Offensive . Against Russia —   “LIGHTNING WAR” OFF

Hitler’s Invasion Fear May Prevent Another Big Drive In Russia   Nazi Propagandist Admits Blitzkrieg Tactics Have Beer Abandoned and War Analysts Believe Axis Now Resigned To Defensive Tactics

NAZI GENERALS ON DEFENSIVE      Hitler Aides Afraid To Turn Backs on Western Allies —

Germany May Save Forces For Defensc   Some Observers. Doubt-An. other Big Drive’ Will Be Made.on Reds   DOUBLE ALLIED PUSH PROBABLE   Nazi Radio. Talks Bring ‘New Speculation on. Sum-~ mer Campaigns

BELIEVED GERMANY FEARS TURN BACK ON INVASION THREATS  -ANOTHER SUMMER OFFEN. SIVE AGAINST RUSSIA MAY NOT RE STACED

NAZIS SWITCH TO DEFENSIVE ROLE   Berlin Prepares People Fol Summer Of Holding

GERMAN PEOPLE PREPARED FOR DEFENSIVE WAR   Lightning Tactics Abandoned by Nazi larces, Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dietmar Says   REICH NERVOUS   indicated Germany Afraic to Turn Her Back On Aggressive British and American Armies

INVASION FEAR DELAYS NAZIS   Big Summer Offensive Against Russia Held Up in Preparation for Defense,

May Be Unable to Mount Big Summer Offensive _ Against Russia   “LIGHTNING WAR” OFF

GERMANY MAY ABANDON PLAN FOR RED DRIVE   Campaign Under Way to Prepare Reich for Defensive Phase   NAZI WAR EXPERT MAKES BROADCAST   Indicates “Lightning War" Tactics Off Hitler Schedule

\Nazis Afraid To Undertake Another Summer Drive on Reds   With Aggressive American and British Armies on Their Backs the Fuehrer And His Crew Have The Invasion Jitters

Nazis Afraid To Launch Attack in Russia, London Observers Believe

Hitler Loses lnifiative on Fighting Fronts   Germans Fear To Turn Back on British, Americans

Allies Intensify Drive Against Sanananda Area   American and Australian Troops Have Broken Through an Outer Ring of Nipponese Resistance in That Sector

USING PLANES. TO DAGK LAND TRQOPS DRIVE   Break Outer Ring Resistance in Biggest Allied Push Since September.   30 JAP PLANES DOWNED; 3 DESTNOYERS DAMAGED

“GROUND FORCE IS SUPPORTED BY AIRPLANES   Last Japanese Garrison In  New Guinea Fights For Its Life.

Allies Close In On Sanananda; Attack Cruiser   MacArthur Whittles Down Small Pocket Of Resistance; Enemy Is Bombed On New Guinea, New Britain

ALLIES CLOSE LINES AGAINST GUINEA FORCE   Jap Pockets Getting Small as Drive Continues

MacArthur Says Jap Cruelties Cannot Break the Spirit of Americans

Tunisian Bridgehead Falling Apart Under Heaviest Onslaughts of War; Russians Moving m on Nazis

Foe Fighting Back But Fails To Halt Victorious Allies   Fall Of Twin Cities In Tunisia Appears Near As Our Forces Dominate Action

HEROES OF AIR HUNT FOR FOOD   Battle - Scarred Bombers Arrive In Washington From Middle East

GOERING BLITZ REVERSED BY BRITISH RAIDS   RAF Bomb Damage To German Cities Surveyed

RAILROAD MEN GET APPROVAL FOR INCREASE   Emergency Board Recommends Four Cent Raise

A Boost in Rail Pay Is Advocated   Emergency Board Recommends Increase of Four Cents An Hour.

FOUR CENT RAIL PAY INCREASE RECOMMENDED   Emergency Board Says 300,000 Operating Employes Entitled to Hike Under Formula .

FAVOR HIGHER RAILROAD PAY   Railroad Emergency Board Recom. mends at Least 4¢ an Hour Increase for 300,000

Recommend 4Ceut Raise For Railmen  Biatl Firiaew bs   Rail Emergency Board Acts on Appeal of Operating Men

WAGE INCREASE IS OKAYED FOR RAIL EMPLOYES   300,000 Workers Affected by Board Recommendation Of 4-Cent Boost

Railroad Wage Boost OK'd, But Is Limited  - Board Advocate: 32 Cents Per Dav Salary Pik,

Trainmen Denied  $3 Wage Boost   Board Recommends  32ca Day Hike

Board Decision On Rail Wages Is Announced   White House Announces 30% Request Denied; Some Increase Recommended

Board Recommends 4 1-2 Per Cent increase for  300,000.    UNIONS ASKED 30 PCT.

Four-Cent Hourly Rail Wage Hike ls Recommended   Would Be $2,000 a Month for Operating Employees Here

Railway Wage Hike Is Asked   Emergency Board Rec commends Increase

OKAYS 4-GENT AN TOUR lke IN RAIL WAGE   Emergency Board Implies It Might Have Reported a Higher Figure.   “LITTLE STEEL” INCREASE NOT $3 A DAY ASKED

4 Cent Raise For Rail Men  Given Favor   White House Discloses Rail Emergency Board Action In Behalf Of 300.000 Workers

Deny $3 Per Day Wage Increase For Railroad Workers, Recommend Pay Boost Of 32c Daily As Substitute

Jump in Rail Wage Okayed   EMERGENCY BOARD RECOMMENDS INCREASE OF 4 CENTS AN HOUR

Men Get Basic Wage Increase   Board Upholds Little Stee Formula—Recommenda tion to Vinson

Board for Boost in  Rail Pay   Recommends at Least 4 Cents an Hour More for Running Men   WOULD LIKE TO : SUGGEST MORE   But Doubts Any Higher Tigure Would Be Approved; Renort to Roosevelt

BOARD TURNS DOWN REQUEST FOR $3 RAISE   Increase of at Least 4 Cents an Hour Is Recommended

RAILROADERS MAY GET SALARY HIKE   Special Board Recommends Increase

BOARD OFFERS RAIL PAY HIKE      Denies Demands, Propose: 32-Cent Increase in Basic Daily Rate

PAY HIKE APPROVED FOR RAIL WORKERS   Union Boss, However, Says Size an Insult

4-CENT INCREASE PROPOSED FOR RAILROAD MEN   EMERGENCY BOARD REPORT SUBMITTED TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE

ACHOURLY PAY BOOST FOR RAUL WORKERSVOTEL   Emergency Board Impiies Employes Entitled to More; Had Asked 30°, Inerease

~—4 CENTS AN HOUR MORE— Ld Pay Hike  Favored   ... For Railway Workers By Emergency Board

Wage Increase Recommended  For Rail Men   ‘Emergency Board Favors Boost Of At Least Four Cents An Hour.

Wage Hike Of 4 Cents   Recommended for Rail Workers by Emergency Board; in Line With Little Steel Formula

4-Cent-an-Hour Rail Wage Hike Proposed   Recommendation Made by a Railroad Emergency Board Affects 300,000 Operating Employes of Nation’s Carriers.

RECOMMEND 4-CEM MISE FOR RAL ME   Four Cents ‘an Hour Is Set by Railroad Emergency Board to President

Recommend 4-Cent Raise For Railmen   Rail Emergency Board Acts on Appeal of Operating Nen

Railway wage raise advised   Declare four cent increase ‘insult’

Board Urges Pay Hike Of 4 Cents An Hour For Rail Operating Groups

Board Asks 4 Cents-An-Hour Raise For Railroad Workers   Would Have Recommended Higher Hike Had It Felt Gavernment Would Approve

Approve Railroad Raise   Four Cents An Hour Increase Recommended

Button Workers Meet Wednesday   session in Knights of Pythias Hall At Bight O'clock—Schultheis to Speak

New Policy Is Expected Over Draft Squabble   Selective Service Officials and Manpower Group May Reach Decision in a Few Days.

Drafting of l'athers May Be Retarded   Selective Service And Manpower Officials Work Out  Plan in Washington

Bombing Raids on Berlin Leave Flames So Intense Asphalt Boils in Streets

Big City Is Doomed  By Raids   Hitler Leads  Exodus; Government Prepares To Move To Vienna.

83,000 MEN ARE IDLE IN THIS STATE   State Experiences First Complete Anthracite Shutdown Since 1925-26

Aerial Fighting Becomes Intense About Leningrad   Germans Lose Manv Planes

Land Activity Still Lulls —  Violent Aerial Battles Reported Raging On Front Near Leningrad

REDS SAY MANY NAZIS DOWNED      Violent Aerial Battles Reported Over Approaches To Leningrad.

Rome Heavily _ Mined, Faces ‘Great Damage   Refugees Say ‘the: Germans “Plan to Repeat Destruction Carried: Outin Naples: .   SQUADS ASSIGNED’... TO EVERY: DISTRICT   City’s Food $ Supply ‘Already. Extremely - Serious,” Germans. Grabbing Supplies:

Rome To Be Destroyed By Germans When Driven Out, Refugees Assert

BLEAK ROME PICTURE   Refugees Report Germans Placing Mines in Eternal City

Say Rome Is Doomed   Refugees Report That ‘Nazis Plan to Destroy It As They Did Naples

REFUGEES FROM. ROME SAY CITY HEAVILY MINED   Germans. Pls ‘to. Do Rome As They” pene "Naples. ~” - Guards: Posted at Vatican  Qetee-

ROME (5 MINED BY GERMANS, REPORT   Plan to Do the Same to Et ernal City As They Did To Nanles.

Rome Will Be Destroyed When  Germans Leave      Even Records Burn To Create Chaos

NATIONAL FASCIST PARTY DISSOLVED BY CABINET ORDER   Outbreaks Marked by Gunfire and Bloodshed Gripping Milan and Other Points. Savy Reports.

OHIO’S 95TH ASSEMBLY ENDS TS SESSIONS   May Still Be Time To Settle Dual-Time Question Be-  fore Adjournment

UPA AGTS TD PUT GM? Til BLAGK MARKEI   New Retail Prices Placed on Beef, Veal, Llamb ard Mutton.   IN EFFECT APRIL 15   Uniform Maximum Prices Established in Ten Pricing Zones.

(PA ORDERS NEW CEILING MEAT PRICES   New retail prices issued to check U. S. black  market activities

PRICES OF BEEF, LAMB AND VEAL > GIVEN CEILINGS   Based on Standard Grades: > Must Reduce Price If Points Cut

China Promised U. 5. Air Power  Command to Be Put In Actian Snan

Marks Start New Phase War On Japs   Sizable Expansion Lead: New Bombing Attacks

New Attack On Empire Predicted   American Fliers Resume Extensive Assaults On Enemy’s Burma Bases

U.S. Creates Air Foree In China Area   Separate Command May Mark...New. ‘Phasé of War Against: Japan.

Direet Attack On Japan May Be Result   Chennawt Heads New Army-——U. §. Bombers Busy

AMERICAN Alf FORGE IN CHINA IO EXPANDED   Sizeable Increase In Aerial Power Is Indicated By Latest Action

NEW AIR FORGE SET-UP iN CHINA   Separate U. S. Command Created—Devastating Attacks : on Japan Soon?

CHINA GIVEN FULL-FLEDGED U.S. AIR UNIT   Action Regarded in Some Quarters as Marking the Beginning of a New Phase in War Against JTananese.

Full-Fledged U. S. Air Force Formed In Free China   Action Indicates New Phase of Aerial Assault on Enemy

Exiected To Mark Begin. Ling of New Phase Ir War Against Japan; Indi. cates Sizeable Expansion of American Air Power  In China Theatre.

FULL FLEDGED U. 8. AIR FORCE COMMAND CREATED IN CHINA   JAPAN HAS SHOWN RESURGENCE OF AIR STRENGTH IN NEW GUINE/

FULL FLEDGD U.S. AIR FORCE CREATED IN CHINA; MAY MARK BEGINNING NEW PHASE OF WAR   Announcement Clearly Indicates Sizeable Expansion of American Air Force in Chinese Theater. Possibly Heralds Bombing of Jap Mainland "3 ,

CREATE CHINA AIR COMMAND   New Phase in War Against Japan Seen by Observers

New Phase In War Against Japan Evident   Full-Fledged U. S. Air Force Command Being Created   CHENAULT IN CHARGE

NEW PHASE SEEN IN WAR ON JAPS   Chenault Commands Unit Liberator Bombers Raid & Positions In Burma gO”

Give Chinese Air Command   Full. Fledged. U.S. Air Force Command C oo Under Chennault.

U.S. Establishes China Air Force   Chennault In Command; Japan Bombing Seen —

New War Phase In Pacific Seen  In Air Increase   Yankee Command In China Hints New Aid, Expansion Of Attack

U9. AIR COMMAND CREATED IN CHINE   Announcement Shows Siz able Expansion of Power In Pacific.

U.S.Sets Up Full Air Force In China Zone   New Phase Of War Against Japan'ls Seen In Chungking; MacArthur Post At Wau In New Guinea Is Raided

U.S. Creates Full Air Force Unit in China   Chennault in Command; Japanese Show New Air Strength in New Guinea

AIR FORCE IN CHINA   Full-Fledged U.S. Command Marks New Phase in War on Japs

TO CREATE NE U, 5. AIR FORCE IN CHINA SOON   Marks Beginning of Another Phase in War Against Japan

AIR FORCE IN CHINA RAISED TO NEW POWER   Newly Activated 14th Marking __.New.Phase of War in Pa.  eitice Theater   U. S. PUTTING GREATER POWER INTO WAR ON JAPS

New Bombing Attaeks Near Against Japs?   [Formation af China Air Force Command Aenean kinda

U. S. Airforces Front In China   FULLFLEDGED COMMAND ANNOUNCED FOR ARFA

Clothing May Be Rationed: Nelson,  WPB Chief Warns it  Can Happen; Would R. ep ta

CLOTHES RATION MAY BE FORCED   Nelson Warns Rationing Of Clothing And _ Textiles Coming Unless Best Brains Of Industry Get To Work.

NO CLOTHING RATION   Nelson Believes Action Can Be Avoided For Present At Least

Congress Told Clothing _ May Have To Be Rationed   Nelson Believes Clothing Rationing Can Be Avoided But Warns It “Is Imminent Unless We Can Use the B- . Brains of the Industry ot Utilize Facilities to Get Most Out of Them”

Nelson Warns Diligence Will Be Needed to Avoid Clothes Rationing

Clothing May Be Rationed   War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson Says Are Trying To Avoid This Rationing.

Nelson Says U.S. to Avoid Clothes Ratior   WPB CHIEF DECLARES BEST BRAINS MUST WORK ON PROBLEM

RATIONS LOOM FOR CLOTHING   Nelson Warns Best Brains To Utilize All U. S.  Facilities

TEATILE RATIONS APPEAR POSSIBLL   Nelson Says Clothes Rationing May Be Averted, Is Terrible Thing.

NELSON SEES RATIONING OF CLOTHES SOON   Urges Industry To Use Its Brains

Rationing Hinted / On Clothing Soon   But Nelson Hopes To Avoid Measure ,

FIRE SWEEPS PENNSY TOWN   Blaze Jumps From Building Te Building Like Wildfire, Razing Fourteen Structures

Casualties Are 130,741   Figures Are Revealed By The Army And Nay

er NOTED NEGRO SCIENTIST DIES. AFTER WINNING MANY HONORS   DR.CARVER, WHOGE RESEARCH PROVIDED GREAT AGRICUL- TURAL BENEFITS, WAS BORN IN SLAVERY

FAMOUS NEGRO SCIENTIST DIES   Dr. G. W. Carver Developed 400 Uses For Peanuts And Sweet Potatoes

Fall Of City Is Imminent.   Two Allied Columns Swing In On Center

Allies Entering Suburbs; Crack German Mt. Line   Naval Power Helps Split Defenses To Allow Armies To Swing Across Plains Of  Ruined Pompeii. Germans In General Retreat.

Fifth Army Is Within Few Miles Naples   Pompei Has Been Occupied Rv Allies

Hitler's Empire of Conquered   The War Today [And Satellite Peoples Breaking

Death Of Bulgarian King Creates Hitler Problem   ‘Hitler’s Empire Of Conquered Peoples Breaking Up; >» MacKenzie Sees Crisis In Denmark As Grave Worry

Hitler Empire Breaking Up, 2 Most Favored Countries Causing Greatest Concern

The War Today   By DeWITT MacKENZIE  (Associated Press War Analyst)

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Rising Spirit Of Revolt Denmark, Bulgaria No Help To Hitler

HITLER'S EMPIRE BREAKINGUP BEFORE HIS EYES   Signs Multiply of Disintegration of Paper Hanger’s European Empire

HITLER’S CONQUERED PEOPLES — OF EUROPE BEGINNING TO GIVE SERIOUS TROUBLE TO GERMANY

ALTIES ROUTLAST OF GERMANS ON VOLTURNO CINE   Overrun 23 Towns  And Villages In Push On Rome Road

Final Seal Put On Struggle for River Line   British Eighth Army Staves Off Number On Cnountarattarke

CONQUEST COMPLETED   Allies Stamp Out Last Nazi Hold On North Bank of River

Conquest Of Nazi Defense Line On Volturno Ended   Last Enemy Toehold On North Bank Stamped Out — 2 Towns And Villages Seized In Advances Along 100:Mile Front

NAZ TO EHOLDS IN NORTH BANK ARE WIPED OWT   Enemy Definitely Slackens Resistance To American Advances In Italy

ENTIRE NORTH BANK CLEARED BY NEW DRIVE   Yanks and_ British Continue March on Italian Capital

ALLIES COMPLETE CONQUEST OF AXIS VOLTURNG FORGES   Battle Along River Is Endec as Americans and Britist Make Advancements or 100-Mile Front.   GERMANS IN RETREAT AFTER BLOODY FIGH]   Block-Buster Raids Ar e Made on Hannover While Mosquitoes Hit Berlin For Second Time.

Last Nazi Toehold — On Volturno Gone; 23 Towns Captured   River Cleared by Victorious Allies; Troops Score General Advances; Yanks Make Most Sienificant Gains

AREA GLEARED UF FOE FROM GAPUA TO SEE   American Advance Opens Way Along Appian Road to Rome.

Allies Advance in Italian Front  : Overrun 23 Towns : And Villages

Germans’ Food Supply Dwindles; Prices Fantastic   ‘Only Few Can Pay Amounts Asked for Such Things as Coffee, Butter

Nazi Shop Windows Show _Foods--Shelves Are Empty   Food Is Scarce In Reich — Influence And ‘Trading Unde  Counter Are Purchasing Powers

‘Drag’ More Helpful in Getting Food in Germany Than Ration Card -- Supplies Falling Low 

Naval Fight in Gulf May “Be Continuing, Report by . Gen. Macfirthur Indicate   Muada is Heavily Bombed for Third ° Straight Day; American Land Brive Against Jags Hear

8 JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK IN KULA GULE    Four Warships, Cruiser And  ‘ Three Destroyers U. S.   Toll From Enemy In Second Battle   Total 17 Ships

Japanese Cruiser And  Three Destroyers Are Sunk In South Pacific   Powerful Blows Struck By American Invasion Forces Bidding For Munda; Rabau! Bombed 

Sccond Engagement Raises Enemy Losses-to Seventeen, Munila Air Buse Is Heavily Bombed

NEW BATTLE TAKES PLACE IN KULA GUL!   Flaming Engagement Is Fought at Night—No Mention Made of Any  TT < Tianeges,   MUNDA BOMBARDED FROM SEA AND AIR   Nipponese Garrison Trapped and Annihilated 10 Miles Northwest of Air Rase.

U. S. Naval Units Smash Second Enemy Attempt To Bring Aid to Munda   Cruiser, Three Destroyers Sent to Bottom In Fight That Still May Be Under Way; Four Nipponese Cargo Vessels Hit Off Kiska

U.S. Vessels Send Down Jap Cruiser, 3 Destroyers   2 Other Destroyers Probably Sunk, Also, Preliminary Reports From Pacific Reveal   NO YANK LOSSES ARE MENTIONED

Two Others Believed Lost   ‘otal Ot Two Battles May Reach 17; Fight Continues.

Senate Opens Debate Today on Sen. Wheeler's Bill Deferring Fathers   Montana Legislator Refused To Concede Predicted Defeat

Wheeler Flays  Administration   Montana Senator Says It Is Out to Beat His Bill Against Drafting Fathers Even if It Means “Breaking up the Arnerican Home.”   DEBATE STARTS TODAY

Wheeler Sees Homes Broken  If Dads Drafted   Declares Administration Is Out To Defeat Bill Even At Cost Of U.S, Families

WHEELER SAYS CONGRESS 10 DEFEAT BILL   Postponement Of Father Draft Can Not Win, He Says

WLB MEMBER OPPOSES BAN _ ON PAY RISE   Public Representative Believes Rules Must Be Made Flexible

Record Armada Sweeps France,  Paris Blasted   Rome, Berlin Life Line  Through Brenner ; Daan test

City Under Attack For  Two Hours   Great Damage Caused By Bombs Dropped Along Left Bank Of Seine, Says Vichy Radio

FLASHES   ‘Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News ‘Today.   Pactories Rombed.

Mort Cooper Wins .For First Time In Series Game   —SCORE BY INNINGS—

TWO ARMIES MAKE GAINS OVER ITALY   5th Force Reports Taking Heights, During Day

YANK TROOPS GAIN GROUND ON MOUNTAIN LINE   Get Supplies By Parachute

Yanks, British Score New Gains in Italy   Cermans Fight   Germans Fight Stubbornly for Rugged Heights

GERMANS ARE FALLING BACK TO NEW LINE   ALLIES HOPE GOAL WILL BE REACHED BY CHRISTMAS

American Forces Stream Through Shattered .Nazi Defenses   MANY TOWNS TAKEN iN ALLIED ADVANCE   British Troops Slash Toward Enemy's Supply Lifeline

By-Passes German Strong: Points to Capture New Heights Commanding Road to Rome   DRIVE BY BRITISH REACH MORO RIVER   Nazi Hand-to-Hand Counter Attack Against In’ fantry Battles Thrown Back

Allies Surging Forward In Italy   Yanks Capture New Heights Commanding Raad To Capital.

Americans Smash German Defenses As Nazis Retreat   Rome by Christmas Now Goal of Yanks

‘New Heights In Italy Are TakenByU. S Fifth Army   British Also Make Gains Despite Strong Counter-Attacks Made  Re Fnemvy

Americans Take Three Heights From Bitterly Battling Foe In Italy

both Armies Hurl Back Strong Nazi unterattacks   xermans Launch Strons   Counterattacks, Throw n Reinforceinents A. -gainst American Anc British Infantry Storm. ing Heights in Bitter Hand Battles.

AMERICANS TAKE HLL COMMANDING THE ROAD TO ROME   Eighth Army’s Drive Carries To Moro River   FLAME THROWING TANK CAPTURED

bth By-Passes German Army Near Misnanc   British 8th Army Advance Carried To Moro River, 10 Miles Beyond Sangro

CROSS RIVER TO BREAK NATURAL DEFENSE LINE   Bombers Range To Bologna

Yankees Drive Foe from Three Italian Heights   8th, Army  to R  Smashes Ahead  each Moro River  él

Yanks Drive Nazis. from Key Heights   _ Win New Successes  ’ In Hand-to-Hand Fighting; British Puch ta Mara River

AMERICANS FORD RIVER NEAR NADIE   Key Transport Junction Along Road Captured

Bitter Hand To Hand Fights   British Eighth Army Advances To Moro River; Nazis Launch Bitter Counter Attacks Against Yanks and British Infantry.

Yanks Hurl Nazis Back; Take 3 Hills   Germans Throw New ‘Reserves Into Fight To Stop Allied Sweep

AMERICAN, BRITISH ARMIES ADVANCE ON FRONT IN YTALY   AMERICAN FIFTH BYPASSES NAZI STRONG. POINTS ON ROAD TO ROM!

Allies Captured Italian Heights   AMERICAN 5 oT ARMY MAKES NEW GAINS IN DRIVE

American Troops Gain Three More Mountain Heights   Germans Throw Strong Forces Into Battle Trying To Stall Allies

BOTH ARMIES MAKING GAINS   American Fifth Captures New Heights Commanding Road to Rome.   BRITISH BEYOND SANGRO

Allies Gain On Whole Italy Front   British Force Slashes Toward Germans’ Main Line of Supplie:

5th Army Pressing Forward   New Heights Taken After Bypassing Nazi Holdings

ALLIED ARMIES CROSS VOLTURNO ABOVE NAPLES   » Main Nazi Defense Line Broken Through; ~. Key-Transport Junetiong of Aversa and “ Maddaloni Captured

Fifth Army Takes Heights   Commands Road to Rome; British Drive Ahead

New Positions Won By U. 5. Fifth Army   Progress Made Also By British Eighth Aqainst Germans

Allies Make New  Gains Near Rome   Nazis Launch Counterattacks Against British  ~ and Americans    FIGHTING JS FIERCE   The Fifth Army Hurls Back ' the Germans with Heavy ses

HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT WITH NAZIS FIERCE   Clark’s Men By-Pass Enemy Strong Points to Positions Commanding  ~ Road to Rome — Tomminac at Mnen Rivar

British Eighth Drives io Moro River, 10 Miles Beyond Sangro Baitle for Mi. Camino   CANADIANS ARRIVE   Bitter Hand-to-Hand Fighting Marks Allied Advance, Nazis Have Nine Divisions in Line

Yankees Take Heights FromNazis —   Fifth, Eighth Armies Continue Gains Along Road to Rome

BRITISH MOVE TOWARD NAZIS SUPPLY ROUTE   Hope Revived That City  ‘ May Be Reached By  Christmas; 20 Towns Fall

5th U.S. Army Captures New Ground in Hfaly   Allied Troopers Press on Against Nazi Defense Lines

Yanks Capture New Heights In Drive On Rome   British Surge To Morc River, 10 Miles Beyonc The Sanvro.

2 KEY TRANSPORT JUNCTIONS TAKEN INDRIVETO NORTH      Clark’s - Army Now Controls Main Roads To Rome—British Continue To Gain Along Coast—Bitter Battle Now Raging

Fifth army streams thru shattered German defense halfway on road to Rome   Hard-driving Eighth slashes ahead against foe’s main supply lifeline

American 5th Captures Point On Road to Rome   British 8th Army Drives 10-Miles Bevond Sangro River.

YANKEES CONTROL MAIN ROME ROADS IN LATEST GAINS   Allied Troops Cross Volturno River Above Naples, Aversa and Maddaloni Are Captured.   SEVERAL LOCALITIES VISITED BY BOMBERS   British Engage Eenemy at Cos as Other Forces Seize Stampalia Island Cairo Reports.

tter Hand To Hand Fights      Eighth Army Ad. To Moro River; Launch Bitter Coun. ttacks Against Yank: British Infantry.

ALLIES TAKE KEY POINTS IN ITALY   5th Army Captures Junction Towns, Crosses Volturno

ALLIED ARMIES PUSH T0 POINT 75 MILES FROM ROME   Clark’s Forces Pour Through Shattered German Defenses to Mouth of Garigliano River,   BATTLE ENEMY TROOPS ON HILL NEAR VERAFRO   Montgomery’s Men Capture Heavily Fortified Town After Days of Savage Fighting.

Troops Pour Through Nazi  Defense Line   More Than Score of Towns Captured by  »Anvlo-Americans.

Allies Gain In Face of Nazi Attacks   Foe Suffers Heavy Losses In Bitter Fighting.

BREAK NAZI DEFENSE LINE TOWARD ROME   Transport Junctions of Aversa and Maddaloni Captured; Eighth Army Meets Ovposition.

OTH ARMY BYPASSES . NAZI STRONGPOINTS ON ROAD TO ROME   Germans Hur! Reinforcements Into Battle in Desperate Effort to Halt Allies   FLAME THROWER SEIZED

OTH ARMY TAKES NEW HEIGHTS ON TRAIL TO ROME   -lark’s Men Capture Positions West Of Mignano; Eighth  rmy Drives Ten  Miles Beyond The  Sanero River.

Villages Overrun By Scores   Yankees React Halfway Mark  To Rome

Armies Overrun Score Of Towns   Nazis Say Venafro Already Evaciinted

New Heights in Htaly Fall to Fifth Army   Now Command Hill on Roed to Rome West of Mianano

oth Half Way  To Rome as Nazis Falter   8th Slashes Toward Main Supply Line As Americans Stream Through Nazi Lines

Nazi Troops Falling Back  ‘Below Rome   8th Army Gains, Too, Menacing Supply Line To Trigno River Secto:  MANY TOWNS TAKEN

AZIS SEND ORE MEN INTO FIGHT   Strong Counterattack #y Germany Stopped In Heavy Battle

YANKS SMASH TO NEW GAINS IN ROME DRIVE   By-pass Strong Points Of Defense to Rush Advance on City

Yanks Take Heights West Of Mignano  Biekhth Army   Eighth Army Carries Di.ve Ten Miles Beyond Sangro

OF GERMANS ON ADRIATIC; TWO ARMIES TAKE SCORE OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN ADVANCE.

‘Volturno Crossed By Yank Fighters   Two Key ‘Transport Cities Fall; “Troops Control Reads:‘to. Capital

Yank Fifth Army Captures Heights On Road To Rome   Nazi Launch Counterattacks; British Warships Shell Coast

U.S. Nabs New Hills in Italy   BRITISH DRIVE CARRIES TO MORO RIVER IN BIG THRUST TOWARD ROME

THREE IMPORTANT HEIGHTS ON ROAD TO ROME TAKEN   Grounds So Rugged That Supplies Are Parachuted To Americans Who Won New Positions.   REPORT COUNT CIANO HAS BEEN EXECUTEL   Chinese, Aided By U. S. Planes Smash Japanese Forces Threatening Rice Bow! City of Changteh.

Fifth Army Wins New Heights   Captured Positions Command Road to Rome West of Mianand

Fifth Army Is Halfway To Rome   Americans Reach Garigliano Mouth As British Gain

YANKS CAPTURE MORE HEIGHTS ON ROME ROAD   British 8th Army Smashes to Moro River 10 Miles Beyond Sangrc

KEY TRANSPORT HUBo CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   British 8th Army Advancing On East Side Of Peninsula To Maintain Squeeze

FIFTH ARMY TAKES NEW POSITIONS   Russians Take Firm Hold On Timburg Peninsula

Armies Overrun Score Of Towns   Nazis Say Venafro Already Evacuated  Re WAT AWhT WABGA &BET

FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES NEW BASES TODAY   Road To Rome Is Shortened By  New Drives

Sth Army Takes New Heights  Points Dominating Road to Rome Are Seized in Advance

Best Gain Since Fall Of Naples   BREAK THRU MAIN GERMAN  DEFENSE LINE ABOVE NAPLES; TAKE KEY NAZI TRANSPORT — JUNCTIONS

Germans Launch Heavy Attacks Around Mignano   Eighth Army Drives To Moro River After Smashing Assau!ts

New Heights Captured By Clark’s 5th   ‘Americans By-Pass Naz Strongpoints; British Sth Drives To Banks Ot Moro River

Allies Surge Forward in italy; American Forces Take Strategic Heights

More Heights Captured in Driveto Rome   German Counter-thrust Near Venafro Hurled Back by 5th Army

Fifth and Eighth Armies Take More Than Score of Towns; Capture of  VYenafro by Yanks Imminent

FIFTH CROSSES VOLTURNO ON ROAD T0 ROME   Eighth Also Advances In Spite of Strong Resistance

Yanks Pushing Advance Along Roads To Rome   Nazis Are Contesting Every Inch Of Ground

Fifth Army Streams Through Nazis’ Shattered Defenses   British Slash On Toward Enemy’s Main Supply Lifeline; Two Forces Overrun Scores of Towns and Villages

Gen. Clark’s Fifth Army Scores Greatest Success  Since Capture of Naples   Americans, British Burst Volturno Riv‘er Defenses; Pour Across and Onto Capital Road.

NEW HEIGHTS RE CAPTURED BY AMERICANS   Nazis Launch Strong Counter-Attacks Against Allies In Bitter Hand-to-riand   Battles   ASSAULT HURLED BACK

Legion, Convention Over, Headed for, New . Seldier Boniis Fight During 44 Campaign

JAP ATTACK EXPECTED BY PORT MORESBY   Allies May Strike First to Upset Enemy Plans

ALLIES MOP UP IN NEW GUINEA   Japanese Forces Are Cleaned Out Of Mambare Area.

Gen. MacArthur Leads His Men to Cecupy Trobriands and Woodarks in South Pacific.

Forces Landed To Attack Foe  Near Salamaua   Graund, Naval and Air Units All Cooperating

Landing Made at Salamaua Without Opposition, While Fortresses Blast Rabaul

4  Big Offensive Is Direeted Personally By MacArthur      Trobriand, Woodjark Apparently Occupied Without Opposition  From Surprised Japs  ZROUND, NAVAL, AIR FORCES EMPLOYED  Troops Land 12 Miles South of Salamaua, Bio New Guinea Port

Southern Pa cific Offensive Opens   Allied Forces Occupy Woodlark And Trobriand Groups, Battle Enemy On New Georgia. Rendova

Trebriand And Woodlark, Off New Guinea, Taken  Without Jap Opposition  - wo 2 reeTieg sy Tr Thay ett Pt ore ee       ‘MacARTHUR IN CHARGE ‘OF LATEST OPERATIONS

Entire Operation Under MacArthur Offensive Launched With landing on Rendova Islands

MacArthur Leads Attack   Others Under Assault And New Guinea Forces Active

Allied land, naval and air  forces oceupy new groups without enemy. opposition   . Troops attack New Georgia islands; battling Japanese near Salamaua

General MacArthur is Directing New Southwest Pacific Action; Yank Forces on Rendova Island

Land, Naval And Air Forces Land At Three Points   Occupation Of Trobriand, Woodlark Groups Accomplished Without Enemy Opposition

Churchill Hints Big Drive Near   ‘Invasion’ May Be Near in Europe And in Pacific

MacArthur Directs Yank Forces  In Salamaua Landing, Attacks On Island Grouns Rabaul Raid

Occupy Trobriand and Woodlark Without a Fight While Other Forces Land on New Georgia and Rendova and Engage Enemy —U. S. Ground, Naval and Air Forces Take Part in Struggle.

BETSY WILLIAMS LODGE ELECTS IT$ OFFICERS   Mrs, Mary Stoker Cantinucs as President; Installation Set for December 14

Italy's Navy Reported In Nazi Hands   British Correspondent . ‘As. serts Flatly. That It Has Been ‘‘Taken Over?’   CONFERENCE OF + -ADMIRALS REPORTED   No Confirmation Received From Any Authoritive British Sources

VER FIND ‘MEAT’ SCARC   According _ to Reports a German Is in,C ommand  of Italian Navy

Diplomatic Correspondent of Reynolds News Makes Flat Assertion Nazis  In Control   GERMAN ADMIRAL DOENITZ COMMANDS   Official German Agency Announces Agreement Reached Between Both Governments

Broken Under the Pounding of British 8th Army and His Forces are Retreat ing Northward.   HIS LOSSES ARE REPORTED HEAVY   Seattered Pockets of Resis. tance Are Left Behind, But Gen. Montgomery’s Infantrymen Are Mopping Up.

Italian Fleet In Nazi Hands   Doenitz, German Admiral, Reported Placed In  Command.

Nazis Take Over Mussolini's Navy   Report Says Doenitz Placed In Command

PRANK GAUER TO LEAVING THe COUNTY FARM   Resigns as Superintendent to Take Effect First of Next Month.   MOVE WAS SURPRISE   The County Commissioners Met and Looked Over_ Several Bids,

FRANK BAUER fs LEAVING THE —GOUNTY FARM   Resigns as Superintendent to Take Effect First. of . Next Month;  1 i   MOVE. WAS. SURPRISE   The ‘County. Commissioners ; Met and Looked Over_ Several Bids, ~

RESTORE RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP   SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF MEMBER OF COMMUNIST PARTY

Communist Entitled To Citizenship   U. S. Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Cancellation For Schneider

Communist’s Citizenship Is Restored   Supreme Court Overrides Lower Court Decision

Citizenship Case Reversed By High Court   Decides Communist Party Membership Does Not Permit Cancellation

CITIZEN CASE RULEREVERSEL BY U.S. COURT      Supreme Tribunal Holds Citizenship Cannot Be Cancelled Because Communist Membership   VICTORY FOR WILLKIE:   Justice Murphy Reads Opinion; Chief Justice Stone Dissents; Jack son Does Not Vote —

Willkie Wins Supreme Court Cas  Court Voids Alien Citizenship Ruling

‘Willkie’s Case Wins Approval of United “States Supreme Conr'   Supreme Court Reverses ’ San Francisco Court’s Decision Today

Communist May Keep Citizenship   Supreme Court Rules There Must Be More Evidence.

Court Victory For Willkie   Supreme Court Ruling Voids Cancellation  Of Schneiderman’s  U. S. Citizenship

FIUME STORMED BY YUGOSLAYS   Guerrilla Force Widens  Beachhead Around Split Area

Fiume Reported Under Attack   Yugoslav Patriots Increase Operations

Yugoslavs Are Reported at Fiume’s Gates Other Guerillas Are - Widening Beachhead

REDS PUSH NEAR VITAL RAIL LINK   Cossacks Flank Important Town in Sweep Toward Korosten

REDS 6 MILES FROM VITAL RAIL LINE   Seizure of ZhitomirKorosten Road Is Imminent

COAL STRIKE NOW FEARED   ICKES TO BE GIVEN SWEEPING POWERS TO’ DEAL’ WITH  ‘EMERGENCY EXPECTED ‘ IN APRIL

ICKES’ POWERS MAY BE BOOSTED   Sweeping Control Of Coal Production Seen As Weapon To Forestall Strike

Army Plane Mishap Rate Takes Dip   Lower Than Average Between 1930-1940

Nazis Flee Corsica; Go  To Mainland   British Planes Tear Into Three Enemy Formations

British Fighter Planes Send Seven German Transports Crashing Into the Sea. Allies Massing Troops For Final Assault On Naples. ‘

Nazis Leaving Island by Plane and Ship at Great Cost.  7 NAZI TRANSPORTS ARE SHOT DOWN  Allied Forces Massing Below Naples for Final Assault.

REQUEST FOR EXTRA FUNDS HAS SETBACK   HOUSE COMMITTEE PROPOSES ONLY 16 PER CENT OF BUDGET AMOUNT BE APPROVED

CHANCE FOR SHOWERS   Warm, Blustery Weather Pushes Mercury to Summer Levels

DRYS TO FIGHT SUNDAY SALES   Resignation of Thomas Is Regretted By Prettyman

“DRYS” WILL OPPOSE: ALL SUNDAY SALES   Prettyman Expresses Regret On Thomas Resienatian

NO CHANGE IN DISTRICT GAS NOW 1N SIGHT   Delegation from Mayors, Burgesses Told “New ‘ Study” Being Made.   ICKES SAYS SURVEY © WILL TAKE 2 WEEKS   Meanwhile, Oil Producers Seek Increase in Price  _of Crude.

Extra Gasoline? Not Now!  Mayors, Burgesses Get ‘Liquidless Ickes Word

Make Study of Gas Situation   No Change in Rulings For at Least Two Weeks, Ickes

Peace Tips Point Need Of Planning   Armistice Of ’18 Caught Government, Industry Unprepared

President Declares All Ally Flags Merit Honor Today  New Emblem Is Flown In Name of Four Freedoms of World

U.S. Navy Adds 40 Carriers, Knox Announces   Japs Said Losing One Ship Per Day; Yank Tarawa Losses Heavy

40 More Carriers Added to Navy; Jap Losses Heavy   U. S. Casualties at Tarawa ‘Very Heavy’ Sec. Knox Discloses

~~ .S. Losses ~eav7 a7 “arawa, Says “nox, V10 A SO —aS 4aC _ EWS -OF “ans in Sin dings anc. ew Wuatriers

FORTY CARRIERS ADBED TO FLEET   KNOX REVEALS NATION HAS TWICE AS MANY WARSHIPS AS 11 MONTHS AGO.

BRITISH REPULSE ~ GERMAN THRUSTS   American Airmen Make Two Attacks on Jap Bases In Aleutians.

ee  Allies Beat Off Three Nazi Thrusts in North Tunisia Sector; U. S. Bombers Blast Axis Convoy, Bag 3 Axis Planes

Allies Halt 3 Axis Attacks Near Sed Jenane   Enemy Motor Barge Convoy Bombed by  American Planac

Three German Thrusts In North Tunisia Beaten Off   American Planes Shoot Up Enemy Motor Barge Convoy

Rommel Tries To Break Out Of Iron Ring      All Attacks Repelled ; U. 8. Planes Smash Axis Convoy

Barge Convoy Of Axis Hit Off Tunisia   Bombs Hit 3 Craft in the Mediterranean ; 3 Nazi Land Drives Smashed

drive throwr back 3 times Axis Africa   Yanks blast at barge convoy

Three Rommel Thrusts Halted By The Allies   Axis Drives Stalled _As Yank Bombers Strike At Shipping

POSITIONS OF ALLIES UNCHANGED   Forward Bases Still Held Against Germans in Sedjenane Sector Teday.

BLOWS TRADED OVER CHANNEL   Englis h Strike First: Luftwaffe Replies In Coastal Raid

Capital Has Own ‘Golden Gloves’ Bouts   Some Headline Matches On Program Are Analyzed

"WAR GROUPS   Activities Now Combined— “$990,000 Is County Bond Total

CONSOLIDATE WAR GROUPS   Activities Now Combined— “$990,000 Is County 8 Bond Total

Hull To Tell Congress  Of Moscow Conterence   Speaks to Joint Session Thursday; First Cabinet Officer In History To Do This.

CONGRESS T0 HEAR ABOUT MOSCOW MEET   Hull Says All Countries To Name Own Governments

HULL 10 TELL CONGRESS OF CONFERENCE   Sec. of State Will Break Precedent by Going Before Joint Bodies To Recount Confab

Hull Will Speak  Before Congress   His Address Thursday Will Break Precedent For Cabinet Officer.

CONGRESS TO HEAR HULL OW THURSDAY   Secretary of State, in Precedent Shattering Appearance, to Tell of Parley

Hull To Tell Congress Of Agreements Made At Moscow Parlev      Secretary Of State To Appear Before Legislative Body Thursday; Will Be First Cabinet Member Ever To Speak Before Joint Session

Hall Will Speak Before Congress, Tell Of Pact   _Precedent-Breaking Talk Thursday Wiil Give Details Of Moscow Parley

Hull To Talk Thursday On Capifol Hill   Will Report On Moscow Trip; First Cabinet Member To Address Joint Session

SECY HULL 10 DISCUSS PACT FOR CONGRESS      State Dep’t Chief Will Address Solons On  Thursday

Hull Breaks A Precedent   First Cabinet Member’ To Address a Joint Session of Congress

Hull To Address House, Senate   Secretary Of State To  Report On Parley

Hull to Report To Congress on Moscow Treaty  First-Hand Account a be Given About  pneeiwmea f anmtaranrca

Hull Will Be First Cabinet Member To Address Session Of Congress; Will Ask Unified American Police

Hull To Break Precedent by Congress Trip   To Stress Importance Of Moscow Pact For Small Nations

Joint Session . Will Hear Hull:  Secretary of State To Tell of Moscow

HULL TO BREAK PRECEDENT IN CONGRESS TALK   To Call For Unified American Policy; All Countries to Elect Own Governments

Hull To Speak On Thursday   Secretary’ Of State Will Appear At Gathering Of Senate. House

Hul! to Set Another Precedent by Addressing Joint Congress Session

Both Houses Of Congress To Hear Hull   Expected to Ask Unified U. S. Support for Postwar Agreements   FOR FREE BALLOTS   Secretary Favors Allied. Board 10 Keep Order in Liberated Lands

Hull to Break Precedent in  Parley Talk   Secretary to Be First Cabinet Member to Address Joint Congress

full to Talk to Congress Thursday A.M   Will Give Details of Moscow Pact at Joint Session

SECTY HULL TO  SPEAK BEFORE ‘JOINT SESSION    Will Be First Cabinet Member Ever to Speak Before Joint Session of Congress

AFL Working on Reentry of UMW  Committee Named To Negotiate  DB aatnckatamnnt

Soviet Flyers Pound al ~ German Bases   Week.Costs Nazis 276 Planes; Russians Lose 94

REDS STRIKE BEHIND OREL   Strong Force Of Bombers Blast Parked German Warplanes

Red Planes Blast  Nazis Near Orel   Germans Lose 276 Craft in Week

Nazis Suffer Loss  Of 276 Planes  In Week’s Battle   Reds Mark Big Score  Against Enemy,   Continue Advances

Soviet Bombers Hit Orel Front   Week Cost Germans 276 More Planes

NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN BY RUSSIANS   Total of 276 German Air craft Downed During  Week —

MEAT, CHEESE ON RATION -LIST. IN — ANOTHER RULING   Butter, Other Edible Fats and Canned Fish Placed On Restrictions Beginning March 29.   RESTAURANTS TO BE UNRATIONED OASIS   Meat Allowance of About 2 Pounds Per Person Weekly Provided, Slightly Different Plan.

BUTTER, FATS CHEESE ALSO ON PROGRAM   Complete Plans Announced By Wickard, Brown   ABOUT 2 POUNDS   Of Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutton To Be Allowed Each Person Weekly

Ration Ruling ‘Detail   Allotment to Average About Two Pounds a Week

Yo Ration — Butter, Chees¢ on Same Date   Beef, Pork, Lamb and Mutton Covered; Average Is 2 Pounds Per Week

TWO POUND INDIVIDUAL OUOTA SEI   Red: Coupons Will Be Used; Beans’ -- Cheapened

Butter, Cheese and Edible Fats to Be RationedSame Day   Meat Allotment to Be About Two Pounds Per Person Weekly; Point Values Cut on Dried Fruit and Beans

Meat Rationi ng Star ts. ~ March 29; Details Tole   Butter, - “ Cheese, Other. Products Included; "Regulations: ‘Expected To ‘Insure’ Adeauate-:Suoplies:.:-For “Alb

BUTTER, FATS, CHESE, OLS LIMITED TO   Weekly Meat Share Will Be About Two Pounds for. Each Person.   CONSUMER WILL USE: RED COUPONS, BOOK:2

Meat Ration At 2 Pounds   Starts March 29 Cut Point Values On Prunes, Beans

OPA Gives Details Of Meat Ration Program   No Freezing Of Sales And No Registration; No Count Of What You Already Have On Hane

Meat Rationing Starts March 29   OTHER ITEMS OF FOOD ALSO PLACED ON LIST

MEAT AND Flan RATIONING DATE ott MARCH 28   Two Pounds Per Week Each Citizen’s Allowance Under Program   BUTTER, CHEESE, FATS TO BE RATIONED ALSO   More Generous Allotment Than First Announced Is Made Available

1 Pounds Meat Week Average Begins March 29  Butter, Cheese, FatsOils to be Rationed at Same Time

Start Meat Rationing March 29:      Batter, Ctieese, Oils, Canned Fish Also on List; Cut: Point Cost Of Dried Fruits, Bean

Canned Fish And Oils to Be Included   Meat Will Be Two Pounds Per Person Weekly, Under System

Allowance About Two Pounds Of Meat Per Person A Week—Red Coupons Of Book 2 Will Be Used—Butchers Can Give Chanae Coupons

AEGUME SALES UF CANNED FISH   Brown Announces Details Today; Wickard Talked Last Night.   TO EQUALIZE SUPPLIES

RESTRICTED ALES BEGIN ON MARCH 29   Butter, Cheese, Fats, Canned Fish on Point. System at Same Time.   RED POINT STAMPS FOR NEW ITEMS   Sixteen Ration Points Per Week Allotted for _Latest List. <8

Meat Rations to Start on March 29 at About 2 Pounds a Week for Home Consumotion

New Rationing Will Average Two  Pounds of Meat, Tenth of Cheese and 41-2 Ounces of Butter Weekly

Weekly Meat Ration Of Two Pounds Starts In American Homes March 29: Cheeses, ‘Fats, Fish Included On List

RATIONING  OF MEAT 10  START ON MARCH 79   Butter, Cheese, Fats and Ous Also Will Go on Controlled List   ™ 2 LBS. PER WEEK TO EACH PERSON   Other Details of Plan Are Explained; No Sign-Up or Freeze Planned

ALLOTMENT OF 2 POUNDS PER PERSON IS SET   Butter, Cheese, Fish Oils and Fats Also Come Under Order

MEAT RATIONING STARTS MAR, 29; 2 LBS. A WEEK   Dairy Products, Edible Fats And Oils and Canned Fish Also on List   SUPPLY TO BE EVENED UP   Local Shortages Expected To Disappear - - Most To Get More Than Normal

MEAT RATIONING TO BEGIN MARCH 25, OPA DECIDES   Each Person To Be Allowed About 2 Pounds Per Week, Is Ruling

RATIONING OF MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE CFT FOR MONDAY. MARCH 29 IN U.S.

Point System Will Be Used to Give Two Pound Average   Largest Part of American Diet Will Be Restricted

Rationing of Meat Begins March 29   Butter, Fats, Cheese and Fish Also Will Be Ratioied   REVISE POINT VALUES   Dried Beans, Peas, Prunes’ and Raisins to Be Had  for Fewer Points

Two Pounds Meat Per Week Slated  For Consumers   Only Unrationed Items Milk, Cereals, Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, Breads

LOCAL TEMPERATURE   Details Of Mea  RATIONING OF MEAT, CHEESE & CANNED FISH BEGINS MARCH 29

ALLOTMENTS ABOUT TWO POUNDS WEEK   New Plan Brings Restrictions to Largest Part Of Typical American  Diet   SOME ARE LIBERALIZED

Meats, Cheese, Butter Put on Point System   Details of Latest OPA Order Announced in Capital Today

Butter and Cheese Also Under Curb   Meat Allowance To Average Two Pounds a Wook

2 Pounds A Week For Each Person Estimated Average   ‘Accuriulation™ of Points, ‘aid: Points  “Change” ‘Parts of New System.

To Ration Meat 2 Pounds a Week Starting Mar. 29   Butter, Cheese and Othe: Edible Fats Rationed a  Same Time.   Largest Part of Diet Under Restrictions

Weekly Portion Of Meat Is Sef At Two Pounds   New Program Said More Simple than Canned Goods System

To ration meat on March 29   Butter, fats also put on limited list

Ration Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutton, Butter, Cheese March 29   PLAN DRIVE T0 HALT RATIONING OF MEAT   Cincinnat!l Retail Dealers Launch Investigation

New Restrictions De. signed To Even Up Ci. vilian Supplies; Cannec  Fish Included.

Rationing Of Meat, Butter, Cheese To Start March 2$   Average Of About Two Pounds Of Meat Per Week Per Person For Home Consumption Will Be Allowed

Discuss Higher: Postage Rates  Senate Committee Crintac Tay Bill

HIGHER POSTAL "RATES STUDIEL   Senate Group Considers House-Approved Raise

SENATE STUDIES POSTAL BOOSTS   George Favors Repeal Of Contract Renegotiation Law

BIG FALL CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPS SEEN   * ar ae ae  President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Believed to Be Setting: the Sights of Allied War Machine fo Crush Enemy in Burma and   Open the Route to China and Janan - 

Fall Campaign in Burma Believed Being Outlined   Allied Leaders Also Discuss ' Aid for Russia

THINK BURMA OFFENSIVE IS NEXT PLANNED   President and Churchill Said Aiming Hard Blows at Japan as Soon as Monsoon Season is Ended.

Big Fall Campaign Mapped Against Japanese In Burma   Indicate Part Of Allied Striking Power To Be Shifted

Americans Bomb East Indies Base 2.400-Mile Mission Is  Longest Ever Flown

American’Airmen - Fly:2406 Miles to Blast Enemy’s Main Base In Nether lands East Indies —   CAUGHT FLATFOOTED   Oil Refinery, Warehouses Railway Installation and Dock Hit; Fires Seen ' 140 Miles Away —

Jap Netherlands Base Is Attacked   Surprise Raid Made By Yank Airmen

FIRST AIR BLOW OF WAR SINCE FALL OF ISLAND   Catch Nips Flatfooted; Fly 2,400 Miles to Hit Enemy; Sets New Record

Make Long Hop For Air Raid   U. S. Fliers Bomb Japs At Soerabaia

EXTEND LONG PACIFIC TRIPS   Surprise Raid On Soera baja Catches Japanese Flatfooted

ALLIED AIRMEN HIT SOERABAJA IN EAST INDIES   ‘Once Great Naval Base on Jay: { Plastered with Bombs on Re i finery, Rails, Decks   LONGEST MISSION   Pressure Kept Up on Japs at Munda, Sslamava, Concentrated Raid Made on Komiatum

Soerabaja Raided By  Liberator:   Surprise Attack on Big Jap Naval Base Made In 2400-Mile Flight

DUTCH BASE HELD ~ BY JAPS BOMBED BY4).5. WARPLANES   Raid On. Soerabaja Longest Mission Ever Flown In Southwest Pacific   CATCH JAPS FLAT-FOOTED

HEAVY RAID ON SOERABAJA MADE BY U.S. BOMBERS   Destructive Raid On Ene my’s Main Netherland: East Indies Base Is Com plete Surprise and the First Since Japs Captured It March, 1942. .

U. S. Fliers In Surprise Raid On Key Jap Base   Enemy Caught Flat-Foot. ed When Soerbaja Is Pounded. °

AMERICAN AIRMEN SURPRISE JAPS IN SOERABAJA RAID   MAIN ENEMY BASE IN NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES HEAVILY BLASTED

NIPPON BASE IN JAVA IS RAIDED   Many Targets Hit in Long Range Mission

Japanese Caught Flatfooted At  Soerbaja Base   Lights Burning Aid To Raiders

JAPS SURPRISED BY U, S. ATTACK ON INDIES BASE   \merican Bombers, Flying Longest Mission Yet In South. west Pacific, Bomk  Naval Base Of Soe:  rabaja In Java.

JAP BASE IN NETHERLANDS INDIES RAIDED   American Airmen Spring Surprise With Destructive Attack on Great  Dutch Port   ALL BOMBERS RETURN

Japanese Get Surprise —   American Airmen Pound Soerabaja ‘Base On Netherlands East Indies In Longest Southwest Pacific Air Trin

FOE SURPRISED IN EAST INDIES   American Airmen Spring Attack on Main Jap Base Of Soerabaia.   MUNDA CAPTURE NEAR

U.S. BOMBERS RAKE JAP BASE IN EAST INDIES   SOERABAJA, FORMER GREAT DUTCH NAVAL PORT, HEAVILY HIT

Italy Makes Rome Open City, Claim   Heavy Allied Reinforcements Arrive in Mediterranean Theater

Mighty Force of British Bombers Discharge Tons of Bombs on Four Square Miles of the City.—Fires Seen Distance of 250 Miles — Pillars of Smoke Tower Thousands of Feet After Devastatina Attacke

Pope May Voice Hone for Peace   He Is to Deliver Addres: Over Radio From Vatican City

Coach Patton Leaves It to  Ais Quarterback   Wallace Looses Blast at “Certain American Fascists’

HAS COMMENTS ON ATTITUDE CHANGE   Wallace Gives His Ideas on “American Fascists” Opposing Roosevelt.

WALLACE FLAYS CORPORATION EFFORTS TO REGAIN POWERS   Charges ‘American Fascists’ Seeking Government Control Ignore Human Right:

Gives An Interview At Detroit   Have Turned Against Roosevelt, He Says—He’s  for Americanism

Wallace Blasts ‘Big Business’   Claims “American Fascists” Turn Against President

Wallace Hits US. Fascists   Undercover Attacks On Administration Laid to ‘Interests’

U.S, FASCIST CHARGE FROM V. P, WALLACE   Against F. R. Because He Blocked Washington as Way Station Leading on to Wall Street

PORK CEILINGS 60. "IN EFFECT APR.   Similar Top Prices to be Set for Other Meat Products

PRICE CEILINGS ON PORK APRIL    TOPS WILL BE SET SOON BY OPA FOR BEEF, VEAL, LAMB AND MUTTON.

Pork Under Ceilings In U.S. April 1   Regional Variations in Retail Prices; Curb for Black Markef

TOP PRICES FOR MEAT 10 BE SET   Ceiling Will Be Placed on Pork April 1; Similar Top Prices To Be Fixed for Veal, Beef, Lamb and Mutton

PORK CEILING PRICES FIXED FOR MICHIGAN   ACTION TAKEN BY OPA TO COMBAT BLACK MARKET

PORK CEILING BEING ORDERED FIRST OF MONTH   OPA Action Expected To Curb Black Market And Se cure Fair Distribution   WILL ALSO REDUCE PRICE OF LIVE HOGS

Pork To Come Under Ceiling First of Month   Top Prices Will Be Fixed for All Retail Stores in Nation

OPA Announces Specific Ceiling Prices on Pork  Similar Action on Beef, Veal, Mutton And Lamb Due Soon  COUNTRY ZONED   New Tops Slightly  Higher Than Present ' Pork Prices Here   Similar Action on Beef, Veal, Mutton And Lamb Due Soon

CEILINGS TO Bi FIXED ON POR! PRICES APRIL 1   Similar - Action Will Be Taken Soon on Other Meats

OPA ANNOUNCES PRICE CEILINGS ON PORK APR. 1   Tops for Other Meats To Come at Later Date, Report

Retail Pork Price Ceilings Scheduled For April 1   Similar Top Prices  To Be Announced Soon For Beef, Veal, Lamb And Mutton, GPA Says   OTHER FOODSTUFFS ALSO ARE IN LINE

Ceilings For Pork Prices First of April   CURB FOR BLACK MARKETS CLAIM OF OPA; DIST sii Ds SUPPLIES MORE EQUITABLY; NOT UNIFORM.   Beef, Veal, Lamb, Too

To: put price tops on pork euts April 1   Nebraska into 2 zones; will curb illegal marketing

Ceilings on Pork Due On April 1   Similar Top Prices On Other Meats Will Be Set Soon

Pork Price Lids Go Into Effect April I   New Ceilings Will Curb Black Markets: OPA to Put Other Foodstuffs lnder Lids Soon

Specific Price Ceilings Set On Pork Effective April 1 On Two-Way Sectional Basis

Specific Ceilings  For Pork   Starts April 1: Similar Tops For Other Meats Coming OPA Announces

British Army In Suburbs Of  Catania Port   Key Communications Center In South Taken By Hard-Driving Yanks; Warships Blast Path For Gen. Montgomery’s Troops

Agrigento Defenders Flee; British Land, Sea Guns Blast Path. To Catania

BRITISH TROOPS NEARING COAST BASE OF CATANIA; FAIL APPEARS IMMINENT   Agrigento Is Taken Following 12-Mile Push by 7th U.S. Army

Catania Expected To Fall Soon to British Troops   Allied Forces Drive Deeper Into Sicily’s Interior, Capturing Four More Important Communications Centers

Anchor of Axis Line Falls to Americans   Seizure of Blazing Catania Near  As British Drive to Within 6 Miles

Seventh Army Cuts Network   Catania Ablaze From British Sea, Aerial Bombardment

U.S. Troops Seize Vital . Sicily Base      British Smash On In Dive Toward Catania

Part-Time Workers Must Have Social Security Cards   No Credit Received For Wages Unless Number Is Recorded

Fund Pleads For 21 Causes   Red Cross Executive Board Has Meetings

WAR ON SUBS AIDED BY SECRET WEAPON   ‘Magic Eye’ Penetrates Fog To Locate Mauraders

PLAN PROVIDES PAY DEDUCTIONS FOR 3t MILLION   Proposed Levy Would Cover Present Taxes on First Bracket Incomes and Victory Impost.   ACTION POSTPONED ON RUML PROPOSAT.,      Subcommittee Also Puts Off Vote on Issue of Canceling Part or All of 1942 Taxes,

20 PER CENT PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX APPROVED BY COMMITTEE   Three per Cent Victory Levy and Seventeen per Cent Income Tax Voted by House Group

Plan to Withhold 20 Per Cent Of Taxable Pay  House Group Agree: Tentatively on  latact Camnramica

Committee  OR’s 20 Pet. Withholding Tax Proposal   Would Start July 1 With Citizens Paying First 2 Installments On 1942 Income Tax  CANCELLATION IDEAS ARE SIDE-TRACKED  Plan Covers Regular Levy on Incomes  And Also Victory Tax

WITHHOLDING TAN,   ne to Take Out 20 Percent in  Wages Meets Favor.

Board Favors 1 ithholding Tax of 20%   House Subcommittee Delays Action on Issue of Cancelling Part or All of Taxes

Group Approves Withholding Tax   Pian Provides- for Deduction of 20 Per Cent from . Wages an dSalaries.

House Unit Approves Plan’s Start In July   Regular Deductions Would Be Applied To Actual Taxes Computed At End of Year .

House Committee Votes 20 Per Cent Withholding Tax   Pay-As-You-Go Plan Affecting All Wage “Earners: Would Become: Effective July ]

20 Per Cent Withholding _ Tax Program Approved   House Sub-committee Gives Tentative 0. K. to Pay.as-You-Go Plan—Funds Would be Aoplied to  ; Actual Taxes at End of Year:

Approve Plan To withhold Salary Tax -"      ‘Der Cent of Taxable Incomie “Would Be Held From Checks

PAY-AS-YOU-6( TAXATION PLAN GETS APPROVAL   House Committee Favors Withholding 20 Percent From Enveloves   ACTION POSTPONED ON 1942 CANCELLATION

GROUP ADOPTS NITHHOLDING TAX PROPOSAL   Tentative Approval i: Given by House Subcommittee

Approve Plan To Withhold Salary Tax   20 Par ‘a of Taxable  Income Would Be Held From Checks

PAY-AS-YOU-GO IS OKEMED BY HOUSE GROUP   Taxpayers Would Still Be Required to Meet 1942 Obligation

Pay-as-You-Ge Tax Collection Plan Favored   Deductions May Be Made From Earnings at Source

Tentative Okay Given Pay-Go Tax Proposal   20 Percent of Taxable Income Would Be Withheld

Orel Is Hit Hard Blows By Soviets On 3 Sides   Red Radio Reports Dozens Of Towns  Are Seized

SOVIET GUNS BLAST OREL FROM 3 SIDES   West of Bastion, Troops Penetrate 30 Miles Into German Rear, Adding 130 More Villages to  Canra

TEMPERATURES:   Job Program s Organized For Twin City Aree   North Berrien And Van Buren: Included In Regulations

NORTH BERRIEN AREA INCLUDED IN JOB FREEZE   Plan To Become Effective One Minute After Midnight Tonight   WMC GIVES APPROVAL   Designed To Promote Or derly Hiring and Shift ing of Workers

MUTINY REPORTED ON ITALIAN SHIPS   CREWS SAID TO HAVE REFUSED TO PUT OUT TO SEA ~—LEADERS EXECUTED.

TROOPS GIVE UP DETROIT PATROL   Soldiers Called To Put Down Riot Will Stay Unt August 2

U. §. TROOPS END DETHOIT PATROLS   Quiet Holiday  Week-End Brings Decision to Abandon Surveillance of Streets

New Gains In Aegean Area Are Reported   Battle for Island Approaches to Balkans Gains Added  Significance   RESISTANCE STUBBORN

On Islands Off Greece   German Attempts To Take Simi Island Are Beaten Off

Increase Hold On Islands In  Aegean Sea   Disclosed Allied Possession Of Simi Where Nazi Stab Repulsed.   4LLIES. IN BALKANS?

Balkans War Shaping Up Importantly   New Threat to Europe’s Back Door Worrying Nazis

Battle Grows For Islands   Allies Occupy More Islands in Aegean Sea

Allies in New Gains to Capture Aegean Islands   Nazi-Seaborne Forces Beaten Off in Attempted Landing on Simi.   Small Allied Force Enters Balkan Area

Allies Score New Gains In  Aegean As Developments In Balkans Assume Significance   British Take Island, Land On Others; Allied Officials Confer With Patriots

Fighting Flares In Aegean   British Beat Off Nazi Attempt to Land on  Simi, in Dodeconese; Say. Allies in Balkans

$750,000 Child Aid Bill 0. K. in Senate   Federal to Match State, Local Funds

Rationing of Shoes Begins Tomorrow   Sales Are Frozen Until Then; Only Three Pair Year

Shoe Ration Sales Start Tomorrow   Freezing Order One of Best Kept Secrets of War

Shoe Rationing Tomorrow; Use  War Stamp 17   Three Pairs A Year Limit But Americans Still Best Shad

SALE OF SUSPENDED FOR DAY IN NATION      “Freeze” Ends Tomorrow At Noor When Restrictions Are Effective

ONE-DAY SHOE FREEZE TODAY   Fooiwcar Rationed at Three Pairs A Year, Beginning Tomorrow, In Sudden Move by OPA.

Shoe Rationing, Program Comes ‘As Surprise...   Three Pairs Per Year Are To Be Allowed

STAMP NO. 17 IN RATION BOCK 15 — GOOD FOR SHOES   Sales Freeze Effective Today. Three Pairs Per Year Altotted Each Person.

Shoe Rationing Is In Effect   Stamp No. 17 in Ration Book No.  Will Entitle Holder to Pair Shoes   Notice Comes Without Any Advance Warning

STAMP 17 18 RESERVED FOR SHOERATIONING   Sales Frozen Until Tuesday With Each Civilian To Get Three Pair Yearly   RULE COMES AS SURPRISE!   Coupons May Be Pooled For Family Use; Some Styles ~ To Be Restricted

WPB FREEZES. SHOE SALES; RATION TO START TOMORROW   Stamp Na, 17 In Ration Book No.'1 Will Be Good For One Pair Until  Tame TE:

Shoe Rationing To — Begin Tuesday; Sale Suspended Monday   Stamp No. 17 Required For Purchase of One Pair Prior to. June 15; One-third of Leather Used for Armed Forces

Three Pairs Per Year To Be Allowed With Purchases Made By Coupon; No Need To Rush.

ShoeRationing ls Ordered; Sales Frozen   Coupon Purchasing Will Begin Tomorrow; Three Pairs A Year Is Quota   CUT STYLES, COLORS   Byrnes Cites Critical Shertage Of Heavy Sole Leather As Reason

Sales Stopzed Today But Will Resume Tomorrow   STAMP NO. 17 GOOD FOR PAIR ‘TIL JUNE 15

Three Pairs Per Year is Shoe Ration   Move is Complete Surprise; Sales  Prohibited Today

Gen. Beightler Is Soldier's Soldier  “He Fights Right with You,’ Ohio Outfit Sergeant Explains

REFUSE PLEDGE ON FOURTH TERM   Walker's Statement Adds to Possibility of Congressional Resolution.

INVASION FERVOR SWEEPING FRANGE   ALLIED SUCCESSES IN CORSICA AROUSE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST NAZIS.

United Press Correspondent, Phil Ault, Says British War Ships Had Shelled Coastal Road Road Again.

OUDREF NOW OCCUPIED BY IMPERIALS   Thought to Be Well on Way to Port of Sfax

ALLIED SQUEEZE SLOWLY CREATING DEATH TRAE   Constant Bombardment By _ Allied Planes Gives Ger  mans No Rest

MINERS’ CHIEF AGREES TO PLAN OF OPERATORS   Accedes After Accusing ' Management of Probably ‘Seeking More.Comfort- able Way to Filibuster   EXPRESSES LITTLE  FAITH IN OUTCOME   Threatens Strike Unless Contract Is Made; Bitterly Assails Chairman of War Labor Board

MINERS AND OPERATORS GO     1" ‘ ai NEW. CONTRACT.        ori ae “te usw aU. M. W. President Said ~-Yesterda y. Miners ‘Wouldn’t Report For Work Kor Tee If Agreement Was Not Reached Before

No April Pact No Coal, Says Lewis Defi   Conference Goes Into Se eret Session at Operator’s Request

MINE CONTRACT UNSIGNED AS LEADERS CONFER   LEWIS THREATENS WORK STOPPAGE AFTER MARCH 31

COAL MINERS AND OPERATORS IN: EXECUTIVE MEET.   Management-Labor Groups Confer Behind Closed Doors To Debate Terms of New Centract

UNION TERMS DEBATED BY OPERATORS   Soft Coal Mine Owners In Executive Session To Discuss Lewis’ Demands   WALKOUT THREATENED

LEWIS AGAIN WARING ABOUT COAL oTRIKE   Mine Leader Bitterly Denounces Operators and  War Labor Board.   CONTRACT TERMS BEING DEBATED   Lewis S ays” Operators Welcome to Carry Case to Washington.

Confer On Mine Contract Behind Closed Doors  If Demands Aren’t Met Charges WLB Has

200 ARE ROUTED IN HOTEL BLAZE   Five-Alarm Blaze Sweeps Thru 43-Year-Old Rittenhouse In Philadelphia

TO MOVE NO CONFIDENCE    Acland Accuses British Government i of Fascist Steps

ESCAPEES TO FACE CHARGES IN COURT   Sheriff Huyett to Bring Two Men Here From California

ESCAPES 10 FACE . - CHARGES IN COURI   Sheriff. Huyett to Bring Two Men Here From » Calitarnia _;

Gen. Emmons. Relieved Of  - Hawaiian Jok   New Assignment Rumored To Be Fourth Army Command, West Coast

RICHARDSON PROMOTED   Ex-Seventh Corps Commander Given Hawaiian Leadership

Lieutenant General Has Had Charge of Hawaiian Department Since Pearl Harbor ©   TO BE SUCCEEDED BY GEN. RICHARDSON   Speculation Arises Emmons Might Take Over Western Defense Command In San Francisco

GEN. EMMONS LEAVES HAWAll   Commander’s Post tc Be Taken’ by Gen. .-.: Richardson

Emmons To Give Up His Command  To Be Succeeded By  flan Dial  RSI

General Giraud Ready To Receive De Gaulle   Leaders Will Attempt To Reach Agreement On Unity Of Frenchmen.

RUML’S PLAN 18 TOSS-UP   BANKER'S PROPOSED "TAX SYSTEM REPORTED TO BE LOSING: SUPPORT IN “HOUSE

SHOWDOWN ON ISSUE SOUGHT BY BOTH CAMPS   Democrats Returning To Fold Promise Backing For Roosevelt   COMPROMISE UNLIKELY   _ Majority Party Optimistic For First Time Since Receiving Bill

GAINS REGISTERED BY  THE ALLIES IN AREAS   Advance in Sicity Estimated in London at 12 to 15 Miles—Fragmentary Accounts of Offensive Action Leave Picture Obscure ta Some Extent Teday—General War Picture Remains Exytramely Favarahlo.

Allied Forees Drive Deeper Into Sicily   Beachheads Retained; Russian Resistance Reported Stiffeninag

Allies Breasting Stiff Axis Resistance On Sicily; Red Army Turns On Germans And Seize Two Towns In Counter Stroke   GAINS ESTIMATED AT TEN TO TWELVE MILES

SICILY’S AIR DEFENSES HIT 'BY ALLIES   United Nation Airmer Have Free Hand In Skies To Pound Italy’: Island Hard.

SICILY AIR DEFENSES TOPPLING UNDER WEIGHT OF RUTHLESS BOMBINGS   British, South African, American Planes Hit Five Targets on Nose In Raids on Airdromes Yesterday

AIR OPPOSITION LIGHT Ao ALLIES POUND AT SIGIL   Nive Important Airdromes Heavily Damaged Ag Air Attacks Continue

RAIDERS ‘BAG’ NINE WORKERS, FIFTY PATRONS   Men Prominent In City and tate Politics Among Inmates   CAUGHT BY SURPRISE   Employes of Two Gambling Places To Face Court Sept. 16

ALLENSVILLE FIRE RAZES 6 BUILDINGS   Vinton County Blaze Routs 2 Families

PENSIONS FOR QHIO JUDGES S DEBATED   Fourth Trial Is Faced by Measure in Stormy Course Through ‘House.

Barringer’s Big Sale October 11; Jensen Sale Oct. 12  D. C. Barringer QOuinten Tensen

ALLIES MAPPING PINCERS MOVE   Break In Weather Awaited To Start Push On Gabes Bottleneck

Yanks Consolidate Their Positions  Clear Weather Awaited To Continue Drives

Jeffers Resigns ~~ AsRubber Chief Col. Dewey, Right Hand Man. Mav Get Job

fubber Chiet Jeffers Quits   Director Feels Biggest Part Of Job Over Should Return To U. P.

JEFFERS. QUITS AS RUBBER CZAR   Program “Over Hump,” Feel ~ Railroad Now Needs His “+ “Services

Jeffers Resigns: Says ‘Big Job’ ls Completed  Wishes to Return to ‘On the Job’  Mandi:na at LID

JEFFERS RESIGNS POST   Rubber Program's “Big Job” Done, Crar Returns To

Rubber Program Chief Quits Post   Jeffers Says Big Job le Camnleted

Rubber Chief Submits His Resisnation      Jeffers ‘Not Mad at Any body,’ But Believes Biggest Job Is Over

Jeffers Resigns, Says Job Done   President Praises Rubber Chief’s Work

Jeffers Resigns as Rubber Chief  Synthetic Program Is Over the Hump

Jeffers Quits Position as Rubber Czar   Tie Chief Fools His Werk Is Dene and Wil

Jeffers Resigns, Saying: Big Job. Now. Completed     ” Work Done by. U.S. Czar Over Rubber

Jeffers Resigns As Rubber Czar   Tells FD ‘Big Job’ Is Completed

Report Jeffers To Have Quit Job   Rubber Director *  Refuses To Comment

Jeffers Quits Rubber Job, Returns to U. P.  Colonel Dewey, Aide, May Take Up Job

Jeffers Quits Rubber Post, Says Job Done   Needed More Now As Head of Union Pacific Road

Jeffers Quits as Rubber Chief, Says Greatest Part of Task Is Done; Synthetic Material Will Be Available

JEFFERS QUITS RUBBER POST   Tells FDR That “The Big Job’ Has Been Completed

Resignation Of Jeffers Is Accepted   Rubber Director Says Job is Now Almost Completed

Jeffers Quits As Rubber Boss   Declares “Big Job” of Rubber Program Has Been Completed

PROGRAM OVER HUMP, WILLIAM JEFFERS QUITS   Wants To Get Back To Job On Union Pacific

JEFFERG RESIGNS AS RUBBER GHIEF   Feels That Rubber Program ls Over the Top; Wants to Get Back to Bossing the Union Pacific ,

Dewey Named Rubber Chief   Roosevelt Accepts Jeffers’ Resiqnation

JEFFERS RESIONS AS RUBBER CZAR   TELLS ROOSEVELT “BIG JOB” HE UNDERTOOK HAS BEEN COMPLETED.

Report He’s To Quit Job Unverified   Jeffers Has No Comment Today—Has Held Office  for Past Year

Rubber Program ‘Over the Hump, Jeffers Quits   Recommends Aide, Col. Bradley Dewey, To Take Over Post

Wm. Jeffers Quits; Dewey ls Successor   Rubber Director's Resignation Is  Accepted by FDR

Jeffers Quits Post  As Rubber Director   Resignation Handed to President, His Associates Say—Considers U. S. “Over the Hump” on the Rubber Problem.

Rubber Director Jeffers Resigns   Plans To Return To Railroad Post

Rubber Director Jeffers Resi signs, ’ Tells President Proe cram Has Been ‘Completed

JEFFERS QUITS RUBBER OFFICE   Big Job Is Completed, Director Of Tire Program Says

Rubber Boss Resigns Job   Jeffers Will Return To Railroad Duties

Showdown on , lax Abatement Bill Expected   Senate Decision on Measure Appears to Rest on Five Votes

Ruml Plan Vote In Senate Sure To Be Close   senate Appears Evenly Divided; Five Listed as Doubtful

Tax Bill Showdown Is Expected Today   Senate’s Decision Hinges on Five Votes

FATE OF RUML PLAN RESTING ON FIVE VOTES   Showdown on Issue is Expected in Senate Today

tte Decision Taxes Hinges ‘ive Votes  ‘ministration Backs   ministration Backs “n to Cancel 75°¢ oLevy on 42 ‘tell   Levy on 42 Income “VDOWN TODAY  ndenberg Rejects mpromise Talk;  rd Attacks Rill

SHOWDOWN ON TAX BILL IS DUE SOON   Senate's Decision Appears to Rest on Turn of Fixe Votes

Senate Wait: Crucial Tax Vote Friday  Result Appears To Depend On. Five Ballois

U. S. Tired Of Being ‘Scooped’   ELMER DAVIS REQUESTS INQUIRY INTO MOSCOW'S PARLEY ANNOUNCEMENT

Safety Considerations   Not Expecting Immediate Reveal Of Parley Results

Moscow Reveals Conference Locale  And Parley’s End   Think “Big 3” Dictate Last Choice To Nazis, Plan Second Front, Decide On Bigger Aerial Attacks

NO ANNOUNCEMENT SOON ON THE BIG 3 WAR CONFERENCES   This Statement Was Made Today by Stephen Early, Presidential Secretary.   HAS NOTHING TO TELL   He Was Unaware of the Moscow Announcement Regarding Meeting.

VITAL MILITARY AND POLITICAL PLANS MAPPED   Announcement Made In Moscow, Withheld  Elsewhere   Early Annoancement  On Results Doubted

NO ANNOUNCEMENT  ABOUT CONFERENCE  [5 EXPECTED SOON OWI DIRECTOR ELMER" DAVIS, COPED AGAIN,

Expects No Official Details Soon  White House Secretary  Thinks Report On Big Parley To Be Delayed

IRAQ DECLARES WAR ON AXIS COUNTRIES   ee —_  Has Population of Approximately 4,500,000

Iraq Legation Says Country At War With Axis Nations   Broke Relations With Japan in November, 1941,   Severing Diplomatic Relations With Vichy Gov ernment at Same Time—British Troops Have Occupied Country Sinee May, 1941

IRAQ NOW AT WAR WITH AXIS POWERS   Arab Country Become: Thirty-First Member o Allied Front.

lraq Declares War on Axis   Formal Action From Bagdad Follows Break With Japan Last Year

Many Nazis Are Trapped By Landing   Virtually Precludes Stand South of Rome. Perhaps South of Po  FIFTH MOVES ALONG

Landings Made on Adriatic Behind Enemy   Spectacular Gains Turned in by British Forces

NUMBER OF NAZI TROOPS TRAPPED   Allies Roll Forward Along Entire Italian Front   AMERICAN FIFTH   Fights Through Hard Rain in _ Push Forward From Cap. tured Benevento

British Land Behind Foe On Adriatic   Nazi Troops Trapped by Montgomery’s Move, Counterattacks Fail; Americans  In Position to Outflank Enemy Stand

CLARK’S FORCES — NOW IN POSITION TO FLANK ENEMY   Desperate Counter - Attacks Fail to Dislodge Mongomcry’s Men From NewlyWon Ground.   GERMANS PUSHED BACK ALONG ENTIRE FRONT   Fifth Plunges Forward in Rain From Benevento, 32 Miles Northwest of Naples.

Eighth traps nazi forces successfully   Fifth’s advance outflanks enemy

British Make Big Gain After New Landings   Nazi Forces Are Trapped; Yankees Push Forward

British Land Behind Nazis   Germans !n Italy Are’ Threatened With Trap

British Land Behind German Lines, Trap Nazi Troops As Fifth Army Pushes Ahead

British 8th Army Makes Spectacular Gain on Nazis  AMERICANS PUSH FROM BENEVENTO  Undisclosed Number of Nazi Troops Trapped by British

Montgomery Advances Men  Via Adriatie   . Americans Force Way - Over Calore River ‘n Itatian Campaign

EIGHTH ARMY FORCE LANDS BEHIND ENEMY   AMERICANS BATTER FORWARD NORTH OF NAPLES

GERMAN TROOPS ARE TRAPPED IN LEAPFROG STAB   Clark’s Army Pushes On From Benevento To Force Crossing Over Calore

Americans Battle in Rain to Smash Way Over the Calore; Gains Made In Face of Strong Resistance

FRENCH WARSHIPS JOIN ALLIED NAVY FORCEINU.S. PORTS   Battleship Richelieu Now Undergoing Repairs Along With Other  Macenls

Richelieu, Cruisers Arrive at U. S. Ports   All French Ships Not Sunk At Toulon Now Operating With Allied Navies .

GIANT BATTLESHIP RICHELIEU NOW IN NEW YORK HARBOR   French Warships Will Join Allied Armada in Fight Against Axis; Crews Happy to be in America.

RIGHELIEU IN U.S. WATERS: NEEDS REPAIR   Big 35,000-ton Craft Will Join Fight to Smash U-boat Menace.   BULLETIN

Mighty First Line Battleship, Richelien, Arrived At New York Harber Few Days Ago, French Admiral Reveals   CRUISEES ARE BEING FITTED FOR SERVICE

RICHELIEU ARRIVES IN NEW YORK   Four Vessels to Undergo Repairs And Join Fleet

FRENCH NAVY POWER UNDER ALTIED LEAD   Warship Richelieu, Others Arrive In U.S

European Raids  Pressed by RAF   32 Bombers Lost as British Pound  Big German Industrial Center

PREDICTS NAZIS’ COLLAPSE IN °43   U. S. Diplomatic Observer’s View Not Shared by High Militarists

DIPLOMAT SEES EARLY VICTORY   Collapse Of- Germany  January Forecast By Competent Observer

NAZI DEFEATS: ~ HAVE EFFECT   DIPLOMATIC ‘OBSERVER WHO HAS BEEN VERY ACCURATE IN PABTY PREDICTS JANUARY COLLAPSE

WANT SHARE IN PEACE PLANNING   Congressmen Favor Study of Post-War Aims; Plan Gets Strong Backing.

INTEREST IN: * “FEAGEPLANS ~ BEING SHOWN   STRONG BENTIMENT DEVELOY. ING IN CONGRESS FOR TAR. ING HAND IN. POST war PROGRAM +!)

GERMAN DEFENSES BETWEEN DNIEPER,  AZOV SEA BROKEN   New Break Through Heightens Threat ‘Of Annihilation Hanging Over 1,000,000 Axis Troops In Ukraine And Crimea

ANNIHILATION THREAT AFTER BREAKTHROUGH   Rumanians Making Preparations to Evacuate as Reds Push Advance Closer to Border

NAZIS THROW MORE TROOPS, MACHINERY Ih   Threatened With Being Trapped in Large Sack in Bend of River With Only One Way Out

Sentero weyemeanncenmnanen  BIS FUGITIVE KILLED WHEN SHOT BY POLICE

23 HOUSES ARE SOLD   40 New Homes Have Been Erected in South Lawrence

Axis Chief Leading Army Into Death Trap Betore Allied Infantry and Airmen

ALLIED PLANES GROUND Fits SMASH AT FOE   Rommel’s Rear Guard Troops Crumple Under Blows Of Allies

GERMAN AERIAL FORGE GIVING NO PROTECTION   Enemy Believed Attempt. ing Last Desperate Stand 50 Miles From Tunis

TEMPERATURE   ‘End of Axis in North Africa Seems Near as Relentless Blows By Americans, British And French Continue

hommel Hurries Retreat   Axis Armies In Headlong Flight For Coffin Corner After Losing Sfax.   HIT ITALIAN CRUISERS

BARE CHURCHILL'S NARROW ESCAPE   OFFICIAL REVEALS BOMB KILLED 12 NEXT DOOR TO NO. 10 DOWNING STREET.

45,000 Men Cut Off by Capture Of Coast Cities   Northwestern Area Almost Completely in Hands of the Allies   Fall of Catania to British Indicated by German Statement

Axis Begins Evacuation Of Sicily, Swiss Report; Catania Fight Rages On   Reds Driving for ‘Kill’ Reach Edge of Orel; Allies Pour Bombs on Crete, Says Berlin Radio; Rebellion Spreads in Nazi-Held Balkans

Ford’s Body !s Viewéd by Scores   Funeral Tomorrow for Millionaire

W. L. MCCARTHY - HEADS POST   Concord Legionnaires Hold Annual Election; To Install in Nevember , —

HIGHER PRICES PREVAIL IN MARKET   Many Leaders Reluctant t Venture More Than Frac tionally Above Levels

Four Fire Departments Fight Blaze So in Seneca This Morn; $100,000 Loss

ONE INFANTRY BATTALION i SINGLED OUT FOR SPECIAL ’ TRIBUTES FOR ITS HEROISM

‘37TH DIVISION PLAYED BIG PART IN AMERICAN ROUT OF JAPS AT MUNDA

5 APPLICANTS PASS COUNTY HOME EXAN   Commissioners To Make Appointment Soon

Motorman Killed Many Injured In Trolley Accident   Interurban Trolleys’Crash Head-On And Burn In Early Morning Fog

Just Laid in Mud of Munda for 23 Days Says Ohioan Back from Victorious Fight

Eden Says Start Made it in French. Corcindtion”;~   Conditions i in Africa Being Adjusted

Eden Reports Progress In Plan For French Unity   Fareign Secretary Say: Policies Of U. S., Grea Britain Are Identical

Eden Declares Start Made Toward Conciliating Divergent French Groups In Africa; U. S. British in Agreement

Eden Says Start Made To AidFrench   No Difference Of Policy Between U.S. and Britain

CEILINGS HOLD   Stabilization Director Orders Meat Prices Stay Same.

Ceiling Prices of Meat Remain On Same Basis   Vinson Directive Says OPA Method Will Be  Continued In Force

MEAT GRADE LABELING TO CONTINUE   Gov't Says Price Ceilings Would Break Down Otherwise

DIRECTOR VINSON ISSUES DIRECTIVE ON MEAT CEILINGS   OES Order Continues In Force Meat Grading, Labelling Rules Establir’ ed Previously By OPA,   ORDER TO PREVENT CHAOS IN INDUSTRY   Grade Will Permit Sales of Cuts Without Lowest Being Increased For Higher Cost to Patrons.

Ceiling Prices on Meat Assured of Continuation By Vinson Directive

Solons Explore Possibility Ot Reducing Military Goal 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 Men

An Armed Service ‘&xpansion. Cut?   A Senate Investigating Committee Is Studving Such a Plan.

Senate May Ask Army to Cut Its Goal   Committee Pins McNarney Down on Effect of Reduction

GROUP MAY Rak GUT IN FORGES   Senate Committee Studies Possibility of Reducing Services.

Senators for Cutting Down Size of Army   Convinced Military and Production Targets Beyond Nation’s Manpower Range

Senators Believe Army Plan Beyond Manpower Range   Explore Possibility of Trimming Expansion  by Million or More

May Cut Army Plan For *42   Senate Group Convinced Armament, Food Goals Beyond Manpower Range.

Senate Group Studies Cut in U.S. Army   Instruct McNutt to Prepare Plans Showing What Army Curtailment Will Mean

Possibility of , Smaller Army Being Explored   Senate Group Looks For Answer to Manpower Puzzle

Scan.Reduction “Of Army Goals   Senate Group Explore: Shift In Manpower

Cut in Armed Forces Studied  Charge War, Industry Plans Beyond Range Of Manpower Explores

Senators Probe Possible Cut In  Army Expansion  Declare 1943 Military A 3. .3 mpm... 3. wf... .. 4   Declare 1943 Military And Food Goals Beyond  Mannower Range.

SOLONS SEEK TO CUT DOWN ARMY GROWTE   Senate Group Convinced Military Aim Beyond . Manpower Range

SENATORS PROBE RESTRICTION OF ARMED FORCES   BELIEVE PROPOSED EXPANSION BEYOND MANPOWER RANGE

Study Means Of Reducing Army Needs   Solons Convinced That Military, Production Targets Are Beyond  Mannawer Range

Yank Kills Light Germans With Kight Builets in Clip   Sergeant Herb Fish, Colorado, Accomplishes Remarkable Feat After German Bullet Had Passed Through Helmet, Stunning Him;  Caught Nazis Flat-Footed

Distilling Company Stockholders To Get 245,000 Barrels of Whisky

HITLER ARSENAL OF RUHR VALLEY HEAVILY BOMBED   900 Tons of Explosives Hit Factories, Chiefly Krupp Plant At Essen.

British Bombers Hit Ruhr Valley   Krupp Arms Works At Essen Major Target

RAF Bombers Pound Vital Ruhr Valley   Krupp Works Are Major Target~ 13 Planes Lost

BRITISH ~=BOMBERS DROP 900 TONS OF BOMBS. ON. “ESSEN   Ai ir Ministry Describes Attack As Heavy—13  Bombers Lost In Raid

RAF HITS HARD AT NAZI PLANTS   Krupp Arms Works Chief Target af 900-ton Bombing.

13 BOMBERS LOST DURING BAD WEATHER   More Than 900 Tons of Bombs Used With Main Target Being Krupp Works at Essen

ALLIES 10 BUILD Bl FRENCH ARMY   FORCE TO BE TRAINED IN U. S. COMBAT METHODS AND COMPLETELY EQUIPPED.

U.S. Helps Build Great French Arm In North Africa   Americans Provide Newest Implements Of War For Forces

YANK FRENCH BECOME FIGHTING POWEF   U. S. Supplies Rolling inte North Africa, Intended For 11 Divisions

United States Prov riding ‘Munitions To Build 'Miohtv French Army in North Aftiean Area

U.S. Organizing Big French Army   Equipment Will Be  Same As Americans By DON WHITEHEAD

Big French Army Planned By U. 5.   Supplying All Equipment Needed

ON WAR COUNCIL   Jap Admirals Who Served In Berlin Get New Poastx.

Consumers' Meat Supply Being Built Up After Buye: Rush: of Last Week

ADEQUATE MEAT SUPPLY EXPECTED MIDDLE OF WEEK   Most Sections Have Ample Supplies of Butter, Lard Cheese, Margarine, Shortening and Oils; Restrictions On Canned Meats Lifted. -

RETAILERS? MEAT STOCKS STILL LOW   BUT WASHINGTON PROMISES SUPPLIES WILL BE ADEQUATE BY MID-WEEK,

 Pork Down Two Points in Ration List, Effective Friday, as Government Copes With Heavy Marketing Trends

PORK VALUES ARE CUT TWO POINTS UNDER NEW RULI   Heavy Supplies of Hogs  Move to Markets, Produc ers Are Given Protection  By Price Supports.   LOWER POINT VALUE IS ONLY TEMPORARY   Lard, Sausages Not Entirely of Pork, Canned Meat Made From Pork Are Not Included.

HOG MARKETING TO CUT POINTS   Pork Ration Values Will Be Reduced; Support Prices Extended

Drop Pork Point Values as Hogs Flood Markets:   Price Supports to Protect Farmers “Extended by Gov't.

Plan Hearings On Subject of Fourth Term   Constitutional Amendment May Be Submitted In Congress In the Fall  OPINIONS ARE VARIED

FOURTH TERM TO GET GOOD AIRING   Argentines Think “Pen Not Mightier Than Sword”

Fourth Term May Get Complete Airing in Public Hearings on Proposal to Limif Future Presidents to Eight Years in Office

MOSCOW MEETING IS DUE SHORTL'   Transportation Difficulties Are Said to Have Caused Short Delay.

Morgenthau Hits At Tax Measure   Treasury Secretary Warns Congress of Undesirable Results

TREASURY HEAD DENOUNCES NEW REVENUE BILL   MORGENTHAU WARNS MEASURE OPENS WAY FOR WAR PROFITEERS

Morgenthau Attacks Tax Bill  ‘Warns Renegotiation Provisions Have MAabinne NE Seandal

TREASURY CHIEF RAPS TAX BILL   Fears Measure “Holds Seed Of National Scandal”

TREASURY HEAD CRITICIZES BILL   Says Proposed Bill Opens Way to Truly Extortionate War Profits.   BEST WITHOUT MEASURE

LONGRESS HAS WARNING TODAY ON TAX BILL   Morgenthau Says Bill Opens Way  For Profiteers

TAX BILL HIT BY MORGENTHAU   Says Measure Might Paves Way For National Scandal

MONEY CHIEF WARNS OF TAX BILL SCANDAL   Morgenthau Still Wants $10,500,000

LOCAL HOUSING BODY EXECUTES . CONTRACT   Proposal. Would Give It Charge of Men's Dormitory   Plans, Specificailons Out; Opeaing of Bids Awaits Heceipt of Priorities Sutup

Proposal Would Give It Charge of Men’s Dormitory      Plans, Specifications Out; Opening of Bids Awalts Receipt of  Trloritfes Setup

KUBAN VALLEY ~-(8 SCENE OF BITTER FIGHT   ‘ Germans and Russians Are  Locked in Blocdy Battle  in Caucasus.   IS VERY IMPORTANT   Russians Are Threatening Ccntrol of the Port of Novorossisk,

KUBAN VALLEY BATTLE RAGES   Nazis strive to smash Russ forces threatening control of Novoressisk

‘REDS DOWR 98 GERMAN “AIRCRAFT   Repeated Assaults By Enemy Driven Back By Russian Army

Fierce Conflicts  In Kuban Valley   Nazis Strive Desperately To Smash Back Russian Forces In Area  vw. ‘’~*’ £2'R at & a va 4 et es

MINE STOPPAGE IS THREATENED   14 Monongalia Locals To Quit On Tuesday If Parleys Fail

West Virginia's Miners Threaten To Halt Digging   Large Group Votes Te Strike if Not Given New Contract

ITALY STEPS UP FLAK DEFENSES   U.S. Forts Meet Heaviest Fire in Devastating Raids on R.R.’s

NATION HONGRG FIGHTING NAVY   Glowing Tribute Paid Ti U. S. Sea Forces By  President Roosevelt

SECOND APPEAL FOR INTERVENTION SEES   Bituminous Operator: Prepare Another Plea to F.D.R. in Wage Dispute.

MINERS - OWNERS ~ AREIN DEADLOCK   Miners Working Now Under Thirty-day Extension.

SECOND APPEAL TO PRESIDENT IS. PREPARED   Operators Feel Further Conferences Toward Agreement Will Be Futile   UNION CHIEFS OBJECT   Leaders Hint UMW May Move To Drop “No-Strike’ Obligation Before May 1

Mine Operators Plan Second Appeal to FDR   Collapse of Negotiations Feared With New Deadlock; Steelmen Still Hopeful

koe Not to Be Spared, Axis Vassals Warned   Secretary..Tells: Puppet Nations ‘They. Must Share Terrible Defeat

SECRETARY MAKES SHARP STATEMENT   Senator Connally Also Calls on Balkans to Quit

TO'CLEAN UP’   Mediterranean Action Must Follow African Campaign

Allies Must ‘Clean Up’Sea Off Tunisia   Knox Says It'll Be Necessary to Clear Mediterranean

MEDITERRANEAN TO: BE CLEANED, KNOX DECLARES TUESDAY   Action Held As Necessary After Allies Complete Their African Cam paign.,

Little Resistance Offered by Nips When U. S. Fliers Raid Paramushiro

Japs Surprised 4s Bombs Fall On Paramushiro  Ant-Aireraft   Anti-Aireraft Fire Light; Shipping Is Hit

SERVICE RESTORED  AFTER STATION FIRE   Sixteen Tracks, Six Cars Destroyed in Blaze at Broad St., Phila.

FIRE DAMAGES PENNSY STATION   100 Injured As $250,000 Blaze Sweeps Main Station At Philadelphia

A Sub-Zero “Cold Spot”   South Central Kansas Has Frigid Night; Rest of State Warmer

Reporter Refuses To Tell.  Who Gave Her Information   Committee Unable To Learn Names of Marines Who Reported On Merchant Seamen

39 TONS OF BOMBS HIT KULUNGTUFL   Bombers Sweep Coast, Leaving Great Damage

USE TANKS TO HIT JAP LINES AT SATELRERE   Bombers Raid Airdromes and Jap Barge Landings in New Guinea.

War Budget To Boost U.S. Taxes   Huge Increase Confronts People Of U. S. War Budget Reveals   FORCED SAVINGS PLAN IS LIKELY

FRANCK MiUal HAVE GASOLINE   Congress Will Look After Farmers if Pinch Gets More Severe.

Murder Hinted In Death of Windsor Friend   Violence Invelved in Pass: ing at Nassau of One of Rishact Man

U.S. Airforce Nit Hard Blows   Destroyed Many Nazi Warplanes During ” Month of Seotember

FORTRESSES OROP OVER 200 NAZIS   September Scores Disclose U.S. Losses Reduced.

200 Nazi Planes Knocked From Skies By Fortresses in  10 September Raids

FORTS BAG 200 NAZI PLANES ‘IN SEPTEMBER   Figures Were Exclusive Of Those Bagged By Allied Fighters

Eighth Air Unit Bagged 200 Nazi. Planes In Month   Germans Down 70 U.S Planes In September

FORTS’ BATTER NAZI AIRFORCE   Germans Lose Over 200 _ ‘Planes to Bombers in September Raids

ANOTHER BIG BLOW DEALT LUFT WAFFE   U. S. Report Shows 200 Nazi Planes Knocked From Skies Over Continent by Fortresses Alone in September.

Fortresses Carry Wallop   Shot Down 200 Nazi Planes In 10 September Raids

FORTS GET 200  NAZI AIRCRAFI IN SEPTEMBER   Toll Expected To Rise To Near 400 Downed

BIG INGREASE IN GERMAN AIR LOSS   Ten American Air Raids Brought Down Two Hundred Nazi Planes.

Lake Seamen Loc Shipping Recorc   Near Last Year.Mark.In Spite Of Handicaps

SHIPPING NEAR RECORD HIGHS   Great Lakes Ore Carriers Break Record 1942 High For October

Rubber Plant Union Strike   Several Thousand Walkout At Akron Plant Following  WLB Ruling.

MINERS GOING BACK TO WORK   Only About 3,800 Coal Workers Not Back on Jobs Yet.   OTHER LABOR TROUBLES

CALL STRIKE IN GOODRICH PLANT   Several Thousand Worker: Join Walkout

TEMPERATURES:   Optimistic Christmas Messages Sent To Fighting Men

Tt Not In 1944, In-45, Says King   Adm. King Tells Men Of Pacific Fleet Peace Is Sure

CITY SALES OF $2,610,426 ARE REPORTED   ~ Purchases in Carthage  * Aggregate $378,703 — County Only $295,569 Short of Goal.   MILITARY ‘PARADE TO BE TONIGHT   Approximately 1,100 Soldiers and WACs From Crowder Will Be in Line With 85 Vehicles.

COUNTY GOES OVER TOP IN BOND DRIVE   QUOTA OF $3,702,000 OVERSUBSCRIBED $19,384A—CAMPAIGN TO CONTINUE.

JASPER COUNTY — PASSES GOAL IN WAR LOAN DRIVE   ‘Chairman Easley Announces Total of $1,905,218 as Workers Push On Toward 2- : Million Mark.   JOPLIN OVERSUBSCRIBES ITS QUOTA BY $125,000   Four-Motored Bomber Assured as Result of Sales of $300,000 Worth of Series  “Kk” Bonds. 

Total Reaches $1,867,648 on Sixth Day of Campaign and Harry Easley Says Oversubscription Is Certain—Belief Held Bomber Will Be Obtained as Sales Soar—Sarcoxie Goes Over Top With $12,231 Turned In.

COUNTY $111,668 SHORT OF QUOTA; - JOPLIN OVER TOF   War Bond Sales Soar With City Subscribing $1,271,730 or $36,430 in Ex ~ ¢ess of Goal.   SOLICITATION WORK — TO CONTINUE HERE   More Money Needed to Obtain Bomber — Easley Urges Small Buyers to Make Purchases at Once.

Order Steel Strike Ended   Threat To Vital War Pro. duction Of Steel Is Eliminated   WAGE ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE RETROACTIVE

MURRAY ENDS. “WALKOUTS. AT STEEL PLANTS   WORKMEN RETURNING ‘tO JOBS: AFTER CIO PRESIDENT AND WAR LAROR BOARD TARE ACTION

Japs Admit Costly Losses   Situation Warrants No Optimism, Hom: Broadcast Says

Japs Pessimistic  Over War Outlook   Broadcasts Warn Of The Future

‘CHUTISTS SEAL SALAMAUA TRAP   Cut Off All Land Supply Lines of 20.090 Japs By Taking Key Airstrip.

Home Front Crisis-Grows More Menacing lS) Chamber of Commerce President Says

Says Government May Enter Field Of Publication   Chicago Lawye Predicts Paner

WAR WORKERS DIE IN BLAST   Seven Are Killed, Eight Injured in Cleveland Plant Explosion

] WAR WORKERS KILLED IN BLAST   8 Others Hurt at Cleveland Chemical Plant Explosion

Seven Men Die In Explosion In Cleveland   Blast in War Plant Also Injures Nine

Yanks and Aussies In Position to Take 50-Mile Stretch of Coastline

AIRDROME CAPTURED   Allies Move Up To Seize 50 Mile Stretch of Coast   U. S. Troops Battling Nazis Near Mount Vesuvius, South of Naples

-JAPS ROUTED FROM SALAMAUA AIRFIELD   Allied Soldiers Swim River To Capture Big Air Base

SALAMAUA — FIELD IN HANDS OF ALLIES AFTER QUICK DRIVE   Drome Falls After 10-Week Siege — Japs Driven From Stategic  Standpoint !

ALLIED HANDS   First Major Ba Base to Be Captured -in 8S. W. ‘Pacific Falls in 10‘=: Weeks Ficht

Convoy Blasted By Allied Airmen   Bombs Damage Third Troop Ship Off New Guinea: Nip Cargo Lost.

ALLIED PLANES ATTACK 10-SHIP JAP CONVOY   Two Transports Already Sunk; Were Attempting to Reach New Guinea

Sink 2 Transports Off Guinea Coast: One Soldier-Laden   Virtual Annihilation of Jap Army on Papua Is ——Announced Today

Jap Convoy Blasted Off  New Guinea   Allied Planes Still Battering Furiously at Remnants of 10-ship Armada Seeking To Land Reenforcements and Supplies — Two Troop Transports Are Sunk

ALLIED FLIER HAMMERING JAE TROOP CONVOY  ‘Ba ine Fur usly At Remna rats af 10-Ship En   2 TRANSPORTS SUNK   One Heavily Loaded With Soldiers; Third Damaged; 18 Fighter Planes Shot Down

JAPS LOSE TWO SHIPS, 18 PLANES IN HARD BATTLE   VIRTUAL FINISH OF PAPUAN CAMPAIGN DISCLOSED

HIT JAP CONVOY   Two Troopships Reported Sunk, Third Damaged by Bomb.   HALT hANDING N NEW GUINEA

Sink Two Transports, Bag 18 Planes....  Remaining Jap Ships Blasted Off New Guinea

Planes Sink  2 Transports, Damage Third  18 Enemy Fighters Are Shot Down; End Is At Hand In Campaign For

Allied Planes Sink 2 Big Jap Transports in Convoy, Smash Third, North from New Guinea

Allied Planes In Battering Attack   JAP CONVOY IS BLASTED OFF COAST OF NEW GUINEA

THIRD IS DAMAGED; 18 FIGHTERS DOWNED   Enemy Apparently Attempting To Land Reinforcements In Slew Cinnea

TWO TRANSPORT SHIPS SUNK; 18 PLANES DOWNED   '24-Hour Running Battle Occurs off New Guinea

Allied Planes - Batter Convoy      10 Vessels Are Spotted On New: Guinea Coast: Trvine -Landine.

FLIERS POU REMNANTS OF JAP CONVOY   Action Is Violent Climax to Running Fight With 10 Ships, in Which ‘Two Transports Were Sunk, One Damaged.

ALLIED PLANES SINK TWO JAPANESE TROOP TRANSPORTS FROM CONVOY AND SHOOT DOWN 18 FIGHTER PLANES   Convoy Attempting toLand Reinforcements in Northeastern New Guinea. Papuan Campaign Virtually Finished

Two Transports Sunk, Third Is Badly Damaged   Papuan Campaign Nears End With Invaders . Annihilated

ALLIED PLANES BATTER REST OF CONVOY   24-Hour Battle Reported Off New Guinea Coast   ANNIHILATION   Of Remnants Of Jap Army On Papua Disclosed; 18 Planes Downed

NIPPON CONVOY LOSES TRANSPORTS   Another Craft Damaged Allies Almost Clear Papua of Enemy

TRANSPORTS SUNK. OFF LAE   Allied Planes Batter Furiously at Remnants of Ten Ship Japanese Convoy   JAP LAND FORCES FACEANNIHILA TION

Two Transports Sunk, Third Hit Off New Guinea   Action Climaxes Battle Of Ships And Airplanes

2 TRANSPORTS SUNK, 18 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED   One of Enemy Warships Destroyed Was Loaded With Troops

Two Big Transports Go Down During Furious 94-Hour Fight With  Japanese Convoy

BIG TRANSPORT VESSELS SUNK   Japanese Army of 15,000 in New Guinea !s Now Annihilated.   FOE LOSES MANY SHIPS

Allied Planes Pound Remnants Of Jap Convoy   Two Transports In Nip Armada Reported Sunk

TOCATL ORSGERVATIONGA   Batter 10-Ship  Japanese Convoy   Allied Planes in Violent Climax to 24-Hour Running  Battle.

Annihilation Of Big Jap Army About Completed      Our Losses Small

GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS AFTER WAR SUGGESTED   Planning Board Report Proposes Breaking Up Monopolies, Peace Steps   Partnerships Cited

Big Changes In Economy  Of U.S. Urged   End of Monopoly and Share for Labor inv Management Proposed

Planning Board Announces Plans To Run Business   Government Management of Many Industries Favored by President

BLAST OPEN INVASION GATEWAY   Believe Drive Against Rabaul {fs Imminent

GATEWAY’ TO RABAUL iS OPENED   356-Ton Raid Smashes gA\rawe On Southwest Coast Of Island

BOMBERS HIT JAPAN’S BASE   Blast Open Possible Invasion Gate . way to Rabaul in Southwest Pacific — One of Heaviest Raids Ever Made in That Theatre.

PLANES BLAST OPEN RABAUL'S INVASION PATI   Allies Fly 150 Sorties In Heaviest Raid Of Pacifie Theater

Congress Calls for Halt to “Wasteful. Unpatriotic Expenditures” Bor Travel and Camsmassis ae

Government Communication  Travel Bills Assailed   Congress Committee Demands Reduction In ‘Wasteful, Unpatriotic Expenditures’

KIDNAPED BABY IS ~ SAFE: WOMAN HELL   Wife of Army Sergeant . Seized, Accused of Child Stealing

Gurney Tot Found In Home of Army Sergeant's Wife   Woman Charged With Child-Stealing: Baby Stolen Week Ago

TOPEKA EDITOR DIES   Albert Kittell Was at Head of : Capper’s Weekly

AUTUMN RAINS HAVE CHECKED RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ALONG ALL FRONTS WHEN NAZIS COULD NOT

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Wain, Mud Force Slow-up Of Intensive Fighting On Russian Fronts

FALL RAINS SLOW DOWN ACTIVITY ON RUSSIAN FRONT   Slow-Down In Fighting Is Godsend to Troops of Both Sides——~MacKenzie

TWO OWOnGE HEAD CIRCUIT COURT AGTIVITY   Mrs. Audra- Hooton Wins Decree on Her CrossComplaint,   SETTLEMENT IS MADE   Ernest Cropper Ordered to Pay Wife $10 a Week for Support.

TWO DIVORCE HEAD CIRCUIT ~ COURT ACTIVITY   Mrs, Andra- Hooton Wins ‘Decree on Her CrossComplaint, :   SETTLEMENT IS MADE   Emest Cropper Ordered to “Pay Wife $10 a Week for Support. —

American Marauder Bombers Batter German Airfield In Northern France

YANK BOMBERS HIT AIRDROME      Nazi Field In France and Transport Lines Given Pasting In Eighth Air Force Raid

Allies Blast Nazi Bases in France  Airfields. Transport   Airfields, Transport Targets Attacked

MARAUDERS HIT NAZI AIRFIELDS   American Bombers Make Raid Without Loss Of Single Plane

Yank Bombers Blast Airfield In N. France   RAF Planes Attack Transport Targets And Sink Vessel

Legislature to Open ‘Stretch Drive Monday   House Officials Praise Members For Speed on Bills

Final Stretch in Legislature Starts Monday  — Usual Jam of Bills Omitted as Close Is Neared

Paraguay Cattle Raiser Expected in Highland Area Soon: Trip of Observation

South American Ranchman To Visit  This Area While On Tour of Nation

AXTS LEADERS TOMEET AT BRENNER PASS   Will Discuss Italy’s Defense... Against Invasion

NAZIITALIAN LEADERS WILL PLAN DEFENSE      Will Meet at Brenner Pass  to Prepare for Invasion Expected After African Collapse.

WILL DISCUSS ITALY DEFENSE   Nazi, Italian Commands Fear Invasion, Plan To Meet at Brenner Pass.

BRENNER PASS MEET PLANNED   Axis High Commands to Talk Defense of Tialy

NAZI AND ITALIAN COMMANDS TO MEET IN BRENNER PASS   Rumors Report Hitler And Mussolini May Attend _ Meeting On —  Defenses

ITALY SEEKING DEFENSE ARMY   Axis Chiefs Plan Meeting To Map Moves Against Allied Invasion

DEFENSE UP ITALY TOPIC OF URGENT ANS CONFERENCE   Report Italy Seeking More Troops And Air Power   AXIS BELIEVES ALLIES TO HIT ITALY SOON

Brenner Pass Meeting To Study Duce’s Appeal For Hitler Aid Forecast

IL DUCE ASKS REINFORCEMENTS   Tells Witler Italy Needs Help tk Fight Prospective Invasion

NAZI AND ITALIAN CHIEFS 10 CONFER ON DEFENSE PLAN   Mussolini Appeals to Hitler for Seven Divisions to Guard Coast.

Duce Seeks 7 Divisions From Reich   Axis Parley Seen In Brenner Pass To Map Defenses

Hitler, Mussolini Not Likely to Attend Meeting   Jtalians Rushing Construction of Coastal Defenses

DEFENSE OF ITALY WILL BE TAKEN UP BY THE AXIS SOON   German and Italian High  _ Commands to Meet in  Brenner Pass for Conferences.

AXIS CHIEFS WILL MEET 10 DISCUSS DEFENSE OF ITAL’   London Hears Military Meet ing Planned for Brenner Pass; Mussolini Appeal: for Aid.

0 eS a  Defense Of Italy Against An Allied Invasion To Be Talked Over By The Axis Leaders

Axis Leaders Will Discuss  Defenses   Meeting in Brenner Pass To Plan  To Repel Invasion

WAR HERO KELLED IN PLANE CRASH   COL. WILLIAM DYESS GAINED FAME FOR FIGHTING IN PHILIPPINES.

Phoenix Nets  20,206 Gain  In Population  Ration Book Studs  Shows Advance CV ar LOAN

WFA ASKS 00 MILLION MORE FOR SUBSIDE   Jones Opens Congress Drive by Citing Rise in Cost of Production. .   FACES OPPOSITION OF FARM ORGANIZATIONS

BIG INCREASE IN WEA MONIES IS ASKED BY JONES   500 Millions More Would Greatly Aid Subsidy, Price Sunoort Move.

TWIN CITIES OF RHINE RAIDED BY RAF.   Large Fires Left Burning in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen

Two Rhineland Cities Target Of Bombing Attack   Mannheim And _ Ludwigshafen Battered In Twin Assault By R. A. F.   SECOND LARGEST INLAND PORT TOWN

BIG BOMBS ON NAZI CITIES IN RHINELAND   Mannheim and Ludwig. shaven are battered; great fires are started

TWO RHINELAND CITIES BLASTED   Mannheim and Ludwigshafer Severely Battered by Royal Air Force

PRESIDENT   Navy Is Using Secret Weapons Against Japs, Knox Reveals

NAVY USING SECRET WEAPON   KNOX REVEALS PACIFIC BLOWS WITH NEW DEVICES

Secret Weapons Employed By U.S. Navy In War Against The Japanese

JAPS FEEL STING OF NEW WEAPON   Secretary Knox Doesn't Go Into Detail, However, In 1943 Summary

Sec. Knox Says N: avy Is Using Secret Weapons Against Japs In The Pacific

Secret. Weapons Push Japs Back   Knox Reveals Loss Of Two Warships ©

SECRET WEAPONS: BEING EMPLOYED AGAINST ENEMY   Secretary Knox Discloses Summary of Past Year’s Achievements Of Various Navy Bureaus.

ANOX TELLS OF NAVY ACTIVITIES   Secret Weapon !s Being Used in Driving Japs Back In Pacific.

Navy Using Secret Weapons in Beating Japs, Knox Reveals   Secretary Reviews War Efforts of Fleet in the Closing Year

NAVY IS USING SECRET WEAPONS   JAPS HAVE ALREADY FELT THEIR STING, SAYS SEC’Y KNOX

Knox Reveals Yank Secret Weapons Use   Japs and Nazis Feeling Sting, He Says; Large Rise in Carriers

Secret Arms  Used In Drive  —KNOX   Japs Driven Back In Pacific By Navy Using Of Secret Weapons.

Secret Weapons Help To Drive Japanese Back   Knox Reveals Destroyer Transport Lost Off Cape Gloucester

"WEAPONS IN USE -- KNOX   “Navy Has by No Means Been Idle” in This Field, Navy Dept. Secretary Informs

Says Yanks Using Secret Weapons   Knox Says Foe Feels Sting of New U.S. War Equipment

Huge U. S. Carrier Fleet Driving Out Japs With Aid Of Secret Weapons

iHelping to Drive Nippon  ese Back In Pacific,   Secretary Knox   Discloses  NAZIS, TOO, FEEL NEW WAR METHODS     ‘Secretary Also Reveal:  That U. S. Has More  ! Than 42 Aircraft Carriers In Oneration

New Weapons Are Employed By U.S. Navy   Japanese Have Felt Sting Of Secret Weapons, Is Report Issued Today By Secretary Knox

Secret Weapons, Carrier, Fleet Drive Japs From Pacific Bases   Knox Says Japs And Nazis Feel Sting Of New Weapons; Discloses Loss Of Detroyer In Invasion

SCURET WEAPON UOEO ON JAP BY NAVY-KNOX   U. S. Has 42 Aircraft Car. riers In Action, Secretary Reports

Navy Using Secret Weapons In Pacific, Knox Discloses   Gives No Details; Reveals More -Than 42 Aircraft Carriers On Duty

KNOX REVEALS’ NAVY IS USING SECRET ARMS   Both Japs and Nazis Have Felt New Weapons, Secretary Says, Summarizing Year's Progress   NEW DIVE BOMBER   Discloses 42 Aircraft Carriers Now in Operation Equipped With Corsair, Hellcat Fighters

Many Secret Devices Used   Knox Says Navy Has Larae Carrier Force

TO CONTINUE CHEST WAR FUND CAMPAIGN LEADERS ANNOUNCED  ' APPROXIMATELY TEN  THOUSAND DOLLARS

TO CONTINUE CHEST WAR FUND CAMPAIGN LEADERS ANNOUNCED  APPROXIMATELY TEN  THOUSAND DOLLARS  NEEDED TO REACH QUOT!

COMMISSION IS APPOINTED   Governors Of Montana, Idaho Map Program

OHIO SENATE PASSES FEMALE LABOR BILI   Probably Be Two Weeks Be fore House Acts

50 HOURS FOR WOMEN 0, K,'D   Ohio Senate Puts Througt Labor Law Revision

Female Labor Bill Is Placed Before House   Measure Gets Senate Approval; See Vote in Two Weeks 

Soviet Summer Offensive Now Seven Weeks Old; Bombing Of Southern Italy Continued By Allies In Preparation Fer Invasion   REDS CLAIM. 35,000 NAZIS ARE KILLED

FLOOD OF REPORTS OUT OF  ROME AND BERLIN: INDI.  ‘CATE BELIEF BLOW MAX’ COME ANY MOMENT

‘Allied Invasion of Europe This Week  Forecast by Observers of Axis Nationé

RUSSIA ADDS TO UNEASINESS OF AXIS PREDICTING JOINT BLOW AGAINST THE REICH

Austrian Soldiers  Desert Nazis,  Uprising Forecast Movement Launched  To Free Country From Hitler's Yoke

Japs Have Difficulty in Supplying Bases, Secretory Says, But Warns of More Fireworks

Jap Supply Lines Are Badly Broken -- Knox   American Forces in Solomon Islands Are Stronger Thon Ever Before in War

U. S. Pacific Might Growing, Sec. Knox Reports, but Warns ‘Adion May Start Any Time

AMERICAN FORCES IN SOLOMONS ARE STRONGER THAN EVER   American. Submarine Campaign in Pacific Campaign Continues VUeirss Gurroectal .

KNOX WARNS OF JAP FIREWORKS   Nippons Having Trouble In Supplying Bases, Secretary Says

SECRETARY OF NAVY SAYS AMERICANS ARE CTRANG IN SOLOMONS   KNOX ALSO DECLARES JAPANESE HAVING TROUBLE SUPPLYING BASES

Uo. JTRENGT IN PACIFIC AREA GROWING FAST   Enemy Having Difficulty Supplying Distant Bases — In Pacific, Says Knox   “SUSPENDED ANIMATION” HIS APPRAISAL OF WAR   Process Of Attrition Going Steadily Against Japan Throughout Area

Cassino Nov In Range Allied Guns   American Troops Take Mt. Cavallo Above Nazi Lines

AMERICAN FORCES TAKE MT. CAVALLO   Shell Fortified Town of Viticuso From High Hills   NEARER CASSINO   French Win Possession of Key Mountain Pass; Oanadians Hammer Foe

U. S. FORCES PUSH AHEAD ON ROAD TO ROME   Capture Two Img Imporiant High Points on Mf. Samucro, Wedge Closer to San Viltore   BATTLE IN ORTONA   British Eighth Brings Up Tanks to Support Troops Fighting Street to Street

YANKS CAPTURE 2 HIGH POINTS FROM GERMANS   New Conquests Scored Along Road to Cassino By Clark's Army

Yanks Grab Two Key Hills in Italy Push   AMERICAN OFFENSIVE NEARS MT. SAMUCRO; ORTONA FIGHT ROARS ON

TWO IMPORTANT HIGH POINTS TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS   Located in the Mount Samucro Pass, It Was Announced Today.   TAKEN IN DRIVING RAIN   British 8th Army Forces Used Tanks in Bloody House to House Struggle.

Fifth Army Pushes on in Driving Rain   l'wo High Points on Road To Cassino Fall to Americans

Two Important [Italian Heights Captured By American Forces During Attack In Driving Rains

YANKS TAKE MT. CAVALLO, FRENCH AlD   Scoring First Important Victory On Italian’ Front; Shell Fortified Village Of Viticuso, Near Cassino.   Destroy Trains

Fifth Army Fights Ahead Through Rair   Americans, British Progress Against Stubborn Nazis

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Fifth Army Drives Nazis  Fyrom 2 Hills   Captured Heights Command Key Town: British Gain on Adriatie

TWO HIGH POINTS ARE SEVIED BY FIFTH ARMY YANKS       Advance... Through. Rain to Take: Areas. Samucro Region — Eighth _Army Fighting in Ortona’s  [2 a a

FIFTH ARMY TAKES TWO HIGH POINTS   Both Important in Drive Toward Cassino, on the Ro2zd to Rome—Yanks Edge Closer to Village of San Vittore.

N DRIVE ON  i GAIN AN VITTORE   British Eighth Ariny Forces Continue Bloody Struggle For Possession of Ortona   INDIANS SEIZE VILLA

AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE PEAK IN DRIVE ON GASSINO   City Now Within Artillery Range—French Assisting in Attack Score First Important Victory,   CANADIANS CLEARING GERMANS FROM ORTONA   Many Nazis Die, in Struggle Rather Than Retreat— Now Hold Only One Corner of Town.

Mt. Cavallo Is _ Seized In Drive  Of U.S. Forces   Shelling of Fortified Village of Viticuso Started From Vantage Point—French Units Aid in the Victory

Fifth Army ‘Takes Peaks   High Points Captured During Driving Rain

Yanks Attack Through Rain   Capture High Points; Ortona Struggle Goes On

OTH ARMY TAKES TWO IMPORTANT NEW HIGH SPOTS   Americans Make Gains Through Driving Rain; Eighth Army Continues Bloody House - To - House Battle In Ortona.

FIERCE ORTANO FICHT GOES ON   Yanks Capture Two More Vital Heights On Rome Road

GUNS TRAINED UPON CASSINO BY AMERICANS   ALLIES PUSH AHEAD ON RAIN-SOAKED ITALIAN FRONT

wo Strategic Heights Taken By Americans   British Continue Street By Street Gains In Ortona

AMERICAN TROOPS OF FIFTH ARMY IN ADDITIONAL GAINS  BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY FIGHTING FOR POSSESSION OF ORTONA

U.S, TROIPS CAPTURE TWO HIGH POINTS   House-T o-House Struggle Now Being Waged

FIFTH ARMY TAKES 2 NEW HIGH POINTS   Yanks Wedge Closer To San Vittore; 8th Battles In Ortona

TWO IMPORTANT  POINTS SBIZED BY FIFTH ARMY   American Troops, Attacking In Driving Rain, Advance Along Road to Rome

Americans Moving In On San Vittore; 8th In ‘Street By Street’ Battle For Nazi Base

Filth Seizes 2 High Points   British Eighth Brings Up Tanks To Support Bloody Battle Of Ortona.

TROOPS TAKE HIGH POINTS   Capture Important Places Along Stoutly Defended Road to Cassino.

YANKS CAPTURE MT. CAVALLO IN FLANKING STAB   Americans Shell German Bases Of Viticuso From Vantage Point  “

Indian Troops Complete Seizure Of Villa Grande   Bloody  House-to-House “Fighting In Ortona — Marauders Blast Railwav Yards:

OTH OCCUPIES 2 MAIN HILLS IK ITALIAN PUSK   New British Tanks in Battle for Possession of Ortona

U.S. Forces Punch Ahead in Italy Yanks Capture  Two Important High Points

YANKS SEIZE TWO ITALIAN HEIGHTS   BLOODY HOUSE TO HOUSE BATTLE IS RAGING AT ORTONA-

Yankee Troops Take Two Hills   House-By-House Fighting Continues In Port City

Yanks Capture Two Peaks In Cassino Drive   Edge In On San Vittore; British Gain In Bloody Ortona Battle.

Americans Take  Mount Cavallo  Village of Viticuso Is Being Shelled

iMILK PRICE TO BE BOOSTED ONE CENT IN STATE   State Commission Now Drafting Orders Boosting The  Proce

OPA Approves Hike In Price Of Mitk   Fayette County To Pay 15 Cents Per Quart: Order Beine Prepared

OPA Approves Boost In Milk Prices In State   Order Affecting Huntingdon ‘Are, “Almost Ready For Submission Ta OPA—3,500,000 Affected

Expects War To End During 1944   Uryes Planning By IInifted Nations

TYDINGS LOOKS FOR WAR’S EN WITHIN A YEAR   Maryland Senator Asserts United Nations Must Take Steps To Avert Future Conflict

Unrest Spreads Through Norway  Poles Also Undergo Reign of Terror

Other Big Cities Fall Before Drive   Azoy Sea Port, Rail Terminus Of Osipenko ts Seized: Hiahwoy New Beina - Threatened

7  RAID TARGETS   American Liberators  Carry Out Attack on Mueacnhni’ae Port

Scharnhorst Is Sunk Off North Cape By British   Engaged By British Home Fleet Protecting A_ Rus. sian Convoy.

NAZI WARSHIP SENT DOWN IN CONVOY BATTLE   Berlin Admits Loss o Ship After All of  Ammunition Is  Expended

British Fleet, Guarding Convoy, Blasts Big Vessel   Powerful German Craft Normally Had Crew of 1461

Death of Scharnhorst Reduces Germany’s Naval Strength to New Low.

Powerful German Warship Sent To Bottom In Naval Battle Off North Cape   BRITISH FLEET WAS PROTECTING CONVOY

Sinking of Pride of German Navy Announced in London  LOSS ADMITTED IN ’ BERLIN BROADCAST 26,000 Ton Vessel Sent  Down Off Norway Coast

British Destroy Big Nazi Warship In Barents Sea  Murmansk Route {rene of Rattle

Battleship Had Attacked Red Convoy   Nazis Claim Damage  To Ships in Conyoy  And Escort Warships LONG IN HIDING

U. S. Praised By Russians  On Diplomatic Anniversary   Roosevelt Lauded

SOVIET PAPER PRAISES U.S, WAR AID   Points Out Increasingly Friendly Relations Be_tween Two Countries

WAR PRODUCTION IS STILL LAGGING BEHIND SCHEDULE   July Will Show No Substantial  Improvement Over Records of June.

War Production Hike Needed,  elson Worried Concern Shown  Over Lag In Three Month

TOKYO EXPECTS U. S. TO BOMB INDUSTRIAL  DISTRICT THIS YEAR Or At The Latest, Next  Year. Population Warned Ta Re Pranare

JAPD EXPECT Uo TO RAID HOMELAND   People Told to Prepare for Attacks on Industrial Centers.

Japan Expects Air Raids by Yank Planes   Tokyo Paper Calls on Peovle To Be Prepared

NO RAIN IS IN SICHT   Flora, However, Predicts Cooler : Weather for Kansas

DAVIES SEES NAZI CRACKUF   FORMER AMBASSADOR  PRE- DICTS SMASHING OF GER_ MANY DURING 1044 AND ~ QUICK JAP VICTORY:

Circus Heads For New. York.   Ringling to Open Season April 9 at i Madison Square Garden

Red Cross Jamboree Turns Out To Be a Riot of Fun   Ringling Circus Heads North to Open Season

Japs’ Burma Drive Bogs Down as Chinese Hold Out  Nippon Large Scale Air Attack Fails, Beitich Strilea Back

Japanese Drive Reported Halted  Nips Renew Aerial Activity in Burma

FIRES OBSERVED, ENEMY VESSELS TAKE ‘NEAR HITS   Great Naval Installation in Kurile Islands Only 1,300 Miles from Nippon’s Cap-

PARAMUSHIRU IS STRAFED BY HEAVY ARMY LIBERATORS   Enemy’s “Pearl Harbor of North Pacitic’ Ralded. Firee Ohearved 

Paramushiru Hit By Army Airmen In North Pacific   Enemy Installation Only 1,300 Miles From Nippon Capital

Japan’s Home Side Of North Pacific Gets A Visit From American Fliers In Four-Motored Liberator Bombers — Fires Started And Near Hits On Vessels Are Scored

U.S. Bombs Big Jap Navy Base  AtParamushiru   Daring Thrust at Island on Nips’ Home Side Revealed bv Navv Dept.

~~ WVRURILE BLES  amushiru Is Only ae From   FIRES STARTED, ENEMY VESSELS DAMAGED

ARMY AIRMEN SET FIRE 10 PARAMUSHIRI   First Announced Raid on Base Only 1,300 Miles from Tokyo

U.S. PLANES STRIKE PARAMUSHIRU BASE IN NORTH PACIFIC   Fires Started On Important Jap Island ——- Enemy Vessels Also Hit

ARMY AIRMEN IN RAID UPON BASE NORTH OF TOKYE   Important Installations For Military, Fishing Purposes Are Strangest of Orientale.   LAST KISKA HOLDINGS ARE BOMBED   Americans Widen Beachhead at Munda For Final Storming, 261 Jap Soldiers Are Killed.

BASE OF SAPS   War Carried To Japan's Home Side Of Pacific By Giant Bombers

Japa.rese Navy 3ase Is Bon: be:    Army Airmen Bla: = [n tt stallations on Island 3 0  Miles from Tok

Paramusiru, 1300 Miles From Tokyo, Blasted In Daring Bomb Raid   Strong Japanese Naval Installation, Northernmost cf Kurile Is!ands, Feels Impact of American Air Power

State Highway Department Has Post-War Plans   Governor Tells Of $60,000,000 Program In Magnolia Speech

Martin Urges Paring of Raise   Wants Increase To Fit Into  Fiscal Program

Teacher Pay Rise Will Be Pared BySenate  Governor Feels Bill. As Approved By House Is Too High To Be

‘Remsen Farmer  Killed By Auto  Near Merrill  ; Gerhart Hansen . -Employed on Farm: Many Years

Remsen Fai armer Killed By Auto Near  Merrill  Gerhart Hansen . _Employed  on Farr  WA. RE

: — DUY Wal ven  YWEA Decides Women Are No Longer Young After 3Sth Birthday 

AIR BATTLE ~~ RECORD SET   ALLIED HEADQUABTERS REPORTS 207 GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN IN FIERCE FIGHT

WORLD BANK IS ADVOCATED ON TYPE OF RFE   Propose Capital Of Ten Billion For PostWar Use

SEE ARGENTINA AND AXIS BREAK   Hope Grows as Roosevelt Rebukes Anti-Semitic Actions

POLICY SHIFT BY ARGENTINA  19 DREDITED   ONLY HOLDOUT AMadNG RE PUBLICS OF AMERICAS . MAY sou Daeke ae  WITH ‘Tite

Farm Bloc Plans Fight on Food Subsidy Program   Agricultural Chiefs Meet With Senators To Oppose Roll Backs

“SUBSIDY. FIGHT   Farm Bloc Leaders Oppose Broadening of Food Program

CORDON OF BASES ‘BLOCKADES FOE'S - FLEET IN PACIFIC   Airfield on Upolu Is Final Link In Vital Protective line.

Air Cordon to Aid Blockade Of Jap Fleet      Giant New Upolu Field in Samoa Completed, Knox Reveals

Yankee Base In Pacific Blocks Japs   Barrier Covers Wide Arc Between Hawaii and New Zealand

NAZIS PLEDGE REPRISALS   < Britain Will Be Repaid For Terror Attacks, Berlin Asserts

Nazi ‘Reprisal Weapon’ Will Now Be Used Says  Berlin Radio Announcer

Dump New Tons Of Destruction Upon Chaos of Burning City   Half - Mile Long Walls of Fire Reported Sweeping Capital   Nazis ‘Forced to Use New Reprisal Weapon’

Hour- Long Parade. Of Bombers Again Blasts Nazi Capital   Thousands Fleeing From Devastated City as Flames Rage Out of Control; Citv Believed All But Paralvzed

Germany Regrets Use of “Reprisal Weapon Is Forced,” Spokesman Says

RAF Bombers Again Blast At Battered Berlin   Drop Destruction And Carnage Among Flames

Air, Naval Edge Established In U.S. Offensive   Knox Says Drive Is Not Isle By Isle Move, See: Less Peril To Coast

Mosley Out Amid Howl   British Fascist, .Wife Elude Photographer:

MOSLEY FREED FROM PRISON   Ex-Fascist Leader's Release Is Protested

Mosley Goes Free Despite nie Protests  British Fascist wre  ie nn as ee

President fo Give Congress Data on Proposal-to Extend Social Securify to Everyone

SEVERE STORM SWEEPS OHIO:   Hectrical and: Wind. Storm - Hits Mianil Valley and Central Section of State.

Ohio Lashed by Storms, Floods   Three Deaths Are Reported in State

PREPARING TO EVACUATE KEY DEFENSE POINT   Germans rush more troops to Italian front as Allies push on

Fitth And Eighth Armies Menacing New Guinea Line   At Least Five More Italian Towns Are Captured In Day’s Advance   BRITISH DRIVE THREATENS FLANK  BULLETIN

Russ 100 Miles From Romania; -Mignano Fails to Fifth Army R.A. F., Forts Blast at Europe

BOTH ARMIES PUSH STEADILY FORWARD   Eighth 5 Miles From New Nazi Defenses on Sangro River

NAZIS DESTROY “PORT OF GAETA ~ AS FALL LOOMS   City Nine Miles from Fifth Meets Same Fate as Naples

LATEST NEWS BULLETINS   Gaeta Falls Victim to Hitl er’s Fire and Sword Policy

Matagorda Soldier Shot Accidentally   Pvt. Robt. Benjamin Shot as He Walked In Front of Plane

JOINS BRICKER ELECTION STAFF   John Galbreath, Columbus Realtor Will Work With Roy D. Moore

JAPAHest Jilips Heavily Pounded  In New Britain  Troop-Filled Barges Hit in Riebeck Bay; Many Killed, Wounde  CIUAMAICANAIL COIID   GUADALCANAL COUP

Sixty Japanese Killed in Dutch New Guinea Drive   Heavy Bombers Attack Two Important Enemy Positions

‘Declaration of Quebec’ May Be Made Public Today ' By Churchill, Roosevelt

Germans Launch Attacks In Italy   Nazi Forces Are Given Orders To Hold Lines for Eight Weeks

Order nazis to ‘hold for eight weeks   Launch savage counterattacks

FURIOUS GERMAN ASSAULTS BEATEN OFF BY off ARM)   Nine Thrusts at Americans Cost Nazis Heavily in _ Fierce Fighting in Venafro Area.   MONTGOMERY’S MEN CAPTURE THREE TOWNS   British Troops Consolidate Positions on High Ground Overlooking Sangro River.

German Counter-Attacks In ‘Italy Repulsed By Allies   Nazis Operate From Line Which Orders Have Been Given to Hold Eight Weeks—Plants at - Turin and Genoa Blasted

Allies Repulse Savage German i\Counter-Blows   ‘Nazi Troops in Italy Under Orders To Hold 8 Weeks at All Costs

ENEMY FIGHTS SAVAGELY TO CHECK ALLIES   Germans Under Orders ‘To Hald Line for i Eight Weeks

HEAVY LOSSES “ARE INFLICTED BY U. S. FORCE   ‘Furious Battle Raging In Snow Covered Mountains  Of Italy  .

Germans Launch Fierce Blows Against Allies   Nazis Are Ordered To Hold Winter Line for 8 Weeks

Nazi Attacks Repulsed by Fifth Army   Germans Seek to Hold Lines for at Least 8 Weeks

Violent Nazi Attacks Fail   Forces In Italy Ordered To Check Allies “At Any Cost”

Yanks Repel \ine Furious \anl Attae ‘As   Launch Raids (inder Orders to Hold New Winter Line in iuly for Eight Weeks

NAZIS ORDE HOLD WINTER LINE   Commanded Cling to Position At Least 8 Weeks   SNOW BEGINS TO FALL   Weather Cuts Down Air Ae. tivity; Eighth Consolidates Positions

ENEMY TRIES TO HOLD LINE ACROSS ITALY   BERLIN ORDERS HUN FORCES TO FIGHT FOR 8 WEEKS

LAUNCH SAVAGE. COUNTER ATTACKS WHILE AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACK GENOA; TERRIFIC ARTILLERY BARRAGES.

Germans Battle To Hold Present Line in Italy   Launch New Attacks Against Americans

Nazis Attack . Furiously on — Italian Front   German Troops Have Orders to Hold at Least Eight Weeks

Germans Struggle To Stop Allied Rome Advance   Nazis Ordered to Hold Line Across Italy at Least Eight Weeks; Their Counterattacks Are Repulsed

Nazis Ordered tc Hold in Italy For Eight Weeks  wots Alat ba Pf avin&   Costs Not to Count Germans Are Told; Make Stiff Stand

Italian Winter Descends on Line  Enemy Said Ordered TT.) LE,,.1.] @ Waabe

Allies Fight Off Heavy Nazi Charges   Germans Ordered To Hold Line For Eight Weeks

AMERICAN, BRITISH AMBASSADORS TRY TO SETTLE BREAK      Attempt Restoration’ Of Relations Between Russians And  Poles

Ambassadors Intervene in Pole Dispute   Request to Red Cross Expected to Be Withdrawn

Drop Demands Tc Probe Slaying of (War Prisoners    Envoys Attempt To Restore Relations Between Two Nations

CROP OUTLOOK NOW BRIGHTER SURVEY NOTES   Growing Conditions Took Favorable Turn In June

Fewer Pork Chops in *45   WFA Moves to Reduce Pig Crop Because of Feed Supply Shortage

Coast Strikers Ordered fo Return  White House Acts   White House Acts in Transit Tieup

QTAIKE TIEo UP PACIFIC RAILWAY   2,000 Employes Determined Stay Off Job Until Government Proposes Satisfactory Solution to Wage Demands

Strike Ties Up Coast Traffic   Railroads Refuse Freight From P. E.

WAGE DEMANDS TIE UP RAILWAY   Pacific Electric Idle In Strike Of 2000 Train Operators

2,000 Strikers Await Action By Government   Special Inquiry Board Will Not Consider Case While Strike Continues

RAILWAY TIED UP BY STRIKE   Over 2,000 Trainmen Out On Line Running From Los Angeles

AIRCRAFT DESTROYED   Two Montana Men Are Prisoners In Enemy Camps

OILMAN’S BODY FOUND IN DITCH   Officials Investigate Decapitation Death of Marietta

ISix-Year-Old Boy Is Found Dead In Ice Box; Believed Trapped By Doc

Storm Trooper Chief Dies After Accident   Playing With Dog, Tot Crawls In Ice Box; Later Found Dead

YOUTH STAGES PARTY BEFORE INDUCTION   eaten etnenaattae at eteememaintiiaeeadl  Beer Offered on Sidewalk Until Cop Appears

Germany Unlikel To Start Drive, Neutrals Assert   Hitler Believed To Be Pre. paring To Wage Only Defensive War

Hifler Hints Of Defensive War   Banks On Time And Marnidingn  lBonote

HITLER ON DEFENSIVE DURING THE SUMMER   Neutral Heporits Indicate Thai Germany Does Not Plan Any  Major Offensive

Hitler Plans to Keep His Armies on Defensive This Summer, Reports Say

Hitler Hints Of Defensive War   Banks On Time And  Maraudina tleRante

Soviet Troops Swing Wide To Trap Kharkov   Other Columns Sweep Through Ukraine To Close Steel Are On Rostov.   NEAR SALSK TERMINAL

NAVY ‘RECRUITING CRUISER’ TO BE HERE   Will Visit Chillicothe May 2627 for Enlistment of Seabees.

RURAL SCHOOL BOARD LOSES RATION CARDS   Hear Complaints Group Misused Tires, Gas

Separate Peace Hinted by Rome  Radio Says People ‘Are Reasonable’

Firm Indicted For Conspiracy   Charge Aluminum Company Department Specifications  With Not Meeting War

First AEF Vegetable Man's _ Story   Troop Raid On Young Officer’s » Truck  Recalled

MONTY CALLS UPON TROOPS TO STRIKE -DOLOSSAL CRACK   Hit Germans In Darkness Of Sunday Morning   THE ATTACK IS ~ SAID GOING WELL

EIGHTH ARMY OPENS NEW ATTACK AGAINS! GERMAN POSITIONS  ONLY PATROL ACTIVITY, ARTILLERY EXCHANGES  AL Pitwt ADRY CDONT

PUSH OPENED WITH BOMBS AND BIG GUNS   ‘Planes, Artiller y and Ships Back Offensive to Give  : Nazis a “Colossal Crack”   and Run Them Beyond Capital.

EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY ON NEW OFFENSIVE   Attack Is Backed In Terrific Air Raids By U. S.

Strikes At Rome From Ssangro Base   Good Progress In Face Of Flame Throwers; Air Assault Aids Drive.

Responds to Gen. Montgomery's Call to Drive North of Rome by Advancing from Sangro River Bridgeheads.

Aim At Hitting German Forces A “Colossal Crack”      Terrific Air Onslaught   Accompanies Opening   of Assault to Drive Germans North of Rome. .

New Offensive Pusbas Germans Toward Rome   Sangro  Bridgeheads Widened, Progress Made By British In  Italy

Drive Aimed At Turning German Line   Nazis Use Flame Throwers in Desperate Effort To Stem Advance; Warships Bor] Beandzicec at Enamuctole! Bare

Eighth Army Opens New Offensive —   Striking Out in Darkness, British Reported Making Good Progress

British Open Attack On Nazis in Italy,  Making New Gains   Gen. Montgomery Exhorts ‘Troops To Hit Germans ‘Colossal: Crack’s. “Roe emv Resorts to Flamethrowers

CRASHES OUT IN NEW ATTACK   Montgomery Tells Troops To Drive Germans North of Rome:

Allies Hammer At Nazi Winter Lines In Italy   New Offensive Started Sunday By British Army

Drive Aimed At Turning German Line   Nazis Use Flame Throwers in Desperate Effort To Stem Advance; Warships Hurl Broadsides at Enemy-Held Ports

EIGHTH ARMY IN OFFENSIVE   Nazi Flame-Throwers Fai To Stop Allies; Second Bridgehead Secured

—ITALY~—   Terrific Artillery Barrage Launches New Italian Drive

Force New Crossing  Of Sangro   Americans Also Score Advunce; German-Held Ports Bombarded

Fighth Army Hits In New Offensive   Montgomery Directs Men to Drive Germans North ' of Rome   GOOD PROGRESS MADE   Night Attack Accompanied by Heavy Artillery Barrage

Good Progress’ Reported For Opening Blow            Veterans of Montgoiiery's Earlier Campaigns : in Typical Attack

Air Blasting Prepares Way; Fifth In Patrol Activity Geis Infsirmation

Makes Good Progress   Attack Preceded, Backed By Terrific Air Attack

Good Progress Reported For Opening Blow   Veterans of Montgomery’s Earlier Campaigns in Typical Attack

Destroyers Bombard Civitanova in Prelude to Assault, Planes Support Troops   CLARK ADVANCES   Americans Take Hill Position, Repulse Determined German Counjer-Aitacks

Rome in Fierce New Offensive   Advance. From Sangto Bridgehead As Terrific Aerial Onslaught Paves Way

Fighth Army Advances on: Sangro Front   Nazi Flame Throwers Fail to Stop Drive  Of Montgomery’s: Men On Road toward Rome

Great Air Assault Precedes Offensive Launched At Dawn   Use Of Flamethrowers By Nazis Fails To Halt Progress Of Push From Sangro River Bridgeheads

ATTACK OPENED AFTER FIERCE AIR ONSLAUGHT   Delivered In Darkness In Typical Montgomery Style After Call For  “Colossal Crack”   THRUST GOING WELL ALLIES ANNOUNCE   Americans of Clark’s Army Seize More High Ground In Important Advance; Smash Foe Attack

OTH ARMY IN NEW OFFENSIVE   Montgomery Calls on Men to Drive Germans North Of Rome.

British Gain In Face Of Firethrowers   Heavy Aerial «. Altacks Precedes Ground Assault °

ESTABLISH NEW BRIDGEHEAD 13 MILES INLAND   Face Enemy Flame Throw: ers In Attack Preceded By Air Blows

Kighth Army Units Extend Footholds Across Sangro River   Heavy Air Onslaught Aids Monteomery’s Forces; Americans Gain, Smash German Counter-Attacks

NEW OFFENSIVE IS ESTABLISHED BY THE 8TH ARMY   ‘Making Good Progress in the  Face of Enemy Flame   Throwers.   A BIG AIR ONSLAUGH!   Carried Out by Veteran British, Indian and New Zealand Divisions.

Presses Ahead In Face of Nazi F'lamethrowers;  Progress Good   Montgomery Tells Men to Hit Germans a ‘Colossal Crack’

Fifth Army Poised For An Attack   Terrific Air Onslaught Backs Up British Assault

MontgomeryUrgesMenT oHit Germans “Colossal Crack” In Drive To Rame

Offensive Started Early Sunday From Sangro Base With Huge Plane Support

British Open Drive From Sangro Base   Attack Still Moving. Official Spokesman Tells Newsmen

Gen. Montgomery Tells Men To Hit Hard At Germans   British Make Good Progress In Face Of Nazi Resistance

AIR SUPPORT IS GIVEN EIGHTH ARMY   Artillery Barrage Heavy: Main Penetration Made Near Castel Frentano; Anzio Bombed

AIR AND BIG GUN BARRAGE MADE BEFORE ATTACK   Montgomery Orders Troops to Hit Nazis “Colossal Crack”

Eighth Army Starts Drive to Westward   Pushing Toward Rear of Troops Facing American 5th Army

‘Smash Into                ‘On RomeRoad   Progress Made From Sangro Despite Heavy Enemy Counterattacks

Atfack Aimed At Turning Nazi Defense Lines  Terrifie Aerial Onslaught Sets Off Offensive

Progress Made in Face of Enemy’s Flame Throwers   Attack Delivered at Night in Typical Montgomery Style, Is Preceded and Backed by Terrific Onslaught From the Air   BOMBARDMENT IS LAID DOWN BY DESTROYERS

8TH ARMY ATTACK IN ITALY BACKED BY AERIAL BLOWS   MAKE GOOD PROGRESS IN FACE OF ENEMY FLAME-THROWERS

Service Paper Offers Opinion   Immediate Future May Change Course For Allies, Article Points Out

Western Europe Invasion May Be Made Unnecessary . By ‘Big Three’ Decision

‘German Radio and U. S. Navy Keep Mississippi. Full of Submarines

U-RGAT IN U, 3, SAY NAZIS.      Germans Claim Sub Was in Mis glssfpni Hivor

NAZIS CLAIM SUBGOES UP MISSISSIPP}   NAVY MUM ON REPORT OF THREAT TO BRIDGE AT NEW ORLEANS

GERMAN BROADCAST CE.AEM: NAZI RAIBER TRAVELED 90 MILES UP MISSISSIPPI

BISMARCK SEA VICTORY JAP CATASTROPHE   Liberators Strike in Northwesternn Solomons While Attack on Convoy Was Under Way Wednesday.   Munda Air Base Raided

AUM SALE LIMIT BOTTLE A WEEK   Order Is Effective Monday; Purchasers to Show Food Rationing Books: Registration Starts July 10

Laycock New Chief of Commandos   MEDITERRANEAN CHIEF WILL BECOME BRITISH OPERATIONS HEAD

- Gov. Schricker * Demands Relief , For Flood Area   Wants Men and Material for Farm Rehabilitation

LEGISLATURE WARNED THAT DEMOCRATIC TENETS IN DANGER  CHAIRMAN BUTLER OF STATE COMMITTEE ADDRESSED HOUSE MONDAY

Bill For Conservation Of Oil In Illinois Is Now At Passage Stage

STATE OIL BILL NEAR PASSAGE   VOTE EXPECTED IN ILLINOIS SENATE BY NEXT TUESDAY

ABDICATION OF ITALIAN KING NOW REPORTEL   Welter of Rumors Leave Truth in Doubt; DNB Claims Mussolini Will Resume Role,

Rumors About Italy Are Thick And Contlicting   Hear King Has — Fallen; May War on Germany

Rumors Say Victor Emmanuel Has Quit   Berlin Radio Claims Nazi Planes Have Struck at Italian Flee

TWO CHILDREN DIE IN CRASH   Granger school students killed by train in grade crossing mishap

COLD LIKE MIDWINTER   Mercury May Div to 15 Degrees in Northern Kansas

NEW JAP FORCES LANDING NEAR BATTLE ZONE   Enemy Attempts to Head Off Allied Invasion; Final Battle to Break Jap Resist ‘anee Te On « a

Report Final Battle To Break Jap Resistance May Be Underway, Munda

mR MATLIVY™ Oo FER GWE AR THAT  Vessel Powered by Locally-Built Diesels Is Powerful Fighter

BD FV TEE ot Tree ee eee er  Vessel Powered by Locally. Built Diesels Is Powerful Fighter —

Robert Presents Terms, Insists On French Rule   Food, No Foreign Inter. vention, Conditions ©} Martinique Surrender

Peace Time Jobs   16 Per Cent Slash In Newsprint Sought By Member of WPB

PROPOSE HUGE NEWSPRINT CUT   Bitner Advises Slash Rather Than To Dip Into Reserve Supply

NEW NEWSPRINT SLASH LOOMS   Cut Of 16 Per Cent Proposed During November

16% NEWSPRINT CUT PROPOSED   WPB ADVISES NEW CURTAILMENT FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER

NEWSPRINT CUT URGED   further Cut Of 5 Per Cent Recem. mended Te WPEB Teday

NEW NEWSPRINT CUT   ‘16 Per Cent Slash For November Recommended By WPB

SECOND NEWSPRINT - GUT IS SUGGESTED   5 Per Cent Cut Is Recommended to the War Production Board.

NEWSPRINT CUT TO BE LARGEST   Slash of: 16% in’ November Proposed by Pro.” duction Board

‘New Cut of 16 Pct. in Newsprint : _ Consumption Next Month Proposed

Newsprint Is Again Slashed   Newspapers to Take Curtailment of 16 Per Cent in November

16 PCT, PAPER CUT [5 PROPOSED TODAY   Alternative, , Says WPB Would Be to Dip Into Reserve Inventory.

NO SUGAR AVAILABLE FOR HOME WINERIES   Predict Bumper Grape Crop This Year

Nazis Admit Great Damage Inflicted By British Planes   London Reports Loss Of 19 Planes In Furious Attack; 900 Tons Of Bombs Showered On German Capital; Returning Fliers Tell Of Fires Within City

BOWLES 10 GET NOD AS PRICE ADMINISTRATOR   President Expected To Nominate OPA General Man- an ager In Near Future:

OPA RESHUFFLE CAUSES LITTLE STIR IN CAPITAL   Quarrel Over War Contracts And Army Spending Seems Near Settlement

ExpectBowles to Succeed .  as OPA Chief   Test to Come When Congress Is Asked to Vote Food Subsidies

RESIGNATION OF BROWN EXCITES LITTLE COMMENT   FDR EXPECTED TO NOMINATE BOWLES AS CHIEF OF OPA

Former Members of Dixon Militia To Be Honored Monday   Special Program To Be Staged at Armory at 8:00 O’clock

RESERVE PLANS PROGRAM HERE NEXT MONDAY   To Honor Former Members Now In  Armed Forces

Woman Meets Fate She Sketched for Herself   Lucy Writes 490 Postcards and Gets that Many Hubbies in Bad With Wives

Quebec Conference Frightening for Axis Leadership   U.S. President Speaks to Canada’s People in Ottawa

Enemy Warned To Give Up Now Or Be Destroyed   Invitation To Lay Down Arms Broadcast In Ottawa Address

United Nations’ Efforts Praised   Goal Is Victory In Shortest Possible Time, President Tells People Of Canada; Says Enemy To Feel Weight Of Plans Made In Quebec

EXTENDS VIRTUAL INVITATION TO ENEMY TO LAY DOWN ARMS NOW SAYING IT WILL PAY THEMBETTER   Canadians Cheer American President Who Says He Wished Hitler Could Have Been Present in Spirit (Not Flesh) At Quebec Conference   PEOPLE OF AXIS NATIONS NEED NOT FEAR UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TO THE UNITED NATIONS    President Again Promises to Aid in Feeding the Peoples of the Liberated Areas, and He Invites Axis Surrender

Axis Will — Learn the Hard Way   Quebec Secrets Will Become Known to Enemy in Language They Understand   BETTER THAT THEY OUIT NOW,-F.D.R. SAYS.   Greater. Freedoms in . Store: for World, President Declares in Talk in Canada

Hitler Would Quit Now If He Had Attended Quebec Session. Roosevelt Informs Canadians

No Hint of War Strategy Given   Allied Victory and Co-operation Theme  Of Talks at Quebec.

Could Avoid Results of Quebec Parley   Allies Ready to Hurl Full Might Against Enemies Soon

President Advises Axis To Surrender   Roosevelt Addresses ‘Can. ‘adians at a Meeting I Lo _» at! Ottawa   ON QUEBEC CONFERENCE   U ‘. Chief Executive Talks  “of Friendship With  I. ‘Canada ~

Executive Talks To:  Canada   Roosevelt Ex tolls War Effort of Dominion; No Hint of Specific War Strat: ery

President Says ‘Axis Nations Would Gain With Quick Peace   Tells War Lords if Fight Continues They Will Learn Quebee Secrets in Their Own Language

Better To Surrender   Now, FDR Warns Axis   First U.S. President To Visit-Canadian Capital, Says If Hitler At Parley, He Would Have Realized Folly Of Delay. - -

DOES NOT DROP HINTS AS TO WAR DECISIONS   Says Surrender Would Pay Hitler More Now Than Later

NoHintIs Dropped Of War Movements - Planned At Quebec   Pr resident Extols Part C anadians -~-Are-Playing-In-World-Confliet ~ In Speech Delivered At Ottawa

PRESIDENT - SILENT — ON PLANS MADE AT QUEBEC CONFERENCE      But Says Information to Be Sent Foes in Only Language They Know   THOUSANDS HEAR HIM

Says Conference Information To Reach Enemy In Lanquaoe Their ‘Twisted Minds Can Understand

President Speaks In Ottawa Today   Says Hither Would uit If He Knew Conference Secrets

Quit War iow. FDR Tells Axis   Surrender Now Would Pay Better. He Says in  Talk at Quebec

RESULTS OF QUEBEC CONFERENCE BE GIVEN ENEMY ON WARFRONTS  ROOSEVELT GIVES VIR-

QUEBEC SECRETS NOT RELATED BY U. S. PRESIDENT   Says Allies Will . Communicate Plan to Germany, Japan

ROOSEVELT Is SILENT ON NEW WAR STRATEGY   Says Surrender Would Pay Germans Better Than At Later Date   EXTOLLS CANADIAN EFFORT   Admits Considerable Talk Of Post-War World At Quebec Conference

C apitulation Now Better F or Germany Than Later, He ‘Tells Canadian Avdlence   Secret Information Of Quebee Conference To To Be ‘Made Known’ To Axis ‘In Due Time’; Speaks To French-Canadians In Own Language

‘Would pay to surrender immediately,’ dominion’s role in offensive praised

Axis Will Learn Quebec Strategy Through Heavy Blows ‘In Due Time,’  Says F. R.

President Touches Briefly On Results Of Recent. Parley In Quebec .

NO HINT GIVEN OF PLANS MADE BY WAR COUNCIL   President Speaks To Crowd From Parliament Building In Capital of Canada   VICTORIES REFERRED TO   Allied Victory in Shortest Possible Time Promis«d As Conference Result

People Will Be Fed And Treated Well, He Pledges   Only Leaders Wil Be Punished Fo War; No Debt: In Offine

Allied Squadrons Again. Encounter No Enemy Fighter _ Opposition—Italian Craiser .Fired   F.D.R. Tells Canadians Surrender Now Would Be Hitler’s Best Bet

Quit War tow, FOR Talle Ayis   Surrender Now  Would Pay Better, ¢ He Says in  Talk at Quebec

Allied Assaults To Inform Enemy Of Quebec Plans   Only Axis Leaders Should Fear Allied Victory, He Savs

SURRENDER NOW WOULD BE BETTER   Speaking in Ottawa, Canada, Today, Roosevelt Reveals Nothing of Quebec Strategy

President Says Axis Should Give Up Now   Tells Canadians Hitler and Generals Would ‘Have Realized That if They Had At- tended the Quebec Conferences.

NAZI SURRENDER WOULD BE BETTER _ NOW THAN LATER   If.» Was Told the Canadian Peopie Today by Presi dent Roosevelt. 5 — - .   HE SPOKE IN OTTAWA      Extended a Virtual Invitation to the Enemy to Lay  , Down Its Arms.

President Advises Axis To Surrender   Roosevelt Addresses Canadians at a Meeting at Ottawa   ON QUEBEC CONFERENCE      3) Chief Executive Talks of Friendship With  Canada

War Strategy Plans Remain  ~ Allied Secret   Roosevelt, In Ottawa Address, Extends Virtual Invitation to Enemy to Lay Down Its Arms; Says Germany, Italy, Japan Soon To Learn Fate

Roosevelt Addresses Canadians   Praises Part of Cana-dians in War; Says  Axis Would Be Better Off to Surrender Now

Says Talks Dealt With Determination to “Achieve Victory In  Shortest Possible Time”

Regrets Hitler Couldn’t Hear What Went On At Quebec Talk   President Lauds Role of Canadians in War Effort

Surrender To Pay Better Now Than Later, He Says    Declares Decisions Of Quebec Talks To Become Apparent In Due Time

Quebec Parley Decisions Are Still Secret   Not A Hint Of Future Operations Revealed In Ottawa Address

“QUIT OR DIE” ‘ULTIMATUM TO FOES REPEATED   President Asser ts Hitler Would Give Up Now If He Had Been Present At Quebec Meet   FAILS TO DISCLOSE STRATEGY MAPPED   Lauds American, Canadian Troops For Victories fn Sicily, Ousting Japs From Kiska

NO RINT GIVEN (F WAR PLANS   Conference Plans to Be Giv~ en in Only Language Foe Knows, He Says.   HAS PRAISE FOR CANADA

FDR EXTENDS BID TO AXIS TO SURRENDER   Tells Canadians That Hitler Should Have Been at Quebec Parley.   He Extols Part That Canada Takes in War

We Will Communicate This Knowledge In Only Way: Their Twisted Minds Séem Capable of Understanding, F. D. R. Says:

Speaking in Parliamentary Building at Ottawa, President Points to American-Canadian Friendship, But Reveals Nothing on Spe. cific War Strategy He and Churchill Outlined.

Capitulation Now Will Pay Big Dividends   Transmit Peace Message in Only Way Warped Axis Leaders Can Understand

FDR BIDS AXIS TO. SURRENDER WITHOUT DELAY   Quitting Will Pay Better Now Than Later, He Tells Them   MUM ON WAR PLANS   President Asserts, However, Axis To Learn  Them Shortly

Absolute Victory Promised By U. S. Chief Executive In Speech Following Close Of War Conference At Quebec   Hitler Would Give Up Now If He Knew What Was In Store For Him. Audience At Ottawa Is Told *

(Quebec Voices Would Suggest ~ Early Finish   Roosevelt Tells Canadians  Little Of Post-War Plans     Disenssed.   TO STOP ‘GANGSTERS’

“Surrender Better Now Than Later,” Roosevelt Warns   Chief Executive Lauds Canadian-American Friendship And Extols Part the Dominion is Playing In World Conflict   THOUSANDS OF CHEERING CANADIANS HEAR TALK

GIVES VIRTUAL INVITATION TO ABANDON ARMS   Makes Address In Main Parliamentary Building In Ottawa    CANADA IS EXTOLLED

Die Cast For New Action, He  Advises Foes  President Gives Out No Hint Of Strategy Mapped At Quebec;

Declares Enemy Will Learn “Secrets” of Quebec Parley Through New Blows by Allies   Chief Executive Pays Tribute © To Canada's War Effort; Drops  Nea Mint af Canferoance Cératany

Discretion Still Better Part of Valor, President Advises—Sees Great Opportunities for World with Victory

FDR Says Hitler Would Find lt Much Better To Surrender Now-- Speaks In Ottawa Today

Foe Invited By President To Drop Arms   Chief Executive Makes Address at Canada’s Capital

Roosevelt Warns Hitler Surrender Now Would Pay Better Than Later   President's Post Conference Address In Ottawa Passes Over War Strategy, But Extols Canadians’ Efforts

Reynolds To Ask  Man Power Action   North Carolinian To Press For Action Upon Men For War And Industry

DECISION ON ‘LABOR DRAFT SYSTEM. WILL BE ONE - OF-: BIG I88UES AFTER RECESS

CONGRESS TO FACE HEAVY DECISIONS   Lawmakers must decide on drafting manpower for war work

Financial Report Issued hy Mayor of Buite  Oo Leary Points to  eco TT arte:   O'Leary Points to Lower Taxes, Payment of Debt

Financial Repor! Issued by Mayor of Butte  O'Leary Points to Lower Taxes, Payment of Debt

Rommel Gains Objective In Quick Thrust   British First Army Moving Up To Threaten Northern Wim Of German Forces; U. S. Tanks and British Artillery Stop Successful Operation

Both Sides Confirm Rommel Captured Apparent Objective   sritish Forces Threaten Axis Flanks; American Troops Anxious To Counter-Attack German Tank Corps

Say British Are (Moving On Flanks   French Commander Credits Yank Tanks  And Bintith Guns With: Stopping German Thrust in- Tunisia Yanks Fought Bravely, Writer Saye 8“

Battered American Forces Regroup About Algerian Border, Anxious To Carry Battle Back To Rommel’s Tank Corps—Allied And Axis Quarters Agree German Units Have Attained Apparent Objective Of Disorganizing Defenses

ALLIED TANK AND GUNS STOP GERMAN DRIVE   Eighth Army Prods Main Fortifications Of Mareth Line

CERMAN OFFENSIVE. IN CENTRAL TUNISIA CHECKED BY ALLIES   Battered U. S. Forces Regrouped; British Menace _Northern Wing of Axis Line   /MARETH LINE FELT OU]

WILL FIGHT AGAIN   Americans Eager for Word to Attack Germans'i ‘in, ‘Tunisia

ARE ANXIOUS FOR COMEBACK      Yank Tanks, British Artillery Halt Rommel   Prodding Main Fortifications Of Mareth Line; Eyewitness Report

YANKS PREPARE TO STRIKE BACK AT ENEMY UNITS   Regrouping Forces On Border, Allied Officers Report

AMERICAN TANKS, BRITISH ARTILLERY BREAK GERMAN DRIVE   BATTERED UNITED STATES - FORCES REGROUPED NEAR ALCERIAN BORDER

Three Nazi Soldiers and a Russian Face Death for Executions by Gas

GERMAN SOLDIERS TRIED BY SOVIETS      Three Nazis Plead Guiity to Slaying Russian Citizens

Indignant Residents Up In Arms      FORCED FROM HOMES IN SOMERFIELD AND FAYETTE COUNTY AND HAVE NOT BEEN PAID FOR PROPERTIES.   Word Of Government

Somerfield : Residents Indignant   Say They're Ordered to Move From Homes With No Settlement ESfartad_   LANDS TO BE INUNDATED

Benito’s Voice Asks Italians to Fight Alongside Axis; Liberation Described

Duce’s Voice On Air Calls For Revenge   Mussolini Talks From Undisclosed Place; Raps ‘Traitors’

Mussolini (?) Lashes King And Traitors   Voice Sounded Like That Of Duce, Calling For Taking Up Arms For Axis

Ex-Duce (Or Was It?) Sets Out 4-Point Plan  For Fascist Followers   Voice, Purporting to Be Fallen Italian Leader, Tells of Arrest  On Steps of Monarch’s House

Voice, Supposedly That Of Mussolini, Calls For Reorganization, Blow To Traitors

II Duce’s Radio Voice Blasts ltalian Monarch   Most Listeners Believe Speaker Really Is Mussolini

Duce Outlines 4.Point Plan In Radio Talk   Voice Of Mussolini Tells ‘Personal Drama’ Of Rescue From Allies.   RAPS KING VITTORIO

Mussolini Calls For Italy To Fight Again With Nazis  Rants Against King, Calls For Punishment   Rants Against King, Calls For Punishment Of ‘Traitors’; Tells Of His Rescue

Broadcast Attributed to Ex-Duce Puts Blame for Italy’s Predicament On King, Demands Axis Collaboration

BX-DUCE TALKS; ASSAILS KING; RAPS TRAITORS   Bids Italians Take Up  Their Arms Again by   Side of Germany and lapan —   ISAYS RESCUE WILL BECOME LEGENDARY   Most Listeners Held Voice  That of Fallen Premier; Some Thought it Recording

Calls On Italians to Reorganize Armed Forces and Resume Fight Against Allies—Urges Elimination of ‘Fascist Traitors” and Assails King—Eight Out of.10 U. S. Monitors Believe It Was Ex-Duce’s Voice.

Ex-Duce Broadcasts Plea To Italians  To Take Up Arms With Nazis, Japan

Mussolini Maps Plan To Return Italians To War   Ex-Duce, In Radio Talk, Denounces Italy’s “Traitors”

Ex-Duce Rap: At Emanuele In Broadcast   Mussolini Calls for ‘Elimination of Fascist Traitors’ —He Outlines Four-Point Program For ‘Loyal’ Italians.

EARLY PEACE HOPE VOICED _ BY THE POPE   SOME INTERPRET BROADCAST AS SEEKING SOFTENING OF ALLIED UNCONDI TIONAL BURRENDER “DEMAND ©

POPE IN APPEAL FOR JUST PEACE   Some See Aim of Address to Soften Surrender Terms

Pope Calls ‘For Mercy After War   Plea to Allies for “just peace” when Axis meets defeat

ALLIED BOMBS ROUTING JAPS FROM LAE AREA   Gen. MacArthur’s Troops Closing In On Enemy

Hoffman Urges ~ Drive On Japar    Roosevelt - Churchil Strategy Attacked

FARM BUREAU WILL HOLD ANNUAL MEET   Unit Achievement Day Will Be Part of the Ac tivities ,   iSET FOR DECEMBER 14

FARM BUREAU WILL HOLD ANNUAL MEET   Unit Achievement Day Will Be Part of the Ac tivities

Tonnage Escorted To, From War Theater Put At 11 Million During Six-Month Period

ONLY LIGHT LOSSES 10 AFRICAN CONVOY  2.16 Per Cent  Lost. Navv Savs

ALLIED SEA LOSSES TON, AFRICA LIGHT      Only 2.16 Percent Sunk in Last Six Months

SHIPPING LOSSES INTO NORTH AFRICA ~ ONLY 2.16 PER CENT   This Amount Was of the To tal Traffic, It Was Announced.   11,000,000 TONS ACROSS   Gross Tonnage Was From United Kingdom and United States.

SHIPPING LOSSES LOW   Most of the Men. and Supplies Reached North Africa Safely

Allies Lose Few Ships In North Africa   2.16 Per Cent Total Traftic

SALES TAX PLAN GAINS SUPPORT, HINT IN CAPITAL   Congress Also Faces Problem Of Dwindling Coal Pile and Law for Father Draft

HOUSE REJECTS SALES TAX PLAN   Concern Grows Over Lengthy Foreign Policy Debate

FDR CONCERNED OVER SENATE'S POLICY DEBATE   Conferees From Both Houses Consider Draft Situation

JAP THRUSTS NOW DEFENSIVE   Air Attacks Concentrated Against Allied Ships In South Pacific.

CONVOY THRU STRAIT   Al a Were Enroute from “ogee e Mediterranean

CONVOY THRU STRAIT   mlied Shing Were. Enroute from ; the Mediterranean

GOEBBELS DENIES HITLER ILL, INSANE   Shuns Statement On His Leader Status

GOEBBELS SAME AS. SAYS THAT HITLER. GIVES UP COMMANI   Swedish Newsmen Declare Propaganda Minister Virtually Admits a Chanae.

GOEBBELS TELLS NEWSMEN HITLER IN GOOD HEALTH   Denies Insanity Rumors, But Hints Der Fuehrer Has Given Up Active Command Of Army

HITLER GIVES UP COMMAND OF ARMY, IS REPORT   Swedes Say That Goebbels By Inference Virtually Admits Tt

\Goebbels Statement Seen as Admission That Hitler Has  \Given up Supreme Command

PROGRAM OF COUNTY ANNUAL 4-H EXHIBIT AT FLORA PLANNED   AUGUST 17, 18, 19AND 20 ARE THE DAYS SET FOR +H CLUB FAIR

JAP Bln POWEH JOLT CO AGAIN BY Bb LODSES   33 Enemy Planes Shot Down, 34. Destroyed On Ground At Wewak Airport

RABAUL BASE IS REINFORCED BY NIPPONESE   ENEMY MOVES UP 19 SHIPS TO REPLACE BOMB LOSSES

JAPAN RUSHES NAVY SOUTH FOR BATTLES   In Frantic Effort to Stave Off Allied Advance Up Solomons; Moving From Truk to Other Bases.   Many Liberators

Jap Cruisers and Destroyers — Spotted Hurrying from Truk; Heavy Naval-Air Fights Loom

Japan Rushing Reinforcements To the Solomons   Large Fleet Seen Approaching Rabaul

Japs Rush Warships To Rabaul   Frantic Efforts Made To Stop Allied Drive

Nipponese Make Frantic Move  To Halt Allies   Cruisers, Destroyers Rush to Rabaul To Check Relentless Advance Which Already Has Cost Foe Heavily

NEMY FLEET HEADING FOR NEW BRITAIN   rgest Convoy Spolted by MacArthur’s Reconnaissance Planes Includés Five Heavy Cruisers, Three Light Cruisers and Five Destroyers, Presaging Heavy Naval Baltles to..Come.

Japs Rush Huge Naval Convoys To Rabaul in Effort to Stem Allied Offensive in. Solomons

JAPAN RUSHES AID TO RABAUL   Battles Loom As at Least Five Foe Convoys Trav.” tl te Solomons

Japanese Rush Warships Toward Rabauw   Heavy Naval, Air Battles to Come Presaged

Heavy Air And Naval Battle About To Begin   Nips Seck to Retrieve Situation At  Rahaul Where They Have Sulfered Great Losses. Five Convovs Are Sishted

Japanese Are Rushing Naval And Land Forces To Rabaul and Decisive Battle Expected Soon

Japanese Rush More Warships To Rabaul Base   Airmen Spot New Convoys Enroute to Rabaul

Japs Rushing Reinforcements To Rabaul In Effort To Halt Allied Drive In The Solomons   Hzavy And Light Cruisers Along With Destroyers Steaming Down From Truk In Attempt To Retrieve Situation At New Britain Stronghold

Japs Rushing Naval Streneth Toward Rabaul   Heavy, Light Cruisers And Destroyers Are Reported Enroute to Jap Base From Truk

Nips Flan Desperate Attempt  Many Convoys Converge On » Rabaul .

AIR BATTLES LOOKED FOR   Craft Southbound From Truk—8 Cruisers, 5 Destroyers in Oneof Many Convoys Sighted.   ONE GROUP BOMBED BY ALLIED AIRMEN   MacArthur’s Challenge to Fight Recalled as Nips Move to Halt Drive Up Solomons,

Heavy Jap Convoy: Steam For Rabaul   Great Naval: And Air Battles Presaged As Frantic Nips Seek To Check Allies

Japs Rush Sea Force — To Halt Pacific Drive   Movement Toward Hard-Pressed Rabaul Points To Heavy Sea And Air Battles Ahead: Five Convoys Are Sighted

JAPANESE CONVOYS RUSHING TO RABAUL   Reinforcements. Presage Naval and Air Battles to Come

WN QUEBEC 10 DISCUSS WAR   Chief Executive Now  For Conference _

FDR Arrives in Quebec for New Allied Parley   Hopkins, Early, Harriman in Official Party

Roosevelt Goes to Quebec  For Final Phase of Parley   Result of War Talks to Be Known Only When They Produce ‘Major Developments’ President Predicted: Leaders Honored

President And Churchill Hold Fate Of The Axis Powers At Their Mercy ‘

FOR STRATEGY CONFERENCES   President and Churchill Honor Guests  At Dinner Party

PRESIDENT 15 IN QUEBEC TO START TALKS   Roosevelt Arrives for Con: ferences With Winston Churchill   TRIP IS MADE BY A SPECIAL TRAIN   Number of Immediate Ad. visers Also in the Party

FDR IN QUEBEC FOR STRATEGY CONFER ENCES   President it and Churehitl Honor Guests At Dinner Party

Conferences Will Start Wednesday   Cheering Thousands Greet President On Eve Of Conference On Next Phase of Global Wor

PRESIDENT IN QUEBEC TO  CONFER ON WAR STRATEGY   American Chief Executive Is Given Warm Welcome T¢ Historic French-Canadian City; Talks With Churchill Will Begin Today  *

IDR REACHES QUEBEC AMID GREAT CHEERS   To Meet With England And Canada’s Prime Ministers Winston Churchill And W, L. MacKenzie Kine   Hopkins Present

F.D.R. ARRIVES FOR WAR TALKS   Survey Of Future Plans Begins Today, Backed By ‘Spade Work’  Of Experts

GOP ACCUSED NEW DEAL OF BUREAUCRACY   Assertion contained in resolution adopted by council today

REPUBLIGANS AT MACKINAC . — MAKE CHARGE OF FASCISM   ACCUSE NEW DEAL OF &PONSORING FASCIST INSTRUMENTS AND DENOUNCE BUBEAUCRATIO CONTROL

Food Shortage  ~~  Eruspuce ONS   Senate Committee Lrges Deferment of karm We kers

Concern Qver Food Shortage Is Emphasized   Food Situation May Become Tragic, Senate Committee  Is Informed, as Crops Are Less.

DAMAGE TO BE LARGE   Many Roads ‘in Southeast Kansas 4 Still Are Blocked

Roads Badly Damaged —   Shoulders And Fills Washed Out By High Water: Rush Repairs

CHS.COACH IN CALL. FAR. R CANDIDATES      To Begin Baseball Practice in Concord Soon; Pley Opener April 19.

BIGGUN DUELS MARK ACTION IN ROMMEL SECTOR   Algiers Broadcast Says British First Army Makes Advance In North ‘Tunisia   GAINS IN MAKNASSY AREA MADE BY YANKS   Axis Concentrations Between Mareth and Gabes Shot Up By Allied Airmen

British First Army Makes  Some Gains  In The North   Allied Air Forces Engage In Day And Night Bombing Of Avis Forces 

Allied Air Forces Strike Steadily At Axis Positions   AIRCRAFT DESTROYED

CONTINUE FIGHT ALONG MARETH LINE POSITIONS   Nothing New from North Tunisian Front, Allied Air Force Active

YANKEE PATROLS MAKE GAINS IN MAKANASSY AREA   ROMMEL’S COUNTER ASSAULTS CANCEL BRITISH GAINS

GUERRILLAS IN FRANCE ROUT ENEMY   Fight Nazi Troops And Vichy Police Back In Battle

GERMANS ARE CLEARED FROM MOUNTAINS   Few Nazi Troops Remain On Isolated Heights

Americans Clear Nazis  From Peaks   Savage Fighting In Progress on  8th Army Front

Alfer :‘cepare For - Mass Drive  Into Liri Valley   Two Isolated Heights Remain To Be Cleared  In Italian Campaign

Nazis Cleared From All But 2 ltalian Heights   Allied Troops Preparing for Mace Decceant

PALERMO PLANTS DESTROYED IN BiG AMERICAN RAID   Reconnaissance Pictures Show Terrific Damage tn Sunday Bombing.

Biggest U.S. Raid Shatters Tialian Port   400 Planes Attack Palermo; Others Bomb Messina

Biggest American Raid Leaves Palermo In Ruins   More Than 400 Flying Fortresses, Billy Mitchells, And Martin Marauders Carry Enormous Loads Of Explosives To Sicily   By REYNOLDS PACKARD Inited Presse Carreacninndent

FIRM OFFICIALS GET PEN TERMS   Cleveland Rrothers Recaive $10,000 Fines, Ten Yoare Each .

German Riots Are Reported   Mass Arrests Made In Big Cities: Peace Feeflers Out

WILL DEDICATE OERVIGE FLAE   Patriotic Program at Geld. smith Schcol Friday  Afternvon.

Ickes Declares [Mining Must Be  (Resumed At Once   Coal Administrator Issues Statement  After Talk With Lewis

SAYS RESUMED PRODUCTION iS VITAL 10 U. 8.   Issues Statement on Situation Following  Talk With Lewis

ADMINISTRATOR CONFERS WITH MINERS’ CHIEF   Government Takes Over

Clamp Hold on  Island   BOUGAINVILLE BEACHHEAD SECURE; ADMIRAL NIMITZ SAYS ATTACK READY

Navy Blimp Is Lost In Fight With U-Boat   All But One Member O! Crew Rescued After Loss Of First Airship Ir Fight With Sub

U.S. BLIMP LOST IN FIGHT WITH U-BOAI   First Airship So Destroyed, One of Crew Killed

NAZI SUG SHOOTS DOWN NAVY BLIME   Only One Man Lost In Atlantic Battle

Blimp Loses Fight To Sub   Damage in Scrap Forces Dirigible to Land At Sea

ISCHARGED TO * GET 180-DAY PAY   Se ae a ae oe ae ae  Bulletins!

Blimp Lost After Fight With U-Boat   Airship Damaged in Extraordinary Battle With Surfaced Sub; Only One Man of Crew. Killed: Navy Reports

NAVY BLIMP LOST IN FIGHT WITH U-BOAT   All of Crew but One Rescued After Gunfire Forced Blimp to Land on Sea

Disclose Blimp Downed By Sub   Surfaced U-Boat Sinks Navy Airship 

BLIMP LOST AT SEA   u. s. ekip Was Shot Down ‘By An Enemy Submarine

Navy Announces  Loss of Blimp  Fight With Enemy Submarine Results

NAVY BLIMP IS TARGET OF SUB   ONE CREW MEMBER LOST AS NAZI GUNS DESTROY YANK SHIP

NAVY BLIMP LOST ~~ AFTER SEA BATTLE      Aircraft Damaged in Unusual Fight With U-Boat

‘Another Tax Proposal Will  Be Formulated   House Ways and Means Committee Goes To Work on Its Own Ideas of Raising More Revenue.

House Ponders Qwn Tax Plan   Virtual Death Sentence Pronounced on Administration Plan

Bombers Blast Port of Gabes   Heavy Attack on Giant Krupp Works Sets off Big Fires.

Turn to New Area In Pacific   Last Japanese Chased From Central Solomons.

LAST OF JAPANESE  BEEN CHASED FROM  CENTRAL SOLOMONS EYES OF AMERICAN FORCES 5 IN SOUTH PAC PACIFI   *w2ermare

Bougainville To Be Next Target Of Allied Drive   Fow Japanese Left On Island, American Patrols Discover

LAST OF JAPANESE BEEN CHASED FROM CENTRAL SOLOMONS  EYES OF AMERICAN FORCES IN SOUTH PACIFI

Last Of Japs Chased From Central Solomons By Yanks   Bougainville Next Objective; Capture O Lolombangara Gives Ship, Air Base

SENATE TO VOTE LATE TODAY ON DAD DEFERMENT   Some Officials See Draft Dodgers Seeking Haven On “ Faris be

SENTIMENT. FOR OR AU'S REMOVAL CROWS      Rebellion :Over.. $10,500,000, 000 Tax Program: Spreads * to House Leaders

HINT FARMS HAVE BECOME HAVEN FOR EVADERS OF DRAFT   Senate Prepares. To Vote Today On ‘Substitute: Restrictions On * -Deferments —

CLAIM FARMS ARE HAVEN FOR THOSE DODGING DRAFT   Expect Senate Vote on BaileyClark Substitute Meas Pa

CHARGE MADE FARMS DRAFT DODGER HAVEN   Agricultural Deferment Total Takes Big Jump In 1948

Senate Agrees To Restrict Draft Deferments For Gov’t Workers As Substitute For Wheeler Measure

Believe Stettinius in Favor of Pursuina ° Bold, Vigorous Policy to Protect U.S.

SUPPORTS BOLD FOREIGN POLICY   Stettinius to Protect U. S. Interests, Maintenance of World Peace

ITALY BESET BY NEW TROUBLES   GUERRILLAS MENACE ITALIAN TROOPS NOW STATIONED IN GREECE

Greek Force Advances On Duce’s Army   Mussolini Is Reported Ordering Men Home; 20 Allied Divisions Set TT, Attack. Claim

20 DIVISIONS ARE REPORTED         Bulgarian Army Newspa. per Says British Eighth Army and Other Allied Units Will Strike by, Wav of Crete. de

ITALY IS BESET BY NEW TROUBLE ON TOP OF RAIDS   Italian Occupation Corps Driven From Metsovon By Greek Battlers; Many Italian Cities In Ruins.

Italy Faces New Troubles ‘With Greeks   Rising Patriotic Army Pressing Attack; Many Cities of Italy Are Devastated By Bombs

GREEKS MENACE ITALIAN CORPS   Cuerrillas Batter Army 0:  Occupation In New   Warfare

Counts Mounting Losses from Allied Aerial Poundings In Addition To Rising Greek Opposition To Army of Occupation.

Greek Patriots Menace Italians; Mussolini's Cities “Heaps of Ruins

Four Irishmen Flee Prison   Alleged Chief of Outlawed Republican Army One of Fugitives

Irish Republican Army Chief Escapes   Prison Fails To Hold Quartet

Reveal Jap Warships Caught In U.S. Navy Trap And Nine Sunk In Less Than Two Hour.

IT-1 IN FAVOR OF AMERICA   KFour or Five Jap Destroyers Sunk in First Five Minutes

1000 OFFICERS IN HUNGARY JAILED   Reported Saying Hungary Had Nothing-To Win In The War

FOOD WAITING FOR STARVING IN MARTINIQUE   UNLOADING DEPENDS ON CAPITULATION OF VICHYITE

36 FOREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA   F.B.I. Says Evidence of Incendiarism in Some Fires.

Dismemberment of Jap Empire Plan For Future   Reveal Developments At Cairo Conference  of Three Leaders

DANAHER OPPOSED TO ANTI-STRIKE PLAN   Senator Says Compromise Measure Would Invest Too Much Power In War Labor Board

WLB to Decide on Coal Issue   Roosevelt Says Lewis Must Settle Dispuie on Gov ernment Terms

F. R. Demands Miners Hold to U.S. Line   PRESIDENT BACKS WLB POWERS IN CASE, WAGE STABILIZATION ORDER

FDR INSISTS WLB TOSETTLE LEWIS COAL DEMANDS   Says U. S., Not Lewis, Will Fix Terms of Settlement

Roosevelt Refuses to Bow to Lewis   President Says Labor Board Must Settle Mine Row

PRESIDENT INSISTS ON FEDERAL TERMS   WLB Concessions Expectet as Possible Factor In Making Agreement.

MINE DISPUTE AT STANDSTILL   President Roosevelt Insists thal John L. Lewis Settle Coal Mine Dispute cn Government Terms.

FDR BACKS WLB’S © JURISDICTION IN COAL MINE CASE   President’s Support Of WLB In Mine Dispute Indicates That Lewis Must Settle Coal Dispute On U. S, Terms

FR Insists Mine Rift Be Settled  On Own Terms   Lewis Not Expected  To Appear Before Session of WLB

 COOL TOUCH TO REMAIN   ‘But Cold Winds in Kansas Are Expected to Diminish

Cold Will Linger On   Little Change Is Expected In Kansas In Next 24 Hours

4 Prisoners Kseape From Alcatraz in Army Uniform   One ov Move Picked Up By Boats in Bay, Warden Reports

HOUSE CONSIDERS SABOTAGE BILL   Farm Legislation Also Slated for Vote Today on Parity ‘Prices

House Drives To Clear Decks - For Debate On Tax   Seeks Vote Upon Anti-Sabotave Bill

“What's in a Name?” Is Cook’s Query   FRIENDS SHORTEN LONG SIAMESE NAME TO EASY-TO-SAY LEO

20 MARINES BOMB VICTIMS   Men Aecidentally Killed When  Bombers Crash In Midair

GINGER TO WED   Hollywood Hears Actress  Wil Marry Warine Frivate.

FATHERS MAY GET ANOTHER DEFERMENT   Mest of the Dads May Still Be In Civilian Clothes As Late As October   IMMUNITY IS QUALIFIED

(First Pappy’s In Army, Then Isn’t; ’ Plete’s the “[eatest Davelaninkat

WILL NOT INDUCT FATHERS TILL FALL   Most Of Them Will Still Be In Civilian Clothing By October, Draft Officials Now State

FATHERS AGAIN GET DEAD-LINE INDRAETCALT   Selective Service Heads Now Give October Date  _ At Probability; May   Be “Much Later”   YOUTHS RESPOND   Needs of Armed: Forces Reported Nearing Peak and Supply of Single Men. Increasing

MORE CWILIAN LIFE FOR DAD   [No Call For Service Until  October, Perhaps Much  Later

U. S. DADS GET ANOTHER STAY   Group Will Not Face Induction Until October: Claim

FAMILY MEN WILL NOT BE DRAFTED BEFORE OCTOBER   Given First Official and Positive Assurance By Major Emett Solomon of Selective Service Manpower Commission.

Draft Of Fathers Before Early Fall Termed Unlikely By Draft  Manpower Division Spokesman

Reassure Dads of Later  Draft Call, Available Supply Sufficient To Meet Quotas

Fathers To Be Immune  TilOctober   Officials Say Maybe Much Later; Forces Near Peak

DADS SEEN SAFE UNTIL OCTOBER   Selective Service Figures 6,500,000 Are In Draft Exempt Class

FATHERS SAFE UNTIL OCTOBER   : Most of Them Still Will Be  In “Civies”, Draft Official Declares —

DRAFT OF FATHERS APPEARS UNLIKELY   Childless Married Men and Teen Agers to Fill Armed Forces’ Needs

Fathers Will Escape Dratf Till October   Single, .Childless Married Men and Teen-Age to Fill Army Requirements for Next Three Months

FATHER DRAFTING STILL UNCERTAI   Necessary Men For Armed Services Appears Possible Until October.

Fathers’ Draft Immunity Hold:   May Not Be In Uniform Until Late In Fail

Delay Draft Of Fathers To October   Single and Childless Married Men Come First

NATION'S FATHERS  WILL NOT BE CALLED  BEFORE OCTOBER DRAFT OFFICIALS BE LIEVE PLENTY OTHER MATERIAT END ARMY

FATHER DRAFT AGAIN DEFERRED   Childiess Married Men and ’teen-age Youths To Be Called First

No Draft For Fathers Until Early Autumn   Solomon Gives War Ficures

Induction May Be Put Off Even More, Is Reported   Childless Husbands, Teen-Age Group To Supply Needs Of Army

General Advance In North Africa  Is Continuing TAKE MANY OF FOE  Germans’ Losses In Caucasus Thrusts  Reach 8000, Reds Say

jur Greatest Victory In Tunisia Achieved            New Northern Offensive Carries Allies Within 15 Miles . of Rizerte 4

Churchill Rallies, Physicians Report  Wife Ledves to Join Him in Middle East

Churchill Rallies  From Pneumonia   Wife to Join Him In Middle East

Italy Believes Invasion Of Islands Near   Italian Fleet  Ready To Steam Out

OPEN DRAFT DEBATE   Sen. Wheeler Believes Senate Will Act On Govt. Blunders  me... taataent..{. & goa. . &

WHEELER LEADS FIGHT FOR DADS   Refuses To Concede Defeat On Bill To Defer Fathers

(0 PROBE FULLY STORY OF SOLON   Strange Tale of Intimidation Told Attorney Genera! Rushton and Judge Hayden

U.S. BOLSTERS DEFENSE CHAIN   TAKING OF FUNAFUTI PLUGS GAP IN PACIFIC

U.S. Plugs Big Gap In Pacific  Defense Position      Base On Funafuit _ Regarded As Strategie Point Tn Chain’

FUNAFUTI BASE IMPERILS JAPS   Wher Accomplishments .in Pacific BHinted

Base In Ellice Islands Strengthens U. S. Chain Along Long Supply Line

FUNAFUTIBASE ~ PLUGS BIG HOLE ~—— INSUPPLY LINE   Threat to Samoan Islands Ended By Positions In Lilire

BASE ON FUNAFUT PLUGS GAP IN LINE   Biggest Hole In Chain OF Defenses Now Closed

Stalin And Davies C  preare LRTUUD BTU V/ onfer   Again On Secret Messane

More Active Rolefor Brazil?   ‘Surprise Visit Between FDR and Vargas May Mean Increased Mili‘tary Cooperation Soon

Japanese Prepare For New Operations   Australia Nervous Says Tokyo Radio

Airdrome Pelted With 250,000 Pounds of Bombs   More Than Fifty American Planes All Returned Safely

Goebbels Boasts Europe Not Panfelleria as Portal to Balkans Blasted for First Time   AXIS ON QUI VIVE   Great Damage Reporied on Elberfeld—African Fliers Strafe Sicily, Sardinia

Greek Port Of Salonika Hit Bv U.S.   Liberator Bombers Attack  Gateway To Balkans’ For First Time In War,

FIRST RAID OF WAR ON AXISHELD SEAPORT   RAF Meanwhile Pounds Wuppertal, Key Ruhr Valley Industrial City for Nazis

U.S. FLIERS HT 4X1 S-OCCUPIED PORT IN GREECE   American Airmen Rip Targets in Sardinia, Sicily; RAF Rehits Ruhr

Huge Bomb Load Dropped Qn Salonika   First Attack on Port Where Allies Breached Balkans in World War I

Huge Bomb. Load Dropped’ ~ On Salonika   First Attack on Port. Where Allies: BreachétBalkans in World War 1.

U.S. Bombers Hit Salonika, Greek Port  18 Fortresses Lost In Today’s Attacks Over Enusana: BAE

Ayis-Occupied Airport Target Of Big Attack   Sardinia Also Raked By Explosives; RAF Blasts Wuppertal

High Explosives Rip  Greek Port, Invasion  Point In Last War   Fifty American Bombers Fly Across Mediterranean To Set Sedes Airdrome Ablaze; RAF Renews Ruhr Valley Attack, Visiting Wuppertal

First Raid Of War on Greek Por'   Italian Isles Again Bombed; RAF Pounds at Wuppertal

FIRST ATTACK ON GREEK PORT MADE BY ALLIES   Nearly 150 Tons of High Explosives Dumped on Salonika Axis Bases   ALL BOMBERS COME BACK   Meanwhile, Ruhr War Plants Smashed in ‘Great Force’ By Allied Warplanes

Axis Limps Into Another Year Of Conflict With Handwriting. On Wall.

R.A.F. Fliers Hover Over Crippled Nazi Capital 45 Minutes   Magnitude Of Operation Shown By Facet That British Lose 47 Planes kven Though Axis Defenses Reported Only Moderate

South Italian Coast Is Bombarded by British Warships   “TERROR ATTACK,” WAILS BERLIN RADIC   Air Offensive Now On Nonstop Basis; Italy Staggering Under Torrent  of Fire

JAPS SLAUGHTERED BY ___ CHINESE IN FIGHTING   Strange Battle of the Burma Road and Salween River Takes Heavy Toll of Enemy Forces — Poisoned Arrows Used by Forces of Chiang Kai-Shek ‘As Well As Bayonets, Grenades’  and Club. ©~ «

British Expect No Big Battles i in Their New Offensive Against Burma

London Sees No Big Clashes In  Burma Drive   Roadless hills and jungles. prevent large army. movements ; of major importance,

SERVICE MEN TO GET MORE FOR FAMILIES   HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES WIFE AND CHILD $75

Allowance Hike for Dependent Childrer Of Servicemen Appears Virtually Certair

2 Commillee uces Senate’s mure on Grants  ry Group Favors 5 for Wife with Mina: Chile

Increased Dependency Payments  Seem Certain   House Committee Favors $50 for Wife, $25 for First Child, $10 Each for Others

Dependent Pay Hike to $75 ‘Sure   House Committee Approves Increase

Servicemen's Kin Sure To Get Raise   House Group, Senate Differ On Amounts

AXIS DEFENSES CRUMBLE UNDER VICIOUS ATTACK   Fali of Twin Strongholds In ‘Coffin Corner’ Near As Drive Intensified   AMERICANS TAKE BIZERTE   Attempt To Evacuate Nazi And Italian Troops Seen As Growing Possibility

Fall of Axis Twin  Cities Is Imminent   U.S. Troops Capture Ferryville, Eight Miles Across Lake  From Bizerte, and French Tribal Warriors Penetrate oe   Hitler’s Proudest Troops Routed As Allies in Last Phase of Battle

ALLIED FORCES IN OUTSKIRTS OF 2 CiTADELS   Clese In For Final ‘Kill’ In North African Campaign   IBLAST AXIS FROM AIR   Russians Drive To Split Nazi Army; Invasion Fears Grow

Americans Capture 1,000 Prisoners In Two Days of Fighting in Tunisia   Russians Beat Off C ounterattacks; Stockholm Reports Norwway Troublesome

Fall Of Twin Axis Cities Appears Near   Retreat Of Enemy Is Cut Off By Air, Sea

Fall of Twin Axis Cities Appears Near   Axis Defenses Reported Crumbling  _All Along the Front but Heavy Fight ing Rages in Both Tunis and Bizerte Sectors 

VICTORIOUS ARMIES  OF ALLIED NATIONS  REACH GOALS FRIDAY FALL OF BIZERTE AND  TUNIS APPFARED IMWMINENT BEIT CAVS

Fall Of Cities Believed Near   ‘Infantry Advarices Under Mighty Assault by Hundreds of Planes— Report 25 Axis Shins Sunk

NORTH AFRICAN AXIS DEFENSES ARE CRUMBLING   Report of Gains Given In Official Bulletin  From Headquarters

Early Capitulation of Twin Axis Bases  in Tunisia Expected   Yankees Penetrate De—_fense at Bizerte;—  French in Tunis

American’s Are ‘In Bizerte, Algiers’ Radio says; Kighth Army rolls up Ten Miles in Few Hours; German Defenses Buckling; Yanks Capture 1,090 Prisoners

Victorious Armies Penetrate Outskirts Of Twin Axis Bases   Anticipate Von Arnim’s Retreat Into Hillis For Last-Ditch Stand; All U. N. Gains Firmly Secured

All-Out Yankee-British Smashes Crumbling Enemy Defenses All Along Tunisian Front.

Americans Crash Through Axis Hill Defenses and Fall of Twin Strongholds Appear Imminent   Rommel’s Line Crumbling But Heavy Fighting Continues In Both Important Sectors; 25 German Ships Sunk In Tunisian Straits

Backs Wilkie Renomination      Cowles Says Republican Minority Attempting To Destroy Wilkie.

Publisher Backs Willkie Record   Denies Any Attempt To Purchase Votes

McKean County Again Raises Savings Quote   Residents Purchase Total Of $205,028 in Bonds and Stamps

County Exceeds “E” Bond Quota   Purchases Amount to 35% Over Quota

McKean County Exeeeds Bond  Purchase Quote   ‘E” Bond Sale 12 Per Cent In Excess of Quota for February

2nd Front When We Can Win’   Anxious To Meet Stalin But Military Success Vital—Churchill

NOTHING NEARER WISHES OF FDR AND CHURCHILL THAN MEETING WITH STALIN   British Prime Minister Doesn’t Blame Russians fo Criticism for Lack of Second Front. Makes It Clear Positive Factors of Success Are Necessary

Must Be Sure Attack Will  Be Success   Declares He and F. R. Want to Hold Parley With Premier Stalin

Churchill Says He and Roosevelt Desire to Meet With Russian Chief Who at Present Time Can't Leave the German Battlefront.   Will Not Invade Germany Just for Political Consideration, He Says

Expresses Own and FDR’s Wish for Meeting With Stalin but Says Military, Not Political, Meetings Guide War Moves  LOOKS TO OPENING THIRD FRONT   Prime Minister Praises Russia, Says Aerial War on Germany Impossible Without Magnificent Red Stand   Predicts Third Front

Churchill to Seek Meeting With Soviet   Says Both He and FDR Are Most Anxious For Stalin Conference

Unity Of Decision Is  Desirable   Prime Minister Assert: Second Front Will Be Opened As Soon A:  Success Is Assured

Soviets Uninvited To Quebec Because Jap War Discussed;  Premier Explains

MILITARY SUCCESS IS NECESSARY FOR A SECOND FRONT   This Statement Made Today by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.   Nothing Is Nearer to Wishes of President Roosevelt and Myself, He Said.

Consider Only Success In 2nd Front Planning   —WINSTON CHURCHILL,  Political Influences De clared Out; Hopes Fo Talks With Stalin.

Declares Red Representative Would Have Been Embarrassec   New Conference !s Planned at Which Soviets Will Be Represented, British Prime Minister Says In Quebec Speech

DESIRE. TALKS      Churchill Predicts Second Front When Victory Is Assured.   WANT TRIPARTITE MEET

Second and Third Fronts Discussed  In Quebec Speech   Invasion of Continent Will Be Attempted Only When There is Every Chance of Military Success Prime Minister Says   ACTIVITY AGAINST JAPAN CENTERS IN INDIA

Anxious For 3-Fold Meet. Churchill   Second Front to Be Opened Only When Sure of Success, He Says

ALLIES WILL NOT STRIKE UNTIL READ)   Churchill Says Military, and Not Political Considerations, Will Determine When Second Front Is Opened.

SLUNG FRONT ULUolON LEFT 10 MILITARY   churchill Says Political Reasons Not Dictating Front's Opening

Churchill Backs Russian Stand On Second Front   But Military Success Is Paramount Factor in Meeting Request of Stalin. Avers Briton at Quebec

Second Front When Time Is Ripe   Churchill Says Chance Of Military Success —  The Only Factor; Hopes For: Tripartite Parley

Conference on Japanese War, ‘Churchill Says   Praises Russia and Hopes It Will Be At Session Soon

Churchill Hopes He and Roosevelt Can Meet Stalin   Second Front Will Not Be Opened _ Until Allies Certain of Success, Prime Minister Says in Quebec Talk

Churchill Bids ror Meeting With Stalin   Roosevelt Also Would Take Part; ‘Political’ Second Front !s Banned      NO BLAME ON REDS   Premier Says Planning Against Japan Kept Russians From Quebec Talks

CHURCHILL FOR RUSS MEETING   Speaking At Quebec, Britain’ Prime Minister Declares On Second Front in Europe

Churchill Promises Europe A Front Only When Conditions Are Ready

Churchill Says Second Front to Open — ‘When There Is Every Chance of Success

Second Front Will Open Only When Allies Are Ready   Military Success Is Paramount Issue, Soys Churchill at Noon

Must Be Assured of Success--Churchill   Premier Realizes Russia’s Impatience for European Attack but Allies Not to be Swayed by Politica Considerations.

Anxious To Meet Stalin.... But Invasion Of Europe Must  Wait Until Success Is Assured, Says Churchill

Doesn't ‘Blame Russia’ For Its 2nd Front Pleas   Explains Reason Why Reds Not Invited To *Quebec; Meet About Japan --«>

Second Front When Chances  Right To Vin   British Prime Minister Expresses Desire To Meet  With F. D. R., Stalin.   PRAISE FOR RUSSIANS

invasion Won't Be To Satisfy Any Political Clamoring   Leaders Want to Meet Stalin, Prime inister Declares

SECOND FRONT 10° AWAIT PROMISE OF MILITARY SUCCESS.   THREE-FOLD MEETING WITH STALIN DESIRED B} - CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT

Won’t Open 2nd Front Until Success Certain: Is Not Swayed by Reds

Parley Sought: Won't Stampede Second Front   War Against Japs Main Theme Of Conference With FDR In Quebec

€3ut an Allied Second Front: Will Be Opened Only When Prospects Are Best   RUSSIA PRAISED @ BY PRIME MINISTER   Need of United Nations Conference Stressed; Quebec a» Talks Concerned Japan

Churchill  Favors Three Way Meeting   Prime Minister Says He and Roosevelt for Conference; Second Front Will Come Only When Success Assured

Churchill Hopes For Conference With Russians   Second Front Awaits Certain Chance of Success

Axis U-Boats Remain Menace  To Allied Ship:   Driven Far From U. S. Coast But Continue Attacks Far At Sea :   U-BOAT RAIDS MAJOR PROBLEM

AXIS SUBS FAR FROM SHORE: — ~ PROVIDE DIFFICULT PROBLEM   UNBERSEA CRAFT DRIVEN FROM COASTAL WATERS BUT MORE ESCORT SHIPS NEEDED BY CONVOYS

THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS  FRANK R. KENT  By FRA s (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS ,   Jap Attack Upon Siberia Lyistinet Possibility ‘or Near Future

Flood Waters Moving South   Mid-West Flood Situation Leaves 125,000 Temporarily Homeless   MISSISSIPPI AT RECORD HEIGHT

RISING RIVERS BOOST DAMAGE TO $40,000,000   Floods Spreading Over Wider Expanse Of Rich Farmland   125,000 MADE HOMELESS   Rampaging Mississippi Cracks Four Levees In St. Louis Area

FLOOD WATERS EXTEND SWEEP OVER 6 STATES   18 Dead. 125,000 Homeless As Damage Toll Reaches 40 Millions   ST. LOUIS LEVEES BREAK   Feak Crests Along Mississippi River Not Expected For Several Days

WORSTFLOQH IN SOME PLACES ~ sine 484 18 EXPERT.  JENCED. WITH PROPERTY .) DAMAGE ESTIMATED . AT FORTY MILLION

13 DEAD AND THOUSANDS HOMELESS   Crop Loss in Six States Estimated at $40,000,000

EIGHTEEN DEAD IS FLOOD TOLL   125,000 Homeless, Damage to Crops 40 Millions in Six States

NEW B-29 BOMBER NAMED BY ARNOLD   Ship Will Fly Higt Higher, Further, Carry Bigger Load Than Present Bombers

Cemmunications Disrupted.   Super-Bomber Nearly Ready to Take Its Place As New Battleship of Air

A “Secret” No Longer   Officials Announce That New U. S. SuperBomber Is Ready to Go

Secret Bomber Ne learing  Tests   B. 29 Officially Revealed - By. Arnold ;. Will Travel ‘Greater Distances

Allied Forces Are Ready for Smashing Blow at Rabaul   Tojo Says 1914 Will De cide Course of Pacific War.

Ramirez nev president of Argentina   No clear-cut leaning seen tc allies or axis

Invasion Is Seen Not Far Away   New Government } Estab _ lished in Argentine by » Gen, Ramirez

ARMOUR TO GET WELLES’ POST   Argentina Ambassador Men. tioned as Next Undersecretary of State

WELLES SAYS FDR HAS ACCEPTED HIS RESIGNATION   Under-secretary of State Seen As Quitting His Office In Washington.

Armour Given — “Inside” Track For Welles Job   Di plomatic Experience ‘Of Envoy To Buenos Aires . Strengthens Possibility

WELLES SAYS HE'S OUT: FDR STILL SILENT   Undersecretary Tells Ambassadors Resignation Accepted

SUMNER WELLES RESIGNATION IS REPORTED TODAY      No Formal Announcement Is Made Yet From White House On Acceptance

Armour Has Inside Track For State Post   Career Diplomat Mentioned as Possible Successor to Welles   REQUIREMENTS STRICT

ARMOUR MAY BE HULL AIDE   CAREER DIPLOMAT SEEN AS WELLES SUCCESSOR

WELLES oTEPOOWN IO ACCEPTED BY FOR   Disagreement With Hull Leads To Final Action

See Armour As Successor To Sumner Welles   Ambassador To Buenos Aires Has Inside Track On Cabinet Position

WELLES QUITS AS HULL'S ASSISTANT IN STATE POSITION   Letters To Friends Reveal FDR Has Accepted Resignation——-No Successor

ARMOUR IS EYED FOR WELLES’ JOB   “CAREER MAN MAY BE NEW UNDERSECRETARY IN STATE DEPARTMENT

Armour May Be Undersecretary  To Aid Hull   Said To Have Inside Track As Successor To Sumner Welles

P tponed. From Sunday-to. Tueéday   signation Accepted, Welle Tells Diplomatic Friends             ty to Successor. Intriques Capital.

Armour Hinted As  Welles Successor   Career Diplomat Has Inside Track

Enemy Airfield On Isle Taken By Americans   Death or Surrender Of Renmants of Jap Army Expected Soon; Naval Guns Set on Foe

American Victory On Northern Isle Appears al Hand  Allies Down 73 Axis Planes, Lose  Four Off Italy Coast REDS REPULSE BLOWS  German Efforts  To Shift Kerch Force

RAIL JUNCTIONS AFOUND NAPLES ARE HEAVILY Hi   Four Vital Yards Blasted by Alies in Week End   Aix Assaults, ' 

BRITISH NAVY ASKS ‘LIE’ AID   Sends Request for Yarns to Wisconsin Club

WOMEN’S STOCKINGS BRING POLICE ORDER   » LIARS CLUB WILL AID BRITISH WAR EFFORT

FF FE FE FF FF FS FS FS FS SF SF FS FS FE FS FF Fe ele ULM  A A, A a a ee a a ee ee ee a ee ee ee Le  American Lies Help Britain Win The War

Royal Navy Appeals to Liars, Club for Aid and Gets It "On the House’

U. $. Plans End of Crop Limits   Contracts Will Direct 1944 Food Output

FD.R’S LETTER» ~ TOSTALIN TODAY   JOSEPH DAVIES ARRIVES IN MOSCOW WITH PRESI_DENT’S SECRET MESSAGE.

STALIN 10 GET LETTER TODAY   Davies Reaches Red Capital With Message from President Roosevelt

SUBSTITUTE FOR AAA NOW IS SOUGHT BY GRANGE CONVENTION   Committee To Study New Way For Crop Adjustment

CROP ADJUSTMENT SUBSTITUTE WANTEL   AAA Criticized By Grangé As  " Aapwantiann Ende

GRANGE RAPS POLICIES OF AAR   Seek Crop. Adjustment Plan as Substitute

GRANGE SEEKING AAA SUBSTITUTE   Close Annual — Convention; Plan to Study inexpensive Adjustment Plans

Interpreting  The War   No General Change In Ally Policy As Regards Japan

Stimson’ 5 -omise o ~is7e.s Some: CAL nxiety Sver Souts Daci-ic_

2 RATION STAMPS 10 PROVIDE SUGAR   Allowance of 10 Pounds Wil Be Obtainable Beginning on Monday.

Use Stamps 15 And 16 For  Canning Sugai   Five Pounds Available For Each Stamp Under New Plan — Postpone Registration Program

Stamps No. 15 and 16 in Book No. 1 Will Be Used for Canning Sugar

LIST CANNING SUGAR STAMPS   Ne. 15 and 16 In Book One - Good for Five Pounds Each

STAMPS 15, 16 ARE GOOD FOR HOME CANNING      Allotment Does Not Interfere With Regular Allowances.

TWO STAMPS GOOD FOR EXTRA SUGAR   FIVE POUNDS FOR CANNING PURPOSES TO BE ALLOWED ON EACH COUPON.

Miners Back at Work Assure Return To Full Production, Coming Coal Negotiations Big News in Capitol   Bargaining Unsettled, [ckes Says

Food Productior Problems Face ARiled Congres:  ~ Want Farm Workers - Deferred, And Urge - Subsidies For Output;

Supertax Plan  Appears Stopped In Congress   Adininistration Calls Whité House Conferehkeé To Check Strategy

THREE CONTESTS TAKE. SPOTLIGHT      ie es       Capitol Hill Wants downs on Manpower, — 4 Prices

Would Force Committee to  Release Bill   Fight over FDR’s $25,000 Salary Limitation Thickens; Production .Pot Boils

“Weday In hington:  ‘Canitel Cries For Showdowns On Price And Manpower Problems

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HEAVY AERIAL RAIDS SWEEP ACROSS SICIL   MUSSOLINI HAVING TROUBLE KEEPING ITALIAN UNITY

AXIS ON SICILY INMANY RAID   10 Assaults Made On Gerbini: Duce Has New Troubles

Unceasing Blows Rain On Islands    Sicily And Sardinia  Foaal Aarin Fiiryv

SICILY BLASTED DAY AND NIGHT   Gerbini Raided 19 Times By Allies; Broadcast Asks Overthrow Of Fascists

Foe Reveals Weakness During Raid   Allied Fliers Meet No Opposition In Mighty Attacks

Ttalian Islands  Are Being’ Bombec  Continuously Clandestine "Radio in  dtaly Is Urging People to Revolt

19 ASSAULTS ON AIRDROME AT GERBINI   Attacks Reach Scope Of An Unending Storm, Believe Mussolini Having Difficulty In Mainteining Unity   Sink Steamers

AERIAL BLOW nll SICILY, SARDINIA   19 Assaults Hurled on Alrdrome Network of Gerbini; Allied Fliers Meet no Fighter Opposition

Roosevelt - Churchill Conference May Result From Allied Victories

Churchill And FDR May Again Confer On War   Fall Of Orel, Catania Pose New Problems  For Allied Heads

Allied Victories Bring Leaders to Important Point; May Meet Soon

Talks On Strategy in Order   Roosevelt and ‘Churchill Must Decide Soon on the Next Allied Moves   WAR MOVING FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE   What to Do About Italy and Question of Air Blitz Are Ton Problems

Allied Chiefs Must Map Plan   Roosevelt, Churchill Must Plan Best Strategy For Cracking Europe.

NAZIS MOVE T0 BOLSTER ITALY MORALE IN WAR   Germany Officially Recognizes Gravity of Position Of Her Junior Partner In Conflict   WILL AID DEFENSE   Meanwhile, London Observers Speculate Italy May Be Knocked Out Of Conflict Quickly

To Aid Ally ff Country Is Invaded   European Southern Front To Be Defended Jointly, Announcement States

Nazis Pledge To Stand By Italy  — Say They Will Not Dudert Their Ally

Italy Will Not Face Invasion Without Help, Hitler Promises; British Expect Quick Knockout

Nazis Attempt to Bolster italian Morale, Promising Aid When Invasion Comes

Hitler Assures Italy Nazis Will Help Her  Battle Invasion   iCampaign Of Reassurance, Obviously Intended To Bolster Weakened Italian Morale, Is Disclosed In Dispatches From Bern

Italy Assured Germany Will Not Desert Her   Attempt Is Made To Bolster Morale Of Axis Partner

Germany Assures Italy She Won't Be Fighting Alone   Remarks Intended to Bolster Weakened Fascist Morale

BE DESERTED, BERLIN SAYS   British Speculate On Possible Quick Knockout Of Italy

Germany Moves To Bolster Morale Of Frightened Italy By Promises   European Southern Front To Be Defended Jointly. Bern Hears; Berlin Does Not Discount Chance Italy Will Be Knocked Out Quickly.

NAZIS NOT TU DESERT ITAL!   Joint Defense Promised As Allies Rain Bombs On Ports, Airfields

Bombardment Of Wake Paves Way For New Smashes   Four Related Moves Raises Speculation Of New U. S. Afttacle:

Warships Bombard Isle As Planes Roar In For Blows; Aussies Gain In New Guinea

ALLIED BOMBS BATTER WAKE   New Drive To Immobilize Jap Base At Truk Pending

Allies Hit Wake Island Jans Heavy Blow   Spot Of Gallant Marine Stand Will Be Retaken

TEMPERATURES:   Attack On Wake Believed Start Of Major Drive   Warships, Planes Blast Japs On Pacific Island Outpost

Japanese Defenses On Wake Is'and Pounded by Navy   Australians Gain Seven Miles in Push for Madang

Allied Planes, Ships Blast Wake Island   Submarine Sinks Jap Ferry with 546 Passengers; Aussies Within 5@ Miles ef Madang

JAPANESE DEFENSES ON WAKE ISLAND ARE HEAVILY BOMBARDED  NAVAL UNITS AND CARRIER-BORNE PLANES RLAST PACIFIC RASE

Enemy Ship Losses in Solomons Drive Average One Daily   40 Warships Are Out of Service in 40-Day Offensive

BURMA ATTACKED BY RAF   Hallway Station Target Shattered by ‘Bombing.

RAF Bombers Make Heaviest Raid On Burma   Concentrated  Attack In East

‘OTH ARMY GAINS VITAL RIVER LINE   ‘American Units Now Drive  On German Citadel of Venafro

FIFTH PLUNGES THROUGH NAZIS BROKEN LINES   U.S. Units Cross Upper Volturno in Drive on Venafro

Allies Pushing Through Broken  German Defense   Allied Fifth Army In Italy Has Reached The Carigliano River   BRITISH DESTROYERS AID EIGHTH ARMY

AMERICAN AND BRITISH TROOPS AGAIN SMASH FORWARD IN ITALY.AND AIR FORCE HAMMERS RAIL CENTERS BEHIND GERMAN LINE—RUSSIAN “DRIVE CONTINUES AND RUMOR ( _ HEARD FINNS TO SEEK PEACE  eet

Sinking of Submarine Announced   Runner, American Shif Lost, Presumably in  Pacific Waters

U. $. SUB BELIEVED LOST   Undersea Craft Runner Presumably  Lest In Action Against Japs ,  :

Loss Of 14th Sub Announced By Navy Today   Submarine Runner Which Was Commiasioned In July Last Year Goes Down In Pacific

British Bomh Key Sicilian Ports, Bases  Messina Hard Hit As Pilots Drop Heavy Explosives

Raining Bombs. Or  Messina   Axis Report Mobiliz ing Of Enemy As Invasion Plans  Move Ahead.

Allies Push Nazis Baek ir Italy, Russia   Soviets Advance On Both Fronts Of Twin Offensive

Reds Regain Land Taken By Germans   Americans and Canadian: Score Advances on  Road to Rome

Yugoslav Army 180,000 Strong   Germans Rush Reinforcements In Effort To Regain Control.

180,000 Slavs Hit at Nazis   Strong Mountain Posts Held by Partisans Under Allied Ofticers

Report Full-Scale Offensive Against Nazis In Yugoslavia   Military Operation Reaches Scale Beyond Mere Guerrilla Warfare, Dispatch Says

RAF Strikes At Rhineland Again   Land Fronts From Russia to China Report Unnatural Mid-June Lusl— Gerbini and Catania Air Fields at Eastern End of Sicily Are Hit

All the Lesser Italian Islands  Taken by Allies   Gerbini and Catania Airbases on Sicily Bombed by Big Planes.   Tiny Island of Linosa Is Last to Surrender

Massive Air Fleets From Africa Hold Fire for a Day After Taking Three Islands in Three Days

U. 5. SUFFERS BIGGEST LOSS, 26 BOMBERS   White Flag Flown By Linosa And Lampedusa   AMERICANS   Concentrate Raid On Kiel, Bremen: R. A. F. Targets Not Disclosed

Hammer Bases On Island and Visit Continent   Belligerents Catching Breath For Summer Offensives

THIRD ITALIAN ‘DEFENSE RING ISLE GIVES UP   Allied Drive to Knock Sicily Out of War Is Expected

Airbases On Island of Sicily Are Bombed   [Planes and Hangars Destroyed at   Gerbini and Catania; RAF Continues Offensive on Germany; Land Fronts Report Unnatural Lull

Sicily Awaits Blow   Brief Lull in Fighting Seen Only As the: Calm Before the Coming Storm of Allied Attack

Bombing Persists  But Lull Reported Qn Battle Fronts   Anothe: Italian Isle Surrenders;  Sicxfs Heavily Raided Bs Allies

Unnatural Luil Occurs On Land Fronts   Tons of Bombs Dropped As Allies ‘Keep Going’ In Air

Allies Raid Air Fields On Sicily   RAF Continues Sweeps . Over Rhineland Area; Land Fronts Are Quiet

UL 5. FORCES STRIKE HEAVY — BLOWS AT BREMEN AND KIEL BUT LOSE 26 FOUR-ENGINED BOMBERS   Belligerents Seems To Be Catching Breaths in MidJune Lull of Land Fighting; British Report One Bomber Lost In Small Raid on Bochum

Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Axis Stronghold After Three Other Islands Fall Before Allied Assault —- Americans Suffer ae Loss In Attack On Bremen And  jel

Two Large Raiding Forces Attack Kiel and Bremen Sunday   “Price Not Too High”, Says Commander of  Force; War Briefed

OMINOUS LULL MARKS FIGHTING BY LAND FORCES   Big Bombers, However, Hit Germany’s War Industry And Italy's Gates   THREE ISLANDS NOW HELD   Reds Smash Nazi Planes As Americans and Chinese Batter Jap Invaders

Unnatural Mid-June Lull In Land Fighting Covers All Fronts In Global War

Allied Bombers Focus Attention an Sicily As Third Italian Island—Linosa— “s Flies White Flac oF

Ominous Mid-June Lull Is Reported In Land Fighting     Massive Fleets of Northwest African Air Forces Ham: mer Inte Unconditional Surrender Three Italian Islands   SICILY PROBABLE NEXT TARGET FOR ATTACKS

Liberators Dump Bombs on Sicily   British Strike at Rhineland With Small Force—Lull Comes Over European Battlefields

Roar in Air; Unnatural Land Lult   Air Fleets Pound Away in All Theaters During the Unusual Caim Arround   [BIG OFFENSIVES NO ( DOUBT IN MAKING   Sicilian Ports Are-Hit; U. 8. Loses 26 Bombers in Blast at Bremen, Kiel,

RAF Bombers ~ Attack Nazi   * Rhine Areas   Big U. S. Planes Pound Gerbini And Catania Bases On Sicily,   REDS IN AIR ACTIONS

Mass Aerial  Armada For Huge Attack   Lesser Italian Islands Smashed Into Submission

Airbases Are Hit in Heavy Sunday Raids   Allies, Axis Catching Breaths in Mid- June Lull in Fighting on All Fronts

Air Offensive of Allies Has Taken Three Other Island:   Germany Is Also Heavily Bombed; Lull in Land War

Prelude To Mass Allied Air Assault   Axis Bases Hammered: R. A. F. Strikes Again At Rhineland.

Reich Given No Rest By Allied Fliers   ...Wanks Lose 26 Bombers In Bremen, Kiel Smashes

ITALIAN BASES ON MAINLAND HIT FROM AIF   Allies Have Now Established Their Ability to Blast Way Into Fortress of Europe

Yankee Bombers Are Escorted by Spitfire Fighters From Malta; Smoke Clouds Rise From Hangars; R.A. F. Raids Continue ©

ISICILIANS WATCH FOR COMING BLASTS OF MIGHTY AIR FLEET AIR BASES OF AXIS ISLAND  STRONGHOLD ATTACKED; RDAF RTLASTS NAZIS

Blast Airfield after Other Islands Taken   Axis Gets Little Surcease, with RAF and American Bombers Carrying on Destruction Against German Installations.

Air Force Rains Fire (On 2 Bases   26 Bomhers Last By U, §. in Endless Warfare Over Enrone

Western Aerial Offensive Kept Going By Massive Bombers Of Allies

Axis Planes Smashed by Yank Raiders   Middle East Bombers Attack Catania and Gerbini Airfields   RD ISLAND TAKEN   Enemy Force on Linosa Surrenders to Single British Destroyer

‘Takes Message - From Roosevelt; Maybe Promises   Developments in Tunisia Puts Allied Armies in New Positions  MAY ATTACK EUROPE  Russians Declare German Resistance Broken at Stalingrad

NE FUDGE TETE Git Inonu Agree On Defenses   Prime Minister Takes Message from FDR to Turkey; Allied Armies Move Steadily into Position for Allied Attack into Europe

QUIGKENING PAGE IN TUMIOIA; REDS DRIVING ANED TOWARD ROSTOV   Last Bastion Of Hitler’s Suicide Army in Stalingrad Captured; U, S, Help For Turks

Bitter Fight Spots Battle Toa Decision   Eisenhower Seen As Mediterranean Commander — Russians Stab Within 45 Miles of Rostov; Push Closer to Kharkov, Kursk and Krasnodar

Pledges Inonu Aid, Prepares For Big Attack   Allies Drive For Clean-up In Tunisia As Yanks Push Back Nazis Near East Coast; Russians Strike To Within 40 Mile Of Rostov.

RUSSIANS LESS THAN 40 MILES FROM ROSTOV   Events Shape Up for Coming Gifensive by Allies Into Europe

Pact Seen Safeguard Of Flank In Coming Offense  PACE QUICKENS Allies Seek To Clean up Situation In "Tne

Russians Push To Within 40 Mi. Of Rostov   Yankee Raiders Active As Pace Of Tunisian Fighting Quickens.

Churchill's Trip to Turkey Seen as Master Stroke, Coupled With Campaigns in Tunisia, Russia   REDS PRESS DRIVES   Americans Closing In on Maknas sy in Effort to Cut Rommel's Road of Retreat

 rakes iviessage From Roosevelt; Maybe Promises  Developments in Tunisia Puts Allied Armies in   MAY ATTACK EUROPE   Russians Declare German Resistance Broken at Stalingrad

Hitler's Army At Stalingrad Is Destroyer   Soviets Less Than 40 Miles From Rostov In Mighty Drive

BRITAIN’S PREMIER IN WEEK-END TALKS WITH TURK LEADERS   ALLIED ARMIES STEADIL‘ MOVING INTO POSITION FOR OFENSIVE

Tunisia Campaign Quickening With Action in 3 Areas   Nazis Admit Last Units of Stalingrad Siege Army Falling

‘American Forces _ Advance in Thrust — ToCut AxisRetreat   U.S. Units Capture Sened, Beat off Enemy Counter-Attack, Complete Mission, Then Withdraw

Churchill Visit Master Stroke   Quickened Campaign  Readying Armies for Continent Strike.

British Prime Minister Flies to Ankara Followi ng Conference With Roosevelt

Drive Nazis From Village And Withdraw   Churchill Parley Is Turkey Hailed As Master Stroke   German Resistance In Russia Broken   Allied Forces In Africa Threaten Important Hichwav

Churchill Talks With Turk Leaders   High Officers of Both Nations in Historic Conference

CLEAN-UP DRIVE IN TUNISIA IS BEGUN, BELIEF   Three-pronged Attack Has Been Launched Against Axis Positions   TURKEY IS LINED UP, TOO   Russians, Meanwhile, Are Closing In On Vital Cities And Smashing Nazi Lines

Speed Pace Of Attacks  In Tunisia   Yanks Take Town In Raid; Report Red Troops But 40 Miles From Rostov

Flame Throwers Turried On Japs:   Counterattack At -Munda Beaten Off

U. S. flame throwers used ‘on Japs at Munda airdrome   Divebombers and fighters sweep  enemy installations and bases

Jap Drive At Munda Halted   Flame Throwers Used By American Forces

AMERICANS. AUSTRALIANS ADVANCING   According to Plan as Second Month of Solomons-New Guinea Campaign Opens Destroy 11 Barges   bain 7 Miles

Janks, Flame Throwers Aid Munda Battle   B ombers, Fighter: ~ Pound Nipponese Defenders

Americans Use Torches in Munda Drive  Flame Throwers Are Utilized For First Time

Tanks, Flame Throwers Used at Munda   American Troops Press Closer to Vital Airport

Americans Use Torches in Munda Drive   Flame Throwers Ara litilizad

JAP ATTACK IS THROWN BACK   Flame Throwers Used By Yanks to Repel Foe; Press Nearer Munda

Argentina May Be Trying to Make Up for Diplomatic Ship   Replacement of Veteran Ambassador Te Neweet Move

ARGENTINA. MOVES TO REPAIR DAMAGE OF BLUNDER T0U. S.   Veteran Ambassador Being Replaced With. Man Unknown In Capital

Le Clere’s Fighting” French Enter Tripoli   Made Long Drive  _ From Lake Chad;      Made Long Drive  _ From Lake Chad; Eighth Army’s Advance Continues

NAZI ARMIES ARE FIGHTING BACK 10 BACK   Village 30 Miles West Of Tripoli Captured   LANDING FIELD   At Medenine Again Hit: Leclerc’s Troops Join British Forces

MONTGOMERY'S IMPERIAL ARMY SRIZES ZAUIA   Represents An Advance of About 30 Miles Since Fall of City of Tripoli   ROMMEL ARMY KEPT UNDER AIR ATTACK   Enemy Filtering Through Zuara, 35 Miles Ahead of Pursuers; Fight to Retain Africa Toehold

BRITISH TROOPS STILL GAINING INSIDE TUNISIA   Allied Airforce Attacks Axis Supply Lines, Landing Grounds

Legislature Closes Doors After Session  Of 18 Weeks   Adjourns Sunday Dawn Ending Busy Session That Saw Passage  Of Nearly 500 Bills  MARTIN PLEASED WITH RESULTS  Four Major Measures OK°’d in Final Session After Bitter Dehato

Legislature Ends Session SundayMorn   GOVERNOR MARTIN SIGNS CONUntSSLONAL REAPPORTIONMENT WHICH DEMOCRATS HAD FOUGHT BITTERLY.   Shortest In 10 Years

LEGISLATORS WAR SESSION COMES TO ENI   Major Bills. ‘Passe Before Assembly Ad journs at Dawn

CHINESE LEADERS GET DECISION ON BURMA OFFENSIVE   Gen. Stilwell Relays Plans For Future Allied Blow

‘Foe’s Armies in Caucasus Face Doom   Soviets Tighten Steel Ring as Last Rail Line Crumbles

TROOPS CUT FINAL RAIL ‘ESCAPE ROUTE   Russians Reported Already Blasting German Ships Sent to Evacuate  : Soldiers by Way of Sea  ' of Azov.

Last Escape From Rostov Cut By Reds   Russian Planes Reported Pounding Hastily Gathered Hitler Ships At Novorossisk

REDS TIGHTENING   Additional Gains Are Reported at Various Points Fighting !s Ended At Stalinorad.   RUMANIA, FINLAND MAY CRACK SHORTLY   American Crews In U. S$. Bombers Make Second Major Raid on Naval Bas’ and Industries.

VAST ENEMY ARMY FACES ‘DUNKERQUE   Germans Trapped In West. Caucasus; Red Fieet Active

Russians Cut Nazis Escape Near Rostov   London Hears Soviet Ships-Planes Pounding German Fleets

A DUNKERQUE FOR AXIS AT SEA OF AZOV   Last of Invaders in Caucasus Driven Toward Sea by Russian Forces.   Rostov Is Menaced From Railroad Line

Last Of Axis Troops Still In Caucasus Driven To Azov Sea   300 RAF Planes Bomb Hamburg; British Subs Sink 9 Enemy Ships; Allies Take Vital Tunisian Sites

REDS TIGHTEN RING AT ROSTOV     Touanne 3 §¢p Aeedth Deanan   Forces to North Pres: Drives, Gaining in Two  Kharkov Areas

Axis Troops Tn Caucasus Being Forcec  ‘Toward Sea   Russian Warships  And Planes Pounding German Ships Brough Up For Flight

Nazi Army Is In Grasp of Soviets   Russian Troops Continue Advance in Direction of - Rostov   GAIN NORTH OF KURSK   Report Germans Pushed Back to Where 1942 Offensive Started

HITLER'S ARMIES ARE BEING DRIVEN BACK TOWARD SEA   Nazis Now Desperately In Need of Their . Own Dunkirk

LAST AXIS TROOPS IN THE CAUCASUS ARE DRIVEN BACK   Red Army Cut Only Remaining Rail Line of Escape to Kuschchevka.   GERMANS MASS SHIPS   Russian Warships and Planes Already Are Pounding These Ships.

DEATH TAKES WOMAN WHO SLEPT 33 YEARS   “Sleeping Beauty” Had Been in State of Coma Since Suicide of Man She Loveécd,

‘Slept’ 33 Years After Lover Died   South Africa W sthian Tis: Case Sets Recorc

Today’s War Commentary  China Fights On  Japan Started War Six Years Age

“NoInvasion This Year”   Canadian War Correspondent Says Talk of. Move Before Year’s End May Be Brushed Aside

SECOND-FRONT FORCE READY   But Writer Says Troops Likely To Be in Britain Christmas

‘SECOND FRONT" TAKING SHAPE   Likely Not To Take Place Until Next Year

Invasion Army Assuming Form  Expected to Be in Britain for Holidays

Invasion Force Taking Shape, But Any Attack Before Xmas Doubtfal

2nd Front Taking Shape. Not Before End Of Year   Famous Canadian Correspondent Discussion Progress Of Plans

7 SECOND FRONT~— . INo- European” Thvasion  (Until After Holiday:       Allied Second-Front Force Is Taking. Shape In The United Kingdom But Troops Will Spend Christmas In England

Airmen Are Ready to Begin Soon   Nipponese Empire Is Under Its Severest Threat, Hale States

Air Force Commander Says Raids On Jap Islands Just Warmup For Coming Bloiwe

Japanese Given Sample of What To Expect Soon   Raids on Nauru and Ta rawa Are Start of Big Offensive

IOWA SOLDIER WRITES LEWIS OF ACCOUNTING   Linotype Ouerator, in Army Hospital in New Guinea, Gives Views on Coal Walkout

Montgomery Outflanks Mareth Line And Threatens Nazis Rear At El Hamma Air Base

Conquest of Sicily Now   Certain, Says Patterson   Invasion Progressing Rapidly With Light Casualties, War Chief Says

SICILY CONQUEST ASSURED, ASSERTS WAR OFFICE HEAD   Patterson Declares Invasion Has Proceeded More Rapidly Than Allied Leaders Haned.

Sicily Invasion  Ahead of Plans   Casualties Also Much  Less, Says Patterson

Committee Asks Langer To Present Data Betore Calling Willkie Hearing

Problem Seen In Transport   Truman . Urges Building Of Rail, Air, Truck Line Equipment

REPLACEMENT PLAN NEEDED, SAYS REPORI   Coasting on Pre-War Reserves, Truman Group Claims

Fearing Transportation Breakdown, Committee Demands More Equipment

More Carrier Equipment Is Urgent Need   Truman Committee Warns Against Break Down in Transportation Service  geneeentrcinernenae enacts   PRAISE FOR RAILROADS

Increased Production Of Equipment For Transportation Systems Demanded

More Cars And Trucks Needed  Committee Warns Of Transportation Tieup

TRUMAN URGES, ‘EQUIPMENT 10 AIDRATLROADS   Breakdown. In. Transporta: tion:Feared' Unless ‘Trucks, Air Lines. Re-   ceive Reniacements

Truman Committee Warns Reserves 0 Transportation Facilities Are Gone And Replacements Are Necessary

Warns Railroads Must Have Help  Equipment Wearing Out, Savs Committee

HUGE AIR FLEET HITS GERMANY’S GREEK AIR BASE   British Army Inches Ahead

REPORT BARES. ACUTE DANGER IN TRANSPORT   Truman Committee Declares Quick Action Needed to  Avert Breakdown.

TRANSPORT IS ~~ BIG PROBLEM   TRUMAN COMMITTEE  WARNS “THAT BREAKDOWN IN ‘TRANSPORTATION 15 “DANGEROUSLY NEAR"

SUBSIDY TRUCE NOT EXPECTED   Senate Group And Officials ‘Reach Disagreement’   NEED REPAIRS   Transportation  Breakdown Looms, Group Warns

MORE TRUCKS, RAIL CARS AND BARGES URGED   Truman Committee Reports Serious Breakdown in Transportation Facilities Possible

Getting Near Cepacity Limit   Senate Truman Committee Issues Report

Fearing Break-Down, Truman Group Demand: More Production Of Transportation Equipment

Chased Out Of Far East By Japs, UP Writer On Way Back With U. S. Troops In South Pacific

ALLIED FORCES REGROUPED IN NEW GUINEA   Preparing For Attack On Japanese Stronghold At Sanananda, MacAr.-..  thur Aides Report: —~   PROBE SWAMP MUD   Both Allies and ‘Japanese “Seeking Weak: Spots In  Opposite Lines; Ar tillery- In Action

Allies Regroup Land Forces For All-Out Attack On Japanese At Sanananda Point

American Troops Push Back One Enemy Patrol. Swamps Extremely Heavy  In Area

Patrols Probing In The Swamp Mud   Area Is Target For Sustained Artillery — Barrage   SWAMPS BETWEEN DEEP AND HEAVY

JAPANESE BASES. ~ INNEW GUINEA ‘GIVEN BOMBINGS   Patrols ~ of ‘Allies, Orientals Feeling: For Weak: Spots In Opposite Lines --For.- An-. ‘other Attack.   GROUPS PROWLING  IN MIDWAY SWAMPS   Sanananda Point :Area and ,Lea Base. Are -Bombed, " Straffed For Third Successive Day By Allies.

Patrols Probe  'Enemy’s Lines   Allies sAnd Japs Prepare For: BattleIn Guinea » >: Sanananda Area”.

BOTH - -ALLIED -AND° “JAPANESE PATROLS GROPE : THROUGH.SWAMB: MUB TO: -FIND LOOPHOLES IN: OPPOSING LINES

SWAMP FIGHTS MARK ACTION IN NEW GUINEA   ee er ee ee  PATROLS SEEK WEAK SPOTS IN OTHERS LINES IN SANANANDA AREA

New Guinea Foes Seek Weak Spots   Several Japs Killed In Patrol Actions Near Tarakena

Issue Of Postwar Plans Remains In Air After Poll Taken In Senate

International Police Force  Is In Doubt   Poll Of Senate Indicates That 32 At This Time Oppose Commitment On Such A Policy

POSTWAR COLLABORATION ADVOCATES CALL A. P. SENTE POLL “HIGHLY SATISFACTORY.” OTHERS DISAGREE

24 Senators for Post-War Commitment   AP Poll Shows 32 Opposed and 32 Undecided on Plans for Post-War Security

Stalin Tells Importance Of American Aid   Sends Message Which Is Read At Program In Washington In Support Of War Bond Sale

Senate Group Moves to Probe Bureau:   Committee Slates Hearings on Executive Costs

U.S. Spending To. Be Investigated By Solon Board   Tightening Up Of All Spending Seen

Senate Inquiry Info Executive Agencies Slated   Ship Purchases To Be Scanned In Probe

Senate Group Plans Inquiry Into Spending   Administration Supporting Investigation Inte How Government Agencies  Using Funds   Barkley Is Member Of Probe Committee   Solons Also May Look Into Controversy Over Price Of War Vessels

SENATE PROBE FEDERAL UNITS TO BE REVIVED   Committee to. Investigate How Government Agencies Are Spending _ Appropriations   TO TIGHTEN REINS   Ship Purchases to be ScanMove Meets With Unusual -Administration Backing

Jap Airdrome Is Heavily Bombed   Enemy Base At Babo, Dutch New Guinea Blasted By Huoe Romhe

Amendments May Scuttle Strike. Bill.   Labor: Champions Expect Senate to Kill Far Reaching. House: Additions

CONNALLY BILL 10 BAN STRIKES MAY BEDOOMED      Move to Scuttle Measure Under Weight of FarReaching Amendments  Planned In House .   CAMPAIGN MAPPED   Supporters of Move of Opinion Senate Will Reject Measure If Dras-: tically Changed.

Move is Made to Scuttle Strike Bill  Lawmakers Mapping Quiet Campaign As

MOVE STARTED TO SCUTTLE THE CONNALLY BILL   Under the Light of Far. Reaching Amendments, It Is Said.   This Action Was Reported Today to Be Developing in the House.

BRITISH CHASE ROMMEL'S ARMY TOWARD TRIPOLI   Montgomery’s Troops ‘Drive Axis Forces Out Of  Wadi Zem-Zem Defenses   AIR FORCES ACTIVE IN TUNISIAN AREA

Rommel’s Units Lose 40 Miles   Defense Hurdle At Zem-Zem Cleared

British Drive Axis Back in Libya Fichi   Montgomery's Army Now Only 130 Miles From Tripoli

Rommel Deserts Wadi Zem-Zem,  Continues Retreat  British Eighth Army Advances 40 Miles In First Two Days

British Advance  Is Menacing Rommel Army   Way Cleared to Final Drive on Port Of Tripoli and Nazis May Be Forced to Retreat; Airmen Active

BiH ARMY IN PURSUIT OF ROMMEL CORPS   Advances 40 Miles All Along Line Toward Tripoli; Begins Advance By Moonlight Friday.   Axis Tells News

BRITISH MAKE 40- MILE GAIN   Eighth Army Advancing Toward Tripoli Now Past Wadi ZemZem Hurdle

Poll Reveals — Subsidy Foes      Test’ Reveals Congress Backine For Ban

; Committee Poll ‘Indicates Ban  "On Subsidy Plan   Some Democrats Line Up With GOP Bloc In Opposition

HOUSEWIVES. SOON WILL BE ABLE T0 OBTAIN MORE MEAT   20 Per Cent Increase Said To Be Conservative Estimate Of  Supply

POINT REDUCTIONS IN 35 MEAT CUTS   Butter Raised Two Points in New Red Stamp Schedule Into Effect Sept. 5

OPA LISTS NEW RATION RULES: START SUNDAY   Present Meat Picture Best Since Program Begun, Report

OPA Reduces Point Value of 35 Meat Cuts   Creaméry Butter Raised-From Ten To Twelve

Point Values for 35 Meat Cuts ‘Reduced: Butter Raised to 12 Points Per Pound, Fifective Next Sunday

OPA Cuts Ration Point Cost On 35 Meat Items Butter Value Increased

amb, Mutton, Beef Point Cost Reduced Beginning Next Sunday. But Ration Value of Butter Goes Up to 12   WEA Eases Restrictions on Slaughtering, More Meat Due

Sotons-Ponder— On Significance Of F. D. Speech   View Restrained Wording  __Helping Prospects Eor Unity In Legislature

Solons Describe F.D.R. Message  As Conciliatory   Nonbelligerent Tone On Domestic Matters Seen  As Unity Aid.

SIGNIFICANCE OF ROOSEVELT TALK PONDERED   Congress, Meanwhile, Ex. hibits Unusual Bi-Partisan. Approval Message  On State of Nation   HELD CONCILIATORY   One Member Views Restraint On Domestic. [ssues Bid For Fourth Presidential Term

Congress Believes FD’s Speech ‘Conciliatory’   Prospects For Unity Are Strengthened By Address; Republicans Approve

TT CL tC TL TS, Ae TTL  SOLONS PONDER SIGNIFICANCE OF “CONCILIATORY” TONE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH

Solons Ponder FDR’s Speech   Restraint on Domestic Issues  Cited

CONCILIATORY TONE PLEASES CONGRESSMEN   Unusual Bi-Partisan Approval Exhibited On President's Annual Message   ONE SEES 47H TERM BID   F  New Study Of Broader Social.  Security Program Is Be- ) ing Discussed

NEW CONGRESS APPROVES FDR'S OPENING SPEECH   One GOP Member Claims President Hints at Fourth Term

Prospects For U nity In Legislature   Senate Is In Recess Today, Reconvenes Monday

Paves Way for Harmony in Congress   Political Leaders See Conciliatory Tone in Chief Executive’s Address

CONGRESS PONDERS CONCILIATORY TONE OF PRESIDENT'S TAL  Road-To-Victory Messag   Road-To-Victory Message Given Unusual Bi-Partisan Approval   ‘UNITY PROSPECTS GOO!

Congress Studies Message For Clues to Its Significance   One Member Views Roosevelt’s Report As Possible Bid for Fourth Term as President

‘CONCILIATION’ IS APPROVED IN FOR’S MESSAGE   References to Domestic Policies Noted as More Conservative   SENATE IS NOW IN RECESS   Republicans Get Greater Representation on Committees

Ponder FDR Unity Bid —   ‘See Influence of Conservative Advisors in .Conciliatory Speech

One Member  Views Talk As  4th Term Bid   Ponder Meaning of FDR Restraint on Domestic Issues

FOR’S SPEECH WINS APPROVAL OF LAWMAKERS   Address Seen as Long Step Teward Conciliation Unity

Congress Ponders Significance Of President’s Talk: Predict Message Will Go Far In Strengthening Unity

AUNGRESS PONDERS SIGNIFICANCE OF ROOSEVELT SPEECH   “Conciliatory” Tone of Road-To-Victory Message Noted and Commented Upon By Many Members of Both Houses Today.

CONGRESS NOTES ‘OLIVE BRANCH IN FDR MESSAGE   BOTH PARTIES SEE MORE PROSPECTS FOR UNITY

Republican Questions Whether Executive is After Another Term   'MAY BE OLIVE BRANCH

Le Mars Pioneer  Dies In St. Paul Mrs. Burg, Prominent Here In Early Days

Le Mars Pioneer — Dies In St. Paul  _ Mrs, Burg,. Prominent ; Here In Early Days

GOP Party Grout To Meet, Plan For 44 Platform   First Gathering of 49Leaders _ September 6-7

Republicans Will Meet at Mackinac      To Discuss 1944 Platform At Conference

Republican Party Leaders Will Meet In Michigan to Consider Main Planks for 1944 President’s Race

G. 0. P. Leaders Plan Meeting   Will Lay Foundatior for Party Platform

PARTY LEADERS 10 DISCUSS PLATFOR®   Republicans to Lay Nucleus for Platform Sept. 6, 7

REPUBLICANS PLAN MEETING TO MAP PLATFORM FOR 194   Party Leaders To Spend Two Days at Mackinac Is land, Michigan, as Guest of Gov. Kelly

Republicans to Meet in September to Make Plans For 1944 Party Platform

6.0. P. Leaders Plan Fall Meeting To Draft 1944 Platform Proposals

Over 300,000 Troops Hurled Into The Fray   Reds Reported.To Be Holding, While Pushing On Toward Vyazma   The War

SUSPECT IN JAY SLAYING JAILED   Charner M. Tidwell, Sought In Hammer Killing, Taken by a Posse

34 INDUCTEES OFF FOR ARMY TRAINING   Number Of Pre-Pearl Harbo: Fathers Included In Con. tingent Which Left Here This Afternoon ,

THIRTY-ONE MEN OFF FOR TRAININ(   Six Of Them Enter Seabees While Twenty-Five Join Navy——Were Inducted Last Week At Harrisburg

CHURCHILL MAY SHIFT CABINET   Post - War Legislative Program Planned For Britain

rvice Station ours Limited  ry   OPA Order Issued Effective Saturday

72-HR. WEEK DECREED FOR FILLING STATIONS   Government Says Operators Cannoi Remain Open More Than 12 Hours Daily

Filling Station Hours Limited   May Stay Open Net More Than 72 Hours Weekly

Service Station Business Hours  Fixed By Ickes   May Stay Open Not More Than Seventy-Two Hours A Week And Not More Than Twelve Hours A Day.

HOURS FIXED FOR SERVICE STATIONS   Dealers Limited to 12 Hours o Day, 72 Hours Per Week

Inflation Holds Chief Threat to  Fixed Incomes   House Majority Leader in Warning to Coneress of Current Dangers

New Warning Against Aids To Inflation   Congress Cautioned Against Opening “Floodtides”’

SEEKS TO AROUSE. CONGRESS, PUBLIC   Rep. McCormack in Warning -Against Releasing Great Flood-Tides of Inflation   SEVERAL MEASURES BEFORE CONGRESS

OPEN FIGHT. UPON COSTS {9 NEARINE   Me Cormack Heard As Solons Get - ‘At Work

Warns Against Inflation As Congress Acts  Solons Prepare Ta Seattle lecna

CONGRESS FACES ANFLATION EVIL   Four Bills Before Solons This Week Deal with Anti-Inflation Program

Senate Subcommittee Delays Any Action On Fulbright Peace Resolution for Week

Boise City Gets Practice’ Bombs, No One Injured   Citizens More Curious Than Concerned After Small Damage Reported

Windows in Baptist Church Shattered And Hole Torn in Roof of Garage; No One Is Injured by Missiles, It Is Said

Target Missiles Hit Near‘ Courthouse, Smash Through Garage—But No. One Hears Explosion. 

Four Bombs Hit Oklahoma Town: No One Injured   ‘Missiles From. Service Plane Fall ‘Near Town-Squdre

Machinery Set In Motion To Increase Funds For Care Of Dependents

Kentucky Miners Asked To Work To Beat Hitler   90V. Johnson Appeals to Patriotism of Men on Strike

APPEAL MADE IN KENTUCKY   Gov. Johnson Asks Men To Return To Pits To Aid War

NEW BLOWS AT JAPS INDICATED   Nimitz, Halsey  And King In Naval Conference

Scarcify of Corn Alarms Stockmen  Feeders Worried Over Situation

FEED FOR LIVESTOCK THREATENED BY RAIN   Scarcity of Corn Is Feared In Flood-swept Areas

SCARCITY OF CORN CITED IN MID-WES!   Feed Manufacturers for Livestock, Poultry Issue Report

— utes In Heil—  Wounded A. P. Writer Gives Graphic Aeon Of Yank Landing At Nassat

BILL 1S REVISED   Proposal Would Let Osteopaths Administer Drugs in Kansas

Reds Menace NaziHoldn Dnieper Valley   Tanks Slog Ahead Despite Autumn Rains

RUSSIAN DRIVE BATTERS ENTIRE NAZI ARMY BACK   Reds Spread-eagle Advance Along 600-mile Long Front North from Sea of Azov   HITLER’S HORDE ON RUN   Rains Slow Progress in Ukraine But Attacks ‘Are Continuing

Nazi Retreat Reported On Entire Front   Germans’ Defense Line Is Broken In Central Ukraine

Vital Nazi Power Hub Threatened By Soviet Army   Russians Score New Gains In Drive To Kiev And Dnieperopetrovsk; Nazis In Retreat

NAZI HOLD ON DNIEPER [i$ ROCKED   Vital Power Hub, Dnieperopetrovsk, Threatened by Reds

 oviet Drive Rocks Nazis   Entire German Hold On Dnieper Periled

Warns Home-Front Optimists That War In Europe, Pacific Just Starting

Pope Prays For Peace To Cheer Italian People   Badoglio Keeps Up War Theme

ITALIAN PEOPLE CHEERED BY CALL FOR PEACE PRAYERS  hRARTIC Arn CAME AC   POPE'S ACTION CAME AS GERMAN HOLD ON ITALY CROWS WEAKER

Meet May 27 to Select New County Supt.   To fill vacancy of Roy Johnston on a Jeave of absence.

Russian Troops Penetrate Into German Lines   Series Of Bloody Thrusts Reported In Progress On Moscow Front   HAND-TO-HAND BATTLES ENSUE

RUSSIANS SLAY il) GERMANS: SEIZE HEIGHT   Reds Enter Trenches and Battle Foe in Hand to Hand Fight

Thousands Quit In Protest Over WLB Wase Order   “Soft Coal Operators, UMW Meet To Discus:  Aaenev's Decision

UNION, MEET AS STRIKES SPREAD    Discuss WLE No Raise Ruling As Lewi, Deadline Nears

COAL SITUATION AGAIN DISCUSSED   Conference Set at Time When Wildcat Strikes Begin Over Coal Field.

Court Martial DemotesHead  of Air Base   Col. William T. Colman Found Guilty of Unbecoming Conduct, Made Captain

BURNS FATAL   : Paralstic Dies After Pipe Sets : Tire ia His Robe.

POSTWAR POLICIES MAPPED QUT-BY EOF   Party Warned Against Returning to Stuffed Shirt Isclationism.

GOP Group Formulates Peace Ideas   Warned Against Narrow-Minded Isolationists and New Deal

Outline G. 0. P.  Postwar Policy   To Spangler for Approval; Speak Out Against Isolationism

Nazi City Is Bombed By Soviets   East Prussian Town Hit; Raid On Berlin Seen

HUGE BOMBERS BLAST GERMAN U-BOAT LAIRS   Canadian Airmen Join In Heavyweight Assault On Wilhelmshaven Submarine Nest   MOONLIGHT AIDS LARGE RAF FORCE   Reich Planes In Night Raids On Scottish Towns Scattered Time Bombs

American Pianes  Smash at Reich  Bomber Fleets Give Germany the One-Two Punch

INSURRECTION SHUTS BOEING PLANE PLANTS   Government Is Given Until Next Sunday Midnight To Yield To Union’s Wage Demands.   Plans For Extension

Rostov, Kharkov Are Threatened By Soviet Army   Invaders Are Cleared  From Caucasus Fronts

HARD REALITY COMES HOME TO ROOST IN BERLIN   German Communique Ends Pretense At Voronezh: Whole Eastern And Central Caucasus Clear ed Of Invaders.

Interpreting The War   Counter Offensive By Germans Is Slowinae Down

Shatter Five Bottles Without Miss — Dionnes Christen Cargo Vessels

QUINTS LAUNCH CARGO VESSELS   Tradition Shattered by Famous Children

NO DADS 10 BE CALLED BEFORE OCTOBER    Enough Non-Fathers Left to Last Until That Time

YOUTHS SLOW FATHERS’ GALL   Draft Officials Determine No Dads Enter Service Before Oct. 1

hile DRAFT. “TO COME LAST   SELKO TIVE SERVICE EST . MATES NO FATHERS WILL BE DRAFTED BEFORE _ OCTORER,

American Troops Press Forward   Air And Naval Forces Skirmish In Solomons

YANKSPRESSING AGAINST FOB ON GUADALCANAL         JAP REPORTS DENIED   Tokyo Claims Engagement Underway; American Fliers Score Against  the Enemy ©

RESCUE 31 YANKS TRAPPED A WEEK   INFANTRYMEN, CAUGHT IN GERMAN ADVANCE, HID IN HOLES UNTIL HELP CAME,

They Still Clung To Their Rifles.....  oi U.S. Soldiers Safe  ‘ After Hiding In Midst Of Germans For A Week

Murder Charges Filed Against Five Convicts   Building Tender Stabbed to Death

WLB Note To Presiden Urges Full U. 5. Power Be Used In Coal Strike   Enforcement Of Contract With Special Wage Adjustments-Asked; Lewis, Ickes End Second Conference

Red Cross To Give Water Safety Instructors Course July 19 to%24   Representatives Expected From Several States

LEADERS WANTED FORWATER SPORTS   Apply If You’re 19.Or: Ov and In Good Physical Condition.

Clark Gable Is Tn Air Raid On Antwerp Plants   Film Star Takes Part In American Fliers’ Sortie Into Enemy Country

GANGMEN KILLINGS LISTED AS SOLVE!   Two Ex-conviets, Und Arrest in Chicago, Con: fess Crimes

CHICAGO GAMING BOSSES KILLED   Rare Confessions Solve Murders; Ex-Convicts Under Arrest

ENEMY CRUISER, TWO DESTROYER SENT TO BOTTON   Carrier and Land-Based U. S. Planes Also Bag 88 Japanese Aircraft

SINK OR DAMAGE (5 JAP WARSHIPS, 88 PLANES   OUT OF 70 JAP PLANES ATTACKING AMERICAN CARRIERS, ONLY SIX GOT AWAY, WITH NO HITS SCORED

1942 Corn Loans Might Be Called   Action Would Force Grain on Market

See Deadlock On Tex Plans  In Congres:   House, Senate Leaders Standing Pat On Their  Proposals; Treasury Proceeds With Plans

Senate Coalition Votes Tax Abatement Despite Administration Opposition

Senate Votes Ruml Pian Bill By 48-3] Tally   Administration’s Tax Proposal Is Beoten Down

Senate Passes New Tax Bill: Deadlock Looms   House Expected To Object to Terms of Measure

SEE DEADLOCK ON TAX PLANS   Abatement Question Looms As Block to Quick  Passage

PREDICT DEADLOCK OVER ABATEMENT OF PART INCOME TAXES  DIFFERENCE OF 25 PER

Pay-as-You-Go Tax Legislation Faces Congress Deadlock   House Will ill Fight Ruml Plan Adopted Last Night by Senate

Deadlock on Alternate Tax Bills Certain   Abatement Featu re Source ‘of Contention— Backers ‘Standing Pat’   Here Are Chief Differences Between Two Tax Measures:

DEADLOCK LIKELY TO DEVELOP ON TAX PLAN   House and Serate Stand Pat on Their Separate Plans.

DEADLOCK LOOMS OVER PAY AS YOU GO LEGISLATION  HOUSE AND SENATE   HOUSE AND SENATE SPOKESMEN STAND PAT ON TWO PLANS

Senate OKs Full Year Abatement   Last 25 Percent Forgive ness Item Is Stumbline Block in Congress

Predict Showup On Taxe:   House and Senate Spokesmen Stand Pat on Plans

Deadlock Looms On Income Taxes   House and Senate Spokesmen Stand Pat on Plans

Tax Fight Goes Back - To House   Senate-Approved Rum! Plan May Encounte: Strong Opposition In House Next Week

DEADLOCK SEEN OVER TAX PLAN   House and Senate Spokesmen Stand Pat On Their Separate Plans; Withholding Taxes Seem Sure To Start July 1.

Senate Ruml Tax Bill Is  Sent to House   Opponents Predict Another Deadlock Over Measure

Deadlock on Abatement Looms in Pathway of Income Tax Legislation

Conaress in Tax Deadlock   Senate, House Differ On Abotement Sum; Compromise Dubious

Deadlock Over Pay-As-You-Go System Looms  Differences May Go To Conference

_ House- Senate “Deadlock Over  » lax Plan Looms   Upper Chamber Votes A Year’s Skip; House May Not Accept It.

DEADLOCK LOOMS IN TAX PROGRAM, SHOWDOWN COMING   House and’ Senate Agree on ~ Withholding Levy; Disagree on Abatement

SENATE - HOUSE TAX MEASURES TO CONFERENCE   Deadlock Over Abatement of 25%. of Year’s Income Levies and Ruml-Like Plan Predicted   BOTH STANDING PAT   Senate Passes Modifiec Ruml-Flavored Plan 49 to 30 Against Opposition of  _ Administration

House-Senate Deadlock Seen On Tax Plans   Extent of Forgiveness ‘Chief Point at fesue Between Branches

Compromise Will Be Difficult.....  Tax Abatement Faces Deadlock In Capitol

SENATE GROUP SEEKS DELAY IN SUBSIDY FIGHT   Banking Committee Proposes 60 Day Postponement of Showdown to Try Compromise   REFUSES FLAT BAN   Likewise Defeats by 11 to 5 Vole Compromise Plan Proposed by Senator Taft

Food Subsidy Bill Gets .60 Days of Life  To Try To Work Out Compromise

WAR MANPOWER FUNDS REFUSED   Senators Reject McNutt's Plea for Employment Service Work

Exiled Rulers Broadcast Order To Defy Germans   First Counsel — so Of Outricht Violence   First Counsel Of Outright Violence  By Government FACE REIMPRISONMEN’  Entire European Continent Rumbling

Dutch Urged To Defy Nazi: Nazi: Orders, “Defend” Selves In Unprecedented Inetructione

Ex-Servicemen Of Holland Are Uraed to Resist   Exiled Government Tells Them to ‘Defend’ Themselves

Dutch Urged To Resist by Exiled Rulers   Government in Londor Advises Violence for First Time

Dutchmen Told To Defy Nazis   Registration Order Issued by Germans: Resistance Hardens

HOLLANDERS TOLD TO DEFY THE AXIS   Unprecedented Order Is. sued by Dutch Govern. ment-in-Exile

400,000 Ex-servicemen Of Holland Are Told To  Defy New German Order

DUTCH SOLDIERS ARE CALLED UPON TO RESIST NAZIS   Holland Government ia London Urges Armed Uprising Against German Registration Order.    TROUBLES STIRRING IN CONQUERED LANDS   Entire Continent Rumbles as Hitler Stands on DefenSive for First Time in War.

Dutch Ordered     Reaisration   Told to Defend Themselves Against Arrest, Executions Continue

Dutch Are Urged To Resist Nazis   Ex-Servicemen Instructed In Action Against Germans: Other Countries Also Cause Trouble

Dutch Government Urges Outright Violence to Nazis   Holland’s 400,000 Ex-Servicemen Are Permitted to ‘“‘Defend” Selves Against New German Order

DEFY GERMAN ORDER, DUTCH TOLD BY RADIC   Unprecedented Instructions Given 400,000  Ex-Servicemen

Violence against Germans Urged b London Leaders   -adio Appeal To Holland. ers Increases Worries of Hitler   Men Told To Refuse Tt Obey Registration Order Today

Dutch Urged To Defy Nazi Orders, “Defend” Selves In  ITnnvecedented Instructions

Arms Output Toasted By Red Chief   Response to Unexpected Gesture Called Terrific

Stalin Credits American Production With Winning War for United Nations

Hitler Domain Is Marked For Knockout Blow   Further Disclosures Of Allied Battle Plans ’ Expected Soon   Victory Impossible Without American Production — Stalin

STALIN PRAISES U.S, PRODUCTION   Says American Output Ts Decisive Factor

3 Praises U. S.  lied Viahaby is Assured # By America’s Output, Stalin Ascerte

Text of Big Three  Neelaration   U.S. production lauded by Stalin

Couldn’t Win With-° _ poe af out. the Aid Given: “Admitted: by’ Stalin

Stalin Lauds U.S. Output   Could Not Win Without Tt. Russian Leader Says

"BIG 3” MAKES STATEMENT FOR PEACE AS WELI   Plans Of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt May Call For West Europe Or Balkans Invasion

—ARGENTINA —  ARGENTINA FACES DUBIOUS FUTURE   Prestige As Major LatinAmerican Power Is At ‘Stake

Argentina Slips As Latin Power  Storni Quits After Hull's Refusal To Grant Lend-Lease Aic

Argentina May Lose Prestige   Pro-Allied Foreign Minister Resignation Leaves Shaky Future

ARGENTINA SAID AT CROSS-ROADS   SUSPECTED OF BEING PRO-AXIS, NATION'S LEADERS FACE CRISIS

Resignation Causes Crisis In Argentina   Pro-United States Foreign Minister Quits Ramirez Cabinet   FUTURE IS.. UNCERTAIN

Argentina’s Position Doubtful After Storni Quits Foreign Ministry

ARGENTINA LOSES PRO §. MINISTE   Foreign Minister Resigns Post Following Hull’s Refusal of Lend Lease Aid

Argentina Faces Uncertain Future   Prestige At Stake As Minister Quits

STORNI LEAVES FOREIGN OFFICE   Argentina’s Foreign Minister Leaves Office After Hull’s Refusal}.

ARGENTINA'S FUTURE NOW IN BALANCE   Foreign Minister Resigns Thurs. After Rebuff

Fine Homes For Prison Officials For S15 Rental   Keeton Arnett Says Group Reduced Own Rent on Residence

Prison Officials Get Cheap Rent   Pay the Ridiculous Low Price of $15 a Month, Says Keeton Arnett.

Hull Marks 72nd Birthday Resting  Awaits Assignment To Historic Conference

Hull Celebrates 72nd Birthday by Resting for One of His Biggests Jobs

Hull To Leave For Europe To Attend Parley   Secretary Of State Expected To Confer With British And Soviet Heads

HULL RESTS ON 72ND BIRTHDAY   AWAITS ASSIGNMENT THAT MAY TAKE HIM TO LONDON, MOSCOW

Eisenhower Offers Peace To Italians if They Cease Giving Aid fo Nazi Forces   Rumors Indicate Clashes Between  German and italian Soldiers; Bedocaito Crack« Dawn an Eacricte

Cease Aid to Nazis,  Eisenhower Advises  Nation Told to Rid Self of Ally; Terms Already Handed Badoglio

New Cabinet Also Frees All Political  Prisoners   Action Believed Move ° Along Line Favored By Allies In Demand For Immediate Surrender

BADOGLIO MAKES MOVE TO LESSEN ITALIAN TENSION   Fascist Leaders Are Arrest: ed, Political Prisoners Re: leased, Deputies To 8 Elected.   WHEREABOUTS OF MUSSOLINI STILL MYSTERY   Americans Take Three More Sicily Cities In Drive East: ward, Yanks Fly 80 Miles From Berlin.

All Political — Prisoners Under  Duce Rule Freed   Promise New Chamber To Be Named After Hostilities Are Ended

ITALY CALLS HOME 26 DIVISIONS IN FRANCE, BALKANS      '75,000 Troops En Route Tg   Brenner Pass To Halt Flow Of Gertnans   Inte Italy.

RUME REGIME PUTS FAablold UNUER ARREST   Duce’s Political Prisoners Being Liberated Today By Badoglio Orders

Fascist Chiefs Arrested By Badoglio Aides   All Political  Dutennore nf

Italy To Have New Chamber Of Deputie:   Badoglio Arrests Several Fascist Leaders And Orders Liberation Of  _ . Prisoners Of Mussolini

INITIAL OFFER IS FORWARDED 10 ROME OFFICIALS   Immediate and . Honorable Peace Are Terms—Believe' Action Now in Proagress.

Gestapo Seizes Albert Lebrun  Former President Of France Arrested

MAXIMUM PRICES SET FOR BUTTER   Move Is Made To Check Black Market Activity.

Militarists Put Castillo Into Flight (nRebellion   Relation With Axis Blamed For Act In Uprising

Insurgents Occupy _ Buenos Aires   Castillo Flees to Warship; Revolt Led by Former War Minister Reported'a Succese

Fleeiig Reactionary President Said To  Have Taken Office To a Naval Croft

Neutrality Policy Long fa Dispute   President Refuses to .Quit, However; Transfers His “Government to Warship   ® REVOLT APPEARS TO BE A. SUCCESS   Not Entirely Clear. as to ‘Whether the Move Is:Def ps nitely. Pro-Allied

MILITARY LEADERS ARGENTINE ENGINEER SUCCESSFUL COUP  TROOPS DIRECTED BY MINISTER OF WAR SWARMED INTO CAPITAL

Coup D'etat Ousts Argentine President   Chase Castillo, Who Refused to Break Relations With Axis, From Capital; Seat Of His Government Moves to Warship.

Enforcement of Ceilings Ordered   Brown Cites Need For 1,400 Investigators

Fathers’ Draft Bill Is Doomed   Substitute Will Hi Foderal Worker<e

SENATE TO OPEN DRAFT DEBATES   Substitute For Father Deferment Bill Is Gaining Ground

Wheeler’s Bill Banning Father prank Coes Hh Other Approaches te  Problem Aired. by Congressmen

WHEELER DRAFT BILL 1S DOOMED IN THE SENATI   Senator Bailey Sponsoring Bill To Induct Govern ment Employes   POLL TAX REPEAL IS BACK IN CONGRESS

WHEELER BILL TOBAN FATHER DRAFT DOOMED   Bailey Opens Fight to /Get Government Em alowes in Service

CHANCES POOR AS CALL BILL GOES TO SENATE   Sup port Developing For Substitute .

Don't-Draft-Dads Bill Believed Doomed in Senate  Support Seen for New Measure to Induct Government Employe

Bailey Bill  On Inducting U.S. Employes Gets Support   Would Steer Many Government Workers Into Armed Forces   WHEELER MEASURE APPARENTLY DOOMED   APPrARENILY DOOWIE!  Bill Banning Draft Of Dads Up in Senate « For Debate Today

Wheeler Draft Bill Is Facing Rocky Journey   Substitute Measure Will Deny Deferment To Federal Workers

Fathers’ Draft Bill Faces  Test in Senate   Wheeler Will Push For Passage; Defeat Predicted

SENATE TO BEGIN DEBATE ON FATHER DRAFT BAN TODAY   Proposal Appears Doomed, but Wheeler Expects to Continue Fight for Measire.   SUPPORT DEVELOPS FOR BAILEY SUBSTITUTE   It Is Designed to Place Thousands of Government Employes Into Armed Services.

Draft Bill Up Before Senate fo Debate Today   Indications That Measure Is Doomed; Substitute Ready

Federal Workers Draft Wins Aid   Defeat of Father Deferment Is Seen

FATHERS’ DRAFT BAN I$ DOOMED   Substitute Bill Designed To Steer Government Men Into Service

No Action On Farm Deferment   CONGRESSIONAL BLOC OPPOSES CHANGE IN LAW

SENATE COMMITTEE POSTPONES VOTE ON FARM WORKERS  Selective Service  Officials Join War  Department in QOnnosirne Measure

Farm Deferment Vote Postponed   War Department Joins in Opposition  To Measure

Farm Draft Showdown Postponed   Selective Service Expert Will Testify Before Senate Group

SEEK TO GALL MANPONER IK WAR SERVICE   Contest Between Military and Farmers Becoming More Qpen.   'CONGRESS ABOUT EVENLY DIVIDED   Deferment of Farm Workers Is Doubtful Issue and Under Attack.

Farm Deferment Showdown Vote Due Late Today   Selective Service Officials Join Opponents Of  Meacure.

Senate Military Committee Will Hear Testimony Of Col. Lewis Sanders

POSTPONE ACTION ON MANPOWERBILL   SELECTIVE SERVICE EXPERT TESTIFIES BEFORE COMMITTE

Selective Service Joins Opposition Tk. Halt Of Farm Worker Inductions

Delay Vote On Farmer Deferment   Committee Decides tc Hear Draft Expert Before Ballot

Vote On Farm Workers Bill Delayed Again   Committee Decides t+< Hear Selective Service Expert   OPPOSITION GROWING

Delay Showdown On Farm Workers   Senate Committee to Hear Testimony on Induction of Farm Help.

Delay Showdown  On Farmer Draft  Member Of Selective Service Staff Speaks Refare Salang«

TEST FOR NAVAL OFFIC. ERS TRAINING WILL BE GIVEN AT DELPHI SCHOOL

NAVY T0 CHOOSE MEN TO SCHOOL FOR OFFICERS  1i- “21 Year Old Men qc  poy Seager g) RANG! Aree gee ee   17-21 Year Old Men May Seek Appointment For College Training

CHILD STRANGLED BY MENTAL PATIENT; ‘ MOTIVE IS SOUGH   eee  Doll Similarly ‘Strangled’ Is Found in Next Room

CHILD SLAYING MOTIVE SOUGHT   Psychology Angle Studied In Weird Murder tn Cincinnati

WOMAN ADMITS STRANGLING TOT   Garroted Doll Found In Apartment With Dead Child

F. D. Throop. publisher of Star, is dead   Lincoln leader ill long time

Frank D. Throop. Star's Publisher. Taken By Death   Business and Civic Leader Was National Figure In Newspaper World

Frank D. Throop Dies at Lincoln   Born in Henry County; Member of I.W.C. Board

COMMITTEE MAKES TAX STUDY FINDS   Says \overnment Should Get Out of Vehicle Field

Believe That Federal Government Should Tax Aviation Gasoline Only

HITLER ATTEMPTS 10 STRIKE BORIS   Adolf Loses Temper in Parley When King Stands ry

ROW WITH HITLER CAUSE OF KING BORIS’ HEART ATTACKS   ‘Reports Reaching Turkey Claim Fuehrer Attempted  To Strike Monarch In A Fit Of Rage At Latter’s Refusal To Break With Russia

King Boris Gravely Ill   Bulgarian Monarch Stricken After Unpleasant Visit with Hitler

For Second Time In Year Government Takes Over Operation Of Coa! Mines

GOVERNMENT SEIZES MINES   Union Leaders Face Severe Penalties 1 Strike  Continues

Government Takes Over Mines Again  Back-To-Work Call For Coal Miners Likely

Pits Seized Second Time Within Year   Union Policy Committee Meets Late Today to Make Decision   RETURN IS) LIKELY   Ickes Authorized tg Enter Into Bargaining Contracts

GOVERNMENT TELLS MINERS TO DIG COAL   Takes Contro! O Mines Second Time In Year

Union Leaders Face 2 Angles In Mine Strife   May Order Strikers “Dig” Or Face Heavy Penalties Under War Disputes Act

UMW’s Policy Committee Meets To Discuss Action           Back-to-work Order Conside : able; Delay May Mean swecla  Panaltiac

Coal Mine s Taken Over By Government With Order To Dig Coal Or Face Penalty   Disposition Of War Material Is Worrying Small Business

Union Must Tell Men To Dig Coal Or Face Possible Punishment   rolicy Committee To Meet Late Today: Ickes Will Try To Make Agreement With Miners

THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER COAL MINE OPERATION   This Is the Second Time This Year Such Action Has Been Taken.   COMMITTEE IN SESSION   Union Leadership Must Act at Once and Order Miners Back or Face Penalty.

NATION WAITS DECISION OF UNION CHIEFS   Two - Hundred -Man Policy Committee Meets Late Today To Formulate Plans   LEWIS STILL SILENT

Seize Coal  Mines   Government Takes Over Operation Again When UMW Postpones Action

MINE LEADERS FACE PROBLEM UNDER LAW   Face Possibility Of Penaltios If They Fail To Act

U. S. To Operate Coal Mines Again      SECOND TIME THIS YEAR THAT GOVERNMENT STEPS IN

John L. Lewis by Delaying Decision for Day Forces Issue and President Roosevelt Orders Government Seizure of Mines

Strike-Paralyzed Coal Mines Taken By US 2nd Time   Unions Must Either Resume Work Or ‘Face Penalties For Idleness

Nation’s Mines Seized By Government; Decision By Coal Union Is Awaited

Government Takes Over Coal Mines   Policy Committee Meets Late Today To Make Choice

Ickes Given Power Over New Contraet   Government Seizes Mines—Lewis  Meets With Men

Orders Ickes To Negotiate Labor Pact   Mines Will Fly VU. S. Flag; Calls Miners Back to Jobs Tomorrov

UMW Decision On Whether Tc End Strike Or Face Penalty Awaited As U. S. Seizes Mines   Back-To-Work Order Expected After Action Of FDR In Assuming Control

Allies Menace Axis in Faid Pass; Thrust Beyond Sbeitla   Reveal Rommel Had Personally Commanded Men in Kasserine Pass _ By VIRGIL PINKLEX

Axis Position at FaidPassMenacec   Allies Regain Area Lost Before

“Desert Fox” Forced Te Retire From Kasserine Pass: Faid Pass Next

Allies Push. Toward Vital Faid Pass   Montgomery Builds Strength in South for Attack

ALLIED ADVANCES MENACE FAID PASS POSITION OF AXIS   Push Back. Across’ Ground ‘Over Which They Had . Retreated During , “ Rommel's Push

AXIS ‘POSITION IN TUNISIA MENAGED      Allied Aviators Continue to Hound Remnants of 14Ship Jap Cenvoy.

AMERICAN, BRITISH TROOPS PUSH ON IN NEW THRUSTS TODAY      Move Forward South and Southeast of Sbeitla Menacing Axis Positions.

Allied push menaces axis in Faid pass   Yank-British victory gained  over ‘fox’ self

VITAL AXIS DEFENSE POSITIONS IN TUNISIA MENACED BY ALLIES   Yanks, British Fan Out From Sbeitla To Thrust At Faid Pass; Reveal Rommel Led Drive That Backfired

BRIT., AMER. UNITS MENACE FAID PASS   Push South of Sbeitla In Tunisian Area

ALLIES PUSH ON TOWARD FAID PASS AFTER VICTORY   Rommel In Personal Command of Beaten Forces At Kasserine.

CHARGE AT KASSEDINE   Allied Troops Push on Southeast, South of Sbeitla

Allies Thrust Beyond Sheitla Toward Faid Pas:      Three Small Enemy Attacks In North Turned Back

ALLIES MENACE ~ VITAL POSITICN TN TUNISIA AREA   Rommel Personaily In Charge Of Battle Of Kasserine   BRITISH TURN BACK ATTACKS tN NORTH

Roosevelt Takes Over Coal Case, Calls Parley   All Contract Negotiations Are Ordered Halted, Banning Any Pact Made Under ‘Strike Coercion’

STEEL PRODUCTION IS IN NEED OF COAL   Output Will Drop Unless a Flow of Coal to Steel Plants Is Maintained.

Steel Output Is Periled--Nelson   WPB Chief Cites Threat of Coal Stoppage

TEMPERATURES:   WLB Orders Operators "Lewis To Cease Nenotiations

THREE DIF OF POISONING   Sharp Drop In Steel Production Forecast

: Steel Faces A Production Cut--Nelson   - + Unless Coal Delivered

Order Negotiations Stepped While Miners Are Still Gn Strike.   CONTINUE CONFERENCES

‘Production Of U.S. Steel Faces Drop   Lack of Coal to Bring Paralysis of Production Program

Nazis Thrown Back By Reds   Losses Are Inflicted On Nazis Near Kuban

Germans Fail To Gain Against Red Defenses   Nazi Infantry, Tanks And Airplanes Are Thrown In Attacks In Kuban Area

HULL, EDEN READY FOR ‘PLAIN TALK’   Will Lay Cards On Table At Moscow Parley

Hull and Eden May Be Ready to Give Reds Real Info. On Invasion Plans

Secrecy Surrounding Area Ends  Alaska Delegate Assails Plan To Develop Canadian Oil Field

DRAFT BOARD SENDS 39 MORE TO MEADE   Second Contingent To Leave Hanover In New Year Forwarded To Reception Center This Afternoon

08 YOUNG MEN OFF FOR FORT MEADE   That Number Sent To Army Reception Center This Afternoon By York County Draft Board No. 4

ANXIETY DISPLAYED IN TOJ0'S ADDRESS TO JAPANESE GROUF   Defense Tone Is Apparent and Note of Desperation Seen by Observers.   RY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Anatyst (Ree. U. &. Pat. Office)

Today’s War  Moves   (Reg. U. S. Pat. Office) By LOUIS F, KEEMLE TImitad Drese War Analyst

WAR NEWS ANALYSIS   Tojo’s Speech Reveals Growing Jap Anxiety ver War's Course

Purple Heart to Be Awarded at  Ceremony Here  Pvt. James M. Gill Will Receive Pacthumaus Award

Purple Heart to Be Awarded at  Ceremony Here  Pvt. James M. Gill Will Receive

STRIKE LAW: ~ FACING TEST   SHUTH-CONNALLY. LAW: WILL } CHALLENGED ‘IN. COURTS _AT TRIAL OF MINERS”

Red Airmen Pour Bombs On Nazi Dromes  Strike Heavily At Usual Spearpoint O'

SOVIETS SMASH NAZI AIRFIELDS   Reds Also Report Three Enemy Ground Attacks Turned Back

Soviet Fliers Drop 600 Tons of  Bombs on Enemy  Airfields Are Struck; Many Planes and Hangars Damaged

Russians Make Major Attack On Luftwaffe   More T! han 600 Tons of Bombs Are Dropped on Nazi Airdromes

Red Bombers ' Hit Airfields   Heavy Raids Continues On Luftwaffe Bases

Russians Blast Nazi Airdromes   Blast German Air Fleet and Smash Three Ground Blows

Russ Pound Nazi Air Flee!   600 Tons of Bombs Rain on Dromes; 3 Ground Thrusts Haltec

SOVIETS BLAST NAZI AIRPORTS   More Than 600 Tons Of Bombs Dropped; Reds Lose Two Planes

HEAVY BLOWS ARE STRUCK AT NAZI AIRPOWER   Three German Ground Attacks Smashed Back

REDS POUR 600 TONS OF BOMBS ON NAZI BASES   Large Formations of Long: Range Aircraft Shower Airdromes With Both Explosives and Incendiaries.   FORCES REPULSE THREE ENEMY TROOP ATTACKS   Infantry Assaults, Made in Rostov and Lisichansk Areas, Result Is Heavy  Losses to Hitlerites.

Events Reveal  Hitler Is In Quandary   Quiet on Atlantic Indicates Germans Have Assigned Most of Their Subs to Check Allies in Mediterranean

GERMANS HAVE 11 DIVISIONS IN YUGOSLAVIA   Heavy Battle Waged Along Vital Railway

Allies Smash Across ltalian Front as Nazis Move Army Ur fo Meet Yugoslav Guerrillas   German Counterattacks in Italy Repulsed; Believe Rommel Faces Drive by Liberation Army to Seize Sava River and Vital Rail Line

Germans Hurl Army Of 21 Divisions Against Yugoslavs   Battlefront Is Now Comparable in Size To That in Italy; Two Top Nazi Generals Are Assigned to Operation

Germans Bolster Yugoslav Front   Tito’s Men Faced By 21 Divisions

LANG FORGE NAZIS TO Vat MORE TROOPS   Reports Say Germans Have 21 Divisions Facing Guerrillas.

Slavs Force Foe to Form  ‘Third Front   Diversion of 21 German Divisions ta Yugoslavia te Daan neasl

Germans Form Regular Front Against Slavs   Report 21 Axis Divisions Under Two Top Generals Fight Guerrillas.   KEY RAILWAY BROKEN

Two Top Germans  Fight Yugoslavs  Marshal Von Weichs. Rommel Guide Troops

21 NAZI DIVISIONS SENT TO YUGOSLAVIA   Germans Open Major Front to Battle Guerrillas — Two Top Generals in Command.

FARM CO-OPERATIVES WIN ~ IN DRIVE FOR EXPANSION   HOUSE PASSES BILL FEEBOTTING CO-OFS TO OFFER MORE TYPES GF SERVICES

HOUSE APPROVES C0-OP MEASURE   81 to 42 Vote Dispatches Bill to Senate for Concurrence

lowans Led Nation In E, F. G Bonds   Average Per Capita $47.73 in 3rd Drive

Repatriates Hint of Long Pacific War   Urge Americans to Try to Get Rest of Countrymen Back, Jans Confident

REPATRIATES HEADING HOME   Gripsholm: 1,494. Passetigers See Long Bit“ter Struggle :

REPATRIATES SEE LONG PACIFIC WAR   DECLARE MORALE OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE STILL HIGH

Grim View Of Jap War   Repatriates from Far East See Long, Hard Struggle in Pacific

INTERNEES FROM JAPAN SEE LONG WAR WITH NIPS   Some Predict The Japs* Will Keep on Fighting for At Least Five More Years

Long War Seen  By Exchangees   Japs Will Fight 5 Years,  Newsman Believes

American Repatriates Declare Jap Morale Still High and Predict Long War; Say Other Internees Suffer

BRITISH ARMY FALLS BACK IN BURMA FIGH1   Withdraws from Maungdaw to New Positions “More Suitable for Defense; Communique Says

Here Is The First Chapter Of Different Kind Of Story Of Mystery And Love With Backdrop Of Wartime Plots

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Administration Plans Payments   Will Subsidize Cost of Living Products

WIFE SEES CHASE, CAPTURE OF MATE   Police Claim Blonde Attempts Suicide After Her Apprehension

P Drops Court tle Against con Tobacco   lan Constitutional mendment to Insure eferendum Rights

Treasury and Justice Departments Seeking Facts on Liquor Shortage

Liquor Probe Is Approved By Treasury   Justice Dept. Already Investigating To See If Scarcity Is Genuine

Federal Units Approve — Liquor Probe   Justice, Treasury Departments  Welcome Inquiry

PEAK OUTPUT IS REPORTED   6,200 Planes Produced In April: Over 100 Liberty Ships

OUTPUT GROWS IN WAR PLANTS   Navy Plane And Vessel Completions Set New Record In April

Lewis Gives Terms Union ‘W ould Demand   Asks For A Wartime Labor Tribunal

Hankow Blasted By Yank Bombers   Shoot Down 35 Of 50 New Type Zeros In Raid On Jap Held Waterfront

POINT VALUES CUT THURSDAY BY OPA ORDER   Black-Eyed Peas Off Ration List By Action

Drastic Cut In Points Ordered In Some Foods   Black-Eyed Peas Are Taken From Rationina  ict

‘OPA Orders Cuts Ih Point Values.  Of Several Foods   Black-eyed'. Peas’ Taken ‘from Ration List: Soups and.-Frozen. Fruits and ‘Vesetables Redticed:

OPA Orders Cuts In Potnt: Values  Of Several Foods   Black-ey ed Peas as.) Taken from Ration List; Soups and Jfrozen Iruits and Vegetables Reduced.

OPA REDUCES POINT VALUES OF SOUPS AND FROZEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; BOOK NO. 3 SOON

Cut Point Values on Cerfain Items   New Regulations, In Effec Thursday, Affect Score of Things

POINT VALUES OF SOUPS ARE BEING REDUCED   Drastic Cuts Are Also Ordered For Frozen Fruits And Vegetables   CHANGE EFFECTIVE HERE TOMORROW

roints heduced On Frozen Fruits  And Vegetables  Canned and Dried Soups Lowered By New OPA Order  SALES LAGGING

CUT POINT VALUES OF SOME FOQDS   CANNED AND DRIED SOUPS, ’ FROZEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AFFECTED.

UPA MAKES GUT IN POINT VALUES   Orders Reduction on Canned and Dried Soups, Frozen Fruits and Vegetables; Removes Black-eye Peas

OPA CUTS RATION POINTS OF SOUPS AND FROZEN FOOD   Most Reductions Cut Coupon Cost of Affected Items in Half

POINT VALUES OF SOUPS CUT   Frozen Fruits. Reduced Also, Effective On Thursday

Drastic Cut In Points Ordered In Some Foods   ‘Black-Eyed Peas Are Taken From  Dattianwinn  ten

OPA Cuts Some Point Values  Dry Peas Off List; Other Foods Reduced

POINT VALUES (UT ON CANNED SOUPS   Few Coupons Also to be Needed for Frozen Articles

Ration Values Of Soups, Frozen Fruits To Be Cul   Drastic Reduction, Ordere: by OPA, Is Effective Tomorrow

Berlin Blasted Again By Fliers   Bombed For Third Night in a Row

Allies Continue Plane Assaults   See Huge Formations Crossing Channel

RAF AGAIN BLASTS BERUN, YANKEE FLIERS IN FRANCE   German -Capita] Raided For Third Successive Night by Mosquito Bombers—American Planes Hit Airfields

HUGE FORCE OF DAYLIGHT RAIDERS OFF   No Planes Missing _ From Night Attacks; Nantes Heavily Hit

MOSQUITOS BLAST AT BERLIN   Allied Bombers Cross Southern English Coast To Continue Attacks Today = ‘-

RAF BOMBERS BLAST BERLIN   Last Night’s Attacks Followed by New Ones This Morning

Allies Strike Nazi Targets  In New Blow: Berlin Gets Firs Respite In Four Evenings

NAZI CAPITAL BLASTED THIRD STRAIGHT NIGHT   Residents Kept Crouching in Air Raid Shelters as Swift Mosquitos Sting  Metrapoalis   ALL PLANES RETURN TO BRITAIN BASES   American Force Keeps Up Attack by Daylight, Hitting German Airfield in France

Allied Bombers Carry Attack Into Fifth Day   American, British Raiders Hit Targets In France. Holland

Berlin Shudder:  in Blasts   MOSQUITOES RIP GERMAN HUB; NEW FORMATIONS ROAR TOWARD CONTINENT

BERLIN BOMBED FOR 3RD NIGHT   Big Yank Planes Over '  Fraice Today” ”

BOMB BERLIN THIRD NIGHT   Nazi Airfield Attacked At Beauvaistille In Northern France

Bombers Raid Berlin Third ‘Straight Night   Daylight Raids Continue Ceaseless Pounding of - Nazi Homeland

ALLIED RAIDS AREUNBROKEN   Round-The-Clock Attacks Lash Nazi Targets For Fifth Day

American Squadrons Make Sorties of Own Across Channel in ‘Round the Clock Raids

HIT BERLIN AGAIN   Alhed Air Forces Also Bomb German Installations In France

AXIS TARGETS HIT IN SUNDAY RAIDS   Round- the-Clock Offensive of Allied Fliers Continues

HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS STRUCK   Allied Round-the-Clock Offensive Against Europe In Its Fifth Day

BERLIN 15 BLASTED THIRD SUCCESSIVE NIGHT BY BOMBERS  DAYLIGHT BOMBERS WIT LICUTED DRATLCTION

Berlin, Dieppe Bombed By British, Yanks   Round-the-Clock Air Offensive’ In Fourth Day

Allies into fifth night of -attack   Daylight raids hit Lille base

Allies Strike Steadily at Nazi Targets   France, Holland Bear Brunt of Non-Stop Attack by Big Planes

BERLIN IS BLASTED BY LIGHT BOMBERS   Aroun d-the-c  ock Aerial Attack in Fourth Day

Allied Warplanes Smash at Europe  Targets in France, Holland Are Hit

NAZI CAPITAL RAIDED THIRD NIGHT IN ROW   As RAF Mosquitoes Keep Berliners in Air-Raid Shelters, Other Craft Attack German Transport in Brittany.

Air Offensive Resumes New Axis Attacks   Mosquitos. Tumble Germans Out of Beds; Big Bombers Head Toward Dieppe

RADICAL DESIGN ~-GARGO PLANESEF   Martin Concern Gets Patent on Type Eliminating: Present Worl

JAPS ADMIT HEAVY LOSS   Disastrous losses in Bis Marck Sea battle revealed on radio

Break Near In Relations With Finland   United States Demands Nation Retire from War

See Severance Of U. S.-Finland Relations Today   Little Possibility Of Change In. Poliey Indicated In ‘Advices From Helsinki

U. S., FINNISH BREAK NEAR, REPORTS SAY  Expect End Of ~ Relations Today

FINNISH ‘BREAK’ ~ WITH US, NEAR   Little Hope Looms For Step To Relieve Situation ©

U. S. MAY BREAK RELATIONS WITH LITTLE FINLAND   “Act Imminent As Finns Refuse To Change Attitude

U.S. - FINNISH BREAK APPEARS  AS IMMINENT   ‘Germany Reported Bringing Strong Pressure on Finns to Step Up War Acainsi Russia

U. S. Break With Finns  Exvected   Helsinki Dispatches See Little Possibility of Foreign Policy Change

SH ews BREAK Yanks Crack German  oF ew HOURS’  ine. Nazis in Retreat

BREAK BETWEEN U. S-FINLAND SEEMS IMMINENT   HELSINKI INDICATES LITTLE CHANGE IN FOREIGN POLICY

Report Finns Want Good Terms with America  as Nazis Apply Pressure

BREAK WITH FINS IMMINENT OVER FOREIGN POLICIES   “Finnish Public 1s Reported Disturbed But Officials Are Taking An Entirely Different View.   CHOICE IS NECESSARY BETWEEN COUNTRIES   ‘American Seeks Settlement  ' of Differences With Russia, Germans Make Demands For More Help.

Finland and U.S. May Break   Little Change Appears Likely in Finnish Policy, Reported

Break in Finn-American Diplomatic [Relations Believed to Be Imminent —

Finns Refuse to Change Nazi Policy   U. S. Request Finland. Make. Peace with Reds and With-. draws: Stumbling Block 

BREAK IN RELATIONS BETWEEN FINLAND AND U.S IMMINENT  HELSINKI ADVICES INDICATE LITTLE CHANCE FOR FASING STRAIN

Expect Finnish Break With U.S.   Relations Strained Or Russian-German Issue

BREAK WITH FINLAND IS FEARED NEAR   Stockholm Reports Public Deeply Disturbed Over Official Position of Nation   PRESSURE FROM BERLIN

Break Between US And Finland Due At Any Hou   Finns Refuse. Ta Change Foreign Policy, Stick To Axis

U. S.-Finnish Break Believed Imminent   Advices From Helsinki Indicate Little Possibility of a Change in Foreign Policy Which Might Ease the Situation.

U.o.FINLAND BREAK NEARS   Little Possibility of Change in Finn Foreign Policy ts Seen.

Finns Fear To  Offend Nazis   Diplomatic Break With U.S. ts Indicated

FINLAND SPURNS “AFINAL CHANCE TO AVOID BREAK   Diplomatic Relations With Helsinki May Be Severed by UU. S. Today

U.S.-Finland Break Seen AsImminent   Reports Circulate Relations Already Severed by America

Break Seen Near In U. S., Finn Relations   Nazis Put Pressure On Finland To Speed Military Efforts

U.S. And Finland Nearing Break   Helsinki Unwilling Ts Change [ts Policies

Finland Break Seen Imminent   Advices From Helsinki Indicate Little Change In Finnish Foreign Policy.

Believed by Many Observers Severance of Relations Only Matter of Hours .   HELSINKI NOT READY TO DESERT GERMANY   Not to Tie Noose Around Own Necks;” U. S. Charge D’Affaires Still at Legation

Break Between U. S., Finland Appears Imminent  Little Indication Shown That Nation To Change Policy

American Break with Finland Near Stockholm Reports as Finns Refuse To Ditch Nazis

severanee Of Diplomati Relations By U. S. : Held ‘Perhaps Only Matte Of Hours’

Fourth Annual 4H Club Mixer Here Tonight  Kiwanis Awards and  Pins fo Be Given st Calinnar fantar

Fourth Annual 4H Club Mixer Here Tonight   Kiwanis. Awards and - Pins fo. Be-Given af Selinger Center

‘QUAKE IN CALIFORNIA   Gently >waying Earth Tremors Pelt On Pacific Coast

300,000 Germans In Hasty Retreat   Enemy Forced To Abandon Heavy Equipment; Reds Hammer Out Gains Of Nine Milec

Russians Gain Nine Miles in. Period of Day   Fleeing Nazi Forces Appearin Danger’ ‘of Mator Disasier

Germans Flee Hastily From Gomel   Russians Smash Forward for Nine-Mile Gain

Force Hasty Retreat — From Gomel   Russian Guerrillas Setting Mines and Road Traps as Enemy Retreats Along Route To Minsk; Counter at Kiev Is Thrown Back

Soviets Push Nazis Back On Blazing Front   300,000 Retreating It Haste From Gomel A: Reds Gain 9 Miles Ir Single Day

NAZI THOUSANDS . POUNDED AS THEY FLEE GOMEL AREA   Reds Slash at Sides of Escape Corridor While Guerrillas Set Mines in Germans’ Path.   FOE ABANDONS STORES AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT   Soviets Carve Out New Salient in White Russia—Put Up Successful Defense of Kiev Bulge.

GUERRILLAS IN GOMEL SECTOR SETTING MINES   Road Traps Also Placed in Rear of Germans Who  Are Abandoning Equip-   ment and. Stores

300,000 NAZIS REPORTED IN FULL RETREAI   Soviets Punch®* Out New Salient Along Rerezina River

OUNIETS DANE AAEAD o Milt IN SINGLE DAY   Nazis Abandon Equipment, Stores In Hasty Retreat To Escape Trap

Germans Abandon Heavy Equipment In Race From Trap   Russian Spearheads Cut Outlet to 50 Mile Width For 300,000 Nazis

Fleeing Units Abandon Much Of Equinment   Harassed By Guerillas Nazis Give Up 9 Miles In 24 Hours

Reds Set Mines, Traps Ahead Of Heeing Nazis   Others Pound At Sides Of German

Reds Set Mines, Traps Ahead Of Fleeing Nazis   Others Pound At Sides Of German Escape Corridor

RUSSIANS MOP UP IN THRUST FROM GOMEL   FLEEING GERMANS PURSUED FOR NINE MILES

Huge German Force Routed: Many Trapped Mach Eaomen!  T.. VW. .i.. Ye

300.000 Nazis Abandon Arms In Gomel Area   British Eighth Army Slices Deeper In German Defense Svetem.   FIFTH ARMY GAINS

Reds Pursue As Guerrillas Sef Mines, Traps.   Nazis Abandon Stores And Equipment in  _ Hurried Retreat; Escape Road Hammered

Reds Flank Last Nazi. Defenses   Charging Russians Drive Forward In Kiev Salient

Guerrillas Set Mines And Traps At Enemy's Rear   Germans Abandoning Equipment In Hasty Flight From Soviets

Germans Abandon Equipment   Flee in Diserder _ Before Reds After *Giving Up Gomel

OPA Revises Its - Point Value On ~ Canned Fruit:   Point Value on Some Items Lowered, Others Raised; Approximately 50 Percent of Housewife’s Food Budget Rationed

ARE RAISED IN VALUE   Restrictions on Some Items Are  Lifted by OPA

Large Cuts, Boosts Mark Newest List   Effective Monday; Dehydrated Soups Receive Slash

Point Values For Juices Are Cut; Others Go Up   Raisins, Other Dried Fruits Go On Free List: Peaches Raised 3

FEW ITEMS ARE RAISED IN VALUE   Restrictions on Some Items Are Lifted by OPA

Point Values Revised For Canned Food   Drastic Slashes Listed on Number Of Items by OPA

Rejuggling ~ Point Ration __~ Announced   SOME ARE RAISED WHILE OTHERS REDUCED IN NEW SET-UP.

RATION POINT. ARE LOWERED ON SOME FOODS   Canned Fruit And Vegetable Juices Drop Considerably In New Coupon List   VALUES ARE INCREASED ON SEVERAL OF ITEMS   Meat Rations Start Monday With Red A Coupons Ready For Use

PLACES PASSED IN SWIFT PUSH   Capture Of Zhlobin Will Trap 20 German  Divisions

'TO STUDY LEGISLATION   Little Legislature Organization Was Completed at Meeting

Ud ADVANGE PERILS ENTIRE  DEFENGE LINE   Soviet Armies Drive West on Three Fronts Following — Triple Victory.   SMOLENSK NEXT ON RED SCHEDULE OF ASSAULT

Reds Moving Forward On Three Fronts   Third Major Victory in Two Days Announced By High Commahd 

Whole Front Sags Under. Red T hrusts   Germans ‘Face: Loss.. Of Smolensk Bastion: “Maséow: Joyv-Mad

SOVIET ARMY DRIVES DEEP INTO UKRAINE   Triple Victories Take Place _ Within Day But News Is  Held Back To Give Mos : cow Celebration   170 VILLAGES TAKEN

RUSSIANS PUSH WAY WESTWARD   Entire German Defense Sys tem Threatened

SOVIETS DRIVE ON SMOLENSK   Offensive On Three Fronts Threatens Entire Nazi Defensive System

Reds Smash Forward On Three Fronts   Enemy Defense System In East Is Threatened

Reds Threaten ‘ntire German Defenses Setup   Russian Forees Battering Ahead On All Fronts Without Pause.   DRIVE NEAR SMOLENSK

Russians Drive Westward In Three-Front Attacks; Near Nazi Smolensk Base

Russians Press Swift Advance Along 3 Fronts   Tremendous Drive Men. aces Entire Nazi Defense System In East.

Reds Advance On 3 Major Fronts; Near Smolensk   Nazi Defenses Fac Being Crushed g

Millions ‘Wasted In U.S. Payrolls   House Committee Reports on Survey

FEDERAL PAYRULL INFLATION CITED   Committee Blames Lack of Over-all Centralized Authority; Needless Hiring, Duplication of Effort Found

House Committee Finds Federal Payroll Inflated by Millions   ack of Centralized Au: ‘hority with Powers of Management Blamed

Claim Big Pay Roll Inflation   House Group Attacks Federal Job Policies

Government Pay Policies And Hiring  Are Assailed   U. S. Payroll Inflated By Millions of Dollars. House Committee Decides After Probe  POOR MANAGEMENT BLAMED BY GROUP  President Too Busy To Correct Situation, Report to House Says

STRENGTHENING OF NAVY = REVEALED BY SECRETARY   KNOX SAYS 150 WARSHIPS AND 700 PLANES FOR NAVY WERE COMPLETED DURING PAST MONTE

130 WARSHIPS, G00 AIRPLANES FOR OUR NAV}   February Was Greatest Production Month in History, Secretary Knox Declares Today

Complete 150 Ships, 700 Planes In Month   Foreshadows New Trouble For Axis

0 WARSHIPS JILT IN MONTH   : Says Navy Also Got 700 ghting Pianes, Praises New ‘Sub-Killers.’”

LIST CANDIDATES FOR SRD DISTRICT JUDGE   To Succeed Late Phil M. Crow of Lima

OPA ASKS LEWIS TO EXPLAIN TRIE   Investigates Reports UMWA Chief Violated Regulations By Driving To Illinois; Asks Itinerary

Board Findings Favor Equality In Freight Rates   Congress Asked. To Adjust Matter For Sarith Whack Arane

‘Russian Bombers Continue Mass  Raids On Nazis  ~ More Than 160  . Axis Planes Are Destroved

Huge Russian Air Assault Is Launched  Reds Destroy 16(  Planes In New  ammnainn

COMPROMISE ON RECIPROCAL PACTS PLANNED   Dirksen Proposal Provides Notice of Projected Treaties, Public Advisory Committee

COP SUPPORT FOR COMPROMISE PLAN MAY DULL DEBATE   House Argument Over Extend. ing -FDR’s Power to Ne. gotiate Foreign Trade Pact: May Be Less Fiery Than Believed :

Orders Inquiry Into Contracts  Will Check Terms of Airport Pacts

Brewster To Aid In Probe Of Airports   Truman Group Orders Inquiry

Aerial Trip Planned for 5 Senators   Truman Committee To Probe Status Of U. S. Airports

SAYS U.S. WILL LOSE AIRPORTS   Truman Probers Hit Con tracts for Fields on Foreign Soil

Inquiry Ordered In Deals on Foreign Airports   Truman Committee Urges Policy Assuring Postwar Use of Biolde Bujlt With American Cash

SENATORS 10 MAKE STUDY ONLONG TRIP   Inquiry to be Made Into American-Built Airports Abroad

MILITARY AIRPORT CONTRACTS 10 BE CHECKED BY TWO   Senator Truman Says Delegates to Make Inspection Are to Determine Postwar Users of Air Fields.   DELIVERY TO FOREIGN NATIONS 1S REPORTED   Use For Commercial Purposes Will Be Sought, Built For War Purposes With American Funds. 

JUGOSLAVS ARE FIGHTING NAZIS IN NORTH ITALY   All Communication Lines T Trieste Said To Have Been Cut

JUGOSLAV TROOPS BATTLING GERMANS IN NORTH OF ITALY   Fighting In ' Streets Of  ... :Trieste;. Ad?iatios-— + Gate To Austria, South Germany

JUGOSLAV SHOCK TROOPS BATTLE NAZIS IN TRIESTE   “German. G a rrigon Completely Cut Off From Reinforce ‘ments. Supplies

JUGOSLAV TROOPS ARE ~ FIGHTING IN TRIESTE   Shock Forces Penetrate More Than 25 Miles {nto Northern Italy and Tangle With Germans in _Adriatie Gateway to Austria from Southern  Germany, Unconfirmed Reports Reveal Today.

Single Agency To Direct Oil  Program Asked   Senators Investigating Midwest Fuel Shortage Seek Centralization.   COAL OFFICE SOUGHT

Counter-Hit Is Scored In Wake of Loss   NORTHEAST OF EVACUATED GAFSA, U-S TROOPS STRIKE BACK.

AMERICANS QUIT THEIR GAFSA BASE AFTER NAZI PUSt   U. S. Armored Forces Receiving Baptism of Fire on Flat Land.

U.S. ARMORED UNITS DEFEAT NAZI PANZERS   Assault Made West of Faid Where Ameri. cans Were Forced to Retire.

Gafsa Base In Tunisia Is Evacuated   Many Americans Getting Baptism Of Fire in Battle

EIGHTH ARMY TAKES TOWN IN TUNISIA   U. S. Airmen Raid Naples; Two Vessels Hit

U.S. Forces Rally, Slash Rommel Army   Veteran Nazi Troops Thrown Back 6 Miles In Counter Attack

OPA Won't Regulate Drawers In Stenographers Desks After All---Alraid Gf Public Ridiewe

OPA Decides Not to Regulate Size, Use of Drawers in Stenos' Desks

Prawers In Stenographers ‘ Desk Not To Be Regulated   Office of Price Administration Cancels Orders Because It Feels Public Would Not Understand Procedure and the OPA Would Be Held Up to Ridiedle: Aimed to Govern Space In Desks

OPA ‘Backs Up’, Decides To Let Desk Space Go   Order Governing Stenographers’ Use of Desk Drawers Rescinded; Big-wigs Think They Would Have Been Held Up to Ridicule (We Think So, Too).

Time A-Plenty  During Crisis Bright Boys Worked Out Desk Drawer Plan

NEW REGULATIONS 0 DRAFT FATHERS FULLY EXPLAINED   Local Boards Given Cer tain Options In Calling '’. Martied Men. .-

IN DISORDER ITO NEW LINES   Soviets Rout Hitler’s Army Along Entire 260 Mile Front

Airman Tells Of Crash In Iceland   Survivor Gives Story Of Accident in Which Andrews Died

All Aboard Andrews’ Plane Died Instantly When Craft P loughed Into Mountainside   Lone Survivor Says Poor Visibility Over Iceland Caused Accident; Was In Wreckage 26 Hours Before Being Rescued; Rain Extinguished Fire

i hrice-Decorated Lone Survivor Of Crash In Iceland Says Plane Hit Mountain Poal

Andrews Plane Hit Mountain, Survivor Says   Held Fast in Wreckage 26 Hours Before Found By Rescuers on Iceland

FIRST ACCOUNTS OF CRASH PUBL   Staff Sergt. Eisel, Only Sur vivor Believes Others Died Instantly:

ALLIES SLUG OUT GAINS ON ALL FRONTS   Canadian and American Troops Make Slight Ad vances on Italian Soil.   Russians Press Ahead To Fortress of Vitebsk

Baltic Army~ Moves Closer to Nazi Base   Allied Planes Lash German Installations in Northern France for Third Dav

TANK BATTLE RAGES AROUND ITALIAN PORT   Ortona Being Reduced to Sham bles With Americans, Canadians, Slugging at Germans

CANADIANS BATTLE WAY INTO GERMAN EAST LINE ANCHOR  RUSSIAN BALTIC ARMY ADVANCES TO WITHIN 15 MILES OF VITEBSK

CANADIANS IN” STREET FIGHTS WITH NAZIS   City of Ortona, 11 Mile: From Italian Adriatic Port of Pescara Scene Heavy Fighting

British Only Kleven Miles rom Pescara   Russian Offensive Threatens To Enecircle Vital City of Vitebsk

Eighth Is Nearer Pescara; Russians Forging Ahead   Americans Gain More Heights in Western Italy

Canadians Are Fighting in OrtonaStreets   Reds Advance Five Miles Toward Vitebsk, Capturing 100 Towns; More Heights Taken by Fifth Army

Americans Capture Additional * Heights, Reach Outskirts of San Vittore   Move to Encircle Vitebsk as Germans Counter-Aliack Elsewhere to Relieve Pressure

Aussies Fight Street Battle   British Eighth Army Holds Fighting In The City Of Ortona.

BRITISH EIGHTH UNITS FIGHTING WITHIN ORTONA   Russian Baltic Army Nearing Strategic Vitebsk

TITO'S FORCES SUFFER LOSSES   Heavy Damage to Partisan Group in Recent. Weeks Of Heavy Fighting.

74,000 Slavs Trapped in Dinara Alps   GOVERNMENT SAYS TITO PARTISAN FORCES SUFFER HUGE LOSSES

PLANTS ARE DOWN SN BIRMINGHAM   Sloss Strike Causes Short: age Of Gas For Industries

Japs Really Bug in on Attu; Maze Of Tunnels and Caves Covered isle

LONG STRUGGLE AHEAD BEFORE NAZI COLLAPSE   Allied War Strategists Look For Hard 1944 Fight

U. 5. Bombers Pound Bremen   Yankees Shoot Down 43 German Planes And Lose 24

U.S. Bombers Blast Bremen. Take Airerat   Planes Destroy Railway Yards, Canals, Bridges. Highways.   RAF BOMBS COASTLINE

Americans Bomb Vital Transport City Cf Bremen   Fliers Fight Way Through Swarms Of Fighters In Attack

Yanks Blast Bremen; 43 Foes Downed   Fight Through Swarms of Germans and Thick Clouds in 50 Below

Yank Bombers Pound Bremen Through Clouds   24 American Planes Lost, 43 Enemy Ships Shot Down

UO FORTH tooto BUM BREMEN IN AIR BATTLE   Two Armies Deadlocked In Italy's Winter Snows With Little Action

YANK BOMBERS BATTER GERMAN PORT OF BREMEN   Fight Through Swarms 0 Nazi Fighters, 50-BelowZero Temperature   43 ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN IN RAID   Fifteen Big Bombers and Nine American Fighters Reported Missing; RAF Continues Daily Blasting of Invasion Coast Line

U.S. Planes Hammer — Nazi Port.   Battle Their Way Through Swarms Of Nazi Planes”

YANK BOMBERS IGNORE CLOUDS TO HIT BREMEN   43 Enemy Plancs Downed To Loss Of 24 By Attackers

BREMENTARGE] OF HEAVY RAIL BY U. 8, FORTS   Fight. Through Swarms of German Fighters To Reach Goal; 33 Planes  - Bagwed

YANK BATTLE THU NAZIo TO BOMB BREMEN   Blast Railway Yards, Port Facilities, Highways and RBridnes.

NAZIS SEND UP 100 FIGHTERS 10 BATTLE RAIDERS   Explosives Dropped on Railway Yards, Canals, Highways and Bridges in Vital Port.   SIZE OF ASSAULTING FORCES UNDISCLOSED   Yank Losses Include 15 Big Bombers—Seven R. A. F. Aircraft Missing in Raids on France.

43 NAZI PLANES BAGGED BY YANK AERIAL FORCES   Germans Use 100 Aircraft in Effort to Beat Back Mighty Attack

U.S. Heavies Lash Bremen   15 Bombers And 9 Fighters Lost: 43 Germans Downed

U. S. Warplanes Scatter Germans To Blast Bremen   qrnecican, Bombers ew Technique Through Clouds

Bremen Reels Under Fire Of Air Fleet   Fortresses, Bombers and Liberators Brave Frigid Weather, Crush Rail Yards, Canals, Highways, Send 43 Planes Down

NAZIS BEST PORT VE “BLASTFRIE      Planes Fly Above  Clouds To Gain.  Adv antage “

BREMEN GIVEN DRUBBING BY U.S. BOMBERS   VITAL RAIL CENTER WRECKED; 43 NAZI PLANES DOWNED

Alhies Lose 24 Planes in Bremen Raid   Attackers Shoot Down 33 Nazi Interceptor Planes Near Target

Allied Planes Battle Through Odds To Blast Bremen Communications

BIG AMERICAN BOMBERS HIT BREMEN HARD   Forts Fly Through Swarms Of German Fighters

43 German Planes Are Shot Down In Huge Aerial Fight   Thick Clouds Fail To Hinder Yanks In Daylight Assault On Nazi Port; 15 Fortresses And 9 Fighter Escorts Reported Lost

JOHN FRITTS WOUNDED IN NAVAL ACTION   Official word received by parents here Saturday evening

American Farmers Resent Proposal Japanese Teach Them How To Bathe

WRA Publication Termed Insult To Every Farme   Congressmen Irked By Suggestion Of Federal Agency That Japs Could Give Lessons In Bathing

RESISTANCE BY JAPANESE IS STRONGER   Enemy Supply Barge Lines Pounded By Allies

May Apply For. Marriage Licenses By Mail In State   Attorney General Say: lt Matters Not How They Ask for Them

Despite Hitler’s Order te Hold Ground Along Dnieper River.   RUSSIA HAS REWON  BIG AREA, SUPPLIES  Deniane Ava Practically

REDS PRACTICALLY AT GOMEL GATES   Sweeping Germans Steadily Thru Forests of White  Russia

RUSSIANS NEAR GATES OF GOMEL, GERMANS MAIN DEFENSE POINT   Red Army Columns Closing In From At Least Three Directions.

Vast Industrial Cities Now Just \ Smoking Ruins   Nazi Sub Mutiny I: Bared; Germans Admit Severe Los: In Ruhr

Big U.S. Sky  Fleet Sweeps French Targets   _ Five Bombers, Seven Fighters Lost As Yanks Wind Up Busiest Week; Tulare Calanel  aade Graupn

FRANCE HIT AS ALLIES CLOSE BUSIEST WEEK   German War Cradle In Ruhr Valley Is Reported Devastated   BLAST AIRFIELDS   Americans, British Join In Heavy Day And Nicht Assaults

Heavyweights of U. S., RAF Have About Finished Job Of Neutralizing Ruhr Industry

Allied Aerial Offensive Swilches to North France, Ruhr Gets Heavy Pounding

Airmen Round Out ‘Busiest Week’ Of Raids On Europe   Large Force Of U. S. Heavy  Bombers aay Airfields And Industrial Targonaay Be: Series Of Daylight Assaults. _~

Reds Down 46 Planes: Capture Key Nazi Post   Russian Bombers Lash Rail Centers Rahinegd Avie  inec

Key Position Lost to Reds by Nazis   200,000 Germans Backed Up in Black Sea Region

Russians Take Key Position At Novorossisk   Red Air Force Pulverizing Nazis’ Whole Eastern Front Supply System

Reds Continue Violent Blows In Caucasus   Air Struggle Unabated And Nazis Hint Shift Of Russian Offensive

Reds in Caucasu:  Pound Nazis From Ajir, Land   Russians Capture Fortified Key Position In Violent Battle of Novorossisk; Activity of Soviet Planes Increasing

REDS CAPTURE KEY POSITION   Report Important Gains in Violent Battle Raging At Novorossisk

Reds Capture Key Position   Violent Battle Rages For Novorossisk; Air Fighting Is Furious

NAZIS LOSE KEY. POINT IN BATTLE OF NOVOROSSISK   Struggle for City Is Savage With Russians Striking © With Intantry, Cannon and Planes.   GERMAN SUPPLY SYSTEM ON ENTIRE FRONT HIT   ‘Raids on Rail Centers, Inclad. ing Kiev, Indicate Rus- — ‘sians Are Preparing for Summer Drive.

Reds Take Key corms Position      Soviet Airforce Downs Enemy Planes; Strike. Hard in the Kuban

KEY POSITION OF THE NAZIS HELD BY RUSS   Red Army Continues _ Gains With Increased Air Attacks .

KEY POSITION IN CAUCASUS WON BY REDS   RUSSIAN AIRMEN BAG 35 PLANES IN COMBAT   Soviet Offensive Coming

KEY POSITIGN iS TAKEN BY RED TROOPS   In Violent Battle of Novor ossisk; Pound Nazis in Caucasus as Air Force Down:  35 Pianes   Shift Center

Russians Take Key Nazi Post   Battle Is Raging in Novorossisk Area

Red Army Has Captured Key Position Near Novorossisk   Russian Air Force, Which Has Amazed Nazis Shoots Down 35 German Planes In Offensive

Reds Down 56 Planes: Capture Key Nazi Post: .   Russian Bombers Lash Rail Centers _ Rehbind Avie  frac

Russians Seize Key Base In Caucasus   Soviet Guns, Planes Hand Germans Terrific Pounding

SOVIETS SEIZE KEY POSITION   Violent Fighting Still Continuing Around Novorossisk

Only 50 Houses Remain Undamaged tr Hamburg After Terrific Allied Raids

More Fighting Planes Going To Pacific Area   Secretary Stimson Says U.S. Increasing Air Strength In Southw est Pacific   JAPANESE ALSO Ms ADDING TO FORCE

PACIFIC AERIAL POWER BOOSTED   Stimson Says Further Increase In Prospect; Tunisian Progress Pleasing

BACONIANS TAKE ACTION   steed Machbeth’s Face Is Red in Stratford

Bizerte May Become a Nazi Sevastopol   Air Power Would Determine How Long Siece Would Last

ROMMEL MAY“TRY NAZI SEVASTOPAL AT BIZERTE BASE   Chances For Lengthy Siege Increased By Aid Italy May Be Able To Give

Urge Ouster of St. Louis Police Head   Grand J uy Declares the Board Chairman Has Failed to Act Against Gambling

24 Stores Burn, Fireman Killed At Atlantic City  100 Homeless as Blaze Rages for Six Hour:

Wallace Says” \CommonAims Tie Americas   Vice-President Gets Tumultuous Welcome of 100,000 in Chile ©

JEFFERS BEFORE SENATE PROBERS   Claims Rubber Program Helps Production Of Aviation fiance

JEFFERS CLAIMS 108 1S DONE WEL   Rubber Director Has His Say During Inquiry of Truman Committee.

Rubber Program Aided ‘Production of Gasoline   Needed, Declares Jeffers

RUBBER OUTPUT HELD GAS AIL   Momentum Pulls Forward All War Phases, Says Jeffers

Jeffers Defends Rubber Program   Says It Has Aided  Gasoline Production

Jeffers Asserts Program Aid To Gas Production   Rubber Chief Defends Synthetic Plans As Helping War Effort

Railroads Will Put Soldiers In Sleeners   Superiority Of Nazi Armored Equipment IDeclared By Tank Experts To Be Untrue

Drafting  Of Labor Opposed   McNutt Says Voluntar Measures Will Solve  the Problem

MNUTT SAYS “LABOR DRAFT UNNECESSARY   Army Is Opposed to Deferment of Farm Worker

NO LAGOA DRAFT 0 NEEDED NOW CAYS M NUTT   Solution Of U. S. Manpower Possible By Voluntary Measures. Claim   WMC DIRECTOR’S STAND OPPOSITE TO STIMSON’S   Vote Upon Farm Deferment Proposal Is Postponed By Senate Committee

NEGOTIATIONS SLOW DOWN TODAY IN THE ABSENCE OF LEADER   Lewis Is In Washington and Coal Contract Muddle Faces a Short Delay.

Wounded Convalesce at Famous Inn   Sonoma Mission Inn Houses Marines and Sailors Fresh from Bombs and Bullets of Total War

PENALTY FO LATE FILING   Income Tax Reports Must Be in Not Later Than Sept. 15

VICTORY GARDENERS WILL GET GASOLINE   OPA Boss Eases Problems For Producing Food

NAZIS EVACUATE BRYANSK BERLIN RADIO DECLARES   Report Is Not Immediate, Coiitirmed Officially by Russians

Nazis Claim the ‘ity of Kharkov   ysoviet Forces Had Recaptured Industrial Capital, February 16   JEAVY BLOWS TO REDS   yerrman Troops Have Moved Out of the Key City of  Vyazma

NAZIS GIVE UP VYAZMA, CLAIM FALL OF KHARKOV   Victory Over Reds in Steel City Not Confirmed; Reds Admit Pressure   SUPERIOR FORCES HIT SOVIET LINES   But Russians Say They Are Bleeding the Enemy White in Fierce Battle

Germans Admit — Vyazma Evacuated   Fall of Soviet Pittsburrgh Would Be Setback For Reds; Nazis Throw in Reserves.

Germans Give Up Vyazma,  Take Kharkov   Nazis Announce Recapture of City, But Admit Withdrawal on Northern Front; Bitter Fighting Rages Behind Southern End Mareth Line

Russians Take Vital Key City Vyazma Today   Germans Suffer New Blow In Tunisia; Rommel, V.: Arnim Repulsed

NAZIS GIVE UP VYAZMA, A KEY CITY   In South Bloody Third Battle For Kharkov to Crit cal State.   Russians Outnumbered By German Reserves

RED ARTILLERY LAYS SIESE 10 BRYANSK   Only 2'> Miles From Center of Vital German-Held Base

BERLIN ADMITS VYAZMA TAKEN BY THE SOVIETS   Russians Battle Desperately To Hold On To Key City; Moscow Has No Confirmation Of Vyazma’'s Fall.

Reds Put Up Fierce Battle For Chuguev   Defensive Fighting Is Admitted As DNB Claims Capture Of City   SILENT ON DONETS   Moscow Announces Fall Of More Towns Under Smolensk Steamroller

Fierce Fight Rages In Kharkov Sector   Russians Still Successful In Central Front Drive As More Towns And Villages Are Taken

REDS BATTLING ON DEFENSIVE   Fierce Fights Rage on Eastern Front

Allied Soldiers Claw Way Up Steep Embankment In Face Of Heavy German Fire; Advance Along Entire Line In Maly Reported

New Drive In  Italy Across The Volturno   British Advance Slowly Along Adriatic Coast

Allies Breach Enemy Lines Af Volturno Rive   Establish Bridgeheads; Smash Big Obstacle To Rome Drive

BRIDGEHEADS ESTABLISHED ACROSS RIVER   General Clark’s Men “Hit ‘Em Hard” as Directed.—British 8th Also Making Advance,

District Gourt To. Convene September 20      JUDGE G. W.} STILLMAN OF ALGONA TO PRESIDE; JURY REPORTS SEPT. 28

State’s 61,000 Teachers Get Assurance Of Salary Boosts   Republicans Decide To Push Through Bonus Bil Regardless Of Democratic Filibuster

INVESTIGATE AN EXPLOSION   Three Miners Were Killed in an Oklahoma Coal Mine

INVESTIGATE AN EXPLOSION   Three Miners Were Were Killed in. an OklIshoma Coal

SUB GREW DOES AN OPERATION   Removes Apendix While U-Boat Is Submerged

Pharmacist’s Mate Removes Appendix In Submerged Submarine Off Jap Coast   Used Bent Spoons

Operation By  Novice Far  Under Water. Pharmacist’s Mate  Substitutes For g....... fh. &..L

SUBSIDY ISSUE CAUSES HEAVY FLOW OF MAIL   Greatest Volume of Congressional Mail In Months Is . Provoked

“Andy Hardy’s Double Life”   Feature Picture at the Electric Theatre, Saturday and Sunday

MOUNTAIN RHYHTM   Feature Picture at the Electric Theatre, Saturday and Sunday

Reds Wipe Out Last Nazis   Russian Army Mops Up Last Pockets of German’ Resistance In Stalingrad

Little Pity For Freezing Prisoners in Stalingrad   Returning Residents RecallHow: Their Homes Were Wrecked By Nazis; Subsisted On. Horses, Dogs and Cats Until They Surrendered

Half Starved, Frozen Nazis  Abandon Fight   Little Fighting Remains In Graveyard Thai. Ouce.Was City Of Stalin

DISASTER AT STALINGRADIN FINAL HOURS   Hitler Command Ans nounces Defensive Ring Around Trappea Troops  Has Been Breached   CORRIDOR IS MENACED

NEW RED PUSH SEEN AIMED AT NORTH UKRAINE   Heavy Battle Still Rages In Ortona Assault

ne: potted __, SOMINUES;  i Ghoti, Re  Renonie ahd in Allied Hands

20viets on the Move  Another Winter Offensive Is Believed In Progress

Fuel Oil Rations Are Unchanged  Quinnkee Amrla Rey   Supplies Ample For Present Consumption

RATIONS OF FUEL OIL NOT CHANGED   Enough _ Supplies To Go Around Says C. J. ' Eyres

Fuel Oil Rations Are Unchanged  Supplies Ample For Present Consumption

GAINS 9 SEATS IN TUESDAY'S FLECTION   Republicans, With M-6 Margin, Back on ‘Top After Eight Years

GAINS 5 SEATS   Republicans, With 14-6 Margin, Back on Top After Eight Years

JAPS POSTPONE EXCHANGE OF REPATRIATE‘   Americans on Teia Maru Forced io Postpone ‘Holiday’ to Tomor row at Mormugao

Exchange Ships Await Transfer   1.500 Americans To Leave Jap Vessel Tonight  ;. PPewprernra’ OPROAVER

Japs Talk Of Five-Year War   Chilean Reporter On Exchange Ship Gives  Statamant.

Americans are Anxious. tot Gee Aboard the Gripsholm. and ‘, Back to Freedom. 47.

PRISONERS T0 CHANGE SHIPS   U. S. and, Jap Repatriates Anxiously Await Transfer

Exchange fo Be Made Tuesday   ‘Americans Eager. To Board Steamer To Return to U. S.

EXCHANGE OF U. S:, JAP NATIONALS TOBE MADE TUESDAY   Passengers Aboard the Teia Maru and Gripsholm:® to Transfer Tomorrow at dnp Request

 Heclth Standard in Germanu Grectly  Lowered, Souvrees in London Relieve 

 Health Standards in Germany Are Much   Lower and Apparently Growing Worse

DECLINE IS SEEN IN HEALTH OF GERMANS   Birth Rate Falls As War Lords Use Every Available Worker

FARMERS URGED TO OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES AS INDUSTRY TO HELP WIN WAR WITH FOOD

Byrnes ‘Subs’ For FDR      Will Deliver Farm Talk Over Radio Today

Starvation Is Predicted If Eleven Million Placed in Uniform; Farm Men Needed

Marshall Backed Up By Baruch   ‘Give Him What He Wants, He Says, Testifying on Bill to Defer Fathers   ‘BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY’   Believes in Supporting War Leader; Says He Kong Has Admired Marshall

Baruch Backs ies Stand   Says Armed Services — Should Be Given What They Need; Sentiment For Wheeler Bill Fades

Baruch Backs Gen. Marshall   Armed Forces Entitled te Fulfiliment Of Every Demand, Adviser Tells Solon: At Hearing on Bill to Halt Dad Draft

Baruch Would Fill All Military Quotas   Tells Solons if Marshall Says a Specified Force Is Needed to Carry Out Plans, Then “Give Him What He Wants.”

HE BACKS.MARSHALL   Baruch Advises Congress to Give Army Leader All He Asks

Pewer Group Will Meet Here Sept. 30 Te Diseuss LB 204   Fulfill All Army  Demands

Give Marshall What He Wants   This Is What Bernard M. Ba ruch Told Military Committees Today.

Do As Marshall  Wishes—Baruch  Better To Be Safe Than  Sorrv. He Advises

BARUCH BACKS ARMY DEMANDS   ~Says Marshalf Entitled © to What He Aske For

Baruch Urges Fulfillment Of Army Demand:   [Give General Marshal What He Wants O1 Throw Him Out, Plead:  Veteran Adviser

Kecord Run Of Hogs Is In Prospect _ As Packers Bemoan Labor Shortage

PACKERS ARE FACING CRISIS IN MANPOWER   Record Number O: Hogs Raised On U. S. Farms

FORESEE RECORD INFLUX OF HOGS   Now Chicago Packers Are Worried About Manpower

CHICAGO PACKERS SHORT OF LABOR   EXPECT RECORD RUN OF HOGS WITHIN NEXT THREE MONTHS

Death of WAC Officer Is Probed   Attractive Lieutenant Is Found Slain at Sioux Falls

JMOPER WAG VICTIM OF BRUTAL SLAYING   Attractive Alabama Officer Beaten To Death

WAG SLAIN BY BLOW ON HEAD UFFIGIAL AY   Body of Attractive Brunet Is Found in Woods at Sioux Falls, S, D.   NOT FAR FROM ROOM SHE HAD LIVED IN ONE NIGHT

New Tax Plans Quickly Killed   Eccles’s Program Promptly Spurned

House GroupFrowns On Tax Proposal   Eccles Also Favors. Compulsory Savings

Federal Reserve Chairman Suggests Congress Raise $13,800,000,000 Additional! Revenue and Require Compulsory Savings—Warns That Nation Faces Inflation Threat—Plan  _ Called “Amazing, Fantastic and Visionary.”

COMMITTEE KILLE EGGLES TAX PLAN   Scraps Proposal of Federal Reserve Chairman; Suggested Compulsory Savings War-time Super Tax

Eccles Proposes Huge Tax Bill Quickly Snubbed   Doughton Terms Federal Reserve Program ‘Fantastic’

Issue To Go Back To WLB Now   O'Neil Says Operators Will Report Failure To  Agree To WLB.

COAL DISPUTE RETURNED T0 LABOR BOART   Lewis and Operators Discontinue Talks In Anger

Students Battle  Members of Sect  No Arrests Made In Oregon Town

German U-Boat And Shipbuilding Yard Crippled For Considerable Time As Result Of American Raid

U, §. BOMBERS CRIPPLE NAZI SUB BASE   Liberators and Fortresses - Do Considerable Damage To Vegesack U-Boat  Race

U.S, FORTRESSES BLAST U-BOAT SUPPLY BASES   Raid On Rennes Described As Most Devastating Of Present War So Far.

Margarine Is Getting Break, Asserts Button   Director Of Department Of Agriculture Asks Concerted Fight For Lower Butter Values

FEMALE LABOR BILL PASSED; ‘UNION AMENDMENTS REJECTED   BITTER LEGISLATIVE ¥t0KT ENDS WITH HOUSE PASSAGE .OF BILL DEALING WiTh HOURS

HOUSE ADOPTS 50-HOUR WEEK   Emergency Clause Inserted in Bitterly Fought Bill on Female Labor

‘Boot’ Centers Bombed Again   San Giovanni And Reggio Calabria Hit

Heart Of Nazi War Machine Badly Blasted   Pilsen, Site Of Great Skoda Steel And Munitions Works Bomb Target   FIFTY-FIVE R. A F. BOMBERS ARE LOST

PILSEN, SITE OF SKODA WORKS, MAIN TARGET   Two Other War Centers, Mannheim, Ludwigshaven, Pounded

JAP SUPPLY PORT IN BURMA BLASTED   Ship Headed for Rangoon Is Hit and Capsized

Bickering Is Delaying Pay — For Disabled   Legion Official Charges Politics Holding Up Action on Claims

OPA FLAYED BY 4 COMMITTEES   Reorganization Of Agency ls Demanded—Or Else

FULL-FORGE BLAGT LAID UPON O.P.A   BUREAU CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTS TO REFORM AND SOCIALIZE.   Ideas Imported   Complete Breakdown in Price Regulation Feared Untess Reorganization Comes.

nm PLACED ‘UNDER FIRE   CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURE 18 BEING EXERTED FOR REORGANIZATION OF _ ° fBOLISHING AGENCY

BLACKOUT PLANS COMPLETED HERE   New Air Raid Signals to be Tested Here Tonioht

BLACKOUT PLANS - COMPLETED HERE      New. Air Raid Signals te be Tésted Here To‘ niaht

Japs At Wewak ‘Are Given New Aerial Pounding   Large Number Of Nip Planes Are Destroved

M’Arthur Batters Lae Base   Follows Salamaua Victory With Close Range Attack Upon Crumbling Base.

Seek to Halt Big Buying of Clothing   Retailers Join in Voluntary Code to Discourage Excessive Purchases we

Aim More Blows At Jap Defenses   Invasion of Marshall Islands _ and New Britain May Be Near   HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS   Halsey, Reviewing Progress in Pacific, Promises Offensives

New Britain Faces Threat  Of Invasion  Japan Still Out to ‘Crush’ U. 8, and Great Britain

AERIAL BLOWS HINT POSSIBLE PACIFIC ACTION   Priorities Granted for Big Fleet of Invasion Craft

AMERICAN SUBS SINK 11 MORE NIP CARGO VESSELS   Bombers Blast Jap Defense Bases Guarding Japan, Philippines

MARSHALLS, NEW BRITAIN SEEN TARGETS   Subs Sink 11 More Jap Ships; Bombers Smash At Outer Defenses

Lay Aerial Groundwork for Assault   Report 11 More Jap Vessels Sunk by American Subs on Pear! HWarhor Anniversary

Aerial Blows Suggest Allies May Be Planning Invasion Of Marshall Isles, New Britain

FRESH PACIFIC LANDINGS PEND   Invasion Of Marshalls, New Britain Expected  ) Sann

U.S. SET FOR INVASION ON ANNIVERSAR'   Battleship Wisconsin Launched as Symbol of Growing Might of Navy for Jap Battles.

POISE FURTHER PACIFIC BLOWS   New invasion Threat Hangs Over Japs in Marshalls and New Britain.

ANCHORS FOR ENEMY BASES ARE ATTACKED   Navy Contributes Cheering Note in Announcing Sinking of Eleven More Jap Cargo Vessels   LEADERS CONFIDENT

INVASION THREAT HANGS OVER TWO JAP KEY POINTS   Marshall Islands and New Britain Appear As Objects of Two Big Attacks

Threat Hangs Over Two Jap Key Positions   -Heavy Blows Suggest ; Invasion of Marshalls And New Britain, Base Anchors

INVASION THREAT IS  POISED OVER TWO KEY  POSITIONS OF JAPS HEAVY AERIAL BLOWS AIMED AT MARSHALL IS.  TARMC ANI NEW DPDITATIA

ALLIES PREPARE FOR NEW STABS   Marshall Islands May Be In vaded Soon — Battle ar Ny ie 1 Pree, ae

Admiral Halsey, Commander of South Pacific Allied Forces, Promises Offensiv Says Yonks Have Appointment in Toky

Invasion Threat Poised Over Key Jap Positions   ‘Each of Us Has An _ Appointment in Tokyo,’ Says Halsey

MORE ISLANDS BEING SOFTENED   Invasion of Marshals and New Britain Foreseen

Poise. Threat Of Invasion. Over Ja aps —   Air Blows. Suggest Possible. Landings. ‘On the Marshalls: . ‘And New Britain.

INVASION OF 2 JAP POSITIONS i THREATENED   Heavy Air Blows Point to Assaults on New Britain and Marshalls

Invasion Threat Poised Over Two Japanese Islands   New Britain And Marshalls May Be Next Allied Goals

Denmark's Jews  Will Be Purged   Sweden Hastily Offers  em Haven

Sweden Warns Nazi Oppressors   Purge of Denmark‘s Jews Causes Action

Nazis Launch New Drive to Purge Denmark of Jews  Sweden Offers Haven For Persons Fleeing Terror Reign

Tax Returns Filed All Over Nation   All-Out SkipA-Year Drive to Open in House

NORTHEAST HIT BY FRIGID WAVE   Section From Virginia to Maine in Storm Path

INTERNED JAPS LIVE LIKE KINGS   Chandler Would Relieve WRA Of Duty, Turn Camps Over To Army

ARMY CONTROL OF JAP GAMPS STRONGLY URGED BY CHANDLE   bs KENTUCKY SENATOR CHARGES WAR RELOCATION AUTHOR. ITY HAS MISMANAGED ALL TEN CENTERS

-Red Army Smashes on : In Effort to Cut Off Nazi Armies Holding © Caucasus Bridgehead

RUSSIAN FORCES SMASH TOWARD SMOLENSK BASE   Second Big Victory in Two Days Is Achieved by Victorious Soviets   ALLIES BLAST RHINELAND   Italy Bombed Again and Jap Bases on New Guinea Target of Assault

Velnya, 45 Miles From Smolensk, Falls to Russians   Danes Boldly Defy German Rulers With General Strikes

SOVIET FORCES RETAKE YELNY A NEAR SMOLENSK   Nazis Claim Allies Preparing To Invade Italy, RAF Hits Reich, Italy

VICTORIOUS SOVIET ARMIES CONTINUE TO DRIVE NAZIS BACK   YELNYA, ONLY -45 MILES FROM SMOLENSK, CAPTURED TUESDAY

RUSSIAN DRIVE PERILS STALINO AND MARIUPOL   Race To Cut Off German Forces On Crimea  Peninsula   ‘SOVIET CELEBRATING      Stalin Orders 124-Gun Salute For Victory At Taganrog

Trapped Nazis Annihilated In Taganrog Tra   Victorious Russians Sweep On Smolensk, 45 Miles Away

Reds Smashing Toward German Held Smolensk   Second Big Triumph In Two Days Told By Stalin Himself

WWW eTo oGOR ZNO BI IN TWO DAYS   German Defenses Crumbling All Along Battlefront; Danish Row Spreads

STALINO IS MENACED   ... Onrushing Soviets Siveep Far Beyond Taganrog

Red Army Is Reported to Have Captured the Town - of Yelnya   SECOND BIG TRIUMPH   Onrushing Soviet Columns Are Only 26 Miles From Stalino

th Army Is Reported to  ave Captured the Town f Yelnya   SECOND BIG TRIUMPH   Ontushing Soviet “Columns . iste Only 26 Miles From  ae Stalino .

13,500 Enemy Planes Shot Down By U.S.   General Arnold Tells Of Work Of Air Force Since Pearl Harbor

13,500 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED BY YANKS   Army Air Forces Burn Up 2,000,000 Gals. of Gas

Army Air Force Now Bigger Than All Arms of U.S. Army In Europe in World War 1

FRACTURE BEDS ~ HAVE ARBIVED   They’re Available Free Tc - Anyone Who Needs  err

FRACTURE BEDS HAVE ARRIVED   They’re Available Free To . Anyone Who Needs  Them

030,070.34 MUST GO INTO BONDS QAILY   County Has Only 15 Days to Reach Quota in Third War Loan Drive

BOND SALES STAND AT $218,862 MARK   Every Person in ‘County Must Buy on Average of One $50 Rong

TWELVE MILLIONS OF  FOREIGN WORKERS IN  REICH ARE PROBLEM RECENT DEVELOPMENTS  OF WAR HAVE BROUGHT CHANGE IN SITUATION

12,000,000 IMPORTED FOREIGN WORKERS IN GERMANY BEGIN ‘TO PROVE WORRY TO HITLERITES

FOREIGN WORKERS TROUBLE GERMANS   Himmler Reported in Plea To Hitler to Move Some Of Them Out.

FOREIGN WORKERS IN GERMANY WILL CREATE PROBLEMS      ‘Reasonable Freedom’ Promised Earlier Now Taken Away From Captive Labor

THANKSGIVING ROAD FATALITIES SHRINK   Only 28 Reported Dead as Gas Rationing and War Production Curtail ‘Travel.

TIOGA COUNTY POMONA GRANGE   Will Meet At Pomona Hall In Wellsboro Next Week

TIOGA COUNTY «= POMONA GRANGE   Will Mest At Pomona “Hall In Wellsboro This Week. a

More Japs On Bougainville   Marines Battling Against Attempted Squeeze Play

JAPS TRYING SQUEEZE PLAY ON THE YANKS   Force Lands North of Empress Augusta Bay and Starts Shelling as Other Nips Start Drive From Canth.

BATTLE FRESH JAP LANDINGS   Barge - Landed Nipponese  Take Hard Beating At  Bougainville

American Forces Defend Beachhead In Twin Assaults; Nips Try Squeeze

Several Hundred Enemy Troops Land North of Augusta Bay, iorcing Americans to Fight on Both Sides of Island Beachhead. Japs <Attempting Suuceze Play.

Japs Attempt Squeeze Play   Two Enemy Columns Attack U. S. Marines On Bouaainville

Japs Land Forces North Of Beachhead   Tanks, Artillery and Planes Enter Battle; Foe Fully Equipped

ENEMY TROOPS LAND ON BOTR SIDES OF YANKS   Nipponese Forces Attempt To Force “Squeeze” On Allied Forces

Allied Forces Seek To Prevent Pincer Movement: Marine Land Units, Tanks, Artillery, Planes Thrown Into Bitter Fight

U. S. Marines Fight To Keep Bridgehead   Enemy Attempts Squeeze Play Upon Invaders

Marines Fighting 2 Fronts   Japanese Land New Force on Island  Above Beachhead

Varines Battle On Bougainy ille   Jap Squeeze Play Lsed in Grim Fight On Pacific Island

New Jap Landing On Bougainville. Is Serious Threat   “Marines Forced To Fight On Both Sides Of-New Bridaehead

Yanks Face Japs On 2 Sides Of Bougainville Beachhead After New Enemy Landing   Nips Sneak Down From Buka Fully Equipped, Attempt Squeeze Play

NEW JAP LANDING  FORCE BATTLING T0  HOLD BOUGAINVILLE U. S. MARINES, TANKS  ARTILLERY AND PLANES ENCACEN IN FICUT

Marines Fight To Hold Off Landings   Barges Attacked by Allied Planes Near  Bougainville

Marines Battling Hard Against Reinforced Jap: Driving on Bougainville

Jap Landinas Are Threat To Bougainville   American Defenders Of Beachhead Forced To Use Full Strenath

SQUEEZE PUT ON AMERICAN BEACHHEAD   U. S. Tanks, Artillery and Planes Battle Hard Against Several Hundred Japs   MAKE BARGE LANDINGS

BATTERING JAPS WHO LANDED ON BOUGAINVILLE   J. S. Marines, Tanks, Guns And Planes Battling Hard Against Several Hundred Japanese Who Slipped In North Of Empress Augusta Bay.

MARINES FACE JAPS’ SQUEEZE   U. S. Troops Battling Foe On Bougainville

JAPANESE PULL, ‘SQUEEZE PLAY’ AFTER LANDING   Marines Battling Hard to Rout Nips Who Sneaked Ashore From Barges At Bougainville

Nippons Exerting Squeeze on Yanks   Americans Forced to Fight on Both Sides of Bouganville Beachhead.

TWO NIPPON UNITS FACE “ALS; FORCE   Bougainville. Has Become Tough For. Marines

MORE MEN ON ISLAND   Bougainville Scene Of Fierce Fighting As Tanks Enter Fray

BATTLE RAGES FOR BEACH ON BOUGAINVILLE   Marines Find Japs On Both Sides After Landing

Marines Facing  Japs On 2 Sides   Enemy Succeeds In Landing Force Near Empress Augusta Bay.

MARINES BATTLING AGAINST SEVERAL HUNDRED JAPS   Using Tanks, Artillery and - Planes on Enemy Near Empress Augusta Bay.   PLANNING A SQUEEZE   Northern Forces Brought 90mm. Mortars Into Action Today.

JAP LANDING FORCES ENGAGE U. S. MARINES   Americans Battle on Both Sides o! Beachhead on Bougainville Island   CAME IN BY BARGE   More than 125 Japs Slain in Initial Engagements, Marine Cas. ualties Given as 60

BATTLE RAGES BETWEEN JAPS, U. §. MARINES   British Promise Future Major Action In Southeastern Asia

Nipponese Try A Squeeze Play On Bougainville   U. S. Marines Are Slugging It Out With Jap Landing Party.

Pacific Battle Waging Furiously   U. S. MARINES FIGHTING FRESH JAP TROOPS ON ISLAND

JAPANESE LAND MORE TROOPS AT BOUGAINVILLE   Forces U. S. Marines To Fight on Both Sides of Beachhead

Yanks Battle Jap Forces On Two Side:   Several Hundred Jape Land on Bougainville— Try Squeeze Play

New‘A’ Gas Stamps Good On Nov. 9   ‘A-8’s’ In ‘A’ Book Must Last 3 Months — ‘A-6's’ Expire Nov. 8.

New A’ Gas Stamps Good On Nov. 9   'A.-8’s’ In *A’ Book Must Last 3 Months — ’A-0's' Jixpire Nov. 8,

Tule Lake Unrest Revealed At Quiz   Threats of Violence Voiced Against Americans by Japs

Former Official of Jap Center Tells Of Unrest, Sabotage, Strikes, Violence

1236 Americans To Be Exchanged   Japanese Liner on Way to Portuguese India Exchange Port

MORE THAN TWELVE HUNDRED AMERICANS BEING REPATRIATED  MOST OF THEM MISSION. ARIES AND CIVILIAN WORKERS IN FAR EAST

MORE THAN TWELVE HUNDRED AMERICANS BEING REPATRIATED  MOST OF THEM MISSION.   MOST OF THEM MISSION. ARIES AND CIVILIAN WORKERS IN FAR EAST

Yankees Freed By Japanese Nearing Home   1236 Returning O: Japanese Ship

United Nations War Prisoners Freed By Japs   Two Arkansans Are Among 1,497 Captives On Exchange Liner

1,236 YANKEES ON WAY HOME FROM ORIENT   U.S.-Jap Exchange Ships To Meet

Start Long Trip Home   1,236 U. S. Citizens Among Those on Jap Exchange Ship

DEATH KNELL SOUNDED FOR NEW TAX BILL   G. 0. P. Opposition To New Boost Blasts Hopes Of Administration   PUBLIC HEARINGS TO END   Joe Martin Says People Of _ Country Unable To Pay Larger Amounts

Price Control Program Hits Dual Attack   Congress and Farm Groug  Oppose Price Ceiling:  Under OPA

FARM SPOKESMEN ASSAIL SUBSIDY PRICE CONTROL   DECLARE CONGRESS HAS LOST CONTROL OF PRICE SITUATION

GOVERNMENT REJECTS PLEA TO FREE GANDH}      Viceroy’s Secretary Says Hunge: Strike Up to: Gandhi HimseltApveal to U.S. .

Call Prison Doctor For Murder Suspect  Preliminary Hearing To:  day For De Marigny

PETITIONS REJECTED   Most Requests for Rent Hikes “Trivial” Says Rent Director

LEWIS SCORES PRESENT POLICY   Says Government Fattening industry, Starving Labor

PAY INCREASE WILL BE GIVEN COAL MINERS   _Lewis Says WLB MemBers ‘Have Prejudiced The Miners Impending: Wave Demand

Sees Miners’ Case Prejudged   Can't Fatten Industry and Starve Labor, Lewis Says

LEWIS ASSERTS U.S. POLICIES ‘PARADOXICAL      Tells Miners ‘Cost-Plus Millionaites’ Loot Public Purse, Labor ‘Starves’

Anthracite ‘Wage Battle ‘Takes Shape   Lewis Charges Davis Byrnes Are Purtial To ‘Cost-Plus’ Rich.

Jetfers Warns Against Let-Up in Conserving Nation's Rubber Supply

Nazi Chemical, Armament City Rocked by Raid   Great Fires Still Rage in Bremen After U.S. Assault

2,000 Long Tons of Bombs Dropped on German City   RAIDS STAGED IN WORTHERN FRANCE      Great Fires Reported ir Bremen After Mondey’s Raids

BRITISH DROP 2,000 TONS OF BOMBS ON CITY   Feint Attack Clears Way for RAF; Other Raids are Made

HUGE BOMBER FORCE BLASTS AT FRANKFURT   GERMANS FOOLED BY FEINT ATTACK TO SOUTH

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Frankfurt War Plants Hit in 9000-Ton Raid   Chemical and Armament Center Blasted by British Heavies; FReint Draws Off Nazi Fighters

Frankfurt Rocks Under Allied Bombs   RAF Unleashes 2,000 Tons Explosives On Chemical Center

Allied Bombers Hit Frankfurt and Bremen Major blows   More Than 3,500 Tons of Bombs Are Rained Down on Two Vital Targets; Other Areas Are Blasted in Diversionary Raids

BIG BOMBERS POUR TONS OF BOMBS ON CITY OF FRANKFUR1   Raid Is One Of Heaviest Of War; Bombers Pound Target With Ease As Feint Draws Off Nazi Fighters

N azi Fighters Lured Away By RAF Feint   Near-Record Tonnage Of Bombs Cascades Upon Chemical City  2? 000 LONG TONS

Frankfurt, Nazi Chemical Center Blasted by RAF Heavy Bombers   Allies’ Pre - Invasion Air Offensive Reaches New Intensity; Mannheim, Ludwigshafen Attacked

Believes Enemy Attack On North America More Likely Now Than Ever

TRUMAN FLAYS OIL PROJEC)   SENATOR HEADING . INVEBTIGATION COMMITTEE DECLARES ARMY INCLINED TO BE WASTEFUL

Soviet Troops Drive on Toward Kiev   Gain More Than 12 Miles in Area to West of Kursk

Errol Flynn Case Goes  To The Jury   Must Have Benefit Of Doubt, 9 Women, 3 Men Instructed

FLYNN CASE IN. HANDS OF JURY   Judge Tells Jurors To Regard Girls’ Testimony with Care

Sardinia and Corsica Being Cleared   U.S. Fifth Army Widens Its  Hold on Naples

Mopping Ur Of Islands  Progresses   Italians and French Commandos Help Push Nazis Back in Mediterranean Theater and Bomb Attacks Continue

invasion Hold Is Widened  Islands Mop-Up 1D...W   [sands Mop-Up Is Pushed Ranidlv-

Naples a City Of Horror’ After Nazi Sacking  Refugees Tell of ass Murders; ‘Venice Bombed

Yankee Planes Attack Venice For First Time   Germans Say Allied Artillery Sheliing Naples; French Grab Capital of Corsica

Nazis Sacking And Burning Naples; Typhus And Typhoid Epidemics Are Sweeping City   ltalian Metropolis Has Been Turned Into A City Of Horrors, Refugees Rep ort; Corsica And Sardinia Being Mopped Up By Allied Troops

GERMANS SACK, BURN CITY IN TERROR ACTION   Gesture May Mean Nazis Plan Further Retreat; Patrols Kill Many Of Natives

SARDINIA AND CORSICA ARE MOPPED UP   While United States Fifth Army Widens Hold Below Naples to 16 Miles: Venice Bombed for First Time.   Driving North

American Fifth Army  Widens Hold Below Naples  VENICE iS BOMBED BY ALLIED FLIERS  Favorable Progress in Conquest of Corsica Reported

RETAEAT NOWTH BELIEVED PLAN   Refugees Say Naples Turned into City of Horror   ALLIES, ITALIANS   Mop up on Corsica and Sar. dinia; Fifth Widens Foothold Below Naples

Fitth Army Widens Hold Below Naples   Allies Capture Eboli And German Retreat In Italy Continues  VENICE IS BOMBED

Nazis Loot, Burn Nanles   Epidemics Rage In City Of Herror, "Thousands' Slain.

NAZIS OUSTED FROM CORSICA AND SARDINIA   VENICE IS BOMBED; HOLD AT NAPLES IS WIDENED

FIFTH ARMY WIDENS ITS HOLD BELOW NAPLES TO 16 MILES   “orsica and Sardinia Are Being Mopped Up by Allied and Italian Troops

Allied Hold On Italy Is Tightened   Italians, French Mopping Up On Two Islands

Japan Quits sland Fight In Solomons   Six-Month Battles End In Victory For United States Units

Help Our Side Win—Buy Bonds Swift-Breaking War Developments of The Day Include These:

ARMY AND NAVY MAY SANCTION SOLDIER VOTE   Worley Predicts Shift From Opposition Presented Year Ago   2,000,000 TO BE AFFECTED   Hearings On Proposal To Begin Next Month In Lower House

OVERSEAS SOLDIERS PROMISED VOTE IN THE 1944 ELECTION   NAVY OFFICIALS WILL €OOPERATE IN PLAN FOR Y-MAIL BALLOTING  wontons SAYS -ARMY AND

International Peace Machinery Sought  First Post-War Plan Indorsed ;GroupFayors

‘House Group Favors International ‘Powers for Peace   Would Create Means  To Establish,  Maintain Freedom

Paratrooper, Shot as Spy, Fools Enemy   Yank Lives Despite Bullets, Grenades Italians Used.

US, PARATROOPER SHOT SEVEN TIMES AS SPY SUSPECT   Albany Soldier Describes Brutality He Received from Italian Officer.

Says Air Mail May Be Limited To Government And Military Business

TIRES, TUBES APPROVED bY ~ BATION BOARD   Only Thirty-nine Petitions * Before Board at Thursday Session.   THE WEEKLY MEETING   Mcst of the Petitioners Were Askihe for Autcomobile Tires.

TIE, TUBES © ~ APPROVED a ~AANTION. BOARD   Only Thirty-nine Petition: * Before Board at—Thursin day Session. :   THE WEEKLY MEETING   Mest of the Petitioners Were  -Askihg for Autome-  ‘bile Tires.’

Fighting in Progress On2 Islands   Strong Resistance on Tarawa Is Reported by Ad mira] Nimitz

Air-Sea Barrage Covers Invasion   Bold, 2400-Mile Over Water Thrust Is Started by U. S. Soldiers, Marines

DARING INVASION OF GILBERT GROUP HERALDS BlG PUSH   Battleships and Aircraft Carriers Support U. 5S. Lending Parties

REOPENING FREIGHT RATES INCREASE T0 GIVE TEXAS CHANCE  _ TEXAS RAIL COMMISSION URGED BY CULBERSON

Gi. 0. P. WOMEN PLAN WHITE ELEPHANT PARTY   Event For Club Members And Friends Will Take Place Tuesday Night, Jan. 19

BRITISH CABINET IS SUMMONED BY CHURCHILL   Prime Minister Losing No Time In Implementing Casablanca Decisions   MEETS MILITARY CHIEFS   Two Consultations Held At Downing Street In 24 Hours

Churchill Back: Meets Cabinet   Consultations Held In London Following Memorable Trip By Prime Minister   EXPECT COMMONS TO HEAR REPORT

OWL Chief Warns - America Against ~ German ‘Revolt’  Elmer Davi is predicts Vast Invasion by.

German Leaders Expected To Plot ‘Phony Revolution’ To Avert Complete Disaster

Elmer Davis Warns Against Fake Nazi Revolution to Give Old Gang New Chance to Plan for World Conquest

OW! Head Says Nazis May Stage Phony Revolution   Would Stage Act To Save Own Necks In Peace

Axis Chiefs Expect Attempts at Landing In France and Italy   Foe Ready for ‘Any Eventuality’; Allied Radios Fan Reich Fears — With Instructions to Saboteurs

GERMANS FLASK INVASION ALERT   All Defense Zones Ordered To Stand Ready

PAGET NAMEL AS PROBABL! ALLIED HEAD   Allied Radios Tell Frenchmen Day of invasion Near

Germans: Flash Invasion Alert to Axis Garrisons From . Norway to Balkans: Paget Possible Invasion Commander’

Germans Flash Invasion Alert to Axis Garrisons; Gen. Paget May be Leader

Alert Given For Invasion   “Nozis Warn Defenses To Be Ready To Fight

YOUTHS DROWNED IN POTOMAC RIVER   Melvin. ‘Hendershot, 13. ; Loses Life on Sat. — ‘ urday

YOUTH IS DROWNED IN POTOMAC RIVER   Melvin Hendershot, 13. Loses Life on Saturday

Gen. Johnson. SWPC Chief, Quits Army   Time At Hand To Take ‘Strong Position’ On Essential Civilian Production. He Savs   Plan Decentralization

ON PRODUCTION JOB:   Johnson Leaves Army to Devote Efforts to Civilian Needs

To Carry Torch for Civilians   Gen. Johnson, Chairman Of SWPC Resigns from Army to Push Production of Essentials

Quits Army To Champion Civilian Need   Gen. Johnson Says He Is Going to Fight For Essential Production

Resigns Army  For SWPC Post   General Feels Small Plants Best-Suited For Civilian Production.

Gen. Robert W. Johnson Quits Army To Champion Essential Civilian Goods

Johnson Quils Army; Wants To Boost Civilian Goods   Production By Small. Plants Is Aim Of SWPC Chieftian

Second Nationwide Army-Navy Tests Given November 9   Students Taking Exams Must State Service Preference

British Troops Ambush Two Parties Of Japanese tn Mayu Hills Of Burma

dvances      TAKES IMPORTANT AIRDROME: FROM AXIS; AMERICANS SLOW  DOWN ROMMEL ADVANCE IN SQOLTY

Kighth Army Takes Island And Airport   Montgomery Opens Barrage That May Prelude Bie Drive

To Relieve Pressure In Tunisia   British Sdize Island Ai Base On Coast—Reds Continue Advance

Worst Blaze in Years Perils Two Vessels   Navy Materia] Burns: Three Hurt as Fire ~ Burns 2 Hours

FIRE SWEEPS TWO NAVY PIERS AT S.F.   Worst Waterfront Blaze In Several Years Reported

FIRE SWEEPS NAVY PIERS IN SAN FRANCISCO   Vessels Towed to Safety 22 Companies Help Battle Blaze

OHIOANS’ BREAK FOR FREEDOM GUT SHORT   Flee Jail, Captured 20 Minutes Later

YOUTHS RECAPTURED AFTER JAIL BREAK   Scioto County Officers Are Slugged in Flight

GERMAN TROOPS WIN RED PRAISE; SPIRIT BROKEN   Russia’s Summer Offense Launched With Terrific Artillery Bombardment

HEAVIEST BARRAGE   Cannonade Opening Red Drive Said to Be Heavi est in History ©

Artillery Fire Is Heaviest In  World History   Record- Breaking Barrage Laid Down By Russians At Opening Of Their  Summer Offensive

Reds Throw Up Record Shelling  3,000 Guns Per Mile A: Offensive Began

ACT TO AVERT MOB REIGN OF TERROR   Frail _ Gandhi, © 73, ‘Enters Second Day Of Fasting

MOB VIOLENCE $ FEARED IN INDIA AS GANDHI FASTS   No Indications of Compromise As Leader Begins Second Diet Day.

ALLIES DRAW NEARER. 10. TRIPOLI   Drop Parachutistts ToCut Or  Retreating Nazis

Parachutists Harass Fleeing Afrika Korps   British Eighth Army Approaches Nearer Tripoli

BERLIN CLAIMS PARACHUTISTS ARE BEING USED   Air - Borne Troops Blast Bridges And Roads Ahead Of Retreating Axis   ALLIED JUNCTION NEAR   Eighth Army Is Reported Put. ting Squeeze On Tarhuna And Homs

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CALL PATROLMEN PREVENT RIOT IN AMBUSH SLAYING   Elizabeth City White Man Killed and Two Others Seriously Wounded By Negroes Shooting From Ambush; Local Patrolmen Co-operate.

Pleased With Registration   OPA Official Says It Is Too Good To Be True

REGISTRATION HUGE SUCCESS   “We're Worried—It Seems to Good to be True,” Says OPA

END REGISTRATION FOR CANNED GOODS   Housewives Start ‘Skull Practice’ For Task of Buying Food By Both Coupons and Cash.

‘SKULL PRACTICE’ © ON FOOD POINTS   Housewives Making Ready to Buy. Food. Under New. System: Monday

Housewives Begin “Skull Practice” on Food Buying   Must Use Coupons and Cash in Purchasing Canned Items, Beginning Monday; Registration for Ration~ ing Books Goes So Well OPA Is “Worried— It. Seems Too Good to be True”

Sees Poll Taxes Being Outlawed   Van Nuys Sees Senate Approval Of Measure

HUNGER STRIKERS ARE FORCED T0 EAT   Conscientious Objectors Kept Alive in Spite of Selves

U. 0. TAKto OVER NATIONS bilito TO-END Gi0PPAGE   Ickes Given Power to Renew Contracts With WLB Guidance

Government to Open Coal Mines On Wednesday   Refusal To Heed Back-ToWork Order Or President Carries Drastic Penalties   ANTI-STRIKE LAW PROVISIONS CITED

Many Germans are Said to Be Clinging to the Ways of The Nazi's  ITALIANS HAPPY  Numerous Japanese Try to Ignore Their American  Guards

Axis Soldiers Are Imprisoned in Seventeen States   Germans Cling:to Nazi Way;. Italians Happy; Japaness Try To Ignore American Guards.

Sanananda Strong Point Falls to Allies  Jap Army of 15,000 Near Destruction; Dianac Dectraved

18 Jap Zero Planes Reported Destroyed In New Guinea Battles  ALLIES HIT CONVOY APPROACHING LAE  Cape Sanananda Army Virtually Wiped Out, Once 15.000 Steang

Heavily Loaded Transport Sunk By Allied Bombers In ‘Attack On Japanese Convoy   18 Zero Fighters Also Destroyed In Action In Huon Gulf; Enemy Army At Cape Sanananda Is Completely Enveloped

FIGHT CAR RATION RULES RELAXED   NEW AUTOMOBILES MADE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE BY MANY PERSONS.

AUTO RATIONING IS LIBERALIZED   Action Makes Nation’s Stock Of 240,000 New Cars Available for Purchase by Wide List of People

Rationing of Cars liberalized by OP/   Wide List of People May Purchase Autos

OPA LIBERALIZES AUTO RATIONING   -New—Rules—Effective—March 6 “Provide Quicker Turnover

Ration. Restrictions 'On 240,000 New Cars [Relaxed By OPA.   Sales Of Cars Open To People Who Need Them On March 6

Automobile Rationing Modified, Wide List of People May Buy Cars Now

OPA LIBERALIZES RATIONING - OF NATION’S AUTOMOBILES      240,000 New Cars Are Made Available For Purchase By A Wide List Of People Without The Necessity Of Obtaining A Ration Certificate

AUTO RATIONING PROGRAM LIBERALIZED BY THE OPA   Nation’s Stock of 240,000 New Cars to be Made Available for Purchase by a Wide List of People—New Rules to be Effective March 6

16 Perish In Hotel Tragedy   ‘Fire Mushrooms Swiftly Through Five-Story Stand ard Hotel,

16 Are Killed Tn New York  Hotel Blaze   Death Toll May Reach 20, Official Fears;

BYRNES NAMED ‘HEAD MAN’ IN SUPER-AGENCY   Mobilization of Entire War Effort Is Duty Of New Bureau

MOBILIZATION BOARD NAMED  TO UNIFY WAR EFFORT: BYRNES BECOMES NEW CZAR OF CZARS

Byrnes Heads ‘Super-Agency ‘OF War Effort   Six-Man Mobilization Board Is Created and Former Supreme Judge Becomes the Czar of Czars

Teaming of War Effort and Home Front F.D.R.'s Goal   New Super-Agency Is an Answer to Congress’ Criticism

' Judge Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky to Succeed Byrnes as Stabilization Director— Byrnes Becomes Czar of Czars  :   UNDER DIRECT CONTROL OF FDR   Other Members of Board Stimson, Knox, Hopkins, Nelson and Vinson—Job to Unify Programs, Develop Policies

BYRNES NAMED CZAR OF GZARS IN WAR EFFOR]   Small War Board To Direct All Efforts Behind Battle . Front   APPOINTED RY PRESINEN’

PRESIDENT NAMES JAMES F: BYRNES   New Appointee Will Head Compact War Mobili - ation Board   AN OVERALL AGENCY

JAMES F. BYRNES   New Appointee Will Head Compact War Mobilization Board   AN OVERALL AGENCY

Byrnes Will / Become ‘Czar  Of All Czars’   Job Will Be to Handle Home Front Problems _ For Roosevelt  t.

Overall Agency To Develop Maximum Use Of American Resources Named   STREAMLINING OF WAR ACTIVITIES MAIN AIM   Five Men Named To Serve On Guiding Committee With James Byrnes

Byrnes Heads Six Man Board   Directed to Unify Activities of U. S. Agencies and Other Departments— Will Be Arbiter of Future Rows— Judge Vinson Named to Byrnes Post

To Unify Home Front War Effort   Duty Is to Keep Both Military Machine and Civilian Economy Running at Full ‘Speed

FDR Creates New Six-Man War Board   Designed to Keep Military Machine and Essential Civilian Economy Running at High Speed

HOME FRONT'S UNIFICATION SET AS GOAL   Formation of New Organization Is Announced By Roosevelt   WILL COORDINATE FEDERAL AGENCIES   Must Keep Military and Civilian Economy Running “As Team”

Byrnes Heads Group In Charge Of All Phases OF War Effort Except Military Operations

Byrnes Empowered By F. D. To Dictate War Efforts At Home   Aimed At Developing Policies For Maximum Use Of -Resour Ces, - Manpower, Civilian Economy

President Names Byrnes Head Of New War Board   To Direct All Of Nations ee Efforts; See As Czar Of Czars

BYRNES TO BE CZAR OF CZARS ON WAR FRONT   FDR Creates Mobilization Board With Broad Powers

BYRNES GIVEN HIGH POWERS IN NEW JOB   ‘Ofice of War Mobilization  Is Created by President To Develop Unified Programs

BYRNES WILL BE THE HOME _ FRONT CZAR   ¢Purpose of Super-Agency Is to Keep Military Machine and Civilian Economy in Team and at High Speed.

New War Mobilization Board Named With Byrnes At Helm; Vinson Gets Stabilization Job

Super-Agency To Direct All Victory Efforts  Military Machine,   Military Machine, Civilian Economy Linked by Board

Byrnes Heads New Six-Man ‘Super Agency   Charged With Duty of. Keep: “ing Military Machine,Civil-jan Economy Going.   MUST RUN AS TEAM AND AT. HIGH SPEED   Stimson, Knox; Hopkins; Nelson and Judge Vinson. < Others on Board -

New Bureau Controlling War Effort On The Home Front Created: By F.D.R.-

~— OF NEW BODY   6 Man ‘Mobilization’ Board To Streamline War Effort.   UNIFY ALL ACTIVITIES

‘.D.R.Sets Up Oftice Of War  Mobilization   flames Byrnes To Group With Powers Over All Home Front W ar Efforts.  St Calg te aa eer ee age cS om ae ee ae a re. S   COMMITTEE TO ASSIST

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CREATES NEW OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION T0 BE HEADED BY JANES F. BYRNES   Will Have Virtually Complete Power Over Home Front War Effort And Will Establish Policies for Maximum Use of Nation’s Natural Resources.

SUPER-UNIT GIVEN BROAD AUTHORITY   Assigned Task Of Governing Home Front

NEW WAR BOARD FOR HOME FRONT SET UP BY FDR   All of Nation’s Efforts To Bring Victory Under Group’s Direction   JAMES BYRNES IS CHIEF   Authority Given To Handle Anything from Supplies To Internal Disputes

Directed to Unify Activities of U.S. Agencies and Other Departments—Wil! Be Arbiter of Future Rows—Judge Vinson Named to Byrnes Post

Byrnes Heads New Overall War Agency   President Appoints James F. Byrnes Chairman of Office of War Mobilization

SUPER BOARD I$ SET UP TO RULE OTHER GROUPS   6 Man War Mcbifization Board Given Vast Powers by Roosevelt

Roosevelt Creates Super War Czar   Byrnes Becomes Head Of War. Mobilization Board To Unify Activities   GIVEN POLICY POWER   Inter Agencies Disputes To Be Settled; Vinson Takes Stabilizing Jeb

JAMES BYRNES IS APPOINTED DIRECTOR   All Agencies Are Unified Under New Program   MEMBERS   Include Judge Fred Vinson, _ $timson, Nelson, Hopkins And Knox

iNew ‘Agency Has Power Over Natural and Industrial Resources and Manpower, and 1 Can Settle All Controversies

MOBILIZATION GROUP HEADED UP BY BYRNES   He Now “Reigns” As Czar Of All Czars To Team Military Machine, Civilian Economy

per War oard Set phy DR   yraes Named Czar if C2zars; Given Aue orily Over Disputes

Byrnes Will Head Group To Further Nation’s Efforts, Establish Policies

WAR MOBILIZATION BOARD OF SIX MEN WITH VAST POWERS   JAMES F, BURNES NAMED HEAD NEW SUPERAGENCY BY PRESIDENT

Another Office Is Created by FDR To “Unify” Activities’   James Byrnes Appointed Director of Office of War Mobilization

BYRNES NAMED TOHEAD HOME FRONT OFFICE   Will Conduct Nation’s Victory Efforts Behind Battle Lines

Vinson Given His Economic Chairmanship   Stimson, Knox, Hop. kins, and Nelson on OWB’s Committee

CZAR OF CZARS IN WAR EFFORT   Te Direct All of Nation’s War Efforts Behind Battle Fronts   HEADS CENTRAL BOARD   Fred M. Vinson Succeeds Byrnes As Economic Stabilizer

New Office Of  1 War Mobilization To Control All Federal Aqencies

OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION FORMED BY FOR   James F. Byrnes To Direct New Gov’t Bureau

F.D, R. CREATES POWERFUL NEW OFFICE FOR WAR   Jimmy Byrnes Given Virtually Complete Powers Qver All Home Front War Efforts; Vinson Takes Stabilization Post.

onomic Stabilization Di ector to Assume ‘Chair manship of New Office. Of War Mobilization   GE VINSON TO SUCCEED BYRNES   ce to Exercise Virtually Complete Powers Over Home Front Activities  ee Supreme Court Jus.

Byrnes to: Be Placed In Charge   Holds Complete Powers Over War Efforts On Home Front

New Board Formed To Direct Nations Efforts For Victory   President Roosevelt Sums Up Duty Of Board To Keep Military Machine, Essential Civilian Economy Running At High Speed

BREMEN RADIO TAKEN OFF AIR   Possible. Indication Allied Planes Were Overhead; No German Planes Over Britain.

Plan Ceiling On Soft Wheat   OPA Grants 60 Cent Raise in Soft Wheat Flour Price

60-Cent Price  Hike For Soft  Wheat Flour OPA To Set Ceiling Svon; Crackers And Cakes Geing Up

Soft Wheat Ceiling In Near Future   OPA Grants Price Advance of 60 Cents In Soft Wheat Flour   New Prices To Be Higher Than Parity   This Flour Is Used Mostly For Pastry Crackers, Biscuits

A CEILING PRICE FOR SOFT WHEAT   Will Be Fixed Approximatel: at Market Level Middle of the Week.

CEILING PRICE ON SOFT WHEAT FLOUR RAISED 60 CENTS   Grain Grown East of Rockies ls Affected Under Order, Action on Grain Is Alse Expected.   PRICE IS SLIGHTLY MORE THAN PARITY   Flour Is Used Principally In Making Crackers, Biscuits, Pastry, Products May Cost More.

PA GIVES PERMIT FOR PRICE RISE ON SOFT WHEAT FLOUR   Sixty-Cent-Barrel Increase Sanctioned; Used Largely - for Crackers Biscuits and  Dectry

Grant Higher Price For Soft Wheat Flour   OPA Order Will Cause Increase In Prices Of Crackers, Biscuits And Pastry

WHEAT FLOUR PRICE UPPED   OPA ‘Also Announces Forthcoming Ceiling On Price Of Soft Wheat

OPA GRANTS SIXT) CENTS PER BBL. RAISE ON FLOUR   NEW PRICES ARE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN PARITY

Ceiling ae Soft      To Be Announced in a Few Days; Grants 60 Cents. Per. Barrel In‘crease in. Flour Price

Soft Wheat Flour Price Is Boosted Ceiling On Grain To Be Approximately Same As In Mid-Week

OPA GRANTS SIXTY-CENT PER BARREL. BOOST IN PRICES SOFT WHEAT FLOUR.

LIFT FLOUR CEILING   OPA Allows Increase in Product Made From Soft Wheat

Price Of Soft Wheat Flour Is Hiked By 0.P.A.   Forthcoming Ceiling On The Grain Itself Also  Announced.

BOOST IN PRICE OF SOFT WHEAT FLOUR GRANTED   Office of Price Administration Permits Increase of 60 Cents Per  ; Barrel   CEILING TO FOLLOW   Largely Cracker, Biscuit Pastry Flour; Prices on Peanuts and Products Revised

FLOUR BOOST — OF 60° GRANTED   OPA Allows” That In. crease Per Barrel;. Ceil. ing Coming.

Allies Strike Heavily at Jap Air Bases   Nip Positions on New Britain Main Targets

‘OTH AIRFORCE P-T BOATS STRIKE BLOWS      At Japanese Air Bases and Shipping On New Britain, Opposite Side of Island From Rabaul.   Ramu Valley

Japanese Air Base Of New _ .Britain Bombed By Allies   New Gloucester Airports Severely Attacked—Mor Than 400 Enemy Dead Counted in the Ramu Valley Campaign

P-T BOATS AND PLANES HIT JAPS   Strike Blows at Air Bases And Shipping on Opposite End of New Britain From Recently Pulverized Rabaul

New Blows Struck In New Guinea by Fifth Airforce   Japanese Bases and Ship ping Are Pounded by Heavy Bombers

ATTACK JAPANESE ON NEW BRITAIN   AIRMEN AND P-T BOATS  STRIKE AT AIR BASES AND ENEMY SHIPPING.

U.S. Airmen Keer Pounding Japs In Rabaul Drive   Swift Boats Assist in Lashing Enemy As Fliers Drop Tons of Bombs Over Important Nipponese Holdings

New Guinea Japs Pounded Again   P-T, Boats. Join Air Force For Assault

JAPANESE AIR, SHIPPING BASES GIVEN BLASTING   Cape Gloucester Target For 42-Ton Pounding; Vessel Sunk At Rooke Island

Five Japanese _ Divisions Caught In Chinese Trap   75,000 Troops Face  Destruction In Narrow Battle Area

Bricker, WPB Head to Confer On Time Change      Legislative Action Delayed Pending Talk in Baltimore

TIME QUESTION IS HELD UNDER COVER BY OHIO ASSEMBLY   Senate Leaders Try to Stave Off Revolt of Issue by Powerful Com mittee Action.

SENATE WRAPS UP TIME ISSUE UNTIL NELSON GIVES VIEW   Bricker To Confer With WPB Boss This Weekend

RIVERS THREATEN FURTHER DISASTER OVER FLOOD AREA   The Turbulent Mississippi and Illinois Are Spreading Out.   OVER A WIDE SECTION   Have Already Flooded Seections of Illinois and Missouri.

Waters Stall Surge Over _6- ‘State Area      Ulinois, Missouri -Lowlands Face Disaster as Floods Pour Over Levees   160.000 HOMELESS   Death Toll 17: Conference Called to Plan for Food Production

Swollen Rivers Increase Threat Over Mid-West   No Indication Seen When Mississippi, Tilinois To Drop

FLOOD DAMAGE IS INCREASING   Devastation Spread Over Midwest Farm Lands By Rampaging Rivers

Floods Keep On Spreading   Further Disaster In Illiniois and Missouri As Rivers Keep Rising

160,000 NOW HOMELESS IN MIDWEST AREA   Waters Threaten New Areas; Damage High

NewDanger Seen Facing  Flood Area   No Immediate Indication Raging Mississippi Anil Hlinois Have Spent Fury

Mississippi And Illinois PileUp Damage   Missouri and IIlinois Are Bearing Bulk of _Loss From Floods Of Two Streams

Set Damage at 40 Millions; 7 Are Dead   Beardstown Remains in ‘Critical Position; Relief Action  ls Planned

FLOOD FURY IS UNABATED   Continue To Peril Towns In Mississippi And Illinois

Losses Mount to $40,000,000 in Six-State Area   160,000 Made Homeless in Worst Flood in Century; 17 Known Dead.   Most Levees Give Way To Rising Torrents

Further Flood Disaster Menaces Sections Of Illinois, Missouri   Damage To Crops, Property And Livestock Alread} In Millions. And Mounting Hourly; Call Conference On Food Tomorrow.

160,000 IN SIX STATES HOMELESS   Illinois And Missouri Are Hardest Hit; 17 Known Dead

FURTHER FLOOD DAMAGE LOOMS   No Indication That Mississippi And Illinois Rivers Have Spent Their Fury.

MIDWEST FLOOD THREAT UNABATED      Mississippi and Illinois Rivers On Rampage

THE FATHER OF WATERS COVERS WIDENING ARES   Flood Menaces 125-Mil Front Between St, Louis And Cape Girardeau

FLOOD AREA SITUATION IS UNIMPROVED   Mississippi and Illinois Rivers Continue Devastating Courses Over Wide Section   CROP DAMAGE IS HIGH

RIVERS CONTINUE TO SPREAD HAVOC   No Indication Floods Have Spent Their — Fury In West

Roaring Flood Waters Cause More Damage   Loss Runs Into Mi lions; 160,000  Are Homele«

CALM REIGNS IN ARGENTINA   Castillo Resigns; Revolutionists in Full Control

Argentine president quits place   Military junta takes over rule

Argentine President Surrenders   Military Body  Controls Nation . In Pro-Alfied Coup

Castillo Gives Up To Authorities —  At La Plata Base      ‘Abandons Attempt To ‘Maintain Government Aboard Mine Sweeper    Butnos Aires, June 5 (UP)— Ramon.8. Castillo resigned. to‘day as president of Argentina.

SENATOR PLANG LONG DELAY FUR SUBSIDY FIGHT   Signs Of Bloc Weakening: Glass Supports Voting By Service Men

More Aid Funds Are Released   Gov. Donnell Authorizes Overspending to Avert Cut in Children’s Aid   PROSPECTS OF NEW SPECIAL SESSION   Budget Thrown Out of Bal ance and Security Problem Is Not Yet Settled

Donnell Tells ‘Social Security ‘To Overspend  BDateae Dacershilieu   Raises Possibility Of Another Extra Legislative Session

Pacific Battle Takes Jap Toll   MANY ENEMY PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN BY ALLIES

Japs Attack Arawe and Bougainville   US Fighter Planes Down 16 Nip Aircraft; Development of New US Superbomber Is Announced

Allied Planes Pound Jap Lines   16 Jap Planes Shot Down Over Arawe Beachhead

Allies, Japs _Turn to Air “in New Move:      Enemy’s Cape Gloucester Airdrome on New Britain Object of Bomb Assault —

U.S. Planes Rake Japs From China To the Solomons   (By MORRIE LANDSBERG) (Associated Presse War Feditor)

ALLIED PLANES PROVIDE ACTION IN PACIFIC AREA   Jap Positions: From China To Solomons Blasted

JAP POSITIONS IN MANY AREAS BEING BOMBED   Allied Warplanes Providing Action in Pacific From China to the  Co Llewcaw ry

AIRMEN BLAST ~ JAPS, CHINA TO SOLOMONS   16 Jap Aircraft Shot Down in At iack of 100 Bombers and Fight ers on Arawe   EXTEND HOLDING   Destroyers Bombard Tinputs Har. bor While Airmen Continue At tacks on Bougainville

HEAVY RAIDS ARE MADE ON JAP POSITIONS   American Fighter Planes Shoot Down Sixteen Enemy Aircraft in Defense Of Army Beachhead   OTHERS ARE DAMAGED

WANPLANES CHICF ACTION IN PACIFIC   4 Enemy Positions Over Wide Area Blasted By U. S.

ALLIED WARPLANES PROVIDING ACTION IN PACIFIC AREA   Aerial Raiders Keep The Japs Busy Pending Next Vital Phase Of The Offensive Against Them

Planes Take Stage In Pacific; New Drive Coming   Allied Fliers Blast at Japs From China To Solomons; Enemy Loses 16 Craft at Arawe, Takes Other Setbacks

Americans Ruin Blow at Arawe   JAPS SEND 100 DIVEBOMBERS, FIGHTERS ON ARAWE, 15 BOMBERS TO BOUGAINVILLE; NEW U. S. SUPER-BOMBER REVEALED BY SOLON

ALLIED WARPLANES PROVIDING ACTION PACIFIC. THEATRE   ENEMY POSITIONS FROM CHINA TO SOLOMONS UNDER ATTACK

BOMBERS BLAST JAP POSITIONS   Areas From China To Solomons Are Under Attack

AREA IS RAIN-SOAKED   Topsoil of Eastern and Central Kansas Gets Moisture

Football Tickets Still On Sale   Rainfall General In East Kansas

Huge Black Market in Veal Smashed by Regional Meat Boar¢   Armed Forces Reported in “Critical” Need  for Fresh Beef

RMY BUYS SINGLE ANIMALS  Critical Need for Beef For Armed Forces Cited

irmed Forces.of Nation n “Critical’’ Need of Beef      rimary Objective of War Meat Board, Newly Organ ized Agency of War Food Administration, to Provide Adequate Supply of Meat to Military Services; Holds Second Meeting

FOUR DEAD IN TEXAS TORNADO   Six Lose Lives In Floodwaters Surging Across Okiahoma Areas

Four Persons Perish in East Texas Blow   Tornado Damage ls Estimated at Over $1,000,000

Prest. Names Davis Head New Food Production, Distribution Commission

FDR CREATES NEW AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT TO BE HEADED BY CHESTER C. DAVIS OF ST. LOUIS   New Organization Will Handle Food Production And Distribution Activities And Recruiting Of Farm Labor, Recently Transferred From WMC

For Food  ROOSEVELT CREATES ADMINISTRATION OF FOOD PRODUCTION 10 BE HEADED BY CHESTER C. DAVIS. FORMERLY WITH AAA

Chester Davis New Food Boss   Production And Distribution Is Under Department

New food agency formed   Davis to head production and distribution

IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION   Warns That Farm Bill Will Send Food Costs Up

NEW STEP SET UP FOR FOOD CONTROL   President Names a Production and Distribution Administrator

Chestér Davis Appointed as Administrator, Seeks to Solve Food Problem  HE WILL GOON JOB MONDAY  OPA. Meanwhile Opposes House Measure on Farm Prices

Wartime Fooc Chief Named   F, R. Creates Agency To Rule Production And Distribution

C.C. DAVIS NAMED FOOD DIRECTOR   New Office Is Established By President

PRESIDENT NAMES CHESTER C. DAVIS FOOD ADMINISTRATOR   FOOD PRODUCTION AND DISTRIUTION AGENCY CREATED THURSDAY

Wrangle Over “Payas-You-Go’ Levies Is Begun in House   Debate Is One of Many News Stories in U. S. Capital Circles

FOR FOOD IN THIS COUNTRY   Chester Davis Administrator for Unit Which Will Boss Production and Distribution,

Chief to Direct Production, Distribution, Including AAA: Wilf Begin Duties Monday

Chester Davis ls Chosen As New Food (Czar   Agricultural Expert Wil Oversee Production, Dis tribution, Labor   REPORTS MONDAY   President's Statement Fails To Mention Wickard's Relation To Appointee

Set Up Food Output Office Under Davi:   Former AAA Head Has Post In Agriculture Department; 2 Farm Measures Assailed

Davis Named Boss; Former Triple-A Head   Pres. Roosevelt Moves To Block Bankhead And Pace Farm Price Bills.

FOOD PRODUCTION ~ AND DISTRIBUTION PLAN ANNOUNCED   President Roosevelt Announce ed Today the Creation of Department.   C. C: DAVIS, THE HEAD

New Federal Food Agency Is Former   In Charge of Food Production, Distribution  Headed by Davis

omer Director Of Triple-A Is Chosen By Roosevelt To Have Charge Of Food Production And Distribution Activities Ot Department Of Agriculture

Roosevelt Sets Up Administration To  Handle Food Set-Up   Chester Davis 3 Appointed Administrator of Unit to Handle Production and Distribution of Food =

L FARM BILL WILL RUIN OPA NET - UP, CLAIM   Administration Is Opposed To Bankhead And Pace Farm Measures   NEW ADMINISTRATOR CONSIDERED BY FDR   End Of Price Stabilization Will Result If Farm Bills Pass, Claim

‘ADMINISTRATION OF FOOD PRODUCTION 'AND DISTRIBUTIGN ANNOUNCED BY FDR

CREATE DEPT. OF FOOD PRODUCTION   ROOSEVELT NAMES BANKER TO HEAD NEW DEPARTMENT

FOOD PRODUCTION BODY CREATED   President Names €. C ‘Davis to Administer ‘Agri " entture Distribution

A New Food Czar Named By President   C. C. Davis To Take Distribution And Production Control

President Sets Up Food Administration   New Agency to Supervise Production and Distribution of Food to Be Under Direction Of Chester C. Davis.

CREATES SMALL UNIT AS CENTER OF FOOD POWERS   New Administration To Take Over Authority In Production, Distribution Activities

New Plan Established For Limited Service Draftees   Will Be Called Second Time When Number Reappears In Backlog

New Draft Plan Will Simplify Call Of Limited Service Men   After August 1 Registrants With Slight Physical Defects Will Be Classified 1-A-L -

PRESSURE ON SMOLENSK 1S UNSLACKENED   Reds Press on in One Seector and Hait to Consolidate Positions In Another

Reds Continue Push In Smolensk Sector   Germans Also Lose Ground on Belgorod Front; Hitler Sends Fresh Troops to Battlefront

Nazis Offer More Stubborn Resistance  Fresh German Forces Reported At Front North Of Chucuev

RUSSIANS FACE LARGE NAZI UNITS   Meet Mounting German Resistance in Drive on Their Western Front

Reds Continue Smolensk Drive   Press Steadily on Despite Growing German Resistance

Russians Press On To New Gains   GERMAN PRESURE ON SECTOR GROWS STIFFER

REDS PUSH ON NEAR SMOLENSK   Germans Offer Bitter Resistance In Northern Donets River Battleground

Reds Driving On Toward Smolensk  Nazi Resistance Gains; Recapture Settlements

BIG NAZI UNITS ~ PRESS SOVIETS   Violent Battles Indicate That Germans Are Thowing Reserves into Action

Russians Record New Gains   Press Toward Smolensk, Block  German Pressure.

QOVIET UNITS GAIN IN WEST   Red Army Presses Ahead In Face of Mounting Resistance.   TROOPS FIGHT BITTERLY

Soviet Army Smashes New Nazi Attack   Battle Mounts As Reds Move Toward Smolensk

Russians Move On In Face Of Stout Defense   Battleground Shifts Constantly Along Northern Donets

SOVIETS FIGHT FORS BITTERLY INNORTH AREA   Battle In Donets Sector Shifts One Way and Then Another Against Large German Units   SMOLENSK DRIVE IS UNSLACKENED   Russians Halt At Point Of Western Front to Consolidate Position; Berlin  Says Action Meagre

Fresh Nazi Forces Keep ‘Attack Going    Bitter Battles Continue in  Donets Area; New Weap_ ons. Into Use «   SMOLENSK PUSH IS MAINTAINED   Reds Press On Despite “Mounting Resistance. and ~~ ‘Free 12.000 Russians

GENERAL PRESSURE ~ TOWARD SMOLENSK 1S UNSLACKENED   Red Army Steadily Pressed on in One Sector of the Western Front.   FIGHTING BITTERLY   Battle With the Germans Is Shifting This Way and That Way.

Russians Press Smolensk - Drive: Foe Reinforced   Tide Of Battle Ebbs And Flows Along Other Fronts

Russians Hold In Donets Area   Put Up Stiff Defense Of River Crossings; Push for Smolensk

Nazis Stiffen Lines Before Soviet Drive   Russians Keep Up Pressure; Hold Germans on Donets

REDS STOP NEW NAZI ATTACK IN UPPER DONETS   Continue Drive Toward Smolensk, Inflict Heavy Losses on Germans

Red Army Smashes New Nazi Assaults on Northern Donet:   Russians Also Advance in Smolensk Sector; War Summarized

STRONG GERMAN PRESSURE FAILS TO CHECK REDS   Soviet Drive Toward Smolensk Unslack , ened; Bitter Fighting Rages In Northern Donets Sector.

Large Units Of Nazis In Donets Area   German Resistance To Soviets Mounting Steadily

BATTLE LINES SHIFT RAPIDLY IN DONETS AREA   Advance on Smolensk Continued Despite Increased Resistance— Heds.Gain i in Kuban

TWO DONETS TOWNS TAKEN FROM ENEMY   Russians Advance On Western Front, Consolidate Lines

PRESS ATTACK ON SMOLENSK   German Resistance Mounts   On Western Front

MORE NAZIS THROWN INTO DONETS FIGHT   Bloody Battles Restimed After Brief Slackening of German Pressure—  _4Red Drive Toward Smolensk Is Continuing.

Red Army Battles To Hold Donets River As  Nazis Hurl New Units      Ry KDNDDV GILMORE

RUSSIANS PRESS STEADILY AHEAD TO SMOLENSK   VIOLENT BATTLES ARE BEING FOUGHT IN DONETS VALLEY

SOVIET TROOPS HOLD LINES ON DONETS FRONT   Reds Continue Heavy Pressure Near Smolensk

PRESSURE ON SMOLENSK   Mounting German Resistance Fails to  Halt Reds on Western  Brant

Keep Up Fierce Attacks in Push  Toward Smolensk   Russian Artillery Smashes German Attempts to Cross Donets River.   Germans Send Fresh Troops to Red Front

Red Advance Continues On Western Front   Donets River Battle Shifts In Hard Fight

RECAPTURE TWO TOWNS   Red Army Continues Advance On Black  Sea Naval Base

GENERAL RUSSIAN  PRESSURE AGAINST  SMOLENSK KEPT UP ON NORTHERN DONETS RIVER FRONT RED ARM’  TTP ro ATA

BLOODY FIGHT SAID RAGING NEAR BORDER   French Patriots Hit Back at Italian Soldiers

Further Reduction in Civilian Gas'  Supply Seen as Pacific Drive Nears

ANOTHER CUT IN GASOLINE IN PROSPECT   Increased. Tempo Of War Against Japan May Hit Civilians

Bowles Warns On Cul In Gasoline  hAav Fallow tracrease in   May Follow tncreose In War Against Japanese

GASOLINE RATION TO BE CUT AS WAR (ON JAPAN SPEEDS UP. WARNS BOWLES

Civilian Gas  Cut Possible   Administrator Bowles Declares More Fuel Needed to Fight Japs

Battling’ Ickes Goes to Mat with Congress, Tired of Useless, Fruitless Investigations

JAPS REPULSED WITH LOSSES IN BURMA FIGHTING   Defeat Was Second Setback Suffered By Japanese In Pacific and  Far East This Week.

HOUSE INVITATION TO WGEE TOUCHED OFF SENATE ROW  GASOLINE RATIONING POL  ICIES CRITICIZED BY  METCALFE AND COTTEN

Would Have U. S. Send Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl to Canada for Continued Internment   GIVING INFORMATION ABOUT ADOLF HITLER   London Holds That “In formationally He Is Dry Reservoir;” Ottawa in Dark on Issue

Nazis Pull Back Along Volturno, Flank Menaced   Fifth Army Pinching Off Enemy in Bitter Battle; Linkine Up With 8th

Allies Drive Ahead in Italian Area   Nazis Acknowledge Retreat North of the Volturno

Fifth drives enemy from all positions   Eighth forges steadily ahead

Strong German Resistance Cracked in Four Days of Heavy Fighting; Foe High Command Admits Retreat

Allies Score Gains Along © Volturno River Line; Nazis Admit Retreat Northward

Americans Hit Hard Blows on Volturno Line   Biller Fighting In Rough Section

NAZIS ADMIT RETREAT; BITTER FIGHT. ING ALONG TIERNO RIVER WITH TWO TOWNS CAPTURED BY ALLIES.

German Forces Retreat From Volturno River   Fifth Army Breaks Through. After Four-Day Battle; _ British Advance Up Fast Coast

NAZIS RETREAT FROM POSITIONS NEAR VOLTURNO   Bitterest Fighting In Italy Now Raging On Tierno  River   GERMANS FIGHTING DELAYING ACTION

Eighth Army Also Moves Northward   Bitter Fighting Rages Along Tierno River North of Volturno  NMIORE TOWNS TAKEN

British Eighth Army Advance: Along Its Line   Berlin Admits Nazis Pulling Back Toward Rome; Bitter Battle Rages Along Tierno

U.S., British Make Gains Along Lines   Bitter Battle Is Raging On Tierno River

RESISTANCE IS CRACKED AFTER 4-DAY STRUGGLE   British Eighth Advances All Along Its Sector; Retreat Admitted By Germans

Strong Nazi Resistance Is Fruitless   Germans Admit Theit’ Retreat; Says Their ‘Ooiosis Withdrawn’.  "

Nazis Forced To Retreat On Volturno   Allies Continue to Push Foe Back In Italian Sectors

Americans and British Crack Strong Nazi Resistance  RETREAT ADMITTED — BY ENEMY LEADERS  Bitter Fighting Reported Raging Along Tierno River

AIR COMMAND 1S REALIGNED   Action Taken To Consolidate Functions Of Rapidly Expanding Force

Soviet Airmen ~ In Mass Attack  On German Base   Huge Air Raid Upon Ore! Is Answer To German Bombing Of Kursk   MOSCOW DECLARES AIR BATTLE VICTORY

Al POWER OF flood A oURPAlGt   Russians Answer Attack on Kursk With Heavy Blow on Orel.   MASS AIR ASSAULT   Apparent the Russians Have Supericrity With Their War Planes.

Rawson: Resigns In Argentina   General Ramirez Becomes His Successor

(fficials Shift  In Argentina   Gen. Rawson Resigns As Provisional President For War Minister  Ramirez

TAX PROCEDURE CHANCES URGED   House Committee Hopes To Have New Bill Ready By Jan. 1

SEEK PLAN 10 SIMPLIFY TAX PROCEDURE   Complaints Pour in From Millions After First Returns

Advance Is Slowed In New Guinea But Fight Goes On  Allies Still Threaten Jap Base, Keep Tightening Pincers

Aussies Reach Outskirts of Finschhafen   Advance Is Slowed by Bitter . Jap Resistance

FBI Arrests 638 In Draft Roundup Record Bag Under  Criminal Law for Day

FB, 1 CRACKS DOWN ON 638 DRAFT DODGER   Widespread Arrests Are Made in 20 Cities in  Sweeping Action

3 Merchant Ships And 2 Escorts Hit   Photos Disclose Many Direct Hits In Antwerp Raid

den Reveals That Flight of Aess to England Was Effort to Oust Churchill

[Eden Reveals Hess Sought to ‘Oust Churchill   Official Version of No. 2 Nazi's Flight To Britain Given

JOURNEY MADE BY HESS TO ENGLAND EXPLAINED TODAY   Purpose Was to Oust Churchill Government and Give Germany a Free Hand in Europe.

HESS FIASCO SEEN AS TRY 10 EJECT BRITISH MINISTER   Anthony Eden Circulates Statement Disclosing Nazi Plan For  Agreement

Hitler Wanted “ Permanent" Pact Giving Germany Free Hand in Europe

CHURCHILL S OUSTER OBJECTIVE OF HESS JOURNEY, EDEN SAYS   Former No, 2 Nazi Sought Pact To Give Germany Free Hand In Europe, Official Statent Reveale

Hess Offered Peace, Eden Says   Move Sought to Oust Churchill Regime

Reveal Hess Sought to Oust Churchill   Planned Free ~Hand in Europe For Germany

Hess Sought Free Hand for Nazis   Authoritative Statement on Hess Fliqht Revealec

Labor Board Demands Action Against Miners   Government Told It Must Compe! Workers to Comply

WAR LABOR BOARD DEMANDS SIGNED COAL AGREEMENT  CONTENDS FINAL WAGE SETTLEMENT

MURDER WEAPON HUNT CONTINUES   Toledo Officers Join in McCoy Pistol Search

Bomb Frazzled Axis Nerves Gef Anot her Jolt   American Air Ships Doubled In Number; Invasion Hour Nears

No Comfort For Fritz In Announcement; oF Bomb ftalian Isle Into Submission

American Air Forees Ready  For Bombing:   Yanks, Doubled in Strength Since March, Will Carry Full  Share of Offensive Against Pete Titi Giger:

Allies May. ‘Make ‘Isle: Experi “ment: and Blast . Survivors into Submission

Double Power Of Yank Unit Since Mareh   General Eaker’s Force To Equal That Of RAF By  End Of Summer,   ‘TRAIN FOR INVASION

Fleets in England  Doubled   New Worry for Nazis as Attacks on Italy Intensified.

Heavier Raids Promised by US Air Force   Heavy Bomber Fleets Doubled in Strength Since March to Carry Full Share of Aerial Offensive Against Hitler’s Reich This Summer

U.S. Masses Air Power In Britain   Expect Fleet of Bombers to Be Nearly As -Big As That of RAF. By End of Summer

REVEAL - PLANS FOR ASSAULTS ACAINST AYIS   Nazjs Are Given New Jolt In War Of  WNaorvac   ATTACK ISLANDS   Pantelleria, Lampedusa Islands Hit Hard By Allies

§. BOMBING FLEET DOUBLED IN STRENGTH   Will Carry Full Share Of : Aerial Offensive On Germany   NEW BLOWS ON ITALY   Shattering Attacks Indicate Momentous Opera tions Imminent

Pantelleria Is Blasted Time and Again But Refuses To Surrender; Invasion  May Be Taking Place Today

American Strength Doubled in England Since Last Marck   Eaker Says Our Losses Under Four Percent; Airmen Downed 359 Axis Planes in Mav

Huge AAF SetTo Lash atGermany   Faker Says Bomber Strength To Rival ~RAF’s This Summer

in ae *        Lit Rationing Restrictions to Encourage Use on Idle

Ration Rules Off Used Tubes Now   OPA Wants Idle Ones Put Into Use

WAVE RECRUITING PARTY WILL Be iN TEMPLE FRIDAY, 12   Needs 25,000 Women To Release Same Number Men for Armed Service

Yugoslavs Use Tanks in Battle   Victory Is Claimed or Istrian Peninsula

Decisive Events Are Forecast   Czech Leader Says Attacks Planned

Assault On Italy Held Nea   Czech President Forecasts Invasion Looming

Invasion Plan lke-Tedder’s   Submitted to Cairo Conference—Won Approval

Generals Have Invasion Plan—  Clivan Tha KYND   Given To FDR, Churchill At Cairo

LIFT RED TAPE TO RECAP TIRES   Can Recap Casings Without . Having. Rationing Board —  Certificate

TIRE RECAPPING RED TAPE IS CUT   Rationing of Camelback Is Discontinued by OPA

TROOPS CLOS! IN ON GOMEL FROM 3 SIDES   Fall of Rechitsa Clears Way: Red Troops Already in Nortt ern Suburbs of Important City

Red Army Has Almost * Completed Encriclement Of Germans In  White Russia.

GOMEL GARR TOON MAY BE TRAPPED   Last Escape Corridor Rapidly Closing As Russians Drive Forward

The Assault Being Made Is From Three Sides.  50 MILES FROM THE POLISH BORDER  1,200 Germans Killed Yesterday in Dnieper River Section.

PLANES, SUBS TAKE BIG TCLL OF JAP SHIPS   27,500 Tons Sunk, 65,800 Damaged By Bombers During April   YANK SUBS ACCOUNT FOR 125,000 TONS   Japanese Again Strike At Darwin; Damage to Port Is Negligible

Foes Spar For Time In Pacific   Use Bombers and Subs In Striking At Enemy Warships and Supply _ Lines Throughout Area

War of Attrition on Supply Lines Being Wared i in Southwest Pacific

Allied War Of Attrition Against Japs   Flying Fortresses and Submarine Attacks FarReaching

War Of Attrition Underway In Pacific As Japs Subs Try To Cut Allied Shipping Lines

Enemy Counters With 51-Plane Assault On Darwin MacArthur's Fliers Suffer Losses In Shootin; Down Three Of Raiding Force

Darwin Attack ls Costly To Air Defenders   Allied. Fighter Loss I: Heavy; Only 3 Of 51 Attacking Planes Downed   ATTRITION WAR SEEN   Japanese Are Hit On Wide Front To Offset Their Submarine Warfare

Nippon Shipping Losses Are Heavy   Liberators and Submarines Account — For Sinking Many Enemy Ships.

Allied Bombers, Submarines Seek Jap Underseas Raiders In Pacific

Range Far On Sea, Air  In Pacific   Enemy Opens Submarine Drive In Effort To Cut Australian Supply Lines

ALLIES CONTINUE FORAYS ON NIPS   Extensive Raids Carried Out To Pound Jap Shipping; : Foe Hits Darwin

FAR - RANGING ATTRITION WAR ON IN PACIFIC   Japs Again Str Ke _ With Force At Darwin

~ SHIPPING ~ HARD HIT   US.Bombers and Subs Tak lug Big Toll as Enemy Tries to. Retaliate   AMERICAN LOSS i ABOUT 2 PER CENT   War on Supply Lines Disclosed as Japs Again Raid Darwin

ALLIES PURSUE ATTRITION WAR   Japs Launch Sub Campaigr Against Australian Supply Lines

JAPANESE STRIKE AT DARWIN AGAIN: ALLIES HIT BAGK   Raid Strongest In Southwest Pacific In Two Weeks; Causes Relatively Little Damage; Allies Launch Far-Ranging War of Attrition Against Jap Shipping.

War Of Shipping Attrition Stepped Up In Pacific Advices Indicate

War Of Attrition Taking Heavy Toll   Bombers Score Hard Blows Without A Single Loss   SUBS ALSO GOING  AFTER THE JAPS

ALLIES BLAST JAP SHIPPING: ATTACK KISK   Nippons Send 51 Planes In Strongest Raid On Darwin

ALLIED PLANES, U-BOATS TAKING JAP SHIPS TOLL   27,500 Tons Of Enemy Shipping Sunk, Another 65,800 Tons Damaged During April

Bombers, Subs  Hit Jap Ships   Planes Claim 93.300 ‘Tons Of Shipping During April, U-Boats 125.000,

JAP SHIPPING LOSSES TOLD   Big Nippon Aerial Force Strikes At Port of  Darwin

JAP SHIPPING LOSSES HEAVY   Enemy Subs Attempt to Cut Allied Supply Lines

Nips Use Subs In Effort to Stop Supplies   Japanese Make Heavy Raid on Darwin and Inflict. Losses

51 Nip Aircraft Strike At Darwin As Allies Admit Own Losses Heavy

Raid Strongest In Southwest Pacific In Two Weeks; Causes Relatively Little Damage; Allies Launch Far-Ranging War of Attrition Against Jap Shipping.

'STOWAWAY FLIES TO HER HUSBAND   Woman Crosses Ocean In Ferry Command Plane.

DAMAGE TO ROME HEAVY-PATTERSOK   ‘Mussolini Resisted All Efforts to Declare Capital Open City, He Says.

Duce Persisted in Refusing to Remove: Military Plante:         - -Sicily Over'40.000

Mussolini Refused Immunity for Rome   Wouldn‘t Remove Military Targets

Duce Refused To Play Fair   Wouldn’t Be Persuaded To Make Rome ‘Open City’

150 Czechs in Geman  Army Mutinied Recently Killing German Officer

Hanley Wins By Wide Mar gin; Republicans Captur Other States and See Vic tory in 1944.

Social Security Legislation Up to Congress   F. D. RB. Says It Is Solons’ Task to Implement Proposal

All-Service Dralt Effective Monday   Arrangements Complete To Call Men For Al J        be

CINCH JOBS HIT   eSolon Flays Youths Holding Swivel Chair Positions

Showdown On Subsidies Near   President Roosevelt May Take Battle To Nation Is Report   ADMINISTRATION FACES DEFEAT

FD.RMAY TAKE ANTIINFLATION FIGHT TONATION   Balky Congress on Subsidy Program May Bring Such Action

President May Appeal to Country   Showdown In Congress Expected Soon

WAGES RAISED FOR WOODSMEN   Logging And Sawmil Workers Eligible For Adjustments

MRS. PARROTT IS EXONERATED   All-Male Jury Finds Novelist Did Not Impair Loyalty, Discipline of Army

JURY ACQUITS URSULA PARROTT   Is Freed on Charge of Helping Soldier Desert

Is Acquitted of Aiding Deserter  Novelist Freed By All-Male Jury

WOMAN WRITER FREED BY JURY   Ursula Parrott Acquitted Of Serious Charges In Connection With Soldier Escapnade.

{URSULA PARROTT ACQUITTED OF CHARGES OF IMPAIRING LOYALTY OF ARMED FORCES

WRITER FREED IN ARMY GASE   All-Male Jury Release: Writer of Aiding  'Deserter'

'NOVELIST IS ACQUITTED   Jury Was Out Just 12 Minuten In Ursula Parrott Case’

URSULA PARROTT "NOT GUILTY” OF AIDING DESERTER   ‘Novelist Acquitted of Federal Charges at Miami; Jury Deliberates Only 12 Minutes

Eastern Bakeries ‘Complain That ‘Fellow Across Street’ Is Giving Out Sliced Bread To ‘Friends

Joe Sent Me! How About Sliced Bread?   It's Being Bootlegged, And Blam e Laid On Yen For Sandwiche:

Sliced Bread Bootlegging Charges Are Investigated      Instances Reported Where Customers Get Sliced Bread By Pulling Hat Low, Slipping Into Store and Saying “Joe Sent Me;” Fourth Earl of . Sandwich Blamed for Trouble

PLANS HIT A SNAG   County Cannot Legally Par ticipate in Extension  of Levee

Battles Rage On Both Sides of Congress As Post-War Planning, Taxes and Manpower Problems Occupy Spotlight On Capitol Hill.

Controversies. On. Tax And Postwar Problems. Raging   Proposed World Postwar: Police Forcé And Ruml Tax Plan’ Engage Congress’ Atténtion.

WORLD POLICE PROPOSAL HITS CONGRESS SNAG   Nation-wide Goods Standard ization Scheme Studied

<ay-as- Y ou-Go Tax Plan Makes Many Changes  Persons With Average - Income to Be Aftfectad

Interoreting  The War   U. S. Army Seizes Grand Chance To Get Revenge

Hitle “s Time In Tunisia Is Running Shori— ~—by wl  ‘Yanks In Spotlight By Victory At Mateur

Administrator Pledges Government Support Of  Farm Prices   DEMANDS BY LABOR IGNORED IN SPEECH

Jones. Pledges Federal Support  To Farm Prices   Food ‘Administrator Declares Government Ready to Buy Comniodities to Hold Price Un

Jones Promises Farm Prices To Be Maintained   ‘Government Will  Help Farmers To bdo baw Deadhi-tinn

OUTLINE S GIVEN OF FOOD PROGRAD   Pledge Made to Support ‘Farm Prices by Admin. istrator Jones

Jones Pledges  Farm Support   Government Will Bay Commodity Surplus

WORK QUT PLANS FOR FOOD NEEDS   “Step By Step” Announcement With Government Taking Over Surplus.

WFA Pledges Price Support   Jones Says ‘Added Hazards’ Considered

JONES OUTLINES HIS FOOD PLANS   SUPPORT FARM PRICES TO BE HIGH ENOUGH TO COVER PRODUCTION RISKS.

Jones Pledges “Adequate Level For Farm Prices   Definite Support Price Favored by War Food Head

Jones Promises Farm Prices To Be Maintained   -Government Will  Help Farmers To Loyrl. Moe

Jones Promises Federal Support Of Farm Prices To Meet "Hazards”’

WEA Chief Jones Pledges Farm Price Support   High Enough to Cover ‘Added Risks, Hazards’ Of Hiked Production

UNION SCORES WMC FREEZE OF LABOR      John Green Says Organized - Labor Will*Not Stand For Orders 

Will Rogers, Jr., Now In Enaland   Touring Factories, Bases; Has Plan For Jews

RED ARMIES RACE WEATHER   ae: nd  Driving Against Germany’s Main Base in Russia — Seeking to Accomplish. Feat Before Annual Autumn Rains.

Russian Advance Gains Power As Soviets Race Against Autumn Rains

RED ARMY BEGINS RACE AGAINST AUTUMN RAINS   Trek Toward Kiev Under Way After Last Formidable Outpost to Northwest, Nezhin, [s Smashed Only 72 Miles from Objective—Soviets May Reach the Dnieper River Before Bod Weather Arrives.   Allies Appear Prepared For Final Smash at Lae

CONSBLAST = PRISON CAMP   Two Long-Term Prisoners Recaptured in Georgia

CONVICTS BLAST WAY FROM JAIL   ‘4 Escape Georgia Prison Camp; Two Are Recaptured Shortly Afterwards

NVICTS IN LIBERTY BREAK KILL GUARD   11 Long Termers Blast Way from Douglas, Ga. Camp, Killing One Guard Wounding Another

bee ee Bi a : . } T$ BLAST ¥: 5, %! ‘? iy ey h ‘ wl : . : 4 S _g f ~

11 CONVICTS ESCAPE PRISON IN GEORGIA   Two Captured After Gang Shoots Way Out

WAGE CONTRACT ELIEVER NEAR      United Mine Workers ‘and Coat ‘Op erators Near Agreement — Con. ferees Indicate They Hope” Early Agreement. .

Near Agreement On Mine Wages   Operators, Union Chiefs Optimistic

NAZIS REPORT HEAVY ATTAGKS BY SOVIETS   Scene Of Fighting Identified As Kuban Bridgehead

ains Soviets  espite Heavy ush Attacks   Violent Fighting Is Reported By Nazis Over Kuban Area

Nazis Say Russia Renews Offensive   But Moscow Says ‘Local Engagements’

RUSSIANS RESUME ATTACKS AT KUBAN AND PRITET RIVER   German Resistance Increases Along Dnieper; Red Planes Pound Enemy Fleeing To Crimea.

RAINS FAIL T0 HALT RUSSIANS IN KUBAN ARKA   Germany Reports Resumption of Large Scale Soviet Attacks In Caueasus Sector

Russ Advance Slows Down   Fall Rains and Heavier Resistance  By Germans Reason

RAINS IMPEDE OPERATION ON SOVIET FRONT   Russian Armies Facing Autmnal Storms Prove Formidabie Aid in Halting Hitler Forces

RAINS SLOWING DOWN ADVANCE OF THE SOVIETS   Weather Offers Worse Opposition Than Hitler's Best Troops; Several Stiff Engagements In Progress.

‘RESUMPTION OF ~ SOVIET ATTACKS IN KUBAN BRIDGEHEAD   This Was Reported Today by the Germans; Is In the Caucasus.   VIOLENT FIGHTING   Battle Raging at Mouth of the Pripet River and West of Smolensk.

JOHN L.LEWIS CALLS MEETING OF UMW POLICY COMMITTEE   Will Discuss Resumption Of Negotiations In 15-Day Strike Truce

President's Request Is Answered: Lewis Calls Committee Conference

LEWIS SUMMONS POLICY - MAKERS   Union Group To Confer or Resuming Negotiations on New Contract.

Coal Miners - Going Back To Duties Today   JOHN LL. LEWIS CALLS MEETING POLICY COM- : MITTER.

Lewis Calls © Policy Meeting inNew York          ‘Resumption of   Ribowi ald 2b as.

Alhed Bombers Stage New Attacks   Return To Nazi-Held Continent Following Night Pounding Of Nazis And Italians   THREE CITIES IN ITALY BLASTED

NEWSPAPER CHIEF SHOT, NEAR DEATH   Assailant Suicides After Affray in Paper Office

Reports Persist Powerful Forces  Against General   Lack of Official Comment Furthers Truth of Story _

Powerful Forces Are Trying ‘Yo Give Axe To Gen. Marshall   Mystery Develops Over Situation Regarding Chief Of Staff; Army And Navy ’ Want Him To Stay At Post

Gen. Marshall's Ouster Rumored   Chief Mentioned for Combat Duty

SCALP OF GENERAL MARSHALL WANTED   Disturbing Charges Are Aired Today of Effort to Oust Chief of Staff.

May Oust Staff Chief From Post   CHARGE POWERFUL FORCES TRYING TO MOVE GEN. MARSHALL

RUMORS ABOUT THAT FORCES  TRYING TO OUST GEN. MARSKALL   FDR Says He Hasn’ Foggiest Idea About Reports

RUMORS CIRCULATE ABOUT OUSTING OF GEN. G.C.MARSHALL   Capital Reports Suggest Chief Of Staff May Be Sent To European Theatre

Powerful Forces Reported Trying to Oust Marshall   Eisenhower or Somervell Slated as Successors. Uncontirmed Rumors Say

Marshall on Way Out?  Seice «Tee Re ee”  ee ele, «6 Res,   Powerful Forces After Chief. Report

NAPLES AND OTHER BASES ARE FLAILED   Two Sicilian Airdromes and Enemy Shipping Off Greece Targets of Allied Bombers      SARDINIA IS EVACUATED

Allied Raiders Blast Area of Mt. Vesuvius, Famous Volcano, Including Modern Pompei, Italian Headquarters Soys

Warplanes; Berlin, Reported Hit, Move. Concrete Tank Barriers from Maginot Line to French Coast

ROME REPORTS INVASION UNITS AT PANTELLERIA   Naples Raided, Italians Take Inhabitants From Capital of Sardinia

ALLIES BOMB NAPLES, TWO AIR CENTERS   Warplanes Continue To Attack Enemy Points In Mediterranean   AXIS WARNS AGAIN OF INVASION PLANS   French Coastal Defenses Strengthened With Barriers for Tanks 

Axis Broadcasts , Invasion Plans;  Naples Bombed   Mt. Vesuvius Blasted: Landing Craft Are Near Pantelleria Says Rome

Axis Watches At Vulnerable  Coast Points   Bombers Slash At Italian Ports As Nerves Stay Taut

RAF Blasts Naples; Sicily Airfields Hit      Axis Trains and Barges in France Shot Up in  Allied Night Raids   GERMANS JITTERY:   Rome Reports Tommies Massed on Turkey's Southern Frontier

Axis Stresses Invasion Moves   Enemy Shipping Off Greece Pounded By Planee—Raiders Blast Area of Vesuvius—Ankara Says Syrian-Turkish Border Re-Opened

Hammer On Axis Keys . Near Italy      Port.of Naples Also is Bomb; ed Again; Axis Stresses  Talk of Allied Invasion   SOUTHERN EUROPE: MAY BE. THE SCENE   100,000 Flee From Ruins. in Sardinia; Axis Tells of Big Aled Troon Move

Axis Asserts Allied Troops Set To Attack   Rome Radio Says Large British Forces Concentrated Near Turkey.   U. 8S. ARMY ON CYPRUS

Allied Planes Blast Naples And Sicily.   Keep Up Assault on Italian Bases; Troops Are Reported Massing On the Turkish Border

NAPLES AND SICILIAN AIRPORTS HIT BY ALLIED WARPLANES IN ‘CONTINUING AERIAL FORAYS   Rome Broadcast Discloses All But Few Thousand Evacuated from Cagliari, Capital of Sardinia, with Normal Population of 100,000

ALLIED ARMADA OFF ITALY IS WORRYING AXIS   Bars Lifted by Britain on Turkish Border as Troops Move Toward Balkans   NAZI FLIERS BOMB LONDON   Naziland Raided But Italy Smashed Severely by Allied Bombers

Say British Deployed At Frontier   Rome’ Says “Troop - Mase _Along- Southern Border

AXIS SEES NEW INVASION MOVES   Allied Raiders Continue Mediterranean Drive

AXIS TALKING OF SOUTHERN INVASION PLAN   Turkish-Syrian Border Re-opened. Italians Being Evacuated to Escape Bomb Attacks   RY ASSOCIATED PRESS

ome Says esuvius rea Hit   laces U. S. Troopa  a Tnvasion Rumor  nw Island of Cyprus

Italy’s Chief Ports Rock Under Bombs   Axis Reports Great Allied Troop Movements Seen

Port of Naples, Two Airdromes Smashed From Air   Enemy Shipping Off Grecian Coast Also Attacked In  Foravs

But Warplanes Continue fo Hammer Htaty   Nazis Jittery About Russia Too; Mass West of Kursk

Axis Radios Say British ° Aim for Italy   Report Landing Craft Massing at Pantelleria; TurkeySyrian Border Opened:: -:

Naples Among Targets Of Allied Planes  Over 0, ne Inhabi +e vaAriInAta   Over 90,000 Inhabitants Evacuate Capital of Sardinia

'PORT OF NAPLES, SICILY AND ENEMY SHIPPING BLASTFD      AXIS STRESSING NEW INVASION PREPARATIONS AGAINST SOUTHERN AREA

Bombs Lash ‘Naples And ‘Sicily Anew   Enemy Ships In Aegean Blasted; Axis Says Invasion Forces Massing  Near Turkev.

i.  Invasion Defense Speeded By Axis   ROME WARNS UNITED NATIONS SET TO STRIKE ACROSS MEDITERRANEAN

RAIL CENTERS IN NO. FRANCE   Drop Double Block-Busters On Italian Port: Russians Drive Back Nazi Forces

Allied Warplanes Make Wide Sweep   Bicdian Airdromes and Axis Shipping Off Greece Pounded   ALLIES IN THE AEGEAN   Axis Reports Troops in Growing Numbers on Island of Cyprus

Naples and Sicily Flailed by Allies In Mediterranean   British Forces Said Concentrating on Turkish Frontier

Allies Bomb Naples, Sicily, Axis Shipping   Italy Claims Large British Forces Concentrating on Southern Front of Turkey; Reds Beat Off New German Attacks in Orel Sector

Allied Preparations in Southern Europe Noted in Capitals   Port of Naples, Enemy ~ Shipping, Sicily Under Bomb Attacks

Allied Armies © Is Massing On Cyprus Island   Meanwhile Airmen Keep Up Bombing; Naples Given Heavy Attack

SICILY DROMES   “Border Between Turkey  Syvia Reopened; Axis Says Cyprus Stronger

Concentration Near Turkey   Speculation Talks Of Attacks on Axis Through Balkans.

Axis Bracing © For Blow at: South Europe   Reports Allies Massing on Turkish Border and at Pantelleria as Warplanes Smash at Italy And Northern Frace.

MANY NOR-FATRERS IN STATE ARE 1-4   Estimate Over 31,000 Available for Service in Near Future.

MICHIGAN DADS SET FOR ARMY   Only 31,000 Non-Fathers Available For Call,  Survey Shows

Coal Wage Talk Delay   Uncertainty Over Price Increase Blamed; Seek Statement By OPA

Kerr Proposes Pay As You Go Sfafe Tax Plan   Legislature Seeks Means of Balancing State Budget

Pass Aviation Gasoline Goa!   Production OF 100) Octane Fuel Reaches “Ultimaie’ 1944 Estimate.

Lewis Ignores Call to Appear At Coal Parley   President Wins” Fiest Round as Celanese ce *h  #£ op

UNION DECIDES TO OBEY ORDER OF PRESIDENT   Action Is Blow At Lewis’ Defiance Of NoStrike Machinery   ‘COAL CRISIS NEAR   WLB Seeks Peaceful Settlement, Orders Pro duction Continued

RED CROSS WAR FUND  Goal $25 5, 000  Gifts to & 6.174.   Warns That Russians May Hold Top Hand After War

Russians May Hold Club in Peace Deals   'Bullitt Says U.S. May Lose  Bargaining Power Unless We Act

Convoy Arrives   Land Action to Clear Axis Forces From Tunisia Said Imminent

Yanks Blast Burma Japs   Airmen Smash Lines Of Communication as British Bottle Foe

JAP SUPPLY LINES HIT INBURMA   American Fliers Rage Far In New Raids On Enemy

SALES TAX IS PROPOSED ANEW   Board Of Trade Suggests 10 Per Cent; Vinson To Give Views On  New Levies

10 Pet. Sales Tax Is Urged  On Congress   N. ¥. Board of Trade Advocates U. S. Levy,

SEVERAL CHANGES IN POINT VALUES   Will Become Effective August 1, OPA Announces—August Stamps Will Overlap Those Of September

Blue Stamps Valid Longer   OPA Orders 3-Week Overlap; Little Change In Point Values

STAMPS TO OVERLAP      ‘OPA Makes Value Announcement For the Month of August

Blue Ration Stamps For August Will Overlap iSept. Stamps 3 Weeks

FOOD RATIONS WIL OVERLAP   August Points Valid Until Sept. 20; Announce Value Changes

BLUE POINTS WILL OVERLAP   Valid Til Sept. 20; To: mato Juice Up One a Pound

More Points Necessary for—  Butter, Frozen Foods, Tomato Juice in Augqusi

"int Values ised on Many jozen Foods   ruits and Berries increased From Six o Nine Points

SECURITY (5 FIRGT Taal EDEN STATES   Territcrial Gains for United Nations Must Await End of War.   IS TOO CONTROVERSIAL   Warns Against Drawing Up Definite Blue Print of Post-War Plan.

SECURITY (5: j FIRST ISSUE ~ "EDEN STATES   Territcrial Gains for. Unit. ed Nations Must Await.” i .  End of  War. af Ma

GEN. GIRAUD SPEAKS TODAY   Frenchmen Seek Solution To Political Puzzle.

Man Works 9 Months Thinking It Was ‘Free’   Had Accepted ‘Slips Of Paper’ But Didn't Know They Were For Money

ocean neiaeaaeeneeeteientn meena oe  ‘Love of Country", Not Pay Check Keeps Shipyard Worker on His Job

'Here’s Real Patriot: Shipyard Worker Didn't Know He Was Getting Paid

HERE’S A REAL PATRIOT  Oklahoman Working In War Plant Didn’t Think He Was Being Paid

Just Love of Country   Shipy ard Worker, Trying to Help, 1 Didn’t Know He Was Being Paid.

Miners Ask $2 Daily Increase  Industry Afraid of Union Strengih,

MINERS DRAFT WAGE DEMAND   Anthracite. Delegates, Many Whom Flouted Lewis in Recent _ Strike, Rally. To Him

Record Slaughter Of Meat Animals Planned in 1944  But U. S. Bureau Sees No Hope for Larger  ata oe at Ratian

WFA Calls for More Meat During Next Year But Civilians Won‘t Get Too Much of It

Sexitence Imposed Upon. 26-Yearéla Member of Distinguished §. Family for Draft Evasion.

Americans ‘Get Reduced Meat -Rations: Toda   Government ‘Agencies “Tackle ‘Problem OF ‘Food Shortage 

New Food Boss Goes To Work On Shortages:  Davis Confers With Capital Officials; Debate Ends On Taxe:

FOOD SHORTAGE HAS SPOTLIGHT IN WASHINGTON   Meat Rationing Effective Thruout U. S. Today

Range Up Italian           DESTROYED 306 EVACUATION BOATS IN FINAL ROUND OF: THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN’

KNOCK OUT 306 ESCAPE’ BOATS OF AXIS TROOPS   Complete Conquest Of Sicily Ahead Of Time-Table

'306 Evacuation Beats Are Des troyed Or Damaged—All Resistance In Sicily Has Ended, ' Is Latest Report   175.000 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN IN SICILY

ALLIED GUNS BLAST AXIS. ESCAPE ROUTE   Battle Moves To Mainland of Italy as © New Phase Opens

25,000 Casualties Counted by Invader   Aerial Battle for Italy Under Way; Eisenhower Hails ‘Real Victory’

SICILY WHIRLWIND FIGHT COST AXIS ATLEAST 167,000   Incomplete Allied Casualties 25,000 Killed, Wounded, Captured or Reported as Missing.   DEAD ENEMY LOSSES PLACED AT 32,00€   Berlin, Big Research Station Are Targets For Allies In Raid Causing Loss of 41 Bombers.

AXIS LOSSES ~ OVER SIGILY STAGGERING   Conquest of Big Mediterranean Island Hailed Real Victory by Eisenhower.

ALLIED WARPLANES SWEEPING EUROPE   Stream Across English Channel In Droves

BILL FOR PRIMARY PLAN INTRODUCED   Measure Is in Line With G. O. P. Platform Adopted in August  WOULD BEGIN IN 1944

BILL FOR PRIMARY ~ PLAN INTRODUCED   Measure Is in Line With G. O. P. Platform Adopted in August

ALLIED ARMY MAKES GAIN AT SALAMAUA   Captures Heights Overlooking Airdrome

Allies Capture Heights: Over Salamana Field   “Australian Troops Make Two Mile Gain “During The Weekend

ALLIES CAPTURE HEIGHTS ABOVE SALAMAUA BASE   American Artillery Pounds Main Jap Defenses With Increasing Fury.

Allies Seize Heights Above Big Jap Base   Salamaua Airdrome Now Surrounded By Yanks And Australians

SEIZE HEIGHTS NEAR AIRDROME OF SALAMAIIA   Yanks, Aussies Pound Defenses Preliminary to Final Assault

ALLIED TROOPS KOLD HEIGHTS OVERLOOKING SALAMAUA AIRDROME   Artillery Pounds “nemy Coastal Rase with Furv

NAVY CONFIRMS AN END OF FIGHTING   Attacks Made Elsewhere As Resistance Comes to Close On Guadalcanal.

MUNDA AND KICKA BI aCTcn         Japs in New Guinea on Losing End Once Again

POPE DEGRIES ANY “DICTATORSHIP”      Radio Broadcast Denounces One-Man Government

PONTIFE QUOTED BY BRITISH RADIQ   Vatican Broadcast Said to Have Declared Pope Voiced Denunciation.

NATIONAL DICTATOR DENOUNCED BY POPE   British Radio Reports o1 Vatican Broadcast

: A COLUMN  ABOUT IOWA:   Junior College Is Tiranned at Clarinda

Soviet Parachute Troops Spilling Down On West Bank Of Dnieper River

SOVIET TROOPS RACING ACROSS DNIEPER RIVER; KIEV MAY FALL   Communist Newspaper Says That Russians Have “Mastered Part Of the River Crossing.”

Soviet Parachute Troops  : Land on West Bank   of River.  NAZIS EVACUATE LARGE RIVER CITY  Nazis Attacks Thrown Back With Very Heavy Losses.

TASK OF BREAKING UP BLACK MARKETS UP TO CIVILIANS   Rank and File to Have Job of Justly Dividing Available Supply—Get Set of “Rules”

Public Must Help Control of Meats   Wickard Outlines Strict Regulations

ISSUES NEW MEAT CONTROL ORDERS   UP TO AMERICAN PEOPLE TO CARRY THEM OUT: WICKARD

WICKARD ASKS PUBLIC AID IN POLICING MEAT   Declares Black Markets Serioush Threaten War Effort — Outline Federal Program

Wickard Asks Citizen Fight OnBlack Mart   U. §. Told Continued Illegal Slaughter, Sale Will Hamper War Effort   SHOPPER CAN HELP   Every Wholesale Cut O1 Meat Must Bear Stampec Permit Number

Task of Breaking Black Markets Handed to Rank-  and-File of American People  SET OF RULES GIVEN       Agriculture Secretary Says Rationing Will Start Soon—Will Control Slaughter

Wickard Tells How to Fight Black Market   Charges Nation to See Rules are Obeyed so That All Will Get Share of Meat

Program Drawn To Break Black Market In Meat   Public Must Help Enforce Controls Set Up By U. S.

Wickard Sets Up Meat Rules   Secretary Of Agriculture Savs Enforcement Of System Up To People. - 

Government Looks to People to End ‘Black Marketing   Gives Set of Rules and Regulations on How  To Do the Job

Black Market Smashing Up To Public: Wickard   People Asked To Take Hand In_ Straightening Out Meat Situation.

Set Up Rules To Help Curb Black Market   Wickard Outlines Plans To Bring About Fair Division Of Nation’s Supply Of Meat

Soviet Army  Takes Mariupol   Keds Now Less Than 80 Miles  From Kiey   German Defense System Reported To Re Collansing

Reds Drive On Kiev As Nazi Line Crumbles      Within 70 Miles ©. Of Dnieper River; - Defense: Collapsing

British Lose Two Ships In Battle   Cruiser, Detroyer Blasted By Torpedoes

Global War’s Challenge Met By Red Cross, Vast Resources Back Nation's War Effort Abroad And At Heme   LOCAL CAMPAIGN WILL START SOON

Tri-Power Conference  Plans Laid   FDR, Churchill Discuss Stand on  Political Problems

STAND 10 BE TAKEN AT BIG MEET TALMED   Conference of Three Powers Is Expected Soon

CONFERENCE OF THREE POWERS SEEMS CERTAIN      Roosevelt, Churchill Discussing Plans To Be Placed In Effect

3-POWER CONFAB TO DECIDE VITAL POLITICAL ISSUES   Stand Of U. 5. Britain Being Discussed By Roosevelt And Churchill

CHURCHILL IN US. FOR FINAL PHASE OF DISCUSSIONS   Hult Endorses Foreign Min. ister Conference But Is Not Sure of Attendina.

Plans Reported — Being Made For Three-Way Talk   Roosevelt, Churchill Believed Discussing  Stand To Be Taken

STAND ON POLITICAL ISSUES DEBATED BY CHURCHILL AND FOR   Soviet Agreement Is Believed Essential To War’s Future

FDR, Churchill Resume Talks in Washington; Discuss Coming Pariey   Conference With Russia Planned As Allied Leaders Continue Talks Started At Ouebec

ROOSEVELT, ‘CHURCHILL IN PARLE)   Stand To Be Taken At Tri - Partite Meet Probable Topic 

Roosevelt And Churchill Meet In White House   Believed To Be Deciding On Stand To Take With : Russiars

Plans for Anglo-American-Soviet Conference Believed Being Discussed By Roosevelt and Churchill Today

House Group Votes Strike Restrictions And Requires Union Financial Statemonte

APPROVES BILL TO CURB STRIKES IN WAR PLANTS   House Committee Votes to Require 30 Days’ Notice Before Workers May Leave Jobs.   CALLS FOR FINANCIAL REPORTS FROM UNIONS   Legislation Bans Jurisdictional Walkouts,, Sympathy Strikes or Secondary Bovcotts.

Drastic ‘Anti-Strike. ‘Bill . ‘Unanimously’ Approved ‘by ouse Military. Committee

House Group Would Curb Strikes In War Plants  bine teloetaws: Demi ieat   Legislation Requires Periodic Union Financial Statements

Bill To Restrict Strikes Approvec By House Group   NLB Won't Recognize Su: pervisory Employes as Bargaining Units

House Group Okehs Bill to Curb Strikes  Requires Unions To Provide Finance Reports

House Group Would Curb Strikes In War Plants  Legislation Requires Periodic Union Financial Statement.

HOUSE GROUP VOTES BILL 10 CHECK STRIKES   Measure . Applying fa . War Plants Giveri Unanimous O. K.

Don't Expect to Get Any of Those 225,000 Mechanical Refrigerators

AMERICANS IN POSSESSION OF ELLICE ISLAND   Funafuti Is Taken Over By U.S. With No Opposition From Japanese.

SUPREME COURT AND  COURT OF CRIMINAL  APPEALS RECONVENE NUMBER OF IMPORTANT  CASES PENDING IN EACH CAUIIDT ALTER RECESS

Where Contentment He  vad ‘4 O     SUSAN SHERIDAN  WRITTEN FOR AND RELEASED BY. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION il bral wecitheriatl Li

Excitement or Contentment? Can the Two Go Together? Those Were Questions To Be Answered by Girl and Youth

3¢4 LOANS ON HOMES 3% The Massillon Savings & Loan. —dAd.   ATOMOSE TEGIONN SIRES

Rev. H. H. H. Fox Taken by Death  Episcopal Bishop Dies in Sleep

Retired Bishop Dies in Sleep   Rev. H. H. H. Fox Came to State in 1920

Fires Started At Japanese Base At Wewak   Jap Airdromes, Supply Points Are Bomhe;-]}

Gen. Morinigo Visits Academy  President Of Paraguay Makes Official Visit

Government Ready For Canning Rush  Believe Enough Jars, Lids, Rings Available

SENATORS FAVOR Alt: Pht HIKES”   With Strike Vote Coming Up, Solons May Have Final Say on Raise

SENATE GROUP APPROVES RAIL PAY MEASURE   Truman Subcommitiee’s Action Seen as Indicating Congress May Have Final Say on Raise

Today's War Commentary  Hitler Speaks  Comes Out Of Seclusion In New Role   Comes Out Of Seclusion In New Role

CHANCE OF SHOWERS   Flora Sees No Immediate Break i the Pleasant Temperatures

Enemy Is Seeking to Evade Death Trap Which Allies Are Closing in Battle Gains   Catania, Core of Axis Resistance, Falls to British Eighth Army; Paterno Also Taken; One Open Retreat Route Remains

Nazis Flee To Escape Death Trar   Key Troops Seek Safety In Italy As Core Of Sicily Defense Falls.

‘Key Troops Are Evacuated to Italy; Complete Fall of Sicily Is Expected Soon

LOSS OF ATTU MAY CHANGE JAP STRATEGY,   Must Bolster Defense of _ Northern Isands

Spokesmen Open Fight To Revive New Revenue Act   Secretary Morgenthau First Witness At  Committee Hearings

MUST INCREASE REVENUE, PLEA OF SECRETARY   Defends Proposal to Exempt 9,000,000  On Income List

SHOWERS EXPECTED   Rain Will Be Welcome in the Western Portion of Kansas

CANCEL A MEETING   No Annual Session of C. of C. Will Be Held This  Year

Americans Snatch Nicosia, Set Critical Stage  Canadians Advance After Routing German Division

Americans Snatch Pico Set Oe Stage  Canadians Advance After Routing German Division

Axis Plane Loss In War Set At 18,031   U. S., British Lose Only 9,006

U. S., British Destroy Total of 18,031 Nazi, Jap and Italian Planes

Allies Down Total Of 18,031 Axis Planes During Wat  List Omits Numbers Ruined by Reds, French, and Navies

COAL OPERATORS SHOW SURPRISE AT SUGGESTIONS   Astonishment Of Operators Is Aired; Reject Perkins’ Compromise Plan

MINE NEGOTIATIONS STILL DEADLOCKED   Steelman Hopeful That : Agreement Will Be \ Reached

Southern Operators Reject Plea   Perkins’ Proposal For Compromise  Turned Down

OPERATORS At JECT MINE COMPROMISE   Proposal Of Miss Perkins Flatly Declined

TIME CONFUSION SEEN FOR OHIO   Numerous Cities Will Retain War Schedule, At Least For Summer Months

Dissatisfaction Over Legislature's Action May Force Further Consideration Before Session Ends— _ Farmers Say Any Gains in Time They Might Have Received May Be Nullified by Some Cities Remaining on Present Tima.

PREPARE ITALY FOR INVASION   Fascist Press Is Filled With Morale Boosting Efforts

Italy Warned Of Invasion   Italian Writers Stress Difficulty of Allied Operations

ITALIAN PEOPLE GIVEN WARNING   Difficulties Of {Invasion By United Nations Described

Woman Faces Trial In Husband's Deatt  Waynesburg Jury Indicts Mrs. Nancy Holt

Crowds Watch Service Men Ferret Out Zoot Suiters; Many Lose Reat Pleats

Service Men Hunt Zoot Suiters in Los Angeles; Strip Them of Attire

Zoot Suit — Riot Quelled   Clash Occurs In Los  Angeles When Service Men Resent “Pushing Around by Hooligans”

Service Men Attack Loot- Suiters Undress 50 i in “Night of Rioting

Service Men Hunt Down And Strip Zoot -Suit Hooligans In Los Angeles

A Zoot Suit Clean-Up By  Service Men   Freak Aire Is “Torn From Many In Los Angeles

sailors and Soldiers, Maintaining They Have Been “Pushed Around” At Random by Rowdies; Rip Clothes Frum Youths; Civil and Military Police Finally Succeed In Restoring Order

Los Angeles Scene Of Disorders As 'Zoct-Suited Youths Caught, Stripped   Service Men Claim They And Their Girl Friends Have Been “Pushed Around” At Random By Rowdies Attired In Freak Suits.

Sailors And Soldiers Divest Youths Of Zoot Suits During Los Angeles Disorders

TOOT = SUITERS, SOLDIERS RIOT   Thousands Dispersed After Night Of Disorders In Los Angeles

Angry Soldiers, Sailors Undrape Zoot Suiters’ Drape Shapes In Los Angele:   Police Kept Busy During Night of Attacks on ‘Hoolicans’

SERVICE MEN FERRET OUT Z00T SUITERS   Hunted Down By Sailors, Soldiers; Clothes Ripped Off

Pants Of Zoot ‘uiters Pulled Off By Soldiers And Sailors On Spree

Los Angeles Torn By Zooter Riot   Bizarre Clad Youths Divested of Clothes and Hundred Jailed.   Order Restored

ZO0T SUITERS PUT TO FLIGHT   Crowds Watch In Los An. geles as Servicemen Cause Disorder

Disorders Occur in Los Angeles As Servicemen Pounce on Zoot-Suifed Youths, Mostly Mexicans

Service Men Rip Zoot Suits Off Los Angeles Hooligans in Wild Disorders

LOCAL DELEGATES ~ AVTEND WAVERLY   Mrs: L. L. Belk Elected President of Missionary Federation

Western Group Of Federation Attend Meeting  Mrs. L. L. Belk Of LeMars _ Elected President

International Group Urged   Solons Would Amend Policy Resolution

WOULD AMEND COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION   Propose to Substitute Organization for Authority

CLIMAX NEAR IN BIG BATTLE FOR KHARKOV   Russians Keep In March Following Capture Of Rostov From Nazi Troons.

ISSUE NO. 4 RATION BOOKS OCT. 21 TO 23   Missouri Residents Will Register on Those Dates at School  Wancad.

GEN. GIRAUD UNHURT AS CAR TURNS OVER   French Leader Has Narrow Escape While Riding Over Bad Roads at High Spced.

STATE OFFICIALS MEETING IN EAST   Federal Leaders to Address Group Conferring in Baltimore

Wartime Problems Confront Council   Representatives of State Governments Convene ~ Ty Baltimore:

RAILMEN STILL FAR APART ON PAY QUESTION   Management Offer Gets Endorsement By Roosevelt

F ighting French Sweep Northward Through Libya  Advances Reported   Advances Reported In Central Tiuntreian Sector

PURGE SLATED AFTER LEADERS HOLD MEETING   Allied Bombers Cut Enemy Positions In Africa

Point Cut Due In Pork-Beans   Grapetruit Juice May Go Off Ration Lists

STEPPING STONE PACIFIC BASES PART OF PLAN   Islands Will Be Used By United States As ‘Filling Stations” For Fleet

‘House Subcommittee Studies Plan To Get ‘Stepping Stone’ Islands For Naov Bases. Pastwar Trade

Would Make U. S. Lake of Pacific by Fctahlishine Series of Bases

Weather in Helena   Would Make U. S. Lake of Pacific by Establishing Series of Bases

U. S. Unfold: Plan to Get Pacific Bases  House Members Seek Absolute Ocean Security

PLAN MAPPED FOR CHAIN OF OCEAN BASES   Far-Reaching Pacifie Program Outlined by. Selon

U. S. Will Control Pacific After War, Says Magnuson   Chairman of House Naval Sub-Committee Reveals Plan to Acquire or Seize Bases

PACIFIC BASES ARE PLANNED   Head of House Naval Group Outlines Proposals for Trade and Defense

PACIFIC BASE CHAIN SYSTEM IS UNFOLDED      House Unit Maps Plan  With Aid of State Department

POST-WAR PLAN GIVEN SETBACK   President Seen Opposed To Congressional Discussion Of Proposal

Conferees — Face Chaos  On Tax Bill   Say Anything Can Occur As House Bows to FDR With Rum] Defeat.

NEW TAX BILL.   Congress Must \ct Qrit®kty To Meet 1943 Deadline.

QUICK DEADLINE SET FOR ACCORD ON TAX PLAN   Action By Next Week Or Delay Until Next Year, Sen. George Warns   CONFEREES IN DESPAIR   Congress Rejects Eight Separate Pay-As-Go Levy Proposals

Tax Plan Must Be Ageed Upon In Next 10 Days   So Says Chairman George Of Senate Finance Committee After House Vote   RUML PLAN AGAIN LOSES IN HOUSE

Salamaua Hit In Terrific Attack   Over  50 Tons Dropped  Over New Guinea Base

U.S, AIR RAIDS SPREAD RUIN: AT BAIROKOHARBOR   Americans Now About 3 Miles From Japanese Garrison

43 IAP PLANES WRECKED BY U.S. IN RECORD ATTACK   Heaviest Aerial Bombing  South Pacific Levels Galamaina Base.

Record Raids Hit Salamaua, Bougainville   Allied Airmen Unload 177 Tons Of Bombs On Nippon Coastal Base   KAHILI SMASHED   43 Enemy Planes Downed As Liberators, Fighters Attack [In Solomons

Jap Bases Are Smashed With Record Raids   Four Tons Per Minute For Three-Fourths Of  Hour Hit Salamaua

DEMOLISH SALAMAUA   43 Jap Planes Wrecked In Raid On Bougainville

U.S. Air Fleet Hits Salamaue   JAPS LOSE 43 PLANES AT BOUGAINVILLE; YANKS PUSH ON AT BAIROKO

RECORD AIR RAIDS CAUSE HEAVY LOSS ON SALAMAUA BASE      43 Jap Planes Wrecked At Bougainville—-Four Tons Of Bombs Fall In 1 Minute   LARGEST RAID IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

Je: i ‘BLOOD CLINIC.   M Nearly 200 Volunteers Needed, for Donor Clinic. :

GERMAN PRISONERS  OF WAR TO HARVEST,  RICE, SUGAR-CANE, . AT LEAST FOURTEEN  TEMPORARY CAMPS IN  enTTTE TEYAS LOUISIANA

FIGHT TO BITTER END   Ne Compromise Possible In War, Jap General Asserts

DLE AIRPLANE CHARGE DENIED   MacARTHUR STATEMENT REBUKED BY DAVIS

Allies Mop Up on New Guinea   SATELBERG CAPTURED IN FURIOUS BATTLE; ENEMY DRIVEN FROM FOUR MORE VILLAGES; JAPS FACE ANNIHILATION ON HUON PENINSULA

SATELBERG, NEW GUINEA IS CAPTURED   Australian Troops Storm Hill Fort, Take 4 Villages

Veteran Australiqgn Forces Move Rapidly Toward Clearing Gut Japanese from New > Guinea’s Huon Peninsula.

Aussies Take Jap Fortress In Solomons   Big Carrier Force Hints Blow at Jat        Seize Satelberg After 24- Knox Reveals Fleet Now Hour Assault to Climax  Includes More Than 40 Weeh's Drive ’ Fiat Tops

AUSSIES TAKE. SATTELBURG ON NEW PUINES   Avstralians Moye to Clear Heuh Peninsula

AUSSIES MOVE 10 CLEAR JAPANESE FROM PENINSUL   ‘Capture of Satelberg Follows  Many Days of Furious. Fighting.

PLANE LOSSES  BELOW 5 POT.   High -Losses-on~Same’ Mis: sions Counter-Balanced By Others.

Yank Air Los: ‘Less Than 5%  Stimson Says   INE azi Planes anes Shot Down iin Schweinfurt Raid Now Set at 186 to 213

Air Force's Equipme ntLoss  Is Held Light   186 Enemy Planes Were Shot Down In Sechweinfurt Raid

Artillery Duel Over Flood Arez   Allies Punch Deep Into Mountain Ring In Eastern Area.

Allies Straighten Line Across Italy   American Fifth Army Is Continuing Advance On Richt Flank In Spite Of Rainy Weather

Heavy Battle Is Said  in Progress   Americans, British Drive Deep Into Mountain Area

KENTUCKY SLAYER FREE ON BOND TODAY   Waives Preliminary Hearing on Murder Count

Jones Blasts Wallace Again   Says Vice President Is Unscrupulous

Jesse Jones Hurls Sharp, Wordy Denial At Wallace   RFC Chief Charges To Vice President  ‘Malice, Half-Truths, Wi, TT atho at AT   OFFICIAL FAMILY FEUD UNDIMINISHED   Wallace Aide Accuses Jones of Smoke Screen. Rip Van Winkle Ideas

Jones Defends RFC Against Wallace Charge   Brands Vice President’s Asserlions On Causing War Lag as False in Letter to Senate Group

Jones Replies fo Recent Charges F: ired by Wallace as Fight in President's Official Family Continues _

NEWBLASTAT HEAD OF BEV      ‘Denies Charges of. Wal. lace of Home Front ; Stalling

“UONES: FIRES. HOT BLAST AT HIG FOL   Denies Wallace’s Charge of Stalling on Home Frént; Ac» cuses BEW Head of Unscrupulous Tactics, Malice

Stalling Is Denied By Jones   Secretary Takes Another Crack At Wallace

Jones Makes Lengthy Wallace Charge Denial      7,500 Words ‘Refute  Contention Of Home Front Fellow Offinn)

JONES HURLS LIE CHARGE AT WALLACE   Claims Vice-President Guilty in Delaying War Materials

‘Wallace Accused )f Blunders in IBEW Operations   Jesse Jones Files Hot Reply to Charges Of Impeding War Effor!  MONEY SQUANDERED Asserts Board Used  Poor Practices in Material Purchases

DENIES DELAYS ON HOME FRONT   Jones Delivers 7,500 Word Answer To Vice  President

JONES FIRES NEW BLAST AT HEAD OF BEY   Denies Charges of Wallace of Home Front Stalling

JONES GENSURES VICE PRESIDENT   Commerce Secretary Says Wallace Is Guilty Of Falsehood

Aau-Lruins and No Lruins  -” Jesse Jones Fires Verbal Blast ‘Denying Stalling on Home Front

JONES FIRES DENIALS AT VP. WALLACE   Accuses Feliow High Offica! Of Unscruplous Tactics Filled With Malic, Innuende Half-truths And No Truths   Service Agency

STALLING CHARGE HEATEDLY DENIED BY JESSE JONES   Says if Anybody Is Guilty of Delay in Accumulating Vital Materials ItIs Wallace’s Board.   MILO PERKINS HITS BACK AT SECRETARY   Executive Director of BEW Accuses RFC Head of Throwing Up “Smoke Screen.”

JONES FIRES LONG DENTAL ” AT WALLACE   Says Vice-President is mmploying Unscrupvlous Tactics

U.S. Puts Full Army In Action  Berlin Says American Troops ‘Liquidated’

For First Time In This War, Complete U.S. Army In Field   New Seventh Army Under General Patton Composed Of Fresh Troops and Veterans in Tough T -n

American Army Fighting Axis _   Lieut. Gen. Patton Commands Complete Army in Sicily

COMPLETE U. 6. ARMY IN FIELD   First Whole Force to Face Axis Led By Lieut. Gen. Patton,   PARATROOPS IN ASSAULT.

New Seventh Army First Complete U.S. Unit To Fight Germany And Italy In This War

NAZIS BATTLE IN PARIS MOVIE   Official Tells of Revolver Fight  That Cost Lives of 27 German Soldiers.

NAZIS FIGHT NAZIS      Revolver Fight Between Groups in Paris Reported

Nazi Soldiers Fight Battle   Guns Blaze Between Faetions In Paris

GERMAN SOLDIERS CLASH, 27 KILLED   Theater Brawl raw! Started by Mutual Insults

German Soldiers Battle Over Movie   Picture House. Scene of Clash

WPB Aid Pledges Contract: For Nation’s Small Firms  Newly Appointed Vice Chairman Promises Prompt Nevotiation

“Little Business’ To Get Billions  In War Contracts   Johnson Gives Firms Promise

Nuernberg Ts Pounded Heavily By RAF Planes   Nazi Party Center, Through Which Troops May Go To Italy,  Hit By Large Foree

R. A. F. In Heavy Attack On Nuernberg On Anniversary Of Boast By Goering

RAE BOMOLRa HIT NUERNDEAG WITH L500 TONG   sixteen Bombers Are Lost In Night Raid; 3 Enemy Fighters Downed

RAF Bombers Hit Nuernberg, City Of German Industry  Command Switches To Attack Industries OF Finished Product:

NUERNBERG HIT BY RAF BOMBERS   City Important Rail and Industrial Center in South Germany.

NUERNBERG IS POUNDED BY RAF BOMBERS   important Railway and Industrial Center in Southern Germany Object Of Night Assault   SIXTEEN PLANES LOST

Blast Nuernberg On. Anniversary Of Goering Boast   16 RAF Bombers Are Lost -. In Second Consecutive Attack On Germany

Britsh Bomb German Target   NO DETAILS OF KING AND CHURCHILL DISCUSSIONS

RAF’S BOMBERS JAR NUERNBERG, NAZI RAIL CITY   Sixteen Planes Lost in Raid On Germany — Enemy Raiders Retaliate .

\NUERNBERG TARGET FOR 1500085 \OF BRITISH BOMBS   say RAF Bomber Commapd Changing Its Offensive ‘to Blasting Plants Turning Out Finished Products a

Nuernberg Under  _ Heavy Pounding  Railway And Industrial Center Hit By RAF

HEAVY ATTACK ON NUERNBERG MADE BY RAI   16 British Bombers Lost in Blasting Nazi Party Rallying Point— Nazis Raid East Anglia

NUERNBERG SITE QF HEAVY ATTACK   Sixteen British Bombers Lost In Raid On Important Railway and_ Industrial Center In South Germany.

Nazi Party City Of Nurnberg. Blasted by RAF   Sixteen Bombers Lost in: Raid on Railroad Center

BOMBERS AGAIN RIP NUERNBERG   RAF Makes Heavy Attack On Railway, Industrial Center; Nazi Party Rallying Point

RAF Launches Heavy Assault On Nuernberg   Important Railway and Industrial Center; 16 Bombers Reported Lost

British Blast Rail Center In Heavy Attack   See Effort To Hinder Shipment Of German Troops Into Northern Italy.   SHATTER NAZI BOAST

Weather   Nuernberg Is Blasted With R.A.F. Bombs   Four Years To Day From Goering’s Boast Of No Raids On Germany.

1,500 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPEL ON NUERNBERG   German Industrial And Railway City in Southern Germany

Nuernberg, Rail and Industrial City, Heavily Bombed by RAF With 16 Raiding Planes Lost

IMPORTANT RAIL AND INDUSTRIAL CENTER RAIDED   South Germany Blasted To Cut Flow Of. Aid To Italy

City Is an Important Railway and Industrial Center and a Nazi Party Rallying Point.   SIXTEEN BOMBERS WERE LOST IN RAID   Four Years Ago Today Reich. marshal Goering Boasted Not a Single Bomb Would Fall on Germany.

RAF LOSES 16 PLANES OVER NAZI GERMANY   Nuernbery Heavily Attacked; 3 Enemy Planes Shot Down

NUERNBERG [a nll BY AAF BOMBERS   Important Rail -Line, Which May Feed into Italy, Under Heavy Attack

NUERNBERG HIT IN BRITISH RAID   Sixteen Big Bombers Lost in Smashing Attack on German City.

BRITISH BOMBERS IN HEAVY ATTACK AGAINST NUERNBERG  IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION AND WAR MATE RIALS CENTER BLASTED

1,500 Tons Of Bombs Poured On Nuernberg   RAF Turns Attention To Plants Making Finished Goods

RAF Crashes Bombs Into Nazi Shrine   . Nuernberg Attacked; 16 British Planes Lost’ 2

Nuernberg Hit By R.A.F.; Is Key  Railway Center   Reinforcements For Italy Believed Flowing Through It.

Nuernberg Is Heavily Bombed   R. A. F. Smashes Southern German City; 16 Bombers Fail to Return Home

NUERNBERG HIT IN HEAVY RAID   British Blast Important Rail and Industrial City; Lose 16 Bombers

)  OF BOMBS HIT NUERNBERG   Sixteen Bombers Lost in Blow at Railway and Industrial Center, Which Also Is a Nazi Party Rallying Point.

NUERNBERG HIT BY RAF PLANES   Bombers Visit Important German Railway and Industrial Center

RAF Sends Devastating Rain Of Bombs Down On Nuernberg Reich Rail, Industrial City   Sixteen. Bombers Lost In Heavy Attack On Vital Junction Of 2 Great Rail Lines

 ERP ONS NE Ae We AEE ERCUSCen   Nazis Round Up Slaves For War Plants

Unless III, French Men Now ‘Slaves’   All Must Work Ir  German Plants

Nazis Tighten Rules On Labor Draft  Only Severe IIIness Excuses French Youth

NAZIS EXAMINE FRENCHMEN FOR WORK FOR REICH   Severe Illness Only Excuse To To Escape Work

HITLER DRAFT HURTS FRANCE   Only Desperate . Illness ‘Can Save Youth From . Labor Corps. ~

Wants Vice In Capital Halted  om Goe«;c f'amrii:.   Group Says Conditions Are Bad

Washington Warned of Epidemic Threat Vice Conditions Are Also Attacked

GEN, OMAR BRADLEY IN COMMAND BIZERTE VICTORIOUS DRIVE  GEN EISENHOWER EXPRESSES PLEASURE AT AL

BRADLEY HEADS BIZERTE DRIVE   INFANTRY SPECIALIST LEADS U. S. FORCES

Gen. Bradley Commanded Second Corp:   Infantry Officer In Charge When Yanks Were Shifted North ~

‘Ike’ Pleased At Victory  Bradley, Infantry General, Led. Final America Assault

Maj. Gen. Omar N. Bradley Led Yankees into Bizerte      J aA ia a Took Over Command From Lieut. General George S.  Patton, Jr, When Americans Were Shifted to : North on April 17; Regarded as One of  Army's Best Infantry Leaders

Gen. Bradley Led Second Corps Into Bizerte .   Eisenhower Promises To Drive Every Single German From Soil Of Africa

BRADLEY LEADS U, 5, TROOPS INTO BIZERTE   Replaces Patton in Transfer of American Forces

A Missourian Led  Yanks on Bizerte   General Bradley, Native of Clark, Mo., in Command of Second Corps.

Commanded — the poate  Troop Push   He.Took. Over Job. From’ Pattori; Armored Specialist,. When Campaign. Changed   BOTH GENERALS: ’ HIGHLY REGARDED      Fight To Go: On,  Says Eisenhower; to, Destroy: All Resistance ed Pee

GEN. BRADLEY ~ HEADS YANKS   Infantry Expert takes Over From Patton In Final Bizerte Smash

Paris Hammered By Allied Planes In Record Attack   Great Formations Of Plans Stream From England To Continue Grand Finale Assault Of 1943

Heavy Bombers Attack Hamburg   Sixteen RAF Planes Missing in Big Raid on Ship Building Yards.

R. A. F. Hits af Hamburg Again   Loss of 16 Planes Indicates Large Force Made Attack

16 R. A. F. Bombers Reported Missing In Heavy Raid On Seaport Of Hamburg

HEAVY ATTACK UPON HAMBURG   British Lose 16 Pianes In Night Raid On North German Seanort

Germans Claim Twelve Bombers Shot Down By ‘Concentrated Defense’

Hamburg Dealt Mighty Attack   British - Lose: 16 - Plane: In Night Raid; Heavy: Force Employed

RAF BOMBERS HIT HAMBURG   Large Fires Left Burning —16 Planes Did Not Return

RAF Heavily Raids Hamburg At Cost Of 16 Planes; Huge Fires Are Reported Raging   Blows Aimed At Source Of Germany's Undersea Power; Day Raid Indicated

Over 300 Planes Attack Hamburg: Damage Heavy   16 British Bombers Lost: German: Raid England's Coast '

BRITISH PLANES BOMBARD BIG NAZI SEAPORT   16 Planes Missing From Attack Indicating That 300 Planes Took Part

Ferocious Raid Made On Hamburg By British   RAF Loses Sixteen Planes On Return To Large German Port City

RAF CONTINUES AIR OFFENSIVE   Blasts Hamburg, Estimate 300 Bombers in Raid, 16 Missing

HAMBURG FEELS THE RAF'S FURY   North German _ Seaport Bombed; 16 British Planes Missing.

RAF Loses 16 Planes In Raid On Hamburg   Attack Is Made  By Heavy Force

Royal Air Force Bombers Blast Hamburg With Heavy Attack; ] Missing After Leaving Blazes

British Air Fleet Bombs Hamburg   Siateen Planes Missing—Attack Renewed Today

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CHARGE RAMIREZ WITH ORGANIZING ARGENTINE GOV'T   SITUATION MUDDLED AFTER LEADERS OF REVOLT DISAGREE

Ramirez Head, OfNew>: a  no? 3.9 ae  In Are’?      Gen. Artur, Rowson Charges Organization -Of New Regime After Ousting of Castillo —

MORE CONFUSION FOR ARGENTINA   Revolt Leaders Split and Country Is Left Without Government or Policy

CONGRESS IS DISSOLVED BY GEN. RAWSON   Pedro Ramirez is Charged With Organizing a New Regime at Buenos Aires   CEREMONY POSTPONED

Rawson Out As President Of Argentine  Government   Designates Ramirez To Take Oath When Two Are Unable To Agree On Cabinet    Buenos Aires. June 7 c?i—Gen, ‘Domingo Mattiner resigned teday as Foreign Minister of Argentina’s   ‘previsional government.

Chief After spute  Cahinet le lec  New ta   Cabinet Is Issue; Gen. Ramirez To Form Regime

Disagreement Over Policy  Causes Shift   ‘Rawson Designs Turning Over Responsibility to  Ramirez

In Addition to Kiska «Which Was Raided Saturday Several Solomon Islands Areas Are Attacked by U. S. Air  Revolt Leader Resigns As Argentine President

New Argentine Crisis: Revolt Leaders Spli   Gen. Rawson Resigns As Head Of Government In. Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA AFFAIRS STILL IN A MUDDLE   Revolt Leaders Fail to Agree on Constitution   Of Cabinet   CONGRESS DISSOLVED

TWO IN REVOLT FAIL TO AGREE OVER POLICIES   Ramirez Assumes Powers Abandoned By Ramson After Friday Coup

Ramirez To Select New Cabinet   Gen. Arturo Rawson Resigns As Head Of Argentina Regime

Rawson Resigns As Argentina's New President   Gen. Ramirez Wil Take Over, Name New Regime Tc Govern.

RAMIREZ NEW ARGENTINE [BADER AS RAWSON QUITS   Minister Of War Under Ousted President Castillo Assumes Powers Abandoned By Army Officer After Failure Of Revolutionary Chieftains To Agree On Cabinet—Three Other Ministers Reported To Have Withdrawn In Rapidly Changing Situation

Gen. Rawson: Quits: ‘on: Day. He Was to: Take. Oath: Ramirez to Organize Néw Reaime.

Rossin Resigns From Movement   Ramirez Assumes Post as New Head of Government   THE SITUATION IS COMPLICATED

RAWSON RESIGNS Ad HEAD OF NEW ARGENTINE GOV'T      Rapid Change In Argentina’s Confusing Political Situation Follows Issuance of Decree By Rawson Dissolving Congress.

Foreign Policy Of Argentine Hangs In Doubt   Gen. Pedro Ramirez Announced As Successor To Rawson

Upset In New Regime   Gen. Rawson, Co-Leader of Revolution, Resigns as President After Split With Martinez

Ramirez Now is Top. Man In Argentina  . Situatian Canfuced   Situation Confused As Rawson Resigns, Democracy Shelved

Rawson Quits As Argentine Head  Turns Over Regime To Former War Minister   Ramirez More Righiest

RAWSON DROPS POST AS CHIEF OF ARGENTINA   Revolutionary Leaders Disagree On New Cabinet   RAMIREZ TAKES OVER   Other Provisional Gov’t Heads Resign In Surprise Moves

Argentina's RuleTurned To Ramirez During Row   Rawson Is Unable To Adopt Plan And Resigns

Argentine Leaders Fail in New Coup   Congress {!s Dissolved as Rawson Resigns as Leader of Government

Gen. Ramirez Is Left in Charge Of New Regime   Rawson’s Preliminary Activities Failed to Mention Democracy

Ramirez Becomes  Argentine Chief   Rawson Who Led Revolt Resigns When He Is Unable To  Come to Avreement Over Cahinet

TWO REVOLT CHIEFS FAIL TO AGREE   Difficulties In Organizing Cabinet Grip Argentina

GEN, ARTURO RAWSON RESIGNS AS HEAD OF ARGENTINE REGIME  CHARGES GEN. RAMIREZ WITH ORGANIZATION NEW GOVERNMENT

PEDRO RAMIREZ TAKES CONTROL OF ARGENTINA   General Rawson Resigns From  Head Of Gov’t

Rawson Quits In. Argentine Cabinet Row   Gen. Pedro Ramirez Gets Task of Forming New Revime

Rawson, Who Led Revolution In Argentina, Quits   Charges Ramirez With Organizing New Regine; ~ Pick-Cabinet.

ARGENTINA AFFAIRS STILL IN A MUDDLE   Revolt Leaders Fail to Agree on Constitution  Of Cabinet — DISSOLVED

Revolution Co-Leaders. In Parting   Gen. Rawson Resigns And Ramirez Will  Become President

ARGENTINE'S NEW GOVERNMENT HEAD, RAWSON, RESIGNS   He Charged Gen. Pedro Ramirez With Organizing a New Regime,   HAD FAILED TO AGREE      Gen. Domingo Martinez Also Resigned as Foreign Minister.  ee

Stalin Proclaims Three Unprecedented Vic. tories  HITLER IS FORCED — TO YIELD GROUND Capture of Yelnya. Re ported in Moscow _ Communique

Red Offensive Inereases as  3 Towns Fall   Victory Guns Boom In Moscow—British Press Recognizes Importance of Gains

invasion Threat Haunts Leaders   Reds Rain Mighty Blows On Invaders

Hitler Forced fo Yield Gains of 1 Years of War   Exuberant Reds Drive Sledge Hammer Blows

Reds Achieve NewTriumphs   Nazis Are Yielding To Crushing Red Troops

Axis Losing Gains Made In 2 Years   Second Front Threat Mounts As Foe Retreats

WORLD HEARS OF SUCCESSES BY RED ARM)   GERMAN DEFENSES ARE SMASHED IN THREE AREAS

Nazi Position Along Russian Front Critica   German Lines Crumble Under Soviet , Blows; Impetus of Reds’ Summer Drive Seems to Be Gaining   History's Worst War Enters Its Fifth Year

Moscow Celebrates Victories With Forces Still Pushing Germans Back in Vital Areas

Dorogobuzh, Yelnya Fall To Red Army   German Defenses Along Whole Front Seem To Be Crumbling  SMOLENSK MENACED

Deep Smashes Made In Ukraine, Smolensk Line   Hitler Appears To Be About To Yield Gains Of Two Years Costly War; Summer Drive Gains In Momentum

POWER OF SOVIET DRIVE INCREASES   Reds Push Farther Into the   Northern Ukraine   SMOLENSK MENACED   Moscow Celebrates Crack-up Of Nazi Lines at Both Flankd and in Center

War’s Fourth Year Ends With Axis on Detensive In Every Battle Sector   Germans Apprehensive at Reports 400 British Have Landed in Italy; Heavy Damage Done Ports, Railways Near Rome, Naples by Allied Bombers

NAZI CRACKUP INDICATED BY SOVIET GAINS   Russians Push 37 Miles Into Ukraine and Smash 18 Miles Toward Vital Smolensk.   GERMANS LOSE 200 MORE TOWNS   Victory Guns Boom Salutes in Moscow as Moscovites Advance in Threa Araag

Nazi Position Along Russian Front Critical   German Lines Crumble Under Soviet Blows; Impetus of Reds’ Summer Drive Seems to Be Gaining

Red Assaults. Force Nazi Armies Back   Second Front Threat Increases Danger Of Hitler’s Position

Soviet Armies Surge Ahead Against Nazis   Salutes Ordered for Victorious Fighters by Stalin

NAZI POSITION ALONG RUSSIAN FRONT MENACED   Impetus Of Soviet Summer Onslaught Is Increasing  Against Axis   CAPTURE OF YELNYA THREAT TO SMOLENSK

Bill to Outlaw Strikes in Gov't. Industry Passes  Would Curb Walkaute in Privately   Would Curb Walkouts in Privately Controlled Plants

BILL NOW GOES TO ROOSEVELT FOR APPROVAL   Legislation Designed To Outlaw Strikes in War Industries

CONTROVERSIAL MEASURE IS COMPLETED BY THE SENATE, NOW GOES TO WHITE HOUSE

Anti-Strike Measure To  White House   Senate Approves Compromise, Aimed  At Walk-Outs

Weather in Helena   Congress Passes Antistrike Bill, Sends It to White House; Act Allows Federal Seizure

ANTI-STRIKE ACT TO WHITE HOUSE   Congress Approves Measure To Prevent Workers From Slowing War Effort

Strike Bill Is Sent To FDR   Senate Vote Is 55 To 22 On House-Approved Plan —

BILL TO OUTLAW STRIKES SENT TO WHITE HOUSE   Congress Approves Legislation Banning Walkout in Government-Owned War Industries   SENATE VOTE 55-22   Measure Clothes WLE With Statutory Powers; Held Aimed at John L. Lewis

Anti-Strike Bill Goes To President   Intended to Head Off Strikes, Walkouts in Government, Private Plants

late Approves ict Measure  155-22 Vote  pestricts Walkouts t Private Plants: p  to President [FERENCE REPOR}  lutlaws Strikes

Senate puts final approval on bill  outlawing strikes   Send legislation to president after long debate; vote 55-22

CONGRESS. Ok GIVEN BILL TA GURB STAIKES   Senate Votes Final Approval 55 to 22 After Day of Debate.   WILL OUTLAW STRIKES IN WAR INDUSTRIES

Senate Approves Curb On Strikes In War Industry  Authority Granted Government To Take Ovare Stenek Plante

BILL ALREADY VOTED IN HOUSE PASSED 55-22   President Must Decide If Legislation Will Be come Law a   HITS WALKOUTS

BILL TO OUTLAW STRIKES PASSED   MEASURE AFFECTING U. S.-OPERATED WAR INDUSTRIES GOES TO WHITE HOUSE.

White House HoldsFate Of Measure   ’ Bill Provides Punishment for  1 Strike Leaders

CURB PLACED ONWALKOUTS IN FACTORIES   MEASURE IS AIMED DIRECTLY AT BIG COAL DISPUTE

Senate Puts Final OK On — Strike Bill   TO FDR FOR SIGNING   Connally « Harness Measure Approved By Senate On Two-To-One Vote.

FD Now To Sign Bill Outlawing Strike, Walkout   Is Aimed At Helping  Solve Coal Strike Texas Solons Back Measure

Senate Passes Anti-Strike Bill 55 to 22   . .Measure Now.Goes to White House; President Roosevelt to Decide Whether It Becomes Lay

ANTI-O TRIKE BILL ENAGIED, ENT TO FOR   Strikes Banned In Federa Operated War Industries Under New Measure   WALKOUTS IN PRIVATE PLANTS ALSO CURBED   New Machinery Is Provided For Settling Disputes Such As Mine Row

Strike Measure Goes to F. D.R.   Senate Approves Bill by 55-22 Vote

LIGHT RESISTANCE EXPECTED AGAINST NEW TAX PROPOSAL   House Likely to Ratify Plan Devised by House  and Senate Com mittee, 7

WIGS geval INVERN  od  Move Underway To Purge Single Mer From Pavrolls: Tax Question Talked

Move On To Purge Single Men From Federal Payrolls And Put Them In The Armv

CONGRESSIONAL MOVE TO EASE DRAFT 1S SEEN   24 States To Cail Dads Im: mediately; Dependency Ends Friday

Induction Of Fathers To Start Friday; ‘Dependents May Get Pay Immediately

Would Bar Non-Fathers ‘From Payrolls   Move Underway to Transfer Military Men Who Are NonFathers from Washington Desks to Combat Service

New Europe Commission Is Hinted   THREE-POWER GROUP TO BE ESTABLISHED SHORTLY IN LONDON

ROMMEL AGAIN OUTSMARTED > BY CHIEF OF EIGHTH ARMY   HAZARDOUS DASH. OF BRITISH FLANKING FORCE CAUGHT GERMAN COMMANDER > BY BUBPRISE

Flanking Move Trapped Romme   ‘‘Desert Fox’’ Now Ir Tightest Spot Of Career, In Tunisia   ROMMEL SURPRISED BY DESERT MOVE

Yankees, British Unite To Eject Axis From Africa Rommel May Withdraw  SenG@eG Be 22: ... es. Oe

Allies Push Forward In  3-Way Drive   Seek to Throttle Marshal Rommel By Severing His Supply Line

Patton's Armor Rolling Toward Rommel’s Chief Supply Centers   Violent Fighting Reported by Enemy

Fireworks Are Banned By Law   Insurance Commission er Cites Low Possed In 1941

Great Jan Armada Being Massed In South Pacific   GUADALCANAL HILLS GAINED BY U.S. TROOPS   REPEL SIX ENEMY ATTACKS AND LIQUIDATE 150 JAPANESE

Japs Reported Massing Large Armada In Southwest Pacific  Attack On Guadalcanal Or Part Of New Guinea Held Ry Allies Renoriad lmnanding

MASS JAP FORCES   Enemy Reported to Be Getting Ready for Attack in Pacific .

JAPS MASSING ARMADA   Melbourne Papers Assert Enemy Preparing For New Action

Activities Quicken In South Sea Area   U.S. Troops Win Strategic High Ground On Guadalcanal; Kill 150 of Enemy

Nippon Reported Massing Largest Pacific Armada   Australia, New Guine: Zone Believed Target For New Attack

Enemy Sends Great Fleet To South Seas   Secretary Knox Says Maneuver At Islands Failed   KNOX COMMENTS

Japs Mass Gigantic Armada in South Sea   New Large-scale Enemy Operations Believed Imminent Northeast of Australia, as Activities Quicken.

Japs Massing Great Armada For New Push  Australia Hears Big Offensive to Get Underway Soon

Report Japs Massing Largest Armada Of War For Battle  In Southwest Pacific Area

Japs Reported Massing Fleet   New Large Scale Battle Looms in South Pacific, Claim

ACCOUNT GIVEN BY AUSTRALIAN   Secretray Knox Says He Knows of ‘No Unusual Concentration,’ :   MOVES ARE SUGGESTED

Japs Massing Huge Armada  In Pacific   Australian Official Reports Jap Planes Apparently Operating from Submarines, Scouting Australian Coast _

Wavell Nears Big Jap Base   British Forecast Close In on Akyab in Burma, Dispatches State

JAP MISSION TO “GUADALCANAL ~ PROVES FUTILE  ‘Destroyers Apparently Dic   U.S. Motor Torpedo Boats and Planes Sink All Located In Area of Stranded Nips

Yanks Win New Line on Guadalcana!   Six Nip ‘Attacks Beaten Off by American Forces

Japs Massing Large Armada   Australians Fear Attack On Mainland; May Head Toward Guadaleanal.

Large Armada Of Jap Ships Seen   Melbourne Sources Say it is Greatest Sent to Pacific

JAPAN 15 REPORTED MASSING HER BIGGES! ARMADA IN PACIFIC   AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS SAY HUGE SHIP CONCENTRATION OFF RABAUL ©

ISS HUGE FORCE =AUSSIES REPOR           Assault Believed Imminent; Yanks  Grind Ahead On Guadalcanal

Huge Jap Armada Sighted   Massing of Japanese — Ships Off New Britain Threaten New Enemy Action in South Seas

Large Jap Armada Assemb1ing, Claim Enemy Planes uperating  From Subs Scouting Australian Coast

Aussie Papers QuoteOfficial’s Warning About  Enemy's Fleet   Knox Says He Knows Nothing of New  Activity   Planes Are Active   Sub-Borne Craft Said To Be Scouting Australian Coast

Report Japs Massing Large Armada for New Thrust   Melbourne Papers Say Nippon Planes Believed ‘Scouting From-Subs. ~~

Sick Father Is Accused Of Shooting Two   Four-Year-Old Son Found Dead and Wife is Critically Wounded   INFANT IS UNHARMED

Appeals Against Taking Dads Into Army “Already Too Large”   Downey Declares Air Power Can Bring Quick Surrender Or Destruction Of Nazis

AIRPOWER AND NOT MANPOWER, SOLOW’ IDEA OF WARFARE   Sen. Downey, in Appealing for Wheeler Bill, Feels Aerial Attack of More Value Than Ground. Offensives -

Downey Blasts Army Strategy   CALIFORNIA SOLON SAYS HIGH COMMAND MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT GERMAN DEFEAT MONTHS AGO BY AIR POWER; URGES WHEELES BILL PASSAGE

Downey Says Axis Shoukd Have Beer Doctroyed Months Ago By Air Power

Army Too Big, Downey Claims   California Senator Urges Wheeler Bill Passage

Sen. Downey Says Effective Use of Bombers Would Beat Germany and Make Bigger Army Wasteful Burden.

Airpower Not Fully Utilised   Bigger Land Army New Wasteful, Downey Says

WHEELER'S BILL INDORSED ANEW   Senator Downey, Uurging Delay in Draft of Dads, Hits War Chicts

BLAME IS PLACED ON MUSSOLINI   President Hails Fall Of Pantelleria As Very Good News

THE SURRENDER OF PANTELLERIA GOOD NEWS T0 PRESIDENT   ‘Mr. Roosevelt Appealed Indi rectly But Strongly to  ) Italy to Get Out of War.      CONDEMN’S DUCE’S ACTS   They Are Not Those of the Italian People, He Told a Press Conference.

TO THROW OUT FASCISTS   Hopes Italy Will Be Restored As Nation   MUSSOLINI   Blamed By Roosevelt For His Country’s Crisis; Elated At News

Get Out Of War, FDR Tells Italy   Mussolini’s Island, Unable To Take Any Mor ‘Punishment From Air. Runs Up The White Flas

First Of Stepping Stones To ltaly Taken And Next Attack Is Likely Sicily

FDR Appeals To Italy To Get Out Of War: Says Pantelleria’s Fall Very Good News

FDR Appeals To Italy To Abandon War  Must Get Rid Of Fascist Betrayers President Says

Quit War, Is Hint to Italy By Roosevelt   Allies Wilk Let People Pick Non-Fascist Rule, He Tells Press

To Italians To Quit War   United Nations  Will Assure  People Right to Choose Government

FDR Appeal: To Italians To Quit War   United Nations  Will Assure  People Right to Chaose Government

FDR, Hailing Pantelleria’s Fall, Appeals Indirectly To ‘Italy To Get Out Of The War   Declares Allies Can Assure Italian Peaple Chance Of Choosing Government

ITALY URGED T0 GET OUTOR WAR BY ROOSEVELT   Says United Nations Could Assure Italians Opportunity of Choosing NonFascist Regime      BLAMES MUSSOLINI FOR ITALY’S PLIGHT   Says if Duce Betrayed Own Country.{n Struggle For Personai Power and Aperandisement

FDR Suggests ltaly Withdraw From War Now   Duce Is To Blame For Country’s Trouble. He Savs

President Asks Italy To Quit War   Entire Plight Can Be Laid On Mussolini, Roosevelt Declares

Roosevelt Calls On Italy To Get Out of War Now   Says Population Can -Chéose'l ts Own Government

Suggestion Made After Pantelleria Falls   Hopes Italy to Be Restored to Nationhood And Blames Mussolini And Aides for Participation in War on Axis’ Side.

President Asks Italy As Nation — Get Out Of War   Says Pantelleria Victory Good News For Allies: Mussolini Given Blame

AMERICAN FORCES OCCUPYING ITALIAN ISLAND; ROOSEVELT URGES ITALY QUIT CONFLICT   Allied Victory Breaks Ring Of Axis Fortificatians Tn Mediterranean; Garrison Gives Up Under Brutal Aerial Assault

PRESIDENT PLEASED AT NEWS SURRENDER PANTELLERIA ISLAND  HOPE OF UNITED NATION: TO RESTORE ITALY TO

ROOSEVELT URGES, ITALIANS 10 GET OUT OF CONFLICT   Press Conference Is Informed That People Must Estab: lish Different Form: of “Government.   SUGGESTS RESPECTED MEMBER OF FAMILY   Mussolini, His Aids Charged With being Responsible For Present Position of Italian People.

ALY TO UIT   Blames Mussolini, Not Italian People, for Nation’s Plight.   DUCE BETRAYED NATION

Assures Italians They May Choose Own Government After Duce’s Fall

Press Finds Pantelleria Fall Elates FDR Today   President Asserts Latest Is Very Good News

Roosevelt Puts Blame Upon Duce   Free Government Awaiting Italy, Savs President

F, 0, R. APPEALS TO ITALIANS TO GET OUT OF WAR   ? resident Says Capture of Pantelleria “Very Good News’; Makes Strong Appeal To Italy To Quit.

After Fascism Has Been Put Down and Germans Driven Out, Allies Hope That Italy Will Be Restored to Nationhood

President Asserts People Prefer Peace, That War Is Step Duce Forced on Them

ITALY URGED TO QUIT WAR BY PRESIDENT   Assures National Oppor- tunity of Choosing Kind of Government They Want Established   MUSSOLINI IS SCORED

Mussolini Blamed for Italy’s Acts   President Hails News Of Pantelleria’s  Surrender

People Assured They Can Select Government   Fall of Island Pleases American Chief Executive

President Suggests Italy Quit the War   Says It Is the Hope and Intention of the Allies That Nationhood Be Restored When the Conflict Is Ended.      U. S. and Britain Recognize New Argentine Government

US Recognizes ~ Ramirez Rule   British Join In Extending Diplomatic Relations With Arventina.   Surrender Of Island Good News--F. D. R

FDR in Appeal To Italians to  Get Out of War   United Nations Could Assure Italy of Choosing Its Form of Regime.   Says Il Duce’s Acts Not Those of People

FDR APPEALS TO ITALIANS TO QUIT WAR    Mussolini's Acts Not Those of I!al  ian People, He Says, Comment  ing on Pantelleria

ITALIANS GIVEN HINT TO QUIT BY PRESIDENT   Roosevelt - Lays Blame  for Nation's Plight on il Duce and Fascism.

Mussolini Has Betrayed His Own Country      Roos sevelt Considers Duce ‘To Blame for Italy's Plight; New Opportunity Now   NATION CAN THROW OUT THE FASCISTS   Allies Will Assure People Opportunity To Choose the Government They Want

ASSURES ITALY RIGHT TO PICK TYPE OF GOV'T   Nation Will Be Restored To European Family, Says Roosevelt   RAPS IL DUCE’S RULE   Fascists Held Responsible For Participation  In War

Calls Italians To Overthrow Mussolini   Allies Will Restore Italy to Family ‘Of Nations

Roosevelt Urges Italy To Give Up   MUSSOLINI CAUSE OF PRESENT SITUATION IN ITALY

APPEAL TO QUIT WAR SENT ITALY BY ROOSEVELT   Says Surrender Of Pantelleria Is Good News

ROOSEVELT ASKS ITALIANS TO GET OUT OF CONFLICT   People of Italy Can Choose Non-Nazi Rule After War

Roosevelt Urges Italy To Scrap Duce, Quit War   President Offers Free Choice Of Non Fascist,  Non Nazi Government

Treasury-Backed Campaigns Sought  Hatch Supports Plan Te ‘End Abuses’

Hatch Proposes Treasury Foot Campaign Costs  People Pay in One Way or Another, Senator Declares  MAY SPONSOR BILL  Present Measures To Curb Expenditure ua. nt. 8 Se

Senator Wants U.S. to Pay Campaign Cost  Would Ban Private Political Gifts

URGES U.S, PAY FOR CAMPAIGNS   Hatch Says People Stanc Political Costs Anyway

‘OUTLINE WAGE ~ EARNER POSTWAR PROGRAM   Three Essential Needs Cited By Labor Secretarv

Extension Of Social Security To All Workers Is Essential To PostWar Program, Labor Secy. Says

LABOR SECRETARY GIVES STATEMENT   Miss Perkins Outlines in Interview Reconstruetion Program for Worker.

 Rationing of Meat, Butter, Cheese, Fish and Oils Will Besoin March 29 °°:

BUTTER SALES STOPPED MAR. 21, MIDNIGHT   Each Red Stamp Will be Worth Sixteen  Points in New System

SALES TAXORA FORCED SAVINGS SEEN IN NATION   Congressional Advocates of Tax Plan Predict Some New Form of “Payment.”

FORCED SAVING IN SOME FORM MAY BE IN TAX BILL PLAN   Sales Tax Looms Likely Source Of Funds To Meet Estimates Of Bill

7 Firemen Die Fighting Blaze   Two Others Badly Injured in Chicago

Japs Slow Dowr U. §. Advance In New Britain   Regiment of Enemy Troops Flung at Eastern Marine Line

Japs Stiffen Resistance On New Guinea   Navy Bombers Blast Again at Nauru;  Enemy Base Shelled

Board Makes Another Call   Additional 24 Men Ordered To Take  Preliminary Exams

Call 38 For Draft Sunday   To Take Physical Examinations At  Atchison City Hall

EXCHANGE PRISONERS DECLARE GERMAN MORALE IS DROPPING   SWASHBUCKLING AND VINDIC ' TIVE ATTITUDE REPORTED GIVING WAY TO DESPAIR

Hitler’s Capital Turned Into Raging Inferno,  ~ Visible For 250 Miles  58 BOMBERS LOST  Raid 4 ‘Himes As ik As Any Nazi Raid — On London

HELD IN DEATH OF HIS MAIL ORDER BRIDE   7th Husband of Woman Found in Mine Is Charged With Murder

Reds Smash Tank Troops Kuban Drive   Strike Out In New, Sharp Push

Oklahoma Will Not Get Ray Sellers   Wanted Man Dies At Dallas of Gunshot Wound

Salvage Chairman Urges All Farmers To Bring In Scrap Metal This Month   Is Badly Needed In Growing Demand For War Effort

Salvage Chairman: fog Urees Ail Farmers Toe: ‘Bring In Scrap Metal:   1S BADLY NEEDED IN GROWING DEMAND FOR WAR tTeener

FEW ROADS BLOCKED   Flood Waters in Southeastern Kan. Sas Are Receding 

ANNISTON INCLUDED IN JOB FREEZE ORDER   Labor Stabilization Decree Applied To 6 States

4,000,000 Jobs In South Frozen Under WMC Edic   All Areas Affected Except Those Under Previous Orders

WORK RESUMES AT TWO AKRON RUBBER PLANTS   Mayor Confers With CIO Leaders; Hopes for  Solution   38 000 MEN ON STRIKE   Goodrich, Firestone Production Crippled By Walkouts

RESUME WORK AT ? RUBBER PLANTS   Goodyear And General] Tire Report Workers Returning To Jobs

CONFER ON AKRON WORK STOPPAGES   Mayor Harter and C. I. O. Leaders Hope for Resumption Tomorrow

EMPLOYES: AT TWO FACTORIES BACK ON JOBS   Goodyear Resumes Operations With 4,000 Men, Generai at Normal Pace.   FIRESTONE, GOODRICH IDLE   War Produstion Resumes Today In 5 Chrysler Plants as  SheailLata fa-dasd

JINION OPPOSES LONGER TRAINS   @rotherhood to Battle ODT Conservation Plan on Strike Ballot

BROTHERHOOD OF TRAINMEN BATTLE ODT   Strike ballots mailed to members; opposes longer trains

Georgia, Michigan Vote To Turn Clocks Back   Ohio Legislators Adjourn For Week End without Taking Action

2 OTATES VOTE TO CHANGE TIME   Ohio Expected To Join Michigan And: Georgia Next Wee

Naval Officer In Charge Of  Aviation Cadets.   Lieut. Robert Whyte Will Report In LeMars Soon -

‘An Expert Physician "Tanker Galleyman Saves Lives Of Burned Men

GALLEYMAN TURNED QU TO BE HEROIC YOUNG PHYSICIAN   Ship Was Torpedoed, and He Saved Life of Burned Fellow Crewman.